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DECEMBER 11, 2015
Rose hires
researchers
to study race
at Bowdoin
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
easy action around some of these issues

which then lead to no solution because
theres no engagement or no true understanding about the communities trying
to be affected. Were going to try...to deal
with that problem at its root cause.
Prompted by Roses initial question,
Why should I care about issues of race
if Im white?, Briana Caldwell 17 began
the discussion by asking, what is Bowdoin going to do to make Bowdoin students who are white think that thats an
important question to answer?
After Rose turned the question back
to the student body, the conversation
soon shifted from Bowdoins responsibility to a sense of white students guilt,
guided by Roses call for more white
students to speak. In the back-and-forth
President Clayton Rose announced plans last week to hire outside researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova
University to conduct a study on
the experiences of students of color
at Bowdoin. In an interview with
the Orient this week, Rose spoke
in more detail about what the study
will encompass and how its results
will be used.
Camille Charles, a professor of
sociology, Africana studies and education at the University of Pennsylvania, will lead the project and
be assisted by Rory Kramer, an assistant professor of sociology and
criminology at Villanova University.
The project is scheduled to be
completed by May, at which point
a written report of the researchers
findings will be made available to
the campus community. Rose said
that while he plans for conversations
surrounding the report to take place
on campus following the reports
publication, he was not yet sure
when those would happen or what
form they would take.
After the report is released, Rose
said, an internal process will begin
for determining which of the recommendations to act on and how to go
about doing so.
Rose said that Charles is being
paid by the College for her work
on the project, but did not give an
amount. He said that he made the
decision to hire Charles and Kramer
independent of the Board of Trustees, but that the board is aware of
Please see TOWN, page 3
Please see STUDY, page 5
MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
About 500 students gathered in David Saul Smith Union Tuesday night for President Clayton Roses town hall, an open meeting that addressed the question, Why do issues of race matter if Im
white? A number of students took the microphone and responded to each others comments about engaging in discussions about race as a white student. While Rose gave general remarks at
the beginning of the meeting and occasionally jumped in to reframe a question, most of the discussion was propelled by students questions, comments and personal stories.
BSG Multicultural Rep

Voting for BSGs Multicultural Representative will continue through this
Saturday, December 12 at 9 p.m. If
one-third of the student body votes,
and two-thirds of voters vote in favor
of the position, the representative
will be elected next semester from
within the Multicultural Coalition
membership. The representative will
act as a liaison between the BSG and
the Multicultural Coalition.
To vote, use your individual link
included in BSGs email this week.
For more coverage of the Multicultural Rep, see bowdoinorient.com.
Community packs Union to address why

race should matter to white students
BY RACHAEL ALLEN
ORIENT STAFF
About 500 students, faculty and staff

packed all three levels of David Saul
Smith Union Tuesday night for President Clayton Roses town hall focused
around the question, Why do issues of
race matter if Im white?
The meeting and the question...
came directly from meeting and a discussion that I had with the leaders of the
multicultural groups, said Rose in an
interview with the Orient. I sat down
with them a few weeks ago to talk about
where we are, where we want to go, issues, and so forth, and out of that came
a discussion about the necessity...to engage the white majority on campus.
The town hall was held soon after Rose announced that he would be
bringing in outside researchers from the

University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University to conduct a study on the
experiences of students of color at Bowdoin, and just before the BSG referendum for a Multicultural Representative.
The town hall meeting aimed to open
up these conversations in a space for the
entire student body, refocusing the discussion on white student involvement.
Rose opened Tuesdays meeting with
a few general remarks. He acknowledged
the importance of action, rather than just
conversation, but stressed thoughtful reflection as a necessary first step.
Before we can get at figuring out
how to fix things, we have to understand
them and we cant understand them unless we talk about them. This is an issue
we dont talk about here or in America,
Rose said. I have seen far too much
Off-campus housing steadily increasing

Tensions rise as students and community members communicate through BPD
BY MARINA AFFO AND KATIE MIKLUS

ORIENT STAFF
Although off-campus housing is not

a new phenomenon at Bowdoin, the
number of students renting homes offcampus has been steadily increasing
over the past few yearsa phenomenon
that presents new challenges for the College. Since the Office of Safety and Security has no control over privately-owned
property, students in these homes must
deal directly with the Brunswick Police
Department (BPD) and with other community members, a process that can lead
to some tension.
According to Senior Vice President for
Communications and Public Affairs Scott
THIS WEEK IN
OPINION
Hood, there are currently 165 students

living off-campus this fall semester. This
is the highest the number has been in the
past six years and an increase from the 144
who lived off-campus in Fall 2014.
Neighbors
Some members of the Brunswick
community feel the College does not do
enough to regulate Bowdoin students
living off campus. Professor of Cinema Studies Tricia Welsch, who lives on
Cleaveland Street, criticized the lack of
policies surrounding the issue.
They need to seek to restrict more,
guide more the students who live in the
houses. And thats not to say that indi-
vidual people of good will like Randy

havent done what they can do, but once
students move off campus the College
has essentially no jurisdiction, and so
they really dont get involved, she said.
Since Bowdoin Security does not get
involved at off-campus houses, Welsch
and other community members cannot
call upon them to regulate the students
living there. Instead, they must rely on
communications with residentsor on
BPDwhen there is an issue.
I really, really hate that thats all we
can do. I dont think of having an adversarial relationship with students. I dont
think of calling the police on neighbors.
THE COMPASSION
OF RADICAL POLITICS
Maya Reyes
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Please see HOUSING, page 4
IN SUPPORT OF
PROFESSOR BISBEE
Mark Wethli
Page 12
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
A house on Bowker Street (above) is a new off-campus house. Six students lived in
the house this semester and more will live there next semester.
CRITIQUING THE TERM

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Stephen Kelly
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DOUBLE STANDARDS
IN HOOK UP CULTURE
Haley Friesch
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Results of The Orients

Approval Ratings Survey
All Results
Bowdoin College 93%
President Rose 94%
Office of the Dean of Academic Affairs 87%
Office of the Dean of Student Affairs 77%
The Faculty 98%
Residential Life 90%
Safety and Security 94%
Dining Services 99%
Registrar 88%
Health Center 79%
Information Technology 76%
The Libraries 93%
Department of Athletics 74%
Career Planning Center 75%
SECURITY REPORT: 12/4 to 12/8
MIRANDA HALL
Friday, December 4
A student who was driving a College-owned van drove off the road
and knocked down a College-owned
light pole at the corner of Bath Road
and Sills Drive. The student reported
that she could not see through the
frosted windshield.
An officer checked on the wellbeing
of a faculty member who failed to show
up for class. The professor overslept.
A student stole a holiday wreath from
a wall at Thorne Dining. A report was
filed with the dean of student affairs.
A student was cited for possession
of hard alcohol in Chamberlain Hall.
Three students were cited for smoking marijuana and possession of drug
paraphernalia in Chamberlain Hall.
Brunswick Rescue transported a
student to Mid Coast Hospital after the
student experienced a series of seizures.
of an intoxicated student at Reed House.
A student who was denied access to
the Junior-Senior Ball at Thorne Hall
became disorderly with a member of
the Student Activities Office staff assigned monitor the event.
Brunswick Rescue transported
an intoxicated student from Burnett
House to Mid Coast Hospital.
Brunswick Rescue transported an
intoxicated student from Coleman Hall
to Mid Coast Hospital.
An intoxicated student became ill

at Thorne Hall and was escorted to his
residence hall.
An intoxicated student vomited in
the mens room at Thorne Hall. The
student will be billed for the housekeeper call-in and clean-up.
Excessive noise was reported at
Baxter House at 1:30 a.m. Several people were asked to leave the building.
Wall damage and a broken window
were discovered at Baxter House following a registered event.
An exterior door was kicked in a Harpswell Apartments. Members of a mens
athletic team are taking responsibility.
A bike that was reported stolen at
Harpswell Apartments was later found
near Searles Hall.
Saturday, December 5
A student walking on South Street
while drinking openly from a wine
bottle was cited for possession of alco-
Sunday, December 6
Students and staff reported that
an intoxicated non-student male
was seen entering Coles Tower after
a student opened the door for him.
The man had earlier tried to enter
Super Snack.
STUDENT SPEAK
College House System 77%

Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) 73%
BSG President 77%
Student Activities Funding Committee 72%
The Bowdoin Orient 78%
Entertainment Board 83%
Judicial Board 77%
Brunswick, Maine 82%
Tuesday, December 8
An officer investigated a suspicious
vehicle that was parked in the Watson
Arena parking lot.
An officer assisted an ill student at
Howard Hall.
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75% 74% 73% 72%
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The Libraries
President Rose
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40
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Safety and Security
99% 98%
94% 94% 93% 93%
90
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Dept. of Athletics
Top 5
30
Career Planning Center
20
Information Technology
Brunswick Police Department 87%

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The Faculty
Monday, December 7
A student reported seeing an unidentified man limp into Whittier
Field. The area was checked and the
man was not located.
An ill student at Stowe Hall asked
for be taken to Mid Coast Hospital.
Two female students walking on
Federal Street near the intersection
with Bath Road reported being verbally harassed (not a bias incident) by a
male teen in a dark SUV heading west
on Bath Road.
Office of Off-Campus Study 80%
Dining Services
hol by a minor.
Excessively loud music was reported coming from the sixth floor of
Stowe Hall.
of an intoxicated student seen leaving
Reed House.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student in the
womens room at Thorne Hall during
the Junior-Senior Ball.
Students asked that an officer check
their apartment after they returned
home and found a door ajar.
Brunswick Rescue transported an
intoxicated student from Moore Hall
to Mid Coast Hospital.
of an intoxicated student at Hyde Hall.
An officer checked on the condition of an intoxicated student walking
at the corner of Bath Road and Sills
Drive, and drove the student to his offcampus apartment.
A student took responsibility for vandalizing a light fixture at Reed House.
A student was escorted to Mid
Coast Hospital for evaluation of a
Lyme Disease flare-up.
A smoke alarm in Coleman Hall
was activated by the unauthorized use
of a vaporizer.
Counseling Services 86%
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Whats your favorite holiday tradition?
Mike Pun 17
Sam Monkman 18
Dillon Sandhu 16
Making stained glass window

cookies. You melt Jolly Ranchers and they look like glass.
Cutting down the

Christmas tree.
We have a thing where

we find a pickle in the tree.
Thats it.
Leah Howard 18
Harry Summers 16
My neighbors from a few

streets over always come over
and we have a fire.
Every year my sisters, my

mom and I get together and
watch Christmas Vacation
with Chevy Chase.
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news
New provider Workplace to

modernize old payroll, HR
and timekeeping system
BY LUCY RYAN
ORIENT STAFF
OPEN MIC ON RACE: Tim Long 17

(top) and Frankie Ahrens 18 (bottom)
speak at Tuesdays town hall. Long
spoke to the inherent assumptions
that too often hinder the genuineness
and effectiveness of the conversations,
while Ahrens broadened the scope of
these conversations. I think the conversation doesnt always have to be about
race. Its simply about engaging with
new people, Ahrens said. It doesnt
have to be a program. It simply has to
be something that we reach out and do.
VALERIE CHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
nature of the discussion, a number of

students expressed their hesitation to
participate in discussions of race as a
white person.
I think theres a fear that people will
see you [as a white person] in some
ways as becoming too involved in issues
that you shouldnt become involved in,
Jacob Russell 17 said. It is guilt. No one
likes being in a setting where the race
youre associated with has to come up
with actions that did happen in the past,
happen every day...You have to confront
many spaces at Bowdoin when you go
to talk about issues of race as a minority as a white person, which is a great
experience to have...but I think white
students...often dont want to put [themselves] in that situation.
Concerns that some of my white
friends have made is that theyre really
afraid of saying something wrong, that
they dont have a space that they feel like
they can speak and they wont be immediately shut down or screamed at or perceived at racist, Emily Serwer 16 said.
Olivia Stone 16 responded directly to
Serwer, agreeing with the fear yet urging
people to move past it.
Were brave students, were smart,
and we can all just take a deep breath
together and get over it, Stone said. I
also dont think that those attacks are
really going to happen. And I dont really know why we are afraid of them, but
I dont think that my peers of color are
going to attack me even though theres
this fear that they will. I dont know
where thats coming from and I think
we need to explore that a bit together.
Adira Polite 18 tried to reframe this
fear by contextualizing peoples responses.
I think one reason for [people being
afraid of others exploding] is you only
hear these voices when theres an explosion. People wait to engage in these
conversations until something has happened that has angered people. Polite
said. If you go up to them when something has happened theyre going to be
emotional...But if you go up and ask
them on a normal day, you know, talk
to them about these issues, then maybe
you can learn something.
This initiative, many students felt,
rests with white students.
[A student] was [saying] that stu-
dents of color need to change how they

talk in order to make [race] easier to
talk about, Violet Ranson 16 said.
And the problem with that is...You cant
edit what someones going to say when
theyre talking about how you hurt
them. So it is up to white students to be
able to handle that, because students of
color have been handling hatred for a
very long time. So its your job now to
be able to handle hard things and handle having these hard conversations, if
youre really curious about what people
have to say.
While programming attempts to facilitate these hard conversations, the lack
of white student attendance at these multicultural events reshapes the discussion.
[At the Anonymous Speech talk
on Friday] there were probably four or
five white students, Justin Weathers
18 said. I would just like to encourage
people that these spaces are open and
theyre open for students to engage in.
Were not going to attack you and we
can have mature conversations about
things we disagree about...Theres space
for disagreement and we can overcome
these things but we need people on both
sides to come to the conversation.
Daisha Roberts 16 echoed Weathers
call for more attendance.
[As] a part of Af-Am we have always discussed different ways...[to]
plan ways to get white people to come
to our dialogues, programming, events
and parties. We literally spend hours on
end trying to figure out how to get more
than the same 20 people that usually go
to our events, Roberts said.
Students urged each other to extend the initiative past programming
as well.
I think the conversation doesnt
always have to be about race. Its simply with engaging with new people,
Frankie Ahrens 18 said. I think thats
a really powerful way to do it. It doesnt
have to be a program. It simply has to
be something that we reach out and do.
Reaching out becomes more complicated when students remain unsure of
the boundaries of group spaces.
I felt, as a cisgender, Latino-identifying person, that I do not belong even
walking through Russworm House because I used to think of that place as
exclusively a safe haven for black students, Julian Tamayo 16 said. Then
actually in those spaces I see all this art
and these friends studying. The same
thing is happening in 24 College with
women and the queer community. I
think it was helpful for me to think of
these spaces less as exclusive to who is
on the title as safe haven and actually as
places of celebration. I think that opens
up the space for a lot of people who consider themselves as allies.
At the same time, some students
felt these spaces occasionally need to
be exclusive.
How you can know as a white person is you ask...Af-Am parties are social
spaces, so we want as many people who
can fit in that space to come, Kama
Jones El 17 said. Especially after the
sailing team incident, when those things
occur thats probably not the best time
for people to be there, simply because it
can interfere with how people feel confident in expressing themselves.
Like a number of other students, Jones
El spoke of the way Bowdoin exposed
her to different people, an exposure best
navigated through engagement.
One of the biggest things Im grateful for being here at Bowdoin is that I
get to engage with people who I would
not engage with if I was back home,
Jones El said. The fact that people are
reluctant to engage is what harms...us
in terms of why we feel welcome in certain spaces and dont feel welcomed in
others. I feel like the more you interact
with people, the more you can learn
from them.
Though having bowed out for most
of the discussion, near the end of the
hour, Rose responded to a student who
called him out for suggesting that students who identify as students of color...
are one thing.
You should absolutely feel free to
[call me out]... Im going to weigh into
this thing, deeply. Im not going anywhere. And I will definitely make mistakes, and I will get called out for them,
and I will feel horrible about them, but
its not going to deter me, Rose said.
Thats the single most important lesson
Ive learned in the much longer journey...Take a deep breath and keeping
going through it and engage.
On January 4, the College will

launch Workday, a new payroll,
human resources and timekeeping
system. It will replace their current
provider, Ceridian.
The ease and look and feel of the
system is just so much better than
what we currently have today, said
Vice President of Human Resources
Tama Spoerri.
Human Resources (HR) decided to
switch systems in February of 2014,
when Ceridian announced it would
undergo a full upgrade, requiring all
customers to transfer over their own
data. Prior to the announcement,
the College had already begun to
review management systems that offered a module for higher education,
which Ceridian did not. The upgrade announcement along with the
need for a system with an education
platform ultimately triggered HR to
leave Ceridian and sign with Workday, which is among the few human
resources management systems that
does offer such a platform.
Ceridian, which the College has
used for over 10 years, manages two
subsystems: TimePro, for time-tracking and payroll, and HRs employeebenefits system. The current version
of Ceridian requires some self-service
management to be done on paper.
Workday is an entirely web-based
and single-sign-on system. Employees and employers alike will simply
enter their Bowdoin username and
password to gain access to their entire
experience as Bowdoin employees:
pay, benefits, time-tracking, personal
information, requesting time-off and
so on. Workday may also be accessed
via their mobile app.
Spoerri praised Workday for being incredibly user friendly.
Workday has over 1,000 customers, ranging from academic institutions, to tech companies, to nonprofit
organizations. Among those are larger, research-based universities such
as Brown, Colgate and Stanford. In
the past year, Workday has worked
to make their services more affordable for small-scale institutions such
as Bowdoin. Bowdoin is the first of
the NESCACs to transfer systems,
though according to Spoerri, several
of our peer colleges are in the process
of reviewing it and actually may be in
a position to move to Workday within the next year.
[Workday] want[s] to try, for
small institutions, a fast, lower-cost
implementation to see how it would

work, said Director of Enterprise
Systems and Project Management
Abbie Brown. In the end, they are
going to extend [implementation
time] back out a little bit, by maybe
two months because it was a very
rapid implementation.
The College submitted an RFP
(Request For Proposal) to Workday
in the summer of 2014.
We went through the evaluation
process in the fall and then signed
the contract at the end of January of
2015this year, said Brown.
She attributes the fast pace of the
project to the members of the team.
The executive sponsorspeople
who endorse the project and aid the
labor-intensive process of switching
systemsare Senior Vice President
for Finance and Administration and
Treasurer Katy Longley and Senior
Vice President and Chief Information Officer of IT Mitch Davis.
The rest of the Project Team includes another sub-group of sponsors, a Core Team and a Focus Team
of members from various departments throughout campus, who HR
consulted from the beginning of the
process in order to gather inclusive
perspectives on the system changeover. Among those departments are
Facilities, Dining, Library, Safety and
Security and Academic Affairs.
Students employed by the College
will all receive their own Workday
account. For students who already
record their hours online, they
will continue to do so in Workday.
Otherwise, employers such as Dining Services will keep the Accutime
swiping system to record hours. Every clock used on campus to track
work hours will be replaced with
a Bowdoin-customized one from
Workday, with a built in B button
for entering student IDs.
In preparing students, faculty and
staff for Workday, the Workday Implementation Team is hosting a series of open lab demos to walk people through the website. The first of
the series, the Workday Overview
session, was yesterday. The next
overview session will be Wednesday,
December 16 in Moulton Unions
Lancaster Lounge from 12:30 to 1:00
p.m. The Implementation Team is
also offering more specialized open
lab demos for the many different
functions of Workday. The schedule
for the demos is available at bowdoin.edu/workday. HR will also offer training for employees as they
return from Winter Break.
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HOUSING
None of that seems any kind of normal to
me, said Welsch.
If residents dont wish to invoke the
police, Welsch said, the responsibility
is on them to provide guidance to the
students about what it means to live in a
quiet neighborhood as quiet neighbors.
Theres all kinds of things you need
to teach the people who live there every
year, she said.
Students ask neighbors to call them
instead of the police when there is a
problem, said Welsch, but, you know,
thats also not really our job.
Senior Lecturer in Environmental
Studies Jill Pearlman lives on Longfellow
Avenue and is thankful that she does not
have to deal with students, as she is not
immediate neighbors with any of them.
Pearlman says that having her children grow up near the College was a rewarding experience and that there have
been winters where students would help
shovel her driveway, but she would not
like to have them live next door.
Students can be incredibly nice,
but I just dont want to live next to
them, she said.
She added that it is unfortunate that
Bowdoin is buying a lot of property on
Longfellow Avenue, a street close to campus. Currently there is one off-campus
student home on Longfellow Avenue.
According to Perlman, professors are
very unhappy that they are not able to
live on Longfellow because houses have
been bought by the College.
Students
Traditionally, certain houses cycle

through groups of Bowdoin student
renters every year. Some are unofficially
affiliated with sports teams, while others
are just passed between friends. Students
choose to live off-campus for a variety of
reasonsto get some distance from the
Bowdoin scene, to have a space to throw
parties and spend time with friends, to
have more autonomy. However, with this
autonomy also come certain challenges.
Jared Feldman 16 lives in a house
with 10 other Bowdoin students on
Cleaveland Street. He described his
and his housemates interactions with
the Brunswick community as fairly
limited, but added that we definitely
try to maintain as positive as possible
neighbor relations.
We absolutely send emails to
the neighbors if theres going to be
any large gathering, any noise. They
have our numbers. The idea is to
contact us if theres a problem before
the police, he said.
Peter Yanson 16 lives with five
other students on Bowker Street, in
a house that was rented to students
for the first time this year. He expressed similar sentiments about
community relationships.
Most of our interactions with our
neighbors have been at the beginning
of the year. When we first moved in, we
went around and introduced ourselves
and gave them our phone numbers in
case we threw any parties that got too
rowdy or anything, he said. They were
all a little apprehensive at first because
there had been a family that lived there
before and this was the first time that six
college boys were going to live in a house
together, so they were a little nervous
about that, but on the whole its been su-
per positive.
Yanson said that he lived off campus on McClellan Street last spring
semester and found that interactions
with neighbors were more tense there,
with neighbors that often called BPD
with complaints of excessive noise.
However, Yanson did not see these
run-ins as too different from dealing
with Bowdoin Security.
What would Security dothey
would come, they would tell us to calm
down. And then the police just did the
same thing last year. They would tell
us to turn down the music, whoever
was outside was 21 and showed their
ID, it never amounted to anything else.
So I never thought of it as a larger deal
to deal with the police, just a different
deal, he said.
Feldman expressed more reservations
about interactions with the police.
It hasnt been a large challenge for us
yet, but I think its something that were
all aware of, he said. Throwing [parties]
off campus is certainly a larger responsibility and I think everyone in the house
has felt that when there are people over.
We dont have Security as a buffer.
Matt Rubinoff 16 lives on Garrison
Street with six other Bowdoin students
in a house that has historically been traded between members of the hockey and
football teams. Since the house has traditionally been a residence that hosts many
parties, Rubinoff said he and his housemates met with both Randy Nichols and
BPD before the year started.
When somethings going on with students, [BPD] will contact Bowdoin Security, and they keep a good connection
between those two. But first response in
an emergency would be from the police,
he said.

Juliet Eyraud 16 lives at 11 Potter
Street with four roommates. It is Eyrauds
second year living off-campus. She lived
on McClellan Street last year, and loves
the experience.
I liked the idea of having cheaper
housing and having neighbors, having a
kitchen and being more connected to the
community than I have been, she said.
11 Potter is next to the home of Senator Angus King.
He actually hit my roommates car
and left a really nice note that was like,
I think I might have damaged your
bumper please get in touch with my insurance agency. Signed Angus King,
said Eyraud.
Eyraud has not had any interactions with the police, but since one
of the assaults that occurred earlier
this semester was on Potter Street,
Eyraud says Security has been very
responsive and has communicated
well since the incident.
Randy came to our house and gave
us updates without us even asking,
said Eyraud.
Eyraud lived in the house for a week
in the summer before her roommates
and says there was a prowler in her yard,
but when she contacted Security they
told her it wasnt in their domain. This
changed as the semester went on.
I think because it kept happening
they were like, We should make this
our domain, which is nice, she said. I
havent felt incredibly unsafe.
Amina Ben Ismail 17 lives at 84
Spring Street and the recent security concerns have not changed her outlook on
off-campus housing either.
Im scared now but it hasnt changed
my experience. I already knew that these
things happened. It was scary that it was
this close but I do feel safe drivingI

never walkedand taking the shuttle,
she said.
One critique Ben Ismail has of living off-campus is her houses relationship with Security. Security has not
visited Spring Street since she moved
in, and Ben Ismail wishes that they
would be more involved with the offcampus houses.
I wish Bowdoin Security would
visit off-campus houses and see how
much lighting there is and if its safe.
They have students living off campus,
they should make sure that everything
is good, she said.
Security
If they are not called by students, residents or BPD, Security often does not
visit or communicate with students living in off-campus houses.
If the police ask us to respond
and assist them, we will often do
that, said Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols.
This semester, Nichols has had to speak
to students living in off-campus houses on
Garrison Street and Harpswell Road because neighbors were upset that students
were cutting through their lawns.
Nichols advises students to get to
know their neighbors and communicate
with them if there are any problems.
When I meet with off-campus students I encourage them to get to know
their neighbors and even exchange
phone numbers, so if things get a little
loud some night or there is some sort of
a disturbance the neighbor can call. And
that keeps things on an even keel and lays
the groundwork for a relationship with
the neighborhood, he said.
STUDY
the project.
According to Roses announcement, the study aims to answer three
broad questions: how students of
color experience life at Bowdoin differently from white students, what
policies and practices contribute to
these differences and what strategies
the College could pursue to improve
the experiences of students of color.
Those of color in our community
experience Bowdoin differently than
those who are white; the difference
can be profound and occurs in every
aspect of our lives here, Rose wrote.
Roses announcement comes after a semester of events that have
sparked discussions surrounding incidents of racism and structural racial inequality at Bowdoin and other
campuses across the country. At
Bowdoin, the gangster party held
by the sailing team in October and
a series of controversial anonymous
posts on Yik Yak led to protests and
wider discussions of the role that
race plays on campus.
Without getting after institutional structures and really understanding the barriers that exist or
the mechanisms that you can use
to facilitate it, you will only make
limited progress, Rose said in an
interview with the Orient. There is
also a deep temptation to react very
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quickly and throw lots of things at
the problem without understanding
the root cause of the problem.
In response, Rose said, this project seeks to understand the racial issues facing Bowdoin in a systematic
way. Charles and Kramer will be given quantitative data about the College to analyze, and will also make
qualitative observations during inperson visits to speak with students,
faculty and staff.
Bowdoin faculty will likely be
interviewed by the researchers for
their perspectives, but will not act as
researchers in the study.
I do want to give Professor
Charles the opportunity to be someone who comes from the outside
and gains an understanding of this
place, Rose said.
Charles, who declined a request
for an interview from the Orient,
will continue to teach a full slate of
classes at Penn. However, Rose said,
she plans to make visits to Bowdoin
for a bunch of days at a time.
Charles knew Rose when he was
a student in her department at Penn
and she served as a reader for his
Ph.D. dissertation.
She is uniquely suited among
all scholars that I know or know of
in the United States to help us. Her
work on racism is among the best in
the country, and she works at the intersection of race and higher education, and in particular has looked at
liberal arts colleges, Rose said.
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FEATURES
Together shares stories of survivors of sexual assault

BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
During her sophomore year, Ali

Ragan 16 said that her eyes were
opened to the issue of sexual violence
on Bowdoins campus in a new way.
I realized that sexual violence affects so many people on campus, but
the way were addressing it isnt really
effective, and we arent really doing a
very good job of supporting survivors
either, she said. So I started thinking
of things we hadnt done yet.
Her answer was to start work on
"Together," a film that premiered
Thursday night, that would share the
stories of survivors on campus. The
film uses actors to portray the stories
of anonymous students who contributed stories of being a survivor of
sexual violence at the College.
Its almost like the Vagina Monologues and Speak About It had a
baby, she said. It is like these monologues and stories about experiences
at Bowdoin, but to see it on film is
completely different.
Ragan began to think about this
project during her sophomore year,
and began working with Tallman
Scholar in Gender and Womens
Studies Susan Faludi and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies
Sarah Childress on an independent
study last spring.
It was very difficult getting started,
she said. As a school project the school
had to sign off on it, so it was difficult
to find a project that the school felt like
I was best protecting survivors while
still...exposing how sexual violence affects Bowdoin students."
Ragan ended up sending out emails
to various groups on campus to collect
anonymous stories from survivors.
I sent out the email and I didn't
get any responses for two months.
That was a little disheartening, because I knew the stories were out
there but I think its really hard to
write down your story, she said. I
kept trying and eventually I got five
COURTESY OF ALI RAGAN
BEHIND THE FACE: (Clockwise from top left): Esther Nunoo 17, Cordelia Orbach 17, Clare DeSantis 16 and Katie Foley 17 tell the stories of four students who have experienced sexual violence.
stories. They represent a very wide
range of experiences at Bowdoin,
whether their experiences happened
off campus and theyve just carried
the story with them onto campus or
their stories happened at Bowdoin
and how thats affected their ability
to be a student.
Ragan found five actors to portray
the five stories in the film. Clare DeSantis 16 was one of the actors.
"I think its an opportune time to
talk about this to remind everyone
that its not always a stranger, and
more often than not it does happen
within our community and that we
also need to be cognizant of that it
happens here," she said. "At the end
of the day there was no way I wasnt
going to help spread that message.
DeSantis said that presenting one of

the stories was difficult.
It was harder than I thought it
was going to be, she said. To actually put yourself in the headspace
of what this must be like was really
difficult, and Im sure Im only just
skimming the surface.
Ragan said that she hopes the film
shows people the ways in which survivors on campus are affected, every day,
by their experience with sexual violence.
Even if a case goes perfectly and
everything is taken care of exactly how
the survivor wants it to be taken care
of, youre still living with this story every single day of your life and it still affects you, she said. I think it takes the
campus to support survivors and that's
what the film is aimed to do.
Students packed into Smith auditorium for the screening on Thursday,

sitting in the aisles and standing at the
back of the room.
The most powerful part to me
were the clips of people walking
through the campus, because there
was a sense of emptiness and loneliness, and also just something thats
so routine, said Brooke Goddard
17. It was like an expression of
something that is so routine and so
common for every Bowdoin student,
just walking around the campus,
but you dont know what people are
thinking about when theyre walking around, and what it feels like to
be on this campus for certain members of the student body.
Members of Safe Space and Peer
Health held facilitated conversations following the screening. Marcella Jimenez 16 is a member of Safe
Space, and helped with the facilitations. Ragan showed facilitators the
film prior to the premiere.
She had us watch the film and
then we had a chance to debrief, and
she held space for us to talk about it,
said Jimenez. It was really powerful
to see the film the first time, and I
dont think I could have just seen it
once and then facilitated, just because there were so many different
emotions and things to process
Seeing it a second time I was a little
more attuned to other peoples potential responses.
Ragan plans to show the film
again next semester.
Finding a boyfriend at Bowdoin is not the be all and end all

KATHERINE CHURCHILL
KATHERINE GIVES ADVICE

Hello, precious readers!
Despite my explicitly expressed

aversion to answering questions
about love, I have received many.
Thanks, jerks. Three of these inquired about how to find a sweetheart. See them combined below:
Dear Katherine,
Where should I go to meet a lover? Teach me your ways, oh wise one.
My inability to get a sig other is
hurting my school work. Help!
I've never dated someone at Bowdoin and I really want to. What's the
best way to meet someone?
Sincerely,
Singles in Studz
DIANA FURUKAWA
Now, look. Ive already stated in

an earlier column that love is a maverick and giving love advice is useless. But once again, at your request,
here I go.
Our culture is full of metanar-
ratives about what makes a person

lovable, and those metanarratives
are often false, misogynistic, heteronormative and like, super ineffective. Take, for instance, the movie
Grease. When Sandy wears hot
pants and smokes cigarettes to procure Dannys love, we learn that by
changing ourselves completely, we
convince people to love us and also
drive off in a flying car.
Ive tried this, actually. Not the
smoking and hot pants. The changing myself completely. It worked
OK at first. I manipulated my high
school lover into courting me
through a flurry of crop tops and a
feigned interest in Entourage. He
then dumped me for another girl
who had much higher self-esteem.
Calmly accepting my heartbreak, I
secretly threw that girls Uggs away
during gym class*. There were no
flying cars. I would call it a net loss.
Another love metanarrative we
internalize is the myth that we will
be happier in a relationship than we
would be single no matter what. Instead of waiting to find a person we
want to be with, we look for anyone
to fill that self-made void, even if
that person doesnt fit it quite right.

Ive done that too. In that relationship, we didnt really like each
other very much, which is kind of a
prereq for a relationship. Besides, we
were doomed from the beginning.
The night after we started officially
dating, my new boyfriend drunkenly
peed on my slippers.
I remember laying in bed that night
thinking Is this how the rest of the
relationship is going to go? And it
was. Picture three long months of him
metaphorically pissing on my shoes.
You might be thinking by now
that I wreak footwear-related havoc
wherever I go. This is not untrue.
But what Im trying to identify is
that you should fall in love with people that you love just the way they
are, and who love you just the way
you are right back.
So Singles in Studz, try to remember that having a significant other is
like, super not the most important
thing.** In fact, love for loves sake
almost always ends with a broken
heart and too few good memories to
redeem it. Dont steep in your own
loneliness.
Instead, I would revel in your sin-
gledom. I know this isnt satisfying.

But alas, there is no build-a-bear
workshop for boyfriends or girlfriends or partners. Go out and be
social and do the stuff you like, the
way happy single people do. Chances are if you spend your time with
Bowdoin students with similar interests/values/levels of athleticism,
someone will catch your eye.
Thats what happened to me two
years ago. Were still very happy. No
shoes have been destroyed. At least
not yet.
Out,
Katherine
P.S.
I also received this question about
love, which I feel morally obligated
to answer:
After exchanging numbers, in a
hetero pairing, isn't it in the guy's
court to ask to hang out first?
For the love of god, sweetheart.
NO.
*Chloe, if youre reading this, Im
so sorry.
** The most important thing is, of
course, Spicy Lentil Tacos at Thorne.
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The semi-permeable bubble: Bowdoins impact on the town

BEN YORK
COLUMNIST
While many of my friends first
learned about Bowdoin from college
fairs or guidance counselors, I have
known about Bowdoin for as long
as I have
been able
to read.
I live in
Harpswell,
Maine, on
the same road
as the Coastal
Studies Center. I have
had white cars and
vans emblazoned with
the black Bowdoin logo
passing in front of my
house for as long as I can
remember. As such, I have
known Bowdoin from the
outsidethe image presented by the College and
the messages that it sends to
the world.
What many students do not
know is just how much influence the College has on the surrounding community. I have fond
memories of attending plays at
DIANA FURUKAWA
Pickard Theater in my childhood,

of learning to swim in the Bowdoin
pool, of college students coming to
work and volunteer in my schools.
Many who came to Bowdoin
decided to settle down in the surrounding community, and so many
of my neighbors, teachers and even
my dentist have been graduates of
Bowdoin. When I received my acceptance letter, my school and my
community celebrated with me, because I had gotten into the Bowdoin,
the College next door, and the best
school in the state of Maine.
While the Bowdoin Bubble does
a good job of separating the college
from the community and the world
at large, our particular bubble happens to be semi-permeable. The major happenings of the College often
become front-page news for local papersfrom protests to controversies
to demonstrations to initiatives.
Many of the more embarrassing moments in Bowdoins recent history,
which older students recount to first
years with a combination of amusement and embarrassmentIm looking at you Crack Househave been
dinner table conversations for me, all
part of the communitys happenings.
Being a local, I have also grown
up with stereotypes about my new
home. Of college students as arro-
gant, as inconsiderate, as fast driving and hard drinking. Of students

passed out in gardens and graveyards, of vandalized property and
children being awakened at odd
hours by the revelry of a college
house party.
Now, being a part of the

community that I have
grown up next to for so long,
I find myself a visitor in my
own home.
Now, being a part of the community that I have grown up next to
for so long, I find myself a visitor in
my own home. When I hear someone refer to the locals as townies,
I am taken aback by this patronizing
name being given to the hardworking individuals I have grown up with
my entire life.
I dont think that many of my fellow students realize just how much
their words and actions reflect on
themselves and on our community.
While the Bowdoin Bubble may keep
the outside world at bay, it does not
prevent that world from looking in.
Finding the spirit

of Seattle amidst
gentrification
BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER
COLUMNIST
Since receiving his honorary degree

in 2013, many Bowdoin students have
ogled over Patrick Dempsey. But perhaps
now is the time to reflect on the people
from McDreamys non-Bowdoin home.
Claire McCarthy 18 and Philip
Kiefer 18 both grew up in Seattle and
described their childhoods in the rainy,
green city as very typical.
When I was a young child, I had
the quintessential childhood: awesome,
huge backyard, dog and cats. And we
would play in the streets. It was the
classic childhood, McCarthy said. But
once I was a teenager, I had access to the
more urban lifestyle and experiences.
All my friends lived in the city. So I kind
of moved away from the suburban lifestyle. It was like the things I had the option to do expanded and I got to choose
and in a way I got to live both a suburban and an urban lifestyle.
The influence of the urban lifestyle on Seattle as a whole seems to
Its brought a lot of diversity into Seattle, and also, a lot of wealth, said
McCarthy. The tech startups have
been huge especially for people who
have grown up in Seattle and lived
there their whole life so they want to
come back and live there as adults.
Kiefer also felt the ways in which
the tech boom on the West Coast was
painting his home in a certain way.
I went to school with a ton of
kids of Microsoft execs and Amazon
people. I think its really interesting
to read about the role of technology
in the world and then see who it actually is creating that stuff and Seattle
is experiencing incredible growth
because of the growth of Amazon,
he said. Its kind of like seeing that
human side to the Silicon Valley, seeing that the internet isnt this abstract
thing. Its this thing built by the people largely in Seattle and Silicon Valley and Boston, to a certain extent.
Kiefer, too, began to see the growing effects of the tech industry on his
life and not all of them were positive.
But, honestly, that isnt doing
The way the city has gentrified in the last five to 10 years because
of the explosive growth of the tech industry has driven out a lot of
that diversity that I think sets the West apart.
PHILIP KIEFER 18
be transforming the city, especially

with the influx of tech companies.
The tech industry has brought a
very different group of people into
Seattle, a lot of millennials, a lot of
people starting their careers in tech.
great things for the city. The way

the city has gentrified in the last five
to 10 years because of the explosive growth of the tech industry has
driven out a lot of that diversity that
I think sets the West apart, he said.
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OUT WEST: Claire McCarthy 18 (left) and Philip Kiefer 18 (right) were both raised in Seattle and have witnessed its changing demographics.
The tech industry has brought a very different group into Seattle, a lot of millennials, a lot of people starting their careers in tech, said McCarthy.
The gentrification can also be seen
by the ways the tech industry has affected the socio-economic diversity
of the city as well.
A lot of people are saying that this
booming tech industry that we have
in Seattle is kind of pushing out the
middle class a little bit. And a lot of
the neighborhoods in Seattle that
historically may not have been the
greatest neighborhoods are now located in central locations in relation
to the tech companies, said McCarthy. So were seeing a lot more
wealth move through those areas and
like for the community as a whole, its
been a great boost to the local economy and small businesses. But at the
same time some of these communities are losing a lot of their culture.
Yet, McCarthy sees the city actively
working to change and to maintain a

semblance of the same city.
I think its important to have Seattle maybe look at Silicon Valley, maybe see what they did wrong. Yes, they
have amazing economic opportunities there and an amazing tech boom
there but its almost entirely reserved
for white males between the ages of 25
and 35. I think that the leaders in Seattle are looking at that really closely
and making sure Seattle doesnt turn
into that, said McCarthy.
In fact, with the influx of new
wealth being poured into the Seattle economy and the growing job
opportunities in the city, McCarthy
sees the new industry as a positive
influence on Seattle.
I think a lot of people look at
whats happening in Seattle right
now and say its the tech companies,

but the tech companies are actually
providing a lot of opportunity across
the board, said McCarthy.
Both Kiefer and McCarthy,
throughout the changes still see the
city they love for all its central characteristics that so innately shape it.
Seattle is a fairly green city. Pretty much anywhere you turn theres
like a giant lake or the ocean. Just
geographically nature is definitely
a contributing factor to life there,
Kiefer said. You can get up in the
winter and everything will smell
salty and its kind of misty and you
can look out onto the ocean and its
just lightly covered in fog. And thats
kind of a physical feeling that I miss.
But its more just the experience of
being in that place.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
SAVANNAH SIMMONS-GROVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TAKE A
BOW
Bowdoins various student-run dance, a cappella, musical,
comedy and theater groups shared their semesters work in
performances throughout the week in celebration of
successful artistic endeavors and the holiday season.
SAVANNAH SIMMONS-GROVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
DANCING SHOES: At the Student Dance Group Performance, Bowdoins breakdancing group Broken (upper) debuted some choreographed pieces, a
departure from its normally improvised dances. Bowdoins ballet club Arabesque (lower) performed its annual production of Tchaikovskys Nutcracker,which
was choreographed by the groups leaders seniors Emma Peters and Megan Maher.
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HOLIDAY CHEER: Bowdoin Sketch Comedys Maggie Seymour 16 and Claire DeSantis 16 (above) performed a critique of the NESCAC Snapchat Story on Wednesday night. Yesterday in Pickard Theater, Bowdoins five a cappella groups performed seasonal tunes and favorites
from the semester. One of Bowdoins all-male groups, The Longfellows (left), also sangChristmas (Baby Please Come Home.)
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a&e
Chase Barn intensifies horror of Curtain Callers Sweeney Todd

BY SURYA MILNER
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoins student-led theater

troupe, the Curtain Callers, was
less than enthused when told they
would be performing their rendition
of Sweeney Todd in Chase Barn.
With a small stage, only two doors
and no backstage or wings, the midnineteenth century barn is not the
traditional venue for a musical as
grand as Sweeney Todd. But Max
Middleton 16, co-director of the
musical and an actor in the show,
predicts that the space will lend to
an intimacy between the actors and
the audience.
It ended up being a blessing in
disguise, because it feels like a horror movie could take place in that
space, Middleton said. Its going to
be a really close experience. By nature of performing in Chase Barn,
its going to be a cast of 15, a pit orchestra of four and an audience of
50, and that is as small as Sweeney
could get.
Co-directed by Middleton and
Cordelia Zars 16, Sweeney Todd
is the first full-fledged musical that
the Curtain Callers have performed
since their rendition of The Rocky
Horror Show in the spring of 2014.
The two directors were drawn to
the idea of putting on a show that,
although sinister in theme, would
excite and engage their audience.
Its a pretty dark show, lead ac-
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CITY ON FIRE: (left to right) Anna Bearman 16, Railey Graham 19, Hannah Berman 18, Monique Lillis 17 and Bella Tumaneng 17 rehearse for Curtain Callers rendition of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barbor of Fleet Street,which will run tonight and tomorrow night in Chase Barn at 8 p.m.
tor Lucas Shaw 16 said. Bowdoin
hasnt really done a very dark, intense piece before Im really excited to interact with the audience
and make them feel afraid.
There has been an increased
interest in musical theater on campus over the past couple of years,
Middleton said. I thought a really
good show to get the community excited as a whole would be Sweeney
Todd, because everyone loves Sweeney Todd. Its hard and its difficult
and its weird and gritty and its just
a wonderful show.
With its complex music scores

and disturbing content, the plot follows a barber named Sweeney Todd,
wrongfully exiled from 19th century
London by a judge who was after
Todds wife. The story resumes 15
years later, when Sweeney returns
to exact revenge on the judge by
conniving with a local baker who is
short of fresh meat for her pies.
Its gonna be a little creepy and
hopefully its a little scary. And then
its also a funny, sick show. Its a really weird piece, Middleton said.
You can expect people to be put-
ting in some really phenomenal

performances. Theres some singing
going on in the show thats some of
the best Ive heard during my time at
Bowdoin theater in general.
The directorial team, composed
of Middleton and Zars, met with
Professor of Music and Director of
the Bowdoin Chamber Choir Robert Greenlee during an independent
study to learn how to give vocal direction with Sweeney Todds difficult musical score.
Its very difficult music, so it
doesnt go where you would expect
it to and often times its pretty dissonant, Shaw said. The acting,
for me, is actually the easier part.
I thought it would be much harder
because its such an intense, deep
character.
Amber Barksdale 18, who plays
Mrs. Lovett, the local baker, has
struggled with stepping into the
shoes of a character who is so unlike
herself.
Ive never played a person who
is totally okay with killing people
it was weird to actually think like
someone who is completely and totally fine putting humans into food
that theyre also feeding to other
humans, Barksdale said. Its super
creepy to think about, when you really stop and think about it. There
are a lot of complex pieces that go
into those emotions.
But its the intensity of the characters and the intimacy that Chase
Barn provides that promise to make
it an exciting show, Middleton says.
I am really excited to see how
actors interplay with the audience,
Middleton said. Because when
youre directing, you become so familiar with the lines and material
that we forget what lines are funny.
We forget what lines are scary. And
then when we perform it to an audience, actors remember why theyre
doing it. Im really excited to see
how the show that weve created and
the audience interplay with each
other.
Art Dept. displays student

work in culminating exhibit
BY SARAH LIM
ORIENT STAFF
Tonight, students from all of this

semesters visual art classes will exhibit their best work from the semester at
an open house at the Edwards Center
for Art and Dance.
The exhibit will include works of art
from drawing to sculpture to digital media. The open house provides a space for
students to discuss and share their work
with the Bowdoin community.
Chair of the Arts Department Michael Kolster hopes the open house
will be an opportunity for students
from all areas of campus as well as
the community to come in and see
what the classes have been working
on all semester.
Those students have been working on their final projects for the
past couple weeks, so its really a
chance for them to put up what they
think represents the culmination of
works they did all semester, he said.
For Tess Hamilton 16, a student
in Painting II, the open house is an
opportunity to exhibit the personalities of herself and her peers.
Theres a lot of academic spaces
on this campus, and its of particular
note to me that when you walk into a
space in Edwards, you very much are
not asked to leave your personality
at the door and that comes through
in a lot of artistic representations,
said Hamilton.
In Sculpture I, Assistant Professor
of Art Jackie Brown decided to let
students show a mixture of different
projects theyve been working on
throughout the semester that they
wanted to highlight.
The students worked really hard
and made really compelling work,
said Brown. Its really exciting to
be able to show it and share it and

have people from the community get
a glimpse and know what weve been
doing and hopefully a sense of why
weve been doing it.
Emily Jaques 17, a student in
Browns class, chose her piece because it incorporated the entire semesters studies.
I chose one that I felt like was involved in all of what we had done in
the class, not just conceptually but
technically, she said.
Students will be displaying everything from their entire portfolio to
final projectsany piece they feel
is representative of what theyve
learned from their course.
Its very open-ended. Theyre all
self-designed projects, said Hamilton. Its cool to see how all of our
work, our own personal work and
also the work of our peers, have
evolved.
It was a chance for them to take
things they learned in class and apply it to something they were interested in, said Visiting Professor of
Art Mary Hart, who teaches both
Drawing I and Painting I.
This open house offers students
the chance to display the work that
theyve been passionate about this
semester, said Nevan Swanson 18.
Its also a chance to see stuff thats
going on in classes outside my own.
Enjoy student
artwork from this
semester in Edwards
Arts Center from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m.
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
EXHIBIT A: Tonight, Edwards Center for Art

and Dance will host the Visual Art Fall Open House,
which shows a collection of student artwork from
fall courses. Kenny Shapiro 17 (left) and Haleigh
Collins 17 (above) prepare their work to be placed
in the exhibit. Students will display pieces they feel
best represents their work from the semester.
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SPORTS
Kahnweiler and Kennedy to compete in Maccabi Games

BY ANJULEE BHALLA
ORIENT STAFF
For senior fall athletes, the transition into the winter season brings
about the end of their athletic careers
here at Bowdoin. The conclusion
of such an ingrained aspect of their
lives prompts many to look for ways
to continue their sports outside of
the College. For field hockey captains
Rachel Kennedy '16 and Kim Kahnweiler '16, they found this in the 2015
Pan American Maccabi Games.
"When I was growing up, the
Maccabi Games were something that
my mom always wanted me to do,
and for whatever reason, I never did
them," said Kahnweiler. "Then, as I
got to senior year and didn't want
my athletic career to be over, that
was kind of in the back of my mind."
The 2015 Pan American Maccabi
Games are the 13th installment of
the international, multi-sport competition that will be held in Santiago, Chile from December 26 to January 5. The Games are held every four
years and bring together Jewish athletes from North, South and Central
America, as well as Israel and other
countries around the world.
"Maccabi USA endeavors, through
sports, to perpetuate and preserve
the American Jewish community by
encouraging Jewish pride, strengthening Jewish bonds and by creating
a heightened awareness of Israel
and Jewish identity," Maccabi USA
says on their website. "We strive to
provide Jewish athletes the world
over the opportunity to share their
heritage and customs in competitive
athletic settings."
In addition to the Pan Am Games,

the Maccabi World Union hosts the
Maccabiah Games, the world's largest Jewish athletic competition, in
Israel every four years. The 19th
Maccabiah Games brought together
7,500 athletes from 77 countries in
2013, making it one of the largest international sporting events after the
Olympics.
Kennedy, Kahnweiler and 11 other
athletes from across the country will
make up the field hockey squad, joining the US team of about 650 athletes
traveling to Chile in a few weeks.
"The program puts a huge emphasis on getting to know other Jewish
athletes from around the world,"
said Kahnweiler. "I'm most excited
for that part. I think it'll be really
interesting to hear about other people's experiences of being Jewish in
other countries."
Kennedy and Kahnweiler's field
hockey careers will come to a close
with many other high notes, including being selected as First Team
All-Americans by the National Field
Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) along with fellow Polar Bear
Kimmy Ganong '17.
"I truly think that if I hadn't
been fortunate enough to play on
the Bowdoin field hockey team, I
definitely would not have been recognized as an All-American," said
Kahnweiler. "It just goes out to all
my teammates who made me better
every single year, every single practice. The recognition is nice, but
I want to share it with the team. It
goes to the team."
In addition, this fall, Kennedy was
named NFHCA Division III Player
GRACE MALLETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CAPTAIN(S) AMERICA: Field hockey captains Rachel Kennedy 16 (left) and Kim Kahnweiler 16 celebrate winning the NESCAC title at home last
month. Both Kennedy and Kahnweiler will represent Team USA at the Pan American Maccabi Games in Chile later this month.
of the Year, after becoming Bowdoin's all-time leader in goals and
points and earning her second NESCAC and New England West Region
Player of the Year honors. Kennedy
is the first Polar Bear to earn the title
since it was created in 2009.
"It's really exciting being honored
and having personal accolades, but
it's hard at the same time knowing
that thats the end and that I won't
be playing on the field hockey team
anymore," said Kennedy. "But it just
adds to the great experience that
we had and the great run that we
had this season. Being able to play

in a national championship game
is something that I'm definitely going to be proud of even though we
might not have had the outcome we
wanted. In the long run, it's been
such a successful season and career
as a team and also personally."
After a season filled with accomplishments, Kennedy looks forward
to ending her field hockey career
with a new experience.
"I think it'll be really interesting
to not only be surrounded by other
Jewish-American athletes but also
Jewish athletes from all over the

world and be able to interact with
them, talk to them and hear about
their experiences," said Kennedy. "I
just finished my athletic career at
Bowdoin. I won't get a chance really
to play ever again, so I think it's a
cool way to go out, just being able
to have my one last time playing and
also being able to play with Kim,
who I played with for four years
here. I think balancing the Jewish
aspect and also the athletic aspect is
going to be a really rewarding experience."
Brady and womens hoops off to hot

start, including win over No. 3 Tufts
BY JAMES CALLAHAN
ORIENT STAFF
The womens basPOLAR BEARS 79

ketball team extendME.-FARM. 38
JUMBO-SIZED WIN: Captain Shannon Brady 16 dribbles away from Tufts Katy Hicks in a
home game last Saturday. The Polar Bears defeated then-No. 3 Tufts, 61-43. Brady finished the game
with 27 points and 15 rebounds.
ed its win streak to

four games with a Wednesday night
blowout win against UMaine-Farmington. After a 1-2 start, the team now
sits at 5-2 on the season.
The Bowdoin women never trailed
against UMF on Wednesday, riding
senior Shannon Bradys 17 points and
seven rebounds to a 79-38 win. Lauren Petit 18 chipped in with 14 points
and six steals.
This comes as part of a larger postThanksgiving rebound for a team that
sat below .500 before its November 28
win against Salve Regina.
Our game against Salve Regina
[was] the transition game for us, said
Head Coach Adrienne Shibles.
Having lost three key players from
last year, including leading scorer
Sara Binkhorst 15, Brady described
the early-season difficulties as early
growing pains.
However, Shibles was happy to say
that newer players are starting to fill
the graduated players shoes.
Lydia Caputi 18 is one whos really stepped up to provide a presence
where Megan [Phelps 15] and Siena
[Mitman 15] were really tough for us

in the post. And I think several of the
guards have really stepped up to fill
that scoring void that Sara Binkhorst
left, she noted.
And early losses to teams like the
University of New England showed
the team areas in which it could improve.
[We] just didn't shoot the ball well,
didn't bring the kinds of intensity that
we had to bring, said Shibles.I think
the players were putting too much
pressure on themselves so we worked
on that.and I think they responded
really well.
Defense, in particular, has been a
focus this season.
[Coach] has definitely emphasized
the defensive factorthat if we want
to be a good team we have to buy into
our defense, said Brady.
[It] creates a really aggressive
mindset for our playerswhen weve
really getting after it on the defensive
end and I think it leads to offense
for us, said Shibles. If were getting
steals and getting turnovers from
the other squad it just picks up our
tempo too. Were pushing the ball
more, were being more aggressive in
getting to the rim. So thats where it
starts for us.
And since the Salve Regina win, the
women have even trounced that same

team who they had lost to in last years
NESCAC title game: the Tufts Jumbos.
I just cant tell you how impressed
I was with the women in that game,
said Shibles. To me, [it] shows how
far weve come.
Despite being down 8-0 in the first
minute of the game, Brady noted that
no one on [the] team felt rattled or
fearful. And by the end of game, the
Bears had come back to trounce the
then-No. 3 Jumbos by a score of 61-43.
Coach Shibles was particularly impressed by Brady, who was dominant
with 27 points and 15 rebounds.
"Shannon Bradys performance
was just amazingshe did it all, said
Shibles. Everyone knows that she's a
talented playershe's our Preseason
All-Americanbut people just underestimate her. Shes incredibly fast
and incredibly strong. There were
many standout moments but her performance overall in that game was
something special."
Looking forward, Shibles stressed
the need for the team to stay engaged
and present in the moment.
I really think we have one of the
toughest schedules in the nation so we
really have to stay focused, she said.
The team plays host to Colby tomorrow at 7 p.m.
the bowdoin orient
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sports
Womens hockey confident heading into Winter Break

BY JULIA OROURKE
ORIENT STAFF
The womens ice hockey team has had

a busy schedule over the past two weeks.
The Polar Bears have already competed
in six games and have a current record
of 2-4.
by a lot, were never giving up.

Given the circumstances, the team is
still optimistic about the remainder of
the season.
If anything, what weve taken so
far is just making us better in the
long run. Were going to be a better team for this, so were definitely
really excited, said
Dachille.
The team has changed
their alignment on the
ice, which has required
some adjusting for the
women. They now are
putting three defenders
back.
Were still getting
used to the system. Ive
never played it before,
said Bell.
Its still very new.
Were working out the
kinks in it right now,
and I think we saw
that this weekend when we had a
few breakdowns in the system, said
Dachille.
The change in strategy is a result of
the makeup of the team this year.
We have a lot of returners on D
and we moved two forwards back.
Coach said we could only use this system this year because of personnel,
said Dachille.
The challenge with this new system is
that the women have to adjust to where
they are supposed to be.
If one persons out of place its really
easy for the other team to take advantage, said Bell.
While the team does not have quantity, they have strong players competing.
Lan Crofton 17 has been really great for us, and we have a really
good freshman in Sophia Lattanzio,
so we have really solid goaltending all
around, said Dachille of the teams
goalies.
The team will have a shorter Winter Break in order to jump into their
busy January schedule. The Polar
Bears are excited to have this time
dedicated to practicing.
Everyone really likes being there. Everyone is having fun always. Thats the
most important thing, said Dachille.
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FRI. JAN 29 @ 7:00 p.m.
V.
WESLEYAN
WATSON ARENA
The women started off their season

with a resounding 6-3 victory over Colby in Brunswick. The next day, at Colby,
the Polar Bears were defeated in overtime 4-3.
The team took losses to Holy Cross,
Norwich and Saint Anselm before defeating UMASS-Boston 3-2 on Tuesday.
We have a short bench, a small
team, and we were coming off four
losses so it was a huge win for us.
Hopefully we can take that momentum over the break. It was a big
turnaround that lifted everyones
spirits and brought the energy back
up, said Julie Dachille 18 of their
recent win.
Marne Gallant 17, Julie Dachille
18, Maegan Sheehan 19 and Maryanne Iodice 18 have all missed time
due to injury. Kimmy Ganong 17 recently came to the team after finishing
up the field hockey season.
We have a small team to begin with,
so every person matters, said Dachille.
We did have a losing streak, but
some of the games were really good
games. The score doesnt always do it
justice, said Miranda Bell 18.
So far, if you look at how weve
played, were a really strong third period team. Even if were losing a game
REACHING IN: Forward Madeline Hall 17 plays keep away with a UMass-Boston defender in the Polar Bears3-2 home victory over the Beacons on
Tuesday. Maureen Greason 18 notched a pair of goals on the night and Miranda Bell 18 scored the game-winner with 2:32 left on the clock.
The action will continue on January
3 at the University of New England
followed by a number of NESCAC
match-ups throughout the month
against Williams, Amherst, Middlebury and Wesleyan.
Well be back at full strength when
we come back in January. Were definitely optimistic. We have a lot to look
forward to, said Dachille.
In February, the Polar Bears will
take on Hamilton, Connecticut College and Trinity.
Along the way, the team will also
compete against Southern Maine
and Endicott.
We have incredible character.
Everyone wants to be here, everyone
wants to win and is so committed
to making us better, said Dachille,
We see ourselves close to the top, if
not the number one spot. The good
thing about this team is, while we
had this bad stretch, I think were
only getting better.
MULES ARE STERILE
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MENS ICE HOCKEY
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The mens hockey team defeated Colby 4-2 in Watson Arena on Saturday.
Bowdoins all-time record against Colby improved to 109-89-8.
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the bowdoin orient
OPINION
To move forward, vote yes
n Tuesday night, President Clayton Rose facilitated a town hall-style

meeting in Smith Union that sought to answer the question Why
do issues of race matter if Im white? The aim was to foster an open
discussion amongst the entire student bodya difficult task considering the
sensitive nature of the issue at hand. The event was packed and it was the most
visibly engaged the campus has been in recent memory; hundreds of students,
faculty and staff filled the Union to listen and participate, with many standing
for the entire 75-minute event.
The discussion was honest and lively. President Rose was a firm moderator,
guiding the discussion as necessary, unafraid to rephrase certain comments
into more pointed questions. People talked not past each other but to each
other, which is especially meaningful on a campus where much of the provocative dialogue takes place behind closed doors or on Yik Yak. In his closing
remarks, Rose said that this was just a first step, and in some ways, we havent
done anything. The town hall was successful as a starting point, but it will be
meaningless if the conversation and action around race at Bowdoin ends there.
In November, the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) executive committee
introduced a proposal to elect a multicultural representative to serve as a voting member of the general assembly. This student would represent the Multicultural Coalition, an organization of 17 student groups dedicated to diversity
and multicultural life. There is precedent for this position: the Entertainment
Board, the McKeen Center, Inter-House Council and Athletics all have designated representative positions on the BSG.
Voting on the referendum began on Wednesday of this week and remains
open until 9 p.m. this Saturday. In order for the position to be approved, one
third of the student body must vote and within that group, two-thirds must
vote in favor. This position would guarantee that there is a voice on BSG to
represent minority students on campus regardless of BSGs elected members.
In theory, the representative would place multicultural issues at the forefront of
their agenda, ensuring that issues of diversity and race will never fall through
the cracks. BSG has taken a proactive role on issues of race this year, issuing
resolutions of solidarity with students of color at Bowdoin and at the University
of Missouri. However, BSG is a large, complex body with dramatic turnover
each year, and it has not always shown the racial consciousness proving so
important this year. A multicultural representative would help to hold it accountable to the interests and concerns of minority students no matter who its
elected representatives are.
As Rose said at the end of Tuesdays town hall, This is the beginning of this
conversation, not the end. This semester has seen a dramatic uptick in the
Bowdoin communitys willingness to talk frankly about racebut it cannot
stop now, even as the shock and anger from certain specific incidents fades. A
vote for the creation of the multicultural representative is a vote for a concrete
step toward lasting awareness of racial issues at Bowdoin.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of John Branch, Sam Chase, Matthew Gutschenritter,
Emma Peters and Nicole Wetsman.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Im writing in regard to the article about the student petition in support of Professor John Bisbee in last weeks issue of The Orient. I was instrumental in recruiting Professor Bisbee 19 years ago, and I have never wavered in my conviction that
he is an exceptional and unusually gifted teacher, a generous and insightful mentor
and a remarkably innovative artist whose creative and professional achievements
have continued to flourish with each passing year.
A generation of Bowdoin graduates from many fields, as well as the arts, proudly
trace their lifes work to his example of personal and creative integrity, and his inspiring presence will be greatly missed.
Sincerely,
Mark Wethli, A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art
To the editors and President Clayton S. Rose:
As alumni of Bowdoin College and the visual arts program, we are deeply saddened and disappointed to hear that the college is terminating its relationship with
John Bisbee. We believe this is an error. Over the last two decades, Professor Bisbees
teaching has become a legendary staple of the Bowdoin experience not only for the
excellent results he gets from his students but also due to the pedagogical diversity
he brings to campus and because his impact and influence extend well beyond his
classroom.
Bisbee loves inspiring his students. He moves them to search vigorously and
critically for a creative trajectory that is both meaningful and tenable. He does everything within his power to accommodate even the outermost proclivitiesprovided the student demonstrates resolve, passion and sufficient pragmatismby
supplying additional spaces, materials, hours and supervised access to his shop. He
invigorates artists through the example of his own creative process and career, and
continues to push them after they graduate. Every year, alumni return to thank
Bisbee for causing them to look at the world in a different way.
If the visual arts department is to maintain its vibrancy and merit, retaining John
Bisbee is just as essential as the creation of a digital media position. We urge the
school to reconsider its decision.
Sincerely,
Loretta Park 11, Sam Gilbert 10. McKay Belk 11. and Tom Ryan 12
Go to bowdoinorient.com to see a collection of notes Park collected from alumni about Prof. Bisbee.
DIANA FURUKAWA
Radical politics and compassion intersect

MAYA REYES
VULNERABLE DISCOURSE
For the simple reasons that I believed
white people were more beautiful and intelligent, I wanted to be white until I was
around 16 years old. I wanted white approval. I learned English and Spanish at
the same time, but at certain points in my
childhood I was embarrassed to speak the
latter. Even as someone born and raised
in Queens, one of the most diverse counties in the country, white supremacy had
poisoned the synapses of my mind. We
contort our bodies to fit nicely against the
jagged geometry of societys dominant
values. Those values were loud and clear
even when surrounded by other people
of color. There is something deeply wrong
about a society that makes a child feel that
way, that their entire self is undesirable
and lesser because of difference.
Most people do not consider themselves racists. That is an ugly word.
That is a slur. Only southerners with
confederate flags, KKK cardholders
and Donald Trump are racists. But we
live in a country where black students
have their lives threatened on Yik Yak
and Latinas get paid 55 cents to the
white mans dollar. We live in a country where a Supreme Court judge says
students of color are being pushed into
schools too advanced for them.
In the case of Antonin Scalia, he is a
man who has been appointed to one of the
most honorable and powerful positions
this nation offers. He is a 79-year-old racist man who has been shaped by American racism. Not in the South, but in Elmhurst, Queens, the very neighborhood
I was born in. Racism influences each
and every one of us because we live in a
country shaped by a violent and traumatic
history of racism. Racism is not rooted in
someones person. No one is born a racist. It is developed through socialization.
But it is only through realizing our racism that we can eradicate it. Our collective
racism, which is insidiously written into
textbooks and law, and which is violently
made visible through images of black victims of police violence, must be pulled out
of our earth from its roots.
Only by getting to the root of an issue
can we eradicate it. This can be seen in
the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: life
is suffering, suffering is caused by desire,
suffering will cease with the cessation of
desire and putting an end to desire can be
achieved by following the Buddhas teachings. Suffering will only end through recognition of its cause. Not with bandages
and certainly not with ignorance.
This is why I am an unabashed radical. Activist and writer Angela Davis said,
Radical simply means grasping things tionalize compassion. We live in a world

from the root. That is what the word defi- where we tell students they cant be racist
nitely means. Yet, we associate radicalism because it will not fly in corporate Ameriwith extremism, fanaticism and crazy ca. Well I am here to say that compassion
these are all synonyms from Merriam- is the rationale. Its the bottom line; its the
Webster. At some point, the word was root of our humanity.
poisoned and now everyone is too scared
Donald Trump is from Queens too.
to take a bite. Most people dont want to be When I was little I had this strange fear
associated with radicalism. And it makes that my mother would be deported. She
sense because our society is reluctant to was a legal resident, and is now a proud
understand things from the root.
citizen, but I was still scared because I
The roots of our society are not didnt really know how immigrant policy
just problematic; they are violent, worked and I had heard stories. To hear
selfish and sad. Almost every day in him talking about deportation is scary
or out of class, I learn about some as- and hurtful, but I know the problem is
pect of our history and present that so much more than Trump. Strangely
makes me nauseous. Government enough, he represents the most disgustsupport for genocidal dictators, mass ing version of our culture in every posdeportations of refugees, internment sible way: gaudy materialism, greedy real
and segregation, slavery, sweatshops, estate development, bigotry, xenophobia,
all of the shootings in the past few that unreal hair and so much more. But
yearsthese indisputable facts of our Trump is leading the Republican polls. He
collective identity are so heartbreak- is not an anomaly. If he does not win the
ing because there is no way to escape candidacy, or the presidency, that doesnt
them. Of course we are so much more mean a damn thing. This country prothan that, but it is part of us too.
duced him, and it produced his supportThe shooting in San Bernardino was ers; his ideology is not separate from the
such an impossibly sad event to process dominant one, but a big part of it.
because it seemed to be the latest in a
I appreciate bandages. Ive had one
string of similar acts of violencemost on my hand for the past couple of weeks
notably the shooting in Charleston and because my skin has been cracking, and I
the attacks in Paris. Hearing about these like to be protected. But I know that I need
deaths make the world seem so absolutely to moisturize, and put on gloves when the
absurd. When this mass violence happens bandage comes off. We cant stop at the
so often, we cannot assume that the peo- bandage. Stricter gun laws are not going
ple who commit these heartless crimes to eradicate mass violence because people
are just plain crazy anomalies. Psycho- in a violent culture will find a way to be
logical issues are certainly factors in these violent, regardless of the law. Appointing
instances, but there has to be more to con- a multicultural representative for our stusidering the frequency. I was not surprised dent government isnt going to eradicate
to
hear
racist attitudes and feelabout the
ings of exclusion at BowOur collective racism, which is insidi- doin, because those kinds
shooting
in
San
still get admitously written into textbooks and law, ofted.people
BernardiKicking out a sex
and which is violently made visible offender support group
no. I was
shocked
a local church will
through images of black victims of from
a n d
not rid women on this
deeply
police violence, must be pulled out of campus of the fear of sextroubled,
ual violence, and it will
our earth from its roots.
but not
not lessen the chances
surprised.
of it happening, because
That
is
these sex offenders still
not OK. We should all be surprised when exist (and now probably have negative
something so horribly inhuman happens. feelings towards the College, which is just
What this string of violence tells us is that great for us).
there is something about our current state
These actions, which I know come
of affairs that is horribly alienating and from a place of well-meaning and
uncompassionate.
compassion, are bandages. That does
We have to deal with that. We have to not necessarily mean they are unnecfocus on increasing our compassion for essary or undesired. But society has a
others, and we have to stop glorifying any tendency to stop at bandages, to pat
form of violence, either through fictional themselves on the back for a job well
media or government propaganda. Love done when things look better for the
for each other is the only reason we should time being. But we need to destroy
need to stop perpetuating violence and what cuts us in the first place.
bigotry. Sadly, we do not live in that world.
Dig deeper, dig to the roots and pull
We live in a world where we need to ra- out the toxic ones.
the bowdoin orient
opinion
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The double standards of hook up culture

HALEY FRIESCH
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of

having a conversation that inspired
me to think about something that a
lot of people seem to have opinions
aboutsomething about which everyone says, This is something we
need to address, something that
needs a facilitated discussion. Yet, in
my lifetime, I havent seen one come
to fruition. That would be the issue
of a double standard between men
and women. My own opinion, which
will be quite honestly and personally
expressed throughout the remainder
of this piece, has remained unwavering as I constantly find myself in
situations that strengthen what I already believe.
The conversation took place during a small gathering (I wont say
party because it wasnt, but not something unlike a party) with a boy in my
year who I know vaguely and who I
have talked to so little that I could
probably count the number of our interactions on one hand. In the midst
of the polite conversation that you
have with somebody you dont know
very well, he says to me, Youre a
nice girl.
Slightly taken aback, I thank him,
though unsure as to why he said it.
He then proceeds to tell me that his
good friend and teammatewho Ive
known, shall we say, intimatelyhas
told him and some of their other
friends things about me that werent
so good. Upon further prompting he
tells me, He said you dont respect
yourself. This he follows up with a

declaration that he believes in my virtue, and now that hes had the chance
to get to know me better, he realizes
his friend is an idiot. Hes right.
I once heard the term slut defined as a woman with the morals of
a man. I see a problem with this definition, however, because that implies
that a man is a man no matter how he
behaves, yet a woman is free to be labeled as any type of epithet depending on her behavior. Secondly, people
react on complete opposite ends of
the spectrum when listening to men
and womens debaucheries. I can almost guarantee that nobody has been
going around saying that the guy I
slept with doesnt respect himself.
This is where I see the double
standard kick in. In this day and age,
with the media culture we live in, sex
isnt taboo anymore. Forgive me for
sounding like my parents when I say
that todays standards have changed
the meaning of sex (an argument for
another piece), but in some respects,
I dont think thats a bad thing. We
should love and celebrate our bodies,
not be ashamed of them, and I think
our culture is making that a more acceptable perspective now.
Yet if a woman decides to sleep with
a man shes not committed to or if she
decides to sleep with more than one
man, shes deemed a slut. I honestly
dont think I can say the same about
a man. When a man sleeps around,
hes a hero amongst his friends and a
jerk amongst the girls he wont commit to. But everyone accepts this behavior. No gossip spreads and passive
aggressive comments arent aimed in

his direction.
So whats so special about the scenario I just described, when that argument has been around for years?
Well, probably nothing. I just have
a couple reasons why I think its pathetic that were still treating people
in this way. That being said, I can
only speak for myself and what I
have experienced and learned along
the way.
First, its college. Look around. I
have no statistical evidence to support my claims, and Im also horrible
at math, but Im pretty sure more
people than not are involved in the
hookup culture here to one extent
or another. Is every girl thats having
sex with someone shes not dating
considered a slut? Does she not respect herself? If the answers to those
questions are no, then what makes
one girl different from another? And
who gets to decide? College is an
experimental time in so many ways.
Were all trying to figure out what
we want after we graduate, what we
want in life. That doesnt apply solely
to academics.
Secondly, is the lovely young gentleman that so politely pointed out
my lack of self-respect not equally as
responsible for what transpired between us? Who is he to tell me that I
dont respect myself? I am fully aware
of every decision I make and how I
make them. I contemplate what I
want to do, and I make sure that Im
completely comfortable in any situation. I make decisions for myself, and
I do what makes me happy. Thats
DIANA FURUKAWA
not to say I dont make mistakes, but

thats how Ive been able to grow to
understand myself more fully. By acknowledging those things about me,
I know what I need to do in order to
respect myself. And I do, so forgive
me if standing around waiting for
him to acknowledge me again after

hes been respecting himself with
any other girl is not how I choose to
show it.
Haley Friesch is a member of the Class
of 2018.
Feeling othered: wreaths dont encircle all religious upbringings

BY JONAH WATT
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
Before you label me as an overly

sensitive, politically correct Grinch,
let me make a few things clear: I play
Tchaikovskys Nutcracker on repeat,
I own several ugly sweaters and I almost liked Bowdoins Instagram of
an asymmetrically affixed wreath on
the front of Hubbard. I enjoy returning to Reed House at 2 a.m. to see
the tree that we decorated and the
menorah in our front window. I, like
most others, thoroughly enjoy the
holiday season.
However, I wasnt thrilled when
I came back home one afternoon
to a wreath hanging on my front
door, affixed that morning by one
of Santas elves, most likely in the
form of a wonderful member of Facilities. Though many will argue that
wreaths are of Greco-Roman pagan
origins or have simply become deChristianized, I believe that wreaths,
especially when adorned with red
ribbons, are indubitably a Christian
symbol.
Growing up in a Jewish household,
my family abstained from festooning
our house with wreaths and lights, instead placing our electric menorah in
our front window. For my family, this
abstinence was a reminder that, unlike
the majority of our town, we were not
Christian. This religious separatism,
if you will, instilled in me a sense of
pride, not only for my Jewish heritage,
but also for the fact that my family was
different.
When I approach my front door or
when I sit down at my table in Moulton
and count four wreaths on the interior
windows, I am reminded that we live
in an overwhelmingly, though simultaneously subtly, Christian society. Our
non-denominational chapel chimes
every fifteen minutes, its beautiful stained glass windows depicting New Testament scenes.
(For this reason, we didnt
bring my grandmother inside
when she came to visit.)
The omnipresent wreaths
represent the normalization
of practices reflective of an
unchallenged Christian hegemony; we live in a world
where our calendar, vacations
and seasonal decorations (not
to mention vaginal autonomy
and rights to marriage) are
dominated by Christocentric
practices. Intended to be an
innocuous way to spread holiday cheer, these wreaths are
subtle but constant reminders to those of us who do not
identify with Christianity that
we exist within this Christian society. When I enter my
house, which is more than 25
percent Jewish, this branding
of my space is a reminder that
I am part of such a society,
even on our diverse, non-denominational campus.
I will still throw out a few
proposals for making our
campus more inclusive in
this sense. One alternative
is to replace the red bows
with more neutral ones
black and white, for example. While
this would be a step in the right direction, it would reduce neither the
wreaths overwhelming presence
nor their symbolic value. I propose
swapping out these wreaths for lights
across campus, akin to the string
lights hanging in the Union and from
the sprinklers in all of our rooms.
Though these lights are still associated with Christmas, they possess
a more universal appeal. Multiple
MIRANDA HALL
winter solstice observances fall into

the category of festivals of light, in
which lights are used to illuminate
the darkest part of the year. Hanging
lights from the building would honor
these multiple holidays, while simultaneously increasing aesthetic appeal
and providing additional safety.
I hesitate to end this with proposals, for I believe that that detracts
from my intended message. This
seemingly trivial issue may not mat-
ter in the real world, where Salvation Army Santas wish me a Merry
Christmas outside of the supermarket
or where my friends trivialize my religion by asking what I got for Chanukah last night. I do believe, however,
that it matters as we continue to strive
to create inclusive spaces on campus.
I acknowledge that these thoughts
come from a place of extreme privilege when compared to more obvious,
oppressive marginalization on cam-
pus. However, I hope that my sentiments resonate with others questioning and challenging larger unchecked
subtleties and norms on our campus.
I hope that we can work together
to deconstruct and reconstruct our
spaces here to reflect the multiple levels of diversity that Bowdoin is supposed to represent.
Jonah Watt is a member of the Class of
2018.
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Overly cautious: Red State paranoia cant hide Obamas failures in Syria
DAVID JIMENEZ
MINDLESS PONTIFICATING
It is common in discussions at Bowdoin and in progressive circles to denounce the Republican response to the
refugee crisis. And the outrage is no
doubt warranted after Donald Trump
described a mere 10,000 Syrian refugees as a potential ISIS Trojan Horse,
Ben Carson compared them to rabid
dogs and 30 GOP governors refused
their entry under highly questionable
claims of security.
But ultimately (and thankfully),
people like Trump, Carson and Maine
Governor Paul LePage have not been
conducting our foreign policy since
2008. Far fewer progressives, with the
notable exception of Hillary Clinton,
are willing to ask the harder question: what do we make of Obamas
decision-making so far through the
Syrian civil war, which cost Syria more
than 250,000 lives and displaced half its

citizens? Bear with me as I admittedly
embark on some armchair foreign
policymaking and Monday Morning
diplomacy.
From the outbreak of the Syrian civil
war in 2011, Bashar al-Assad showed
his true colors as the Butcher of Damascus, in a government reign of terror through sieges by starvation, barrel
bombings, torture and chemical weapons. The Syrian Network for Human
Rights reported that Assads government forces were responsible for seven
times more civilian deaths in Syria
than ISIS so far in 2015.
Throughout this time, Obama ignored calls for more decisive action
against Assad, not from the worlds
Cheneys and Rumsfelds, but from his
own foreign policy team. He turne
down calls from his then-Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, CIA Director
General David Petraeus and Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta for a more
interventionist approach through
empowering moderate Sunni rebel

groups and creating no-fly zones. This
was all the more tragic, since, in 2011
and 2012, groups like the Free Syrian
Army were driving opposition to the
regime in comparison to al-Qaeda and
ISIS. Obamas insulation to critical administration voices continues to this
day. A Politico September investigation found a demoralized Obama national security team in the aftermath
of Putins escalation in Syria. Obamas
inaction even drove the U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert S. Ford to resign in
February 2014.
I admittedly take Obamas cautious
realism over much of George W. Bushs
first-term neoconservatism most days.
A third major American war in the
mold of Afghanistan or Iraq would be
wrong and receive no backing from an
exhausted public. Nevertheless, Obama
was mistaken in neglecting a harder
move against Assad beyond meaningless red lines and bland statements
that Assad must go or, even more
banal, that he is on the wrong side of

history. A more confident, stronger
Syrian opposition would have held a
greater voice at the negotiating table
for a postwar settlement that might
have removed Assad without totally
excluding Alawite, Shiite and Iranian
interests in Syria. It could have created
pockets of safety and order as the foundations of a new state. Most of all, Sunnis might not have found extremist
groups like al-Nursa Front and the
Islamic State, given their resources
and military skill, to be their last resort of defense.
The later danger actually came to
fruition in Syria as David Ignatius described in a perceptive Atlantic critique
of both Bush and Obamas Middle
Eastern policy. As Sunni communities
found themselves at the mercy of Assad
with little Western assistance, it is no
surprise that extremist jihadist groups
became more attractive. And the prospect of a dual conflict of ISIS and Assad
is playing into the dictators hands, al-
lowing him to partially rehabilitate his

image in the West as the last hope of
stability against ISIS.
Today, the world faces the greatest
refugee crisis since World War II. The
European Union confronts a humanitarian challenge that could test its very
survival; one need only see an explosion of far-right populism stretching
from Sweden to France. Syrias historic
religious pluralism and ancient Christian communities unravel. Hope for a
lasting peace, or perhaps just a decent
one along the lines of Lebanon or Bosnia, looks ever bleaker.
It would be absurd to cast blame on
Obama for this extremely complex crisis, but Obamas foreign policy requires
some serious reconsideration in the light
of these horrors. Peter Beinart wrote that
historians will record Obamas work on
the Syrian refugee crisis among his finest
hours. On that question, Beinart is right.
On the deeper issue of the Syrian civil war,
short of Providences unexpected surprises, Obamas legacy is hardly so clear.
No girl guns: we must recognize that firearms are anti-feminist to the core
JULIA MEAD
LEFT OF LIPSTICK
My cousin brought a gun to Thanksgiving dinner.
OKhes a cousin by marriage, but
heres what happened: he has a small
pistol that he keeps in his pocket at all
times. This is legal; he has a concealed
carry license. We were all sitting
around chatting after dinner, enjoying
the post-meal lull, when he pulled it
out and showed it to my brother. The
idea here, I guess, is self-defense. After
all, suburbia is a dangerous place for
white, straight, tall men.
His wife, my cousin by blood, wants
to get a gun too. Again, the idea is selfdefense, but now it makes a little more
sense. Shes a woman and sells real
estate in the South, so she often goes
to unfamiliar places with unfamiliar
people by herself. This is a quasi-feminist rationale for gun ownership, and
I almost get it. Almost.
My dad has a gun. Its a 22-caliber pistol that he inherited from his
father. It slumbers, useless in the
basement, and the bullets are locked
away upstairs. He has used it before,
though, and so have I.
Last winter I went to a gun show in
Kentucky, where I grew up, with my
dad and a family friend.
The gun show sprawled through the

convention center, and I wandered
from booth to booth, picking up the
guns and weighing them in my hand.
They had a satisfying heft. More often
than not, the proprietor of the booth
would address me, Hey there, Ive got
something I think youll like. Look
over here. He (the sellers, like the
buyers, skewed heavily male) would
gesture to the far end of his stand at
two or three girl guns. Functionally,
they were the same as the black and
silver ones I was trying, but they were
painted pink or leopard print. A few
were bedazzled. You know, the way
that women are.
The only thing that can make a
woman as strong as a man, read a tshirt on display, is a gun.
Can gun ownership be feminist?
Guns grant women the same power to
kill as they do men. They equalize our
capacity for destruction.
Since the sexual assault on November 10 and the incident on Potter Street
on November 17, women on campus
have felt less safe. Consequently, we
are taking measures to make ourselves
more powerful. We are taking selfdefense classes and avoiding walking
alone at night. I thought about buying
pepper spray. Ive begun to make my
nightly trek from the library to my
house clutching my keys between my
fingers, brass knuckle style.
What is the endpoint of this logic?

Armed self-defense. Guns. If it is my
responsibility to keep myself safe, I
will do it as well as I can. There is
an organization built around the
idea that women should have guns
for self-defense called The Womens
Gun Zone.
But that logic is rotten to the core,
and we have proof of it almost every
day. The more people who own guns,
women or not, the more people die by
guns. Two weeks ago, a gunman killed
three people in a Planned Parenthood
in Colorado Springs, and shooters
killed 14 people and injured 21 in San
Bernardino, California. I saw a Washington Post article on mass shootings
a dozen times. Everywhere I read,
news was abuzz with condemnations
and despair, again.
We are heartbroken and weary, but
were not shocked. Tragic murder by
gun is not anomalous in the United
States. How could anybody argue
that now? It is built into the gunloving system.
I have seen guns. I have touched
them. I have fired them. Many people
I love own guns. Many women I know
own guns. This is my dream for the
guns in the United States:
I want to take them all away. I want
to knock on the door of every gunowning home in America, including
those of my family and friends, and
DIANA FURUKAWA
confiscate their firearms. will toss

them all in a big pile. We will set it on
fire.
I want us all to hold hands around
this massive flaming pit and chant:
No more guns. No more guns. No
more guns.
This is unconstitutional, Julia, you
say. This is too simple. You cant do
this.
Youre right. Im telling you my fantasy, not my policy proposal.
If my choice is between unfettered
government tyranny and rampant,
toxic murder, give me tyranny. But
thats not a real option. Here are some

real options: end gun shows, require
gun licensing akin to drivers licensing, undertake more thorough background checks, ban the sale of assault
weapons and extend the 24-hour waiting period and make it universal.
Although the world is doubtless
an unsafe place for women, I do not
buy the feminist spin on gun ownershipthat it is the strongest, best
form of self-defense. The culture
that tells women to defend ourselves
with guns is the same culture that
gives rise to mass shootings.
Learning to use white privilege as a tool in fighting oppression

CAROLINE MARTINEZ
SAY IT LIKE IT IS
As a person who has one foot in Ecuador and another one in the United
States, I have often felt guilty. Guilty
that I have U.S. citizenship and can
travel around the world while many
of my friends in Ecuador cant. Guilty
that I go to Bowdoin College and receive many resources and financial
benefits. Guilty that I live with extreme comfort while I have the knowledge that many in the Ecuador and
the U.S. are constantly struggling. But
guilt is a paralyzing feeling that didnt
show me how to use my privileged position in society.
When I moved to the U.S. and came
to Bowdoin I started learning about
a privilege I had never heard of before: white privilege. As a biracial La-
tina student I initially understood this

concept abstractly, but didnt connect
it to my life until I took a class called
Race and Ethnicity. I knew that race
existed from a young age by observing the contrasting way in which my
white American mother and Ecuadorian mestizo father were treated,
but I didnt understand that I had
white privilege. Its implications overwhelmed me.
The house where my white mother
and grandmother live is an example of
the white privilege present in my life.
When I go to St. Louis, MOwhere
most of my family livesI am welcomed in a safe, well-kept neighborhood, in the same house that my white
great-grandparents helped my grandmother buy. This house, where my
family and I came when we were going
through hardship in Ecuador, represents t he racial inequality and injustice present in the U.S. The neighbor-
hood is still all-white, just like it was

when my great-grandparents bought
it, and its located on the good side of
town. My great-grandparentswho
were whitewere allowed to buy this
house in this neighborhood; that is no
coincidence. The practice of redlining
continues to have very negative effects
on African Americans in St. Louis,
but it benefited my white family and
allowed them to buy a house at a good
price, while blacks were barred from
the same options. Even after three
generations, I am reaping the benefits
of living in a racist society that prioritized my familys whiteness at the expense of blacks in St. Louis.
The fact that my mother is white
and lived in a place where practically
everyone was college educated, where
blacks were legally not allowed to live
in for a part of St. Louis history, had
a huge effect on her chances of going
to college. On top of this, as a white
student she was perceived as being

smarter than her black peers in her
school. This type of unfair advantage
that my mother was paid at the price
of others, blacks, who had to prove
their worthiness to teachers who gave
it for free to white students. When I
began to go to her same high school I
realized this continued to be the case.
I was immediately put into the most
advanced classes when I walked into
the counselors office with my white
mother and only later learned, after
talking to my black peers, that black
students had very different experiences when they walked into that same
office with their parents.
Over the years, I have realized that
I have many privileges in my life, but
what should I do with all this knowledge of my position in society and the
unequal structures that privilege me?
Privilege is a tool. It is power and can
be used in multiples ways. President
Roses talk last Tuesday about race is a

great, specific example of using white
privilege to change unequal relations
that still exist in our society. Using
white privilege means coming to grips
with a reality that you didnt necessarily create, but that you are benefiting
from. This is hard to do, but can also
feel incredibly eye opening.
We can all learn how to use privilege wisely to change the very structures that created it. Even if youre not
white, but biracial or something else
(like me), by being a student at Bowdoin College, you have a lot of privilege. Its hard to get to Bowdoin and
people struggle to get into this place
because of all the benefits that it gives
us. It is up to us to use all these benefits to change unequal power structures. It starts by learning about the
ways in which we have received unfair
advantages at the expense of others.
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Confronting racism as someone who is in between identities

VIOLET RANSON
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
Every day in 1927, my grandfather

threw the burrito his mother made
for him for lunch over the bridge
while on his way to school. He spoke
fondly of his family, and every year
for the 4th of July, wed return to his
hometown and break piatas with
wooden bats.
On Christmas, wed eat tamales.
But I never learned Spanishor
perhaps I was never taught it. When
I went to school and told the other
Mexican children I was a quarter
Mexican, theyd take one look at my
white, freckled face and say, No,
youre not! Id retort, but their response was always, Do you speak
Spanish? and thats when Id lose
the argument.
My Italian father grew up in
Compton, California at the peak of
the civil rights movement. He remembers the feeling of being hungry; he says it felt like a punishment.
He remembers being one of the few
white kids at school and getting harassed by black peers because of his
skin color.
My identity is complicated. My
Mexican grandfather is rich, but he
had to deny his native language to
succeed. I do not have brown skin
or speak Spanish, but I am Mexican,
and I have always fought to be recognized as suchto belong.
I grew up in a predominantly
white neighborhood, but every
white girl I made friends with would
abruptly break off our friendship
to hang out with the cool kids.
Looking back, I wonder if it was because I couldnt afford to be cool.

My brother regularly got jumped by
white gang members called bros.
In middle school, after continuing to be rejected by my Mexican
peers, I was accepted into a group
of predominantly Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian and Filipino) kids.
They gave me the title of honorary
Asian, as I was the only white person in the group. I lie on the border
between two races, but I was claimed
by a racial group that did not reflect
any part of my identity.
At Bowdoin, I sometimes silence
myself to let students of color speak.
I know that racism hurts me deeply,
but because of my skin color, I never
face discrimination directly from
strangers. I am therefore neither
white nor Mexican, yet I am both at
the same timemy identity changes
based on the situation. When racist
comments are spoken in my presence, I usually leave out the fact that
I am Mexican. I am a fly on the wall,
one that catches violent, candid and
ignorant comments of offenders.
Participating in conversations about
race is easier for me because I appear as if I belong to the privileged
group and therefore the offender is
less defensive toward my comments.
Choosing to hide my identity is a
privilege, and I sacrifice revealing
my Mexican identity in order to
continue the conversation.
Racist comments do not always
come from white people, racist sentiments are embedded in minorities as well. A black friend of mine
once said, If you need any advice on
talking about race, I have

a lot of experience. He
proceeded, using a stereotypical Asian accent,
I have many weapons up
my sleeves. I responded,
You realize you just said
that in a stereotypical
Asian accent right? He
immediately went on the
defense.
Racism can also move
within and between minority groups. A Mexican
can be racist against other
Mexicans; like my grandfather who had English
pounded into him by
nuns and missionaries. He
was taught by white people growing up that his
culture was less valuable
to society; therefore, he abandoned
his language and his accent. My black
friend used a stereotypical Asian accent created by the dominant group.
This accent is used to mock Asians
for not speaking proper English
and for not assimilating to American
cultural norms of speaking. Norms
are created by the white majority, but
minority groups can also use these
norms to oppress each other.
Racism is a complicated thing. It
is insidious and pervasive. It is not a
dichotomy between black and white,
but a web of complexity. It moves
between dominant and oppressed
groups, within minority groups and
within ourselves (for me this is between my white and Mexican sides).
Let me be clear, however, that minority groups cannot be racist against
dominant racial groups.

Black people, like the ones who
beat up my father, for example, can
have prejudices. But, prejudice is not
the same as racism because our system of racial hierarchy does not give
black people the power to oppress
white people. This hierarchical system always favors white people over
black people. Was it wrong to beat
him up for being white? Yes. Did he
necessarily deserve it? No. But, were
his black peers justified in their systemically embedded fear of a white
man? Yes.
On the other hand, when white
people, who are privileged in our
society, continue to commit violence
toward black peoplein a word, oppressionthat is a systemic assertion of dominance and power. That
is racism.
I encourage you all to admit to

yourself that you are racist, that we
all have embedded in us a racial
hierarchy that values white people
over black people. No matter what
your race is, we are ALL guilty of
being racist at some point in our
lives. I will be the first to admit it.
But, it is important to come to terms
with your self-perception and how
that fits within Americas racial system. This realization can humble us
all and make it easier for us to talk
about race. For those of you who are
not familiar with phrases such as
racism, white privilege, white guilt,
or norms, I encourage you to look
these terms up. Educate yourself
dont just take my word for it.
tution. For this reason, we should

condemn and address racist stereotyping while discarding the term
cultural appropriation altogether.
The BSGs definition assumes that
each culture has a fixed nature
that can be properly or improperly
represented. This assumption contradicts academic understandings of
how culture operates. Anthropologists and religion scholars avoid attributing an essence to any cultural
tradition. Instead, they look at how
various groups define themselves. In
order to remain impartial, academics do not attribute objective reality
to any of these self-definitions and
instead analyze all identities as human constructions.
An example: over the past decade, certain people who identify
as Hindus have criticized American
religion scholarship for ostensibly
misinterpreting Hinduism. Bowdoins religion department employs
the methods that these Hindus condemn. According to the BSG resolution, Bowdoins study of Hindu
traditions represents cultural appropriation. Yet before denouncing

our own department, we must ask
who is defining the correct Hinduism. Not all people who identify as
Hindu condemn the scholarsonly
some do. Which perspective determines the correct representation of
Hinduism? If we try to take the practitioners perspective, we find that
like every other religious or ethnic
groupHindus self-definitions vary
between times, places and persons.
If we take an academic perspective, we must deny the existence of
any objective Hindu identity at all.
Therefore, identifying the correct
representation of Hindu cultureor
of any other cultureis impossible.
Acknowledging the constructed
nature of all identities reveals the
fallacy of believing that neat and
objective boundaries separate different cultures. While Americans
tend to understand identities
particularly those associated with
race as objectively real, anthropological analysis reveals the fun-
damental artificiality of these categories. Thus, we must discard the

idea that cultural appropriation
involves a dominant culture taking from an oppressed culture for
the simple reason that boundaries
between cultures have no objective existence. Instead, different
individuals draw these boundaries differentlyleaving none of the
agreed-upon distinctions between
one culture and another that the
BSG resolution presupposes.
Instead of using a vague and unhelpful term, we should describe incidents such as the Gangster Party
as what they are: racist stereotyping. Unlike culture appropriation,
the notion of racist stereotyping
does not conflict with an academic
understanding of culture. As I see
it, such stereotypinglike all discourses that define an identity
describes a group by emphasizing
certain features. But, unlike other
group-defining discourses, racist
stereotyping causes harm by reducing people into the fears and/or fan-
tasies that others entertain about

themin this case, the fantasy of
the Black gangster. In doing so,
racist discourses demean the people
who identify with (or are identified
with) that group. An event such as
the Gangster Party harnesses these
insulting discourses for the purpose
of entertainment. Bowdoin must
condemn such racist stereotyping
if it wants to build a community in
which students from historically and
currently marginalized groups can
feel safe and welcome.
Frankly, Bowdoin students should
know better than to perpetuate uncritical concepts of what culture
is. The most concerning aspect of
Bowdoins use of the phrase cultural appropriation involves the severe
judgment that accompanies a misleading term. Activists lose credibility when they wed harsh condemnation to unexamined ideas. Bowdoin
can do better.
HY KHONG
Violet Ranson is a member of the class

of 2016.
Powerful language: critiquing the term cultural appropriation

BY STEPHEN KELLY
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
On October 28, the Bowdoin

Student Government (BSG) issued
a resolution condemning cultural
appropriation, which they defined
as a power dynamic in which [1]
members of a dominant culture take
elements from a culture of people
who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group, [2]
perpetuates racist stereotypes, and/
or [3] misrepresents a peoples culture. I recognize the second part
of this definitionracist stereotypingas a serious problem that Bowdoin should and must condemn.
However, I reject the definitions
first sectionwhich envisions a
clear distinction between dominant
and subordinate culturesas well as
its third section, which asserts that
cultural appropriation involves
misrepresenting another culture.
These claims perpetuate uncritical
notions of culture that have no place
at a sophisticated, intellectual insti-
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DECEMBER
FRIDAY 11
EVENT
Visual Art Fall Open House
Student work from this semesters visual arts courses will be

on display. Refreshments will be provided and the event is
free.
Edwards Art Center. 5 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Improvabilities Show
The Improvabilities group will be performing.

Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts
Center. 8 p.m.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
PERFORMANCE
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of

Fleet Street"
Curtain Callers will sponsor a performance of Sweeney

Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a tale of a London
barber seeking revenge. The show will also be performed on
Saturday at the same time.
Chase Barn, Boody-Johnson House. 8 p.m.
CENTER STAGE: Miranda Princi '17, Sophie de Bruijn '18 and Osa Omoregie '18 performed in scenes from "Our Lady of 121st Street," a
directing project by Maggie Seymour '16, last Monday.
EVENT
First Year & Sophomore Dance
First-year and sophomore students are welcome to attend

this semi-formal dance.
Sargent Gym. 10 p.m.
MONDAY 14
SATURDAY 12
PERFORMANCE
Ben Haile '15, voice
Ben Haile '15 will be giving a vocal performance.

Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY 15
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
Winter Music Sampler
Mid-Day Music
All are welcome to come watch student musicians give jazz

piano, trombone and violin performances. Featured students
include: Simon Moushabeck '16, Will Sheppard '18, Liem Tu
'18, Sabine Berzins '16, Arindam Jurakhan '17 and Jacqueline Colao '17.
Tillotson Room (101), Gibson Hall. Noon.
The Winter Music Sampler will be the final recital of the

semester. Carolina Deifelt Streese '16, Laura Block '17, Evan
Montilla '17, Margaret Conley '18, Taylor Love '16, June
Guo '16 and Anna Schwartzberg '17 will give instrumental
performances.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 4 p.m.
EVENT
SUNDAY 13
PERFORMANCE
Sheng Ge '16, cello
Sheng Ge '16 will be giving a cello performance.

Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 4 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 16
EVENT
Final Exams
Fall semester examinations will take place. Godspeed.

See Polaris for details.
Monday Night Music
The penultimate music recital of the semester will feature a

mix of student musicians: Summer Xia '16, voice; Lucas Shaw
'16, voice and trombone; Serena Taj 16, voice; Chandler Tinsman '16, trombone; Hanzhao Li '18, voice; and Virginia Barr
'16, voice. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski
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PICK OF THE WEEK
Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
A Festival of Lessons and Carols
All are welcome to attend A Festival of Lessons and Carols,

which will include carols and Bible readings given by
faculty and staff. Flutist Scout Gregerson '18 and violinist
Sabine Berzins '16 will accompany the Bowdoin Carolers.
Organist George Lopez will play hymns and pianist
Matthew Maguire '19 will play the
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prelude and postlude.
PICK OF THE WEEK
The Chapel. 6:30 p.m.
19
Exams
Students are welcome to take a study break at the PearyMacMillan Arctic Museum. Attendees will enjoy a hot
chocolate bar, vintage Arctic board games, Arctic-themed
films and a chance to try beading in the spirit of the current
exhibit on beading in Northern communities.
Lobby, Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
18
Study Break at the Arctic Museum
EVENT
Final Exams
Fall semester examinations will take place. Godspeed.

See Polaris for details.
20
Exams
THURSDAY 17
21
Exams
22
Exams
VACATION
Winter Break
Begins
23
VACATION
Winter Break
24
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Bowdoin Orient

THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY

VOLUME 145, NUMBER 12

DECEMBER 11, 2015

easy action around some of these issues

Please see TOWN, page 3

Please see STUDY, page 5

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BSG Multicultural Rep

Community packs Union to address why

About 500 students, faculty and staff

bringing in outside researchers from the

Off-campus housing steadily increasing

BY MARINA AFFO AND KATIE MIKLUS

Although off-campus housing is not

Hood, there are currently 165 students

vidual people of good will like Randy

Please see HOUSING, page 4

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CRITIQUING THE TERM

friday, december 11, 2015

Results of The Orients

SECURITY REPORT: 12/4 to 12/8

An intoxicated student became ill

College House System 77%

Safety and Security

Career Planning Center

Brunswick Police Department 87%

Office of Off-Campus Study 80%

Counseling Services 86%

Whats your favorite holiday tradition?

Making stained glass window

Cutting down the

We have a thing where

My neighbors from a few

Every year my sisters, my

friday, december 11, 2015