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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Assault at
Mayflower
Apts. stuns
campus

POLAR BEAR DOMINATION

Security is reviewing
safety measures
following sexual assault,
other incidents
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF

tion before Serwer, but declined.

Meija-Cruz asserted that he was
not bound to appoint someone already on BSG. Pearson, Middleton
and Tavel disagreed.
Was there a vacancy in the Executive
Committee? Yes. Was the General Assembly supposed to vote to fill the vacancy? Yes. Did they have the opportunity?
No, said Pearson.
Pearson first objected to Serwers appointment at the BSGs October 21 meeting on the same day as a scheduled vote
to allow her to remain in her position for
the rest of the academic year. This delayed
Serwers election until November 4.

At 10:40 p.m. Tuesday night, a female

student living in Mayflower Apartments
called 911 and reported that she was
sexually assaulted when an unknown assailant entered her apartment through an
unlocked door, according to Director of
Safety and Security Randy Nichols. The
Brunswick Police Department (BPD) responded and notified Bowdoin Safety and
Security at 10:49 p.m.
The assailant has not been identified,
and it is unclear at this time if the assailant was a student or affiliated with the
College. Commander of Support Services
Mark Waltz with the BPD did say, however, that the initial report made the assailant appear older than a Bowdoin student.
If the reported age was accurate, hes
probably older than a Bowdoin student
would be, said Waltz.
The BPD is in the process of investigating the reported assault with assistance
from Bowdoin Safety and Security.
I would say probably next week or so,
well have run out of anyone we could possibly talk to, said Waltz. But other than
that, it depends on what kind of leads
there are. If there arent a lot of leads, there
may not be a lot more that can be done
until something changes.
Mayflower Apartments are campus
housing located on Belmont St. The student who reported the assault was examined and treated at Mid Coast Hospital.
Zoe Borenstein 18 lives in Mayflower
Apartments.
Its a lot of emotional stuff to process,
she said.
According to Borenstein, police asked
her roommates if they had heard or seen

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4 teams win conference championships.

Field hockey captains Rachel Kennedy 16 and Kim Kahnweiler 16 raise the NESCAC championship plaque after Bowdoins 2-1 victory over
Middlebury last Sunday. Bowdoin will take on Keene State in NCAA tournament second round action tomorrow at 11 a.m. on Howard Ryan
Field. For a full recap of the conference championship games, see page 8.
GRACE MALLETT THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BSG amendment proposed to clarify election procedures

BY RACHAEL ALLEN AND JAMES CALLAHAN
ORIENT STAFF

Following weeks of controversy over

the constitutionality of the appointment
of Emily Serwer 16 as Vice President for
Student Organizations, Bowdoin Student
Government (BSG) passed an amendment
to its bylaws Wednesday night that codified
recess appointments like Serwers.
Over the past month, Senior Class
President Robo Tavel 16, head of the A
Cappella Council Max Middleton 16 and
former Vice President for Student Affairs
Justin Pearson 17 all claimed the appointment was unethical and unconstitutional.
On Wednesday, Pearson spoke to oppose
the new bylaw amendment.

Whats happening with this clarification is that the president has decided to
take action, create a rule that did not exist, and is now asking that that rule go into
effect after doing it illegally, said Pearson.
The position of Vice President for Student Organizations was left vacant after
Wylie Mao 18 resigned from the College
over the summerthe first time a resignation had taken place not during the
academic year.
BSG bylaws stipulate that when there
is a vacancy in the Executive Committee,
the Assembly shall elect one of its members to fill the vacancy (IV, A, iii). However, the Assembly is not in session over
the summer.
The new proposed amendment explic-

itly allows the Executive Committee to appoint Interim Vice Presidents during the
summer in cases of summer resignations,
whereas the existing constitution is ambiguous. A confirmation clause, according
to BSG President Danny Mejia-Cruz 16,
would then allow the Interim Vice President to continue in their position if elected
by a 4/5 majority vote of BSG Assembly
not just the Executive Committee.
Mejia-Cruz discussed the vacancy with
the Offices of Student Activities and Student Affairs, as well as with Vice President
for Student Government Affairs Michelle
Kruk 16, over the summer. Mejia-Cruz
then proposed candidates to the Executive Committee. A member of the BSG
Assembly was first asked to fill the posi-

Photo reception promotes No Hate November

BY DAKOTA GRIFFIN
ORIENT STAFF

To kick off No Hate November,

Bowdoin Student Government (BSG)
unveiled a photo reception in David Saul
Smith Union on Monday to bring attention to the fact that bias incidents still
occur on Bowdoins campus and to show
support for students who have been affected by such incidents. The installation
consists of black and white portraits of
students holding signs bearing messages
such as We Stand Together and We
Stand With You.
No Hate November is a month-long
event established in the fall of 2013 in response to a series of bias incidents on and
off campus. According to an email sent
by the BSG to club leaders, No Hate No-

vember is a month dedicated to remembering past bias incidents at Bowdoin

and promoting an inclusive, respectful
campus. This year, No Hate November
also provides a natural extension of the
conversations about race and inclusion
occurring on campus in the past weeks.
Vice President for Student Affairs Luke
von Maur 16 was part of the team that
planned No Hate November programming, including this art initiative. He said
the night was successful in that it attracted
many students and raised campus awareness of No Hate November and its goals.
Even the fact that we had people in
Thorne and Moulton at dinner taking
these pictures brought attention to the
event, von Maur said. Like, What is that
for? Why are there kids taking pictures?
Unlike in 2013, the last year an art ini-

tiative was part of No Hate November,

this year, club leaders were asked to attend
the exhibits opening reception. Von Maur
and the rest of the organizers felt that this
would bring more awareness to the event.
At attention to diversity or awareness of
diversity events, theres usually a small percentage of the student body there, and its the
same people every time, von Maur said.
This year, the goal was to reach out to
more students and bring the whole campus in on the conversation. Von Maur
hopes that the inclusion of club leaders
in the event will lead to the discussion of
the reception and the other events of No
Hate November among clubs.
My biggest hope in the future is that
[No Hate November] involves more

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VALERIE CHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: Maggie Acosta 16 (left) and Sarah Levy 16 (right) look at
black and white portraits of students holding signs with messages such as We Stand Together
and We Stand With You.The photo reception in Smith Union is part of No Hate November, a
month to raise awareness of past bias incidents and demonstrate support for those affected.

FEATURES. There are more Cambodian students at Bowdoin than students from North and
South Dakota combined. Read about the Harpswell Foundation that made this exchange happen
on page 5. For Cambodian student Samphors Keans Talk of the Quad, see page 7.

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COURSE POPULARITY
COURSE POPULARITY

Round 1 of spring course selection began last Thursday and ended last night at 5 p.m.
Using Polaris, it is possible to see how many students have enrolled in each class. The
Orient selected some of the most over- and under-enrolled courses. Students will
continue to fill open spaces during Round 2 and the add/drop period.

Introduction to
Sociology
SOC 1101

Classical
Mythology
CLAS 1101

DIANA FURUKAWA

Understanding
Climate Change
ENVS 1090

SECURITY
REPORT: Burnt
11/6
to 11/11
Friday, November 6
popcorn triggered a room
A student was taken to Mid Coast
Hospital for treatment of a bleeding
toe injury.
Restroom wall placards were stolen
at Thorne Hall.
A man stole a students Apple
Macbook Pro computer from Sargent
Gymnasium. An investigation led to
the arrest of a Topsham man who was
charged with felony theft. The computer was recovered. The suspect was
given a trespass warning barring him
from all campus property.

Saturday, November 7
A complaint of noise was reported
at West Hall.
A blue Glendale Cruiser bike was
stolen from the bike rack at Sargent
Gym. The bike, which had been left
unlocked, has a black wire basket.
Event hosts at Reed House reported that a suspicious man entered the party. The incident is under investigation.
A student was escorted to Mid
Coast Hospital for treatment of a
prior concussion.
A Yellow Bike Club bike was stolen
from the bike rack at Kanbar Hall.
Sunday, November 8

smoke alarm in West Hall.

Two students were cited for removing three 30 racks of beer from a registered event at Helmreich House. The
beer was recovered.
Three students were found in possession of marijuana on South Street.
A larger quantity was later seized at a
residence hall.
Officers responded to a report of an
intoxicated and disruptive student at
Brunswick Apartments.
An officer took a sick student from
Coleman Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.
Following a registered event at
Ladd House, a broken window and
screen were reported.
There was a noise complaint and
alcohol law violation at Baxter House.
Monday, November 9
An unregistered event was dispersed at Ladd House.
A staff member requested a wellness
check for an ill student at Howard Hall.
An officer questioned a man at
Druckenmiller Hall after receiving reports of suspicious activity.

spill on Park Row was escorted to Mid

Coast Hospital.
A local man loitering in the Coffin Street parking lot was identified and
moved along.
A purple Schwinn mountain bike was
stolen from the area of Smith Union. The
bike bears registration number 04209.
A sick student at Moore Hall was
taken to the Mid Coast Primary Care &
Walk-In Clinic.
At 6:45 p.m., students reported the
dark image of a suspicious person through
the glass door of a Harpswell apartment.
The person left the area on foot and was
not seen again.
At 10:40 p.m., a female student at
Mayflower Apartments reported being
sexually assaulted by an unknown male
assailant in her apartment. BPD and Security are investigating.
Wednesday, November 11
An officer assisted a distressed student
on Maine Street near MacMillan House.
A red Gary Fisher mountain bike was
reported stolen from the bike rack at Kanbar Hall. The bike has a blue padlock and
a book bag rack.

Advanced
Intermediate
Japanese II
JPN 2206

Physics of Solids
PHYS 2250

Siberia: Russias
World Apart
RUS 2252

CAPACITY

Tuesday, November 10
A student who was injured in a bike

50 CAPACITY
104 PENDING REQUESTS
= 54 OVER LIMIT

50 CAPACITY
92 PENDING REQUESTS
= 42 OVER LIMIT

25 CAPACITY
74 PENDING REQUESTS
= 49 OVER LIMIT

18 CAPACITY
1 PENDING REQUEST
= 17 OPEN SPOTS

35 CAPACITY
1 PENDING REQUESTS
= 34 OPEN SPOTS

35 CAPACITY
0 PENDING REQUESTS
= 35 OPEN SPOTS

REQUESTS

STUDENT
SPEAK
Whats the most romantic thing youve done at Bowdoin?

Charlotte Alimanestianu 16

One time, Phoebe Kranefuss and I

put lotion on together in my room.

Nicole von Wilczur 18

I went over to a guys room to watch a

movie and we actually ended up watching the movie. It was like Netflix and
Chill but without anything sexual.

Jack Simonds 19

My teammate Jack Bors and I got some buffalo

chicken burgers and shepherds pie,which is our
favorite meal, got our favorite drink, sweet tea,
and had a romantic conversation over lunch.

Ned Wang 18

Meg Freiberger 16

Walking across the quad in a

rainstorm without an umbrella.

The first summer we were apart, my

boyfriend wrote me a letter everyday.
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news

BCA members march in D.C. event to Seniors land early

influence presidential candidates jobs in finance and

consulting fields
BY JULIA OROURKE
ORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF JONAH WATT

TAKING A STAND: Kelsey Freeman 16 holds up a sign at the Our Generation, Our Choice event in Washington, D.C. on Monday. BCA attended the march, which aimed to encourage presidential candidates to speak out on issues of climate, race and immigration.
BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF

With one year remaining until the

presidential election, Bowdoin students
went to Washington, D.C. on Monday to
encourage candidates to speak out on issues of climate, race and immigration.
Twenty Bowdoin students organized
by Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) drove
down to march in the event, called Our
Generation, Our Choice. An estimated
500 student activists from the East Coast
and Washington, D.C. attended the action on Monday and events throughout
the weekend. The group was able to shut
down two blocks of Washington Avenue
in front of the White House for an hour.
BCA is directly affiliated with 350.org
and the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student
Network, two of the four organizations
organizing the action. These organizations were joined by Million Hoodies for
Justice, a racial justice group, and United
We Dream, an immigrant rights group.
Its really a historic thing. The climate
movement hasnt seen much intersectionality in the past, and this is really the first

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anything unusual when they were at the
complex on Tuesday night. The officers
did not give them any other information.
Cops were congregating and talking
about things, and apparently everyone else
was pressed against the windows watching, and they didnt know anything, she
said. Some people came out and asked
the police officers what was going on, and
they just said Its not your concern... they
told us Youre not in danger, but that just
seemed totally unfounded.
Borenstein said that residents of Mayflower were not given any additional information until Nichols emailed the entire
student body at noon on Wednesday.
Nichols confirmed in an email to the
Orient that Mayflower residents were not
given information until the campus email
was sent out.
Throughout most of the night until
4:30 a.m., Brunswick Police and/or Bowdoin Security were present at Mayflower,
and it was determined that no students
were in danger at the complex, he wrote.
Rather than issue incomplete information, we thought it best to let the entire
community know what happened at once
as soon as we could.
Nichols met with the residents of
Mayflower on Wednesday night, according to Borenstein. She said that
people were unhappy that they hadnt

time these movements are coming together, said BCA member Julia Berkman-Hill
17. Its directly targeting our presidential
candidates and forcing them to take action on the issues that are important to us
as young people.
This fall, BCA disrupted a Hillary Clinton rally, encouraging the presidential candidate to take a stand on the Keystone XL
Pipeline. Clinton spoke on the issue five
days later and denounced the pipeline.
Berkman-Hill said that results like that
are the goal of events like last Mondays.
It just goes to show how organizers,
protesters and young people can actually
move political candidates, she said.
Although the action took place on
Monday, the event offered trainings
and teaching opportunities for students
throughout the weekend. Berkman-Hill
and Jamie Ptacek 17 led a panel on building a base for activism.
Ptacek and Berkman-Hill emphasized
an act, recruit, train cycle, that involves
engaging in an action, going back to those
who were not part of the movement to recruit them and training them to continue
the cycle and grow the base. Ptacek said

this can be used for any movement from

climate justice to issues of race.
BCA plans to incorporate what they
learned at the protest into their actions on
campus.
It taught us a lot about how to be intentional with coalition building moving
forward on Bowdoins campus and how
we can effectively reach out to different
groups and make meaningful connections and work in conjunction to move
forward on mutual interests, BCA member Jonah Watt 18 said.
On Thursday, BCA screened This
Changes Everything, a documentary that
focuses on the links between capitalism,
the global economy and the climate crisis.
BCA hopes to create similar programing
and events in the future to educate Bowdoin students on the climate crisis.
For Watt, the conference met many of
his goals he set for the trip.
I think it highlighted the importance
of joining these three often separate
movements, and I think we really found
how difficult it was to build coalitions and
make sure that theyre inclusive and representative of all factions, he said.

been given information earlier.

I was pretty impressed by how persistent people were, Borenstein said.
People grilled him and were like, We
should have gotten notified before the
rest of campus.
According to Dean of Student Affairs
Tim Foster, the College is accommodating Mayflower residents who request
temporary or permanent changes in
housing. As of Wednesday night, seven
students had made that request and
been relocated.
Foster, Nichols and Associate Director of Safety and Security David Profit
have met with the BPD to discuss the
investigation and plans for improving
safety on campus.
The College has already made changes to the lighting at Mayflower, said
Nichols in an email to the Orient. These
lights will now be on permanently between dusk and dawn and will not be
able to be turned off by individual residents, which was the case previously. The
College has also checked the windows
and doors at Mayflower and is encouraging students, faculty, and staff to report
any issues with other doors or windows.
Both the BPD and Bowdoin Security will increase patrols on and near
campus. The College will take steps to
provide additional Bowdoin Shuttle
service for students who want a ride,
according to a email sent from Nichols to students Wednesday evening.
Brunswick Taxi will also be free of

charge Friday and Saturday from 10

p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
Safety and Security conducted an
evaluation of the lighting on campus on
Thursday night and will perform security
assessments of other campus buildings.
Since the start of the academic year,
multiple incidents involving an unknown
man looking through windows have
been reported to Security and the BPD.
On September 21, a student reported an
unknown man looking into windows
on the second floor fire escape of Smith
House at 10:15 p.m. On September 29, a
student walking on Potter St. saw a hooded man attempting to open the window
of her off-campus house on Potter St. On
October 7, students living off-campus on
School St. reported an unknown man
peering into their windows at 1 a.m. On
November 3, a female student at an off
campus house reported an unknown
man taking pictures of her through the
bedroom window. No suspect was ever
located in any of the incidents.
On Tuesday night around 7 p.m., residents of a Harpswell Apartment reported
to Bowdoin Security that a figure was
looking through their window. No suspect was located.
Because none of the suspects have been
identified, the BPD and Bowdoin Security
have not been able to establish a link between any of the incidents or between past
incidents and the recent reported assault.
We have no reason to know either
way, said Waltz.

Although it is still early in the

year, a small portion of the senior
class has received and accepted job
offers. The students who receive job
offers early in the year are usually
working in the fields of consulting
and finance.
Typically the earliest campus
recruiters are those that have large
classes of students that theyre hiring, so theyre hiring 150 or 200
entry-level employees, and theyre
blanketing the country and targeting certain schools to find those
candidates, said Director of Career
Planning Tim Diehl.
The absolute raw number of students that actually have accepted
jobs right now is relatively a small
portion of the senior class, Diehl
continued. Its really only reflective
of this small slice of the pie in the
career pursuits that are represented.
This year has seen a strong start,
which is in part a result of an increase in employers visiting campus.
For example, McKinsey and Wells
Fargo both expressed interest in hiring full-time employees and interns
this year.
Were in a very robust hiring
market in general, Diehl said. The
economy is recovering well, and there
is no shortage of Bowdoin alumni,
parents and other friends of the college who are reaching out to us now
and indicating that they would love
to hire a Bowdoin candidate.
In addition to finance and consulting firms, there have been many
employers from the education sector on campus this fall. Hiring opportunities in fields such as marketing, government, communications,
education and health tend to peak
in the late winter and early spring as
opposed to the early spike in finance
and consulting hiring.
In the first 10 weeks of the semester, Career Planning has already
hosted 100 events, which have been
attended by over 3,100 students in
total. Last year, Career Planning
was involved with organizing 220
events, which were attended by almost 6,200 students.
In comparison to other NESCAC schools, Diehl believes Bowdoin has been successful in terms
of student preparation and success
with career planning.
We are typically at the top end of
volume of activity, said Diehl. The
campus recruiting program that is
physically on campus is only one
small part of what we do, obviously,
as an operation. But even just looking at access through campus-based
recruiting, were in a very competitive place versus the other NESCAC
schools in terms of volume.
The Eastern College Career Day
Program is an event in which eight
small liberal arts schools collaborate
to give students access to smaller
organizations that do not visit each
schools campus.
Bowdoin students were the top
in terms of number of students who
applied to the program, number of
applications submitted and number
of students that attended the program, said Diehl.
Some Bowdoin students have

been taking advantage of those resources and have their job search
wrapped up.
Cam Chisholm 16, an economics
major, will be working as a strategy
and operations business analyst at
Deloitte after graduation. Chisholm
received his offer in early October
and accepted it last week.
During the whole application
process, I went to all of [Deloittes]
workshops, said Chisholm.
Networking was key for Chisholm, who maintained contact
with alumni who work at Deloitte.
There was a two-week period
of time where I think I had 12 networking calls, so I would have to do
research, Chisholm said. I was doing 6 per week, which I dont think
is uncommon, but I dont think its
common either.
The students that are successful
often are very engaged in learning
from their peers who may happen to
just be a year or two ahead of them,
said Diehl.
Many of them were very savvy
in seizing that network of people,
said Diehl of the seniors who have
received offers.
Allyson Fulton 16, a neuroscience major, learned about the job
she recently accepted at the Unum
Professional Development Program
(PDP) from Todd Herrmann at the
Career Planning Center. Fulton also
sought out alumni at Unum to learn
more about the company.
I did a lot on my own in terms
of finding the people. Since there are
a lot of alumni, I really took advantage of that, said Fulton. But Todd
had a really big hand in it, and I owe
Todd for this job.
Some students remain independent in their job search. Rachel Snyder 16 recently received a job offer
in finance.
I dont really feel like [the Career
Planning Center] had a role at all in
my process, said Snyder. I think I
pretty much did it on my own.
Snyder cited her participation in
the Tuck Business Bridge Program
as a key reason for her early offer.
She spent her summer at the fourweek program, which is a crash
course that aims to help liberal arts
students gain knowledge in topics
essential to a business career, such
as accounting, corporate finance
and marketing.
I didnt really feel like the Career
Planning Center offered me ways to
learn that, so I had to do it all on
my own, basically, said Snyder. I
think it made me a more competitive applicant.
Summer opportunities like the
Tuck Business Bridge Program often
aid the process of finding a job.
Our goal is to encourage students to consciously engage the
three summers that they have while
theyre at Bowdoin so they can try
things out, said Diehl. The program for support for Bowdoin
across campus is relatively robust
for students summer experiences
in terms of funding sources. The experience of those internships begins
to build the story and the students
capabilities to be a strong candidate.
Internships are certainly the gateway to full-time employment.

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Tavel drew attention to Serwer and
Mejia-Cruzs joint campaign last year.
What didnt smell right was that the
person who they choose to appoint was
the person who happened to be on the
ticket with [Mejia-Cruz] when he ran for
BSG president, said Tavel, who ran unsuccessfully against Mejia-Cruz for president.
While most BSG positions are filled
through elections, BSG appoints several
at-large representatives each year. However, because these at-large positions are
not internal, Tavel differentiated between
them and Serwers position.
The difference with the at-large positions is that theres a school-wide email
sent out, the BSG reads each of the candidates applications, interviews each candidate, Tavel said. In this situation there
was no interview...no application. It was
basically the BSG deciding that Emily
Serwer was the best candidate for this job
andwhether or not she is the best person for the jobI think there should have
been opportunities for others to throw
their names in the hat.
According to Arindam Jurakhan 17,
Entertainment Board representative
and member of the Student Organization Oversight Committee, Mejia-Cruz
wasnt the person who put out Emilys
name in the process.
Student government tries to be transparent because of how things look to
the outside, Jurakhan said. Emily was
Dannys running mate so there seems
like there was some sort of bias there in
terms of choosing who would choose the
position, but theyve explained the whole
Executive Committee put out several people The Executive Committee doesnt
have an allegiance...it was more of a democratic appointment than it seems to be.
Mejia-Cruz also defended the appointment.
I was not about to appoint another man

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students, and that more students know
whats happening and more dialogue can
occur, he said.
Ashley Bomboka 16, president of
the African-American Society (AfAm),
praised the event as being a strong way to
kick off No Hate November.
What I appreciate is that people enter and exit on their own time and youre
not expected to feelyour emotions can
range from either extreme joy or sadness
or not expressing anything at all, she said.
I think the fact that were all here means
that were all being supportive, and I think
thats what makes this event a good event. I
think its a calm way to enter the conversationand Im not saying that other forms
of activism arent goodbut I think this is
a good entrance into No Hate November.
Other club leaders drew attention to
the various benefits of the art installation.
Talia Cowen 16 of the Bowdoin Film Society praised its very prominent public
location and described it as a constant reminder to students that there is still work
to be done to create a truly inclusive campus. Kiefer Solarte 16, one of the leaders
of the Bowdoin Student Athlete Advisory
Committee, noted that the exhibit shows

on to the Executive Committee, because

we had one woman at the time and thats
not reflective of the student body, MejiaCruz said. We finally decided on Emily
and it was because shes been on the assembly before, she had shown interest by running and, yes, she was my running mate.
Aside from running alongside MejiaCruz last spring, Serwer has served as the
BSG Director of Programming for the
past two years, working closely with the
Executive Committee. She served in the
position of VP for Student Organizations
for the first few weeks of school.
The Assembly convened a few weeks
ago to vote on the proposal to have the
official vote for the VP for Student Organizations. This proposal, which passed, allowed for the election of the position.
Jurakhan was one of the three assembly
members who either voted in the negative
or abstained.
I feel like even though it makes logical
sense to have this happen, given the rules
that are in place there should be some sort
of contention in it, said Jurakhan. I wanted the amendment of the bylaws to happen
before the election, because it just seems
better. Retroactive [explanation] seems just
as fine, [but] kind of conspicuous.
The proposal for the election passed, allowing the permanent position to be filled
sooner rather than wait the two weeks necessary for a proposal for an amendment to
the bylaws to pass. At-large representative
Ben Painter 19 ran against Serwer.
Since there were some people, especially in the public, that brought up [the
issue], I just thought she shouldnt have
ran uncontested, even though I thought
that she would do a better job because
shes super competent, said Painter. I
think that everyone thought it was best for
the student body for Emily to stay in [the
position], including myself.
Serwer will remain in the position
for the rest of the year. The preliminary
vote on the amendment is set for next
Wednesday, with the final vote following Thanksgiving.
a very diverse group of students all united
for one cause.
I think its a powerful means of visual
communication about something thats
important on our campus and I think
its been done in a very tasteful way,
said Maddie Livingston 16, president of
Masque & Gown.
Many of the attendees feel the exhibit is
another link in the chain of positive discourse about bias issues.
It puts a face to some people on campus that you can talk to about these issues,
and it makes it a lot more accessible and a
lot easier to start those conversations that
are a little bit harder to have, said Solarte.
Livingston, on the other hand, is not
so sure.
I think its an effective way of portraying a certain message on campus although
I dont really know if its going to start a dialogue, she said. I feel that the extremes
of the situation make it difficult to foster
an effective dialogue.
Regardless of whether it will get people talking, students feel the installation
achieves one of von Maurs goals: a sense
of support for students who have been
hurt by bias incidents.
I think its great as a student of the College to see all these different faces on the
wall. These are my peers, and theyre here
with me, said Sergio Gomez 16.

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Finding
comfort in
chowder
BY ELIZA HUBERWEISS
COLUMNIST

so thats one egg with two people, but

right now I can eat as many as I can.
Both Kean and Keo work at Thorne
Dining Hall as line servers, which enables them to work alongside Rany
Soeun, a Cambodian immigrant who
came to Maine in 2004.
We work together, sit together, talk
together in Khmer [Cambodias official language], said Soeun. They really love to be herefreedom, respect,
feeling safe. I feel the same way, but we
all complain about the cold.
Soeun has been able to maintain

Remember that scene in Ratatouille

where the mean food critic eats the ratatouille and the scene swooshes into his
brain through his eye and you can see
him remembering when his mom used
to make him ratatouille when other kids
picked on him? And then his heart essentially melts and he becomes all nice
and starts wearing a jaunty beret and
becomes BFFs with Remi the rat? If you
do not know to what I am referring, Im
sorry that you have lived your life up to
this point without seeing Ratatouille,
and I think that you should remedy the
situation by watching it. Make sure you
have good food on hand, it is a mouthwatering movie, despite being animated.
My point is, I identify with the mean
food critic. Sometimes, when Im having a really bad day and I hate everyone, I sometimes just need the right
comfort food to turn me into a nice
although probably not beret-wearing
person again.
There is a science to comfort food.
Your enteric nervous system (ENS) is
located in the walls of your gut, and is
made up of huge lengths of nerves that
are responsible for controlling digestion. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter
linked with transmitting feelings of
pleasure, is made in the stomach at the
same levels that is made in the brain. At
any given time, ninety-five percent of
the bodys serotonin, a neurotransmitter
linked with preventing depression and
regulating sleep, is present in the ENS.
And these hormones are released when
we eat fatty foods.
I have spoken about my love of butter and eggs, and probably cheese. Other
fatty foods that I like to eat to increase my
dopamine and serotonin levels: bacon,
cream and potatoes.
Warm + Together = Chowder. So in

Please see CAMBODIA, page 6

Please see CHOWDER, page 6

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

STUDENT EXCHANGE: Samphors Kean and Sopoan Keo are Cambodian exchange students studying at Bowdoin. The Harpswell Foundation sponsors students to study at elite American colleges.

Cambodian exchange
enters fifth year
BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF

Samphors Kean and Sopoan Keo

two exchange students from Cambodiaare part of a long line of Harpswell Foundation-sponsored students
who get to experience a first-class
American college like Bowdoin in the
words of philanthropist and Harpswell
Foundation founder Alan Lightman.
Both Keo and Kean explained that,
while they were initially homesick and
intimidated by coming to America,
they are growing more comfortable
and engaged with the Brunswick community.
People smile to me, try to talk to
me, and thats enough. Just smiling is
enoughit makes me feel at home,
said Kean.
Since it became an non-governmen-

tal organization (NGO) in 2007, the

Harpswell Foundations mission has
been to empower a new generation of
female leadership in Cambodia. It has
sent two female students to the College
every year since 2011.
The foundation has built two dormitories in Cambodias capital, Phnom
Penh, specifically for women so that
they can not only attend a university
but also have a safe place to live and
learn in Harpswell Foundation classes.
Boys can live in pagodas. Theyre
allowed to stay there, but for females,
theres no place for them, only renting houses, said Keo. It is difficult for
them to rent a house. The conditions
for those houses is not good. They
dont have the opportunity of classes
like we have. They worry about food.
Lightman, or Dad, as Keo and
Kean affectionately call him, is an au-

COURTESY OF KATIE COLEMAN

PICTURE ABROAD: Katie Coleman 16 photographed scenes of daily life in Cambodia.

thor and Professor of the Practice of
the Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He founded the
Harpswell Foundation after a trip to
Cambodia in 2004 when he met Veasna Chea, who had graduated from law
school while living in the six-foot crawl
space between the ground and a building due to the lack of available housing
for female students.
Many of the foundations students
are from extreme poverty, like Chea.
I like the food at Bowdoin the most
actually because I was born in a poor
family, said Kean. When I was young,
I had to share one egg with my sister,

Jug-gling savings and satisfaction with Carlo Rossi Burgundy

BOTTOM OF
THE BARREL
WILL DANFORTH AND MARTIN KRZYWY
Though Thomas Wolfe once famously
said, You cant go home again, he said
nothing about going back to Hannaford.
And so we have returned, Bildungsromaned by Bertani, to the familiar embrace of
Maines favorite grocery chain. After our
extended hiatus, we knew we had to think
big. Our eyes instantly lit upon a vessel
of prodigious heft, one which our friend
Robo Tavel 16 would later describe as
looking like the kind of bottle youd find
at the bottom of a shipwreck. Carlo Rossi
Burgundy, nestled unassumingly on the
bottom shelf of the wine aisle, dared us
to investigate whether or not quality and
quantity are always mutually exclusive.
Lets first crunch the numbers. Measuring a sizable four liters, the Burgundy was
far and away the largest bottle either of
your esteemed critics have ever purchased.

While total jug cost (TJC) exceeded our

usual cap of $10, when adjusting for cost
per bottle (CPB), the $15 we spent left us
with an adjusted cost of $2.81 per 750 mL,
the average volume of a standard wine
bottle. Furthermore, when accounting for
the cost per drink (assuming a bottle contains five standard drinks), Carlo Rossi
delivers an unprecedented value of $0.56
per drink and is bested only by Franzias
offering of five liters at the same $15 price
point. When converted into real dollars
and adjusted for inflation over time, the
overwhelming value of Carlo Rossi fosters
true wine democratization, portending
Bernie Sanders socialist utopia.
In light of our spectacular savings, we
treated ourselves to proper drinking vessels. We are proud to announce Libbey
wine glasses as the unofficial stemware
of Bowdoin wine criticism. Truly, Libbey
offers the rare combination of style, grace
and budget-consciousness that would appeal to all college students. Note: representatives of Libbey seeking official sponsorship may contact Will (wdanfort@

DIANA
FURUKAWA

bowdoin.edu) or Martin (mkrzywy@

bowdoin.edu) directly.
After pouring our Burgundy into these
new chalices, we realized that, in heretofore using Mason jars, we had seriously
hindered our ability to evaluate that most
crucial facet of a wines quality: the legs.
With our new, greatly enhanced powers
of leg deduction, we took our first sips.

What should we have expected of a

wine named after a region in France, yet
developed in California by a man with an
Italian name? A wine that has no visible
vintage, yet guarantees a 40-year history
of consistent quality? This geographic and
temporal potpourri alienated us from our
previously held conceptions of what constitutes a wine. Curious for more information about our Burgundy, we embarked
upon a quick YouTube search, which
unearthed an antiquated advertisement
for the wine, in which the man himself
claimed, I like talking about Carlo Rossi
Burgundy, but Id rather drink it.
Even as Carlo continues to lurk in the
shadows of our collective unconscious,
we must regretfully disagree with his appraisal. Burgundys parodic wine taste
left us torn between our desire to spread
the gospel of value and our moral aversion to actually calling this a wine. Initial
flavors were strong enough but quickly
dissipated into a mist that made us forget
what we were drinking. We felt as if we
were drowning in a small ocean of taste-

less, indistinct liquid. Clearly the appeal of

Rossi lays more in the sui generis spectacle
of drinking from an oversized receptacle,
rather than in any inherent gustatory
merit. Despite our best efforts, we find
ourselves still saddled with a remaining
three liters to dispose of responsibly.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Martin:It looks like you are
swadling a baby when you carry
this jug.
Will: Lets play Moneyball with this
wine.
Tonights Soundtrack: Hall
and Oates
Nose: 1.75/5
Body: 3/5
Mouthfeel: 2/5
Legs: 3.5/5
Taste: 1.5/5

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Bath Cycle & Ski fosters unique clientele community

ELLICE LUEDERS

ABOUT TOWN

The workshop at Bath Cycle & Ski

is an actual garage, attached to the
foyer storefront of a carved up Victorian in Woolwich, ME. In it, theres
a ramp featuring a black mat with
holes punched out and filled with
beer bottle caps. The ceiling is covered
with bike wheels, stickers and tools.
As the shops owners reorganize the
space to accommodate the seasonal
ski business, the shops immaculate
record collection is nestled under mechanic Jesse Pilgrims workbench. Hes
worked here for years.
When I asked him to describe the
variety of people who frequent the
place, he explained, We get all kinds
here. For example, a local farmer
looking for help fixing his garden cart.
Forrest Carver, one of the co-owners of the store, recalled a customer
with a very different experience than
most who frequent the bike joint.
We got this customer named Ken.
I dont think he can read, I dont even
know if he has power in his house. Hes
just a clam-digger; hes been doing that
for 60 years. He pays us in clams.
Pilgrim explained his clientele as
widely varied.
We have this one group of doctors

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5
some ways I dont quite identify with the
mean skinny food critic, because while
his comfort food was a warm stew of garden vegetables, mine is essentially warm
carbs.
Guess what is even more comforting
about these foods? They are all super
available locally in Maine! Comfort food
with a comforting environmental and
social context! I got most of my ingredients at the Portland Food Coop, but this
is a very easy recipe to modify to whatever is available in your produce section.
Essentially pick out some good vegetables with savory and mildly sweet flavors
(carrots, corn, turnips, onions, potatoes,
leeks) and simmer them in vegetable
broth until tender, then add half-andhalf. I may have said this already, but Organic Valley dairy products are awesome
because it is an entirely farmer-owned,
larger-scale cooperative, and their cows
are happy and healthy (I actually got to
go visit Chases Dairy Farm in Aroostook
County this summer, and Im pretty sure
the cows were smiling at me).

who will ride and theyre some of the

coolest customers we have.
The common trait among all of Pilgrims customers is that they appreciate bikes and the people who fix them.
On one day, I could be working on
a Huffy, a bike that isnt necessarily
worth getting right again. Or, I could
be working on a $6,000 bike, he said.
The most common bike you see here
is your basic hybrid, bikes that are
meant for getting from A to B.
Find your outlet and dont let the
winter get you down, Pilgrim advised. He shared his own approach,
something that works for a lot of the
people he runs into at Bath Cycle and
Ski. Finding time to do anything is
tough, obviously, but youll lead a lot
better life if you actually get out and
enjoy nature as much as you can. It
definitely helps a whole lot, and bikes
are a great way to see a lot of nature in
a really short amount of time.
He referenced some communities
that use music to escape the boredom
of northern winters. The highest per
capita of fiddlers in the world is on
this island in Canada. Thats their outlet. Music is a good way to get out.
Pilgrim used to take part in Portlands music scene, and played in the
same venue as Lady Lamb (a Brunswick musician) during her start there.
Today, hes a husband busy with er-

ELLICE LUEDERS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SPIN YOUR WHEELS: Bicycle mechanic Jesse Pilgrim is a fixture at Bath Cycle & Ski. Pilgrim finds solace in spending much of his time outdoors.
rands, though hell always have a special connection to Maine.
You get to see stuff that people
never get to see and its just in your

POTATO BACON CHOWDER

INGREDIENTS
1 Package of bacon (Wee Bit Farm, Orland,
Maine)
1 Leek (Misty Brook Farm, Albion, Maine)
3 or 4 Small potatoes (Goranson Farm, Dresden,
Maine)
2 or 3 Carrots (Goranson Farm, Dresden, Maine)
A pint of half-and-half (Organic Valley)

2 Cups vegetable broth

1/2 Cup water
1 Tsp, cayenne
1 Bay leaf
Salt and pepper to taste
Fresh parsley

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Fry up your bacon in a skillet until its pretty crispy. While its cooking, chop up
your leek, potatoes and carrots into chunky pieces.
2. Set aside cooked bacon. Pour bacon drippings from the skillet into soup pot.
3. Over medium heat, saut the leek. Add the cayenne, bay leaf and vegetable
broth once the leek is soft and fragrant (about two minutes).
4. Bring the mixture to a boil, and add the potatoes and carrots. Simmer until tender enough to poke with a fork. Reduce heat and wait for the mixture to cool down.
5. Add the half-and-half and the water, already feeling your dopamine levels
starting to rise. Wait a bit longer for the mixture to heat up again. Salt and pepper
to taste.
6. While waiting, chop up parsley into fine pieces, and use as garnish.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ELIZA HUBER-WEISS

IN A STEW: Eliza chops leek, carrots and potatoes to furnish her chowder. She recommends the Organic Valley Brand for their local and humane products.

backyard.
The Brunswick Commons and the
Phippsburg Land Trust nature preserves are some of his favorite spots in

the area.
Youll never run out of cool things
to do in Maine if you love the outdoors, he said.

CAMBODIA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

sort of felt like I was taking advantage

of the things I was seeing.
On one occasion, Coleman gave her
students disposable cameras to take
pictures of things they cared about.
Upon reflecting on her own photography, she felt that her pictures couldnt
encapsulate the experience in the same
way that the photos by her students
could. Colemans exhibit, Barang, a
collection of her students photos, is
on display at the Robert H. and Blythe
Bickel Edwards Center for Art and
Dance.
I cant really claim ownership of the
photos [since they were taken by the
students], but I think I can claim responsibility I dont have a conclusion
on that, said Coleman. [The photos]
are not contrived. Theyre really honest.
Juliet Eyraud 16, who lived and
worked at the Harpswell Foundation
the summer after her first year at Bowdoin, has witnessed the evolution of
the program and its effects at Bowdoin.
Eyraud believes that the Harpswell
Foundation is not only a more sustainable model as an NGO than most
organizations, but that the community
benefits from the students.
Lightman echoed these sentiments,
explaining that Harpswell Foundation
students have had experiences that few
other students bring to the community,
as Cambodia experienced a genocidal
war between 1975 and 1979.
Samphors and Sopoan represent
the first generation after the genocidethese are the people who are
going to rebuild the generation, said
Lightman. Where they have come to
get where they are, graduating university and then attending Bowdoin, is
remarkable.
Kean and Keo said that while there
have been definite challenges to changing lifestyles so drastically, experiencing the freedoms of American culture
has inspired them to achieve large
goals when they return to Cambodia.
I want to do educational policy and
pursue graduate school if I can get a
scholarship, said Keo.
My big goalthis might be impossibleis to open a university in Cambodia, said Kean.

contact with past Harpswell students

who have gone back to Cambodia via
Facebook and was able to see them
this past summer when she returned
to visit.
Leah Alper 16 was in Cambodia
at the Harpswell Foundation this past
summer as well, tutoring and teaching
students in English and critical thinking.
I loved it, said Alper. I was working with the Harpswell Foundation on
a daily basis, living together with the
students, doing whatever the women
wanted to work on.
Lightman explained that the partnership between his foundation and
the College began when the College
bestowed him with an honorary degree
in 2005 and he befriended former president Barry Mills. The partnership between the foundation and Bowdoin is
being reviewed according to Christine
Wintersteen, director of off-campus
study and international programs.
Alper expressed her belief and hope
that the partnership continues.
Bowdoin has been in it since the
beginning. I dont see them getting out
any time soon, Alper said.
Katie Coleman 16 also traveled to
Cambodia this summer to teach art to
young students, mostly boys, thanks to
a Global Citizens Grant from the McKeen Center. While Coleman wants to
return to Cambodia, her visit was also
a trying time.
Day to day, I had a really miserable
time. It was hot, like 100 degrees, 100
percent humidity, my camera was fogging, my film was melting, I couldnt
talk to anyone, I was lonely, I was sick,
I burned my leg on a motorcycle, I adopted a cat that was really really sick.
and then it died like two days later,
said Coleman.
Coleman noted the culture shock
that she experienced in Cambodia and
the guilt she felt after becoming desensitized to the extreme poverty.
I felt guilty about privilege, guilty
about interacting with the kids. I felt
guilty about leaving, said Coleman. I

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TALK OF THE QUAD

EXPLORING LOVE AT BOWDOIN
You are like a frog living in the well!
is one of the most common phrases that
many Cambodians use to criticize a
person who does not know what is happening outside his or her world. The
frog is living in such a very tiny world.
However, what else can we interpret
from this metaphor? I used to be terrified when I heard it. I do not want to be
that frog.
In order to pursue higher education,
I had to move from my hometown in
Kampong Thom Province to Phnom
Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. I
lived there for four years in the Harpswell Foundation Dormitory with 47
female students from different provinces. I felt more isolated from home year
after year. I rarely visited home during
the weekends or holidays. Also, I called
home only when I had to. I did not even
talk to my parents about my personal
life. I did not even hug them when I left
home. What I did differed from my other classmates. However, a sense of love
to my family is always in my heart even
if I do not know how to interpret it.
I discovered the meaning of love
when I lived in Harpswell dormitory.
I started to communicate with new
people in a new world. l learned many
things from them. They welcomed me
as their sisters. They said sweet words to
me. They hugged me. They kissed me.

PUSHING MY BUTTONS
My sophomore year, I went to a
crowded party in a Harpswell apartment. Squished in the sweaty room, I
was standing next to a couch. The insulin pump clipped at my waist was exactly at the eye level of the boy sitting there.
He, probably confused that some girl
was wearing a pager to a party in 2014,
reached up and started pushing the
buttons. Not wanting to cause a scene,
I asked him to please stop and turned
back to my friends. A few minutes later,
he started again. I freaked out. He was
drunk, I was drunk, and he was quite
literally pushing my buttons.
That night I went home crying. I
have no wish to shame that person or
to make him feel bad. I honestly dont
know who he is, and it really doesnt
matter. He had no way of knowing that
I am a type one diabetic or that the buttons he was pushing could send insulin into my body. He was unaware that
what he thought was a pager or a weird
cell phone was actually the machine
that allows me to live.
I wasnt really upset about the medical repercussions his actions could have
had. Rather, I hated that he had called
attention to my disease in the middle
of a typical Friday night, and I was
shocked by just how vulnerable that
made me feel.
Since my diagnosis with type one diabetes ten years before, I had convinced
myself that it was no big deal. My first

They played with me. Soon after, I behaved toward them as they did to me. I
should have done these sorts of things
to my family too. Still, I keep doing the
same things toward my family.
This year I moved even further away
from the love I explored. I have never
trained my heart to live in this very
huge world; as a result, it had a serious
impact on me. I deeply understand that
distance makes the love even stronger.
After arriving for two days, I had to
go on an Orientation Trip. It was the
hardest time for me. I went to Pleasant
Point with the other nine American
students. To me, being with them in
a new environment was like being the
frog that just got out of the well. They
were talking with each other. I did not
know how to talk and how to join in
the conversations with them. What
they talked about was not something
I heard about in the well, my world,
but it was something they knew about
in their world. Sometimes, I did not
understand what they were talking
about. I just listened to them and pretended to laugh when they laughed
even if I did not know what they were
laughing about. I followed what they
did. I was kind of adapting easily to all
activities; however, my heart was unable to handle the new environment.
Along the road to Pleasant Point as
well as during the hiking, there was
such a beautiful view that I had never
seen before. The view was amazing,

but it was not able to thrill my heart.

I was still calm without any sense of
love. I imagined I should have been
able to bring those I love to enjoy this
view together. I heard the voice of happiness from my parents, my sister and
my friends. Then I discovered that true
happiness is really in the heart, it is not
in the outside world.
However, I believe that the hardest
times always lead to positive change.
Most obstacles I will encounter in the
future will make me stronger. And finally, I hope I am a winner.
I am really thankful from the bottom
of my heart to all my orientation trip
friends. They were the first warm welcome I had at Bowdoin. Even though
I did not have much to talk to them
about, their smiles, friendliness and
kindness were enough for me. Their
hearts are like the dew in the morning
that blossom me and guide me to find
new love in a new world. I have also
been welcomed by everyone here in the
same way and the more I interact with
them, the more I have been aware that
I will find a new love. I strongly believe
that I can explore a new love the same
as the love I have for my family and my
friends in Cambodia. I will leave next
year with sweet new memories that
come along with me wherever I go.
Samphors Khean is an exchange student from Cambodia for the 2015-16
academic year. Read more about the
Harpswell Foundation on page 5.

year and a half at Bowdoin was no different. If prompted I would happily explain my routine to anyone that asked.
I never hid my pump or my disease. I
thought that meant I had accepted it.
Any time I have explained diabetes, I
have invariably used the same line: Im
so used to it. I dont even think about it.
Half of that statement is true. Yes, I
am used to it. But I
am constantly thinking about itI have
to be. In truth, what
I mean to say is, Im
so used to it. I dont
want you to think
about it.
Every day, I prick
my finger to test my
blood sugar six to
eight times, a test
that I fail more often than Id care to
admit. Every time
I eat, I take insulin,
and every few days,
I have to move the
port that connects
my insulin pump to
my body. My fingers
are covered in calluses and wearing an
insulin pump for ten
years has left little scars and little red
marks all over my thighs.
Ive had diabetes for over half of
my life now, and as the clichd posters
hanging in my doctors office promised, it really hasnt held me back. But
sometimes it does slow me down. Some
days, no matter how closely I watch my
blood sugar and take insulin,
my blood sugar wont stay
where I want it to be.

Sometimes, no matter how much effort I put in, I cant get the desired result.
And then there are the little things. I
worry that my professors will think Im
texting on my cell phone when I bring
out my meter in the middle of class or
that needles and blood will make the
person sitting next to me squeamish.

And there are petty things. When

I buy clothes, I have to think about
where my pump will godresses are a
particular challenge. I worry that having a machine attached to me, or even
telling someone I have a disease, makes
me less attractive.
I tell myself that these things are trivial,
that it could be so much worse. And I am
grateful; I am so lucky
to have the support

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system and resources that I do. But by

calling this no big deal and brushing
my worries off for so long, Ive unknowingly come to resent diabetes, something
Ive always prided myself on avoiding.
I was so embarrassed that night
sophomore year. I hated that something
so small could make me the girl sobbing
outside the party. I
didnt want to admit that my disease
had that power over
me. I thought I had
accepted diabetes as
part of my life, but
really, I had never
let myself feel anything about it.
I write this now
because November
is Diabetes Awareness Month, so it
seems like an appropriate time.
I could list statistics about how
many Americans,
or even how many
people on this campus, are affected by
diabetes. Part of me
would love to give a
lecture on how type
MIRANDA HALL one and type two
diabetes are so incredibly different or
how saying your sugary dessert is going
to give you diabetes just isnt funny.
But I share this experience instead
because how I deal with the medical
side of diabetes hasnt changed much
in my time at Bowdoin, but my emotional relationship with my disease has
changed entirely.

Before Bowdoin, I went to a small

school for seven years. I lived with my
family, who were intimately aware of my
disease. I spent a lot of time trying to
convince them not to worry about me,
and somewhere along the line, I stopped
telling my parents when my blood sugars were off or when I was having a hard
time juggling diabetes, track practice,
classes and teen angst. It seemed to hurt
them more than it hurt me, so I kept it
to myself.
For most people, college is a fresh
start. For me, that meant that almost no
one knew about my diabetes.
I could decide who to tell and how
I wanted to tell them. I was a little surprised by how few people seemed to notice, and in a way, I was proud of myself
for that. I told people it was no big deal,
and they believed me. I just wasnt doing
such a great job of convincing myself.
At home, I knew that even if I didnt say
anything, there were people that worried about me, that knew how hard I
was working just to maintain normalcy.
I didnt realize how important that
was to me until I successfully convinced
everyone around me that my diabetes
wasnt worth a second thought.
In my determination to maintain a
casual attitude, I never used to let anyone know when I got angry or upset
with my disease. I kept those emotions
to myself until I literally couldnt anymore. So now, I admit that it is a lot to
handle, and it is a big deal. Being diabetic is hard, and sometimes it gets
to me. But the biggest thing
Ive learned in the last three
years is thats OK.
Margaret Webster is a
member of the Class of 2016.

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SPORTS

friday, november 13, 2015

Liz Znamierowski 16
dribbles up the field
while a Middlebury
defender looks to
poke the ball away
during Bowdoins
2-1 win over
Middlebury in the
NESCAC championship game on
Sunday.
GRACE MALLETT,
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ALL WE DO

IS WIN

Bowdoin won four conference championships last weekend. The winning started on Saturday, when womens
rugby (7-0) defeated Tufts in the NESCRC championship game, 88-0, for their fourth straight NESCRC title.
Then, on Sunday, field hockey (18-0) stayed undefeated with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over rival Middlebury
to take home their first NESCAC title since 2011. Mens soccer followed soon after with a 1-0 overtime win over
Wesleyan to secure their second straightand second everNESCAC title. No more than ten minutes later,
Volleyball (23-4) capped a shocking comeback from two sets down against Williams to capture their secondever NESCAC championship.
FIELD HOCKEY: PAGE 9. MENS SOCCER: PAGE 9. RUGBY: PAGE 10. VOLLEYBALL: PAGE 10.

Quincy Leech 17
sets the ball as
Sydney Salle 19
readies herself for
the kill in the NESCAC tournament
this past weekend.
Volleyball rallied
from two sets
down on Sunday
at home to shock
Williams and
take their second
NESCAC title ever.
JENNY IBSEN,
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

(ABOVE) Womens rugby

beat Tufts 88-0 in the
NESCRC title game over
the weekend for the
teams third straight
conference title.
ABBY MOTYCKA,
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

(LEFT) Mens soccer

poses for a picture after
winning the NESCAC
title for the second
straight year.
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COMMUNICATIONS

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Womens soccer comes up

short in title game, advances
to NCAAs with at-large bid
BY COURTNEY GALLAGHER
ORIENT STAFF

GRACE MALLETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BACK ON TOP: Bowdoin defeated Middlebury, 2-1, to take their first NESCAC title since 2011. Bowdoin had lost to Middlebury each of the
past three years in the championship game, with two losses coming at home. For the field hockey seniors, it was their first NESCAC title ever. The team
now moves on to the first round of the NCAA tournament, where they will face Keene State at 11 a.m. on Saturday at home.

Field hockey outlasts Middlebury for title

BY SAM CHASE

ORIENT STAFF

With two trips to the national

championship game and a national
title under their belts, the seniors of
the field hockey team had one trophy they were yet to win in their illustrious careers at Bowdoin: that of
the NESCAC title.
They finally brought it home last
Sunday, taking down rival Middlebury 2-1 on Howard F. Ryan Field to
give the program its first conference
championship since 2011. The Polar Bears will take on Keene State at
home tomorrow at 11 a.m. in NCAA
tournament second-round play. If
they win, theyll advance to Sundays
1 p.m. regional final against the winner of Wellesley v. the University of
New England.
Middlebury had captured the
previous three NESCAC titles with
two one-goal wins and a penalty
shootout victory over Bowdoin.
For this years Polar Bear squad, finally overcoming the hurdle of beating Middlebury on the conference

championship stage brought both

relief and confidence for games to
come.
I can still envision the [Middlebury] girls taking pictures on our
field last year with the NESCAC
plaque, and thats something Ill
never get out of my head, said Rachel Kennedy 16, who scored a goal
on Wednesday and was named the
NESCAC Player of the Year for the
second straight season. So it was a
great win to have our senior year on
our turf.
It just gives us so much confidence, said Kim Kahnweiler 16,
who was earned the honor of NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year.
Out of any game, that was the roadblock we needed to get by. That was
the game that, mentally, we told
ourselves our job would never be
finished until we did it.
The day before, Bowdoin took
down Amherst in the semifinal
round by a 4-0 score. Kennedy
spearheaded the offensive flurry
with a hat trick in the games first 45
minutes.

Coming off the game on Saturday, the team felt confident, said
Head Coach Nicky Pearson, who
won her ninth NESCAC Coach of
the Year award this season. We had
played well defensively and limited
the opportunities that Amherst had,
and we had converted our chances.
So we took a lot of positives from
that game and carried it forward to
Sunday.
All week in practice, you could
see that they had only one goal in
mind, Pearson added. I think the
younger players really picked up on
how determined particularly the
senior class was to win a NESCAC
championship before they graduate. That determination and focus in
practice was really contagious and
made the younger players realize
this was a really big deal for them,
and I think they responded well.
Kennedy led off the scoring on
Sunday with a goal only 12 minutes
into the game.
Liz was going for a fast break

Please see HOCKEY, page 11

This weekend consisted of both an

impressive win and a heartbreaking
loss for the Bowdoin womens soccer team. After beating Trinity in the
semifinals of the NESCAC Championship on Saturday, the team fell the
very next day in a brutal battle for the
crown to top-seeded Williams. The
win gives Williams its seventh NESCAC title in the past 10 years.
The weekend started out with the
semifinals against the Trinity College
Bantams, an opponent who beat the
Polar Bears earlier in the season, with a
late-game goal.
Losing to Trinity in the regular season definitely stung for us because we
knew that we were the stronger team,
Sarah Wallace 16 said, We had a calm
confidence going into the Trinity game
in the NESCAC semis, and a strong desire to prove ourselves to the league.
Bowdoin came out on top in their rematch against the Bantams. From the getgo, Bowdoin kept their control, stringing
together passes and maintaining possession. Evan Fencik '17 capitalized on the
teams ball control by dribbling up the
right side of the field and scoring off of
a cross in the fifteenth minute. This left
Bowdoin with a 1-0 advantage at the end
of the first half.
We went into the second half as if
it was a new gamelike it was 0-0. We
knew we needed to work just as hard,
if not harder, Coach Brianne Weaver
said of her team. We knew we needed
to keep the intensity and focus. We
wanted to make sure we played the way
we wanted to play.
Trinity came out strong in the
second half, attacking at the offensive position and taking three shots,
all of which Bridget McCarthy 16
successfully saved.
The Bantams inability to convert on
a corner kick gave Bowdoin the win.
Despite Trinity outshooting Bowdoin
by a 9-5 margin, the Polar Bears edged
the Bantams 6-3 in corner kicks
bringing them to the NESCAC finals
against rival Williams.
The team came out strong against Williams, eager to emerge with a win after losing to them in overtime during the regular
season. They knew Sundays game would
be a battle until the very end.
Our main focus was to come out
stronger than our opponent and set
the tone before Williams was able to,
Wallace said. We wanted to catch

them on their toes, because they are a

team that loses their confidence when
they are scored on first.
Bowdoin executed this game plan
well at first. In the first 25 minutes of
the game, it was the Polar Bears who
were on the attack.
We were the first team to get a shot
off. One of our shots in the first 10 minutes of the game was just barely saved
off of the goal line by a Williams defender, Captain Rachel Brooke '16 said.
Taylor Haist '17 was behind this
close shot, kicking it to Julia Patterson
'19 who headed it towards the goal.
The attempt on the goal was made in
the first five minutes of the game, but
Williams Tressa Palcheck saved it.
We were successful in catching
them while they were shaky and nervous, but luck was not on our side in allowing us to put it away, Wallace said.
At the start of the second half,
Bowdoin started to lose track of
their positioning and Williams
quickly took advantage of this. After
just nine minutes, Williams Natalie Turner-Wyatt scored, catching
the top corner of the net, giving the
Ephs a 1-0 lead. The Polar Bears held
them off for another 30 minutes until Kristi Kirshe doubled Williams
lead to seal the win for Williams.
The game did not end in our
favor, but I was so proud of how
hard we worked and how we came
together as a team, Wallace said.
We had a team who made it to the
national finals last year on their toes
for much of the game, and that is not
something to take lightly.
The team will look forward to
the NCAA Championships with
their first match-up against Johns
Hopkins, ranked number 22 in the
NCAA national DIII rankings. Hopkins also reached the Final Four last
year, and happens to have a very
similar game-style to Williams.
I think the most important thing
that I want to see from our team
[against Hopkins] is the realization
that opportunities like this are rare
and that we need to make the most
of it, Brooke said. We all want to
play our best soccer for each other
and I think this level of compassion
for one another sets us apart from
our competition.
Bowdoin will be facing off against
Johns Hopkins on Saturday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Hoboken,
New Jersey.

Mens soccer topples Wesleyan in OT for NESCAC title

Stellar defense paves way to NCAA tournament
BY BEN RATNER
ORIENT STAFF

After two halves of fiercely competitive play on Sunday in the NESCAC Championship final against Wesleyan, senior captain Andrew Jones game-winning
strike in the 93rd minute lifted Bowdoin to 1-0 victory.
We felt a goal was coming, said captain Nabil Odulate 16. Odulate, a defender, was recently given the
NESCAC player of the year award.
The win over Wesleyan was the Polar Bears fourth
consecutive shutout and earned Bowdoin its second
straight NESCAC championship. The victory also gave
the team an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III
Tournament. The team leaned on its superb defense
as it has all year, with goalkeeper Stevie Van Siclen 18
saving Wesleyans only shot on goal in the 26th minute.
I think the key to the game for us was our depth,
Odulate said. Every time we brought fresh players on,

they kept their performance level high. Wesleyan just

started to tire out in the second half.
According to Odulate, the strength of the defense
comes not just from the defenders, but from the entire team working to harass the opponents possessions.
Jones agreed with Odulates assessment.
It was really a team effort across the board,
Jones said.
For Bowdoin, the win was a capstone of an extremely
hard-fought conference schedule. The team struggled
early in the season with 1-0 losses to eventual top-seed
Amherst and fifth-seed Williams but only lost to one
other NESCAC opponent to finish conference play. For
Head Coach Scott Wiercinski, this level of competition
explains the low seeding of Bowdoin and Wesleyan
(6th and 8th respectively), the last two teams standing.
Ultimately, not a whole lot matters with the table.

Please see SOCCER, page 10

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS

TWO IN A ROW: Goalkeeper Stevie Van Siclen 18 punts the ball up the pitch. Van Siclen has
been a key part of Bowdoins lockdown defense, which has only given up seven goals all season.

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Rugby dominates Tufts for fourth championship in a row

BY ALLISON WEI
ORIENT STAFF

The womens rugby team won its

fourth consecutive New England
Small College Rugby Conference
(NESCRC) Championship on Saturday, cruising to a 88-0 win against
Tufts. With the win, Bowdoins record improves to 7-0. This is the third
straight season Bowdoin has defeated
Tufts in the NESCRC championship.
In 2012, Bowdoin beat Middlebury
to claim the crown in the inaugural
NESCRC championship.
In their annual meeting the
next day, Head Coach MaryBeth
Mathews and the other NESCRC
coaches agreed to move Bowdoin
out of the conference. Starting next
fall, Bowdoin will play an independent schedule.
With the victory, the Polar Bears
earned the rights to host the first
round of the American Collegiate
Rugby Association/USA Rugby Division II Championship tomorrow
against the University of Maine.
Paige Pfannenstiel 17 scored first,
fielding a Tufts kick and returning
the ball to give Bowdoin a 5-0 lead.
Pfannenstiel added two more tries
later in the game. Anna Piotti 16
and Satya Kent 19 each had a try,
and LeShauna Phinazee 16, Georgia Bolduc 17 and Addison Carvajal
16 all scored hat tricks to round out
the scoring. Carvajal also added five
conversion kicks for Bowdoin.
This was the first time we played
as a cohesive unit, captain Emily King
16 said. We were able to connect
with each other well out in the backline. The forwards had a really good
read of the game and connected well

with each other.

One highlight was Carvajals
drop goal, a play thats considered
very rare in rugby.
People were trying new things,
captain Cristina Lima 17 said. We
had our first drop goal of womens
rugby at Bowdoin history. That was
successful. People really started
playing to our full potential.
This was the second time Bowdoin has faced Tufts this season. In
their season opener, the Polar Bears
beat the Jumbos 80-5. While the
first score was lopsided, Bowdoin
did not expect the second matchup
to be as straightforward.
We knew that they were improving a lot, King said. We just
went in with the expectation that
itd be a tougher game than wed
played before, and that we were
going to take it as a challenge. We
really worked on amping up our
intensity and our physicality to
bring a good game to them, and
they brought a good game to us.
They got better, but so did we.
Mathews pointed to the playABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ers dedication in discussing the NEVER IN DOUBT: Cristina Lima 17 fights off tacklers during womens rugbys 88-0 NESCRC championship game victory over Tufts last weekend.
teams continued success.
Its the students that choose
This fall, the team has outscored its
I think [the players] are very ly beat the Black Bears 36-0 earlier
to play rugby, Mathews said. They NESCRC opponents 332-10. Last eager for it. This season has been this season. As with Tufts, though,
have exceedingly great character season, the team was 7-0 against a challenge, Mathews said. Last the team is wary of depending on its
and commitment to the program conference opponents, outscoring season, they handled it very well past results going forward.
and to each other, and its the history teams 486-5 during that period.
because it was the first year we had
Our motto for the whole season
of captains and leaders on the team
The idea of a move out of the con- much weaker opponents. To have to has been focused around what we
that annually commit to our culture ference was first floated last year. do it mentally, second year in a row, can control, Lima said. So we cant
of inclusiveness, support, teamwork, Bowdoins independent schedule is a challenge. I think the team is control our competition. But we can
friendship, good sportsmanship and next fall aims for a greater diver- very much up for it.
control our attitude and effort. Atfun.
sity of opponents. Mathews hopes
With the conference champion- titude meaning staying in the game
Bowdoins move out of the NE- that the team will continue to play ship win, the Polar Bears will host the mentally, whether its a really tough
SCRC comes after two seasons in against some NESCRC rivals like first round of the Division II playoffs team or a not so tough team. And
which the Polar Bears have not Colby and Tufts, but also compete against the University of Maine to- effortalways bringing 110 percent
been challenged in conference play. against more competitive teams.
morrow at 1 p.m. Bowdoin previous- no matter who it is.

Volleyball shocks Williams, takes NESCAC championship

BY ANJULEE BHALLA
ORIENT STAFF

The Bowdoin volleyball team came

back from a 0-2 deficit to defeat Williams 3-2 and win the NESCAC Championship last Sunday. Since the league
reformatted the playoff system in 2001,
this is the first time that a team has
come back from being down two sets to
win the championship match. With this
historic game, the Polar Bears claimed
their second NESCAC title and a spot in
the NCAA Tournament this weekend.
The first two sets, Williams started
off really strong, said Head Coach Erin
Cady. Sets three and four, we calmed
down, we found our groove, started to
do some strategic things that helped
give us points, and the team played with
a lot of heart out there. I think that was
a huge turnaround for us. The exciting fifth set and winning the NESCAC
Championship was definitely the highlight of the year.
According to the players, nerves
played a role in the shaky beginning of
the championship match, but they were
able to turn the tide.
In that moment in time, it was just
making sure that they kept the hope
alive and had faith that we could still do
this, said Cady. Just keeping them calm
and firing them up at the same time. Its
kind of two contradictory things, but
just trying to figure out a way to get the
best out of them.
Cadys motivation in that critical
moment was key in the teams transformation and ultimate success.
It was pretty tight in the third set,
and I think [Cady] recognized that,
said captain Christy Jewett 16. She
always knows what to say. Shes incredible in that way. She sat us down more
than halfway through the third set and

VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DOWN, BUT NOT OUT: Volleyball rallied from two sets down to beat Williams in the championship.
told us something that the team really
needed to hear. We went back on the
court with so much more energy and
confidence. I think thats what turned it
around. She put confidence back into us
that we would come out on top.
[Cady] said some of the most inspiring things, said captain Hailey
Wahl 16. She was on her knees in front
of us, and I think the fire lit up in our
eyes. We looked to each other. We got so
much energy from the fans. Ive never
felt so much support from all my fellow
students, the alums, members of the
community and professors, who were
all there.
For the Polar Bears, playing more aggressively was important in turning the
match around.
What [Cady] basically said to turn
us around was were going to go out
swinging, said Jewett. Were going to
go out swinging as hard as we can, and
one of the things that she said that gave
us confidence was our hittingnobody
can dig us. Nobody can dig it when we

hit fully. So that was our change in strategy; we would swing away.
With increased aggression and determination, the Polar Bears took the
final three sets en route to capturing the
NESCAC title, as well as a number of
individual honors.
Jewett was named NESCAC Volleyball Player of the Year after breaking the
Colleges all-time record for career kills,
as well as being named NESCAC Player
of the Week twice this season.
Libero and outside hitter Katie
Doherty 17 was named NESCAC Volleyball Defensive Player of the Year for
the second consecutive year after having 51 digs in the championship match
against Williams, breaking the Colleges
record for most digs in a single match.
Doherty leads the conference with 509
digs on the season, averaging 5.99 per set.
Quincy Leech 17 was named NESCAC Player of the Week after averaging 10 assists per set and 4.09 digs per
set over the weekend. All three players
earned spots on the All-NESCAC First

Team, and Erika Sklaver 17 earned a

spot on the All-NESCAC Second Team.
Yet according to Leech, these individual accolades reflect more on the team
than each individual player and serve to
recognize the program as a whole.
Volleyball is the ultimate team
sport, said Leech. It honestly is all
about the team; the stats that we conjure together are entirely indicative of a
group effort.
The depth of the team has been a
main factor for why Bowdoin is so hard
to beat. The team ranks second in hitting percentage and assists due to the
combined efforts of many talented players. There are three hitters on the team
with 200 or more kills on the whole season, which enables the team to be very
versatile and adapt to the strengths and
weaknesses of its opponents.
The Polar Bears also lead the league
in digs on a team and individual basis.
Their defensive skill paired with offensive strength has given them the
opportunity to continue their success
throughout the season going into this
weekend. Bowdoin faces UMass Boston
in the first round of the NCAA Tournament today at 3 p.m.
UMass is a really scrappy team, said
Jewett. I have a lot of respect for their
girls and how they play and how much
fight they have, so even though we did
beat them a couple weeks ago, were going to go out with 100 percent because
weve learned that every opponent deserves our 100 percent effort.
In Bowdoins bracket are Babson,
MIT and Amherst, three of the four
teams who beat the team earlier this
season. Should they win on Friday, the
Polar Bears will face the winner of Babson and Roger Williams at MIT tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.

SOCCER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

If youre eight and youre in the tournament, youve got a chance to beat
one, Wiercinski said. That threshold
is pretty arbitrary as it delineates talent
and ability.
The Polar Bears played close,
low-scoring games the entire season, as nine of their games were
within a goal or less, including four
0-0 ties. Wiercinski believes that the
relentless competition in the NESCAC throughout the regular season
helped prepare the team for the finish against Wesleyan.
Playing tough opponents week
after week certainly gives us the confidence to go into an overtime game
with some experience, Wiercinski
said. Were going to do everything to
dominate them so that they dont get
any chances.
Wiercinski also credited the teams
senior leadership for keeping the
team grounded, even in its most
emotional moments.
When youre running around and
youre tired and things dont go well,
its hard to be placid with your response and thoughtful with your play
rather than just emotional with your
play, and I think our seniors really embody that, Wiercinski said.
The next step is to maintain this
level-headedness as the team moves
onto the NCAA Division III Tournament for the second straight year. The
players will also focus on improving
their play in preparation for the opening round match.
I think we can do a better job possessing the ball and keeping the flies
off with possession rather than just
defending, Wiercinski said.
Bowdoin opens tournament play
against Plattsburgh State at MIT tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.

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BEST OF THE REST: Nicole Barbieri 19 dribbles during field hockeys 4-0 win over Amherst
in the NESCAC semifinals this past weekend. Bowdoin won the championship over Middlebury, 2-1.

HOCKEY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
on the right side, and then she sent
a pass over to Kimmy Ganong [17]
who was stroke levelmid-circle
and she sent a hard shot, she said.
The goalie saved it, but there was
a rebound and I was in the perfect
place to get it. As I got it, I was
pushed and I dove and found the
corner. That was a very important
way to set the tone for the game.
It always feels good when it
starts so far back the line because it
makes you feel like everyone was involved in the goal, said Kahnweiler.
Only seven minutes later, Middlebury tied it up with a goal off a
deflection. While Bowdoin entered
halftime feeling as if they were controlling play, the winning goal didnt
come until a 55th-minute shot from
Emily McColgan 17.
It was off of a corner. Kimmy
sent it out to me, I stopped it, and
Kelsey [Mullaney 16] had the hard
hit in, said Kahnweiler. It actually
bounced off of one of the defenders
feet and then hit the goalie pads. It
popped out and Emily McColgan
collected it and lifted it over the
goalie.
Bowdoin bore down defensively
for the games last stretch, including
a tense final two minutes that saw
Middlebury pull its goalie to bring
on an extra attacker.
There were 40 seconds left and
they were right about to enter our
circle and I was just praying that
they werent going to get a corner,
said Kennedy. There was actually
a play in the circle where Kim was
playing hot potato with her feet because if the ball touches your feet
they get a corner.
I didnt know during the game
that they had pulled their goalie,
said Kahnweiler. I dont normally
mark during the game, but all of
a sudden I hear our goalie yelling
Theres another player, and that just
added into the whole confusion. I
didnt know that time had actually
run out when it ran out.
The Polar Bear faithful stormed the
field at the sound of the final horn.
All of our parents and friends
were on the field. We had professors
coming up and hugging us, which
is just really special, to have all that
support, said Kennedy.

The team now turns its attention

to the NCAA tournament. Undefeated and the unanimous No. 1 team
in D-III as ranked by the National
Field Hockey Coachs Association
poll, Bowdoin earned a first-round
bye and will serve as one of four host
sites nationwide four second and
third round play.
Keene State advanced to the
second round with a 1-0 home victory over Husson on Wednesday.
The Owls are 17-7 on the season,
and went 9-2 in the Little East. They
beat Eastern Connecticut State in the
conferences championship game last
Saturday to earn an automatic NCAA
tournament bid. Theyre led by Little
East Offensive Player of the Year
Sami Smith, who was first in the conference in points and goals scored.
As the team prepares to face foes
from across the country, Coach
Pearson believes NESCAC competition has exposed them to many
types of teams.
When you look across all the field
hockey programs in the NESCAC,
many of them have different systems,
different styles, different strengths,
different weaknesses, she said.
Kennedy and Kahnweiler, however, took note of several foreign styles
of play theyve seen in past NCAA
tournaments.
In the NESCAC, theres definitely a style of quick passes, two-touch
hockey, said Kennedy. Once you
get out of the conference, especially
against teams like [The College of
New Jersey] last year, there are a lot
more aerials, which we hadnt really
seen.
Theres a lot more fancy play.
While we focus a lot on stick skills,
its not really part of our game to try
and dribble through five people, said
Kahnweiler. When we face teams
that do that, it takes us by surprise.
Despite its unbeaten record and
No. 1 ranking, the team claims to
feel no extra pressure heading into
the national tournament.
Our goal was to finish first in the
league and we achieved that, then we
closed that chapter, said Pearson.
Then our focus was on the NESCAC
tournament and winning that, and
weve achieved that. So weve closed
that chapter, and now were on a new
mission. I dont think we look at it
cumulatively, really, we look at it as
separate chapters.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Art museum embraces

the Offer of the College
BY LUCY RYAN

STAFF WRITER

To be at home in all lands and all

ages is more than just a familiar mantra
to Bowdoin studentsit introduces a
promise to members of the College community upon their entry here. On Thursday, November 5, the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art opened its newest exhibit to the public, To Count Art an Intimate Friend, which brings the promise
in William Dewitt Hydes 1906 Offer of
the College to life. Through expository,
dynamic and exciting works from the
Museums permanent collection, the exhibit both honors and analyzes this mission statement by which we are intended
to live, forcing viewers to think deeply
about the Offers presence on campus.
Curated by Joachim Homann, the
exhibition centers on the Colleges core
values, according to the Offer: sense of
place, celebration of nature, appreciation
of others work, uninhibited creative expression and working toward the common good.
Its a really wonderful guide through
our collections, because for many years,
people here at the Museum have been
collecting art to benefit the campus, said
Homann. So they of course reflect different perspectives and learning goals
that are characteristics of the Bowdoin
education.
The curatorial staff worked quickly
and deftly to bring the plans to fruition
in order to welcome a new president
to the college, and many new members
of the administration, as well as a whole
new generation of students, according to
Homann. The gestation period for exhibits at the Museum is typically one year at
minimum. However, plans for this installation first materialized early this summer.

The installation showcases a range of

works, drawing from the Museums Old
Master collection of drawings and paintings as well as more contemporary, multimedia pieces and photographs.
It is a great joy to bring out pieces
from the Museums permanent collection, which is global in scope and goes
back 3,000, 4,000 years, said Museum
Co-Director Frank Goodyear. Its great
to then put them in different thematic
groupings to see how works from across
time and many different renditions can
intersect with one another.
As each gallery conveys a different
theme from the Offer, the exhibit easily
conveys the diversity of the permanent
collection. While the Halford Gallery explores nature and human relationships to
nature, the next, Center Gallery, displays
artistic expressions of social, economic
and political differences as a means of
challenging standards.
Among these pieces include a drawing
by contemporary New Haven artist Titus
Kaphar, who has rendered four different
portraits of racially-biased police brutality victims Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice
and Michael Brown as one.
[Titus Kaphars piece] is hopefully
going to be at the center of a larger discussion about race and diversity here at
Bowdoin but obviously beyond as well,
said Goodyear.
According to Homann, viewers are
drawn to the works in this exhibit because they are painted in a strange way
that seems to go beyond what we immediately recognize.
Homann, who first proposed the idea
for this exhibit, values that its not a
show that is unifying or glossing over
differences, but rather respecting each
others backgrounds and perspectives
and finding shared goals.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Among the works in the final gallery

of the show are different interpretations,
some more contentious than others, of
the American flag, demonstrating in the
Offer urging students to cooperate with
others for common ends.
This show gives us an opportunity to
test the ways in which art can enable us to
engage conversations about sensitive and
important topics both near and far, said
Museum Co-Director Anne Goodyear.
It reflects back on Bowdoins history, but
also gives us the tools to think far beyond
Bowdoin with respect to foreign lands
and even questions of political activism.
Since coming to Bowdoin in 2010,
Homann has worked on two other
exhibits, Printmaking ABC and
The Object Show, that he deems
similar to this one in that they also
utilized the permanent collection to
celebrate the College and the value
it places on community, academic
inquiry and art.
One of the things that I find most
moving about Bowdoin College is that

art has literally always

been at the center of a
Bowdoin education,
said Anne Goodyear.
Art represents one
of those portals onto
the great big world
around us, which is
why we think education is so important. It
gives us the tools and
the resources to not
only engage with our
immediate community but to recognize
how our immediate
community might
be a microcosm for
a much wider world.
To Count Art
an Intimate Friend:
Highlights from Bowdoin Collections 1794
to Present will be on
display through June
5, 2016.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

OFFER OF THE COLLEGE: The Art Museums newest exhibit

celebrates its permanent collection with artwork from 1794 to present.

To give and reconcile: Lois Lowry discusses childhood, importance of fiction

THE GIVER:
Newbury Medalwinning author
Lois Lowry shared
stories Monday about
her childhood and
importance of writing
for young adults.

NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY SURYA MILNER
ORIENT STAFF

When childrens author and two-time Newbery

Medal-winning author Lois Lowry spoke at Bowdoin
on Monday night, she opened by sharing an email
correspondence initiated several years ago by a young
girl named Megan. After a brief back-and-forth exchange, Megan swiftly concluded with an email bereft
of punctuation, writing, Okay I do not like this book
and you do not have to take my advice but I absolutely
hate this book oh and PS never ever send me anything
ever again and not with love.
Lowry, who was invited by The Quill, Bowdoins
literary and arts magazine, shared these emails, along
with stories about her childhood, career and the intersections between the two, with a crowded Kresge Auditorium. Megans emails detail what the young girl
deemed to be inappropriate subject matter in Lowrys
book series Anastasianamely, the protagonist

having a crush on her female

gym teacher.
However, Lowrys response
was not one of hostility, or even
disregard. She has kept this
email as a sort of reminder of the
significance of her craft and why
she continues to write.
Certainly she was a little bit
rude but I dont care. I love
this kid, Lowry said. I love that she, at 10 years old, is
reading a book and thinking about a book, worrying
about a book, even objecting to a book. As she gets
older those things that she has been taught about will
not go away. Because kids at that age are often deeply
affected by what they read.
In a winding narrative of her life story, Lowry intertwined personal anecdotes, beginning with her
childhood, with their parallels in the subject matter
of her subsequent novels. She told of her first novel,
Autumn Street, which was inspired by her life as a
child in Pennsylvania. The self-proclaimed favorite of
all her works, the story draws heavily from Lowrys
own experiences, such as her first day of school.
When I entered that first grade room very timidly, a teacher named Lois McDonald leaned down to
greet me and told me to sit at a desk and look at some
books, Lowry said. And I remember looking around
the room that was filled with books and the feeling of
being part of a book-filled life, as Ive been ever since.
It was moments like these that became the driving
force behind many of Lowrys novels. She recalled an
occasion from an early age in which her mother read
to her The Yearling, a best-selling novel of the 1940s.

I remember that the last sentence of the chapter

was, He was filled with hate for all death, and pity
for all aloneness. It was when she read the end of that
chapter that my mother began to cry, and it wasnt
until I was grown that I realized she was weeping not
so much for the boy, but for herself and for what the
book said to her own situation. She was a woman
with three small children, alone, with a husband on
an island in the Pacific. But it was that awarenessI
was a very literate child who had read everything that
came my way, but this was the first time that a book
struck me as very, very special.
Gathering from observations from her youth,
Lowry has developed a style that, at times, integrates
harsh or uncomfortable realities with the familiar
comfort of childhood.
I dont think theres any value in avoiding tough
topics with kids who live in a tough world. Fiction is
a way, oddly, of rehearsing life, Lowry said. One of
my children was killed in an accident some years ago
and I remember people asking me how I got through
that. One of my answers was that all my life I had read,
and each time I had read something about loss I had
learned to deal with it. And I think thats what we
do its valuable for readers to know that one can talk
about such things and that such feelings are normal.
Sometimes a book is a very comfortable way to think
about such things.
It was clear that for several readers, this was what
they appreciated most about Lowrys work. In her exploration of real issues, such as death and sexuality,
Lowrys stories make conventionally taboo topics accessible to young readers.
When I read The Giver, I respected the fact that

even though it was geared toward a younger audience, she was able to discuss important things, said
Victoria Lowrie 18, editor-in-chief of The Quill. Often it feels like in young adult books they try to gloss
over the more important issues. Shes not afraid to
delve into them and make you feel like you have an
opinion and youre able to think.
She said, Whatever form they take, all stories
are about reconciliation in one form or another. I
wrote that down when I got home and put it on my
wall, said Carly Berlin 18. Because I think what she
means is not just that stories end in happy endings.
Characters have to grapple with somethingmaybe
its a past version of themselves, another relationship
they have or a time period that they exist in. Stories
are always encompassing that sort of tension. I want
to keep thinking about that.
Lowry concluded the talk with another
email, this one sent by a more appreciative
reader. The message, sent by an adolescent
boy struggling with issues of sexuality and
conformity in a conservative household, read,
Your book inspires me so much to be me, to
be who I am and not what people want me to
be, and I feel thats a very strong message in
your bookto not let everything be black and
white, but to be colorful, to be different and
to question everything, even if that means going against societys norms. I know someone out
there who Ive never met cares about my wellbeing. Thank you.
It was a reminder, as all these emails are, of
how profoundly affecting a book can be for a kid
at a particular time in his or her life, Lowry said.

friday, november 13, 2015

the bowdoin orient

Breathe it in: on the

importance of Sondheim
BY RYAN SZANTYR
CONTRIBUTOR

A theatregoer in 1957 looking at the

marquee of the Winter Garden Theatre
would have learned about a new show
called West Side Story with lyrics by
a Broadway newcomer: Stephen Sondheim. The theatregoer could not have
known it then, but Sondheim would
soon be changing the face of American
musical theatre. Nearly 60 years later,
Sondheim is a living legend. Devotees
of Sondheim call him God, a (partial)
absurdity that Sondheim himself plays
with in a song he wrote for Sondheim
on Sondheima revue of his work that
will play at Wish Theater this weekend.
But why do people feel the way they
do about Sondheim? It isnt merely
because of his gorgeous music or his
unequalled lyrical dexterity (though
consider the dizzying sublimity of In
the depths of her interior, were fears
she was inferior, and something even
eerier, but no one dared to query her
superior exterior, from a song called
Ah, But Underneath). Sondheims
true appeal is his ability to capture his

tionally involving.
Which isnt to say he doesnt write
peppy. Everybodys got the right to
some sunshine, announces one Sondheim song in joyful exuberance. What
separates this song from those of Sondheims forebearers and contemporaries,
however, is that it is sung by presidential assassins. Sondheims work rejects
the idea that the musical is merely a
diverting entertainment that persuades
the audience to forget its troubles and
get happy.
But Sondheim isnt a cynic either.
His shows may explore the darker sides
of humanity, but always with the aim of
learning, understanding and growing.
One Sondheim song has characters
dreaming of the future they will create: Its our time, breathe it in: worlds
to change and worlds to win. Another
Sondheim lyric stresses, Careful, no
one is alone, meant both to assure audience members that they are part of
a community and to warn them that
their actions affect other people. Sondheims musicals encourage people to
listen, not just to the deftly crafted music and lyrics, but also to one another.

MIRANDA HALL

audiences hopes, fears, doubts and

neuroses.
Nobody goes through life unscathed, Sondheim has said of his
work, and I think if you write about
those things, youre going to touch
people.
Sondheim and his collaborators
have written about subjects as varied
as a New Yorker with commitment issues, a poet hiding from the world in a
department store, the opening of Japan
to the West, a bloodthirsty barber and
an experimental painter in nineteenth
century Paris. Sondheims musicals
compel us to consider more thoughtfully the world around us; they are
complex, often witty and always emo-

Sondheim sees art as a form of teaching, and he has consistently regarded

teaching as the sacred profession. Before he died, Oscar Hammerstein IIa
giant in his own right and a father figure and mentor to Sondheimgave his
Sondheim a picture of himself with the
inscription, To Stevie, my friend and
teacher. Oscar predicted it. Sondheim
has taught us so much and given us so
much to see, and that is why he is important. I mean, the mans a god.
Sondeim on Sondeim will be performed tonight and Saturday evening
at 7:30 p.m. in Wish Theater, Memorial
Hall.
Ryan Szantyr is a member of the
Class of 2016.

A theatregoer in 1957 looking at

the marquee of the Winter Garden
Theatre would have learned about a
new show called West Side Story
with lyrics by a Broadway newcomer:
Stephen Sondheim. The theatregoer
could not have known it then, but
Sondheim would soon be changing
the face of American musical theatre. Nearly 60 years later, Sondheim
is a living legend. Devotees of Sondheim call him God, a (partial) absurdity that Sondheim himself plays
with in a song he wrote for Sondheim on Sondheima revue of his
work that will play at Wish Theater
this weekend.
But why do people feel the way
they do about Sondheim? It isnt
merely because of his gorgeous music or his unequalled lyrical dexterity
(though consider the dizzying sublimity of In the depths of her interior, were fears she was inferior, and
something even eerier, but no one
dared to query her superior exterior,
from a song called Ah, But Underneath). Sondheims true appeal is
his ability to capture his audiences
hopes, fears, doubts and neuroses.
Nobody goes through life unscathed, Sondheim has said of his

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the bowdoin orient

OPINION

Safety in numbers

he sexual assault that occurred on Tuesday has left campus in a

state of shock. While similar incidents may be a more common reality outside of Bowdoin, its greatly distressing to find that such a
horrifying act of random violence could happen here. Our thoughts are with
the victim, and with all the members of the Bowdoin community deeply affected by this attack.
As college students, a number of resources for dealing with sexual assault are available to us. This years Clery Report recorded 20 sex offenses
in the 2014 calendar year, and others almost surely went unreported. Were
trainedformally and otherwiseto think about sexual assault in specific
ways that aim to confront this unique problem of sexual assault on college
campuses. Were told that the victims of sexual assault usually know their
attacker, that alcohol is involved in a large percentage of assaults on campus,
and that a culture of affirmative consent is key to stopping sexual assault before it happens. Were told that the notion of a stranger entering your room
is a narrow and rare conception of what sexual assault is for college students.
All of this education is accurate and necessary, but it also makes it all the
more jarring when an incident like this happens.
While each student may have felt a different level of safety at Bowdoin
before this event, many of us, particularly women, feel significantly less safe
this week. Behaviors we take for grantedjogging without a cell phone,
wandering home from a party alone, leaving a door propped open for a
roommatewill be given up by many students after what happened on Tuesday. These everyday activities, rarely second-guessed, were reflections of a
collective belief that Brunswick and Bowdoin are generally safe. Every time a
student makes a conscious effort to avoid such a behavior will be an implicit
statement that campus is perhaps not as safe as we once thought. While these
privileges of safety are small individually, losing them all at once profoundly
affects how we perceive our environment.
Theres no shortcut to regaining the sense of security that many of us had
until this week. Many of us are scared, and unfortunately, theres no way that
we can be entirely comforted after an incident like this. There are things that
help, however. Student affairs staff have been on hand at 24 College Street
so students can convene there, providing many students a way to cope with
the emotional toll that an incident like this takes. In less formal settings, students have found comfort through simply sharing their feelings and offering
support to friends. This week, we lost some of the small privileges of our
experience at Bowdoin and in Brunswick. Coming together as a community
will continue to help us slowly regain some sense of security.

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.

friday, november 13, 2015

Justifying Girls and Women in Sports Day

CHASE SAVAGE

OPED CONTRIBUTOR

I write from the perspective of a male

athlete. I have been blessed to never once
have my participation in a sport questioned. I have never had my body type
critiqued by others for not looking a specific way. I have never had a hard time
finding idols in sports. The same cannot
always be said for women. For all of the
positive effort made in the last 43 years
under Title IX, we as a society still do not
treat male and female athletes the same.
I, like much of the student body,
read Coach Slovenskis Boys on the
sidelines: the girls caught up fast
and felt mixed emotions. I believe he
is spot-on when he speaks to the importance of sports in everyday life,
whether it be improving self-confidence or instilling discipline.
All people, no matter their gender, the color of their skin or their
sexuality, should be given the opportunity to participate in sports. Yet I
struggled to wrap my head around
Coach Slovenskis belief that discrimination in sports has passed
into another era.
How has discrimination passed
into another era when Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of
all time, is questioned for her body
image no matter how much success
she garners? How has discrimination passed into another era when
female athletes are asked about their
love lives and crushes in press conferences while men are not? How has
discrimination passed into another
era when some women are asked to
twirl after a win? Coach Slovenski is
correct to assert that equal opportunities for men and women should be
afforded. I simply contend with the
opinion that there is gender equality
in sports today.

As a member of the Bowdoin Student have instead tried to show is that we

Athlete Advisory Committee (BSAAC) are not at the stage yet where we can
last year, I voted against Coach Slovens- claim that male and female athletes
kis proposal for a Boys in Sports Day. My are treated equally in sports.
reasoning was that I did not see the merit
Many of us were fortunate enough to
to the event. I freely support establish- see the impact of female sports last week
ing a Community in Sports Day, where with field hockey, volleyball and rugby
boys and girls participate together with hosting conference championships. I can
Bowdoin athletes. I did not, however, see honestly say that the best Bowdoin sports
a need for a Boys in Sports Day. Women event I have seen was this past Sunday,
in Sports Day was established nationally when volleyball pulled off an awe-inspirin order to combat gender discrimina- ing comeback to win the NESCAC title.
tion and to show young girls that they With womens rugby winning a fourth
could be collegiate athletes. Boys have straight NESCRC title, womens socnever had that issue. Every single day, a cer qualifying for NCAAs, and womens
boy can turn on SportsCenter and see his field hockey winning another NESCAC,
idols. Girls cannot. According to a 2014 Bowdoin female athletes are inspiring
Purdue University study, only two per- the community beyond simply their
cent of SportsCenters coverage focused gameplay. They are inspiring young girls
on womens sports. Young girls need to believe that one day, they will be out
role models and for
on the court or
many young Maine
field.
girls, the Bowdoin Bowdoin female athletes are
I cannot refemale athletes are inspiring the community beyond
iterate enough
just that.
that I am not
Yet women are simply their gameplay. They are
seeking to chalstill
underrepthe notion
inspiring young girls to believe that lenge
resented in parthat men and
ticipation. While one day, they will be out on the
women cannot
many
schools
have equal valcourt or field.
have the same
ue in sports. All
number of male
I have sought to
and female teams, the amount of show is that we still have much to do. I
members each team is allotted is not hope that my opinion has helped to creequal. According to the Womens ate a discourse that will lead us all to
Sports Foundation, there are 1.3 mil- better understand the opposing sides. I
lion fewer high school opportunities also believe that we all have the opporand 63,000 fewer NCAA opportu- tunity and right to express our opinions,
nities for women. And the NCAA whether it is through a snappy Orient
published in its report, NCAA 2011- response or one on one. We should de2012 Sports Sponsorship and Par- bate how to reach the next stage in genticipation Rates Report, that from der equality, as there are many different
2004-2005 to 2011-2012, more new opinions that should be brought forth
sports opportunities were given to and discussed. I will, however, say that in
men than women. I do not argue my humble opinion, it is not being politithat male athletes should be denied cally correct to say that men and women
participation for the sake of pro- do not currently have equal access to
moting female participation. What I sports. It is fact.

Understanding our personal relationship with time puts us in control

JESSE ORTIZ

SIGNIFYING NOTHING
Hows your relationship with time?
A few weeks ago, my friend mentioned
over sushi that her recent struggles with
sleep were connected to her relationship with time. That conversation got
me thinking about my own interactions
with time. Ive often treated time as a high
school lover, when every second together
feels apocalyptic, fleeting moments never
quite enough to fulfill my emotional and
physical needs. In other situations, passing time feels excruciating, like being an
eight-year-old waiting for my mom to
finish shoe shopping during a buy-oneget-one sale or swimming out of a pool
of lime Jell-O. Time can also be the friend
you dont really want around, the one that
keeps you in the Union for the fifteen minutes before your next class or makes you
lie in bed and listen to The National for an
hour on Friday before you start drinking.
This kind of relationship can drive you
homicidaloften we want nothing more
than to kill time, abuse it and cast it aside
as if the present moment isnt important.
Time does matter.
However, how can something so immaterial have such a profound impact
on my life? Time is not an object, or an
experience, but the function that connects objects and experiences as they take
on different forms. From the individual
perspective, this process feels continu-

ous. Our sense is that time is constantly

flowing, a universal condition of physical
and emotional states. Time seems to be
a great equalizer, the same train were all
riding through the universe. But are all the
seats on the train of time worth the same
amount? What if there were a first class
car in front, with lots of legroom and an
open bar, but an economy car in back,
with camped benches, crying babies and
overpriced snacks?
In Marxist theory, material conditions
determine social, political and ideological structures in society. But matter is
determined by more than its form and
position in space. Time engenders objects
and allows them to circulate and change.
To fight oppression, we have to consider
how people across socio-economic classes
experience time. Do you have free time to
leisure, reflect and unwind? Is time something that you can plan out and control?
Time management is a privilege, reflecting ones temporal wealth. Consider those
who must wait in emergency rooms or
free clinics for basic health care or have to
sit in bus stations instead of taking a cab.
Unequal access to time perpetuates inequality by preventing oppressed people
from improving their material status. As
they say, time is money.
The power of time can manifest itself
through state and corporate control. A
few weeks ago, we all set our clocks back
for daylight saving, an outdated and inconvenient tradition that we nevertheless
obey. This weekend, I realized the psychological impact of time when my iPhone

clock mysteriously malfunctioned. The

clock would freeze periodically and then
adjust itself, so the time was off enough
to affect my schedule, but not so wrong
that I could tell it was messed up. For several days, I felt like I was in some Twilight
Zone, trying to navigate a space that was
out of my control. When I brought this
up to my friend, he said, How could your
phone be wrong? Thats supposed to be
the right time! Without a reliable iPhone,
I couldnt set my watch or measure the
inaccuracy of the clock in Moultons light
room. By depending on my phones clock,
I had allowed Apple to become my authority on time.
Recently, Ive been aiming to understand and improve my relationship with time. Trying to find just a
few minutes each day to meditate has
shown me how structured my schedule can me, but mindfulness makes me
consider my engagement with time.
Ive started planning meals at 12:55 or
5:55, which my friends refer to as Jesse
Time. The five minute cushion often
allows me to beat the meal-time rush.
For a long time, Ive obsessed about
punctuality and allowed other peoples
lateness to put me in a bad mood. Now,
Im beginning to understand that we all
experience time in different ways. By
rethinking my urgency for timeliness,
I can release my control over temporal
means of production. In doing so, I can
consider how my treatment of time affects my personal or political power.
Its about time.

DIANA FURUKAWA

friday, november 15, 2015

the bowdoin orient

opinion

15

Bowdoin bubble means we should hold ourselves to a higher standard

ADIRA POLITE

ON THE EDGE

In light of the recent rise in nationwide discussions on race and political

correctness, it would be negligent to
reflect on Bowdoins racial and bias incidents without broadening my scope.
Many other schools are having the same
conversations that we are now having.
Most notably, both Yale University and
the University of Missouri have erupted
in racial tensions, protests and debate.
Much of the uproar at Yale was
sparked by accusations that Yales
chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity turned black women away
from a party, asserting that the party was for white girls only. Heavy
backlash ensued and was quickly exacerbated by an unrelated incident
in which Erika Christakis, associate master of Silliman College, sent
an email to students in response to a
campus-wide email urging students
to be conscientious while planning
their Halloween costumes. Christakis
questioned whether the original email
was an attempt to censure and prohibit
students abilities to to be a little bit
obnoxious ... a little bit inappropriate.
Yale students immediately challenged Christakis email because many
felt Christakis made light of actions
that strip students of color of a welcoming and inclusive space. Students held a
March of Resilience as well as a number of smaller protests. Unsurprisingly,
much of the open dialogue occurred
on Yik Yak.
The current state of affairs at the
University of Missouri (or Mizzou), is
nothing short of horrifying. On October 10, in response to a lack of administrative action following the continuous
use of racial slurs, a coalition of black
students held a protest during the uni-

versitys homecoming parade. Video

footage shows the crying protesters being forcibly removed as President Tim
Wolfe sat idly by. Wolfe made no statement following the incident, leading to
the swift spread of unrest.
This unrest peaked this past weekend, when the Mizzou Tigers football
players announced that they would not
play until Wolfe resigned. He did so on
Monday. The most terrifying part of
this debacle came as more and more
white students became enraged over
Wolfes resignation, as well as the negative attention their school began receiving because of it. On Tuesday night,
threats directed at black students surfaced on Yik Yak. The most terrorizing
of these messages read, Im going to
stand my ground tomorrow and shoot
every black person I see, Tomorrow
Mizzou will really make national news,
and Fantastic. #deathtomonkeys.
From what I have heard on our own
campus, some people feel that Mizzou
and Yales problems put Bowdoins issues into perspectiveand in a way,
they do. However, it is important to realize that these institutions crises serve
as proof that problems can and will escalate rapidly.
Some students are quick to label
the claims of students of colorissues and problems that they can
never fully understandas ludicrous or dramatic. It is this mindset,
the one behind responses such as
get used to it and the real world
doesnt care, that lead to the terrifying situations were seeing at schools
like Mizzou. Fostering the idea that
the discomfort of minorities is not
as important as the fun of the majority creates an environment in which
minorities are devalued. This can affect minorities perceptions of themselves, but even more detrimentally,
the majoritys perception of them.
Blatant racism such as white girls

only parties and #deathtomonkeys are the direct result of the

majority devaluation of
minority bodies.
I am not saying that
I predict Bowdoin
is headed towards racially
exclusive parties or rampant death
threats. I
re cognize
that
our
situation is
milder, but
the situation still
stands. The
most dangerous part of our
current issue
is the ignorance
and complacency
of many people on
this campus. It is disheartening that students
at an elite institution are responding to attempts to better
the minority student experience
with quips about the real world.
This complacent attitude stifles progress and should not be present at a college that is supposed to be producing
our future leaders.
I believe that all of us are aware
that our campus is not the real
world. We live in a bubble that is
impenetrable to many real world
issues. If we know and even embrace the fact that the real worlds
problems and rules do not apply
to us, why are we so quick to disregard that bubble when issues of
race arise? If this is truly a place that
allows students to shape their own
experiences within the safety of a
hand-picked community, why arent
students free to demand that that

MIRANDA HALL

community remain an inclusive and

comfortable environment for all of
its inhabitants?
It has become alarmingly clear
that Bowdoins tensions are much,
much bigger than Bowdoin; yet,
some still choose to pretend that
none of it is happening. This inaction is made possible due to a false
belief in irrelevance. Many students
feel that these problems dont fit into
their world and to those people, I
say: you are wrong.
Whether you are aware of it or
not, your friends have been affected.
Your teammates have been affected.
Your awkward dance floor make out
from last weekend might have been

affected. You yourself may be able

to put on blinders and ignore what
is happening both on campus and
throughout the nation but youre not
as far removed as you think you are.
We must stop alluding to the real
world as a means of disregarding the
emotions and concerns of our students. We must stop comparing our
campus issues to those of others for
the sole purpose of disregarding our
own. Students at Bowdoin have the
tools to leave this place after four years,
go into the real world, and change it.
By being complacent, we inch into a
downwards spiral and accomplish absolutely nothing. You have the tools.
Be present and use them.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Bowdoin Students, Alumni, President Rose and Trustees,

To the Editor,

This summer, I participated in a campaign of kayaktivist events here in the Pacific Northwestnonviolent on-water acts of civil disobedience. I risked arrest, potentially negative consequences for my medical license and fines as high as $36,000. Why? Because every independent
scientific assessment has made clear that the survival of our world is in extreme jeopardy due
to climate change and global warming. We have been lied to by corporations like Exxon and
their lobbyists for decades.

Belated kudos to the artists and historians who designed and wrote the program
booklet for President Roses inauguration. From the embossed texture of the coverin the mold of the art museum terrace bricksto the continuation of the theme
throughout, the designers thoughtfully created a keepsake. Not to be overlooked is
the artwork contained therein (Artists: Nicole E. Faber 16, Kelsey E. Gallagher 17,
Elijah B. Ober 15 and Associate Professor of Art James Mullen).

Our collective society urgently needs to shift our energy policies and practices, away from fossil fuels and towards immediate and intensive investment in an ecologically sustainable energy
economy. In my senior year at Bowdoin (1980-81) interviewing for jobs on Wall Street, I never
imagined that one day I would be forced to make a choice between making a stand for truth
and justice or letting problems on a truly apocalyptic scale be someone elses problem. Apathy
and ignorance is a choice after all. My Bowdoin education gave me the foundational integrity
and rectitude to make a choice based on compassion for all life. Please support divestment.

The entire weekend was put together by a strong committee under the inspired
leadership of Rick Ganong 86 P17, senior vice president for development and
alumni relations.
Well done!
David B. Humphrey 61

Jordan Van Voast 81, L.Ac.

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the bowdoin orient

friday, november 13, 2015

NOVEMBER
FRIDAY 13

LECTURE

"Diversity-Oriented Synthesis for the

Discovery of Novel Therapeutics

Dr. Lisa Marcaurelle, vice president of Discovery

Chemistrywhich works to discover anti-cancer
compoundswill be discussing recent advancements in her
fields research.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 3 p.m.
EVENT

Senior Relationship Panel

DATE

WEEK
As part of date week, seniors will discuss love, sex
and dating and how they choose to navigate their
romantic lives at Bowdoin. This event is co-sponsored by
Peer Health.
Cleaveland 151, Druckenmiller Hall.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
7 p.m.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BUILDING CAREERS: Students will be performing in "Sondheim on Sondheim" on Friday and Saturday. The musical is about Stephen Sondheim, a Broadway songwriter. The show, directed by Ed Reichert, will be performed in Wish Theater.

PERFORMANCE

Sondheim on Sondheim is a musical revue of famed

Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheims 19 best songs. Ed
Reichert of the University of Southern Maine directs the
Bowdoin production. Tickets will be available at the Smith
Union information desk prior to the event and immediately
before the show at the theater. There will be another
performance on the 14th.
Wish Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:15p.m.

LECTURE

PERFORMANCE

Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations and

history at Boston University, will be speaking. Bacevichs
bestselling book Washington Rules critiques the U.S.
military industrial complex.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

The Office of Events and Summer Programs will

sponsor the visit of two widely celebrated musicians,
Jeremy Denk, a pianist, and Stefan Jackiw, a violinist, will
perform the Ives Sonatas. Both are considered to be top
artists in the country. Tickets are required.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

Santagata Lecture: Andrew Bacevich

Delivers "Washington Rules"

SATURDAY 14
EVENT

No Phone Dinner

DATE

WEEK
Students are encouraged to disconnect from
technology and connect with their dinner partner. Buckets will be placed on the tables in which students
can put their phones. This event is co-sponsored by BMASV.
Thorne Hall. 5 p.m.

Pianist Jeremy Denk and Violinist Stefan

Jackiw Perform the Ives Violin Sonatas

EVENT

The Dating Game

DATE

WEEK
One contestant will be able to ask questions of
three potential partners, who will each give their
most honest and jaw-dropping answers. Without knowing
their identities, the contestant will choose the partner who
best matches them to take out on an adventure.
Jack Magees Pub, Smith Union. 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 19
LECTURE

TUESDAY 17
SUNDAY 15
EVENT

Netflix and Chill

Students are welcome to enjoy a movie without

any strings attached. Invite a partner,
love interest or friend to watch with you.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 8 p.m.

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PERFORMANCE

Improvabilities
Show

WEDNESDAY 18

MONDAY 16

Sondheim on Sondheim

LECTURE

"'For Common Ends and for the Common

Good': A New History of American Higher
Education"

Associate Professor of Education Charles Dorn will speak

as part of the faculty seminar series. His talk is titled, "'For
Common Ends and for the Common Good': A New History of
American Higher Education."
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. Noon.

DATE
WEEK

22

PERFORMANCE

Bowdoin
College
Concert Band

23

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VACTION

Thanksgiving
Vacation Begins
After Classes

Patrick Rael Discusses Eighty-Eight

Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the
United States, 1777-1865

Patrick Rael, professor of history, will discuss why it took

so long to end slavery in the United States, as he wrote
about in his book "Eighty-Eight Years, The Long Death Of
Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865."
Thomas F. Shannon Room (Room
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
208), Hubbard Hall. 4:30 p.m.
EVENT

Relationship Trivia Night

Friends can compete to win prizes over

relationship-themed questions.
Jack Magees Pub, Smith Union. 10 p.m.

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DATE
WEEK