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Fall semester return for ‘everyone’ may not be possible

Rose establishes group tasked with making a recommendation for fall 2020
by Andrew Bastone
Orient Staff
President Clayton Rose in-
formed students that the Col-
lege may not be able to reopen
the campus to “everyone” for
the fall semester in an email
sent on Thursday.
“We do not know if it will be
possible to bring everyone back
to campus for the fall semester,
but I want us to carefully exam-
ine if it can be done (and if so,
how) in a manner that accounts
for the presence of the virus and
would be safe for our communi-
ty,” Rose wrote.
“That said, we should be
mindful that we may conclude
that it is not possible, and it may
also be that events take the deci-
sion out of our hands,” he added.
Rose also announced the
formation of a group of faculty,
staff and students to assess “the
issues that need to be addressed
in order to have all our students
back on campus for the fall and
still be able to safely carry out
the semester.”
The working group, called
the “Return to Campus Group,”
will be composed of 18 stu-
dents, faculty and staff and will
be chaired by Jennifer Scanlon,
the William R. Kenan professor
of the humanities in Gender,
Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
Rose said that he expects the
group to formulate a report that
will be submitted to him by June
15. The Board of Trustees and
the Committee on Governance
and Faculty Affairs will review
the findings, and the report will
also be made “available to the
community,” Rose wrote.
In a phone interview with the
Orient, Scanlon said the group’s
meetings, which will be held on
Zoom, will begin next week.
According to Rose, the
group’s work will focus on how
student life on campus could
look in the fall.
“It will include an examina-
tion of how and where students
are housed, protocols for din-
ing, social distancing rules in
the classroom and in laborato-
ries, and implications for music,
theater, and dance, for athletics,
for the many student activities
and campus events and for how
we engage socially,” Rose wrote.
Rose said he does not know
whether students could live so-
cially distanced lives on campus.
“We’re going to give it our
very best shot to see and be as
creative as we can. And I don’t
know whether we’re going to
be able to or not,” he said in a
phone interview with the Ori-
ent. “We may conclude that
it can’t be done. I don’t know.
Maybe we may conclude that it
can only be done at a cost that
is ridiculous. But we may con-
clude that there is a way, and if
so then we’ll pursue it.”
Rose also added that he
thinks Bowdoin and its peer
institutions will likely come to
similar decisions.
“It would be unlikely, in my
view, that we’ll have, you know,
half the schools moving in one
direction and the other half
moving into another,” Rose said.
“My guess is that everybody will
come to a similar conclusion on
their own or perhaps in some
consultation with conference
members and so forth.”

College halts hiring as it

begins considering long-
term budget changes
Group of faculty, staff and students
to advise administration on budget
by Ian Ward
Orient Staff
The College has placed a
freeze on all new hires as it
turns its attention to reex-
amining the budget in the
midst of the financial crisis
caused by the coronavi-
rus (COVID-19) pandem-
ic, President Clayton Rose
announced in an email on
March 27.
The freeze will affect all
new hires, with the exception
of a few positions necessary
to provide essential campus
Herrera and includes two stu-
dents, Will Hausmann ’22 and
Caitlin Loi ’20.
In the short term, the Col-
lege will not make any chang-
es to its budget for the current
fiscal year.
“Any budget savings for the
current fiscal year will come
primarily from food purchas-
es, residence hall utility clos-
ets, major maintenance and
cancelled travel and events,”
Orlando wrote. “These areas
will not have any impact on
remote learning.”
In his email announcing REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Brunswick businesses adapt to new coronavirus realities. see page 6.

services, according to Matt the creation of the group,
Orlando, senior vice presi- however, Rose steeled the
dent for finance and adminis- community for significant fi-

Four Bowdoin students awarded prestigious

tration and College treasurer. nancial hardships in the near
“Until we have a better future.
grasp of the depth and dura- “For now, the required
tion of the COVID-19 pan- changes to the budget will re-

Goldwater scholarship, Watson fellowship

demic, the College is only
spending discretionary mon-
ey on goods and services to
support remote learning and
the essential needs of stu-
dents, faculty, and staff who
are still on campus,” Orlando
wrote in an email to the Ori-
ent. “Unless an open position
jeopardizes our ability to de-
liver these critical areas, we
will hold off on filing it for
the time being.”
On Thursday, Rose also
announced the creation of
a working group composed
of faculty, staff and students
to advise him and Orlando
throughout the budgeting
process. The committee will
be chaired by Professor of
Economics Guillermo (“Ta”)
This print edition of the Orient was produced on April 3, 2020, but due
to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be physically printed at a later time.
sult in some difficult choices,
including forgoing exciting
opportunities and reducing
or eliminating programs or
services that we value,” wrote
Rose. “It will also mean sacri-
fice by each of us individually,
as was true during the finan-
cial crisis that began in 2008.”
In a phone interview with
the Orient, Rose said the
College has yet to determine
which programs would see
the most significant cuts to
their budgets.
“We’ve just begun the
[budget] exercise, and there
is a lot of uncertainty around
what the world is going to
bring in the next month, two
months, three months and so
forth,” said Rose.
by Rebecca Norden-Bright
Orient Staff
Despite drastic changes to
Bowdoin’s academic program
since the College’s shift to remote
learning, students continue to
receive national recognition for
their academic work.
Anneka Williams ’21 and Zoë
Dietrich ’21 were awarded the
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship,
which grants students pursuing
research in the sciences up to
$7,500 towards their senior year
tuition. Emily Oleisky ’20 and
Hailey Wozniak ’20 won Watson
Fellowships, which will fund a
one-year travel experience to ex-
plore an area of their interest.
The Barry Goldwater Scholar-
ship and Excellence in Education
Foundation announced that it
had awarded 396 scholarships
for the 2020-2021 academic year,
from an estimated pool of over
5,000 students.
Assistant Director of the Cen-
ter for Cocurricular Opportuni-
ties Corey Colwill noted that it
is remarkable for two Bowdoin
students to be awarded this pres-
tigious scholarship in one year.
“It is unusual,” said Colwill in a
phone interview with the Orient.
“We haven’t had a scholarship re-
cipient since 2016, and we haven’t
had multiple awards in one year
since 2010.”
To qualify for the Goldwater
scholarship, students must write
an essay detailing a research proj-
ect that they have either worked
on in the past or intend to pursue
in the future.
Williams, a biology major and
an earth and oceanographic sci-
ence (EOS) minor, wrote her es-
say about conducting arctic ecol-
ogy research in Alaska. Dietrich,
a double major in biochemistry
and EOS, wrote about her expe-
rience last summer exploring the
microbial ecology of an undersea
cavern, known as a blue hole, in
the West Florida shelf.
Both Williams and Dietrich
intend to pursue doctorates in the
sciences in the future.
According to the Watson
Foundation’s website, the Thomas
J. Watson Fellowship is a one-
year grant for “purposeful, inde-
pendent exploration outside the
United States.” Fellows are nomi-
nated by the Watson Foundation’s
41 partner institutions and then
selected nationally. This year,
there are 47 fellows.
To apply for the fellowship,
students must design a one-year
travel itinerary centered around
a particular area of interest. They
are given $36,000 to cover their
expenses, with the expectation
that they will not return to the
United States for the duration of
their itinerary.
Oleisky plans to visit the Neth-
erlands, Italy, Kenya, Bangladesh,
Peru and Mexico, where she will
study narrative medicine, a med-
ical field that seeks to understand
individual health experiences
through journaling and storytell-
ing.
Oleisky became interested in
applying for the Watson Fellow-
ship after she spent the fall semes-
ter of her junior year traveling in
Please see AWARDS, page 4

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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PAGE TWO
I played Candy Crush for
24 hours straight
by Lily Randall
Crush Queen
When social distancing started,
I decided it was time to clean out
my phone. I mean, I hadn’t played
Hay Day™ since (probably) the
seventh grade, but there it was,
taking up almost 2 GB of data (this
is so shameful, I know). With that
awful, awful knowledge under my
belt, I decided that everything
had to go. Gone was my Airbnb
app, which I downloaded only so
I could look at expensive houses
in the French countryside. Gone
was Video Star—and with it, some
horrifying footage from the sixth
grade. Wattpad got the chop, too
(yet again, I’m exposing myself
here), and I finally got around to
deleting Vine after years of hang-
ing on to it out of pure nostalgia.
In the dark recesses of my phone’s
folders, though, I rediscovered a
creation so powerful, so reflective
of man’s destructive nature, that
I projectile vomited right when
I found it. It was something per-
haps even more damning than
whatever Greater Power it is that
lies above us. It was Candy Crush.
For those of you unfamiliar
with this godforsaken app, Candy
Crush is a nauseatingly stimu-
lating game where you try to get
groups of like-colored candies
into rows of three or more. It’s re-
petitive, it’s totally frustrating and
I’m addicted to it.
When I first spied the app
in my phone’s long-forgotten
“games XD” folder, I was hit with
a pleasant wave of nostalgia and
decided to open it up for a play.
This was my first mistake. The
app tracks your progress, and I
guess 13-year-old me had nothing
better to do with her time than
play Candy Crush all day long,
because all of a sudden I was on
level 562 of a game I had com-
pletely forgotten about. It was like
when I walked into my first day
of immersive French last semester
not speaking a damn word and
trying to fall back on my six years
of public school Latin to help me
out—a chaotic f***ing mess. At
least I had the sense to drop that
class, something I cannot say that
happened with this app. Candy
Crush has consumed me. It has
bested me. I literally can’t stop.
At first, I was just driven by
sheer frustration that I couldn’t
master the game like my middle
school self had, so I played until
I felt I had the hang of it again.
By then, I was thoroughly enter-
tained by the game’s antics, so I
decided to keep the app as some-
thing to do during the quarantine.
This was my second mistake. The
app quickly took over and de-
stroyed my life.
I haven’t looked my family in
the eyes for days out of pure shame
and the fact that they’re bloodshot
from staring at my phone screen
until 4 a.m. every night.
The worst part about Candy
Crush is that the game limits
your lives. You can only have five
lives at once, and each one takes
30 minutes to regenerate. That
means you could blow through
your entire reserve in seven min-
utes and then have to sit around
for 23 more waiting for one mea-
sly life to come back. It’s totally
dehumanizing. After day two of
this bullshit, my patience wore
thin, and I decided to start buy-
ing lives. I am not proud of this,
but I believe that my excessive
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It’s where the security report would be.
We miss you, Randy.
Friday, April 3, 2020
STUDENT SPEAK:
What are you doing to cope during quarantine?
Nora Greene ’22
"Spending MANY hours on TikTok."
expenditure on Candy Crush lives
might be enough to single-hand-
edly restart the economy, so at
least there’s that.
At first, I tried to resist the in-
evitable. I’d make myself stop after
a few rounds of play, try and be
productive, maybe tune into a few
Zoom calls. The problem with this
was that every time I relapsed into
playing again, I felt guilty, which Hayden Weatherall ’22
was no fun. I was in a slump. But
then, something magical (terrible? "Baking."
idk you decide) happened: Candy
Crush decided to give all of its
player’s infinite lives for a week.
All bets were off. I’ve now just de-
cided to give in and crush to my
heart’s desire, not giving a shit
about whether or not this is a good
use of time. My everyday schedule
now looks like this:
9:30 a.m.: Wake up Gabriela Melendez Quan ’22
9:31 a.m.: Check Twitter
9:40 a.m.: Candy Crush
10:30 a.m.: Breakfast while I crush
"My little gato."
11 a.m.: Tune into Salar’s lecture,
Candy Crush on the split screen
Noon: Take my dog for a walk, can’t
stop thinking about her (Candy
Crush)
12:30 p.m.: Me time! Candy Crush.
2 p.m.: Late lunch, whilst crushing,
of course
2:30 p.m.: Absentmindedly com-
Yasmeen Wirth ’22
pleting homework, compulsively
swiping on the crush
5 p.m.: Family “no phones at the ta-
ble” dinner … "Staying in bed."
5:30 p.m.: Candy Crush
2 a.m.: Bedtime
I feel great.
Everything is fine.
My brain is a shredded wasteland COMPILED BY LILY RANDALL AND AYUB TAHLIL
Friday, April 3, 2020 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF Four students move into Brunswick Inn

COMPILED BY ANDREW BASTONE AND EMILY COHEN

HOUSING LOTTERY DELAYED UNTIL by Aura Carlson

Orient Staff
MID-JUNE AS BOWDOIN DEVELOPS Four Bowdoin students
PLANS FOR FALL 2020 SEMESTER will spend the duration of the
spring semester living in the
The start of the housing lottery, originally scheduled to begin Brunswick Inn following the
March 31 and then delayed until April 6, has been postponed again College’s transition to remote
until mid-June at the earliest, Director of Residential and Housing learning.
Operations Lisa Rendall announced in an email to students Thurs- Eileen Hornor, owner of
day. the Brunswick Inn, is letting
Rendall attributed the postponement to the College waiting for students stay at a cost similar
the findings of the new “Return to Campus” working group, which to the amount students were
will recommend to Rose the possibility of fall semester on campus refunded for room and board.
in light of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Hornor indicated that students
“[T]he College has decided to delay the start of the housing lot- are charged a portion of the
tery until after the Committee … makes their decision in mid-June room and board refund based
about fall semester,” Rendall wrote. on the number of nights they
Rendall also said her office wants to give students planning to plan to stay.
study abroad in the fall semester more time to finalize their plans. Hornor said she first
She added that these students will have until June 12 to change thought of hosting students at
their fall enrollment status in order to participate in the housing the Inn, which is located on
lottery. Park Row between campus and
Additionally, Rendall raised concerns about the availability of downtown, when she heard
the unfinished Harpswell Apartments. that students were returning to
“Although Harpswell Apartments construction is currently on live in off-campus housing. She
schedule, we are concerned about changes related to the pandem- added that hosting students
ic that may occur in the coming months that could impact our would help with her business,
timing,” she wrote. “We do not want rising seniors to select and given the significant decrease
be placed into a space that may not be ready for them for the fall in reservations.
semester.” “I just knew I wasn’t go-
The planned demolition of Pine Street Apartments has also been ing to have any business once
put on hold, and the residence could potentially be available in the Bowdoin closed,” Hornor said.
lottery. “And there are no students
“We have not yet made a final decision about Pine Street Apart- here, no people interviewing
ments for next year,” Rendall wrote in an email to the Orient. for jobs, no athletic contests,
no theater, no dance, no guest
SOPHOMORES TO FILL LADD FOR speakers. I mean it just goes on
and on and my whole business
FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS essentially at this time of year
revolves around the school, so
After two years of housing juniors and seniors, Ladd House will I felt like I just needed to have
again house only sophomores for the 2020-2021 academic year, some income.”
said Director of Residential and Housing Operations Lisa Rendall. Hornor said that when she
College House decisions were sent to applicants on Monday. purchased the Brunswick Inn
COURTESY OF JACK TARLTON
In January 2018, the Office of Residential Life (ResLife) decided building 11 years ago, the Col-
INN BRUNSWICK: Four students are staying in the Brunswick Inn for the remainder of the semester. Owner of the
to make Ladd a senior-only house in an attempt to revitalize the lege was her “built-in insur-
Inn Eileen Hornor is letting the students stay for the same cost as their room and board refunds from the College.
on-campus social scene. The decision came after a working group ance plan.”
on upperclass housing was formed in 2017 to address the growing “The tourism industry has For a while, Hornor was able Matt Donnelly and Jack was self-isolating in a room
number of students living off campus, many of whom expressed all these different ups and to keep her one full-time em- Tarlton ’20, another student right above the Donnellys’, and
dissatisfaction with Bowdoin’s housing options. downs, and the vagaries of that ployee to help with disinfecting staying at the Inn, praised Hor- Matt Donnelly said he often
Ladd housed exclusively seniors during the 2018-2019 academ- market are difficult,” she said. and cleaning, but she realized nor for being a “phenomenal hears King playing rock mu-
ic year. But the following year, not enough rising seniors applied to “I thought ‘Well, Bowdoin Col- she could no longer afford to cook.” Rather than eating in sic. Chas Burton-Callegari ’20,
live in the house, even after ResLife extended the deadline to apply. lege? They’ll never close.’ Nev- pay him. the dining room, the Bowdo- another student staying in the
Juniors ultimately filled the remaining spots in the house this year. er say never. I mean who ever “It’s just going to be me. So in students have meals in the Inn, lives next door to King
But for the upcoming 2020-2021 academic year, ResLife decided to would have thought.” there will be long days,” she common space of the Carriage and has also heard the music.
return Ladd to the ranks of the eight other College Houses, which Hornor has already lost said. House, a separate building However, because Hornor does
are traditionally filled with sophomores. money as a result of the pan- Since Hornor is the sole pro- from the Inn’s main building not permit residents to eat in
Safa Salman ’23 will live in Ladd next year. Though it wasn’t demic, as all of the reservations prietor and now sole employee where all current Brunswick the dining room in order to
her first choice—she had only been to two events at Ladd this year are canceled, and she had to re- at the Inn, she is responsible for Inn residents are living. preserve social distancing, the
and didn’t tour it ahead of completing her application—Salman is turn thousands of dollars of de- managing finances as well as “There’s really nothing more students rarely see King.
nonetheless eager to live in a College House. posits. A group of conference disinfecting common spaces, I could ask for,” said Matt Don- “King does not eat with us.
“I’m excited to see what it could become,” she said. attendees who were scheduled cleaning rooms, changing bed nelly. “I’ve had some of the best He is isolating very aggressive-
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter that it hasn’t been a to stay at the Brunswick Inn linens and cooking. food that I’ve had in a long ly, so I see him maybe once a
sophomore-house for the previous years,” Salman added. “It just during June canceled their res- Hornor is thankful, though, time, some really good compa- day. And, otherwise, I just get
matters that you can be with a group of people you can hopefully ervations, which had included that students are staying at the ny and very hospitable hosts, to hear his music,” Matt Don-
get to know better and have a few more close friends on campus.” all of the Inn’s 16 rooms for Inn, and she still has tasks to so we’re doing all right. We’re nelly said.
eight nights. Hornor is skepti- complete. hanging in there.” Living across the hall from
cal about the weddings booked “It gives me a sense of pur- “We get two meals a day, and the Donnellys’ room, Tarlton
for the Inn’s busiest months pose that feels good,” she said. have a room to ourselves and said he also has limited inter-

DO
from July to October.
Hornor was hoping to keep
employing most of her staff
through the Paycheck Protec-
“I’m glad that I’m busy. I like [she will] change our linens on actions with King.
to feed people, and it makes it our bed once a week,” Tarlton “I’ll be in my underwear
nice when college kids come said in a phone interview with in the common room, eating
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.

FIVE
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
and help stop the Economic Security (CARES)
Act which was signed into law
spread of coronavirus on March 27. The subsidies
weren’t enough, and she still
had to lay off all staff members.
1. HANDS wash them often “I figured out that the for-
mula that they use to determine
2. ELBOW cough into it how much money I would get
would not be nearly sufficient
3. FACE don’t touch it for me to stay afloat. So, I actu-
do my part.”
Matt Donnelly ’22, who
is staying in a room with his
brother Mike Donnelly ’20,
said that Hornor notified his
parents, who stay at the Inn
when they visit Brunswick,
about her idea. The Donnelly
family resides in New Jersey,
where concerns about the
coronavirus (COVID-19) out-
we would have gotten both fi-
nancially and from what we’re
getting out of it.”
Tarlton wanted to stay in
the Inn because he went to
boarding school and does not
have many connections in his
hometown in California.
“I wanted to maintain some
feeling of community, and have
people close by, even if it was
“So, it’s a weird time, [where
you are] kind of thrust together
with people you’d never expect
to meet.”
To Matt Donnelly and Tarl-
ton’s knowledge, King quaran-
tined for about five days at the
Inn after traveling. According
to Matt Donnelly, King is re-
turning home today. Hornor
declined to comment about

4. SPACE keep safe distance

ally just let everybody go,” she
said. “They can get these really
5. HOME stay if you can good unemployment benefits
now, which is also part of the
bill. So now I’m relying on the
SBA portion of the bill to hope-
fully come through and lend
Credit: World Health Organization me enough money so that I can
weather the storm.”
break are especially great.
According to Matt Donnelly,
though he and the other stu-
dents are able to go on runs by
the Androscoggin River, they
mostly stay inside, keeping
busy with schoolwork, vid-
eo games, movies and board
games.
only for social-distanced hikes
or just seeing people in the
park. But it was still really im-
portant to me to have to have
friendly faces around,” Tarlton
said.
As a bonus, the students met
a local celebrity while staying
in the Inn. Senator Angus King
King’s stay in the Inn.
King’s birthday was on Tues-
day, so the Bowdoin students
and Hornor helped him cele-
brate.
“We all caught him on his
way back from a walk with his
Please see INN, page 4
4 NEWS
All hands on deck as College donates gloves, masks
by Alyce McFadden
Orient Staff
As the last students vacated
campus on March 18, Labora-
tory Instructor in Chemistry
Ren Bernier was scouring an
empty Druckenmiller Hall for
gloves, face shields and cotton
swabs. The personal protective
equipment (PPE) that Bernier
and other instructors, techni-
cians and professors gathered
from labs across campus will
be donated to MaineHealth,
a Portland-based medical
supplier, to augment depleted
supplies of critical protec-
tive equipment in hospitals
throughout Maine.
In total, Bernier coordi-
nated the collection of more
than 40,000 disposable gloves,
several cases of sterile cot-
ton swabs and a box of face
shields.
“Currently, the labs are qui-
et,” Bernier said in a phone
interview with the Orient.
“[The items] went where they
needed to go.”
Bernier reserved a modest
supply of gloves to tide stu-
dents through a few months
of the fall semester, but he
will donate those too if the
demand at hospitals increases.
“If [hospitals] need them,
certainly they can have them,
but I kept them so that we
could start up as soon as we
get the word [about fall class-
es],” Bernier said.
On the administrative end,
Associate Dean for Academ-
ic Affairs Stephen Perkinson
helped coordinate and oversee
the collection effort.
“[I] was able to serve as
a go-between between lab
instructors, faculty and the
AWARDS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Vietnam, South Africa and Ar-
gentina, studying global health.
“I really liked the format of
being able to be out in an experi-
ential learning model and just out
in the world, learning from the
world and thinking about these
big questions,” said Oleisky in a
phone interview with the Orient.
Wozniak will travel to Senegal,
India, Brazil and South Korea to
explore the relationship between
fashion, culture and self-ex-
pression. Wozniak is intrigued
by the ways that people present
themselves, an interest she has
explored as one of the co-found-
ers of Avant-Garb Magazine, a
fashion and style publication on
campus.
“Every place [I’m going to]
is very interesting and compli-
cated for its own reasons,” said
Wozniak in a phone interview
with the Orient. “The thing that
I find very exciting about this
project is that every place sort of
has a story about how fashion or
expression is used to confine but
also liberate people in a way.”
Colwill noted the importance
of these students’ achievements.
“The fact that our students
are getting a premier liberal arts
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Friday, April 3, 2020
administration—gathering
assurances, for instance, that
staff had permission to do
this,” Perkinson wrote in an
email to the Orient.
“Bowdoin understood that
the current priority is the
health of our larger communi-
ty and the safety of health pro-
fessionals,” he wrote. Perkin-
son reassured staff members
that they “can feel secure emp-
tying those cabinets knowing
that they had the blessing of
their employer and that the
critical equipment would be
replaced when the time comes
[and] when we’re fortunate
enough to begin teaching in
our labs again!”
Inspired by the efforts in
science departments, Per-
kinson reached out to the
visual arts department, the
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Mu-
seum and the Bowdoin Muse-
um of Art.
“This made me realize
that we had PPEs all over the
place,” Perkinson wrote.
In the Edwards Center for
Art and Dance, Visual Arts
Technician Colleen Kinsella
worked with faculty members
to put together boxes of N-95 COURTESY OF REN BERNIER
masks from the woodshop NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry Ren Bernier stands with disposable gloves, several cases of sterile cotton swabs and
and nitrile gloves from studio a box of face shields. The supplies he collected were donated to Maine MidCoast Hospital to support caring for coronavirus patients.
spaces. Perkinson delivered
these supplies, along with a with the novel coronavirus nications for MidCoast, wrote collection of donated equip- boat-building industries had
cache of gloves from the Roux (COVID-19) in Maine, the in an email to the Orient. “As ment as Maine residents pitch supplies of masks, gloves, and
Center for the Environment, donations will help MidCoast we prepare for supply short- in to help health-care workers tyvek body suits that they were
straight to Maine MidCoast prepare to accommodate more ages that other part[s] of the contend with a rising number able to donate.”
Hospital. patients in the coming weeks country are experiencing, we of patients hospitalized due to Kelsh encouraged students
By the end of a week of and months. are grateful for community coronavirus. and other members of the
collection efforts, Perkinson “While our current supplies partnerships such as this that “On one of my drop-offs, College community to explore
had made five separate trips to are not exhausted, having ad- will help us to keep our PPE the MidCoast staff member the help page on MidCoast’s
the donation center set up at ditional variety and sizes is supplies at adequate levels.” who was there keeping an eye website if they are interested
MidCoast’s Maine Street office helpful to ensure more people The supplies donated by on things told me that they in supporting the hospital
building. are getting the protection they the College will be put into were getting donations from during what is, in her words,
Though only 30 patients need,” Judith Kelsh, senior use immediately, according to all sorts of folks,” Perkin- an “unprecedented challeng-
have been hospitalized director of marketing commu- Kelsh, and will join a growing son wrote. “In fact the local ing time.”
education while simultaneously
being recognized for their re-
INN
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search, excellence and potential
really reveals the strength of our wife and sang for him as Eileen
research programs at Bowdoin gave him the cake,” Matt Don-
and the caliber of our students,” nelly said. “[It was] kind of a cra-
Colwill said. zy situation, but it was awesome.”
Oleisky said that she was very Hornor said she is open to
grateful and excited to receive the more students staying in the
fellowship, especially given how Inn, but acknowledged that do-
distressing the past weeks have ing so in just 16 rooms, while
been. maintaining social distancing
“Knowing that in the midst of recommendations, would be
these very hectic times that some- difficult. She has been meeting
one believed in my idea and that with her accountant, working
I’m going to now be able to carry on loan applications and is
it out was just overwhelming,” determined to prevent the Inn
said Oleisky. from closing.
“I could keep people sep-
MEET THE SCHOLARS: (CLOCK- arated enough to keep them
WISE FROM TOP) Zoë Dietrich ’21 safe, but it’s hard. I mean it’s
and Anneka Williams ’21 were both hard to keep people safe. I wash
awarded the Barry M. Goldwater my hands raw because I don’t
Scholarship. They recieved two want to get any of the people
of the 396 scholarships, from an who are here sick, and I don’t
want to go home and get my
application pool of over 5,000. Hailey
family sick,” she said. “If there
Wozniak ’20 and Emily Oleisky ’20 are more people here, there’s
won a Watson Fellowship, which will just more potential infection
fund a one-year travel experience and exposure. So I would have
entirely outside of the United States. to brace myself for that.”
Despite everything, Hornor
is trying to stay positive.
“I’ve owned this business for
11 years, and I’m not giving up.
And, you know, I’ve got to keep
PHOTOS COURTESY THEIR SUBJECTS this going somehow.”
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, April 3, 2020
GO WITH THE FLOW: Lucia Gagliardone ‘20 explored themes surrounding water in her performing arts thesis “Like Water.” After the College announced its transition to remote learning, she adapted her final performance to a film format.
‘Like Water,’ senior dance major’s project stays fluid
by Elizabeth Flanagan
Orient Staff
Before spring break, Lucia
Gagliardone ’20 put up posters
for her Senior Studio perfor-
mance, “Like Water.” The first
dance major at Bowdoin, she
wanted the performance to
serve as the culmination of her
years-long study at Bowdoin, as
in any other department. But
with the recent switch to remote
learning, she will not see her
four dancers perform her hon-
ors project in Wish Theatre on
April 1 as she had hoped, and is
now rethinking how she will put
her research into motion.
Gagliardone has been work-
ing on the 45-minute-long per-
formance since the summer of
2019. Each week this academic
year, she spent between 10 and
20 hours on the performance,
including an hour-long re-
hearsal with her four dancers:
Felicia Wang ’20, Shayna Olsan
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’20, Emma Dewey ’22 and Lucy
Sydel ’22, under the guidance of
Senior Lecturer in Dance Per-
formance Gwyneth Jones.
“It’s been a year of pretty
intensive movement research
and building this piece from the
ground up over the past nine
months,” Gagliardone wrote in
an email to the Orient.
Upon their return to campus
after spring break, Gagliardone
and her dancers were supposed
to begin daily rehearsals to
prepare for the April 1 perfor-
mance. Instead, when the Col-
lege announced its transition to
remote learning, Gagliardone
began thinking about ways the
piece could be interpreted with-
out physical proximity.
“[Aoki] wisely shared with
me the image of my piece as a
living creature with many tenta-
cles and said that going forward
there will be many versions and
evolutions of the piece,” said
Gagliardone.
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Ultimately, she decided to
create a film version of the
performance, a choice that her
dancers affirmed. Each dancer,
plus Gagliardone herself, will
record themselves performing
the whole piece somewhere in
nature, and Gagliardone will
combine the five videos into
one film.
Gagliardone is also planning
to submit the piece to summer
dance festivals in her home state
of Vermont, and she is working
with the dance faculty in the
hopes of performing her piece
live at Bowdoin sometime in
the fall.
The piece is Gagliardone’s
meditation on identity and self,
explored through the imagery
of water.
In the fall she began a se-
ries of improvisations across
Maine’s wilderness. Each time,
she videotaped herself dancing
in nature and then wrote about
the experience—a technique
she has adapted for a new dance
blog she is working on while at
home now. She then spent the
next months combing through
footage and finding movements
that interested her, while also
incorporating choreography
from an improvisation she did
“I am still grieving many
things being a senior, but one
of the biggest ones was this
community of dancers and this
piece as a living thing.”
–Lucia Gagliardone ’20
at Muelle del Alma in Chile
during her semester abroad last
year.
“I found myself in this initial
process coming back to water
a lot,” she said in a Zoom in-
terview with the Orient. “The
image of water—the way that
water moves, but also thinking
about it as a being. [I’m] really
interested in the way that water
dwells.”
The fluidity and movement
of water allowed her to explore
the experience of being an em-
bodied, dynamic subject.
“I think that it’s a pretty radi-
cal experience to tune into what
you actually see inside yourself
and to tune into your actual
body as a form that you exist
in,” she said.
5
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Despite the disappointment
of losing the live performance,
Gagliardone praised the De-
partment of Theater and Dance
for its continued support of
students whose capstone per-
formances, like hers, were can-
celled because of the College’s
transition to remote learning.
“I can’t speak highly enough
about the department,” she
said. “I think [remote learn-
ing] is pretty heartbreaking in
a department that thrives off of
in-person togetherness in a pret-
ty radical way—for both theater
and dance. It’s so much about the
physical art form together.”
But Gagliardone said she is
finding hope, both for the life
of her piece and for the commu-
nity around it, in the sustained
dedication of her dancers.
“I still am grieving many
things being a senior, but one
of the biggest ones was this
community of dancers and this
piece as a living thing,” she said.
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Drive-thru, curbside and delivery: Brunswick

businesses adapt to lockdown restrictions
by Reuben Schafir
Orient Staff
Sam Wilson, co-founder
of Black Pug Brewing, dons a
black latex glove and hands a
customer a 32-ounce “Pug Jug”
of craft beer through an open
car window in the parking lot
of the brewery. On the other
side of Brunswick, Ben Gatchell,
the owner of Dog Bar Jim: The
Coffee Shop, hands paper cups
of coffee to customers through
a window labeled “Pick-Up.” He
too, wears gloves. A few blocks
away, outside Little Dog Coffee
Shop, Oliver Lowell stands be-
hind a row of coffee dispensers
under a canopy. He’s one of four
employees left working reduced
hours at Little Dog—six em-
ployees have been furloughed
or chose to take a leave of ab-
sence to protect themselves from
COVID-19.
The Brunswick Town Council
issued an Emergency Procla-
mation and Order on March 23
ordering the closure of all nones-
sential businesses and requiring
all dining facilities to transition
to providing only take-out ser-
vices The shift has forced these
three businesses, and many oth-
ers, to change their routines to
limit the spread of COVID-19.
“I’m an occupationally social REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
man,” Gatchell said in a message PORTLAND PIE CO.: A customer picks up her takeout order. Open for: Pick-up and delivery. Accepting orders online and via phone. Call for info on beer and wine selection and specials.
to the Orient. “There’s so many Hours: Monday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information: Call 207-844-2777, or visit Portland Pie’s website or Facebook page.
less conversations. It’s funny,
I have a wide service count- “[Those conversations have pop-up events in collaboration batch cooking, cooking classes Vanni would like to consider her involve in-person contact and
er, but that additional few feet been reduced to] a transactional with Dog Bar Jim, Moderation and actual pop-ups,” Waks Ad- business “essential,” the Town no customers come inside. Van-
coupled with serving through ‘Hey, how’s it going? There you Brewing Company and Turtle ams said. “Now it’s just gone in Council has not deemed it as ni is now working three hours
height-challenged misshapen go, see you later,’” Wilson said. Rock Farm. She has since had the new direction, which is kind such. per day in the store and selling
portholes [like the take-out win- “That has been the biggest im- to readjust, and focus instead of exciting.” “There’s no customer inter- items via her posts on social me-
dow] is levels more impersonal. pact on us on a personal level.” on her latest project, the Mer- Yet the Order has left other action at all,” said Vanni in a dia, though she finds it difficult
[I’m] not a fan.” Ali Waks Adams is a chef who ry Meeting Kitchen. The new small businesses inoperable. phone interview with the Orient. to attract customers in the cur-
The interactions Wilson, his has worked for several restau- platform is what she describes Woods + Waters Gear Exchange, Under the Order, nonessential rent economic downturn.
Black Pug co-founder and their rants and hotels in Brunswick as Amazon for farm-fresh prod- which opened on Pleasant Street businesses are still allowed to “It’s hard to market to peo-
wives share with customers over since moving to Maine in 2014. ucts. in January 2019, sells used out- keep one employee at work “to ple who are losing their job, or
beers have been noticeably ab- Before the pandemic hit, she was “It was in the works as a sort door equipment, and although perform necessary business
sent in the last week. planning to hold a number of of collaborative kitchen with owner and sole employee Jenna functions,” so long as they don’t Please see BUSINESSES, page 8

Bowdoin Quarantine Matches crafts pairs and connects students

by Emma Sorkin
Orient Staff
As thousands of people
across the globe are ordered
to stay in their homes, many
have turned to baking, read-
ing or painting. Two Bowdoin
students, however, have opted
for a different activity: match-
making.
The pair, who wish to re-
The Quarantine Matches’
Instagram account (@bow-
doinquarantinematches) now
has over 300 followers. The
pair has received over 276 re-
sponses from all class years;
the Class of 2020 had the least
submissions, constituting 18
percent of responses, while
the Class of 2021 had the most
submissions at 29 percent, the
founders wrote in an email to
semester being cut short,” the
founders wrote. “The sense of
community at Bowdoin is so
strong. We wanted to continue
creating connections between
people through connecting
people who are compatible
and may not know each other.”
At a time in which per-
son-to-person contact
limited, building a sense of
is
community online has be-
together,” said Hannah Conn
’20, who filled out the Quaran-
tine Matches form.
The founders of Quarantine
Matches believe the platform
helps remind students that
they are still part of the shared
Bowdoin experience. The pair
“We did not expect it to be
popular. People have generally
So far, the pair has received
positive feedback on their
matching strategy; in one case,
two people who were already
best friends were matched
with one another. For others,
the service is valuable because
it has connected people who
from Bowdoin,” said Emma
Hahesy ’22, who also filled out
the form. “[I wanted to] find
a way to connect with people
from Bowdoin who aren’t my
immediate friends because,
in quarantine, it’s very easy to
only just talk to your closest
friends.”
While the original deadline
to fill out the form was last Fri-
day, March 27, due to the large

been supportive, which is great.

main anonymous, created
Bowdoin Quarantine Matches,
a platform that uses a Goo-
gle Forms survey in order to
match students with similar
interests.
“Inspired by OKZoomer, a
matching service that connects
college students to each other,
Bowdoin Quarantine Match-
es aims to connect Bowdoin
students who never got their
chance at their spring love,
senior week, or ivies fling,” the
introduction to Quarantine
Matches’ Google form reads.
the Orient.
“We did not expect it to
be popular,” the pair wrote.
“People have generally been
supportive, which is great. It
reminds us of how positive the
Bowdoin community is.”
For the founders of Quar-
antine Matches, providing a
Bowdoin-specific service has
the power to build community
virtually.
“We wanted it to be specific
to Bowdoin since we are miss-
ing out on so much time to get
to know each other due to the
come increasingly important
to students.
“When you live with some-
one, you’re not texting them
every day to check in with
them [because] you can just
walk over to their room … so
it’s definitely been, in addition
to having classes online, a lot of
screen time just to try and stay
connected to people that I care
about. But something that I
have realized in the past couple
of weeks, is that even though
we are in different places, we
are still sharing this experience
It reminds us of how positive the
Bowdoin community is.”
–Bowdoin Quarantine Matches
spends time reading each re-
sponse thoroughly and pair-
ing people together based on
similar interests and desires.
The matches are made blind,
and the duo does not look at
names during the matching
process.
might otherwise not have met.
“A lot of people are still
trying to treat [the situation]
as if we are, to some extent,
finishing out the semester
with some semblance of a
community, even though we’re
all in our own homes far away
number of responses, the cre-
ators will make another round
of matches this week in hopes
of fostering new connections
and providing all participants
with a match.
“We only have four years
of college, and we’re at a very
special place with very special
people,” Hahesy said. “I think
it’s important to do our best to
not lose that time because we
do have access to the internet
and to social media and to all
of these things that allow you
to [stay connected].”
Friday, April 3, 2020
Social solidarity in light of social distancing
The Search for
Spirituousness
by Lauren Hickey
On Sunday, February 16,
a 61-year-old woman with
symptoms of the coronavirus
(COVID-19) attended a service
at the Shincheonji Church of
Jesus in Daegu, South Korea.
She scanned her thumb on an
electronic pad to prove at-
tendance and prayed in
a basement packed
with about 1,000
other attendees
whom she
hugged re-
peatedly per
church ritu-
al. She inev-
itably spread
COVID-19
to members
throughout
the church, who
then infected others
throughout the city
and country. As
of March
1, the
As pandemic unfolds, so does a political warfare
Dear America
by Tianyi Xu
One of the more interesting
warnings about COVID-19 that
I have heard from friends and
family back home is this: don’t
travel far—you never know
when the government will shut
down public transport and
you’ll be stuck there.
My intuition was to brush
them off. “The Americans aren’t
like us,” I said. “They’d rather
die than have the government
tell them where they can and
cannot go.”
I might have spoken too soon.
President Clayton Rose’s email
on March 11 suspended campus
access for the remainder of the
semester and shattered plans for
spring break—and with it our
hopes and dreams for the rest
of the second semester. As my
peers were scattered all across
the U.S. and abroad after hur-
ried departures and many insuf-
ficient goodbyes, I was lodged
in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
visiting friends. Suddenly, I had
one too few suitcases packed
and a roundtrip ticket to Cali-
fornia to cancel.
The announcement set off
a current of shock, anger and
confusion; students spearhead-
ed a petition asking the College
to reconsider its eviction notice
for the few with limited or no
means to go home. After much
debate, a compromise was
reached at the end of the day.
Students whom the College de-
termined had extenuating cir-
cumstances, like international
students, were granted housing
at Brunswick Apartments—my-
self included.
Living on campus has al-
South Korean government has
linked about three-fifths of the
infections in the country to this
one woman, known as Patient
Zero.
Some of my favorite reli-
gious rituals require physical
contact: I enjoy firmly shaking
someone’s hand as I look them
in the eye to offer them Peace
during a church service, clasp-
lowed me to observe cultural
and political nuances during
the pandemic. Despite being
chided by the international
community, China enforced its
draconian measures to quiet
down the pandemic—and it
succeeded, for now. Admittedly,
whether the solution is tem-
porary remains to be seen, but
its unparalleled commitment
to mobilize every ounce of the
public resource is in itself an as-
tonishing feat. To this day, Chi-
na has only 83,000 cases (com-
pared to America’s 214,000)
with community transmission
ceased and the vast majority of
cases already recovered. For a
country with a sky-high popu-
lation density hit head on by the
pandemic, these results indicate
a web of technological mass
surveillance years in the mak-
ing and a political ideology of
pragmatism-trumps-all.
To paint a picture of what
it’s like, government officials in
Wuhan published the move-
ment details of confirmed pa-
tients after the city was quar-
antined, in an effort to trace the
virus. Residents could go online
to see if the bus or shared taxi
they rode was with someone
who was later diagnosed with
COVID-19. After the infections
slowed and so-called “imported
cases” from overseas surfaced,
the government shifted gears
to bar the entry of foreigners
while restricting, tagging and
monitoring returns of Chinese
citizens from overseas.
The system has evolved from
a provisional strategy with sig-
nificant practical difficulties to a
state-mandated quarantine-up-
on-arrival policy for every citi-
zen. Officials in full hazmat suits
inspect every flight that lands on
FEATURES
ing hands in unified prayer rec-
itation or joining hands with my
family to say a blessing before
dinner. This physical intimacy
is important for us to feel con-
nected to and supported by one
another.
Yet, during a global pan-
demic, we must be hyper-aware
that bodies are the vehicles of a
disastrous disease. It has always
been this way—germ theory
teaches us that microorganisms
can invade our bodies and lead
to infection—but now the risks
KYRA TAN
Chinese soil before disembark-
ment and collect travel histories
from each passenger who are
given color-coded tags that cor-
respond to their likelihood of be-
ing infected before being allowed
into the airport for a mandatory
COVID-19 nucleic acid
test. This inspection is
followed by a mandato-
ry 14-day quarantine at
home or in a designated
hotel. Most citizens are
moved to a hotel for
quarantine, where fears
of cross-contamination
are so high that all air
conditioners are dis-
abled. In the few cases
that qualify for at-home
quarantine, the district
officials liaise with the
local community offi-
cials to place a seal on
the citizen’s apartment
door. The breach of this
seal could result in an
offence, meaning that
you and the people in
close contact with you
are effectively placed
under extrajudicial-
ly-sanctioned detention
for half a month.
There is no doubt
that such a measure
would almost certain-
ly be struck down in
the U.S. for its uncon-
stitutionality. These
arbitrary impositions
are rightfully censured:
rushed and capricious, they fla-
grantly upending basic rights
and openly invade privacy. But
to understand China’s response
to the coronavirus pandemic
starts with the nation’s tradition
of trust in authority. Unlike that
of the United States, Chinese
culture values uniformity above
of contagion are more acute
and severe than they have ever
been in our lifetimes as young
people.
Physical intimacy as a ritual
of spiritual and social solidarity
has been interrupted. Places of
worship have closed their doors
due to the risks associated with
large gatherings. The precept of
social distancing bars us from
congregating in large numbers,
holding hands or embracing.
While quarantining together,
my family laughs as we touch
elbows in lieu of holding hands
while saying grace before din-
ner. We know these are neces-
sary sacrifices.
I think the term “social
distancing” is a misnomer. It
actually refers to a need for the
physical distancing of bodies in
spaces. But while we may not be
allowed physical closeness,
we cannot afford to starve
ourselves and each other
of social support, mu-
tual aid and spiritual inti-
macy. Now is the time for social
solidarity.
The good news is that
there are movements to
support the most vul-
nerable people in our
communities during
this pandemic. There is
a state-by-state resource
guide of mutual aid
individualism, and, as Lulu
Wang so masterfully demon-
strates in “The Farewell,” private
life has always been second to
the collective, and the individu-
al has always given way for the
“greater good.”
The politics of “greater good”
sparked many monumental
events that shaped Chinese
history: from Sun Yat-sen’s
revolutionary image of a repub-
lic to Mao’s communist state;
from a transgressively egalitar-
ian regime in the 1950s to the
booming, bigoted capitalism in
funds where people can ask for
or offer support for incarcerat-
ed, hungry, low-income, dis-
abled, elderly and undocument-
ed groups. Bowdoin’s McKeen
Center has compiled a similar
guide for how we can support
midcoast Maine community
organizations during the pan-
demic.
This pandemic has forced
us to be hyper-aware of our in-
terconnectivity as a globalized
society; and, yet, we must ac-
knowledge how such great in-
terconnectivity comes with great
responsibility. We must harness
the power of social media, video
communication platforms and
crowd-funding platforms to sup-
port our increasingly globalized
communities.
While the coronavirus pres-
ents an opportunity to stand
together and support each other
in a time of crisis, it also threat-
ens to deepen divides within
our communities. Namely, this
virus has exacerbated racism,
xenophobia and classism. Our
president insists on referring
to COVID-19 as “China virus”
(although he issued a feeble
backtrack). In his brilliant
and sobering Orient column
on February 28, Tianyi Xu ’23
highlights ongoing xenophobic
tropes in the American media.
He goes on to argue that we
the 1970s; from family values
of homophobia to a propagan-
da-backed fever rush of nation-
alism. Personally, I never liked
the “greater good.” It dimin-
ishes individuality and creates
catastrophic precedents where
DAHLIA TABACHNIK
powerful governments are giv- “What if I wanted to leave?” I
en carte blanche. On the flip asked. “Then what?”
side, however, this price paid for
great efficiency in combating hard to install a security
situations like these, where the camera in front of your door.
tyranny of majority has meta- “Do you really think they
morphosed into a collective wouldn’t know, just because
fear so strong that it threatens you choose not to tell them?”
anyone who steps outside the a friend said. “Please.”
7
must resist such hate from seep-
ing into our communities: “This
virus does not have to be the
end of the world—lest we allow
bigotry, division and hate to kill
us first.” This is truly a defining
moment—a critical juncture—
in history, and we have the pow-
er to determine the outcome.
Although we have a respon-
sibility to think about social sol-
idarity in global terms, we also
cannot neglect those most im-
mediate to us. Personally, this
pandemic brought my entire
family together for the longest
period of time since my older
sister left for college. Acknowl-
edging the immense privilege
of having a safe and accessible
home to return to in the midst
of an upended school year, I
tried to embrace this unique op-
portunity to relish the comfort
of family in this time of chaotic
distress. My sisters, parents and
I discovered routes on local trail
systems and parts of parks that
I never before took the time to
explore. We played frisbee in
the yard. We even witnessed
the bloom of a special variety of
tulips that my mom planted last
year—known as ‘corona tulips.’
I watched these flowers grow,
meditating on these ironic, yet
beautiful symbols of courage,
hope and potential for growth
in the midst of chaos.
boundaries of social distancing
and home quarantine.
Around the world, the con-
versation now morphs into a
wider, lucid discussion of the
best way to move forward amid
a public health crisis while bal-
ancing the basic hu-
man right of mobility
with the demands of
collective welfare. As
the situation escalates
beyond everyone’s ex-
pectations, America
scrambles to increase
testing and keep the
public health system
afloat. Many of its mea-
sures are already un-
precedented, just like
the College’s, and many
more stringent ones
loom. During times of
uncertainty, and con-
sidering the built-in
trust on its people and
promises of great mo-
bility, freedom and pri-
vacy, this conversation
is more pertinent than
ever in America—as
indelible as this all is,
this pandemic will cer-
tainly not be the last.
As I contemplated
my options of stay-
ing or leaving, for the
longest time I couldn’t
figure out how the
Chinese government
would enforce these
extreme measures.
Turns out it wasn’t all that
8 FEATURES Friday, April 3, 2020

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.

MAINE STREET BOLOS

Open for: Takeout, accepting orders via
LEMONGRASS phone. Delivery also available via Door-
Open for: Takeout. Order ahead after 2 Dash. Temporarily offering a limited menu.
p.m. Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 12 p.m. to 7
Hours: Friday to Sunday 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. p.m.
For more information: Call 207-725-9008, For more information: Call 207-725 5241,
or visit lemongrassme.com. or visit Bolos’ Facebook page.

BOHEMIAN COFFEE HOUSE & DELI LITTLE DOG COFFEE SHOP

Open for: Pick-up. Order in person (at the Open for: Pick-up, accepting orders at the
door) or over the phone; must call ahead outside station, online and via phone. Or-
for deli orders. Gift certificates available for dering also available via Caviar.
purchase via Venmo (@Peter-Robbins-27). Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
Hours: Monday to Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 closed Monday.
p.m., Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information: Call 207-721-9500,
For more information: Call 207-725-9095, or visit Little Dog’s Facebook page. For on-
or visit Bohemian Coffee House and Deli’s line ordering, visit littledogcoffeeshop.com.
Facebook page.
ENOTECA ATHENA
DOMINO’S PIZZA Open for: Takeout, accepting orders only
Open for: Takeout and delivery. via phone. Pickup in Bank Street parking
Hours: Every day 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. lot (back of restaurant).
For more information: Call 207-729-5561, Hours: Friday and Saturday 12 p.m. to 7:30
or visit dominos.com. p.m.
For more information: Call 207-721-0100
BROADWAY DELI or visit http://www.enotecaathena.com/.
Open for: Takeout.
Hours: Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. BOMBAY MAHAL
For more information: Call 207-729-7781, Open for: Takeout. Regular menu for lunch
or visit Broadway Deli’s Facebook page. and dinner takeout. Delivery available via
DoorDash and UberEats.
PORTLAND PIE CO. Hours: Thursday to Tuesday 11 a.m. to 8
Open for: Pick-up and delivery. Accepting p.m., closed Wednesday. Closed this Thurs-
orders online and via phone. Call for info day, re-opening Friday at 3 p.m.
on beer and wine selection and specials. For more information: Call 207-729-5260. REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hours: Monday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. DOG BAR JIM: Owner Ben Gatchel smiles from his makeshift drive through window. Open for: Pick-up, drive-thru
For more information: Call 207-844-2777, MODERATION BREWING COMPANY style. Hours: Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information: Call 207-241-4300.
or visit Portland Pie’s website or Facebook Open for: Curbside pick-up, accepting or-
page. ders online. Gift certificates also available
for purchase online at https://squareup.
BUSINESSES no-interest loans of up to $5,000,
applications overwhelmed the
small businesses to defer the
payment of payroll taxes.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6
GELATO FIASCO com/gift/29DB54YJH0JGH/order. Assis- fund and it reached capacity be- But the Dog Bar Jim owner
Open for: Pick-up on the sidewalk or tant Visiting Professor of German Andrew finding out they’re going to lose fore Vanni could receive a loan. is optimistic. For now, Gatchell
in a car, accepting orders online and via Hamilton will continue to host his Trivia by their job and trying to sell them Acting in the interest of their says, he can continue his busi-
phone. Also offering special delivery on Facebook Livestream every Tuesday. You clothing and items,” she said. “It’s less-fortunate peers, some busi- ness in accordance with the take-
Friday’s. Pre-ordered gelato will be deliv- can tune in at the page Pandemic Trivia just … it’s a morally challenging nesses in the dining industry out only regulations.
ered to homes in the greater Brunswick Experience. thing, but also, I need to stay in have opted not to apply for those “[I can make it work] as long
area during two delivery windows: be- Hours: Saturday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., trivia at business too. It’s tough.” loans. as people are buying coffee from
tween 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. and 6 p.m. and 8 7:30 p.m. EDT Tuesdays. Bowdoin students had recent- “I left the limited sources of me,” he said. “I’d prefer to have
p.m. Delivery also available every day via For more information: Call 207-406-2112. ly become an important part of the Brunswick development their warmth (literally and fig-
DoorDash. For online ordering, visit moderationbrew- Vanni’s business. fund to other businesses who uratively) in the shop. Let’s not
Hours: Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 8 ery.com. “As soon as Bowdoin was couldn’t open their doors any- forget, we are an adaptive bunch,
p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. done, you could just feel the more,” Gatchell said. us humans.”
For more information: Call 207-607-4262, town shutter,” she said. “I was Gatchell, Wilson and Lowell For Gatchell, the absence of
or visit gelatofiasco.com. For online order- BEYOND MAINE STREET just getting my wave of Bowdo- all said that business has been Bowdoin’s seniors was one of the
ing, visit https://gelatofiascopickup.square. in kids in. I’ve been here for just sufficient for now. greatest losses to his business.
site/s/order. SWEET ANGEL over a year and it took a while “We’re hoping that we can “I’ve had seniors who have
Open for: Takeout. for Bowdoin kids to find me, and withstand this for a few months,” been coming in since the end of
BIG TOP DELI Hours: Monday to Sunday 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. they finally came in this year so Wilson said. “Once the weather their sophomore year,” he said.
Open for: Takeout orders placed over the For more information: Call 207-373-1133. I felt really good. Business was warms up [and] we get into tour- “I have learned that this last
phone; pick up at window. doing really well.” ist season, that’s where things are batch of time before graduation
Hours: Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 DOG BAR JIM Though she is essentially going to be questionable.” is when I really get to know the
p.m., closed Sunday. Open for: Pick-up, drive-thru style. furloughed for the foreseeable Wilson and his Black Pug outgoing class the best. There is
For more information: Call 207-721-8900, Hours: Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. future, Vanni can’t claim unem- co-founder had planned to hire this combination of relief and
or visit Big Top Deli’s Facebook page. For more information: Call 207-241-4300. ployment because she’s the sole more employees, but he has had anxiety that comes out. They
proprietor of an L.L.C. (limited to put it on hold for the fore- hang out more. They chat more.
liability company). And al- seeable future. Gatchell, who They receive more spontaneous
For further information on businesses open in Brunswick, visit: though the Brunswick Develop- hired his first employee several unsolicited advice from me than
https://brunswickdowntown.org/brunswick-business-updates/ ment Corporation created a Pan- months ago, has been able to re- they ever did. I learn their names
demic Emergency Loan Fund to tain her due in part to the federal more soundly. This, honest-to-
provide small businesses with stimulus package, which allows god truth, is my real loss in this.”

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.
email orient@bowdoin.edu
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Friday, April 3, 2020 9

SPORTS
DIII to adjust spending in wake of NCAA revenue loss
by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
In the past weeks, the
threat of the novel coronavi-
rus (COVID-19) has resulted
in the cancellation of many
NCAA winter championship
events as well as nearly the
entire spring athletic season.
However, the virus may have
far greater effects on NCAA
operations than just bringing
an untimely end to the athletic
year.
The cancellation of March
Madness, by far the NCAA’s
largest revenue producer, as
well as a multitude of other
ning and Finance Committee.
According to a press release
issued last Friday, revenue al-
location to Division III will be
cut over $20 million, from $33
million to $10.7 million.
The division is already run-
ning a deficit going into next
season because the fees for
many of next year’s events have
already been paid.
“The division already had
paid for all fall championships,
a portion of winter champion-
ships and most of its noncham-
pionships initiatives,” read the
press release. “As a result, it
spent about $7.6 million more
than the $10.7 million in reve-
most significant changes will
not be in championship expe-
riences, but rather in the auxil-
iary development and diversity
initiatives that Division III puts
on each year.
“Much of the expenses in-
curred by Division III are re-
lated to championships. So for
us, we are in the process now
of submitting our expense re-
imbursements for the NCAA
According to a press release
issued last Friday, revenue
allocation to Division III will be
cut over $20 million, from $33
remaining staff-administered
nonchampionship programs”
in the press release. noting
that cancelling them would
save NCAA “approximately
$350,000.”
Ryan predicts that NCAA
championships will be largely
untouched by the budget cuts.
A possible reduction in cham-
pionships funding would like-
ly not radically change what
party as ways for the organiza-
tion to to reduce its overall ex-
penses … as well as some of the
branding initiatives and things
like that,” said Ryan.
Although the NCAA will
face a serious loss of revenue,
this will not directly affect
funding for the NESCAC. The
conference will likely suffer
budget cuts as well, although
not to the same extent.
“Unlike NCAA Division I
institutions, NESCAC insti-
tutions do not receive direct
funds from the NCAA,” Lisa
Champagne, assistant direc-
tor for media relations for the
NESCAC, wrote in an email
will be looking at the impact of
the downturn in the economy
across all expense lines, much
like we did during the finan-
cial downturn in 2008. I think
that it’s important for all of us
to play our part in helping to
ensure the financial stability
of the college going forward,”
said Ryan. “But with that also
comes a responsibility to make
sure that we’re being prudent.
So we would certainly look at
all areas of our operating ac-
tivity to make sure that we’re
being as efficient as we possibly
can be.”
On paper, one of the athletic
department’s larger expenses is

million to $10.7 million.

profit streams will mean that
the organization will lose mil-
lions, if not billions, in revenue.
Because of this, the NCAA will
face serious budget cuts next
season and beyond, many of
which will affect Division III
and Bowdoin directly.
“Each division is expected
to lose approximately 70 per-
cent of its annual estimated
revenue for the year,” Kathleen
McNeely, NCAA senior vice
president of administration
and chief financial officer, said
during a meeting Tuesday of
the Division III Strategic Plan-
nue it will receive. Division III
spends approximately 75 per-
cent of its annual revenue on
championships and 25 percent
on other initiatives, such as
conference strategic grants and
diversity grants.”
With these preliminary
numbers in mind, the primary
question is what expenses and
programs will be affected first
by the budget cuts—and how
those losses could affect Bow-
doin athletics going into next
year and beyond. Ashmead
White Director of Athletics
Tim Ryan predicts that the
for winter championships. All
of those will be covered as they
normally would, I think,” Ryan
said in a phone interview with
the Orient. “The bigger impact
would be … the other pro-
gramming that the NCAA puts
on, whether that’s professional
development opportunities for
coaches, administrators and
staff or programming for stu-
dent athletes.”
Indeed, the NCAA an-
nounced the cancellation of “all
championship events will look
like going forward but could
restrict spending on supple-
mental expenses such as travel
and hospitality.
“If there was a reduction in
the future in spending by the
NCAA for Division III champi-
onships, it would likely come in
the form of reduced travel par-
ty sizes for teams or a reduction
in the per diem amount that is
allocated for hotels and meals
for each member of a travel
to the Orient. “The bulk of the
NCAA Division III budget goes
toward paying for NCAA Divi-
sion III Championships and
educational programming.”
Beyond the effect that the
NCAA’s revenue loss will have
on Bowdoin athletics, budget
cuts within the College will
likely also affect the athletic
department’s operations. Ryan
looks to the aftermath of the
2008 financial crisis as a model
for what the impact of this rev-
enue loss could mean for the
athletic department.
“The institution as a whole
providing travel for teams. This
allocation could be curtailed
should the department be
forced to trim spending next
year, as it was following the
2008 crisis.
“That was an area in which
we were able to make some ad-
justments. We knew that [they]
were not long-term adjust-
ments that we wanted to make
to ensure the quality of the
experience for our students,
but there are short term adjust-
ments that we could make for
the overall financial outlook for
the institution,” Ryan said.

Family by choice: embracing non-

heteronormativity in athletics
Under the Jersey
by Paula Petit-
Molina
Upon first arrival at Bowdoin,
finding a group can be tough,
especially when you’re just get-
ting to know yourself. However,
first-year athletes are tied to a
group the second they set foot
on campus: their team. For the
majority of student-athletes, this
is the family they keep for the
next four years, sometimes even
when they decide to move on
from athletics.
Though she has been playing
hockey since she was four, due
to an accumulation of injuries,
Emma Adrain ’21 decided that
the 2019-2020 hockey season
was her last. Even so, Adrain said
she is grateful to have been part
of the women’s hockey team—of
that family.
As a student-athlete at Bow-
doin, you can’t choose your ath-
letic family. If you choose to be
on a team for the next four years,
you have to live with its mem-
bers, despite your differences.
Adrain recalled these tensions
on her club teams growing up.
“I remember at a sleepover
with my club hockey team in
middle school, the girls were
trash-talking lesbian women. It
hurt even more because I have
two moms. The whole conver-
sation, I kept thinking—what
if I were gay? I later came out
to my parents, at the beginning
of high school,” remembered
Adrain. “Looking back now, I
keep thinking—how many girls
at that sleepover were gay and
trash-talked gay women just be-
cause everyone else was?”
For the most part, Adrain
said she doesn’t feel hyperaware
of her sexuality on the ice or in
the locker room at Bowdoin.
However, heteronormativity is
ingrained within the social as-
pect of being a female athlete,
and this is where Adrian is most
acutely aware of her sexuality.
“Once a teammate asked,
‘what am I supposed to do at a
mixer with only a girls team?
What does that leave me?’ I told
her when we have a mixer exclu-
sively with a men’s team, that’s
exactly how I feel! After I said
that, she definitely seemed to get
it. Our captains made an effort to
mix with other girls teams, but
usually a boys team would show
up, too,” said Adrain.
Adrain also notices a wide
variety of comfort levels of be-
ing out at Bowdoin. Every year,
Bowdoin’s Sexuality, Women
and Gender Center (SWAG)
offers OUTPeer and OUTAlly
training that provides Bowdo-
in students with information
about how to cultivate a cam-
pus environment that is safe for
members of all genders and sex-
ualities. Being listed as an OUT-
Ally highlights someone who is
straight but is open to discussing
sexuality and providing support
in any way they can. OUTPeers
provide the same support from
the standpoint of someone who
identifies as openly queer at
Bowdoin. Adrian said she is “one
of a handful” of OUTPeers on a
Bowdoin varsity team.
“That doesn’t mean that other
teams don’t have members that
aren’t doing the same training or
who aren’t out on their teams,”
she said. “There are many reasons
why someone might not want to
be out, and that’s okay. Still, the
lack of OUTPeers on that list,
especially from the wider athletic
community, shows there’s still a
little bit fear of being out at Bow-
doin. It takes a lot of confidence
to be out on this campus.”
Adrain is proud to be a re-
source for questioning students.
“It’s statistically impossible
that every member of every team
is straight,” Adrain laughed,
“People have come out to me
and asked me not to tell anyone
because they aren’t ready. They
aren’t ready to know themselves
like that and that’s okay. But
Bowdoin culture lends itself
to not-knowing. When almost
everything that surrounds you
is straight, you aren’t pushed to
search for that knowledge or
self-discovery on your own.”
Despite Bowdoin teams’
progress in the inclusion of
varying sexualities, the majority
aren’t there yet.
“Most people on a team who
have come out to me aren’t
worried in the moment about
what their parents would say,
just because they’re not around
them as often. They’re worried
about what their teams would
say. When you’re an athlete, you
spend all of your time with your
team—people who are supposed
to be your family. As a
person questioning your
sexuality who is not tied
to an athletic team, you
might have a chance to
reevaluate your friends
if they are uncomfort-
able with who you are.
You can’t reevaluate
who your team is. If
you come out and your
team doesn’t accept you
unconditionally, does
that mean you can’t play
your sport anymore? It
shouldn’t. But it doesn’t mean
there wouldn’t be fear or anxiety
every time you’re in the same
room.”
Adrain’s experience on the
women’s hockey team has been
overwhelmingly positive, but
she knows that not everyone
is lucky enough to have the
family she does. For this to be
true of all teams, she said, “it
would take a lot—a culture
shift.”
You can’t pick your
teammates when you
come to Bowdoin. But like
a family, you can com-
promise and you can lis-
ten to carve out a space for
everyone on the team. These
families can be a point of origin
for the culture shift that Adrain
thinks could clear the obstacles
that all queer students, non-ath-
lete and athlete alike, encounter.
For many of the hurdles Adrain
highlights are not exclusively the
job of the athletic community to
fix, but rather the job of the en- HOLLY HARRIS
tire Bowdoin family to remedy.
 O OPINION
10 Friday, April 3, 2020

Remember your neighbors

New normals, old normals:
Notes on a forced readjustment
As nearly 10 million Americans have now lost their jobs due to the COVID-19
pandemic, the country is in the midst of an economic crisis and small businesses
are particularly vulnerable.
Restaurants and retail businesses like the ones that dot Maine street of down-
town Brunswick will be hit the hardest. With people hunkering down after Gov-
ernor Janet Mills announced a “stay healthy at home” order for Mainers, down-
town Brunswick has fallen eerily silent. dignified like I imagined being older
As students at a college positioned near the heart of downtown, we find our- to be. The color would haunt me for
selves in a symbiotic relationship with these businesses.
The Foxbox years, though, making the room feel
by Jared Foxhall
They provide us with locations for exploration, a break from the dining halls, always too dark too early in the day. It’s
a refreshing local beer, cozy and caffeinated study spots and interaction with the still that color, but repainting would
broader Brunswick community. In turn, our patronage bolsters their income The window in my bedroom looks require way too much work.
during the slow winter months, and students and faculty alike form genuine out onto a cluster of North American For the past three years, it’s
connections with these business owners and their regulars. sycamore trees in the backyard, trees been used more or less as my
While many of us are far from Brunswick now, it’s time for us to remember that in the summer are so thick and family’s storage unit, serving as
who our neighbors are. Though we’re disappointed by the circumstances that plush and layered with leaves that they an actual residence only when my
have forced us into remote learning, it’s important to keep in mind the losses fill the whole window frame even from grandfather, who lives in Nigeria,
faced by the Brunswick community in our absence. a distance with a deeply opaque green. stays with us at the house
Although non-essential businesses are closed by order of the Town Council, In the winter—when the branches from time to time. He
many Brunswick businesses are still operating in some fashion or another. The are bald—the dark, arborescent lines consistently leaves
Brunswick Inn, for example, is hosting and feeding four Bowdoin students as the spread over a grey sky and look like his belongings in
owner struggles to keep her business afloat. Many of Brunswick’s restaurants, the sand-strewn desert patterns of my drawers and
coffee shops and breweries have constructed drive-thrus, curbside pick-up sta- dried-out rivers in Danakil, Ethiopia. hampers: hoodies,
tions and side-walk coffee bars. Looking out the window now from his many annotated
Though loans and federal and local stimulus money are providing some sup- my desk, it is still early spring; the books, loose bits of
port to these businesses, we, as a part of their customer base, must also step up branches threaten to bud and spread paper with scribbled
and continue to support the businesses we value. their green-yellow pollen, miracu- notes of forgotten
“Keep buying coffee,” says Ben Gatchell, the owner of Dog Bar Jim: The Coffee lously, everywhere from the sunny ideas and lists, an-
Shop. “Make me a part of your temporary new routine, as I was a part of your back porch to the cold tile flooring in cient or even alien
old one.” the basement. electronic devices.
For those of us still in Brunswick, we can continue to support these businesses The pollen is let into the house by a A ton of stuff that I
by ordering delivery or picking up food and beverages. Others who are not in rascally sliding glass door in the dining assume he’d probably
town can purchase gift cards with the money they would usually spend there room that always gets caught on itself. need is also in there,
throughout the coming weeks, following the example set by Brunswick resident Everyone insists on keeping the door like quarter-full or-
Senator Angus King. open when the weather gets nice, even ange pill bottles and
The efforts to support our community should also reach beyond businesses. though it invites hosts of bugs to stay toiletries. My favorite
Community organizations such as Mid Coast Hospital and Midcoast Hunger over as denizen families—the most ter- so far has been a birth-
Prevention Program (MCHPP) need our help, too. The College has already rifying of which, as my sister and I have day brochure (whatever
stepped up by donating its excess gloves, facemasks and toilet paper supplies, long agreed, show up in the summer- that means) from his,
and we at the College can continue to make a difference. MCHPP is always in time: mosquito hawks. And the pollen! I think, 60th birthday
need of donations and, for those in the area, young volunteers. The door lets in so much pollen. Some- celebration containing
Our commitment to our community must extend beyond Bowdoin’s campus. times, in the spring, it bunches up and a surprisingly extensive
Though the routines of life in Brunswick may feel far away, we must ensure that rises from that one arborvitae bush and biography and chocked KYRA
TAN
the businesses we cherish are still there when we return. floats like a flock of crows and spreads full with warm words
around the backyard. from close friends and family
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, Growing up, my allergies would get praising a lifetime of achievement in many, many other garbage artifacts.
which is comprised of Emily Cohen, Anna Fauver, Julia Jennings, Alyce McFadden, so bad that following an afternoon of Nigeria—with the Rotary Club or in- I spread all of it out on the wooden
Rebecca Norden-Bright, Reuben Schafir, Jaret Skonieczny, and Tianyi Xu. play I would scratch my eyes, all red volving some humanitarian work next floor where I sat cross-legged, sorting,
and puffy, until tears spilled from to various mid-to-high level public stashing, tossing and assimilating new
them. I would retire to my bedroom officials (this might partly be conjec- things. I moved in my three boxes of
in the evening with hot towels over ture on my part). I usually never care college books. I organized my book-
my eyes and lie there until the sun had to clean out his stuff because I’m never shelf by topic. I put up the posters I
set in the window beyond the trees really home long enough. That has had in my Bowdoin room, including
ESTABLISHED 1871 and the room fell dark without my changed, for now. the Dali painting—”Metamorphosis
knowledge. There, I would sleep and The first thing I did when I returned of Narcissus”—that, hanging above
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 imagine what life was like beyond the home from manically recollecting my my bed from freshman year, had
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and fence and the trees and the bush and life from Maine was tear apart my sparked so many conversations in
information relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College its damn pollen. room. I did it immediately because I burgeoning friendships. At 1 a.m. I
and its administrators, the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following My room is much different now. had boxes of shit I needed to put back. dragged out four trash bags and two
professional journalistic standards in writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to The bed is now where it used to be I needed to reclaim the space for how- full boxes to be shipped off.
serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and debate on issues of when we first moved into the house ever long I might be there. I began with These past few weeks, I have
interest to the College community. and I shared the room with my sister. the rug— the rug that my mother put been inhabiting long-lived spaces
It sits on the side of the room close to there is the exact same color as the and precious corners of the house
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief the door and gives me a straight-shot walls, giving the room an IKEA-mono- that have seen my body outgrow
Emily Cohen Alyce McFadden gaze out the window. My sister and chrome feel that I detest. I rolled it up and leave them. Each corner has
I shared the room for several years, and stashed it under the bed with the so many stories folded up in them.
Digital Director Managing Editor News Editor when we also shared our father’s tents. The bare wood floor feels more That staircase to the basement is
Steven Xu Maia Coleman Andrew Bastone bedtime readings and co-conspired natural, even though it’s more prone brimming with the most mundane
Anna Fauver Aura Carlson child mischief until it was decided to splintering. The room never used to memories—just sitting, thinking on
Photo Editor Roither Gonzales that puberty demanded our separate have a rug, I don’t think. them, from years ago, a decade even.
Rohini Kurup Features Editor spaces and my mother dissolved her I followed with the bookshelf, But I’m transported so vividly—so
Ann Basu Ian Ward Emma Sorkin next-door office to become my sister’s pulling down cookbooks, old AP many floating images tucked into
current room. Our rooms are side by textbooks, notebooks and binders the living room couch: that sunset,
Layout Editor Sports Editor side—hers is about two-thirds the size from high school, high school year- that breakfast. Why does my brain
Emma Bezilla Executive Editor Dylan Sloan of mine—and they served as army books, journals and sketchbooks remember the mundane?
Jaret Skonieczny Eliana Miller bases during our feuding years. from when I used to have a “gift,” I don’t know how to be an adult in
Ian Stewart Reuben Schafir A&E Editor For years, my room was painted a as my mother said, for art. I literally this space yet. I’ve moved in my books
Cole van Miltenburg light robin-egg blue, leftover from the exclusively drew dragons for a solid and posters, claimed my space, but I
Data Desk Editor previous owner. When we repainted five years of my life—and they aren’t haven’t quite understood how to as-
Opinion Editor it a handful of years ago, my mother good. I found some toy chemistry similate my ambitions yet. I spend a
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Friday, April 3, 2020
In a new world order, scholarship must change
by Mitchel Jurasek
Op-Ed Contributor
Because of the devastation
caused by SARS-CoV-19 across
people, communities, countries,
and the world, scholarship must—
and will—change. The only
question is whether we resist that
change or allow it to transform the
ways in which academia interacts
with the world, our new reality.
The upheaval of academics
due to the virus can be seen
across the globe. Schools close,
and classrooms become com-
puter screens—although not for
everyone, computers and the in-
ternet are still luxuries—and the
conviviality of communal spaces
for scholarship: cafeterias, librar-
ies, dorms, sports complexes,
all but disappear. These changes
are impacting the ways students
study and the ways we even think
about how we study: we must
learn to embrace this.
Global interruptions have long
been the nutritious soil for fruit-
ful changes in academia. World
War II catapulted modernism
into postmodernism, the Cold
War brought America and its
way of thinking to the forefront
of world scholarship, and 9/11
stoked new—and old—fears
about the clash of cultures and
xenophobia. Scholarship has al-
ways rested on cultural shifts and
especially shifts that upheave the
Past coronavirus: an open-access future for academics
by Radu Stochita
Op-Ed Contributor
As Bowdoin students, we
are fortunate enough to have
access to an immense range
of databases from which we
can draw information for our
academic research. I bene-
fit from it daily, curiously
searching for new articles and
sources related to my studies
and my life as a student. It is
all so fascinating—so much
knowledge, and to all of it, we
have access. Often, we don’t
have to worry because Bow-
doin provides access to a vast
number of articles. Bowdoin
does not have all of them,
but Interlibrary Loan is there
to help when one of us is in
need.
As we browse the pages
of JSTOR, Taylor & Francis,
Elsevier Journals or other
related journals and data-
bases, it is important for us
to consider the way in which
that information is offered.
Not all of us have access to
it. Those outside universities
often cannot access it due to
incredibly expensive pay-
walls. Quite simply: it follows
a profit-driven model, an aim
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global order.
This is not to say that the
scholarship that comes from all
these upheavals lends itself to
the faults of ideology that come
with the upheaval. Great exam-
ples can be seen of how looking
at the upheaval sheds new light
on connections and evolutions.
For instance, Associate Professor
of English Hilary Thompson re-
cently published an outstanding
book, “Novel Creatures: Animal
Life and the New Millennium”,
that records a shift in the cultural
depictions of animal life before
and after the effects of 9/11 (a
shrinking of animal life after
9/11), giving scholars vital infor-
mation on the evolution of liter-
ature, cultural understandings,
and scholarship itself.
That being said, we are also
currently seeing how the SARS-
CoV-19 pandemic is destabilizing
current scholarship. This is not to
say it is negating the millennia
of scholarly work that has been
done up to this point but rather
we are seeing old tricks thrown
at problems which are undeni-
ably different than we have ever
seen—and I’m not just talking
about our country’s government’s
response to the virus.
Giorgio Agamben, one of my
favorite philosophers, is a great
example of a powerhouse thinker
that seems unwilling to budge. In
recent blog posts by the scholar,
antithetical to the honest pur-
suit of knowledge.
In short, JSTOR is a busi-
ness that profits off the com-
modification of knowledge
while making sure to charge
universities high-prices for
their database packages. An
individual research subscrip-
tion to JSTOR is $199 a year,
thus making it unattainable
for those outside of academic
institutions.
This problem has persisted
long before the advent of the
internet and people have died
in this fight for open access to
information. Aaron Swartz,
a computer programmer and
technology ethicist at MIT
committed suicide in 2013
after being prosecuted for the
illegal download of 4.5 mil-
lion documents from JSTOR
and the subsequent publish-
ing of them online.
In a shocking move, the
prosecutor recommended
an exorbitant sentence of
35 years in prison, causing
Swartz to take his own life.
Swartz is not the only fighter
in the case for open access
to information, and the bat-
tle is crucial to the fight for
a better world. Professors at
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he is touting his revolutionary
theories of the camp and bare
life (which I won’t get into here),
and arguing against the govern-
ment-imposed quarantine in
Italy because it takes away human
rights. He has asked, “what is a so-
ciety that has no value other than
survival?” In this case, I think we
see a scholar applying theory in a
monotheistic way, and potential-
ly arguing for a greater sacrifice
of life for the sake of the greater
good. Sure, there is more nuance
to his argument and he is an ex-
ample perhaps of an extremist
academic, but the effect remains
the same: he refuses to change the
way he thinks through problems
even while our reality changes
drastically around us.
Of course, there are other
philosophers who have disagreed
with Agamben, I would point
you towards Sergio Benvenuto
and Jean-Luc Nancy, both friends
of Agamben, who argue against
his stubborn philosophical para-
noia. As Nancy writes in his es-
say “Viral Exception,” “Giorgio
states that governments take
advantage of all sorts of pretexts
to continuously establish states
of exception. But he fails to note
that the exception is indeed be-
coming the rule in a world where
technical interconnections of
all kinds (movement, transfers
of every type, impregnation or
spread of substances, and so on)
the University of California
Berkeley started boycotting
Elsevier over the high price
they charge for the database
and refused to assign academ-
ic materials that could only be
found behind paywalls.
In 2012, “The Cost of
Knowledge” was published
online. It is a website and pe-
tition that allowed people to
side with the movement that
wanted to expose the cost of
producing, redistributing and
sharing academic knowledge.
In many cases, those that
have produced the knowl-
edge, such as professors, have
to give up their copyrights to
the publisher. The publisher
then sells the article to insti-
tutions at a highly inflated
price. It is a money-making
scheme, one that limits the
world’s access to information
and the possibility of using
that academic knowledge in
important future research.
The move to open access
is happening as I am typing
this. It has been happening
for a long time. Researchers
have been calling for free
and equal access to academ-
ic information for everyone.
Chances are we might have
are reaching a hitherto unknown
intensity that is growing at the
same rate as the population. Even
in rich countries, this increase in
population entails a longer life ex-
pectancy, hence an increase in the
number of elderly people and, in
general, of people at risk.” Nancy
and Benvenuto show good exam-
ples of thinking about our current
situation through a better philo-
sophical lens. Though perhaps
to really change we need the bad
and the good, the Agambens and
the Benvenutos, though I hope as
future scholars we can try to be
like the latter.
Maybe the most interesting
part of this new world order we
are sliding into to me is that, in
some ways, it is not as drastic a
shift for the impoverished as for
the wealthy. It is something that
has been slowly brought to the
surface on Blackboard discussion
groups and in talks with my peers
over FaceTime. For some, the im-
poverished especially, capitalism
failing them is nothing new. The
old reality failed (and continues
to fail them) again and again.
When the wealthy start to
hoard food because they are
afraid of food scarcity and hav-
ing to make do with what they
have in their pantry, it reveals a
crack in capitalism. Many people
across the globe, even a stagger-
ing number of Americans, they
have always wondered when their
all read articles coming from
open-source journals, but we
did not really pay attention.
Maybe now it is time to start.
As the pandemic of
COVID-19 expands, and the
situation continues to worsen,
we have to stay at home and
social distance ourselves. We
spend more time on our com-
puters than we have ever done
before, browsing social media
and searching for informa-
tion to digest. Because of this,
and in an attempt to play the
hero during this time of great
uncertainty, JSTOR has made
a sizable share of its archive
available to the public.
Last issue’s response:
Q: ARE YOU LONELY?
75% YES
25% NO
next meal would be or when they
could possibly run out of food.
They have always thought about
what happens when a debilitating
sickness hits them or when they
may lose a job. The faults of the
world order of capitalism are be-
ing exposed now more than ever.
Wealthy people flock to bunkers
or the rural communities where
many of the very workers they
exploit live. They hide from the
effects of capitalism, a luxury
most people don’t have. Perhaps
this will finally make us look away
from the wealthy and powerful for
the answers for problems that they
can barely perceive, and look to-
wards people who are affected by
things for better insight. Consider
Bernie Sanders, who has vowed
to stay in the presidential race be-
cause he sees that people who did
not take him seriously may actu-
ally give a damn now. People are
changing their perception of the
world, and scholars (people, too)
must acknowledge this.
If history has taught us any-
thing, the change in academia is
coming. No subsection of schol-
arship will go unaffected. Sure
for sociology, anthropology, the
arts, and history these effects
will all be easier to see than, say,
chemistry, but it will hit chem-
istry and mathematics. STEM is
not immune to culture, no matter
how “pure” and “unbiased” as its
scholars often aim it to be. Fem-
ALEX BURNS
This move was applauded
by a bunch of my Facebook
friends who shared the article,
happily thinking of the free in-
formation now available right
at their fingertips. Their posts
did not shock me, but rather
made me think back to Aar-
on Swartz, specifically to his
ideas of everyone collectively
benefiting from the sharing of
scholarly information.
In his “Guerrilla Open Ac-
cess Manifesto,” Swartz said
that information is power.
But like all power, there are
those who want to keep it
for themselves. The world’s
entire scientific and cultural
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inist scholars have shown, for in-
stance, how medicine’s powerful
eye nearly always views the world
through a man’s lens—with this
feminist observation things are
changing in the medical world.
We will all need to research new
things and perhaps change how
we do research. I’m not referring
to Zoom meetings and Black-
board discussion boards, this
time will pass, and conviviality
will resume on campuses and in
classrooms, but our discussions,
and how we have those discus-
sions, should change. This virus
is showing how interconnected
the world is, how individualism
can no longer exist in its original
ways, how many of our structures
we rely on will fail us.
To act as if all these changes
will not impact how we conduct
scholarship would be absurd. We
must adapt and look at the decon-
struction of the world around us
as the possibility to build it back
up even better. To make better
scholarship and greater discover-
ies, we should not throw away all
we have done but we also cannot
ignore the reality that some of it
may not apply, at least not in the
same way. If not for scholarship’s
relevancy, then for its accuracy.
We are witnessing one of the larg-
est destabilizations in history and
we must not be blind.
Mitchel Jurasek is a member of
the Class of 2021.
heritage, published over cen-
turies in books and journals,
is increasingly being digitized
and locked up by a handful of
private corporations. Want to
read the papers detailing fa-
mous science experiments or
great literary debates? You’ll
need to pay.
What Aaron Swartz left us
is the courage to try and break
the wall that exists between
the public and the profit-driv-
en industry of academic pub-
lishing. In his eyes, infor-
mation was meant to be free
and accessible. Progress was
meant for the common good,
in the benefit of everyone, not
only for a selected few.
The move to open-access
would empower those with-
out financial privilege. It
would make academia more
approachable to a public that
sees professors and research-
ers as largely closed-off in
great ivory towers. And most
importantly, it would radi-
cally shift the paradigm of
knowledge, regaining the sta-
tus to with it should forever
be enshrined: open and for
everyone.
Radu Stochita is a member
of the Class of 2022.
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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”

SATURDAY 4 SUNDAY 5 MONDAY 6

Write about a secret that you’ve never told
anyone. Explain why you’ve chosen to keep this secret
and the lengths to which you have gone in order to hide
it from others. Don’t mention the secret by name.
Write a story that begins with a fire of any size and at
any scale. The story ends when someone or something
puts out the fire.
Bonus Activity: Light a scented candle. Nobody can
stop you now.
Write a story where the protagonist finally gets the
thing that they’ve dreamed of, but it falls incredibly
short of their expectations.
It’s hard to think about the things that you are in con-
crete and absolute terms, so, instead, make a list of all
of the things that you are not.
Bonus Activity: If you’ve been wanting to dye your
hair or cut bangs, do it. This is the sign that you’ve been
waiting for.
Write a prologue or an epilogue to your favorite novel
or movie.
Write a story about the person who finds the cure for
COVID-19. The catch is that they cannot be in the
medical field.
Bonus Activity: Download TikTok, but vow that you’ll
never make an account. Make an account, but vow that
you’ll never post any videos. Post videos, but vow that
you’ll never dance. Pull a muscle trying to “throw it
back.”

TUESDAY 7 WEDNESDAY 8 THURSDAY 9

Last week, you came up with the soundtrack to your
biopic. Now, cast it with famous actors. Who would play
you? Your family? Your friends?
Make a list of the people that you will see, the places
that you will go and things that you will do when you
stop quarantining.
Bonus Activity: Go on a social distancing walk.
Listen to some really good music. Pretend you’re in a
dystopian young adult movie—it’s not exactly an acting
challenge at this point.
Make a list of ways that the administration will exploit
the coronavirus for alumni donations.
Write a letter forgiving someone for hurting you.
Even if you don’t forgive them, pretend that you
do, and be convincing. Rationalize their actions,
even—and especially—when they do not deserve to be
rationalized.
Bonus Activity: Read the PDF version of The Orient
(available on Scribd)! Thanks for making it this far.
Play your favorite song. Stop after each verse, bridge
and chorus and write about how each block makes you
feel. Don’t mention the song by name.
Write a dialogue between two old friends reconnecting.
Through the dialogue, it should be evident that both of
them find the other unrecognizable.
Bonus Activity: Start preparing for future pub trivia
nights. By the time we return to campus in the fall,
nobody will know more random, useless shit than you.

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Read The Orient Call a family Give time or Draw something Eat breakfast for Meditate Have a virtual
member money to a dinner screening party
charitable cause