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Feces found
in mens
room used
tampon box
By Harry DiPrinzio
Orient Staff

Despite the generally positive recep-

tion of the Free Flow projectwhich
installed dispensers for free pads
and tampons in 12 womens and four
mens bathrooms across campusthe
initiative has also elicited negative re-
sponses. Housekeeping confirmed that
all the tampons and pads in the mens
restroom of the first floor of David
Saul Smith Union were thrown away
unused several times. Additionally,
someone defecated in the receptacle
intended for used products.
Karen Doyle, a housekeeper in
Smith Union who found and cleaned
up the feces Wednesday morning, said
that she has seen unused pads and
tampons in the trashcan over 10 times JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
since they were first placed there over ON TRACK: Magee-Samuelson Track and Whittier Field will undergo renovations this summer. The track will expand from six lanes to eight, while the grass field will be replaced with turf.

College to renovate Whittier Field, angering neighbors

Spring Break.
Im only putting five [pads and
tampons] in there for that reason, she
said. If we put more then its just going
to be 20 of them going in the trash.
At its meeting Wednesday night,
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG)
discussed how it should respond to the
incident, including whether these cases
should be classified as bias incidents.
I feel like it was either a person who
did it as a joke or didnt understand
it, or it was a deliberate thing like,
these people arent welcome in this
bathroom so Im going to poop there,
which would be considered a bias in-
cident, said Vice President for Student
Affairs Benjamin Painter 19. And if
so, I think the administration should
respond to it just like they would re-
spond to any other bias incident.
BSG members decided to address
Please see TAMPONS, page 3
By Lucia Ryan
Orient Staff
The College has acquired the funding necessary to reno-
vate the Magee-Samuelson Track and Whittier Field facil-
ity after receiving a large donation over Spring Break that
pushed the first phase of the project to meet its $4.5 mil-
lion budget.
This phase will involve revamping the track as well as re-
placing the current grass field with a larger turf one, which
will be used for football, lacrosse and soccer games. Con-
struction will begin in May and be complete in time for the
first home football game of the season in late September, ac-
cording to Ashmead White Director of Athletics Tim Ryan.
The second phase, intended to begin later in 2018, will
add a new equipment and training and locker room build-
ings next to the field. The entire project will cost $8 million,
some of which still needs to be raised.
The project is funded completely by donations to the
College, according to an email sent by President Clayton
Rose to the Bowdoin community on Monday, March 27,
which notified students of the planned renovations. The COMING CHANGES:
College began soliciting donations for the renovation in the The College will renovate Whit-
summer of 2016, after the Athletic Department began to de- tier Field and the Magee-Samuelson
velop concrete plans for the project. Track using funds from alumni dona-
Upgrading the track and field has been one of the priori- tions. The initial $4.5 million phase of
ties of the department since the 400-meter track, which was the project is expected to be complete
resurfaced in 2005, started to crack and warp due to a failing by the fall.
subsurface about four years ago. The first phase of the project will ex-
Neighbors of the facility who live on Bowker and Pine pand and resurface the track, replace
streets were notified by the College and the Department of the grass field with artificial turf and
Environmental Protection (DEP) in mid-March. add lights, seating and a press box.
The College is currently in the permitting process, which Residents of Pine and Bowker
means they are working to address the many concerns that Streets are concerned about noise and
a construction project of this size raisesfrom the DEP, the light pollution from both the renova-
Brunswick town council and the families living near Whit- tions and future sporting events.
Please see FIELD, page 5

Acceptance rate lowest ever, two-thirds waive fee Bowdoin subsidizes bus service to
By Alyce McFadden
Orient Staff
The Office of Admissions accept-
ed 13.4 percent of applicants to the
class of 2021, marking the lowest ac-
ceptance rate on record. On March
17, 719 high school students re-
ceived Regular Decision acceptance
letters. The College received a total
of 7,251 applications, a seven per-
cent increase from last year.
Dean of Admissions and Finan-
cial Aid Whitney Soule said that
while choosing from a large field of
highly qualified candidates was chal-
lenging, she is excited by this years
statistics. This was Soules first ad-
missions cycle as dean.
The good news is that the College
is really popular, Soule said. Every
way you could cross-cut we saw an
increase [in applicants], which was
great.
For the Class of 2021, 244 students
were accepted during early deci-
sion, a slight increase from previous
years. Eleven students joined the class
through the QuestBridge scholarship
Please see RATE, page 5
attract employees from Portland
By Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
The Metro BREEZ bus will extend
its service to Brunswick this fall after
receiving approval from the Bruns-
wick Town Council for a two-year pi-
lot program on March 8. Bowdoin has
pledged to contribute $10,000 to the
service for each of the next two years,
ployees to Brunswick by increasing
transportation options.
Theres a tight labor market right
now in the Brunswick-Midcoast re-
gion. Were having some positions in
Dining and Facilities that we are post-
ing and getting very few applicants for,
said Orlando.
The bus to Brunswick will be an ex-
pansion of a three-year commuter bus

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approximately 20 percent of the pro- pilot program between Portland and
grams cost. Freeportwith additional stops in
While students may choose to take Falmouth and Yarmouththat Metro
advantage of the bus, Senior Vice BREEZ launched last summer. The

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President for Finance and Administra- service runs 10 bus trips each way on
tion Matt Orlando said that Bowdoins weekdays between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
primary motivation in subsidizing the
service was to help attract more em- Please see BUS, page 4

N ROBOCUP MOVES ON F BEHIND THE NAMETAG A THEATER AND DEMOCRACY S ON THE ATTACK O FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The U.S. Open will not be at Bowdoin Dave Luce 62 greets Bowdoin students Oskar Eustis discussed the importance Womens lacrosse ends Middleburys Rachel Baron 17 on meal plans and
for the first time in eight years. Page 3. at Thorne with a smile. Page 6. of public theater. Page 10. undefeated season. Page 11. financial aid. Page 14.
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32 Window piece 6 Work-out target
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that was adapted into 8 Mucus Rendall and it says: 'We have a new roommate for
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SECURITY REPORT: 3/3 to 3/28

Friday, March 3
A report was filed regarding a habitual
parking offender who has accumulated a
large number of parking citations.
Saturday, March 4
An officer checked on the condition of
an intoxicated student at Coles Tower.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of
an intoxicated minor student at Reed House.
A student was cited for a drug law
violation after setting of a smoke detector
while using a vaporizer containing an ille-
gal substance.
A group of students in Hyde Hall was
cited for alcohol violations.
Brunswick Rescue transported and in-
toxicated minor student from Appleton Hall
to Mid Coast Hospital.
Officers checked on the condition of a
second intoxicated minor student at Apple-
ton Hall.
Saturday, February 25
A students bike that was reported stolen
from West Hall was located near Maine Hall.
Sunday, March 5
Brunswick police dispersed a large gath-
ering at an off-campus student house at 310
Maine Street. The police chief later issued
a disorderly house ordinance notice to the
property owner and tenants.
Monday, March 6
At 9:30 p.m., a faculty member reported
hearing a womans scream coming from the
Quad. Officers scoured the area and noted
nothing out of the ordinary.
Wednesday, March 8
Blue-green paint was spattered on walls
in a basement rest room at Quinby House.
A student took responsibility for acci-
dentally smashing a window while banging
on it at Pine Street Apartments.
Friday, March 10
A town resident reported excessive noise
from a group of students who were walking
near 52 Harpswell.
Monday, March 13
There was a report of an environmen-
tal health and safety violation at MacMillan
House. Note: Nothing may hung from or
wrapped around fire sprinkler pipes.
Tuesday, March 14 Bowdoin security is assisting the police with
An officer aided a student at Coles Tow- this report.
er who was having respiratory difficulties.
A College employee backed into a tree at Monday, March 27
Harpswell Apartments while plowing snow Steam from a hot shower activated a
during a blizzard. smoke alarm at Brunswick Apartments.
Friday, March 17 Wednesday, March 28
An officer apprehended a stray dog The use of an air humidifier at Bruns-
roaming the campus and returned the animal wick Apartments set of a smoke alarm.
to its owner. A housekeeper reported vandalism in a
Smith Union rest room.
Monday, March 20
Students kicking a soccer ball in the sec-
ond floor hallway at Maine Hall damaged an
emergency light and several ceiling tiles. A
student has taken responsibility for causing
some of the damage.
Saturday, March 25
There was loud music reported at Stowe
House Inn. The student responsible for the
noise reduced the volume.
Sunday, March 26
A town resident reported to the Bruns-
wick police that someone yelled a homopho-
bic slur from a moving vehicle on Bath Road BROOKE GODDARD
near the First Parish Church at 11:30 a.m.
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NEWS IN BRIEF Bowdoin will not host Robocup

competition for first time in 8 years
COMPILED BY PETE BULL AND CLAUDIA POU

TOWN COUNCIL VOTES TO

BAN SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS
The Brunswick Town Council voted 8-1 on Monday, March 20, to ban
Brunswick retailers from providing single-use plastic bags. The ordinance
will go into effect September 1. Most representatives supported the ban to
limit the impact of single-use plastic bags on the environment. Several local
retailers spoke out against the ban, worrying that it would force them to sup-
ply more paper bags, the Forecaster reported. Paper bags are costlier than
plastic bags and require more storage space.
Green Bowdoin worked with the Midcoast Maine group Bring Your Own
Bag to campaign in favor of the ban. Elena Mersereau 18, the leader of
Green Bowdoin, was excited that the ban was passed. She had thought that
the town would provide a monetary incentive to decrease bag usage rather
than a full ban.
Mersereau acknowledged that the ban has drawbacks for local retailers,
but hopes that it will make people more mindful about bringing reusable
bags to the stores.
I think really it will make people more conscious when they go to the gro-
cery store, so they arent just passively accepting whats the norm, she said.
Green Bowdoin and Bring Your Own Bag both plan on continuing to push
for fees for paper bags, whose production requires more energy and pro-
duces more water toxins than plastic bags. Still, Mersereau thinks the ban is
a good first step.
Its going to be a bit of an adjustment for everyone, but in the long run it
makes such a big statement, Mersereau said. COURTESY OF MICHAEL MAHER
ROBOTS OR ATHLETES?: Students look on as robots line up during the 2016 Robocup U.S. Open, held in the Sidney J. Watson Arena.

By Eduardo Jaramillo
CUBA WEEK TO CELEBRATE
Orient Staff
For the first time since 2009, Bowdoin
SISTER CITY CONNECTION will not host the annual U.S. Open for
Robocup, a tournament in which student-
programmed robots play soccer against
This weekend, the Brunswick-Trinidad Sister Association is hosting its one another. Instead, teams will compete
14th annual Cuba Week to recognize the connection between Brunswick and at the University of Miami in Florida dur-
Trinidad, Cuba. Events focus on bringing the Cuban culture, food and his- ing the weekend of Saturday, April 29. The
tory to the town of Brunswick. The Brunswick-Trinidad Sister Association move largely stems from Bowdoins in-
is a non-profit organization spurred by Dwight D. Eisenhowers sister city ability to keep up with constantly chang-
initiative, which has facilitated a non-political exchange of culture and ideas ing Robocup technology due to lack of
between distant communities. funding. Financial shortfalls have left the
Tonight, the local band Primo Cubano is hosting a dance concert in the team concerned about its futureinclud-
Morrell Lounge of David Saul Smith Union at 8 p.m. Primo Cubano recre- ing its ability to compete at the Robocup
ates classic Cuban son music, a genre defined by its upbeat tempo and mixed World Championships.
Spanish and African roots. Salsa dance lessons will be held before the con- Professor of Computer Science Eric
cert at 7:30. Chown said that the primary reason for
Tomorrow, a panel of individuals who have visited Cuba will gather to the change in location was that the playing
share their experiences at Curtis Memorial Library at 2 p.m. for the event surface which Bowdoin uses for Robocup
titled Changing Cuba. The discussion seeks to highlight the shifting atti- is not the same turf used at the World
tudes and culture of Cuba through the perspective of those who have visited. Championships. University of Miami has
On Sunday, the film Return to Cuba: In the Footsteps of Walker Evans the proper turf material.
will be shown in the Beam Classroom of the Visual Arts Center at 4 p.m. Ev- We dont have the new surface and
ans was a famous photographer from the 1930s who garnered acclaim for his Miami does, and buying one would cost
depictions of the Great Depression and took photographs for the film The several thousand dollars, Chown said.
Crime of Cuba, which exposed the corruption and poverty in the country And then we would have the issue of
under the dictator Gerardo Machado. The executive producer of the award what do we do with it, now that weve got
winning picture, Skip Klein, will also be present to discuss its creation. it we have to store it somewhere and take
In celebration of the week, several local restaurants, including Gelato Fi- care of it and so forth.
asco, Wild Oats and the Brunswick Inn, are offering Cuban-inspired dishes. Additionally, teams from Mexico and
Additionally, Cuban handicrafts and art have been on display at Curtis Me- Chile expressed interest in competing in
morial Library all of March. the competition and preferred Florida
as a location for travel purposes. Ameri-
can teams agreed on the location change,
which was announced on March 13.
The Bowdoin Robocup team, known
as Northern Bites, has yet to determine
whether it will be able to travel to Florida
to compete in the tournament. In the past,
the team has received most of its fund-
ing through donations from alumni and
grants from the National Science Founda-
tion, but it is unclear whether these are vi-
able sources to cover travel expenses.
I had hoped that some alums might
step up and provide the funding, and
we had heard from some alums that
there might be some interest in that, but
as far as I know, that hasnt happened,
said Chown.
Students would have to miss a signifi-
cant amount of class to compete in Flor-
ida. Additionally, the tournament dates
different from past yearsconflict with
Ivies weekend.
One of the nice things about hosting
it [at Bowdoin] is there is very little im-
pact on students in classes and so forth,
said Chown.
In past years, Bowdoin was the only
college interested in hosting the U.S.
Open, Chown said. He also noted that
organizing the tournament is a substan-
tial task.
Konstantine Mushegian 17, captain
of the Northern Bites, is hoping that the
team will be able to compete in April, but
he worries that missing class will discour-
age students from going. Additionally,
team members are aware thatregardless
of their performance at the U.S. Open
they would be unable to attend the World
Championships in Japan due to lack
of funding.
Since weve known were not going to
Japan, we havent been practicing with the
new carpet, so really going would prob-
ably serve more of an educational purpose
for new students who are younger, rather
than for old students who are just going to
go do the same thing, he said.
Mushegian also expressed uncertainty
about sources of funding for the teams
travel. If the team does not receive fund-
ing from alumni donors, students may
approach the administration for funding
or pay their own way.
Its kind of up in the air, he said.
Continued technology changes cast ad-
ditional uncertainty on Robocups future
at Bowdoin. Chown said that a new type
of robot may be required for Robocup
competitions in the coming years.
When we first got into Robocup the
robots were very cheap and when we
switched robots last time we moved to
much more expensive robots, Chown
said. And if we switch again to yet more
expensive robots that just makes the fi-
nances that much harder.

TAMPONS cial response from the school. The last

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
the issue by educating the community,
rather than labeling the acts as bias in-
cidents. BSG plans to update signage in
the mens bathrooms to make the pur-
pose of the products clearer.
We talked about sending an email
to the school, but we felt like it would
bring attention to someone whose ac-
tions didnt really deserve that much
attention, said BSG President Harriet
Fisher 17. I dont think were actually
polarized about it as a campus.
I worry that framing it or admon-
ishing any sort of behavior would make
this a divisive issue, and we dont want
tampons in the bathroom to be divi-
sive, said Kate Berkeley 18.
The College is also not treating
what happened as a bias incident.
Bias incidents are typically reported
through an online portal and ad-
dressed in a committee of faculty and
students. They typically merit an offi-
bias incident reported was in January
when someone drew a swastika in the
snow outside of West and Osher Halls.
The College posts an online record of
past incidents.
Director of Safety and Security
Randy Nichols acknowledged the in-
cident in an email to the Orient and
said that an investigation is underway,
but he declined to comment further
because Security does not yet have
enough information.
Several male students said they
had initially been surprised to see
the dispensers.
I think people would be lying
if they said that seeing them in the
mens bathrooms didnt make them
initially curious, said Nate Blum
20. But then I realized that it makes
a good amount of sense just consid-
ering the fact that you dont know
who biologically is entering those
bathrooms, versus who they identify
as, so theoretically it could be useful
to the people that also want to use
those bathrooms.
There is signage above the tampon
bin that states the products are for
all people who menstruate but does
not state specifically that they are for
transgender men, those who identify
as men or use the mens restroom but
also menstruate.
The thought came to mind, said
Steven Colin 17. I just havent met
any trans men on campus. I have
friends at home that are going through
the transition. I just havent met any-
one on campus. But I just didnt quite
make the connection right away.
Free Flow project was launched
by a group of female students, who
initially received funding from BSGs
Good Ideas Fund earlier this year.
After the pilot program of placing
baskets with free menstrual products
received positive feedback, the Col-
lege agreed to fund permanent dis-
pensers in restrooms across campus. ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Emily Cohen contributed to this report. THE MENS ROOM: Free mentstrual products in mens bathrooms have met controversy.
4 news
McFadden addresses press freedom, spurs discussion on partisan media
By Isabelle Hall
Orient Staff
On Monday, Cynthia McFadden 78
H12 brought humor and levity to a dis-
cussion titled Is the Press Still Free?a
question that she answered with a re-
sounding yes.
McFadden, a senior news investiga-
tive correspondent at NBC News, first
responded to questions from moderators
Bowdoin Student Government President
Harriet Fisher 17 and McKeen Fellow
Marina Affo 17. During the second half
of the event she answered questions from
students in the audience.
The event began with a discussion of
the relationship between the press and
the Trump administration.
I think when the President of the
United States tweets that the press is the
enemy of the American people, were off
to a bad start, McFadden said.
She cited vigorous leak investigations
and the administrations rhetoric as con-
cerns, especially for members of the press
who lack backing from an organization
like NBC News.
Its very difficult to get a comment
from the White House on the stories that
youre working on, McFadden said. The
flow of information from the administra-
tion to the press has changed markedly
Theres a lot of disinformation thats
put out by the White House on a regu-
lar basis, which I think is the job of the
media to try to fact-check as close to real
time as possible.
Despite these challenges, McFad-
den remains hopeful about the future
of journalism.
We are not a timid people, those of us
who seek out journalism as a profession,
so I dont think that the press is in danger
of collapsing anytime soon. Were going
Panel addresses inclusivity in College Houses
By Faria Nasruddin
Orient Staff
At a panel entitled Why do Col-
lege Houses Feel So White? Part Two
hosted by Reed and Ladd Houses on
Wednesday night, students discussed
how music, drinking, sports and other
factors perpetuate racial divisionsin
College Houses and at other parties on
and off campus.
Last year, the Office of Residential
Life (ResLife) sponsored a similar
panel to address perceived racial dis-
parities in the College House system.
Although the racial composition of
students living in Houses is similar to
that of the student body as a whole,
many students expressed that Houses
still felt like white spaces.
Last year, [the panel] was led by
ResLife, so there was a different vibe
to itit filtered some peoples com-
ments, said Kitrea Takata-Glushkoff
19, a member of Reed and one of the
students who organized the panel.
As with last years panel, many
students highlighted music as ra-
cially divisive.
Music is racialized, said Beleicia
Bullock 19, one of the panelists. A lot
of particularly black women are raised
with the perception that music and
dance are inseparable you dont do
one without the other. When you come
[to Bowdoin] and you realize that
some people really do music without
dancing, it isnt matching up.
Harrison Dunne-Polite 19 reflect-
ed a similar sentiment, adding that
music reflects and determines what
is considered culturally normal.
Students also discussed the role
of athletics in shaping the identity of
to continue to do what we do. Their job is
to keep the secrets and our job is to find
them out, she said.
As a journalist, McFadden positioned
herself as being on the side of facts rather
than any political movement or party.
Im in a privileged position to be able
to do stories that I think are important
and matter, said McFadden. I dont see
my job as against Trump or against the
Trump administration. I see my job as
on the side of telling the truth, and some-
times theyre going to like it, sometimes
theyre not.
Much of the discussion focused on
how to seek out reliable sources of news
and to avoid fake news.
I think trusted news sources are a
good place to start, McFadden said. I
think that with all thats been said against
big corporations, I think there are many
large media organizations that you
should consider trusted I dont think
that this huge volume often of terrible in-
formation is bad for us. I think whats bad
for us is not having enough of a critical
sense of trying to sort the things out and
make judgments for yourself.
McFadden concluded the discussion
by emphasizing the importance of the
press in American democracy.
There are a lot of people in the country
who are very concerned about what they
see as a press trying to undermine the
president that they voted for, said McFad-
den. The press is far from perfect. But I
think the press provides a very vital role in
making sure that the democracy works.
Many students were invigorated by
McFaddens approach to journalism.
Overall, I really liked [the talk], said
Henry Daniels-Koch 17. I think she
was really articulate and really funny and
enjoyable to listen to. And the other big
takeaway was it gave me confidence in
College Houses. Avery Wolfe 19 not-
ed that a lot of male sports teams host
events at College Houses. She added
that the composition of the sports
teams at Bowdoin contributes to the
dominant culture of the social scene.
When youre coming into a house
with an all-white athletic team
chanting and drinking, you feel like
you need to be a part of that or that
its not a space for you, Wolfe said.
Drinking and partying itself is a privilege.
CHRISTINE SHIN 19
Drinking and partying itself is a
privilege, said Christine Shin 19.
Bullock echoed that sentiment,
noting that her own perception of
whiteness contributes to her under-
standing of College Houses.
Theres this idea [that] privilege,
higher socioeconomic status, lack of
responsibility is all associated with
whiteness, Bullock said.
However, students noted that
these perceptions about parties and
privilege do not apply only to Col-
lege Houses. Panelists addressed
how off-campus houses have grown
as social spaces this year.
Private parties, students said, have
both benefits and drawbacks.
When you have the space and
autonomy to control the music, you
have the power to be more inclu-
sive, said Simon Chow 19.
At the same time, the public at-
mosphere of College Houses means
that they still play a central role in
the campus social scene.
College Houses are a communal
the bowdoin orient
TRUTH AND POWER: Journalist Cynthia McFadden 78 H12 speaks about partisanship and press freedom in Kresge Auditorium on Monday.
the news system, in that she is inspiring
and felt very dedicated to the mission of
getting to the truth, as opposed to just
appealing to a specific audience. And
that was really good to hear because I
think my confidence in media news out-
lets [had been] definitely waning these
last couple years.
Chle Dietrich 16 had a similarly
positive reaction.
It was definitely very interesting to
sort of hear from somebody who is so
central to all of these processes, who is
space for people to meet. When you
get more private, people are more
hesitant to go to your apartment, said
Hannah Cooke 18. There needs to
be some restructuring done in how we
organize events and connect people.
At College Houses, which are
meant to be inclusive spaces because
of their public nature, the racial
makeup of the Houses themselves
can sometimes create an unwelcom-
ing environment. Reflecting on an
experience as a resident of Baxter
House, Shin noted that she some-
times felt like a token person of color.
It made me feel like I was just a
number; I was just at Baxter so white
people could say Baxter is so diverse
and inclusive, Shin said.
Students also addressed their own
agency in changing culture. Tobi Omola
19, programming director for Ladd, said
he took the position hoping to making
the House a more inclusive space. Taka-
ta-Glushkoff expressed a similar ratio-
nale for her choice to live in Reed.
Living in a College House, as a
person of color, Ive been able to reach
out to people who wouldnt otherwise
be attending this event, she said.
The panel was organized by Takata-
Glushkoff, Omola, Lucia Ryan 19,
Tessa Epstein 19, Hugh Cipparone
19, Tim Moran 19 and Senay Yibrah
19, and moderated by Moran and Mit-
suki Nishimoto 17. The panelists were
Chow, Bullock, Dunne-Polite, Wolfe,
Cooke, Shin and Amber Rock 19.
really rigorously involved in the creation
and the presentation of news, said Di-
etrich. I think that we hear from a lot
of journalists and a lot of people with
opinions, but we dont often get to hear
from the so-called experts themselves. I
thought that was a very unique perspec-
tive that I hadnt heard before.
Following the talk, students gathered in
Jack McGees Pub and Grill to participate
in a discussion entitled Red Feed, Blue
Feed: Through what lenses do we view our
media? which addressed partisanship in
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and five buses on Saturdays.
A schedule for the services expan-
sion to Brunswick has not yet been re-
leased but will be similar to the current
schedule between Portland and Free-
port. A one-way trip between Bruns-
wick and Portland is expected to cost
between five and six dollars, according
to Orlando.
At a meeting hosted by the College
in January, several local businesses
shared the Colleges concern about a
shortage of labor, Orlando said. Ac-
cording to a report released by the
Maine Department of Labor last Fri-
day, the unemployment rate in Maine
in February was just 3.2 percent, and
the rate for Cumberland County was
2.7 percent, compared to a national
unemployment rate of 4.7 percent.
Were hoping that this opens the
door for folks living in Portland [who]
dont have the transportation without a
bus and that theyll now take another
look at working in the Brunswick area,
Orlando said.
He expressed hope that current staff
and faculty, many of whom live in
Portland, would also utilize the service,
noting the environmental benefits of
public transportation compared to in-
dividual car use.
Wed be very happy if the faculty
and staff chose to take the transpor-
tation rather than drive their car to
work. It reduces our carbon footprint,
and [driving] takes up parking spots,
Orlando said.
Metro BREEZ has not announced
the specific location of bus stops in
Brunswick, but Orlando said there
will be at least two stops in Brunswick,
one of which will be at Bowdoin.
The Town Council will evaluate the
friday, march 31, 2017
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
students news consumption. Moderated
by Associate Professor of Government Jef-
frey Selinger, the discussion was a part of
the Joseph McKeen Center for the Com-
mon Goods What Matters series.
During the event, Drew Van Kui-
ken 17, editor-in-chief of the Bowdoin
Globalist, announced the Purple Media
Plunge, a month-long event challenging
students to read headlines from three
cable news networks once per day via
email in order to diversify their me-
dia intake.
bus service at the end of the two-year
pilot to determine whether the pro-
gram will continue. The service will
cost the town of Brunswick $33,000 in
its first year and $43,000 in its second
year, the Forecaster reported. Sev-
eral councilors argued that Bowdoin
should contribute a larger subsidy
because the College expects to benefit
from the service and is tax-exempt.
Orlando said the College will evalu-
ate its contribution after two years.
Bowdoin subsidized the Bruns-
wick Explorera local bus with 13
stops in Brunswickwhen the ser-
vice first launched in 2010. However,
the College ended the subsidy after a
transportation survey revealed that
students, faculty and staff rarely used
the Explorer.
Senior Lecturer in Physics Karen
Topp, who campaigned heavily in favor
of the Metro BREEZ expansion, hopes
that the service will gather enough use
to last beyond the two-year pilot.
Im hoping that students as well
as members of the community will use
it enough that the town will say, Yes,
that was a good investment, and con-
tinue it, Topp said.
Maxx Byron 19 was excited by the
prospects of the bus.
It is a really good idea, Byron said.
There should be better access to pub-
lic transportation, especially for a col-
lege town.
Currently, Amtrak runs three trains
a day between Brunswick and Port-
land. An adult train ticket costs $11.
Concord Coach Lines also runs a bus
service twice per day, which costs $14
for a one-way ticket from Brunswick
to Portland.
Metro BREEZ will host a commu-
nity planning session to take questions
and input from Brunswick residents on
Wednesday, April 26 at 6 p.m. at the
Brunswick Town Hall.
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Gay minister speaks on evolving interpretations of the Bible
By Marina Affo
Orient Staff
Rev. Dr. Marvin M. Ellison, former
Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian
Ethics at the Bangor Theological Semi-
nary and a Presbyterian minister who
is openly gay delivered a talk yesterday
afternoon discussing the difficulties of
interpreting the Bible and how people
should approach issues of homosexual-
ity and religion. The talk, entitled The
Bible and Homosexuality, was spon-
sored by the Office of Religious and
Spiritual Life and the Resource Center
for Sexual and Gender Diversity but was
spurred by student interest in the topic,
according to Director of Religious and
Spiritual Life Bob Ives.
Many of the individuals I speak to
have had difficultieswhether they are
gay or straightwith their churches with
this particular issue, said Ives.
After speaking to students who had
struggled with the intersection of homo-
sexuality and Christianity, Ives and the
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender
Diversity invited Ellison to come speak.
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tier Field. The concerns include protecting
the underground water system through-
out the project; traffic in the neighbor-
hood both during and after the renovation
process; and light and noise disturbances
due to night games and practices.
The College has hosted two public meet-
ings regarding the project where it present-
ed renderings of the imagined renovations
and solicited and responded to concerns
from the neighbors of Whittier Field.
We have every hope and expectation
based on the work were doing, based
on ongoing conversation with the town,
based on what were trying to do to miti-
gate any concerns, that this all falls within
permitting uses, that we will get that per-
mission and be able to move forward,
said Senior Vice President for Commu-
nications and Public Affairs Scott Hood.
Were pretty optimistic about that.
THE PLAN
The renovations include: a newly-
surfaced, championship-sized track
(eight lanes instead of the current six),
an artificial turf field (replacing what is
now grass), 80-foot LED lights for night
games and practices and a new press
box. The bleachers that now line Hub-
bard Grandstandthe historical roofed
structure on the Bowker Street side of the
trackwill be removed and new bleach-
ers will be installed on the Pine Street
side of the track. Two new walkways to
the facility will be built, one from Pine
Street and one from Bowker. The new
training building will likely include an
access road for athletic buses.
Its a transformational project for our
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program, which helps high-achieving,
low-income students access higher
education. This number is also slightly
larger than is typical for the College.
In September, the Office of Ad-
missions announced that the College
would waive the $65 application fee
for students applying for financial aid
and first-generation applicants.
Soule estimated that approximately
two thirds of the applicants qualified
for a fee waiver. The number of ap-
plicants who applied for financial aid
increased by nine percent compared
to last year, which Soule believes is a
direct result of the policy.
Im excited that it brought in other
I thought it would be important for
[students] to hear someone who is not
only gay himself but a professor of theol-
ogy and ethics his whole life. He speaks
about it in a coherent and comprehen-
sible kind of way, said Ives.
Ellison has been an advocate for gay,
lesbian, bisexual and trans persons for
more than 20 years. In 1994, he founded
the Religious Coalition Against Dis-
crimination in Maine to advocate for
and protect those groups. He has also
written multiple opinion pieces in the
Bangor Daily News arguing for the ac-
ceptance of those groups within Chris-
tian churches and has spoken on many
college campus on the issues of biblical
interpretation and Christian ethics. He
joined the faculty of the Bangor Theo-
logical Seminary in 1981 until the clos-
ing of the school in 2013.
At the lecture, Ellison added a sub-
headline to his talk: Are we asking the
right question?
I dont, for myself, believe there is a
very interesting question at all to ask
about homosexuality. That would be like
asking what the Bible says about blue
department and we anticipate more than
350 varsity athletes [and] over 150 club
and intramural sport participants will be
impacted, said Ryan.
He emphasized the importance of
the new turf field to several Bowdoin
sports teams.
When the project is completed, it
will free up two practice fields at the
Farley and Pickard fields during the
fall, Ryan said. Football will fully be
running out of Whittier and that will
open up two locker rooms. Right now
our hockey teams arent able to get into
their locker rooms until the end of the
[football] season. This [renovation] will
provide us the opportunity to put them
in their locker rooms at the beginning of
their season, so the impact is fairly sig-
nificant across the whole department.
Because Whittier is currently a grass
field, football only uses it for gamesif
they practiced on it, too, the field would
be destroyed because of overuse. The new
turf can be plowed, allowing for use in
the winter.
The Grandstandwhich the College
is in the process of making a federally-
recognized historical landmarkand
the brick entryway to the field off of
Harpswell Road will remain intact af-
ter the renovation. The construction
process will scrap everything else and
shift the track toward Bowker street,
where the current seating in front of
the Grandstand is, allowing room for
the two extra lanes and the bleachers
on the other side of the field.
With the upgrade to a championship-
sized track, Bowdoin will be a stronger
candidate to host larger outdoor track
and field meets. The increase in visitors,
according to Ryan, would be economi-
students who might not have other-
wise felt that they could have applied
and that we had these great applica-
tions that might otherwise have been
shut out, Soule said.
Soule praised the strength of this
years applicant pool and reported that
it represented a greater geographic di-
versity than the pool from many re-
cent years.
We just read hundreds more ap-
plications this year from students
who are really interesting and com-
ing from really interesting places,
she said. Because we read them so
individually and students took really
different approaches to the questions,
there was never a dull moment.
About a quarter of students who
applied early decision were accept-
the bowdoin orient
eyes [or] Chinese food, Ellison said.
Instead, he focused the talk on Biblical
interpretation, stating that the Bible has
been used to justify other acts that have
since been condemned such as slavery
and the oppression of women. He said
that the Bible has not changed, rather it
is the people interpreting the Bible that
have changed. Thus people should be
more conscious that the Bible itself does
not speak, rather people read the Bible
and speak for it.
Sexual orientation is morally mu-
tual. No one gains extra points for being
straight nor does anyone lose points if
[they are] gay, lesbian, bisexual or asex-
ual. The moral calculus doesnt work that
way, he said.
Following a 50-minute lecture, audi-
ence members had the opportunity to
ask Ellison questions. One person asked
if individuals who are Christian and dis-
agree with Ellisons views of Biblical in-
terpretation can hold true to their faith
without being malicious toward people
who are homosexual. Ellison responded
that this is possible, but difficult because
people often believe that communities
cally beneficial for Brunswick.
The second phase of construction,
accounting for the other $3.5 million of
the project, is not yet fully funded or ap-
proved. It is expected to include a new
equipment and locker room facility next
to the field.
NEIGHBORHOOD RESPONSE
Mark Battle, an associate professor
of physics at the College and resident
of Bowker Street, expressed frustrations
with the project in a phone interview
with the Orient. With construction
to begin in May, Battle feels that the
expedited nature of the decision and
follow-through process of the project
has not left enough time for neighbors
to negotiate certain aspects of the reno-
vation that could change the nature of
their neighborhood.
In mid-March, he and his neighbors
received an invitation from the College to
attend the first public meeting about the
project, which was held the following day.
Battle could not make it.
They wanted the residents to hear
about this event or project from the Col-
lege rather than hear about it through [the
DEP]. So they held that meeting in great
haste and then a day or two later we got a
notice from the DEP saying there will be a
meeting on March 29, he said.
Following the first meeting with the
College, the neighbors gathered to share
their concerns with one another. Many
residents expressed that the neighbor-
hood encircling Whittier Field is quiet
and residentialfull of families and retir-
ees who have chosen to live there.
The immediate reaction of everyone
who was involved was bright lights late at
night, lots of activity late at night for the
ed. Students accepted early decision
typically make up between 42 and
49 percent of the incoming first-
year class.
One of my personal goals as a dean
is to try to de-emphasize what is per-
ceived to be an advantage through ear-
ly decision, Soule said. A 25 percent
admit rate is much greater than the
regular decision rate, but its still not
easy to get in.
With the task of reading applica-
tions now complete, Admissions
must wait until May 1the date by
which students must respond to their
offer from the Collegeto get a sense
of the Class of 2021.
Im just curious to see who says
yes, where they come from and what
they look like [as a class], Soule said.
need to be the same in order to operate.
Another student asked whether
people must share an underlying truth
in order to engage in the discussion.
Ellison acknowledged the difficulties
of trying to reach such middle ground
but instead encouraged the audience to
speak on the issues of Biblical interpre-
tation and putting the Bible in context.
Students reacted positively to the talk.
Alix Pupo 18, who identifies as both
religious and queer, said that the talk
was refreshing.
It was a more empowering message
than Ive heard from a lot of preachers,
and it resonated with me in the sense that
I view my religion as very love based and
very justice based, and that was the basis
of what he was talking about, Pupo said.
However, he said he feels that the larg-
er campus might not be ready for more
religious speakers.
I dont know if overall it would be a
beneficial thing, but I do like the com-
bination of taking societal concepts and
putting it in a religious and biblical con-
text, Pupo said.
The audience also included mem-
lacrosse games which are held in the eve-
nings on weeknights, bus and car traffic
on Bowker and Pine Streets, and music
being played loudly there before during or
after the games, said Battle.
At a DEP public meeting held at
Bowdoin on Wednesday, one major re-
quest from residents was that the new
equipment and training building and
its access road be located next to Pine
Street on the north field, rather than
Bowker on the south.
Battle stated his concern about the lo-
cation of the access road as planned.
It would be visible, it would be right
across the street from the four windows
of four different Bowker residents You
could imagine the amount of traffic asso-
ciated with that building, he said. Equip-
ment for track and lacrosse and football,
the training supplies, the toilet paper for
the lockers and cleaning suppliesall of
those things would be delivered and wed
essentially have an active commercial
loading dock right across the street from
these residences.
Neighbors at the DEP meeting also
took issue with the prospect of coach
buses and athletic vehicles stationed
near their homes for several hours a day.
Theyd be running and they smell. We
dont want the exhaust, one resident said.
Other concerns involved the frequen-
cy of games and practices that would
require the LED lighting to be on. Ryan
assured the group that there would only
be three or four evening games at Whit-
tier Field in a season and that practices
would always be finished before 7:30
p.m. as athletes have to get dinner before
the dining halls close.
The most common complaints con-
cerned the expected noise and light pollu-
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bers of Queer Christians, an informal
group of students who identify as both
Christian and queer that grew out of the
Resource Center for Sexual and Gender
Diversity. Students gather informally to
talk about how their various identities
intersect.
Meredith Outterson 17 and Sydney
Smith 19, both members of the group,
enjoyed Ellisons lecture.
I think it is awesome to have speak-
ers like this who have a different per-
spective from the one you might hear in
broader society and people to just bring
a religious lens into different social jus-
tice issues, said Outterson. For me
social justice is a very important part
of religionreligion informs my social
justice work.
Smith said she appreciated Ellisons
approach to the topic.
I really appreciated the scholarly
approach to the issue. Especially, the
broader conceptual approach to the is-
sue instead of just picking out verses or
arguing specifics of what the Bible says,
said Smith. Examining ourselves rather
than the text.
tion in the neighborhood.
By moving the bleachers from the
south side to the north side, now youll
have people shouting right at Bowker
Street instead of away from Bowker
Street. Thats a big difference. I dont
know why you have to do that, said
Dan Harris, a member of the Bruns-
wick Town Council. The lighting, by
posing night activity on the field
thats a dramatic change for what the
neighborhood has experienced to date.
These are families with kids, little kids
some of them, and its a big change to
have a lot of activity going on at night.
An overarching concern among
residents was property value in
the neighborhood.
What were concerned about is
with the increase of light and noise
and traffic it becomes a much less de-
sirable place to live, people will sell
their houses, it will turn over into less
expensive rentals and the vitality of the
neighborhood will diminish or vanish,
said Battle. Itll be a run down, poorly
maintained rental neighborhood.
There was consensus at the meetings
that the neighbors wanted a written
commitment from the College that it
would be mindful of these concerns,
and put in place regulations on aspects
of the field like music and light usage.
In past years, Whittier has hosted out-
door Ivies concerts.
Senior Vice President for Finance and
Administration Matt Orlando promised
neighbors a fair plan for the fields use.
Id work on a usage plan, something
thats reasonable, something thats ap-
plicable for the next five years, the next
30 years, and something thats reason-
able for you as well, Orlando said.
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BEHIND THE NAME TAG
Rise and
shine:
Luce 62
welcomes
students to
breakfast
By Amanda Newman
Orient Staff
Often sporting an Aloha shirt and
always a pleasant smile, Cashier Dave
Luce welcomes all Thorne breakfast
goers each weekday morning. Luce
has a particularly special relationship
with the Bowdoin students whose
OneCards he swipes, likely because
he once was a Bowdoin student him-
self. Luce graduated from Bowdoin in
1962, back when the school was still
all male and the David Saul Smith
Union was home to the Colleges track
and field events.
Luce was born in West Boylston,
which is outside of Worcester, Massa-
chusetts. Since 1919, his grandmother
owned a cottage on the ocean in Wells,
Maine, so he grew up visiting Maine
each summer.
Luce said his favorite thing about
Maine is, just the way of life.
After graduating from Bowdoin,
Luce became the owner of an insurance
agency in Hanover, Massachusetts. He
also met his wife, Susan, in 1982, and
married her three years later.
We both lived in the same apart-
ment complex and every Memorial Day
theyd have a pool opening party and we
ended up sitting next to each other, he
said. Thats how it got started.
When it came time to retire in 2006,
Mr. and Mrs. Luce decided to move
north to Harpswell, where they still
live today. He has been a bartender for
Bowdoin functions for four years and a
Kilted visitor donates troves of old games to Board Game Club
BEARS, BEETS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: (Left to right) Board Game Club members Danny Banks 19, Braedon Kohler 18, Diego Guer-
rero 18, Cole Hamel 18, Spencer Towle 19 and Alex Truitt 19 gather to play Battlestar Galactica in the Sail Room in David Saul Smith Union.
FEATURES
HOW YA DOIN TODAY?: Cashier Dave Luce 62 returned to the coast of Maine years after graduating from Bowdoin. He is now a cashier at Thorne Dining Hall.
cashier at Thorne for three.
In his free time, he serves as the trea-
surer for two nonprofits, Harpswell Fire
and Rescue and Harpswell Neck Fire
and Rescue.
Luce reminisced on the vast changes
Bowdoin has experienced since the time
he was here.
Fifty-five years ago was a long time.
When I got here, the old hockey rink
was two years old and we thought that
was great. Basketball was played up in
Sargent [Gymnasium] and, you know,
things were far more rudimentary,
he said.
One of the main differences Luce has
noticed has been the change in drink-
ing culture. He explained that when he
was a student, parties were only on Fri-
day and Saturday nights and never on
Thursdays or other weeknights.
Because we didnt have any girls
around we didnt have anything [to do].
So you studied from Sunday night to
Friday noon, and then you raised hell,
he said.
The students often had good relation-
ships with female students at nearby
schools like Bates.
Wed say, who wants to come to par-
ty? and wed send four or five cars down
and transport em in, said Luce. But
they all had to be back by midnight.
Luce also explained how different
Ivies Weekend is today compared to
when he was a student.
It was far more formal. The dates
would arrive on Friday because they
all had to come by train in those days.
And then Friday night was always a
big dinner.
A couple of artists Luce remembers
LOUIS MENDEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
performing include Stan Kenton and
Duke Ellington.
The following Saturday, the tradi-
tion was for all students to take a trip
to the beach.
We froze, but we went to the beach,
said Luce.
Luce played football for Bowdoin
for three weeks before dislocating his
shoulder, which ended his football ca-
reer. After that, he still enjoyed support-
ing the team.
Before every football game wed have
a bonfire out behind [Hubbard Hall]. I
dont think you can do that now, he
said. You know, there was quite a bit of people get to be seniors, theyre
camaraderie with just 800 [students].
Today, Luce remains an avid support-
er for Bowdoins sports teams.
A lot of the students that Ive formed
relationships with, they all want [me] to
By James Callahan
Orient Staff
It was a wintry Saturday after-
noon late last semester when an
older man with a festive kilt, a snowy
white beard and a friendly demeanor
walked into a meeting of Bowdoins
Board Game Club.
After chatting with several students,
he asked if there was someone he could
speak to about donating board games.
The mysterious would-be-benefactors
Brunswick apartment was apparently
filled with several hundred games that
were just gathering dust. How many
games, he asked, could the club take?
Momentarily stunned, the clubs
Dungeon Master Greg Koziol 17
said that there was no limit.
One might say the limit does not
exist for how many board games Board
Game Club is willing to accept from a
donor, said Koziol later.
A month later, several Board Game
Club members went to the benefactors
home to pick up the first donation in-
stallment: five boxes filled with a total
of 86 games. This more than tripled the
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JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
go to their sports games and they know
whether youve been there or whether
you havent, he said.
Luce and his wife have watched the
womens basketball games since the
couple moved to the area. Now they
support a wide variety of other Bowdoin
teams as well.
Ive never been to volleyball, and
they know it, he said.
Luce said his favorite thing about
working at Bowdoin is the students.
You know, some you talk to a lot
and others you dont talk to, but just
getting to know emby the time
much more outgoing and you form a
little better relationship than you do
with the freshmen and sophomores,
Luce said.
Every class is a little different, he said.
Clubs previous count of 39 separate
board games.
The games ranged from classic to eclec-
tic, among them Reefer City and TRUMP:
the Game. The first is a 70s-era marijuana-
themed race to evade the cops while the
latter is a Monopoly rip-off with a gilded
and gaudy board design.
Then there is Kosherlanda Candy-
land imitation game that guides children
through the Challah Mountains, the
Hamentashen House and the Kiddush
Wine Ocean with the help of some an-
thropomorphic cartoon latkes.
The Clubs King of Games Bobby
Choi 17 recalled the excitement of open-
ing the first game.
Occasionally we like to get in touch
with our constituents, so we went live on
Facebook [to do] a live unboxing of the
first game that was available and the first
game was Tomagachi, said Choi. That
sort of set the tone for the wonderment
that would ensue.
And that wonderment continues every
Saturday afternoon from noon to 4 p.m.
in the David Saul Smith Union Sail Room,
complete with baked goods, over 100
games and the occasional kilted visitor.
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GUIDE TO AUTISM
My mother has recounted to me
many times an event that took place
when I was only three or four years
old. I was on the playground with a
friend, and I had taken his hat. At
first it was a game. We ran around
the playground as he chased me
to try to get his hat back. At some
point it stopped being a game to
my friend. He stopped in his tracks
and started crying, going over
to his mother for comfort. I, on
the other hand, continued to run
around with the hat, laughing when
I thought that I had escaped his
grasp. My mother came over to me
and, instead of admonishing me for
what I had done, walked me over to
my friend and asked me to look at
him. After studying his face, I gave
him his hat back and said that I
was sorry.
Brief as it is, this story became
a part of the narrative of my
experience as an autistic person.
It was a story my mother brought
up oftena reminder that served
double duty as both a warning
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Tropical House.
Justin, freshly back from spring
break in Mexico and longing
for sunshine and pia coladas,
somehow managed to convince
Will, fresh from Italy, to abandon
his pretensions and explore the
wild side of wine. Much to Wills
dismay and to Justins not-so-secret
pleasure, our wine of choice was by
every definition fruit juice. Further
research and a basic
understanding of
what sangria is
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and a source of comfort. On one
hand, it was important for me to
remember that sometimes I was
not good at reading other people.
Whether intentionally or not, I
had hurt my friends feelings, and
it was important for me to own the
shortcoming that had caused those
hurt feelings. On the other hand, I
was still a good person despite my
shortcoming. I had no intention of
hurting my friends feelings, and as
soon as I realized that I had, I tried
to rectify my mistake.
I recall this story so many years
after it took place because it has
stayed relevant to my everyday
life. This story will also be
familiar to other autistic people.
Social misunderstandings are
the bread and butter of a young
autistic persons life.
I have listened to
many autistic friends
and acquaintances
recount experiences
from their youth
inst ances
where they had
misread someones
emotional state
and were rebuked
for their lack of
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revealed that our wine was quite
literally blended with fruit juice.
Rather than lament the fact that we
a re nt doing our
Rather, one seems to be simply guided
into a metaphorical blender of fruit
understanding. I have also heard
many of these same friends and
acquaintances referred to by others
as insensitive, emotionless and
other disrespectful names. Im sure
that much of this animosity stems
from instances of misunderstood
reactions and emotions, just like
how I misunderstood my friends
reaction to my taking his hat.
It is important when interacting
with an autistic person to set
your expectations for emotional
predecessors justice by drinking
actual 100 percent wine, we dove
right in, fluorescent swim trunks
and all.
This wine is an easy-drinking 9
percent. One isnt overpowered by
the near-spirit like burn of a big,
brassy cab or an antique Barolo.
mellow scene. This wine is a second-
notes. This sangria is made from the
combination of a saucy white wine
and several tropical fruit juices. These
include mangosteen, peach, mango
and blood orange. The end product is
a wine that goes down easy. Neither
overly sweet nor particularly biting,
this wine pairs well with Hannaford
generic grapefruit-flavored seltzer
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understanding low. Dont expect
that they will be able to understand
how you are feeling through your
tone of voice and body language.
It is possible that they do have
the emotional understanding to
tell how you are feeling through
implicit means, and if so, that is
fantastic. They have worked very
hard and come very far to get there.
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with other natural flavors.
This wine is a road sign to a good
time and both its aroma and taste
signify living the good life with sand
between the toes, the smell of seafood
being cooked over a pit and good
friends nodding along to catchy music
made to perfectly compliment such a
tier Chainsmokers song. Zac Efron
drinks this wine in a tank top while
cracking biologically themed jokes to
an equally tank-topped Miles Teller.
In a possible near future, a tank-
topped Justin Ramos drinks this wine
alongside an equally tank-topped Will
Schweller while standing on an ant-
covered patch of rooftop cement in a
city near you.
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Justin: I think Drake would be a little
too into this wine.
Will: This spring, I plan to own more
than my usual number of two pairs of
cut-off shorts.
However, emotional understanding
cannot be assumed, and, if you need
them to understand something
about how you feel, tell them using
explicit and literal speech (just in
case). Otherwise, they may come
across as being insensitive when
really they are trying their best.
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friday, march 31, 2017
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Childrens drawings exhibit resilience, heritage at Postwar Hiroshima Symposium
By Brendan Pulsifer
Orient Staff
In conjunction with the Bowdoin Col-
lege Museum of Arts exhibit, Perspec-
tives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo
Tamotzu, Childrens Drawings, and the
Art of Resolution, artists, historians and
scholars will explore what it means to
grow up in a city devastated by a nuclear
weapon at the Museum of Arts sympo-
sium today. The event will center on an
art exchange between elementary school
students in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Hi-
roshima, Japan in 1953, seven years after
the atomic bomb rocked the island nation.
The project started when Japanese
artist Chuzo Tamotzu, who lived in and
fought for America during WWII, saw
firsthand the post-war divisions between
the two countries. Understanding unique
abilities of children and art to heal tension,
Tamotzu coordinated the art exchange
project with Santa Fe and Hiroshima pub-
lic schools with success in both countries.
Though the whereabouts of the images
sent to Hiroshima are unknown, the exhi-
bition features over a dozen mixed-media
drawings that were sent from Japan to
Santa Fe. Despite the tragedy of the bomb,
the Japanese schoolchildren used bright
colors in their drawings and depicted
scenes of nature, theater and childhood.
Resilience is a quality that the draw-
ings communicate quite vibrantly, said
Anne Goodyear, co-director of the Muse-
um. They are very much upbeat and con-
sistent with this larger message that there
is a way in which culture can continue to
thrive even in the wake of something as
horrific as the atomic bomb.
Goodyear has been working on
the exhibit, which opened in Janu-
ary, since May 2016 with a number
of artists, professors and students.
Co-curators Michael Amano 17 and
Ginny Crow 18 have conducted field
Pan-African Fashion Show to celebrate African dress , encourage cross-cultural dialogue
By Sadie LoGerfo-Olsen
Orient Staff
In hopes of celebrating and shar-
ing the cultures of African students
on campus, Bowdoin Africa Alli-
ance is hosting a Pan-African Fash-
ion Show representing 18 countries
tomorrow night. In addition to dis-
playing the traditional clothing of
IN VOGUE: Reyada Atanasio 17, vice president of Bowdoin Africa Alliance, sorts through
traditional African clothing to be displayed at the fashion show on Saturday.
work in preparation for the exhibit.
Last spring, Amano studied abroad in
Japan and was able to connect with and
interview some of the original illustra-
tors. Four of those individuals will speak
at the symposium about the significance
of the drawings and their experience in
post-war Japan.
I had all these looming ques-
tions about life in Hiroshima before
I went and I was really surprised at
the range of opinions, said Amano.
Some people said they wanted the
world to forget about the atomic
bombs, but some people were really
adamant about how we never can
forget the crimes against humanity.
It was such a great opportunity to
engage with the history in a medium
other than a textbook.
Crow also performed on-site re-
search. She and Goodyear traveled to
Washington, D.C. and New Mexico
together to learn more about Tamot-
zu and the historical record he left
behind. Amano and Crow will both
deliver opening speeches related to
their fieldwork at the symposium.
In addition to the student ad-
dresses, a host of other speakers from
major universities and art studios
will respond to the exhibit. Most no-
tably, artist Yukiyo Kawano will add a
more personal perspective as a third
generation hibakusha (nuclear bomb
survivor). Kawanos artwork reflects
her strong heritageher latest proj-
ect, Suspended Moment, includes
two life-sized sculptures of the atom-
ic bombs that are wrapped in the silk
from her grandmothers kimono and
sewed together with her own hair.
Along with the sculptures, Suspend-
ed Moment incorporates dance,
poetry and music to create a power-
ful, multimedia statement about the
tragic history of World War II.
students respective African heri-
tage, the show will include perfor-
mances such as a dance, song and
slam poetry.
Elizabeth Takyi 17, who was born
and raised in Ghana, will be the
emcee for the show. She decided to
organize the event with Bowdoin
Africa Alliance in order to create
a space for students from Africa to
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ON DISPLAY : School Childs Drawing, Funari Elementary School, Fifth Grade, 1953, by Kioyoshi Hayashi. The painting is part of the Perspec-
tives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Childrens Drawings, and the Art of Resolution exhibit at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
As a native of Hiroshima, Kawano
felt an instant connection to the ex-
hibition and worked extensively with
Goodyear to put on the symposium.
When I first saw drawings, it made
me so happy, said Kawano. They were
such brilliant, uplifting drawings in
such a tragic time, and they made me
want to help.
Though the drawings date back
over 60 years, Goodyear said that
feel a stronger African presence on
campus and distinguish themselves
from the African American Society.
Tomorrow evenings show will fea-
ture both male and female models.
Bowdoin hasnt seen a Pan-African
fashion show since 2015, when Af-
rica Alliance hosted a similar show.
This all started because we all
felt like we had our own communi-
ties within the larger campus but we
wanted to break it down further and
truly find more of ourselves, said
Takyi. It wasnt just about being
a black student, or a Bowdoin stu-
dent. Im also Ghanaian while being
the rest of my identities. So we were
like, Okay lets make it known. Lets
make it lively. Lets make it positive.
According to Takyi, people of-
ten associate Africa with negative
stereotypes, such as starvation or
corrupt governments, and miss the
rich aspects of African culture that
deserve to be acknowledged and
enjoyed. By being open minded
toward other cultural backgrounds
displayed in the show, Takyi hopes
people will be able to see beyond
negative images of Africa and learn
more about other countries and stu-
dents at Bowdoin.
My personal reward is getting
to experience different cultures
through the friends around me,
said Takyi. This [show] makes it
a lot easier. This creates the space
for more cultural exchange within
ourselves. Although it may be com-
COURTESY OF THE BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
they demonstrate something impor-
tant about the world today and hopes
that viewers see their relevance.
We are living at a moment when
what it means to be an American is
on peoples minds, and we are grap-
pling with challenges to our historic
commitment as Americans to accept
people from around the world, said
Goodyear. This symposium will give
us the opportunity to think about
pletely brand new or familiar, we
are still celebrating it and were not
casting any one country out. We are
celebrating it all at once.
As a student at a predominantly
white college, Takyi said that her iden-
tity as a Ghanaian is rarely shared.
You dont see a lot of students
wearing their traditional African
clothes or speaking in their native
language or listening to African
music, and for me thats only visible
for me in my own personal space,
said Takyi.
Anu Asaolu 19, a leader of Bow-
doin Africa Alliance and originally
from Nigeria, echoed this point and
is excited for the fashion show to
serve as a means to bring these cul-
tures and identities into view.
A lot of people have a passion
for their countries, but its not al-
ways talked about, especially on
Bowdoins campus, said Asaolu.
Peoples African identities are a
huge part of their [entire] identities,
and to really celebrate that beyond
a small club meeting is really nice.
Asaolu saw the fashion show on-
line when she first learned about the
College, and it influenced her deci-
sion to come to Bowdoin.
There was some hope after see-
ing [the fashion show]. This is the
first year that were doing it since
Ive been at Bowdoin. Its been a
whole journey of me realizing what I
want out of my Bowdoin experience.
Walking, modeling or something of
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what the influx of people from around
the world does to enrich our culture
and sound a cautionary note about
letting our fears and prejudices over-
come our better judgment in how we
treat one another as human beings.
The symposium will take place to-
day from 1-4:30 p.m. in Kresge Au-
ditorium. The exhibit will remain in
Becker Gallery at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art until April 16.
that nature is a big final reveal or
step towards confidence and gaining
that on Bowdoins campus.
The members of Bowdoin Africa
Alliance hope that those who at-
tend the show will have fun, enjoy
the different cultures in the moment
and get excited about the interac-
tions that will happen following the
event. The organizers also hope that
students will listen to the untold
narratives and try and connect with
performers after the show.
If you saw that your roommate
wore that outfit and represented Ke-
nya, post show, go to them. Ask them
about their Kenyan experience, be-
cause thats how you celebrate [dif-
ferences], said Takyi. We are more
than just the ratio that we check
It is about the different cultures, the
different languages, the different
foods, the different clothes that make
us who we are and how we are.
Asaolu added that all members of
campus are welcome at Bowdoin Af-
rica Alliance meetings on Saturday
evenings at Thorne to further con-
verse with their peers.
You dont have to be African to
come to Africa Alliance meetings,
said Asaolu. You can be of any race
and any ethnicity. Most of our meet-
ings are just hanging out. Well talk
about important issues but in the
context of our lives.
The Pan-African Fashion Show
will take place tomorrow in Kresge
Auditorium at 8 p.m.
10 a&e
Read my hips: doing our damnedest to dance at Bowdoin
Connor Moore
TO THE CROSSROADS
In the fall of my junior year, one of my
recently graduated friends returned to
Bowdoin to visit and brought his young-
er brother, Rogelio. I dont remember ev-
erything about that night, but I distinctly
remember finding Rogelio asleep in my
bathtub at about two in the morning and
that the floor, walls and somehow even
the ceiling of my bathroom had a look
reminiscent of Jackson Pollocks work,
except only painted with little pieces of
partly digested food and regurgitated
Natural Lite. It was an appalling sight and
one that filled me with guilt and remorse
over how irresponsible Id been to let it
unfold. Moreso, however, I was really not
looking forward to having to clean all
that shit up. I rinsed him off, picked him
up and laid him down on the extra bed
we kept tucked behind the couch in our
living room as my roommate plugged
his phone into our speaker system and
queued up Romeo Santos album, For-
mula, Vol. 2.
For those of you unfamiliar with Ro-
meo Santos, I can only offer you my sin-
cerest apologies and my most emphatic
recommendation to check him out.
Santos is the self-proclaimed King of Ba-
chata, a style of music that, like Rogelio,
was born in the Dominican Republic.
Early Bachata was the fusion of Bolero
and Son, two genres that originated in
Cuba as the result of the marriage of
Producer of Hamilton on democracy Delta Sigma Awards Show hopes to embrace diverse art mediums
By Sarah Bonanno
Orient Staff
The religious Festival of Dionysus in
classical Athens transformed the art of
storytelling when Thespis turned and
spoke to someone else on stage instead of
directly to the audience. That 90 degree
pivot, said Oskar Eustis, artistic director of
the Public Theater in New York City and
producer of Broadway hits Hamilton
and Fun Home, is an important, desta-
bilizing act in the creation of theatrical
dialogue. It shows that truth does not rest
with one authority figure, but rather in the
conflict between different points of view.
At the Kenneth V. Santagna Memo-
rial Lecture Tuesday evening, Eustis
discussed the rise and importance
of public theater through looking at
snapshots in historyfrom Athens to
Elizabethan Englandto demonstrate
how theater became the fundamental
art form of democracy.
What happens is plays mark how
people change, and people change by in-
teracting with each other. And if you dont
believe that, then you dont really believe
in democracy, he said.
According to Eustis, theater also asks
people to observe someone elses point
of view and imagine what it is like to be
someone other than yourself.
That act of empathy is absolutely es-
sential to making drama work is also ab-
solutely essential to democracy. You cant
make a democracy work if the citizens
of that democracy arent able to imagine
what it looks from somebody elses point
of view, Eustis said.
Democracy and theater develop to-
gether. It doesnt really matter which came
first, he added.
In addition to his work on Broadway
and with the Public Theater, Eustis has
also taken on projects in an effort to bring
theater to a wider range of the people. Eu-
stis is also running the free Shakespeare
in the Park and bringing free productions
of Shakespeare to populations that oth-
Spanish and African musical influences.
Nowadays, the most famous Bachateros
primarily sing what is called Bachata Ur-
bana, a wildly popular genre that fuses
Bachata with hip-hop. One can clearly
hear the African American influences
in the incorporation of plunderphonics,
808 kicks and verses rapped in English.
Upon hearing the opening guitar lick
to Eres Mia, Rogelio did something
that left my jaw agape. In one deft mo-
tion, Rogelio lifted himself off the bed
and flung himself into the middle of my
living room. With the fingers of one hand
placed delicately over his stomach and
the other moving in small circles
near his chest, Rogelio stepped
side-to-side and swung his
hips with the subtlety
and poise of a man
who had complete
control of all his
faculties. My room-
mate and I sat on the
couch facing him, in shock
at having just witnessed this boy
(who, to be completely honest, we
were starting to worry we mightve
actually killed) rise from the dead like
some sort of rhythmically blessed Laza-
rus. Soon enough, he had the both of us
on our feet and dancing with him.
The sight of an uncoordinated 68
gringo doing his damnedest to dance Ba-
chata mustve been hilarious to Rogelio
judging by how much laughter it elicited.
No, he told me, barely able to contain
his giggling, like this. With his hands,
he directed my hips how they should
erwise would not have access to theater,
such as prisons, homeless shelters and
halfway houses through the Public The-
aters mobile unit.
Oskar Eustis, to put it succinctly, is a
giant in American theater, said Professor
of Theater Davis Robinson.
The project that excites Eustis most
is the Public Works program where
the Public Theater works with com-
munity partners to start dance classes
and classical theater training that
culminates in a show in Central Park
over Labor Day weekend.
[Public Works] takes something thats
frozenthe idea that up here we are an art
object, we are stars, we are celebrities and
out there you are the audience receiving
usit breaks that paradigm. It actually
says the difference between who is in the
audience and who is on stage is not a bi-
nary difference, its just a gradation differ-
ence. Its just what you happen to be doing
today, Eustis said.
To understand the influence of Eustis,
we need to first understand the reach of
the Public Theater, said Robinson. [The
Public Theater] is an incubator for some
of the brightest and most innovative the-
atrical talent in the country Eustis has
used this position to democratize the the-
ater and push the envelope on what topics
are appropriate for modern audiences.
The majority of the audience was com-
prised of faculty and students involved
with the Colleges theater and English pro-
grams, who also attended a dinner and
reception with Eustis beforehand.
Austin Goldsmith 18 and Eric Merca-
do 18 both emphasized that they chose to
attend the talk in part because of their in-
volvement in Bowdoins theater scene and
Eustis reputation and influence within
the field.
Its one thing to see someone whos
so passionate about theater and another
whos passionate about theater and what
it can do for communities. I think thats
where I feel most inspired by peoples
work, Goldsmith said.
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roll and turn, and, by example, showed
me where and when I should step with
my feet. Eventually, I was dancing a Ba-
chata that he approved of. The three of
us danced for what felt like hours, stop-
ping only to wipe the sweat from our
brows and admire each
others moves.
This was a dancing experience unlike
anything Id ever encountered at Bow-
doin. All too often, I see my peers, ner-
vous adolescents as they are, approach
By Nell Fitzgerald
Orient Staff
When the College phased out the
Greek system in 2000, the Delta
Sigma/Delta Upsilon co-ed frater-
nityknown for fostering creativity
in non-formal spaces on Bowdoins
campuschannelled its funds into a
support network for future Bowdoin
artists. The fraternitys funds work
to support the arts at Bowdoin today.
Tomorrow, the 18th annual awards
show and ceremony will honor the
work of several student artists. As
in previous years, five winners will
walk away with a two hundred dollar
cash prize.
Around 50 students each submit-
ted at least one piece of art.
The student submissions are
judged by a group of three artists
either former fraternity members
or close friends of the fraternity
from the Portland and Boston areas.
Judges receive no information about
any art piece and judge purely based
off of aesthetic and technique, al-
lowing for a level of anonymity that
can be difficult to achieve on such a
small campus.
Despite the shows acceptance of
all mediums and student artists re-
gardless of experience, the show was
criticized last year for being skewed
towards artists with classical train-
ing who work with more traditional
mediums, according to student cura-
tor Eliza Goodpasture 18. The five
winning submissions in 2016 were
all oil paintings by visual arts majors.
Goodpasture indicated that in the
past, judges have had a tendency to
especially overlook digital media and
video art, since these nontraditional
forms can be harder to display and
compare to other mediums.
You know the visual arts majors,
you know that theyre going to bring
some impressive art in, but for me,
friday, march 31, 2017
each other crotch first, and, finding a isnt grinding, though. It more closely
match thats either compatible or too ine- resembles the act of trying to pick out a
briated to mind, unceremoniously rub wedgie with no hands, except done with
their pelvises together with no regard for far less urgency and pressed up against
timing or rhythm. Just to be clear, this is another person doing the same.
not a criticism of grinding. I grind, too. I often hear people praise the Af-
rican-American Society (AfAm) and
Latin American Student Organization
(LASO) for hosting parties that foster
environments wherein people can actu-
ally dance. I feel as though this has just
as much to do with the types of music
played as it does with the demographics
of the students who tend to show up.
Deeper than that, though, I think the
music and the overall vibe of AfAm and
LASO parties reflect certain cultural atti-
tudes towards dance. Im no dancer, but,
as I have come to understand it, dance in
the African American experience aims to
embody music and sound. There are emo-
tions and ideas expressed in any given
song, and dance is the physical manifes-
tation of those feelings. And while my
knowledge of Latin American dance is
limited to the information Ive already es-
poused in this article, I can only assume
that the effect African slaves had on the
dance tradition is equally as profound as
the effect they had on the musical tradi-
tion. At the very least, there seems to be
DIANA FURUKAWA the sense that dancing is something be
enjoyed and taken seriously.
While I wouldnt go as far as to say that
what Ive seen in College Houses is not
I love grinding. One time at the Spring really dancing, I would say that it lacks
Gala, I was bent over popping my thing inspiration and cant even hold a candle
so damn hard I ripped my khakis clean to that time Rogelio wrecked my bath-
open at the seat. What Im talking about room and taught me how to Bachata.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
GALLERY WALK: This years Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon student art submissions hang in the
Lamarche Gallery of David Saul Smith Union. The awards show, which features over 50 pieces
of art, aims to recognize student creativity and develop a support community for student artists.
The ceremony will take place tomorrow evening at 7 p.m.
I think that big oil paintings are immediately
striking, but I think this years work is different
from that, which is really cool to see, and takes
more effort sometimes to engage with.
ELIZA GOODPASTURE 18
whats most impressive is the people this years work is different from
that I was like I had no idea you that, which is really cool to see, and
created art, this beautiful artwork, takes more effort sometimes to en-
said Laurel Varnell, assistant direc- gage with.
tor of Student Activities. This years competition will wel-
The show has no guidelines for come two new judges, as well as
submission, which, according to newly elected Delta Sigma/Delta
Goodpasture, makes the Delta Show Upsilon president and local photog-
distinct from others in that it allows rapher Steve Cicco 74. According to
for a wide range of submissions. Cicco, the new additions to the ju-
Goodpasture noted that this year dicial team should add a fresh, new
the show has received fewer oil perspective to this years judging.
paintings and has shifted towards a The reception and awards cer-
larger diversity of mediums. emony will be held tomorrow at 7
I think that big oil paintings are p.m. in the Lamarche Gallery of Da-
immediately striking, but I think vid Saul Smith Union.

friday, march 31, 2017
Womens lacrosse upsets No. 1 Middlebury
By Julius Long
Orient Staff
Last Saturday the womens lacrosse
team shocked defending national cham-
pion Middlebury (6-2, 3-1 NESCAC)
with an 11-10 overtime win. Prior to
facing the Polar Bears, the Panthers were
ranked No. 1 in the country with an un-
defeated record. The hard-fought victory
also launched Bowdoin into the top 10
in the Intercollegiate Womens Lacrosse
Coaches Association poll at No. 8 after
entering the season ranked No. 15.
We knew it was going to be a tough
game, but we didnt want to really let on
to anyone how big it was, said captain
Anisa LaRochelle 17. We just wanted
to take it as another game, but I think
we all had no doubt we would win. We
just wanted to play with confidence and
passion in that regard.
Neither team could acquire a lead
greater than two goals throughout regu-
lation and were sent into overtime with
a 10-10 tie as the clock ran out.
The Polar Bears were able to stick
with the dominant Panther offense,
which has averaged 12.25 goals per
game this season, by challenging Mid-
dleburys defense during transitions.
While watching film, we realized
none of the teams that we watched film
for had really pressed Midd on their
transitions, and thats been one of our
strengths this year, said LaRochelle.
So we tried to capitalize on thatquick
Mens tennis third in national DIII ranking
By Anna Fauver
Orient Staff
The mens tennis team, the defend-
ing NCAA Division III champions,
finished the Stag-Hen Tournament
in Claremont, California with a 8-1
record. It heads into this weekend on
a four-game win streak. The Polar
Bears are currently ranked No. 3 in
the nation after a 5-4 loss to Clare-
mont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) dropped
them one spot from their previous
No. 2 ranking.
Captain Kyle Wolfe 18 believes
that the teams strong performance at
Stag-Hen, even with the loss against
CMS, was a good indicator of the
teams abilities.
We played a good match against
[CMS]. We lost a bunch of close
matches, but it definitely was a posi-
tive experience, Wolfe said. Those
guys have been playing outside for the
past six months, while we havent seen
outside courts for a while. To be play-
ing close against them so early in the
season is definitely a positive.
Over the course of two weeks, the
team played nine matches, including
two double headers and three back-
to-back matches.
We played the most matches that
weve played in a really long time,
Grant Urken 19 said. It was good
because we got to test ourselves physi-
cally as well as mentally. I think we
came out succeeding in that situation.
I think we should be really proud of
the way we handled that adversity.
The tournament highlighted two of
the teams main strengths: its doubles
lineup and its depth.
We didnt go down after doubles
against any team that we playedand
we played some really good doubles
SPORTS
STICKING WITH IT: Mettler Growney 17 dodges two Amherst defenders in the teams season opener, a skillful 7-6 win over the Purple and
White. That strong start was indicative of the teams successful season thus far; it heads into Sundays Trinity matchup with a 6-1 record.
transitions out of the defense to catch
them off on their defensive zone.
This tactic proved to be a success
as Middlebury was forced to change
its defense from zone to man-to-man
halfway through the game.
teams, Wolfe said. And then the
middle and bottom of our lineup is re-
ally strong compared to a lot of teams
that we play, so if we can get a good
doubles lead well usually be in pretty
good shape.
The tournament also provided the
first years with a chance to gain more
competition experience. The newcom-
ers rose to the challenge as Justin Patel
20 played No. 3 doubles and came out
of the tournament undefeated.
With first years, youre always wor-
ried about them fitting in on the team
and making sure that they feel part of
the team, Wolfe said. Spring Break
was a good opportunity for them to
see what real matches are like and I
think we definitely came back a stron-
ger team than [we were] when we left.
One of the distinct features of
this years team is the lack of se-
niors. Six out of the nine players
are underclassmen.
Its definitely a younger team,
Urken said. I came in really respect-
ing the seniors from last year and I
didnt necessarily know how it was
going to be this year with [Wolfe] as
a captain, but hes really stepped up
and been a great leader for everyone
on the team.
According to Urken, the lack of
seniors has positively affected team
chemistry and has not had a negative
impact on the teams performance.
I think were a really tight-knit
group, he said. Last year, we were su-
per close as well, but there was the gap
in ages Now everyone is kind of
condensed. The age hasnt really put a
factor into effort level or performance
at all.
The Polar Bears will be facing
Brandeis (4-4) and MIT (7-0) this
weekend, and both Wolfe and Urken
Bowdoin pulled through with a goal
by Annie Glenn 17her third goal in
the gamejust over a minute into over-
time to secure the win. Glenns outstand-
ing performance earned her NESCAC
Womens Lacrosse Player of the Week.
LOVE TO WIN: (CLOCKWISE FROM
LEFT:) Luke Carstens 19, Gil Roddy 18 and
Kyle Wolfe 18 played well in the Stag-Hen
tournament in California over Spring Break.
The team only lost one gamea close 5-4
loss to No. 2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.
are expecting two tough matches.
Theyre both really good teams. I
think theyve always played us tough
in the past, both of them, Urken
said. I think we just have to keep
our sight kind of short-term and
just kind of look at each match as
our own challenge because there are
definitely spots where, if were not
concentrated and ready to go, they
could not go our way. So I think we
need to be really prepared for these
two teams.
The Polar Bears face the Brandeis
Judges at home today at 2 pm.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
The team is hopeful that it will be
able to build off this early success and
set its sights on loftier goals as the sea-
son continues.
Please see LACROSSE, page 12
CAC) extended its win streak to
COURTESY OF GILBERT RODDY
the bowdoin orient 11
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
Jumping for joy. Brian Green-
berg 18 represented the mens
indoor track and field team at
the NCAA Division III Cham-
pionship on March 11. Entering
the competition seeded eighth
in the triple jump, Greenberg
jumped 14.36 meters to earn a
sixth-place finish and All-Amer-
ican honors, making him Bow-
doins first male All-American in
the triple jump.
Ruling the pool. Seven members
of the Bowdoin swim and dive
teamdiver Mitchell Ryan 19
and swimmers Sterling Dixon 19,
Marshall Lowery 20, Linnea Pat-
terson 18, Mariah Rawding 18,
Karl Sarier 19 and Sophia Walker
17competed at the NCAA
Division III Championships in
Shenandoah, Texas over break. In
addition to many strong perfor-
mances throughout the meet,
team members earned multiple
All-American honors. Lowery
earned All-American Honorable
Mention after her prelim time of
2:02.04 lowered her own school
record and marked her as the fast-
est DIII freshman in the event in
the country. Dixon and Sarier also
earned All-American recognition
in multiple events, both setting
new school records in the process.
Historic firsts. At the NCAA
Championships in March,
Hannah Miller 17 became the
first Bowdoin nordic skier to be
named an All-American after
placing 10th in the 15K skate.
In her second appearance at
NCAAs, Miller battled harsh
winds and freezing temperatures
to earn a time of 40:50.5, which
made her the first Division III
and third east coast finisher in
the event. Miller also placed 31st
in the 5K classic.
Just keep winning. The mens
lacrosse team (5-2, 3-1 NES-
five on Tuesday with a decisive
20-6 win over UMass-Boston
(3-4). The streak also features
hard-fought wins over fellow
NESCAC competitors Middle-
bury (3-5, 1-3 NESCAC) and
Williams (4-3, 2-2 NESCAC)
that helped Bowdoin climb back
into the USILA Division III poll
this week at No. 18. The two
matches featured particularly
strong play by attackman Brett
Kujala 18, who had 10 goals
and four assists between the two
games to earn NESCAC Player
of the Week honors.
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12 sports
Womens rugby
goes undefeated
on European tour
By Harry Jung
Orient Staff
This Spring Break, the womens rugby
team spent 10 days in France and Spain
as part of its quadrennial international
tour, funded by generous donations and
fundraisers put on by the team. Since
1994, the Polar Bears have taken six tours
and the experience has become an inte-
gral part of the program.
[The trip] provided [the players] with
lifelong memories, new friendships, cul-
tural learning experiences and lessons
in rugby not available in the U.S., said
Head Coach MaryBeth Mathews. Its
an important experience for the women
who play varsity rugby at Bowdoin to
spend time in countries where rugby is
well known and respected as one of the
top national sports. It validates them and
their hard work for the sport and is so
much fun to be part of.
The Polar Bears played two matches
abroad and won both. They emerged
victorious over Club Esportiu Universi-
tari (CEU) Rugby Club, which includes
players from middle school to college,
winning the match 3227 in Barcelona.
The team also beat the Universitaria Es-
portiva Sanboiana (USE), which is com-
posed of graduate students and is the
oldest rugby club in Spain. USE used the
game to test out combinations of players
Womens tennis battles mid-season injuries
By Roither Gonzales
Orient Staff
The womens tennis team traveled
to California over Spring Break and
opened its spring season with a 6-1
record. Its outstanding performance
places the team in a good position as
it returns to Brunswick ranked fourth
in the nation.
Im really happy with our perfor-
mance over the break, said captain
Tess Trinka 18. What it really showed
us is that were right up there with any
team that we face.
Much of the teams recent success is
due to its chemistry. The teams small
size and incredible communication
have allowed the team to become clos-
er and have resulted in improvements
off and on the court.
Communication-wise, we have a
really good team this year, said Trinka.
Were a very small team, which is not
that uncommon. Theres only eight of
us, but were such a close team. This
year more than ever, people are just re-
ally good about communicating, and
were all very much on the same page.
I think that our seniors have done a
great job leadership-wise.
Despite its recent success, the team
still faces difficulties regarding its lack
of depth. A recent string of injuries has
decreased the already small team of
eight to six, the bare minimum for a
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for its future matches, which contributed
to the 70-0 score.
The tour was really good for our new
players, said captain Samantha Hoegle
17. And [the European teams] are very
experienced so they challenged us a lot
[and] in different ways than you would
see here because the style of the game is
just generally different there.
One of the biggest challenges the team
faced was quickly adjusting to playing
outside on a full-size field. Throughout
the winter, the team had practiced in-
doors, usually in Farley Field House and
Morrell and Sargent Gymnasiums.
We did speed training and lifts
throughout the winter to get our bodies
fit. As far as tackling, we didnt start until
we got there, but everyone was ready for
it and excited to play, said captain Cris-
tina Lima 17.
People worked really hard this offsea-
son. Watching our team play in Europe,
I was astonished by how much improve-
ment there has been since the start of the
fall. I was so surprised, Hoegle said.
The tour also gave the team opportuni-
ties to experience playing in large stadi-
ums of fans as Europe has such a promi-
nent rugby culture.
There were people there who decided
to come and watch the game. We got on
the metro afterwards and people would
see our rugby jackets and talk to us about
tennis team to be able to compete.
Our size has to be our biggest
weakness, said Trinka. The injuries
are hard for the team not that far into
the break, and were obviously very
sad about it, but I think the way we re-
sponded to it was really important for
the rest of our season.
Maddie Rolph 19 is recovering
from an injury from this fall and Sarah
Shadowens 19 tore her ACL during a
match against Pomona in California.
However, these setbacks have only
served to highlight the strengths of the
team. Its resilience and determination
have allowed the team to weather re-
cent issues and caused the team to step
up its game.
The bonds that we formed leading
up to the season really helped us when
we got out there and faced some adver-
sity with serious injuries, said Sasa Jo-
vanovic 20. When we got up there on
the court we were conscious about the
fact that we were playing not only for
ourselves, but for each other.
The situation has also prompted
the new first years on the team to
make an immediate contribution on
the court.
Were only seven matches in, and
we have a long season ahead of us, but
[the first years] have definitely shown a
lot of determination and strength, said
Trinka. Theyve demonstrated their
ability to step up and make an impact
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RUGBAES: (TOP:) Captain Cristina Lima 17 and Jackie Jacques 19 practice indoors as the team prepares for its spring season. (LEFT:) Sarah
Wilson 17 goes for a try as the team scrimmages in Morrell Gymnasium. (RIGHT:) Allegra Bersani 20 dodges a tackle from Jacques.
rugby because it is so respected there,
said Lima.
[The team] got to experience the ca-
maraderie of rugby players worldwide,
said Mathews. After each match, both
teams shared a meal, sitting together and
bonding with each other over stories spo-
ken in less-familiar languages.
Some of the players also attended a
professional mens rugby game while in
SERVING UP VICTORY: Joulia Likhanskaia 17 rallies with a teammate in an indoor practice
in Farley Field House. With snow still on the courts, the team will play both its matches this
weekend indoors as it comes back from its seven-game tour in California.
on the team and were just hoping they
can keep it up.
Heading into the second half of the
season, the Polar Bears hope to capital-
ize upon their recent successes and car-
ry their momentum into future games.
Toulouse, France.
It was amazing. It was just such a high
level of rugby, said Hoegle. They are just
so awesome and we had people watch
the game and learn something and then
we had practice that afternoon and some
people immediately did something they
learned from watching the game.
The team visited Sitges and Barcelona
in Spain, as well as Perpignan, France and
LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
The team hopes to at least match last
years performance and make it into
the NCAA Final Four this year.
The Polar Bears will face Colby at 10
a.m. and Bates at 2 p.m. at Farley Field
House on Sunday.
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occasional downtime afforded the team a
chance to immerse itself in a variety of the
local cultures and communities.
We did some get afternoons free and a
day free in France to walk around and re-
lax, said Lima. Rugby is pretty taxing so
its good to just rest. It was also a great time
for our time to bond. I know, as a captain,
I appreciated this opportunity to get to
know players in younger grades.
LACROSSE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
We definitely have the potential
to be NESCAC champions or NCAA
champions, and I think that is a goal
we have had in mind since the fall,
said LaRochelle.
This weekend, the team will face
Trinity (8-1, 4-0 NESCAC), which is
ranked slightly ahead of Bowdoin in
national polls at No. 6. The Polar Bears
are confident going into the matchup,
but they are wary of the dangers of
complacency and are determined not
to get ahead of themselves.
In the close future, we are just go-
ing one game at a time, because we
have some big games coming up, said
LaRochelle. Not to get too cocky
we definitely dont want to be in that
positionbut staying really positive
and excited.
Trinitys offense is averaging 10.89
goals per game and the Polar Bears will
have to rely heavily on their defense to
stop the Bantams offensive power.
Our defense has gained a lot of con-
fidence these past games because the
competition has been really tough, but
weve held strong, especially on one-v.-
ones and such, said LaRochelle.
The clash between Bowdoin and
Trinity is sure to be an exciting one for
players and fans and will take place on
Sunday at 2 p.m. at Howard F. Ryan
Field. The game was originally set to be
played tomorrow, but was rescheduled
due to weather.
friday, march 31, 2017 the bowdoin orient sports 13

Softball ends spring break trip on six-game win streak

By David Brower
Orient Staff

The Bowdoin softball team has started

off the spring strong, boasting an 11-5
record returning from its trip to Florida
last week. The team had outscored its op-
ponents 45 to 12 over its last six games,
all victories for the Polar Bears.
Overall the team did amazingly well,
said captain Emily Griffin 17. Even the
first couple games where we had a few
losses there was only ever one inning
that hurt us. Everyone was just playing
together, our defense was playing the
best I have ever seen it and we were just
getting clutch hit after clutch hit. It was
amazing to see.
Due to its dominant play over the
course of the tour, the team swept NES-
CAC honors this week as Griffin and Al-
lison Rutz 20 were named Pitcher of the
Week and Player of the Week, respectively.
Griffin had three wins in the circle last
week, allowing just one earned run in 14
innings pitched and Rutz batted .500 with
14 hits and 10 RBI over eight games.
One of the most impressive victories of
the trip was the teams win over St. Cath-
erine, where the Polar Bears scored four KATIE FOLEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
runs in the bottom of the fourth and held MAKING THE CATCH: Infielders Marisa OToole 17, Sam Valdivia 19 and Natalie Edwards 18 practice with the pitchers at an indoor practice in Farley Field House. A spring break trip to Florida
on to win 4-2. gave the Polar Bears much-needed opportunities to play outside while there is still snow on their home field. The team will travel to Hartford this weekend for its first divisional series against Trinity.
They have a really good pitcher and
we were able to knock her out of the game fense we have a bunch of consistent hit- break, it had to overcome adversity before experience because it really kind of gal- header starting on Sunday at 11 a.m. Grif-
early with some solid at-bats, where we ters who will single you to death, said the players even reached Florida. The vanized us for the trip, said Sullivan. It fin is very confident in the team going into
worked the pitch count a bit. That was re- Sullivan. We also have the mental tough- team was supposed to depart on Tuesday, gave us something to rally around. I have the weekend.
ally great, said Head Coach Ryan Sullivan. ness and grit to get through some adverse March 14, but winter storm Stella caused to give a lot of credit to the players. They If we played the way we did the end
The team won many close games, moments. Those are things that will win its flight to be cancelled. Instead, the really didnt use it as an excuse at allin- of the trip then I expect us to sweep,
including beating Fontbonne 8-4 in an you games. If you pitch well you will be in team had to take a 36-hour bus ride from stead they used it as a motivating tool. said Griffin. That is a pretty bold state-
extra-innings thriller. Overall, the trip games and if you have strength mentally campus to Florida. Despite the obvious This weekend the Polar Bears travel ment, I know, but I truly believe in this
helped the team identify and solidify its you will be able to get through some of the discomfort of such a long ride, Sullivan to Hartford to play a three-game series team. When we are on and when we are
strengths on and off the field. tough ones. thought it was a good experience. against Trinity (8-5) with the first match playing together, there is no one who
We have strong pitchers and on of- While the team had a lot of success over In a lot of ways it was such a positive on Saturday at 2 p.m. and the double- can beat us.

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14 the bowdoin orient friday, march 31, 2017

Leave tampons alone

As part of the Free Flow project to make tampons and pads accessible to the Bowdoin
community, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) is sponsoring free dispensers in sev-
Middlebury protesters highlight the
Puritan nature of todays students
eral womens, mens and gender-neutral restrooms.
Since the dispensers and trash receptacles were installed over break, tampons from
the containers in the mens bathroom have been found in the trash over 10 times. On
Wednesday morning a housekeeper found that someone had defecated in the metal re-
ceptacle intended for used tampons. Obviously, this is unacceptable.
The dispensers were placed in mens bathrooms for people who menstruate and use
as a racist, conform to the image of she is sufficiently shamed. What
the mens bathroom, such as trans men and some gender nonconforming people. For
the conservative Puritans of yester- does it matter that a professor gets
some students, this may not be immediately apparent. But the type of behavior exhib- Ryan Ward year? Andrew Sullivan argued in a violently assaulted in the ensuing
ited this past week is both disrespectful to the housekeeping staff and a direct disregard HOLDING FAST recent article in New York Magazine chaos, as long as campus orthodoxy
for the rights of trans* students on campus. It is an act of bias and it deserves a prompt
that these protesters advance a new remains unchallenged?
administrative response.
sort of orthodoxy that functions But my comparison may be a bit
Whether or not a person menstruates does not determine their gender identity or
In 1850, Bowdoins very own Na- very much like a religion. It controls unfair to the Puritans. For contrary
which bathroom they use. While the trans* community on campus is small, it exists,
thaniel Hawthorne published The the language of and the very terms to popular perception, they were ac-
and trans* people have the right to go to the bathroom in a space that accommodates
Scarlet Letter, a novel set in 17th of discourse. It enforces manners. tually capable of the virtues of love
their needs.
century Puritan New England. Haw- It has an idea of virtueand is ob- and mercy, even if they could be a
While we dont currently know who was responsible for these actions, its important to
thornes portrayal of the Puritan sessed with upholding it. bit stern at times. But in todays col-
address the malice they illustrate. That the products have been thrown out over 10 times
character remains the image most
this week clearly shows that this was not an accident. These actions send a message that
trans* people are not wanted or welcome in mens restrooms, which is a message we as a
people have in mind when they In the case of Charles Murray, the students were
community cannot tolerate.
think of what a Puritan must have
been like: stodgy and conservative,
able to label him a sinner, one who once dared to
It is our responsibility to ensure that trans* students feel comfortable on campus, in-
cluding in the bathroom. If you see someone throwing away these products, confront
highly intolerant of other religions write about race in a way deemed unacceptable
them. Putting tampons in the trash is unproductive and disrespectful. If you find is-
and denominations, disdainful of and the only response was not to debate the
pleasure and committed to very
sue with the Free Flow initiative, voice your concerns in a constructive, mature manner,
strict standards of orthodoxy. merits of his argument but to shut him down
perhaps through BSG or the Orient. If you have questions or would like to learn more,
reach out.
It hardly needs saying that this completely.
profile no longer applies to todays
In a world where it is illegal in some places to use the bathroom that you identify with
New Englanders. Some three and a In the case of Charles Murray, lege student variety of Puritanism,
or even express your gender identity, it is incredibly important that we show support
half centuries on, your average Yan- the students were able to label him there can be no mercy for the likes
for trans* rights. Placing dispensers in mens bathrooms is an important step towards
kee is more likely to consider him a sinnerone who once dared to of Charles Murray. He belongs to
recognizing this community. Many people simply dont understand what it means to
or herself liberal, open-minded and write about race in a way deemed the city of the damned for his origi-
not be cisgender. Trans* students face difficulties that are incomprehensible to people
welcoming of diversity. This is es- unacceptableand the only re- nal sin of racism, and so no matter
who havent or wont experience them themselves. Questioning your gender identity and
pecially so in those old bastions of sponse was not to debate the mer- what he has to say today, he will
navigating a cis- and heteronormative society is often a relentless and onerous stress on
liberal learning spread out across its of his argument but to shut him always bear the scarlet letter of his
a trans* persons life.
New England, including the school down completely. Never mind that past transgression. But in this case
Yet, due to the trans* communitys size at Bowdoin, trans* rights are not often given
we have the privilege of attending. most students had never read his it is not a badge of penitence, but of
that attention. In their column from earlier this year, Ari Mehrberg 20 called attention
Bowdoin may have been religiously book in question, The Bell Curve. ostracism, marking him as forbid-
to a general apathy on campus to these issues. This hurts the trans* community and we
and culturally conservative in the If they had, maybe they would have den from the realm of polite dis-
cannot maintain this attitude. It is integral that we listen to the voices of trans* students
past, but today it prides itself on seen that his alleged racism comes course. Unlike Hester in The Scar-
and be supportive where we can. This starts with respecting pads and tampons in the
its liberal values of diversity and from one chapter that is rather tan- let Letter, todays Puritans foreclose
mens restroom, but it goes beyond this: show up to events, educate yourself about trans*
free speech that challenge cultural gential to the books main argument. the possibility of redemption at the
identities and refer to people by their desired pronouns. Surely we can manage this.
norms once held sacrosanct. Indeed, they probably could have end of his story.
This editorial represents the majority view of The Bowdoin Orients editorial board, But at one of our fellow NESCAC used rational arguments to debunk There is a world of difference be-
which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Jenny schools, this caricature of old-style his contention that there is a genetic tween objecting to a persons opin-
Ibsen, Meg Robbins and Joe Seibert. New England Puritanism has reared component to racial differences in ions and registering that through
its head once again under an ex- IQ, just as a symposium in The New vigorous public debate and shun-
tremely different guise. I refer to the Republic following the books publi- ning the offender so thoroughly
recent events at Middlebury, where cation has done already. that he or she has no opportunity
libertarian scholar Charles Murray But instead of doing any of this, to respond to the charges. The for-
ESTABLISHED 1871 was silenced by a large group of stu- which they say would have legiti- mer is consistent with the aims of
dents protesting his talk and then set mized his racism, the protestors a liberal education to grant a hear-
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 upon by a mob following the event. shut him down completely. They ing to a wide variety of perspectives
You have doubtless already heard followed the standard campus Puri- and the latter is nothing but an ir-
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news the details, so I dont think they bear tan playbook: zero in on one trans- rational and inflexible response to
and information relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the repeating here. gression, expose the offender disagreement. I am glad to say that
College and its administrators, the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly,
It may seem as a horrible human being the former sort of protest has largely
following professional journalistic standards in writing and reporting. The Orient is
committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and strange to re- who deserves nothing less prevailed during my time at Bow-
debate on issues of interest to the College community. fer to these than to be shunned from doin. But we would all do well to
protestors polite discourse, and take a warning from Middleburys
as the mod- take whatever steps situation and avoid the kind of in-
Julian Andrews Meg Robbins ern-day heir necessary to make tolerant and rigid mindset that led
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief to Puritan- sure that he or to those ugly and counterproduc-
ism. How ex- tive protests.
News Editor actly do these
Layout Editor Managing Editor students, who
Emma Bezilla Sarah Bonanno Jessica Piper
protested a man
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Joe Seibert Sports Editor they described
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Associate Editor
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friday, march 31, 2017
Subsidize food for students on financial aid Seattle alumni respond to
with limited meal plan options
Rachel Baron
ZERO CHILL
The high quality of our dining hall
food is, of course, well known to the
entire Bowdoin community. But eat-
ing on campus, just as obviously, is
not everyones preferred option. Es-
pecially for those living in campus-
provided housing with kitchens or
those living off campus, it does not
necessarily make sense to pay for the
19-meal, highest-level plan. Bowdoin
is fairly flexible on this issue, allowing
students to pick the meal plan that is
right for them. But this flexibility is
limited to those who are not on finan-
cial aid. Students on aid44 percent
of the student bodyare not given the
same autonomy.
Students on financial aid who
choose a smaller meal plan have the
same amount of money offset from
their grants. The only reduction that
is allowed for these students is a drop
down to the 14-meal planall of the
alternative plans are banned. On paper,
this may seem to make some sense. The
logic appears to be that students meal
plans only need to be covered by fi-
nancial aid money for the amount they
are consuming. Giving extra money to
students who do not need it would of
course be unnecessary.
But this justification ignores a sub-
stantial reason why students want to
International undermining of anxiety disorder
Maurice Asare
AFRICANXIOUS
Among many things, I often regard
my adolescence as a self-discovery of
my anxiety. My parents were raised in
Ghana, where mental health disorders,
specifically social anxiety, are often an
unspoken topic.
Thus, the country is devoid of any
semblance of mental institutionalism.
This absence is grounded in a firm dis-
belief of mental disorders beyond the
scope of subjectivity. As a result, my
parents grew up with an indifference
towards mental disorders.
Growing up in my Ghanaian enclave,
we often lacked the necessary words to
verbalize anxiety as anything more than
shyness. Instead, I was often considered
to be shy and people disregarded the
potential of having an anxiety disorder.
In other words, the personality trait of
Roses stance on divestment
drop down on their
meal plan: they
can make their
food them-
selves. One
of the main
reasons people
may choose to
live in Harpswell or Bruns-
wick is to have their own
kitchens. In these cases, it does
not make sense that students on finan-
cial aid should be required to be on
a full meal plan when they can make
their food at home. Especially for
students with specific dietary needs,
it may be easier for students to make
their own meals or to eat at times dic-
tated by their own schedules. Under
the current system, however, this may
not be financially feasiblegroceries
can be expensive to self-fund. Students
may still need the money for their food
to be covered by someone and so are
essentially forced to continue staying
on a Bowdoin meal plan.
The College has a significant duty
to help students on financial aid man-
age their time at Bowdoin in affordable
waysand there are options that would
allow the College to do so. For students
on financial aid who have access to a
kitchen and who would like to drop
down their meal plan, Bowdoin should
provide subsidies to students for gro-
ceries. Or perhaps Bowdoin could
work out a deal with Hannaford, where
Polar Points could be used to purchase
shyness was more comprehensible than
an anxiety disorder. While this relega-
tion of anxiety as shyness is a result of
the absence of language and of mental
institutionalism, it nonetheless under-
mines the nature of social anxiety.
When someone is considered to
be shy or nervous about a particu-
lar event, they are urged to overcome
that particular fear. Social anxiety can
often be complexthus necessitating
specialized language to account for
the disorder.
The absence of language to account
for mental disorders in Ghana does
not indicate the absence of mental dis-
orders. The disorders still exist but are
confined to limited personality traits.
Although mental institutionalism
is prevalent within the United States,
there still exists a similar tendency in
America to undermine social anxiety
disorder. The prevalence of mental in-
stitutionalism does not mean under-
mining anxiety is a non-issue. How-
ever, this undermining is not a result of
the lack of language so much as it is a
matter of its usage.
In the US, we often refer to anxiety to
describe instances of nervousness that
arise before a stress-inducing event.
While this usage is somewhat war-
ranted, it belies the actual disorder. The
anxiety that arises on the eve before my
final exam is much different than the
perpetual anxiety I face when having
conversations with people.
DIANA FURUKAWA
the bowdoin orient
groceries.
Currently,
BROOKE GODDARD
a similar
program ex-
ists for students on financial aid who
want to live off campus. The Bursars
Office gives students on financial aid
an allowance that is equal to the cost of
housing on campus. There is no reason
that food should be any different and it
is unclear why it is not.
Changing the system in this way
should only benefit Bowdoin. There
would be no extra cost to the school,
and if anything, cost of food may actu-
ally go down: some students on finan-
cial aid in College apartments or off-
campus housing may currently sign up
for a higher meal plan than they end
up actually using.
This is also an issue of fairness
students who are not on financial aid
are allowed more choices in how they
manage their meals. Unless the Col-
lege can provide a compelling reason
why we should treat the dietary needs
of students on financial aid differently,
Bowdoin should opt towards giving
all students an equity of options when
possible. The College has the responsi-
bility to follow through here.
This language ostensibly proclaims
anxiety to be a universal experience.
Thus, the language constructs a stan-
dard of anxiety. If we all experience
anxiety, then we begin to perceive
those who are able to overcome their
moments of anxiety as being superior
to those who are debilitated by an anxi-
ety disorder.
While we all get anxiety from stress-
related events, anxiety disorders are
usually based upon irrational fears
or over the trepidation of something
one perceives to be a far greater threat
than it actually is. Moreover, the disor-
der can manifest in a variety of ways,
including social phobia, panic attacks
and generalized anxiety disorder.
The issue arises when our careless
use of language conflates the disorder
with the temporary state of height-
ened nerves.
We regularly speak of anxiety in the
United States not within the framework
of the disorder but as a temporal state
of nervousness. In doing this, we un-
dermine anxiety disorder. Meanwhile,
the absence of discourse surrounding
mental health and mental institutional-
ism in Ghana contributes to the under-
mining of anxiety disorder.
In our growing awareness of mental
disorders, we must keep in mind that
how we talk about them is equally as
important as whether we talk about
them at all.
By Jordan Van Voast
Op-Ed Contributor
Our planet and
human civilization
teeters precariously
on the edge of an
unfathomable eco-
logical abyss. Run-
away global warm-
ing and climate
change threaten to
unravel the web of
life beyond any-
thing for which
our ancestors could
have prepared us.
Many scientists
have already stated
that we have now
entered Earths
Sixth Great Ex-
tinction. The fate of our children
and all life on the planet hinges on
our collective actions right now
not 10 to 20 years hence, not in a few
years, but now. Action from even
one individual or institution could
shift the energy, tipping it towards
planetary balance or our collective
demise. Bowdoin can and should
play a healing role by divesting from
fossil fuels.
If the United States abandons the
2015 Paris Climate Accords that set
a target of limiting warming to 1.5
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
levelsa likely possibility given the
alarming climate denial professed
by the incoming Trump administra-
tionit will be extremely difficult, if
not impossible, to rebuild the trust
necessary for international coopera-
tion and climate stability. Amplify-
ing the direness of our present situa-
tion, we may already be two thirds of
the way to surpassing the 1.5-degree
target, with 2016 on track to be the
warmest year on the planet since cli-
mate recordkeeping began.
Business as usual is no longer Standing Rock, North Dakota.
an option, and yet, when my fellow
Bowdoin alumni friends and I called
out the climate elephant in the room
during President Clayton Roses re-
cent trip to Seattle and suggested that
Bowdoin needs to divest to remain
true to Joseph McKeens common
good foundational vision, his re-
sponse was business as usual. We
were told that fossil fuel divestment
is merely symbolic, and does not have
significant transformational value to-
wards societydespite historical evi-
dence to the contrary when one con-
siders the success of the South Africa
divestment campaign of the 1980s in
breaking the apartheid system.
We listened and heard that com-
municating our values to the Wall
Street fund managers managing the
Colleges endowment would result in
our losing access to these special
people, resulting in potential losses
for the endowment. Let us compare
the potential consequences due to
climate change, including the disap-
pearance of 90 percent of the species
of life on the planet and possibly
Homo sapiens, versus a theoretical
slight monetary loss to Bowdoins
endowment. Which is the greater
risk?
We can debate economic profit
and loss and even ecological mo-
rality. But, as Bill McKibben points
out, we cannot escape the laws of
physics and chemistry. Bowdoin can
highlight its commitment to green
sustainable energy by building a
new environmental studies center,
but this will do nothing now to re-
opinion 15
ALEX WESTFALL
verse climate change. It is analogous
to attempting to hold back a flood
of biblical proportions with a pro-
verbial finger in the dike, as the next
Hurricane Katrina comes barreling
ashore in New Orleans or any other
coastal city in the world.
Perhaps 10 percent of the alumni
in attendance at the Seattle gather-
ing were wearing orange squares
pinned to their attire. The orange
square campaign was conceived to
call attention to the interconnected
struggles for climate and social jus-
tice. Bowdoins Board of Trustees,
largely white, wealthy and male,
can debate the merits of divestment
from their positions of privilege
while hundreds of millions of people
live in areas of the world affected by
sea level rise. Millions of people to-
day live in the shadows of refineries,
with high rates of cancer and respi-
ratory disease. The Syrian crisis was
fueled by climate change -induced
drought. Many more marginalized
individuals live with polluted wa-
ter from fracked aquifers flowing
from their taps. Which brings us to
At Standing Rock, the legacy of
five centuries of European-Ameri-
can genocide of indigenous people
continues in the form of a corporate-
backed police state employing mas-
sive weaponry, inflicting violence at
will upon peaceful water protectors.
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)
is yet one more profit grab by the
fossil fuel industry, a tar sands oil
pipeline which will inevitably end
up polluting our air, water and soil.
The financiers of the pipeline are
major U.S. banks and investment
firms. How many of the trustees
have a stake in these companies?
Are they acting with due diligence in
disclosing financial holdings which
may result in conflicts of interest,
thereby jeopardizing the moral arc
of the College? Will Bowdoin con-
tinue to look the other way in reck-
oning with an endowment tainted
by ongoing climate destruction and
disregard for treaty and Constitu-
tional law? Or will it step up now
and authentically lead in direct pro-
portion to the challenges our world
faces? Prompt divestment is the rea-
sonable and ethical choice.
Cosigned by Seattle
Bowdoin alumni:
Peter Van Voast 50
Mary Moseley 79
Dave Menz 83
Marte Menz 83
Julie Claire Earnest 84
Garth McCarty 97
Savitha Reddy Pathi 97
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16 the bowdoin orient friday, march 31, 2017

FRIDAY 31
LECTURE
"Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima:
Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings,
and the Art of Resolution"
In a symposium event, artists and historians will discuss the
cultural implications of the 1945 nuclear bombings in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki for Japan and Japanese-Americans.
The event is in conjunction with the exhibition Perspectives
from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's
Drawings, and the Art of Resolution currently on display in
the Museum of Art.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 1 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
Upright Citizens Brigade
The improvisational and sketch comedy group Upright JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Citizens Brigade will perform with opening performances by ON DISPLAY: Acrylic canvas paintings by Sabrina Hunte 20 are displayed in the Lamarche Gallery in David Saul Smith Union. The paintings are part of an
Improvabilities and Office Hours. ORIENT exhibition of works submitted to the annual Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon Student Art Competition. Winners will be announced at a reception and awards
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7 p.m. PICK OF THE WEEK ceremony tomorrow at 7 p.m.

CONCERT
Primo Cubano Concert and Latin Dance
In the first event of Cuba Week 2017, celebrating Brunswick's
sister city relationship with Trinidad, Cuba, there will be Latin
dance lessons followed by a concert.
David Saul Smith Union. 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY 3 WEDNESDAY 5
LECTURE LECTURE
"From the Country to the Campus: Rural "Building Bridges Across Communities"
Students in Higher Education" Acclaimed journalist and scholar Helen Zia will deliver a
Amber Lange, director of Clemson Universitys emerging lecture in celebration of Asian Heritage Month. Zia has
scholars program, and a panel of Bowdoin students will reported on Asian-American communities as well as social
discuss the college experiences of students coming from and political movements. She is the author of "Asian
American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People."

SATURDAY 1
rural communities.
30 College Street. 4 p.m. ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

LECTURE
EVENT Maine Politics
Pan-African Fashion Show Speaker of the Maine House Sara Gideon and State Senator

THURSDAY 6
To celebrate the diverse cultures of African countries, the Roger Katz will speak about the current issues facing Maine
Africa Alliance will host a fashion show where students will from both sides of the aisle.
model clothes from around the continent. There will also be Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
music, dance and slam poetry performances. See page 8. LECTURE
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m. "The Revolutionary Reality Show: Voice
and Organizing in Today's Social Justice
Battles"
TUESDAY 4 Chenjerai Kumanyika, associate professor in the department

SUNDAY 2
of communication studies at Clemson University, will speak
about how powerful storytelling can blur the lines between
LECTURE research, journalism and activism.
"From Nimrud to (New) England: Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
EVENT Assyrian Art Over Time"
Senior Sex Panel Ada Cohen, Israel Evans professor in oratory and belles lettres PERFORMANCE
The Alliance of Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention will and professor of art history at Dartmouth College, will discuss Battle of the Bands
host a panel of seniors who will discuss their experiences with the artifacts discovered from the Assyrian site at Nimrud Student bands will compete for the chance to open for
consent, sex and relationships at Bowdoin. during the 19th century. Smallpools at this years Ivies. ORIENT
Room 151, Cleaveland Hall. 6:30 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m. Jack Magees Pub and Grill. 8 p.m. PICK OF THE WEEK

7 EVENT 8 9 LECTURE 10 11 EVENT 12 13

Spring Student TEDx Bowdoin
Night at the College Origami,
Museum Calligraphy & Tea
"Common Ends"