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FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Stereotyping at tequila
party causes backlash
BY JOHN BRANCH AND JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
In response to an incident of ethnic stereotyping by Bowdoin students at a party last weekend, BSG urged students to attend its public
comment time during its Wednesday night meeting. Catalina Gallagher 16 (above) contributed to the discussion at the meeting, saying,
We have asked over and over and over, and the thing were asking for is just basic respect.
NOVEMBER 2014
The lacrosse team throws their annual
party, Cracksgiving, in which attendees
are asked to wear their finest Thanksgiving attire. Some attendees sport war
paint and headdresses.
OCTOBER 2015
The sailing team throws a Gangster
themed party. Some team members
go to Super Snack wearing cornrows,
baggy clothing and 1980s hip-hop
style bucket hats.
FEBRUARY 2016
Students allegedly wear sombreros
at tequila themed party. An investigation into the event is ongoing.
For the third time in just over a

year, an incident of ethnic stereotyping by Bowdoin students at a party
has ignited campus-wide tensions,
frustrations and pain, and prompted
an institutional investigation in response.
In the latest incidenta tequilathemed birthday party in Stowe
Hall last Saturday nightstudents
dressed in stereotypical Mexican
garb including sombreros, according to a student who attended.
A screenshot taken from the email
invitation showed the event being
referred to as a tequila party and
read, were not saying its a fiesta,
but were also not not saying that :)
(were not saying that).
Several Mexican and MexicanAmerican students expressed exhaustion and frustration at the
public comment time at Wednesday
nights Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) meeting.
As a senior who has seen multiple racist incidents at this college,
Im at the point now where Im re-
ally, really tired, said BSG Vice

President for Student Government
Affairs Michelle Kruk 16.
What happened last weekend
completely distorted what I stand
for, what I embody and what I fight
for. That was wrong, especially in
light of what happened last semester, said Bill De La Rosa 16.
Last semester, the sailing teams
gangster party, where students
wore costumes of stereotypical African-American apparel and accessories, prompted a wave of conversation and protest about issues of race
on campus. In fall 2014, the lacrosse
teams Cracksgiving party, where
students wore Native American costumes, resulted in the discipline of
several individual students.
On Wednesday night, BSG followed a precedent set after the
gangster party last fall by urging
the student body to attend its public comment time during its weekly
meeting to discuss the incident and
passed a statement of solidarity offering support for those affected.
The statement passed by the BSG,
Please see STEREOTYPING, page 3
Julianne Rose embraces

transition to Bowdoin
For some, relocating to Maine and

immediately immersing oneself into the
heart of a small college while also starting
a new career might be daunting. For Julianne Rose, it was yet another exciting shift
in a life full of them.
Rose, who is married to President Clay-
Please see ROSE, page 9
Rowing team stuck in limbo

BY STEFF CHAVEZ
ORIENT STAFF
Please see CREW, page 12
BY JAMES CALLAHAN
ORIENT STAFF
Following complaints by residents of Quinby House that two

fraternity-era basement murals were
inappropriate embodiments of rape
culture, both murals were removed
over Winter Break.
Led by Quinby House President
Sophie de Bruijn 18, nine residents sent an email to Director of
Residential Life Meadow Davis,
Assistant Director of Residential
Life Mariana Centeno and Director
of Title IX and Compliance Benje
Douglas on December 9 detailing
their concerns.
The two murals that hang in our
basement, relics of the houses past
FASHION FIX
VISITING WRITERS
Stitch Fix founder and CEO Katrina Lake talks about her path
to success.
Page 8.
Authors RJ Palacio and Paul

Beatty each speak to students
about writing and inspirations.
Page 6.
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FEATURES
Though the Bowdoin crew team is

interested in transitioning to a varsity
program, funding issues with the athletic
department force them to remain a club
teamoperating in a grey area between
the athletic department and the Office of
Student Activities.
The team has a roughly $1,000,000
endowment, coaches employed by the
athletic department and a high rate of
success against varsity teams. But de-
spite the endowment and some funding from both the athletic department
and the Student Activities Funding
Committee, the team is still forced to
fundraise around $100,000 a year to
cover the operating costs of just a club
program.
To our understanding right now,
the athletic department is interested
in maintaining the program but not
expanding it, said womens captain
Sophie Brub 16.
Quinby murals removed after students

claim images embody rape culture
as the Psi Upsilon fraternity house,
embody rape culture, that is, a setting in which rape is pervasive and
normalized due to societal attitudes
about gender and sexuality. Displaying cartoon images of sexual
violence perpetuates the normalized
image of rape on college campuses,
they wrote.
The cartoon murals include a
beachside Quinby House atop an
idyllic cliff, numerous drug references, as well as dozens of scantily
clad and naked women with men
leering at and chasing them. That
latter feature, in particular, was the
focus of the complaint.
The murals depict naked women
running away from men who are
chasing after them and licking their
lips. The murals depict half naked

women looking frightened and trying to cover their bodies while men
stare at, chase, and/or grab onto
them. The murals depict women as
half human half animal hybrids having sex with men. There is an image
of a naked woman carrying a sign
that says deflower me. One of the
murals is titled The Virgin Forests,
read the email.
Following a mid-December closeddoor facilitated discussion with Benje
Douglas, the House came to the consensus that the murals should not be
displayed in the basement.
Unable to disclose specific details
about the meeting, de Bruijn said
Please see MURALS, page 5
ON A TEAR
Mens Hockey enters the
NESCAC playoffs undefeated in 10 straight games.
Page 11.
ITS APPROPRIATION, YALL

OPINION
BY SAM CHASE
ORIENT STAFF
COURTESY OF SOPHIE DE BRUIJN
MURAL, MURAL OFF THE WALL: Two fraternity-era murals (one above) in Quinbys basement were removed over Winter Break after
house members complained that the murals embodied rape culture. This image represents only a small portion of one of the murals. The sign
on the mural above states: Virgin Forest Violators Will Be Prosecuted. One of the murals dates back to 1966.
SPORTS
DIANA FURUKAWA
ton Rose, has quickly become enamored

with her new home.
Its been fabulous. This is such a
warm and welcoming community, said
Rose in an interview with the Orient.
Everyone herethe students, the staff,
the facultyhas made the two of us feel
so welcome. So the transition has been
remarkably easy. Moving to an entirely
new place and starting a whole new life
here has been really pretty seamless. I
attribute that to the community and the
way everyones made us feel.
It was exactly what the Roses expected
at Bowdoin College, a place that is close to
the hearts of many of their friends.
When Clayton was offered that
job, we had talked to a lot of people
about Bowdoin and knew a lot of people here, and the decision was just so
easy, said Rose.
Claire Day 18, a student from

North Carolina, explains the
significance of yall.
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friday, february 26, 2016
STUDENT SPEAK
do you wish were sold
Q: What
at the C Store?
Becca Vanneman 19
Good cheese, like triple
cream Brie. I would spend
good money on that.
Dimitria Spathakis 16
Woodchuck Winter Chill
hard cider.
Hassaan Mirza 17
Cheap stationary supplies.
Price is important.
SECURITY
REPORT:onFEB.
19 to FEB. 25
friday, February 19
the fifth floor of Stowe Hall.
Four students were briefly trapped in the
south elevator in Coles Tower. The students were freed unharmed.
A Trinity College womens ice hockey athlete was transported from Watson Arena
to Mid Coast Hospital for treatment of a
wrist fracture that resulted from an on-ice
collision with another player.
An officer escorted a student with a broken foot to Mid Coast Hospital.
A student was cited for possessing alcohol
at Super Snack.
saturday, February 20
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an
intoxicated student at Coleman Hall.
A minor student was in possession of alcohol in Winthrop Hall.
An unregistered party and alcohol policy
violation were reported to have occurred
A students skateboard was stolen from the

lobby of Stowe Hall. A student took responsibility and the skateboard was returned.
Sunday, February 21
An officer escorted an intoxicated student
from Super Snack to his residence hall.
There was a wellness check for an intoxicated student in the Bowdoin Shuttle.
A student took responsibility for an unregistered event with hard alcohol at Burnett House.
A student reported a suspicious looking
man doing tricks on a mountain bike on
South Street and Coles Tower Drive.
monday, February 22
A wall and a house picture frame were
reported damaged at MacMillan House.
A fire alarm at Chamberlain Hall was
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
activated by burnt microwave popcorn.

Brunswick Fire Department responded.
tuesday, February 23
An exterior basement window was vandalized at Quinby House.
A student having a medical emergency at
the health center was transported to Mid
Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.
Liz Snowdon 17
Marshmallow Fluff.
wednesday, February 24
An officer checked on the wellbeing of a
sick student at Hyde Hall.
thursday, February 25
Brunswick Rescue transported an ill
student from Ladd House to Mid Coast
Hospital.
Philip Kiefer 18
All of my underwear thats
been lost in the laundry.
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We didnt start a fire: smoke alarms set off by microwaveable popcorn

BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND CALDER MCHUGH
ORIENT STAFF
SCREENSHOTTED FROM YOUTUBE USED JARED MAXWELL
(DONT) LIGHT MY FIRE: Associate Director of House Operations Lisa Rendall sent an informative video about microwaving popcorn after the eighth popcorn-related incident this year.
A three minute and 26 second video certainly shook

things up on campus last week, when a campus wide
email from Associate Director of Housing Operations
Lisa Rendall introduced students to the proper way to
pop popcorn.
One of the most dangerous and wild phenomena facing our student body, the improper way to microwave
popcorn, has dragged students out of their bed and their
rooms late at night, during parties, and whilst enjoying
mid-afternoon naps. The Brunswick Fire Department
has been called to campus for these slightly smoky episodes a few too many times, prompting Rendall to take
charge and start schooling students on the issue.
Bowdoin students, normally known for their intellectual capacity and general common sense, have managed to set off the fire alarm due to popcorn-related
incidents eight times this school year, according to a
collection of the 2016 Orients Security Reports. Students turned in an especially poor performance this
February, with four separate episodes reported to the
Brunswick Fire Department (BFD), including three in
four days.
Chamberlain Hall has been the biggest offender, as
the BFD has responded twice, but 52 Harpswell, Hyde,
Moore, Winthrop and West also are home to halfwits
who dont know how to properly microwave popcorn.
The video, linked in Rendalls email, shows the
proper way to microwave popcorn, which apparently
includes wetting a paper plate, a lot of seemingly unnecessary bag folding by an extremely hairy and disembodied male hand, a kitchen sink and active listening.
The video ends with a touching dedication, this goes
out to all the homies of yesterday, today, and tomorrow
who didnt get to enjoy their favorite TV show or movie
because of a burnt 50 cent bag of popcorn setting off
the smoke alarm.
If I was a frequent popcorn maker I would have
watched it and maybe learned something from it, noted Sydney Avitia-Jacques 18, a viewer of the YouTube
sensation.
Moreover, the entire video is set to a raucous, catchy
theme song that will surely become the biggest jam at
the next campus-wide.
When the Orient got in touch with Siri in an attempt
to find the title and artist of next bona fide hit, Siri replied, I cant seem to recognize this song.
Shockingly, Rendall herself was not a fan of the song,
even advising students to watch the video with the following addendum, viewing hint: I recommend no volume.
It is distinctly possible that Rendall only objected to
the sound track due to its irrelevance, maybe preferring
something more on theme, such as Fire Burning by
Sean Kingston or The Jonas Brothers timeless classic
Burnin Up.
When asked if his world was shaken up due to the
discovery of these groundbreaking popcorn cooking
techniques, student Ben Stone 17 was unruffled.
I mean like, I dont make popcorn, he said. So I
found it irrelevant.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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SUSAN SARANDON VISITS

Academy Award-winning actress
Susan Sarandon visited Bowdoin on
Tuesday afternoon to campaign for
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
and spoke to an audience of roughly
50 students, urging them to be on the
right side of history. While Bowdoin
Democrats technically sponsored the
event, Bowdoin for Bernie, an unchartered group of students supporting
Sanders, had been in touch with a student outreach worker from the Sanders
campaign throughout the week to get
students more involved with the Maine
Democratic Caucus on March 6. Late
Monday night, Nick Walker 16, one of the six students who runs the Bowdoin for
Bernie Facebook page, got a call about the possibility of Sarandons visit followed
by a 3:00 a.m. email confirmation. Bowdoin for Bernie and the Bowdoin Democrats
coordinated with Student Activities on Tuesday morning to organize the event and
spread the word through social media and posters.
Sarandon campaigned for Sanders at a number of other Maine colleges this week,
including University of Maine in Orono and Colby College. She visited a number of
other places on her Maine tour, including Portland, Bangor and Waterville.
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in addition to condemning the incident, offered several recommendations, including that the administration address bias incidents and the
hurt caused by them more quickly
and that the College develop a standardized process for punishing students involved in these incidents.
Two major additional recommendations were added to the draft
after public comment time. The first
encouraged the College to acknowledge the time pressures on students
of color tasked with responding to
such incidents. The second recommendation, inspired by a new course
on Black Lives Matter at Fairfield
University, recommended that the
Office of Academic Affairs play a
role in punitive measures for offending students by mandating academic
work in certain subject areas.
At the public comment time, De
La Rosa voiced frustration that a
BSG member allegedly attended the
party.
That is disgraceful. That is
shameful. Especially because youre
elected by the student body, not to
represent a certain group, but the
student body, said De La Rosa. I
encourage the BSG to do something
about thisto put a bylaw starting
whenever, next year, that you are
all elected to represent the student
body, and that there should be some
sanctions, some consequences, for
What happened last weekend completely distorted what I stand

for, what I embody and what I fight for. That was wrong, especially
in light of what happened last semester.
BILL DE LA ROSA 16
those that partake in behavior like
this.
We have asked over and over and
over, and the thing were asking for
is just basic respect, said Catalina
Gallagher 16.
I have spent at least five hours
talking about this. Thats so much
of my time, said Raquel Santizo
19, who is on the board of the Latin
American Student Organization
(LASO). Im a first year, I should be
doing first-year things.
BSG concluded the meeting by
setting up an ad-hoc committee to
draft an amendment to either the
BSGs bylaws or its constitution to
address situations when members of
the assembly break the social code.
Of the students who spoke at the
meeting, none defended the partys
theme or said that they had attended.
Several members of LASO discussed meetings that they had held
with administrators. A student who
attended the party confirmed to the
Orient that many of those present at
the party had been involved in meetings with the Office of Student Affairs as well.
The administration has not yet
announced how or if it will respond
to the incident.
An email to campus from Dean of

Student Affairs Tim Foster on Monday night announced that his office
was in the process of investigating
what we have learned from students
and from posts on social media.
Foster asked students with information about the event to contact him
or Leana Amaez, associate dean of
students for diversity and inclusion.
In an email to campus Wednesday night, President Clayton Rose
did not refer to the specifics of
last weekends incident, but wrote
broadly that further work needs to
be done to make students of color
welcome on campus and condemned
insensitive posts on the anonymous
social media platform Yik Yak.
Foster declined to comment on
the incident to the Orient, pending the results of the investigation.
Amaez did not respond to requests
for comment.
Administrators have largely
moved away from the language of
cultural appropriation, which was
used in official emails after the
Cracksgiving incident and has still
been a common topic of debate on
Yik Yak. Fosters email referred to
ethnic stereotyping, while Roses
referenced an act of bias.
FORM 990: A LOOK AT COLLEGE EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION

465K
COURTESY OF ELLIS PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.
COURTESY OF ASU
Sociologists Camille Charles (left) and Rory Kramer (right) arrived on

campus last week to begin research on Bowdoins racial and ethnic climate.
As announced in an email from President Clayton Rose to the community
on December 3, the researchers will collect information about the way students race affects their experience at Bowdoin. They will eventually offer
recommendations for how the College may take action.
In their first visit to the College, Charles and Kramer conducted a series
of 90-minute discussions with different student groups as well as faculty
to discuss students experiences at Bowdoin as well as instances of racial
and ethnic bias. Among these groups were the executive committee of Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) and students of color in Bowdoin Queer
Straight Alliance (BQSA).
Julian Tamayo 16, a member of BQSA who spoke with Charles and Kramer in one of these conversations, said that they did not pose any specific
questions for the students but rather offered a space to freely share experiences. BSG President Danny Mejia-Cruz 16 concurred that the researchers
intend to focus on culture and climate by recording anecdotal data through
frank conversations.
Charles and Kramer declined to comment until their project is complete.
SURVEY TO GO LIVE SUNDAY

The BEARS (Bowdoin Experiences and Attitudes about Relationships and
Sex) survey, which aims to capture and understand the campus climate regarding sex, relationships and sexual and dating violence, will go live on
Sunday and will be open until Spring Break. The results of the survey will
inform the programming of the Office of Gender Violence Prevention. Similar surveys have been conducted at colleges across the country, including
Williams College and Colby College. Director of Gender Violence Prevention and Education Benje Douglas hopes to get as many responses as possible so that the survey is representative of student experiences. To that end,
there will be tables in David Saul Smith Union and the dining halls, email
reminders, a poster campaign, a Facebook group and a thermometer display
in Smith Union showing the response rate. Depending on the response rate,
the information should be released sometime next fall.
LOCKOUT DRILL NEXT WEEK

Next Thursday at 3:30 p.m., Bowdoin will have a 15-minute emergency
lockout drill. The drill is meant to prepare students in case of a lockout,
threat or hazard on or around campus. Students will be notified by phone,
text and email of the drill through the Colleges emergency communication
system and told to stay inside or enter the nearest building or safe space.
Students will be notified when the drill is complete.
Bates
1.152M
Conn. College
486K
NESCAC President
Compensation
DATA FROM 2013
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Colby
478K
Bowdoin
440K
Middlebury
1.586M
574K
554K
Mark Wethli
241K
Tim Foster
229K
Mitch Davis
231K
Scott Meiklejohn
244K
Christle Collins Judd
Amherst
Katy Longley
Williams
Barry Mills
Hamilton
268K
Patsy Dickinson
William A. Torrey
Faculty, Staff and Dean

Total Compensation
DATA FROM 2013
297K
347K
517K
125K
1.289M
Paula Volent
735K
Wesleyan
2.183M
472K
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
352K
Kelley Kemer
Tufts
Jane Dietze
Trinity
Edyta Riley
338K
217K
100
200
300
400
500
600
1200
The Form 990 tax document filed by the College discloses the compensation packages of the Colleges thirteen highest paid employees. According to data from 2013, Senior Vice President for Investments Paula Volent was the highest-paid administrator with a
total compensation of approximately $1.3 million. President Barry Mills followed closely behind with $517,000, followed by Senior
Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Katy Longley with $347,000. The compensation for Bowdoins president
is lower than a number of other NESCAC colleges, according to data from 2012, with Trinitys president receiving the highest compensation and Bates receiving the lowest.
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Black History Month

Dr. Hill speaks of
Dr. King, calls postracial America a
fictional narrative
VALERIE CHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF
For Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, the fact that Oprah

Winfrey owns a television network, that Tyler Perry
has a TV show, and that Barack Obama is the president is not enough to make 2016 a post-racial moment in America. Hill was quick to dispel that idea
when he spoke last night in front of a large audience
in Kresge Auditorium.
I think [a post-racial America] a great narrative,
its just a fictional narrative, said Hill. Chaos cannot be resolved by the fact that one black man is in
really nice public housing in D.C.
Hill railed against many of what he perceived to
be prevailing crises affecting African Americans
from food deserts to poverty to unaddressed, unconscious racism.
A professor at Morehouse College, Hill was invited to speak as part of the Black History Month
speaker series, sponsored by numerous groups including the African American Society, the Africana
Studies Department and the Student Center for
Multicultural Life.
Hills lecture, entitled, Fighting for Freedom
in an Hour of Chaos, was devoted to the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout
the lecture, Hill was quick to emphasize that King
was an often disliked radical whose life has been
romanticized.
Everyone loves King in 63 when hes telling
negroes to get hit with bricks, said Hill. But in
67 when he said that the same sensibility of pacifism isnt just negroes getting hit by police, its also
[about] Vietnam, they told him to stay in a negro
preachers place.
Hill said that King had many reflections and
reconsiderations in the year after his 1963 March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, including a
reflection in 1967 that many Americans may be unconsciously racist.
Hill, who sat down for a student dinner at Helmreich House earlier in the day, tied in issues that are
taking place at the College into his lecture.
In the post-racial world, sometimes were faced
with even more racism, sometimes in the form of
exclusionary practices, sometimes in the form of
microaggressions, sometimes in the form of tequila
parties, said Hill.
Hill spent a portion of the speech with advice for
activists, explaining that Kings strategy was action
through coalition building. Hill lamented that while
he visits nearly a hundred campuses per year, most
activists are poorly organized.
I go to college campuses, therell be 50 black
people, 25 organizations, everybody is president
and vice president, Hill joked. The legacy of King
is about brave action, which means you cant always
be in charge, where you might not get your way.
Carolyn Brady 19 explained that while she
thought Hill was a very well-spoken intellectual, she
said she was disappointed that many of the actions
and areas of progress that he spoke to are not taking
place on Bowdoins campus.
He is incredibly informed on the issue, so I will
take his opinion with a lot of weight, said Brady.
During the question and answer session after the
lecture, Hill answered a question about freedom of
speech on college campuses, explaining that while
universities exist for the debate of dangerous, provocative ideas, certain expressions should not go
without consequences.
The constitution does not allow you to do things
without consequences. If I run to my bosss office
and curse him out, I can do that under freedom of
speech but Im still violating company policy, and I
likely wont have a job, said Hill. I think its simplistic and dismissive to say suck it up, thats not
how the real world works because thats not how
the real world workssometimes, what people are
doing is not the expression of free ideas but enjoying the extraordinary privilege of whiteness.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: (Clockwise from top) Victor Leos 16 participates

in a luncheon focused on minority students in the sciences yesterday in Daggett
Lounge. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill delivers a speech about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
and Fighting for Freedom in an Hour of Chaos in Kresge Auditorium last night.
Ashley Yates describes the importance of showing what it means to show up for
black lives at a lecture on February 10. Tanisha Francis 18 and Ama Gyamerah 17
attend the Black Solidarity Conference held at Yale University February 11 to14 to
discuss issues affecting black communities at campuses across the country. The
conference and speakers were sponsored in celebration of Black History Month.
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that the nine signees of the email

spearheaded the initiative, but the
whole house agreed that it was for
the best.
I think the fact that students
have ownership and that theyve
already built a legacy is absolutely
positive, said Douglas. Its always
important for house members to be
thoughtful of the space that they
want to create both for the membership in the house but also for the
larger campus community.
At a second meeting, on February 23, the house decided that the
murals needed to be removed from
the House.
During these discussions, former
house residents were contacted and
asked about their opinions on and
their experiences with the murals.
Two of those residents said that no
issues were raised regarding the murals during their time at Quinby.
Members of the house reached out
to past members when deciding how
to approach the murals. Some former members said they would agree
with the murals removal only if they
were preserved somewhere else,
preferably the chapter room because
they saw them as part of Quinbys
history and wanted them saved in a
private space.
Though the murals will not be
returning to Quinby, de Bruijn
stressed that house residents were
Quinby recieves most college house

apps, new question considers diversity
MURALS
WORTH A THOUSAND
WORDS: The two cartoon
murals [perpetuate] the
normalized image of rape on
college campuses,wrote nine
members of Quinby in their
December 9 email to Director of
Residential Life Meadow Davis,
Assistant Director of Residential
Life Mariana Centeno and Director of Title IX and Compliance
Benje Douglas. These images
represent only small portions of
the murals.
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adamant that the murals not be forgotten. In particular, they expressed

hope that the murals could be used
in an educational setting.
My goal is that we use them in
a way that we dont forget about
themwe dont forget they ever
existedbut that we can use them
in a way thats not a) in a residential space in which people are being being hurt and affected by them
and b) thats controlled enough that
people are thinking about it more
in an academic setting than when
theyre drunk at a party and just
see it and think its funny, said de
Bruijn.
Additionally, de Bruijn has been in
contact with professors in the gender and womens studies department
who she says have expressed interest
in potentially using either the murals
or pictures of them in classes.
She also noted that a fellow resident of Quinby House had supposedly met the original painter of the
murals during Homecoming this
past fall who said that, originally,
the murals were hung privately in
residents rooms.
In an email to the Orient, Davis
noted that, to her knowledge, there
had been no formal complaints to
Residential Life regarding the murals prior to last December. Additionally, she added that both murals
date to 1966.
275 college house applications

were submitted this year, an increase
from last year but still below the
record-setting year for 2011-2012,
which had 341 applicants. Quinby
House received the most college
house applications according to
Mariana Centeno, assistant director
of Residential Life (Res Life). With
200 beds available in the college
house system, 73 percent of applicants will be accepted.
This year, a new question on the
college house application caused
students to reconsider the role of
college houses on campus.
The Residential Life office is
committed to building college house
communities that respect and are
eager to learn about and have a willingness to accept the many ways of
viewing the world. Please give an
example of how you would work to
promote diversity of experiences
within your house, said Centeno,
quoting the the 2015-2016 college
house application.
Centeno said that this question
provoked thoughtful responses
from applicants.
Almost all of them had to do with
conversations about diversity, religion,
race, sexuality, in a shift that I have never seen, said Centeno. I think a huge
part of that is last semester.
First-year Alys Fromson-Ho found
the question a bit tricky at first but ultimately helpful in understanding her potential role as a college house member.
The questions were not easy. If
you wanted to answer them seriously, it took a lot of thinking like,
Hey, how can I actually contribute? Fromson-Ho said. It got
me really excited about how to be
an active member [of a house] and
how [I could] be a part of a smaller

community within the whole entire
Bowdoin [campus]
The applicant pool for college
houses is typically dominated by
first years. Although ResLife extended the deadline a week for upperclassmen to apply, the vast majority
of applicants were still first years.
A new feature to the college house
application, the any house option,
was created last year to ensure that
if an applicant hasnt been placed in
his or her top-three choice houses,
he or she is still eligible for consideration to be a part of the college
house system.
Since the advent of the any
house option on the college house
application last year, Centeno saw
a significant increase in applicants
selecting the any house placement.
According to Centero, about 150
students selected any house this
year, up from around 100 last year.
Centeno also noted that this year,
more students applied to Howell as
their third choice and more individuals applied outside of blocks.
Fromson-Ho noted her trepidation
about the process of applying to a college house but acknowledged how her
application experience was informative.
I think I was afraid of not fitting
into these pre-conceived notions
about each house, but I realized that
by not applying, I was just reinforcing those stereotypes in my mind and
upholding them said Fromson-Ho.
First year Avery Wolfe 19 was motivated to apply to the college house
system because of the unique opportunity to expand her social horizons.
I really wanted to meet people
that I might not run into because
we have different academic and extracurricular interests, said Wolfe.
And I wanted to form relationships
with first years.
BREAKDOWN OF
APPLICATIONS
275
73
341
150
100
COLLEGE HOUSE
APPS SUBMITTED
PERCENT OF
APPLICANTS WILL
BE ACCEPTED
APPS SUBMITTED
IN THE RECORD
SETTING YEAR,
20112012
STUDENTS
SELECTED ANY
HOUSETHIS YEAR
STUDENTS
SELECTED ANY
HOUSE LAST YEAR
New gender inclusive design standards to

guide future bathroom, locker room labeling
BY GIDEON MOORE
ORIENT STAFF
Last week, the College approved new

gender inclusive design standards to
guide future constructions and renovations in an attempt to make bathrooms
and locker rooms more gender inclusive. These efforts aim to provide a safe
environment for community members
whose identities are other than cisgender (identifying as the gender assigned
at birth).
The standards require that future
building projects include lockable,
single stall restrooms on the main floor
during construction and applicable
renovations. These restrooms will not
be designated to a single gender but instead will be accessible to students of all
genders. These rooms will be labeled as
restroom rather than men or women. Signage is able to be further altered
on an ad hoc basis.
Also included in the guidelines is an
expectation that all facilities with locker
rooms or showers provide private changing rooms and showers.
These standards are designed to provide students identifying as transgender
(not identifying with gender assigned
at birth) or nonbinary (a category that
refers to gender identities that are not
exclusively masculine or feminine) who

might not feel comfortable in mens or
womens restrooms.
Personally, theyre important because
being able to access non-gendered spaces
is very important to making me feel
comfortable, to making me feel like Im
not compromising my identity by entering a gendered bathroom, said Paul
Cheng 17. Every time I do that, theres
this sense that Im projecting this idea
that Im not really agender. Im still basically a man or something. It feels like the
message that Im sending.
In the past, the College has had trouble
providing for non-cisgendered students
due to the small scale of the student body.
Its hard, from scale, because were a
smaller school, said Kate Stern, director of the Center for Sexual and Gender
Diversity. A lot of the bigger universities
Ive seen, if you picture where theres the
mens and womens locker rooms, there
might be another one thats called the
family dressing room, or family room,
that someone could take their children
in with them or someone could use as
gender inclusive.
But again, its the scale. [When] we
think about a mammoth university with
50,000 people and their giant sports
complex, it looks like a different thing,
Stern added.
As part of forming the standards,

Stern traveled to several other colleges
and universities to examine their versions of these policies.
After Stern researched other schools
regulations, Director of Capital Projects
Don Borkowski drafted the standards
which circulated through the administration before receiving approval from
President Clayton Rose and Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster.
We said Yeah, its the right thing
to do, and so this is the Bowdoin version of it, said Katy Longley, senior vice
president for finance and administration and treasurer.
These standards are part of a larger
movement within the administration
towards a more gender-inclusive campus. Facilities has already implemented
40 gender-neutral bathrooms across
campus. Other recent projects include
the change this year in first year bricks,
where the previously gender-segregated
showers are now unisex.
Weve been moving in this direction
anyway, but this is just to put it in writing that this will be the standard practice,
as opposed to what weve been doing, to
make it more formalized, said Stern.
John Branch and Nicholas Mitch contributed to this report.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The golden rule: NYTimes best-selling author on kindness, empathy

BY SURYA MILNER
ORIENT STAFF
It was while sitting next to a

young girl with a facial deformity at
an ice cream shop that author R.J.
Palacio found inspiration for the #1
New York Times Bestseller Wonder. What felt at the time like an
uncomfortable instance of parenting
(Palacio bolted from the shop as her
three year old son, frightened by the
girls craniofacial difference, began
to cry) soon became the impetus behind the fictional young adult novel
that follows the experiences of Auggie, a boy entering fifth grade with a
facial difference.
What I wish Id done was turn to
that little girl and started a conversation and let my son know that there
was nothing to be afraid of, Palacio said. As I left the scene, I was
so afraid that his tears would hurt
her feelings, but it never occurred to
me that my leaving was just making
things worse. I just started thinking
about what it must be like for that
girl, for her parents, to face a world
every day that doesnt know how to
face you back.
Palacio, who delivered a talk on
Wednesday to a packed Kresge Auditorium, never expected her writing to receive the widespread praise
that it has. Recipient of the 2014
Maine Student Book Award, among
others, Wonder has become a literary mainstay in elementary and
middle school classrooms across
the country.
Brought to the College by Bowdoins literary and arts magazine,
The Quill in coordination with the
Education Department, Palacio also
worked with an upper-level Bowdoin Education class called Educating All Students.
For our education students in
particular who are looking to go
and work in schools, this is a really
critical piece of itto be thinking
about how students who many have
VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
YOURE A WONDER: New York Times best-selling childrens author R.J. Palacio spoke to students Wednesday evening about the inspiration for her novel and the continued relevance of kindness and acceptance.
different learning needs and physical
needs are incorporated and become
successful learners in a school setting, Program Placement and Outreach Coordinator of the Education
Department Sarah Chingos said. All
students deserve to have a safe classroom environment, so part of it is
to open conversation, about how we
create a safe space for all learners.
Although the book centers around
the realities of living with a facial
difference, its implications extend
beyond the realms of noticeable or
physical insecurity, making it a re-
latable and widely celebrated piece.

I think my writing of Wonder
was my way of trying to get kids to
see that the answer to every dilemma in life should always err on the
side of kindness, Palacio said. If
everybody goes by the golden rule, if
everybody tries to be a little kinder
than is necessary, I really do believe
the world would be a better place.
Despite the novels popularity among
the elementary and middle school demographic, its themes are universal in
their scope, making Wonder still relevant to a college audience.
Sold in England and other countries as adult fiction, the novel has
sparked the Choose Kind movement, a campaign dedicated to raising awareness about the importance
of empathy and tolerance.
Even if theyre cliche, that doesnt
mean [themes of growing up] arent
important, Quill member Clay Starr
19 said. Just because something isnt
nuanced or technical, that doesnt
take away from the message it gives.
Although the book centers around the
realities of living with a facial difference, its
implications extend beyond the realms of
noticeable or physical insecurity, making

it a relatable and widely celebrated piece.
Its a book about a child with a facial difference, but its also a book about
being an outsider. Its a book about not
fitting in, Palacio said. [Auggies] difference is a very obvious one that the whole
world can see immediately, but there are
other characters in the book that tell a
story of their own as well. Every character has something they wish they could
change, or that makes them feel different.
Its a book about exploring differences
and how to overcome those differences,
tolerance, kindness.
Poet-turned-humor novelist Paul Beatty encourages writing for oneself

BY AMANDA NEWMAN
ORIENT STAFF
The Faculty Room of Massachusetts

Hall overflowed with students, professors and community members this past
Tuesday when novelist Paul Beatty visited
campus. He performed a reading from his
book, The Sellout, and answered questions from the audience.
Although many consider the content
and themes of his novels to be satirical,
Beatty doesnt think of himself as a satirist.
[I write about] my friends mostly, LA;
I dont know, just how absurd life is, he
said. I usually start writing when Im running out of money.
Beatty came to campus as a part of the
Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by the
English Department.
Professor of English Brock Clarke, who
invited Beatty to campus, touched on the
benefit of having writers speak and read
to students.
Its one thing to talk about a writers
work when its in front of you, to read it in
class, to talk about it in class, said Clarke.
But I think its also useful for students to
see writers as people who are striving to do
the same thing as [they] are, and one of the
ways you do that is bring them to campus.
[Paul Beatty] is one of the most exciting novelists working today...One of the funniest, one of the most daring, one of the most
irreverent writers, and I felt we could stand to hear from someone like that.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, BROCK CLARK
Audience member Sydney To 19, who

read Beattys book in Clarkes Introductory Fiction Workshop, felt similarly.
Its very interesting seeing him up there.
Its weird to read someones book and then
to see them as a person, he said.
Beatty started writing poetry while
he was in graduate school in psychology. He sent off his poems to an MFA
program and was accepted. His advice
for students pursuing creative writing
is straightforward.
Gotta keep writing, he said. I
mean, its pretty simple: writers write,
thats basically it.
Beatty first gained recognition as a slam
poet, but today he only writes novels. He
has not written a poem in about 20 years.
I think part of the reason why I quit
poetry [was that] I was writing a poem
once and, I dont know, I wrote some line
and went, Oh, theyll like that one, and I
[thought] Whoa. That just really caught
me that I even thought about that, and

it really messed with me, said Beatty.
Thats not why I write.
He said that he likes novel-writing
more because it let him stick to his goal of
writing only for himself.
I was just much more aware of audience when I was writing poetry for whatever reason and with the fiction I just dont
think about it as much, he said.
Hes one of the most exciting novelists
working today, said Clark, of Beatty. One
of the funniest, one of the most daring,
one of the most irreverent writers, and I
felt we could stand to hear from someone
like that.
Beatty said that he usually does not
have specific goals in mind when he
writes a book.
Hopefully theyre a little elucidating, a
little funny, a little sad, he said. Im just
trying to write good books, thats it.
GOTTA KEEP WRITING:

Acclaimed writer and poet Paul
Beatty visited Tuesday as part of
the Department of Englishs Visiting Writers Series. Beatty read
aloud from his bookvvThe
Sellout. Beatty is well-known
for his satire and humor.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT (TOP AND BOTTOM)
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Francophone film festival Game show masterpiece: Family Feud

offers global perspectives
TREVOR MURRAY
NETFLIX AND STRESS
BY KACIE NELSON
STAFF WRITER
This years Francophone Film Festival, which starts this Friday, will include more global diversity, according
to Associate Professor of Romance
Languages and Literatures Charlotte
Daniels, an organizer of the event.
We have a lot more diversity in
terms of global offerings than weve
had in the past which goes along with
the direction our department is taking, said Daniels.
According to Daniels, the inclusion
of Rwandan director Kivu Ruhorahozas film Things of the Aimless Wanderer is particularly exciting since it
reaches beyond France. The film is a
series of vignettes, tied together by the
common theme of women facing their
male oppressors. Ruhorahoza will be
on campus to lead a post-screening
discussion of his film and host a filmmaking workshop the following Friday.
Daniels believes that watching
French films helps to engage students in the culture.
We do show a lot of movie in
classes, but this is really recent film,
so theres a sense of discovery that
comes for them in the same way that
its happening for people in Frenchspeaking countries around the
world, she said.
The festival, however, is also
meant to be accessible to nonFrench-speaking students and members of the Brunswick community.
Wayland Chiu 18, president of the
French club, La Famille Francophone, said that the festival furthers the clubs mission to increase
awareness of francophone culture
throughout campus.
In addition to being an event just
for pure enjoyment, its also an educational opportunity, and I also think
its a great opportunity to really engage the local community he said.
Zach Duperry 18 hopes that the
films can be useful in promoting discussion on campus, as many of the
films deal directly with the issues of
race and class that have received attention on campus this year.
I think that it would be good
for people to be able to see that this
is something that is a global phenomenon, Duperry said. I just
recommend that everyone comes
by at least to see one of the movies.
Theres a great selection over the
next few days.
The Deparment of Romance Language
and Literature, in conjunction with the
Cinema Studies Program, will present the
festival. Each film will be accompanied by
faculty lecture and discussion.
The festival is brought to campus by
the Tournes Film Festival, funded by
the French-American Cultural Exchange
with the French and American Embassies. The Tournes Film Festival provides grant funding to colleges across the
country with the mission of spreading
francophone culture through film. The
program is entering its twenty first year,
although Bowdoin only started participating in 2012.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Bande de Filles (Girlhood)
26
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
A girl struggles to break free from an abusive family to

find her own independence.
Clouds of Sils Maria

27
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
An aging actress struggles with insecurities as she

returns to star in a revival of the play that made her
famous initially.
Grigris
2
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016
A disabled man who dreams of making it as a dancer

turns to oil smuggling to make some extra money and
is unable to outrun his past.
Things of the Aimless Wanderer

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016
A series of vignettes connected by the common theme

of women confronting male authority figures.
Parce que jtais peintre (Because I Was a Painter)
4
5
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016
A documentary about paintings found in the walls of

concentration camps and the people who created them.
Le Chat et le Rabbin (The Rabbis Cat)

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016
After a cat gains the ability to speak by swallowing a

parrot, he waxes philosophical and falls in love with his
masters daughter.
This is Joey Fatone, and its time

to play Family Feud! Not only does
that sentence reveal the depths to
which post-N*SYNC life has carried Fatone, but it also indicates the
start of possibly the most engaging
game show ever made. It combines
the simple with the impossible and
the outrageous with the mundane.
Gilgamesh and the Iliad combined
cannot compare to the sheer staying power that Family Feud brings
to modern entertainment. Critically
acclaimed dramas and side-splitting
comedies alike quake in the face of
Steve Harveys caterpillar mustache.
Family Feud can entertain even
the ficklest of audiences. It unabashedly holds up a mirror to society and
reflects the ideology held therein.
Its a goddamn masterpiece.
The most impressive part of Family Feud is its sheer longevity. It has
aired (nonconsecutively) for over
thirty years and is showing no slowing in popularity. In June 2015, it
surpassed Wheel of Fortune as
the most-watched syndicated game
show on television, a fact which incidentally coincides with the crumbling of Pat Sajaks marriage. As the
shows most recent host, Harvey
brings to the table his superhuman
ability to be blown away by even the
slightest of inappropriate responses. He goes agape for a solid thirty
seconds after someone answers the
prompt of Name someone who uses
a pole with Stripper! No matter
the frequencies of these outrageous
answers, Steve is unfailingly floored.
Some point out that it feels as if
the producers are steering into the
DIANA FURUKAWA
skid by asking loaded questions to

prompt inappropriate answers, but
is it really their fault that someone
comes up with a dirty response to
Name something you put in your
mouth but dont swallow?
So how exactly does the Feud
dominate the game show market?
For starters, pretty much anyone can
play the game. Its a unique type of
trivia based exclusively on answers
to surveys, which means that all the
answers depend on the public interviewed. This develops accessibility
to a large audience. Some may struggle to answer Sakura cheese from
Hokkaido is a soft cheese flavored
with leaves from this fruit tree, in
the form of a question, but everyone
can come up with at least one answer
to the question What type of animal do you see in the park? when
its asked eight consecutive times. It
rewards the common man, the player whos in tune with the populous.
That said, boy howdy are there
some dumb answers on the show,
but from an entertainment perspective, buffoonery is equally engaging.
Name a way to say hello in a lan-
guage other than English. Howdy!

Holla! Oui oui! That episode has
forever altered my opinion of our nations collective cultural intelligence.
It was also not an isolated incident.
The frustration induced when a
pitifully wrong guess is greeted by
a familial chorus of Good answer!
Good answer! is potent enough to
cause a hernia. The pressure of fast
money especially can pull embarrassingly revealing answers out of
unsuspecting contestants. Name
a place your doctor might look in
with a little flashlight. Your butt!
Even more disconcerting was that
the answer was repeated in the second round.
Family Feud is the same story told
a thousand different ways. The questions and answers evolve but the format stays the same. Every game the
players change, meaning every game
the heroes and villains are made
anew. Some families are fun, some
are lame, some are awkward as hell,
but under the guidance of the modern television messiah Broderick
Stephen Harvey, every one of them
has a shot at greatness.
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FEATURES
Katrina Lake, CEO and Founder of Stitch Fix talks leadership

BY NICOLE VON WILCZUR
ORIENT STAFF
Silicon Valley is an attractive destination for

any entrepreneurial-minded graduate, but breaking into the business can be difficult. Katrina
Lake, who visited Bowdoin last weekend, has
found a way. The CEO and founder of the fashion
app Stitch Fix visited Bowdoin last weekend to
discuss being a female leader in tech and business.
Stitch Fix is a unique approach to personal
shopping. Five clothing items are selected for
shipment every month using the help of professional stylists and Stitch Fixs own algorithm
that match each customers tastes. When a subscriber receives his or her box, he or she can
choose either to purchase or return any of the
items, and with the help of user feedback, the
Stitch Fix algorithm becomes better at providing customers with satisfying products.
On Sunday in John Brown Russwurm African
American House, Lake took part in a Q&A session with Associate Director of Career Planning
Sherry Mason, where she shared with students
her experience in breaking into the fashion business world and what her job as CEO entails. On
Monday, Lake spoke at the Bowdoin Breakfast, a
program targeted at local business and community members, which was followed by a fireside
chat facilitated by President Clayton Rose.
In five short years since its creation, Lake
has transformed Stitch Fix into a multimilliondollar company that employs over 4,000 people.
Throughout, she has been intentional about
building a supportive and inspiring environment for her employees by creating and fostering a diverse work environment and making
Stitch Fix a great place for women in particular
to work and to lead.
I care really deeply that there arent enough
women in leadership, said Lake, citing that only
15 percent of leaders in tech and 12 percent of
leaders in retail are women. [It] is really sad because these are companies selling cosmetics and
apparel, and this is an industry where half of the
people who are coming in are women.
Lake considers herself lucky to have been
able to create Stitch Fix. The idea for the brand
emerged when Lake was attending Harvard
Business School and looking for post-graduate
jobs to apply for.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FASHION FIX: (left) Katrina Lake, founder and CEO of Stitch Fix. (right top): A pair of pumps from a fix shipment. (right bottom) A consulting or finance-themed fix.
I was trying to look for a company like the
one that I would create to joinI felt like I could
do super-interesting things with data and technology and retail, she said.
At the time, most other retailers were working to get their products to people in the cheapest and fastest fashion. However, she figured
that when it came to clothing, people did not
just want what they could get cheapest and
fastestthey wanted items that were best for
their individual body type and made them feel
most confident.
While she mostly focused on product testing
in business school, Lake was also able to acquire
the interest of her first investor, Steve Anderson,
also one of the first investors in Twitter and Instagram. By the time she graduated from Harvard,
Lakes company was already up and running.
That first year, we didnt even have a web-
site. We did everything through email, and we

packed our own fixes in our tiny little office every single Monday. It didnt matter if you were
the CEO or the inventory planner; you were
on the line getting fixes out the door. Getting
the actual company off the ground was a lot of
blood, sweat and tears, but in the end it was very
rewarding, said Lake.
Lake attributes much of her success in business not to her time as a graduate student at Harvard, but rather as a pre-med undergraduate at
Stanford University.
My undergrad was far more important and influential for my life, she said. Its not necessarily what
you learn in the classroom that you end up using in
your jobI think so much more of it is that youre
surrounded by great people and youre surrounded
by engaging people and that youre learning and loving learning, and youre able to take that with you.
Lake, an advocate for liberal arts education, advised undergraduates to not just take classes that
they think they need for their career, but also those
that simply sound interesting. She also believes in
taking this broad outlook towards education while
searching for jobs and internships.
I feel like theres a lot of focus on, This would be
my dream job and this is how I would feel fulfilled
in my lifebut the honest truth is what makes your
job rewarding are things like, Are you doing work
for someone great who supports you and cares for
you? and Are you learning?
In the last five years, Stitch Fix has exceeded
any expectation Lake had for what the company
could be. At the same time, Lake still believes
that there is more growth to come.
Everyday I see more and more of what were
able to do, and I get a bigger vision for the company, she said.
Gekkeikan sake pushes the limits of our grape-y palates

BOTTOM OF
THE BARREL
WILL DANFORTH AND MARTIN KRZYWY
DIANA FURUKAWA
There are these two young Orient columnists walking through Hannaford,
and they happen to meet a managing
editor walking the other way, who nods
at them and says, Morning, boys, hows
the wine? And the two young columnists
walk on for a bit, and then eventually one
of them looks over at the other and goes,
What the hell is wine?
With apologies to David Foster Wallace, this anecdote offers some insight
into the ontological confusion facing
your esteemed critics this past week. At
some point in the preceding days, we had
been visited by the notion to expand the
frontiers of our journalistic endeavor and
review sake, the traditional Japanese fermented rice wine. Emboldened by this
sense of culinary adventure, we set off to
procure the necessary ingredient for our
review. The Gekkeikan bottle on the bottom shelf of the wine aisle immediately
grabbed our attention, with an arrestingly
simple typographic label and a luminous
green tint to the glass.
Once back in the safe eyrie of Coles
Tower, we were soon disarmed by the
ease of the screw-off top, which rendered

impotent our arsenal of uncorking accouterments upon which we have leaned
so heavily this semester in our criticism.
Lacking traditional Japanese serving vessels, we were forced to rely on the heretofore-unquestioned orthodoxy of our Libbey stemware.
Our doubt and uncertainty were further compounded by the handful of serving and tasting techniques offered on
the back label. How could we neophytes
choose between the hot traditional manner and chilled on the rocks? We split
the difference and sampled the beverage
at room temperature. Upon pouring, the
sake resembled a faint white wine, with a
stronger pair of legs than one would expect from a similarly hued Pinot Gris.
Despite our best attempts to understand the sake within our carefully constructed critical schema, the first sip obliterated our finely woven hermeneutical
tapestry. The thin body apparent in the
glass belied a syrupy viscosity that assaulted our taste buds and lingered in our
olfactory membranes, as if someone had
beguiled us into drinking ethanol. Like a
work of analytical cubism, the sake broke
up the basic flavors of rice into disorienting mix of its component parts without
offering any sort of gustatory cohesion.
Despondentand just a bit nauseous
we spiraled into confusion.

Over the past few months, we had immersed ourselves so fully in the world
of wine that we seemed primed to take
on any challenge. We knew wine and we
knew how to taste. But our conception of
wine had become so hermetic and selfreferential that even something as minimally divergent as drinking beverages
fermented from rice rather than grapes
could dispel the illusion of this column
being our Knstlerroman.
Had we ever really known what wine
was? We, as published connoisseurs,
loathed our selection for this week, yet
many laypersons had extolled its virtues.
Were we hindered by our own expertise,
or had our column just been constructed
upon a false premise, with only witty aphorisms and sly references to support it?
If rice can be made into wine, then what
should one call the fermented product of
other grains if not wine as well? Had the
fiat of precedent falsely circumscribed us
to view the world in only red and white?
Or, rather, were the amber hues of beer
part of our journalistic birthright as well?
For our own physical and metaphysical
welfare, we will refrain from Gekkeikan
sake for the time being, and would recommend doing the same. However, weve
heard that Ballast Point makes a damn
good IPA.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
TONIGHTS SOUNDTRACK
Steely Dan
WILL
This makes for a scintillating

intellectual experience but a terrible Monday night drink.
MARTIN
Maybe Afrin will be my new

drug of choice?
NOSE
BODY
MOUTHFEEL
LEGS
TASTE
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?/5
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5/5
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Letting go of FOMO; facing Bowdoins pressure to always be on

DOUBLETHINK
CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL
Put yourself in the Union at 10
on a Tuesday morning. How many
people do you make meaningful
eye contact with as you walk up the
stairs? As youre waiting in line for
your coffee, are you smiling? Waving? Bantering? Staring at your
phone avoiding these social interactions? Are you running through
your to-do list for the day? Are you
taking stock of your body? Is any of
this conscious?
All of the labor that goes into
moving about the world at Bowdoin
amounts to a pressure to always be
on here. Being on means everything
but down time, everything but being alone, everything but being off.
There is always another person to
talk to and party to go to and new
friend to make. Were tempted by the
fantasy of never needing to sleep, of
reclaiming the six to eight lost hours
imbued with possibility. Being on is
about living in a community where
we are constantly presenting ourselves to each other. That presentation is an active process. Our social
worlds here are relentless.
So we had an idea: what would
happen if we tried to quantify our
social interactions? Coming off of
five weeks of hanging out at home,
going long stretches of only talking
to our moms, the constant barrage
of Bowdoin Hellos was a shock to
our systems. Amidst our February
woes, the contrast between home

life and Bowdoin life felt particularly pronounced. Our goal in keeping track of the Bowdoin social web
was to figure out the scale we deal
with. We decided to log our social
interactions with the highly scientific method of scribbling tallies on
folded papers. Cut to: Tessa newly
craving a pocket protector for her
denim button-down. We used four
categories: hellos to strangers, acquaintances and friends, with longer
conversations in a bracket of their
own. Cut to: us disrupting normal
human contact with the slick interjection, Shit, I need to record this.
We anticipated the hubs of first
floor H-L and the Moulton Light
Room. But we discovered that our
social realms expanded to almost
everywhere. Carly went on a run
through town and racked up four
hellos to Bowdoin acquaintances
and two to friends. Tessa found the
Union bathroom to be a real hotspot
for conversation. Even in places
where we expected to be alone, there
were people. We felt compelled to
talk to these peopleeven the ones
we didnt know.
Our arbitrary distinctions between stranger, acquaintance and
friend made us consider how in no
other setting are these boundaries so
blurred. What constitutes a friend?
Someone whose phone number we
have? That we pause to talk to? A
Facebook friend? These questions
came to light as we struggled to categorize the people in our lives. It felt
weird. It felt weird to explain our
tallies to people. It feels weird to ac-
knowledge it now.
We planned to do this for a week.
We failed miserably. Two days of
data that would never pass an Institutional Review Board left us wiped
out. We felt exhausted for a couple
reasons: the mental task of remembering to do something thats entirely unnatural proved taxing. And
while looking at our tallies at the
ends of these days, we were astounded by the volume of interactions we
had. Overall, Bowdoin Hellos won,
but longer conversations had more
than any discrete category. It was
striking to see the emotional labor
of a single day at Bowdoin laid out
tangibly in front of us.
Reality check: our assertion is not
that were Regina George, basking
in our own popularity. Though we
realize its not universal, we believe
that ceaseless social interaction is
a shared feature of Bowdoin life for
many students here. Thats why we
talk about FOMO all the timeit
wouldnt be so prominent in our
discourse if we didnt have the precedent of constant connection. Sometimes we feel that we can take on our
social worlds here, and sometimes
we dont. Sometimes theyre really
daunting. Yet when we extract ourselves from the web, we often feel
compelled to justify our decision. I
didnt go to x party because a) I had
some shit to get done, b) Im sick, or
the intentionally vague, c) I needed
to self-care. Very rarely: I was doing nothing. Almost never: I didnt
want to.
So we fear being off, missing out,
not looking like weve got it all to-
ROSE
The day Claytons appointment was
announced publicly, we came up here
and there was an assembly at Smith
Union to announce it, she said. I just
thought it was wonderful to meet everybody. But the number of people who
were coming up to me, I was really overwhelmed with how wonderful that was. I
thought This is going to be great.
When President Rose took office at the
College on July 1 of last year, it marked a
big day for the Rose family in more ways
than one; it was also the opening of Juliannes womens accessory store, J.Rose, in
Wells, Maine.
About two years ago, I seriously
started to think about it, Rose said of
opening her own store. My business is
womens accessories. I thought combining the aesthetic part of it, which I enjoy,
with the business part, which is my background, could be really cool. I thought, If
not now, when? So I just decided to take
the plunge.
For Rose, setting up the storewhich
is open seven days a week in the summer and two in the offseasonwas both
thrilling and arduous.
I went through doing my business
plan, setting up my LLC and all that
kind of stuff, doing the buying, figuring
out inventory levels, and it was so much
fun. A lot of work but so much fun."
While developing a retail space was
a new experience for Rose, working in
business was not. She received an M.B.A.
from the University of Chicago (where
she met Clayton) and worked on Wall
Street for several years thereafter.
It was not always her plan to go into
business, however. She graduated magna
cum laude from Boston College in 1977
with an undergraduate degree in biology,
and her first job out of college was as a
lab technician.
"I was fortunate enough to get a job
gether. But Bowdoin

is a more forgiving
place than we give
it credit for being.
Dont we spend so
much time talking
to people that we
dont really know?
Doesnt this speak
to a level of warmth
and openness in our
community? Quantifying our interactions also made us
aware of their quality. And although
the amount of our
interactions startled
us, the overall substance of them reminded us that were
surrounded by special people here. We
think that no one is
really, truly going
to judge us harshly
for opting out of the
web. Were allowed
to extract ourselves,
to take breaks. We
can trust that the
interactions we do
have are valuable
without constantly
focusing on the ones
were not having.
Put yourself in
the Union, or in the
library, or at Cold
War, or wherever
you are right now.
Is it where you want
to be?
DIANA FURUKAWA
Dinosaurs to derivatives;
autism and Special Interests
BEN YORK
AN AUTISTICS GUIDE TO AUTISM
FIRST LADY: Julianne Rose received her undergraduate degree from Boston College and went
on to receive an M.B.A from University of Chicago.
with the University of Pennsylvania at
the medical school there working with a
doctor who was doing research on leukemia, and I worked there for two years,
she said. "I loved working there for the
reason that I found out what I didnt want
to do, which was work in a lab.
Not entirely satisfied with the work
she was doing, Rose began taking business classes at Penns Wharton School.
It didnt take long from there for her to
realize that business school ought to be
her next step.
"I had a strong math background,
she said. "It was the appeal of the quantitative side of it, and the University
of Chicago is known for being a more
quantitative school, so that was a natural fit for me. Transitioning into that
was kind of a no-brainer.
In 1981, both she and Clayton
moved to New York to work as bankers
on Wall Street. Julianne used both her
biology and business educations, working in healthcare finance at Chemical
Bank and Citibank. In 1985, they uprooted to London when Clayton took
a position there with J.P. Morgan. They
lived there for three years, and both
of their sons, Garett and Jordan, were

born there.
When they returned to the States,
they settled in Essex Falls, N.J., where
Julianne began a 12-year career in public service. She spent six years on the
towns school board and six more on its
town council.
"Theyre dealing with how to provide the best education to the children
using limited financial resources, she
said of her work on the school board.
"I hate to cut it down to that, but thats
so much of what youre trying to do.
Youre working with all sorts of constituents, with teachers and parents.
When the Roses moved to Brookline, Mass. in 2008 and Clayton began
teaching at Harvard Business School,
Julianne was recruited for her experience in education to be on the towns
education foundation. Her skills will
be similarly welcomed on campus at
Bowdoin once shes decided how shed
best like to use them.
"I certainly have gotten to know Bowdoin better, but as far as what my role will
be? I dont know yet. I really want to give
that a little more time, she said.
Many autistic individuals, throughout

the course of their livesthough especially in childhoodhave a singular passion that captivates them. This passion
is more than a mere hobby, more than a
mere interest, more than a pastime or diversion. This passion is the focus of captivation and affection, of time and love and
energy. In autistic jargon, it is known as
a Special Interest. Capital S. Capital I.
Dropping the capital letters for a moment, a special interest is some singular
interest that an autistic individual focuses
their attention on to an extreme degree.
This interest may take the form of any
topic under the sun. It might be something general, like art or music or sports.
Or it might be something particular, like
the royal family of Saudi Arabia or words
that begin with Q. Regardless, a special
interest is one that an autistic individual
fixates on. If the interest is academic, the
autistic person might learn everything
they can about the topic. If the interest
is of a more physical nature, the autistic
person might do whatever it is that interests them all the time, perhaps for hours
every day. The special interest often (but
not always) takes away time from other
interests, and the autistic persons worldview and experiences are often based
around their special interest.
For a group of individuals constantly overwhelmed by their surroundings, having a special interest serves as
a grounding point for autistic people.
When navigating the strata of society,
or wending their way through school or

work or home environments, an autistic
person may depend on their special interest as a constant. As something that
makes sense.
When I was younger, my special interest was dinosaurs. I loved dinosaurs. I
loved dinosaurs a lot. I learned about dinosaurs whenever and however I could.
I memorized their scientific names,
and words associated with them, and
the men and women who discovered
them. It was difficult at the time for me
to talk about anything but dinosaurs.
This also came at a time in my life when
social interaction was very difficult for
me. I had very few friends and was often in trouble at school due to misunderstandings or lack of communication
with classmates. I cried often and was
overwhelmed even more, as the world
was a confusing place that I did not feel
I fit into. But dinosaurs made sense. A
carnivore was a carnivore, a triceratops
was a triceratopsthose words did not
change their meanings depending on
circumstance. They remained constantly (and comfortingly) solid and understandable, even when things happening
around me werent.
At the time I did not view my special
interest as a refuge, and in a way I still
dont. My special interest right now is
mathematics, and while I am not as singularly focused on math as I once was
on dinosaurs, I still find myself spending hours of my time working on math,
just because I love to learn about it.
While I do not use math as an escape
from anything, it is comforting that
math, like dinosaurs, doesnt change
very quickly. Both are too old for that.
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TALK OF THE QUAD

SISTER ACT
Bowdoin might have been the
best thing to ever happen to me.
Honestly, I said that in a job interview a few months ago but its true.
Growing up in the cultural wasteland that is South Florida, I never
really fit in. Florida felt hot and vain
and materialistic and old. Fulfilling
my cultural stereotype of the overeager and overly anxious suburban
girl who thinks shes alternative
and special, I spent the entirety of
senior year of high school wishing
that I could leave the humidity of
South Florida for a liberal arts college with the kind of artsy and intellectual crowd that was so different
than everyone I knew and had ever
met. I set timers for 11:11 every day
and every night, just to make sure
some greater power knew how much
I really wanted The Perfect Liberal
Arts Experience.
Bowdoin the Reality was even better than Bowdoin the Dream. I ate
sundaes every Sunday and Wednes-
I loved Bowdoin and I loved how it

let me grow.
Bowdoin quickly became more
than just an Institution of Higher
Learning; it was symbolic of my
entry into adulthood. So when my
younger sister decided she was following me to Bowdoin, I mostly just
panicked. I was working to become
my own person, but now I was going
to have to do it under the watchful
eye of my little sister.
Our parents, of course, were
thrilled about the idea of us going to
college together. They constantly reminded me that I would have someone to sit with at Passover Seders in
Main Lounge and take care of me
when I got sick, or was more likely
being a hypochondriac and had a
concussion. The eight hours it
took to get home wouldnt be so unbearable when I had Molly to share
candy and magazines with and wont
it just be so nice to see your sister
walking by?
Molly and I are two halves of the
same whole. We share a mom and a
To say the least, I had mixed feelings about sharing Bowdoin with
my sister. I worried that when she set up her dorm room she would
unpack parts of me that I was trying to leave at home.
day and took classes in philosophy
and went streaking at Farley Field
House and fell in love with a boy
and with my friends and with myself. Sometimes I cried to my mom
on the floor of my dorm room and
stressed about deadlines and had
Snapchat-induced FOMO. Even then,
dad and a bedroom. Our birthdays

are five days apart, even though the
doctors thought we would share one.
We drove to school together every
day, we drove home together every
day. We went to summer camp together and shared a closet and even
sometimes deodorant. I talked and
talked and talked, Molly listened.

We fought a lot, mostly because I
tried to steal her clothes. Sometimes
it escalated to physical violence, but
that was pretty rare.
To say the least, I had mixed feelings about sharing Bowdoin with my
sister. I worried that when she set up
her dorm room, she would unpack
parts of me that I was trying to leave
at home.
I worried that she would be
friends with my friends and watch
me DFMO and maybe see me drunk.
I worried that shed think I didnt
have my life together (of course she
would, I didnt) or tell my parents
the embarrassing things I did. Most
of all, I worried that she wouldnt
like me in my new habitat.
Bowdoin felt too small for both of
us to figure our shit out.
So I went abroad, to take some
time for myself and let Molly get
her bearings here without me. The
distance was mostly good for us.
Molly could choose her classes and
her friends and her life without my
(unwanted) input. While I posed
in front of the Duomo and stuffed
my face with gelato, I would loan
Bowdoin to Molly so that she could
carve out her own Bowdoin, under
the pretense that it would still be my
place when I returned.
My transition back to Bowdoin in
the spring felt strange, mostly because it felt more like Mollys than
it did like mine. Unlike a lot of first
years who stumble through their
first semester, Molly flourished. My
little sister wasnt so little anymore. I
had been so obsessed with the idea
that she would impede on my turf,
not let me Become Who I Am, that
WHY IM A RADICAL
My beliefs do not come from
within myself but rather from a life
in a world which opposes me.
Im not sure when it started. Maybe a year ago when I finally found a
word to describe my gender. Maybe
a few months ago when I began to
engage critically with the concept of
capitalism as a sure fact of the world.
Maybe it was last June, when I spoke
to a room full of high school teachers regarding the importance of
gender inclusivity in school. Maybe
during the teach-in, when I spoke
very summarily on the experience of
being queer and trans and a person
of color all at once.
But really, I do know. It started
years ago, when people attributed my
academic success to my race. It started when I was told I needed to find
a girlfriend to take to school dances.
It started when cars of people would
drive by and yell Faggot! at me and
my friends in high school. It started
when I was told to identify as white
on college application forms.
My radicalism and there can be
no weaker word to describe the way
I see myself and the world around
DIANA FURUKAWA
me birthed itself through the experiences of 20 years of life. My

sense of critical deconstructionism
represents more to me than a political stanceit is a weapon and the
best and most reliable tool I have
for self -preservation.
Because
I live in a world which constantly
reminds me that I should not exist,
that I am an anomaly and that I need

to fit within prescribed boxes, every
action I take, every decision I make,
represents more than an individual
incident but instead a political statement.
When I introduce myself as agender and explain that I use any and all
pronouns interchangeably, I am de-
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
I failed to see that I was the one hovering over her.

Even though it took us a while to
learn how to coexist, having Molly
here has been one of the best parts of
my Bowdoin experience. We share
friends and get dinners sometimes
and FaceTime our grandparents together. We fight about whose job it
is to book flights home and where to
eat when our parents visit. We laugh
about our moms failed attempts to

watch us on the Thorne Live Feed.
We bring each other snacks in the
library. Now, we live close enough
that I can see the light on in her
room every night when I go to sleep.
Its not the same as the pillow talk
we had as kids, but its close enough.
Rachel Snyder is a member of the
Class of 2016.
scribing not just a self -identification

but an act of revolt against the very
institution of gender itself. But when
I am forced to use a mens bathroom
or a mens locker room, I am undermining myself and my beliefs, submitting to a system which I cannot
make submit to me.
When I check Asian and not
white on the college enrollment
form, I am making a statement
about the manner in which I am
racialized on a daily basis; I am not
perceived as white, and therefore I
am not treated as such. However,
growing up in a white household
has distanced me entirely from the
culture of Asian Americans.
I am a radical merely through the
fact of my existence. Because my life
is a political event, my body as a politicized space is a reality whether I
want it to be or not. I am a radical
through process of elimination. If
I am not a man, am not a woman,
am not white and yet also not fully
Asian, am not straight and yet unable to define my sexuality with
words that rely on the existence of
a gender binary, I am forced to exist
in a liminal space.
I am a radical as a means of selfreassurance. Even if I do not fit into
the boxes prescribed to me, I can
make my own. Radicalism frees me

and my ability to explore my own
identity, unbound by the circumstances of my birth.
When I forecast such extremes as
the eventual abolition of gender and
the inevitable death of capitalism, I
do so with the utmost certainty. Because I know there is no other option. I am not the first radical, and
I will not be the last. The world, as
hegemonically patriarchal and capitalist as it is, produced me and my
beliefs, and I am trying my hardest
to change what I can and pass on a
world just a little bit better than the
one that was given to me. Progress
engenders radicalism which engenders progressa cycle of violent ideological death and rebirth towards a
better life for everyone.
My beliefs and experiences directly inform one another. I dont simply have a political stance or set of
opinionsradicalism is quite literally a lifestyle of discontent with the
system but optimism for the future.
There are more of us every day, an
unjust society creating revolutionaries like antibodies designed to fight
a virus. I do not doubt that
one day we will win.
Paul Cheng is a member of the Class of 2017.
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Mens basketball falls to

Amherst to end season
BY ANJULEE BHALLA
ORIENT STAFF
ALEX DOBBIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
COMING IN HOT: Matthew Lison 18 prepares to make a move on the Trinity goalkeeper during Bowdoins 2-1 win over the Bantams on February 14 at Watson
Arena. The Polar Bears are currently riding a ten-game unbeaten streak and will host Amherst in the first round of the NESCAC playoffs on Saturday.
Mens ice hockey rolls into NESCAC

playoffs on ten-game unbeaten streak
BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF
The mens ice hockey team was able

to carry its unbeaten streak through
the final two games of the season to
clinch the third seed of the NESCAC
playoffs. Last weekend, the Polar Bears
tied Tufts and beat Conn College,
playing both games on the road.
The team traveled to Tufts last Saturday, looking to finish the season
strong and host a home playoff game.
Captain Matt Rubinoff 16 gave the
Polar Bears the early lead, netting the
first goal 3:41 into the first period. The
Polar Bears let one slip past goaltender
Peter Cronin 18 in the 10th minute of
the game, but Joe Lace 17 responded
by knocking in a shot in the final minute of the first period to take a 2-1
lead. Tufts tied the score again before
Spencer Antunez 18 added another
for the Polar Bears, who couldnt seem
to keep the Jumbos from re-entering
the game.
The Jumbos scored two back-to-
back in the third period to take their

first lead of the game, threatening
Bowdoins chances of winning home
ice for the playoffs. But, Bowdoin responded. On a fast break, Rubinoff
carried the puck over the blue line,
cutting across the ice and dropped it
back to Camil Blanchet 18, who sidestepped a defender, setting up Matt Lison 18 for the game-tying goal.
In overtime, Cronin stopped all
seven shots that he faced, but the Polar Bear offense was unable to find the
winning goal.
Having escaped the game against
Tufts with a tie, the team travelled to
New London, Conn. to face the Conn
College Camels, who the Polar Bears
had defeated 8-3 at home in December. Looking to ensure their standing
in the playoffs, the Polar Bears were
eager for a win, which would cap off a
10-game unbeaten streak leading into
the playoffs.
Lison put Bowdoin on the board
3:24 into the first period. After an
equalizer from the Camels, Chris
Fenwick 16 put Bowdoin ahead once

again to end the period. After two
goals by the Camels and another by
Cody Todesco 19, the Polar Bears
again found themselves in a close
game in the final minutes. However,
Rubinoff came through yet again for
the Polar Bears, scoring the gamewinner with 3:13 left in the game. Cronin stopped 23 shots in the contest.
Next, the team will prepare to host
sixth-seeded Amherst College on
Saturday in a quarterfinal matchup.
Bowdoin tied Amherst in their first
meeting of the season but was able to
come away with a 3-1 win in their latest matchup.
The name of the game for the Polar
Bears will be discipline and defense, as
Bowdoin has averaged 3.12 goals per
game throughout this season (2nd in
the NESCAC). In both of the previous two matchups against the Purple
& White, the Polar Bears were sent to
the penalty box six times.
BY JOULIA LIKHANSKAIA
ORIENT STAFF
ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FRESH START: Brigit Bergin 18 starts a fast break during Bowdoins 4-2 home defeat
to Trinity on Saturday, February 20. Despite losing five games in a row to finish the
regular season, the team only has to win three consecutive gamesa feat they already
have accomplished this seasonto win the NESCAC tournament.
weekend. Not only will the Polar Bears
need to be healthy but they will also need
to be mentally tough. As their record
shows, they have not been very consistent.
Weve played the same team twice in
a weekend and so for the first couple of
months we would just split every weekend.
We would either win Friday and then lose,
or wed lose Friday and then wed think,
Oh, we just have to win on Saturday,
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Please see M HOCKEY , page 13
Womens ice hockey faces difficult test

The womens hockey team has struggled in the homestretch of its season, losing the last five games. The team now has
an overall record of 8-13-2 and will face off
against Amherst in the first round of the
NESCAC tournament.
The Polar Bears have one win over Amherst and feel confident going into the first
round this weekend, but staying healthy
will be key for the teams success.
Weve had a lot of injuries so weve
had a really small bench, said Mo Greason 18. Marne [Gallant 17] was injured
before the season even started. Now Julie
[Dachille 18] had to go home because she
has mono, and one of our goalies, Beth
[Findley 16], has mono. Weve had two
concussions in the past month, and we already have a small roster so it just makes it
more physically taxing for all of us because
we all have to just play more and some of
our best players have been hurt.
Although some strong players have had
to sit out several games, the team believes
that they will ready to go this upcoming
The mens basketball team fell 7683 to second seed Amherst last Saturday in the first round of the NESCAC Tournament. It is unlikely that
the Polar Bears receive a bid to the
NCAA tournament.
After falling behind in the first 10
minutes, the Polar Bears rallied to tie
the game before the end of the first
half, and kept the score close until the
end. However, they were ultimately
unable to come back after Amherst
scored some key three-pointers in the
last few minutes.
We still stayed right with [Amherst], competed with them and
played a great game, so I was very
happy with how we battled, our performance and the way we came out
and played, said Head Coach Tim
Gilbride. Maybe just one play here
or there couldve made the difference
in the game, but unfortunately we
didnt end up getting that one play.
As predicted by the team last week,
rebounding was key in keeping the
game close. The Polar Bears had a 4234 edge over Amherst in rebounds,
led by senior Matt Palecki, who had
nine rebounds on the day. Senior Lu-
cas Hausman led the team in scoring

with 29 points in his final game as a
Polar Bear. He averaged 25.3 points
per game this season, setting a new
school record.
With such strong performances,
the team is proud of how they played
against Amherst, who is not only
seeded second in the NESCAC but
ranked first in the Division III Northeast region. The Purple & White have
put together a consistently strong program as they won the NESCAC Title
for three consecutive years before
Wesleyan put a stop to their streak in
last years championship match.
Thats how you want to finish a
season, playing your best and seeing
where that takes you and how far it
can take you, and it took us to a real
close game with one of the better
teams in the country, said Gilbride.
I think everybody feels good about
that. But our guys are such good competitors, especially our senior group,
that when youre that close, you want
to win the game.
While the loss is disappointing, the
team was able to finish their season
with a winning record of 12-11. Much
of the teams success in the back half
said Greason.
With the big game coming up, the Polar
Bears have been working hard on improving their offense.
Our forwards are faster than their defense, so we should be able to get on them,
said Greason.
The womens hockey team will play in
the first round of the NESCAC tournament against Amherst Saturday at 3 p.m.
COURTESY OF ALLEN GARNER
FINISHING STRONG: From left: Lyle Anderson 16, Lloyd Anderson 16, Eli Bass 16, JR Chansakul 16,
and John Lagasse 16 are the five senior members of the mens swimming and diving team. The team
competed at Middlebury in NESCACs this past weekend, which is the last and most important meet of the
season. After getting off to a slow start to the weekend, the team improved by the end of the meet, and
finished sixth out of eleven teams.
Mens swimming finishes

sixth at NESCAC meet
BY MADDIE JODKA
ORIENT STAFF
This past weekend, the mens

swimming and diving team competed at the NESCAC Championship and finished sixth overall out
of eleven teams present, tying last
years finish. Bowdoin accumulated
a total of 834.5 points throughout
the three-day competition.
The team trains throughout the
entire season in anticipation for this
one important meet. For the Polar
Bears, this hard work seems to have
paid off. Karl Sarier 19 won an individual NESCAC title in the 200
freestyle, and many members of the
team managed to put up their fastest
times.
For the most part, we swam well,
said Head Coach Brad Burnham.
There are always going to be a few
people that are disappointed or dont
quite meet expectations, but its hard
to get 24 men to swim fast all at the
same time. They did a great job, trying to swim as fast as they could,
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M BASKETBALL
DAVID ANDERSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ON TO TUFTS: Kate Kerrigan 18 looks to beat a trap during Bowdoins 61-43 home victory over Tufts earlier this season in a non-conference matchup. It was only one of two Jumbos losses this season. However,
Tufts got the better of Bowdoin the second time around, defeating the Polar Bears by a three point margin.
This past weekend, the Polar Bears knocked off sixth-seededWilliams at home, 73-50, to extend their winning streak to eight games and advance to the NESCAC semifinals.The Polar Bears will now travel toTufts to
face off against second-seeded Amherst on Saturday at 4 p.m. in their semifinal matchup. If Bowdoin wins,
they will likely face top-seeded Tufts on Sunday in a rematch of last seasons NESCAC championship, which
the Jumbos won, 68-52. However, Amherst will be a tough test. The Lord Jeffs have lost only one game all
season, and defeated Bowdoin by 30 points when the teams met earlier this season.
CREW

Pros and Cons
The crew team is quite successful
competitively. The women won the
Head of the Charles race in Boston
in 2012, and Bowdoin boats have medaled the last six years at the Charles.
Moreover, the team has won medals
at the Dad Vail regatta, the largest
intercollegiate regatta in the country,
for seven consecutive years.
While the club team is able to
compete at a highly successful level,
the athletic department does not see
a reason to change the operational model.
Institutionally, we would have
to review that model and decide if
we want to head in the direction of
a new model, which would be fully
funded by athletics. Historically, the
program has provided a great experience for students, so that hasnt
been something that weve considered said Ashmead White Director
of Athletics Tim Ryan.
The coaches say there are some
drawbacks becoming a varsity team.
The program would have to be reconfigured to race primarily in
eight-person boats. The team races
mostly in four-person boats currently stored in a boat house five
miles from campus. This boat house
cannot accommodate storing such
large boats, and would have to be

reconstructed, which would be an
expensive endeavor.
Moreover, the coaches and captains have a certain degree of autonomy when it comes to choosing
which races to participate in that
they may not have as a varsity team.
I just think there hasnt been
a high level of investment in moving it forward, said head coach Gil
Birney. Part of that is that were the
victims of our own success. Weve
done a really good job competition
wise.
Though the teams operational
costs are not funded by the athletic
department, the team is expected
to abide by NCAA, NESCAC, and
Bowdoin athletic department rules
and regulations that can put a strain
on the crew teams funds when it
comes to, for example, booking hotel rooms.
Moreover, all of the logistical dutiesi.e. booking hotels and coordinating transportation to practice and
racesfall on the coaches and team
captains. Varsity programs, however, get this logistical support directly
from the athletic department.
Gil and I have had off and on
conversations over a number of
years, said Ryan I think its something people have often have wondered about but people havent sat
down and said lets make a final institutional decision on this.
of the season came from players rising to meet the demands of the team,
which continued in the quarterfinal matchup.
Our underclassmen really stepped
up, especially the freshman class.
They showed a lot of grit and determination when it came to the Amherst game, said Blake Gordon 18.
Our senior captain [Jake Donnelly]
was injured for the Amherst game so
a first year [Tim Ahn] started who
played tremendously well during the
game, and I think that will translate
to next year.
With this seasons strong finish, the
underclassmen on the team will carry
a lot of experience and confidence
into next year. The current first years
are expected to continue their critical
role on the team next season, especially after Jack Simonds 19 ended
up as the teams second leading scorer
this season. However, the program
will also have to make up for the loss
of the three graduating seniors.
Lucas Hausman, Matt Palecki
and Jake Donnelly have really done
a good job of bringing this whole
group together, said Gilbride. Our
teams really shown a lot of progress,
especially right here at the end of the
season in terms of playing very well
together, and that really happens and
can only happen if you get great leadership and our three senior captains
have been great with that.
The senior class has provided the
team with not only strong leadership off the court, but also immense
skill and talent on the court. All
three seniors were consistent starters for the team both this season and
last season. Palecki led the team this
season in rebounds per game with
6.9, while Donnelly led in assists per
game with 3.4. After being named
NESCAC Player of the Year last year,
Hausman continued his strong trajectory and surpassed the 1,000 career points milestone this season,
finishing his Bowdoin career with
1,482 points, which ranks seventh in
school history.
A hybrid program of funding
Its an issue of funding. To be
able to fund an additional varsity
level sport would be a significant hit
to the [athletic department] budget,
said Birney.
According to Ryan, the athletic
department does not currently have
the funds to support a varsity rowing program.
The rowing team and mens rugby are the only teams with endowments; some varsity coaching positions are endowed, but no varsity
team currently has an endowment.
Birney estimated that in order to
sustain a fully endowed varsity rowing program, the teams endowment
would have to grow to $2,500,000.
This figure would allow for the team
to be self-sustaining in terms of operational costs.
Until then, the team has to cover
its operational costs with funding
from the Student Activities Funding
Committee (SAFC) and through aggressive fundraising.
We are really a kind of hybrid
program in the athletics at Bowdoin,
said Birney. We receive some funding from the athletic department but
most of our funding is either from
the SAFC or fundraising.
Birney and assistant coach Doug
Welling are the only club team
coaches who are employees of the
athletic department. The funding
support from athletics is used only
ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TIL NEXT YEAR: Neil Fuller 17 shoots over a defender during the Polar Bears final win of the season, a
78-71 victory over Connecticut College that pushed the Polar Bears into the NESCAC tournament. The team
was defeated at Amherst this past weekend in the first round of the tournament, ending their season.
In Lucas, were losing one of the
best scorers in the history of Bowdoin College basketball, so that
wont be easy to replace, said Gilbride. Well miss all three, but I
think we have a real nice nucleus to
build with, a nice collection of guys
that will be returning and hopefully
some other new players to add to the
mix, so were really looking forward
to next year.
Ending this season the way that

we did, with three big wins at home
and then going to Amherst and fighting them close the whole game, I
think that transitions into next year
knowing that we can compete with
any team in the NESCAC, said
Gordon. We have the right players,
we have the right attitude, we just
need to show that we can prove that
throughout the whole season.
to pay the majority part of the coaches salaries. However, fundraising is

needed to pay part of the coaching
salaries and to fund the majority of
the teams operational costs.
The rowing teams operational
budget for the 2015-2016 year is
roughly $200,000, which is larger
than the average Bowdoin varsity
program budget. In the fall, the crew
team requested $61,000 dollars from
the SAFC; they were given $46,000.
In the spring, the team asked for
an additional $8,600; they received
$600. This means that the coaches
and team must fundraise the rest.
We fundraise probably anywhere from $80,000 to $120,000 a
year. And that comes from alumni
and parents and friends of Bowdoin
Rowing, said Birney.
Relying on fundraising presents a
risk for the team: it is not guaranteed that they will raise the money
they need every year.
Sometimes we dont know if we
will have enough money to go to
certain races, said Binenfeld.
I think honestly if Clayton Rose
or Dean Foster or somebody else
came up and said we think its time
to start talking seriously about making rowing a varsity sport that the
conversation would have a different
urgency, said Coach Birney.
The natural trajectory of the

team is towards a varsity sport. We
operate as one, we compete as one,
we compete with other varsity programs, said mens captain Greg Picarillo 17.
Both Birney and Welling said
they would like to see the program
be elevated to the varsity level, as
would many members of the team.
Itd be great, said Coach Birney,
varsity level competition is terrific.
[Being varsity] would be great
for the program in terms of general
success and prestige, said Arman
Ashrafi 17.
Sophie Binenfeld 17 echoed
Ashrafis statement saying that varsity status would give prominence
to the program. It feels like were not
taken as seriously sometimes.
If the endowment were to grow to
$2,500,000, the athletic department
would talk to the SAFC to see how
the team may function as a varsity
program.
If we decided that that was something we wanted to pursue, we would
bring it to the Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster. If he thought that
was something we wanted to pursue,
we would bring that to President
Rose and then we would ultimately
make that institutional decision if
[adding another varsity program]
was something we wanted to do,
said Ryan.
Looking forward
Jono Gruber contributed to this report.
the bowdoin orient
sports
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M HOCKEY
Amherst is the defending NESCAC

champion, and the Purple & White
will be eager to fight their way back
into the finals again this year. They
ended the season with a 7-8-3 NESCAC record.
This game will mark the final
matchup between long time coaching
rivals Head Coach Terry Meagher and
Amherst Coach Jack Arena, who have
both been coaching in the NESCAC
for 33 seasons. Amherst and Bowdoin have both had excellent track
records during the last 33 years under
the leadership of these two coaches,
although Bowdoin leads the all-time
postseason record 6-1.
I have never been on a team that
has overcome so much adversity
over a season, said Fenwick. From
the bottom of the pack at the midseason mark, we were able to win out
and claim revenge over all of the best
hockey clubs in our league. The adversity we have had to deal with has made
us a force to be reckoned with, and
everybody in our locker room is confident that we can win another NESCAC championship for the program.
We have looked great in practice
all year long and as the final practices
wind down, all are prepared to play
our best hockey yet when it counts the
most. With a single elimination playoff structure, there is no tomorrow after a loss, added Fenwick.
While Bowdoin is riding the hot
hand of a 10-game unbeaten streak,
no team can be counted out in the NESCAC playoffs. The Polar Bears will
take the ice tomorrow at 3 p.m. at Sidney J. Watson Arena in what should
prove to be a hard-fought matchup of
two veteran NESCAC coaches.
M SWIMMING
keeping a good attitude and working

together. It was fun this year.
Bowdoins NESCAC rival, Bates,
finished one spot above the Polar
Bears in fifth place. While the team
had hoped to top the Bobcats at
the meet, captain John Lagasse 16
said he wasnt at all disappointed
by Bowdoins overall performance
and believes that both teams swam a
very good meet.
Lagasse noted that the first day of
the meet got off to a slow start, but
the Polar Bears were able to push
through and end the weekend on a
high note.
The first day of the meet was a
little slower, said Lagasse. But as
we got acclimated to the meet, things
very quickly sorted out. I think that
was a testament to the mindset of
the team being a good, cohesive
group and very willing to put [our]
best efforts out there.
Among the achievements of the
weekend, most notable was Sariers,
who not only won the 200 freestyle
but also set new school records during both the 100 and 200 freestyle
races. In the 200, he finished with a
time of 1:39.70. Sarier came in third
overall in the 100 freestyle with a
time of 45.48. In addition, Sarier set
yet another school record when he
finished in second place in the 200
yard IM with a time of 1:51.22.
Michael Netto 18 also had an impressive weekend, breaking a pair of
school records in the 100 and 200
breaststroke. Netto finished fourth
in both events and set new marks
at 56.49 in the 100 and 2:03.67
in the 200. Both Netto and Sarier
achieved B cut qualifying times for
the NCAA Championship.
Especially since those guys are
underclassmen, its good to see that
ALEX DOBBIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LAST RODEO: Head Coach Terry Meagher paces along the Bowdoin bench during the Polar Bears 2-1 win over Trinity on February 14 at Watson Arena. This weekend, Bowdoin will host Amherst
in its first home playoff game since 2013, when they defeated Williams in the NESCAC championship game. Meagher has made plans to retire after the season ends, and this weekends game is
also likely the final home game of Meaghers 33 year tenure as Head Coach of the Polar Bears.
kind of performance early in the
career, said capital John Anderson
16. It definitely bodes well for the
future.
Another highlight for the team
was the 400 free relay. Lagasse,
Netto, Sarier and Will Hutchinson 18 combined in the relay and
broke a Bowdoin record, finishing
in 3:05.92.
Going into the meet, the Polar
Bears sought to swim well and improve upon their already solid season. Though they finished sixth
both this year and last at the championship, Burnham believes that this
years meet was much stronger.
We improved in a lot of ways,
said Burnham. Clearly we have a
different race strategy than some of
the other schools, and in most cases,
that paid off. We were able to come
back stronger, finish races and swim
faster times than some people that
swam races differently.
Lagasse and Anderson highlighted improvement throughout
the season in mid-distance events.
Both areas gained a lot of new talent that helped make up for injuries
and greatly contributed to the overall positive atmosphere and success
of the season. Anderson and Lagasse
also noted the supportive team environment that was kept up through
the whole season and was especially
strong this past weekend.
Everyone was a little nervous
the first day of competition, said
Anderson. But then we realized all
we had to do was be there for each
other like we had been for the whole
season. [There was] a good feeling
of true camaraderie and support for
the next two days.
It was probably one of the strongest teams Ive been a part of, added
Lagasse. [The team] brought a level
of intensity that wasnt necessarily
there in previous years.
14
the bowdoin orient
OPINION
Listen and learn

ast semester, it was impossible not to hear about the pain that ethnic
stereotyping causes people of color on our campus. So why did it happen
again?
On Wednesday night at the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) public comment time, students from across campus described the emotional harm that
ethnic stereotyping at a tequila-themed party caused them. Some described
how they felt a joke was had at the expense of their cultures complexity and
richness. Others said that they feel excluded from the campus community as
students of color, and that events like this and their aftermaths reinforce that
sense of ostracization. A first year said that he regrets coming to Bowdoin in
the first place. The pain in the room was palpable.
It is alarming that we have had three prominent incidents of this kind in just
over a year. Each time, a similar dialogue has been sparked in response. Its
frustrating that the same conversations keep happening with many of the
same participants, a disproportionate amount of whom are students of color.
It speaks volumes that most of those in attendance at the tequila party werent
at Wednesdays BSG meeting to hear the responses of those affected by their
event. This is one of the reasons why we are stuck in this cycle of offense and
re-offense.
There are some rules you can break that will only harm yourselffrom something as common as drinking hard alcohol to more serious offenses like plagiarism. There are some standards of conduct at Bowdoin that you may not agree
with. You might think that the Social Codes phrase conduct unbecoming of a
Bowdoin student is too vague to mean anything.
However, the fallout from the tequila party isnt about breaking rules or your
relationship with the administration. Its about basic empathy. Its not about
finding a loophole in the Colleges codes of conduct, and its not about a debate
over political correctness. Its about respecting your peers as human beings and
acknowledging what makes them feel unwelcome in our community.
If youre confused about why people are mad, take the time to figure it out. Listen to what your peers are saying, learn from past mistakes, recognize that this
behavior has a historic and political context and stop throwing these parties.
This behavior is demeaning to your peers and it must end.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of Julian Andrews, John Branch, Jono Gruber, Matthew
Gutschenritter, Emma Peters, Meg Robbins, Nicole Wetsman and Emily Weyrauch.
Its appropriation, yall

BY CLAIRE DAY
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
As a white woman, appropriation has frequently baffled me. I have struggled with it
since I first heard the term four years ago, but
I have also had the privilege of only having to
think about it when I want to. Last semester, I
finally figured out how I can think about it as
a white woman.
I was sitting with my friends at dinner when
one of my friends brought up the word yall.
If you think about it, yall is the perfect
plural because it is gender neutral.
My savvy feminist friends quickly agreed. I
agree too. You guys, the colloquial alternative, does gender the neutral as male which
norms the male experience to the exclusion of
all others. At the same time, I will never use
yall at Bowdoin.
I made a conscious decision to purge
yall from my vocabulary when I left North
Carolina for Maine. I love yall. It is gender
inclusive. It is super easy to type on a phone,
and it slows down your words beautifully
when you use it. But as a Southerner, I cannot use the word yall without immediately
being associated with all the terrible aspects
of the South. Sitting with my mostly New
England friends, I felt a stab of jealousy that
they could use my word when I could not.
Thats when I finally understood appropriation. These well-meaning, northern people
were able to choose what parts of the South
they wanted to engage with, but I had to take
all or nothing.
Of course, appropriation is often about
much more than comfort, and it is frequently

done by people who are not well-meaning.
People can appropriate the work and culture of a marginalized people and then turn
around and commercialize and capitalize
upon them. People can appropriate another
culture with malicious intent or to dismiss
and belittle that culture. People can appropriate another groups culture to make it into a
joke. Appropriation both reinforces and emphasizes the privilege that majority social
groups experience.
I do not wish to equate my experience with
yall to the appropriation we have been
struggling with on Bowdoins campus. Unlike
minority groups, the South deserves to have
its identity questioned. It does have a long
legacy of racism, homophobia and bigotry.
Southern whites have not been historically
repressed or systematically excluded. And
unlike racial minority groups, the South does
not experience institutionalized prejudice.
They do not have to struggle to succeed in a
country stacked against them. Southerners
like myself can choose to eradicate yall from
their vocabulary and switch their country for
alt/indie, and the JOBs will never think to ask
me about hushpuppies or confederate flags. I
do not mean to defend the South, and I do not
want to discourage people from using yall.
It is a great word. I just hope that my mini
example can help to clarify appropriation for
other white people who, like me, were confused about how even well-meaning people
can commit appropriation.
Claire Day is a member of the class of 2018.
A satirical exploration
of the tequila party
Authors Note: The following piece is a work of satire. I chose to use this approach to address
this issue because I have explained and re-explained cultural appropriation and its effects and
I am exhausted. I said everything I had to say last semester. At this point, all it comes down to
is compassion and respect. For those who are truly still confused or curious, your answers are
out there. Please find them.
*All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or
dead, is purely coincidental.
ADIRA POLITE
ON THE EDGE
A bizarre new conversation has found

its way onto our campus. The topicmost
often referred to as cultural appropriationhas created quite a stir. This issue
seems to have taken on a life of its own, resulting in a multitude of loving nicknames.
The most prominent of these epithets include political correctness trash and the
liberal agenda.
The so-called conversationmoderated
solely by new VP of Communications, Professor Yakarose in response to a party held
last Saturday. The party, which allegedly had
a tequila theme, quickly escalated into a
spectacle eerily similar to that of last semesters gangster party.
Photographs posted on Snapchat revealed
drunken white students donning sombreros
and mustaches. An Instagram post showed
four girls posing in front of a tapestry decorated with a sombrero, a maraca and a chili
pepper. Sources cannot seem to agree on
whether the Mexican-themed tapestry was
purchased from Urban Outfitters or IKEA.
News of the party spread quickly, due
mostly in part to the partygoers own broadcasts. Responses to the party have varied.
Bowdoins Latin American Student Organization (LASO)a sect of the Colleges
newly-founded and unpaid Cultural Issues
Departmenthave made their exasperated
rage quite clear. Numerous meetings and forums were held following the party, providing a space for open discussion.
Shockingly, sources report that same 40
students appeared at each event; their opposition is nowhere to be found. For the
first time in Bowdoin history, those with
differing opinions are resorting to Yik
Yak, an anonymous phone application. The
appfounded by Satan and purchased by
Trumpis the preferred medium of Bowdoins most courageous students.
Students at this weeks open discussions
waited patiently for the faceless commenters
to join the conversation. Unfortunately, it
seems that the valiant green boots and
purple acorns of Yik Yak have gone missing. Student Activities has confirmed that a
candlelight vigil will be held on the Museum
Steps each night until they return.
Despite the oppositions lack of presence in meetings, the Orient was able to
speak with a select group of these students
in person. Most of these students had little
to say about the party itself, but enthusiastically discussed who they consider to be
true culprits: the offended and hurt members of the community.
F*** their feelings, said Jeffrey Keebler*.
Keebler, a member of both Safe Space and Out
Allies, claims that the idea of emotional distress caused by cultural disrespect is absurd.
Cultural appropriation is a myth. It harms
no onemy cat has black fur and we talked
about it. Our campus needs to continue to
focus on the heteronormativity of hookup
culture
and the
lack of
male
bathroom
stalls
in the
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
libraryissues that affect the student experience.
To those bothered by this incident, I say:
good luck in the real world, quipped T.J.
Edwards*. These people are so used to being coddled. Its ridiculous. Rolling his eyes,
Edwards pulled out his phone and speeddialed the Bowdoin Shuttle. Yeah, hi. I need
a shuttle for one from Thorne Dining Hall
to Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. Turning
back to me, he continued, Anyway. The real
world is cold. Grow up.
Keebler and Edwards are not alone. We
also spoke with Elizabeth Whittier*, a white
Mainer and certified expert on the minority
experience. Like her two peers, Whittier is
not quite sure that the party was offensive.
People are looking for something to be
angry about, she claimed. I dont quite understand their feelings, but I do know that
they should not be having them.
The outcome of this incident remains unclear. Many students have called for mandatory campus-wide seminars on the issue of
cultural appropriation. In an interview with
the Orient, Dean Johnson* stated that the
administration cannot simply force students
to partake in such discussions, as the student
body consists primarily of adults.
This is a college, the dean stated. It is
not a high school. We cannot control the actions of our students. The administration has
other aims.
In fact, he stated, glancing at his
watch. You must excuse me now. A
22-year-old was found in possession of
hard alcohol on Saturday, and I need to
draft a letter to his parents.
While some students strive for cultural
understanding and genuine harmony, many
students hope that the whole issue will simply dissolve. The latterthe same students
whose ideal weekend includes quickly chasing their alcohol with punch purchased with
Polar Pointsare ready for the real world.
They are tired of dwelling on the childish
feelings of their peersespecially when
those feelings interrupt their game of pepper flip.
the bowdoin orient
opinion
15
Theorem and theology: what math can teach us about religion

JESSE ORTIZ
SIGNIFYING NOTHING
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra states: Every polynomial equation

having complex coefficients and degree 1 has at least one complex root.
A complex number has the form a + bi,
where a and b are real numbers (which
are numbers like 1, -, , 507,857, etc.)
and i is the square root of -1. So, the
theorem says that, if you have a polynomial (such as 17x3 + 2x2 + 8) with
complex numbers multiplying the xs,
you can always find a way to write
this polynomial as a product of complex numbers.
This is incredible! In my high school
algebra class, we kind of glossed over
complex roots, which made equations
like x2 + 4 = 0 impossible to solve. But,
if you throw in an i, suddenly all real
polynomials have complex roots. To
quote Lecturer in Mathematics Michael King, Pretty much any number
you can think of can be written as a
product of complex numbers.
i is called the imaginary unit. Because of this, i gets the reputation of

beingin contrast to the real numberssomething that doesnt actually exist. However, real numbers (and
integers and natural numbers) dont
actually exist any more than complex
numbers. Numbers arent things that
we hold or see or smell but ideas that
can signify many things, and the ways
that mathematicians use and understand numbers have been changing for
as long as weve been counting.
As a liberal, it can be hard to talk
about God. In the United States, we
are morally determined to keep church
away from state, to keep one ideology
from seeping into and influencing another. This was made apparent to me in
third grade, when my public elementary school stopped saying the Pledge of
Allegiance because the administration
didnt want to impose the under God
onto little kids. We often talk about
those conservative Christians who
are trying to teach kids creationism at
the expense of our beloved science. In
the mainstream conception of America, the state government dictates so-
cial interaction and the public sphere,

while religion guides peoples separate,
private lives.
The under God bit is not the most
insidious part of the Pledge of Allegiance. The blind patriotism of flag
worship is creepy, and it seems delusional to claim that there is justice for
all in an America stratified by enormous wealth inequality and violently
divided by race. Today, a flag stands on
Bowdoins main quad, that same flag
that has been used to justify years of
war, colonialism and systemic discrimination. The American flag towers over
the campus, but we downplay any signs
of religious denomination in our chapel, where religion becomes something
extracurricular welcome at Bowdoin
but not a part of mainstream life.
As our American flag testifies, institutions like Bowdoin believe and worship all kinds of things. Its amazing
how much faith and trust must go into
just buying something at the C-store.
We swipe a plastic card in a machine
to change the balance on a students
account, which is connected to an account at a bank, which is connected to
As with mathematics, we can have a more complete and

satisfying understanding of our roots by discussing the
various ideologies that people have.
countless people and institutions. But
for any of that to happen, we all have
to agree that money has value, and
the little numbers on a screen mean
the same things as money. We have
to feel guilt and shame when we cant
pay money we owe, and we feel happy
when we have a lot of money. Bowdoin
has enormous power, after all, because
of its huge endowment, the result of
an enormous amount of financial
knowledge and power. Because we can
do more when we have more, money
is an easy way for Bowdoinand the
people in itto compare its worth
against peers.
Theres something interesting about
complex numbers. Unlike the real
numbers, the set of complex numbers
is not an ordered set. While we all
know that 5>2, it doesnt even make
sense to make these kinds of statements about complex numbers. To
graph a complex number, you need

two axes, and you can see visually that
you cant order all the numbers at once.
Without even realizing it, for a long
time I took it for granted that numbers
had to have order. However, by thinking about i, I could understand how a
more complete conception of numbers
wouldnt have an order at all.
As with mathematics, we can have
a more complete and satisfying understanding of our roots by discussing the various ideologies that people
have. Ignoring peoples beliefs is both
counterproductive and dishonest. By
accepting other people instead of casting them as religious fanatics, we can
understand how our own ideologies
(such as capitalism) depend on faith
and worship. Maybe we can realize
what were missing when were caught
up by the hierarchies and orders that
we take for granted.
Take the B.E.A.R.S. survey to help end sexual violence on campus

BY EMMA PATTERSON
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
If I were to walk around the thawing

Quad today and ask students, Would
you like to end sexual assault on campus? I can imagine Id be hard-pressed
to find someone whod answer, No.
But questions regarding how Bowdoin can work to end sexual assault
and misconduct tend to draw much
more complex and uncertain answers.
The interest in ending sexual assault is
alive and well, but the methods and information through which to approach
this challenge have struggled to make
themselves clear to the whole campus.
Look no further.
On Sunday, February 28, Bowdoin
is launching the Bowdoin Experiences
Around Relationships and Sex Survey
(B.E.A.R.S), a campus climate survey
created to better understand the experiences of Bowdoin students. On a general level, the survey hopes to capture
the campus pulse and existing perceptions around the relationship culture.
On a more specific level, the survey
asks difficult questions about the prevalence of sexual and relationship violence on campus. These questions are
not to pry or to provoke, but rather to
get a clear understanding of what we
are dealing with as a campus, and what
areas of violence prevention and education need to be strengthened.
I present this survey as a solution because, in my opinion, participating is one
of the most important ways that Bowdoin

students can engage with the issue and
work to end sexual and relationship violence. When asked how the survey will affect Bowdoin students in the future, Benje
Douglas, director of Gender Violence Prevention and Education, stated, We want
this to tell us where we are so that we can
figure out where we need to go.
Bowdoin-specific in nature, the survey
results will serve to inform future campus
decisions and programs, allowing us to be
more intentional and targeted in our work.
As a student leader in violence prevention,
this type of concrete data would be invaluable in creating programs with maximum
impact. The results will help groups like
the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention (A.S.A.P.) ensure that each program
and campaign is directly connected to an
area of need on Bowdoins campus. Today,
countless groups and individuals across
campus are working to end sexual and relationship violence. But, with access to the
B.E.A.R.S. data, programs and outcomes
will only improve.
Bowdoin is not the first college to
create a campus climate survey that
examines sexual and relationship violence. In fact, there exists a long list of
similar institutions that have gathered
their own data, including Amherst,
Colby, Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth and
Williams. By entering the stage at this
time, Bowdoin can benefit by learning
from the successes and failures of other
institutions. The most important takeaway? Participation matters.
As we can all understand, the higher the

response rate, the more
applicable and accurate
the results will be. With
this in mind, it is vital
that the entire student
body participate in the
survey in order to give
the most truthful representation of Bowdoin
experiences. The survey is applicable to every member of campus,
regardless of whether
or not you consider
yourself a survivor of
violence, because it is
focused on garnering
an understanding of
the attitudes and experiences of the community as a whole.
A few of the other
institutions
mentioned above are
working with data
from less than half
of the student body
(Colby with a 25 percent response rate). With low participation, the data becomes impossible
to apply broadly and hinders the potential impact. After my four years of
Bowdoin-Colby athletic events, Im
confident we can put their staggeringly low response rate to shame.
While Bowdoin is largely a safe and
Bowdoin Orient
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welcoming community for those who

have experienced violence, survivors can
still often feel that their voices are going
unheard on this campus. Taking the survey is one way for Bowdoin to show that
we hear them, and that we understand
sexual violence is never something to be
ignored. Whether you know it or not, we
are all affected by sexual and relationship

violence. This survey is one way to work
towards ending it on this campus.
Take the survey and engage with
the issue.
Emma Patterson is a member of the
class of 2016.
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FEBRUARY/MARCH
FRIDAY 26
EVENT
Freedom Fridays: Beyonc's Formation
Freedom Friday is a platform in which everyone can express

their opinions in thought-provoking discussions about social
and popular culture issues. This weeks topic is Beyonces
Formation with guests Assistant Professor of Africana
Studies Judith Casselberry and Assistant Professor of Music
Tracy McMullen.
Great Room, 30 College Street. 4 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Office Hours Improv & Meddiebempsters

Night of Music & Comedy
Office Hours and the Meddiebempsters will join together

to present a show for the community, in which the improv
group will improvise off songs
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
performed by the Meddies.
Living Room, Quinby House. 8:30 p.m.
BERNIE & LOUISE: Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon visited Bowdoin on Tuesday to campaign for presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders. Sarandon spoke to about 50 students on campus and also visited Colby and UMaine-Orono during her trip to Maine.
TUESDAY 1
SATURDAY 27
LECTURE
EVENT
EVENT
"The Concept of Tea: A Lecture on the

History of the Tea Ceremony"
Ebony Ball
The African American Society will host the annual Ebony

Ball to wrap up Black History Month.
Semi-formal/formal attire.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 10 p.m.
Polar Pal Training
Yuko Eguchi of Tokyo, who has studied the Japanese tea

ceremony since she was thirteen and has earned the
associate professor of tea title, will be giving a lecture on
the history and philosophy of the Chado, a traditional
Japanese tea ceremony. Attendees may taste Japanese tea
and sweets. Eguchi will also host a workshop at
8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 6:30 p.m.
SUNDAY 28
Carlos Andres Gomez
Bowdoin Film Society Oscar Party
The Bowdoin Film Society will host an Oscar Party during which attendees can view the live
ORIENT
awards show.
PICK OF THE WEEK
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7:30 p.m.
Polar Pal training will be offered at a dinner for those who

are interested. The Polar Brain Alliance (PBA) is a group
on campus that aims to support those who have had a
concussion. Polar Pals help recovering students in all areas
of Bowdoin life including accessing meals and maintaining
contact with friends.
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 6:45 p.m.
LECTURE
Womens Empowerment and Social

Innovation in Tibet
LECTURE
EVENT
THURSDAY 3
Award-winning poet, actor, speaker and writer Carlos

Andres Gomez will give a poetry performance with a question and answer session to follow.
Living Room, Quinby House. 7 p.m.
Losang Rabgey will speak about her experience helping

marginalized groups in Tibet through her work with the
organization Machik, which aims to develop educational
opportunities, capacity building and innovation there.
Living Room, Quinby House. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Love's Labour's Lost
WEDNESDAY 2
MONDAY 29
PERFORMANCE
"The Music and Dance of Geisha: 'Kouta'

and 'Koutaburi'"
LECTURE
Like a Radio
Spring 2016 Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project Visiting

Artist Shelley Thorstensen will be giving a talk in which she
explains how her work is like a radio.
Room 116 (Gallery), Edwards Art Center. 4:15 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Loves Labours
Lost
PERFORMANCE
Loves Labours
Lost
Yuko Eguchi will give a historical lecture on Japanese traditional arts, specifically on the Japanese geishas music and
dance. Eguchi will also perform a dance.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 6:30 p.m.
There will be a performance of a joyful take on Shakespeares

Loves Labours Lost directed by Assistant Professor of
Theater Abigail Killeen. The show will feature Bowdoins Polar Bear Swing Dance Club. Tickets are free and are available
at the Smith Union Information Desk as well as at the door.
The Association of Bowdoin Friends will sponsor an opening
night reception in Drake Lobby after the show.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.
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PICK OF THE WEEK
7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
Cassidy Lecturer
Scott Allen '83
EVEN
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ENTT
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EVENT
Netflix CEO:
Reed Hastings
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