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MORE NEWS: BIKE CLUB REPAIR SHED; $23 MILLION FOR NAVAL AIR BASE PROJECT

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL: Own your vote.Page 17.

SPORTS: VOLLEYBALL LOSS ENDS WINNING STREAKThe Polar Bears lost their fi rst game of the season at MIT’s Endicott Invita-tional, but won the remainder of their games at the tournament and fi nished in fourth place.

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Page 3.Hypocritical Hippopotami: Eric Edelman’ 13 on the night that was Epicuria .

Sophomore Caitlin Whalen explores a College phenomenon unique to the digital age: com-pulsive online shopping.

BASE: The Army budgeted $23 million for an Armed Forces Reserve Center at NASB.

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BIKE: The Yellow Bike CLub launched a free bike maintenance program.Page 5.

BY LUKE MILARDOORIENT STAFF

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIIENT

Sophia Cornew ’ 14 sets up a teammate during the volleyball team’s 3-0 victory over the University of Massachusetts Boston on Wednesday in Morrell Gymnasium.Please see HIRED, page 3

BY MARISA MCGARRYSTAFF WRITER

Bowdoin welcomes 48 new fac-ulty members this year, several of them right out of Ph.D. programs.

“We continue to be very ambi-tious in our hiring,” wrote Cristle Collins Judd, the dean for aca-demic affairs, in an email to the Orient. “We have been able to add some wonderful new faculty to the College, who we believe have enor-mous potential as scholars and teachers, and will complement the strengths of our existing faculty.”

Ten tenure-track assistant pro-fessors, each entering a different department, joined the faculty this fall, along with 19 visiting appoin-tees covering for professors on sab-baticals, and eight adjunct instruc-tors filling various roles on campus.

In the government department, new appointments include one ful-ly tenured professor, Andy Rudal-evige, who arrived from Dickinson College, where he worked for 12 years. The Coastal Studies Cen-ter welcomed Artist-in-Residence Barbara Putnam, who is currently exploring the Arctic Circle and will return to Bowdoin in October.

Additionally, the College hired seven Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellows in a handful of departments, as well as two Con-sortium for Faculty Diversity Fel-lows in Art History and Gender

335 students met with CPC in last ten days, eight seniors secure jobs

Eight seniors have accepted full-time job o) ers so far this year, ac-cording to the Career Planning Center (CPC) that they have found positions for a* er graduation. Each of these students will be joining com-panies at which they had previously interned. For the rest of the nearly 500 members of the senior class, the job hunt continues.

+ e fall months are busy at the CPC, with application deadlines in many sectors approaching, and cor-porate recruiting in full swing. Em-ployer Relations Coordinator Sean Sullivan does not anticipate a lull until + anksgiving Break, around the time that students who receive job o) ers early in the semester are expected to respond.

In the last ten days, 262 mem-bers of the Class of 2013 met with

advisors from the CPC. Meetings with seniors represented 78 per-cent of all advising meetings held during this period.

On September 2, the CPC held a mandatory meeting with the senior class to kick off its “Steps for Recruiting Readiness” pro-gram. As part of the program, se-niors were required to meet with advisors to review their resume and cover letter, sign the “Agree-ment for Professional Behavior,” designed to ensure that students venturing beyond the pines will well represent the College, and attend the “How to Explore & Land Your Dream Job” network-ing workshop.

“For seniors, it’s almost mandato-ry to work with the CPC,” said Will Fantini ’13, who is searching for a position in , nance for next spring. “You don’t want kids sending out re-sumes and cover letters that [do not]

properly re- ect Bowdoin.”Kyle White ’13 is looking for a

job in education, and said the CPC stresses “the importance of network-ing and getting in contact with di) er-ent Bowdoin alumni that are in the , eld you’re in.”

+ is fall the CPC made a concerted e) ort to include more postings with employers that are connected in some way to the College. Director of the Career Planning Center Timothy Diehl says this program helps “insure every Bowdoin student is well posi-tioned to market themselves to a po-tential employer.”

+ e CPC has received 299 appli-cations from 123 students since the start of the school year via eBear, its online jobs database. However, this does not necessarily represent every application sent out by a Bowdoin student, as some employers prefer

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The Office of Residential Life (ResLife) has placed Ladd House on probation until November 1 as part of the response to last week’s Epicuria party. Both the president and vice president of Ladd, where the campus-wide toga party took place, voluntarily stepped down from their positions this week.

Ladd faced disciplinary con-sequences for what Director of Residential Life Mary Pat McMa-hon referred to as “an unregistered pre-event with hard alcohol prior to Epicuria.”

Under the terms of the proba-tion, Ladd House cannot host reg-istered events with alcohol before November 1.

“If there’s an unregistered event while they’re on house probation, it’s a problem for any of the indi-viduals in the house who are there at the time,” said McMahon.

ResLife did not require Ladd’s president and vice president to ab-dicate their offices, but they chose to step down in light of the inci-dent. Re-elections for the vacant officer positions in the house have yet to take place.

Residents of Ladd House de-clined to comment for this story.

Details have also continued to surface regarding the men’s rugby team, which was found to have vi-olated the College’s hazing policy on the night of Epicuria.

Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster did not disclose what spe-cifically constituted hazing in this case, but emphasized the fact that

Ladd House on probation for Epicuria pre-game

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the College responded to both haz-ing and a general “abdication of leadership.”

“There were a series of things that happened that were inappro-priate. Certainly in terms of our policy on hazing, it’s not a matter of one aspect of that policy being violated; it’s a matter of multiple aspects being violated. Hazing ab-solutely occurred,” said Foster.

Two underage members of the rugby team were transported to Parkview Adventist Medical Cen-ter due to overconsumption of al-cohol. One was transported from Coleman Hall at 8:52 p.m. and the other from Union Street at 8:53, according to the Times Record.

Additionally, two members of the team received legal summonses at the Union Street event, both re-lated to underage drinking.

Hours before the o. cial Epicu-ria event, the rugby team arrived at + orne Dining Hall for dinner dressed in togas and behaving rau-cously, according to several students.

“The team came in wearing to-gas and were chanting and run-ning around the room. And then a freshman stood on a table with a blow up donkey or horse and yelled something like, Epicuria has been declared! Come to Ladd at 10! and the team started singing,” recalled Ellery Maya-Altshuler ’15.

“+ ey sprinted two laps around the dining hall,” con, rmed Lucy Green ’15, “before the freshman in the horse costume made the announcement.”

Men’s rugby alumnus Doug MacKinnon ’71, who played rugby

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FLYING HIGH48 professors hired, many fresh out of Ph.D. courses

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Beating Bates and Middlebury, the Polar Bears added two more dramatic wins this week with key late goals.

SPORTS: Men’s soccer on winning streak FEATURES: Lemongrass is hit or missKatherine Foley ’13 reviews Brunswick’s newest Vietnamese restaurant.

A&E: Globetrotting sabbatical for Carrie ScangaScanga will spend the rest of the academic year exhibiting her work across the country and studying in Europe.

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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTFINE PRINT: Rachel Canas ’13 looks on as artist Liz Chalfi n, director of Zea May’s Printmaking, works on a series of prints. See story on page 12.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Bowdoin Connections

When Tom Hazel ’05 met Emma Leonard ’05 their 5 rst year at Bowdoin, he didn’t think she was his type.

“I would love to go back in time and knock some sense into my freshman self,” Hazel said.

Leonard didn’t see a connection ei-ther. Nonetheless, eleven years later, they became husband and wife, and clinched a coveted pro5 le in the Sep-tember 16 wedding section of the New York Times.

A6 er graduation, Hazel and Leon-ard went their separate ways. Leonard taught at Phillips Academy Andover for two years, and Hazel spent one year working at a so6 ware development shop before moving to Utah to ski. 7 eir paths crossed again when both ended up in Boston.

7 ey met up for dinner one night, and it was then—six years a6 er they 5 rst met—that their relationship began.

“We hung out more and more,” Leon-ard said. “We slowly moved from being friends to dating.”

Leonard recalls a time when they went to a bar and she couldn’t stop smil-ing—partly because she thought he was a big jokester, partly because she real-ized she was in love. Hazel proposed in 2010 when the pair was living apart, she a graduate student of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and he a so6 ware engineer in Boston.

“I went down to Austin and con-vinced her I needed pictures of the bo-tanic garden,” Hazel said. “7 en I found a quiet spot at the Japanese garden and asked her there.”

7 e couple was married on Septem-ber 13 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, for-ty-5 ve minutes away from the College. 7 ey chose Maine because they wanted to be close to Bowdoin—the place they have most in common.

“We couldn’t have picked a better spot,” Hazel said.

NEWS NOTES

What is your favorite thing about family weekend?

Emily Hochman ’15Walter Wuthmann ’14 Amy Sham ’13 Nathan Post ’15 “Going to the boathouse to

learn how to row.”

Photos by Hy Khong

“Not hanging out with my parents since they won’t be here.”

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Hollow 90-year-old pine at Sills Hall to be removed

STUDENT SPEAK

“The dining hall brings its A-game.”

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“Eating food that I don’t have to pay for.”

Facility Management will remove a 90-year-old white pine tree from the Cleaveland Quad over Fall Break a6 er o8 cers discovered the tree is almost en-tirely hollow.

Director of Facilities Operations and Maintenance Ted Stam said the tree was 5 rst brought to his attention when of-5 cers noticed woodpeckers attacking it.

Stam explained that this indicates bugs are eating away the inside of the nonagenarian pine.

“When you start pounding on the pine tree you come to parts where there’s the hollow sound,” Stam said. “7 at’s a problem.”

Phil Labbe, Associate Director of Grounds and Landscape Planning, ex-plained that because of its close proxim-ity to buildings and foot tra8 c they were le6 with little choice but to remove it.

“When it moves in the wind it will fracture and fall,” Labbe said. “We don’t like to cut down trees but in this case we really have to.”

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and Women’s Studies. “This college has done an exem-

plary job at making new faculty feel welcome,” said Marc Scarcelli, a visiting professor of govern-ment who is new to the College. “They’ve been very inclusive, very supportive, very welcoming and it has been very much to the credit of this college that they clearly go to great lengths to make new faculty feel welcome and supported.”

The College’s formal process of new-faculty orientation, including a reception hosted by President Barry Mills, impressed Scarcelli, who has previously taught at Ohio University and at the University of California, Davis, where he earned his Ph.D.

Casey Meehan, an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Education, agreed with Scarcelli, commending the education de-partment’s support as well as his students’ hospitality.

“The students here are incredi-bly warm and welcoming,” Meehan said. “They are just so open to try-ing different discussion techniques in class. They’re also always willing to give feedback, which is great. It helps me become a better teacher.”

Meehan, a former high school teacher in Wisconsin, is one of several postdoctoral fellows who are new to teaching at a small lib-eral arts school. The environment at Bowdoin is vastly different from that of large universities, where most of the fellows received their Ph.D.s.

“Postdoctoral fellows now form an important part of our faculty,” wrote Judd, “allowing the College to offer new classes in emerging fields or new sub-disciplines, as well as creating important con-nections to graduate programs and advisors for many of our students contemplating graduate study.”

5 e departments hosting postdoc-toral fellows said they are grateful for the specialized skills and unique

perspectives that younger educators bring to the classroom.

“All the regular faculty is very excited about the Mellon Postdoc program because it’s a way to get these young scholars in the college environment,” said Professor Ray-mond Miller, the chair of the Rus-sian department. “They’re full of ideas. They’re full of energy.”

The Russian department wel-comed several postdoctoral fel-lows this year, including Kristina Toland, who spent last year teach-ing Russian literature and culture at the American University of Cen-tral Asia in Kyrgyzstan.

Toland has a visual arts back-ground, including painting train-ing in Moscow and a masters in art history from The Ohio State University. She earned her Ph.D. in

Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins announced the U.S. Department of the Army’s decision to budget $23 million for developments at the Brunswick Naval Air Base. 5 e project will not impact Bowdoin’s plans to build a storage facility elsewhere on the property.

5 e budget will cover the costs of constructing a new Armed Forces Re-serve Center, or what Dwaine Drum-mond, the directorate of facilities engi-neering to the Maine National Guard, calls a “readiness center.”

5 e new facility will support the mis-sions of the Maine National Guard’s 133rd Battalion, which is currently based in Gardiner, Maine.

“5 at facility is roughly 60 years old and has some signi6 cant condi-tion issues, drainage issues, lead is-sues,” explained Drummond. “It re-ally has outlived its usefulness and life-expectancy.”

With this in mind, Drummond and the Maine National Guard began planning the new center years ago in order to get ahead of what would be a lengthy process.

“5 e programming of military con-struction is a seven year process,” he said. “In this case it was actually more, so at this point it’s really been about eight years, and that’s just the formal request.”

Drummond and his squad then took their proposal to Congress, which authorized the project. However, the competition from other states desiring funding for their own projects poses another problem.

5 is year, Maine got funding for two such projects.

“We’ve gone about seven or eight years with nothing built,” said Drum-mond, explaining how Maine won the money over its competition. “We have also shown the National Guard a willingness to reduce our carbon

footprint in the past.”Drummond emphasized the base’s

continued commitment to staying green as it formulates plans for the new Readi-ness Center. 5 e center will be 6 lled with natural lighting and solar power for heating. 5 is energy e7 ciency will reduce costs for the facility.

“Going to natural gas reduces main-tenance, and geothermal wells like we have in Bangor reduce the necessity to raise the temperatures of the water,” said Drummond.

While Brunswick has no choice but to support the upcoming construction, some in the town remain skeptical.

Benet Pols, a Brunswick at-large town councilor, said he believes the Readiness Center will strain the local economy.

“5 ere’s nothing wrong with a con-tinued military presence at the base,” said Pols, “but the primary mission of the redevelopment authority, and of leg-islative leaders, should be on commer-cial redevelopment rather than relying on additional government subsidies.”

Pols said that the main problem with this construction will be taxes.

“5 e Army reserve center will not pay property taxes. 5 e payroll for the soldiers training at the reserve center will likely be spent in their home com-munities, not locally,” said Pols.

“Even a small orthopedic practice, or a little dance studio would pay prop-erty taxes. In addition the salaries paid, even at smallest businesses, would be reinvested in town just as the salaries of Bowdoin faculty are,” he added.

Drummond acknowledged the di7 -culty the Naval Air Base project presents for the local community.

“5 ey’ve had a very di7 cult task—it has a huge impact on their economy. Our project is a small feat compared to what they all have to deal with and we don’t always agree, but we 6 nd a way to get where we need to be,” he said.

Drummond hopes to begin the proj-ect by the end of October and antici-pates its completion in summer 2014.

Army budgets $23 million for naval air base project

BY MAEVE O’LEARYORIENT STAFF

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directly submitted applications. Last week, the Center held the 6 rst

of many on-campus recruiting ses-sions with corporations including Bain & Company, Fidelity and De-loitte Consulting. Sullivan describes recruiting as a “cyclical” process, with many 6 nance and consulting posi-tions available each fall.

5 ese corpo-rations tend to have a predict-able number of positions open every fall, and the hiring process is more standard-ized than in other 6 elds. As a re-sult, they accept similar numbers of students each year.

R e c r u i t e r s from other indus-tries are more likely to visit campus in January or February when they have a “better understanding of what they need come summer,” said Sullivan.

In preparation for the start of on-campus recruiting interviews on Oc-tober 1, the CPC has been running mock interview sessions for students. In order to create an authentic expe-rience, local retired professionals—rather than the CPC—held 12 mock

interviews over the last two weeks.5 ough the job search process can

be 6 lled with uncertainty, White and Fantini reported con6 dence in being able to 6 nd jobs.

“Bowdoin does a good job of con-necting students to potential em-ployers and the alumni network is strong,” said Fantini.

Many of the positions currently soliciting applications are competi-tive, and Diehl hopes that seniors will not be discouraged by rejection early

on in their job search.

“ R e s i l i e n c e and tenacity are required in most 6 elds and the job search process is the 6 rst place [students] ex-perience that in a new way,” he said.

For underclass-men looking to get ahead, Diehl advises students

to spend their summers “doing some-thing that they are passionate about and want to gain experience in.”

He said this is an essential part of determining where students’ inter-ests lie.

“Even if you 6 nd you have a sum-mer internship that you hate, it’s bet-ter to know that you don’t want to do something than never having tried it,” Diehl said.

Slavic Language from Northwest-ern University.

“We’re talking about her intro-ducing a course in Russian theater next semester, which would involve not just the texts but also acting technique and the visual aspect of theater,” said Miller. “Her perspec-tive as an artist on literature is go-ing to be much different. She brings a dimension to the department that we haven’t had before.”

The College is already busy searching for ten tenure-track pro-fessors for the next academic year. These professors will officially join Bowdoin on July 1, 2013, giv-ing them time to acclimate to the school and appreciate the New England summer.

New instructors like Scarcelli and Toland feel comfortable at Bowdoin now, but as Scarcelli pointed out, he has to experience winter weather before he can really judge how he fits in at the College.

“I’ve lived in many different parts of the country, but never here in Maine before,” he said. “It’s been absolutely wonderful, although check back with me in February and we’ll see how I feel then.”

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“Even if you have a summer internship that you hate, it’s

better to know that you don’t want to do something than never

having tried it. ”

TIMOTHY DIEHLDIRECTOR OF THE CAREER

PLANNING CENTER

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FRESH FACES: Kristina Toland, left, and Marc Scarcelli, right, are two of 48 new faculty members hired for the 2012-2013 academic year.

“We continue to be very ambitious in our hiring. ”

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SECURITY REPORT: 9/20 to 9/26! ursday, September 20• A blue and black Schwinn

mountain bike was stolen from the south side of Howell House. The bike was not locked or registered.

• A student reported that a seat was stolen from a bicycle outside of Howell House.

• Moulton Union was evacuated after a gas detector in the kitchen set off the fire alarm. Brunswick Fire Department responded.

• A student in Coles Tower re-ported that a young male knocked on an apartment door looking for a place to party.

Friday, September 21• Students at Brunswick Apart-

ments E were warned about exces-sive noise.

• A car belonging to a student \ parking offender was towed from the Chamberlain Hall parking lot.

• A UPS driver making a deliv-ery on South Campus Drive was observed using foul language with an elderly driver who was block-ing his way. The UPS driver was also seen driving at an imprudent speed. A complaint was filed with the driver’s employer.

• An officer checked on the well-being of an ill student at Coleman Hall.

• An unregistered event in West Hall was dispersed and alcohol disposed of.

• An unregistered event with a drinking game in progress was dis-persed on the 14th floor of Coles Tower.

Saturday, September 22• A large unregistered event was

dispersed at Brunswick Apart-ments J.

• A student at Brunswick Apart-

ments was cited for violating the hard alcohol policy.

• An intoxicated student walk-ing near Stowe Hall with a red solo cup containing rum was cited for a hard alcohol violation, and then escorted to his residence.

• Three students in Stowe Hall were cited for hosting an unregis-tered event and a drinking game. The event was dispersed.

Sunday, September 23• A smoke detector activation

on the eighth floor of Coles Tower was caused by overcooking food in a microwave oven.

• An adolescent male gained ac-cess to the ice in Watson Area and smudged newly painted lines.

Tuesday, September 25• A sprinkler pipe support

bracket was damaged in the base-ment of MacMillan House.

Wednesday, September 26• A red Specialized Hard Rock

mountain bike was reported sto-len from the bike racks between the Buck Fitness Center and Hatch Science Library. The bike had been left unlocked.

• A field hockey player who suf-fered a broken nose during prac-tice was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A housekeeper at Osher Hall inadvertently set off a smoke alarm with steam from hot water while cleaning a rest room. Brunswick Fire Department responded.

The Bowdoin Shuttle operates Sunday through Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., and Thursday through Saturday from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. Call the Shuttle at 207-725-3337.

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when the sport was first intro-duced to the campus in 1969, posted his opinion of the College’s response to Epicuria on the “Bow-doin Rugby Alumni” Facebook group last week.

“I’m an unsympathetic alum vis-a-vis drinking and hazing as the Dean outlined in the posting to which I’m responding,” wrote MacKinnon. “The knee-jerk asso-ciation of madcap, drunken, and brawling fun that is often associ-ated with ‘rugby players’ does very little to gain the sport the regard that I think it deserves.”

The verdict that the rugby team violated Bowdoin’s hazing policy has led to comparisons to last year’s hazing incident involving the Med-diebempsters a cappella group.

After an extended investigation led by the Student Organization Oversight Committee (SOOC), the Meddies were banned from per-forming at College events between November 4 and March 10. The group also had to submit a writ-ten revision of its initiation event and agree to SOOC oversight of its subsequent auditions and initia-tion events.

5 is year, the men’s rugby team had to forfeit two games, one against the University of Maine at Orono and one against Colby College.

“The consequence in this case for the rugby team is significant. By forfeiting two games, the team will have lost a third of its season and in essence be ineligible for post-season competition,” Foster wrote in an email to the Orient.

The Meddies hazing case directly involved Bowdoin Student Govern-

ment (BSG), which conducted its own hearing through the SOOC.

After Epicuria, however, Foster led an investigation team com-prised of the Deans of Student Af-fairs, Security, Student Life, Stu-dent Activities, and Res Life.

“I needed to act quickly to get information,” said Foster. “I re-spect the BSG constitution and everything else, but quite honestly this is a disciplinary matter. That’s one of the responsibilities entrust-ed to me and I acted accordingly.”

“We have no role in doling out punishments, social probation, or anything like that. That’s not up to us,” said Sarah Levin ’13, BSG vice president for student affairs.

“They’re a club, so we were ex-pecting a little more communica-tion, but we weren’t at all worried about it,” added Brian Kim ’13, BSG vice president for student organiza-tions. “Given our constitution, giv-

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en the by-laws of the SOOC, if it is a club matter then it’s not necessarily our jurisdiction, but we definitely need to be part of the conversation.”

Foster explained to the rugby team he would be surprised if the SOOC didn’t “also take some kind of action” in response to Epicuria, given that the club team is a char-tered organization and at least par-tially receives support from BSG’s Student Activities Funding Com-mittee (SAFC).

Kim agreed, naming possibili-ties such as leadership seminars and conferences, establishing bet-ter communication in the chain-of-command, and discussing what the team can do as a club to learn from the incident and move forward.

“We met as an executive team and decided that the way we want-ed to deal with this is not punitive,” said Kim. “What we need to do is provide venues of support and guidance to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

“The SAFC does not have any plans to take any additional action. Any response that would occur would be part of a BSG response in coordination with administrators,” added Charlie Cubeta ’13, BSG vice president for the treasury, in an email to the Orient.

At the moment, however, BSG has no plans to pursue any further punitive measures against the rug-by team. Both Foster and McMa-hon declined to share any details regarding the College’s response toward individual students.

“My preference would be that those who are the offenders or en-courage the offenders in their ac-tions be weeded out of the organi-zation before the club is no longer part of the Bowdoin scene,” wrote MacKinnon, the rugby alumnus.

“I’m an unsympathetic alum vis-a-vis drinking and hazing as

the Dean outlined in the posting to which I’m

responding. The knee-jerk association of madcap, drunken and brawling fun that is often

associated with ‘rugby players’ does very little to

gain the sport the regard I think it deserves”

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BOWDOIN BRIEFS

BSG renews Brunswick Taxi’s late-night service contract

Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) reached an agreement to re-new the late-night free taxi service with Brunswick Taxi this week, pre-serving its operating hours but modi-fying pick up and drop o5 times for Freeport and Portland trips. BSG will subsidize free Brunswick Taxi rides within a mile radius of campus on Tuesday, 6 ursday, Friday and Satur-day nights from 10 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

6 e new contract aims to make the service more user-friendly for stu-dents, as the free taxi service has been underutilized thus far.

“It’s pretty much always been car-rying over the same policies from the year before,” said Tessa Kramer ’13, BSG vice president of facilities. “We wanted to look at what’s being used, what’s the most popular, and how it could be improved.”

BSG sponsors multiple transporta-tion services, including the shuttle, the night taxi and special shuttles to the airport during breaks.

6 e deal with Brunswick Taxi is meant to supplement the Bowdoin Shuttle, colloquially referred to as Safe Ride.

Kramer said she hopes the taxi ser-vice will alleviate long wait times for the shuttle.

6 e night taxi will also take students to Spare Time Lanes in Cook’s Corner, where students can bowl for free. 6 e cost is covered by Student Activities.

6 e night taxi provides “an ele-ment of safety that has always been one of our main concerns,” said Sarah

King, a representative from Bruns-wick Taxi.

6 e taxi is used especially by stu-dents living o5 campus, and ensures they make it home safely, according to King.

6 e shuttle brings students to popular o5 -campus destinations on weekends, running to Freeport and Old Port on Fridays, Old Port on Sat-urdays, and Freeport and Maine Mall on Sundays. A round trip through Brunswick Taxi costs 7 ve dollars, re-gardless of the destination.

6 e shuttle previously ran to Cook’s Corner, but because the service went largely unused, BSG terminated week-end service this year. 6 e Brunswick Explorer will still take students to Cook’s Corner for $2 round trip.

“We thought students would want to go shopping either on Fridays or Sun-days and maybe want to go out to Port-land at night on Saturdays,” said Kramer.

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more inclusive.“We’ve been looking for ways we

could extend our resources to serve even more people, even though we’re out of bikes,” said Chris Kan ’13, president of the YBC. “If you brought your own bike, why can’t we help you too?”

Kan said his interest in environ-mental issues inspired him to start the repair program. For Kan, bikes are the best form of sustainable transporta-tion in a town like Brunswick, where destinations like Cook’s Corner are di8 cult to reach on foot.

Kan hopes the bike maintenance pro-gram will encourage more eco-friendly behavior by getting more students to use bikes on campus.

Andrew Pryhuber ’15, a YBC me-chanic, noted that students who cannot bring their bikes to the shed during its scheduled hours can still request re-pairs.

“If they leave them locked up outside the shed, and they email us and tell us what’s wrong, we 7 x the problem and get it back to them as soon as we pos-sibly can,” Pryhuber said.

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6 e Yellow Bike Club (YBC) launched a new maintenance program this year in a departure from its previous mission. Until this year, the club’s pri-mary function had been renting bikes to students for a fee of $25 annually.

6 e YBC shed, located behind Helm-reich House, will open for repairs for four hours each week. 6 e student me-chanics will 7 x any problem, provided it does not require a spare part.

Last year, the YBC o5 ered a single week of repairs. 6 is year’s program is designed to be more 9 exible and

Yellow Bike Club launches bike maintenance program

Students armed with dodgeballs, water balloons, and Nerf balls will battle it out on the Quad this Sunday at the second annual Hunger Games, inspired by Suzanne Collins’ popu-lar young adult book series.

Although the competition took place last year, it was not widely publicized. This year, organizers Sebastian Bamba ’14 and Andrew Park ’15, aggressively advertised

Second Annual Hunger Games to take place Sunday

Class Council Election Results

2013 Class Council (238 votes cast)

President: Melody Hahm (167)Tyler Silver (67)

Vice President: Casey Grindon (204)

Treasurer: Andrea Koenigsberg (201)

BSG Representatives: Peggy Zhao (121) and Madison Whitley (142)Helen White: 102

2016 Class Council (300 votes cast)

President: Robo Tavel (80)Evan Eklund (78)Deion Desir (56)Chase Savage (35)Rachel Snyder (26)Anhar Farag (23)

Vice President: David Sperber (102)Clare DeSantis (96)Ashley Bomboka (93)

Treasurer: Danny Mejia-Cruz (122)Tom Rosenblatt (116)Chris Carr (55)

BSG Representatives: Andrew Millar (114) and Michael Colbert (106)Chase Hodge-Brokenburr (84)Alexander Thomas (75)Dillon Sandhu (72)Adrian Moreno (48)

the event through email, Facebook and posters.

Ninety students submitted their names for the September 23 “reap-ing” ceremony, held in Thorne Hall’s Daggett Lounge, where one male and one female “tributes” were selected from each residence hall.

While Collins’ fictional tributes fought to the death, the Bowdoin version is essentially an elaborate game of dodgeball.

When players are struck by a water balloon, they lose two lives; if hit by a dodgeball, they lose one. If players are hit by Nerf balls, they play rock, paper, scissors against their attacker. If the player who was hit by the Nerf ball loses, he or she loses a single life.

As in the books, tributes in the Bowdoin games have the opportu-nity to collect sponsorships.

Each tribute can collect ten $1 donations. Every $2 earns the trib-utes an additional life, allowing for a maximum of six lives. Proceeds will go to the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program.

As the sole tribute from Quinby House, Xanthe Demas ’15 is the only person who can bring glory to her “district.”

“I was excited to have some other tributes but I guess I’ll be the win-ner of the whole house instead of having to share,” said Demas.

Some tributes have already be-gun training for the games.

“My district partner and I have been practicing dodgeball throws, dodgeball dodging, the basics,” said Alex Cheston ’16, a resident of Maine Hall.

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Lemongrass has room to improve its Vietnamese cuisineBY KATHERINE FOLEY

CONTRIBUTOR

Yet another Asian restaurant is now open for business in Bruns-wick. Falling on the heels of Little Tokyo, Asian Garden, Bankok Gar-den, and Aki Sushi, Lemongrass introduces a new brand of Viet-namese cuisine to town.

The restaurant opened last May in the space previously occupied by Bacari, a bistro. As a big fan of Vietnamese cuisine, I hoped Lem-ongrass would add something new to Brunswick’s culinary scene, but I walked away with mixed feelings.

The interior is fresh and cheerful, with bright green walls, bamboo accents and photographs of scenes from Vietnam. The wait staff is at-tentive and helpful—quick to sug-gest dishes and refill drinks.

5 e menu, though, is limited: It consists of soup, a few appetiz-

ers and entrees that are served with meat, tofu or seafood.

5 e egg rolls—6 lled with pork, vegetables, and rice vermicelli—are one of the tastier small plates. 5 e two small rolls come with a side of nuoc mam, a sweet and spicy dip-ping sauce typical of Vietnamese cuisine.

Another intriguing appetizer is the carrot shrimp nest. This deep-fried mix of carrots and shrimp is nicely crispy, but perhaps too heavy for a first course.

I was happy to see a variety of

pho on the menu. A staple of Viet-namese fare, the noodle soup is served with herbs, bean sprouts, and usually beef, chicken, or tofu. A friend ordered the rare beef and tendon pho, which arrived steam-ing hot, accompanied by Thai ba-sil, jalapeno, lime and sriracha.

Lemongrass makes its own pho broth using ginger and star anise for flavor. The soup was tasty, fill-ing and well-priced; the small por-tion costs $7.95.

The dinner entrees were less impressive. Bland, steamed vegeta-bles were consistent and the med-ley of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and onions included in three of the five options highlighted the limits of the menu.

Sauces and seasonings add some variety; a sweet marinade distinguished the chicken coconut delight. A flavorful peanut sauce complimented my main dish of pork pho. The chicken and pork in both dishes were overcooked and rather dry, but the entrées them-selves were large and reasonably priced, under twelve dollars.

The highlight of my meal was the coffee, a sweet drink made with condensed milk and domestic Vietnamese coffee.

For dessert, I ordered a fried ba-nana topped with sesame seeds and a light syrup. 5 e half-banana por-tion was small, but it made for a very

Ship it, don’t trip it: Online-shopping more popular than everBY CAITLIN WHALEN

CONTRIBUTOR

Whether alone in their rooms, lounging with friends, or just pro-crastinating on the Internet, many at the College spend their free time online-shopping.

But for some it may be, too con-suming: the results of an online survey of 100 random upperclass-men reveal that a significant per-centage of the campus is highly ac-tive on online retail sites.

The survey’s first question asked: “When was the last time you online-shopped (meaning you made an actual purchase)?” Only 11 respondents had not online-shopped in the past month.

Of those who had made online purchases, six percent bought some-thing that day, 28 percent had made a purchase within the past week and another 28 percent had purchased items within the past two weeks.

The survey then asked, “When was the last time you online-win-dow-shopped (meaning you spent time on an online retail site, but did not make any purchases)?”

Again, the majority of students reported frequent and recent ac-tivity: 29 percent online-window-shopped that day and 44 percent did so within a week.

In addition, 62 percent said they spend up to three hours a week browsing online shopping sites.

Our surroundings may help explain why students spend so much time on-line-shopping. 5 e survey asked, “Do you online-shop more o7 en when living on campus than when living at home?” 65 percent said, “Yes.”

Could Bowdoin have an online shopping problem?

Nancy Walker ’15, confesses, “sometimes I get blue slips from the Mail Center and I don’t even remember what I ordered.”

Bordered by the idyllic Maine coast and surrounded by dense for-est, Brunswick has much to o8 er in terms of natural beauty. However, for most busy students, Brunswick is a long haul from popular retail stores.

Shopping at most national stores

necessitates a trip to Portland. And when the snow starts falling, even the fifteen-minute drive to nearby Freeport can seem too daunting to consider. For first years who are not allowed to have cars on cam-pus, coordinating trips off campus can be an ordeal.

But for cheap books, dresses from Forever21, new video games, or a Patagonia fleece to get you through the winter, any computer will do.

“Even though I only buy shoes and cleats, I buy them online be-cause it’s so convenient,” said Tom Wells ’15.

For me, it’s all too easy to sit in class on a Tuesday morning, and, in just seconds, spend almost $100 at the online sweater sale at Urban Outfitters. Free refunds make it easy to rationalize multiple pur-chases.

Ultimately, more attention should be paid to the way that so-

cial media promotes online shop-ping. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google are full of advertise-ments and logos, and retailers ag-gressively advertise to college stu-dents via email. Student discounts and free shipping also attract stu-dent shoppers.

“When you’re swamped with work, it’s easy to procrastinate with online-shopping,” said Isa-belle Franks ’14. “Sales or coupons in emails and that pop up on the sidebar can really get you trapped.”

Online-shopping can be helpful or even necessary for students who do not have access to malls and re-tail centers, but the activity poses certain risks; innocent browsing can quickly turn into unintention-al and sporadic splurges—which can be especially painful on a col-lege student’s budget.

In the survey, students cited Amazon, Urban Outfitters, Forev-er21, Zappos and Gilt as the sites they frequented most.

Other notable sites included Ebay, and Ruelala, and Nike. Stu-dents also mentioned L.L. Bean and Target, two retailers located minutes from campus.

When it comes down to it, Mi-chael Hendrickson ’13 says, “Get-ting a blue slip is something excit-ing to look forward to.”

While picking up my own pack-age from the Mail Center this week, I asked mail room clerk Ali-son Voner how often they receive packages from online retailers.

“We expect retail packages every single day. And this year, we have already received more than ever before,” she said.

As a big fan of Vietnamese cuisine,I hoped Lemongrass would add some-

thing new to Brunswick’sculinary scene, but I walked away

with mixed feelings.

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTJUST A CLICK AWAY: A number of Bowdoin students are ditching the typical Facebook study break for an online shopping session.

tasty end to my meal. Although my first meal at Lem-

ongrass wasn’t outstanding, the restaurant has potential. I’m par-ticularly excited that báhn mi, a sandwich with Vietnamese-style meats and vegetables on a baguette will soon grace the lunch menu. With its convenient location and attentive staff, Lemongrass is on

the right path and I plan to stick with the restaurant as it develops its menu during its first year.

Lemongrass212 Maine Street(207) 725-9008

Rating:

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTPHO FOR THOUGHT: Brunswick’s newest restaurant makes its own pho broth.

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BOC Trip Report: Togatahdin ascent

Twelve members of the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) traveled north to Baxter State Park last weekend for the inaugural Togatahdin hike, which the BOC hopes will become a longstanding tradition.

We hiked the tallest mountain in the Northeast, Mount Katahdin, and did it clad in snuggly flannel togas. Yes, togas. It was cold, windy, and wet. But we succeeded.

We drove to our campground on Friday afternoon, arriving to pleas-ant weather and three beautiful lean-tos. After a filling Mexican-themed dinner, we promptly nes-tled into our sleeping bags to rest up for our early-morning ascent.

As 5:30 a.m. rolled around, we wolfed down a hearty breakfast to fortify ourselves for the trek ahead, donned our togas and hit the trail. We blew past many other groups on our way up, receiving dubious looks and bewildered questions from our fellow hikers.

They wanted to know if we were cold, whether we were crazy, why we were doing this and whether the park rangers knew what we were up to.

It made my day when one guy asked to take our picture because he thought nobody would ever believe what he had just witnessed. Most people thought we were crazy, and shook their heads in disbelief as we scrambled up the mountainside.

Undeterred, we endured whis-tling winds and pelting precipita-

tion to reach the summit. After snapping some victory shots at the peak, we hurried down before the weather worsened. Below the tree line, it was calm and warm—a stark contrast to the driving winds and rain at the peak.

Back at camp, the afternoon passed with well-deserved naps, games of Settlers of Catan (or rather, Settlers of Katahdin) and a general feeling of accomplishment

COURTESY OF PETER YAWORSKYTHE VIEW FROM ‘TAHDIN: Twelve members of the BOC climbed Mt. Katahdin in togas.

BY PETER YAWORSKYCONTRIBUTOR

Fall Break Outing Club Trips

• Backpacking Expedition (10/5-10/9)Five days in the woods with friends, location to be determined.

• Allagash River (10/5-10/9)! e Allagash in far northern Maine is widely known for beatiful scen-ery, whitewater rapids, and frequent UFO sightings.

among our group. All that was left to do was feast.

We had ramen bombs for dinner, s’mores for dessert, and bacon and egg sandwiches for breakfast.

On our drive home, we visited Dysart’s in Bangor, our favorite truck stop restaurant. The food would be a fitting end to any toga party, but the fact that we had just climbed 5,267 feet made it taste even better.

Fall Break BOC Trips

• Backpacking Expedition (Friday 10/5- Tuesday 10/9)Five days in the woods with friends, location to be determined. • Allagash River (Friday 10/5- Tuesday 10/9)! e Allagash, in northern Maine, is known for its beautiful scenery, whitewa-ter rapids, and frequent UFO sightings.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

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A note from the editors of the 1890 Bowdoin Bugle presents the new edi-tion as if it were a fellow-graduate of the College: “6 e Bugle, having taken a complete course in the cerebral convolu-tions of the heads of the several editors, now comes upon the stage to receive his degree from the hand of a criticizing public. We hope it will be at least, cum laude. What is it he says? Vos salutamus.”

6 e 2012 Bowdoin Bugle is the 154th edition of the yearbook, and it will be the last. When the 7 nal copy of the Bu-gle comes o8 the printer in November, Bowdoin’s yearbook will have completed its course of study at the College and will join the ranks of retired Bowdoin publi-cations in Special Collections. What is it he says? Morituri vos salutamus.

6 e Bugle is the only student publica-tion that predates the Orient. 6 e 7 rst edition was printed as a tabloid pam-phlet in July 1858, just as the academic year was coming to a close.

6 e yearbook cost four cents, and the front page proudly proclaims it was “published by the students,” as it con-tinued to be for its entire 154-year his-tory. “BLOW, BUGLE, BLOW!”—a line from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “6 e Splendour Falls on Castle Walls”—is printed in miniscule font below the header, emphatically reimagined as a call to editorial arms.

6 e 7 rst issue may have been one of the most successful editions ever pub-

lished. 6 e editors note that by press time, the 7 rst Bugle had already sold “over a thousand copies in less than forty-eight hours—a success probably unparalleled in the history of the press in the Pine Tree State.”

Only 225 copies of the 2012 Bugle have been sold thus far, at a price of 75 dollars each. For each of the past two years, one student has single-handedly produced the Bugle.

6 e decision to end publication of the yearbook was made last spring a9 er Student Activities determined there was not enough student interest to justify printing an-other edition.

“We have been root-ing for the Bugle the last two years, hoping that some students would come forward and say, ‘this is something we really want to produce,’” said Allen Delong, director of student activities. “6 at hasn’t happened.”

6 e death of the Bugle is no surprise. 6 ousands of high schools and colleges around the country have already done away with yearbooks. 6 e University of Virginia retired its 120-year-old year-book, “Corks and Curls,” in 2010, and the Washington Post reported that de-spite its storied history, “no one seemed to notice.” Jostens, the yearbook pub-lishing company which prints the Bugle, told the Post that only about a thousand colleges still print yearbooks nation-

wide, down from 2,400 in 1995. “Subscription sales were anemic,” said

Richard Lindemann, Bowdoin’s director of special collections. “6 ere was a gen-eral lack of interest…if there’s no audi-ence then there’s no product.”

Students have found other ways of connecting with each other a9 er gradu-ation; constant Facebook and Twitter noti7 cations have all but completely

elimi-

nated the problem. “Students are carrying their own ar-

chive di8 erently than when I was in col-lege,” said Delong.

In its 7 rst few incarnations, the Bu-gle served primarily as an inventory of campus organizations: the College’s fra-ternities—or “secret societies,” as they were known—were each represented by an etched crest and list of members, as were Bowdoin’s literary societies, and, of course, the Bowdoin Militia. Sprinkled amongst these inventories are editorial

notes and news snippets, including one poetic entry in the 7 rst issue demanding that during commencement, “those stu-dents who write poetry will be required to sit at their respective windows, with their fair locks streaming carelessly yet beautifully over their upturned, intel-lectual brows, while with their dark By-ronic eyes they gaze in rapture upon the feathered songsters.”

More colorful editions chronicle reckless escapades at Bowdoin in gen-erations past. 6 e 1898 entry from the junior class salutes one mischief-mak-er in particular: “Baxter, our bold, bad

criminal, whose misdemean-ors have been bitterly

repented behind prison bars”—a ref-erence to Percival Proctor Baxter ’98,

college organist. 6 e Bugle ceased

publication brie: y during World War

II, releasing two special editions

to chronicle wartime at Bowdoin. 6 e 1944 dedication reads: “Here, then, is a chronicle of Bowdoin in what may be its last year as a liberal arts college...Seldom, if ever, has there been more uncertainty about the future.”

From now on, chronicling the life of the College year to year will be harder than ever before—the Orient does its part to record the weekly goings on, but our paper is no replacement for the Bugle’s broad strokes.

As Lindemann put it, the end of the Bugle is a “loss of social inven-tory.” No longer is it guaranteed that a record of every student, sports team, and club will one day 7 nd a place in the College’s archives.

“6 e loss will be more profound over time as people age,” Lindemann said.

But the Bugle has been conscious of its existential peril ever since the 7 rst is-sue. “6 e present blast of the Bugle may be rather faint, but long ere its echoes shall cease, it will be followed by a lon-ger and louder blast,” wrote the editors in 1858.

Like the Orient, each edition of the Bugle was an experiment, and it is a small miracle that both pub-lications have managed to reamin in print thus far.

Bugle adviser Robert Volz may have put it best in his preface to the 1968 edi-tion: “6 e Bowdoin Bugle this year has attempted to do two things. 6 e 7 rst was to survive.”

It is entirely possible that the end of the Bugle is not 7 nal, but the yearbook will probably never again reassume its current form. Yearbooks, like all forms of print media, are moving online. But for now, we bid farewell to the Bugle just the way it started, with a line from Ten-nyson:

“Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes! ying, / And answer, echoes, answer,

dying, dying, dying.”

-Linda Kinstler

I snuck into 6 orne Hall’s Daggett Lounge for Yom Kippur services a few minutes late on Wednesday morning. About three quarters of the seats were full; clumps of students—who had abandoned their jeans and sweatpants for business casual on this somber occasion—accounted for about a third of the congregation.

There were a handful of profes-sors and administrators, several with remarkably quiet and well-behaved children in tow. President Mills sat unassumingly towards the back. The rest of the congregation was mostly older, accounting for, I imagine, a significant part of the Jewish community of the greater-Brunswick area.

Rabbi Simeon Maslin had already begun the service. I took a seat in the back row, foiled in my attempts at inconspicuousness when my chair scratched loudly on the : oor. I sunk a little into my seat and : ipped through the prayer book, though I had no idea where to begin—I’d never been to services on the Jewish high holidays before. A9 er a few moments of chant-ing in Hebrew, the rabbi told everyone in English what page to turn to, and I relaxed a little.

Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement; it is one of the most im-portant days in the Jewish calendar.

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Yom Kippur you re: ect on a year’s worth of sins. It is about humility, taking responsibility for shortcom-ings and asking forgiveness. Diving into this tradition and participating in rituals that I didn’t grow up with is strange. My family members are non-practicing Jews, subscribing to what can only be dubbed aggressive atheism. When I told my mom that I was fasting and going to services, she paused before saying, “that’s nice.” My dad, who is not Jewish, laughed and warned me not to tell my grandfather.

I consider myself Jewish, though I

never had any Jewish education; the main thing that has brought me inside synagogues is other people’s bar and bat mitzvahs. My mom took us to ser-vices on Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year—once or twice when I was very young, but it didn’t stick.

I celebrate Hanukkah in the winter, but it’s perhaps less an expression of my family’s Jewishness than standard operating procedure on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where I grew up, and where many residents spend December 25 eating Chinese food and going to the movies.

In the spring my family gets together for Passover, but

that’s more about in-dulging our predilec-

tions for good food and turning minor political disagreements into arguments than it is about remem-bering when our ancestors were the pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt.

At my family gatherings, we deign to acknowledge the tradi-tions underlying these holidays; but are careful to note our disavowal of the religious stuff, lest anyone think we actually believe in any of it. I can’t say precisely what I expected to get out of the Yom Kippur service in Daggett. I’m a religion major, as it turns out, and a lot of my impulse to do this came from what I’ve learned

BLOW, BUGLE, BLOW!

in classes at Bowdoin. But participat-ing in the service wasn’t the trans-formative thing I thought it might be. Yes, it was important for me to do what Jews around the world have been doing for centuries in order for me to feel like I was a part of that community.

However, I didn’t feel that way sitting in the back row of Daggett Lounge between two people for whom the whole thing was an old hat. The prayers about God’s great-ness, human subservience, indebt-edness and insignificance made me feel like—for lack of a better com-parison—a sheep. I couldn’t bring myself to recite along with every-one else—it felt insincere—and I found myself wondering if any one else in the crowd had similar reser-vations. The low rumble of voices chanting together in Hebrew indi-cated that was not the case.

But then we got to the sermon, “The Jewish Vote.” Rabbi Maslin began by assuring everyone that he would not presume to abuse the power of

his pulpit by telling us for whom we should vote. But, he said, he had thoughts on what we should vote for in this important election.

6 e Torah outlines a set of values that organize and inform Jewish so-ciety. 6 ey are spelled out in stories about wars between ancient tribes of the Near East and parables about how many goats you have to give a prospective bride’s family before you can marry her. 6 e stories resonate across the millennia and the messag-es at their core are still relevant today.

Rabbi Maslin zeroed in on the Jewish principle of tzedakah, which in the To-rah ascribes how farmers are supposed to harvest their grain. But the bigger idea of tzedakah is that society has an obligation to provide for its least fortu-nate, that the have-nots are entitled to basic assistance from the haves. One candidate for the highest o; ce un-derstands this, said Maslin, but the other fundamentally disagrees. His words alluded to Mitt Romney’s now-infamous characterization of 47 per-cent of the popu-

lation. A vote for

Romney, Maslin implied, would be a vote against this foundational value of Judaism. (He didn’t say Romney or the President’s name explicitly).

Of the entire service, the sermon resonated with me the most. Religion is a formative part of how you un-derstand yourself, Maslin suggested. Walking out of the service, several of my friends remarked that it was crass to exploit this holy day to make a po-litical case. 6 ey saw it as a misuse of Rabbi Maslin’s authority—a criticism any member of my family would also have leveled.

But I felt the opposite. What is the job of a rabbi—or a priest, or imamm for that matter—if not to o8 er an in-terpretation of what religious texts mean and why they matter? Most im-portantly, the sermon explains that the value of old traditions amount to

more than just blindly go-ing through the motions.

-Eliza Novick-Smith

I’m a religion major, as it turnsout, and a lot of my impulse

to do this came from what I’ve learned

in classes at Bowdoin.

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2011 Record: 27-3 (10-0 NESCAC)2012 Record: 11-1 (2-0 NESCAC)

Karen Corey (7th season)

2011 NESCAC ChampionsRanked 26th overall in NCAA D-III

PLAYER TO WATCHMelissa Haskell ’13

Named to the All-Tournament Team at the NCAA D-III Tournament last fall, Haskell’s 849 career kills put her 8 ve kills shy of 8 9 h all-time at Bowdoin.

2011 NESCAC ChampionsReached Final Four of NCAA D-III Tournament

Nicky Pearson (17th season)

2011 Record: 19-1 (10-0 NESCAC)

2012 Record: 5-1 (1-1 NESCAC)

Head Coach Nicky Pearson, the seven-time NESCAC Coach of the Year, enters her 17th season at the helm for the Polar Bears. Pearson has coached the team to a 237-48 record during her ca-reer, which includes three D-III National Championships.

2011 Record: 4-7-3 (1-7-2 NESCAC)2012 Record: 5-1

(2-1 NESCAC)Fran O’Leary (8th season)

PLAYER TO WATCHZach Danssaert ’14

In 2011, Danssaert started 13 of 14 games as a sophomore of a young squad; he is now o: to a fast start for his junior campaign. In the 8 rst six games of 2012, the junior mid8 elder has recorded 8 ve goals and one assist, leading the team to a 5-1 record.

Peter Slovenski (27th season)

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PLAYER TO WATCHCoby Horowtiz ’14

; e junior earned All-American honors in 2011, placing 13th at the New England D-III Championships. He has led the team to two 8 rst-place 8 n-ishes so far in 2012.

2011 Record: 6-6-3 (2-5-3 NESCAC)2012 Record: 5-1 (2-1 NESCAC)

Brianne Weaver (1st season)

Marissa O’Neil (1st season)Frank Pizzo (4th season)

Hobie Holbach (6th season)

Peter Slovenski (27th season)

Conor Smith (2nd season)

Tomas Fortson (10th season)

MaryBeth Mathews (18th season)

Dave Caputi (13th season)

2011 Record: 4-4 (4-4 NESCAC)

2012 Record: 0-1 (0-1 NESCAC)

2nd/11 at 2011 Maine State Tournament

1st/2 at 2011 Maine State Champ.

2011 Beantown Tourn. Champions

2011 Record: 10-3 (7-0 NESCAC)2012 Record: 5-0 (4-0 NESCAC)

2011 Record: 13-9 (5-4 NESCAC)

2011 Record: 15-8 (7-4 NESCAC)

Reached quarter! nals of 2011 D-III Championship

A9 er a lackluster 2011 season, the soccer team welcomed Bri-anne Weaver as the new head coach in April. Weaver has led the team to a strong 5-1 record, including an impressive victory over 10th-ranked Brandeis Uni-versity on September 15.

; e Polar Bears stumbled to a .500 re-cord last season, and more challenges lay ahead: the team must 8 nd a way to compensate for the graduation of wide receiver Pat Noone ’12. In his four year career, Noone collected All-Conference honors twice and holds numerous all-time receiving records at Bowdoin.

Retained CBB trophy for sixth-straight season in 2011

FALL ROUNDUP SCORECARDS 2012

BACKGROUND PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD/CREATIVE IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATIONS BY KATIE FITCHCROSS COUNTRY BACKGROUND PHOTOS COURTESY OF JERRY LeVASSEUR

A9 er a 2011 season highlighted by wins at both its home invitational and the Maine State Championship, the women’s golf team will be under the direction of a new head coach this fall. Marissa O’Neil ’05, who also serves as the head coach for the women’s

hockey team, will lead a team looking to re-peat the suc-cesses that it has enjoyed over the past two seasons.

Led by junior Bobby Kaminski, who paced the Polar Bears to a strong second-place 8 nish at the 2011 Maine State Tournament by posting the lowest overall score, the men’s golf team seeks to rebound from several di< cult seasons over the past few years. Despite plenty of experience—Dustin Biron ’15 is the lone under-classmen on the 10-man roster—the team has so far stumbled to middling results in 2012, placing fourth out of eight at the Hus-son Invitational and 11th/18 at the Williams Invitational.

In 2007, Hobie Holbach’s 8 rst year, he coached the women’s team to its 8 rst-ev-er NCAA quarter8 nal. In 2011, Hobach matched that feat once again. ; is year, led by senior Kellen Alberstone, the women’s team is looking to top last year’s 8 nish.

; e women’s rugby team—undefeated through its 8 rst 8 ve matches of the 2012 season, including a remarkable 69-0 rout at Bates College last Saturday—has picked up right where it le9 o: a9 er a dominant 2011 campaign. Only halfway through their 2012 season, the Polar Bears have already taken home 8 rst at the 2012 Beantown Tourna-ment and outscored their opponents by a combined season total of 220-3.

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PLAYER TO WATCHMadelena Rizzo ’14

Rizzo ran to a 10th place 8 nish at the 2011 New England Championship, earning her an automatic bid to the D-III NCAA Championship, where she placed 71st as a sophomore.

In a 2011 season spotted with top-three 8 nishes in various regattas, the sailing squad is winding up nicely in 2012, and placed second out of nine competitors at Harvard’s FJ invitational and coming in the top third of teams at three other regattas so far. ; e team welcomed a substantial number of experienced 8 rst years to the team this season who are already making a splash on the team’s success.

With a 8 ve year streak of mak-ing the playo: s, men’s tennis looks as strong as ever, playing well in the Stonybrook Invi-tational earlier in September. One of the team’s sophomore doubles even managed to sweep the tournament.

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Most jobs come with occupa-tional hazards. In the world of printmaking, artists are exposed to dangerous chemicals that can seriously affect their heath; and Liz Chalfin is doing something about it. In a September 24 lec-ture, Chalfin discussed her contin-ued pursuit of safe alternatives to

the dangerous chemical processes common in modern printmaking.

Chalfin’s mission of finding safer methods of printmaking im-pacts her art in subtle ways; she ascribes much of her originality to her search for novel techniques and substances, and says all her work is guided by this goal.

Director of Zea Mays Printmak-ing, a studio in Florence, Mass., Chal5 n focuses on eliminating toxic

Assistant Professor of Art Carrie Scanga is undaunted by the pros-pect of folding and manipulating delicate material for hours on end.

Scanga, Bowdoin’s resident printmaker, is on sabbatical for the academic year, dedicating her full attention to a variety of personal projects. The most recent of these is “Breathe: The Emergent Colony,” an installation at curatorial col-laboration and exhibition space PLUG in Kansas City, Missouri.

Scanga plans to spend the rest of the year exhibiting her art in ven-ues across the country and traveling through Europe to print and sculpt.

Scanga’s career as a printmaker was launched when she was an un-dergraduate at BrynMawr College. At the time, Scanga “didn’t even know what printmaking was” but was encouraged by her academic advisor to take an introductory printmaking course, which initi-ated her relationship with the me-dium and later turned into a major in printmaking. She went on to pursue a masters in fine arts at the University of Washington.

After finishing school, Scanga worked at a non-profit artist col-laborative, pursuing her own art through the receipt of awards and fellowships. She tried her hand at teaching in several Philadephia art schools, a path that ultimately led her to Bowdoin.

Scanga’s decision to join the vi-sual art faculty was influenced by the nature of the liberal art cur-riculum, which allows her to con-tinue to expand her portfolio while simultaneously sharing her knowl-edge with students.

“Everything in my career un-folded really smoothly. And I think that’s because I don’t make moves until I know what I want. As long as something feels right, that’s what I do. As an undergraduate, I had a great teacher that said to me

‘If you want to be an artist, then in-vest in your art for every decision you have to make,’” said Scanga. “Being a teacher seemed like a re-ally good way to be an artist.”

Though Scanga is an accom-plished printmaker who can work with a variety of materials, tracing paper is her signature medium.

“I’ve approached it really differ-ently in really varied ways over the years. I’ve built it in architectural spaces that envelops you, and in architectural spaces that you look at from the outside,” she said. “I’ve folded it, I’ve cast into it. I’ve just really gotten to know it really well. I think it’s important to arrive at a place where you have a height-ened sense of the world as an art-ist. To arrive at a place where your hands have their own intelligence with a material. I think to become masterful at something, no matter, how small or large, is an important part of being an artist.”

Scanga continued working with

tracing paper in “Breathe: The Emergent Colony,” which is in-stalled at the PLUG Project gallery.

Scanga’s installation—a large canopy of tiny golden pieces of folded tracing paper—was inspired by the nature of bees and their communal and collaborative sense of being.

“My sister is a biologist and ecol-ogist. She’s the one who first tipped me off on the idea of bees geneti-cally selecting for the good of the colony rather than of their own life as individuals,” she said. “I know it’s more complicated than that—but the soft popular science of it is that you can separate out the theory of evolution and it can be applied to anything. I’m interested in applying that idea into an evolving commu-nity. I’m at this stage less interested in just making artwork for myself. Now I’m at the point that my art-work is actually part of society and it could participate in some way in other people’s lives.”

With this concept in mind, Scan-ga contacted artists in a variety of fields to work on the collaborative project. “Breathe” includes the bee-inspired work of choreographer Jane Gotch, composer Simon Fink, poet Hadara Bar-Nadav and chef Craig Howard, giving the exhibi-tion a true sense of community.

While in Kansas City, Scanga was an artist-in-residence at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she visited the senior printmak-ing classes and gave several guest lectures. The printmaking students even helped Scanga install the hundreds of pieces of tracing pa-per that made up the PLUG Project installation.

Scanga has wrapped up her work in Kansas City and will spend the remainder of the academic year in Europe, where she will explore new mediums and techniques. She will begin her European tour with a fellowship at the European Ce-ramics Center in the Netherlands.

From there she will move to Berlin, a city that she is attracted to for its “widely expanding art world.” Be-fore returning to Maine, she will make a final stop in Barcelona to work with local printmakers.

“I’m going to make a set of prints with him and he’s going to give me expertise in the process and help me with a new body of work,” said Scanga.

While her sabbatical will help her develop artistically, Scanga also hopes that it will increase her breadth as a teacher. She plans on channeling these new experiences and techniques back into the class-room next year in order to share them with students.

“I’m realizing that nurturing creativity in other people is like a logical extension in my own stu-dio practice,” said Scanga. “In the classroom I emphasize craft, it’s an important part of being an artist and it’s an important part of being a human—to express yourself with your hands.”

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solvents and Volatile Organic Com-pounds (VOCs) from her artistic process. 6 ese chemicals may lead to serious health problems such as brain damage and cancer, and print-makers are o7 en unavoidably ex-posed to them.

“These are all things that, in a traditional print studio, are just out and people are washing their hands in it. The fumes are everywhere,” Chalfin said. “There’s a whole gen-eration of printmakers that trained me that have suffered.”

Chalfin’s prints are unique in their combination of different me-diums; her work includes elements of etching, drawing, painting and photography. The print “evolution tale I” from her “Creation” series, for example, merges monotype, photo intaglio, graphite, and draw-ing ink into a single bewildering haze of animal sillouettes and mi-croscopic images of human body tissue.

Chalfin presents her work through books she publishes in limited quantities. She organizes prints into series under the head-ing of a guiding theme such as

what a single day can hold, or the relationship between plants and the human body. The loose-leaf, circular structure of her books al-lows readers to shuffle the pages and create their own narratives.

Every facet of her books holds particular personal signi5 cance, said Chal5 n, adding that her inspiration comes from social interactions, hu-man relationships, and culture.

She described culture as a process of both creation and destruction.

“Culture to me is both art mak-ing and the demolition derby. It’s the whole range of the human con-nection.”

Chalfin’s passion for printmak-ing began at California State Uni-versity, where she earned a masters degree in printmaking.

“It was love at first sight. When I walked into that studio as a fresh-man undergrad—well I was a ju-nior at that point—I knew this is what I want to do for the rest of my life,” she said. “I feel like I’m so lucky because not many people find a passion that kind of pulls them through life. I did, and I know that’s rare.”

Visiting the College on invita-tion from the Marvin Bileck Print-making Project, Chalfin spent time working with students in Print-making I and II.

As a teacher, she said she tries to create a traditional master and ap-prentice dynamic. She shows students her process and they then imitate her, producing copies of her work. 6 e students also practice technical skills like mixing colors, handling paper and using equipment.

Chalfin’s advises aspiring artists to seek out support and feedback.

“Find a community of artists wherever you are in your life. Find a community that you can share your work with, and make it a practice to continue working no matter what else you’re doing in your life,” she said.

Chalfin says she is unsure about specific future projects.

“I feel like I’m on a path, and I’ll just follow it, said Chalfin. “I have hundreds of images that I want to work from. So, I feel like at any point I could pull one out. What I’m going to do with it, I don’t know, but there’s always the next thing.”

Scanga develops printmaking craft in “Breathe” exhibit

COURTESY PLUG PROJECTSPAPER TRAIL: One of Scanga’s recent installations, “Breathe,” takes visitors inside an enormous paper lung constructed with painted tracing paper, string and glue.

COURTESY PLUG PROJECTSSAFETY FIRST: Liz Chalfi n demonstrates her process, which is designed to utilize safer printing materials.

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Solo paint exhibit debuts at Coleman Burke

6 e Coleman Burke Gallery de-buted its 7 rst solo paint show last week, featuring the work of Maine artist Arlee Woodworth. According to the gallery’s press release, the collection “blends the essence of abstraction with [Wood-worth’s] passion for the natural envi-ronment that she grew up in.”

Woodworth works primarily with oil paints and collage, o8 en on wood. Her art is composed of or-ganic, abstract 7 gures and forms, mixing striking colors with subtle relationships.

6 e gallery opened in 2006, when John Bisbee, Bowdoin’s sculptor-in-residence, was approached about some availible space in Fort Andross.

“Waterfront Maine—the manage-ment o9 ce for Fort Andross—men-tioned to me that they wanted to open a gallery, and I volunteered to run it for them,” said Bisbee.

Named after the owner of Fort Andross, the gallery focuses on site-specific projects, “artworks that are expressly designed for and

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made in response to the space, its history, [and] its location,” wrote Wethli in an email to the Orient.

“6 ere weren’t any other spaces in Maine that o: ered artists and the public this kind of opportunity,” Wethli wrote.

In addition to the Fort An-dross space, Bis-bee and Wethli opened branch-es of the gallery in Portland and New York City. Although the Manhattan lo-cation was suc-cessful, the pair ultimately de-cided to close the gallery in order to focus on other projects.

The New York location exhibited established and emerging artists, but the Maine Coleman Burke gal-leries are dedicated to continuing to exhibit “site-specific” art. The Brunswick location accommodates large-scale art while the Portland

Community MusicWorks brings music and message

Last Friday, Bowdoin hosted Community MusicWorks, a col-lective of talented professional string players who have dedicated themselves to providing a first-rate string music program to over 100 underprivileged children in Provi-dence, R.I.

MusicWorks founder Sebastian Ruth and seven other musicians, some full-time fellows and others volunteers, made the journey to Brunswick for a concert in Studz-inski Recital Hall.

The evening’s program included Beethoven’s “Quartet in F Major,” and Joachim Raff ’s “Octet in C Major.”

The performance was followed by a reception with Ruth, who ex-plained his motivation for starting Community MusicWorks in 1997.

“I was looking for a viable way to be a classical musician and make an impact in the world,” he said.

Ruth is passionate about educa-tion and decided to begin teaching underprivileged youth. 6 rough his instruction, Ruth is able to bring

musical instruction to children who would not otherwise have access to it.

Community MusicWorks is made up of a network of fellows in Providence. These musicians are responsible for instructing students admitted to the program, which involves motivation and working with them to generate a repertoire of artistic skills. Students recieve instruments at no cost.

To participate in Community MusicWorks, you must live in one of the organization’s active neigh-borhoods. Interested students can sign up on a waiting list to join. The program expands every year with new staff members, free ser-vices, and free lessons on a variety of string instruments.

Ruth says his mission is to make classical music accessible to those who cannot a: ord to buy concert tickets, violins or pay for lessons.

For Community MusicWorks Fellows, the most rewarding aspect of the classes is the children they are able to work with.

“The best part is helping these kids to see their futures as full of more possibilities,” said cellist and Fellow Lauren Latessa.

gallery is a smaller, all-window storefront space.

The Brunswick location is also unique in that it is often unattend-ed and open to the public.

“In order to keep the gallery open as much as possible, and since we have no budget to pay a gallery at-tendant, we do without one and trust that visitors will enjoy and respect the work on their own,” wrote Wethli.

“It also helps that we gener-

ally present work that’s too large or unwieldy for people to think about taking them,” he added.

! e Coleman Burke Gallery is lo-cated at 14 Maine Street in the Fort An-dross Mill, outside Frontier Café. ! e gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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“In order to keep the gallery open as much as possible, and since we have no budget to pay a gallery attendent, we go without one and

trust that visitors will enjoy and respect the work on their own.”

MARK WETHLIPROFESSOR OF ART

BRIAN JACOBEL, BOWDOIN ORIENTPAINT THE TOWN: The paintings of Maine artist Arlee Woodworth are now on view in the Coleman Burke Gallery.

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Melissa Haskell ’13 was integral to Bowdoin’s o5 ense, racking up 18 kills and 10 digs. Christy Jewett ’16 also made an important o5 ensive contribution with nine kills.

6 is dramatic win came a7 er the team’s 3-1 showing this past week-

Women’s volleyball drops fi rst game; beats UMass Boston

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ONE-TWO PUNCH: Outside hitters Hilary Cederna ’13 and Melissa Haskell ‘13 attempt to block a UMass Boston ball. The Polar Bears won the match 3-0.

end at the MIT Invitational, played at Endicott College.

In the 8 rst match of that tournma-nent Bowdoin su5 ered its 8 rst loss of 2012 to Spring8 eld College with a 8 nal score of 3-1. 6 ough Bowdoin won the 8 rst set 15-25, the team

failed to capitalize on this momen-tum as the match progressed and lost the next three sets 25-15, 25-16, 25-18.

In the loss to Spring8 eld, Haskell again led the team with nine kills while Emi Gaal ’15 and Ellie Brennan

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’14 racked up seven each. Bowdoin quickly rebounded,

cruising to an easy 3-0 victory over Mount Ida later in the night, with set scores of 25-17, 25-16, 25-15.

In the match against Mount Ida several of the team’s 8 rst-year play-ers shone. Hailey Wahl ’16 led o5 en-sively with seven kills and McKenzie Kessel ’16 getting nine digs as libero.

6 e team went on to sweep both matches on Saturday, triumphing over Roger Williams and Newbury College in a pair of 3-0 wins with set scores of 25-13, 25-23, 25-11, and 25-11, 25-20, 25-17 respectively.

Finishing the weekend 3-1, the Polar Bears came in fourth in the tournament and Haskell was named to the All-Tournament Team.

“6 e loss to Spring8 eld was really disappointing, but I’m happy with the team’s performance on the week-end overall,” said Captain Tory Edel-man ’13. “Despite the loss I feel like we’ll come out of the tournament a better team. 6 is loss was exactly the wake up call that we needed to make sure that we stay sharp and focused on our skills. I’m really glad it wasn’t to a NESCAC team.”

6 e Polar Bears return to the court this weekend at home in the Mor-rell Gym with a pair of conference matches. 6 e action starts tonight against Wesleyan at 8 p.m. and con-tinues tomorrow at 2 p.m. against Connecticut College.

6 e women’s volleyball team de-feated UMass Boston in a 8 ercely-fought battle last Tuesday. 6 e 3-0 victory came in the wake of Bow-doin’s 8 rst season loss at the MIT Invitational last weekend against Spring8 eld College.

Tuesday’s win marked the second time the Polar Bears bested the Bea-cons this year, improving the team’s record to 11-1 while UMass fell to 9-5.

6 ough Bowdoin came away with a shutout win, the individual sets were closely contested. In the 8 rst, Bowdoin recouped a two-point de8 -cit late in the game to take the win 25-23.

6 ey replicated this come-from-behind success in the second set, which ended with a tense back and forth that drove the score to 30-28 before the Polar Bears 8 nally locked the win. A7 er this struggle, the third set came relatively easily, and the team clinched the match with a 25-21 victory.

Women’s soccer loses fi rst match to Middlebury, beats UNE

6 is past weekend, the unbeaten Middlebury Panthers dealt the women’s soccer team its 8 rst loss of the season, dropping the Polar Bears (4-1 overall, 2-1 NESCAC).

In the 8 rst half of the game, the Pan-thers outshot Bowdoin 6-1, but neither team was able to make it past the keep-ers. Following the half, Middlebury de-fender Lucy Wagner lo7 ed a shot over keeper Bridget McCarthy ’16 and into the back of the net. For the remainder of the match, the Middlebury defense held onto the score to continue their then-perfect season. 6 e team tied also-undefeated Amherst the next day.

“6 e Middlebury game was tough. 6 ey were de8 nitely the best opponent we’ve faced so far,” said Camille Was-inger ’15. “I think our real problem was that it took us some time to 8 gure out how to best play against them. We took up a good portion of the 8 rst half 8 gur-ing out our strategy and how to defend them and ended up missing some of our best scoring opportunities.”

Despite the Polar Bears’ loss to Mid-dlebury, however, Wasinger is optimistic if they face the Panthers again, which is likely to happen if both teams make the NESCAC playo5 s.

“6 ere’s no doubt Middlebury is a good team, but I think the game could easily have gone the other way, as I hope

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it will if we face them again,” she said. On Tuesday, the Polar Bears returned

to action with a non-conference win over UNE at home. A7 er trading pos-session for a large part of the 8 rst half, Bowdoin’s Toni DeCampo ’13 scored the game’s only goal in the 8 nal 8 7 een minutes of the 8 rst half.

Senior Carolyn Gorajek fed the ball from the right wing to DeCampo, who was perched at the top of the box. De-Campo struck the ball hard, sending a shot that just snuck between the cross-bar and the keeper’s outstretched hands.

6 e game was scoreless from that point on, securing the win for the Polar Bears. Although the Nor’easters outshot Bowdoin 17-15 throughout the game, the Polar Bear defense held tough, and goaltenders Bridget McCarthy and Lou-ise Johnson ’14 combined for nine saves overall.

“While it was a very important win,” she said, “we should de8 nitely have won by more than we did.”

Although Bowdoin did not play its best in the past two games, the games against UNE and Middlebury taught the Polar Bears a few much-needed les-sons in defense.

“Our main focus is now on better defending the mid8 eld,” Wasinger said. “We are hoping to come to the Con-necticut College match much more pre-pared to win balls before they reach our defense.”

6 e Polar Bears are in 8 7 h place in the NESCAC behind Williams, Middle-bury, Hamilton and Amherst.

6 e next game for Bowdoin will be a home conference match tomorrow at noon against Connecticut College.

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The Polar Bears fell to Middle-bury away last Saturday, marking the team’s first regular-season de-feat since October 2010. Ranked fifth the NFHCA D-III rankings going into the match, Bowdoin has since dropped down to sixth, while the Panthers, still undefeat-ed, moved to second place behind Salisbury.

Middlebury forward Lauren

Greer, D-III’s goal leader last year, scored the first goal for the Pan-thers early in the first period.

Even play pushed both goal-keepers to make key saves, but Middlebury was able score again in the first half before Bowdoin managed to find the Panther’s goal.

Despite out-shooting Middle-bury 15-14 in the first half and 7-6 in the second half, the Polar Bears failed to find the net again. Kayla Lessard ’13 and Middlebury goalkeeper Madeline Brooks each made six saves.

Head Coach Nicky Pearson said that though Middlebury capital-ized on Bowdoin’s weaknesses, the Polar Bears are not a weaker team.

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“They just converted on one more of their chances than we did,” she said.

Bowdoin missed numerous op-portunities in the first 15 minutes of the match, giving the Panthers the momentum they needed to come away with the win.

“They pride themselves on a fast and fluid transition game,” said Pearson, noting the Panther’s abil-ity to convert rebounds and missed shots into offensive pressure.

Pearson says she will focus on training her players to smoothly receive the ball in practice, as poor first-touches proved problematic against the disciplined Middlebury team.

“We will use this game the way we use every single game,” Pearson said. “The players will make the commitment that this will make them a stronger team. That has al-ways been our approach.”

Coming off the dissapointing loss, the team played non-confer-ence Me.-Farmington, winning 7-0. The win was unsurprising as the Polar Bears have not let Me.-Farmington score a single goal since Bill Clinton was in the White House.

The team performed masterfully on defense, preventing the Beavers from even threatening the Polar Bear goalies.

Bowdoin will have more chances to regain its confidence after the Middlebury loss in home games against Connecticut College to-morrow at 11 a.m. and Bates on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Conn. is 2-2 in the NESCAC, compared to Bow-doin’s 1-1 record.

JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

MOVING ON: The team’s goal leader, Cathleen Smith ‘13 pushes the ball past a UMF defender.

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Men’s soccer wins two with late goal scoring

5 e men’s soccer team will look to extend its 6 ve-game win streak this weekend against Connecticut College at home.

“I think that we’re really starting to come together,” said junior captain Ben

Brewster. “We have a good group of young guys who are working well with the leadership of the older players and we have to keep on rolling.”

5 e Polar Bears are fresh o7 of two straight NESCAC victories last week, and started by beating Middlebury in an away game Saturday.

“Middlebury was good going in and we knew that we had a huge opportunity to have a de6 ning win, which any sea-son needs,” said senior co-captain Call Nichols.

Middlebury had only one real scor-ing chance in the 6 rst half, but a diving

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play by junior goalkeeper Will Wise kept the game scoreless going into the break. Bowdoin’s o7 ense came alive in the second half, but no one found the net until the 80th minute when Andrew Gray ’15 got a foot on a loose ball a8 er a corner kick by Eric Goitia ’15. Gray’s shot slipped past the Middlebury goalie and decided the match at 1-0.

Bowdoin then hosted Bates on Tues-day a8 ernoon.

“Bates was a big one because we al-ways play a preseason scrimmage and this year we lost 2-0, which really never happens,” he said. “We had to make a statement. Midd and Babson were big for us in 6 guring out what works for us and how we’ll be successful.”

5 e Bobcats opened scoring with a 12th minute header o7 a 9 oater in the box. Bowdoin got an opportunity to equalize with a penalty late in the half. Goitia made his shot and the teams went to intermission tied.

Possession was fairly equal until late in the second half, when Andrew Jones ’16 placed a cross in to Zach Dans-saert ’14, who knocked it past the Bates keeper with 6 ve minutes le8 in play. 5 e Bobcats threatened with a few free kicks in the 6 nal minutes, but Bowdoin held on, maintaining the 2-1 score.

“5 ere is a spirit in the group and a hunger to do well,” said Head Coach Fran O’Leary. “5 is has manifested it-self in them 6 nding ways to win tight games.”

5 e Polar Bears will continue their home series at noon on Saturday against the Conn. College Camels. While win-less in NESCAC play, the Camels are coming o7 a non-conference victory at UMass Dartmouth.

Asked about the team’s mentality go-ing into the weekend, O’Leary said:

“We approach it like we approach all of it: just one at a time and looking to give a competitive performance. And if we give it, then we’ll win our share of games. We’ll give our good e7 ort and that will su: ce.”

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CROSSING OVER: Eddie Jones ’13 shucks a Bates defender as the team earns a winning NESCAC record.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEKKerry Townsend ’13

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No fall sports team has been as dominant this year as women’s rugby. 5 e team is 5-0, and has outscored their opponents by an astounding 220-3 margin.

Anchoring the team is senior captain Kerry Townsend. 5 e Balti-more, Md. native has scored at least once in each of the team’s 6 ve vic-tories and scored twice in Sunday’s 69-0 win over Bates.

“I had played soccer my whole life, but within a week of being on campus I had decided I wanted to try something new,” Townsend said. “I tried rugby and ended up really, really liking it.”

According to Head Coach Mary-Beth Matthews, Townsend’s strong work ethic has helped her become one of the team’s leading scorers.

“She has always been eager to learn rugby,” Matthews said. “I re-member when she was a 6 rst-year, she would always stay late a8 er practice, ask upperclassmen for ad-vice and continue to work on her game.”

Townsend has excelled despite switching to an entirely new posi-tion on the team. Originally a wing, she started to play her current full-back position at the end of last year. She is now tasked with anchoring the entire defense and is o8 en the last line to prevent an opposing

team from scoring. “It was a little scary at 6 rst,” she

said. “5 ere was a lot more pres-sure on me because I wasn’t really used to playing defense.”

But even away from o7 ense, Townsend has continued to score.

“What separates her is her speed and her great footwork,” said Mat-thews. “She is great at creating her own space.”

While Townsend has been a strong presence on the 6 eld, Coach Matthews says she has also been a leader o7 the 6 eld.

“Kerry has been a terri6 c cap-tain,” Matthews said. “She leads by example and wouldn’t ask anyone else to do something that she isn’t already doing herself.”

Even with new roles on defense and as team captain, Townsend said the most fun has been tak-ing on new teams. 5 is year is the squad’s 6 rst in the New England Small College Rugby Conference (NESCRC). While the team had previously competed against larg-er schools such as University of Maine and Northeastern, the new conference includes more familiar Bowdoin opponents such as Am-herst, Williams, Middlebury, Tu8 s, Bates, and Colby.

“It’s been a lot of fun because we are playing teams that people on campus are familiar with,” Townsend said.

“She leads by example and wouldn’t ask anyone else to do something that she isn’t

already doing herself.”

MARYBETH MATTHEWS HEAD COACH OF WOMEN’S RUGBY

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Cross country takes fi rst and second on weekendBY RACHEL GLADSTONE

STAFF WRITER

SCORECARDSa 9/22 Wesleyan Invtl (Men)

Wesleyan Invtl (Women)1ST/102ND/11

5 e men and women’s cross coun-try teams impressed by taking 6 rst and second place respectively at last weekend’s Wesleyan Invitational.

On the men’s side, there was sti7 competition from both Wesleyan and Johnson and Wales University; many of the runners from both of those schools had quali6 ed as All-New England runners last year.

During the 6 rst mile of the race, the Bowdoin men were spread tenth through 6 8 eenth. Not until the third mile did the top 6 ve runners move up to the fourth, 6 8 h, sixth, seventh, and eighth places. By the 6 8 h mile, Nick Saba ’14, Sam Seekins ’14, Coby

Horowitz ’14, Kevin Hoose ’15, and Greg Talpey ’14 managed to take the lead, winning the race with only mil-liseconds between each other.

“Our 6 ve man spread in the men’s lineup has been terri6 c. Good teams are usually only 50 or 60 seconds apart from the 6 rst to the 6 8 h man,” said Coach Peter Slovenski about the men’s remarkable ability to keep pace with each other.

In addition to those leading the weekend’s race, Slovenski said that recent progress by both James Boed-ing ’14 and Marcus Schneider ’13 suggests that they will have positive impacts in the next races.

On the women’s side, Wesleyan, Smith, and Connecticut College have traditionally been considered by some to be fast teams in previous sea-sons. Wesleyan managed to take 6 rst with Bowdoin’s Olivia MacKenzie ’13 only 2.7 seconds behind.

MacKenzie and Madelena Rizzo ’14 were in 6 8 eenth place running to-

gether during the 6 rst mile; it was not until the third mile that they man-aged to scoot up into a three-way tie with Wesleyan runner Julia Marks.

“Madelena and Olivia looked very strong running together—I think they’ll have even better kicking phas-es in the last month of the season,” said Slovenski, referring to the last stretch of the race.

Overall, Slovenski believes that the women’s team has good depth but that the gap between the number two and three spots needs to be closed.

“I think the runners in places three through six will keep improving as the season goes on,” he said.

According to Slovenski, Wesleyan’s hilly course proved challenging for his team, giving the Cardinals a solid homecourse advantage. For the rest of the season, the Polar Bears will be training and running on 9 at and fast courses, and Slovenski said he hopes the women will can catch the Wes-leyan’s team when they meet again.

According to Slovenski, the success of the Polar Bears has largely been carried by upperclassmen runners.

“I think the men’s and women’s 6 rst year runners are still adjusting to col-lege training, dorm life, and college cross country courses,” said Slovenski.

5 e Polar Bears will not compete again until October 7 at the Open New England Championship. At the championship, between 30 and 40 teams will be competing. Slovenski hopes that Bowdoin will be able to get within the top 10 or 15 teams.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Bowdoin’s sailing team competed in three events this past weekend—the Women’s Regis Bowl at Boston University, the Hood Trophy at Tu5 s, and the Chris Loder Trophy at the University of New Hamp-shire.

Overall, Bowdoin placed 6 5 h out of 16 teams at the Regis Bowl, seventh out of 19 at the Hood Tro-phy, and 6 5 h out of 16 at the Loder Trophy.

“We had all good events, and all good results,” said Coach Frank Pizzo. “All three competitions were on lakes, which are really shitty and tricky places to sail.”

Lizzie Hamilton ’15 and Isabel Low ’13 competed in the A division at the Regis Bowl, placing fourth, while Courtney Koos ’16, Olivia Diserio ’16, and Elise Engquist ’15 competed in the B division, placing seventh.

Michael Croteau ’15 and Char-lotte Williamson ’15 competed in the A division at the Hood Trophy, and placed sixth. 7 e Hood Trophy is an inter-conference regatta, and Pizzo said that there were teams there from all over the country.

“It was really competitive,” he said, “and a good breakout performance for [Croteau and Williamson].”

Peter Edmunds ’14 and Mae Spei-ght ’13 6 nished 9th in the B division at the Hood Trophy.

At the Loder Trophy, Sarah Fiske ’13 and Ayaka Okawa ’14 sailed in the A division while Phil Koch ’15, Tess Lemayer ’16, Erin Mullins ’16, and Kim Dempsey ’14 sailed in the B division.

Pizzo said that he has been happy with the team’s performance so far this season.

7 is upcoming weekend, the team will compete in the Hewitt Trophy at home, the Danmarck Trophy at the Coast Guard Acad-emy, New England Women’s Sin-glehanded Champs at Connecticut College, the Connecticut College Invitational, and the Smith Trophy at MIT.

-Compiled by Nicole Westman.

Men’s ultimate debuts in its fi rst invitational of the year

SCORECARDSa 9/22 Women’s Regis Bowl (BU)

Hood Trophy (Tufts)Chris Loder Trophy (UNH)

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Undefeated women’s rugby licks Bates in 69-0 game

SCORECARDSa 9/22 at Bates W 69!0

passes during this drive. Jimmy Gar-vey ’14 capped o8 the drive as his 27-yard kick sailed through the uprights.

7 e Polar Bears stopped the Pan-thers’ counter-attack in only two min-utes, but this victory was short-lived. In their ensuing possession, White was knocked out of the game.

Dissapointed by the loss of his starting quarterback, Caputi said he remains con6 dent that the o8 ense, led by 7 omas Romero ’14, can still run smoothly.

In Middlebury’s next possession, Foote wove a 24-yard touchdown pass through Bowdoin’s defense, extending their lead to 14-3.

Even though he seemed rattled by the defense in his 6 rst series, Romero looked comfortable in his second go-around as he led a 77-yard drive on only seven plays. He found Nick Goldin ’13 for 40 yards and capped the drive with a 28-yard touchdown pass to Black.

Although the Bowdoin team en-tered the half time locker room on a high note, they couldn’t surmount the 21-9 de6 cit in the second half. 7 e Polar Bears only mustered two 6 eld goals and a touchdown against the Panthers.

Running back Greg Pierce ’13 scored this touchdown, collecting 82 yards on 18 carries overall. Accord-ing to Caputi, Pierce will be key to the team’s ground game. With star running back Zach Donnarumma ’14 on the injured reserve list, Caputi un-derstands the di9 culty of losing both him and star receiver Sean O’Malley ‘13, but refuses to allow injuries to be-come excuses.

“7 ey have a certain physicality, hardness, and provide both a physi-cal and emotional li5 ,” said Caputi. “When you take those guys away, that hurts us. Is it a reason we lost? No.”

With White now injured as well, Romero will start tomorrow’s battle.

Last weekend, Stoned Clown, the men’s ultimate team, hosted their first invitational of the fall club season against college and club teams from around New Eng-land. Stoned Clown approached this tournament focusing on learning rather than winning.

“It was entirely a learning expe-rience. Our freshmen who nor-mally don’t get a lot of playing time in the spring got a lot more playing time because it wasn’t about just scoring points”, said Captain Mi-chael Ben-Zvi ’13.

Further emphasizing the lack of concern for the scoreboard, the team was split “XY” style with the A-side divided between the two teams playing in the tournament.

“The fall is our club season which we don’t take as seriously,” said Ben-Zvi. “We use the club sea-son as a jumping off point to see where need to improve on for the spring.”

This year Stoned Clown is both a younger and smaller team, hav-ing lost a total of 30 seniors last year—10 from the A-side and 20 from the B-side. The team’s ranks, however, have gained a significant boost from the large turnout from this year’s freshman class, some of whom have experience from high school ultimate teams.

This first invitational allowed Stoned Clown to not only gauge the strengths and weaknesses of the new squad, but also work to-gether as a team in a game setting.

“We wanted to see where we were at in terms of playing abil-ity together, what offenses and defenses we want to run, and our conditioning level,” Ben-Zvi said.

The tournament was not with-out smaller victories for the Stoned Clown. One major highlight of the weekend was scoring an unantici-pated point against Garuda, the second-best team in Boston.

Stoned Clown looks ahead to Clambake, a two-day tournament run by the Red Tide club from Portland on the weekend of Oc-tober 15. The team has also just submitted a bid for an all-college tournament at Brown, which would count for their spring re-cords.

-Compiled by Dmitria Spathakis.

7 e women’s rugby team domi-nated Bates from start to 6 nish in a landslide 69-0 win on Saturday, maintaining the team’s perfect re-cord (2-0 NESCAC, 5-0 overall).

Bowdoin constantly pressed Bates into their defensive zone, thereby preventing the Bobcats from devel-oping any o8 ensive rhythm.

Captain Kerry Townsend ’13 led the team in tries scored with four; Anissa Tanksley ’14 had two tries, and Emily Athanas-Linden ’15, Amanda Montenegro ’14, captain Uche Esonu ’13, Maddie Baird ’15 and Hayleigh Kein ’15 all contrib-uted one try each.

Just as in last week’s match, Bowdoin’s early lead allowed Head Coach MaryBeth Mathews to focus on some of the team’s more nuanced technical aspects of their game.

“7 ese past two weekends Bowdoin has physically dominated their opponents…It’s 6 ne to win, but it is not enough to win simply by physical domination, [the play-ers] must be sure they are execut-ing precisely and playing the game well,” wrote Mathews in an email to the Orient.

Mathews said she wants to maxi-mize the time spent on the 6 eld by subbing in non-starters so that they gain valuable playing experience while also asking more experienced players to practice unfamiliar skills such as kicking for 6 eld advance-ment.

“As coaches, we would also chal-lenge them to cut down on mis-takes, and improve areas that are lacking in their individual games as well as in their unit and team play…Making strategic substitutions is a very e8 ective way of helping other players learn and improve quickly,” she said.

“Playing alongside their starting teammates shows them the con6 -dence we have in them, and helps them play at a higher level than they might otherwise.”

7 e Polar Bears are looking to continue their undefeated season against NESCAC opponent Tu5 s at home tomorrow at 10 a.m.

-Compiled by Andres Botero.

Football struggles against Middlebury, losing fi rst game and starting quarterbackBY BERNIE CLEVENS

STAFF WRITER

SCORECARDSa 9/22 at Middlebury L 42!18

Tomorrow at 1 p.m., the Polar Bears have the chance to start anew at Whit-tier Field as they take on defending NESCAC champion Amherst.

Last Saturday, the football team lost its season opener to a potent Middle-bury o8 ense 42-18 while simulta-neously losing starting quarterback Grant White ’14.

A unexpected late hit in the 6 rst half knocked White to the ground and resulted in a concussion. He was side-lined for the game and will not play against Amherst this weekend.

On Bowdoin’s opening possession, a pass attempt by White was intercept-ed and returned to the nine-yard line.

A couple plays later, Panther quarter-back McCallum Foote found an open receiver for a quick 7-0 lead.

Re: ecting on the game, Head Coach Dave Caputi pointed towards several early interceptions as one of the o8 ense’s 6 rst-week mistakes.

“We gave them the ball in fourth- down territory. We gave them 21 points. And then in some of the other drives, we lost sight of the ball and had coverage lapses,” said Caputi.

7 e game didn’t truly spark to life until the Polar Bears were against the wall. With three minutes le5 in the 6 rst quarter, a delay of game penalty knocked the team back to their own seven yard-line. he refused to let this start plague the o8 ense. Over the next four minutes, White led a charge down6 eld showcasing his dual-threat talents, accounting for 60 of the team’s 72 yards—38 on the ground and 22 in the air. Sophomore David Black was on the receiving end for all of White’s

Amherst quarterback Max Lippe does not seem nearly as productive (12 of 18, 116 yards and 1 touchdown) as Middlebury’s Foote, who earned NESCAC Football Player of the Week honors for his performance against Bowdoin. To exploit Lippe’s inexpe-rience, the defense can hope to bring more pressure to the back6 eld than they did against Middlebury.

In addition to applying pressure on Lippe, Caputi hopes the defensive line can stop runners earlier. Amherst’s running backs proved they are more than capable of exploiting a hesitant defense a5 er picking up 376 yards on the ground in last weekend’s 38-14 win against Hamilton.

Amherst’s powerful o8 ense a8 ords Bowdoin the opportunity to make a statement of defense. 7 is will be an-other occasion for the once-support-ing cast of Pierce, Romero, and Black to move into the spotlight and lead the Polar Bears forward.

SCHEDULESa 9/22 v. Tufts NOON

Compiled by Carolyn Veilleux Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC, NESCRC

SCHEDULEF 9/29 v. Connecticut College 2:00 P.M

MEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

SCHEDULESa 9/29Tu 10/2

v. Connecticut Collegev. Saint Joseph’s (Me.)

NOON 4:30 P.M.

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NESCAC Standings

WOMEN’S GOLF

FIELD HOCKEY

SCHEDULESa 9/29 v. Connecticut College 11:00 A.M.

Tu 10/2 v. Bates 7:00 P.M.

MEN’S GOLFSCHEDULEF 9/28 at USM Invit’l (Gorham GC) TBA

Sa 9/29 at NESCAC Champ. (Hickory RIdge GC)

10:30 A.M.

Su 9/30 at NESCAC Champ. (Hickory Ridge GC)

10:30 A.M.

SAILINGSCHEDULESa 9/29 Danmark Trophy (Coast Guard)

Singlehanded Champ.(Conn.)Hewitt Trophy (Bowdoin) Conn. Coll. Invitational (Conn.)Smith Trophy (MIT)

10:00 A.M.10:00 A.M.10:00 A.M.10:00 A.M.10:00 A.M.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

SCHEDULESa 9/29 v. Connecticut College NOON.

W 10/3 v. Maine- Farmington 3:30 P.M.

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The night Choice was transported from Ladd

Dear Dean Foster,

Hazing is a serious allegation and for good reason. It can cause significant emotional and, in the most serious instances, physical harm. Hazing demeans people and can ostracize those we ought to welcome.

Bowdoin’s commitment to fos-tering community is a noble goal and one which clearly does not al-low for the humiliation of its new-est members.

It is that seriousness that makes the recent allegations of hazing by the Bowdoin Men’s Rugby Foot-ball Club so absurd and insulting. If Bowdoin and its administration truly want to stomp out hazing at the College, they should take care in publicly accusing organizations of such serious misconduct.

HYPOCRITICAL HIPPOPOTAMI

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Labeling the acts of hyping up

a college-sanctioned party and donning party outfits in the din-ing hall—something done weekly by social houses—as hazing only serves to undermine the credibility of the administration (and dilute public perception of future allega-tions of hazing).

The recent series of hazing al-legations and punishments at Bowdoin has turned me from a supporter of Bowdoin’s admin-istration and its goals to a strong skeptic of nearly every move the College’s leaders make.

The punishing of the Med-diebempsters for an event de-signed specifically to avoid hazing accusations was a strong step in a disturbing and irrational direc-tion. This most recent event in-volving the rugby team has truly

turned me and others against what we once saw as an administration guiding the College in a positive direction.

I hope that the administration will reconsider its punishments and take more care to avoid pre-maturely accusing innocent stu-dents of grave misconduct.

Tight knit communities like the men’s rugby team are integral to the Bowdoin experience and it is crucial that they work with the administration to make Bowdoin the great school it is. Unless it changes, however, the administra-tion will continue to lose the sup-port of alumni who are becoming disaffected with the handling of the student affairs of the College.

Sincerely, Jack MorrisonClass of 2011

If this were a police report, we would start with the facts. But because this is Bowdoin, we have to start with a story.

Almost two weeks ago, Epicuria hap-pened, and our normally cliquey and divided student body came together in one of those rare moments when de-bauchery overshadows the crippling social paralysis that o6 en pervades our community. 5 is paralysis stems from students constantly judging and being judged by their peers. For one night, though, the drinking culture veered into unfamiliar territory—uncivilized and unsafe, it became a pagan a7 air.

To hear the adults tell it, the rugby team generated an irresponsible level of excitement and enthusiasm around the party. 5 ey whipped the campus into a frenzy. 5 en they fueled that 8 re with o7 -campus pre-games involving hard alcohol. Unsurprisingly, the transports piled in.

While the rugby team was com-mended for calling security when they became worried about a student, they were also lambasted for provid-ing alcohol to minors and for hazing. In his campus-wide email, Tim Fos-ter, dean of student a7 airs, wrote of the “obvious abandonment of sound judgment and the abdication of re-sponsibility by leaders of the team.”

I’m not a dean or a detective, nor do I play one on TV. I don’t claim to have all the facts straight, but given the rugby team’s comments, it cer-tainly sounds like they messed up at some level. At the very least, they pro-

vided alcohol to minors and violated the school’s hard alcohol policies.

Yet I can’t muster any moral out-rage toward them. Maybe it’s because most students break those rules week-end a6 er weekend.

5 ere is one question that does get me 8 red up, however: what happened to choice?

If the rugby team poured the gas-oline, what about the people who lit the match? In the rush to blame the rugby team for everything at Epicu-ria, it seems we are overlooking the choices that the transported stu-dents made to set off this shitstorm.

At Bowdoin there is an urge to at-tribute everything that happens on campus to “community”, “campus culture”, “society”, and social dy-namics, all of which are big, fancy ways to explain that our environ-ment affects our actions, and that we are part of a larger whole.

Sometimes though, it feels like the individual gets completely ob-scured. Suddenly, “affect” turns into “predetermine” and “looking after each other” turns into “polic-

ing each other.” When this happens, students are absolved of agency. The transgressions of any individual are interpreted as collective failure.

And that’s when we’ve gone too far. It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, we are respon-sible for our own actions. Our en-vironment may affect our choices, but each day we make choices about the kind of environments in which we place ourselves. We each choose who we spend our time with. If my social scene isn’t to your liking, that’s fine. You don’t have to be a part of it and you’re certainly not invited to join our fantasy football league.

One of the best parts of a lib-eral arts education is that it makes you aware enough to choose con-sciously and, ideally, conscien-tiously. With the ability to make choices comes the ability to royally screw up on your own behalf. And with that ability to royally screw up comes the obligation to face personal consequences.

Sometimes, when there are four transports in a night, it is because there were four individuals who chose to attend parties with hard alcohol and chose to idiotically and enthusiastically drink them-selves into a dangerous place.

And sometimes, when upper-classmen get summonses from Brunswick police and discipline handed down from the College, it’s because they broke the law and violated student policies.

And sometimes the former has a lot less to do with the latter than any scandalous story would lead us to believe. Correlation does not al-ways imply causation.

If the rugby team poured thegasoline, what about the people

who lit the match? In the rush to blame the rugby team for

everything at Epicuria, it seems we are overlooking the choices that

the transported students made to set o! this shitstorm.

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5 e Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) will convene for the 8 rst time this year on October 10, and some BSG Executive O9 cers have already begun to make good on last year’s campaign promises. 5 is week, BSG Vice President (VP) of Sustainability Tessa Kramer succeeded in her goal of improving the Bowdoin Shuttle system. It is a strong 8 rst step, and we applaud her e7 ort to follow through with her platform. We hope other BSG o9 cers will similarly actualize the proposals they ran on, and we en-courage students to hold representatives accountable for their actions, or lack thereof.

When they ran for o9 ce last spring, BSG President Dani Chediak and VP for Aca-demic A7 airs Leah Greenberg both promised to push back the Credit/D/Fail dead-line. Chediak also prioritized creating free meal passes for guests and working with the Career Planning Center to organize standardized test prep classes. VP for Student A7 airs Sarah Levin said she would push for more diverse College House programs, and VP for the Treasury Charlie Cubeta promised a fair and transparent process for funding student organizations. We look forward to seeing each senior o9 cer pursue these goals, but recognize that they cannot single-handedly implement these changes.

5 e newly elected class council members also made signi8 cant pledges to their classmates. Senior Class President Melody Hahm promised to coordinate networking events with alumni and mixers with Bates and Colby. Robo Tavel became president of the 8 rst year class without a substantive platform, but we hope he channels the enthu-siasm of his campaign into concrete action.

It’s easy to be skeptical about student government and to ignore BSG intitiatives. But civic participation has never been easier: with a dynamic new website and @bsgpresi-dent Twitter account, the BSG is better equipped to interact with the community and govern transparently than ever before. A “Speak Up!” tab on the new site invites stu-dents to post and discuss suggestions for the assembly. While all students are invited to attend weekly BSG meetings on Wednesday nights in Daggett Lounge, you don’t need to show up at 5 orne to have your voice heard.

5 e class council elections were just the beginning of a politically-charged fall. November 4 is 39 days away, and important referendums are on the ballot in Maine. Question 1 would overturn the state’s 2009 ban on same-sex marriage, and Ques-tions 2 through 6 are measures that would issue millions in bonds for infrastructure repair and expanding Maine’s community college system. 5 e latest Rasmussen poll shows Angus King ahead by 12 points in the Senate race, a marked decrease from his 30-point lead June, according to 5 e Morning Sentinel. If he wins, King will head to Washington as an Independent with real leverage to address the concerns of Maine residents. With a narrow gap between President Obama and Governor Romney in the presidential race, the outcome in November will shape what the world looks like when we when we leave the Bowdoin Pines.

Students can vote in Maine or in their home state, and where you cast your ballot is a personal choice. But it is not one to be taken lightly, and being far from home is no excuse. Absentee ballots will be available at the O9 ce of Residential Life beginning on October 5, and students can register on campus as Maine voters through October 11.

Elected national, state, and student o9 cials have an obligation to pursue their campaign promises. As their constituents, we have a responsibility to remain in-volved and keep the pressure on. Whether on Twitter, in the dining hall, or in print, let’s stay engaged.

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If Romney wants to play doctor, the fi rst step lies in offering clear advice

I’m okay with the fact that I can’t have a beer with Mitt Romney. At this point in the election cycle, I’d su5 er through a glass of tomato juice if it meant the conversation would turn to how he plans to help me, a 21-year-old middle-class woman who will be soon be paying o5 stu-dent loans.

V8 in hand, I’d rope him in with the promise of a Grey’s Anatomy recap—and quickly steer him to the topic of economic surgery. We wom-en voters are savvy that way.

On Tuesday, I came across David Lauter’s news analysis piece in the Los Angeles Times. Lauter writes that a “shi6 in voter attitudes” has given Obama the lead in recent polls, and cites Whit Ayres’ metaphorical synopsis of the campaign.

“To describe the state of mind of voters he encountered in focus groups this election cycle, Republi-can pollster Whit Ayres has used the metaphor of a parent searching for a surgeon to treat a grievously ill child. Faced with such dire need, the parent would have no interest in anything other than the surgeon’s skill with the knife,” he writes.

I paused my reading to fully con-sider Ayres’ metaphor. It’s riveting, not because it o5 ers a clever literary path to a relatively unproductive criticism of Romney, but because extending this metaphor of the surgeon helps us see where Romney still has a chance of improving his relationship with voters.

Imagine yourself as Ayres’ meta-phorical parent:

7 e surgeon’s o8 ce is in a really nice part of town, the lobby is gor-geous. In fact, you’re a little bit in-timidated by the whole thing. You’ve heard talk that the surgeon tends to take on wealthy patients 9 rst, and that when they improve, your daugh-ter will improve too.

Well, you’re not quite sure how that equation works, and you’re put o5 by the old man talking to an empty chair

Still, you stay in the waiting room. A nice nurse with blond hair comes out to extol the surgeon’s personal qualities. “He’s unsel9 sh,” she says, “a real family man.” He sounds like a great guy, but you want to hear from him, you want to hear his plan for your daughter—you want speci9 cs.

Finally, they call you in. 7 e sur-geon looks the part. He’s polite and articulate, but the conversation is

vague. Maybe all 9 rst consultations are like this? You decide to make another appointment to discuss the details.

As you walk out through the opulent halls you overhear the surgeon in an-other meeting. He’s talking to a room of wealthy patients. He tells them that he’s not interested in serving people like your daughter because her parents ex-pect discounted treatment. All of your fears that this might be a mistake rise to the surface.

Do you go ahead and make another appointment?

Whit Ayres is right. As I imagine it, the surgeon’s skill is the top concern of the parent. But the simpli9 ed metaphor doesn’t take into account the middle class fear of somehow being denied the operating table entirely.

In a recent USA Today op-ed ti-tled “Will ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ bite Democrats back?,” Ross Baker o5 ers Democrats three defenses against having James Carville’s fa-mous “It’s the economy, stupid” turned against them: Bush’s role in the state of the current economy, Congress’ record of obstruction, and the hesitation to switch sur-geons when the patient is already undergoing treatment.

“Fear of the unknown is a greatly underestimated emotion,” writes Baker. But this third defense is the one over which Mitt Romney has the most control. Romney can’t go back in time to change the records of Congress or George W. Bush, but he can begin to o5 er clearer solu-tions for the present.

7 is Republican candidate should have a packed waiting room—why are voters 9 ling out? With all the talk of entitlement in the air, can Romney reasonably expect free votes for an unknown quantity?

in the waiting room, but you’re an open-minded, not to mention desper-ate, individual, so you’ll wait to see the surgeon for the consultation.

7 e old man leaves. You’re entirely alone. Your phone rings: it’s your child’s current surgeon. He wants to know when you’re coming in again, he’s asking if your daughter’s enjoying school—he remembers all of her teach-er’s names.

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DAISY ALIOTO

Release of Apple’s iOS 6 shows some stagnation in innovation

Following the official launch of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 5 last week, Apple Inc. released iOS 6, the latest iteration of its oper-ating system for mobile devices. The update includes many useful new features, and improved old-er ones. The most talked-about changes are those that transpired after Apple’s recent divorce from Google.

7 is sudden change meant that Apple had to create a new navigation app, “Maps”, which is nothing less than a failure. It told me that a sewer treat-ment plant was a gas station and that the only London in the world is the one in Ontario. Closer to home, the app might give the College a few head-aches, as it suggests to the uninformed driver that the main quad is traversed by two public access roads.

This debacle comes less than a month after Apple triumphed in a lawsuit filed in California against Samsung, a rival electronic manu-facturer.

After a very short delibera-tive period, the jury found that Samsung had willfully infringed Apple’s patents and awarded $1.05 billion in favor of the company from Cupertino.

In response to the verdict, Sam-sung said that the decision was a “loss for the American consumer,” which would squash innovation and give “one company a monop-oly over rectangles with rounded corners.” By contrast, an Apple spokeswoman told the New York Times that the company valued “originality and innovation” above all. She went on to say that the jury had sent a “clear message that stealing isn’t right.”

However, Apple has no such qualms about stealing intellectual property when it comes to appro-priating the work of others.

Indeed, on the day that iOS 6 was

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released, iPad users across Switzer-land were surprised to discover a design element in the clock app that was oddly familiar. So famil-iar in fact, that the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has accused Apple of violating its trademarked iconic clocks, which are found in railway

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As it gets closer to being the fi rst trillion dollar company of this age, it would seem that Apple’s old eye for simple, innovative design has

been blinded by dollar signs.

stations all around the country. Perhaps Apple thought that by ac-cusing others of theft, it was im-mune from the same changes.

Whereas the case against Sam-sung was based around designs and trademarks only a few years old, the SBB’s complaint is related to a design that is hardly recent. The Swiss railway clock has existed

since 1944. Its debut predates the birth of Steve Jobs by 11 years.

If anything, this situation ex-emplifies what appears to be a disheartening trend at Apple. Rig-orous evaluation—once the com-pany’s hallmark—seems to have been forgotten. As it gets closer to

being the first trillion dollar com-pany of this age, it would seem that Apple’s old eye for simple, inno-vative design has been blinded by dollar signs.

7 ere is no doubt that both the new operating system and the iPhone are innovative, but in so many ways they both fail to compete with the output of Samsung and other compa-

nies using Google’s Android operat-ing system.

People will still want to buy iPhones; in the 9 rst 24 hours of its announcement, Apple received two million orders for the iPhone 5—that’s 23 per second. But the edge the company had when it released the 9 rst iPhone in 2007 is gone. Of the smart phones sold in the 9 rst half of 2012, Android’s market share was more than triple that of Apple’s.

Apple needs to release products that play to its strengths in terms of design and product innovation, rather than rehashing the same old ideas every two years. News that Mi-croso6 will release its new phone in the coming months and rumors that Amazon is developing a phone of its own should be reason enough to give Apple cause to stop and think.

Unless it can stay ahead of its competitors, Apple (and most im-portantly, its shareholders) will have to accept that, at this rate, the company’s dizzying climb in prof-its will eventually reach an inevi-table plateau.

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Bowdoin’s alcohol policies are disproportionate in relation to other narcotics

“Sweet baby Jesus,” I thought to myself while gulping down the last few drops of water I could find in my room last Sunday morning. With hands that felt as if they had dried into paper, I pillaged my room for something to drink. Af-ter a terrifying moment in which I thought I would die of thirst, I ran to the bathroom and filled a bottle with water, drinking it faster than the sink could refill it. After quenching my thirst, I returned to my grotto-like room, the shades were drawn and the light off. I bur-rowed into the hallowed covers of my bed, not to emerge until high noon.

Despite my desperate condition that morning, I’m still more fortu-nate than the four poor souls who were transported to Parkview Ad-ventist Medical Center the night before.

According to the results of the spring NESCAC-wide alcohol and drug survey, the vast majority (94 percent) of Bowdoin students agree that the College’s policies encourage responsible drinking. Bowdoin’s progressive alcohol policy seems to keep some of the more dangerous aspects of drink-ing in check.

Recognizing the fact that col-lege students will inevitably drink, the College registers the number of College House party kegs. By deter-ring the consumption of hard alco-hol, the Bowdoin administration aims to foster moderation and self-control with underage drinking.

And yet, alcohol remains the most dangerous and widely used drug on campus. Many Bowdoin students abstain from drinking, though it’s hard to tell who they are because they’re not the ones swarming around College House kegs like animals around a water-ing hole. For the majority of stu-

London, offers at least one reason, with findings that indicate that alcohol is by far the most harm-ful drug to both users and to oth-ers. Vying for second are crack and heroin. I don’t want to get too bogged down in the findings of the report, so I will simply men-tion the fact that if the calculated

harm to both users and society for mushrooms, ecstasy, LSD and can-nabis were combined, the resulting damage doesn’t even come close to that done to society by alcohol alone.

Once the level of intoxication providing the desired social lubri-cation provided by alcohol is ex-ceeded, problems such as fights, sexual harassment and the adminis-tration’s latest fetish, property dam-age, become much more common.

Nevertheless, the College has managed to foster a generally se-cure and sensible drinking environ-ment.

Why is it, then, that the punish-ment at Bowdoin for possession or use of any of the aforementioned narcotics far exceeds that of alco-hol?

As the policy currently stands, Bowdoin reacts very dispropor-tionately to the use and possession of various drugs in relation to their levels of individual and societal harms. You have to wonder why, seeing as you never hear of some-one with that damn “reefer mad-ness” smashing holes into walls at Baxter.

Perhaps it is time for Bowdoin to reevaluate its policies to better cor-respond to the true nature of each drug.

This would be a tricky thing to do. After all, federal and state laws define the bounds of the College’s policies.

While it is ultimately up to the individual to be responsible for his actions and to make wise decisions concerning any drug, this does not alleviate the responsibility of the College to nurture a reasonable and open-minded attitude to the true nature of drinking and drugs at Bowdoin.

dents who do consume alcohol, Thursday through Saturday, drink-ing becomes our common pastime. Why not? It provides us the oppor-tunity to unwind and forget about our anxieties.

A 2009 report by David Nutt, professor of neuropsychophar-macology at Imperial College in

THE WAY IT SHOULD BE

CHRIS WEDEMAN

“I never heard back. No call, no email, nothing.”

5 is was the constant refrain of my senior year at Bowdoin. As we applied for jobs, my friends and I were ignored more times than I can count.

I was president of my class; I played rugby; I spoke Chinese— who wouldn’t want to talk to me?

5 e Career Planning Center (CPC) had ideas for 6 nding jobs, but they all revolved around “net-working.” Indeed, it seemed “net-working” was all they talked about. We thought the concept so stupid that we starting referring to par-ties as networking events. 5 at fall many a cup was raised to cheers of “here’s to networking!”

In January, out of ideas and ea-ger to 6 nd my way to Capitol Hill, I grudgingly decided to go to an actu-al CPC alumni “networking event” in Washington D.C. I planned to stay with one of my friends so I 6 g-ured, worst case, I’d just spend a fun weekend with my buddy in D.C.

I felt the event was a complete waste of time. I got there, intro-duced myself to a few older alumni, and soon set on trying to determine the earliest I could leave without being overtly rude.

Mercifully, in the midst of my scheming, I ran into Avery, the older brother of one of my rugby teammates. For the rest of the eve-

ning, Avery talked to me about his experiences working in the Capitol, and I shared with him my humble aspirations to become president of the United States. It was a pleasant encounter, but I didn’t imagine it would lead to anything.

Two days before graduation, I was no closer to a career—much

For early starters, networking pays offBY CHRISTIAN ADAMS

CONTRIBUTOR

I may not yet be the leader of the free world, but I can assure

you that the earlier you start talking to people, the

bigger your web of contacts and the sooner you will begin receiving offers of your own.

less the Oval O7 ce—than I had been in January, when my phone rang. It was Avery. He was now working on Capitol Hill in the of-6 ce of U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree and was calling to o8 er me a position as a paid intern in Wash-ington D.C. I took the internship and was eventually promoted to a full-time position.

A9 er 18 months in D.C., I de-cided I wanted to 6 nd a job that uti-lized my Chinese.

I got back in touch with the Bow-

doin CPC and they alerted me to an opening in L.L.Bean’s International Department. A year a9 er that, I re-alized I wanted to return to China. I began networking again. 5 is time it took four months, but one day I received an email from Nellie, an-other Bowdoin alumnus, who told me about a job in the marketing department of Wild China, the Bei-jing-based travel company where she worked.

It took me three years and as many jobs to realize the importance of networking. I may not yet be the leader of the free world, but I can assure you that the earlier you start talking to people, the bigger your web of contacts and the sooner you will begin receiving offers of your own.

Senior year has already begun for the Class of 2013, and what a year it will be.

Your friends are leaders on cam-pus, you have your table established at Thorne and the bacchanal car-nage of your fine Ivies awaits you in the spring. In the midst of your fun, though, see if you can find a mo-ment to network (maybe even visit the CPC) and, in time, you may be pleasantly surprised with the re-sults.

If you are interested in working in D.C, China, or for L.L. Bean, send me an email. And you know what? I’ll even email you back.

Christian Adams is a member of the Class of 2009.

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RECEPTION Journalism, Politics & PolicyPolitical Editor of the Boston Globe Cynthia McFadden ‘99 will discuss her career in media and share her insight on the state of political journalism. Hutchinson Room, Thorne Hall. 11:30 a.m.

29SATURDAY

PANELAn Open Discussion with President Mills President Barry Mills, Dean of Academic A! airs Cristle Collins Judd and Dean of Student A! airs Tim Foster will talk about the academic year and campus life. Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 9 a.m.

SPORTING EVENTRoboCup ScrimmageThe 2007 world champion Northern Bites will put their robots to the test and discuss the latest technology behind the sport. Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 11 a.m.

PERFORMANCEStudent Group Performances All of Bowdoin’s drama, music, a cappella and poetry groups will perform their latest repertoires. Farley Field House. 7:30 p.m.

2TUESDAY

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES“The Women in Red”Gender and Women’s Studies Professor Kristen Ghodsee will discuss progressive women’s movements in Bulgaria and Africa from 1968-1990. Open to faculty and sta! .Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12 p.m.

28FRIDAY

CONCERTCommon Hour All six a cappella groups will perform for visiting family and friends. Studzinski Recital Hall. 12:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCETeatime ConcertThe Department of Music will present Bates pianist Bridget Convey and percussionist Lynn Vartan of the Southern University of Utah. The duo will perform contemporary works, including those of Bowdoin professor Vineet Shende.Studzinski Recital Hall. 2:30 p.m.

EVENTSarah and James Bowdoin Day This annual celebration of student academic achievement will feature keynote speaker Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a distinguised neuroscientist who entered the U.S. as an undocumented migrant worker.Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater. 4 p.m.

PERFORMANCEWorld Music EnsemblesMiddle Eastern and Afro-Latin ensembles will present music from outside the Western tradition. Directed by Eric LaPerna, Amos Libby and Michael Birenbaum. Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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THE ROAD WELL- TRAVELED: Students head toward Bowdoin’s oldest building, Massachusetts Hall during the first official week of Fall.

30SUNDAY

CONCERTBowdoin College Concert BandDirected by John Morneau, the Bowdoin Band will play their latest compositions featuring T. Douglas Stenberg ‘56. Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m.

EVENT The Hunger GamesResidential Life will host the second-annual competition modeled after the bestselling young-adult series. Two “tributes” from each residence hall will compete. Quad. 4 p.m.

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3WEDNESDAY

PANEL“Adapting to Climate” The Environmental Studies Department will host a panel about infrastructure and wildlife adaptation in response to New England coastal climate change. Room 315, Searles Science Building. 7 p.m.

LECTURE“The Transnational Politics of Energy and Climate” Princeton professor and world-renowned international af-fairs scholar Robert Keohane will discuss his latest work. Open to the public. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

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LECTURE“Ad Nauseum: Political Advertising in the 2012 Presidential Election”In this installment of the Community Lecture Series, Associate Professor of Government and Legal Studies Michael Franz will discuss the attack ads of both campaigns.Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.

LECTURE“Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Social Science” Professor Michael Burawoy of the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss sociological research from his work as an unskilled laborer in Zambia, Hungary, Russia and the U.S. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

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LECTURE“Beauty is in

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