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New off-campus
housing policy
announced
by Allison Wei
Orient Staff
The College announced
its new off-campus housing
policy on Wednesday, which
includes restricting eligibility
for off-campus living to ju-
niors and seniors and capping
the total number of students
who can live off campus to 185
in the 2018-2019 academic
year, down from this years cap
of 200. In addition, a process
to renovate and build higher
quality upperclass housing is
currently underway.
The Office of Residential
Life and a number of other
administrators developed the
policy, which is a direct result
of the findings and recom-
mendations from a working
group that was assembled last
February to re-examine the
Colleges housing policies.
Among the key findings
from the groups study, which
included 1,600 touches with
people on and around campus,
according to Dean of Student
Affairs Tim Foster, was that
the College needs to improve
and to build new upperclass
housing and that the lack of
appealing accommodations
for upperclass students is a
major driver in students deci-
sions to move off campus.
Foster confirmed that the
Endowment returns 12.4 percent College signs on to court brief
Proposed Republican tax plan poses threat
by Sarah Drumm
Orient Staff
The College announced last
Friday that the endowment gen-
erated an investment return of
12.4 percent for the fiscal year that
ended June 30, 2017. The endow-
ment had a market value of $1.46
billion on June 30, up from $1.34
billion at the close of FY 2016.
During the last fiscal year, the
endowment saw its first negative
return in seven years, declining
1.4 percentthis years returns
demonstrate an improvement in
performance and significant asset
growth.
According to Cambridge As-
sociates, a firm that oversees and
tracks endowments across the
nation, the average return seen
by American colleges and uni-
versities during FY 2017 was 13
percent, putting Bowdoins per-
formance this year slightly below
that of its peers.
Paula Volent, senior vice pres-
ident for investments, attributes
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College has already begun
the planning process to build
new upperclass housing and
renovate existing structures.
Specifically, the College plans
to build townhouse-style
housing that will include sin-
gle bedrooms, a common area
suitable for group gatherings
and a kitchen.
Foster declined to com-
ment where these projects will
occur, but said that a com-
mittee of students, staff and
faculty will be involved in the
design process after an archi-
tect is named.
The ultimate objective
here is to build this new
housing, increasing our
on-campus housing capacity,
improving our on-campus
housing, drawing people
back to campus and ultimate-
ly having first years, sopho-
mores and juniors living on
campus and 25 percent of
seniors and super-seniors
living off, said Foster.
A major reason for this
goal is an increase in students
choosing to live off campus in
recent years. In fall 2016, 12.1
percent of students lived off
campus, a sharp increase from
the average of around 7.6 per-
cent from 2008 to 2015, a per-
centage among the highest in
Please see HOUSING, page 4 a part of No Hate November in-
challenging Trump DACA repeal
Percent return on Bowdoins
endowment over the decade
30
24.4
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this years growth to a variety of
factors, including distinct changes
in global market conditions since
last year.
The strong absolute return
for the endowment in fiscal 2017
was the result of a combination of
good manager selection in choos-
ing external investment managers
as well as ebullient global equity
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LETS TALK ABOUT SEX: Before a packed audience in Cleveland Hall, the Senior Sex Panel discussed sexual experiences, an event part of Healthy Rela-
tionships Week. Previously held by ASAP, the event has been assumed by Bowdoin Healthy Relationships, a new student group. SEE PAGE 2.
No Hate November showcases students
by Mitchel Jurasek
Orient Staff
Last week, Bowdoin Student
Government (BSG) kicked off
its annual No Hate November
programming, a month dedi-
cated to eliminating bias and
increasing discussion around
identity on campus.
The event series has been held
for five years, but this year the
focus has changed to promote
student voices on campus.
It is much more oriented on
having student panels. We are
lucky enough to have students
who are confident and brave
enough to share experiences to JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
their peers in order to enlighten MAKING VOICES HEARD: Anam Shah 21 spoke in Howell House on Thursday night at Stories of the Crescent:
them and give a different per- The Lives of Muslim Students at Bowdoin. Students shared their experiences of being Muslim on Bowdoins campus.
spective, said Osa Omoregie 18,
the Multicultural Coalition repre- volves taking the initiative to be spread of events. The opportuni- Gina Yashere, a British-Nigerian
sentative to BSG and its director an educator. ties to engage range from a panel comedian who is the current
of diversity and inclusion. Being Students will also be able to discussing the experience of Mus-
pick from an especially diverse lim students to a performance by Please see NO HATE, page 3
communications and public affairs, academic communities and a di-
by Sarah Drumm
Orient Staff
said that President Clayton Rose versity of perspectives in the class-
heard about the suit and asked room. The brief reads, American
Bowdoin has joined 49 other Leana Amaez, associate dean of institutions of higher education
colleges and universities in sub- students for diversity and inclusion, benefit profoundly from the pres-
22.3 19.2
mitting a legal document of sup- who has a background as a public ence of immigrant students on our
16 14.4 12.4
port for a case challenging Pres- defender, to look into the possibility campuses.
10.3 ident Donald Trumps executive of Bowdoin signing on. If such an unlawful decision
order terminating the Deferred I think the institutions feel that is allowed to standand these
our students and our immigrant young people take their tremen-
2.6
students are an important part of dous talent, enthusiasm, and skills
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
The brief was filed on Novem- the College and that they deserve elsewherewe (both amici and
-1.4
ber 1 in the northern California to be here, that they have earned the country as a whole) will be the
U.S. District Court in support of the right to higher education, that losers, the brief continues.
-16.99 the University of Californias law- they have worked hard, as have Amaez said that because Bow-
suit against the Department of all of our students, and that they doin is not party to the case, the
GIDEON MOORE
Homeland Security. In the lawsuit, should be able to access an edu- College believes the submission
markets related to historically low the plaintiff asserts that rescinding cation like Bowdoin, said Amaez. of the brief does not put any of its
interest rates and the continuing DACA is unconstitutional. In order to submit an amicus DACA students at risk.
impact of global central bank eas- The amicus brief serves as a brief in the case, Bowdoin and Because it doesnt expose any
ing, wrote Volent in an email to legal statement of support from other colleges must argue that they of our students or make Bowdoin
the Orient. Bowdoin and other institutions will be harmed by the termination the center of thisthe danger of
Volent said that global equity for the case filed by the University of DACA. The brief argues that that being that if were at the center
performance this year proved of California, but does not make revoking DACA directly impacts of a lawsuit with very few students,
particularly successful for the the College party to the case. institutions including Bowdoin in we wouldnt want to make them
In an email to the Orient, Scott numerous ways, including the loss
Please see ENDOW, page 3 Hood, senior vice president for of important members of their Please see AMICUS, page 4
A MELODRAMA S MOVING ON O LOOKING BACK
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PAGE TWO
Friday, November 10, 2017

SECURITY REPORT
11/3 to 11/8 STUDENT SPEAK:
If you could jump into any painting which painting
Friday, November 3
Excessive noise was reported on the seventh floor Wednesday, November 8 would it be?
of Coles Tower. A visiting high school ice hockey coach fell on the
A student doing pull-ups from a sprinkler pipe in ice and injured his head at Watson Arena. Brunswick
the basement of MacMillan House pulled it from its Rescue transported the injured man to Mid Coast Julianna Kiley 20
ceiling anchors. Hospital.
A student using a humidifier activated a smoke "I dont know. But it definitely
Saturday, November 4 alarm at Osher Hall.
A student at Harpswell Apartments damaged an-
other students bicycle while joyriding on it without
Two students on skateboards were warned for vio-
lating College policy by doing tricks on granite and
wouldnt be The Scream. That would
permission. The student will pay for damages. other structures.
Brunswick Rescue transported a student hav-
be stressful."
Sunday, November 5 ing an allergic reaction to Mid Coast Hospital.
An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxi- An officer escorted a student with a knee
cated student at Helmreich House. injury (from a bike accident) to Mid Coast
An officer checked on a student Hospital. Manlio Calentti 20
who failed to show up for a A smoke detector activa-
scheduled outing. The tion in Chamberlain "The Starry Night, because I want
student was located. Hall was caused by
A student re- the use of a hair to get that painting tattooed on my
ported the theft iron.
of a yellow A student body."
bike club bi- in Cham-
cycle from berlain Hall
a rack at was found
West Hall.
A stu-
to be using
an electric
Molly Prouty 19
dent report-
ing flu-like
hot plate in a
residence hall, Anything by Beth Hoeckel. Especially
symptoms was
given an escort to
in violation of
policy. the ones with the moons.
the Mid Coast Walk-
In Clinic. Thursday, November 9
A student at Haw-
thorne-Longfellow Library reported that ALEX BURNS A student with flu-like symptoms was escort-
a man loitering in the lower level stacks was ed to Mid Coast Hospital.
staring and making her feel uncomfortable. Security
officers located the man and determined that this was
A student accumulated multiple parking violations
and $450 in fines this semester. A report was submit- Mohamed Nur 19
The Last Supper. It looks like a lit
the second complaint on the man in recent months. ted to the dean of student affairs.
The man was removed from campus and he was sub- A student reported the theft of a silver Specialized

sequently served with a criminal trespass warning
barring him from all campus property.
An ill student requested a transport to Mid Coast
Hospital for an evaluation.
Tuesday, November 7
A student on crutches fell on stairs at Moulton
Union and was taken to the health center for an eval-
uation.
A contractors dump truck backed into a Col-
lege-owned light pole near Moulton Union, damag-
ing it. The pole was removed for repair.
A student reported that his bicycle was stolen from
Brunswick Apartments late Monday night. A security
officer recovered the stolen bike and a student was
cited for taking the bike without permission.
group.
bicycle from the area of Harpswell Apartments 1-3 on
the evening of Saturday, November 4.
BEAR FACT: A person under 21 years of age who is
found operating, or attempting to operate, a motor
vehicle with ANY measurable amount of alcohol in
their blood, will lose their license for one year. Refus-
ing to take a blood alcohol test will result in loss of Jack Arnholz 19
license for at least 18 months. If there was a passenger
under 21 years of age in the vehicle, an additional
180-day suspension will be imposed. Drivers under
"Do you know those paintings with
age 21 with a BAC (blood alcohol content) of .08%
or more can be prosecuted for the criminal offense
dogs playing poker? Ive always won-
of OUI (operating under the influence), but the min-
imum one-year license suspension will be imposed,
dered what they were doing there. "
regardless.
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Tag me with a spoon: sophomore elimination game

by Samuel Rosario
Orient Staff
During the month of Oc-
tober, Bowdoins campus was
littered with assassins prowling
H-L for their next target. As the
temperature started to drop, the
2020 class council also dropped
an interesting competition onto
Bowdoin sophomores. It was
called Elimination Game and it
involved 160 sophomores wield-
ing plastic spoons which were
delivered to their mailboxes.
The goal of the game was sim-
ple: kill your targets and sur-
vive yourself. If you touch your
target with your spoon, they will
be eliminated along with their
hopes of earning Gelato Fiasco
and Wild Oats gift cards. Accord-
ing to Charlotte Hall, treasurer of
the 2020 class council, this was all
for the purpose of class unity.
When I was a first year, my
orientation tripwhen we first
got back to campusset up one
of these games. I remember it
being really fun. So I thought it
would be a great idea to fix the
divide in the sophomore class
due to 40 percent of sophomores
living in social houses, Hall said.
According to the rules that
Hall and the class council estab-
lished, if you are holding your
own spoon in both hands, you
are considered safe.
The only exception to that rule
is that you cant break your spoon
in half to hold easier. This attempt
was swiftly put down by Hall and
other handlers. Moreover, certain
spaces such as bathrooms, show-
ers, and religious places where
god is always watching were des-
ignated as safe havens.
Assignments were system-
atically randomized, making it
possible that a sophomore from
Quinby House could receive
a sophomore from Mayflower
apartments. This was the case for
Peter Jacobson 20, who lives in
Quinby House this year, and his
first kill.
The Bowdoin directory is a little
bit creepy that we all have access
to physical addresses. I was actu-
ally keeping a list of the people I
knew, he said.
It got particularly useful right
towards the end, when I was try-
ing to figure out who had who, so
I would connect all the names.
This was similar to the ap-
proach that most of the students
had to take in order to corner
their targets. People didnt always
personally know their targets,
therefore they had to resort to
using the Bowdoin directory
that has most students physical
addresses or utilizing their own
networks of friends. Jacobson
was able to take out so many of
his friends and peers because of
this method. He spoke about his
network of spies he had in his
employ.
Some people I knew pret-
ty well ... But when it came to
killing people I didnt know,
having connections were huge.
I kept a lot of people posted on
who was my target, and they
texted me the location of that
person when they saw them ... I
would dart over and get them,
Jacobson said.
One would think that in a
game where you dont know who
is on the hunt for you, if would
be difficult to function normal-
ly in your daily life? Bowdoin is
pretty small and it is easy to spot
people across campus. Wouldnt
you have to live the entirety of
the game looking over your
shoulder? In a game full of hunt-
ers, it will not pay off to just hide.
You have to stay on the offense.
This is the sort of mentality Ja-
cobson had, that secured him
nine confirmed kills. His skills
had gotten close to claiming the
title of top Eliminator until the
chance was taken away by a fel-
low house mate. As of now only JENNY IBSEN
six remain. No one is safe.
Friday, November 10, 2017 NEWS 3

Healthy Relationships group fills gap left by ASAP

by Cooper Dart
Orient Staff
Bowdoin Healthy Relation-
ships (BHeRe), a new student
group this year, has assumed the
programming responsibilities
the Alliance for Sexual Assault
Prevention (ASAP), which the
Office of Gender Violence Pre-
vention and Education refor-
matted last spring to become
a coalition for other student
groups that work to prevent sex-
ual assault on campus.
The loss of ASAP program-
SENIOR SEX PANEL: To a packed audience, the panel represented the various sex experiences of Bowdoin seniors.
ming means that events formerly
organized by the group, such as
Date Week and Consent Week,
are now being incorporated into
BHeRe planning. These program-
ming efforts culminated this past
week in Healthy Relationships
Week, with programming rang-
ing from active discussions on
race, sexual identity and dating to
dinners with professors and the
Senior Sex Panel.
Anna Martens 20, a co-lead-
er of BHeRe along with Monica
Xing 19, is very excited to bring
BHeRes perspective on relation-
ships to campus, and this weeks
Healthy Relationships Week was
the first step.
According to the group,
healthy relationships can be any-
thing from healthy friendships, to
hookups or dating, and the orga-
nization strives to promote these.
Following the increase in events
promoting awareness of sexual
and gender violence on campus,
largely due to ASAP, Martens be-
lieves the club contributes a new
perspective to the College.
Its a new form of messaging
that we havent really had at Bow-
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
doin yet, which is much more
broad and positive, like, This is
what a healthy relationship is, ver-
sus ... Dont do this, so were very
much so trying to find the other
side of that, said Martens.
Shea Necheles 18, a co-leader
of Safe Space and a student em-
ployee of the Office of Gender Vi-
olence Prevention and Education,
echoed Martens sentiments, say-
ing that the healthy relationships
that BHeRe promotes are a basic
level of sexual assault prevention.
Were trying to create a culture
where sexual assault wont happen,
and part of the culture where sex-
ual assault wont happen is culture
where people are engaging in
healthy relationships, she said.
Until this school year, ASAP
had organized much of the pro-
gramming surrounding sexual
assault prevention and dating
violence, though the group was
initially intended to serve as a coa-
lition of student leaders under the
Office of Gender Violence Preven-
tion and Education. In May, the
Office decided to return ASAP
to its original coalition-building
focus.
[ASAP is now] doing a lot of
work in building connections,
hoping that those connections will
ultimately help programming the
groups do on their own, but the
group itself isnt a programming
body, said Lisa Peterson, the as-
sociate director of the Office of
Gender Violence Prevention and
Education, who oversees BHeRe
and ASAP.
BHeRe was formed after Peter-
son and Benje Douglas, director said Peterson.
of the Office of Gender Violence
Prevention and Education, rec-
ognized a gap in programming
about healthy relationships and
dating violence on the part of both
the Office and student groups, but
needed students to demonstrate
interest in spearheading a group
to fill that gap. Xing, who partic-
ipated in Petersons healthy rela-
tionships workshop, and Martens,
who participated in her gender
violence prevention education
leadership institute, approached
Peterson in the spring, expressing
interest in getting more involved
in promoting healthy relationships
on campus.
I pitched to them that theres
space for a student group if thats
something they were interested in,
and they were both very excited
about the possibility associated
with that, she said.
The restructuring of ASAP
this past spring worried last years
members of the group because it
was unclear which groups would
assume the programs that the
organization had created. The
change to a coalition, however,
has allowed other groups, such as
BHeRe, to organize its own cam-
pus-wide programming.
I think that having [ASAP]
now be focused on coalition
building has really opened the
landscape for students to feel
comfortable coming forward and
working on their own initiative,
Necheles is one of the conve-
ners of ASAP this year, working to
facilitate meetings between BHeRe
and the other constituent groups
of ASAPBowdoin Men Against
Sexual Violence (BMASV), V
Space, Safe Space, the Sex Project
and fEMPOWERthroughout
the school year to ensure that all
voices are heard.
The important thing is that we
have programing for everyone; so
one piece of programming doesnt
necessarily tick all the boxes, but
rather we are ticking all the boxes
by producing as much program-
ming as possible, said Necheles.
This weeks programming
has achieved some of Martens
major initial goals for the orga-
nization.
We wanted to do a concen-
trated week just to like power
it out there its been a really
big visibility move as well as
conversation and capturing a
broad range of objectives for the
semester, said Martens.
I guess I just want students
to see gender violence as appli-
cable to every person, that no
matter your experience or your
identity, that its really messag-
ing thats important as a com-
munity, she added.
Emily Cohen contributed to
this report.

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British correspondent on Com-
edy Centrals The Daily Show
with Trevor Noah. The keynote
speaker for this years program-
ming will be Bowdoin alumnus
Deray McKesson 07, a prom-
inent leader of the Black Lives
Matter movement and member
of the LGBTQ community.
This year, BSG tried to be as in-
clusive as possible toward different
identities and groups on campus
in its programming.
I think we try to hit as many
topics as we can while still remain-
ing authentic and genuine, BSG
Vice President for Academic Af-
fairs Mohamed Nur 19 said.
By showcasing a variety of
dents can learn to be more cogni-
zant of others.
All of these issues are affecting
our students as they navigate their
way through their Bowdoin expe-
rience and its important to know
about those in order to make
actions in support of each other.
We cant let our ignorance get the
best of us because we are all part
of each others experience, said
Salim Salim 20, vice president for
student affairs.
Unlike some previous years,
Bowdoin didnt endure any acts
of bias at Halloween this year, but
Salim warned that there is still
work to do.
I think that while there might
not be something Bowdoin is re-
sponding to that is a major issue,
there are still microaggressions
happening, Salim said. The con-
tinuation of this program helps
resolve and prevent these things
from happening again.
The memories of discrimina-
tory events are still fresh in the
minds of many Bowdoin students.
These events have included racial
slurs written on whiteboards, a
gangster party held by the sailing
team in 2015, the lacrosse teams
Cracksgiving party and the 2016
tequila party.
My introduction to Bowdoin
was the gangster party and tequi-
la party, Nur said. I think having
those parties and our reactions
to those parties is reflected in No
Hate November.
Such events are not restricted
to campus. Part of the reasoning
for the first No Hate November in
2013 was an altercation between a
Brunswick community member
and a gay student. Since then,
other students, such as Salim, have
also experienced biases through-
out the Brunswick community.
Last year, Salim was partic-
ipating in a local elementary
school visit for his education
class when, as he was introduc-
ing himself to the teacher he was
working with, he experienced an
act of prejudice.
He asked if I speak Muslim
and I was shocked by that re-
sponse. I thought he, as an ed-
ucator, would be more aware of
the difference between a religion
that is practiced by over 1.2 billion
people and a language, Salim said.
Salim hopes that by sharing
their experiences during No Hate
November, students can help in-
form the community as well.
The [Brunswick] students
who are attending these events
are a part of Bear Buddies and
a part of other programs that are
reaching out to the community.
Through those ways I can imag-
ine Bowdoin students educating
the community, Salim said.
Even though the events this
month may take students out of
their comfort zone, BSG urges stu-
dents to attend.
I wouldnt say the events we like those planned for this month
have this month are provocative,
but they are difficult and I think
they are supposed to be difficult.
If it were easy we wouldnt have
a need for No Hate November,
Nur said.
Nur is excited about the oppor-
tunity to expand the media used to
facilitate discussion.
This was BSGs way to begin
a dialogue on campus around
diversity and inclusion and real-
ly just showcase the tremendous
amount of diversity we have on
campus. The goal of No Hate
November is to address the bias-
es we have as a campus through
lectures, panels, conversations,
artists, comedians and spoken
words artists, Nur said.
Nur also believes that events
are representative of the dialogue
the College wants to promote.
Clayton Rose wants us to be
intellectually fearless and this is
an opportunity to actually prac-
tice that, Nur said.

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Colleges portfolio.
In fiscal 2017 and with the
election of Donald Trump,
expectations of changes in
corporate taxes and less regula-
tion resulted in a market rally,
wrote Volent. Additionally,
global GDP growth, low infla-
tion and lower unemployment
numbers combined with con-
tinuing low interest rates have
created a good environment for
global equity performance.
During FY 2016, the median
return for all college and uni-
versity endowments was -2.9
percent, a number that demon-
strated the widespread impact
of volatile global markets and
corresponded to overall market
performance that year.
Fiscal 2016 was a peri-
od of uncertainty, including
the US elections, Brexit and
expectations of increasing
interest rates, wrote Volent.
percent drop, still the College
performed well and Bowdoin
remained in the top quartile of
its peer institutions.
Volent said that the asset
allocation of the endowment
portfolio has remained rel-
atively stable and consistent
despite the volatility of the
last fiscal year. Artificial in-
telligence, machine learning,
and genomics are areas of
investment that Volent and
her team continue to see as
areas of opportunity for the
portfolio.
The endowment portfolio
consists of more than 1700
individual funds that are
earmarked for the continued
support of various College
financial needs, and is diver-
sified across many asset class-
es including domestic and
international equities, fixed
income, real estate, among
others.
Approximately 46 percent
ed to the support of student fi-
nancial aid each year. During
the FY 2017, approximately
$25 million supported finan-
cial aid, up from $22.7 mil-
lion last year. The endowment
contributed $57.3 million to
the annual operations of the
College this being
In a release sent to the Ori-
ent today, President Clayton
Rose commended Volent and
her team for their outstanding
management.
Over the past decade, there
are few colleges and universi-
ties in America with perfor-
mance like thisresults that
support nearly every aspect of
our academic mission and that
make it possible to provide a
Bowdoin education to accom-
plished students from many
backgrounds regardless of their
economic circumstances.
A version of this article was
originally published Friday,
November 3.
GOP tax plan includes 1.4 percent endowment tax
Bowdoin is one of about 70 private colleges
and universities that would be affected by the
implementation of a tax included in the House
Republicans tax proposal.
The tax overhaul approved by House Re-
publicans on Monday proposes a 1.4 percent
excise tax on the net investment income of
college endowments. The provision is limit-
ed to private institutions with endowments
worth at least $250,000 per student. With
around 1800 students, and an endowment
valued at $1.46 billion, Bowdoins approx-
imate $811,000 per student is far above the
threshold.
The Senates version of the bill revealed late
Thursday night retains the provision.
Though the details of the tax plan remain
unclear, a tax of 1.4 percent on this years entire
12.4 percent endowment returns could mean a
tax of over $2.3 million, which would signifi-
cantly impact the Colleges operating budget.
Scott Hood, senior vice president for com-
munications and public affairs, said in an email
to the Orient the tax would reduce the resourc-
es the College can devote to student aid.
Nearly half of our endowment is restricted
to the support of student financial aid, gen-
erating about $25 million for need-based aid
last year. This new tax would leave us with less
money to allocate to financial aid. It would
also slow our ability to expand the number of
students on aid and our ongoing efforts to pro-
vide support to both low- and middle-income
families, wrote Hood.
According to Hood, President Clayton
Rose has communicated the Colleges con-
cerns with members of Maines congressional
delegation including Susan Collins and Angus
King regarding the proposed tax.
There are other troubling provisions in
the House proposal but none more concern-
ing to us than the plans impact on student
aid. President Rose has made this case to
members of the Maine congressional delega-
tion and the College is working with its peers
and with other groups to explain fully how
this tax would affect educational opportuni-
ty, wrote Hood.
4 NEWS
50 years later, Arctic Museum celebrates, receives gift
by Mollie Eisner
Orient Staff
The Peary-MacMillan Arc-
tic Museum and Arctic Studies
Center is celebrating the 50th
anniversary of its founding with
a large addition of new artwork, a
birthday party and events that will
continue throughout the year.
The Museum received 50 piec-
es of Canadian Inuit art from Ju-
dith and Robert Toll to commem-
orate its fiftieth birthday. Arctic
Museum Curator and Registrar
Genevieve LeMoine described
this donation as an installment
to the Tolls past donations. The
California couple first donated
130 pieces to the College in 2009,
after having collected nearly 600
pieces of Inuit art since the 1960s.
Though the Tolls had no pre-
vious connection to Bowdoin,
LeMoine explained, they were
looking for a place to give part of
their collection, and a dealer that
they had bought from told them
about Bowdoins museum.
They werent very happy with
the California institutions. They
feared it would get lost in a big
museum, especially one without
a northern focus. They eventual-
ly decided that this would be the
best place, said LeMoine.
According to LeMoine, the
Tolls were interested in the Arctic
Museum because the collection
would bring a new kind of art to
the College.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
the NESCAC.
According to the working
group, one of the negative ef-
fects of students, particularly
seniors, living off campus is a
decreased sense of communi-
ty and senior engagement on
campus, which includes se-
niors taking fewer leadership
roles and causing the campus
social life to go off campus.
Other downsides the group
identified are the creation of
exclusive spaces and disrup-
One of the things that attract-
ed them to the Museum was the
fact that it would transform us by
giving us the opportunity to ex-
hibit Canadian Inuit art in a way
we hadnt before, she said. The
fact that we use it in teaching
appealed to them because theyre
both educators.
The Tolls newest donation
connects the museum to the con-
temporary Arctic.
One of the things we continu-
ally struggle with, and which the
Tolls donation helps a lot with, is
communicating about the con-
temporary Arctic, not just about
the past Arctic, said LeMoine.
[Were] trying to remind people
that the Arctic is still living and
changing and important in lots of
different ways.
Most of the other exhibits in
the museum consist of dona-
tions from alumnus and faculty
member Donald B. MacMillan,
a member of the Class of 1898,
as well as Robert E. Peary, class
of 1877.
Arctic-related collections
have existed on campus since
the 1860s, some of which were
originally displayed in the base-
ment of Searles. MacMillans
frequent donations to the Col-
lege in the early 1920s ultimate-
ly spurred the creation of the
Arctic Museum in 1966.
This timing of the decision
was fortuitous because it coin-
cided with the construction of
tions for neighbors.
While the cap for the
2017-2018 academic year is
200 students, only 179 ju-
niors and seniors currently
live off campus.
Foster cited enrollment
patterns as well as recent im-
provements to some housing
options, such as the removal
of one-bedroom triples in
Brunswick Apartments as rea-
sons for the decline in the cap.
He expects this cap will con-
tinue to fall over time.
If this plan goes forward,
as we begin to build the
Hawthorne Longfellow Library,
making Hubbard Hallthe for-
mer libraryan ideal location for
the museum.
They realized that this space,
which had been the main reading
room of the library, would be a
good spot for it. So they found
the money and it opened in June
of 1967, LeMoine said.
Earlier this year, the Museum
threw a birthday partycom-
plete with cake and balloonson
June 9, the actual anniversary of
the Museums dedication.
We brought out objects from
the collections that people dont
usually see, said Susan Kaplan,
professor of anthropology and
director of the Peary-MacMil-
lan Arctic Museum and Arctic
Studies Center.
Last month, the Museum
hosted a dinner in Main Lounge
of Moulton Union that brought
together significant people in the
museums history, including Ian
White, who sailed on the Arctic
schooner Bowdoin with Mac-
Millan in 1921 and designed the
museum originally.
We invited all the people
who were present when the
museum opened its doors,
Kaplan said. We had a dinner,
and I did a presentation titled
Looking Forward, Glancing
Back. It was all really to thank
the people who originally put
the museum together.
Throughout this year, the
housing, the cap will become
smaller in incremental steps
and will ultimately come to
the place where 125 or so have
the opportunity [to live off
campus], he added.
Director of Housing Oper-
ations Lisa Rendall notified
all students in an email on
Wednesday morning about
the change in the policy, as
well as changes in the process
that students who wish to live
off campus must complete.
The new process consists of
three steps. The first requires
students to submit an applica-
Arctic Museum will host more
events as a part of the half-cen-
tury celebration, which the staff
hopes will bring more visitors
from throughout the community
to experience its exhibits.
A lot of people dont know
where it is and a lot of people
dont even know that we have it,
Arctic Museum employee Mad-
di Kuras 18 said. Sometimes
someone will come into the mu-
seum by accident and will end up
spending an hour or so in there.
Its just three little rooms, but we
have a ridiculously large collec-
tion. Everyone always leaves with ART OF THE ARCTIC: The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic
a deeper appreciation for Bowdo- Studies Center turned 50 years old and received 50 pieces of Canadian Inuit
in itself as an institution.
tion to enter the off-campus
housing lottery by January 2.
If accepted, the second step
of the process is actually en-
tering the lottery, which is
available from November 28
to January 5. Students are al-
lowed to block in groups of
one to six. The final step is
signing the off-campus hous-
ing contract, which is binding
and withdraws eligibility into
the on-campus lottery.
From what we understood,
[living off campus was passed
off ], where you have teammates
who do it or you have connec-
tions, whereas there wasnt as
much institutional support for
groups of students who arent
a part of that passing off expe-
rience, said Bowdoin Student
Government President Irfan
Alam 18, who was also a mem-
ber of the working group.
The idea behind the lot-
tery was to equalize it so that
now everyone has the oppor-
tunity to live off campus, and
theres an educational com-
ponent working with Office
of Residential Life to sign a
lease, he said.
During this first step, the
Office of the Residential Life
will decide whether to approve
applications to join the lottery.
Rendall doesnt anticipate
COURTESY OF PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM
art from Judith and Robert Toll, longtime art donors to the College.
needing to reject many applica-
tions but said that if issues were
to arise, they would be dealt
with on an individual basis.
Foster described this possi-
bility as highly unusual.
I cant tell you [that] we
have criteria that exist for say-
ing this student would or this
student wouldnt [be allowed to
enter into the off-campus hous-
ing lottery], he said.
While the working group re-
ported some negative effects of
off-campus living, such as nui-
sance complaints, Foster said
that the decision to formalize
an off-campus housing policy
was not a direct result of these
houses and that, he believes,
overall, off-campus living is a
positive element of our rela-
tionship with the community.
To think that we would set
up a housing policy based on
what has been a handful of
properties that have been sort
of problematic, to me would
be backwards thinking, said
Foster. [The vast majority] of
students who have lived with-
in the community [have done
so] in a really beautiful way, to
their benefit and to the benefit
of Brunswick residents.
Rachael Allen and Harry
DiPrinzio contributed to this
report.
Friday, November 10, 2017
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feel more vulnerable, said Amaez.
The institutions state that they
have dedicated valuable resources,
such as financial aid, to DACA
students, expecting them to see
their education through at their
respective universities.
The document was filed with
the court behalf the institutions by
Jenner & Block LLP, a Washington
D.C. based law firm, who executed
the writing of the document and
accepted input from the co-signa-
tories. According to Amaez, Bow-
doin was afforded the opportunity
to suggest edits but felt none were
necessary.
This is an opportunity for us to
be a part of fighting what seems to
be a very unfair attack on a group
of people that we think are really
vital members of our community,
and this is one way the College can
stand with those students both at
Bowdoin and across the country,
said Amaez.
The University of California
case that Bowdoin is supporting
has been consolidated with oth-
er cases, one filed by the city of
San Jose and one by the states of
California, Maine, Maryland and
Minnesota, which similarly chal-
lenge the constitutionality of the
executive order.
Last Friday, Princeton Uni-
versity, one of its students and
Microsoft jointly filed what is now
the latest of many lawsuits against
DACAs rescission.
Bowdoin is joined by five other
NESCAC colleges in submitting
the brief: Amherst College, Col-
by College, Middlebury College,
Tufts University and Williams
College. In a separate amicus brief,
19 other institutions, including all
Ivy Leagues, similarly argued that
the rescission of DACA harms
their institutions.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Past, present, future: Jennifer Egan on writing
by Rachael Allen
Orient Staff
Eight years ago, Jennifer
Egan found herself at a re-
union for deep-sea diving
army veterans, trying on a
200-pound Mark V diving
suit. Research, the Pulit-
zer-prize winning author told
a packed crowd in Kresge
Auditorium last night, for her
latest and fifth novel, Man-
hattan Beach.
Before signing books, Egan
read the first chapter of the
novel and answered questions
about her research and writ-
ing process.
Following a young female
diver working in the Brook-
lyn Naval Yard during World
War II, Manhattan Beach,
longlisted for the 2017 Na-
tional Book Award, is an
old-fashioned adventure story
that ... combines urban noir
with a maritime sea survival
story, according to Egan.
Like her other novels,
Manhattan Beach plays
with time; however, instead
of the futuristic leaps that
define her Pulitzer-prize win-
ning 2010 novel A Visit from
the Goon Squad, Manhat-
tan Beach structurally lodg-
es itself in the past. And yet,
as much as Egan noses into
the minds of organized crime
bosses and Irish-American
waterfront workers of the
1930s and 40s, the novel re-
mains much more than strict-
ly historical fiction.
The reader and I under-
stand that this is a story set in
the past but written in the pres-
ent, Egan said. I dont have to about the waterfront, she
remind [the reader] that Im
in the present writing this, so
in a way all of the history that
follows ... is like a layer hang-
ing there almost allegorically in
both of our minds.
With curiosity and inves-
tigative skills cultivated from
her journalism experience,
Egan plunged into several
years of researchstudying
fiction from the time period,
interviewing people and vis-
iting site locations. Fourteen
hundred handwritten legal
pad pages later Egan had her
first draft.
Up until a certain point
of knowing a great deal [of
history] ... I felt like I was
not fluent in a language and
therefore my writing person-
ality was simply not coming
through, said Egan. I did
not have the fluency to do
what I like to do, which is
get deeply inside peoples
minds ... to have a kind of
understanding of [peoples]
habits of mind, the way
people organize the world,
which is really different for
all of us.
Its not just enough to know
what people did in that mo-
ment, Egan continued. I felt
that I needed to know what
their memories contained, both
singularly and collectively.
So engrossed in her re-
search, Egan even worked with
the Brooklyn Naval Yard and
the Brooklyn Historical Soci-
ety to create an oral history of
the waterfront with interviews
from veteran workers, many of
whom were women.
I usually have an atmo-
sphere [that] I start with,
Egan said of her writing
process. Ill have some no-
tions of what kinds of ideas I
might be exploring. I wanted
to write a book specifically
about being a womanI had
been thinking about that for
a while.
For a while meant seven SAM HONEGGER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
years. During the time Egan DIVING INTO FICTION: Jennifer Egan read from her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, and answered questions from the audience during her visit to
submersed herself in research campus on Thursday evening. Egans novels, informed by her journalistic experience, are notable for their experimentation with form and time.
wrote her 2006 novel The who was in the Navy during name in the computer and the end of the story. a short story as a series of
Keep as well as A Visit from World War II. was immediately confronted Channeling this feeling tweets published on the New
the Goon Squad four years Ah, Butch, I wonder what by her obituary. into her fiction, Egan craft- Yorkers Twitter account
later. In 2012, Egan began our lives will be like. Will we And that was that. I felt ed a complex novel, A Visit one chapter of A Visit From
writing Manhattan Beach. have children? Will we live in stricken. It seemed like I from the Goon Squad, that the Goon Squad was even in
At first, Egan considered A California? Will we stay in New shouldnt know [what her life flips between characters, time PowerPoint format.
Visit from the Goon Squad a York and Brooklyn? Egan said would be] so [quickly] after period and style, the pres- I always love it if I can mix
distraction from her research, during the event, quoting from reading her handwriting, ent of each chapter overlaid up things that dont seem like
born from a series of letters one of Lucilles letters. Egan said. I already knew the with a sense of the future. they can go together, Egan said.
she stumbled upon written Curious about Lucilles fate end of the story ... It made me True to her reputation of ex- From PowerPoint presen-
by a woman named Lucille and even hoping for an inter- think about how differently perimenting with form and tations to female deep-sea
to her seafaring husband, Al, view, Egan searched Lucilles the present reads if you know technologyshe once wrote divers, Egan does just that.

Student performance groups unite in relief efforts

by Aisha Rickford
Orient Staff
Student-led performance
and music groups from across
campus will come together
on Saturday night for a relief
concert, organized by Karen
Chan 18 and Grace Punzalan
18, to raise awareness and
funds for the recovery from
the natural disasters of this
fall, including more recent
disasters, such as the wild-
fires in California. Proceeds
will go to Direct Relief, an
international nonprofit hu-
manitarian aid organization
dedicated to helping those
worldwide, whose lives are
negatively affected by emer-
gencies or poverty.
Like the leaders of the
pia colada sale, bubble tea
sale and Hurricanes 101:
Perspectives on Natural Di-
sasters, Chan and Punzalan
have been meeting with As-
sistant Director of the McK-
een Center Matt Gee since
September, when several
natural disasters hit Texas,
Florida, Puerto Rico and the
Caribbean. The concert fol-
lows many other individual
student and group efforts for
natural disaster relief, but it
diverges from previous efforts
in that it involves different
student performance groups,
ranging from campus a cap-
pella groups to the Slam Poets
Society, coming together for
the cause in one event.
I was excited to be in-
volved in this project because
of the cause that it represents,
said Evan Schweikert 18,
co-president of the Bowdoin
Music Collective (BMC), in
an email to the Orient. [But]
I was also excited about the
chance to work with [other]
performance groups. This
is one of the first times we
have been involved in such a
multi-representative show.
According to Punzalan, it
was important to choose an
organization that provides
aid to natural disaster re-
lief efforts in a holistic way,
and shines a light on all of
SEE IT YOURSELF
Student groups will perform in Kresge Auditorium on Saturday from
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Proceeds will benefit Direct Relief.
the natural disaster emer-
gencies that are happening
around the world. Punzalan
and Chan created pamphlets
that will be distributed at the
concert, chronicling Direct
Relief s previous responses
to global crises.
Chan and Punzalan hope
to remind students that they
can take action at Bowdoin to
help victims of disasters, even
if they feel far away.
We dont have control over
how many people are going to
come and donate, Punzalan
said. But were giving people
[a] space to learn more about
whats happening, and help
out in any way they want.
The money raised for nat-
ural disaster relief by student
efforts over the course of the
semester has totaled almost
$4,000 collectively. With
their natural disaster relief
concert, Chan and Punzalan
hope to build upon these ac-
complishments. Attendees of
the concert will be encour-
aged to make a $3 donation,
and baked goods will be sold
at Kresge Auditorium for the
same suggested amount.
While tomorrows event
focuses on individual stu-
dent performers, Chan and
Punzalan have worked with
the BMC to organize an ad-
ditional concert on Friday,
November 17, featuring per-
formances by student bands
in order to make the event
more appealing to a broader
audience.
Both events will be open
to the public. Those who are
unable to attend can donate
through the Office of Stu-
dent Activities in David Saul
Smith Union.
6 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friday, November 10, 2017

Exhibit combines interests in art and criminal justice

by Harrison West
Orient Staff
Currently on display in
Larmarche Gallery is an ex-
hibit both by and about six in-
carcerated men at the Maine
Coastal Regional Reentry
Center, a minimum security
facility in Belfast. Curator
Charlotte Borden 19 want-
ed to bring the mens voices
directly into the exhibit by
displaying their art and her
portraits of them.
My intention with the
opening is to bring a hu-
manized conception of my
students as much as I can
through these objects, said
Borden, who also spent six
weeks teaching drawing and
painting classes. I also want
to encourage people to not
disregard incarcerated people
as people whove just made
mistakes and arent deserving.
For each of her subjects,
Borden painted one portrait
and one painting that could
represent them in any way.
The works range from figura-
tive to abstract, and she tried
to include aspects of their per-
sonalities and background,
either explicitly or implicitly.
She listened to their music
requests as she worked and
discussed the paintings with
them directly. One of the men
asked to be pictured in an
oyster reef; another wanted to
be represented as an educator.
Borden tried not to make
many changes to the paintings
after she finished her work, as
she wanted to preserve her
impressions and ideas from
the summer.
The exhibit will also fea-
ture some of the drawings,
SEE IT YOURSELF
The opening reception for an exhibit featuring art by residents
of Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center and their portraits
by Charlotte Borden 19 will take place in Lamarche Gallery on
Saturday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
paintings and photographs
that the men made during
Bordens class, along with an
audio component. Towards
the end of the class Borden
recorded the mens answers
to a few questions: What was
your life like before you were
incarcerated? Whats import-
ant to you? What do you
want people with influence to
know about you or your in-
carceration experience?
The idea was to bring
their voices in and include
those more explicit autobi-
ographical things that you
might not get from just a
painting, so youre going to
be able to listen to that while
you look at their portraits,
said Borden.
Borden is a visual arts and
government major, and is es-
pecially interested in issues
related to criminal justice
and incarceration.
The summer before I
worked at a nonprofit that
was criminal justice-related
and this summer I wanted
to have hands-on experience
interacting with the people
who Im thinking so much
about, said Borden, adding
that she wanted to get past
the idea that these men are
incarcerated and get to know
them as individuals.
For Borden, art is a way
to release and grapple with
her emotions. She wanted to
share this personal capacity of
art with the men she taught.
Borden hopes that
through the show, made
possible by the Joseph McK-
een Center for the Common
Goods Thomas A. McKinley
06 grant, she can promote
awareness and empathy re-
garding the experiences of
incarcerated people.
In addition to teaching art
classes, she got to know the
men better through other ac-
tivities at the center, such as
softball. Borden said she felt
that she became good friends
with them over the six weeks,
and often identified with the
men much more than the fa-
cilitys administration.
Currently, Borden teaches a
video class every Tuesday at the
center. She said that in the fu-
ture she is interested in working
with people in a different phase
of incarcerationthose who
dont have the hope of leaving
as soon. She thinks some of the
most pressing criminal justice
issues stem from these longer
sentences.
Borden also works with
College Guild, which pro-
vides educational opportu-
nities for incarcerated people
around the country. She is
co-leader of the Bowdoin
chapter of the club, and helps
train volunteers and bring PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
criminal justice-related talks POINTED PORTRAITURE: Last summer, Charlotte Borden 19 taught a six-week class to incarcerated men at the
to campus. Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center. Her portraits of the men will be displayed alongside their own work.

In Melodrama, Lorde embraces vulnerability

The Aux Cord
by Chris Ritter
For its last three installments
of the semester, The Aux Cord
will review three of the best al-
bums of 2017.
A lot can change between
ages 16 and 20. Theyre some of
the formative years, after all.
Singer/songwriters have remi-
nisced about those days to the
point of exhaustion, making us
collectively cringe every time
we hear adolescence or teen
angst. But rarely do we see an
artist release music at both ends
of that time period, showing an
actual transformation rather
than a recollection. Even less
often is that artist as talented as
Lorde. However thats exactly
where we find her in 2017, 20
years old and four years re-
moved from Pure Heroine,
her dark, minimalist debut that
gave us Royals, a pop hit defi-
ant of pop culture and riddled
with bleak cynicism.
For Melodrama, released
in June, Lorde trades in the
shadowy trap beats of Pure
Heroine for piano balladry
and stormy electronics. But a
more seismic shift is apparent
when a hopeful piano riff enters
in Green Light, the albums
first track. The song takes an
unfamiliar turn for Lorde into
mainstream pop and more per-
sonal songwriting. Where Pure
Heroine saw Lorde scowling at
the world from afar, Melodra-
ma is more involved, as Lorde
KAYLA SNYDER
dances in the middle of her own
storm, rather than glaring back
at it. Of course, self-reflection
doesnt always equate to intima-
cy or uniqueness. Remember,
were talking about teen angst
here. But Lorde finds authen-
ticity by embracing all aspects
of herself: the jaded, the unsure
and the melancholy.
In fact, Melodrama often
combines all of these in over-
whelming fashion. The Lou-
vre begins in whispers about
obsession and builds into an
enveloping force, much like
the obsession she speaks of.
Co-produced by Flume, the
song wells up from a lone guitar
into a whirlwind of synths and
reverb-heavy vocals. Nowhere is
Lordes complex set of emotions
better illustrated than the tran-
sition from tender, Blow all my
friendships / to sit in hell with
you, to bashful, Broadcast the
boom, boom, boom, boom and
make them all dance to it.
Lines like the latter show
that Lorde hasnt shed all of her
Pure Heroine flare: the ironic
cynicism that made songs like
Royals and Tennis Courts
so poignant. Amidst a turn
towards electropop, its re-
freshing to see that Lorde can
reconcile a mainstream sound
with dark humor. Indeed,
Melodrama would seem in-
complete without its moments
of scorn, with snickering lines
like, Guess you wanna rip my
heart out well guess what,
I like that. Lordes villainous more. Balladry like this is new
persona cuts at the notion that
she might be sacrificing her
personality for relatability.
That isnt to say Melodra-
ma isnt relatable; it is painfully
so. Songs about being left out of
plans and overthinking punc-
tuation make Lorde a poster
child for millennial strife. But
Lorde taps into something
deeper here. The album re-
volves around a vain yearning
for perfection, uncomfortably
reflective of our time. This
meditation is most evident in
Lordes narration of partying,
flipping its expectation of ec-
stasy into a more complicated
reality. Lines are haunting (But
what will we do when were
sober?), cheekily ambivalent
(Might get your friend to drive
but he can hardly see / Well
end up painted on the road I
guess were partying) or down-
right damning (The terror, and
the horror / God, I wonder why
we bother).
When the party is over, her
disdain is replaced by vul-
nerability and heartbreaking
self-consciousness. Liability
is stunning; the piano ballad
brings an abrupt end to the al-
bums upbeat start: Truth is I
am a toy that people enjoy / Till
all of the tricks dont work any-
way? For a generation defined
territory for Lorde. Its mini-
malist, but its a far cry from the
skeletal trap of Pure Heroine.
The simple, melodic produc-
tion allows more room for the
unique vocal inflections that
put Lorde in a world apart: The
sudden low dive on the bridge
of Green Light. The near wail
of the chorus on Writer in the
Dark. Lorde builds her voice
up from an anxious tremor
to a forceful strut on Hard
Feelings. Theyre risks that no
other pop star would dare take,
but Lorde executes them with
conviction. The variation is a
testament to Lordes vocal com-
mand, as she compiles a heap of
emotions as complicated and
endearing as the teenage expe-
rience itself.
Much like those teenage
years, Melodrama is a tem-
pestuous, yet rewarding jaunt.
Lorde guides us through an
age overwhelmed by raw
emotion and uncertainty, and
masterfully so. The albums
final track, the deceptively
celebratory Perfect Places,
sounds like a coming of age
for someone who still hasnt
figured much out. However,
at 20, its clear that shes over
the oversimplifying: What
the fuck are perfect places any-
by endless expectations, its an
important question to ask.
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Friday, November 10, 2017

VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ICE ICE BABY: Bowdoins Arctic studies program began in 1860. Though the department averages only eight students each year, renowned alums and Arctic explorers
Donald MacMillan and Robert Peary continue to inspire students and professors.

Heading north with the Arctic Studies program

by Eliana Miller
Orient Staff
Each year, there are on
average only eight students
who focus their studies on
the Arctic. Spearheaded by
Susan Kaplan, professor of
anthropology and director of
the Peary-MacMillan Arctic
Museum and Arctic Stud-
ies Center, the Arctic Stud-
ies program is an informal
concentration in the earth
and oceanographic studies,
anthropology and sociology
departments that began in
1985. Although its annual
cohort is small, Bowdoin has
always had strong ties to its
northern neighbor.
In 1860, Professor Paul
Chadbourne took a bunch of
undergraduates [and] sailed
up Maine through the Mari-
times up to Labrador and the
North Atlantic region, said
Kaplan. They studied natu-
ral history and anthropolo-
gy, and Chadbourne brought
back some collections and
wrote a publication.
Soon after, in the 1890s,
more professors and students
traveled up to Labrador on
the Julia Decker. During that
same decade, Robert Peary,
class of 1877, began his Arc-
tic exploration. By 1909, he
reached the North Pole and
had convinced Donald Mac-
Millan, class of 1898, to join
him on an expedition. Peary
and MacMillan are two of the
most storied arctic explorers
in the world, but Bowdoin has
produced, and continues to
produce, many other leaders
in the field.
Currently, the Arctic stud-
ies program offers one to
two year-long internships for
students after they graduate.
Professors also take students
on expeditions to the Arctic
and invite prominent re-
searchers to campus.
A lot of these speakers that
Ive had the opportunity to talk
to are people that have helped
me find jobs within the Arctic
studies community, which is
phenomenal, said Maddi Ku-
ras 18, a biology and environ-
mental studies coordinate ma-
jor as well as an anthropology
minor with a concentration in
Arctic studies.
At a recent dinner celebra-
tion of the Peary-MacMil-
lan Arctic Museum, Kuras
sat next to Andy Platt 66.
Platt was the last person to
get a recommendation from
MacMillan and the son of
Rutherford Platt who was a
botanist and photographer on
MacMillans final expedition
in 1954.
It was such an interesting
experience to meet and talk
with this person who had a
personal relationship with
MacMillan, but also someone
who has this other personal
relationship [to the Arctic]
through his father, said Ku-
ras. [Rutherford Platt] stud-
ied and documented what
I want to study and one day
document myself [Andy
Platt and I have] kept in touch
and it has been wonderful.
Since the 1860s, Bow-
doin students have formed
relationships not only with
researchers but also with in-
digenous communities of the
Circumpolar North. The mu-
seum has collected thousands
of photographs of these peo-
ples and their environment.
Because people from
Bowdoin have been going
back to the same communi-
ties again and again, you can
actually watch people grow
up by going through our pho-
tographs, said Kaplan. On
the one hand, you can say that
this is a great collection about
a culture, but its also about
community histories and
family histories. We have this
really interesting responsibil-
ity to these communities.
The Arctic Studies pro-
gram has taken on this re-
sponsibility by inviting indig-
enous peoples to campus and
into classrooms. Additionally,
most students participating
in the program travel north
to conduct research in the
Arctic and engage with these
communities in person. This
off-campus experience is es-
sential for students seeking
to further their knowledge
in the field, especially since
the program is not an estab-
lished major. However, Ka-
plan hopes to formalize the
program in the coming years.
I think the time has
come and my feeling is that
we really need young people
trained in Arctic issues, said
Kaplan. The need is so huge
to really understand both the
human and the environmen-
tal systems.
She hopes that more stu-
dents participate in this in-
terdisciplinary program and
benefit from the mentorship
and collaboration with faculty
that it provides. Bowdoins re-
lationship to the Arctic spans
hundreds of years and, for
many researchers such as Ka-
plan herself, is the most sig-
nificant aspect of the College.
I would absolutely, defi-
nitely recommend the pro-
gram to other students, said
Kuras. Knowing that Bow-
doin produced two people
[Peary and MacMillan] that
had such a large hand in ex-
panding our knowledge in
an area that a lot of people
thought was mystical and ter-
rifying, makes me very proud
to be a Bowdoin student, and
it makes me very proud to
think that I could potentially
help to continue that one day.

On soulmates: looking for longevity in love

Love, Lust
and Like-Liking
Amber Rock and Anne Gregory
Soulmates. Do we believe in
them? Is there truly one perfect
person out there that youre
just meant to be with? What
forces of fate could pull you to
the one? And will you ever
find them?
As we sit here and ponder
these questions like a couple of
angsty pre-teens posting Demi
Lovato lyrics with a cryptic
message about heartbreak
as our statuses on Facebook,
we are faced with one mans
story of love. Many of you
may know Ben Painter 19 as
our vice president for student
government affairs. You may
see him beaming in Smith
Union, offering friendly hellos
to his peers. But little did you
know, he may have all of the
answers to a healthy, sustained
relationship. He may have just
found the one. We cornered
Benny (or Ben) in one of his
few free moments during the
day to interrogate him about
with Megan, his current girl-
friend who is a senior at Con- school. I think I kinda did in soulmates? romantic relationships much
necticut College. break them up. We would text BP: Im gonna need a defi- Calling Megan more high stakes, and more like-
all the time even when she was nition. ly to fail. Its very rare that people
Anne Gregory/Amber with her ex. Her ex and I ac- BP: Hey Meg, youre on break up with their friends.
Rock: So tell us your story. tually got into a few arguments AG/AR: That theres a per- speaker phone with Anne and People are way more likely to
How did you meet? How did in AIM fect person out there for every- Amber who are interviewing work through problems with a
this all start? AG/AR: What was your onelike someone you know me. They write a love column friend instead of calling it quits.
Ben Painter: French class. I handle? you would love forever, that for the Orient and they have If you view your romantic rela-
wasnt good at French and she BP: ketchupypenguins youre really compatible with. some questions. tionships more like your normal
was really good at French. And silence You know, best friend, lover, all AG/AR: Hey Megan! So we friends that you just love in a dif-
one thing led to the next thing BP: He would message me of the above. were just asking Ben this, but ferent way, I think you are proba-
and then she helped me with quizzes like: Whats her BP: I think its definitely do you believe in soulmates? bly going to have a more sustain-
with my homework and then favorite movie? and Id say, possible. I feel like the word Megan: Thats an interesting able and fulfilling relationship.
Well how much of the story Titanic. And hed say No, soulmate implies that theres question, I think that in my ex- Also, I think its also a good idea
do you want? its Aladdin. You clearly arent not going to be any work, but perience, I probably do. to work on your relationship skills
worthy. Stuff like that. relationships take work. Its BP: Probably? like you would your other skills.
AG/AR: I guess what were not just like, youre going to M: Like yeah, in my person- I try to practice things like giving
asking is, when did you know AG/AR: So, when you start- find someone and its going al experience, yes I definitely and receiving love like I would an
that you liked her? ed dating, did you know she to be smooth sailing forever believe in soulmates. instrument or a sportby setting
BP: Well she was one of the was the one? Did you think it and always. Relationships BP: Thats a big upgrade aside time to intentionally work
first girls I ever talked to, and would last this long? are like plantsyou have to from probably to definitely! on them. I like to practice those
I definitely started having a BP: Even in eighth grade water them, prune them and M: Well, for some people, skills through meditation. So, I
crush on her pretty soon after I we both dreamed about being weed them. But definitely there can be multiple soul- guess maybe my advice would be
met her. Before that I was just a together for a long time. It was theres someone that you can mates, but not for me. to try meditation!
legend on the court ... the four- that kind of nave but amaz- get fulfillment from until Also, for anyone in a
square court. I was definitely ing first love where we talked youre dead. AG/AR: What advice would long-distance relationship
too awkward to talk to girls. I about marriage and stuff at you give to people currently in out there, particularly first
went a pretty long time before recess. We have definitely had AG/AR: And do you think relationships? years who are new to long dis-
telling her how I felt. She had a our ups and downs where we Megan is your soulmate? BP: Maybe try, in some tanceits possible to make it
boyfriend at the time. became less sure, but we have BP: Again, I kinda reject ways, to view your romantic re- work! And feel free to reach
moved past that. Now Im still that term, but yeahIm very lationship more like your other out to me if you want to chat
AG/AR: Oh, she had a boy- very happy and very sure that I confident we will be happy and friendships. The strict differen- about it. I love talking about
friend. Did you break them up? want to spend my life with her. in a loving relationship for the tiation between normal friends this stuff.
BP: It was all very middle AG/AR: So do you believe rest of our lives. vs. boyfriends/girlfriends makes
8 FEATURES
A GOOD GUY WITH A
GUN
If a good guy with a gun ex-
ists, it would be inside a church
in Texas. I have not lived a life
punctuated by the immediate
and personal threat of gun vi-
olence, nor of violence in gen-
eral. My family lives five miles
over the city line and a world
away from Baltimore. The
death toll in Baltimore, while
achingly high at the end of
every year, mounts in intervals
of one or a few at a time, the
everyday grind of a city whose
government has yet to learn
how to legislate with human
dignity in mind. How easy it is
to forget these numbers when
faced with the generative fact
of my generation: killing and
despair on an impossible scale
on a clear September day.
Weve never been disproved;
calamity and evil eats up beau-
ty predictably. I learned about
Tom Pettys death and the
shooting in Las Vegas near-
ly simultaneously, and then
I was ashamed that I cried at
the former and just shook my
head at the latter. I accepted
58 deaths, and hundreds more
injuries, with the cool calm of
a child raised in the tailwinds
of 9/11, and Virginia Tech, and
Aurora, and Sandy Hook, and
Isla Vista, and San Bernardino,
and the Bataclan and Charles-
ton and Nice and Orlando.
You remember Isla Vista, I
assume? Its a distinct event in
your mind? Or have the past
ten years of your life elapsed in
a haze of headlines, bold and
italicized, with a body count
LEAVING AN (AWKWARD)
MARK
Relationships between the
administration and student
body are an integral part of
a high functioning college or
N 2020 members. I described
LA
CAP
RA
SA
creeping higher,
more men with
more guns?
I cannot make
policy recommen-
dations. I only just
learned what a bump-
stock is. Ive never shot a gun.
I never want to hold one. The
thought of guns sickens me,
whatever their usage. They are
fundamentally tools of death,
in a way that no knife or truck
could ever be. Perhaps Im im-
possibly removed, culturally,
from the part of the world
that sees personal liberty and
personal gun-ownership as
inextricably tied. The right
to self-defense, to defense of
property, has been asserted as
the core of American rights. I
doubt it, but maybe the Sec-
ond Amendment is actually a
guarantee of the right to own
a semi-automatic weapon.
Maybe we should reconsider
what our liberty really is, if
we cant imagine it existing
without a concurrent right to
end another life.
And sure, maybe we can
trace all of this existential
blankness back to that culture
created by the bomb, the idea
of unpreventable suffering on
a scale much larger than any
university. Humanizing our
institutional superiors pro-
vides us a sense of compan-
ionship and support rather
than discomfort and conde-
scension as we persist in our
academic, extracurricular
and social endeavors. With
Talk of the Quad
one human. I would caution,
however, against a wholesale
carbon copy of a classic cri-
tique of modernity: that the
loss of religion, along with a
whole host of domestic and
geo-political factors, has left
us all feeling meaningless,
and adrift, and too small
and disconnected to handle
the meaninglessness of our
existence. Nuclear-age ennui
was just another, if poignant,
facet of a century-long loss.
This may be true, but it is not
the cause of the despair fos-
tered by our current state of
generalized slaughter. This is
because, of course, the cause
of any of these horrors is not
beyond human reason. They
are, recognizably, individuals,
or a group of individuals. It
is not simply knowledge of
the transitory and fragile na-
ture of our lives in the face of
forces we cannot control that
has caused this numbness.
It has been caused by a nev-
er-ending series of all-too-
this in mind, I, Sara Caplan,
have a firsthand understand-
ing of the benefits one reaps
from a positive relationship
with Bowdoins administra-
tion.
My first interaction with
President Clayton Rose was at
human horrors. Elliot Rodger
and Dylann Roof and Adam
Lanza show us the immense
suffering one individual can
cause a whole society, on top
of the suffering they inflict
directly upon their victims.
They force us to come face-
to-face with the monstrous
capacity of the human soul.
And there is only so much of
that knowledge that our own
souls can take.
In times like these, as I read
about Sutherland Springs, I feel
like nothing moreor, per-
haps, nothing lessthan the
sum total of fumbling attempts
by parents and teachers to
matriculation. I was eager to
impress the man who would
have a heavy hand in the next
four years of my education-
al experience. Sweat slowly
dampened my floral dress as
I approached the hallowed
halls at the rear of the third
floor of Hawthorne Longfel-
low Library. I decided that
the most impactful thing I
could say to my president was
a joke. I frantically attempt-
ed to conjure up a joke that
was witty, eloquent and all
together unforgettable. How-
ever, in my anxiety-ridden
state, my mind drew a blank.
I could not think of a single
joke worthy of the coming
interaction. Lacking humor-
ous ammunition, I entered
President Roses office. After
standing in a winding line for
a few painfully long minutes,
my clammy palm grasped the
ballpoint pen, and I added my
name to the long list of Bow-
doin students who came be-
fore me. I then turned to face
the president of the academic
institution to which I now
belonged, and, before I could
stop myself, I blurted out my
current predicament. I ex-
plained that I really wanted to
come up with a riveting joke
that would make me stand out
in the long parade of Class of
my desire to be remembered,
and how I had choked under
pressure. I also promised that
as soon as I thought of a wor-
thy joke, I would come back.
MOLLY KENNEDY
teach me both that evil hap-
pened, but that humanity
survives it. After so many at-
tempts, I find it harder to be-
lieve the second proposition.
Ive started to have night-
mares, which shouldnt sur-
prise me. My conscious self
either refuses to or physically
cannot think about this pa-
rade of unmourned murder in
a productive and processing
way. The dreams have differ-
ent narratives, but they share
the guns, and throughout all of
them, I survive. I dont know
what my sleeping self is trying
to tell me. I have no intention
to read any tea leaves. I do
Rose responded understand-
ingly, and encouraged me to
keep him posted. I walked
out of the room engulfed in a
cloud of disappointment but
with a glimmer of hope for a
future humorous riff.
The second of my mag-
nificent interactions with
President Rose was at a panel
on the Common Good. Mod-
erators asked panelists how
the Common Good should be
defined and what role Bow-
doin needs to play in working
towards that goal. After the
panel, I realized that this was
my second chance to provide
the President with a worth-
while and memorable inter-
action. I rose from my sofa
in the living room of Howell,
picked up a complimentary
donut hole, and made my way
over to our esteemed presi-
dent. He turned his attention
to me and began to ask for my
thoughts on the panel I just
witnessed. However, he only
got a few words out before di-
saster struck, for I chose that
exact moment to bite into my
donut hole. I quickly discov-
ered that my donut hole was
occupied with filling. That
filling, as delicious as it was,
upon sinking my teeth into
the donuts fluffy exterior,
proceeded to fly forth from
its casing onto the carpet
and President Roses shoe. (I
am happy to announce that,
to the best of my knowledge,
he did not notice the residue
on his shoe. However, if you
Friday, November 10, 2017
know that some-
thing has become
trapped in our
national psyche,
buried deep down
and screaming
to be heard, for enough
silence between gunshots and
news cycles.
I am tired, and Im tired of
being tired. I am tired of flags
at half-mast. I am tired of who
this endless stream of trag-
edies has made me. I would
like to be compassionate; I
would like to feel the pain of
others. I worry that I will sit
shell-shocked, not just for an
evening or a week, but for my
whole life. I have faith in the
empathy of my generation,
that our notoriously liberal
and much-maligned political
leanings come from a place of
sincere fellow-feeling. Where
I have lost faith, though, a
faith that I may never regain,
is in the belief that our gener-
alized knowledge of suffering
is equivalent to a sincere and
productive reaction to the re-
ality of that human suffering.
I think Sandy Hook heralded
the end of human empathy. It
forced us not to feel.
Helen Ross is a member of
the class of 2018.
are reading this now, Presi-
dent Rose, I apologize for the
mess I made.) I then politely
excused myself to the kitch-
en, retrieved an abundance of
paper towels and got down on
all fours and cleaned the fill-
ing that rested on the carpet
directly in front of the man I
wished to impress. (I apolo-
gize; I did not clean off your
shoe.) Afterwards, I returned
to my feet and quickly stat-
ed, oh, by the way, my name
is Sara. President Rose re-
sponded to my comment with
a polite Hi Sara, my name is
Clayton. Leaving Howell a
few minutes later, Clayton
and I realized that we were
headed in the same direction.
We then enjoyed a lovely walk
to what was then my home
away from home: Winthrop
Hall. We wished each other
goodnight and parted ways.
While these interactions
both highlight the absurdi-
ty of my social skills, each
instance contributed to my
growing awareness that rela-
tionships are at the forefront
of this prominent academ-
ic institution. I am forever
grateful for these stepping
stones that will form my dy-
namic and tight-knit relation-
ship with President Clayton
Rose.
P.S. President Rose, I finally
thought of a joke: Where does
the king keep his armies?... In
his sleevies!
Sara Caplan is a member of
the class of 2020.
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Friday, November 10, 2017
SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
Passing the mark:
The football team (0-8)
lost to Bates (2-6) this
weekend in a close 17-24
match this weekend,
causing Bates to claim
the Colby-Bowdo-
in-Bates championship
title for the sixth time in
a row. Noah Nelson 19
ended the game 34-55
with the third-most
passes thrown and the
second-most passes
completed in a game
in Bowdoin history.
Bowdoin will finish their
season at home against
rivals Colby (0-8), mark-
ing the 129th time these
two teams have met, on
Saturday.
Over the net: The
volleyball team (15-10,
NESCAC 8-2) came back
3-2 after losing the first
two sets of the match
to beat Middlebury
(16-9, NESCAC 5-5)
in the NESCAC quar-
terfinals on Friday, but
fell to Wesleyan (21-5,
NESCAC 8-2) 1-3 in
the semifinals the next
day. Three players were
honored in All-NESCAC
awards. Kate Kiser 21
was named NESCAC
Rookie of the Year and
she and Lisa Sheldon
19 were named second
team, while Caroline
Flaharty 20 was named
first team.
Three musketeers:
After upsetting No. 2
Tufts (11-5, NESCAC
8-2) in the quarterfi-
nals, the field hockey
team (10-7, NESCAC
5-5) lost to No. 1 Mid-
dlebury (16-2, NESCAC
9-1) 5-2. Middlebury
had the advantage in
shots, while Maddie
Ferrucci 21 made four
saves compared to
Middleburys two. The
team also had three
players recognized with
All-NESCAC awards.
Kara Finnerty 20 and
Elizabeth Bennewitz 19
were named first team
All-NESCAC while
Juliana Fiore 18 was
named second team.
Smooth waters: The
sailing team is compet-
ing in the Match Race
Nationals this Friday
in Charleston, S.C. for
the first time in pro-
gram history. The team
qualified after coming
in second in the New
England Match Race
Championship on Oc-
tober 14-15. Harrison
Hawk 18, Matt Safford
20, Marie Bergsund
20, and Alden Grimes
21 will be competing
for Bowdoin.
COMPILED BY ANNA FAUVER
Mens soccer qualifies for NCAA DIII tournament
by Ella Chaffin
Orient Staff
On Monday, the Bowdoin
mens soccer team (10-4-3,
NESCAC 6-2-2) received the
news that it was one of five
NESCAC schools to earn an
at-large bid to advance to the
NCAA DIII tournament. After
a 1-0 defeat by Middlebury in
double overtime at the NES-
CAC semifinals, mens soccer
is looking forward to redemp-
tion at the tournament, as
they go into their first game
against Rutgers-Newark (20-
2) this Saturday.
Despite the teams loss in
the semifinals, Captain Wilson
Macmillan 18 has faith that
the team will compete at a high
level in the NCAA tournament.
Usually at this point we
are hitting our stride and we
havent done that yet, Mac-
millan said. But moving into
this weekend I think we are
really poised to start playing
our best soccer and normal-
ly we kind of hit that a little
bit earlier. We have stayed
pretty consistent and we are
starting to find our form. We
are peaking at the right time,
which is good.
After a disappointing loss
to Amherst in last years NES-
CAC semifinals, the team was
hoping to make it to the finals
this year.
One of our goals was to
BMASV facilitates talk about consent with teams
by Anna Fauver and Harry Jung
Orient Staff
Male athletes make up the
majority of the members in
Bowdoin Men Against Sexual
Violence (BMASV), a group
that facilitates conversations
surrounding issues of masculin-
ity, sexual violence and consent.
Since its founding in 2008,
BMASV has focused on re-
cruiting members from sports
teams and has facilitated con-
versation within male teams
on campus.
[The founders of the
group] had some concerns
about the culture at that time
and thought that that was a
great place to start the con-
versation. So historically that
has been the group BMASV
has worked with most inten-
tionally, and it has been really
successful in getting in all of
varsity locker rooms. Its an
area where we think we made
most strides getting consis-
tent programming, Assistant
Director of Gender Violence
Prevention and Education
and adviser for BMASV Lisa
Peterson said.
According to co-leader Mi-
chael Netto 18, the group hopes
to combat locker room talk.
Throughout history, as
seen from the Harvard soc-
cer team and others along
those lines, with sports teams
you can have a locker room
9
win the NESCAC champion-
ship, Captain Sam Ward 18
said. Obviously we didnt get
to do that. We are still play-
ing so its not like our season
is ruined because of that. We
still have another shot.
The results of the upcom-
ing NCAA DIII tournament
will determine whether the
team can achieve its next goal.
One of our goals was to
make it to the NCAA tourna-
ment, Macmillan said. So it
was really great that we were
able to accomplish that. An-
other goal was to not just get
here, but to win it. So we have
some pretty lofty goals going
forward, and I think we are
ready to reach them.
GWEN DAVIDSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Mens soccer struggled
and lost against number five
BACK FOR BLOOD: Captain Sam Ward 18 runs towards the ball during the Middlebury game on Oct 28. The Polar
Bears qualified for the NCAA DIII tournament on Monday and will face off against Rutgers-Newark this Saturday.
ranked team Middlebury on
Saturday. The game was a was a pretty great goal from of giving the defenders a tough Different playing styles will
close match, finishing in dou- the kid from Middlebury game and really working hard. be tested going into Saturdays
ble overtime with Bowdoin but I think we are definitely Ward also commended game, with Rutgers-New-
having eight shots and one looking to rectify that. Niang on his outstanding per- arks offensive style going
save versus Middleburys sev- The closeness of the match formance in the Middlebury up against Bowdoins more
en shots and two saves. allowed players to stand out on game. Niang was one of five defensive play. This season,
The game against Mid- the field. Levi Morant 19 has players who received All-NES- Rutgers-Newark has scored 58
dlebury was tough, Mac- scored three goals this season CAC Honors, a conference best. goals compared to Bowdoins
millan said. I think that we for the Polar Bears, one being a Goalie Stevie Van Siclen 18, 19. The Scarlet Raiders lost
did a really great job early game-winning goal. Riley Bubb 18, and Niang were to Amherst earlier this season
on, on passing the ball and I thought that Levi Morant named first team All-NESCAC, 2-1 in overtime, while Bowdo-
keeping possession. It was a holding the fielder was great, while Ethan Ellsworth 18 and in also had a close 1-0 loss to
really great performance and Macmillan said. He was really Matty McColl 19 were named the team.
I think we really struggled to busy defensively and did a great second team. The Polar Bears will fight
score and that has been kind job of being physical. I thought Going into the game this for a place in the second round
of a consistent theme for us. Moctar Niang 19 had a great weekend, the team hopes to cap- of the NCAA DIII tournament
I think that inability to score game as well. And CJ Masterson italize on its past success and to this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in
caused the endingwhich 19 as always does a great job improve on its regular season. Waltham, Massachusetts.
ANN BASU , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TAKING TIME TO TALK: Peter Bensen 18 is the co-leader of BMASV, a group on campus focused on giving men a place to talk about consent and sexual
violence. Currently, the team is helping facilitate conversation with male sports teams, but is hoping to increase its influence in other campus organizations.
setting, he said, referring to stresses the importance of they can talk as well. that experience with them for
Harvard cancelling their soc- having a space where men can In addition to giving men a the rest of the year. If we keep
cer teams season after it was talk about subjects that may space to talk about sexual vio- doing that each year, then if
revealed that the players had not be talked about on a reg- lence, all members of BMASV you get one thing out of facil-
been explicitly rating the fe- ular basis. go through training at the be- itation, it benefits the campus
male recruits. You also see It was never something that ginning of the year in order to as a whole.
that talked about in our recent was really talked about that facilitate conversation within One of the main focuses of
political election. The locker much [at home], Netto said. the male athletic teams. these facilitations is to chal-
room can be confidential and I think its important to give When we go around to the lenge traditional ideas about
quiet, so things that go on people that space to talk about teams and talk about [consent masculinity. The group uses
there arent seen by others so [sexual assault.] As we know, and sexual violence], I think a concept titled, Men Box,
players might be saying things the standard states that females its good, Netto said. Its good which explains how society
there that they dont necessari- are the ones that typically ex- to get after them early. Weve defines a real man in a nar-
ly say in other places. perience sexual assault, so its been trying to [facilitate] in
For this reason, the group good to give males a spot where the fall because then they have Please see BMASV, page 10
10 SPORTS Friday, November 10, 2017

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NEVER STOP TRYING: (LEFT) : Amber Ramos 20 competes in the match against Middlebury College. (RIGHT) : Kendall Schutzer 18 reaches to catch the ball in the Middle-
bury game. This game was the last match of the season, and the team finished strong with a 50-12 victory. They will play rivals UNE on Saturday in the NIRA championship.

Womens Rugby finishes strong, heads to NIRA championship

by Jason Cahoon
Orient Staff
Last Saturday, Bowdoin
womens rugby concluded its
regular season with a crushing
50-12 victory against Middle-
bury. A stellar defensive per-
formance by Jackie Jacques 19,
who accumulated ten tackles
throughout the game, highlight-
ed the match. Satya Kent 19,
Kendall Schutzer 18, and Eliza-
beth DAngelo 19, who each ac-
cumulated eight tackles of their
own, supplemented Jacques
defensive effort.
The victory against Middle-
bury led to a final regular season
record of 7-1 for the team. This
past season continues a six-season
streak of winning records for the
program, part of a trend of win-
ning seasons over the past decade.
The team hopes to build off
of this victory going into its
National Intercollegiate Rug-
by Association (NIRA) Tier II
Championship game against
the University of New England
(UNE) (7-1) on Saturday. The
Polar Bears are seeking revenge
after UNE defeated Bowdoin
61-15, which was the only loss
of Bowdoins regular season this
past October.
The Polar Bears go into the
match with a great deal of con-
fidence, which they attribute
to their development as a team
since early October. Dramatic
growth from early September to
November is typical for the team
because it often places a great
deal of emphasis on developing
new players. The team takes in
many inexperienced players
who step up to the learning
curve quickly.
We are a different team than
we were when we played them.
One of the things with starting
the season with a wide range of
experience is that there is im-
mense clear measurable growth
throughout the season, said
captain Kendall Schutzer 18.
We dont focus on win-
ning. We focus on incremental
growth and the winning seems
to come. They talk about leaving
the jersey in a better place and
honoring the alumni that played
before them, so all that is in-
tertwined, added Head Coach
MaryBeth Mathews.
The programs specialty in
developing players was crucial to
overcoming the adversity that the
womens rugby team faced this
year. This season the team only
had four seniors on its roster, one
of whom was concussed for the
vast majority of the season.
Additionally, they had to
overcome an unusually small
roster size, which was further
diminished by a slew of fluke
SEE IT YOURSELF
Womens rugby plays UNE at Biddeford on Saturday at 12:00
p.m.. The game will be streamed live on UNEs athletic website.
injuries throughout the season.
To combat this, the less experi-
enced players have successfully
stepped up to execute major
roles on the team throughout
the season.
The captains got a really
young team to understand their
roles. We dealt with some fluke
injuries and people have defi-
nitely stepped up and realized
that there is a place for them and
that they need to contribute,
said Mathews.
We see [growth] particu-
larly in our forwards who are
a very young forward pack.
They have really stepped up.
And they just are stronger and
quicker and have better posi-
tioning than they did during the
regular season game [against
UNE], added Schutzer.
The championship game
against UNE will conclude a
landmark season for the wom-
ens rugby team because it is their
first season playing in the NIRA
Tier II. In the previous season,
womens rugby played an inde-
pendent schedule to transition
out of the New England Small
College Rugby Conference (NE-
SCRC), which consists mostly of
traditional NESCAC teams.
This transition into the NIRA
was intended to increase the lev-
el of competition for the wom-
ens rugby program by moving
into a varsity-only conference.
Additionally, the program want-
ed to help increase the number
of varsity teams in the United
States to lead to making wom-
ens rugby an NCAA varsity
sport. There are currently 18
varsity teams and 40 are needed
to make womens rugby a fully
sanctioned NCAA sport.
In moving into the NIRA,
the program is currently caught
in a transitional period. Many
of the teams that transitioned
alongside Bowdoin are having
difficulties fielding competitive
teams in the NIRA.
Unfortunately, I think that
some of the teams that also
moved recently struggled this
year both with numbers and
skill level. So I am not particu-
larly happy with the competi-
tion that we have had this year,
said Mathews.

Equestrian team focuses on rebuilding BMASV tracted mostly athletes is lack

by Roither Gonzales
Orient Staff
After keeping a low profile for
many years, the Bowdoin eques-
trian team has decided to use this
time to rebuild and refocus the
teams effort on increasing its or-
ganization, skills, and accessibility.
The equestrian team has kept
a relatively low profile in previ-
ous yearspreferring to remain
a smaller group of students that
worked closely together. It made
the organization of the team
easier, yet it also brought an un-
intended consequence of making
the transition between this year
and last year much more difficult.
A little over half the team grad-
uated last year and several other
I think we decided that we
wanted to focus on inclusivity and
make it readily available to people
on campus. Were currently trying
navigate that, which is something
that the club hasnt dealt with be-
cause they havent been focused
on advertising, said Tanga.
The teams recent focus on
increasing awareness has played
a key role in its successful recruit-
ment of new members14 total,
largely comprised of first years and
sophomores have joined the team.
Despite its success in increas-
ing membership, this growth has
brought some growing pains,
such as struggling with wide-
spread degrees of experience with
This year we decided to focus on mak-
yearjust because theres been lesson this year.
way more interest this year than We have had a conversation
in past years. with our coach and managed to
Equestrian is only a club lev- reduce the price to make it slightly
el sport, so it does not receive as more accessible, said Tanga. If
much funding as varsity level students feel like they are very ded-
teams on campus. However, the icated to the club and would like
team competes in a region that to compete, they are more than
includes schools like University of welcome to go to student activities
New Hampshire (UNH) and Dart- and work with their respective
mouth, where equestrian is a varsity deans to receive some financial aid
sport, and therefore better funded. to participate in the club.
Despite this challenge, the team has There is another change that the
found a way to adapt and compete team must handle: the teams cur-
with these schools. In 2016, the Po- rent stables in Nobleboro, Maine
lar Bears ended the season eleventh are currently under renovation,
out of twelve teams. due to the new owners desire to
In terms of increasing acces- expand the barn and stables. In a
sibility, the team has also stressed sense, this expansion is mirrored
by the teams own refocusing and
increased accessibility.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
row definition. For example, if
someone is tough, strong, big,
or unemotional they are seen
as real men. Small, weak and
sensitive people are not.
Basically we talk about all
those ways men are forced to
be inside this box that is totally
unattainable and not healthy.
Also, we talk about how being
a man is really encompassing
all the different things inside
the box and outside the box,
co-leader Peter Bensen 18
said. And we should be prais-
ing the characteristics both
inside and outside the box.
So far, the reaction from
sports teams has been over-
whelmingly positive.
The response has been
good from captains. Usually
of exposure.
Athletes in the past have
had more exposure to it be-
cause they were the ones who
were part of the facilitation
and they join the next year,
he said. When I was freshman
on the hockey team, one of the
core senior members of the
group was a hockey player. He
talked about it to our team and
it was a good way of recruiting
younger guys.
Although BMASV has
worked with all male sports
teams so far, it hopes to reach
out to V-Space, a group of
women that facilitate conver-
sation about sex, dating and
consent on campus, to help
conduct facilitations with
co-ed varsity teams such as
swimming and diving, club
teams, acapella groups and

ing a more concrete club structure.

members are currently abroad
leaving captains Tilly Tanga 19
and Emma Kellogg 20 as the only
returning team members this fall.
It wasnt like [the past cap-
tains] werent focused on mak-
ing it inclusive, it was more of a
word of mouth thing and kind
of friends riding together, and
this year we decided to focus on
making a more concrete club
structure, said Kellogg.
A key goal of theirs this year is
to focus on increasing on-campus
awareness of the team.
Emma Kellog 20
the sport.
Its hard to have a lot of differ-
ent people of varying degrees [of
experience] because scheduling
wise, it becomes a bit difficult to
have a lot of different levels prac-
tice and move around in a finite
number of lesson spots, said Kel-
logg. So, thats been something
weve had to navigate with this
The teams ability to adapt is
one of its key strengths, and it has
repeatedly conveyed its ability to
do so many times in the past. To
them, this is just another instance
the possibility of financial accom- where the team must rise to the
modation by both the team, coach, challenges that they face, adapt and
and even the College itself for the prepare for their season next year.
fees it requires of its members. To Well get back to competing
participate, students are required as soon as possible. Thats our
to pay for the price of lessons and main goal because we are a com-
are also expected to have gear such petitive team and its always nice
as riding boots. Last year, the cost to have something to show for all
of lessons was $45 per lesson, but the effort the riders are putting
the price was reduced to $25 per in. said Tanga.
theyre always open to itits
just a matter of time, Netto
said. Response has actually
been exceptional this year for
[BMASV]. People have been
responding quickly and have
been signing up. We have some
lined up for the fall and were
trying to get them done before
Thanksgiving break.
The largest goal for the
group this year is to reach out
to more campus organizations.
Bensen believes that one of the
main reasons BMASV has at-
college houses.
Were thinking about may-
be doing some facilitations
where we have V Space and
BMASV together and maybe
breaking off into two different
groups in the beginning and
then meeting back together
at the end and talking about
different things, Netto said.
So I think that is a step in the
right direction And I think
the more groups on campus we
can reach out to will also give
us a broader membership.
 O OPINION
11 Friday, November 10, 2017

One year later

The limitations of online
debates over gun control
The results of Tuesdays national, state and local elections have brought
hope to those Americans who, this time last year, were distraught with the
state of the nations politics.
The contrast is stark to the aftermath of Donald Trumps election to the
presidency, when many on Bowdoins campus came together in opposition to
the new president, fueled by a sense of anger, frustration and acute injustice.
One year after the electiona period which has been supersaturated with @mycolumn
controversy and scandalwe should take a moment to reflect on the sta- by Kinaya Hassane
tus of political engagement on campus. When each day brings a fresh and
newly shocking headline, our political attention spans atrophy. Reactions to
the newest bit of shocking news from Washington can range from apathy to On April 16, 2007, distressing scenes
outrage. Yet, this outrage is too often short-lived as the next scandal seems of first responders reacting to the Virginia
always to arrive before the last has settled. Cloistered in our small and insular Tech massacre played on our living room
campus, we watch news slip from view even more rapidly, especially when TV while my parents set the table so that
the effects of a new policy or law do not always touch us directly. we could enjoy the cake my mother made
We must try consciously to counteract this amnesia. A sampling of for my sisters third birthday. The next
still-ongoing political fights: the Trump administrations travel ban is still day at school, my classmates and I were
caught up in the federal courts; the US is still slated to withdraw from the encouraged to wear maroon and orange
Paris Climate Agreement; the special prosecutor is still investigating ties be- in order to honor the victims of a tragedy
tween the Trump campaign and Russian interests; DACA will still come to an that had happened just a few hours south
end in 2018 without intervention from the courts. of us. We were nonetheless too young and
Even as the front pages are dominated by investigations into high-profile naive to truly understand the horror of
instances of sexual assault in Hollywood and beyond, the Senates new tax what had become, at that point, the worst
bill and the latest horrific mass-shooting, the issues and debates that, though mass shooting in American history.
gone from A1 are still very present in the nation. Its important that we re- In the decade since then, mass shoot-
main conscious of this fact and let it guide our actions. ings have become more frequent and in-
Continue to call your senators, especially about issues that have fallen out formation about them has become more KODIE GARZA
of the national spotlight. Continue to stay updated with the aftermath of the readily available. This combination of
events that were the major headlines just months ago, as well as the most forces seems to have desensitized us to the shooting, Conway returned to pumping ed, change must also be pursued through
recent news. horrific epidemic that plagues this coun- out inflammatory tweets about the Dem- offline political engagement. A vote for a
Finally, Bowdoin as an institution, can take actions on the national stage try. News alerts were sent out minutes ocratic Party. candidate who stands for restricting own-
that we, as individuals, cannot. We reported this week that Bowdoin joined after the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Those of us on the other side of the ership of automatic weapons can obvious-
several other colleges and universities in submitting an amicus brief in sup- Texas and it did not take long before the aisle must also consider how technology ly be far more effective than a tweet at John
port of a lawsuit filed by the University of California, challenging the Trump larger public learned that it would become has allowed us to become desensitized to McCain questioning why he has received
administrations plan to terminate the DACA program. Although, on its own, among the deadliest mass shootings in mass shootings. We have arrived at a dis- upwards of $7 million from the NRA.
this is only a small step, it represents a legitimate legal and political action modern history. What is even more dis- mal point in our culture where we angrily While the power of a tweet has increased
that is potentially more influential on the national stage than actions that we turbing is that this massacre occurred advocate for stronger gun control laws on exponentially thanks to this presidents
as individuals can take on our own. We should be aware of opportunities to right as stories about the worst mass social media, but then we allow the rapid proclivity for social media, next years
leverage this influence when it could make a difference. shooting in U.S. history of just a few weeks online news cycle to run its course and midterm election gives the populace an
While the news cycle is short, our memories should not be. ago seemed to be tapering out. eventually let events fall by the wayside. opportunity to turn the tide through the
The increasingly fast-paced transfer of The democratization of information as power of the ballot.
information over social media contributes a result of social media sites is a necessary On Tuesday in Virginia, Democrat
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board, to the complacency with which many development as it encourages broader Ralph Northam was elected governor
which is comprised of Rachael Allen, Anjulee Bhalla, Harry DiPrinzio, Sarah tend to approach, or entirely evade, the political engagement. However, it allows and many seats in the state legislature
Drumm, Ellice Lueders, Ian Ward and Allison Wei. issue of gun control. In the twenty-four liberals to get bogged down in short-lived were flipped from red to blue, exempli-
hours after the shooting, Donald Trump and semantic debates over Trumps com- fying the seismic change that can occur
devoted two tweets to sending his condo- ments about the Texas shooters mental once political agitation online transfers
lences to the victims but then continued health when we should instead be pressing over to the ballot box. From now until
to pump out bombastic tweets about his Republicans on how beholden their poli- next November, it is imperative that
current trip to Asia and the purging of the ticians are to the interests of the National those fed up with the status quo regard-
government in Saudi Arabia. Kellyanne Rifle Association. ing gun control maintain the momentum
Conways tweets were similarly off-top- Though the power of social media to fostered online and translate that into
ic. After a brief remark about the Texas enact change should not be underestimat- tangible political action.
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discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. the same. No amount of caffeine can fix vent blocked from my memory) and
Dis(orient)ed this. Once my focus is gone, so is all per- the wellness diagramthat equilateral
by Charlotte Nash ceptible progress. triangle with sides devoted to phys-
Sarah Drumm Harry DiPrinzio But with my new commitment, be- ical, mental and social health. These
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief In the first semester of freshman year, ing aware of when I needed to be asleep three components combine to form a
I caught the common cold four times for my 8:30 a.m. class helped me avoid healthy individual. Its not the maxi-
practically every time the virus mean- the time warp. The Bedtime feature on mization of one, but the balance of all
Creative Director Managing Editor Sr. News Editor dered throughout campus. Not one to the Clock app also kept me from fool- three that matters.
Jenny Ibsen Rachael Allen Anjulee Bhalla get sick often, I couldnt understand ing myself: whereas a short YouTube Yet at Bowdoin, this imbalance can
Sarah Bonanno why I was having this problem. Simul- video or two would mysteriously cause be flaunted. I admit that I have joined
Ellice Lueders Asst. News Editor
Digital Director Emily Cohen
taneously, I was staying up until at least another hour or two to disappear into in by bragging about all-nighters or
Nicholas Mitch 2 a.m. each night in a repeating pattern the universe, I had to actually go to bed gleefully chugging coffee at all hours of
James Little Allison Wei
Sports Editor of either choosing to goof off with floor- when in bed. the day. While part of me thought I had
Associate Editor Anna Fauver mates or needing to cram for an exam. Soon, I started waking to the sound discovered a secret cure-all this week, I
Photo Editor
Roither Gonzales I have always been bad at prioritizing of silence, the absence of my alarm, felt guilty for putting myself first. Weve
Ann Basu Features Editor sleep. There never fails to be something which seemed just as good as birds all been told that sleep is important; but
Louisa Moore
Amanda Newman Alyce McFadden more fun or more necessary to do. But chirping. For the first time on college we sometimes live like grades are our
Layout Editor consistently getting only five hours of school nights, I was getting the proper only priority.
Emma Bezilla A&E Editor sleep a night resulted in me stumbling amount of sleep for my body. While Our society operates with an if you
Copy Editor Isabelle Hall
Ian Stewart across the quad, zoning out during earlier nights meant I was technically snooze, you lose attitude. If you dont
Sam Adler
Eleanor Paasche friends weekend tales or strategically spending less time working, my pro- burn out in college, theres plenty of
Opinion Editor
Data Desk dozing off whenever my professor faced ductivity increased. I spent less time time left. Everyone seems to be push-
Gideon Moore Rohini Kurup the board. My moment of realization staring into the void between my eyes ing toward some finish linewhether
Sr. News Reporter
James Callahan Calendar Editor came after the blackout, when I emerged and my computer screen. buying a house, earning a raise or get-
Social Media Editor from the forced early nights more alive Sleep also helped me to be more ting to retirement. But dont sleep on
Kate Lusignan
Gwen Davidson Business Manager than Id been since summer break. So, present throughout my day. When I re- the benefits of practicing self-care: in
Uriel Lopez-Serrano Edward Korando Page Two Editor I decided to try upping my sleep to a aligned my priorities, I was able to stop any form or amount, it can help. In-
Faria Nasruddin Ned Wang Samuel Rosario minimum of eight hours. seeing Bowdoin as an obstacle course stead of trying to maximize achieve-
The hardest part, even though my of to-dos. Conversations with friends ments by viewing life as a series of
baseline is exhaustion, was getting to seemed more meaningful and classes goals, we need to maximize the quality
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the bed. Theres a certain space-time thresh- more engaging. To put it simply: I was of the period spent reaching them.
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions old at night that when crossed, cant be awake. The only real way to lose a race is if life
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12 Friday, November 10, 2017

FRIDAY 10
EVENT
Student Panel on Learning
Student participants in the Baldwin Program will offer obser-
vations and insights about their first-hand learning experi-
ences at Bowdoin. The panel will be moderated by Baldwin
Director Kathryn Byrnes. The discussion will help the Baldwin
Program understand students experiences.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 11 a.m.

WORKSHOP
Study Habits in STEM
The Center for Learning and Teaching and the Baldwin Pro-
gram will host a workshop that will give students instruction
on how to read more closely, organize information and study
more effectively.
Russwurm African-American Center. 12:30 p.m.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
EVENT BEHIND BARS: Independent writer and curator Pete Brook gave a talk titled How We See Prisons in Kresge Auditorium on
I$$A VIBE Wednesday night. Brooks work explores the imagery and politics surrounding mass incarceration. Through his photography
project, Prison Photography, Brook shares the stories of prisoners and explores the role of power within prisons.
This student-run art show will exhibit photography that
addresses of identity. There will also be a poster sale, pop-up

MONDAY 13 WEDNESDAY 15
shop, music and food.
Great Room, 30 College Street. 8 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
E-Board Fall Concert: Quinn XCII
Quinn XCII will perform at the Entertainment Boards annual
fall concert. Student group 20/20 will open the show at 10
p.m. and Quinn XCII will perform at 11 p.m.
David Saul Smith Union. 10 p.m.
EVENT
Zumba Fitness
Bea Blakemore will lead Zumba. Zumba is a fitness program
that involves dancing and aerobic movement.
Room 213, Buck Center. 5:15 p.m.
LECTURE
Entering Asia
Karen Wigen, Frances & Charles Field Professor of History
at Stanford University, will discuss East Asians self-identity
in the 1600s. Wigen will use Chinese and Korean maps and
Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th and 19th centuries
to deliver a visually rich lecture.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 11
PERFORMANCE
Disaster Relief Concert
Numerous groups along with an a capella group from Bates
College will perform a capella and slam poetry to raise
money for the victims of the recent natural disasters.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY 14
EVENT
Debugging Africa: The Fight Against
Malaria Vectors
John Milliner has international experience in the public
and private sectors of disease control and will discuss
international malaria eradication. Milliner will elaborate on
the successes and failures of the efforts in the last decade.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4 p.m.
FILM
It Follows- Modern Day Macabre:
THURSDAY 16
DISCUSSION
Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and
Staging a Soviet Reality
Frank Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Muse-
um of Art, and Johna Cook 19, exhibition curator, will discuss
Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet
Reality. The exhibition is a compilation of photographs by
Dimitri Baltermants, a Soviet photojournalist during World

SUNDAY 12 Ghosts, Zombies and the Supernatural War II.

FILM
Trophy
Trophy follows Philip Glass, a lifelong hunter and conser-
vationist. The documentary explores the complexity of the
hunting industry in Africa, and compares conservationists
views of hunting to that of poachers.
Frontier. 3 p.m.
in Cinema
It Follows will look at the themes of death, the afterlife
and the macabre in modern horror films. Following the
film, Aviva Briefel, professor of English and cinema studies,
and Ann Kibbie, associate professor of English, will lead
a discussion. This film is shown in conjunction with the
exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in the
Renaissance Europe.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 4:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
The Threepenny Opera
Set in 20th century London, this musical uses a sharp political
perspective and the sound of 1920s Berlin dance bands and
cabaret to depict corruption and the lives of beggars.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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Office Hours Bowdoin
Improv Show College
Concert Band