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The Nation’s Oldest Continuously Published College Weekly Friday, April 3, 2020 Volume 149, Number 20 bowdoinorient.com
N SURPLUS SUPPLIES F LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID A GO WITH THE FLOW S BUDGET CUTS O JSTOR
College donates protective equipment to Students start matchmaking service to create Lucia Gagliardone ’20 adapts her dance NCAA reacts to revenue loss due to the We must demand a free and open
local hospital. Page 4. connections between students. Page 6. thesis “Like Water” to a film format. Page 5. coronavirus. Page 9. exchange of information. Page 11.
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Friday, April 3, 2020
STUDENT SPEAK:
I played Candy Crush for What are you doing to cope during quarantine?
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from July to October. “I’m glad that I’m busy. I like [she will] change our linens on actions with King.
Hornor was hoping to keep to feed people, and it makes it our bed once a week,” Tarlton “I’ll be in my underwear
employing most of her staff nice when college kids come said in a phone interview with in the common room, eating
through the Paycheck Protec- in and they’re so hungry, and the Orient. “It’s in downtown yogurt out of a tub, and he’ll
THE
tion Program, a Small Business they’re so grateful, and they’re Brunswick and there are good just come down and be like
Association (SBA) loan pro- so happy to have a good hot hiking trails nearby, so it’s real- ‘hey what’s up’ and I’m like ‘not
gram that is part of the federal meal and I think, ‘Okay, I can ly the best. It was the best deal much you know,’” Tarlton said.
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Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and do my part.” we would have gotten both fi- “So, it’s a weird time, [where
and help stop the Economic Security (CARES) Matt Donnelly ’22, who nancially and from what we’re you are] kind of thrust together
Act which was signed into law is staying in a room with his getting out of it.” with people you’d never expect
spread of coronavirus on March 27. The subsidies brother Mike Donnelly ’20, Tarlton wanted to stay in to meet.”
weren’t enough, and she still said that Hornor notified his the Inn because he went to To Matt Donnelly and Tarl-
had to lay off all staff members. parents, who stay at the Inn boarding school and does not ton’s knowledge, King quaran-
1. HANDS wash them often “I figured out that the for-
mula that they use to determine
when they visit Brunswick,
about her idea. The Donnelly
have many connections in his
hometown in California.
tined for about five days at the
Inn after traveling. According
2. ELBOW cough into it how much money I would get family resides in New Jersey, “I wanted to maintain some to Matt Donnelly, King is re-
would not be nearly sufficient where concerns about the feeling of community, and have turning home today. Hornor
3. FACE don’t touch it for me to stay afloat. So, I actu- coronavirus (COVID-19) out- people close by, even if it was declined to comment about
WHAT’S OPEN?
BRUNSWICK RESTAURANT UPDATES
by Maia Coleman
Orient Staff
The hours and status of each of these businesses is subject to change as the situation unfolds.
This list will be updated online accordingly. Latest update 4/2/20.
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SPORTS
DIII to adjust spending in wake of NCAA revenue loss
ning and Finance Committee. most significant changes will remaining staff-administered party as ways for the organiza- will be looking at the impact of
by Dylan Sloan According to a press release not be in championship expe- nonchampionship programs” tion to to reduce its overall ex- the downturn in the economy
Orient Staff
issued last Friday, revenue al- riences, but rather in the auxil- in the press release. noting penses … as well as some of the across all expense lines, much
In the past weeks, the location to Division III will be iary development and diversity that cancelling them would branding initiatives and things like we did during the finan-
threat of the novel coronavi- cut over $20 million, from $33 initiatives that Division III puts save NCAA “approximately like that,” said Ryan. cial downturn in 2008. I think
rus (COVID-19) has resulted million to $10.7 million. on each year. $350,000.” Although the NCAA will that it’s important for all of us
in the cancellation of many The division is already run- “Much of the expenses in- Ryan predicts that NCAA face a serious loss of revenue, to play our part in helping to
NCAA winter championship ning a deficit going into next curred by Division III are re- championships will be largely this will not directly affect ensure the financial stability
events as well as nearly the season because the fees for lated to championships. So for untouched by the budget cuts. funding for the NESCAC. The of the college going forward,”
entire spring athletic season. many of next year’s events have us, we are in the process now A possible reduction in cham- conference will likely suffer said Ryan. “But with that also
However, the virus may have already been paid. of submitting our expense re- pionships funding would like- budget cuts as well, although comes a responsibility to make
far greater effects on NCAA “The division already had imbursements for the NCAA ly not radically change what not to the same extent. sure that we’re being prudent.
operations than just bringing paid for all fall championships, “Unlike NCAA Division I So we would certainly look at
an untimely end to the athletic
year.
a portion of winter champion-
ships and most of its noncham- According to a press release institutions, NESCAC insti-
tutions do not receive direct
all areas of our operating ac-
tivity to make sure that we’re
The cancellation of March pionships initiatives,” read the issued last Friday, revenue funds from the NCAA,” Lisa being as efficient as we possibly
Madness, by far the NCAA’s
largest revenue producer, as
press release. “As a result, it
spent about $7.6 million more allocation to Division III will be Champagne, assistant direc-
tor for media relations for the
can be.”
On paper, one of the athletic
well as a multitude of other than the $10.7 million in reve- cut over $20 million, from $33 NESCAC, wrote in an email department’s larger expenses is
APRIL
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the
sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some omi-
FRIDAY 3
nous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, Write a few paragraphs of a fictional story in which the
something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is protagonist is the best version of yourself. Then, write
give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, a few paragraphs of a story in which the protagonist is
the worst version of yourself.
and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white
sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine. Many people joke that our generation will brag to our
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how children about surviving the coronavirus (COVID-19)
metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor as if we had survived a world war. Write about how you
actually plan to tell younger generations about what
blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands,
this time was like for you, your family, your friends and
your own blood and the blood of others. the world.
And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive.
You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out Bonus Activity: Try to cook a Bowdoin Dining recipe.
of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Drown your sorrows in enchilada pie.
– Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore”
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