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Bowdoin College
The
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
Campus
responds to
recent safety
concerns
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Both Rose and Moreland noted

that the Groups response to oncampus and off-campus bias incidents will have to be different.
We likely will haveat least in
some aspects of bias incidentsstudent conduct issues and we need to
gather facts and cant rush to judgment and cant be seen as prejudicing a process. That doesnt mean we
cant be faster and more systematic,
we can, Rose said.
Following the gangster party,
many students shared previously unreported bias incidents, highlighting
that fact that many more bias inci-
Student concerns about safety persist

following last weeks reported break-in and
sexual assault at Mayflower Apartments
and a second incident on Potter Street on
Tuesday. In addition to increased security
measures from the College, a number of
student initiatives including a Safe Walk
Facebook group, a Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) proposal and self-defense
classes have been created to increase real
and perceived safety on campus.
According to Director of Safety and
Security Randy Nichols, all of the incidents from the past few weeks are under
active investigation.
Were investigating these crimes with
all resources, he said. I will not rest until
we get some answers here. These can be
very difficult cases, but that makes me
more determined to get to the bottom of
this. Im really impressed with the effort
and seriousness with which the BPD is
taking this investigation and theyre keeping us fully apprised and information is
coming into us on a regular basis. One of
these times its going to be the critical piece
that we need.
Multiple reports of prowlers and individuals looking through windows have
been reported so far this year. Though
Nichols said that BPD and Security have
no reason to believe that any incidents
are connected, the investigation has gone
back to examine all past reports. Nichols
said that there have been more prowler reports this year than in previous years.
We always go back, he said. Sometimes theres only so far you can take an
isolated incident. As part of this larger investigation we go back and look at all our
reports We get bits and pieces every time
Please see BIAS, page 4
Please see SAFETY, page 4
NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Students gather for a candlelight vigil on the museum steps on Monday night. The vigil, organized by BSG, allowed students time to come together and reflect on recent events at Bowdoin, at
other colleges across the country and abroad. BSG President Danny Mejia-Cruz 16 spoke briefly before Vice President for Student Government Affairs Michelle Kruk 16 led those gathered in a
moment of silence, before opening up the steps for anyone to speak. One student asked everyone to take a deep breath together, a few sang the French national anthem and a few more shared
their thoughts. Students placed their lit candles along the steps, then dispersed to resume their nights.
Bias Incident Group to create formal response to bias incidents

BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER
ORIENT STAFF
In response to recent bias incidents on campus and student disappointment in the lack of response,
the Colleges Bias Incident Group
will create more formal systems for
defining and responding to incidents of bias.
We have a very well-honed process for informing the campus and
getting the process in gear [in response to sexual assaults] and it
feelsand it isa less well-oiled
machine with respect to issues of
bias, said President Clayton Rose.
Rose pointed out that there are
important differences between sexual assaults and bias incidents, but

the College should have formal systems to respond to both.
So the Group concludedand
I agreed, wholeheartedlythat it
would be a good thing to look at
what we can do to enhance the process and the procedures and make it
a better-oiled machine, Rose said.
Discussion about bias incidents
was sparked following multiple
bias incidents in Brunswick over
the summer and as recently as this
month. Octobers gangster party
brought attention to the presence of
on-campus bias incidents and debate over what a bias incident is.
Part of the Bias Incidents Group

work will be to more clearly define
what a bias incident is, according to
Christina Moreland 17, one of the
two student representatives on the
Bias Incident Group.
I think the majority of students
on this campus dont know exactly
what a bias incident is defined as,
Moreland said. And I am still somewhat unclear on that... So I think really fine-tuning that and making it
more specific is very important for
a start.
You have to have a starting point
for what are you going to put in the
box and what stays outside of the
box and so forth, Rose said.
BSG proposes creation of Multicultural Rep

BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin Student Government

(BSG) introduced a proposal on
Wednesday to hold a referendum to
add a multicultural representative as
a voting member of BSG. The position
was discussed last spring, but not put
into a proposal until now.
BSGs Executive Committeecomprised of President Danny Mejia-Cruz
16, Vice President for Student Government Affairs Michelle Kruk 16,
and five other vice presidentsrecommended the proposal to the committee
and the small crowd of students who
attended the meeting to support the
proposal.
[The fact that BSG] itself is composed of a diverse set of students does
not mean that those students speak on

behalf of whatever individual race they
look like they are or sexuality that they
belong to. Its just not right and I think
that were making the right move, said
Mejia-Cruz. We cannot ask people to
serve as something just because of the
way they look or the way diversity is
perceived.
Currently, BSG has representatives
from the Inter-House Council (IHC),
the Athletics Council, the McKeen
Center and the Entertainment Board
who serve as advocates of special interest groups on campus, according to
the proposal.
The referendum question would be
whether or not the BSG constitution
should add a multicultural representative to its specified list of representatives.
Special interest group representatives are not elected by the student

body as a whole but are elected or chosen by the group they represent, like
the Multicultural Coalition.
BSG will vote on December 2 to decide whether or not to hold a schoolwide referendum. If that proposal is
approved by a four-fifths majority of
BSG, the student body would vote on
the referendum from December 9-12.
One-third of the student body would
need to vote on the referendum for it
to be valid and two-thirds of voting
students would need to vote in favor
for the multicultural representative position to be created.
Mejia-Cruz noted the significance of
the proposal and the consequences of
a referendum and urged BSG mem-
Please see BSG, page 3
First Look at ED I Applications
COMPILED BY JAMES LITTLE
NEW POLAR BEARS: Potential students of the Class of 2020 sent in Early Decision I applications this week. According to Dean of Admissions and Student Aid Scott Meiklejohn, the
preliminary number of applicants is 610, a decrease from last years 662 ED I applicants. According to Meiklejohn, the applicants come from 459 different high schools. He estimated about 20
percent of applicants self-identify as students of color, compared to about 17 percent last year.
OPINION: PERSPECTIVES ON CAMPUS SAFETY.
See page 14. Students offer ideas and personal experiences in light of the recent sexual assault and other security incidents:
Audrey Phillips 16: Women shouldnt need to rely on men to provide security
Caroline Martinez 16: Feeling safe in an unsafe world
Garreth Helm 18: We must react with compassion and understanding
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SECURITY
REPORT:
11/12 to 11/19
Thursday, November 12
lobby was damaged.
A student reported that occupants

of a small white pickup trick were illegally dumping trash in the dumpster
behind Brunswick Apartments.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of
a nauseous student at MacMillan House.
Friday, November 13
Hallway clutter constituting a fire
exit impediment was reported on the
third floor of Stowe Inn.
A faculty member reported a man
walking down South Street systematically knocking down temporary no
parking signs installed by the town.
A report of a suspicious person in
the Coffin lot turned out to be a dining
employee on break.
After receiving a call from a concerned parent, an officer escorted an ill
student to Mid Coast Hospital.
A student reported rude remarks
yelled at him from a passing vehicle on
Bath Road near Riley House.
A suspicious person reported in the
Watson lot turned out to be the guest of
an employee.
A student was cited for a hard alcohol policy violation in Coles Tower.
Saturday, November 14
After a report of the smell of marijuana smoke in Coleman Hall, a student took responsibility for possession
of a water bong.
An officer checked on the wellbeing
of an ill student in Winthrop Hall who
had been drinking.
A wall sconce in the Ladd House
An emergency light fixture was vandalized in the Baxter House basement.

Security and BPD investigated an
intrusion alarm at a College-owned
storage room at Fort Andross.
An officer checked on a student
who accidentally inhaled bleach fumes
while cleaning.
Sunday, November 15
An officer spoke with a student
who was reported to be creating a disturbance at Brunswick Apartments.
A group of students in Hyde Hall
was reported to be smoking marijuana
in a room.
Wall damage was reported on the
first floor of Baxter House.
Damage was reported in the basement of Ladd House following a birthday gathering.
A College-owned wooden chair
was smashed to smithereens on the
Brunswick Apartments quad.
Three student minors were cited for
possession of alcohol on the Brunswick
Apartments quad. Two were warned
for throwing full bottles of beer.
A suspicious hooded person was
reported to be taking photographs on
the main quad. An officer located the
person: a student taking pictures for a
class project.
Monday, November 16
A suspicious vehicle was reported
in the Quinby House parking lot.
A blue and black Diamondback
mountain bike was reported stolen
STUDENT SPEAK
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friday, november 20, 2015
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
(NOT SO) SPEEDY RACER: Brigitte McFarland 18 lies in Burnett Houses custom bed.
from the Moore Hall bike rack. The

bike was not locked.
A red Trek road bike (Bowdoin reg:
04240) was reported stolen from the
Coles Tower southeast bike rack.The
A purple mountain bike (unknown
make) was reported stolen from the
Coles Tower southeast bike rack. The
A student reported being approached by a suspicious man on
Harpswell Road.
There was a complaint of loud noise
coming from Brunswick Apartments M.
Tuesday, November 17
A suspicious person seen attempting to enter Brunswick Apartments
was identified as a student entering his
own apartment.
A female student reported that an
unidentified man attempted to grab
her from behind at 8 p.m. while she
was walking alone on Potter Street near
Union Street. The suspect fled before
the student was able to get a description.
Wednesday, November 18
A student reported receiving a
strange phone call from a local man.
An officer contacted the man to ensure
that there would be no further calls.
Thursday, November 19
A students purple Electra Townie
70 bicycle (Bowdoin reg: 04195) was
reported stolen from the bike racks at
Coleman Hall. The bike was not locked.
TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Bowdoin Students Taste Defeat in

Annual Rolling Slumber Bed Races
BY JAMES LITTLE
ORIENT STAFF
Brunswick residents from young kids

to old-timers thronged Park Row on a
crisp Saturday morning last week for
the 2015 Rolling Slumber Bed Races,
put on by the Brunswick Downtown
Association. The rules of the game were
simple: teams of runners had to push
modified, wheeled beds down a stretch
of the road, turn in place and come back
as fast as possible. Individual runs were
timed, and the fastest racers won the
event.
Beds ranged from minimalist to
ornate. Some teams had realized that
the key to winning was a lightweight
bed: with each team only allowed four
pushers, control was essential. Beds
that could not maneuver quickly lost
precious tenths of seconds while starting, stopping and turning. Other teams
added decoration to an already heavy
frame, resulting in an aesthetically
pleasing bed but a slow racing machine.
Multiple Bowdoin students raced in
the competition. For the first time in
the competitions history, Bowdoin students entered their own bed, designed
and run by Burnett House. While their
low bed wasnt fast enough to win an
award, one Burnett racer said before
the race that they were just happy to
be there.
Matt Cooper 16 ran with the Bruns-
wick Downtown Association (BDA),

maneuvering their bed, The Beast.
The Beast was a lightweight metal bed
frame with thick wheels, large handles and stingy decorations, designed
for control and speed. The BDA has
entered The Beast several times. According to Cooper, they definitely
improved it over the years. For all its
design improvements, however, The
Beast went up against strong competitors: Wendy Herrick Floral Designs,
the 2013 winner and 2014 runner up,
and a bed designed by the 2014 winner
Cool As A Moose.
Ultimately, Wendy Herrick Floral
Designs reigned champion, while The
Beast snagged second place. Other
prizes were given after the races were
completed: the trophy for Most Creative Bed went to Curtis Memorial
Library, whose bed had a pile of books
attached to the center of the mattress. Atlantic Regional Credit Union
made up for a shaky race and a bed
that veered into the hay bale sidelines
by winning the trophy for Best Team
Spirit.
Theres some ups and downs, sometimes you crash, and sometimes you
come out ahead, Cooper said about
the race. But it brings people together.
It gets them excited about Brunswick
and even starts to bring in the Bowdoin
community a bit too.
What are you excited to do over Thanksgiving break?

Megan Retana 19
Sofi Lopez 18
Look at desert plants on my
field trip to the southwest.
Diamond Walker 17
Visit my sister in NYC and

hopefully be able to reflect
in terms of being a first year
and being overwhlemed.
Wear the sweater dress

that I just bought and a
pair of black pumps.
William Goodenough 16
Maria Kennedy 16
Go to the Metropolitan Opera

in New York and a production
of Tosca by myself.
Listen to the new One

Direction CD on repeat.
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Students attend demonstration in Portland

to support other colleges protesting racism
RALLY TOGETHER: Bowdoin

students attended a demonstration
in Portland last Friday night to show
support for students protesting
racism at schools around the country.
Around 100 people attended the
demonstration, including students
from Bowdoin, the University of
Southern Maine and elsewhere.
Ashley Bomboka 16 and Michelle
Kruk 16 spoke at the rally and led a
march through the streets of Portland.
Its so apparent that [racism is] not
just a problem that Bowdoin has
or a problem that Mizzou has, said
Caroline Martinez 16, who attended
the protest. So many colleges...[are]
having a hard time with knowing how
to address it.
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
Dozens of Bowdoin students traveled to Portland last Friday night to

attend a demonstration in support
of students protesting racism at the
University of Missouri (Mizzou) and
other schools around the country.
The demonstration, held in Portlands Memorial Square, was attended by around 100 people, and
attended by activists from Bowdoin,
the University of Southern Maine
(USM) and elsewhere. It was organized by a USM student group called
Students for #USMFuture.
Two Bowdoin students, Ashley
Bomboka 16 and Michelle Kruk
16, spoke at the rally about the importance of institutional change,
solidarity with activists at other
schools and the role of allyship.
Afterward, they led a march along
Portlands Congress Street from
Monument Square to Longfellow
Square and back.
The protest came in response to
high-profile controversies involving
racism at Mizzou, where the president resigned following a series of
racial incidents and subsequent protests, and Yale, where an administrators email about offensive Halloween costumes and a fraternity party
which reportedly turned away students of color sparked discussions
about institutional racism.
Bowdoin, meanwhile, has been involved in visible racial controversies
of its own after the gangster party
BEN MILLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
last month, in which some members

of the sailing team publicly wore
outfits caricaturing African-American stereotypes.
Some students questioned the administrations response to a series of
Yik Yak posts that offended many
students in the week following the
gangster party. Posters criticizing the Yik Yak posts and asking
for policy changes were placed outside the offices of President Clayton
Rose and Dean of Student Affairs
Tim Foster, as well as other prominent locations on campus. A silent
protest was held in Smith Union the
next week.
Many students participating in the
Portland protest last Friday saw the
event as an opportunity to connect
the events happening at Bowdoin to
questions of racism at colleges and
universities on the national stage.
Its so apparent that its not just
a problem that Bowdoin has or a
problem that Mizzou has, said Caroline Martinez 16, who attended the
protest. Its so many colleges that
are complaining about it and having
a hard time with knowing how to
address it, and most administrators
dont know what to do.
Bomboka said that, while she expected a bigger crowd, she felt that
the event was a success. She estimated that about 50 of the protestors
were Bowdoin students.
In the march, demonstrators
chanted and held signs with messages
like No justice, no peace and Black
lives matter. Many students thought
the public nature of the protest in

downtown Portland was significant.
When we were walking past various restaurants in downtown Portland, people who were eating dinner
were getting up and looking out the
window and were very clearly interrupted, which is cool, because its a
whole new demographic that perhaps wouldnt have been made to be
cognizant of this issue, said Maria
Kennedy 16.
Kennedy said that she attended
to show solidarity with students at
Mizzou, but also at Bowdoin and
around the country who are going
through a lot of bad things, particularly right now, and show my support for their movement.
People all over the countrynot
just all over the country, but outside
the U.S.are showing their support
to Mizzou, and I wanted to do the
same thing, said Martinez, who
added that many of her friends are
students at Mizzou.
Martinez emphasized the opportunity that the demonstration provided for Bowdoin students to protest in a new way.
It was good to see Bowdoin students there with other people being
so strong, chanting very loudly and
encouraging each other, because I
think Bowdoin is a place that can
be very polite and superficial, and
sometimes it can be hard to show
that amount of energy, she said.
After the protest, Martinez said,
The first thing I thought was, OK, we
need to bring this to the deans office.
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bers to campaign aggressively assuming the proposal goes to the student body, explaining that a striking
down of the amendment could be a
symbolic blow to the embrace of diversity and inclusivity.
I think a sufficient amount of
campaigning will be done, but we
will get it, said Mejia-Cruz.
In light of the recent security concerns, BSG unanimously agreed to
request greater availability of shuttle
services and increased lighting at
the college houses.
Jacob Russell 17, IHC representative, cited the sexual assault
that took place on November 10 at
Mayflower Apartments and an incident on November 17 where a stu-
dent was grabbed from behind near

Union Street and Potter street as
reason for the requested increases in
security.
In response to the continuing
questions from Justin Pearson 17
on the constitutionality of the appointment and subsequent internal
election of Emily Serwer 16 as Vice
President for Student Organizations,
BSG approved a change to the bylaws in order to codify the actions
it took.
Pearson disagreed, claiming that
the proposal does not codify actions
and that the bylaw change is in fact
unconstitutional and would have to
go to the student body as a referendum.
BSG approved the change, though
it requires a second vote at its next
meeting in order for the bylaw
change to be official.
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SAFETY
of something that could be important.
According to Nichols, students on campus are anxious about their personal safety.
Weve really gone from a situation
where many students were oblivious
about personal safety...to a point where
they become quite panicked about it, he
said. We really need to get back into the
middle where people are just taking good,
reasonable precautions to ensure their and
their friends personal safety.
Nichols said that there have been many
more suspicious person calls than usual
over the past week.
People are being more vigilant I was
actually called in as a suspicious person
last weekend, he said. Thats the level of
hyper-vigilance thats going on right now.
But thats okay. Im glad the call came in.
Increased security
Nichols highlighted multiple steps that
Safety and Security and Facilities are taking to improve student safety on campus.
The porch lighting at Mayflower Apartments now turns on automatically. Additional lighting has also been added to the
front and rear of the building.
Nichols also said that there will be
significant changes to lighting at Brunswick Apartments, updates to cameras
around campus and additional cameras
in key areas.
Whenever a serious incident happens,
of course it galvanizes us and of course we
start to look at things more deeply and
things become more urgent, he said.
Security has increased patrols around
campus, and the BPD has increased their
presence in neighborhoods around cam-
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pus, according to Nichols.
Following the reported assault on Potter Street, Nichols went and talked to students who live in in that area.
Charlotte Alimanestianu 16 lives
on Potter Street, and said that the increased security and BPD presence has
been reassuring.
On Tuesday night there were police
cars parked on the street and Ive seen Security actually in Howell more, like when
Ive been coming home, which has been
really reassuring, she said. And I genuinely do feel like campus security and the
BPD has handled this very well, and I feel
very safe Theyve definitely been reaching out to us and reassuring to us, which I
think makes a difference.
Parking restrictions around campus
have also been relaxedstudents can
now park in the Dayton lot behind Smith
Union, the Coffin Street lot and College
House lots beginning at 3 p.m., rather
than 5 p.m.
Student response
Soon after an email from Nichols on
Tuesday informed the student body that
a female student reported that she was
grabbed from behind on Potter Street,
Zachary Duperry 18 created a Facebook group, called Bowdoin Safe Walk,
to coordinate walking buddies and rides
around campus.
It kind of started as an idea that I
actually saw on Yik Yak, said Duperry.
As soon as the second email came out
about the second incident, I thought
to myself, Well thats actually a good
idea, so I made the group, asked one of
my friends to invite everyone she knew,
and within an hour, 1,300 people had
been there.
He said that hes had a lot of posi-
tive feedback.
A lot of people are super thankful that
its a thing, and theyre able to use it, Duperry said. My opinion is even if youre not
using it...its nice that theres just the reality that you know that so many people are
willing to help you.
Duperry said that hes had conversations with Information Technology, and
if demand for the group continues, they
might be able to develop an app with the
same function.
The question is whether there is going to be long enough term demand for
that type of service, he said. Its whether
this is enough for now or if it becomes a
longer-term problem and a streamlined
service becomes necessary.
As of publishing, Bowdoin Safe Walk
had 1,565 members.
Jacob Russell 17, president of the
Inter-House Council and member of
the Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) Facilities and Sustainability Committee, brought a proposal
to BSG at the meeting on Wednesday night aimed at increasing safety
and security at College Houses. The
proposal called for BSG to lobby for
increased lighting at College House
parking lots, the return of College
House lots to student parking spaces
and increased availability of SafeRide.
The proposal also asked that Nichols
and a representative from Facilities
come to a BSG meeting to discuss
campus security.
We want to make sure the residents of
the houses are feeling supported and are
safe, Russell said.
The proposal was unanimously approved by the BSG.
The proposal is written in pretty broad
strokes, Russell said. The next steps are
follow-ups.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BUDDY SYSTEM: Students, faculty and staff participate in the Community Safety Walk on
Wednesday night, an event organized by the BSG in response to a second incident concerning
a students safety Tuesday night. The walk looped through campus and the town of Brunswick.
Members of Safe Space have also
been available to provide support to
the community.
Most of the sexual assaults that
occur on college campuses here and
throughout the country are not perpetrated by a stranger, and so I think that
this feels really different to Bowdoins
community in that way, said Meg
Broderick 16, one of the leaders of
Safe Space. We talked about a feeling
on campus of community crisis.
Though Safe Space members are
trained as confidential advocates for survivors of sexual assault, their training focuses on issues surrounding sexual assault
that are more common on college campuses, such as date rape.
Most of our conversations about
sexual assault are about issues of
consent, whereas this feels different,
Broderick said.
However, theyve held open hours
for students at 24 College over the
past week.
In this case, one of the difficul-
BIAS
dents occur than are formally reported to the Bias Incident Group.
According to Moreland, encouraging more reporting is part of the
work the Group needs to do. There
is an online, anonymous reporting
system, but Moreland said many students dont know about it and it can
be hard to find.
The Group has not yet begun to
create the new policy, but the College already has similar policies that
can serve as models.
I dont know exactly what that
strategic response or that systematic
response will be, said Moreland. The
idea is we need to have something because in other situations on campus,
for example hazing, there is a response
that the school will take. So if we can
have that for hazing, why cant we have
it for a bias incident?
ties Safe Space members are facing

right now is that were members of the
community that were supporting,
she said.
A number of students, including Kylie
Moore 16 and Mary Frances Harris 16,
are planning to teach self-defense.
Ive taken self-defense classes in Alaska, said Moore. Coming from a family
where self-defense is really emphasized, I
felt like I wanted to be able to share that,
and I wanted other people to have a sense
of security.
Harris took self-defense classes in
high school.
I just thought it was really beneficial,
Harris said.
Though neither is certified to teach
self-defense, they both believe that
they can pass along some general skills.
I think a lot of students really appreciate the idea of having a self-defense course, and a lot of people have
tried to come together to find the best
way to approach that, said Moore.
We just wanted to do something that
These things should be living policies, not static, said Rose, who added that there will be opportunities for
the Bowdoin community to provide
input on the Groups new policies.
The Bias Incident Group was created in the 1980s and is comprised
of Rose, Moreland, Elina Zhang 16,
James R. and Helen Lee Billingsley
Professor of Marine Biology Amy
Johnson, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Carolyn Wolfenzon, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster, Associate
Dean of Students for Diversity and
Inclusion Leana Amaez, Director of
Safety and Security Randy Nichols,
Director of the Counseling Service
and Wellness Programs Bernie Hershberger, Senior Vice President for
Communications and Public Affairs
Scott Hood, Special Assistant to
the President for Multicultural Affairs Roy Partridge and Director of
the Resource Center for Sexual and
Gender Diversity Kate Stern.
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AT BOWDOIN
A look at what its like to suffer and

recover from a concussion at Bowdoin
BY JESSICA PIPER
ORIENT STAFF
Jacqueline Colao 17 doesnt recall

what happened when she collided
with another player during a basketball scrimmage her senior year in high
school.
I dont remember any of it because
I got knocked unconscious, but I was
told that there was another girl and I
who both jumped up in the air to get
a loose ball, Colao said. And my left
cheekbone hit into her shoulder which
knocked me unconscious. And then I
fell onto the court and cracked open
the side of my head.
Colao suffered a serious concussion. Nearly eight months later, when
she tried to enroll at Bowdoin as a first
year, she found her symptoms were still
too severe for her to fulfill her responsibilities as a student.
By the second day I couldnt get out
of bed, so I was like, 'OK, probably cant
go to school then,' Colao recalled.
She ended up taking a gap year to
sort out her health.
Like Colao, Juliet Eyraud 16 suffered a severe concussion during an
athletic competition. The spring break
of her sophomore year at Bowdoin, she
was concussed during an ultimate frisbee competition.
I didnt think it was going to last
that long, Eyraud said. She returned
to school and began experiencing
migraine concussion symptoms. Her
brain whirred when she tried to read
and she couldn't look at computers.
Colao and Eyrauds stories arent
unique. According to Carri Kivela, a
nurse practitioner in health services
who specializes in concussions, Bow-
doin students go to the Health Center

with concussions every week.
Concussions occur on a spectrum
of severity, and certain factorssuch
as pre-existing medical conditions or
previous concussionscan complicate any given concussion. Although
concussions have been given increased
attention over the past few years, they
remain relatively mysterious.
Even the specialists, the neurology
specialists that [I] go to, are like, I dont
really know when youre going to get
better, said Eyraud.
'Health comes first'
As director of athletic training, Dan
Davies oversees student-athletes who
suffer concussions. Each varsity sport
also has an individual trainer, and the
athletic department works closely with
the health center, as well as with the
deans office.
We have weekly meetings, Davies
said. We have a staff report of all concussions that is sent to the deans office,
the athletic director and our team doctor so that everybody is aware of every
progression, where they are, where
they arent.
During the 2014-2015 academic
year, there were 66 concussions reported by athletes according to Ashmead White Director of Athletics Tim
Ryan.
The concussion recovery process
is fairly strict. Most students who are
diagnosed with a concussion first face
48 hours of brain rest.
That means no cell phone, no computers, no movies, no loud music. Its
really resting in your room, Davies
said. No loud places of gathering
try to avoid eating in the dining hall
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CONCUSSED: (top) Jacqueline Colao 17

suffered a concussion during her senior year
of high school during a basketball scrimmage.
She took a gap year before Bowdoin to try
and sort out her health but she still experiences concussion symptoms. She completes
special brain puzzles to retrain her brains
damaged pathways.
(bottom) Director of Athletic Training Dan
Davies supervises student-athletes who
have suffered concussions and acts as their
advocate to deans and professors.
for a couple of days.
Unsurprisingly, brain rest isnt popular among Bowdoin students.
Most people havent really had to
shut down at any point in their life for
that much, said Kivela.
While brain rest is a start, it does
not heal a concussion on its own.
Kivela said that most students take
one to two weeks to fully recover.
Athletes who suffer a concussion

must also complete several cognitive
tests before they return to their sport.
Even then, they spend a few days biking, running and doing agility drills
before resuming full contact.
For many students, missing out
on regular college life while recovering from a concussion can be highly
stressful.
Some [students] get more anxious,

because theyre not in class. They have
to be in class. They have to do their
work. Well, no, you dont, said Davies. Health comes first. You're here
for your brain. You got in here because
of your brain. Dont do anything to
prevent that from healing.
Please see CONCUSSION, page 7
How to make it through a Maine winter Dear Bowdoin Human

encourages dialogue
KATHERINE CHURCHILL
KATHERINE GIVES ADVICE
Hello, precious readers! Take a look

at this weeks column.
Dear Katherine,
Do you have any advice on how
to keep your spirits up during a long
winter in Maine?
Sincerely,
Chilly in Chambo
Chilly, its coming for all of us. The
first warning sign was on November
1 when daylight savings time ended
and all of our lives got a little bit sadder. The next sign came last week,
when I walked home in the dark at
4 p.m., entered my living room and
found my housemate Jamie purposefully searching Amazon.
What if we buy a house sun
lamp? he said. Or, I dont know, a
tanning booth.
The tanning booth
idea sounded to
mewella
little
bit insane. What, I
wondered as Jamie
perused a user review
of an in-home tanning booth, do other
people do to keep
their spirits up in the
winter? Do they deal
with it like reasonable humans? I decided, Chilly, to ask
around for you while
I was in Smith Union
yesterday.
First, I ran into
Hannah. How do
you cope with the
winter? I asked her
as she sat opening a
package.
I wake up and I cry, Hannah said.
Once it started snowing and I cried in
the middle of class. As she spoke, she
waved around a half a mounted taxidermy squirrel shed received in the
BY MIRANDA HALL
ORIENT STAFF
MIRANDA HALL
mail.
When I asked how Skye would get
through the winter, she got a frenetic
Please see WINTER, page 7
Building community has been a

major topic of discussion on campus,
as students consider the best way to
encourage dialogue around challenging issues. Dear Bowdoin Human
speaks to just these issues. The anonymous pen pal program for Bowdoin
students was founded by Talia Cowen
16 at the start of last summer.
I really think the heart of this program is just about facilitating discussion, but I think one of its strengths
is that it defies definitions, so people
use it how they need too, she said.
Cowens inspiration came from a
Dear Oxford Human program she
observed while abroad.
As a person who felt sort of isolated in the community at Oxford, I
liked what Dear Oxford Human was
doing, she said. I realized Bowdoin
didnt have anything like that and
that it was such a powerful force in
peoples lives there that I really want-
ed to bring it back.
Dear Bowdoin Human works in
tandem with The Undiscussed, another student-run organization that
works to break barriers and enable
change through dialogue. Students
who sign up for Dear Bowdoin Human are assigned partners to write
letters based on topics chosen by
Cowen.
You can write about anything but
I also give prompts. Sometimes the
letters are funny with questions like
Whats your favorite kind of bread?
and other times they arent, when students write things like Ive been struggling with depression for the last few
months, what have you been struggling
with? she said. I think people take it
how they need to take it.
All the letters are anonymous, addressed Dear Bowdoin Human and
signed Another Bowdoin Human.
If they want me to read the letters
Please see HUMAN, page 6
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Finding a love for music: Levine 17 recounts his life overseas

BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER
COLUMNIST
If the NESCAC snapchat story is in any

way indicative of the Bowdoin experience,
acapella and acoustic jam sessions are the
heart of our experience here. We have the
equivalent of musical celebrities in people
like Leo Levine, a member of the Meddies
and the band, Gotta Focus.
Leos love of music, though, comes
from a long journey in finding himself
in different places throughout his life.
He was born and raised in Vienna, Austria and lived there for 13 years. In 2009
he moved to London and lived there for
four years. Two years ago moved to the
United States.
In Vienna, Leo was able to grow up and
have his childhood in a place both beautiful and welcoming in its charm reminiscent of a small town.
Whenever I go back, I consider Vienna more homey and I feel more at home
because Ive been shaped by Vienna. The
first 13 years of my life were just in this
very comfortable environment. Everything is so well-organized and yet laid
back, he said.
I think its also shaped me as I am, he
continued. Because its not like the typical
urban lifestyle even though its a relatively
big city. Whenever I go back, Im just happy to be there because its just also so different from Bowdoin and London.
But many people have preconceptions
of his life and Austria that Leo doesnt
think are indicative of his childhood.
Whenever you think of Austria, you
think of, I dont know, lederhosen and The
Sound of Music and all that. But I dont
really associate with that. And, honestly, I
dont think Ive adopted any one culture in
particular. Id say Im just a hybrid of Europe and a little bit of America, he said.
However, for Leo, location was not all
that affected him. He explained that he
was even more greatly shaped by the influence of his Russian parents.
When I was in Vienna, it wasnt Vienna who shaped who I am. It was my
parents. Because I spent so much time
with my parents, he says. My parents are
both Russian, so the first language that I
learned was Russian. I dont really associate with the Russian culture, but I am still
proud to say that my parents are Russian.
Leo moved to London in March 2009.
March and April are usually very
rainy, so that was my first impression of
living in London and that just basically
imprinted on me, he said. I would
say Id just accepted my fate. I was like,
guess I have to get used to this now. Its
objectively depressing, but Ive learned
how to embrace it.
As he was starting in on his teenage
years and living in a completely new
place, London became the gray backdrop
of a different person in Leo.
London is a good place to spend your
teenage years because thats when all the
angst comes out. London is one of the
best spots to let your angst out. My friend
group in high school were all really angsty teenagers. The urban environment really accompanies that angst well because
its always gray and everyone smokes
cigarettes. Everything is charmingly depressing, he said.
But an age of angst was not all that was
born in Leo as he moved to London. He
also discovered the music that shapes
him to this day.
When I moved to London, I was
a very naive boy who was just so sweet
AWAY FROM HOME:

Leo Levine 17 was
born and raised in
Vienna, Austria.
After 13 years there,
his family moved to
London, England,
where he spent his
teenage years before
coming to Bowdoin. It
was in London that Leo
discovered his love for
music; he learned to
play the drums, guitar
and bass.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
and innocent. I was still missing Vienna
very much and I stopped talking to my
friends in Vienna very gradually and I
had trouble making friends in London.
And I had built up all this angst and I
had no idea who I was, why I was there.
I was just going to classes every day. And
the weather didnt help either. London
weather isnt a myth. Then, at the end
of ninth grade, I discover the Rolling
Stones, I discover everyone who I just
worship now. That turned this sadness to
this slight angst, he said.
A life ingrained in music began to
shape his entire identity in London as he
feels it still does today.
I learned how to play the guitar,
drums, bass and I found myself in the
role of the schools musician. And I
had finally found my place. Really what
changed was discovering music. It just
very much transformed me.

Two years ago, Leo moved again, in
a way, when he came to school in the
United States at Bowdoin. But now Im
starting to adapt to the American kind
of lifestyle. Before freshman year, I did
not understand American humor at all.
I dont even really know how to define it,
but like these little sarcastic jokes, I never
got them.
Leo feels that he himself is a mix of
all of the places where hes lived and
the different cultures.
Its just now two years after Ive
gotten here that I really start to understand American culture. Yet
again, Im mostly proud of being
British. But, I would say that my Russian upbringing has shaped me the
most, he said.
He appreciates the mix of cultures
in the U.S.
There is no one culture. Thats
what I really like about America. What
I can relate to here, is that America is
a very new country and its a mix of
everything, every race, every culture
who came here hundreds, dozens of
years ago, whatever, he said.
But for Leo, the places of his past
are still his home and still what shape
the person he is today. Though the
future is still far on his horizon, he
seems to know where home is for him.
I have no idea where Ill end up,
preferably Europe because I feel at
home there. Its so different in America. It took me a long time to get used
to it. It just makes me very happy
whenever were on breaks and I get
to go home. Pretty much anywhere in
Europe, I feel at home.
COURTESY OF DEARBOWDOINHUMAN.TUMBLR.COM
SHARING THOUGHTS: An anonymous student letter written to a Dear Bowdoin Human pen-pal.
HUMAN

they put a star on the letters so its
really cool to feel part of it by observation, said Cowen. I also post
some of the starred ones to the Dear
Bowdoin Human blog for everyone to
read.
The blog shows examples of anonymous letters students have written and
shared with consent. It aims to make
public the inner feelings and struggles
of fellow Bowdoin students and provides a space for solidarity, companionship and community-building.
Cowen hopes Dear Bowdoin Human will promote campus dialogue in
a more meaningful way than forums
like Yik Yak.
I had a friend describe it to me as
a kind of anti-Yik Yak, because it al-
lows you to relieve stress and talk

about issues but also go in-depth
into things you are thinking about
and really reflect on your own experiences, she said. I always feel
like I want to hear people's views
and ideas on different topics, but the
constraints of Yik Yak sort of make
that difficult.
Cowen emphasized that through
Dear Bowdoin Human, students can
embrace anonymity, rather than exploiting it as some Yik Yak users do.
Its like using the it could be anyone idea in positive way, she said.
Its community thats not necessarily defined and I think thats good.
Students are encouraged to sign up
at tinyurl.com/DearBowdoinHuman,
while anonymous student-submitted
letters can be viewed at dearbowdoinhuman.tumblr.com.
the bowdoin orient
features
CONCUSSION
The Polar Brain Alliance

To help students manage the difficulties
associated with brain rest and concussion
recovery, several students recently founded a group called the Polar Brain Alliance.
Harrison Carmichael 17, one of the
groups leaders, understands the danger
of concussions. He experienced a concussion himself while in high school, and has
seen how concussions have impacted his
classmates here at Bowdoin.
I have a lot my friends who have at this
school dealt with concussions on a very
wide spectrum of intensity, he said. Ive
just seen that it can be a really debilitating,
difficult thing.
The Polar Brain Alliance hopes to
provide both logistical and emotional
support to Bowdoin students who suffer
concussions. Theyre willing to complete
any number of tasks, from bringing concussed students an express dinner to doing their laundry, texting their friends, or
simply talking with them if they are lonely.
Brain rest can be kind of isolating,
said Carmichael.
Carmichael and his fellow Polar
Brain Alliance leaders recently led a
training on the danger of concussions
and how to support a friend who is
concussed. They hope that the students they have trained can serve as
resources for any Bowdoin student
who suffers a concussion.
If a student suffers a concussion, a
trainer or a coach can be like, Hey, here
is this list of students who are prepared
to help you out, Carmichael said.
Colao believes that increased awareness about the impacts of concussions
can help Bowdoin students better support their peers.
If you know somebody has a concussion, make sure to check in with
them, she said. Even little things, like
the volume of your voice, like trying to
keep that quiet, or asking the person if
its bothering them, like not showing
people screens without asking.
Academic challenges
While the Polar Brain Alliance seeks
to provide social support, the health
center and other resources on campus
aim to ensure that Bowdoin students
who suffer concussions still find success
academically.
For some students, this includes taking time off from the College. Colao
took a gap year prior to coming to Bow-
WINTER

look in her eye. Ive planned it all out.
Im never leaving the tower. I can eat
there, I can shower there, I can exercise therestairs! she said.
Chillythese anecdotes evidence
that winter is coming and that, one
way or another, its going to be ugly.
And while the coping mechanisms
described by the people I talked to
are perfectly legitimate, I, your dear
advice columnist, am going to recommend what I hope will be some
slightly less desperate tactics:
1. Do not cry. If you do, your tears
will freeze to your cheeks or perhaps
even in your eyeballs.
2. Have a friendly snowball fight.
3. Learn some variety of winter
sport. The outing club has Nordic
skis, telemark skis and snowshoes.
Go forth and get endorphin-high on
exercise.
4. Remember that if we didnt
have winter, we wouldnt have babies
in snowsuits, and babies in snowsuits are the cutest thing on the entire planet.
5. Put on your vodka jacket. And
your mulled wine jacket. Also put
RECOVERY EFFORTS: (top) Harrison Carmichael 17 started a student group called the Polar Bear Alliance that supports concussed students. (bottom) Carri Kivela, a nurse practitioner in health
services specializes in concussions. (right) Juliet Eyraud 16, concussed during an ultimate frisbee tournament her sophomore year, has to sit at a distance from her laptop to manage her symptoms.
doin, while Eyraud took off the spring
2015 semester.
One of the concussion specialists I
talked to was basically like, You should
just take a semester off from school.
Thats the only thing that could really
help, Eyraud said.
But even after time off, Eyraud has
found that her concussion symptoms
still affect her academics. A computer science major, she struggles to
look at bright screens for extended
periods of time.
Computer science ended up being
super inconvenient, she laughed.
After consulting her advisor, she
opted for an independent study to finish her major rather than an intensive
programming class, which would likely
trigger her symptoms. Shes made other
adaptations as well.
All of my professors know about
it. So whenever they do PowerPoints
I get the printout from them in advance, she said.
Likewise, Colao has found that her
on your regular jacket, the one that
is made of actual fabric and not just
your impaired sensory capacities.
6. Eat foods with astronomical
levels of carbs and fats in order to
develop winter blubber. When in
doubt, do as the artic mammals.
7. Look to the dead polar bear in
that weird little hallway behind the
gym for inspiration.
8. Then visit the artic museum.
Stare at the portraits of Donald B.
MacMillan, another artic mammal.
Think, how can I become more like
this famed polar bear murder?
10. Layer. Wear every sweater you
have when you leave the house. Steal
your roommates sweaters and wear
them as well. Collect sweaters from
the gym and put them on too. Try to
acquire all the sweaters. Soon, you
will be the most powerfulsoon
you will rule them all.
11. Take stock of yourself. Wonder if you have perhaps started to go
a little bit insane.
12. Count down the days until
Ivies.
Happy winter!
Out,
Katherine
lingering concussion symptoms make

her classroom experience different than
the average Bowdoin student.
We have this feedback loop in our
body where you have a thought and
you say something but then you also
hear back what you said and process
that, she explained. But my feedback
loop broke Im sure people whove
had classes with me have noticed that I
just go on long rants and ramble a lot
because I want to make sure that I am
communicating whatever I can. But I
dont know whether I am or not.
Despite these difficulties, Colao
doesnt want to let her concussion hold
her back. A government and philosophy double major with an economics
minor, shes interested in both law and
business school.
Always recovering
While the majority of people who
experience concussions no longer see
symptoms after two or three weeks, for
some, like Colao and Eyraud, symptoms
can last much longer.

For Eyraud, this meant modifying
not only her academic plan, but also
changing her habits and social life.
I have sort of an anti-college lifestyle, in that I go to bed early and I
dont look at my computer all that
much, said Eyraud.
At the same time, she tries to maintain a positive attitude toward the
changes she has made.
I think one of the positive things
that has come out of it is that a lot of the
things that help with concussions are
also things that just help with normal
healthy living, she said.
For Colao, the most difficult aspect
has been learning to accept the severity
of her concussion.
I feel like a lot of people hear the
four years that Ive been through and
think that its like the craziest thing
theyve ever heard, or the most awful
concussion theyve ever heard of, but
its a lot more common than people
think, said Colao. And when I first
got my concussion, I didnt take it seriously. I mean, I couldnt get out of

bed for a couple months, but I still
thought it was going to heal in like six
months, a year.
Now, four years later, Colao has realized that her concussion wont just
go away with brain rest. At the same
time, this understanding means that
she is now taking further steps to improve her brain function and reduce
her symptoms.
She wears customized glasses which
direct light to different parts of her
brain. And she completes special brain
puzzles that are designed to train her
healthy brain pathways to compensate
for the damaged ones.
A lot of it has been me just trying to
figure out how to tackle these things on
my own when no one else is really going
to have more expertise, said Colao.
She hopes that groups like the Polar
Brain Alliance can help Bowdoin students gain a better understanding of
concussions.
Linking vaccines to autism is harmful

BEN YORK
AN AUTISTICS GUIDE TO
AUTISM
Vaccines dont cause autism.
In an ideal world, this article would
stop with that sentence. Those words
would be only an obvious reminder
of a fact long accepted into the collective consciousness of civilization.
This is not, however, an ideal world,
and there are still those who believe
there is a link between vaccination
and autism. To these individuals, I
could show the numerous studies and
trialsinvolving millions of children
from around the worldthat show
no correlation between vaccinations
and autism. However, these individuals cannot and will not listen to logical argumentsarguments of reason,
rationality or science. In a way, this
makes sense.
Many who espouse the connection between vaccines and autism
are parentsmothers and fathers
whose children are autistic or those
who know parents whose children
are autistic. To them, this connection
provides an explanation for why their

children are different from the children they expected or a reason why
they as parents are protecting their
children more than other parents.
This thinking is misguided.
As an autistic person, when I hear
the phrase vaccines cause autism, I
do not just hear a scientifically inaccurate statement. What I hear is the
gravest insult I could ever receive. The
diseases that vaccines protect from
measles, smallpox, fluare deadly.
They kill people. Entire communities have been wiped out because of
these diseases. When I hear someone
say that they will not vaccinate their
children because it might give them
autism, what I hear is that what I am,
who I am, the very essence of my being and identity, is worse than death
itself. I hear that they would rather
have a dead child over an autistic
child. I hear that I am broken.
As a child, this was harmful for
me. I took from this that I was a mistake, something that should not exist. This is a not something a child
should think of themselves. When
you walk into a restaurant, hungry

and just wanting a meal, and find that
you cant eat anything on the menu
because it is all too overstimulating,
when every time someone grabs your
shoulderto congratulate you or
comfort youyou tense and shriek
and rock because even that touch
is far too intense, when you realize
in the dead of night that you do not
know the color of your mother or
fathers eyes because you have never
made eye contact with them or when
you feel isolated and alone and powerless because you are incapable of
interacting with those you love in
the way they so easily interact with
one another, you do not need society
telling you that you are broken. You
need love and support and caring, a
community with whom you can feel
understood.
I do not fight for the truth that
vaccines do not cause autism merely
for the purpose of scientific literacy.
I fight because I do not want children feeling about themselves the
way I felt about myself. No child deserves that.
the bowdoin orient
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Clowning takes center stage in Shakespeare honors project show

SARAH LIM
ORIENT STAFF
For the past year, Maggie Seymour

16 and Olivia Atwood 17 have been
working on their two-woman show,
15 Villainous Fools, as part of Seymours honors project. This weekend,
the duo will fill Memorial Hall with
laughter as they take on fifteen different characters in their own rendition of William Shakespeares classic
Comedy of Errors.
Basically we took the script and
cut bits, added bits, rearranged bits,
fooled with it, messed with it, played
with it and created our own show that
involves two women, said Seymour.
Devising a piece in the way that we
did is hard; its challenging, its time
consuming, more so than just picking
a play and doing it straight.
After watching the Shakespearean classic during her fall semester
abroad, Seymour fell in love with
clowning. Already a fan of Shakespeare, Seymour knew that she wanted to combine her two interests into
this project.
Knowing she wanted to work with a
partner, Seymour sought out Atwood,
who she met in an improvisation class
they both took last spring.
[Seymour] has great energy, and
so I decided I definitely wanted to be a
part of whatever she was cooking up,
said Atwood. We were both nervous
when we realized the full extent of
what we were going to be doing, but
I think we took it on well and really
tackled it.
FOOLING AROUND: Last night, Maggie Seymour 17 debuted her honors project,15 Villainous Fools,a two-woman performance
of Shakespeares slap-stick play,Comedy of Errors. Seymour both acted
her project and designed minimalistic sets. She began her project over a
year ago with her costar, Olivia Atwood 17.
Seymour works both on the stage

and backstage in this project.
Our set is very bare. Our costumes
are what worked best for us, said Seymour. Our lighting is just that the
lights are on. Its very simple. Its very
barebones. That was kind of, not the
objective, but always the plan because
the play itself is so big that everything
else didnt need to be.
For an hour and fifteen minutes,

Seymour and Atwood take a minimalist approach and let their clowning
take center stage.
Having fun, playing with the audience, making eye contact and breaking the fourth wall is sort of what
clowning is, and being able to add that
to Shakespeare I think changes it completely, said Atwood. Clowning re-
ally allows you to make a connection

to the audience, which you might not
be able to make through other forms
of theater.
Aware of most peoples reactions to
Shakespeare and even clowning, Seymour
and Atwood worked particularly hard to
make both accessible for everyone.
We created it for an audience, very
much so. Im really excited for an audi-
ence to see it because its for them, said

Seymour. Im really excited to play and
have fun and relish in the joy and play
of clowning, Shakespeare and the project
and for people to have a chance to connect
with Shakespeare in a new way.
15 Villainous Fools will run tonight
through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial 601.
Olivia Atwood is an Associate Editor of
the Orient.
The status of statuses: Coping and solidarity found in Facebook community

THE ARTISTS
ARE PRESENT
CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL

Maybe we can all agree about
one thing: this past weekthis past
monthhas been distressing. The
two of us are hovering on opposite
ends of the distraught spectrum.
Tessa, with a menacing case of mono,
has been relegated to her bed with a
carton of strawberry ice cream, devoid of the energy to watch one episode of The Office without falling
asleep. Carly, on the other hand, has
been walking around campus accompanied by a newly escalated internal
monologuelets just say, caps lock
has been turned on. Tessa is debilitated by the state of her body. Carly
is debilitated by the state of her environment. Its a hard time.
While our physical spaces havent
overlapped recently, our digital ones
have. Facebook is the location where
everything converges. Its our news
source; its our soap box; its our place
to seek support and find it. When shit
hits the fan, its the thing we can control. And theres something deeply
comforting, but also deeply daunting
about this: How will our peers judge
us for what we post? What are the
implications of a Facebook status? Is
caring about this silly?
Disclaimer: Three very difficult
and very different events happened
this past week. We took to Facebook
to process each of them. We are not
trying to draw comparisons here, but
rather walk through the way in which
the space of Facebook informed our
thoughts.
When student protests against
campus racism began at the University of Missouri last week, variations
on one particular status went viral.
The two of us posted the same one:
To the students of color at Mizzou, we, student allies at Bowdoin
College, stand with you in solidarity.
To those who would threaten their
sense of safety, we are watching.#C
oncernedStudent1950#InSolidarity
WithMizzou.
Each of us felt a reservation before
posting this status. We wondered:
What good does a Facebook status
do? Am I being selfish about posting
this? In taking a stance on an issue
that doesnt directly affect me, am I
implicitly mining that issue for social capital?
We want to acknowledge that we
exercise an enormous amount of
privilege in carrying on with this
mental dialogue. We both ended up
posting the status, after coming to
the realization that its an obvious
decision. Its the easiest way to show
solidarity, support and, most simply,
care. There is power to a Facebook
status. If I can tap my thumb six
times on my phone screen to make
someone else feel safe, its worth it.
And in true Facebook form,
when the next thing hits, the older
one gets pushed to the background.
Immediately following the flurry
around Mizzou came the news of
terrorist attacks in Paris. Facebook
served as a reassuring tool in telling
us that our friends abroad were safe.
It also gave us the opportunity to
add a filter of the French flag to our

profile pictures. This sparked debate. Is this focus on the tragedy in
Paris negating other recent tragedies
that happened in the largely nonwhite world, such as the violence in
Beirut, Kenya and elsewhere? Yes,
our media is Westernizedthis is
a structural problem. But its coarse
to police the way that people grieve
after a tragedy. If incorporating the
French flag into your profile picture
helps you to process this egregious
act in any way, go for it. We both
cried to our parents on the phone,
and chose not to change our profile
pictures.
In light of the recent sexual assault on our campus, Facebook has
been utilized as a support space.
This week, a student created the
group Bowdoin Safe Walk, and after just one day, the group had more
than 1,500 members. Its inspiring to
see students organizing and finding
ways to help each other. These phone
numbers dont feel like theyre just
there in case we need to walk somewherepeople in our community
are explicitly voicing their desire to
act as emotional resources for each
other. As women, the two of us find
this personally touching, but we also
hate that we need this right now.
Bowdoin has, for the past year and a
half, provided us with a space where
we feel valued and safe. These horrendous events force us to confront
the stark reality of going through life
as a woman.
Posting the Mizzou status is a
form of activism. It helps to bolster a
DIANA FURUKAWA
movement by broadcasting it to different corners of the world; it is power in numbers. Solidarity for Paris is
not about activism. It is a reaction to
tragedy. By no means does this discount its gravity, and we all ought to
give each other space to grieve however we need to. The Bowdoin Safe
Walk Facebook group is reactionary,
but its about preventative action. Its
our community saying: were not going to let this happen again.
We cant let all of this stay locked
behind our computer screens. Facebook is powerful, but its only an

approximation of real life. Racism,
terrorism and assault are things that
pull us apart. The way to break that
pattern is by supporting each other,
in real life. Talk to your peers, your
parents, your professors; go to rallies; walk a friend home. Whether
or not youre someone who engages
with Facebook, we all ought to remember: in tough times like these,
we must show up for each other.
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Orchestra to increase
rehearsals to improve,
refine overall quality
BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF
In an effort to fine-tune its overall

quality, the Bowdoin Orchestra will
undergo several structural changes
next fall. Directed by Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez, the
Orchestra will require a higher level
of commitment, increasing its overall quality.
While Lopez initially planned to
implement the changes next semester,
he has postponed this reform until the
next academic year.
Doing a fall restructuring is better because [the students] have more
time to consider what that means for
their schedule, and it also creates a
new culture for incoming students,
said Lopez.
Lopez hopes to nearly double
group rehearsal times to boost the
quality of performances, a plan that
has been met with mixed reactions
from students.
Former orchestra member Emily
Licholai 18 argued that the orchestra
will benefit from the additional hours
of rehearsal.
Because its going to take up more
time, the people are more willing to
spend their time on orchestra will
stay and the people who are not as
into it will drift off, she said. [The
group] might be a little smaller, but
I think the quality of music will be
even better.
Violinist Devlin Shea 18 agreed
that the added practice time will be an
asset to the group.
The problems weve had in the
past is not having enough rehearsal
time to prepare our ambitious repertoire to the level that we want to be
at, said Shea.
However, considering the many
obligations of Bowdoin
students, finding the time
to both hone musicianship skills and rehearse
as a group is difficult. For
some members, the current time commitment
two hours every Sunday
nightconflicts
with
their study schedules. As
such, the group has seen
some recent fluctuation in
its members.
Some of the people
who arent in orchestra
anymore came to the realization not that the orchestra wasnt up to the
caliber that they wanted,
but more so that they
felt academic work was
important, said current orchestra
member Holly Rudel 17.
While the added rehearsal time
may improve the quality of music,
those looking for a more relaxed music group may be turned away with
these new changes.
In addition to increased rehearsal
hours, Lopez plans to increase sectionals in order to hone the skills of
each section of instruments individually, making for smoother and more
fruitful group rehearsals.
[The musicians] come with a lot
of skill and a lot of training. What we
need is a structure that supports more
commitment and allows them to grow
and increase their skills, said Lopez.
Sectionals do a really good job at
isolating the problems and allowing
sections to iron out small things, so
when we come together our rehearsal
time is more focused and more meaningful, said Shea.
Lopez also plans to invite more
high-level musicians from out of
townparticularly from Boston

to instruct the sectionals, which he
hopes will raise the groups caliber to
a more professional level.
Lopez hopes the existing group
will be enthusiastic about this shift
toward more commitment. He has
consulted current and previous
members to narrow down what the
changes will be and how he will implement them.
The more value I bring to the
program, the more they will be willing to commit the extra time, said
Lopez. Theyll feel like theres more
in it for them as well.
In the future, Lopez hopes these
changes will smooth the way for the orchestra to become a touring ensemble.
Eventually the excellence of the
orchestra is going to speak to larger
and larger communities, both within
Bowdoin, and also further afield as we
increase the talent of the orchestra,
said Lopez.
SOUND CHECK:
Starting next fall, the
Bowdoin Orchestra, under
the supervision of Artist-inResidence George Lopez, will
implement new structural
changes, including doubling
group rehearsal time to not
only improve the overall
quality of the orchestra, but
also attract students seriously
interested in music.
Renewable energy author praises Bowdoin for solar installations

BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF
Philip Warburg, author of the new

book Harness the Sun: Americas
Quest for a Solar-Powered Future,
lauded Bowdoins contribution to
the advance of solar on a larger scale
in Maine during a discussion between Warburg, NRCM clean energy policy advocate Emmie Theberge
and local solar pioneer Vaughan
Woodruff about the state of solar
across the country and in Maine.
With the enormous momentum
that has been built behind the divest
in fossil fuels movement, which is
very important as a consciousnessraising tool and as a move toward
responsible investment policies,
Warburg said. The other side of
that coin is asking what are colleges
and universities doing to invest in
the right technologies and not just
divest from the wrong technologies.
Last fall, Bowdoin completed
Maines largest solar installation.
Given the energy required to power
an institution such as Bowdoin, such
an initiative turns heads among municipalities and other institutions,
Theberge explained, showing the
state that solar can be implemented
on an institutional level.
The discussion was hosted by
the National ReNRCMs argument

With the enormous momentum that has been built behind the divest in fossil fuels movement, which is for the potential of
sources Council
of Maine (NRCM)
solar to churn out
very important as a consciousness-raising tool and as a move toward responsible investment policies....
Tuesday evening
jobs in the state.
at Frontier Caf
Regardless
of
The other side of that coin is asking what are colleges and universities doing to invest in the right techand Cinema.
whether you believe
An
environin the power of renologies and not just divest from the wrong technologies.
mental lawyer by
newable
energy,
training,
Wareveryone believes
burg has served
in jobs, said AusENVIRONMENTAL AUTHOR PHILIP WARBURG
as president of the
tin. Thats a really
Conservation Law
powerful argument
Foundation and a senior attorney at
In his book, Warburg argues that of the policies that are being imple- for solar.
the Environmental Law Institute.
the opportunities created by solar mented here, said Theberge.
According to Warburg, the next
After he graduated from Harvard extend beyond a residential level.
Investing in clean energy reduces generation of college graduates is
College in 1978, Warburg joined the For example, solar brownfields ex- pollution and fossil fuel emissions faced with the challenge of helping
staff of U.S. Senator Charles Percy, ploit landfills, hazardous waste facil- and counteracts climate change, transform the entire utility parawhere he blazed the trail for legis- ities or otherwise untapped sections which poses an increasing threat to digm and improving how we introlation promoting renewable energy.
of land, harnessing this powerful Maines economy and way of life.
duce and manage renewable energy
Harness the Sun outlines the energy source.
Solar is a formidable resource, resources.
dramatic rise of solar energy and the
In addition, community solar even here in Maine, said Warburg
Theberge advocated the imporchallenges it faces today, including farms allow residents to purchase in his speech. Dont let anyone tell tance of getting involved in the pothe impact of solar power on inner panels in a shared solar plant and re- you that Maine doesnt have suf- litical process, and championing iscities, Native American communi- ceive a proportion of the total power ficient sunlight to make sufficient sues of renewable energy.
ties and wildlife.
generated.
strides in the solar area.
Getting involved early and often
The book is based on Warburgs
Solar energy is becoming increasWarburg and Woodruff explained in the political process is imporextensive research accumulated ingly ubiquitous across the country; the financial incentive of solar, not tant, she said.
through traveling across the country in the last four years, solar installa- just in terms of reducing electricity
This fall, the NRCM is particispeaking to solar expertspoliti- tions have quadrupled, and prices bills, but also in boosting the job pating in the series of stakeholder
cians, engineers, utility companies have dropped 50 percent.
market.
meetings held by the Public Utilities
and homeowners.
However, Maine is the only state
Attendee Rebecca Austin 10, who Commission, which will discuss how
What the book tries to do is look in the Northeast that doesnt have works for Revision Energy in Port- to move forward with solar power.
at the full panoply of energy op- state-level solar policy.
land and is behind Solarize BrunsThe group will continue through
portunities provided by solar, said
Maine has a lot of work to do to wick, an effort to bring solar to 2016 to spearhead the effort for getting
Warburg.
catch up with other states in terms the town of Brunswick, echoed the solar power in Maine at the State House.
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SPORTS
ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Womens rugby will face test in Kutztown

BY JAMES CALLAHAN
ORIENT STAFF
Hot off a 67-0 win against the

University of Maine last Saturday,
Bowdoins undefeated womens rugby team will advance to the Sweet
Sixteen round of the USA Rugby Division II Tournament this weekend
in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
This sets the team up for a rematch against Kutztown University,
who have knocked the Polar Bears
out in the playoffs for each of the
past two years.
With an undefeated record in the
New England Small College Rugby
Conference (NESCRC), Bowdoin
has had a remarkable run this year.
The program itself has won the conference title for four years in a row
as long as the NESCRC has existed.

"In the past couple years we've
definitely dominated in terms of
scoring. Last year I think we only
let one try in the whole seasonthis
year we've let two, said co-captain
Cristina Lima 17.
Head Coach MaryBeth Mathews
who, along with her husband Bob,
have been with the team 22 years,
explained its historic success matter-of-factly.
Weve just had class-act young
women who choose to play rugby,
take it seriously, get fit, [and who
are] proud of learning this brand
new sport theyve never played before, said Mathews.
Such dominance has reoriented
the teams goals, Lima added.
Our goals are in the postseason
rooted in the postseason. Our coach

called it three months of pre-season
and now this is our real season going
into nationals.
And even given the history with
Kutztown, the team is optimistic as
they head into this Saturdays competition.
This team is fully capableas
capable as any team weve had. Kutztown is beatable, said Mathews.
Any team is beatable on any given
day. It comes down to the mental
edge, the composure, the physicality
and the patience.
Captain Emily King 16 echoed
that statement.
Were feeling pretty confident.
Were excited to give it another shot
and take it to them. Weve been
working really hard for it, she said.
ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: (top and bottom) Georgia Bolduc 17 runs down the field against the
University of Maine this past Saturday in Bowdoins first round playoff win. Playing on their home field,
Bowdoin won 67-0 to move to 8-0 on the year. This weekend, the Polar Bears will advance to the round
of 16 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to play Kutztown University, who have ended Bowdoins last two seasons in
the playoffs.
Field hockey advances effortlessly to another Final Four with 5-1 win
BY COURTNEY GALLAGHER
ORIENT STAFF
After two NCAA DIII Field Hockey

Championship victories this weekend
on their home field, the top-ranked
Polar Bears (20-0) advanced to the national semifinals, where they will play
Ursinus College tomorrow at 11 a.m. at
host site Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
In Saturday afternoons Sweet Sixteen matchup, Bowdoin took down
Keene State by a 5-1 score. It was the
the second time in program history
that the Bears defeated the Owls in the
NCAA tournament, the first being in
2011.
Junior Kimmy Ganongs goal off a
rebound six minutes into the game
gave Bowdoin an early lead. However, just four minutes later, the Owls
bounced back with a goal of their own.
The ball came bouncing into the circle
through a pair of defenders and pushed
past Clara Belitz 17.
Keene kept the score even at 1-1 for
another 10 minutes by staying strong
on the defensive end, denying five
shots and successfully defending a pair
of corners.
I was pretty shocked that they an-
swered right away with a shot that

dribbled in, Ganong said. I think
when that happens, we always remember to stay calm and not get worked up
and remember that we have the rest of
the game left to play.
Bowdoin finally broke through at
the 22:30 mark, as Ganong again found
the back of the net, this time off of a
broken corner feed from Kelsey Mullaney 16. Less than two minutes later,
Kelsey Bumgardner 18 sent a rebound
to the far left post, finding Liz Znamierowski 16 for a goal. In the final four
minutes of the half, Rachel Kennedy
16 added a goal of her own, putting the
Bears up 4-1 going into halftime
I think their response was that they
were upset that they let that goal in
earlier in the game, and they stepped
up and responded really well, Head
Coach Nicky Pearson said.
The second half was quieter, except
for the final Polar Bears goal 22 minutes in. Kennedy tallied an assist, setting up Sarah Jane Weill 18 for the shot
on goal. Bowdoin outshot the Owls
30-2 on the day and held a 12-1 advantage in penalty corners.
Although the score was 5-1, which
seems like a lot to a little, I think we
could have scored a lot more goals be-
cause had so many chances. Ganong

said, You will never know if your first
shot is what decides the game, or your
last shot. This is why the second half
we came out strong, held them out of
our defensive end and kept pressuring
them.
The Bears advanced to the quarterfinal round the next day against Wellesley, who had blanked the University
of New England 3-0 on Howard Ryan
Field the day before. Bowdoin faced a
drastic change in the style of play of its
opponents.
Keene is more of a direct team
putting up more aerials and big balls.
Wellesley was more of a small passing,
game possession-type team, said Pearson. It was important that our defense
was compact and took away things that
the opposition felt comfortable doing.
Making these defensive adjustments
were critical.
Kennedy gave the Bears their first
goal of the game only four minutes in
by successfully converting a penalty
strokeher 100th career goal. Kennedy then scored a second goal towards
the end of the first half. Meredith Tibbals 18 brought the ball inside Wellesleys defensive 25, where she found
Juliana Fiore 18. Fiore successfully
You will never know if your first shot is what decides the game, or your
last shot. This is why the second half we came out strong, held them out of
our defensive end and kept pressuring them.
KIMMY GANONG 17
worked her way toward the end line,
where she sent a pass to Kennedy at the
right post for the goal. The third and
final goal of the first half, and the game,
came from Ganong with just seconds
remaining on the clock.
Scoring that third goal in the first
half with only ten seconds left was
huge. Bumgardner said, It was a great
drive into the circle from [Mullaney]
and a perfect deflection into the top left
corner from Kimmy.
Wellesleys goal keeper, Lucy Hurlock, shut out the Polar Bears in the
second half, denying ten shots and
six corners. But the game had been
decided in the first half, and Bowdoin
emerged with a 3-0 win and a bid into
the national semifinal.
We needed to want it more and we
did. Both teams were fighting for their
seasons and this win was a trip to the
Final Four, said Bumgardner.

Ursinus got its ticket to the semifinals with a 5-0 win over Rochester in
the round of eight. If the Polar Bears
advance, they will meet the winner
of MiddleburyBowdoins foremost
NESCAC rivalversus The College
of New Jerseythe team that defeated
the Polar Bears in last years national
championship game.
I definitely feel so confident with
this team. Just from the past few weekends, finishing off the regular season
undefeated, winning NESCACS, and
playing our first rounds of NCAAs so
well, I really feel that this team is beginning to peak at the perfect time. I
dont have any doubt that we will win,
Ganong said, We are going into this
weekend and we want to come out 2-0
with a national championship and I
definitely think we can do it.
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Football finishes season with blowout win over Colby

BY MADDIE JODKA
ORIENT STAFF
The football team ended its season

on a high last Saturday, winning 35-13
against NESCAC rival Colby. Although
the Polar Bears finished with a disappointing record of 2-6, the team believes this dominant week eight performance was indicative of improvement
over the course of the season.
We thought we were the better
team, and if we executed what we
had been talking about all week, then
we would come out with a pretty big
victory, said captain Dan Barone 16.
It was good to go out on a high note
like that.
According to Head Coach JB
Wells, the win can be attributed to an
all-around team effort. The defensive
line played particularly well, holding star Colby running back Jabari
Hurdle-Price to 72 yards on the day.
Linebackers Brendan Lawler 16, who
finished with 12 tackles, and Branden
Morin 16 helped lead the defensive
effort in the final game of their college careers.
Offensively, quarterback Tim
Drakeley 17 completed 24 passes for
314 yards and three touchdownsall
career highs. According to Barone,
receivers Seamus Power 16 and Nick
Vailas 18 helped Drakeley with big
catches throughout the game that
sparked momentum in the offense.
Tight end Bryan Porter 18 also had a
big day, finishing with six catches for
95 yards and a score.
It was as complete a game as weve
played, said Wells. They did a great
job of putting it all together in their
last game and beating a big rival. For
the seniors last game, it was a great
way to go out.
Coming off of a 31-0 loss to another NESCAC rival, Bates, the Polar
Bears showed resiliency in quickly
shifting their focus to the showdown
with Colby.
Weve been trying to get the guys
to think in terms of each week as a
season and to not look ahead or behind, just to focus on the moment,
SAVANNAH SIMMONS-GROVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PUT IT IN THE BOOKS: Bowdoin quarterback Timmy Drakeley 17 passed for 314 yards and three touchdowns against rival Colby at home this past Saturday. Bowdoin won the game 35-13. The Polar Bears finished the season with a 2-6 record.
said Wells. Theyve been good at that.
Every Monday was like a new week.
The team seems to have bought
into this outlook. Even when the
team suffered a loss, Wells believes
that they almost always demonstrated improvement in some way with
each new game. In addition, there
was a change in team culture and
identity this season.
Any time you bring in a new
coaching staff, theres definitely
going to be some changes, said
Barone. [There was] more of an
emphasis than weve ever had on
establishing an identity of the team

and a culture of the team. I think
thats what Coach Wells biggest goal
was of the year.
Arguably, the low point of the
season was the Bates game, which
Wells believes is the one game where
the team did not improve from the
previous one. High points were the
Homecoming Weekend win against
Hamilton and now the win against
Colby, bouncing back after the
tough loss.
The record wasnt where we wanted it to be, but I think the team did a
good job of progressing in their mentality and the culture of the team,
said Barone. It was good to see that
despite some difficult losses.
Wells believes the end-of-season
losing record is a sign of good things
to come for the program.
You either motivate the off-season based off of a loss or based off of
a win, said Wells. In the last week
of the year, things we had been trying to instill in the team came full
circle where they were doing what we
wanted them to do.
Hopefully, in five years we can
look back on the program and see

some of the things we started and see
how theyve grown, said Barone.
Wells plans to take the work the
team did during this years offseason
to another level in order to prepare
for the next season. In addition, the
Polar Bears have strong candidates
at the quarterback position; both
Drakeley and Noah Nelson 19 started
four games this year. Wells sees this
competition as a positive, and hopes
Drakeley and Nelson will continue to
push each other throughout the offseason and into the 2016 campaign.
Womens volleyball falls short, finishes in nations final eight

BY ANJULEE BHALLA
ORIENT STAFF
Last night, the volleyball team suffered

a heartbreaking loss against California
Lutheran University in the NCAA D-III
Quarterfinals. However, this season has
been full of impressive accomplishments,
as the team won the Regional Championship for the first time in program history at MIT on Sunday. The team faced
UMass-Boston, Babson and MIT in the
first three rounds of the tournament and
came out of each match victorious, securing the Polar Bears their first ever spot in
the Elite Eight.
It was a huge accomplishment for our
program, said Head Coach Erin Cady.
Our senior leadership has helped direct
us to get that regional championship and
Im extremely proud of our program and
what our student-athletes have been able
to accomplish.
After a decisive victory against UMassBoston, who the team also swept during
the regular season, the Polar Bears prevailed in a closely fought match against
Babson College, who served the team one
of its four losses this season. In the regional championship, the team fell to MIT in
the first set, yet came back to win the next
three by at least seven points in each.
The first set against MIT was a very
good wake up call, said captain Christy
Jewett 16. MITs pretty flashy, they have
a really big outside hitter and shes very
good so what we focused on for the rest of
the game was to make sure that we did not
let the people who didnt deserve points
get points. By neutralizing everyone else
on the court, number 10 [Megan Gebhard] started to make errors first of all, but
also her getting kills didnt fire their team
up as much because they were only getting kills from her, and that was what allowed us to prevail since no team can play
with just one really good player.
In last nights quarterfinal matchup, the
team started strong, winning the first set
25-20. However, Cal Lutheran gained momentum at the end of the set and carried
it through to win the next two. The fourth
set was neck and neck, until the Regals
pulled away towards the end. While the
Polar Bears were able to fight back to 2324, Cal Lutheran claimed the final set 25-
23 and earned their spot in the semifinals.

Despite losing this hard-fought battle,
with NESCAC and Regional Championship titles, this years team has put forward
one of the strongest seasons in the history
of the program. The team sees the season, and especially the Sweet Sixteen win
against MIT, as the culmination of hard
work and dedication in every aspect of the
program.
Having the confidence that we could
win and knowing that we had a good
team behind us to be able to play well
enough to win, I think that was the difference this year in actually achieving a win,
said Jewett.
It would be remiss not to note how
great an influence Coach Cady has been
to this program and the structure shes
brought to us and the way she doesnt take
herself too seriously. We feel like shes our
friend just as much as shes the most influential figure that many of us have experienced yet at Bowdoin, said captain Hailey
Wahl 16. The stars have aligned with a
group of devoted, skilled and talented
girls along with a great coaching staff and
a perfect set of goals that were all on the
same page about.

The Regional Championship title was
accompanied by a number of individual accolades as three Polar Bears were
named to the All-Northeast team and
Jewett became the second player in Bowdoin history to be an American Volleyball
Coaches Association (AVCA) All-American, following Assistant Coach Kristin
Hanczor 11, who was named to the AllAmerican Second Team in 2011.
Katie Doherty 17 was selected as an
AVCA All-American Honorable Mention, as well as a member of the NCAA
All-Northeast team. With 1,445 career
digs, she ranks third all-time at Bowdoin
with more than a season to add to her total.
Quincy Leech 17 joins Doherty as an
All-American Honorable Mention and on
the All-Northeast team for a second year.
With 986 assists this season, Leech ranks
fifth all-time at Bowdoin for assists in a
single season.
Jewett was also named the 2015 New
England Womens Volleyball Association
(NEWVA) Player of the Year and a NEWVA All-New England First Team honoree
for the second time, as she continues to

secure her place in the Bowdoin record
books with 1,390 career kills.
The team victories mean a lot more
to me than individual awards because Ive
realized that theres no way to get this individual recognition without having a really stellar team around you, said Jewett.
It was very nice to be recognized but Im
more looking forward to getting to having
an Elite Eight banner hanging in our gym
to kind of represent how amazing this
teams been.
Between the NESCAC and NCAA
playoffs, the team had two consecutive
weekends in which they played three
matches and flew to Grand Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday in preparation for last
nights game.
One of the biggest challenges is remaining a student athlete throughout all
this, said Jewett. Obviously Bowdoin
wants us to have a great experience and
enjoy being in such a momentous tournament, but also all of us know that weve
got a lot of work and were no different
than any of the other students here at
Bowdoin.
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SCOREBOARD
Mens soccer falls in heartbreaker at MIT

BY CALDER MCHUGH
ORIENT STAFF
When MITs Sean Bingham headed

a cross past Bowdoin goalkeeper Stevie Van Siclen 18 in the 99th minute,
Bowdoin Mens Soccers season came
to a close in the second round of the
NCAA tournament. But after capturing their second NESCAC championship in two years, everyone associated
with the program agrees: the season
was a resounding success.
Anchored by senior defenders Nabil
Odulate 16 (who was named the NESCAC player of the year) and Kiefer Solarte 16, the team gave up only a single
goal in the five postseason games they
played: Binghams game winner.
Bowdoin forged its identity as a
defensive team early in the season
Odulate and Coach Scott Wiercinski
agreed that the back line was staunch
from September onwards. However, it
took the team a little bit longer to get
the attack going. Wiercinski noted that
the team prioritized getting the ball
into the back of the net in practice, and

saw a clear moment when their efforts
came together.
In the second half against Babson
[on October 12th] we came out with
a ton of energy and a really strong
mentality. We scored four goals, and in
some ways we didnt really slow down
from a performance standpoint until
the season was over. said Wiercinski.
Odulate pointed to another comeback victory, a 2-1 win against Connecticut College on October 24, saying
our heads didnt drop at all when they
scored the goal, we just ramped up our
intensity, ramped up the pressure on
them, and ended up getting the come
from behind win. I think that really set
the stage for what we were able to go on
to do in the playoffs.
No matter the date of the teams
turnaround, the Polar Bears clearly
came together as a group and were able
to use their collective energy to pull off
multiple upsets in the NESCAC tournament and capture the title.
Bowdoin travelled to MIT for the
first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. On both Saturday November

14th, the date of the teams first round
matchup against Plattsburgh State, and
the next day against MIT, the wind
was gusting in Boston. In the first
half against Plattsburgh, Bowdoin was
playing against the wind, but managed
to keep the Cardinals out of the back of
the net during the first 45 minutes. In
the second half, they attacked with the
wind at their back.
According to Odulate, the last 1015 minutes of that game was really just
one-way traffic.
Bowdoin finally broke through with
a header from Moctar Niang 19 off of a
ball into the 18-yard box from Hunter
Miller 16 in the 90th minute, sealing a 1-0 victory for the Polar Bears.
Wiercinski noted Moctars ability in
the air, and the team hopes he will anchor an attacking group that will have
to be more proficient on a regular basis
next season if the Polar Bears hope to
repeat once again as NESCAC champions.
Womens soccer ends with loss to Stevens

BY MATT SHEN
ORIENT STAFF
The womens soccer teams season

came to an end Sunday with a 4-1
loss to Stevens Institute of Technology in the second round of the
NCAA tournament. The Polar Bears
had previously defeated Johns Hopkins 3-2 in the first round of the
NCAA tournament. The team ended
the season with an overall record of
13-6-1.
We knew we would have our
work cut out for us, but we also felt
like we had a reasonable chance to
come away with a win. The whole
team, I think, really came up in
many ways, said Head Coach Brianne Weaver.
Bowdoin started the first-round
game against Hopkins off strong,
when a cross from Maggie Godley
16 was headed into the back of the
net by Jamie Hofstetter 16 in the
20th minute. However, Johns Hopkins evened the score in the 39th
minute. Godley, assisted by Hofstetter, found the net once more after
the halftime break, only for the Blue
Jays to even the score again.
With less than a minute left in
regulation, Nikki Wilson 18 scored
her first career goal to put the Polar
Bears through to the second round.
To get a goal in the last minute
was one of the most thrilling moments of the season, and it was truly
a team effort, Weaver said. The
goal was beautiful and was the work
It was the most thrilling end to a season Ive ever had.

HEAD COACH BRIANNE WEAVER
of [Hofstetter] and [Wilson], but all
of the play leading up to that helped
to create that opportunity. I dont
know if there have been many more
thrilling victories in my coaching
career.
The whole team stepped up for
that game, and it was a lot of great
individual performances, said Assistant Coach Ellery Gould.
The next day, Bowdoin couldnt
stop Stevens Institutes Raba Nassif,
who scored three goals in Bowdoins
4-1 loss. Bowdoin was down 3-0
when Wilson scored her second goal
in two days in the 55th minute.
They were very fast, very physical, Weaver said. They pressured
us heavily; they had control of the
game at the first whistle. I think
what we were most proud of is after
we went down two goals, we started
to settle down a little bit and actually just tried to play our game, and
we actually got some good chances.
To come back and get a goal against
them was a big moral victory. The
biggest takeaway for me was that the
team kept fighting until the very end
even though we were down three
goals.
The teams season was marked by
a major shift halfway through the
season. According to Weaver, after

starting the season 5-4-1 and losing two games back to back over Fall
Break, the teams attitude changed.
The team just came together and
said Okay, this is going to be a turning point for us. Were going to push
and give it everything that weve
got and make a run at the end, said
Weaver.
The Polar Bears won seven games
in a row and eight of their last 10.
It was the most thrilling end to
a season Ive ever had, Weaver said.
Weaver credited much of the
teams success to the leadership of
the seniors. Hofstetter, who is a captain, led the team with eight goals
and eight assists, and captain Bridget McCarthy 16 finished her career
with more time in goal (6049:58
minutes) than any other mens or
womens goalkeeper in the schools
history.
The team will get a short break,
but soon, the players will have to begin to look to the next season.
Once we come back from winter
break, its a full go mentality, said
Weaver. You have nine months to
prep for the season. It does take all
that time and so much of it happens
away from the field prior to August.
WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
265
MENS CROSS COUNTRY
NOVEMBER 13, 2015 UMASS BOSTON
NOVEMBER 14, 2015

NCAA D3 REGIONAL CONN COLLEGE
55 TEAMS IN TOTAL
8 KILOMETERS 4.97 MILES
Bowdoin
UMASS
16 11 20 0
25 25 25 3
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 BABSON COLLEGE
Bowdoin
BABSON
25 26 21 3
22 24 25 1
NOVEMBER 15, 2015 MIT
Bowdoin
UMASS
14 25 25 25 3
25 18 16 18 1
NOVEMBER 19, 2015 CAL LUTHERAN
Cal Lutheran 20 25 25 25 3
Bowdoin 25 17 16 23 1
FIELD HOCKEY
200
Bowdoin
Keene State
5
1
6:23
22:30
24:28
57:19
NOVEMBER 15, 2015 VS WELLESLEY
Bowdoin
Wellesley
Rachel Kennedy
Rachel Kennedy
Kimmy Ganong
Bridger Tomlin
Nicholas Walker
Ben Torda
Calvin Park
Alec Ferguson-Hull
Sam Dodge
28TH
58TH
66TH
79TH
125TH
133RD
25:33.3
25:57.4
26:01.1
26:41.1
27:03.5
27:03.5
WOMENS CROSS COUNTRY
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 VS KEENE STATE
Kimmy Ganong
Kimmy Ganong
Liz Znamierowski
Sarah Jane Weill
67
68
80
114
128
336
1) Williams
2) Amherst
3) Tufts
4) Wesleyan
5) MIT
11) Bowdoin
3
0
4:01
29:26
34:53
NOVEMBER 14, 2015

NCAA D3 REGIONAL CONN COLLEGE
56 TEAMS IN TOTAL
6 KILOMETERS 3.72 MILES
1) Williams
2) Tufts
3) Middlebury
4) MIT
5) Wellesley
11) Bowdoin
Sarach Kelley
Lucy Skinner
Ally Fulton
Meghan Bellerose
Sarah Kinney
Julia ORourke
Lucy Knowlton
43RD
57TH
68TH
81ST
123RD
141ST
163RD
44
107
108
114
128
372
22:36.6
22:57.6
23:07.3
23:20.8
24:01.4
24:15.3
24:38.1
WOMENS SOCCER
1361
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 JOHNS HOPKINS
Bowdoin
Johns Hopkins
Jamie Hofstetter
Maggie Codley
Nikki Wilson
3
2
19:25
45:23
89:01
NOVEMBER 15, 2015 STEVENS
Stevens
Bowdoin
Nikki Wilson
4
1
54:41
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 PLATTSBURGH STATE
Bowdoin
Plattsburgh
Moctar Niang
1
0
89:45
NOVEMBER 15, 2015 MIT
MIT
Bowdoin
1
0
WOMENS RUGBY
80
FOOTBALL
26
NOVEMBER 24, 2015 VS. UNIV. OF MAINE

USA RUGBY DIVISION II TOURNAMENT
NOVEMBER 14, 2015 VS. COLBY
Bowdoin
Colby
MENS SOCCER
1144
35
13
Bowdoin
Williams
67
0
OPINION
A mixed blessing
his past Sunday, members of the Bowdoin community gathered on the steps
of the Museum of Art to hold a candlelight vigil to reflect on recent events
both near and far. Attendees reflected on a variety of sobering incidents
varying in scale and proximity to the Bowdoin community, including nationwide
student protests for racial equality, a sexual assault in Mayflower apartments and,
most recently, the terrorist attacks in Paris. Students and administrators gathered
to comfort others and be comforted themselves. It was but one example of the
Bowdoin community finding a way to come together in a difficult, confusing time.
After an occurrence of cultural appropriation that harmed students of color and
others on campus, manyincluding those affectedperformed public displays of
protest and unity in the following days. A Bowdoin Student Government (BSG)
meeting provided a platform for many to voice their sadness and frustration, and
resulted in the General Assembly releasing a Statement of Solidarity. The next
week, many students gathered in the Union for a protest that called attention to
difficulties students of color face on campus. This month, BSGs annual No Hate
November initiative has provided outlets for support and education, including a
photo display showing support to those affected by racial bias and an Uncommon
Hour presentation today on racism by Associate Professor of Africana Studies and
History Brian Purnell. Last Friday, dozens of Bowdoin students marched in solidarity with students of color across the country fighting forms of racism on their
campuses. While large issues of racism cannot be immediately solved and there is
much more work to be done, its encouraging to see many Bowdoin students work
relentlessly to make change in our community.
The sexual assault and other troubling incidents of a similar nature have caused
many on campus to reconsider their sense of security. Many members of the student body feel confused and vulnerable. However, the response has not been one
of helplessness. Hours after Tuesdays incident, a Facebook group called Bowdoin Safe Walk was created as a forum for students to offer and seek out rides or
walking buddies. The group has over 1,500 members. That same night, Director
of Safety and Security Randy Nichols visited several off-campus houses on and
near Potter Street to check on the wellbeing of students living there. The next
day, BSG organized a community safe walk through campus and the surrounding
neighborhoods. These responses have affirmed the strength and resilience of our
community. The events that have forced us to reconsider our sense of security
have also revealed the ways that members of the Bowdoin community can come
together to support one another.
The past few weeks have been trying in a way that few on campus remember
in the recent past. It is necessary to view Bowdoin critically and honestly, and the
administrations handling of some of the recent events has at times left something
to be desired. But at the very least, we should still be grateful for the movements
at work here: the responses weve seen across campus have reaffirmed for us that
Bowdoins community is something to be thankful for.
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.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:
Living nearby allows me to audit Bowdoin classes. Im grateful to the
professors and students who welcome me to their classes. Outstanding
professors and bright, engaged and prepared students create a wonderful experience. I have a gripe, though.
In a class of 18 students, six regularly disrupt class to go to the bathroom. In 30 years of courtroom experience, never once did a judge,
juror or lawyer leave the courtroom to go to the bathroom during a case.
Adults dont leave business meetings to go to the bathroom. At Pomona
College and Stanford Law School, students never left class to relieve
their bladder. Professors never abandon a class to go to the bathroom.
As a college professor friend of mine in California told his students: its
part of being an adult to learn to hold it, and leaving a class is disruptive and rude for the professor and other students. Shouldnt college
students know better?
Michael Wischkaemper
HEAD ONLINE FOR

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
A PERSONAL RESPONSE TO THE PARIS ATTACKS,
AN ALUMNUS VIEW ON DIVESTMENT,
and SUPPORT FOR COACH SLOVENSKIS OP-ED
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Dissatisfaction can lead to real change

MAYA REYES
VULNERABLE DISCOURSE
There is an assumption of satisfaction at Bowdoin College. When you
are constantly rated as some of the
happiest college students in the United States, you are expected to be happy. When the dining hall is the best in
the country, when there are Bowdoin
hellos and how are yous and you
have a cuddly administration, you are
expected to be happy.
Not just happy, but satisfied. And if
you are not satisfied, you are spoiled.
You are asking for too much. You need
to relax. Get off campus. Just have
fun! These are the best four years of
your life, why cant you just appreciate
them? A lot of people would kill to be
in your place.
Thats just my problem. A lot of
people would kill to be in my place.
And if anyone is the poster child of
gratitude, it should be me. I am the
daughter of an immigrant, a woman
of color, the first person in my entire
family to attend a four-year college
and a recipient of generous financial
aid. Like most of my classmates, I also
worked really hard to get here. But a
lot of people work hard to try to get
here or somewhere like here and they
dont even come close.
And their absence furthers the existence of places like Bowdoin. Without our brand of selectivity, would this
place be as wealthy and prestigious?
Who is left out of private, elite education? And what do we miss because
they are not here? Amenities do not
make up for their absence. Maybe
I believe that if Bowdoin takes certain stances and

changes, it will be a better place for those who were not
groomed to become Bowdoin students.
at first, when my major obstacle was
homesickness, comfort was comforting. There was comfort in the form
of ice cream sundaes, overwhelming
friendliness and an endless stream of
orientation events. There was comfort
in the idea of a bubble of safety.
Now this comfort is what makes
me uncomfortable. As graduation approaches, I think about what it means
to have a Bowdoin education. My
most treasured gift from this education is my sociological imagination:
the awareness of the connection between my personal experience and
societal issues. The paradox is that
this gift is what has alienated me
from Bowdoin Collegemy education has heightened my critical gaze.
Yet whenever I put this critical gaze to
use, I am inevitably told to cool down.
I have grievances because I know
Bowdoin is a real place that can play a
real role in real changenot because I
dont know how to have fun or how to
relax. I pride myself on knowing how
to do both very well. I believe happiness and criticism can coexist. I will
not go into explaining these grievances, but I will list a few for the sake of
clarity. I dont support the recruitment
of athletes, I am concerned by the lack
of student-led, administration-free
social activism, the weak ties between
the Brunswick community and Bowdoin students, and the continuous denial of racism on campus (not cultural
appropriation or political incorrectness, but racism).
I understand these are controversial points of view, but I can promise

you I have spent a lot of time thinking about them. That is why it upsets
me that grievances on campuses are
so often met with thoughtless remarks
along the lines of telling me to be appreciative or considerate.
This is my response. I show my
appreciation through my critical
gaze. I believe that if Bowdoin takes
certain stances and changes, it will
be a better place for those who were
not groomed to become Bowdoin
students. I care about that community. I am not concerned with
showing an unnecessary sensitivity
towards the segment of the Bowdoin
community who has had a comfortable life and has an investment in
continuing that comfort at Bowdoin
and beyond.
Comfort with the status quo is an
acceptance of structural inequalities
that I will not avoid critiquing, especially not for the sake of someones
comfort. Denying the validity of a
critique is the denial of an experience,
and that is a form of silencing.
When I think about how lucky
I am to have this education, I dont
think to silence myself. I think
about those who arent lucky enough
to be here, and what their experience would be like on this campus.
I am critical because this institution
wasnt built for someone like me.
And very often, those who silence
critique were born to go here.
BOWDOIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT UPDATE

To the Student Body,
It goes without saying that the past couple of weeks have been particularly difficult for our community. The General Assembly
has passed a number of proposals and issued a number of statements in response to recent events, and we have begun to lobby the
administration in an effort to make meaningful, institutionalized changes to the way our community responds to such incidents.
Programs for No Hate November, under the leadership of Vice President for Student Affairs Luke von Maur and Vice President
for Student Government Affairs Michelle Kruk, have continued at an astonishing pace and with remarkably high attendance. Each
program has been extremely well designed and executed. Of note is the art installation in Smith Unionover 400 individuals participated. On behalf of the BSG, I would like to thank those who took the time to be photographed as a part of the installation. It
serves as an important physical reminder that our community stands with those who have been targeted by racist acts. In addition
to the installation, Vice President for Academic Affairs Andrew Millar kicked off the month by using our brand new HL Media
Commons to stream documentaries and began this years Food for Thought series. Vice President Kruk has met with both athletics representatives from BSAAC and multicultural representatives from the Multicultural Coalition, and is working on connecting
these leaders to one another in the hopes of promoting important dialogue.
The Assembly has also issued a Statement of Solidarity with the students at the University of Missouri. As we are all aware, their
campus has been engulfed in a wave of activism that seeks to topple the institutionalized racism that permeates their school. We
stand with them and their demands for justice. As their struggle continues, it is my hope that our community will contribute to the
national conversation on race and difference in meaningful, thoughtful ways that take into account all perspectives.
More recently, just this week, Vice President Kruk and I introduced a proposal for the establishment of a Multicultural Representative seat on the BSG Assembly. The addition of this seat requires a constitutional amendment that must be ratified by the
student body through a referendum. We intend to campaign and inform the Student Body on why the seat is necessary and how
it will be beneficial for our community. The proposal can be found on our website, and the vote authorizing the referendum will
take place during the Assemblys meeting on December 2. We hope that you can attend this historic meeting.
Additionally, Vice President for Facilities and Sustainability Kevin Hernandez and IHC Representative Jacob Russell successfully passed an important proposal regarding the safety and security of our College Houses. In light of recent events, the BSG will
lobby Facilities Management and Safety and Security for specific institutional changes, including the right to 24/7 student parking
at the College Houses. The Assembly has directed me to invite the heads of these offices to a meeting of the Assembly to discuss
these matters, and it is my hope that this important meeting will take place soon.
Finally, the Assembly has made important headway on internal governance. The unprecedented recess resignation of a Vice
President required the appointment of an Interim Vice President. The Assembly has successfully begun to codify this process.
This important change to our Bylawsa necessary, ethical and constitutional changewill enable quick action on the part of the
Executive Committee should such a resignation occur in the future.
The BSG continues to serve as a platform for the concerns of our peers. Our duty is to represent all students, and it is my sincere
hope that the Assembly has fulfilled this responsibility thus far, and that it will continue to do so throughout the year. We will continue to empower individuals, work with student organizations and aggressively lobby the administration for important changes.
On behalf of the BSG, good luck with midterms, and have a restful Thanksgiving vacation.
Sincerely,
Daniel Mejia-Cruz 16, President
On Behalf of the Executive Committee
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PERSPECTIVES ON SAFETY
Women shouldnt need to rely on men to provide security
BY AUDREY PHILLIPS
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
In light of the recent sexual assault,

many of my male friends confided in
me. I cant imagine what it feels like
to be a woman on campus right now,
they said. Let me begin the dialogue.
It can sometimes feel vulnerable, disempowering and unfair.
Growing up as a girl, there are a
lot of things youre told not to do
dont get too drunk at a party, dont
walk alone at night, dont engage with
strangers. But, as a grown woman, Ive
come to not like being told what to do
or not do.
Ive been catcalled, followed home
by a drunken man in a foreign country and coached by a sexual predator.
In all of these situations, I was the one
who had to adjust my habits. To be
a woman often means making small
changes to take extra precautionapproach your house or car with your
keys already out, have your cab driver drop you off a block before your
house, always keep your doors locked.
But, regardless of precaution, things
still happen.
I am a survivor of sexual assault.
Two months before arriving at Bowdoin the boyfriend of my close friend
sexually assaulted me. In response, my
close friend told me that I was playing the victim; so, I bottled that night
up, wrapped it in a blanket of guilt and
pushed it deep into the subconscious
depths of my brain.
The only verbalization of that night
would surface during drunken moments my freshman and sophomore
years. With a little liquid courage, I
would sometimes mention a vague
time when a boy hurt me, only to
shrug it off upon further questioning.
That was, until the end of my sophomore fall: a drunken hookup went
terribly awry, reminiscent of my experience a year and a half previousit
took me right back. After coming to

my senses, I called a friend and told
her everything, and luckily that friend
had the sense to connect me with
Bowdoins resources.
I naively thought that just sharing my secret would be the end, like
I would just shake the memory away
and be done with it. Instead, I started
my sophomore spring finally dealing
with my remnant feelings of anger,
guilt, confusion and sadness. Digging
into my past was emotionally draining,
until I realized, as I began to piece myself back together, that I had the power
to heal myself.
To heal, I invested in a new pair of
running shoes. I hit the open road,
opting to run to clear my mind when
journaling or discussions with wellintentioned resources became too
overwhelming. Running is how I
reflect; it gives me space away from
Bowdoin to process my thoughts.
Running empowers me to have con-
trol over my body because no one

can tell me how to run. I choose to
take each step forward, listening to
how my body feels. I can go fast or
slow, and best of all, I choose when
to start or stop.
But, in response to the recent sexual assault on campus, a friend told
me, Running alone isnt safe anymore. My blood boiled. Running
is how I empower myselfbut now
it was suddenly added to the list of
things I shouldnt do as a woman.
Just the other day I went for a run alone
and stopped briefly to walk. A man driving by stopped and rolled down his window. A knot grew in my stomach: no one
knows that Im on a run, my phone just
died and Im two miles from campus.
Hey, are you okay? he asked. I noticed that you were walking. To which
I replied, Yes, thanks sir, and he said,
Good, just checking. As he drove away,
I let out a sigh of relieffeeling safe again.
His intentions were good, but I felt frus-
trated: would he have stopped if Id been

a man?
This moment highlights the complexities of what men on campus can do to
help women. While men can be supportive to women by providing security, the
idea that a woman needs to depend on a
man to feel safe can feel disempowering.
Maneuvering the world as an empowered
woman being independent, while still
appreciating and accepting the support of
men is complex.
I share my story, a vulnerable part of
my personal narration, to bring awareness
to the realities of being a woman and to
advocate for men to support women without disempowering them. It shouldnt be
the sole responsibility of a woman to
make adjustments to feel safe in society;
it should be the role of society to create
spaces that are safe for every single person
regardless of gender.
Audrey Phillips is a member of the
class of 2016.
Feeling safe in an unsafe world

CAROLINE MARTINEZ
SAY IT LIKE IT IS
DIANA FURUKAWA
Mistaken threats: my police encounter

BY GARRETH HELM
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
Recent events on and around campus have made us all question our
safety. While trying, these incidents
have caused the Bowdoin community
to come together in ways I have never
seen it do before. We all can, and must,
unite in denouncing and combating
malicious acts that target our female
classmates. This issue transcends political, social and racial divisions.
I would like to tell a story.
Around 11:30 P.M. Monday night I was
returning to my Brunswick apartment
following a workout in the Buck Fitness
Center. On reaching the door I realized
I didnt have my OneCard. As I fumbled
through my pockets a fellow Bowdoin
student passed in the street. We shared a
glance but exchanged no words. I went on
checking and rechecking pockets. Once
it became clear my card was indeed lost,
I began retracing my steps, hoping it had
just fallen out of my pocket. Before I started back I noticed the student standing
several doors down talking on her phone.
I thought nothing of it.
I found my card near Stowe Hall. Glad
I had avoided a $15 fee, I started back to
my apartment. On crossing Longfellow
Avenue I noticed unusual police activity.
A Brunswick Police Department (BPD)
cruiser passed, using a spotlight to illuminate yards and driveways. Another BPD
car and a Bowdoin security vehicle were
parked in the rear of the Brunswick apartment complex. Something was definitely
going on. I was naturally curious, and a
little surprised when the BPD car that had
passed me earlier pulled up beside me.
The officer exited his vehicle and told
me to stop, before asking if I was a student. I replied yes, and he asked for an
ID. I was internally thankful I had found
mine. During this exchange two more
police cars along with a Bowdoin Secu-
rity vehicle joined the first officers car.

Another BPD officer stood with me on
the sidewalk as his partner returned to his
vehicle to run my ID. To cut the ice I jokingly commented on the intense police response, partially hoping he would tell me
what had caused it. He said nothing, very
clearly having no interest in conversation.
I only realized later that he had been there
to make sure I didnt try to run.
What is your name? Asked the officer who had been checking my ID as he
returned from his vehicle.
Garreth Helm, I replied. He looked at
me and consulted the card. I could see he
wanted more. I remembered then what
exactly my card said, and added the name
neither I, nor anyone in my family ever
used.
My full last name is Gonzalves-Helm,
I added. He asked me more questions, and
I told the story of how I had lost my OneCard on the way back from the gym and
had retraced my steps to find it.
We received a call from a concerned
student, he informed me. Someone reported they witnessed someone trying to
gain entry into an apartment. I recalled
the student I had seen earlier. He asked me
if I tried to enter through any windows or
force the door.
I said no. All I was guilty of was digging through my pockets. The officer
returned my ID and seemed to be out
of questions. He said I could go. As I
walked away I wondered how the situation would have been different had I not
found my OneCard.
At first I was a bit annoyed that someone (a neighbor no less) had called the
police on me, but as minutes passed I
wondered, what if it had been someone
else, someone with ill intent, who tried to
gain entry. The concerned caller would
then have been a hero.
Perplexed and still a bit confused, I
told my roommate what happened immediately after the fact. He apologized
profusely. I was unsure why until he cautiously hinted that my being a 64 black
man might have had something to do
with the report. I was skeptical. I had not
even thought about my race. In the end
we agreed that he would have been less
likely to raise an alarm had he tried to
gain entry to our apartment (my roommate is a lean white guy). I hesitate to include this paragraph, because there is no
evidence my experience was related to
race. I simply do not know and there is no
way to be sure.
This being said, it is imperative we all
remain vigilant, and report individuals
who may mean us harm. It is not always
clear-cut who is a security risk. The Bowdoin Security website says that 95 percent
of the time your gut correctly discerns potentially dangerous situations. While I was
part of the five percent error, I dont want
anyone, including the person who called
me in, to be dissuaded from reporting feasible threats in the future.
I hope other students will not be subject to police questioning, but until the
actual perpetrator(s) are caught, this may
very well be the case. I dont know if I was
the first student stopped on suspicion, but
I doubt I will be the last.
A positive that can be taken from my
experience is the knowledge that in the
future, if anyone does try to get away
with anything, the full force of the BPD
and Randy Nichols will rapidly come
crashing down on them.
To male students, you may be reported as I was by concerned individuals. We
scarcely think about it, but men walking
alone at night can appear threatening.
To all students, make an effort to get
to know your neighbors. It could save
someone an unnecessary police encounter, and you could meet some really great
people.
Garreth Helm is a member of the
class of 2018.
When I was 12 years old my mom

gave a talk about being a woman and
what this meant for my safety. She said
strangers might make aggressive sexual advances on me and might even
try to attack me. It was my job to be
ready when these things happened, to
put on a very serious face that would
prevent strangers from approaching
me and to be able to defend myself.
This angered me. I grew up with four
brothers so I wanted to be able to be a
part of the world the way they were,
but my mother explained to me this
wasnt possible. Why did I have to be
more careful than they were? Why
were strangers more likely to hurt me?
To hear that I lived in a patriarchal
and unequal society, which my mom
also pointed out, wasnt particularly
satisfying and still left unanswered
questions. As my mom explained
the situations I might encounter,
many of which I have encountered
at some point in my life from having strange men harassing me to get
into their cars to being sexually assaulted, I wondered: will I ever feel
safe? How can I have peace in my
life when there is so much danger,
not only for people in general, but
particularly for me as a woman?
This danger only increases for women of color and non-straight or low
income women.
Initially, I felt helpless with all these
questions and information. It wasnt
fairit was just wrong. The situation
needed to change, not me or my actions. I lived in fear for a while: fear
of jogging, fear of men who I just met,
fear of being attacked. It made absolute sense that I would feel like thisI
needed to deal with an ugly reality
but I also realized that even though it
made sense, it wasnt the way I wanted
to live. Feeling inundated with fear
has a real effect on our physical and
mental wellbeing. The fear was useful
when it made me take precautions,
like locking doors and not being by
myself in dangerous places, but after
that it was just draining.
Where can we find solace and be-
come who we want to be in a world

that isnt necessarily what we want?
The response to this question might
be different for various people, but for
me fostering the strength of my body,
which had often been an enemy that
victimized me, was a first step. The
relationship we as women have with
our bodies can often be problematic
they can cause us so much trouble!
They are targets of stares, comments,
threats and even physical aggression.
I realized that although I was more
of a target of violence because I was
a woman, I was also very strong and
able. I began doing martial arts and
using my body in very useful ways. I
realized I could do pushups, lift people up and down, block a punch and
defend myself. It was exciting to see
my body as a protector, rather than a
burden that made me a target.
As women it is especially important to know how to defend ourselves.
It can sound scary, but it can also be
incredibly empowering and even fun
to learn what to do in threatening
situations. Not everyone enjoys doing martial arts or engaging in physical activities, but having an able and
strong body is something that has
been denied to women historically
and needs to be reclaimed. In a society
that oppresses and often denies women their safety, it is a rebellious act to
have a body that isnt an object made
for someone else to watch or attack,
but a body that is able and protects
and defends us.
Having a body thats able to defend
itself wont change the power structures
of society, but it can give us a little bit
more peace of mind, challenge the gender norms that subjugate women and
make us feel strong. After the sexual
assault case on campus, threats against
students of color at the University of
Missouri and the incident on Potter
Street, many have decided to have selfdefense classes. Some of these classes
are taking place this weekend and were
posted on the Facebook group Bowdoin Safe Walk. There are also clubs on
campuslike Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which
meets every Monday and Wednesday
from 6 to 8 p.m. in Sargent Dance Studiowhich students are welcome to
join as well. I invite everyone to explore
these options.
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opinion
15
The Senior Etiquette Dinner teaches cultural capital, table manners

JULIA MEAD
LEFT OF LIPSTICK
I am the slowest eater you know.
I think this is because I use good etiquette; I never speak while Im chewing, I take small bites and I swallow one
bite before I begin another.
I have mastered etiquette, I
thought. No you havent, the Senior
Etiquette Dinner told me.
The Senior Etiquette Dinner has
been a Career Planning fixture for a
long time and was, for many years,
hosted by Karen Mills, whose attendance at many White House state dinners qualified her for the job. This year
it was hosted by Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster, who is quite polite.
Our evening of etiquette began with
a mock reception and forced mingling.
Although I knew most of the people
in the room from living, studying and
socializing with them for three and a
half years, the ordeal felt stilted. Maybe
it was because we were wearing business casual. Maybe it was because we
were wearing name tags. I borrowed
a friends blazer hoping that it would
make me look assertive, or at least professorial. It did neither, but it did help
me blend in with my post-adolescent,
pre-professional peers.
After our mock reception, we sat
down to learn dinner etiquette. Some
of the etiquette rules seemed entirely
arbitrary. For example, I learned the
proper way to butter a roll. It is not, as I
have always done, to saw the roll in half

and make a butter sandwich, but rather
to pull off bite-sized pieces and butter
them individually. The only reason I
can imagine for this is that it disguises
how much butter youre eating. I suppose this is meant to help people, who,
like me, eat a lot of butter.
Sometimes I push bits of food onto
my fork with my finger. I realize it
sounds gross, but I bet you do it too.
I did this once at the dinner, unthinkingly. I was sure nobody would notice,
but one of my housemates saw me
from across the room and shamed me
later. Touching your food with your
fingers (except for rolls I guess?) is bad
etiquette. Dont do it.
Also, turns out youre supposed to
hold a glass of red wine by the chalice to warm it and a glass of white
wine by the stem to keep it cool (I
wonder how this applies to Solo cups
and Mason jars).
Dean Foster emphasized that contemporary business etiquette is genderless, which I appreciated. It is no
longer cool for all the men at the table
to stand when a woman excuses herself. I tried to think of other things
that are genderless: garbage bags? hand
soap? funerals?
To finish our meal, we had Bowdoin
Logs (a special dessert composed of a
tube of vanilla ice cream encrusted in
chocolate cookie crumbs and smothered in hot fudge sauceit is bliss).
Now I will analyze. Warm up your
thumbs, Yakkers.
The Senior Etiquette Dinner is a
Career Planning event, and its professed intent is to prepare Bowdoin

students for job interviews that involve fancy dinners. We accept this
because the sort of job that would
require a fancy dinner interview is a
good job. It means you have worked
hard and are successful.
Notably, there are many of us who
are not seeking these types of jobs,
including myself. However, despite its
lack of immediate usefulness in my
job search, the Senior Etiquette Dinner gave me something that will be
with me throughout my life. It is also
something that is deeply unjust: cultural capital.
Cultural capital, is an idea coined
by the social theorist Pierre Bourdieu
in 1986 and refers to the things besides
money that indicate class. Some examples: dialect, posture, speech volume,
tastes, types of clothing and forms of
education. Etiquette is absolutely a
part of this. The rules are all about not
sticking out, but the question arises:
not sticking out among whom? I answer: not sticking out among the upper
class. Good manners are not an arbitrary set of rules Emily Post dreamed
up; they are class indicative.
So, if I am particular about using
who and whom correctly, sit up
straight and know the difference between a latte and a cappuccino, I have
more cultural capital than if I slouched,
ate fast food often and said, aint.
Conceivably, I could have either set
of cultural traits outlined above and
have the same amount of money. But
probably not. This is where the play

between cultural capital and economic
capital comes in; they are not identical, but the accumulation of cultural
capital makes it easier to accumulate
economic capital.
It is no secret that our country is deeply unequal. If you
have had your finger on the
pulse of national politics
at all, you have heard
Bernie Sanders rail
against income
and wealth inequality. The
one percent
and 99 percent are old
news. Thomas
Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-First Century was a
bestseller.
You get it.
Lets come
back to the etiquette dinner. I am not
arguing that by teaching us which fork
is for salad and which is for the
entre that Dean Foster is disenfranchising the 99 percent.
This is what I am arguing:
class exists in America.
A Bowdoin education is
elite not just because of our 15
percent acceptance rate. It is
elite because it gives us the tools
to enter into, or remain in, elite spheres of
society. The Senior Etiquette Dinner is the
most visible, salient example of how.
MIRANDA HALL
Americas toughest problems are rooted in a decline in civil society

DAVID JIMENEZ
MINDLESS PONTIFICATING
Headlines recently centered on research by winner of the 2015 Nobel Economics prize Angus Deaton and his colleague Anne Case on rising death rates
among middle-aged whites with low
education between 1999 and 2013. This
trend was particularly unusual in that
it coincided with continuous declining
rates in other developed countries and
in the United States African-American
and Hispanic populations. The authors
noted with alarm the dramatic increase in
deaths from suicide and substance abuse
within this group.
These findings coincide with rising
coverage of the nations emerging opiate epidemic. But they also correspond
to many journalists depressing portraits
of several poor white communities. Recently, the Washington Posts Stephanie
McCrummen visited the trailer community in Red Bank, South Carolina, where
Dylann Roof lived with friends prior to
his terrorist attack on Charlestons Emanuel AME Church. McCrummen discov-
ered a place marred by social isolation and

hopelessness. It is no surprise that such
areas could prove fertile ground for white
supremacist violence or Donald Trumps
white identity politics.
No doubt there are many causes of this
crisis. But a major root problem is the
decline in American civil society since
the mid-century, in institutions of marriage, churches and community life that
can provide meaning and values even in
tough circumstances. Alarm at Americas
decaying civic fabric, particularly but not
exclusively in poorer communities, has
inspired leading political scientists Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone and Our
Kids) and Charles Murray (Coming
Apart). The authors disagree on both the
causes of these problems and their solutions, but their diagnoses are consistent
when looking at data on marriage, parenting, church attendance and civic engagement. Putnam, a liberal, would ultimately
agree with the libertarian Murrays assessment that our common civic culture has
unraveled in the past half-century.
Every American must view this weakening of intermediary institutions, particularly in poorer communities regardless of race, with alarm. We risk losing
the strong families and communities that
offer individuals a sense of purpose and

belonging, even in tough material conditions. This civil society, much stronger by
many assessments in older generations,
is the primary source of social capital
and economic opportunity, and it offers the only certain ground for teaching
virtue and citizenship. The value of civil
society possibly explains why many lowincome black and Latino communities,
while encountering unique problems of
entrenched racial discrimination, are not
experiencing the more recent health crisis described by Deaton. One possibility
suggested by New York Times columnist
Ross Douthat is in the particular strength
of Latino and African-American churches
to offer identity and community compared to far weaker religious institutions
among low-income whites.
America still longs for a conscious
champion of civil society among our
political class. Conservatives frequently
evoke civil society as essential to the
American project. Its role is to reconcile
our desires for liberty and community,
allowing individuals to freely build up
a shared life together beyond state encroachments. It is the ideal home to form
republican citizens prepared for freedom and self-government. Nevertheless,
conservatives easily forget how this civil

society depends on economic stability,
something vanishing for too many with
decades of free trade, deindustrialization
and globalization. Conservatives need not
abandon their defense of free market capitalism, but they must recognize its uneven
costs. Substantive conservative thinking
about the right welfare and educational
system to help communities handle tough
economic transitions has only begun, and
it would gain much from dialogue with
excellent center-left policy thinking.
Progressive thought about civil society is also lacking. There is an expansive temptation to view the state,
specifically the federal government,
as the primary, even exclusive, center
of meaningful collective action. This
intuitive trust in centralizing social
engineering undercuts the creativity,
pluralism and local knowledge offered
by civil society. For all the claims to inclusion, highly dogmatic forms of cultural liberalism often see much of civil
society, usually rooted in older moral
and religious traditions, as backwards.
These tendencies can make it difficult,
though not impossiblesee Putnam
himselffor liberals to consider civil
society, culture and morality in assess-
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coalition is emerging for a humane criminal justice system, a result that would save
countless families from prolonged, traumatic separations. Tax credits favorable to
marriage and families, higher wage subsidies, family leave, stronger vocational and
apprenticeship programsthese should
all be part of the policy conversation.
But while well-designed government
programs are necessary, they are not
sufficient. Charles Murray is right: we
need a Civic Great Awakening where
well-off citizens get out of economically segregated areas of suburban conformity or urban hipster aloofness and
build a shared life with other Americans. Robert Putnam similarly pointed
out that the Progressive Era was not the
sole work of elite reformers like Teddy
Roosevelt. One of that periods greatest
achievements, the rise of the public high
school, started at the grassroots level.
The renewal of civil society is a duty
incumbent upon both statesmen and
citizens of every political persuasion. It
is perhaps the task upon which the fate
of our liberal democracy rests.
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NOVEMBER
FRIDAY 20
LECTURE
Uncommon Hour
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Brian

Purnell will give a presentation titled, "From Minstrel Shows
to Gangster Parties: A Historical Sketch of Modern Racism at
Bowdoin and in America."
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center.
11:30 a.m.
EVENT
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Short speeches will be read in honor of global

victims of transphobic violence. A moment of silence will be
shared in their honor.
Steps, Museum of Art. 12:30 p.m.
EVENT
The Last One
There will be a film screening of "The Last One." This movie

is about the history of the AIDS epidemic in America and the
effects of AIDS initially being labeled as a gay disease.
Media Commons, Hawthorne Longfellow Library. 2 p.m.
VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FAST ASLEEP: Members of Burnett House participated in the fifth annual Rolling Slumber Bed Races last Saturday on Park Row in downtown
Brunswick. Groups from the community decorated their own beds and raced them against one another. See page 2 for the full story.
LECTURE
Efforts Toward the Synthesis and Structural Revision of the Natural Product
Montamine
SATURDAY 21
Elizabeth Colby Davie, associate professor of chemistry at

Assumption College, will discuss the European mountain
cornflower, centaurea montana. This plant has been used to
treat many medical conditions.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 3 p.m.
Bowdoin College Concert Band
A Conversation With Prosper Ishimwe
Prosper Ishimwe, a graduate student, will speak about his

experience surviving the Rwandan genocide. Ishimwe took
refuge in Maine. Whoopie pies will be served.
Living Room, Helmreich House. 1 p.m.
Bowdoin Chorus Presents a

Latin-American Christmas
EVENT
Anthony Antolini 63 will direct Navidad Nuestra: A LatinAmerican Celebration, a performance by the Bowdoin Chorus. There will also be a performance on Saturday at 3 p.m.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
"A Ballerina's Tale" will be shown at Frontier. The film is

about Misty Copeland, a ballerina notable for being the
first African-American woman to be the principal dancer of
the American Ballet Theater.
Frontier. 2 p.m.
15 Villainous Fools
Maggie Seymour 16 and Olivia Atwood 17 co-star in a twowoman honors project called 15 Villainous Fools, a
clowning adaptation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
The show follows two sets of long-lost twins and the hysterical adventures that ensue when all four of them meet up.
Memorial 601. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Beyond the Proscenium will perform Arcadia, a play by Tom
Stoppard that shifts between the past and present. Tickets
are available at the student information desk in Smith Union
for $1.
Living Room, Howell House. 7:30 p.m.
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VACATION
Thanksgiving
Break
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Inter-Faith Service of Gratitude and

Thanksgiving
Eight faith groups, the Bowdoin Longfellows, the Bowdoin

Community Gospel Choir and Chuying Luo will perform in
a special service.
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Improvabilities Show
The Improvabilities group will be performing for the

Bowdoin community.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Center. 7 p.m.
MONDAY 23
PERFORMANCE
Arcadia
The Bowdoin College Concert Band will perform music

based on the folk song tradition of Scotland under the
conduction of John P. Morneau. The program is titled ...
And Ill Be In Scotland Afore Ye!
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
A Ballerina's Tale
PERFORMANCE
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PERFORMANCE
EVENT
PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY 22
EVENT
Meddielania ft. The Colby Eight
Film Screening: Steven Spielberg's

Lincoln
The Meddiebempsters and Miscellania a cappella groups

will perform with the Colby Eight
ORIENT
for the Bowdoin community.
PICK OF THE WEEK
Helmreich House. 8 p.m.
HOLIDAY
Thanksgiving
Day
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VACATION
Thanksgiving
Break
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There will be a film screening of Lincoln, directed by Steven

Spielberg. Professor of History Patrick Rael will introduce the
film and lead a discussion afterwards.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 6 p.m.
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Both Rose and Moreland noted

Student concerns about safety persist

Please see BIAS, page 4

Please see SAFETY, page 4

NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Bias Incident Group to create formal response to bias incidents

important differences between sexual assaults and bias incidents, but

Part of the Bias Incidents Group

BSG proposes creation of Multicultural Rep

Bowdoin Student Government

not mean that those students speak on

Special interest group representatives are not elected by the student

Please see BSG, page 3

First Look at ED I Applications

COMPILED BY JAMES LITTLE

OPINION: PERSPECTIVES ON CAMPUS SAFETY.

A student reported that occupants

An emergency light fixture was vandalized in the Baxter House basement.

friday, november 20, 2015

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from the Moore Hall bike rack. The

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Bowdoin Students Taste Defeat in

Brunswick residents from young kids

wick Downtown Association (BDA),

What are you excited to do over Thanksgiving break?

Visit my sister in NYC and

Wear the sweater dress

Go to the Metropolitan Opera

Listen to the new One

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Students attend demonstration in Portland

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Dozens of Bowdoin students traveled to Portland last Friday night to

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Jacqueline Colao 17 doesnt recall

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Athletes who suffer a concussion

Some [students] get more anxious,

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