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Bowdoin students in South America witness social unrest
by Diego Lasarte
and Cole van Miltenburg
Orient Staff
Widespread social unrest and
political violence in a number of
Latin American nations created
an unprecedented situation for the
Office of Off-Campus Study, which
has offered six students studying
abroad in Chile, Ecuador and Bo-
livia the option to alter their abroad
experiences to assure their safety.
“I think this is honestly the first
time we’ve had a student get options
Faculty meeting addresses Arthur Brooks’ visit
by Alyce McFadden
and Ian Ward
Orient Staff
During a faculty meeting
on Monday, President Clayton
Rose denied that any orga-
nization or group external to
the College participated in the
appointment of former Amer-
ican Enterprise Institute (AEI)
president Arthur Brooks as the
inaugural Joseph McKeen Visit-
N HEAD TO THE POLLS
All you need to know about the local
elections on Tuesday. Page 5.
for remaining on site or returning
to the U.S., or to ship to a new site,”
Christine Wintersteen, director of
off-campus study said. “[For exam-
ple,] we have happened to not have
had students in Egypt during the
Arab Spring.”
As of publication, only one stu-
dent has had to leave her program.
Jessa Solis ’19 enrolled in the Insti-
tute for the International Education
of Students (IES) program in Quito,
Ecuador, where protests escalated
quickly and violently, forcing IES to
charter flights for students to leave
ing Fellow. Rose acknowledged
that he worked with Sheldon
Stone ’74, a co-chair of AEI’s
National Council, to bring
Brooks to campus but clarified
that Brooks’ appointment was
ultimately “my decision.”
According to Rose, Brooks’
fellowship, which will bring him
to campus between November
7-9 and for two days in the
spring semester, is being funded
by endowments and gifts that
F GETTING IN THE GROOVE
Five new professors bring interdisciplinary
experience to campus. Page 6.
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the country. Solis is currently on
campus completing an indepen-
dent study for the remainder of the
semester. The other five students—
three in Middlebury’s Valparaíso
program, one in Middlebury’s San-
tiago program and one in an SIT
program in Cochabamba, Bolivia,
remain in their host countries.
Since the protests in Chile began
in early October, Wintersteen has
since received nearly daily updates
from Middlebury on the situation.
When protests were at their worst,
classes were suspended and stu-
are to be used at the discretion
of the president.
Rose’s comments came in re-
sponse to a motion introduced
by Robert Sobak, associate
professor of classics, at the Oc-
tober 7 faculty meeting which
called for a written account of
the financial and administrative
processes that led to Brooks’ ap-
pointment. Sobak believes that
Rose erred in failing to consult
faculty in the first place.
A BEATBOX TO THE TOP
John Galusha ’20 is a vocal advocate for
oral percussion. Page 9.
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dents were advised to shelter in
place. Representatives from Mid-
dlebury’s global rescue team have
visited the country to assess the
situation first-hand.
Wintersteen has remained in
constant contact with programs in
all three countries over the past two
weeks. Addressing the situation of
each individual student abroad, she
has tried to prioritize safety while
also still respecting each student’s
situation and decision-making
ability.
Wintersteen explained that pro-
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
A SPECIAL GUEST: TOP: Senator
and presidential candidate Michael
Bennet P ’23 (D-CO) answers ques-
tions from the crowd during a question
and answer session on Saturday in
Chase Barn. Maine senator and Ben-
net’s friend Angus King (I-ME) made
an appearance at the talk, surprising
Bennet. After the two embraced,
Bennet invited King to field questions
from the audience with him. The pair
addressed topics ranging from climate
change to education to healthcare.
BOTTOM: Anna Martens ’20, a
Denver resident who had previously
met Bennet, speaks with the Senator
after his talk. “It was nice to get [his]
viewpoint and that intimacy on
campus,” Martens said.
See PAGE 4.
The assembled faculty did
not vote on the motion because
Monday’s meeting extended be-
yond the one-hour time period
during which faculty may vote
on substantive motions. The
motion will be taken up again at
the next meeting of the faculty
on December 2, nearly a month
after Brooks will conclude his
first visit to campus.
Please see BROOKS, page 3
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Naomi Osaka and black solidarity in
women’s tennis. Page 11.
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grams refer to the U.S. Department
of State’s travel advisory warnings
as a guideline in these scenarios,
with level one being the lowest pre-
caution and level four advising no
travel whatsoever.
“One of the key differences be-
tween Chile and Ecuador was that
although the travel advisory level
increased from one to two, two is,
according to the U.S. State Depart-
ment, still sort of within the frame-
work of having some infrastructure
and safety,” said Wintersteen. “In
Ecuador, the travel advisory esca-
BPD cites four more
students, eleven others
warned for alcohol-
related offenses
by Andrew Bastone
Orient Staff
Four Bowdoin students
received citations early Sun-
day morning at an off-cam-
pus residence for providing a
space for minors to consume
alcohol. Two of the students
are members of the football
team, and the other two are
former players.
Eleven other students who
admitted to consuming alco-
hol received warnings from
Brunswick Police Department
(BPD) officers. BPD Com-
mander Mark Waltz explained
that students are “warned” if
they are cooperative with the
police.
The four students cited face
charges punishable by up to a
year in jail and/or a fine of up
to $2,000.
Waltz said BPD officers re-
sponding to a noise complaint
from a neighbor encountered
intoxicated students on the
street outside the residence at
310 Maine Street.
Students on the street ad-
mitted to having consumed
alcohol in the house. When
the officers entered the home
they cited the four residents.
One of the students warned
said they were in the house
when the BPD entered, and
the officers collected attend-
ees’ OneCards before calling
students in one-by-one to ask
them for their name, date of
birth and whether they had
drank. The student described
their interaction with the of-
ficers as “respectful.” Another
student who received a warn-
ing agreed.
“[The officers] were super
respectful,” the second stu-
dent said. “Since everyone else
was being respectful to them,
they didn’t seem harsh at all.
I didn’t feel bad about myself
O EXERCISE IN HYPOCRISY
Sarah and James Bowdoin Day represents
the College’s muddled morals. Page 15.
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lated very quickly from two to four,
which results in a really different
series of responses.”
Solis’ former host city of Quito
is still designated as level four as of
Thursday. However, both Chile and
Bolivia are still designated as level
two’s and thus have been deemed
safe for students to continue their
studies if they choose to do so.
Lucia Gagliardone ’20, who
studied in Valparaíso last spring,
said she is using her experiences last
Please see PROTESTS, page 3
afterwards.”
Waltz noted that BPD’s
system of warnings based on
officer discretion has been
successful, and students are
rarely cited for repeated vio-
lations. If a student previously
warned is caught again, they
will receive a citation for be-
ing a minor in possession of
alcohol, which includes con-
sumption. If students are un-
cooperative in the eyes of the
responding officer, they will
also be cited for possession.
In September, eight stu-
dents were cited for furnish-
ing alcohol to minors at Red
Brick House. The Sunday
morning incident brings the
total number of alcohol-relat-
ed citations to 12 this school
year.
Waltz said that typically
there are around four such in-
stances during a given school
year.
BPD’s actions were consis-
tent with what officers told
students living off-campus
during a meeting in August,
said Waltz.
Waltz summarized that
message in September, follow-
ing the issuance of citations:
“You don’t want to be the one
providing the alcohol or the
place to drink the alcohol be-
cause that’s a criminal thing.
We really can’t look the other
way on that, so you’re likely to
get charged.”
Of the four students cited,
one declined a request to be
interviewed, and the other
three did not respond to in-
terview requests.
The students are scheduled
to appear in court in mid-De-
cember.
Editor’s Note: It is the policy
of the Orient not to publish the
names of students accused of a
crime until they have been for-
mally charged.
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SECURITY REPORT
10/24 to 10/31
Thursday, October 24
• A visitor was stuck briefly in a malfunc-
tioning elevator at the Visual Arts Center.
• A student reported seeing a suspicious
man near the intersection of Bath Road
and Sills Drive.
Friday, October 25
• An officer on a routine building check no-
ticed a stove burner left on in the Osher
Hall kitchen.
• Four minors in Hyde Hall were cited for
possession of hard alcohol.
• An emergency light fixture was damaged
on the fourth floor of Winthrop Hall.
Saturday, October 26
• A student experiencing chest pain was
transported to Mid Coast Hospital.
• An officer aided an elderly visitor who
fainted at the Bowdoin Bookstore.
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of
an intoxicated visitor at Park Row Apart-
ments.
• A student in Hyde Hall was cited for a
hard alcohol violation.
• A fire alarm activated in the Baxter base-
ment during a registered event. The cause
of the alarm was undetermined and may
have been triggered by excessive heat and
humidity in the space.
• Brunswick police cited four students for
furnishing a place for minors to consume
alcohol at an off-campus house. The
minors present were given warnings.
Sunday, October 27
• Students reported an unknown person
inside Howell House. It was determined
that the person was a student’s guest.
• A handicap parking space near Coles
Tower was marked with offensive graffiti.
• A student who was locked out of Banister
Hall accidentally smashed a window pane
by pounding on it too hard. The student
received a hand laceration.
• Officers assisted a student who was
reported to be in crisis.
Monday, October 28
• Excessive shower steam activated a smoke
alarm at Brunswick Apartment S.
• A student reported the theft of a purple
and blue Trek bicycle from the front lawn
of Baxter House.
STUDENT SPEAK:
What is your biggest fear?
Tuesday, October 29
• A student with flu-like symptoms was
escorted to the campus health center. Jaida Hodge-Adams ’23
• A student reported that a red Giant
bicycle was stolen from somewhere on
campus during the past three weeks.
"I’m afraid of cramped spaces. And the
• A student slipped on wet stairs in Sills
Hall and injured a hand. An officer
inevitability of death."
brought the student to the Mid Coast
Walk-In Clinic.
• Students reported seeing a suspicious
looking man walking past the Whit-
tier Athletic Building and Pine Street
Apartments on several recent nights. Jenna Robbins ’23
Investigation determined there was no
suspicious activity. "Throwing up; other people, me, the
Wednesday, October 30
• A student riding a bike in the Ad- whole thing."
missions parking lot collided with a
passing Facilities vehicle. The student
received scrapes and bruises. The bike
was badly damaged, and the vehicle
sustained minor damage.
• A student reported athat someone Cori Gray ’22
wearing dark clothing and a scary
mask was lurking around Brunswick
Apartments.
"Getting sucked down the drain. Any
Thursday, October 31
drain."
• A student reported seeing a suspicious
looking man walking on the Main
Quad at 4 a.m. Investigation deter-
mined there was no unusual behavior.
• A student burned a cookie in a mi-
crowave and set off a smoke alarm at Sara Nelson ’22
West Hall.
• In recent days several motorists and
pedestrians have complained of unsafe
"Open water."
and discourteous bicyclists darting
across streets and nearly causing
collisions. People walking on campus
walkways have also reported close
encounters with bicyclists.
Kiany Probherbs ’21
"Getting burned alive. "
KYRA TAN
COMPILED BY LILY RANDALL

How to dress as your professor for Halloween

by Lily Randall
Orient Staff
Another October gone, another month of
“what’s your Halloween costume?” serving as
the go-to for awkward small talk. If it’s this
late in the game and you’re still looking for
a costume, I personally recommend biting
the bullet and just getting so hammered
you don’t care. But, if that’s not your style,
celebrate those who have given you the most
emotional trauma by dressing up as them for
Halloween: your professors. Here are some
of our suggestions.
Professor of Cinema Studies Tricia Welsch.
I’m talking crocs, preferably purple ones to
match the rest of your violet-hued outfit. Light
blue crocs are acceptable, but a considerable
step down. If you don’t own any purple, don’t
even think about this one.
Professor of Music Robby Greenlee. Serve some
sick, Maine grandpa vibes this weekend by dressing
up as Robby. To get the complete look, have at least
three layers on at all times, and bust out some thick
socks with your Tevas. Bonus points if you preach
about mindfulness.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Naomi
Tanabe. Exist in two realms at once by donning
stilettos AND ankle-length skirts. To be fair,
considering our regressive politics these days, I’m
not sure what century we’re in either.
Assistant Professor of Religion Todd Berzon.
Black turtlenecks always. No excuses.
Professor of Economics Zorina Khan. Can’t decide
between dressing as a 1980’s working woman or a
tropical bird? Professor Khan is the woman for
you, then. You’ll also have to figure out how to fit a
trenchcoat into all of this, but that’s on you.
Associate Professor of English Emma Solberg. Be the
granola aunt of every Bowdoin student’s dreams, and go as
Professor Solberg this weekend. Must-haves include a dress
paired with hiking boots, but really let your creativity fly
with this one. She’d be into it.
Professor of Government Jean Yarbrough. Like a first
lady from 50 years ago but with a
chunky charm bracelet.
President Clayton Rose. Pure JP
Morgan chic. He wears a crown
in private, and his cologne smells
of old money. You can try, but
you’ll never be able to get the
condescending air down right.
Good luck?
SYDNEY REAPER
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NEWS IN BRIEF NESCAC Votes aims for 90% voter participation

COMPILED BY MAIA COLEMAN
effectively support their students
MIDDLEBURY WORKERS VOICE by Aura Carlson Bowdoin Voting Rates for 2014 and 2016
in voting and election engagement.
Orient Staff 100
UNEASINESS ABOUT BUYOUTS Last March, the team also co- 2014
Last weekend, administrators, ordinated with President Clayton 90
Middlebury staff have begun efforts to unionize following a year- faculty and students from eight out Rose and Middlebury President 2016
long workforce planning process aimed at reducing the college’s deficit, of the 11 NESCAC colleges con- Laurie Patton, who jointly issued 80 76%
reported The Middlebury Campus in an article published Thursday. vened at Middlebury College for an invitation to the other nine NES- National voting rate avg.
70
The workforce planning initiative, which sought to cut personnel the first NESCAC Votes Summit CAC presidents to join ALL IN’s
60.3%
costs by offering voluntary buyouts for employees and redistributing to jump start each campus’ election challenge. 60
work rather than laying off employees, saw the departure of 37 staff engagement plan. At the conference, Lardie said 52.8%
members—nine of whom were employed by facilities and dining ser- From partnering with the Na- the team was working on tactics for 50
vices—as well as an increase in responsibilities for workers without an tional Study of Learning, Voting registration, education and turnout, 40.4% 39.1%
40
incremental wage hike to match. and Engagement (NSLVE), Bow- specifically focusing on equal and
Though, in an email to college employees, administrators deemed the doin Votes has been able to exam- full participation. 30 27.1%
efforts a success, Middlebury staff, specifically facilities workers, voiced ine the areas on campus in which “One of the things that I’m re-
uneasiness about the long-term ramifications of workforce planning— voter turnout could be stronger. ally interested in measuring and 20 16.3%
uneasiness which motivated facilities employees to reach out to David The College increased its voting succeeding at is what I call affec- 10
Van Deusen, union representative and president of the Vermont Ameri- rate from 16.3 percent in 2014 to tive barriers to voting, a belief or a
can Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. 40.4 percent in 2016. feeling or a reaction you have that 0
Registration rate Voting rate Voting rate
Since his initial contact with Middlebury employees in August, Van Additionally, NESCAC Votes makes you feel like voting is too *accounts for
*for Bowdoin students of registered
Deusen has taken concrete strides towards initiating unionization ef- plans to hopefully bring the average inconvenient, too overwhelming or eligible to vote students registering and
forts on campus, organizing multiple well-attended interest meetings registration rate for all 11 colleges to it doesn’t make a difference,” Lardie voting

and distributing authorization cards for interested parties. In the past 90 percent this year.
months, however, efforts have slowed as authorization cards have gone Bowdoin was represented by
uncompleted and employees have raised their various concerns. Andrew Lardie, associate director
Though they face largely lukewarm reception from staff members for service and leadership, Penelope
and opposition from the administration, pro-union workers and Van Mack ’22, McKeen Center fellow
Deusen remain steadfast in their belief in the possibility of a worker’s for election engagement, Justin Ko
union at Middlebury as well as in its importance for the community. ’22, McKeen fellow for community
engagement and Wilder Short ’22,
chair of facilities and sustainability
Shining light on for Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG).
said.
He emphasized the efforts of
Bowdoin Votes, the College’s main
election engagement group, to con-
vey to students why their vote mat-
ters and how easily it can be cast.
Short stressed this importance.
“We’re lucky to have rights to
vote,” he said. “There is voter sup-
pression here, but it is more ... ev-
ident in other nations, and I think
Source: National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE)
RISING NUMBERS: Bowdoin Votes uses data from NSLVE to determine
election engagement goals for the year.
because they’re abroad,” he said. Votes. Although the NESCAC col-
“We intend to work more closely leges plan to meet again next winter,
with Off-Campus Study to figure the colleges will continue to keep in
out what the best tactic is for reach- touch with each other in the mean-
ing those students.” time through conference calls and
Based on his observations of
the NSLVE data, Lardie added that
Google Drive.
“Pulling all these resources to-

visibility as days shorten “The main thing was just

by Michael Halko
Contributor
For this week’s column: Eyes
and Ears. The days continue to
get shorter as the winter equinox
approaches, and that means less
and less daylight for the morning
run/walk and workouts at the
Buck Center before class.
Whether you walk, bike, scoot-
er or longboard on or off-campus,
please consider these tips with the
diminishing light.
1. Eyes: Be visible and look at
the cars heading your way as you
navigate the crosswalk. While
Maine just recently passed a law
banning cell phone use by driv-
ers, we know compliance is not
100 percent. A lightly colored
KO
HAL
HAEL
MIC
outer garment or something
reflective helps. Before Maine
I lived in Alaska, where iron-
on reflective patches are used
in urban and rural settings as
an intervention to reduce the
number of pedestrian injuries.
Please see SAFETY, page 4
spending time as a team working
through the different pieces of our
plan,” Lardie said. “This summer
we’ve been focused on a lot of pro-
gramming to support student reg-
istration, education and turnout
for this fall election, so we haven’t
been able to spend time thinking
that much about fall 2020. Just
having the time to focus on that
and hearing from the students
and other staff members was really
valuable.”
Starting in June, Lardie worked
with Ashley Laux, program direc-
tor of the Center for Community
Engagement at Middlebury Col-
lege, and Jennifer Domagal-Gold-
man, executive director of the ALL
IN Campus Democracy Challenge
to plan last weekend’s summit.
ALL IN’s mission is to help col-
leges of all sizes across the country
having discussions surrounding
the trials and tribulations of voting
in another country [can] be the fire
needed for our student body to re-
alize that it easily [takes] just 15-20
minutes [of your time] on Election
Day.”
After going to the confer-
ence, Lardie, Mack, Ko and Short
brought back both small- and
large-scale ideas. Along with de-
veloping future plans for hosting a
debate watch party and discussion,
Bowdoin Votes plans to partner
with Off-Campus Study (OCS), the
Center for Multicultural Life and
BSG to increase student election
engagement.
Lardie noted that the College’s
oldest students have the lowest
turnout.
“It’s reasonable to attribute that
rate to a large number of juniors
losing track that they need to vote
Bowdoin Votes needs to do more
work in reaching across racial dif-
ferences on campus and plans to
partner with the Center for Multi-
cultural Life.
To reach more of campus in gen-
eral, Bowdoin Votes looks to BSG
whose members are on board. “We
are more than ready to help facili-
tate discussions with administrators
and provide support whether it’s
with future elections or us pub-
lishing something or advertising
for them or just general announce-
ments via email,” said Short, who
represented BSG at the conference.
“We are more than open to working
with anyone, especially with Bow-
doin Votes, because it’s a big year
coming up for elections.”
Despite their absence from the
conference, Williams, Wesleyan
and Amherst will still be involved
with the newly formed NESCAC
gether will only make our lives a
lot easier with registration and ad-
vertising in the future,” Short said.
“I think, more than anything, just
reaching out to all student organiza-
tions on campus to just really make
sure their members are really active
in discussing voting.”
Lardie stressed that it will take
time to implement all their new
ideas.
“There’s a lot of room for us to
do better, but it’s going to take time
for ... these values to be infused
across the culture and for it to be a
part of what is on students’ minds,
in the sense of seeing themselves as
a voter as a piece of their identity,”
Lardie said.
Bowdoin Votes will provide
vans to polling places on Tuesday,
which is election day for Bruns-
wick Municipal races and a state
referendum.

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year to make sense of the compli-
cated situation.
“I saw moments that were a
foreshadowing to what is currently
happening,” she said. “Frankly, it
was something that was building,
it was a series of unique economic
injustices that are based [on] the
neoliberal system that piled up.”
After the protests slowed, Mid-
dlebury in Chile gave students the
in-country, return home and
pursue a remote course load or
switch programs to Middlebury
in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the
remainder of the semester.
“Students have really different
reactions,” said Wintersteen. “So
I’ve had some students say ‘no
matter what happens I’m staying
in Chile,’ and then others say ‘I’m
considering options. I’d like to
know how that would work out
credit-wise.’”
Norell Sherman ’21 has opted
to stay in Valparaíso for the re-
mainder of the semester. Although
she has not had class in two weeks
due to the demonstration, her pro-
gram found other ways to make
sure she gets credit, creating new
classes and providing alternate as-
signments.
The program has forbidden
students from participating in
the protests, but Sherman has still
found ways to get involved.
“Even though I couldn’t protest
in the marches and concentra-
tions, I was still able to partici-
pate in some mobilization—for
example, the cacerolazo [a form
of popular protest which features
the banging of pots and pans].
Every night of the past two weeks
at 8 p.m. my neighborhood has
[gathered] outside our houses to
bangs pots with big spoons for
one hour. Before this all starts,
my host mom and I plug in this
massive speaker and play Victor
Jara’s song, ‘El Derecho de Vivir
en Paz,’” Sherman wrote in a mes-
sage to the Orient.
“The caserolazos have been so
powerful and beautiful. The city
turns into this giant orchestra;
you stand outside your house and
can hear banging pots everywhere
and look around and see people
outside their windows in all parts
of the neighborhood, standing on
roofs, and it’s truly an incredible
form of connection,” said Sher-
man.
Despite the protests, Sherman
says that she wouldn’t dream of
leaving.
Gagliardone too asked students
to not let the protests dissuade
them from studying in Chile, or
other places in Latin America.
Instead, she asked students to look
for lessons that can be learned
from the peaceful demonstrations
happening all over the continent.
“I’m witnessing the ways in
which popular power can truly
create change,” Sherman ex-
plained. “It’s empowering.”

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Rose used the time allotted
at the opening of the meeting
for the president’s comments,
before the motion had been
formally introduced to the floor
for discussion, to address the
substance of Sobak’s motion.
Rose said that he came up
with the idea for the fellowship
after Brooks announced his
resignation from AEI in May
of 2018. After consulting with
former Dean of Students Af-
fairs Tim Foster and Director
of the McKeen Center for the
Common Good Sarah Seames,
Rose contacted Stone, a friend
of Brooks, to gauge Brooks’ in-
terest in visiting Bowdoin.
about the fellowship in early
June 2018, Rose again contact-
ed Stone to ask “if he might put
in a good word for Bowdoin,”
which Stone agreed to do. Rose
described Stone as “helpful in
getting [Brooks] here.”
Stone is a founding member
and director of the private equi-
ty and assessment management
firm Oaktree Capital, a mem-
ber of the College’s investment
committee, a member of AEI’s
National Council and formerly
served on the Board of Trustees.
Stone declined to comment
on his involvement in Brooks’s
appointment.
In an email to the Ori-
ent, Senior Vice President for
Communications and Public
Affairs Scott Hood maintained
that Stone assisted in Brooks’
appointment only in his ca-
pacity as a Bowdoin alum, not
as a member of AEI’s National
Council. According to the AEI
website, the National Board
is composed of “business and
community leaders from across
the country and abroad who are
committed to the values and
success of the Institute.”
“Mr. Stone did this as a favor
to President Rose and on behalf
of the College as an alumnus and
former trustee. His association
with AEI is likely how he came
to know Dr. Brooks, but AEI
had and has no involvement—
financial or otherwise—in next
week’s visit,” Hood wrote.
In his comments following
Rose’s statement at Monday’s
faculty meeting, Sobak reiter-
ated his support for the motion
and explained that it would
both bring greater transpar-
ency to Brooks’s appointment
and serve as a model for a more
formal mechanism for faculty to
participate in the appointment
of future fellows or guests to
campus.
“I care, in making this a for-
mal motion, that we open up a
way that more voices can take
part in these conversations,”
said Sobak. “It’s all to the good
that we develop personal rela-
tionships and bonds of trust and
bonds of affection that allow us
to speak with each other, but
having a formal apparatus does
not undermine that. It in fact
strengthens that.”
Vyjayanthi Selinger, associate
professor of Asian studies, sup-
ported the motion, and added
that a formalized process would
encourage input from minority
and female faculty members
who might not feel comfortable
approaching the administration
otherwise.
Andrew Rudalevidge, Thom-
as Brackett Reed professor
of government and chair of
the government department,
agreed with the motion’s call for
the formalization of future dis-
cussion between faculty and the
administration, but expressed
concern that the substance of
the motion did not directly re-
late to that aim.
“I would urge that the mo-
tion be defeated but that the
conversation continue,” said
Rudalevidge. “Certainly the
broader points—of inclusion on
campus, of the kinds of conver-
sations that should be going on
on the campus—are important
ones, and they don’t end with a
detailed written account.”
In an email to the Orient, So-
bak maintained the importance
of the motion to ask Rose for a
written account.
“I think Rose deserves an
opportunity to offer some clari-
fication and expansion on those
answers .... [T]his motion will
kick-start the formal process
needed to prevent a recurrence
of what was surely an uninten-
tional infraction on Rose’s part,”
wrote Sobak.
4 NEWS
100 years later, the
road to women’s
suffrage lives on
by Lucie Nolden
Orient Staff
To mark the hundred-year
anniversary of the 19th Amend-
ment’s passage, last Tuesday
Bowdoin Votes, the Sexuality,
Women and Gender Center and
the Gender, Sexuality and Wom-
en’s Studies department brought
author Elaine Weiss to campus
to speak about her latest book,
“The Women’s Hour: The Great
Fight to Win the Vote.” The or-
ganizers strategically scheduled
her talk to precede the centen-
nial of Maine’s ratification of the
19th Amendment, which gave
women the right to vote.
In her talk, sponsored by the
Edith Lansing Koon Sills Lec-
ture Fund, Weiss focused on the
final moments of the fight for
women’s suffrage, painting a dra-
matic and complex narrative of
the tensions within the suffrage
movement and between the suf-
fragettes and their opposition.
The success of the suffrage activ-
ists, Weiss argues, was anything
Presidential candidate Patrick Dempsey of ‘Grey’s
Bennet speaks at Bowdoin Anatomy’ to be No Hate
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
Like most visiting for Family
Weekend, presidential candidate
and United States Senator Michael
Bennet (D-CO) P’23 spent the
weekend eating brunch at Thorne,
exploring campus and spending
time with his family.
Unlike other visiting parents
and family members, Bennet
spent Saturday afternoon answer-
ing questions about national issues
and his presidential campaign
from a crowded room of parents,
students and Brunswick resi-
dents—among whom was Senator
Angus King (I-ME)—during a
town hall in Chase Barn.
Bennet has represented Colora-
do in the Senate since 2009. Before
running for Senate, he served as
the Superintendent of the Den-
ver Public Schools which serves
95,000 students. Bennet is current-
ly polling at less than one percent
in most national polls.
In January, Bennet drew na-
tional attention after an impas-
sioned, impromptu speech on the
Senate floor where he accused Sen.
Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) of “crying croc-
odile tears.”
Topics discussed at the ques-
tion and answer session included
climate change, education and
healthcare.
Halfway through the town
hall, Bennet caught sight of King
seated behind him. In a moment
of excitement, the two, who sit on
the Senate Intelligence Committee
together, embraced and Bennet in-
vited the Senator to answer ques-
tions with him.
“It was fun that Angus King
showed up. I appreciated that. I
wasn’t expecting that,” Bennet said
in an interview with the Orient. “It
was fun to have the opportunity to
but inevitable.
“The suffragists did not just
march and picket and protest
and demonstrate. They also de-
bated and lobbied and drafted
legislation and campaigned,” said
Weiss, emphasizing the uphill
nature of the battle fought by the
suffragettes in Tennessee, where
her book is primarily set. The
Volunteer State was the 36th state
to ratify, making it the final state
necessary for the constitutional
amendment to become law.
Weiss strove to clarify that
the ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment did not guarantee
voting rights for all Americans.
Jim Crow laws and a litany of
other laws prevented black peo-
ple, Asian Americans and Na-
tive Americans from voting for
decades after 1920. She empha-
sized that the fight to ensure the
protection of every American’s
right to vote is far from over.
“We are revisiting a lot of these
issues because voting rights are
being threatened in many, many
states. Something like 25 states
hear his answers as well.”
Together, the duo fielded ques-
tions including one regarding the
current impeachment investiga-
tion of President Donald Trump.
King answered by stating he is a
conservative when it comes to im-
peachment, meaning he believes
that it should not be done because
a party disagrees with the policies
or personality of the President.
King explained he does not yet
have a verdict on the situation be-
cause he will be a juror if the inqui-
ry goes to Senate. However, King
does not see political dissonance as
the motive for impeachment.
“It came to the point when I
read the transcript of that tele-
phone call, where the President of
the United States essentially asked
the foreign leader to intervene in
our election—in his reelection,”
King said. “I just felt as a public guy
who took an oath to defend the
constitution, I can’t look the other
way.”
As for his personal politics,
Bennet is a self-described “prag-
matic idealist.” Bennet calls himself
pragmatic because he has little pa-
tience with Washington’s “ideolog-
ical partisan shooters” who are not
focused on solutions for working
class people.
“I know how hard kids are
working in the Denver Public
Schools, under incredibly adverse
circumstances, to get into a posi-
tion to make a difference in this
democracy,” Bennet said. “Every
single time [partisans] are wast-
ing their time. It really makes me
mad.”
The idealist in him, Bennet
says, believes wholeheartedly in
American democracy.
“I think we are the last best hope
on earth in terms of freedom and
democracy, as imperfect as our ex-
ample has been,” Bennet said.
GET OUT THE VOTE: Elaine Weiss addresses community members in honor of Maine’s ratification of the 19th
Amendment.
have imposed new restrictions
and new suppression tactics in
the last several years since the
Supreme Court gutted the Voting
Rights Act,” Weiss said.
Furthermore, she explained
that studying the history of vot-
ing rights is important in order
to understand that democracy is
at stake.
“I think we have to have a
reckoning. Are we going to allow
this? The suffragists used the
argument: How can we call our-
In an increasingly left-lean-
ing democratic primary, Bennet
said his “pragmatic idealism” is
viewed—in comparison to can-
didates such as Elizabeth Warren
and Bernie Sanders—as “moder-
ate.”
“I think I have very progressive
agenda. I really do,” Bennet said. “It
is very different than Bernie’s and
Elizabeth.”
Bennet pointed out his plan
to reduce childhood poverty by
increasing the child tax credit and
the earned income tax credit as
well as implementing family leave.
Anna Martens ’20, who is from
Denver, remembers Bennet from
when he was the superintendent
of her school district. She says al-
though she saw him on numerous
other occasions, last weekend’s
Q&A—2,000 miles from her and
Bennet’s hometown—was unique
because of the casual nature of the
conversation.
“It was nice to get that view-
point and that intimacy on cam-
pus,” Martens said.
Bennet’s office reached out
to the Bowdoin College Demo-
crats—the organizers and spon-
sors of the event—to see if there
was interest on campus for a Q&A.
“I wanted it to be less a cam-
paign event and more of an
opportunity for people to ask
questions—that’s how I learn what
people are interested in,” Bennet
said.
Attendees also felt that the con-
versation encouraged discourse on
“hot-button” political issues.
“I appreciated that there was a
back and forth between the crowd
and himself,” Morgan Edwards
’22 said. “I think that’s great. We
should be encouraging civil, re-
spectful discourse in the political
circles. And I think that was a
prime example of that occurring.”
selves a democracy if half of the
citizens of the nation can’t vote?”
Weiss said.
The fight, Weiss reminded
the audience, did not and does
not end with the winning of
the right to vote. Once earned,
the vote can never be taken for
granted—it must be valiantly
defended. Weiss ended her talk
with a quotation from Carrie
Chapman Catt, protégé of Susan
B. Anthony, and a key leader of
the ratification fight in Tennes-
November keynote speaker
by Rebecca Norden-Bright
Orient Staff
Fans of “Grey’s Anatomy”
have much to look forward to
this month—Patrick Dempsey
H’13, an actor, activist and
philanthropist who frequently
speaks about his struggles with
dyslexia, will be visiting campus
on November 14 as the keynote
speaker for the annual No Hate
November month.
No Hate November, orga-
nized by the Bowdoin Student
Government (BSG), is an initia-
tive designed to incite conversa-
tions about identity and inclusiv-
ity on campus. It was created in
response to a bias incident that
occurred in the fall of 2013.
Traditionally, programming
has revolved around discussions
of race and class and occasionally
sexuality and gender, according
to BSG President Ural Mishra
’20. This year, however, BSG is
aiming to diversify the spec-
trum of conversations by bring-
ing light to issues that often are
not typically highlighted in the
month’s programming.
Dempsey, a Maine native who
received an honorary degree
from Bowdoin in 2013, is pri-
marily known for his role as Dr.
Derek Shepherd in “Grey’s Anat-
omy.” Dyslexia and the challeng-
es of growing up with a learning
disability will be the central focus
of Dempsey’s lecture.
BSG Chair of Diversity &
Inclusion, Marcus Williams ’21,
led the effort to bring Dempsey
to campus.
“I think what he’ll really be
able to do is bring a crowd that
you probably wouldn’t see in No
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
see and founder of the League of
Women Voters.
“‘That vote of yours has
cost millions of dollars and the
lives of thousands of women.
Women have suffered agony
of soul which you can never
comprehend, that you and your
daughters might inherit political
freedom,’” Weiss said, quoting
Catt. “Use it intelligently, consci-
entiously and prayerfully. Prog-
ress is calling to you to make no
pause. Act.”
Hate November … and force
them to think about some things
that maybe don’t cross their
minds as much,” said Williams.
The event will be followed
by a reception where students
will have the chance to meet
Dempsey. However, if space fills
up, priority will be given to those
“I think what he’ll really be able to do is
bring a crowd that you probably wouldn’t
see in No Hate November ... and force
them to think about some things that
maybe don’t cross their minds as much.”
–Marcus Williams ’21, BSG Chair of Diversity &
Inclusivity
who attend an Indigenous peo-
ple’s land recognition discussion
happening earlier the same day.
According to Williams, the
decision to include priority en-
trance is based on his observa-
tion that the keynote speaker of-
ten receives the most recognition
at the expense of other program-
ming happening on campus.
“I’m just using it to filter out
people who aren’t there for the
right reasons,” Williams said.
The discussion, advertised as
“Land and Waters Around Us: A
Discussion on Indigenous Lands
and Acknowledgements,” is one
of a series of events being held
as part of Native American Her-
itage Month (also in November)
to increase the visibility of Indig-
enous groups on campus.
“At least in my time, there
hasn’t been a whole lot of dis-
cussion about Indigenous groups
and populations,” said Mishra.
Williams and Mishra both
Friday, November 1, 2019
SAFETY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
Plus, a friendly reminder—if
you are running or walking on
the streets, stay on the side of the
road to avoid on-coming traffic.
If you are biking, go with the
flow of traffic. Just like construc-
tion workers, runners/walkers
should don reflective vests.
Some may also choose to use
headlamps or a hand-held flash-
light as an extra safety measure.
If you notice the weather is harsh
on our roads, use sidewalks. A
little illumination could prevent
a twisted ankle.
Here’s some food for thought:
texting and walking? How risky
is it? Does one become disen-
gaged from their environment
by texting, therefore increasing
the probability of an incident
that could result in an injury?
Distractions while in motion
usually end badly.
2. Ears: Use one earbud so you
can stay alert for the cyclist warn-
ing: “passing on your left.” Music
and podcasts can still be enjoyed
with just one ear tuned in. Re-
flecting again on my Alaskan
adventures, the warning “moose
ahead” meant proceed with cau-
tion. Maine has its share of moose
as well. In the end, it comes down
to situational awareness. See and
be seen, and stay in tune to your
environment with at least one ear.
noted that much of this year’s No
Hate November will be centered
around supporting other groups
on campus, particularly affinity
groups, in their programming.
Both pointed out the dangers of
over-programming, emphasizing
BSG’s goal to not oversaturate an
already hectic and often over-
whelming campus calendar.
“We don’t want to step on the
toes of any other groups that
are doing things, and if they are
doing things, we’re reaching out
and asking what we can do to
support them,” Mishra said.
“I’m a big fan of delegation
… because you can’t do every-
thing yourself,” Williams added.
“I think the best programming
comes from people that have
their heart based in it.”
Williams explained that this
year’s No Hate November is
ultimately aimed at bringing
together parts of the Bowdoin
community that do not often
interact and inspiring students to
take action to improve inclusivity
on campus.
“BSG is really hoping to get
people to take the first step in
engaging in different conver-
sations and just pushing them-
selves to go in different spaces,”
said Williams.
Friday, November 1, 2019
MAINE ISSUES:
REFERENDUM QUESTIONS
This year, the Maine ballot features one bond issue and one constitutional amendment. Following passage by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate of the state legislature, bond issues and constitutional
amendments in Maine must be approved by voters in order to take effect.
Q1: Should the state issue $105 million in bonds to improve Maine’s transportation infrastructure?
If approved, the state will issue up to $105 million in bonds
to pay for improvements of roads, bridges, airports, railroads
and other projects. The funds will be divided among agencies
as follows: $100 million for the Department of Transportation,
$4 million for the Department of Environmental Protection and
$1 million for the Department of Economic and Community
Development.
The Department of Transportation will use $85 million to
improve highways, secondary roads and bridges and $15 million to
improve facilities and equipment associated with railroad, marine
and public transit, as well as bicycle, pedestrian and aviation
Q2: Should the state allow people with disabilities to use an “alternative signature” to sign petitions?
This constitutional amendment would allow individuals with
disabilities, who may be unable to sign a petition themselves, to
use an alternative signature to sign a citizens’ initiative or people’s
veto petition. An alternative signature may take the form of a
stamp or signature of an authorized voter registered in Maine
signing on the person’s behalf, in their presence and at their
direction.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Town council and school board members representing districts 1,
2 and 6 in Brunswick are up for election this year. Five of the six races
are uncontested, and four of the six candidates are incumbents in their
respective positions.
David Watson is running for reelection as the District 1 Town
Council representative, and Stephen Walker is running for reelection
as the District 2 Town Council representative.
The candidates for the District 6 Town Council representative
position are Toby McGrath ’99 and Jim Trusiani. Both have
experience in public service. McGrath, current managing director
NEWS
Mainers will head to the polls on Tuesday to answer questions with local and state-
wide implications. On the ballot in Brunswick are two state referendum questions and,
for three of the town’s seven districts, candidates for town council and school board.
facilities. These funds are expected to be matched by $137 million
in funding from local and federal sources.
The $4-million bond issue for the Department of Environmental
Protection will fund a grant program to repair or replace culverts
at stream crossings, with the goal of improving fish and wildlife
habitats and minimizing flood and storm water hazards. The grants
will be available to local governments, conservation commissions
and districts and private non-profit organizations.
The Department of Economic and Community Development
will administer $1 million of the bond issue, which will go towards
the renovation of a wharf and bulkhead at the Gulf of Maine
Alternative signatures for people with physical disabilities can
already be used in Maine to register to vote, change political
parties and sign nomination petitions. The constitutional
amendment would make state elections more accessible by
allowing all people, regardless of physical ability, to support the
addition of referendum questions to the ballot.
In 2001, a federal judge declared that a provision in the Maine
with Drummond Woodsum Strategic Consulting, was a deputy
chief of staff to Senator Angus King (I-ME) and chief of staff to
former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Glenn
Cummings (D-ME). Trusiani, an equipment manager with Crooker
Construction, served on the Topsham Board of Selectmen, the
Sagadahoc County Budget Advisory Committee and several school
district committees.
For the school board positions, Mandy Merrill is running for
reelection in District 1, Elizabeth Sokoloff is running for reelection in
District 6 and Elizabeth Bisson is running for her first term in District 2.
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Research Institute in Portland to support marine research in the
state.
An editorial in the Bangor Daily News supported the bond issue,
but warned that the state should not rely on bonds to pay for road
repairs and improvements in the years to come. “Voters should
approve the bond in November, but bonding is not a sustainable—
or prudent—way to repeatedly cover the costs of routine work,”
the editorial read. Indeed, Maine voters have approved similar or
nearly identical bond issues for transportation infrastructure in nine
of the past 14 years (in the other five years, no such bond issue was
on the ballot).
Constitution barring people “under guardianship for reasons of
mental illness” from voting was unconstitutional. Prior to that
decision, however, two proposed amendments to strike that
provision from the constitution, in 1997 and 2000, failed to pass
when posed to voters.
A Portland Press Herald editorial voiced support for Question 2,
saying the motion is uncontroversial.
HOW TO VOTE
All voting will take place at Brunswick Junior High School
on Tuesday, November 5. Polls will be open between 7 a.m.
and 8 p.m..
If you live on campus, the municipal district in which you are
registered to vote depends on your on-campus residence. Visit
https://students.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-votes/ to learn more.
6 Friday, November 1, 2019

F FEATURES
Bowdoin welcomes five new professors this fall
Tenure and tenure-track professors bring interdisciplinary perspectives to their departments
by Emily Staten and Tianyi Xu
Orient Staff

This fall, five tenured or tenure track professors joined Bow-

doin’s ranks, settling into the community and bringing new ideas
to their departments. They specialize in a wide array of subjects,
including religion, Asian and Africana studies, music, neurosci-
ence, biology and chemistry. The professors combine research
and teaching, embracing the liberal arts tradition of interdisci-
plinary exploration.

Claire Robison
Assistant Professor of Religion
and Asian Studies
Claire Robison does both
historical and ethnographic
work, focusing on religions of
India and South Asia.
“My work looks at how the
practice of religion is changing
in contemporary India, partic-
ularly with the rise of global-
ization, urbanization [and] the
ways that people are rethinking
what religion means to them in
the modern context,” Robison
said.
The opportunity to engage
in this kind of work through an
interdisciplinary position was
appealing to Robison.
“I draw from anthropology
with my use of ethnographic
methods, [and] I’m also in-
terested in thinking about the
relationship of religion, culture
and politics broadly,” Robison
explained. “I’m … adding some-
thing new [to the departments]
in the sense that a lot of the
work done in the department
is predominantly historical and
textual. My work is focused on
looking at lived religion.”
Robison concentrated on
this subject during her time
at the University of Califor-
nia, Santa Barbara, where she
earned her PhD after earning
her Bachelor’s degree at Oxford
University and her Master’s de-
gree at Cambridge University.
Robison is teaching two
courses cross-listed in the
Asian Studies and Religion de-
partments: “Hindu Literatures”
and “Religion on the Move:
Religion, Migration, and Glo-
balization.”
In addition to teaching, Ro-
bison is working on research
projects that explore lived reli-
gion in India.
“I’m in the process of editing
my manuscript based on my
doctoral work, but I’m also lay-
ing the groundwork for my sec-
ond project which will look at
… the ways in which religious
identity is changing in urban
India today,” Robison said.
Ayodeji Ogunnaike
Assistant Professor of Africana
Studies
Ayodeji Ogunnaike came to lab and classroom, Díaz-Ríos
Bowdoin after earning his PhD said that he hopes to take up
in African and African Amer- skiing.
ican studies from Harvard “It’s something I couldn’t do
University last year. Ogunnaike as a postdoc; I was just working
studied religion in Nigeria, as all the time. Now, I might take up
well as the diaspora. cross-country skiing,” Díaz-Ríos
Focusing on the intersection said. “I’m looking forward to
between religion and Africana making the most of my winters
studies, Ogunnaike teaches here.”
two cross-listed courses: “In-
troduction to African Religions Allison Dzubak
and Cultures” and “Deities in Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Motion: Afro-Diasporic Reli- AADHYA RAMINENI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT Hailing from Minnesota, As-
gions.” FAB FIVE: This fall, Bowdoin welcomed five professors, either tenured or tenure-track. Clockwise from top sistant Professor of Chemistry
“Religion isn’t something left: Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Ireri E. Chávez-Bárcenas, Claire Robison, Manuel Díaz-Ríos and Allison Dzubak. Allison Dzubak came to Bowdoin
that was covered directly [in after three years of research at the
the Africana studies depart- Specializing in mu- Chávez-Bárcenas said. so inquisitive and so hungry for Oak Ridge National Lab in Ten-
ment],” Ogunnaike said. sic from the 17th century, Once she discovered musi- knowledge,” Díaz-Ríos said. nessee.
His focus on African na- Chávez-Bárcenas focuses on cology, Chávez-Bárcenas never Specializing in neuroscience “[Bowdoin is] such a warm
tions, rather than mostly on Af- Italian opera and sacred music looked back. and neurophysiology, Díaz-Ríos environment,” Dzubak said. “I
rican-American topics, is also in the Hispanic world. “The moment when I really taught at UPR Medical School met the other faculty on Skype,
unique for the Africana studies Her work is interdisciplinary, knew that I wanted to do this for 14 years. Díaz-Ríos said that and that was really promising,
program. combining music with Latin [was] the first time I went to the he appreciates the undergrad- but it wasn’t until I got here that I
Born in Nigeria, Ogunnaike American studies and theater. archive in a cathedral in Mexi- uate setting and the emphasis saw how everyone interacted with
is able to bring his own life ex-One of her classes this semester, co,” Chávez-Bárcenas said. “You placed on personal relation- each other … and it was just the
periences into the classroom. entitled “Experiencing Latin just see all these papers and all ships. way I wanted it.”
“In my classes I … tell peo- American Music,” is cross-listed these documents and all these “[Medical students] just want In her introductory class
ple stories about my life and in the music and Latin Ameri- histories ... that’s my passion to to get what’s essential for them, “General Chemistry,” Dzubak
the things that happened to can Studies departments. work with the original sources attend classes and get good aims to strike a balance between
me, and I can always use my- “The idea is to introduce and to be able to discover all grades,” Díaz-Ríos said. “Un- breadth and depth, meaning she
self as an example,” Ogunnaike students to the main elements these histories behind [them].” dergrads [are] in a stage in their may spend more time on one
said. [and] principles of music but She continues to carry that careers [and] are much hungrier concept so that her students can
In addition to his teaching, also to Latin American cul- passion to her current research for knowledge and for exploring fully grasp it, instead of blazing
Ogunnaike is busy with several ture,” Chávez-Bárcenas said. projects, which include an es- and for finding their direction through a wide array of content.
research projects, including “The idea is … looking at the say on song and dance transi- professionally.” Having previously taught
a book of Nigerian myths for music as an opportunity to get tions in the Mexica region and Díaz-Ríos teaches “Motor graduate students, the teaching
children. to know more about groups of a book she hopes to develop in Systems Neurobiology” this se- style and students’ enthusiastic in-
“I always loved mytholo- people or countries or regions.” the next four or five years. mester, exploring major animal volvement in classes at Bowdoin
gy as a kid, but I didn’t know Her second class, “From motor systems to study how be- was a pleasant change.
much of the mythology from Claudio Monteverdi to Manuel Díaz-Ríos havior is controlled. “[Teaching graduate students]
my own ethnic group in Ni- Lin-Manuel Miranda: Issues Professor of Neuroscience and “We’re starting to transition was tough because I couldn’t have
geria,” Ogunnaike said. “Sev- at the Intersection of Music Biology to diseases, to see how animal as many one-on-one interactions
eral years ago I went back to and Theater” is cross-listed in After teaching and studying models can help us understand with students,” Dzubak said.
Nigeria and collected a whole the music and theater depart- at the University of Puerto Rico disease progression,” he said. “Here, the class sizes are much
bunch of myths and stories ments. She nearly became a (UPR) medical school and com- Díaz-Ríos hopes to get in- smaller, [and] I can interact with
and things that I’ve put togeth- professional musician, study- pleting a post-doc fellowship volved in local schools and bring students [individually and] em-
er into a kids book [that] I’m ing piano and percussion, but at Cornell, Manuel Díaz-Ríos neuroscience education to ele- ploy different types of teaching
working on publishing.” knew her interests lay in re- comes to Bowdoin as a professor mentary and secondary school techniques.”
search. of neuroscience and biology. students. A self-described “outdoorsy
Ireri E. Chávez-Bárcenas “I wanted to study sociolo- Díaz-Ríos says that he was en- “I have already contacted the person,” Dzubak looks forward to
Assistant Professor of Music gy or history or philosophy … amored by the Bowdoin student high schools here, and hopefully exploring Maine’s natural beauty.
Ireri E. Chávez-Bárcenas until I discovered that there body following his 2016 visit to we’ll start to give interactive pre- “I’ve been hiking a lot so
comes to Bowdoin after teach- was this thing called musicol- campus to deliver a talk. sentations and demonstrations,” far and I’m looking forward to
ing at Yale University and Rider ogy … where I could combine “They were so focused. They Díaz-Ríos said. doing that more,” she said. “I
University. the humanities and music,” were so dedicated. They were As for his time outside of the might try winter skiing, too.”
Friday, November 1, 2019
Intergroup dialogue sparks conversation on campus
by Sophie Burchell
Orient Staff
Every Monday night for the
past five weeks, 16 members of
the Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) on
race gathered at 30 College Street.
Through dialogue, rather than
debate, participants aim for honest
understanding across racial iden-
tities.
Facilitated by Director of
Religious and Spiritual Life Edu-
ardo Pazos and Associate Dean
of Student Affairs for Inclusion
and Diversity and Director of the
Sexuality, Women and Gender
Center Kate Stern, the program is
designed to allow students of var-
ious racial backgrounds to come
together to discuss issues of race
on campus and in society at large.
“[We hope to] give students the
Taking a stand: alumni run for office, with Bowdoin in mind
by Emma Sorkin
Orient Staff
There is a long history of Bow-
doin alumni going into politics
at all levels, from state and local
seats to the Presidency. Two recent
Bowdoin alumni may soon join
the growing list of Bowdoin grad-
uates in political office.
Joe Sherlock ’16 and Zohran
Mamdani ’14 are both in the
throes of campaigns for city coun-
cil in Haverhill, Massachusetts and
Assembly District 36 in New York,
respectively.
For Sherlock, a government
major and economics minor, poli-
tics was always a significant part of
his life, having served as a member
of student government and stu-
dent council in high school.
“When I was in high school, I
spent my time organizing and ad-
vocating for students. We were met
with a lot of tedious, bureaucratic
answers in what was, at the time,
an underfunded school system,”
Sherlock wrote in an email to the
Orient. “At Bowdoin, I wanted
a different perspective on poli-
Monthly book club gathers to discuss feminist texts, films
by Irene Brogdon
Staff Writer
On the fourth Sunday of every
month, a small group gathers in
the hole-in-the-wall space above
Moderation Brewing to sip beer,
chat and reflect on feminist texts.
Open to people of all genders,
the Brunswick Feminist Book
Club met for the first time last
November when Kira Bennett
Hamilton brought a couple of
friends together from the Bruns-
wick area. Despite having moved
around, Bennett Hamilton often
found herself seeking out similar
feminist book clubs: these were
spaces not just for intellectual de-
bate, but for bonding and creating
a community.
“I basically moved [to Bruns-
wick] and spent a year complain-
ing about how there wasn’t a femi-
nist book club,” Bennett Hamilton
said. “Then [I] decided I knew
enough people that I could possi-
bly start one.”
While the group began as dis-
cussions among friends, Bennett
Hamilton now uses a Facebook
page to reach out to more mem-
bers of the Brunswick community.
ability to engage in conversations
about race that often either don’t
happen or don’t happen inter-
group,” Stern said. “To have the
ability for students of color and
white students to talk together
about race—we’ve heard from
students over and over again—is
rare.”
The program also includes in-
tragroup dialogue sessions during
which students of color and white
students split up and talk among
themselves. The group also dis-
cusses weekly readings.
The program, which is in its
sixth year, is offered both semes-
ters, and each cohort meets for
seven weeks. Students of all classes
are welcome to apply, though this
semester’s cohort is predominant-
ly sophomores.
Roughly half of them identify
cy-making and social movements.”
Mamdani, an Africana Studies
major, didn’t enter politics im-
mediately after graduating. He
worked as the third assistant direc-
tor and music supervisor for Dis-
ney’s “Queen of Katwe” and wrote
rap music that was ranked in the
Associated Press’ top 10 songs of
the year. But his passion for orga-
nizing that started at Bowdoin—
he co-founded the first Students
for Justice in Palestine and spent
time organizing, setting up events,
planning film festivals and starting
petitions for that cause—never
dissipated.
“It’s not that everything changed
in college, but I went from having
Facebook arguments and long
back and forths with friends about
it, never making any headway to
realizing that just an active group
of 10 people can totally change the
discourse on a campus and realiz-
ing what the power of organizing
is,” Mamdani said. “Through
organizing around Palestine and
Palestinian solidarity issues, I saw
a very different side of the admin-
istration. That was a very formative
MEETING IN MODERATION: A local feminist book club meets upstairs at Moderation Brewing Company once a month to discuss books, films and more.
The group typically draws five
to 10 people each month. How-
ever, certain topics pull larger
crowds; for example, a meeting
on Michelle Obama’s “Becoming”
drew 20 people.
In order to reach new mem-
bers each month, the book club
has a collaborative rather than
hierarchical leadership struc-
ture, one member said. For ex-
ample, in order to hear from a
variety of voices, the meetings
often end with a discussion of
potential books to discuss at the
next meeting.
Sara McGrath, who found the
Brunswick Feminist Book Club
through Facebook, notes the di-
versity in topics that the group has
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as students of color, which is both
intentional and integral to the pro-
gram.
“When you take a look at the
group dynamics, it is absolutely es-
sential for Intergroup Dialogue [to
be] as close as possible to a 50/50
split between one group and the
other group,” Pazos said.
While IGD on race has been
facilitated by different trained fac-
ulty members in the past, this year
it is run by Pazos and Stern, who
happen to be the two directors of
the program Bowdoin Dialogues.
Stern said that a group of facul-
ty and students brought the inte-
grative dialogue model to campus
in hopes that it would change what
prompted campus discussion on
race.
“There was a lot of conversa-
tions related to race on campus
experience in understanding how
things work when you’re trying
to push for demands that are not
popular with the people in power.”
Both alumni noted that their
time at Bowdoin influenced their
ideology and subsequent cam-
paigns. For Sherlock, Bowdoin
provided exposure to a variety of
ideas and perspectives. His time at
the College also instilled a strong
belief in the common good.
“If you’re running for some-
thing, a version of the ‘common
good’ needs to be part of your
‘why’ when someone asks why
you’re running,” Sherlock ex-
plained. “I imagine it would be
quite deadening to not think about
the common good every day that
you’re on the campaign trail.”
Mamdani explained that his
time at Bowdoin shaped his po-
litical ideology, exposing him to
influential writers and thinkers.
“Bowdoin is where I read
Frantz Fanon [and] where I was
introduced to a lot of texts and
discourses about the urban cri-
sis,” Mamdani said. “[I took] very
formative history and sociology
covered in the past several months.
“We’ve been reading some re-
ally great sci-fi by [both] African
[and] African-American female
authors. We read the first book of
the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K.
Jemisin, and that was fabulous,
and then, ‘Children of Blood and
Bone,’” McGrath said. “So that was
really great to see this female, per-
son-of-color-oriented perspective
in a sci-fi and fantasy context.”
As the broader feminist move-
ment reacts and recalibrates to
incorporate new ideas, the book
club does as well. An early meeting
debated the trend of “self-care”
in feminist circles, and McGrath
explained that the discussion chal-
lenged the meaning of self-care.
that were reactionary,” Stern said.
“And we really looked to see what
that proactive way [would] be to
have a conversation that wasn’t
reactive to something happening
on campus.”
Students participating in IGD
are excited about this opportunity
to be proactive about issues of race
on campus. Noa Schumann ’22,
a white-identifying student, says
Bowdoin students need to find
ways to openly talk about diversity.
“It’s sort of this gray area that
everyone knows is an issue but no
one actually does anything to talk
about it. So I think this opportuni-
ty is great,” Schumann said.
Other participants reported a
variety of reasons for joining IGD.
Manny Coleman ’22, who identi-
fies as biracial, said his racial iden-
tity usually surprises people who
classes that really shaped the way
I think about cities in our country
and what the problems are and
why they exist and who made
them exist.”
Mamdani is running as a Dem-
ocratic Socialist and identified the
two main issues of his campaign as
housing and school desegregation.
A graduate of a New York City
public school, he wants to change
the system.
“The way we do admissions to
these top public schools in New
York City is via a single test that
you take once. And that’s it. I firmly
believe that isn’t the way we should
be testing students’ admission into
these kinds of schools,” Mamdani
said. “There’s another proposal
out there which would guarantee
admission to the top 10 percent of
students in middle schools across
New York City. I think that would
be a test that not only would be a
better measure of students’ apti-
tude but would also better reflect
our actual city.”
Sherlock’s campaign is similarly
personal. A Haverhill native, Sher-
lock noted little change in the town
For McGrath and others, the topic
is at the crux of debates surround-
ing feminism in a capitalist society.
“[It has been] co-opted by cap-
italism so that self-care becomes
buying yourself something,” she
said.
Many attendees are profoundly
aware of their place in a broader
community, particularly in Bruns-
wick and the greater Maine area.
While the proximity to the College
attracts an intellectual crowd who
relish what McGrath calls “the life
of the mind,” the name of the club
itself—and the demographics of
the group—hold the potential to
alienate potential attendees.
“I think there are a lot of
strong, independent women in
assume he is white. Growing up in
a predominantly white neighbor-
hood, it is something he has long
grappled with and hopes to come
to terms within the structured set-
ting of the IGD on race.
“I think I did IGD more for
myself,” Coleman said. “It’s kind
of just a sense of more control over
what I perceive my race to be, kind
of more peace with my race.”
Tess Huckaby ’22 said that
when she came to campus as a
first year, she became increasingly
aware of her identity as a student
of color.
“I found myself having mo-
ments of struggle as a student
of color on this campus. I think
growing up I never really had to
feel like the minority in a way.
Coming here made me more
aware of my race than I ever had
SPEAKING OUT: Joe Sherlock ’16, one of two alumni running for local
office, speaks at an event for his city council campaign.
when he returned home in 2018.
“We’ve seen a rise of gang vio-
lence and in my community, like
many, affordability is a struggle,”
Sherlock wrote. “I want to make
sure Haverhill stays affordable and
safe with a fantastic public school
system. The campaign itself is as
grassroots as it gets: campaign HQ
is my apartment and volunteers
are friends and family.”
For Mamdani, personal ties are
the most important part of orga-
nizing.
“I think the most effective or-
ganizing is when you organize at
EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Maine who would not consider
themselves feminists,” said Clara
McCandlish, another regular book
club attendee. “It’s interesting how
[the word ‘feminist’] continues to
be a polarizing label, depending on
one’s political orientation. I know
a lot of women who exhibit lots of
feminist characteristics but [are]
alienated from the term.”
The complexity of claiming
the feminist movement is not lost
on Bennett Hamilton, even as the
movement becomes more and
more ubiquitous in some circles.
During the book club’s most re-
cent meeting, the group discussed
writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Em-
my-Winning TV series, “Fleabag,”
whose protagonist is often called
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been before,” Huckaby said. “I’ve
really enjoyed IGD so far. I think
it’s something that’s really import-
ant for people to be involved in.
As much as it can be hard at times
during the discussions, I think it’s
a good way to push myself out of
my comfort zone.”
Students who complete the
program can also opt to be trained
as IGD facilitators and lead similar
dialogues throughout Bowdoin,
such as talks in the College Hous-
es, on the floors of the first-year
bricks and with sports teams.
“I think this is a really import-
ant way that I can begin to start
the conversation about race on
campus,” Schumann said. “It’s not
the oppressed’s job to give infor-
mation to the oppressor. It’s ev-
eryone’s job to educate themselves
about race.”
COURTESY OF JOE SHERLOCK
home and [when] you organize
about issues that are right in front
of you. Bowdoin is such an idyllic
place to study and be a student for
four years,” Mamdani said. “But I
very much would encourage stu-
dents to get involved in [issues they
care about] and not to feel like any
position is too radical.”
Aside from encouraging stu-
dents to get involved with issues
important to them, Sherlock leaves
Bowdoin students with critical
advice: “Engage with people who
think differently from you, and al-
ways get the buffalo chicken soup.”
wildly problematic by modern
feminist standards; at one point,
she declares that she would trade
5 years of her life for the perfect
body, a line which drew laughs
from many members of the book
club.
For Bennett Hamilton, the nu-
ances of third- and fourth-wave
feminism are starting points for
discussion.
“[In the context of] talking
about a feminist group or a fem-
inist book club, feminism as a
movement isn’t something that we
can take uncritically. A lot of what
I like about [“Fleabag”] is that it’s
super irreverent about things like
that,” Bennet Hamilton said. “I
think a big piece of what it’s doing
is portraying in a very deep sense
how women are harmed by a pa-
triarchal culture.”
Next month, the Brunswick
Feminist Book Club will be read-
ing “The Testaments” by Margaret
Atwood. As for the discussion,
there are no guarantees.
“It’s fun to see who shows up,
who catches it on Facebook, who
comes, who comes back,” Mc-
Grath said. “Every meeting is a
little different.”
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HOLLY HARRIS

The Bowdoin polar bear: origins in a history of exploration

Poke the Bear
by Sela Kay
Everyone remembers some-
thing different about their first
time on Bowdoin’s campus.
Maybe it’s the stress of move-in
day, the excitement of that one
soccer game you watched as
a prospective student or even
running through the quad as
a little kid on a sunny sum-
mer day. For me, it’s walking
into the Peter Buck Center for
Health and Fitness and coming
face to face with a giant taxider-
mied polar bear.
You know which polar bear
I’m talking about; it’s smack dab
in the middle of the Buck Cen-
ter, and if you’ve ever walked
from the Sills Hall side of cam-
pus toward Smith Union, you’ve
undoubtedly had the same
encounter. I’ll admit that as a
prospective student I was a lit-
tle terrified when I first saw the
bear, but to this day, whenever I
walk past, I’m reminded of my
first time on Bowdoin’s campus.
And when I think back to
this moment—strangely the
most memorable experience
from my visit to Bowdoin—I
wonder about the story behind
this bear. Where did it come
from? How did it end up in the
Buck lobby? And why is the
polar bear our school mascot to
begin with?
Let’s start with some dates.
On April 6, 1909, Robert
Peary, Class of 1877, discovered
the North Pole. His discovery
brought great pride and prestige
to the College, subsequently
influencing the alumni board’s
choice in mascot. At an Alum-
ni Association banquet in New
York four years after Peary’s
discovery, the polar bear was se-
lected as Bowdoin’s mascot.
Directly following this meet-
ing in New York, then Bowdoin
athletic director Frank Whittier
drafted a letter to Donald Bax-
ter Macmillan (another Bow-
doin alumnus, Class of 1898,
and arctic explorer) requesting
a “fine, stuffed polar bear skin”
to display in the College’s tro-
phy room.
May 13, 1915 marks the ex-
act date that Macmillan, with
the help of a local Inuit hunter,
shot and killed Bowdoin’s leg-
endary, now-taxidermied, polar
bear in Greenland. Macmillan
planned to return to Brunswick
as quickly as possible, but the
polar bear and the rest of the
expedition team were forced to
remain in Greenland far past
the anticipated departure date
and his ship did not return for
two years. Once they finally
returned to Bowdoin, the bear
was not in nearly as good con-
dition as the team had hoped,
so expert taxidermists manip-
ulated the skin once the bear
made it to Maine. The taxider-
mists eventually decided on a
simple pose so the bear would
stand proud in its case.
The polar bear was gifted to
President Kenneth C.M. Sills at
the commencement dinner in
1918 and has stood in its case
for over a century—a visible
reminder of Macmillan’s expe-
dition to Greenland.
Because of the polar bear,
Buck lobby is rich in history.
Buck is home to a polar bear that
walked across Arctic ice caps
more than a hundred years ago
and represents perseverance,
strong will and determination.
Of course, a mission like
this is unlikely to be condoned
by the College today and is
instead rooted in something
both meaningful and enchant-
ing. When I reflect on my first
Bowdoin experience, I think
my first encounter with the
polar bear was my mind’s sub-
conscious way of telling me
that Bowdoin had an incredible
history I would eventually dis-
cover for myself.

Meet Kate Nicholson, new assistant director of student wellness programs

by Aadhya Ramineni
Staff Writer
In an often high-stress envi-
ronment like Bowdoin, self-care
is encouraged, whether it’s in the
form of writing, drawing or tak-
ing a warm shower.
“Stress might be [a] unifying
factor, but [it’s] not something
I encourage us to over-identify
with or let run our lives,” said Kate
Nicholson, Bowdoin’s new assis-
tant director of Student Wellness.
“Self-care in many forms is truly
essential for managing stress and
actually enjoying and thriving in
your college years.”
Nicholson has taught weekly
yoga classes at Bowdoin for 12
years, but she started working
full-time at Bowdoin only two
weeks ago. Director of Counseling
Services and Wellness Programs
Bernie Hershberger explained
that Nicholson was selected from
a pool of well-qualified applicants,
emerging as the first choice due to
her extensive experience in well-
ness practice and her excellent
reputation as a yoga teacher and
massage therapist.
“Kate is energetic, vibrant,
open, reflective and very hard
working. She is eminently able to
organize and get things done. At
the same time, she is a very good
listener and can help students
explore what they might need to
undertake to feel healthier and
happier,” Hershberger wrote in an
email to the Orient.
Nicholson, who will continue
teaching Vinyasa Yoga on Friday
mornings from 9:30 to 10:30
a.m., explains that practicing yoga
helped her find a sense of balance
and self.
“I was so inspired by what
evolved in my yoga practice—how
it stabilized me emotionally, how
safe it felt to show up especially in
times of stress and also how fun
it became to be in my body in a
new way the more I practiced,”
Nicholson said. “I can read all the
books on mindfulness, but unless
I practice it in my own mind, my
own breath, my daily habits, albeit
imperfectly, then it’s just another
theory and content filling up my
head space.”
After being introduced to
yoga, Nicholson went on to study
a variety of wellness practices,
including massage, reiki, shiatsu,
Ayurveda, craniosacral therapy,
essential oils and meditation,
which helped her gain an appreci-
ation for an integrative approach
to medicine.
“I want to be clear that well-
ness is a much broader concept
than just yoga,” Nicholson said.
“Wellness encompasses mental,
physical, emotional, social and
spiritual health.”
In addition to teaching yoga
classes, Nicholson hopes to devel-
op various programs in her new
position, including a half-day, on
campus “retreat” in the spring
for students who are interested
in delving a little deeper into the
practice of meditation and mind-
fulness. She also hopes to collab-
orate with the Office of Sustain-
ability, Bowdoin Athletics and the
Sexuality, Women, and Gender
Center to offer workshops and oc-
casional student trips to off-cam-
pus wellness events in Portland.
“I am in the process of reach-
ing out to various student groups
to explore ways to collaborate and
create new ideas that are tailored
to that group’s focus, needs or
wants,” Nicholson said.
Nicholson is also assessing the
primary needs of the Bowdoin
community to figure out how to
make the wellness programs more
accessible to students of all back-
grounds and identities. She and
Hershberger will be the ambassa-
dors for a “Wellness Think Tank,”
which will collect suggestions
about best to provide wellness
services to students.
For Nicholson, ultimately, self-
care is just the start to a more ho-
listic approach to wellness.
“I think true healing and
well-being is best when we ex-
pand our sense of self and rela-
tionship to our bodies to include
a wider, more sophisticated lens
of embodied wisdom, emotional ISABEL ALEXANDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
literacy and modern science,” YOGA AND BEYOND: Kate Nicholson, the new assistant director of student wellness programs hopes to use her
Nicholson said. new position to incorporate a range of wellness programs and reach a wider, more diverse group of students.
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A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Portrait of an Artist: Galusha ’20 and his exploration of beatboxing
ing the boundary on it. pendent study in the music de- A: There’s definitely a val- dynamic music and digital want to continue that work and
by Marcus Ribeiro partment my sophomore year ue to being laissez-faire with society. allow it to grow and develop into
Staff Writer
Q: What’s it like beatboxing [about the impact of beatbox- how it all comes out on stage. bigger projects. So [I plan on]
John “Galush” Galusha ’20, at Bowdoin? ing on societies at large]. That I don’t want to get too focused Q: How will you continue continuing to further under-
of the Bowdoin Meddiebe- A: I’m very much the expert really laid the initial ground- on just reproducing exactly the beatboxing after Bowdoin? stand and document the history
mpsters, dominates the beat- on the subject at this institu- work around how I’m going to same thing every time. But in A: I’m looking into some of this art form to make more
boxing scene on campus. In tion. I think it’s very much a be thinking about this music front of a judge, I’m going to be graduate school programs be- informed decisions about how
addition to double majoring in privileged position to be in and what it means to be doing totally nailing my routine. I’ll cause I think the academic mer- to be more inclusive and diverse
music and Gender, Sexuality while I’m here. I’m able to tie what I’m doing. It gave me no have it practiced to be exactly its of beatboxing are really huge. [in the beatboxing] community.
and Women’s studies, he has everything into my academics [real] answers, but it gave me a the same thing every time—it’s I’ve worked very hard on setting I’m looking at ways to get more
competed in multiple beatbox- and build a degree that suits lot of great questions. [I also] pre-planned and not as spon- that precedent and contributing people involved with the educa-
ing championships nationwide. my interests, [combining] cre- did two semesters of “Issues in taneous. I’d say that when I’m a what I can to the academic liter- tional spheres that I can make
Galusha aspires to continue to ative artistry and cultural anal- Hip Hop” with [Associate Pro- solo beatboxer, it’s a mixture of ary canon that I hope to create an impact in, and I’ll obviously
make his mark in this relative- ysis … At every turn, I have fessor of Music] Tracy McMul- just doing something for fun, for beatboxing and I certainly still be making music.
ly new, quickly growing arena pretty much endeavored to len [and am working on an] seeing where it goes [and] be-
as both a performer and re- prove the validity of beatbox- honors project about the rela- ing free. Finding ways to leave
searcher in the field. ing as an academic subject. I’ve tionship between beatboxing yourself space to improvise
The following interview really strived to incorporate and a capella music. My time with something new and excit-
has been edited for length and beatboxing from an education- with the Meddiebempsters has ing is really important.
clarity. al, intellectual, artistic and cre- definitely informed a lot of my
ative perspective and vantage thinking around that. Q: How can a beginner get
The Bowdoin Orient: How point into all of the work that into beatboxing?
did you get into beatboxing? I do here. Q: How do you decide what A: Everyone can [beat-
Galusha ’20: The way to music to make or perform? box] and learn about where
get into it is to go online, find Q: How has the College A: The challenge is to be di- it comes from and contribute
some videos [and] find some supported your beatboxing gestible, to be new and to push to the more musically literate
people, because at the end of career? the boundaries without going and expressive culture that
the day, beatboxers really are A: There’s the institutional too far. I want to balance doing I hope the beatboxing com-
just people. I got involved by support given through depart- [what] musically just sounds munity can build. The basic
taking the next step, diving mental fellowships, or student good and is totally digestible thing that it comes down to
down the rabbit hole and go- research funding, which I’ve [and] understandable with is your human voice and it’s
ing from a video to an actual been really fortunate to be [what] challenges me techni- what you’re doing with it that
in-person experience. I found a awarded pretty much anytime I cally and intellectually. This re- can be artistic and creative as
concert by The Beatbox House needed it. I’ve made [the] most sults in music that is personally much as it can be destructive
in Brooklyn, met some peo- of the pre-existing opportuni- meaningful and is still a good and hateful. The teaching and
ple and then I was so hooked. ties here to go off campus and show at the end of the night. understanding of the history
I’ve been on this journey ever to learn more about something and culture of this particular
since—meeting the actual peo- that I’m interested in, but I’ve Q: What’s your creative art form can be really insight-
ple, seeing the way they do it also had to create a bit of an ex- process? How do you balance ful for the ways that people MARCUS RIBEIRO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
and where it comes from and tra space here for myself. spontaneity with pre-planned express themselves and com- PUSHING BOUNDARIES: John Galusha ’20 performed a beatboxing
the artists that are really push- I did an intermediate inde- routines? municate in this fast-paced, ensemble for a crowd of students at the Baxter Fall Concert on October 21.

Dezsö reflects on Romania and finding her artistic voice

by Elizabeth Flanagan
Staff Writer
At the Bedford Park Boule-
vard-Lehman College subway
station in the Bronx, a stun-
ning glass mosaic mural covers
the entire mezzanine wall. En-
titled “Community Garden,”
it depicts large, colorful fruit,
insects, flowers and animals.
For this work, Andrea Dezsö
was awarded the best Amer-
ican Public Art Prize in 2007.
Dezsö is this year’s halley k.
harrisburg and Michael Ros-
enfeld Artist-in-Residence at
DYNAMIC APPROACHES TO TRADITIONAL ART: halley k. harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence Andrea Dezso spoke with students
on October 28. She focused on her upbringing in communist Romania and how it drove her to pursue diverse art forms and media in her adulthood.
Bowdoin. Through this mone-
tary gift, the visual arts faculty
invites an acclaimed artist ev-
ery year to work with students
and the college community. As
part of this program, Dezsö
gave a talk on Monday night
about the methods and motifs
that inform her work, wheth-
er it’s in a subway station or a
book of fairytales.
Her large scale hand-cut
glass mosaics are displayed in
multiple New York City subway
stations, at the City University
of New York BMCC Fiterman
Hall Atrium and outside the
United States Embassy in Bu-
charest, Romania. When com-
missioned for a mosaic she tries
to incorporate the people of an
area into her design.
“I walk around in the neigh-
borhood where [the mosaic] is
going to be. I read about the
neighborhood … and I try to
find something that resonates
with the history of the neigh-
borhood,” said Dezsö.
At the talk Dezsö described
her childhood in Transylvania,
Romania under the commu-
nist government. When travel
and individuality were re-
stricted, she learned to escape
through her imagination. She
attributes much of her artistic
influence to this period.
“We were supposed to be
people very similar to each
other,” she said. “There’s a
saying which goes something
like this in translation: the nail
that sticks out gets hammered
down.”
In high school, where Dezsö
first began her training as an
artist, teachers advised her to
play it safe.
“I was told by my teach-
ers that you have to come up
COURTESY OF MARY HART
with one thing, and people
will know you by the thing
that’s going to be your brand
and your style,” said Dezsö. “If
you want to be taken seriously
as an artist … just do this one
thing. And that didn’t seem
like something that was inspir-
ing to me personally. I wanted
to experiment.”
Dezsö’s individual flare and
desire for experimentation can
be found in her wide variety of
media: sculpture, installation,
public art, embroidery and
tunnel books.
Her embroidery features
motifs of Transylvanian folk
art. Stitched into the pieces are
superstitious quotes from her
mother.
“My mother claimed that
eating greasy food without
bread is what gives people her-
pes,” she offered as an example.
On a more serious level, the
medium itself plays a major
role within her vision, em-
bodying the heritage of her
artistic traditions.
“Embroidery is … handed
down from mother to daugh-
ter or from an older family
member to a younger. I wanted
to do my project through this
medium,” she said.
In 2010 Dezsö was commis-
sioned by Rice University in
Houston, Texas to create a gal-
lery-sized tunnel book, which
consists of paper cut and
layered to make three-dimen-
sional illusions. The theme was
imaginary travel—something
very close to Dezsö’s child-
hood.
“We weren’t free to travel. So
travel took place mostly in the
imagination through books or
through imagining places,” she
said. “I always imagined that
one day we might be able to
travel in space.”
Dezsö’s illustrations in
“The Original Folk & Fairy
Tales of the Brothers Grimm:
The Complete First Edition,”
published in 2014, mirror her
work with tunnel books, fea-
turing the same use multiple
dimensions and silhouette fig-
ures. During her talk she spoke
about the process of deciding
which images to illustrate.
“If an image jumps out to
me, I’m looking really where
the heart of the story is, then I
underline it or highlight it and
I make a very small little sketch
on the side,” she said. “Then
that little sketch becomes a lit-
tle more detailed sketch and a
little more refined sketch.”
When taking questions
from the audience, Dezsö was
asked about how she maintains
her unique style throughout
these multiple media.
“You have your own speak-
ing voice. You don’t think
about it too much,” she said. “I
just draw and paint the way it
goes … so I never really think
about a style or cultivating a
style or anything. It just turns
out the way it is because that’s
how it’s going to be.”
Dezsö’s residency at Bowdo-
in will culminate in an exhibit
in the Bowdoin College Muse-
um of Art this Winter entitled
“Visitors.”
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Reading ’16 advocates through art Zach Burton ’14
makes his debut
by Samira Iqbal
Staff Writer
Rather than depicting sweep-
ing hillscapes in ornate frames,
Mariah Reading ’16 uses trash as
her canvas in the pop-up exhib-
it “Landscapes, Not Landfills,”
which opened on Wednesday in
the Edwards Center for Art and
Dance.
Reading’s art contributes to
a growing genre of “eco art” that
promotes sustainable art practic-
es and nature preservation. The
recycled canvasses, ranging from
broken buoys and discarded sun-
glasses to calcified beer cans and
water bottles, are paintings of the
areas in which discarded objects
were found—often national parks
and other preserved areas.
Each painting hangs next to a
photograph of the artwork in the
places that they were found, with
Reading’s hand holding the paint-
LEAVING NO TRACE: Mariah Reading ’16 set out to pursue environmental advocacy through art as an interpretive park ranger following her graduation
from Bowdoin. Her pop-up exhibit “Landscapes, Not Landfills,” was on display this Wednesday and Thursday in the Edwards Center for Art and Dance.
Dance troupe embraces K-pop
by Jane Godiner
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin dance group
Reaction is entering its third
year in operation and contin-
ues to be a fun space for stu-
dents to learn, appreciate and
practice K-pop performance.
Group leader, Bethany
Berhanu ’20, has danced in
Reaction since its founding
in 2017. The group evolved as
K-pop became more visible in
American popular culture.
“I feel like our group is be-
ing taken a little more serious-
ly,” said Berhanu. “In the be-
ginning it was just for fun and
because all of us really like the
music and love to dance, but
now I feel like [since] K-pop is
becoming a more serious genre
of music, so has our group.”
With fewer than 10 danc-
ers, each member of Reaction
plays a crucial role in con-
tributing to the group’s fun
and collaborative ethos. Katie
Filiakova ’22 has danced with
Reaction since her first year
and enjoys the intimacy af-
forded by the group’s size.
“We’re a small group of
ing aloft so that the painted land-
scape aligns perfectly with the real
one. She only paints one side of the
recycled objects to let part of the
original object remain visible, a re-
minder of the human carelessness
which made the objects available
to her in the first place.
Reading has been interested in
the natural world since her child-
hood in Bangor, Maine, but it was
during her time at Bowdoin that
she was able to put this interest into
practice. In her Visual Arts major,
she trained as an impressionist oil
painter and nurtured her obses-
sion with the artistic process.
By her senior year, she no-
ticed the sheer amount of waste
occurring in her art classes, such
as concrete that was incorrectly
mixed and chip brushes that were
used only once. While this waste
is in no way unique to Bowdo-
in, Reading knew she wanted to
change her wasteful art practices.
people, and we’re just teaching
each other and learning from
each other at the same time,”
said Filiakova. “It’s a very nice
bonding moment when no
one is superior.”
Reaction celebrates the
uniqueness of K-pop, from its
catchy, main hook choreogra-
phy to signature dance moves
that are instantly recognized
among K-pop fans. During
their weekly practices, Reac-
tion follows along with videos
of the dances that accompa-
ny each song and learns the
moves as they are performed
by the artists. With new songs
from popular groups coming
out as frequently as every
week, Reaction is always re-
hearsing new material.
“K-pop itself is really dif-
ferent because artists them-
selves focus on dancing a lot,”
said Filiakova. “Each song
has a dancing performance to
it, and artists are very good
dancers, for the most part . .
. Being able to articulate your
love for a group or love for a
song with your body—for me
at least—is something really
special.”
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
“I am constantly inspired by
the changing landscapes, and I
[was] trying to make the world a
more beautiful place but instead
I [was] harming it,” she said. “So
that’s when I decided that I need-
ed to make a shift.”
The summer after graduating
from Bowdoin, she travelled to
four national parks, where she
was inspired to create art using
trash as recycled canvases. Now,
in her position as an Interpretive
Park Ranger in Denali, Alaska,
Reading creates educational pro-
gramming concerning the park’s
history as well as the science be-
hind the nature and the effects of
global warming seen in the park.
She noted that her work is es-
pecially relevant in Alaska, where
global warming’s effects are espe-
cially obvious.
“[This year] we had to im-
plement lightning protocols
for the first time ever because
Filiakova hopes that Re-
action sheds light on an ar-
tistically beautiful—but less
popular—genre of music on
Bowdoin’s campus.
“[There are] a lot of people
from different countries here
at Bowdoin, but their music is
not necessarily represented,”
she said.
Filiakova thus sees Reac-
tion as a way to unite students
who feel that their interest in
K-pop may not be as well-re-
ceived in the greater Bowdoin
community.
“It was surprising for me
that on campus, there are so
many people who listen to
K-pop that just don’t really
talk about it that much,” she
said.
“When we’ve performed
in past years, people were
like, ‘What’s the name of that
song? What’s the name of that
group?’” said Berhanu. “I feel
like through our group, peo-
ple are learning more about
K-pop, which is really cool.”
Ultimately, the group is a
space for students who are
dancers, K-pop enthusiasts,
or both to express themselves
the temperature was so high,”
Reading said. “It’s never been
around 85 degrees before, so the
animals were stressed, the plants
were stressed and we used that
as teaching material in our pro-
gramming.”
Reading paints in “plein air,”
which is the act of painting out-
door landscapes with minimal
to no planning. She said that
painting in this way has made her
process more authentic, both to
the plates themselves and to the
mentality common among cli-
mate activists to “Leave No Trace.”
She lugs her paints and equip-
ment with her, using everything
brought to the site and leaving
nothing behind.
Although Reading’s exhibit
was only shown through Thurs-
day, her determination to pursue
environmental activism through
art is bound to spark critical dis-
cussion in time to come.
DIEGO VELASQUEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
through performance. Both
Berhanu and Filiakova em-
phasized that having fun is
the most important part of
dancing in Reaction.
“There are a lot of groups,
not just at Bowdoin, but in
general, that are very profes-
sional,” said Berhanu. “But
we’re more of a casual, fun
group. We just want people
who enjoy K-pop and enjoy
dancing.”
“I’ve been performing my
whole life,” added Filiakova.
“And, for me, not focusing on
the ‘ideal performance’ and
just enjoying the process was
something to get used to at
first. But when I got used to
it, it made a lot of sense and I
really, really loved it.”
Reaction meets weekly
and performs a handful of
times each semester at events
such as the winter and spring
showcases and during Family
Weekend. New members are
welcome—and encouraged—
to join this tight-knit group of
dancers at any point through-
out the year.
by Penny Mack
Orient Staff
Hoping to share his own
mental health story and help
destigmatize these issues in the
public eye, Bowdoin alumnus
Zach Burton ’14 ventured into
the world of theater and de-
buted his first play, “The Manic
Monologues,” in May.
Burton and his girlfriend
Elisa Hofmeister created the
show in the wake of Burton’s
diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
In the weeks after his diagnosis,
Burton says he and Hofmeister
felt dismayed by the informa-
tion available about the condi-
tion.
“It was so isolating,” said
Burton. “You’re googling symp-
toms, googling people’s expe-
riences, and most of what was
available online is exclusively
horror stories. It was so isolat-
ing.”
Burton and Hofmeister
wanted to share the less fright-
ening, everyday stories of men-
tal illness. That didn’t mean
erasing the bad, but rather
highlighting the mundane and
sometimes uplifting aspects of
people’s experience.
“We hope audiences come
away with a little bit of en-
lightenment around how much
diversity there is in how mental
illness manifests itself,” said
Burton. “It’s not just a tragedy.
It’s a spectrum.”
Burton cited “The Vagina
Monologues,” a play that uti-
lized personal stories to explore
the topic of female sexuality,
as an inspiration. Burton and
Hofmeister wanted to break
down the taboos of mental
illness in the same way “The
Vagina Monologues” did with
sexuality.
Though neither Burton nor
Hofmeister had any theater
experience (Burton double
majored in earth and oceano-
graphic science and German
while at Bowdoin), they decid-
ed that a play was the best me-
dium through which to share
their message.
“Theater really makes view-
ers confront the stories they’re
watching. It can be even more
moving than reading a written
piece or loosely engaging with
the video online,” said Burton.
The two began collecting
stories first at Stanford Univer-
sity, where Burton is a graduate
student, but found little suc-
cess. They received only one
story from the community and
received no backing from the
administration or student the-
ater groups.
TAKING CENTER STAGE: Zach Burton ’14 and Elisa Hofmeister joined
forces to create “The Manic Monologues,” which debuted in May.
Friday, November 1, 2019
Eventually, they were con-
nected to a number of mental
health awareness Facebook
groups, and the stories came
flooding in. Burton says the
decisions of which to include
were difficult, but the play now
includes stories of people from
across the U.S. and Canada,
dealing with all kinds of mental
illnesses.
Working with a group of
advisors that included men-
tal health professionals and
prize-winning editors and
playwrights, the two compiled
18 stories into a two-act show.
Burton produced the show and
Hofmeister directed.
Burton says the cast brought
together actors from many
different majors at Stanford,
uniting people who cared about
both theater and mental health
advocacy.
“The Manic Monologues”
had a three day run at Stanford
in May and opened to sold out
shows with standing ovations
every night. Burton and Hof-
meister were blown away by the
reception.
Burton says the emotional
responses ranged from laughter
to sobs, a reaction that some-
times threw him off.
“I almost forgot some of
my lines because I made eye
contact with someone who
was crying,” said Burton, when
he was onstage performing a
monologue about his own ex-
perience.
Since the debut, word has
gotten out about “The Man-
ic Monologues.” Burton and
Hofmeister will perform shows
at University of California
Los Angeles in February, and
another theater group in Des
Moines will perform it inde-
pendently in November. Bur-
ton is excited about the play’s
expansion.
“Elise and I always intended
for this to be something that
anyone could put on them-
selves,” he said.
Burton hopes the show can
be a tool for campuses to use in
discussions about disability and
diversity in their communities.
Student theater group Masque
and Gown is considering pro-
ducing the show in the fall of
2020 for Mental Health Aware-
ness Week.
According to Burton, the
play’s warm reception rep-
resents progress in the way
our society confronts mental
health.
“It’s an indicator that maybe
the world is in some way ready
to have this conversation,” he
said.
COURTESY OF ZACH BURTON
Friday, November 1, 2019
SSPORTS
Passing the torch
The Sideline
Story
by Julius Long
I’m not a tennis fan, nor do
I proclaim to be. But I do have
a mother who is absolutely
crazy about the sport. I have
become numb to the late night
and early morning shrills that
come around tournament sea-
son. And I have become accus-
tomed to fervently investing
in the success of the few Black
players in the game as they oc-
cupy the TV screen day in and
day out for months at a time in
my household.
While the contributions of
Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson,
Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil
shouldn’t go unrecognized, it
has been all about the Williams
sisters in my lifetime. From
humble beginnings on the
public courts of Compton, the
Williams sisters ran through
every boundary and jumped
through every hurdle that was
meant to keep them off the
biggest stage. They’ve imposed
themselves—and their black-
ness—on an American tennis
scene that quite frankly still
operates with a certain “dis-
tance” from the world outside
of white affluence.
While Serena has set herself
apart as the undeniable greatest
of all time, Sloane Stephens,
Naomi Osaka and, most recent-
ly, Cori Gauff have expanded
the small circle of Black super-
stars from a couple to a few.
Their presence in this arena has
been a delight for Black tennis
fans throughout the country.
Not just because of our invest-
ment in seeing them succeed,
but also because, until now, it
seemed as though Black soli-
Men’s rugby reflects on history at 50-year mark
by Ben Mason
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin men’s Rugby
Team (2-3) concluded its 50th
season last weekend, beating
Bates (2-3) 32-17 to claim the
Lindbergh Cup.
The cup is named after a
late Bowdoin alumnus Greg
Lindbergh ’91 and is given
annually to the winner of the
Bowdoin-Bates game. The
Lindbergh family dedicated
the trophy in 2011 in honor
of Lindbergh who used to face
off against his brother, a Bates
rugby player.
On Saturday, Bowdoin
came out on top despite miss-
ing a number of key players
due to injuries as well as suf-
fering consecutive losses to
Colby (5-0), 21-5, and UMa-
ine Farmington (4-1), 29-15.
“We had good performances
in the previous two weeks …
[even] though we didn’t get the
outcome[s] that we wanted,”
said team president Connor
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darity in predominantly white
sports was taboo.
It may feel like forever ago,
but it has only been a year
since Osaka defeated Serena in
the final of the 2018 U.S. Open
in what was probably the most
heartbreaking victory in sports
history.
“I don’t cheat to win. I’d
rather lose,” Serena told the
umpire, demanding an apolo-
gy for accusations that she was
receiving coaching during the
match. The umpire proceed-
ed to take a game away from
Serena after she called him a
thief, an offense that typically
doesn’t even merit a warning
in the men’s game. (If you
don’t believe me, just Google
the name Nick Kyrgios.) Both
women broke down in tears—
Serena feeling as though she
had stolen an incredible mo-
ment from Osaka, and Osaka
feeling as though she had been
complicit in the “unconscious
bias” that the Williams sis-
ters have been subjected to
throughout their careers.
The match was supposed to
be a passing-of-the-torch mo-
ment from a champion that has
come to embody what it means
to be more than an athlete to
a young tennis prodigy whose
father has openly admitted to
following the Williams fami-
ly’s blueprint as he coached his
daughters to the professional
level.
Instead, it was another re-
minder that looking different
still means being treated dif-
ferently in the game of ten-
nis—even for a 23-time Grand
Slam champion. While both
players look back on the mo-
ment with a degree of regret, a
tradition of explicit sisterhood
and support was set in stone
that day.
LOCKED AND LOADED: The Bowdoin forwards lock into a scrum. The team concluded its 50th season last weekend with a victory over Bates.
In an
open letter, Serena
shared the text messages
she exchanged with Osaka
some weeks after the match. “I
would love the chance to live
that moment over again. I am,
was, and will always be happy
for you and supportive of you,”
she wrote. “I would never, ever
want the light to shine away
from another female, specif-
ically another Black female
athlete.”
After the dust settled from
the U.S. Open, the world be-
gan to ask, who is Naomi Osa-
ka? The answer: an incredibly
poised, extremely soft-spoken
and endearingly awkward
young woman who doesn’t
particularly like the spotlight.
She offers up little about her
personal life. She has said little
about the racism she encoun-
ters in the U.S. or the stigma
she has received as a “Hafu,”
or mixed-race person in Japan.
At the outset of her stardom, I
couldn’t tell if she was just hap-
py with trying to transcend her
blackness, like some Black su-
perstars that have come before.
Looking back, I couldn’t
have been more wrong.
At just 15 years old, Cori
Guaff made history as the
youngest person ever to reach
the main draw of a grand slam.
Her incredible performance at
Wimbledon earned her a wild
card into the main draw at
the U.S. Open. And before the
tournament even started, the
media and fans were already
eyeing a potential matchup
between the then-world num-
ber one Osaka and the teenage
sensation now just known as
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HIGHLIGHT
REEL
A PACHYDERMAGICAL
MOMENT:
The field hockey team
secured the number two
NESCAC playoff seed in
dramatic fashion with a 2-1
ing, Osaka gave her a overtime victory away at Tufts
on Wednesday. After an early
long, sisterly embrace, almost
Jumbos goal, Peyton Jackson
to say “welcome to the fami- ’21 equalized in the third
ly.” Osaka turned to Gauff ’s quarter to send the game
“Coco.” parents and gathered herself into overtime. Despite being
The just long enough to say, “I outshot 17-8, Bowdoin held
reigning remember I used to see Tufts scoreless for the rest of
champion you guys training in the the game, allowing Georgie
prevailed in same place as us, and Coetzer ’23 to seal the victory,
the match, for me the fact that scoring with less than a
ending an both of us made minute to play. The victory
incredible it, I think it’s in- continues the Polar Bears’
breakout credible.” Media 11-game winning streak, which
year for outlets called it
will be tested when they host
Hamilton in the NESCAC
Gauff. a show of sportsman-
Quarterfinal this Saturday at
The battle ship, but as someone noon.
on the court who grew up playing a
was captivat- predominantly white A TRUNK-ATED
ing, but the sport, I knew it was SEASON:
moment the much more than that. The men’s soccer team saw its
two shared There is something season come to an end at the
after the match distinctly comforting hands of Tufts in Medford,
is something I’ll and empowering Massachusetts on Tuesday,
always remem- when you can look falling 2-1 to the Jumbos.
ber. Osaka invited a across the court or Although Jason Oliver ’20
clearly emotional and the field, through put the Polar Bears ahead just
13 minutes into the game off
overwhelmed Gauff a sea of families
of a feed from Harry Cooper
to participate in that look noth- ’22, Bowdoin was unable to
the post-match on- ing like you and hold onto the lead and two
SHONA ORTIZ
court interview with know nothing of what early second-half goals were
her. Gauff almost repeated you’re going through, and see enough to seal the victory
Serena’s words from the year just one that does. It makes the for Tufts. Although the Polar
before. “I don’t want to take grind of traveling and training, Bears ended the season with a
this moment away from her,” of being an outsider looking in, winning overall record, a 1-5-4
she told the crowd, who had of scrapping for a sliver of the performance in NESCAC
clearly been pulling for the recognition you deserve, just a play means Bowdoin misses
15-year-old all match. little bit easier. Osaka’s ability out on a spot in the NESCAC
As Black women, it seems to recognize that and her will- playoff bracket.
they all have an understand- ingness to proclaim it in front
MAY THE COURSE BE
ing that their moments in the of the world will have a lasting
WITH YOU:
spotlight are rare and coveted, impact on me. The women’s and men’s
and they wouldn’t dare take There is a burgeoning tra- cross-country teams cruised
them away from one another. dition of Black solidarity in to victory at the Bowdoin
That was amazing to see, but women’s tennis and the sport- Invitational II this past
it’s not the moment I am refer- ing world at large, and Naomi Saturday, their final tune-up
ring to. Osaka is a leader often over- meet before the NESCAC
After Gauff finished speak- looked. championships this weekend.
On the women’s side, all of
the top 10 finishers were from
Bowdoin, led by Delaney
Bullock ’22 and Caroline
Shipley ’20 taking first and
second respectively with times
of 23:13 in the 6K race. The
Bowdoin men took five out
of the top 10 spots, led by
a 26:33 finish from Andrew
Meredith ’22 in the 8K race,
narrowly edging out Bates for
the overall title.
BINARY RY SYSTEM:
Two Bowdoin athletes were
named NESCAC Players of
the Week after spectacular
performances toward the
close of the regular season.
Cori Gray ’22 led the
volleyball team to two wins
last weekend, recording a
career-high 19 kills in a win
over Middlebury and then
dominating with nine kills and
seven blocks in a victory over
Amherst. Women’s soccer
player Sophia Lemmer ’20
scored the game-winning
goal in a 2-1 overtime victory
over Williams, securing a
NESCAC playoff sport for
Bowdoin. She has also been
a stalwart in the Polar Bears’
standout defensive line, which
has allowed just five goals all
season.
ANGEL RAMIREZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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RUGBY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

nor Fitzgerald ’20. “[Against

Bates], we did a good job of
keeping the pedal to the met-
al, scoring and playing strong
defense.”
The final game on Saturday
marked the end of a transi-
tional year for the club. Enter-
ing the season with new Head
Coach, Jake Fautley, the team
was running low on members
and had to turn to recruiting
to expand its roster.
The effort paid off with
nearly 20 rookies, including a
few new juniors and seniors,
joining over the course of the
fall. The full roster now stands
at just under 40 players, al-
most twice the size of the pre-
season squad.
Fitzgerald explained that
ANGEL RAMIREZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
even with such a significant
LET ME LEAD YOU NOW: Men’s rugby Head Coach Jake Fautley rallies his team during a game this fall. Despite low turnover from last year, the team has nearly doubled in size due to an influx of new players. influx of new faces, the team’s
goal is to cultivate an atmo-
sphere that continues to at-

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NESCAC OVERALL
tract new members.
“For a lot of us, what ini-
tially drew us into the club
is the inclusivity of it,” said
SCHOOL W L W L
Fitzgerald. “There’s this ethos
VOLLEYBALL Middlebury 7 0 7 0 in rugby of this idea called
‘sweep the shed.’ No one on
NESCAC OVERALL Wesleyan 6 1 6 1 the team is better than any
task that has to be done,
SCHOOL W L W L Williams 6 1 6 1 whether it’s cleaning the
field or organizing things or
Tufts 8 0 21 1 Amherst 4 3 4 3 bringing … various equip-
ment pieces back to where
Wesleyan 9 1 19 2 Hamilton 4 3 4 3 they’re supposed to be.”
The mentality that is pres-
Trinity 4 3 4 3
Bowdoin 6 2 14 6 ent on club teams, Fitzgerald
Tufts 3 4 3 4 explained, creates a strong
Amherst 5 3 17 5 sense of cohesion among the
Colby 1 6 1 6 players.
Williams 5 3 14 8 “I think [being a club team]
Bates 0 7 0 7 really enhances the account-
Bates 4 4 16 7 ability of players … [You]
Bowdoin 0 7 0 7 have the choice [of whether
Middlebury 4 4 12 9 Schedule: Sat. 11/2 @ Bates 5:30 PM or not] to be there,” said Fitz-
Sat. 11/9 v. Colby 4:30 PM gerald.
Hamilton 3 5 10 11 Despite its club status, the
rugby team has benefited from
Colby 2 6 9 17 MEN’S SOCCER the support of the College and
of the program’s alumni. For
Conn. College 0 9 7 15 NESCAC OVERALL example, when the team was
tasked with finding a new
Trinity 0 9 7 15 SCHOOL W L T W L T coach before the beginning of
Schedule: Fri. 11/1 v. Colby 7:00 PM this season, the rugby alumni
Amherst 8 0 2 13 0 2
Sat. 11/2 v. Bates 2:00 PM network connected current
Tufts 7 1 2 11 2 2 players with potential candi-
dates.
Conn. College 6 2 2 10 3 2 “The alumni were super
WOMEN’S SOCCER helpful in the process of find-
Williams 5 2 3 7 3 5 ing a new coach … members
NESCAC OVERALL of student activities and ath-
Bates 5 4 1 9 5 1 letic directors [supported
SCHOOL W L T W L T us as well],” said Fitzgerald.
Middlebury 3 2 5 7 2 6 “They were a big part of the
Tufts 7 2 1 11 2 2 process of the interviews for
Hamilton 3 5 2 6 7 2
our current coach.”
Middlebury 6 1 3 11 1 3 Wesleyan 2 5 3 6 6 3 For the team’s 50th anni-
versary celebration earlier this
Williams 6 3 1 8 4 2 Colby 2 6 2 6 6 3 fall, decades of Bowdoin rug-
by alumni returned to campus
Amherst 6 3 1 11 3 1 Bowdoin 1 5 4 6 5 4 to cheer on the team and re-
connect with old teammates.
Hamilton 5 4 1 10 4 1 Trinity 0 10 0 1 13 1
“We had a much larger
reception this year during
Conn. College 5 4 1 10 3 1 Alumni Weekend after our

Wesleyan 4 4 2 9 4 2
WOMEN’S RUGBY match compared to the past
years,” said Fitzgerald. “[Be-
NIRA OVERALL tween] the two events, one
Trinity 4 5 1 6 7 2 Friday night event and one
SCHOOL W L T W L T after our match on Saturday,
Bowdoin 3 6 1 7 7 1 [we] had over 60 alums.”
Colby-Sawyer 4 0 0 7 1 0 As the team prepares for
Colby 1 6 3 5 6 3
its spring season, the players’
Bowdoin 3 1 0 6 2 0 focus remains on building ca-
Bates 0 9 1 2 11 2
maraderie.
Schedule: NESCAC Quarterfinal Sat. 11/2 @Tufts 12:00 PM
Norwich 2 2 0 6 2 0 “A lot of people, a lot of
the alums specifically, use
Univ. of NE 1 3 0 2 5 1
CROSS COUNTRY the word ‘brotherhood’ to
Schedule: NESCAC Championship Sat. 11/2 @ Williams 12:00 PM NE College 0 4 0 0 8 0 describe [the experience of
being on the team],” said Fitz-
Schedule: Sat. 11/2 @ West Chester 11:00 AM gerald. “I’m really optimistic
SAILING NIRA DIII Semifinal Sat. 11/9 v. Norwich 11:00 AM
Schedule: ICSA Men’s Singlehanded Nationals Sat. 11/9 @ Santa Barbara, CA 11:00 AM about the future of the club.”
13 Friday, November 1, 2019

O OPINION What are we afraid of?

Two days, one night—that’s about how long prospective students on an overnight
visit spend getting a taste of Bowdoin’s campus. It’s also about how long the College’s
first Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow, Arthur C. Brooks, will be spending at Bowdoin
Community depends on
our accountability
after he arrives on Thursday.
Brooks is the former president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a con-
servative think-tank in Washington, D.C., and is currently a professor of the practice of
public leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Arthur C. Patterson Faculty
Fellow at the Harvard Business School. pointment as a native New Mexican,
Making it clear at Monday’s faulty meeting that this was, in his words, “My decision,” by Robert Sobak when, rather than pulling into some
Op-Ed Contributor
Rose invited Brooks to campus using his presidential discretionary funding. In doing dusty cantina, we go through the
so, he created a fellowship cloaked in the interest of the Common Good to make the I introduced the motion on the fac- drive-thru at Taco John’s. Talk about
appointment more palatable to the broader community. ulty floor requesting that President over-promising and under-delivering!
The term “fellow” mischaracterizes Brooks’ appointment. It implies that Brooks Clayton Rose provide an account of I still give my Aunt Sandra grief about
might generate a body of work or some tangible product, which does not appear to be the process he used to invite Arthur that. But, in her defense, she was do-
the case. The term also implies a lengthier stay than Brooks will have. When we heard Brooks as the inaugural Joseph McK- ing God’s work in giving such a rag-
last April that Brooks would be a visiting fellow, we expected a visit with ample op- een Visiting Fellow. President Rose tag crew of urchins a loving home
portunity for engagement. Like Associate Professor of Classics Robert Sobak, we were had not consulted any member of for those months. Feeding us all
disappointed to learn that it would be so short. the faculty before doing so, and had must have just about broke her
Brooks will hardly spend more time here than many visiting speakers—two days thus committed a simple, procedural bank.
this semester and two more in the spring. In its current form, Brooks’ appointment infraction. I believe that it is the job Which leads me back to Arthur
consists of little more than an honorarium presented to a visiting speaker. Does a vis- of any member of the faculty to blow Brooks, and the need to blow yet an-
iting fellow do just that—visit for a day or two and then depart? Or should we expect their whistle in such circumstances. other whistle, this time accompanied
them to engage in meaningful work? Basically, to use a soccer analogy, by a sterner warning. Any person
Notwithstanding, the controversy surrounding Rose’s unilateral decision to bring Rose has been caught “offsides.” Un- who suggests that those of us raising
Brooks to campus, he will arrive next week. And despite these qualms, we, as students like in soccer, however, we can’t re- concerns about Brooks’ appointment
interested in diversity of thought, had hoped to engage with him. But it appears that his start play from the position where the are doing so because we are not will- now gone, a shell of its former self or
fellowship presents that opportunity only to a select few. infraction was committed. Too much ing to engage him intellectually, or so privatized as to make them open
In the extremely limited time Brooks is here, he will only engage a fraction of this time had passed from when the trans- are afraid of confronting his ideas, only to the wealthy. This destruction
campus. Fifty lucky students have seats at his talk, and select student groups have slices gression occurred to when it became deserves a yellow card. They are makes it all the harder for a child now
of his time—notably, The Peucinian Society, the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and known to the faculty. This public “taking a dive” in the box, trying to growing up in my old neighborhood
Spiritual Life, Bowdoin Democrats and College Republicans. whistle-blowing is designed to ensure convince everybody that we are do- to discover their talents and achieve
We are critical of what comes across as an attempt to create a manicured environ- that proper procedure is followed in ing something which we are not. It is their flourishing. To be clear, I also
ment for Brooks. Why is the administration so reluctant to allow Brooks facetime with the future, and that all decisions of a sham objection, designed to disin- benefited from private philanthro-
a broader audience? Are they imagining that the College’s many left-leaning students this nature are thereby made as trans- genuously frame our arguments and py. I was a “little brother” in the Big
are likely to disagree with Brooks in combative and disrespectful ways? parently as possible. dismiss our concerns. This is not a Brothers/Big Sisters program. I was
If this is the case, we would take offense at this concern. The administration should Unfortunately, some members of procedural infraction, but unsport- a full-need student at a place much
not be embarrassed about Bowdoin students’ political views; rather, students deserve to our community have interpreted this ing misconduct, which is antithetical like Bowdoin, and I am fully aware
be trusted to engage with Brooks with the same level of respect and maturity that they procedural intervention as an implic- to the very spirit of the game. Hav- that my college “scholarship” exist-
consistently demonstrate when navigating contentious discussions in the classroom. it argument that Brooks ought not ing now read two books and a slew ed thanks only to the generosity of
In the interest of intellectual fearlessness—a favorite mantra of Rose—we feel that to have been invited at all. Nothing of editorials by Brooks, I am about many alumni. I now donate to these
for students to reap the benefits of this investment, and for Brooks to fulfill his role as a could be further from the truth. Had as impressed by him as I was by Taco programs myself every year. Arguing
fellow, students ought to have far more opportunity to engage with him. the faculty been properly involved John’s. But I would never argue that for the importance of the public does
If there are to be future McKeen Visiting Fellows, they should have a more sub- from the beginning, most of us would others don’t have the right to eat that not mean denying the place of the
stantial presence, both in terms of the length of time they spend on campus and their have pushed for Brooks to enjoy sig- up whenever they want. Heck, I enjoy private.
accessibility to students. nificant time on our campus, and to fast food with the best of them, but I For many years, however, Brooks
When Brooks returns in the spring, we urge that both he and Rose ensure that an be given real opportunities for actual won’t try to convince you of its nutri- has pushed a Manichaean vision
authentic opportunity to be intellectually fearless is present for as many students as pos- engagement with as many members tional content, nor will I try to argue of the world. He has been a happy
sible. Students ought to be empowered to engage in dialogues like these, not precluded of our community as possible. When that a 36-hour drive-thru allows for warrior fighting to dismantle pub-
from them. That is, after all, the point of intellectual fearlessness. I first read President Rose’s glowing true gustatory contemplation. licly-funded common goods, even as
and lengthy announcement of the So, why would I demand that he himself grew rich doing so. For a
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, creation of this fellowship, and its Brooks stay around here for months decade he pursued a highly partisan
which is composed of Emily Cohen, Brianna Cunliffe, Rohini Kurup, Alyce McFad- inaugural appointee, I had assumed on end if I am so underwhelmed? It agenda, and wrote books like “The
den, Nina McKay, Danielle Quezada, Reuben Schafir and Jaret Skonieczny. that Brooks would be staying here is because I believe that, if he is to Battle,” in which he demonized his
for at least a semester, if not the en- be a fellow in my community, then ideological opponents using hyper-
tire academic year. As it is, he will be people like me deserve the right to bolic, martial language. But now,
devoting only about 36 hours to this talk to him at length. We have the having helped craft the hyper-polar-
fellowship each semester. My disap- right to publicly question him as we ized environment in which we live,
ESTABLISHED 1871 pointment at this reminds me of a see fit regarding his Presidency at he urges everybody to “love your
funny experience I had growing up. American Enterprise Institute (AEI). enemies.” How convenient. He thinks
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 I was born and raised in New We have the right to publicly scruti- that he can now preach Pauline love
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information Mexico. For all of my life my mom nize his policy prescriptions, which without accounting for his former
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators, has worked physically grueling min- have been so harmful to people who Sauline deeds. To present him to our
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in
imum-wage jobs. My father was ab- don’t enjoy his considerable privilege. community as some sort of happiness
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse
discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. sent—a homeless drifter who would Many of the experiences that shaped guru who holds the keys to biparti-
pop up to take me bowling every few who I am today happened thanks to san bliss is akin to telling us that we
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief years, but then wander off to parts robust, well-funded public services. need to take a meditation lesson from
Emily Cohen Alyce McFadden unknown. Only in the past few years I learned violin and viola thanks to the arsonist who burned down our
has he moved from living rough on an exceptional music program in my house. This would be possible, indeed
Digital Director Managing Editor News Editor the streets of Las Vegas, to working school system. Albuquerque Public fruitful, if we had some voice in shap-
Steven Xu Maia Coleman Andrew Bastone at the emergency men’s shelter there Schools gave me an instrument, and ing that encounter into an iterative,
Anna Fauver Aura Carlson in return for a bed and finally to have subsidized my private lessons with meaningful experience. This would
Photo Editor Roither Gonzales
Rohini Kurup Features Editor gotten into an apartment of his own. two of the finest teachers in the coun- take time, patience and sustained en-
Ann Basu Emma Sorkin As a result, I spent almost every sum- try. Three of my stand partners in gagement. But we could then slowly
Mindy Leder Nina McKay
Ian Ward Sports Editor mer in either North Dakota or Texas our publicly-funded high school come to trust that Arthur Brooks
Dylan Sloan in order to give my mom a break, and symphony are now is not a protean opportunist at
Layout Editor
Executive Editor to keep me from getting in trouble professional heart, and he could
Emma Bezilla A&E Editor on my own street. These summer so- musicians. grapple honestly
Jaret Skonieczny Kate Lusignan Cole van Miltenburg
Ian Stewart Eliana Miller journs were also opportunities for me I was giv- and openly with
Opinion Editor to learn early how to work hard, in this en free the basis for our
Data Desk Editor Associate Editor Diego Lasarte case building grain bins, which is how tennis les- contempt. This
Kathryn McGinnis my grandparents and uncles earned sons on public is why I made this
Gwen Davidson Page 2 Editor
Lucie Nolden money when they weren’t busy in the courts thanks to the motion—because
Drew Macdonald Lily Randall
George Grimbilas (asst.) Reuben Schafir fields. One summer my aunt prom- city parks and recre- properly-followed
Nimra Siddiqui (asst.) Calendar Editor ised to drive me and all my cousins, ation department, and procedure would
SARA CAPLAN
Head Copy Editor Jane Godiner some of whom were also exiles from I played in a public soc- have encouraged
Head Illustrator Devin McKinney single-working-mom households in cer league competitive enough stakeholder design,
Senior News Reporter
Sara Caplan Oklahoma and Alabama, to a Mex- that my former teammates and op- and given everybody a better chance
Nate DeMoranville ican restaurant in a town near where ponents went on to play at programs for productive dialogue. This is why
Copy Editor Horace Wang
Social Media Manager Sebastian de Lasa we were camped out at our building like UCLA, and professionally in the transparency and accountability are
Ayub Tahlil Danielle Quezada Senior Sports Reporter site. So, we all pile in the back of the MLS and Germany. I was a free-lunch important. They exist not to annoy
Sophie Friedman Emily Staten Ella Chaffin pickup and drive Lord knows how kid at school, and I went to college on those in power, but to give voice to
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the many miles, with our stomachs rum- Pell Grants. Thanks to the economic those who are not.
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions bling and our taste-buds aquiver. You ideas advanced by people like Brooks, Robert Sobak is an associate pro-
expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors. can only imagine my particular disap- every single one of these programs is fessor of Classics.
14
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Faculty voice support for wage increase
To the Editor:
We applaud the College’s administration for
the decision to substantially raise wages of staff in
a progressive manner. We also applaud the work-
ers who bravely spoke out about concerning con-
ditions here, and pushed the College to do our
best to honor our commitment to the Common
Good. While we understand the importance of
market forces in determining wages, we think
the College should be leading, not following, the
market, in all aspects of labor practices. Workers
with particularly challenging jobs and personal
financial circumstances should be treated most
conscientiously, both because it is the right thing
Sincerely,
Mark Battle
Professor of Physics
Meryem Belkaid
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek
Aviva Briefel
Professor of English and Cinema Studies
Judith Casselberry
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Nadia Celis
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures
Connie Chiang
Professor of History and Environmental Stud-
ies
Eric Chown
Sarah and James Bowdoin Professor of Digital
and Computational Studies
Javier Cikota
Assistant Professor of History
Rachel Connelly
Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics
Dallas Denery
Professor of History
Vladimir Douhovnikoff
Associate Professor of Biology
Danielle Dube
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochem-
istry
John Fitzgerald
William D. Shipman Professor of Economics
Crystal Hall
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities
David K. Hecht
Associate Professor of History
Laura Henry
Professor of Government
Hadley Horch
Associate Professor of Biology and Neuro-
science
Ann Kibbie
Associate Professor of English
Aaron Kitch
Associate Professor of English
Matthew Klingle
Associate Professor of History and Environmen-
tal Studies
Belinda Kong
John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Profes-
sor of Asian Studies and English
Stephen M. Majercik
Associate Professor of Computer Science
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Jes Staley should resign
To the Editor:
I strongly support the editorial in the October
18 issue of the Orient, “All that is great about Bow-
doin,” calling for the resignation of Jes Staley ’79
from Bowdoin’s Board of Trustees. Staley worked
closely with Epstein, even after his 2008 conviction
for soliciting a minor and sex trafficking. Incredi-
bly, Epstein served only 13 months in jail (with a
work release which allowing him to travel to his
office daily six days a week) even though the FBI
had compiled a 53-page indictment for sex crimes
against him.
The editorial refers to Epstein as a sex offender.
This seems too vague and sanitized for a descrip-
tion of a man who sexually abused dozens (maybe
hundreds) of underage girls. Lives were ruined. At
least some of Epstein’s powerful associates have
apologized. Bill Gates issued several statements:
OPINION
to do, and because it will benefit the College in
the long run.
Moreover, we commend the Bowdoin Labor
Alliance and other students and alumni who in-
vested considerable time and effort in advocating
with these workers and educating the communi-
ty, and the Orient for their thoughtful reporting
and commentary on this issue. The College takes
great pride in our students’ many achievements.
We should also be proud, perhaps especially,
when our students provide constructive input
with the goal of making the College a better place.
We look forward to more actions that bring us
together for the improvement of the well-being of
all in our community.
Janet M. Martin
Professor of Government
Frank Mauceri
Senior Lecturer in Music
Madeleine Msall
Professor of Physics
Stephen G. Naculich
LaCasce Family Professor of Natural Sciences
Michael Nerdahl
Senior Lecturer in Classics
Irina Popescu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American
Studies
Patrick Rael
Professor of History
Marilyn Reizbaum
Harrison King McCann Professor of English
Nancy Riley
A. Myrick Freeman Professor of the Social Sci-
ences
Meghan Roberts
Associate Professor of History
Collin Roesler
Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science
Arielle Saiber
Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures
Doris Santoro
Professor of Education
Vyjayanthi Selinger
Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Vineet Shende
Professor of Music
Robert Sobak
Associate Professor of Classics
Emma Maggie Solberg
Associate Professor of English
Elizabeth A. Stemmler
James Stacy Coles Professor of Natural Sciences
Daniel F. Stone
Associate Professor of Economics
Rachel Sturman
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Hilary Thompson
Associate Professor of English
Karen Topp
Senior Lecturer of Physics
Sebastian Urli
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures
Dharni Vasudevan
Professor of Chemistry and Environmental
Studies
Tricia Welsch
Professor of Cinema Studies
“Bill Gates regrets every meeting with Epstein and
recognizes it was an error of judgment to do so.”
MIT admitted to accepting $800,000 from Epstein
(and millions more from Epstein’s friends and as-
sociates) and apologized to victims of his crimes.
In addition, MIT President Reif wrote “To Jeffrey
Epstein’s victims, on behalf of the MIT administra-
tion, I offer a profound and humble apology. With
hindsight, we recognize with shame and distress
that we allowed MIT to contribute to the elevation
of his reputation, which in turn served to distract
from his horrifying acts.”
It is time for President Clayton Rose to ask for
Jes Staley’s resignation and stand up for Bowdoin’s
values, particularly on behalf of the women who
attended or currently attend Bowdoin.
Sincerely,
Christina Files, Class of 1979
Zoomers on social media
The Fox Box
by Jared Foxhall
Zoomer: Generation Z +
Boomer.
My grandfather Friday is a
small, bald Nigerian man with
a character of immense pro-
portions. He’s been living in
my family’s home for the past
few months, entertaining guests
and visiting the public library.
He spends all of his other time
on one of his two phones com-
municating with his friends
and family in Calibar. In the
few moments I am home, he
comes to me to ‘fix’ his phone
when he forgets that you can’t
send someone a Facebook mes-
sage through WhatsApp. When
I’m away, he keeps me updated
through Facebook Messenger
with amusing clickbait non-
sense, ranging from “Sunday
Blessings” to “256 Reasons
Why Cold Water Will Kill You.”
Imagine this man posting a self-
ie on Instagram. Disturbing.
This kind of thing makes me
smile. Even though he can’t re-
ally tell the difference between
garbage content and real con-
tent, I know he’s thinking about
me. What seems to be absent in
my 80-year-old grandfather’s
internet surfing is this level
of perception: distinguishing
clickbait from content. Overall,
people are pretty bad at this,
especially on Facebook (wea-
ponized ads during the 2016
election are a prime example),
but I remain optimistic that
each successive generation is
better at it by function of fa-
miliarity—more realistically it’s
because young people just don’t
really engage with it anymore.
Zoomers hardly even look to
Facebook anymore for informa-
tion; 34 percent of Americans
12 to 17 year olds online think
Facebook is exclusively for “old
people.”
I find this above stat so eerily
accurate. I am 20, born in 1999,
and I use Facebook a decent
amount—mainly because it
feels like an obligation, but nev-
er for anything serious and cer-
tainly not for news. I’m sort of
on the tail end of Gen Z and am
probably passable as a Millen-
nial in some sense. My parents
(and their friends), on the other
hand, use Facebook all the time
and understand it to be a seri-
ous social dimension (as much
as they’ll deny it).
Facebook is really a Millennial
invention co-opted by older gen-
erations. Its chief architect was a
socially awkward college student
trying to get laid. Facebook’s
initial purpose was mainly sur-
veillance; it was a mingling site
that allowed Harvard students
to know their peers’ relationship
statuses, social group and inter-
ests, without ever really having
to meet them. Pretty convenient
if you had no intention of doing
so in the first place.
Jose Antonio Vargas of the
New Yorker accurately sums it
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: ARE YOU WONDERING
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bowdoinorient.com/poll
up: “Zuckerberg’s
business model depends on
our shifting notions of privacy,
revelation and sheer self-dis-
play. The more people are
willing to put online, the more
money [Zuckerberg’s] site can
make from advertisers.” Zoom-
ers don’t really like putting all
that much of their personal info
online. In fact, they have come
to primarily value anonymity
and image. My sister is 17 and
has never had a Facebook in her
life.
She exclusively uses Snapchat
and Instagram. Zoomers’ use of
Instagram captures the heart of
who we are as a cohort. We are
more inclined to publically put
out our aspirational selves to
the public and we tend to orbit
around our changing modes of
self-expression. These modes
are, in part, appearance over
connectivity, persona and aes-
thetics over real life. Art is used,
on platforms like Instagram, by
Zoomers as a mantle for vague-
ly imitating real life, not copy-
ing it. Most Instagram profiles
don’t even contain birthdays,
they’ll more likely contain art-
sy quotes. Aristotle defines this
process in his work, Poetics,
as mimesis, the human desire
to mimic nature in order to
perfect or improve on it. Some
might say this is the purpose of
art. But the way I see it, Zoom-
ers are hardly concerned with
conscious attention to form or
transgression in the medium;
“artistic” expression, for us,
stands as a perpetual vanity
fair where many profiles exist
as contrived resumes shouting
into the ether: “This is me. This
is my life. Jealous?”
Finstagram, or fake-Insta-
gram, culture reveals a deeper
desire from our generation for
honest representation. Zoomers
practically invented this idea.
Having an Instagram persona
is fine, but a finsta—shared
only with close friends—defies
all of the conventions of a nor-
mal, public profile. Finstagrams
usually contain jokes, memes,
embarrassing stories or what-
ever you like. Your mother will
never find it because the handle
is definitely not your full name.
You don’t need to care about
Friday, November 1, 2019
SYDNEY REAPER
your number of follow-
ers or likes. My finsta allows me
to feel included and connected
to my friends without having
to succumb to the rules of clout
counting.
Who we really are as Zoom-
ers is actually not who we want
to present to the world. Why
should it be? Zoomers never
asked to be thrust into these
new-age social parameters of
inclusion and exclusion online,
they just exist similar to how
drinking laws exist. And it’s
really difficult to just abstain.
Whether or not this is a bad
thing is sort of irrelevant; with-
out an existence online, what-
ever your preference, you are
certainly nudged out in some
small or dramatic way from
what’s going on.
Still, the net effect of curat-
ing greater-than-life personas
online may have negative effects
on all of us. We might be more
artistic, but we certainly aren’t
getting any happier. Overdosing
on this kind of social-compar-
ison stimuli generates all kinds
of nasty things: loneliness and
depression, to name just two.
The Pew Research Center not
only confirms that Zoomers are
spending more time on Insta-
gram than other platforms, but it
also found that the total number
of teenagers who recently expe-
rienced depression increased by
59% between 2007 and 2017,
and teenage girls are three times
more likely to be affected. Cor-
relation? Maybe not. But it’s hard
to deny the fact that the social
demands of a dominant culture
do have an effect on the emo-
tional state of young people.
All in all, Zoomers today de-
sire to be unidentifiable beyond
the symbols, icons and artistic
gestures that they believe repre-
sent them honestly. They follow
those who reinforce their own
notions of beauty and interact
with images that strike the eye.
With consequences? Possibly.
But in what direction does
this all trend? Facebook owns
Instagram, so rebellious teens’
distaste for Facebook makes
little difference to Zuck. As we
age, will we reject these forms of
media? Or slowly drift further
into them?
Friday, November 1, 2019
The hard truth behind
sexism in women’s soccer
by Clare Burns,
Aine Lawlor,
and Claudette Proctor
Op-Ed Contributors
The U.S. women’s national
soccer team (USWNT) has
four FIFA World Cup titles and
four Olympic gold medals. The
U.S. men’s national soccer team
(USMNT) has zero FIFA World
Cup titles and zero Olympic
gold medals. There is absolutely
no question that the USWNT
is far more successful than the
USMNT, yet women’s soccer is
continually underfunded and
mistreated by major soccer fed-
erations such as FIFA and USSF,
highlighted by the glaring gap
between the salaries of players
on each team. The class-action
lawsuit filed by the USWNT
players earlier this year only
begins to broach the pervasive
sexism that pollutes the culture
and environment of soccer on a
global scale.
There is incredible pay ineq-
uity in spite of the fact that US
women’s soccer generates more
revenue and more attention
compared to the men’s side.
The women’s team has literally
been subsidizing the men’s team
as they continually lose games
Listening to Chilean stories
by Lucia Gagliardone
Op-Ed Contributor
I studied abroad in Valparaí-
so, Chile last year. Now, in the
wake of a powerful, unified
movement against 30 years of
economic abuses, I implore our
community to listen to the sto-
ries of our Chilean peers. The
version in our newspapers over-
emphasizes acts of delinquency
and destruction, bolstering
Chilean president Sebastián
Piñera’s criminalization of the
movement to justify his authori-
zation of violence. The Chilean
people, peacefully marching by
the millions and risking their
safety to fight for their rights,
are left out of the dialogue en-
tirely. To show solidarity with
our loved ones across borders,
we must leverage their voic-
es—voices which are rendered
invisible by our press.
I now pass on the stories of
four Chilean women, each of
whom I love dearly. Fernan-
da Azócar Rodríguez was an
exchange student at my high
school in Vermont; she now
works for Foundation Over-
coming Poverty in Rancagua. I
met Patricia Villalobos Olivares
and Tamara Alejandra Antilef
Riffo in the university theater;
they taught me to find my voice.
And there’s Paulina Solís Iturra,
from my abroad program, who
shared her strength with me
during a painful time.
Patricia begins. To her, “in
this formerly sleeping nation,
our pain has now brought out
a fury of many years; not thirty
years, but more than six hun-
dred.” She refers to a legacy of
colonialism in which the Chil-
ean people, particularly indige-
nous communities like the Ma-
and money. These inequities
extend beyond income—the
U.S. women have had to play
on artificial surfaces over ten
times as much as the men have
in recent years, which have been
proven to increase the likelihood
of injury and decrease the qual-
ity of the game. Internationally,
many women’s national teams
are hardly scheduled to play
games in off-seasons. In a clear
demonstration of this sexist bias,
FIFA scheduled two men’s tour-
nament finals (Copa America &
CONCACAF) on the same day
as the Women’s World Cup final.
We can all agree that this
documented gender discrimi-
nation is abhorrent. FIFA has
the power and capacity to initi-
ate change—their cash reserves
reached $2.74 billion in 2018—
yet they actively choose not to
support women’s soccer. FIFA’s
own mission statement claims
that “It is our responsibility to
promote the growth and the
development of the game in the
long term, irrespective of color,
race, religion, gender or sexual
orientation, to every corner of
the world.” The disparity be-
tween their words and actions
demonstrates a refusal to ac-
knowledge their own neglect
puche, have been marginalized
and abused by the state.
Tamara echoes this senti-
ment: “the people have awoken
with great force. The social
inequality in Chile is massive.”
Fernanda continues, saying that
“the violence is in the military
and the neoliberal system. This
is a system that has generated
more social services for the rich
than for people in poverty. Peo-
ple in the most vulnerable sec-
tions feel discriminated against,
powerless, isolated.”
Paulina laments that left out
of the narrative in mainstream
media are the “deaths, disap-
pearances and instances of tor-
ture.” Instead, as Patricia tells
me, the press focuses “on the
riots, looting and vandalism.”
Paulina adds that what “the
press doesn’t show is the free
access the Special Forces and
military have permitted to allow
robberies and looting to occur,
with the ultimate goal to cre-
ate chaos, instill fear and place
blame on our social movement.”
We do not see this conspiracy
deconstructed in our media.
Tamara condemns the state
for this violence, declaring,
“here in Chile, they kill us for
fighting back. In Chile, they
torture. In Chile, they commit
acts of sexual violence. What
democracy are we even talking
about?” Patricia agrees that this
is not democracy. “I have said
for a while that we were living
in a dictatorship as Chilean
citizens, but I never thought it
would turn into a war against its
own people.”
They are transcending the
state repression using peaceful
mass resistance and artistic
activism. Fernanda says that
every evening, to protest the
OPINION
of women’s programs as the
biggest obstacle to the success
of women’s soccer on a global
level.
Beyond the institutional sex-
ism of FIFA, people all over the
world, and at Bowdoin, choose
to degrade and insult women,
furthering the systemic sexism
that continues to oppress the
growth of women’s soccer. We
know we have a problem when
men arbitrarily assign value
to women based on what they
think is more entertaining. As
members of the Bowdoin wom-
en’s soccer team, every day we
play with women who are com-
petitive, creative, fast, strong
and inspiring. Our teammates
are athletically and intellectu-
ally impressive, and to suggest
that women are inferior players
undermines the talent and com-
mitment that millions of wom-
en bring to the sport.
It is absolutely within our
power to decide as a communi-
ty and a nation that we are not
going to accept misogyny and,
rather, rise up to support female
empowerment and promote the
growth of women’s soccer.
Claire Burns, Aine Lawlor
and Claudette Proctor are mem-
bers of the Class of 2021.
oppressive curfews, the Chilean
people form a chorus from their
balconies, singing “The Right
to Live in Peace” by Victor Jara,
“flying the flags of the Mapuche
and striking saucepans,” cace-
rolazos.
Ultimately, my friends speak
to me about dignity and its ab-
sence within the neoliberal eco-
nomic structure.
“We demand the gap be
closed in health services, edu-
cation, social security, housing,
natural resources,” says Fer-
nanda. “The citizens demand,
in the streets, collectively, what
the neoliberal model took from
them: dignity.” Tamara reiter-
ates this: “Today, we go out into
the streets with the rage of years
of misery, humiliation, anguish
and violence. We fill the streets
to scream loudly, that we de-
mand dignity.”
“This will not stop, we do not
have fear,” Fernanda says. “Chile
has always been awake, but to-
day we are finally heard.”
At Bowdoin, most of us
have connections with people
abroad. As global citizens, it’s
our responsibility to listen,
intentionally, to what they are
saying. In the case of Chile,
we need to recognize the ways
in which our government is
responsible and complicit. We
need to share their stories be-
cause we believe in freedom and
the right to protest, to reflect on
the fact that the same neoliberal
capitalist system lives firmly in
our own sociopolitical struc-
ture. To my friends—thank you
for your stories.
Lucia Gagliardone is a mem-
ber of the class of 2020.
Editor’s note: This piece is
available in Spainish on the
Bowdoin Orient website.
The Sarah and James Bowdoin Day
Ceremony was an exercise in hypocrisy
by Brendan Murtha
Op-Ed Contributor
Bowdoin, like all elite academic
institutions, tasks itself with the
contradictory responsibilities of
fostering “critical” thought while
pumping out successive genera-
tions of the ruling-class elite it is be-
holden to. At the Sarah and James
Bowdoin Day ceremony this past
Friday, the hypocrisy that results
from such a contradictory mission
was laid out in full display. The
ceremony included two speakers,
a student chosen by an adminis-
trative committee and a professor
chosen by student vote. This year,
Caitlin Loi ’20 and Assistant Pro-
fessor of History Salar Mohandesi
gave talks entitled “Driven by
Heart” and “History after the End
of History,” respectively.
Loi, looking forward to post-
grad life, praised the ways Bowdoin
has allowed her to take a wander-
ing path forward—forgoing the
“ought-to’s” in favor of the “want
to’s.” Through all the unexpected
turns, she has realized she wants
to be a classroom math teacher; it’s
where she feels happiest. She plans
on pursuing a career in teaching
somewhere down the line.
Yet the wandering path ap-
proach has been illuminating—
why would she go into her dream
job right after college, without
some other “real world” experi-
ence? No, she explained, that would
be short-sighted: she will instead be
taking a job on Wall Street to solve
real-world math problems and
relieve herself of financial stress
(cue crowd laughter). When she
eventually leaves the Street, such re-
al-world experience will make her
much more effective in the class-
room. The crowd—mainly par-
ents of the highest-GPA-earning
A major wakeup call: abroad in Chile
by Ali Briere
Op-Ed Contributor
Friday, October 18 was a major
wakeup call for me. Disasters hap-
pen around the world—around
the clock—but as the massive
evasion of metro fares in Chilean
capital, Santiago, turned into vio-
lent state repression, I was brought
back to where I spent almost half
of 2019—living, studying and
dancing in Valparaíso, Chile.
“It’s not about 30 pesos, it’s
about 30 years,” is the rallying cry
heard around the Latin American
country.
The violence includes chilling
accusations of a centrally located,
underground metro station in
the capital being used to torture
detainees, and curfews as early as
6 p.m. being enforced by uncon-
stitutional beatings and detentions
by police officers, as well as armed
forces deployed by President
Sebastián Piñera’s government.
While the mainstream media is
only portraying the “criminals”
that Piñera denounces for looting
and setting fire to supermarkets,
the brutal repression on the part
of the government goes unspoken.
All this harkens back to the cru-
el dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
that lasted from 1973 to 1989. The
U.S. had an integral role in this dic-
tatorship, from its part in the suspi-
cious circumstances under which
Salvador Allende, the first demo-
students—applauded with vigor.
President Clayton Rose returned to
the podium gushing with pride and
wished Loi the best of luck.
Mohandesi took the stage to
deliver a slightly less heartwarm-
ing address. We live in a time of
global crisis, he argued, a crisis
that challenges systems we take for
granted. To many, the world order
established in the final decades
of the 20th century heralded the
ideological victory of neoliberalism
and free-market capitalism. World
powers accepted the system that
would take them full speed into
eternity and, as Francis Fukuyama
put it in 1992, “history was over.”
The right way forward was no
longer up for debate—or was it?
Flipping through slide after slide,
Mohandesi painted a divergent
picture: Nazis once again marching
in Germany, a warming Arctic in
shambles, the Yellow Vest protests
in France. The grand ideological
battle, he warned, is far from over.
Traditional political coalitions
are fracturing, economic inequal-
ities are skyrocketing and climate
change has injected apocalyptic
language back into everyday con-
versation. He quoted Fukuyama
again, from 2018: “It seems certain
things Marx predicted are turning
out to be true.” There was some
nervous laughter throughout the
auditorium, but, at the end of his
speech, he received the same vig-
orous applause. President Rose
rose again to express his pride and
admiration.
Clearly, neither of these speech-
es represent the actual viewpoint of
the College, but that’s kind of the
point; at an event President Rose
calls “one of the great days in the
life of our college,” Bowdoin was re-
minded of the unsustainable ideol-
ogy it depends on while it selected
cratically elected socialist leader in
the world, “committed suicide” on
the morning of the military coup,
to the neoliberal policies put into
place by the economist Milton
Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” at the
University of Chicago and econo-
mists at the University of Chile.
With that pesky socialist leader
out of the way and his nation-
alization of the copper industry
reversed, Pinochet began to pri-
vatize, privatize, privatize and
“disappear” whoever got in his
way. The legacy of the thousands
of disappeared, detained, tortured
and exiled Chileans during the
dictatorship hangs over the past
week’s protests. The neoliberal
policies implemented during
Pinochet’s regime today mean
astronomical prices for water and
electric utilities and a mandatory
privatized pension system from
which workers don’t reap the divi-
dends on their own wages, among
other economic abuses in one of
the richest and most unequal so-
cieties in Latin America.
What is the media not showing
you, you might ask? Well, in Val-
paraíso alone there are the “tangu-
eros” that dance tango in protest,
wearing signs that reference the
famous lyrics of Victor Jara, leftist
martyr tortured and killed in the
first days of the 1973 coup d’état.
There’s the flutist who emerges af-
ter curfew has started and bravely
plays “La Internacional,” the social-
15
and applauded graduates heading
off to Wall Street to “enrich the
classroom.” Does this school have
selective hearing? Or is it not lis-
tening at all? While many students
might argue we should be sending
teachers to Wall Street (to occupy?)
instead of the other way around,
it’s clear the College itself would
never endorse such a view—as the
recent, drawn out fight for a living
wage has illustrated, Bowdoin is
tone-deaf when it comes to actual
discussions of class—and it takes
only the briefest look at Bowdoin’s
finances and alumni network to
piece together why.
So, with this in mind, what does
Bowdoin actually stand for? Does
it stand for adversarial, critical
thought—the type that drives our
fight for social and environmental
justice—or does it stand for the in-
terests of the elite? Bowdoin contin-
uously attempts to straddle the line,
but as the irreconcilable divide be-
tween these two goals becomes in-
creasingly evident, we must accept
the unsustainable foundation of
our school’s identity. The startling
hypocrisy of the Sarah and James
Bowdoin Day Ceremony made it
clear that currently, we don’t really
stand for anything at all. We can’t
just pump out “woke” members of
the ruling class and pretend that’s
what makes us great. The world is
too smart for that guise.
While I don’t pretend to hold
any unique insight or magic an-
swers on how to forge the best path
forward, I do see it as our responsi-
bility to call out specific instances of
hypocrisy when they occur, in the
hope that someone finally listens.
With the amount of privilege Bow-
doin students are allotted, it is the
least we can do.
Brendan Murtha is a member of
the Class of 2021.
ist and communist hymn, under
swarms of helicopters. There are
the many generations of porteños,
people of the port city of Valparaí-
so, dancing the regional version of
the cueca national dance in the Pla-
za Italia as the air, inundated with
tear gas, burns their faces wet from
sweat, tears or the lanzaguas, the
high-pressure water cannon.
This is not just Chilean history;
this is American history. We have
a responsibility to learn it, to im-
plore our governmental officials
to denounce the Piñera’s govern-
ment’s human rights abuses and
insist that his cosmetic measures
are not enough and to call for
demilitarization and a new consti-
tution written in democracy now.
Many of us study a foreign
language. Many folks are native
speakers of other languages and/
or are international students. We
“carry the keys of the world’s li-
brary in your pockets,” to cite The
Offer of the College, and it is upon
us to open the locks of the stories
behind the hegemonic media.
Thank you to all the porteños
who taught me that I don’t just
write: I am a writer. I don’t just
dance: I am a dancer. That artistic
expression is not only political, but
utterly existential. Cariños a Joyce
Macasar and Ricardo Ogalde;
thanks for your encouragement,
stories and example.
Ali Briere is a member of the
Class of 2020.
16 Friday, November 1, 2019

NOVEMBER
FRIDAY 1
EVENT
Audubon’s “Birds of America” Page-
Turning with Lauren Fitzgerald ’00
Special Collections and Archives, along with alumna Lauren
Fitzgerald ’00, will host their monthly page-turning of John
James Audubon’s double-elephant folio, “Birds of America.”
Special Collections, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 12:30 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
Movie Night: “The Letter”
The Department of Sociology will screen “The Letter:
An American Town and the Somali Invasion.” The movie
focuses on the influx of Somali refugees that moved to
Lewiston, Maine after 9/11. Popcorn and other snacks will
be provided.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7:30 p.m.
AADHYA RAMINENI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LECTURE AND THEY’RE FEELIN’ GOOD: VAGUE, Bowdoin’s jazz dance group, dances to Michael Bublé at the student group showcase. VAGUE, along
with two other student dance groups, Bowdoin’s six a cappella groups and the Bowdoin Slam Poets Society performed during Family Weekend.
“Genetically-Encoded Technology in
Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology”
Ratmir Derda, associate professor of chemistry at the
University of Alberta, will discuss his work with genetically-
encoded libraries of proteins and the significance of
genetically-encoded technology in the discovery of biological
MONDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 6
drugs, $200 billion in sales in 2017. LECTURE LECTURE
Room 20, Druckenmiller Hall. 3 p.m.
“Kith and Kiln: The Rituals of “Socialism for Centrists: A Political
Ancient Childbirth” Philosophy for the 99%”
Kerry M. Sonia, visiting assistant professor of women’s Samuel Arnold, associate professor of political science at
studies and Hebrew Bible at the Harvard Divinity School, Texas Christian University, will speak on socialism’s meaning,
will give a talk on the materiality of childbirth and the role of respond to common objections of socialism and argue for

SATURDAY 2 ritual objects in childbirth and infant care in the Hebrew Bible
and Israelite religion.
Room 208, Adams Hall. 5 p.m.
socialist institutions to be implemented in United States
legislature.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 4:30 p.m.
EVENT
Paint Night in the Pub
The Bowdoin Craft Center will host a self-guided, evening
painting session. The Center will provide painting supplies.
Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill, David Saul Smith Union. 7 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
“Wasted! The Story of Food Waste”
Frontier will show Anna Chai and Nari Kye’s “Wasted,” a
TUESDAY 5 THURSDAY 7
EVENT
documentary that aims to change the way people buy, cook,
recycle and eat food. Election Day: Shuttles to the Polls EVENT
Frontier. 3 p.m. The Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good will provide a Open Mic Night
shuttle to take voters to the polls. Student volunteers may also sign The Quill will host an open mic night for students to share
up online to greet voters, educate them and drive the “Votemobile.” their poetry, prose, music and stand-up comedy. Food and
Polar Bear Statue, Moulton Circle. 10 a.m. drinks will be available for purchase.
Little Dog Coffee Shop. 7 p.m.

SUNDAY 3
LECTURE
Artist talk with Derek No-Sun Brown
The Native American Student Association will welcome
EVENT Shoshone-Bannock, Klamath and Ojibwe artist Derek No-
Vinyasa Power Flow Sun Brown. He will give an interactive presentation featuring
Yoga instructor Hailey Aronson will lead a Vinyasa Yoga session. his art.
Room 301, Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 5 p.m. Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 4:30 p.m.
EVENT
Multilingual Poetry Evening
Students will read poems in Arabic, French, Ancient Greek,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. English
translations and refreshments will be provided.
Great Room, 30 College Street. 6:30 p.m.

8 EVENT 9 EVENT 10 11 12 13 14 EVENT

Bowdoin Slam
AF/AM 50 AF/AM 50 Poets at the
Museum