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Mayhem at Ladd House: one man arrested Annual Giving Report
for fighting, second suspect flees scene shows decline in
by Andrew Bastone
and Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
A skirmish late Saturday night
at an event sponsored by the Black
Student Union (BSU) in Ladd
House resulted in the arrest of a
19-year-old party-crasher, accord-
ing to police who said attendees
were in a state of “pandemonium”
when officers arrived.
Ali Ahmed Ali, a Portland res-
MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
STUFFED ME UP: Sananda
Chintamani ’21 (left) and Lily Fullam
’21 were all smiles as they tucked into
the annual Thanksgiving dinner in
Thorne Hall on Thursday night. The
annual dinner attracts throngs of
students, many of whom line up an
hour before Thorne opens its doors
to secure seating for the meal. Aside
from a decadent spread of Thanskgiv-
ing classics like carved turkey, mashed
potatoes, stuffing and pie, this year’s
meal featured an array of homemade
breads and seasonal salads.
Shooting on Federal Street BCA urges town council to pass
leaves one dead Monday night climate emergency resolution
by Emily Cohen
Orient Staff
One man is dead following
a shooting in a Federal Street
apartment on Monday night.
Another man was shot and in-
jured at the scene.
The first man, Ali Fisher of
Lisbon, broke into the apartment
carrying a handgun, according
to a release from the Maine State
Police, and entered into an alter-
cation with an occupant of the
N NO PARKING
Brunswick Town Council unanimously
passes new parking ordinance. Page 3.
ident, was arrested by the Bruns-
wick Police Department (BPD) on
four charges, including disorderly
conduct for fighting and refusing
to submit to arrest or detention.
Police said a second unidenti-
fied suspect fled from police and
Bowdoin Security. Security’s in-
vestigation is ongoing and officers
are still working to identify the
suspect.
BPD Commander Mark Waltz
said Ali allegedly hit one student
apartment, a 22-year-old woman.
A struggle for the weapon ensued
in the apartment between Fisher
and another man, who was vis-
iting the occupant. During the
struggle, both men were shot.
Fisher fled the apartment and
died outside. The other man was
transported to a nearby hospital,
treated and released. State police
have not released the name of the
other people involved because
they do not plan to charge either
of them.
F RAISING AWARENESS
DASA and BSG prepare for International
Day of Persons with Disabilities. Page 5.
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on the side of the head and tried to
strangle a second student. Execu-
tive Director of Safety and Security
dents asked the intruders to leave
the house. Security was called
after students tried to escort the
alumni donations
Randy Nichols said a total of four individuals out of the basement,
students were assailed, but none but the situation escalated and, by Nina McKay
Orient Staff
suffered injuries. according to Nichols, the two men
After the event host did not allegedly attacked four students The College received $34.9
let the party-crashers through the before exiting the house. There million in donations during
front entrance, Nichols believes were no reported injuries. the 2018-2019 year, a $700,000
the they entered Ladd House After arriving on the scene, decrease from the $35.6 mil-
through a back door and eventual- Bowdoin Security called 911. lion received in 2017-2018, ac-
ly made their way to the basement. cording to the Annual Giving
The conflict began when stu- Please see LADD, page 4 Report. The report, prepared
by the Office of Development
and Alumni Relations, also
shows alumni and friends,
faculty and staff gave less this
year than last.
According to Scott Meikle-
john, senior vice president for
development and alumni rela-
tions, this drop is not a source
of significant concern for the
College.
“In the context of total an-
nual support that has been be-
tween $32 and $42 million per
year over a number of years,
being up or down by $700,000
isn’t something we think
about,” he wrote in an email to
the Orient.
However, Meiklejohn ex-
plained that giving can vary
based on donors’ personal
circumstances or when the
College receives large dona-
tions for particular purposes,
such as financial aid, academic
programs, internships or con-
struction.
“In any given year, we have
contributors who didn’t give
the year before, and there
are alumni who drop off the
donor roles and reappear in
another year,” he wrote. “They
forget, they think they gave or
they have a particular reason
for giving or not. With about
20,000 living alumni there are
lots of individual stories.”
Meiklejohn did not speci-
fy a particular reason for the
decline, such as a pledge dis-
tributed by Bowdoin Labor
Alliance, which asked alumni
to withhold donations to the
College until housekeeper
According to a statement laborate in town more. We don’t
from the Brunswick Police De- by Eliana Miller want this just to be a college
Orient Staff
partment, officers received a call thing. This is a young people’s
about the shooting at approxi- After waiting for three hours, movement, and we want to get
mately 10:30 p.m.. The shootingseven members of Bowdoin the local schools and residents
took place at the Tedford Hous-Climate Action (BCA) spoke at involved, and get everyone to
ing family shelter at 34 Federal
the Brunswick Town Council cooperate together.”
Street, less than a mile from meeting on Monday night. They The group presented a
campus. urged the council to declare a non-binding climate emergency
The Office of Safety and Se-climate emergency. resolution to the Council that
curity did not send a security “We were here to start the includes a commitment to elim-
alert to the Bowdoin commu- conversation,” Perrin Milliken inate greenhouse gas emissions
’22, a leader of BCA, said during by 2030 and a pledge to educate
Please see SHOOTING, page 3 the meeting. “We want to col- residents about climate change
A ART AND INDIGENEITY S MAKING A RUCK-US O WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?
Peruvian dancer Vania Ibarguen visits Women’s rugby captures first-ever NIRA Professor Robert Sobak responds to critcism
campus to perform. Page 7. national title. Page 10. of his op-ed about sophistry. Page 15.
1st CLASS
U.S. MAIL
wages were raised.
Compared to college grad-
uates nationwide, Bowdoin
alumni rank among the top
donors to their alma mater. In
2018, Forbes ranked Bowdoin
12 out of 200 on its “Grateful
Graduates Index,” which is
determined by the median of
total private donations per
enrolled student in the last
seven years and the percent-
age of alumni who donate any
amount to the institution each
year.
Alumni gave $13,296,888
in 2018-2019, down from
$15,598,308 the previous
year. Friends, faculty and staff
gave $1,263,306, down from
$2,438,375 in 2017-2018.
Parents, trustees, foundations
and corporations all donated
more.
The classes of 1957, 1960,
1964 and 1968 all had annu-
al giving rates of at least 80,
meaning 80 percent of living
alumni from those class years
donated to the College. The
class of 1969 gave the most in
annual gifts—$638,777—and
annual capital and planned
gifts—$4,504,647.
All four annual funds—the
alumni fund, the parents fund,
the Polar Bear Athletic Fund
and the friends fund—showed
slightly greater returns in
2018-2019 than in 2017-2018.
“The annual giving pro-
grams continue to grow,”
Meiklejohn wrote. “Most do-
nors to Bowdoin every year
participate by giving to one of
those funds.”
The report also highlighted
the contributions of the 1794
Society, which provides 83
percent of annual giving to-
tals. Members of the society
are classified by the amount
of their donation; for example,
those who donate $100,000 or
Please see GIVING, page 4
and halt the development of
fossil fuel infrastructure. The
South Portland town council
passed a similar resolution in
early October, and town coun-
cils in Bar Harbor and Portland
followed suit on Monday night.
“No state in the U.S. has de-
clared a climate emergency, and
it would be really impactful if
Maine was the first state to do
so,” said Milliken in an inter-
Please see CLIMATE, page 3
2 Friday, November 22, 2019

2 PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT
11/14 to 11/21
Thursday, November 14
• A group of students was playing soccer in
Sargent Gymnasium when a kicked ball
struck and smashed a lighted exit sign. A
student took responsibility for the errant
kick.
Friday, November 15
• As two students were roughhousing inside
Smith Union, one of them was pushed into
a wall, causing a large hole. Both students
will be charged for the repair.
• A student reported finding their passen-
ger-side car window smashed as the vehicle
was parked on Park Row in front of Bruns-
wick Apartments. Nothing was missing
from the interior.
• An athlete was transported to Mid Coast
Hospital for an ice hockey related neck
injury-
• An intoxicated student was transported
from Maine Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.
Saturday, November 16
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of a
student on the Osher Quad who had been
drinking.
• Excessively loud music was reported on the
fourth floor of Coles Tower. The volume
was reduced.
• An officer conducted a wellness check for
an intoxicated student at Winthrop Hall.
• A minor student was found in possession
of two fraudulent driver’s licenses.
• A complaint of marijuana smoke in Coles
Tower led to two students who had been
smoking earlier.
• A student who reported experiencing chest
pain was transported to Mid Coast Hospi-
tal.
• Security officers and police responded to
Ladd House for a report of a large crowd
with fights in progress at a registered event.
Ali Ahmed Ali, 19, of Portland was arrest-
ed and charged with disorderly conduct/
fighting, refusing to submit to arrest or
detention and minor consuming liquor. Ali
was also served with a criminal trespass
warning barring him from campus. The
incident remains under investigation.
STUDENT SPEAK:
What is your most memorable Thanksgiving?
Sunday, November 17
• A fire alarm at Mayflower Apartments was
caused by smoke from sizzling bacon. Christian Gostout ’20
• Two damaged wooden chairs were found
outside Brunswick Apartments.
• Officers came to the aid of a despondent
"Post-dinner drag racing in a desert salt
student.
• A student creating a microwave brown-
flat."
ie-in-a-mug activated a smoke alarm in
Howard Hall. Officers opened windows and
used fans to clear smoke from the room to
prevent the entire building from going into
alarm.
Monday, November 18
• A student received a nose laceration while Andrew Treat ’22
playing basketball at Morrell Gymnasium.
"Our green beans were set aflame and
Tuesday, November 19
• An officer assisted a student who fainted almost burned down our kitchen."
while attending an event at Main Lounge,
Moulton Union.
• An officer spoke with a student about com-
plaints received about the smell of cigarette
smoke coming from his room.
Wednesday, November 20
• A dirty stove top in Stowe Inn was a con- Yasmeen Wirth ’22
tributing factor in the activation of a smoke
alarm. "My sister fell off a trapeze and busted
Thursday, November 21
• There was an excessive noise complaint and
open her lip, so we spent the night in
an alcohol policy violation on the seventh
floor of Coles Tower.
the ER feeding her smoothies."
KODIE GARZA
Arein Nguyen ’21
"I came home to surprise my grandma,
and she was like ‘why are you here’ with
a straight face."
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Ten things to discuss at Thanksgiving dinner

by Lily Randall
Orient Staff
Thanksgiving has pie, and the good part stops
right about there. There’s just something
about gathering a mass of people with similar
genomes into one dining room that brings out
the worst in everyone. If you’re wondering how
you had family dinner every night for 18 years
without absolutely losing it, know you’re in
good company. Reconnect with those you have
the most complicated feelings towards by using
our suggested dinner conversation starters,
listed below.
3. Avoid it all and head out for your third smoke
break of the day right before dinner. Don’t come
back until everyone’s passed out in a post-meal food
coma. Eat the leftover pie while watching “A Charlie
Brown Christmas” unbothered.
4. The “really cool” stick and poke pine tree you
got while wine drunk on a Thursday night. Guys,
it’s, like, representative of the outdoors, but also it’s
a simple line drawing as, like, a reminder to live
simply. No, it’s actually super dope. You know what,
you guys just don’t get it. Sorry you don’t understand
art.
5. How you liked your uncle’s first wife better.
8. Tell your parents you’ve gone vegan. But
only after dinner has been served. Commit to
the bit and announce your plans to be an eco-
terrorist, if you’re really feeling it!
9. Tell your great-grandpa his vibes are off.
Refuse to sit next to him at the dinner table
because “his energy is too toxic for me, bro.”
10. That you’re voting for Tulsi Gabbard.
This is a great way to finally unite everyone
in the room—Democrats and Republicans
alike—under one banner: shaming you for your
political beliefs.

6. If you’re really looking to stir the pot, insult

1. How dismantling capitalism is the only
way to combat global climate change. Flex
that one Environmental Studies class you took
this semester while simultaneously getting
called a commie by your grandmother. If you
really want to hit the nail in the coffin, casually
mention donating to Bernie’s campaign.
2. Your UTI. Bonus points if you explain its
origin story.
someone’s sweet potato casserole. Burn some
bridges. Don’t look back. God is dead, anyway.
7. That you want to be a History and Visual Arts
double major with a minor in Classics. Are people
even allowed to hire you with that degree lineup? MAIA COLEMAN
I think you’re legally required to go back to high
school if this happens. Anyway, call me if you go
through with this one. We can talk it out.
Friday, November 22, 2019 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF No parking near Park Row? Students and

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BSG MEETING ADDRESSES 2030

CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
residents clash over off-campus spots
by Eliana Miller ing off campus this year, specifi- come student parking, said Senior it’s closer and she doesn’t feel safe
Orient Staff
Keisha Payson from the Office of Sustainability joined the Bowdoin cally on Belmont Street, because Vice President for Finance and at night walking home from Far-
Student Government (BSG) meeting Wednesday night to hear feed- In her 50 years living on Bel- of the new Park Row Apartments. Administration and Treasurer of ley.
back and suggestions for what BSG and other students would like to mont Street, Bobbi Tucker has Before the new ordinance was the College Matt Orlando. But it is “Especially now, it’s dark and
see included in the College’s next climate action plan. never had an issue with Bowdoin adopted, Belmont Street was one unlikely that the College will build icy and I don’t like to walk back
“[We] are thinking about how Bowdoin can be good stewards students. But this fall, when more of the closest town streets where student lots closer to the center of alone,” she said.
[and] citizens of the common good and really address our own needs,” students began parking on her students could legally park all day campus. Nichols noted there are op-
Payson said. street, it became difficult to back long. “By design, we don’t provide tions for students who do not
In 2008, then-President Barry Mills signed Bowdoin onto a climate out of her driveway and she had Julie Coticchia ’20 lives in the student parking in tight to the core want to walk at night, like the
commitment along with nearly 650 other colleges and universities to swerve more frequently around Park Row Apartments and parks of campus because of employees, Bowdoin Shuttle, and if the shut-
to become carbon neutral by 2020. After reaching that goal in 2018, parked cars so as to avoid hitting almost every day on Belmont faculty, staff and visitors,” said tle is not running, Safety and
the Office of Sustainability has put an emphasis on developing a new pedestrians and bicyclists. Street. Randy Nichols, executive director Security will provide an escort
climate action plan for 2030 that reimagines the definition of sus- “Our street is very narrow,” “Chamberlain Hall, Coles Tow- of the Office of Safety and Security. back to campus. But Kratochvil
tainability. Tucker said at Monday night’s er and Park Row are all within a “The College has a business to run. said she feels like the service isn’t
“We’ve focused on a lot of different issues … mostly centered on the meeting of the Brunswick Town thousand feet of each other and And we have the operations of the actively encouraged. Additional-
environment: looking at materials and greenhouse gas emissions but Council. “We think about and they’re all entirely upperclassmen, College that need to run smoothly. ly, security recently reduced the
also trying to connect that back to how it relates to people,” Payson said. worry about the college students but there’s not any student parking We have employees that have to hours the shuttle operates due to
Payson asked BSG members to think about the definition of sus- that live up in the Mayflower nearby,” she said. come in and out and, on any given lack of demand.
tainability and ways it can be applied to the climate action plan. Apartments [on Belmont Street] Coticchia understands the day, dozens or even hundreds of Although parking off campus
“Some of the things we suggest we might already be doing, but and their safety.” town’s concerns and will move her visitors come to campus.” is now more restricted, little is
there might be something new that comes out that we haven’t thought After public comments and a car when the ordinance goes into There are 713 designated stu- changing on campus besides the
of before,” said Payson. 20-minute discussion about park- effect in 30 days, but she wishes dent spots on campus and 503 potential of more student parking
Many BSG members brainstormed ideas that could be implement- ing restrictions, bans and permits, there were more student parking student-registered vehicles this se- near Pine Street.
ed into the climate action plan—some encouraged immediate action the Town Council unanimously spots closer to campus. Most lots mester. Most of the student spots “I’d like to see half the number
that does not require college permission, such as readjusting the ride passed a parking ordinance that on the main campus are designat- are in the Farley/Watson lot. Nich- of student vehicles on this cam-
share board. changed parking restrictions on ed for faculty, staff and visitors. ols hopes to work with the neigh- pus. And I’d like to see students
Curriculum Implementation Committee Representative Joseph Belmont Street, Columbia Ave- Students with parking decals can- bors and try to move parking back just think of other ways to meet
Hilleary ’20 proposed implementing room-based thermostat control nue, Longfellow Avenue, Noble not park in these spaces Monday onto campus whenever possible. their transportation needs short of
due to the over exhaustion of heat production that comes with the Street, Pine Street, Union Street to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Leah Kratochvil ’20, who lives bringing the car to campus,” said
colder weather. and Landing Drive. The College plans to demolish in Brunswick Apartments and fre- Nichols. “Who wants a campus
“I was thinking about heating since that’s one of our major sources Tucker and other residents sus- Pine Street Apartments in the fu- quently parks on Belmont Street, where the main landscaping fea-
of emissions,” said Hilleary. “A large number of classrooms and resi- pect that more students are park- ture, and their space will likely be- said she parks off campus because ture is acres of parking lots?”
dence halls are sweltering, very warm in the winter.“
Developmental Representative to Academic Affairs Thomas Daley
Percent of Classes Filled by Department
’22 suggested a change in the distribution requirements that would
encourage student awareness on the state of the climate.
Computer science, AFRS 9.5%
“We also thought about the idea of environmental course distribu-
tion requirements,” said Daley. “I took Intro to Environmental Studies
art classes most ANTH
ARBC 0%
27.3%

last fall because it fit my schedule, even though I’m not going to be an
ES major, and it completely changed the way I view the climate crisis.”
requested for spring ARCH
ARTH
0%
0%
ASNS 13.3%
Other suggestions for the climate action plan included expanding BIOL 30%
by Gwen Davidson and Drew CHEM 21.4%
sustainability education by teaching students what can and cannot be Macdonald
recycled, switching to more hybridized vehicles, considering more ef- CHIN 0%
Orient Staff CINE 25%
ficient lighting on campus, expanding the Yellow Bike Club, increasing CLAS 33%
censored light motors and encouraging public transportation usage by The first round of course reg- CSCI 66.7%
providing vouchers for the Metro BREEZ bus and Amtrak. istration for the spring semester DNCE 33.3%
“This is something we think about: how do we meet the needs of closed on Monday. DCS 57.2%
EOS 9.1%
the present without compromising the ability of future generations to Computer Science filled the ECON 27.2%
meet their needs,” said Payson. most classes of any department, EDUC 0%
The assembly later entered a closed-door executive session to ad- with 66.7 percent of classes at ENGL 28%
dress indigenous land acknowledgements. full capacity or higher. Next ENVS 23.1%
FRS 0%
were Visual Arts (58.3 percent), 10.5%
GSWS
Neuroscience (42.9 percent) GER 12.5%
SHOOTING CLIMATE and Dance (33.3 percent).
Of the 42 listed depart-
GOV
GRK 0%
29.3%
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ments, 12 failed to completely HISP
HIST 23.8%
nity about the shooting because view with the Orient. “Bruns- fill a single class, including 0%ITAL
police determined that there wick in general is doing pretty Art History, Education and JPN 25%
was no threat to campus or to well with regards to combating Physics. 0%
LATN
Brunswick, said Randy Nichols, climate change, but the hope There were over 500 cours- LAS 10.5%
executive director of Safety and is to keep pushing, because it’s es offered for the spring 2020 MATH 21.7%
MUS 10.3%
Security. kind of life or death.” semester. Two courses were NEUR 42.9%
A woman and her child were Brunswick councilors seemed requested at three times their PHIL 11.1%
staying in the apartment where open to the resolution. capacity: Introductory Fiction 0%
PHYS
the shooting took place, Tedford “I want to thank you all for Workshop and Introduction to PSYC 37.5%
0% REL
Housing’s Executive Director coming, for waiting for so long Modern Dance. There were 12 0% RUS
Craig Phillips told the Times and [for] beautifully articulat- classes which were requested at SOC 36.4%
Record. No children were in ing the emergency that we find least two times their capacity THTR 11.1%
the apartment at the time of the ourselves in,” said Dan An- and 72 which reached or ex- VART 58.3%
shooting. Neither man involved keles, councilor at large. “I’m ceeded their capacity. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
was staying at the shelter, and sorry that your generation is
neither should have been there the one that’s going to have to
at the time, said Phillips. clean up the mess that those of Top Twelve Most Overrequested Classes
“We are saddened and heart- us who came before you made
broken by the incident that … I hope that the town of ENGL 1228 - Intro Fiction Workshop 38 reg. for 12 slots
occurred at Tedford Housing’s Brunswick can adopt this in a DANC 1211 - Intro to Modern Dance 44 reg. for 14 slots
family shelter last night,” read a future meeting.” VART 1601 - Sculpture I 37 reg. for 14 slots
release from the shelter published The Council will vote on the
Tuesday morning. “The two men resolution at their next meet- MUS 1451 - Intro to Audio Recording Techniques 47 reg. for 18 slots
involved were not guests of the ing on December 2. Four days CLAS 1101 - Classical Mythology 123 reg. for 50 slots
shelter and, unfortunately, both later, BCA will host a rally in
HIST 2019 - The Transatlantic Sixties & Seventies 85 reg. for 35 slots
had guns, which are not allowed conjunction with a national
on Tedford Housing property.” climate strike organized by BIOL 1066 - The Molecules of Life 120 reg. for 50 slots
Phillips told the Times Re- the Sunrise Movement. The CSCI 3420 - Optimization & Uncertainty 38 reg. for 16 slots
cord the shelter may consider rally will begin at 11:45 a.m. at
increasing security measures the steps of the Bowdoin Col- VART 1201 - Printmaking I 33 reg. for 14 slots
after looking at its procedures lege Museum of Art and will VART 1101 - Drawing I 40 reg. for 18 slots
and rules. conclude with speakers and a
DANC 1101 - Making Dances 35 reg. for 16 slots
Editor’s Note: A version of this celebration at the gazebo on
article originally appeared online the Brunswick Mall. Milliken CSCI 3715 - Human-Computer Interaction 32 reg. for 16 slots
on Tuesday, November 19. It has encouraged students, town 0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250% 300% 350%
been updated to include newly councilors and all Brunswick
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4 NEWS
Amtrak holds town hall for
proposed initiatives
by Lily Randall
Orient Staff
The Northern New England
Passenger Rail Authority (NNER-
PA) is currently exploring three
projects to expand access to trains
in midcoast and southern Maine.
An open house at the Brunswick
Hotel on Monday evening aimed
to gauge community interest in
the proposals.
The potential projects are: add-
ing a new round-trip option from
Brunswick to Wells, building a
new station in Portland and creat-
ing a new stop in Falmouth. These
proposals align with NNEPRA’s
initiative to increase the number
of users riding between local
stops, as the majority of riders use
the train, the Amtrak Downeaster,
to travel to Boston.
“Even though there’s a di-
verse group of people who ride
Staying safe during the
holiday season
by Michael Halko
Contributor
Everyone loves to celebrate the
holidays with festive decorations.
The challenge is to decorate in a
safe manner. These are our Fire
Prevention Measures based on
guidelines provided by the Bruns-
wick Fire Department and the
National Fire Prevention Associ-
ation.
EXTERIOR DECORATIONS
Decorations should not be
hung higher than an easily reached
distance from a 6-foot step ladder.
(Remember to not stand on the
top step)
Climbing on roofs, balconies,
parapets etc. of buildings is pro-
hibited.
Use fiberglass ladders, and if
you are hanging lights do so with-
out the power applied.
Keep exits signs, emergency ex-
its, electrical/alarm panels, sprin-
klers, fire extinguishers/alarm
devices clearly visible and ensure
decoration placement is kept clear
of these life safety devices.
Electrical Decorations: Only
UL-listed miniature lights may
be used (preferably LED lights)
rated for outdoor use. Only three
strands of lights may be used to
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Waltz said that two BPD officers
arrived on the scene and encoun-
tered groups of students outside of
Ladd House.
Waltz explained that officers
on the scene tried to collect wit-
ness statements, but no students
offered.
Shortly after arriving at Ladd
House, BPD officers called in
back up, with four more BPD of-
ficers and one officer each from
the Freeport and Topsham police
departments and Sagadahoc and
Cumberland County sheriff ’s of-
fices arriving at the scene.
“When the police arrived, they
[saw] this huge gathering of stu-
[the train] for different reasons,
Boston is really the destination,”
said Patricia Quinn, the execu-
tive director of NNEPRA. “We’re
trying to figure out ways to make
the Downeaster more appealing
for people to ride it on a regional
basis.”
The project in Wells would add
extended mileage of double track
and a second platform to make
the rail more reliable. Additional-
ly, this double track and platform
would allow an extra train to run
between Brunswick and Wells
every day and would create an
inbound commute option from
Southern Maine to Portland, ar-
riving at approximately 7:55 a.m..
“There are so many people that
travel from the southern part of
the state into Portland [for work]
… [and] we don’t really have a
train that serves that market right
now,” Quinn said. “The first train
prevent overloading of circuits.
Lights should be on a timer or
turned off during the day and after
hours.
All decorations must be made
of non-flammable material.
Installation of decorations
must not damage college proper-
ty—hooks or clips should be used
instead of nails, screws and other
hardware. No fasteners may pene-
trate any roof surfaces.
INTERIOR DECORATIONS
Only artificial trees and wreaths
are permitted indoors.
Remember, candles are strictly
forbidden everywhere on campus.
In areas with working fireplac-
es/gas stoves, decorations are to
be kept three feet away from any
open flame.
No decorations may be hung
from any sprinkler pipe, sprinkler
head, smoke detector, strobe or
light/utility fixture.
All issues identified for outdoor
use also apply for indoors—re-
member to use only three strands
of lights and to not hang lights
more are designated “Presi-
over the entry way as it can be an
dent’s Associates,” and those
entrapment hazard. who donate $50,000-$100,000
are “Joseph McKeen Associ-
Keep striding and smiling— ates.” The minimum donation
you are headed in the right to receive one of these desig-
direction. nations is $2,000—those who
dents outside out on College Street
in front of Ladd House in that
area. So they called for reinforce-
ments,” said Nichols.
Chief of Police Richard Rizzo
said it is not often that the BPD has
to call other departments for back-
up. Rizzo estimated that it hap-
pens roughly every two months.
Waltz said the last time reinforce-
ment of this size was needed was
during a brawl at the sports bar
Benchwarmers on Maine Street in
the spring of this year.
The incident occurred at the
BSU’s annual jersey party. The
party was registered through the
Office of Residential Life as a
chem-free event with an estimated
attendance of 100 students.
The BSU board declined to
that gets into Portland everyday
doesn’t get there until 11:40 in the
morning.”
Currently, to reach the Port-
land station, the train must take
a detour off the main line and
then reverse back onto it, adding
an extra 15 minutes to the ride.
NNEPRA has plans to rebuild
Portland’s train station at a new
location in order to shorten the
trip.
“We’re always looking for ways
to reduce our travel time,” Quinn
said. “Portland is very important.
It’s the biggest city in Maine. It’s
the number one boarding loca-
tion for our passengers … the
facility sees more than a million
people in a year, so it’s getting
tired. It’s getting to the point that
we need to put some money and
some investment into the facility.”
Though well-researched, the
plans are not solidified yet. The
$20,000,000
$15,000,000
$10,000,000
$5,000,000
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Alumni
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comment.
Nichols said at the time of Se-
curity’s arrival, there were more
than 100 students at the party,
many of whom were invited guests
from Bates and Colby and had ar-
rived to the party by bus. Accord-
ing to an email from Associate
Director of Residential Education
Stephanie Patterson, non-students
are permitted to attend events, but
students are responsible for their
guests’ actions. According to both
Nichols and Waltz, Ali and the
second suspect were not invited.
“Apparently there was a group
that Ali was with that came up
from Portland that were all togeth-
er. We don’t know how they got to
the party, [but] it doesn’t sound
like they were invited,” Waltz said.
CHOO CHOO: Brunsiwck community members participate in an activity about transportation issues at an open house Monday,.
meeting was held to inform
NNEPRA of ideas that the com-
munity is most interested in and
help provide direction in imple-
menting new projects.
“It’s incredibly important for us
to get feedback from the commu-
nities that we serve … we thought
Annual Giving Report
Parents Trustees Friends,
Faculty,
& Staff
give this amount are “Nathan-
iel Hawthorne Associates.”
In 2018-2019, the 1,227
members of the 1794 Society
gave $7,802,442, while the re-
maining 8,279 donors togeth-
er gave $1,827,671.
“I believe many donors
give because they understand
what the annual giving pro-
Nichols said Security was
unaware that guests would be
on campus. When Security is in-
formed about a large number of
guests, officers are typically more
attentive to the event because the
guest are less familiar with the
campus.
“This initially was very low pro-
file event. As far as we know, it was
chem free and it was a moderate
size. So, it wasn’t high on our pri-
ority list as a potential problem,”
Nichols said. “Let’s say [some
guest] doesn’t have the same re-
lationship with Security. Once
[people] in a crowd begin to panic
or overreact, that has a contagious
effect and can really cause more
danger.”
“It was just all these cops that
it was a really good time to get out
and get into the communities to
get some feedback,” said Jennifer
Crosby, the marketing and sales
coordinator for NNEPRA.
The Bowdoin students who
attended the meeting were excited
by the possibilities presented at
Other Founda- Corpora- Widows
(incl. tions
trusts.)
SOURCE: THE OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS
grams mean to the College
and because, in the case of
alumni, they recognize that
alumni gifts made their expe-
rience better when they were
students,” Meiklejohn wrote.
“Part of a lifelong relationship
with the College involves par-
ticipating in some way.”
Meiklejohn also under-
we’d never seen before talking to
students [and] students we didn’t
know from other schools running
around not knowing where they
were going. So [it was] definitely
disorienting and scary,” said Char-
lotte Johnston ’20.
“The police did see a student of
color wearing a jacket similar to
the one that the person they were
looking for had on. And suddenly
they all swarmed him and started
talking to him kind of aggressive-
ly,” Johnston added.
Nichols said that although
incidents like this are mostly iso-
lated, this is the second case this
semester where uninvited people
attempted to enter on-campus
parties. In September, minors not
affiliated with Bowdoin attended
Friday, November 22, 2019
DIEGO VELASQUEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
the open house and the potential
of high-speed transit in Maine.
“I sort of hate cars,” said Will
Parker ’20. “They’re a bad way to
travel on a daily basis especially,
but also long distances. I think we
are way behind where we should
be in terms of rail.”
2017-18
2018-19
tions
scored the degree to which the
College relies upon donations.
“Bowdoin would be a very
different place without the
generous gifts of alumni, par-
ents and other donors to the
College,” he wrote. “We hope
the report of giving conveys
to donors the impact of their
contributions.”
the annual Epicuria party. The mi-
nors stole three bikes after stealing
items from a first-year brick earlier
in the night. The minors were is-
sued criminal no-trespass orders.
“This group that came from
Portland I don’t think was really
coming for a great reason. They
were probably coming to try to
victimize [Bowdoin students]. If
people hear of a big group, they’re
going to use that as their opportu-
nity to try to sneak in,” Waltz said.
Ali was initially unable to
post $900 bail and transferred to
Cumberland County jail from
which he was subsequently re-
leased. Ali is set to appear in court
in January.
Emily Cohen contributed to this
report.
Friday, November 22, 2019 5

F FEATURES
Fort Andross luthier Joel Amsden strikes a chord
by Reuben Schafir
Orient Staff
“We fix catastrophic mis-
takes,” Joel Amsden said, pull-
ing a replica of a 1959 Gibson
Les Paul electric guitar out of
its case. The neck was unfin-
ished and barren. The guitar,
worth around $5,000 according
to Amsden’s off-the-cuff esti-
mate, needed extensive repair.
Its owner had attempted to re-
shape the neck himself, but he
carved off too much material,
exposing the truss rod (a steel
bar running down the length
of the neck for stability and
playability). Amsden filled the
old truss rod channel, routed a
new one and is currently in the
process of refinishing the neck.
Amsden specializes in exten-
sive guitar repair. He opened
Kennebec Instrument & Ampli-
fier in Augusta, Maine over 10
years ago, and he moved to the
Fort Andross Mill Complex in
August. He now has three part-
time employees.
The shop’s most popular ser-
vice is fret replacement—it does
about 100 per year—which re-
quires a luthier to remove the
worn-out frets from an instru-
ment’s fingerboard, resurface
the fingerboard, then trim,
set and dress new frets. This
labor-intensive work must be
done perfectly in order for the
guitar to play correctly.
“It’s something I feel we do at
a world-class level,” Amsden said.
The walls of Amsden’s shop
are lined with amplifiers and
guitar cases. One contains a
Gibson ES 335—a semi-acous-
tic archtop guitar—which
hasn’t been touched since it was
made in the late 1960s and now
needs extensive fretwork. An
original 1950s Gibson archtop
sits against the wall. Amsden
seemed unphased by the large
crack running down the back
of its body, “We should get to
that sooner rather than later,”
he commented.
Gesturing to a low-quality
electric guitar on the floor by
the row of cases containing
guitars worth several thousand
dollars each, Amsden said,
“We’ll work on anything.”
Amsden explained that as
an authorized service center
for many of the top guitar
manufacturers, such as Martin,
Taylor and Fender, about 20
percent of the shop’s workload
is warranty-related. Though
warranty repair costs are regu-
lated by the manufacturer and
don’t pay as well, Amsden said
it brings visibility to the shop
on a national level, as manufac-
turers who don’t have their own
shops in the area refer custom-
ers to Kennebec Instrument &
Amplifier.
In order to further increase
visibility, one of the employees
maintains a robust social media
presence for the shop as well as
a blog titled “On the Bench,”
where they post detailed ac-
counts of their work. Most of
the guitars that end up on the
blog are owned by high-profile
customers, like Bob Thompson,
who are popular in Maine and
whose fans might be inclined
to bring their own work to the REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
shop. TIME FOR A TUNE UP: (TOP): Joel Amsden and Pete Risano at Kenne-
These days Amsden seems beck Instrument & Amplifier specialize in extensive guitar repair. The shop is
as busy as ever and is looking located in the Fort Andross Mill Complex. (RIGHT): Joel Amsden plays the
to expand. He hired two of his Soma version of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar.
employees at the time of the
move, and he will move the going to make [Soma] more of guitar that’s perfect in every
shop again next week to a larger a priority,” Amsden said. He way,” Amsden said. “We have to
space across the hall from his is hoping to produce a couple be comfortable with an instru-
current location. dozen guitars next year. ment to get the most out of it.”
Amsden began as a musician Amsden showed me one of Amsden takes as much pride
and gradually spent more time his interpretations of a Gibson in building his own guitars as he
repairing his own equipment 1959 Les Paul Special. The gui- does fixing those of other brands.
and then his friends’. Soon, he tar has an aged yellowed finish, “It’s very important to me
began rejecting gigs so he could black racing stripes down the that people have a good ex-
spend more time on repair. center of the body and chips perience here and get exactly
Now, Amsden will train one along the edges; a section of the what they want and then some.
of his employees to build gui- wooden body is polished and There’s a lot to be said for that,
tars under his own brand name, exposed where the player’s arm and that’s how I’ve run the busi-
Soma. Soma has grown gradu- would rub against it. All these ness since day one,” he said.
ally, from building amplifiers details, Amsden told me, are “It can be difficult because I
to electric guitars as well and intentional. take a big hit sometimes both
makes 10 custom-ordered gui- “When you pick up a really in repairs and guitar building
tars in a good year. 2020, how- expensive guitar that’s perfect because if I’m not totally happy
ever, will be different. in every way, you handle it as with it, I can’t live with it. I gotta
“For the first time ever, I’m though it’s a really expensive do it again.”

Collecting stories to increase disability awareness

by Irene Brogdon
Orient Staff
In just over a week, the busy
hallways and quiet study nooks
of the College will have a new
addition: a collection of stories
from the Bowdoin community
relating to disability hung all
across campus.
In hopes of increasing visibil-
ity on International Day of Per-
sons with Disabilities (IDPWD)
on December 3, the DisAbled
Students Association (DASA)
is asking faculty, students and
staff to contribute submissions
expressing their own experienc-
es or those of friends and loved
ones.
“What we want is for [the sto-
ries] to be human, to give people
someone to relate to,” said DASA
member Thais Carillo ’23. “I
think a lot of people are afraid to
ask questions because they don’t
want to be offensive or cross a
line. The goal, as I see it [is] to lay
[the topic of disability] out there,
and hopefully have [the campus]
interact with it.”
Although the project brings
personal experiences to the
forefront of discussion around
disability, members of the Bow-
doin community may choose to
submit anonymously. The stories
will also be turned into a slide-
show and shown on a screen
in David Saul Smith Union,
outside the Bowdoin Express.
Representatives from the Stu-
dent Accessibility Office, DASA
and the Accessibility Taskforce, a
group comprised of faculty, staff
and students, will table in Smith
Union throughout the day next
to the slideshow.
Student and staff from the
three groups will be available
to engage in conversations
about accessibility, disability,
accommodations or personal
experiences. The Accessibility
Task Force also plans to host
an open forum lunch in the
Hutchinson Room in Thorne
Hall, and student panelists will
speak about experiences with
disability later that evening in
Moulton Union.
Benjamin Wu ’18 will mod-
erate the panel. Wu has been
involved with accessibility ef-
forts since his first year at the
College. When Wu first arrived
on Bowdoin’s campus, he found
that awareness regarding dis-
ability was extremely limited.
Neither DASA nor the Student
Accessibility Office existed at
the time, and the Accessibility
Task Force had a much smaller
presence.
“I came into Bowdoin with
some needs, and at that time, I
had to work a lot with the dean,”
Wu said. “I was originally [in
the] Class of 2018. I’ve gained
exposure through talking about
these issues, and then when the
taskforce formed I became really
involved and have continued to
do so.”
In the past, DASA’s mission
has been first and foremost about
building community and func-
tioned like an affinity group with
biweekly dinners. This emphasis
began to change last year under
the leadership of Spencer Wilkins
’21 and Ari Mehrberg ’20.
“When we were co-leading
last year, we talked a lot about
what the events are that we
can attach the DASA name to,”
Wilkins said.
Ultimately, last year DASA
decided to keep its program-
ming to just dinners, but these
conversations planted the seed
for the group to raise its visibility
in the future.
The panels, open forum and
postering planned for Decem-
ber 3 mark a shift in the mis-
sion of the group, which is now
increasingly action-oriented.
This year, the group is led by
Mehrberg and Maddie Hikida
’22, who worked in conjunc-
tion with Marcus Williams
’21, Bowdoin Student Govern-
ment (BSG) chair for diversity
and inclusion to bring actor
Patrick Dempsey to campus.
Dempsey, who played the char-
acter known colloquially as
“McDreamy” on the television
series “Grey’s Anatomy,” deliv-
ered a keynote address on his
experiences with dyslexia for
No Hate November.
Former DASA leader Spen-
cer Wilkins ’21 hopes that
the group’s programming will
change discourse around disabil-
ity at Bowdoin.
“There are so many people
who I’ve talked to who don’t
speak about [disability] in their
regular life,” Wilkins said. “It
doesn’t factor in whatsoever.
My goal would be that they
should feel comfortable with it
in their daily life, that it doesn’t
have to be something they feel
ashamed of.”
A collaboration between
DASA and Director of Student
Accessibility Lesley Levy may
also be in the works to establish
a disability mentorship program.
“Our big thing is trying to
figure out our place on cam-
pus—if we’re more of an affin-
ity group or if we’re more an
activism group,” Hikida said.
She hesitated to categorize the
stories collected for IDPWD
as an activist effort, expressing
hope that instead the project
will start a conversation. Going
forward, Hikida said, DASA
aims to “listen to the needs of
the community.”
6 FEATURES
PEOPLE ARE STARTING
TO NOTICE
When I see the word “mental
illness,” my mind goes straight
to the word “illness.” Then a
host of other words start to flow
through my mind: disease, dis-
ability, impaired, bad, inferior,
unworthy. The list continues,
but the negative connotation of
the words remain the same.
In our society, mental illness
has a history of stigmatization.
For example, in World War I and
World War II, soldiers would
come back from war and nev-
er speak about the debilitating
stress they experienced. They
pushed the stress to the side and
gave it a name, “shell shock.” It
was just how they got by. As my
Great Uncle Bob said, “None
of them spoke about what hap-
pened overseas. No one.”
All of these soldiers were suf-
fering. These men had to come
back to America and provide
for their families. Who was
going to listen to their stories?
TO BE AT HOME
My family moved to Maine
the summer before I started
high school. I had spent most
of life among the skyscrapers
of Chicago, where anonymi-
ty was expected in the bustle
of city crowds. Yet I felt very
connected to my city. I was
there when the Sears Tower
was rebranded as the Willis
Tower and when crime rates
reached all-time highs and
If they were lucky, maybe they
could talk to their wives, or a
childhood friend, but in actu-
ality, there was a slim chance of
this happening.
It is a different story today.
Just take a look at the new
“Joker” movie and Joaquin
Phoenix’s stunning perfor-
mance. Director Todd Phillips
has taken a risk by exploring
what it means to be human and
to have empathy for a character
you are supposed to despise.
As I watched the movie, I
had a desire to rage against the
nihilism of Arthur Fleck while
simultaneously realizing that
these emotions exist inside me.
Obviously these emotions don’t
push me to the point of psycho-
pathic action, but that is not
the point, even though many
critics draw the conclusion that
by watching the movie one can
become a nihilist or, in the ex-
treme sense, a psychopath or
school shooter (how silly).
In opposition to these claims,
“Joker” is a piece of art that pro-
all-time lows. I was there
when Barack Obama ran for
president. I found a particular
pride in surrendering myself
to Chicago—the very things
associated with Chicago were
folded into my own identity
over the course of a decade.
Yet, as we packed the car and
drove east that summer day,
reality turned to memory and
the skyline merely a reflection
in the rearview mirror. Those
parts of my identity I had
TALK TO US.
Ranging from lighthearted moments to serious reflections about life at and beyond Bowdoin, Talks of
the Quad feature the Bowdoin community’s best short-form writing. They are published every other
week and can be written by any member of the Bowdoin community. Generally 700-1,000 words.
Talk of the Quad
vokes and operates “as a way of
suggestion,” as the American
poet Franz Wright said about
his poetry. The provocative
nature of the film allows view-
ers to see how a mental illness
develops in childhood through
physical and emotional abuse,
untold lies and a lack of humil-
ity from parents to ask how you
are feeling.
All of this couldn’t be done
without Phoenix, who uses his
acting talent to convey some-
thing of value to the viewers.
Whether it be Phoenix’s melod-
ic dance in the bathroom or his
unorthodox laughter (a medical
condition), he portrays in the
fullest sense of what it means to
be destroyed in a world where
you were never accepted in the
first place.
Phoenix, through his acting,
demonstrates that Arthur Fleck is
a human with a history. He pro-
vokes viewers to writhe in their
seat, leave with an uncomfortable
empathy and ask themselves, am
I supposed to feel this way?
grown with, come to love and
cherish like an old friend, sud-
denly felt useless.
As I fluttered through high
school, I was forced to con-
front the parts of myself that
were rooted in the city of my
childhood, the place I had
long called home. My identity
adapted as I became interest-
ed in the mannerisms of my
peers, yet part of me always
felt estranged from Maine.
The state was my place of res-
LILY FU
LLAM
EMAIL ORIENT@BOWDOIN.EDU
In a way, “Joker” lends itself
to what Carl Jung, a famous
analytical psychologist, calls
the social significance of art:
“Therein lies the social signif-
icance of art: it is constantly at
work educating the spirit of the
age, conjuring up the forms in
which the age is most lacking.”
“Joker” says what has not
been said, making it a great
piece of art that will hopefully
win Phoenix and Phillips Os-
cars and provoke viewers to
think about their own mental
health and that of others.
I would admit that “Joker”
made me think about what
mental illness meant to me
after having been through
countless psychologists, psy-
chiatrists, a 10-day trip to the
psychiatric hospital and a di-
agnosis of Obsessive Compul-
sive Disorder (OCD).
In my own view, I see men-
tal illness through a scene
from “Good Will Hunting.”
The scene takes place at a
pond, where Sean McGuire
idence, not my home. I was
unable to cultivate the same
sense of belonging among the
rolling hills and quiet nights
of rural Maine that I associat-
ed with the hectic city streets.
I felt like a person caught be-
tween two worlds, neither of
which I could fully understand
anymore.
When it came time for me
to apply to college, my heart
was set on the idea of escaping.
I wanted to go somewhere and
make it mine. I felt a profound
desire to cultivate an emotion-
al connection to a place, to feel
a sense of pride for my home
once again. Yet, there was an
indescribable force keeping
me from leaving. When I was
admitted into Bowdoin, it was
as though Maine had chosen
me, pleading me not to cross
its borders into unfamiliarity.
For the first time, my heart
didn’t feel as though it was
being pulled in a multitude of
directions.
I can still remember viv-
idly the emotions I encoun-
tered during my Orientation
Trip. My world had become
focused on the small towns
of central Maine—I had nev-
er before experienced the
(Robin Williams) and Will
Hunting (Matt Damon) are
sitting on a bench. Sean goes
on to tell Will that he doesn’t
know anything about life, love,
art or war, but then ends the
scene with a very important
beauty and individuality of
communities such as Vinal-
haven. The foreignness of a
fishing community with just
over 1,000 residents struck
me. The island came to repre-
sent the epitome of loveliness,
something previously a mere
figment of my desires. And
in this dream world, all the
locals had some connection
to my hometown a few hours
inland, a shared experience
that immediately linked us
despite being strangers. I felt
known and understood, as
though my experiences were
valid. On the ferry ride back
to Rockland, it felt as though
something inside of me had
switched. Those few days on
the island helped a lost sense
of pride blossom within me.
At Bowdoin, being from
Maine is central to my iden-
tity. It is a point of intrigue,
something that people respect
and appreciate. Here, I don’t
have to come from generations
of Maine residents to be con-
sidered a “Mainer”—the social
rules of belonging don’t apply.
I am part of the community,
and the community is a part
of me. There is nothing fancy
to it.
Friday, November 22, 2019
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message to Will: “I can’t learn
anything from you I can’t read
in some fucking book, unless
you want to talk about you,
who you are.”
Dylan Welch is a member of
the Class of 2021.
Until recently, I truly be-
lieved that my acceptance to
Bowdoin meant Maine had
chosen me. It was a way for my
state to validate my residency,
an attempt to make me hang
around. Yet, I have come to
realize that when I made the
decision to attend Bowdoin,
Maine did not pick me—I
picked Maine.
I was driving back to Wa-
terville to see my family.
Summer had faded and fall
was once again a familiar
friend. The leaves were slowly
changing, a subtle coolness
infecting the warm air. The
sky exuded a pure, golden,
untouched glow. As I pulled
on to Maine Street, I felt a
smooth breeze through the
window, filling my lungs with
fresh air. I felt a rush of luck,
to be in this place with these
people. The Androscoggin
rushed under the bridge to
Topsham, and Brunswick
took the stage in my rearview
mirror. I continued forward,
no longer with the pressing
desire to feel the comfort of
home—I had been home all
along.
Nora Greene is a member of
the Class of 2022.
Friday, November 22, 2019 7

A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A discussion ‘for the earth, from the heart’:
Environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams visits Gulf of Maine
by Brianna Cunliffe
Orient Staff
A hand reached up to ring
one of the bells strung from
the ceiling of Gulf of Maine
Books, quieting the electric
murmur of the gathered town.
“Alright, folks, keep it down.
We’ve got the fire department
right on the corner, you know,”
Gary Lawless, owner of Gulf of
Maine Books, said to the crowd
crammed amongst the book-
shelves. “We welcome [a] writer
for the earth and from the heart:
Terry Tempest Williams.”
Last Friday, the gathered
community—a mixture of
Brunswick locals and Gulf
of Maine regulars, Bowdoin
students, professors and out-
side guests including students
from the Maine Coast Semes-
ter at Chewonki—welcomed
the educator, environmental-
ist and acclaimed author of
“When Women Were Birds,”
“Refuge: An Unnatural Histo-
ry of Family and Place,” “The
Hour of Land” and numerous
other books.
This year, Williams was
awarded the L.A. Times Rob-
ert Kirsch Award for Lifetime
Achievement, for her 30-year
career engaging deeply with
the American West, placing
her in the company of lumi-
naries like Ursula K. Le Guin
and Gary Snyder.
Currently the writer-in-res-
idence at the Harvard Divinity
School, Williams spoke about
her love for Maine and her re-
lationships with the commu-
nity, including Lawless and his
wife Beth, who she called her
“most careful readers.”
In her most recent book,
“Erosion,” she associates the
term not with canyons or riv-
erbeds, but with a different
type of erosion: political.
“We are witnessing an ero-
sion of public trust,” she said.
Commending the courage
of witnesses during the on-
going impeachment hearings,
she made parallels between
environmental degradation
and government dysfunction,
working towards her ultimate
question:
“We are eroding and evolv-
ing all at once,” she said.
“How do we bring those two
hands together in prayer?”
In her essay, “Dwelling,”
Williams spoke on the gutting
of Bears’ Ears National Monu-
ment in Utah by the Trump ad-
ministration in stark, uncom-
promising terms. She relayed
the stories of Native activists
seeking to protect these an-
cient lands, among them tribal
leader Willy Grey Eyes, whose
words she repeated throughout
the night.
“It can no longer be about
anger. It has to be about heal-
ing,” she said.
Tears were never very dis-
tant for audience members
and at times for Williams
herself, as she told stories
about the large-scale specter
of fossil fuel extraction in
her home state of Utah to the
intensely personal account of
her brother’s cremation.
In her reading and the ques-
tion-and-answer session that
followed, Williams balanced
often harsh subject matter with
calls for hope, strength in sol-
idarity and intergenerational
conversations. In a room where
college students stood shoul-
der-to-shoulder with Bruns-
wick residents of every age, all
leaning in to hear her words,
those calls seemed close to re-
ality.
Hayden Keene ’22, the lead-
er of internal communications
for Bowdoin Climate Action
(BCA), says she was able to
connect with town residents
and Chewonki students inter-
ested in the upcoming climate
strike on December 6.
Keene spoke with Wil-
liams herself during the sign-
ing following the reading and
shared BCA’s initiatives com-
bining activism through the
Sunrise Movement with sto-
rytelling. Williams’ response
was immediate.
“Thank you for your work,”
she said.
“Her incredible perspec-
tive, her expertise on telling
compelling narratives about
the environment—she has so
many powerful things to say
on the human aspect of activ-
ism,” said Keene.
That human aspect is so
strong that Williams says she
doesn’t primarily consider
herself a writer.
“No, I’m serious,” she said
over audience laughter. “First,
I am a community member
and a teacher.”
An audience question on
her work as a teacher revealed
a still raw story about how
she left her post at her alma
mater, the University of Utah.
After her classes examined
the auctioning of ancient Na-
tive lands by the Bureau of
Land Management, Williams
and students participated
in protests, and in an act of
civil disobedience she pur-
chased over a thousand acres
of remitted land. The back-
lash was immediate. After a
protracted struggle with the
university’s administration,
she recognized that she would
be forced into an “academic
straitjacket.” She resigned, but
says that she has grieved for
this severed tie to her home
ever since.
But others had been watch-
ing. The Harvard Divinity
School offered her a position,
holding that the issues she
wrote about were more than
environmental—they were
spiritual.
“So I’ve started praying
again,” she joked.
Williams has taken up her
new post not with dogma but
with what she calls deep lis-
tening. At Harvard, as in the
crammed bookshop where
you could have heard a pin
drop between her words,
Williams insists on the solace
and strength that comes with
community.

Ibarguen displays Peruvian cultures through dance

by Elizabeth Flanagan
Orient Staff
Literature, Peruvian art and
dance: an unlikely combina-
tion unlike most artists typi-
cally hosted at Bowdoin. On
Tuesday night, Vannia Ibar-
guen brought these disciplines
together in her performance
“Retablo Peruano” in Kresge
Auditorium.
“Retablo Peruano” trans-
lates roughly to “Peruvian
altarpiece.” A retablo is a
sculptural work created by
indigenous Peruvian artists,
depicting scenes of daily life or
exceptional historical events.
Associate Professor of Ro-
mance Languages and Lit-
eratures Carolyn Wolfenzon
Niego, who organized Ibar-
guen’s visit to campus, elabo-
rated on the cultural signifi-
cance of her performance.
“It’s kind of difficult to show
a student that has never been
[to] Latin America how the
indigenous presence and how
the values of the indigenous
people—in this case Peru—are
so different from the West,”
said Wolfenzon Niego. “And
how they clash and how some-
times they adapt, or [how]
sometimes they mix [and]
sometimes they do not mix
very well.”
Vannia Ibarguen holds a
bachelor’s degree in compu-
tational science from the Uni-
versity of Lima, but after years
in the field she decided to pur-
“This performance is about hybridity,
about mixing and remixing cultures.”
–Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego, associate professor of
Romance Languages and Literatures
sue her dance hobby more se-
riously. She eventually earned
her Masters of Fine Arts from
the University of Maryland
and a masters degree in stage
lighting from California State
University Long Beach.
Ibarguen is now the art
director of the Global Water
Dances initiative, communica-
tions manager of the Peruvian
Dance Council and organizer
of Encuentros de Pura Danza,
an annual dance festival in
Lima. She has lived in Peru,
Colombia and Maryland, and
she currently calls Southern
California home.
Wolfenzon Niego first met
Ibarguen when they were
eight years old at the Munici-
pal Ballet of Lima. Wolfenzon
Niego, who is now teaching
a seminar, “The War of Latin
American Worlds,” this semes-
ter, invited Ibarguen to come
illustrate Peru’s diverse cul-
tures through dance. Ibarguen
choreographed this unique
performance specifically for
Bowdoin.
The performance was di-
vided into three sections, and
Ibarguen portrayed a different
character in each:
Part one, “Cholo soy,” I am
AADYHA RAMINENI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
cholo, I am mestizo, I am part
indigenous. RESHAPING TRADITION: Peruvian dancer and artist Vania Ibarguen visited campus on Tuesday and performed “Retablo Peruano,” an original act uniting
Part two, “La hija del lago,” Western and indigenous cultural traditions. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Carolyn Wolfenson Niego organized the event.
The daughter of the lake. Hollywood star decades ago. “I realized that it would be versity in an academic context. guen to campus that connect
Part three, “Yma Sumac,” Students in Wolfenzon interesting if the students were “I think it’s really good to be seemingly conflicting media
The name of a most unusual, Niego’s seminar have dis- able to see in a different way aware of diversity, and I think and disciplines.
marvelous Peruvian singer, cussed in detail the day-to-day the combining of different it makes you a better person,” “[Students] should be
an indigenous woman turned clashes between tradition and arts, literature and dance— said Ibarguen. “Specifically, in more exposed to this type
modernity in Latin America, this clash that I’m talking college … you are absorbing of combination between the
specifically how Western and about,” said Wolfenzon Niego. different ideas, positions and arts, because now everything
indigenous cultures are still “This performance is about you need to create your own is very hybrid in general, not
negotiating the terms of their hybridity, about mixing and way you think about the world.” just the identities, but also
relationship through a histor- remixing cultures.” Wolfenzon Niego hopes the way we teach,” she said.
ical-cultural process she calls Ibarguen agrees, placing em- that she will be able to bring Danielle Quezada contrib-
“transculturation.” phasis on the importance of di- more performers like Ibar- uted to this report.
8 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friday, November 22, 2019

‘OUTLOUD’ exhibition showcases Asian student identities

by Rebecca Norden-Bright
Orient Staff
“Representation.” “Identi-
ty.” “Pride.”
The walls of the Blue Gal-
lery tell a complicated story
of solidarity and individ-
uality—photographs of 15
Bowdoin students encircle
the room, printed in color
and black-and-white, pasted
on red backgrounds. Quotes,
taken from interviews with
the students pictured, are
printed in varying styles and
colors directly on the photos,
highlighting the diversity of
individual experiences with
Asian and Asian American
identities.
The photo exhibition,
entitled “OUTLOUD” and
sponsored by the Asian Stu-
dents Alliance (ASA), opened
last Sunday. It celebrates
the participants’ Asian or
Asian-American heritage and
aims to highlight their com-
plexity.
“We just really want the
image and text to talk, and
just be a platform for people
to communicate this com-
plexity of being Asian or
Asian American,” said ASA
co-president Yvonne Fang
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
’20, whose image is included
in the exhibit. AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: Flora Hamilton ’21 and Teddy Wecker ’22 admire works from the Asian Student Alliance’s (ASA) exhibit titled “OUTLOUD.” The project, which features portraits
Many of the interviews that and quotes from 15 students from Asian and Asian American backgrounds, will be on display in the Blue Gallery in David Saul Smith Union for the rest of the semester.
are presented discuss issues of presents a celebratory outlook the caption of one photo of a 2016. Last year’s exhibit fea- Asian American side of me af- a part of this campus and rec-
stereotypes or bias incidents, on Asian and Asian-Ameri- ring. “It reminds me of where tured over 100 photos. How- fects who I am and how that’s ognize all the different back-
creating a space to connect can identity, through fashion I come from.” ever, as photographer Daniel intertwined with my identity,” grounds they come from,” said
with students who may have and style. For this reason, “It creates a sense of sol- Jang ’20 explained, this year is said An. “Not only did we Brahm Desai ’23, an interna-
had similar experiences. One participants were asked to idarity or that you’re not different. contribute or try to share our tional student who participat-
portrait reads, “I wish people dress in a way that was mean- alone in experiencing certain “This time we wanted to identities, but I think even ed in the photoshoot.
would see beyond the label of ingful to their own identity things,” said Aimee An ’20, focus on the individual per- just going through the pro- “A recurring topic in the
‘international student.’” and self-expression and to who is pictured in the exhib- son and go more in depth into cess further helps you reflect interviews was that people
“It’s nice to see similarities bring an object of sentimental it. “Not solidarity based on their experiences,” said Jang. on your own identity as well.” really hoped that people on
or be able to connect with a value to them. microaggressions necessarily, “So we didn’t focus on quan- Many students expressed campus were more curious
photo when you see it,” said Interspersed between por- but also on the positive as- tity, but more on just telling their wishes that other stu- and willing to learn about
ASA co-president Alex Lee traits of students are photos pects of being Asian.” individual stories.” dents, beyond those belong- different complex identities,”
’20. “It does make you reflect of their sentimental objects: Photo exhibits like “OUT- Telling these stories proved ing to affinity groups, take said Fang. “And I feel like this
personally and be like, ‘Oh, articles of clothing, gifts from LOUD” have been an annual a valuable experience for the time to visit the exhibit is a step towards that.”
this has happened to me be- family members and jewelry tradition for ASA since its those who were interviewed and listen to their peers. The exhibit is on display
fore’ or, ‘Oh, this is something are common choices. first photoshoot titled “#Thi- for the project. “I hope [Bowdoin students] in Blue Gallery in David Saul
I can relate to.’” “My grandmother from Pa- sIs2016,” went viral on the “[The interview] made me first just see all the Asian in- Smith Union and will be up for
However, the exhibit also kistan gave this to me,” reads group’s Facebook page in think more about how the ternational students that are the remainder of the semester.

Perspectives in printmaking: Students publish joint artist’s book

by Keyna Mecias
Orient Staff
With help from Visiting
Artist Claudia Fieo P’21, and
inspiration from the collec-
tions at the Peary-MacMillan
Arctic Museum, printmaking
students created an artist’s
book. The Visual Arts de-
partment, Bowdoin Librar-
ies, and the Peary MacMillan
Arctic Museum came togeth-
er to celebrate the book’s
completion at a launch on
Wednesday.
This is not the first time
that Arctic Museum collec-
tions have supplemented a
printmaking class. Students
usually study Inuit prints,
but this year the class en-
gaged with objects with in-
teresting textures from the
collection as inspiration for
their work. Arctic Museum
Curator Genny LeMoine
worked closely with Associ-
ate Professor of Art Carrie
Scanga to select the pieces.
“I went through and
looked at mostly sculptures
because that’s where you
find the most interesting tex-
tures,” LeMoine said. “Rather
than looking at the content of
the sculpture, which is often
what interests me, [I looked]
at the surface of it and things
like that.”
The process began with
printmaking students head-
ing to the museum to select
their objects and drawing
some of the pieces that had
been pulled.
“It was interesting to watch
them drawing in the galler-
ies,” said LeMoine. “We do
sometimes get people com-
ing in and sitting down and
drawing but to have a whole
class in space… it was great.”
Students then spent most
of their class time making
prints. One of the most dif-
ficult aspects of the proj-
ect was determining which
prints would be put into the
book and in what order.
“What is the first print
that we want to see when you
first open the book? Do you
want to be shocked?” Gemma
Kelton ’22 said.
The class had to work to-
gether to find a way to put
individual prints together
so that they formed a story
rather than a collection of
individual works.
“I don’t think it turned out
boring at all,” said Maia Gra-
noski ’22. “I think it turned
out pretty well.”
Despite stressful mo-
ments, students enjoyed the
artistic process. Kelton had
never done printmaking be-
fore but reflected positively
on the experience.
“I didn’t really know what
printmaking was, but I was
like ‘I’m here for a reason,
and that’s to try anything
and everything I can,’” said
Kelton.
The Arctic Museum hopes
to have more students and
departments use its resourc-
MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
es in this manner. The staff
emphasized how amazing it ART AT ITS FINEST: Visiting Artist Claudia Fieo P’21 guided students through the process of making an interactive
was to have a chance to work
printmaking book, taking inspiration from various objects on display in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.
with a class in this way and here today, and they’re real- Arctic Museum Director in history, archaeology and
how they look forward to ly amazing,” said LeMoine. Susan Kaplan seconded LeM- anthropology and art history
potentially collaborating in “This is delightful and we’ve oine’s point. use the collection,” she said.
other projects of this nature. been talking with [Scanga] “We love to see our col- “To have the printmaking
“I had no idea what to about exhibiting them in the lection used in lots of dif- students use it in yet another
expect until I saw them museum.” ferent ways. We have people way is really exciting.”
Friday, November 22, 2019
Just beyond Maine Street: the invisibility of the opioid crisis at Bowdoin
by Brianna Cunliffe
Orient Staff
Maine loses nearly a person
per day to opioids. But on cam-
pus, students are largely insu-
lated from the crisis, which hits
Maine’s aging populations and
manual laborers especially hard.
In Cumberland County,
there were 74 overdoses during
the first quarter of 2019, down
from the previous quarter’s 86.
Decreased death tolls are good
news, but a greater percentage
of these deaths are caused by
fentanyl, a dangerous substance
which is infiltrating the region
at an alarming rate, explained
Leah Bauer, medical director
and psychiatrist at the Addic-
tion Resource Center (ARC) at
Midcoast Hospital. For many,
addiction starts with a prescrip-
tion written by a doctor but
spirals out of control, leading to
fentanyl, heroin and metham-
phetamine abuse.
The nationwide crisis
wrought by opioid overpre-
scription has sparked lawsuits
against pharmaceutical giants
traveling as high as the Supreme
Court; a bipartisan coalition in
Congress proposed a nation-
wide settlement around $48
billion.
But despite the magnitude of
the crisis and its consequences,
opioids have been a predomi-
nantly silent specter in Bruns-
wick since the 1990s.
CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT
Some students are prescribed
Oxycontin when they get their
wisdom teeth removed. Others
manage pain from serious ath-
letic injuries with similar drugs.
Geno Ring, a licensed alco-
hol and drug counselor who has
been contracted by the College
for 14 years, believes that in
Bowdoin’s insulated communi-
ty, these cases seldom tumble
into serious addictions. Yet for
many, this is how a life hijacked
by opioids begins. Feelings of
safety and invincibility can be
dangerous, and mind-altering
substances should never be un-
derestimated, explained Ring.
“‘We’re all smart, high-ac-
complishing, high-achieving
people [here at Bowdoin]. So
that will protect us from these
drugs,’” said Ring. “The drugs
have no idea who you are.
They’re indifferent to your so-
cioeconomic background, your
IQ. Addiction is a disease of the
brain, a neurological hijacking.”
Looking to learn more about
the impact of the opioid crisis,
Annie Rose ’20 and Nina Al-
varado-Silverman ’19 designed
an Alternative Winter Break
(AWB) trip last year that cen-
tered on addiction and recovery.
Participants visited local orga-
nizations that address addiction
in their communities, from the
ARC to Portland’s Preble Street
Resource Center.
“I really do think we have a
responsibility to engage with
the local community and un-
“The drugs have no idea who you are.
They’re indifferent to your socioeco-
nomic background, your IQ.”
–Geno Ring, licensced alcohol and drug counselor
derstand what it is that folks
have had to overcome,” said
Rose.
Bowdoin students are Bruns-
wick citizens, too. For this
reason, she believes that the
often-invisible struggle playing
out in our community should
be part of conversations on
campus.
Tam Phan ’21, who will lead
this year’s iteration of the trip
alongside Biz Sweeney ’21, also
thinks these conversations are
important.
“Bowdoin produces political
leaders and prominent people
in medicine. Teaching people
about this, when they’re in po-
sitions of power, that could be
really important,” she said.
Although surrounded by the
SPECIAL REPORT
bubble, some students do have
personal connections to the
opioid crisis.
Patrick Blosainz ’22, grew up
in New Hampshire next to a city
nicknamed “Heroin Hollis.”
“A lot of people dealt with
addiction,” he said. “I had a lot
of friends from school who had
that problem.”
Motivated by this connec-
tion, Blosainz spent last sum-
mer as a research consultant
looking into the effectiveness
of various community efforts
attempting to address the opi-
oid epidemic. His findings
echo the plea of professionals,
from law enforcement to social
service providers, who work
with these issues firsthand: a
bottom-up, community-inte-
grated and holistic game plan
is necessary.
“If you work from the top
down, there’s huge holes in cer-
tain policies that people don’t
see,” Blosainz said. “The best ap-
proach to helping someone kick
addiction is a holistic approach,
meeting their social support
needs.”
As for what students can do
on campus, Bauer of ARC says
that breaking the stigma sur-
rounding addiction can begin
by using correct terminology.
As she explains, these are peo-
ple with substance abuse disor-
der, not “addicts” or “junkies.”
“Stigma is multi-layered,
multifaceted and certainly per-
vasive in this disorder,” she said.
“It’s good people wanting to
have productive lives who have
had their brains hijacked from
them.”
ENFORCEMENT
Who struggles with addiction?
“All walks of life. All,” said
Brunswick Police Department
(BPD) Commander of Patrol
Tom Garrepy.
Opioid substance abuse dis-
order and its consequences im-
pact everyone from the wealth-
iest members of the community
to its most vulnerable, including
the homeless individuals served
by Tedford Housing, a Bruns-
wick organization providing
housing and homelessness pre-
vention services.
Fourteen percent of Tedford
Housing patrons self-report
that they are also struggling
with substance abuse disorder.
Tedford Housing Director of
Operations Giff Jamison said
that this is likely a significant
underestimate, as individuals
who admit addiction often fear
they will be denied essential
services and face scorn and
reprimand in the communities
they belong to.
The impact of stigma com-
plicates law enforcement and
community efforts alike. In
Brunswick, the presence of
Route 1 and Interstate 295,
highways that serve as major
drug corridors, means the mid-
coast region is hit hard by the
influx of out-of-state substances
and their repercussions. The
solution to mitigating the crisis
is far from simple.
“I’d like to say it would just
take heavy [police] enforcement
on drug traffickers pushing the
stuff, but it just seems like a nev-
er-ending battle,” said Garrepy.
“You take one off the street
and there’s immediately anoth-
er,” said BPD Detective Jared
Verod. “I don’t think it’s any one
specific thing. I think it’s a to-
tality of things. It’s such a broad
education and enforcement en-
deavor.”
In 2018, BPD officers began
carrying Narcan, a medication
used to prevent overdoses. Nar-
can has been a bone of political
contention in Maine; former
Governor Paul LePage sought to
limit access while current Gov-
OUT OF THE SHADOWS : Although infrequently discussed on
campus, the opioid crisis casts a shadow on the Brunswick community.
ernor Janet Mills is earmarking
significant funds to expand its
availability.
Students and politicians alike
clash over strategies for en-
forcement and treatment. Some
claim solutions, such as the in-
74 overdoses
during
the first quarter
of 2019 in
Cumberland
County
creased availability of Narcan,
enable users and preclude re-
covery; others believe they save
lives and mitigate risk. Bauer
sees every dose of Narcan in the
community as one more tool
against the specter of overdose
and wants “as much of it in the
community as possible.”
When facing such a com-
plex issue, Gareppy believes
that stakeholders must work
together.
“When I say stakeholder,
that’s everyone from the hos-
pital to the emergency services
to colleges and businesses. We
all have a stake in this because
it could be tomorrow that I find
out that one of my family mem-
bers has an addiction,” Gareppy
said.
RECOVERY/TREATMENT
Access to care is a persistent
problem, even for those who
overcome stigma to seek treat-
ment. Many recovery programs
are not covered by insurance
and many individuals who
are impacted are uninsured.
Recent legislation has worked
to lessen financial barriers to
recovery, but the overcrowded
recovery programs where ap-
plicants struggle to find a bed
or schedule appointments with
overworked clinicians reflect
the magnitude of this epidemic.
9
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
The ARC at Midcoast Hospi-
tal is the exception to this rule.
Bauer directs an innovative
group-based recovery initiative
that allows patients to be seen
just a matter of days after check-
ing into the system. One of their
most prominent programs uses
Buprenorphine, more widely
known as Suboxone, to chemi-
cally assist recovery.
ARC was the first hospital
in Maine to integrate Suboxone
into the ER, beginning the pro-
cess of recovery immediately
after an individual suffers from
an overdose.
But even assisted by a pow-
erful tool like Suboxone, recov-
ery is an individualized process
with no guaranteed success.
Addiction is often compound-
ed by mental illness and so-
cio-economic vulnerability,
making it nearly impossible to
disentangle the causal mech-
anism from the subsequent
impacts. And often, individu-
als must first have their basic
needs met before they can even
think about getting clean.
“Housing is a stabilizing
force for anybody, whether
they’re experiencing substance
use disorder or mental illness,”
explained Jamison.
From summer research to
service learning to decades
of work in these fields, those
working on the opioid crisis in
and around Brunswick all con-
cur that it begins and ends with
community. They point to the
good work happening in our
neighborhood—just down the
road at ARC, and just beyond
Maine Street.
“The opposite of addiction
isn’t sobriety,” said Rose. “It’s
human connection.”
Those struggling with ad-
diction, opioid or otherwise, or
those concerned for a friend can
reach out to the counseling cen-
ter (207-725-3145), or contact
Geno Ring to schedule a time to
talk. For Bowdoin students, this
service is confidential and free
of charge.
10 Friday, November 22, 2019

S SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
EAST COAST
SHREDDER DOES IT
BETTER:
John Lane ’21 won the
Lake Atlantic Invitational, a
surfing competition run by
students from the University
of Massachusetts-Amherst,
last weekend. The contest
was held in knee-to-thigh
high waves at Good Harbor
Beach in Gloucester,
Mass.. Two other Bowdoin
students, Rowan Byrne ’21
and Sebastian de Lasa ’22,
competed alongside Lane,
exiting in the semifinals and
first round, respectively.
Lane dominated the ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
competition, receiving A HEROES’ WELCOME: The women’s rugby team is welcomed back to campus after winning the NIRA Division III national title last Sunday, the first in program history.
the top score in each heat

Women’s rugby captures first-ever national title

he surfed before he was
carried out of the water by
supporters after winning the
final heat.
PICKING UP THE
SLACK MEANS
YOU’RE BEST IN THE
‘CAC:
Running back Nate Richam-
Odoi ’20 was named to the
All-NESCAC first team
on Tuesday, becoming the
first-ever Bowdoin football
player to receive first-team
honors since the NESCAC
was founded in 2000.
Richam-Odoi’s 830 rushing
yards this season, second-
most in the NESCAC,
brought him to 2,186 career
yards on the ground, the
fifth-most in school history.
by Seamus Frey
Orient Staff
In the first quarter of Sun-
day’s 27-5 victory over the
University of New England
(UNE) (2-6) at Mignone Field
at Harvard University in All-
ston, Mass., the women’s rug-
by team did exactly what it
needed to do to clinch its first
Division III National Inter-
collegiate Rugby Association
(NIRA) championship game:
go down by a try after the first
possession.
“[UNE] scored on their
first possession. Not a coach’s
favorite moment,” said Head
Coach MaryBeth Mathews.
“We just weren’t prepared for
them to attack. We were poor-
ly aligned and didn’t make our
tackles, and they just took ad-
vantage on the wing. So, being
down five-nothing right off
the bat gave [us] something to
recover from.”
And recover they did. After
that first possession, Bowdo-
in dominated the rest of the
game, finishing the season
with a NIRA Division III na-
tional championship—the
fourth ever for the league and
the first ever for the team.
“[UNE’s try] made us real-
ize we had to pick it up and
turn our game on, which we
did,” said captain Claire Carg-
es ’20. “That was a pivotal
moment, a turning point in us
realizing what we had to do to
turn our game around.”
A quick Polar Bear try
right after the opening score
allowed Bowdoin to reset. For
the rest of the game, MVP
Safiya Osei ’21 broke countless
tackles and scored two tries,
while Ashlynn Autrey ’22 led
the Polar Bears’ defense with
12 tackles. Bowdoin proceed-
ed to put up 27 unanswered
points.
Assistant Coach James Read
emphasized the composed at-
mosphere at the match.
“The last minute of the
game, you wouldn’t think that
we were about to win because
the [players] were so profes-
sional,” said Read. “Sometimes
you see people jumping up
and down, getting really close
to the line, getting ready to
run onto the field. There was
none of that. Everybody was
very calm—we still had a job
to do. As soon as the ball went
out, that’s when we knew we
could celebrate.”
Carges described the joy
when the final whistle went off.
“Everyone was ecstatic and
we all ran, hugged and were
cheering,” Carges said. “Then,
our fans also came onto the
pitch, which was really nice
because it was in Boston, so
there were a lot of players’
families and alumni who were
able to come to support us. It
was overall a great feeling and
a positive end to this season.”

A CENTURY OF

Bidding farewell to Bowdoin football

BUCKETS:
With 21 points in a 79-70
opening day win over
Framingham State (0-5)
last Friday, David Reynolds
’20 became the 26th
player in Bowdoin men’s
basketball history to exceed
1,000 career points. His
performance led the Polar
Bears to victory on Friday,
but Bowdoin could not
secure victory on Saturday
against Roger Williams
(3-1) or on Tuesday against
the University of Southern
Maine (3-1), with the
Polar Bears falling just
short in a 78-77 overtime
loss. Bowdoin will seek
redemption on Saturday
in its home opener against
Maine Maritime at 3 p.m..
ORDINAL, NOT
CARDINAL:
The women’s hockey team
tallied opening-weekend
sweep with two victories
over visiting Wesleyan a
week ago. Coming off of
a disappointing season
last winter, the Polar Bears
trailed all game on Friday
evening but battled back
to force overtime with the
game tied at 3-3. Angelina
Joyce ’22 buried the game
winner in sudden-death
to seal the victory. On
Saturday, Bowdoin coasted
to a 4-1 victory over the
Cardinals to complete the
sweep, which put them
in a tie for first place in
the NESCAC. The team
returns to action tonight,
hosting Colby at 7 p.m..
COMPILED BY DYLAN SLOAN AND
SEBASTIAN DE LASA
More Than a
Game
by Ian Ward
The Bowdoin football sea-
son ended much like it began:
badly.
After carrying a 14-point
lead into the fourth quarter
against Colby, the Polar Bears
allowed 27-unanswered points
in the final period, falling 47-
34 to cap off the team’s third
winless season in four years.
The loss cemented Bowdoin’s
place in the sub-basement of
the NESCAC and deprived
the team of a CBB title for the
eighth straight year.
Up where the sun shines
brightly and the birds sing
sweet ditties, Middlebury be-
came the first team in NES-
CAC history to finish a season
9-0 and took home the pro-
gram’s first league champion-
ship since 2013. Must be nice.
With the loss, Bowdoin
football again made history
of its own, concluding the
worst four-year stretch in the
130-year history of program.
Across that stretch, the Polar
Bears are 1-34, having been
outscored 470-1,245 by their
opponents.
I have had the delicious
misfortune of writing about
the team for half of that
stretch, and now that it’s end-
ing, this column is, too.
I started on this beat to
learn about the psychology of
a team that never wins, and,
having watched them lose all
but one game that they have
played, I’ve learned … some-
thing.
Bowdoin football is an
enigma, wrapped in a con-
tradiction, stuffed inside an
anachronism. Players past
and present have told me that
Bowdoin football has been the
most formative experience of
their lives, not despite its abys-
mal performance but because
of it. Football is the reason that
some of them are able to go to
college, to make it through
college and to make a living
after college. They’re telling
the truth, and we should take
them at their world.
But you also haven’t seen
all of Bowdoin football until
you’ve seen a middle-aged fan
pouring a hefty amount of Ti- ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
to’s Vodka into a Yeti thermos
THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR: With another loss to Colby last weekend, the Bowdoin football team finished this
at noon on a Saturday at a season with an 0-9 record for the third time in the past four years.
tailgate full of parents wearing
name tags emblazoned with I’m not sure that the program working just as designed. The remains how to break out of it.
their players faces and eating is broken in the first place. In only thing that’s broken are Ultimately, the future of
lukewarm chili out of crock- 2019, potential recruits have our expectations. Bowdoin football is less press-
pots on plastic tables covered more Division III football ‘‘But what about Middle- ing than the present reality
with those gaudy disposable programs to choose between bury’ you might ask, ‘a school of Bowdoin athletics. In my
tablecloths you only see at than ever before, and Bowdo- with a similar institutional effort to learn about the psy-
children’s birthday parties. in’s admissions rate has hit an profile and a winning football chology of a team that never
Try to hold those two things all-time low. If, as the College team?’’ The obvious but im- wins games, I learned a lot
in mind at the same time. It’s maintains (but refuses to sub- portant difference is that Mid- more about the psychology
not easy to do. stantiate with data), its goal is dlebury already wins football of an institution that fields a
Can Bowdoin football be to recruit athletes who would games. Recruits are attract- team that never win games.
fixed? Maybe. Diversifying be competitive applicants ed to historically-successful Bowdoin is not a sports
its recruiting pool would be a without their athletic creden- programs and the cycle per-
good place to start. But really, tials, the system seems to be petuates itself. The question Please see FOOTBALL, page 12
Friday, November 22, 2019
Women’s and men’s squash start season strong under new head coach
CONTROL THE T: Gretchen Clauss ’23 and Tyler Shonrock ’20 wind up for backhands in last weekend’s set of home matches
against Vassar and Bates. The two teams went 3-1 combined in a promising first weekend for new Head Coach Theo Woodward.
After superlative season, volleyball bows out in NCAA Elite Eight
by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
Bowdoin volleyball’s post-
season run ended on Thurs-
day night after suffering a 3-0
loss to Carthage College in the
NCAA Division III Volleyball
Championship tournament
quarterfinal in Cedar Rap-
ids, Iowa. The loss ended the
Polar Bears’ dramatic season,
which saw them overcome a
shaky start in conference play
to advance to the Elite Eight
of the NCAA tournament for
the second time in program
history and the first time since
2015.
Before traveling to Iowa,
captain Dani Abrams ’20 ex-
pressed her pride in the team’s
turnaround.
“We started in a tough place
mentally, and we’ve been able
to change our team’s mind-
set and our team has really
followed that in terms of just
gaining confidence and fire
and fight,” said Abrams. “As
a captain, I couldn’t be more
proud. I couldn’t relive a better
senior season.”
The team advanced to the
Elite Eight after beating End-
icott College, Tufts University
and Johnson and Wales. The
victory over Tufts, who beat
Bowdoin in the final of the
NESCAC tournament on No-
vember 10, was particularly
sweet, said Abrams.
“Obviously, [Tufts was] the
team to beat. We love the team,
we love the girls and it’s a really
fun rivalry. So I think after they
took the NESCAC champion-
ship, we were like, ‘Let’s win
when it matters,” said Abrams.
Despite dropping the
first set to the Jumbos and
trailing all game, Bowdoin
forced a fifth-set tiebreaker
before clinching a spot in the
Regional Final. First-Team
All-NESCAC and American
Volleyball Coaches’ Associa-
tion All-American Honorable
Mention outside hitter Car-
oline Flaharty ’20 put up 20
kills and 16 digs in the match.
“Tufts is a very strong team,
and the only difference was two
points in each match,” wrote
Head Coach Erin Cady in an
email to the Orient. “When you
have two equally talented teams
play, it could go either way.”
A 3-0 victory over Johnson
and Wales on November 17
secured the team’s second-ever
New England regional title.
The season began slowly for
the Polar Bears, as the team
struggled to find its footing
after the historic 2018 season,
in which the Polar Bears went
28-2, took home a NESCAC ti-
SPORTS
JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MAKING US PROUD: Volleyball players celebrate a point at a home game against USM earlier this fall. The team’s season ended after a loss in the NCAA Elite Eight last night.
tle and advanced to the Sweet
Sixteen of the NCAA tourna-
ment.
“When have we ever in so
long had a season like last
season?” said middle blocker
Cori Gray ’22. “I think that
was on everyone’s minds, just
how are we going to top that?
… There was a big attitude of,
by Holly Harris
Orient Staff
Reflecting on the kick-off
of the squash season this past
weekend, captain Drew Clark
’20 said, “It’s a great time to be
a squash player.”
Both the women’s and
men’s squash teams hosted
two successful home matches
versus Bates (1-1) and Vassar
(4-5). The men’s team found
victory in both matches, beat-
ing Bates (2-0) 5-4 in the first
win over the Bobcats since
2002. The women’s team also
showed a strong debut despite
shifts in the ladder due to
injuries, beating Vassar (4-3)
6-3 and putting up a strong
fight against Bates in a 2-7
loss.
“Both teams are definitely
growing a lot both on and off
the court,” said captain Tyler
Shonrock ’20. “The first couple
matches speak for themselves,
skill-wise and squad-wise.”
The start of the season
also marks the debut of a new
coaching staff. Head Coach
Theo Woodward, who pre-
viously coached at Drexel
University and Dartmouth
College, brings a competitive
energy. Ian Squiers ’19 has
also returned to the program
as an assistant coach after four
successful years as a starter on
the men’s team.
“[Coach Woodward] con-
ducts practice with a purpose,”
Clark said. “He’s improved our
work ethic and practice, [and]
also brought the community
very close together.”
“It’s been a very welcome
change for the women’s team,”
said Clio Bersani ’22, one of
the women’s captains.
Woodward looks forward
‘We’re not the same team, and
we’re not last year’s team.’ The
confidence to be a new team
[took time].”
After getting off to a 4-6
start, the team began to
gather momentum following
a victory over Johnson and
Wales University, ranked fifth
nationally, on September 28.
to re-energizing the Bowdoin
squash program, eager to gar-
ner publicity and excitement
from the greater community.
Three weeks into the sea-
son, Woodward already has
a vision for what he wants to
shape the program into.
“It’s all going well, but it’s a
lot of change and trying to get
the basics right so that we’ve
got strong foundations for the
future,” said Woodward. “The
main thing we’re trying to do
is change the culture.”
In addition to a new
coaching staff, both teams
also welcome a strong group
of first-year recruits. With
nine underclassmen and five
upperclassmen, men’s team
co-captains Clark, Shonrock
and Gannon Leech ’21 view
the development of these play-
ers as essential for the future
success of the program.
“We really want to devel-
op the leadership and a good
team culture, which will give
us the best opportunity to ex-
cel in every match that we play
and really set the stage for the
next two or three years where
the future looks really bright,”
said Clark.
Similarly, with six first-
years on the 13-player wom-
en’s roster, Bersani recognizes
the new members as crucial
in terms of revitalizing the
program.
“I want to make sure that
[the first-years] feel really wel-
come and included on the team
as well as making sure that the
returning players all are on
their game,” said Bersani.
Woodward is concerned
primarily with the team’s im-
provement rather than numer-
ical results this season.
“When I really think about
The victory began a 14-game
winning streak that contin-
ued until the loss to Tufts in
the NESCAC final.
But returning to the Elite
Eight of the NCAA tourna-
ment, a feat that Bowdoin
had not accomplished since
2015, remained the team’s
goal throughout the season.
11
what we’re doing, it’s not easy,”
said Woodward. “It’s more, to
me, about first years develop-
ing a good energy, setting high
standards and expectations
... and then holding them to
those standards.”
After that, Woodward said,
“the results will come.”
This weekend, both teams
will travel to Wesleyan for
matches against Hamilton (0-1
M, 0-1 W) and Wesleyan (0-1
M, 0-1 W). Clark, Leech and
Shonrock hope to keep the
men’s team’s momentum going
and bring home a 4-0 record.
The men’s team hasn’t started
a season with such a record
since 2001.
Looking forward, the men’s
team anticipates facing tough
opponents at the NESCAC
tournament, which will be
hosted at Bowdoin this year.
“We hope to keep up our
momentum and work ethic all
the way through,” said Clark,
hopeful for the team’s high
performance at the tourna-
ment.
The opportunity to show-
case the team’s improve-
ment on their home court at
NESCACs is the first step,
said Clark, to “get[ting] the
squash program back on track
to where it was in the early
2000s.”
Hannah Reiff ’22, a member
of the women’s team, encour-
ages people to come out to
the matches throughout the
season to witness the energy,
which Bersani described as
“electric.”
“The space is very small
and we get a lot of rowdy peo-
ple in there,” Reiff said. “Even
if you don’t understand the
sport, there’s people around to
help you pick it up fast.”
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
No NESCAC team has ever
advanced to the tournament’s
Final Four round.
“It was always a dream
to make it back there,” said
Abrams. “No matter who it is—
younger girls, older girls, play-
ers on the court, players on the
bench—it’s an equally amazing
experience for everyone.”
12 SPORTS Friday, November 22, 2019

Men’s hockey opens season NESCAC Standings

with inconsistency, optimism bit of an up and down [and] and that really cost us.”
MEN’S BASKETBALL
NESCAC OVERALL
w
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
NESCAC OVERALL
by Ben Mason SCHOOL W L W L SCHOOL W L W L
kind of a sloppy game, and I After graduating nine se-
Orient Staff thought we managed our[- niors last winter, this season Amherst 0 0 1 0 Amherst 0 0 1 0
The cold, winter weath- selves] really well.” is an opportunity to evolve Bates 0 0 1 0 Bates 0 0 1 2
er is upon us, which means Unfortunately, Saturday’s and break out of last year’s Bowdoin 0 0 1 2 Bowdoin 0 0 2 0
Bowdoin hockey is back. The loss told a different story. slump.
men’s hockey team claimed an “I thought we worked hard “We brought in a really
Colby 0 0 3 0 Colby 0 0 1 2
impressive 6-4 opening day [on Saturday], we just didn’t strong freshman class of guys Conn. Coll. 0 0 1 2 Conn. Coll. 0 0 2 1
victory over Middlebury on work as smartly as we needed who are awesome on and Hamilton 0 0 3 0 Hamilton 0 0 2 0
Friday, but failed to sweep the to against a really good, sea- off the ice. So that just adds Middlebury 0 0 4 0 Middlebury 0 0 2 0
weekend, falling 5-1 to Wil- soned team [like] Williams,” … some pieces we may have
liams the next day. said Dumont. been missing to the puzzle. So Trinity 0 0 1 2 Trinity 0 0 3 1
The Polar Bears are com- While the result wasn’t ide- that’s exciting,” said Geary. Tufts 0 0 2 0 Tufts 0 0 3 0
ing off a very disappointing al, the team has a better sense However, despite person- Wesleyan 0 0 3 0 Wesleyan 0 0 3 0
6-16-2 season last winter, of what needs to be addressed nel changes, the spirit and
their worst performance since in order to get in the win col- mentality of the team hasn’t
Williams 0 0 2 1 Williams 0 0 2 0
1963. This season, the team umn. faltered. SCHEDULE SCHEDULE
aims to bounce back, and “The big thing for us is to “We changed a little bit of
there is optimism among the make sure we contain [our] structure, and some of our Sat 11/23 v. Maine Maritime 3 P.M. Fri 11/22 v. Colby-Sawyer @ 7:30 P.M.
coaches and players that the emotion and keep our game game plan and so on,” said Tues 11/26 v. UNE 5:30 P.M. Bridgewater State
Polar Bears can put last sea- within ourselves,” said Du- Dumont. “But there’s not a lot
son’s woes behind them. mont. “There’s some things of different personalities. You WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
Head Coach Jamie Dumont special-teams wise we will know, it’s the same core guys MEN’S ICE HOCKEY NESCAC OVERALL
was impressed with the team’s continue to work on ... but ev- ... the guys are fun to work NESCAC OVERALL SCHOOL W L T W L T
with every day and [are] re-
SCHOOL W L T W L T
“We want to be right up there [in ally committed to getting this Bowdoin 2 0 0 2 0 0
thing going.” Trinity 2 0 0 2 0 0 Colby 2 0 0 2 0 0
the standings] year in and year out. The team aims to fuel their Williams 2 0 0 2 0 0 Middlebury 2 0 0 2 0 0
For us, it’s all about focusing on the efforts using last season’s Amherst 1 0 0 1 0 0 Amherst 1 1 0 1 1 0
future and learning from the past.” shortcomings as motivation.
“We play [in] a good Bowdoin 1 1 0 1 1 0 Hamilton 1 1 0 1 1 0
–Head Coach Jamie Dumont league,” said Dumont. “But Conn. Coll. 1 1 0 2 1 0 Conn. Coll. 0 2 0 0 3 0
we want to be right up there Middlebury 1 1 0 1 1 0 Trinity 0 0 0 2 1 0
[in the standings] year in and Wesleyan 1 1 0 1 1 0
performance last Friday, cit- erything we saw is definitely year out. For us, it’s all about Wesleyan 0 2 0 0 2 0
ing that game as a source for correctable.” focusing on the future and Colby 0 2 0 0 2 0 Williams 0 2 0 0 2 0
his positive outlook on the “Three or four guys left learning from the past.” Hamilton 0 1 0 1 1 0 SCHEDULE
start to the season. the ice injured so we kind The team has another Tufts 0 2 0 0 2 0
“Friday night we played of got bit by the injury bug chance to prove itself on Sat- Fri 11/22 v. Colby 7 P.M.
a really good road game,” a little bit,” added captain urday when it heads north to SCHEDULE
said Dumont. “[It was] both Pat Geary ’20. “We ended up Waterville to take on Colby at Sat 11/23 @ Colby 3 P.M.
Sat 11/23 @ Colby 7 P.M.
teams’ first game out of the getting stuck in the box for 7 p.m. in a critical early-sea- Compiled by Dylan Sloan
gate. So it’s going to be a little a five-minute penalty [too], son rivalry game. Tues 11/26 v. UNE 7 P.M.
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC

Cross country sends three runners to NCAA Championships

by Kathryn McGinnis
Orient Staff
On a chilly Saturday morn-
ing last weekend, three Polar
Bears earned their bid to Na-
tionals at the New England
DIII Cross Country Champi-
onships. Caroline Shipley ’20
finished the women’s 6K in
seventh place with a time of
21:38.5, with Delaney Bullock
’22 close behind her in 13th.
Luca Ostertag-Hill ’20 ran in
right under the wire to qualify
for nationals and completed the
men’s 8K in 26th place with a
time of 25:35.7.
For the second year in a row,
Bowdoin held a home track ad-
vantage entering the New En-
gland Championships, but early
winter weather posed a serious
problem for runners.
The day before I had been
doing a light workout on the
course and it was not runna-
ble at all,” said Ostertag-Hill.
“I remember [thinking] this is
going to be the worst race ever.
It was super, super soft so you
couldn’t push off the ground
and also extremely slippery.”
But another cold snap early
the next morning provided the
Polar Bears with better condi-
tions. The ground froze solid,
allowing runners to push off
more powerfully with each
stride as long as they avoided
icy corners.
It was imperative that all
runners followed their strategy
perfectly throughout the race
to finish in the top. Shipley and
Bullock worked together, run-
ning in a pack for three miles
before splitting off. The pack
prevented Shipley from sprint-
ing off too early in the race
while Bullock used her partner
to not fall behind.
“The whole strategy is to pass
and not get passed,” said Ship-
ley. “I knew who to run behind,
so I got up behind them and let
them break the wind and lead
the way. Then knowing when
to break ahead from one group
into the next and when to surge
is the strategy.”
Luckily, the Polar Bears will
be running with familiar faces
and frequent rivals when they
travel to Lexington, KY, for the
NCAA national championship.
Several NESCAC teams, such
as Williams and Bates, will join
them in the Bluegrass State.
In preparation for Nationals,
the runners are tapering their
workouts and calling alumni
who have raced in a NCAA DIII
Championship for advice. Julia
O’Rourke ’19 had some words
of wisdom for Ostertag-Hill.
His time was one of the last to
qualify for the championship.
“The hard part is both [O’Ro-
urke] and I got in at the tail end
of the cut-off so it’s hard to say
I want to have this high goal
[in the race] because everyone
else in the field is going to be a
great runner as well,” said Os-
tertag-Hill. “[But O’Rourke]
said you have to keep your head
in it and treat it like you deserve
to be there, and shooting for a
high goal is key to the race.”

FOOTBALL a very big and a very small

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
school and will never be a
sports school. Most non-ath-
letes are either completely am-
bivalent about or vaguely dis-
missive of the whole concept
of varsity sports in the first
place, and I see no reason to
believe this will ever change.
Despite this fact, Bowdoin
remains an institution that
is thoroughly shaped by its
desire to attract and retain
varsity athletes. No aspect of
the College, from admissions
to academic affairs to alumni
relations, remains untouched
by this commitment.
The effects are both cul-
tural and financial. In the
2019-20 operating budget,
the College allocated $7.9
million, or about 4.5 percent
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT of the total budget, to its ath-
PLUGGING AWAY: Despite its best efforts, the Bowdoin football team solidified a 130-year record for the worst four-year stretch of results with this year’s 0-9 campaign. letic programs. That is both
number, depending on how
you frame it. But regardless
of your perspective, it is a
whole lot of cash to spend on
programming that benefits at
most one third of the student
body, generates practically no
revenue for the College and
provides a leg up in the ad-
missions process for a pool of
white and wealthy applicants.
This system raises fundamen-
tal questions about fairness
that we have not even asked,
let alone answered.
I did not come up with the
name for this column, and I
thought it was kind of lame
when I first saw it, but I’ve
come to like it. Bowdoin ath-
letics are more than a game:
they’re a real institutional
force. It behooves us to keep
an eye on them.
Thank you for reading.
GoUBears.
13 Friday, November 22, 2019

O OPINION
It’s a beautiful day in
the neighberhood
Take off your parking brakes! Thirty days from now, new parking restric-
tions will take effect on a number of Brunswick streets, including Columbia
Avenue, Belmont Street, Longfellow Avenue, Noble Street, Pine Street and
Union Street.
The restrictions, passed by the Brunswick Town Council at its Novem-
ber 18 meeting, are not unprecedented—the Council placed similar restric-
tions, specifically aimed at Bowdoin students, on Park Row in 2014, and the
College revoked student parking privileges to the lots at the Maine Street
College Houses the same year.
In light of this move, which forces more students to park in the rather
distant Farley/Watson lot, we’re forced to consider what parking rights and
privileges students should have. Maybe far away parking isn’t so bad?
KYRA TAN
Our campus is a relatively compact 207 acres. For comparison, Middle-
bury’s campus is 350 acres, and Wesleyan’s campus is 360 acres. Bowdoin is
easily walkable for many students, and its location near a densely populated
town center makes it unlikely that the College will expand student parking
anytime soon.
But this is understandable. There are 200 more student parking spaces
Corporate welfare is no good
on campus than registered cars, even though most of these spots are located
near Farley Field House. And as Randy Nichols, executive director of Safety
and Security, has said, few are in favor of a campus filled with parking lots.
Of course, we acknowledge that cars on campus provide mobility that
for corporations or for colleges
can be extremely valuable in our relatively small college town. For some, and only lets in the most talented in keeps prices down. Colleges have al-
they are a necessity, whether they allow students to attend medical appoint- by Peter Slovenski our society? Critical thinking would lowed costs to soar more than dou-
Op-Ed Contributor
ments, drive to a job or travel to see family. make us ask if organizations with ble the rate of the Consumer Price
But the College does accomidate students with cars. Bowdoin students I’d like to comment on last week’s narrow admission for talented peo- Index in the past 20 years. Colleges
are guaranteed a spot somewhere on campus, even if its location is some- Orient article about taxes on college ple in academics or sports should re- could try to hold down costs, but
what inconvenient. The price of a parking permit is relatively low as well: endowments. Wealthy non-profit ceive non-profit status. The National they have discovered that no matter
$50 for the year compared to Colby’s $100 and Bates’ $120. Our parking colleges should not oppose efforts to Football League or Major League how much they raise prices, cus-
spaces should not come at the expense of Brunswick residents. collect taxes on their enormous en- Baseball could make a similar bid for tomers still line up to attend Yale
Beyond being good neighbors, these changes, though inconvenient for dowment funds. Colleges like to brag tax exemption because they screen and Princeton. So they raise prices
some, have beneficial impacts on the campus’s car-related culture. that they encourage critical think- for exceptional talent and then they and build ever more luxurious fa-
An eight-minute walk adds comparatively little time to the 35-minute ing. When I apply critical thinking help the exceptionally talented im- cilities for sports, housing, dining
trip to Portland, but it adds significant travel time to your two-minute drive to college finances, it looks to me as prove their skills and contributions and classrooms. They do not need
to Hannaford. The distance to the Farley/Watson lot disincentivizes stu- though non-profit tax exemptions to society. Helping needy students to keep costs low. They also do not
dents from driving short trips that are typically walkable or bikeable. for schools with billion-dollar en- with a lot of talent is a high-minded need tax exemptions.
Minimizing unnecessary driving by carpooling, walking and biking is dowments are just another form of endeavor, but motivated students do I suspect another subtle but dia-
in the interest not only of campus infrastructure and neighborly behavior corporate welfare. pretty well regardless of what college bolical problem with tax exemption
but also sustainability. On a campus highly concerned with its carbon foot- Colleges claim that they need they attend. Society’s most difficult for colleges. Colleges siphon off mil-
print, the Council’s ordinance enables the College to incentivize alternative their tax exemptions so they can help problems require us to help the lions of dollars of charitable giving
forms of transportation. society. Critically thinking, there needy with the least amount of talent with the most amazing fund-rais-
So, no, faraway parking isn’t such a bad thing. are at least four problems with this more than those who are deciding ing campaigns. They vacuum up
argument. First, can’t colleges and between Harvard and Ohio State. A charitable giving dollars that might
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s edi- universities help our government disadvantaged genius who attends otherwise be donated to soup kitch-
torial board, which is composed of Emily Cohen, Brianna Cunliffe, Roither pay for social programs the way Penn State will do well enough with ens, Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs, homeless
Gonzales, Alyce McFadden, Nina McKay, Danielle Quezada, Reuben Schafir the rest of us do? Social science de- the Penn State education. It’s the shelters, hospitals and wildlife hab-
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14 OPINION Friday, November 22, 2019

Billionaires’ presidential run an exercise in narcissism

Who’s Left?
by Livia Kunins-
Berkowitz
As a New Yorker, I must
apologize for the barrage of our
former mayors (Bloomberg,
DeBlasio, Giuliani) that have
found themselves far too close
to the presidency. It is simply
New York narcissism at its
worst. Yet Bloomberg’s flirta-
tion with a presidential run is
a far more insidious force than
New York narcissism; it’s an-
other attempt by the billionaire
class to ensure its control over
America’s political processes.
The billionaire class is
scared that real change is com-
ing to America in the form of
a Sanders or Warren presiden-
cy—and scared they should
be. Bernie and Liz’s policies—
including a billionaire tax,
breaking up major tech com-
panies and removing corporate
money from politics—threaten
the system that has allowed
billionaires to accumulate un-
imaginable wealth and wield it
as they so desire. Sanders and
Warren have not shied away
from this conflict. In fact,
Sanders has gone as far as to
say billionaires shouldn’t exist
at all, and Warren’s campaign
sells mug that says “billionaire
tears.” In national polls, War-
ren and Sanders are
consistently polling
ahead of every oth-
er candidate, save
Biden. And Biden
is still struggling
to articulate a
sentence that
is coherent
from be-
ginning to
end. The
billion-
aire class
is currently
rallying around Mayor
Pete Buttigieg due to his recent
surge in Iowa and New Hamp-
shire, but they surely know
this is largely due to a $2.3 mil-
lion ad-buy and subsequent
traction amongst white voters.
In the end, he still is only the
mayor of a city of 102,000 peo-
ple.
The billionaires are des-
perate for a candidate who
can win the primary while
maintaining the interests of
the Democratic Party elite;
they are running out of op-
tions and are quickly becom-
ing desperate. Last month,
six major democratic donors
met at a swanky hotel in
Midtown Manhattan to
discuss who they could
draft into the already
over-crowded
field of Democratic candidates.
They are scheming to change
the course of the primary and
have unlimited resources at
their disposal to do so. They
floated names like Michael
Bloomberg, Deval Patrick,
John Kerry and Hillary Clin-
ton. Their efforts have paid off
as both Bloomberg and Patrick
have decided
to run for
HOLLY HARIS
president. Bloomberg is wast-
ing no time—he just bought
over $100 million of advertise-
ments in Wisconsin, Michigan
and Pennsylvania, perhaps in
an attempt to erode Sanders’
momentum in these integral
states. Yet the question re-
mains: will these candidates
actually be able to pose a le-
gitimate challenge this many
months into the primary?
One possibility is that party
elites are actually advocating
for a brokered convention—a
primary in which no candi-
date obtains the majority of
delegates. If Biden, Buttigieg,
Warren and Sanders all re-
main in the race until July,
each winning different states,
this is a viable outcome. In
the event of a brokered
convention, superdel-
egates will decide the
nominee at the Dem-
ocratic Convention on
July 13, 2020. This would
be unequivocally bad for
Sanders and Warren who are
unlikely to garner the support
of superdelegates who include
former members of Congress
and members of the Democrat-
ic National Committee, a group
that has historically not looked
favorably upon candidates that
question the role of big money
in politics.
This is of course specula-
tion, but we must reckon with
the fact that many party insid-
ers are working hard to ensure
that Sanders or Warren is not
the nominee. The reality is
that the Democratic Party is
divided—it is comprised of a
wide range of people espous-
ing fundamentally different
ideologies. We are chafing at
the confines of a two-party
system that artificially com-
bines Bernie’s democratic
socialism with Biden’s neolib-
eralism, all because these men
believe that people should
have abortion access, gay peo-
ple should have the right to
marry and we shouldn’t lock
kids in cages at the border.
I will be voting for whoever
the Democratic nominee is
because in an election against
Trump, I feel I have no oth-
er choice. But the question
must be asked: is the party big
enough for both the billion-
aires and Bernie and Warren?

A student perspective on cultural genocide in China

two million of their peers bound to their national iden- through Xinjiang, and Ürümqi take turns each night sleeping even the Muslim nations, are
by Aoguzi Muhameiti into over 1,000 concentration tity. In the 2000s, their na- (the capital of Uyghur). For the while 15 of them had to stand quiet as their brothers and
Op-Ed Contributor
camps: China. tionalistic desires intensified, plan to work, they would need to provide space. Some peo- sisters are tortured to death
Just another day: I pick up I arrived in the United resulting in hundreds of pro- Xinjiang to be a peaceful place ple had not taken a shower in daily.
my phone and open Skype, States on January 26, 2010 and tests, some turning violent. without any riots. So, what did over a year. Despite the awful policies
scroll through my contacts was granted political asylum a There were clear racial divides, they do? There have been numerous of President Donald Trump,
until I reach the “m” section. I few months after. What I was with Han Chinese civilians Their solution: completely reports of Uyghur women one thing he has done right is
select “Mom” and dial the long escaping was the possibility and Uyghurs frequently find- assimilate Uyghurs and strip being married off to Chinese to stand up to China’s human
+86 number for the 28th time of being returned to Uyghur, ing themselves punching each them of their cultural identity. officials to force integration, rights violations through eco-
since the last time I had spo- or “officially” Xinjiang, a ma- other in the streets. That is why, starting in which is extremely worrisome nomic means. He has slapped
ken to her: April 1, 2018. The jor geographical and cultural However, earlier this de- 2017, China built prison given the fact that my 29-year visa bans on Chinese officials
phone rings on the other end— region in northwestern Chi- cade, things took a turn for the camps all over Xinjiang, old sister could be subjected connected to the camps, black-
up to 50 long seconds until it na. It was invaded in 1949, in worst. The Communist Party which they claimed were to this practice. Officials also listed 28 companies that have
either just abruptly ends or the same manner that Tibet of China announced the Belt “re-education camps,” to get force themselves into homes helped create camp equipment
the usually programmed voice had been. Since the invasion, and Road Initiative: a massive rid of radical sentiments. and live with Uyghur fami- and appointed Elnigar Iltebir,
mail responds in Chinese. Uyghurs have maintained the plan costing billions of dollars These camps, according to lies, commanding their daily a Uyghur-American scholar,
“The subscriber you are trying Muslim culture that is in which China would invest numerous reports from major lives to ensure they live the to direct the National Secu-
to reach is unavailable.” in infrastructure all over Asia outlets such as the BBC and Communist way. More horrif- rity Council’s China policy.
I have heard this phrase nu- to create a modern-day silk- verified by satellite images, ically, the China Tribune has America is doing something,
merous times and so have the road and other trade routes. are the location of systematic reported that the camps were but more must be done on an
mere 1,000 Uyghur-Amer- This route would go right cultural cleansing of Uyghurs. also being used to harvest international scale.
icans who took refuge in Those imprisoned are force- organs from Uyghur prison- This is not a call for sym-
the land of opportuni- fed pork, forced to drink al- ers, that “there was a massive pathy. This is a call for educa-
ties, leaving behind a cohol and they are subjected infrastructure development of tion—to understand that in a
land that has placed to more than eight hours of facilities and medical person- country so many admire and
more than class time learning about nel for organ transplant op- tour, millions of Uyghurs are
the Chinese government, eration.” Thousands of jour- being tortured to death for the
history and communist nalists, teachers and religious crime of being Uyghur. The
propaganda. Mihrigul Tur- leaders have been kidnapped. most I can do for my mom,
sun, who testified to the Testimony by Sayragul Sauyt- sister and everyone else in my
conditions in the prison bay, who was granted asy- family is to inform as many
camps before the U.S. Con- lum, states that women are people of the humanitarian
gress, recalled being sub- routinely raped and men are crisis going on until it stops.
jected to torture through sterilized. They are subjected So many outlets, communities
electrocution (some were to medical experiments. Their and more can afford to be qui-
APLAN subjected to nail-pulling), meals consist of a “cloudy et, but I cannot.
SARA C
and said she “begged them soup and a slice of bread,” So there: be disturbed, be
to kill [her].” She had slept and starvation is a frequent vigilant and share. Humanity
alongside 60 women in a method of punishment. These depends on it.
room that was only 430 square crimes are horrific, yet the Aoguzi Muhameiti is a mem-
feet, thereby being forced to international community, and ber of the Class of 2023.

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Refutation takes time
by Robert Sobak
Op-Ed Contributor
Raise your hand if Paul
Franco’s dog has ever eaten
your breakfast.
I knew it! I knew I was not
alone!
One of the great pleasures
of a walk across the Bowdoin
quad is a chance meeting with
that lovable scamp. For many
years now, on the way to my
early-morning Greek class,
I have looked forward to the
possibility that my linguistic
preparation will be delayed
in the service of my intellec-
tual expansion. The fact that
I sometimes have to make a
donation in the form of an ap-
ple stolen out of my hand or a
banana filched from my coat
pocket only adds to my joy.
Watching Professor Franco
double over in laughter while
making vague gestures toward
canine discipline simply com-
pletes the tableau.
I do not begrudge the dog
his thievery, for I treasure my
conversations with the human
he is taking for a walk. Franco
is one of the finest, most gen-
erous and sharpest interloc-
utors in our community. His
beaming smile is outshone
only by his judicious intellect.
And whether it be Hal or the
much-missed Reggie snaf-
fling my vittles while Franco
distracts me with some phil-
osophical point, the fact that
I chortle and feel not a bit of
resentment toward that mug-
ging is strong evidence of
trust. I know Paul. I trust him.
We’ve built that relationship
over time. It has been fash-
ioned from well over a decade
of purloined fruit and strong-
ly-argued points. So, when
Franco hints that there may be
something worth considering,
it is incumbent upon me to
give him a careful listen.
I give Franco due consid-
eration, especially when he
advances an idea or argument
that I initially consider weak
and unsupported, because I
owe it to Franco, not because
I owe it to the mere idea of
argument. Were Franco to
propose that we burn the
College down and replace it
with a for-profit corporation
whose curriculum is driven
by the whims of the moment,
I’d sit down with him under
the nearest tree and give him
as much time and attention
as he needs to make that case.
Even if that means allowing
his dog to eat my shoes. He
has earned from me, and from
many of you, whatever time
and attention he may request.
But if a relative stranger, or
a man who has earned my
distrust, were to make that
same request and argument,
it would be incumbent upon
that man to first prove that I
need to give him the time of
day, much less the respect of
my attention.
Productive argument over
difficult matters cannot thrive
in the absence of affection.
One does not learn from oth-
ers by taking up the spikiest of
questions first. We must scrape
down the thorns together be-
fore holding opposite sides
of the stick. This is what it
means to be in a commu-
nity of learners. We learn
through the habits and
practices of community.
We learn even, and often
especially, in spaces and
times that are not formally
marked out for pedagogy. We
learn through simple conver-
sation, through observation
and through iteration.
In response to my last
op-ed, Professor Fran-
co commented that,
“however much
Socrates dis-
agreed with the
Sophists, he did
not find it point-
less to engage
with them and try
to refute them with reason.”
The clear implication is that
Socratic disagreement with
sophistry must be exercised
by reasonable refutation. This
assertion is true but insuffi-
cient. Socrates described his
engagement with Sophists,
and with everybody else for
that matter, using the lan-
guage of hard work.
One Greek word in the de-
scriptive vocabulary of Socratic
practice stands out: diatribe-
in. From this word we get the
English term “diatribe.” But its
original and common usage,
skillfully adopted by Socrates,
was deployed by the ancient
carpenter conveying what it
takes to sand down a rough-
hewn and knotty
plank. It is the way
in which the Greek shoemaker
describes the act of scraping
and softening tough leather.
Over time, this term comes to
denote the expenditure of time,
such that it can later be used of
diners hanging out at a taverna
all hours of the night.
But at root it is all about
effort, and about how real
effort must always involve
time. Socrates didn’t just in-
vest a few hours to arguing
with Sophists, he devoted his
entire life to the refutation of
sophistry. So how would he
have responded if only given
the opportunity to write down
a question in advance and sit
quietly
while Gor-
gias prowled
the stage, engag-
ing in bamboozling
epideictic? Does such
an environment offer
anybody the chance to
submit Gorgias to the Socra-
tic elenchus?
Not at all. That carefully
produced format is well-de-
signed to prevent the process
of refutation from even taking
root, let alone flowering. As a
result, Socrates would proba-
bly realize his time was much
better spent talking to people
in his community. Perhaps, if
there had been a newspaper in
ancient Athens, and if Socra-
tes had developed the habit of
writing, he might have devoted
some of his time to a careful
examination of how and why
Gorgias came to Athens, what
Gorgias hoped to achieve
there, and how Athenians
might weigh the present asser-
tions of Gorgias against his past
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speeches
and writings.
For the true
measure of the
man’s claims must indeed be
taken.
But more than anything,
he would have relished the
opportunity to scrape away
the hours feasting in the Pry-
taneion while arguing with
members of his own commu-
nity. For true intellectual nu-
trition is found in the practice
of iterative reason-giving. It
marinates over time. It must
be consumed among those
with whom one has nurtured
the bonds of trust and affec-
tion. It cannot be snatched
from the hand of an itinerant
speechifier and eaten quick-
ly. Everybody knows that
drive-thru tacos are nothing
but sodium and empty cal-
ories. Quickly gulped down
in their shiny packaging,
they will soon find them-
selves steaming on the frozen
ground, waiting for some dog
to come along and make a
breakfast of them.
Robert Sobak is an Associ-
ate Professor of Classics.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Sustainability Office responds HAVE YOU GOTTEN A PARKING

To the Editor,
We appreciate Professor of Chemistry
Richard Broene’s recent Letter to the
Editor drawing attention to the results
from the October Energy Challenge and
felt it would be beneficial to explain
where and how the Sustainability Office
arrived at the numbers posted in the In-
stallment.
Residences that are individually me-
tered are connected to an outside energy
dashboard company, Lucid Technologies.
Lucid provides an interface and tools
for Facilities Management to look at the
energy data from campus buildings for
monitoring and maintenance, as well as
providing the framework and support to
compare different buildings’ energy us-
age in the Energy Challenge format.
Throughout the Energy Challenges,
this data—managed and calculated by
Lucid—is what appears on the Energy
Dashboard and provides hourly updates.
At the end of the Energy Challenge, we
are able to download the data from Lucid,
which includes the baseline consumption
in kilowatts (kW), competition rate of
consumption in kW, percent reduction,
total reduction in kilowatts per hour
(kWh), and total reduction of carbon
in pounds for each building, and for the
challenge as a whole.
The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) provides an online “Equivalency Sustainability
Calculator,” which allows the more eso-
teric numbers and metrics like kW and reach Coordinator
pounds of carbon to be translated into
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more tangible numbers like trees planted
and miles driven.
This is the process by which we ar-
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rived at the numbers posted in the No-
vember Installment. Admittedly, there
is room for the discrepancy between the
data we receive from Lucid and however
the EPA calculates its equivalency. As the
Last issue’s response:
Harry Potter books say, “never trust any-
thing that can think for itself if you can’t
see where it keeps its brain,” and in using
Q: HAD YOU HEARD OF TOBI LOU BEFORE
both a data management service and the
EPA calculator, we cannot speak directly
THE FALL CONCERT?
to how these emissions savings calcula-
tions were made.
We have reached out to Broene, and
11% YES
look forward to connecting with him in
order to better use the metering technol- 89% NO Based on answers from 175 responses.
ogy we have to provide more accurate in-
formation to the Bowdoin community in
future energy challenges. This was not a
willfully misleading use of statistics, but
merely an example of the limits of what
can be metered and measured, and how
to best communicate technical informa-
It’s never too early to be thinking about
tion to a campus that embraces liberal
arts and STEM.
gifts for the holiday season....
Thank you all for your concern in this
matter, and for your vibrant participation
in the Energy Challenge itself.
No pressure, but nine out of 10 Orient editors
Sincerely,
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FRIDAY 22
EVENT
Wellness Program Tabling
Kate Nicholson, Bowdoin’s new assistant director of student
wellness programs, will meet students and speak to them
about upcoming wellness programming, as well as take
suggestions from students about future programming.
David Saul Smith Union. 11 a.m.
EVENT
Lunch with Kathryn Olson: On Farms,
Fish, Forests and Climate Change in Maine
Katheryn Olson, a PhD candidate at Boston College who
examines the effects of climate change on farmers, fishers
and foresters in Maine, will speak to Bowdoin students about
her research. Light refreshments will be provided.
Lantern, Roux Center for the Environment. 11:30 a.m.
LECTURE
“Ramón Novarro en Mexico”:
Mexico’s Golden Age and the Limits of
Transnational Stardom
Ernesto Chávez, guest lecturer at the University of Texas at
El Paso, will discuss Mexican-born actor Ramón Novarro, and
how his race and nationality influenced his position in the
American film industry.
Torrey Barn, Cram Alumni House. 1 p.m.
LECTURE
Gil Vigil: Nationally Recognized Native
Tribal Leader
Former Governor of the Native American Tesuque Pueblo
tribe Gil Vigil will discuss the origins of the Pueblo people
and the issues that the tribe—as well as the general Native
American population—faces in the current political climate.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 3 p.m.
DISCUSSION
Gallery Conversation: Assyria to America
Sean P. Burrus, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral cultural
fellow; James Higginbotham, associate curator for the ancient
collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and Ayub
Tahlil ’22, will examine the history of Bowdoin’s six reliefs from
ancient Nimrud.
Museum of Art. 3 p.m.
EVENT
Community Care Night
The Office of Gender Violence Prevention and Education
will invite students to make mindfulness glitter jars, decorate
cookies and engage in reflection on self-care, community
healing and the second year of the #MeToo movement.
Garage, 24 College Street. 4 p.m.
EVENT
The Moth: Breakups
Bowdoin Healthy Relationships will host a live story-telling
centered around the idea of breaking up with people, places
and things, featuring the stories of Bowdoin students.
Basement, Park Row #2. 7 p.m.
28 29
Thanksgiving Break Thanksgiving Break
Friday, November 22, 2019
KATIE BACALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LIVE FROM BRUNSWICK: The Improvabilities, one of Bowdoin’s two improv groups, had its second show of the semester, “Time Travel.” The
show included improv games and audience participation.
SATURDAY 23 MONDAY 25
EVENT EVENT
Stowe Writer’s Retreat Meditation
The Stowe Writers Collective will hold writing workshops in Bernie Hershberger, director of counseling and wellness
genres including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, writing services, will lead a meditation session.
with movement and more. Room 302, Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 4:30 p.m.
Harriet Beecher Stowe House. 10:30 a.m.
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE Students of Jeff Christmas
“Hark! Now the Bells!” The students of Jeff Christmas, lecturer in the department of
The Bowdoin Chorus, under the direction of Anthony Antolini, music, will perform an evening concert.
will perform a concert of Ukrainian and Russian choral, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
including works by Tchaikovsky, Chesnokov, Rachmaninoff,
Sviridov, Prokhorov, Kalistratov and Leontovich. Performances
will be held on Friday and Saturday.
The Chapel. 3 p.m.
TUESDAY 26
EVENT
Puppies and Polaroids
Student Activities will hold an event for Bowdoin students to
play and take polaroids with puppies. FILM SCREENING
Morrell Lounge, David Saul Smith Union. 7 p.m. “Deconstructing the Beatles’ ‘The
White Album’”
Frontier will be screening Scott Freimans’ documentary,
“Deconstructing the Beatles’ ‘The White Album,’” which
gives the viewer insight into the process of creating the
SUNDAY 24 Beatles’ best-selling album.
Frontier. 3 p.m.
PERFORMANCE EVENT
Concert Band Open Writing Hours and Workshop
The Bowdoin Concert Band will present a concert featuring The Stowe Writers Collective will hold open writing hours
music from a variety of historical periods, countries and and a peer-review-driven writing workshop. Snacks will
cultures, in addition to original compositions. be provided.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m. Harriet Beecher Stowe House. 7 p.m.
30 1 2 3 EVENT 4
Thanksgiving Break International Day
of Persons with
Disabilities