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New apartments
announced, to
be completed
for fall 2019
by Rachael Allen
Orient Staff
The College plans to intro-
duce two new upperclass student
living spaces in fall 2019—four
suite-style apartment houses as
well as the conversion of Boo-
dy-Johnson House into a Col-
lege House. Born out of more
than 1,600 survey responses
from students, faculty, staff and
neighbors as well as the efforts
of a working group on off-cam-
a kitchen and bathrooms as
well as a common space for the
groups of four, six and eight
students. One of the apartments
will include a common space
in its basement, large enough
for group gatherings. All of the
apartments prioritize accessibil-
ity and energy efficiency.
Located along Park Row
where Gustafson House is cur-
rently, these apartments will be
centrally located, adjacent to
Chamberlain Hall. ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

pus and upperclass housing, “A winter-time campus like SEEKING SUPPORT: In a recent survey, 60 percent of female students said that felt they needed to lose weight. During National Eating Disorders
Awareness Week, the Orient spoke with students about their experiences with and perceptions of eating disorders, excercise and health on campus.

Eating disorders at Bowdoin: students

these two changes to Bowdoin’s Bowdoin [that has many stu-
campus work to address student dents living on campus] cre-
desires and entice students to ate[s] a certain sort of energy
remain living on campus. and vitality,” said Foster. “When

share stories of pressure and anxiety

“[Student survey responses
and focus groups revealed] a de-
sire to have an independent liv-
ing experience as one becomes
an upperclass student,” said
Dean of Student Affairs Tim
Foster. “Students were seeking
[certain things] off campus
because we weren’t offering a
comparable kind of housing on
campus.”
The four new apartment
houses, which altogether will
house 88 students, hope to ad-
dress students wants. Each suite
will contain single bedrooms,
you suddenly have people living
[off campus], the possibility for
engagement with the College
becomes somewhat dimin-
ished.”
Senior Vice President for Fi- by Elizabeth Fosler-Jones she spent just three weeks at the school that her eating disorder sig- of got to the point where people
nance and Administration and Orient Staff College before she went on medi- nificantly affected her life. started to be concerned for my
Treasurer Matt Orlando noted In recognition of National Eat- cal leave as a result of her struggle “When I relapsed when I was health, so I went home.”
that finances did play a role ining Disorders Awareness Week, the with anorexia nervosa. 15, I never really came out of During her time off, Morris was
the decision to build new up- Orient spoke to eight students, who Morris started having disor- that,” said Morris. Her disorder admitted to an in-patient treat-
perclass housing, particularly shared their personal stories and dered eating thoughts when she worsened upon her transition to ment center. When she came back
considering that 217 students, thoughts about eating disorders. was in second grade and since Bowdoin. to Bowdoin, she re-matriculated
an unprecedented number, lived One name has been changed to pro- then, she has gone through phases “My weight was too low, and with the class of 2019.
off campus in the 2016-2017 tect the identity of the student. with anorexia. She started seeing a I wasn’t dealing with being here
When Julia Morris ’19 came to doctor when she was 11 years old, well. I wasn’t dealing with being
Please see HOUSING, page 3 Bowdoin with the class of 2018, but it wasn’t until she got to high away from home,” she said. “It sort SEE PAGE 8

Vargas discusses immigration, In wake of Parkland, College to hold

discomfort and finding home
by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
Jose Antonio Vargas is home.
His California driver’s license
may look a little different than a
citizen’s, but—in front of a packed
Kresge Auditorium last night for
the Kenneth V. Santagata Me-
morial Lecture—he shared his
personal struggle to feel like he
belongs in America as an un-
documented immigrant, and he
challenged Bowdoin students
to undertake the uncomfortable
conversations necessary in today’s
immigration debate.
Vargas, a Pulitzer-Prize win-
ning journalist and filmmaker,
came out as undocumented in
a 2011 essay published in New
York Times Magazine. He said his
training as a journalist strength-
ens his desire to understand other
perspectives, even those of people
who think he doesn’t belong in
America.
“I was always asked to make
sure that I don’t think of an issue
or a person from just one point of
view,” he said in a phone interview
with the Orient prior to the event.
“That my reality is not the only re-
ality. And that my truth is not the
only truth. It’s always in relation to
other people.”
Vargas has appeared on Fox
News, debating hosts like Tucker
Carlson and Bill O’Reilly. He said
he’s accepted over 100 invitations
by Republican groups—even
though he’s witnessed some in-
dividuals call Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement (ICE)
while he’s speaking at their events.
“I engage as many people as I
can who don’t agree with me be-
cause I feel like if I’m going to get
anywhere, then I have to figure
out why to them the sky is black
when to me the sky is white. I
have to figure out, how did they
get there?” he said. “And that’s the
thing, I’m fascinated by a lot of the
anti-immigrant, naked bigotry.”
For instance, Vargas shared
how he decided he should prob-
ably move out of his apartment
first-ever lockdown drill next week
when the super for his building ness among students, faculty cars.”
told him the building couldn’t hide by Roither Gonzales and staff. Bowdoin began holding lock-
Orient Staff
him if ICE ever showed up. As an “We’re trying to give you out drills fairly recently, with the
undocumented public figure, he Next week, the Office of tools and the opportunities in first held in the spring semester
can’t avoid the discomfort. Instead,
Safety and Security will hold its the event of an incident like of 2016. The College holds two
he’s sharing it. first ever on-campus lockdown this,” said Profit. “If you have lockout drills every academic
“I have been uncomfortable drill, during which all campus the ability to get out, get out. If year, one for each semester and
since I found out that I wasn’t buildings will be locked and in- there’s something bad happen- according to Director of Safety
supposed to be here. I feel like accessible with OneCards. Al- ing over there and you have to and Security Randy Nichols,
all I’m doing is sharing the un- though this drill comes shortly go that way, go. But if the threat Security conducts a ‘tabletop’
comfortability,” he said during after a shooter killed 17 people is in your building and you can’t exercise to coordinate its active
the lecture. at Marjory Stoneman Douglas really do anything, then it’s like shooter response every June.
He continued, “I get really High School in Parkland, Flori- find a place to lock down, get Nichols said he’s always planned
frustrated with this woke identi-da, Associate Director of Safety down and hide.” on holding a lockdown drill and
ty which has been going around, and Security Dave Profit said During past lockout drills, the College was merely building
which means that all you gotta that this drill has been planned students, faculty and staff have up the resources and prepared-
do is say the right thing and talk
for months and was not influ- still been able to enter build- ness to hold its first drill.
to the same people to be woke. enced by the event. ings with their OneCards but Lockout drills themselves
That you don’t have to challenge Security has held lockout during this drill, buildings will have exposed several deficien-
yourselves to confront and face drills before but this one pre- be completely inaccessible. cies in the past. Nichols said
people who don’t share the same pares for a more serious event “Once the buildings are that professors who are against
perspective and point of view as than previous drills have. locked and you’re outside in the electronic disruptions during
you. That it’s much easier to call The drill, the day of which quad, you’re not getting into a class sometimes unplug the
out strangers on social media will not be announced in building,” said Profit. “So, you landline telephones in class-
than deal with your racist parents.
advance, is intended to test have to be able to think fast on rooms, which could create a
Or your racist grandparents. Or the College’s preparedness in your feet—you can either go more dangerous situation in
your racist co-workers.” scenarios of bomb threats or behind a building, hide some- the event of an emergency.
active shooter situations and where in a little alcove, go out
Please see VARGAS, page 3 encourage situational aware- to a parking lot or hide behind Please see DRILL, page 4

N TALKING ABOUT DISABILITY F ABOUT ATLANTA A ‘GESUNDHEIT’ S MAKIN’ WAVES O A DRINKING PROBLEM
A panel addresses student experiences Carly Berlin ’18 reflects on the meaning Parker Lemal-Brown ’18 talks about their The swimming and diving teams set Nathanael DeMoranville ’20 calls on the College to
with accomodations. Page 4. of her hometown. Page 5. one-act play. Page 11. records at NESCACs. Page 13. take responsibility for underage drinking. Page 14.
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SECURITY REPORT
2/22 to 2/28
STUDENT SPEAK:
What do you do for self-care?
William deBruynKops ’20
"Epsom salt baths with a
JENNY IBSEN
good book."

Thursday, February 22 Tuesday, February 27

Mohamed Oday ’20

"Last week I tried the bean

• A student reported being approached by a woman • An officer rendered first-aid to a student who had
outside Hawthorne-Longfellow Library who asked per- fallen off a skateboard and scraped both knees.
sonal questions and invited the student to a bible study • A motorist reported concern of students wearing

burritos from the C-store for

session. A security officer located the woman, identified earphones walking or running in front of cars without
her, and required that she leave campus property. looking.

self-care ... didn’t go well."

Friday, February 23 Wednesday, February 28
• A concerned parent asked for a wellness check for • A student reported the theft of a light blue Trek Mul-
a student. The student was located in good health and en- titrack 7200 from the west bike rack Moulton Union.

Miles Brautigam ’19

couraged to call home.
• Two Appleton Hall students who hosted a room Pedestrian Safety Advisory
gathering were cited for alcohol violations. Although pedestrians in crosswalks have the right-of-way

Saturday, February 24
• An officer safely escorted an intoxicated student to
the student’s residence hall for the night.
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of a student
who had combined alcohol with prescription medication.
• Two students reported a strange interaction with
a woman who was asking odd questions of them at the
legally, it is important to remember that drivers cannot yield
unless they see you. The law states, “A pedestrian may not
suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or
"Celibacy."
run into the path of a vehicle that is so close that it is impos-
sible for the operator to yield.” In Maine, people from age
15-24 account for nearly a quarter of all pedestrian crash
victims. Friday is the most dangerous day of the week for
pedestrians. Most crashes involving pedestrians occur be-

Tor Parker ’21

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.
Sunday, February 25
• An officer checked on a student who reported ab-
dominal pain related to the consumption of hard cider.
tween 4 and 6 p.m. Drivers involved in collisions with pe-
destrians usually claim that they did not see the pedestrians
"Paint your nails with glitter
in time to avoid striking them. Never assume that drivers
can or will stop for you.

• An argument over a seat in a shuttle van erupted be-
tween a student and a campus visitor following the Ebony
Ball.
• A kitchen oven in Helmreich House was left on for
several hours after cookies were baked.
• A stove burner in MacMillan House was left on for
nail polish."
Bike Safety Advisory
Maine law generally gives bicyclists the same rights and
responsibilities as motor vehicle operators. Bicyclists may
use public roads and they must obey traffic laws such as
stopping at red lights and stop signs, yielding to pedestri-
ans at crosswalks, and yielding to traffic when entering

Kate Kerrigan ’18

several hours with an empty pot on it. a road from a driveway. Bicyclists must ride with traffic,
• A student with flu-like symptoms requested an es- not against it. They must ride as far to the right as practi-
cort to Mid Coast Hospital. cable, except when passing, avoiding hazards, or preparing

Monday, February 26
• Brunswick Rescue transported a student to Mid
Coast Hospital for treatment of chest pain.
• A motorist reported general concern about students
on bicycles crossing roadways dangerously and nearly
causing accidents.
for a left turn. Crosswalks are for pedestrians; a bicyclist
is required to dismount and walk the bike across marked "Play Mario Kart."
crosswalks.
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Bowdoin students weigh in:

are Pop-Tarts ravioli?
by Nina Alvarado-Silverman
Page 2 Contributor
In recent days, a particular ques-
tion has come to the attention of
thousands around the world. The
question: Are Pop-Tarts ravioli?
The answer: remains to be seen.
Throughout the course of sever-
al days, I interviewed hundreds of
Bowdoin students in hot pursuit of
the answer. These Bowdoin students
gave intellectually fearless responses
that rattled to the core the very fabric
of the subject of food taxonomy.
Several students were quick to
connect the two food products.
Millie Vergara ’19 firmly believed
that Pop-Tarts were a type of ravioli.
“Pop-Tarts are sweet raviolis,” Verga-
ra declared.
Other students did not see the is-
sue as black and white.
Senay Yibrah was at first hesitant
to classify Pop-Tarts as ravioli. “Gen-
erally, Pop-Tarts are sweeter and don’t
have any cheese in them.” However,
after more thought he came around
to the idea. He decided that not all
Pop-Tarts were ravioli, only the ones
with cheese. When asked whether he
had ever seen a Pop-Tart filled with
cheese, Yibrah declined to comment.
David Leen ’20, echoed Yibrah’s
feelings that Pop-Tarts could some-
times be ravioli. Leen defined the
difference between ravioli and Pop-
Tarts as the level of moisture in the
bread part. “I think Pop-Tarts are dry
and you need a real good moist carb
to have a ravioli.” Leen noted that, as
a ravioli is moister than a Pop-Tart,
a wet Pop-Tart can qualify as ravioli
while a dry Pop-Tart cannot.
What makes a ravioli a ravioli?
Emma Beaulieu and Lillian Eckstein,
classes of 2021 and 2018 respectively,
both agreed that Pop-Tarts were not
ravioli, but disagreed on why that was.
Eckstein stated, “They don’t have
sauce,” while Beaulieu saw the issue
as more related to the carb compo-
nent. “I think it’s lacking pasta,” she
stated.
Steph Sun, class of 2018, expand-
ed the discussion. “Everything is Hot
Pockets,” she said. This is an interest-
ing point that may be addressed in
further research.
One thing is for certain. The ques-
tion of whether or not Pop-Tarts
are ravioli has uncovered a divide
amongst members of the Bowdoin
community. Students who wish to
engage in further discussion about
the topic or learn to engage more
with people who fall on opposite
sides of the ravioli-Pop-Tart fence
are encouraged to attend the event
“The Art of Disagreement in an Age
of Outrage” in Smith Union on Mon-
day evening. EMMA BEZILLA
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NEWS IN BRIEF COMPILED BY JESSICA PIPER

BSG CONSTITUTION VOTING

OPEN THROUGH MARCH 4
Students have until Sunday to vote on a string of amendments
to the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) constitution. For the
constitution to pass, at least one-third of the student body must
vote in the election, and at least two-thirds of those students must
vote in favor of the changes.
Among other changes, the amendments to the constitution
would restructure BSG’s assembly, creating a new chair for di-
versity and inclusion as well as two development positions for
first years and sophomores. Assembly members, who approved
the new constitution at BSG’s February 21 meeting, hope that the
new positions will better facilitate BSG’s work on campus.
BSG representatives tabled in David Saul Smith Union on
Monday and Thursday to answer student questions about the
constitution.

HOUSING House, joining Pols House and

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academic year. This resulted in
a loss of more than half a mil-
lion dollars. In November, the
College announced a cap of 185
Riley House to form a chain
of academic buildings on Bath
Road. With Gustafson House
being torn down to make room
MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
for the new apartments, its
current resident, the Upward A ROUX RISING: Construction on the Roux Center for the Environment is well underway at the corner of College Street and Sills Drive. The building, which
will house the environmental studies department, was funded in part by a $10 million gift from David and Barbara Roux P’14.

Roux Center progressing on schedule

students to live off campus in
the 2018-2019 academic year.
“There is a financial aspect of
this where we have beds avail-
able for students to occupy,” said
Orlando, “but this is a much
broader issue—what does it
mean for a residential college to
have a significant portion of the
senior class living off campus?”
A working group on housing
last fall found that students who
chose to live off campus often
cited their dissatisfaction with
the College’s housing options.
Like the apartment con-
struction, the conversion of
Boody-Johnson into a College
House will also work to central-
ize housing on campus, creating
a row of College Houses on
Maine Street with Quinby and
MacMillan Houses. Similar to
the other Houses, Boody-John-
son will hold 25 to 30 students.
These housing changes will
catalyze a number of other
changes. The Department of
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s
Studies, now housed in Boo-
dy-Johnson, will move to Ham
Bound program, will move into
82 Federal Street along with the
Treasurer’s Office, which previ-
ously resided in Ham House.
With construction docu-
ments hopefully ready by the
late spring or early summer the
College hopes to start construc-
tion in August. In the meantime,
Bowdoin continues to meet with
neighbors and plans to meet
with the Brunswick Planning
Board. Foster noted that the
College will try to be as respon-
sive as possible to neighbors’
input, as well as work to “[fit
the new apartments] with the
streetscape of Maine Street.”
“We’re adding to our residen-
tial experience in a really power-
ful way, in a dynamic way that will
be long-lasting and enduring,”
said Foster. “It’s not a four-year
investment, it’s a 40-year invest-
ment. You’re going to have many
Bowdoin students who will have
this as part of their educational
experience at the College.”
Emily Cohen and Jaret
Skonieczny contributed to this
report.
by Jaret Skonieczny
Orient Staff
The Roux Center for the
Environment is on track for its
scheduled opening next fall,
according to Matt Orlando,
senior vice president for fi-
nance and administration and
treasurer of the College. With
a $16.5 million budget—$10
million of which was a gift
by David and Barbara Roux
P’14—the 29,000 square-foot,
three-storied building will have
four labs dedicated to student
coursework, two classrooms
and a large flexible classroom
space, as well as a variety of
common areas.
“I would just say that it’s an ag-
gressive schedule,” said Orlando.
“And so we are pushing the con-
tractor pretty hard to keep it on
pace so we can open in August.”
The Roux Center will hold 20
faculty offices, 16 of which will
house faculty from the Earth
and Oceanographic Studies
(EOS) Department and the En-
vironmental Studies Program.
The remaining four offices will
hold “swing faculty” in the hu-
manities, according to Orlando.
The Roux Center has the
potential to be the first build-
ing on Bowdoin’s campus to
earn a LEED platinum certifi-
cation—the highest certifica-
tion level for a green building.
While no current building has
a platinum certification, sev-
eral buildings have do have
lower-level certifications. 52
Harpswell Road holds the
gold level. Osher Hall, West
Hall, the Peter Buck Center
for Health and Fitness and 216
Maine Street all have silver lev-
el, while the Sydney J. Watson
Arena is LEED certified.
Other features of the Roux
Center will include a solar
rooftop, a vegetative roof and
a large glass atrium. Unlike
the majority of buildings on
campus, the building will not
feature a brick exterior, but
rather Cambia wood, a super-
heated Poplar wood grown in
sustainable forests in Virginia.
According to Borkowski, the
wood is more durable and in-
sect repellant. Over time, it’s
dark brown color will turn
silver “like Cedar shakes do
along the coast of Maine.”
With the EOS department
and Environmental Studies
Program moving into the
Roux Center, a few other
changes will take place. The
History Department will
move out of Hubbard Hall
into Adams Hall, the previous
home of EOS and Environ-
mental Studies. According to
Dean for Academic Affairs
Elizabeth McCormack, a fac-
ulty committee will convene
later this semester to dis-
cuss how to fill vacancies in
Druckenmiller Hall.
Orlando noted that the va-
cancy in Druckenmiller could
spark some classroom recon-
figurations.
“All I can say at this point is
that there is a golden opportu-
nity here to repurpose spaces,”
said Orlando. “We have some
extra swing space so it gives us
an opportunity to look at oth-
er facilities that are aging and
maybe not conducive to the
[active] teaching styles that
are more common [in which]
chairs can be reconfigured
and moved around. We are
doing some of that in Roux,
but there are other places that
we will be able to do it moving
forwards.”

VARGAS Vargas also drew similarities

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While conversations about im-
migration might be uncomfort-
YOUR AD
between Irish immigrants who
came to the United States when
facing starvation in the mid-
1800s and Central American im-

able, Vargas sees the importance
in stopping misinformation. He
noted that immigrants actually
commit crime at a lower rate than
native-born Americans. He also
pointed out that undocumented
immigrants contribute $13 bil-
lion to Social Security each year,
helping keep the program solvent
even though they do not receive
benefits themselves.
He argued that the United
States has yet to reconcile with
its complicated immigration
history.
“Immigration is probably the
most discussed and yet least un-
derstood issue in America,” he
said. “Talk about a wall—we have
a wall up about our own history.
And I’m fascinated with white
Americans who don’t want to face
their own history.”
As a Filipino immigrant, he
noted that the large presence of
Filipinos in the United States can
be traced to the American coloni-
TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT zation of the Philippines after the
UNDOCUMENTED AMERICAN: Jose Antonio Vargas addresses students Spanish-American War in 1898.
in Kresge Auditorium last night. Vargas spoke about his experience as an The United States maintained the
undocumented immigrant and America’s struggle to reconcile with its history. Philippines as a colony until 1933.
HERE
migrants who try to come today.
He noted that U.S. immigration
restrictions weren’t invented until
over a century after the nation’s
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Vargas understands borders,
although it’s been a while since
he’s crossed one. As an undoc-
umented immigrant, he would
not be allowed back into the
United States if he left. There
is not a pathway to citizenship
for him, nor anyway to legalize
his status. But he has made his
home in America.
“If they’re going to ask me to
leave, they’re going to have to
drag me out of this country—
with all of my furniture from
Pottery Barn,” he said.
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Panel outlines student experiences with accomodations, disability
by Nina McKay
Orient Staff
Amid ongoing efforts to im-
prove Bowdoin’s handling of
accommodations and disabil-
ity, students, faculty and staff
convened in Lancaster Lounge
this week to hear four student
panelists speak about their ex-
periences navigating accessi-
bility at Bowdoin, particularly
accessibility in academics, and
potential steps toward creating
a more accessible campus.
Zoe Borenstein ’18, a leader
of the Disabled Students As-
sociation (DASA), organized
the panel to make space for
openness and honesty about
students’ experiences with
disabilities, with the goal of
informing and producing real
change.
“I think we really succeeded
in doing that, but I was really
clear from the start that I wasn’t
going to sugarcoat anything,”
Borenstein said. “We wanted
to frame it as something that
would be really helpful to
faculty, something that would
help them help us, all based on
the assumption that they want
their classes to be accessible
and that they can really learn
from student experiences.”
Students on the panel were
of different class years and
have had a range of experienc-
es regarding accessibility and
accommodations at Bowdoin.
Some panelists talked about
faculty expressing an eager-
ness to understand the issues
that their students faced and
to make their classes as acces-
sible as possible. Others talked
about negative experiences
they have had while navigating
Students, professors to explore disagreement
and political polarization in the digital age
by Devin McKinney
Orient Staff
In an upcoming panel on
intellectual engagement in
conversations across political
differences, Bowdoin students
and professors—representing
a variety of political perspec-
tives themselves—will try to
tackle the question of how to
address disagreement. “The Art
of Disagreement in an Age of
Outrage,” moderated by Noah
Finberg ’16, will take place this
Monday in Morrell Lounge
from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Finberg is the co-found-
er of Considdr, an app that
stemmed from his senior
honors thesis which examined
the intersection of polariza-
tion, political psychology
and social media. Considdr,
described as “the world’s first
social reasoning platform,”
creates a new feed for its user
that incorporates partisan
sources from both ends of the
political spectrum.
“We built Considdr, which
hopefully makes it easy for peo-
ple to access and weigh diverse
perspectives and support their
opinions with information
from actual substantive sourc-
es,” said Finberg in a phone
interview with the Orient.
Bowdoin with disabilities, par-
ticularly during their first year,
when they may not have been
aware of available accommo-
dations.
The panel is one of several
efforts on the part of students
and the College—such as
DASA, the Accessibility Task
Force and the Office of Accom-
modations for Students with
Disabilities—to improve Bow-
doin’s institutional support for
students with disabilities so
that students can more easily
secure accommodations. This
September, the College con-
vened the Accessibility Task
Force, a reincarnation of the
Americans with Disabilities
Act Committee which had not
met for close to two years. The
Task Force is group of admin-
istrators, faculty and staff from
departments across campus
with the goal of looking at ac-
cessibility across areas such as
academics, digital technology
and physical access. The Office
of Student Affairs also made
the Dean for Accommodations
for Students with Disabilities a
singular position, rather than a
responsibility shared with oth-
ers, as it had been in the past.
Borenstein explained that,
although it is important to
have staff members exclusive-
ly dedicated to implementing
accommodations, bridging the
gap between students and fac-
ulty around discussions of ac-
commodations is an important
step in approaching this issue.
“All I ever wanted from
some of the really terrible ex-
periences that I had when I was
a freshman… was to prevent it
from ever happening to some-
body else,” said Borenstein. “So
Monday’s panel brings to-
gether a group of speakers
from a variety of political
and academic backgrounds
with the hope of facilitating
a meaningful conversation
amongst people of differing
opinions. The panelists are
William R. Kenan Professor
of the Humanities in Gender,
Sexuality and Women’s Stud-
ies Jen Scanlon, Assistant
Professor of Economics Dan-
iel Stone, Thomas Brackett
Reed Professor of Govern-
ment Andrew Rudalevige,
Director of OpenMind Plat-
form Raffi Grinberg, Rebkah
Tesfamariam ’18 and Ben Wu
’20.
Stone, who has consult-
ed with Finberg in the past,
argued that people engage
in political discussions with
increased intensity due to
the perception of degenerate
morality or ethics from the
opposing party.
“It is not necessarily that
we actually disagree on issues
more than ever, but it is what
is sometimes called an affec-
tive polarization—that we just
feel more hostile toward those
that we disagree with, so we
think that they’re bad actors,
we question their motives and
based on my research and
BETTERING BOWDOIN: Daisy Wislar ’18 (right) listens to Zoe Borenstein ’18 (second from right) at a student panel on accomodations and disablity.
many of the issues that I faced
could’ve been avoided if there’d
been better communication.”
After having conversa-
tions with faculty members,
including those who are on
the Accessibility Task Force,
Director of Accommodations
for Students with Disabilities
Leslie Levy approached DASA
leaders Borenstein and Daisy
Wislar ’18 with the idea for the
panel. It developed as a collab-
oration between DASA and the
Office of Accommodations for
Students with Disabilities. The
panel was advertised to the
whole campus community, and
experiences I think that a lot
of this hostility is based on
misperceptions,” said Stone.
Since the panelists embody
perspectives from across the
political spectrum, they plan
to demonstrate an example of
the attainable productive con-
versations that can become
more present among students
both inside and outside the
classroom.
“What I would really like
is for people to come away
from this event with one or
two practical things that they
would like to apply in their
lives to have more productive
discussions with people they
disagree with [and] to ques-
tion their own opinions more
consistently,” Finberg said.
Wu, who is co-chair of the
College Republicans, hopes to
bring to the table an authentic
portrayal of the ideas that he
supports on campus.
“I do represent a group of
students that tends to feel like
their voices are shut down.
There is a spectrum of beliefs
within each group and there is
a recognition for me to repre-
sent as many voices as possible
and not just my own,” said Wu.
Stone said that conversa-
tions such as those the panel
hopes to showcase are the
students who receive academic
accommodations were encour-
aged to personally invite any
of their professors whom they
wanted to attend the panel.
This semester, the Acces-
sibility Task Force has been
working to determine solu-
tions for problems faced by
students who need accommo-
dations.
Also this semester, Bowdo-
in revised the Faculty Guide
to Student Accommodations,
which is sent to every member
of the teaching faculty who has
a student in their class with ac-
ademic accommodations. The
most productive when they
ultimately result in collective
understanding and growth.
“Do not try to win conver-
sations. Conversations should
not be considered zero sum
competitions where if I make
a point, you lose a point,” he
said. “Conversations should
be considered opportunities
for mutual gain, for win-win
outcomes where we both learn
from each other.”
new version will soon be avail-
able online. The guide includes
information about the univer-
sal design model, which could
make classes more accessible
for all students who have a va-
riety of different learning styles
and needs. The model also
came up in discussion at the
panel as a curriculum strategy.
“The universal design mod-
el means thinking about access
for all students from the de-
velopment of a course,” Levy
said. For example, making use
of subtitles during class film
viewings can be useful to many
different types of learners.
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“You have to keep it plugged
in because that could be your
only means of getting notified,”
said Nichols.
Although the College holds
these drills to encourage pre-
paredness, it also stresses the
importance of personal respon-
sibility and staying calm in these
situations.
“We want people to realize
that they have to take respon-
sibility for their own personal
safety in these situations because
the resources are going to be
geared toward going after the
threat. You have to think about
Friday, March 2, 2018
ALEKSIA SILVERMAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“[Using subtitles] of course
helps students who may be
deaf or have hearing impair-
ments, but it also might help
many other types of learners…
I see that as a universal design
that doesn’t give anyone an
advantage but might benefit
many people in the course,”
she said.
To Borenstein, such curric-
ulum design strategies have
the potential to give “students
more flexibility or more free-
dom with their assignments to
accommodate needs without
having to implement accom-
modations.”
wherever you are on campus,
the places that you frequent on
campus, daily; you should get to
know those places really well,”
said Nichols.
“We hope that it’s going to at
least generate some discussion.
For example, ‘this is a drill, but
when the situation comes, what
would we do if this were not a
drill?’ And that’s the type of talk
we want people to engage in.”
“We don’t want people to be
anxious during these drills,”
said Profit. “Critical incidents
are very rare and we just want
to be prepared because if it does
happen, we don’t want people
to panic and preparation is the
best antidote to panic.”
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Friday, March 2, 2018 5

FEATURES
BOWDOIN BACK HOME

COUTERSY OF CARLY BERLIN

CONNECTION TO PEACH: Carly Berlin ’18 reflects on her home city. Over winter break
Berlin spoke with Kaya Wurtzel ’21, a fellow Atlanta native, about the city’s lasting significance in
their lives at Bowdoin and beyond.

Welcome to Leaving Atlanta, Georgia
by Carly Berlin
Orient Contributor
When I came to Bowdoin,
everyone asked me where my ac-
cent was. Where? Nowhere. This
was a matter I had never con-
sidered. I hadn’t noticed that my
parents spoke with subtle twangs
’til my college friends noted this,
but that would be years down the
road. I’d tell the inquiring peer
before me that I’m from Atlanta,
with a raised brow for emphasis,
and leave off the understood state
at hand. Saying I hailed from
Georgia felt like a foolish strategy.
It also felt like a lie. I grew up in
a city—a particularly progressive
corner of a blue city, no less—and
I could see skyscrapers from my
house. And so I would evade any
association with the South that
my curious classmate implied.
The South didn’t feel like mine.
Yet as I struggled to transi-
tion to Bowdoin—an institution
not wholly different in character
from the high school I’d attend-
ed—I couldn’t shake how out of
place I felt here. How I’d come
to New England on the odd yet
earnest whim of my own New
England intellectual fantasy. No
one in my family had done this
before; I have no close family in
the Northeast. A homesickness so
quick and suffocating took hold
of me that I wondered whether or
not I could really weather it here.
That period of doubt didn’t
last long. I found friends just
as invested in deciphering the
strangeness of college and the
shifting ideas of home we all
undergo upon coming here, and
in these relationships I found a
new kind of belonging. But it is a
time I still return to. It was when I
realized how bold—how scary—
my decision to move all the way
up the coast was. It was a time
when I began to think of myself
as Southern.
•••
While I’ve had friends from
home at Bowdoin with me
throughout my four years, this
fall a dear friend joined me here:
first year Kaya Wurtzel. We were
teammates in high school and
shared the same favorite teach-
er, whose classroom walls were
painted yellow and plastered with
postcards of art history master-
pieces. I’ve long seen parts of
myself in Kaya, though I must
say that I’ve watched her grow
into Bowdoin with an ease and
grace I’d longed for in my initial
months here. Sharing this cam-
pus with her has made me feel
more connected to home.
Now, I’m observing Kaya un-
dergo the task of attempting to
describe where we’re from. She
likes to call this “the game of ex-
plaining the context of a place.”
It’s a game I’ve played with eager-
ness and trepidation, in turns. At
times I’ve distanced myself from
any association with the stereo-
typical redneck rural South; at
others, I’ve tried my damndest to
convince folks that such a place
is a fallacy, that the South is new
and vibrant and cool. Sometimes
I’ve relished in the oddity of com-
ing from somewhere beyond the
norm, and have made it my proj-
ect to defend the South. And in
many instances, I’ve asked myself
what in fact I am trying to defend.
I’ve tried to withhold my tac-
tics from Kaya. I haven’t wanted
to taint her understanding of
home with my own obsessive and
confused reckonings.
•••
Over winter break, I asked
Kaya to take me on a tour of plac-
es important to her in Atlanta.
She brought me to the brewpub
and billiards hall her family runs,
and pointed out how she could
mark periods of her life by her
evolving penchant for menu
items—veggie chili, and later fish
tacos—and showed me the beam
behind the bar where she and her
cousins marked their heights as
they grew. Then we drove over
Please see ATLANTA, page 6

ABOUT TOWN

Talk to the real boss: the face of Autometrics is not who you’d expect
by Maia Coleman
Orient Contributor
If you call up Autometrics, the
auto-repair and supplies store, for
a consultation, a new part, or some
advice on your car, you might be
surprised. When the ringing stops
and the line clicks, the voice on the
other end is not the one you might
expect: that of a gruff mechanic,
grabbing a call between repairs.
Instead, at the click, a melodic
female voice warmly answers the
phone. Autometrics, what can I do
for you?
The voice belongs to Teddy
Fortin, 29 year old Brunswick na-
tive. Fortin, the daughter of Auto-
metrics’ owners Ray and Joaquin
Fortin, has been running the office
at the shop’s Bath Road location
for nearly eight years.
Fortin jokes about people’s
initial surprise when they see her
at the shop desk. “My mom is Joey
and I’m Teddy so when people
come to meet us they expect to
meet two men, it’s pretty funny,”
laughed Fortin.
Autometrics is a family busi-
ness. It originated on Pleasant
Street in a rented garage off the
side of what was then a True Val-
ue hardware store (that building
is now home to Pleasant Street’s
Dunkin Donuts). At the time, the
building was owned by Fortin’s
mother’s family. In 1977, Fortin’s
father and his business partner be-
gan renting the garage—Ray then
met Joey, his future wife, bought
out his partner and the rest is his-
tory.
Together he and Joey, who does
the books for the business, have
provided the residents of Bruns-
wick, Harpswell and Topsham
with top quality auto services for
40 years. Ray, now 63, still works
contentedly as the shop’s head
mechanic and owner. Although
Fortin adds that her mother’s role
in the business is equally essential.
“When people want to talk to
my dad about stuff, we say do you
want the real boss? Because it’s my
mom. She is the workhorse be-
hind everything,” Fortin said.
Aside from her mother, who
plays an essential, but more incon-
spicuous role, Fortin is the only
woman working at Autometrics.
Although she herself does no large
scale repairs, she still found that
initially, people were taken aback
to see a woman in the shop.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“In the beginning it’s really
tough when you’re filling a posi- A FAMILY AFFAIR: Teddy Fortin (right) has worked in the office of Autometrics, the auto-body shop run by her father Ray Fortin (left) for almost eight years.
tion that’s been male dominated
for so long,” said Fortin. “I’d get a someone off of work to get on the mother occupy markedly different removal from the shop itself, both ously, I do some stuff out there, but
lot of phone calls like ‘can I speak phone and I can totally tell them spaces than her father and the women’s roles are imperative to nothing crazy. I line the work up, I
to one of the mechanics’ and obvi- what’s wrong with their car.” other male employees; they are the success of the business.
ously that doesn’t work. I can’t pull At Autometrics, Fortin and her not mechanics. But despite their “I don’t actually fix cars. Obvi- Please see TEDDY, page 6
6 FEATURES
Vessel and Vine merges design and cuisine on Pleasant St.
by Nicole Tijn A Djie
Orient Staff
Vessel and Vine, the newest
addition to Brunswick’s as-
sortment of small businesses,
opened on Thursday on the
corner of Maine and Pleas-
ant streets. Part restaurant,
part wine bar and part retail
store, Vessel and Vine is the
brainchild of owner Nikaline
Iacono’s culinary and aesthet-
ic sensibilities.
Iacono previously worked
as a manager and bartender
at Enoteca Athena on Maine
Street but has always dreamed
of opening her own business
in Brunswick.
“There was not an option
to do it anywhere else, this
is my community and it is an
especially supportive commu-
nity and it has a really eclec-
tic, diverse population and
Bowdoin is a big part of that,”
she said.
Her dream began to come
to life in August, when she
started to design a business
plan.
The charming and quaint
store currently sells items that
match its timeless aesthetic.
Vibrant red Japanese glasses
and gold rimmed tumblers
from the 1950s are among the
dozens of vintage glassware
pieces up for sale.
“It’s my identity, it’s my
aesthetic. There is no design-
TEDDY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5
get the parts, I talk to customers,”
said Fortin. “My dad always said,
‘don’t start turning wrenches be-
cause you won’t stop.’ So I listened
to him.”
While she now feels entirely
at home in her position at Auto-
metrics, Fortin recalls the times
that she had felt uncomfortable
as a woman on the other side
of the counter: when she was a
customer at an auto shop. She
UNDER THE HOOD: The Fortin family has owned Autometrics since 1977. The business has two locations: one on Pleasant Street and the other on Bath road, where Teddy Fortin works the desk.
er or architect. It’s my place.”
said Iacono, describing the
eclectic interior of Vessel and
Vine.
According to Iacono, Ves-
sel and Vine will soon offer
Brunswick a full wine bar and
dinner menu by sometime
next week.
“I think it is going to be a
place that is accessible and
not intimidating. A place
where people can be exposed
to stuff that is very different,
unique, and not what they
would get at a typical wine
bar,” said Iacono.
Iacono hopes Vessel and
Vine will become a place
where people of all ages can
come together, enjoy food and
drink in a space that, though
new, already has character,
charm and personality.
Iacono has a special re-
lationship with wine and
hand-selected each of the
bottles served by her new
business.
“They are wines that have
a story, identity and sense of
place,” Iacono said.
Vessel and Vine’s food
menu will also set it apart
from other Brunswick estab-
lishments. While most restau-
rants serve a consistent menu,
food at the wine bar will con- VINE’S NOT DEAD: Vessel and Vine will feature a rotating menu and a carefully curated wine bar.
stantly be changing.
“I hope to have a super quently—whatever I like the sphere will reflect a combi- everything in the restaurant’s from recycled materials.
tight-focused menu with the most at the moment.” she said. nation of the owner’s taste as interior, from the tools to the
intent that it changes fre-
recounted one particular expe-
rience in college when her car
broke down in Stowe, Vermont.
“The guy [at the shop] was
so rude. I remember feeling so
awkward because he didn’t want
to help me. I realized how hard
it can be for a female walking
into a repair shop,” said Fortin.
“My dad had told me exactly
what was wrong with the car
and the guy just treated me like
I had no idea what I was talking
about. I thought if this is what
every woman feels like walking
Like the food, the atmo- well as current trends. Nearly wooden columns, is made that looks like this,” she said.
into a repair shop I can see why
people don’t want to go there.”
This experience has stayed
with Fortin and she keeps it in
mind in her own work at the
shop. For her, there is no such
thing as too small or too silly a
problem. “Even if it’s the littlest
thing I try not to make people
feel bad about what’s wrong
with their car or that silly noise
they’re hearing,” said Fortin.
Fortin’s older brother, Joe,
also worked at the shop for a
short time before moving to
Florida. According to Fortin, he
is a skilled mechanic, but does
not envision himself working
with cars long-term. Joe stays
out of the shop for the most
part, but comes in occasionally
to help with more challenging
electrical repairs.
“It’s hard working with your
sibling especially when you’re in
the office and you’re the young-
er one telling your brother what
to do,” she reflected.
As for Fortin, she loves her
job even though she never an-
PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“There is no other place
ticipated this career path. With
remodeling plans for the Bath
Road location on the horizon
and the prospect of her father’s
retirement slowly becoming
more of a reality, Fortin’s role at
Autometrics is becoming even
more significant. When her
father retires, she will take the
business over.
“It’s crazy. I never would
have seen myself doing this,”
she admitted. “But it comes re-
ally easily to me, the days go by
fast. I just kind of like it.”
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Friday, March 2, 2018
ATLANTA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5
to Paideia, the school we shared,
where Kaya nodded to the room
in which she had crawled under
the desks as a kid, in the high
school Spanish class that her dad
taught.
It struck me that Kaya took
me to the very specific spac-
es around town for which she
felt personal ownership. I’d
imagined we might take a spin
around the King Center, or walk
the Beltline, or visit the Waffle
House Museum around the
corner from her house: all plac-
es that speak to an Atlantan, a
Southern, identity. But I might
have taken a friend to the plac-
es that felt explicitly mine as a
first-year; the boulevard I took
to school every morning comes
to mind. With time and with
distance from home, though,
I’ve come to realize that there
are many modes of ownership
over place. Even as I write an
honors project about my con-
nection to home, my ideas of
what is mine have only become
more nebulous.
Before I dropped Kaya off at
home, we walked along the park
that flanks Paideia over to a sim-
ple wooden sign that reads “Wel-
come to Atlanta” on one side,
“Leaving Atlanta” on the other. It
marks the division between At-
lanta proper and the next town
over, somewhat arbitrarily, as the
sprawling mass of the metro area
includes so much more than the
officially sanctioned city limits.
But I’ve invested my own mean-
ing to that flank of wood. When I
pass it, I think of all the comings
and goings I’ve undergone; how
transitory my life has become—
and Kaya’s life is becoming—in
college. And I feel myself relin-
quishing the game.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, March 2, 2018
ODES OUT LOUD: Elizabeth Acevedo performs her slam poetry in Jack
Magee’s Pub on Tuesday night. Some of her poems take the form of “imagi-
nary clapbacks,” addressing instances of invalidation and injustice.
‘Second Sight’ explores vision and accessibility
by Isabelle Hallé
Orient Staff
Both the visual and nonvi-
sual are on display in the Bow-
doin College Museum of Art’s
newest exhibition, “Second
Sight: The Paradox of Vision in
Contemporary Art.” Alongside
its array of diverse and often
abstract works—from beaded
curtains hanging from door-
ways to auditory works of art—
the gallery contains a series of
“audible labels” played through
an innovative device developed
specifically for this show.
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoc-
toral Curatorial Fellow Ellen
Tani, who curated the exhibi-
tion, set out to make the show
accessible to low-vision visi-
tors. She conducted research
with the help of student interns
including Kinaya Hassane ’19,
and consulted with artists who
focus on accessibility, such as
Canadian Social Practice artist
Carmen Papalia.
“It was a long process of
researching what we thought
would be the best solution,
what research tells us is the
best solution and what we
could actually do [with] the
time and resources we had,”
said Tani. “The initial thought
when you’re making resources
for low-vision audiences is to
just do Braille labels, but most
blind people actually don’t read
Braille, because many people
who are legally blind aren’t ful-
ly blind.”
Tani devised the bat-
tery-powered “labels” in col-
laboration with Bowdoin’s
Information Technology. Each
label consists of a 3D-printed
earpiece attached to the wall
PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
with a magnet. When the ear-
piece is disconnected from its
magnetic counterpart on the
wall, the sound chip within is
activated and the recording
plays aloud.
Tani and museum interns
took an equally thoughtful
approach to the language of
the labels, taking care to avoid
purely visual references.
“We decided to do audible
description, which is differ-
ent than just reading the wall
labels aloud,” said Tani. “It’s
really conveying the presence
of an artwork and what it looks
like in language. And the edit-
ing process for those is really
interesting because we had it
to keep it very interpretive. We
also had to be mindful of things
like units of measurement that
might not make sense to some-
body who doesn’t reference
those units. So talking about an
artwork’s scale in terms of the
dimensions of the body, or ev-
eryday objects that we interface
with more frequently.”
For example, rather than de-
scribing a photograph in stan-
dard units of measurement,
one label describes the size of
the work by comparing it to a
computer monitor.
The exhibition’s investiga-
tion of the nonvisual, which
stemmed from ideas Tani had
while working on her disserta-
tion, features both work that is
experienced non-visually and
work that was created without
the aid of the eye.
“In that sense, the nonvisual,
or blinding oneself, becomes a
way of accessing a different
kind of creative space,” said
Tani.
One auditory piece featured
Acevedo performs poetry with power
by Sabrina Lin
Orient Staff
Rats, Cardi B and Catho-
lic iconography each have a
home in Elizabeth Acevedo’s
award-winning slam poetry.
Sponsored by the Center for
Multicultural Life, Acevedo’s
performance on Tuesday night
at Jack Magee’s Pub probed
into issues of politics, race,
culture and womanhood.
Acevedo grew up in a Do-
minican household in New
York City. She attributes her
early interests in poetry and
storytelling to her parents.
After hearing their stories, she
became fascinated with fantasy
and history.
“I think that is a little bit of
what it means to look toward
singularity as a poet, what is it
that you’re bringing, rhythm
and cadence and language
uses, the images you come up
with, the point of view you
have that no one else is bring-
ing, that alchemy and that par-
ticular formula to the page,”
she added.
Acevedo brings together
multiple worlds and cultures
in her work. Her poetry is id-
iosyncratic, combining emo-
in the exhibition, entitled
“Come Out,” was created by
experimental composer Steve
Reich in 1966. The piece uses
the oral testimony of 19-year-
old Daniel Hamm, one of six
African-American youths
known as the Harlem Six. All
six were falsely accused, beaten
by police and later convict-
ed for murder on the basis of
a forced confession. The six
became a symbol of stop-and-
frisk tactics and racial profiling
that drove activism during the
Civil Rights Movement.
The piece is a sound collage,
created for a fundraiser for the
retrial of the Harlem Six, fea-
turing a fragment of Hamm’s
testimony as he described
having to expose his wounds
so that the police would al-
low him to go to the hospital.
The phrase “come out to show
them” is played on two tape
loops at different intervals un-
tions, narratives and diverse
vernaculars. Drawing on ex-
periences of alienation and
invalidation, she performed
“For the Professor Who Told
Me Rats Aren’t Noble Enough
Creatures for a Poem.”
“Because you may be in-
elegant, simple, a mammal
bottom-feeder, always fuck-
ing famished, little ugly thing
that feasts on what crumbs fall
from the corner of our mouths,
but you live uncuddled, un-
coddled, can’t be bought at
Petco and fed to fat snakes be-
cause you’re not the maze-rat
of labs,” she said.
Acevedo’s rat ode, like many
of her stories, is what she calls
an imaginary clapback, an
assertion of identity and rel-
evancy, the idea that for every
story there is an audience. She
confronts systems and insti-
tutions with authenticity and
honesty.
“Mostly it serves a remind-
er for any of us who have ever
been told our story is too
small, or too ugly, or too dif-
ferent for high art, that we are
all of us deserving of poetry, ”
said Acevedo.
A first-generation Amer-
ican and daughter of immi-
til the phrase becomes unintel-
ligible.
“The police refused to take
him to the hospital if they
didn’t have visual evidence of
the injury,” said Tani. “The fact
that his words didn’t mean any-
thing, and that he had to show
visual evidence... is something
that the exhibition is engaging
with at a critical level—the
fact that we rely so heavily on
the visual for verification, for
the evidence, for facticity. That
we discount the power of lan-
guage.”
Though the works on dis-
play are diverse in medium and
subject matter, they are careful-
ly arranged so as to allow un-
derlying meanings to emerge.
“I think what they all share
in common is the artwork as a
tool of critical thinking, both
for the artist and for the view-
er,” said Tani. “Because they
present themselves in a way
grants, Acevedo charges her
poetry with powerful political
and social statements. Her
poem “Hair” unravels the in-
ternalized prejudice that has
long plagued her family and
Afro-Latino communities.
“They say Dominicans can
do the best hair. Wash, set,
flatten the spring in any lock,”
she performed. “But what they
mean is we are the best at swal-
lowing amnesia, in a cup of
morir soñando: die dreaming.
Because we rather do that than
live in this reality between or-
ange juice and milk, between
reflections of the sun and
whiteness...”
Some of Acevedo’s most
powerful images are deeply
rooted in her Catholicism. She
strives to use religious iconog-
raphy to subvert established
ideals. Acevedo pays homage
to Cardi B by writing a poem
in which the rapper is Eve,
challenging the inherent mi-
sogyny of the familiar tale.
“I’ve rarely seen someone
who is so unapologetic about
what she says and how she
walks through the world and
owns it, and owns her vulner-
ability and owns her mistakes,”
Acevedo praised the singer.
ART AND ABSTRACTION: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial
Fellow Ellen Tani gives a tour of “Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in
Contemporary Art,” which represents the culmination of her work at Bowdoin.
that can feel a little bit nondi-
rect—they’re nonrepresenta-
tional, they’re using modes of
abstraction, different modes of
presentation that don’t give us
an easy answer. If you’re willing
to engage with the work and
interrogate its materiality and
interrogate its scale and exer-
cise that critical thinking, you
can access a new way of experi-
encing the world around you.”
“I feel like [these artists] are
very successful in their efforts
to connect these domains of
knowledge and domains of
sensory perception and realms
of thinking and experience that
we wouldn’t otherwise com-
pare with one another,” Tani
added.
Tani also discussed her ef-
forts to complicate the narra-
tive surrounding works by art-
ists belonging to marginalized
communities.
“One of the tendencies when
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“It’s so beautiful to watch the
process of humanity without
someone trying to continuous-
ly pretend.”
Her concluding poem, writ-
ten in response to the recent
presidential election, garnered
torrential applause. Again
referencing Catholic iconog-
raphy, she makes a forceful
statement rooted in evocative
imagery:
“A man has not been elect-
ed president, a symbol has. A
piece of fiction. A myth. And I
know a myth about a man, it’s
always a man, who heard of a
disaster, who builds a wooden
structure and put the crea-
tures in it … But an ark is not
a country, and we were never
the sheep, we were always the
flood. The black, the brown,
the undocumented, the Mus-
lim, the queer and trans and
woman, and we are rising, and
we rising, and we are rising.
Don’t you see. We will cover
this whole damn country, be-
fore we ever recede.”
Acevedo is the author of the
collection of poems, “Beastgirl
& Other Origin Myths.” Her
first novel, “The Poet X” is
scheduled for release on March
6 by HarperCollins.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
we’re writing the art history
and also when we’re writing
criticism about artists of color
is to essentialize the meaning
of their work to matters of
identity alone. And on the one
hand, that does good work in
the sense that it improves the
visibility… but… if we’re hold-
ing up these artistic geniuses
on this level, and the artists of
color are over here doing work
about identity politics, they
will never come together and
they will continue to remain
separate historical narratives.
So as an art historian, I’m real-
ly committed to bridging that
divide.”
The exhibition represents
the culmination of Tani’s work
at Bowdoin. She will be leaving
the College to work as an Assis-
tant Curator at the Institute of
Contemporary Art in Boston.
Aisha Rickford contributed to
this report.
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Pictured clockwise from bottom left: Manlio Calentti ’20, Haley Friesch ’18, Katherine Chi ’19, Julia Morris ’19 and Megan Retana ’19.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
According to the National
Institute of Mental Health, eating
disorders—officially categorized
as “illnesses that cause severe
disturbances to a person’s eating
behaviors”—have the highest
mortality rate of any mental
health disorder. Eating disorders
include anorexia nervosa, buli-
mia, binge eating disorder and
orthorexia, among many others.
What differentiates eating
disorders from disordered eating
thoughts is the severity and con-
sistency of behaviors.
This week the Orient sent out
its Health and Diet Survey—last
distributed five years ago—to
the student body. Of 538 re-
spondents, 60 percent of women
said they thought they needed
to lose weight, while 45 percent
of women were worried about a
friend’s eating habits. Forty-three
percent of all students said they
exercised to compensate for food
intake, and eight percent of stu-
dents have been diagnosed with
an eating disorder. All of these
numbers represent increases
since the last survey.
“Part of the reason why I’ve
been hesitant to accept [calling
what I have an eating disorder]
is my sister had anorexia ner-
vosa,” said Megan Retana ’19.
“I grew up with that and not
FACING FOOD
understanding it.”
Retana has struggled with
disordered eating thoughts
since high school, but it wasn’t
until her first year at Bowdoin
that she began to understand
what she was experiencing
what many would classify as an
eating disorder.
Both Retana and her sister
were overweight growing up, as
are her parents, which contribut-
ed to her low self-esteem.
“The feeling of starting college
and losing weight was really ex-
citing to me,” said Retana.
During her first year at Bow-
doin, Retana saw counselors
at the Counseling Center, but
ended up switching counselors
and felt like she wasn’t getting
the support she needed. She was
also diagnosed with ADD her
first year and was prescribed
Adderall, a side effect of which
is loss of appetite.
“I was also having a lot of anx-
iety attacks and so there came to
a point towards the end of the
year where I was having anxiety
attacks every day. It wasn’t sus-
tainable,” said Retana.
Ultimately, after being hos-
pitalized for a psychiatric crisis
during her first year, Retana took
a semester off and began to seek
help for her eating disorder.
Coming back to Bowdoin,
Retana has found support in see-
ing Dr. Kathleen Hart, a licensed
psychologist who specializes in
eating and anxiety disorders. She
is working towards recovery and
now considers her eating habits
to be more or less stable.
•••
Recognizing a need for addi-
tional support for students with
eating disorders, the Counseling
Center reached out to Hart and
since the fall of 2016, Hart has
come to meet with Bowdoin
students once a week. Current-
ly, she is seeing around nine
Bowdoin students, individually
and in group sessions, who are
struggling with eating and/or
anxiety disorders.
Emily Conroy ’19 is one of the
students Hart is seeing. She went
to the Counseling Center to seek
help for her disordered eating
thoughts and behaviors during
her first semester of her sopho-
more year, after which she was
referred to Hart.
Conroy had disordered eat-
ing thoughts throughout high
school, centered on poor body
image and low self-esteem. After
starting college and transferring
from Barnard to Bowdoin, she
realized the thoughts were be-
coming more persistent.
Similar to Retana, it took Con-
roy a while to admit that she had
an eating disorder. It wasn’t until
two months into seeing Hart that
Friday, March 2, 2018
Eight students spoke with the
Orient about their experiences
with eating disorders. These
are their stories.
by Elizabeth Fosler-Jones
photos by Ann Basu
she was comfortable recognizing about themselves, but it’s nice to ress Hart has helped her make
her illness and understanding kind of know that you aren’t the through guiding her nutrition
the underlying factors. only one who feels a certain way.” and realigning the way she thinks
Since seeing Hart both indi- Many students say they feel about food. However, she still
vidually and in a group, Conroy shame in admitting the disorder struggles on a day-to-day basis.
has been able to grapple with her to themselves and others. “The biggest thing is that
eating disorder more easily. The “I remember when I was in people think of eating disor-
group therapy session offers sup- high school and I was going ders as somebody who is really
port and a sense of belonging. through all of that, my friend skinny, and looks like they’re
“[The biggest thing I get from started packing extra food for me going to die, or somebody who
the group is] realizing that oth- because she was like ‘You won’t has a binge eating problem and
er people feel similarly. Not in feed yourself.’ But I never even can’t control themselves and it’s
the same way, but I’m not going told her anything that I was go- such a spectrum. I know that
through it alone, which makes it ing through,” said Haley Friesch nobody would look at me and
think, ‘oh she has an eating dis-
“The biggest thing is that people think order,’” she said.
of eating disorders as somebody who is “But it doesn’t change the fact
that when I’m getting dressed,
really skinny, and looks like they’re going I’m nitpicking little stuff about
to die, or somebody who has a binge my body or I’m always thinking
eating problem and can’t control them- about, if I eat this for breakfast,
selves, and it’s such a spectrum. I know
then I have to eat this for lunch.
It’s so thought-consuming that
that nobody would look at me and think you’re wasting a lot of mental
‘oh she has an eating disorder.’” energy that you could be ex-
pending elsewhere.”
–Haley Friesch ’18 •••
Several students interviewed
much less scary and much more ’18, who has suffered with disor- cited Bowdoin’s rigorous aca-
reasonable and you’re able to pin dered eating since her senior year demic environment as a stressor
it down and tackle it,” said Con- of high school. of their disorder.
roy. “And hearing other people’s When she came to Bowdoin, “For me, it’s incredibly tied
perspective helps me see things she said she gained a notice- with an anxiety and it’s a coping
in a new light as well. able amount of weight as a first mechanism. It’s a way to hold
Retana echoed this sentiment. year, which reignited a cycle of onto some semblance of control
“It’s not nice to hear some- calorie counting and dangerous in a world that I really can’t con-
one else say things that you’ve restriction. trol very much,” said Conroy. “It
thought in your mind. It’s not Friesch is one of Hart’s nine looks different at different times,
nice to hear that they think that patients and is proud of the prog- depending on what emotional
Friday, March 2, 2018
stress I’m dealing with.”
Conroy’s eating disorder is, in
large part, a manifestation of her
obsessive-compulsive disorder
and wanting to control a part
of her life amidst the stress and
pressure of Bowdoin’s campus.
“[The eating disorder] is just
this whole other voice overriding
my brain, which I’m certain a lot
of people on this campus can re-
late to. I think we are a very anx-
ious, type-A campus. And there
are these ‘What if?’ thoughts like
‘What if there’s not enough time?
What if I’m not good enough?’”
Conroy said.
Morris also sees the harmful
effects of the stressful campus
environment.
“The same part of my per-
sonality that drove my eating
disorder I see reflected in a lot
of Bowdoin students, which is
just this compulsive need to be
the best, or feeling like you’re not
enough,” said Morris. “We’re just
sort of driven to want to achieve
the best to a compulsive extent, I
think that sometimes gets situated
around food.”
In the Orient’s Health and Diet
Survey, 38 percent of students in-
dicated they were worried about a
friend’s eating habits. That num-
ber skewed heavily toward female
students expressing concern.
A female sophomore student
who has witnessed many friends
suffer from and receive treatment
for eating disorders expressed
great concern about worrisome
eating habits at Bowdoin that are
often developed under the guise
of healthy eating.
“Everyone on campus seems
to moralize food in a way that I
haven’t seen in what I would call
otherwise healthy people before,”
she said.
She said the prevalence of
restricted diets, such as being
gluten-free, sugar-free or vegan,
is often perceived on campus as a
healthier lifestyle.
“But having a blanket policy of
no sugar, when it starts leading to
that being what you think about
more than being healthy… that
can be when it goes into the grey
area of maybe being a problem.”
•••
The strong presence of varsity
student athletes on campus—
about 35 percent of the student
body— is an aspect that some
students interviewed noted as a
factor in their own assessment of
their body.
“I was talking to my friend
about this like two years ago, she
was like, ‘It must be really hard
to be somebody on this campus
who’s not considered fit because
so many people prioritize it here,’”
said Friesch. “It’s just so ingrained
into the culture but nobody ever
really talks about it.”
Manlio Calentti ’20 noted how
difficult it can be to maintain a
good relationship with food and
body on campus with such a high
percentage of athletes on campus.
“If you see all these athletes
walking around, and you are
thinking to yourself, ‘Why don’t I
look like that? What can I do to fix
that?’ You get into this really bad
downward spiral,” he said.
Calentti was never diagnosed
with an eating disorder, but in
high school, was aware of his
disordered eating thoughts and
habits.
“It catapulted up to binge eating
after going through an anorexia
phase, so I was never really diag-
nosed with an eating disorder, but
I knew wholeheartedly that I was
giving characteristics of severely
disordered eating, whether it was
not eating anything after a double
digit run or eating like 2000 cal-
ories in one sitting,” said Calentti.
For him, these behaviors were
strongly correlated with being on
the cross country team and want-
ing to become a better runner.
“There was this competition
factor of wanting to beat this per-
son and go up in a race and cut
down my mile time and my 5K
time,” said Calentti.
During his senior year of high
“The thing about eating disorders, it’s a
lot like alcoholism, like I can never skip
a meal because I will click right back
into restrictive eating habits, the same
way that an alcoholic can’t take a shot of
alcohol.”
–Julia Morris ’19
school, Calentti went through pe-
riods where he was running up to
75 miles a week, yet was consum-
ing fewer than 2000 calories a day.
Over the period of a few months,
Calentti’s weight dropped from
160 pounds to 125.
Nowadays, Calentti has a
healthier relationship with food,
although some days are harder
than others.
“My life is more balanced but
there are still some days where
things aren’t quite right and I eat
too much, or things are kind of
bad and I don’t eat anything at all,”
said Calentti.
Another sophomore male,
who asked to remain anony-
mous, has struggled with dis-
ordered eating behaviors in the
past: he lost 90 pounds over
4.5 months through restricting
his calories and doing rigorous
workouts.
Now on the crew team at
Bowdoin, his coaches don’t do
anything that actively discour-
ages gaining or losing weight.
However, ergometer tests—tests
on the rowing machine to de-
termine one’s speed—are weight
adjusted and then sent out to
the whole team with individuals’
results.
“It’s not like they are active-
ly saying, ‘Lose weight’ or ‘You
need to slim down’ but passively,
it’s showing everyone how much
you weigh,” he said. “If you have
any insecurity about your weight
or your performance or how
well you should be doing, those
results are out there. It’s a lot of
pressure on a lot of people, espe-
cially me.”
“There’s always the idea that
you always have to get bigger
or stronger or you’ll get cut,” he
Health and Diet Survey 2018 Results
Think certain foods are
“good” and “bad”
Worry about a friend’s
eating habits
Think they need to 8 41
gain weight
Think they need to
lose weight
Think Bowdoin creates a
healthy eating environment
HEALTH MATTERS: Students think the College creates a healthy eating environment, but have concerns about themselves or their friends.
NEWS
said.
•••
Katherine Chi ’19 finds that
her race plays a factor in how
she understands her eating dis-
order. Growing up in Durham,
Connecticut, Chi was one of the
only Asian girls at her school and
started to internalize how her
male friends would talk about
girls’ bodies.
“I had the exact relapse of that
when I first entered my first year
of college in the dorms when
guys would go on girl’s Face-
books and say, ‘Oh, she’s hot,’”
said Chi. “I would start to see a
pattern amongst who these girls
were, and the light that was going
off in my head was, ‘Oh, I feel like
I’m not as skinny as them.’”
Although Chi struggled with
disordered thoughts and behav-
iors, such as restricting herself
and consistently weighing her-
self, she had difficulty admitting
to herself she had an eating dis-
order until last year, when she
went to therapy specifically for
her eating disorder.
“I didn’t even admit to myself
that I had one until someone had
defined it for me, until a therapist
defined it for me because I kept
convincing myself that I wasn’t
skinny enough to have one,” said
Chi.
Chi managed her eating dis-
order in high school, but coming
to Bowdoin made it worse, large-
ly due the emotional challenges
that come along with being in a
new environment and the con-
sistent need to be social.
For students with an eating
disorder, the public nature of
dining hall meal and the social
nature of “getting a meal” can be
difficult to navigate.
“In college, I had more restric-
tive behaviors and more purging
because it was so hard to not eat
in front in people because people
would say something in the din-
ing hall,” Chi added.
Friesch, too, has found the
dining hall to be a place of pres-
sure, constantly finding herself
comparing her own meals to
those of her friends.
In the Orient’s Health and
Diet Survey, 60 percent of stu-
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dents indicated that they paid
attention to the eating habits of
their peers, and 88 percent of
students said they ate differently
when at home.
“The hardest part for me
about an eating disorder, at least
the saddest realization I came
to, was all the memories that I
missed out on and all the people I
never got back to about getting a
meal with because of my fear and
relationship with food,” said Chi.
For Retana, however, having
the dining hall helps her to nav-
igate her relationship with food.
“The times where I feel like
I’m doing my best to nourish my
body and getting the food I need
and the amounts I need is when
I’ve gone to the dining hall with a
friend. I’m grateful for that,” said
Retana.
Hart sees dining hall behav-
iors as potentially harmful, es-
pecially in regards to foods that
are categorized as healthy and
unhealthy.
“There’s a lot of judgement
about healthy eating now, but it’s
also morphing into this, judging
food behaviors versus what’s
healthy eating,” said Hart. “I al-
ways like to think about that—
‘What’s healthy eating?’ Flexible,
not judging, letting your body
determine what your body wants
to eat rather than reading labels.”
This fall, Chi began seeing a
therapist at Bowdoin, but didn’t
feel like she was getting enough
support and wanted someone
who understood the rhetoric and
specificities of eating disorders.
Seeing Hart allowed Chi to
find the support she needed, es-
pecially due to the physical com-
ponent to eating disorders.
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HANNAH DONOVAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“She tells me exactly what
time to eat or else I relapse, and
that’s the kind of structure that
I think people who specialize in
that field can provide, because
there is a lot more of a physical
component,” said Chi.
Hart thinks that one of the
biggest misconceptions about
eating disorders is the idea that
one must have an extreme one
in order to get help, rather than
thinking that one can simply
have mild disordered eating
thoughts.
“So much of the disordered
eating is culturally approved.
Like it’s OK to calorie count or
get uber restrictive with your
eating because it’s so ‘healthy’ for
you to eat that way,” said Hart.
•••
These days, Conroy would say
that she hasn’t recovered, but is
on her way.
“Even half a year ago, my
whole life was very much ruled
by food. Now, my whole life is
ruled by recognizing that and
then coming up with ways to
cope. Realizing that it’s not the
food, it’s about what’s really mak-
ing me anxious, and how can
I cope with that instead,” said
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Conroy. “So I still think about it
a lot, but in very different ways
now.”
Right now, Morris considers
herself the most recovered she
has ever been, but understands
she has to be careful. She sees a
therapist, psychiatrist and dieti-
cian off campus to help support
her recovery.
“The thing about eating disor-
ders, it’s a lot like alcoholism, like
I can never skip a meal because I
will click right back into restric-
tive eating habits, the same way
that an alcoholic can’t take a shot
of alcohol,” said Morris.
Morris finds the lack of dia-
logue surrounding eating disor-
ders concerning, yet sees a trend
in discussing food and diets.
“I feel like all of our dialogue
about food is just so disordered
as a society, as a Bowdoin com-
munity, that if we started to
facilitate more healthy conver-
sations around food that aren’t
about food, we’d get back to this
place where food is something
to be enjoyed. It’s something
that nourishes your body,” said
Morris.
Sarah Drumm contributed to
this report.
10 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friday, March 2, 2018

‘Love and Information’ is a play for the modern age

by Kodie Garza
Orient Staff
Watching “Love and Infor-
mation” feels a lot like scrolling
through your Twitter feed—
which you might be, if you
happen to sit in the “Tweet
Seat” section. Based on the
award-winning play by Caryl
Churchill, the interactive play
tackled what it means to be alive
right now—to be constantly in-
undated by digital media.
“Whether or not you have
a smartphone, whether or not
you use a computer, whether
or not you’re on social media,
you live in a world that has
increasingly oriented itself
towards those things, right?”
said director and Professor
of Theater and Dance Sarah
Bay-Cheng. “I mean, this is
just part of the world we live in
right now. So, I wanted to do a
play for Bowdoin students that
spoke to their reality.”
“Love and Information” is
composed of 59 short plays
or “microdramas,” which run
anywhere from ten seconds to
a few minutes. The scenarios
in each section are grouped
together by themes, such as
memory, communication and
connection.
“The scenarios are different.
The way I describe it, is it’s a
bit like changing channels on
cable TV,” Bay-Cheng said.
“So, you go from channel to
channel to channel, and one
channel doesn’t necessarily
have anything to do with the
channel before it or after it.
But, if you keep doing that, you
might pick up patterns or see
things you find familiar.”
The show’s musical accom-
paniment is played by the
Social Media Musician who
punctuates the action on stage.
While the show proceeds, au-
dience members, specifically
those sitting in the Tweet Seat
section, are encouraged to
engage with the Social Media
Musician by sending tweets
from their own Twitter ac-
counts or through the play’s
own app, which is available
for download in the iOS App
store.
“‘Love and Information’ is
about technology, but it’s also
about human beings without
technology, and the ways that
we are both online and offline,
and our inability to constant-
ly separate those two things,”
said Sally Rose Zuckert ’19,
who acts in the play. “I think
that’s true of everyone today,
when we use social media or
we engage with anonymous
media, you can say whatever
you want online, but in real life
you are who you are.”
Love and Information, the
app that accompanies the the-
atrical performance, was de-
signed by Sawyer Billings ’18.
The app includes the script,
cast information, a director’s
note, images from the show’s
Instagram feed and videos that
visiting professor in art and
computational studies Erin
Johnson made with her class.
Through its accompanying
app, Love and Information
demonstrates the all-encom-
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
passing nature of digital cul-
ture: by allowing the app to use THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT: (ABOVE): (left to right) Aziza Janmohahed ’19, Daniel Viellieu
your location, you can unlock ’19, Uriel Lopez-Serrano ’20, Anu Asaolu ’19, Cyril Miller ’18, Chase Tomberlin ’20. (LEFT): Eric
two special videos on campus, Mercado ’18. (RIGHT): Sally Rose Zuckert ’19.
which allow you to interact
with the show before and after you could be contributing, and idea is that, even SEE IT YOURSELF
attending it. that would be a kind of, again, when we’re not actively on
“If you sit in a certain sec- social media accompaniment social media, for many of us— ‘Love and Information’ plays tonight at 7:30 p.m., tomorrow at
tion and you want to be on that goes with everything else not all—it’s a kind of constant 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. in Pickard Theater. Tickets are
your phone or tablet or even that’s happening on stage,” presence in our lives, like a free and available at the Smith Union Info Desk and at the door.
your laptop…you could. And Bay-Cheng continued. “The soundtrack.”

‘Texts’ examines sexual harassment in digital age

by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
“good morning.”
“Come sit on my Dick.”
“It misses u.”
That’s one of the 18 messag-
es on display in “Texts,” an art
show that opened in the Blue
Gallery in David Saul Smith
Union on Tuesday. Organized
by seniors Lillian Eckstein and
Steph Sun, the exhibition aims
to shine light on sexual harass-
ment by showcasing unwanted
messages that Bowdoin stu-
dents have received via texting
and social media.
The pair started thinking
about the exhibit last fall after
a friend received an upsetting
message. With the “#MeToo”
movement galvanizing wom-
en across the United States to
speak up about sexual violence,
Sun and Eckstein wanted to
highlight another kind of ha-
rassment—one that they find
unfortunately common.
To curate the exhibit, they
asked Bowdoin students to
submit screenshots of unwant-
ed or unsettling messages they
had received.
“It’s daunting, in a way, to
send some of these in, because
they can be violent or they can
just be really hurtful,” Eckstein
said. “But hopefully they are
rewarded by seeing … other
people doing the same thing.”
The messages vary from
one or two lines to paragraphs
which had to be printed on
multiple pages. Some are
graphic and sexual, while oth-
ers present racialized remarks.
“Most of the time, the
only person who sees what’s
on your phone is you,” Sun
said. “When you actually
take something that’s digital
and print it out and make it
a physical thing and display
it in a way that you generally
wouldn’t if it just stayed on
your phone, I think that has
a lot of impact. It becomes a
lot more real, and then other
people can relate to it.”
The messages originate
from a variety of platforms,
including iMessage, Facebook
Messenger and dating apps like
Bumble and Tinder. To protect
students’ privacy, Sun and Eck-
stein allowed them to anony-
mously send in messages via
a Google form. Any personal
information in the messages is
blacked out.
“There’s an element of vul-
nerability,” Sun said. “The
people who submitted their
screenshots are putting them-
selves out there.”
Eckstein noted that some
students might not have want-
ed to submit to the show even
anonymously, as the sender of
the message—if another Bow-
doin student—could make the
connection.
“Part of that was convincing
people that there’s some power
in sending it in,” she said.
The exhibit also includes
a piece titled “The List,” a
compilation of blurred-out
names and a reference to a
“List of Men to Avoid,” which
a Middlebury student posted
on Facebook last December.
The post included the names
of 33 male students before it
was removed from Facebook.
The student who posted the JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
list is facing discipline after an UNSETTLING MESSAGES: Students examine messages on display in the Blue Gallery in David Saul Smith Union.
administrative investigation, The exhibition highlights sexual harassment by featuring unwanted messages received by Bowdoin students.
according to the Middlebury
Campus. the Bowdoin community. The amusement, Sun and Eckstein Break. The pair is continuing
“To see how that unfolded Instagram account @Bowdo- wanted highlight how such to take submissions and hopes
and consider how that same inBootyCalls, for example, messages can sometimes be of- to eventually post the messages
conversation might play out at takes submissions of student fensive or harmful. to Facebook or another online
Bowdoin … there’s been a lot text messages—often ones that “I think that humor can be platform in order to reach a
of talk about whisper networks, resulted in awkwardness and really powerful, but it also has broader audience.
and I think [the list] is trying to rejection. The account, which the ability to diminish the seri- Eckstein said, “[I hope]
highlight it,” Sun said. launched last semester, cur- ousness of certain things,” Sun people also come away with
Eckstein and Sun are not the rently has 685 followers. said. the question of, ‘Has this hap-
first to call attention to sexual- However, rather than see- The exhibit will be up in the pened to me? Have I done this
ly-charged text messages from ing booty calls as a source of Blue Room through Spring to somebody else?’”
 ‘‘
Friday, March 2, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 11

PETE: Do you know any cobblers in your line of work?

LISA: I don’t think I do.
PETE: That’s too bad. I would’ve had you introduce Andrea to them.
LISA: Is she a cobbler? I thought she was your nurse.
ANDREA: I want to be a cobbler. Right now I’m a physical therapist.
LISA: Why do you have a physical therapist at your deathbed?
PETE: She’s also a part time music therapist.
ANDREA: My specialty is the kazoo.
LISA: I can’t imagine that instrument as comforting.
ANDREA: You would be surprised. Want to see?
LISA: No, thank you. Dad, how are you feeling?
PETE: Even better. This stuff is great.
LISA: Is this your first time drinking?
PETE: Since my mother’s second wedding when I was nine.
LISA: You must have a terrible tolerance.
‘‘
PETE: I’d like to think of myself as pretty tolerant.
ANDREA: It’s true. For a man your age, you’re surprisingly progressive.

from Gesundheit (2018) by Parker Lemal-Brown

Lemal-Brown ’18 selected for playwrights festival

by Lowell Ruck
Orient Staff
Parker Lemal-Brown ’18 is
a sociology major and Fran-
cophone Studies minor. They
started writing plays during the
spring of their sophomore year,
and their one-act play, “Ge-
sundheit,” was recently selected
for the upcoming Maine Play-
wrights Festival. Lemal-Brown
is also co-president of Bowdoin
Slam Poets Society and regularly
performs their original poetry.
This interview has been edited
for length and clarity.
Q: How often do you pro-
duce new work?
A: I wrote “Rose and Psyche”
sophomore spring, and then I
started conceptualizing a musical
over that summer, which I ended
up scrapping the next year. I took
Playwriting junior fall, which is
when I wrote “Gesundheit,” and
then worked on a full-length play
called “Black Rock.” After my
junior fall, I got an idea for a full-
length play that I did research on
when I was abroad. I also write
screenplays and television scripts
in my spare time. Since this year
I’ve written two plays, the one
for the 2018 Bowdoin One Act
Festival and currently finishing
up the full-length play I started
last year. Not every single thing I
write is produced—I have a lot of
half-finished projects.
Q: What inspires your work?
A: Sometimes it’s an image that
I really want to see on stage, that I
think would be really cool. A lot
of times it comes from other peo-
ple telling me about their expe-
riences. It’s hard to share certain
experiences with people and to
have them really fully understand
it, and I think writing and story-
telling is a really powerful way
of getting people to empathize.
For example, [my play] “Recur”
is about women in computer
science, and that came from my
roommate who’s a [computer
science] major. I think those are
the plays that I like writing the
most, the ones where I can hear
different people’s stories and they
all have this similar thread. Even
if the characters are fictional, they
have a lot of universal qualities,
and people can recognize them-
selves in them.
Q: In what ways has being
at Bowdoin influenced your
growth as an artist?
A: Honestly, I almost went to
Barnard College in New York
City, and I still think to this day
if I had, I would not be writing.
There’s something about Bowdo-
in being a very small campus. It’s
pretty isolated, and there’s a lot
of supportive people. Sometimes
I felt very alone trying to write
things in my spare time because it
wasn’t part of a club, it wasn’t part
of a classroom, and these weren’t
things that would be recognized
on their own. But this campus re-
ally can be a playground for try-
ing out new things—there’s such
low risk for putting yourself out
there, and such great support for
whatever people do. I think the
culture and that encouragement
in a low-stakes environment can
be really great for creativity. The
frustration that you’re alone, or
that you’re the only person doing
something, kind of drives you.
Q: Have you been able to
work closely with professors
and other students?
A: Definitely. Sarah Bay-
Cheng, the head of the theater
department—I met her for the
first time my sophomore spring,
and I feel very lucky to be able
to closely collaborate with her.
She was the one who encouraged
me to apply to the Maine Play-
wrights Festival. She’s read every
single draft of basically all of my
writing since sophomore year,
and she’s the only person who
can really tell me where I’ve been
and where I’m going. That in it-
self is worth the price of tuition,
having somebody who really
can see how you’re developing.
Every time I go to her office, I
leave with like six more books,
six more authors to read, play-
wrights to explore.
Q: Can you tell me about
each of the plays you’ve writ-
ten or are writing? What influ-
enced them and what are they
about?
A: I’ll talk about the three plays
happening this semester. The first
one, “Gesundheit,” is basically
about a man who chooses to go to
his deathbed, and we’re not really
sure why. He has a physical ther-
apist next to him, and one of his
daughters comes home and is try-
ing to get him not to die. This play
was inspired a lot by David Ives’
“The Death of Trotsky,” which is
really absurd and really morbid.
[For] my other one-act, “Straw
Man,” I got inspiration from my
brother. He’s the kind of person
who just has to get into a debate,
and that kind of interaction was
the inspiration for this—a broth-
er and sister waiting for their
dad to show up for dinner, and
conversations that happen from
that. It’s only seven minutes, so
it will be interesting to see how
that comes out on stage, in terms
of the timing. And then, “Recur,”
which is the big play, is very differ-
ent in tone. The idea came from
my roommate, who’s a comp-sci
major. We decided we wanted to
talk about the idea of recursion,
which is a function in computer
science, and that became this dis-
cussion about things like micro-
aggressions and the insecurities
that women face in STEM fields.
The play came out of interviews
with 20 Bowdoin faculty and stu-
dents, as well as women in other
fields and at other colleges. It’s
about this student Ada who is in
her first technical interview and
has to solve an algorithm. And
as she’s solving it, we continually
flash back to how she got into that
room and basically see her evolu-
tion as a college student from her
first year to her last year and the
relationship she’s developed with
her own mother and her mentor.
It’s this idea of the expectations
adults have for students, how we
kind of see ourselves and this
moment when you get your first
chance to really define yourself
in the world and the obstacles to
doing that. It’s not like a typical
play with really long monologues.
It’s not in a living room. It’s writ-
ten almost like a screenplay but
meant to be seen on stage.
Q: How do you feel about
your play “Gesundheit” being
selected for the Maine Play-
wrights Festival?
A: I was very surprised, hon-
estly. I’m really interested to see
where it goes because it’s one of
the pieces that I did for fun, but
having other people read it, they
put a lot of their own value into
it, and I’m really excited to see
what happens as more people get
involved in the piece. And now I
can go back and revise it a year
later with a director, with a cast,
with a dramaturg. I’m really ex-
cited to see it become something
different, something deeper than
maybe I had thought of the first
time. It’s just exciting to feel like
I’m actually jumping into a pro-
fessional world and remember-
ing that theater and playwriting
is a communal activity at its core
even though sometimes it can
feel like writing a novel, alone.
Q: Finally, what is the per-
sonal significance of your
work? What feelings or experi-
ences does it draw from?
A: I think for as long as I can
remember I’ve used fiction as a
lens to process my own life. I’ve
noticed a lot of my patterns in my
work or things that I keep coming
around to, like things that I’m re-
ally afraid of, relationships that I
keep coming back to. I find that
the idea of memory is really inter-
esting to me, and it’s come up in
a screenplay I started. It’s coming
up in this play. It’s rooted in my
own fear of losing memory, or the
wish that I could control time in a
different way. Sometimes it’s really
helpful to be like, “Here’s the worst
version of myself ” in a room with
somebody and kind of get beat up
by other people. It keeps my own
ego in check, seeing this character
grow and learn lessons.

Archaeology meets technology in Assyrian reliefs

by Mollie Eisner
Orient Staff
With the help of new tech-
nology, the Assyrian reliefs in
the Bowdoin College Museum
of Art are moving back in time.
Projected color on the ancient
reliefs recreates the way they
would have looked in the ninth
century BCE, before their paint
wore off.
James Higginbotham, asso-
ciate professor of classics on the
Henry Johnson Professorship
Fund and curator for the ancient
collection, collaborated with Ac-
ademic Technology Consultant
Paul Benham to bring color back
to the Assyrian reliefs.
“The experiment was to
imagine color on ancient sculp-
ture in a way that didn’t hurt
the sculpture and give visitors
the chance to imagine how they
would have appeared in the pal-
ace in the ninth century BCE,”
Higginbotham said.
When examining the project-
ed color on the relief, one would
assume it is real paint.
“It appears like it’s painted un-
til you put your hand in front of
it. [The projector is] high enough
that your head doesn’t get in the
way,” Higginbotham said.
The five slabs in the Museum
formerly decorated the North-
west Palace, built around 875-
860 BCE at a site called Kalhu
(formerly Nimrud) near Mosul,
Iraq.
Higginbotham and Benham
were inspired by similar en-
deavors to restore ancient art
with technology. Two years ago,
Benham helped out in Bowdo-
in art classes and learned about
the MadMapper software. Mad-
Mapper had already been used
in Europe in 2008 and 2009 to
illuminate buildings, and in the
Temple of Dendur, housed in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York.
“We saw what they were do-
ing in the Metropolitan [Mu-
seum of Art]. We were excited
about the idea, but didn’t know
how to execute it … There was
not the right kind of technical
support,” Higginbotham said.
“It’s software used to do pro-
jection mapping. It’s similar to
Photoshop. You can create layers
of sheets that are colorized, and
you can use the software to trace
discrete areas on the relief,” said
Benham. “It was a process of a
day or so setting this up and do-
ing the initial tracing, where I’m
looking at the computer screen
and the actual relief.”
After a long process of trying
to choose the most accurate col-
ors to project, the top half of the
relief called Panel 17 is now on
display with projected color.
“We used a number of differ-
ent sources for the pigment of
the colors. You can see on the
sandal, there’s still ancient paint
left. You can see around the pupil
of the eye there are bright white
lines. That’s paint as well,” Hig-
ginbotham said.
Higginbotham and Benham
have tried their hardest to best
match the limited color palette
of the Assyrians.
“They would put the pigment
on, and then they would put a
binding agent on top that would
help keep the colors from fading
or rubbing off. Based on that and
examples of little dollops of paint
that are on other reliefs at other
institutions, we made a guess,”
Higginbotham said.
Higginbotham praised the
adaptability of the creative resto-
ration method.
“The beauty of this—what
Paul has done with MadMap-
per—is if we find new informa-
tion about a particular color,
we just change it. It really is an
experiment that allows us to cre-
ate,” he said.
“The response of people com-
ing through here has been really
wild,” Higginbotham said.
The addition of color prompts
viewers to engage with the art in
different ways.
“Once you add color, it invites
you to look closer. You can ac-
tually see the heads of animals.
There’s actually carving here
meant to represent embroidery,”
Higginbotham said.
Higginbotham and Benham
are planning on adding an inter-
active element.
“We could make use of an
iPad that would allow you to
increase and decrease the opac-
ity of the colors, maybe change
the colors, to give the viewer a
chance to change things in real
time,” Benham said.
The ability to alter the colors
would give the viewer a sense
that the colors are not necessar-
ily accurate.
“It’s not an exact science.
We’re making an educated guess.
Within the range of guesses,
there are options,” Higginboth-
am said.
The slabs were excavated in
the 1840s. As the excavators
were leaving, they offered the
reliefs to local missionaries. Dr.
Henri Byron Haskell, a member
of Bowdoin’s Medical School
of Maine, Class of 1855, was
one of these missionaries. He
contacted Bowdoin professor
Parker Cleaveland (after whom
Cleaveland Hall is named) with
the opportunity. Cleaveland’s
background as a geologist and
his general interest in antiquity
prompted him to accept the of-
fer.
“They allocated $500 to get
them from Mosul to Brunswick.
When they arrived here, the
shipping bill was $700 dollars in
change, and the College almost
didn’t pay the extra amount,”
Higginbotham explained.
The extra $200 was well worth
it, according to Higginbotham.
“They are some of the most
valuable assets the College owns
now,” he said.
 S SPORTS
12 Friday, March 2, 2018

HIGHLIGHT
REEL
SAVING THE DAY: The
women’s hockey team
(13-8-3, NESCAC 6-7-3)
upset Hamilton (13-8-4,
NESCAC 9-4-3) in the
NESCAC Quarterfinals
3-1 on Saturday. This rep-
licates the result from last
year’s quarterfinals, where
the Polar Bears beat the
Continentals 1-0 in double
overtime. This year, Kerri
St. Denis ’19 impressed
with 34 saves, compared
to Hamilton’s 21. The team
will head off to play No. 1
Middlebury—who it lost
to 1-0 and 3-0 earlier this
season—on Saturday at 1
p.m.
HIT THE SLOPES: This
past weekend, five men
and five women of the
alpine ski team travelled
to West Mountain, New
York to compete in the
Eastern Region Champi-
onships. The men’s team
clinched a fifth-place
finish on each day of
competition, qualifying
the team for the USCSA
National Champion-
ships for the first time in
program history. Next
Tuesday, the men’s team
will depart for Lake
Placid, New York to race
slalom, giant slalom and
dual panel slalom at
nationals.
DOWN TO THE BUZZER:
The men’s basketball team
(15-9, NESCAC 4-6)
suffered a devastating
last-minute 71-70 loss to
Amherst (17-9, NESCAC
7-3) on Saturday afternoon,
effectively eliminating them
Women’s basketball heads to NCAA Champs
by Conrad Li
Orient Staff
After posting an incredible
9-1 regular season record and
24-1 overall record, the women’s
basketball team was upset by
Tufts (24-2, NESCAC 8-2) 60-
48 in the NESCAC Semifinals
in its first double-digit loss of
the season. The loss, however,
does not signal the end of the
team’s season, as it was selected
as an at-large bid for the NCAA
Championships.
Tufts outscored the team in
every quarter for the first time
this season and also out-re-
bounded the Bears 47-34.
“We did not put forth our
best effort and lost focus on the
game plan and the things that we
needed to do to be successful,”
wrote Head Coach Adrienne
Shibles in an email to the Orient.
“Our defensive effort this time
around was not as strong this
time around and [Tuft’s] defense
was more physical and intense.”
Captain Katherine Kerrigan
’18 expressed similar sentiments
reflecting on the loss.
“I think a lot of people—ev-
eryone—were disappointed,
because we knew we didn’t give
it our best effort.” Kerrigan said.
“We didn’t leave it all out there,
so there is a lot of disappoint-
ment behind it, but I still think it
is an opportunity to rise.”
Despite the loss, the team had
a great season, ending with an
overall record of 24-2. This has
been the most successful season
since Shibles became coach. She
credits her success to the team’s
unity and ability to maintain a
positive outlook.
“Our success this year [in
the toughest conference in the
nation] has been gratifying,”
said Shibles. “I credit our senior
leadership and the general atti-
tude of our team. Every woman
is focused on the team first, and
on what she can do help the Po-
lar Bears achieve our goals. They
are truly amazing people, and I
am grateful to have the opportu-
nity to work with them.”
On Monday, the team found
out it was not only chosen as
an at-large bid for the NCAA
tournament, but was also cho-
sen to host this year’s competi-
tion. The Polar Bears begin the
tournament against Husson
(19-9), who they beat 88-58
earlier this season, on Friday
at 7 p.m.
“[Choosing at-large bids]
is a complex process, but the
three most important factors in
determining at large teams are
win-loss percentage, the number
of wins against ranked oppo-
nents and strength of schedule,”
Shibles wrote. “We place well in
all three categories. Despite what
people think, our schedule was
very difficult. There are five con-
ference champs who we compet-
ed against and beat during the
season.
Despite the team’s success
against Husson in January,
Shibles is still preparing for a
difficult game.
“We intend to take it one
game at a time and cherish every
moment,” said Shibles. “We are
in it to win it, and yet we realize
that success will take intense fo-
cus on the process.”
Going into the tournament,
the team will focus on making it
as far as possible.
“Our hope is that we will
make a good hard run and make
it to the final run in the cham-
pionship,” said Kerrigan. “There
are a lot of great teams in the
tournament this year. We can’t
take any game off or any game
lightly. I think it’s a goal we set
JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
for ourselves at the beginning
GOING FOR THE REBOUND: Lauren Petit ’18 shoots the ball in a game against Middlebury on February 2. Despite losing
of the season and something we
to Tufts in the NESCAC Quarterfinals, the Polar Bears will advance to the NCAA Championships this weekend against Husson.
really strive for now.”

Five from curling team will travel to Nationals

from the NESCAC Tour-
nament in the quarterfinals.
Jack Simonds ’19 scored a
game high 25 points. On
Wednesday, David Reyn-
olds ’20 was named to Sec-
ond Team All-NESCAC
after leading the Polar Bears
in scoring with an average
of 15.4 points per game.
STICK IT TO ‘EM: Both the
men’s and women’s lacrosse
teams begin their season
this weekend against Con-
necticut College. The men’s
team finished last season
with a conference record of
7-3 and will return their six
top scorers. The women’s
team finished with a 5-5
record, but returns with all
three of their All-NESCAC
athletes. It is ranked 23rd
in the IWCLA Division
III Polls. The men’s team
will travel to Connecticut
College on Saturday at 1
p.m., while the women stay
at home to face off against
the Camels at 12 p.m.
COMPILED BY ANNA FAUVER
by Artur Kalandarov
Orient Staff
Five members of the Bow-
doin curling team will travel
to compete at the 2018 College
National Curling Champion-
ship in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
next week. Having ended the
season ranked fourth in the na-
tion, the team hopes to do well
enough in the starting pool to
advance to the championship
bracket.
In order to advance in the
tournament, the team needs to
finish in one of the top two spots
out of the four teams in their
round robin pool. The teams are
Bowdoin, St. Norbert College,
SUNY Polytechnic Institute and
University of Oklahoma. The top
two of each of the four brackets
then advance to the champion-
ship bracket.
“Top six is the goal. We’ve
done it before and I don’t see
why we can’t do it again. This
year, the team that we’re taking
is a lot stronger than any team
we’ve taken before, so I’m fairly
optimistic,” said captain Tom
Ezquerro ’18.
This is the team’s third con-
secutive and fourth overall
time competing at nationals
since it was established seven
years ago.
“Two seniors are going, so I
hope they will end their season
in a way that they’re proud of
and in a greater way, that the
rest of us end our season in a
way that we’re proud of,” Kylie
Best ’19 said.
While the team has never
won the tournament, captain
Cole Hamel ’18 says the growth
of the team—it has gone from
five to six players in 2015 to
over 20 this season—has con-
tributed to the team’s success.
Since the team gets one point
for playing in a game and an-
other for winning, their overall
ranking goes up depending on
how many teams they send to a
tournament.
Matt Swiatek ’20 believes
that a point system that re-
wards participation has helped
make the team more inclusive.
“Even people who haven’t
been on the team for very long
we’ll still send to competitions
because we know they can get
points even if they don’t play
at the highest level. They’ll get
points simply for competing,”
said Swiatek.
However, Ezquerro notes that
curling on the college level has
become more competitive re-
cently, making Bowdoin’s success
at tournaments more important
in getting a bid to nationals.
“The other side of it is [that]
curling at the collegiate lev-
el has become more popular,
so we’re vying for the same
amount of points with more
teams, so the point qualifica-
tion is a little bit more chal-
lenging this year. There’s an-
ticipation for a lot more teams
to join next year as well,” said
Ezquerro.
According to Best, the team’s
fourth-place ranking is not just
a product of the team’s growth,
but also due to their increased
competitiveness.
“We definitely made a
concerted effort to be more
competitive this season and I
think that shows in our rank-
ing,” she said. “This is the
highest we’ve finished since
2010. So I do think that we
have more of a drive to be
competitive and I think that
has shown itself in how our
season worked out.”
Since most members of the
team never curled before join-
ing, practice starts at the most
basic level. While the team has
a liason at the Belfast Curling
Club in Belfast, Maine who pro-
vides advice and support, it has
no coach. New members learn
first at the Watson arena–where
the ice is pebbled to make it suit-
able for curling– before heading
over to the Belfast Curling Club
for Sunday practices.
“It’s basically just getting
people familiar with the ice,
familiar with the weird move-
ments and weird body po-
sitions that go into curling,
making sure they get as much
practice as possible,” said
Hamel.
Outreach for the team has
continued into the second se-
mester, with the curling team
holding a “Learn to Curl” event
this past weekend. The event
encouraged Bowdoin students
and members of the community
to get acquainted with the sport.
“It was for people who had
never curled before, so they
could come and just see what
curling is all about. It was very
exciting.” said Hamel.
According to Ezquerro, 52
people, including students,
professors and their fami-
lies, and other staff members
showed up to the event.
The team has also been en-
joying other forms of publicity
from the Bowdoin Magazine
to an Instagram post showing
President Clayton Rose curling
with the team.
“My hopes from that are
that we get more people in-
terested,” Best said. “In terms
of recruiting, it would make
me so happy if somebody said
“I came to Bowdoin because I
wanted to curl.’”
Friday, March 2, 2018
Squash succeeds at the CSA National Championships
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
Last weekend, the men’s
squash team won a tight 5-4
match against Hobart to
clinch the Division-D Conroy
Cup at the College Squash
Association (CSA) Men’s
National Championships in
Connecticut. The previous
weekend, women’s squash
came in second in the wom-
en’s Division-D Epps Cup at
Harvard after a 5-4 loss to
William Smith College.
The fate of both teams was
decided by an extremely thin
margin. Despite the results,
however, both teams eval-
uated themselves on their
performances rather than the
result of the competition.
“Even though [the thin
margin] is so extreme, it tells
you something about compe-
tition,” Head Coach Tomas
Swimming and diving set records at NESCAC meet
by Owen Silitch
Orient Staff
Over the last two weekends
both the men’s and women’s
swimming and diving teams
finished NESCAC Cham-
pionships with exceptional
results. The women’s team
scored just shy of 1,000 points,
breaking the school record for
most points scored in a single
meet with 998.5 points, and
the men’s team finished in a
best-ever fourth place.
According to Head Coach
Brad Burnham, the women’s
races came down to stamina.
Marshall Lowry ’20 finished
in the top three in all three
backstroke events, while Re-
becca Stern ’19 finished in an
impressive third place in the
three-meter diving event with
a total of 434.70.
“I think the women weren’t
as rested maybe as we thought
they might be. We thought
they might recover a little
more quickly,” Burnham said.
“We had a few tough swims
where I think they had to re-
ally dig deep and fight for the
places they were going to get,
but I’m really impressed with
the women’s ability to keep
trying and keep fighting for
things even when they don’t
feel like they’ve got all the
speed in the world.”
Burnham believes that the
men’s team put on a similar
performance. Karl Sarier ’19
was named Swimmer of the
Year following three meet wins
and Mitchell Ryan ’19 was
named Diver of the Year after
sweeping the diving events.
“The men’s side was much
more physically prepared
[than the women’s], but men-
tally it was similar,” Burnham
said. “They realized that get-
ting fourth place was a big deal
and that they could do it, but it
was going to require three full
days of effort. It wasn’t going
to be an easy float through or
anything like that.”
Finishing fourth and fifth
for the men’s and women’s
teams respectively represent
Fortson said. “Hopefully one
of the best lessons we learn
is that we have to be able to
judge ourselves more by our
approach, attention to detail
and our performance than
the actual result of competi-
tion. That is really hard to do,
but is important to learn to do
that in athletics.”
Every collegiate squash
team has the opportunity
to compete in the national
championships, which are
divided by rank and not by
NCAA divisions. Each divi-
sion consists of eight teams.
Despite a couple players
being ill and a second place
seed in their bracket, the
men’s team pushed beyond
the obstacles to clinch the
CSA title.
“With [the sicknesses]
in mind we were in a disad-
vantage to win,” said men’s
captain George Cooley ’18.
major NESCAC goals that
each team has been consis-
tently working towards over
the past couple of years. Be-
cause of the nature of the com-
petition within the conference
these finishes represent much
stronger performances than
one otherwise might think.
“Williams, Tufts and Am-
herst were 300 or 400 points
ahead of us and kind of in
their own competition for
most of the meet,” explained
men’s captain Will Hutchinson
’18. “For us to be the winners
of the rest of the NESCAC is
just awesome. Realistically,
I don’t know if we’ll be any
higher than fourth in the near
future but fourth is the goal
that probably five or six teams
try for.”
Women’s co-captain Linnea
Patterson ’18 shared Hutchin-
son’s enthusiasm.
“I remember my freshmen
year when we got fifth, it was a
huge deal,” said Patterson. “It
was exciting that we were so
close to fourth this time.”
Now that the formal sea-
son of conference meets are
SPORTS
“Winning the tournament
definitely exceeded our ex-
pectations and people were
able to step up and play their
best matches of the season.”
Before her last collegiate
match, women’s captain
Zoe Wood ’18 won the 2018
College Squash Association
Wetzel Award. The award is
given to a senior who began
playing squash in college and
who understands the game,
exhibits good sportsmanship,
possesses a high level of skill
and is a positive influence on
the court.
“It was an emotional whirl-
wind of a weekend with win-
ning the award, being my last
matches, having great wins and
heartbreaking losses and see-
ing alumni and parents,” Wood
said. “I’ve had to come through
a lot of hard work and frustra-
tion to get to this point.”
As a freshman, Wood had
PJ STEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS:
(ABOVE): Mitchell Ryan ’19 swept all
diving events at the NESCAC meet
this weekend. (RIGHT): Swimmers
cheer on their teammates as they
turn. (BELOW): Crowds cheer during
the meet. Certain members of the
team will advance to the NCAA
Championships.
behind them, both the men’s
and women’s teams are con-
tinuing to train hard for their
upcoming events at the NCAA
Championships, which will
take place in Indianapolis over
spring break.
Sarier and potentially
Ryan—divers find out if they
qualify this coming week-
end—will compete at nation-
als for the men’s team. Addi-
tionally, Sterling Dixon ’19
and Marshall Lowery ’20 both
qualified individually for the
women’s team and Mary Lau-
rita ’21, Amanda Banasiak ’20
and co-captains Paterson and
Mariah Rawding ’18 will all
be competing in relay events.
Diver Thea Kelsey ’20 may
also compete.
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never played squash before, members and refine their regrets and giving 100 per-
so the women’s team—who techniques by focusing on de- cent effort is what success
is reliant on walk-on mem- veloping new skills. looks like,” said Wood.
bers—sees Wood’s achieve- “It takes a lot of effort, a According to Cooley, the
ments as motivation for lot of mental energy—not just men’s season has given them
younger teammates. focus but being purposeful in confidence going into the
Three Bowdoin women every practice,” Forston said. 2018-2019 season.
have earned the award in the “There are constantly new “The team is in a very good
program’s 23 years. In 2014, skills being added to the to do place for next season. We
Michaela Martin ’14 was list for our players and it is very placed two spots ahead of last
awarded the honor. Martin challenging to keep pushing, year in the national ranking,
convinced Wood to try the keep evolving and changing we’re only losing one senior,
sport and served as Wood’s the game physically and men- and we’re definitely going to
mentor during her first year. tally. We know that’s a pretty have a bunch of good players
“It was pretty sweet to win big challenge and individuals coming in next year,” said
it because [Martin], the girl handle that differently.” Cooley said.
who had won the award her Throughout the season the The teams are looking for-
senior year, was at nationals team improved by reflect- ward to becoming more com-
and came to watch us,” Wood ing on past matches, failures petitive.
said. “It was special to have and challenges. While the Women’s captain Lex
her there. I didn’t know [that wins are important, the team Horowitz ’19 said, “I think we
I was going to win] the award; quantifies its success by the can do better than we did this
I don’t think she knew either. lessons it learned and the ef- year. I think if we start with
It was really great.” fort is gives. the mindset ‘be one percent
To achieve success this sea- “For me, feeling that I’ve more determined every day,’
son, the team worked to build given everything to a match then next year can be even
strong relationships among and coming off without any stronger”.
In terms of expectations for
nationals, Burnham revealed
that since a lot of the swimmers
in the group have already gone
to NCAAs, they will all be com-
peting to become All-Ameri-
cans by completing the meet
with a top-eight finish.
“I want to swim my last
race as a Bowdoin Polar Bear
and know that I left it literally
all in the pool because that’s all
there is, that’s all she wrote,”
said Patterson.
“For me it’s going to be my
last competitive swim meet
and I just want to have fun. I
want to swim well and I want
to go out with a bang,” said
Rawding.
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14 Friday, March 2, 2018

You, me and the BPD

Let us drink and be merry:
thoughts on underage
Since Bowdoin’s annual Cold War party was disrupted by the Bruns-
wick Police Department (BPD), students, in the pages of the Orient and at
the Bowdoin Student Government’s public comment session, have voiced
frustration, confusion and dismay about a perceived increase in BPD’s en-

drinking at Bowdoin
forcement on campus. Since then, the conversation has moved beyond the
immediate events of Cold War. Some students have questioned the wisdom
of the Office of Residential Life’s (ResLife) E- and A-host system, arguing
that the current arrangement is both unclear and places an unfair legal bur-
den on students. Others have alleged that BPD has handled recent incidents
with an unnecessarily heavy hand, threatening to arrest students at Cold
War for offences that do not rise to the level of arrestable infraction, and
issuing a court summons for jaywalking on Harpswell Road. Others have
wondered whether Bowdoin Security, which insisted that BPD did not en-
ter either of the College Houses despite student testimony to the contrary, by Nathanael DeMoranville
Op-Ed Contributor
has been completely forthcoming with students.
Though these complaints and concerns are not baseless, they appear to
overlook the bigger picture, which is a fundamental disconnect between Last week, the Brunswick Police
the reality of college culture and the law. In America, drinking and college Department (BPD), in effect, can-
are culturally inextricable. We are told by older siblings, friends and some- celed the Cold War party. After
times even parents that it is acceptable, within limits, to imbibe as soon as noticing intoxicated minors quite
we unpack our freshman dorm. The Princeton Review includes “biggest openly carrying alcoholic beverag-
party schools” among its rankings—and making this list is a point of pride, es between Mac and Quinby, offi-
rather than shame, for the selected student bodies. In short, drinking at cers issued some warnings. To one
college is as American as baseball and apple pie. particularly brazen student, they
State law, however, pays absolutely no heed to this reality. And though issued a court summons.
we are not optimistic that Maine will lower its legal drinking age to 18, we Now, to BPD’s credit, the be-
think that, before pointing fingers at various groups on campus, we should havior these officers witnessed
acknowledge that the College is confronting a problem that it has not cre- was illegal. State law is clear on
ated and that it cannot unilaterally solve. this matter: “Individuals must be
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effects of an obtuse and outdated law. Of course, productive criticism never purchase, possess, or consume al- “It is illegal to
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hurts. Could ResLife be more transparent about the legal implication of its coholic beverages in Maine.” knowingly procure
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policies? Sure. Should BPD use scare tactics on students? We think not. But I cite this law to say that I have in any way and/or assist
can any of these groups solve the whole problem? No. We should temper no interest in arguing against it. in procuring, furnishing, giv-
our ire—at administrators who are working to keep us safe and happy, or at Similarly, my problem is not with ing, delivering, or selling liquor to/
the state employees who are attempting to do their jobs—with the knowl- the Brunswick Police Depart- for an intoxicated person.” We can
edge that the root of the problem lies beyond the limits of our campus. ment—the officers are just doing These registered parties are the argue over the semantics of wheth-
As it stands, the College is attempting to keep us safe, and BPD is enforc- their jobs. My problem lies with point of contention here. er or not the College is procuring
ing the law—two goals which have become incompatible. Which leads us to the Bowdoin administration and If you receive the “Weekend alcohol to minors, but it is most
ask: Is the problem with our campus or with the law? the alcohol policy it has set forth. Events” email from Christian van certainly assisting in the procure-
When the Bowdoin student was Loenen, you will notice that any- ment. Again, the College Houses
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, cited on Friday, she is reported to where from a third to a half of ex- are a highly-regulated system, and
which is comprised of Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Calder McHugh and Ian Ward. have responded something along pected guests are said to be of age the Bowdoin administration is ful-
the lines of, under Bowdoin “laws,” for any registered event. If you go ly aware of the underage drinking
she was allowed to drink. Putting to even one College House party, occurring.
aside how she said this to the of- you will know that this is not true. As Thomas Ezquerro ’18 said
ficer, our Bowdoin student is not Not even a tenth of these guests to Randy Nichols at the last BSG
wrong in what she says. The Col- are of age, and this is nothing meeting, “If … with increased BPD
lege 100 percent condones under- new. Bowdoin students know this, activity at a College House party, I
age drinking, and I challenge any- and the Bowdoin administration can be cited for furnishing alcohol
body who truly thinks otherwise knows this as well. to minors, at what point do I chal-
to say as much with a straight face. So why then are just Bowdo- lenge your system and say that this
ESTABLISHED 1871 The primary role of a College in students liable for underage isn’t providing me with the neces-
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 House is to provide a safe drinking drinking violations? The current sary safeguards?”
environment for underclassmen, policy mandates that an Alcohol I second this strongly, and I fear
who are predominantly underage. Host “takes full responsibility for that this is a growing sentiment
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information According to the Bowdoin website alcohol at [an] event … and agrees across campus. Looking at this
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators, itself, “[College Houses] host cam- to comply with Maine State Law.” coming weekend, where there is
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in pus-wide events from lectures and This is straightforward enough, an unintended repeat to the Cold
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse film screenings to apple picking but the College itself is not even War—Mac and Quinby will both
discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. trips and regis- complying with Maine be open on Friday night—the hosts
tered parties.” State Law. of Mac have opted not to provide
alcohol (to minors). They do not
Sarah Drumm Harry DiPrinzio want to be liable if BPD were to
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief come and enforce the law.
I sympathize with this concern,
Managing Editor but I worry what would happen
Creative Director News Editor
if this were to become a trend. If
Jenny Ibsen Rachael Allen Emily Cohen
Ellice Lueders underclassmen were to drink more
Photo Editor Calder McHugh Sports Editor
off campus, I have no doubt that
Ann Basu Surya Milner our number of transports would
Anna Fauver increase and the general safety on
Ezra Sunshine Jessica Piper
campus would decline.
Layout Editor Associate Editor Features Editor What then are we to do?
Emma Bezilla Sarah Bonanno Alyce McFadden If I’m being honest, I do not
Ian Stewart Roither Gonzales know. I, personally, don’t even
Dakota Griffin A&E Editor drink. However, as I value the
Copy Editor Nicholas Mitch Isabelle Hallé safety of my peers, I would
Nell Fitzgerald Louisa Moore greatly prefer the College to
Shinhee Kang Allison Wei
Opinion Editor take more responsibility in the
Rohini Kurup matter of underage drink-
Digital Strategist Business Manager ing. If this sounds vague,
Sophie Washington Edward Korando then understand that it
Ned Wang Calendar Editor
is not my job to envision
Social Media Editor Avery Wolfe Kate Lusignan
an alternative. As a stu-
Gwen Davidson dent, I have the right to
Uriel Lopez-Serrano Data Desk Page Two Editor affirmatively state that
Faria Nasruddin Hannah Donovan Samuel Rosario the current system is not
working and then get back
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the PHOEBE NICHOLS to working on my degree.
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions Nathanael DeMoranville is a
expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors.
member of the Class of 2020.
Friday, March 2, 2018
On the Offer of the College and its unfulfilled potential
by Justin Weathers
Op-Ed Contributor
“To make hosts of
friends… / Who are to be
leaders in all walks of life; /
And cooperate with others
for common ends”
– The Offer of the College
If you haven’t seen Kevin
Hernandez’s op-ed in the
Orient from last week, stop
now and go read it. If you
have, I’m hoping to clear up
any ambiguities.
Last fall, a captain of the
sailing team, Nora Cullen
’18, shared with me that the
sailing team was facing some
challenges. Since the “gang-
ster” party, half the team had
graduated and, like the rest
of campus, it had not done
the best job of normalizing
discussions about difference
and preserving the lessons
learned from past mistakes.
In an attempt to foster a team
culture that embraced criti-
cal engagement and aware-
ness about race and racism,
Nora and others on the team
became more proactive by
encouraging education and
discussion. When I spoke
with Nora about the sailing
team’s struggles, it quickly
became apparent to us that
this was not a sailing team
issue, but an issue for Bow-
doin College at large. In fact,
Thoughts on passivity and activity at Bowdoin
by Nora Cullen
Op-Ed Contributor
I’m on the sailing team
but didn’t attend the “gang-
ster” party two years ago. My
absence wasn’t a conscious
choice. In other words, it
wasn’t out of protest but was
instead due to the mundane
yet gravitational pull of
looming assignments.
Passive complicity in rac-
ism is still racism. In fact,
passive racism is dangerous
because we believe we’re do-
ing nothing wrong. It gives
the illusion of nonexistence.
This passive acceptance and
perpetuation of behaviors
over time is what defines
the culture of a community.
It becomes the unnoticed
normalization of institu-
tionalized marginalization
we thought we knew how to
recognize.
As an adopted Chinese
woman, I have struggled to
figure out where I stand in
the conversations of people
of color. I grew up with a
lot of white privilege, which
was hard for me to under-
stand because when people
saw me they saw Chinese,
even though I felt more
in tune with my “white-
ness” than my “Asian-ness.”
Discussions from brunch
Two years later, students reflect upon incidents of cultural appropriation
there’s Bowdoin-specific re-
search to support that claim
in the honors thesis of Pame-
la Zabala ’17, which found
that “Bowdoin has had, on
average, an incident of racial
bias every 3.5 years since
1964.” Nora and I ended our
discussion that afternoon
sobered by our observation
that Bowdoin was still very
much caught in this cycle but
passionate about the poten-
tial to break it.
That passion materialized
and grew into something
pretty exciting. By late Jan-
uary, eight seniors—Nora
Cullen, Rebkah Tesfamari-
am, Harrison Hawk, Dana
Williams, Kevin Hernan-
dez, Daniel Buckman, Sarah
Trenton and I—with varying
identities and perspectives
about the cultural appropri-
ation events came together
with a mission: engage in a
public, moderated discus-
sion about the “gangster”
party, “tequila” party, their
aftermath and the long-
term consequences of how
everything played out. The
goals were clear: (1) provide
a collective retelling of the
incidents from our differing
perspectives, (2) model pro-
ductive discussion, (3) pre-
serve knowledge and expose
truths and (4) begin to heal
the wounds that have been
Yet during the time of the
“gangster” party, I became
acutely aware of my color. I
looked around at the team I
loved and felt alone.
We’re each made up of in-
tersecting facets and layers
of identity. Together, these
layers create the dynamic
mosaic that makes us who
we are, but the beautifully
intricate kaleidoscope you
create for yourself is never
guaranteed to be seen by
others. Assumptions are
born between the discon-
nect in the identities we
choose for ourselves and the
identities that others choose
for us. No one likes having
assumptions made about
them, just as I hate when
people assume I’m
my mom’s
foreign
exchange
student
instead of
her daugh-
ter. The
way we stop
making these
assumptions is through
conversations.
A conversation re-
quires dialogue between
people. The challenging
and reassuring part of this
is that we do it together,
OPINION
left to fester and infect the
College for too long.
As students, we have the
responsibility to embed the
practice of critically engag-
ing with diversity and other
contemporary issues into our
culture. The students who
came together felt that this
could be our contribution to
this effort, and we sought to
promote a healthier culture
in which Bowdoin students
would grapple with the inev-
itable adversities of living in
a diverse community. After
all, the cultural appropria-
tion incidents of my sopho-
more year were painful but
pale in comparison to the
traumatically damaging ways
that the incidents were han-
dled and left unresolved. We
are all to blame for this, but
some more than others.
The day our idea died was
painful. I couldn’t help but
feel that if those who were so
opposed to us actually knew
what we were up to they
might appreciate our
work. For nearly a
month, our group
had met each Sat-
urday morning,
over brunch, for
about two hours of
preparation. Each week
we shared our stories
with one another and
built the trust necessary
but there is no “we” with-
out “you.” We enjoy calling
ourselves activists, thinking
that, because we understand
the goodness of a cause and
wrongness of a behavior,
we’ve done our part. We are
practicing passive activism.
Passivity is easy, but passivi-
ty is not enough.
It’s easy to say, “I stand
for equality” but not to
know what equity looks like.
It’s easy to forget your racial
privilege when your daily
reality does not remind you
of those who do not
have it. It’s easy
to say you want
reconcilia-
tion and
to display our healing in front
of an entire campus. Our
brunches were characterized
by vulnerable discussion and
genuine compassion, facil-
itated by two students who
were uninvolved with either
event. For sure, animosities
were resurrected and pain
resurfaced. But more than
anything, we found common
ground and understanding.
In former classmates who
I labeled ‘racists,’ I found
friendship. In the eyes of
people who had hurt me, I
saw anguish and resentment
closure for this campus but
not to want to be the one to
do it. It’s easy to share your
opinions with your friends,
because they will not judge
you too harshly for the can-
did opinions you share or
confusion you express. It’s
easy to put your head down
and try and get on with life
when you have the privilege
to do so.
It’s hard to hear peo-
ple call you and the team
that you love racist, even
born from sleepless nights of
grappling with the pain they
had caused others. We were
a year and a half late, but
we were healing. That made
it all the more devastating
when some members of our
class felt they had to stop
us. They never even gave it
a chance. They just broke us.
I’ve given up on this group
of students who are so deter-
mined to erase themselves
from the narrative. We were
never interested in shaming
them, but the unintended
consequence of their action is
that everyone will now know
that in 2015 and still today,
they are the reason why we
are not having a roundtable
discussion in pursuit of a
better
CAROLIN
though you believe you are
good people. It’s hard to
realize that they were right
and that good people make
mistakes, but your igno-
rance will never erase the
pain caused by your actions.
It’s hard to accept your mis-
takes, because acceptance
means you understand, and
understanding takes work.
It’s hard to confront your
own privilege, because priv-
ilege is not something that
you can control and there-
fore cannot change—but it
is something you can decide
how to use. It’s hard to see
things about yourself that
you don’t like and not know
how to change them. It’s
hard to feel like you’ve
lost your voice, because
you’ve become part
of a larger narra-
15
tomorrow. I wish we could’ve
talked it out, not for our own
sake, but for everyone who
will come after our class
and the junior class. I wish
younger classes didn’t have
such dismal “leadership” to
look up to. Our experience
should not be their experi-
ence. That is not the Offer of
the College.
There is much to be done.
For now, I’ll settle for brunch.
Justin Weathers is a mem-
ber of the Class of 2018.
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tive—a narrative in which
people feel they have the
right to make arguments for
you even though you never
asked them to and did not
want them to. It’s hard to be
overwhelmed and not know
what you need to do except
move forward, but not to
know where forward is.
I do not claim to be an
expert on talking about
race, nor do I claim to have
formulated answers to all
the questions that both you
and I have. All I know is that
the only way we learn from
one another and learn how
to have these conversations
is by having them—perhaps
over brunch. I am not satis-
fied to be a passive partici-
pant in my life, are you?
Nora Cullen is a member
of the Class of 2018.
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16 Friday, March 2, 2018

FRIDAY 2
PERFORMANCE
Love and Information
Playwright Caryl Churchill’s “Love and Information” will
explore human relationships in the digital age through a
hundred characters in fifty-seven stories. The performance
will include technological features such as a companion app.
There will be performances Saturday and Sunday.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
Tracy McMullen Quintet
Tracy McMullen, assistant professor of music, will lead a
group performing original jazz.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinksi Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
Women’s Caberet VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
A group of Bowdoin women will perform pop, jazz and HAVING A BALL: Hikmah Okoya ’21 takes a photo at the Ebony Ball, an annual event that is hosted by the African American Society that brings
musical theater songs with sexist undertones in an effort to students together to commemorate Black History Month.
expose misogyny in musical genres.
Chase Barn, Boody-Johnson House. 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 3
PERFORMANCE
Miscellania and BOKA A cappella
Concert featuring the Amherst Zumbyes
Two of Bowdoin’s a capella groups will perform with the
Zumbyes, an all-male group from Amherst College.
Bowdoin College Chapel. 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY 5
LECTURE
“The Art of Disagreement in an Age of
Outrage”
Professors and students will discuss the effects of political
polarization. They will question the role of students,
professors and colleges in the “age of outrage” and will
provide strategies for productive conversations.
David Saul Smith Union. 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 7
LECTURE
“The Uncertain Future of the United
States and North Korea Relations?”
Executive Director of the National Committee on North
Korea, Keith Luse, will discuss history and recent political
developments between the United States and North Korea.
The National Committee on North Korea works towards
fostering trust and understanding between the two countries.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
Confessions
Office Hours, Bowdoin’s only strictly longform improv
group will perform.
Chase Barn. 8 p.m.
TUESDAY 6 THURSDAY 8
EVENT
EVENT Ramp Gallery Opening Reception LECTURE
Hip Hop and Salsa Lessons Darius Riley ’19 will debut his photography exhibition, “International Women’s Day Lecture”
Intersection and Obvious, two Bowdoin dance groups, will “Visions of Home,” which depicts East Palo Alto, CA before Gowri Vijayakumar, professor of sociology at Brandeis
teach bachata and hip hop in support of the hurricane relief impending gentrification. The exhibit is curated by University, will discuss her research on gender, sexuality, labor
for Puerto Rico. Naomi Jabouin ’18. and social movements from a transnational perspective. Her
Helmreich House. 8:30 p.m. Ramp Gallery, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 4: 30 p.m. findings are based on 100 interviews with sex workers and
LBGTIQ activists.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:15 p.m.
LECTURE
“Saving Cultural Heritage: From Haiti LECTURE

SUNDAY 4 to Mosul”
Richard Kurin, Smithsonian distinguished scholar and
ambassador-at-large, will discuss developing international
“Yup’ik and Iñupiat Art and Activism in
Contemporary Alaska”
Susie Silook, an award-winning contemporary Yup’ik/Iñupiat
EVENT approaches to preserving the past amidst the widespread sculptor and writer, will speak about her art and activism.
“Reel Ramen” destruction of cultural monuments throughout Haiti Her talk will open the exhibit “Enduring Connections:
The Center for Multicultural life will serve homemade ramen and Mosul. Contemporary Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat Art” in the Peary-
and screen the 2016 Sundance festival film “Spa Night,” Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m MacMillan Arctic Museum.
which follows a closeted Korean American teenager in LA. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
30 College Street. 8:30 p.m.

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