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MORE NEWS: VANDERWOLK RETIRES; BAXTER HOUSE BASEMENT FLOODS

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL: In loco parentisPage 16.

SPORTS: BASEBALL ENDS REGULAR SEASONBaseball completed its regular season this week, ending its 12 game win streak by losing two of three games to Tufts and then losing on Tuesday to Southern Maine.

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Page 3. HYPOCRITICAL HIPPOPOTAMI: Eric Edelman ‘13 on the choices that lead the way to graduation.

Since 2001, students have been enrolling in Community Based Learning courses through the McKeen Center for the Common Good.

VANDERWOLK: Professor of French retires after nearly 30 years at the College.

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BAXTER: The College House fl ooded after a pipe burst early Sunday morning.Page 5.

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Bridget McCoy ’15, Matt Goodrich ’15 and Catalina Gallagher ’16 camped out on the Quad last night to protest in support of divestment at the College.

BY NORA BIETTETIMMONSORIENT STAFF

King refl ects on fi rst four months in Senate

When I spoke to Senator Angus King on Wednesday morning, he was in Aroostook County in north-ern Maine, en route to a meeting in Van Buren to discuss border is-sues. He had just finished a meet-ing on the potato industry—before 9 a.m.—and had plans to travel to Rockland and coastal Maine the following day.

Since being sworn in on January 3, King’s schedule has been noth-ing if not hectic. Each month, he spends three or four weeks fulfill-ing his legislative duties in Wash-ington, and then spends the subse-quent week in Maine.

“That’s the Senate’s schedule, they don’t call it vacation,” King said. “I think they call it ‘district work period.’ You come back and travel the state and go to meetings. The first week [back] in February, I

Offi ce of Student Affairs makes staffi ng changes

BY MARISA MCGARRYORIENT STAFF

Please see DEAN, page 6

Bowdoin Climate Action stages protest on Quad

Approval ratings for Mills, deans drop; BPD improves

BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTERORIENT STAFF

) e College’s 96 percent approval rating remained unchanged from the fall, according to the latest in-stallment of the Orient’s semi-an-nual survey.

Approval of the O* ce of Student A+ airs has reached a three-year low of 76 percent. In May 2011, approv-al was 87 percent and in May 2012 it was 83 percent.

“) e NAS report has done noth-ing but strengthen my positive opinion of Bowdoin,” said a sopho-more male in response to the sur-vey. “Sure, the school is not perfect, but no one expects it to be.”

) e survey was distributed to all students via email; this spring’s in-stallment garnered 248 responses. Please see RATINGS, page 2

President Mills’ approval rating decreased from 94 percent in the fall to 89 percent.

“[I’m] disappointed by Mills’ re-sponse to the NAS report, [but] generally approve of his job as presi-dent,” said a male junior.

) e survey has been administered for the past three years to track stu-dent opinion of various notable or-ganizations and individuals at the College.

) e faculty, historically one of the survey’s most popular groups, received a 98 percent approval rat-ing, unchanged from their approval at this time last year.

“So far, my favorite part about Bowdoin is the professors,” wrote a male first year. “They are excited

Members of Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) constructed a makeshift “climate camp” on the Quad Wednesday night, in hopes of pressuring the College’s Board of Trustees to meet with the group next week to discuss divesting the endowment from fossil fuels.

Sarah Nelson ’14, who took over as president of Bowdoin Stu-dent Government (BSG) Wednes-day evening, informed BCA at around 5:30 p.m. yesterday that it could not have a demonstra-tion on College property without written permission, and asked the students to dismantle the camp by

BY GARRETT CASEYORIENT STAFF

7 p.m. In response, BCA agreed to lose its status as a chartered stu-dent organization in order to pro-long the protest.

A statement on the website of the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs explains, “No person shall utilize the College’s property, in-cluding photographic reproduc-tions of its property, for commer-cial, business, political or public purposes without express written consent.”

BCA is a subsidiary of the Green Bowdoin Alliance (BGA), a char-tered student organization. Nelson told the protestors on the Quad that by failing to comply with Col-lege regulations, BCA put its par-ent organization, BGA, at risk.

had 29 meetings in five days.”After exactly four months on the

job, King—who is an Independent but caucuses with the Democrats—has found that being a senator in-volves more responsibilities than he expected.

“This job is really two jobs at once. The one job is the official job you’re paid for, going to hearings, learning about the issues—the civ-

ics book version of what a senator is supposed to do,” he said. “On top of that is a huge amount of con-stituent services. I’ll bet you I see between 50 and 100 people from Maine a week.”

When he’s in Washington, King reaches out to constituents with his weekly Capitol Coffees, which he

Tim Foster, dean of student af-fairs, announced that Office of the Dean of Student Affairs will be consolidating two part-time posi-tions into one full-time position, which will be known Associate Director of First-Year Programs via campus-wide email on Sunday. Foster also announced the depar-ture of Dean Laura Lee in the same email.

Foster announced these changes after Margaret Hazlett, senior as-sociate dean, decided to leave Bowdoin to become Dean of the College at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.

“Whenever you have someone who’s been in a senior position such as Margaret’s, for as long as she has, it’s a good chance to step back and say ‘How do we want to best organize ourselves to best meet the needs of students, faculty and staff going forward?’” said Foster.

The new associate director po-sition will take on a series of new responsibilities. He or she will oversee international students, ac-commodations for students with disabilities, and the Host Family Programs.

Some of these responsibilities are currently under the purview of Lee, an assistant dean of student affairs.

“For the last eight years, we’ve had a part-time staffing model,” said Foster. “I think given the na-ture of the work we do, part-time staffing can be difficult when you’re deaning, because there’s

times when you’re here and there’s times when you’re not here. But students are always here.”

“I understand the idea behind having these duties focused in the first-year team,” said Lee.

Lee was also the dean for up-perclassmen students whose last names begin with A and B. These students will move now move to Dean Jarrett Young, who was for-merly responsible for upperclass-men students with last names C through M. Young will now be the dean for students with last names A through L. Leslie Levy, another dean for upperclassmen students will be responsible for students with last names M-Z.

Lee said she did not anticipate a problem dividing all upperclass-men students between two deans instead of three. She said she also realizes the value in having a dean here over the summer when first-year students are in contact with the office before their arrival to campus.

Levy will take over for Lee as the Judicial Board advisor next year. Levy has prior involvement with the Board, as she occasionally took over when there was a conflict of interest for Lee.

Judicial Board student chair Parker Towle ’13 has worked close-ly with Lee over the past year.

“She’s been everything you can ask for in an advisor for our group,” said Towle. “She’s been a terrific re-source for us as we decide cases.”

Towle, who meets with Lee weekly, never noticed a scheduling problem with Lee’s part-time schedule.

IN-TENTS TAKEOVER

Please see KING, page 3

Please see CLIMATE, page 4

“I explained to them that in not following these guidelines, you risk not being re-chartered as a club,” Nelson said.

Nelson said that the BCA mem-bers present initially agreed to leave the Quad. Then, just before 7 p.m., she received an email from Matt Goodrich ’15, one of BCA’s leaders.

“Green Bowdoin Alliance does not have a part in the climate camp—its leaders were not in-volved in the construction and its active members are not present,” the email read. “We are an unof-ficial, unchartered group of stu-dents who want to meet with the

COURTESY OF SENATOR KINGSenator King at the Armed Services Committee Confi rmation Hearing for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

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Michele Kaufman ’13 sprinted to a fi rst-place fi nish in the hundred meter hurdles at the NESCAC Championship. She also broke the school record in the long jump.

SPORTS: Athlete of the weekFEATURES: Debate team rebuildsBowdoin’s debate team has seen a revival this year, and has attended two tournaments in New England.

A&E: QuadzillaTonight, student bands will perform their fi nal shows of the year at BMC’s Quadzilla.

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TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTEND OF AN ERA: Students camped out in Moulton Union on Tuesday night, waiting to register for class in Phase Two. Next year, course registration will be online for the fi rst time.

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Tomorrow at 10 p.m., Bowdoin students will have the chance to dress up in their nicest clothes and attend the annual Spring Gala, which will be themed in the style of “Old Bowdoin.” Organized by Bowdoin Student Gov-ernment (BSG), the gala will feature a live DJ, free food and a photo booth, as well as a bar that will serve beer and wine to students over the age of 21.

“Students don’t really have many chances to get dressed up and feel like they’re going to an event that maybe is a little more formal,” said recently-inaugurated BSG President Sarah Nelson, who serves on the committee that plans the gala. “People look for-ward to this, and it’s a great way to 4 n-ish up spring semester before we head into reading period and 4 nals.”

A5 er last year’s Gala had no theme, the Old Bowdoin theme aims to give the event a more formal 6 air, building o7 Winter Weekend’s old-time feel. Photographs from old yearbooks and documents from Bowdoin’s history will adorn the walls.

Unlike many events on campus, Nelson said, because the Gala is one “of the few events that aren’t limited to a group of people, it’s really about Bowdoin and it’s about all of us.”

While there are subtle di7 erences in the entertainment portion of the event, most notably the lack of the string quartet that performed last year, the return of DJ GG—a local art-ist discovered last year by a member of the Gala committee—will ensure a great night of music.

8 e planning process starts early in spring with weekly meetings run by BSG Programming Chair Bernie Clevens ’15. A member of each class council is appointed to the committee, which is overseen by Student Activi-ties’ Silvia Serban.

“She is a godsend, and handles all the logistical work and contacts for the gala,” Nelson said.

Unlike the e9 cient planning pro-cess this year, the BSG and Student Activities ran into trouble last year coordinating the planning of the Gala. Nelson said she is con4 dent that the current setup will ensure future suc-cess.

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“Old Bowdoin” Spring Gala celebrates end of the year

Number of guests registered for last weekend’s Ivies concert.

On Wednesday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) convened for its 4 nal meeting of the 2012-2013 aca-demic year.

BSG passed two motions brought by the Student A7 airs Committee. 8 e 4 rst was a funding proposal of $150 for refreshments for this Friday’s “Uncommon Hour.” 8 e event will feature Stephen Naculich, professor of physics, giving a talk entitled “Find-ing the God Particle.” Vice President for Student A7 airs Allen Wong ’14 was happy to announce that this was the 4 rst “hard scientist” to give an Un-common Hour talk.

BSG holds fi nal meeting of the academic year

Randy Nichols, Director of Safety and Security

Please see article, Page 5.

As far as we know, there was no sexy time under the bleachers this year.

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to be teaching, and they are will-ing and helpful to guide and advise students.”

“Tim Foster has lost my respect until he establishes a clear defini-tion of hazing and uses due process in investigating hazing cases,” said a

8 e second proposal was the autho-rization of $750 of BSG funds to spon-sor the 4 rst “Bowdoin Wellness Day,” on the Friday of reading period. Ac-cording to the written proposal present-ed by Wong and BSG Programming Chair Bernie Clevens ’15, the purpose of Wellness Day is to “provide students with an opportunity to release stress” during 4 nals week. 8 e event will fea-ture yoga classes and massages funded by BSG, as well as outdoor activities such as a slip-and-slide on the Quad.

BSG also brie6 y touched on the issue of hazing. Wong announced that mem-bers of the Student A7 airs committee had met with the Ashmead White Di-rector of Athletics Tim Ryan to discuss BSG policy responses to hazing inci-

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dents on Bowdoin’s athletic teams. Be-cause the discussions with Ryan were still ongoing, Wong declined to share any conclusions with the assembly. Wong warned against a BSG knee-jerk reaction to recent hazing events, and said that reviewing policies on hazing is “something that we will continue to work on, and if, come the fall, we have some sort of written proposal for policy changes or procedure changes, it will show that we have thought this one through, and it’s not just an impulse reaction.”

8 is meeting was the last for the seven senior BSG members, including BSG President Dani Chediak. Other graduating members include Vice Pres-ident for Academic A7 airs Leah Green-

male senior.Only 67 percent of the Class of

2013 approves of the O9 ce of the Dean of Student A7 airs, compared to 91 percent of the Class of 2016.

8 e Career Planning Center (CPC) has an overall approval rating of 62 percent, down 12 percentage points from the fall but up four percentage points from this time last year.

8 e Class of 2016 has the highest

CAREER PLANNING CENTER APPROVALAPPROVAL RATINGS

TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTREALITY CHECK: Although the Career Planning Center’s overall approval rating hasn’t changed dramatically over the past three years, a breakdown by class year reveals that fi rst years initially approve and then progressively sour on the CPC as they approach graduation.

approval of the CPC at 79 percent whereas only 54 percent of the class of 2013 approves of the CPC. In May 2011, 74 percent of the Class of 2013 approved of the CPC.

“I strongly disapprove of the Ca-reer Planning Center because I did not come to Bowdoin for the CPC to tell me I should be a waitress a5 er graduation,” a female senior wrote to the Orient.

8 e Health Center also received one of the lowest approval ratings, 65 percent, down four percentage points from this fall and seven percentage points from May 2011. 8 e Health Center received higher ratings from men than women, 69 percent, com-pared to 60. “Bowdoin should be ashamed of the poor quality of the services provided by the health cen-ter. It’s a joke,” wrote a female senior.

berg, SOOC Chair Brian Kim, Vice President for Facilities Tessa Kramer, SAFC Chair Charlie Cubeta, and Class of 2013 Representatives Madison Whit-ley and Peggy Zhao.

In her 4 nal report, Chediak thanked all of the BSG members for their work this year, and expressed high hopes for the future.

“I’m so excited about the future of this organization,” she said. “I only see us getting more involved on campus in a bunch of di7 erent and interesting ways.”

Following her remarks, Chediak symbolically handed the gavel to next year’s president Sarah Nelson ’14, who adjourned the meeting.

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holds on Wednesday mornings. He said about 10 Mainers came to the first coffee but attendance rose to around 100 at the latest event.

“I stole the idea from Joe Man-chin from West Virginia,” King said. “We’re in temporary o4 ces and so far, we’ve had to borrow space from another senator or committee, but in a month we’ll have our own o4 ce.”

King delivered his maiden speech on the Senate floor on April 24, following the tradition that freshmen senators lay low and do not speak publicly during their first few months in Washington. The speech was professorial and show-cased King’s expansive knowledge of political science and political history.

As he stepped to the Senate lec-tern, King said, “I rise today in some humility because I rise in the footsteps of one of Maine’s greatest senators, Olympia Snowe,” whose seat King ran for after Snowe an-nounced that she would not seek re-election.

“In the midst of the campaign,” King said, “I also realized I was not only succeeding Olympia Snowe but George Mitchell [’54] and Ed Muskie, two of the greatest legisla-tors of the 20th century.”

In his speech, King referenced the British philosophers John Hobbes and Lord Acton, Mark Twain, Billy Mays and James Madi-son. He posed the questions “why

have a government?” and “how do you control the government once you create it?,” which he called the basis of political science.

“I take the job seriously,” he said in an interview with the Orient. “I go to the hearings. Sometimes I’m one of half a dozen senators at a hearing out of 20 senators” that sit on the committee, and “I think at least some senior people have no-ticed that.”

This is not the former governor’s first time in Washington. He joined the Senate as a staff member in January of 1973, 40 years before he rejoined it as a Senator.

“I didn’t go in totally naïve about how the process worked,” King said. “I think it’s still not a func-tional process; we could certainly do a lot better. But I went in with my eyes open.”

King serves on the Armed Ser-vices, Intelligence and Budget Committees, and has been “deeply involved in foreign policy” as a re-sult.

“It’s fascinating and scary be-cause of all the threats we face,” he said. “That’s been a real experi-ence…in the sense of understand-ing better what our challenges are.”

King’s lack of party affiliation does not appear to hurt his author-ity as a senator. When he went to Washington, he worried that he would be marginalized or “pushed to the edge of things.

“Instead, I’ve really had an op-portunity to be in the center of a lot of the issues,” he said. The budget debate exemplified that for King.

Seven new members join faculty in fall termBY KATE WITTEMAN

ORIENT STAFF

Seven new faculty members have been hired for the 2013-2014 aca-demic year. Most will 5 ll professor-ships and one appointee will also take on the new role of director of Bowdoin’s marine lab at the Coastal Studies Center on Orr’s Island.

David Carlon, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will arrive at Bow-doin as a tenured associate profes-sor of biology—contingent on the approval of the trustee’s meeting in May. He will also 5 ll the newly-cre-ated position of the director of the marine lab on Orr’s Island.

Dean for Academic A6 airs Cristle Collins Judd stated that a review of Bowdoin’s facility on Orr’s Island several years ago concluded that the College could use that resource to a greater extent. A bequest to sup-port a marine biologist was used to create the position that Carlon will 5 ll next year. As director, he will be in charge of the lab’s administration, grant writing associated with the fa-cility, and the allocation of resources among di6 erent faculty who do their research there.

Although Carlon received his doc-torate from the University of New Hampshire, his specialty is in tropi-cal marine systems—a far cry from the temperate waters of the Atlantic. Despite this di6 erence, he feels more than ready to take on Maine’s waters.

“Yes it’s true—I’ve been working in tropical marine systems since I was a graduate student. But I’ve also done research in the Cape Cod area, the Gulf of Maine and Newfoundland so I’m familiar with that part of the world and the kind of problems and interesting questions that come from the area,” Carlon said. “I’m excited to work in the systems again. But it will be colder, for sure.”

7 is new position will act as a

bridge for Bowdoin’s faculty that work in biology and earth and ocean-ographic science.

“It’s a homerun for us because it now gives us a critical mass of peo-ple with complementary work,” said Judd. “If you’re a student who’s think-ing about doing research at Bowdoin of a marine system of any sort…Bow-doin is a place you can explore that.”

Professor Michéle LaVigne, who was a visiting assistant professor in the earth and oceanographic science department at Bowdoin this year, has o4 cially been hired to 5 ll a position within the department. Her research specialties include marine biochem-istry and paleoceanography.

7 e neuroscience and psychol-ogy departments will welcome Pro-fessor Erika Nyhus, a specialist in neural processes that support cogni-tive control and memory. Nyhus will teach Laboratory in Cognitive Neu-roscience in the fall. She is currently wrapping up doctoral work at Brown University, and said she is excited to work in a liberal arts setting, having always worked or studied at larger re-search universities.

“One of the reasons I chose to come to a smaller liberal school is because I want to have more inter-action with students,” said Nyhus. “I think overall my research will change depending on what the interests are of the students who end up being in my lab.”

Professor Amanda Redlich, who received her Ph.D. from MIT, will join the mathematics department in the fall. She is currently engaged in a three-year National Science Founda-tion-funded postdoctoral associate-ship at Rutgers. Her area of research is probabalistic combinatorics. She will teach Multivariate Calculus and Probability in the fall.

7 ree new faculty members will join humanities disciplines next aca-demic year.

Professor Marcos López will be assistant professor of sociology. Edu-cated at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he currently holds a position at Middlebury and is a pro-ponent of the liberal arts.

“One of the reasons I decided to go to graduate school was because I wanted to teach,” he said. “Research is still very important to me but I am just as interested in teaching and the liberal arts setting is really the ideal place in terms of what I was look-ing for.”

López studies the immigrant expe-rience within the United States and will o6 er a course in the fall that is cross-listed with the Latin American Studies department.

Joining the government and legal studies department is Barbara Elias, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. Her disserta-tion is centered on counterinsurgency war policy and she will bring exper-tise on the politics of the Middle East. Elias has conducted research at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Emma Maggie Solberg—a doc-toral candidate at the University of Virginia—will take a position teach-ing in the English department. A medieval English literature specialist, her dissertation is titled “Doubting Mary: Early English Drama from N-Town to Shakespeare.” She will teach a seminar in the fall on representa-tions of Islam in early Europe and a 200-level course on medieval British literature.

“We’re looking for a really small group of people,” Judd said of the new hires. “We’re looking for deeply committed scholars who are going to impact their 5 eld who are focused and committed to working at an un-dergraduate institution and being excellent teachers,” said Judd. “What I feel con5 dent in this year, again, is that we have found those people.”

VanderWolk retires after nearly 30 years at Bowdoin

“I worked on, and we got passed, a procedural change that would have the federal government have a two-year budget instead of a one-year budget,” he said. The amend-ment to the budget will still need to be voted on by the whole Senate but King is confident that it will succeed.

“I had a very substantial input into the budget…we had probably a dozen meetings,” he said. “I feel like I made some contributions to the deliberations.”

King has also been working on the Marketplace Fairness Act, which requires internet merchants to charge sales tax.

“Hopefully we’re going to pass it next week when we get back, though there are some determined opponents,” he said. “To me, it’s important because it’s fair to our local merchants.”

“It hasn’t been all positive,” though, King said. He was frus-trated by “the failure to pass mean-ingful gun control legislation,” re-ferring to a vote in April, when the Senate rejected a bill that would have expanded criminal back-ground checks for people purchas-ing firearms.

“That was very disappoint-ing and somewhat surprising. I thought we had more bipartisan support,” he said.

Despite this “setback,” as King called it, he appears to be as posi-tive about the Senate as ever.

“I’m enjoying this job,” he said. “I’m exhilarated by it. I’m humbled by the opportunity.”

BY LINDA KINSTLER ORIENT STAFF

“7 e most you can ever ask for out a job is to wake up in the morning and feel good about going to work, and I have for 40 years.”

So spoke Bill VanderWolk, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow professor of modern languages and associate dean for faculty development, who will teach his last college class next Tuesday before he entering retire-ment a8 er 29 years of service to the College.

VanderWolk played an integral part in making the Department of Romance Languages what it is to-day, having taught a range of courses in French literature and theater, and having participated in the hiring of-current faculty.

“He built the current French de-partment,” said Charlotte Daniels, associate professor of romance languages.

VanderWolk first arrived at the College in 1984 on a one-year teaching contract, having previ-ously taught high school French for eight years.

“I came to Bowdoin thinking I would only stay here for a year or two,” he said.

When he 5 rst arrived, VanderWolk explained, the College was a di6 erent place. “7 e department has changed from a bunch of old white men sitting around translating French poetry to a very dynamic group of people—we’re now all historians as well as literary critics,” he said.“I think the quality of student now is higher than it was when I 5 rst came here,” he added.

VanderWolk earned his bach-elors and masters degrees from the University of North Carolina and Middlebury College respectively, and returned to North Carolina for his doctorate degree. A highly re-spected scholar of French literature, he has published works on Victor Hugo, Patrick Modiano and Gus-tave Flaubert.

“He has maintained an incredible commitment to his own scholarship,” said Daniels.

“It would be hard to esteem a colleague more highly,” added Tri-cia Welsch, director of the film studies program.

In addition to his research, VanderWolk teaches signature courses like Introduction to Modern French Literature and Resistance, Re-volt, and Revolution, and created the French department’s teaching fellows exchange program. Every year, the department sends a handful of grad-uating seniors to teach English in the French towns of Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, and Nantes. Two French teaching fellows join the Bowdoin faculty every year as part of the ex-change, assisting professors and lead-ing discussion groups.

“He’s the pillar of the department,” said Katherine Dauge-Roth, associ-ate professor of romance languages. “He’s the consummate teacher.”

Doug Leonard ’12, who worked with VanderWolk on his senior honors project on activist literature in 20th-century France, recalled how VanderWolk’s mentoring en-abled him to be “fearless” in his academic inquiry.

“What I remember most about our discussions was his zest to discover some new revelation in the seemingly ordinary,” wrote Leonard in an email to the Orient. “Professor Vander-Wolk taught me scholarship. From him, I derived an ability to question

and even overturn my own ideas, to uncover what I had truly learned from my research, to be fearless in re-vision and re-envisioning.”

VanderWolk is known for mak-ing his students memorize Charles Baudelaire’s poem “L’invitation au voyage” every year, and likes to tell the story of how one of his former students was asked to recite the poem on the 5 rst day of class in France dur-ing a study away program.

“Literature transcends boundaries, and that’s what I try to instill in my students,” VanderWolk said.

Danny Chin ’12, who took Vander-Wolk’s 300-level seminar Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution, remembered how VanderWolk inspired his stu-dents to apply literature to contem-porary issues.

“As part of our study of revolution-ary-themed literature, we found a cause we were passionate about and revolted against it. I chose the treat-ment of immigrants, and used Port-land as a model. Traveling with other students who had similar projects, we visited a housing development in Portland, as well as a slowly gentrify-ing area of the city,” Chin wrote in an email to the Orient.

“He’s hilarious, warm, challeng-ing, and supportive all at once,” said Kate Emerson ’10. “A few of my classmates who were French majors still refer to him as ‘V dubs’ ...I hope he’s cool with that.”

“He is the sweetest man, and he has taken me under his wing since freshman year,” said Helen Conaghan ’13, who studied abroad in Paris last year. “He is one of those professors who sticks with you and you respect him for all the extra time outside of class he puts aside to help you culti-vate your French.”

For the past four years, Vander-Wolk has been splitting his time be-tween teaching French and working as associate dean for faculty develop-ment, a new position created to help new faculty members integrate into the Bowdoin community.

“I’ve been a helper, a listener, a big brother, and it’s been a lot of fun. 7 e incoming faculty are so full of energy and passion that it’s easy to work with them,” VanderWolk said.

A8 er retirement, VanderWolk plans to do some consulting work, helping New England colleges 5 nd ways to e4 ciently mentor untenured faculty. His partner Michele Lettiere, who teaches English at the Wayn9 ete School, plans to retire a8 er the next academic year. 7 en, the pair plans to hit the road.

“I’ve never seen America—I’m al-ways going to France. My goal a8 er Michele retires is to get in the car and just take the backroads of America,” said VanderWolk.

He says he will continue writing, and that at least for next year, “I’ll be playing volleyball every Tuesday un-til I fall over.” Beyond that, Vander-Wolk said, “I have no idea, which is what’s wonderful about it.”

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No BPD issues, few campus problems for Ivies Weekend

BY SAM WEYRAUCHORIENT STAFF

Rampant public urination, minor vandalism, and one 4 ooded College House were the only major prob-lems at this year’s Ivies Weekend. No police issues arose for the 5 rst time in at least eight years.

“I think Ivies generally went very well. I have three rather stark crite-ria on Ivies: no arrests, no serious injuries and no deaths. From that standpoint we did very, very well,” said Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols.

Nichols said that some intoxi-cated students were “to the point where they said and did things they wouldn’t normally do, so they’re be-ing held responsible for that.”

A few Ivies-related incidents have hearings pending with the Judicial Board, but Nichols said he was not at liberty to discuss them.

6 e weekend began 6 ursday night when DJ 3LAU performed in Morrell Gym, moving for the 5 rst time from Smith Union to accom-modate the greater capacity.

However, this made both contain-ment by Security and equipment set-up more di7 cult.

3LAU 5 nished his set around midnight, giving many students the chance to go to Super Snack. 6 e late-night meal, which Nichols said “is a huge bene5 t to campus safety every weekend,” had its biggest crowd of the year a8 er 3LAU.

Saturday a8 ernoon featured the main Ivies event, a concert featuring Hoodie Allen, Guster and student opener Phar\os.

According to Nate Hintze, asso-ciate director of Student Activities, a total of 487 guests were regis-tered—25 more guests this year than last year. Over 40 percent of them—204 guests—were from Bates, while just 22 came from Colby. 6 e reve-nue raised by charging $20 per guest totaled nearly $10,000, which helped o9 set the cost to the Dining Service for on-site meals at the concert. Based on a tally done by dining sta9 , Bowdoin fed about 2000 people in total on Whittier Field on Saturday.

“We only heard positive feedback on our end,” said Michael Hanna-man ’13, Entertainment Board co-chair. “From what we heard, the per-formers were very genuinely excited to be here, which adds to the whole experience.”

Hoodie Allen even played basket-ball with students before the show, and invited some lucky concertgoers on stage at one point.

“Being on stage was thrilling,” said Filipe Camarotti ’14, one of four students who went up to participate in a dance-o9 .

Soon a8 er his performance, Hoodie Allen tweeted “Bowdoin was super dope! 6 ank you for hav-ing me at your beautiful school”.

Upperclassmen and 5 rst years alike seemed to enjoy the performance.

“I think the performers this year were excellent,” said Dieu Ho ’15. “I had never really listened to their music before Ivies but I absolutely loved them. 6 e E-Board did a great job in providing variety and I think it really worked.”

“Ivies lived up to every one of my expectations and more,” said Julian Tamayo ’16.

During the concert, Security had to remove a few students due to inappropriate behavior, including public urination, which was a prob-lem throughout the weekend.

“At the concert, despite the fact that we had plenty of Port-O-Potties set up, some people still decided to urinate in full view of others,” said Nichols, who added that it was “more prevalent Friday at Bruns-wick Apartments.”

“One Bates student was peeing by the fence in full view of Bunker Street,” Nichols said. “When I told him we had about 20 Port-O-Pot-ties there, he was oblivious that we had any.”

The most dangerous incident oc-curred in the basement of Baxter House shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday morning, when a student grabbed and broke a water pipe. The extent of the damage costs remains un-known, but Nichols estimated “it’s going to be some thousands of dol-lars.” The student responsible has come forward and will pay for the damages caused by his or her ac-tions.

At other points over the weekend students reported issues with prop-erty damage and alcohol-related vandalism, some of which are still being investigated and others of which have had students identified and/or step up to take responsibil-ity for. Security also dealt with a marijuana and drug paraphernalia issue at Brunswick Apartments, and received one noise complaint in response to an event that had al-ready been dispersed.

Unlike previous years, when stu-dents were found having sex under the bleachers during the Saturday concert, Nichols said that “as far as we know, there was no sexy time under the bleachers this year.”

“I think the overall safety of the weekend really is a testament most-ly to the students,” Nichols said. He also pointed out Dining Services as an unsung hero of campus safety.

“They’re serving food that peo-ple really want to eat, and they need to put their drinks down to eat,” he said.

Though this year’s Ivies went by largely without a hitch, Nichols ac-knowledged that it is different from regular weekends.

“Just like your birthday and cer-tain holidays, Ivies comes once a year,” Nichols said. “Ivies is a little bit different, but don’t expect it to happen every weekend like that. There’s a time for Ivies and a time for reality.”

trustees to divest the school from fossil fuels.”

One of BGA’s leaders, Marga-ret Lindeman ’15, issued a similar statement to BSG, denying in-volvement with the camp.

“As of earlier today, Bowdoin Climate Action is no longer a subsidiary of Green Bowdoin Al-liance. Green Bowdoin Alliance remains a student organization in good standing and chartered by the Student Organizations Over-sight Committee of Bowdoin Stu-dent Government,” Lindeman’s statement read.

BCA and BGA’s decision to end their affiliation means that the protestors no longer fall under BSG’s jurisdiction.

“Since Bowdoin Climate Ac-tion is no longer a subsidiary of the Bowdoin Green Alliance and therefore no longer a chartered student organization, they do not fall under BSG’s authority,” Nel-son said.

The Board of Trustees will meet on campus next weekend. Go-odrich said that when President Barry Mills stopped by the camp this afternoon, he said he still did not intend to add divestment the trustee meeting’s agenda.

Katy Longley, senior vice presi-dent for finance and administra-tion and treasurer, said that the College’s sustainability efforts have been forgotten amidst the debate over divestment.

“One of our problems has been getting the word out on what we’re doing,” she said. “We wanted to emphasize what we were doing for actual sustainability.”

Over each of the past two sum-mers, the College has reinvested $500,000 worth of energy savings in sustainability projects, accord-ing to Longley, who has earmarked $250,000 worth of energy savings for projects next year.

This summer, Longley said, the College will spend $160,000 from its annual operating budget on a lighting audit of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, energy-efficient refrigeration controls in Thorne Dining Hall, an elec-tric car, weatherizing Copeland House, and lighting upgrades in Smith Union, Massachusetts Hall, Mayflower Apartments, and Grea-son Pool.

Goodrich said that he appreci-ates the College’s projects to make the campus greener, but wants to broaden the discussion, since the term “sustainability” does not in-dicate the “moral gravitas” of the wider problem of climate change.

“We’re standing in solidarity to-

day with the refugees—hundreds of thousands of refugees—who are displaced and are killed ev-ery year by natural disasters,” he said. “That’s what divestment is about; it’s recognizing that this is a humanitarian issue and not just about insulating our windows or installing a solar panel.”

Longley said that the College still believes that sustainability is the most effective way it can miti-gate the effects of climate change.

As part of the ongoing reno-vation of the former Longfellow School, the College will install sev-eral energy-saving measures, in-cluding sensors for lights, accord-ing to Longley.

Other summer projects include landscaping on South Campus Drive, which will eliminate park-ing near Moulton Union and create new green space.

After meeting with students and faculty this year, BSG and the College’s administration decided to add two student representatives and two faculty members to its climate action committee, Long-ley said.

“This whole discussion about conservation and the College do-ing more for sustainability made us reflect that we need to include fac-ulty and students,” she said. “Meet-ing with faculty and students—they wanted to be involved.”

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UPenn’s Marjorie Hassen appointed campus librarian

BY KATIE MIKLUSORIENT STAFF

A search committee has selected Marjorie Hassen of the University of Pennsylvania as Bowdoin’s new library director. Hassen, currently the direc-tor of teaching, research and library services at Penn, will assume her posi-tion on July 29. Educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago and Rutgers University, Hassen also brings experience working in the library of Princeton University.

Dean for Academic A4 airs Cristle Collins Judd said that she believes the extensive search process for a new li-brarian was ultimately successful in achieving its goals.

“It said to all of the 5 nalists for the position that Bowdoin is deeply com-mitted to its library and what its library did, and that was a good message to candidates,” said Judd.

Judd also praised Hassen’s creden-tials and the perspective she will bring to Bowdoin’s libraries.

“It’s quite clear she’s deeply commit-ted to working with faculty and students and that she has supported research and teaching and learning,” Judd said.

Hassen decided to pursue library service a6 er starting her career as a music librarian, and then began to ex-pand what she was doing. She said she started “thinking more broadly about support for teaching and learning within the campus here at Penn.”

Hassen’s main motivation for mov-ing from Penn to Bowdoin was the opportunity to do more work with un-dergraduates.

“7 e opportunity to be part of an institution like Bowdoin with a focus on undergraduate students, and the faculty who are dedicated to teaching undergraduates, is really compelling,” said Hassen. “I see the challenge of an undergraduate education as something that a library can really support in a va-

riety of ways.”Hassen also cited the o6 -quoted Of-

fer of the College as an inspiration for coming to Bowdoin speci5 cally, noting that it demonstrated the value the Col-lege places on the liberal arts experience.

Hassen said that although the transi-tion from a large university to a small college will be di8 cult, she is willing to devote time to understanding how Bowdoin’s campus functions.

“For me, the 5 rst thing on my agen-da is to become very well-acquainted with the library, the sta4 , the students and the faculty,” Hassen said.

She does not plan on making any dramatic changes to Bowdoin’s library system right away, saying, “I’m going to be in the learning stage for awhile.”

“From everything I’ve seen and heard thus far, I believe I’m going to be working with a great group of people who are really engaged with the com-munity and interested in supporting students and faculty and 5 guring out together what’s next for the library,” Hassen said.

Hassen admits that the role of librar-ies on campus is changing, with many students conducting their research pri-marily online. “Reference desks are not as busy as they used to be,” she said.

However, she is optimistic about the library’s ability to adapt with the times.

“7 e discovery tools that are being used are provided by the library,” she said. “Sta4 are involved in a wider va-riety of tasks than they used to be. 7 e services, the technology, it’s all integral to what faculty and students are doing.”

Hassen also expressed excitement over the variety of people she is able to interact with through library service.

“All of the opportunities for such a variety of people at di4 erent points in their life, di4 erent points in their careers, di4 erent points in their aca-demic pursuits, are really fascinating,” Hassen said.

Baxter House fl oods after pipe burstsBY NICOLE WETSMAN

ORIENT STAFF

On Sunday at around 12:30 a.m, a student at a registered event in the base-ment of Baxter House broke a sprinkler pipe on the ceiling, which set o4 the 5 re alarm and 9 ooded the room with about 5 ve inches of water.

“I saw someone jump up, and as soon as they made contact with the pipe, it snapped,” said Matt Friedland ’15. “7 ere was a big hissing sound, and people were screaming because [the pipes] sprayed on them. Everyone freaked out and went upstairs.”

Assistant Director of Residential Life Chris Rossi and multiple Baxter House residents have con5 rmed that the responsible party has come forward; however, no name has been released.

“7 ey’ve come forward and they’re paying for the damages,” said Nancy Walker ’15.

Had the individual responsible not admitted to causing the damage, the costs would have been split between the residents of Baxter House.

Security responded immediately af-ter the alarms went o4 .

“We had several o8 cers right in the immediate vicinity, including me, when that occurred,” said Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols. “We were only minutes away from shutting down the party anyway because we were go-ing to end it right at 1 a.m., and this happened right before that.”

Nichols said that Facilities Manage-ment began work pumping out the water immediately, and the 5 re depart-ment assisted with their hoses.

“Later that morning, the contractor came in and did the really heavy work,” he said. “7 ey did a really good job and we were able to let students back in by around 1 p.m. on Sunday.”

According to Director of Residential Life Mary Pat McMahon, Facilities has not yet determined the cost of the dam-age.

“Facilities will let us know the bill and handles the actual billing to the re-

sponsible student,” she said. Baxter House president Ujal

Santchurn ’15 estimated that the costs could be around $5,000 or $6,000, and would include those of the 5 re depart-ment, the water damage, the burst pipe, the company that came to clean up the basement, and the speakers and ampli-5 ers that were in the basement.

Baxter House was placed on social probation following the incident.

Santchurn said that Baxter residents are unhappy with that decision.

“7 ere is a lingering frustration that the house has been put on probation as a result of this,” he said. “Especially because it’s not something any house member was directly responsible for. We just feel like the punishment shouldn’t really be re9 ected on us, and we should still be able to have events regardless of another person’s actions.”

Clare McLaughlin ’15 said that she thought it was the addition of this event to other incidents, including an unreg-istered event on the Wednesday of Ivies, that led to social probation.

“7 at was the straw that broke the camel’s back to put us on [social proba-tion],” she said, “But it wasn’t our fault. Instead of doing one bad thing, this added to other things.”

In an email to Baxter residents at 1:45 a.m. Sunday morning, directly a6 er the incident occurred, Randy Nichols said that the house was closed and that no one was allowed to stay in the building.

“A lot of people were frustrated that the College couldn’t provide housing on such short notice,” said Santchurn.

Some house residents reserved rooms at the Inn at Brunswick Station, and some stayed in other dorms. Ac-

cording to Santchurn, some house resi-dents were still attempting to contact friends at 4 a.m.

According to McMahon, asking stu-dents to 5 nd their own housing was the standard protocol for such a situation.

“Generally speaking, Bowdoin stu-dents have lots of friends in other resi-dence halls that can help them out in a pinch,” she wrote in an email to the Orient. “Had students not been able to get back into the house Sunday night we would have asked them to do the same or worked with them to meet their needs.”

McLaughlin said that it is common for things to be broken in Baxter.

“You don’t expect Bowdoin kids to break things,” she said, “but Baxter has a reputation of getting things broken, so when something gets broken, instead of freaking out, people brush it o4 .”

She went on to say that the pipe that broke had probably been partially dam-aged before.

“I’m sure there were a lot of people hitting it, hanging on it, and then that one person happened to be there at that moment,” she said. “It wasn’t like one kid broke it.”

Walker said that, in the past, people have generally accepted responsibility a6 er causing damage.

“Usually when it’s a small thing people are open about it and come for-ward,” she said. “People have been good about it this year. But with this, I can imagine people might be more hesitant to come forward themselves, or hesitate to implicate the person.”

A similar incident occurred in No-vember 2009 at Ladd House during the 5 rst Inappropriate Party, when someone knocked a sprinkler head o4 a pipe, 9 ooding the basement. According to McMahon, the College responded then in the same way it did this past weekend.

“As in this case, the College’s re-sponse is a coordinated e4 ort among many o8 ces,” she said. “Security per-sonnel, the dean-on-call, and facilities sta4 coordinate to immediately secure the building, stop the 9 ooding, and start clean-up operations.”

Year in Review: Highlights from the 2012-2013 Academic Year

Summer7 e College lost a valuable faculty

member when Visiting Assistant Pro-fessor Leslie Shaw died unexpectedly on August 29 following complications from surgery. Shaw, who taught an-thropology at the College since 1998, “set a high bar for service, excellence and collegiality,” wrote Dean for Aca-demic A4 airs Christle Collins Judd in an email to the Orient. In addition to her teaching and research, Shaw served as the adviser to the Native American Students Association at Bowdoin.

September7 e men’s rugby team was required

to forfeit two matches a6 er the O8 ce of Student A4 airs found the team had violated Bowdoin’s alcohol and hazing policies on September 15, the night of the annual Epicuria party at Ladd House. 7 e O8 ce of Residential Life placed Ladd House on social proba-tion until November 1, and both the president and vice president of the house stepped down from their posi-tions. Four underage students were transported to Parkview Adventist Medical Center for over-consumption of alcohol on the night of the event.

October7 e Bowdoin Daily Sun reported a

2.6 percent return on the endowment for 5 scal year 2012, with the endow-

ment standing at $904.2 million as of October 12. Despite a projected return of 7 percent, the endowment performed well in comparison to peer institutions.

A Bowdoin Outing Club canoe trip spent a night lost in the Allagash woods on October 9 with no ability to contact the College or o8 cials at the BOC. 7 e trip’s participants aban-doned their canoes and bushwhacked to a road, where they hitchhiked back to their car. 7 e canoes were recovered the following weekend.

November7 e Amtrak Downeaster arrived at

Brunswick Station on November 2, the 5 rst time in 53 years that a passenger train reached Brunswick. 7 e project to extend Amtrak service to Bruns-wick was approved in 2010 and funded by a $38.3 million grant from the Fed-eral Railroad Administration.

Barack Obama was reelected presi-dent of the United States; Angus King, former Maine governor and distin-guished lecturer at Bowdoin, won a seat as an independent in the U.S. Senate; and Maine approved same-sex marriage in the 2012 elections on No-vember 9. King later chose to caucus with the Democrats.

Matt Goodrich ’15 began a cam-paign urging the College to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. Chal-lenging Bowdoin’s commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020,

Goodrich collected over 450 signa-tures for his “I Believe Carbon Neutral Means Carbon Free” petition, calling on the College to invest “only in clean energy by 2013.”

DecemberPresident Mills told a group of stu-

dents—who later adopted the name Bowdoin Climate Action—petition-ing for divestment from fossil fuels that the College would not divest its endowment in the immediate future. Mills noted he “would never say nev-er,” a6 er meeting with Goodrich and others, whose petition to divest had accumulated 470 signatories as of De-cember 4.

7 e Brunswick Town Clerk’s o8 ce began issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples on December 29 as a result of Maine’s November vote to legalize same-sex marriage. As of Janu-ary 25, the o8 ce had issued nine inten-tions of marriage to same-sex couples.

JanuarySusan Danforth, associate director

of communications and College edi-tor, died on January 27 a6 er su4 ering a stroke. Danforth arrived at the College in October 2000 and edited all o8 cial College publications throughout her 12-year tenure at Bowdoin. Her “care-ful work touched every corner of our campus for more than a decade,” as President Mills wrote in an email to all College employees.

7 e Brunswick Police Department

(BPD) arrested Holly Lorms, assistant coach of the women’s ice hockey team, on January 28 under suspicion that she crashed her car into Druckenmiller Hall while under the in9 uence.

FebruaryIn response to the growing move-

ment on-campus to divest the College’s endowment from fossil fuels, Presi-dent Mills and Paula Volent, senior vice president for investments, provid-ed a statement to the Orient explain-ing on that approximately 1.4 percent of Bowdoin’s endowment is currently invested in the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies. According to the statement, divesting from these com-panies would require a turnover of 25 percent of the endowment. “Over a ten-year period we would lose over $100 million,” said Volent.

According to a survey distributed by the Orient on February 12, 58 percent of students have smoked marijuana on campus and recreational drug use among Bowdoin students tends to in-crease as graduation approaches. Hard drug use is limited to smaller social circles, according to the survey.

March7 e men’s and women’s hockey

teams won their respective NESCAC Championship games on March 3. 7 e men defeated Williams 2-1, winning its 5 rst NESCAC Championship since the team vacated its 2011 title due to a hazing violation. 7 e women’s team

earned its 5 rst championship since 2004 a6 er a similar 2-1 victory against Middlebury.

AprilIn an email to the student body on

April 2, the O8 ce of the Dean of Stu-dent A4 airs and the Athletics Depart-ment reported that the men’s tennis team had violated the College’s hazing policy. As a result, the team forfeited four matches and was barred from post-season competition this year.

7 e National Association of Schol-ars (NAS) released “7 e Bowdoin Project,” a 360-page report criticiz-ing Bowdoin’s academic life and en-dorsing conservative principles at the College on April 3. Independently commissioned and funded by NAS board member 7 omas Klingenstein, the report accuses Bowdoin of having “a campus dominated by a progres-sive ideology that is rather hostile to American nationhood, and certainly to western civilization.” In a response posted on the Bowdoin Daily Sun, President Mills refuted many of the report’s claims and labeled it “a vindic-tive e4 ort…intended to harm and dis-credit this historic college.”

Jose Cespedes ’12 died on April 16 a6 er battling liver disease for six months. Cespedes, who studied histo-ry and government while at Bowdoin, was scheduled to receive his diploma in May, according to Dean of Student A4 airs Tim Foster.

BY SAM MILLERORIENT STAFF

“A lot of people were frustrated that the College couldn’t provide

housing on such sort notice.”

UJAL SANTCHURN ’15

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SECURITY REPORT: 4/25 to 5/2! ursday, April 25• Brunswick Fire Department re-

sponded to a hallway smoke alarm in Chamberlain Hall.

• A female student reported inde-cent conduct involving a male student.

• A student reported smelling mari-juana smoke at Stowe House Inn.

• Wall damage was reported at Bax-ter House, related to an unregistered event that was dispersed.

• A hallway door at Baxter House was kicked o4 of its hinges.

• A third 5 oor door and frame at Baxter House were kicked and badly damaged. A student took responsibil-ity for the vandalism and will be as-sessed all repair costs.

• An o6 cer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated male student at the Coles Tower lobby. 7 e student was escorted to his residence.

• A Bates College student tried to gain access to the concert at Morrell Gym using a student’s Bowdoin ID card.

• O6 cers checked on the well-being of an intoxicated female student near the Campus Food Truck, and escorted her to her residence.

Friday, April 26• A student reported a gold uni-

cycle missing from campus.• Wooden chairs were vandalized

at Harpswell Apartments.• O6 cers checked on the well-be-

ing of an intoxicated and disorderly female student at 7 orne Dining Hall. 7 e student was escorted to her residence hall.

Saturday, April 27• Two main apartment doors

in Brunswick Apartments B were kicked in. 7 e incidents are under investigation.

• 7 ere was a drug law violation in Brunswick Apartments; marijuana and drug paraphernalia were seized.

• Two intoxicated and disorderly students were removed from the Ivies concert at Whittier Field.

• An o6 cer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student at the Ivies concert.

• Brunswick Fire Department responded to a smoke alarm in Coles Tower, caused by microwave cooking.

• An o6 cer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student at the Ivies concert. 7 e student was escort-ed to his residence.

• An o6 cer assisted an intoxicated student who was dehydrated and had become ill at Whittier Field.

• An o6 cer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student at Howell House.

Sunday, April 28• A glass bong was seized at Pine

Street Apartments.• O6 cers checked on the well-being

of an intoxicated student at Brunswick Apartments.

• A 8 re alarm was activated when

someone pulled on and broke a water pipe in the basement of Baxter House during a registered event. 7 e base-ment 5 ooded with up to 8 ve inches of water. 7 e building was evacuated. Brunswick Fire Department respond-ed, shut o4 the water, and pumped out the basement. 7 e building was closed for 12 hours until the sprinkler system could be repaired and the basement professionally cleaned and dried. 7 e basement was placed o4 -limits until Tuesday.

• A student complained of noise at Pine Street Apartments. A group of lo-cal residents was moved along.

• A student was warned for using loud and profane language outside Coles Tower and at West Hall.

• A wooden table was found heavily damaged on the patio at Ladd House.

• A Coleman Hall student with breathing di6 culties was escorted to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

• Students outside Stowe House Inn were warned for smoking too close to the building.

• A smoke alarm at Maine Hall was caused by microwaving popcorn.

Monday, April 29• A student reported that an intoxi-

cated student was pounding on the front door at Stowe House Inn.

• 7 ree incidents of alcohol-related property damage were reported at Brunswick Apartments.

• A student reported that a door at Brunswick Apartments U was kicked in over the weekend.

• A student who injured an elbow while playing basketball at Morrell Gymnasium was treated at Mid Coast Hospital.

Tuesday, April 30• A man was reported to be yelling

on Maine Street in front of Helmreich House at 5 a.m.

• An o6 cer checked on the wel-fare of an ill student at Appleton Hall, and brought the student to the health center.

• Hawthorne-Longfellow sta4 mem-bers reported that a man entered the library with a large hunting knife. An o6 cer explained the College’s weap-ons policy and escorted the man form campus.

• A student reported that a man and a woman were arguing in the Drucken-miller parking lot. O6 cers checked to make sure that the situation was safe.

Wednesday, May 1• An o6 cer checked on an ill stu-

dent at the Lubin Squash Courts.• An ill student was escorted to the

Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.• At the request of counseling ser-

vices, a student was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

! ursday, May 2• A female student reported being

harassed by occupants of passing ve-hicles on Harpswell Road.

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was an emergency.“Certainly things happen on

a day that I’m not here, but our office is very collaborative,” said Lee. “I wouldn’t say it’s been a huge problem.”

She says she is uncertain about what professional experiences she will pursue in the coming years.

“I’m like a senior, who hasn’t figured out what they’re going to

do next.” said Lee.Lee said she was surprised by

the decision to combine the two part time positions.

“I understand the reasons for this decision, and I’m supportive in that sense,” said Lee.

Additionally, Foster announced that Sandra Hayes, director of health services, will be staying on at the College for an additional year to help smooth the transition for the senior associate dean of student affairs. The search to fill Hazlett’s position is ongoing.

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While the McKeen Center for the Common Good is most known for its weekly volunteer programs, in-teractions with the community also happen within a formal academic framework.

Bowdoin’s Community-Based Learning program started in 2001 when students and professors ex-pressed interest in connecting classrooms to communities.

“3 ere was this movement in the 1990s of increasing interest in colleg-es and universities in service learn-ing, and the idea that students could connect what they were learning in the classroom to community needs,” said Janice Ja4 e, associate director of courses and research at the McKeen Center.

When the program began, classes focused on problem-based learning that helped communities address and resolve speci5 c issues. 3 e environ-mental studies and sociology depart-ments were pioneers in establishing connections with the community. An array of departments such as eco-nomics, theater, computer science, french and biology have since added community-based courses.

“It runs the gambit from anthro-pology to visual arts,” Ja4 e said.

One notable course is Poverty and Redistribution, taught by Econom-ics Professor John Fitzgerald. In this course, economics students partner with Cash Coalition, an organization which provides tax preparation ser-vices for people who qualify for the earned income credit.

“3 ese students help everyone make sure they have their records

and walk people through the pro-cess,” said Fitzgerald. “Occasionally, students have become tax-preparers.”

As this particular eco-nomics class is statistic-based, interacting with and assisting people 5 ling taxes enriches the class’s dimen-sions and scope.

“3 e students like the oppor-tunity of seeing how things ac-tually happen while the Cash Coalition has the extra help of these miniature re-search projects which the students do,” Fitzgerald said.

Jae Bradley ’13 is a course liaison for this class, coordi-nating the volunteer schedule with the Cash Coalition. He said he recog-nizes that the class exposes students to a unique perspective.

“I think they’re realizing how tough it is to coordinate with people at the local municipality level,” said Bradley. “3 ere are a lot of hurdles they have to jump across to get in touch with the right people.”

Although the class is only a semes-ter, the Community-Based Learning Program has inspired students to maintain exterior relationships.

“We are always seeking long-term, really deep, sustainable ties with the organizations we work with,” said Ja4 e. “I think that’s what it’s all about. Also, if it can be multidisciplinary that is all the better.”

While the relationship with the Cash Coalition is well-established, some of the programs are newer.

Senior Lectures Anna Rein’s Inter-mediate Italian II class, for example, reached out to the Williams-Cone School in Topsham this semester.

Rein’s students teach children in the elementary school’s a6 erschool enrichment program to teach chil-dren Italian. 3 is connection intro-duces elementary school children to Italian vocabulary and culture, while also giving Bowdoin students the op-portunity to teach and review Italian words which they would not likely study otherwise.

“3 e Bowdoin students that came in were always very enthusiastic and taught the kids a language in a way that was both educational and enter-taining,” said Heather Hollenbach, coordinator of the a6 erschool en-richment program.

Students in Assistant Professor Do-ris Santoro’s Educating All Students

course have also vol-unteered in schools, but in a di4 erent capacity. In an e4 ort

to better tailor the program to help educa-tion minors and prospec-tive Bowdoin Teacher Schol-ars— who will likely teach in second-

ary schools—the class works in Ly-man Moore Middle School in Port-land, Brunswick Junior High School,

and Bath Middle School. 3 ese three schools serve dif-

ferent demographics diversifying the types of classrooms to which Bowdoin students are exposed.

Each Bowdoin student in this course teams up with a middle school student for three hours a week and provides the student with real-time academic support, en-couraging class participation and assisting with independent work.

“The presence of Bowdoin stu-dents tends to enhance the middle school students attendance and performance,” Santoro said.

However, the middle school stu-dents are not the only ones learning from this experience. Santoro noted that this partnership has been an invaluable academic experience for Bowdoin students. Instead of dis-cussing educational theory and con-sidering teaching from the educators perspective, this program reminds

Bowdoin students of what is like to be a middle school student.

“3 ey move away from having an abstract idea of what an adoles-cent learner is,” Santoro said. “3 is course requires that they take on the perspective of the student the entire time.”

Rachel Pollinger ’15, a math-ematics and education major, is matched with a learning partner at Bath Middle School.

“I think the community-based as-pect lets your see what you’ve been reading about in practice,” Pollinger said. “It’s very much motivated me to pursue education. If I can make my learning partner smile, it makes my day.”

Ja4 e believes that the future of the entire program is contingent upon Bowdoin student interest.

“I think it also needs to be constant-ly evaluated and constantly changing,” she said, “but I really do see sustained interest and constant evolution.”

Tasha Sandoval ’13, McKeen fel-low of community-based courses and research, organized a forum in February in which students con-ducting community-related honors projects or independent studies met to discuss their work.

“We want to emphasize that ser-vice in other respects could in7 uence academic pursuits, “ said Sandoval. “Something we strive to do in the program is to promote the marriage of service and civic engagement with academics.”

Next 3 ursday, there will be a sym-posium with refreshments in Morrell Lounge in Smith Union from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Students who completed com-munity-based coursework will share stories about their experiences.

I’m enrolled in Biology 212 this se-mester. It’s called “Genetics.” It should be called “Unlocking life’s mysteries: An exploration of why you have blue eyes even though neither of your par-ents do, why you should care about fruit 7 y pigmentation and pea pod textures, why you shouldn’t commit a crime if your brother has been arrested before, and how to argue with Supreme Court justices about patent law.”

I’m still searching for the most 5 t-ting title though. Genetics, you see, is not just about Mendelian inheritance, or the probability that you will devel-op a rare disease that a4 ected neither of your parents but ailed your great-grandmother. Genetics is not fully en-compassed by the superpowers of bac-teriophage viruses, which can insert their own genetic material into foreign DNA and might help us beat cancer some day, nor by the acrobatic feats that our DNA sequences—wrapped up in chromosomes—can perform within our cells.

Genetics, I’m beginning to see, is politics. Genetics is ethics. Genetics is philosophy.

Before I go further, I have to give a shout-out to Professor Bateman, who has sparked my thinking on this by

KACEY BERRY

GOGGLES AND GLOVES

BEST FOURYEARS

CALLIE FERGUSON

Engaging with real world within the Bowdoin bubble

We’re familiar with the concept of the Bowdoin Bubble—Bowdoin isn’t just a school or community, but is its own universe. A closed, contained system, Bowdoin works hard to supply everything we need without us having to step o4 campus. We know where to eat, where to sleep and certainly where to drink. Bowdoin is a culture as much as an institution, thick with its own es-oteric codes, rituals and customs.

When we return home, we have to translate our experiences in order to communicate. How many of us have generalized the dreamlike and debauched holiday that is Ivies to a less-enthused “Spring Weekend”? Described our proctors as “half-RA, half-dad”? Called Spring Gala, simply, “Prom at College”?

Bowdoin is its own world—and part of that is keeping the actual world out. We forget the Bowdoin Bubble also describes the sheltering e4 ects of this campus. 3 e smallest trips down the road merit the excitement of trav-el—who here as gone to Wild Oats or Little Dog because they “just needed

to get away”? It feels like you should need a passport for a trip to Portland.

Mentally, too, we’re kept protected, focused on Bowdoin alone. Our com-mitments to Bowdoin start providing us our identities: we’re a club leader, a Head RA, a member of Safe Space. Climbing up the Bowdoin ladder means engraining ourselves further into the campus community fabric, and it also means equating personal success to Bowdoin success. A6 er all, what are we at Bowdoin for? College is ultimately about self-enrichment and self-advancement.

College—not just the institution, but the period in our lives—is an in-herently sel5 sh time, one that’s dedi-cated to cultivating our talents, aspira-tions and skills. For four years, we’re supposed to focus on ourselves, and we’re given a supportive place to do that. We’re given a Bubble.

As a college student, it’s easy to con-sider “the real world” only in theory. Most of the exposure we have with it here isn’t through interaction, but trans-mitted through a textbook, discussed in a lecture or examined in an essay. We treat the real world (which I o6 en forget is real) as a place of study and consider-ation, something we provoke from afar

raising these issues alongside the rel-evant “hard science” during class lec-ture.

3 e Supreme Court, for example, is now considering two di4 erent cases closely intertwined with emerging genetic technologies. In one, it is deciding whether the private 5 rm Myriad Ge-netics can hold patents for two genes closely associ-ated with breast and ovar-ian cancers.

A quick summary of the issues at hand in super for-mal legal terms: “Are these isolated genes simply products of nature, like a tree or a rock or a liver, or is su8 cient ingenuity re-quired to isolate these genes and thereby warrant a patent?”

In the other, the Court will de-termine whether DNA can be collected from people arrested for crimes—“Is DNA collection analo-gous to 5 ngerprint-ing,” the musings go, “or would the practice be more similar to unreasonable search and seizure?” In both cases, we’ve got non-scientists evaluat-ing scienti5 c questions with huge implications that extend far

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Senior duo declares Red’s Eats best lobster roll in midcoast Maine

Debate team grows, continues revival despite lack of coach

COURTESY OF DAVID MANDELBAUM AND HENRY MCNAMARACLAWING FOR THE CROWN: Red’s Eats proved to be Midcoast Maine’s best lobster roll. Fans wait in line for Red’s fresh lobster fi lling.

BY CAITLIN WHALENORIENT STAFF

BY DAVID MANDELBAUMAND HENRY MCNAMARA

CONTRIBUTORS

Our senior spring semester at Bowdoin has come and gone quick-ly. Unfortunately, right as many lobster shacks are opening for sea-sonal business, the Orient is print-ing its last issue. For our final col-umn, we will outline our picks for the best lobster rolls in midcoast Maine, and share insight from Luke Holden, the founder of Luke’s Lob-ster, which has multiple locations in Manhattan and Washington, D.C.

Drumroll please...

Libby’s MarketBrunswick, ME

If you love your roll with lots of lobster and mayo, this is for you. Libby’s portions are enormous, and the lobster is broken up for you and surrounded by just the right amount of delicious mayonnaise. 5 e lobster is prepared very di6 er-ently than our other 7 nalists—it is more shredded than other rolls and is considered traditional Maine style. Libby’s has a charming qual-ity. It is not a picturesque scene on the ocean, but a simple market just outside of downtown Brunswick.

You won’t 7 nd huge crowds here typically, but you will 7 nd a deli-cious, relatively undiscovered lob-ster roll just minutes from campus. Don’t let the mayonnaise stop you from stopping by—you can always request a roll without it.

Five IslandsGeorgetown, ME

5 ere is hardly a more picturesque setting in which to enjoy a Maine lob-ster roll. Five Islands is located right on the water in Georgetown, where you can watch the fresh lobster come in right from the boat. However, due

to its popularity, there is almost always a crowd. Five Islands is one of the few places that actually cooks the lobsters in ocean water, creating a complex taste. 5 e roll consists of lobster piled high on top of a toasted hot dog bun, and its simplicity makes it shine.

The Clam ShackKennebunk, ME

Contrary to its name, the Clam Shack serves great lobster rolls. Forty minutes from Brunswick, the Clam Shack is the furthest we traveled but was well worth the journey. 5 e lob-ster roll is served on a bakery fresh bulkie roll, rather than a hot dog or sub style roll. Tail meat is rarely in-cluded, presumably because of the value of that meat. Similar to Five Is-lands, the lobsters at the Clam Shack are cooked in the original salt water in which the lobsters were caught. 5 e biggest detriment of the Clam Shack is the setting—while Ken-nebunk is quaint, when the tide is out, the sound looks like a mud pit.

Best Lobster Roll in Maine

Red’s EatsWiscasset, ME

We had big expectations for Red’s, and yet the roll found a way to exceed them. The roll’s beauty is in its simplicity: toasted bun and lots of lobster. The consumer can decide to add mayo or butter, but these condiments are not required. The bun is delicious and not over-bearing, and it overflows with lob-ster meat—you are bound to have a few chunks of lobster left over on your plate when you finish. The ul-timate roll with the freshest and most

generous portion of lobster gives Red’s our best lobster roll in Maine award. Seniors with only a few weeks le8 at Bowdoin—there’s no time to waste, make your way up to Wiscas-set and enjoy what Maine does best, by the shack that does it best.

Luke Holden’s input

After we completed our journey to many lobster roll shacks all over the state of Maine, we felt it would be prudent to consult an estab-lished lobster roll connoisseur on the subject.

Cape Elizabeth native Luke Hold-en founded Luke’s Lobster, which brings fresh Maine lobster rolls to New York City and Washington D.C. Luke’s brother Bryan graduated from Bowdoin in 2011 and opper-ates Luke’s Lobster with him. 5 eir father has been in the seafood dis-tribution business for 35 years, and taught his sons the art of lobstering. 5 is connection gave Luke an “in” with the Maine lobster supply that other restaurants don’t have.

“I probably would still be in Maine working in the industry if it weren’t for college internships,” Holden said.

Luke described his lobster phi-losophy to us simply: “I hate may-onnaise,” he said. “I believe in a minimalist style.”

Luke applauded the Clam Shack and Five Islands for cooking their lobsters in salt water, explaining to us the importance of this step to the flavor of the lobster. Luke be-lieves in the simplicity of the roll, and at his restaurants uses only a toasted, split top bun with a quarter pound of lobster. Mayo is optional on Luke’s roll, and his seasoning is primarily celery salt.

With more than 100 student-run organizations on campus, Bow-doin’s small debate team often goes unnoticed.

“5 e biggest challenge is getting enough interest from the school. We’re not a very well publicized team,” said Yabing Liu ’15, president. “I think it grows from the nature of debate. Other clubs have their own events on campus and that is a form of publicity for them. But for us, we have to go to tournaments.”

Since the team’s last major revival in 2001, it has oscillated between non-existence and a struggle for growth. Current membership is between eight to ten students; the club meets once a week for an hour and a half.

During these meetings the stu-dents try to practice as much tech-nique building as possible, but vary-ing degrees of commitment and a lack of professional guidance has hin-dered their development. Sessions in-volve mock debates, lectures on cur-rent events, public speaking, debate videos and preparation for possible cases at upcoming tournaments.

The debate team has not had a steady coach to work with over the past few years, so for the most part they use in-house coaching, which involves a lot of effort from team leaders and the few with previous experience at the high school level.

Debate teams at peer schools have also assisted Bowdoin’s team. As one of the younger teams, host schools often offer discounts on

travel expenses for the team and take time to discuss its perfor-mance after tournaments. Bates College’s Debate Team has been especially helpful this year.

“Last semester we started look-ing at Bates and Colby,” said Liu. “And Bates has a really strong team so we started to practice once a se-mester with them. They will give us workshops and participate in mock tournaments.”

As for a professional coach, Liu has been searching for someone in Maine who is both willing to work with the team and also experienced with the correct style of collegiate debate. While in years past the team was able to work with local high school coaches, that resource is no longer available, given that some Bowdoin debate team members have taken those positions at local high schools.

Nevertheless, Liu was able to ac-quire funds from Student Activities Financial Committee (SAFC) for Wayne Jortner, a local lawyer who is also her host father, to be a part-time coach last semester.

The team has returned to in-house coaching this semester to focus on the stylistic and strategic aspects of parliamentary debate.

“My favorite aspect of debating is the critical thinking aspect that is needed to succeed in any debate, said David Levine ’16. “You have to be able to understand your opponent’s arguments and come up with e6 ec-tive means of countering them. 5 is o8 en takes all of one’s brainpower, but is also very exciting.”

At debate tournaments, a winner is chosen based on the weight of the arguments’ impact, speci7 c knowl-edge, and ability to respond well to the other team. Judges also give in-dividual speaker scores based on eye contact, speed, passion, con7 dence, 9 ow, organization and poise.

Contrary to popular belief, de-bate tournaments are not only about political hot-button issues. Past topics have included a zombie apocalypse, contacting extraterres-trial life, and a theoretical resur-rection of Montezuma. However, cases also covered the presidential

election, abortion, gay marriage, and military strategy.

“One of our past cases was that an alien crash lands in your back-yard,” said Madeline Davis ’16.

“He is dying and he can com-municate to you how you can help him, but that is pretty much it,” she said. “You don’t know anything about this alien. So do you help him, or do you turn him over to the government?”

Those who have the best records after five rounds in a tournament move on to the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. While some tournaments host teams from across the country, most of Bow-doin’s competition comes from surrounding NESCAC and Ivy League schools.

5 is year Bowdoin visited Tu8 s University in the fall and Brandeis University in the spring. While at Tu8 s, the team was unable to com-plete their rounds due to scheduling con9 icts. 5 ey fared better at the Brandeis Tournament, where Bow-don’s two teams went 2-3 and 3-2.

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During dorm time at tournaments, teams enjoy the change of scene from their respective campuses.

“Tournaments are so much fun and every time we’ve gone we’ve had a blast,” said Davis. “The par-ties are always fun and really inter-esting because the debate crowd is just so quirky and intellectual that you go and see a ton of people hav-ing insane debates and discussions. Team bonding, visiting new towns and trying their food is great too.”

Current leadership is eager to improve and hopes to expand campus involvement.

“We definitely welcome people who have never done debate to join us, but we also hope that those with high school experience will come and share their knowledge,” said Liu. “I also hope that members are ready to put in more commit-ment to practice more often and go to tournaments more often.”

“We’re getting better, which is cool,” Davis added. “I’m hoping we can also make the team bigger and work hard to do well.”

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Seniors nearing graduation positively refl ect on Bowdoin careers

QUINN COHANE AND MELODY HAHM

BURSTING THE BUBBLE

SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

After four years of getting to know all things Bowdoin, would you have made the same college decision?

For our 5 nal column, we asked eight graduating seniors this question, and all answered a6 rmatively without hesitation. However, they have had starkly di7 erent experiences along the way.

Mai Kristo7 erson especially appre-ciates Bowdoin a8 er comparing her college experience with those of her friends at other schools.

“My boyfriend goes to MIT, and every time he’s here he just marvels at how everyone works really hard, but there isn’t this dog-eat-dog com-petitiveness. He says Bowdoin is so refreshing and that they got some-thing right. I feel that way too,” said Kristo7 erson.

Some students transitioned eas-ily into college life with the help of sports teams or close-knit dorms, like Jess Caron with the Nordic ski team and Pierce King with the lacrosse and hockey teams.

“I came to school and instantly had 40 friends, so it helped my transition to Bowdoin,” said King. “Being on a team can close you off from the rest of the community, but sports shouldn’t define your char-acter, they should only complement your character.”

For others, it took months or even years for Bowdoin to feel like home. Caitlin O’Keefe said that get-ting past peoples’ athletic standing was difficult when she was a first year. She saw the Bowdoin culture as very homogenous and limiting. Dechan Darlympe was also frus-trated by her initial impressions of Bowdoin’s social scene, despite her New England boarding school background.

“In high school, people were more open because they felt vul-nerable and wanted to get to know people,” said Dalrymple. “In col-lege, I felt that after the first few weeks, people found their cliques and stuck with them. In my dorm

especially, people stuck to their floors.”

The academic transition to Bowdoin was especially difficult for those from less rigorous high schools.

“I came from a school that was not very strong—I’m from Fort Kent, Maine,” said Caron. “Fresh-man and sophomore years I almost didn’t make it through.”

Caron also recounted how dif-ficult it was to grasp how distinct her socioeconomic status was from most of her classmates’.

“I grew up in a very low income area,” explained Caron. “Being here and seeing the people who have gone to elite private schools and have had privilege their whole lives has given me a deeper understanding of the di7 erences between socioeconomic classes.”

Although about 44 percent of Bowdoin students receive financial aid, Caron said she felt she was in the low-income minority her first year.

“I was really shy freshman year, and I was hard on myself for not being at the standard,” said Caron. “Socioeconomic class is one of the things that is not discussed and not as supported at Bowdoin.”

Seniors voiced other discomforts in their second year at Bowdoin.

Kristofferson loved having a built-in community as a swimmer her first year, but looked to expand her social circle sophomore year.

“Freshman year was very insular with the swim team,” said Kristof-ferson. “I was really glad to be liv-ing in a social house sophomore year. I also had a couple of jobs on campus and exposed myself to dif-ferent groups of people, but by the end of sophomore year I was still itching to do something different.”

Coincidentally, half of the se-niors we spoke to went abroad for the entirety of their junior years. All agreed that they were eager to return to Bowdoin and developed a newfound affinity for their alma mater.

“I went to a university with 40,000 students, so it made me realize why I chose Bowdoin, a school that is a community,” said Kristofferson.

right-wing, religious hometown of Fort Kent,” she said.

Most seniors interviewed felt that they had reached out to the Bowdoin community in some capacity and made an impact during their time here.

“I’m not the most talented indi-vidual, not the most artistic, smart-est, athletic, and I certainly can’t sing,” said Zach Ostrup. “Everyone contributes in their own way, and I think I’ve contributed in day-to-day interactions.”

Many commented on how the smallness of the Bowdoin commu-nity encourages lasting relationships between graduates and the Bowdoin name.

“9 e Bowdoin Career Advisory Network has been really helpful to me and makes me want to act as a resource to people,” said Caron.

King also looks forward to con-necting with both past and future Polar Bears.

“I’m leaving Bowdoin a happy alumnus—when I see a Bowdoin T-shirt in the city, I’m going to go up and talk to them,” said King.

If the seniors we interviewed had the opportunity to redo their time in college, they said they would do a few things di7 erently. However, no one regretted the choice to come to Bowdoin.

Sanchez dismissed a common complaint that the school’s small size is a hindrance in the long run.

“Sometimes I would get a little en-vious of my friends at other schools, especially when I heard about their extracurricular activities and events and big parties,” said Sanchez. “I would think, ‘Man, I wish I could have done a little more of that.’ But I would never trade all of that for my education here and the fact that I get to say I graduated from Bowdoin.”

9 ough our interviewees were quick to declare their appreciation of Bowdoin, a8 er four years, most are ready to graduate. O’Keefe ex-pressed how bittersweet her im-minent departure from Bowdoin makes her feel.

“I’ve been here long enough that this is very much home to me, more so than my actual home is,” said O’Keefe. “For that reason, this will always be a place that I gravitate toward.”

to bene5 t our growing minds and satisfy our intellectual curiosity. 9 e real world isn’t supposed to provoke us back.

But sometimes, it does. Some-times, something like the Boston Marathon bombings happens. Some-thing like an unexpected illness hap-pens. Something like a family emer-gency happens. Or even something small: a medical bill, a summer job, going to a sibling’s graduation. A col-lision occurs, and our college-time above reality vanishes.

The most difficult thing I’ve had to do at college is reconcile the terms of Bowdoin with the terms of the real world, to find a way to pri-oritize and compartmentalize the urgencies and responsibilities of two separate universes. As shame-ful as this sounds, we can be so self-involved at Bowdoin—on making the most of the time we’re allotted here—that reminders of the outside feel like unfair interruptions.

When my house was severely dam-aged by Hurricane Sandy, I found it hard to concentrate on my schoolwork. My Chaucer paper and my geology

lab report seemed to pale in compari-son to the images of my family wading through our : ooded house, trying to rescue our sodden and mucky furni-ture. I wanted to come home, but they told me to remain at school—they told me to stay focused, that I was doing something important here. Was I?

To my parents’ point, college pre-pares us for the real world, so we can justify our time spent here by calling it an investment. Standing behind Bowdoin are our dreams and our am-bitions, as well as the hard obstacles we will encounter and hope to over-come. 9 ose presences act as motiva-tion but also as a pressure, a pressure to keep our head in the books. By ma-triculating, we tell ourselves that the real world is going to wait until we’re ready for it.

I say this all without meaning to be insensitive. Of course, I don’t mean to subordinate the events of the world to the deadlines of our his-tory papers because I believe that’s a proper ranking. Of course the real world isn’t going to wait for us, and it doesn’t. It’s how we deal with this tension between the bubble and the universe that might represent one of our biggest challenges here at school.

beyond a technical discussion of the scienti5 c facts at hand.

Even though these non-scientists are arguably super smart non-scientists, I say, “whoa.”

And what’s all this talk about genetic testing anyway? As the technology for DNA sequencing becomes increasing-ly a7 ordable and e6 cient, we should probably start considering the ways in which the ability to “know your ge-nome” might a7 ect us. We considered some tricky hypotheticals in my lab the other day.

Imagine, for example, that you can get tested for the probability that you will develop acne, lactose intolerance, macular degeneration, breast cancer or testicular cancer in your lifetime. 9 e test cannot tell you with certainty that you will develop a given condition, but you can assume that a “positive” genet-ic test has an 85-95 percent correlation with the condition.

Would you get tested? How would your decision change

if that correlation was only 10-20 per-cent? What about if you knew your insurance company would receive the

test results and alter your insurance rates accordingly (if you had negative results, your rates would decrease, but even just one positive result would in-crease your rates substantially)?

Perhaps the best part of genetics blending with daily life is that I will 5 nally be able to predict whether I wear glasses or not. If I wear glasses, I probably push my glasses up my nose whenever they feel like they’re slip-ping down. Which means my hand

probably touches the bridge of my nose more than other parts of my face. So, by comparing the genetic compo-sition of bacteria on the rest of my face to the genetic composition of the “mi-crobiome” on the bridge of my nose, I’ll have my answer. If they’re di7 erent, I’ve probably got glasses. If they’re ba-sically the same, I’m probably blessed with unaided 20/20.

Like I said earlier: “Biology 212: Un-locking life’s mysteries.”

For Luke Sanchez, having Bowdoin as a support system gave him the confidence to venture off for a full year to Madrid and Milan.

“By the end of my study abroad experience, I was a little more Bowdoin-sick than homesick,” he said.

For Will Bogardus, studying abroad cultivated his interest in Japanese history, and a8 er going to Japan for a year, he was able to re5 ne his focus within Japanese studies.

“Before I went to Japan, I wanted to get a Ph.D in Japanese history,” said Bogardus. “Midway through my time abroad, I realized I didn’t want to do that at all and instead became increasingly interested in Japanese culture.”

Bowdoin’s academic reputa-tion motivated King’s high school years. With a long-standing famil-ial tradition of Polar Bears, King was set on attending Bowdoin from an early age.

“Bowdoin has always been on my radar,” explained King. “I would visit my sister, Taryn [’07], when I was in high school and got to see her life here. I worked hard

in high school because I wanted to make sure that I did everything in my power to get in.”

O’Keefe discovered that having unique interests actually helped her find her niche at Bowdoin.

“When I got here, I realized how much I enjoy taking classes that really excite me,” said O’Keefe.

“I’ve found people who will read Homer on the Art Museum steps with me or will talk about the dif-ferent rocks that Bowdoin is made of. Bowdoin has provided an envi-ronment for my interests to flower,” she added.

Bogardus found that Bowdoin helped him overcome his formerly reserved nature.

“I’ve definitely become a lot more outgoing since I got here,” said Bogardus. “I am a lot more accepting of people that I wouldn’t have met growing up or gotten to know otherwise.”

Caron credits Bowdoin for pro-viding her with a more panoramic and nuanced view of the world.

“Through the McKeen Center, I’ve visited communities that are so different from my primarily white,

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT BMC’s third annual ‘Hipster Ivies’ overtakes the Brunswick Quad

Students in the Afro-Latin Music Ensemble and enrolled in Music 281 presented their 3 nal concert of the year on Wednesday night in Studz-inski Recital Hall.

Under the direction of Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero, the group of 10 students performed a selection of Afro-Cuban religious songs as well as pieces from Colom-bia’s southern Paci3 c and Caribbean coasts.

According to Quintero, the en-semble’s repertoire grants Bowdoin a unique place among the musical cultures of other colleges.

“From the U.S. to Europe to else-where, the ensemble is the only col-legiate group outside of Colombia to play this music, which is really spe-cial,” he said.

Wednesday night’s program was made possible by a grant Quintero received from the College last sum-mer to study Afro-Cuban religious drumming in New York. A4 er be-coming versed in the tradition, Quintero was able to purchase the required instruments for the en-semble.

With the arrival of the new in-struments over winter break, the en-semble was able to expand its genre range this semester.

“5 is is the 3 rst time we’re going to be playing Afro-Cuban batá mu-sic, which is pretty awesome,” said Quintero. “I’m really excited that I was able to get the funds to study

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it, and I’m really excited we got the funds to get the instruments, and I’m really excited that it works.”

5 is past summer was not Quin-tero’s 3 rst time studying Afro-Latin music in New York City, nor is it his 3 rst experience directing this genre of music. While attending graduate school at NYU, Quintero started a similar ensemble at the suggestion of one of his teachers.

“When I was doing my 3 eld work as a graduate student at NYU, one of the people I learned with suggested to me that we organize something where they could come up and play in the United States,” he said. “So I made that happen through NYU, and we bought all the instruments, and I started that ensemble.”

Quintero’s experience at NYU made him an ideal candidate for a position at Bowdoin when the mu-sic department took him on in the fall of 2010.

“One of the things they wanted was an ethnomusicologist who could do a non-Western music en-semble, so they hired me to do it,” he said. “5 ey bought all the instru-ments, and that’s how it happened.”

Quintero strives to make the Af-ro-Latin Music Ensemble an excit-ing and educational experience for students. 5 ose lucky enough to get into the class—it’s capped at 10 stu-dents—are exposed to every aspect of its performance.

“Everybody has to do everything,” Quintero said. “Everybody sings, everybody plays the di6 erent per-cussion instruments, and I usually

Tonight, student performers will take one last bow at Quadzil-la before the grind of finals hits. The music festival, organized by Bowdoin Music Collective (BMC), will feature 10 student acts along with art projects by the Art Club and food provided by Residential Life.

Quadzilla is BMC’s biggest event and offers bands to showcase the fruits of a year’s practice. Despite its short history, it is considered a tradition among club members.

“Since BMC has only been around for four years, our tradi-tions are being formed as we go along. This is one of the ones we’re most excited about,” said Nate Jo-seph ’13, BMC co-president.

Although Quadzilla immedi-ately follows Ivies, the mood of the concert feels a little different to the students who attend. Dave Raskin ’13, co-president of BMC, believes this is because it is more focused on the art of the performances.

“People have described it to me as ‘hipster Ivies,’” said Raskin. “I think there is a degree of open-mindedness about this kind of out-door celebration that’s not neces-sarily present at the Ivies concert.”

BMC expects a large student turnout, especially given the sunny weather forecast.

“We’ve generally seen consis-tently close to a couple hundred people out on the Brunswick Quad hanging out,” said Raskin. “There’s

generally a pretty decent sized chunk of people right in front of the stage watching the acts.”

Even with such high attendance, the performers are not too worried about the event.

“Even though there tend to be a lot of people there, it’s still [not], I don’t think, the most high pres-sure environment, just because ev-eryone’s hanging out and having a good time,” said Joseph.

Quadzilla comes at the time of the year when bands are beginning to crystallize their sound.

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year because all the bands have re-ally had a chance to work on their material,” Joseph said. “Oftentimes the Quadzilla set is the culmina-tion of what bands have been work-ing on all year.”

The festival will include both cover songs and original songs with each band playing a 15-min-ute set. Some acts, like Ivies-open-er Phar\os, and campus favorites like Suck my NESCAC and the NARPS are well established. For students who missed the Battle of the Bands performances, the two runner-ups, Treefarm and Circus,

will be playing as well. Newer acts, many of which

formed at the Build-A-Band Work-shop held earlier this semester, will also perform. According to Tom Keefe ’14, one of next year’s BMC co-presidents, the bands are well prepared for their performances.

“We’ve all played before,” he said. “So, it’s not things that they haven’t seen. It’s really just prac-tice, figuring out what set you want to play and making sure that you can play everything right.”

Students can expect to hear an array of different music styles. The

acts range from folk to pop to elec-tronic.

“Not since my freshman spring have I seen so many bands active on campus,” said Raskin.

Quadzilla has always been an event that takes more planning and coordination than the other more informal events throughout the year. Compared to past Quadzillas, BMC has made the event bigger by collaborating with the Art Club to provide fun art projects.

“In addition to a collaborative art project, we’re going to have art club members there painting faces and bodies to kind of let the art move around the space, so to speak,” said Raskin. “I like to think that it will be the same thing but smoother, maybe a bit more incorporated.”

For outgoing co-presidents Jo-seph and Raskin, planning for this event has been a way to slowly hand over responsibility to incom-ing co-presidents Keefe and Sam Roberts ’14.

“As the year’s gone on I’ve been having to do less and less because members of the BMC have been doing more and more,” said Raskin. “It’s less stressful than other previ-ous events.”

Although BMC has been a huge part of his Bowdoin experience, Joseph said he is confident that he and Raskin are leaving the organi-zation in good hands.

“I’m really happy to see that the club is still running strong, and I think next year’s presidents will do a great job continuing what we’ve built,” he said.

COURTESY OF MICHAEL YANGIVIES, ROUND TWO: The NARPS perform at last year’s Quadzilla, which gives bands one last chance to showcase their talents before the year ends.

Bowdoin Afro-Latin Ensemble’s performance debuts a unique sound

teach the dance part, too, although it doesn’t come out in performances. It’s great.”

Contextualizing the music his-torically and culturally in his course is especially important to Quintero. 5 e group’s mission, a4 er all, is to “educate Bowdoin students and the surrounding community about the cultural legacy and social realities of the descendants of Africans in Latin America.”

“It’s not music in its own terms, but we try to understand what it means in its own environment,” said Quintero.

5 e ensemble’s immersive struc-ture is designed to welcome students who may have had little to no musi-cal experience prior to joining. De-spite the varying experience levels in the group, Quintero is very pleased

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTFEEL THE RHYTHM: Members of the Afro-Latin Ensemble performed a fusion of musical genres Wednesday night in Studzinski Recital Hall.

with the capabilities of the group’s members this semester.

“5 ey seemed like they could handle some challenging stu6 . It’s actually a pretty challenging pro-gram,” he said. “We do a lot of di6 er-ent genres this semester. 5 e kids are good. 5 ey’re doing really well with that music.”

The ensemble’s vibrant, engag-ing, enthusiastic performance proved the validity of Quintero’s statement. Many members of the audience were experiencing the music for the very first time, but the sea of smiles and bobbing heads in the middle of the group’s rendi-tion of “Dos bolitas” suggested the birth of a fresh crop of Afro-Latin music enthusiasts.

5 is reaction is exactly what Quin-tero hopes people will experience

when they come to see the ensemble perform.

“I hope that they hear something that they’ve never heard before and go out into the world with at least that question mark over their heads, and maybe they’ll 3 nd something else about the music later,” he said.

Although Quintero will be go-ing to sabbatical for the 2013-2014 Academic Year, the ensemble will continue to thrive at the College. 5 e new temporary director will be Michael Wing3 eld, a resident of Brunswick who, like Quintero, pos-sesses a comprehensive knowledge of Afro-Latin music.

Students who wish to participate in the Afro-Latin Music Ensemble may register for Music 281. ! e class meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:55 p.m.

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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Sarah Liu ’13

BY ELENA BRITOSSTAFF WRITER

Sarah Liu ’13 discovered the pi-ano at age six and has been playing music ever since.

A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Liu grew up experimenting on her elementary school’s piano and—with encouragement from teachers and parents—decided to take lessons.

“I guess I never quit,” said Liu. Liu performed in a recital on

Tuesday evening with fellow Bowdoin student Allen Wong ’14. 4 e concert included solo and duo performances as well as sev-eral four hands dances, where both performers played on the same bench. 4 e pair performed selec-tions from Brahms, Haydn, and Dvo5ák.

According to Liu, high school was when her interest in piano re-ally took o6 .

“4 at’s where piano became im-portant to me,” she said. “I met some really good musicians and decided I really wanted to stick with piano.”

Although she was already busy 7 ne-tuning her piano skills, Liu also played the violin in her school orchestra. 4 ough she admits her violin playing was “a lot more ca-sual,” she likes how her more social attitude toward the violin contrasts with the o8 en solitary nature of piano playing.

Liu played for two years with a chamber group in high school and made one of her best friends there. 4 e group was composed of Liu on piano, a violinist, and a cellist. On several occasions they performed on a local radio station on several occasions on behalf of the local youth symphony.

“It was great that the other two were in the symphony,” said Liu. She gained more performing experience from the opportunity, contributing to her adaptability with group per-formance.

So, when Wong asked her to col-laborate with him in a group perfor-mance, Liu was up for the challenge.

“4 is recital was really exciting

and fun,” said Liu, who performed solo last semester in a December recital.

“In high school I performed a lot so the nerves kind of went away,” she said. “I don’t perform so much here at Bowdoin, so last year the nerves came back—but for some reason being on stage with another person made that go away.”

Liu describes Wong’s style as much more “methodical and rhythmic” than her “more lyrical” playing, but said that they work well together.

“4 ere was a time he was really pushing Mozart, which isn’t re-ally my thing,” she said, “but then we stumbled across the four hands dances and agreed on that. I had never played four hands, which was a challenge—there’s a lot of reach-ing over each other.”

Liu said their recital was based on compromise—if one wanted to play a piece, then the other would choose the next song.

“It felt much less serious [than my last performance],” said Liu. Despite its casual presentation, she has been preparing for this concert since winter break. Some music students are required to give one performance each semes-ter at Bowdoin.

On campus, Liu is not only an active musician but also an Out-ing Club leader. A biology major and music minor, Liu will move to Boston a8 er graduation to work in a lab doing stem cell research on zebra 7 sh.

“I would like to keep playing if I have a piano next year,” she said. “It would be strange not playing for the 7 rst time.”

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‘Leviathan’ embodies the new documentaryCINEMA SCOPE

SAM FICHTNEROne might say we’re currently in a

golden age of the documentary.Given the rise of independent cin-

ema in the past decade alongside the widespread application of cheap digital technology, it’s become easier than ever before for both professional and ama-teur 7 lmmakers to create documenta-ries—the documentary is a form that has actually been helped rather than hindered by the bare-bones approach digital technology o6 ers.

Bowdoin has, just in the past few weeks, brought two phenomenal, wide-ly-acclaimed documentary 7 lms, along with their 7 lmmakers and subjects to campus; “4 e Central Park Five” (Ken Burns) and “How to Survive a Plague” (David France).

Both of these works examine heated historical moments of national notori-ety during the 1980s. Each—with tre-mendous precision and raw, social pow-er—employs a mixture of talking heads and archival footage to paint a sober and encompassing view of their signi7 cant events. 4 ey were fantastic and used the staple tools of the documentary form to tell a bold, new story.

But now here comes “Leviathan,” something that may vaguely be de-scribed as documentary (really creative non-7 ction) but is surely unlike any piece of cinema I’ve ever seen before. It’s a behemoth of a visual work, showing us something real with style unmistakably uncanny.

“Leviathan” is directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, both professors at Harvard’s Senory Eth-nography Lab. It follows the story of an 80-foot ground7 shing boat embarking from New Bedford, Mass.

Naturally the 7 lm has a scholarly

and contemplative feel to it, insofar as it completely and e6 ectively defamiliariz-es its audience to its environment—the North American 7 shing industry—with a su6 ocating degree of atmosphere. Castaing-Taylor’s previous credits in-clude 2009’s “Sweetgrass,” a similarly experimental work examining modern day sheepherders in Montana. 4 e 7 lm contains one of my favorite scenes of the past decade, in which a lonely shepherd calls his mother to complain about his life as the camera does a slow 360-de-gree pan around a gorgeous mountain range.

4 e sequence adeptly captured the schism between man, his “unnatural” creations, and the vastness of the natural

world that encompasses him—all while he stubbornly attempts to control it. More on this later.

Part of what made “Sweetgrass” so ef-fective was the fact that it had been en-tirely shot a decade before its release on old-school, low-grade camcorders that lent the majesty of its images homely intimacy.

4 e use of technology in “Leviathan” similarly serves the overall stylistic ef-fect. 4 e 7 lm was shot on a series of small handheld, waterproof cameras (developed by GoPro). With this tech-nological 9 exibility, the directors get to probe every corner of the ship.

If there’s one word that’s been con-tinually surrounding this 7 lm, it’s “immersive.” “Leviathan” pulls a rare number in that it constructs its own cinematic language to examine its subject matter, rather than falling back on the tropes other nature-photogra-phy works (such as “Planet Earth”)

have done in recent years. Recent Discovery Channel works

like “4 e Deadliest Catch” have made valiant attempts to transport viewers to a foreign world of 7 shing, but even then the 7 nal product employs the structure of reality television. It is not that “Levia-than” lacks structure, but rather that it is composed in such a way that our nor-mal lexicon for delimiting its constituent movements falls short. It is a hallucina-tory work that feels both extraterrestrial and hyper-terrestrial.

One could call it a site-speci7 c 7 lm language; from the intense ocean sounds to the ominous darkness, the environment determines the way the 7 lm is shaped, rather than the other way around.

“Leviathan” is overwhelmingly vis-ceral, and as a result extremely fore-boding, so much so that it at times has the feel of horror. Ultimately, the 7 lm is chie9 y concerned with a dichotomy between the natural world and the ma-chine. 4 e bridge between these two en-tities—the human—is for the most part thrown to the wayside for much of “Le-viathan;” the animals and the inanimate come into dialogue with each other with only an implied mediation from human beings.

4 is dialogue recalls my beloved se-quence in “Sweetgrass,” where the shep-herd stands apart and unseen from the immensity of the world around him. 4 e e6 ect is a strange and yet deeply meditative disjunction between majesty and metal, the origin and the result of human toil. Is this boat the antagonist? Is it the human?

Castaing-Taylor and Paravel are far too canny of 7 lmmakers to presume to provide such an answer. What they do provide is stripped of exposition and narrative, but replete with a kind of sur-real ethos that comprises all of the stron-gest of creative works.

“Leviathan” is playing at Frontier Café tonight and tomorrow, with showtimes at 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

‘Leviathan’ may vaguely be described as a documentary but is surely unlike any piece of cinema I have ever seen before.

It is a behemoth of visual work.

Dance department’s annual concert showcases all course levelsLast night, the Department of 4 eater

and Dance showcased its annual Spring Dance Concert in Pickard 4 eater.

4 e show, which runs a little over an hour long, has 7 ve acts. 4 ree acts are performed by 100, 200, and 300-level dance classes, two of which are modern classes; one will feature work by Natalie Johnson ’13, and one will be performed solo by Assistant Professor of 4 eater and Dance Charlotte Gri: n. Gri: n’s performance will be only the second faculty solo in four years.

Johnson’s act will exhibit two parts of her three-part independent study proj-ect, titled AGEN. Johnson’s independent study is yearlong and AGEN premiered April 29 at the Wish 4 eater. 4 e 7 rst part of her act is a solo performed by Johnson, with the second part being a trio performed by Audrey Blood ’13, George Ellzey ’13, and Emily Bungert ’15, choreographed by Johnson.

“It’s a capstone to the semester,” said Johnson. “It signi7 es the culmination of a lot of work.”

In her time at Bowdoin, Johnson has had quite an impact on the dancing community.

“I think of all four years I’ve been here, there’s only been one show I haven’t been in,” said Johnson.

In the last three department shows, Johnson has had her original work per-formed.

“Presenting my own work is impor-tant,” she said.

A8 er graduating, Johnson will enter a

two-year certi7 cate program at the Peri-dance Center in New York City.

4 e other solo act, performed by Gri: n, is the result of a 30-day-long col-laboration with a composer in Shanghai. For one month, Gri: n and the com-poser, Milica Paranosic, exchanged au-dio and video clips to collaborate on her piece. Next year, Gri: n will be going on sabbatical to focus on her work.

Aside from Johnson and Gri: n’s projects, the show is primarily course-work. 4 e performances are a culmina-tion of a semester’s worth of work for each of the three classes.

4 e 7 rst act is performed by Modern 112, taught by Paul Sarvis, theater and dance chair.

Interwoven throughout the piece is a live video feed of the dancers, projected on a large screen in the back of the stage.

“We want to attract some students into taking classes,” said Sarvis.

4 is magic may have been at work in the case of Zina Kinslow ’13, who took her last dance class her freshman year with Sarvis. Kinslow works as an usher for music shows held at Pickard and has been to most of the department’s shows.

“It’s mostly boys who are in the class,” said Kinslow. “I think it’s a VPA think and a senior thing.”

While Sarvis’ class is intro-level, there is a mix of student ability in the group.

“Some of them are de7 nitely students who have danced before,” said Kinslow, “but some are also new dancers and they come together really well.”

One 7 rst-timer is Isabelle Franks ’14, also in the intro modern class.

“I had never taken a dance class be-fore, and I thought this was a good time to do it,” said Franks.

Franks ends the class’ piece with a solo, slowly walking across the stage as her face is projected behind her.

Nyama McCarthy-Brown, who next year will o: cially become a visiting pro-fessor at the College, choreographed the routine for the intermediate jazz class, which performs two pieces.

“It’s the 7 rst time a jazz class is per-forming,” noted Johnson.

4 e 7 nal course performance comes from the advanced modern repertory class, whose six students include John-son and Ellzey. 4 ough the piece at large

is choreographed by Professor Gwyn-eth Jones, each member also performs a solo which he or she personally cho-reographed, and assisted in choreogra-phy in doubles and trios as well. Sarvis and others hope that the variety of the show will make it appealing to a wider audience who may not attend a con-cert that was solely modern or jazz.

“Having an hour-long program is a plus,” said Sarvis. “You’re not gonna be stuck there all night. It’s going to be short and exciting.”

4 e show usually draws large audi-ences from the student body and the greater Brunswick community at large.

“Students and community members come every year because it’s free,” said Sarvis. “4 ere is not a lot of live dance performance in Maine, so people travel far and wide.”

On 4 ursday, the house was almost packed.

“It’s going to be really good,” said Sar-vis, “with an exclamation point.”

4 ere will be performances of the concert tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Pickard 4 eater.

BY BRIANNA BISHOPSTAFF WRITER

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTDANCING THE NIGHT AWAY: This weekend, the theater and dance department is putting on three performances of its Spring Concert.

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STICKING AROUND: Genna Warner ’15 runs toward the net in a match earlier this season. The women’s lacrosse team is still practicing this season while hoping to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

Softball splits weekend before NESCAC playoffs

BY ELANA VLODAVER ORIENT STAFF

Despite splitting a doubleheader against Brandeis last Saturday, the so3 ball team is optimistic about the upcoming NESCAC playo4 s this weekend at Tu3 s.

5 e Polar Bears won the 6 rst game against Brandeis 3-0. Melissa DellaTorre ’14 only gave up one hit on the mound, pitching perfectly for the 6 rst three innings.

In the second game, Bowdoin was ahead until three Polar Bear errors contributed to five runs for Brandeis in the third inning.

Head Coach Ryan Sullivan said he does not believe the team played to its full potential in the second game.

“We had a couple errors and there were a couple cheap hits, so it kind of all snowballed into a five run inning,” Sullivan said. “You can’t give opportunities to the oth-er team and think you’re going to overcome them.”

Captain Gen Barlow ’13 said the team’s errors had a substantial e4 ect on the outcome of the second game over the weekend.

“5 ey had a really good slapper that stole a lot of bases, so that was some extra pressure,” she said. “We threw the ball around a lot in the in-6 eld. And one time, the ball 7 ailed a little bit on us and went into le3 6 eld, which cost us a bunch of runs.” Please see SOFTBALL page 15

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Bowdoin suffered its third loss of the season last Saturday against Hamilton in the first round of the NESCAC playoffs this Saturday at Ryan Field. A very competitive contest between the third-seeded Polar Bears (13-3) and the sixth-seeded Continentals (9-7) ended in a 10-9 victory for Hamilton.

Hamilton advances to the NE-SCAC semifinals next Wednesday against Trinity.

Bowdoin is currently waiting to hear if it will earn a NCAA tourna-ment bid when selections are an-nounced on Sunday.

Captain Carolyn Gorajek ’13 led the attack for the Polar Bears, re-cording four goals on nine shots during the match while also notch-ing an assist. If Bowdoin, the No. 9 team in D-III, does not earn a bid to the NCAA tournament, Gorajek will end the season tied for most career assists, and tied for second most points in a season.

“We knew heading into the game that it would be a battle from the start because we went into overtime with them in regular season,” Gora-

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jek said. “This was the type of game where every attacking and defen-sive set mattered and I think we fell short on a few key opportunities on both ends.”

The Polar Bears went into half-time trailing four to six but worked hard to play the Continentals to an equal second half which saw both

teams score five goals apiece.Captain Hannah Wright ’13 has

had an impressive campaign this year leading the defense for the Po-lar Bears and is proud of the effort her side put forth.

“We came into this year with an

Still, Sullivan said he thinks the lone loss to Brandeis is not reflec-tive of the team’s skill.

“Mistakes happen. It’s hard to be perfect all the time in any sport,” Sullivan said. “The important thing is how you come back from it the very next pitch or the very next play.”

Bowdoin, the No. 2 seed in the NESCAC East Division, will play Middlebury on Friday in the 6 rst round of the NESCAC tournament. 5 e winner will continue on to play either Tu3 s or Wesleyan on Satur-day, depending on the winner of that match.

Barlow said that one advantage of playing Brandeis was that it is a great preparation for the upcoming Middlebury game.

“Brandeis had a le3 y pitcher that gave us some trouble, but Middle-bury has a le3 y pitcher who’s very good as well,” Barlow said. “So see-ing her is de6 nitely going to help us against Middlebury.”

5 e Polar Bears have not yet played Middlebury this season, but lost to them in the elimination round of the NESCAC tournament last year.

“I think last year we weren’t men-tally prepared for their pitcher. I think we were physically prepared, but we didn’t make the adjustments we needed to,” Barlow said.

Bowdoin won against Wesleyan (8-4) on March 4, and lost all their games to Tu3 s in a three-game se-ries on April 5 and 6.

“Everybody at this point is really

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Non-varsity funding leads to unique challenges for teams

BY DIMITRIA SPATHAKISORIENT STAFF

Unlike varsity sports, which receive funding from the Department of Ath-letics, club teams are funded through Student Activities Funding Commit-tee (SAFC), which must divide funds among over 100 student organizations.Men’s rugby and rowing are the only exceptions to this rule and are funded partially by the athletic department, the SAFC, and through other means.

5 e SAFC has $680,000 to divide each between the 110 College student organizations, including non-varsity sports such as the ultimate frisbee, vol-leyball, cycling, alpine skiing, men’s rug-by, rowing, and equestrian teams. 5 e SAFC meets every Monday, and is com-prised of the treasurers of all four classes, two at-large members, and is chaired by the treasurer of the BSG.

While the hybrid teams like men’s rugby and rowing must submit budgets to the SAFC like other club teams, they have a coach hired by the College and have other expenses taken care of by the athletic department.

“We work together to make sure the programs are supported in the best way that they can,” said Ashmead White Di-rector of Athletics Tim Ryan.

5 e SAFC is the sole source of funds for all other club sports on campus.

“Our funding process, with about ten exceptions is that money is allo-cated on a rolling basis,” said Director of Student Activities Allen Delong. “So teams can come in wanting to buy new equipment, and if they make a cogent, compelling case to the SAFC, they get the money.”

Delong does not believe it is a neces-sity for club teams to fundraise in order to compete and function.

“5 is is not a place where students have to compete for money,” he said. “680,000 dollars is an incredible amount of money for 110 organizations, and they spend it in essentially eight months. So it is this really compressed amount of time. But you all [students] are not used to having those kinds of resources for your athletics or co-curricular endeavors, and it takes a little bit of time to condition you out of that.”

Delong feels students should be able to try new things without worrying about the 6 nancial burden. However, in some cases students are asked to chip such as for a dance instructor.

“We ask students to pay a percentage because we want them to be committed because it’s such a big ticket item,” he said.

Delong a8 rms that the process is “pretty easy;” however, di4 erent clubs have varying perspectives on the process because of their di4 ering experiences and expenses. Captain

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Tufts ruins baseball’s chance at fi rst seed

BY LUKE LAMAR ORIENT STAFF

Baseball will host Middlebury for the final games of the regu-lar season this weekend. The two games will have no bearing on the playoff picture as the four teams in the championship have already se-cured their positions.

Bowdoin secured its spot in the playoffs last weekend in a three games series against Tufts. In the first game, the Jumbos jumped to an early lead with a two run homer in the bottom of the first inning. The Polar Bears fired back with

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five runs in the top of the sec-ond with RBIs from Buddy Shea ’15, Sam Canales ’15, and Kyle LeBlanc ’14. Tufts battled back to take the lead in the bottom of the third and the teams went into the fifth tied at seven. A two-run single in the bottom of the fifth gave the Jumbos a permanent lead and snapped the Polar Bears school-record winning streak of 12 games by beating them 11-7.

On Saturday, the first game of the doubleheader was scoreless through four innings. South-paw Christian Martin ’14 gave up only two singles through 5.2 in-nings and struck out seven bat-ters. Bowdoin took the lead in the top of the fifth with an RBI from senior captain Tim McGarry. The Polar Bears added three more runs in the top of the sixth with RBI singles from Canales and Dun-

can Taylor ’14, as well as a steal of home by Canales. Henry Van Zant ’15 struck out three batters in the bottom of the seventh to seal the 4-0 victory, which sealed a playoff position for Bowdoin.

Bowdoin scored first in the third game off an RBI from Canales in the top of the fourth inning, but that would be all for the Polar Bears as the Jumbos scored six runs in the seventh and eighth in-nings to take the game 6-1.

“With a berth into the playoffs on the line for both teams, the first two games were played at a tournament level,” said McGarry. “We battled through the first game but came up on the short end and locked back into the second game and got the job done. Overall we played good baseball and were

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Because track and 5 eld is more of a collection of individual events than a team venture, team building in the sport requires leaders with strong personalities.

Hurdler and long jumper Michele Kaufman ’13, known as much for her dry sense of humor as for her athletic tal-ent, has performed well in her efforts to lead the team, accord-ing to teammates.

“Her personality is well-suited for track,” Olivia MacKenzie ’13. “She’s enthusiastic and brings the team together through a positive attitude and genuine concern for everyone.”

6 e teambuilding aspect of track and 5 eld was one of the draws of the program for Kaufman as well.

“Bowdoin track just seemed more interesting,” she said. “Our coach is pretty quirky. We’re not a traditional sports team.”

As a captain, Kaufman works with coaches to plan events like wheelbarrow races and water balloon fights. For her part, she makes a point to go to every event and cheer on her teammates.

“She helps her teammates have fun at practice,” Head Coach Pe-ter Slovenski said. “She turns awk-ward moments on the team into comedy. She’s mentally tough and has a great sense of humor.”

Kaufman started running relatively early in life and said she knew from the beginning that she wanted to continue in college. D-III o7 ered the right amount of intensity she was looking for.

Her coach has been thrilled to have her since the beginning.

“I called Michele up in June of her junior year in high school, and eventually I asked her what her favorite colleges were,” Slov-enski said. “She said Bowdoin was her 5 rst choice. I put the phone down, and did a cart-wheel in my o8 ce.”

Slovenski remembers evalu-ating her athleticism at the All-New England level, but has been pleasantly surprised by the com-petitive spirit she showed once at Bowdoin. Perseverance, a9 er all, is a requisite trait for hurdlers.

“Hurdle practices can beat up a runner a9 er a while,” he said. “Michele has been ferociously attacking hurdles for four years, and she has the bone bruises and scrapes to prove it.”

6 e technique most hurdlers use allows them to clear the bar by as little as an eighth of an

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inch, and timing miscues can lead to physical punishment on their knees and ankles. Kaufman will jump anywhere from eight to ten : ights (or full sets of hurdles), each practice. In other words, she o9 en clears 80 hurdles each prac-tice before switching to the long jump, an event she had not seri-ously competed in until this year.

Kaufman’s dry humor showed when explaining her choice of events.

“Maybe it’s because I don’t like running enough,” she said. “I like it because it’s a high-risk event. It’s complex and there’s always room for improvement because it’s so technical.”

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HIGHLIGHTS

“I called Michele up in June of her junior year in high

school, and eventually I asked her what her favorite

colleges were. She said Bowdoin was her fi rst choice.

I put the phone down, and did a cartwheel in my o! ce.”

Peter SlovenskiHead Coach of Track & Field

Collins’ coming out shows change in time

Before this week, most people prob-ably hadn’t heard of Jason Collins. 6 e 7’0,” 260-pound NBA center spent his 12-year career in obscurity, playing for six di7 erent teams and never averag-ing more than six points per game.

But on Monday, Jason Collins be-came a household name. He came out as homosexual in a column in Sports Illustrated, becoming the 5 rst athlete in a major professional American sport to come out before retiring.

His story was featured as the half-time special on virtually every game this week. Even President Obama 5 eld-ed questions about his coming out.

Most importantly, both for Collins as a free agent and for the LGBTQ community, his stock as a player has not dropped since his announcement.

One Western Conference execu-tive told Sports Illustrated that Col-lins had “1-in-5” odds of being signed this o7 season, mainly due to his age.

Another executive told Sports Illus-trated, “He was on the pile of old big guys you grab when you need a body. Frankly, now he’s more interesting. I think this could help his career.”

Front o8 ce executives are not fazed by the prospect of signing an openly gay player. In fact, they should revel in the opportunity to be the 5 rst to do so. As long as he contributes to a winning season, NBA general managers won’t care about his sexual orientation.

But will the players? Over Twitter, NBA veterans Kobe

Bryant, Baron Davis and Steve Nash praised Collins for being true to himself, calling his coming out inspirational.

Rookies Garrett Temple and Brad-ley Beal also encouraged their for-mer teammate in 140 characters or less. 6 ey ended their messages with hashtags that read #real and #livey-ourlife, respectively.

Still, Collins has yet to step into a locker room as an openly gay athlete. Unfortunately for him, the 5 ve sup-portive players mentioned are not all on one NBA team. Plus, there are al-ready naysayers who have challenged Collins and his announcement.

Well-respected ESPN Insider Chris Broussard said that Collins’ “openly homosexual lifestyle” is “walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ.”

Commentators pointed out that Tim Tebow is just as deserving of praise for his devotion to Christian-ity as Collins is to his own way of life. Tebow too has been ostracized. (6 e only job o7 er Tebow has right now is from the Omaha Beef, of the indoor football league. We’ll talk more NFL in a moment).

It’s only a matter of time before Tim Hardaway, former Heat great,

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week that he could fall victim to the same result as Ayanbadejo.

Kluwe went a step further than Ayanbadejo by criticizing coaches and the media.

“It really is the attention issue,” said Kluwe. “It’s the fact that they would be the first person coming out and there would be so much media and fan attention on that player that it could risk them losing their job.”

“You look at the sample size of gays in the United States, they’re around 10 percent. With 1,800 players in the NFL, that’s about 180 guys you’re talking about,” he said.

Vikings special teams coach Mike Priefer responded by saying, “I don’t even want to talk about it. 6 ose dis-tractions are getting old for me...”

Unfortunately for Priefer, this phenomenon is called freedom of the press. And the media has prov-en that it will dig, dig and dig some more until it finds news. That’s the nature of the beast. So if the me-dia is going to create a distraction by talking about Tebow, Manti Te’o or whatever sensationalist report reaches newsstands next year, it might as well create a productive distraction and advance equality for the LGBTQ community.

Plus, isn’t it up to the marketing people in the front o8 ces of profes-sional sports teams to turn publicity into an opportunity?

Major American sports teams can even learn from Bowdoin. 6 ey don’t have our small community of open-minded youngsters who so willingly walk past pro-LGBTQ drawings in chalk as if they are part of the cement. But, they can learn from our willingness to talk. 6 e more notions of LGBTQ equality are discussed, the less of a big deal it becomes. Hopefully, we will soon reach a point where commentators do not feel obliged to tell TV audi-ences about Jason Collins’ bravery or Coach Priefer’s hostile reaction. Instead, I’ll get to hear only statistics pertaining to the actual sport.

Regardless, her work has 5 nally brought her tangible success a9 er coming close in previous years. In 2011, she came as close as she could to a NESCAC 5 rst -place 5 nish in the hurdles before falling on the sixth hurdle, surrendering a commanding lead. A year later, she missed the NCAA selection cut by a single place. 6 is year, Kaufman jumped the 5 nal hurdle last weekend and took 5 rst place in the NESCAC championship. She also broke a Bowdoin record in the long jump.

Kaufman’s sense of humor also manifests itself outside of sports. A9 er not making the cut on Bow-doin’s improv comedy group as a 5 rst-year, she demonstrated the same resilience she has shown in hurdles and tried out again. She has been a mainstay in the club from her sophomore year onward.

Kaufman also has an environ-mentally conscious mindset. She has dedicated signi5 cant time to being a part of the Bowdoin Green Athletes.

However MacKenzie said, “She doesn’t spread herself too thin. She knows what her interests are. Being a Green Athlete is incred-ibly important to her, and she practices what she preaches.”

! e sports editor of the Orient chooses the Athlete of the Week based on exemplary performance.

releases another bigoted statement like the one he delivered after re-tired NBA player John Amaechi became the first openly gay former player in 2007.

6 ere will always be critics. It’s part of life.

But the cynics surrounding Col-lins serve as a reminder that Amer-ican sports have a long way to go in terms of shedding its stigma of homophobia.

For example, the Baltimore Ravens cut linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo last season, which he suspected was due to his vocal support of same-sex marriage. Entering his ninth year punting for the Minnesoate Vikings, Chris Kluwe publicly shared last

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Men’s lax season ended by overtime loss to Wesleyan

5 e men’s lacrosse team’s season ended last Saturday in a heartbreaking overtime loss to Wesleyan in the NE-SCAC Quarter6 nals. 5 e 6 7 h-seeded Polar Bears concluded their season with a record of 8-7 while the fourth-seeded Cardinals improved to 12-4 and continue on to play top-seeded Mid-dlebury this coming weekend.

In the 6 rst quarter, Wesleyan was quick to take a 2-1 lead. 5 e Polar Bears answered forcefully, rallying to end the 6 rst half up 6-3 and forc-ing Wesleyan to change goaltenders. In the third quarter, Wesleyan tied the score by racking up three unan-swered goals.

5 e Polar Bears regained their foot-ing in the fourth quarter, when Peter Reuter ’16 scored to regain the lead. Minutes later, however, Wesleyan re-sponded with a goal of its own, bring-ing the score to 7-7 and forcing the game into overtime. 5 e teams traded possession in the 6 rst few minutes of overtime before Wesleyan was able to

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Club volleyball to lose co-ed status

Starting in the spring of 2014, Bowdoin’s club volleyball team will no longer be co-ed. As a result of the change, current team members Erin McKissick ’16, Sophie Saw-yers ’16 and Maggie Seymour ’16 will have to start their own female team next year.

According to McKissick, the Na-tional Collegiate Volleyball Fed-eration (NCVF) has traditionally had separate teams for men and women.

The New England region is the only one that has allowed co-ed teams. However, Rule 3.1.4 of the NCVF’s Governance Rules states that, “A women’s team roster may not include men and a men’s roster may not include women. No wom-en players are allowed to compete as a player on a men’s team, and no men are allowed to compete as a

player on a women’s team.”Josh Magid, Commissioner of

the New England Collegiate Vol-leyball League (NECVL) wrote in an email to the three female mem-bers of the club volleyball team that he considered making the change effective immediately last year, but the NECVL ultimately decided to wait until the end of this season to enact their new ad-herence to the rules.

“For several years we have been breaking the rules by allowing women to compete in our men’s league,” Migid wrote. “The bottom line is that we don’t really have a choice and need to comply with the rules that are in place nationally.”

This leaves the trio of first years with the task of forming their own team for next season, a somewhat bittersweet undertaking.

“I think we were upset when we 6 rst found out,” said Sawyers. “We got to know the guys; we adjusted to playing on a guys’ net, which is higher, so that’s frustrating. But I also think that starting a women’s team will be good because I think that there are a lot of girls here that would play if it was a women’s team.”

Seymour also expressed disap-pointment with the NECVL’s recent decision to adhere to the NCVF’s gender rules. However, she also ac-

knowledged that “playing with the guys is a different game.”

The faster speed of the men’s game and the high level of physi-cality were challenging for the female volleyball players, but all three women said they would miss the men’s game next year.

The three affected athletes were also frustrated to find out about the change relatively late in the spring season. While the email from Mag-id indicated that the decision had been made and communicated after the fall NECVL meeting, the news did not reach them until recently.

McKissick said that one of the most pressing questions that needed to be answered was how they were going to run the team. As the future veterans of the wom-en’s team, responsibility for both teaching and coaching will in-evitably fall on them. While both McKissick and Sawyers played var-sity volleyball in high school, the prospect of being player-coaches is somewhat daunting.

“We had varsity players come to our practices, and we’re trying to coordinate with the guys’ team,” said McKissick.

“We will still be having team dinners,” said Seymour, “It will be heart-wrenching, but we’ll make it through.”

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happy to get into the playoffs for the fourth straight year.”

The Polar Bears will enter the playoffs as the second seed in the eastern division and will face tour-nament host Wesleyan (9-3 NES-CAC, 21-13-1 overall) in the first round of the playoffs next Friday.

Bowdoin travelled to University of Southern Maine (USM) for a mid-week non-conference game on Tues-day. 5 e Huskies took a three-run

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lead in the bottom of the 6 rst and never looked back. 5 e Polar Bears found some o8 ense with RBI’s from LeBlanc, John Lefeber ’14, and Mc-Garry, but USM kept the game out of reach and won 9-4.

“USM is the top team in New England right now and deservedly so,” said McGarry. “They have a very strong lineup from top to bot-tom and we were excited for the challenge. We hit the ball hard in the early innings, but weren’t able to translate those hits into many runs. Meanwhile, they used some free bases to get on the board early

on. Despite the loss we came away with the feeling that we were able to compete with the top teams in the region.”

The baseball team will honor its six seniors—Oliver Van Zant, Beau Breton, Drew LoRusso, Luke Re-gan, Dan Findley, and McGarry— this Saturday in a doubleheader against Middlebury before the playoffs next weekend.

“We just want to continue to play consistent baseball,” said McGarry. “We want to have our pitchers and hitters fine-tune their game before the playoffs.”

capitalize with 1:21 le7 , by sinking a hard shot into the back of the net, end-ing the game 8-7.

“I think that the biggest disappoint-ment is that we were in such a good place coming out of March, and we just kind of slid in April,” said Head Coach Jason Archbell. “It’s not how you want to end the season.”

Last Saturday’s loss wrapped up Archbell’s 6 rst season with the team. According to him, the second half of the season sealed the team’s fate.

“Failure to execute when we needed to, injuries, lack of depth—things like that all compounded on each other,” he said. “In the end, as head coach, you take responsibility for it because it’s your job.”

Despite Saturday’s loss, Archbell re-mains optimistic about the season and his players.

“We did some really great things this year, and there was a lot accomplished,” he said. “We’re a lot better than where we ended up.”

5 is year, the team will graduate 11 seniors, each of which, according to Archbell, contributed enormously to the attitude and success of the team. Next year, Archbell said he hopes to use the experience he gained this sea-son to better prepare his team for the di9 culties of the NESCAC schedule.

Three female fi rst years are being forced o! the co-ed clubvolleyball team after the league decided to comply with gender requirements from its national

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good, so you have to play well,” Sul-livan said. “You have to take advan-tage of any mistakes they make and you have to limit your mistakes. And that’s going to be the nature of the outcomes of the games coming up, for all four teams that are going to be there.”

While the team is not adapting its practice routines much in preparation for the playo3 s, it is putting a special focus on bunt coverage, backing up and communication a4 er the game against Brandeis.

“We’re trying not to overanalyze it,” Sullivan said. “We don’t want to slow ourselves down by thinking; sometimes you just have to go out there and play. Our chore right now is to relax, and try to enjoy the envi-ronment and the experience.”

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NESCAC Standings

Compiled by Carolyn Veilleux Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC

*Bold line denotes NESCAC tournament cut-o!

BASEBALLNESCAC EAST OVERALL

W L W L Trinity 8 4 20 15BOWDOIN 8 4 22 12Tufts 7 5 21 12Bates 5 7 15 16Colby 2 10 11 20

WOMEN’S TENNIS

SAILING

SOFTBALLNESCAC EAST OVERALL

W L W LTufts 12 0 35 3BOWDOIN 8 4 28 12Trinity 7 5 16 18Colby 2 10 11 17Bates 1 11 9 17

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD Sa 5/4 New England D-IIIs (Colby) 10 A.M.

Sa 5/4 Fowle Trophy (Harvard) 9:30 A.M.

Sa 5/4 v. Trinity (at Amherst) 1 P.M.

Sa 5/4 New England D-IIIs (Colby) 10 A.M.

Sa 5/4 v. Middleburyv. Middlebury

NOON

3 P.M.

F 5/3 v. Middlebury (at Tufts) 5 P.M.

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amazing but different vibe from the very beginning,” she said. “We surprised ourselves with how well we played in our first couple games and we felt as though we could only go up, which we proved by only losing three games up to this point.”

With an at-large bid still a possi-bility for the women, the team has continued to practice throughout the week with enthusiasm just in case.

“I’m so proud of our team be-cause we never stopped playing once or turned on each other dur-ing the game,” said Gorajek. “How-ever, it was a tough loss and [it] puts us in a difficult place because our fate for getting an NCAA bid is now entirely out of our hands.”

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Alex Fogarty ’13 of the Alpine Ski and Cycling teams agrees with Delong’s sentiment.

“You plan out your budget ahead of time, so it’s pretty rare to go over bud-get,” said Fogarty. “I think it’s a really good system, and for the ski team we’re not used to being funded so any money is a huge plus.”

Chair of the SAFC and captain of the cycling team Charlie Cubeta ’13 has seen the funding issue from both sides of the dilemma.

“Being on cycling for four years, I’ve never felt that our activities were com-promised by a lack of funding,” he said.

Captain of the ultimate Frisbee team, Michael Ben-Zvi ’13 said that his team has for the most part received adequate funding. Its biggest sacri5 ce is that they occasionally are forced to send just one team to certain tournaments.

“We got to go to nationals last year and there was a bit of a struggle to get enough money since it’s obviously not factored into our budget and [it’s] an additional $15,000 at least because it’s in Wisconsin,” said Ben-Zvi.

Delong and the SAFC are more than willing to work with teams whose suc-cess causes greater expenses.

“We say to them, ‘Here’s the mon-ey; go have a great season and if you make nationals come back and talk to us and we’ll 5 gure out how to fund that,’” said Delong.

Of all the club teams, the athletic department is most involved with men’s rugby.

“Our expanded relationship with the men’s rugby program developed out of a desire to provide athletic training ser-vices to the members of the team given the nature of the sport, ” said Ryan.

Rugby captain Hunter Rusack ’13

said he found working on funding with the SAFC challenging.

“It’s never easy,” he said. “6 e school gives us a fair amount of funding, they help pay for our coaches. We also ask them for about $5,000 to $6,000, to cover equipment, referee fees and ad-ditional insurance to the USA Rugby Association.”

However, the men’s rugby team also receives funding from alumni.

“Bowdoin Rugby Forever is an en-dowment for the rugby team,” said Rusack. “It has amassed tens of thou-sands of dollars in the last couple weeks. But it’s not just to use when-ever we want, it’s to make sure the Bowdoin Rugby program isn’t going to lose funding.”

According to Rusack, the team want-ed to attend a tournament last week that was not in the proposed budget and did not get funding from the SAFC. 6 e alumni fund covered its cost.

Rusack appreciates the school fund-ing but does not believe it is su7 cient.

“6 e school helps, but it’s not enough to function comfortably...our alumni presence is the biggest thing for us,” said Rusack.

However, not all teams are lucky enough to have this second option if they want funding beyond what the SAFC has agreed to give them.

Club volleyball Captain Peter Yen ’13 has also had to deal with budget in-conveniences, speci5 cally the limit the SAFC put on housing per person on road trips.

“6 e SAFC gives $20 for hous-ing per person per night, so we had trouble 5 nding anywhere that was cheap enough,” said Yen. “Generally we’d stay at a motel and stack three or four people per room and share beds. It’s close quarters.”

“We realize they’re not staying in the Ritz,” said Cubeta.

Cubeta has seen the SAFC change

over the last four years, noting how clubs can now get more money for food. To help initiate these changes, Cubeta does his best to welcome discussion.

“Unfortunately, sometimes we don’t get that much feedback since groups are scared to talk to us because they feel like if they complain we’re going to get mad at them,” said Cubeta.

6 e equestrian team has arguably had the most di7 cult time obtaining SAFC funding this year a4 er an unex-pected rise in membership. In the 5 rst semester, the SAFC and equestrian team worked out that the SAFC would cover vans and competition fees while mem-bers would pay for lessons. According to a member of the team, Kathryn Brod-erick ’16, this changed when the SAFC cut equestrian funding, arguing that no other sport was year-round.

“In the spring our budget was cut by $271, so that e3 ectively ended our sea-son on March 9,” said Broderick. “We don’t have the money for vans, so we haven’t been to the barn because of that.”

Broderick said she understands how the expensive nature of her sport may a3 ect their ability to obtain funding.

“We try to be understanding be-cause we’re expensive. Crew is prob-ably more expensive, but that’s it for club sports,” said Broderick.

According to Broderick, 5 ve girls on the equestrian team had an even worse experience with housing than volleyball.

“We didn’t have enough money to pay for hotel rooms in our budget, so when we went to a show at UVM, the team got our poor coach a room at this awful motel,” said Broderick. “Two of my friends live at the same dorm at UVM so all 5 ve of us stayed on the 8 oor and that became our hotel room.”

With the cost that each member pays at around $600, the equestrian team plans to start fundraising by selling con-cessions and doing ice creams sales in the fall.

! e editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, which is composed of Nora Biette-Timmons, Garrett Casey, Linda Kinstler, Sam Miller, Sam Weyrauch and Kate Witteman.

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In loco parentisThe results of the latest installment of the Orient’s semi-annual approval ratings

survey overwhelmingly suggest that Bowdoin students are disillusioned with the O4 ce of the Dean of Student A5 airs. Many students responded to the Orient expressing discontent with the deans’ handling of recent hazing incidents, and were generally dissatis6 ed with the administration’s lack of transparency.

Dean Tim Foster’s recent email to students outlining sta4 ng changes within the O4 ce of Student A5 airs is demonstrative of the ambiguity that o7 en accom-panies administration communiqués to the student body. A similar lack of clarity has de6 ned the administration’s response to multiple hazing incidents this year, leading many students to regard the deans as foes rather than friends. Despite con-tinued discontent with the current policy, exactly what constitutes hazing remains uncertain, and there is no sign the administration plans to change its procedure any time soon. Many students are unsure about what falls under the College’s ex-pansive de6 nition of hazing. It is understandable that the administration does not want to report the details of hazing incidents, but leaving the student body in the dark as to what actually constitutes hazing only hinders e5 orts to prevent future occurrences. 3 ere have been many programs geared toward educating club and sports team leaders on hazing over the past few years, and perhaps the situation would be improved if that information were made widely available to all students—not just those in charge of student organizations.

Student reactions to this year’s hazing incidents underline the fact that the deans’ judgments o7 en seem like they come out of le7 6 eld. 3 eir decisions re8 ect a disregard for the norms of our campus, given that the broad de6 nition of hazing encompasses activities that are considered both ordinary and safe. 3 e dominant opinion among students is that the deans are far removed from student life. Peri-odic appeals to connect with students do not do enough to engender a sense that the deans are on our side. While some students will certainly get to know admin-istrators, for most, the deans appear to be little more than talking heads who sign campus-wide emails.

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Bowdoin’s corporate sustainability cover-up “THE LORAX”

BEN RICHMONDHave you ever seen a Chevron

advertisement bragging about the company’s new investments in clean energy? How about a com-mercial claiming that BP is in-volved in coastal land conserva-tion? Many large corporations have started Corporate Social Respon-sibility (CSR) efforts in order to improve their image in the eyes of consumers. But critics claim CSR efforts are misleading because they prioritize corporate image over ad-dressing the root causes of social or environmental issues.

Bowdoin appears to have adopt-ed a public relations model similar to CSR when it comes to promot-ing its own commitment to the environment. The College works hard to cultivate a sustainable im-age, but falls short of making the large investments and institutional commitments necessary to address the root causes of climate change.

but keep in mind that Wal-Mart reported roughly $180 billion in assets that same year. The company is notorious for undermining lo-cal businesses, under-employing workers to deny healthcare ben-efits, and even paying large bribes outside of the U.S.

Is Wal-Mart addressing the root causes of poverty by donating $1 billion to charity? No—the compa-ny may actually cause poverty be-cause of its business practices. But due to its $1 billion in donations, Wal-Mart looks great in the eyes of its consumers.

Bowdoin appears to be practic-ing a CSR-like sustainability cam-paign because, like any corpora-tion practicing CSR, Bowdoin has been able to cultivate a sustainable image without, I would argue, ad-equately addressing the root causes of climate change.

A new banner on display in Thorne Dining Hall last week ad-vertised Bowdoin’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2020 logo, with a slogan saying “We’re com-mitted, are you?” On Earth Day, April 22nd, students were asked to take pictures displaying what they do to help protect the en-vironment on an iPad. There is nothing wrong with these efforts in themselves. It is great that stu-dent volunteers, eco-reps and the sustainability office are fostering individual student commitment to the environment. The only issue, however, is that these efforts imply that Bowdoin is doing all it can to help protect the environment, and that the rest of environmental ef-forts at Bowdoin should be left up to students themselves.

That could not be further from the truth. As I have previously de-tailed in this column, Bowdoin has been reluctant to undertake large capital investments necessary to make our campus more sustain-able. The College claims “carbon neutrality” largely based on pur-chasing RECs, which probably do not reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Bowdoin also has made few in-vestments to reduce GHG emis-sions here on campus, that do not yield substantial returns for the school. The College still lacks the solar projects promised in the last carbon neutrality plan, and Bow-doin currently has a whopping total

of one electric vehicle. Did you know that Carleton Col-

lege, one of our competitor schools in Minnesota, built an industrial-scale wind turbine near its cam-pus that provides 40 percent of the school’s energy? Middlebury College, always one step ahead of Bowdoin in sustainability, recently built its own biomass plant.

Although Bowdoin falls short of radically engaging with sustain-ability, at the surface our College looks very “sustainable.” Pledges detailing the College’s commit-ment to the environment permeate the College website and admissions publications. The carbon neutrality logo is literally all over the school.

This sustainable image creates benefits for the College by attract-ing prospective students inter-ested in the environment, enticing

Bowdoin appears to be practicing a CSR-like sustainability campaign.

Simply put, CSR helps a business look good in the eyes of consum-ers, usually at a low cost. Over the past decade, especially, businesses have been increasingly willing to donate substantial sums to founda-tions, start their own charities or even let their employees take time off to work with non-profit organi-zations.

Businesses do not incur net losses through these initiatives, and there are clear returns to CSR investments. Making large dona-tions bolsters the company’s public image, and employees are usually happier and more reliable over the long term if they can take time off to pursue charitable work.

Many argue, with ample justifi-cation, that CSR does not impact the world in a meaningful way. Consider the example of Wal-Mart. In FY 2012 Wal-Mart donated $1 billion to charities and needy indi-viduals. This is an impressive sum,

The College should undertake larger capital investments designed to bring our school closer to

being carbon free.

alumni to donate to the College and even making current students interested in the environment feel happier.

How can Bowdoin move from a “CSR approach” on sustainabil-ity to addressing the root causes of climate change? The College should undertake larger capital investments designed to bring our school closer to being carbon free, like implementing solar or biomass projects.

Divestment would be a good op-tion to lead on climate change, too. And if not divestment, what about investment? Bowdoin’s endowment is about $1 billion, which is a lot of capital in Maine, a state with a GDP of only about $50 billion. Instead of wasting money buying largely ineffectual voluntary RECs, why doesn’t Bowdoin partner with other institutions to start investing in re-newable energy projects in Maine, helping to make this state a hub for renewable energy generation?

Bowdoin should get innovative to address the root causes of cli-mate change, building a more sus-tainable College for the future.

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The road to graduation is paved with choices and chance

When I look back at my four years at Bowdoin, I’ll always re-member two pieces of advice, nei-ther of which came soon enough.

As a sophomore living in Helm-reich, I remember when Barry Mills said something during Col-lege House office hours, along the lines of, “everyone finds their place at Bowdoin, it just takes some peo-ple more time than others.”

As a junior, I called home feeling overworked, stressed out and re-gretful that I hadn’t gone abroad to experience continental culture and house music concerts. In response, my dad quoted some semi-famous armchair psychologist, saying, “the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, but sometimes it’s cut differently.”

Looking back after four years at Bowdoin, it’s easy to imagine the “what-ifs.” The things that could have gone differently but didn’t. The people you shared an abun-dance of common interests with but never befriended. The acting class you always wanted to take but never got into during Phase I, II or 16. The girls and guys you thought were pretty fly but never moved past saying hi to. The list goes on and on.

And then there are all the things, equally contingent on chance, which did fall our way. The first

year roommate—assigned by an overworked rising-senior Re-sLife intern—who turned into the sophomore roommate, junior roommate, senior roommate and lifelong best friend. The accidental encounter in H-L with Emerson that turned you into an English major.

To me, situations like these are hard to regret. Sure, things could have panned out differently had you done X instead of Y or chosen Moulton over Thorne that day, but for the most part chance is what it is: random variation, divine inter-vention or the narration of Morgan Freeman.

You count the blessings grate-fully, shake-off the setbacks resil-iently, and move on with your day, hoping that the good outweighs the bad.

Retrospectively, the real regrets and triumphs of Bowdoin life lie in the conscious choices we make. While their impact may not al-ways surpass that of serendipitous events, their outcomes serve as a testament to what it means to be here and to be human.

See situation. Think about situ-ation. Make decision about situa-tion. Act on decision.

Ok, maybe the order gets jum-bled up sometimes…or all the time, but that’s the general equa-tion for life. We maximize our hap-piness given the constraints of our environment and our abilities.

If there’s been any kind of theme to this column, it’s been social em-piricism. Take nothing for granted. Try life choices out. Evaluate the

outcome. Refine accordingly. The best and the worst part of

my four years here has been having the opportunity to consciously cre-ate a life for myself. Despite some rules that sometimes felt unneces-sary or paternalistic, Bowdoin pro-vided the space—literally and figu-ratively—required to figure that life out and to screw it up as well.

Approaching the finish line with the other 2013ers and some 2012ers, it’s rewarding to see ev-eryone else has done the same. People have different friends, dif-ferent majors, different jobs and

ined. Sometimes you have to be selfish to make that happen.

Watching people 4 nd their plac-es, taking the brave step of leaving something behind that was safe but not ful4 lling enough to chase some-thing di5 erent, makes me smile. Be-cause at the end of the day, I think that’s what life’s about; the honest pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of that just-right cut of grass.

Sure, it’s on a small scale, but seeing so many people success-fully find their place at Bowdoin has been the defining experience of these four years.

different significant others than anticipated. And while some of those outcomes may have been the product of chance, many of them were the result of bold choices.

Because sometimes where you start at Bowdoin isn’t where you want to end.

Sometimes that overworked or maybe under-qualified ResLife staffer doesn’t know what’s best. Sometimes you have to create your own destiny, go out on a limb with the risk of falling flat on your face to be the kind of person you want to be and create the life you imag-

At long last, the Senate has begun to show a sliver of sense on certain taxation issues. A comprehensive online sales tax scheme, known as the Marketplace Fairness Act, has passed a series of test votes in the Senate with as many as 75 in fa-vor—including many Republicans who signed Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge. 6 e legislation, which gives states a mechanism for collect-ing sales taxes on online purchases, is expected to pass the Senate with overwhelming approval on May 6. Perhaps the only negative aspect of this news is that it took so long to arrive.

Critics of the bill come from two ends. 6 ere are the rabid anti-taxers such as Norquist, who believe that any tax increase is a bad tax increase. To be clear, the claim that this is an expansion of the sales tax is debat-able at best and a lie at worst.

Taxpayers are already required to report their online purchases and pay the corresponding sales tax. Clearly, no one does it; currently

there’s no enforcement mechanism, and not even the most faithful tax-payer saves receipts from a year of online purchases in order to pay a little bit more when tax day rolls around. All the bill does is give states the authority to collect a sales tax from online purchases made by its citizens. It also requires states to provide free so7 ware to businesses that automatically calculates and collects sales tax.

It is also seen as a cash grab by poor state governments—which it

Much needed internet tax bill will protect mom-and-pop storesthe consumer and without any de jure increase in taxes.

Other criticisms come from e-commerce businesses who don’t want to see the real prices of their goods increase. 6 is is understand-able. For years, one edge that such businesses have had is that their customers do not have to pay sales tax, and with the passage of this bill, they will lose that advantage in most states. 6 e chief executives of com-panies such as eBay have engaged in grassroots lobbying e5 orts, encour-aging their customers to sign peti-tions opposing the legislation. With that competitive advantage gone, they foresee that their pro4 ts will decline.

But such competitive advantages are inherently unfair. Consumers, if given the choice, choose the less expensive of two equal goods. Con-sumers buying a product online pay less than they would if they bought it at a brick-and-mortar store with an identical sticker price, thanks to a completely arti4 cial tax advantage. To keep the real, post-tax price the same, brick-and-mortar stores have to accept lower pro4 t margins. Many small businesses cannot a5 ord to do that. Plus, more a8 uent consumers are more likely to make purchases

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online than others. 6 e client base of most internet

companies does not need special sales tax breaks. As the name of the bill suggests (not that we should ever judge a bill by its cover), the bill will serve to keep the market fair for all businesses.

6 e bill is not without its prob-lems, unfortunately. It exempts businesses with under $1 million in online revenue from collecting sales taxes, leaving the biggest inequality in place. Comparable small busi-

all e-commerce is unfair to small businesses nationwide.

6 e refusal until this point to enforce sales taxes online is a trav-esty, symptomatic of an impractical hatred of taxation. Hoping that this is a turning point is probably futile, given the relative insigni4 cance of the whole thing.

A7 er all, it’s not actually a tax in-crease. As Austin Scott, a conserva-tive Republican from Georgia, said, “We have to collect the taxes that are due.” But maybe it will stick in the minds of legislators on both sides of the aisle that increased revenue is not always a bad thing. We cannot balance the budget simply by slash-ing government programs, just as we cannot solve our issues by simply taxing more. Rather, we need a com-bination of the two.

While the bill is all but guaran-teed to pass in the Senate, its fate is less certain in the House, where it is predicted to pass by a smaller margin. Here’s hoping that it does, thereby giving states the power they need to collect taxes that are already owed to them. And maybe, just maybe, our legislators’ fear of taxation will be replaced by a robust and comprehensive sense of fiscal responsibility.

bowdoinorient.com

The refusal until this point to enforce sales taxes online is

a travesty, symptomatic of an impractical hatred

of taxation.

To keep the real, post-tax price the same, brick-and-mortar stores have to accept lower profi t margins. Many small businesses

cannot a! ord to do that.

is. Many of those lobbying for the bill represent state and local gov-ernments. 6 ey need revenue, and tax-free online sales cut down on revenue that they should lawfully receive. By giving states the power to enforce sales taxes on online pur-chases, revenues will increase with-out putting much more burden on

nesses still have to pay the tax, so they are still at a competitive disad-vantage. Given the current unwill-ingness to change tax policy in any way that could hurt small businesses or the middle class, it is almost un-thinkable that this wrong will be righted in the foreseeable future. 6 at the legislation does not include

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Bowdoin Middle East studies dismal

4 e objectivity and e5 ectiveness of 4 e Bowdoin Project produced by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) should be determined by as-sessing the methods by which the authors arrived at their conclusions. Such a determination has not yet been made by most commentators.

Yet, an analysis of these methods reveals the severe limitations of the report. Peter Wood and Michael Toscano, the authors of the report, only relied on internal documents and make no in-depth inquiry of current educational content to de-termine what Bowdoin teaches. 4 ese major weaknesses neutralize the report’s usefulness.

4 e most serious weakness is re-vealed in a preliminary document, not included in the 6 nal report, which explains that the authors’ information is based entirely on in-ternal Bowdoin documents. While Wood and Toscano reviewed a sub-stantial amount of printed material and produced a total of over 400 pages, they did not broadly review course syllabi, reading lists and as-signments. 4 ey made comments about 6 rst-year seminars without an in-depth understanding of the options.

Further, Wood and Toscano did not attend any classes on the Bow-doin campus. Only three interviews ever found their way into the analy-ses. Many students refused to be interviewed, and their inputs are fundamental to ascertaining what

BY STEVE LOEBSCONTRIBUTOR

Bowdoin or any educational insti-tution teaches its students and the extent to which it meets its mission. 4 ere is no documentation that the authors penetrated the inside of what Bowdoin teaches or what Bowdoin graduates do with their education.

4 e authors used a sample of one to make generalizations about the status of the liberal arts. 4 is is not close to scholarship. At best, it is a 7 awed case study. 4 e selection of Bowdoin as their 6 rst and only study site is shrouded in happen-stance.

4 e authors refer frequently to the Bowdoin course catalogue, which contains only brief course descriptions, and ignore basic prin-ciples in the research design they selected. 4 omas Klingenstein ob-served that studying the course catalog would provide only a small insight to what the college teaches. Yet, there is no evidence that the au-thors collected information beyond the course catalogue to understand the dynamics of what Bowdoin teaches in the classroom on a day-to-day or year-to-year basis and what skills, knowledge and values a Bowdoin student absorbs. 4 ere are huge, unacknowledged assumptions throughout the report.

4 e NAS has an explicit bias, which it admits. 4 at can be found in the mission statement of NAS, in the introductory letters for the report and in the content of the re-port. 4 is violates one of the pristine standards of any scholarly research.

In April 2007, the Orient’s edito-rial board called upon Bowdoin to “find and hire professors who will be able to give students the instruc-tion in Middle Eastern culture and language that they both want and need.” At the time, only one Bow-doin professor, Shelley Deane, spe-cialized in the Middle East.

The following year, a group of students dissatisfied with the lack of Arabic instruction organized informal Arabic classes taught by fellow student Jamil Wyne ’08.

In 2008, the College responded to the growing demand for Middle Eastern studies classes by hir-ing Russell Hopley as a lecturer in Arabic and Robert Morrison as a religion professor. According to Professor of Religion Jorunn Buckley, hiring Morrison finally satisfied the religion department’s request for specialists in Islam and Judaism that stretched back two decades.

But despite the progress, Bow-doin continues to suffer from a de-ficiency of classes focusing on the Middle East.

Morrison and Hopley are the only professors currently at Bow-doin who specialize in the Middle East. Susan Tananbaum occasion-ally teaches a class on the Pales-tinian-Israeli conflict, but her spe-cialties are European and Jewish history.

In terms of offering classes on the Middle East, Bowdoin remains behind many liberal arts colleges.

ONLY CHARCOAL TO DEFEND

CHRIS WEDEMAN

Middlebury offers a major in both Arabic and Middle Eastern studies. Next semester, Williams is offer-ing six classes on Middle Eastern culture and history to complement its stellar Arabic program. Swarth-more offers classes on both Arabic and Islamic studies. Meanwhile, Bowdoin’s syllabus next year con-tains three classes focusing on the Middle East: Middle Eastern En-semble, Elementary and Interme-diate Arabic.

Enrollment in introductory Arabic classes remains high every semester, but the Arabic “depart-ment” is composed of Hopley. He is left to struggle with how to teach the growing number of Arabic stu-dents, by himself. Arabic is also not

brought Uri Zaki, the director of Israeli human rights organization B’tselem USA, to campus. In April, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Slam Poets Society invited Palestinian slam poet Remi Kanazi to Ladd House for an evening of spoken word. The level of snap-ping, clapping and knee-slapping at Kanazi’s performance was testa-ment to the popularity of the show. Before the end of the year J-Street U will host the general director from the Palestinian mission in Washington D.C. and Students for Justice in Palestine will screen the Oscar nominated Palestinian doc-umentary, “5 Broken Cameras.”

Ignoring the Middle East—a re-gion significant in current events and the intellectual and historical development of the world—is aca-demically reckless.

Arabic is the sixth most spoken language in the world, according to the Encyclopaedia Britanica, of-fering instruction in the history, culture and language of the region is already indispensible for any competitive college.

It is clear that students are in-sisting that the Middle East have a greater place in College discourse. Like Jamil Wyne’s informal Arabic classes five years ago, Bowdoin students are once again taking the initiative to fill the gap in class se-lection. But the responsibility for satisfying the academic demands of the student body ultimately falls on the College.

The Orient’s call to find and hire professors who will be able to give students the instruction in Middle Eastern culture and language is just as relevant today as it was in 2007.

I was pleased to read Professor Pat-rick Rael’s article in the Orient respond-ing to “What Does Bowdoin Teach?” Professor Rael and I disagree about many things but I welcome his com-ments as at least an e5 ort to reckon with some of the substance of our critique of liberal arts education at Bowdoin.

As to the disagreement: Rael draws a colorful picture of what the National Association of Scholars (NAS) report “presupposes,” and then spends his time knocking the stu8 ng out of the presup-positions.

If I were to declare that the Bowdoin history department presupposes the ex-istence of unicorns, I could with simi-lar enthusiasm debunk the history de-partment. But the history department doesn’t presuppose unicorns, and the NAS doesn’t presuppose, as Rael would have it, a time “when scholarship was both apolitical and non-ideological.” Nor do we call for a form of history that ignores black people, Native Americans and women. Nor we do believe his-tory should exclude “the marginalized.” Unicorns, unicorns. Rael has o5 ered a whole herd of unicorns.

No one at the NAS wants a version of American history that ignores blacks, Native Americans, the “marginalized” or women. Professor Rael wonders how we could possibly want a course on the Civil War not to include “slav-ery and emancipation.” We would not want and didn’t call for such a course. Indeed, in our response to President Mills we said that, “It makes good sense that courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction would deal with group

aspects of America.” Rael’s larger point is that, in his view,

the NAS promotes a view of history that would exclude the many and extol the few. He writes that we want a history dedicated “to celebrating the achieve-ments of the non-marginal.” We don’t seek a history that “celebrates” anything. And we aren’t looking to squeeze out the non-marginal. We do think it makes sense to pay substantial attention to his-torical actors, events and processes that played important roles in their times. 4 at can be done without ignoring “his-tory from below.”

Rael adds a 6 nal paragraph that of-fers a very odd explanation of why “it is important to study the past.” One might have thought that historians teach histo-ry because the past bears on the present; that it teaches us something about hu-man nature; that the interweaving of the large and small narratives reveals essen-tial truths. No? No. Rael says Bowdoin students study history “to develop the answers to that question for themselves.”

Bowdoin, at least as Rael presents it, teaches that the “importance of the past” is whatever students happen to make of it. 4 at’s not something NAS “presup-poses.” It is what a senior history profes-sor at Bowdoin says. Of course, what they happen to make of it might have something to do with a curriculum that privileges race, class and gender above all other aspects of history. 4 is duality, extolling freedom while enforcing con-formity, is a major theme in our report and it’s helpful to have Professor Rael’s evidence that we got it right.

Peter Wood is President of the Nation-al Assoication of Scholars (NAS) and co-author of the NAS report, “! e Bowdoin Project: What does Bowdoin Teach?”

BY PETER WOODCONTRIBUTOR

Professor Rael offers herd of unicorns in NAS response

To keep the real, post-tax price the same, brick-and-mortar stores have to accept lower profi t margins. Many small businesses

cannot a! ord to do that.

offered as a minor, even though the 12 credits of Arabic many students will have by the time they graduate would satisfy almost any major at Bowdoin.

The lack of classes on the Mid-dle East does not reflect a lack of interest on the part of students.

This year marked the charter-ing of J-Street U and Students for Justice in Palestine, two new stu-dent organizations addressing the Israeli occupation of Palestine in different ways.

The Shannon Room was packed in February when J-Street U

Bowdoin Project’s methods fl awed4 ere is no inclusion of an in depth and personal portrait of Bowdoin. 4 e authors apparently read every-thing they could 6 nd and then tried to stitch together a comprehensive evaluation, based on their precon-ceived model of a proper education. 4 at is not rigorous scholarship. It is selective and much too narrow. 4 e authors are on very thin ice to de-scribe their work as utilizing an eth-nographic approach, as they claim.

Only Toscano spent extended time on the Bowdoin campus. 4 is was not documented as to time of the academic year nor if he attended any meetings or events.

4 e authors did not list all the bibliographic references they used. While they listed many, they simply did not provide a complete list. 4 is is sloppy scholarship, and disquali-6 es the report as credible research.

To summarize, the Bowdoin Proj-ect should not become a catalyst for new discussions about the design and delivery of the Bowdoin cur-riculum and campus life, because it is substantially compromised by its methodology. 4 omas Klingenstein, Wood and Toscano asserted they desired to o5 er a commentary on the status of contemporary liberal arts education. 4 ey did not come close. 4 ey did not conduct any in-quiry of other, similar institutions. 4 ere have been no peer reviews of the Bowdoin Project. 4 ese are seri-ous and unacceptable attributes for any balanced analysis to occur.

Steve Loebs ’60 is a professor emer-itus at Ohio State University

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Consent on the dance fl oor doesn’t mean consent in the bedroomAs last semester wound down,

one of my professors asked the class why such a large percentage of stu-dents would want to take depres-sants every weekend. It took me a second to register that he meant alcohol. A couple answers were offered: peer pressure, cultural norms, liquid courage. All were correct, but the last stuck with me.

While alcohol doesn’t quite take us to the level of Ron Weasley on Felix Felicis, it can make even the most awkward of us just that little bit smoother. Our understanding of parties as places without conse-quence adds to our confidence.

Not only is this idea danger-ous in and of itself, but it blurs the boundaries of acceptability. The confidence that alcohol provides can translate into sexual aggres-sion, and in many cases consent is not sought out but assumed. As a guy, I can prowl College House basements, and think that it’s nor-mal if I forgo questions and choose actions. I can just dance up onto a girl. If the girl keeps dancing, sweet. If she walks away, ah well, I guess she wasn’t feeling it. Her loss. And so it goes, with the aggressiveness translating into attempts to make out or to do whatever else can be done.

There’s nothing wrong with try-ing to hook up on the dance floor. The few times I’ve managed it, it’s a lot of fun. The other times, well, I just remember dancing with my boys to “And We Danced.” But, that’s not my point. It’s not even that grinding is the only form of dancing on campus. The problem is the culture of assumption and ex-pectation that accompaines hook-ing up.

There are definitely girls who en-

BY ZOHRAN MAMDANI CONTRIBUTOR

joy guys grinding with them with-out going through the potential awkwardness of asking. It speeds things up, as a girl, it means some-one’s attracted to you, and you’re no longer alone in a basement. But assumptions of consent don’t al-ways hold true. There are also girls who don’t like it. By grinding up on them, you force yourself onto someone.

I’ll be upfront. I haven’t done any analytical study, spoken to ev-ery student at this school, or gone to every College House basement. I’ve only been to Crack once. But I’ve heard of too many instances of students assuming consent, from those who didn’t ask and those who weren’t asked. Whether it’s grind-ing, the placement of your hands

or leaning in for a kiss, you need to get consent. You could ask, you could make sustained eye contact, or you could take the oft-neglected option of sign language. What’s the worst that could happen? If someone wants to dance with you, they’ll say as much when you ask them. And if it’s a no, there’s al-ways Super Snack.

This culture extends beyond the dance floor. You’re grinding with a girl. This is great. But you want to hook up with her. All you need is to start grinding face to face. Sweet, she’s turned, it’s guaran-teed. These ideas continue as long as the influence of alcohol does, with similar assumptions carrying into the dorms. There’s a pervad-ing thought that if a girl returns

home with you, there’s a guarantee of something. These expectations lead to pressure, and so if a girl just wanted to make out, you now feel as if she’s not holding up her end of the bargain. “You said you wanted to come back with me, so what do you mean you don’t want to take off your shirt?” She becomes a tease, a prude; you tell your friends she led you on. A lot of times she can say no and that ends the discussion, but there are still too many times where that’s not the case.

Too often, someone will get away with acting on these assumptions. “Alcohol can do funny things to people. That’s not really who he is, he’s so nice most of the time.” It’s like saying someone had good intentions. It’s just not enough.

When someone tells you “It’s the thought that counts” after you’ve given them a gift, understand that your gift sucked. Being nice during the daytime should not be enough to give you a pass for the night. So-ber or drunk, you have to take re-sponsibility for you actions. If you know that you become an aggres-sive drunk after a certain amount of alcohol, you’re responsible for not drinking up to that point.

We're all walking contradic-tions, but the important part to en-gage with our internal hypocrisies. Without recognizing where we fall short, we’ll continue to do so. Our aggressions and assumptions will become normal, and when that be-comes acceptable, we’re in trouble.

Bowdoin is definitely a safer environment than the world we’re soon to go into, but bad things still happen on this campus. We don’t talk about the seven sexual offenses reported in both 2010 and 2011 in the Office of Safety and Security’s Clery Report, or the five in 2009, or the fact that we know that the figures are probably higher than those reported. We don’t talk about Dean Foster and the administra-tion’s thorough mismanagement of Ariel Brown’s sexual assault case in December 2007. (Ariel Brown is a pseudonym). We don’t talk about how easy it is for things to go wrong during the first Pub Night, and in the College House basements the weekends after. We don’t even talk about the nice guy in your English class who didn’t let go of you after you grinded for a song.

We need to redefine what is ac-ceptable. We need to make people accountable for their actions, but most of all, we need to start talking.

Zohran Mamdani is a member of the Class of 2014.

YOUNGSHIM HWANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

On the Occident: campus deserves more from annual joke issue

A4 er the 5 nal issue of the Orient is published every year, the sta6 comes together during reading period to put together the Occident, a once-a-year joke issue that takes on a variety of groups and people across the campus. Each year, the Occident receives a range of responses—some people love it and 5 nd it hilarious, and some 5 nd it o6 en-sive and mean-spirited.

If done well, the Occident can be both funny and have a positive in7 u-ence on campus. Humor is an honor-able goal in its own right, but beyond that, satire can be a powerful way to highlight 7 aws in the College’s policies.

One example of a very good piece from the 2012 issue is the article “Phase II to be modeled on ‘Hunger Games.’” 8 e topic was funny, the writer used sat-ire to emphasize a real campus problem, and the jokes were creative and punchy.

However, there has been very lit-tle consistency in quality across the Occidents published during my time at Bowdoin. 8 ere are certainly fun-ny aspects to each, but writing satire is hard, and the Occident struggles mightily every year to 5 ll 12 pages with good content. 8 e task grows even harder as Orient members be-come less sober, since drinking is an annual tradition for Orient editors and writers during production of

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the Occident. 8 ese factors lead the Occident to fall

into the same traps year in and year out. 8 e 5 rst is that so much of the Oc-

cident’s content has been extremely predictable. Instead of working hard to 5 ll the joke issue with punchy, well-thought-out humor, writers o4 en fall back on profanity, bathroom humor, and sexual innuendo to drive their humor. Articles in the 2011 Occident include “‘Sex is Sexy’ Week is going to blow your dick” and “Ethicist cums through with big answers,” among many other sexually-driven pieces.

To be honest, my problem is not even that the jokes are distasteful or o6 en-sive. 8 ey just get boring. 8 e type of jokes that populate such articles might be funny the 5 rst time you read them, and perhaps even the second or third, but they get old very quickly.

In addition, it seems that the issue repeats the same jokes every year, with articles or graphics about dance and a capella groups, the hook up culture, body image, the bro culture of the la-crosse team, and the struggles of the football team, to name a few. While any of these topics have the potential to be funny, they are tremendously stale, and the writers rarely succeed at making any of the humor original.

On top of that, the editors tend to do a poor job of 5 nding the line between funny and o6 ensive, and far too o4 en, writers seem to be more focused on tearing down a person or group than producing humorous content.

8 e 2011 joke issue provides a good

example: “8 anks Meiklejohn for the claustrophobia.” 8 e entire purpose of the article is to rip Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn. 8 e writer states, “Scott Meiklejohn’s ego is literally sucking up so much air that I can’t sit through a single class without constantly whipping out my inhaler.”

Meiklejohn was singled out for abuse as a result of a perceived slight on the part of the Orient’s editors. Earlier in the year, they had thought they had an agreement with Meiklejohn about re-leasing information about admissions and the athletic recruiting process, and they felt that he had reneged on his part of the deal.

Regardless of the veracity of the per-ceived slight, there is no excuse for a piece like that in the Occident. It is mali-cious and personal, and it makes no real e6 ort at humor.

With that piece and similar pieces, the Orient editors too o4 en overlook the feelings of the people who are tar-geted when they are coming up with the articles. It is easy for them to say that the Occident’s critics take themselves too seriously and need to lighten up, but such sentiment overlooks the fact that many of the concern brought up are thoughtful and reasonable.

A4 er the 2011 Occident was pub-lished, one student expressed her dis-satisfaction with the issue in an email to the sta6 of the Orient, of which I was a part. She stated, “I could tell you how the Occident’s jokes about women with eating disorders and about women eat-

ing in general (ranging from “8 e Girls Who Don’t Eat Anything” to “‘I 5 nd it really unattractive watching women shovel pounds of ice cream into their mouths,’ said Keegan Mehlhorn ’12, ‘It’s just fucking disgusting.’”) made me feel small and pathetic; I could criticize (and intelligibly cite) the Occident’s insistent sexism; I could tell you how, when you make light of rape, I feel alone and un-safe on my campus.”

She went on to say, “you are not crit-ics, you are playground bullies,” and later added, “You cannot use school fund-ing to 5 ght out your personal grudge matches and attack your fellow students, and you cannot hide behind the name of the paper to escape the consequences of your cruel and thoughtless actions.”

8 e student brings up valid points and highlights the depth of emotion that can be caused by the Occident, but it is not only the name change from “Orient” to “Occident” that al-lows writers to publish such hurtful content. More importantly, it is the lack of accountability that comes along with anonymity. Writers are not identi5 ed in the byline by their real names in the joke issue, and the articles can turn into something that resembles a comment on an Internet comment board than a newspaper article.

Ironically, the 2010-2011 Orient edi-torial board, made up some of the same editors who were behind the broadly criticized 2011 issue of the Occident, wrote an editorial in response to the in-creasing popularity of the anonymous online gossip site College ACB that

strongly denounced the type of content that can come with anonymity.

8 e editorial board stated, “We are not going to shake a 5 nger at students for being insensitive. We fully support students writing anything online, as long as they are accountable for their statements. But by anonymously post-ing cruel gossip, individuals remain in-sulated from the social mores that usu-ally check such behavior. 8 e students responsible for hateful speech are cow-ards for writing slurs that, if spoken in public, would leave them facing severe social ostracism.”

8 e argument for having anonymous writers in the joke issue is clear. 8 e writers o4 en have close ties to the people and organizations that are being written about, and they don’t want to damage those relationships. However, the Ori-ent’s commitment to journalistic integ-rity far outweighs that risk, and identi-fying the writers of the articles would likely increase the quality of the pieces signi5 cantly. It’s not only morally right; it’s also journalistically responsible.

8 e Orient has made such success-ful strides over the last few years in strengthening its reputation as a credi-ble news source, and it has far too much to lose by producing a cruel and class-less joke issue. 8 e newspaper purports to follow “professional journalistic stan-dards in writing and reporting,” which are central to everything that the Orient does. 8 e editors must not allow the Occident to get in the way of that mis-sion and undo the admirable progress that it has made.

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3 FRIDAY

UNCOMMON HOUR Finding the ‘God Particle’ In the ! nal installment of the series, Professor of Physics Stephen Naculich will discuss the Higgs boson particle, which the world’s largest particle accelerator discovered last year. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.

FESTIVAL Quadzilla The Bowdoin Music Collective will sponsor the third-annual music festival featuring student performers as well as art exhibitions and body painting. Brunswick Quad. 6 p.m.

FILM “The Cabin in the Woods” The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2012 ! lm about the horror that befalls ! ve friends on vacation in the wilderness. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

FUNDRAISER Howell House Silent Auction Students can bid on items to bene! t funding for the Common Good Grant, which supports charitable organizations in Brunswick. Howell House. 7:30 p.m.

CONCERT Ursus Versus The co-ed a cappella ensemble will sing in its ! nal performance of the semester. The Chapel. 7:30 p.m.

THEATER“The Book of Joel” James Jelin ’16 will present his satirical portrayal of the “The Book of Job” in partnership with Masque & Gown. Chase Barn. 8 p.m.

7TUESDAY

OFFICE HOURS O! ce Hours with President MillsPresident’s Dining Room, Thorne Dining Hall. Noon.

LECTURE Generational Theft: How Entitlement Spending is Stealing Opportunity from America’s Youth Geo" rey Canada ’74 and Stanley Druckenmiller ’75 will talk about the necessity to reform entitlement culture in order to increase opportunities for youth. Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater. 7:30 p.m.

4SATURDAY

FUNDRAISER Lose the Shoes Soccer TournamentThe varsity soccer teams will raise funds for Grassroots, a non-pro! t that promotes HIV/ AIDS education in Africa. Pickard Fields. 12:30 p.m.

CONCERT Bowdoin Chamber Choir The ensemble will perform American folk and pop selections from “Darwin’s Dream III” by Elliot Schwartz. The Chapel. 3 p.m.

LECTURE An Inside Perspective on the CIA Former CIA O# cer Ray McGovern will discuss his career with the agency and the impact of drones on national security. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 6:45 p.m.

EVENT Spring Gala The theme of the annual formal dance, sponsored by class councils, will hark back Bowdoin’s history. Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 10 p.m.

6MONDAY

DEADLINESpring Festival Submissions The Bowdoin Film Society will accept short ! lm submissions that will be judged by a panel based on various criteria. Awards will be presented at the festival on May 10. Bowdoin Film Society Studio. 9 p.m.

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5SUNDAY

FUNDRAISER Amnesty Fun Run and BBQ Amnesty International will sponsor a 5K run/walk in support of human rights. Live music and food will be provided. Quinby House. 5 p.m.

EVENT End of the Year Yard Party and CookoutCelebrate the end of the spring semester with carnival activities, a barbeque and a bouncy castle. Reed House. 1 p.m.

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8WEDNESDAY Last Day of Classes

RECEPTION Honors Day 2013 The reception will celebrate students’ academic successes. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7 p.m.

9THURSDAY

LECTURE Bowdoin and the Common Good: a Celebration of CommunityStudents involved in service and research work in the greater Brunswick area will present their projects. Local food and Gelato Fiasco will be served. Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 3:30 p.m.

FILM “5 Broken Cameras” Students for Justice in Palestine and the Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2012 documentary that chronicles one family’s hardship living in the West Bank. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 8 p.m.

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