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FEATURES: NORTHERN BITES HOST WORLD CUP
MORE NEWS: HOUSING LOTTERY BEGINS;
ADMINISTRATORS PREPARE FOR IVIES
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL: Boston strong.
Page 18.
SPORTS: SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL WIN BIG
After sweeping Colby over the
weeekend, the softball and baseball
teams swung out to nine and eight
game win streaks, respectively.
Page 14. Page 7.
Page 3.
OP-ED: Professors Wheelwright and Lichter
reignite the divestment debate.
The Northern Bites will test
out their new code at the U.S.
World Cup today.
LOTTERY: Quints and quads kicked o the hous-
ing lottery Tuesday night.
Page 19.
IVIES: Preparations are well underway for next
weekends festivities.
Page 4.
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Over fty students and community members took part in a candelight vigil to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings on Tuesday night.
Please see CESPEDES, page 3
BY KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
Newly-elected BSG board plans for next year
In the wake of several close races, the
results of the elections for the Bowdoin
Student Government (BSG) executive
team were announced Sunday night.
Te newly elected executives include
President Sarah Nelson 14, Vice Presi-
dent for the Treasury Megan Massa
14, Vice President for Student Orga-
nizations Danny Mejia-Cruz 16, Vice
President of Facilities and Sustainabil-
ity David Levine 16, Vice President for
Academic Afairs Jordan Goldberg 14,
Vice President for Student Afairs Robo
Tavel 16, and Vice President for Student
Government Afairs Allen Wong Yu 14.
Newly elected members expressed
enthusiasm about their fellow executive
board teammates.
Were in this really cool place where
the team has some young blood and
parts of the team will be made up of
people who will be seniors like myself,
said Nelson. Please see BSG, page 3
Boston Marathon tragedy
weighs on College community
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
Please see BOSTON, page 3
Remembering Jose Cespedes 12
College calls on alums in
OneDay Giving campaign
BY DIANA LEE
ORIENT STAFF
BowdoinOne Day a 24-hour fund-
raising campaign aims to generate at
least 423 alumni gifs, next Tuesday,
April 23. According to Director of An-
nual Giving Brannon Fisher, April 23
marks the day in which funds from tu-
ition and endowment symbolically run
out, and the rest of the academic year is
supported by alumni donations.
Fisher said that the initiative, the frst
in Bowdoins history, hopes to use the
symbolic April 23 date to raise as many
gifs as we can in one day.
Were trying to use it as an education-
al opportunity for alumni and students
so they understand the role that gif giv-
ing plays in Bowdoins operating budget,
said Fisher. [Were] trying to help alum-
ni understand that Bowdoin wouldnt Please see GIVING, page 3
really be Bowdoinand wouldnt be able
to ofer the kind of programming that it
doeswithout their support.
Te campaigns website, bowdoin-
oneday.com, explains that Bowdoin
does not actually run out of money on
April 23. Alumni donations constitute
6 percent of the Colleges annual oper-
ating budget, and April 23 marks the
beginning of the last six percent of the
academic year.
According to the website, Unre-
stricted gifs to the Alumni Fund allow
Bowdoin to most efectively underwrite
teaching and learning. However, alumni
may request to designate their gif to aca-
demics, student life, environmental stew-
ardship, fnancial aid, or arts and culture.
According to Senior Vice President
for Finance and Administration Katy
Jose Cespedes 12 died on Friday at
New York-Presbyterian Hospital afer
battling liver disease for six months. He
was 22.
Dean of Student Afairs Tim Foster
notifed the Bowdoin community of
Cespedess death in an email on Tuesday
afernoon. At Bowdoin, Cespedes stud-
ied history and government, and com-
pleted coursework for the government
major and flm minor in December. He
was scheduled to receive his diploma at
BY LINDA KINSTLER
ORIENT STAFF
this years commencement exercises, ac-
cording to Foster.
Jose was compassionate and thought-
ful, said his father, Jose E. Cespedes of
Kearny, New Jersey. He was kind, and
he thought of other people frst. He loved
his grandparents dearly. He really loved
Bowdoin also.
Russell Jose Cespedes hailed from
Kearny, N.J. and graduated from Kearny
High School, where he served as editor
of the school paper and was a member
of the National Honor Society. Shortly af-
ter arriving at Bowdoin, Cespedes began
writing a column for the Orient called
Country First. Te 30 articles he wrote for
the Orient between 2008 and 2011 have
garnered over 54,000 views. Jose also co-
hosted a WBOR show called Te Right
Hour, was a member of the College Re-
publicans, and spent a summer working
for the Om ce of Admissions.
He was just a really giving person,
said LaShaye Ervin 12, recalling count-
less times when Cespedes would fll his
car with Bowdoin students heading back
from break, and how he loved to play top
hits with the windows down.
He liked to have a lot of fun, he was
full of energy, said Will Adrete 12, who
lived with Cespedes in Chamberlain Hall
last year.
Cespedes had been interning with the
election campaign of New Jersey Senator
Joe Kyrillos earlier this year.
He cared about his politicshe was
the reason why I voted every time, said
Ervin. We would play Hail to the Chief
and go to the polls. He was always in-
volved in everything.
He wanted to go on to be a lawyer,
thats what his goal was. He was excited
about doing that, Adrete said.
Professor Paul Franco, who taught
Cespedes in his Human Being and Citi-
zen frst-year seminar, remembered him
as an articulate, courageous voice in the
classroom and an ardent defender of the
state of New Jersey.
He had a great way of being frm in
Massa agreed, saying, I think well
work well together. Tere are a lot of go-
getters.
In order to begin following through
on her campaign promises, Nelson
plans to work with current BSG Presi-
dent Dani Chediak 13 in order to
ensure a smooth transition. She also
detailed plans to collaborate with other
executives over the summer.
Some of these proposalsare things
that we are kind of in the process of
working on right now but they arent go-
ing to be accomplished this year, so its
going to be important that we dont let
these things lose their momentum, said
Nelson.
Other executives have also started
taking steps toward implementing their
campaign promises.
I really intend to work closely with
the student activities om ce and obvi-
ously talk to the current [Student Orga-
nizations Oversight Committee] chair,
Te terror and violence of Mondays
bombings at the Boston Marathon con-
tinued in the early hours of this morn-
ing, afer one of the two suspects alleg-
edly shot and killed a MIT police om cer
in Cambridge, Mass., according to a
press release from the Middlesex Dis-
trict Attorneys Om ce.
Te suspects then allegedly commit-
ted an armed carjacking in Cambridge;
police om cers pursued the stolen vehi-
cle into Watertown, exchanging gunfre
with the suspects, who reportedly threw
explosives in their direction. One of the
suspects received a severe injury during
the pursuit and was brought to a nearby
hospital, where he was pronounced
dead, according to the release.
Afer an hours-long manhunt, police
were still searching for the second sus-
pect in the bombings in the Boston sub-
urb of Watertown as the Orient went
to press. Residents of Watertown have
been advised not to leave their homes,
and law enforcement and media have
swarmed the city.
At a school where it sometimes
seems like every other student hails
from just outside of Boston, the bomb-
ings at Mondays Boston Marathon and
the events of this morning hit close to
home. Alumni and current students
were among the crowd that lined the
marathon route to cheer on runners,
and many Bostonians on campus
struggled to contact family and friends
thought to be in the area of the blasts.
On Monday afernoon, the Orient
compiled a list of students and alumni
known to be safe. Over a 100 names ap-
pear on the list.
Ping Hackett 11 was on Boylston
Street cheering on three alumni on
Monday afernoon. Bolyston Street is
the traditional site of the fnish line, and
the site of two explosions Monday afer-
noon.
It was super packed, Hackett said.
Te crowd was cheeringa very hap-
py emotional atmosphere. People are
fnishing a marathon. Tey ran 26 miles.
We were cheering them along.
Hackett and a group of friends were
standing between the locations of the
two explosions, looking to the right,
the direction from which runners were
coming.
All of the sudden we hear a loud
bang of to the lef. At frst we didnt see
anything and we were just far enough
away that panic hadnt set in, she said.
Ten the second explosion goes of to
our right, and it was a lot closer, so it felt
a lot louder. You knew it was bad, and it
was a moment of absolute panic.
Hackett said she and her friends
grabbed each other and ran to the mid-
dle of the street, where they huddled
together for about 30 seconds, trying
to fgure out what was happening and
where to go next.
Wheres the next explosion going to
happen, that was my frst thought, she
said. Ive never felt more vulnerable or
exposed in my life, not knowing if there
was going to be another one and if it was
going to be right behind me or not.
Afer about fve minutes, Hackett
said, she was safe at a friends apartment.
Matthew Cowin 12 was at work in
the Hancock Tower, which looms over
Copley Square and the fnish line of the
marathon, when the bombs went of. He
said that during his lunch break, he had
watched the race from almost the exact
spot where the frst bomb detonated.
Its very, very eerie for you when you
know that not long before, you were in
the exact place that it happened and it
BOWDOIN STANDS WITH BOSTON
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FRESH FACES: Winners of last weeks BSG elections prepare for the upcoming year.
COURTESY OF THE CESPEDES FAMILY
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After beating NESCAC No. 5 Wesleyan over the weekend, the
mens lacrosse team dropped a match to Colby in the last quarter.
SPORTS: Mens lacrosse FEATURES: Blogging the other side
Local blogger Pem Schaeer acts a local gady
to Brunswick and Bowdoin on his blog, The Other
Side of Town.
A&E: Take me to the river
Photography professor Michael Kolster was recently
awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his
current photo project.
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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BUCKET LIST: Amilia Campbell 13 set up a chalk board outside the Visual Arts Center for students to share their lifelong goals. The project is part of her senior thesis.
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Percentage of successful
students in the quad lottery.
See story page 3.
KEEPING SCORE
OVERHEARD
Two years ago, tour guides began
recieving compensation guides for
the Om ce of Admissions tend to cite
the fact that they get paid as low on
their reasons for guiding. Tough
the change has afected the program
in some ways, it has not changed the
basic dynamics of the job.
Co-Head Tour Guide Molly Clem-
ents 13 suggested the change was not
requested by the guides themselves.
Student Employment decided that
we needed to be paid, she said. We
Tour guide compensation has
little eect on apps
were originally paid only for Special
Tours, and Special Tours are arranged
outside of the regular daily slots.
She added, two years ago they de-
cided that we really ought to be paid
for all of them.
Te other Co-Head Tour Guide,
Andrew Klegman 13, downplayed
the importance of payment in guides
motives. I think people become tour
guides because they love Bowdoin and
they want to share how much they
love Bowdoin during that hour long
tour they have.
Klegman also said that the
amount of money guides receive
simply does not add up to a particu-
larly signifcant quantity. When you
look at it, youre not getting paid that
ofen. Youre giving a tour mostly
once a week.
He also suggested that Admis-
sions staf originally anticipated
that the change would have a larger
impact than it has thus far. I think
that, since then, its a part of the tour
guide process but I dont think its
something thats mattered that much
for guides, he said.
One impact of the change, however,
was tighter organization of the pro-
gram as a whole. We realized we had
too many guides, Klegman said.
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Te Om ce of Safety and Security
will once again distribute free safety
slap bands for Ivies. Tis years slap
bands are silicone and come in four
glow-in-the-dark colors.
Bowdoin safety slap bands are
not guaranteed to keep you safe, said
Randy Nichols, Director of Safety and
Security. Tats the responsibility of
the wearer.
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Seniors design Ivies iPhone app
102
Years since a Bowdoin
baseball player pitched a
9-inning no-hitter.
See page 15.
We were all getting
calls and telling people
that we were OK. It was
almost probably more
scary for people who
didnt know where we
were.

By the time Ivies comes around,
the College is usually inundated with
Ivies-related products. Class councils
ofer Ivies apparel, water bottles, and
sunglasses. Tis year, however, theres
a new product on the Ivies bandwag-
on: the Ivies iPhone application.
Connor Smith 13 and Tristan Mc-
Cormick 13 have designed an app
that they call Ivies Companion.
Te app is meant to serve as a tool
to enhance the Ivies experience in
terms of fun and safety, according
to Smith. Smith and McCormick put
the app together in a week, aided by
the graphic design skills of Young-
shim Hwang 13.
I had this idea as a joke to origi-
nally do a scaled-down Ivies app,
that would basically tell you, Is it
Ivies yet? and give you a yes or no,
said Smith. But then, I thought, we
could make a pretty cool Ivies app, so
I ran upstairs and said to Tristan, lets
make an app. So one week later and
with very little sleep we did.
Te app, which is free, has a num-
ber of appealing aspects. It ofers a
well-organized Ivies schedule, and
both Bowdoin Security and Shuttle
phone numbers programmed. A
camera function allows users to take
pictures with certain Ivies-themed
watermarks, such as #Ivies2013,
and Certifed Ivies 2013, and easily
share them via email, Facebook and
Twitter. While the app is unam liated
with the College, McCormick also
included alcohol wellness and safety
information from the Colleges web-
site on the app as precaution.
Te most intricate element of the
app is the blood-alcohol content
(BAC) calculator, which is based of
of a users gender, weight, and num-
ber of drinks consumed. It also tracks
the amount of drinks one imbibes
over a period of timeunless re-
setin order to factor that informa-
tion into the BAC calculation. Smith
said, Te BAC calculator was both
for fun, but also for keeping you in
check.
Te app has been approved and
is available today in the Apple app
store. To help it catch on among the
student body, the creators plan to ad-
vertise through posters, social media,
and word of mouth. Smith is optimis-
tic about the apps future.
Hopefully the code is something
that can be used next year, he said.
Asked if he and McCormick hoped to
make it a tradition, Smith responded,
Yeah, thats our goal.
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CASUAL COMMENTS: A selection of popular posts from Bowdoins anonymous student-operated Facebook groups. See story page 5.
A number of Bowdoin stu-
dents have recently been awarded
prestigious fellowships, according
to Cindy Stocks, director of stu-
dent fellowships and research.
Six Fulbright scholarships have
been awarded to seniors, with
another four still waiting to hear
back. Kacey Berry, Jacob Blum
and Emma Cutler will be con-
ducting research in Germany,
India and Sri Lanka respectively.
Dan Ertis, RaiNesha Miller and
Erin St. Peter received Students
receiving English Teaching As-
sistantships to Greece, Indonesia
and Senegal.
David Bruce 13 has been
awarded a Watson Fellowship,
a one-year grant for travel and
studying abroad. Te Barry M.
Goldwater Scholarship, a highly
prestigious scholarship for stu-
dents in scientifc felds, was
awarded to Ellis Ratner 14, with
Adam Child 14 and Soichi Hiro-
kowa 14 receiving om cial Hon-
orable Mentions.
Lonnie Hackett 14 received
the Truman Scholarship, a na-
tional fund awarded to those
demonstrating commitment to
public service and strong leader-
ship ability. Erica Berry 14 won
an Udall Scholarship, awarded to
students seeking careers involv-
ing the environment or Native
American afairs. Te Beinecke
Scholarship for undergraduate
juniors, which allows for payment
towards graduate school, was giv-
en to Kiersten King 14.
And Katie Kinkel 13 received
a Keasbey Memorial Foundation
Scholarship, which funds study at
he British Universities of Oxford,
Cambridge, Edinburgh or Wales.
Kinkel declined the award.
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Nichols: Safety slap bands to be
distributed for Ivies
Simon Bordwin 13
Please see story, Page 1.
FELLOWSHIPS
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Te 2013 housing lottery com-
menced on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Daggett
Lounge with quads and quints. Students
flled the 377 beds available.
In addition to the new regularly up-
dated web fle showing availabilities, the
Om ce of Residential Life (ResLife) once
again sent text messages and tweets to
help the process run smoothly.
Ninety-fve rising sophmores in 18
blocks entered the quints lottery to se-
cure a room in Stowe Hall or Stowe Inn.
No quints were passed on as the frst ten
groups to be called were able to claim
spots in Stowe Hall. Blocks 11 and 12
were forced to opt for Stowe Inn.
Its an overwhelming process but we
just have to get ready to try again for tri-
ples said Lucy Tomb 16, whose block
did not get a quint.
BY RACHEL SNYDER
ORIENT STAFF
Te frst block of fve students chose
a room on the ffh foor of Stowe Hall.
William Goodenough 16 chose to live
there with his friends because they liked
the rooms layout and location.
In the quints lottery, almost every-
one was there because its all the frst
year class and theyre pretty excited to be
picking in Stowe Hall so they all want to
sign their contracts, said Lisa Rendall,
associate director of housing operations.
Upperclassmen tend to send one or two
members of their block to the lottery,
unless there happens to be some conten-
tion regarding whether they want natural
light at sunrise or sunseta choice that
determines top or bottom foors.
Tree hundred and forty-eight stu-
dents entered the quad lottery and 268
were successfully placed. Ten blocks
were absent. Te block of students with
the highest lottery number chose a quad
in Chamberlain Hall for the second year
Brian Kim, to learn as much as I can
about how to improve the SOOC and
what needs to be done to make for as
smooth as a transition as possible, said
Mejia-Cruz.
Levine also voiced plans for more
easy fxes that can potentially be done at
the end of this year and over the sum-
mer, thus leaving more time to work on
the bigger-picture stuf next year.
Executives-elect expressed a wide
variety of goals for the year to come,
ranging from personal initiatives to
hopes for the executive team as a whole.
Im looking forward to being able
to coordinate and facilitate the goals of
all the rest of the executive committee,
because of the experiences and the net-
work Ive had on campus, said Yu.
Others had more specifc plans
that they hoped to achieve during
their tenure.
Te one that I really want to focus
on is course distribution requirements,
because thats a frequent source of com-
plaint, said Goldberg. If we are going to
have these requirementsits important
that they do what theyre supposed to do.
Massa, who will head the Student
Activities Funding Committee (SAFC),
expressed a desire for more communi-
cation with the SOOC.
We want to support all the clubs we
can, but we have a growing population of
students, a stagnant budget for the SAFC,
and a growing number of clubs, she said.
I think its really importantthat we
need to really make sure that we can sup-
port these clubs before theyre chartered
instead of giving them false hope.
BSG members agreed that they saw
student government as a voice for the
student body.
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in a row. Coles Tower remains dominat-
ed by seniors, especially on the upper
foors. A mix of juniors and seniors will
occupy the lower foors.
Te last quads chosen were at Pine
Street, where 24 rising sophomores will
live next year. Te last number called
for the quads lottery was 70. Two Pine
Street apartments were not selected and
will be available later in the doubles and
open rooms lottery.
Seven groups were at the quads lot-
tery but chose to wait for a future lot-
tery when it came down to just Pine
Street. All other quad blocks that at-
tended the lottery were given housing
for next semester.
Because this can be a hectic progress,
ResLife has many ways to keep up-to-
date on the lottery process.
Te lottery will continue through
Tuesday, April 23. About 90 percent of
Bowdoin students live on campus.
Quints & quads lead off housing lottery
Longley, 23 percent of Bowdoins oper-
ating budget is spent on fnancial aid.
In this fscal year, this amounts to ap-
proximately 30 million dollars dedicated
to fnancial aid, Longley wrote in an
email to the Orient.
In an email to the Orient, Dean of
Admissions and Financial Aid Scott
Meiklejohn said the College continues
to support its need-blind policy, stating
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that in all of my meetings with Presi-
dent Mills and the trustees, conversations
about the future have always been about
how to gather the resourcesto sustain
our need-blind approach to admissions.
In terms of overall alumni giving,
Fisher said that Bowdoin is tracking
about the same number of alumni do-
nors as last year, and is currently well
ahead of last year in terms of gif rev-
enues, so the dollars are looking very
strong. Fisher said he expects a jump in
alumni giving as a result of the Bowdoi-
nOne Day campaign.
Approximately 560 alumni volun-
teers have spent the past few months
helping the College raise awareness
about the initiative. On Tuesday, the
College will hold several alumni fund
volunteer receptions around the coun-
try to conclude the campaign.
Teres a lot of buzz around this
event, and were pretty confdent that it
will be successful, said Fisher.
For more information about the
event, visit www.bowdoinoneday.com.
really could have been you, Cowin said.
From his vantage point above Co-
pley Square, Cowin witnessed frst re-
sponders sprinting into the billowing
cloud of smoke that hovered over the
frst explosion.
Even when I walked over to the
window just seconds afer the blast hap-
pened, you could see emergency crews
rushing in very, very quickly, he said.
Tat was really impressive to see.
Anna Ackerman 12 had fnished the
marathon and was receiving a massage
near the fnish line when someone told
her there was a situation and the build-
ing was being evacuated.
On the street when we got outside
there was a very mixed atmosphere of
panic and then people standing around
completely oblivious to the fact that
something had happened, Ackerman
said.
Ackerman went to the lobby of a
hotel where she saw news coverage of
the bombings. She and her family went
to a friends apartment and spent the
afernoon reassuring people that they
were safe.
We were all getting calls and tell-
ing people that we were OK, Acker-
man said.
On Tuesday night, about 50 students
gathered on the steps of the Museum
of Art in remembrance of the victims
of the bombings. Assistant Professor of
Africana Studies Brian Purnell, Direc-
tor of Religious and Spiritual Life Bob
Ives, and Madison Whitley 13 spoke at
the event. Following their remarks, the
Longfellows performed MLK by U2.
Kim Gilmore 16 tabled in Smith
Union on Wednesday and Tursday to
raise money for the family of eight-year-
old Martin Richardwho lived down
the street from her homewho died in
the attack. She said she raised over $500
on Wednesday alone.
I tried calling my dad like 20 times
and it went straight to his voicemail and
I was freaking out, but eventually he
texted me and said, Im fne. Its okay,
Gilmore said.
Te morning afer the attack, Gilm-
ores father called to tell her that the
explosions had killed her neighbor. She
said she was not close with the Richard
family, but felt compelled to raise mon-
ey for a scholarship fund for Martins
siblings. Martins mother and sister also
sufered sever injuries in the attack, ac-
cording to the Boston Globe.
Gilmore said she has been surprised
at how many people have come to drop
a few dollars in her collection box.
I ran into this lady whos from Harp-
swell, Gilmore said. She came all the
way here just to drop a 20 inside. Its re-
ally nice to see people who never heard
of Dorchester before, never heard of the
Richards, who really want to help.
When Dani Lubin-Levy 13 heard
about the attack, she had just met up
with her sister, who was running the
race, near Heartbreak Hill in Newton.
Lubin-Levy had joined her sister
to run the last fve or six miles of the
race, she said, but the two were quickly
told that they would not be allowed to
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his convictions, but was so reasonable
about how he presented themit made
the class so much better, said Franco.
Tere was a kind of gentleness there.
He was such a patriot, Franco added.
He had a love of New Jersey that defed
expectations.
Elizabeth Maybank 12 befriended
Cespedes in the frst week of their fresh-
man year, when both lived in Osher Hall.
She later became his editor at the Orient,
working closely with Cespedes on revi-
sions and drafs of his columns.
We had diferent personal view-
points politically, but it didnt matter. He
was so respectful of my viewpoints, and
I was always respectful of his, said May-
bank. He always got his articles in on
time, no matter what. He was just fan-
tastic to work with.
Maybank, like many of Cespedes
friends at the College, knew him for his
good nature and welcoming smile.
Always smiling, always friendly
thats what Im going to miss most about
him. Its very rare to fnd people who gen-
uinely have such great, vibrant personali-
ties, and he was one of them, she said.
Salma Berrada 12, a close friend
of Cespedes, recalled, I ofen used to
tell Jose that his hug had something so
unique about it, that all-enveloping hug
always made it seem as though things
will be alright no matter what.
Cespedes was frst diagnosed with
liver disease in October 2012 and was on
the waiting list for a liver transplant when
he died, according to his father. He had
hoped to enter law school next fall.
He loved his friends, he really had a
bright future, his father said. He knew
he wasnt going to make it at the end, and
he really wanted to have his diploma in
his hands.
Current and former students signed
an online petition to award Cespedes
a posthumous degree early this week.
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Cespedes will be recognized at the com-
mencement exercises in May and will
receive his diploma posthumously, ac-
cording to Foster.
Ervin said that she had kept in touch
with Cespedes afer graduation, and that
his strength and confdence persisted
even as his illness worsened.
Te last time I spoke to him there was
a strength in his voice, Ervin said. It was
hardI think to some degree, youre go-
ing to be in denial about how sick he was.
He was a very, very strong person.
According to an om cial obituary,
his father said of Jose, He was an angel
here on earth and now he is our angel in
Heaven.
A funeral service was held at the Ar-
mitage and Wiggins Funeral Home in
Kearny, N.J. on Wednesday morning.
Berrada described how Cespedes fam-
ily spoke lovingly of him at the service,
remembering his early hatred of multi-
plication tables and his many awards and
achievements growing up.
His grandma, a math teacher for
bilingual kids, told us about how Jose
refused to go on walks with her when
he was fve, not [because] he hated their
promenades, but he knew it meant a
multiplication table drill. I guess he al-
ways knew that it would be humanities,
Berrada wrote in an email to the Orient.
Cespedes was laid to rest on Wednes-
day afernoon in Holy Cross Cemetery in
North Arlington, N.J. Te Armitage and
Wiggins Funeral Home has created an
online guestbook for his friends and fam-
ily to commemorate his life.
Berrada described how when she last
saw him in the hospital in March, Ces-
pedes spoke of visiting her in Morocco
and detailed his plans to apply to law
school.
As soon as I heard that Tatcher had
passed away, I called him, eager to dis-
cuss her legacy and a little British history,
Berrada wrote. But that debate never
happened. Tere was no one on the other
end of the line when I called and lef all
those voicemails. I will miss him forever.
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
INDECISION: Two students from Tuesday nights quints lottery ponder open rooms in Stowe Hall. The housing lottery will continue through April 23.
fnish. Tey decided keep running on
Newtons back roads so that Lubin-
Levys sister could complete the 26.2
mile distance.
Tere were a couple people who
were pulling over and asking us if we
needed rides, she said. A couple of
peoplewhen we would say shes fn-
ishing her 26.2started clapping.
Molly Burke 13 was in Newton,
where she had cheered for her brother,
when she found out about the attack.
She said she frantically called her family
to see if they were safe but was unable to
reach them for close to 15 minutes.
Luckily, she said, her brothers knees
were bothering him, so he was still a
few miles from the fnish line when the
bombs exploded. Her brother did not
fnish the race, but still received a medal
on Tuesday.
I spoke to my brother [on Tuesday]
and he went to go pick up his bag,
Burke said. Tey gave him his medal,
and people were trying to be positive,
but he said it was somber.
Burke said she plans to be back at the
marathon next year, despite the terror
she felt on Monday.
Tis could happen anywhere,
Burke said. Im not going to let it ruin
an important event.
Hackett said she felt the same way,
but added that she might not be able to
completely escape the memory of this
years marathon.
I will go back. Im not going to let
them scare me, she said. I may rethink
exactly where I stand, but I do know
that if any of my friends run in the fu-
ture, I will be there to support them.
While there are other avenues to
express discontent or complaints with
certain aspects of the administration
or the school in general, the BSG is the
most forceful advocate for the students,
said Tavel.
However, others acknowledged prob-
lems with the BSGs reputation on cam-
pus.
No one is really going to deny that
we have a PR problem, said Yu. People
in my year will say that they have no idea
what BSG does.
Neli Vazquez 14, the other candidate
running for BSG president, expressed
similar sentiments in an email to the
Orient.
During the elections, especially as
the BSG continuously pushed students
to vote on Facebook and Twitter, people
started voicing frustrations along the
lines of whats the big deal, the BSG
doesnt do anything anyways[sic], she
wrote. As a current member I know
this isnt true, but that wont be under-
stood by the student body until the BSG
makes a genuine efort to gauge from
students what they want to see change
structurally at Bowdoin. So, I guess I
hope to see an attempt at that commu-
nication that is promised every year but
never really comes through.
Vazquez added, Tat being said,
Sarah is an extremely diligent and com-
mitted leader so I expect to see nothing
but great things coming from the BSG
next year.
On the whole, executives expressed
optimism about BSGs on-campus role.
When students recognize that the
BSG has a lot of tools and resources at
its disposal, and when the student body
begins to use the BSG toward advanc-
ing that end, I think theyll fnd that we
are an em cient governing force and that
many of their complaints will be ad-
dressed by us, Tavel said.
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Hazlett to leave position as senior dean
After 16 years at the College,
Margaret Hazlet, senior will leave
Bowdoin next year to take up a
position as Dean of the College
at Franklin and Marshall College
(F&M), a liberal arts college in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dean of
Student Affairs Tim Foster sent a
campus-wide email announcing
Hazletts impending departure on
Monday afternoon.
Hazlett said when she first ar-
rived at the College she did not in-
tend to stay for so long.
I thought, Oh, Ill be here two
or three years and Ill move on, she
said.
Foster explained that Hazlett
was hired through an unusual
chain of events. A mutual friend
had reached out to Foster, hoping
he would be able to advise Hazlett,
who was then in the midst of ap-
plying for a position at Georgetown
University. Foster, upon seeing her
qualifications brought her to the at-
tention of then-Dean of Student Af-
fairs Craig Bradley. Hazlett started
at the College as the assistant dean
of student affairs.
Since then, shes been promoted
numerous times, said Foster. For
the last seven years now, shes been
in her senior associate dean role.
Foster and Hazlett have worked
very closely over the years. Her
office is next to his, and has been
for the last seven years. Both speak
very highly of one another.
Shes got the really nice combi-
nation of imagination, coupled with
an ability to get things done and
make things happen, Foster said.
And thats a rare and special gift.
Shes a great problem solver and
shes been an important source of
support and counsel for me.
The best part of this job has
been working with Tim Foster, Ha-
zlett said. This place is very lucky
to have him at the helm as the dean
of student affairs.
Though Hazlett did note a major
change in Foster since their early
years together: He had more hair
back then, she said.
At Bowdoin, Hazlett works close-
ly with the Deans Office, Health
Center, the Counseling Center, and
the Childrens Center.
In her new position at F&M,
Hazlett will be responsible for over-
seeing multiple arenas of student
life, including athletics, off-campus
study, and residential life. Another
big shift for Hazlett, will be F&Ms
greek life, which has been absent
from Bowdoin for over a decade.
The Greek system has a long
history of leadership development,
and community service, said Ha-
zlet. Im really excited to explore
that.
Though she has had many offers
to leave the College over the years,
Hazlett strongly believes that this
is the right time for a change. The
move also represents a return home
for Hazlett, who grew up in the
Pittsburgh area.
At F&M, she will work closely
with President Daniel Porterfield,
who is in his second year at the
helm. In a press release from F&M
on Monday, he wrote of Hazlett,
She has a tremendous grasp of the
needs of talented students and the
extraordinary resources of a liberal
arts college to foster remarkable
learning.
Foster recognizes that the move
to F&M represents a tremendous
opportunity for Hazlett, and had
nothing but kind words to say.
Franklin and Marshall is going
to be very fortunate to have her
there, he said.
He did note, however, that this is
a big loss for our office and for the
College.
Hazlett is not through with
Maine, or Bowdoin, even though
she will no longer be on staff.
My husband is from Maine. He
said hes game to do this so long as
I promise that we will come back to
Maine, she said.
She will stay on at the College
through early June, and then will
head to Lancaster a few weeks be-
fore her July 1 start date. She says
she will spend much of the early
weeks doing a lot of listening.
The thing that she will take from
her experience is how valuable it is
when you bring people from differ-
ent areas of this campus together to
do some problem solving.
After sixteen years, Hazlett says
she has only one regret.
I always wanted to get to Kent
Island, she said.That is something
I always wanted to do.
Bowdoins eforts towards more
sustainable practices has extened be-
yond the College and into the Bruns-
wick community. In 2005, Bowdoin
committed to switching to natural
gas heating and brought additional
natural gas pipelines to Brunswick.
Tis allowed residents on Longfellow
Avenue, Harpswell Road and Federal
Street to gain access to natural gas.
Natural gas heats 83 percent of
Bowdoins campus-owned buildings,
according to Longley. Also, 5 percent
of Maine residents heat their homes
using natural gas, according to the
U.S. Energy Information Administra-
tion. Natural gas costs approximately
half of the price of traditional heating
methods, saving the residents and the
College thousands
of dollars a year, ac-
cording to Senior
Vice President for
Finance and Ad-
ministration and
Tresurer Katy Long-
ley.
Longley said she
believes that even-
tually Brunswick
would have received
natural gas access, but Bowdoin was
catalyst in this acquisition.
Our investment in natural gas
was substantial, Longley said. With-
out Bowdoins interest in natural gas,
it might not have come to the com-
munity so quickly.
Maine Natural Gas (MNG) sup-
plies natural gas to the Brunswick
area. Te Naval Air Station Bruns-
wick (NASB) was the frst to use
natural gas in Brunswick. Later, the
College made an agreement with
MNG to expand pipelines in the
area to campus. Tis extended the
Bath Road pipeline to residential
streets.
Keisha Payson, coordinator for a
Sustainable Bowdoin, said she be-
lieves natural gas is a large resource to
the community.
Bowdoin has been another anchor
in the community to expand [pipe-
lines], and allow more people to take
advantage of the access, Payson said.
In addition to natural gas expan-
sion, Bowdoin ofen collaborates with
Brunswick on environmental projects.
Zipcar, a car sharing service, was
brought to campus upon the recom-
mendation of a Brunswick resident.
[Te resident] told me a couple
of times about how other universi-
ties were using Zipcar, Longley said.
When we originally called Zipcar,
they said that Bowdoin was too small.
Ten we found that U-Maine had
them, and they took a gamble. Te
frst couple of years, we had to pay
Zipcar unless we had enough rides
or uses. But weve far exceeded their
expectations. So now, its pretty cost
neutral.
Zipcar is available to Brunswick
residents at a slightly increased fee.
Currently, 7 percent of people with
Bowdoin Zipcar memberships are
Brunswick residents.
Payson said she feels that Zipcar is
successful.
Zipcar is something we were do-
ing for Bowdoin, but it was a nice of-
fer to the community, Payson said.
Te Brunswick Explorer hybrid
vans were also a collaboration be-
tween the town and the College.
Bowdoin was on the planning group
to create the Brunswick Explorer and
ofered seed money to start the pro-
gram.
Te College also makes an efort to
help local nonprofts stay sustainable.
To deter food waste, the students
aid the dining halls in fash freez-
ing or directly taking lefover food
to the Midcoast Hunger Prevention
Program. About 50 sandwiches and
pastries lefover from Express lunch
are donated,
along with a
similar por-
tion of lef-
overs from
Torne Din-
ing Hall.
Te dining
halls donate
used veg-
etable oil to
Lifecycle Re-
newables to recycle the oil as fuel. In
2012, about 1,055 gallons of used oil
was recycled.
Longley said Brunswick also helps
Bowdoin in its sustainability eforts.
Since the town passed a single-
stream recycling ordinance, we
dont have to sort it anymore. Bow-
doin was the beneficiary of that ef-
fort, she said.
Additional joint eforts are expect-
ed in the upcoming years. Te town
and the College are working on a col-
laborative efort to build a recreation-
al path through the former NASB.
When the town gets its land, and
when Bowdoin gets its land, hope-
fully, we will be working with them
on a bike and walking trail that the
town residents can use and Bowdoins
faculty, staf and students can use,
Longley said.
However, Bowdoin does not yet
own the land. According to Longley,
Bowdoin will om cially acquire the
land later this year. Te trail is yet to
be designed and constructed.
Whats good for Bowdoin is good
for Brunswick, and whats good for
Brunswick is good for Bowdoin,
Longley said. And hopefully we help
each other in coming up with good
ideas that are sustainable and environ-
mentally responsible.
Payson said she believes there is
ample student interest in environmen-
tal sustainability.
Development of this sustain-
ability position was really driven
by students looking at the Bowdoin
campus, Payson said. Tis becomes
their home for four years, and they
really want to make a diference in
their home while theyre here. And
thats how it started.
Bowdoins sustainability
efforts benet community
BY HARRY RUBE
ORIENT STAFF
With the start of Ivies just a
week away, the behind-the-scenes
work to prepare the campus for a
weekend of programming is in full
swing.
At 1 p.m. last Monday, represen-
tatives of many different branches
of College life met to discuss and
finalize logistics for Ivies 2013.
The meeting included members
of the Entertainment Board, Secu-
rity, Grounds and Facilities, Stu-
dent Activites, and Residential Life.
Associate Director of Student
Activities Nathan Hintze led the
meeting, which went over the Ivies
schedule step-by-step. The group
went over specific details that go
into event planning, covering ev-
erything from the basic schedule of
set-up and breakdown for the per-
formances, to the specific number
of garbage bins needed on Whittier
Field for Saturdays concert.
While Ivies does not officially
begin for the College until the
3LAU concert Thursday night,
hands-on preparations begin for
Facilities staff on Monday. Early
in the week Grounds will be clear-
ing out trees and branches on Pine
Street in order to make load-in and
load-out possible for the various
trailers and trucks that will be fer-
rying in electrical equipment for
the performers on Saturday.
Sound equipment for the 3LAU
concert will begin to be installed
mid-afternoon on Thursday, and
the sound check will happen
around 6 p.m. that evening. The
concertbeginning at 10 p.m.
will be for Bowdoin students only,
and IDs will be checked at the
door.
On Saturday, work crewsalong
with the independent sound and
lighting company Moonlighting
will begin setting up the stage and
soundsystem at 8 a.m on the Field.
BY ELANA VLODAVER
ORIENT STAFF
BY MARISA MCGARRY
ORIENT STAFF
A week away, Ivies preparations begin
Sound checks for the student band
Phar/OS, Hoodie Allen and Guster
will begin at 11 a.m., at which point
guest registration will also begin in
Smith Union. The show will begin
at 3 p.m. with Phar/OS, who will
play for 30 minutes. Hoodie Allen
will follow, with an hour-long set.
Gusters set will begin at 5:15 p.m.,
and the band is scheduled to play
for an hour and a half.
Should it rain on Saturday, the
concert will be moved inside to
Farley Field House. Facilities will
be doing a rain check on Friday
morning. Along with the inconve-
nience of wet weather and a loca-
tion change, there will be addition-
al repercussions. If the concert is
moved to Farley, no guests will be
allowed at the performance.
While the actual concert ends at
7 p.m. on Saturday, work will be far
from over for the various Security,
Grounds and Facilities crews in-
volved. Pinestock will keep Secu-
rity busy late into Saturday night,
and cleanup of the stage, lighting
and grounds will occupy Facilities
for much of Sunday and Monday.
Whats good for Bowdoin is good
for Brunswick, and whats good for
Brunswick is good for Bowdoin.
KATY LONGLEY
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE AND
ADMINISTRATION AND TREASURER
COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS/ COPYRIGHT
DENNIS GRIGGS
Campus administrators and
student leaders prepare
for a hectic week ahead
for the College.
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Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) discussed the Colleges hazing
policy and the recent punishment of
the mens tennis team at its Wednes-
day night meeting.
David Levine 16 lead the discus-
sion by presenting a report that in-
cluded hazing policies at peer col-
leges, expert opinions on the subject,
and an interview with a member of
the Meddiebempsters who experi-
enced a hazing incident in 2011.
Students should have a role in ad-
judicating hazing, said Levine.
Several BSG members expressed
concerns about the Colleges loose
defnition of hazing, which makes
prevention more dim cult for student
leaders.
What I found in the interviews
is that theres ambiguity about what
counts as haz-
ing. Levine said.
According to the
report, most peer
schools do not
have a clearer or
more extensive
defnition of haz-
ing than Bow-
doins.
BSG members
were also con-
cerned about the administrations
lack of transparency regarding its
methodology for deciding whether a
group has hazed its members.
We never really have a good un-
derstanding about exactly what hap-
pens in an incident and what part is
mandated as hazing, said BSG Presi-
dent Dani Chediak 13.
Te administration has cited a
concern for student confdentiality
as a major reason why most informa-
tion about hazing incidents isnt pub-
lic information. Several BSG mem-
bers criticized the Colleges defnition
of hazing and discussed what a more
specifc policy would look like.
Te problem is that we as the stu-
dent body dont agree with what [the
administration] is considering haz-
ing, said Asher Stamell 13. I dont
think anyone would say that Bow-
doin has a hazing problem. If anyone
checked online, we have a hazing
problem. Tats just a misrepresenta-
tion.
Because of the lack of transpar-
ency, we dont really know what the
boundaries are, said Jordan Gold-
berg 14.
As the hazing discussion wrapped-
up, Chediak announced unom cial
plans to sponsor a forum in which
students can express their opinions
and concerns about hazing at Bow-
doin in an open dialogue with each
other and certain administrators.
Additionally, BSG tentatively plans
to produce a written guide that would
give specifc examples of hazing and
explain why they were considered
hazing. Te Student Organizations
Oversight Committee and Student
Activities will collaborate to write the
report, which will be distributed to
student leaders throughout campus
afer approval from the administra-
tion.
Te meetings second major dis-
cussion focused on the Student Ac-
tivities Funding Committee (SAFC)
and their budget surplus for the
2012-2013 academic year.
SAFC chair Charles Cubeta 13 es-
timates that the total amount of extra
funding will be between $15,000 and
$20,000.
Tis year, SAFC had more avail-
able funding in their discretionary
budget because
of a reduction in
their operating
budget. Addition-
ally, the SAFC
experienced a
$35,000 reduction
in requests from
student organiza-
tions compared to
last year, and one
organization re-
turned $12,000 in unused funds.
We have an opportunity to give
back to the College, Cubeta said.
Traditionally when theres been a
surplus, the SAFC has thought about
some type of improvement they could
make to the campus or an event.
Te renovation in Smith Union
that resulted in the sail room was
funded by lefover SAFC funding.
Although the students and not the
College control the surplus, Cu-
beta stressed that projects or events
should align with the interest of the
community at large.
When you give a gif to someone,
you want the person receiving it to
like it, he said.
Project suggestions included
the additional seating in Smith
Union, printers for more residential
buildings, and outdoor seating for
Moulton Union.
Despite the surplus, the SAFC web-
site indicates that not all requests for
funding by student organizations were
met in their entirety during the year.
Later on in the meeting, Stamell,
the E-Board Representative, ex-
pressed the E-Boards concerned
about keeping students off the
stage at next Thursdays 3LAU
concert and may end up investing
in crowd barricades.
BSG aims to clarify Colleges
hazing policy; allocates funding
BY MARTIN SHOTT
ORIENT STAFF
Facebook pages attract anonymous comments
Students looking for an anonymous
outlet to air their greviences, secrets or
campus crushes now have a wealth of
options on Facebook. Bowdoin Missed
Encounters, Words from the Bubble,
Shit No One at Bowdoin Says and Bow-
doin Compliments have all recently be-
come popular among students.
Te Orient interviewed the student
administrators behind these sites about
the intent and moderation of the pages.
Te idea for Words from the Bubble,
according to the administrator, came
from a similar webpages that are geared
towards other college communities.
Earlier in the fall we tried to get a
similar Tumblr page started, said the
admin. But making the posts com-
pletely anonymous was a hassle. We
had completely forgotten about the idea
until we saw how successful the Boston
College Confessions page was.
Made in the direct afermath of the
NAS report, Words from the Bubble
has facilitated discussions on issues at
Bowdoin that are generally taboo in ev-
eryday life at the College.
To be completely honest, we had
no idea what this page would do
for the community and just dove in
headfrst, said the admin. Foresight
isnt exactly our strong suit. While we
did expect a general amount of silli-
ness and such, we were happy to see
so many people talking about issues
Bowdoin doesnt really like to men-
tion outside of the classroom.
Because of the controversial nature of
many of the topics on the page, the ad-
mins try to restrict some of the more ag-
gressive posts, as well as those that are di-
rected at specifc people in a negative way.
If we posted every submission,
those who have liked us would be
scarred for life, the admin said. We
do not post overtly sexual submissions
that mention actual names and we also
do not post direct attacks on students. If
anything straddles the line we put our
heads together and make a group deci-
sion. We do slip sometimes, and when
we do people message us right away
giving us a heads up so we can delete
the post.
Some of the more negative posts re-
ceived backlash from Facebook users
both within and outside of the Bowdoin
community, and prompted the admin-
istrators to change the page name from
Bowdoin Confessions to Words from
the Bubble. Te name change, however,
BY CONNOR EVANS
ORIENT STAFF
COURTESY OF FACEBOOK
THESE ARE MY CONFESSIONS : Two student-run forums for student confessions.
We never really have a good
understanding about exactly
what happens in an incident and
what part is mandated as hazing.
DANI CHEDIAK 13
BSG PRESIDENT
Foresight isnt exactly
our strong suit.
ANONYMOUS ADMINISTRATOR
WORDS FROM THE BUBBLE
was a decision made strictly by the ad-
ministrators of the page.
We defnitely had some people who
were unhappy with the page, saying
that it refected negatively on the Bow-
doin community, said the admin. So
far the administration has not said a
single word to us. We still felt we had to
change the name so our page remained
a safe space. We edit out all mentions of
Bowdoin so the page can keep being a
safe space. While we didnt agree with
their opinions, we decided to err on the
side of caution.
Te idea for Bowdoin Missed En-
counters, another student-run anony-
mous Facebook page which, accord-
ing to the admin, was created to amp
up the dating scene here at Bowdoin,
came from LikeALittle, a discontinued
social network that allowed students
to firt with others on their campuses
through the internet.
I basically came up with the idea
afer I saw that other schools had been
doing a similar thing, said the admin.
Also, I knew that LikeALittle had been
pretty popular when it was still up and
I thought it would be fun if we started
it up again.
Bowdoin Missed Encounters, much
like Words from the Bubble has been
met with enthusiasm from the student
body and has received similarly large
numbers of submissions.
We wanted to try to create a way for
students to create meaningful connec-
tions they would not have been able to
do in person, the admin said. Were
not necessarily playing matchmakers,
were just the intermediary, and thats
kind of why we chose to format the
page the way that it is.
Unlike Words from the Bubble, the
page has seen very little negative re-
sponse and continues to operate as a way
for people to connect with other students.
Te admins however, hope that the page
eventually changes into a way for stu-
dents to connect on a deeper level.
All that stuf about connecting peo-
ple? I wish we had more of that, the ad-
min said. But again, the idea was also
to give people a place to firt or give a
shout-out, even if its not necessarily be-
cause they want to date.
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SECURITY REPORT: 4/12 to 4/17
Friday, April 12
A dining staf member asked for a
wellness check for a student at Super
Snack.
Tree large glossy wall posters
promoting an upcoming event were
stolen from the Searles Science Build-
ing. Tree students were found to be
responsible for the thefs. Te posters
were returned.
A report of an odor of natural gas
at Howell House was determined to be
unfounded.
Saturday, April 13
A student put his hand through
a glass window pane at an event at
Ladd House, receiving lacerations.
A Bowdoin student attend-
ing a Macklemore concert at Colby
College was transported to Maine
General Hospital in Waterville for
intoxication.
A student took responsibility for
vandalizing a wall phone and a light
fxture at Coleman Hall.
Om cers checked on the well-be-
ing of an intoxicated student at Cole-
man Hall.
An intoxicated student walking
on Com n Street was warned and es-
corted home by a friend.
A student vomited in one of the
shuttle vans, causing the van to be
placed out of service and the driver
to be sent home for the remainder of
the night. Te student will be assessed
cleaning costs.
Sunday, April 14
A complaint of loud music was re-
ported at Pine Street Apartments.
Om cers checked on the well-be-
ing of an intoxicated female student at
Ladd House. Te student was escorted
to her residence hall.
Two female students were warned
for urinating in public within view of
College Street.
Burnt popcorn set off a smoke
alarm on the fourth floor of Coles
Tower.
A student backed a car into an-
other car at Brunswick Apartments,
ripping of the other cars rear bumper.
A student in West Hall fell out of
bed and received a leg cut. An om cer
escorted the student to Parkview Ad-
ventist Medical Center.
Monday, April 15
Brunswick Rescue transported
a student with stomach pain from
Smith Union to Mid Coast Hospital.
A student reported a suspicious
man near Memorial Hall. An om cer
encountered the man and moved
him along.
Tuesday, April 16
Contents of an outdoor trash can
near Coleman Hall caught fre. Te
fames were doused with a fre extin-
guisher.
Students reported seeing a man
and a woman arguing near the Banis-
ter Chapel. Te couple lef the area.
A blue and silver Schwinn Hybrid
bicycle was reported stolen from a
bike rack at Adams Hall.
Wednesday, April 17
Employees reported two people
trying to break into a vehicle that
was parked on South Campus Drive.
It turned out that the vehicle owner
and son who had gotten locked out
of their vehicle.
A fre alarm at the Coastal Stud-
ies Center on Orrs Island was set of
by steam from a tank cleaning project.
-Complied by the O ce of Safety
and Security.
SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FEATURES
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STAFF WRITER
Northern Bites will test out new code at U.S. Open this weekend
His grievances include
the hypocrisy of campus self-esteem
and routine debauchery, professors
meddling in town aairs
and local issues.
Please see RESIDENT, page 9
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BIONIC MEN: The Northern Bites competed in Watson Arena last year during the U.S. Open. This year, they hope to test the teams new code.
institution should not deter Bowdoin
from participating.
My grant was about how students
at Bowdoin can do the exact same
stuf as students at Carnegie Mellon,
Chown said.
Greydon Foil 05, a student of Chowns,
wrote the code for an entire Robocup
team for his honors project. In 2005,
Foil and Chown went to the U.S. Open.
Carnegie Mellons team, with eight
graduate students, two postdocs and a
professor, sat at the table next to them.
Tey absolutely couldnt believe it. It
was ridiculous to think that one student
could write all that code, Chown said.
Te following year, Chown and 12
Bowdoin students went to the World
Cup in Germany and fnished in the top
16. Te team has taken of since then:
in 2007 the Northern Bites, went on to
win the World Cup in Atlanta, Ga.
Te natue of the game has changed
since then, however. Every year, the
rules change to make the competition
more comparable to human soccer.
Te original AIBO robot dogs have
been replaced by humanoid robots.
At this years U.S. Open, the number of
robots per team will increase from four
to fve. Te feld is also four times bigger
than last years.
Te feld is huge, and this is a prob-
lem for robots. Our robots can see the
ball from, on a good day, three meters
away. Now the feld is about eight meters
long, so a robot can only really see the
ball when its on its own half of the feld,
Chown said.
Tat really changes the dynamics of
the team. Tey need to spread out on
Te RoboCup Standard Platform
League U.S. Open kicks of today in
the Watson Arena. Bowdoins team,
the Northern Bites, has spent the
past year completely re-writing its
code over the past year in the hope
of improving performance, and this
weekends competition will test their
eforts.
Afer last years World Cup in Mex-
ico City, Te Northern Bites decided
to rewrite the entire code for the
movements of their robots. Tis en-
tailed rewriting over 250,000 lines of
code.
Team captain Lizzy Mamantov 13
spearheaded the initiative to renovate
the code.
She really wanted to clean up the
code base and create an architecture
much more organized into functional
groups, said team member Ellis Rat-
ner 14. Ratner works on the robots
localization to help them determine
their position on the feld.
Tese updates may enable the team
to work with better computer science
in the future.
We want to spend time writing good
sofware and doing good computer
science things, but we want our robots
to play good soccer, said team advisor
and Professor of Computer Science
Eric Chown. Ultimately, good com-
puter science makes everything easier
in the long run.
While the team hopes to win the
Robocup, the drive to be innovative
in computer science has guided the
team recently.
I would say the last two years, the
thing Im happiest about with my team
is that theyve been much more invest-
ed in doing things the right way than
previous teams were, Chown said.
A big challenge for Robocup is for
new students to come to grips with
nine years of work from before they
got here. Hopefully, this architecture
simplifes things so a new student will
fnd it less daunting than they would
have a year ago, he said.
Its a big issue dealing with legacy
code, said Ratner.
Chown started the group afer re-
ceiving a grant from the National Sci-
ence Foundation Career Program.
My career grant was centered
around starting a robotics program at
Bowdoin. I got a bunch of money to
buy robots and start a program here.
I initially bought a bunch of AIBO
robots, which are little dogs, Chown
said.
One of Chowns students, Doug
Vail 01 went to graduate school at
Carnegie Mellon University afer
graduating from Bowdoin. While
at CMU, Vail was part of a Robocup
team that won the World Cup in Ja-
pan.
Vail encouraged Chown to set up a
Robocup team at the College.
At the time, I thought we could do
it and convince some other NESCAC
schools to do it and start a NESCAC
league. Chown said.
Although schools like Carnegie Mel-
lon had teams of graduate students
writing the code and working on
their Robocup teams, Chown frmly
believed that being an undergraduate
Schaeffer pseudonymously blogs from the other side of Brunswick
BY TOPH TUCKER
ORIENT STAFF
Pem Schaeffer keeps a blog
that has earned him a reputation
as a man who hates Bowdoin. He
doesnt see it quite that way.
I dont have an axe to grind per
se with Bowdoin, he said. I have
an axe to grind with certain prin-
ciples and positions.
Schaeffer, a politically conserva-
tive Brunswick resident, is in the
political minority around town.
That makes you notice things
often, more than those in the ma-
jority will, he said.
Now retired, Schaeffer has been
posting some of those observa-
tions on his blog, The Other Side
of Town, since 2009, before The
Bowdoin Project was even a twin-
kle in Thomas Klingensteins eye.
On the blog, Schaeffer isnt
Schaefferhes P.C. Poppycock,
his online pseudonym. The Times
Record is The Ostrich. Bowdoin is
rarely just Bowdoin. Its the Be-
loved Shrine of Bowdoin, the lo-
cal shrine to the 1 percent, or our
local Ivory Tower.
His grievances include the hy-
pocrisy of campus self-esteem and
routine debauchery, professors
meddling in town affairs, and local
issues like the idling inefficiencies
of the Downeasters diesel engine.
Despite his complaints, Schaef-
fer was wearing a black Bowdoin
Football sweatshirt at our meeting.
Why do I have this sweatshirt?
he postured, Because for the first
couple years, wed wander into
the bookstore we went to some
sports events and I actually be-
longed to the Bowdoin Friends As-
sociation.
Schaeffer graduated from Rut-
gers University in 1963 with a B.S.
in electrical engineering. At the
time, Rutgers had only 3,000 un-
dergraduates, and a campus Schaef-
fer described as beautiful and quite
similar to Bowdoins today.
than they were willing to publish
them. That, and a desire for total
editorial independence, led him to
start his blog.
Reading the Orient provides
much of Schaeffers fodder, which
focuses largely on the security re-
port. He cited a recent incident in
which a student was transported to
Parkview for a cut finger.
I have the sense that Bowdoin
students will call for assistance at
the drop of a hat, he said.
Sometimes his objection is to
more colorful fare.
Every once in a while Ive had
my teeth almost fall out. There was
a so-called sex columnist, he said,
and lowered his voice to describe
unmentionables.
Isnt there any sense of deco-
rum or dignity associated with
peoples personal lives in the cam-
pus paper? Why in such a rush to
miss the mystery of romance? he
said.
Maybe those kind of terms
dont mean anything to you, he
added.
After meeting campus Repub-
licans at local political events,
Schaeffer began following their
writings in The Patriot, a conser-
vative student paper published
sporadically between 1983 and
2003.
The Patriot provided a bright
spot in Schaeffers interactions
with Bowdoin, and a dramatic con-
trast to his own college experience.
My four years at Rutgers were
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
P.C. POPPYCOCK: Schaeer has been critiquing the antics of Bowdoin students online since 2009.
Please see ROBOCUP, page 9
as apolitical as they could possibly
be, said Schaeffer. What we knew
about was parties, athletic activi-
ties, beer, womenall the frivoli-
ties that you would associate with
college. But I really had no idea
about politics because we just nev-
er ever dealt with it.
Meeting these young Republi-
cans here [at Bowdoin] was, wow,
really quite a contrast.
As our interview was only one
day after the NAS report was re-
leased, Schaeffer had only had a
chance to read parts, but said his
initial response was, you know
what, that rings pretty damn true.
Schaefer sees the same narrowness
At the University of Southern
California, he earned a M.S. in
electrical engineering in 1968,
and in computer science in 1970.
He went on to work for Hughes
Aircraft Company, now part of
Raytheon. Through his career in
naval electronics, he cultivated a
business relationship with Bath
Iron Works, which brought him to
Brunswick in 1997.
After moving to Brunswick
from Orange County, Schaeffer
was struck by small-town dynam-
ics, and quickly took an interest in
local politics. Soon he was writing
op-eds for the Times Record faster
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SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BY DAVID MANDELBAUM
AND HENRY MCNAMARA
CONTRIBUTORS
Brunswick Diner
Price: $$$/5
Roll: *** /5
Criticisms: Fairly expensive, how-
ever the sides and claw meat made
up for it.
Overall: B+
COURTESY OF DAVID MANDELBAUMAND HENRY MCNAMARA
CLAWING THE COMPETITION: Rolls from Brunswick Diner (above) and Gurnet Trading Co. (below) had a generous ratio of lobster-to-bun.
Gurnet Trading Co.-
Seafood and Spirits
Price: $$$/5
Roll: *** /5
Criticisms: A bit pricy consider-
ing bun size and lack of sides.
Overall: B
Our search for the supreme Maine
lobster roll continued around town
this week at Gurnet Trading Co. and
Brunswick Diner, though neither
proed to ofer the holy grail of lobster.
Gurnet Trading Co.
Seafood and Spirits
Gurnet Trading Co. is a small sea-
food shack located a couple miles
from Cooks Corner on Gurnet
Road. Tis is not a place that typi-
cally shows up on lists of popular
lobster shacks, nor is it a place you
would necessarily stop by if not
referred and directed there by a
friend. We were initially enthused
by the overall look and feel of the
small seafood shanty. Te building
and the surrounding outdoor seat-
ing area, outftted with big Adiron-
dack chairs and picnic tables, was
colorfully decorated with buoys and
other maritime items. As we entered
the shack, a pleasant aroma of fresh
seafood flled our nostrils, and our
mouths began to water in anticipa-
tion. Although we elected to eat
inside due to bad weather, Gurnet
boasts one of the nicest outdoor
seating areas weve encountered.
While this was one of the least pho-
togenic rolls weve tried, the fresh-
ness of lobster more than made up
for the appearance, and the bun was
toasted and buttered. Gurnet pro-
duces solid lobster rolls that high-
light the freshness of the meat using
minimal mayo, allowing the lobster
to really stand out.
While Gurnets was not the best
roll weve encountered, the pictur-
esque setting and outdoor seating
area present the perfect atmosphere
to enjoy any meal. Te $14 price was
a bit excessive, and without any sides
this roll is a little pricey.
Brunswick Diner
Brunswick Diner is a local land-
mark, well known to students for
staying open 24 hours on weekend
nights. With a sign out front boast-
ing the Best Lobster Roll in Maine,
we fgured we couldnt miss their ver-
sion of this Maine staple. For those of
you who havent seen or been inside
of the Brunswick Diner, it is a quint-
essential diner with a long counter
on one side with eight or so booths
tucked next to the windows.
Brunswick Diners roll is compara-
ble to many we have encountered so
far, featuring a toasted and buttered
hotdog-style bun, lightly mayo-ed
lobster meat, and a piece of lettuce.
Te large gobs of claw and knuckle
meat were a unique feature of this
role, which we prefer to the shredded
variety. Additionally, the roll was ac-
companied by fries and cole slaw.
Te sides were average, but consid-
ering the size of the roll they were
a welcome additionthe $15 price
necessitated their inclusion.
Considering the location and 24-
hour availability, Brunswick Diner
is a no-brainer for Bowdoin students
searching for a taste of Maine. While
it is by no means Best Lobster
Roll in Maine, the diner certainly
makes a very solid product.
Sophomore slump stems from our loss of freshman securities
Lets talk about the sophomore
slump.
It sounds like a spinal condition-
or dance move at worst. Despite be-
ing the most prevalent association
attached to sophomore year, Ive
never stumbled across a definition
for the term. Sophomore slump is
a catch-all term, something expan-
sive to which we attribute all our
sad, sorry sophomore feelingsit
accumulates meaning by way of its
vagueness. That girl sleeping with
her eyes open in Smith Union?
Sophomore slump. That existential
feeling of emptiness when you walk
into a mid-February College House
party? Slump-related. Declaring
your major? Slumpy.
Sophomores: welcome to the
worst, best year of your life.
Grade-associated, clichd emo-
tions are familiar. Take senioritis,
for example, which is essentially a
seniors euphemism for laziness
or burned out. But senioritis has
different connotations than the
sophomore slumpwe rarely use
senioritis as melodramatically as
the slump. Senioritis is an eye roll
where the slump is a frownit is an
explanation instead of a diagnosis.
So if it is not similar to senioritis,
what is sophomore slump? Te feeling
is dim cult to communicate. Its an am-
biguous mixture of unease, gloom and
vague pressure. Teres something dis-
tinct about our second year in college
that cultivates a peculiar moodiness.
How come, unlike senioritis, our
slumping seems weightier, more
serious? It could be a matter of tem-
porary versus permanent: sopho-
mores stare into the prospect of two
more years ahead of them, while
seniors exchange their academic
worries for real world problems afer
graduation. But this implies that the
sophomore slump is purely a symp-
tom of academic burnout, which
seems untrue. Afer all, who has ever
heard of junior slump?
Academics surely play a role. Tey
must, because sophomore year marks
the point in college when we declare
our majorswhere our freshman-
year experimentation and our career-
wise evaluations decide on a feld of
study. Teres no doubt that declaring
a major unsettles the lot of us.
Tough the actual stakes are pretty
lowyou can switch your major
at any time, afer allthe symbolic
implications are weighty and scary.
Nows the time when were supposed
to know ourselves, and to know what
we want to do (I use supposed to
cautiously). At 19 and 20, that sort
of self-actualization rattles you. We
can no longer blame academic inde-
cision on being a frst year. Even for
the more assured of us, those who
are certain of what they want to do,
theres the fear of not stacking up to
our aspirations or fnding ourselves
ill-suited for them. No matter how
important our major really is in the
long runthe NAS(ty) report would
assure us that it isnt, mind you
there is always unsteadiness on the
cusp of a big decision.
Afer much consideration, I think
social factors contribute to this slump.
I experience it as a feeling of being so-
cially adrif. All ostensible features of
my life would refute that: topsy-turvy
freshman foibles are behind me, I am
living with friends in a College House,
and Ive settled myself into diferent
groups on campus. I think Norma
even knows my name without having
to look at my OneCard. Nonetheless, a
subtle dissatisfaction persists.
Slumping begins with the false
presumption that were happily
settled now that freshman year is
over. Counter-intuitively, I think
were less settled because all of the
freshmen-oriented artificial sup-
ports have fallen away. No more
freshman floor, no more proc-
tor, no more programming exclu-
sively for our comfort. Were let
loose and no longer forced to rely
on institutional structures that
maintain our relationships for us.
Sophomore year is when we have
to own college, and the world ex-
pects us to actively maintain our
relationships, our well-being and
our happiness.
With this in mind, my attempts
to combat sophomore slump have
been to continue meeting new peo-
ple, put an effort into my friend-
ships, and reach out to the people at
this school whose job it is to guide
us and keep investigating whats
available to me at Bowdoin. Resist
the idea that youre settled now
that youve been around for a little
while, because it will resist you. Just
because our first year is over doesnt
mean were done with orientation.
Duo tests lobster rolls at Brunswick Diner and Gurnet Trading Co.
BEST FOUR
YEARS
CALLIE FERGUSON
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of intellectual freedom, fxation on
multiculturalism and curricular defcit
that omits the sort of full-year English
composition course he was required to
take.
Students should read [the report]
with as open a mind as possible,
said Schaefer.
Te self-satisfaction that seems to
be just a natural part of the campus
life is going to predispose you to have
a knee-jerk reaction, he said. Try
to see itas hard as it might beas
something that might contribute to the
improvement of [your] alma mater in
future years so that when [you] send
their children here its a better place.
Many of the more juvenile
comments are an embarrassment
to both the writer and the College;
they reflect badly on both, he re-
cently wrote in a subsequent email
to the Orient.
Schaeffer sees this as a larger
trend in journalism.
We hear all sorts of pleas these
days for civility in public dis-
course, most often as a response to
conservatives, he wrote. It does
not appear, from what one reads on
the comment threads, that civility
is a core principle of a Bowdoin
education.
At the same time, Schaefer cau-
tioned against students taking col-
legeand themselvestoo seriously.
Tere is something to be said for
enjoying your youth, he said. Youve
ROBOCUP
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
the feld and be able to communicate
efectively, he added.
Te recent focus on architectural
changes, however, may inhibit the
team at the U.S. Open this weekend.
While this may be the case, the team
will use the experience as a launching
point to prepare for the World Cup.
The Northern Bites will compete
at this years World Cup in Eind-
hoven, Netherlands from June 20-
28. Bowdoins team will be one of
about four or five from the U.S.
competing alongside teams from
countries around the world, in-
cluding Germany and Australia.
Bremens team B-Human had been
reigning champions of the World Cup
from 2008 to 2011, but last year Te
Austin Villa from Te University of
Texas at Austin won the competition.
While the stakes are high at the
international competition, the
World Cup is a chance for interna-
tional collaboration, cooperation
and innovation.
The biggest value of the compe-
tition is the motivation and oppor-
tunity it provides for advanced re-
search, said professor Peter Stone,
director of the UT-Austin Robocup
laboratory.
Chown said the nature of this re-
search is educational and provides
opportunities.
Its really a student-centric project.
Tats what is exciting about it, he
said.
Tis week, we explore eating at
Bowdoin. Several students share in-
sights on how the dining hall can ei-
ther serve as the crux of the Bowdoin
experience or play a completely in-
signifcant role.
Adam Berliner 13 hails from New
York City and grew up surrounded
by international cuisine. Like many
Bowdoin students, he was frst
drawn to the College because of its
highly acclaimed food, but soon he
shared other students complaints
about the dining hall.
Te times werent good for me; I
dont like being forced to eat at 6:30
every night, explained Berliner. I
also got sick of the institutional feel
of the meals and hated waiting in
lines for food.
As good as the food is, you have
to remember its still cafeteria food.
It can never be the same quality of
food I can produce for myself in
my kitchen in just 30 minutes, he
added.
Halfway through his junior year
and already living of-campus, Ber-
liner elected to go of the meal plan,
becoming one of the few Bowdoin
students who make that choice. For
Berliner, cooking actually adds conve-
nience to his day. It serves as a time
for him to relax and de-stress.
Other students never contem-
plate going of the meal plan because
of anticipated inconvenience.
Im pre-med, so the actual time I
would have to cook for myself is re-
ally low, said Ian Kline 15. Most
of my meals at school are under 30
minutes. I love to cook though; over
breaks I cook for myself.
Out of the eight students we inter-
viewed, fve are on the full 19 meal
plan, two chose the slightly more
limited 14 meal plan, and Berliner is
the only one fully of it.
I contemplated reducing to 14
meals this year, but in the end I
thought 19 was better because I want-
ed to force myself to eat breakfast,
said Josh Ly 15.
Living and eating of campus has
its perks, but Berliner also cites the
drawback of being incognito.
Students nd Bowdoins eating culture diverse yet socially focused
QUINN COHANE AND MELODY HAHM
BURSTING
THE BUBBLE
Afer sophomore year, people
kept asking, Where are you? I
dont see you around anymore,
said Berliner. I defnitely see
a lot of people less and less,
but the people I want to
see, Ill seek out. Its kind
of nice not to bump
into the hundreds of
other people that
I dont want
to see afer a
long, stress-
ful day.
Though
a packed
dining hall
can breed
a n x i e t y ,
many stu-
dents coun-
teract that by
concentrating on
what mealtimes
permit: social in-
teraction.
I like that
Bowdoin students
try to win dinner
we stay at the dining hall and talk
forever, said Ayaka Okawa 14. Its
a time to wind down and procrasti-
nate on homework without feeling
guilty because youre giving yourself
social time.
One-on-one dinner dates are an op-
tion for students who want to get to
know each other better, but ultimately
intimate dates can be hard to achieve
when friend groups congregate at the
dining hall.
which is great, but you
can never talk about
anything because
its so crowded,
she added.
Im constantly im-
pressed by the variety of
foods here, said Chisto-
lini. We have so many
wholesome options, not
just simple foods; in-
stead we have exotic-
sounding foods
like qui-
noa with
fruits and
b r o w n
rice. Im
exci t ed
to look
at the
menus
e v e r y
d a y
before
I go
to bed
and see
whats for
breakfast.
Long lines
are a small
price to pay for
a full bufet at every meal, considering
students at other schools must fork up
cash at their la carte style dining halls.
Compared to other dining halls, you
dont have to worry about the price of
each item at Bowdoin, said Okawa. I
think that makes us more likely to eat
things like salad in addition to a main
meal because you dont have to pay for
things separately.
Chistolini notes that the dining
hall presents her with options that she
would never consider otherwise.
Im much more willing to try dif-
ferent types of foods, said Chistolini.
Teres a healthy mentality on cam-
puseat healthy, exercise and main-
tain a good balance. Bowdoin has
defnitely improved my eating habits
because most of these options werent
available to me. I didnt purposely de-
cide not to eat these foods in the past.
Berliner agrees that some Bowdoin
students have become masters of
portion control.
I think its hard to seriously binge
eat at Bowdoin, Berliner said. Can
you get that much crappy food in you
in one sitting?
Te dining hall can also be a site for
excessively controlled eating. Okawa
described how startling it was to ob-
serve people restraining themselves at
bufet lines.
I have defnitely noticed other peo-
ple eating like rabbits, she said. Tey
only eat salads and really lean meat. I
sometimes feel pressure. I think to my-
self, Im a girl of the same size, should I
be eating that little? But Im an athlete,
so I go for the meats. Im not going to
deprive myself of all of the calories that
my body needs.
Johnson points out that eating dis-
orders may be generational rather than
institutional.
People having weird eating prob-
lems might be a result of Bowdoins
image of lets all be ft and skinny,
but its also a result of people being
20-year-old girlsthat kind of thing
happens, she said.
I think it is a contagious way of
thinking for a lot of people, said Chis-
tolini. Because we are such a small
school, its easier to be afected by
diferent eating approaches and men-
talities. A lot of people become hyper-
aware. I know a lot of it is mental so
I just try to focus on myself and my
health.
Te eating experience at Bowdoin
may not be perfect, but students still
seem to have a generally positive view
of the Dining Service, the types of
food ofered, and the dining hall at-
mosphere at Bowdoin. For those who
fnd the campus food culture less than
savory, students like Berliner prove
that one can have a satisfying Bowdoin
life without visiting the dining hall 19
times a week.
got plenty of years to grow up and
learn about the side of life thats more
complex, more challenging, likely to
be more infuriating.
We didnt have a newspaper
delivered to the fraternity. We got
Playboy magazine delivered, and
kegs of Budweiser. You just werent
exposed to stuff, he added.
Schaeffer takes obvious pleasure
in his current vantage point.
There arent a lot of fun things
about growing old, but one of them
is seeing things in a much deeper
context, he said.
Schaeffer doesnt expect to woo
many converts.
Youre never going to see the
Orient from my perspective, and
Im never going to see it from
yours, he said.
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Ive been going to lunch
with the same people since
freshman year; its an unspoken
rule that we always meet at the
same time at Thorne.
ELLIS RATNER 14
People having weird
eating problems might be a
result of Bowdoins image of lets
all be fit and skinny, but its
also a result of people being
20-year-old girls.
MICHELLE JOHNSON 15
Because the school is so small, you
always end up seeing every person you
know in the dining hall, said Michelle
Johnson 15.
Even though you try to have a meal
with just one person, your friends ask,
Oh, what are you doing? Well come
along, well all sit together. You wind
up with all your friends at one meal,
Ellis Ratner 14 almost exclusively
has group lunches, and fnds it easy to
hold spirited conversations.
Ive been going to lunch with the
same people since freshman year; its an
unspoken rule that we always meet at
the same time at Torne, said Ratner.
I feel like some of my friends plan
their classes around thatthey need
that hour. We have really intense con-
versations about topics from the philo-
sophical to political to scientifc, such
as climate change policy, hazing, free
will and the NAS report, of course,
he said. Te dining hall provides us a
place to sit down and talk about these
issues.
In lieu of crashing a strangers meal,
some students elect to grab lunch or
dinner alone, using this time to catch
up on homework or just decompress.
But for a frst year like Jefrey Chung,
the idea of eating alone is still daunting.
Sometimes I feel very stressed be-
cause Im scrambling to fnd someone
to eat with, said Chung. Tats a fair
source of stress for me. If I had a book
or something, maybe Id feel comfort-
able eating alone in the dining hall.
Adrienne Chistolini 15 likens the
dining hall to a Whole Foods store
with its plethora of healthy food items.
Afer being at Bowdoin for a while,
the food is really great and still high
quality, but you do get tired of it be-
cause they do rotate through things,
explained Ratner. Its nice to go out
sometimes.
Tough Berliner saves money by
being of the meal plan, its costly to
mimic the quality of food available in
Bowdoins dining halls.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Last Sunday, the Bowdoin Col-
lege Concert Band performed Cel-
ebrations Part II: 25 Years of the
Bowdoin College Concert Band
in a packed Studzinski Recital Hall.
Te show included several world
premieres of pieces written by mem-
bers of the Bowdoin community.
Directed by John Morneau, the
band consists of roughly 40 mem-
bers from the College and the
Brunswick community. This year,
Morneau is celebrating 25 years
with the College.
Morneau was hired by Elliott
Schwartz, who taught music at
Bowdoin from 1964 until 2007.
On Sunday, Schwartz premiered a
revised version of his Celebration
Overture, the original version
of which he composed in 1962 as
a brief fanfare for the inaugura-
tion of a president of University of
Massachusetts Amherst, where he
then taught.
Its great to revisit an old piece,
said Schwartz. Its like watching
your children growing up.
Studzinski was remodeled just
as Schwartz was ending his time
with the College.
Its nice to have my music
played in the new space, added
Schwartz.
When Schwartz left Bowdoin
2007, he was replaced by Associate
Professor of Music Vineet Shende.
Shende, who is on currently on
sabbatical and is perhaps best
know by the Bowdoin community
as a member of the professor band
Racer X, also premiered a piece on
Sunday.
Shendes piece is titled our
last conversation was in Portu-
guese and was written in memory
of Emilie Parker, a six-year-old
victim of the December shooting
in Newtown, Conn.
The title of the piece was taken
from an interview with Parkers fa-
ther, Robbie Parker.
What he said was absolutely
devastating, said Shende, who
recalled hearing the interview on
NPR while making breakfast for
his four-year-old daughter. It re-
ally hit me hard, so I wanted to do
something to just honor the mem-
ory of this girl.
Shendes piece is split into three
sections.
The first mirrors the speech pat-
terns of Robbie Parker, the second
is meant to be reminiscent of the
drawings of Emilie Parker, and
the third pulls inspiration from
the 1599 Madrigal piece Weep,
O Mine Eyes, settling into what
Shende describes as a more reflec-
tive tone.
Throughout the piece, sound
bites from Robbie Parkers inter-
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
STAFF WRITER
Concert Band celebrates
25 years with new music
Phar\os claims opening slot at Ivies
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Student band Phar\os won Battle
of the Bands last Thursday and will
open for Hoodie Allen in next Sat-
urdays Ivies concert.
The three bands competing were
Treefarm, The Circus, and Phar\os.
Ultimately, Phar\oscomprised
of David Raskin 13 and Connor
Smith 13came out victorious.
According to BMC co-head Nate
Joseph 13, this is the first year
that there have been two rounds of
competition.
Doing one event has been cha-
otic, he said. We wanted to give
everyone a chance to play in the
first round, and this way we also
could see the top bands play a lon-
ger set which would be more repre-
sentative of the sets at Ivies.
The BMC ran the first round,
which was held at the beginning of
the month. The E-Board was more
involved in the second round.
The judges for the second round
were Associate Professor of Music
Vineet Shende, Postdoctoral Fellow
of Mathematics Aba Mbirika, Will
Tucker 14, and Patrick Lavallee
13.
The two students together con-
tributed one vote, while the profes-
sors had one vote each.
We try to do a balance of some-
one who has musical knowledge
and someone who has a good feel
for the campus, said E-Board
member Asher Stamell 13. It
wasnt a rigorous decision. Some-
one on the E-board contacted these
students. We made sure they didnt
have an alliance with any student
act and that they were gong to be
unbiased.
Stamell went on to say that there
was some surprise at the judges ul-
timate decision.
What motivated the decision
was the musicality [of Phar\os],
which was pretty high caliber, he
said. Perhaps [the judges] didnt
give as much consideration to how
it would fit within the Ivies lineup,
but that wasnt really their job.
We just asked them to be objec-
tive, said Stamell.
The group that won was in-
credibly musically talented, and it
probably had to do with their mu-
sical ability.
Shende said that the judges were
impressed that Phar\os played en-
tirely original music.
The band that we ended up
choosing had the most original
sound, he said.
They really had a unique kind
of sound, so that was something
that we valued highly.
Stamell said that any critiques
made would have to be of the
judging process, not the particular
bands or this years judges.
If people are going to take ob-
jection to the decision, we have to
focus our efforts on improving the
selection process of the judges,
said Stamell. We need to look at
the judging process, and its a con-
versation that should be had in
future yearsdo we want a greater
student presence? Do we want to
have more music professors? Or
Please see BATTLE, page 11 Please see CONCERT, page 11
Photography Professor Michael Kolster wins Guggenheim Fellowship
BY CLARE DESANTIS
STAFF WRITER
Last week, Associate Professor of
Photography Michael Kolster was
awarded the prestigious Guggen-
heim Fellowship, which will support
Kolster in his current photo project,
entitled Take Me to the River.
The Guggenheim Fellowship
is held in very high regard, wrote
Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle
Collins Judd in an e-mail to the
Orient. It is a prestigious award for
mid-career faculty that recognizes
distinguished scholarly or artistic
accomplishment and potential.
According to the Guggenheim
Fellowship website, around 200 re-
cipients are selected from a pool of
around 4,000.
Its a river project; a project Ive
been working on for a little while
now that examines American riv-
ers, said Kolster. Its interesting
that it happened that the project
actually coincides with the forti-
eth anniversary of the Clean Water
Act.
Kolsters focus on American rivers
and their histories of pollution be-
gan through his interest in the near-
by Androscoggin River. He, along
with Associate Professor of Envi-
ronmental Studies Matthew Klingle,
used the river as a mechanism to
familiarize himself with Bowdoins
surrounding area.
We realized that as transplants,
we both had an interest and a con-
nection to this this place we lived
inwanted to get to know it a little
bit betterso part of it was that we
realized that both of us shared an in-
terest in the river, said Kolster.
One of the things that drew Kolster
to the river was its surprising history.
It was one of the ten most polluted
rivers in the United States, so it was in
really bad shape forty years ago, he
said. In fact, we talked with a biolo-
gist, a professor emeritus here, who did
a study of the river in 1970 and found
no evidence of life in its waters. It was
a dead river.
Kolsters interest in the rehabilitated
river in Bowdoins backyard led him to
the James River in Virginia. Despite the
vast distance between the two, they had
shared histories of pollution and resto-
ration. He then expanded the project to
also include the Schuylkill River, which
runs through Philadelphia.
Tanks to the Guggenheim Fel-
lowship, Kolster will be able to pho-
tograph the Teton River in Idaho and
the Los Angeles River.
In Idaho, Kolster will focus on a de-
structed dam site and a recent com-
munity efort to eliminate invasive
rainbow trout from the river.
You can go there today, and you
can see evidence of this failure of the
dam; right now theres contemporary
conversation around rebuilding the
dam, he said.
Kolster also plans to document the
restoration of steelhead trout to the
Los Angeles River.
Tere are attitudes about the
Los Angeles River which mirror or
parallel or at least somehow remind
me of conversations Ive had with
SWIMMERS AND SWINGING BRIDGE, TOPSHAM, ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER, MAINE 2012, UNIQUE AMBROTYPE, 7 3/8X 9 3/6
DOWN BY THE RIVER: Kolsters photo project, Take Me to the River,consists of images featuring the juxtaposition of nature and manmade structures.
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
OPENING ACT: Members of Phar\os, who will open at Ivies, perform at the BMC Showcase.
people around the Androscoggin,
he said.
Kolsters photographs are done
through a 19th century procedure
called the wet plate collodion pro-
cess, which he believes serves as a
link to the rivers industrial history.
I realized afer making these
things that the connection between
the process, which is a wet process,
and this unstable moving fowing
subject, had a one-to-one relation-
ship, he said.
Really the project is about how
we imagine place, and what our rela-
tionship with it is, Kolster said.
Bowdoin alum and poet L.S.
Asekoff 61 also received a fellow-
ship, and is using the funds to work
on two pieces. One is a book of
poems called Clermont, and the
other is a single book-length poem
called The Vanishing Hand. His
works have been featured in Slate
Magazine, The New Yorker, and
Boston Review.

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Last Friday evening, Residential
Life, the Student Museum Advi-
sory Committe and Student Activi-
ties sponsored Student Night at the
Bowdoin Museum of Art.
The event was an opportunity
for students to access the mu-
seum after hours to celebrate
the recent opening of the the ex-
hibit, Per Kirkeby, Paintings and
Sculpture. It also featured per-
formances by Bellamafia and the
Longfellows.
The well-attended event attract-
ed students who were interested
not only in the art, but who also
wanted to have the opportunity to
participate in a classier affair.
Its always really fun to see
people get dressed up and I think
we dont really take advantage of
having the museum in general,
said Elizabeth Strayer 15. Its a
really good opportunity for peo-
ple who want to come see their
peers and the art.
Many students seemed to share
Strayers opinion.
As a student, I find the oppor-
tunity to come to an event like this
useful just to see how other people
are reacting to the event, said
Robo Tavel 16. I am here not just
for the art, but more for the atmo-
sphere.
The exhibit itself has received
favorable student reviews, par-
ticularly from those interested in
contemporary art.
Its exciting to have different
and more modern art brought to
the museum because thats some-
thing we dont have that much of
on a regular basis, said Madeline
Livingston 16.
The event succeeded in its mis-
sion of attracting students who
might not have otherwise wan-
dered into the museum.
I probably wouldnt see the
exhibit if it wasnt for this event,
said Jared Littlejohn 15.
Its good that this event is
happening because it is attracting
a very sophisticated and want-
to-be sophisticated crowd, he
added.
Its really cool when they have
events that reach out to students
specifically, said Erica Hummel
16. Its a really great resources
that we have on campus and we
are privileged to have it.
BY CAROLYN VEILLEUX
ORIENT STAFF
Student Night at museum
provides food, music, art
Students filed into the packed
Shannon Room last Friday after-
noon to listen to Associate Profes-
sor of Art History Linda Dochertys
Uncommon Hour, Art Theft and
Why it Matters.
I was very touched by the turn-
out, said Docherty. You know,
students are always late to these
things. Then all of a sudden I
looked around and they were be-
hind the refreshment table.
Docherty plans to retire at the
end of this year after 27 years of
teaching at Bowdoin.
Im sad, she said. Its never a
good time to leave Bowdoin, but I
think its the right time.
Docherty was not always going
to be an art history professor. She
started out with a degree in eco-
nomics, keeping in mind the prac-
ticality of the major.
It wasnt going to be my lifes
work, she said. I only majored in
it because it was clear that I would
become a teacher if I majored in
English or French, and that was the
worst thing I could be in my mind
at the time.
Her interest in art history, how-
ever, proved irrepressible.
The first course that got me re-
ally interested in art history was
a course on the art of Japan, said
Docherty. Then I graduated and
got married and had my suburban
period, but then I came back to it
and just got hooked.
Dochertys chief scholarly focus
is American art. A self-proclaimed
retread, Docherty said it took her
a little while to find her niche in
the art history discipline as well,
and that she actually had more
background in other genres when
she realized the possibilities that
American art could afford her.
I wouldnt say [the study of
American art] was just getting off
the ground, but it was in a compar-
atively early state, she said. There
was potential there; I could barely
step out of my house without find-
ing something that would be rel-
evant to my study. I just love that
access to the context.
She said that this access to con-
text was part of what brought her
to Bowdoin.
Bowdoin is a great place to
come for American art because of
the museum, said Docherty.
However, she added that what
truly drew her to the College were
the students.
Bowdoin really won my heart; I
can tell you up front I detest cold
weather, she said. But I came to
Bowdoin, and I just truly fell in
love with the students; they were
so lively, so interested in learning,
and I could see that coming to a
place like this with very brilliant
studentsnot even all art history
studentsI could teach them ev-
erything I had to teach.
Afer all these years, Docherty
maintained that the students remain
her favorite aspect of Bowdoin.
Without the students, Bowdoin
would not be what it is, she said.
They have kept me intellectu-
ally on my toes all these years, and
many of them have become long
lasting friends.
When asked if she had a favor-
ite course that she had taught, Do-
cherty responded promptly.
I love my World of Isabella
Stewart Gardiner seminar, which
is tied to my research, which I can
make available for my students,
she said. One night working late
I get an email, and its a picture
that says, Working hard or hardly
working? And its a picture of all
my students in the library with all
the reserve books out.
At office hours, Dochertys
friendship with her students was
evident as students dropped by her
office to hand in papers. She had a
lighthearted personal interaction
with each of them, whether it was
to ask about the lacrosse game over
the weekend or to commend a stu-
dent on her creative insights in a
journal entry.
Despite her ease of communica-
tion with students, Docherty said
she has never thought of herself as
a gifted public speaker.
I just love being in the class-
room with the students, but Im not
really a performer, she said.
Her Uncommon Hour talk, in
which her comments regularly in-
cited gales of laughter from the au-
dience, suggested otherwise.
A former student came up to
me afterwards and said, You had
the audience in stitches! said Do-
cherty. And it was funny because
I was trying to give you a very
serious talkI guess you have to
sometimes laugh a little and not
make it weighty.
Docherty said she has also felt a
strong connection to her colleagues
throughout her time here.
I met [Pamela] Fletcher in 89,
my second year here, she said. I
taught the survey course; I had 144
students in Kresge, and even with
144 students she stood out as a
great student.
Associate Professor of Art Histo-
ry Pamela Fletcher 89 remembers
this first meeting well.
I was an econ major and abso-
lutely fell in love with the class,
she said. Even in that large class,
she clearly knew who I was, knew
my name; she would comment on
a paper I had written. In fact, she
still remembers the papers that I
wrote in 101 all those years ago. So
Ive seen her amazing impact on
students now from the other per-
spective.
Professor of Art History Susan
Wegner has an even longer history
with Docherty.
Shes a dear friend and a re-
ally valued colleague, said Wegner.
Ive know her for over a quarter
of a century. Shes a really beloved
teacher. All you have to do is look
at her classes that start at 8:30 in
the morning, and theyre filled
with people, because they want to
be taking class with her.
Even though Docherty is retir-
ing, she said she has no intention of
abandoning the Bowdoin communi-
ty any time soon. She will continue
to hold an om ce in the department a
little while longer, and plans to audit
some classes in the future.
I feel like Ill always be connect-
ed, she said. Bowdoin is that kind of
community where you know you can
just stay in touch not just personally
but intellectually.
And then theres the campus it-
self, to which Docherty said she
has always felt a strong connection,
and, living only a block away, she
plans on continuously enjoying it.
Teres always that moment of
walking to work and coming on cam-
pus, and theres just that moment of
realizing what a beautiful place it
is to be, she said. But I think that
without everything thats inside that
beauty, it just wouldnt be the same.
Her colleagues, in turn, said that
the College just wont be the same
when Docherty leaves.
Its a little hard to imagine, be-
cause my perspective on the de-
partment is very tied up with Pro-
fessor Docherty, said Fletcher. I
think that its going to feel like a
little bit of a hole for all of us.
Theres no one like her, said
Wegner. Introduce yourself to her;
shes a lot of fun. She loves cats.
-Michelle Hong contributed to this
report.
Professor Linda Docherty to retire after 27 years of teaching
BY MAGGIE BRYAN
ORIENT STAFF
I graduated and got married
and had my suburban period,
but then I came back to [art
history] and just got hooked.
HONGBEI LI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
A LONG STORY: 27 years ago, Bowdoin won Docherty over despite her aversion to cold weather.
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Portland painter Holly Ready uses landscape as vehicle for light
CREATION
THEORIES
AMANDA MINOFF
Portland artist Holly Ready keeps
her gallery door open. Outside, Con-
gress Street buzzes with the hum of
motors, the stomping of feet along the
sidewalk, and an incessant beeping as
a truck pulls over to the loading zone.
Inside the gallery, dozens of seascapes
hang on the white walls, refecting
pockets of light back to the street out-
side. Occasionally, one pair of stomping
feet will step inside to take in the light
from up close.
I love it when people come in just
to look, when someone comes in and
interrupts me, said Ready. As an art-
ist, I get so focused on what Im doing.
Its great to get jolted like that every now
and then.
Tis columnist had jolted Ready
mid-smear. She was adding a smidgen
of white to Blue Violets, a 30x30 inch
oil on canvas piece. Te top 80 percent
of the painting is sky, thick with rolling,
purple clouds. Below, a strip of trees
lines a calm pool of ocean.
Ready squinted, stepped back, and
retired her palette knife.
Landscape, for me, is just a vehicle
for light, she said, fnally sitting down
for her interview. Here in Maine,
theres a roughness you dont get any-
where else. Teres a rawness. I think
you can really feel the elements here.
Readys landscapes cultivate this
sense of rawness and dispatch it back to
the viewer. Te motif of the spot of light
ringing out across the water recalls for
a moment the luminescence of J.M.W.
Turner. But there is nothing British
about these landscapes. Tis is the
Maine coast as can be seen a hundred
times over driving down I-495.
Ready herself grew up in Natick,
Mass., but she spent each summer of
her childhood at her grandparents
home in Cape Elizabeth.
We lived on the ocean, she recalled.
I knew I had to live near the ocean
eventually.
My uncle and grandma were pro-
fessional artists, so I was exposed to
art from a young age, she said. I was
always painting. But when I went to col-
lege, it was more for business than art. I
was told I wouldnt make a living being
an artist.
It was only afer having children and
occasionally showing her work at side-
walk shows that Ready decided to go to
school for art. She graduated from the
Maine College in Art in 1994 with a
BFA in painting.
Tats where I learned it all, she said.
Before I went to school I could get it
this whole color and light thingbut I
never understood how I could do it.
Soon afer graduating, Ready began
showing her work in Portlands Green-
hut Gallery and Arden Gallery on New-
bury Street in Boston.
She then worked as a director at
Clown Gallery on Middle Street.
It was a very creative job, Ready
remembered. I could select whichever
works I wanted and arrange them on
the wallskind of like a collage.
But soon, Ready was anxious to get
back to her own painting.
She began renting diferent spaces to
use as studios, and in 2003 she opened
Holly Ready Gallery at 609 Congress
Street, in the heart of Portlands arts dis-
trict. Te space allows for customers to
see her in her element.
Ideally, I would love to have a big
quiet spacesomething with a lot of
natural light, she said. But in order to
sell your work, you need to get into a
gallery. When people come in to buy, I
put the business hat on.
Many of Readys paintings are al-
ready perched against the wall: matted,
framed and ready to be sold. Others,
she hopes to hang on to for a bit longer.
Every now and then, I get very
attached, she said. She gestured to
the large-scale painting entitled Te
Basin. Here, she has painted sleek
slabs of rock in browns and greens.
A multitude of new colors emerges as
frothy water eddies in the open space
between the rocks.
Tis is a place I have relationship to,
she explained. Te process of working
on it was so good for me. I hope when
it goes, it goes to someone who really
loves it.
If Ready isnt prepared to let a
piece go, she has a solution.
Sometimes I hide them away under
the table, she admitted with a laugh.
Tis reluctance to let go comes
from a deep emotional investment in
her work.
I paint what Im feeling, she ex-
plained. And thats the kind of work I
lovework that gives you a feeling. To
look at a Van Gogh in person, you can
feel the emotion in the brushstrokes.
Flat work doesnt do it for me.
Ready primarily uses oil paints.
I love the physical quality, she
said of her medium. I love the smell
of it, the buttery feel of it. I use a
knife, so its very physical.
Ready also works in gouache, a paint
made of pigment and a binding agent.
I use gouache for my smaller piec-
es, she said. From far away, theres a
nice glow to it.
She held one such piece back at arms
length. When Im stuck with one me-
dium I ofen go to the other. It brings
clarity; its good for my mind.
Tere is a particular piece that radi-
ates pink and red across the room from
where we sit. Its not for sale.
Its for my son, Ready explained,
getting up to look more closely. Te
painting depicts a piece of coastline of
the Prouts Neck peninsula in Scarbor-
ough. Tough she occasionally paints
en plein air, for this piece, Ready is
working from a photograph.
Sometimes I need the photo-
graph to jog my memory, she said.
To remind me of my experience in
the place.
She picked up her palette brush,
and I knew Id interrupted the artist
long enough. She was itching to get
back to work.
Its not done. Its kind of blah right
now; theres no focal point, said Ready.
She added an accent of pink to the
clouds.
I had put this one away, so I havent
looked at it in a while, she added.
Next, she added a smear of light
green to the water. We went back to
sit. At frst the new streak of paint
was jarring. It stood out wet and fresh
against the canvas.
Ill know its close to being done
when I get that aha! moment, she
told me. Afer that, I may keep adding
things. You could work on it forever
if you wanted to. Te hardest part is
knowing when to break your brush.
Outside, its remarkable noisy for
10:30 on a Tuesday morning. Sitting
in the gallery, Id forgotten the bustle
of the street, the bustle of campus
life. Te colors of Readys landscapes
had interrupted me in the most nec-
essary way. Perhaps these pockets of
light, these currents of reds and pinks,
will color my own view of the coast
as I drive back along I-495, back to
Bowdoin, back to my desk to write.
Afer a few minutes I look back at the
painting of Prouts Neck. It takes me a
while to fnd the smidgen of pine. Al-
ready, it seems as if its always been there.
fewer music professors?
Shan Nagar 16, a member of
The Circus, said that he thought
that Phar\os deserved the top
prize.
All of us in the band were in
agreement that the best band won,
he said. The musicianship behind
Phar\os is just incredible.
Phar\os played entirely origi-
nal songs during Battle of the
Bands, Treefarm played a mix of
both original songs and covers,
and The Circus played exclusively
covers.
Drew Villeneuve 16 said that
he was unsure how Phar\os would
translate to Ivies.
If it was just a battle of the
bands, I would have been happy
that Phar\os won, he said. Every-
one was blown away by their musi-
cianship. Theyre great, but maybe
not the best for Ivies.
Max Middleton 16 agreed.
They were definitely the most
musically complex, and the most
unique, he said.
I dont know how great theyll
be at Ivies, he added.
However, he went on to say that
the original aspects of Phar\os
music made them a good choice.
If youre opening for big names,
you should be playing original
songs, he said.
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view played from speakers posi-
tioned around the recital hall.
I wasnt expecting that kind of
music, said Phoebe Zhang 16,
who attended the concert. It was
something creative.
Its always nice to have a piece
premiered at Studz, said Shende.
This is the first piece that Ive
written for students here, so that
was kind of special for me.
Sundays third premiere piece
was called 9.11 Memorial and
was written by Richard Francis 92.
Francis was a frst year at the College
when Morneau was hired and the
band was formed, and was therefore
part of the frst class to spend four
years with Morneau and the Con-
cert Band. He was a student under
Schwartz as well.
Both Francis and Shendes pieces
were followed by a moment of si-
lence.
The band also performed piec-
es by Gordon Jacob, Bach, Guy
Woolfenden, Pierre Leemans and
Robert Sheldon.
In May, Schwartz and his wife
will produce a performance in con-
junction with the Chamber Choir,
incorporating electronic sounds
and visual images.
Shende will return from sab-
batical for the 2013-2014 academic
year.
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AMANDA MINOFF, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Every couple of years the flm com-
munity gets a picture that is critically
divisive to the point of riots; a picture
that compels nearly anyone with a pen
and a Film 101 course to their name
to provide personal input (Zero Dark
Tirty, Amour and Te Tree of Life
are a few from recent memory).
Such flms ascribe to the moniker
of art-cinema, but are generally well-
known enough to gain considerable
viewership and invite debate as to the
value of their worth as popular enter-
tainment (God forbid something of
that sort should carry something re-
sembling a moral agenda).
Regardless of whether we consider
such works good movies, their value
lies in their ability to spark intellectual
debates, which allow critics to constant-
ly reassess the (gasp!) purpose of cin-
ema and popular entertainment (the
worth of criticism itself frequently crops
up in this conversation).
In the past month, this critical swell
has been caused by no one other than
lenfant-terrible Harmony Korine, with
his latest picture Spring Breakers. Te
flm, Korines ffh feature as a direc-
tor, is a hypnotic account of four girls
journey to the sunny shores of Florida
to engage in the beer-soaked, MTV-
fetishized revelry we know as Spring
Break.
Te bikini-clad quartet is composed
of Disney Channel icons Vannessa
Hudgens and Selena Gomez, soap-op-
era actress Ashley Benson, and Korines
wife, Rachel. Halfway through the flm,
we encounter Alien, played by James
Franco (decked out in cornrows and
grills, with guns and drugs in tow).
Since I frst viewed the trailer
which I immediately showed to anyone
around me so that they could see how
ridiculous Franco appearedmy inter-
pretation of the flm has focused on its
self-conscious exploration of the use of
star personas (a hypothesis only sup-
ported by my theatrical viewing).
Korines use of the pop-culture prin-
cesses allows this flm to refexively
consider popularity and social-pressure
in several ways. Tese good girls gone
bad allow us to consider how America
expects young women to be behave
(throughout the flm, guardians call
their daughters and attemptthrough
copious liesto assuage the fears that
these precious girls might be engaging
in any illicit afairs).
If American viewers (likely college-
aged males) go to Spring Breakers
solely in the hopes of seeing a few pop
stars in a threesome, theyll be pleased;
but if they neglected to consider wheth-
er or not these stars serve as stand-ins
for ideal American girls, maybe theyve
missed something.
If the flm is Korines examination of
the fantasy of teen excess that he seemed
to have missed out onas he has fre-
quently am rmed in interviewsit is
all the more interesting that his image
of girls longing for such a vacation are
Americas image of dream girls. Tese
are the kinds of people that the average
American teen wants to look like if they
are to join in on the festivities, Korine
suggests.
In this vein, Franco represents the
antithesis of male fantasy projection;
he is precisely the opposite of what
an American male might aspire to be.
Franco, the successful (and rather well-
educated) movie star, portrays one of
the most of-putting and lowly social
archetypes. And yet, this drug-dealing
thief possesses an essential component
of the American dream; he retains his
am uence. He is our cultures nightmare
of success (Franco gone wrong!)
Te way many have interpreted this
use of celebrity is that it amounts to a
marketing technique or a defection
(a Trojan Horse if you will) to sneak
in radical, challenging perspectives on
sexism and racism in the youth culture
of America.
While that sounds like an interesting
movie, such a subversive culture lesson
hardly seems like the flm Harmony
Korine made. How radical can this
fick be: its still playing at Cooks Cor-
ner people! If Korines irony attempts
to critique and question the events on
display, he cant help but trying to make
these parties look as cool as possible,
ultimately preventing space for distrust
and intellectualization to take place (the
seeds of healthy critical debate).
Tat being said, obviously (and luck-
ily) this flm is anything but a standard,
run-of-the-mill Hollywood teen dream.
Te flm eschews narrative restrictions
from its outset: the lurid, Skrillex ac-
companied beach part montage (natu-
rallypardon the punthere are Natty
Ices and breasts aplenty).
Troughout most of its second half,
Korine dips even deeper into the realm
of dreamscapeassisted by the bril-
liance of cinematographer Benot De-
bie, who has established (in his past few
flms) one of the most fuid and unre-
stricted camera styles in modern cin-
ema. Te surreal nature of this flm is
explicitly supported by a repeated shot
sequence on a bus, where the two girls
that leave early lie down, only to fol-
low even more wild and lawless events
perhaps being imagined by the run-
aways in their slumber on the bus. With
shades of Inception, we dive deeper
and deeper into the twisted myth of
teen culture gone amok.
Korine also provides one of the most
strangely pleasing sequences of the year
in a magnifcent montage of debauch-
ery and burglary set to a laughably in-
nocent Britney Spears track. Did this
sequence say anything about American
culture? Not in my mind, but boy was it
fun to go along for the ride.
CINEMA SCOPE
SAM FICHTNER
Sordid stereotypes in Spring Breakers
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Molly Ridley 14
BY ELENA BRITOS
STAFF WRITER
Molly Ridley 14 has been
playing the piano since she was
five years old.
A native of Westbrook,
Maine, she is now a jazz pianist
and began playing gigs around
southern and midcoast Maine
in high school.
Until middle school she had
played all forms of piano music
with no particular focus. In the
seventh grade, Ridley turned to
jazz, and her interest in the genre
has never abated.
In high school, Ridley played
in Westbrook High Schools jazz
band and formed her own four-
person combo group.
They were like an extended
family and a big part of my high
school career, she said.
Te combo group still gets
together to play when all of its
members are home from college.
Venues they play include
Gingko Blue in Portland, Solo
Bistro in Bath, Azure Caf in
Freeport, and the Inn at Bruns-
wick Station.
They have also competed in
local jazz festivals as well as one
at Berkeley College.
The group has consistently
placed in the top three brack-
ets of all competitions. In 2010
they won first place in a Maine
jazz festival.
When not playing with her
high school group, Ridley is of-
ten accompanied by local bass
player Tom Bucci and saxo-
phone player Jason St. Pierre.
Tom heard me playing in
high school and asked me to
join him, she said.
Since high school, Ridley has
continued to play with Bucci
and St. Pierre and usually asks
them to accompany her if she is
playing at an event or recital.
When asked what she loves
most about jazz, Ridley spoke
of the musical liberty the genre
gives her.
One of the things I love
about jazz is that I can improv
on the spot and the freedom it
gives me, she said.
Ridley does not limit herself
to jazz music and says she en-
joys experimenting with rock,
pop and funk. In the past she
has worked with vocalist Tess
Collins, niece of Senator Susan
Collins.
As her piano career progress-
es, Ridley says she is working to
foster her other diverse musical
interests on the side.
Although she is a government
and mathematics double major,
piano playing is still a large part
of her life on campus.
I guess I thought about be-
ing a music major in high
school, but I knew I wanted it
as more of a hobby or release,
said Ridley.
Ridley plays with Bowdoins
jazz ensemble and sometimes ac-
companies on-campus bands and
music groups, though she is not
am liated with one in particular.
Along with being a member
of the jazz ensemble, Ridley is
a calculus tutor and has done
research related to her major on
campus for the past two years.
On Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30
p.m., Ridley will perform in
Studzinski Recital Hall, along
with Bucci, Pierre and drum-
mer Steve Grover.
The performance will feature
some pieces that Ridley com-
posed herself.
Ridley says she started writ-
ing music in 2008.
Im excited that the recital is
all my own tunes, she said. I
have been working toward this
for a year and a half.
COURTESY OF MOLLY RIDLEY
A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC
CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Last Sunday, the Bowdoin College Concert Band perfromed in Studzinski and premiered some pieces composed by members of the Bowdoin community.
COURTESY OF DIVISION FILMS
BREAKING BAD: Harmony Korines Spring Breakersmay not be the most family-friendly lm.
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Softball and baseball swing to nine and eight game win streaks
BY MAEVE OLEARY
ORIENT STAFF
Te sofball team extended its
winning streak to nine games with
a three-game sweep of Colby over
the weekend, two wins in a double-
header against University of Maine-
Farmington on Tuesday and another
two victories against Tomas Col-
lege yesterday.
Te teams record has improved to
22-9, making this season Head Coach
Ryan Sullivans seventh-straight 20-
win season.
Sullivan said he is pleased with
the results thus far, attributing much
of the teams success to being able to
focus on small details in its gameplay.
We have had really good pitching
and we are swinging the bats pretty
well, said Sullivan. Tis is a really
good group that knows when to focus
and be ready to play.
In the squads frst game on Tues-
Mens lax splits weekend, drops to Colby
BY HALLIE BATES
ORIENT STAFF
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Te mens lacrosse team had a bit-
tersweet week, topping Wesleyan 6-5
on Saturday and then falling to Colby
8-6 on Tuesday.
Te team now holds a record of 7-5
overall and a 5-4 standing in the NES-
CAC, putting the team in ffh place in
the league.
On Saturday, the Polar Bears faced
Wesleyan at home. Before intermis-
sion, Bowdoin held a 3-1 lead thanks
to goals from Will Wise 14, Billy
Bergner 13 and Franklin Reis 14.
Wesleyan netted a lone goal in the
third quarter, cutting Bowdoins lead
to 3-2 heading into the fourth quar-
ter. Brandon Rothman 16 improved
the lead to 4-2 before Wesleyan an-
swered with a pair of tallies to tie up
the game at 4-4. Conor OToole 14
managed to put Bowdoin back on top
with only 4:12 remaining in regular
play. Te lead was short-lived, how-
ever, as Wesleyan retaliated with less
than six seconds remaining to again
knot the game in a tie and force the
teams into overtime.
For the frst few minutes of extra play,
the Cardinals managed to maintain pos-
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session. It was only afer a forced turn-
over by Adam FitzGerald 16 that the
Polar Bears managed to gain the ofen-
sive. Afer a timeout, OToole assisted
Dan Hanley 14 in a goal that tucked
under the crossbar and ended the game
6-5. According to Hanley, the real stars
of the game were [the] defense and
Womens lax beats Colby in 3
OTs to win fourth straight
Te womens lacrosse team secured
a frst-round NESCAC tournament
home bid this week with a 9-4 win at
Wesleyan on Saturday and a crucial
11-10 triple-overtime win at home
against Colby on Tuesday.
Te Polar Bears, who are ranked
No. 9 nationally, improved their con-
ference record to 7-2 (10-2 overall)
and currently sit at third place in the
NESCAC with just two regular season
conference games remaining.
Bowdoin played well under pressure
against Colby in the teams midweek
game. Afer squandering a six-goal lead
with only 16:32 to go in the match, the
squad had to settle its nerves and contin-
ue to fght through three extra periods.
Captain Carolyn Gorajek 13 scored
the game-winning goal with 2:02 re-
maining in the third overtime period,
bringing her to a total of four goals
and two assists in the contest, and 25
goals and 13 assists on the season, to
clinch the match for the women.
Captain Hannah Wright 13 who
BY ALEX MARECKI
ORIENT STAFF
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has led the Bowdoin defense and
started all 12 matches this year, said
the game was tougher than others.
Colby was the most physical game
I have played this year, Wright ex-
plained. Neither team wanted to let
up and there was constant intensity
until the very end.
Seven goals in the two matches for
Jordan Smith 14 brought her seasons
goal tally to 25. Along with Gorajek,
Smith has proved to be one of Bow-
doins most lethal ofensive threats.
Te team showed great mental
toughness this week against Colby,
said Smith. We are still looking to
take one game at a time, but clinching
a home game for the frst round of the
NESCAC tournament was huge.
Te only two teams that have beat-
en Bowdoin this year are Middlebury
and Trinity, both of which currently sit
above the Polar Bears in league stand-
ings. Wright believes these two squads
are some of the best in the nation and
that the losses sufered at their hands
only fuel the team to improve.
Our two losses against Trinity
and Middlebury give us motivation,
if we want to do well this season we
know we will have to face them again,
Wright said.
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BY LUKE LAMAR
ORIENT STAFF
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JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BATTER-UP: Catcher Casey Correa 14 makes contact against Colby on Saturday, a game the team won 4-0 to kick o a three-game sweep of the Mules.
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PITCH PERFECT: Oliver Van Zant 13 pitched a no-hitter to lead the Polar Bears to a 7-0 victory to open their three-game series against Colby this weekend.
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CARDINAL WIN: Tyler Williams 15, ball in stick, presses towards the goal in Bowdoins win at Wesleyan.
Please see W. LAX page 17 Please see M. LAX page 15
Afer sweeping Colby in a three-
game series, the baseball team handled
non-conference Husson on Tuesday to
improve its win streak to eight games
and move into frst place in the NES-
CAC East.
Te frst game on Saturday was dom-
inated by the pitching of captain Oliver
Van Zant 13.
He was dominant, just untouch-
able, said catcher Duncan Taylor 14.
Tey knew he was throwing a fastball,
he knew he was going to throw fastballs,
but he just placed them so well that they
couldnt hit them.
Van Zant pitched the ffh no-hitter
in Polar Bear history and the frst nine-
inning no-hitter since 1911, when Le-
land Means, Class of 1912, threw one
against Bates. Van Zant struck out 11
batters and found plenty of ofense to
back him up with eight hits in the 7-0
victory. Captain Dan Findley 13 led the
hitting, going 2-4 with two RBIs.
Bowdoin took an early lead in the
After being swept by Tufts in the
rst week in April, the softball
team has yet to lose a game,
winning seven in the past week
to nose above 20 wins for the
seventh straight season.
Behind the pitching eort of
Bowdoins career strikeout-leader
Oliver Van Zant 13, baseball
recorded its rst nine-inning
no-hitter since the 1911 season
against Colby on Saturday.
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Coming into its frst full year as a
club at the College, Bowdoin Green
Athletes (BGA) looks to continue its
campaign to ingrain sustainability
into the athletic culture at Bowdoin,
through a team-by-team strategy and
a Rerun Shoes initiative.
Weve made great progress in how
we communicate with teams, get re-
cycle bins out at games, said Alex
Tougas 14, one of the clubs founders.
And, our efort with the shoe recy-
cling has been huge.
Last year, BGA met with
Bowdoin alumnus Jeremy Litch-
field of Atayne, a Brunswick store
that sells athletic clothing recycled
from water bottles, to brainstorm
sustainability ideas that could be
applied to athletics.
We decided to start with shoes
since they are easier because clothing
is very specifc, said BGA member
Emma Chow 15.
Chow and BGA then researched
companies and found Rerun Shoes,
started by another Bowdoin alumnus,
Michael Aronson.
BGA currently has two boxes lo-
cated in Farley Field House and Buck
Fitness Center for students to donate
their old, unwanted sneakers.
All the ones that can be used
are sent to West Africa to micro-
entrepreneurs, and they sell them
so people can use them there,
said Chow. So rather than down-
cycling the shoes into turf or some
sort of rubber theyre actually re-
used as shoes.
Chow estimates that they have sent
around 200 pounds of shoes so far.
BGA has urged the athletic team
representatives to discuss how they
can improve their teams sustainabil-
ity eforts.
Ninety percent of the teams
BY ALEX VASILE
STAFF WRITER
Te road to Major League Base-
ball rarely runs through D-III, and
hardly ever through the NESCAC.
Despite this, NESCAC Pitcher
of the Week Oliver Van Zant 13
might just fnd a way.
His demolition of several
Bowdoin records has kept him on
the radar despite going to a school
that stays out of the national spot-
light. His 256 career strikeouts
puts him comfortably ahead of
the closest Bowdoin pitcher on
the list, Bernard Johnson, who
tallied 187 in 1961. Van Zant also
holds the record for most strike-
outs in a season (95), and if the
2013 season ended today, his ERA
(1.29) would be the second best in
Polar Bear history.
Van Zant started where most
aspiring baseball players do, in little
league as a six-year-old. He started
soccer from an early age as well and
excelled at both sports. But as each
grew more and more time consum-
ing, Van Zants parents encouraged
him to make a single commitment.
He chose baseball.
Te commitment to baseball
intensifed when he turned 13 and
joined the Connecticut Bombers,
an Amatuer Athletic Union team,
where played for the next fve years.
I think that marked the om -
cial commitment, Van Zant said,
when I was driving 45 minutes to
an hour for practice every day.
As he began looking for colleges,
colleges began looking for him.
Van Zant verbally committed to
Yale early on, captivated by the rep-
utation of the institution. However,
a miscommunication with admis-
sions lost him the opportunity and
additional D-I ofers.
As such a highly touted pros-
pect, Van Zant remembers re-
ceiving interest from 12 to 15 dif-
ferent D-III schools. Bowdoins
head coach, Mike Connolly,
called as ofen as NCAA recruit-
ing rules permitted.
But even with Bowdoins de-
mand for his services, it occurred
to Van Zant that he could just as
easily take the year of, continue to
play, and begin the process again
the next year. Scouts do not ofen
watch D-III games, and access to
highly coveted positions in sum-
mer leagues relies on connections.
Yet eventually, Connolly was able
to sell him on Bowdoin with the
promise, you play well, Ill fnd
you opportunities.
Van Zant held up his end of
the deal, becoming the NESCAC
Rookie and Pitcher of the Year
his frst season, and Connolly has
come through with his end. Van
Zant has spent his summers in
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Oliver Van Zant 13
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COURTESY OF BOWDOIN SPORTS INFORMATION
the Futures League against many
of the best players in the northeast
that still have college eligibility. Te
highlight of his summer ball ex-
perience came during a Cape Cod
League tryout.
Its basically the best opportu-
nity for college players, Van Zant
said. Ninety percent of the kids get
drafed. I also had the best velocity
I had ever thrownI got a two-
week contract.
Come draf time, Van Zant is
aware of fve professional teams
that have expressed interest in
himdespite his age, relatively
small size and college. According
to Van Zant, Connolly is the reason
for their interest.
Coach Connolly made sure I
had the exposure I needed to make
sure Id have a shot, he said.
Should he get drafed, he will
likely fnd himself in a minor
league team am liated with one
of the major league clubs. From
there, in Van Zants words, its on
you to perform. You play well, you
get promoted.
But the questions surrounding
his post-collegiate career have not
made him forget about his senior
season as a Polar Bear.
His goal, like all our goals, is
a NESCAC championship, cap-
tain Luke Regan 13 said. He
puts us in a position to win every
time he plays.
Te Polar Bears are eager for a
NESCAC championship afer fall-
ing short by one win in each of the
last three years. Tis year might be
their best chance, with Van Zant in
his prime.
Van Zant practices and trains
mercilessly. His brother Henry
pitches for Bowdoin and doubles as
his workout partner.
I think my biggest improvement
has been my physical strength over
the past two years, Oliver Van Zant
said. A huge part of it is having my
brother up here as someone you can
rely on everyday. You know hes not
going to leave you searching for a
partner at the last minute.
Most of the work for the past
three years has been done in the
weight room, Regan said. Some of
the workouts you see them doing,
theyre intimidating.
And the workouts have yield-
ed intimidating results, if records
are believed to be any indication
of success.
I wont lie, I like the records,
Van Zant said, Teyre fun. But I
dont keep count trying to get to the
next number.
Afer four years on the mound,
there are hardly any lef for him
to count.
e sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week based
on exemplary performance.
Holds records for Bowdoins
career and season strikeouts
Has the third-best ERA in
the NESCAC this season
Pitched the fth no-hitter in
Bowdoin history against Colby
HIGHLIGHTS
Green athletes expand campus sustainability
BY DIMITRIA SPATHAKIS
ORIENT STAFF
have pledged some sort of com-
mitment, said Tougas. The com-
mitments are team specific. Im on
the swim team and weve worked
to decrease the amount of towels
we put in the wash.
By starting with one thing that
they have to do this season we want
to transition into a cultural shif by
integrating sustainability so that its
normal in athletics on campus, said
Chow. If people consciously take
notice of their actions, they can make
a diference. But they also need to
know why they make that diference
and thats where the team reps are the
information source.
Some team representatives have
said that initiating pledge discussions
is challenging.
Its tough to sell to people that
maybe havent been exposed to it to a
certain degree, said Tougas.
Chow expressed frustration in
the effort to change peoples in-
grained habits.
Some people just want to use wa-
ter bottles, and they fnd it too incon-
venient to recycle them, she said.
Tougas believes that athletes sus-
tainability actions will serve as a
model for the rest of campus.
Our hope was that by involv-
ing athletes we could piggy back
off of natural leaders on campus,
said Tougas.
Ashmead White Director of Ath-
letics Tim Ryan said he supports
BGAs eforts.
We recognize its a broad cam-
pus issue and were pleased to work
with students to have a impact on the
overall community efort, said Ryan.
Tim Ryan has been excellent in
terms of working with us; hes made
us think about how we can improve,
he has our back in many of these ini-
tiatives, said Tougas.
Ryan recognizes areas of the ath-
letic department that could improve
in terms of sustainability.
He specifed that walking or bik-
ingrather than drivingto prac-
tice and facilitating clean up eforts
are good sfrst steps for the entire ath-
letic community at Bowdoin to take.
Chow is unsure of what the fnal
plan for the team pledges is, but
shared ideas BGA is considering.
We would like to put the pledges
in some sort of visual display on cam-
pus or maybe at the athletic banquet
to acknowledge the eforts of those
teams that pledged, said Chow.
Tey also hope to add a sustain-
ability pledge to the sportsmanship
pledge at beginning of game an-
nouncements.
Alice Henly of the Natural Re-
sources Defense Council, an en-
vironmental nongovernmental
organization, visited Bowdoin to
give advice to BGA. According to
Tougas, Henly stressed two major
ways BGA can improve: through the
use of humor and the designing of
a green logo to brand athletics and
sustainability.
BGA is using humor in its ef-
fort to tackle another issue facing
sustainabilityspitting in the gym
recycling bins. They plan to hang
posters in the gym that have an
image of a llama spitting with the
slogans: Please dont spit in the re-
cycle bins. No llamas allowed and
Keep your saliva in. Dont spit in
the recycling bin!
BGA is currently working on be-
coming an om cial club through the
Student Organization Oversight
Committee, and hope to be chartered
by next fall.
It would be really good if we had
our own funding and didnt have to
rely on the sustainability depart-
ment and environmental studies to
get funds, said Chow. It would give
us more independence to do bigger
projects.
Womens tennis rebounds after losing streak
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ORIENT STAFF
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L
W
W
63
81
90
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Wins against Colby and Middle-
bury propelled the womens tennis
team to regain its footing after los-
ing three matches in a row to Am-
herst, Williams and Emory.
In March the Polar Bears
Spring Break trip to California
catapulted them to an unscathed
8-0 record. But they had yet to
face their NESCAC foes that typi-
cally cluster near the top of the
national rankings.
Afer the three-game skid, the Po-
lar Bears rebounded last week with a
9-0 victory over Colby, and then so-
lidifed their momentum by toppling
perennial rival Middlebury.
The decisive match came down
to a third set between Tiffany
Cheng 16 against Middleburys
Leah Kepping.
Emma Chow 15 said the teams
ability to power through difficult
three-set matches is a key improve-
ment for the Polar Bears.
Though a first year helped decide
the victory, Chow attributed some
of the teams success to the teams
mental preparation for the dra-
matic and competitive rivalry with
Middlebury. Though Middlebury is
a dominant program, Bowdoin up-
set the Panthers to reach the NCAA
Elite Eight last year.
Though the Middlebury win
was important for the team, losses
to Amherst, Williams and Emory
showed room for growth.
The key for us is working on
our doubles, Chow said.
Because tennis matches begin
with the three doubles, their re-
sults can often set the tone for the
rest of the match. The Polar Bears
have struggled with momentum
after doublesin the Amherst loss
they were down 3-0 and against
Williams they were down 2-1.
Williams is the defending four-
time national champion and was
tied in the rankings for third with
Middlebury and Emory. This year,
though, Williams has been beaten.
Tis opening of the rankings is a
surge of confdence for the Polar Bears.
Tis is the frst time it seems to be
who is best on that day, Chow said.
With matches against Brandeis,
Bates and Tufts left before the start
of the postseason, Chow hopes the
Polar Bears are peaking at just the
right time to upset powerhouses
like Middlebury when it counts.
The Polar Bears will host
Brandeis tomorrow for an out-of-
conference match, before playing
against Bates on Thursday and
Tufts the following weekend.
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[Chris] Williamson [12] in goal. He
went on to stress that the team owes[s]
it to them for keeping Wesleyans ofense
controlled all day.
On Tuesday, Bowdoin travelled to
Colby to play its penultimate confer-
ence match of the season. Te Polar
Bears carried a 4-2 lead heading into
halfime afer goals by OToole, Ty-
ler Williams 15 and Wise. Te Mules
gained momentum in the third quar-
ter, however, and managed to bring the
game to 5-5 heading into the fourth
quarter. Te Bears were outscored in
the fnal quarter, and the game ended
with Colby on top 8-6.
We gave Colby a couple goals that
we shouldnt have, and I think Colby
played well, said frst-year Head Coach
Jason Archbell. Its my fault for not
preparing us well enough for that.
Archbell said that the team hasnt
been able to integrate various phases of
the game lately, and that there are a lot
of unforced errors that are really killing
our team right now, killing any sort of
momentum that we get.
When asked about the teams recent
losses, Archbell emphasized that the
biggest detractor for us right now is that
were struggling scoring, but its not nec-
essarily an ofensive issue. We have to
clean it up and fgure it out as a group.
However, Archbell is optimistic about
the rest of the season going forward.
I think the next few games are win-
nable if we play at our very best, he
said. I still think we have a legitimate
shot at winning a NESCAC title, but we
have to do the things that are necessary
to win.
Tomorrow, Bowdoin will face Endi-
cott in a non-conference matchup.
We have to be clicking on all cyl-
inders to beat this team, and we can,
said Archbell. Were capable, and it
shouldnt be a daunting task. I need to
constantly show our team that we are
good, and we can play well, but we have
to execute.
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NESCAC Standings
Compiled by Carolyn Veilleux
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
*Bold line denotes NESCAC tournament cut-o
MENS LACROSSE
NESCAC OVERALL
WOMENS LACROSSE
NESCAC OVERALL
BASEBALL
NESCAC EAST OVERALL
W L W L
Conn. Coll. 6 2 9 3
Middlebury 6 2 10 2
Tufts 6 2 10 3
Wesleyan 5 3 10 3
BOWDOIN 5 4 7 5
Bates 4 4 6 5
Hamilton 4 5 7 5
Williams 3 5 5 6
Amherst 2 6 4 8
Colby 2 6 6 7
Trinity 2 6 4 9
Sa 4/13
Tu 4/16
v. Endicott
v. Tufts
1 P.M.
7 P.M.
W L W L
Trinity 8 0 12 0
Middlebury 7 0 11 1
BOWDOIN 7 2 10 2
Colby 6 2 10 2
Amherst 4 4 8 4
Hamilton 4 5 7 6
Bates 3 5 6 6
Williams 3 5 8 5
Tufts 2 6 6 6
Conn. Coll. 1 7 5 8
Wesleyan 0 8 4 9
W L W L
BOWDOIN 7 2 17 9
Tufts 4 2 18 7
Trinity 5 4 14 13
Bates 2 4 11 11
Colby 0 6 7 13
WOMENS TENNIS
SAILING
SOFTBALL
NESCAC EAST OVERALL
W L W L
Tufts 9 0 28 3
BOWDOIN 5 4 22 9
Colby 2 4 8 11
Bates 1 5 7 11
Trinity 1 5 8 16
Sa 4/20
Su 4/21
W 4/24
at Williams
at Williams
at Williams
v. Brandeis
4 P.M.
NOON
3 P.M.
4 P.M.
F 4/19
Sa 4/20
Su 4/21
Tu 4/23
at Bates
v. Bates
v. Bates
v. Husson
v. Husson
v. U. of NewEngland
v. U. of NewEngland
4 P.M.
2 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
NOON
2 P.M.
3:30 P.M.
5:30 P.M.
Sa 4/20 Womens NE Championships
NE Freshmen Championships
Staake Trophy
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
MENS TRACK & FIELD
WOMENS TRACK & FIELD
Sa 4/20 Maine State Champ. (at Bates) NOON
F 4/19
Sa 4/20
Aloha Relays (Day 1)
Aloha Relays (Day 2)
4 P.M.
11:30 A.M.
MENS TENNIS
Sa 4/20
Su 4/21
W 4/24
v. Brandeis
at Amherst
at Bates
11 A.M.
NOON
6:30 P.M.
Sa 4/20
Su 4/21
W 4/24
at Wheaton (Mass.)
v. Colorado College
at Tufts
1 P.M.
1 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
Sa 4/20
Th 4/25
v. Brandeis
at Bates
2 P.M.
4 P.M.
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Midfelder Molly Popolizio 14 is
optimistic about the message behind
the losses.
I think taking each game we play
as if it were a Trinity or Middlebury
is very important. In those games we
were not doing the little things right
and if we focus on staying crisp and
focused in our future matches then
we have the quality to beat anyone,
said Popolizio.
Te women look forward to two
non-conference games this weekend.
Tomorrow they will travel to Wheaton
College and on Sunday they will host
Colorado College.
Popolizio said she is excited about
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BASEBALL
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SOFTBALL
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opening game of the doubleheader on
Sunday but the teams battled to a 2-2
tie by the end of the seventh and forced
an extra inning. Captain Tim McGarry
13 tripled to lead of the inning and
scored afer a single by captain Luke
Regan 13 to give Bowdoin the 3-2 lead
and the victory.
Sunday wasnt as easy. Teir pitch-
ers did a little better job, the games were
closer, said Findley. Afer Trinity and
even Southern Mainewhich were out
of conference series for usour energy
level has been unbelievable. Te frst-
years have been awesome, just getting
our bench up and kind of revitalizing
the older guys.
Colby took the early lead in the sec-
ond game, but Bowdoin quickly evened
it up again at 2-2. Te bats of both teams
fell silent until Bowdoin put together a
six run efort in the top of the seventh.
Henry Van Zants full game efort with
eleven strike-outs sealed the 8-2 victory.
Bowdoin recently extended their
win streak at Husson on Tuesday night.
Bowdoin had let an early three-run lead
slip away going into the ninth inning.
We were down 4-3, we couldve just
caved in, said Findley. But instead we
came out in the top of the ninth and Erik
Jacobsen [15] led of with triple and that
was a huge play for us.
Bowdoin tied the game on a past
ball and then took the lead on a scor-
ing error. Sam Canales 15 knocked in
an RBI single to leave the game at 6-4
headed into the bottom of the ninth.
day, the women took down the Bea-
vers 5-1 with pitcher Tricia Tibodeau
13 allowing only one hit and run.
While Farmington took an early 1-0
lead, Bowdoin returned with three
runs in the second inning and at the
bottom of the sixth with two more key
singles by Cielle Collins 15 and Han-
na Wurgaf 14.
I think that sometimes we have a
hard time adjusting to slower pitching,
so at frst it took us a while to hit the
ball well, said Wurgaf. But as soon
we did we were able to put a bunch of
runs on the board.
They continued to hit well in
the second game as Melissa Del-
laTorre 14 continued pitching to
earn a 12-6 victory. After only one
run in the first inning, the Polar
Bears came back with 12 hits in six
innings, two of which were home
runs off the bat of captain Gen
Barlow 13.
Most notable, however, was Bow-
doins home sweep of Colby, in which
they won the frst game 7-1, the
second 11-1, and the third 4-0. Te
women allowed only two runs on 15
hits in the three games combined.
DellaTorre, who pitched a shut-
out in the third game, was named
the upcoming postseason, but is not
overlooking the important contests
that lie ahead.
We want to go as far as we possibly
can, said Popolizio, but this week we
will focus on preparing for our games
against Wheaton and Colorado. Both
of these matches are crucial in deter-
mining our regional rankings for the
national tournament.
Te excitement and energy in the
squad this season is constantly caus-
ing the players to improve.
Coming into the season we didnt
know what to expect, but we have
been continually surprising ourselves
with how well we have been doing,
said Wright. Seeing all the little
things come together and playing the
season game by game is very exciting
and rewarding.
NESCAC Pitcher of the Week for
her eforts.
The Polar Bears captured an-
other two wins in a rescheduled
doubleheader against Thomas in
Waterville on Thursday. The first
game ended in a 10-1 win and the
second in a 13-4 victory. Their de-
feat ended the Terriers own four
game winning streak.
Wurgaf expresses that its in games
like these that the versatility of the
women shows through, as they shif
positions during mid-week games due
to individuals class schedules.
Its not easy to be thrown in anoth-
er position, but you kind of just have
to take it in stride and its just a testa-
ment to our team that we have each
others backs like that, she said.
Bowdoins cohesion will be put to
the test again this weekend in a three-
game series against Bates in Lewis-
ton, beginning at 4 p.m. today. While
Bowdoin has typically dominated the
Bobcats, they have managed to pick
up one game of the series in four of
the past fve years.
Wurgaf hopes her team will rise to
the occasion.
Tey get really excited to play us.
We cant just go through the motions,
she said.
Te women now stand second to
Tufs in the NESCAC East division
with a record of 22-9.
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HAVING A BALL: Catcher Duncan Taylor 14 swings at a pitch against Colby on Saturday. Taylor caught for the teams fth no-hitter in Bowdoin history.
Tat run proved critical as Husson
pulled within one before David Zabin-
sky 15 shut down the last two batters to
seal the 6-5 win.
Te baseball team will travel to Wil-
liams this weekend for an out of confer-
ence matchup. Williams is in the NE-
SCAC West, while Bowdoin is in the
East division.
Williams isnt in our conference;
theyre on the other side, said Taylor,
but for us theyre still NESCAC rivals
and we want to crush them.
Bowdoin will look to extend its eight
game win-streak.
We need to keep rolling, said Find-
ley. We really cant have any setbacks
and if we do then we need to keep that
mentality that weve had in the past
three weeks that were the better team
and were going to win.
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Boston strong
T
his has been a hard week for the United States, and a hard week for Bowdoin.
Te American fag few at half-mast in honor of those who were killed and in-
jured in the Boston Marathon bombings, some of whom had close ties to the Bow-
doin community. No sooner had the Orient confrmed the safety of over 100 alumni
and students in the vicinity of the bombs on Monday evening, than did we learn
of the death of beloved alumnus and former Orient columnist Jose Cespedes 12,
who lost his battle with liver disease last Friday. And as the editorial board convened
yesterday evening, news broke of continued bloodshed in and around Boston like
an unending nightmare.
Te violence, terror, and loss that has marked the past few days and hours has
forced us to take a step back and refect on the fragility of life and the senselessness
of random violence.
Te marathon fnish line, where the bombs went of, is just one mile from the
street named for James Bowdoin, a testament to the Colleges deep roots in Boston.
With almost a ffh of the student body hailing from Massachusetts, the unfolding
tragedy hits close to home. Many students from the state are afectionately known
around campus as J.O.B.s for hailing from Just Outside Boston. Tey had friends,
parents and neighbors in the vicinity of the bombs, and spent hours on Monday af-
ternoon anxiously wondering if their loved ones were among those killed or injured
in the attacks. Tis morning, many students will wake up to the news that familiar
streets around Watertown and Cambridge are the scene of a massive manhunt for a
suspect in the bombings. Tis week, just outside Boston took on a new meaning.
With the indiscriminate nature of lifes misfortunes painfully evident before us,
how can we move forward from these tragedies?
Perhaps we should take a cue from Cespedes, who, in one installment of his col-
umn, urged Americans to unite in taking a stand against gun violence afer former
Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifords was shot at a small meet and greet in suburban
Arizona. In the midst of the tragedy surrounding the event was an opportunity for
Americans of all lifestyles to come together and stand up for the distinctly Ameri-
can way of life, Cespedes wrote. Te willingness to use violence and disregard the
rule of law and conscience of civility, however, remains just as egregious today as it
was a decade ago. Te Boston Marathon bombings were a horrifc catastrophe that
reminded us of the extent to which we entrust our safey to those around us. We
cannot prevent future attacks from happening, but we can take action to limit access
to the weapons with which they are carried out.
On Wednesday, the Senate halted bipartisan legislation that would have instituted
background checks prior to frearms purchases. It is heartbreaking and frightening
that lawmakers continue to refuse to pass this measure as more Americans are killed
by gun violence every day. Te only way to move forward is to unite in support of the
victims of the attacks, and to continue with our daily lives while settling for nothing
less than the staunchest gun control measures.
Bowdoin is deeply rooted in Boston and shares much of its history. So too do we
share in the shock and sorrow of this weeks events, and stand strong with the city of
Boston and its people.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Bowdoins hypocrisy on
divestment issue
To the Editors,
Until Bowdoins endowment is en-
tirely free of companies that proft
from fossil fuels, the College should
stop referring to itself as a leader in
confronting climate change. President
Mills should stop faunting the Col-
leges environmental bona fdes when
he gives speeches, because when it
comes to this issue, Bowdoin is really
more of a follower.
Make no mistake: I am proud of the
fact that only 1.4 percent of the Colleges
endowment is still invested in fossil fu-
els. And I am proud of the fnancial aid,
faculty salaries and campus facilities
that Bowdoin can provide as a result of
trucking with companies more inter-
ested in todays profts than tomorrows
common good. Its the hypocrisy that I
fnd unbecoming in my alma mater.
President Mills should not boast of
Bowdoins helping to lead the way
in the fght to confront climate change
when there are many other institutions
doing much more than we are. Te
Colleges vague Environmental Mis-
sion Statement provides plenty of wig-
gle room with its call for more study
and deliberation and its desire that all
solutions also advance economic de-
velopment.
Tose are simply not the bold words
of a leader. Its time for Bowdoin to put
its mouth where its money isor put its
money somewhere else.
Sincerely,
Taylor Mali 87
Common good means
divestment
To the Editors,
Te student request for divestment
from companies profting from fossil
fuels raises important questions that I
hope the College will address. It is clear
that the President, the Board of Trust-
ees, the faculty, and many students and
alumni want to deal with the problems
that are caused by fossil fuels. Indeed, all
should be commended for the actions
that have been taken to teach about the
problem and conserve energy.
However, while the students argue
that it is morally inconsistent and po-
litically useful to proft from invest-
ments in the companies harming the
environment, President Mills argues
that such investment is justifed be-
cause maximizing the endowments
profts yields money that is used for
scholarships, courses and conservation
measures. While the students question
if divestment would really cost as much
as feared, the administration questions
if divestment would really be efec-
tive and points out that the Board of
Trustees must invest the endowment as
wisely as possible.
It seems to me that this last issue
must be squarely addressed. What is
involved in wise investment? Ought
wise investing consider the common
good? Certainly there are classic eco-
nomic reasons why maximizing profts
can contribute to the common good.
However, these assume free market
conditions without government in-
tervention. When corporations can
use tax payer dollars to advertise their
products and when profts are used to
lobby for laws that help company prof-
its, it is clear how the common good
is best served by the maximization of
proft. It is not only the fossil fuel indus-
try that is in question. Should Bowdoin
be investing in the production of nucle-
ar weapons, the manufacture of cluster
bombs, or the shipping of small arms?
Of course, one may still argue, as
President Mills does, that Bowdoins
trustees should ignore how money is
made (as long as this is done legally) be-
cause it can use the profts for the com-
mon good.
However, this raises the important
moral question of when ends can be
used to justify means. And there are oth-
er important questions: from a market
standpoint it is not obvious why socially
responsible investing should reduce
profts. Does it usually do so, and if so,
why? Although divestment helped end
apartheid in South Africa, it is not obvi-
ous when socially responsible investing
can encourage companies to work for
the common good. Can these condi-
tions be carefully articulated? Tese
moral, economic, political and psycho-
logical questions are vitally important
for our country to ask and can perhaps
best be addressed at a liberal arts College
such as Bowdoin.
Te students requesting divestment
deserve answers and have provided an
educational challenge. I hope the Col-
lege will meet it.
Sincerely
Joseph de Rivera 53
Whats at stake with climate change
BY HUGH RATCLIFFE
CONTRIBUTOR
Tere is no longer a scientifc debate
concerning the existence of climate
change. Despite what the National As-
sociation of Scholars may claim, an-
thropogenic warming is not a premise
to believe in but rather a scientifc fact.
In the past few weeks the College has
seen a frenzy of debates, panels and
meetings dedicated to issues of climate
change and sustainability. But what
seems to be missing from the discus-
sion is an acknowledgement of the
gravity of the situationjust what it is
thats at stake.
Stopping climate change is not just
about saving the polar bear. Its not
about hotter summer afernoons and
its certainly not about the rise of the
Prius. In a 2009 address, UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon said that cli-
mate change is the greatest collective
challenge we face as a human family.
Unfortunately climate change is insidi-
ous, and by the time we realized it was
occurring, it had already been going
on for nearly a century. Yet we have
already begun to feel the disastrous
consequences of a warming climate all
across the globe, and it is only going to
get worse.
As a continuance of an almost po-
etic injusticewhich seems so per-
vasive in our modern worldthe
most harmful efects of a warmer cli-
mate will afect those least capable of
adapting. In Africa, where the popu-
lation is expected to nearly double
by 2050according to the UN and
Population Reference Bureauyields
from rain-fed agriculture could be
reduced by up to 50 percent, accord-
ing to NASA. Tis is a continent that
already struggles to feed itself, and it
is about to get a whole lot harder to
grow food. We are entering the period
of the super; be it the super-drought,
the super-storm or the super-famine.
Soon storms like Hurricane Sandy will
not be a freak anomaly, and the U.S.
will sufer horrible droughts like those
now crippling our agricultural sector.
Te Global Humanitarian Forum esti-
mates that climate change leaves over
300,000 people dead and severely dis-
advantages 325 million people every
year. On the economic side, the world
now loses $1.2 trillion yearly due to
climate change, a number that may
triple by 2030, according to DARA, an
independent UN funded NGO.
Tese are not the musings of a Ray
Bradbury novel or the melodrama of
a soap opera. Tey are real events that
will likely occur in our lifetime, and
its hugely important that we remem-
ber this as the debates continue. Tis
is simply a battle that we as a species
cannot aford to lose; we cant aford
to let ourselves do as the current gen-
eration has done and pass the problem
on to our children. Our parents and
grandparents, the business world, and
the environmental movement have
all failed us tremendously regarding
climate change. Te political debate
is more polarized than ever, technol-
ogy is not developing fast enough, and
misinformation is rampant. Nearly 20
years afer climate change became a
public issue, we have nothing to show
of this canary cry except for higher
temperatures and increased negativ-
ity. As Bowdoin students and citizens
of this planet, we have inherited the
greatest challenge to have ever faced
our species.
How, then, will we rise to this chal-
lenge? Certainly shying from reality is
not the answer. Each and every one of
us needs to hear the danger our soci-
ety faces, and hear it ofen. Tis prob-
lem calls for a new environmentalism
rooted in pragmatism and results; we
need a new generation of thinking.
Our innovation, passion and perse-
verance must become the causes for
celebration. Simply holding hands and
hoping for a better world does nothing
to mitigate the coming consequences.
More likely than not, fxing this prob-
lem will call for sacrifcessacrifces
which we Americans havent faced
since WWII. Does our generation
have the nerve to put short-term self-
interest aside for the common good?
Sustainability and divestment may
indeed be the sacrifces Bowdoin must
make to play its part. As an elite in-
stitution dedicated to the common
good, we dont do nearly enough to
fght against the real efects of climate
change.
As students, we seem just as para-
lyzed by the same misconceptions that
caused our parents to fail on the issue.
We need to reevaluate just what it is
that we are told we can and cannot do.
Divestment, for example, may at frst
require a small sacrifce. Of course if
it cannot be done without signifcantly
afecting fnancial aid, it will not be
done. But we can do better. No as an
answer just simply isnt good enough.
I would encourage Bowdoin stu-
dents to look for answers in unconven-
tional places, question the norms, and
most of all, remember what it is that
we are fghting for.
Hugh Ratclie is a member of the
Class of 2015.
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NAS report ignores inherent interconnectivity of history
Te discipline of history has become
the subject of much attention in dis-
cussions of the National Association of
Scholars report, What Does Bowdoin
Teach? While President Mills has re-
butted some of the most egregious er-
rors recently made regarding history
at Bowdoin, a deeper response seems
ftting. What follows are my personal
views, which do not necessarily refect
the opinions of my colleagues in the De-
partment of History or the College.
As the controversy has shown, many
self-described conservatives have ob-
jected to the intrusion of multicultural-
ism into the academy, and particularly
into the teaching of our nations past.
Teir concern seems to presuppose a
timea point before we took seriously
the historical plight of people of color,
or addressed the neglected histories of
women or workerswhen scholarship
was both apolitical and non-ideological.
Of course, no such time ever existed.
Te neglect of women as social actors,
of diferences in social class, or of the
role people of color have played in our
national storythese topics have never
been ideologically or politically neutral.
Such neglect, in fact, buttressed struc-
tures of power that denied marginalized
social groups the right to participate
equally in the promise and benefts of
American life: black people and Native
Americans had no claim on the nation
because they had no history, gender did
not matter because the public forum
was assumed to be male, and consider-
ations of class were unnecessary because
class did not exist in America.
For the last half-century, historians
have addressed these absences in a
range of ways, none more political
than was the previous policy of ne-
glect and disparagement. A return to
the long-ago days when such issues
did not matter would not erase the re-
ality of their history. Racial injustice,
the social consequences of capitalisms
development, and the organization of
society along gender linesthese are
simple historical truths. Teir neglect
or denial serve no conceivable academ-
ic purpose, only a political one. Te
academys turn to considering such is-
sues did not begin the politicization of
history scholarship, for the neglect of
these issues was itself political.
Rectifying that neglect does not
mean that every history course at Bow-
doin need focus on the marginalized
and, indeed, many do not. But it does
mean that to teach the story of America
by actively denying the history of the
marginalized is indeed a very political
act. Tis, though, is exactly what the au-
thors of What Does Bowdoin Teach?
call for.
Te report laments that 18 percent
of the curriculum at Bowdoin is cross-
listed in studies programs, which it
quite erroneously asserts are dedicated
to identity politics and ethnic cheerlead-
ing. Te proper proportion, the report
states, is zero.
Some of my American history cours-
es have been singled out in this regard.
Wood and Toscanos response to Presi-
dent Mills dismisses my course on the
Civil War because it is cross-listed in
Africana Studies, my course on Recon-
struction because it addresses the efort
to create a biracial democracy afer the
Civil War, and my course War and
Society because it dares to consider in-
teractions between Europeans and non-
Europeans. Yet could one teach a com-
plete history of the Civil War without
considering slavery and emancipation?
Or Reconstruction without discussing
the enfranchisement of African-Amer-
ican men? Or the expansion of Europe
without discussing the people those ex-
panding Europeans met?
Te NASs criticisms of history at
Bowdoin assume that some subjects
in history are political while others
are not, and that to teach a particular
subject must necessarily mean to im-
part a single contemporary ideological
perspective. Tis presents the practice
of history as little more than a highly
ideological zero-sum game, in which
interest group politics take precedence
over critical thinking.
we consider the failure of Reconstruc-
tion to guarantee the promise of eman-
cipation for four million former slaves.
But to purposefully neglect the dif-
fcult consequences of a full history
degrades academic values and demeans
our integrity as scholars. As DuBois
wrote:
Ifwe are going to use history for
our pleasure and amusement, for in-
fating our national ego, and giving us
a false but pleasurable sense of accom-
plishment, then we must give up the
idea of history as a science or as an art
using the results of science, and admit
frankly that we are using a version of
historic fact in order to infuence and
educate the new generation along the
way we wish.
We do not endorse one kind of histo-
ry over any other at Bowdoin. We do not
make a priori assertions that some sub-
jects and methods are better than others.
We are proud that a small department
such as ours covers such an incredibly
broad range of periods, places and ap-
proaches. And we are grateful that other
departments and programs on campus
supplement the historical knowledge
students may acquire at Bowdoin. To
any objective and reasoning observer,
the record of the department stands for
itself: we are a professional and dedi-
cated bunch, largely typical of our peer
institutions, and well regarded inside
and outside the academy.
Ultimately, the question comes down
to this: why is it important to study the
past? As history educators, our task is
clear: to ofer the skills and knowledge
necessary for our exceptionally capable
students to develop the answers to that
question for themselves.
Patrick Rael is an associate professor
of history.
denying the experience of the marginal.
But a history curriculum purposefully
neglectful of the marginalized is hardly
shorn of ideology.
Consider the ultimate consequence
of viewing history through NAS lenses:
if we cannot incorporate the history of
the marginalized without engaging in
identity politics, then actively exclud-
ing the marginalized must also consti-
tute an identity politicsone dedicated
to celebrating the achievements of the
non-marginal at the expense of histori-
cal truth.
Tis is precisely the kind of history
the great intellectual W.E.B. DuBois
rejected when he spoke of the need to
include the stories of black people in the
national tale. Was the purpose of revis-
ing history to elevate blacks over whites,
or sow dissent and disunity? No, he
asserted, it is simply to establish the
Truth, on which Right in the future may
be built.
No true account of the American
past can be complete, he argued, unless
and until it was told so as not to exclude
the contributions of some over others.
I believe it a great mistake for pro-
fessed conservatives to concede this
ground. Tose who claim that freedom
and liberty constitute their foundational
academic concern have, it seems to me,
a great interest in considering the stories
of those who have sacrifced so much to
expand these principles and make them
real for all.
True, incorporating the struggle for
freedom is not always a pleasant task. It
is dim cult indeed to unqualifedly cele-
brate founders who understood slavery
to be a violation of their principles and
yet nonetheless wrote chattel bondage
into their system of governance. Te
Civil War looks far less triumphal when
BY PATRICK RAEL
CONTRIBUTOR
Te annual cycle of College House
selection is nearing completion. New
House members have received their
acceptances, and most Houses have
invited over and gotten to know those
who will replace them. House elections
will take place soon, and the leadership
structure of next years Houses will be-
gin to take shape. When housing closes
on May 20, old House members will
be unceremoniously swept aside, leav-
ing no legacy other than a picture on
a wall.
Like any group of people, students
in College Houses want to build and
propagate a culture. Tose who live in
each House create a culture every year,
drawing am liates and others who are
similarly inclined. During the applica-
tion process, frst years (and occasional
upperclassmen) apply to the house(s)
to whose culture they are most attract-
ed. Of course am liation has something
to do with it, but the diferent cultures
that Houses have seems to be a big in-
dicator of where people apply.
Last year, Quinby House had a won-
derful group of people with a lacklus-
ter reputation. As a result, it saw a low
application rate. Tis year, Quinbys
reputation was far more positiveand
it enjoyed more than a 100 percent in-
crease in applications. Te correlation
seems fairly obvious.
But the perpetuation of a valued cul-
ture does not necessarily occur. In fact,
the Om ce of Residential Life seems to
want to minimize the creation of a cul-
ture within the Houses in the name of
the Houses being open and accessible
to all. Te overall feel of a House is
ofen a result of ResLifes good inten-
tions. Both times I have observed the
process, I have heard stories of people
placed in houses where they do not
belong. People apply to a House based
on the culture it is perceived to have,
and each House identity is distinct. In
some cases, students do not feel they ft
in in the House thanks to the tinkering
ResLife has done, or they are put in an
altogether diferent House, where they
fnd they dont mesh perfectly with the
Houses dynamic.
As the end of my tenure in a College
House approaches, I feel my relation-
ship with it ending. Tere are no real
ties that bind old House members to
those who take its place, and if there
are, they are artifcial at best. A Houses
role in choosing its successors is sadly
minimal. One representative from the
House sits on the selection commit-
tee along with others who do not un-
derstand the culture of the House or
know the people who are applying to
live in it. Tis is, frankly, a joke. Houses
should be more continuous and self-
selecting, with a distinct culture that is
not torn down and rebuilt each year by.
Each House, in consultation with
ResLife and especially the proctors
of those applying to live in Houses,
should choose its new members each
year. To avoid the obvious problems
with self-selectivity, ResLife should not
be cut outquite the contrary. Selec-
tion committees should be formed out
of current house members (at least fve
of them), and an administratorwith
veto powersshould be involved in
their proceedings. Prospective mem-
bers should still have to apply and be
interviewed in the current manner, but
the Houses should decide their ulti-
mate acceptance or rejection in large
part. Tis would foster a continuous
Include more old members in House selection
culture and a greater sense of com-
munity within the Houses, and Houses
would be less fractious. It would also
encourage greater outreach by Houses
to frst years, and would encourage frst
years to spend more time with current
House members. Te current, very
artifcial am liation system does not
adequately encourage personal con-
nection between frst years and House
members. Of course, students would
have to be free to apply to any house of
their choice, with am liation constraints
lifed. Afer a group leaves the House,
it would continue to be part of the
community rather than being tossed
asideafer all, the House identity, and
the people in it, would be its legacy.
Te current system also divides the
College down the middlein general,
frst years and sophomores participate
in the College House system, while ju-
niors and seniors typically do not. Tis
is largely thanks to the lack of direct
involvement students have past their
sophomore years. If old House mem-
bers had a reason to stay involved, it
would bring the campus together and
help eliminate the class year divide on
campus.
It seems almost as though the work
that my housemates and I put in this
year is underappreciated by the admin-
istration. We host valuable academic
and cultural events and are the center
of frst year and sophomore social lives.
Above all we have created a real com-
munity. To have that unrecognized and
ultimately swept away by ResLife is a
bitter pill to swallow.
For the good of those in the College
House system and to create a better,
happier and more inclusive campus
culture, ResLife should move away
from its artifcial way of constructing
Houses and allow the process to take
place organically.
Bowdoin used to be leader
in trends and must continue
Over Spring Break, one of the
preliminaries to the Bowdoin Proj-
ect caught my attention. It discussed
the development of the concept of
the common good at the College,
which today seems vital to our in-
stitution. The report contends that
Joseph McKeen, when referencing
the common good in 1802, noted
the nations need of ministers. The
revival of the conceit 200 years later
raises the inevitable questionjust
how constructed is our understand-
ing of the common good?
I will not attempt to defend the
common good, if it indeed needs
defending. I am more concerned
with moments of uncommon good
in Bowdoins history. When has
Bowdoin demonstrated extraordi-
nary leadership in the face of ex-
traordinary adversity?
The question matters because
of the uncommon threat that cli-
mate change poses, made worse by
a Congress that seems hellbent on
ignoring science so long as corpo-
rations continue to line its pockets
(see the Senates symbolic approval
of the Keystone XL pipeline a few
weeks ago). Urgent action has been
taken by four colleges known for
their experimental education
methods, in divesting from the fos-
sil fuel industry, while more tradi-
tional schools all look at each other
sheepishly, like Bowdoin students
with cold feet before a Polar Bear
plunge. You first.
Over Spring Break, an old teach-
er asked me where I was these
days. Her eyes lit up when I said
Bowdoin, and I asked her what she
knew about the place. She respond-
ed that she knew it was visionary.
I chuckled.
Bowdoin is not a college of firsts.
We are a top (but not tippity top)
liberal arts college, middle of the
NESCAC pack in athletics (save
our hockey teams), academics,
hell, even recyclemania results. The
most controversy weve managed
to amass in recent memory, apart
from NASs conservative critique,
was over a single day of vegetarian-
ism two years ago. Accusations of
liberal bias aside, Id say were pretty
inoffensiveespecially compared
to those raving liberal radicals at
Unity College and College of the
Atlantic who have actually divested
from fossil fuels.
This is not to say weve always
shied away from challenge. There
were indeed times in our history
when Bowdoin demonstrated un-
common leadership. In 1826, the
third African-American man (John
Brown Russworm) to graduate from
an American college received his
diploma from Bowdoin. In 1969,
the College became the first selec-
tive institution to make the SAT an
optional part of its admissions pro-
cess. A year later, President Roger
Howell navigated a student strike in
response to the Kent State shootings
and escalated violence in Vietnam
by joining the Bowdoin commu-
nity in a fresh start. I do not claim
that this is a comprehensive list, but
BY MATTHEW GOODRICH
CONTRIBUTOR
Could one teach a complete
history of the Civil War
without considering slavery
and emancipation?
Please see GOODRICH , page 21
In fact, the values and methods of
disciplines such as history exist precisely
to preserve scholarship from becoming
nothing more than a shouting match.
We can study something without en-
dorsing it. Tinking about class does
not advocate Marxism, considering
gender does not espouse feminism, and
investigating African-Americans does
not make one a black nationalist. On the
other hand, to study human societies
while consciously evading issues of race,
class or genderthat takes work, and an
active ideological commitment to es-
chewing categories of analysis that have
become as fundamental to academic
discourse as those of, say, the nation, or
the individual, or rights. By NAS logic,
neutrality is achievable only by actively
KICKING THE CAN
DAVID STEURY
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Two science professors debate the question of divestment
I write to address two issues raised
in recent Orient articles: whether
environmental literacy should be
a distribution requirement, and
whether the College should divest
from fossil fuels.
When David Orr wrote, All edu-
cation is environmental education,
he could have had in mind the sec-
ond line of William DeWitt Hydes
Ofers of the College: To count
Nature a familiar acquaintance.
Bowdoins environmental studies
program is built on that same ideal;
its website emphasizes that A liberal
arts education should promote envi-
ronmental literacy: an understand-
ing of the world around us our role
in it, and our efects upon it. Com-
pared to most colleges, Bowdoin has
a vibrant ES program and a rich array
of courses that address sustainability.
We are leaders in terms of campus
recycling, reducing our carbon foot-
print, etc.
But is the College actually fulfll-
ing Hydes famous ofer? Do our stu-
dents graduate with enough know-
how and motivation to address the
hugely serious environmental prob-
lems they will inherit? Ten years ago,
when the Curriculum and Education
Policy Committee was working on a
new system of distribution require-
ments, a number of faculty argued
that environmental literacy ought to
be included. Today, 10 years deeper
into an extinction crisis, and with
our climate changing right before
our eyes, its time for our curricular
structure to catch up. Given logisti-
cal problems such as stam ng new
courses, adding a distribution re-
quirement in environmental literacy
may not be the best answer. But I
believe the College needs to show
much more urgency and creativity
in trying to fgure out what the best
answer might be.
As for the proposal for Bowdoin
to divest from investments in fos-
sil fuelsgradually, responsibly, by
targeting the most egregious fossil
fuel companies, and without unduly
compromising our core programs
and commitmentsI support it
for several reasons. First, the tough
questions asked by the student Cli-
mate Action group have sparked ex-
actly the sort of debates one would
hope to hear on an intellectually
engaged college campus. Not just
among students, but also among a
faculty and administration that seem
newly energized by our students to
grapple seriously with environmen-
tal issues. Witness the packed at-
tendance at the Sustainability Panel
two weeks ago, as well as recent flm
showings and seminars by visit-
ing speakers on the issue of climate
change. Second, our curriculum says
a lot about what Bowdoin stands for.
So does our endowment; it should
refect the same values as our cur-
riculum. If in the classroom we de-
Like my colleague Nat Wheel-
wright, I applaud student concern
about climate change and activism
in the political arena. However, I am
unsure that divestment of college and
university endowments is the best tar-
get on which to focus student action
for two reasons.
First, almost of us are willing con-
sumers of fossil fuel energysome
more willing than othersbut all of us
consume fossil fuel energy. Terefore,
we are complicit in the problem. As
such, the divestment movement seems
to contain an element of hypocrisy at
its core.
To be clear, I understand very well
how some major oil producers have
funded the egregious disinformation
campaign about anthropogenic cli-
mate change. Tese companies and the
people responsible deserve societys
contempt for obfuscating the issue and
potentially delaying action on climate,
but I dont know that all oil and gas
companies are equally culpable.
My second concern with the di-
vestment movement is its potential
efectiveness. To me, it seems a round-
about way of efecting change. Sure, it
may eventually lead to political action
that weakens the hold of oil producers
on Congress, but do we have enough
time? Climate scientists warn that
we are already past the point where
BY JOHN LICHTER
CONTRIBUTOR
BY NAT WHEELWRIGHT
CONTRIBUTOR
fore a meaningful transformation of
our energy system can begin. Tat is,
the annual subsidies and tax breaks
which fossil fuel companies receive out
of the federal budget.
Last week in his 2013 budget, Presi-
dent Obama proposed to eliminate
$40 billion in tax breaks to oil and gas
producers over the next decade. Te
president will need strong support
to get his budget through Congress.
However, this is just a start. Annual
subsidies to oil and gas companies in
the US exceeded $500 billion in 2011
according to a study conducted by the
International Monetary Fund. Its esti-
mate for global fossil fuel subsidies was
an equally astonishing $1.9 trillion.
For comparison, annual subsidies to
renewable energy technologies only
add up to $12.2 billion in the US.
Yes, eliminating oil and gas subsi-
dies would mean that producers would
pass on their additional costs to con-
sumers, and yes, the poor would be the
most afected. But until alternatives are
cost competitive with oil and gas, they
will never scale up to levels that can
actually make a dent in our collective
carbon footprint. Oil and gas subsidies
place a huge burden on the growth of
alternatives in the marketplace. How-
ever, with a level playing feld, we
might see quick progress toward a re-
newable energy economy.
So how can students target oil and
gas subsidies?
In 2005, I was asked by the Union
of Concerned Scientists to meet with
the Maine congressional delegation in
Washington to express support for two
bills. Te Union of Concerned Scien-
tists is a non-proft whose membership
is made up of active scientists willing to
step outside of their roles as scientists
to get involved in fnding solutions to
some of our most daunting problems.
Te UCS has conducted successful
information campaigns about climate
and energy, nuclear weapons, food
and agriculture, and the importance
of keeping science independent of
the political process. Te reason they
asked me and two other scientists from
Maine was that our senators at the
time, Republicans Olympia Snowe and
Susan Collins, were perceived as politi-
cally moderate and potentially willing
to cross party lines in support of the
McCain-Lieberman Climate Steward-
ship Act and an Integrity in Science
bill aimed at the Bush administration.
Te Bush administration was in-
famous for pressuring government
scientists to tone down or even falsify
their conclusions in scientifc papers
and reports that were inconsistent
with its ideology. Although the sena-
tors were reluctant to go against their
party on the Integrity in Science efort,
they were very much on board with
McCain-Lieberman. Before meeting
the senators, we spent a day with ex-
perts from the Union of Concerned
Scientists honing our message and
learning how a few well-informed,
passionate, and well-prepared people
can infuence the political process if
their eforts are well aimed and they
show dedication and real concern for
their cause. People, senators included,
are motivated by face-to-face interac-
tions with real people and their per-
sonal stories and concerns.
Today, Senator Collins is still per-
ceived as a moderate Republican and
Senator King is, of course, an inde-
pendent. Tis independence makes
each of them infuential on particular
issues where the Senate is evenly split
between the parties. Both are well in-
formed about climate warming and
might be amenable to this cause, al-
though Senator Collins receives some
campaign support from oil and gas
interests. As Bowdoin students, you
have extraordinary access to these
two infuential senators. You are part
of their constituency and you are
well informed and passionate young
people who are very concerned about
the future of our planet. Make an op-
portunity to meet with each of the
senators along with Representatives
Chellie Pingree and Michael Michaud.
Te Obama administration is facing
an uphill battle even with this initial
step toward weakening the power of
the oil and gas industry. Even if his
budget is passed, there is an enormous
distance yet to go. You can fnd out
when the senators will be in Maine by
calling their om ces. If you should need
to travel to Washington to meet with
them, I suggest you take the train.
In addition to political action, each
of us needs to reduce our carbon foot-
print and provide an example for oth-
ers. Doing so is not going to be easy
or painless. You can fnd out how you
consume fossil fuel energy and reduce
those sources that contribute most to
Compared to most colleges,
Bowdoin has a vibrant ES
program and a rich array
of courses that address
sustainability.
Put your car in neutral
and try pushing it a mile to
get an idea of how much
energy is in a gallon of gas.
nonlinearities inherent to the climate
system may push it into rapid and
catastrophic change. In my view, po-
litical action should focus on the most
crucial target, which will bring about
change as quickly as possible.
Society faces a predicament to-
day. Tat is, there is so much energy
condensed in oil that it almost defes
belief. Tink about it. A single gallon
of gas will move your car somewhere
between 25 and 50 miles depending on
size of the car and the type of engine.
Put your car in neutral and try pushing
it a mile to get an idea of how much en-
ergy is in a gallon of gas; and all that for
$3.67 a gallon. Tis impressive energy
density has been a boon for human-
ity and industrial economies today are
founded on cheap, abundant energy.
However, the environmental costs not
accounted for in the $3.67 price of gas-
oline are now coming back to haunt us.
As we say in ecology, there is no such
thing as a free lunch.
Te problem is that the price we pay
for a gallon of gasoline in no way prop-
erly values what its energy does for us
or its environmental costs. In order for
a transformation of our energy system
from fossil fuels to renewable technol-
ogies to take place, we must adequately
price oil and natural gas so that alterna-
tives become cost competitive. By cost
competitive, I do not merely mean that
renewables pay for themselves over
time, but that they are cheap enough
such that people earning median fam-
ily incomes can aford to convert. Or
better yet, cheap enough so that people
earning median incomes cannot aford
not to convert.
May I suggest another target for po-
litical action? One that I think is more
direct and which must be tackled be-
Institutions such as Bowdoin
College can assume a leadership
role by investing in the currently
available alternative technology to
reduce its carbon footpring.
cry the mining and burning of fossil
fuels, should the College be enjoying
profts from those activities? Tird,
although divestment wont solve the
problem of our overreliance on fos-
sil fuels, its a start. Even symbolic
gestures can have an outsized educa-
tional impact. Two colleges in Maine
have already made the move to di-
vest, leveraging their relatively small
endowments to make a nationwide
statement about sustainability. Soon,
though, to efect change we will need
to end public subsidies for oil and
gas companies and put a price on
fuels that refects their true environ-
mental and social costs.
Finally, we dont have to be pur-
ists or turn our back on modernity
in order to make a diference. Afer
all, safeguarding our environment
for future generations is a marathon,
not a sprint. But our students should
know that the issues are real, com-
plicated, serious and upon us. So, all
hands on deck.
Nat Wheelwright is the Anne T. and
Robert M. Bass professor of natural
Sciences.
your footprint. For example, purchas-
ing an electric or hybrid car can reduce
your personal fuel consumption, but
many of us still fy frequently. It takes
only three moderate distance, there
and back fights (four hours each way)
to equal the fossil-fuel consumption
of a moderately sized car for an entire
year. Taking trains for long-distance
travel reduces much of the carbon
cost and supports our underutilized
railway system. In short, you can lead
by example and by understanding key
processes in our political and socio-
economic systems to thereby focus
your eforts on the actions most likely
to be efective. Likewise, institutions
such as Bowdoin College can assume a
leadership role by investing in the cur-
rently available alternative technolo-
gies to reduce its carbon footprint and
provide an example for other institu-
tions and businesses.
John Lichter is director and professor
of environmental studies.
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Bowdoin must focus on
alternatives to divestment
To fulll Oer of College,
we should divest
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Societal, economic inequalities feed rash of violence
Happy, productive people are
not violent. Only the hated hate,
and only the scared lash out. But
still, we live in a society where vio-
lence is ever present and horrifying
tragedies seem ever more common.
When we remember the chil-
dren and teachers who lost their
lives at Sandy Hook Elementary
School or mourn the victims
of the recent attack at the Bos-
ton Marathon, we need to ask
ourselves why it is that so many
tormented souls are committing
these atrocities.
If we ask this we will see our
own complicity in the system that
totally divests its weak so that they
see no other outlet but violence.
Violence is a cry of frustration, a
cry for help.
This is the case with interna-
tional terrorism on the world stage
and is the case for terrorism here
at home. Violence perpetrated by
an individual against another can
more often than not be traced to
the violence perpetrated by the so-
ciety onto the individual. It is the
reason why nameless young boys
and girls are gunned down daily
one by one on the streets of every
BY SAM VITELLO
CONTRIBUTOR
major American city.
Robert F. Kennedy said in his fa-
mous 1968 speech, The Mindless
Menace of Violencenot long
before his own violent deaththat
this type of social violence is per-
petrated by our societys indiffer-
ence and inaction and slow decay.
This is the violence that afflicts
the poor, that poisons relations be-
tween men because their skin has
different colors. This is the slow
destruction of a child by hunger,
and schools without books and
homes without heat in the winter.
And this too afflicts us all, Ken-
nedy said.
check and meaningful work. It re-
duces the uneducated to menial la-
bor and tears apart families in our
worst neighborhoods.
In our country, we have made
sacred the idea of meritocracy
the best will get their reward. But
what about everyone else? Where
is their justice?
Our economy chews up and
spits out those who cannot make
the grade or earn the credentials.
Our reflex as a society is to blame
these people for their failure. Of
course this dismissive and spiteful
attitude is going to encourage vio-
lence in response.
While an extreme reaction, vio-
lence is the inevitable result of our
insistence on rubbing failure into
the faces of those who have drawn
societys short straws.
Kennedy knew that there was no
way to finally and completely elim-
inate what he called the mindless
menace of violence.
But he knew that we could re-
duce it by treating the wounds that
our economy inflicts. Otherwise,
Kennedy warned us, We learn, at
the last, to look at our brothers as
aliens, men with whom we share
a city, but not a community, men
bound to us in common dwell-
ing, but not in common effort. We
learn to share only a common fear,
only a common desire to retreat
from each other, only a common
impulse to meet disagreement with
force.
Violence is the result of a fraying
individualistic society where those
who have achieved success and
power cast aside those who cannot
keep up. We must change.
This means supporting govern-
ment policies that promote op-
portunity.
those who, given opportunity and
support will still fail.
Where is the funding for that
treatment? Employees at Walmart,
one of the most profitable busi-
nesses in this country, are paid so
little that they are encouraged to
apply for food stamps at orienta-
tion.
Where are the unions to de-
mand living wages and job stabil-
ity? The fastest growing sectors in
this economy are technology and
finance. Is it fair to ask an unem-
ployed 50-year-old steel worker
to go back to school to learn pro-
gramming because that is where
the jobs are?
As a society, we must demand
policies that will alleviate the
wounds our economy inflicts upon
those who we deem inferior. We
must restore hope for those the
economy has spit out that there
is still a chance for them to lead a
comfortable life.
If we do not, violence will con-
tinue unabated, a cry of rage
against an unjust system.
That was Robert F. Kennedys
message in 1968, and it is even
more true today.
Sam Vitello is a member of the
Class of 2013.
Voilence perpetrated by an
individual against another can
more often than not be traced to
the violence perpetrated by the
society onto the individual.
GOODRICH
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16
And, for the most part, this vio-
lence has only intensified since
1968. The instability of a global-
ized economy that can guarantee
some the cheapest goods denies
others the stability of a steady pay-
Voilence is the result of a
fraying individualistic society
where those who have achieved
success and power cast aside
those who cannot keep up.
Where hope is absent, violence
takes its place. That is the lesson of
our inner cities where gangs pres-
ent the best opportunity for many
young boys to achieve control over
their own lives and the respect of
their peers.
But it also means creating a
working safety net that will catch
these examples are good proof that
Bowdoin has demonstrated uncom-
mon leadership in complex issues
in the past, the first brave soul to
take the plunge into icy water.
Which begs the question: what
happened, Bowdoin? When did you
hang up your innovation for stag-
nation? When did our student body
become the butt of the great social
rest joke? When did protecting the
sanctity of our Polar Bear become
more important than protecting
actual polar bears? When did we
trade uncommon dedication to so-
cial issues for a complacent belief in
the common good?
Right now, humanity faces the
greatest challenge in the history of
existential threats. Now is the time
for bold actionthe kind of risk
that demonstrates leadership by ex-
ample, that educates students, that
is rewarded by proud alumni do-
nations. That shows the rest of the
world that maybe the water isnt so
bad after all.
Colby recently announced that
it had achieved carbon-neutrality
two years ahead of schedule. Our
carbon neutrality plan commits us
to reducing just 28 percent of our
own-source emissions...in seven
more years. Brown, too, has big
news: their Advisory Committee on
Corporate Responsibility in Invest-
ment Policies (do we have one of
those?) unanimously recommend-
ed divestment from coaland their
trustees have never once failed to
follow such a statement. How are
we doing at Bowdoin?
Students deserve an honest,
open appraisal of what Bowdoin
can do to keep up with Colby and
Brown, but so far, the administra-
tion has been aggressively unre-
ceptive to not only divestment, but
also to other investment solutions
from alums. I know Bowdoin can
do better.
President Mills has claimed the
College is committed to leading the
way against climate change but so
far, we havent seen any conviction.
With divestment, Mills has an op-
portunity to remind us why the last
words of Bowdoins mission state-
ment is a call to subordinate self
to higher goals. Its time to demon-
strate some uncommon leadership,
President Mills, and divest from
fossil fuels.
If were going to be under scruti-
ny for systemic liberal bias anyway,
we might as well start living up to it.
Matthew Goodrich is a member of
the Class of 2015.
College should heed the Loraxs message
THE LORAX
BEN RICHMOND
Dr. Seuss parable, Te Lorax, about
the environmental movement tells the
story of the Once-ler who cuts down
the forest of Trufula Trees to make
thneeds despite the Loraxs protests.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I
speak for the trees, for the trees have no
tongues. And Im asking you, sir, at the
top of my lungs. But the Loraxs pro-
tests are futile. No one listens to his pleas
to protect the Trufula Trees because
business is business and everyone is
too busy making money from thneeds.
Lorax-inspired pleas for the College
to divest the endowment from fossil
fuels have been similarly futile. Despite
student activism pushing for divest-
ment, the College has continued to say,
business is business, and has swept
the proposal of the table. However, the
College did coincidentally reveal its vi-
sion for how it believes students should
help protect the environment through
the recent panel Reaching Day Zero:
Living Sustainably at Bowdoin and
Beyond, held in Kresge auditorium on
March 25.
During the panel, professors and ad-
ministrators, moderated by President
Mills, argued that students should pro-
tect the environment primarily through
sustainable lifestyle choices and educa-
tion. Unfortunately, the panel helped re-
veal that Bowdoin College encourages
its students to pursue environmental
education and make sustainable lifestyle
choices rather than fght for large-scale
climate action, a College position which
does not adequately address the risk of
climate change.
Most members of the Reaching Day
Zero panel suggested students address
climate change through environmental
education and adopting small sustain-
able habits. Professor Collings suggest-
ed students should refrain from fying
on airplanes, have fewer children and
buy carbon ofsets. Professor Wegner
talked about using less waste and chemi-
cals in art supplies. Professor Peterman
emphasized the importance of scientifc
literacy and relying on the data to make
decisions about sustainability. Even
some of the most radical proposals
entertained by the panel, such as Profes-
sor Wheelwrights call for a sustainabil-
ity requirement, focused on educating
students about climate change.
It is true that environmental educa-
tion and sustainable lifestyle choices
do reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Te EPA estimated in 2011 that the U.S.
transportation and residential sectors
account for just over half of the nations
greenhouse gas emissions. Turning of
the lights, taking shorter showers and
biking instead of driving does lead to a
more sustainable future.
However, market forces and govern-
ment policy ofen restrict our individual
decisions related to sustainability. For
example, urban planning may force us to
drive to work. Furthermore, almost half
of all greenhouse gas emissions in the
U.S. come from the industrial and com-
mercial sectors, which individuals can-
not control. As individuals there is only
so much we can do to prevent climate
change and environmental degradation.
In order to afect large-scale ac-
tion on the climate problem, we need
to work together to afect our societys
institutions. Only one of the Reaching
Day Zero panelists, Professor Laura
Henry, emphasized the importance of
collective action in solving the climate
problem. Collective action brought us
the Clean Air and Water Acts. Collec-
tive action brought about Maines re-
newable portfolio standard, increasing
the portion of our states electricity de-
rived from renewable sources. Te only
way this country will pass broad based
cap-and-trade legislation, designed to
cost-em ciently reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, is through powerful collec-
tive action that forces Congress to act on
climate change.
But so far, Bowdoin has done very
little to encourage actions designed to
stop climate change on a large scale.
Te College did adopt a climate action
plan which focuses primarily on prof-
itable energy em ciency reductions, as
well as encouraging more sustainable
habits amongst students. Bowdoin also
buys RECs in Maine to try to increase
incentives for renewable technologies in
the state, but it is unclear how well these
fnancial instruments actually reduce
carbon emissions.
More troubling than these half-
hearted eforts to stop climate change
is that Bowdoin appears to be actively
suppressing collective action designed
to stop climate change here on cam-
pus. President Mills has said little to
the public about divestment other than
that he does not support it. Te BSG
executive committee announced it did
not support divestment for a variety of
reasons afer it met with Mills behind
closed doors. Te Orient editorialized
against divestment afer it received a
non-public statement on this issue from
the College administration. By sweep-
ing divestment under the rug, Bowdoin
sends a statement to its students that
they should stick to ofen inefectual
individual actions to prevent climate
change rather than engaging in activism
designed to afect broad change sur-
rounding climate issues.
Bowdoin will not create the environ-
mental leaders of tomorrow by trying to
kill the Colleges divestment movement.
Discouraging environmental activism
will only create docile and jaded stu-
dents who laugh at prospects for change,
and prefer the status quo to aspirations
for a better future. Although the Col-
lege might tell you otherwise, the best
way for students to fght climate change
is not to sit tight, turn of the lights and
leave the important stuf to the adults. It
is to address climate change on a holistic
level, whether thats through advocating
here on campus for divestment, par-
ticipating in collective actions to prevent
new fossil fuel development, or voicing
your support for cap and trade legisla-
tion. As Dr. Seuss would remind us,
Te words of the Lorax seems perfectly
clear. Unless someone like you cares a
whole awful lot, nothing is going to get
better. Its not.

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BOWDOIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Candidacy Statements: Class of 2015,
Class of 2016, and at-large position
Matt Friedland
My name is Matt Friedland and I
am running for class president for the
Class of 2015. Next year will be my
third consecutive year on class coun-
cil, and I feel more motivated than
ever to help our class have a fantastic
year.
I really enjoyed planning and or-
ganizing the Mr. Polar Bear competi-
tion and seeing it all come together
was great. I really appreciate all the
support that our class members have
been providing each other these past
two years, and I look forward to con-
tinuing that support next year.
Although I know some of you are
going abroad, I am excited to make
it everyones best year yet. Tanks for
your continued support!
CLASS OF 2015
PRESIDENT
CLASS OF 2015
VICE PRESIDENT
John Izzo (Fall)
Hello everyone! Once again I am
placing my name upon a Bowdoin bal-
lot. I hope that I have served you well
during my two-year tenure as president
of the Class of 2015 and BSG At-Large
Representative. However, because I
will be abroad in the spring, I am not
seeking the om ce of president this year.
Instead, I would be honored to serve as
the vice president for our class during
the fall semester. I hope to continue to
plan events that have been a success in
the past: dances, games, Pub Nights,
etc., as well as organize new and difer-
ent class activities. Afer two years as
president, I feel that I have a good un-
derstanding of what sort of events our
class is interested in having, and I will
use this knowledge to continue to serve
you. Tat being said, I am always more
than happy to speak with anyone who
has an event idea, a criticism, or wants
to get involved. With half of our class
abroad next year, campus could seem
like an empty place, but I will do every-
thing I can to make it as fun as our last
two years have been.
Chris Breen (Spring)
Hi my name is Chris Breen and I am
running to be the vice president for the
Class of 2016 for spring 2014. Because
I am running unopposed, Ill keep this
short, but I also want to assure you that
I can efectively represent our class and
also plan meaningful class program-
ming. While I have not served on class
council in the past, I have served as a
BSG at-large representative as a frst
year, and I currently serve as the VP
for BSG Afairs. Because class councils
are represented on the BSG, I have had
the opportunity to hear the weekly class
council reports and talk to the represen-
tatives. Trough this opportunity, I have
gained a greater knowledge of how the
class councils function and what prob-
lems they ofen face.
I want to thank you for this oppor-
tunity to serve you and I ask that you
please vote Chris Breen as vice president
for the Class of 2015.
CLASS OF 2015
TREASURER
CLASS OF 2015
BSG REPRESENTATIVE
Hannah Arrighi (Fall)
Hi sophomores! My name is Hannah
Arrighi and I am running for reelec-
tion as a Class of 2015 representative
to BSG. I was honored to serve in this
role for the past two years, helping plan
Mr. Polar Bear, apple picking, karaoke
night, the First Year-Sophomore Semi-
formal, and other class events. Tis
year with BSG, I served on the Student
Organizations Oversight Committee,
the Spring Gala Planning Committee
and the Polaris Advisory Committee.
My experiences gave me a concrete
sense of event coordination, so I would
readily implement and enthusiastically
welcome suggestions from fellow stu-
dents. If elected, I will work to enhance
communication between class council,
BSG and members of our class, and
create more events to keep us connect-
ed. I am running because I absolutely
love this class and want to help make
our experience fantastic. Tank you for
your consideration, and I hope to earn
your vote!
Will Osso (Fall)
Class of 2015, in my frst two years
here at Bowdoin, I have gained valu-
able leadership experience that will help
me to be a strong representative for our
class. I have served as community out-
reach om cer in class council for the past
two years, in which I have helped orga-
nize and advertise such events as Mr.
Polar Bear and assassin. Furthermore, I
was vice president of Quinby House this
year, gaining additional knowledge of
how to reach out to fellow students and
work with a diverse group of people. I
hope to use my past experience in class
council and as a House om cer to foster
greater cooperation between the upper
class councils and the College Houses.
I want to make the College Houses a
staple of campus life for all Bowdoin
students, not just frst years and sopho-
mores. We made a strong efort to reach
out to upperclassmen in Quinby this
year, and BSG can help facilitate this
sort of relationship on a campus-wide
level. If elected, I promise to be open to
all your ideas, and I will do my best to
make sure every voice in the junior class
is heard. I hope to get your vote!
Nathan Post
Hey, Class of 2015! My name is
Nathan Post.
I am looking forward to the op-
portunity to serve as treasurer on
our class council.
While I have never before served
on BSG, I feel my experience as the
treasurer of a club that annually re-
ceives one of the largest operating
budgets from the Student Activi-
ties Fund Council (SAFC) will help
me in managing our class finances
so that as a class council we can
bring you the events and programs
you desire!
Having been in the position of
petitioning for funds for a club
from the SAFC, I have a good un-
derstanding of the process and of
how the committee works.
Therefore, as a member of the
SAFC, I will be able to actively
work to ensure that the club fund-
ing process is simple and fair, and
supportive of student clubs at
Bowdoin. Thank you for this op-
portunity to serve you!
Quinn Rhi (Fall & Spring)
Hello everyone, my name is Quinn
Rhi and I am running to be BSG Rep-
resentative for the Class of 2015. I be-
lieve my current and past involvement
in various groups on campus will help
me reach out to people who are usually
in less conversation with BSG. I can
sensibly represent the opinion of our
class because I care about being well
informed about the happenings and
concerns of our community. In terms
of my experience with event planning,
I have no formal experience with class
council. Tis past year, however, I have
had the opportunity to work with Stu-
dent Activities as an events manager
and a staf member of the Info Desk. As
a result, I have been able to staf various
events on campus. I would be excited
to serve on class council, to represent
the many opinion on campus, and help
plan events for our class to enjoy.
Daniel Cohen (Spring)
I have been self-deemed the
Spoon Mentor (to those who played
assassin), but you can refer to me as
just the most beautiful short man
on campus (also, self-deemed). My
real name is Daniel Cohen and I
am again seeking to represent the
best class at Bowdoin as its BSG
representative. Although none of
you probably know (because few
people attend BSG meetings on a
whim, which you should), I have
continuously brought your com-
plaints, whether directly said to me
or heard through clever eavesdrop-
ping, to the assembly. Some have
initiated topics of discussionlike
travel mugs in the dining halland
others have fallen flat, such as using
stickers as an incentive for bringing
people to events. Nonetheless, over
the past two years I have tried my
best to initiate bright ideas from
the class for planning events and
also to elucidate what BSG means
to the campus as a whole. I hope
to continue that next (half-of-a)
year. Plus, I am currently the only
one who knows the password to the
class council Facebook page and
Twitter account and will only re-
lease the information if forced.
Gabi Serrato Marks (Spring)
My name is Gabi Serrato Marks,
and I am a sophomore from Brook-
line, Mass. I would like to be a BSG
representative on class council be-
cause I would like to create pro-
gramming that the class will enjoy,
while also voicing our opinions to
BSG. I have been involved in plan-
ning and executing many events,
like the recent College Street Crawl.
From this experience, I have gotten
to know the Student Activities staf
and understand the process and
planning that goes into large events.
If elected, I will work with the class
council and BSG to have a fun spring
semester.
Libby Szuita (Spring)
Hi, my name is Libby Szuflita
and I am running for BSG repre-
sentative for the spring of 2014.
As programming director for
Ladd House and a member of the
IHC this year, I have become ex-
perienced in effective program-
ming and administration, as well
as working long nights to ensure
everyone has a great time. I would
love the chance to apply these skills
to class council. Because so many
of us will be away for a semester
next year, I will work to promote
class unity through junior class
social events such as concerts and
dinners, as well as junior-specific
academic events to prepare us for
the summer and senior year. Class
council does so many great things
for our class, but whens the last
time you thought about it? I will
increase transparency between stu-
dents and the elusive class council,
sending you monthly updates on
progress and programming, as well
as continue to reach out for class
suggestions. I love our class and
would be honored to have the op-
portunity to advocate for you all in
the class council. Vote for Libby!
Time to trade in your iPod for a boombox and connect
ONLY CHARCOAL
TO DEFEND
CHRIS WEDEMAN
iPod advertisements would be
more accurate if they depicted a
solitary figure walking around,
hands in pockets and head down.
Troughout the day I see a mul-
titude of students ambling across
campus with earphones dangling out
of their ears. Like them, music ac-
companies me to class in the morn-
ing. I can control the soundtrack of
the moment, and feel rejuvenated
by the rhythm and verse. Music is
genuinely what keeps me going on
particularly dim cult days. But this
bliss comes at a loss.
Listening to an iPod with head-
phones disconnects us from our
external reality by replacing natu-
ral auditory inputs with electronic
mesmerizing musical ones. We en-
ter our own worldand it sounds
greatbut we do it by exiting an-
other one. Wearing headphones
around campus discourages other
people from talking to you and
discourages you from facing them.
What should I do when Im lis-
tening with headphones and I see
someone familiar? Should I take my
headphones off and risk entering
an insincere conversation? Should I
take one half off and exchange some
brusque prefabricated words? Or
should I keep the do not disturb
warning on my head and carry on?
We are social animals, but at
times we desire solitude and es-
capism: its a trade off. Magazines,
books, and newspapers have no
doubt acted as social barriers in the
past. I imagine even the awkward
hunter-gatherer had his collection
of stones to busy himself with rath-
er than chatting with others.
But iPods represent a much
more powerful way to control the
social space around you. Put in
some headphones and your num-
Paul Auster wrote, The world is
governed by chance. Randomness
stalks us every day of our lives.
Once we have the power to shut
ourselves off from interactions
with others, we are less susceptible
to chance encounters.
When I was younger, my mother
warned me not to listen to mu-
sic while walking down the street
because I would be oblivious to
an unseen danger. If we avoid the
discomfort of chance encounters
by indulging in the comfort of sol-
ace too often, we may diminish the
richness of our life by shutting out
chance, and in turn we may be un-
prepared to deal with some of lifes
formative difficulties.
College is not comprised of four
years of careless hedonism. Wheth-
er cursed with eternal schoolwork,
athletic and extra-curricular obli-
gations, or plain world-weariness,
Bowdoin students have a lot to
handle, and music can often make
all the difference in handling it.
The world feels safe and comfort-
able with headphones on. Howev-
er, we should be weary that when
we self-medicate, we dont over-
sedate ourselves.
I admit this is a dubious appeal.
Calls for moderation are generally
ineffectual. I dont want to restrain
my music listening experience, but
I also dont want to detach myself
from the rest of the world. The ob-
vious solution is to transform your
private music experience into a
public one.
Carry your music on your
shoulders. Use it to give others the
chance to involve themselves in
your life. Truly control your social
space. The time for boom boxes to
return is now. Invade the auditory
privacy of others, mercilessly.
Carry your music on your
shoulders. Use it to give others
the chance to involve themselves
in your life. Truly control
your social space.
ber of daily interactions is guaran-
teed to decrease.
The control over our social
space that personal music players
offer is ultimately restricting. As
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Voting is open from 8 a.m. today until 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 21.
Students can vote online at bowdoin.edu/vote.
CLASS OF 2016
TREASURER
Alexander omas
Hi, my name is Alexander
Thomas and I am running to be
treasurer of the Class of 2016. As
treasurer I will make sure that our
class funds are well managed and
taken care of. Furthermore, as a
member of the Student Activities
Funding Committee I will ensure
that BSGs funds are equitably dis-
tributed so that members of our
class are supported in their ambi-
tions to start clubs and organiza-
tions.
I am committed to moving to-
wards a funding regime in which
no student would have to pay dues
in order to participate in a Bow-
doin club or student organization.
I believe that any student regard-
less of socioeconomic background
should be able to participate in all
Bowdoin sanctioned clubs if they
wish to, and that the dues currently
charged by clubs stand in the way
of this goal. I hope that I have your
support in the coming year, and
look forward to working on behalf
of all of you.
CLASS OF 2016
PRESIDENT
Robo Tavel
Tis year has been an extremely
successful one on the 2016 Class
Council. We have thought outside the
box in the scheduling of frst year pro-
grams, and have pursued an ambitious
agenda consisting of, in part, the First
Year-Sophomore Semiformal, the
Portland Prowl, and Ivies hats for the
frst-year class.
I am proud of what we have accom-
plished and look forward to continuing
to serve our class on the council next
year. If you have any comments or con-
cerns, feel free to approach me, email
me, text me, page me, or send an owl.
All methods of communication are
welcome. Tanks for a great year, ev-
eryone! Heres to hoping the next three
are even better.
Andrew Engel
Whether it is tater tots at Super
Snack, email invitations about Col-
lege House parties instead of posters,
or additional campus shuttles return-
ing from Portland at 1 a.m. so you can
stay in the city later, I want to hear any
and all suggestions you guys have to
improve your experience at Bowdoin.
As the vice president of the Class of
2016, I hope to be a source of open
communication between the admin-
istration and the student body. If any-
body has any questions, comments,
concerns, or suggestions, I would love
to have you email them to me so I can
bring them up at class council meet-
ings and make your voice heard. Also,
because the vice president is on the
Entertainment-Board (E-Board), I
want to be able to create the same level
of open communication and allow all
students to suggest potential bands for
Ivies and other upcoming concerts. If
you really think that a certain band
would throw an awesome concert, I
will make sure that the E-Board hears
about your suggestions.
David Sperber
Hey, my name is David Sperber and
Im running to be re-elected as vice
president of the Class of 2016. Ive been
privileged and humbled to serve as VP
this year and hope to continue with
your support. If you thought fresh-
man year was good (or if you didnt),
sophomore year will be even better!
My goal is to make us that classthe
one everyone on campus wishes they
were part of. Other grades will want to
join our events, get our swag, and be
part of our community. Ive heard that
sophomores run the school: seniors are
getting ready for the real world and ju-
niors are abroad. With a year of experi-
ence under my belt, Ill continue work-
ing to promote spirit, plan great events,
and pick out cool gear. Awesome ideas
in store for the year include free gelato,
a September beach trip, and a second
Freshman-Sophomore Semi-formal. I
value your feedback, positive and neg-
ative, and will let all voices be heard.
Im eager and committed to continue
serving everyone. Ill go above and
beyond to make the year amazing. We
only have one sophomore year so lets
make it great together. Vote leadership,
vote experience, vote David Sperber
for VP!
Luke von Maur
My name is Luke von Maur, and I
would like to be the vice president of
CLASS OF 2016 VICE PRESIDENT
Michael Colbert
Hello first years. Im Michael
Colbert and am running for reelec-
tion as one of your BSG represen-
tatives. This past year, Ive learned
a lot from class council that I will
use to make our sophomore year a
great one. Collaborating with both
the 2016 and 2015 Class Councils
and the Student Activities Office
has shown me what goes into suc-
cessful programming. Based on
the positive responses to the First-
Year Sophomore Semiformal and
the Portland Prowl, I will continue
advocating for new programming
that appeals to our class. Addition-
ally, I look forward to planning
events like Mr. Polar Bear, a sopho-
more tradition. On the BSG side of
this job, I will use my experience
on the Academic Affairs Commit-
tee to continue enhancing Bow-
doins academic environment. If
reelected, I will bring fresh ideas to
this committee and plan to inves-
tigate an extended study program.
Further, I hope that as a BSG rep-
resentative I can accurately repre-
sent a diverse array of Bowdoins
students, departments and offices.
For example, I have connected to
the International Club and Stew-
ardship Office this year and will
strive to bring their voices to the
BSG Assembly. Please consider me
when you vote this weekend!
Stephen Girolamo
My name is Stephen Girolamo,
and I am running to be your BSG
representative. In high school I
was very involved in the student
government, as I served two years
as class president and one as stu-
dent council president.
I am extremely excited to have
the opportunity to serve both class
council and BSG.
If elected, I would strive to keep
the Class of 2016 as informed as
possible on the activities of BSG
and class council, as I believe com-
munication between a representa-
tive and his constituents is essen-
tial for success.
If any of you were to have any
questions or concerns with BSG or
class council activities, Id be more
than happy to talk with you or have
lunch. I would be honored to have
your vote.
Andrew Millar
My name is Andrew Millar and I
am seeking re-election for the po-
sition of BSG representative. Te
BSG representative sits on both BSG
Assembly and class council. Tis
means I have a unique opportunity
to afect both policy and program-
ming. From a policy standpoint, I
have begun working on (and hope
to continue next year) health center
reforms, such as online appointment
signups, which will make the center
more user-friendly. Regarding pro-
gramming, I want to continue much
of what we have accomplished this
year while reaching out to incoming
frst years by attending a few of their
frst class council meetings.
Over the course of this year,
my work on BSG has brought me
in contact with many engaging
Bowdoin students and faculty.
From Silvia in Student Activities
and Ken in the Dining Services,
to all the members of our class,
I continue to be amazed by the
Bowdoin community. Having met
and worked with so many helpful
people, Im ready to hit the ground
CLASS OF 2016 BSG REPRESENTATIVE
Chris Breen (Spring)
Hi my name is Chris Breen and I
am running to represent you as BSG
at-large representative for spring
2014. I believe that I will be able to
efectively serve you as a member on
BSG because of my extensive experi-
ence serving on BSG for the past two
years. As a frst year, I served as an
at-large representative on BSG, and
I currently serve as the vice presi-
dent for BSG afairs. Both of these
positions have greatly increased my
institutional knowledge of Bowdoin,
which is important when tasked with
projects or deciding on what projects
to pursue. My time as VP of BSG af-
fairs has also given me a greater un-
derstanding of how BSG operates
through executive committee meet-
ings and working with BSG Presi-
dent Dani Chediak. As an at-large
representative, I believe that I can
efectively voice the student bodys
opinion to BSG as well as the admin-
istration. For all of these reasons, I
ask you to vote Chris Breen for BSG
at-large representative spring 2014.
Ryan Davis
As the treasurer for the 2015 Class
Council for the past two years, I have
had the privilege to be able to spend
copious amounts of time involved
with student government. I believe
that now is an excellent time for me
to further diversify my involvement
by running for at-large representative.
I think that my commitment to BSG
is clear, and if elected I plan to do my
best to represent the interests of my
fellow students as fairly and objective-
ly as possible.
As an at-large representative, I
plan to join the SOOC and work to
improve the funding process for all
groups, new and old, making sure it
remains fair and transparent so that
every Bowdoin group gets the fund-
ing it deserves. I plan to use my ex-
perience to act as a resource for those
that would like help in planning their
events. In addition, I will advocate for
the revision of the SAFC guidelines to
eliminate club dues, which I believe
create barriers that can prevent some
students from taking full advantage of
Bowdoins student organizations.
In the event of my election, I look
forward to collaborating with the stu-
dent body to improve our college ex-
perience.
Emily Gower
My name is Emily Gower, Class of
2016. I am currently one of your BSG
At-Large Representatives and need
your support to continue in this role
next year. As a BSG member, I have
applied my ability to remain objec-
tive when making decisions that im-
pact the student body. I would like
to continue as your advocate in an
efort to further improve the student
experience at Bowdoin.
My experience on the BSG Aca-
demic Afairs Committee am rmed
my belief that student government
works on behalf of all of us. I collab-
orated with this committee to cre-
ate a proposal to extend Bowdoins
Credit/D/Fail deadline. Additional-
ly, I helped create programming for
Bowdoins new student lecture se-
ries, Food for Tought. If given the
opportunity to serve again next year,
my goal is to work with the Academ-
ic Afairs Committee toward contin-
uous improvement of academic life
and programming at Bowdoin.
I believe that my experience as
an at-large representative and Aca-
demic Afairs Committee member
has prepared me to make a greater
contribution to Bowdoin next year.
With your support, I will continue
to listen and work as your advocate
on the issues that are most critical to
all of us.
AT-LARGE BSG
REPRESENTATIVE
the Class of 2016. Te main role of the
vice president is to help the president
coordinate activities for the class. Being
that the unopposed president, Roberto
Tavel, is a good friend of mine, I believe
that if elected, I would be able to work
well with him. Additionally, I feel that I
am a good representation of our grade.
Being thus, I believe I would be able to
satisfy the responsibilities of class coun-
cil, which include creating class unity
and providing the grade with the things
it needs. Being a member of a College
House next year, I feel that I will gain
the skills needed to fulfll these duties
successfully. More specifcally, by liv-
ing among an eclectic group of people,
I will learn how to deal with Bowdoins
diverse student body and bring such a
group closer together. In sum, I believe
that if I am elected vice president, I will
be able to improve the Bowdoin experi-
ence for the Class of 2016.
running next year. Thanks for
reading and remember: youll go
far with Millar (if it rhymed, youre
doing it right!).
Cody Stack
Hello, my name is Cody Stack
and I am from Old Orchard Beach,
Maine. I am excited about the pos-
sibility of being a Class of 2016 BSG
representative. I am running for three
main reasons. First and foremost, I
love student government. Tis was
the frst year in a long time that I was
not involved in some form of student
government, and I miss it. If elected
to BSG, I will bring the perspectives
that I have gained in a variety of prior
leadership experiences. Secondly, I
care about Bowdoin and take pride
in our class. My experience so far at
Bowdoin has been great, and now I
want to give back. I cant wait to do
my part to improve this College and
our classs experience. Finally, I have
decided that participating in student
government and taking an active role
in the life of the College is a priority
for my time at Bowdoin. I am ready
to commit myself to this position and
I look forward to working on behalf
of our class.
Nick Tonckens
My name is Nick Tonckens and I
am running for the position of at-
large representative. In my time at
Bowdoin, I have noticed four areas
where BSG has the chance to make
critical improvements in our lives.
If you do me the honor of checking
my name on the ballot, I promise to
push for action on these issues. First,
on issues like hazing and divest-
ment, the administration has not
been transparent about its policies.
I will push for a series of sit-down
sessions between student leaders
and senior administrators in order
to clarify om cial policy.
Second, there is a consensus
among students that the deadline
for the Credit/D/Fail option should
be pushed back. I will push BSG to
continue lobbying for this change.
Third, the student body agrees that
Thanksgiving Break should be ex-
tended, as we made clear at last
falls protest. I will do my best to
get those changes enacted. Finally,
the College House selection process
is mysterious at best. My aim is to
clarify that procedure in writing,
and make it accessible to the stu-
dent body. If you like transparency,
flexibility and more vacation, vote
for Nick Tonckens!
Luke von Maur
My name is Luke von Maur, I am
a frst year, and I would like to be an
at-large representative for BSG. Te
main role of an at-large representa-
tive is to be a representative to the
Bowdoin student body, community
service organizations and the Om ce
of Residential Life. Based on my expe-
riences as a frst year, I think I would
add a perspective required of the po-
sition. Tis year alone, I participated
in a McKeen Center volunteer trip in
Lubec, Maine and became a mentor at
Bowdoinham Community School. Al-
though I am close with students who
are members of ResLife and commu-
nity service organizations, next year, I
hope to get involved in more activities
to gain a better sense of the wide range
of Bowdoin students. Unlike some of
my competitors, I plan on serving for
the entire year. By doing so, I believe
I will be better equipped in fulflling
the goals of the BSG: leading the stu-
dent body with the help of faculty and
administration, improving the student
experience, and most of all, empower-
ing students.
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TUESDAY
LECTURE
Artists Talk: Erin Sweeney
Sweeney, a printmaker and book artist, will discuss her
experience living and working creatively close to home.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:15 p.m.
FILM
Switch
The acclaimed lm investigates the economic and
environmental benets of investing in resource e ciency.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
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SATURDAY
PERFORMANCE
Live Music
Student band Jesus and the Kids will open for the Portlands
The Ghost of Paul Revere, a bluegrass, rock, and blues band.
Bowdoin students only.
Reed House. 8:30 p.m.
EVENT
ASA Fashion Show
The annual event hosted by the Asian Students Association
will feature student models and performances by seven
dance groups.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 9 p.m.
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MONDAY
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Nnette
Nicolas Philiberts documentary chronicles the life of
Nnette, an orangutan in captivity, and challenges the
ethics of caging animals.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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FRIDAY
VOTE
Bowdoin Student Government Elections
Polls open for rst years, sophomores, and juniors to elect
their class councils.
Bowdoin.edu/vote. 8 a.m.
SPORTING EVENT
2013 RoboCup U.S. Open
The Northern Bites will put a lineup of humanoid robots
to the test in the national competition.
Watson Arena. Noon.
COMMON HOUR
Student Chamber Ensembles Concert
Student groups will perform selections from their repertoire.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 12:30 p.m.
EVENT
Chalk Walk
Student Museum Advisory Collective and Admissions will
provide chalk in front of the VAC for students to decorate
the Quad.
Main Quad. 1 p.m.
COMEDY
Improvabilities
The improv troupe will put on a show for the hundreds of
prospective students on campus.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.
FUNDRAISER
Relay for Life
The event will raise money for the American Cancer Society.
Student performances, photobooths, and a hypnotist will
be featured in the center of the indoor track.
Farley Field House. 6 p.m.
FILM
Zero Dark Thirty
The 2012 drama depicts the CIAs decade-long quest to
capture Al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
THEATER
Songs for a New World
The Curtain Callers will perform the 1995 song cycle, a
series of theatrical songs addressing contemporary issues.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.
RECEPTION
Open Mic Night: Admitted Students Edition
The Slam Poets Society will host an informal night of
entertainment featuring musicians, poets and writers. Both
prospective and current students are encouraged to perform.
Jack Magees Pub. 8 p.m.
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SUNDAY
EXHIBITION
Do the Math
The Green Bowdoin Alliance and Bowdoin Climate Action will
screen Bill McKibbens documentary on the case for divestment.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
VOTE
BSG Elections Close
Bowdoin.edu/vote. 8 p.m.
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EVENT
Tomorrows Parties: Sex and the Un-
timely in Nineteenth-Century America
English Professor Peter Coviello will celebrate the release
of his new book, which addresses queer theory and
Mormon sexuality.
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:30 p.m.
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THURSDAY
LECTURE
Mutual Aid During Reconstruction
Gretchen Long, history professor at Williams, will discuss how
former slaves secured justice following the Civil War.
Nixon Lounge, Hawthorne-Longfellow Libary. 6 p.m.
CONCERT
Ivies: 3LAU
DJ 3LAU will perform at the Ivies kicko concert following
student bands First Ladies and DJ Purple Warlock.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 10 p.m.
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PERFORMANCE
Middle Eastern
Ensemble
Girl Rising
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BELLA A CAPPELLA: BellaMaa performed at the Museum of Art last Friday night to celebrate the Per Kirkeby exhibit.
Spring Dance
Concert