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FEATURES: THANKSGIVING DINNER
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MORE NEWS: FALSE ALARMS AT REED;
MOLD OUTBREAK FORCES EVACUATION
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL: Lets talk turkey.
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SPORTS: CROSS COUNTRY SECOND AT NEW ENGLANDS
The mens cross country team nished
second at the NCAA New England
Championships last Saturday, led
by juniors Coby Horowitz and Sam
Seekins, who nished rst and second,
respectively.
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OP-ED: Peter Nauts 15 argues that the
College ought to divest from fossil fuels.
Dining sta prepare
thousands of pounds
of food for the annual
Thanksgiving dinner.
ALARMS: Reed House was evacuated several times
last weekend when a faulty re alarm went o.
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MOLD: A senior evacuated her mold-infestedStowe
Inn apartment after falling ill.
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BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Thorne Dining Hall sta prepared 1,400 pounds of turkey and 38 gallons of gravy for the 1,200 expected diners at last nights Thanksgiving Dinner.
Please see EMISSIONS, page 4
BY MARISA MCGARRY
ORIENT STAFF
College remembers veterans,
honors alums in active service
Tere is no way to maintain the
frontiers of freedom without cost and
commitment and risk. Tere is no swif
and easy path to peace in our genera-
tion, said President John F. Kennedy
in his Veterans Day address at the Ar-
lington National Cemetery in 1961. His
words echoed through Smith Union
on Sunday when representatives of the
College Republicans recited the speech
to commemorate the national holiday,
before asking for a moment of silence
to honor the sacrifces of American ser-
vicemen and women.
Its an ofen overlooked day of re-
membrance, but what we wanted to do
was just remind people hey it is Vet-
erans Day and take a minute to think
about all the sacrifces people have
made for you, said Sam Sabasteanski Please see ELECTION, page 4
Bowdoin has decreased its green-
house gas (GHG) emissions ahead
of schedule, putting the College on
track to pass the benchmarks of its
2009 Carbon Neutrality Implemen-
tation Plan, according to a Sustain-
able Bowdoin report released by
last week.
Te 14,467 metric tons of car-
bon dioxide equivalent that the Col-
lege released in fscal year (FY) 2012
was 17 percent below the predicted
level of 17,437 metric tons. Since FY
2008when 19,153 metric tons were
releasedthe College has decreased
its emissions by 24 percent, and has
surpassed expectations for emissions
reductions since 2010.
In 2009, Bowdoin committed to
carbon neutrality by 2020. According
to last weeks Annual Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Inventory Update for FY
2012, the team of Bowdoin communi-
ty members who developed this plan
knew the goal would be challenging
if not impossible to meet through on-
campus improvements alone.
Director of Sustainability Keisha
Payson said that barring techno-
logical breakthroughs in biofuels or
energy, the school will likely have to
purchase carbon ofsets in order to
achieve complete carbon neutrality
by 2020.
We live in Maine, we have to heat all
the buildings on this campus. Chances
are were going to have to purchase Re-
newable Energy Credits [RECs] or car-
bon ofsets, and we do talk about that
in the plan, said Payson.
Tough Bowdoin currently pur-
chases some RECs, they are not fac-
tored into baseline emissions counts.
BY ERICA BERRY
ORIENT STAFF
College emissions decline
24% since 2008, report nds
Please see ASSAULTS, page 4
13, co-president of the Republicans.
Tis reading was not the only way
that Bowdoin honored Bowdoin ser-
vicemen and women on campus.
Professor of Government Christian
Potholm has collected photos of alumni
in the armed services for a number of
years, and put them up outside his om ce
this summer.
I dont know any place else on cam-
pus where we recognize [alumni] that
are serving the country, said Potholm.
He hopes it serves as a reminder
that somebody is out there [fghting]
on our behalf.
Sabasteanski was impressed with
Potholms efort.
You can look at, say, the fag pole
monument and see the names of Bow-
doin people who served before, but it
doesnt hit you quite like having pictures
Post-election, work begins for King, Equality Maine
Please see VETERANS page 3
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
GOBBLE IT UP
Te College is committed to 100 per-
cent green electricity, and while 35
percent of the Maine power grid is
made up of renewable sources, the
College ofsets the remaining 65 per-
cent by investing in hydropower and
wind farms throughout the state.
Last weeks report characterizes
campus emissions in three scopes.
Scope 1 emissionswhich encompass
onsite fuel combustion, College vehi-
cle use, and fugitive refrigerantshave
fallen 11 percent since FY 2008.
Replacing heating oil with natural
gas at satellite facilities, the 2011 in-
stallation of an em cient natural gas
boiler in the central heating plant,
and last summers completion of a
multi-year project to insulate campus
steam lines all contributed signif-
cantly to these decreased numbers.
We have a much more em cient dis-
tribution system, said Del Wilson, di-
rector of fnance and campus services.
Amherst College, still reeling
from former student Angie Epi-
fanos account of her sexual as-
sault and subsequent mistreatment
by Amherst administrationwas
dealt another blow last week, with
the release of former Amherst stu-
dent Trey Malones June 2012 sui-
cide note, which revealed yet an-
other account of a student who felt
his assault was mishandled by the
Amherst administration.
Malone wrote about his strug-
gles dealing with the alleged sex-
ual assault, and said that what
began as an earnest effort to help
on the part of Amherst, became
an emotionless hand washing. In
those places I shouldve received
help, I saw none.
Malones story echoed that of
Epifano, who published an op-ed
in The Amherst Student on Octo-
ber 17.
Epifano wrote of her initial re-
fusal to admit that she was not
okay following the assault, and her
eventual departure from Amherst.
In the note, published last
Thursday in the Huffington Post,
Epifano said that she did not re-
ceive any of the help or support
that she needed from the campus
sexual assault counselor.
In short I was told: No you cant
change dorms, there are too many
students right now, she wrote.
Pressing charges would be useless,
hes about to graduate, theres not
much we can do. Are you SURE it
was rape? It might have just been
a bad hookupYou should forgive
and forget.
Epifano and Malones stories
as well as those of countless oth-
ers who have come forward to
share their own experienceshave
sparked both institutional and na-
tional conversations about sexual
assault policies on college cam-
puses.
Dana Bolger, a current senior
and rape survivor at Amherst, put
together a collection of photos
showing students holding posters
of things said to them by commu-
nity members after their assaults.
The signs held statements such as
Assaults put spotlight on Amherst policies
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Maine voters made history last
Tuesday when they elected Angus
King to the United States Senate and
approved same-sex marriage. Both
historic moments marked the culmi-
nation of hard-fought campaigns, but
neither King nor marriage equality
advocates had much time to rest afer
last weeks victories.
King announced on Wednesday
that he would caucus with the Demo-
crats, afer discussions with Senate
Majority leader Harry Reid, fellow
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders,
and other members of Congress. Te
Boston Globe reported yesterday that
King hopes for a seat on the Senate
Finance Committee, an assignment
that is not typically given to freshmen
senators.
Yesterday afernoon, King told the
JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CLOSING TIME: Staers for Kings campaign piled signs outside of the Maine Street headquarters.
TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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In her rst season at Bowdoin, womens soccer coach Brianne
Weaver transformed a team with a losing record into a nation-
ally ranked powerhouse.
SPORTS: Coach of the season: Brianne Weaver
FEATURES: The FBI at Bowdoin
An FBI Special Agent visited campus to speak
to students interested in careers at the agency.
A&E: Canny curation: Jaochim Homann
Museum curator Jaochim Homann has coordinated high
profile exhibits and increased student participation.
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BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ALL ATTUNE: The Rachmanino Choir, made up of the Bowdoin Chorus and Down East Singer members, performed Sergei Rachmaninos All-NIght Vigil at the Chapel on Thursday night.
MAINE SPOTLIGHT
Maine State Rep. announces
marijuana legalization bill
Rep. Diane Russell said on Wednes-
day that she will reintroduce a bill to
legalize recreational marijuana use in
Maine, her second try at passing the
bill. According to the Portland Press
Herald, Russells frst attempt was vot-
ed down in the House, 107-39, in June.
Te time is ripe for another try in
the Maine Legislature, Russell told the
Press Herald. Why cant we be bring-
ing this market to the white market,
out of the black market, and out of the
hands of the drug dealers?
In a phone interview with the Ori-
ent, Russell said that in light of sucess-
ful ballot initiatives in Colorado and
Washington legalizing recreational
marijuana use, she believes that cul-
ture is shifing and that a lot of folks
would agree with the bill.
Russells bill would allow licensed
retailers to sell 2.5 ounces of mari-
juana per week to customers over 21.
It would also legalize the individual
cultivation of marijuana. Under the
bill, it remains illegal to use marijuana
in public and in places where smoking
cigarettes is banned.
Russell told the Press Herald that
tax revenue from the sale of legalized
weed would help pay for higher edu-
cation, agriculture, land preservation
and law enforcement.
Bowdoin named most connected
college in the nation
NEWS NOTES
What are you most thankful for?
Emily Serwer 16
Jessie Kohn 13 Molly Solo 15
Mark Raguse 14
Having great friends at Bowdoin
and a great community.
Photos by Hy Khong
Parents who love me and a sister
who is nice.
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Black bear spotted near
Brunswick Apartments
Te New York Times reported on
Wednesday that the Food and Drug
Administration has found that 13
deaths over the past four years were
possibly linked to 5-Hour Energy.
Te drink is sold at the C-store as a
cafeine source for time-strapped stu-
dents, who may opt for the shot-sized,
four-calorie drink over or other energy
drinks.
STUDENT SPEAK
Facebook.
I am thankful for cozy
blankets on my bed.
On Tuesday night, seniors Chelsea
Gross and Katie Doble spotted a
black bear while walking on the side-
walk of Longfellow Avenue around
9 p.m.
Te pair was heading from Bruns-
wick Apartments to Coles Tower
when Gross noticed a movement in
the bushes and realized it was too
wide and stocky to be a dog.
It was terrifying, Gross said. My
frst instinct was to run as fast as pos-
sible while Katies frst instinct was to
play dead for the bear.
Doble reported the incident to
Security and also notifed Brunswick
Police Department,which informed
her that bears are known to pass
through the town.
13 death reports linked to
5-Hour Energy drink
Te U.S. News and World Report
ranked Bowdoin the Most Con-
nected College of 1,471 schools in the
nation, citing Bowdoins exceptional
networking resources.
According to the report, Bowdoin
scored 79.9 out of 100 points on an
index that takes into account the
schools Internet speed and access for
students and faculty, technology re-
sources available on campus, as well
as an institutions mobile applications
and cloud storage services.
-Compiled by Sophia Cheng
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VETERANS
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At the most recent faculty meet-
ing on November 5, professors re-
jected a proposal known as Op-
tion Seven, which would lengthen
Orientation by two days and start
classes two days earlier, effectively
cutting summer short by four days.
Despite widespread student support
and an endorsement from Bowdoin
Student Government (BSG), many
faculty members voiced concerns
about the repercussions of an ear-
lier start to the semester.
One common argument from
faculty was that a shortened sum-
mer would cut into valuable re-
search time for professors. Chair of
the Classics De-
partment Bar-
bara Boyd said
that summer
research was an
important fac-
tor in faculty
opposition to
the changes.
I think its
really important
for students to
realize that faculty are expected to
be doing research whenever were
not teaching. In the really crucial
moments in our careers, like when
we come up for tenure and promo-
tion, our publications and research
activity are every bit as important as
teaching, and sometimes more im-
portant, in terms of how were evalu-
ated, she said.
Boyd added that Bowdoins aca-
demic culture makes the summer
an even more important time for
faculty to conduct research.
Bowdoin has a reputation as
a place where faculty are very in-
volved with students, and thats
also a really important part of be-
ing a Bowdoin faculty member, so
there isnt a ton of time during the
school year to do research. The
summer is the one stretch of time
thats really significant, she said.
Professors also raised other
non-academi c
concerns about
starting earlier.
For faculty
who have kids,
which includes
many junior
faculty, theres
even more of a
potential juggle,
with daycare
for your children as well as getting
ready for classes and finishing up
research projects, said Professor
of History and Asian Studies Ra-
chel Sturman.
Sturman questioned whether the
changes to the Orientation sched-
ule were really necessary.
The idea that we need to have
a ten day orientation strikes me as
potentially excessive, she said.
However, BSG argued for the
many benefts of the revised Ori-
entation schedule. One important
factor is that the revised schedule
would have allowed for frst years to
arrive on the weekend rather than
on a weekday.
Its kind of a trek for a lot of
families, so more families might be
able to bring their students up on a
weekend, said BSG Vice President
for Student Affairs Sarah Levin 13.
The proposed Orientation
schedule would also have extended
the Orientation program.
A lot of people say that Orienta-
tion is too long, but I think the main
complaint is that its actually too busy,
said BSG President Daniela Chediak
13. Te new schedule would make
Orientation into a weeklong program
thats less jam-packed.
Additionally, the rejected sched-
ule would have allowed for more
time between Phase I and II for frst-
year students.
Phase II is the most stressful
aspect of Orientation, and the new
schedule would give first years a
little bit more time to meet with
professors [between phases] and
feel really confident in their sched-
ule, said Levin.
BSG argued that the many pos-
sible benefits of the change for the
student body
outweigh the
concerns raised
by faculty.
It seems that
four days from
a 14-week pe-
riod arent so
huge as to ne-
gate the enor-
mous gains that
can be made by
rescheduling things for first years
and upperclassmen, said Chediak.
In a survey conducted last year,
94 percent of students indicated
that they would support extending
Thanksgiving break to a full week,
provided that Fall Break was not
shortened as well.
Option Seven could make ex-
tending Thanksgiving break more
feasible, since the two class days
added to the beginning of the year
would make up for the lost Monday
and Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Levin said a longer Thanksgiving
break would enable more students
to travel home for the holiday.
The changes would give stu-
dents nine days of travel as opposed
to the five that we have now, which
means it would be more feasible for
students to go home, said Levin.
Many members of the student
body agree.
I live across
the country, so
it takes me a
full day to travel
home. Its kind
of a waste of
both time and
money if the
break is only
four days, said
May Kim 16.
However, faculty noted that a
longer Thanksgiving break was not
presented as part of the proposal.
Thanksgiving break and Orien-
tation have not been linked in the
conversation at all, said Boyd.
Dean for Student Affairs Tim
Foster agreed that the extended
Thanksgiving break had not been
part of the original proposal, but
said, Perhaps it should have been.
I think student support for a full
week at Thanksgiving and a two-
day fall break is very compelling
and worthy of facultys attention.
According to Foster, it would
only take faculty support to ad-
vance the issue.
I believe, but Im not sure about
this, that it only takes a single fac-
ulty member to stand and propose
a motion for faculty consideration.
And given the way things are mov-
ing at some of our peer schools, I
believe that this will happen in our
lifetime, said Foster.
Faculty, students at odds over
potential Orientation changes
BY KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
Kasey Suitor 13 evacuated her
Stowe Inn dorm this week due to
an illness allegedly caused by black
mold. The mold, Suitor reported,
has been growing in her bathroom
since the beginning of the school
year, despite her greatest efforts to
remove it.
Suitoralong with fellow Stowe
Inn resident Kyrie Eiras-Saunders
12suffers from coughing, a
stuffy nose, headaches, tiredness,
and occasional dizziness and blur-
ry vision, as well as general respi-
ratory discomfort.
I was just kind of sick on and off
this semester, and Ive caught just
about every bug thats gone around
school, Suitor said. I had to pack a
bag [and move out] and I cant sleep
in my room at all. Its bad.
Suitor, who has lived in Stowe
for the past three years, explained
that she found the mold growing
in the cracks of her shower upon
moving into her room, but didnt
expect the mold to have such a
negative affect on her.
She initially scrubbed her bath-
room with Lysol, but was unable
to remove the fungus. It was not
until she tried to scrape off the
black mold, when she woke up
with a terrible sore throat and a
runny nose, that she realized that
the mold could be responsible for
her sickness.
I immediately emailed my
dean, and I also went straight to
the Health Center, said Suitor.
They told me I was having a reac-
tion to the toxic mold.
The Center for Disease Control
(CDC) states on its website that
although mold does not always
present a health risk indoors, some
people are sensitive and suscep-
tible to illness.
These people may experience
symptoms such as nasal stuffiness,
eye irritation, wheezing, or skin ir-
ritation when exposed to molds,
the CDC website reports, and
recommends consulting a physi-
cian about the proper procedure to
handle mold-induced illnesses.
Eiras-Saunders, who is fighting a
similar mold problem in her Stowe
Inn residence, moved into her
room this fall to find a collapsed
bathroom ceiling, shattered ceiling
tiles, and water all over the bath-
room floor. Facilities was recep-
tive to her maintenance request,
repairing the damage the very next
day, but mold was leftover.
I keep getting sick, but I dont
know if its the mold or if its just
me getting sick regularly, said
Eiras-Saunders. Right before Fall
Break was the worse, I had just
cleaned my room and maybe it was
just a coincidence, but my vision
went blurry for a couple hours
Then I spent all of fall break with a
fever in bed, just dizzy.
While Suitor decided to move
out and spend the weekend in a
friends room, Eiras-Saunders is
remaining in her room for the time
being, with the hope that Facilities
will resolve the issue within the
next couple of days.
But, the two Stowe Inn residents
agree that the mold-infested bath-
rooms ought to be renovatedat
least the showers replacedif stu-
dents are expected to live in the
residencies in future years.
Te Orient could not get comment
from Facilities before press time.
Im just kind of angry, Suitor
explained. I feel like toxic mold
should be removed from rooms be-
fore people are allowed to move in.
After mold outbreak, senior evacuates dorm
BY LUKE MILARDO
ORIENT STAFF
of people, he said.
Captain David Donahue 07 is cur-
rently serving as an instructor at Te Ba-
sic School in Quantico, Va. He recently
returned from a three-year tour of duty,
during which he spent seven months in
Afghanistan before moving on to anoth-
er deployment in Southeast Asia.
Tough he completed Om cer Candi-
date School at Bowdoin, Donahue chose
to decline a commission at graduation.
However, afer working as a civilian
in Boston, he decided to return to the
Marine Corps.
Sitting behind a desk all day, I was
not having that same sense of fulfll-
ment, Donahue said. I wanted to go
back to the Marines. I thought that was
where I ft in.
Luke Flinn 10 is currently training to
become a helicopter pilot for the Marine
Corps in Milton, Fla.
In an email to the Orient, Flinn
said he decided to join the Marines
because of the professionalism of its
members, its storied history, and its
distinct esprit de corps.
Finn said he knows six other Bow-
doin alumni who are also Marines.
Neither Donahue nor Flinn knew of
the display in Hubbard Hall.
Its pretty cool that [Potholm] would
do something like that, said Donahue.
Another Bowdoin Marine, Captain
Katie Petronio 07, gained national at-
tention this year for asserting her belief
that female Marines should not be al-
lowed to serve in the infantry.
In March, she wrote an article for the
Marine Corps Gazette titled Get Over
It! Were Not All Created Equal.
I can say from frsthand experience
in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not just
emotion, that we havent even begun
to analyze and comprehend the gen-
der-specifc medical issues and overall
physical toll that continuous combat op-
erations will have on females, Petronio
argues in the article.
Petronio later appeared on CNN to
defend her position.
Erika Leach 02, a captain in the Air
Force, moved from active duty to the
Reserves in March of this year. As a Re-
serve Airman, she advises students who
are applying to the Air Force Academy
and ROTC programs.
I wanted to have a little more fex-
ibility. With the Reserves, you have a lot
more control of where you are, she said
of her decision to join.
Leach began her service in 2003 and
chose the Air Force based on the advice
of her parents, who both served in the
Navy afer fnishing college.
In 2010, she was deployed to Qatar
for six months, where she worked close-
ly with a colonel in charge of informa-
tion technology for the region.
Potholm said that he has noticed a
pattern of student athletes serving in the
armed forces.
Donahue played football and lacrosse
all four years at Bowdoin, and was cap-
tain of the lacrosse team his senior year.
Tough not a varsity athlete herself,
Leach noticed similarities between the
culture of a team sport and that of the
Air Force.
Athletics and leadership can go
pretty hand in hand, whether youre an
actual captain or just on the feld. Tat
parlays well into the military from what
Ive seen, she said.
Leach said that compared to others
in the Air Force, her liberal arts back-
ground is unusual, but believes that it
was benefcial. She found that Bowdoin
fosters the same philosophy of giving
back to the community that the mili-
tary promotes.
Potholm acknowledges that his is not
a complete list, and encourages those
who know of other alumni in the mili-
tary to contact him so he can update it.
While being a Marine is not easy, Do-
nahue still describes his service as the
most rewarding work he could imagine.
Tere are miserable experiences,
he said. But the highs we experience
together, the sense of accomplishment,
that shared feeling between peers and
subordinates is incredible.
It seems that four days from a
14-week period arent so huge as to
negate the enormous gains that can
be made by rescheduling things.
DANI CHEDIAK
BSG PRESIDENT
The idea that we need to have a
ten day Orientation strikes me as
potentially excessive.
RACHEL STURMAN
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
AND ASIAN STUDIES
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
NO-FUN FUNGI: Kasey Suitor 13 believes the mold in her bathroom caused her recent illness.
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SOLDIER ON: A bulletin board in Hubbard features photos of Bowdoin alums in the armed forces.
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Thanks to a number of new do-
nations, the Career Planning Cen-
ter (CPC) will offer more grants
for summer projects and intern-
ships this year than ever before.
Dighton Spooner, associate di-
rector of career planning, said that
the CPC anticipates adding about
12 new grants this year. In previous
years, the number of applications
has significantly eclipsed the num-
ber of available grants; last year, 26
grants were awarded.
The 12 new grants include two
additional Robert S. Goodfriend
grants, and three entirely new funds
to expand paid internship opportu-
nities for students.
The Robert S. Goodfriend Sum-
mer Internship Fund will now
offer five grants of up to $5,000
instead of three, after Mr. Good-
friend, an alumnus of the College,
increased the annual sum available
for the fellowship program. The
Goodfriend Fund grants provides
money to students who take un-
paid internships in their business
field of interest.
Financed by Bowdoin parents,
the new Strong/Gault Social Ad-
vancement Internship Grant of-
CPC offers 12 new funded internship grants
BY WOODY WINMILL
ORIENT STAFF
fers eight stipends of $4,000 for
students to work with nonprofit,
for-profit or governmental orga-
nizations providing assistance in
impoverished and economically
underdeveloped regions.
Another new source of funding
is the Anwarul Quadir Fellowship,
sponsored by the Anwarul Quadir
Foundation. The fellowship will
fund student internships at busi-
nesses in Bangladesh.
Lastly, the new Bowdoin College
Alumni Council Internship Fund
offers a grant for one student to
pursue an internship in his or her
potential career of choice. All of
the grants require students to have
secured an internship offer by the
time of their application for the
grant. CPC grant applications are
due on March 27.
Spooner said that the 12 new grants
will allow the CPC to award funding
to qualifed students who would have
been turned away in past years.
We had many more applications
than we were able to give out grants
last year, said Spooner. The qual-
ity of the applications of the stu-
dents who didnt get grants was also
very good. It wasnt that the qual-
ity of their applications didnt allow
them to get a grant. It was that we
had more good applications than
we had money to give out.
Neuroscience major Linna Gao
12 won a Tomas Andrew McKin-
ley 06 Entrepreneur Grant last year
to work at a biotech startup focusing
on developing cancer medication.
Gao worked on the business side of
the company, researching competi-
tion and searching for investors.
I really wanted to explore
something entrepreneurial with
the things I love about science, so
it was really a perfect place to de-
sign my own project, she said.
The CPC advocates that stu-
dents pursue internships during
their time at the College to build
an understanding of a potential ca-
reer path after graduation.
Tere are three summers between
when you arrive at Bowdoin and
when you leave, said Spooner. From
a career-planning point of view, we
think its important to focus on what
area it is you want to explore.
Are you sure it was rape? from
a college administrator, and You
never took your case to trial, so
you dont actually count as a rape
survivor, from an Amherst dean.
Bolger wrote
an accompany-
ing letter in the
AC Voice, a blog
run by Amherst
students, on
October 23,
saying that she
hoped the pho-
tos and stories
would help to
catalyze conversation and change
within the Amherst community.
Let these stories be a portal for self-
examination and growth, she wrote.
As a result of the words of Epi-
fano, Malone and others, Amherst is
working to revamp its sexual assault
policies. Te day afer Epifanos op-
ed was published, Amherst President
Carolyn Martin responded with a
letter to the community outlining
the current sexual assault policy at
Amherst as well as a checklist of steps
that the college would be taking to
address its problems.
Every student should feel that
the College will treat sexual mis-
conduct and violence with the ut-
most seriousness, she wrote.
While the stories from Amherst
have prompted scrutiny of sexual
assault policies at private colleges,
Bowdoin will not be making any
changes or reviews to its procedures.
Bowdoin wrote a whole new
policy in 2006, said Advisor to the
Student Sexual Misconduct Board
Meadow Davis, and two springs ago,
we did another major review. We also
review our policies every summer.
But sexual assault does happen at
Bowdoin; the annual Clery Report,
released in October, documented
seven forcible sexual ofenses in 2011.
Matt Frongillo 13, a member of
Safe Space, echoed Davis with regard
to Bowdoins sexual assault policies.
Bowdoin revamped its policies a
few years ago, and they did it without
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being prompted by anything, he said.
Frongillo said that he did not
think that Bowdoin had any rea-
son to make any more changes to
its sexual assault policy in light of
events at Amherst.
I would like to think that Bow-
doins a lot more progressive about
these policies, he said. A lot of peo-
ple work to sup-
port survivors.
Davis said
that Bowdoins
system works to
make sure that
every student
feels that they
are being heard.
Students go-
ing through the
process of dealing with sexual as-
sault have a supportera member
of the faculty or staff whose role is
only to be their for them.
Tat goes a long way to making
people feel like there is someone there
for them, said Davis. Its so people
dont feel like no one is listening to
them, even if they are frustrated.
Davis also highlighted the wide
variety of programs that the Col-
lege has for both prevention and
awareness of
sexual assault,
specifically the
student groups
on campus.
Safe Space, V-
Space, Bowdon
Men Against
Sexual Assault
(BMASV), Resi-
dential Life,
sports teams,
and other student groups all go
through training and have conversa-
tions about Bowdoins sexual assault
policies and processes.
Staf members also receive the
same training.
The hope is that any staff per-
son would understand the proper
things to say to support people,
said Davis. We want to focus on
the staff having those skills.
Bowdoin has a number of out-
lets for students to report and take
action regarding sexual assault.
Within the policy, survivors are
Tough the central heating plant
used 17 percent less gas in FY 2012
than FY 2008, the report states that
much of this decrease was weather-
related, as last year was nine percent
warmer than the baseline year.
I try not to get too excited from
any given year, because things like
the weather can have such an enor-
mous impact, said Andy Price 95, a
consultant from Competitive Energy
Services, which Bowdoin worked with
to develop its plan. But we also know
a lot of good projects went into place.
Scope 2 emissionspurchased
electricitydecreased by 2,730
metric tons, a 34 percent reduction
since 2008.
In FY 2012, the campus purchased
four percent less electricity than in
2008. According to Wilson, compa-
rable reductions
have only ever
occurred when
campus con-
struction took a
building of the
grid for an ex-
tended amount
of time.
Tis is the
frst time with
no major capital
project out there, in recent time, that
weve seen a reduction in electricity,
said Wilson.
He attributed this to both behav-
ioral changes and to the installation of
a cogeneration turbine in the heating
plant, which is powered by steam oth-
erwise wasted in the heating process.
Price noted that with the constant in-
crease of gadgets on campusphones,
tablets, monitors, computerstheres a
reliable one-to-two percent increase in
yearly electricity, albeit one that Bow-
doin avoided this year.
We take all the projects into ac-
count, and were able to explain a lot
of what we see, but theres more going
on that we cant necessarily pinpoint,
and I think its those individual ac-
tions, said Wilson.
Other factors accounting for the
Scope 2 decrease are the replacement
of metal halide bulbs with CFL bulbs in
outside campus light poles, the addition
of speed drives in Moulton and Tornes
kitchen exhaust hoods, and the estimat-
ed 24,000 kilowatt hours saved during
the residence hall energy competition.
Furthermore, there has been a
shif in emissions accounting by the
Environmental Protection Agency
as more renewables are added to the
Maine energy mix, leading to sig-
nifcant decreases in emissions per
megawatt hour for the whole state.
In our original climate action
plan we did state that we expected
[GHG] reductions from greening of
grid, said Wilson.
Scope 3 emissionsmade up of
faculty and staf travel, employee
commuting, waste disposal, and
transmission line losses from energy
useincreased by 10 percent since
FY 2011, but represented a net 30
percent decrease since FY 2008.
In this category, waste-related
emissions have decreased by 401
percent since 2008, and Bowdoin
now sends its non-recyclable waste
to a plant that
uses it to gener-
ate power. Te
report states
that a change
in modeling
that correctly as-
signs waste to its
fnal destination
accounts for the
majority of this
decrease.
Auden Schendler 92, the vice presi-
dent of sustainability at Aspen Skiing
Company, said he believes that these ac-
counting shifs are part of the complex-
ity of Bowdoins project, and should be
emphasized more in the report.
Te fact that the bulk of emissions
reductions have come through ac-
counting changes is neither good nor
bad, it simply is part of the world were
in, wrote Schendler in an email to the
Orient. It should be overly discussed
and seen as part of our education.
Schendler agreed with the report
that Bowdoin is efectively taking ac-
tion to decrease emissions, though he
challenges the College to be more hon-
est in acknowledging the intricacies of
a 2020 carbon neutrality commitment.
If I were writing this report Id
both be much more forthcoming in
the failures and chance of not meet-
ing goals, he said. Solving climate
change is going to be a bitch. And so
its the schools job to teach to that.
EMISSIONS
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referred to as complainants and
those accused of sexual assault are
referred to as respondents.
Students can submit anonymous
reports to the College, are not re-
quired to identify anyone, and can
initiate no-contact orders towards
their assailant.
Te administration also puts in-
terim measures into place, which
are more detailed protective mea-
sures for the victim that can involve
changes in living, academic and
work arrangements.
Students also have the option of
participating in an informal resolu-
tion, which allows complainants to
confront the respondent, either in
person or otherwise, without a for-
mal hearing. Informal resolutions
generally result in either no-contact
orders or interim measures.
Informal resolutions focus on the
safety of the complainant, and arent
about proving anything, said Davis.
Finally, students can partici-
pate in a formal process. When a
student chooses to make a formal
charge of sexual assault, the accu-
sation is first sent to a private in-
vestigator in Portland.
[The investigator] compiles a
report, and says
if there is sub-
stantial basis
for a hearing,
said Davis.
If she does not
fnd enough evi-
dence for a hear-
ing, the student
still has the op-
tion of an infor-
mal resolution.
However, if there is evidence, the
accused attacker will attend a hear-
ing in front of the sexual miscon-
duct board.
Davis said that, although Bow-
doin attempts to do everything
possible to support those who have
gone through sexual assault, there
is still the potential for students to
be unsatisfied with the process.
Tese processes are sad, hard
and challenging, she said. People
would probably be able to fnd
things that made them frustrated
because of the nature of those cases.
Orient that committee assignments
are very much up in the air and
will not likely be fnalized for about
a week, pending discussions between
Senate Democrats and Republicans.
King said that his frst priority will
be to make the Senate work, through
flibuster reform and a number of
other changes.
If we cant get the Senate to work,
then we cant get to the other issues,
he said.
Afer that,
King said, he will
turn his atten-
tion to address-
ing fscal issues.
He noted that
while some mo-
tions will be put
forward to ad-
dress the impending fscal clif dur-
ing the lame duck session, there will
still be much work to do afer Con-
gress convenes in January.
Now that same-sex marriage is
legal in Maine, LGBT advocates still
have their work cut out. Tim Diehl,
board president of Equality Maine,
one of the partners in the Mainers
United for Marriage coalition, said
the group is working to disseminate
information on the new law.
Equality Maine will be involved
in insuring that the information is
available about where and how to get
marriage licenses, said Diehl. We
will work also with the state legisla-
ture to insure the law is implemented
as it was passed.
Diehl said that Equality Maine
is not an organization whose goal
revolves entirely around marriage
equality for same-sex couples. Its
aims are more general.
Its an advocacy and civil right
organization for LGBT people and
their families.
Marriage is but
one issue were
focused on. Well
continue to focus
on issues where
discrimination
or inequality ex-
ists, he said.
Diehl said his
organization will delve into other
LGBT issues without fear of same-sex
marriage being repealed.
I think that issues like equal-
ity and social justice-related matters
only become more positively per-
ceived by voters over time, he said.
Its hard to imagine taking a step
back with Maine voters on this issue.
-Linda Kinstler contributed to
this report.
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We had more good applications
than we had money to give out.
DIGHTON SPOONER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF
CARRER PLANNING
I would like to think that
Bowdoins a lot more progressive
about these policies. A lot of people
work to support survivors.
MATT FRONGILLO 13
Every student should feel that
the college will treat sexual
misconduct and violence with the
utmost seriousness.
CAROLYN MARTIN
PRESIDENT OF AMHERST COLLEGE
This is the rst time with no
major capital project out there, in
recent memory, that weve seen a
reduction in electricity.
DEL WILSON
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND
If we cant get the Senate to
work, then we cant get to
the other issues.
ANGUS KING
SENATORELECT
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ursday, November 8
An unregistered event was dis-
persed at Brunswick Apartments X afer
a noise complaint was received.
Tere was a hard alcohol violation
at Brunswick Apartments X.
Friday, November 9
A student at Ladd House reported
the thef of a yellow Schwinn bicycle
with pink fenders and a leather seat.
Saturday, November 10
A noise complaint was reported in
a third foor stairwell at Chamberlain
Hall.
A boiler system malfunction ac-
tivated a fre alarm at Reed House at 4
a.m. Te Brunswick Fire Department
responded. Two sleeping students had
to be awakened to evacuate.
An om cer checked on the well-be-
ing of a sick student in Howell House.
A student damaged a ceiling at
Helmreich House while dancing on
a table.
Twenty-one candles on a students
birthday cake set of a smoke alarm on
the seventh foor of Coles Tower.
Reed House was evacuated just be-
fore midnight when the boiler let of too
much steam and set of the fre alarm.
Sunday, November 11
Brunswick Rescue transported a
student to Parkview Adventist Medical
Center with an allergic reaction to sea-
food eaten at Torne Dining Hall.
Tere was a hard alcohol violation
at Harpswell Apartments.
The boiler at Reed House blew
a gasket and the release of steam
set off the fire alarm. The building
was evacuated.
A student at Stowe House Inn with
appendicitis was transported to Mid
Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.
A 17-year-old Upward Bound stu-
dent had an asthma attack at Torne
Dining Hall. Te student was evaluated
and treated on site.
Monday, November 12
Security assisted with a wellness
check for a student at West Hall.
A student with a throat infec-
tion was escorted from Smith Union
to Parkview.
Area motorists reported instances
of students on bicycles afer dark, with-
out lights or refectors, darting in tram c
SECURITY REPORT: 11/8 to 11/15
and causing near mishaps.
Tuesday, November 13
Loud music irritated residents at
Brunswick Apartments I.
An orange Hufy Cruiser bicycle
with a wicker basket and ladybug bell
was reported stolen from the area of
Brunswick Apartments A.
A black and silver Trek bicycle was
reported stolen from the south side bike
rack at Maine Hall.
Power was lost on the south half of
campus at 7:45 p.m.
Two students were trapped together
in an elevator at Coles Tower when the
power went out. Te pair was released
afer their bonding experience, shaken
but not stirred.
Te power outage tripped the bur-
glar alarms at the Museum of Art.
Campus power was restored at
8:45 p.m.
Wednesday, November 14
A student tripped and fell over a
backpack and sustained a head injury in
Torne Dining Hall. An om cer escorted
the student to Parkview.
Te sailing team boathouse
at Bethel Point in Harpswell was
SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
burglarized late Tuesday night. A
signifcant amount of power tools,
electronics, and other equipment
was stolen. Te value of the stolen
property is $4,000. Entry was gained
through a back door by cutting a
padlock with bolt cutters. Te crime
was reported to the Cumberland
County Sherifs Department.
A student reported seeing a person
on campus acting suspiciously. Te per-
son turned out to be a College employee
acting like his normal self.
An om cer checked on the well-
being of two students in Coleman Hall
experiencing fu-like symptoms.
An om cer checked on the well-
being of a student in Chamberlain Hall.
ursday, November 15
A student called Security concerned
that a roommate had not returned and
could not be contacted. Te roommate
returned safely.
A local man, who students reported
was viewing inappropriate material on
a public computer in Smith Union, was
asked to leave campus.
-Compiled by the O ce of Safety and
Security
This past Saturday night and
Sunday morning, Reed House resi-
dents were raised from their beds
by two fire alarms in quick succes-
sion. Facilities Management and
the Brunswick Fire Department
investigated the cause of these
false alarms, and fixed the problem
on Wednesday.
Te fre alarm has gone of in Reed
House over ten times during the
course of the semester.
A single detector in the basement
of Reed House was responsible for last
weekends false alarms.
The alarms have tended to go
off between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.,
so the house has had a few rude
awakenings in
the middle of the
night, said Em-
ily Tucker 15,
vice president of
Reed House.
The Fire De-
partment had
dubbed the false
alarms a ghost
problem, but
this past week-
end, discovered
that steam emit-
ted from the boiler had activated
the alarm.
We had a replacement boiler put in
and it wasnt calibrated correctly, said
Director of Facilities Operations and
Maintenance Ted Stam.
As a result, the boiler was pro-
ducing excess steam that could not
be ventilated.
Steam can sometimes set of
smoke detectors. For fre prevention
purposes, there is a smoke detector in
the furnace room and it was being set
of, said Stam.
Stam said this is relatively com-
mon, especially in bathrooms where
large amounts of steam are produced.
Afer the second alarm went of,
Reed House re detector xed
after over ten alarms set off
BY DAVID SPERBER
ORIENT STAFF
om cers from the Om ce of Safety and
Security and the fre department
searched the Reed House basement.
A fire department officer recog-
nized that the fire system extended
beyond a locked door under the
stairs. The building was formerly
the Chi Psi fraternity lodge, and the
locked door opens into the frater-
nitys dungeon-like chapter room,
which is kept off limits. It was into
this locked space that the fire sys-
tem extended.
A Security om cer retrieved a key
and opened the locked door.
Te second room in, they found the
detector that was activated and there
was four feet of steam hanging from
the ceiling. Well, theres your cause,
said Brunswick Fire Chief Ken Brillant.
Stam said he did not know about the
location or ac-
cess to the room.
Te problem
was particularly
dim cult to di-
agnose because
the boiler is not
constantly run-
ning. During the
second alarm,
however, the
boiler was on.
[Securi t y]
turned it over to
maintenance and we havent been back
since, said Brillant.
Te solution was relatively straight-
forward. Te furnace has been adjust-
ed, and excess steam is now released
outside the building.
It shouldnt happen again,
Stam said.
Brillant praised Bowdoins Facilities
Management for actively trying to root
out the problem.
Bowdoin College has done an
extremely proactive job of updating
their systems and maintaining their
systems, he said. Tese things hap-
pen. We get calls at the time and they
just happen. Im just glad we found
the problem.
The second room in, they found
the detector that was activated
and there was four feet of steam
hanging from the ceiling. Well,
theres your cause.
KEN BRILLANT
BRUNSWICK FIRE CHIEF
Amnesty International invited local
activists to campus on Wednesday for a
panel discussion about the dim culties of
providing aid to the refugee population
in Maine, a state with one of the most
homogenous populations in the nation.
Te panel, titled Local Voices, Glob-
al Perspectives: Refugee and Immigrant
Rights in Maine, aimed to raise aware-
ness about problems caused by the
states burgeoning refugee population.
In the last 30 years, over 12,000 refugees
have moved to the state from Somalia,
Iraq, Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan. Tey
have settled primarily in Portland and
Lewiston, according to the Maine State
Om ce of Multicultural Afairs.
Data from the Portland Refugee Ser-
vices Program shows that in 2010, 793
refugees arrived in the city, feeing from
violence in their native countries.
When we think about genocides
and global conficts we ofen can kind of
distance ourselves from it, said Monica
Bouyea 14, co-president of Bowdoins
Amnesty International chapter. I think
its really important for students to un-
derstand that these individuals are here
in Maine.
Janice Jafe, adjunct lecturer in
Spanish and McKeen Center research
associate, moderated the discussion.
Today, the movement of people in
the world is one of [its] defning fea-
tures, Jafe said.
Te panel featured three speak-
ers, Sebastien Nahimana, of Catholic
Charities of Maine Refugee and Im-
migration Services, Fatuma Hussein,
of United Somali Women of Maine,
and LuzMarina Serrano, of Maine Mi-
grant Health.
[Te panelists] refect a diversity of
needs of these various refugee commu-
nities, said Bouyea.
Nahimana serves as the translation
coordinator for his organization. He
helps refugees fnd homes and adjust to
modern amenities that they may not be
familiar with.
Fundamentally, someone needs
to have a place to be, said Nahimana.
Were trying to give them that hu-
manity back that they have lost by
being dislocated.
Nahimana also helped create Lan-
guage Access for New Americans,
which translates documents for
refugees from their native language
into English. Te program currently
provide translation services for over
40 languages.
Hussein founded United Somali
Women of Maine in 2001. Te vi-
sion and mission of the center is
to advocate for refugees that are
women and to advocate for a system
change, said Hussein.
She estimated that there are 5,000
immigrants in Maine capable of work-
ing but unable to because they lack for-
mal education.
We work for a better future for the
generations to come, said Hussein.
We cant get rid of this poverty cycle,
we have to break through.
At Maine Migrant health, Serrano
works primarily with Hispanic migrant
workers to educate them about health
issues. I help bridge the gap between
them and our own healthcare system,
said Serrano.
Tough all three panelists repre-
sent very diferent constituencies,
they said that they encounter simi-
lar problems in helping recent im-
migrants settle in the predominantly
white state.
Even so, the panelists agreed that
Maine does provide some benefts for
new refugees.
Maine ofers a less threatening
place to start a life, Nahimana said.
Panelists discuss Maines refugee population
BY EMMA PETERS
ORIENT STAFF
Were trying to give them that
humanity back that they have
lost by being dislocated.
SEBASTIEN NAHIMANA
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE
REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES
FEATURES
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What it takes: FBI recruits on campus
Tis Monday night, about 30
Bowdoin students attended an in-
formation session about careers
with the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation (FBI) in Lancaster Lounge,
hosted by the Career Planning Cen-
ter (CPC). Te recruitment om cer,
Special Agent Alison King, stressed
the importance of thinking early on
about a career with the FBI.
King, who is based out of the
Boston feld om ce, outlined the two
major career tracks within the FBI,
both of which come with top security
clearance: Special Agent and Profes-
sional Support.
In the government, anyone
whos working national security
mattersthats CIA, NSA, FBI, or
any other state departmenthas to
have [top security] clearance. Even
our interns have to have that clear-
ance, said King.
Getting this clearance, however, is
not easy. Te agency conducts exten-
sive background checks and requires
all applicants to sit for polygraph
tests.
What stops a lot of people from
being able to work for us is the inabil-
ity to pass the background check and
the polygraph. King told students.
Te tough part for a lot of people
of that background check is the drug
policy. Its very strict, and its some-
thing that theyre going to ask you
about on the polygraph, so its very
dim cult to lie about.
Tis is why King stresses the im-
portance of considering the career
ahead of time. Te current drug pol-
icy requires that an applicant has not
used marijuana or abused prescrip-
tion drugs within the last three years,
and has not used any other illegal
drugs, including anabolic steroids,
within the last ten years.
However, this background check is
only one item on a long checklist.
To be a Special Agent you have to
have three to fve years of work expe-
rience. In the current job climate, this
can be hard to come by.
Most of the people for Special
Agent positions are, I think, on a
national average right around 29
or 30. And actually, its now mov-
ing towards even higher ages,
King said.
Another Special Agent job re-
quirement is a physical ftness exam.
BY NATALIE KASSKAUFMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Dining Service at their best for annual Thanksgiving dinner
Tanksgiving is not a holiday for
self-restraint. At this years Tanks-
giving dinner, the abundant spread
prepared by Bowdoin Dining Ser-
vices pleased even the most glutton-
ous gorgers.
Last night, students, faculty, and
staf lined up at Moulton and Torne
Dining Halls to enjoy a traditional
meal in advance of the actual holiday.
Te Tanksgiving dinner always
draws a crowd, and an impressive
amount of food and preparation go
into the meal, widely considered a
highlight of the year.
Michele Gaillard, associate
director of dining services op-
erations, reported that, though the
quantity of food required for the
meal is high, the staff always looks
forward to the atmosphere and en-
ergy of Thanksgiving.
Te Tanksgiving meal is many
students favorite meal at Bowdoin
and our staf truly enjoy preparing
and serving it, said Gaillard. Its
just really good food and a lot of it.
Gaillard ofered a glimpse into
just how much food and prepara-
tion are behind Tanksgiving at
Bowdoin.
Dining staf began roasting tur-
keys1,400 pounds worthon
Monday and spent the rest of week
cooking and carving the meat. Dark
meat from the birds went into the
making of 38 gallons of gravy.
While turkey is the star of the
Tanksgiving spread, the side dishes
are equally delicious, eagerly anticipat-
ed and produced on a similarly huge
scale. Employees mashed 560 pounds
of butternut squash and prepped 320
pounds of sweet potatoes.
Dining Services made sure
all students could partake in the
holiday smorgasbord by preparing
several options for those with di-
etary restrictions. Vegetable pot-
pies, vegan biscuits, and egg and
wheat-free apple crisp were some
notable additions.
Some students, however, were still
dissapointed with the vegetarian op-
tions. We wish there was tofurkey,
said Violet Ranson 16.
The bakery made 190 pumpkin,
apple and pecan pies for the din-
ner. Pumpkin from Bowdoins or-
ganic garden also went into baking
90 loaves of pumpkin bread. 800
oatmeal molasses rolls and eight
food, preparation and well-timed
serving were key to ensuring the
dinner ran smoothly. At Moulton,
head chef David Crooker pre-
pared his 11th Bowdoin Thanks-
giving dinner.
Roughly 600 people were expect-
ed to attend the meal at Moulton,
and Crooker is familiar with han-
dling the amount of food and lines
of hungry guests.
Its not too stressful of an event,
said Crooker. We prepare and prep
early, and the Tanksgiving dinner
is a meal we all look forward to. Te
cooking is straightforward, theres
just a lot of food to cook.
Crooker said that he hoped stu-
dents who were unable to make the
meal would get the special express
dinner at Moulton, cider-glazed
ham and sweet potatoes.
Tornes larger facility and lon-
ger dinner hours were projected to
draw close to 1,200 students. Head
chef Daran Poulin, who has worked
the Tanksgiving dinner since 2005,
said he always tries to keep the lines
moving and the food fowing.
At times the lines get very long
Poulin said. We have to open up the
deli as a third serving station since
we dont want people to have to wait
too long.
analyst, this isnt the case. The FBI
does hire liberal arts grads, as part
of a diversified program, which be-
gan in the late 80s.
If you have trouble communicat-
ing, its really tough to do this job,
said King, herself a liberal arts college
graduate.
As of yet, Bowdoin is the only NE-
SCAC school King has visited.
Ive mainly been visiting schools
in the metropolitan Boston area,
said King in an interview with the
Orient. But I hope to do more of
the NESCAC schools. As I men-
tioned last night [at the information
session] Im strong believer in the
liberal arts education, as is the Bu-
reau. Teyre really looking for well-
rounded people.
Te attendees were an even mix
of sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Genevieve Barlow 13 said she was
starting to think about a future career
in the FBI.
I think Im defnitely interested
in the FBI. I mean, theres a ton of
shows about it. It is partly interesting
because it is something you have to
do in your future and not necessar-
ily something you can do next year,
said Barlow. But defnitely, being a
government and legal studies major,
it is something that Im interested in
pursuing perhaps eventually.
Steve Buduo 15 went to the info
session to hear about the opportu-
nities at the FBI, and to network
with the agency.
I was very excited to hear that
the FBI was coming. Teyre one of
the only federal agencies coming to
Bowdoin this year, so for me, since
Im interested in a career in gov-
ernment, I thought it was a good
opportunity to make connections
with current employees there, said
Buduo. Tis was a rare chance to
learn about [the FBI] frst-hand.
sheet pans of cornbread rounded
out the meal.
With such large quantities of
Staf at Torne and Moulton di-
vide up the workload for the dinner
throughout the week leading up to
the event, and the early prep work
helps make the event run em ciently.
I didnt eat all day in preparation
for this, said Kyra Babakian 14.
BY KATHERINE FOLEY
STAFF WRITER
The glamour of science:
Telomeres to slow aging?
If students and guests didnt man-
age to eat all of the food, lefovers
are resourcefully used. Extra turkey
might go into making turkey potpies
or soup, and lefover side dishes are
sometimes put out at the deli sta-
tions in both dining halls.
KACEY BERRY
GOGGLES
AND GLOVES
Despite what you may think, there
is some glamour in the science world.
Teres hot and there not; theres in and
theres out, and right now, Molecular
Neurobiologymy current focusis
having a major moment.
Its not just the scientifc community
that follows these trends; Ive been told
my research is hot by academics, New
York Times science section afcionados
and dentists alike.
I shudder at this assessment. Molecu-
lar neurobiology, trendy? Mainstream?
Certainly not. Id like to think I found
this DNA and astrocyte-dominated
world before it was cool.
Translational research is also in
vogue. People want to see projects
bridge the gap between basic science
and practical applications to healthcare.
Translation is the new sexy term. It
wins press coverage, and, more impor-
tantly, research grants. And in science
research, grants drive progress.
An aside: the Society for Neurosci-
ence must have sensed I was writing
about the importance of research grants
because I received an email just an hour
ago warning Research is Facing Deep
Cuts25 percent fewer grants from
NIH and NSF next year and urging me
to Contact Congress Today!
Im all for research that works
towards solving human health di-
lemmas, but lets not forget the
less-glamorous, less-amply-funded
basic research thats actually really
cool, and still garners national press
coverage. This research takes place
right in our own backyard. Well,
Bowdoins backyard: Kent Island.
A few years ago, a pair of comparative
physiologists from Iowa State University
in Ames collaborated with Bowdoin bi-
ology professor Chuck Huntington to
study the unusually long life span of a
bird species inhabiting the island, the
Leachs storm petrel.
At 40 years, the birds live about 4
times as long as scientists would expect
of animals with their body mass. To
investigate this anomaly, the team col-
lected and tested blood samples in order
to measure the birds telomeres.
In every biology book Ive seen, telo-
meres are likened to shoelace caps. Tey
cap the ends of chromosomestightly
wrapped confgurations of DNAto
protect the ends from fraying. Each
time a cell divides, however, these telo-
mere caps shorten, ultimately resulting
in the cells inability to continue to rep-
licate. Shortening telomeres are corre-
lated with the aging process.
Te researchers up at Kent Island
discovered that the storm petrels telo-
meres not only shortened more slowly
than those of other birds; but also that
they lengthened over time. Tis seems
to be the frst reported case of telomere
elongation.
If this doesnt immediately cause your
eyes to bulge and your jaw to drop, Ill
also point out that Discover magazine
(January 2004, Vol. 25, No. 1) included
this study in its guide to the top 100 sci-
ence stories of 2003, as did Science and
New Scientist magazines.
Te fndings may have future rele-
vance to humans as the Science article
covering the fndings suggests: Do
subsets of human populations have
telomeres that vary as much as bird
species? What does the aging process
look like for these individuals?
Now thats glamorous.
Im a strong believer in
the liberal arts education, as is the
Bureau. Theyre really looking
for well-rounded people.
SPECIAL AGENT ALISON KING
Te FBI usually receives about ten
thousand applicants for four hundred
positions.
Te strict requirements are neces-
sary to ensure FBI agents are up to
the jobworking for the FBI is far
from stress-free.
Special Agents, who are required
by law to carry a frearm, even on
airplanes, have a deadly-force policy:
shoot to kill.
Its not like TV, its not like Call
of Duty, its not like Halo, said King.
Tis job isnt for everybody.
Not only that, but all FBI employ-
ees must also be willing and able to
accept assignments in any part of
the country immediately following a
21-week training program at the FBI
headquarters in Quantico, VA.
While television may give the
impression that every member of
the FBI is a criminal justice ma-
jor, forensic scientist or computer
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
EYE OF THE PIE: Head Baker Joanne Adams prepares pumpkin pie lling for the meal.
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TALK OF THE QUAD
For most students at the Col-
lege, course registration is an ex-
citing time to consider the future.
For frst years, with the fateful frst
semester almost under their belts,
spring course registration is a sub-
tle am rmation that, yes, you can
make it here. In fact, Bowdoin even
wants you back for another semes-
ter! Sophomoresthose confdent,
savvy Polar Bearsmay not know
their major quite yet, but they know
what they like and defnitely know
what annoying professors to avoid.
And juniors, well, they could care
less. Enjoy camping in Australia
next spring!
For seniors, however, spring
course registration is a grim re-
minder of reality. Bowdoin cannot
go on forever nor, frankly, would
I really want it to at the hefy price of
$56,128 per year.
I understand that senior year is
necessarily a transitional year be-
cause planning for the future takes
time. Right now, I sadly have one
foot in Bowdoin and one foot in my
as-yet-undefned future. But why do
I get the feeling that my time as a
Polar Bear began to end as early as
sophomore year?
Te main issue lies with the Col-
lege House system, which is gen-
erally what Bowdoin considers its
mainread, appropriatevenue for
social life on campus. But who goes
to these parties? Let me oversimplify
the system to make a point: Resi-
dential Life chooses sophomores to
live in College Houses, these sopho-
mores host parties for frst years,
and giddy frst years are served al-
cohol by the unfortunate lone junior
or senior who has been wrangled
into serving as the Alcohol Host. So,
what about these parties would you
call campus-wide?
Obviously, campus-wide parties
are advertised as such and any card-
carrying Polar Bear is welcome to
join the fray. Yet the College House
culture of only catering to frst years
and sophomores exists for a reason.
Upperclassmenwhat I defne as
juniors and seniorslike to hang
out with their friends, who are gen-
erally fellow older students.
Now, I cant speak for everyone in
the Class of 2013, but I feel confdent
that Im not alone when I say I dont
really want to party much with frst
yearsno ofense, Class of 2016.
While the College may not want
to exclude anyone from campus-
wide parties, I think that a little dif-
ferentiation between the classes is
both natural and appropriate. If frst
years and sophomores have their
own houses and their own parties
which is a system that I think works
relatively well for the more youthful
target audiencewhy couldnt we
expand the idea for juniors and se-
niors? Why isnt there an upperclass-
men-only College House?
Upperclassmen-only College Hous-
es (why stop at one?) would be a
concrete step toward creating an
on-campus social life for juniors
and seniors. These houses could
work in the same way the College
Houses do, but instead
host events for seniors
and juniors. But, you ask, juniors
and seniors arent prohibited from
living in College Houses, so why
cant they just form a group, apply
to a house, and live there? They can,
and it has been done already with
some degree of success (see Helm-
reich House, 2011).
However, there remains a stigma
that goes along with living in a Col-
lege House afer sophomore year.
Quite frankly, its just weird for
an upperclassman to live in a place
that Bowdoin campus culture has
upperclassmen to fend for them-
selves. Tis is not fair, and should
be changed. Campus-wides clearly
dont work; instead, the College
should give upperclassmen their
own space on campus and the right
to host only other upperclassmen at
their parties. Exclusion need not be
a dirty word, but instead a means
to fostering stronger community
among juniors and seniors.
One argument against this pro-
posal may be that seniors already
have their own spaces on campus.
Remember that enormous tower in
the center of campus? Coles Tower
is arguably the epicenter of upper-
classmen life on campus, but not in
a way that fosters strong community.
You dont apply to live in the tower
because youre excited to become
friends with all 200 of your neigh-
bors; seniors live in the tower be-
cause wearing slippers to every meal
is magnifcent. And having a single
is nice, too.
Te tower was originally known
as the Senior Center, designed to
emphasize college and class rather
than fraternity, as President Sills
said in 1964. In place of Greek life,
the administration encouraged se-
niors to live, eat, attend special pro-
grams, and sufer through lectures
together. Te Senior Center promot-
ed both academic and social cohe-
sion among upperclassmen, which
is something I feel has been missing.
I realize some great upperclass-
men-only activities, like Senior
Night, exist, but I respectfully
contend that subsidized blueber-
ry beers are insum cient, albeit
delicious. Upperclassmen need
their own social space on cam-
pus. Tough juniors may be busy
booking some
party hostel
in Amsterdam and seniors already
have one foot outside the bubble
thanks to the relentless emails of
Career Planning, we are still Polar
Bears. I support Senior Nights and
Tuesdays at Joshuas and hell, I even
support Crack House; however, rel-
egating upperclassmen to these of-
campus venues is unfair.
Ill admit, an upperclassmen-only
College House is a radical idea, and
Residential Life would undoubtedly
object to such dangerous exclusivity.
(On a related note, sarcasm is hard
to write into an essay.) In all serious-
ness, though, I believe upperclass-
men deserve a space on campus
to call their own. If not a College
House, perhaps start smaller with a
senior lounge in Smith Union, out-
side of the pub.
As campus culture currently
dictates, sophomores have their
houses and Bowdoins blessing to
host campus-wide parties that really
only attractand rightfully sothe
younger half of the College. Upper-
classmen? Well, at least Safe Ride
goes all the way to Joshuas.
Te takeaway message for upper-
classmen is that there is not an ad-
equate on-campus venue for us on
the weekends. Sure, you can have a
nice cocktail with friends or attempt
a good party in the tower, or even
embark on the long walk to Crack
House. But the current social cul-
ture at Bowdoin is that seniors (and
those lucky 21-plus juniors) have lit-
tle outlet other than to take the party
of-campus. For Joshuas,
thats great. For Bowdoin,
Im really not so sure.
-Ted Clark
SENIORS
LEFT ASTRAY
Te trailer for the recent concert
flm Big Easy Expressin which
director Emmett Malloy follows a
cross-country tour by popular folk-
rock bands Mumford and Sons, Ed-
ward Sharpe and the Magnetic Ze-
roes, and Old Crow Medicine Show
on a vintage trainopens with a
brash monologue. Were gonna play
some music across the country the
way they saw it more than a hundred
years ago, a narrator proclaims,
back into the magic.
Top-hatted musicians appear in
grimy clothes and old-timey whis-
kers. Te color-tone recalls vintage
flm stock. Text from the trailer har-
kens images of a historic train and
the great American landscape.
Te flm is the latest work of a bur-
geoning crop of musical acts trading
on dusty boots and the suspension of
disbelief to intimate the catharsis of
a simpler time.
It isnt the most popular example
of that cultural trend. Reviews of
Mumford and Sons Billboard-top-
ping 2012 album Babel, recaps of
this summers festival season, and
think-pieces on the acquisition of
Instagram by Facebook have all tak-
en part in the same conversation, but
I think Big Easy Express is the best,
most recent example of what might
be called a certain cultural neo-
Transcendentalism that deserves at
least a little bit of pushback.
For the past few years, music has
been the most feeling standard-bear-
er of this phenomenon. Bands like
Of Monsters and Men, Mumford,
and Edward Sharpe have enjoyed
huge festival followings on ground
prepared by the success of acts like
Band of Horses and Fleet Foxes. At
Sasquatch! this May, I was surround-
ed by thousands of young people
screaming their cultural nostalgia
into the Washington sky along to the
Head and the Hearts Down in the
Valley. Its not an excitement I buy
into personally, but its worth won-
dering just what it is about whiskey
rivers and age old trades that gets
people so choked up these days.
Tey arent alone or unprecedent-
ed in their taste. For the past few
years, American aesthetics writ large
have gazed backward fondly. From
menswear Americana in its selvedge
jeans and panoply of chambray, to
what graphic designer and critic
Alexandra Lange recently called the
Obama campaigns typographically
ersatz version of American nos-
talgia, weve refashioned the elbow
grease and virgin landscapes of by-
gone eras as antidotes to the unique
maladies of the 21st century.
But if mountain air, banjos, and
bufalo plaid are the cure, what ex-
actly is it were sufering from?
Big Easy Express is a feat of physi-
cal and cognitive escapism, chugging
toward an almost Disney-fed, Bran-
nan flter frontier America at full
speed in an attempt to get away from
the malaise of suburban cul-de-sacs.
I think this has something to do
with the Internet. Afer all, the com-
mon experience of young consum-
ers across the country is a life lived
vicariously online, using Facebook,
Instagram, Tumblr, and Spotify to
give visual and audible form to their
acute spatial and temporal longings.
On his anthemic and galvanizing
hit, Te Cave, Marcus Mumford
hoarsely declares, Cause I need
freedom now / And I need to know
how / To live my life as its meant to
be. He might as well be a sixteen-
year-old girl crafing a Pinterest of
clothes she cant aford, a teenager
across the country feverishly reblog-
ging Free Cabin Porn, or an urban
woodsman working as a barista at
a retro-styled cofee shop in Brook-
lyn. Mumford is their soundtrack
because in his music the tragedy
of their paralysis is real. His music
reaches for the nothingness behind
what is certainly an aesthetic mirage,
and achieves poignancy in doing so.
While these cathartic high points
are not without their own tragic
valueits hard not to be taken in by
some of the Big Easy Express concert
footageits important to demand
more than skillful musical execution
these days.
Teres nothing wrong with banjo
per se, but when the Head and the
Heart free associates state names
and sepia tones all the way to festi-
val mainstages and Mumford tops
21ST CENTURY
POP NOSTALGIA
charts with variations on an already
vacuous theme, weve got a problem.
Were in the second decade of
the 21st century. Instead of chasing
a fading, vintage-postcard sunset,
we can patronize the musicians, au-
thors, artists, and designers who can
muster a more creative reaction to
our collective condition than willing
disbelief. And if were still going to
listen to these modern day Transcen-
dentalists, lets remember how much
of it is fantasy.
Afer all, even Toreau had his
mom do his laundry.
-Leo Shaw
clearly defned as reserved for frst
years and sophomores. Yet by desig-
nating a College House as reserved
for upperclassmen (and allowing
that house to limit its events to older
students), the College would fnally
acknowledge a place for upperclass-
men on campus.
Te culture of the College House
system as it currently exists caters to
frst years, and leaves
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ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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Homann nds room for students among big names in art
JEFFERY YU/BOWDOIN ORIENT
A FINE ART: Curator since 2010, Joachim Homann watches over the installation of a new exhibit at the Bowdoin Museum of Art.
When Joachim Homann was
hired to be the Bowdoin Art Mu-
seums curator in 2010, he immedi-
ately set one goal for himself: to pro-
mote student participation.
I want to bring together the ener-
getic campus body and the amazing
work here, Homann told the Orient in
2010. Te Museum is not just a place
for art historians. It is a place for every-
one on campus.
Over the past two and a half years,
Homann has worked hard to fnd ways
to accomplish this goal.
I think the students here are very
sophisticated and open-minded, he
said on Tuesday. Teyre not afraid
of the museum, and theyre willing to
really dig deeper and do something.
Tey dont only want to digestthey
want to contribute something. And
thats really amazing.
While there was a steady stream
of student-driven exhibitions before
Homann arrived at Bowdoin, student
shows were largely relegated to the
Becker gallerya very small space
in the museum dedicated to student-
and-faculty-driven exhibits. And while
Homann has continued the commit-
ment to student-driven exhibits, he has
tried to give students more variety in
what they can do.
We are trying to get students to
work on bigger shows or give them
more gallery spaces, he said. We just
try to be as fexible as possible.
Currently on show at the museum
is an exhibition co-curated by Ben
Livingston 13 and Ursula Moreno-
VanderLaan 13 titled We Never See
Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and
Landscape Painting, 1840s-1870s.
Te exhibit is the product of a seminar
BY EVAN GERSHKOVICH
STAFF WRITER
they both took last spring with Asso-
ciate Professor of Art Pamela Fletcher.
Although Fletcher had not intended
for the course to result in an exhibi-
tion, when only VanderLaan and Liv-
ingston enrolled, she went to Homann
for help. He ofered the idea of a stu-
dent-exhibition.
I think Ben and Ursulas show will
be reviewed by the Portland Press Her-
ald and we have a press release that we
wrote with our New York City adver-
tising agency, said Homann. Its really
fun how a small project that comes out
of a small class suddenly becomes a re-
ally big thing. We love to be that facili-
tator or catalyst for student ideas and
provide them with a means to do it.
Homann has also instituted aca-
demic year and summer internships
at the museum. Tis past summer, he
and his three student-interns curated
exhibits from the museums collection.
Tat was one of the highlights of
my work with students, and actually
prompted a local donor to promise
$100,000 to support student exhibi-
tions at the Museum, he said.
Today, Homann believes the mu-
seum staf is even better equipped to
work with students than it had been
before his arrival. Hiring Andrew W.
Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fel-
low Sarah Montross and Curatorial
Assistant Andrea Rosen expanded the
resources available to students.
We are even better prepared than
in the past to work with students, he
said. And when students contact us,
they have the possibility of talking with
and engaging with people in diferent
phases in their curatorial careers: from
an M.A. to a post doc, to me who has
10 years of professional experience.
Tough increasing student par-
ticipation at the museum has been
Homanns personal goal, his accom-
plishments over the last two years ex-
tend far beyond that. For the past two
summers, the museum has exhibited
works by Edward Hopper and Wil-
liam Wegman, both high profle art-
ists, and the exhibits have garnered
national and international attention.
Tat an art museum at a small college
in Maine could produce such widely
recognized shows seems surprising,
but Homann points to Bowdoins his-
tory as an important factor.
One of the unique aspects of work-
ing here is that we are working with a
collection that is over 200 years old, said
Homann. Its a true privilege to be able
to open up these horizons for our visi-
tors, for our students and faculty, and to
live with these long-term persepctives. I
think it helps us to see our own role in
our own times diferently.
Moreover, Homann believes the
distinction between the academic
and general audiences should not
be overemphasized.
We realize that when we do a show
like the Hopper show that makes waves
all over the country, the students are
really excited about it and the faculty
is really excited about it toothey en-
gage with it in really meaningful ways,
he said. We also have academic shows
that kind of have a more specialized
audience, and respond more narrowly
to the academic discussion going on
on campus, but these shows generate
value to the general audience. Te lon-
ger I work here, the more I realize, that
this distinction between the academic
community and the general communi-
ty is relatively artifcial, and that it only
gets us so far.
In 2013, Homann hopes to make
headway with two more high profle
exhibits: Per Kirkeby: Paintings and
Sculpture, which will be on view March
26 to June 30, 2013, and Maurice Pren-
dergast: By the Sea, June 29 to October
13, 2013. Homann has been interested
in both artists for a long time and ea-
gerly took the opportunity to exhibit
their works.
Tese are artists that make me real-
ly happy when I see their work, he said.
I have come to realize that if some-
thing makes me really happy, then it
will make other people happy too.
After stint in consulting, Ardis 11 refocuses on painting
Only a few miles of campus,
Isaac Ardis 11 is doing what every
Bowdoin student aspires to do afer
graduationpursuing what he loves.
Since graduation, a lot has changed
for the burgeoning artist. Afer work-
ing briefy for a consulting frm in
Munich, Ardis decided to return to
Maine and focus on painting.
He began painting during the
winter of his senior year when,
BY CAITLIN WHALEN
STAFF WRITER
scrambling to find holiday gifts
for his parents, he rediscovered his
artistic side. Ardis gave his mother
and original painting, and she gift-
ed him a box of oil pastels and a
notebook in return.
Afer that, there was no going
back, said Ardis.
Ardis double-majored in Math
and German at Bowdoin, and was
also a co-leader of Students Mentor-
ing through Art (SmART).
Currently, he and his sister Julia,
a writer, are living in the home of
painter Katherine Bradford.
[Bradford] is a marvelous paint-
er and someone I look up to. It is an
honor to be here in her space and in
her barn where she paints, he said.
Like Ardis, Bradford did not take
art classes as an undergraduate at
Bryn Mawr, and became a painter
only afer college.
I know that she has gone through
what I am going through in here. To
be able to share that with her is re-
ally powerful, said Ardis.
Ardis has transformed Bradfords
barn into a mesmerizing space.
Every wall, table, and open area is
adorned with Ardis work. Each
piece stands out from the others and
captures your attention.
Im not trying to paint the ulti-
mate painting when I start. Im just
trying to paint a piece of the pic-
ture, said Ardis. And I dont know
what the whole picture is. You do it
piece by piece and a space like this
then has more meaning as a whole,
than any one of these pieces alone.
Ardis has also been working
closely with his mentor, John Bis-
bee, Bowdoins sculptor-in-resi-
dence. It was Bisbee who connected
Ardis to Bradford.
He has had a big impact on my
thinking and my working. John
tells me, Dont talk about it. Dont
think about it. Just do it, said Ardis.
Tats meant a lot to me because it
puts practice at the center of atten-
tion, so the medium can become a
second language for both thinking
and talking.
And Ardis has taken Bisbees
advice to heart. His days involve
waking up, painting all day, going
back to bed, and waking up to do
it all againhe says that this is ex-
actly what he wants to spend his
life doing.
As Ardis continues to develop his
techniques, he also acknowledges
how his experience with design has
infuenced his work.
The difference between art and
design is that design is the way to
get there and approach the prob-
lem. But it doesnt tell you what the
problem is or what it means or if its
relevant, said Ardis.
Ardis synthesizes design practices
in his art by developing innovative
painting techniques. For example,
one of his techniques involves creat-
ing a mold and layering it with paint.
Afer he removes the edges of the
molds, he is lef with blocks of paint,
which he calls paint fsh.
Ardis medium is much more than
brush on canvas. He uses anything
he can fnd, ranging from paint
chips to plastic spoons, or strings to
washer rings.
Whatever I have I try to use, he
said. I try to never waste things.
One of Ardis larger projects
right now is a collaboration with his
sister for a childrens book. Beyond
this, he plans to keep painting,
keep making art, and keep doing
what Im doing.
Try to just be honest with your-
self and with your piece. Tink as
youre doing it, said Ardis. It can
be a struggle to keep your practice
up to pace with your thinking. But
for me thats really critical because
it forces you to make an authentic
piece and on a good day its a sur-
prise. I love what I do.
CAITLIN WHALEN/BOWDOIN ORIENT
ARDISTIC LICENSE: Isaac Ardis 11 spends his days painting and experimenting with various mediums he nds around his Brunswick studio.
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Curtain Callers debuts
fall show Urinetown
This Friday, Bowdoins musical
theater group Curtain Callers will
open its fall production, Urinet-
own, a satirical musical directed
by Erin Fitzpatrick 15.
Urinetown takes place in a
dystopian society ravaged by a
drought that vastly limits the
water supply. To conserve water,
townspeople must pay to use pub-
lic toilets owned by Urine Good
Company, run by evil corporate
magnate Caldwell B. Cladwell
(Trevor Murray 16). Strict laws
prevent people from peeing any-
where else, and violators are sent
to a mysterious place called Uri-
netown and are never seen again.
The plot begins when rising toi-
let fees prompt urinal custodian
Bobby Strong (Chris Genco 15)
to challenge the laws.
The musical uses comedy and
satire to address themes of capital-
ism, environmentalism and revo-
lution, but also explores more per-
sonal messages.
All of the characters realize they
have to follow their hearts. They
want to believe in what they be-
lieve in instead of being controlled
by one person, said Adrienne
White 15, who plays Cladwells
daughter Hope.
According to Fitzpatrick, Cur-
tain Callers, a musical theater
group formed three years ago, is
essential to the college community
because music adds an element
that cannot be reproduced in other
types of theater.
People break out into music be-
cause words alone cannot express
what theyre feeling, she said.
The decision to perform Uri-
netown was based on the practi-
cality and novelty of the material.
Curtain Callers is a small group
and it was important that mem-
bers could serve multiple roles in
BY MICHELLE HONG
CONTRIBUTOR
the production.
The board members are also
performing in the show, said
Fitzpatrick, who, in addition to
directing, is performing the role
of Little Sally.
While the absurd premise of the
story is original in itself, the play
surprises the audience by breaking
the fourth wall to directly address
viewers. Officer Lockstock, played
by Connor Handy 13, co-narrates
the play along with Little Sally.
Im constantly breaking the
fourth wall. We have dialogue, just
the two of us, kind of sprinkled
throughout the show that inter-
rupts the plot itself, said Handy.
We speak to the audience, and its
like a pause in the show.
In addition, the musical num-
bers echo famous moments in oth-
er musicals.
It pokes fun at a bunch of clas-
sic musicals, such as Chicago, West
Side Story, and Les Misrables,
said Handy. It takes musical in-
spiration from all of those shows.
In each song you can hear a tint of
a different musical.
Curtain Callers is largely made up
of frst years and sophomores, many
of whom have very limited experience
with musical theater. In fact, though
Genco plays the lead role, he has never
before been in a musical.
Its been an overwhelming process,
and its very new to me, said Genco.
Te small size of the group has pre-
sented some dim culties in production.
Te lack of male chorus members, for
example, has made portraying the
townspeople a challenge.
Despite these challenges, the
small cast size has its benefits too.
It seems like a very tight-knit
group. Its obviously very stressful,
but rehearsals are always a ton of
fun, said Murray.
Urinetown will be performed
on Friday and Saturday at 7:30
p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.
ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ
SPORTS
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Womens soccer makes rst
NCAA second round since 99
Tis past weekend, the womens soc-
cer team ended its season in the second
round of the NCAA tournament.
Te Polar Bears advanced to the
second round of the tournament
the frst time since 1999, but the 24
th

seeded Bears were unable to secure a
win against the favored sixth-seeded
Ithaca Bombers. Te loss brought
their season to a close with an 11-4-4
record, a solid improvement over last
years 6-6-3 record.
Te frst of the weekends match-
ups was a close game in Ithaca, NY
against Scranton that was ultimately
decided by penalty kicks, the teams
third consecutive game decided that
way. Bowdoin edged Scranton 5-3 in
the shootout afer a 0-0 tie, continu-
ing on to the next round of the NCAA
Tournament for the frst time in over a
decade. Freshman goalkeeper Bridget
McCarthy was instrumental in the
teams shutout, keeping seven attempts
out of the net throughout the game.
Te following day, Bowdoin lost 2-1
to the Ithaca Bombers, a team with an
impressive 19-1-2 record. Te Polar
Bears frst goal came in the 27
th
min-
ute of play afer lead goal-scorer Jamie
Hofstetter 16 fed sophomore Abby
Einwag down the line, where Einwag
headed in the low ball for the frst goal
of the game.
Mens cross country heads to championships
BY RACHEL GLADSTONE
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
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The mens cross country team
earned second place at the New
England D-III Championship this
weekend, the teams best outcome
since 2006. Juniors Coby Horowitz
and Sam Seekins finished in first
and second place respectively, the
first one-two finish the Polar Bears
have seen in the tournament.
At the 4.6 mile mark, Horowitz
and Seekins surged ahead of the
lead pack of runners, with just one
runner from Middlebury managing
to stay alongside them.
Horowitz was able to maintain a
slight lead for the last 200 meters of
Volleyball loses team-rst NCAA third round
BY RYAN HOLMES
ORIENT STAFF
The volleyball team ended its
historic season last Sunday with
a 3-2 loss to UMass Boston in the
third round of the NCAA tourna-
ment.
The teams record this season of
28-5 had the most wins in program
history, and this year marked the
first time that Bowdoin made it
to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA
tournament.
The Polar Bears began the tour-
nament last Friday night at Con-
necticut College with a command-
ing 3-0 sweep of Emerson College.
Bowdoin was in control the entire
match, dispatching Emerson easily
with set scores of 25-21, 25-16 and
25-20.
Christy Jewett 16 led the team
offensively with ten kills and three
aces. Ellie Brennan 14 made im-
portant offensive and defensive
contributions with nine kills, while
setter Sophia Cornew 14 notched
31 assists.
The match against Emerson
propelled Bowdoin to the second
round where the team faced rival
Springfield College for the second
time this year. The two teams first
meeting on September 21 ended in
a 3-1 Springfield win, Bowdoins
only non-NESCAC loss of the reg-
ular season.
The tournament continued
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Te Polar Bears carried this lead
into the intermission, but lost it about
15 minutes into the second half, when
the Bombers also scored of a header to
tie the game 1-1.
Despite a furry of shots from
Bowdoin, only Ithaca was able to con-
vert. Tey eventually brought the score
to 2-1 with a hard shot that caused Mc-
Carthy to fumble the ball, which fell
and bounced between her legs over the
goal line.
Ithaca will move on to the third
round of the tournament against
Misercordia this weekend, while Bow-
doins season comes to a close. Tis
marks the end of the frst season under
the leadership of frst-year Head Coach
Brianne Weaver, who took the place of
Maren Rojas afer Rojas resigned from
the team over the summer.
Despite the loss on Sunday and the
end of the season, sophomore Abby
Einwag, who scored two important
goals during the NCAA Tournament,
feels this season has been extraordi-
narily successful.
I am very pleased with this year,
she said. When comparing this year to
last, the biggest change is the dynamic
of the team. When we had no coach
[over the summer] everyone stepped
up and played a bigger part. We had
to come together and fgure it out on
our own.
Einwag also emphasizes that the
team will only get better.
We can do even better next year,
began Einwag. If we keep up the hard
work in the of season and everyone
does their part, then we will have a
good opportunity to go far next year.
BY HALLIE BATES
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
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Field hockey loses 2-1 to
Tufts in NCAA Elite Eight
For only the second time in eight
years, the feld hockey team was
blocked from the NCAA D-III Final
Four last weekend.
A 2-1 defeat to NESCAC rival
Tufs ended Bowdoins tournament
run, sending the Jumbos into the
NCAA semifnals instead.
Afer toppling New Paltz State in
the frst round, the Polar Bears jour-
neyed to William Smith College to
face MIT in the second round of the
national tournament.
Te Polar Bears ended the Engi-
neers season with a 3-1 victory and
continued on to face Tufs the fol-
lowing day.
Bowdoins back-to-back NCAA
contests pitted the team against fa-
miliar opponents; feld hockey de-
feated MIT in the tournament last
year, and had met Tufs twice before
with their current roster.
This prior experience helped
Head Coach Nicky Pearson and
her team prepare for the tough
weekend.
BY CLARE MCLAUGHLIN
STAFF WRITER
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v. Tufts (NCAA 3
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Pearson says she was well aware of
MITs talent headed into their game.
We knew they had a small pass-
ing game and they also look for
some longer diagonal passes, so it
was important that our positioning
and defense angles were correct,
Pearson said.
Te Polar Bears notoriously
staunch defense did just as Pearson
hoped, limiting the Engineers to just
four shots while allowing the ofense
to continually create opportunities,
resulting in 24 Polar Bear shots.
Bowdoins frst successful ofen-
sive opportunity came from a cor-
ner play started by a shot by Brooke
Phinney 13 and fnished by Cath-
leen Smith 13.
MIT answered when Molly Dufy
managed to breakaway and skirt the
ball past goalkeeper Kayla Lessard
13 to tie the game at 1-1.
Bowdoin regained the lead at the
end of the frst half from another
penalty corner. Phinney executed the
shot spurred from a set up by Kassey
Matoin 13 and Katie Riley 13.
Colleen Finnerty 15 secured the
second round victory with a goal as-
sisted by Riley.
Unfortunately, prior knowledge
was not enough to push the Polar
last Saturday afternoon with a
3-2 comeback over Springfield.
Bowdoin was down 2-0 after los-
ing both of the first two sets 25-21,
but came from behind in the third
to win 25-22. This momentum
carried the team forward into the
fourth where Bowdoin won 25-
20, setting the stage for a climac-
the race.
Cobys got the best intuition for
how to play out a race, said Head
Coach Peter Slovenski. He ran
with the lead pack in the third and
fourth miles, but he had a lot of in-
fluence on how they ran those miles
to set up when he wanted to kick.
It was a fantastic kick, because the
Middlebury runner is a very fast
800 runner, and the race set him up
for his great finish too.
Seekins ran neck-and-neck with
the Middlebury runner until the
very last 20 meters of the race, when
he pulled ahead into second place.
All three runners crossed the finish
line within the same second.
According to Slovenski, Seekins
has made amazing improvements
this season in his running tech-
nique how he ends his races.
He was always as strong as a
horse, but now hes got more sprint
speed, Slovenski said.
Because of the second place
finish, the Polar Bears earned an
automatic bid to the NCAA D-III
Cross Country Championship this
weekend.
The New England region is re-
ally stacked this year, said Sloven-
ski. To have our top runners win
the race, and to have our number
five runner finish only 61 seconds
later was a great team performance.
These guys work so well together,
and they never quit.
Please see V.BALL, page 13
Please see F. HOCKEY, page 13
MICKEY CURTIS/ WESTFIELD STATE
ONE-TWO PUNCH: Juniors Coby Horowitz (left) and Sam Seekins (right) nished in rst and second
place in the New England D-III Championships, and are set to race against the rest of D-III this weekend.
COURTESY OF GEOFFREY BOLTE
DIGGING DEEP: Hilary Cederna 13 digs a UMass Boston hit in the teams regional loss on Sunday.
tic fifth set. The set began with an
early Springfield lead, but a sus-
tained Polar Bear run resulted in
a 15-7 win, securing the match for
Bowdoin and taking the team to
the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.
Melissa Haskell 13 made cru-
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Last years male athlete of
the season, junior cross-coun-
try phenom Coby Horowitz,
is in the midst of another re-
markable season, that has es-
tablished him as one of the best
runners in Bowdoin history.
Horowitz finished first at
the Maine State Meet on Oc-
tober 13, the NESCAC Cham-
pionship on October 27 and
the New England D-III Cross
Country Championship.
Horowitz is the first
Bowdoin runner in 12 years to
win the NESCAC, a conference
widely considered the second
strongest in D-III.
Head Coach Peter Slovenski,
who has coached over 50 All-
Americans during his 27-year
tenure, places Coby atop all
other Polar Bear cross-country
runners.
Cobys the best runner
on the mens side. We are
very lucky he chose to run at
Bowdoin, said Slovenski.
Coby gets great places in
the big meets, he continued.
He knows how to prepare in
the big meets. In the races, he
makes such great moves and
has such incredible courage in
the final stretches.
Nobody has witnessed the
junior stars race strategy and
poise more closely than team-
BY BERNIE CLEVENS
STAFF WRITER
e Orient chooses the male and
female Athlete of the Season based
on exemplary performance and
commitment to their programs. e
winners are selected by the sports
editor.
Outside hitter Melissa
Haskell 13 supplied talent and
drive in her best season yet,
leading the volleyball team to
the NCAA D-III Sweet Sixteen
for the first time in school his-
tory.
Led by Haskells 2.84 kills
and 2.99 digs per set, the Polar
Bears earned a 28-5 season re-
cord, posting the most wins in
the teams history by beating
their 27-3 performance from
the previous year.
With Haskell finishing her
collegiate career, the team is
losing their kill leader and
most reliable offensive threat.
If you look at her statistics
over four years, she has 250
kills and digs each season,
Head Coach Karen Corey said.
Having that consistency is
something we will miss.
In her career, Haskell
eclipsed 1,000 kills and digs,
becoming only the second
player in the teams history to
accomplish this feat.
You always knew what to
Coach of the Season: Weaver
turns around womens soccer
After her teams strong showing
in the NCAA tournament, wom-
ens soccer coach Brianne Weaver
has made a strong impression in
her first year at Bowdoin.
Weaver, who left her alma ma-
ter, St. Marys College in Mary-
land, to coach the Polar Bears, has
developed a
midfield-based
attack on a 4-4-
2 formation.
The team had
run a 4-3-3 be-
fore, like much
of their com-
petition, but
Weaver felt the
shift would be
more conducive
to the current
roster, which lost its leading scorer
last year. The 4-4-2 features four
midfielders instead of the usual
three, at the cost of an additional
forward.
This new approach allowed
many different players to par-
ticipate in offensive production,
particularly early in games, when
opposing teams struggled with
Bowdoins new look.
I dont think we had anyone on
the roster without a single point,
Weaver said of the new offense.
It made it very difficult for op-
ponents because they couldnt just
mark one player.
Captain Toni DaCampo 13 not-
ed the impact Coach Weaver and
her new offensive strategry had on
the teams confidence.
She is a very positive coach
and she definitely raised the con-
fidence of the team quite a bit, she
said.
The result was a team confident
in its ability to hold the ball and
attack mismatches with precision.
Coach Weavers first experience
with Bowdoin came on a visit ten
years ago, where she said she was
struck by the community and the
spirit of the people on campus.
The heart of Coach Weavers
style is letting the players take con-
trol of the program.
She let the team come to many
of our own decisions and was very
flexible, DaCampo added.
I like to think Im a positive
coach, Weaver said of herself. I
try to find the strengths within
my players. There are a lot of les-
sons that can be taught through
the game. I like to say were a co-
curricular activity rather than an
extracurricular activity.
While Weaver was brought to
Bowdoin by former Athletic Di-
rector Jeff Ward, interim Director
Tim Ryan remembers serving on
the search committee whose pur-
pose it was to
measure each
candidates abil-
ity to fit in with
the school. The
committee re-
ferred its find-
ings to Ward,
with input from
the teams cap-
tains, who then
passed that on
to the Dean of
Student Affairs, Tim Foster.
It was clear from the interview
process, that [Weaver] cares deeply
for her athletes and their entire ex-
perience beyond just soccer, Ryan
said. One of the important things
we look for is interest in students
away from athletics and shes been
a fixture at events across campus in
the short time she has been here.
Despite her early success, Coach
Weaver emphasizes how lucky she
is to have the taken over the team
that she did. She says she believes
the youth and complimentary per-
sonalities of the current Bowdoin
squad and the lack of serious in-
juries were integral to the teams
decade-best success this year.
She was also thankful that the
College has offered a supportive
environment for new coaches.
Its a great environment, she
said, Im surrounded by success-
ful programs and I have confi-
dence in the support network. We
have a lot of fan support It was a
special year. You know as a coach
that these years dont come around
all the time.
BY ALEX VASILE
STAFF WRITER
Athletics: education keeps
concussion numbers steady
The number of concussions sus-
tained by athletes at the College
have remained steady this year.
According to Interim Athletic
Director Tim Ryan, the College
has not seen a noticeable increase
in the number of concussions,
though there has been a slight up-
tick this fall.
Its probably a function of two
things, said Ryan. We have in-
creased education and we have an
increased number of participants
in our contact sports.
However, the athletic depart-
ment declined to provide a specific
ATHLETES OF THE SEASON
Melissa Haskell 13
Her leadership reected her
ability to keep a level-head-
edness about all challenges
we faced as a team.
SOPHIA CORNEW 14
WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Coby Horowitz 14
expect from Melissa, said co-
captain Tory Edelman. It was a
very comforting quality to have
when you arent worried about
her play on the court.
Haskells poise stems from
her experience on the court. She
started since her first year and
became a dependable player and
leader.
Junior setter Sophia Cornew
emphasized the calm demeanor
that Haskell provides on the
court.
Mel was an even keel for
the team and her leadership re-
flected her ability to keep a lev-
el-headedness about all chal-
lenges we faced as a team,
she said.
In addition to supplying
production and leadership on
the court, Haskell also pro-
vided her teammates with a
model of the successful stu-
dent-athlete.
A physics major at Bowdoin,
Haskell has a 3.79 cumulative
GPA, is a Sarah and James
Bowdoin scholar and a two-
time Academic All-American.
Recently, she was named the
Capital One Academic All-
District honoree. The D-III
Academic-All American team
is released on Tuesday, De-
cember 11.
Haskell says the key to bal-
ancing athletics and academ-
ics is just trying to focus on
one thing at a time and not
worry about the two things at
once. She continues with the
following advice: Dont watch
too many YouTube videos.
She is a Bowdoin physics
major, working on an hon-
ors project between MIT and
Mass General, said Corey,
praising her academic com-
mitment. Whether she is in
the classroom or on the court,
she is very analytical.
Haskins explains, in jest: I
am a total science geek.
She says she plans to pursue
graduate school next year and
will keep track of Bowdoin
volleyball next season.
BY ANDREW PARK
ORIENT STAFF
number of concussions that have
occurred so far this year.
Last fall, the Orient reported
that 25 students had sustained
concussions as of November 2011,
down from 39 in 2010.
Since instituting a second side-
line test a few years ago, the Col-
leges protocol regarding testing,
diagnosis, treatment and return
has not been altered.
The major focus has been edu-
cating athletes about concussions.
The result has been an increase
in the number of potential concus-
sion reporting even if the final di-
agnosis is otherwise.
Please see NUMBERS, page 13
mate Sam Seekins 14, who fin-
ished a mere nine hundredths of a
second behind Horowitz this past
weekend.
When hes ready to go, he just
goes ahead and makes the push,
said Seekins. I dont think Coby
gets rattled.
Seekins attributes his own
success in part to training with
Horowitz.
As a teammate, he pushes peo-
ple so hard. I cant see myself as
training so hard or wanting to win
as much without Coby, he says.
His attitude is infectious.
Marcus Schneider, the lone se-
nior on the varsity seven, said:
The unique thing about Cobys
training is the way he can keep
everything lighthearted and fun
even during intense workouts or
arduous training drills.
Horowitz expects this seasons
intense training sessions to pay off
this weekend in the NCAA D-III
Championships this Saturday.
A win would be nice, he
said. Anywhere in the top five
Id be happy.
When asked about the field
of competitors, he quietly
took out his iPhone, scrolled
through the notes application,
and rattled off a number of
favorites, emphasizing one in
particular.
Tim Nelson from Wiscon-
sin Stout. He won the 5K in-
doors at nationals and the 10K
at both. Everyone has been
picking him as the favorite
since the first week. Im going
to be looking for him.
On Wednesday, Horowitz
was named U.S. Track & Field
and Cross Country Associa-
tion Division III New England
Athlete of the Year. But even
this distinction does not take
the target off Nelsons back
heading into the weekend.
JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Cobys the best runner on
the mens side. We are very
lucky he chose to run at
Bowdoin.
PETER SLOVENSKI
HEAD COACH OF CROSS COUNTRY
JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
It was clear from the interview
process, that [Weaver] cares deeply
for her athletes and their entire
experience beyond just soccer.
Tim Ryan
Interim Director of Athletics
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Womens ice hockey starts
year with new assistant coach
SEASON PREVIEW
Mens ice hockey set to face
Williams and Middlebury
Swim team heads to Boston
for rst meet of the season
Mens basketball has new look
after losing top two scorers
The mens basketball team will
open its 2012-2013 season with a
matchup against Clark University
on Friday in the first of two games
in the Eastern Connecticut Tip-
Off Tournament.
Coming off a 17-8 season and a
fifth-place finish in the NESCAC,
the Polar Bears could have a tough
time replacing graduates Will
Hanley and Ryan OConnell, last
seasons leading scorers.
Last year we ran a lot of stuff
through Will, said Head Coach
Tim Gilbride, now in his 28
th
sea-
son as Bowdoins head coach. He
had different sets to get him the
ball, and then we worked things
off of that. This year were going to
run our stuff and see what gets us
the best opportunity against differ-
ent teams.
The team has only had two
weeks of practice to prepare for the
season. They have spent much of
their time in the gym working on
their man-to-man defense, hoping
that it will catalyze into an effective
transition offense that can capital-
ize on rebounds and takeaways to
garner scoring opportunities.
Were going to be a team that
works extremely hard on the de-
fensive end and tries to get a lot
of fast break opportunities from
that, said captain Max Staiger 13.
While we could easily settle into
a half-court offense, I think wed
much rather play an up-tempo, up
and down type of game.
When they are in offensive sets,
the Polar Bears will use a newly-
instituted motion offense to try
and utilize their strengths.
Were more focused on getting
the ball inside. Were going to be a
lot bigger than most of the teams
we play, said captain Nick Lenker
13. Our new style of offense is
going to open up a lot of oppor-
tunities for different people to be
scoring. Once the games come,
then well be able to see who steps
up.
Lenker and Staiger will be
joined inside by John Swords 15,
while outside shooters Andrew
Madlinger 14 and Matt Mathias
14 will look to take advantage
of collapsing defenses. Slasher
Keegan Pieri 15, Hanleys backup
last year, will also act as a key con-
tributor. Bryan Hurley 15 will or-
chestrate the offense.
[Hurley] will definitely be the
floor general, said Gilbride. Ill
be counting on him to make sure
that we are executing well and get-
ting the ball to people we want to
get it to at particular times. Hes
pretty good at that and got a lot of
experience last year, so he should
take another step.
While teams such as Wesleyan
and Amherst are early favorites
this year, the NESCAC is known
for upsets every season.
Anybody can beat anybody in
this league and you probably wont
know until February what the
standings will be like at the end of
the season, said Staiger.
-Compiled by Sam Chase
Womens basketball kicks o
season with ve new starters
on last years successes.
The team has steadily improved
during Head Coach Marissa
ONeils tenure and is getting ready
to make strides toward the NES-
CAC playoffs.
This is my third year here, so
everyone is more comfortable with
our system of play, she said.
ONeils coaching style involves
an aggressive and fast-paced game
that forces the opposition to keep
up.
She explained that she wants
Bowdoin to set the tempo of each
game from the start.
We want to be a team with a
target on our back. We want to be
known in the conference as the
team that gives their best every
game, she said.
Weve returned a really solid
group. Our scoring is back, and
we have returned two goalies who
played a majority of last season.
Also, we have many young players
who can contribute, ONeil added.
This season, the team welcomes
Assistant Coach Holly Lorms.
Hired this past spring, Lorms
played D-I ice hockey at Boston
University (BU). As the captain in
2010-2011, she led the squad to a
second place finish in the NCAA
tournament and was voted as the
top defensive forward in her divi-
sion. She also received BUs John
B. Simpson Award for leadership
her senior year.
Lorm captained BUs 2010-2011
squad to a second-place finish in
the 2011 NCAA tournament.
She came highly recommended
by many coaches and will assist
Coach ONeil in all facets of the
game. ONeil said she hopes Lorms
athletic background and experi-
ence will greatly benefit the team.
She has been a part of good
hockey teams, is a very knowl-
edgeable and articulate coach and,
most importantly, has the teams
respect, ONeil said.
Seniors Kayte Holtz and Stepha-
nie Ludy will be the captains this
season. However, ONeil said all of
the seniors will set the tone for the
season.
No days are overlooked because
you dont want to leave the season
with regrets. Its not just our cap-
tains leading, its all the upper-
classmen, said ONeil.
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son this weekend, when they will
face both MIT and Babson. Head
Coach Brad Burnham said that
the forecast for this season is un-
predictable.
Weve got a lot of talented kids,
but since we just got started last
week, we really have no idea how
well perform. Well find out a
lot after this weekend, Burnham
said.
Last year, the Polar Bears per-
formed well throughout the sea-
son and were able to send multi-
ple swimmers to the NCAA D-III
tournament.
We finished in the top half of
the conference. There were plenty
of best times, which is really what
we strive for, said Burnham.
Despite coming off a relatively
strong season, Burnham said he
is hesitant to set goals so early in
the season. The number of first-
year recruits and juniors studying
abroad could make for an uncer-
tain start to the season, according
to him.
We dont start to talk team goals
until winter break, once everyones
back from abroad, but right now,
we havent discussed specific team
goals, Burnham explained.
Burnham said the first years
have a lot of potential this season,
although he acknowledged that
they have a lot of work to do be-
fore theyre ready to compete ef-
fectively.
They look like they know how
to swim, but they dont know how
to turn, and they dont really know
how to start, so weve been work-
ing on those things, Burnham
said. But they do have a good feel
for the water, and theres a lot of
talent.
Burnham said that the team will
face some significant challenges
in the NESCAC, but he expressed
confidence in his teams potential
for success.
The competition gets tougher
every year, and each of the teams
gets faster each season, he said.
However, at this point, we have a
lot of returning swimmers who are
striving to perform better. Over-
all, I think we have a pretty solid
team.
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mentoring and leading these younger
players, said Shibles. Forward Anna
Proll 14 is also a captain, and she
is helping the bigger players on the
team come along.
One major disappointment is the
injury of point guardAllie Piscina
14, just one of the challenges the Po-
lar Bears will have to overcome. Te
team began practicing on November,
but will face teams that have been
able to practice together since Octo-
ber 15.
Only having two weeks of prac-
tice with a very young team is ex-
tremely hard, but based on what I
saw at Mondays scrimmage [versus
Bates] I feel really good about this
team, said Shibles.
What the team may lack in experi-
ence, it has so far made up for in mo-
tivation, refected in the scrimmage
against Bates as well as an alumni
scrimmage last weekend.
I already like the coach-ability
and the resilience of this team. As
expected with a young team, there
were some really high points and
then there were some things that we
clearly need to work on, but I like
how they responded in moments of
adversity, said Shibles.
Te team will face tough com-
petition right from the frst round
todayRhode Island College was a
NCAA Sweet Sixteen team last year.
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Tis is by far the shortest amount
of time we have had before our frst
game, but we have really come to-
gether as a team in preseason to
put ourselves in a great position,
said senior captain Daniel Weini-
ger. We have balanced conditioning
and team work extremely well and
I know that we will be ready come
game time this weekend.
Head Coach Terry Meagher
agreed.
The things you can really con-
trol is your attitude, your pre-
season, your work ethic and your
commitment to group and a play-
ing structure. Im very pleased with
how we are in those areas, said
Meagher. Arguably I think we
have two of the best captains weve
ever had here, they pay attention to
what they have to control while still
producing at a high level.
This years team includes many
veteran players and will look to im-
prove on last years performance.
I think the major difference is
the overall hunger and desire to
win of this team, said senior cap-
tain Tim McGarry. The majority
of our lineup is made up of return-
ing players that know their way
around our system and were dis-
appointed by our semifinal exit in
last years playoffs.
We are going to outwork teams
with our Hot N Spicy style of play
that requires a hard work ethic and
supreme conditioning, said Weiniger.
The team will need to come out
sharp this weekend if it hopes to
start off the season on a good foot.
Fridays game against Williams
is not the ideal way to begin the
season, but it will be a trial by fire
type of situation that will ultimate-
ly bring the team closer together,
said McGarry. All in all, after two
weeks of playing against each oth-
er, we are ready to see a different
colored jersey across from us and
find out what were made of.
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The mens hockey team will
open the season with two home
games against perennial power-
houses Williams and Middlebury
this season.
The Polar Bears will face off
against the Ephs on Friday night.
Williams exited the NESCAC tour-
nament in the semi-finals last year
after losing to Amherst, the even-
tual champion.
Bowdoin will then face Middle-
bury on Saturday. The Panthers
defeated the Polar Bears last year
in the NESCAC semi-final before
losing to Amherst in the final.
The team has had a shorter pre-
season than usual to prepare for
the games.
With only one returning starter, the
womens basketball team will debut
its new squad today against Rhode Is-
land College in the frst round of the
Babson Tip-Of Tournament.
Te team graduated fve seniors
last year, including four starters and
All-American Jill Henrikson. Te
bulk of the team consists of frst years
and sophomores. Tere is one senior
and three juniors, with one junior
currently injured. Despite the rela-
tive inexperience of the team, Head
Coach Adrienne Shibles said she ex-
pects her younger players to step up
and make an immediate impact.
Were going to have to rely on a
lot of younger players who have had
little to no experience playing in NE-
SCAC games, said Shibles.
While the team is young, Shibles
cited strong leadership from the few
upperclassmen.
Te only senior is point guard and
captain Kaitlin Donahoe.
She is an exceptional leader on the
court. She has been very helpful in
COURTESY OF TIMMCKINNEY
GROUP EFFORT: The womens soccer team gathers together after the teams 2-1 loss to the Ithaca Bombers in the third round of the NCAA D-III tournament.
After a heartbreaking loss to
Amherst in the NESCAC semi-
finals last year, the womens ice
hockey team is gearing up to build
The men and womens swim-
ming and diving teams will com-
pete in their first meet of the sea-
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Womens cross country
takes 11
th
in New England
The womens cross country
team met stiff competition at the
New England Championship this
weekend, coming in 11
th
out of 51
teams.
Despite the odds, Madelena
Rizzo 14 managed to finish 22
nd
,
crossing the line with a fast-
enough time to join the All-New
England team for the second year
in a row.
According to Coach Peter Slov-
enski, this race was particularly
tough, and Rizzo showed incred-
ible poise in her performance.
Olivia Mackenzie 13 faced an
unprecedented obstacle during
the race. Impressively, she was in
12
th
place at the 4000 meter mark,
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STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
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TH
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two-thirds of the way through the
race. In the next 1000 meters, she
began to feel light-headed and lost
three places. In the final 400 me-
ters, Mackenzie was beginning to
pass out and had to break her pace
to finish, coming in as Bowdoins
second runner, at 57
th
place.
For four years Olivia always
came through for the cross-coun-
try team. Shes so tough that she
kept running even after she had
basically passed out, and finished
as our teams second runner. It was
an incredibly courageous finish,
said Slovenski.
Adding to her notable first-year
season, Lucy Skinner finished as
Bowdoins third runner, in 68
th
place. First year Gina Stalica fin-
ished as Bowdoins fourth runner.
Following up with her success at
the NESCAC Championship, Bren-
na Fischer 15 finished in the top
five in this race, moving up from
her usual position as the teams
seventh or eighth fastest runner.
NESCAC Standings
WOMENS BASEKETBALL
WOMENS ICE HOCKEY
Sa 11/17
Tu 11/20
at Plattsburgh State
v. UMASS Boston
2:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
MENS ICE HOCKEY
F 11/16
Sa 11/17
v. Williams
v. Middlebury
7:00 P.M.
4:00P.M.
MENS BASEKETBALL
F 11/16
Sa 11/17
Tu 11/20
v. Clark @E. Connecticut
v. TBA @ E. Connecticut
at St. Josephs (ME)
7:30 P.M.
TBA
7:30 P.M.
F 11/16
Sa 11/17
Tu 11/20
v. Rhode Island @Babson
v. TBA @ Babson
at U. of New England
8:00 P.M.
TBA
5:30P.M.
WOMENS SWIMMING & DIVING
Sa 11/17 v. Babson @ MIT
at MIT Invitational
1:00P.M.
1:00P.M.
MENS SWIMMING & DIVING
Sa 11/17 v. Babson @ MIT
at MIT Invitational
1:00 P.M.
1:00P.M.
MENS CROSS COUNTRY
Sa 11/17 NCAA D-III Championship
at Terre Haute, Indiana
11:00A.M..
Compiled by Carolyn Veilleux
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
F. HOCKEY
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V.BALL
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Bears past Tufs the following day,
though the previous matchups did
help explain the tight competition.
Pearson said corners were an
area where she felt that the team fell
short.
In the two previous meetings it
really came down to executing of-
fensive opportunities, particularly
corners, she said.
Te decisive battle was played pre-
dominately in the midfeld, where
both teams vied for control, though
neither managed many dangerous
opportunities.
In the frst half, Bowdoin was the
lone team on the board afer Lauren
Shroeder 14 fnished on an attempt
from Riley.
Late in the second half, Tufs capi-
talized on a corner to tie the game,
and in the fnal minutes of competi-
tion the Jumbos rebounded yet an-
other corner to secure a spot in the
Final Four.
Te close game was telling of both
teams goo defensive layers and
ability to thwart breakaways, said
Pearson.
Tough the close loss against
Tufs was disappointing, Pearson in-
sists on her teams enduring success
and achievements throughout their
16-4 season.
Te Polar Bears see the defensive
gap that the fve graduating seniors
will leave and eagerly look to refocus
and rebuild that unit for their next
season.
cial offensive and defensive contri-
butions with 19 kills and 10 digs,
while Tory Edelman 13 was not
far behind with 17 kills. Cornew
racked up 55 assists in the win
while libero Taylor Vail 14 led the
team defensively with 20 digs.
The third round of the tourna-
ment saw Bowdoin fall to UMass
Boston in a fiercely fought 3-2
defeat, reminiscent of the teams
second-round loss to UMass in the
tournament last year.
The Polar Bears lost the first set
25-14 before coming back in the
second with a 25-18 win. UMass
retook control in the third pick-
ing up the set 25-22, and domi-
nated the fourth, beating UMass
25-12. The fifth set was a close
battle, with both teams fighting
for the lead for five points before
a two point run gave UMass a 15-
13 win, sending UMass Boston to
Hope College in Holland, Michi-
gan for the NCAA Elite Eight this
weekend.
Bowdoins three graduating se-
niors all made important contri-
butions in their last match, with
When you educate people tend
to report more and thats what we
want. People dont realize that a
concussion can develop in many
ways. Its not just when you get
knocked out or have a loss of con-
sciousness, said Head Trainer Dan
Davies.
All athletes are required to at-
tend a seminar at the beginning of
the year in which they are shown
a presentation about concussions
and attend a panel discussion
with Davies, current students and
alums who suffered concussions,
and various members of the ad-
ministration.
The College has also invested
funding into purchasing the very
latest equipment to protect its
athletes. Riddell Speed Helmets
are worn by the members of the
football team and are rated as
the best helmets for protecting
against head trauma.
Despite all the equipment, tests
and education, stories like the one
experienced by Steve Buduo 14
show that in the end, a large part of
prevention is still up to individual
athletes.
Buduo, who was recruited to
play football and baseball for the
College, sustained at least two con-
cussions in high school.
He was cleared to play for
Bowdoin, but at a Friday practice
early in his first football season as
COURTESY OF KEVIN COLTON
DOWN AND OUT: Lauren Schroeder 14 waits for the ball to drop before aiming at the Tufts goal. Bowdoin lost to Tufts 2-1 in the Elite Eight, only their second time kept out of the Final Four in the last 8 years.
a first year, he suffered a concus-
sion.
I didnt think it was a serious
thing. I had a headache, was tired,
but nothing out of the ordinary.
And as a football player, as an ath-
lete, you sort of push through,
said Buduo. If I hadnt gone back
Saturday, I probably wouldve been
okay in a few weeks.
After suffering a second concus-
sion in practice, Buduo explained
that Davies called him over, notic-
ing something was wrong.
Buduo was diagnosed with Sec-
ond Impact Syndrome (SIS), a
rapid and dangerous swelling of
the brain caused by the impact of
a second concussion before the
symptoms of an earlier one sub-
side.
After taking a leave of absence,
Buduo returned to Bowdoin with
challenges that he says were made
far easier by the College.
They were really supportive
of me and didnt push me back
too quickly. They got me a lot of
help with tutors, seeing a coun-
selor and a neurologist regular-
ly, said Buduo.
According to Buduo, it took
him nearly eight months before
he was symptom free. He no lon-
ger plays football or baseball nor
will he be able to for the foresee-
able future.
People need to speak up when
somethings wrong. You cant see a
concussion like a broken leg or an
arm. Only you know and you only
get one brain, he said.
Edelman collecting 14 kills, Hil-
ary Cederna 13 racking up eight
kills and 13 digs, and Haskell
notching seven kills and 15 digs.
Vail led the team defensively with
27 digs.
After the weekends final match,
Edelman and Cornew were both
named to the All-Regional Team,
while Haskell was named a Capital
One Academic All-District Hon-
oree. This distinction puts Haskell
in the running to be named to the
Division III Academic All Ameri-
can team, announced on Decem-
ber 11.
I was really happy with the way
the team played this weekend, par-
ticularly against Springfield, said
Haskell about the match. We en-
countered tougher-than-expected
defense from UMass but I think
we still made a good showing. The
thing about NCAAs is that its hard
to end your career on a high note
but Im really proud of our team
and Im struggling to comprehend
life after volleyball.
Her fellow captain Edelman
echoed this sentiment: While we
ended the season with a heart-
breaking loss, overall, we did so
well, and I am happy that I was
able to be a part of it.
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Lets talk turkey
In a letter to the editor published in the October 12 issue of the Orient, seven profes-
sors voiced their concern over a growing chorus of complaints regarding the work load
of college faculty. Te letter explained that faculty engagement at Bowdoin extends far
beyond class time and om ce hours; professors serve on administrative committees and
are expected to actively participate in their areas of study by publishing their research.
We are immensely grateful to the faculty of the College and are thankful for the high
level of scholarly achievement and intellectual rigor that defnes a Bowdoin education.
Faculty come to our small college for more than its academic reputation and resources;
they come to work closely with undergraduates who are just discovering their academic
passions. Tis is touted in Bowdoins promotional literature and by our tour guides, but it
is an important reality that bears repeating here. Our professors are deeply committed to
our learning and growth; we see this in their willingness to schedule meetings outside of
regular om ce hours, to guide us through papers and lab reports, and to wholeheartedly
support our independent projects, however aspirational they may be.
We are lucky to spend four years studying with scholars so invested in balancing our
academic success with their own research pursuits. High-caliber faculty research enhanc-
es the Colleges reputation, but more importantly, it enriches the hours that pass inside
Bowdoins classrooms. We support our professors in their research endeavors and profes-
sional development; but at an undergraduate institution like Bowdoin, we must balance
the needs of faculty and students, even when they are seemingly at odds.
Last year, the faculty shot down a proposal to extend Tanksgiving Break to a full
week in a 47 to 28 vote. As major concerns, they cited lost class timeparticularly for
science, language, and music coursesand the worry that a full week of would be too
great a disruption to the semester. While we acknowledge that these are valid objections,
we urge the faculty to seriously consider ways in which these issues could be easily rem-
edied. Tough a week-long hiatus could potentially break up the fow of the semester, it
is important to note that Tanksgiving Break falls in the fnal weeks of the term, when
the lions share of graded assignments and exams are scheduled. Bowdoin students no-
toriously take their studies seriously, and the two extra days of vacation would allow us
more time to prepare and rest up for fnals. Te lost class time could be recouped either
by shortening Fall Break or, as was proposed this semester, by beginning the school year
two days early.
Te initiative to extend Tanksgiving Break has the support of an overwhelming ma-
jority of students, many of whom cannot justify the travel cost of a short fve-day trip
home for the holiday. Last week, the Bowdoin Student Government Executive Commit-
tee wrote a Letter to the Editor urging students to join them in pressuring the faculty
to reconsider the calendar switch. Last year, 94 percent of students said they supported
extending the break.
In their letter to the Orient, the Bowdoin professors encouraged students to recognize
the extent of their responsibilities and obligations outside of classroom teaching. In ask-
ing for serious consideration of an extended Tanksgiving break, we feel we are doing
the same. Students at the College are serious about academics, but they are also com-
mitted to their families who live far away and to hometown friends who they dont ofen
see. We think we could all beneft from a more complete understanding of each others
responsibilities.
Lets go back to the drawing boardits time to talk turkey.
This past Wednesday, a small
but excited contingent of Bowdoin
students made the trip to Portland
for 350.orgs Do The Math tour,
an initiative to spur environ-
mental activism.
To readers who might be turned
away by the premise of the event, I
admit that I, too, was a bit skepti-
cal at first.
I fully expected Bill McKibben,
the keynote speaker (and Middle-
bury professor), to get on stage
and beat us over the head with
guilt. Dont get me wrong, there
was plenty of guilt tripping, as
well as thorough reminding that
anthropogenic climate change is
real, dangerous, and getting worse.
But thats not what the rally was
all about. It was much more pow-
erful. It was about reconsidering
what matters to us, because this
business-as-usual course of action
isnt really a course of action at all.
We know where that path leads,
and anyone can tell you we dont
want to take it.
The power wasnt in the ac-
knowledgement that we are dan-
gerously addicted to fossil fuels,
or that companies thrive off of the
status quo.
For me, it came in the fact that
in seven cities already, includ-
ing Portland, this tour has sold
out, and venues much larger than
State Theater have been packed.
Seattles mayor has promised to
seek all possible methods to di-
vest as quickly as possible, and our
neighbors at Unity College have
already taken that step. For me, it
was a very real reminder that cli-
mate change is not a lost cause, and
that Im not alone in this belief. We
have to fight any and every impulse
to cave to what is easy, socially ac-
ceptable, or practical. On climate
change more than any other issue,
these words have become distorted
and warped, such that they defend
the one group we know to be evil:
Divesting for climate change and a brighter future
PETER NAUFFTS
I was forced to thinkand this
is what I really need to relay to
youabout what it means to have
radical views. Because I can
now guarantee you, the only radical
thing to do is nothing.
the fossil fuel companies.
If I walk by a table in Smith
Union talking about divesting the
schools portfolio from fossil fuel
stocks, and I keep walking by be-
cause I dont want to be the only
one stopping, what kind of state-
ment am I making? I wont raise
the question of how I can live with
myself, but hell, why shouldnt I?
First of all, I was reminded that
Im not the alone by any means,
and any sort of powerful major-
ity will constantly try to make you
feel more isolated because it en-
sures complacency.
Secondly, I was forced to
thinkand this is what I really
need to relay to youabout what
it means to have radical views.
Because I can now guarantee you,
the only radical thing to do is noth-
ing. In McKibbens words, Radicals
work at oil companies. It is our job to
check that radicalism.
I wholeheartedly believe that, at
least on climate change, theres a
right side to history and a wrong
side. And I know if I sit by and
watch things go by without trying
to do something, Ive placed myself
frmly on the wrong side. Maybe we
can live with this on certain issues,
but when doing nothing means let-
ting our planet fall to pieces, I feel a
whole lot less radical.
So please, join me in getting on
the right side of history. Its the
only bandwagon that you cant
be ridiculed for jumping on. Call
for Bowdoin to divest. To quote
Unity College President Stephen
Mulkey, Te ethical choice is not to
invest in industries that are destroy-
ing the future for our children.
We shouldnt have to demand
that Bowdoin make this choice;
it should be a no-brainer. Get in-
volved, sign the petition, and make
the choice just a little bit easier for
the College.
To end on a high note, heres
McKibben on the portrayal of
fighting the fossil fuel companies
as a David and Goliath story: I
said to myself, Wait, Im a Meth-
odist. A Sunday school teacher.
I know how that story turns out!
David wins!
Peter Nauffts is a member of the
Class of 2015.
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I have a hard time believing that.
I have a hard time believing that we
would perceive our culture to be ath-
lete-centric unless there was some-
thing for non-athletes to relate to
about the lifestyle. So where does that
status come from? Te NCAAs pro-
paganda pamphlets probably say it
comes from a commitment to excel-
lencethat success in sports confers
a set of values and an ability to work
hard. But we probably shouldnt take
our cues from the NCAA.
I think Bowdoin students have
an appreciation for talent of all
Unraveling the realities of Israel and the on-campus BDS movement
Far from being a racist state as the
BDS movement claims, Israel is a
predominately secular democratic
state that aords freedom to all
of its citizens.
BY MICHAEL LEVINE
An op-ed by columnist Chris
Wedeman recently appeared in
the Orient in support of the Boy-
cott Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) movement aimed at boy-
cotting Israeli goods and services.
Even as innocents are being indis-
criminately killed in Syria, ethnic
cleansing continues to take its
toll in the Congo, and democratic
rights and political freedoms are
being denied around the world, it
is Israela democratic nation with
a strong human rights record
that is the focus of this initiative.
The BDS movement rests on
mischaracterizations and half-
truths and should be firmly op-
posed, especially at a place like
Bowdoin.
Consider the four major com-
plaints Wedeman levels against
Israel in the op-ed: Israel is guilty
of cultural theft; Israel is noto-
rious for its violations of human
rights; Israel is a racist state; and
Israel exists on land stolen from
Palestinians. Of these four, the
charge of cultural theft is particu-
larly insulting. Israel exists in the
Middle East, surrounded by Arab
neighbors. According to the on-
line Jewish Virtual Library, there
are over 1.5 million Israeli-Arab
citizens living within its borders.
A process of cultural diffusion is
bound to take place under these
circumstances. Moreover, millions
of Jews lived in Arab countries
for over two millennia until they
left or were forcibly evicted from
their homes after the Arab-Israeli
war. This all raises an important
question: why is it that when other
groups borrow cultual elements
Its their world, we just live in it.
Welcome to Bowdoin College, where
the women dominate athletics. Tis
past weekend, three womens teams
lost in varying stages of NCAAs. Te
weekend before, a womens team
won the conference championship
and a trip to nationals. The men?
Not so much success this season.
No playoff wins. No Colby-Bates-
Bowdoin title. No NCAA appear-
ances.
If you wanted to count on your
fngers the NESCAC titles of the
past decade, youd have to get your
toes involved to account for all of the
womens championships.
Womens sports teams have won
17 NESCAC titles since 2001.
Te men? Dont worry. No need to
put your cofee down. You can just
stick a pinky up, though, if you have
a more generous defnition and in-
clude the vacated hockey title, you
could fash deuces to the world.
When a mens team makes the
NCAAs it feels like a historic event.
Te hype machine goes into over-
drive and we all pause to exam-
ine history in the making. When a
womens team makes NCAAs, it feels
like business as usual.
Tat statement could make ears
perk up and set of feminist sensi-
bilities. But Im not sure getting up-
set about the diference in hype gives
Bowdoins female athletes their due.
When success occurs so regularly,
dont expectations naturally begin to
shif? Every time the Patriots lose a
Super Bowl it is a disappointment,
in the same way we are disappointed
every time feld hockey doesnt win a
national title.
We do a lot of hand-wringing
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about the ways athlete culture
dominates Bowdoin. Athlete cul-
ture is usually used as a euphemism
for bro culture and the sins people
associate with it. What about female
athletes though? Yes, the ones win-
ning all the titles. Dont they infu-
ence Bowdoins culture just as much
as their male counterparts do? If
Bowdoin is indeed overrun by ath-
lete culture, is it not also female ath-
lete culture? Isnt it sexist to assume
that women dont help shape the cul-
ture we live in?
Tis column is more about ques-
tions than answers. Its about a cer-
tain type of question. Te questions
we dont ask because we assume we
already know the answers.
Would Bowdoin have an athlete
culture if there was nothing worth
admiring about athletes? Of the 1,772
students enrolled at Bowdoin, 665 are
athletes, according to data from the
Department of Education. Im not
great at math, but thats just a little
over a third (37.5 percent). Can a
majority big enough to run buck wild
in the U.S. Senate really be overrun
by the culture of one-third minority?
types. We like to think that were
surrounded by the best and the
brightest, whether they succeed in
robocup, biology research, or bas-
ketball. And when we see someone
committed to something, we re-
spect that, regardless of the disci-
pline. It just so happens that ath-
letics are a spectacle by definition,
so athletes commitments are on
public display.
If that is the case, then female
athletes have a lot of status at
Bowdoin that we dont always
acknowledge.
How does that status manifest
itself ? In what ways is their im-
age reflected in our culture? Can
we say that they model how to win
quietly and confidently? Does the
ethos of winning quietly and con-
fidently carry over to academic
life? Is that why Bowdoin students
never talk about their grades? Its
definitely not because students
arent competitive.
What about socially? We often
hear disparaging remarks blam-
ing men, often athletes, for per-
petuating the hookup culture and
its shortcomings. Lets pause. Are
we to believe that women who are
kicking asses and significantly out-
performing their male counter-
parts on the sports fields, are sud-
denly giving in to a culture they
dont want? What if the hookup
culture suits and dis-suits indi-
vidual women as much as it does
individual men?
Bowdoin used to be a sexist and
chauvinist place. Fact. We were
an all-boys club for far too long,
and there are definitely unappeal-
ing remnants of that culture today.
Maybe this article goes too far in
the opposite direction. But is it
possible were living in their world
and we just dont know it yet? The
clues are there. Just go to the field
house or Morrell Gym, where the
banners are hanging as proof.
The Palestinian people
unquestionably have a right to
create a viable and sovereign state
in their homeland.
it is rightly termed diffusion,
but when Jews do so it becomes
theft?
Next, Israel has a strong human
rights record, especially consider-
ing past and present threats. The
states very existence began with a
war against its Arab neighbors.
In his book Politics and Soci-
ety in Modern Israel, Adam Gar-
finkle estimates that one percent
of Israels populationroughly six
thousand individualsperished in
its war for independence. Today,
Iran, a state with a record of state-
sponsored terrorism and vehement
animosity toward Israel, seeks a
nuclear weapon.
Israel deals with the constant
threat of terrorism. Hamas, the
democratically elected ruling par-
ty in Gaza, is recognized by many
countries, including the U.S. and
the European Union, as a terror-
ist organization. Its charter calls
for the destruction of Israel and
the extermination of Israelis and
Jews. Considering the enormity of
the threats Israel faces, it has acted
with outstanding moral integrity
to protect the lives of civilians and
to uphold human rights.
Moreover, far from being a racist
state as the BDS movement claims,
Israel is a predominately secular
democratic state that affords free-
dom to its citizens. Its religious mi-
norities, including all 1.2 million
Arab-Israelis, are granted equal
protection under the law. Muslims
serve as justices in Israeli courts. A
2007 study from the Arab Center
for Alternative Planning indicates
that Israelis enjoy one of the high-
est standards of living in the Arab
world, and Arab life expectancy
in Israel is higher than that of the
next best Middle Eastern coun-
try, Jordan.
Under these circumstances it
is hardly surprising that a 2011
poll conducted by the Index of
Arab-Jewish Relations stated that,
should a Palestinian state be cre-
ated, the majority of Arab-Israelis
would chose to remain in Israel
rather than emigrate to Palestine
or another Arab state.
Lastly, the suggestion that Israel
exists on land stolen from Pales-
tinians is simply untrue. There has
been a constant presence of Jews in
the area since biblical times. An
influx of Jewish immigration to
Palestine began in the late 1800s
to escape persecution in Europe,
not to aid in imperial conquests.
By the time the United Nations
passed Resolution 181 partition-
ing the former British Palestinian
mandate into two states (a pro-
posal accepted by Israel but reject-
ed with a war of aggression by its
Arab neighbors), Jews constituted
a majority of the population in the
land they were granted.
The BDS movement seeks to de-
monize and delegitimize Israel in
the same way it sought to expose
apartheid South Africa as illegiti-
mate. However, in the case of Israel
these claims are baseless.
As someone deeply concerned
about both Israeli security and
the creation of a sovereign state of
Palestine, I believe this is a major
reason for the impasse in peace ne-
gotiations. The Palestinian people
unquestionably have a right to cre-
ate a viable and sovereign state in
their homelandbut denying the
Jewish people their legitimate
right to claim statehood as well is
unacceptable.
And it is this fundamental dis-
agreement over a Jewish state that
has led to the continuation of the
conflict. Peace negotiations in
1937, 1947, 1948, 1967, 2000 and
2001 were accepted by Israelis but
rejected by the Palestinians be-
cause it would result in the con-
tinuation of a Jewish state.
When the day comes that the
Palestinian people desire a home-
land more than they want to see
the destruction of Israel, there
will be peace. So long as libelous
and hateful claims continue to be
launched against Israel, this day
will only take longer to arrive.
Michael Levine is a member of
the Class of 2014.
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TUESDAY
OFFICE HOURS
Student Lunch with President Mills
Warren Dining Room, Moulton Union. Noon.
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SATURDAY
CONCERT
Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra
The ensemble will perform selections from Mozart, Bach
and Beethoven pieces under the direction of Conductor
George Lopez.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 3 p.m.

FILM
Skins
The Native American Student Association and the Bowdoin
Film Society will co-sponsor the screening of a lm
focusing on the quality of life on reservations.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
COMEDY
Improvabilities Show
The improv troupe invites students to give thanks with them
at its Thanksgiving show.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 8 p.m.
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MONDAY
CONCERT
An Evening of Brass
The Bowdoin Brass Quintet will perform with the Maine
Brass Guild.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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FRIDAY
COMMON HOUR
Common Hour
Dr. Scott Smith 85 will discuss his work directing
workshops about malaria and vector-borne diseases in
developing nations. Smith teaches at Stanford Medical School.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.
FILM
The 48- Hour Film Festival Screening
and Awards
The Bowdoin Film Society will show three student lms
shot, produced and edited in 48 hours. The audience will
vote on the best piece.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT
Slam Poetry & A Cappella Open Mic Night
The Slam Poetry Society will host this showcase of student
rhymers. Special performance by the Meddiebempsters.
Reed House. 7 p.m.
ATHLETIC EVENT
Mens Ice Hockey Home Opener
The mens hockey team kicks o the season against Williams.
Watson Arena. 7 p.m.
THEATER
UrineTown
The Curtain Callers fall production is a musical satire of capi-
talism, set in a society where citizens have to pay to urinate.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
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SUNDAY
CONCERT
Bowdoin College Concert Band
In celebration of the ensembles 25th anniversary, the band
will debut compositions by Francis Kayali 01 and Professor of
Music Robert Greenlee written for the occasion.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m.
REHEARSAL
Flash Mob
Hugo Tran 13 is choreographing a ash mob based on
the Gangnam Style music video. Students interested in
participating must attend the rehearsal.
Thorne Dining Hall. 3 p.m.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Sunday Night Chapel Service
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY
DINING ANNOUNCEMENT
Thanksgiving Break Dining
The board plan ends at 2 p.m. and restarts Sunday at
11 a.m. Lunch and dinner will be served exclusively
at Thorne Dining Hall and will cost $6.25 and $8.40,
respectively. Breakfast will not be served.
Thorne Dining Hall. 2 p.m.
DINNER
Thanksgiving Dinner
Residential Life will host a Thanksgiving dinner for
students not going home for the holiday.
30 College Street. 6 p.m.
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MUSSELS, KOREAN RICE & BEEF ROLLS
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HOLIDAY
Thanksgiving
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BBQ CHICKEN PIZZA, CORN BEEF
SEAFOOD ALFREDO, LINGUINE
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HENNA HAPPY : Mia Colby 13 paints a henna design on the hand of Hayleigh Kein 15 at an event sponsored by ANOKHA at 30 College Street.
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MAC & CHEESE, GARLIC CHICKEN
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Tragedy: Post 9/11
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PERFORMANCE
December Dance
Concert
Classes
Resume
8 a.m.