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FEBRUARY 20, 2015
BCA calls for Trustee liaison by March 6 College House applications

drop for 15-16 school year
BY NICKIE MITCH
ORIENT STAFF
College House applications declined significantly this year, as 270

students applied to live in a College
House for the 2015-2016 school
year. Last year, there were 313 applicants. Thirty additional students
started the application but did not
complete it. The College Houses offer a combined total of 201 spots.
This years decline represents
a 13.7 percent drop in applicants
from last year, and a 15.4 percent
drop from 2013, when 319 students applied. As is usual, rising
sophomores dominated the applicant pool.
While unable to give the ex-
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BY CAMERON DE WET
Saul Smith Union. The meeting, which drew over 200 students, faculty and sta, and highlighted injustices and how they intersect on the Bowdoin campus and beyond.
ORIENT STAFF
The speech on climate at the

Meeting in the Union last Friday
closed with Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) calling on the Board of
Trustees to appoint a liaison to the
student body on the matter of fossil
fuel divestment before March 6.
BCA member Allyson Gross 16,
wrote the speech, the majority of
which was published in the February 5 issue of the Orient.
BCA met with the Board in October to present its case to divest its
endowment from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies.
Gross said that BCA has not heard
from the Trustees since.
On the date of Meeting in the
Union, it had been 119 days of silence from the Board of Trustees,
she said. When we asked for followup steps from them, we were cut off.
The speech given at the meeting
last Friday indicated that, if a liaison were not appointed by March 6,
BCA would escalate protest efforts.
Gross declined to comment on the
shape that escalation would take.
Gross had an active roll in the
organization of both the Meeting
in the Union and the writing of an
open letter to the Bowdoin community, published in the Orient on February 13. Both Gross and Michelle
Kruk 16 said that they were happy
with the way that the Meeting went.
I love how things went, said
Kruk. It was such a reliefto get
that out there.
The two also said that they were
excited by the large number of students who walked from the Union
to President Barry Mills office in
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to
MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MARCH ON: At the conclusion of last Fridays event, the audience was invited to join the organizers as
they walked to President Barry Millsoce to present him with a copy of the speeches, as well as a letter that calls
for institutional changes.
deliver the letter. Although Mills was
not in his office, Dean for Academic
Affairs Cristle Collins Judd accepted
the letter on his behalf. Judd said
that she has since delivered the letter
to Mills.
Kruk said that while the majority of
the feedback to the letter has been positive, there has been a bit of a backlash.
It was that it shortcuts some of
the [advances] that certain parts of
campus have done, she said.
So many people are working
hard to make this campus a better
place, and I just wouldnt want people to read the call to action and feel
discouraged, as if their work is being
discredited, wrote Jared Littlejohn
15 in an email to the Orient.
Littlejohn said that the Office of
Residential Life has held multiple
conversations and training sessions
on race. The letter suggested that
only one such training session took
place.
Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster echoed Littlejohns statement.
Its hard for students to see how

far Bowdoin has come in such a short
period of time, Foster wrote in an
email to the Orient. They dont have
the same historical perspective.
Foster went on to add that there
are reforms already underway in
many of the areas that the letter
mentions.
The creation of the new [Student
Center for Multicultural Life], the
hiring of a new director, the coming
together of the Multicultural Coalition, the initiation of Intergroup
Dialogue, the gatherings of first generation students, faculty and staff
and so on, he said.
Kruk and Gross said that they
have not seen any official response
to either the letter or the Meeting,
although several administrators
and faculty members have offered
their support.
Today, the group that organized
the Meeting and the letter will meet
to both discuss last Fridays events
and plan for next steps.
Please see HOUSEs, page 3
Concerned about appropriation,

Ladd cancels Inappropriate Party
JUSTICE LEAGUE: Emily Simon17 introduces five students who spoke about climate change, sexuality, class, gender and race at Fridays Meeting in the David
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
act number of applicants for each

house, Assistant Director of Residential Life (ResLife) Mariana
Centeno 14 did share that Quinby
House attracted the most applicants this year, as it did in 2013.
In 2014, MacMillan House was the
most popular.
Despite the drop in the overall
number of applicants, Centeno
who lived in Quinby House for
two years while she was a student
and now oversees the application
and selection process for College
Housessaid she was unconcerned. Despite its smaller size,
she said, this years applicant pool
is as strong as ever.
ORIENT STAFF
This year Ladd House will not

host its annual Inappropriate Party. Members of the House voted on
the issue this past week, following discussions with the Office of
Residential Life (ResLife).
After members of the ResLife
office repeatedly brought up the
potential for offensive attire and
cultural appropriation associated with this particular party, the
House decided to forgo the party
altogether.
They had planned to host the party next Saturday. Instead the house
will be hosting the band SUN CLUB,

brought to campus by WBOR.
Casey Krause 17, programming
director for Ladd, said that Associate
Dean of Students Affairs Meadow
Davis and Director of the Resource
Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Kate SternLadds staff
advisorsfirst brought up their
concerns about the party when at a
lunch with the House officers.
President of Ladd House Ernesto Garcia 17 said that he met
with ResLife and Associate Dean
of Multicultural Student Programs
Leana Amaez before the decision
Please see PARTY, page 3
McCoy 15 resigns from

BSG Executive Committee
BY SARAH BONANNO
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin Student Government

(BSG) President Vice President for Facilities and Sustainability Bridgett McCoy 15 resigned from her position on
BSGs Executive Committee on February 12.
Kyle Wolstencroft 15, class of 2015
representative, won an in internal BSG
election 14-9 against At-Large Representative David Levine 16 and will
replace McCoy.
McCoy said she stepped down because of personal reasons regarding her
academic commitments.
Im a senior who is doing an honors project and I had to cut out some
commitments, unfortunately, to make
that work, McCoy said. Extracurriculars for me are supposed to be fun, and
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
STEPPING DOWN: Bridgett McCoy

vacated her BSG role on February 12. Senior Kyle
Wolstencroft will replace her.
[BSG] was a lot of time commitment
and something I could get out of.
In addition to her honors project,
Please see MCCOY, page 4
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OPINION:
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thoughts on Bowdoins
Yik Yak culture.
Exploring dance through

algorithms: Computer science
and dance classes team up to
explore aesthetics.
The Bowdoin Student Athlete

Advisory Committee is hosting a
month of programming with the
Special Olympics.
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mainstream conservatives provide a
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U CAN TOUCH THIS:

MC Hammers intellectual property
DEAD SERIOUS: Rowan Staley 18, Luke Scheuer 17, and Sophie de Bruijn 18 perform in Dead Mans Cell Phone. The show runs until Saturday in Pickard Theater.
HAMMERED WITH TWEETS:
Sherlocks Twitter exchange with MC Hammer, see sidebar at right.
It started as just an ordinary day for

an innocent, educational non-profit.
That is, until one Joe Sherlock 16, a
member of the Orient staff, disturbed
the peaceful waters by attempting to
design a purple sweatshirt.
Sherlock works for National High
School Model United Nations. Historically, his team has had the motto
Too Legit To Quit, which is a reference to an MC Hammer song, and
the mascot of a narwhal. This year,
Sherlock made the bold decision
to design a sweatshirt, or swag,
for his team.
We ordered 12 purple sweatshirts and on the back was a picture
of a narwhal wearing MC Hammer
pants, holding a gavel, surrounded by
the words too legit to quit, he said.
The plan was going smoothly until
CustomInk called Sherlock the following day.
They said, Hey, we have your
design, and its going to be a no-go,
because it is infringing upon the intellectual property rights of Hammer.
It cant happen.
Sherlock was devastated, but CustomInk offered a backup plan.
They said, you have one of two
options: One, you can personally
contact MC Hammer and get his
permission, or two, you can change
the phrase to something different,
said Sherlock.
Not one to be stopped, Sherlock
moved ahead with his original motto.
Theres really no great way to
directly contact MC Hammer,
which I never really contemplated
before, he said.
Sherlock turned to the Twittersphere. He reactivated his Twitter account with the express purpose
of reaching the elusive Hammer.
Sherlock proceeded to aggressively tweet at Hammer: requesting permission to make 12
purple narwhal sweatshirts.
This virtual begging continued for
several hours, until nothing short of a
miracle happened.
He finally responded to me, and
said, Yes to the 12 shirts, fist bump
emoji, said Sherlock.
CustomInk was just as shocked
as Sherlock.
Sherlock successfully ordered the
shirts for delivery this Monday, with
one slight modification.
It now says Hammer Certified
on the front, he said.
BY THE NUMBERS
It may be frigid outside, but Polar Bears
will stop at nothing to get to the gym
and keep in shape throughout the winter months. Here are some stats from the
Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness.
STUDENT SPEAK
How did you spend your Valentines Day?
51
pieces of cardio equipment,
including 18 treadmills
86,000
swipes into the gym in 2013
Alice Kim 17
Ellice Lueders 18
Zach Hebert 18
Hyung Kim 13
Well, I spent an hour and a half making

a beautiful card for my boyfriend, and he
loved it.
I have a pink satin dress that I really like, and I got to wear it for the
occasion, which was really fun.
I hung out with my roommates and

went to Reed My Lips. I was not in a
pink satin dress.
When was Valentines Day?
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50
percent of those swipes came

from males, and 50 percent
came from females
WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
ORIENT STAFF
While students largely consider Yik Yak

to be a peer-dominated outlet for anonymous posting, faculty members are not
nave when it comes to the Yakking phenomenon.
Im a little surprised that much of
the chatter can fit into three categories,
said Assistant Professor of German Jens
Klenner. The weather, foodin its various stages of production, whether before
or after digestionand sex life on campus.
Yik Yak is a social media app used for
posting anonymous messages that has
become popular at Bowdoin over the
past two years. Users can view the messages, or Yaks, within a 10-mile radius
and vote on whether a Yak is good or
bad. However, the students are not the
only ones drawn to the app.
You would be surprised by the number of faculty members across this campus that have Yik Yak on their phone,
said Klenner.
Faculty members have found it both
enjoyable and surprising to observe the
sentiments that unguarded students
have expressed.
Its really fascinating, you get access
to this collective id of Bowdoin, said
Assistant Professor of English Maggie
Solberg. A lot of us study human nature, its hard not to be interested in Yik
Yak. Youre hereyoure an anthropologist, youre a sociologist, youre not going to use this tool?
Solberg explained that while at times
Yik Yak can be too sobering to her view
of the student body, it provides an unusual insight into the campus zeitgeist.
You really put your finger on the
pulse of the culture, said Solberg.
PARTY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
was made.
Assistant Director of Residential
Life Mariana Centeno 14 attended a
Ladd House meeting two weeks ago
to ask the House about its plans for
the party.
ResLife wanted to make sure that
the House understood and was able
to clarify why they wanted to have the
party if they were going to have it,
said Davis.
We work pretty closely with
Houses on any event that feels like it
could be unsafe or for some reason
could be unwelcoming or uninclusive, Davis added.
According to Garcia, ResLife did
not explicitly prohibit Ladd from
throwing the party.
There was definitely some advice, some warning from ResLife
that it could get bad, he said.
ResLife was really clear with the
types of things that we were dealing
with and the changes in Bowdoins
social climate, but made sure that it
was the Houses decision because at
the end of the day its not something
that they would want to force one
way or the other, said Ladd House
proctor Kate Powers 17.
Its just that they want the House
to be thoughtful, she added.
Davis said that she did not think
of ResLifes concerns about the party
were related to Cracksgiving, the
annual party hosted by the mens lacrosse team. At this years party, 14
students dressed up as Native Americans and were displined for conduct
unbecoming of Bowdoin students.
According to Krause, after the
initial advisor lunch meeting, the
House was still prepared to host the
Visiting Instructor in History and

Asian Studies Tristan Grunow noted
that while he no longer has the app, he
enjoys talking to colleagues about the
Yik Yak culture on campus.
When I had it, when we [faculty
members] would get together and hang
out, we would read through it and be like
Oh, thats kind of funny, said Grunow.
I saw a lot of jokes about pooping.
Despite all the fecal and sex jokes,
Solberg explained that after talking to
colleagues at other colleges about their
Yik Yak culture, Bowdoins level of discussion was far more enlightened.
I remember us junior faculty joking
how nerdy the Bowdoin Yik Yak voice
is, said Solberg. Its very charming; its
a very intellectual Yik Yak; its often very
high minded.
However, Solberg explained that reading it became too depressing during finals
period and she has since deleted the app.
The level of hysteria during exams?
It reminded me of myself as an undergrad and as a high school student, but its
a part of yourself, as an adult, that you
want to forget, she said.
While he enjoys actively reading
the usually clever and humorous Yaks,
Klenner noted anonymity can lend itself
to abusive language or hate speech.
While Grunow, Klenner and Solberg all
explained that they do not Yak nor know
any professor who has, Klenner shared a
story he heard.
Ive heard of one incident where someone [a faculty member] made a comment
in response to racial slurs, said Klenner. It
was before my time here.
When I was in college, Yakking meant
throwing up, added Grunow. Its almost
relievingthese are normal students that
have normal frustrations.
party. After the meeting the House
began to brainstorm ways in which
it could try to prevent overly offensive costumes, but still host the Inappropriate Party.
She said that they were considering such measures as conducting
programming specifically geared
towards educating the campus about
cultural appropriation during the
week leading up to the party or trying to determine what was too offensive to be worn into the House.
We didnt feel very confident with
any of the compromises that we had
I wouldnt say that

losing the Inappropriate Party
itself is a bad thing for Bowdoin, but
it does...show how there are a lot of
things on this campus that students
cannot do because of political
correctness.
ERNESTO GARCIA 17
LADD HOUSE PRESIDENT
come up with, said Krause. We
didnt feel confident that we could actually keep what we wanted to keep
out of the Inappropriate Party out,
and so we decided not to hold it.
She pointed out that a large part
of what eventually convinced the
House to not hold the party was
the offer from WBOR to host SUN
CLUB that same weekend. WBOR
approached Ladd with the offer.
Some members of Ladd have expressed regret at not being able to
hold the party.
A lot of people do enjoy the
party and wanted to throw it, but
it was going to take more meet-
HOUSES
College House Applications, 2007-2015
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301
313
295
300
270
Number of Applications
Professors peek in on
student life with Yik Yak
BY JOE SHERLOCK
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241
250
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200
175
150
100
50
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
2014-2015
2015-2016
GRACE HANDLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Im very impressed with the applications that Ive gotten to read so

far, she said. People have taken
them really seriously and some of
the programs people have thought
of in the applications are fantastic.
While remaining similar to past
years, this years application process did include some changes as
ResLife continues to tweak the ever-evolving College House system.
For the first time, student blocks
had the option to apply to all College Houses in addition to the one
to four affiliate houses that they can
ings with the administration to go
through ways to filter out the bad,
said Krause.
Powers acknowledged that the
Inappropriate Party is appealing
to many students because it offers
people the chance to be politically
incorrect and goofy.
A lot of people were able to reason by the end that that isnt worth
hurting someone, Powers added.
Jun Choi 15, who lived in Ladd
two years ago, said that when he
lived there the House didnt worry
about the potential for the party to
be too offensive and that ResLife
was not as involved in the issue as
they were this year. He added that
most Ladd alumni are not upset
that the party is not happening
this year.
Most of us didnt really care that
much, said Choi.
I think it is along the lines of
Bowdoin being a little too [politically correct] and trying to police
what you can and cannot say and
can and cannot do on campus,
which depending on who you are
may be for the better or may be for
the worse, Choi added.
Garcia echoed that sentiment.
The Inappropriate Party is just
one of the many things that are censored at Bowdoin and I wouldnt say
losing the Inappropriate Party itself
is a bad thing for Bowdoin, but it
does just kind of show how there
are a lot of things on this campus
that students cannot do because of
political correctness, he said.
The permanent future of the Inappropriate Party at Bowdoin is uncertain at this point.
If the House next year wanted to
have the Inappropriate Party again,
we would have a similar conversation with them, said Davis.
apply to specifically.
Additionally, the non-binding option was taken away as part of this
change. Even if blocks do not get
into their first-choice House, students who selected the any house
option will be bound to live in a College House if they are placed in one.
Centeno said that this change was
done to better adjust the application
process to the floating floor model
of first-year floor/College House affiliation that the College started in
2013 as a result of changes to its
chem-free housing system.
Prior to the implementation of

the floating floor model, all floors in
a first-year residence hall were affiliated with the same College House.
Now, each floor is affiliated with a
different College House and each
house is affiliated with four to five
first-year floors. All chem-free floors
remain affiliated with Howell House.
Interviews with all applicant
blocks will be conducted from February 25 to 27 and again on March
2. Selection committees will meet
to deliberate immediately after
Spring Break.
Burst water pipe floods

Howell House basement
BY RON CERVANTES
ORIENT STAFF
On Thursday night at approximately 7 p.m., a water pipe located in

the basement of Howell House burst,
forcing the temporary evacuation of
the building. Despite flooding the
basement with half a foot of water, no
substantial damage was caused.
In an email to the Orient, Carolina Deifelt Streese 16, a resident
of Howell, said she was in her
room when the houses alarm system activated.
Residents of Howell stayed at
Burnett House, which is the nearest College House on Maine Street,
while the officers from the Office of
Safety and Security and the Brunswick Fire Department responded to
the scene.
According to Deifelt Streese, Security informed the residents that a
water pipe in a crawl space behind
the dance roomwhere the House
is planning to host events this weekendhad burst, flooding the entire
basement in roughly five to six inches
of water.
Initially, House residents were
not allowed into the basement, and
were concerned that some of the
electronic equipment the House had
recently purchased might have been
damaged. At approximately 10 p.m.,
Facilities Management allowed the
residents to check their equipment in
the basement.
Fortunately, none of our equipment was damaged, though our floor
is pretty wet, said Deifelt Streese.

There was an inch of water still
on the floor after Facilities finished
pumping it out.
The flooding was limited to the
basement, and unlike some College
Houses, Howell only has student
rooms on the above-ground floors.
Facilities deactivated the Houses
alarm and sprinkler systems and
residents were allowed back in. They
were cautioned, however, that they
may have needed to find other sleeping arrangements due to the disconnected fire alarm.
The Office of Residential Life then
contacted students to inform them
that in the event the alarm systems
were unable to be restored, the College would post a Security officer in
the house overnight and let students
sleep in their rooms.
Facilities was able to restore the
alarm systems. According to Deifelt Streese, Facilities said it would
be having a crew come to clean up
the water overnight and put up
dehumidifiers to prevent any further damage.
Deifelt Streese said the residents
were told they would find out today whether their basement will be
cleared in time for their events over
the weekend. In preparation for
the worst, the residents had started
making alternate plans to host their
karaoke night and Thriftshop Party
upstairs in their common room.
All in all, this is the best of
a worst-case scenario, Deifelt
Streese said.
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BSG debates runoff voting

system for future elections
BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG)

debated an amendment to the bylaws
proposed by Wylie Mao 18 to begin using an instant runoff voting system for
future Bowdoin student elections during
Wednesdays meeting. BSG also heard
speeches for a special election being held
to elect a new vice president of facilities
and sustainability, a position recently vacated by Bridgett McCoy 15.
The new runoff voting system would
allow students to choose a first, second
and third choice candidate when voting. If a majority was not reached for
one candidate, the bylaws would allow
for an immediate runoff between the
top candidates.
Its in the interest of making our
elections more fair and to allow better
representation to what each constituency wants, said Mao. This is a system
that is adopted widely by a lot of our
peer schools.
However, many of the representatives voiced concerns over how this
amendment would affect first-year
voters or voters not familiar with all of
the candidates running for office. They
feared that runoff voting would lead to
candidates being ranked in alphabetical
order or in other superficial ways.
The debate, however, was inconclusive and a vote on the matter will occur
at a later meeting.
MCCOY
McCoys other major time commitments include working an on-campus
job and singing in a chamber choir,
which is one of her classes this semester. As a result, her position on BSG
was the only extracurricular she could
leave without academic or financial
ramifications.
It was unfortunate that I had to
leave this opportunity because it has
an impact on students, but I decided
that I just couldnt make it happen
with all my other things, and it was
adding a lot of stress to my life, McCoy said. It was a personal decision
about my academic commitments.
McCoy also expressed an interest in
pursuing activism outside of BSG.
I wanted to give back to the school
in a way where the time commitment
is less rigid, McCoy wrote in an email
to the Orient.
BSG President Chris Breen 15 supports McCoys pursuit of activism, but
wishes she would have used BSG as
her resource.
I dont really see any better way to
work on activism projects than to be
involved in BSG and to be in a position
like the VP of facilities and sustainability, said Breen. I think that would be
a very good position to advance those
goals and motives.
Although she resigned on Thursday,
McCoy remained involved in BSG be-
BSG elected Kyle Wolstencroft 15 to

replace McCoy in an internal election
last night. He and the other candidate,
At-Large Representative David Levine
16 , had the opportunity to pitch themselves at Wednesdays meeting.
I believe that I have the experience
necessary to take over the position with
so little time left in the year and this is
because I was actually [vice president
for facilities and sustainability] last year,
said Levine. I have also already established relationships with the staff and
administrators throughout the College.
While Wolstencroft was unable to
attend the meeting, his speech was read
on his behalf.
As a member of the Facilities and
Sustainability Committee this year, I
believe Ive added significant value,
his speech read. I took the lead on
main projects.
BSG also suspended its two-week
rulewhich requires BSG to wait two
weeks after a bill is proposed to vote on
itto vote on two events sponsored by
the Good Ideas Fund.
The first event, which BSG voted to
pass, is a Mainers mini-serieswith
whoopie piesin which students will be
allowed to have discussions with Maine
state legislator Drew Gattine. The event
will take place on February 28.
The second event, which also passed,
will be a screening of Boyhood with
brunch provided in Adams Hall at 11
a.m. on February 22.
fore its internal election to replace her.
I just tied up some loose ends
there were a couple of things like getting movie tickets that just needed to
happen that I just did, so that the person whos following me doesnt have to
do it, McCoy said.
Breen hopes to maintain the continuity of projects of the Facilities and
Sustainability Committee between McCoy and her successor.
It kind of puts the BSG in a tough
position in terms of replacing someone
with such a limited time span left this
year, Breen said. Hopefully well be
able to finish up the projectsa lot of
people in that committee were spearheading some of those, so I think well
be in good hands with the people who
are in the committee.
According to the BSG Constitution,
vacancies in the Executive Committee
are be filled through an internal election.
The bylaws regarding resignation
were added to the Constitution in 2007
when a class representative became the
first member in the history of BSG to
resign, according to a January 2007
Orient article.
The last time a member of the Executive Committee resigned was in 2008
when both Vice President of BSG Affairs Kata Solow 10 and Vice President
of Student Affairs Tony Thrower 09
stepped down, according to a January
2008 Orient article. Solow left her position as vice president to assume the new
role of BSG policy director, and Thrower
resigned to pursue other interests.
SECURITY REPORT: 2/13 to 2/18

Friday, February 13
A group of students was found
smoking marijuana and in possession of drug paraphernalia in Hyde
Hall.
A group of students was found
in possession of marijuana and
drug paraphernalia in Osher Hall.
A students vehicle that was
parked on Park Row was struck
and damaged by a hit-and-run
driver.
Saturday, February 14
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Thorne Hall.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of a student in Chamberlain
Hall.
A student-athlete with an ankle
injury was escorted to the Mid
Coast Primary Care & Walk-In
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Clinic.
A student using a hair straightener activated a room smoke alarm
in Appleton Hall.
Sunday, February 15
Wall vandalism was reported
in the basement of Ladd House.
Brunswick Rescue transported
a student with a dislocated shoulder from the basketball court at
Sargent Gym to Mid Coast Hospital.
An officer checked on
the well-being of a student
at West Hall.
Monday, February 16
The use of a humidifier
may have triggered a smoke
alarm in Chamberlain Hall.
Four students were cited for smoking marijuana
concentrates with a water
pipe.
Damage was reported
to a wooden railing at Baxter House.
Obscene graffiti was reported on an exterior wall
at Appleton Hall.
Tuesday, February 17
Officers checked on the
well-being of a student at
Stowe Inn.
Wednesday, February
18
A student reported that
a pair of L.L. Bean womens
size 9 fleece-lined boots
were stolen from the unisex restroom in the Sargent
Gym hallway. The theft occurred between 4 p.m. and
5 p.m.
Compiled by the Office
of Safety and Security.
FEATURES
the bowdoin orient
Govs Laurence talks bonds trading, shepards pie and Downton Abbey
FACULTY CHATS
ELENA BRITOS
Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies Henry Laurence prefaced his Oxford education
with more than just a typical English
prep school. He spent a year in between high school and college working on a container ship bound for
Australia. This adventure was just
the first of many in his life as he also
worked in investment banking and
ranched cattle.
Laurence grew up along the southern coast of England, frequently moving from town to town because his
father was in the Royal Navy. For the
most part, however, he was rooted in
Goring, which had the same feel as
Brunswickyou could go to the shops
and meet people to gossip. He attended an all-male naval school before taking a gap year preceding college.
Before I went to Oxford, I worked
as a deckhand on a container ship and
then I got my passage to Australia to
work on sheep and cattle ranches, said
Laurence. I was in the Indian Ocean
de-rusting container lashings. That was
a fantastic experience. I strongly recommend to people to take a year off.
When he did return to Oxford, Laurence pursued studies in philosophy,
politics and economics. At Bowdoin,
he teaches in both the Government
and Legal Studies and Asian Studies
departments but he did not become
involved with scholarship in the latter
discipline until his post-graduate work.
Thats one of the big differences
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE: Before becoming a professor of government and Asian studies at Bowdoin, Henry Laurence worked on a container ship and a
cattle ranch, and had a career in investment banking. He has been known to intersperse stories of his adventures with cold-calling in class lectures.
between England and Bowdoin: in
England youre terribly specialized so
there just wasnt opportunity to study
language or anything outside of your
three A-levels, which is a shame.
After graduation, Laurence spent
time working for the Bank of Tokyo
in London, which piqued his interest
in the languages and politics of Asia
and made him realize that a career in

bond trading was not for him.
Investment banking was huge
amounts of fun. It was new and an intellectual challenge. This was [before] a
lot of mechanization, and so there was
kind of a human element at the time
that was like a game. It was fun, but I
dont think it was very responsible.
Now settled in his career as a

Bowdoin professor, Laurence enjoys
spending his free time watching the
Premier League and following his favorite scheming character, Thomas,
on Downton Abbey.
I gave up on House of Cards because it doesnt touch the original
British one, said Laurence. I binge
watched Breaking Bad though, and

like Better Call Saul.
Laurence is also something of a
gourmand.
I cook. Its what I spend my time
thinking and reading about, he said.
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is
what Id cook for myself on a desert
island. And Im getting really into Indian curries.
His favorite Bowdoin meal?
Shepherds pie, obviously, he said.
My greatest regret at Bowdoin, honestly, is that they serve up the shepherds pie with the eggplant parmesan and you just cant do both. Well
you can, but not in public.
Laurence hopes one day to have a
bronze statue of himself erected outside of Thorne to commemorate all
the time he has spent there.
Although Laurence admits to coldcalling people in the classroom, he
wants students to know that he does
it to prepare them for the real world.
Its better to be uncomfortable now
in class than later at work or in a town
hall meeting, he said. Dont take it
personally. Where I came from, that is
the standard, to be very confrontational and critical. It doesnt matter what
you think, its about the argument.
Regarding other in-class practices, Laurence has been known to
recount the dating misadventures of
his youth in class.
I had one student who kept a tally
of my stories, he said.
Unfortunately, Laurence declined
to share any of these with the Orient.
Professor Laurence lives in Brunswick with his wife and children, who
persuade him to Nordic ski and attend Arctic Monkeys concerts.
Ebenezers unique offering: quality beers Woven baskets remind us of a

GRAIN TO GLASS
CALLIE FERGUSON
The local bars in Brunswick each
have something theyre good for. Joshuas is a good place to end (or begin) a
night out. Sea Dog is a good place to
bring your folks and your roommates
on Family Weekend. Ebenezers Brewpub, just about a mile from campus on
Route One, is good for beer.
Ebenezers Brewpub is the home of
Lively Brewing, a Maine brewery started
by Chris Lively. Lively is also the owner
of the original, world-famous Ebenezers Pub in Lovell, Maine. A neat piece
of trivia: the original Ebenezers
was rated the best beer
bar in the world by
veritable beer authorities such as Draft
Magazine and BeerAdvocate (the latter
awarded the title
five years in a row).
For a bar in middle of nowhere,
Maine, thats an
accolade almost
as surprising as it
is impressive.
The praise for
the original Ebenezers is due to
its incredible selection of beer. The pub
boasts a whopping thirty-five taps dedicated to Bel-
gian beers, but what has perhaps earned

them their reputation is its impressive
collection of cellared beers: Ebenezers
houses over seven hundred bottles of
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
aged beer, many of which are rare and

highly coveted by beer connoisseurs.
Yes, it might surprise you to learn
that certain beers can be cellared. Not
all beers take to aging (hoppy beers
especially are best right after they are
brewed, when the hops are still fresh
and aromatic), but the ones that do often
mature into boozier, complex versions
of themselves. Beers that are suitable for
cellaringtypically beers with heartier
constitution and higher alcohol content,
such as imperial stouts or barleywines
are of course ready to be enjoyed when
they hit the market, but cellaring is a fun
way for beer geeks to experiment with
the different flavorful evolutions a beer
can undergo over time.
Ebenezers Brewpub has a more narrow and specific selection: here in
Brunswick, the pub only offers its own beerbeer
brewed under the Lively name. The Brewpub
usually has between
eight and ten beers
available, and the list
grows and rotates
over the course of
time to showcase
new brews. The
changing selection
means that a trip
to Ebenezers is a
chance to experience the brewers
different experiments and refinements. And you
Please see BEER, page 6
forgotten Downeast culture
lived in Downeast Maine for over

12,000 years. Along with the Maliseet, Penobscot, and Micmac tribes,
We spent the sun-dappled day
the Passamaquoddy form the Wacollecting trash from the banks
banaki people of Maine. The Waof the lake, where water-weeds
banaki are the Dawn Land Peolounged against mud and rock.
plethe first nations of the East.
With gloved hands bearing Hefty
The tribe currently has 3,369
bags we uncovered bottles, plastic
members and two reservations, Inbags and a small mattress from the
dian Township and Pleasant Point. I
tawny tumble of loam, leaves and
travelled to the Pleasant Point reserpine needles on the peninsula.
vation for my Pre-O trip and then led
Spirits were high as the group
a new group of first-years to Indian
of Bowdoin first years, my Pre-O
Township last August. In March, I
leaders and myself tramped back
will be returning to Pleasant Point for
to our van. After our morning of
an Alternative Spring Break trip. If I
community service,
had gone on a differwe were spendent Pre-O, I doubt
ing our afterI would know
noon
with
that the reservaMolly, a retions exist.
nowned
basThe reservaket-weaver
at
tions are about
the Indian Towna four-hour drive
ship reservation of
from
Brunswick.
the
Passamaquoddy ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT The tribe holds over
tribe of Downeast Maine.
200,000 acres scattered throughout
Molly welcomed us to her back
Maine resulting from years of legal
porch overlooking the smooth
battles after the tribe initiated the
water and fed us generously. We
Maine Indian Land Claims Act in
talked with her and several of her
the late 1960s. The land settlement
grandchildren about their lives on
was a fraction of the tribes original
the reservation. As the sun dipped
claims and their legal status within
into the lake, Molly brought out
the state remains fraught.
bundles of dried sweet-grass and
The tribe has been using sweetbegan to teach us about her craft.
The Passamaquoddy tribe has
Please see BASKETS, page 6
BY PENELOPE LUSK
CONTRIBUTOR
the bowdoin orient
features
Around the world and back again: Heath 18 takes global gap year
MIND THE GAP
BY KELSEY SCARLETT
After high school, Christian
Heath 18 wanted to explore his
newfound freedomthe freedom
of living, the freedom to do what
he wanted when he wanted, and
most importantly, the freedom to
travel the world.
It was more after senior year,
I had graduated and it was summerI was just enjoying the freedom of having school done and just
didnt really want to go to school
yet. So I drew up a planand I was
like Can this work? said Heath.
It did. Heath went to Central America for three and a half
months, worked the winter season
to make money, and then headed to
Europe for three and half months.
His first stop was Costa Rica,
where he intended to WWOOF.
WWOOFwhich stands for Willing Workers on Organic Farmsis
an organization where farm labor
is exchanged for food and a place
to live.
I was going to do that in Central America, but the first farmer
I went toit was an awful experience. She wasnt feeding us enough
food so we were really hungry all
the time. After three weeks, I was
done, said Heath.
Fortunately, Heath did not leave
empty handed from the farm. He
made a German friend, who went
on to become his Central Ameri-
BASKETS
grass, which is sacred to the Passamaquoddy and Micmac tribes,

to weave baskets for countless generations. Baskets are also woven
from strips of ash wood.
Sweetgrass grows in the wetlands of the reservation lakes.
Dried, it has the color of
straw but is malleable
and oily. It smells like
freshly cut grass and
spices. The sweet perfume, mixed with
barbecue and pine,
intoxicated the air
around us.
If the smell
fades, a dip in water revitalizes the
grass. Molly, who
is the president
of the Maine
Indian
Basket
Alliance, braids
and twists the
sweetgrass into
patterned, floral
creations.
Fancy
basket
making
developed
in
relatively recent
history. Traditionally, basketweaving
women
worked for their families, crafting baskets for
everyday use. As industrialism and capitalism developed in
the newly formed United States,
Native families struggled to maintain their traditional economy and
lifestyle. The fancy basket industry
grew when Native artists began
selling their crafts to tourists as
art, not for everyday use. Molly,
who is one of the few professional
basket-weavers left in the community, told us how she works on her
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTIAN HEATH
SEEING IT ALL: Christian Heath 18 (right) spent his gap year traveling the world bouncing between projects, which included WWOOFing and working at a hotel.
can travel partner. After leaving
the farm, they moved to Jaco, Costa Rica to work in a hotel.
They let us stay in a room for
free. They had all these doors that
they needed sanded, so for like four
weeks we just sanded doors, which
was really easy work. It was like a
baskets for weeks or months at a
time; her family has a distinctive
flower that marks their work.
In Mollys capable hands, the
sweetgrass twisted into smooth
ropes. Granddaughter mimicked
grandmother, braiding and chattering about her own baskets
she wanted to start making fancy
baskets soon. As Molly worked,
she told us
twenty-hour work week, so we got

to hang out for the rest of the time,
it was awesome, said Heath.
After about a month at the hotel,
Heath travelled around Panama for
a couple of weeks, before finally
finishing his Central America trip
with a month in Nicaragua.
make the sweetgrass braids that

build baskets. We tied the ends
of our braids togethersmall,
sweet wreaths. Ours were jagged
at the edges, the braided strands
crooked, unlike Mollys that were
smooth and round.
We left Mollys house bearing our
first attempts at her craft, scampering as mosquitoes flooded the dusk.
Molly showed us her studio-shop
on the way out: dozens of beautiful baskets, the braids of sweetgrass
bearing centuries of changing
culture, tenacity and pride.
We began our day doing community service on the lakeshore, relishing
the
sunshine
and the company. My coleader and I
wanted our
first-years
to have a
good time,
to
learn
something,
to see the
exquisite
Downeast
woods and
waters and, to
experience the
communities of
Maines Native population. Our project, a
few hours dedicated to
revitalizing the lakeshore,
IENT
was as much service to our
IN OR
WDO
own aims as to the communitys.
O
B
E
TH
,
A
W
Mollys hands working the
UKA
A FUR
about
sweetgrass told a story that we
DIAN
her history, the
were still struggling to learn, a
history of her craft, the history of
history much less relatable to our
her landhow a white man had
lives as Bowdoin students.
tried to steal her property, where
I keep my little sweetgrass
she and many of her extended famwreath on my windowsill by my
ily members live and where she
desk. Periodically, I dunk it in waalso rents cabins to visitors. Her
ter, so my room is faintly scented,
family fought back.
a deliciousif crudely madereMolly taught our group how to
minder of Indian Township.
Heath then worked for two

months back home in the United
States before starting his tour
around Europe.
In Europe, I had a Eurail Pass
you pay money up front for a rail
pass and it works for all of Europe.
It was a ticket to go free to any-
BEER

can pretty much count on the fact that
youre drinking it fresh.
Lively Brewing (as Ill refer to the
brewing end of the operation) has
a noticeable preference for Belgian
beers, and they populate the menu,
with fun names like Brother Broseph
and the Beaut. Im careful to generalize about my experience, given the
changeable nature of the menu so
there are bound to be hits and misses.
Ive preferred the brewerys Belgianinspired Saisons and Abbey Ales over
its hoppier attempts. This is possibly
with the exception of the Belgian Witbier, which underwhelmed.
The pale ales and IPAs hadnt quite
found the right balance, and packed
a citrus rind-y punch without much
compliment from the malt. In all fairness, however, I prefer IPAs and pale
where I wanted, and just being able

to do that was sick, said Heath.
After his journey around the
world was completed, Heath finally found himself at Bowdoins campus. All in all he had visited sixteen
countries: Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Spain, Morocco, France,
the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the
Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
At first it was kind of toughin
Europe I was all alone for the majority of itwhich was cool, but
you get lonely. So getting back was
a bit tough, going from being alone
to being with a roommate and getting more social again, but on
the whole it wasnt too bad, said
Heath.
Heaths experience was one he
could learn from, grow from, and
one he will always remember.
When you have a memory thats
shared, I feel like it has a longer life
than when its just you. You never
really have anyone to talk with
about it, said Heath. [Memories]
probably have a bit more value
when theyre shared, so if I were to
do something like this again, Id totally want to start it with someone
or know I was going to meet up
with someone to travel with.
When asked if he would recommend a gap year to those who were
considering the idea, he replied:
There were some negativesI
was lonely at timesbut as a whole
experience I would one hundred
percent recommend it.
ales that aim at a more tropical or
dank hop profile.
My favorite beers at Ebenezers so far
have been the dark beers. Ive sampled
three so far (note: doing research for this
column is more fun than doing research
for my classes), each a different style,
and in body, nose, flavor, and complexity, each had proven to be the best beer
of the night.
Now, it usually isnt a good idea to
group beers by their color, as color isnt a
trustworthy indication of flavor or style.
But Ill still venture this evaluation given
that its remained true over a range of
styles: Ive had a Dubbel, a rye, and an
American Porter that were each distinct
in flavor, but united in their supremacy
over the rest of the menu. If youre planning to head over to the Brewpub soon,
I recommend a glass of the Lively Rye,
a smooth, medium-bodied beer with a
boozy sweetness that conjures up notes
of dried fruit, and ends with a dry, almost tart finish.
the bowdoin orient
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Miz Cracker talks about drag, Coding, choreography and collaboration

dedication and demands
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
The dancers provide the code,

and the computer scientists transform it into choreography. Thats
the basic idea behind a collaborative project between Assistant
Professor of Dance Charlotte Griffins Advanced Dance Composition class and Associate Professor
of Computer Science Stephen Majerciks course, Nature-Inspired
Composition.
Dancers
in Griffins
ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
I LIKE YOUR HAIR: Miz Cracker talked to students Tuesday night in Kresge. She said she is indebted
to the performance art form, telling the audience, I would not be alive without [drag].
BY LOUISA MOORE
ORIENT STAFF
It really has profoundly affected me. Learning to think about

yourself as a person who can actually say no or demand things, you
cant undo that, said Miz Cracker,
a drag queen from Harlem, NY.,
who spoke Tuesday in Kresge.
That has probably saved my life.
Miz Cracker covered her daily
life and the complexities of gender
and sexuality in her talk titled, I
Still Hate Your Personality, But I

Like Your Hair.
Miz Cracker began performing in 2011 when a new acquaintance suggested that she try drag.
Though she had never considered
it before, Miz Cracker fell in love
with her work and found herself
becoming more self-confident.
Since her start in the drag world,
she has quit her day job to focus
Please see DRAG, page 8
class
combi ne d
d i f ferent
movements,
each assigned
a number, to
create performances that
can be reduced
to numeric sequences. These
sequences
constitute
a code for
the computer science (CS) students, who
write fitness functions that determine which sequences are best
(although the dancers bristled at
the idea of one dance being objectively better than another).
The functionthrough a process
that Majercik compared to evolutionwill spit out a new sequence
of movements, a type of computergenerated choreography.
As often happens when two disciplines come togetherespecially

disciplines as disparate as CS and
dancethere have been some slight
hiccups. Griffin said that the project has involved a departure from
the typical language of dance.
A lot of this language is very challenging from a choreographic standpoint, like picking the best,
ranking in order of preferences, said Griffin.
In choreography
Im not using
words like
good or
bad.
says, No, we dont want something

good. It doesnt have to be goodit
can be interesting.
Only a few minutes later, Majercik made the same mistake again
while describing the challenge of
building a fitness function to evaluate the dances.
Heres the crux of it. Heres where
the difficult piece is, he said. For the
evolution to work there has to be a
function that evaluates the sequence
and gives it some sort of scorehow
good is it?
Or how interesting, Griffin interrupted, prompting laughter from
both professors.
Dancers in Griffins class also struggled to adapt to the language
and logic of CS, particularly when students from
Majerc i k s
class
visited
the
studio
t o

Its more like interesting or contrasting or complementary.
Majercik has had to adjust his vocabulary as well. He admitted that his
dance experience is limited to social
events like weddings and parties.
I dont think Ill make this mistake
again, but I made the mistake several
times of saying we want something
good, Majercik said. And [Griffin]
rank the dance sequences and develop criteria for their fitness functions.
I dont believe in ranking dances
like that, especially among people
that youre in class with, said Sarah
Guilbault 18. Its not a quantitative thing to rank dances, but its
necessary for computer science in
Please see CODING, page 9
Dead Mans Cell Phone premieres after one month of intensive prep
BY TOMMY LUNN
ORIENT STAFF
In todays world, technology often

outlives its owners. Such is the case in
Sarah Ruhls Dead Mans Cell Phone,
a play being performed on campus
this weekend.
Masque & Gowns production of
Dead Mans Cell Phone shows just
how complicated this occurrence
can be, as follows the life of a cell
phone after the death of the titular
character, Gordon.
[The play] starts off with a woman
in a caf who gets fed up with listening
to a mans cell phone ring so she takes
charge and answers it herself, said Lane
Sturtevant 15, one of the co-directors
of the show. She realizes that the man
is actually dead so she makes the decision to keep the phone and as a result
becomes very involved with his family,
his wife, his lover, his mother, his brother, and the play just sort of follows that.
The shows cast of six students and
production crew of around 20 have
been working on an almost daily basis
since Winter Break. The co-directors
of the show, Sturtevant and Noah
Bragg 15, have worked hard to deal
with the limited timetable.
We work at such a furious pace to
RING RING, BANG BANG: Maddi Kuras 18 aims for Sophie de Bruijn 18 in an airport scene in Dead Mans Cell Phone.
get everything rehearsed, Bragg said.
You just want everything to be perfect, you want the actors to be perfect
and you know its not going to be perfect. You just work and you sort of get
caught up and then you see the whole
thing come together and an actor
does something you didnt expect that
you hadnt done in rehearsal that just

works beautifully.
This is Sturvetants first experience
with acting and directing at Bowdoin.
Having been previously exposed to
Ruhls work, Sturtevant was keen to
direct one of her plays.
Id been reading a lot of Sarah Ruhl
and I liked her humor and her playfulness and I wanted to direct a play by a
contemporary woman playwright for
Masque & Gown, Sturtevant said.
The leaders of Masque & Gown recommended that Sturtevant co-direct the
show with Bragg, who had previously
acted in one of Ruhls other works.
Having acted in Masque & Gowns

fall show, Almost, Maine, first year
Rowan Staley knew immediately that
she wanted to audition for Dead
Mans Cell Phone. Staley portrays
Mrs. Gottlieb, Gordons mother. Her
role as the matriarch of the Gottlieb clan is very dissimilar from that
which she usually plays, presenting
both challenges and good experiences.
The most rewarding thing has
been playing a character who is so different from myself, Staley said. Ive
never played a role thats this unusual
before. Ive had to stretch myself a lot
and the directors have been great in
helping me do that.
After just about one months time,
the shows cast and crew are ready to
showcase their work to the public.
[Before the show], you get a lot of
adrenaline and everyones really excited and hyped up so theres a lot of fun
pre-show rituals like playing loud music in the dressing room, Staley said.
In addition to last nights performance, Dead Mans Cell Phone
will be performed at Pickard Theatre
tonight and tomorrow. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and lasts around two
hours. Tickets can be bought at the
David Saul Smith Union info desk for
$1 with a Bowdoin ID.
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Molly Rider 15
EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
To suggest an artist for Portrait

of an Artist, email Arts & Entertainment Editor Emily Weyrauch
at eweyrauc@bowdoin.edu.
the mainstream media. I did a

lot of grant writing for them and
met a lot of filmmakers.
On campus, Rider is a leader
of the Bowdoin Outing Club.
I love kayaking, skiing, and
rafting, she said.
Riders favorite art class at
Bowdoin was landscape painting
with Associate Professor of Art
James Mullen.
Our assignments were more
open, which pushed my painting skills and encouraged me to
paint a different way, she said. I
also got to paint more of what I
liked to do.
The projects Rider is most
proud of include her Landscape
Painting final project and her senior studio project.
For Landscape Painting, I
made fifteen paintings and they
were fun because they were
quick and very colorful, she
said. What I am working on
now, specifically bending wood,
has also been really fun.
Riders mother is a childrens
book editor, and she loves the
artwork of many illustrators her
mother has worked with.
Melissa Sweet is a local artist
who is great, she said.
In addition, Rider finds inspiration in printmaker Rick Allens work.
I love his work because of the
level of detail he puts into it, she
said. He uses beautiful landscapes and includes the natural
world, which I am drawn to.
Rider plans to go abroad to
New Zealand this summer to
complete her last semester.
I am taking two industrial
design classes there and then
considering going to graduate
school for industrial design after
that, she said.
SMOOTH RIDER: Rider 15 burns wood in the art studio as part of her senior studio project.
ORIENT STAFF
BY ELLEN CAHILL
As a visual arts major, Molly
Rider 15 has pursued everything
from film to making her own
furniture. She dedicates much of
her time at Bowdoin to the visual
arts, and plans to pursue a career
in this field after graduation.
In her sophomore year, Rider
began to get involved in the arts
as a part of Bowdoin Artist Activists, through which she did
art projects with local elementary schools.
The next year, while taking her
junior year off from Bowdoin on
medical leave, Rider was able to
take art classes in industrial design at the University of Minnesota. She is currently working on
her senior studio project.
I am doing woodworking and
photography and printmaking
for my senior studio, she said. I
have really enjoyed printing photos on wood.
This project also includes
making her own furniture.
I just made a coffee table and
some side tables, she said. I also
made a lamp that hangs from the
ceiling, which I definitely will include in my room in the future.
Students in the senior studio
class will present a project at the
end of the semester.
It is like an independent
study because you make your
own schedule and stick to it, she
said. Its great because the art
department as well as local artists come critique your work so
you get a lot of feedback.
Rider has also been involved
in film throughout her time at
Bowdoin. She interned at a film
company called By Kids the summer after her freshman year.
They get filmmakers to go all
over the world and make documentaries about kids lives, she
said. They tell stories about
their lives to bring relevant issues to the public that are not in
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diohead song I was intellectualizing

at the moment.
Several months passed until the
night of the concert, and then Leo
and I clambered into Hughs car.
Lets get some earplugs, Hugh
said. I intuited he was referring
to Swans tendency to make their
audiences ears bleed during live
shows. I got us covered, I said,
brandishing the box of $4.95 earplugs I had purchased for this very
occasion. They reduce noise by up
to 33 decibels!
On the way to Portland, Hugh
and Leo were involved in a heated
conversation regarding the kind
of music Swans makes. Its like if
Sigur Ros had a baby with doom
metal, Hugh posited. Not really
doom metal, countered Leo. Noise
rock? ventured Hugh. Experimental, shrugged Leo.
I had been busy laughing at
the comedy of existence in the
backseat, but even if I were
one to participate in boxing
Swans into a
corner, I
get a sense of what its like to actually perform drag, instead of just
thinking about it theoretically,
said Knight.
Knight also hoped that Miz
Crackers talk would create campus dialogue.
I think its important and powerful and a conversation a lot of
people on this campus are afraid
of, said Xanthe Demas 15. Its
really important to bring it here in
such a good environment.
This is a way to get people talking about these issues [in a way]
thats more inviting than a lecture
from an academic, said Knight.
Others agreed that the setting
allowed students to feel comfortable discussing complex issues.
Theres nothing better around a
tough topic than having someone
who says Ask me anything, it wont
offend me. She totally owned the
whole thing, said Emma Patterson 16.
I would not be alive without
[drag]what a profound difference it made, Miz Cracker said.
Anything that you love to do can
save you.
Editors note: Garrett Casey 15,

Sam Miller 15 and Leo Shaw 15 are
Orient staff members.
structed every conceivable performance trope and built from the ashes
of rock n roll a new idol of burning,
aqueous passion, I thought, for a
brief but beautiful second, that something mattered.
The final chord, a death knell,
sounded. I awoke from my stupor.
Iron and Wines sound really did
a 180, I said, winking and pointing at one of Swans hirsute drummers. Unnngh, Leo said, drained.
Whats that? Hugh said, his boyish
charm aged by decades.
talking awkwardly for five minutes

when Michael Gira came onstage.
Michael Gira is sixty years old but
I cant imagine him being a grandfather. For one thing, he has long
oily hair. For another thing, he is the
frontman of Swans.
For those of you who dont know,
Swans live act is described by Ticketmaster user Lightninger as a metaphysical assault. Uh-oh, I said, digging my earplugs in a little deeper.
Thus commenced two hours and
15 minutes of punishing and soulbaring
experimental-noise-rockmeets-Sigur-Ros. I dont know how
many songs they played, though its
possible the number is as low as five.
Half-hour epics tend to sprawl out.
In celebration of lifes absurdity,
the deafening barrage of guitars,
glockenspiels and trombones shook
confetti, that vestige of simpler
times, from the venues rafters.
At the end of a song, a crowd
member dead-panned, Hey, that
was pretty good, as if to say, There
are no atheists at a Swans concert.
Michael Gira ignored him. The band
promptly launched into a suite whose
sole intelligible lyric was Were
living in a wonderland.
As Swans decon-
A Swans concert: exploring auditory assault

HIPSTER DRIVEL
MATTHEW GOODRICH
Swans are animals which symbolize romantic love because when

you put two of them together, their
necks almost resemble a heart. In
addition, Im told they mate for
life, which might also have something to do with it. They should not
be confused with Swans, which is
a band whose music bores its way
into your soul only to leave an abyss
that listens back. This is a very important distinction.
When I heard the latter was
coming to Portland, I asked my
friends if they wanted to go see
Swans with
me. The
b i r d ?
asked Garrett Casey
15. The
Frisbee
play-
Knight shares a mutual friend

with Miz Cracker and it was
her idea to bring her to campus.
Knight was originally interested in
having Miz Cracker speak to her
class, American Queen: Drag in
Contemporary Art Performance.
I wanted her to come talk to
my class because I wanted them to
CFD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN THEATER

CHRISTINA KNIGHT
If the only idea of drag you

have comes from Ru Pauls Drag
Race, then youre probably
missing a great deal about what
it actually means to gay folks,
queer folks, trans folks who
go to those shows.
Race, then youre probably missing

a great deal about what it actually
means to gay folks, queer folks,
trans folks who go to those shows,
said Knight in a phone interview
with the Orient.
er? chuckled Sam Miller

15. No, I said,
w ou l d nt
the band. See
have said
above.
havent you
Sure,
said
philistines
Leo Shaw 15,
heard of No
who doesnt
Wave? because I
listen
to
am only that kind
anything reof asshole in print.
leased after
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT When we arrived
1988, the year
at the venue, we ditched
Sonic Youth made Daydream Naour coats and I ran into my friend
tion and won music.
Shaun. I really want my ears to
Do we need to get tickets? Hugh
bleed tonight, said Shaun. I laughed
Ratcliffe 15 wondered aloud, boyish
in a manner which I hope conveyed
charm dancing across his face.
the sentiment me too while I straI dont think so, I replied, figtegically tucked my box of earplugs
uring that Swans was one of those
further into my pocket. Shaun is
bands driveling hipsters claim to
more hardcore than I am.
like but never really follow through
Back up by the stage, Leo and
on seeing live, or, you know, listenHugh were ordering beers. They
ing to. It is difficult listening for
are both 22. I am 21, so fortusome people, after all.
nately all three of us could purFor some people, I guffawed, bechase alcohol legally and consume
fore putting in headphones. Whats
it safely. Unlike some people, I
that? Peter Nauffts 15 said. Whats
muttered. Whats that? Hugh
that? I said, gesturing to the headsaid. Whats that? I said, gesturphones. Whats that? Thom Yorke
ing to my earplugs.
said, because that is a lyric to the RaWe barely had to stand around
DRAG

on drag full time and to write for
the Outward section of Slate.com.
In her talk, she emphasized how
much time and money is needed to
be successful in drag.
It takes a lot of time; it takes
a lot of dedication, Miz Cracker
said. Even a drag queen who does
not care about her looks at all is
pouring an immense amount of
time and money into the business
of drag.
This dedicationmanifested in
Miz Crackers three to four hours per
day of hair, makeup and outfit preparationshows that there is more to
drag than amusement and comedy.
If you think its just a game or
if you think its just for entertainment, you have to bear in mind that
it is a huge commitment, she said.
Christina Knight, a CFD postdoctoral fellow in the theater and
dance department, said that the
talk shed a different light on the
lives of drag queens.
If the only idea of drag you
have comes from Ru Pauls Drag
CODING

collaboration between a dancer
and the algorithm? Its really an
exploration. Were not sure where
order to create new sequences.
its going to lead.
Lucy Saidenberg 15 had similar
Griffin and Majercik began
reservations, but found that the
planning a collaborative effort two
project was still valuable.
years ago, when they served on a
It was a little scary at first, but I
working group as part of the Colthink the concept was really interleges Digital and Computational
esting in the end, she said.
Studies Initiative (DCSI). Their
Both dancers and CS students
current project is not a formal part
underscored the potential awkof the initiative, but they think of
wardness of interdisciplinary colit as an experiment in what they
laboration when
call the computhey described
tational arts.
the
meeting
The two proIt gives us the chance to put
between
their
fessors see this
classes. Simon
something that were learning to semesters projMoushabeck
ect as a trial for
16, who is in use, to see it make results in a way a future course
Majerciks class, thats not just seeing the numbers in which stusaid that it was
dents
would
fly down on the screen.
like
studying
participate
as
another species
both dancers and
SIMON MOUSHABECK 16
and Saidenburg
computer scienjoked that it
tists. They would
would be hilarcall that course
ious to see the CS students dance.
Computational Expressivity.
Griffin and Majercik may seem
Majercik said that a number of
like an odd pair, given the enorstudents in his class seem interestmous differences between CS and
ed in such a course.
dance, but they share the belief
Moushabeck said that he has enthat their respective fields can
joyed applying CS principles to a
benefit from a carefully designed
real-world problem.
collaborative project.
I think its a cool idea, he said.
Were working on theme and
It gives us the chance to put somevariation this semester, so this is
thing that were learning to use, to
an opportunity to look at movesee it make results in a way thats
ment analysis and movement
not just seeing the numbers fly
variation in a way that a choreogdown on the screen.
rapher might not do on their own,
Not all the dancers were as sure
Griffin said.
about the idea, however.
Majercik said he was excited by
I dont love the idea of a comthe questions and uncertainties of
puter telling me which moves are
the project.
the most aesthetically pleasing,
Its been really interesting trysaid Lucy Saidenburg 15. I dont
ing to figure out how these two
really believe that its possible, just
processes can work together, he
because of the subjective nature of
said. Can you think of it being a
whats good dance.
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SPORTS
Basketball teams set to host NESCAC quarterfinals as No. 2 seeds

Sarah Binkhorst became the 14th
Polar Bear to score 1,000 points.
Womens hoops hosts Middlebury
tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Lucas Hausman 16 tied Bowdoins single-game points record

against Bates. The team hosts
Williams tomorrow at 2 p.m.
BY MADDIE JODKA
BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
SCORECARD
Fri 2/13
Sa 2/14
at Bates
at Tufts
Fri 2/13
Sa 2/14
Mon 2/16
W 74-67
L 66-55
Playing its second weekend without captain Megan Phelps 15, who
was injured the week before, womens
basketball beat Bates (9-14, 0-9 NESCAC) 74-67 last Friday. However on
Saturday, they lost their last regular
season game to Tufts (23-1, 10-0)
in a battle of the only two remaining
undefeated teams in the NESCAC
55-56, ending their 18-game win
streak. The Polar Bears finished with
a regular season record of 21-3 (9-1
NESCAC).
Sara Binkhorst 15 set a singlegame school record with seven three
pointers at Bates, and became the 14th
Bowdoin player to score over 1,000
career points a day later at Tufts.
At Bates, Bowdoin started strong,
with Binkhorst and Kate Kerrigan
18 scoring the first 12 points of
the game. Bates went on a few runs
to tighten the gap to 22-18, but
Bowdoin responded, increasing its
lead to 28-18. The Polar Bears held a
comfortable 35-25 halftime lead.
I thought we had maybe the
strongest start of our season
against Bates, said Head Coach
Adrienne Shibles.
Binkhorst kicked off the second
half by stretching Bates defense with
Tufts opened the game scoring the

first three points of the half. Bowdoin
responded with a run that put the
Polar Bears ahead 12-7. However,
once Tufts barreled ahead 15-12, they
would not give up the lead for the
remainder of the game. The Jumbos
finished the half with a 34-24 lead.
I think we started off defensively really well, said Binkhorst. [Tufts] went
on a bit of a run in the first half and
Please see W. BBALL, page 12
Please see M. HOOPS, page 12
ZACH ALBERT (left) AND ABBY MOTYCKA (right), THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Bowdoin would never relinquish.

In field goals, Bowdoins 42.4 percent
just surpassed Bates 41.4 percent, and
the Polar Bears led 36-32 in rebounds.
Shibles spoke about Binkhorsts
performance after the game.
Shes very deserving of that record
because she works incredibly hard,
said Shibles. I thought she brought
incredible mental toughness to the
Tufts game[she] really maintained
her poise and composure and executed the game plan.
W 98-70
W 57-54
L 72-61
Junior Lucas Hausmans 44 points

on 20-25 shooting in last Fridays 98-70
win over Bates, a season high in points
for the team, tied the school record
for points in a game, previously set in
1954 by Bill Fraser. Hausmans recordbreaking performance earned him the
Division III Player of the Week award.
He was also named NESCAC Player of
the Week for the second week in a row.
The next day, the Polar Bears edged
out Tufts in the final seconds to win
57-54. The two wins bumped Bowdoin
up to second place in the NESCAC at
the end of the regular season, allowing
the team to host seventh-seeded Williams in a quarterfinal match tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Bowdoins victory against Bates was
a major improvement over the 71-51
defeat to the Bobcats on December 4.
Hausman led the charge early, sinking
nine of his first 11 shots to carry the Polar Bears to a 15-point lead at the half.
Bates attempted to hang in the game
by relying on their perimeter shooting,
but no matter what the Bobcats threw
at the Polar Bear defense, Bowdoin was
able to respond and keep the game out
of reach. The Bobcats could not match
CHARGE ON: Marle Curle 17 (left) and John Swords 15 (right) lead the Polar Bears into battle tomorrow as both teams host quarterfinal games.
multiple three pointers on her way to
a team leading 29 points in the game.
Shannon Brady 16 and Kerrigan
added 15 and 13 points, respectively.
Bates biggest weapon was first year
Nina Davenport, who scored a total
of 34 points in the game.
In the second half, the Bobcats
came back with a nine-point run,
giving them a 60-59 lead with less
than five minutes to play. But Binkhorst responded with a 15-foot
jump shot to take back a lead that
v. Bates
v. Tufts
v. Husson
From Polar Bear to Bobcat: Kirsten Prue 14 becomes coach at Bates

BY MAURA FRIEDLANDER
ORIENT STAFF
Four years of collegiate womens

basketball proved not to be enough
for Kirsten Prue 14. After playing
on the Bowdoin womens basketball
team as a point guard for four years,
Prue has spent the past year serving
as assistant coach for the Bates womens basketball team.
Prue became aware of the position
through her former coach, Bowdoin
Head Coach Adrienne Shibles, who
mentioned her name to Jim Murphy,
the head coach at Bates. After Murphy
Im totally rooting for the Polar Bears

next weekend. Im really hoping theyll
be in the semi-finals and finals at
Tufts. If so, Ill definitely be there to
cheer them on
KIRSTEN PRUE 14
ASSISTANT COACH BATES WOMENS BASKETBALL
reached out to her, Prue eagerly took
the position.
Though most people would likely find it difficult to coach a team
that was one of their rivals just a
year prior, Prue approached her
new position professionally.
It wasnt difficult at all because I was
really able to remove myself from that
rivalry and get excited to be able to be a
Bates coach. As soon as I agreed to be

a coach I viewed myself as a Bobcat. I
wanted [the girls] to win and do as well
as they could do, Prue said.
Although Prue was a loyal and supportive coach throughout the season,
she still has her Bowdoin allegiances. With Bates season finished and
Bowdoin moving on to the NESCAC
playoffs, Prue plans to support her
alma mater.
Im totally rooting for the Polar
Bears next weekend. Im really hoping
theyll be in the semi-finals and finals
at Tufts. If so, Ill definitely be there to
cheer them on, she said.
The Bates coaching position came
at a convenient time for Prue, who
has spent the year preparing for and
applying to occupational therapy
(OT) graduate programs. Though
she does not plan to continue coaching in the immediate future, Prue
hopes to somehow incorporate basketball coaching into her ultimate
career choice.
Coaching is definitely something
Im thinking about for the future.
Occupational therapy is a pretty flexible career. In an ideal world I would
graduate, get my OT license, and
then work part-time and get involved
with [a schools basketball program],
whether that be voluntary or parttime, and go from there.
Prue has found both joys and difficulties in transitioning from her role as
a team member in college to a coach.
COURTESY OF KIRSTEN PRUE
MAKES PERFECT: Kirsten Prue 14 leads a Bates basketball practice and, left, helms the Polar Bear oense during her time as the Bowdoin point guard.
Its definitely an interesting transition, because as a player it all came naturally to me, she said. A lot of playing
is subconsciously taking action, while
coaching is mostly watching every little
thing and thinking about it and what
the other team is doing. I enjoyed providing feedback, but it was definitely a
different kind of experience.
Shibles expressed excitement at
having a former member of her team
as a fellow coach, even if they are on

different sides of the court.
[Prue] brought an intelligence and
a composure to the court as a player
that was critical to our teams success.
I know this has translated well for
coaching. Im in full support of what
shes doing and hope that she continues with coaching as a profession,
said Shibles.
Prue is one of nine Bowdoin
womens basketball alumni currently

coaching collegiate basketball. These
alumni currently coach at Bates, Connecticut College, Dartmouth, Harvard, Navy, Niagara University, Rochester University, Tufts University and
here at Bowdoin.
We take a lot of pride in developing leaders here. I think it speaks to
the passion that our players have for
the game, said Shibles.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Mariah Rawding 18
WOMENS SWIMMING AND DIVING
HIGHLIGHTS
Set two individual Bowdoin
records in the teams best ever
NESCAC finish
Led the relay team that had
the Polar Bears best finish on
the weekend
BY ALEX VASILE
NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
shed be faster. Its more of a relief in

some ways. She was confident and
I could see some things in there
First-year Mariah Rawding
some flashes of brilliance.
took fourth place in the 50-yard
Her dramatic improvement at
and the 100-yard breaststroke at
the NESCAC Championship
last weeks NESCAC Championshe dropped 12 seconds off her
ship. She also took third in the
200 breaststrokewas not quite
200-yard breaststroke, the last of
unprecedented, however. Rawdher three solo events, the maxiing had achieved something
mum number allowed.
similar between her junior and
Rawding also participated on
senior years in high school, after
four strong relay teamsthe 400she had already been admitted to
yard freestyle which finished secBowdoin.
ond, the 200-yard freestyle and
A Washington state native,
400-yard medley both of which
Rawding did not do a campus
finished fourth, and the 200-yard
visit. She was only familiar with
medley, which finished fifth.
the school because Coach BurnRawding broke school records in
ham swam with her uncle.
each of her three individual events
My uncle said he knew a really
and earned All-Conference hongood coach, she said. I thought,
ors in the 200 breaststroke and the
Its in Maine. Its not going to be
400 freestyle relay.
fun. Its going to be
Her performance
cold.
I
trusted
her,
she
trusted
herself.
contributed
to
Still, Rawding
women swimming She was confident and I could said Burnham was
and divings best see some things in theresome a really big piece
finish in program
of her decision to
flashes of brilliance.
history.
come to Bowdoin
Rawding comand continue her
HEAD COACH BRAD BURNHAM
pleted 14 races
swimming career.
over the three-day
She said she appreNESCAC Chamciated his quality
pionship, an average number of
over quantity approach to swimevents for a short-distance swimming and was glad that she would
mer.
only have to swim six months out
Her performance was someof the year.
what surprising to Coach Brad
Rawding grew up in a swimBurnham and to Rawding herming householdboth her parself. For most of the season, she
ents swam in collegeand her
had hovered around the top 20
mother coached her to swim
before leaping into the top five
competitively from five or six
in the conference at the Chamyears old. She said this contributpionship.
ed to her mixed feelings on swimBurnham mentioned that he
ming in college.
had not had much time to obI came from a program where
serve Rawdings technique over
I didnt swim a lot, like I didnt
the course of the season, as indiswim mornings, for example,
vidual attention can be difficult
she said. I only swam six months
to dole out on a 50-person team.
out of the year. Its the same here.
He said that Rawding played
I didnt want to get burned out
a more significant role on the
againto get to the point where it
team than he had anticipated
wasnt fun anymore.
during recruiting.
However, Rawding has found
Still, Rawding had believed
that this seasons results have refrom the beginning that she would
newed her enthusiasm for competbenefit from taperingthe twoing, particularly in the relays.
week period before big races when
Its going to be hard to top this
swimmers dramatically reduce
season to be honest, she said. I
their workload to regain energy
swam really well in all my indiand improve their performance.
vidual events and the relays were
I think I told Brad during
amazing. Everybody stepped up.
Christmas training that I was ready
But its a great way to start my
for taper, Rawding said. It had alBowdoin career because each year
ways gone pretty well for me.
Im going to want to replicate that.
Burnham for his part, noticed
Rawding will wait for the rest of
her post-taper improvements
the Division-III schools to finish
in practice and felt comfortable
their championships to see if she
enough to place her on the stronger
will be selected to compete nationrelay teams.
ally. She has a strong chance to do
Shed been looking great in
so, as she can qualify in most of the
practice, but you never really know
events she placed in last weekend.
until someone does it, he said. I
The sports editor of the Orient
trusted her. She trusted herself.
chooses the Athlete of the Week
She said that when she got to taper
based on exemplary performance.
ORIENT STAFF
sports
the bowdoin orient
11
Kanes rise spurs Tottenhams top-four chase

THE RELEGATION
ZONE
ERIC ZELINA
Only one Premier League player has
20 goals across all competitions this season and his name isnt Costa, Aguero or
Sanchez. It is Tottenhams Harry Kane.
He plays with a certain unbridled energy reminiscent of a golden retriever,
gleefully chasing after the ball in manager Mauricio Pochettinos high-pressure
game plan.
Kanes rise from near obscurity to
the most in-form striker in England
has Spurs in the thick of the muddled
race for the top four and a Champions
League berth.
Born in North London, Kane spent
a year in the Arsenal youth academy,
before finding his way to the Gunners
archrivals Spurs. He developed in their
youth system before bouncing around
on loan to various clubs in the English
football league system. Cracking into
the Tottenham first team last season
with three Premier League goals, hes
roared onto the scene in recent months.
Making his name early in the Europa
League, Kane seized his Premier League
opportunities and impressed, setting
up Eric Diers winner on opening day,
stealing points with a last gasp winner
against Aston Villa, and sparking Spurs
rally with an equalizer against Hull. His
New Years Day match against league
leaders Chelsea served as a true coming
out party.
Kane terrorized the Cahill-Terry central defense pairing, scoring two goals,
assisting on another, and drawing a penalty, willing Spurs to a 5-3 win at White
Hart Lane. This inspired performance,
in which Kane grabbed the game by the
scruff and manhandled the best defen-
sive unit in England, was the apex of his

dazzling run of form, and also helped
Tottenhams creep back into contention
for the Champions League places.
Kane has found the most scintillating vein of form in England, banging
home six goals in Spurs last five Premier
League matches and 23 across all competitions, while writing himself into club
lore by vanquishing Arsenal with two
goals in the North London derby. This
season, hes put together all the various
tools showcased during his loan spells
and is scoring goals at a dizzying pace.
All the ridiculous talk about building the English National Team squad
around him aside, Kane has developed
a remarkably complete game. Hes perfectly suited to Pochettinos system,
playing with an impressive workrate
and tracking back to defend, while still
occupying a traditional center forward
role. His hold up play has created space
and an outlet for the midfield, and his
directness and finishing provide a nice
foil for the creative talents of Christian
Eriksen and Erik Lamela.
Kane and Eriksen have resurrected
Spurs season, with the two stealing the
squad a league best 12 points in the 88th
minute or later this seasonenough to
put them in sixth place with 13 matches
left, three points outside the top four.
The North London derby victory has
complicated the race for those Champions League spots, with five teams vying
for the third and fourth place spots behind Chelsea and Manchester City.
Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham
all have solid chances of latching onto
one of the remaining top-four spots.
Liverpool is starting to look like last
seasons team that was one Steven Gerrard slip away from the title. With star
striker Daniel Sturridge healthy again,
Liverpool will have no problem scoring,
but will play a number of tough fixtures
down the stretch that may prevent them

from reaching the Champions League
for a second consecutive year.
The North London derby proved a
massive missed opportunity for Arsenal
to put distance between them and Spurs.
But they are rounding into form, turning in brilliant performances recently
against Manchester City and Aston
Villa. Their match against Manchester
United at Old Trafford on the penultimate matchday of the season may prove
vital if they cannot distance themselves
against weaker opposition in the coming weeks.
Current top-four teams Southampton and Manchester United are smart
money picks to drop out of the Champions League race. A feel-good story all
season, the Southampton bandwagon
is running on fumes. Ronald Koemans
team is struggling to break down defenses, with just one goal in its past three
matches. The Southhampton defense is
still the stoutest in the Premier League,
but its tough to see them sticking around
much longer without an offensive spark.
Manchester United, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spent this
summer on transfer fees, has a comical
lack of depth in midfield with their best
attacker, Wayne Rooney, often forced to
play as a deep central midfielder. Their
lack of depth will force them out of the
top four, as they complete the season
with the toughest run of fixtures out of
any of their rivals.
Tottenham sit just three points off
fourth place, with important matches
left at Southampton and United. The
supporters at White Hart Lane cheered
during recent matches, Harry Kane,
hes one of our own; hes one of our
own, Harry Kane. If he can continue his
marvelous goal-scoring run and drag
Tottenham into the top-four, the Spurs
faithful may well crown him King Kane.
Mens hockey looks for win to host playoff game

BY WOODY WINMILL
ORIENT STAFF
The mens hockey team lost to Trinity 5-4, but defeated Wesleyan 3-1 in
its last two away games of the regular
season. The games were played on
February 13 and 14 respectively. With
two games to go in the regular seasonagainst Connecticut College
and Tufts at home this weekendthe
team has a NESCAC record of 7-6-3
(13-6-3 overall).
Goalie Max Fenkell 15 had 35 saves

against Trinity. Camil Blanchet 18, John
McGinnis 15 and Zach Kokosa 17 each
scored a goal against Wesleyan.
Head Coach Terry Meagher expressed pride in his team.
I felt pretty good, he said. Obviously, youd like to win both. [Trinity]
played very well, but we came back
and played what I thought was a complete game against a tough opponent
on Saturday.
He also noted the pressures of per-
forming with the playoffs just around

the corner.
You dont want to be streaky this
time of year, he said. You want to be
playing your best hockey.
Though it can be easy to pay attention to statistics like goals, assists and
saves, Meagher emphasized the importance of something that is harder to
measure: defense.
Our backs have been a real
Please see M. HOCKEY, page 13
Squash loses to Amherst at CSA Nationals

BY ALLISON WEI
ORIENT STAFF
The womens squash team fell to

Amherst in the C Division finals of the
College Squash Association National
Tournament at Harvard last weekend.
The Polar Bears were competing in the
Walker Cup, which consists of teams
ranked from 17 to 24 in the country.
Bowdoin concluded its season with a
10-12 record.
Going into Nationals, the team was
focused on improving on its performance at the NESCAC Championships,
where it placed seventh.
Our goals going into Nationals were
trying to work on what we were doing
in practicethings like serve and returns and being more confident in our
abilities as a team as a whole and making sure we kept calm and focused, said
Alden Drake 15.
On Friday, No. 19 Bowdoin beat No.
22 Wesleyan 8-1. Bowdoin had previously beaten Wesleyan in a tightly contested 5-4 match during the regular sea-
son. Drake, Torey Lee 15, Tully Ross 18,

Diya Chopra 18, Sara Wlodarczyk 15,
Chloe Polikoff 17 and Emily Simonton 15 all cruised to 3-0 victories. Alex
Moreno 18 won 3-1.
Team dynamics were really good
going in, Chopra said. We were really
focused and we had practiced hard the
week before.
We were pumped about the weekend, Drake said. It really came out in
that match. People were fighting really
hard. They were going for every point
and every ball. There was a different
kind of energy that was present in that
match. We couldnt have been prouder
of that performance.
The following day, Bowdoin beat No.
18 Hamilton 6-3 in the semifinal. The
Polar Bears lost to Hamilton 6-3 in a
consolation round of this years NESCAC Championships.
It was huge that we refocused and
came together to figure out what we had
done wrong and then to knock them
out of the semifinals, Drake said. They
were ranked above us, and we werent

supposed to win that match, and we
ended up winning. That invokes everything we had been trying to work on
over the season.
Sarah Nelson 17 and Polikoff both
won their respective matches in five
games. Ross, Chopra and Simonton
claimed 3-0 wins, and Wlodarczyk
won 3-1.
Bowdoin lost to No. 17 Amherst 6-3
in the season in January but had hopes
of an upset victory in the cup final. On
Sunday, Lee and Chopra earned 3-0 victories, and Nelson won 3-2. However,
no other Polar Bears were able to win
and Bowdoin lost the contest 6-3.
We really grew as a team, Chopra
said. When we initially started, we
played some really tough teams. When
we started practicing a lot more, our
goal was focusing on Nationals, and I
think we did a really great job to reach
the finals. Even though it didnt work
out in the finals, it was a good point
to reach.
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the bowdoin orient
sports
BSAAC welcomes Special Olympic athletes in month-long series

BY LIZA TARBELL
STAFF WRITER
For the first time in the Colleges

history, the Bowdoin Student Athlete Advisory Committee (BSAAC)
is organizing and hosting a monthlong series of sports clinics in collaboration with the Special Olympics. During the Special Olympics
annual day of awareness on March 4,
Bowdoin will launch the campaign,
Spread the Word to End the Word,
to eliminate use of the word retard.
The program stemmed from
Bowdoins annual track clinic with
the Special Olympics, which began four years ago. Siena Mitman
15, head of BSAACs Community
Engagement Committee, has been
working with the organization to
design the programming.
A volleyball clinic, doubling as
the first event of the series took
place last Thursday. There will be
a basketball clinic on Sunday and a
bowling outing next Friday.
[We had] no idea what to expect, [but I] had some drills in
mind, what would be fun, what
everybody could do, said Hailey
Wahl 16, captain of the womens
volleyball team.
At Thursdays clinic, the volleyball team paired up with the
athletes for one-on-one technical
skills trainingpassing, hitting
and serving. The clinic closed with
W. BBALL
then again opening up the second half,

that we didnt really respond as well to.
During the second half, Bowdoin
seemed to have been shaken off its
game, and allowed Tufts to take control with a 13-2 run that extended
their lead to 47-26 with only 16 minutes left. Although the Polar Bears
chased the Jumbos through the rest
of the half, the game ended 66-55.
Binkhorst again led the team with
23 points, making all five of her
three-point shots. Brady added 12
LEAN WITH IT, ROCK WITH IT: Special Olympic athletes lead stretches with the volleyball team during the first of three clinics to be held this month.
people to be aware of the language

they use, said Mitman.
Womens basketball Head Coach
Adrienne Shibles, the faculty liaison for
BSAAC, was instrumental in certifying
Bowdoin as a Special Olympics College, which she feels is an important
characteristic of a Division III school.
[The] perfectionist Bowdoin
student can get really focused on
winning and performing at your
best, and I think sometimes the
joy of the game gets lost. So its a
reminder of whats important. We
absolutely love it, she said.
In addition to the clinics this
week, the mens and womens track
and field teams will host their
fourth annual Special Olympics
track clinic in the spring, and Sarah Freeman 15 is also organizing
a swimming clinic that will take
place later this semester.
In addition to focusing on athletics, BSAAC hopes that the partnership and these events will create a stronger sense of community
between the College and the town
of Brunswick.
Its mutually beneficial, in
that I do believe that the girls on
the team enjoyed themselves immensely and learned so much from
the experience, said Wahl.
It makes you realize you are
part of a larger community than
just Bowdoin.
a six-on-six scrimmage.
[The Athletes would] make five
mistakes in a row and never get
discouraged, said Wahl. You realize most of the time we strive to be
perfect, but really its the attitude
that makes you a good teammate
I imagine the [Bowdoin volleyball]
girls will want to be involved with
the Special Olympics in the future.
Beyond the clinic series, planning is currently underway for the

Spread the Word to End the Word
campaign at the end of the month.
Were still working on what were
doing that week, but were thinking
of selling T-shirts to raise money for
a local chapter of Special Olympics
of the Bath/Brunswick area and Topsham, said Mitman.
A potential event involves creating posters of harmful words that

campus groups will commit to
avoiding.
[Working with Special Olympics] seemed like a great opportunity to take that beyond just a
poster, and make it something that
shows our commitment in a different and stronger wayto remind
points and five rebounds. Bowdoin

made 40 percent of its field goals
compared to Tufts 48 percent, but
led in total rebounds 31-27.
I think the team seemed really
tight when the game started, said
Shibles. Most people didnt really
start to play like themselves until the
end of the game. I felt like we were
lacking execution in the offensive
plays and the defensive sets.
It was a battle, but I think we
learned a lot about ourselves and the
areas we need to improve on, added
Binkhorst. I think its really going
to help us going into playoffs.
Despite the loss, the women secured the second seed in the NESCAC, which is the best seed for
Bowdoin since the 2008-09 season.
Tomorrow, the Polar Bears will host
seventh-seeded Middlebury in the
NESCAC quarterfinal.
The biggest thing weve been focusing on is that defensive intensity,
said Binkhorst. Whether its getting
up in the passing lanes, or working
on boxing out, and really working
on our defensive communication. I
think just bringing that 40 minutes of
defensive pressure from all five of us
on the floor.
Track teams leap and bound

against Division I competition
PAID ADVERTISEMENT
BY SAM SHAHEEN
STAFF WRITER
Facing a stacked field including

Division I and professional competition, the mens and womens track &
field teams competed last weekend
in the Dave Hemery Valentine Invitational hosted by Boston University.
Bowdoins top finisher was senior
Erin Silva, who placed second in the
pole vault, resetting her school record
for the third time this season with a
vault of 129.5.
Georgia Bolduc 17 placed 90th
in the 60m run, speeding past the
finish line in 8.50 seconds. She also
ran 27.25 in the 200m dash placing
172nd. Shekinah Pettw.ay 18 ran in
the 200m as well, Finishing in 26.92
to place 141st. Katharine Krupp 16
placed 19th in the triple jump, leaping 11.28m.
On the mens side, a larger Polar
Bears squad also met the competition and put up a number of strong
performances.
M. HOOPS
the offensive efficiency of the Polar

Bears and had no answer for Hausmans dominant play.
Captain Bryan Hurley 15 recorded
a double-double with 15 points and 12
assists in the game.
While Hausman and Hurley controlled the outside, Matt Palecki 16
and John Swords 15 dominated Bates
on the inside. The towering duo combined for 26 points and 16 rebounds
as Bowdoin crushed Bates in the
paint, outscoring the Bobcats 40-6.
Hausman has had nothing short of
a phenomenal season this year, achieving a new career-best point total several
times and leading Bowdoin to its best
NESCAC finish in school history.
After the blowout against Bates, the
First year Brian Greenbergs performance in the triple jump was Bowdoins top finish on the mens side, as
his jump of 13.89m earned him a
14th place showing. In the long jump,
senior captain Chris Genco leaped
into 17th place with a jump of 6.55m.
In the 60m dash, first year sprinter
Latif Armiyaw flew down the track
7.17 seconds, placing 31st. Junior Jacob Ellis placed 35th in the 800m with
a time of 1:54.50, his fastest time yet
this indoor season. Ellis, fresh off an injury, was among the top D III finishers.
In a race that saw 12 people break
the 4:00 mark in the mile, all three of
Bowdoins competitors ran well. Junior Calvin Henry was Bowdoins top
miler, running a time of 4:20.70
good for 129th placewith first year
Ben Torda 0.28 seconds and 9 places
behind in 138th.
Nate Kent ran to another strong performance by a Bowdoin freshman, finishing 83rd with a time of 22.59 in the
200m dash, an event somewhat outside
of his comfort zone as a hurdler.
Polar Bears outworked Tufts in a defensive struggle on Saturday.
Both teams were held to less than
40 percent shooting in the contest,
and the game was tied at only 51 with
two minutes remaining. The ball went
back and forth and two quick scores
by Liam Farley 18 and Hurley extended the lead to 55-51 with 12 seconds
left on the clock.
Tufts quickly advanced down court
and sank a three pointer to bring the
game within one, but two free throws
from Hurley put the game back out
of reach.
The Polar Bears will start the NESCAC tournament against seventhseeded Williams (5-5 NESCAC),
whom they beat 67-60 in January. This
time Bowdoin will be without captain
Keegan Pieri 15 who is still sidelined
with a concussion.
sports
the bowdoin orient
Womens hockey struggles going into final weekend of season

BY NICOLE FELEO
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Fri 2/13
Sa 2/14
v. Hamilton
v. Hamilton
T
L
1-1
2-0
Bowdoin suffered a 2-0 shutout

loss against Hamilton on Saturday after tying the team during a
game the night before. Without a
win last weekend the team needs
at least one win this weekend in
its two games at Amherst to have
a chance at hosting a NESCAC
Championship quarterfinal game
next weekend.
Head Coach Marissa ONeil commended the teams efforts last weekend
despite the disappointing outcome.
We didnt feel great about the
tie, said ONeil. Going into Saturdays game, we talked about how
we played 65 minutes of strong
hockey on Friday. Saturday we
came out and did a great job.
The Polar Bears performance
last weekend dropped them from
fourth to fifth in the NESCAC with
a 5-6-3 NESCAC record (9-8-5
overall). The Hamilton Continentalswith their third conference
win of the seasonmoved up one
spot from the last place standing,
which theyve held for the past two
weeks. The Continentals record
now stands at 9-9-4 (3-8-3 NESCAC).
The Polar Bears netted the
games first goal on Friday night.
About five minutes into the
game, Julie Dachille 18 hit a shot
past Hamilton goalie Sam Walther.
BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LOOKING AHEAD: Ariana Bourque 16 skates by a Hamilton defender. A win this weekend could grant the team a home game in the NESCAC Championship.
Hamilton hit back in the third
period when Steph DiPietro slid
a puck through the pads of goalie
Lan Crofton 17 after carrying the
puck out from behind the net.
Bowdoin had an opportunity to
take the lead on a power play, but
failed to score. In overtime, Crofton made a heart-stopping save to
pressure the tie. Neither team was
able to capitalize on its opportunities in overtime.
Crofton made 17 saves overall,
while Walther stopped 21.
On Saturday, both teams opened
with 20 minutes of strong skating, and despite multiple chances,
failed to net any goals.

Despite the initial control the
Polar Bears exerted over the Continentals in the second period,
Hamilton broke out and raced
down the ice in a two-on-one that
culminated in Megan Fitzgerald
firing the puck into the top right
corner of the net.
Teal Gosselin then buried the puck
with a deflected shot into the net to
give the Continentals a 2-0 advantage.
Crofton made 11 saves in the
game, while Beth Findley 16 made
5 in 13:09 of play. Walther earned a
shutout with 25 stops.
Bowdoins will travel to Amherst
for a game at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

The Polar Bears NESCAC tournament seeding is dependent on the results of this weekends other NESCAC
matches, but ONeil hopes the team
can walk away with a strong seed for
the quarterfinals.
We can end up as high as third or
at least at eight, said Coach ONeil.
Its going to take a great effort. They
have a couple forwards who are definitely threatening--being able to shut
them down one-on-one defense.
Their goalie does pretty well but as
we can see with the Trinity score for
them [Amherst] this weekend, the
puck can get passed her.
ORIENT STAFF
Buoyed by a wave of recordsetting performances, the womens

swim team earned a fifth-place finish at the NESCAC Championship
last weekend, the best in program
history. In addition, Head Coach
Brad Burnham was named the conferences Coach of the Year.
Star first year Mariah Rawding
led the Polar Bears, setting school
records in every event she swam.
She finished third in the 200m
breaststroke (2:20.52) and took
home fourth-place finishes in the
50m breast (29.90) and the 100m
breast (1:04.59).
Reading also swam on two
fourth-place, school record-setting
relays: the 200m free with Bridget
Killian 16, captain Patty Boyer 15
and Sophia Walker 17 (1:36.85)
,and the 400 medley with Walker,
captain Teri Faller 15 and Katie
Kronick 17 (3:54.18).
Certainly Mariah Rawding was a
great addition to relays and her individual events were very strong
school records in three individual
events and as part of a bunch of relays, as well, said Burnham.
Rawding also led off the highestplacing Bowdoin relay, the secondplace 400m free team that also featured Killian, Lela Garner 16 and
Walker with a school-record time
of 3:28.64.
Faller and Caroline Watt 18 also
set Bowdoin individual records
in fourth-place finishes. Faller
swam 26.92 in the 50m backstroke
and Watt turned in an impressive
17:18.20 in the 1,650 free.
Sitting in fifth place after day one
of the three-day meet, the Polar
Bears knew they had a shot at taking the program to new heights in
the conference standings.

After the first dayafter everyone swam out of their mindswe
knew top five could be a possibility, said Isabel Schwartz 17. We
kept saying one hand, meaning we
wanted to finish in the top five. So
that was a theme throughout the
meet that we bonded over.
When you have a great first relay
and everyone swims well, it makes
the sprinters go well, said Burnham.
And then we had some great swims
in the 500, so I think the team felt
good after that. You take a sigh of relief and just keep going.
After the fast start from some of
their best events, the women knew
they would have to fight to hold
onto their spot.
We knew that fifth would be
our best-ever score, said Boyer.
We knew very early on that we
could be fifth, but our hardest
thing would be maintaining that.
Friday was our strongest day.
And the fact that youre moving
through the meet and getting more
tiredkeeping up the momentum
from that first day is really important, added Faller.
Once it became clear on Sunday
that the Polar Bears had successfully held their spot, the meet became
a jubilant affair for the swimmers.
It was such a fun place to be,
said Faller. Youd wait for someone to walk back after their swim
and everyone would just rush them
and hug them. So it was definitely
emotional.
Thanks to their exceptional
times, several members of the team
appear poised to qualify for the D
III Championship in Houston during the weekend of March 20-22.
Watt (1,650 free) and Rawding
(200 breast), along with all members of the 200-and 400-freestyle
relays, will make the trip to Texas

if they remain in top-16 slots nationally in their events after more
D-III schools compete in conference championships this weekend.
The women have a long break
[until Nationals]. Its a good four
weeks, said Burnham. So the rest
of this week will be moderate and
well just slowly bring things back
in, the same training that we were
doing for the last five or six weeks
of the season.
Burnhams NESCAC Coach of
the Year honor was a cherry on top
of the teams triumphant weekend.
Everyone was so excited. People were crying because they were
so happy, said Schwartz. We
swarmed him afterwards and gave
him a big hug. He deserved it and
everyone knew it.
Its voted on by the other coaches, so I would assume they recognized that our women swam better
as a team, said Burnham. It truly
is the swimmers that do all the
work, not me. They swam lights
out, and I get a nice title for a year.
Brad has a really unique way to
approach swimming, said Faller.
A lot of people on our team come
from teams where its a lot of drilling, a lot of yellingmotivation
by fear, quite honestly. And Brads
definitely not like that. Hes very
much, Do what you need to do.
Focus on your technique. He genuinely invests in you.
Dreams of an even better finish
are fueling the Polar Bears off season training.
We realized that were getting
better as a team, and it will push us
to train harder this spring and over
the summer through the fall to prepare for next year, said Schwartz.
We want to get the incoming freshmen excited to be part of the team.
M. HOCKEY
strength, he said. Were also an uptempo, layered team. Its hard to get
through our defensive layers.
At the same time, he suggested that
the team had, at times, been too cautious in terms of taking shots on goal
and that the team has the tendency to
pass too much.
Given his fast-paced tactics, Meagher explained that quick substitutions
are an integral part of his strategy.
When were going and going well,
were a rhythm team. We play four
lines for the most part. Everybodys
with their unit and playing with their
unit, he said.
He noted that while some NESCAC
teams take similar approaches to substitution, other teams play zone defense
that allows their players more rest on the
ice and thus also allows for longer shifts.
Still, few teams, according to Meagher,
use shifts much longer than 45 seconds.
In preparation for this weekends
games, Meagher said the team would
watch film of their opponents, but
generally stick to the strategies it has
used throughout the season.
The team won the NESCAC Championship in its last two seasons, setting the bar high for this years squad.
Bowdoin is currently tied with Connecticut College for fourth place in
the NESCAC standings, making the
game against Connecticut College this
weekend all the more important.
Tufts, the teams other opponent
this weekend, is ranked eighth out
of ten NESCAC teams. Since the top
eight teams make the playoffs, Tufts
will just sneak in if they can hold their
ranking. The playoffs will occur in late
February and early March.
NESCAC Standings
Womens swim has best-ever NESCAC finish

BY SAM CHASE
13
MENS HOCKEY
NESCAC
W
Trinity
14
Amherst
12
Williams
10
BOWDOIN 7
Conn. Coll.
8
Hamilton
6
Middlebury 6
Tufts
4
Colby
2
Wesleyan
2
L
1
4
5
6
7
6
7
10
11
14
T
1
0
1
3
1
4
3
2
3
0
OVERALL
W L T
19 2 1
16 4 2
14 6 2
13 6 3
11 9 2
8
8 6
9 10 3
7 13 2
5 14 3
3 19 0
SCHEDULE
Fri 2/20 v. Conn. College

Sa 2/21 v. Tufts
7 P.M.
4 P.M.
WOMENS HOCKEY
Middlebury
Amherst
Trinity
Conn. Coll.
BOWDOIN
Williams
Colby
Hamilton
Wesleyan
W L
13 1
9 2
6 6
6 6
5 6
5 7
5 9
3 8
3 10
T
2
3
2
2
3
2
0
3
1
W
18
15
13
11
9
8
13
9
8
L
2
3
6
8
8
11
9
9
12
SCHEDULE
Sa 2/21
Su 2/22
at Amherst
at Amherst
T
3
4
2
3
5
3
0
4
1
7:30 P.M.
3 P.M.
Sa 2/21
at New Englands D-III
L
0
1
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
8
9
W
23
21
22
19
16
16
11
12
9
9
10
L
1
3
2
5
8
8
13
11
14
15
14
SCHEDULE
Sa 2/21 v. Middlebury
4 P.M.
MENS BASKETBALL
Trinity
BOWDOIN
Bates
Tufts
Amherst
Wesleyan
Williams
Colby
Middlebury
Hamilton
Conn. College
SCHEDULE
W
9
7
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
2
0
L
1
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
8
10
W
19
17
19
13
18
16
15
13
17
14
7
Sa 2/21 v. Williams
L
5
7
5
11
6
8
9
11
7
10
16
2 P.M.
SCHEDULE
10 A.M.
MENS SWIMMING & DIVING
SCHEDULE
Fri 2/20 at NESCAC Championships

Sa 2/21 at NESCAC Championships
Su 2/15 at NESCAC Championships
W
10
9
8
7
6
4
3
3
2
2
1
Tufts
BOWDOIN
Amherst
Williams
Conn. College
Colby
Middlebury
Hamilton
Wesleyan
Trinity
Bates
MENS SQUASH
TRACK AND FIELD
SCHEDULE
WOMENS BASKETBALL
Fri 2/20 v. Brown @ Wesleyan

Sa 2/21 at CSA Team Championships
Su 2/15 at CSA Team Championships
1 P.M.
TBA
TBA
*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off

9 A.M.
9 A.M.
9 A.M.
Compiled by Sarah Bonanno

Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
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OPINION
the bowdoin orient
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
No offense
his year, Ladd House will not be hosting its annual Inappropriate Party.
After multiple conversations with the Office of Residential Life (ResLife)
and Ladds advisors, House residents decided to forgo the event. In years
past, disrespectful costumes have included aborted fetuses and various impersonations of Hitler. The Inappropriate Party, a Bowdoin and Ladd House tradition, is little more than a justification for students to be offensive. ResLifes
decision to caution Ladd House to think carefully before hosting the partyparticularly in light of Novembers Cracksgiving incidentwas a good one. Ladd
residents themselves spent two weeks brainstorming ways to host the Inappropriate Party without finding a solution. That itself is evidence that the event no
longer has a place on campus.
The Inappropriate Party is not an event where an isolated offensive action
may occur; rather, it specifically encourages participants to be offensive. One
can imagine costumes that would be inappropriate but harmless, but the chances
that all or even most of the costumes would be innocuous are slim. It is not
worth the risk. Additionally, simply telling those who may be offended not to
attend this party goes against the very purpose of the College House system: to
create an inclusive social environment at Bowdoin. The College should not allow, let alone promote, an event condoning disrespect.
The pre-emptive cancellation of an event, however, could be a dangerous
precedent to set. The mere possibility of offensive behavior should not be reason
enough to cancel a party, since pre-emptive action punishes everyone for presumed transgressions. We believe individual students should be punished after
the fact, should they decide to act in a disrespectful manner. The Inappropriate
Party is an event at which students have conducted themselves poorly year after
year, and it merits cancellation, but the College should not presume that Bowdoin students are incapable of attending a Wild West-themed party, for example,
without resorting to disrespectful Native American costumes like those worn at
Cracksgiving.
Upon graduation, Bowdoin students will enter a world in which many people
are not as conscientious of concepts such as microaggressions and cultural appropriation. But we will also enter a society in which conversations about diversity of all kinds are becoming more common and in which cultural sensitivity is
increasing. If Bowdoin can play any role in graduating a more socially-conscious
group of alumni, it should. It is not our belief that Bowdoin students should plan
events or live their lives in fear of offending others, but when we have a clear opportunity to prevent hurtful behavior, we should take it.
Bowdoin took a decidedly progressive stance when it punished the students
who dressed as Native Americans at Cracksgiving, and it reaffirmed its committment to that stance by discouraging the Innappropriate Party. The loss of
this ill-conceived event will improve campus culture. When it comes to other
student programming that the College may find questionable, however, we hope
that that the administration will take a back seat and that students will have the
wherewithal to act in a manner becoming of a Bowdoin student.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of Garrett Casey, Ron Cervantes, Sam Chase, Matthew
Gutschenritter, Nicole Wetsman and Kate Witteman.
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BCA calls for action

To the Editors:
Last Friday, over 200 students
gathered in David Saul Smith Union
to reflect on experiences of fellow
students and how they relate to five
themes of justice, ranging from race
to climate. Bowdoin Climate Action
(BCA) reiterated its call for divestment and requested the appointment
of a trustee as divestment liaison to
the student body.
Since BCA met with the Board of

Trustees in October, there have been
126 days of silence. In that time seven
schools have committed to some form
of fossil fuel divestment. Appointing a
liaison is the next step towards Bowdoin becoming a leader for climate
justice. Bowdoin must choose between the fossil fuel industry and climate justice. Whose side are you on?
Divestment is the tactic, but climate justice is the goal. Its about
more than carbonits about a com-
mon fight against larger systems

of oppression. The Meeting in the
Union was just the first step, and we
hope those interested in continuing
this conversation will join us.
We invite everyone to the Polar
Bear outside the Union every day at
4 p.m. for the climate justice minute
to reflect on issues of climate justice
and remind the Bowdoin community
of the continued silence from our administration.
Julia Berkman-Hill 17
Open letter: connecting the community

Across the globe, from Ferguson,
Mo. to the Peoples Climate March,
from the water wars of Bolivia and Detroit to the fights against discrimination
here on campus, people are standing
up to resist injustice. The accelerating
climate disasterwhich threatens to
destabilize modern societyintensifies these conflicts and calls for collaboration and unified action.
Intersections: People, Planet, and
Power (IP3) brings together community members and organizations
committed to an integrative and holistic discussion about justice within
Sincerely,
Ms. Rosie Armstrong
Professor Mark Battle
Olivia Bean 17
Julia Berkman-Hill 17
Elizabeth Brown 15
Michael Butler 17
Briana Cardwell 17
Professor Nadia Celis
Professor David Collings
Professor Sarah Conly
Professor Sara Dickey
Kelsey Freeman 16
Liz Gonzalez 15
Matthew Goodrich 15
Hanni Haynes 15
Professor Laura Henry
Emily Hochman 15
Professor Hadley Horch
Professor Mary Hunter
Jenny Ibsen 18
and beyond Bowdoin. Please join

Bowdoin students, faculty and staff
in connecting traditionally separated social movements, such as social and climate justice, to cultivate
a multi-faceted approach to understanding and addressing injustice on
all levels.
Come to our kickoff event at 7
p.m. on Tuesday, February 24 in
Daggett Lounge to discuss the intersections of climate, racial and social
justice and their impact on each of
us. Other events we are planning include a fall 2015 day-long teach-in,
Emily Jaques 17
Shinhee Kang 18
Elizabeth Kenny 16
Professor Abigail Killeen
Professor Matt Klingle
Professor Jennifer Kosak
Gillian Kramer 17
Michelle Kruk 16
Madeleine Lemal-Brown 18
Alexxa Leon 15
Teresa Liu 15
Professor Marcos Lopez
Professor Scott MacEachern
Lecturer Frank Mauceri
Professor Madeleine Msall
Professor Elizabeth Muther
David Needell 15
Professor Erika Nyhus
Professor Jack OBrien
Cailey Oehler 15
Professor Roy Partridge
Courtney Payne 15
during which learning will be redirected from scheduled classes to an

engaging program of discussions,
workshops and lectures focusing on
these issues and how they intersect.
If you would like to be involved in
event planning, please email ebriley@bowdoin.edu to join our Blackboard site.
We hope you will join us in our
efforts to improve humanitys relationship with both our natural
and our social environments as
part of our responsibility to the
common good.
Victoria Pitaktong 17
Professor Elizabeth Pritchard
Olivia Reed 15
Christine Rheem 15
Sophia Rivero15
Fellow Melissa Rosario
Professor Zach Rothschild
Professor Doris Santoro
Professor Rob Sobak
Angela Stovall 15
Professor Richmond Thompson
Professor David Vail
Professor Olufemi Vaughan
Claudia Villar-Leeman 15
Kahla Vise 16
Diamond Walker 17
Christopher Wedeman 15
Professor Susan Wegner
Professor Tricia Welsch
Lecturer Genie Wheelwright
Professor Nat Wheelwright
Heather Witzel Lakin 17
opinion
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Mainstream conservativism is necessary for strong liberal politics

KICKING THE CAN
DAVID STEURY
William F. Buckley was one of
the greatest political thinkers of
the 20th century, and I agree with
him on very little. Buckley made
a career of pushing back against
liberalism on TV, in prose and
most famously in the publication
he founded in 1955, the National
Review. He constantly questioned
the wisdom of progressivism, despised communism, was a dyed-inthe-wool advocate of laissez-faire
economics and called for society to
embrace a common set of morals.
He was viewed as the intellectual
conservative icon of a generation.
This did not, of course, mean that
Buckley was immovablein fact, after writing a particularly nauseating
piece entitled Why the South Must
Prevail in 1957, Buckley eventually changed his views, becoming a
staunch opponent of George Wallace and an admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., pushing for a national
holiday honoring the latter.
Vigorously opposed to anti-Semitism, he was instrumental in helping to root it out in the mainstream
Republican Party and refused to
employ anyone with such beliefs.
Buckley was correct when he wrote,
in the mission statement for his
newly founded magazine, Our political economy and our high-energy
industry run on large, general principles, on ideasnot by day-to-day
guesswork, expedients and improvisations.A vigorous and incorruptible journal of conservative opinion
isdare we say it?as necessary to
better living as Chemistry.
In short, Buckley was a perpetual
thorn in the side of those in power,

asking them to question themselves and their beliefs, reminding
the nation that there can be a dark
side to progressivism.
We liberals, especially the more
radical variety, need and deserve
pushback from our stodgier counterparts.
Many of us
believe our
ideas to be
unconditionally right and
thus beyond
re pro a c h ,
dismissi n g
Policy can almost always be improved by conservative input and

criticism. Social Security, while
undeniably a boon to the average American and a matter of life
and death to many of our poorer
citizens, may go bankrupt in a matter of years
Of course, conservatives do not

have the monopoly on asking tough
questions and thinking about a policys implications far down the road.
But they are historically very good
at raising an argument where no
self-respecting liberal is willing to
do sogenerally
out of
fear of
being
labeled
uncaring
or ideologically
impure.
dissenters as ignorant or greedy.

Instead, we must be willing to hear
and accept criticism and to shape
our raw ideas into something workable and necessarily non-utopian.
Conservatives provide the pushback against guess work, expedients and improvisations that we
need, and instead of rejecting out of
hand a preference for a more static
set of rules we should carefully
measure new ideas against existing
ones, always asking whether we are
truly improving.
thanks to a lack of foresight in its

funding scheme. Here at Bowdoin,
the conservative impulses of many
students and administrators have
questioned the wisdom of divestment. While divestment is a very
nice idea, it is simply a proposition
of financial martyrdom with no realistic end goal. Do we really think
that society can simply quit using
fossil fuels?
Implicit within this argument

is the notion that progress will always win out over conservatism,
and thus conservatism is only
valuable as a foil for progressivism. Thats clearly a problem. So it
is paramount to draw a distinction
between radical conservatism and
mainstream conservatism. Radical conservatism includes the Tea
Party and the religious rightpolitical groups that wish to apply
antiquated rules to modern society. I say radical not because all
members of those groups are particularly extreme, but because they

agitate for a wholesale shift in the
status quo, just like radicals on
the left. Mainstream conservatism,
in the tradition of Buckley, President Eisenhower, and (dare I say?)
Mitt Romney, exhorts society to go
slow and to think about all the implications of change. The message is
lets not stray too far from our base
principles rather than we must
unconditionally adhere to the ideas
of our societys founders.
Will the urging of conservatives
always or even often lead progressives to change their minds? No.
This is historically evident. Some
questions raised by conservatives are brought up and then,
gradually, resolved. We appear
to be at the tail end of assuaging doubts about marriage
equality, for instance. The
involvement and influence of
conservatism in public discourse tempers public policy
and helps us understand precisely what were doing. As
Buckley said of his magazine,
and perhaps of conservatism
in general, It stands athwart
history, yelling Stop, at a time when
no one is inclined to do so.
As much as we might be inclined
to forge ahead, having voices like
Buckleys are indispensable to
the responsible development and
implementation of ideaslest
we wantonly legislate from the
heart and end up in an inelegant,
broken dystopia. I would exhort
conservatives to be heard, and I
would expect any progressive with
a modicum of intellectual honesty
to engage. If we cannot defend
our ideas to naysayers, we cannot
expect to defend them against the
harsh realities of the world.
Critics of the Vagina Monologues undermine the shows continued relevence

MY 77 CENTS
VEE FYER-MORREL
Bowdoin women took Kresge Auditorium by storm with two performances of The Vagina Monologues
last weekend. The show is comprised
of various episodes written by Eve
Ensler, based on her interviews with
real women from around the world.
In 1998, Ensler and others launched
V-Day, a global non-profit movement that works to end violence
against women and girls.
As with anything covering a controversial topic or phenomenon,
the play has earned some mixed
reviews. Particularly, critics
of the show express concern
that its nearly 20-year-old
content has become problematic. In fact, the Mount
Holyoke womens group
that produced the play
cancelled their production
of The Vagina Monologues this year. Mount
Holyoke student Yvonne
Dean-Bailey explained
the cancellation to the
school via an email,
stating, gender is a
wide and varied experience, one
that cannot
simply be
reduced
to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who

have participated in the show have
grown increasingly uncomfortable
presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive.
The play has also been criticized
in the past for being a biased depiction of feminism, covering only a
white Western perspectivedespite
its efforts at diversity. Also, since
E n s l e r s
name is
attached
to
the
product i on,
colleges may only perform it given

that they do not change any of the
original material. Given new kinds
of awareness regarding gender and
sexualitytopics that continue to
become more complex every year
one could see why this unalterable
content might be frustrating. It is
also fair to say that much has been
done in the realm of political correctnessat Bowdoin certainly, but
also in the world at large.
That being said, I do think there
is merit to performing The Vagina Monologues. Yes, the show
leaves things out. It doesnt portray
men quite as fairly as it should. It

is written from a markedly American perspective (the assumption
of certain Western conventions
and even use of American slang
make that apparent). Despite its
shortcomings, however, the show
has continued to inspire, surprise,
inform and empower both men
and women throughout its nearly
two-decade existence. This is not
to diminish those groups who are
not included in its messages
of empowerment; and,
undeniably,
those
perspectives de-
serve a voice, too. But to write off

the show entirely would be a mistake. We have to treat The Vagina
Monologues as one of many ways
to appreciate the female experience. This year, the play had one
of the most diverse casts in recent
history, and this was an incredibly important aspect of the show,
whose core value (I tend to believe)
is inclusivity of all perspectives.
Even if the text itself can be limited, an opportunity to perform in
the show offers women on this
campus and throughout the world a voice;
and I would cringe at
any erasure of that.
One hopes that more
people continue to
be brave enough to
write about female
experiences,
both
good and bad. That
way, texts like this can
continue to expand to fit
the demands of the times as
fraught topics like gender
and sexuality continue to
break through important
social boundaries. Maybe
its time to start writing
new monologues. Surely
no one production can
capture the entirety of
experience,
but it can
get the ball
rolling in
the right
direction.
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FEBRUARY
T CHIPOTLE CHICKEN, POLENTA CAKES
M CLAM ROLL, SESAME TOFU
EVENT
Lunar New Year Celebration
The Korean American Student Association will celebrate

the lunar New Year with snacks and Korean games.
30 College Street. 4 p.m.
FILM FESTIVAL
"A Coee in Berlin"
The Second Annual World Film Festival will screen the

critically-acclaimed film that follows the life of a
disinterested college dropout living in Berlin.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
SOUL SOUNDS: Shan Nagar '16 performs with the Longfellows last Friday in the Chapel during Valjam, an annual Valentine's Day concert with Miscellania. This week,
BellaMafia and The Meddiebempsters will sing together in celebration of Presidents' Day Weekend at Quinby House.
22
LECTURE
36 T QUESADILLA, ROAST TURKEY

21 M FRIED CHICKEN, MAC & CHEESE
SUNDAY
"Tel Aviv Night Clubs and West Bank

Checkpoints: The Politics of Being
Fabulous in the Holy Land"
28 T FRIED FISH, HUSH PUPPIES

7 M TURKEY STEAKS, SALMON FRITTERS
WEDNESDAYY
RELIGIOUS EVENT
EVENT
Reverend Carolyn Eklund of St. Paul's Episcopal Church will

give a sermon entitled "What is the Life Worth Living?"
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
Participants in the Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education Program will share stories about living in Sri Lanka. Traditional Sri
Lankan food and tea will be served.
Sri Lanka Tea and Culture Night
Chapel Service
Activist Sa'ed Adel Atshan will speak about sexuality,

LGBT rights and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Room 315, Searles Hall. 7 p.m.
25
PERFORMANCE
"Dead Man's Cell Phone"
23
Masque and Gown will present Sarah Ruhl's play that

chronicles a woman who answers a dead man's cell phone
at a cafe, keeps the phone for herself, and learns about his
life through the calls he receives.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.
21
SATURDAY
25
22
23 T PIZZA, TOFU BURGERS

-8 M JERK CHICKEN, VEGGIE STIR FRY
MONDAY
FILM
"Cancer: Progress and Profits"
Former science and health correspondent for NBC News

Robert Bazell will discuss the commercial aspects of
medical advancements in cancer treatments.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
"The Least Powerful People in Tech"
EVENT
Crafty Queers
Robby Bitting '11 and Kelsey Cole '11 will speak about
their experiences with start-up tech companies on the east
coastData Tamer, Koa Labs and MassChallenge.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30 p.m.
The Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity will

host an evening of collage, card-making, and coloring in
the garage of 24 College Street. This will be the first in a
crafting series sponsored by the organization. Supplies
will be provided.
24
PERFORMANCE
The student improv group will perform a re-do of

Valentine's Day in their comedy show.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.
Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Muther and

students from her course "African American Literature and
Visual Culture" will lead a tour of the "Letters and Shadows"
exhibit, which explores connections between race
relations and art.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 4:30 p.m.
A cappella groups Bellamafia and The Meddiebempsters

will perform in celebration of President's Day. President
Barry Mills will be in attendance.
Quinby House. 8 p.m.
EVENT
"Light/Dark"
28
BREAK
PERFORMANCE
"Light/Dark"
COMMON HOUR
"From Billions to None: The Passenger

Pigeon's Flight to Extinction"
David Mrazek and Joel Greenberg will screen their awardwinning documentary, which tells the story of the passenger
pigeon's extinctionthe last one died almost 100 years ago
in the Cincinnati Zoo. The film also addresses the
connection to current conservation and environmental
concerns. There will be a discussion following the film.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 5 p.m.
PERORMANCE
"Letting the World In"
The Office of Off-Campus Study and the McKeen Center for

the Common Good will host the Portland Playback Theater
Company, an improv group that takes real stories shared by
the audience and performs them on stage. The theme for the
show will be students' stories from studying abroad.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PERORMANCE
"'Now You Cookin' with Gas': World and

Image in African American Art"
Prez Jam
PERFORMANCE
T PORK LOIN, TOFU PAD THAI

M SEAFOOD PAELLA, KOREAN TACOS
LECTURE
PERFORMANCE
27
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9
TUESDAY
Improvabilities
19 T CHICKEN TERIYAKI, EGG ROLL

5 M MUSSELS, MONGOLIAN CHICKEN
THURSDAY
LECTURE
T ENCHILADAS, VEGGIE TACOS

M HAMBURGERS, MANICOTTI
26
EVENT
Relay for Life

Bake Sale
"Light/Dark"
The theater department will present its spring show, which

is an experimental piece of devised theater. Twelve actors
will explore the themes of light and dark through a series
of scenes from Will Eno's play "Middletown." They will be
accompanied by music, David Saul scientific texts and other
forms of media. Tickets are available for $2 at the Smith
Union information desk.
Wish Theater, Memorial Hall. 7 p.m.
LECTURE

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College House applications declined significantly this year, as 270

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The speech on climate at the

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Its hard for students to see how

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Concerned about appropriation,

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McCoy 15 resigns from

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