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Bowdoin
evaluated
in Obamas
Scorecard

I BELIEVE I CAN FLY

BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER
ORIENT STAFF

income, first generation students who

did not have UB.
UBs summer program allows students
ranging in age from 13 to 19 to spend six
weeks on a college campus taking courses
in math, science, foreign language and English. Students also get college prep help and
receive support from SAT tutors throughout
the summer. 107 students participated in the
program at Bowdoin this summer, residing in
Stowe Hall and Howard Hall.
UB Bowdoin draws students from
11 Maine high schools. Students from
Washington County comprise about half

Bowdoin is one of over 7,000 schools

in President Obamas College Scorecard,
an online database that includes information including average costs, graduation rates and future salaries. Obama
released the Scorecard on Saturday, two
years after he announced his original
plan for a federal college rating system.
When the plan was originally announced in August 2013, Obama intended it to be a rating system, the results of which would be tied to federal
aid. Instead, the new system provides
information about each school in seven
different categories but does not explicitly rate them.
I think a ranking would have been
a very unfortunate outcome. I think its
arbitrary and relies on decisions about
how youre going to weigh what data
and value decisions that are implicit
or explicit in the rankings, said President Clayton Rose. The goal of helping
families and students figure out what
the right college is for them by giving
them good information that they can
compare across schools is great.
Much of the data, including the average annual cost and the median earnings ten years after graduation, are
based only on students who received
federal financial aid. Currently only 20
percent of Bowdoin students receive
federal aid.
I think in many ways its trying to
deal with this real problem weve had in
society of students going off to schools...
where they were made promises about
their employment opportunities and
therefore incurred huge amounts of
debt with a sense that when they got to
the end of it there would be jobs where
they would make X and that would allow them to cover their debt, Rose said.

Please see UPWARD, page 4

Please see SCORECARD, page 3

Ellie Neifeld 18 (bottom), Ellie Shwartz 18 (top) and Jenna Scott 18 (left) take a study break last Saturday at Greenstock. Greenstock is Bowdoins annual zero waste event, held on Dudley Coe Quad.

DAVID ANDERSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Fifty years of Upward Bound at Bowdoin: few changes, growing need

BY MARINA AFFO AND RACHAEL ALLEN
ORIENT STAFF

This past Wednesday, Senator George

Mitchell 54, H83 spoke to the community to commemorate 50 years of Upward
Bound (UB) at Bowdoin.
A federally funded TRIO program, UB
was a result of President Lyndon B. Johnsons War on Poverty Initiative. Beginning in the summer of 1964, the program
was designed to provide low-income, first
generation high school students the motivation to attend college and the skills
needed to pursue higher education. Nationwide, there are over 900 programs.

To celebrate 50 years of UB, the College

had several events, including a talk with
Mitchell and a reception with past UB
graduates and current UB students.
In a speech Wednesday night in Pickard Theater, Mitchell talked about the
work that UB has done and continues to
do. UB graduates from every decade and
current UB students attended the event.
A UB graduate himself, Mitchell
talked about of his upbringing in Waterville, Maine. The son of two immigrants,
Mitchell said the program changed his
life and gave him the self worth to pursue
higher education at Bowdoin.
We [Upward Bound] know what it

takes to help them help themselves, said

Mitchell, referring to the program.
The single most important factor is
not talent, theyve got that. Its not brain
power, theyve got it. It is making sure
that they have the self esteem, the sense
of worth and the sense of being part of a
community that enables them to unleash
their talents.
A Comprehensive Program
According to Bridget Mullen, director of UB at Bowdoin, graduates of
the program are four times as likely to
get their degree by age 25 as peer low-

Textbook service Chegg met with mixed reviews

BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF

The College has transitioned this year

from selling textbooks through an oncampus textbook center to using Chegg,
an online book retailer and renting service. Although the switch was designed
to save money and increase efficiency,
some students report negative experiences with the platform.
This was the first year that the College
shut down the Textbook Center, formerly located in the basement of Coles
Tower, and required that students purchase textbooks from online platforms.
We changed the model that had
been there for so long, said Michael
Tucker, course materials and general
book manager, regarding the transition.
Director of Dining and Bookstore

Services Mary Kennedy cited the Colleges 50 percent reduction in Textbook Center purchases over the past
six years as part of a larger trend for
book purchasing on college campuses
across the country.
While some students were able to
find cheaper options through Chegg,
particularly when choosing to rent
science and math textbooks, many
students used other platforms due to
cost savings or negative experience
with Chegg.
[Chegg] told me, Oh, its a used
copy but its in great condition, but
I got it and the first 30 pages rip
out and Im missing chapters, said
Chase Savage 16.
On Wednesday, Savage had to call
Chegg because when he ordered two

books for his Theravada Buddhism

class, he actually received two books on
taxation policies for corporations.
Savage noted that Chegg had helpful customer service who refunded him
all shipping charges for his purchases.
However, he characterized his overall
experience as negative.
I ordered books in the middle of
August and some of them still havent
come, said Savage. Im definitely using
Amazon [not Chegg next semester].
Kennedy explained that while the
College considered Amazon during
the process of selecting the new textbook platform, Amazon prefers to
work with large institutions that are
near their distribution centers.

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HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ORANGE BOXES: Students have responded differently to the Textbook Centers switch to using Chegg
for all textbooks. Pricing, shipment speed and quality remain highest among the concerns. Chegg proves
useful for many students in science courses who benefit from Cheggs lower rental rates.

MORE NEWS: LOGAN TAYLOR

FEATURES: MICE IN THE HOUSE

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: ART MUSEUM GOES DIGITAL OPINION:

College halts investigation into alleged

sexual assault following Taylors resignation.

Science courses make use of

animals in the lab.

Bowdoin hopes to release the

first electronic art catalogue.

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EDITORIAL: Qualitative Reasoning

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MIRANDA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FOGGY THINKING: On Saturday, September 12, Students testing a fog machine in Moore Hall accidentally set off a smoke alarm.

SECURITY REPORT: 9/10 to 9/16

Thursday, September 10
A Maine Hall student with a cut
finger was escorted to the Mid Coast
Walk-In Clinic.
A student with an ankle injury was
escorted from the Lubin Squash Courts
to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.
Friday, September 11
A local neighbor twice reported
loud noise coming from Pine Street
Apartments.
An employee reported the theft
of a blue Giant mountain bike from
the area of the Searles loading dock.
A student fainted at Moulton
Dining and was transported to Mid
Coast Hospital.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student who
became sick at MacMillan House.
Saturday, September 12
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Winthrop Hall.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Moore Hall.
A parent called and requested
a wellness check on a student. The
student was located in good health.
Students testing a fog machine
in Moore Hall accidentally set off a
smoke alarm. Note: Fog machines
are not permitted to be used inside

residence halls.
An underage student walking on
College Street was found to be in possession of hard alcohol.
An unregistered event was dispersed
on the fourth floor of Coles Tower; two
room residents took responsibility for
the policy violation.
An unregistered event was dispersed
on the seventh floor of Coles Tower;
three room residents took responsibility
for the policy violation.
Several students were warned for
public urination. Fun Fact: There are
2,000 toilets and urinals on the Bowdoin campus.
Sunday, September 13
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student on
the front lawn of Quinby House.
Following noise complaints
called in by neighbors, the Brunswick Police warned the residents of
17 Cleaveland Street for disorderly
conduct.
Excessive noise was reported in
the area of Brunswick Apartments N
and O.
A student received an ankle laceration in a bicycle accident near
Reed House. Brunswick Rescue
transported the student to Mid
Coast Hospital where the student
received several stitches.

Tuesday, September 15
At 12:26 a.m., a student accidentally
triggered a fire alarm at Coles Tower
when a backpack snagged a wall pull station in the third floor east stairwell.
Some students reported that the
fire alarm in Coles Tower was not loud
enough to wake them. The matter was
referred to Facilities Maintenance for
system testing and adjustments which
were conducted on Wednesday and
Thursday.
A student reported the theft of a red
and black Specialized bicycle from outside of Winthrop Hall.
A student reported the theft of a
cream and black Gary Fischer bicycle
from outside of West Hall sometime
since April.
A student backed a College rental van
into a parked vehicle in the Coffin Street
lot, causing minor property damage.
A student took responsibility for
breaking a window at Burnett House last
weekend.
Security officers set up a bike registration table in Hyde Plaza and registered
89 student bicycles.
Wednesday, September 16
Two local men who were reported to
be acting suspiciously and looking over
bikes at Coles Tower were given trespass
warnings barring them from campus
property.

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* This comparison excludes one book which was out of stock on Chegg.
Methodology: We randomly selected four courses from humanities departments and four from
science departments. We selected used books whenever they were available and less expensive. On
Amazon, only used books with the condition of Good or better were selected. For humanities courses,
the rental option was never chosen. For science courses, rental was selected if it was less expensive.
Shipping charges were included in our calculations. Tax was excluded.

STUDENT SPEAK

Whats the wildest thing to happen to you this week?

Tim Coston 17
I was just about to get new glasses
because I lost mine, and on a whim
I went to the info desk to get my cell
phone, because I lost it, and they had
my glasses.

Shannon Knight 18
I accidentally on purpose killed a
crayfish. But I had to. For an experiment. It was in the protocol.

Julian Ehrlich 17
Tuesday I was really, really hungry. So I
got lunch, then I got pub, then I got dinner, then I got pub twice after dinner.

Arianna Cameron 16

I started hearing voices again

after a long period of time when I
didnt hear voices.

Lily Woodward 17
I thought for two seconds I might be
pregnant, but I think I have just been
eating too much dessert.
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the bowdoin orient

Parkview Medical Center closing,

Bowdoin prepared with Mid Coast as
primary emergency hospital
BY JAMES CALLAHAN
STAFF WRITER

Amidst the ongoing process of consolidation of Parkview Adventist Medical

Center and Mid Coast Hospital, staff in
Health Services and Safety and Security
are optimistic about the future of student
health on campus.
Located less than one mile from campus at 329 Maine Street, Parkview entered into a pre-packaged bankruptcy
plan on June 16 that featured a buyout by
Mid Coast.
In a press release dated that same day,
Bob Cundiff, chair of the Parkview Adventist Medical Center board of directors, said that after years of change in
the healthcare industry and increasing financial challenges, Parkview has reached
a point where it can no longer serve its
mission as a stand-alone hospital and is
now seeking a new opportunity with Mid
Coast Hospital to advance a common vision to serve the local needs of midcoast
Maine long into the future.
Bangor Daily News reported that
Parkview, after losing its emergency
room in June, also closed their walkin clinic on September 8. Services still
at Parkview include primary care, outpatient services and community health
and wellness programs.
The College had already switched
Mid Coast to their primary hospital
before the buyout.
For the last year or more, the College
has been using Mid Coast as the primary
[hospital] unless a student specifically requests Parkview, said Director of Safety
and Security Randy Nichols.
In an email to the Orient, Kim Pacelli,
Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs,
explained that Mid Coast remains the
Colleges primary hospital for urgent and
emergency care because of its bigger system of providers and services (including
an intensive care unit when necessary).
Additionally, Pacelli wrote, the rare referrals beyond the emergency room at Mid
Coast are made to Maine Medical Center
in Portland, while Parkview transfers pa-

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Neither President Rose nor Dean of
Admissions and Financial Aid Scott
Meiklejohn believe that the Scorecard
offers a full picture of Bowdoins affordability or value.
Single data points and snapshots
and average and median figures are
useful, but only if viewers of the information understand exactly what they
are looking at. Most of what appears
on the Scorecard is a set of data for the
20 percent of Bowdoin students who
borrowed federal loans to help pay for
college. It is not intended to provide a
full picture of diversity or affordability
or accessibility at the College, wrote
Meiklejohn in an email to the Orient.

tients to Central Maine Medical Center in

Lewiston, a location geographically further for students and families.
Director of Health Services Birgid
Pols noted that she had never referred a student to Parkview during
her time here.
I could get the appointments I needed
with the specialists I needed in the timeframe I needed them [at Mid Coast]It
was about what worked best for the students, Pols said.
Out of the 19 alcohol transports from
the 2014-2015 academic year, 18 went
to Midcoast while only one went to
Parkview. Out of the 115 security escorts,
72 went to Mid Coast, 26 went to the
Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic, one went to
the Bowdoin Health Center, and only 16
went to Parkview.
The only effects weve seen so far have
been positive: expanding the [downtown
Mid Coast] Walk-In Clinic services, consolidating specialists and specialty testing
in one location, said Pols. Services that
are more appropriate to college students
are more likely to be at Mid Coast Hospital
because theyve now incorporated practitioners and services from [Parkview].
I think both the facilities gave very
good care and its just the proximity of
Parkview was convenient for us because
we could deliver a student to Parkview
and be back on campus in a matter of five
minutes. That was good. But now, thats
no longer an option for us so were geared
right toward Mid Coast, said Nichols.
As Pacelli noted in her email to the Orient, Parkviews newly focused outpatient
services and additional programs will
provide opportunities for students health
care as well. And Nichols believes that
from an emergency point of view, Bowdoin remains in a great position.
Bowdoin is really ideally situated for a
prompt emergency response. Were centrally locatedthe emergency response
facilities are close, the health facilities are
close, Nichols said. One of these days
thats gonna pay off with somebody being saved because a lot of the time it does
come down to seconds and minutes.

This squishy notion of valueand

we need to be very careful about what
value meansI dont think it gets after
that...the notion that it paints a full picture of the Bowdoin experience and the
Bowdoin opportunity, no, but thats not
what its intended to do, Rose said.
Rose does not believe that the new
Scorecard will have a noticeable affect
on Bowdoins application numbers.
I think were pretty transparent with
all the kinds of data that are in there. If
you just think about the other NESCAC
schools or other schools that students
look at when theyre thinking about
coming here, the datas pretty transparent, Rose said.
The Scorecards also include retention rates, student body demographics,
standardized test scores and popular
academic programs.

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Alumni giving rate reaches new high;

Mills raised $60 million for financial aid
BY CALDER MCHUGH
ORIENT STAFF

After 14 years in office, President Mills

wasnt going to leave Bowdoin without a
bang, and that bang came in the form of
the Access, Opportunity and Innovation
(AOI) initiative. The initiative, which was
announced at Bowdoins annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon on May
8, 2014, focused on raising money for
the Coastal Studies Center, Digital and
Computational Studies and most prominently, need-based financial aid. Presently, Bowdoin does not award merit-based
scholarships.
In his speech, President Mills set a fundraising goal of $100 million for the initiative. While that goal was not reached,
President Mills raised $60 million in his
last year in office, directed specifically
towards AOI, according to Senior Vice
President for Development and Alumni
Relations Rick Ganong 86. This figure
does not include alumni donations to the
Annual Fund, which attained a participation rate of 61.6 percent last year, dually the highest in Bowdoin history and
the first time the number has exceeded
60 percent. The participation rate has
climbed by 7.4 percentage points since
2010, when 54 percent of alumni donated.
Financial aid expansion has long been
a top priority for Mills. Mills himself received financial aid as a student at the
College, and in 2008, under his direction,
Bowdoin announced the elimination of all
student loans, replacing them with grants.
President Mills told the Orient in April

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According to Tucker, the College has
been working on the transition with
Chegg for the past 10 months.
As a small college, our limited buying power made it difficult to procure
books at competitive rates, said Kennedy. We spent the entire summer work-

of 2015, If you want to think about the

common goodthe idea that you are
creating opportunity for a student who
wouldnt have it otherwiseis hugely important to me.
The combination of Mills commitment to keeping Bowdoin affordable and
the ever-rising costs of a Bowdoin education provided the impetus for the launch
of AOI, Mills largest initiative during his
last year in office. The price of the average grant given by Bowdoin has risen
steadily in the past few years, and is now
just under $40,000 for the Class of 2019,
according to Ganong. Meanwhile, the
percentage of students receiving aid has
hovered around 45 percent for the last
five years, leading to an uptick in money
needed to continue the policy of needblind admissions.
Gifts to the fund came from numerous and diverse sources, with multiple
seven-figure pledges, but there was one
common thread: many gave in honor of
President Mills and his wife, Karen.
I think the most touching gift
was the faculty raised over $100,000
for the Barry and Karen Mills scholarship fund. We have a small faculty
and you dont always see faculty in
higher-ed support a president like
that. He was special, Ganong said.
Of Bowdoins endowment, which
numbers $1.4 billion, around $600 million is dedicated to financial aid. Bowdoins draw on the endowment is five
percent every year, so in practice, the college has around $30 million to spend on
financial aid every year directly from the

endowment. In recent years, this number

has been supplemented by other fundraising this academic year, the college is
spending about $34 million on aid.
President Mills was able to raise $60
million from AOI, money that moves into
the financial aid portion of the endowment, but it is important to note that a significant share of that money was pledged,
not directly given. This is common practice in large-scale fundraising, and simply
means that the money is spread over multiple years, and will be paid as such.
While this $60 million is certainly a
boon for the colleges financial aid program, Bowdoin is far from done raising
money to continue to make education
affordable. President Rose will be tasked
with continuing to fundraise on Bowdoins behalf, and Ganong says the College plans to launch a large-scale campaign in the next few years.
The development office and the
President are not just raising money
for the sake of the endowment. They
hope to build towards an increasingly
diverse and global Bowdoin.
Look at this: represented countries: Brazil, Canada, Chile, China,
France, Honduras, Hong Kong, India,
Israel, Japan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Turkey, Vietnam, said Ganong, We want
the best, smartest, nicest, more engaging, active kid from Turkey or Rwanda
to come to Bowdoin and just light up
our campus. And if she cant afford it,
I work with people in this building to
make sure we have the funds in place
so she can, said Ganong.

ing with Cheggtheyre committed to

making this work.
While the transition to online-only
textbook purchase and rental may be
a more efficient choice for the College,
some students wish that the Textbook
Center still existed.
I get the whole have an online textbook service and that there is an efficiency aspect to it, but I still dont understand why we dont have a textbook

place on campus to deal with these

questions, said Savage.
Not all functions of the Textbook
Center have been made obsolete;
periphery materials for science labs,
art materials and certain textbooks
usually written by Bowdoin professorswhich are not yet available for
public purchase have been moved to
The Bowdoin Store in the David Saul
Smith Union.

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the students; a Bowdoin UB counselor is
stationed there.
Students have mentors and tutors who
provide guidance throughout the six
weeks. Not all summer UB staff are part
of the Bowdoin community, but several
Bowdoin students worked with the program this summer as well as other Bowdoin faculty and staff members.
The support does not stop at the end of
the summer. For the academic program,
mentors from the College visit students
who have participated in the program
at their high schools to check on their
academic performance, their study skills,
their family and home life, job situations
and to set up tutors and other mentors if
need be. The counselors usually visit stu-

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dents once a month.
Graduating seniors also have an opportunity to apply and participate in the
Bridge Program. A separate program
that involves 10-12 students, Bridge
takes place the summer after students
graduate and before they enter college.
These students live in separate dorms
this summer the students lived in Ladd
Houseand engage in different courses
and activities designed to help them even
more for the fall.
In Maine, there are seven other UB
programs, which serve over 700 students.
Senator George Mitchell on UB
While in the Senate as a senator and the
senate majority leader, and after he left the
Senate, Mitchell has continued to support
the program.
I think it is of critical importance, all
of us, every American, do what we can to
make it possible for programs like this
that give opportunity to each child,
he said.
In America, nobody should be
guaranteed success, but everybody
should have a fair chance to succeed, said Mitchell. Keep in mind
that genius knows no boundary,
no language, no religion, no color.
It can come from anywhere at any
time.
Lewiston High School juniors
Ilham Mohamed and Zahara Shidad both attended Bowdoin UB
this past summer and both praised
the program for helping them do
better during the academic
year
y ar as well as providing
ye
them with a network
of people to turn

to during the academic year.

The classes I took in the summer were
intro classes to this years classes so they
really helped me, said Mohamed.
Echoing the message of Mitchells talk,
Mohamed said, I have good grades now
and I understand everything and Im not
behind. I have a lot of friends now so if
anything happens I can talk to them.
The Program Today
The changes in the UB program over
the past 50 years are limited to modest
adjustments in academics and student
population.
[The core curriculum] is a little bit
more prescribed by the federal government than it has been, Mullen said, [but]
within that I think we have a lot of leeway.
Pam Bryer, Director of Laboratories at
Bowdoin, has been part of the summer
program for the past 31 years, teaching
biology courses.
We [now] have specific classes on college and taking the SATs, Bryer said. But
the focus is still the same: on giving the
opportunity to students who might not
have the opportunity to go to college...just
giving them a leg up.
Through the academic program, these
resources will continue until the students
high school graduation, including financial aid counseling in the students senior
year. In the coming months, the UB staff
will be going back into their target high
school communities to try to interest students in applying to the program.
Its a unique population [of students]
to reach, Mullen said. Theyre not necessarilythe students who are at risk of
dropping out of high school [nor] are
[they] already headed off to college...
Theyre kind of the quiet middle.
This quiet middle has changed much

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over the years in response to fluctuations
in the Maine population.
Our student population has become
more diverse in many ways, Mullen
said. For example, in Lewiston, there are
many families that have resettled from
East AfricaLewiston itself has become a
more diverse community and our student
population reflects that.
Steven Colin 17 worked as the activities coordinator this summer at UB.
For me, it was a completely different
perspective, Colin said. I came from
a Latino/African-American neighborhood [in Los Angeles, California], so to
see a different perspective in that poverty
doesnt really know the color of skin was
very fulfilling for me.
Parker Hayes 17 also worked at Bowdoin UB this summer, working as a TA
and RA.
I felt like I could really be a part of
their learning process, [to] really see the
their
progress they would make from the b
beginning to the end, Hayes said.
The beginning for Hayes started much
mu
earlier than this summer. In high scho
school,
Hayes, a Maine native, was a UB partic
participant at the University of Southern Main
Maine.
It really helped me a lot to understan
understand
the college process and what I would ne
need
to do to be able to get into a school lilike
this, Hayes said.
Hayes spoke highly of the feedback he
got on his college essay and the expe
experience of living on a college campus away
aw
from home before attending college.
I felt like I could give back to the propr
gram that I thought had done a lot ffor
me, Hayes said.
The Future and Financial Aid
Though UB helps students to prepa
prepare
for college and apply for financial aid and
an
scholarships, the program cannot aid
a
students in actually paying for college.
colleg
With the rising cost of college in
students
recent years, more studen
are going to two year
ye
planning
colleges and plannin
to transfer than in the
t
Mulpast, according to Mu
len.
It troubles me b
beaspiracause students aspir
years
tions are for four yea
nanand theyre feeling fina
cially pressed to take tthe
two year path, Mull
Mullen

said. That gap between financial aid and

college has widened so much that we have
many students that have gotten into four
year college, [but the financial aid is not
there, as it would have been in the past].
When financial aid offers come in senior year, UB helps students and their
families to advocate for the money that
they need.
We have a system in many, many cases
where that extra step of advocacy loosens
up more money from the institution,
Mullen said.
With the occasion of the 50th anniversary, Bowdoin UB is fundraising to
establish an account of emergency funds
for students through Facebook and other
means. The fundraising will continue
through the year.
Frequently, just really basic needs
[books, eyeglasses, transportation to a
college interview]are hurdles, Mullen
said. Our goal is $50,000 for the 50th
weve reached over $15,000 already.
UB has not done private funding before, since the federal grant mainly funds
the program. The cost per student for the
six week academic session as well as academic year outreach is $4,200. Bowdoin
College also helps to fund the program
by subsidizing room and board costs and
offering full health benefits and vacation
time to UB staff employees.
At other institutions, UB programs really struggle with these costs [particularly
room and board], Mullen said. Theres
no way Upward Bound could be thriving
the way it is if we didnt get that subsidy.
At the end of 2016, UB will have to apply for a new grant, part of a four to five
year cycle.
Even though weve had it for 50
years, its a competitive process, Mullen said. I know an Upward Bound that
had been as old as we were and in the
last cycle got defunded.
When UB makes their rounds at their
target high schools in the upcoming
months, they will determine what can be
strengthened. Financial aid remains one
of the primary issues.
People say more people are going to
college and completing college, Mullen
said. Well, more people are going to college and completing college in the upper
income quartile. Thats why 50 years later
Upward Bound is a federal investment
that still has to happen.
I love what I do, but I wish Upward
Bound wasnt needed, Mullen said.

ALEKSIA SILVERMAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

College halts investigation into alleged sexual assault

after Logan Taylor resigns, DAs investigation pending
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF

Logan Taylor 17 resigned from

the College during the summer, Director of Gender Violence Prevention and Education Benje Douglas
confirmed last week. Taylor was arrested for the alleged rape of a female student in late May.
At the time of Taylors arrest, the
College began an independent investigation of the alleged assault.

However, as Taylor is no longer a

student at the College, Bowdoins
investigation will not continue.
Douglas said that the College will
continue to provide resources to the
alleged victim.
Although the College is no longer
investigating, the District Attorneys office will continue its investigation.
At a dispositional conference
on August 13 at the Cumberland
County Courthouse, the complaint

against Taylor was dismissed without prejudice. Because the dismissal

was without prejudice, the District
Attorneys office remains able to refile charges. A representative from
the District Attorneys office stated
that the office is still working on the
case, and was therefore unable to
comment on either the reasons for
the dismissal or the pending investigation.
Taylors defense attorney could
not be reached for comment.

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Mice in the house: Bowdoins animals in research

BY JESSICA PIPER
STAFF WRITER

When Bowdoin opened for the

fall semester, members of the Class
of 2019 werent the only new residents on campus. Kanbar Hall is
now home to a number of rodents
specifically, laboratory mice used
for Psychology 2752, Laboratory in
Behavioral Neuroscience, a course
taught by Visiting Professor of Neuroscience Brian Piper.
Although mice are new at Bowdoin this fall, several animal species
have lived in laboratories at Bowdoin for years, including aquatic
invertebrates like lobsters and crabs,
various kinds of fish and a colony
of crickets. The precise species vary
from year to year and depend on the
research interests of professors.
As the researchers, the visiting
professors, come and go, we tend to
have something that will come for a
year, or two, or three, and then go
away, said Bowdoins Animal Care
Supervisor Marko Melendy.
Melendy, who has been at Bowdoin for seven years after working in
animal care at the University of New
England and the California Academy of Sciences, oversees a number
of Bowdoin students who work to
maintain the welfare of all species
living in Bowdoins laboratories.
Besides being fed and taken care
of, these animals are critical to re-

We go through the history of uses, and in some cases misuse, of animals and we
recognize that the use of animals in a laboratory environment is a privilege.
BRIAN PIPER, VISITNG ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE
search in the biology and psychology departments.
In the classroom, animal models
are used to pilot new research because they give researchers the ability to track each animals genetic
background and limit the effects of
external variables such as diet, exercise and social environment.
Students enrolled in courses that
conduct this research are made
aware early on of how they will be
using animal subjects. The experience of handling animals in the lab
is new for many students; however,
many become comfortable with the
process after extensive training.
We have all different levels of
comfort, said Nancy Curtis, who
is the lab instructor for Psychology 2752. Some people come in,
and theyre all afraid of the animals.
They dont want to touch them, and
by the end of the semester, theyre
handling them very well.
The subject of animal testing
rarely comes without controversy.
After the Orient reported in 2010
that use of lab rats at Bowdoin included numerous behavioral tests
and brain surgery, there was back-

lash from the Humane Society of the

United States, which called on Bowdoin to end animal testing, as well as
outrage from some members of the
Bowdoin student body.
Although Bowdoin laboratories
metand continue to meetlegal
standards, many students argued
that animal testing was at odds with
Bowdoins commitment to the Common Good.
In particular, these students believed that conducting tests on laboratory rats, which would never be
conducted on humans, was ethically
inconsistent.
Risk of opposition frequently
makes researchers who conduct
animal testing hesitant to talk about
their work.
Bowdoin has not hosted vertebrate research for several years until
the return of mice to campus this
fall.
Any laboratory work that occurs
in Bowdoin facilities and requires
animal subjects is strictly monitored
by a group known as the Institutional
Animal Care and Use Committee
(IACUC), a federally mandated committee which ensures that animal re-

search complies with legal standards.

The committee, which includes
several faculty members, Melendy
and two veterinarians, is chaired by
Professor of Biology Damon Gannon.
The committee is regulated [in
terms of ] the number of people as
well as the backgrounds of those
people.
The job of the committee is to
evaluate any research proposal that
involves laboratory animals to ensure that it complies with federally
mandated IACUC standards. These
standards include an Animal Research Policy, which is written at
Bowdoin but must also be approved
at the federal level.
We have to follow the federal Animal
Welfare Act and various other regulations set forth by the National Institutes
of Health and the Office of Laboratory
Animal Welfare, Gannon said.
However, the issue of ethics in
animal research is hardly limited to
a faculty committee.
Students enrolled in classes that
have an animal research component
complete training not only on proper animal care and laboratory safety,

but also on the ethical implications

of their research.
They also complete a two-hour
lecture on the ethics of research of
animals, and we go through the legal framework and the history of use
of animals, said Piper, whose class
will be using the mice for research
on anxiety medications later this semester. We go through the history
of uses, and in some cases misuse, of
animals, and we recognize that use
of animals in a laboratory environment is a privilege.
Historically, animal testing has
led to breakthroughs on vaccines
and improved treatments for diseases such as HIV/AIDs and certain
cancers.
Curtis explained that mice allow
researchers to control their experiment in a manner thats simply impossible with people.
If you buy some laboratory rats
or some laboratory mice, when you
get them, they come with a pedigree, Curtis said. You know that
theyve been well cared for.
The instructors also believe that
students, particularly those who
seek to engage in laboratory work
in the future, in the form of an internship, a private lab, or graduate
school, benefit from working with
animals in the laboratories here at
Bowdoin.
I think these are useful skills,
said Melendy.

Progress from the past: thinking about Birmingham stereotypes

BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER
CONTRIBUTOR

Not a lot of people give much

thought to Birmingham, Alabama.
Its not one of the capitals we had to
memorize in fifth grade. It doesnt
make headlines that often and when
it does, usually it merits a segment
on some Comedy Central show. But
Birmingham, like any other city in
the world, is home to a fairly substantial number of people, including
me.
Coming to Bowdoin College from
Birmingham, Alabama, I can guess
fairly easily what people do know
about my hometown. Ive started to
expect peoples eyes to glaze over as
they picture fire hoses and George
Wallace blocking the steps of the
University of Alabama. I know exactly why people immediately feel
uncomfortable or hesitant when I
mention the place where I grew up.
But Birmingham, Alabama has
come a long way since the 1960s and
a great number of the population is
trying to eradicate the backwards
thinking of our past.
I wish I could say people are entirely wrong when they think that
the people of my hometown drive
big pickup trucks to hunting camps
or to tailgate at Alabama football
games. I wish I could say that those
southerners and others dont still
carry othering beliefs. If I am to be
factually correct, those stereotypical
southerners do exist. But Birmingham and its population as a whole
are so much more than the stereotype.
Victoria Phillips 18, a native of

But those differences, whether they are part of the benefits or

the drawbacks of the place, are why each corner of the earth
has its own identity. With every problem my hometown faces,
there are also triumphs.
Dunnavant Valley just outside of
Birmingham (JOB), says, There are
the cultured people who you can find
in downtown Birmingham listening
to Birmingham Mountain Radio and
NPR. They are well-rounded individuals. Theyre very accepting and
usually they are very young.
That young, cultured population
very much represents where Birmingham is going. The city itself is
fostering the growth of an alternative to the southern brand of conservative prep. These are the people
with Bernie Sanders stickers on their
cars, who want to usher an influx of
new ideas into our community.
These same people encourage a
culture in Birmingham beyond football or hunting or any other Southern stereotype. In fact, Birmingham
is home to a rapidly growing music
culture that fosters a thriving environment for local bands and a widespread appreciation for alternative
and Americana music thats become
fairly commonplace in the south.
However, those arent the only
type of people of Birmingham, just
as the stereotype isnt our entirety
either. Part of the beauty of Birmingham is the mixing of the traditions and culture of the south with
new beliefs and ideas.
You can find the people like

my group of friends who are very

mish-mashed together, very different ideas and opinions, but a lot of
erosion of thought, said Victoria.
There isnt that one stigma, This is
the way to be in Alabama, this is the
way things arent. Theres a lot of different kinds of people.
This mix of cultures is exemplified by the cuisine of our city. A new
foodie culture has grown out of a
farm-to-table cooking movement
in our agriculturally rich state. The
local food movement of this young
population has mixed with a tradition of good ol southern-style cooking in a way that truly exemplifies
how well new ideas can find a home
in Birmingham.
In my time here, Ive found that
Birmingham can be a lot like Bowdoin. Both Birmingham and Bowdoin represent a mix of all of the
best qualities of the past as well as
the future.
Growing up in the south is just
like growing up anywhere in that
there are pieces of your world that
are foreign to any other place. But
those differences, whether they are
part of the benefits or the drawbacks
of the place, are why each corner of
the earth has its own identity.
With every problem my hometown faces, there are also triumphs.

MIRANDA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

There is nothing more powerful

than to be able to see the good and
the bad in a place and in a populationit truly indicates the way that
every place and person work, with
their own individual makeup and
their own winding, puzzling path.
Each persons life experiences
shape the place in which they live
as much as those places are shaping
them. Hopefully in this column, as
I meet with people from a myriad

of places, I can begin to understand

each places and persons individual
identity and how they affect each
other.
Victoria said of our hometown, I
feel really proud of the way I grew
up. But, I think that you as an individual have to make the decision:
Am I going to think like everyone
else or am I going to have my own
identity even if its not with the mass
culture?

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An alternative perspective on Autism

BY BEN YORK

CONTRIBUTOR

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Writing advice columns:

a users guide for success
BY KATHERINE CHURCHILL
CONTRIBUTOR

Hello, Orient readers! I am Katherine, your newly-minted advice columnist. Advice questions have been fielded
via an anonymous online submission
form. Welcome to my first column.
Dear Katherine,
How do I become a
success ful advice columnist?
Sincerely,
Meta in Mac House
Dear Meta in Mac House,
There are a few simple steps to becoming a successful advice columnist, which
I will now share with you:
Prerequisites: You should possess
strong, mostly unfounded opinions on
things. You should have already made
enough medium-sized life mistakes that
you harbor a mild sense of regret. This
will make you seem perhaps wise, or
perhaps like a very bitter batty aunt. At
least one of these mistakes should have
been published in the Orient two years
ago. It should be a column entitled, Boy
bedding blunder. In your defense, you
did not choose the title.
Step one: Wake up one Friday morning abroad. Feel the mattress springs digging into your ribs. Look around at the
squalor that is your room. Think, I want
to be an advice columnist.
Step two: Twiddle your thumbs
for six plus months. Harass the editors of the Orient via Facebook message. Tell them I want to be an advice columnist. Tend to your blog,
which, like the television show The
Big Bang Theory, should have ended
several seasons ago.
Step three: Tell enough friends that
you are going to be an advice columnist
that you cant back out now. Worry about
the internet commenters. Wonder who is
Old Bear? Think that perhaps you should
just revive your blog. Remember what
happened when Arrested Development
released that revival season on Netflix.

You really cant back out now, sucker.

Step four: Wonder if this column is
going to crash and burn like season two
of True Detective. Ask yourself why
you compare everything to the arcs of
TV shows. Ponder how you are going
to field advice questions. Blatantly copy
the anonymous online survey method
of Bowdoin Missed Encounters. Scroll
through the newly posted Missed Encounters. No, none of them are about
you.
Step five: Wait for the questions to
roll into your Google form. The first
question is not a question. The first
question says, I feel like you should
use yik yak to find advice. Find this
question rude. This is not a question.
This is advice. Im the one giving advice here! Wallow in your subverted
authority.
Step six: Wade through the joke questions from your friends. Laugh a lot.
Meditate on whether you can put some
of the funnier ones in the Orient. Receive
the question, what is an example of a
lemon. Receive the question, I'm a guy.
I sleep on a bare mattress, use dirty laundry as a pillow, and leave my window
open all year. No one wants to sleepover
with me! What can I do to change??
Laugh, then feel chills. Your Orient article from two years ago haunts you still.
Step seven: Receive the question,
How do I become a successful advice
columnist? Feel like Leonardo da
Vinci must have felt upon first seeing
the model for the Mona Lisa. Feel the
angels descending from the heavens.
Return to watching Tiny House on
TLC.
Step eight: Write the column days later
as you procrastinate the biochem reading
for your INS requirement. Fear the internet commenters. Submit your article to
your editor. To celebrate, eat three individually packaged servings of microwave
mac-and-cheese.
Congratulations! You are now an advice columnist.
Until next time,
Katherine

To many, autism is just a vague

ideaone of a thousand disorders
which affect someone elses child.
To many others, autism is the niece
or nephew who can put together puzzles blindfolded or who knows the
name of every rocket ever built; the
neighbors kid who wont look you in
the eye and who never speaks to anyone; the schoolmate with no sense of
fashion who sits in the back of history class and who never uses their
inside voice.
To still others, autism is a hushed
conversation late at night, when the
house is quiet and the sun long gone:
Have we failed as parents? Is it because we vaccinated him? Is it because
we didnt hold her enough as a baby?
What did we do wrong?
To a select few, autism is an epidemic;
a plague that has swept through the children of the nation and whose cure must
be sought out with all due speed before yet
another family is tainted with that disease
which turns happy, cooing babies into
noiseless alien creatures.
That disorder which robs children
of the ability to make friends, to show
affection, to form meaningful connections of any kind. That thing which
burdens parents the world over.
These people do not know what
autism is.
When I was four-years old, I was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome, a disorder on the autism spectrum. Though the
diagnosis is now defunct, it would define
my life for years to come. Growing up, I

found it difficult to make friends. Often I do not meet societal expectations.

was told I was rude or annoying when my
Even very young children are expected
failure to recognize social cues. I was also to exhibit some form of social ability, to
often overwhelmed by the touch of oth- attempt or reciprocate communication on
ers, and when my hands and arms proved some basic level. However, when the brain
a more effective deterrent from unwanted is expending all of its energy on processtouch than did my words, I became the ing a mountain of sensory information, it
child no mother wanted her child to as- has little time for mole hills such as social
sociate with, for fear that my bad influence interaction.
would rub off on them.
Thus, autistic children grow and
I wore my diagnosis on my shoulder, develop in a different way from neuthe only explanation I had as to why I rotypical children. This is not a bad
was different from other people. To me, thing. Viewing and experiencing the
autism was the part of me that made my world in a unique way is not a sign of
life difficult, that
disability.
made others dislike
Yes, some asHowever, my preferences and
and even hate me.
pects of society
The part of me that quirks are not a sign of disability
are difficult for
made me feel that
autistic inor disorder. There is nothing wrong the
they were right to.
dividual. I preI did not know with the way my brain works,
fer the quiet of
what autism is.
a corner of the
nothing wrong with the brain that dining hall rather
But now I do.
From a scientific so many millions were born with.
than a space in
perspective, autism
the open, suris simply a descriprounded by noise.
tion for a particular kind of brain. An au- I enjoy watching a movie with friends,
tistic brain has high levels of what is called rather than going out for the nightthe
synaptic connectivity: an abundance of first time someone sees me at a College
biological wires and circuits that make House party will be the day Hell freezes
life for autistic people a more intense ex- over.
perience than for those without autism.
However, my preferences and
Each stimulus abounds with information quirks are not the sign of disability
for the brain to process, each touch is like or disorder. There is nothing wrong
fire, each sound a cacophony, each taste an with the way my brain works, nothonslaught. With time, the brain begins to ing wrong with the brain that so
adapt to this overabundance of stimulus, many millions were born with. Those
but this adaptation produces an individu- brains are just different. Those peoal who views the world in a unique way.
ple are different. And different is not
Many of what are known as the bad.
symptoms of autism are actually
So what is autism?
characteristics of the autistic brain that
Autism is an experience.

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TRADTION AND RITUAL

I grew up in the Catholic Church.
I went through it all quite unwillingly, of course, but I was raised in
it, nonetheless. I got a lot from the
Church and from my Irish Catholic mother (the ability to recite the
Nicene creed on demand, a strong
sense of family, a familiarity-bred
hatred for red wine), but prevailing among them is a certain sense of
time and ritual.
The Church year is cyclical, turning from Ordinary Time to Advent,
from celebration to grief, over and
over. There are signposts at which
Catholics can nod and say, Ive
made it to Epiphany, Im getting
through Lent, this too shall pass.
As I was being taught the joy of
Easter mass or the solemn anticipation on Christmas Eve, I was also
being taught an idea much older
than the Catholic Church: the years
follow a rhythm, and as we celebrate tradition, we also celebrate
how weve bettered ourselves (or,
sometimes, worsened) as the years
have passed. And this is what Ive
retained, as Ive left most of the
Churchs religious teachings behind.
I spent a lot of the summer thinking about annual cycles: the end
of May this year picked up for me
nearly exactly where August left off.
I was spending time with the same
people, doing the same job, in love

THE GHOSTS OF CORPORATE

AMERICA
This summer, I interned for a large,
upscale department store. It doesnt
matter which one, because Ive gathered
that most department store offices are
basically the same.
I wont bore you with the details of
my day-to-day tasks. I do, however,
want to tell you a story about one of the
most memorable days I had at work. Its
a ghost story. Well, I think it is, anyway.
You can decide for yourself:
It had been a beautiful day in midtown Manhattan, though I wouldnt
know it because I sit at a small desk
inside a windowless office that hovers
forty-seven stories in the air. If the room
did have a window, I would be able to
see the office building directly across
the street, which is similarly gargantuan
and lacking in windows.
I might even be able to glimpse another young man or woman just like
me, who has been working tirelessly
on an excel spreadsheet for the last four
hours and will continue to do so for another four. They, too, may have taken
their shoes off under their desk, and
their suit jacket would be also crumpled
into a ball in the corner, sticky with the
July heat and subway residue.
I have several tabs open on my
computer. One of them, tucked neatly
behind the rest, is a document of the
season-to-date mens jackets sales that I
have allegedly been analyzing will present to my boss later in the afternoon.

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with the same man.
Nine months had gone by, but it
felt like I had paused the TV and
then continued right where I left off,
cycling around to the ways of the
beginning of summer. Its surreal, to
feel like youre picking up a conversation and that the pause you waited
in lasted months.
But, even as I loathed a certain
sense of never moving on, I could
stare into a backyard firepit on the
Fourth of July and remember so
clearly where I was last year when
fireworks went off overhead, and
I knew that things were changing,
against this background of consistent sameness.
Theres this same consistency here
on campus, the reassuring ticking
over of the wheel of the year, and we
similarly look to the subtle alterations to prove that weve done something with ourselves over the past
365 days.
We like tradition here, surrounded by reminders in the very buildings through which we pass that
many others have come here before us and lived as we are living.
Things follow a course throughout
the year, and then we come back in
the fall with the uncanny sense that
we hadnt ever left, that nothing has
changed in the past three and a half
months.
It has to do with being in New

England, in part, I think, since how

many colleges are so imbued with a
regional sense of place? Maine has
the prototypical seasons: the bonfire
falls and heavy snows of winter, the
rainy soft springs and the most perfect summers on the East Coast (and
I can promise this, as a veteran of
twenty years of Mid-Atlantic summers). We take a certain comfort
from the inevitability of the changing of the seasons if nothing else,
muttering over the third blizzard in
as many days brings people together
here to an extent that is stuff of Orientation icebreakers dreams.
I was sitting in the back of the
chapel at the opening a cappella concert a few days ago, and I realized it
felt like hardly any time had passed
at all since I was a first year sitting
in nearly the same place, watching
nearly the same show.
We have such strong rituals here,
such codified traditions, that mark
the passing of the year and the turning of the seasons. And we use these
moments to stop and realize how far
weve come in the interim: whether
weve surrounded ourselves with a
stronger group of friends (I have),
whether weve had our heart broken
(I have), whether we can rebuild,
and whether weve become a better
version of ourselves (Id like to think
I have).
In a few weeks, well hit Epicuria

The other seven or eight tabs include an

online restaurant menu for a dim sum
place I want to try, a Nicki Minaj music video from 2009 and the WebMD
page about exercises for alleviating neck
pain.

hear words.
Dont look so sad.
I look up from my screen, curious where this voice came from and
to whom it belongs. A woman who I
have never seen before stands in the

MIRANDA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

But my Internet reverie is interrupted

when I hear footsteps outside my office,
the distinct clack of a stiletto. I instinctively hide my open tabs and begin to
inspect the spreadsheet that I am supposed to be inspecting. I wait for the
footsteps to pass, as they always
do, but the clacking stops
right outside my door. I

doorway. She wears an orange dress

that compliments her smooth, mocha
skin. I have a difficult time placing her
ageshe has no wrinkles (no Botox
either), but theres wisdom in her face,
something that you would only see in a
person much older.
Me? I say, after
some hesitation.

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and well hopefully hit it with all the

strength that a years worth of wisdom can provide, and then well get
through the fall and well break out
the Bean Boots. Therell be campuswides and the long-standing divide
between Thorne and Moulton will
continue. Well hit finals and then
sleep through a lot of winter break,
and then return to the snow. And

itll be Cold War, and itll just be

cold, and itll blizzard in April. Well
pretend its warm for Ivies and well
regret our choices during reading
period, but well grow. And well be
back. And well grow and well be
back and well grow. And this too,
whatever it might be, shall pass.
Helen Ross is a member of the
Class of 2018.

Yes, you, she says. Smile. Its

nicer to look at.
The woman beams in my direction.
After several paralyzing seconds, I see
no other option than to beam back,
even letting out a fake little chortle in
the hopes that it will make her leave. It
doesnt work.
You worry too much, the woman
continues, a winning smile still plastered to her face. I can tell. Youre too
young to be worrying.
The woman steps in the doorway,
one stiletto now planted firmly inside
my office. She looks around, as if to ensure no one else is in the tiny room.
These people are rubbing off on
you, she whispers.
I immediately thought of my boss,
who I had seen smile only once when
she had announced earlier this month
that she would be out of the office for
the week because she was going to Paris
with her boyfriend.
I think I must be tired, I say.
No no, she says. Youre too young
to be tired.
Apparently, I am too young for a lot
of things. This seems to be a recurring
theme.
Okay, I finally say. Youre right. Im
not tired, Im just bored.
The woman laughs.
Me too, she says. Lets run away
together.
I smile again, not a fake one this time.
The woman in orange turns to leave.
But before she does, she peeps her head
back in to say one last thing.
You have to try harder, she says.
You have to try.
Later that afternoon, I tell my boss
about the mysterious encounter, describing the woman in great detail. She

has no idea what I was talking about.

I never saw her again. And, after some
consideration, I have come to conclusion
that she must have been a ghostor, at
the very least, a manifestation of my subconscious alerting me to the fact that I
had not, in the words of William Dewitt
Hyde, been losing myself in generous enthusiasms as he mandated we all do in his
1906 Offer of the College.
This begs the question: do most of us
immerse ourselves in four years of intellectual pursuit only to be chained to a desk
for the next fifty years? I think this is my
liberal arts superiority complex speaking, but I am not satisfied with spending
the rest of my life doing work that doesnt
stimulate my brain in new and engaging
ways, nor make the world a more equal,
livable place.
As privileged, educated young people, we face pressure coming from all
different directions. We are told that in
order to be successful, we must find
our passion in college, use it to make
some kind of impact, and above all,
achieve financial success. But this kind
of pressure can lead to unhappiness
Ive seen it, and it scares me.
I hope that others will relate when I
say that as my time at Bowdoin draws
to a close, I have never felt less sure of
what I want to do. Yes, Ill find a job,
but how am I supposed to know what
I want when I havent really done anything yet? What if I care about many
different things? Why do I have to pick
one? These are questions that I know
can only be answered with time. And
for now, I need to be okay
with it.
Jamie Denton is a
member of the Class of
2016.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Students to collaborate with

Brunswick on public art project
BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF

PAINT FOR A PURPOSE:

( Left to right) Mariah Reading 16,
Rachel Brooke 16 and Molly Rider 15
attended a Brunswick Town Council
meeting last year to get funding for their
group, Bowdoin Public Art, to design
and create a mosaic on the bridge in the
Town Commons using sand and leaves
to highlight Bowdoin and Brunswicks
connection to the forest and ocean.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARIAH READNG

Bowdoin Public Art (BPA), formerly known as Bowdoin Art Activists, received funding last year from
the Brunswick Town Council to create a mosaic on a bridge in the Town
Commons.
We find the Commons a really
special place, said BPA leader Mariah
Reading 16. If we create an art project that draws people there, and they
end up using the space afterwards,
that would be amazing.
Reading added that they want to
use the mosaic to represent the way
in which the Town Commons connects the forest to the ocean. Furthermore, by placing the work on a
bridge, the project metaphorically
bridges the Bowdoin community
with both its surroundings and the
Brunswick community.
We have this space that is shared
between Bowdoin and Brunswick.
This is a way to show that were tied
together, said Julia Maine 16, another leader of BPA.
The mosaic will be constructed using natural materials such as leaves
and sand. Reading explained the
project will be time consuming as the
group will have to collect, seal and assemble the fallen foliage.
Inspired by Sculptor in Residence
John Bisbees Public Art class, Readingalong with Molly Rider 15 and
Rachel Brooke 16proposed the idea

to create a 50-foot long mosaic last

spring. They pitched their idea to the
ten-member Town Council, and ultimately received a sizeable grant of
$1,000 to cover all material costs for
the project.
Were doing art for the sake of art
and making the community a more
beautiful place. The activism comes
across through that, said Reading in
explanation of the clubs name change.
Last fall, the group worked on 16
murals at the Brunswick Recreation
Center in collaboration with local
middle and high school students, Art
Van and the Brunswick Public Art
group. Reading hopes BPA will continue to keep the murals project alive
by working with the other mural artists periodically to refresh the panels
on display.
Reading received support from Susan Weems, president of Brunswick
Public Art, with the various logistics
of BPAs current project.
The group also hopes to collaborate
with other non-visual arts organizations
on campus, such as Slam Poet Society,
to bring new perspective to public art in
the Bowdoin community.
Maine, who is not a Visual Arts major, wants a wide variety of students to
participate in BPAs projects.
We want to emphasize that this
group is not just for artists and art
majors; its for people who want to
get involved in the Bowdoin and
Brunswick community and make an
imprint, she said.

Chorus rehearses Spanish repertoire for Nuestra Navidad performance

BY AMANDA NEWMAN
STAFF WRITER

At the start of each school year, the

Bowdoin Chorus selects an ethnic
theme to explore for the duration of
the semester and present during its
end-of-year concert. This semester, the
concert, which is co-sponsored by the
Department of Romance Languages
and the Department of Music, will be
performing Nuestra Navidad as a
tribute to Latin American culture by
showcasing songs only in Spanish. The
show will debut as a preview on October 31 for Family Weekend. The final
performances will take place on November 20 and 21.
The concert will be led by Direc-

tor of the Bowdoin Chorus Anthony

Antolini 63. Antolini has previously
directed the chorus in other ethnicallythemed concerts such as French-Canadian Christmas and Black Nativity
Christmas. This semester, however,
will be Antolinis first time teaching
songs in Spanish. The chorus has featured songs in multiple languages in
the past, including Russian, French and
German. Antolini specializes in Russian and believes that Spanish may be
his most difficult linguistic endeavor
thus far.
Believe it or not, singing in Spanish is not that easy because the different countries have different dialects of
Spanish, said Antolini.
Chorus member Katie Ippolito 19

explained that when learning songs

in a different language, the singing
becomes less about the song meaning
and more about the sounds of each individual word.
All of these different regions have
different forms of Spanish, said Ippolito, echoing Antolini. To stay
true to the intentions of the original
song, the chorus is learning all the
different variations on how to say
each word.
The songs the chorus will perform are
influenced by a variety of Latin American countries and styles, including
Argentinian, Puerto Rican and AfroColombian. The chorus has reached out
to several resources, including native
speakers, to capture the correct pronun-

ciations of complicated Spanish words.

Antolini also hired experienced musicians who specialize in Latin American compositions to add to the performances authenticity. In addition to its
usual keyboard accompaniment, the
chorus will perform with a guitarist, a
bassist and two professional flute players, all of whom have experience with
Spanish music and culture.
Learning to sing really excellent
music in Spanish is a wonderful way
to learn [the Spanish] culture, Antolini added.
The concert will dually shine a light
on the Hispanic Studies section of the
Department of Romance Language and
give students the opportunity to experience authentic Latin American music.

Associate Professor of Romance

Languages Enrique Yepes, was happy
to hear about the choruss production and encouraged his students to
participate.
We were very excited and sent an
email to all students in Spanish classes
about this opportunity, hoping they
will participate and attend, said Yepes.
Its always great to have some visibility
for the Spanish language beyond the
academics or the classes.
Antolini was thrilled by the overwhelmingly positive support from the
department.
Thats what Bowdoin is about,
Antolini said, Different departments
should work together. Collaboration is
a great idea.

Bowdoin to release digitized art catalogue, a first for academic art museums
BY SURYA MILNER
STAFF WRITER

When Co-Directors of the Bowdoin

College Museum of Art Frank and Anne
Goodyear took office in 2013, they set the
goal to make available an image for every
object in the Museums collection. So far,
theyve made large strides in that direction, with definitive plans for the release
of the first scholarly catalogue in December 2015 and the ongoing release of high
resolution images on the website.
The Museum is looking to meld the old
and the new as they begin the process of
digitizing their collections. They are currently focused on what will be the first
electronic scholarly catalogue to come
from an academic museum. With high

quality photos of their collection, expanded references, data and links, the Museum
aims to provide access to scholars and art
enthusiasts alike.
We know that museums flourish
when they are loved by their communities, Anne Goodyear said. And people
can be most engaged with museums
when they understand what they have to
offer. In this day and age, as virtually all
of us are online regularly. Digitization is
becoming one of the key ways in which
people can access information.
Developed in part by 2015 Samuel H.
Kress Summer Research Fellow Sarah
Cantor, the catalogue will focus on a
collection of 140 drawings endowed by
James Bowdoin III in 1811.
By offering images of these drawings

in a high resolution format, the Museum

hopes to make available more detail
and information in the photos, such as
inscriptions, a bibliography and exhibition history.
Were trying to strike a balance between making a catalogue great for
drawing scholars, people interested in
collecting, the general public and for students, Cantor said. So far, Bowdoin is at
the forefront.
David Francis, the senior interactive
developer for the Information Technology department, also contributed. The
catalogue aims to cull information about
these drawings, which havent been
viewed in over thirty years, through the
Museums information database. Its not
without technological challenges, how-

ever, especially as they strive to include

maps, timelines, GPS coordinates and
further references with each image.
The team behind this cataloguewith
its high resolution photos, the ability to
zoom, filter and search, as well as the
sheer volume of images presented
hopes to change the way research is conducted at Bowdoin.
I think it will have a positive impact on research because you can
bring to light a big collection thats not
easy to highlight non-digitally, Francis said. It goes out to other people
who maybe want to do more research
on it, get more funding and things
like that.
In addition to the catalogue, the
Museum has begun to integrate their

collection online for teaching and

learning purposes through the use of
Artstor, a scholarly digital art library,
and the Google Art Project, a platform for the public to view high quality images of art collections.
Through these programs, the Museum aims to reach a broader audience
and provide a service for academia.
Our desire to digitize these collections reflects the ongoing interest of
this institution, said Anne Goodyear.
It reflects contemporary efforts, built
on those of our predecessors, to make
these collections as open and accessible as possible. One of the beauties
of digitization is that it enables us to
reach the entire world, whether youre
here in Brunswick or abroad.

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a&e

BellaMafia to take break,

reevaluate after semester
group, rethink, reorganize and then
come back, Middleton said.
ORIENT STAFF
For the A Cappella Council, the
BellaMafia, one of Bowdoins two situation is uncharted territory.
all-female a cappella ensembles, will
As far as I know, in my tenure...
take a break this semester to reeval- theres not really precedent for a
uate its future as a group on campus, whole group taking time off, Mida situation President of the A Cap- dleton said. That said, there defipella Council Max Middleton 16 nitely is precedent of individuals
called unprecedented.
taking time off within groups.
At the a cappella recruitment
BellaMafia formed as a group in
concert last weekend, in which 2006 after more female students beBowdoins remaining five a cap- gan expressing interest to join an a
pella groups percappella group.
formed, MiddleC u r r e n t l y,
ton announced As far as I know, in my tenure...
Middleton
that BellaMafia
cannot predict
theres not really precedent for a
would not be
how BellaMafia
holding
audi- whole group taking time off...That
not auditioning
tions for new
members
said, there definitely is precedent of new
members this sewill impact the
mester.
audition numindividuals taking time off within
BellaMafia inbers for Bowformed Middle- groups.
doins other feton of its decimale a cappella
MAX MIDDLETON 16
sion to take time
group, Misceloff earlier that
lania, and two
week.
co-ed groups, BOKA and Ursus
Members of BellaMafia declined Verses. So far, the groups have not
to comment.
seen major changes, as students can
According to Middleton, the audition for multiple groups.
group reached the decision because
Our policy has been in the past,
several members graduated this for a student body of this size, the
past spring and other members on fact that were able to support six
campus are unable to commit to the a cappella groups is remarkable,
group for personal reasons.
Middleton said. You look at other
The leadership of the group just schools...its an insane a cappella
felt like it would be better as a group to student ratio that weve got
group if [they]took a semester to re- working here.
BY SARAH BONANNO

the bowdoin orient

friday, september 18, 2015

friday, september 18, 2015

SPORTS

the bowdoin orient

11

Leon 16 to compete in national

ultimate Frisbee tournament

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY MADDIE JODKA
ORIENT STAFF

DAVID ANDERSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PITCH PERFECT: Julia Patterson 19 (right) dribbles up the pitch while Nikki Wilson 18 (left) gives chase during a recent practice. Patterson is one of nine first
years on the team.

Womens soccer opens season with high hopes

BY ANJULEE BHALLA
STAFF WRITER

Under the leadership of Head Coach

Brianne Weaver and Assistant Coach Ellery Gould, the womens soccer program
at Bowdoin has consistently performed
well over the past three years.
Last year, the team had a regular
season record of 11-3, which included
an undefeated record at home. The team
didnt lose any game by more than a
one-goal margin. The Polar Bears also
earned a spot in the NCAA Division
III Tournament for the third consecutive season and were awarded the Team
Academic Award and the Silver Award
for Team Ethics and Sportsmanship by
the National Soccer Coaches Association
of America.
The team expects this season to be
no exception to the continued success
of the program.
Weve got a great core of returning players, Weaver said. We have six
outstanding senior leaders on the team
whove performed at a very high level. I
think the examples been set over the past
three seasons that we have pretty high
goals that we want to go after, and it looks
like we have a lot of the pieces to do that.
Many key veteran players return to
the roster this year, including Second
Team Division III All-American Bridget
McCarthy 16 in goal and Second Team
All-NESCAC forward Kiersten Turner
16, who will serve as captains along with

midfielder/defender Rachel Brooke 16.

The strong group of senior leaders also
includes forward Jamie Hofstetter 16,
who led the team with six goals and five
assists last season and earned First Team
All-NESCAC and Second Team All-New
England selections, as well as midfielder
Maggie Godley 16 and defender Sarah
Wallace 16 .
Even with the loss of six seniors from
last years team, the squad has demonstrated their strength and resilience as
players continue to adapt into new roles
on the team.
There were people in the classes
below [the seniors] that were ready
to pick up the torch and run with it,
said Weaver. Time will tell, but I think
theyve done an outstanding job so far.
The team also brings in a large group
of new faces to the program this year.
Weve got a strong group of first
years, Gould said. We have nine, which
is a big class, but theyve really been able
to step up and become a part of the team
right away, so thats been really helpful for
total team chemistry.
Weaver described the teams chemistry as a key element in the success and
depth of the program and attributes its
continued unity to the strong leadership
within the team.
We also just try to have a really
strong team-first mentality and a really
positive mindset all the time that all of
us want to improve and get better every
single day, Weaver said. We want it to

be a pretty affirming experience to be a

part of this team.
The team maintains this mindset by
paying special attention to the details
during games and practices.
I would be happy with the team just
knowing that on a day-to-day basis, were
giving it our all, were trying our best and
were doing everything we can to make
each other better, said Turner. At the
end of the day, its the little things that
matter. Its not necessarily how many
wins or how many losses we have. Its just
feeling good about what were doing on a
day-to-day basis.
The team opened its season with a 2-0
defeat at Amherst last Saturday, giving
up one goal in each half. Bowdoin got off
14 shots to the Jeffs 17 but was unable to
put one in the back of the net. The Polar
Bears rebounded the next day in their
home opener with a 6-1 win over Husson
University. Hofstetter, Turner, Julia Patterson 19, Elizabeth Weathers 18, Sophie
al Mutawaly 19 and Julia Bottone 17
each scored.
As they head into the rest of their
schedule, the players are confident in
their tactics on the pitch.
Our team is more technical than we
ever have been in the past, said Turner.
Were not a kick and run team at all;
were very possession-focused, and I
think on attack, were looking really
good. Weve been scoring goals, and
then on defense and with [McCarthy],
were very solid.

Mens and womens XC focus on mental edge

BY BEN RATNER
STAFF WRITER

Following a solid start to their season

with first place finishes at the Bowdoin
Invitational, the mens and womens
cross country teams will train both
mind and body this fall in hopes of becoming one of the top ten D-III teams
in New England.
Our biggest priority will be to train
intelligently, effectively, to train so that
we stay healthy, said Head Coach Peter Slovenski. That means not racing

each other, not being too intense, having good rest days, getting a lot of sleep
during the week.
A huge factor in the teams success
lies in morale.
Theres a lot of research and experience that shows that those who excel
at distance running keep the joy in it,
Slovenski said. At high levels, distance
running is very tough work, the competition is grueling, the competition can
be gut-wrenching. The runners who
are able to keep the joy in their activity through the camaraderie, through

the exhilaration of the exertion, and

through the fun of the competitive elements of distance running; theyll be
great runners if they can keep the fun
in it.
Bowdoin mens and womens cross
country will continue their seasons at
home on September 26 with a second
Bowdoin Invitational. Then, they travel
to Franklin Park on October 10 for
Open New Englands.
Last Saturday, the Bowdoin men faced

Please see XC, page 12

Ana Leon 16 traveled home to Atlanta, Georgia last weekend to compete

with her Atlanta-based ultimate frisbee team Bucket in the club division
regionals tournament. The team took
home first prize. Leon and Bucket will
go on to play in the Nationals tournament the weekend of October 1-4.
Though spring is the competitive
season for college teams, including
Bowdoins Chaos Theory, independent club teams compete from summer into fall.
Bucket finished first in this weekends tournament after playing six
games over the course of two days.
The team needed to win the tournament in order to proceed to Nationals, as the Southwest region only received one bid.
Leon joined Bucketone of the most
elite mixed club teams in the South
in summer 2014. The team consists
of 26 players, with an equal number
of women and men on the squad. The
players are largely from the Atlanta
area, except for one from Indianapolis. Unlike college teams, club teams
draw from players of all agesBucket
is made up of players who are mostly
in their mid-to-late 20s and early 30s.
The biggest difference is that these
people have been playing for at least
four or five years, said Leon. Some of
them have been playing for as long as I
have been alive, so its been really nice
to play with people who know so much
more about the game than I do.
Buckets season started in mid-June
and will end with Nationals. Tournaments are mainly held regionally in
the South, but the schedule also incorporates larger national tournaments,
such as a tournament in Colorado
earlier this year.
Nationals will feature 16 teams from
all regions of the country. Leon says
she believes Bucket will land in the top
ten at Nationals.
Frisbee players are either designated
as a handler or a cutter. Handlers are
the players who throw, while the cutters
try to escape the defense and catch the
disk up the field. As Leon has grown as
a player and developed her throw, she
has switched positions several times.
While she is technically a cutter at
Bowdoin, she is now the defensive line
handler on Bucket, checking the opponents best attackers and opening counterattacks with long throws.
As one of Chaos Theorys two captains, Leon spends a great deal of her
time at practice teaching the game and

leading the team.

Outside of Bowdoin frisbee, [Bucket] has been a time for me to step back
from my captain or coach role and just
play again, said Leon.
The game strategy and style of play
also differs between the two teams.
Leon points out that the mixed-gender
nature of Buckets competition makes a
large difference.
I really like playing mixed because
it seems like its a faster paced game,
said Leon.
Leon said her defending duties are
made more challenging due to this
faster pace as well as the tendency
of men to launch longer and deeper
throws. When a player cuts deep, he or
she is able to stay open for longer because the men are able to throw longer.
Taking on the responsibility of Chaos co-captain with Hannah LeBlanc
16, Leon notes the difficulty they face
in playing the dual role of acting as
both the coaching figures and also contributing members of the team. She and
the other veterans are more responsible
for translating what they know to the
new players, who may not have even
touched a Frisbee before coming to
Bowdoin. While challenging, she cherishes her tenure on the Bowdoin team.
Its a great experience, Leon said,
And it is truly rewarding to see everybody grow.
In 2014, Leon told the Orient that
her goal as a player was to become
more versatile, and this year she going
after that goal by trying out different
positions from week to week.
I had never been a handler before
for a club team or even here at Bowdoin. Ive had the experience of starting off as a defensive cutter and then
going to an offensive cutter and then
being a defensive handler, said Leon,
Its really nice to move around, and
Im lucky to have that opportunity.
One of Leons greatest strengths is
field awareness, something that the
chaotic nature of ultimate Frisbee
makes a rare and valuable skill. She
has made it a goal to be able to see
how one players movements affect
another. In this way, Leon stays one
or two moves ahead of the game, and
moves the disk in a way that will involve the entire team.
Looking forward, Leon is unsure
how long she will continue with
Bucket, as it depends on her postgraduation plans. Regardless, she
plans to continue her passion for ultimate Frisbee.
I know I will end up playing
somewhere, no matter where I am,
said Leon.

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sports

the bowdoin orient

friday, september 18, 2015

Polar Bears hope to sail their way to Nationals for third straight season
BY ELI LUSTBADER
ORIENT STAFF

College sailing spans the course of

two seasons, opening in September and
closing in November before kicking
back off in March and going as late as
June. Most teams focus the majority of
their efforts on the spring season, which
features larger regattas and Nationals. Dont tell that to Bowdoins sailors,
though. The team opened their fall season red-hot by finishing in the top three
of all four competitions they participated in last weekend.
The team raced all over New England
last weekend, sending boats to Maine
Maritime, where they sailed in the Penobscot Bay Open (PBO) and the Har-

man Cup. Two more teams competed

in the FJ Invitational at Harvard University, and another competed at the
Womens Toni Deutsch Regatta at MIT.
Racing in the PBO were Matt Lyons
17 and Dana Bloch 17 in one boat, and
Courtney Koos 16 and Olivia Diserio
16 in the other. The team finished third
out of fifteen. Harrison Hawk 18, Jack
McGuire 17, Louis Frumer 18 and
Sydney Jacques 18 took on the Harman Cup. Despite tough conditions on
Saturday, the team raced well enough
on Sunday to nab a third place finish.
In doing so, the Polar Bears qualified
for the New England Sloop Championships for the first time since 2004. The
Championships will be hosted by Salve
Regina on October 17-18.

Meanwhile, Alex Vasiliou 18,

Nora Cullen 18, Louisa Lindgren 19,
Matt Kaplan 19, Jake Griffin 18, Phil
Koch 16, Ellis Price 18, and Emily
Salitan 16 competed at Harvard. The
team placed first and second overall
out of fifteen.
Also sailing on the Charles River
were Erin Mullins 16, Julia Rew 16,
Mimi Paz 17 and Martie Ogle 18, at the
Toni Deutsch Regatta. The Polar Bears
won this event, too, finishing first overall out of fifteen teams.
The success hasnt affected Head
Coach Frank Pizzos long-term approach to this years campaign, however.
You know, our seasons are pretty
longwe have a long fall season and
then a bit of a break and then a long

spring seasonso Im not really that

worried about results right now,
said Pizzo. Im just trying to get our
team to improve technique and find
out who works well with whothose
kind of things
Nonetheless, the Polar Bears have
showed a promising start to the season,
with the end goal of returning to the
national championships for the third
straight year. With a lot of returners
from last years Nationals team, Pizzo
thinks the team has a strong chance of
making it to Nationals again.
We have a couple really good first
years that have come in with a lot of enthusiasm, Pizzo said. All they want to
do is learn from the more experienced
people on our team. Thats been great.

This years team features eleven

first years and only twenty returners.
Getting the new class integrated is
one of the early challenges the team
faces this season.
We know its not going to be perfect,
Pizzo said. Obviously were getting
used to getting new people up to speed
and used to practicing at our facility. We
know its a process, but I would say so
far, so good.
The Polar Bears will continue their
season next weekend with regattas at
Connecticut College, MIT and UVM.
Its a busy time of year for sailing,
Pizzo said. But we try to give lots of opportunities to race in September when
the weather is still nice and maybe the
workload is a little less.

Volleyball kicks off season

with high morale, new coach

COURTESY OF ERIN CADY

A WARM WELCOME: The volleyball team is optimistic about their chances this season with new Head Coach Erin
Cady (above) at the helm.
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF

The womens volleyball team began

their season with a near-perfect return
rate, but one crucial member is different:
Head Coach Erin Cady. The team hopes
that Cadys leadership, combined with
the expertise of seasoned players will carry them to a league championship win.
Cady was brought on board to replace
Karen Corey, who stepped down at the
end of the 2014 season.
Switching to a new head coach is always an adjustment, but the transition to
Coach Cady has been great, said Assistant Coach Kristin Hanczor. She spent
a great deal of time prior to the season
listening and learning all she could about
the program, our conference and every
person on the team, which allowed us to
get to work starting day one.
According to Clare Geyer 17, who
plays middle blocker on the team, the
change in leadership combined with the
number of returning members means
that the team is more stable and steady
than last years.
Although the team appreciated Coreys leadership, they are also looking to
grow and develop with Cady as a coach.
I think that Coach Corey was a great
coach, but it is so exciting for us to be
moving forward with Coach Cady, said
Geyer. It is incredibly impressive to see
how much each player has improved in
the few weeks that weve been able to
work with her so far.
Both coaches pushed us really hard
and expect a lot from us, but Id say
Coach Cady is especially good at acknowledging the good things that we do
to keep us wanting to work harder and
harder for our goal, said team captain
Christy Jewett 16.
Jewett, who also served as captain
last year, praised the new leadership that
Cady has brought to the team.
She makes it very easy to be a captain

under her, Jewett said. She makes sure

that you know youre appreciated and
tells you the things that you do right and
will ask you for small adjustments but
makes sure she acknowledges when you
do them.
The new season under Cady started
strong initially with a 3-0 win against the
University of New England on September 8. However, the Polar Bears couldnt
continue their winning ways in an invitational at MIT September 11-12. Bowdoin
ended that weekend with a 2-3 record for
the season so far.
On the first day of the MIT invitational, the Polar Bears split their matches
with a 3-0 loss to Springfield and a 3-2
win against Endicott. The team then
faced Babson and MIT on the second
day, suffering 3-2 and 3-0 losses to both,
respectively.
We had a hard time figuring out
what went so wrong at MIT because
when we got off the court we all felt
pretty good, but the score didnt reflect
that, said Jewett.
She cited a shifting starting lineup,
lack of practice and the fatigue of playing
several long and grueling games as possible causes for the defeats.
This past weekend is not at all reflective of how we play as a team, said Jewett.
Despite the rocky start to the season,
Cady and her team remain optimistic.
When I stepped on to the court to
coach for the first time, I was extremely
impressed with the determination and
hard work the players displayed, said
Cady. My hope is to continue improving our offensive and defensive systems
to build a team that is difficult to beat.
I dont think theres a single person
on our team who doesnt absolutely love
Coach Cady and doesnt trust in her fully
to lead our program, said Jewett.
The Polar Bears will begin their NESCAC games on Friday and Saturday
with matches against Middlebury and
Hamilton.

SAVANNAH SIMMONS-GROVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT (TOP AND BOTTOM)

OFF TO THE RACES: (top) Naphtali Moulton 19 (back), Calvin Park 17 (middle) and Sean Macdonald 19 (front) train hard during a late-evening practice session. (bottom)
Martha Boben 19 (back), Megan Dustin 19 (second from back), Sarah Kelley 18 (second from front) and Lucy Skinner 17 do the same. Cross-country is taking a holistic
approach to both mental and physical training this season, with the hope that a combination of the two will yield greater gains.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI),
UMaine-Farmington and Lyndon State at
their home invitational. For the womens
team, the meet was an encouraging sign
of improving upon their 14th-place finish
in New England last year.
The results were consistent with
what weve been doing in our training, Slovenski said. Ally Fulton was
the best surprise of the week. We dont
see as much of Ally during our workouts because she needs to cross-train
three days a week to stay healthy. She
ran a smart race and finished with a
fast final 800.

Fulton 16 scored fourth for Bowdoin

in the 5K with a time of 20:01.83. In the
same race, teammates Sarah Kelley 18,
Lucy Skinner 16 and Martha Boben 19
took three of the top five overall spots.
Kelley, who spent last season recovering
from a high school injury, finished first
overall with a time of 19:19.61.
On the mens side, the results were
equally impressive. Bridger Tomlin 17
and Matthew Jacobson 17 took first
and second overall in the 8K with times
of 26:00.17 and 26:00.73, while fellow
junior Sam Dodge 17 finished fifth
overall, clocking in at 26:30.09. Tomlin
and Jacobson intentionally ran the race
side-by-side, working together to keep
tabs on their competitors.
[The race was] a battle of wits,

Tomlin said. Matt and I went out and

ran the first two miles leading the race,
leading the pack. Around the third
and fourth mile the WPI guys came
up for a little bit and challenged.
But Tomlin and Jacobson were
able to pass the pair from WPI in the
home stretch, beating them by mere
seconds. Tomlin attributed their success to the fact that theyve worked
together during interval workouts in
practice. Slovenski praised both their
strategic and athletic performances in
the seasons first race.
Bridger and Matt ran smart races.
They worked hard in the early miles,
and then still had a lot of speed left
for the final mile when the race was
decided.

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the bowdoin orient

sports

13

ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

LOVE, FIFTEEN, THIRTY, FORTY: Kyle Wolf 18 prepares to bring down the hammer on an overhead slam during a weekly practice session. The
Polar Bear Men recorded an 18-18 overall record this past weekend at the Bowdoin invitational, where they faced D1 programs Marist and Qtuinnipiac. It was their
first competition of the fall season

MENS CROSS COUNTRY

WOMENS CROSS COUNTRY

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

VS. WPI, MAINEFARMINGTON, LYNDON STATE
8 KILOMETERS 4.97 MILES

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

VS. WPI, MAINEFARMINGTON, LYNDON STATE
5 KILOMETERS 3.11 MILES

Bowdoin
WPI
Maine-Farmington
Lyndon State

21
37
94
97

Bowdoin
WPI
Maine-Farmington
Lyndon State

26:00.17
26:00.73
26:30.09
26:42.10
26:51.95
26:57.32
27:34.86

Sarah Kelley
Lucy Skinner
Martha Boben
Ally Fulton
Julia ORourke
Sarah Kinney
Meghan Bellerose

25
30
91
110
ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Bridger Tomlin
Matt Jacobson
Sam Dodge
Ben Torda
Andrew McGowan
Calvin Park
Christian Heath

1ST
2ND
5TH
6TH
7TH
9TH
13TH

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
23
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 MIT

MIT
Bowdoin
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 BABSON

Babson
Bowdoin

1ST
3RD
5TH
7TH
9TH
12TH
14TH

19:19.61
19:36.55
19:43.88
20:01.83
20:05.67
20:15.16
20:31.00

FIELD HOCKEY
30
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 AMHERST

Bowdoin
3 Amherst
0
#10 Nicole Barbieri
#18 Rachel Kennedy
#18 Rachel Kennedy
3 #22 Kimmy Ganong
2

GAME, SET, MATCH: Madeline Rolph19 goes full extension on her serve and powers the ball over the net during a weekly training session. The Polar
Bear Women went 17-8 this weekend at the Stony Brook Classic, where they were the lone Division-III squad. It was the teams first competition of the year.

WOMENS GOLF

WOMENS SOCCER
11

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 MARTINDALE GOLF CLUB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 AMHERST

Bates
Bowdoin

351 Amherst
379 Bowdoin

2
0

Haley Friesch
Diya Chopra
Meredith Sullivan
Rachel Kaye

84
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 VS. HUSSON
87
96
Bowdoin
112
Husson

6
1

4
1

#3
#7
#24
#20
#23
#21

23:12
31:57
46:10
52:04

Springfield
Bowdoin
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 ENDICOTT

Bowdoin
Endicott

Bowdoin
3 Bates
0
#18 Rachel Kennedy
#22 Kimmy Ganong
#18 Rachel Kennedy
3 #22 Kimmy Ganong
2 #18 Rachel Kennedy

13:35
21:37
27:15
37:48
48:46
77:59

MENS GOLF

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 BATES

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 VS. SPRINGFIELD ENDICOTT

Jamie Hofstetter
Julia Patterson
Kiersten Turner
Elizabeth Weathers
Sophie al Mutawaly
Julia Bottone

5
0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

BOWDOIN INVITATIONAL BRUNSWICK GOLF COURSE
11 TEAMS TOTAL

Endicott
USM
St. Anslem
Providence
Husson
Bowdoin

1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
5TH
9TH

607
612
612
614
627
644

MENS SOCCER
11
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 AMHERST

Amherst
Bowdoin

1
0

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the bowdoin orient

OPINION

Qualitative reasoning

President Obama introduced the White Houses College Scorecard, a compilation of federal data including student debt and attendance cost for over 7,000
colleges and universities, last Saturday. While the scorecards arent an outright
ranking, they are intended as a means of comparison for prospective students
and families choosing between schools. In some data categories, Bowdoin scored
predictably high. With a graduation rate of 94 percent and a first-year retention rate of 97 percent, the College far surpasses the respective national averages. Bowdoins average annual cost for students receiving federal aid, $18,613,
is only $1,824 greater than the national average and is the smallest such figure
in the NESCAC. This relative affordability speaks well of the Colleges financial
aid packages.
One statistic the scorecard highlights is average salary after attending, which
considers the income of alumni who received federal student aid ten years after
they entered school. For Bowdoin graduates, that number is $54,800. That is a
significant step above the national average of $34,343 and the sixth highest in the
NESCAC. However, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Bowdoin
alums median annual earnings are fourth-lowest among colleges whose students
averaged scores of at least 1400 on their SATs. Considering their alma maters
prestige, Bowdoin graduates are earning relatively little. Many students and families in the throes of the college search will find this information useful as return
on investment is an important factor to consider when choosing a school.
But attending Bowdoin is more than just a means to an end. We think of college not only as a financial investment, but as an experience that can fulfill us in
other ways, too. Its impossible for any data-based scorecard or rating system to
measure the relationships, values and skills we develop. Theres no way to quantify these aspects of life at Bowdoin, but they shape our lives here and beyond in
significant ways.
Still, initiatives like the College Scorecard show that statistical comparisons do
have a role in helping people approach a large investment like a college education. One number that doesnt appear in the College Scorecard, but that we find
significant, is the alumni giving rate. A U.S. News article from December 2014
listed Bowdoin as one of ten schools where the highest proportion of alumni
donate. As the Orient reports this week, over 61 percent of alums donated to the
College last year, an all time high.
This statistic represents a group of people who have had time to reflect on
their experience at Bowdoin and everything it did for themwhether intellectually, socially, emotionally or financially. And remember, this statistic measures
breadth, not depth of giving. It does not speak to the raw amount of money the
College receives, but it is significant because it shows many Bowdoin graduates
are still dedicated to the institution. In giving money to the College, alums are
expressing satisfaction with their Bowdoin education. Regardless of the numbers
that come out, most are willing to put something back in.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of John Branch, Sam Chase, Matthew Gutschenritter,
Emma Peters and Nicole Wetsman.

friday, september 18, 2015

Beyond we dont say that at Bowdoin...

CAROLINE MARTINEZ
SAY IT LIKE IT IS
Since I first stepped on Bowdoins
campus, Ive repeatedly heard the
phrase, we dont say that at Bowdoin. It still makes me cringe. I was
encouraged by Residential Life during my sophomore year as a Resident
Advisor to use it if someone said
something offensive and I wanted
them to stop, but I could never bring
myself to do it.
Although this phrase might have
been created and repeated by wellintentioned people, it is damaging
to Bowdoin and the society that we
are a part of. This phrase is used to
manipulate people into not using
certain words by making them feel
like theyre not part of the Bowdoin
community if they use them.
When we use this approach, we
miss the point. Not using certain
words because we dont say that
at Bowdoin, or because it can hurt
someones feelings or because it is
not PC is not the approach to language we need. Bowdoin students
are capable of much more.
Instead, we need to look deeper and question why we use these
words and what harmful ideas can
be reflected and reproduced through
our language.
Social censorship that lacks any
type of deeper questioning has several problems and helps explain why
we still have people on this campus
who anonymously write and say outright racist things.
Let me be clear: I am not saying
that people at Bowdoin should use

racist, sexist, or homophobic words.

I am saying that we need to delve
deeper into the meaning of these
words and the unequal power structures they reflect so we can start to
put an end to them.
Telling people not to use certain
language because it might hurt other
peoples feelings is problematic.
First, it places the blame on the
person who is doing the feeling.
Second, it individualizes what is in
reality a systemic issue. And frankly,
it just doesnt work. By focusing so
much on the feelings of the people
who are hurt, Bowdoin is focusing
less on the people who said it and on
why they said it.
Why is there racist, sexist and homophobic language present on our
campus? What does it show about us
as a community?
These are harder questions to
grapple with and arent usually addressed because theres the assumption that there is no racism, sexism
or homophobia on campus. It would
be scary to admit that these are real
issues on our campus, and it would
also be harder to deal with. How do
we address these issues? I hope that
there can be a better way than to just
cover them up.
The we dont say that at Bowdoin
strategy does not adequately ensure
that the people who say something
offensive wont do it again. Why?
Because they didnt get it. The only
part they understood is that they
shouldnt say X word because it offends Y. Or they shouldnt say it at
Bowdoin.
So what will happen once theyre
away from the person who is offended or away from Bowdoin? They will

probably say X word again because

they only learned it was unacceptable in one specific instance. They
got no deeper reason not to do it and
their thinking didnt change.
What am I suggesting? If you feel
the urge to use offensive language
dont stop yourself simply because
its not whats done at Bowdoin, because another person will be hurt, or
because its the PC thing to do and
the PC police might be around. Stop
yourself because you understand
what harmful structures your language reinforces. If you dont understand it initially, dont freak out or
victimize yourself because someone
is challenging the language you use.
My best friend (who happens to
be a man) called me out the other
day for using a phrase that reflected
a very sexist attitude, and initially I
felt defensive. I felt that as a woman
and a gender and womens studies
major I shouldnt need anybody to
correct my language or point at the
problematic attitudes it reflected.
What problematic language and attitudes? Hadnt I questioned it all
and done the work? I realized theres
always more work to do and that I
do need the people around me, especially my friends, to help me be
better. And thats OK.
We can all learn and its important
to keep an open and active mind. No
one is born understanding everyones reality or every issue and you
cant be blamed for that.
What you can get blamed for is for
not listening and using your questioning mind. We are all part of an
unequal world, and in order to stop
reproducing its problems we need to
be in a state of constant reflection.

SWUGdom is about more than wine and baggy sweaters

JULIA MEAD

LEFT OF LIPSTICK
Yessterday I called my dad. Daddy,
Im a SWUG, I told him.
Did you know that Joshua Chamberlain taught every class at Bowdoin
besides math? he asked. Wait, youre
a slug?
No, not a slug. A SWUG. It stands
for Senior Washed-Up Girl.
Oh, ok. Have you called IKEA yet
about your missing bed?
I had, in fact. Because thats part of
being a SWUGyou no longer have
small distractions like trying to find
someone to buy you Smirnoff or pretending to enjoy the elliptical. You do
your tasks like a grown up.
You probably know what a SWUG
is. The term has been around for a
while. Long enough, I would argue, that
it no longer counts as a trend. It clearly
has some cultural stickiness, some enduring cachet. Enough, perhaps, that it
merits a closer look.
Since returning to campus from our
respective corners of the world, SWUGdom has come up in every conversation
Ive had with my senior female friends.
The question is not if were SWUGs, but
who can out-SWUG the rest.
Some contenders:
- I just need to be naked and doing
homework in my room. Alone.
- I wonder if I can get [insert significant other] to come over and massage
my shins. Then leave.

- Im doing physics homework and

watching The Prince and Me downstairs if anyones tryna.
- Going to dinner in clogs, Carhartts
and a sweater you knitted yourself.
- Going to dinner by yourself, making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,
then leaving.
- Going to the Trader Joes in Portland
to buy $25 worth of Two Buck Chuck.
Is this what being a SWUG is really
about? Disregard for ones physical ap-

As one of my friends, and a

self-proclaimed SWUG, pointed
out, washed-up also means,
arrived.
pearance along with an increased interest in couches, wine, baked goods and
fiber crafts?
Are all senior women SWUGs? Is it
some beautiful, Zen-like state you reach
just by getting old enough and sticking
around Bowdoin long enough?
Two years ago, when I was at the zenith of my Franzia-chugging, college
house-dwelling, all nighter-pulling existence, Emma Johnson 14 published a
touching op-ed on the inevitability and
the joy of SWUG life.
She sang of the Promised Land, and
what a paradise it is. As one of my
friends, and a self-proclaimed SWUG,

pointed out, washed-up also means

arrived.
But bear with meI think theres
something more than not caring anymore going on here. It seems to me,
that more than wine or oversized outerwear, SWUGdom is about women (only
girl for the sake of the acronymtry
pronouncing SWUW), spending time
with women, in spaces controlled by
women.
Weve shuffled through enough
male-dominated social spaces in the
last three years, and now we say no
more. From the infamous after parties
at a certain now-defunct off-campus
sports house, to bong rips with (many
genuinely kind-hearted) alt bros, we are
through.
There is a simple satisfaction in
spending a Friday night in my own living room, and not a room whose floor
is mysteriously covered in beer and
something that smells like death.
It feels good to control the music (a
task, it seems, that almost always falls
to guys at big co-ed parties). And, of
course, your friends dont instantly
scatter like they do upon arrival at a big,
sweaty party.
You can call SWUG life self-preservation if you want, or, you can call it
reclusivenessbut I dont think thats
right. I would call it a hard-won liberation.
Anyways, excuse me. Its time to pop
open a bottle of wine, drink two maybe
three glasses, and laugh with the women I love best.

Diana Furukawa

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Bowdoin:
I have been wanting to send this for quite some time and am now
getting around to it.
Thank you for 46 years of memories. I was blessed to work at Bowdoin Dining Service with the greatest and most talented working
people I have ever met. I was able to interact with other members of
the Bowdoin staff and faculty, trade stories and jokes and feed them
great food. I was touched by many from all walks of life and from
around the world. This experience has enriched my life and I wanted
you all to know that I am grateful for that journey in my life and I will
never forget. All I can seem to say is that I will carry these memories
for the rest of my life and I would like to thank all of you from the
bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
Douglas Doug Pollock

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the bowdoin orient

opinion

15

The judgement of love: silent heroism in the Greek crisis

DAVID JIMENEZ

MINDLESS PONTIFICATING
David, I think Greece is on the verge
of another catastrophe, Maria, the director of the Salvation Army branch in
Athens, warned me last December. We
were sipping Greek coffee at the organizations headquarters in Athens, a
building the size of an American smalltown thrift shop which services a city
of over four million. I was perplexed.
Had Greece not already hit rock bottom? What further catastrophe could
ravage a nation which had a third of its
population close to or in poverty, or a
35 percent increase in suicides since
2011? Perhaps, I mused as the optimistic American, Marias prediction would
be mistaken.
Needless to say, a cursory scan of front
pages this summer proved Marias view
prophetic. Despite a new deal between
Greece and Europe, dark clouds of uncertainty still grip the nation. No real
change in Greeces largest problem, be
it endemic corruption, a decaying safety
net and toxic populism, is on horizon.
During my junior year in Athens, I was
honored to witness the heroic struggle of
Maria, her husband Polis and the Salvation Armys staff.
Every day, they enter into the crisis
with remarkable fortitude against great
odds. In her work with victims of human
trafficking, Maria has discovered terrible
collaboration between hotel owners, city
police and pimps. She makes sure all the
refugee women who come to the Salvation Army have someone to accompany
them home for fear of kidnapping. On

a visit, I once saw a member of Golden

Dawn, Greeces fascist party, outside. He
apparently stands near their office for a
few moments every week to intimidate
immigrant families coming inside. A few
weeks before, party members marched
through this predominantly immigrant
neighborhood, chanting hateful slogans
and waving Neo-Nazi flags. In their acts
of service, Maria and her husband Polis
encounter not only tragedy, but evil underneath the surface of a civilized European country.
These are extreme examples of the
daily trials their vocation requires. Families who constantly come pleading for
baby milk, diapers and food cannot always be helped. The Salvation Army operates on a limited budget, as they refuse
to accept government funds, knowing of
many NGOs ruined by the statist, corrupt tentacles of Greeces bureaucracy.
As a Protestant organization in an Orthodox country, many potential donors
reject them as insufficiently Greek,
all the more so for devoting so many
resources to migrant families instead
of their own people. Given the economic deterioration, there is sometimes
not much that can be done beyond the
provision of basic resources, prayer and
a warm embrace. Their work is remarkable, but how can it ever contend with
the scale of the problems before them?
It is in such encounters with continued despair that the true nature of the
heart is revealed. What happens to your
commitment when idealistic visions of
progress are no longer possible, when
the arc of history does not seem to bend
any closer to justice? What happens to
your generosity when your efforts seem
unappreciated and your impact invis-

ible? Such crises are judgments; they

reveal to us, as Dostoevsky wrote, that
love in practice is a harsh and dreadful
thing compared to love in dreams.
Such moments expose those whose
service to others was simply out of loyalty to ideological causes or, even worse,
a subtle manifestation of ones own egotism and need to control others. But
such judgments also reveal the love that
always protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres.
The Greek crisis has indeed made
visible the hearts of Maria, Polis and
countless others in Greece. Tuesday
mornings at Salvation Army are filled

with joy as dozens of screaming migrant children run around with toys,
finger paint and learn letters and colors.
The joyful and sacrificial spirit of Maria
and Polis amply proved Mother Teresas
maxim that our lifes aim is faithfulness, not success. Yet this faithfulness
brings its own small victories for Salvation Army, like a new senior citizen
program and a freely donated building
for childrens activities. The seeds of a
renewed Greece blossom silently in this
remote Athenian charity building.
Maria and Polis exemplify an alternative path forward for idealistic millennials today, the Generation TED

constantly fed with well-intentioned

but frequently naive slogans about optimism, change and achievement. In
high school and Bowdoin, we have been
identified as change makers who can, as
Thomas Paine mused, begin the world
anew. Alternately, Maria and Polis exhibit Reinhold Niebuhrs pessimistic
optimism, conscious of the tragic
realities of life and history, and both
the limitations and necessity of moral
choices in the movement of history.
Struggling to keep alive human dignity
in a fallen world is a mighty task. But
it is a struggle worthy of their, and our
own, lives.

Diana Furukawa

Western conceptions of masculinity hold asian men back in dating

PAUL NGU

BETWEEN MAINSTREAM
AND MARGIN
Last Saturday night, I came across
a Yik Yak post on the Bowdoin feed
that read White guys with yellow
fever, this aint the school for you.
please leave some asian girls for the
poor asian guys here. Less than 24
hours later, the post had been removed.
Aside from the troubling sentiment expressed by the user that
Asian women (or any women for
that matter) belong in some way to
Asian men, I was interested in what
the post might reveal at large about
the state of Asian masculinity in
America. In many ways, interracial
dating (or hook ups) can provide
an interesting framework for understanding how Asian men may
measure their masculinity against
western standards of beauty and
manliness.

At center stage is the observation

that Asian women have significantly
higher rates of interracial marriage
than Asian men. An analysis by the
Pew Research Center found that
among newlyweds in 2013, 37 percent of Asian women married someone who was not Asian, while 16 percent of Asian men married outside
of their race. The observation raises
the question, Why the discrepancy?
Perhaps for the Yik Yak user, a followup question might be, why are so
many Asian women not choosing to
be with Asian men?
Of course, intimate relationships
are highly complex and personal, and
no one explanation is likely to fully
encapsulate the experiences of an
entire racial group. But heres a start:
In America, Asians as a group are
perceived to be more feminine than
whites and blacks. Research done by
Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist
at Columbia Business School, has
found that associations of racial and
gender stereotypes overlap in mean-

ingful ways. In one study, participants who were asked to assign the
femininity or masculinity of certain
traits to Asians, whites and blacks
consistently associated Asians as the
least masculine.
The idea that Asians are perceived
to be the least masculine has significant implications in the dating
market. Given a heterosexual dating
market where men generally prefer
women who are feminine and women
like men who are masculine, Galinsky
showed that the more a man valued
femininity the more likely he was attracted to an Asian woman. It also
worked the other way: women who
valued traditional western norms of
masculinity more demonstrated lower preferences for Asian men.
Whether by racial stereotypes or
personal preferences, it seems fairly clear that Asian men get shortchanged in the dating market. In
some cases, western conventions
of beauty and masculinity become
internalized by Asian men, result-

ing in thought pieces on how to become more masculine. In a Thought

Catalog post titled How To Survive
Being an Asian Male, the author
Gavin McInnes provides tips such
as growing out your facial hair or
getting a tattoo. And in a feature for
New York Magazine, author Wesley
Yang writes about the growing popularity of boot camps on attraction
for Asian men run by JT Tran, also
known as The Asian Playboy.
While in principle I disagree with
the approaches of McInnes and Yang
to define Asian masculinity within
notions of western masculinity, I can
see how in practice the dating realities of being an Asian man can sometimes be difficult. In a now-retracted
post, Details magazine ran a full-page
feature in its anthropology section
titled Gay or Asian? that sought
to draw attention to the similarities
between stereotypes of gay men and
Asian men. Whether youre into
shrimp balls or shaved balls, entering
the dragon requires imperial taste.

Bowdoin Orient
The

Matthew Gutschenritter
Editor in Chief

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So choke up on your chopsticks, and

make sure your labels are showing....
A sharp eye will always take home the
plumpest eel, the introduction of the
post read.
With satire like that, its no surprise
that Tran has been invited to speak
and share his insights at campuses
including Yale, University of Chicago
and the Wharton School of Business.
Asian men, particularly young Asian
men, are living the realities of a dating market that has decidedly turned
its back on them.
To be clear, in no way am I supporting using the misogynistic practices of JT Trans boot camp to attract women. But I also dont think
that the solution is as easy as telling
Asian men to just be yourself, or
be your own version of masculinity.
The impetus for changing how we understand masculinity should not fall
solely on Asian men. But until that
societal change does occur, itll take
more than a little self-confidence for
me to just be myself.

John Branch
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Senior Photo Editor
Photo Editor
Business Manager
Business Manager

Elana Vlodaver
Katie Miklus
Olivia Atwood
Hy Khong
Jenny Ibsen
Evan Bulman
Maggie Coster

Layout Editor
Layout Assistant
News Editor
Sports Editor
Features Editor
A&E Editor
Opinion Editor

Alex Mayer
Phoebe Bumsted
Rachael Allen
Eli Lustbader
Sarah Drumm
Sarah Bonanno
Nicholas Mitch

Sam Chase
Managing Editor

Nicole Wetsman
Editor in Chief
Emma Peters
Managing Editor

Harry DiPrinzio
Web Editor
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The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors.

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the bowdoin orient

friday, september 18, 2015

SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 18

WEDNESDAY 23

EVENT

RELIGIOUS SERVICE

All are welcome to attend Polar Bear Swings first social

dance of the year. Club members will give lessons to
those who are new to swing dancing.
Museum of Art Steps. 6:30 p.m.

There will be a morning service from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30

p.m., a study service at 5 p.m., an afternoon service from 5
p.m. to 6:45 p.m., and a Neila service from 5 p.m. to 6:45
p.m. Following the service, there will be a Break the Fast
snack at 6:45 p.m.
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 10:30 a.m.

Yom Kippur

Swing Dance on the Museum Steps

PERFORMANCE

Hypnosis Show

LECTURE

David Hall, a popular New England hypnotist, will be

performing an entertaining and comedic hypnosis show
for the student body.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.
8 p.m.

Be a Shining Light of Hope: Everyone

Plays a Role in Suicide Prevention

EVENT

BMC Presents: Acoustic Open Mic Night

The Bowdoin Music Collective (BMC) will host its first

event of the year in which acoustic groups, solo acts and
singer-songwriters perform for the community.
Chase Barn, Boody-Johnson House. 8:00 p.m.

HY KHONG , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BOUNCIN' OFF THE CEILING: Nicole Tan '16 sings "Upside Down" by A-Teens
with Ursus Versus at the A Cappella Recruitment Concert in the chapel last
Friday.

SATURDAY 19

Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas 89, an accomplished author

and founder of the Carson J. Spencer Foundation, will be
speaking to the community about the topic of suicide and
what one can do to prevent it. Dr. Spencer-Thomas works
with the American Association of Suicidology, the International Association of Suicide Prevention and the National
Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Center. 7 p.m.

MONDAY 21

THURSDAY 24

EVENT

LECTURE

EVENT

Hundreds of members of the Bowdoin community will

participate in a campus-wide day of service. Volunteers
will be working with a wide variety of service programs
to better the local community.
Farley Field House. 11:30 a.m.

Poet Vincent Katz will accompany artist Richard Bosman

to discuss how Bosmans works of art use the theme of
night to tell stories. Additionally, the two will discuss
other works from the Night Vision exhibition.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.

A discussion will be held over coffee regarding

upcoming artistic, musical and theatric events.
Museum of Art. 10 a.m.

"Here Comes the Night"

Common Good Day

LECTURE

EVENT

An Evening with Filmmaker Michel Auder

"Cold War in A Cold Climate"

A reception will be held in honor of Harold Grundy, a Bath

resident who recently donated photos to Bowdoin of his
experience supervising the construction of radar
installations at the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
in Thule, Greenland.
First Floor, Hubbard Hall. 11 a.m.

TUESDAY 22
EVENT

SUNDAY 20
RELIGIOUS SERVICE

Sunday Mass

EVENT

Student
Night at the
Art Museum

#gratitudeThursday

DeRay Mckesson '07, co-founder of WeTheProtestors.

org, will discuss his time working with Teach for America
and his experience documenting events and protests in
Ferguson through Twitter.
ORIENT
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts
PICK OF THE WEEK
Center. 4:30 p.m.

Students will have the opportunity to write and send

letters to loved ones and friends. Stamps, envelopes and
cards will be supplied.
Lamarche Gallery, David Saul Smith Union. 4 p.m.

EVENT

The Bowdoin Craft Center will be open to all to explore,

make crafts and meet instructors.
Studio Space, Craft Center. 5:30 p.m.

Yom Kippur Service

The Chapel. 4 p.m.

Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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27

Michel Auder, whose film is currently playing in the Night

Vision exhibit, will be speaking with Museum Curator
Joachim Homann. The French filmmaker and photographer
will also introduce some of his other films.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 4:30 p.m.
EVENT

"The Intersection Between

Education and Justice"

25

Bowdoin Friends Fall Coffee and "Night

Vision" Exhibition

28

PERFORMANCE

William
Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night

29

EVENT

Lunch or
Refreshments
with President
Rose

EVENT

Craft Center Open House

30

EVENT

Teach-In