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OCTOBER 2, 2015

Teach-in met with positive

response despite early divide
BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF

SAVANNAH SIMMONS-GROVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Bowdoins first campus-wide
teach-in since 1981 took place on
Thursday. The teach-in, entitled
Intersections: Making Connections,
Moving Forward, aimed to connect
racism, climate change and social
justice through panels, open classes
and various performances.
Above: Madeleine Fulton 16
(center) and students in Dance 1101
participate in an open class.
Below: (from left to right) Assistant
Professor of Government Jeffrey
Selinger, Thomas Brackett Reed
Professor of Government Andrew
Rudalevige, CFD Postdoctoral Fellow
in Government Cory Gooding and
John F. and Dorothy H. Magee
Associate Professor of Government
Laura Henry participate in a panel
discussion during the teach-in.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Despite initial debate about the events

purpose and execution, Thursdays teachin, Intersections: Making Connections,
Moving Forward, was met with generally
positive reactions from organizers and
participants alike.
The teach-in featured plenary panels at
the beginning and end of the day, panels on
various topics, open classes, a dance performance, slam poetry and a music performance. All the panels featured Bowdoin
professors, students and staff talking about
various aspects of the intersection between
climate change and social justice.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude
and joy. I feel really honored to have been
able to learn alongside our students and
to have been taught by both our students
and faculty, said Associate Dean of Students for Diversity and Inclusion Leana
Amaez, who helped organize the event. I
hope the conversation continues because
it has been remarkably meaningful for me
and hopefully the rest of the community.
Echoing Amaezs thoughts, Briana
Cardwell 17 said she was very overwhelmed and happy that things went the
way that they were planned. At first I was
like, Is this Bowdoin? What school am I
at? because I was happy to see the different people that came.
Earlier this week, A. LeRoy Greason
Professor of Music Mary Hunteran
initial proponent of a teach-intold
the Orient, My bar is that people learn
something that they couldnt have learned
without the day, and that they converse in
a way that they would not converse without the day.
Some students responses mirrored this
sentiment.
Initially I was skeptical about how

valuable an event like this could be, but

I think I went to a few interesting events
and was exposed to topics that I hadnt really thought about before and interacted
with, said Julian FrareDavis 17. I think
the really good thing about discussions is
that it makes you think about whats being discussed and work within your mind
instead of just being talked to.
Though reactions have been positive,
some students and faculty did not or
could not attend and the full extent of the
events impact is not yet clear.
I think it was a start, said Director
of the McKeen Center Sarah Seames. I
think its hard in a one hour panel, with an
audience that big, to be able to help people
get into what their specific interests are,
so thats why its important that people
continue talking and exploring how whatever theyre passionate about can relate to
broader policy issues.
How the teach-in came about
Although introduced and proposed to
faculty and staff last year, in December and
February, respectively, the idea to have a
day dedicated to climate change has been
in the works since former president Barry
Mills signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment
in 2007. Mills then organized a group of
faculty, staff, students and alumni to come
up with ways to be more sustainable here
at Bowdoin. The committee announced
in 2009 that the College had a goal to be
carbon neutral by 2020. Following the announcement, Bowdoin had a festival that
rallied around issues of climate change,
according to a 2009 Orient article.
Madeleine Msall, a professor in the
physics department, was a member of that

Bowdoin prepared to inaugurate 15th president,

celebrate contemporary role of the liberal arts Twenty sex offenses reported
for 2014 in annual Clery report
BY CALDER MCHUGH AND JULIA OROURKE
ORIENT STAFF

The last presidential inauguration held

at Bowdoin occurred just after the new
millennium. The 9/11 attacks had just occurred. Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
were yet to be invented. Now, 14 years later, Bowdoin is ready to host another and
officially welcome President Clayton Rose
as the Colleges 15th president.
According to Rick Ganong, senior vice
president for development and alumni
relations and the chair of Bowdoins Inauguration Committee, Bowdoin will be
the place to be in the state of Maine on
the weekend of October 16 for Roses inauguration.
The ceremony will include significant
pomp and circumstance. Homecoming
and the Board of Trustees fall meeting
will also take place during that weekend.
The festivities will kick off on Thursday
night with a performance from student
a cappella groups in Pickard Theater. On
Friday morning, there will be tours of the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and the

Edwards Center for Art and Dance.
The Inaugural Symposiums two panels
will take place Friday afternoon in Pickard
Theater, starting with a keynote by Hanna
Holborn Gray, president emerita of University of Chicago and one of Roses mentors. Jennifer Scanlon, interim dean for
academic affairs, will moderate the first
panel of alumni and academics entitled
Yes, It Still Matters: Why and How We
Teach the Liberal Arts. The second panel,
Making a Living and Making a Life: The
Liberal Arts in Commerce and Citizenship, will consist entirely of alumni: Kenneth Chenault 73 H96, Ruthie Davis 84,
Shelley Hearne 83 and George Mitchell
54 H83 will speak. Andy Serwer 81,
journalist and editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance will moderate the panel. The symposium will be streamed live online.
Friday evening, the indie-rock band
Guster will perform in Morrell Gym.
Saturday morning the moment will be
President Roses. A procession will lead
down to Farley Field House, where Rose
will officially become Bowdoins 15th

president.
While this is Roses weekend, he has
been minimally involved in the planning
process. The Inauguration Committee, which consists of 14 members, has
been planning the event. The committee
is made up of faculty, staff, students and
trustees of the college.
Scanlon is a member of the committee. According to her, Rose was interested
in examining the concept of a liberal arts
education throughout the weekend.
It has provided us with a really exciting
opportunity to really think carefully and
invite people to talk about the role of the
liberal arts, said Scanlon. She recognizes
that there are currently a lot of demands
for more pre-professional education.
She hopes that the discussion will continue in the community after the panel.
As a member of the Inauguration
Committee, certainly we looked at the
past several inaugurations at Bowdoin
as well as inaugurations at other places,
said Scanlon.

Please see INAUGURATION, page 4

BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF

Twenty sex offenses occurred at Bowdoin in 2014, according to the Annual

Clery Campus Crime Report released
yesterday for the 2014 calendar year by
the Office of Safety and Security.
The 20 reported sex offenses is a
jump up from the six reported in
2013 and the four reported in 2012.
Peer schools reported similar jumps
in numbers for sex offenses in 2014
there were 12 from Bates, 12 from Amherst and 20 from Williams. Wesleyan
reported 41 sex offenses in 2014.
Director of Safety and Security Randy
Nichols said at the release of both the
Clery reports for 2013 and 2012 that sex
offenses are generally underreported.
Nichols declined to comment on the
specifics of this years report in time for
publication. He did, however, note that

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changes had been made to the system

for the report of sex offenses for the
2014 report. In previous years, sex offenses had been noted only as Forcible
Sex Offenses. However, following the
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 signed in March of
2013, colleges were required to phase
in a new method of reporting statistics:
now, sex offenses are broken down into
Rape and Fondling.
Each year, colleges must report statistics on a set of federally specified crimes
that take place on or adjacent to college
property during the previous year. Bowdoin reported that five burglaries, 143
liquor law violations and 43 drug law
violations took place on or near campus
during 2014.
This story will be updated on bowdoinorient.com as more information becomes avaliable.

OPINION:
EDITORIAL: Learning and teaching.
Page 14.
LEFT OF LIPSTICK: Crisis pregnancy centers.
Page 15.

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TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

A JUICY ADDITION: A staff member pours juice into cups during a taste-test at Jack Magees Pub.
Students participated in the test, which was designed to determine the juice the bar will serve.

MIRANDA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SYSTEM MALFUNCTION: On Sunday, September 27, an intoxicated student in Moore Hall vomited on the personal property of other students. The student will
pay restitution for all damages.

SECURITY REPORT: 9/24 to 10/1

Thursday, September 24
A student reported a bike stolen from Pine Street Apartments
on September 19. A security officer
found the bike at Baxter House and
returned it to the owner.
An officer provided first-aid to a
student who had fallen while jogging.

students vehicle causing negligible

damage.
A football player with a dislocated finger was taken to the Mid Coast
Walk-In Clinic.
A fire alarm in a Reed House
stairwell was caused by a faulty detector.

Friday, September 25
A student reported that a man
with white hair and riding a bike
seemed to be following her in the
area of West Hall. The man was last
seen headed toward South Street.
A student reported being followed by a suspicious vehicle on and
near campus. The vehicle turned out
to be a friend of the student.

Sunday, September 27
A West Hall student fell out of bed
and hit his head. The student went to
Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation of
a possible concussion.
An intoxicated student in Moore
Hall vomited on the personal property of other students and then knocked
a laptop onto the floor, damaging it.
The student will pay restitution for
all damages.
Officers checked on the wellbeing
of an intoxicated student in Osher
Hall.
A student requested a wellness
check for an intoxicated friend at
Brunswick Apartments.
A student took responsibility for
breaking a window pane in the common area of Ladd House.

Saturday, September 26
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Moore Hall.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student who
became sick at Super Snack.
An officer checked on an intoxicated student who was walking on
Harpswell Road.
Vandalism was reported to a wall
and ceiling tiles in the basement restroom at Baxter House.
A student driving a college van
in the Dayton Lot backed into a

Monday, September 28
A wooden bench in the basement
of Baxter House was vandalized.
Tuesday, September 29

A bathroom stall door on the 9th

floor of Coles Tower was damaged.
A student came forward to claim
responsibility for damage to a wall at
Ladd House.
A smoke alarm at West Hall was set
off by a housekeeper who was steam
cleaning.
A student smoking an E-cigarette
inside Coleman Hall set off a smoke
alarm. Note: Smoking, including Ecigarettes, is not permitted in College
buildings.
At 8 p.m., a student reported that a
hooded man was attempting to gain entry through a window at an off-campus
student residence on Potter Street. The
suspect fled on foot and was not located.
Wednesday, September 30
At 5 a.m., a students car alarm went
off and was disturbing students at Harpswell Apartments who were trying to
sleep. An officer woke the owner of the
vehicle who disabled the malfunctioning alarm.
A cheerleader fell on her head in
Morrell Gym during a practice session.
Brunswick Rescue transported the student to Mid Coast Hospital.
Thursday, October 1
An officer conducted a wellness
check for an intoxicated visitor at West
Hall.

Juice bar to open in

Jack Magees Pub
BY HARRY DIPRINZIO
ORIENT STAFF

The managers at Bowdoin Dining Service have decided to embrace one of the
hottest trends in the food world. If all goes
according to plan, the bar in Jack Magees
Pub & Grill will be transformed into a
fresh juice bar as soon as the end of October. Upon opening, the bar will serve a
menu of about seven fruit and vegetable
juices that will be made to order on a commercial centrifugal juicer.
On Wednesday afternoon, Manager of
Dining Retail Operations Adeena Fisher,
who conceived of and designed the project, held a tasting of a preliminary menu
of juices behind closed doors in the Pub.
The initial hours will likely be limited
to weekday mornings, but Fisher said she
expects to expand to include afternoon
shifts and possibly evenings as she gauges
the student bodys response. Fisher said
that the bar will offer only one size of juice,
16 ounces, which will be priced between
$3.50 and $6.50 depending on the blend.
Facilities will conduct some minor
renovations to transform the Pubs bar
into the juice bar during the weekend of
fall break. The wood paneled wall behind
the bar will be painted in bright colors, the
placement of the television will change
and a sign and chalkboard will be installed. Fisher said she expects the changes
to add life to a currently dull space.
The bar has yet to be named but among
the options in the running are Jacks Juice
Cave, Weve Got The beet, Fresh Start,
Just Juice it and Polar Press.
While the bar will operate as a juice bar
during the week, it will transform back
into a pub bar and continue to serve beer

on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

One aspect driving the bars creation is
the minimal revenue from alcohol sales.
We were sort of looking for a way to
increase revenue in this area. The bar is
only open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights so for a large period of time the
bar is not in use, said Fisher.
Fisher readily admits that much of the
impetus for the bar is very personal.
The idea came about because I like to
juice, said Fisher. The idea was noodling
around in the back of my head and a student actually approached the administration and said hey, how about a juice bar?
Fisher also noted that the juice bar fits
nicely with Dinings desire to be veggie
centric and promote healthy eating. She
acknowledged concerns that juice of this
type contains very high amounts of sugar
and no fiber (because the plant matter is
discarded by the juicer) and said that, in
the long run, the bar will be responsive to
students demands.
There are some people who like the
fresh juice because it is absorbed instantly into your system. There are some people who like the smoothie juice where
you grind up the spinach. That is not to
say that the we cannot evolve into something like that, she said.
Some students at the tasting were enthralled about the coming bar but other
expressed concerns about quality of the
current menu of juices. No one should
have to drink celery, said Stephanie Sun
18.
Others expressed concerns that the
bar would conflict with the Caf.
The juice bar could be really cool but
the Caf does almost the same thing and

STUDENT SPEAK

What are you looking forward to this weekend?

Haleigh Collins 17

Daniel Rechtschaffen 18

Darius Riley 19

Esther Nunoo 17

Caroline Rosen 18

Im gonna finish sewing a doll that

looks like me.

Ladd juice.

The First-Generation Student Retreat.

Just getting to meet new people, relaxing
and having some time off.

Staying in, lighting candles,

watching a movie, journaling.

Seeing how long I last without my toga

falling off.
COMPILED BY HY KHONG

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news

Bowdoin partners with HBX

to offer business courses,
financial aid to lower costs
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF

VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SPOKEN WORD: Kevonte Anderson 15 performs slam poetry during the teach-in. A debrief of Thursdays events will take place in Daggett Lounge today,
allowing students time to reflect on the content of the teach-in. Many participating students felt positively about the discussions they attended.

TEACH-IN
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committee.
Following the rally, Msall says
that motivation lagged. There was a
sense, after some years into the carbon neutral commitment, that we
kind of lost our impetus to make the
harder choices.
According to Msall, then-President
Barry Mills told her that he believed
the best course of action needed to be
faculty initiative. Msall rounded up a
group of faculty and discussed what faculty leadership issues on climate issues
would look like.
One of the suggestions was that we
should have a teach-in. We should make
a moment where we took the idea of that
this is so important that we need to focus
lots of campus energy on it, said Msall.
The week the teach-in was presented
was also the week police officer Darren
Wilson was not indicted in the shooting
of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Student leaders of multicultural groups
held a vigil in remembrance of Brown and
the events happening in Ferguson.
On the faculty floor, it was very passionate when people said, We understand
youre very active about climate change,
but if were going to have a teach-in at
Bowdoin we need to have a teach-in about
racism and all the ways it affects all of us
both on campus and the greater world,
said Msall regarding the initial presentation in December.
Professors divided
Since its conception, the teach-in has
been a point of contention among professors. The content, format and timing
of the event were all fervently debated at
faculty meetings as well as in private discussions.
Its creating divisions amongst people
that really should be working together. It
has created a certain amount of hurt feelings, Associate Professor of English Ann
Kibbie said before the event.
Chair of the History Department Dallas Denery was concerned about the politicization of the day.
Were here to challenge students, were
here to improve critical thinking, were
here to open up horizons, said Denery.
But I dont know if its our responsibility to use our position as faculty to push
specific political agendas that often have
nothing to do with our professorial expertise.
Although the faculty supported the
teach-in by a majority vote, they did not
support a campus-wide cancellation of
classes. In an email to the student body,
Interim Dean for Academic Affairs Jen
Scanlon and Dean of Student Affairs
Tim Foster stated that the teach-in is not
a Bowdoin event. Scanlon and Foster
also stressed that lack of participation in
the teach-in should not be read as lack of
concern for the issues of social, racial and
climate justice that affect us all.
Professors and staff who did participate

in the teach-in seemed to be pleased with

its outcome. Associate Professor of History and the Director of Africana Studies
Brian Purnell, who co-taught a class about
urban landscapes, says he was impressed
with how engaged students were.
Students asked hard questions about
urban inequality and what role they
will play when they leave Bowdoin and
they go out into the world and probably
live or work in cities. They asked some
pretty tough questions about what they
should do or how they should think
about experiencing urban inequality as
graduates, workers and homeowners,
and that was powerful.
Purnell was also excited to have
heard from his fellow faculty on such
heavy issues.
It was great to learn from other colleagues. It was exciting to feel alive and
learning in such a dynamic way, and thats
how I felt participating.
Students React
Many students who had been skeptical about the days events felt the opening plenary and the panels and classes
that followed exposed them to ideas
they had not thought about previously.
First-year Emmett Ulian attended
the opening plenary and felt that he left
with a good understanding of the connection between climate change, race
and social justice.
I was a little bit curious how those
three issues related, and I thought that
that opening was a good way to illustrate all the connections between the
three issues, he said.
Senior James Jelin also attended the
opening plenary and was impressed
with how well the issue of climate
change and its intersection with other
aspects of society was addressed.
The idea of climate change intersecting with race is interesting because its like
an exacerbating factor, said Jelin. We
know that race affects every aspect of life
and it affects people unevenly and I think
just reminding us all that that is true a
well for lack of resources due to climate
change, like homes going under water,
that that affects people differently based
on race, income, et cetera.
Senior Matthew Williams was skeptical about the intersectionality of the topics covered by the events. By the end of
the day, however, he had attended three
panels on a variety of topics from science
fiction to portrayals of Hurricane Katrina in writing.
I thought the teach-in was really
effective and something that was really powerful. It made me think about
things that I would never have thought
about before, like if the oceans get cooler it can change water currents which
could change weather patterns which
could change everything about the way
we live in society. There were just so
many great intersectionalities.
Marina Henke 19 was also impressed
by how the event came together in a cohesive manner. She attended the opening

plenary and commented on how interesting it was to be discussing so many different, but related topics.
As I was sitting there and the people
next to me were sitting there, we were
talking afterwards about how it was a
very unique experience to hear a discussion about polar bears and their social
influence and commentary on the United
Statess environmental understandings,
sitting right next to a lecture on Ferguson
and racial tensions in the Unites States,
which was connected also to a climate
change, science lecture, she said.
Others were impressed with the dialogue that occurred throughout the day.
During one panel, Is the US Political System Broken?, first-year Francisco
Navarro and Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in Government Cory Gooding went head to head.
Gooding recited a poem by Langston Hughes, Let America Be America
Again, and argued that because America
had historically only benefited certain individuals, it was never truly great.
Navarroa Cuban-American born in
Miami and raised in Yucatan, Mexico
disagreed as someone familiar with multiple political landscapes.
You said, When exactly was America
great? That bothers me, Navarro said
to Gooding at the panel. I can see how
privileged and how unappreciative we are
of our democratic system. My problem
with Trumps slogan Make America Great
Again is that America is already great.
Gooding replied, What makes America great is our ability to keep trying to attain the greatness that we proclaimbut
for someone who was just shot dead in
the street by the law enforcement that was
supposed to protect him or her, Im not
sure how much he would advocate for the
greatness of the country.
I caution us against beating our
chests so boldly that we dont recognize
the work that still needs to be done,
Gooding added.
I was very appreciative of [Navarros]
question, said Emiley Charley 17. I really liked that dialogue. I felt as though that
was what I came out to see. To see conversations start around people who dont see
eye to eye.
Franco Sasieta 16, who attended a panel about public health and how it relates
to issues of social justice, liked the broad
range of perspectives present.
It provided a local, national and
scattered global view of different public
health issues which I was not fully aware
of, he said.
Junior Jennings Leavell was glad to be
a part of the teach-in.
Events like these are important and
Im thankful that my professor cancelled class so that I could attend, because engaging a community on issues
like this is important.
The McKeen Center will be hosting a
debrief of Thursdays events over lunch
at 12:30 p.m. today in Daggett Lounge.
All are encouraged to attend to reflect
on the teach-in and explore ways of continuing effective dialogue.

Bowdoin is partnering with HBX,

the online education program at
Harvard Business School, to offer
students the opportunity to participate in its Credential of Readiness (CORe) program. This adds to
the handful of business and finance
programs that have been offered to
Bowdoin students. However, according to Foster, what sets this
partnership apart is that it allows
students to apply for need-based financial aid.
If a Bowdoin student applies to
HBX and applies for financial aid,
HBX will contact Bowdoins Student Aid Office. Aid for HBX will be
equivalent to what a student receives
from Bowdoin.
Full price for the CORe program
is $1,800. According to Foster, financial aid could lower the cost to
as little as $300.
The program is comprised of
three coursesBusiness Economics,
Economics for Managers and Financial Accountingthat do not count
for credit at Bowdoin.

Foster stressed that the skills

learned through the programs like
CORe can be applied outside of just
business or finance fields.
This set of skillswhether its
accounting, business analyticsthis
is all a set of skills that students can
develop that they can broadly apply,
he said. You dont have to go into a
business vocation.
Bowdoin has partnered with business schools and programs in the
past, and students have attended the
Tuck Business Bridge Program at
Dartmouth and Middleburys MiddCore during summers.
In January 2013 and 2014, representatives from the Fullbridge
business and finance program came
to the College to hold sessions on
campus for Bowdoin students. In
the spring of 2015, the economics
department offered a financial accounting class in conjunction with
the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. According to Interim Dean
for Academic Affairs Jennifer Scanlon, the course is undergoing a full
review this fall, and the soonest that
it will be offered again would be fall
2016.

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INAUGURATION 2016

2013 Ivies headliner Guster to perform at Inaugural Concert

BY EMMA PETERS
ORIENT STAFF

Indie-rock band Guster will perform at

the Inaugural Concert for President Clayton Rose on Friday, October 16 in Morrell
Gym. This will be their fourth concert at
Bowdoin in the last fifteen years, including a performance as the Ivies headliner
in 2013.
I think well be playing Bowdoin
until were 60 years old, because we
have a relative who works at the office
of student activities Im just kidding,
Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel
said in a phone interview with the Orient. As far as he knows, none of the
members of Guster have any familial
ties to Bowdoin administrators.
While the band is no stranger to a Bowdoin audienceRosenworcel estimates
theyve played here a total of six times
their upcoming concert will be a different
experience entirely.
It might be unprecedented for Bowdoin, but weve played some really awkward events in our day, so were good
at it, said Rosenworcel of the Inaugural
Concert. It will only be awkward if we
make it awkward, which well probably
choose to do.
He recalled a dedication ceremony the band performed at Carnegie
Mellon University.
Someone spent several million dollars to dedicate this building or whatever and all Ryan [Miller, the lead singer]
could do was rail against the one percenters, he said.
In an unusual schedule for the band,
the inauguration concert will be Gusters
only college show for the rest of the year.
Weve played a lot of colleges, Rosenworcel explained. We may be up there
with having played the most colleges of
any band, except like, the Roots.
He added that Gusters origins as a college band likely contribute to their last-

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THEYRE BACK: Guster is set to perform for the fourth time in 15 years on October 16. We cant wait to welcome the new president, the bands drummer said. I didnt realize thats what we were doing but
ing popularity on campuses around the
country. Rosenworcel, Miller and guitarist
Adam Gardner met at Tufts, where they
formed Guster in 1991.
Not long after, the band began performing at other small colleges throughout New England.
We [first] came to Bowdoin while we
were Tufts dudesthat means we drove
there in my little Chevy Nova and I carried my equipment in my lap as I was
driving, recalled Rosenworcel. But we
always had fun at Jack Magees Pub.
Since then, the band has achieved suc-

cess on a national scale. Theyve had several top 40 singles over the years including
Careful, Amsterdam and Fa-Fa. Their
music has been featured in Wedding
Crashers, Disturbia, and The O.C.
Gusters most recent album, Evermotion, was released this past January. The Boston Globe called it an airy,
winsome release that puts less focus on
guitars, dabbling instead in horns and
electronic and new wave sounds, to
terrific, moody effect.
It feels like we broke through a wall
with this one, and Im excited to see whats

on the other side of it, said Rosenworcel.

Gusters career has spanned across
three decades, and Rosenworcel explained
that theyve stayed relevant by continuing
to produce new material rather than rely
on old hits.
Were really passionate about putting
together an album that is closer and closer to being a classic, he said. I think that
has just helped us be less of a nostalgia
act and more of a band that is creating on
a high level.
Rosenworcel had some advice for
college bands looking to emulate

Gusters success.
Get a van and then soup it up, because
we put a futon and a Nintendo in ours,
and it was awesome, he said. There was
nowhere else we wanted to be. We would
just hang out there, playing Mario Kart in
the back of our van, driving from gig to
gig. It didnt matter if there were any people at the gig because we had a van with a
futon and Mario Kart in it.
We cant wait to welcome the new
president, Rosenworcel added. I didnt
realize thats what we were doing but now
I know.

INAUGURATION
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The ceremonial aspects of the event will
be similar to those of the past and at other
schools; however, the symposium keeps
the Inauguration unique to Bowdoin.
Ive had the good fortune to work with
a great committeeTheyve had terrific
ideas, theyve executed well and theyve
followed through, said Ganong. We got
lucky to have such a great lineup for the
symposium, and such a good solid list of
those speaking at the ceremony, and were
looking forward to the music.
With the Inauguration still two weeks
away, student reaction has been more
mixed. One email has been sent to the
student body presenting an opportunity
to register for the Inauguration itself.
According to Ganong, 87 students are
currently registered. It is expected, however, that this number will rise in the
coming week.
I RSVPd to the Inauguration because

I feel like it is a big day for the College,

said Lucy Ryan 19, who registered upon
receiving the initial email.
Aziza Janmohamed 19 was equally interested but has not yet registered.
It seems really exciting and is a special event so I will be there, Janmohamed said.
Yet other students are less interested
in the upcoming inauguration.
I got one email and I just read
through the thingI just kind of
assumed it was not something that
I would want to go to, said Sophia
Ardell 17.
Ganong declined to comment about
the cost of the event, which includes Inauguration, Homecoming and Trustees
Weekend, but noted that this only happens once every 10, 15, 20 years, and
thus will be celebrated accordingly.

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news

Bowdoin joins coalition of 80 schools that plans

to develop a more accessible college application
BY SAM CHASE

ORIENT STAFF

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER AND HY KHONG , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NEW IN OFFICE: Robo Tavel 16 (left) and Paloma Tisaire 19 (right) were elected as their respective class presidents.

Class council elections run smoothly

with revamped online voting system
BY HARRY RUBE
ORIENT STAFF

The class council elections held last

weekend managed to avoid the technical failures that plagued last springs
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG)
elections. The classes of 2016, 2017 and
2019 elected their representatives in an
efficient process, with results announced
on Sunday night.
The senior class, which had two contested races and a turnout rate of 70
percent, elected Robo Tavel as President
and David Sperber as Vice President.
Lindsay Picards candidacy for Treasurer
and Arianna Cameron and Brian Francoeurs candidacies for class representative to the BSG were all unopposed.
In the class of 2019 election with
all races contested and a 76 percent
voter turnout rate, students elected
Paloma Tisaire as Class Council President, Megan Retana as Vice President,
Michael Walsh as Treasurer and Jack
Arnholz and Khelsea Gordon as BSG
representatives.
The class of 2017s election of Nick
Benson as a class representative to the
BSG assembly had only a 19 percent
turnout, most likely due to the uncontested nature of the position.
Although they are only a few days into
their positions, the officers are excited to
start working. Both Tavel and Sperber
have many years of experience working
on class councils, something they both
view as an asset going forward.
I think that experience gives you a
sense whos in your class, what they like
to do and what they dont, said Sperber.
Tavel agreed, noting that seeing the
success and failure of past events will allow him to learn from these experiences.
We as a council will be able to plan
events that get people excited and bring
the class together, which is our number
one goal, Tavel said.
New to class office, Picard stressed
her excitement about working with the
other officers in spending the $30,000
allotted to the senior class council and
about the chance to branch out.
Its pretty easy to get siloed into
things at Bowdoin, so Im excited to
work with some new people, Picard
said.
The 2019 officers prioritized the need
to learn more about their class.
[My role is to] guarantee the cohesiveness of all of the components of the
class council and to be someone who
wants to be approachable, someone that
can be talked to, Tisaire said.
[My goal] is getting to know the class
and understanding what people want to
see, Retana said.
Walsh thinks that the social diversity of the elected candidates will help
achieve Retanas goal.
If you have an eclectic group of individuals leading the class, youre going
to be able to reach out to everybody,

Walsh said.
Election Procedure Changes
Last Aprils BSG elections were
marred by the crash of the voting server in the last few hours of the election
as well as early dissemination of vote
totals to certain candidates before the
voting deadline was extended. According to Vice President for BSG Affairs
Michelle Kruk 16, for this election,
BSG specifically worked to ensure that
neither happened again.
Kruk worked with Vice President
for Institutional Research, Analytics and Consulting Tina Finneran to
use Qualtrics, the tool that Bowdoin
uses for institutional surveys, in lieu
of the 14-year-old software that IT
had written specifically for BSGs
elections. According to Director of
Student Activities Nate Hintze, fears
about a similar crash occurring several weeks after last springs election
during the student referendum on
the proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions led the College
to switch to Qualtrics for that occasion. When that proved to be more
reliable, Hintze recommended that
Kruk work with Finneran for BSG
elections this fall.
Finneran noted that Qualtrics has no
history of crashes and is more customizable for future elections. In order to preserve confidentiality, Finneran, rather
than Kruk, was the one who actually
administered the election survey. Under
Qualtrics, Finneran was the only able
to see who voted. Neither she nor Kruk
were able to see how students voted.
In previous election years, BSG executive committee members were privy
to ongoing vote totals and had informally given them to candidates before
the end of the election. Kruk noted that
while there were no bylaws specifically
prohibiting that, she and BSG President
Danny Mejia-Cruz 16 had very specifically decided to have no kind of midcampaign polling, either informally for
the candidates or officially for the whole
school, in the interest of having a transparent and clean campaign.
Aside from Finneran, who was monitoring the total number of votes in order
to ensure that the polling was working
correctly, Kruk was the only BSG member who had access to the vote totals
while the election progressed. According to Finneran, while it was possible
to organize the system so that even the
student organizing the election did not
know the results until the end, both felt
that it was something Kruk should have
access to.
Its an interesting question of how
you have a fair, online voting system,
Finneran said. Its hard to do really well,
particularly when you cant track votes
or look at the hanging chads.

Bowdoin was among the more than 80

colleges and universities on Monday that
announced the formation of the Coalition
for Access, Affordability and Success, a
group of schools that will work in hopes
of making the college application process
easier for disadvantaged high school students.
The Coalitionwhich includes all
eight Ivy League schools, 10 of the 11 NESCAC schools and many prominent state
universitiesrequires that its members
meet full financial need for accepted students and boast a six-year graduation rate
of at least 70 percent.
Bowdoin was asked to join the Coalition this past spring when Richard Shaw,
dean of admissions and financial aid at
Stanford, contacted Meiklejohn. Select
admissions officers in Bowdoins office
discussed and ultimately accepted the
invitation. Representatives of the College
have since been active in shaping the Coalition, including Director of Admissions
Whitney Soule, who is on a subcommittee
tasked with developing the new application.
Perhaps most notable in the Coalitions
press release were plans to develop a new
college application that applicants will be
able to work on throughout their high
school careers.
In accordance with its stated goal of
increasing access to college education,
the Coalition will aim to make the application particularly helpful to high school
students who are forced to be more independent in their college searches.
Access, to me, is the key word, said

Dean of Admissions and Student Aid

Scott Meiklejohn. I was traveling last
week. I went into four different high
schools where there was no counselor and
I was met by parent volunteers. There are
500 students in a graduating classhow
exactly are the smart students in that
school being advised about college?
If they are in an environment where
there isnt a strong college counseling
function, for instance, and they dont have
a way to have that conversation at home,
then something like this could give them
a way to start working on it and thinking
about it.
If all goes according to plan, members
of the Coalition will be able to tailor this
new application to their preferences.
One of the attractions for individual
colleges is that the application will be individually suited to each college or universitys review process, said Meiklejohn. As
the Common App has gotten bigger and
bigger its grown from a group of fairly
like-minded colleges to 600 places. The
homogeneity of the app is something that
constricts in ways that not all of us always
value. So theres potentially an application
here that could be more individualized.
Meiklejohn does not, however, believe
that the new application will dethrone the
Common App as most institutions go-to
form, nor as one that the majority of applicants to Coalition schools will favor.
I can imagine applicants from a lot of
different backgrounds using it, but I think,
initially, the vast majority of our applicants would still use the Common App,
he said. Particularly from schools where
the counseling ratio is strong and their
students have been using the Common
App. I have no way of forecasting what

percent of our applicants would use this,

but Id think it would be smallcertainly
at the start.
The Coalitions origins date back to
2013, when a core group of admissions
deans at elite institutions began discussing
issues ranging from college affordability to
the efficacy of the application process.
I think that it goes back a couple of
years to when the Common App had
its technology meltdowns, among other
things, said Meiklejohn. That year was
something that got a group of people talking about whether all of us having what
some people have called a single point
of failure was a wise thing. There have
always been alternative applications, but
none of them have been subscribed to by
very many schools.
Meiklejohn says more work needs to
be done before the Coalition is ready to
deliver on its mission.
The press release and a lot of the announcementsfor better or worsemake
it appear to be more of a completed project
than it is, he said. They were trying to get
as much news as possible, and they were
probably successful at that. But theres a lot
of this thats still in development.
The Coalition will release its platform
in January 2016, and the application will
open in July 2016, according to the Coalitions website.
Ultimately, though, he has high expectations for the Coalition and its goals.
I hope it turns out to be really useful
for students who are not getting access to
great college advising, said Meiklejohn.
I hope it turns out to be a fabulous and
fail-proof way of applying to college. And
I think those are good expectations, for
starters.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Star Wars to West Side Story: Orchestra plays new tune

THE SOUND OF
MUSIC: Lead by Artist-inResidence George Lopez, the
Bowdoin Orchestra rehearses
their new repertoire, which will
highlight some of Americas
great composers, such as John
Williams who composed the
film scores for Star Warsand
Jaws. The orchestra will preview
its work at President Clayton Roses
inauguration on October 17.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY SARAH LIM

STAFF WRITER

In his fourth year as conductor and

director for the orchestra, Artist-inResidence George Lopez decided to
put a new spin on the groups repertoire. After years of the standard high
classical European composers, Lopez
decided it was time to showcase some
of the American greats.
At first I wanted to do a series of
light classical, what they call popsstyle repertoire. And little by little it
began to dawn on me that there were
some great American composers that
wrote pieces at the right level for the
orchestra, Lopez said.
Lopez began the process of transi-

tioning the orchestra into an American composer-based repertoire this

year when he found an arrangement
of West Side Story by composer
Leonard Bernstein. From there, he
added a Star Wars arrangement
composed by John Williams, who
also composed the soundtracks for
other iconic American films such as
Jaws, E.T. and Indiana Jones.
In addition to Bernstein and Williams, this years line up includes two
other American composers, Pulitzer
Prize for Music winner Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland, who was
well-known for composing ballets.
Lopez said he tried to build a portfolio of contrasting pieces that would
fit well into a single program. Both

Williams arrangement and Barbers

adagio lean toward a more classical
style. Barbers adagio in particular,
Lopez notes, is considered a serious
and tragic work. He hopes these pieces will offset the light-hearted jazziness of Bernstein and the old Americana style of Copland.
I thought it would add some
gravitas to the program as well, Lopez said.
The orchestra faces a challenge in
learning a new style of music that differs from its typical classical pieces.
West Side Story has everything
from waltz to ballad to swing to
Latin. So there are a lot of different styles that the orchestra has to
learn, said Lopez.

Even with such a drastic change in

the orchestras repertoire, Lopez said
the reactions from students have all
been generally positive.
Jehwoo Ahn 16, who has been a
member of the Orchestra since his
first year, said he was surprised by
Lopezs picks for this semesters.
Weve definitely played a lot of
classical music, he said. Thats all
Ive been playing so far, so its really
refreshing to play like Star Wars and
a little of West Side Story. Its still
music that everyone knows and loves
but its not just your same old Mozart
or Beethoven.
August Posch 18 echoed Ahn,
also professing enthusiasm for a balancedprogram with a fun repertoire.

Playing these familiar songs is

good because people can connect
with them more easily, and really
what we want with the orchestra is
for everyone to play as musically as
possible, Posch said.
While the orchestra will not hold
a concert until December 4, they will
play one movement of an Aaron Copland piece as the recessional for the
inauguration of President Clayton
Rose on October 17.
Its a real honor for the orchestra
to have gotten to the point where
theyve been asked to perform for
such an important event, said Lopez.
The orchestras very excited to be a
part of such an important moment in
the history of the College.

Visiting artist reframes nature using media, printmaking

BY AMANDA NEWMAN
STAFF WRITER

Its beautiful... Now what?

Internationally recognized printmaker
Nicole Pietrantoni, an Assistant Professor
of Art at Whitman College, placed this
text onto a photo she took of an Icelandic
landscape in an attempt to challenge the
concept of beauty in nature.
Currently, she is at the tail end of a
week-long residency at Bowdoin as part
of the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project.
As this falls chosen printmaker, she has
been teaching classes in the Robert H. and
Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and
Dance, hosting workshops and meeting
with students for meals.
Associate Professor of Art Carrie Scanga was instrumental in bringing Pietrantoni to campus.
She was originally captivated by Pietrantonis ability to mix traditional and
digital media.
[What] I like about her work is that its
part image and part object. I think thats
again something that is very relevant to
our time, Scanga said.
Though Peitrantoni grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, she always had an interest in nature and landscape. Pietrantoni
currently lives in Walla Walla, Washing-

ton, where she teaches printmaking and

book art at Whitman.
Pietrantoni began her residency at
Bowdoin with a lecture this past Monday in the Visual Arts Center in which
she juxtaposed the romantic painting,
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with a
contemporary Washington State tourism
brochure. Her opening served to give the
audience an idea of the types of themes
she explores.
The painting depicts a man standing on
a cliff looking out into an abyss of smoke
and fog, while the brochure shows a man
in hiking gear looking down from the top
of a mountain. Though the images are
from different time periods, they each
idealize the theme of nature.
Pietrantoni explained that shes concerned that beauty has become a construct in our society. The main way in
which beauty has been idealized, she
emphasized, is from humans depiction
of natural landscapes and views through
paintings and photos.
I am interested and feel excited when
I see a sunset or when I see a rainbow, I
cant deny that, Pietrantoni said. Yet, I
can sort of pick at and question, Well, why
do I like it?
One of her works, titled This Waterfall
is Falling for You, consists of a photo she

edited in Photoshop and screen printed

onto a plexiglass plate. She then mounted
the plate to a wall with a c-clamp and small
piece of wood and placed a light beneath it
to project a shadow onto the wall.The goal
of this piece was to create tension between
a beautiful landscape and the industrial
materials that were holding it together.
When showcasing her projects, Pietrantoni motives go beyond the conventional art exhibit in a gallery. In Iceland, she took photos of landscapes and
printed them onto postcards with text
reading Because you can. She then
placed them on postcard racks in tourist shops.
I was interested in my own position as a tourist so it was for me to
poke fun at myself, but also for people
traveling around the island to think
about their role as tourists, she explained after the lecture.
Through this project, Scanga said, students have the chance to see and work
alongside an artist in action. Last semester, the department hosted Nancy Blum,
who focused on the merits of public art.
With each program it seems like
there are some students who get turned
onto the possibilities of the art world in
ways they havent thought of before,
she said.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PRINT ISNT DEAD: Marvin Bileck Printmaking Fellow Nicole Pietrantoni teaches Associate Professor of Art Carrie Scanga s Narrative Structures course how to bind books using the drumleaf technique.

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a&e

Melnicove exhibit in HL
turns literature into art

get your message across in a different way. Its very visually provocaSTAFF WRITER
tive.
In an array of magazine clippings,
Divided into 21 sections, the exphotographs, photoglyphs, prints, hibit is not arranged chronologicalcollages, poems and audio, artist ly, but thematically by the medium
and poet Mark Melnicove presents thats used within each chapter. With
Word Art Collaborations. This ex- underlying themes of social and enhibit is now on display in the Haw- vironmental justice woven throughthorne-Longfellow Library. Span- out, the show uses a variety of word
ning the past 40 years of his life as art mediums to convey a message.
an artist in Maine, the collection not
I have always been interested in
only offers a distinct perspective of making the world a better place,
Melnicoves evolution as an artist, Melnicove said. This often involves
but also illustrates the ability of text working with, rather than against,
to contain meaning beyond literal nature. I want a just and peaceful
translation.
world and have seen how art and
In the show, Im emphasizing the literature can motivate people and
intersection of art and literature, systems to change...Experiencing
where the collection contains pure word art is a sensual experience that
works of art and pure works of lit- stimulates and motivates the mind
erature, Melnicove said. The inter- and changes our perceptions of the
section between the two has always world.
been a focus of my work.
The show also includes unconvenThe exhibit is composed mostly of tional art forms, such as mails art, or
what Melnicove calls word arta words gleaned from junk mail and
synthesis of modified texts and im- then highlighted to bear extracted
ages, torn apart or put together to meanings, and what Melnicove calls
create meaning beyond the original photoglyphs or photographs of
intent of their publication.
words as they appear on signs, winIt represents mine and other art- dows and various other surfaces.
ists efforts to expand the notion
The culmination of the show even
of typography and text to make it includes art made by Melnicoves
more visual than we normally think students at Falmouth High School,
about it, Melwhere he teaches
nicove said.
literature, creWhen most
writing
It represents mine and other artists ative
people read
and permacula book they
ture.
efforts to expand the notion of tydont think of
Students
pography and text to make it more
it as a visual
tend to both
object. They
visual than we normally think about ask important
try to read
questions and
it....When most people read a book demand subfor meaning.
What were
stantial, meanthey dont think of it as a visual
doing is recingful answers,
object. They try to read for meaning. Melnicove said.
ognizing first
that all text is
This comes out
What were doing is recognizing
visual, its not
in their word
first that all text is visual, its not just art. Students
just words on
a page.
represent
the
words on a page.
When Melfuture; they repMAINE ARTIST AND AUTHOR, MARK MELNICOVE resent [and emnicove moved
to
Maine
body] hope.
in 1977, he
This engagejoined a community of writers and ment with high school students is
artists that not only shaped his cre- translated into the overall goals of
ative content but also provided a the exhibit, which Moseley menmeans with which to collaborate. tions extends from Bowdoin stuSince then, Melnicove has worked dents to members of the Brunswick
with artists such as Bern Porter, community.
Carlo Pittore, Lee Sharkey, Grace
Maine is off the beaten track,
Paleyall prominent figures in the and I like that. Im interested not
Maine art community. The exhibit just in Maine art but art that exists
features Melnicoves individual work on the margins of society at large,
as well as those pieces produced in Melnicove said. Maine is not New
partnership with fellow artists and York but theres something that can
writers.
be done here that cant be done in
Preparations for the exhibit began New York. Obviously, our closeness
11 years ago, when Melnicove began to nature has something to do with
to work with Richard Lindemann, that. Every region produces art in
the former director of the Bowdoin response to the region itself.
Librarys George J. Mitchell DepartThrough its connections with
ment of Special Collections and Ar- Maine and the College, the exhibit
chives, to preserve his original work. aims to inspire by extending the inCaroline Moseley, the acting director novation of Melnicoves work to the
of the George J. Mitchell Department community at large.
of Special Collections and Archives,
I hope that people can just spend
noted that the library was drawn to the time with the exhibit and that maybe it
collection for its innovative approach will stimulate them to be creative themtowards art and literature.
selves in different ways, Moseley said. It
The way special collections is about the creative impulse and getting
works is by collecting around the a message across and the different and
strengths and the academic interests effective ways of doing that. Even if its
of the College, Moseley said. This just one or two people that look at that
collection ties in and makes for a re- exhibit and think, Wow, I want to try to
ally interesting way of looking at art do things differently or I really want to
and literature of a more avant-garde take a class in that, thats a great effect.
kind. Its literature, its poetry, its
Word Art Collaborations will be
photography, its word art. Its dif- open for viewing on the second floor of
ferent ways of looking at things and the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library until
trying to shake things up a bit and the end of the semester.
BY SURYA MILNER

SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

MAINE ATTRACTION: Hawthorne-Longfellow Library exhibits a collection by Maine artist and poet Mark Melnicove calledWorld Art Collections.It chronicles Melnicoves creative
process and evolution and mostly consists of what Melnicove callsword art,or pieces that rearrange and destroy text on a page to create a surprising visual effect.

Art Society to publish collegiate art history journal

BY SARAH BONANNO
ORIENT STAFF

For the first time, Bowdoin Art

Society will accept submissions from
universities in the United Kingdom
(UK) for its online database and
journal, the Bowdoin Journal of
Art, which will make the publication the only international collegiate
journal for undergraduate students
studying art history.
If you published an essay that
contributes new insights in a particular field of art history, its an
incredible opportunity to have your
work shown to a larger audience,
President of the Bowdoin Art Society Tom Rosenblatt 16 said.
Bowdoin Art Society published
its first edition of the Journal last
spring after noticing the lack of
opportunities for undergraduate
art history students to publish and
share their work.
According to Rosenblatt, Dartmouth College had previously published a similar journal, but discontinued about five years ago due to
lack of student interest.
Despite the five-year gap, the
Bowdoin Journal of Art received
over 30 submissions from students
at a variety of schools last year, including Bowdoin, Stanford, Colgate
and Middlebury. This year, Bowdoin Art Society sent emails to the
top 180 American universities and
20 UK universities inviting art history majors and minors to submit.

According to Arianna Cameron 16,

the head of the Journal and coordinator and social media manager of
the Bowdoin Art Society, the Journal has already received 50 submissions, including five from the UK.
The submission deadline is the end
of December.
The Journal allows for students from
different backgrounds to contribute
their ideas to the field of art history, as
well as see what other undergraduate
students are learning through the online platform of the Journal.
Cameron and Rosenblatt both
hope that the Journal will connect
art history students. According to
Rosenblatt, one of the problems with
the Dartmouth Journal of Art was
the lack of accessibility as a physical publication not reproduced in an
online medium.
I think it would be interesting to
see the different writing styles, just
compare the way British students
are writing compared to American
students, Cameron said. I think
it would be really cool for students
from both countries to be able to use
each other essays in their own work,
and I think it would maybeshow
how the different cultures go about
assessing art and about writing essays in general.
The Journal also relates to Bowdoin
Art Societys larger mission to promote
the arts community at Bowdoin and to
contribute to developments in the international art scene. The Journal accom-

plishes both of these missions, as it brings

together an international body of students
and promotes both Bowdoin and undergraduate work.
Until youre a respected member of
academia, youre not going to be able to be
published, Rosenblatt said. In my mind,
students can still produce substantial, interesting things. Anyone reading the paper should note that it was a student who
produced it.
In addition to accepting submissions
from the UK, the Bowdoin Art Society
is developing the groups process of putting the publication together , including editing the email inviting students
to submit and revising the process for
selecting the committee to peer review
and select the essays.
Our goal this semester is to just really
improve what we have already, Cameron
said. The whole journal is extremely new.
Its a really new thing. Its the only one in
the country. This is our second go at it,
and I already think its doing so much better than it did before.
Both Rosenblatt and Cameron are excited about the changes to the Journal and
its future.
Im really looking forward to expanding not only the Journal of Art, but also
Art Society and really incorporating the
two in this bigger mission to represent
both works of art and essays of undergraduate students not only at Bowdoin,
but at universities around the world,
Cameron said I think its something thats
been neglected so far, so I think its really
cool that were doing this.

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I somehow managed: De La Rosa battles for immigration reform

BY JESSICA PIPER
STAFF WRITER

On the surface, Bill De La Rosa 16

seems like a typical Bowdoin student:
he is active with the McKeen Center
for the Common Good, conducts research in the sociology department,
and usually stays up late finishing his
work. But De La Rosas path to Bowdoin and his time at the College have
been anything but ordinary.
In 2009, when De La Rosa was a
sophomore in high school, his mother
went to Mexico to obtain a green card.
However, rather than receiving the
necessary paperwork to remain in the
United States, she was barred from the
country for ten years because, years
previously, she had overstayed a visa
and crossed the border illegally. She
cannot return to the U.S. until 2019.
Theres no waiver, no appeal process, De La Rosa recalled. He, his
father and his three siblings are all
American citizens, but this makes no
difference in the world of immigration
law, where intentions do not matter
and exceptions do not exist.
The separation from their mother
placed both emotional and financial
stress on the family. De La Rosas elderly father was too old to work. His
older brother, Jim, joined the Marine Corps to supplement the familys income, leaving Bill to care for
his two younger siblings.
I [was] taking care of my siblings, worrying about their school,
their food, the house, bills and also
my own schoolwork, said De La
Rosa. I somehow managed to do all
these things.
If the pressures of supporting his
family meant less time for sleep or
academics, it didnt show in the classroom. He was the valedictorian at his
high school in Tucson, Arizona.
Despite his academic achievements,
the college application process presented another challenge.
Even applying to college was a

stretch for me, because both my parents didnt even graduate high school,
he said.
Although he considered other
schools, De La Rosa was drawn to
Bowdoins Government and Legal
Studies program as well as the liberal
arts focus and commitment to the
Common Good.
When he was admitted early decision, he turned to his community back home to ensure his family
would be alright without his day-today leadership.
It [was] a matter of really solidifying the support that I would need,
so thatmy family could be okay,
he said.
The transition to Bowdoin was
not easy. Even with all that the College has to offer, it does not distract
De La Rosa from his familys situation, and the 2,500 miles between
Brunswick and Tucson do not lessen
his care for them.
Im constantly worrying about
whats going on back home said De
La Rosa. Im spacing out and I cant
really focus because Im like Hows
my dad? How [are] my siblings?
Its just a constant tug of war that I
have to internally struggle with. Be
here, but also be there. Two places at
the same time.
Although he is far from home,
De La Rosa feels that he has found a
strong support system at Bowdoin.
The counseling center is a great resource, said De La Rosa. I also have
a lot of friends that I talk to, a lot of
faculty members, a lot of staff members that are good friends that I just
go to and I speak to them about these
issues.
Nonetheless, De La Rosa has excelled at Bowdoin. He received a Truman Scholarship, an honor which
earned him $30,000 toward graduate
school as well as a one-year internship
with a government agency.
De La Rosas commitment to issues
of immigration, as well as his passion

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FIGHTING FOR FAMILY: After his mother was forced to return to Mexico from Arizona , Bill De La Rosa 16 helped raise his younger siblings and began to fight for immigration reform
and work ethic, are visible in his work
throughout college, both in and out of
the classroom.
A sociology and Latin American
studies double major with a government minor, he has worked with humanitarian groups during the summer
to provide aid to migrants journeying
from Mexico to the United States.
His service work often relates back
to his academic interests. His honors
project examines the human effects
of immigration policy based on interviews he has conducted with migrants.
Border policy has funneled people through hazardous portions of
the border, specifically through the

Sonoran desert, so Im looking at

that experience and how people live
through that, he explained.
De La Rosa co-leads the student
chapter of the Volunteer Lawyers
Project, which provides legal services to low-income Maine residents.
He has also led an alternative winter
break trip to Portland, where students
worked with the Somali refugee population.
Next spring, he will lead another
trip, this time to his home state of Arizona to expose Bowdoin students to
immigration issues at the border.
With such a resume, his options
after Bowdoin are certainly open. He
hopes to attend graduate school in the

United Kingdom, where he plans to

continue studying human migration.
I want to expand on my knowledge
on migration because Ive been dealing mostly with issues across Mexico
and the U.S. he said.
The current European refugee crisis is one area that sparks his interest.
Studying different migration scenarios might help him work in immigration advocacy or policy making in the
future.
De La Rosa is also considering a career in politics someday. And despite
his global mindset, it is a possibility
that could take him back home.
If Id run for office, Id probably do
it in Arizona.

Love can see Russia from its house: when you dont want to be more than friends
KATHERINE CHURCHILL

KATHERINE GIVES ADVICE

Hello, precious readers! Today, I will answer two

questions about love. A week ago, these questions
trickled into my Google form a day or so apart:
Dear Katherine,
What should I do if I really like somebody but I
dont want to tell him because Im afraid of jeopardizing the friendship?
Sincerely,
Smitten in Smith Union
Dear Katherine,
What is the best way to let someone down kindly and still remain on somewhat friendly terms?
Sincerely,
Reluctant in Reed House

DIANA FURUKAWA

Well, shit, I thought. I hope these people arent

talking about each other.
When I became an advice columnist (that is,
two weeks ago), I dreaded administering love
advice.* Love a terrible thing to advise. This is
because people in love never take good advice.
Love makes people self-deluding and deeply,
deeply stupid.
Love is also hard to give advice on because
love itself is rogue.
People talk about love as chemistry. Let me tell

you, they are similar only in that I understand neither. But chemistry, at least, follows rules. In chemistry, opposites always attract.** In love, opposites
attract sometimes, but also what about those couples who look like siblings?
Love hates rules so much that it joined an
anarcho-communist commune. Love doesnt let
children catch up when playing duck-duck-goose.
Like Sarah Palin, love is a maverick. Love also really enjoyed the Celebrity Wife Swap episode featuring Bristol Palin and the daughter of the late
Joan Rivers. (I am also, in that last sentence, not
not talking about myself.)
What Im trying to say is this: since the beginning of time, people have been giving advice and
making rules about love. All of it is useless and
much of it is harmful. Look at what love did to Romeo and Juliet! They took love advice and it literally killed them. So pile up all of your love axioms:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, once a
cheater always a cheater, love is blind, etc. Set
them on fire. Good.
Having thus undermined my entire column:
Smitten, you like someone, but you dont want to
tell them for fear of ruining the friendship. Well,
lucky you! Friendships are not mavericks. Friendships are Joe Biden.
In the future, I would try to stop falling in love
with your friends. But for now, I would recommend
asking yourself these questions before deciding:
1. Do you really love him? Or do you love the
idea of him?
2.
Do you, without doing that crazy hoping

against hope thing people in love do, think he

really loves you?
3. Would you still want to tell him even if you
knew he didnt and wouldnt love you back?
Reluctant, you want to let someone down easy.
I think the answer to this conundrum depends
on the situation: is it a rando? A friend? A person
youve been hooking up with?
If its a friend or hook-up, you should address it
directly. If its a rando, probably better just to drop
hints and decline invites. Regardless, your biggest
job is to be kind without being self-effacingif
you do that, you have succeeded.
Think about those things. Or dont. You
probably wont take any of this advice anyway,
because you are stupid self-deluding people negotiating love.
Regardless of your choices, though, remember that friendships are resilient, like denim or
zombies. So chances are, in both your cases,
your friendships will rise again. If Im wrong,
however, and your friendships deteriorate,
blame the Orient.
Out,
Katherine
*Defining love broadly here, but as romantic,
and not so broadly as to include those people
who fall in love with their cars and dolphins.
**I am making this up. I know nothing about
chemistry. Professor Ray, if youre reading this,
please do not fail me.

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the bowdoin orient

friday, october 2, 2015

TALK OF THE QUAD

TBT ABROAD
I had been excited to study abroad.
Like going to overnight camp in Maine
and attending Bowdoin, studying abroad
in France was something that my mom
had done. Shed told me what an important experience it was, and, like any
privileged middle-class American small
liberal arts college student, how formative it had been for her.
I was looking forward to gaining per-

DIANA FURUKAWA

GROUNDSKEEPING AS A GIRL
Strong is the New Beautiful.
That is what Nike, and subsequently
more and more companies like it
have been telling us recently. By us, I
mean women and girls across America, where fitness and body image
have merged to become a multibillion dollar industry. I was a pretty
big proponent of this campaign until I found myself on the Bowdoin
groundskeeping crew this summer.
During the summer 2015 job
search, I was paralyzed with indecision, a lack of direction and by
the overwhelming ambition of my
peers. All I knew was that I did not
want to be chained to a desk. By the
time April rolled around, Groundskeeping Crew was one of the last
jobs left on Bowdoins employment website. My first thought was
Hagrid. And then golf carts. As a
person who is happiest when active,
the job sounded appealing. I didnt
think too far beyond that before I
accepted the job.
During my first morning in the
break room, I notice one woman
(who I immediately am intimidated
by), and the rest are men who are
neither amused nor impressed that
I am standing there. Anastasia
trash cans with Jake and Hope. That
was my first assignment.
What have I done? repeated in
my head throughout the morning.

As I got acquainted with the very

trash bags around the Quad that
I have often, mindlessly dumped
crap into, I realized that this would
be hard. As friends and classmates
passed by with their backpacks on
the way to lab, I felt hyper-aware of
what this job would mean for me as
a girl. I wondered what other people
thought as they passed.
Laughs and friendly jabs were the
common reaction when I first committed to groundskeeping. I didnt mind
this so much, but it became harder and
harder to take myself seriously.
Throughout my initial weeks on
the job, I would regularly incorporate words such as butch and
manly into conversations with
friends and fellow students about
my duties as groundskeeper. I felt
the need to discredit why I was doing what I was doing fearing that if
I did not, my femininity would be
compromised. Because breaking a
sweat every day before 7:30 a.m.
in my already sweat-stained t-shirt
sounds miserable, right?
Well, the truth is that I kind of
love breaking a sweat, and getting
dirty, and wearing my tattered, mismatched outfit. The trouble was
allowing myself to embrace these
qualities rather than apologize for
them. The more people appeared
confused at my attempts to degrade
my own job, which I truly was enjoying, the sooner I realized I was the
only one fabricating these thoughts.
Why are you embarrassed? I wish I
was doing that, or Damn, you must
be getting so strong.

spective away from Bowdoin, improving

my French, learning about a new cultureyou know, living, loving, laughing abroad. The food! everyone would
rave. Youre going to just adore French
food! Thanks! Id say, not knowing
how to respond.
I got to Paris and my host dad
hugged me, asked if I was scared of
motorcycles (no), and the two of us
promptly zipped off to late-afternoon
Vietnamese food in the thirteenth. He
and his ex-wife lived together in a loft
in the ninth. She cleaned, he cooked.
They took me to art exhibits and I posted Facebook photos and I considered
staying a year, because it was exciting.
The honeymoon period with
Paris wore off, and the excitement
stopped shrouding the intense OCD
Ive been dealing with since I can
remember. I would post photos on
Facebook in front of the Eiffel Tower
and at bars and with the kids in my
program, who thought I was silly
and crazy and fun, but not a real
person or something. They would
always tell me, Youre not even real,
Phoebe! Youre like, not a real person! And Id laugh but be like, well,
actually, I am. I looked like I was
having fun, but slowly I was becoming kind of miserable.
So one time, I decided to eat lunch
alone. It was relaxing. I felt less lonely
alone, actually. I started to eat lunch by
myself most daysId go to a restaurant

I
remember
rolling out of the
Brunswick Apartments at 6:50 a.m.
one morning with
another
female
classmate, both
rushing to make
our early swipeins. I immediately noticed her
summery, business casual outfit
while I wore the
same shirt as the
day before, knowing it would be
wet again soon
enough. She said,
Im so jealous
you get to be outside all day!
That moment
I knew I was wrong. Wrong to have
used the word butch in this context, especially with myself as the
target. I was wrong to assume that
people needed to hear a justification for my job. This aha moment
revealed that for years I have been
apologizing for not adhering to a
certain stereotypethe classic girly
stereotype that I felt alien to growing
up with broad swimmer shoulders
and a hearty appetite. Somehow, the
media and my own experiences led
me to believe this discrepancy was a
negative thing.
Those days of self-consciously
feeling like Rambo as I whacked
the weeds in front of Admissions
as tours passed by grew into days of

and treat myself to steak at noon and

watch old French people take their lunch
breaks to polish off a burger and a beer.
But then this sneaky diet I had kind of
been on for the past year or so started to
keep me company, and soon this exciting
preoccupation became consuming and
scary and my only friend.
Soon I was eating alone every day, not
because I was enjoying my own company
anymore but because I didnt want anyone to call me out on the food choices
I was making. There was this store by
school that listed the calories in every
single item and I would stand there by
the cold case for 10 minutes examining
every single thing and deciding which
I could rationalize eating, and then I
would use up my international phone
data googling the calories in each food
item, too, because one could never be too
sure when it came to these things.
When my mom called me to tell me
that she had booked a ticket home and it
was for tomorrow, I had gotten down to
mostly just five major food groups: coffee, sparkling water, cucumbers, radishes,
gum. I was always hungry. I was exhausted and headachy and faint and one time I
fell in the metro and I almost choked on
the celery stick I was eating to will away
my hunger pains. I bruised, because I was
pretty bony, and I cried and people walked
past me. I hated Paris and I hated myself.
Needless to say, none of the things that
were supposed to happen in France happened (well, except for Oktoberfest. That

was epic.). One day I was starving myself

by the Seine and the next I was in a hospital where a dietician named Nicole held a
peanut butter and jelly in front of my face
and I started to cry. Not in a cute way, but
like, really awful tears.
We did a lot of drama therapy with this
guy named Doug whod bring his guitar
every Tuesday and then never actually use
it. And I spent a lot of time with Nicole,
going over my meals and arguing with her
about what I had to eat and always losing.
And I made friends and got better.
The point is this: I worry that we at
Bowdoin have a tendencyin all our
high-achieving, outwardly squeakyclean perfectionismto shroud the
rough stuff. And Im taking the risk
of sharing this with you because I still
struggle sometimes, and because I cant
preach mental health destigmatization
without attempting to destigmatize my
own stuff. I care about my Bowdoin
community too much to let my own fear
of being judged impede my potential to
let someone whos struggling know that
theyre not alone.
No matter what youre going through,
or where youre coming from, know that
your struggle is valid, and that there are
more people on this campus than you
think who know exactly what youre
going through. Lets talk to each other.
Youre not alone.
Phoebe Kranefuss is a member of the
Class of 2016.

MIRANDA HALL

gratitude for the beautiful weather

and for my more-than-capable body.
I felt less alone in the predominately
male crew of burly groundskeepers,
and more so as an integrated member who could proudly keep up with
them (trash talk included).
In hindsight, as out of place as I
felt in the beginning, not one of the
crewmembers batted an eye or saw
reason for gender accommodations.
My perception was too clouded
with what a girl should be doing
to notice that I was as in place as I
couldve been.
The fact that society has to grant
women permission to feel both muscular and beautiful at the same time,
by way of ad campaigns and merchandise, is counter-productive and

maybe a little hypocritical. I am sure

that I am not the only girl whose
self-esteem has been founded upon
a misalignment with some public archetype, especially an archetype that
is constantly shifting.
Accepting yourself for what you
like to dowithout even thinking to
apologizeis the first step to finding what makes you beautiful.
Strong is beautiful, but so are a lot
of things; so how about we just start
saying Do what you want, ladies.
Now thats hot.
Anastasia Hediger is a member of
the Class of 2017.

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Out-of-towners can misunderstand or bring perspective to Maine

BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER
CONTRIBUTOR

Nestled on the coast of Maine and

located conveniently close to Acadia
National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine is
one of the ultimate tourist destinations in the state. Bar Harbor is not
just a tourist attraction, though. It
is a home to its residents who dont
come and go with the seasons. This
home is drastically different than
the picture on a postcard or the ideal
of summer vacationers, particularly
to its residents.
Its like day and night. The Bar
Harbor that most people think of is
the Bar Harbor from May through
October, at best. All the stores are
open, and tons of restaurants. Streets
are really crowded. In the winter its
just really dark and pretty much everything is closed, said Olivia Erickson 18, who grew up in Bar Harbor, Maine. The restaurants do this
thing where they rotate whos open.
Therell be one or two restaurants
open at a time. Thats just so that
they all can get business through the
winter. For the most part its really,
really quiet in the winter.
Growing up in a place so shaped
by the people who happened to visit
it, Olivia became keenly aware of the
attitudes of the tourists.
I think that all [tourists] think
that we speak with the Downeast accent. That we say Bah Habah which
is not true. So I guess they have
more of a stereotypical Downeast
Mainer view of what its like but Bar

Harbor has more to offer than

that, Olivia said.
You start really resenting
tourists because they start to
assume that your entire existence is geared towards them
having this great experience.
And that is a lot of peoples
jobs.
The way that temporary
visitors can shape a place like
Bar Harbor and deeply affect
its citizens is similar to the way
Bowdoin influences Brunswick. Though we are only visitors, we change the dynamic of
the town and while sometimes
for the better, that isnt always
the case.
We may be the people involved in positively shaping
the community through the
McKeen Center but were also
the people who Randy Nichols
has to remind to be considerate of our neighbors as we
traipse across Brunswick late
at night. The important thing
for us along with any people
making a temporary place for
themselves is to use that time
to have a positive influence.
Bowdoin has so many people
from so many different places that
its almost like its out of place. You
know, we talk about connection to
place so thats a very contradictory
thing to say. But the backgrounds
they bring to the College are very
different than the backgrounds in
Maine because people are from so

Harpswell to Brunswick:
making a home one town over
BY BEN YORK

CONTRIBUTOR

I can hear the sea, the waves crashing

on the shore, the seagulls crying out as
they wheel overhead. I can hear the trees
swaying in the wind, their leaves rustling
as their branches swing to and fro. I can
smell the pines on the wind, their needles
clattering to the ground as robins, blue
jays and chickadees play amongst them,
calling out to one another when the sun
rises in the east. At night, I can hear the
sounds of the nocturnal, of deer and turkeys and raccoons, their faint shadows
elongated before me as the dying sun sets
in the west.
In the summer, I can hear the sounds
of working men, of lobster boats and
hauling motors, fishing vessels and the
slap of hull against wave, of wave against
rock. I can hear the sounds of tourists as
they explore the beaches and waterways,
see the locals as they converse on their
porches and walk from place to place. I
can smell the restaurants as they start
business for the day, their heavenly scent
wafting across the water and eliciting sensations that no food could ever satisfy. I
can also smell the bait of the lobstermen
as they go about their work, the sting of
their diesel engines and the odor of the
catch that they have dredged from the
bottom just as pleasant to me as the smell
of the wharf-front eateries.
In the winter, all is quiet. The world is
covered in a soft blanket of snow. Candles
light the windows and fires roar in the
hearths as the populace buckles down for
the long, unrelenting cold. As the sea begins to freeze over during the long winter
nights, the light of the full moon shimmers and dances off the frozen ocean.
The sea comes alive in this light, frothed
by the northeasterly winds that murmur
us to rest.
This is my home of Harpswell, Maine.

As anyone who knows me will tell you,

Harpswell is seven miles that-a-way, as
the crow flies. With a year-round population of under 5,000 and a summertime
population probably double that, Harpswell is much like any other coastal town
in Maine, a small hamlet loved by locals
and visitors alike. It is also the home I
have left to come to Bowdoin.
There are still parts of Harpswell that
remain unchanged here inland. The pines
still smell just as sweet, the birds still chirp
with the same fervor and the days are
still just as cold. However, many things
are different here. The chatter of squirrels has replaced the cries of the seagulls,
the smell of Thorne and Moulton has replaced that of the lobster houses and the
revelry of fellow students has replaced the
sounds of nighttime critters.
What has not changed is the feeling of
being home. The famous Bowdoin Hello,
which many think is unique to the college, is a natural extension of the open
and welcoming sensibilities of Maine,
and I feel as at home here as I did in
Harpswell. In my hardworking and dedicated fellow students, I see those same
men and women who taught me the value of hard work. In the community that
my fellow students foster, I see the family
whom I have left behind, their compassion for one another evident around me
every day.
From my first visits to the college I
have known that Bowdoin could be a
place that I could call home. Though
it may look, sound and smell different
from my old home, Bowdoin is not so
different from that which I have known
all my life, and I look forward to spending my next four years here. So from a
lifelong Mainer to his fellow Bowdoin
students, I say:
Welcome to Maine.
Welcome to Bowdoin.
Welcome Home.

HY KHONG

many places, Olivia said.

The assumptions we make about
any place are never representative of
the people who make it up.
Most people think of very rural
back country people as Mainers,
but theres also a lot of other things
in Maine, said Olivia. You have
Portland, a lot of people live there.

Someone from Portland is very different than someone from Caribou.

Living on the coast versus living
inland is very different. Its such a
broad array of experiences.
The beauty of Bowdoin and its
place in the Brunswick community
is that it allows for the melding of
these vastly different experiences

and worldviews. This place allows

for the students and the community
to learn from and grow with each
other.
I think Bowdoin is a really special place. I think going here is making me even prouder to be from
Maine because a place this great is
in Maine.

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Counseling Center to pilot

mindfulness group for athletes
BY SAMUEL LEWIS
STAFF WRITER

STAYING PERFECT: (top)

Rachel Kennedy 16 scores the
game-winning goal, her second of
the game, from the penalty spot
in the 67th minute. (right) Kelsey
Mullaney 16 bodies a Middlebury
defender to gain possession during
the game on Saturday. The Polar
Bears defeated Middlebury 2-1,
and are now 7-0 on the year. They
are ranked No. 2 in the country.

GRACE MALLET (TOP AND BOTTOM), THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Kennedys late goal adds thrilling

chapter to Bowdoin-Middlebury rivalry
BY BEN RATNER
STAFF WRITER

The regular season showdown that

NESCAC field hockey fans had circled on
their calendars delivered an entertaining
contest last Saturday. Bowdoin vs. Middlebury usually does.
Star forward Rachel Kennedy 16 made
a penalty shot in the 66th minute to propel the Polar Bears to a 2-1 victory over
the rival Panthers. The goal capped a day
of relentless attack by Bowdoin, who outshot the visitors 24-8. The showdown was
the first between the two teams since last
years last-minute, 2-1 loss to Middlebury
in the NESCAC Championship.
Theyre always incredibly close games
and eventful games, head coach Nicky
Pearson said, who has seen her fair share
of Bowdoin-Middlebury contests.
Pearson is in now in her 20th season,
and has coached Bowdoin to four NCAA
Division III titles. In addition to her seven
NESCAC Tournament Championships
under her beltmore than anyone in the
conferences historyshe has also been
awarded the NESCAC Coach of the Year
award seven times.
Throughout Pearsons many years at
Bowdoin, the games have been intense,
consistently going down to wire, often to
overtime and rarely won by more than a
single goal. The two teams have also dominated the NESCAC. Either Bowdoin or

Middlebury has won the title 11 out of

the past 15 years, and the two have met in
the championship match six times in that
span (the teams are tied 3-3). Needless to
say, a rivalry has firmly been established.
A win against Midd is always a great
win, Kennedy said. I think it also feels
extra good to beat them on our own turf
near our fans and near our alumni.
As big as a win as it was, Head Coach
Nicky Pearson stressed that the team
takes pride in strong preparation for each
opponent.
We didnt prepare any differently,
Pearson said. Were consistent in that we
have a standard of play and practice irrespective of whether were coming off a
win or loss.
Kennedy, too, believes that the teams
undeviating commitment to this kind
of preparation is key to their success. A
senior and a captain of the team, she has
seen how effective this approach can be.
That being said, Kennedy acknowledged
that everyone is a little extra excited, a
little more pumped up.
When it comes to motivation, Pearsons philosophy for the team is that wins
should motivate us to work harder, [just]
as much as losses do. She reminded the
team at Mondays practice that both
Middlebury and Bowdoin would be trotting out to practice around that time, and
of how similar their mindsets should be
after Saturdays game. Both would use it

as motivation. Both would be working

extremely hard to improve. Both would
have their eyes set on the next opponent.
The only difference: Bowdoin won the
game.
The expectations for the team have
been very high since the beginning.
Ranked No. 2 in the nation and undefeated thus far, the 6-0 Polar Bears must
maintain level heads to succeed in such a
strong conference.
A lot of us see the polls and we talk
about it, but after a one-minute conversation, we put it past us, Kennedy said.
Were not really focusing on that.
Instead, Kennedy says that the team
tries to stay as self-motivated as possible
instead of getting hung up on the results,
even after a big win against a rival. After a
season last year in which Bowdoin made
it all the way to the NCAA Div III Championship, the team knows first-hand that
pacing oneself with this kind of psychological approach is key.
As the season moves forward, Pearsons
message is simple: Our goal is always to
be a better team the next time we play.
The team continued their perfect run
by beating previously-undefeated Wellesley, 2-0, on Thursday, with Kennedy and
Kelsey Mullaney 16 each scoring in the
second half. The Polar Bears will get the
weekend off and next face 5-1 UMaineFarmington at home on Tuesday, October
6 at 6 p.m.

Though the impact of athletics on the

brain through concussions is receiving
much attention, the Counseling Service
taking note its impact on the psychological elements of athletes mental wellness
as well.
Staff Clinician Mindy Slovinsky and
Director of the Counseling Service and
Wellness Programs Bernie Hershberger
will soon inaugurate a sports psychology
program through the Counseling Service
designed to help student-athletes cope
with mental blocks and stress. In his past
18 years at Bowdoin, Hershberger has
helped Bowdoin athletes exercise their
minds as needed. The new program will
operate as weekly group sessions for any
interested student-athlete.
The program will start in mid-October
and run for six or seven weeks. Slovinsky
said she hopes the group will serve eight
to 12 students. The sessions will guide the
student-athletes through meditative exercises such as conscious breathing and visualizationpart of what Slovinsky calls
acceptance and commitment therapy.
The ultimate goal, according to Slovinsky, is not to improve athletic performance but to help student-athletes stay
aware of their thoughts. When studentathletes start succumbing to internal pressures such as a fear of failure, she said, they
may exhibit detrimental behaviors like
cutting classes, skipping practices and not
performing as well in games.
The therapy strives to help people be
more mindful, be more present in the momentinstead of up in their heads worrying about what might happen or how
theyre feeling, said Slovinsky. [Studentathletes] worry about those things instead
of actually being present in the moment,
engaged and doing stuff thats important
to them.
A study recently published in Frontiers
in Behavioral Neuroscience by researchers from University of California, San
Diego, found that mPEAK training, a

mindfulness regimen similar to the new

Counseling Service program, enhanced
athletes awareness of bodily signals and
allowed better anticipation of and recovery from internal impulses.
Student-athletes in Bowdoins new program will do exercises similar to those of
mPEAK, in which scientists had the athletes mentally scan their bodies, carefully
noting how each limb and internal organ
felt at that moment. They also had them
breathe through straws and stick their
hands in ice water to accentuate their ability to focus on immediate and stressful
physical sensations, according to a New
York Times article published on Wednesday.
After the mindfulness training, athletes
reported lower levels of alexithymia-the
inability to recognize emotions and their
subtleties and textures. The training also
improved the athletes capacity to regulate psychological pressure by considering
body sensations. This practice may help
reduce anxiety, improve resilience and
strengthen the sense of ones body as safe
and trustworthy.
Head Coach of Womens Rugby MaryBeth Mathews said that meditative programming had been largely useful to her
team in the past, and she welcomes a new
program at Bowdoin.
Mental strength and toughness are key
to the foundation for any students success, both in the classroom and in sport,
said Mathews. Athletes can learn to control their attitude and mental strength via
exercising their minds so that the default
is a positive and high-performing discipline with less stress, more relaxation
[and] more mind-body control.
Womens Soccer Head Coach Brianne
Weaver pointed to Hershbergers support
as critical to their success.
[Hershberger] has led guided meditations for us that help us achieve a greater
ability to focus and approach the game
from a positive state of mind, and those
sessions have been central to our approach to the pressure of playoffs and the
postseason, Weaver said.

Pejepscot Society bringing 155year-old game back to Bowdoin

BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
ORIENT STAFF

Its a game that started 155 years ago,

with no mitts and underhand pitches.
Its a game that was played with the
second-oldest baseball bat in American
history. Its 1860s baseball, and its coming back to Bowdoin this Saturday.
The Pejepscot Historical Society, in
partnership with the Bowdoin Athletic
Department, will be recreating a game
of 1860s baseball by Farley Field House
at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Dirigo Vintage
Base Ball Club, a team that plays exhibition games all around New England,
will be coming to campus to compete
against a team Bowdoin has put together, followed by a game between the
Bowdoin team and the town of Brunswick. There will be peanuts, cracker
jacks and Necco wafers to add to the
historical ambience of the event, and
vintage-style baseball caps will be sold.
John Cross, one of the events organizers and a former member of the historical society, is excited about the easygoing nature of the day.
Its very much in tradition of finding

a cow pasture somewhere and setting

up and playing a game, he said. People
keep score at some level, but the point is
to have a good time and relax.
In 1860, baseball first came to Bowdoin in a game between the juniors and
the seniors. The juniors brought home
the title, and on October 10, 1860, the
seniors took on the towns team, The
Sunrise Club, and once again lost.
That original game was played to
strengthen ties between town and college, said Cross. Additionally, it is the
tradition of the game that the winning
teams keeps the bat and ball.
The ball disappeared somewhere
along the way, he said, but the bat was
returned to the historical society.
The bat used in that first game is still
in existence today, and will be on display at the field this weekend. The bat
is the second oldest baseball bat in recorded history, and had been turned on
a lathe by a local hardware store owner.
All the players who played in that first
game signed their names on the bat, and
while the writing is much faded, it still

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friday, october 2, 2015

Tennis teams take advantage of

fall to prep for official season
BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CATCHING FIRE: Quincy Leech 17 sets up Erika Skalver 17 for the spike in volleyballs sweep of Colby on Wednesday. With the wintheir fifth in a rowvolleyball improved to 7-3 on the year.

Volleyball captures
fifth consecutive win
BY ANJULEE BHALLA
STAFF WRITER

The volleyball team has hit its stride,

having won its last five matches against
formidable opponents. After a difficult weekend at the MIT Invitational,
the squad came back for a strong win
at Middlebury. Having never won in
Middleburys gym, this game marked a
turning of the tide for the team.
Its been a long time coming, said
captain Christy Jewett 16. I think
what defined us was taking care of the
things we could control and setting our
minds on beating Middlebury for the
first time there.
As with any early-season team, and
especially one with a new head coach,
Bowdoin took some time to settle into
changes and new lineups and achieve
the strong showings in recent weeks.
I think some of the sacrifices that
we made in the first weekend in order
to figure out our team dynamics paid
off, said captain Hailey Wahl 16. In
these past two weekends weve been
able to apply a lot of what we learned
from the first weekend and make the
changes that we needed to make and
be flexible and be able to figure out our
oppositions strengths and change our
game plan in order to better defend
against the opposing team.
The team beat Middlebury 3-1,
losing a close third match 23-25 but
bringing it back in the fourth match for
a decisive 25-18 win. The Polar Bears
proceeded to sweep their next four
matches against Hamilton, Worcester
State, Bates and Colby, giving them a
record of 7-3 and leaving them undefeated in the NESCAC. Jewett consistently led the team in kills throughout
the four matches, totaling 15 against
Bates, with first year Lisa Sheldon stepping up to contribute, leading the team
with 22 digs against Hamilton.
The teams depth is a primary
strength this year, as demonstrated by
Sheldons seamless introduction into

the lineup in the past few games.

Id say this is the deepest team weve
had in terms of talent, said Assistant
Coach Kristin Hanczor. Everyone is
very close in their ability and it allows
us to compete against each other really
intensely, which makes games more
fun and less stressful because we already know in our gym were competing at a high level.
With a strong base of returning
players, the team is able to look into
more complicated strategies. Differently from previous years, Head
Coach Erin Cady has adapted the
programs game plan to focus on
adjusting their tactics to each opponent.
Being very smart volleyball players
is becoming more of a focus of our program this year with so many returners
who are ready to move to the next
level, said Hanczor. The players have
become so smart in the game of volleyball that were able to give them a lot
more things to think about and theyre
still able to execute really well without
being overwhelmed by information.
This, however, requires the players
to lean into discomfort and muscle
through vulnerability as they continue
to make changes. With hard work and
dedication, the players are able to leave
the security of their known strengths
and improve upon other skills as well.
Im vulnerable for a period of time,
but then it becomes more successful
in the end, said Wahl. I think [Cady]
makes us realize that to be uncomfortable is a good thing, and so it gives
us confidence in our own skill to be
adaptable... [Cady] has faith in us and
the courage to let us be vulnerable for
a bit so that we can make changes in
order to accommodate different strategies that will help us be successful
against specific teams we play.
Bowdoin hosts Conn. College tonight
at 8 p.m. and will stay at home for a Saturday doubleheader against Tufts and Keene
State at noon and 5 p.m., respectively.

In an athletic era driven by a level

of competition that requires yearround training, the tennis program
has taken its off-season training to
another level. While tennis is technically a spring sport in the NESCAC, the Bowdoin program has adopted a schedule in the fall, making
the sport a two-season program.
The main difference between the
two seasons is that in the fall, the
teams compete as individuals in
larger tournaments instead of the
head-to-head team matches that occur during the spring. However, the
players still practice two and a half
hours a day and treat competition
with the same focus and ferocity
year-round.
They are two distinct seasons,
said mens captain Luke Trinka 16.
But its not a situation where the fall
is off-season, and the spring is the
main season.
While team wins and losses do
not count in the fall, the teams try to
establish their rhythm right off the
bat, mirroring the effort and time
commitment of the spring. By doing
this, they ensure that nobody will be
caught off guard by the intensity of
the spring, and each player will be
competition-tested when its time to
hit the courts in March.
For the four first years, really
getting them ingrained in the program, really getting them used to
what our standards are as a program
and also what our expectations are
for the year, thats the big thing that
the fall is all about, said mens captain Chase Savage 16. Its less about

the wins and losses and more about

making sure guys get in the habit of
treating their body the right way and
playing the right way.
The fall gives new players an opportunity to adapt to the collegiate
level of play without the pressure of
official NESCAC competition.
Junior tennis and college tennis are completely different, said
Joulia Likhanskaia 17, who plays
for the womens team. You have to
learn to be on a team whereas junior
tennis is more individual. The fall
prepares you for that. The younger
players learn how we do everything
as a team.
For Savage, the fall season is an
extremely competitive version of
spring training, and this competition has proved to help the teams
prepare for the spring. The fall tournaments expose first years to collegiate competition before the team
events in the spring. For a small program with a large percentage of underclassmen, this preseason competition can prove extremely effective.
This strategy has been successful historically, as the mens team
has had winning seasons for the
last nine years in a row. Last years
mens squad ended the season with
an overall record of 15-6.
This year, the mens team hosted
its first tournament just three days
after the official start to its fall season, but the young Polar Bears were
more than up to the challenge. Led
by Trinka and Luke Tercek 18, the
Bowdoin team went 18-18 in the
tournament, playing against two
Division I programs, Marist and
Marquette. Tercek and Trinka both
earned a record of 5-1 during the

tournament.
To be able to have three official
practices, play against two teams,
one of which is consistently making
the NCAA Division I tournament
and really play solid ball was great,
said Savage.
The team traveled next to Williams College on Sunday, September
27 to compete in the ITA New England Championship where Tercek
shined again, reaching the finals as
an unseeded sophomore. He won
five straight matches to earn the
second-best ever finish in the tournament in school history.
The womens team kicked off the
season at the Stony Brook Classic
and earned an impressive 17-8 record competing as the only division
three team in the event. Tess Trinka
18 led the team, finishing the tournament without a loss in singles play
and Maddie Rolph 19 dropped only
one match on the day.
Next, the team travelled to Middlebury to compete in the ITAs, and
the duo of captain Tiffany Cheng 16
and Likhanskaia advanced to the final round of the tournament, with
only three lost games until the final
match.
In addition to the two veterans,
the doubles pair of Sarah Shadowens
19 and Pilar Giffenig 17 entered
unseeded but fought their way to
the semi-finals where they were outmatched by the team of Cheng and
Likhanskaia.
Next, the team will prepare to
host the Bowdoin Invitational on
Friday, October 16. Both teams have
just one more tournament this fall
to hone their skills before their first
team competition in March.

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SCOREBOARD

BASEBALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
makes for a significant historical object,
according to Cross. The entire game,
in fact, constitutes as a historical occasion. The box score has been recorded,
as well as the players who participated.
You can get a sense of what students
might have been doing, 155 years ago,
outside of getting into trouble, noted
Cross, it's not too different from today.
Also significant is the distinct time
period of the historical game.
This is the class that graduated right
into civil war, said Cross, They happened to be the group that played the
game. They faced some pretty trying
circumstances.
The game this weekend hasnt just
attracted Bowdoin students, but prominent figures as well. The team roster
originally included none other than
President Rose, though a trip out of
town has stopped him from playing. Its
almost a relief that the new president
wont be on the field, however.
If he injures himself and is on
crutches for his inauguration, then I'm
in trouble, added Cross, But he's a
grown up and if he wants to play, he can
play.
That sentiment is the very spirit of
the game: its a fun, family oriented
game where those who want to play,
can play.
It captures that sense of when baseball was new and not played by multimillionaires, said Cross. It was played
by neighbor and fellow students, just
out to have a good time and relax.
Cross believes that fun will be had by
all, even those just cheering on the side.
Maybe theyll come out from the
stands and play an inning or two, said
Cross. I think it will be a good time.

MENS CROSS COUNTRY

WOMENS CROSS COUNTRY

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

BOWDOIN CROSS COUNTRY INVITATIONAL
TEN SCHOOLS COMPETING
8 KILOMETERS 4.97 MILES

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

BOWDOIN CROSS COUNTRY INVITATIONAL
TEN SCHOOLS COMPETING
6 KILOMETERS 3.73 MILES

Colby
Bowdoin
Southern Maine
Endicott
Maine-Presque Isle
Husson
Bridger Tomlin
Sam Dodge
Calvin Henry
Andrew McGowan
Nicholas Walker
Christian Heath
Alec Ferguson-Hull

1ST
6TH
7TH
8TH
15TH
19TH
20TH

24
37
59
135
159
192

Bowdoin
Colby
Endicott
Elmhurst
UMass Dartmouth
St. Josephs (Me.)

26:02.4
26:28.0
26:31.4
26:39.7
27:00.1
27:14.8
27:15.8

Sarah Kelley
Lucy Skinner
Martha Boben
Sarah Kinney
Ally Fulton
Meghan Bellerose
Skye Aresty

16
63
104
110
122
169
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
6TH
8TH
17TH

WOMENS RUGBY
20

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
73

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 MIDDLEBURY

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 VS. WORCESTER ST.

Bowdoin
Middlebury

3
0

Bowdoin
Bates

WOMENS SOCCER
220

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 VS. COLBY

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 VS. MIDDLEBURY

Bowdoin
Middlebury

3
0

1 Bowdoin
0 Colby

3
0

23:14.3
23:31.3
#24 Kiersten Turner
20:54
FIELD HOCKEY
23:34.0
70
23:34.1
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 U. OF NEW
SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 VS. MIDDLEBURY
23:57.2
ENGLAND
24:08.5 Bowdoin
3 Bowdoin
2
24:41.1 U. of New England
0 Middlebury
1

MENS SOCCER
222

FOOTBALL
01

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 VS. MIDDLEBURY

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 VS. WILLIAMS

0 Williams
0 Bowdoin

43 Bowdoin
0 Worcester State
SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 VS. BATES

#7 Julia Patterson
#24 Kiersten Turner
#7 Julia Patterson

Bowdoin
Wesleyan

13

sports

41:18 #18 Rachel Kennedy

78:55 #18 Rachel Kennedy
83:39

34:54
66:33

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 WELLESLEY

OCTOBER 1, 2015 VS. MIT

27
7

Bowdoin
MIT
#10 Brigit Bergin

1
1
8:22

Bowdoin
Wellesley
#18 Rachel Kennedy
#12 Kelsey Mullaney

3
0
49:40
66:03

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OPINION

Learning and teaching

esterday, the campus-wide teach-in, Intersections: Making Connections, Moving Forward, finally took place after ten months of planning. What was originally conceived as an event dedicated to climate
change ultimately became an opportunity for members of the community to
discuss the intersections between a range of pressing issuesnamely climate
and race. As a campus that often bemoans its tendency to talk about talking,
the College finally engaged.
The teach-ins goals were abstract. As organizer Mary Hunter told the Orient this week, My bar is that people learn something that they couldnt have
learned without the day and that they converse in a way that they would not
converse without the day. As best as we can tell, yesterday met that goal.
Events seemed well-attended, and participants engaged in conversations that
are often had behind closed doors, if at all. Students and professors alike took
advantage of the platform to share their knowledge and unique perspectives.
However, the events reach did not truly extend to the whole campus. Because events were optional and classes were not cancelled, many students did
not participate, including some who may have wished to. While successful
on many levels, this teach-in was not the campus-wide reckoning that some
hoped for.
The teach-in was special because it concentrated the energy and focus of
many students, faculty and staff. But every week, events are held on campus
that address the same topics as the teach-in. For example, this past Monday,
Clenora Hudson-Weems, a prominent academic from the University of Missouri, discussed the modern socio-economic, political and cultural experiences of women of African descent. This event did not occur as part of the
teach-in, but it dealt with similar themes of race and social justice. A teach-in
is a visible way to draw attention to certain issues, but Bowdoin should not
forget the importance of engaging with them regularly, especially given the
opportunities that only a college campus can provide.
Many members of the Bowdoin community attended the teach-in as a statement in and of itself. By attending, they showed not only the importance they
place on the issues at hand, but affirmed the value of dialogue and activism
in general. This is an affirmation that should exist beyond the teach-in; we
should constantly look for ways to engage with issues that challenge us, not
only when the opportunity falls in our lap in the form of a day-long event.
This could mean attending more organized events and talks, getting involved
in student activism, or being open to having more uncomfortable conversations. Everyone will take away something different from individual experiences at the teach-in, but if theres one thing community members can all
share, it should be a desire to continue filling the spaces where opportunities
for engagement and thoughtful discussion are presented to us so readily.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of John Branch, Sam Chase, Matthew Gutschenritter,
Emma Peters and Nicole Wetsman.

friday, october 2, 2015

Build on the teach-in to move forward together

CAROLINE MARTINEZ

SAY IT LIKE IT IS

The teach-in this Thursday was

a historic event at our college. As
students who are only at Bowdoin
for four years, it may be difficult to
understand its importance, but ask
anyone whos been here for a while:
how often do these events happen?
One of my professors said it was as
rare as the lunar eclipse, which occurred last week and wont happen
again for more than 15 years. As I
talked with different people around
me and went to various events yesterday, I began to understand why
the teach-in was so important and
the meaning it has at the College and
beyond.
Before the teach-in took place, I
worried that Bowdoin was a place
that was too apathetic and that this
event might not be successful, but
those concerns disappeared as soon
as I went to speak to some volunteers and was informed that close to
300 students showed up to an 8:30
a.m. open class on public health and
environmental inequalities. This
showed a type of willingness to engage with difficult issues of inequality on a large scale that I had never
seen before at Bowdoin.
Something I often hear students
complain about is that when theres
an event about social justice or race,
the same people always show up and
theres no real campus-wide dialogue. This time it was different. As
a student organizer of the teach-in,
Ive worked with professors and students who Id never met before and
who made me think about issues Id

never considered. The teach-in was

a ten month process that in itself
created a new mentality on campus
and challenged the Bowdoin communitys way of thinking. This is
important because as students in a
liberal arts college we are supposed
to make connections and learn that
our interests are interdisciplinary,
but it goes beyond that.
Last summer I went back home
to Ecuador and because of my research, I was able to spend a lot of
time with the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador
(CONAIE). The CONAIE constantly tried to make Ecuadorians realize
that the cause of indigenous people
wasnt just the cause of indigenous
people, but the cause of all people.
They were able to articulate the intersectionality of their oppression as
indigenous people, as poor people,
and as people who live in an environment that is exploited by a capitalist system. Their success depended on this on their ability to blend
struggles and walk together with
others. They created alliances with
leftist organizations and environmentalists, which gave them greater
strength and made more people
aware of their struggle. The challenge with this, however, will always
be to not marginalize any voice or
issue while creating a unified force.
In many senses what CONAIE
constantly tries to do is what were
trying to do as well: to understand
and articulate our different struggles in order to create a unified
force that will make social change.
As agents of change, we need to understand peoples struggles and their
connection to the issues that we find
more pressing. We shouldnt want to

fight alone and we shouldnt be nave enough to believe that we can.

One of my favorite panels during
the teach-in dealt with environmental racism, a process by which environmental policies create disadvantaged and advantaged racial groups.
This panel highlighted the importance of being able to articulate
and connect issues that we usually
compartmentalize. It taught me that
black people in the U.S. are more
likely than whites to live in dangerous and polluted environments, suffer from diseases that come from
living in those polluted areas, and
work in hazardous jobs. What would
happen if we chose to ignore the environment or race in this situation?
As people fighting to end all oppression and save our earth we can
no longer choose to ignore race or
environmental destruction. In order for us not only to survive, but
to create a world worth surviving
for, we must understand that we are
not individual units functioning in
isolation.
Although the teach-in took place
yesterday, it has not ended. There
will be many events to continue the
dialogue on race, social justice and
climate change, like the Moving Forward meeting today at 12:30 p.m. in
Daggett Lounge. But we wont just
talk. We will unite to move forward
and create collective actions that
will effect change. As human beings,
we have a responsibility to each other and to this earth. Issues of social
justice and climate change can often feel overwhelming to the point
where we become paralyzed, but in
order to make change, we need to
realize the strength that we have and
take action together.

A voice in the wilderness: finding Pope Francis in American polity

DAVID JIMENEZ

MINDLESS PONTIFICATING
During his recent trip to the United
States, Pope Francis, truly a global icon
since his unexpected election in 2013,
was the subject of lavish veneration from
American citizens, writers and politicians across political and religious backgrounds. Such universal praise is entirely
sincere, and it offers hope of a genuine
unity of human values beneath our many
conflicts. At the same time, such flattering words cannot hide a tragic ironythe
actual contact of Catholic social justice
teaching Pope Francis so vividly embodies dwells in a lonely desert on our national political landscape.
To be sure, faith will inevitably conflict
with any ideology, which precisely gives it
creative power. Coalition building will always make for uneasy political bedfellows.
In a pluralistic society with separation of
church and state, people of faith must primarily use the language of reason and philosophy, as opposed to theology, to make
their public arguments. Nevertheless, the
strict ideological litmus tests on both our
Left and Right excommunicates Catholics
and other people of faith following the
path of Pope Francis, who desire to live
out consistently rather than cherry pick
their vision of social justice.
Pope Francis denunciation of the moral ambiguities and uneven costs of capitalism are not unique to his papacy, but
his candor has sparked visceral outrage
among American conservatives. Pundits

from Rush Limbaugh to George Will accuse Francis of Marxist, communist,

and Peronist leanings. The evasive reactions of Catholic Republican presidential
candidates to Francis environment encyclical Laudato Si reveal an unwillingness to even slightly rethink their partys
libertarian economic orthodoxies.
More thoughtful Catholic conservatives rightly note that the Vatican is not
an infallible think tank, releasing policy
statements binding on the faithful. And
papal teaching indeed broadly endorses
private property and the market economy
as proven tools for advancing both individual freedom and the common good.
Nevertheless, there is a consistent history of leading Catholic conservative
intellectuals in America downplaying or
ignoring their Churchs political teachings
when it challenges the party line. As war
drums beat for Operation Iraqi Freedom
in 2003, religious conservatives neglected
John Paul IIs perceptive warning that the
intervention would lead to utter catastrophe. When Benedict XVI called for a
major restructuring of the global financial
system, writer George Weigel claimed that
crafty left-leaning Curia officials, not the
pontiff, were responsible for such proposals. Such examples point to a failure of
American conservatism to build a sincere,
honest dialogue with Catholic reflections
on economic issues.
But the American Left is certainly guilty
too of groupthink and ideological exclusion. One of the great tragedies of recent
politics is the near disappearance of visible pro-life Democrats, who saw opposition to abortion, war, poverty, and capital

punishment as a united commitment to a

consistent ethic of life, a favorite term of
the Christian Left. Even after Roe v. Wade,
leading Democrats, including Sargent
Shriver, Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson,
expressed this view, although many adjusted their positions as the partys direction became more dogmatic. Today, although a Gallup study in 2011 found that
one in three Democrats describe themselves as pro-life, less than three percent
of Democrats in Congress share this position. Indeed, a pro-life Democrat would
find progressive circles an uncomfortable
home when their principled view is vilified as medieval, patriarchal or uncaring.
A presidential frontrunner can give paid
speeches for Goldman Sachs or cynically
flip-flop on countless issues, but if an aspiring Democratic politician or thinker
even remotely challenges the party consensus on abortionanathema sit.
The great religious progressives
of an earlier era, be it Martin Luther
King Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr or Abraham Heschel, would likely be horrified at the militant, condescending
secularism common in contemporary liberal thought on most cultural
questions. Their postwar liberalism
drew on historic, traditional understandings of human personhood and
dignity. Today, we see a descent into
a dictatorship of relativism warned
of by Benedict XVI, where older and
spiritual and moral wisdom is ignored, caricatured and demonized.
Pope Francis warnings about
modernitys throwaway culture,
globalization of indifference or

MIRANDA HALL

idolatry of money should not be

political footballs but invitations for
deeper reflection by every worldview
and every person. It is time that our
public life creates the space for the
social and ethical thought he offers to
share itself freely, in its fullness rather
than isolated fragments. Catholic social teaching will neither transform

America into a socialist dystopia nor

a repressive theocracy. Rather, its wisdom will contribute to a richer understanding of human dignity and the
common good our country desperately needs. Pope Francis captured our
hearts and minds last week. Let us not
allow his journey to America to have
ended in vain.

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opinion

15

Crisis pregnancy centers are not a legitimate alternative to Planned Parenthood

JULIA MEAD

LEFT OF LIPSTICK
This is not the column I planned
to write. Ignited by the September 16
Republican primary debate, my discarded column is full of quips about
Donald Trumps misogynistic, conservative demonization of Planned Parenthood. That column, maturely titled
scary ass republicans, will remain
tucked away in an interior file in my
computer. It did not raise the quality
of discourse about this issuewhich,
by the way, is reproduction.
What drew my attention to this subject in particular was Jeb Bushs boast
that not only had he directed funding
away from Planned Parenthood, but
that he had directed it toward crisis
pregnancy centers.
The first crisis pregnancy center I
was aware of was CareNet of Midcoast
Maine. I first noticed it when it was located on Union Street and I made frequent morning-after treks home from
Red Brick House (CareNet is now located at 7 Cumberland Street).
Is this a clinic? I wondered. I
guess its a clinic, it looks like a clinic.
This is what they wanted me to
think, and it is not true.
In short, crisis pregnancy centersor the other CPC, as I like to
call themare non-profit ministries
designed to mimic sexual health clinics. According to a report issued by the
National Association for the Repeal of
Abortion Laws (NARAL) Pro-Choice
America, CareNet is one of the largest crisis pregnancy center networks in
the United States. CareNet of Midcoast
Maine is our local branch.
I bopped around CareNets web-

site on Monday night. There are

the expected tabssymptoms, services, abortion, contact, givebut
the symptoms described are only for
pregnancy, not for STIs, and the services offered are pregnancy testing,
and counseling, not contraception.
I compared the layout with Planned
Parenthoods website. Both feature
clear-skinned models half smiling in
stock photos and quick appointment
buttons. It was an obvious imitation.
One of the services crisis pregnancy
centers offer is options counseling for
people coping with unplanned pregnancies. However, there is one option
conspicuously not on the table: abortion. Though it is listed as a topic
of discussion, their position is unilateral. The homepage of the national
CareNet website recruits volunteers
with this message:
Stand Up. Speak Out. Be heard! You
can defend unborn children in jeopardy by reaching parents considering
abortion today with a message of truth
and hope through Pregnancy Decision
Line and our network of over 1,100 affiliated pregnancy centers.
In the top right corner there is a
ticker counting lives saved, or women who came to CareNet considering
abortion and, because of their counseling and ministry, chose to continue
with the pregnancy.
Tuesday morning, I decided to pay
CareNet a visit in person, and something happened that I wasnt prepared
for: they were so incredibly nice.
I was greeted by three women, forties to sixties Id guess, sitting in the
waiting room chatting. They smiled at
me and asked if I was there for a test.
No, I said, Im just here to ask a
few questions about what kinds of services you offer.

They were enthusiastic and eager

to tell me about their operation, not
guarded or suspicious. They offer free
hormonal pregnancy tests, the kind
you pee on and can buy at Rite Aid.
Nothing fancy.
They also offer a service I didnt
know about: free parenting classes.
By taking them you earn mommy
dollars which can be spent at the
CareNet baby boutique. They were
particularly proud of the boutique
its a small room filled with shiny toys,
soft blankets and sturdy baby clothes.
My tour guide, a warm and friendly
lady, told me their unofficial motto, We give everyone who comes
through this door a cold glass of water, (metaphorical water, though Im
sure theyd give you real water too) we
know we cant solve all the problems,
but were trying to do like Jesus did, to
meet people where they are and help
where we can.
She meant it, undoubtedly. She radiated sincerity and goodwill. And
though I think she was drawn there to
help, I am not pardoning crisis pregnancy centers. I left CareNet feeling the
way I do about missionary work: there
are good people on the ground offering genuine help, but with constricting
ideological strings attached. It is charity, but it is also a means of control.
It is no secret that the United States
has negligible systemic support for parentsthere is no paid maternity leave,
much less family or parental leave; no
universal childcare, much less parenting classes or subsidized baby supplies.
We are pitifully behind the rest of the
developed world in this area, and much
of the developing world. The United
States anti-maternalism has been the
subject of academic feminist research
for decades. See, for example, the work

DIANA FURUKAWA

of Sonya Michel, Theda Skocpol and

Seth Koven.
This is why CareNet works. The
neoliberal state does not support
reproduction; it leaves that to the
market. There is a gap in parental
services, one that crisis pregnancy
centers are exploiting.
Crisis pregnancy centers do provide real services, but it is only a tactic,
not the goal. It is well researched and
thoroughly documented that crisis
pregnancy centers are an arm of the
anti-choice movement whose goal is
to revoke the right to abortion access.
This is not a secret, on the national
CareNet home page, the slide after
Speak up. Speak out, asks viewers to,
join our fight to end abortion.
NARAL Pro-Choice America released a report on the topic at the beginning of this year. It contends that the

threat of crisis pregnancy centers is not

just that they are against abortionwe
have free speech protectionbut that
they pose as comprehensive healthcare clinics, to restrict, control, and
manipulate the information women
facing unplanned pregnancies receive.
If there were widely accessible parenting classes or subsidized baby supplies, would CareNet be able to draw
people in? I doubt it.
As Katha Pollitt noted in her talk last
Thursday, abortion should be safe, legal
and accessible. But it is not the only thing.
Parental support should be accessible,
baby supplies should be accessible, childcare should be accessible. A strong state
with strong maternal support services
would pull the rug out from underneath
crisis pregnancy centers. Real help with
pregnancy does not come in a well-intentioned box tied with an ideological bow.

A case of literary yellowface makes us reconsider how we perceive names

PAUL NGU

BETWEEN MAINSTREAM
AND MARGIN

When Joanne Rowling wrote her first

book in the Harry Potter series, her publisher suggested she use a gender-neutral
pen name (J.K. Rowling) to avoid putting
off young male readers. Two decades later,
when Rowling switched genres and wrote
The Cuckoos Calling, she again opted
for a pen name (Robert Galbraith), this
time to avoid the hype and expectations
that come with being one of the worlds
best-known writers.
There is a long history of writers
using pseudonyms, but whereif at
allis the line drawn between disguise and deception?
In early September, the editors of
The Best American Poetry, a prestigious anthology of contemporary
American poetry, released their annual
volume of best poems. Outside of literary circles, the release of a new edition

typically receives little attention. But

this years publication proved particularly controversial. The reason? One
of the poems, The Bees, the Flowers,
Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam
and Eve, was revealed to be by a white
poet named Michael Derrick Hudson
who had published under the Chinesesounding pseudonym of Yi-Fen Chou.
The reaction was swift and mostly
critical. Ken Chen, executive director of
the Asian American Writers Workshop,
called the incident a blatant example of
yellowface and accused Hudson of taking
away one of the few literary opportunities available to Asian Americans. Chen
explained that while nearly 70 percent of
New York City residents are non-white,
only 5 percent of writers reviewed by The
New York Times are people of color.
Aside from the troubling racial disparities in the literary industry, what was
most telling to me about the incident was
how the editor of The Best American
Poetry 2015 responded. In a blog post,
editor and noted Native American poet

Sherman Alexie wrote that despite the

Chinese-sounding name of the author,
the poem didnt contain any overt or
covert Chinese influences or identity...by
referencing Adam and Eve, Poseidon, the
Roman Coliseum, and Jesus, Id argue that
the poem is inherently obsessed with European culture.
In short, Alexie was fascinated by
the cross-cultural dimensions of a supposed Chinese American poet who
wrote about European and Christian
imagery. As The New Yorkers Hua Hsu
observes, perhaps it was refreshing for
Alexie to read something from a presumably Chinese writer that had nothing to do with being Chinese. Its also
possible that Hudson knew this and
played into Alexies fascination by using a distinctly foreign-sounding name
like Yi-Fen Chou, instead of a more
Americanized Asian name like Ken
Chen. Regardless of the intent, Hudsons use of an authentic name like
Yi-Fen Chou privileged him the disturbing fantasy of taking on the guise

of the other.
Now, surely it would have looked bad
if it appeared that Alexie backtracked and
removed the poem on the sole basis of the
authors revealed identity. But we should
also wonder what it means when a white
person can perform literary yellowface
and effectively get rewarded for it.
Alexie was in a bind, and in order
to halt accusations of any editorial
biasnamely, showing a preference for
writers of colorhe made the binary
claim that he chose the poem because
of the quality of its content rather than
the skin color of its author. Its a tiring and reductive argument to make,
in part because we often do implicitly
consider a persons race when we make
judgments on his work. But perhaps
Alexie was thinking of race on a more
superficial level when he says he wondered about the poem as the life story
of a Chinese American poet. If that is
true, should we think that differences
between the life story of an Asian
and white man can simply be boiled

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down to his name?

Hudson certainly seems to think so. In
fact, even before The Best American Poetry incident, he claimed to experience
greater publishing success for his poems
using his Chinese-sounding pseudonym
than when he used his actual whitesounding name. Hudsons Orientalist
profiteering could potentially implant
the same idea in the minds of struggling
writers looking for a quick fix. (I would,
however, like to stop and point out the
comical image of literary publishers fighting among themselves to fill their book
shelves with Asian American authors.)
Hudson is surely right about one thing:
in a world far from a post-racial state,
seemingly superficial differences like our
names continue to affect how we are perceived and treated in meaningful ways.
But these differences are built on the assumption that they are real, and when we
try to manipulate or game the system to
our advantage, we undermine the stories
and experiences of those for whom race
has been a source of marginalization.

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friday, october 2, 2015

OCTOBER
FRIDAY 2

EVENT

"Next Steps: Learn, Connect, Move

Forward"

An open discussion will be held over lunch to talk about

the teach-in and reflect on the day. Additionally, the
group will discuss the steps for having more important
conversations at Bowdoin in the future.
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 12:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE

Piano Solo by George Lopez

George Lopez, a Bowdoin Artist-in-Residence, will

perform 20th-century Cuban salon music. Lopez, who
took part in an international artist exchange, will also talk
about his recent experiences in Cuba.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 3
EVENT

Epicuria 2015

The Bowdoin Men's Rugby Team will host their annual

toga party at Ladd House. "Blender" and "The Circus" will
perform. ID required for entry.
Ladd House. 10 p.m.

VICTORIA YU , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE: Danny Mejia-Cruz '16, Bowdoin Student Government president, chats with Nate Hintze (left), director of student activities and Co-Director of
the Museum of Art Frank Goodyear (right) at Student Night at the Museum last Friday.

LECTURE

LECTURE

"Ten Years of Robot Soccer at Bowdoin"

Eric Chown, professor of computer science, will be speaking as part of the faculty seminar series. At this luncheon,
he will discuss robot soccer.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. Noon.
EVENT

Media Commons Open House

MONDAY 5

The recently renovated Media Commons will showcase

the new film screening rooms and the digital media
studios of Academic Technology and Consulting. The staff
will be available to give demonstrations of how to use the
new facilities. Refreshments will be served.
Media Commons, HL Library. 3 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

"The Amish Project"

In honor of the ninth anniversary of the West Nickel Mines
School shooting, a tragedy in which a gunman entered
an Amish schoolhouse, Bowdoin will present "The Amish
Project," a collection of forgiving responses to the event.
Assistant Professor of Theater Abigail Killeen will perform
in this production directed by Carmen-Maria Mandley.
Wish Theater, Memorial Hall.
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PICK OF THE WEEK
7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 7
LECTURE

LECTURE

"Voyage to the Open Sea: My Arctic

Travels in Search of the Forgotten Jeannette Expedition"

Steven Alexander, an accomplished abstract painter,

will be giving a talk open to the public. Alexander, who
has his MFA in painting from Columbia University, is a
member of the American Abstract Artists group and is a
professor of visual arts at Marywood University.
Digital Media Lab, Edwards Art Center. 4:15 p.m.

Author Hampton Sides will discuss his research and travel

throughout the process of writing his book, "In the Kingdom of The Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the
USS Jeannette." This book is a story of the failed
Jeannette expedition in 1879. Sides will sign copies of the
book afterwards.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

Painter Steven Alexander: Artist's Talk

VACATION

Fall Break

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THURSDAY 8

TUESDAY 6

VACATION

Fall Break

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VACATION

Fall Break

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VACATION

Fall Break

"The Road Forward for Cuba after

Normalization: Risks and Rewards"
Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations
Valerie Wirtschafter '12 will discuss the relationship between Cuba and the U.S. and how it affects both the Cuban
government and Cuban citizens.
The Hazelton Room (109), Kanbar Hall. 4 p.m.
LECTURE

"Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' and the

Search for the First Flowering Plants"
Ned Friedman will speak about the organismic interfaces
between developmental, phylogenetic and evolutionary
biology, his current research program. Friedman is the Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard
University.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 4 p.m.
EVENT

Damnationland 2015: A Selection of Short

Horror Films by Maine Filmmakers
Damnationland 2015 will showcase a collection of short
films produced in Maine. These films are of the horror and
thriller genre and are made especially for the
Halloween season.
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Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PICK OF THE WEEK
PERFORMANCE

Marienkantorei Lemgo
As part of a concert tour exchange, the Marienkantorei
Lemgo will perform with the Bowdoin Chamber Choir. This
group consists of four choirs from St. Mary's, a church in
Lemgo, Germany.
The Chapel. 7:30 p.m.

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EVENT

Homecoming
2015