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Students sit in at Senator Collins’ office BSG leaders open
by Diego Velasquez
Staff Writer
With the sun dipping be-
low the skyline in downtown
Portland, temperatures fell
below freezing as 13 Bowdoin
students and Southern Maine
community members shifted
uneasily, half trying to stay
warm, half nervous for the po-
litical action they were about to
undertake.
Maddie Hikida ’22 orga-
nized a group of concerned
citizens from South Portland,
Raymond, Brunswick and
Biddeford to gather in front of
Senator Susan Collins’ (R-ME)
Portland office this Thursday
afternoon to demand more
accountability for President
Donald Trump’s impeachment
hearings.
The students met with Pe-
ter Warren, Collins’ regional
manager, to hand over a list of
demands, expressing concern
about the senator’s vote in the
impeachment hearing as well
as Collins’ general accountabil-
ity to the Maine citizenry.
Questions linger about future of depleted Kaempfer Fund
by Eliana Miller
Orient Staff
Like many visual art students,
Maddie Squibb ’20 went into the
semester choosing between a
couple of courses. “Printmaking
II or an advanced painting inde-
pendent study?” she wondered.
“And then I got the email
about the Kaempfer Fund run-
ning out and it made me think,
‘Oh, I guess I won’t pursue an
independent study,’” said Squibb,
who is a visual arts minor.
The Kaempfer Fund, an en-
dowed fund which also supports
the Kaempfer Summer Art
Grant, subsidizes art supplies for
students on financial aid. Typ-
ically, eligible students pay the
first $100 spent on supplies for
the class and the College covers
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President Rose at
public meeting
CALLING ON COLLINS: Sophia Salzer ’21 holds a sign at the protest on Thursday at Senator Susan Collins’ office
in Portland over her stance on calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate.
Senators are expected to
vote today on the inclusion of
witnesses in Trump’s impeach-
ment hearing, a vote predicted
to strictly follow partisan lines.
Four Republican senators are
needed for the democratic mo-
any subsequent costs.
But last week, an email was
sent to all students enrolled in
visual arts courses which stated
that the “annual allotment of
Kaempfer funds was depleted by
80 percent in the fall semester …
for the Spring 2020 semester, for
as long as funds last, first priority
for Kaempfer fund support will
be limited to covering the cost
of required art kits and course
fees only, for eligible students in
1000- and 2000- level courses,
up to $300 per student per class.”
“It was surprising that so
much of the funding [was used]
so early in the year, and that we
were being notified, like half-
way through the first week of
classes,” said Nate DeMoranville
’20, another visual arts minor.
“If I were in a photo seminar, I
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tion to succeed. Should it fail,
there is a strong possibility that
the impeachment trial will be
pushed to conclude later to-
night.
In the document presented
to a staffer for Collins, the pro-
would have dropped it immedi-
ately. Last semester I spent $500
on supplies.”
Squibb’s independent study
would have been a 3000-level
course, meaning that she would
only receive $100 from the
College. She decided that her
painting materials, especially the
canvases, would be too costly to
justify taking the course.
On Wednesday, a week after
the initial email, the Office of
the Dean of Students announced
that it had secured additional
funding for students who quali-
fy for the Kaempfer Fund. Now
that the typical guidelines for the
fund are back in place, Squibb is
reconsidering that independent
study.
The Office of the Dean of
Students did not answer any
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testors called for prioritizing
Collins’ constituency over party
loyalties. The petition states:
“We demand that you use your
position to push for witnesses in
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questions about how the fund
ran out, where the additional
funding came from or if student
purchases will be more closely
monitored this semester.
“A comprehensive review
of the fund will occur over the
summer to assess historical and
projected usage, as well as con-
sider possible necessary adjust-
ments for future student needs
in relation to supply lists given
to students,” wrote Dean of Stu-
dents Kristina Bethea Odejimi in
an email to the Orient.
Currently, students are free
to use the fund however they
choose. Students who qualify are
instructed to pay the first $100
and then can purchase as many
materials as they need from the
Bowdoin Bookstore at no cost.
If they need something that’s not
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by Julia Jennings
Orient Staff
President Clayton Rose
attended a meeting of the
Bowdoin Student Govern-
ment (BSG) on Wednesday to
field questions from student
activists and members of the
student government. During
the public comment session
of the meeting, Rose respond-
ed to questions about the Col-
lege’s relationship with James
“Jes” Staley ’79, a member of
the Board of Trustees and a
known associate of the late
discredited financier Jeffrey
Epstein, Rose’s role as a mem-
ber of the Board of Directors
of Bank of America and the
College’s choice of Arthur
Brooks as the inaugural Jo-
seph McKeen Fellow.
Within the first few min-
utes of the meeting, student
representatives from the
Bowdoin Labor Alliance
(BLA) and Bowdoin’s chap-
ter of the Sunrise Movement
presented Rose with a letter
voicing their concerns about
a number of the administra-
tion’s policies and a perceived
lack of transparency among
senior members of the ad-
ministration.
“We stand together united
by a vision for our college
founded on values of account-
ability and transparency,”
read the letter. “At tonight’s
BSG meeting, we hope that
the Bowdoin administration
available, they can purchase it
themselves elsewhere and then
receive reimbursement from the
College.
“It would be most equita-
ble if they expanded it because
then the kids with the Kaemp-
fer [funding] would have as
much freedom as the kids who
don’t need to worry about that,”
Squibb said.
Both she and DeMoranville
said that they know of students
who have used the fund to pur-
chase materials to use outside
of class, often stocking up on
photo paper or paints for sum-
mer personal projects. DeMor-
anville suggested that after the
first $500, perhaps student pur-
chases should be more closely
monitored.
“The Kaempfer Fund is sup-
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will take the opportunity to
engage with criticism and
feedback from student lead-
ers.”
After a brief statement
from Rose about his respon-
sibilities as president of the
College and the role of the
Board of Trustees, the floor
was then opened to questions
for Rose from members of
BSG.
Members questioned Rose
about Staley, a member of
the Board of Trustees who
had personal and profession-
al relationships with Jeffrey
Epstein. In 2018, Staley was
also sanctioned by the British
Financial Conduct Authority
and the Prudential Regula-
tion Authority for attempting
to punish a whistleblower at
Barclays, where he serves as
CEO.
In his answer, Rose reiter-
ated his support for Staley.
“There was nothing in Jes
Staley’s actions or behavior
that would warrant any ac-
tion on the part of the board
at this time, and he remains a
trustee,” said Rose.
Caroline Poole ’22, a BSG
representative and member
of the Faculty Development
Committee representative,
pressed Rose on his answer,
citing Rose’s statement from
June of 2019 that “[Staley rep-
resents] all that is great about
Bowdoin and the culture and
the values here.”
Rose declined to comment
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posed to equalize the experience
for everyone,” said DeMoran-
ville. “So part of me is like, well,
I should be working on this over
the summer and during the
breaks and stuff. So it would be
nice if I could get a couple rolls
of film and some paper at the
end of the course, but not an ex-
treme amount.”
Nearly half of all enrolled
Bowdoin students receive finan-
cial aid and thus qualify for the
Kaempfer Fund. Although more
funding was secured for this
semester, Squibb and DeMor-
anville said that they are worried
about the viability of the fund
going forward.
“It had never occurred to me
in the past that the Kemper fund
could be depleted,” said Squibb.
“I hope that it expands.”
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SECURITY REPORT
1/24 to 1/30
Friday, January 24
• A non-alcohol registered event in
Chamberlain Hall was shut down after
it was found to have alcohol present
and three times the approved number
of guests.
Saturday, January 25
• Two minors were found in violation
for hosting an unregistered event at
Pine Street Apartments.
• An intoxicated student who became
sick at Super Snack was transported to
Mid Coast Hospital.
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of
an intoxicated student at Howard Hall.
• An officer aided an ill student in the
men’s room at Thorne Hall.
• A student having an allergic reaction
was given an escort to Mid Coast
Hospital.
• A fire alarm at Quinby House was
attributed to the use of a hair straight-
ener.
Sunday, January 26
• A concerned student requested a well-
ness check for an intoxicated student
at Park Row Apartments.
• A student reported two recent instanc-
es when people in passing cars yelled
STUDENT SPEAK:
What does Clayton Rose keep in his backpack?
out at the student. These incidents did not
involve profanity, bias or threats.
• A student who was accidentally struck in Vincent Dong ’21
the eye by a thrown baseball was taken to
Mid Coast Hospital.
"Probably a juul."
Monday, January 27
• An employee at Kanbar Hall tripped on a
door threshold and fell, injuring a shoul-
der.
• A lewd handwritten note was posted
inside a restroom stall on the third floor
of Coleman Hall
• The College issued a security advisory to Aaron Lee ’20
inform the campus of an armed standoff
related to a domestic assault at Bruns-
wick Landing, one mile east of the main
"Those things that go over your boots
campus. The police arrested the suspect
at 8:30 a.m. There was no threat to the
to help give grip when it’s icy."
campus.
Wednesday, January 29
• An employee reported receiving an elec-
tric shock while repairing lab equipment
at Druckenmiller Hall. The employee was Emma Kyzivat ’21
examined at a local health care facility.
Thursday, January 30
"Listerine tongue strips."
• A driver was slightly injured when he
fell off the back of a delivery truck at the
Moulton Union loading dock.

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Start of new semester resuscitates dying acquaintanceships

by Lily Randall
Orient Staff
The start of the new semester is always an
adjustment period. Seniors develop cig addictions
in an attempt to feel autonomy over their lives,
juniors returning from abroad in Berlin suddenly
think they’re cultured and first-years still don’t
know how to drink without getting transported.
Second semester is sincerely first semester’s
washed-up older sister. Despair is in the air, none
of us have seen the sun since 2006, and Tinder
locations have been set to beyond the greater
Portland area. Thankfully, there is a small ray of
hope in this time of darkness: renewed small talk
topics.
If you thought you were finally free from
conversation with that one weird kid from your
seminar, think again. Equipped with the reliable
“what classes are you taking this semester?” and
a distinct lack of shame, anything is possible the
two weeks after break.
“Returning for second semester is great because I
can slide into people’s DMs asking how their breaks
were. If I play my cards right, I can usually get a
meal out of it too,” an anonymous Baxter resident
said. “So far I’ve hit up maybe three or four girls
I ghosted last semester. Everyone’s so emotionally
confused anyways that I figured why not add to it.”
The Administration has also noticed this trend, and
decided to provide self-care activities for students
to participate in.
“We always brace ourselves for this time of year
as the influx of redundant conversations with
distant friends seems to be the last straw for a lot
of students,” Dean of Students Kristina Bethea
Odejimi said. “We’re just not quite sure how to
help. We offer meditation from 4-5 a.m. on Fridays
and even plan to bring feral cats to the union this
weekend for some de-stressing play time. We
deeply care for our students’ wellbeing, but we just
don’t have the budget for more counseling services,
unfortunately. When faced with financial
choices, we’ll always choose education first,
like having Arthur Brooks come as a Visiting
Fellow.”
New classes and break happenings aren’t
the only topic being discussed, though.
Particularly desperate students have come
to lean on talking about the weather to keep
awkward conversations from stagnating.
“I’m not proud to admit it, but I have been
known to point out the cold weather when
there’s a lull in a conversation,” sophomore
Andrew Bastone said. “What can I say? It’s a
classic for a reason.”
Whether faced with commentary on the
weather or bombardments on your second
semester schedule, know you’re at least in good
company. It wouldn’t be a return to Bowdoin
without a slew of forced niceties making you
want to pound a pack of Natty right on spot.
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ROUX P ’14 DONATES $100

MILLION TO NORTHEASTERN
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL
David Roux P ’14, a member of Bowdoin Board of Trustees, has
donated $100 million to Northeastern University to build a tech-
nology-focused graduate school and research center in Portland.
The center, which will be called the Roux Institute, is slated to
open this fall in a temporary location.
Roux, a native of Lewiston, is the co-founder and former CEO
of Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in
technology investments. In 2016, Roux and his wife Barbara do-
nated $10 million to Bowdoin to fund the construction of the Roux
Center for the Environment, which opened in the fall of 2018.
According to the Portland Press Herald, Roux considered 12
academic institutions as the potential recipient of his investment
before settling on Northeastern. Senior Vice President for Com-
munications and Public Affairs wrote in an email to the Orient that
the Roux Institute will award graduate degrees, Bowdoin was not
one of those considered.
Hood added, however, that President Clayton Rose has had con-
versations with Roux about how Bowdoin may be involved with
the institute in the future.
The center will train students and professionals in new fron-
tiers of tech research, including artificial intelligence and machine
learning. In the long term, the center aims to position Portland as
a new hub for technology innovation and investment, Roux said at
an event in Portland announcing his investment on Monday.
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ties to the College. His daughter, Margot, graduated from Bowdoin SENIOR NIGHT: At the annual Senior Gift Campaign Kickoff on Thursday evening in the Atrium of Druckenmiller Hall, President Clayton Rose addresses the
in 2014, and Roux’s father, brother and sister are all alumni. Roux Class of 2020, discussing the importance of giving back after graduation and encouraging the soon-to-be alumni to donate to the campaign, as the collective
himself graduated from Harvard. funds will be used to be put toward a scholarship for an incoming member of the Class of 2024.

Faculty passes proposal to change First Year Seminar guidelines

by Aura Carlson
Orient Staff
After an extended debate,
the faculty voted at Monday’s
faculty meeting to change the
parameters for First Year Sem-
inars requirement.
The proposal, introduced by
Director of Writing and Rhet-
oric Meredith McCarroll, aims
to refocus the seminars on
teaching college-level writing
and composition. Under the
new proposal, the seminars,
which will now be called First
Year Writing Seminars, will
be required to include at least
four papers, each involving
multiple drafts and substantial
engagement with the Library’s
research resources.
Per the proposal, new and
existing First Year Seminars
will have to be approved by the
Curriculum Implementation
Committee (CIC) in order to
qualify as First Year Writing
Seminars.
Since McCarroll arrived at
Bowdoin in 2015, her prima-
ry focus has been reworking
the first-year writing program
to ensure that it effectively
teaches students the writing
skills they need to thrive in
their academic work and be-
yond.
“The language around the
First Year Seminar has varied
over the years,” said McCar-
roll in an interview with the
Orient. “But it has always cir-
cled back to an emphasis on
writing and preparing … to
transition students to college
level writing.”
In 2017, McCarroll con-
ducted a survey of first year
students to gauge how pre-
pared they felt to write at the
college level before and after
completing their seminar re-
quirement. The survey found
that the seminars did not sig-
nificantly affect students’ sense
of their writing abilities. Stu-
dents who came into the sem-
inar feeling confident in their
writing, for example, came out
feeling equally self-assured,
while students who entered
their seminars feeling unsure
“This isn’t about revising this
program in order to support
the most vulnerable group of
students—it’s about putting the
best practices into place that will
support all students.”
–Meredith McCarroll, Director of Writing and Rhetoric
about their writing ended the
fall semester still feeling un-
derprepared.
After receiving the results,
McCarroll spoke to many first-
year students individually.
“I heard that they felt like
their First Year Seminar real-
ly didn’t focus on writing and
didn’t teach them writing,”
said McCarroll. “It’s really
important to focus on student
needs and what students were
reporting they were experienc-
ing in their First Year Seminar.
But [it’s] also [important] to
make sure that we can … make
sure that faculty have autono-
my and can teach in different
ways.”
After arriving at Bowdoin,
McCarroll attended the Dart-
mouth Institute for Research
on Composition, where she
consulted with experts and
writing professionals to devel-
op new strategies for teaching
undergraduate writing. At
Bowdoin, she has collaborated
with the CIC and professors
teaching First Year Seminars to
implement a number of limit-
ed reforms.
“This isn’t about revising
this program in order to sup-
port the most vulnerable group
of students—it’s about putting
the best practices into place
that will support all students,”
McCarroll said.
The proposal was met with
mixed responses from the fac-
ulty.
Associate Professor of Bi-
ology and Neuroscience Had-
ley Horch, who taught a First
Year Seminar in 2015 and an-
other this past fall, expressed
support for the changes. She
noted that the structure of the
program failed initially to pre-
pare her to design a course that
balanced course content and
writing instruction.
“I think coming from a sci-
ence background—[where] we
do a lot of writing—I think
I’m very good at editing my
students’ writing, but actually
stepping back and teaching
someone how to write … is
a little bit different,” Horch
said. “I think for the [faculty]
who are new to [the seminars],
these guidelines are going to be
appreciated because they help
to make sure that the course
is in line with the pedagogical
values of this First Year Semi-
nar requirement.”
Horch said she hopes the
new requirements will allow
students to develop the writing
skills necessary to grapple with
and communicate complex
ideas—a gap she finds in her
current students’ writing.
“One of the things
that I like about the writ-
ing-across-the-curriculum
vision [is that] students get to
take the class that they’re hope-
fully really excited about and
[they] get into complex deep
ideas with [their] professor,”
said Horch. “I think that writ-
ing challenges appear because
you’re trying to deal with very
sophisticated ideas in writing,
so [for] any level of student—
no matter their experience—I
think [these seminars are] go-
ing to be able to highlight for
them where they can improve.”
Andrew Rudalevige, chair
of the Department of Govern-
ment and Legal Studies, voiced
his concerns that the new writ-
ing requirements will cut into
the time that he now devotes to
teaching course material.
“If I’m spending numerous
sessions on paragraph struc-
ture, I’m not spending them
on American political devel-
opment, so there is a trade off,”
he said.
Associate Professor of His-
tory Page Herrlinger said that
the new requirements might
force the history department
to exclude First Year Writing
Seminars from the department’s
courses that count for credit to-
ward the history major.
“With the new requirements
being so explicitly around
writing, [I wonder] whether
we feel that we’re able to put
enough focus on historical
skills in particular, and wheth-
er or not we would count the
First Year Seminar toward the
major,” said Herrlinger.
Nadia Celis, associate pro-
fessor of Romance Languages
and Literatures and the di-
rector of the Latin American
Studies Program, acknowl-
edged that some professors
with well-established seminars
will have to re-think their cur-
ricula in order to meet the new
requirements.
“It will definitely require
some adjustment on the part
of the people who have been
teaching these for a period of
time,” said Celis. “But also, all
of our students in the whole
College are basically expected
to take this one course … and
there are a series of reasons
why we wanted them to take
them. And this is a course that
will prepare them for writing
at the level we expect from
them in the College.”
Proposals for new and re-
vised courses will be due for
approval on April 3, according
to McCarroll.
Herrlinger also expressed
concern about the amount of
time outside of class that the
new requirements would ask
faculty to commit to one-on-
one meetings with students.
First Year Seminars are capped
at 16 students, and the First
Year Writing Seminars will be
as well.
“Just logistically, it’s a lot of
time, but it’s also a lot of sched-
uling outside of class, and so I
am concerned that with these
new requirements that I’m go-
ing to have a hard time sched-
uling and fitting that time into
my own week,” she said.
Herrlinger added that the
seminar class size will be some-
thing to think about “down the
road,” once the requirements
have been implemented.
Despite faculty pushback,
McCarroll said she appreciated
her colleagues’ feedback and
criticism.
“[It is] truthfully really what
makes a healthy communi-
ty,” said McCarroll. “I think
that it’s a sign of faculty who
are committed to asking hard
questions and to deeply under-
standing issues. And I think
that the faculty vote really
supports that this is a campus
that cares about students and
student growth and student
learning.”

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Faculty considers proposal to replace Exploring
Social Differences distribution requirement
by Rohini Kurup
Orient Staff
The Curriculum and Educa-
tional Policy Committee (CEP)
introduced a motion to change
the Exploring Social Differences
(ESD) distribution requirement
at a faculty meeting on Monday.
It would instead be called “Differ-
ence, Power, Inequity” and a new
definition of the requirement
aims to address vagueness of the
current requirement.
According to the Academic
Handbook, courses that qualify
under the current requirement
“develop awareness and critical
understanding of differences in
human societies” and “build the
analytic skills to examine differ-
ences within a society and the
ways they are reflected in and
shaped by historical, cultural,
social, political, economic, and
other processes.” Under the pro-
posed change, courses would
focus more specifically on power
and/or inequity “within a given
society.”
“We want to provide a re-
quirement that respects the very
different kinds of intellectual en-
Athletic team OutPeer
and OutAlly lists return
after seven years
by Rebecca Norden-Bright
Orient Staff
Posters displaying lists of
students who have participated
in OutPeer or OutAlly training
through the Center for Sexuality,
Women and Gender (SWAG)
have long been a staple in bath-
room stalls throughout Bowdo-
in’s campus. Now, in addition to
the existing posters, students will
see similar lists with students’
names sorted by sports team.
The posters, which can be
found in locker rooms around
campus, are part of an initiative
to extend the OutPeer and Out-
Ally programs to ensure a broad-
er support network for students
who may be questioning their
sexuality or seeking guidance.
The athlete-specific posters
aren’t new—they were first creat-
ed eight years ago—but had not
been updated in nearly five years,
according to Alex Tyson ’22.
Tyson, a member of the foot-
ball team, wanted to increase
inclusivity within the athletic de-
partment, so he created the most
recently updated version of the
list last summer.
In addition to creating the
lists, Tyson and Noa Schumann
’22 hosted the 11th annual “Win-
“Because just sitting there and having your
name on a list isn’t actually supportive.
It’s just comforting. So we wanted to do
something to actually show support.”
–Alex Tyson ’22
terprises scholars take when they
think about these issues while at
the same time giving students
robust ways to think about ques-
tions that exist in a broad range
of topics from the macro to the
very micro,” said Assistant Pro-
fessor of Sociology Theo Greene,
a member of CEP, who presented
the motion and fielded questions
during the meeting.
The ESD requirement was first
approved by the faculty in May
2004 along with the four other
distribution requirements—
Mathematical, Computational
or Statistical Reasoning (MCSR);
Inquiry in the Natural Science
(INS); International Perspectives
(IP) and the Arts (later changed
to Visual and Performing Arts).
All the current requirements
went into effect for students en-
tering the College in fall 2006.
If passed, the new requirement
would apply only to students en-
tering the College in upcoming
years. Current students would
still be required to fulfill the ESD
requirement as it currently exists.
Over the past several years,
students and faculty have pushed
to change the requirement to bet-
ning Together: Allies in Athletics”
event in November. The dinner
and panel discussion centered
around issues of inclusivity—or
exclusivity—in sports culture,
especially those related to sexual-
ity. Sophomores who represented
each athletic team on campus at-
tended the event.
For Schumann, who is a for-
mer member of the women’s
squash team, targeting sopho-
mores was crucial in order to
ensure that conversations about
sexuality and gender don’t stop
after orientation.
“I think Bowdoin does a good
job of promoting inclusivity and
having programs for first-years,
like Perspectives [a student pro-
duction performed during ori-
entation],” said Schumann. “But I
think following through is really
important.”
At the event November event,
Schumann and Tyson handed out
copies of the posters to attending
athletes, with instructions to hang
them up where their teammates
would see them.
Associate Dean of Students
for Inclusion and Diversity and
Director of the Center of SWAG
Kate Stern explained that attend-
ees were quick to help hang the
posters.
ter address contemporary social
issues.
“The way the ESD require-
ment is written is very broad, and
students accomplish it in differ-
ent ways, but they don’t necessar-
ily feel that they … have a grasp
of things they need to know when
they go into the world and ex-
“It’s not simply exposing you to
diversity for the sake of making you
diverse.”
–Theo Greene, Assistant Professor of Sociology
amine these kinds of problems,”
Greene said in an interview with
the Orient. “And then, of course,
we had a series of [bias] incidents
that have occurred at Bowdoin
over the past few years that sort of
brought to light that the kinds of
issues that we ought to be expos-
ing students to have not been.”
“I think students feel that they
haven’t been adequately prepared
to talk about them … What [the
requirement] is trying to do is
arm students with tools to help
them analyze the kinds of social
“They were really enthusiastic
about being supportive of [the
posters],” Stern said.
In addition to hosting the
event, Schumann and Tyson
increased outreach efforts for
the OutAllies program among
student athletes. These efforts
proved successful. According to
Stern, a record number of athletes
participated in OutAllies training
this year.
“Having so many athletes that
can think about the culture of
their team as allies means a lot
to athletes who are out, athletes
who are coming out and athletes
who aren’t out yet,” said Stern.
“It’s really meaningful to have that
visual. You’re going to see that
other people on my team have
spent four hours doing this even
though they didn’t have to.”
The program will continue
with an event for student-athletes
in the spring to reinforce the mes-
sages about inclusivity discussed
at the event in November.
For Tyson, the project high-
lights the importance of actively
supporting inclusivity on athletic
teams.
“What I talked about at the
November program is that we
need to stop being passive sup-
porters and actively do something
to show how inclusive we can be,”
said Tyson. “Because just sitting
there and having your name on
a list isn’t actually supportive. It’s
just comforting. So we wanted to
do something to actually show
support.”
issues that exist out there,” said
Greene.
Greene explained that many
students think of the ESD re-
quirement as a diversity require-
ment, when its goals should go
beyond that.
“It’s not simply exposing you
to diversity for the sake of making
you diverse but that this is a real
intellectual enterprise,” Greene
said. “To expose you to that hope-
fully will help you understand
that this is serious intellectual
work and not simply [that] we’re
here to make you a better human
being. We’re here to make you a
better human being by being bet-
ter intellectuals and being able to
participate in conversations using
language, to properly talk about
these things, to properly question
and push back and challenge in-
equity and inequality, or abuses
DIEGO VELASQUEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CALL FORTH THE WITNESS:
Maddie Hikida ’22 (TOP), the
organizer of Thursday’s protests in
Portland, reaches to hand over the
protestors’ list of demands expresss-
ing concern about the Senator Susan
Collins’ vote in Trump’s impeachment
hearing and her accountability to
Maine citizenry.
COLLINS
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the Trump impeachment trial.
We demand that you stand for
us .… If you refuse to meet our
demands, we will vote you out.”
Described by Hikida as
“non-partisan,” the group con-
sisted of members from Maine
Youth Strikes, Sunrise Maine,
Sunrise Bowdoin, the Maine
People’s Alliance, Impeachment
Now, Indivisible Maine, Veter-
ans for Peace and 350 Maine.
The protesters describe Collins’
unwillingness to call for wit-
nesses as an action based on
D.C. political donations rather
than loyalty to her constituency.
Stephanie Miles, recently
hired as the Sunrise Movement
regional manager, expressed
worries about the senator’s al-
of power, or ways in which things
reinforce or re-inscribe that in the
social world.”
According to Greene, if
passed, the new requirement
might mean reframing existing
classes, but it could also lead to
the creation of new courses. He
hopes that these changes would
allow departments that do not
typically address topics of power
and inequality to examine how
these issues affect their respective
disciplines and make these topics
accessible to more students.
“I think it’s a really great op-
portunity to expand our intellec-
tual imagination, to think about
how power and difference and
inequity sort of pervade the dif-
ferent kinds of intellectual worlds
we occupy,” Greene explained.
During the meeting and on
an online platform created in ad-
vance to post questions about the
proposal, faculty members raised
issues about the details of the lan-
guage including why the commit-
tee chose “inequity” rather than
“inequality” and whether courses
consider difference, power and
inequity separately or some com-
bination of the three.
legiances.
“She should be listening to
her constituents and still be
doing her duty as a public ser-
vant,” she said.
Miles described the action
as a way to “galvanize the local
community,” during a time of
uncertainty and extreme parti-
sanship.
Peter Morgan, a resident
of Raymond, Maine and rep-
resentative for Veterans for
Peace, commented on the sena-
tor’s political stance surround-
ing this particular issue.
“Well it’s deplorable. I mean
the whole process. My gener-
ation’s legacy is an embarrass-
ment,” he said.
Morgan emphasized that his
role was to support the protest-
ers and to help out with bail,
should they be arrested. No stu-
Friday, January 31, 2020
Greene said that these ques-
tions about the language of the
motion are to avoid the problems
of the current requirement and
help the committee in crafting
a more effective and specific re-
quirement.
“I think so many of us feel
that ESD is well intentioned but
doesn’t necessarily have the teeth,
the effectiveness. We don’t want
to rewrite a requirement in a
way that just echoes the kinds of
challenges we’ve had with ESD.
We really want something that
can be an effective tool for mea-
suring courses that help students
think about these questions and
issues in a very serious way,” he
explained.
According to Greene the pro-
grammatic changes are designed
to benefit students. “Our goal is
to produce something that …
is broad enough and expansive
enough that students don’t nec-
essarily feel this as a burden, but
as an opportunity to really gain
insight on how to build a better
world,” Greene said.
The motion may be voted on
as early as the next faculty meet-
ing in March, pending debate.
dents were arrested on Thurs-
day, a departure from previous
Sunrise actions, such as the
sit-in outside of Collins’ Wash-
ington D.C. office in September
2018, which resulted in the ar-
rest of 10 Bowdoin students.
Following last week’s event,
Hikida said the group did what
they came to do.
“We delivered our demands,
made comments, sang a song
and didn’t get kicked out or ar-
rested,” she said.
The protesters concluded
their action by singing in the
cold in front of the senator’s
office, chanting lyrics such
as “I hear the voice of my
great-granddaughter saying call
forth the witnesses now!” and
“When the people rise up, the
power comes down … We’re
gonna rise up till it’s won.”
Friday, January 31, 2020
REAL TALK: Students attend the “Real Talk on HIV” in Quinby House on Monday. Associate Professor of Sociology Theo Greene (center) moderated the panel composed of Stash Bayley (left) and Katie Rutherford (right).
Maine experts talk HIV activism and concerns
by Dani Quezada
Orient Staff
On Monday night, students
gathered in Quinby House for
“Real Talk on HIV” to discuss
medical activism with HIV/
AIDS experts in Maine. The
panel offered insights from Ex-
ecutive Director of the Frannie
Peabody Center Katie Ruther-
ford and Co-Chair of the Maine
HIV Advisory Committee Stash
Bayley and was moderated by
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Theo Greene.
Bayley and Rutherford
shared their first-hand experi-
ences as activists advocating for
communities affected by HIV/
AIDS with a group of about 40
students. About seven years ago
Rutherford began working for
the Frannie Peabody Center,
Maine’s largest HIV Service Or-
ganization.
Bayley works for the Maine
HIV Advisory Committee,
which prioritizes speaking to
groups pushing for states to
strengthen ally participation and
Eight-hour standoff ends peacefully
with suspect’s arrest
by Andrew Bastone
Orient Staff
An eight-hour standoff Mon-
day morning between Brunswick
police and an armed man ended
with the suspect surrendering
after officers deployed tear gas
to force him out of his residence,
according to police.
Nick Christensen, 39, was ar-
rested and charged with felony
weapons possession, domestic
violence assault, obstruction and
creating a police standoff after the
impasse ended around 8:20 a.m..
Christensen is in custody at the
Cumberland County Jail.
The Brunswick Police Depart-
ment (BPD) received a call about
a domestic disturbance around
12:18 a.m. Monday, according to
implement resources to improve
the quality of the lives of those
affected by HIV/AIDS. Bayley,
who was diagnosed with HIV
four years ago, emphasized how
refreshing it was to connect with
a group of young people who are
concerned about such a cause.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve
actually sat in front of a number
of young people who reminded
me a great deal of what it was like
before I acquired HIV,” Bayley
said.
When asked why people who
may not be directly impacted
by HIV/AIDS should engage
with the issue, the panelists and
Greene articulated that this issue
affects everyone to some degree,
especially students on college
campuses. Rutherford added
that collaboration in the HIV/
AIDS movement may serve as a
model for combating other glob-
al crises.
“It’s not going to be the only
[epidemic] that we experienced
in our lifetimes, and we’d have
to pay attention to how we treat
each other and how we deal with
BPD Commander Mark Waltz.
Waltz said that police were told
Christensen was armed at the
time of the initial report.
While evacuating Chris-
tensen’s wife and child from their
744 Neptune Drive residence—
three miles from campus—an of-
ficer thought he heard the sound
of a gun being loaded, according
to the Times Record.
Police then established a pe-
rimeter around the residence and
evacuated the building’s other in-
habitants. People in surrounding
buildings were advised to remain
indoors.
Waltz said the department
used a negotiator to try to con-
vince Christensen to leave the
building but “didn’t have much
luck.”
NEWS
these challenges,” Rutherford
said.
Shining light on challeng-
es that result from the stigma
around the HIV/AIDS commu-
nity, Bayley further highlighted
how activist efforts can produce
more empathy for the humanity
of those affected. He described
how his diagnosis and direct
involvement in the cause made
him poignantly aware of the
difficulty in changing people’s
preconceptions and overcoming
biases.
“We essentially end up drift-
ing in the direction of the pre-
vailing winds, and we get quiet,
and we become less participato-
ry in our world,” said Bayley. “We
become riddled with anxiety and
guilt and shame, and all these
things that essentially deplete
your self concept over time.”
The panelists also covered the
lack of HIV/AIDs education and
activism in Maine due to it being
a low incidence state. As a result
of this small presence, there is a
large misconception in Maine,
according to Rutherford, and
Waltz said BPD used multiple
canisters of tear gas to attempt to
subdue Christensen, eventually
exhausting the department’s sup-
ply, but Christensen would not
exit the apartment.
The Portland Police Depart-
ment’s Special Reaction Team was
then summoned to assist BPD,
and they brought more tear gas,
which was subsequently used to
flush out the suspect.
According to Waltz, a police
search of Christensen’s home led
to the seizure of multiple weap-
ons, including a .44 magnum
revolver, a rifle, a BB revolver, a
BB pistol, a stun grenade and a
crossbow.
According to Illinois court re-
cords, Christensen’s rap sheet in-
cludes convictions for aggravated
there is little urgency to address
the epidemic.
“I hear all the time, ‘Oh yeah,
isn’t there a cure for that? … Can’t
you just [take] meds and every-
thing’s fine?’” said Rutherford,
“And [that] doesn’t fully explain
the unique challenges and experi-
“We become riddled with anxiety
and guilt and shame and all these
things that essentially deplete
your self concept over time.”
–Stash Bayley, Co-Chair of the Maine HIV
Advisory Committee
ences for people living with HIV
in trying to start talking about
this on the way up here.”
Such unique challenges in-
clude the experiences of those
who live undiagnosed or have no
access to medical care as well as
others affected by the complex-
ities of social stratifications due
to race and sexual stigmas.
The organizers of the talk—
discharge of a firearm, domestic
battery and violating an order of
protection.
The Illinois weapons convic-
tion barred Christensen from
owning firearms.
During the siege, BPD called
upon Brunswick’s cultural broker
to assist police in disseminating a
shelter in place order to the homes
surrounding the Neptune Drive
apartment building, according to
Waltz. Waltz said it was important
to use the cultural broker, as many
asylum seekers who live in the
adjacent homes are not English
speakers. The cultural broker
helped officers assure the asylum
seekers that they were safe in their
homes.
Christensen is due to appear in
court in May.
Kate Stern, associate dean of
students for inclusion and di-
versity and director of the center
for sexuality, women and gender,
Blaine Stevens ’22 and Archer
Thomas ’21—collaborated with
the Center for Sexuality, Wom-
en and Gender, Peer Health and
Quinby House. Stevens pushed
for this talk as part of a contin-
uous effort to bring attention to
the importance of HIV/AIDS
visibility on campus. Last year,
she initiated a poster campaign
and created a banner for students
to sign on World AIDS day.
Stevens asked Greene to
moderate the panel after she was
in one of his classes. She admires
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his work on the interplay of gay
neighborhoods, gay rights and
sociology—ideas paramount to
the AIDs dialogue. In his open-
ing speech, Greene touched on
the topic’s personal significance
for him as a gay man, and the in-
dispensable role of engagement
in this narrative.
“I was only a year old when
the news stories first came out
about the new gay cancer,” said
Greene. “And so growing up in
the ’80s, as a child and exploring
those questions of my sexuali-
ty … [I was also] resisting that
coming out meant that I was
destined to die, to contract HIV.”
“I was blown away by how
many students came out to hear
about this cause … I want to
continue to raise awareness of
the HIV/AIDS epidemic with
further programming dedicated
to this cause … I would love to
host [future] events like an HIV
testing clinic, a film screening of
‘How To Survive A Plague,’ or
even discussions with other local
activists.”
6 NEWS
Student Activities
distributes first
hazing survey in
seven years
by Tianyi Xu
Orient Staff
A new hazing prevention
survey was emailed to students
on Sunday in order to gather
data on campus hazing prac-
tices and improve the College’s
prevention efforts. The last sur-
vey of this kind was conducted
seven years ago.
Director of Student Activi-
ties Nate Hintze explained that
the information collected will
help ensure safe extracurricu-
lar activities.
“If there is something hap-
pening that we as administra-
tors don’t see, and if students
think hazing is happening in
a fair amount, then this will
help us go back as a division
[to think] about how we’re
educating our students,” said
Hintze. “I don’t think that’s the
narrative, but it will be helpful
if students fill out the survey
and provide us with this large
volume of data.”
Hintze emphasized that the
survey is strictly anonymous
and meant to be informative
rather than punitive.
“The data all comes back in
an aggregate form. We’re not
using this as an investigative
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open up inquiries onto clubs
or athletes,” said Hintze. “It’s a
[way] for us to get some sort of
baseline data to help us contin-
ue to improve what we’re cur-
rently doing.”
The survey is based on the
version used by the National
Hazing Prevention Consor-
tium, a group that inspired
Bowdoin’s implementation of
an anonymous hazing form
last fall. The group’s director,
Elizabeth Allan, will visit cam-
pus later this semester to meet
with Student Activities staff to
discuss anti-hazing measures.
Hintze noted that student
life has continued to change
in the seven years since the
last survey was sent out, and it
was important for the College
to keep this in mind when pre-
paring the new survey.
“We continue to assess our
training and not assume that
what we did once will always
work because time changes and
people change,” said Hintze.
“It’s valuable to have somebody
coming from the outside to
help us rethink what we’re do-
ing and make sure that we are
still doing the best that can be
done.”
TALK TO US.
ROSE RISES: At the BSG meeting on Wednesday, President Clayton Rose responded to questions posed by Sunrise Bowdoin and Bowdoin Labor Alliance.
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on his personal opinion of
Staley.
“That’s a very good ques-
tion, but I’m not going to
share my personal views,” said
Rose.
Poole also questioned
Rose on his position on the
Board of Directors for Bank
of America and the bank’s
ongoing business dealings
with Caliburn International,
the corporation contracted by
the U.S. government to build
and maintain migrant deten-
tion centers on the southern
border.
“You have already spo-
ken against injustices on the
southern border. Will you
now put your values into
action and publicly call for
Bank of America to cancel
this ongoing contract with
Caliburn?” asked Poole.
Rose denied that his posi-
tion on the Board of Directors
gave him the power to call for
such an action. While admit-
ting that he does profit from
Bank of America’s business
dealings with Caliburn, he ex-
plained his decision to remain
a member of the bank’s board.
“I’ve made a decision …
that if I have an opportunity
to be at the table and inside
the tent, and [have] an influ-
ence and an opportunity to
shape policies … I’m going
to take the opportunity,” said
Rose. “And that comes with
constant criticism … but it
gives me the opportunity to
have an effect on the things
that I care deeply about.”
Members of BSG also
questioned Rose’s choice to
appoint Arthur Brooks as the
inaugural Joseph McKeen
Visiting Fellow. Students have
criticized Brooks’ appoint-
ment, alleging that Brooks
promoted climate denial as
the president of the American
Enterprise Institute.
Rose first professed his
own belief in the truth and
gravity of the climate cri-
sis and added his belief that
Brooks also recognizes the se-
verity of the crisis. Rose also
cited Brook’s credentials as a
respected conservative intel-
lectual, noting that he could
serve as a voice of ideological
diversity on campus.
Rose also addressed the
allegation made by Visiting
Professor of German Andrew
Hamilton in an op-ed pub-
lished last week in the Orient
that a “culture of fear” on
campus stifled faculty crit-
icism of the administration
and frank discussion of its
policies.
Rose challenged Hamilton’s
characterization of the cam-
pus climate.
“There’s nobody on the
faculty that’s got an issue with
telling me what they think
about anything,” said Rose.
“And obviously, [Professor
Hamilton] doesn’t feel partic-
ularly intimidated.”
The meeting ended abrupt-
ly as the BSG approached the
end of their allotted time.
After the meeting, some
students expressed frustra-
tion with Rose’s responses.
“What I heard tonight was
not a sense of accountability,”
said Ben Ray ’20, the co-lead-
er of the BLA. “All I heard
were explanations to get us
to accept something that we
have already said we don’t
want.”
Diego Grossmann ’20, an-
other co-leader of the BLA,
questioned Rose’s leadership
principles.
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“What are the priorities
for the leadership of the col-
lege?” said Grossmann after
the meeting. “If it’s strictly
financial, then are we willing
to [turn] a blind eye to all of
these moral entanglements?”
“What we heard tonight
was not satisfactory, and we
still welcome a written re-
sponse before next week’s
BSG meeting,” said Ray.
Other students were more
optimistic about Rose’s en-
gagement.
“I think it went well,” said
BSG President Ural Mishra
’20. “I think there were a lot
of things that a lot of students
were curious or concerned
about that ended up being
addressed. Whether or not
students feel satisfied with
[Rose’s] responses is some-
thing else.”
“These are questions which
raise further discussions on
campus.” said Poole. “And
there’s definitely more to be
said, but I think that it’s im-
portant that President Rose
took the time to answer these
questions. It’s part of a longer
process that I think is import-
ant to … the Bowdoin com-
munity.”
Friday, January 31, 2020
F FEATURES
ALWAYS LEARNING: Dan Possumato (right) addresses his “U.S. National Security Structure and Processes” class at the Midcoast Senior College located at the Brunswick Landing. Possumato is a former director of Plans, Training, Mobili-
zation and Security for the U.S. Army and currently works for the U.S. Department of State as a special investigator. His experience provided a rich background and basis for his course this winter.
Senior college provides opportunity for continued learning
by Emma Sorkin
Orient Staff
Addressing the room in the
final session of his “U.S. Na-
tional Security Structure and
Processes” class, Dan Pos-
sumato quipped, “My ther-
apist tells me that with a lot
of work, I may recover [from
teaching this class].” The
room broke out in laughter.
Possumato’s class, which is
composed of senior students, is
one of the many courses offered
at Midcoast Senior College
located at Brunswick Landing
and balances lively debate with
thoughtful questions.
Founded in 2000, the Mid-
coast Senior College offers lo-
cal residents over the age of 50
a chance to pursue continued
adult education and life-long
learning. One of 17 senior col-
leges in Maine, the school offers
courses during all seasons on
‘Proud Papers Project’ initiative sparks collaborative learning
by Annika Moore
Orient Staff
If you’ve ever wondered
what your peers are churn-
ing out during late nights in
the library or hours in Smith
Union, you’re not alone.
Whether it’s an interpretation
of Chaucer or the results of a
psychology experiment, Bow-
doin students are constantly
at work. However, students
rarely get to share the excite-
ment of new research with
their peers, a fact that Kyle
Putnam ’22 hopes to change
with the new initiative “Proud
Papers Project.”
At the end of last semester
a wide array of topics, ranging
from Shakespeare to Informa-
tion Technology.
“In a lot of these classes,
the students bring as much to
the class as the instructor im-
parts to the class,” said Doug
Bates ’66, the current Pres-
ident of the Senior College.
“In other words, we usually
want to caution instructors in
a class: just because they are
knowledgeable about whatev-
er the subject is, [that] doesn’t
mean there [won’t] be three
or four other students in the
class who might be equal-
ly knowledgeable on [their]
subject.”
Students at the school have
a distinctive relationship with
their professors, unlike the one
between Bowdoin students and
their professors.
“Our students are not in-
hibited about crossing swords
with the professor,” said Tony
Putnam launched the project
in the form of a Google Drive
folder where students can
submit any paper that they
are proud of and want to share
with the rest of campus.
Putnam started the project
after having conversations
with others about various pa-
pers and realizing they never
had the opportunity to get to
read each other’s work.
“I was sitting in the com-
mon room of Winthrop meet-
ing first-year students, and [I]
just asked them what they’ve
been up to. And everyone
always has really interesting
papers … and I’m just like, ‘I
want to read all of these cool
Belmont ’60, former president
of the Senior College. “If you’re
a Bowdoin student and you
disagree too vigorously with a
professor, he says, ‘You flunk!’”
In order to enroll in a course,
students must become members
of the organization. There are
between 700 and 750 members
in this area, according to Bates.
“Most of our students are
over 65 because our classes are
given during the daylight hours
[and] working people just can’t
do it,” Belmont said.
The college relies on local
residents to serve as faculty
members as well.
“This community … attracts
a number of retired academics
from all over the country who
choose to come here in their
retirement years. We have the
luxury of having a faculty that’s
made up of a pool of these re-
tired academics,” Belmont said.
According to Bates, the pro-
things that people are telling
me about,’” Putnam said.
Since the project’s initial
launch, 12 pieces have been
added to the folder. Students
can submit work with their
name attached directly to the
folder or contribute anony-
mously via email.
The pieces cover a range
of topics and academic dis-
ciplines. Jordan Khoriaty ’21
decided to contribute their
paper on the impact of climate
change and human activity on
the mangroves.
“People put so much effort
into their academics and the
things that they create. And
then it gets submitted for a
fessors at the Senior College
shape a classroom atmosphere
that suits older students.
“Many of the instructors are
retired college professors, or
they are people who had a cer-
tain expertise about some sub-
ject,” Bates said. “So they bring
with them not only the [central]
information but the experience
of working with whatever that
subject information is. So the
result is you get people with
real life experiences in the class-
room as opposed to theoretical
experiences, and this is what
most of these people seek.”
Possumato, for example, is a
former director of Plans, Train-
ing, Mobilization and Security
for the U.S. Army and a profes-
sor at the Army Management
Staff College. He is currently a
special investigator for the U.S.
Department of State.
“The neat thing … [is that]
there are a lot of people in the
grade and you still have that
knowledge but the whole
thing gets kind of forgotten
about,” Khoriaty said. “It
doesn’t deserve to be forgotten
just because the class ended.”
Ethan McLear ’23, who also
submitted a paper, said he
liked that this new platform
allows students to engage
more thoughtfully with each
other’s work.
“It would take me a long
time to go through in the
[amount of] detail that I want
to go through if I was talking
to someone about it face to
face,” McLear said. “But if you
read what is actually written
you can take as long as you
area who have incredible skills
… and a lot of experiences and
they put courses together and
teach them, and it’s very, very in-
teresting,” Roy Hibyan ’67, a stu-
dent in Possumato’s course said.
The Senior College is just one
opportunity for citizens to pur-
sue adult education. Auditing
classes at Bowdoin is an option
but presents challenges for the
Senior College’s students.
“You can’t park within 10
miles of the classrooms, and
if our old people come in with
their walkers … that’s a real
problem, and some of the build-
ings don’t have elevators,” Bel-
mont said. “But nevertheless, it’s
a wonderful service that Bow-
doin offers.”
Auditing a class at Bowdoin
often involves completing read-
ings and writing papers, Bates
said. The Senior College courses
present a less demanding alter-
native.
want to learn about it at your
own pace, and you can revisit
it multiple times without hav-
ing to even talk to me.”
Putnam said that this proj-
ect creates an opportunity for
students to explore topics they
would not have otherwise
come across.
“Sometimes we do get to
read others’ papers, but it’s
within the same class or we’re
both working on the same
research project or we’re peer
editing maybe,” Putnam said.
“So I also wanted science
majors to be able to read a
sociology paper because I feel
like there is not a lot of cross
pollination there.”
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“This is an opportunity to
take any class that [students]
want on subjects that they were
curious about but didn’t have
time to explore because we offer
these classes with no papers and
no exams,” Bates said. “There’s
very little risk to the student. It’s
both a social experience and an
academic experience.”
Ginny Hopcroft, a student at
the Senior College, worked as a
research librarian and managed
the government publications
collection at Bowdoin for 20
years. Hopcroft began taking
classes at the senior college after
retiring from Bowdoin in 2012,
and for her, taking courses fulfills
her desire to continue learning.
“[I take classes] just to keep
my mind fresh and learning
new things,” Hopcroft said. “It’s
always good to learn, and the
teachers here are wonderful.”
Diego Lasarte contributed to
this report.
Putnam has been reading
the papers when they have free
time.
“I feel like it’s kind of the
equivalent of a Wikipedia
dive,” they added.
McLear said he appreciat-
ed that in addition to shar-
ing work, he appreciated the
chance to receive feedback. In
the end, the project aims to
create a more diverse and open
intellectual exchange.
“It’s nice to know that I put
a resource out there that could
expand people’s thinking,” he
said. “ I think it’s a really, re-
ally positive and healthy im-
pulse that has come out of a
purely student driven effort.”
8 FEATURES
Africa Academic Hub shines spotlight on studies of Africa
by Emily Staten
Orient Staff
“I really enjoy conversa-
tions,” explained Ruby Ahaiwe
’21 as she described her favor-
ite part of working with the Af-
rica Academic Hub, which has
emerged as a steadily growing
presence on campus since it
was first proposed last spring.
“[The Hub] is an open space for
people to have very honest con-
versations, and I think it’s dif-
ferent to see it happen beyond
the classroom where people
are not scrambling to get good
grades,” Ahaiwe said.
Ahaiwe is the student assis-
tant for the Africa Academ-
ic Hub, serving as a liaison
between faculty, professors
and students, including the
student-run Africa Alliance.
Since last semester, the Hub
has started its work of bringing
together scholars and students
of Africa across disciplines.
“I think the really big thing
that we want to do for this year
is to really establish some sense
of community,” said Associate
Professor of Government Eric-
ka Albaugh. “I want to make
the study of Africa, and inter-
est in Africa, all the people and
classes that are dealing with
Africa … visible and commu-
nicate that to various people so
that people understand what’s
happening on campus.”
The Hub was first thought
up last spring as the College
looked to find more ways to
Where are the women of color in ‘Modern Love’?
by Aisha Rickford
Features Contributor
The first episode of Amazon
Prime’s “Modern Love,” “When
the Doorman is Your Main
Man,” tells the story of Maggie,
a single woman in New York
who becomes pregnant. Despite
the pregnancy being unplanned
and the fact that the father de-
clines involvement in the baby’s
life, Maggie chooses to move
forward as a single mother with
some help from her doorman,
who offers her unwavering sup-
port and guidance. As the niece
of a woman who has lived alone
in Manhattan for over 30 years,
I know firsthand the close, inti-
mate relationship my aunt has
with the men who work in her
building.
These men span all colors,
languages and creeds, and as
“Modern Love” takes place in
New York City, I naturally ex-
pected these elements of a New
York City experience to show
up as well. But nearly the entire
episode went by without a signif-
icant appearance from a person
of color. When one did show up,
it was Maggie’s husband, a black
man. His sudden appearance in
the midst of a lily-white episode
felt like a hastily and messily ap-
plied band-aid on a series that
clearly has problems with racial
representation.
I went into watching “Mod-
ern Love” with an open mind.
I knew it would be girly, mushy
and romantic but not hold much
substance. After all, Angelica Jade
Bastien wrote for Vulture that
“‘Modern Love’ is all heart, no
promote interactions between
disciplines. The proposal in-
cluded four components: cur-
ricular coordination and col-
laborative discussions between
courses, Africa Hub meetings
and programming, public en-
gagement with the broader
community and successful
African professionals in Maine
and collaborative research
between faculty, students and
Maine community partners.
“The dean’s office encour-
aged calls for what was called
Integrated Learning initiatives
where there were spaces on
campus where curriculum
overlapped,” explained Profes-
sor of History David Gordon.
“We could build curriculum
together and contribute to a
new type of learning expe-
rience for students, and this
struck me as an ideal opportu-
nity to get together folks who
were especially interested in or
taught about Africa.”
Gordon, along with Assis-
tant Professor of Music Marce-
line Saibou and Albaugh,
proposed the program to the
Dean of Academic Affairs Eliz-
abeth McCormack, detailing
a four-year initiative aimed at
promoting integrated learning
around the subject of Africa.
The initiative also aims to
involve professors and fac-
ulty members whose work is
connected to Africa, includ-
ing Professor of Romance
Languages and Literatures
Hanétha Vété-Congolo, As-
soul’” because “the characters have
the depth of a thimble.” I took this
to heart, expecting the show to be
empty but worthy of a girl’s-night-
in marathon nonetheless. Yet as
each episode went by, I found that
what I was taking away from the
show was much darker—dark-
er even than the third episode’s
lazy attempt to explore bipolar
disorder (which oddly involved
a musical number). I didn’t come
to “Modern Love” expecting it to
fulfill new Hollywood diversity
quotas. I didn’t really even expect
much at all. But I didn’t expect it to
pretend like women of color don’t
exist.
There are only two black
women with speaking roles in
the entire series: one a cowork-
er to Lexi, the lead character in
“Take Me as I Am, Whoever I
Am,” and the other a roommate
to Maddy, a girl with daddy is-
sues in “So He Looked Like Dad.
It Was Just Dinner, Right?” The
black female roommate in the
latter episode serves as a foil to
Maddy; her healthy relation-
ship with her father highlights
Maddy’s lack of one. I wondered
briefly if doing so was an attempt
on the show’s part to upset ste-
reotypes about black girls with
daddy issues, but the show’s
grappling with race is so nonex-
istent that to extend even this to
the episode would be incredibly
generous.
Watching “Modern Love” as
a black woman was infuriating
for a few reasons. One, the show
insinuates that in modern-day
New York City, white women
(and one white-passing woman)
are the only kind of women who
sistant Professor of Africana
Studies Ayodeji Ogunnaike,
CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in
Africana Studies Tara Mock,
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Romance Languages and
Literatures Gérard Keubeung,
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Anthropology Damien Droney
and Postdoctoral Curatorial
Fellow in the Bowdoin Muse-
um of Art Allison Martino.
“This is a privilege, really, to
be able to discuss issues around
the main topic of Africa with
other colleagues here which
is just something we’ve not
done too much in the past,”
Vété-Congolo said. “To think
that there would be multiple
specialists of a space like Africa
at a … small liberal arts college
in a place like this one ... would
have been probably unthink-
able decades ago. Yet, we’re
here, we’re seeking to collabo-
rate and to enrich our students
through our collaboration.”
Albaugh explained that this
collaborative conversation
across classes and disciplines
is important in providing stu-
dents with a comprehensive
education on the subject of
Africa.
“We want them to be
grounded in particular disci-
plines, but also exposed to kind
of ways of seeing Africa from
lots of different perspectives,”
Albaugh said. “That just gives
a much richer, deeper, broader
view of what is happening on
this continent historically and
experience romantic love. Sec-
ond, it suggests that when wom-
en of color do exist, they do so
only in supporting roles, helping
propel the white woman toward
her romance and eventual hap-
piness. Third, it brought me back
to how I experienced watching
ON STAGE: Students perform at the Pan-African Fashion Show held last spring in Kresge Auditorium, an annual event held by
the student-run Africa Alliance. The Alliance is part of the Africa Academic Hub’s interdisciplinary initiative.
[in] the contemporary period.”
Vété-Congolo also pointed
to the way this type of inter-
disciplinary collaboration
gives students the chance to
prepare for interactions they
might encounter in the profes-
sional world.
“I believe this is one of the
most critical preparations,
because the world ... bears
exactly that face, whereby you
encounter the other, you en-
counter difference, and you
encounter perspectives about
one same topic, and you ought
to be able to open up to this
N
TA
RA
KY
television in my childhood and
teens, when it was so rare (still
is) to see anyone of my particular
experience reflected on screen.
The same questions plagued me
as I watched “Modern Love” that
plagued me then, though I used
to try squashing them down in
difference … and communi-
cate with that,” Vété-Congolo
said.
Not only is the Hub relevant
to her own background—Ahai-
we was born and raised in
Nigeria—she also believes it
offers students an important
opportunity to explore topical
questions about Africa.
“I think that it’s a very im-
portant initiative for Bowdoin
to have, especially with the re-
cent focus on the continent …
There’s been a lot of focus, po-
litically, a lot of agitations and
a lot of connections between
favor of admiring the stories I
consumed for what they were.
Where are the women of color?
Where are the girls that look like
me?
Nylah Burton speaks truth to
these questions in her piece “Is
‘Modern Love’ Only for White
Women?” for Zora, a publi-
cation on Medium. She takes
it one step further by arguing
that, “the exclusion of women of
color in this series is so blatant
that it can only be intentional.”
I have to tentatively agree. One
could argue that because the
women who wrote the New York
Times essays upon which these
episodes are based are white,
the actors who played them
must follow suit. But this logic
doesn’t ring true in the rest of
the series. Black characters and
other characters of color appear
in the show, showing that when
it comes to casting, race isn’t an
issue—except when it comes to
deciding who gets to be loved
publicly and who doesn’t. As
Burton writes, all the men of
color in “Modern Love” “are all
shown either in love, falling in
love, or trying to fall in love with
White people.”
If the decision wasn’t inten-
tional, it certainly highlights a
major blind spot in the casting of
“Modern Love.” It’s still taboo to
see women of color—especially
black women—receive love on
screen. Romantic movies with
black people or black women are
characterized as “black movies.”
The same is true for movies with
mainly Asian casts, or Latino
casts and so on—implying that
seeing people of color experi-
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ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Africa and the world at large—
with the U.S., with China, with
the U.K., so I think it ... defi-
nitely came at the right time,”
Ahaiwe said. “And with Bow-
doin opening its doors to more
students of African descent,
to more students who actually
live in Africa, and [with] Maine
accepting a lot of African ref-
ugees and immigrants, I think
that this couldn’t have come at
a better time.”
The Hub will host its first
event of the semester, a con-
versation called “Belonging at
Bowdoin,” on February 6.
ence love onscreen needs to be
the result of a calculated choice,
rather than a given. The issue
of representation does not only
affect young people like me, a
young black woman struggling to
see positive, meaningful images
of herself on-screen. It affects
how we all see ourselves and
each other. As Burton writes,
“simultaneously excluding and
hypersexualizing women of col-
or on-screen reflects how we’re
treated off-screen.” Perhaps most
chillingly, Burton argues that the
blatant exclusion in “Modern
Love” of rich characters of color
who do more than just support
the white women at the center of
the stories reinforces a dangerous
message, one that has been com-
municated to black women and
people of color more broadly by
years of inadequate or nonexis-
tent representation: that we “don’t
belong in modernity.” I can’t help
but ask: just who exactly is the
modern love referenced in this
show for? And why?
When love is denied from
women of color in a television
show entitled “Modern Love,” it
is damaging, not just because it
implies that women of color are
not worthy of love, but because
it implies that we are not worthy
of the richness that comes with
being recognized in our full
humanity. This is, of course, not
true. I don’t have high expecta-
tions for low-brow adaptations
like this one, but a show called
“Modern Love” has one task: to
depict modern love. This show
failed at that, and we all need and
deserve the culture we consume
to do better.
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A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

COURTESY OF MAKU SOUNDSYSTEM

FUSION OF SOUND: The Latin American psychadelic rock band MAKU Soundsystem will perform on Saturday night at Ladd House at 10:30 p.m. A new, yet-to-be-announced student music group will also give an opening performance at 9:30 p.m..

MAKU Soundsystem bound to make an impression

by Sophie Burchell
Orient Staff
“A party for the people.”
That is what the Latin band
MAKU Soundsystem promis-
es its audiences. This Saturday
night, the New York-based band
will be bringing that party to
Ladd House in a performance
organized by WBOR in collabo-
ration with the Latin American
Student Association (LASO).
MAKU Soundsystem’s music
is a dynamic fusion of psyche-
delic rock, Colombian folklore,
electronic, cumbia and jazz that
the band dubs the “immigrant
beat.” Most of the band’s mem-
bers are Colombian immigrants
to New York City.
LASO treasurer Jamil Guz-
man ’21 said the group’s music
defies expectations for Latinx
music.
“Typically, reggaeton, bach-
ata or salsa are the genres that
come to mind immediately,”
said Guzman. “I think that [the
concert] is going to add some
variety and give some exposure
to some genres that people
didn’t know before.”
Diego Grossmann ’20,
co-leader of WBOR, first heard
MAKU Soundsystem when
one of the group’s songs was
used as the musical interlude
on the radio show Democra-
cy Now, and he proposed that
LASO bring them to campus.
Grossmann said that he is ex-
cited to diversify the music
scene at Bowdoin and beyond.
“It’s not a musical act that
might otherwise even come
to Maine,” said Grossmann.
“[This] allows us to bring musi-
cians to the area who wouldn’t
otherwise have a reason to
come up to Maine and not only
puts Bowdoin on the map but
it puts this whole state, region,
community on the map.”
The distinct music of
MAKU Soundsystem will not
be the only sound introduced
to the Bowdoin campus on Sat-
urday. A new mystery student
band will be debuting on Sat-
urday night to open for MAKU
Soundsystem.
“We often have student
bands open, but I think people
are used to seeing a lot of the
same names,” said Grossmann.
“I’m really glad that there’s go-
ing to be a totally new group
performing and that they’ll
get to make their debut and
hopefully that’ll lead to bigger
things.”
Both the new student band
and MAKU Soundsystem will
play original songs as well as
some improvised pieces based
on audience feedback. Overall,
it promises to be a high energy,
interactive performance, said
Guzman.
“We’re envisioning [having]
the band in the middle of the
first floor in Ladd and the au-
dience around it to have a 360-
view of the performance,” said
Guzman. “Given that there’s a
lot of instruments, a lot of va-
riety in the way that they create
their music, [this] might am-
plify that.”
The event’s coordinators are
hoping that MAKU Soundsys-
tem will draw a large and di-
verse audience.
“WBOR’s name [being] on
it will attract a certain crowd,
but then there’s the fact that it’s
a collaboration with LASO and
the fact that Ladd is hosting,”
said Grossmann. “We’ll provide
a good opportunity to bring [to-
gether] a lot of different groups
and subcultures on campus that
don’t really get to interact too
much in the same space—let
alone dance and have a good
time in the same space—around
music that is probably some-
thing new for everybody.”
MAKU Soundsystem will
perform at Ladd House this
Saturday at 10:30 p.m.. The
mystery opener will play at
9:30 p.m..

‘Pasado y Presente’: A glimpse into Mexican society

by Aadhya Ramineni
Orient Staff
“Pasado y Presente: Twen-
tieth-Century Photographs of
a Changing Mexico” is the first
Latin America-focused exhibition
featured at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art (BCMA) in the
past 15 years. The collection of
photographs, curated by Associ-
ate Professor of Romance Lan-
guages and Literatures Carolyn
Wolfenzon Niego’s intermediate
Spanish class, opened on January
7 and will be on display through
March.
Wolfenzon and students from
her fall course “War of the Latin
American Worlds” collaborated
with Andrew W. Mellon Post-
doctoral Curatorial Fellow Sean
P. Burrus in their curatorial work.
Each student matched a pho-
tograph with a quote they had
studied in class, a process which
allowed them to grasp the con-
tributions of 20th century writers
and artists to Mexican culture.
The exhibition includes works
by six acclaimed modern photog-
raphers: Manuel Álvarez Bravo,
Manuel Carrillo, Kati Horna,
Dana Salvo, Marilyn Bridges and
Ken Heyman.
“I hope that many people in
the university, especially [those]
that have a Mexican background,
see their own cultures represented
and get to know important artists
from their own culture,” Wolfen-
zon said.
Wolfenzon developed an ap-
preciation for photography as
an art form through her study of
journalism. Her interest in the
arts, however, spans beyond pho-
tography—in the fall, she brought
Peruvian dancers to campus for a
dance event open to the commu-
nity.
In discussing Latin American
literature last semester, Wolfen-
zon distinguished between three
NATSUMI MEYER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Please see BCMA, page 10 PAST AND PRESENT: Students curated BCMA’s “Pasado y Presente,” choosing photographs that depict changing traditions and other complex issues of life in Mexico.
10
Reizbaum explores Judaism in new book
by Jane Godiner
Orient Staff
On Wednesday evening,
Harrison King McCann Pro-
fessor of English Marylin
Reizbaum discussed her latest
book—one that took her 10
years to complete.
“Unfit: Jewish Degeneration
in Modernism” examines the
manifestations of degeneration
theory in Jewish artwork. Es-
pecially prominent in the early
20th century, but stemming
from Darwinist and post-Dar-
winist thought, degeneration
theory seeks to analyze the
duality of progression and ata-
vism. Degeneration entertains
the idea that, while a subject
might initially appear to only
symbolize strength and pro-
gression, the same subject can
contain elements of weakness
and regression as well.
“The cluster of ideas associ-
ated with degeneration, among
them ‘purity,’ ‘fitness’ and ‘good
form,’ roughly distribute to
matters moral, physical and aes-
thetic,” Reizbaum writes in the
book. “And through their inter-
play, they all provide an under-
pinning of modernism which
has been insufficiently mapped.”
Reizbaum’s book explores de-
generation theory through the
lens of Judaism in the creative
arts, including writing, film and
photography. Reizbaum be-
lieves that this underrepresent-
ed perspective is valuable.
“There were many Jews in-
volved in writing degeneration
theory, and they were often
writing the terms of their own
disenfranchisement,” said Reiz-
baum. “Degeneration theory
created this hierarchy of what
was valuable and what was not,
and often, Jews were represent-
Fakoly embraces West African roots through music
by Jack Swartzenruber
Arts Contributor
Tiken Jah Fakoly, born
Doumbia Moussa, is an inter-
nationally renowned Ivorian
reggae singer from Odienné,
a town in the northwestern
region of the Ivory Coast.
Heavily inspired by Alpha
Blondy, another Ivorian
reggae star from the 1980s,
Fakoly began his musical ca-
reer at the age of 18, secretly
composing songs that he hid
from his strict Muslim family.
By the late ’90s, he released
a string of albums and was
touring regularly around his
home country. However, it
wasn’t until his first interna-
tionally distributed album,
“Françafrique,” that he gained
a wide following throughout
Africa and the rest of the
world. Merely one year after
the album’s release, he was
exiled from the Ivory Coast
for his controversial political
music and he currently lives
in Bamako, Mali. Today, he
performs around the world
and has become one of the
most popular and respected
modern musicians to come
from the Ivory Coast.
“Françafrique,” released in
2002, is a masterpiece of mu-
sical fusion. Sung primarily in
A DECADE OF DEDICATION: After 10 years, Harrison King McCann Professor of English Marilyn Reizbaum presented her book “Unfit: Jewish Degeneration
in Modernism” to the Bowdoin community on Wednesday evening. Her new work features several famous creatives including James Joyce and Bram Stoker.
ed in the arena of what was not,
so to have Jews participating in
writing that theory was very,
very striking to me.”
While fiction writing—spe-
cifically, the work of James
Joyce—was one of the principal
catalysts for Reizbaum’s explo-
ration of degeneration theory,
Reizbaum believed that the
visual arts were crucial to her
analysis of the theory.
“New art forms were emerg-
ing in the very same moment
that degeneration theories were
taking hold, such as the art of
photography,” said Reizbaum.
“So I felt … I needed to include
different genres [of artwork].”
Reizbaum’s choice to analyze
visual art produced challenges.
French and Dioula, his native
language, the album effort-
lessly blends Jamaican roots
reggae with traditional styles
from West Africa. In addi-
tion, Fakoly incorporates a
number of traditional instru-
ments into his music, such
as the ngoni, a stringed
instrument from Mali,
as well as the balafon,
a gourd-resonated xy-
lophone closely asso-
ciated with Guinean
Mandinka culture.
These influences com-
bine to create a sound
that is highly interna-
tional, while simulta-
neously emphasizing
Fakoly’s roots in West
African music.
The name of this
album refers to
France’s sphere
of influence
over its for-
mer colonies,
as well as
the policies
of French
control
in Afri-
ca that
have had
a great
impact
on the
continent
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
She felt it important to learn tism and oppression.
how to discuss photography and “In some cases, the work of a
film accurately and effectively. particular figure I was interest-
“Photography—the visual ed in had been destroyed,” said
culture—was not mine,” Reiz- Reizbaum. “Because they were
baum said. “It is something I Jewish and their work had been
thought I needed to really learn: burned by the Nazis, it was al-
to be faithful to doing the best most inaccessible. You had to go
I could.” and sort of track it down.”
The global scope of degen- Reizbaum’s book features
eration theory created another creative minds such as writers
set of challenges for Reizbaum. James Joyce, Pat Barker, pho-
Her work with German, Italian, tographer Claude Cahun and
Austrian and French theorists filmmaker Mervyn LeRoy. She
meant that she had to navigate discusses classics such as Joyce’s
both language and cultural “Ulysses” and Bram Stoker’s
barriers when compiling her re- “Dracula.” Reizbaum hopes that
search. Her exploration of Jew- her book will inspire further
ish work forced her to interact scholarship and recognition of
with—and navigate the issues these artists and pieces.
caused by—historical antisemi- “If people have a particular
in the years since decoloniza- “réveillez-vous,” command-
tion. It is social subjects like ing the world to wake up to
these that Fakoly addresses in the atrocities committed in
his songs. In the title track, West Africa. He sings of how
he opens with the call to France and the United States
“sell us weapons” and “plun-
der our wealth,” while
these countries still
“say they are sur-
prised to see Af-
rica still at war.”
Fakoly does
not mince
words when
it comes to
France’s
policies
in Afri-
ca, pro-
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interest in those figures, they will
find the book helpful in examin-
ing their work,” said Reizbaum.
Reizbaum emphasizes that
while “Unfit” concentrates on
exploring Jewish narratives, the
book is anything but limited in
its analysis. She hopes that her
perspective on degeneration the-
ory will convey the wide-ranging
applicability of her research.
“I hope that the work that I
have done will help [the Bow-
doin community] to see that the
focus is not narrow,” said Reiz-
baum. “There is a wide scope,
and that [the Jewish lens] can
be a useful way of examining
developments in the arts … I
hope the community can appre-
ciate that.”
claiming later in the song
that “they burned the Congo,
inflamed Angola and ruined
Gabon.” The song’s catchy
melody and punchy brass riffs
make “Françafrique” a rous-
ing anti-imperialist anthem,
a song that is not afraid to
tell the honest story about an
often neglected side of global
history.
Fakoly continues his polit-
ical critique on another high-
light of the album, “Y’en a
marre,” featuring Martinican
reggae singer Yaniss Odua.
This song addresses topics
including the assassination of
journalists in the Ivory Coast
and continued military rule.
It is important to note that
Fakoly was born into the griot
caste, an age-old hereditary
tradition of musicians
responsible for pass-
ing down oral histo-
ry through music.
Through this
album, Fakoly
channels reg-
gae’s tenden-
cy to speak
out against
social
injustice
while also
telling the his-
tory of his country
in the griot tradition.
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BCMA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
regions: Mexico, Chile and Peru.
Aware that BCMA holds a collec-
tion of modern Mexican photo-
graphs, she decided to combine
literature and photography to try
something new.
“I really was a bit hesitant
if it [would] work or not or if
[students would] make the con-
nections or not,” she said. “But
feedback [from] the students was
good. Very good.”
Initially, the class wanted to
curate an exhibit that included
Peruvian, Chilean and Mexican
photography from the small
collection of Latin American art
owned by BCMA. In the pro-
cess of curating this exhibition,
Wolfenzon and her class found
that BCMA’s Latin American
photography collection is cur-
rently limited to 25 photographs.
“We need to improve their
collection, little by little, of Lat-
in American art—there’s not
enough,” said Wolfenzon.
In an effort to diversify the
collection, Wolfenzon’s course
viewed the work of three different
Peruvian photographers and vot-
ed to purchase three prints by Fi-
del Carillo, who, like Wolfenzon,
began as a journalist. Through
his photography, Carillo captured
subjects which include Peruvian
history and migration.
“I think the most difficult part
of curating the exhibit was figur-
ing out how to narrow down such
a rich collection of photographs
in order to fit the space of the
room,” said Ely Spencer ’20. “We
tried to select a range of photos
that promote a diverse and nu-
anced outlook on life in Mexico.”
“I hope that this can be com-
mon and serve as an inspiration to
some students who can connect
the arts, or some educators
can see the different projects
that we can do in our classes,”
Wolfenzon said.
Indeed, “Y’en a marre” delves
into the historical context for
the contemporary issues fac-
ing West Africa. He sings how
“after the abolition of slavery,
they created colonization,”
going on to tell how Africa is
currently exploited through
globalization that is ultimate-
ly rooted in this same colonial
system.
Although much of Fakoly’s
music addresses incredibly
painful subjects, he maintains
that his music tells a story
of hope. He shared in a 2016
interview in Afropop World-
wide that his “principal mes-
sage is to tell everyone that
Africa is the continent of the
future, and that us Africans
should be proud because the
future is ours.” His music ex-
amines the past while looking
towards the future and shows
how beautiful styles of music
from across the world can
organically come together to
form something brilliant and
unique. It shows how reggae
music can transcend national
borders and become a global
medium for expressing the
social condition of our mod-
ern world, while envisioning
a brighter and more equitable
tomorrow. I believe we can
all learn more from exploring
this type of music.
Friday, January 31, 2020
S SPORTS
Small in numbers,
Bowdoin divers
make a splash
by Itza Bonilla Hernandez
Orient Staff
For Thea Kelsey ’20, Henry
Isaacson ’22 and Wren Sablich
’22, diving off a three-meter
springboard headfirst into a
pool is not a foreign concept.
All three athletes have been
participating in the sport
since they were first intro-
duced to it at a young age.
Isaacson began diving
when he was at camp in
seventh grade. Kelsey was
introduced to diving when
she was just seven years old,
and Sablich was pushed from
gymnastics to diving when
her family moved to England.
“I’m from the Boston area,
and at Harvard they were hav-
ing Saturday morning swim
lessons, and the diving team
was also offering diving les-
sons. My mom figured, since I
did not like swimming, I might
as well try diving,” said Kelsey.
After years of diving, all
three athletes’ interest for the
sport has only grown. For ex-
ample, Kelsey’s appreciation
for the sport increased when
she first came to college.
“[While at Bowdoin], I’ve
grown up and learned who I
am as a person [as well as] the
things I enjoy and [make] me
happy. For a long time, div-
ing was not necessarily one
of those things,” said Kelsey.
“[However], I have learned
over the past four years that
[diving] is one of those things
that brings me joy and makes
me happy. I am now focusing
on those aspects and less on
the parts that I don’t enjoy. I
am able to then translate what
Bowdoin-Colby Hockey Game: our oldest, coldest tradition
by Ian Ward
Orient Staff
Ah, the Bowdoin-Colby
Hockey Game, the enduring
symbol of everything that
is great about our fine in-
stitution: Polar Bear spirit,
old-timey sportsmanship, a
creative excuse to get drunk
before dinner. The liberal arts
at their finest.
I firmly believe that there
is a single, definitive and
insurmountable divide that
separates Bowdoin students
into two camps: kids who
went to high schools with
hockey teams and kids who
went to high schools without
hockey teams. And this isn’t
just a proxy for other, more
serious divisions: prep schools
and non-prep schools; New
England and, like, whatev-
er God-forsaken part of the
country lies beyond New En-
gland. There are high school
ice hockey leagues in Arizona.
I have learned [from] diving
into other parts of my life,
where sometimes things can
be challenging—but I am now
able to pick the things that are
going to make me happy and
appreciate them much more.”
Similarly, diving at Bowdo-
in has only strengthened Isaa-
cson’s passion for the sport.
He attributes his desire to
dive and his growth as a diver
to head coach Kelsey Willard.
“[Kelsey] is always there to
try to give me tips and insights
into the little things that I can
focus on. At the same time,
she is able to step back and
allow us to find what we are
motivated for. She won’t push
any harder dives on us, but
she is super supportive of us
and pushes us to learn new
things,” said Isaacson.
Additionally, Isaacson at-
tributes his motivation for the
sport to his teammates, past
and present.
“Last year, Mitch Ryan
[’19] definitely motivated me
to do better,” said Isaacson.
“But, I think now it’s definite-
ly the swim team. I see them
doing their hard workouts
and pushing themselves to get
faster and faster, and it makes
me want to do my role to keep
progressing, [whether] it be
focusing on a category or
working on a harder dive. Just
as much as they support the
team, I can also do the same,”
said Isaacson.
Echoing Isaacson’s sen-
timent, Sablich appreciates
the camaraderie that being
part of the Bowdoin swim-
ming and diving program has
brought into her life.
Hockey, in the desert.
But that’s beside the point.
The point is, the Bowdo-
in-Colby hockey game is the
great unifier. It is the perennial
reminder that all of us—jocks
and NARPs, New Englanders
and stateless wastrels—all be-
long to a single and insoluble
class: the class of people who
went to colleges with hockey
teams. Membership is for life.
This Saturday’s game will be
the 213th meeting of the two
teams in a tradition that dates
back to 1922. Then-President
of the United States Warren
Harding dropped the ceremo-
nial puck at the first game, after
which he concluded that his
political career had reached its
apex and promptly died.* I’m
kidding, of course. The apex of
Harding’s political career was
the Teapot Dome scandal, but
he didn’t live to see that one
break. A shame and a pity.
Please see PUCKS, page 12
DEFYING GRAVITY: Thea Kelsey ’20 corkscrews in midair. Despite only having three athletes on the team, Bowdoin’s
divers enjoy a close relationship with the rest of the team’s swimmers and a close-knit community amongst themseves.
“Diving is a very mental
sport, so joking around and
having a large group kind of
takes your mind off your fears
… and hanging out with peo-
ple in between dives in the hot
tub is always fun,” said Sablich.
Yet despite her team’s sup-
port, the fear of injury still casts
a shadow over Sablich’s career.
This fear has even led her to
consider quitting the sport.
“I just hit the board—this
is the second time I have on
the same dive, so I guess fear
of injury right now is con-
cerning,” said Sablich. “I am
not sure what I am doing yet,
but the team aspect would …
definitely make me continue,
because I love the group.”
In contrast to other col-
legiate diving programs, the
Bowdoin swim and dive pro-
gram is unique because both
divers and swimmers practice
at the same time and in the
same pool. This has allowed the
program to act as one team—
most of the time, they are two
different teams that act inde-
pendently of each other.
“I think what makes Bow-
doin swim and dive so unique
is the pool setup and how we
are able to practice together,”
This Saturday’s game will
be the 213th meeting of the
two teams in a tradition that
dates back to 1922.
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD
said Kelsey. “There are only
three other schools in the
conference that do that, and
because of that, not only are
the divers close as a group, but
the swimmers and the swim
coaches do an amazing job of
including the divers … it is
really one team. Even though
I am a diver, I am just as much
a part of the team as any other
swimmer, and I think that it
is something that is important
and should be appreciated.”
The three divers and the
swim team will travel to Col-
by to compete on Saturday at
noon.
IK
CHN
TABA
DALIA
11
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
NUMBER FIVE, LOOK
ALIVE:
The women’s squash team
clawed its way back to
a winning record with a
close 5-4 win over Colby
on Wednesday, bringing
the team’s overall record
to 7-6 on the season. The
middle of the Bowdoin
ladder carried the Polar
Bears to victory, with the
team claiming 3-0 wins at
spots three, four and six.
Melissa Horan ’22 clinched
victory with a comeback
3-2 win at the number five
spot to seal the victory for
the Polar Bears. Bowdoin’s
final home matchup is its
senior day contest against
Franklin & Marshall on
Sunday at 11 a.m..
GEARING UP FOR
THE BIG ONE:
The women’s basketball
team closed out its non-
conference schedule
with an emphatic 76-40
victory over Becker
College on Monday
night. The match was a
defensive masterclass for
the Polar Bears, who held
Becker to just 26 percent
shooting from the field
and forced the Hawks
to commit 22 turnovers.
The team will be riding
high as it heads into
tonight’s crucial NESCAC
matchup against Tufts
at 7 p.m.. The winner of
the game will claim the
top NESCAC spot and
snap the other team’s
undefeated streak.
MESS WITH THE
BULL, GET THE
(VIKING) HORNS:
The women’s hockey
team jumped back to a
.500 record with a 4-1
victory over Salem State
on Tuesday. Two power-
play goals propelled the
Polar Bear offense, and
Bowdoin’s defense held
the Vikings scoreless
until the last six minutes
of the third period. The
team has no games this
weekend and will get
a much-needed break
before heading back into
a conference play with a
game against Amherst on
February 7.
A HISTORIC (VER)
MONTH:
The men’s and women’s
Nordic ski team followed
last weekend’s historic
finish with another
impressive result last
weekend. Bowdoin
finished fourth overall
at the UVM Carnival,
continuing the team’s
momentum from the
previous weekend.
Christian Gostout ’20
posted his best-ever
finish in any race, crossing
the line in fourth in the
10K skate race. Gabby
Vandendries ’21 also
cracked into the top 10
on the women’s side.
The Polar Bears return to
action today at 10 a.m.
at the Colby Carnival in
Waterville.
COMPILED BY DYLAN SLOAN
12
DEAR KOBE,
Your death and the death of
your daughter have brought a
rush of conflicting emotions
that have plagued me for the
past two days. As a female
athlete who grew up watching
you play, I am grateful for the
opportunities that you have
given to my generation of male
and female athletes alike. You
welcomed your daughter into
your basketball world and you
cultivated her growth, not only
as an athlete but as a woman.
Not only did you support your
daughter in her sport, but you
supported other women in the
sport. For the exposure that you
gave the Women’s National Bas-
ketball Association and for the
women that you supported in
their athletic endeavors, you de-
serve recognition. As an athlete
of color, I feel pride in knowing
how much someone with brown
skin can do for the game. Still,
I struggle with your death the
most because of my identity as
a woman in athletics.
In your public statement sur-
rounding the sexual assault case
brought against you in 2003,
Greason Pool plays host to Maine Masters Swim Club
by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
With six Olympians, 22
NCAA championships, and
66 NESCAC titles to its name,
Bowdoin’s athletics depart-
ment certainly has a well-
stocked trophy cabinet. How-
ever, many at the college don’t
know that some of the most
decorated athletes on campus
aren’t even Bowdoin students.
LeRoy Greason Pool is
home to one of the nation’s
most historically successful
Masters swim clubs, and the
only one in Maine. A Masters
swimmer is an athlete over
the age of 18 who competes
in sanctioned U.S. Masters
events, but the majority of
Masters swimmers who com-
pete are well above that age,
often into their fifties and
beyond. Three days a week
from noon to 1 p.m., a faith-
ful contingent of swimmers,
most over the age of 40, train
as a part of the Maine Mas-
ters Swim Club. The club is a
member club of U.S. Masters
Swimming, the umbrella or-
ganization that controls all
Masters swim clubs across the
country.
“Here at Bowdoin, we have
PUCKS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
It is, however, worth taking
a moment to appreciate the
augustness of a tradition that
dates back nearly a century.
Not many of Bowdoin’s tradi-
tions can claim such antiquity.
Ivies, in its current, ivy-less
form, dates back only to the
1960s. The Bowdoin Log was
invented in 1958 (also by
then-Vice President Richard
Nixon, who wanted to call it
simply “The Dick.” Ms. Con-
nie exercised her veto).†
But yes, it’s true: The Bow-
you acknowledged that you and
the woman you raped perceived
the same experience very differ-
ently. As a woman who stands
by other women, who believes
other women, the fact that
your face and your name have
completely overtaken my social
media makes me nearly sick to
my stomach. The day following
your death, Felicia Somnez, a
writer for the Washington Post,
was suspended immediately
after she tweeted a link to an
article that reported on the case
filed against you in 2003. Son-
mez was suspended from her
position as a respected reporter
for shedding light on a dark part
of your story. I struggle with the
fact that your shining legacy as a
competitor—who has undoubt-
edly come to define the game of
basketball around the world—
can completely overshadow
the mistakes you have made.
I struggle with the fact that an
athletic legacy as dominant as
yours has the power to silence
women especially when, in the
recent past, you have made a
public effort to give them a plat-
three workouts a week. One
is usually a distance work-
out coached by Dave Bright,
[head swim coach of Bruns-
wick High School]. [The oth-
er two] are usually coached by
… [former Director of Parent
Giving] Pamela Torrey or
[Bowdoin swim coach] Brad
Burnham,” said Professor of
Physics Dale Syphers, a mem-
ber of the club.
Masters swim clubs attract
a diverse range of athletes,
many of whom have had a
background swimming at ei-
ther a high school or collegiate
level. Syphers, who is on sab-
batical this year, is an active
member of the Maine Masters.
After swimming for Division
I UMass-Amherst for a year
as an undergraduate, Syphers
quit the sport to pursue his
study of physics and picked up
basketball as a hobby instead.
But after 25 years of basketball,
Syphers decided to get back
into swimming as a means to
prevent possible injury from
basketball’s high-impact me-
chanics.
“I really didn’t expect
much personally when I came
back to Masters swimming,”
said Syphers. “I was stunned
within six months to see how
doin-Colby Hockey Game
is Bowdoin’s great unifying
tradition, bringing together
the entire student body and
connecting past, present and
future generations of students
in a long, unbroken line of
confusion about what the hell
‘icing’ is and how it’s different
from offsides.
The whole thing is made
even more exciting by the air
of exclusivity and legitimacy
created by the ticketing re-
gime. Personally, I love having
to get tickets to do things that
I could do just as easily with-
out tickets. Tickets to Sunday
SPORTS
form and a voice.
In the past few years, it is clear
that you have made an effort to
grow from this mistake. You have
made an effort to support the
women around you, members
of the family you share by blood
as well as members of the family
you share by the sport you play.
I am someone who values giving
second chances. I have been given
many myself and for those, I am
eternally grateful. In the cases that
I have been given a single chance
and made a mistake, I have made
an effort to learn from it in order
to make the most of the chances I
am offered in the future. I feel very
strongly that you have made an
effort to learn from your mistakes.
Even so, I wish with my whole
heart that the legacy that you leave
incorporates all the parts of your
story: the mistakes you have made
alongside the growth you achieved
as a player, as a man and as a father
in this lifetime.
To Vanessa, to your daugh-
ters and to the families of those
who died in Sunday’s crash, I
send my eternal love. To Gianna
and to the other families on
fast I could be! That was ... the
thing that surprised me when
I got back. You know, I was
thinking, ‘Am I going to have
no pacing?’ And the answer
is, it didn’t go away. It was
there the whole time.”
However, not all club mem-
bers are former Division I ath-
letes or state champions. Jim
Brokaw, a Brunswick resident,
first started coming to Masters
practices after noticing the
group in the pool on weekdays
while he was seeking a new
form of exercise.
“No, [I did not have any
former experience]. My nick-
name for myself is Mr. Ed,
because I swim like a horse. I
have a lot of muscle—I’m real
lean. Balance and the stream-
line position are real chal-
lenges for me,” said Brokaw.
In many ways, the club’s
structure is the greatest tri-
umph of Maine Masters. It
caters to both former colle-
giate All-Americans as well
as casual swimmers looking
to get a quick workout in
over their lunch break. That
being said, the core group of
the Maine chapter is the same
group of dedicated swimmers
who compete in almost all of
the year’s competitive meets.
brunch at Thorne? I’m all in.
Permits to sit on the quad?
Sign me up.
And kudos to the baseball
players for manning the en-
tryways and checking said
tickets. Always thorough and
unbiased. Customs and Bor-
der Patrol could learn a thing
or two from you.
The actual game is, of
course, one of the less exciting
parts of the whole experience.
Too many complicated and
obscure rules (Example A: ic-
ing.) Also, the NESCAC has
gone soft and banned fighting,
which is 90 percent of why
the helicopter, may you rest in
peace. To my fellow athletes, I
recognize and respect the legacy
of a player who refused to quit.
To my fellow athletes of color,
I recognize and appreciate the
legacy of a black man succeed-
ing in a country and a time
where so many black men fall
through the cracks. To my fel-
“There is a residual hard-
core [group] of people who
were here when I started,”
said Brokaw. “They’re still
here, and that might be 50
percent of the club.”
“So it’s two different things,”
said Syphers. “There’s the sort
of Masters swimming to either
enjoy healthy swimming or to
get faster, and then there’s the
[kind of] affiliation with the
club where you show up at the
big meets of the year.”
For Syphers and his fellow
competitively inclined ath-
letes, these big meets are the
marquee events of the Masters
season. The New England re-
gion in particular enjoys some
of the country’s largest and
best-run meets, which rival
national championship meets
in terms of their organization.
There are plenty of chances
for Maine Masters swimmers
to set regional, national or even
world records. For example,
Syphers is currently six months
into a two-year training reg-
imen to prepare him for the
2021 Masters World Champi-
onships in Fukuoka, Japan. He
will be entering the competi-
tion just after turning 65, plac-
ing him at the low end of the
65-69 age bracket. This gives
most people watch hockey in
the first place, so that’s ruled
out. (You know where they do
allow fighting? The Arizona
High School Hockey Associa-
tion. That’s what they call the
Frontier Mindset.)
The real highlights, as ev-
eryone knows, are the chants,
which achieve the impressive
feat of combining an intense fo-
cus on the reproductive capaci-
ties of mules with a remarkably
frank expression of Bowdoin
students’ usually-unspoken
sense of intellectual elitism.
Talk about poetry in motion.
Which isn’t to say that I am
low women and to all survivors,
please know that your voice is
always valid and your voice is
always heard. This tragic event,
more than ever, highlights the
reasons for which the combined
identities that live within every
athlete cannot be separated. I
have learned from this experi-
ence that these tensions never
him high hopes for the meet.
Maine Masters itself has a
history of success, despite be-
ing in a relatively small state.
“There was a period where
we were one of the 800-pound
gorillas,” said Syphers.
For instance, Syphers him-
self holds an eight-year New
England record in the 4x50
freestyle relay. In the past few
years, Maine Masters has been
the home for a number of elite
athletes, including Torrey, a
former All-American swim-
mer at Princeton who has set
numerous regional records
and was a consistent top-10
national performer for the
Masters.
According to Syphers, al-
though some club members
were even close to making
the Olympic team, the thrill
of racing for the first time in
years after a long hiatus can
be intimidating.
“A lot of people don’t swim
when they have children and
so forth ... it’s just too compli-
cated,” said Syphers. “And one
of the biggest surprises that
I’ve heard from everybody
who came back to swimming
was that the first time they
got back onto a block when
getting back into swimming
not deeply, deeply invested in
the outcome of the game. To
the fellas on the ice: please
win. My fellow seniors and
I will feel extremely cheated
if we graduate never having
witnessed a Bowdoin victory.
Not only that, but I hear they
put an asterisk on our diplo-
mas and outright cancel our
first reunion.
Or, if you’re going to lose,
at least make it obvious early
on. The 2018 blowout? Per-
fect. We could leave before
the third period without fear
of missing something really
exciting. Last year, you strung
Friday, January 31, 2020
SARA CAPLAN
go away, and that’s okay. There
is something to learn from each
part of your journey, Kobe—the
full story just has to be told.
Sincerely,
Paula
Paula Petit-Molina is a mem-
ber of the class of 2020.
in their fifties or something,
[they got] butterflies!”
Recently, the club has been
making an effort to attract
more athletes with limited
swimming background—not
at the expense of success on
the national or international
stage, but by balancing a com-
petitive atmosphere with one
where more casual athletes
can also thrive.
“There are a lot of people
who [swim for the club] and
just want to see, ‘am I making
progress?’ They’re not wor-
ried or don’t care if there’s not
much there in terms of com-
petition,” said Syphers. “And
that’s okay! We take all com-
ers. All Masters swimming
[clubs are] starting to rein-
vigorate one of the original
reasons for starting Masters
swimming, which was to edu-
cate and teach people to swim
and get more people swim-
ming. There’s a little more of
a push from all Masters orga-
nizations to make sure they’re
all open and welcoming and
trying to get everyone on-
board who would be interest-
ed, not just fast people.”
“It’s one of the great things
that Bowdoin has to offer,”
said Brokaw.
us along for kinda a long time.
Heartbreaking, really.
But I will admit, my money
is on the Polar Bears this year.
The stats are on our side. So
are all those dedicated townies
who show up and cast side-
eyed glances at students (not
me) who ask repeatedly, and to
no avail, what the hell icing is.
But in the end, if the re-
sult isn’t in our favor, so it
goes. After graduation, I can
always move to a real hockey
town—like Tucson, or maybe
Phoenix.
*⅓ of this is true.
†All of this is true.
Friday, January 31, 2020 SPORTS 13

Men’s basketball adjusts

to midseason challenges
by Ben Mason
Orient Staff
After starting the season by
winning three of its first five
games, the Bowdoin men’s
basketball team has proceed-
ed to struggle. Entering the
crucial final stretch of the
season, where the Polar Bears
will play their five remaining
NESCAC games in just over
two weeks, they are currently
sitting at 6-11 overall and 1-4
in the conference, good for
ninth place in the league.
Between losing three se-
niors to graduation (including
Jack Simonds ’19, who was an
1,000-point scorer), having
players fall to injuries and
struggling to mesh as an offen-
sive unit, the team has faced
its fair share of difficulties. As
the Polar Bears approach their
final five conference match-
ups, they sit one game out of
playoff contention.
Head Coach Tom Gilbride
discussed the team’s approach
as they head into this final
stretch. “We’re obviously
going to take one game at a
time,” said Gilbride.
Despite its recent struggles,
Gilbride remains optimistic. “I
thought we’ve played our last
two games very hard. We played
Colby in a conference game that
was a very good [one].”
Although the Polar Bears
ultimately ended up falling to
Colby, they put up a valiant
effort, trading punches with
the number one-ranked Mules
until the fourth quarter.
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD “We were actually up five
UP, UP AND AWAY: Sam Grad ’21 explodes upwards for a dunk during last weekend’s 81-67 loss to undefeated with 11 minutes left,” said
Colby. Following the loss of team captain Zavier Rucker ’20, Grad is one of a number of players who has stepped up to captain David Reynolds ’20.
fill the offensive void left by Rucker, averaging 12.5 points per game this season. “We ended up losing by 12,
but they’re also the best team
in the country. [They are]
undefeated, so we definitely
have shown that we can hang
with anyone.”
Reynolds has been a bright
spot in an otherwise unfor-
tunate year for the Polar Bear
offense. He is averaging 21.0
points per game, and his leader-
ship, along with the leadership
of the other seniors, has been
critical to the team’s attitude
over the course of the year.
“When you’re having some
tough losses or some tough
games you really need guys
that are going to look at
themselves and look at the
team and say hey, let’s just
keep working to get a little
better,” said Gilbride.
Leadership is particularly
important when you have a
team facing unexpected chal-
lenges. Captain Zavier Ruck-
er ’21 was injured in a game
against St. Joseph’s and will be
sidelined for the remainder of
the season. It was an especially
untimely injury because the Po-
lar Bears were just heading into
the thick of conference play.
There have been some
growing pains as the team
learns to play without its cap-
tain, but this has resulted in
other players stepping up and
taking on larger roles.
“Sam Grad [’21] has really
stepped up and has taken on
a lot of that scoring load and
playing load as well,” said Gil-
bride.
He also noted that Zander
Werkman ’23 has come into
his own as the season has pro-
gressed, a sentiment echoed
by Reynolds.
“We’re one of the low-
est-scoring offenses right
now, so that’s been a little
bit of a struggle for us” said
Reynolds. “We definitely
don’t have the same offensive
firepower [this year], but our
defense adapts well and has
gotten a lot better. We’re more
of a defensive team—it’s just
really figuring out how to gel
offensively at this point.”
Reynolds believes that the
team chemistry is trending
up and feels like this group is
particularly close.
“Outside of basketball
we’ve all become super close.
I love the [first-year] class,
and obviously the sopho-
mores and juniors too, but
I really feel like the [first-
years’s] presence this year has
made us a lot closer than in
past years.”
As the team looks to reme-
dy its woes for these last five
games, Reynolds is focused
on leadership.
“I guess it’s kind of my re-
sponsibility to ... lead by ex-
ample and come to practice
[every day] and give my best
effort. Doing what we need to
do is really the most import-
ant thing,” said Reynolds. “We
have all the pieces ... we defi-
nitely are a talented group,
and I think we have had a
tough season but there’s still
definitely hope for the NES-
CAC tournament. [If we get
in] then anything can happen
at that point.”
The Polar Bears have a long
weekend ahead, playing two
critical conference games,
starting with a game at Tufts
tonight at 7 p.m. followed by
a contest at Bates on Saturday
at 3 p.m..

Compiled by Dylan Sloan

NESCAC Standings Source: NESCAC and Bowdoin Athletics
MEN’S ICE HOCKEY WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY MEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

 
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
 
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T W L T W L T W L W L W L W L
Williams 8 2 0 11 4 1 Middlebury 7 0 1 12 1 2 Colby 5 0 17 0 Bowdoin 5 0 19 0
Trinity 7 2 1 12 3 1 Colby 5 2 1 10 4 1 Tufts 4 0 14 4 Tufts 4 0 18 0
Middlebury 5 4 1 7 8 1 Williams 6 3 1 9 5 3 Amherst 3 2 13 6 Trinity 3 1 14 4
Bowdoin 5 5 1 9 7 1 Amherst 4 3 3 9 4 4 Middlebury 3 2 17 2 Amherst 3 2 16 3
Hamilton 4 4 2 5 7 4 Conn. Coll. 5 4 1 11 5 1 Bates 2 2 10 7 Williams 3 2 14 5
Wesleyan 5 5 0 9 7 0 Hamilton 4 4 0 10 6 0 Trinity 2 2 12 6 Hamilton 2 3 12 7
Conn. Coll. 4 5 1 8 7 1 Bowdoin 4 5 1 7 7 3 Wesleyan 2 2 13 5 Bates 1 3 9 8
Tufts 4 6 0 6 10 0 Trinity 0 7 1 5 8 3 Williams 2 3 9 9 Conn. Coll. 1 3 6 11
Amherst 3 6 1 5 9 2 Wesleyan 0 7 1 6 9 1 Bowdoin 1 4 6 11 Wesleyan 1 3 11 7
Colby 2 8 1 6 9 2 Hamilton 1 4 13 6 Colby 1 4 6 11
Conn. Coll. 0 4 3 14 Middlebury 1 4 12 6

UPCOMING GAMES UPCOMING GAMES UPCOMING GAMES UPCOMING GAMES

Sat 2/1 v. Colby, 7 P.M. Fri 2/7 v. Amherst, 7 P.M. Fri 1/31 @ Tufts, 7 P.M. Fri 1/31 v. Tufts, 7 P.M.
Fri 2/7 @ Hamilton, 7 P.M. Sat 2/8 v. Amherst, 3 P.M. Sat 2/1 @ Bates, 3 P.M. Sat 2/1 v. Bates, 7 P.M.

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14 Friday, January 31, 2020

O OPINION
More than a name change
On Monday, the faculty introduced a motion to revise the “Exploring Social Differ-
ences” (ESD) distribution requirement. The proposal aims to strengthen the require-
Be wary of an inclusive status quo
ment and rename it “Difference, Power, Inequity.” The Fox Box
On a campus where bias incidents seem to recur every four years, preparing students
by Jared Foxhall
across all academic disciplines to discuss and analyze social differences is essential.
By necessity, Bowdoin’s curricula change to meet the needs of the time and the stu-
dent body. In 1822, the freshman class had to read Xenophon (in Greek!) and Livy (in A few weeks after the start of the
Latin!), Webber’s Arithmetic, Murray’s English Grammar and Blaire’s Rhetoric. Now, new year, Johns Hopkins University
who has graduated from Bowdoin having read any of these, let alone all of them in (JHU) announced it would be ceasing
their first year? the long-held history of legacy admis-
It is time for it to change again. sions at the institution. President of the
We agree that the ESD requirement is well-intentioned. On paper, it seeks to expose Baltimore school, Ron Daniels, boldly
students from varying backgrounds to topics that expand our understanding of the announced that reserving legacy slots
human experience. In practice, however, ESD courses often fail to engage meaningful had been “impairing [its] ability to
questions of social and political inequality. educate qualified and promising
For example, take the case of the perennially-popular “Introduction to Classical students from all backgrounds
Mythology,” course, which fulfills the ESD requirement yet seems tangentially related and to help launch them up the
to current issues of social differences. We don’t deny that this is a valuable course, and social ladder.” JHU’s decision
it certainly explores social differences in the ancient Mediterranean, but a course about comes during a time when
ancient mythology should not fulfil a requirement about social difference. Americans are becoming
The ancient world is not our world. But just like Bowdoin’s math department no increasingly cynical about
longer uses Webber’s Arithmetic and instead opts for modern textbooks, we should democratic institutions being
also move to more modern examples of diversity, power and inequity to give us a more stacked against them. generations of
complete and rigorous understanding of today’s realities. Eliminating legacy admissions borrowers by
This distribution requirement should be a powerful thing—providing useful and ur- doesn’t substantially threaten Johns an estimated
gent knowledge about our changing world and the inequalities that permeate it. These Hopkins’ bottom line, but it does signal in ad- seven years. The
classes should better equip us to serve the Common Good with the liberal arts lens we to other elite colleges that meaningful dressing average gradu-
take so much pride in. change is most effective in the form a deeper ate accumulates
According to Assistant Professor of Sociology Theo Greene, the vague labeling of of sacrifices: win-lose compromises systemic over $40,000
ER
ESD courses “doesn’t necessarily have the teeth” for rigor, and often allows students to where moneyed interests give up some problem. KAYLA SNYD in public and
dodge the challenging conversations most necessary for their growth as intellectuals of their hold on the tug-of-war rope. Inclusion is private loans
and as human beings. With this new policy, JHU can better not enough (a conservative
While Bowdoin brings in outside academics and activists devoted to exploring the deliver on the promises we make as a and in many estimate). The financial burden affects
issues of diversity, power and inequity, we ought to be cultivating these ideas in the liberal-democratic society: that anyone ways serves to masquerade the part of struggling communities dispropor-
classroom, not importing them from the outside. This takes work and effort, just like with enough steam and brilliance can the process by which social and polit- tionately: 86.8 percent of black stu-
any course in any major. To be effective, these conversations need to be curricular. climb themselves and their family into ical power maintains and legitimizes dents borrow federal loans to pay for
The intellectual curiosity which led students to choose Bowdoin should also lead the American Dream. In a way, the call itself by appealing to liberal sentiments attendance at four-year colleges, com-
them to a deeper study of disciplines beyond their primary interests. From chemistry to abolish legacy flies in the face of the of diversity. JHU may have made it pared to 59.9 percent of white students.
to English majors, all Bowdoin students should graduate with an ability to critically preeminent neo-liberal thinking that easier for underrepresented students Post-graduation monthly fees for these
evaluate the differences in our world. The College is failing if they don’t. flinches at the idea that institutions to attend, but it hasn’t done anything to loans can reach $600 a month, mak-
We are optimistic about the outlined changes seeking to make this requirement might need to work against the (very ensure more of those students graduate ing it painfully difficult to save for the
a truly constructive experience, and we hope that the faculty think critically and act few) wealthy in order to uplift the (very without crippling debt—that would future—especially if a good chunk of
promptly to achieve these goals. And we hope that these conversations will continue to many) suffering. really hurt its bottom line. It hasn’t your money goes to supporting your
be integrated into every discipline, affecting real change beyond a name and concept. What happened at Johns Hopkins done anything towards reforming the family.
Bowdoin has five distribution requirements. They shouldn’t just be another box to was more-or-less inevitable. While system that allows a disproportionate Institutions that tout equality and
check. They should mean something. venerable, it falls predictably in line number of applicants to have needed to social justice have established a sys-
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, with the institutional left’s 21st century be wealthy in the first place to have had tem of sky-rocketing college sticker
which is comprised of Maya Chandar-Kouba, Emily Cohen, Brie Cunliffe, Julia narrative of inclusivity and diversity. access to better schools and SAT tutors prices, insufficient financial aid pack-
Jennings, Roither Gonzales, Alyce McFadden, Jaret Skonieczny and Ayub Tahlil. The way I see it, it is only a matter of to be qualified. ages, predatory loan rates, historically
time before this becomes common- Banks, unicorn tech companies and flat-lining graduating salaries and
place and the antiquated tradition of elite consultancy firms do the same dwindling job benefits. These factors
legacy admits falls away because it sim- thing in their HR departments: they only serve to reinforce power struc-
ply makes so little sense. Legacy-ad- streamline low-income and marginal- tures by making upward mobility
mitted students are three times more ized minorities into the hiring pipeline virtually impossible. Low-income and
likely to be wealthy and white than and thus wash their hands clean of middle-class students end up feeling
ESTABLISHED 1871 non-legacy students. Its very existence historic (and current) exploitation of like idiots for following their dreams,
erodes the idea of meritocracy and is those marginalized people in the first voluntarily entering into debt peonage
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direct towards scholarships and attract resented and the talented. reality that these elite institutions
Layout Editor Sports Editor more diversity. It’s wrong, but just pal- More inclusive, sure, but private that preach equality don’t do all that
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I am not entirely convinced that in- of inequality. Colleges and banks to- persists, we may produce a more
Cole van Miltenburg clusion—while vital in forming a free gether are responsible for the $1.46 diverse cohort of millionaires (and
Data Desk Editor Associate Editor
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Gwen Davidson Conrad Li
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Friday, January 31, 2020
How I learned to stop worrying and love technology
by Archer Thomas
Op-Ed Contributor
In 1776, an auspicious
year on both sides of the At-
lantic Ocean, Adam Smith
published “An Inquiry into
the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations,” a hefty
treatise that outlined the
basic principles of what we
would now call “free trade”
and “capitalism.” His articu-
lation of why certain nations
thrive while others falter in
a globalized economy dealt
a fatal blow to mercantil-
ism, setting the stage for the
proliferation of laissez-faire
politics in the 19th century.
In “The Wealth of Nations,”
Smith recalls the story of the
first steam engines. Original-
ly, he says, young boys were
employed to manually open
and shut the valve between
the boiler and cylinder. This
must have been an intensely
boring and menial job. One
of the boys, however, realized
that by tying the movement
of the piston to the valve,
the machine would open and
shut itself without human
intervention—a discovery
which would “leave him at
liberty to divert himself with
his playfellows.” According to
Smith, the labor-saving boy is
My generation has failed you, but we can still fix it
by Lisa Savage
Op-Ed Contributor
Dear young people: my
generation owes your gener-
ation an apology.
We have failed to make
urgently needed changes to
an economic system that rav-
ages the planet we all depend
upon for life. Many of us have
been actively involved with,
or at least silently complicit
in damaging the ecosystem.
It can sometimes seem
inexplicable that older folks
seem indifferent or resigned
to ecological destruction.
With wildfires burning out of
control around the planet, we
continue to invest in and sub-
sidize fossil fuel extraction.
The Gulf of Maine and other
ocean waters are warming so
quickly that centuries-old
fishing grounds are disap-
pearing. Yet we continue
to barely give lip service to
solutions like renewable en-
ergy, public transportation
and regenerative agriculture.
With multiple species on
the brink of extinction due to
climate change, we continue
to fund an enormous budget
every year for the Pentagon,
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
DID YOU LIKE YOUR FIRST-YEAR
SEMINAR?
Answer at bowdoinorient.com/poll.
an example of how self-in-
terest naturally generates
technological
advancement
and liberates
humans from
drudgery.
Now imagine the
reaction of the boy’s
boss. He has just discov-
ered that he can operate
his engine without hav-
ing to pay the boy’s
wages. Instead of
“diverting himself
with his playfel-
lows,” the boy is
unemployed
and strug-
gling in an era
when families very much de-
pended on child labor. This is
what happened to the hand-
loom weavers of Nottingham
a mere 30 years after Smith
published “The Wealth of
Nations.” Owners discovered
that mechanical looms could
do the same work as humans
without demanding pay or
other human comforts. The
reaction of the dispossessed
weavers was to fight back,
triggering a wholescale re-
volt in the English Midlands.
Inspired by a semi-mythical,
anti-technological crusader
called Ned Ludd, the “Lud-
dites” raided factories, tear-
which has the biggest carbon
footprint on the planet—big-
ger than 140 nations—cre-
ated waging endless wars.
This addiction to militarism
and war, and its many down-
stream effects, is another
woeful legacy of the Boomer
generation’s failures.
Our planet’s atmosphere
counts military emissions,
and so should we. I founded
the Maine Natural Guard to
help people connect the dots
between militarism and its
harm to our climate.
The recent assassination
of Iranian officials was espe-
cially alarming, seen by many
in the U.S. as bringing us one
step closer to the possibility
of a worldwide nuclear war,
and is almost certain to per-
petrate ever more military
build-up and waste.
Imagine if our government
spent as much time, energy
and money on solving the
climate crisis as it does pa-
trolling the world for enemies
to kill. My generation hears
but does not heed, young
voices pleading—demand-
ing—that climate change is
treated as the emergency it is.
You need more than apol-
OPINION
HOLLY HARRIS
ing apart mechanical looms.
Their name later became syn-
onymous with resistance to
technological advancement.
The phenomenon of au-
tomation-driven unemploy-
ment continues. Over the past
50 years, the American labor
force has shed telephone op-
erators, travel agents and coal
miners en masse, causing
social dislocation in many
communities. Pretty soon,
accountants, waiters and
even truck drivers could find
themselves out of a job thanks
to “robots.” Exemplifying this
trend is the decline of the coal
industry. Thanks to advances
ogies, though. You need bold
action. So here are some of
the solutions I’m offering in
my run for U.S. Senate:
A real Green New Deal to
create good jobs, tackle the
climate crisis by building
clean energy solutions like
solar, wind and public trans-
portation—by converting the
industrial capacity that now
churns out weapon systems
that make climate change
worse.
A Medicare for All health
care that will cover everyone,
provide better care, and cost
less, instead of a system that
drives sick people into bank-
ruptcy.
Fully funded public educa-
tion, including public higher
education without student
debt. Forgiveness of student
loans so that young people
can begin their adult lives
with the freedom to realize
their potential and contrib-
ute to the common good.
A living wage for all, in-
cluding housekeepers, food
servers and other service
workers.
Affordable housing as a
human right.
A progressive tax code
15
innovation and jobs that are more precari-
callously hang- ous and often lower paying.
ing West Vir- While technology “creates”
ginia out to jobs in that more computer
dry, as some programmers and engineers
prominent are needed, I would argue that
liberals growth in those spheres has
have seemed been accompanied by an even
willing to do? greater growth of jobs related
Really, technological to rent-seeking, optimization
advancement should and induced demand. Our
benefit all of us. In a economy chugs along but has
world in which our increasingly little to show for
current level of pro- it other than a rise in needless
ductivity can provide consumption and a sneak-
a reasonable stan- ing sense of meaninglessness
dard of living for while we’re at work.
pretty much The reason why technolog-
everybody, ical unemployment is such an
we should issue, then, is because of own-
in natural gas extraction and welcome innovation as our ership. Presidential Candidate
renewable electricity gener- workweek becomes gradually Andrew Yang has proposed
ation, coal and the Appala- shorter, enabling us to focus an ambitious solution to this
chian communities which on those activities which truly problem in the form of a uni-
have traditionally mined it excite us. A century ago, John versal basic income. 1,000
simply cannot compete. The Maynard Keynes predicted a dollars per month is a good
Luddites, therefore, have re- 15-hour workweek by 2028. step forward, but it would not
turned. President Donald Why hasn’t this happened? fundamentally undermine
Trump has declared that “coal The answer lies in the the system which makes us
is back” as he rolls out mea- structure of work itself. The beholden to owners. We must
sures that intend to protect office and factory floor alike have a stake in a new society
America’s obsolete industries are management’s absolute liberated from the despera-
while actually costing Amer- fiefdoms. Although we de- tion of work we don’t really
icans billions in tariffs and pend on work to survive, our care about or need. Only then
externalities. bosses reserve the right to dis- can we truly enjoy the benefits
But we don’t need coal, and pose of us in pursuit of great- of technology, i.e. divert our-
by and large we don’t want er profits. When we are ren- selves with our playfellows.
coal. So why do we have to dered idle by technological Archer Thomas is a member
pick between hamstringing advances, we must seek new of the Class of 2021.
that requires everyone to
pay their fair share, and
eliminates loopholes
that have billionaires
and wealthy cor-
porations paying
a lower rate than
working people,
or even noth-
ing.
Humane
treatment of
migrants and
asylum seek-
ers, with no
concentration
camps for ref-
ugees, no fam-
ily separations
and a renewed
respect for
immigrants’
rights under
interna-
tional law.
Harm RRIS
Y HA
reduction HOLL the common good. We
measures for must do so now, urgently.
opioid addiction, and ad- and accountability for police The future of life on Earth
dressing this crisis (and drug violence against POC. may depend on it.
use in general) as a mental My generation should Lisa Savage is a member of
health care issue rather than have done better. Yours sure- the Class of 1977. She is run-
as a crime. ly will. There is no limit to ning for the US Senate seat
An end to the mass incar- what a group of dedicated currently occupied by Susan
ceration of people of color human beings can accom- Collins as a member of the
(POC), including children, plish working together for Green Party.
Last issue’s response:
Q: WOULD YOU MISS THE MLR IF IT
COLLAPSED?
57% YES
43% NO Based on answers from 127 responses.
16 Friday, January 31, 2020

JANUARY/FEBRUARY
FRIDAY 31
LECTURE
Biology Seminar: P.J. Lariviere
P.J. Lariviere, postdoctoral research associate at the Lewis Lab at
Northeastern University, will discuss his examination of cell division
in bacteria at the level of molecular processes and mechanisms.
Room 20, Druckenmiller Hall. 1:30 p.m.

EVENT
Student Research Symposium
The Department of Anthropology will hold an event to feature
student research and summer fellowship opportunities.
Room 208, Adams Hall. 1:30 p.m.

EVENT
Cookies and Coffee with Sara Gideon
Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and U.S.
Senate Democratic primary candidate Sara Gideon will have
a conversation with Bowdoin students.
Pickering Room, Hubbard Hall. 2:30 p.m.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

EVENT ARTIST TALK: Cat Mazza, artist and associate professor of art at the University of Massachusetts, stands next to her artwork featured in the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition, “Fast Fashion/Slow Art.” On Tuesday afternoon, the museum hosted a reception for the opening of the
Student Summer Internship Presentations exhibition, and in mid-February, Mazza will return to Bowdoin for an artist workshop open to Bowdoin and UMass Boston students.
Bowdoin students will share their experiences interning at
the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and answer questions
about the internship application process.
Museum of Art. 3 p.m.
TUESDAY 4 THURSDAY 6
EVENT EVENT
Curator’s Tour: “Assyria to America” Voter Registration Drive
SATURDAY 1 Sean Burrus and James Higginbotham, co-curators of
the exhibition “Assyria to America,” will discuss the digital
elements of the exhibition, including the technology used for
Bowdoin Votes will register students to vote, help
students request absentee ballots and provide the
Bowdoin community with more information on the
FILM SCREENING imaging Bowdoin’s six reliefs from ancient Nimrud. upcoming presidential primary election. The drive will run
2020 Oscar Nominated Shorts Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Noon. all day.
Frontier will screen the short films nominated for the 2020 David Saul Smith Union. 10 a.m.
Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary. FITNESS CLASS
Tickets are available online. Meditation LECTURE
Frontier. 6 p.m. Matt Gee, assistant director of the Joseph McKeen Center for “Nature Beyond Barbed Wire: An
the Common Good, will lead an evening meditation session. Environmental History of the Japanese
Room 302, Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 5 p.m. American Incarceration”
Connie Chang, professor of history and environmental
SUNDAY 2 studies, will discuss her latest book, “Nature Beyond
Barbed Wire,” and analyze the history of the
EVENT
James Joyce’s Birthday WEDNESDAY 5 Japanese American incarceration through the lens of
environmental history.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.
Professor of English Marilyn Reizbaum will host a celebration
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
of James Joyce’s birthday and read aloud from “Ulysses.”
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m. Black Contributions to Culture, Politics EVENT
and American Life Belonging at Bowdoin: African
Assistant Professor of Government Chryl Laird and Associate Student Experiences
Professor of English Guy Mark Foster will discuss the most The Africa Academic Hub will invite the Bowdoin

MONDAY 3 powerful Black figures and forces in American culture.

Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 4:30 p.m.
community to discuss the African student experience on
campus. Ice cream will be served.
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 6 p.m.
EVENT LECTURE
Jason Brown ’91 Reading “The Power of a Positive Team” EVENT
Author and scholar James Brown ’91 will read from his latest Best-selling author Jon Gordon will discuss the significance of Pub Trivia Night
novel, “A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities teamwork and inspire members of the Bowdoin community There will be a pub trivia night with prizes awarded to the
Lately Committed.” to reach their full potential in collaborative settings. top three winning teams.
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 5 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill. 8:30 p.m.

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Music at the “The View from Chryl Laird:

Museum Washington” Steadfast
Democrats