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FEATURES: TALK OF THE QUAD
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A&E: YOUTUBE POETRY OPINION
EDITORIAL: Veritas.
SPORTS: WOMENS RUGBY STORMS AHEAD
Page 10.
ONLY CHARCOAL TO DEFEND: Christopher Wed-
man 15 on reconciling Novembers holidays.
Page 14.
Page 13.
The womens rugby team stomped Holy
Cross at home last Saturday by a score of
54-7 in an ACRA Round of 32 matchup. The
team will play Hamilton tomorrow in the
Round of 16.
Eliza Novick-Smith 14 on Wil Smith 00; Joshua Burger-
Caplan 14 on networking in bathroom stalls.
Page 6.
Internet bard Steve Roggenbuck
performed to a full crowd in Ladd
House last Saturday, sharing his
now-viral words of optimism.
Page 7.
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Rich Thompson and Assistant Professor of Film Studies Sarah Childress reveal their partners biggest pet peeves in the Newleyweds Gameat Quinby House last night.
DISHING IT OUT
Dramatic Hail Mary pass catapults football to Colby win
Please see FOOTBALL, page 11
Please see MCLELLAN, page 4
McLellan renovations to cost
town 10 times initial estimate
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
As Bowdoin prepares to move its of-
fces from the frst and second foor of
the McLellan Building by Hannaford to
various locations on campus, the Town
of Brunswick is debating how to pay
for the buildings higher-than-expected
renovation costs.
At a meeting last Tursday, the
Brunswick Town Council discussed
possibilities for fnancing the renova-
tion of the building, located at 85 Union
St., which they estimate will cost nearly
$1 million. Te town plans to use the
building as a new town hall.
A lot of this discussion has arisen
because the price has escalated, said
town councilor Benet Pols.
Some councilors want to take out a
bond that would allow the town to pay
the cost of the renovation over ten or 15
years, while others prefer using cash re-
serves to pay for the renovation.
Te Council is slated to decide
whether to keep the borrowing option
on the table on November 18.
According to Pols, the om ce of the
town manager originally estimated
that the renovation would cost around
$100,000 in Spring 2011, said Pols. Tat
estimate increased, frst to $200,000 and
then to over $750,000. Te fnal cost is
ten times more than the initial estimate.
As a result, Pols supports keeping
the option of borrowing open, which
he said would provide a hedge against
raising taxes in the event that the town
needed more revenue to pay for the
renovations up front.
Its pretty typical to borrow for big
capital expenditures, when it starts to
go up over three quarters of a million
dollars or so, he said.
According to an article in the Bangor
Daily News, the renovations are now
estimated at $805,000, with $88,000 in
architects fees and $60,000 for a con-
tingency fund.
Pols emphasized that authorizing
the use of a bond now does not commit
the town to using it laterthat decision
would come toward the end of the fscal
year next June, when a clearer picture of
the towns budget will be available.
Some council members are wary of
borrowing.
Summit leads discussion of alcohol on campus
BY EMILY WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
During the two-hour Alcohol Sum-
mit organized by the Alcohol Team
(A-Team) last Friday, approximately 60
frst years and sophomores discussed
alcohol-related issues with members of
the A-Team and Peer Health.
According to an Orient article from
April 2011, the A-Team launched the
event in spring 2010 in response to a
high number of transports preceding
Ivies that year, and has presented the
summit every year since.
As of last weekend, there have
been five alcohol-related trans-
ports on campus this fall. This
is the lowest number in recent
yearsthe first two months of the
school year brought seven trans-
ports last year, 12 in 2011, and 13
in 2010, according to a November
2012 Orient article.
Six student leaders discussed the
role alcohol has played in their Bow-
doin social lives on a panel moder-
ated by A-Team co-chair Duncan
Taylor 14. Following the panel,
members of Peer Health and the 18
members of the A-Team facilitated
breakout discussions with groups of
underclassmen. Te Summit itself
was closed to Orient reporters.
At my high school, I was used to
everyone being totally against drink-
ing, said attendee Josh Ellis 17. He
said he found the focus of this event
to be not on abstinence but on pro-
moting safe and healthy choices.
First years in general seemed to
really enjoy the Summit and get some-
thing meaningful out of it, said Taylor.
Laura Plimpton 17 said that she
valued the chance to see behind the
curtain of upperclassmen culture.
It was sort of unexpected because
other than the social house parties or
sports team events, its hard to under-
stand what upperclassmen do, said
Plimpton.
Avery Loem er 15, a member of the
A-Team, helped facilitate one of the
tables of frst-year students. Discus-
sion focused on the social role of al-
cohol, changes students would like to
see made in the social scene, and what
students think about social life here.
I had a really great group of frst
years and we were talking about the
social scene and what we like and
dont like about it, said Loem er.
Te panel included students who
drink as well as those who do not.
A-Team members shared personal
stories, an aspect of the event which
attendees said contributed to its pro-
ductivity.
I think this was an incredibly suc-
cessful event. I hope that the dialogue
around alcohol use at Bowdoin and
the social scene in general continues
to happen outside of the Summit,
said Taylor.
I dont know if it will necessarily
change [my behaviors], said Plimp-
ton. Nevertheless, she said it will give
me a new perspective.
A Spring 2012 alcohol survey dis-
tributed at nine of the 11 NESCAC
schools reported 83 percent of Bow-
doin students drinking before their
19th birthday, suggesting that most
students begin drinking before col-
lege. In the survey, 42 percent of stu-
dents said they drank occasionally
and 41 percent drank ofen. Nineteen
percent responded that they had been
criticized for drinking too heavily.
Te A-Team is sponsoring month-
ly movie screenings of new releases
with the Student Activities Om ce in
Jack Magees Pub. Te frst movie is
December 6 at 9:30 p.m.
A look into
disordered
eating at
Bowdoin
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Last week, the Orient circulated an
anonymous survey to students investi-
gating health and eating at Bowdoin.
Of the 538 respondents, 61 percent
were female and 39 percent were male.
Eighty-four percent of students said that
they felt Bowdoin created a healthy eat-
ing environment, while 55 percent of
female students reported that they think
they need to lose weight, and 45 percent
of female students were worried about a
friends eating habits. Six percent of stu-
dents reported that they had been diag-
nosed with an eating disorder.
According to Director of Health Ser-
vices Sandra Hayes, issues of disordered
eating are more complicated than a
black-and-white diagnosis.
Its on a continuum. she said, I
think that many people at some time in
their lives have had disordered eating
were always on the spectrum.
Greg Rosen 14, a co-leader of Peer
Health, said that although the Bowdoin
students are likely well-informed about
disordered eating, they may be reluctant
Te football team capped of its
season with a dramatic last-minute
32-22 win over Colby last Saturday
at Whittier Field in the teams 125th
matchup. Afer Colby came back
from a 20-6 defcit in the fourth quar-
ter to tie it at 20-20, Bowdoin quar-
terback Mac Caputi 15 found wide
receiver Dan Barone 16 on a Hail
Mary pass, giving the Polar Bears the
lead with just three seconds lef.
Facing fourth-and-nine with 12
seconds lef on the clock, Caputi took
the snap, waited in the pocket, and
threw the ball from midfeld toward
the end zone, where Barone made the
dramatic 43-yard catch amid a crowd
of Colby defenders.
We had run that play before in
practice, Barone said. I just ran
down the feld and when I got close
to the end-zone, Mac had thrown
the balland before I knew it I was
on the ground in a pile with the ball
and held on pretty tight. It was kind
of joint-possession, then I wrestled it
away.
Te play was No. 3 on ESPN Sport-
Centers Top Ten, marking the second
time in three years the football team
has been featured on the show. Te
frst was in 2011 when now-senior
linebackers Joey Cleary and Grim n
Cardew returned interceptions for 99
and 100 yards, respectively, against
BY PETER CIMINI
ORIENT STAFF
Please see EATING, page 3
A-Team members share stories
with underclassmen; 5 alcohol-
related transports to date this fall.
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BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
On Tuesday, Professor Susan Kaplan organized Bowdoins rst Pop-Up Museum in Hubbard Hall, showcasing temporary exhibits of belongings brought by students and community members. See story on page 7.
Graphic Image
Monique Kelmnson 15
Oh, I like it... I like the variety
of mustaches on campus.
Kristina Karlsson 17
I dont like it...I dont think its an
improvement for anyones appearance.
STUDENT SPEAK
Women: how do you feel about Movember?
COMPILED BY JOE SHERLOCK
Ally Silfen 17
I really think that it depends on
the person and their structure.
Yaya Julien 15
Facial hairs cool.
POP-ART
BOWDOINS MOVEMBER STACHE CACHE
John Swords 15
Duncan Taylor 14
Will Tucker 14
Jordan Goldberg 14
John Izzo 15
Matthew Mathias 14
PHOTOS BY KATE FEATHERSTON
Junior Cielle Collins arrived
at 4 p.m. just to be first in line
for last nights Thanksgiving
dinner. Her sister also drove
over an hour and a half to enjoy
the meal with her.
This years dinner is a week
early to account for the late
Thanksgiving this yearthough
the holiday is usually the second
week of November, this years
date falls only a few weeks be-
fore the pre-winter break holi-
day meal.
If you really enjoy Thanks-
giving dinner, its nice to have
a little time between your big
meals, said Associate Director
of Dining Services and Execu-
tive Chef Ken Cardone.
Cardone said its not unusual
to have both dining halls filled
with people waiting in line for
the food.
Thats whats great about it.
Its tradition, said Adam Eich-
enwald 14. We always have
our friend group. We email. We
have a set time, we come out and
were here for Thanksgiving.
I think it really brings the
school together and brings peo-
ple together, as stupid as that
may sound, said Caroline Lo-
gan 14, echoing Eichenwalds
thoughts.
Every year we usually go
around and say one thing were
thankful for and I think its
just a great vibe in the dining
hall, said Logan. Its great that
Thorne can provide that kind of
environment.
First years who experienced
their first Bowdoin Thanksgiving
dinner also gave glowing reviews
of the much loved tradition.
Its a great way to bring part
of home to college with you. Its
sort of like making this your
new home, said Kate Powers
17. You get to have a new tra-
dition.
Students raved about the ar-
ray of options and the tradi-
tional dishes. The biggest crowd
pleaser was certainly the stuff-
ing. Powers stated, The stuffing
is unreal.
Theres a plethora of veggies
and Im digging it, said Ella
Driscoll 17.
Theyve really outdone
themselves this year, Logan
said about Dinings perfor-
mance on the dinner. It looks
great, the way that theyve orga-
nized everything has gone really
smoothly. They blew it out of
the park.
Cardone attributed this to
the level of preparation Dining
does for the meal. In order to be
prepared for the meal, there are
certain items, like pumpkin, that
need to be processed as early as
Fall Break.
He said they used about 575
pounds of butternut squash and
made between 38 and 40 gallons
of gravy between Moulton and
Thorne. In order to make sure
everything is made on time and
processed correctly, they have to
plan up to six weeks before the
meal date.
Cardone said the annual
campus Thanksgiving dinner
is without a doubt the best at-
tended meal of the year.
THANKSGIVING DINNER
COMES A WEEK EARLY DUE
TO HOLIDAY SCHEDULING
BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF
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Printer issues stall completion
of We Stand with You exhibit
Around a dozen students and
faculty met last Monday to com-
memorate the We Stand with You
photo display in Smith Union, a re-
sponse to this falls bias incidents.
Due to printer issues, only 177
of the 544 headshots of Bowdoin
community members are currently
on the walls.
Te exhibit is the work of Daniel
Eloy 15 and came about as a result
of the incidents of bias on campus
and in Brunswick that afected Bow-
doin students. Two of these inci-
dents occurred in late October and
one occurred in late September.
While the original print job was
for individual posters, Eloy said
that the printer began cycling, and
he ended up with 400 duplicates.
Currently, the photos are individu-
als that have been taped together.
He has had to reformat them into
25 three-by-seven foot banners,
which will be installed sometime
this coming week.
The reactions of the people who
attended the event launch were
generally positive.
I think that the picture gallery is
a great thing because Ive been here
twice and each time Ive come here
its been the same pictures, but Ive
seen something diferent. And each
time I just can feel myself join with
the people that are up there, said
Roy Partridge, visiting assistant pro-
fessor of sociology and anthropol-
ogy and the special assistant to the
president for multicultural afairs.
Its a subtle reminder of what
were about without being too re-
actionary, said Andrew Millar 16.
Molly Fargeorge 14 made it clear
that she supported the stand of
the exhibit and thought that it was
beautifully done, but she expressed
some doubt about the effectiveness
of the event.
The people who are going to
come to see this are people who al-
ready hold the same opinions as the
presenters, she said.
Fargeorge did add that the choice
of location added poignancy to the
exhibit.
The fact that it is on such a
common space and that everyone
walks by and sees it is really nice,
she said.
While agreeing that the exhibit is
a reaction to the incidents of bias,
Eloy hopes that it will be something
more than that.
I wanted it to be more of a piece
BY CAMERON DE WET
ORIENT STAFF
that got the campus to see that
more people than they expected
were in a position to demonstrate
their solidarity to other members of
the campus, Eloy said.
Eloy sought to go beyond all-
campus emails about the bias, and
to create an exhibit that would be
both a statement of solidarity and a
measure to proactively prevent fu-
ture incidents.
I wanted people to stop and look
so that they would get the message
because I think that in an email
form we dont get the message,
said Eloy. We read something that
is displaced eight times over, thats
been a template that the school has
saved so that every time this hap-
pens we get the same kind of letter.
Its not enough anymore, he
added.
Along with other anti-bias ad-
vocates, Eloy set up a station to
take peoples pictures outside of
Moulton Union twice and Thorne
Hall once for the entire time that
dinner was open. Eloy also took
peoples pictures during breakfast
at Thorne one day.
Eloy asked people if they would
agree to have their picture taken for
an exhibit against bias in the com-
munity and had each person who
agreed sign a consent form. Tis was
due in part because Smith Union is
open to the public and the consent
form was needed for legal purposes.
However, Eloy also wanted people
to think about what they were doing.
I wanted people to have an ex-
tra step to take to put their support
into this, Eloy said.
Eloy acknowledged that some
people had been concerned about
potential coercion going on with
the process of getting the pictures.
I hope people read what they
were doing and hopefully didnt feel
coerced, he said.
Eloy said that people were ofen cu-
rious about what the photos were for.
I tried to give them the best ex-
planation that I could in the shortest
amount of time so that they could
either take the photo or not, he said.
For the most part if people heard
what it was for, they were interested
in taking the photo, he added.
Eloy said that there were some
people who didnt want to take part
or that completely ignored him, but
that he was fine with that.
I figured those kinds of things
would happen, he said.
It has not yet been decided how
long the exhibit will remain set up
in Smith Union.
to admit problems with their own diet.
Te diference is that they rational-
ize their own eating habits as not being
problematic, he said.
Brittany Maxwell 13 developed an
eating disorder her sophomore year.
I started exercising a little more and
eating a little healthier and it was all
done in a really healthy, well-balanced
way, she said. I got such good feedback
that I kept going. And all of a sudden it
went from really healthy to really un-
healthy.
While she never counted calories,
Maxwell said that her doctors and coun-
selor estimated that shed been eating
about 500 to 600 calories a day while
also over exercising. Eventually, her
disordered eating patterns reached the
point where friends and family began to
take notice, and she took a year of from
school to focus on recovering.
Sophie Namara 16 thinks that some
disordered eating patterns are linked to
Bowdoins high-stress environment.
Youre constantly doing work and
trying to be in control of something,
and [eating is] something that you can
control, she said.
Maxwell agreed.
Tere are so many people here who
are perfectionists, its just our culture,
she said. And that can lead to wanting
to be the perfect healthy nut, the perfect
ftness nut.
Maeve OLeary 14, another co-leader
of Peer Health, said that Bowdoin stu-
dents are fairly aware of food and body.
Students are pretty food conscious
and body conscious in the dining halls
and in spaces like the gym, she said.
According to a number of survey re-
spondents, however, that awareness is
not necessarily healthy.
Ive become very conscious of my
food intake which honestly for me has
helped me become a lot healthier, said
a senior female. For a lot of my friends,
though, this environment has been hos-
tile. Two of my best friends have eating
disorders and Ive seen casual acquain-
tances shrink to a horrifying level.
A junior female also discussed prob-
lems with the Colleges eating culture.
If youre a Bowdoin female and arent
self-conscious of your weight, youre a
minority, she said. Never before have I
been so conscious of what I eat.
According to Hayes, a number of fe-
male students have told her that they feel
that others are constantly watching what
theyre eating.
Whats reported to me, by women
at least, is the feeling that people know
or are looking at or are judging what or
how people are eating, she said.
A Balanced Plate
Maxwell believes that healthy options
in Bowdoins dining halls are largely pos-
itive, but that the environment can lead
to disordered eating for certain students.
Its hard for people like me who can
take things to the extreme, she said. Its
also hard if you look at the dining hall
You see all the girls with salads, theres
no protein or fatits all veggies. Te
salad bar in Tornethey never have
proteins to put on the salad; it drives me
nuts. Tat can navigate people who have
a fear of food towards certain things.
While 84 percent of survey respon-
dents said that they feel Bowdoin creates
a healthy eating environment, a number
of anonymous comments cited con-
cerns about the culture that surrounds
eating habits at Bowdoin. Several noted
a regular tendency among female stu-
dents to eat salads at every meal.
I think Bowdoin creates a healthy
eating environment in that the foods
that are served are generally healthy,
wrote a sophomore female, but I think
there is extreme pressure to eat healthy
for every single meal, meaning eating
salads. Tere is a disconnect between
what is healthy and what is low-calorie.
According to Hayes, students should
be eating all foods in moderation.
People also need and tend to shrink
away from fats and carbohydrates, she
said. You can get a lot of really wonder-
ful things on the salad bar. But if thats all
youre eating, thats a problem.
Te Male Perspective
Male students also struggle with dis-
ordred eating, though Hayes noted that
its not always entirely clear how these is-
sues manifest in male students.
Te majority of people that we treat
are women; however, we know by re-
search that eating disorders or disor-
dered eating are exploding within the
male community, she said. Tat will
look diferent than females.
One frst-year male respondent said
that he was isolated by his disorder.
I usually go to the dining hall and
eat alone, he wrote, since I dont really
want other people to notice my eating
habits. Not a single person at Bowdoin
knows about my disorder, but I kind of
like it that way. My male friends would
probably not understand my disorder,
so Id rather just not bring it up.
According to the survey, 23 percent
of males feel that they need to lose
weight, while 19 percent of males said
that they need to gain weight.
Getting Help
While some students expressed anxi-
ety about their own relationship with
food, the survey also indicated wide-
spread concern about the eating habits
of others. Forty-fve percent of female
respondents and eight percent of males
said that they were concerned about
their friends diets.
In my group of nine-ish friends, at
least six have serious eating issues, and
two were anorexic at some point over
the past two years, wrote a junior fe-
male.
Tere are two issues dealing with a
friends eating disorder: one is getting
them help, and the other is getting your-
self help. Tat process is usually really
dim cult, emotionally straining and ul-
timately very frustrating, said OLeary.
Hayes said that Counseling Services,
Peer Health, the health center, and Co-
ordinator of Health Education Whitney
Hogan can be resources for students.
Hayes also called attention to Bow-
doins contracted nutritionist and noted
that a group of health professionals
on campus meets multiple times per
month to collaboratively help specifc
students. Representatives from the
Counseling Center, Health Services, the
Director of Athletic Training, and the
nutritionist make up this team.
All of the students who are discussed
on this team know we are sharing infor-
mation, she said.
Changing the Culture

According to Rosen, Peer Health is
currently preparing body image and
eating disorder programming for Feb-
ruary. Te groups work is focused pri-
marily on prevention.
Health is something thats diferent
for everyone, and peoples perceptions
of health are very diferent, he said.
A junior female agreed.
I think that Bowdoin is, by and large,
a very healthy environment. However, I
also believe that we have created a cul-
ture around a certain type of eating, she
wrote in survey comments. I love Bow-
doin, but I would hate it if we perpetuat-
ed the idea that there is a single healthy
way to eat. Diferent things work for dif-
ferent peoples bodies.
Hayes said that her motto is health
at every size.
We need to rethink what health
looks like, she said.
Many interviewed stated that the
best way to help combat these issues
on campus is to reframe perceptions
around how food works with your body
and start to have a conversation about
eating culture at Bowdoin.
I think that people want to have a
conversation about it, said Maxwell.
Hayes agreed.
We as a community at Bowdoin
need to have this conversation, she said.
What can we do to prevent this, what
can we do to change the culture here
at Bowdoin. Weve done a phenom-
enal job about homophobic language,
bystander interventionMy challenge
to the Bowdoin student community
would be to [lets?] do it, lets change the
culture at Bowdoin.
EATING
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ABOUT FACE: We Stand with You,a photo exhibit created by Daniel Eloy 15, is now on display.
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SECURITY REPORT: 11/7 to 11/15
Friday, November 8
A student with a cut fnger was
escorted from the Edwards Center to
Parkview Adventist Medical Center.
Saturday, November 9
A steam tunnel manhole cover was
found open near Hyde Hall at 2 a.m.
and two students were seen walking
away from it. Te tunnel was thoroughly
checked to ensure that no one was inside
and then re-secured. NOTE: Unauthor-
ized access to steam tunnels is danger-
ous and strictly prohibited.
A student reported that his vehicle
was struck and damaged by another ve-
hicle while parked at Burnett House.
Sunday, November 10
An om cer checked on a student in
Hyde Hall who was ill and suspected of
having food poisoning.
A student reported being assaulted
by another student on the Quad. Te
student was taken to Parkview for treat-
ment of facial injuries. Te incident re-
mains under investigation.
Monday, November 11
An om cer checked on a sick student
at the Searles Science Building and then
escorted the student to the health center.
Tuesday, November 12
A dining staf member sliced their
fnger with a knife while cutting vegeta-
bles at Torne Dining Hall. An om cer
escorted the employee to the Mid Coast
Walk-In Clinic.
An om cer escorted a student to the
Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic for treatment
of an injury from a bicycle accident.
A local resident reported the thef of
a wallet containing $130 and personal
property from the mens locker room at
Farley Field House.
An om cer checked on the well-be-
ing of a student at Hyde Hall.
Wednesday, November 13
An om cer checked on the well-be-
ing of a student at Osher Hall.
A student was cited for disorderly
conduct and an alcohol violation stem-
ming from an incident at Moore Hall on
November 3.
Tursday, November 14
Wall damage was reported on the
fourth foor of Osher Hall.
-Compiled by the Of ce of Safety and
Security
ITAC proposes online Pub ordering system
At its meeting on Wednesday eve-
ning, Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) hosted Chief Information Of-
fcer for IT Services Mitch Davis for a
summary of ITs role in the Bowdoin
community.
Davis announced that what most
students would probably fnd as ex-
citing news, that the Internet Tech-
nology Advisory Council (ITAC)
has come up with a new proposal:
an online order form for the pub that
would alert students when their food
was ready.
Davis talk focused on Polaris and
the ify Wi-Fi. With regard to Polar-
is, Davis mentioned that this was the
frst time [IT has] done a full student
launch. Our goal was to get through
this without any major problems.
He noted that from the feedback he
has heard, registering for classes for the
spring semester has gone smoothly.
Davis said that while the wireless
connection has always been a prob-
lem, if students simply call him, he
will respond and try to fx the prob-
lem as soon as possible.
He noted that while the relation-
ship with IT is very limited . . . [he
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
believes that] the culture of Bowdoin
is changing to become more tech-
savvy.
BSGs regular business also includ-
ed reports from various other com-
mittees and members.
Te Committees for Student Af-
fairs and Academic Afairs were
pleased to announce the Uncommon
Hour and Food for Tought collabo-
ration event on November 21 at 8
p.m. in Main Lounge where Profes-
sor of Music Roy Partridge and Dan-
iel Eloy 15 will give lectures.
Te Student Organization and
Oversight Committee announced that
it has chartered a mock trial club which
will be participating in mock trials and
regional competitions if it advances.
Facilities and Sustainability noted
that there is now a whiteboard in
Tornemuch like in Moulton.
In addition, the committee dis-
cussed the rise of airport shuttle rates.
BSG President Sarah Nelson 14
noted that we wanted to be able to
pick people up from airport whereas
in the past people had to get an ex-
pensive taxi ride back to campus. Da-
vid Levine 16 noted that they erred
on the side of convenience for the
individual.
Allen Wong Yu 14 mentioned in
the Executive Committee report that
he started a program called Speak
Up Bowdoin where people can go
online to a website and annonymous-
ly write any idea or complaint they
have and other students can vote the
remarks up or down. He noted, itll
bring together the random grum-
blings you hear on campus.
Remarks that get a lot of up vote
will get a green light by the commit-
tee to make those changes.
Nelson made remarks at the meet-
ing, announcing that prior to the
Bowdoin vs. Colby hockey game
next Saturday, BSG will be hosting an
event in Farley Field House at 7 p.m.
with music and food.
She hopes that it will be a cool,
new way for us to approach get-
ting people to an athletic event for
the beginning [of the game] and a
fun event for the student body as a
whole.
Nelson put in a fnal word about
the bias incident and the programs
that are already in place, noting it
is important that we take ownership
of our community values and be
thoughtful about what we want our
community on campus to look like.
Everyone should take the time to at
least go to one of these events.
MCLELLAN
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Te risk they see is that borrow-
ing puts a small amount of pressure
on the budget for the next ten years or
so, said Pols.
Te Town acquired the building, lo-
cated at 85 Union Street, on December
22, 2011. In exchange, Bowdoin re-
ceived Longfellow Elementary School.
Te school was turned into the Edwards
Center for Art and Dance this summer.
Meanwhile, Bowdoin is prepar-
ing to move its employees from the
frst and second foors of the former
McLellan Building in December. Tat
move was scheduled for spring 2014,
but the towns construction moved
faster than expected, said Senior Vice
President for Finance and Adminis-
tration & Treasurer Katy Longley.
Currently, those two foors house the
Controllers Om ce, Om ce of Commu-
nications, Om ce of Human Resources,
and the Interactive Media Group.
As part of the agreement with the
town of Brunswick, the College can use
the third foor for ten years afer the sale.
Te Om ce of Communications and the
Interactive Media Group will move to
the third foor, while other om ces will
move elsewhere, according to Longley.
CORRECTION
In Extension of Credit/D/Fail deadline up for debate (November 8), the article originally stated that the Recording
Committee was working with BSG on a proposal; the online version has been updated to show that BSG has this proposal
and the Committee is open to consideration of the policy but is not yet doing so.
Te Orient strives to be accurate in all of its reporting. If you believe a correction or clarifcation is needed, please email
the editors at orient@bowdoin.edu.
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ORIENT STAFF
Course blends interface of digital world with humanities
Computers are changing the world
in many diferent wayswhat they can
do, how they connect people together,
how we do research, how we commu-
nicate, he said. Every aspect of soci-
ety, every aspect of academia, is being
impacted in some way. Te Digital
and Computational Studies Initiative
is a response to that and the idea that
Bowdoin, as a responsible academic
institution, should be teaching the stuf
not just to computer scientists but to
people across the curriculum.
Te class teaches text analysis, im-
age analysis and geographic infor-
mation systems (GIS) mapping, and
aims to examine methods, tools, and
projects in the Digital Humanities
before teaching students how to use
these tools in their culminating self-
designed projects.
Michael Yang 14, a government ma-
jor with a concentration in political the-
ory and who is in the course, originally
hadnt considered taking these types of
classes at Bowdoin.
I was interested in computer science
but hadnt taken any classes, he said.
Because I thought its a practical skill,
I can just go out and learn it, [so] why
do I need to be at Bowdoin to learn it?
And though he had heard of the dig-
ital initiative, he didnt realize it would
even be an option while he was here.
I thought it was happening years
down the road, he said.
Classmate Dana Hopkins 14 is in-
volved in the technical side of many
theatrical productions at Bowdoin
and she has brought her enthusiasm
for the arts to the classespecially to
the fnal project she is collaborating
on with Ian Lee 13.
Were looking at the history of the
arts at Bowdoin and how to create
hopefullya website in the end that
mixes diferent histories of the arts at
Bowdoin. Both the spatialthe ex-
pansion and then contraction of actual
physical spaces for artbut also the ad-
ministrative view of it with the courses
and curricula ofered and faculty and
student perspectives, Lee said.
Were looking at diferent ways to
A new course ofered this semester,
Gateway to the Digital Humanities, is
the Colleges frst foray into the inter-
disciplinary Digital and Computational
Studies Initiative (DCSI). Taught by
Eric Chown and Pamela Fletcher, the
heads of the computer science and art
history departments respectively, the
class was developed as a way to intro-
duce humanitites students to the big
data and computation that are becom-
ing more prevalent every day.
Chown and Fletcher are the DCSIs
co-directors, while Director of the
Quantitative Reasoning Program and
Lecturer in Mathematics Eric Gaze,
New Media and Data Visualization
Specialist Jack Gieseking, and Post-
doctoral Fellow in the Humanities
Crystal Hall will teach DCSI courses
next semester.
According to Gateways syllabus, the
course will explore the possibilities,
limitations, and implications of using
computation to study the humanities.
What sorts of questions can be asked
and answered using computational
methods? How do these methods
complement and sometimes challenge
traditional methodologies in the hu-
manities? What are the primary tools
and methods currently being used in
the digital humanities?
Chown said he is excited to see these
new crossover oferings at the College.
Tavernello Pinot Grigio:
getting what you pay for
Trevor comes home from school.
How was school?
Okay. We had a test.
Trevor got a C. You look across the
table at Richard and wipe the speck of
onion from the meatloaf of your upper
lip. How was work?
Okay. I didnt get the promotion.
Later, you sit in your chair and try
to sort out the lump in the upholstery
with your lower back. Seinfeld is on
again. Tat episode where they see who
can go the longest without masturbat-
ing. Youve seen it, but it still makes you
laugh. A little. Your husband asleep on
the couch, you walk across the linoleum
into your kitchen and open a bottle of
Tavernello Pinot Grigio. Perfect.
Tavernello gives you the feeling that
everything is just okay.
Tavernello inspires neither enthusi-
asm nor criticism. Crisp and refreshing
characteristics are found here, as well as
the sense of unbearable mediocrity that
sets in on Tuesday nights. (Were hump
day kind of guys.)
Te pinot gris grape originated in the
Burgundy region as a mutant clone of
the Pinot Noir grape, which you might
recognize from our previous column or
the movie Sideways. (Besides Wikipe-
dia and simply lying, Sideways is our
primary source for this column). While
pinot gris encompasses clones of the
grape grown around the world, only
wines produced from clones grown in
Italy earn the title of pinot grigio.
Many types of wine are made from
pinot gris, varying in color from pink
to orange. Most wines have some fruity
characteristics and acidity, depending
on the region and style. Pinot grigios in
particular are bright and high in acid.
Te Tavernello pours a pale yellow
with a clean, pear-apple nose. It is light
and refreshing, with some mild fruit
favors. Because of the lacking presence
of tannins, an acidic body cuts through
the slightly watery mouthfeel.
Tat said, the pinot is incredibly easy
to drink. Tere are no standout faws
with it; it just does not stand out. It is
average, and I hope it thinks of us some-
day when it lives in the Connecticut
suburbs with 2.1 children and 1.6 cars.
Te two of us endorse the following
as perfectly mediocre: Tavernello pinot
grigio delle venezie, Shrek 2, Bowdoin
cofee, Toyota Previa, Colby College
and Connecticut.
Additional notes:
Ryan: We had a really great pairs
well with but the Orient wouldnt let
us use it.
Dan: It was really clever and possibly
ofensive.
Ryan: Defnitely ofensive. Defnitely
the right call.
Nose:
Body:
Mouthfeel:
Taste:
Pair with quiet desperation. $4.79 at
Morning Glory Natural Foods.
DAN LIPKOWITZ
AND RYAN PEABODY
BOTTOM
OF THE
BARREL
create an immersive experience online,
said Hopkins. Other projects, she said,
include a history of cofee, poetry analy-
sis and work with colors.
Next semester will feature two new
DCSI courses. Data Driven Societ-
iestaught by Gaze and Gieseking
will evaluate the value of computers
in studying economics, politics and
society. Te Rhetoric of Big Data: Co-
pernicus to Climate Changetaught by
Hallwill set parameters for how big
data can reshape worldviews.
Afer Round One of course reg-
istration on Polaris closed yesterday
evening, Data Driven Societies had 23
pending registration requests and Te
Rhetoric of Big Data had fve.
Until recently, I had not been
one for exercise. I had not been one
for any form of movement, really.
There was little I enjoyed more than
sitting around doing absolutely
nothing. In fact, there is still noth-
ing I enjoy more than doing noth-
ing. However, I now force myself
over to the Buck Center six out of
seven evenings to, as the kids say,
Lift, bro.
To be honest, lifting is not actu-
ally a part of my routine. I just said
that because I wanted to be cool,
and I should be ashamed of myself.
Nonetheless, it is true that I have
incorporated going to the gym into
my daily routine.
Some days ago it came to me
in a dream that I should get
in shape. In the dream I saw
someone with a wonder-
fully ripped torso and ex-
cellent calves standing in
front of a mirror. Even
in the dream I knew
that person was certainly
not me, but I couldnt help wishing
he was. The little green monster of
envy began to get to me.
I thought about how the person
in the mirror probably does not run
out of breath climbing to the third
floor of his dorm or putting on his
shoes. I thought about how the
phrase shirts v. skins has never
caused him anxiety.
After a few more thoughts
passed through my head I awoke.
I sat up in bed determined to turn
Jogging my way out of social obscurity
MARCUS WRIGHT
WRIGHTLY SO
myself into the next Mr. Universe.
Then I immediately lay back down
and gave some serious thought to
the issue.
While it was true that I ate most-
ly healthy foods (though eating
heaps and heaps of healthy food in
a single sitting was probably not the
best thing to do), it was also true
that I did not exercise and t hat
I had only myself
to blame for my
lack of stun-
ning abs and
calves.
Duri ng
the last
few weeks
of my sum-
mer, it was
rare that I
ever lef my room. What reason was
there? I had a mini-fridge, a laptop,
and my glorious, glorious bed. I had
no need for the outside world and
its sun, bugs, grass, fresh air, trees
andweather. Jogs around the
neighborhood or visits to the gym
seemed like preposterous undertak-
ings. I was content with the dete-
rioration of my physical state result-
ing from copious amounts of sleep,
food and general motionlessness.
Coming to college elicited no
change from me at first. I still
chose not to move very much. The
most strenuous physical activities
I had performed were two 4 a.m.
Frostys runs prior to the begin-
ning of classes. I was certainly no
exemplar of health.
But as I lay in bed thinking
about my lazy self, I proceeded
to question whether or not it was
necessary for me to be ripped be-
yond belief to be healthy and satis-
fied. I came to the conclusion that
it was not.
All I really wanted was to not
be such an indolent
individual and to
take a little better
care of the body
that has support-
ed me for some
18 odd (very
odd) years.
I decid-
ed that a
30- mi nut e
jog on the
t r e a dmi l l
most days of
the week and
scaling back
on my food
c ons umpt i on
would be small but benefcial steps
toward improvement.
I must admit that I am still haunt-
ed by the torso in my dreams. For
that reason, if you are ever to wan-
der into Buck Center late in the eve-
ning you will see the very pathetic
sight of a fellow squirming about in
mild agony under the guise of doing
crunches, attempting to rid himself
of the sad little pouch around his
belly button that has too long been
a ftting metaphor for him.
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CODING COMPUTER LITERACY: Dana Hopkins 14 and Michael Yang 14 work on their nal projects about the history of art at Bowdoin in Gateway to the Digital Humanities lab component.
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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TALK OF THE QUAD
WHERE THERES A WIL
of normal people living everyday life.
He was frequently in places he did not
speak the language of, but he commu-
nicated with charades or napkin-draw-
ings. He says he learned from the com-
mon people that most people in this
world just want to go about their busi-
ness, theyre not concerned with these
issues that the government is waging
wars about.
When I spoke with him, he was reti-
cent about his war stories and careful
not to sensationalize his experiences
in the Navy, evincing the humility and
tendency to emphasize his role as al-
ways one piece of a collaboration, rather
than take credit or attention for himself.
He consented to tell me one story about
the time he was sure he would get shot
down fying a special operations mis-
sion over Turkey.
I guess the Turkish government
didnt know we were there and they
sent planes up and I was looking out
the window and I was looking at these
jet planes with these missiles ready to
fre and somebody yelling in the head-
phones. I thought we were goners. And
then within seconds they were gone,
and I caught my breath again.
When he was not deployed, Wil was
based at the Naval Air Station in Bruns-
wick, which ultimately connected him
to the College. He had played baseball,
basketball and football in high school
and in his of-hours, he coached foot-
ball and basketball at the Brunswick
Junior High School. (Mens soccer
Coach Scott Wiercinski was one of the
students he coached in basketball.s)
Some parents were initially skeptical
of him, but his dedication to the kids
on the team quickly won them over. It
was here that he met Tim Gilbride, the
Bowdoin mens basketball coach, who
would eventually convince Wil to apply
to Bowdoin and to play on the basket-
ball team.
Te transition from life in the Navy
to life as a student at Bowdoin had a
steep learning curve for Wil. He was
one of three African-American stu-
dents in the class of 2000.
He hadnt told anyone at Bowdoin
much about his situation. He was living
of-campus and took Olivia with him
everywhere because he couldnt aford
daycare. Having missed Orientation,
A BATHROOM PITCH
Wil Smith 00 came very close to
missing the frst day of classes the fall
of his frst year at Bowdoin. At the end
of August in 1996, he happened to be
driving past campus and wondered
when the semester was starting. Hed
been accepted to the College the pre-
vious spring, but no longer lived at the
address Bowdoin had on fle from his
application and had not received any
preparatory material. So he was sur-
prised when the deans informed him
that classes began the next day.
He scrambled to make up for the
time hed lost in missing Orientation
and began the semester with the rest of
the student body that week. At 26-years-
old, Wil was nearly a decade older
than many of his new peers. When he
showed up for his classes he brought an
unannounced plus-one that caught his
professors of-guard: his 16-month-old
daughter, Olivia, who he was raising as
a single father.
Professor Roy Partridge taught Wils
First Year Seminar, Racism. He hid
his surprise when Olivia and Wil came
to class.
Id never had this experience before
in my life, he said. Id been teaching
15-20 years.
Bowdoin in many ways was a whole
new world for Wil, although one he
would remain embedded in long afer
graduation. He grew up in Jacksonville,
Fla., the youngest of 10 children. His
mother died of cancer when he was 15.
Before Bowdoin, Wil spent seven
years as an aviation electronics techni-
cian, specializing in land-based anti-
submarine aircraf in the Navy. He en-
listed three years afer he fnished high
school and served in the frst Gulf War.
He was deployed to all corners of the
globe: Sicily, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, Ice-
land, Greenland, Panama, Puerto Rico
and Argentina.
Growing up he had loved to read and
learn about diferent places and people,
and travel was one of the aspects he
most enjoyed about the Navy. While
deployed overseas, he made extra efort
to immerse himself in the places he was
stationed, ofen venturing to areas the
Navy had told him not to go in search
Tere is a Spartan feel to the mens
restroom in Smith Union. It has three
reddish-brown stalls, three sinks and
two urinals. Te foor is an industrial
sort of teal and remarkably clean for
one of the most heavily tram cked bath-
rooms on campus. Te walls are almost
bareunadorned except for the sheet of
paper hanging above the lefmost uri-
nal, advertising Sustainable Bowdoins
strategies for being green.
Last time I used one of those urinals, I
was reading that piece of paper for what
felt like the third or fourth time. Te
poster boards in other parts of Smith are
a veritable orgy of ever-changing color.
Tey advertise poetry readings and
lectures, parties and candidates for
student government. Yet despite
this fashiness, these posters are
rarely read.
When people walk down the
halls of Smith Union, they are al-
most always headed somewhere.
Tey do not have time
to stop and peruse
advertisements, or
if they do, they
choose not to
look.
But on at
least three sepa-
rate occasions,
I have read the
same tips on
how to recycle.
I am a senior
this year, and I re-
cently had my frst
meeting with the
Career Plan-
ning Center. It went very
well. I spoke with a lovely
woman named Sherry Mason
about my future, and told her
that I had always wanted to
be a corporate lawyer. And she
began to tell me about several
alumni who had realized my
dream, including our Presi-
dent, Barry Mills.
In three years, I had not
managed to discover that
President Mills had been
a corporate lawyer, and
at that moment I realized
something very impor-
tant. Tough I knew, and
have always known, that
Bowdoin has an extensive
and varied alumni net-
work, I didnt know any-
thing about it.
And I began to wonder,
what would be the best
way to bring information
about alumni to Bowdoin
students?
Where
can we post information about our
distinguished alumni, such that it
will be impossible to ignore, such
that everyone who passes will take
the time to read, and not only to read,
but to absorb?
Te answer, of course, is in our cam-
pus public restrooms.
Imagine if every stall and every urinal
on Bowdoins campus contained a brief
biography of a diferent Bowdoin alum-
nus. Alums from all over the mapin
both a geographic and career sense
could tell us how they came to be doing
what it is that they do.
And students would really read them
because they would have little choice.
Maybe, they would fnd some of the
bios fascinating or motivating, prompt-
ing thoughts about their own futures in
a serious and thoughtful way.
Perhaps some of the featured alum-
ni would provide phone numbers or
email addresses so interested students
could contact
them and begin
having productive conversations about
the world outside the Bowdoin bubble.
Tese profles could help students
to set goals for themselvesto imag-
ine their lives afer Bowdoin and strive
confdently toward them, secure in the
knowledge that they have a powerful
support group to fall back on.
I believe that a program such as this
could change the way students think
about life afer college.
I also believe that many alumni
would fnd this to be a refreshing and
fun way to connect with the Bowdoin
student body.
Te benefts of such alumni biogra-
phies are potentially vast and there is no
better real estate for them then the Col-
leges under-utilized bathroom walls.
And only slightly less impor-
tant, it would give me some-
thing to read while I pee.
-Josh Burger-Caplan,
Class of 2014.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
he didnt know about how to sign up
for a meal plan, or that he didnt have to
buy all his books but could read them
on reserve in the library. In the Navy
he had learned how to tinker with the
hardware of computers but had never
used word processing. He hadnt been
in a formal classroom since high school
and did not feel his high school had
prepared him for the rigors of Bowdoin:
I had never been asked to write a
critical paper, where I had to show,
create a strong thesis and support it
with evidence from the text.
Wil struggled. He failed a Latin
American history class with Profes-
sor Allen Wells because he wasnt
able to buy all the books; Dean
Tim Foster was the Dean of First
Year Students at the time and Wil
was the frst student he met with
on the job. Foster recalls that Wil
lost nearly 20 pounds and he vo-
calized anger at the manifestation
of a very unfair and unjust education
system in the U.S. playing itself out at
Bowdoin co-starring [himself].
His classes introduced him to
material and modes of thinking
he had never encountered in
high school. In the divides
between his classmates and
himself, he saw the dis-
parities between most
Bowdoin students
whose high school
education had pre-
pared them to be
leadersand the
people from his com-
munity who he felt had
been prepared, at best, to be managers
at McDonalds.
We never talked about the grand
theories of social structure, he recalled.
Where I came from we talked about
racism as a practical entity which we
were experiencing, but never studied
it in a sociological or economic frame-
work. To hear that some of these kids
came understanding the frameworks,
was in many ways maddening to me,
because this was the frst time as a
27-year-old, who had been in a war and
travelled around the world, had ever
heard these concepts. And it made me
feel like I was never meant to under-
stand them.
His dim culties did not go unnoticed.
Tat frst fall Professor Partridge went
to the deans om ce to ask what kind of
support they could give Wil. Foster told
me that the College was prepared to do
nontraditional things to help a nontra-
ditional student succeed.
Betty Trout-Kelly, the assistant to
the president for multicultural afairs
and am rmative action, reached
out. She said she didnt
know what Wil was
dealing with, but that
Bowdoin would not
let him go through
it alone. Af-
ter telling his
story, the ad-
mi ni s t r a -
tion quickly
marshal ed
resources for
Wil. Tey
got him an
apartment in
Brunswi ck
Apartments
and a meal
plan. An
people he trusted with Olivia and re-
main some of his closest friends.
He remembered a turning point in
an Econ 102 lecture where the profes-
sor was talking about the boom of the
Reagan years and the benefts of sup-
ply-side economics. He saw the other
students nodding in agreement but felt
that growing up had shown him that
the things at the top never quite trickle
all the way down.
In my community, it was none of the
rosy stuf that this guy was describing. It
was rampant unemployment, crack co-
caine, the beginning of the war against
drugs, the war against black men, he
remembered. He started building rela-
tionships with other students too, who
were interested in hearing and learning
more about his experiences.
He got involved with a group of stu-
dents on campus who challenged the
school to change the composition of the
school, the demographics of the school,
and it wasnt just the students of color at
the time, it was a lot of the majority stu-
dents as well. Tey wanted people from
backgrounds who were not like theirs
to enhance their education.
When Wil graduated in 2000, he
ascended the museum steps carrying
Olivia. Te two of them received his
degree in Sociology and Economics
and a standing ovation from the crowd.
As a senior, he was the captain of the
basketball team and received the athlet-
ics award for outstanding commitment
to community service, an award which
was later renamed in his honor. Afer
graduation he stayed at Bowdoin, in the
Dean of Student Afairs om ce, working
to continue the diversity initiatives he
had begun as a student.
Afer several years, Wil lef Bowdoin
and got his law degree at the Univer-
sity of Maine, although soon afer his
graduation, Foster and several other
administrators took him out for dinner
and implored him to return to Bowdoin
as the associate dean of multicultural
afairs, a position they had created for
Wil. Wil returned to the College dedi-
cated to changing Bowdoin fromin
his wordsan institution for smart,
East Coast kids that didnt get into the
Ivies to a place for dedicated students
from high schools across the country.
-Eliza Novick-Smith, Class of 2014.
alum donated $25,000 to cover child
care expenses for Olivia.
Te more time he spent with stu-
dents at Bowdoin, the more he began to
think diferently about being a student
here. Basketball season started and the
team immediately embraced Wil.
I got to know my friends on the
team, those guys were really good to
me, and some of my babysitters for Ol-
ivia. Tey were good people. And it was
hard for me to reconcile my disdain for
a group of people when they were treat-
ing me so kindly.
His teammates, Coach Gilbride and
his wife, Lisa, were among the frst
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HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LIVE AUDIENCE: Steve Roggenbuck performed in a packed Ladd House last Saturday night, a change from the outdoorsy settings of his YouTube videos.
LIVE MY LIEF: Manipulating Internet culture with optimism
Many of us have thought at one
time, My professor is wrong. And
some of us have felt the urge to
abandon college and pursue some-
thing we are more passionate about.
But few of us ever act on these mo-
ments. Steve Roggenbuck, a rising
poet best known for his viral You-
Tube videos, did exactly that.
After completing a degree in
English at Central Michigan Uni-
versity, Roggenbuck began courses
at Columbia College Chicago for
his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in
Poetry. However, when his profes-
sors discouraged his more playful
poetryinspired by beat writers
and Walt Whitmanhe eventually
dropped out.
I was interested in doing this
funny poetry that was based off
the Internet, said Roggenbuck. I
do misspellings in my work, sort
of similar to how LOLCats have
the misspellings. But my teachers
didnt really appreciate the value of
that very much, and they discour-
aged me from it. I needed to be
able to follow what I was interested
in and they were trying to push me
in a different direction.
Roggenbucks poetry is driven
by irony, improvisation, positive
messages and an engagement with
our generations Internet culture.
There is no strict boundary of
what is and is not poetry for him.
The thing is, people who say
that Im not a poetI dont have
any strong argument against that,
he said. If you look at the actual
history of poetry, there are people
BY CAITLIN WHALEN
ORIENT STAFF
who have made poetry that is just
visual or just audio. Theres been
video poetry. There have been po-
ems as short as just a couple words.
Theres so much thats been done
that you literally cant say that
something is or isnt poetry based
on that precedent anymore.
He expressed his desire to contin-
ue in the sport of his more traditional
poetic predecessors.
I want to remind people about
carpe diem. And I want to remind
people about love and appreciat-
ing their life while theyre alive
and just playing with language,
he said. So I still feel like Im do-
ing what poets have done all those
years even if it comes out in a very
different form.
Since dropping out of the MFA
program last year, Roggenbuck has
spent most of his time couch-surf-
ingmost recently in Brunswick
so that he could focus on blogging
and writing as much as possible.
And it has paid offliterally.
tour again. He now has plans to
permanently reside in the area.
I like Bowdoin and Brunswick
a lot, Roggenbuck said. I like
the library. I like the woods. And
hopefully, Ill have an apartment
here soon if everything works out.
As a 26-year-old rising Internet-
star, Roggenbuck currently has
14,825 followers on Twitter. He has
posted nearly 150 YouTube videos
and his most popular video, make
something beautiful before you are
dead, has received approximately
105,350 views. He was recently in-
terviewed by Gawker as well.
Beyond just entertaining his
viewers, audiences and readers,
Roggenbuck also strives to deliver
positive and motivational messages
through his work.
Im experiencing something
now that a lot of people experi-
ence, I think, when they get more
success or more popularitymore
people looking at what theyre do-
ing, he said. You start to feel a
responsibility to make sure that
youre spreading a good message.
So this year I especially have made
sure that Im spreading a positive
message as I see it. And that has
meant being a little more vocal
about some activist causes that I
believe in and just trying to focus
on whats going to help people.
His poetic style that has gained
so much renown is an amalgam of
comedic commentaries and serious
messages through social media. For
example, one of his personal web-
sites is entitled LIVE MY LIEF. Ac-
cording to Roggenbuck, this very
phrase epitomizes his intentional
blend of messages, as he truly wants
his followers to live actively, but he
Spears and Jesus: The comeback kids
At 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Im sitting
in Moulton, discussing Britney Spears
and Jesus. More specifcally their col-
lective comeback. I asked my dinner
companion: What does Britney rep-
resent in 2013? What does the album
title Britney Jean really mean? Is it
an oblique reference to that time she
and Justin Timberlake wore matching
jean suits? Or is it because her middle
name is Jean? Is it socially acceptable
to purchase Britneys 13th fragrance?
Was it acceptable to purchase her 12th
and 11th?
Ten we started talking about Je-
sus. Teres a new musical out titled
SPEARS: Te Gospel According to
Britney. Patrick Blute, the creator,
claimed in a Fox News article that
this will be the greatest story ever
told to the greatest music ever writ-
ten. Blutea Columbia gradis
careful to say that the show is not
meant to be rude. He assures us that
the musical, tells an essential story
using fragments of pop culture in
a non-ofensive way. Blute says the
piece is meant to reconcile the anxi-
ety 20-somethings feel about living in
a society that has thousands of state-
ments and not much substance.
Te musical played to this key audi-
ence when it opened at Columbia be-
fore moving into New York City.
We went on to wonder how one
can tell Jesuss story inofensively. We
decide we will assign our own choice
Britney songs to Jesuss story: Hit Me
Baby One More Time for the fog-
ging, Toxic for when Jesus meets
Mary Magdalene, Work, Bitch for
the carpentry backstory, and so on.
I asked my friend if this material is
too religiously insensitive for an Ori-
ent column, and she said it would be
better suited for a drinking game. I
thought wowfor Snark Week or Sat-
urday night, thats the question.
Tis conversation stayed with me.
I spend the remainder of the evening
knitting and listening to the music of
the 90s (side note: who knew that En-
rique Iglesias was a thing in 1999? A
SNARK WEEK
ALLY GLASS-KATZ
Public curates two-hour
Pop-Up Museum exhibit
Its not everyday one finds a pro-
gram for a 1970 Red Sox game,
a record of sheep sacrifices from
1900 B.C. and an armadillo sewing
basket sitting side-by-side. But at-
tendees of Tuesday nights Pop-Up
Museum were privy to just that.
A Pop-Up Museum is essential-
ly a temporary exhibit created by
whoever shows up to participate.
People arrive with an object in
hand and put it on display to share
with the public.
The Pop-Up Museum, held in
Hubbard Hall, was an idea formu-
lated by Susan Kaplan, professor of
sociology and anthropology and
director of the Peary-MacMillan
Arctic Museum and Arctic Stud-
ies Center. Inspired by her Who
Owns The Past course, Kaplan
decided to take a stab at creating
Bowdoins first Pop-Up Museum.
All objects have a story, explained
Kaplan. Quite ofen, [museum pieces]
BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
ORIENT STAFF
are objects that were quite ordinary
when they were made and then be-
cause of their history, they become ex-
traordinary. Objects have life histories.
Tuesdays turnout proved that the
Bowdoin and Brunswick communi-
ties are a welcome audience to these
eclectic objects. With more than 80
patrons and nearly 100 objects dis-
played across nine tables, the scene in
Hubbard Hall was bustling. Dining
Services catered the event with foods
that contained the word pop, like
popcorn, cake-pops and Pop Rocks.
While some of the people who
brought objects to the showing chose
Please see POP-UP, page 8
Dining Services catered the
event with foods that contained
the word pop,like popcorn,
cake-pops and Pop Rocks.
Please see SPEARS, page 8
Theres so much thats
been done that you literally
cant say that something is
or isnt poetry based on
that precendent anymore.
STEVE ROGGENBUCK
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
This past year is when I really
built a foundation for myself with
poetry sort of as a career, he said.
And this year Ive even been able
to live off of it a little more.
This fall he would spend a week
on tour doing readings at various
universities, and then a week here
in town before heading back on
Steve Roggenbuck, a 26-year-old
rising Internet bard with nearly
15,000 Twitter followers, shared
his work on campus last week.
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Westrio, a band of sophomore students, nds groove in second year
Kooky and honest is how Nick
Walker 16 describes the band
Westrio that he and fellow sopho-
mores James Sullivan and Jacob El-
lis formed last year after perform-
ing together at a cross-country
talent show.
Weird, definitely weird, said
Sullivan.
I would say that were energetic,
Ellis added.
Bowdoins Westrio is a folksy
acoustic trio, with Walker on gui-
tar and vocals, Sullivan on bass
and Ellis on the banjo. Sullivan
said that their style, started as
much more folk pop and folk rock
and [has been] digressing to more
standard folk songsa little bit
more bluegrassy.
Although the band has only
been playing together for a year,
its changed enormously since its
first show.
I remember the first time we
played we were so bad, but we got
the biggest rush after we played,
Walker said. We were just not re-
ally fluid at allwe just kind of
learned to start listening to each
other more.
BY JODI KRAUSHAR
ORIENT STAFF
Over the past year they have
learned how to work together and
developed a music style that they all
feel more passionate and confdent
about.
It was really easy [at the begin-
ning] to put together a song that
everyone loves to play, but maybe
without as much talent as is needed
to play other songs and have fun, El-
lis said. As weve gotten better as in-
dividuals and better as a group, were
able to play more mellow songs.
Westrio has even begun to ex-
periment with songwriting. So far,
they have worked on about five
original songs.
I didnt really know how you
brought the lyrics and the song to-
gether, said Walker, but he has since
learned that if you have some image
that you want to tell, you bring that
out in the mood of the song.
Ellis looks forward to incorporat-
ing more songwriting into the bands
future. Every time we write a new
song, I think [it] is our best one yet,
he said.
Westrio is still in the process of
fguring out where they ft in the
Bowdoin music scene.
We definitely dont fit into the
two guitar, one bass, one drummer
mold, Ellis said. We struggle a
little bit trying to find what ven-
ues and what types of shows fit
our sound best. And then on the
flip side, [we struggle with] how
we can make our sound more full.
Having an acoustic trio is really
On Thursday, Brunswicks Fron-
tier Caf held a concert featuring
compositions by students from
Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and the
University of Southern Maine.
Tis was the twelfh such perfor-
mance since the concert series began
two years ago.
Bowdoin student Aleph Cervo 14
was approached by Vineet Shende,
associate professor of music and
chair of the music department, who
BY MICHELLE HONG
ORIENT STAFF
asked Cervo to assemble a group to
perform an original piece.
Cervo chose a composition he had
written for a previous competition
called In Tree.
I was trying to expand my har-
monic language a little bit. I wanted to
write something that was accessible to
a lay audiencesomeone who wasnt
musically endowed, said Cervo. But
at the same time, I was trying to emu-
late classical music while making the
harmonic language my own.
Te title of the composition alludes
to his theme.
Students exhibit compositions at Frontier
to leave them the table with a label,
other folks stayed close to their items
whether they were soap stone carvings,
pony fgurines or vintage purseswith
hopes of sharing the objects story with
others.
The pieces on display ranged
from personal creations to pre-
served entities. Norm Rosenbaum
of Brunswick stood close by his ob-
ject, a sculpture he calls Polar Mom
that he carved in New Mexico in
1994. The item holds significance
for him because he was once told
that a bear is your totem, your
guiding figure.
Peter Nardozzi, also of Bruns-
wick, displayed an autographed
program of a 1970 Red Sox game he
attended.
I paid $3.75 for a ticket...which I
thought was a little high, Nardozzi
said.
Everyone at the museum was ea-
ger to share the story behind what-
ever they had brought to the table.
Nancy Desjardins of Brunswick
brought an armadillo sewing basket
that belonged to her mother.
She did customized sewing for
a certain clientele, explained Des-
jardins. Her clientele involved
Bowdoin professors wives. It was
all customized sewing.
A boy gave her [the armadillo
sewing basket] as a gift on their first
date, she added. She was afraid of
him because of his piercing eyes
and didnt go on a second date...but
she got the basket.
Harriet Lindemann and Judith
Long of Brunswick explained that
they had no expectations for the
Pop-Up Museum, but were pleas-
antly surprised by the amount of
odd objects displayed, and the
wild stories behind them.
It is such a clever idea, noted
Lindemann. I think it really struck
a chord.
Cynthia Shelmerdine of Bruns-
wick stood by what Lindemann and
Long named the most interesting
item at the museum: a cuneiform
tablet from 1900 B.C. that depicted
sheep sacrifices.
My grandmother found it
amongst [my grandfathers] things
and she called me and she said I
dont know what this is but its old
and you like old things, so why dont
you have it, explained Shelmer-
dine. I was a freshman in college
and I went on to become a Classics
professor. [Weve] conserved this
[tablet] and made it safe, stabilized
it, and published it, and thats why I
know what it says.
The Pop-Up Museum gives view-
ers the ability to come in close con-
tact with items that might normally
be put behind glass, Shelmerdine
explained.
I havent given this to a museum
yet, though eventually it will end up
there, said Shelmerdine. I like to
be able to hand it to students and
say, here. This is from 1900 B.C.
This is real.
Kermit Smyth of Brunswick
brought with him three displays of
animal bottle caps from his collec-
tion of approximately 2,000-2,500
caps.
My daughter and I started col-
lecting them 30 years ago, Smyth
explained. The animals are our
favorite subset.
Smyth thought the Pop-Up Muse-
um was a huge success and expects
increased attendance.
I think if [Kaplan] does it again
next year shell have 500 people in
here and we wont be able to walk
around. Its great fun, Smyth said.
Alongside items brought by
Brunswick residents were trinkets
belonging to Bowdoin students,
and throughout the room students
struck up conversations with folks
from around town, uncovering the
mysteries that lay behind objects as
simple as a solitary marble.
People collect the most amazing
things, Kaplan said.
cool, but it definitely lacks some
power.
Walker concurred that the band
is defnitely less punchy and folk
music is less get up and dance mu-
sic. Ellis added: were defnitely a
little of-center from the music scene
[at Bowdoin].
Te three have all found that be-
ing a part of Westrio has had a huge
impact on their Bowdoin experi-
ence. Walker said that joining the
band totally changed things for me
at Bowdoin.
Sullivan, who had been unable to
run on the track team due to injuries
since he arrived last year, said that
Westrio is one of his main commit-
ments on campus.
experience I had. It was the first
strong connection I made with
anyone or anything here.
Ellis mentioned he has become
much closer friends playing music
with [Walker and Sullivan]. Having
a common goal brings you together
in a way that you wouldnt get just
hanging out.
For Walker and Ellis, the expe-
rience of being in a band is com-
pletely new. All three had come
from musical backgrounds; how-
ever, Westrio presents a unique op-
portunity for all of them. Even for
Sullivan, who had been involved
in bands in high school, said that
their band is very different be-
cause it was space-rock shoe-gaze
genre. Ellis only started playing
the banjo last year, when the trio
thought that it was a good addi-
tion to the group. The idea to in-
clude the instrument actually de-
rived from their desire to perform
a Mumford and Sons song at the
cross-country talent show.
Te band has come a long way
since then, and is constantly experi-
menting and trying to improve itself.
I think we have good energy,
Walker said. We may not be the
rowdiest band out there, but we have
a pretty fun time.
POP-UP
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
true millennial). I realize that Britney
has not only made waves in the drink-
ing game, fragrance producing, child
rearing, and theater making worlds
she has also signifcantly improved the
security of our sailors abroad.
Merchant Navy Om cer Rachel
Owens was recently quoted in an
NBC article that sailors have been
using Britney Spears songs to ward
of Somali pirates. I am pleased by
this; particularly, the mental image
SPEARS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
Its a four and a half minute
piece but within there you have
three main sections. Its for a trio
piano, cello and violin. The time
signature is in three-four time. Es-
pecially the first section you feel is
a waltz, he said.
Cervo plays vibraphone, mallet
percussion and piano. Te trio now
consists of Dan Lesser 14 on cello, Yo-
won Yoon 14 on piano and Nickolas
Telenson 14 on violin.
Its cool playing a piece a fellow
student has written and be able to
rehearse it with him there and talk
about why he did certain things the
way he did and what efect hes going
for, said Lesser.
Te fact that Cervo is not a string
player has made the musicians in-
put particularly important to the
overall performance.
Its been a learning experience
for him, too. Hes not a string player,
so some of the parts hes written we
have suggestions on, things he might
change, said Lesser. Its been a cool
back-and-forth experience.
Playing of-campus has been an-
other facet of the experience, as such
opportunities arent frequent.
Nick and I play gigs. We did
a wedding a month or so ago. I
play at some churches sometimes
in the area, said Lesser. But its
not often that I play a piece by a
Maine composer, or someone I
know personally.
We definitely dont fit into the
two guitar, one bass, one drummer
mold. We struggle a little bit trying
to find what venues and what types
of shows fit our sound best.
JACOB ELLIS 16
Freshman year, you dont re-
ally know where to go, in terms
of friends, Sullivan said. Westrio
was the first stable, fun friend
of sailors on tankers blasting Toxic.
According to Owens, [Britneys]
songs were chosen by the security
team because they thought the pirates
would hate them mostits so efec-
tive, the ships security rarely needs to
resort to fring guns.
Perhaps, if Tom Hankss character
in the recently-released blockbuster
Captain Phillips had employed this
strategy, the pirates would never have
taken over his ship. Metro News re-
ported that in 2011 alone there were
176 pirate attack on boats of the Cape
of Africa. Britney is helping stop this.
She is is saving lives. Britney: pirate de-
terrent; Britney: shepherd to the fock.
As I sat in Moulton contemplating
Britney and Jesus, something clicked
into place. Britney is here. She helps
travelers cross pirate-infested waters.
She helps confused 20-somethings
understand the story of Jesus. Brit-
ney is protective; she has a mothers
touch. Britneylike Jesusis here
to make religion, travel, and art more
palatable. It was then I realized that
that Britney Jean is nothing less than
a hagiography; she is a saint. We are
experiencing a second cominga
second coming of Britney Spears. Its
Britney, bitch.
JOANNA GROMADZKI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
IN TUNE: Perched on Frontiers stage, Bowdoin students impressed with a student-written song.
EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BRO-HEMIAN RHAPSODY: Sophomores Jacob Ellis, Nick Walker and James Sullivan jam together.
One of the greatest aspects of the
Pop-Up Museum is the ability
to come in close contact
with some item that might
normally be put behind glass.
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Daniel Eloy15
Daniel Eloy 15 is the type of per-
son who will tell you his opinion
about pretty much anything. When
he met me in Smith Union, he had
just rushed from the art studio;
half-wearing a scarf, he immedi-
ately slumped into an armchair. His
voice was barely audible over the
rambunctious conversations in the
Union, but his words had weight
(and marked lack of pettiness) so I
leaned in to catch everything.
Most recently, Eloy proposed and
executed the much-discussed We
Stand With You photo-installation
in response to this falls bias inci-
dents. His work involved taking and
editing portraits of 544 students (for
more on the project, turn to We
Stand With You on page 3).
I just wanted people to look at
them and feel like there was a sense
of community here even in the face
of bias and hate, said Eloy.
Eloy has always been involved in
the arts, but didnt take art classes
until he came to Bowdoin. It was
only this year that he seriously start-
ed considering art as a major and ca-
reer path. Eloy said art is all he does
now, but this wasnt always the case.
Eloy does not expect the aver-
age viewer to understand the in-
tricacies of his work, nor does he
necessarily want them to.
I like very intimate things
stuf that I or people that are in
the art piece would understand, as
long as its still aesthetically pleas-
ing to everyone else. I dont want
what I make to be distancing in
any way from the audience, but I
do like that there is a level that they
wont understand sometimes.
But Eloy goes beyond these am-
biguities for the viewer. He says he
is ofen inspired by politicsdo-
mestic and internationalas well
as literature.
Eloy is a aisual arts major and an
English minor (maybe major, if he
takes two more classes). He feels a
close connection to these subjects,
and is aware of a relationship between
art and text.
I like to read for fun. And so if
a book strikes me, a lot of times Ill
highlight passages that I can imagine
as pieces.
What Eloy aims to accomplish
in his visual art varies from piece to
piece. But a long-term and essential
goal is to impact the viewer in more
than a passive way.
I want whoever is passing to stop
and look, said Eloy. If theyre walk-
ing through a space where theres a
lot of art, I want them to stop at mine
because they want to look at it or
something intrigues them.
Eloy also participates in the Slam
Poets Society, and sees his work
there as an extension of his art.
Writing is important to me. Any-
thing I can do to express myself pri-
vately: journaling, writing poetry for
Slam, and then reading. I really like
to read.
Eloy sees the world through an
artists lens, literally.
I carry my camera every-
where I go. So if the opportu-
nity arises, Ill take a picture,
he said.
And I doodle a lot. I dont
know if thats art, but sometimes
those lead to things that are more
than doodles.
BY EMILY WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
INTERNET
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
does not want them to take it too
seriouslyhence the misspelling.
I really like building rap-
port with comedy and then say-
ing something serious. A lot of
the times the people. who like my
stuff, like youth and indie people,
they dont like mainstream moti-
vational speakers at all, he said.
Theyre not very receptive to it
usually. So I like to sort of repack-
age it into the goofy humor, the In-
ternet culture humor, to create that
message as a new package.
Beyond the comedic aspects of
his poems, Roggenbuck also ac-
tively engages with this generations
meaning of the Internet. His You-
Tube videos are filmed as if they
audiences during live performances,
he thrives on the accessibility and
speed of the Internet.
I can tweet something and it
reaches all these thousands of people
in the middle of their day. Some-
body might be in class or even on
their lunch break going through their
Twitter and they can see it, he said.
In delivering his messages so
playfully, Roggenbuck hopes to
make a difference in peoples lives
by reminding them to enjoy the
little things.
Thats a main dynamic of my
work and a lot of the stuff I like thats
being made now, said Roggenbuck.
Its like its funny but its not just
a joke. Or like its serious but that
doesnt mean it cant be joking
around. A lot of people would say
that a poet cant really help people
much, but I feel like you can.
were selfies. He appears to be fas-
cinated with YOLO (a term coined
by recording artist Drake which
stands for You Only Live Once),
and turns his poetry into image
macros (photos overlaid with hu-
morous text). He communicates
with his audiences in the comment
sections online, especially engaging
insults and criticisms.
I like to use these populist forms,
he said. I want to reach lots of peo-
ple and I want to embrace the forms
of the people, so I like to use these
forms that anybody can make, like an
image macro is so simple to make.
I like using selfies and tweets,
and videos that are recorded like
selfies and patched together with
copyrighted music that I didnt
even get permission to use.
And while Roggenbuck enjoys the
direct connection he can make with
COURTESY OF JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER
The Chain Gang of 1974 rocked the stage at WBORs fall concert last Friday, November 4 in Smith Union, along with pianist Hassan Muhammed 10 and the Slam Poet Society.
SOUND WAVES
I like very intimate things
stuff that I or people that are
in the art piece would
understand, as long as its
still aesthetically pleasing to
everyone else.
DANIEL ELOY 15
When I was a frst year and
a sophomore, I didnt want to be
an art major and when I took art
classes, I kind of half-assed them
and didnt put a lot of efort in. I did
what I needed to do to get the grade,
honestly. Sometimes I hit gold and
other times I didnt, he said.
He decided to major in visual arts
over the summer, coming with a
new attitude this semester.
At this point I spend as much
time on a piece as the piece needs
until its donewhatever that is,
however long that takessome-
times its all-nighters and sometimes
its a few hours.
Eloy just fnished his submis-
sion for a competition in his Public
Art class, where students designed
artwork for space in front Fort
Andross. Te submissions had a
$30,000 budget.
It was a lot of fun to get to think
in such a huge scale, he said.
He is currently working on a
photo-etching book of portraits,
a project he said he was inspired
by specifc close-up images and
memories of those people.
SPORTS
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didnt panic, and they took the lead ex-
actly four minutes later on a solo efort
by Adrienne ODonnell 15. Just her
third goal of the year, ODonnell got on
the end of a through-ball, got around
Keenan, and was able to earn enough
space from a recovering Tufs defender
to fnish of the move for the score.
Soon afer, Tufs evened the score for
the second time that afernoon, capi-
talizing on another penalty corner to
tie the game in the 56th minute. Only
seven minutes later, the Polar Bears re-
captured the leadthis time for good.
Captain Katie Riley 14 fnished of a
penalty corner to score her 15th goal of
the season. To protect the lead, Kimmy
Ganong 17 scored for the frst time
since late September to close out the
game for Bowdoin.
NCAA tournament awaits eld hockey
BY HALLIE BATES
ORIENT STAFF
Tis weekend the feld hockey team
will take the long bus ride down to New
Jersey for its second-round NCAA D-
III tournament game. Tough they
received an at-large bid to the tourna-
ment, the Polar Bears were still seeded
high enough to receive a frst-round
bye, and tomorrow they will take on
New Paltz State, which defeated Wil-
liam Smith on Wednesday.
Bowdoin hopes to rebound from
a tough loss in the NESCAC fnals
to the national No. 3 Middlebury, af-
ter defeating Tufs in the semifnals.
Avenging a 1-0 loss to Tufs in the
teams fnal regular season game two
weeks earlier, Bowdoin put together
an impressive 4-2 victory against the
Jumbos last Saturday.
Te team started out strong, putting
pressure on Tufs goalie Brianna Keen-
an. Afer forward Emily Simonton 15
blasted two on-goal shots against Keen-
an, Colleen Finnerty 15 fred a shot into
the lower lef corner, giving Bowdoin
the lead 22 minutes into the game. Te
assist went to Kelsey Mullaney 16, her
frst of the season. Te Jumbos had one
good chance to tie it up before the half
ended, but goalie Hannah Gartner 15
was able to make the save.
Te second half featured far more
excitement, especially afer Tufs scored
to tie the game at 1-1. Gartner made the
frst save of a penalty corner, but a long
rebound was slotted between defenders
and into the net.
But the veteran Bowdoin squad
Te womens rugby team defeated
the College of the Holy Cross in a de-
cisive 54-7 victory last Saturday in the
American College Rugby Association
(ACRA) Round of 32.
Mens soccer nearly
upends No. 1 Amherst
BY JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF
Head Coach MaryBeth Mathews
said that that Saturdays victory was a
hard fought team efort.
It was a total team win, said
Mathews. Tey played very well and
continue to play better each week. Tat
was terrifc to come away with such a
convincing win, and Holy Cross was
a tough team. Despite the score, they
played all 80 minutes. Tey never gave
up. So our team had to fght for every
point that they scored.
Emily Athanas-Linden 15 said that
Bowdoin played a strong, physical
game.
Tere was some great tackling from
both of our [senior] captains, Maura Al-
len and Amanda Montenegro, she said.
Te tackling was crucial because there
were a number of points where we were
very much on the defensivethey had
about 10 meters until the try line.
seven aces. Leech had 48 assists and 25
digs, with Brennan adding 15 kills and
Vail tallying 17 digs. Vail now holds the
school record with the most career digs
with 1,567. With the win, the Polar Bears
advanced to their second NESCAC title
game in the past three seasons.
Bowdoin and Williams faced of
on Sunday to battle for the NESCAC
Championship. Bowdoin could not
match the frepower of the Williams
ofense, and the Ephs claimed the title
with set scores of 25-16, 25-15 and 25-
19 to secure a convincing 3-0 win and
walk away with their eighth conference
trophy since 2000.
According to Emi Gaal 15, the team
made a few important mistakes that al-
lowed Williams to come out on top.
We could have done a better job
of reading and anticipating the op-
ponents next move, said Gaal. Our
play was more reactionary and less
assertive, which made it hard to fn-
ish long rallies.
Head Coach Karen Corey said she
was proud of the efort and passion the
team played with over the weekend. She
was especially impressed with Jewett.
[Jewett] really shone in these match-
es, said Corey. She took the team on
her back and played wonderfully.
Coach Corey also stressed how well
the team did against elite competition.
Williams is an exceptional team, she
said. Tey have fve hitters on the court
at all times, and we were outmatched. I
give a lot of credit to the girls, but Wil-
liams was a great opponent.
Gaal echoed those sentiments.
We had a hard time adjusting to the
Volleyball falls to Williams
in NESCAC Championship
BY LILY RAMIN
STAFF WRITER
Afer two straight come-from-be-
hind, fve-set wins to start the weekend,
the womens volleyball team walked
away from the NESCAC Champion-
ships last weekend as runner-up, win-
ning its frst two games against Trinity
and Amherst before falling in the cham-
pionship match to Williams. Te Polar
Bears were not ofered an at-large bid to
the D-III Championship, and they end
their season with a 23-7 record.
Captain Taylor Vail 14 was named
the NESCAC Defensive Player of the
Year, and is the frst Bowdoin player to
receive this distinction. Vail, captain El-
lie Brennan 14 and Christy Jewett 16,
were recognized as a Second Team All-
NESCAC selection.
In the quarterfnal round of the tour-
nament, the second-seeded Polar Bears
emerged triumphant against Trinity af-
ter fve sets of play with scores of 25-15,
17-25, 19-25, 25-16 and 15-13. Jewett
led Bowdoin with 18 kills and 17 digs,
while Brennan added 11 kills. Vail had
four aces and a match-high 20 digs.
Quincy Leech 17 and Sophia Cornew
14 combined for 38 assists to secure the
Bowdoin victory.
On Saturday, the team topped third-
seeded Amherst 3-2, claiming the win
by set scores of 25-22, 22-25, 15-25, 25-
20 and 15-13. Jewett was again critical in
the victory, posting 24 kills, 16 digs and
On Sunday, the women faced the
tournaments No. 4 seed, Middlebury,
in the conference fnals. Te Panthers
came into the game fresh of an upset of
top-seeded Amherst, who ended up not
qualifying for the NCAA tournament
as a result. Te two teams had not met
since September 21, when Bowdoin de-
feated the visiting Panthers 4-2.
Te Polar Bears got of to a strong
start this time around, scoring twice in
the opening seven minutes through ef-
forts by Rachel Kennedy 16 and Simon-
ton. But Middlebury proved their resil-
ience when Bridget Instrum scored two
for the Panthers to tie it up before half.
Riley was quick to respond for the
Polar Bears coming out of the half,
COURTESY OF JOE PADUDA
FIGHTING FOR POSSESION: Adrienne ODonnell 15 fends o a Tufts defender last weekend.
Te ffh-seeded mens soccer team
ended its season last Saturday by losing
in a double-overtime match to top-seed-
ed Amherst in the NESCAC semifnals.
Bowdoins 8-4-4 record was not strong
enough to earn the team an at-large bid
into the NCAA D-III tournament.
Despite ending their season with a
loss, the Polar Bears fared well against
the undefeated Lord Jefs, who have
been ranked No. 1 nationally for most
of the season. Afer giving up a goal of a
corner kick, the Polar Bears struck back
when Matt Dias Costas 17 capitalized
on a rebound in the 56th minute.
Bowdoin was able to match the ag-
gressiveness of the notoriously physical
Jefs and even had a couple opportuni-
ties to end the 1-1 draw in overtime. But
Amherst secured the win when Justin
Aoyama put the ball in the back of the
Bowdoin net from roughly 30 yards
out with only three minutes remaining
before a penalty shootout would have
decided the game.
Afer playing into Amhersts
strengths in a 3-0 loss earlier this season,
the Polar Bears had to reevaluate their
Womens rugby moves to Sweet 16
BY NOAH SAFIAN
ORIENT STAFF
strategy to compete more efectively in
their most recent contest.
Te game plan against Amherst is
pretty simple, said Head Coach Scott
Wiercinski. Tey play a very direct,
very physical, very aerial style, and if
you can deal with that, youre going to
be fne.
We just went up for every 50/50
ball in the mixerwe were challeng-
ing everything and just trying to be as
physical as possible to match their size,
added Dias Costa. But also the key is to
just pass, move and work around them
instead of going through them.
Unfortunately, Bowdoins stronger
performance was still not enough to de-
feat Amherst. Despite several chances to
win the game, including Amhersts need
for an incredible save in the frst over-
time, Wiercinskis inaugural season as
coach came to an early end.
Its a small consolation prize that
we played well [in the] last game, said
Wiercinski. Teres kind of an empty
feeling afer that loss now that its over,
and thats the way I spoke to the team
aferwards.
Te Polar Bears rough start to the
season contributed to their failure to
earn an at-large bid to this years NCAA
tournament. Te team didnt earn
its frst conference win until nearly a
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Su 11/10
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v. Middlebury
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TAKE DOWN: Charlotte Kleiman 15 attempts to tackle a Holy Cross ball-carrier in last weekends playo game. Bowdoin defeated the Crusaders by a score of 54-7.
Please see VBALL, page 12
Please see RUGBY, page 11 Please see M. SOCCER, page 11
SCORECARD
Sa 11/9 at Amherst L 21
Please see F. HOCKEY, page 12
SCORECARD
Sa 11/9 v. Holy Cross W 547
SCORECARD
Fr 11/8
Sa 11/9
Su 11/10
v. Trinity
v. Amherst
v. Williams
W
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Does locker-room culture need a change?
Matt Glatt: Teres been pretty much
one story blowing up all the sports me-
dia these past couple weeks.
Wiley Spears: Te Jaguars frst win
of the season?
MG: Close. Te Jonathan Martin sto-
ry. I want to hear where you two stand
on this crazy story.
Mikey Jarrell: Maybe you should
give a quick recap for our listeners who
have been living in a cave since October.
MG: OK, sure. Jonathan Martin,
an ofensive lineman on the Miami
Dolphins, lef the team due to what
the organization referred to as a non-
football illness. Reports came out of
Martins campalthough not directly
from Martin himselfthat locker room
bullying was the cause, and that guard
Richie Incognito was at the center of the
mess. Media outlets have gotten hold of
a voicemail that Incognito lef Martin in
April, calling him the n-word and saying
hed s--- in [his] f---ing mouth. Martin
reached his breaking point a few weeks
ago when Incognito and the rest of the
Miami ofensive line immediately aban-
doned the cafeteria lunch table when
Martin sat down to join them. Martin
threw his tray on the ground, grabbed
his car keys, and hasnt been back to the
facility since.
WS: Well, Mikey, if you know any-
thing about Incognito or have seen
the video of him shirtless and drunk,
screaming at a bar, it should be pretty
clear to you that this guy is totally out of
control.
MJ: Maybe he is, but Im not blaming
him for Martins quitting.
WS: What?! Incognito is a maniac!
He even admitted to being a locker-
room cancer. Te man is scum and has
been his whole life.
MJ: Tats all fne and dandy, but
there are plenty of guys like that in the
NFL. Jonathan Martin is the frst guy to
quit on his team like this.
WS: First of all, some guy on Incog-
nitos Nebraska team in college quit for
the very same reason, and second of all,
professionals just dont get bullied like
this in their place of work every day.
MJ: Are you kidding me? Are you
saying you cant imagine a locker room
environment where stuf like this is the
norm?
WS: Where leaving a voicemail for
your teammate saying youd slap their
mother is the norm? No, Mikey, I cant
quite imagine that.
MG: Dont forget, guys, Martin wrote
him a text right back saying I will mur-
der your whole f---ing family.
MJ: I think the most telling part of
this whole story is that the team has had
Richies back this entire time.
WS: Yeah but the rest of the NFL has
been totally trashing Incognito, claim-
ing that this nonsense would never go
on inside their locker rooms.
MJ: If he was such a bad guy, his
teammates would have spoken out
against him, especially now that hes
been suspended. Instead, theyve been
talking about how hes one of the teams
leaders and the voice of the locker room,
and how he and Martin are best buds.
WS: What are you trying to say? Tat
Richie Incognito is a good person? Be-
cause thats the dumbest thing youve
said all day.
MJ: Tere has to be an anomaly here.
Is it J-Mart or Richie? Im saying its
Martin. Te guy obviously just doesnt
have the constitution to handle being an
NFL player.
WS: You cant absolve the bully. Ever.
MG: Heres the thing. While you
two always want to take opposite sides
in these debates, the answer is usually
somewhere in the middle. Richie In-
cognito is obviously not someone youd
bring home to your mother, but hes
probably not completely out-of-line for
NFL locker rooms either. Jonathan Mar-
tin is not unjustifed for leaving the team,
but he didnt need to bring this negative
attention to his teammates in the middle
of the season. Te issue is really that the
general culture of NFL locker rooms has
gotten out of hand, to the point where
something like this could happen. Da-
mian Woodley called them the most
politically incorrect place in the world,
and that needs to change. Phew, that was
exhausting. No-Fail Predictions time?
MJ: Alabama will reach the BSC Title
Game, during which Brent Musburger
will point out the attractiveness of AJ
McCarrons girlfriend on national TV
for a third time.
WS: Richie Incognito will try to be a
little more...INCOGNITO! Get it?
MG: Tis column will get me a job
nowhere.
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF
Senior Zach Donnarumma, a fx-
ture in the backfeld since his frst
year, ended his college career this past
Saturday with a 23-carry, 100-yard ef-
fort and three touchdowns, including
a 32-yard scamper that put the team
up 14-0 on the way to their victory
over Colby. Donnarumma leaves the
team with almost 50 more carries
than any Bowdoin player before him.
He appears three times on Bowdoins
top ten for carries in a season and ties
for ffh for touchdowns scored. He
will also rank somewhere in the top
fve in career yards.
My freshman year, I see this big
Jersey kid with two stud earrings and
I couldnt believe how strong he was,
captain and ofensive lineman Bobby
Driscoll 14 said. He was outbench-
ing everyone in the freshman class.
You have to tackle his legs, added
linebacker Brian Glazewski 14. You
dont want to meet him chest to chest.
Tats a battle youre not going to win.
Donnarumma has been a con-
sistent runner during his time at
Bowdoin, averaging 20 carries a game
at roughly 3.8 yards per carry over
the course of his career. He started
all four years, replac-
ing an injured up-
perclassman during
his frst season. Don-
narummas stats are
all the more impres-
sive considering the
injuries hes dealt with
for most of his career.
He missed two games
due to mononucleo-
sis his junior year and
saw only a few car-
ries afer straining his MCL this past
season. Donnarumma says he also
endured various injuries during his
frst two seasons but only had to miss
one game. (His most serious injury, a
broken leg, occurred when he was still
a high school junior in the middle of
recruitment.)
Its always been a battle, Donna-
rumma said. You never know with
injuries in football. You have to play
each down like its your last.
Head Coach Dave Caputi suggest-
ed that the timing of the injuryat
the beginning of the college recruiting
processled teams to overlook Don-
narumma, who only began to attract
major attention afer a strong senior
season.
He was a downhill runner, Ca-
puti said. Tere was nothing really
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Zach Donnarumma 14
FOOTBALL
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
nify or fancy about him, but he got
tough yards. He was like a salmon
going upstream.
Donnarumma started playing
football in second grade and has been
a running back from the beginning
he said he always tended to be a little
faster [than the other kids].
Growing up he was known as a
speed back. In high school, he be-
came the downhill runner he is now
afer rehabbing the broken leg that
prematurely ended his junior sea-
son. During that period of inactiv-
ity he was able to work on improv-
ing two things that would shape his
future football careerhis strength
and his grades.
Donnarumma believes that the
time he spent improving his grades
junior year increased his appeal
to Bowdoin and other NESCAC
schools, though the 10 pounds of
muscle he added in the ofseason
likely helped as well. Either way, he
had visited and committed to play at
Bowdoin less than three weeks afer
fnishing his senior season.
I knew I didnt want to stop play-
ing, Donnarumma said. If I could
play for four more years, I wanted to.
Despite a reputation for being a
hard-nosed runner, Donnarumma
has shown some fex-
ibility over the years.
He broke of two runs
of over 50 yards this
season, the result of
both good blocking
and his ability to beat
the safety in space.
Te ofense has
slowly been build-
ing around him,
Driscoll said. Be-
fore he was here,
we ran the spread, but weve trans-
formed in a power running ofense
because of him.
While the team still runs the spread
on occasion, they spent a lot of time
in the pistol formation this year, the
formation used ofen during Don-
narummas sophomore year. Caputi
describes the ofense as built to be a
between-the-tackles team with some
counterpunching to the outside.
Afer four years of such consistent
performance, Donnarumma will be
hard to replace.
Were going to miss him, Ca-
puti said. He was Old Reliable back
there. I thought he was going to stick
around forever.
Te sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week based
on exemplary performance.
Scored three rushing TDs in
season-ending upset victory
over Colby last Saturday
Finished career with most
carries in school history and is
top ve in yards and TDs
HIGHLIGHTS
MIKEY
JARRELL
MATT
GLATT
WILEY
SPEARS
MIKE & WILEY IN THE PAPER
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You have to tackle his legs.
You dont want to meet him
chest to chest. Thats a battle
youre not going to win.
BRIAN GLAZEWSKI 14
LINEBACKER
Tufs in Bowdoins 27-6 victory.
Te Polar Bears were led ofensively
by running back Zack Donnarumma
14, who had 23 carries for 100 yards
and three touchdowns. Quarterback
Justin Ciero provided the ofensive
spark for the Mules, passing for 227
yards and two touchdowns.
Te Bowdoin defense came out
strong, forcing two turnovers that ulti-
mately led to ofensive scores. A fum-
ble recovery on the Colby 27-yard line
led to one of the touchdown runs by
Donnarumma. He later scampered 32
yards for another score afer an inter-
ception from Jon Fraser 15, bringing
the Polar Bears to a 14-0 lead early in
the second quarter.
Two Colby feld goals trimmed the
lead to 14-6 at half. Afer a scoreless
third quarter, Donnarumma rushed
for his third touchdown of the day,
extending Bowdoins lead to 20-6. But
the Mules answered quickly, scoring
two late touchdowns in the fourth
both on passes by Cieroto tie the
score with only 51 seconds lef in
regulation.
Bowdoin returned the ensuing
kickof to its 34-yard line. Caputi then
hit Ken Skon 16 for a 10-yard gain
and scrambled for 12 yards on the
next play, bringing the Polar Bears into
Colby territory. Afer a sack and two
incompletions, Caputis fourth-down
Hail Mary gave Bowdoin the lead for
good. But the game was far from over.
Sophomore kicker Andrew Mu-
rowchicks point-afer attempt was
blocked by Colby. Te Mules Jason
Buco scooped up the loose ball and
took it the length of the feld for a two-
point score, cutting Bowdoins lead to
26-22. On the ensuing kickof, Colbys
return team completed a series of lat-
erals before Bowdoin linebacker Brian
Glazewski 14 snatched one out of
midair and streaked into the end zone
with no time remaining.
Glazewski was named NESCAC
Defensive Player of the Week for his
performance. He recorded nine tack-
lestwo and-a-half for a lossa sack,
and two fumble recoveries, including
the one that he returned for the games
fnal score.
With the win, the Polar Bears fn-
ished the season with a 3-5 record,
while the Mules fnished at 4-4. Te
CBB Championship ended in a tie, but
Bates will retain the trophy afer win-
ning in 2012.
Bowdoin has been plagued by inju-
ries for much of the season. Te team
struggled somewhat to replace these
injured players, but Head Coach Dave
Caputi was pleased with the efort the
team displayed in fghting through the
adversity.
We had some injuries during the
course of the year, where we had to
regroup, he said. We had to reinvent
ourselves a little bit, and I thought the
players did a good job doing that.
Caputi also highlighted the teams
adaptability as a positive from the sea-
son.
We want to look forward to build-
ing on those things, he said. We have
a lot of returning players.
Due to some of these injuries, the
Polar Bears didnt achieve the success
on paper they had hoped, but beating
archrival Colby was the highlight of
the seasonand was an appropriate
capstone to the seniors college careers.
Tat was defnitely a ftting way to
end the season, Barone said. Obvi-
ously, record wise, it hadnt gone how
we had hoped. But we thought with
the Colby game, that was a chance to
send our seniors out on a right note
and send us into the ofseason on a
high.
Its not the season we had ex-
pected coming in, but looking back
on it with how guys regroupedes-
pecially how we fnishedI thought
our kids displayed some character
and resilience that made us proud,
Dave Caputi added.
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month into the regular season.
Bowdoin began to rapidly turn the
season around in October, however,
improving from its 0-2-2-conference
record to play 10 straight games without
M. SOCCER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
Hayleigh Kein 15, Cammie Ogden-
Fung 17 and Montenegro all contrib-
uted important stops to help shut down
the Crusaders.
Te Polar Bears led 27-0 afer the
frst half, and now have an 8-1 record.
Kein added that consistent, solid
play across the board contributed to
the win despite the teams physical mis-
matches.
We did well in our ruckingour
RUGBY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
tackling, said Kein. Tey were a pretty
big, strong team but we at least slowed
them down.
Although the consensus among
players was that this was a team win,
some players stood out. Mathews noted
Allen, Anna Piotti 16, Charlotte Klei-
man 15 and Page Pfannenstiel 17, in
particular.
Bowdoin will next play Hamilton at
Vassar College tomorrow at 2 p.m in
the ACRA Round of 16. A win will put
them up against the winner of Stonehill
vs. Kutztown.
We know very little about Ham-
a loss, including a six-game win streak.
While many starters will return in the
2014 season, next years squad requires
new leadership to succeed.
Teres a big diference between fol-
lowing and leading, though, so some ju-
niors are really going to need to step up,
Wiercinski said.
ilton, said Athanas-Linden. Weve
heard that theyre like usfast and
small.
Tis is the third year in a row that
the womens rugby team has won their
conference; however, Athanas-Linden
described this years team as diferent
from that of the past couple of years.
In the past two years weve had a
couple of stand out players, who are
recognized at the national level for be-
ing really excellent players, said Atha-
nas-Linden. But this year we dont
have players like that. So what weve
gained instead is a real team talent.
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variety of plays Williams ran against us,
she said. Tey really did a great job of
exploiting our weaknesses, something
that the other two teams didnt do as
diligently.
Gaal also emphasized how well the
team had done throughout the season
despite several setbacks.
We had our fair share of challenges
including sickness and injury, so there
was never really one set of starters for
the whole season, said Gaal. Neverthe-
less, we were able to establish great cohe-
sion on the court and we just had a lot of
fun together.
Overall, the team reported being
pleased with the seasons results.
Te friendships made and the
games won made this season unfor-
gettable, said Audrey DeFusco 16.
The team will graduate three
seniors at the end of this year, but
hopes to return stronger than ever.
According to Gaal, the team has
two goals: Win NESCACs and
crush Williams.
In a hotly contested match last
weekend, the mens rugby team lost
narrowly to Union College 17-15,
ending their season as the No. 2 club
squad in New England.
Charlie Allen 14 scored of the
opening kickof, with captain David
Dietz 14 also scoring a try within
the frst 10 minutes of the game. But
Bowdoin was unable to score again,
and Union slowly closed the gap,
scoring a penalty in the last eight
minutes to steal the lead.
Te Bowdoin men were faced with
a number of challenges, according to
Head Coach Richard Scala.
We just wore out, he said. Weve
been playing bigger teams game afer
game and it takes its toll eventually.
Scala also said that Union played
an intensely physical game, which
was dim cult for the Polar Bears.
We took a really fast, early lead
and we kind of assumed that they
werent very good, added Dietz.
For the rest of the game we werent
really prepared for them to come
back like they did. It wasnt a prob-
lem as much as it was something we
didnt see coming.
Scala also noted a number of
injuries that prevented upperclass-
men starters Sam Patterson 14,
Roger Tejada 14 and Kurt Herzog
13 from playing in the game. This
forced many underclassmen to cov-
er the spots.
We were using a lot of reserves,
who did very well, said Scala.
With the fall season over, the team
will be taking a short break and
Compiled by Joe Seibert
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
MENS SOCCER
VOLLEYBALL
NESCAC Standings
WOMENS RUGBY
FIELD HOCKEY
SAILING
SCHEDULE
Sa 11/16 Atlantic Coast Champ. (Cornell)
Atlantic Coast Dinghies (SAISA)
Atlantic Coast Tourn. (Conn. Coll.)
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
W L W L
Amherst 9 1 13 2
Tufts 9 1 14 1
BOWDOIN 8 2 13 2
Middlebury 8 2 13 2
Colby 5 5 9 6
Trinity 5 5 8 7
Williams 4 6 6 9
Wesleyan 4 6 6 9
Bates 1 9 4 10
Conn. College 1 9 3 11
Hamilton 1 9 3 11
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
Amherst 8 0 2 15 0 2
Wesleyan 7 3 0 9 6 1
Williams 6 4 0 11 6 0
Tufts 6 4 0 8 5 2
BOWDOIN 5 3 2 8 4 4
Middlebury 5 4 1 9 5 1
Conn. Coll. 4 4 2 8 5 2
Hamilton 3 4 3 5 7 3
Trinity 3 5 2 7 5 2
Bates 1 7 2 5 7 2
Colby 0 10 0 4 10 0
NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L
Williams 10 0 25 4
BOWDOIN 8 2 23 7
Amherst 7 3 20 8
Tufts 7 3 20 8
Conn. College 6 4 15 12
Middlebury 5 5 18 7
Trinity 5 5 15 12
Bates 2 8 11 18
Colby 2 8 10 14
Wesleyan 2 8 8 15
Hamilton 1 9 5 17
NESCAC OVERALL
*Bold line denotes NESCACTournament cut-of
FOOTBALL
W L
Amherst 7 1
Middlebury 7 1
Wesleyan 7 1
Trinity 6 2
Bates 4 4
Colby 4 4
BOWDOIN 3 5
Williams 2 6
Hamilton 0 8
Tufts 0 8
NESCAC
BOWDOIN v. New Paltz State
2 P.M.
Montclair State v. Mount Holyoke
11 A.M.
NCAA DIII PLAYOFFS
Third Round - Sunday, Nov. 17
Second Round - Saturday, Nov. 16
Held at Montclair State University
Second Round winners meet
1 P.M.
WOMENS SOCCER
MENS ICE HOCKEY
SCHEDULE
Sa 11/16
Su 11/17
at Middlebury
at Williams
7 P.M.
3 P.M.
WOMENS BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE
F 11/15
Tu 11/19
v. Norwich at SalemState
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Held at Montclair State University
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then start intense conditioning afer
Tanksgiving break.
Come March or so well do some
practices in the gym, and hopefully
well be back on the feld by April,
said Dietz.
The schedule for the spring exhi-
bition season has yet to be decided,
but the Polar Bears plan to par-
ticipate in sevens tournaments.
Sevens is a variant of rugby which
limits each team to only seven play-
ers on the fieldinstead of 15and
has short game times, allowing for
what Dietz called fast and high-
scoring games.
For now, however, the team is
focusing on extending this seasons
successes into the spring.
I think the rugby [team] has
gotten a little more serious over the
past few years, said Dietz. Id re-
ally like to see that continue, and I
think it will.
scoring an unassisted goal on a long
shot from the right side to restore her
teams lead. And with 28 minutes lef in
regulation, Finnerty converted a pen-
alty stroke to restore Bowdoins advan-
tage. Tings looked good for the Polar
Bears, who were holding a two-goal
lead with less than 30 minutes to play.
But it was not to be for Bowdoin.
Middlebury scored in the 60th and
62nd minutes to send the game into
overtime, in which the Panthers rode
the momentum home with a game-
F. HOCKEY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
ending goal just two minutes into
overtime.
Head Coach Nicky Pearson was
predictably disappointed with her
teams loss, but said she has already
switched her focus to the upcoming
NCAA games.
We made a commitment to learn
from it, and to use it to make us a stron-
ger team, she said. We have to take
the good things from that game, and
learn from our mistakes to make our-
selves a better team for this next phase
of the season.
Twenty-four teams received bids to
the D-III feld hockey tournament, and
the top eight earned frst-round byes.
Also in Bowdoins regional bracket is
No. 1 Montclair State, the tournament
hosts, who will play Mount Holyoke
tomorrow. Te regional fnals will take
place on Sunday, when the remaining
teams will fght for a chance to travel to
Virginia Beach, Va., next weekend for
the D-III Final Four. Te Polar Bears,
who earlier this year knocked NCAA
defending-champions Tufs out of the
NESCAC tournament, will look to win
their fourth national title since 2007,
and frst since 2010.
Were focusing entirely on Satur-
days game right now, said Pearson.
We cant aford to underestimate our
frst opponent.
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Two weeks ago, journalist Ali
Abunimah came to campus to give a
talk on Te Battle for Justice in Pal-
estine. Afer the talk, he responded
to the question of what average peo-
ple can do to help alleviate the suf-
fering of the Palestinianssufering
that is the result of apartheid, ethnic
cleansing, and human and civil rights
abuses. Abunimah called for people
to take part in the call for a boycott of
Israel, including PACBI (the Palestin-
ian Campaign for the Academic and
Cultural Boycott of Israel). Recently,
Gabriel Frankel 17 wrote a column
in the opinion section criticizing the
academic and cultural boycott of Is-
rael for saying it repressed dialogue
and singled out the state.
Frankel makes various disparate
and blatantly incorrect claims re-
garding the motivations for PACBI
a call for action that the Palestinian
community (including various trade
unions and civil society groups) and
many international organizations
(such as the Green Party of the U.S.,
and hundreds of prominent academ-
ics) have om cially endorsed.
One claim he makes is that PAC-
BI is part of a larger campaign to
compel the country to withdraw to
pre-1967 Palestinian borders. If one
looks on PACBIs om cial website, it
is evident that this is not its om cial
mission: its mission extends much
beyond this goal. To clarify, the call
for an academic and cultural boycott
is part of an efort to struggle against
Israels colonization, occupation,
and system of apartheid.
PACBI is not, as Frankel asserts,
an attempt to cut of the country
intellectually and socially, but part
of a social movement that aims to
show Israel the consequences of its
human rights and international law
violations. Tis is not a boycott of
individual people, but institutions in
Israeli society that are those complic-
it in occupation, colonization, and
apartheid or proft from it. PACBI
does not target people on the basis of
their nationality or backgroundit
targets those who proft from a state
During Abunimahs talk, he spoke
of a metaphor for the dialogue that
occurs between Israel and Palestine.
It is as if Israel and Palestine are try-
ing to negotiate how to slice a pizza
and, during negotiations, Israel starts
eating up the pizza as fast as it can.
Israel has been known to expand its
settlements during peace talks with
Palestine. If Israel really cared about
bringing about any sort of peace, it
would avoid breaking international
law while it is supposed to be pro-
moting peace.
PACBI does not criminalize dia-
logue; it criminalizes criminals. Israel
is a state that has committed crimes
against its people. We should not
stand by complacently as Israel pret-
tifes itself by bringing dance troupes
and orchestras to other countries
and it is not right for anyone repre-
senting Israel to ignore or whitewash
all of wrongdoing.
Hasbara is a form of public policy,
more accurately explained as propa-
ganda, that Israel uses to present a
version of itself that ignores the fact
that it is an apartheid state. It is also
an element of the Brand Israel cam-
paignIsraels attempt to make itself
seem like an accepting democracy.
Anyone who takes part in this cam-
paignan artist or group funded by
itis profting of of this propaganda,
and is profting from a government
that perpetuates oppression.
Refusing to support those who
beneft from a settler-colonial state is
an efective, peaceful way of showing
the world that this state does not de-
serve special privileges or standing.
PACBI does not single out Israel as
the worst or only state committing
crimesit singles out Israel as a state
that receives much support, approval
and absolution while it violates, hu-
man and civil rights. Te issue be-
tween Israel and Palestine is not one
that can be resolved with dialogue;
the issue is not about two sides that
need to learn how to get along. Te
only way to deal with a state that
commits crimes is to punish it for
those crimes, and make it known that
its actions are not acceptable.
Maya Reyes is a member of the
Class of 2016.
Defending the cultural boycott: response to Frankel
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ne week ago, the staff of the Harvard Crimson ran an editorial em-
bracing a new trend in higher educationthe growing number of
students choosing to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering
and mathematical (STEM) fields over the humanities. Let them eat code
is currently the top-read article on the Crimsons website, with 80 com-
ments as of press time. The editorial applauds students who choose these
more rigorous fields, characterizing the knowledge and skills gained
through study of these disciplines as more practical in our ultra-com-
petitive economy. Scholars in the humanities, they write, are of little im-
portance because with or without them, people will still have access to
literature, music and philosophy.
Why spend four years listening to lecturers warn you that you can
never really know anything? asks the piece. We cant help but note that
this is neither an unenlightening nor a novel concept; Socrates argued
that the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
And while we do not believe that four years spent reading Woolf and
Hume and Shakespeare is a waste of time, the strength of a liberal arts
education is, in part, its breadth. Bowdoins new Digital and Computa-
tional Studies Initiative proves that the two disciplines are not mutually
exclusive; for one final project in the inaugural Gateway to the Digital
Humanities class, two students are learning code to build a website that
archives the history of art at the College. These classes prove that the
disciplines are not only valuable in and of themselves but as complements
to one another.
Institutions like Harvard and Bowdoin value learning for learnings
sake. We wonder how the Crimsons editorial staff managed to overlook
this reality in favor of this strange utilitarian and functionalist position.
Every year, students graduate from Bowdoin with degrees in English
and Religion and Psychology. Somehow, few of them are homeless; most
of them have jobs. These degrees do translate into marketable skills, but
we feel that in choosing a liberal arts college we are opting for an educa-
tion that provides us with more than just a job at the end.
In exploring both the sciences and the humanities we gain skills for
life as well as skills for work, in the process reminding ourselves that
the two are not always the same. Only the most robotic among us would
reduce every class to the value it adds to ones future earning potential,
or assert that academic inquiry into art and literature adds nothing of
valuequantifiable or otherwiseto a life.
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that perpetuates this very notion of
discrimination.
Boycotts are a well-established
form of peaceful protest, that have
been successful for many issues, the
most prominent being divestment
from South Africa during the coun-
trys apartheid regime in the 1980s.
And yes, academic and cultural boy-
cott was an element of the widely-
employed boycott of South Africa. It
is impossible for PACBI to be thwart-
ing any sort of peace movement that
is going on within Israel, as Frankel
suggests, because it is by nature.
Israel treats its Palestinian citi-
zens as second class. Tere is no Is-
raeli nationality, because Israel has
established itself as a Jewish state,
in which Jews have the most rights
and privileges, which are ofen deter-
mined arbitrarily because Israel lacks
a constitution. Israel is not the open
democracy that Frankel purports it to
beit is a fundamentalist sectarian
state that uses religion and ethnicity
to privilege one person over another.
Additionally, because they cannot
vote in Israeli elections, the citizens
of the West Bank and Gaza have no
say in the occupation so the argu-
ment that Israel is a country that al-
lows and encourages public disagree-
ment with government policies, is
null. From non-consensually inject-
ing Ethiopian immigrants with birth
control, to displacing Palestinians
from their homes, Israel is discrimi-
natory to its very core. Tis is not a
state that encourages dialogue, but
one that perpetuates the systematic
oppression of its very own citizens.
Any dialogue that Israel might
support is not meaningful if it does
not count all voices as equal. How
can we discuss encouraging public
disagreement when people are dis-
couraged from simply existing within
that society?
Frankels misunderstanding of Is-
rael as a society where all are free and
equal is responsible for his preference
for dialogue over boycott. However,
what he fails to explain is that dialogue
is only useful in situations where two
or more sides with an equal amount
of power can negotiate. Tis is not the
case with Palestine and Israel.
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No-Hate November: Reducing bias at Bowdoin
Determining an appropriate
campus response to the recent bias
incidents considering the nature of
the offenses is difficult; it is hard
to imagine a reaction that would
please everyone. I hope therefore,
that you will take these thoughts in
the spirit that they are meantas
an attempt to work through a dif-
ficult issue that offers no easy so-
lutions, and to consider how we
can address the question of how to
make Bowdoin feel safe and sup-
portive to every student.
Every student here should know
how seriously the College takes such
incidents. However, I understand
students who feel confused about
the precise aim of the Bowdoin Stu-
dent Governments (BSG) recently
recognized No-Hate November,
or who dont understand why these
incidents warrant such a response,
while incidents perpetrated by a
non-anonymous individual and
dealt with by the Judicial Board,
seem to be punished and then swept
away.
Obviously, there are confiden-
tiality issues at play, but J-Board
incidents are seen as part of a
normto be dealt with only on an
individual levelwhile anonymous
bias incidents elicit a campus-wide
response. There must be some way
for the administration to preserve
confidentiality while also publiciz-
ing J-Board statements at the time
of the incidents and inviting an ap-
propriate campus reaction.
As many have noted, we also need
to take a more proactive role in
shaping wider campus culture. Te
fact that No-Hate November will be
a yearly event is a step in the right
direction, although working year-
round to think about these issues
through a series of scheduled events
might be more efective in making
these eforts feel truly progressive
and integrative. Furthermore, some
of the BSG responses read as general
initiatives rebranded to combat in-
tolerance.
For example, a talent show is a
rather abstract attempt to com-
bat prejudice. I understand the
instinct to make it seem as if the
student government is reacting
strongly to these incidents, but ef-
fort for its own sake can trivialize
the problem. What changes peo-
ples perspectives are storiespar-
ticularly from people they know
or noticing something deeply
unfair, or learning that people they
respect feel strongly about an is-
sue. To this end, bystander train-
ing is an important and proactive
offering.
I have heard more about the Hate
Stops With Us exhibit than about
the actual bias incidents. In an edi-
torial a few weeks ago (Snappy Re-
sponse, November 1), members of
the Orient editorial board discussed
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From Guy Fawkes to Black Friday: Reconciling Novembers holidays
November is the month when we
descend into winter. Each holiday
takes us a little deeper. Te sun shone
when the month was young, and Hal-
loween parties peppered the campus.
I got giddy when I saw a couple Guy
Fawkes masksa symbol of the in-
ternet hacktivist group Anonymous,
of Occupy Wall Street, and of other
anti-government and anti-establish-
ment movements around the world.
We are legion! yelled one masked
Halloweener at one point, echoing
the mantra of Anonymous.
I managed to remember the Fifh
of November when it came. It re-
ceived very little news coverage, but
Twitter was full of pictures of protes-
tors with Guy Fawkes masks in front
of Buckingham Palace, the White
House, and other symbols of power
around the world. In 1605, London-
ers lit bonfres all over the city to cele-
brate the foiling of Guy Fawkes gun-
powder plot to blow up the House
of Lords. To more and more people
now, November 5 is a revolutionary
day waiting for Fawkes reckoning.
But before I can romanticize a gun-
powder plot, with November comes
a day that is beautiful for many rea-
sons, and would not tolerate more
destruction. Kurt Vonnegut described
how on November 11, 1918, mil-
lions upon millions of human beings
stopped butchering one another and
the First World War ended. Te day
was named Armistice Day, and never
again were we supposed to have an-
other war like the one that cease fre
ended. Te day is now known as Vet-
erans Dayand we have had many
wars since. Had Vonnegut and I been
friends, we would have celebrated our
birthdays together on this day, and
maybe we would have talked about
how we were never supposed to have
such wars again.
Ten Tanksgiving comes. Afer
being my favorite holiday for years, I
had to come to terms with many in-
ternal contradictions when
it became clear to
me what it
commem-
orates. Te
First Tanksgiving refers
to a meal that European settlers arriv-
ing in North America supposedly had
with indigenous Americans before
the settlers (ancestors of many of us)
slaughtered and replaced the lands in-
habitants. Te settler-colonial nature
of the holiday meal sometimes makes
it dim cult for me to swallow, let alone
gorge myself.
At the same time, Tanksgiving is
about being thankful and showing
gratitude. Im all for that. I think we
should try to show our gratitude and
love more ofen, and there is nothing
like a large meal with loved ones for
ream rming community and afection
toward one another.
We found ourselves with this his-
tory. We are not responsible for the
sins of the pilgrims or any historical
oppressor. But we have inherited a
world that they createdwhile it is
wonderful to have a
fall feast where we
give thanks
for the
food and for each other, we should
take the chance to remember the
crimes of the past and be sure we
dont hopelessly repeat them. One
day we will be responsible for some-
one elses past.
But the seeds of blunder are sown
before the days end. On the TV
screens of thousands of people, huge
balloons and displays from Macys
rampant consumerism on the Friday
afer Tanksgiving and noted that, If
capitalism were a religion, Black Fri-
day would be one of its most sacred
celebrations. All society demands of
you on this day is: Buy! Buy! Buy!
And now Im thinking, What hap-
pened to November? Te month
began with traditions of high hopes,
change, and memory of the promise of
peace. How can we forget that so fast it
comes to embrace and perpetuate this
vicious system of material capitalism?
In recent Novembers, the anti-
consumerist magazine Adbusters
has called upon its readers to #oc-
cupyxmas and not buy presents for
Christmas. Black Friday has another
name: Buy Nothing Day. In previous
years, disafected people voiced their
refusal of the seasons consumerism
with actions such as free non-com-
mercial street parties, sit-ins, pub-
lic credit card cut-ups, and zombie
walks (when people amble around
shops dressed as zombies, giving
blank stares, and spreading the word
to surrounding customers).
Te struggle against capitalism and
imperialism is healthy and strong, if
you look for it. Te onus is on you.
Te months afer this one may bring
a powerful transformation in you, if
you feel the magic of radical empow-
erment and remember what real liv-
ing is like.
But mostly, I hope that you dont
end up comatose on a couch, post-
Thanksgiving dinner, with not a
thought to spare for the Fifth of
November.
Tanksgiving Day Parade foat down
the streets of New York; foreplay for
all the wonderful stores you can shop
at the next day.
Midnight strikes and it is Black
Friday. Employees, of overworked
and underpaid, advertise endless dis-
counts and bargains. Images of peo-
ple fghting tooth and nail for gifs
circulate the web and Bowdoin stu-
dents can gape at the videos of these
barbarians online. Luckily we dont
have to go to any shopping malls
and fght over things. Tey are much
more civilized when you have a com-
puter to shop on from the com-
fort of your house.
But you are fooling yourself if
you dont see that this is all the same
poison in the end. It is all about
consumption. Shopping is impor-
tant sometimes, but this horror
show of human greed and material-
ism makes it our purpose. In 2008,
University of Oregons Daily Emer-
ald highlighted absurd examples of
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CHRISTOPHER WEDEMAN
$10/ton: Costs of offsetting your carbon guilt
If you could pay someone to
erase your carbon footprint, would
you do it?
Let me rephrase that: would you
pay someone to erase your carbon
footprint, even if you werent sure
that it would work?
Tis is the fascinating, if conten-
tious, promise of the carbon-ofset-
ting industry.
Te idea behind carbon ofsetting
is that by supporting clean energy
producers and projects that trap
greenhouse gases, individuals and
organizations can efectively cancel
out their own carbon emissions.
Te main way of accomplishing
this is through purchasing Renew-
able Energy Credits (RECs) and
carbon ofsets.
When renewable electricity is
produced on a mass-market scale, it
is sent to the electric grid, where it
is combined with conventional fos-
sil fuel-generated energy and then
distributed to consumers. RECs
provide the opportunity to purchase
green energy without having to
buy energy exclusively produced
from renewable sources. Tis allows
more expensive renewable energies
to compete on equal footing with
conventional power. According to
the EPAwhich created the pro-
grampurchasing RECs supports
producers of renewable energy, and
in the long term will help renew-
ables take market share away from
conventional power.
Carbon offsets take a different
approach to negating carbon
emissions. When an individual or
an organization purchases carbon
offsets, they are paying a compa-
ny to pursue a project that traps
greenhouse gases that have already
been emitted, or to prevent future
emissions.
Common ofset projects include
trapping and converting methane
from landflls into usable energy,
building wind farms, and upgrad-
ing fuel and building em ciency. De-
pending on the number of ofsets
purchased, they can theoretically
cancel out emissions from actions
like airplane travel, driving, and
conventional electricity use.
Most carbon ofsetting compa-
nies charge between $5 and $25 per
ton of CO2, averaging about $10/
ton. One ton of CO2 is the amount
emitted during a 2,000 mile air-
plane fight, and the same amount
emitted by an average US house-
hold over two months.
Like many solutions perceived as
quick-fxes, carbon ofsetting has
generated controversy among en-
vironmental-minded people. Many
take issue with the idea of congratu-
lating people who pay to reduce
their carbon footprints without
making any personal changes. Te
demand for a carbon ofsetting in-
dustry, they say, indicates a deeper
confict between western-material-
ist society and environmental jus-
tice. Tey instead argue that funda-
mental changes in both the energy
sector and western culture must be
made in order for real progress to
take place.
Perhaps even more problematic
is the fear that many in the environ-
mental community dont believe
that carbon capture schemes really
work as effectively as they claim to.
Calculating long-term carbon stor-
age trends can be a tricky business,
and widely varying prices for off-
setting one ton of CO2 can inspire
doubts about the efficacy of certain
programs.
From a pragmatic perspective,
RECs are a step in the right direc-
tion. For some people and institu-
tions, generating all of their elec-
tricity on-site using renewables will
never be possible or reasonable,
given the availability of natural re-
sources. For them, paying extra to
keep renewable energy producers,
running and innovating on the main
grid is their best possible contribu-
tion to the clean energy movement.
Common sense indicates that
we should think of carbon off-
sets as something akin to climate
change charities. If a business is
interested in purchasing offsets,
it should research companies and
their projects as if it were an aver-
age person planning to donate to a
lesser-known charity.
If businesses fnd themselves
unconvinced by any carbon ofset-
ting schemes, but still want to fght
the degradation of our planet, they
should consider donating to more
mainstream environmental non-
profts. Tey might not be paying
to inject CO2 into bedrock, but its
better than nothing.
Bowdoins Carbon Neutrality
Implementation Plan acknowledges
RECs and carbon credits, most of
them Maine-based, as necessary
components of a zero-carbon goal,
but only to the extent that there are
no em ciency or on-site power gen-
eration options that cost less per ton
of avoided CO2. Given Bowdoins
pledge to buy solar panel-produced
elecricity from the planned array at
the former Naval Air Base, it will be
interesting to follow the Colleges fu-
ture decisions regarding on-site elec-
tricity generation as an alternative to
ofsets.
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the potentially coercive nature of
the project. Feeling social pressure
to resist prejudice is not always a
problem, and I saw enough students
decline to be photographed that I
believe those who participated did
so in good faith.
The criticism that Ive heard
more often is that this effort makes
a one-off attempt at dealing with
a pervasive issue, and then stops.
I believe the organizers hoped that
the exhibition would serve as a
conversation starter; I participated
in the exhibition because if there
are students who feel better know-
ing almost a third of Bowdoin stu-
dents participated in this project,
I do not want to take away their
sense of comfort.
How many students though,
look at this exhibition and wonder
about the other two thirds of cam-
pus? Furthermore, many students
feel unclear about what it means to
stand with the victims of bias. To
sympathize? To sympathize pub-
licly? To say, It wasnt me; I would
never do something like that? The
bias incidents happened, and while
we must make sure that anyone
who feels victimized knows that
they have support, too often events
meant to start a discussion end up
becoming the entire conversation.
I am sure that many similar in-
cidents go unreported every year,
just as the number of reported cas-
es of assault pales in comparison
to anecdotal evidence. There are a
lot of reasons for someone not to
report an incidentbelief the in-
stitution will try to help the perpe-
trator, fear of social repercussions,
convincing yourself that you are
overreacting.
We need to create a culture in
which such incidents are unaccept-
able, and we need people to feel
comfortable speaking up. We only
get four years here. We can make
an enormous impact on campus
culture, but these issues also need
to be dealt with more strongly and
transparently from an adminis-
trative perspective if meaningful
change is to take place.
Every effort by students, no
matter how imperfect, is a positive
step. Still, the most lasting changes
come from taking responsibility at
the personal level. Especially when
alcohol is involved, too often a
culture of permissiveness prevents
us from taking true responsibil-
ity for our actions, or confronting
our friends despite our discomfort.
According to the yearly reports on-
line, a considerable percentage of
the incidents that the Bias Incident
Group and the J-Board investigate
involve alcohol, so it is worth tak-
ing a minute to say this: People
cant always control themselves
when they are drunk.
But they can control whether or
not they are in control. If someone
gets in a fight or makes derogatory
comments under the influence,
his friends should not laugh this
off, or tell him how funny he was
last night. If he made anyone un-
comfortable, he should know, and
make the decision not to drink so
much in the future, because there
is no reason anyone should be un-
able to have fun without impinging
on the rights of others.
Often, the most challenging part
of starting a dialogue is simply
getting participants who do not
all feel the same way together in
a room. I hope that in the coming
months, perhaps on the pages of
the Orient, perhaps in other pub-
lic spheres, and most of all in our
day-to-day lives, we find ways to
work proactively towards creating
an environment in which such re-
sponses are unnecessary.
Monica Das is a member of the
Class of 2014.
NO-HATE
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The merit of global perspectives: JFKs legacy for Americas youth
A flood of books, articles, TV
shows, and films marks the 50
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anniversary of John F. Kennedys
assassination. In these attempts
to understand our 35
th
presidents
brief legacy and its tragic conclu-
sion, a reoccurring phrase is: what
could have been. But there is also
new focus on aspects of his presi-
dency that have always nipped at
the heels of his Camelot repu-
tationquestions raised by his
foreign policy agenda to combat
Communism, for example and his
limited contributions to the civil
rights movement.
A New York Times study re-
vealed a 50 percent drop (60 per-
cent to 10 percent) in the past de-
cade in the number of Americans
who consider JFK our greatest
president. Journalist Adam Clymer
writes that the public perception of
Kennedy has evolved from a char-
ismatic young president who in-
spired youths around the world to
a deeply flawed one whose oratory
outstripped his accomplishments.
But for all the criticism now
surrounding JFKs name, there
is an aspect of his legacy of his
that needs no defense: Kenne-
dys championing of American
youthsespecially college stu-
dentsservice to those less fortu-
nate than themselves. In October
of the 1960 presidential campaign,
then-Senator Kennedy spoke to
10,000 energized students at the
University of Michigan, asking
them: How many of you, who are
going to be doctors, are willing to
spend your days in Ghana? Tech-
nicians or engineers, how many of
you are willing to work in the For-
eign Service and spend your lives
traveling around the world?
Senator Kennedys challenge to
students, that they dedicate part
of their lives to the American ideal
of serving those in need around
the world lead to the creation of
the Peace Corps, an initiative that
amassed the petitioned sup-
port of thousands of young
Americans before the
organizations of-
ficial establish-
ment in 1961.
American stu-
dents immedi-
ately respond-
ed; in the
1960s, over
20,000 col-
lege students
vol unt eered
with the
Peace Corps,
working hand
in hand with
local people
to improve
living condi-
tions world-
wide.
But much
has changed
in this regard
since Ken-
nedys presi-
dency, and
recent statistics
prompt con-
cern about the
priority of global
service to the
American youth.
In the last 42
years, 210,000 young
men and women have
served with the Peace Corps in
139 countries, combatting health
dilemmas and working to develop
local business. But there has been
a dramatic drop-off in participants
in recent yearsonly 8,000 Amer-
icans are currently registered as
volunteers with the program.
In the highly-com-
petitive and in-
creasi ngl y-con-
ne c t e d
world in which we live, there is no
doubt that American students are
under more pressure than ever to
gain the skills they need for gainful
employment.
Data dump: what new mathematical methods mean for social sciences
Thanks to the work of popular
social science authors like Steven
Levitt of Freakonomics and Nate
Silver of FiveThirtyEight, data
analysis is a hot new trend in social
science. Unfortunately, not every-
one can be a Silver or a Levitt.
Objective, data-driven research
can help to clarify much in the
social sciences, but scientists who
jump onto these new methods with
little statistical training or rigor do
their disciplines a disservice. Ob-
jective study is very important to
social science, but so is traditional,
subjective observation and we must
remember that many of the social
sciences were founded the develop-
ment of regression analysis.
Academics, and we who encoun-
ter their work, must be careful to
receive statistical information with
a health skepticism.
Correlation does not imply
causation! Anyone who has taken
a statistics class or any data-driven
course, has heard this phrase (of-
ten from a professor who is con-
stantly peeved by people conflating
the two concepts). Depending on
the professors exasperation level,
it is possible that she just finished
reading a social science journal.
Granted, its relatively rare that
an article will openly claim cau-
sation where theres none to be
found, but implicit claims often
lurk. And even in instances where
causation is not claimed, some
researchers dive no further into
a topic after determining correla-
tion. Correlation can tell us quite
a lot, but we cannot pretend to
understand an issue without deter-
mining the causes behind it.
Correlative relationships are
powerful rhetorical tools, and ev-
eryone from self-styled Facebook
pundits to Ph.Ds use them to try
cartels in central Kansas.
Just because the causal relation-
ship is dubious doesnt mean that its
not great rhetoric. Correlative rela-
tionships provide fantastic material
for argument, but many of these ar-
guments demonstrate just why sim-
ple correlation shouldnt be trusted
as proof in academic research.
Causal relationships are shown
by revealing the relationship be-
tween correlated phenomena.
Laboratory experiments are of lim-
ited value in the social sciences, so
such relationships are explored by
examining the effect of one thing
on another in real world context.
In many cases, researchers will
accept statistical correlation as
causation if there is a theoretical
or cultural rationale for itthough
they may sometimes do so to their
own detriment.
For instance, I recently read an
academic paper detailing the re-
lationship between a Paraguayans
native language and her educa-
tional and economic achievement.
The paper claimed that speaking
Guaran, the countrys most wide-
ly-spoken language, has measur-
able effect onnot just correlation
withachievement.
This phenomenon is culturally
possiblethe Guaran language has
the stigmatized reputation as be-
ing backwards and less value than
Spanish, the dominant language in
Paraguays economy.
However, the researchers failed
to control for their subjects socio-
economic backgrounds. Socioeco-
nomic background and language
are no doubt strongly correlated,
but both are also show strong cor-
relation with achievement. With-
out controlling for that variable,
as an impressively illustrative of the
way that distorted or incomplete in-
formation can create a gap between
perception and reality.
mile Durkheim, who found-
modern sociology and shaped the
structure of many modern social
sciences, made these contributions
to human understanding before
mathematical analysis of huge data
troves was de rigeur. Todays so-
cial scientists would do well to re-
member that some of the best work
done in their disciplines was com-
pleted without the use of sohpisti-
cated mathematical models.
Tim Groseclose, a professor at
UCLA, observed that the social
scientists who were mose effective-
ly using quantitative methods often
had a background in economics. I
agree with Groseclose, but would
expand this category to include all
scientists with rigorous statistical
or mathematical training.
However, the researchers best
at analyzing troves of data will not
necessarily be those who produce
the best results in social science.
The social sciences need academ-
ics to interpret our world through
logical analysis and thoughtful
case studies and number-crunch-
ers to filter through huge swaths of
data and conduct rigorous analy-
sis. What the fields do not need is
flawed statistical study that con-
tributes little to humanitys under-
standing of itself.
RIGHT ON
POINT
GABRIEL FRANKEL
KICKING THE CAN
DAVID STEURY
American students, by and large,
lack the international experience,
cross-cultural understanding and
foreign language skills to success-
fully compete in this globalized
society, and the kind of inter-
national service heralded by
Kennedy could, for many,
represent a step toward
acquiring such skills.
Furthermore, while
a college degree has
become essential to
many high-flying ca-
reers, I wonder, if that
kind of status is really
all there is to a full
and rewarding
life? JFK and
his broth-
ers could
c e r t a i nl y
have lived
the glam-
orous and
easy life of
the rich, but
were instead
compelled to
help others
less fortunate
than them-
selves.
But there
are encour-
aging signs. In
the last 20 years the
number of American
students studying abroad
has tripled, and that number
continues to rise; last year,
238,232 US students studied
abroada 3 percent gain from
the previous year.
However, if one takes a closer
look, thats really only 10 percent
of the American college students.
And these American students are
going abroad, on average, for a
shorter periods than the interna-
tional students coming here. Last
Objective, data-driven research
can help clarify much in social
science, but scientists need to jump
onto these new methods quickly,
or do their disciplines a disservice.
Correlative relationships provide
fantastic material for argument, but
many of these arguments demon-
strate why simple correlation cant
be trusted in academic research.
to prove points. One familiar ex-
ample is the oft-repeated claim
that areas with high rates of gun
ownership have comparably lower
crime rates than those with lower
gun ownership rates. This is true.
But is it a causal relationship?
Doubtfully.
Areas with high gun ownership
tend to be rural areas that would
see low crime regardless of the size
of its weapons cachethere are,
after all, few multinational drug
among others, it is impossible to
know whether Paraguayans moth-
er tongues truly influence their
economic or educational success.
Cases like this bolster the ar-
gument that nuanced social and
economic issues are perhaps bet-
ter examined through more quali-
tative analyses than with complex
mathematical models.
Western social and political
thought is to this day heavily influ-
enced by the discoveries of the an-
cient Greeks and Romans; the great
minds of these societies used little
more than description and alle-
gory to illustrate psychological and
philosphical insights that remain
relevant to this day. Political and
social thinkers still cite Socratess
allegory of the cave, for example,
year, 819,644 foreign students
came to the U.S. and the top three
countries representedChina,
South Korea, and Indiacomprise
some of our biggest competition
on the international job market.
How can we ensure our countrys
future when were so outmatched
in this ratio of cultural exchange?
Its bad enough that only 30 per-
cent of Americans own passports.
The Colleges Office of Off-cam-
pus study does an excellent job of
encouraging its students to study
and serve abroad. Each year, ap-
proximately 230 Bowdoin students
study away and by graduation
more than half of each graduating
class will have studied overseas.
But, unfortunately, most Ameri-
can college students dont follow
suit. Most of them enter college
with rudimentary foreign language
skills and little curiosity about the
world around them.
Outside of the U.S. university
system, initiatives do exist to en-
courage students to study aborad,
such as the 100,000 Strong pro-
gram established in 2009 by the
State Deparment to increase the
number and diversify the makeup
of American students studying in
China. We need several more pro-
grams like this to demonstrate the
merits of international and cross-
cultural experiences.
Ask not what your country can
do for you; ask what you can for
your country.
I might have been born 32 years
after JFKs death, but his 1961 exor-
tation still strikes a powerful chord
with me. There has always been a
strain of xenophobia in this coun-
try, and in Congress in particular.
Putting our heads in the sand has
never worked as foreign policy, but
this sentiment will only change if
American youth seize the global
opportunities available to them.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
NOVEMBER
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Mens Summit
Bowdoin
Concert Band
Thanksgiving
HOLIDAY DISCUSSION
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TAKE A BOW: The Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra performed last Saturday under the direction of Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez (center).
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FRIDAY
ACTIVITY
48 Hour Film Festival
Students will spend the weekend making their own
movies on the theme dj vu and will show them in the
Bowdoin Film Societys 48 Hour Film Festival next week-
end. Email ifranks@bowdoin.edu or mdas@bowdoin.edu
if you are interested.
Friday to Sunday.
COMMON HOUR
Kurt Eichenwald P14
Kurt Eichenwald P14, contributing editor at Vanity Fair,
senior writer at Newsweek, former investigative reporter
for the New York Times and bestselling author will give a
lecture about his career as an award-winning writer.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.
FILM
Persepolis
The Bowdoin Film Society will screen this 2007 adap-
tion of Marjane Satrapis autobiographical graphic
novel about a young girl growing up during the Iranian
Revolution.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Whats Not to Love
Bowdoin Student Government will host an Open Mic
Night to showcase a diversity of talents on campus as
part of No Hate November. Email nvazquez@bowdoin.
edu for a time slot.
Jack Magees Grill. 7:30 p.m.
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SATURDAY
LECTURE
Project Blue Collar
Kristin Waters 89 will give a lecture on Project Blue
Collar-Support the Underdog, a movement to remove the
stigma surrounding shelter dogs.
Banister Hall, McKeen Center. 3 p.m.
FILM
Lucky Number Slevin
The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2006 thriller
starring Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman as two feud-
ing crime lords and Bruce Willis as a mysterious hitman.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
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SUNDAY
FILM
Five Dances
Frontier will screen Alan Browns new flm about an
18-year-old dancer from Kansas who moves to the city
and joins a small modern dance company, launching his
career as a professional dancer.
Frontier Caf. 2 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.
EVENT
The Senior Etiquette Dinner
The Career Planning Center will sponsor a dinner hosted by
Karen Mills to teach seniors proper etiquette. The dinner
will also take place on Monday.
Lancaster and Main Lounges, Moulton Union. 5 p.m.
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CHICKEN MARSALA, ROAST PORK
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TUESDAY
LECTURE
Accra Shepp Artist Talk
The Brooklyn-based photographer and professor will
speak about his recent work, including images of New
York and Occupy Wall Street. Shepp will teach two classes
at Bowdoin next semester.
Room 115, Edwards Arts Center. 7 p.m.
SPORTING EVENT
Womens Basketball v. Endicott
The womens basketball team will kick of the winter ath-
letic season with a home game against Endicott College.
The team looks to eclipse their success in the 2012-2013
season, which ended at the NESCAC Semifnals.
Morrell Gym. 7 p.m.
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MONDAY
LECTURE
Winter of Arab Discontent
Asad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at California
State University, Stanislaus, will discuss current political
trends in the Middle East. AbuKhalil has authored several
books about the Middle East and its relationship with the
United States.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY

POLARIS
Round 2 Registration Begins
7 a.m. to Friday at 5 p.m.
EVENT
Red Cross Blood Drive
This will be the second drive of the 2013-2014 school
year. Visit redcrossblood.org to fnd out if youre eligible
to donate.
Smith Union. 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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THURSDAY
CONCERT
Chamberfest
The Department of Music will sponsor two student cham-
ber concerts featuring brass, string and piano ensembles.
Studzinski Recital Hall. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
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BLACK PEPPER CHICKEN, SALMON
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CHICKEN PARM, MUSSELS
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FRIED CHICKEN, KOREAN BEEF BBQ
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MAC N CHEESE, TURKEY STEAKS
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48 Hour
Film Festival