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Meeting in Union to address

injustice on campus, beyond
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Today in David Saul Smith Union, a

group of students will lead a meeting to
discuss injustice both on campus and
beyond, according to a Facebook event.
An open letter to the Bowdoin community discussing issues of race and
diversity on campus will be released in
conjunction with the meeting, and can
be read on the Orients website.
Michelle Kruk 16 spearheaded the
letter, while Claudia Villar 15 and Allyson Gross 16 led the group organizing the meeting.
The two groups formed independently from a desire to capitalize on
the momentum generated by the
events held in December to protest
the non-indictments of police officers
in Ferguson, Mo. and Staten Island,
N.Y., as well as other activist events
last semester. The letter-writing group
formed first, and the idea of a meeting
was conceived shortly after. According
to Villar, there has been a lot of overlap
between the two groups.
The letter, the introduction of which
can be found on page 14, calls for discussions of race to be incorporated into
orientation programming and the programming of the Office of Residential
Life, the Womens Resource Center and
other campus entities. It also asks that
the administration work more actively
to promote diversity within the faculty
and the Department of Athletics, and
that conversations about race be incorporated into more elements of the
curriculum.
The tone of the letter has mellowed
since it was initially conceived in De-
cember, according to Kruk.

The context was anxious [in December]. Tensions were high; it was a
really difficult time to be talking about
these things, said Kruk. Everyone was
on the defensive, and everyone was
pointing fingers in every which direction. None of that was coming from
a bad place, all of it was about caring
about this place enough to want it to
be better...The tone of the letter was
probably much harsher than it is now.
Its been nice to take a step back from
the letter and come back a month later
with fresher eyes.
Villar agreed.
Its been really nice to move away
from the harsher language, she said.
Now, its like, lets work together to
make things better.
Originally, Kruk said, the letter was
directed specifically at the administration. It has since changed to address the
Bowdoin community as a whole.
Its for everyone who has ever been
a part of this place, she said.
The release of the letter is timed to
coincide with the meeting, which will
be held today.
[The meeting] seemed like a fantastic jumping off point for the letter and
it also seemed like the most opportune
moment to release it, said Kruk.
Following the meeting, Kruk and
Villar said they plan to deliver the letter
directly to President Barry Mills.
The meeting this afternoon will
include five speeches, bookended by
opening and closing remarks. Each
speech will focus on one of the issues
highlighted by the meeting organizers
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Page Street parking ban causes friction

BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
Students searching for overnight

parking close to campus can now count
one option out for good: The Town
of Brunswick approved a permanent
overnight parking ban on Page Street
last Monday night. Prior to the vote, an
emergency parking ban on the street
had been in place from January 21 to
February 3.
The ban comes as a response to an influx of parking on the street by Bowdoin
students, which has frustrated residents

and reignited a debate about the Colleges new parking rules. Residents can
obtain a permit allowing them to park
on the street overnight.
Much of the new competition for
parking spaces on the street has been
due to the conversion of the parking
lots at Burnett Houselocated at
the corner of Page Street and Maine
Streetfrom student parking to
parking for faculty, staff, and visitors
during weekdays.
The towns ban is also part of a larger
trend of parking restrictions aimed at

preventing students from parking for
long periods of time. A similar policy
was passed for Longfellow Avenue in
December. A two-hour limit and overnight parking restriction was recently
instituted on Park Row, and Cleveland
Street also has a two-hour daytime limit.
Since the towns ban, students have
continued to steer clear of the Burnett
lots, said Director of Safety and Security
Randy Nichols.
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Lecture brings mental health to foreground Trustees grant tenure to

BY LUCIA GIBBARD
ORIENT STAFF
In an effort to shed light on issues of mental health on campus,

a number of organizations, including Bowdoin Student Governments Good Idea Fund, Peer
Health and the womens rugby
team sponsored a lecture by nationally renowned mental health
advocate Jordan Burnham. The
talk, entitled Stop the Stigma,
Start the Conversation, was held
in Kresge Auditorium on Monday.
MaryBeth Mathews, the head
coach of womens rugby, said that
addressing mental health issues is
important to both her and her team.
I used to be a dean here, and I
am therefore so passionate about
the health and happiness of the students, said Matthews. A big feature of the rugby team is that we all
look out for each other. I think the
best thing we can do to attack the
stigma of mental health is simply
care for each other and be aware of
MENTAL HEALTH AT BOWDOIN

- 40-50% of students visit Counseling Services while at the College
- 27% of the student body received psychotherapy or psychiatric
services in the 2013-2014 school year
- 18 people took a mental health medical leave in 2013-2014
- 23 people took a mental health medical leave in 2012-2013
the signs we need to look for.
Burnham, who suffers from
mental illness himself, works with
the organization Active Minds to
promote mental health awareness
in the United Statesparticularly
among younger generations.
I felt Burnham was a great
choice to come to campus because
he is similar in age and experience
to Bowdoin students, said Sam
Hoegle 17, a student who helped
organize the event. We need to
make mental health less taboo and
more accessible and understand-
able to students.
Burnhams talk focused on the
lead up to mental illness and its
diagnosis. He told the story of his
illnesss progression, mentioning
that college can be a big factor in
the development of mental illness.
One in four college students
will suffer from mental illness at
some point during their education, he said. Many people dont
recognize their feelings as part of
a bigger problem, but college is full
Please see MENTAL, page 3
five Bowdoin professors

BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER
ORIENT STAFF
The Board of Trustees voted to

give tenure to five professors at their
meeting last weekend. Ericka Albaugh of the government and legal
studies department, Jack Bateman
and Bill Jackman of the biology
department, Steve Meardon of the
economics department and Carrie
Scanga of the visual art department
were all promoted to the position of
associate professor.
Bowdoin professors who are eligible
for tenure teach in a tenure-track position as opposed to a temporary, visiting
professor position. Typically, professors
are recommended for tenure in the fall
of their sixth year at Bowdoin.
The College describes tenure in the
Faculty Handbook as a safeguard to
academic freedom. Tenure provides
professors with more leeway in their
research and more choice about what

and how to teach.
Im going to do a little bit of different teaching than I was doing before,
said Meardon. I can probably afford
to try to start up courses, for instance,
that might have seemed a little bit
riskier for me before tenure. So I can
do some experiments both in research
and pedagogy.
The Faculty Handbook also describes the Colleges expectations for
tenure candidates.
Candidates for tenure will be expected to have excelled in their teaching and to have achieved a level of
professional distinction recognized
by members of their guild outside the
College, it states.
Each of this years appointees has a
unique approach to the advancement
of their scholarship. Professor Albaugh
Please see TENURE, page 3
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Several Polar Bears win

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FREEZING
POLAR BEARS
LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MADE IN AMERICA: Sophomores Spencer Shagoury, Caroline Montag and Reed Fernandez gather in front of a snow wallbuilt for the annual Cold War Partybetween Quinby and MacMillan Houses.
QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE COLLEGE HOUSES

Reed
28 students:
8 Singles
10 Doubles
1,896 feet
from the
Polar Bear
27 students:
6 Singles
9 Doubles
1 Triples
950 feet
from the
Polar Bear
Howell
Part 1 of the College House application is

due at midnight tonight. Students can complete an application alone or with a block
of friends. In late February, the Office of
Residential Life will conduct interviews
with individuals and blocks. Decisions will
be released on April 3, and those who are
accepted will have to sign residence agreements by April 6.
Ladd
22 students:
20 Singles
1 Double
864 feet from
the Polar Bear
Helmreich
Baxter
32 students:
3 Singles
10 Doubles
3 Triples
823 feet from
the Polar Bear
Quinby
23 students:
9 Singles
7 Doubles
923 feet from
the Polar Bear
MacMillan
24 students:
7 Singles
7 Doubles
1 Triple
1,170 feet
from the
Polar Bear
Burnett
26 students:
14 Singles
3 Doubles
2 Triples
1,084 feet from
the Polar Bear
23 students:
5 Singles
9 Doubles
855 feet from
the Polar Bear
GRAPHIC BY GRACE HANDLER, JOE SEIBERT AND RON CERVANTES
STUDENT SPEAK
If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?
Its freezing in Maine right now,

but some students seem oblivious
to the cold as they stroll out of the
gym in shorts. The desire to adopt a
grizzly and rugged Mainer attitude
has seemed to make some students
forget the actual outdoor conditions.
However, the community recently
received an email from Director of
Health Services Dr. Birgit Pols warning about extreme cold and hypothermia.
Pols sent the email at the start of
Winter Weekend, a time when many
students participate in outdoor activities like broomball and the Polar Plunge. The email outlined the
warning signs of hypothermia, and
got some students wondering: Have
there been cases of hypothermia on
campus?
According to Pols, the answer is a
hard maybe.
Couldnt tell you if there were
[cases of hypothermia], because of
confidentiality, said Pols. And I
might not know about them allId
only know about the ones that came
to Health Services.
However, Pols did suggest that hypothermia is likely with the extreme
cold temperatures of late.
She also said she sent the email
more as a precaution, rather than as
a response to any specific cases.
Hypothermia is a common problem, especially in Maine, she added.
Hypothermia does not automatically set in after a certain amount of
time in the outdoors.
It depends very much on what
you are wearing, said Pols. Whether you are sweaty or wet, what your
body mass is...even wind has an effect on the timing.
Pols did not say that students
braveor crazyenough to wear
shorts were guaranteed to become
hypothermic, but she did have some
advice.
Basically, be cautious, she said.
Pols also noted how medically
accurate the Cold War party posters werekeeping the head warm
is crucial to staving off hypothermia.
The gentlemen were all wearing
hats, Pols praised.
WRITTEN BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
BY THE NUMBERS
It seems like everyone has been
complaining about the extreme
cold. Here are some statistics about
the dangers of icy weather, from the
state of Maines website:
30
percent of body heat is lost
through the head.
750
deaths due to hypothermia each
year in the U.S., on average.
Haleigh Collins 17
I would like to be in a pool.
Or in a bathtub. I want to be
immersed in water.
Edgardo Sepulveda15
Christian Houston-Floyd 16
Juliette Dankens 18
I would probably be in Britain

eating crumpets. I have a really
strong craving for crumpets.
Id be on a beach in the Phillipines with

my dog, and then Id go jet skiing, and shed
get on the back of the jet ski with me.
I think it would be really cool

just to be in a dog sled. In Antarctica, or somewhere like that.
COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH
20
Mainers who die every year due

to hypothermia, on average.
COMPILEDBY
BYOLIVIA
OLIVIAATWOOD
ATWOOD
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published her book on language
politics in Africa, State Building and
Multilingual Education in Africa,
last year. Professor Jackman recently
received a grant for his research on
embryonic development in fish as a
model for human development. Professor Meardon has done a great deal
of research on changes in free trade
due to trade policies.
All of the professors agreed that
the tenure process encourages a great
deal of growth both as scholars and
as educators.
At Bowdoin, youre expected to
be an excellent scholar and an excellent teacher, said Albaugh. You also
are expected to serve the College in
several different capacities, so theres
lots of different tracks that you have
to manage at once. So its been a lot of
work. Its also been really enjoyable.
Ive learned a lot about teaching.
The process is hard, too, because
theres a lot at stake, said Meardon.
Theres a job that you loveand you
want to be able to keep ita place that
you love to be at, and the experience
of the students that you value.
The consensus among the newly
promoted professors is that they
are excited to begin their work after achieving tenure continuing
current projects along with starting
new ones.
BY NICKIE MITCH
ORIENT STAFF
COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
GENE(OLOGIST) AND A BOTTLE: Samuel L. Butcher Assistant Professor in the Natural Sciences Jack Bateman works with Ilana Mayer 14 in the lab.
Bateman is among five Bowdoin professors who received tenure this weekend after the Board of Trustees met.
Youre never quite done as a scholar, said Albaugh. Thats why we all
got into this businessbecause we
like to keep learning.
Additionally, the Board of Trustees
announced the appointment of three
new professors to the faculty. Kana
Takamatsu, who just received her

Ph.D. in chemisty from the California
Institute of Technology, Theo Greene,
a current doctoral candidate at Northwestern, and Ken Kirsch, a Talman
Scholar at Boston College, will all join
Bowdoin next fall.
The College, however, is still in

the middle of other searches for new
professors, according to Dean for
Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd.
Professors of Japanese history and
French are still being sought for the
upcoming fall.
At Trustee meeting, Obama and the community honor Karen Mills

BY NICOLE FELEO
ORIENT STAFF
At last weekends meeting of the

Board of Trustees, President Barry
Mills, President-elect Clayton S.
Rose and the Trustees reviewed
the Colleges finances, discussed
and voted on preliminary budget
assumptions, and reviewed recommendations for tenured professors.
The meeting was followed by a reception in honor of Karen Mills in
Lancaster Lounge and a dinner in
Main Lounge.
The dinner opened with the reading of letters to Karen Mills from
President Barack Obama and former
Senator Olympia Snow. Obamas letter praised Mills work as the Small
Business Administrator.
Obama then commented on the
wealth of opportunity Bowdoin
endows upon its students and
closed the letter by saying, Karen,
congratulations on all you have accomplished. I trust your familys
MENTAL
of possible triggers.
At Bowdoin, the Counseling
Services estimates that over a fouryear period, approximately 40 to
50 percent of Bowdoin students
will seek them out for some level
of support or consultation.
This past year, Counseling Services provided individual psychotherapy and psychiatric services
to 27 percent of the student body,
said Bernie Hershberger, director
of counseling services. This does
not take into account our group,
workshop and retreat offerings.
There are also multiple students
who take medical leave based on
mental health. Last year, Counseling Services assisted with 18 mental health related medical leaves. In
the 2012-13 school year there were
23 mental health medical leaves.
commitment to lifting up the lives

video was Barry Mills himself. He
of others will continue, and I wish
spoke to her role as a mother and
the Board and everyone gathered
wife, commending her focus on
all the best.
whatever tasks she took on while
A video was then screened,
still being a present member of
which featured
their family.
many colleagues
After
the
Karen, congratulations on
and friends of
video,
food
Mills. Each perall you have accomplished. I trust was served and
son
addressed
speakers
folyour familys commitment to lifting lowed. Former
the
dynamic
roles Mills has
up the lives of others will continue, members of the
had, lauding her
Business
and I wish the Board and everyone Small
contributions to
Administration
finance in New
of Maine spoke,
gathered all the best.
York City and to
as well as Chair
growth and enof the Bowdoin
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
trepreneurship
Board of TrustIN LETTER TO KAREN MILLS
in the state of
ees
Debbie
Maine, for working for the Obama
Barker, Senator Angus King and
Administration, and for sitting on
his wife Mary Herman, her son,
the Board of Overseers at Harvard.
George Mills, and Paul Franco
In particular, however, her involveprofessor of government and close
ment with the College and her vital
friend to the Mills.
role in the presidency of her husband
As a wry homage to Mills and
Barry Mills, was emphasized.
the famous etiquette dinners she
Among those who spoke in the
hosts every year for seniors, the
decorating committee placed the

cutlery on the incorrect sides of the
place settings.
Many faculty and staff noted
that her charismafrom her personal relationships with Dining
Services staff to golf outings with
Bowdoin coachesmade her a
role model for future first ladies of
the College.
At the meeting, the Trustees discussed the budget for fiscal year
2015-2016. The actual budget, including tuition and fees for next
year, will not be voted on until May.
However, the Board tentatively
voted on an unofficial budget,
which includes approval for renovations to Ashby House, which
formerly housed the Department
of Religion. The funds reserved
for the renovation will be used to
shore up the foundation of Ashby
House and update the electrical
and plumbing systems.
Other matters regarding the
budget were not disclosed.
Nationally, the American PsyBurnham believes that the stigchological Association found that
ma surrounding mental health is
anxiety is the top-presenting constill prevalent on campuses across
cern among college students (41.6
the country. He explained that
percent), followed by depression
many students feel they cannot ex(36.4 percent)
press their emoand
relationtions
because
ship problems
they fear that
It is easy to feel like youre
(35.8 percent).
their feelings are
the only one feeling upset or
Burnham
not
justified
suggested that
emotional. And while on a rational even in spite of
one of the main
institutions belevel we know this isnt the
causes of mening in place to
tal health issues
support them.
case, we have trouble
on campuses is
Andrew Cawaddressing
it.
lifestyle-driven.
ley 17 agreed
When I was
that there is such
ANDREW CAWLEY 17
younger, it bea taboo.
came a compeI dont believe
tition between
the institution of
friends to see who could survive
Bowdoin itself has trouble adon the least sleep, said Burnham.
dressing mental health issues, he
This, combined with the way stusaid. It is easy to feel like youre
dents use alcohol to relax, have
the only one feeling upset or emofun or release inhibitions, is not a
tional. And while on a rational
healthy lifestyle.
level we know this isnt the case,
we have trouble addressing it.

Burnham addressed this issue by
saying we need to look after ourselves better, take initiative and
work through it.
You have a responsibility to
look after your mental health as
you would your physical health,
he said. Recovery is a long process, but it can only begin after we
seek help. Finding the right therapist is half of the struggle.
Between the large student attendance and high number of
questions posed at the lecture, it
became evident that many people
on campus are disappointed with
the way mental health is viewed
at Bowdoin.
I think it is so important to
promote further discussion within
students, said Cawley. We want
to be closed off from mental illness, but if we let it out and discuss
it, hopefully the stigmatization will
come to an end.
About 150 students applied for Residential Life (ResLife) positions for the
2015-2016 school year. Of those applicants, around 45 students reapplied
roughly 80 percent of the current nongraduating ResLife staffand 105
were new applicants. These applicants
will compete to fill 73 available positions.
New interview policies have been
implemented this year. For the first
time, not all applicants were offered an
interview. Although he could not give
an exact number of how many applicants were offered interviews, Associate
Director of Residential Education Mike
Felton 00 explained that this change
was simply due to the time constraints
associated with interviewing 150 people for 20 to 30 minutes eachwhile
still needing to support their current
staff before the year is done.
He stressed that just because an
applicant was not offered an initial
interview does not mean that they
are out of the running for a position
on the staff. All applicants remain in
consideration for positions until decisions are sent out, whether or not they
are interviewed.
According to Felton, who oversees
the application and selection process,
appointing the ResLife staff is all about
balance. Felton emphasized the value
that he and his colleagues put on creating a complementary team of firstyear proctors, RAs and house proctors
when selecting the staff.
What someone brings to the table
as an individual is as important as how
they fit together with every other individual, he said. Residential Life is just
a collection of teams. All of the teams
have to be balanced, those team members have to complement one another
and they have to be able to reach all
parts of the campus.
Felton said he is very pleased with
this years applicant pool, both in
terms of its diversity and quality.
Ive been going through every
applicant and the trend that I see is
theyre from all over the place with respect to everything, said Felton.
While in past years the majority of
applicants have tended to be first year
students, Felton said that this year had
bucked that trend as well and the applicant pool was evenly distributed
across class years.
Like many of her fellow applicants,
Indr Altman 18 applied to be on ResLife because she felt it was a great way
to help shape the community.
[ResLifes] practical guidance and
social support not only help a student
conduct themselves well, but also lend
them an ear when simply listening is
what is needed most, she said. I felt
that serving the Bowdoin community
in this way would be rewarding.
In an e-mail to The Orient, Justin
Pearson 17 echoed this sentiment.
As an RA in Chamberlain, I get
to create a sense of community that
can sometimes dwindle away after
first year, said Pearson, who decided
to re-apply for ResLife. ResLife is a
unique opportunity to engage [in] the
Bowdoin experience.
Applicants should expect to find out
whether they have been selected by
Spring Break.
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SECURITY REPORT: 2/5 to 2/12
PARKING
The Town clearly posted the area
and compliance was excellent, he wrote
in an email to the Orient.
Meanwhile, it has come as a relief to
residents of the street.
In the past, there was just sort of a
balance that worked, said Emily Swan,
who has lived on the street since 1988.
When Bowdoin changed the rules in
the lots behind the student houses
[students] started parking on our street
all the time. They parked there overnight, and they parked for days on end.
Beginning in December, Nichols
emailed individual students and one
faculty member who frequently parked
on the street, encouraging them to park
elsewhere. These emails were followed
by warnings to students parked on the
street once the ban went into effect, and
a followup email to all students and employees informing them of the ban.
Its been weirdly indirect, said
Uma Blanchard 17, a Burnett House
resident. None of us really knew it was
an issueI dont think anyone in our
house has had interactions with [Page
Street residents].
Several students said they were frustrated by the new restrictions.
I feel that the parking ban is unreasonable because as a member of Burnett, I am also a Page Street resident and
think its only fair that we should have
access to this parking as well, wrote
Burnett resident Jess Del Duca 17 in an
email to the Orient.
Its extremely inconvenient to have to
walk to Farley and back every time we
want to drive somewhere; it adds at least
a half an hour onto a trip, wrote Sophie
Brunt 17, another Burnett resident, in
LILI RAMOS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ROAD BLOCK: A town-issued parking ban on Page Street has caused frustration among car-owning
members of Burnett House, who have been parking on the street to avoid long walks from Farley Field House.
an email to the Orient. Especially living
in a college house, people with cars run a
lot of errands for the house because thats
the only way we can get things we need.
Swan said that while she and other
residents on the street sympathized with
the students situation, their parking on
the street often blocked driveways and
made it difficult for municipal services
to make it down the street.
We dont want to have a complicated
regulatory regime. We just want our
street to be reasonable, she said.
She added that students tend to drive
larger cars than other people who park
on the street, and would sometimes
park far away from the curb. Snow
drifts piling up on the curb exacerbated
the problem.
The street was just getting narrower
and narrower, she said.
Students and residents alike said that
the root of the problem was the Colleges
parking policy that went into effect in
September. The policy prohibits stu-
BSG reviews funding for

student groups on campus
You cant override the precedent
for one club. Then thatll set the precedent of overfunding for every club,
Bowdoin Student Government
Nicoll said.
(BSG) allocated funds to several
Representative At-Large Nickie
projects during its Wednesday night
Mitch 18, who also works for the
meeting. Two proposals passed
Orient, pointed out that funding the
one funding an Uncommon Hour
participation of MUN in regional
lecture and the other Mental Health
and national conferences is standard
Awareness Day.
practice at many colleges.
The Student Activity Funding
Im not sure the concern about
Committee (SAFC) then voiced its
precedent is entirely valid because
concerns about
its a pretty select
paying
for
activity, he said.
What
we
dont
want
is
clubs extensive
If there were oththat more than 120 student
travel expenses.
er activities like
Representaorganizations go out and say, There MUN requiring
tive At-Large
all the traveling
is not enough money for us to do stuff, I dont think
Lucia Gibbard
18, who works
it would be wrong
this thing at Bowdoin. Can
for the Orient,
for MUN to be
you
support
that?
discussed the
the precedent to
ongoing fundfund them.
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then moved to
AND
DIRECTOR
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STUDENT
ACTIVITIES
like
Model
discussion of the
United Nations
ability of clubs to
(MUN), which travels frequently
hold their own fundraising events.
to conferences. BSG has been cauThere is a lot of fundraising
tious in handling funding requests
happening on campus right now.
of this kind in the past. The chair
Students can raise money among
of the SAFC, Ryan Davis 15 was
students. They can raise money by
absent from the meeting, but was
providing service, said Associate
represented by other members of
Dean of Student Affairs and Director
the committee.
of Student Activities Allen Delong.
The whole situation is pretty
What we dont want is that more
convoluted, said Representative Atthan 120 student organizations to
Large Liam Nicoll 18, who sits on
go out and say, There is not enough
the SAFC.
money for us to do this thing at BowNicoll noted that the BSG must be
doin. Can you support that?
careful when handling the allocation
BSG did not find a solution to
of funds to clubs like MUN, whose
funding clubs like MUN, but it did
requested budget would consume a
approve $100 for food and advertislarge amount of student club funding
ing for the Uncommon Hour lecture
and set a dangerous precedent.
set to take place on February 20.
BY VERA FENG
ORIENT STAFF
dents from parking in Burnetts lotor

any other College House lot except Reed
Houses. Students noted that the lot often
has many empty spaces during the day.
Burnett has two parking lots of its
own, and they are rarely full. The most I
ever see in either of them is a few cars at
a time, wrote Brunt.
The problem would be solved in
an instant if Bowdoin just switched the
rules back, said Swan. What was an
internal Bowdoin problem was becoming our problem, and that wasnt really
fair to us.
Nichols did not answer directly when
asked whether the College was considering modifying its rules regarding the
Burnett lot.
This change was made after a careful assessment and was consistent
with recommendations to improve
visitor parking that were contained in
a campus parking study, wrote Nichols in an email to the Orient on the
parking policy.
MEETING
racial discrimination, sexual assault,
economic inequality, rejection of diversity in gender and sexual identify, and
the uneven burden of climate change.
The speeches were co-written by small
groups, and each will be delivered by
someone who did not write it.
Its to show that it doesnt matter
whos speaking to these things, but they
impact us all, said Gross.
According to Villar, the meeting
grew from conversations with Gross
and others about the underlying connections between climate issues and
issues of racial and sexual discrimination. Gross is actively involved in Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA).
We decided that we really wanted to
have a big event, and how we didnt want
it to be like an academic panel where
the same people who have been having
these conversations come, said Villar.
We really wanted it to be something
that was inclusive and got the attention
of the majority of the community.
The goal of the meeting, according
to Villar, Kruk and Gross, is to talk
about the common threads that run
through all social justice issues.
You cant fight one type of injustice
without fighting others because theyre
all part of the same system of hierarchy, said Villar.
Villar also said that the organizers want the meeting to be open
and inclusive.
We dont feel that anyone is outright not caringits more of a call
against passiveness, she said. I think
that we want to not be angry with
people, but instead invite them to open
their mind.
Neither the faculty nor the administration has been involved in the planning of the meeting.
This is really students acting together
and joining to bring light to these issues
in an extra-institutional way, said Gross.
Thursday, February 5
A photographer received an eye
injury while climbing on a pile of
snow to take a picture.
Friday, February 6
A trustee slipped and fell inside
Moulton Union during an event.
Brunswick Rescue transported the
victim to Mid Coast Hospital for
treatment of a head injury.
Saturday, February 7
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Appleton Hall.
Brunswick Rescue transported
an intoxicated student to Mid Coast
after the student was brought back
to campus from an off-campus student residence.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Ladd House.
A cold and wet 20-year-old local
man was transported to Mid Coast
by Brunswick Rescue after he was
found in the Watson Arena parking
lot. Brunswick Police are investigating the incident. The man reported
that he fell into a retaining pond on
the south end of the parking lot, but
there was no evidence to support that
claim since the pond was frozen and
there were no marks in the snow.
An officer conducted a wellness
check on an intoxicated student at
Moore Hall.
An intoxicated and unresponsive
student at Stowe Inn was transported
to Mid Coast by Brunswick Rescue.
A student at Stowe Inn placed
a pizza in the oven to warm it up
while it was still in a cardboard
box. The student turned the oven
up to 175-200 degrees and then
went to the rest room. When the
student returned, the pizza box had
burst into flame, smoke was billowing out of the oven, and the smoke
alarm was blaring. The student
doused the fire with chemical retardant. Security and the Brunswick
Fire Department arrived on scene,

cleared the area of smoke, and
placed the sooty oven out of service. The student was not injured.
A womens basketball player
dislocated an ankle while playing
at Morrell Gymnasium. Brunswick
Rescue transported the student to
Mid Coast.
Sunday, February 8
A student was cited for urinating
in public on College Street.
Officers checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student outside
of MacMillan House and escorted
the student to her residence hall.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student in a
restroom at West Hall.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of a student in the Coles
Tower lobby.
A neighborhood resident reported loud noise coming from the
area of Pine Street Apartments.
Wall damage was reported at
MacMillan House.
A wall telephone was vandalized in the second floor hallway of
Ladd House.
A student playing volleyball at
Morrell Gymnasium injured a knee
and was transported to Mid Coast.
Monday, February 9
A sick student was escorted from
Stowe Hall to Parkview.
A Dining Services employee
with a medical problem was transported to Mid Coast.
A visitors vehicle struck a
parked student vehicle in the upper
parking lot at Stowe Inn. There were
no injuries.
Thursday, February 12
A Facilities Management vehicle
and a faculty members car collided
in the Dayton Lot. There was minor
property damage, but nobody was
injured.
Compiled by the Office of Safety
and Security.
FEATURES
the bowdoin orient
Hutton joins digital, physical in her work Students and College Guild
bring education behind bars
BEHIND THE NAME TAG

BY HY KHONG
BY SARAH DRUMM
If youve ever walked through
the hallways and galleries of the
Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and Dance,
youve probably seen Visual Arts
Technician Tara Hutton installing
artwork or training students on
how to use a bandsaw.
While working as a studio assistant
for the art department for her alma
mater, St. Marys College of Maryland, Hutton searched for opportunities to relocate to New England.
Ive lived in Maryland my
whole life, up until now. But I always wanted to move up here, said
Hutton. Almost all of the schools
I looked at when I was applying to
undergrad were in New England. I
think this is kind of fulfilling high
school Taras dream.
Hutton arrived at Bowdoin during the renovations of the Edwards
center in 2013. During her first few
weeks, she was responsible for consolidating all equipment and supplies for the Visual Arts and Dance
departments from the many places
on campus into the new facility.
Nobody knows this building
the way I do because Ive set up everything in here, said Hutton.
With this extensive knowledge,
Hutton manages the maintenance
of the studios and galleries, purchases and repairs equipment, and
assists with exhibitions like the Senior Studio and end-of-the-semester shows.
Working in an artistic environment is not new for Hutton. As an
undergraduate studying art and art
history, she made digital artwork,
designed web pages, constructed
sets for theater productions, and
ORIENT STAFF
ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDION ORIENT
KEEPING IT REAL: Visual Arts Technician Tara Hutton works in the Edwards Arts Center installing
artwork and helping students use equipment. In her own work, Hutton focuses on digital art.
helped manage several exhibitions
at the Boyden Gallery at her St.
Marys. And although her responsibilities revolve around helping
others showcase their art, Hutton
continually creates her own works
as side-projects.
In undergrad, I was interested in
sexual identity politics, said Hutton.
Now, I think ultimately Im mostly
interested in art that is displayed and
accessed through the web.

Her most recent work (which
can be viewed at tnhutton.com)
explores Huttons move from
Maryland to Maine and how it has
affected her memories.
Ive been interested in exploring memory and how memories
inform each other, said Hutton.
Please see HUTTON, page 6
Over the last few weeks, posters

emblazoned with quotes and statistics about the U.S. prison system
have appeared all over campus.
The group responsible is College
Guild, a Brunswick based nonprofit organization that aims to reduce recidivism rates in prisoners
through educational programs.
The organization, which is entirely funded by donations, was
co-founded in 2001 by Julie Zimmerman, a Harpswell resident.
Offering a variety of courses
from Greek Mythology to Journalism, College Guild provides inmates with course units, which they
complete and mail at their own
expense to the organizations headquarters. From there, they are sent
to volunteer readers, who provide
feedback that encourages and instructs the inmates.
The courses are non-traditional, non-credit academic courses,
which gives the organization flexibility in developing their own engaging lesson plans.
College Guild currently serves approximately 300 prisoners but has a
waiting list with over 700 inmates hoping to join the program. Due to financial constraints, the organization cannot meet the demand for its services.
Bowdoins student-run College
Guild chapter is led by Elizabeth
Brown 15, Emily Hochman 15 and
Kiran Pande 15. Jackie Fickes 15
and Jennifer Zhang 15 sit on the
College Guild Board of Directors.
Bowdoin students have been involved since the organizations inception. When College Guild was
founded in Brunswick, Zimmer-
man began offering orientations

at Bowdoin to get new volunteers
involved. Now, approximately 50
students volunteer for the program, more than 40 percent of all
of College Guilds volunteers.
As leaders of the Bowdoin chapter, we really try to facilitate and
bring in a lot of volunteers. Weve
been seeing that students are really interested in getting involved
so were trying to make that as easy
as possible said Hochman. Coming into this year, we all felt that
we wanted a stronger presence on
campus since it had been in the
past more of a solitary activity.
Victoria Lowrie 18 started volunteering for College Guild in the fall.
I think that empowering prisoners is a great way to lower recidivism
rates, Lowrie said. Being able to facilitate confidence in their thoughts
is really important because the kind
of confidence they are building in
their own abilities from this is going to translate into positive action
when they leave prison.
In light of the deaths of Michael
Brown and Eric Garner and subsequent student-led responses on
campus, members of the Bowdoin
chapter have been discussing issues
of race in its varied manifestations,
specifically mass incarceration.
In their written responses, prisoners often reflect on issues of race,
class, and the criminal justice system. Bowdoin leaders say it is enlightening to hear new perspectives
on these issues.
A lot of them have spoken
about ideas like the school-toprison pipeline and just have this
great awareness that the reason
Please see PRISON, page 8
Students go beyond the pines Red wine and Pepsi make a killer couple
BOTTOM
to the Chic-Choc mountains
OF THE
ORIENT STAFF
Over winter break, Stephen Ligtenberg 15, Lizzie Kenny 16, Andrew Pryhuber 15 and Daniel Zeller 15 traveled
to Quebecs Chic-Choc Mountains on
a cross-country ski trip with funding
from the Beyond the Pines grant though
the Bowdoin Outing Club.
In order to apply for grant funding, students create an itinerary and
trip proposal and are then interviewed by a committee of students
and alumni, many of whom were
previous grant recipients.
Beyond the Pines allows students
to go on trips they probably wouldnt
be able to go on otherwise, Kenny
said. It allows you to take what you
learned, push it, and do a trip to test
your abilities.
She and her trip companions spent
ten days skiing through the ChicChoc Mountains. To add an extra
challenge, they towed all their gear
with them in sleds.
I wanted to do an extended backcountry trip where we couldnt resupply,
had to carry everything with us, and had
no support, Ligtenberg said.
In many cases, they were breaking
trail, which was made more difficult by

their sleds, heavy with gear.
I dont think we realized how ungroomed some of the trails would be
and how difficult it would be towing our
gear, Kenny said.
On a warmer day, they were supposed to cross a lake but noticed water
on top of the ice. Though they had to
turn around and modify their plan, they
ultimately came up with a different route
to bypass that part and catch up again.
The group stayed in a series of huts
which lined the route that Pryhuber
had planned, but they had to camp outside on a few occasions. All of the trip
members had completed the Advanced
Winter Leadership Seminar (AWLS)
offered by the Bowdoin Outing Club
(BOC), so they were familiar with what
this entailed.
When we camped we dug
holes in the snow about the size
of a grave and then put the sleeping bag in there, Ligtenberg said.
When youre winter camping,
you dig down for your shelter.
You want the place you sleep to be
roughly body shaped, big enough
Please see PINES, page 8
BARREL
BRYCE ERVIN AND

BRANDON OULLETTE
We are sad to report that we were
the victims of a hostile takeover. No,
not by our local wine connoisseur,
but by the mens ice hockey team.
Upon our return home after a long
two hours of grueling work at the
librarys circulation desk, we found
two-time NESCAC champions
and zero-time NCAA champions, Bowdoin seniors Connor Quinn, Mike Schlagel
and John McGinnis lurking
in our apartment playing
our Wii and hanging out
with our roommates. They
had apparently decided that
they needed to make an appearance in our wine column. Luckily, they brought
with them a sumptuous feast
of leftover buffet food, chips
and shrimp. And they brought
wine, so all was good.
Each brought their own wine, so
we had three bottles to sample. Quinn
brought a red blend from Dark Horse.
Wed love nothing more than to tell you
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BY MICHAEL COLBERT
what was in this blend, however the

makers decided that information like
that just wasnt important. McGinnis
also brought us a red wine blend, this
one a Sterling Vintners Collection.
Finally, Schlagel brought us a Cabernet Sauvignon from Newmans Own.
When a company makes both wine
and salad dressing, you know the wines
gonna be good.
Our main intention that night
was to drink the disturbing combination of red wine and Pepsi.
Quinn had been begging us since
September to feature this seemingly noxious combination in our
column, and we decided it was
time to humor him. Now before you decide to throw your
paper down in disgust, keep
in mind that this
drink is actually the popular
Spanish drink
Kalimotxo. We
assume it is
all the rage for
teenagers
in
Basque country. This 50-50
combination of
cheap red wine
and cola is a trip into new territory for
Bottom of the Barrel.
You may be wondering why we
chose Pepsi over Coke. This was purely on the recommendation of Quinn,
who told us we had to use Pepsi. We
were told later that Diet Rite from
Wal-Mart was the normal mixer, but
that that choice of Pepsi would be
more befitting of our columns classy
reputation.
The Kalimotxo combo was surprisinglysome may say shockingly
drinkable. In fact, we all found it quite
good. This may be due to the fact that
the CO2 content in the wine makes the
alcohol hit you harder, according to
(somehow) chem and physics double
major Schlagel. (Please dont fact check
us). The dominating note in both flavor
and smell was sugar, unsurprisingly.
The Pepsi overpowered whatever wine
you poured it into.
In terms of the wine itself, none
stood out as particularly good. The
Dark Horse blend and Newmans
Own were both light in flavor. The
Dark Horse was perhaps better tasting, while the Newmans Own had
the best nose of the three. The Sterling Vintners, however, stood out as
particularly bad. While McGinnis
hypothesized it may have something
to do with the 5 percent Malbec ratio,
we think it much more likely that the
wine just sucks. Although to be fair
Please see WINE, page 8
the bowdoin orient
features
This awards seasons hottest accessory: perspective

348 AND
MAINE STREET
EVAN HORWITZ
Its awards season! That means, of

course, that the swanky people are getting glammed up (to mixed results) and
gliding and sashaying up red carpets all
across Los Angeles.
It also means that most of my day
is consumed by practicing acceptance
speeches in the mirror, which, by the
way, is an inexhaustible exercise because
there are so many kinds of speeches.
Sometimes Im totally surprised; sometimes I faint; sometimes I know I deserve it and say so (Kanye); sometimes
Im a perennial winner with an outrageously charming combination of awshucks and glamour (Meryl Streep).
But what does awards season, this
season when it becomes commonplace
to hear some famous face say nonchalantly that all shes done today is gotten
dressed and how shes been doing her
hair since three Tuesdays ago, mean to
us? We arent gliding up red carpets, but
stomping through the snow.
All day, when Im not thanking the
Academy, I hear Michael Caine from
Miss Congeniality in my head saying,
Oh my God, I havent seen a walk like
that since Jurassic Park.
We dont have all day to get ready
for the world to see us, but have to get
up and get out and get coffee and get to
class. As for hair even if we had time to
for Frdric Fekkai to spend two weeks
whipping our tangled tresses into some
daring dos, it would be to no avail: hat
hair is inevitable.
It would be easy for us to say,
Awards season has nothing to do
with us. Were not interested in dressing up; were just trying to survive the
next blizzard. And, to a degree, thats
right. Were just trying to live our lives
and learn things and have fun; we cant
spend much time thinking about keeping up appearances without getting seriously lost and confused.
Yet I think it is way too easy, for me
anyway, to look at celebrities on various
carpets and think that they look effortlessly fabulous and believe we are failing
in some way if we are not ready for the
red carpet or the runway or some
camera that
takes panoramas of our asses and toenails (or whatever goes on at E!).
Ill readily admit that this might just
be me and my delusions that I could be
whisked away at any moment by Oprah
in her helicopter and given some hon-
orary award with a hefty cash prize and

a movie deal and a book contract and a
handsome husband.
But I think that there is a really difficult line that we straddle here between
getting on with our lives and feeling
like we are on display in some way. It is
not unreasonable to think that on any
given day, someone could take your
picture and put it on the Internet.
Of course, having your photograph
show up on your friends Instagram with
56 followers is not the same as having it
show up on every pop
culture website with
millions of views
and
comments
speculating what
happened
to
your face. But
its not entirely different,
either.
Its
not
fair for us,
here, to put
pressure on
each other
to
always
look
good
and beautiful
and cameraready.
We
dont
have
glam-squads.
We live here;
we work here;
we study here;
we play here;
we sleep here. Walking into the dining
hall or walking into the Union should
not feel like walking the red carpet. It
does sometimes, and I know thats not
only me.
And yet Ive been guilty as anyone,
guiltiest probably, of saying that its important to put on beautiful clothes and
look good. For me, thats not necessarily
a contradiction: you cannot help but feel
better if you feel comfortable and confident and expressive in what you wear.
Im sorry, but nobody is their best
in sweatpants. That doesnt mean that
their best is in a suit or a dress. And that
doesnt mean that some days you wear
sweatpants and some days a suit. Neither make you a better person, neither
should induce shame or guilt, and Id
rather see someone dressed down who
is comfortable with herself than someone dressed up who looks ill-at-ease in
an itchy costume.
Its never about what you wear; its
how you wear it. Dress for yourself and
wear what makes you feel most yourself.
For those of you who are really confused and need some serious style rules,
try this: Take your worst clothes, the
clothes you wouldnt want to be caught
dead in and simply give them to Goodwill or a similar charity of your choice.
Or throw them away if you have no soul.
That way, the next time you feel exhausted and unable to make any effort
to get dressed, you will be forced to put
on something better, and will probably
feel better. Or, as someone wise once
said, go through your wardrobe and
gather all your party clothes and get rid
of everything else. That way, life is always a party.
You still can refuse to have your picture taken, though. This is Maine and
there are no glam squads and its cold.
But also, if youre smart, you should, like
me, wear a tux or a gown under your
clothes at all times in case Oprah comes
to fetch you on short notice.
Thats all for now, I need to go practice my speeches.
HUTTON
Biologically, every time you access a memory it rewrites it. Youre

kind of being continually informed
by your current experiences, so
theres never a pure memory.
To convey these ideas, Hutton creates a moving digital image that overlays pixels of colors
between two photos of Maryland
and Maine. Creating this artwork
is made easier with the Edwards
Digital Media Lab, which has the
software Hutton uses to manipulate photos.
Coming up here, the labs been
super nice, said Hutton. Its the
nicest lab Ive ever seen.
Having always lived in coastal
areas, Hutton appreciates Brunswicks proximity to nature.
It was really important to be so
close to the water, Hutton said. I
remember asking that in my first
interview with the [Deans Office],
How close am I to the ocean? My
partner Laura and I are really into
hiking and I love having Bradbury
Mountain ten minutes away.
This spring marks Huttons second year at Bowdoin, and she said
that the best part of her job has
been working with students and
trying new kinds of materials or
helping them to set up installations. The creative atmosphere of
the Edwards Art Center enables
her to be surrounded by what she
enjoys the most.
Ive always been kind of a maker, even at home, said Hutton. I
love building things for the house,
making jewelry or knittingThe
act of creation that leads into an
object, I really like that.
the bowdoin orient
TALK OF THE QUAD

THE LORE PACKAGE
The night after Thanksgiving,
I visited a damp beach in Lisbon,
Portugal with a huddle of Bowdoin
study-abroad students.
If youre stuck in continental Europe, this sand is just about the closest
you can get to American soil. If youre
stuck in America, theres a candy cane
of a lighthouse in Lubec, Maine
West Quoddy Head, first built in 1808
for $5,000, about four hours north
of Brunswickthat is just about the
closest you can get to Europe.
Another way of thinking about this
is: from Portugal, you can often catch
Europes last sunset. From Maine, you
can often catch Americas first sunrise.
I did not visit the Lubec lighthouse during my time at Bowdoin.
Like babysitting for a professor,
walking through L. L. Bean in the
middle of the night, or joining an
intramural team, it is something I
thought I would do. Bowdoin after all was once the first college in
America to see the sunrise, a fact I
am reminded of every time I walked
across the tired wax of Smith Unions
giant linoleum sun.
But if I once longed for superlatives and hyperboles (being the
farthest East! Seeing those first red
rays!) I now longed for closenessa
collapse of time or space, a quick reunion with Super Snack. This beach
was, literally, the nearest I could get.
You have probably seen Lynchville, Maines international signpost, a 1940s-era sign displaying
directions toamong other local
townsParis (15 miles, turn right)
BENEATH THE BIRCHES

AND THE PINE
In 1915, David Endicott Putnam won
the Camp Becket Honor Emblem, an
award given to campers based on the
strength of their character.
Two years later, Putnam, who would
come to be known as the Ace of Aces,
left his job as a counselor at Camp
Becket to fight in World War I. In September 1918, his SPAD XIII plane was
shot down over France and Putnam was
killed. The U.S. Army posthumously
awarded him the Distinguished Service
Cross. He was 20 years old when he died.
At the dedication of the 9/11 Museum last spring, President Obama
spoke about the Man in the Red Bandana, Welles Crowther. While everyone else ran down the stairs, Crowther,
a former volunteer firefighter working
in the World Trade Center, ran deeper
into the building to help get others out.
Welles had been a Becket camper and
was a quintessential example of one of
the camp mottos, Help the Other Fellow.
This summer, Ill be on staff at Becket, just like Putnam was nearly a century ago. But a funny thing happens
when I tell people what my plans are
for the summer.
features
and Peru (46 miles, left). Im living

in Italy for the year, in rural Sicily,
and I sometimes find myself wanting
to come upon a sign a like this: a real
one though, with a neat list of mileages to my parents in Oregon, my
sister in Rhode Island, my friends in
Maine, Utah, China, Mexico.
In the weeks after graduation,
the first novel I read was Mating,
by Norman Rush. It was worth the
raised eyebrows I got on the airplane. The narrator is a wry female
anthropology student working on
her thesis in rural Botswana in the
early 1980s. To say that
I related to her isolation is an understatement.
When I arrived in
Sicilyworking remotely for a woman
I hadnt met, living in
an empty villa without a car, surrounded
by hundreds of acres
of vineyards and
waves of 100-degree
heatI could go days
at a time saying only a
few sentences.
I didnt speak
Italian, and no one
around me spoke
English. Terrified of sounding like an
idiot, I chose to feel like one instead,
and I kept to myself. Before bed, I
swatted mosquitos and read Rush in
my basement room, which has one
small, barred window and a wardrobe quilted in pink, floral satin.
There is a great line in Mating
where the narrator talks about her
lore package. As I understand it,
this is the narrative shield we carry

to make sense ofand make safe
ofthe world. She chooses to believe that lions are torpid during
the day, thus buying herself a break
from fear.
Since graduation, Ive been assembling and dissembling my own lore
package, trying to decide what myths
I will hold onto. Some are easy to keep:
things that I recycle will not end up in
foreign landfills, my freckles will not
become skin cancer, snakes do not
come into houses.
Others are harder. I tell
And in reality, that Portuguese

beach was a rare indulgence. I rarely
let myself miss Brunswick these
days. I miss friends, sure, but with
Facetime and Facebook and facing emails, those ocean-miles can
quickly feel insignificant.
At dinner that night in Lisbon
after over-sauced fish, fluorescent
lighting and a free round of porta
friend had interrupted the conversation to ask, point blank, if I felt
lonely in Sicily.
I surprised myself when I realized
that, at the end of the day, I was not.
This is one thing I am
removing from my
lore package, then:
hyper-connection
as a means of selfbetterment. I hauled
this aim through
adolescence without
questioning it.
Now, apart from
the handful of people I
work with every week,
there is nobody to make
me wonder if I should
be connecting more, or
if Im connecting right.
There is nowhere to go
after 10 p.m., so there is
nothing to FOMO. Sheer
myself that with Mays commencephysical impossibility means social inment anniversary, I will no lonteraction cant be my goal. Strangely, its
ger catch myself imagining a walk
a relief. Its life off the hook.
across the Quad, or a Coles Tower
Im living a sort of grotesque
party. Twelve months, and Ill be
caricature of the watered down
cushioned by the new, raw postlife per second that Toph Tucker
grad state of the Class of 2015. I
12 wrote about as a post-graduate
think of it almost on medical terms.
on this same page last year. Its
Get through this flu season, and Ill
glaringly obvious that my life here
breathe easy for decades.
cant approximate the density of
college. I might be spared something in this.

When I visited home for the holidaysflying both transatlantic and
trans-America, across over 6,000
miles of salted water and frozen
earthI happily resumed my social
rhythms. But on the days and nights
when I stayed home, I let myself feel
a flicker of satisfaction.
I felt a thrill of self-sufficiency,
a slight shock that I wasnt trying to distract myself from myself.
Bowdoin taught me lots of things
its people taught me lots of things
but Im not sure I learned how to sit
tight with my own heartbeat. I didnt
have to.
On January 30, Brazil celebrated
Saudade Day, in honor of the Portuguese word that imbues Lisbons
blue-tiled alleys and seven hills.
Saudade connotes a state of deep
nostalgia and, often, a repressed
knowledge that the object of longing
will never return.
In 1660, Portuguese writer Manuel de
Melo described the feeling as a pleasure
you suffer, an ailment you enjoy.
The sentiment seems an inevitable part of growing up, taking
stock and looking back. I dare you
to stare across the ocean and not
feel a tinge of it. But if I sometimes
feel this waya loss of community
or childhood or dreamits on de
Melos terms.
After all, there is a quiet pleasure
and enjoyment in realizing you have
something to miss.
And when it feels lonely, you have
your lore.
Erica Berry is a member of the
Class of 2014.
Really? Oh, thats nice, my friends

parents say. Nice lingers, as if theyre
not sure if it was really what they meant.
My friends ask if its going to be my last
summer or say Im too old to be a camper. The Career Planning Center insists
that I get an internship.
I get defensive when I tell people that
I plan to return for
my thirteenth consecutive summer
at camp and my
fifth on staff. The
overachiever inside
of me has an urge
to justify why Im
not applying for a
competitive internship program or a
research grant.
I want to tell
them about David
Putnam and Welles
Crowther. But the
truth is Im not going back to camp
this summer simply
because I think that
Becket will make me more like David
Putnam or Welles Crowther. Nor do
I have any illusions about my ability
to turn my campers into national heroes in four weeks, although mature,
thoughtful fourteen-year-old boys
would be a good start.
Every Sunday afternoon, my
phone lights up with the
weekly edition of Jobs
and Events I May Be In-
terested In. In fact, many of the jobs

do interest me. I think Id like being
a White House Intern or a Future
Global Leader or a Google Journalism Fellow.
Id also like to sit in a rocking chair
on the porch of the library overlooking
the lake and have to put a sweatshirt on
ics and poverty. They sit on the beach

and in cubicles and on subways.
Walking around campus at the end of
August, you need more than two hands
to count the number of people who ask,
How was your summer?
I dont think Ive ever heard anyone
say they had a terrible summer, but I
dont see peoples eyes light up when
they talk about their summers either.
It seems that few people have a story
theyre excited to tell.
Two years ago, my summer story was
about a camper whose family life was so
turbulent that nobody could make the
trip to see him on visiting day. He pulled
me aside before boarding the bus home
on the last morning. He looked up at me
and said, in an expression of emotion
jarringly earnest for a pubescent boy,
youre like the good big brother Ive
never had.
Last year it was a story about helping a group of camperscampers who
are much cooler than I was or will be
build a cabin that will house hundreds
of campers over the next few decades.
When I return to Bowdoin in August,
I hope I have another story. I hope my
eyes light up when someone asks me
about my summer. I hope the excitement I feel to be back at Bowdoin will be
matched by the sadness I feel
that summer is over.
Matthew Gutschenritter
is a member of the Class of
2016.
the other three. I want my clothes to

smell like a campfire and my arms to
be covered in mosquito bites. I want
to relive the best days of my childhood
and share them with my campers, despite that fact that many people do not
consider it the best preparation for my
impending adulthood.
My friends and
I are stuck in a tug
of war between
what we want to
do for the summer
and what were
told we should
do. Were lucky if
nothing is pulling
on the should end
of the rope. Were
even luckier if the
want and should
ends are the same.
I hope the Offer
of the College is
wrong. I hope my
time at Bowdoin
is not the best four
years of my life,
because the sun is quickly descending
but I do hope that the summers in bebehind the birch trees. Id like to watch
tween my years at Bowdoin are the best
as my campers try to navigate a twentyof my life because they are the last sumfive foot, hundred-year-old canoe back
mers of my youth. After college, sumto the dock. Id like to remind them to
mer is just a season.
hang up their wet life jackets.
My friends have good, fun, relaxIf I get to be surrounded by the
ing, boring, warm summers. They
Bowdoin Pines for nine months of
sell vacuums and ice cream and
the year, I want to be surrounded by
stocks. They study Arabic and physthe birch trees of
the Berkshires for
the bowdoin orient
features
SchoolHouse Caf focuses on the food

BEN MILLER
PRISON
that they are imprisoned

isnt necessarily because of
their individual choices, its
partly because of a societal
problem or the color of their
skin said Brown.
The student leaders expressed
that volunteering their time to
read responses is not only enriching for the inmates educational
experience, but is also a positive
experience for the volunteers.
[The inmates] are so appreciative and so thankful of the
fact that someone who is a
complete stranger doesnt
view them as this animal
in a cage or this monster
but views them as someone
worthy of respect and dignity, said Fickes. Being on
the other end of this is a really powerful experience and
I dont know any other organization that does it in this way.
Readers are often impressed
by the profound responses that
inmates take the time to craft.
Hochman recounted her experience of reading one mans poetry.

when one is cleansing the palette with
sharp cheddar cheese, accurate tasting
may be impaired.
Overall wed recommend the wines
in the following order (Pepsi optional):
1. Dark Horse Big Red Blend, Hannafords, $7.99
2. Newmans Own Cabernet Sauvignon, Hannafords, $10.99 (Side note:
all Newmans Own profits go to charity,
so we felt that it was okay to go over our
normal $10 limit.)
3. Sterling Vinters Collection, Hannafords, $8.99
So at the end of the day, none of
these wines stood out as great. But
thats not really what matters. First,
when youre combining wine with
Pepsi, quality really becomes a secondary concern. You could use literally any red and it would taste sugary
BEN APPTIT
February is an interesting month for
many reasons. With campus in a nearly
perpetual post-blizzard state, daily priorities have adapted to the landscape.
Focusing on the essentialslike navigating to class, getting meals, and staying warmrequires considerable energy when Brunswick resembles the ice
planet Hoth.
This is the month that Bowdoin admissions often forgets to mention when
advertising our fine institution to hopeful prospies, instead opting to remind
everyone of our high quality of life rankings and unparalleled Dining Services.
While we can agree those accolades
make total sense, the primal day-to-day
in the wintry tundra is an exceptional
case that calls for an exceptional remedy,
one that goes far beyond the realm of
necessity to a place of solid comfort. If
theres anything less necessary and more
comfortable than brunch, I havent
found it yet.
For many, the very concept of brunch
is hard to fully grasp. Is it just late breakfast? Is it glorified hangover food? Is it an
American bourgeois dream/nightmare?
While the answer to all these questions
may very well be yes, Bowdoin offers us
the luxury of bi-weekly brunches on the
meal plan and most students get pretty
excited to discuss their weekend exploits over eggs and French toast. Even
at Moulton and Thorne, brunch comes
loaded with a set of associations that
make it different from all other meals. In
Harpswell, however, SchoolHouse Caf
single-handedly justifies the existence
of this enigmatic meal with a menu that
combines creativity and familiarity at an
affordable price.
In a Goldilocks scenario where dining hall brunches are almost too predictable and big city brunches collapse
under the weight of their own hype,
brunch at Schoolhouse Caf feels just
right. After a short drive down Harpswell Neck Road, I stepped into a space
that at once felt modern and classic,
with lots of natural lighting, bookshelves
filled with old-school board games, and
a tastefully vibrant color scheme. At first
WINE
and delicious. Second, its important

to remember that wine drinking
should never be done (purely) for the
wines sake. This was the best tasting
weve had thus far, but this column
was the hardest to write because of
all the good moments and funny
comments we wanted to include but
couldnt for lack of space. So well end
by asking you to go out, grab some
friends, buy some wine and Pepsi,
maybe some plastic wine glasses
(stems included, per recommendation from the hockey boys), and enjoy those that youre with. Thats what
drinking wine is all about.
Additional Notes:
Brandon: Perhaps the first time Ive
agreed with Connor Quinn about anything. What is happening to me?
Bryce: Regrettably drinkable, red
wine and Pepsi is a good way to start a
bad habit.
PHOTO COURTESY OF FIONA IYER
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK: SchoolHouse Caf oers an alternative to brunch on campus, with a large, aordable menu. Above is their homemade sausage with eggs, kale, roasted tomatoes and jalapeno cornbread.
glance, I could already tell that this place
wasnt selling a gimmicky brunch experience, but instead presenting solid food
in an unpretentious setting.
The ever-changing menuwith its
local brunch offerings and enticing
baked goodspresents a number of
hard decisions, but not a single wrong
one. If you need advice on your decision (or even if you dont) take some
time to talk to your server, who will
break down any dish into every detail
and likely share intimate knowledge
of the foods origin. Our server had
an anecdote about a heavyset gentleman from Tennessee who suggested
the addition of chili pepper bits to the
cornbread, and verified the seasonality
of the delicious roasted tomatoes with
an enthusiastic description of the cafs
own year-round greenhouse.
I was pleasantly surprised, especially
at this line of latitude, to find some great
huevos rancheros, which delivered
subtly spicy warm salsa with chewy
corn tortillas and bright yellow overeasy eggs. Also in the egg department,
SchoolHouse perfectly executes a three
egg soft scramble that could rival any
omelet preparation in consistency and
variety of ingredient choices. Resist the
urge to get toast as a side, especially if
the alternative is anything like the fluffy
cream cheese-chive biscuit I encountered on my visit.

Like any brunch worth its salt, a meal
at SchoolHouse Caf has enough sweet
offerings to balance out the savories.
Though cookies and cakes are available up at the counter, the cinnamon
twist French toast and muffin bread
pudding on the menu fall just shy of
dessert-level sweetness. If you want to
embrace the true spirit of brunch and
accompany your eggs, hash browns,
and bacon with some syrupy goodness, these pancake-type options are all
available as half orders.
My objective here, clearly, is to make
you crave the wonderful local fare that
SchoolHouse Caf has to offer. If youre
not already jealous of those in-theknow eaters among us, then I probably
shouldnt tell you the reason behind
SchoolHouses name. Not only does the
caf serve the public Wednesday-Sunday every week, but they also prepare
every single school lunch for the nearby
Harpswell Coastal Academy. Those
lucky kids get to eat locally sourced, creative, gourmet meals for free every day.
So if youre like me and have something
to prove about the supremacy of Bowdoins food, heres your challenge: go to
SchoolHouse Caf and then decide who
holds the cafeteria championship title.
The caliber of his thought, the

words he was using, just the structure of the poetry was so far beyond me and that was amazing to
see, said Hochman. I felt really
lucky to be able to read his work
and offer my comments.
While the program is
not intended to be a
pen-pal type cor-
respondence, the leaders say that

student readers often feel a connection to the stories that inmates
share in their responses.
Brown remembered her experience in corresponding with a man
this summer who was facing the
prospect of parole.
[He] wrote about how
hopeful he was because
he had a bunch of nieces
and nephews who he corresponds with through mail
and they are growing
up while hes in prison,
said Brown. I found out
in the next unit that he
didnt get parole and it
was really crushing.
With all four leaders
graduating this spring,
the future of Bowdoins
chapter is uncertain.
Our biggest plan
for the future is to
continue active leadership in the club,
said Pande. This has
definitely been the
most involved College
Guild has been on campus since weve been
here so we would like to
see that kept up.
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PHOTO COURTESY OF LIZZIE KENNY
SNOW DAY: (From left) Andrew Pryhuber 15, Daniel Zeller 15, Stephen Ligtenberg 15 and Lizzie
Kenny 16 received funding to spend ten days over Winter Break skiing in the Chic-Choc mountains.
PINES

so youre not touching snow, but
small enough that it still provides
wind protection.
It was definitely cold, but it was
nice that we didnt have to do it the
whole time. You have to keep track
of staying dry and not rolling against
the wall and getting snow on your
sleeping bag, Kenny said.
While doing an extended backcountry trip presented its challenges, it was ultimately a positive experience.
It was really rewarding to see everyone else in the park had a shuttle
service bringing their stuff from hut

to hut while we were dragging all our
stuff with us, Kenny said.
The Beyond the Pines grant stipulates that students have to bring
what they learned on their trip back
to Bowdoin in some capacity. Since
returning, the group has helped design the curriculum for this years
session of AWLS. Over spring break,
the BOC will also be running a very
similar trip to the one the group created so that other BOC members can
enjoy the experience.
Kenny, the only junior on the trip,
plans on leading more winter trips
both this semester and next year so
that people can continue to get outside and enjoy the snow.
the bowdoin orient
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
V-Days Vagina Monologues to raise awareness of diverse female experiences

BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin V-Day will bring together

a record number of 50 women in its
18th annual production of the Vagina Monologues today and Saturday
in Kresge Auditorium. With stories
spanning from birth to body image to
rape, the Vagina Monologues focuses on representing the vagina as a tool
of female empowerment and creating
dialogue around womens experiences.
The show has added a new monologue
to represent trans women this year.
This years performance is directed
by Callie Ferguson 15, Xanthe Demas
15 and Amanda Spiller 17 with the
support of Bowdoin V-Day co-leaders
Kaylee Wolfe 15 and Leah Alper 17.
With such a high number of participants this year, adjustments were
made to accommodate a part for every woman who auditioned. For this
reason, Speak!, a compilation of
Bowdoin womens experiences produced by Bowdoin V-Day, was appended to the show.
Another modification in this years
production responds to recent critiques that the show essentializes
women around their anatomy to the
exclusion of trans women. The script
now includes a monologue based on
interviews with a diverse group of
trans women titled, They Beat the
Girl out of My Boy...Or So They Tried.
Were really happy that we finally have that voice being filled,
said Ferguson.
DOWN THERE?!: Hannah Arrighi 15 plays a 72-year-old woman being interviewed in The Flood. Fifty students act in Vagina Monologues this year.
For cast members, the show provides both a means of confronting
womens issues on campus and interacting with a community of proactive
and engaged people.
I think were all working together
towards something that both helps us
express ourselves and creates a space
for the audience to express themselves, said Abby Motycka 17, a firsttime participant.
Women gain a lot of confidence
from being in the show. Its a climate

of support over some sensitive issues,
added Ferguson.
The show also aims to increase
dialogue surrounding a variety of
womens experiences, both positive
and negative. According to Ferguson,
cast members become ambassadors
for spreading the message of the show.
The fact that other women are
comfortable with sharing their stories
helps foster an environment in which
other people can share in the same

way, said Motycka.
The impact of the show extends
beyond the production itself, added Ferguson.
In the same way the show covers a
wide range of stories and experiences,
the fifty-member cast spans from first
years to seniors.
Its a really awesome way to see a
lot of different demographics on campus combined, said Demas.
While participants received the

script in the fall, Ferguson and Demas
organized the hour-long production
within the past two weeks.
This compression means that each
night is really dense with getting at
these issues, said Ferguson. When
youre in it, youre in it. Its an immersive experience.
For Alper, broadening the impact
of the V-Day mission is the most rewarding part about being involved in
the Vagina Monologues.
I hope it sparks discussion, said
Alper. The fact that there are so many
people up there saying the word vagina...maybe people will leave feeling
more comfortable talking about vaginas or things they wouldnt normally
talk about.
V-Day is a global movement born
out of Eve Enslers Vagina Monologues, a show that takes place on
Valentines Day each year and works
to end violence against women and
girls. Bowdoins V-Day chapter
sponsors the Vagina Monologues
and other events throughout the
year to raise awareness with the
same goals.
The performances are tonight
and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in
Kresge Auditorium. Tickets can be
purchased at the Smith Union Information Desk for $5. All proceeds
from the production, including the
annual Vagina Bake Sale which precedes the show, benefit Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast
Maine (SASSMM).
Visiting artist Nancy Blum shares professional perspective with students

BY ADIRA POLITE
ORIENT STAFF
Newly welcomed artist-in-residence Nancy Blum hopes to bring

Bowdoins art students the experience
of making a living as an artist.
As the spring 2015 Marvin Bileck
Printmaking Project Visiting Artist
in Residence, Blum has been spending her first week in Assistant Professor of Art Carrie Scangas Printmaking I class.
Audrey Blood 13, a Visual Arts
major who currently works at the
Zea Mays Printmaking studio in
Massachusetts, is back at Bowdoin to
serve as Blums assistant. Blum will
then stay for another three weeks as
an artist in residence in the Visual
Arts department.
I always had a fear that I couldnt
be an artist, Blum said during a campus lecture on Tuesday. I knew I had
aptitude and desire but I did not have
a sense that I contained brilliance.
Public artart funded by the public and displayed in public places
has given Blum many opportunities.
Her current project, which will be displayed in San Francisco General Hospital, will feature glass windows decorated with medicinal botanicals. Fifty
feet of her drawings will be translated
into glass. Though her work incorporates many different mediums and
techniques, drawing remains Blums
favorite form of expression.
First and foremost at this point,
I draw, Blum said. The first step to
etching is drawing. Drawing is the first
step of many things.
In describing her creative process,
Blum makes it clear that her process
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ETCH A SKETCH: In the studio, public artist Nancy Blum and Clarence Johnson 15 lift up a copper etching that will be part of Blums series of fifty prints.
differs from typical artistic routines.
As an artist who has been doing
this for a while, my ideas have been
developing for decades, she said.
I dont draw out a composition or
sketch before I begin. I just draw directly from my train of thought.
Blum and Professor Scangas relationship goes back over a decade.
Nancy was a mentor and studio
critic for me when I was a graduate
student at the University of Washington. Much of what I know about how
to give a good studio critique I learned
from Nancy, wrote Scanga in an email
to the Orient. Nancy can give a critique that sees right into the heart of
an artist and draws out authentic action and hard work. She is motivating,
extremely caring, and tough.
Although this is not Blums first
visit to Bowdoin, she was enthusiastic
about the opportunity to return.
Bowdoins an incredible institution. Its nice as an artist to get to come
to a place thats beautiful, has great
facilities, and bright students, said
Blum. My undergraduate basis was
in liberal arts. I think its the best form
of education for developing the mind.
Blum did not pursue art until

she decided to go to the Cranbrook
Academy of Art at age 28. Following graduate school, she did artistic
residencies. After many years, and
a professorship at the University
of Wisconsin, Blum ventured into
public art.
During her first week on campus,
Nancy will be working on an etching
project with help from Scangas students. She is aiming to create a series
of fifty copper etchings.
I recently spent time helping
Nancy in the studio, said Daniel
Lulli 18. It was scary because shes

a professional and Im a newbie but
it was really nice.
Artistic help is not the only valuable thing that Scangas students will
be giving Blum; in fact, Blum is most
excited for their company.
I mostly work alone in my studio,
so its really nice to get to interact with
students while they help me, she said.
She has been an artist-in-residence at many colleges and universities prior to Bowdoin, and she is
known for giving great career advice
and studio critiques. I expect that
the students who interact with her
will receive some great mentoring if
theyre open to it, Scanga wrote.
Though the students in Printmaking I will be helping Blum, she will
hopefully return the favor.
When it comes to etching, Nancy
is very familiar with the material. Having her there as a resource will be incredible, said Clarence Johnson 15.
Blum cites botanical renderings,
fieldwork, and exploration as her
main inspirations. Her work often focuses on floral themes.
[The flower] has been historically relegated to the backgroundit
doesnt have any form of agency, said
Blum. So my content aims to pull it
forward and...have it be of a scale that
it gets to inhabit the active space.
[Flowers] are going to survive us
by the waytheyre not quite as innocuous as we think, Blum said of
flowers her lecture on Tuesday.
When I heard her comment on
nature outliving humanity, I thought,
Thats a very Bowdoin thing to say,
said Lulli. Im excited to see where
this goes. I like her.
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the bowdoin orient
a&e
Growing Local film sprouts discussion

BY MADISON WOLFERT
Ben Haile 15
ORIENT STAFF
On Tuesday, the Environmental Studies Program, Sustainable

Bowdoin, and Bowdoin Dining
joined forces for the screening of a
documentary called Growing Local.
The film, a 2014 Camden International Film Festival Official Selection,
depicts Maines local food movement
and the difficulties faced by its farmers during a time of change. Recent
graduate and Bowdoin Organic Garden alumna Shannon Grimes 14
hosted the event.
The three segments of Growing Local tell a different story of
the challenges faced by local farmers. In Changing Hands, a father
struggles to pass the familys organic dairy farm on to his son without
plunging either of them into debt.
Pig Not Pork looks at the efforts
of an entrepreneurial butcher to
connect local farmers more directly
with consumers. The final segment,
Seeding a Dream, tells the story
of a young couple who revitalize an
aging farm and open a general store
that becomes a gathering place in
their community.
Following the film, a panel of
three local farmers led an open
discussion. The panelists, Tristan
Noyes 05 of GroMaine LLC,
Kristin Pierson, an apprentice at
Crystal Spring Community Farm,
and Sarah Wiederkehr of Winterhill Farm answered the audiences
questions regarding the film and
the panelists farming experiences.
Pierson emphasized the impact
institutions like Bowdoin can have
on the local food economy.
[Bowdoin] seems like a small
enough school in a really perfect
location to be able to source a lot
of food, she said.
According to Bowdoin Dining, the
college currently acquires 34 percent
of its food from local vendors.
Eliza Huber-Weiss 17, who attended the event, said she is glad
Bowdoin encourages conversa-
DJ OF THE WEEK
NEVAN STEVENS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
GREEN THUMBS: (From left) Philip Kiefer 18, Zoe Wood 18, Margaret Conley 18, Ryan Herman 17
and Ella Driscoll 17 discuss local food sourcing after screening the Growing Local documentary.
tions about local food, but she was
also disappointed by the low attendance at the discussion.
I think at Bowdoin its easy to
say I support this cause and Im
fighting for this, but then its also
easy to say I have lots of work to
do so Im not going to go [to the
event], Huber-Weiss said. Its so
easy to not think about where your
food comes from, especially when
its so nicely presented to us.
So what can Bowdoin students
do? The panelists ask that students
educate themselves about agriculture and think about where their
food comes from.
Several of the farms featured in the
film also offer apprenticeships to students who want to get more involved
in the local food sourcing movement.
Noyes posed a challenge:
There could be a lot of really
interesting work done around cre-
ating a map of all the farms in the

state of Maine. That doesnt exist right now, Noyes said. Thats
something a student could take
on and it would be a very valuable
project for the whole state.
More than anything else, the
film and panelists emphasized the
importance of consumers in keeping local farms afloat. Its our responsibility to care about where
our food comes from and to build
a community around local eating.
I think what this film really
emphasized for me was the importance of the community around
farming. Its one thing to grow a
vegetable and market it, and its
another thing to grow a community and market that, said HuberWeiss. Theres nothing quite like
seeing someone pull a beet out of
the ground and being like Im going to eat this later!
LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN BLUES: Hailes jazz and blues radio show plays on WBOR every Friday from 1-2 p.m.
BY GABY PAPPER
ORIENT STAFF
How did you first get involved

in WBOR?
I heard about WBOR early on
and coming to Bowdoin I knew I
wanted to get involved and have my
own show. After that, I was hooked.
I have been involved with the show
since my first semester freshman
year at Bowdoin.
Why did you name the show
Bowdoin Blues?
I was influenced by the House
of Blues radio hour, which is the
XM show that Dan Aykroyd runs.
I wanted to do a show like that,
and they both happened to start
with B.
Are you involved in other music
endeavors here?
I am a double major in music
and German so I do a lot of music
at Bowdoin. I try to keep my show
and my music classes separate. My
show is the Bowdoin Blues and I
focus more on blues, jazz, rock and
roll and soul, which is pretty separate from my a cappella group and
the chamber choir.
Do you play music based on the
preferences of your listeners or
your own tastes?
I go with my own gut mostly. I
have gotten requests two or three
times, in which case I just had to go
running around searching for the
song they wanted to hear in order
to play it. That turned out well. I
hope they were happy!
Has Bowdoin Blues been a oneman show from the start?
It has always been just me. I like
having callers and I am glad someone is listening. If you are listening,
I hope you enjoy it.
If you could only listen to one song
on loop, what would it be?
John Cages 433. It is just
complete silence, so it would not
get too repetitive.
Which musician would you want

to be for a day?
Questlove. He earns so much
respect yet always stays true to his
own artistic sense. I could learn a
lot from how he works.
What have been some of your favorite music experiences at or
around Bowdoin?
The power of the Roomful of
Teeth concert last semester was
life-changing, and I enjoyed sharing a few words with The Antlers and Surfer Blood when they
played here a few years back. But
as a Meddiebempster, nothing
beats our seventy-fifth reunion
during my sophomore year. Meddies from the past seven decades
came on stage to sing our standards together. I felt a part of
something uniquely timeless.
Since you are in your
senior year, what is the future
of Bowdoin Blues?
I am actually staying here for one
more semester, so Bowdoin Blues
is going to keep on rocking. It is
cheesy, I know.
What message do you hope to send
to your listeners?
I mostly want to expose other
people to this kind of music. Most
of what I play ends up coming from
the new shelf of the jazz and blues
section. I end up playing a lot of local blues artists and jazz artists who
are somewhat off the beaten path,
someone people may not have
heard about. If people are listening,
I just say be open to those local or
lesser known acts and know that I
would rather give them the spotlight because they are just as good
as something more mainstream.
Tune in to Bowdoin Blues with
Haile every Monday from 1 p.m.
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the bowdoin orient
11
Mens basketball drives past Middlebury Womens hockey looks for form
as it heads into home stretch
SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
I NEED SOMEBODY: Bryan Hurley 15 looks to send the ball crosscourt in Bowdoins win last Sunday.
BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Sun 2/8
v. Middlebury
W 88-70
After a disappointing weekend with

two NESCAC losses, mens basketball
hosted Middlebury (16-6 overall, 3-5
NESCAC) last Sunday. The Polar Bears
(15-6 overall, 5-3 NESCAC) came out
eager to get back on track after two
straight NESCAC losses and fought
their way to a commanding 88-70 win.
Determined to bounce back

from their drop in the standings,
The Polar Bears leapt out to a 12-3
lead to start the game.
From there, despite good efforts
from the visiting Panthers, the Polar Bears never looked back and
did not relinquish their lead for
the remainder of the contest.
Once again the scoring charge
was led by Lucas Hausman 16 and
John Swords 15, who scored 21
and 20 points respectively. Captain
Bryan Hurley 15 contributed 17
points, including an impressive 15

coming from behind the arc.
Each time Middlebury inched
back into the game, the Bowdoin
shooters pushed the lead out of
reach. The Panthers could not match
the offensive efficiency of the Polar
Bears. Bowdoin was able to shoot 52
percent from the field while holding
Middlebury to only 39 percent.
This statistic was achieved not
only through outside shooting but
also largely from Bowdoins dominance around the basket from big
men Swords and Matt Palecki 16.
The Polar Bears outscored Middlebury 48-20 in the paint.
Turnovers also proved to be key
in the game. Bowdoin converted
15 points off turnovers compared
to only two from the Panthers.
The team is still trying to find
its rhythm after the season-ending
concussion that Keegan Pieri a15
suffered two weeks ago knocked
him out of the lineup.
This gap has left a void in the roster
that has forced other players to step
up. The load has largely been placed
on the shoulders of forward Palecki
who rose to the challenge this weekend, dominating the glass both offensively and defensively, corralling eight
rebounds and scoring 13 points.
It was huge for our confidence
said Palecki. That was a must win
game. The fact that we came out
flying right off the bat and played
well shows that even through all
the injuries and mixing lineups
that we are a good team.
The win brought Bowdoins current
record to 5-3 in the NESCAC, which
Please see M. BBALL page 13
BY RACHAEL ALLEN
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Fri 2/86
Sa 2/7
at Trinity
at Trinity
W
L
6-5
2-0
The womens hockey team won

its first game in three weeks, beating the Trinity Bantams 6-5 in
Hartford. The Polar Bears then fell
to the Bantams the following day
in a 2-0 shutout. Bowdoin is now
ranked fourth in the NESCAC at
9-7-4 overall (5-5-2 NESCAC),
while Trinity is ranked sixth, 12-61 overall (5-6-1 NESCAC).
[Friday] was a very high-paced,
fast game for us, said captain Colleen Finnerty 15. We won it in
the last second of the game, which
is just very, very exciting.
The two teams exchanged the
lead over the first and second periods. Bowdoin pulled ahead 2-1 after the first period, but surrendered
two goals to Trinity by the end of
the second. The Polar Bears came
back to score three times within the
first 10 minutes of the third period,
with goals from Finnerty, Rachel
Kennedy 16 and Miranda Bell 18.
Both teams have pretty strong
offenses, so [we thought there was]
a chance it [would] be a high scoring game, said Head Coach Marissa
ONeil. There were a couple lead
changes and a lot of momentum
shifts. Then going into the third period, we were down a goal and we
just came out really focused.
The team kept up its momentum

throughout most of the remainder
of the third period and held a 5-3
lead with two minutes left in the
game. After the Trinity goaltender
came out of net to give her team an
extra player, the Bantams scored
two goals to tie the game at five
with 34 seconds left.
[Ariana Bourque 16 and I]
were just throwing the puck on
net, trying to create the last opportunity we could before it went into
overtime, said Finnerty. When
the puck ended up squirting free
off the goalie, I just popped it right
inand looked at the clock and
saw that it was 0.8 seconds.
Up until this win, Bowdoin had
not scored six goals in a game since
playing Colby in November.
This has kind of been the story
of our team that no matter what
the score is, we are playing until
the buzzer, said ONeil. There is
no giving up with this group and I
think that theyve certainly shown
that resiliency throughout the
course of the year.
With a string of bad results,
January was a grind for the Polar Bears who are hoping the win
against Trinity propels them toward a strong finish to the season,
according to Finnerty.
[This win] was just kind of a reminder for the team that hey we can do
this, we know how to do this, we do this
every day in practice, now just go out
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Womens hoops stays perfect Mens hockey wins back-to-back in NESCAC

in NESCAC with two games left
BY MADDIE JODKA
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
Sun 2/8
at Middlebury
W 53-43
Last Sunday, the womens basketball team traveled to Vermont

to play Middlebury (11-11 overall,
3-5 NESCAC), coming home with
a 53-43 victory. The win improved
the Polar Bears season record to
20-2 (8-0 NESCAC), stretched
their winning streak to 17 games
and improved their ranking to No.
18 nationally while maintaining
their standing atop the NESCAC.
During the teams Saturday
practice before leaving for Middlebury, senior captain Megan Phelps
suffered a broken ankle and was
taken to the hospital. Losing a
starting senior was a huge shock
for the team.
With Megans injury happening
just hours, minutes before our departure, I think our entire team was
a little bit rattled, said Head Coach
Adrienne Shibles. I think that
showed in our start in the first half.
The Polar Bears battled the Panthers, who are now coached by
former Bowdoin assistant coach
Kelly KJ Krasco, through a tough
first half. At one point Bowdoin
fell behind 10-5, but a three-point
jump shot from Marle Curle 17
tightened up the score. Matching

each other shot for shot, the teams
battled each other for the lead until the half closed with the score
tied at 24.
Beginning the second half with
the game close motivated the team
to come out stronger. The half began with a layup from Curle that
kicked off a 10-2 run and gave
Bowdoin a lead that lasted the
rest of the game. Although the
game ended with the Polar Bears
ahead by 10, at one point the lead
climbed to 18 points.
I like the way the team responded in the second half, Shibles said.
I think we showed some resilience. I think the biggest change
was that we upped the intensity of
our defense. I think that that led to
a lot of steals and transition points
for us on the offensive end.
While Bowdoins defensive performance was strong in the first half,
the team executed better and was
even more effective in the second.
Kate Kerrigan 18 dominated both
defensively and offensively, contributing 11 points and six rebounds
while racking up nine steals.
We had to pick up the defensive
intensity, said Curle. We just played
better from there on out. Kate Kerrigan also had nine steals, so she was
Please see W. HOOPS page 13
GATE KEEPER: Max Fenkell 15 protects the net in the Polar Bears 2-1 win against Hamilton. The weekends two winsputs them in 5th place in the NESCAC.
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Fri 2/6
Sa 2/7
v. Hamilton
v. Amherst
W
W
2-1
4-3
The mens ice hockey team

dominated this weekend with two
back-to-back home wins against
NESCAC rivals Hamilton (8-9-3
overall, 5-6-3 NESCAC) and Amherst (14-4-2 overall, 10-4-0 NESCAC), bringing its record to 12-5-3
(6-5-3 NESCAC).
[We were] expecting them both to
be tough games; every game close to the
start of playoffs is, said Brendan Conroy

17. Hamilton plays a gritty, physical
game and Amherst brings a lot of skill
to the table.
After going 5-1-1 in their last seven games, the Polar Bears now sit at
fifth in the NESCAC.
This year the NESCAC is a very
good league, and for a period of time
here weve been an average team in a
good league, said Tim Coffey 15. Especially down the stretch run, when the
playoff race is shaping up, every game
is tough.
On Friday night, the Polar Bears beat
Hamilton 2-1 at Watson Arena with a
huge student crowd cheering them on.
I prefer to play in front of large, raucous crowds, said Coffey. Personally,

theres nothing like scoring a big goal
and scooping ice before jumping into
the glass with your 500 closest friends
right behind it. So we really appreciate
the support the student body has given
us, and we hope to see the student body
at the games for Senior Weekend.
I think the rowdiness adds another dimension to the game. We try
not to pay much attention to it during the game, but it definitely helps
us, said Conroy.
After a scoreless first period, the Polar
Please see M. HOCKEY page 13
12
the bowdoin orient
sports
Pennant or punchline? 2015 Sox are a mystery

LEFT OF
PESKY POLE
WILL OSSOFF
Its a depressing time of year for anyone living in New England, especially
during this cold and absurdly snowy
winter. For sports fans, that depression is compounded by the post-Super
Bowl, pre-March Madness malaise.
The NBA and NHL are in the middle of their seasons, but at the moment
they lack an intensity that wont reemerge until the April playoffs. Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the
tunnel, symbolized by the magic truck
departing Snowpocalyptic Boston for
that famous Fort in Florida.
On Thursday, the Red Sox equipment truck departed from Fenway
Park for Fort Myers, Florida, where
the first Sox players are scheduled
to report on February 20 for spring
training. On March 3, for the first time
since late September, the men in red
and white (and occasionally blue) will
take the field. Yes, these will only be
exhibition games, but with Papi-sized
piles of snow still on the ground, there
is something cathartic about watching
the Red Sox play in short sleeves on
fresh-cut grass.
Punxsutawney Phil may have
seen his shadow and predicted six
more weeks of winter, but with
spring training comes a whiff of
summer in February.
Apart from the respite from the
winter doldrums, why is it worth getting excited about the Red Sox? They
were a painful lot to watch last season,
impressively plummeting from the

World Series Champion pedestal to
the cellar of the AL East. They traded
their ace pitcher Jon Lester to Oakland in July, then allowed the Chicago
Cubs to outbid them in free agency for
Lesters future services.
David Ortiz, the cornerstone of the
lineup for over a decade, is 39 and can
only defy nature for so long. And Xander Bogaerts, the exciting young shortstop who was heralded as the second
coming of Nomar Garciaparra, struggled with inconsistency all last season.
Should we just start counting down the
days until Patriots training camp?
Nope. Put away the Gronk jersey
for a few months, and get pumped
for the extraordinary uncertainty
and hope surrounding the 2015 Red
Sox. There are so many unknowns,
so many unproven entities, that the
Red Sox could win anywhere between
60 and 100 games this season. Their
revamped pitching rotation is full of
young arms with something to prove.
The Sox picked up two former allstars coming off of mediocre 2014
seasons (Wade Miley and Justin Masterson) and a mid-rotation starter
from Detroit (Rick Porcello) who
can finally crawl out from under the
shadows of Justin Verlander and Max
Scherzer. The elder statesman on the
staff and master of inconsistency, Clay
Buchholz, could pitch his way into Cy
Young contention or out of the rotation. The Sox management chose not
to shell out big money for another ace
pitcher, gambling that one of these average starters will emerge as a star.
If the Red Sox disabled list stays
relatively short this summer, this team
will score a ton of runs. Newly reacquired Hanley Ramirez is a force to

be reckoned with when healthy, as he
hit .342 with 20 home runs in half a
season in 2013. Former MVP Dustin
Pedroia claims to be injury-free for
the first time in years, but given how
much tenacity he plays with, it is unlikely that he will stay completely out
of the training room. David Ortiz is
only 34 homers short of 500 and will
do everything he can to stay on the
field, but again, hes 39.
Then there are the kids who were still
in diapers when Ortiz signed his first
professional contract. Twenty-two-yearold Mookie Betts showed flashes last
season of being the leadoff man of the
future, and after an abysmal summer,
Bogaerts ended 2014 on a high note
with a .313 average in September.
Rusney Castillo is the biggest question mark. Signed at the end of last
season, the Cuban outfielder has a
mountain of hype on his shoulders,
but it remains to be seen how he will
carry that burden. He epitomizes the
2015 box-of-chocolates Red Soxas
Forrest Gump would say, you never
know what youre gonna get.
In the middle of February, National
Chocolate Lovers Month, Im embracing the unpredictability of the 2015
Red Sox. If the 2013 Sox unexpectedly went from worst to first in the
AL East, why cant the 2015 squad?
Spring training is all about hope. Its
about the promise of Big Papi homers
flying through the warm summer air,
and Dustin Pedroia diving across the
spongy grass to make an insane catch.
And its about the promise of October
baseball returning to Boston in 2015.
Jacobson, Silva and Bellrose take state titles

BY SAM SHAHEEN
ORIENT STAFF
Track and field faced off against

in-state rivals last weekend at the
Maine State Meet at Bates Slovenski. Both the men and the women
came in second to Bates in the
two-day event that saw several
school and state records fall.
The mood at Bates was ecstaticI felt tingling in my legs and
fingertips, said Jacob Ellis 16.
In Fridays meet, the Bowdoin
women had two individual state
championsErin Silva 15 in the
pole vault and Meghan Bellerose
17 in the 600m run. Juniors Lucy
Knowlton and Allyson Fulton, Alana Menendez 15 and Demi Feder
17 won the 4x800 relay.
It was great seeing my girls run
so fast and jump so high, said Sarah Kelley 18. Especially seeing
Meghan run the 4x200 meter then
come back to win the 600 meter. It
was too much to handle.
State champions aside, the
W. HOCKEY
there and do it for the 120 minutes we

play every weekend, said Finnerty.
Even though Bowdoin lost to Trinity 2-0 Saturday night, the team held
the Bantams off until the second period
when they scored both goals.
The team was especially excited to
play since Trinitys assistant coach,
Dominique Lozzi 12, used to play
for Bowdoin.
She was my linemate freshman year and she was senior captain, said Finnerty. Shes obviously getting her team amped to
play Bowdoin, but at the same time
women had a number of strong

performances, including many podium finishes. Hayleigh Kein 15
finished second in the high jump,
tying both the school and state
record but losing in a tiebreaker.
Sprinter Emily Clark 15 placed
second in the 60m dash, while Feder placed second in the 800m run.
Overall, the women scored
171.5 points, just 58.5 points behind Bates (230), but topping
third-place University of Southern
Maine (146).
Saturday the men took the track,
placing second to Bates as well. The
mens team scored 146 points, 31
fewer than Bates (177). Matt Jacobson 17, was the sole state champion
for the mens team winning the 5K.
Jacobson won the race by an impressive nine seconds, running alone for
the entirety of the last mile.
Though they were not crowned
state champions, first years Latif
Armiyaw and Brian Greenberg set
school records in the 60m dash
and triple jump, respectively.
You could just tell Brian was

going to fly, said first year Benjamin Torda. As soon as he took his
first step, he seemed to be soaring
in a way he had not done thus far
this season. It was majestic.
Other strong performances by
the men included Ellis second-place
showing in the 800m run, and junior
Nick Walkers second-place finish in
the 3000m. Chris Genco 15 was also a
runner-up in the long and high jumps,
and senior Jarred Kennedy-Lovings
won second place in the 200m dash.
There were some good performances across the mens and
womens teams, said captain Kevin
Hoose 15. I saw some very encouraging performances in the womens
4x800 meter and 800 meter runs.
Overall, we set out to win the meets,
and although it was a bummer not to
do so, I have great confidence for the
team going into next season.
The teams continue their season
today and tomorrow at the Dave
Hemery Invitational, hosted by
Boston University.
were over here [knowing] shes an

alumcoaching another team that
we know she didnt like while she
was here. So we [have to] show her
Bowdoins better.
Finnerty predicts that this weekendthe teams Senior Weekendwill be emotionally charged.
Bowdoin hosts Hamilton before traveling to Amherst next weekend for its
final set of regular season games.
The Polar Bears are still capable
of securing a top-four spot and hosting a NESCAC quarterfinal, but the
playoff race is tight and they will not
likely know their seed until the regular
season is over.
Last year, it came down to not
only our last game, but [also]
the results from other teams, said

ONeil. Were still in control of our
own destiny in terms of where were
going in the playoffs.
The team has been primarily working on scoring, situation plays and
transitional plays in preparation for
this weekends games, scheduled for
Friday at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday at 3:00
p.m. in Watson Arena.
We arent trying to look ahead
too much. We know what each game
means, but were happy with what
weve been able to accomplish, said
ONeil. We also know theres still a
lot out there that we are looking to
strive towards and are certainly capable of doing that. Its just a matter
of getting it all together.
ANISA LAROCHELLE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Lucas Hausman 16
MENS BASKETBALL
HIGHLIGHTS
Named NESCAC player of
the week
Leads the team with 19.1
points per game
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
shot at any time, said point

ORIENT STAFF
guard and captain Bryan Hurley
15. Hes probably one of the
As a sophomore, Lucas Hausonly guys on the team who can.
man 16 scored 9.5 points per
You know he can go and get a
game despite averaging 17 minhigh-percentage shot for him
utes off the bench. This season,
that isnt going to be a high-perhis first as a starter, Hausman
centage shot for anybody else.
has proportionally increased his
Hurley added that the team
impact, leading the team with
has taken advantage of Haus19 points in 31 minutes per
mans skill in transition by playgame, along with 3.6 rebounds
ing at a more up-tempo pace
and 1.6 assists.
since the start of the second
My job was to be the scoring
semester.
punch of the bench, Hausman
Head Coach Tim Gilbride agreed.
said. Now Im doing that in the
The team is looking to him
starting lineup.
a little more and creating opHausman has reached douportunities that are good for
ble-digit scoring in 13 straight
him, he said. Teams are startgames and scored over 20 points
ing to key on him more over the
in nine of them. He has scored
course of the season. John was
30 points twice in his last four
the focus early on.
games.
Hausmans play and Swords
The fascinating thing about
seven-foot frame in the post
Lucas is that he can score from
have made the Polar Bears a difanywhere on the court, said
ficult team to defend.
center John Swords 15. Well,
If he gets into the paint and
except the backcourt. Hes never
can pass it to John down low
tried, thankfully.
or kick it out, its huge at the
The
two
beginning of
guard
has
games because
earned
his I want to attack whoevers guard- teams wont be
points with a ing me and get all the way to the able to collapse
quick first step,
him, Hurbasket. I can either pull up or get on
a smooth pullley said.
into the lane and be crafty.
up jumper and
Hurley, the
creative finishteams
best
LUCAS HAUSMAN 16
es around the
three-point
rim. Hausman
shooter, noted
has earned more free throws
that Middlebury was forced to
than anyone else in the NESroll its better on-ball defender
CAC and has converted nearly
over to Hausman, which freed
90 percent of them.
up Hurley who scored 17 points.
I want to attack whoevers
Even with the switch, Midguarding me and get all the way
dlebury still could not stop
to the basket, he said. I can eiHausman from dropping 21
ther pull up or get into the lane
points. His constant presence in
and be crafty.
the paint forces the post players
Hausmans style of play has
to collapse off Swords as well,
changed very little during his
leaving him open under the
time at Bowdoin, though it
basket. Hurley also believes that
is clear that he has improved
Hausmans play has reduced the
his attacking skills. Hausman
number of double teams Swords
stands at 63 with long arms,
has seen.
which helps him shoot over
Swords was not ready to consmaller defenders and draw
cede that, but acknowledged
fouls. His speed also allows him
that because he and Hausman
to blow by bigger defenders.
are such different players, the
As his athleticism has imoffense can look very different
proved, Hausman has develover multiple games or even
oped a deeper repertoire of
throughout a game.
dribble moves that keep defendHes up tempo, he said.
ers honest. Rarely an outside
Thats great when we need
shooter, Hausman is nonetheup-tempo, especially down the
less shooting almost 50 percent
stretch in games. Usually when
this season, a result of his ability
Im in we tend toward slow, pato beat his man for easy baskets
tient offense. Its refreshing to
and finishes in traffic.
have someone like Lucas come
He throws up a lot [of
in and destroy all of that.
shots] that, if I didnt trust him,
The sports editor of the Orient
I wouldnt call good shots,
chooses the Athlete of the Week
Swords said. But its calculated
based on exemplary performance.
risk. He has a different calculus
To suggest an athlete, email
than the rest of us.
Sports Editor Jono Gruber at jgruHe can go and get his own
ber@bowdoin.edu.
BY ALEX VASILE
sports
the bowdoin orient
13
NESCAC Standings
MENS HOCKEY
NESCAC
W
Trinity
12
Amherst
10
Williams
9
Conn. Coll.
8
BOWDOIN 6
Hamilton
5
Middlebury 5
Tufts
4
Colby
2
Wesleyan
1
L
1
4
4
5
5
6
6
9
9
13
T
1
0
1
1
3
3
3
1
3
0
OVERALL
W L T
17 2 1
14 4 2
13 5 2
11 7 2
12 5 3
7
8 5
8
9 3
7 12 1
5 12 3
2 18 0
7:30 P.M.
3 P.M.
W
11
9
6
5
5
5
3
3
2
L
1
1
6
5
5
6
8
9
8
T
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
0
2
W
16
15
11
9
8
12
8
11
8
L
2
2
8
7
9
6
10
9
9
T
3
3
3
4
3
1
1
0
3
SCHEDULE
v. Hamilton
v. Hamilton
7 P.M.
3 P.M.
TACK AND FIELD
SCHEDULE
Sa 2/14
W
8
8
7
5
5
4
3
2
2
1
0
at Dave Hemery Invitational
TBA
*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off
Compiled by Sarah Bonanno

Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
L
0
0
2
3
3
4
5
6
6
8
8
W
20
21
20
17
15
16
11
9
11
8
9
Fri 2/13 at Bates

Sa 2/14 at Tufts
Trinity
Bates
Amherst
BOWDOIN
Tufts
Colby
Williams
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Hamilton
Conn. College
L
2
1
2
5
7
6
11
11
10
15
13
7 P.M.
3 P.M.
MENS BASKETBALL
WOMENS HOCKEY
Fri 2/13
Sa 2/14
BOWDOIN
Tufts
Amherst
Williams
Conn. College
Colby
Middlebury
Wesleyan
Hamilton
Trinity
Bates
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
Fri 2/13 at Trinity

Sa 2/14 at Wesleyan
Middlebury
Amherst
Conn. Coll.
BOWDOIN
Williams
Trinity
Weslyan
Colby
Hamilton
WOMENS BASKETBALL
W
8
6
6
5
5
4
4
3
3
1
0
L
1
2
3
3
3
4
4
5
5
7
8
W
18
17
18
15
12
13
13
16
14
13
7
L
5
4
5
6
10
9
8
6
8
9
14
SCHEDULE
Fri 2/13 v. Bates
Sa 2/14 v. Tufts
7 P.M.
3 P.M.
WOMENS SQUASH
SCHEDULE
Fri 2/13 v. Wesleyan at Harvard
Sa 2/14 at CSA Team Championships
Su 2/15 at CSA Team Championships
10 A.M.
TBA
TBA
HOOKED UP: Matt Sullivan 17 escapes a trailing Hamilton defender in the Polar Bears 2-1 win over the Continentals last Friday at Watson Arena.
M. HOCKEY
Bears were not discouraged.

Were a team that prides itself on
not panicking. So when were tied going into the second period, we try to
pretend that were down a goal. That
way we play with a sense of urgency
and work harder to win the second
and third periods, said Coffey.
The Bears came back ready to fight
in the second period, scoring twice
and taking the lead.
Kendall Culbertson 17 fed a
cross-ice path to Zach Kokosa 17,
who scored the first goal with only
a minute left in the period. Culbert-
W. HOOPS
SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HAUSING CRISIS!: Lucas Hasuman 16 leads the Polar Bears to a win over Middlebury at home.
M. BBALL
ties them for fourth in the standings

with Tufts. Bowdoins two remaining
league games are tonight against second place Bates (6-2 NESCAC, 17-4
overall) and tomorrow at 2 p.m. against
Tufts (5-3 NESCAC, 12-10 overall).
The Polar Bears will seek revenge
for their 71-51 loss at Bates earlier this
season. However, this contest will be
held at home, away from the notoriously disruptive Bates crowd, which
could give the Polar Bears the edge

necessary to come through with a win.
Tufts has historically proven to be
a tough opponent as the seniors on
the team have yet to beat the Jumbos
in a league game.
They always have our number
said Palecki.
However, this trend will not prevent the Polar Bears from operating
at a high level throughout the contest.
Despite the past, both of this weekends
games are must wins if the Polar Bears
want to ensure a home playoff spot at
the end of the season.
just everywhere on the floor.

Brady blazed through the second
half, scoring 12 of her 14 total game
points, as well as getting seven rebounds. Meanwhile, Bowdoins
bench surpassed Middleburys 1910, thanks to 10 points scored by
Ally Silfen 17. Although Bowdoins
38.7 field goal accuracy percentage
fell just behind Middleburys 40.5
percent, the Polar Bears held a 3430 advantage in rebounds as well as
a 28-16 lead on points in the paint.
Looking forward, the Polar
Bears will prepare to play at Bates
on Friday at 7 p.m. and at Tufts on
Saturday at 3 p.m.
Shibles said these upcoming
son scored next, giving Bowdoin a

2-0 lead.
Early in the third period Hamilton responded by getting a shot past
Max Fenkell 15 and into the left post,
bringing the game within one. However, Fenkell had seven third period
saves to hold onto Bowdoins lead.
On Saturday afternoon, the Bears
played Amherst in Watson Arena
and served ninth-ranked Amherst
its first loss in five games, defeating
them 4-3.
John McGinnis 15 opened up the
scoring on a backhander on a breakaway 4:37 into the game.
The Polar Bears were able to
double their lead later in the period
when Stevie Van Siclen 18 won a

faceoff and passed the puck to JohnAlexander Kourkoulis 17, who took
a slapshot that slipped right past
Amhersts goalie.
The Bears were able to increase
their lead to 3-0 when Connor Quinn
15 scored off of a rebound.
Despite the Bears impressive lead,
Amherst stunningly responded with
three goals in just over five minutes.
However, Bowdoin was able to bounce
back before intermission as Danny Palumbo 15 scored the game-winner with
7.6 seconds remaining in the game.
Bowdoin hopes to continue its win
streak tonight at Trinity, ranked first
in the NESCAC.
games will present very different

challenges for the team.
Tufts marks Bowdoins final
game of the regular season, as well
as a contest for the top seed in the
conference. Tufts and Bowdoin
are currently tied for first place in
the league as the only two undefeated teams in the NESCAC. Tufts
has only lost one game the entire
season. Regardless of the result,
Bowdoin is guaranteed either the
No. 1 or No. 2 seed for the NESCAC Tournament.
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OPINION
the bowdoin orient
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The hard sell
artmouth College President Phil Hanlon announced on January 29

that alcoholic beverages that are more than 15 percent alcohol by
volume (ABV) would be prohibited from Dartmouths campus beginning this spring. The announcement has sparked discussion about the
role of hard alcohol on college campuses around the country, with the debate proceeding along these lines: Administrators and health experts argue
that limiting hard alcohol consumption reduces binge drinking and makes
campuses safer. Detractors claim that hard alcohol bans are evidence of
college administrators becoming increasingly paternalistic. After a similar
policy went into effect at Bowdoin in the late 1990s, the College became a
safer place to drink.
Much of the coverage of Dartmouths new ban makes reference to Bowdoin, which was one of the first schools to enact such a policy. Bowdoin
prohibits the possession of hard liquor with an alcohol content of more
than 10 percent ABV, while permitting beer, wine, malt beverages and
hard cider. Both Amherst and Williams prohibit hard alcohol at registered
events, with a few exceptions. Hamilton banned it briefly, but lifted the ban
in 2012. Of the 11 NESCAC schools, only Bates, Colby and Bowdoin have
banned hard alcohol entirely.
Bowdoins policy provides a strong incentive against having hard alcohol
at campus-wide parties that we believe protects students from over-consumption. Whereas a typical mixed drink like jungle juicewhich contains an unknown amount of alcoholmight be served at parties at other
schools, it is relatively uncommon at Bowdoin. That is not to say that one
cannot find hard alcohol on campus. Students often binge drink in their
rooms before attending larger parties, and opponents of prohibiting hard
alcohol argue that bans encourage rather than deter such dangerous behavior. However, if students do choose to pre-game with hard alcohol, at least
they are making their own drinks in a controlled environment, rather than
consuming mystery drinks in the midst of a chaotic party.
In recent years, Bowdoin has had a low number of student transports and
last year had the lowest in the NESCAC. Although this statistic is also attributable to other factors, the Colleges policy certainly helps foster a healthier
drinking culture. A ban on hard alcohol alone cannot create a safe campus
party environment, but it is an important step in the right direction.
Enacting a policy that moderates the behavior of college students is not
an easy task, and even Bowdoins time-tested ban is not without its downsides. But by and large, our experiences at the College have confirmed that
banning hard alcohol is more responsible than it is paternalistic. Each year
roughly the same number of U.S. college students die from alcohol-related
causes as are enrolled at Bowdoin, and although there may be other ways
to prevent these deaths, banning hard alcohol should not be overlooked as
a potential solution. It took a tragic death in the late 1990s for Bowdoin to
reassess its drinking culture, and todays students are better off as a result.
We hope that the recent national attention given to Dartmouths actions
will encourage other schools to consider similar policies.
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An Indian perspective
To the Editors:
I would like to provide an Indian/redskin perspective and context in the matter of utilizing a fellow human beingan Indianas
a mascot.
First off, the word redskin is
the white mans word for a savage
toward whom he felt extreme hatred. In addition to his hatred for
the savage Indian, he also had extreme fear of the savage Indiana
fear that drove him to genocide.
These were the early so-called
pioneer days when men were

men and when it was not only alright, but a duty, for whites to kill
Indians. It started by taking Indian scalps, then ears and then the
whole Indian head, all for a bounty.
Whites eventually began to peel
the skin from alive or dead Indians,
not only for the bounty but also
for the pure pleasure of torturing,
terrorizing and killing the Indian.
This practice of peeling away the
skin left an Indian body that seemingly had red skin.
My choice of words like whites,
Indians and white man is very de-
liberate because we have been using those words and labels since
our two peoples met in 1492. That
has been the nature of our peoples
relationship. That is what defined
our relationship and continues to
define our one-sided relationship
into the present.
I would like to remind everyone
that we are all children of God, and
that we are all related and that we
must love one another or die.
All my relations,
Dan Ennis, O.I.M.
Tobique Indian Reserve
New Brunswick, Canada
Open letter: Bowdoin students aching for change

The following is the introduction
to a longer letter commenting on racial and ethnic diversity at Bowdoin.
Please visit www.bowdoinorient.com
to see the letter in its entirety.
Dear members of the Bowdoin
community,
Every year, Bowdoin increases
the diversity of students on campus,
but cohabitation does not necessarily mean integration. Over the past
year, Bowdoin students have gathered to discuss the ways in which
institutionalized racism persists on
our own campus.
Many Bowdoin students of color do not feel equally respected
and protected within this institution. Many Bowdoin students
not just of ones colorare dissatisfied and uncomfortable with the
racial climate on campus. Many
Bowdoin students are tired and
aching for change.
This letter is our assessment of
the current state of affairs regarding the inclusion of racial and
ethnic diversity in the College,
including instances in which unequal treatment has affected students interaction with other students, faculty and staff. We aim
to open meaningful discussion of
Signed (not including many members of the community who wish to
remain anonymous):
Michelle Kruk 16
Claudia Villar-Leeman 15
Emily Jaques 17
Emily Simon 17
Elizabeth Gonzalez 15
Julia Berkman-Hill 17
Adriane Krul 15
real integration at Bowdoin, and to

begin to design actions to support
a more inclusive campus. We are
looking for institutionalized action and the collaborative support
of the Bowdoin community. Only
together can we realize our vision
of a Bowdoin where current and
future students of color are heard,
supported and valued.
In this letter, we aim to illuminate
the difference between political correctness and that which is morally
imperative: equality, inclusiveness
and authentic mutual respect. We
acknowledge that aspects of this letter may seem harsh and that the discussion of race is a difficult one. Our
intention is to begin this dialogue
with our honest evaluation of current realities, so that we may have
genuine engagement that ends with
concrete action.
We refer to our campus as the
Bowdoin Bubble, but it is here at
college that we ought to be taught
to confront the issues that trouble
the world outside. And further, we
ought to be taught to identify the
ways in which these issues pervade
our own campus.
We invite the College to engage
in this dialogue with us, so we
can support each other in making
Violet Ranson 16
Sophia Rivero 15
Gabi Serrato Marks 15
Julia Mead 16
Allyson Gross 16
Briana Cardwell 17
Rickey Larke 15
Matthew Goodrich 15
Dillon Sandhu 16
Maya Reyes 16
Meredith Outterson 17
Bowdoin a genuinely inclusive and

egalitarian experience. This issue
affects the well-being of the campus
as a whole; we aim to open a discussion that will foster positive change
for all. Our conscience and our
commitment to the common good
should know no bounds.
As members of an institution of
higher learning, we at Bowdoin are
in a privileged position to engage
in a dialogueto share our diverse
experiences, listen and learn from
each other. Real privilege would be
to come out of this College truly
understanding one another. With
this letter we strive to, as a community, realize the Offer of the
College:
To be at home in all lands and all
ages; / To count Nature a familiar acquaintance, / And Art an intimate
friend; / To gain a standard for the appreciation of others work / And the criticism of your own; / To carry the keys of
the worlds library in your pocket, / And
feel its resources behind you in whatever
task you undertake; / To make hosts of
friends... / Who are to be leaders in all
walks of life; / To lose yourself in generous enthusiasms / And cooperate with
others for common ends / This is the
offer of the college for the best four years
of your life.
Courtney Payne 15
Dash X. Lora 16
Maddie Lemal-Brown 18
Sergio Gomez 16
Sam Seda 15
Angela Stovall 15
Christine Rheem 15
Faustino Ajanel 16
Monique Kelmenson 15
Anna Reyes 15
Alexxa Leon 15
opinion
the bowdoin orient
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Covered up posters are another example of Bowdoins culture of thoughtlessness

DOING
IT WRONG
MAYA REYES
Sometime in December, I was
struck by a bulletin board covered
with sheets of paper in David Saul
Smith Union. On each paper was
a poem, and I soon noticed that a
black writer wrote each poem. Some
of the poets featured were people
I deeply admired, like Langston
Hughes and Audre Lorde, and some
of the poems were by writers I had
never heard of.
This display of black poetry was
deeply touching and seemed especially timely. Members of the community had just sponsored a vigil
and a die-in at the dining halls in
response to the non-indictment of
Darren Wilson, the police officer
who killed Michael Brown.
Coming back to Bowdoin after
Winter Break, I was excited to see
what forms of activism and solidarity the new semester would bring
especially since February is Black
History Month. And it has been inspiring to see all the work that organizations like the African American
Society have put into recent events.
Another poster in Smith Union,
showing minority victims of police
brutality, has stood out as especially
captivating and upfront.
While I am proud of the initiatives that Bowdoin has taken to
confront racism, I was still disap-
pointed to see what eventually happened to the poetry board in the

Union. Walking by it several days
ago, I noticed an assortment of
posters for various events pinned
over the poems.
My purpose is not to call out the
individual people or groups who
put up these new posters, or even
say that they did anything wrong.
But the image of that board, and
the thought of covering those powerful words, struck me as
thoughtlesseven disrespectful.
The term
microaggression
has
been
increasingly
brought up
in progressive circles
within
the
past couple
of years. A
microaggression
refers
to an
action or statement that is
unintentionally discriminatory.
A clear example would be showing something written in Chinese to
a Korean person and asking them
what it meanssimultaneously applying a sameness to very different
East Asian cultures and assuming
cultural knowledge based on a persons appearance.
This type of discrimination happens all the time. Microaggressions
are often murky, and they can be a
result of racism, ignorance or even

good intentions.
Im not trying to say definitively
that putting posters over the poetry in the Union is a microaggression. But it does veer close to that.
I think of all of the various ways
this could make someone feel. I acknowledge that I am someone who
appreciates and writes poetry, and I
am very sensitive towards racial issues. But I am not
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
advocating for an excessive sensitivity or atmosphere of extreme

political correctness.
However, there is an indifference
and self-centeredness required to
cover up poetry by black writers
right before and during Black History Month. It is completely possible that those who covered up the
poetry did not even realize what it
Orients comment policy stifles authentic conversation

HOME IN
ALL LANDS
JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER
This edition of Home in All Lands
is co-authored by Hannah Arrighi 15.
As you may have read in the pages
of this newspaper last week, the editorial board has decided to change
the way in which readers can leave
comments on bowdoinorient.com.
Where before comments had
been largely free, from now on the
editors will be the moderators of
what deserves to appear at the bottom of each article. It is especially
concerning to see that a small clique
of editors have elevated themselves
to be the lone arbiters of what is and
isnt offensive.
While we acknowledge that the
Orient should exercise a certain
degree of oversight when it comes
to the comment sectionas is the
case on nearly every news websitewe feel that its recent decision
will stifle authentic conversation
on a campus already too hesitant to
speak its mind.
Given that the Orient has always
had ultimate control in terms of
which comments are shown on the
website, you could easily think that
this isnt a significant deviation from
previous practice. To the contrary, it
is a major shift in accountability.
Under the new guidelines, if the
editors find a comment merely distasteful, they can prevent it from
entering public discourse. Whereas
before oversight was shared between
the editors and the readers, we are
now faced with an unaccountable
process whereby an editor could
easily preclude the admission of an
unsavory comment on a whim.
Even if this new policy will not have

a direct effect on which comments
appear on controversial articles, it
establishes a symbolic paradigm that
the editorsnot the readersare the
sole judges of a comments worth.
The issue is not that they have the final say, but that theyre the only ones
who have a say at all.
To be clear, we are not suggesting that commenting on the Orient
should be unrestricted. Although
freedom of expression here enjoys
perhaps the most robust protections
of any country, even in the United
States it is by no means absolute.
There are limits already in place
that prevent people from expressing
themselves, including laws preventing the dissemination of military
secrets and restrictions on obscene
publications. In other words, to suggest that the Orient should have a
no-holds-barred approach to comments would be at odds with the
realities of free speech both in the
public domain and in the media.
What is at issue are the broad
terms that the editorial board has
established to moderate comments,
which essentially describe anything
that, broadly speaking, could be
termed offensive speech.
As the definition of what is offensive becomes broader, we are at
risk of cloistering ourselves amongst
voices that only agree with our own;
thus isolated, the slightest deviation
from the norm becomes anathema.
We must not be afraid to be offended. Indeed, we must allow people to
be offensive because, in doing so, we
protect our own rights.
Implicit in the affirmation of
your right to voice your views is
your obligation to protect the rights
of others to their views, noted Ruth
Simmons in a speech at Smith College last year.
She described the experience

of attending a talk by a scholar at
Brown University who maintained
that blacks were better off having
been enslaved. Simmons maintained that her conviction about
the absolute necessity of permitting others to hear him say these
heinous things trumped any personal distaste regarding his abominable views.
When choosing between the value
of free expression and her personal
comfort, hearing his unwelcome
message could hardly be judged as
too great a cost.
So what does this mean for this
newspaper and the college community it serves? You always have
the right to be offended or to find a
statement egregious. And you dont
have to engage with every perspective on an issue in order to gain
a reasoned opinion on it. But the
broader issue with restrictions on
free speech is that we lose the opportunity to engage with views that
do not align with our ownviews
that become offensive by virtue of
not being ours.
Our opinions are sharpened
through interactions with others,
especially those we disagree with.
And when the Orient takes it upon
itself to regulate what speech is
worthy of admission, before the
public even has a chance to evaluate it, we are at risk of further isolating ourselves.
Only through open, honest, vigorous debate can you gain a standard for the appreciation of others work, and the criticism of your
own, to borrow from the Offer of
the College. President Hyde recognized that Bowdoin should provide
such an opportunity, and the Orient,
through its decision, only does this
college an injustice.
was or who the writers were. But it

is also possible that they did.
Either way, what does it say about
our community when people ignore
something as beautiful as poetry,
provided free and in such a convenient space? What does it say when
we are close enough to read it and
choose to hang up our own posters?
I know Bowdoin students are
busy. I am not exempt from occasionally ignoring
the intellect
and beauty
and entertainment
that we
are endlessly
supplied
with.
But
I
am not
guilty of
carelessly putting up
posters.
Putting
up
these
posters exemplifies desensitization
towards art and a selfish privileging of ones immediate
needs. There is without a doubt
plenty of space in the Union and
other school buildings to put up a
poster. I realize these poems cannot
stay up forever, but I think it is a bit
soon to start obscuring them.
In a certain way, this is a Bow-
doin version of the 5 Pointz building in Queens. 5 Pointzs exterior

was covered in intricate and stunning graffiti. It was completely demolished last year.
The building had been covered in
graffiti for decades and there was a
substantial public outcry when the
news spread that it would be demolished. The situation brings up the
same question of how long unsanctioned art should be displayed, and
what its destruction means.
On another level, this bulletin
board exemplifies how quickly and
callously some students at Bowdoin
go about their daily lives here.
There are so many presumptions
and expectations that our lives are
filled withnot to mention a seemingly endless list of responsibilities.
This has created an atmosphere in
which our decisions are not made
as thoughtfully as they should be,
where alternatives are not considered heavily enough.
Many students drink for hours
instead of attending lectures or music recitals, work for an A instead
of trying to gain a new perspective
in a class, or pass by walls of poetry
and art without giving them a second glance. I think poetry, art and
the creativity and intellect with
which we are privileged enough to
be surrounded deserve more than
that. I strongly encourage Bowdoin students to take advantage
of the resources provided to them
and give a longer look at the efforts
made by their fellow students to engage them.
On thorny issues, we need

to be wrong to get it right
BY JAMES JELIN
CONTRIBUTOR
I am an intolerant, ignorant,
sexist, classist, racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, heteronormative, elitist bigot,
and so are you.
In high school I used gay slurs as
punchlines. My first semester here,
I thought feminists were dumb.
Last week, a girl in my improv
group pointed out that my attempt
at a tactful joke about race was at
the expense of black peoplea
shock to me after the amount of
time Ive spent thinking about race
these last few months.
Every day I commit microagressions, reinforce the patriarchy and
flaunt my privilege, and I dont
even realize it. I just dont really
understand this stuff. Despite the
countless hours Ive spent reading,
studying and conversing, Im not
even close.
I still catch myself making assumptions about gay people,
Asian people, religious people. It
freaks me out and I have to reject
the impulse to pretend it didnt
happen or to convince myself it
was OK.
Im writing this column because
I think most of you feel the way I
do. The only way we can move forward is if we confront ourselves
as we are. We need to accept our
shortcomings by recognizing that
we all have them. We must ask others to tell us when we make mistakes and find community in bettering ourselves.
I expect to get things wrong
here, and I want you to tell me
when you think I do. I want to be
excited to hear why Im wrong. I

want you to write a letter to the
editor and be excited for the next
weeks Orient when someone tells
you why they think youre wrong. I
want us all to enter an endless cycle of wrongness until everyone is
so wrong all the time that we stop
being afraid of it.
This column is not a veiled commentary on a specific issue. It is
about why I believe conversation
at Bowdoin is breaking down
why we have become awkward, indirect, strained and tired when we
talk about injustice. We can only
change that if we admit that we
dont know the right answer.
What if having an opinion about
race was exciting?
What if I didnt look at my plate
to hide my facial expression when
someone brought up Palestine?
What if I wasnt afraid of being labeled a racist bigot or a social justice warrior?
Im tired of us looking at each
other in silence, of letting the
conviction that nobody could understand my opinions grow into
resentment and fear. Im tired of
pretending that hiding our feelings
is progress.
I want Bowdoin to be a haven. I
want everyone to feel safe here. I
want to know that even if intolerance and hatred will always be with
us, they can be rendered powerless.
Maybe its impossible, but I believe
our little 1,800 student Brunswick
bubble is one of the only places
that even has a chance.
And if thats true, together we
have to try.
James Jelin is a member of the Class
of 2016.
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the bowdoin orient
FEBRUARY
18
WEDNESDAYY
28 T TEMPEH, TURKEY STEAKS

7 M CHICKEN JAMBALAYA, ORECCHIETTE
FILM
"God Loves Uganda"
Bowdoin's second annual World Cinema Festival will screen

the documentary that follows an American-influenced bill
that would make homosexuality punishable by death in
Uganda. It also examines the relationship between Ugandan
ministers and American evangelical leaders.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
ABBY MOTYCKA , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER: Michael Kang '16, Michaelle Yeo '16, and Michelle Hong '16 played with visiting sled dogs on the Quad last Friday during Winter Weekend.
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19 T SINGAPORE NOODLES, DUMPLINGS

5 M LASAGNA, STUFFED MUSHROOMS
THURSDAY
LECTURE
13
11
-12
15
T QUESADILLA, LONDON BROIL

M HAMBURGERS, CALAMARI
13 T ORANGE GINGER CHICKEN, PIZZA

0 M MAC & CHEESE, FRIED SHRIMP
"Data-Driven Approaches for

Cracking Olfaction"
EVENT
RELIGIOUS EVENT
Jason Castro, assistant professor of neuroscience at Bates

College will speak about his research regarding how the brain
processes and identifies smells.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 4 p.m.
Student activists will hold a meeting to discuss racial

discrimination, sexual assault, economic inequality,
rejection of diversity in gender and sexual identity, and
climate change. They aim to call the College to action to
address these issues.
Smith Union. 1 p.m.
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
LECTURE
FRIDAY
SUNDAY
Meeting in the Union
Chapel Service
"Studies of Skin Color in the Early

Royal Society"
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13 T BRAISED BEEF, VEGGIE STEW

-2 M LINGUINE, TOFU BURGERS
MONDAY
PERFORMANCE
FILM
ValJam
"The Tribe"
Bowdoin's a capella groups Miscellania and the

Longfellows will perform a joint concert.
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
Bowdoin's second-annual World Cinema Festival will screen

the Ukrainian film that chronicles a deaf boy who tries to fit in
at boarding school by joining a dangerous gang. The film uses
no dialogue or subtitles, but rather focuses on body language.
There will be a discussion following the film.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
The Vagina Monologues
Students will present a series of monologues about

women and their relationships with their bodies,
identities and sexualities. Tickets will be sold for $5 at
the Smith Union information desk, and there will be a
bake sale before the show.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
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22 T MAC & CHEESE, CHICKEN TENDERS

13 M VEGAN BURRITOS, MUSSELS
SATURDAYY
"Crime and Punishment"

17
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Retired Associate Professor of Russian Raymond Miller

will present this spring's Association of Bowdoin Friends'
book lecture about Dostoyevksy's novel.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.
T SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN, EGG ROLL

M GENERAL TSO'S TOFU, PASTA BAR
PERFORMANCE
Ensemble Epomeo
EVENT
The string trio, featuring Beckwith Artist-in-Residence

George Lopez, will perform the world premiere of Jay
Reise's piano quartet "Nocturn."
Studzinksi Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.
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EVENT
PERFORMANCE
"Dead Man's
Cell Phone"
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BREAK
Tuesday Snacks
Burnett House will offer a variety of snacks from

eateries such as Chipotle and Frosty's.
Burnett House. 8 p.m.
COMMON HOUR
222
LECTURE
"Do Women Do it Better, or Just

Dierently: Reflections on 25 Years as a
Middle East Journalist"
Freelance journalist Linda Gradstein will speak about her

experience working as a female reporter covering subjects like
Hamas in Gaza, the Persian Gulf War and important elections
in Israel.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 4:30 p.m.
LECTURE
"Ice, Oceans, Glaciers and Climates of

Nares Straight"
TUESDAY
LECTURE
14
Cristina Malcolmson, professor of English at Bates College,

will discuss her most recent book about race and its impact
on institutions of government, colonies, the slave trade and
science in England at the end of 17th century.
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:30 p.m.
23
LECTURE
"Cancer:
Progress and
Profits"
24
Andreas Muenchow, a professor at the University of

Delaware's College of Earth, will speak about how the physics
of polar and coastal oceans impacts global climates.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
"Dead Man's Cell Phone"
Masque and Gown will present a play that chronicles a

woman who answers a dead man's cell phone at a cafe and
keeps the phone for herself and learns about his life through
the calls he receives.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.
25
LECTURE
EVENT
Sri Lankan Tea

and Culture
Night
26

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THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY

Meeting in Union to address

Today in David Saul Smith Union, a

cember, according to Kruk.

Please see MEETING, page 4

VOLUME 144, NUMBER 15

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Page Street parking ban causes friction

Students searching for overnight

students, which has frustrated residents

trend of parking restrictions aimed at

Please see PARKING, page 4

Lecture brings mental health to foreground Trustees grant tenure to

In an effort to shed light on issues of mental health on campus,

MENTAL HEALTH AT BOWDOIN

Please see MENTAL, page 3

five Bowdoin professors

The Board of Trustees voted to

research and more choice about what

Please see TENURE, page 3

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT:

FEATURES: TALK OFTHE QUAD

SPORTS: HIGH ACHIEVERS

Vagina Monologues premieres tonight

Matthew Gutschenritter 16 talks

Several Polar Bears win

EDITORIAL: The hard sell.

HOME IN ALL LANDS: Jean-Paul Honneger 15

friday, february 13, 2015

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

QUICK FACTS ABOUT THE COLLEGE HOUSES

Part 1 of the College House application is

Its freezing in Maine right now,

I would probably be in Britain

Id be on a beach in the Phillipines with

I think it would be really cool

Mainers who die every year due

friday, february 13, 2015

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COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS

Takamatsu, who just received her

The College, however, is still in

At Trustee meeting, Obama and the community honor Karen Mills

At last weekends meeting of the

commitment to lifting up the lives

decorating committee placed the

we have trouble addressing it.

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SECURITY REPORT: 2/5 to 2/12

LILI RAMOS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BSG reviews funding for

dents from parking in Burnetts lotor

Fire Department arrived on scene,

friday, february 13, 2015

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bring education behind bars

BEHIND THE NAME TAG

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDION ORIENT

accessed through the web.

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