the bowdoin orient - vol. 143, no. 18 - march 29, 2014

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BOBRUNSWICK, MAINE THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY VOLUME 143, NUMBER 18 MARCH 28, 2014

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FEATURES: BOWDOINS YOUNGEST GENERATION OPINION

EDITORIAL: Open Playbook.

SPORTS: TRACK & FIELD TAKES NATIONAL TITLES

Page 12.

TERRAIN: Emily Tucker 15 on the environmentalcost of the Keystone XL pipeline.Page 19.

Page 18.

Exploring the inner workings

and exclusive admissions pro-

cess of the Bowdoin Childrens

Center.

Page 5.

After setting the D-III mile record in February,Coby Horowitz 14 capped offa historic indoorseason by winning the national title in thesame event on March 15. Jacob Ellis 16placed second in the 800m.

IN FOCUS: INSIDE A CAPPELLA

A cappella groups talkauditions, recording,alumni relations andrivalry rumors.

Page 10-11.

Break-in atBrunswickApts raisescampus alert

BY EMILY WEYRAUCH

ORIENT STAFF

Please see BREAK-IN, page 3

14.8% acceptance rate for Class of 2018; up 0.3%BY KATIE MIKLUS

ORIENT STAFF

Regular decision acceptance let-ters for the Class of 2018 were sentout via email last Friday. Of the 6,048Regular Decision applicants, 756 wereadmitted, for an acceptance rate of 12.4percent. Overall, 1,032 students wereadmitted for a total acceptance rate of14.8 percent (including Early Decisionapplicants.) Last year, the Orient re-

ported a 14.5 percent acceptance rate.Applications for the Class of 2018went down 1.6 percent from last year,when there were 7,052 total applicantsto the Class of 2017. is year, 6,935total students applied.

According to Dean of Admissionsand Student Aid Scott Meiklejohn, de-spite the slight decrease in applicants,the Class of 2018 was drawn from ex-actly the same pool as in previous years.

Numerically, it was a hundred few-er, but it didnt make much differencein admitting the class, he said.

Applications from the South andMid-Atlantic regions of the UnitedStates as well as foreign countries in-creased, while those from New Eng-

land and the West decreased.

osefrom the Southwest and Midwest re-mained roughly the same.

Applications from multicultural stu-dents also increased 10 percent, andthere was a six percent increase in the

TRUCK STOP

Students returning to campusfrom Spring Break received anemail alerting them to a break-in that occurred in a BrunswickApartments residence at 3:30 a.m.last Sunday. An intruder enteredthe first-floor apartment throughan unlocked window and encoun-tered a female student.

The student had returned earlyfrom break before her two room-mates. She woke up when she heardthe intruder attempting to enterthrough her bedroom window.

I lay in bed frozen, both fromfear and from an attempt to gounnoticed by the intruder, wrotethe junior, who wished to remainanonymous for security reasons, inan email to the Orient.

The suspect then moved toa dif-ferent bedroom, slid it open, andclimbed into the apartment. Thestudent heard footsteps leave theother bedroom and enter the hall.

Suddenly, the doorknob to my

bedroom door turned squeakilyand my door creaked open. In thedoorway, from what little illumi-nation the kitchen light provided,I saw a hooded man, she wrote.Praying it was a drunken student,I tentatively whimpered hello.

The intruder slammed her bed-room door and ran to the kitchen,where a light was on.

He then ran straight across thebuilding entry hall into the nextapartment, which happened tohave a bricked door, where amale sophomore was asleep in hisbedroom.

number of high schools sending Bow-doin at least one applicant.

Meiklejohn expressed enthusi-asm for the increased number of highschools, saying it demonstrated Bow-doins increasing geographic reach.ere were 524 women and 508 men

admitted, a figure consistent with Bow-doins current gender ratio. Accordingto Meiklejohn, the ratio of public toprivate schools also remained consis-tent. Currently, 58 percent of Bowdoin

students attended public high school;42 percent went to private school.e target size for the Class of 2018

is 495 students, the same as for theClass of 2017, and admitted studentsmust submit their decisions by May 1.

Banding together: select athletes receive admissions support

This article is the first in a three-part seri es about athleti c recrui t-ment at Bowdoin and across theNESCAC.

With last weeks acceptance let-

ters out, a total of 1,032 studentshave been offered spots in theClass of 2018. And of the admit-ted students slotted for participa-tion in athletics at Bowdoin, manywere given preferential treatmentin the admissions process.

A set number of students areendorsed by Bowdoin coacheseach year even though their highschool grades and test scores donot necessarily meet the standardsof the average accepted Bowdoinstudents. Admissions gives manyof these students application ma-terials early reads to alert coachesto the likelihood that the student-athlete will be accepted.

This system is not confined toBrunswick, and for the last decade,the entire NESCAC has used a pro-cess to ensure that its sports eventsare perenially competitive, en-abling uniformity in the 11 mem-ber institutions and establishing amutual understanding of how ros-

ters are filled.NESCAC institutions recognize

the important role that athleticsplay on our campuses, said Ash-mead White Director of AthleticsTim Ryan. With that, a system hasbeen put in place to help ensurethat institutions are able to devel-op athletic programs that are com-petitive within the conference.

Discussion of the role of stu-dent-athletes in liberal arts aca-demia is a common conversationtopic, but this admissions processis widely unknown.ough a set system has been in

place since 2002 and admissions andathletic administrators are gener-

BY SAM WEYRAUCH

ORIENT STAFF

ally open to talking vaguely aboutit, access to the specific informationremains guarded and there are fewmeans through which laypeople canfind explanations. Multiple Bow-doin coaches declined to commentto the Orient on the specifics of theprocess, and according to Ryan,

school policy dictates that numbersnot be distributed publicly.

The NESCACs highly regulatedrecruitment system was first wide-ly revealed in a December 2005New York Times article featuringAmhersts dean of admissions andfinancial aid, Thomas Parker.

The real danger was in not ac-knowledging that we give prefer-ential treatment to athletes, saidParker in the article. It engen-dered a corrosive cynicism. Whenit was on the table exactly what wedo, it wasnt as bad as some fa cultythought.

Please see ATHLETES, page 16

Overall Acceptance Rates, Classes of 2012-2018

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

2002:The year a formalized system was

put in place for recruiting NESCAC athletes

14:Number of recruits each NESCAC

team receives for having a football team

2:Number of recruits each team receivesfor each additional sport

B-Band: Label given to prospective

student-athletes whose academic perfor-

mance and test scores fall slightly below the

average of Bowdoins accepted students

C-Band:Label given to prospective

student-athletes whose academic perfor-

mance and test scores fall below B-Band

AF:Athletic factor, the term applied to

prospective student-athletes who will

receive support from coaches in the

admissions process

Quick Facts

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Ben Citrin 16 serves a burger to Brandon Rothman 16 on Campus Food Trucks opening night of the spring semester, returning from a hiatus since Thanksgiving Break. Started two years ago by Steve Borukhin 14, Isaac Brower 13 and

Eric Edelman 13, the truck serves food ranging from snack wraps to The CFT, a grilled cheese stuffed with chicken tenders and bacon. It is open Thursday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. in the Smith Union parking lot.


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ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Last night, the comedy trio of The Fabulous Problemas preformed in Memorial Hall. The group developed their skit in Bogota but came together at the Celebration Barn Theater in Maine. From left to right: Aaron Tucker, Daniel Orrantia,

PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR

At Wednesdays Bowdoin

Student Government (BSG) meet-

ing, President Sarah Nelson 14

announced that the BSG will not

meet next week, so that student

representatives can attend the pub-

lic hearings on the rate increasesproposed by Central Maine Power

Company (CMP). If approved, the

rate increases could cost the Col-

lege over $200,000 per year.

ere are two public hearings

scheduled for discussion of the

rate changes. e first will take

place next Wednesday April 2 at

the Maine Public Utility Com-

mission office in Hallowell. e

second is scheduled for urs-

day, April 3 at the University

of Southern Maines Abromson

Center in Portland.

Vice President for Facili-

ties and Sustainability David

Levine 16 announced that a

15-minute electricity blackoutis planned for April 4 in order

to publicize the CMP case. BSG

is currently circulating a peti-

tion among the student body to

protest the rate change.

-Compiled by Harry Rube.

Patrick Dempsey 2013

Tonight from 6 to 8 p.m., the

A-Team and local Brunswick

brewer Lions Pride will host a

beer-tasting event in Jack Magees

Pub and Grill. All students are

welcome to enjoy snacks, includ-

ing those under 21, though only

of age attendees may purchase

the alcohol.Lions Pride, the sister pub of

Ebenezers Pub in Lovell, Maine

which Beer Advocate has dubbed

the Best Beer Bar in the World five

years in a row according to Beer

Advocateis beginning to brew

its own original beers, which will

be available for sale at the event.

[is event] provides students

with an opportunity to experience

essentially alcohol in a space that

doesnt promote heavy drinking,

promotes respectful drinking, pro-

motes tasting it for what it is, said

Ryan Collier 15, a member of the

A-Team, a group of staff, students

and administrators whose aim isto promote responsible drinking.

Lions Pride is hoping to pro-

duce a specialty Bowdoin brew

sometime this spring or next fall.

While this event will be

relatively small, the A-Team is

organizing a similar, larger event

for the weekend before Ivies that

it expects will include six differ-

ent brewers.

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YAWP

David Phipps 14 has been rais-ing some eyebrows this week withhis new eyewear: Google Glass. etechnology is so new that it is not yetavailable to the public.

According to a February articlefrom the Washington Post, the priceto attain a Google Glass as an Explor-er is near $1500.

Google Glass is a pair of glasseswith a mini-computer mounted inthe top corner. e operating screenis activated by voice and by facial andhead movements.

Users can take pictures, recordvideo, look up directions, s earch the

web and use other applications onthe device.

Phipps is a Google Explorer,meaning that he is one of a selectgroup of people who applied to haveearly access to Google Glass.

Phipps picked up the new eyewearwhile on a trip to San Francisco overSpring Break.

I applied sometime last year. I dont

remember when, and I dont remem-ber what I said actually, said Phipps.

He had high reviews of his visit.One thing thats really coolthey

also give you free beer at Google,said Phipps.

One of the most innovative featuresof Google Glass is the way it transmitssounds to the user.

Youll hear noises when you use[the Google Glass] but you donthave any headphones in. It vibratesyour skull to actually make you hearthings, said Phipps.

He said he has enjoyed learning howto use the new technology and is excitedto keep experimenting.

e things Im really looking for-

ward toIm in a band and the onlybottleneck is that I really have to learnlots of lyrics which is really annoy-ing, so now I might be able to just putthem up here, said Phipps.

I might try it this Saturday, hesaid, referring to the concert tomor-row at 9 p.m. in Smith Union.

When I sat down to interview

PHIPPS 14 DONS GOOGLE GLASS AS

MEMBER OF EXPLORER PROGRAM

BY JOE SHERLOCKORIENT STAFF

PRIDE IN THE PUB

TOWN OKS COLLEGES

NEW OFFICE BUILDING

Mary L. BonautoAs a civil rights project director atGay & Lesbian Advocates & De-fenders (GLAD) in Boston for morethan 20 years, Bonauto has helpedlay the legal framework for mar-riage equality in the US.

e Planning Board for theTown of Brunswick unanimouslyapproved the Colleges plans fora new administrative building onTuesday, according to the TimesRecord.

e building, which will be builtat 16 Maine Street, will house em-ployees of the Controllers Office,the Offi ce of Student Aid and theHuman Resources Department.

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HONORARYDEGREERECIPIENTSEach year, the College selects a small group of people to receive honorary degrees at commencement, a symbolic recognition of their contributions to the common good.

This year, the College has selected four peoplea civil rights attorney, a career diplomat and two scientistsas the degree recipients for 2014.

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Phipps, he let me test out his newhardware. I winked aggressively toturn on the camera and take a pictureand was also able to test out the mapsand compass apps. Wearing GoogleGlass seems futuristiclike some-thing out of Star Trek or e Jetsons.

The technology is not as intui-

STILL FIGURING OUT THE SIZE OF THIS

PICTURE, WILL CHANGE THINGS

ARROUND ACCORDINGLY.

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EVAN GERSHKOVICH 14

BSG SHEDS LIGHT

tive as picking up a cell phone, butlearning how the different featuresoperate is part of what makes itexciting. I dont imagine purchas-ing one anytime soonsomethingabout it seems a little robotic to me,but theyre a lot of fun to try outand play with.

George H.W. Bush 1982

Oly mpia Snowe 1983 Ken Burns 1991

Angus King 2007Maya Angelou 1987

Robert Frost 1926

Christopher R. Hill 74Currently the Dean of the Joseph KorbelSchool of International Relations at theUniversity of Denver, Hill has workedunder three U.S. presidents, serving asambassador to Iraq, Macedonia, Polandand Korea, and on the National SecurityCouncil.

Richard O. PrumCurrently the William Robertson Coe

Professor of Ornithology, and headcurator of vertebrate zoology at thePeabody Museum at Yale University,Prum has contributed extensive re-search in ornithology.

Dr. Harriet WallbergAs a professor of physiology at

Karolinksa Institutet in Stock-holm, Sweden, Dr. Wallberg serveson the Nobel Assembly and helpsselect each years Nobel Prize win-ners in physiology and medicine.

Below, some notable past honorary degree recipients:

KEEPING IT GLASSY:David Phipps 14 proudly displays his new hardwareGoogle Glass.BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT


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Bijou, Marecki winners of14-15 Watson Fellowships

Seniors Alex Marecki and RodrigoBijou are among the national winnersof the 2014-2015 Watson Fellowship,a grant that awards $28,000 to gradu-ating seniors to travel the world fora year working on self-designed proj-ects. is is the first year that morethan one Bowdoin student has re-ceived the fellowship.

Bowdoin is among a group of 40colleges and universities that cannominate up to four students for thenational fellowship. Of those roughly160 nominees, only the top 40 are se-lected for the Watson Fellowship.

Director of Student FellowshipsCindy Stocks said Marecki and Bijouboth underwent an intense applica-

tion and interview process to earnBowdoins nomination back in Oc-tober and November. ey were theninterviewed and selected by the Wat-son Fellowships committee.

Eleven students applied from theCollege this year, which Stocks saysis lower than average.

Usually, we have [numbers] kindof in the high teens, she said.

Stocks explained that Watson Fel-

lows are students who show unusualpromise and whose projects aretied tightly to the persons history,their passions.

Now that they have been selected,both students have to leave the coun-try by August 1 and remain abroadfor a full year.

Marecki plans to go to Brazil, Co-lombia, Ghana, South Africa, Scot-land and various parts of Europe. Hewill be looking at how soccer createsopportunities for children that theymay not have had without the sport.

Im basically exploring psychologi-cal development through sportsoc-cer in particularand how childrengain agency and improve their char-acter through the sport, said Marecki.ough Bijou is thinking of going

to Brazil, Argentina, Spain, France,

Germany, Czech Republic, Polandand Russia, he acknowledged hisplans could change.

ey want you to be really flexibleand not really planned, he said.

He will spend the year visiting withas many internet hackers as he can,possibly working with them to findways to improve internet privacy.

e purpose of the project is trustin technology, said Bijou.

BY MARINA AFFO

ORIENT STAFF

BREAK-INCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

I was sleeping in bed at like3:40 a.m., and I suddenly wake upand hear something in my kitchen,and I assume its my roommate,said the male student, who wishedto remain anonymous for security

reasons.And then Im like wait, 3:40

a.m., why would my roommate becoming back from Spring Break atthat time? he said.

Hearing the commotion, thestudent got up just in time to seethe intruder flee out of a windowin his apartments kitchen, acrossthe parking lot toward LongfellowAvenue.

After receiving calls from bothstudents, Bowdoin Security ar-rived within a minute, and theBrunswick Police Department(BPD) soon thereafter. Theysearched the area but were not ableto find the intruder.

Based off descriptions given byeach of the studentswho bothhad obscured views of the intruderdue to the darknessthe suspectis a male between 510 and 6who was wearing a dark hoodedsweatshirt with the hood up on themorning of the incident.

Director of Safety and SecurityRandy Nichols arrived later thatmorning, continuing the searchwith Security while an officerremained posted at BrunswickApartments until daylight to en-sure the safety of the residents.

On Maine Street, Nichols en-countered and questioned a manwho fit the description given bythe male and female Brunswick

Apartment residents. The manwas released, and Security saidthat they did not believe he wasinvolved.

Nichols then entered the 7-Elev-en store on Maine Street and ques-tioned the clerk about any suspi-cious activity earlier that morning.He obtained video footage from2:15 a.m. of a suspect matching thedescription.

This image of the suspect hasbeen shown to the residents of thedepartments in question as wellas BPD and Security. Security willnot release the image to the com-munity until they are more certainthat it is the intruder, according toNichols.

We dont know precisely whosinvolved in this, we do have someinformation were investigatingright now in regards to the identityof the person that I cant divulgeat the moment, said Nichols. Se-curity believes the suspect is not astudent.

Whether this person was look-ing to break in to steal somethingor perhaps it was a homeless per-son looking for a warm place tostaywe dont know for sure, saidNichols.

Another security email was sentto Bowdoin students just days be-fore the attempted burglary. Nichols

reported that in the late aernoon orearly evening of March 14, someoneentered an unlocked vehicle at thegate to Whittier Field and anotherat Pine Street Apartmentsbelong-ing to a Bowdoin staffmember anda student, respectively.

At Whittier, the staff memberwas out walking his dog; when hecame back, he saw that his vehiclehad been rifled through, according

to Nichols.ough the glove compartment

and other areas were overturned asif the intruder was looking for cash,there was nothing reported missingfrom the vehicle.

Nichols noted that the PineStreet incident was pretty muchidentical.

Robert Carroll, the suspect

mentioned in the report, is a tran-sient who is suspected by the BPDof squatting in buildings on privateproperty and has been seen go-ing through unlocked vehicles inneighborhoods near campus. Al-though there were no witnesses tothe theft attempts involving theseBowdoin community members,Carroll is a suspect because of theproximity of the events.

A very simple precaution is tolock your vehicle and not leaveanything in the vehicle that is of

value and might b e of intere st to athief, said Nichols.

He pointed out that no windowswere broken in either the Bruns-wick Apartments break-in or theunlocked car entries.

Keep your doors and windowslocked. That goes a long way to-ward preventing these types ofcrimes, said Nichols.

According to Nichols, swipe-card locks will be added to theBrunswick Apartments entrancesthis summer.

Were going to be increasingour patrols down at BrunswickApartments, which is somethingwe usually do when there is an up-tick in ac tivity, he continued.

Nichols said that events likethese help to raise awareness.

I think that in and of itselfmakes the campus safer, he said.

If something doesnt happen for ayear or two or three, its very easyfor people to become lackadaisicalin their approach to their personalsafety.

Nichols encouraged students toreport any suspicious activity orpeople to Security.

We will take whatever actionnecessary to make sure that thiscampus remains safe, said Nichols.

Suddenly, the doorknob to mybedroom door turned squeakily and

my door creaked open. In

the doorway, from what little

illlumination the kitchen light

provided, I saw a hooded man.

ANONYMOUS FEMALE 15

LEFT: BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT. RIGHT: COURTESY OF RODRIGO BIJOU

GOOD FELLOWS: Alex Marecki 14, left, and Rodrigo Bijou 14 were two of the 40 nation wide winners.

According to Nichols, swipe-card

locks will be added to the Brunswick

Apartments entrances this summer.


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4 , , SECURITY REPORT: 2/27 to 3/26

Thursday, February 27

Two students were cited for pos-session of hard alcohol in AppletonHall.

Cash was reported stolen fromthe mens hockey teams locker roomat Watson Arena. A student has tak-en responsibility for the thes andthe money has been returned.

Friday, February 28

A student was slightly injuredin a two-vehicle car accident at theintersection of Watson Drive andHarpswell Road.

Saturday, March 1

Wall damage was reported inthe basement of Quinby House.

A fire alarm pull station wasdamaged during a registered eventat Helmreich House.

A glass wall display case wasvandal ized by a campus visitor ata registered event at HelmreichHouse. The visitor and his hostwere billed for the damages.

A person reported to be acting

suspiciously at a Burnett Houseevent turned out to be a studentsguest.

Sunday, March 2

An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student atMoore Hall.

An intoxicated female student ata registered event at Burnett Housewas transported to Mid Coast Hos-pital by Brunswick Rescue.

A broken window and walldamage resulted from a BurnettHouse event.

Students at Brunswick Apart-ments M reported that someonehad burglarized their apartment bykicking in a door and stealing beer.

Tuesday, March 4 A student accidentally activated

a fire alarm at Adams Hall when hisbackpack snagged an alarm pullstation.

A student entering Searles Sci-ence Building tripped and thrusthis hand through a pane of glass onthe door. The student was taken toMid Coast Walk-In Clinic for treat-ment for hand lacerations.

Thursday, March 6

An investigation determinedthat two first-year students weretrafficking prescription drugs. Areport was filed with the Dean ofStudent Affairs.

An officer checked on the well-being of a student in Coleman Hallwho had fallen in the bathroomand sustained a head injur y.

A student was investigated fortraffick ing marijuana at Coles Tower.

A student reported that a $100bill was stolen from his wallet atJack Magees Pub and Grill.

Sunday, March 9

Wall damage was reported inthe basement of MacMillan House.

Monday, March 10

Wall damage was reported inthe basement of Ladd House.

Three students who were ex-posed to a flying bat in C oles Towerasked to be examined at Parkview

Adventist Medical Center.Friday, March 14

An exterior door was vandal-ized at Harpswell Apartments.

A student reported the attemptedtheof an unlocked vehicle parked atPine Street Apartments. e vehiclehad been rummaged through, butnothing was reported stolen.

A staff members vehicle thatwas parked at the Whittier FieldGate was entered and rummagedthrough. Nothing was reportedstolen. The vehicle had been leftunlocked.

Loud noise was reported on the12th floor of Coles Tower.

A student was found to be inpossession of a fraudulent driverslicense.

Monday, March 17

The side mirror on a studentsvehicl e was vandal ized whil e thevehicl e w as p arked near Harpswe llApartments.

Tuesday, March 18

A student slipped on ice whilecarrying a glass in his hand. Theglass broke and caused deep handlacerations.Brunswick Rescuetransported the student to MidCoast Hospital.

Cold air from an open bed-room window at Pine Street Apart-ments caused a pipe to burst, re-sulting in extensive water damageto the apartment. The residentswere relocated.

Wednesday, February 19

A security alert was issuedabout a person suspected of en-tering unlocked cars in the areaaround campus.

Sunday, March 23

A man wearing a dark hoodieburglarized an apartment at Bruns-wick Apartments at 3:35 a.m. esuspect climbed in through anunlocked first floor window andwalked into a female students bed-room while she was in bed. e sus-pect fled into an apartment acrossthe hall through a propped door andwas last seen leaving through an-other window and running towardLongfellow Avenue. No studentswere harmed. Brunswick Police andBowdoin Security responded andare investigating. A campus-widesecurity alert was issued.

Tuesday, March 25

Brunswick Police identifiedthe person that was involved in aphysical altercation with a Bowdoinstudent outside Joshuas Tavern onOctober 11, 2013. e suspect is a21-year-old Brunswick man and hehas been banned from all Bowdoinproperty. e decision on whetherthe case will be prosecuted rests withthe district attorney, who will con-sult with the police and the victim.

Wednesday, March 26

A contractor working to repairflood damage at Pine Street Apart-ments inadvertently set off thebuildings fire alarm.

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College sees dip in students digital pirating

Illegal downloading and sharingof music, videos and other mediahas decreased significantly on cam-pus over the past few years, accord-ing to Chief Information OfficerMitch Davis.

As recently as 2008, illegal down-loading was a considerably largerproblem at Bowdoin. According tothe September 19, 2008 Orient ar-ticle RIAA continues effort to endillegal downloads, the RecordingIndustry Association of America(RIAA) issued pre-litigation let-ters to 11 members of the Bowdoincommunity in spring 2007.

Even these numbers, however, donot indicate the extent of the prob-

BY EVAN BULMAN

ORIENT STAFF

lem at its height.[I received] maybe 100 in a

month, or 150, sometimes from oneperson. It was pretty bad, and I waswalking around talking to variousstudent groups, said Davis.

When Davis receives a notifi-cation from the RIAA or MotionPicture Association of America(MPAA), he tracks the IP addressto a specific computer. e Officeof the Dean of Student Affairs thenissues a warning to the owner. If theproblem persists, Dean of StudentAffairs Tim Foster and Davis meetwith the student. e most recentmeeting of this sort took place lastyear.

This year warnings have beenrareDavis said that he is nowtypically contacted only once everytwo or three weeks.e College does not search its own

network for violations, and Bowdoinwaits for external notification fromorganizations like the RIAA or theMPAA before taking any action.

Video and music content can

now be easily and legally accessedthanks to the growth of online gi-ants like Spotify, YouTube and Net-flix. Davis said that affordable op-tions like these might be helping tocut down student pirating.

You know, Netflix used to be $25or $30, now its $7 for an account.Most people can afford seven bucksif they want to. If not, their friendhas it, and they have it on their lap-top, said Davis.

The number of illegal download-ing violations may have decreasedsince its height years ago, but pirat-ing has certainly not been eradi-cated at Bowdoin. Some studentssaid they believe there is a decentpopulation of people that are stilldownloading.

I believe that its definitely ap-parent. I would say that there is agood amount of audio torrenting,said Danny Mejia 17 . Im not surepeople are doing big torrenting, andstuff you could really get in troublewith the law with, though you canget in trouble for anything.

Amtrak looks to expand Downeaster service

BY CAMERON DEWET

ORIENT STAFF

Advocates and municipal leadersoffered ideas for the potential expan-sion of train service in Maine at apublic hearing about the 20-year planfor Amtraks rail service on March19. Amtrak has been entertainingthe idea of expanding its Downeasterservice north to Auburn, Augusta,Bangor and Montreal and improvingpassage south to New York City byhaving the train go through Worces-ter, Mass. instead of Boston.

However, Patricia Quinn, the ex-ecutive director for Northern NewEngland Passenger Rail Authority,stressed that current rail services

would be improved before any newextensions would be undertaken.

e primary concerns for theDowneaster are to strengthen servicethat we already have, said Quinn.

At this point, there are no con-crete plans or timeframe for the ex-pansion, according to Quinn.

Amtrak hopes to shorten the cur-rent travel time from Brunswick toBoston by improving the quality of

track, specifically the track betweenPortland and Boston.

Currently there are only twotrains that run from Brunswick toBoston, but Quinn said that her of-fice would like to see that numberincrease to five.

According to Quinn, Amtrakwould like to allow trains to layoverin Brunswick. is would mean thata train could head to Boston aroundnoon and then another train couldreturn to Brunswick sometime af-ter midnight, spending the night inBrunswick. Quinn said these addedservices could make it easier forMainers to go to Boston for eveningactivities like Red Sox games and re-

turn home the same night.e success of the Brunswick sta-

tion has encouraged more rail ex-pansion in Maine.

Quinns offi ce initially expectedaround 100 people north of Portlandto ride the train each day, but the av-erage has been closer to 150 per day.

College students are a large andvery important market for us, saidQuinn, though she acknowledged

that none of the potential improve-ments are geared specifically to-wards students.

I think it would be epic if I couldgo all the way up through Maine onthe Amtrak because I love the Am-trak, said Westly Garcia 17.

Garcia added that he would alsolike to see more southbound trains,especially because that would makescheduling flights out of Bostonmuch easier.

Most of the funding for rail ex-pansion and improvement comesfrom the federal government. elayover project for Brunswick is cur-rently the only funded project andQuinns office is still waiting on con-

firmation from the Federal RailroadAdministration.

The Downeaster is considering

plans to improve current service

to Boston and extend

service both north to Montreal

and south to NYC.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Although illegal downloading was

prevalent at Bowdoin as recently as

2008, Davis now only sees RIAA or

MPAA alerts every few weeks.


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FEATURES 5, ,

Beyond the waitlists, Childrens Center serves youngest in community

Youve seen them around.Whether in a red wagon rollingacross the Quad, or in a neat singlefile line at the Arctic Museum, thetoddlers and infants in BowdoinChildrens Center programs arehard to miss.

When the Center opened 25years ago, it was stationed in a trail-er, according to Associate DirectorAnne Brooks. Later, the Centermoved to the yellow house on 4South Street.

I believe that when we were [lo-cated in the yellow house], we wereonly open to preschool children,she said.

The current facility on SouthStreet was built 11 years ago, andhas allowed the Center to accom-modate a greater number of chil-dren and better serve families.Today, the Center offers care frombirth through age five, and accord-ing to its website, can serve 43 chil-dren at any one time.

The Center is owned and runby the College, with an operatingbudget comprised of tuition paidby parents and additional moneyprovided by Bowdoin.

Tuition costs vary from $400 to$1,000 per month, depending on achilds age and the number of hours

per week spent at the Center.The Center does not offer finan-

cial aid for families who cannot af-ford its tuition.

We have done extensive re-search about the market rate valueof full time child care for birththrough age five in the Brunswickarea, wrote Brooks in an email tothe Orient. We have a good un-derstanding of what the tuitiontrends are and our rates are nothigher than those you would findat other centers in the area. In fact,they are lower.

Nearly all of the children en-rolled at the Center are the off-spring of current Bowdoin faculty

and staff. At the moment, there

are two waitlists: one for Bowdoinfamilies and one for communityfamilies who have no employmentconnection to the College.

When we have an opening, we gothrough the Bowdoin families first...and offer them the spot. If they allturn it down, we then go to the com-munity waitlist, said Brooks.

Kate Stern, the director of theResource Center for Sexual andGender Diversity, has three-year-old twins enrolled in the Center.

My two boys love going, shesaid. Im home on Mondays withthem, and this Monday, they werebegging, Can we go to school?

They love their teachers, their

BY MATT SHENORIENT STAFF

friends, what they get to do.As a parent, Stern said she is

pleased that the Center takes ad-vantage of Bowd oins campus tooffer a richer experience for all stu-dents involved.

Last week, they got to visit themuseum and [look at] art and playon the museum steps, Stern said.

She noted that sometimes chil-dren are taken to the top of ColesTower to look over Brunswick.

Nicole Smith 16, who worked atthe Center last year, said that prob-lems often arose with both com-munication and organization.

I think the staff struggled to

keep things consistent and orga-

nized, and sometimes I thoughtthey were a little too strict, Smithsaid. For me, working with theyoung kids was often the highlightof my day, but working with thefaculty [at the Center] got prettytricky somet imes.

Brooks said she attributed anydifficulties to the shift in manage-ment that occurred two years ago.The Center was forced to abandoncertain outdated practices in orderto be reaccredited, but Brooks de-clined to give specifics.

The College understood thatwe were at risk for not being reac-credited, and so that caused a push

for a change, and for new adminis-

tration, said Brooks.The Center works to constantly

maintain the highest quality carepossible, according to Brooks.

Bowdoin College is the goldstandard, and we should be too,said Brooks. We should be proudof the child care that we offer. Weare going to be the best in the state,if we can.

The Center also provides oppor-tunities for Bowdoin students inpsychology courses. According toits website, students in Infant andChild Developmenta 2000-levelpsychology coursecan work asinterns and observe education at

the Center two hours each week.

EVAN HORWITZ

348 ANDMAINE STREET

Crime of comfort: wearing sweatpants shows lack of effort, still not cool

I thought we had evolved beyondthis. I really thought we had. It wasfoolish of me to think so. But I reallyhoped, for a moment at least, that wecould actually be civilized and provewe are better than our neanderthalancestors or our mouse cousins orour martian counterparts. (I dontknow anything, obviously, about ge-netics or astronomy.)

What is this atrocity of which Ispeak? What is this disgrace to ourspecies? No, its not that we stillcan lose whole airplanes in thisage when our every movement istracked and satellites can see anant take a shit under a house.

Its also not that the Russians stillthink its acceptable to take any pieceof land that Vladimir Putin wants touse to frolic shirtless with his horsesor play the so-called most danger-

ous game with Angela Merkel. Andit is not even that anyone still cantmarry everyone else.

All these things are, ofcourse, disgraceful.

But the real tragedy of thehuman raceone that playsout day after day after dayis that people wake up inthis countryat this schoolevenand of their own freewill put on sweatpants andgo forth into the world.

We are, it seems, worsethan the chimpanzees, forthey dont think it acceptableto drape themselves in frayingfleece and tattered terry cloth.

Yes, here and now I declaresweatpants an enemy of the peo-ple worse than Putin and Malay-sia Airlines combined. Until lastweek, Fred Phelps wasPublic Enemy NumberOne, but now he is goneand rotting in a hell-holewith Hitler and Ber-muda shorts.

If you must wearsweatpants in the com-fort of your homewhen you have a date

as long as you dont tell me aboutit. But as soon as you step outside,you expose the world to the horrorof sweats, and you yourself becomea blight on humanity.

Why cant we be bothered tomake a little effort and get dressedand care a little more about look-ing presentable?

Why must we be comfortable allthe time? Why must we dress as if totake a nap, anywhere and anytime?

Comfort, I think, is overrated. Itseems as if the only thing we careabout is being comfortable.

When did we lose the abilityto make an effort in our clothing

choices? Im not advocating for areturn to corsets, but you couldat least put on some blue jeansones that are less than 90 percentelastane. Im not even saying thatpain is beauty. But I am saying thatbeauty is not sweatpants.

I dont care if you call them yog apants or jogging pants or loungingpantaloons. I dont care if Kanyeendorses them or claims he invent-ed them. I dont care if theyre forsale at Bergdorf s or on the coverof Vogue.

Please, resist the urge to be com-fortable all the time, even if AnnaWintour tells you its okay.

Grow up and put on some realpants. And aer youve taken offyoursweatpants, take them (and your Uggswhile youre at it) and burn them.

Youll thank me later, when Pu-tin doesnt confuse you for a sack ofpotatoes and eat you for breakfast.Instead, hell see you as a civilizedhuman being. He still m ight eat youfor breakfast, but youll look damngood as he does.

If you must wear sweatpants

in the comfort of your own home

when you have a date with Ben

and Jerry and Lindsay and Oprah,

I have no objection.

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

KIDS ON THE BLOCK: The Bowdoin Childrens Center has grown in popularity since its establishment in 1988, and today, operates with two waitlists: one for Bowdoin families and one for the wider community.


with Benand Jerry

and Lind-say and Oprah, I

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72 students participate inAlternative Spring Breaks

is year, Bowdoin students partici-pated in Alternative Spring Break (ASB)trips to Guatemala, Florida, Georgia,Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Maine.Bowdoin offerred six trips this year,down from the last springs eight.e McKeen Center for the Com-

mon Good began running ASB trips in2003. Andrew Lardie, associate directorfor service and leadership at the McK-

een Center, emphasized the importanceof their role in these service experiences.

What makes our program some-what distinctive is the degree to whichstudents lead them, he said. Many oth-er institutions cant or dont trust theirstudents as much.

In addition to the actual service stu-dents do, Lardie went on to the note thatthe trips provide an important chancefor leaders and participants to grow.

My favorite part is how much thosetrips leaders learn and step up to theplate, he said.

Each trip hadtwo leaders whowere required toprovide the McK-

een Center withplans and an ex-planation of whythe destinationparticularly ifit was far fromBrunswickisimportant to thetrips success.From trackingexpenses to maintaining group camara-derie, the trips are largely in their hands.

According to Lardie, the trips costbetween $425 and $1,250, excluding thefree ASB in Maine. Students who attendcan apply for need-based grants, cover-ing up to 80 percent of the cost. EachASB has space for 12 students, whichis more than Alternative Winter Break(AWB) can support.

Georgia Whitaker 14 and TracieGoldsmith 14 led a trip with Safe Pas-sage, a non-profit in the Guatemala Cityarea, to work with low-income childrenand families.e trip is one that Bowdoin has par-

ticipated in for the past several years.One of the reasons the Guatemala

trip keeps happening is that peoplego on it and then want to lead it, Lar-die explained.

Whitaker, a Latin American Studiesmajor explained that Guatemala alsoappealed to her in particular because italigns with her academic interests.

I decided to lead this trip primarilybased on my interest in bilingual edu-cation and recent Guatemalan history,she wrote in an email to the Orient.Slightly under two decades ago, Guate-mala ended its 36-year civil war (1960-96) and I was interested to see how thelegacies of this conflictin particular,the displacement and forced reloca-tioncontinue to impact the urbaneducation system today.ough trips to faraway places un-

der the auspices of relief are sometimes

criticized as voluntourismtourismjustified by servicethe ASB trip toGuatemala gave students access to anexperience not available in Maine.

My favorite part of the trip was talk-ing with the mothers and grandmoth-ers of [the] children, Whitaker wrote.Safe Passage has recently founded anadult literacy and social entrepreneur-ship program to help parents, many ofwhom grew up speaking a Mayan dia-lect, learn to read and write in Spanish.

For Whitaker, who has previouslyv o l u n t e e r e din other LatinA m e r i c a ncountries, thisexperience was

a highlight.It was pret-ty inspiring tosee how mo-tivated theseadults wereto begin theirclassroom edu-cation again,oen at a first

or second grade level, she added.e classes also encourage social

entrepreneurship, which Goldsmith ex-plained this included making jewelryout of a paper. Its a steady job for them,and theyre able to do it from home.

Safe Passage does work near the Gua-temala Citys city dump, where someGuatemalans go to look for refuse thatcan be deposited for recycling.

Goldsmith commented that one ofthe most memorable experiences of thetrip was visiting a cemetery that over-looked the dump. She realized manymourners had to walk more than a milein the hot weather just to get to its gates.e trip also mixes Bowdoin stu-

dents together who might not otherwisehave common ground.

e students came from a mix ofsocial groupsall kinds of people,Goldsmith said.

Applications to lead an AWB or ASBtrip for the 2014-2015 academic yearare now available.

BY WOODY WINMILL

ORIENT STAFF

Over Spring Break, physicists fromthe Harvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics made an announce-ment that has been reverberatingthroughout the scientific communityever since. e discovery came froma small telescope known as BICEP2located less than a mile from the geo-graphic South Pole. From this loca-tion, scientists were able to glimpsemuch more than space through thetelescope; they were able to see rip-ples formed at the very beginning ofthe universe.

Albert Einstein first theorized theexistence of these ripples, known asgravitational waves, in his 1916 gen-eral theory of relativity. On March17, however, it was announced that

direct images of gravitational waveswere detected for the first time.

Einsteins general theory of relativi-ty is currently our best model for grav-ity. It beautifully unites the dimen-sions of space and time, describing itas a fabric known as space-time thatpermeates throughout the cosmos.

General relativity de-scribes the grav-itational forceas a curvatureof space-time.e more

massive an object, the more the ob-ject warps the space-time surround-ing it. ink of what happens to thefabric of a trampoline when some-one stands in the middle. If you wereto roll billiard balls around that per-

son, they would ride along this cur-vature and begin to orbit like planetsaround a star.

Einsteins equations of generalrelativity predict that large accel-erations of mass in space-time cre-ate gravitational waves, not unlikethe waves traveling through a bedsheet when you make your bed. Forthe most part, these waves are soabsurdly small that they are nearlyimpossible to measure.

In the first fractions of a second af-ter the big bang, however, the theorymaintains that the universe acceler-ated so rapidly that the ripples thatwere sent through space-time thenare still detectable now.e effects of these primordial

ripples are exactly what the BICEP2telescope detected.is period of incredible expan-

sion at the beginning of the universeis known as inflation, and the gravita-tional waves detected from the earlyuniverse are the most compelling evi-

Proof of the big bang is mind-blowingdence of inflation theory to date.

I had the opportunity to talkwith Bowdoin professor omasBaumgarte, of the physics and as-tronomy department, about the re-cent discovery. Baumgarte special-

izes in afi

eld known as numericalrelativity, where he uses computersto solve Einsteins equations and tomodel astrophysical systems.

Its the first time that the imprintof gravitational waves is measured inthe cosmic microwave backgroundand its also the firmest confirma-tion of the phase known as inflation,Baumgarte said.

He contintued, Its amazing that[we] can actually detect the effect ofgravitational radiation from the firsttiniest fractions of seconds of the be-ginning of the universe.

Baumgarte is very familiar withgravitational waves due to the na-ture of his numerical relativitymodels. He has focused on model-

ing what the gravitational radiationwould look like if two black holesor two massive stars known as neu-tron stars orbited each other in abinary system.

As for the reward for this incred-ible insight into the early inflation-ary universe, Baumgarte agreed thatthe Nobel committee will have quite

a headache picking threeout of the dozens ofingenious scientistsbehind this extraor-dinary discovery.

DAVID MILLER

RELATIVELYQUARKY

COURTESY OF BAILEY MORITZ

OUT N ABOUT: Bailey Moritz 16 traveled to Guatemala for one of this years student-led ASB serviceprojects. Approximately two-thirds of the students who apply receive spots on the 12-person trips.

What makes our program somewhat

distinctive is the degree to

which students lead them. Manyother institutions dont trust

their students as much.

ANDREW LARDIE

ASSOC. DIRECTOR FOR SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

MCKEEN CENTER FOR THE COMMON GOOD



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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Please see LOST, page 8

Rapper MURS to perform intomorrows WBOR concert

West Coast rapper MURS willperform in a concert sponsored byWBOR in Smith Union on Saturdayat 9 p.m. ere will be two openingstudent acts, e DFP which fea-tures seniors David Phipps AndrewRoseman, Sam Roberts and TomKeefe, and rap artist KiLiK MkfLy &a 5 PiLLarZ.

MURS has been making musicsince the late 90s as part of the under-ground scene in California. WBORHip-Hop Director Rachel Sege 14says that MURS has a funky and funsound.

MURS will be the biggest hip-hopname that we have brought to campusduring my time here, said Sege.

She added that featuring a hip-hopperformer is a bit of a novelty, sinceWBOR has brought mostly indie rockor electronic groups in recent years.

Ryan Strange 17 said that he will beattending the concert.

You dont need a big, well-knownperson to come here to have a goodtime, said Strange. You can havea really good smaller act who willknow how to perform and will hypeup everyone.

However, some students are unin-terested in these smaller name acts.

I dont know who MURS is; Ive nev-er heard of him, said Eben Kopp 17.

WBOR has a much smaller budgetthan the Entertainment Board has forIvies. According to Bowdoin StudentGovernments club funding website,WBOR received $32,511 in total bud-get for the 2013-2014 year, a numberwhichfluctuates annually and goes to-wards the radio stations various proj-ects throughout the year.

Our goal is to bring acts that willbe popular on campus and popular forpeople who listen to different musicthan what Ivies brings, said Sege.

BY YASMIN HAYRE

ORIENT STAFF

Professor Mark Wethli curates show of abstract art in NYC gallery

Visiting Professor of Art MeghanBrady, former lab instructor An-drea Sulzer and Cassie Jones 01.e show opened March 6 to an en-

thusiastic crowd.A lot of people were there from

Maine, including Bowdoin alums andstudents, in addition to a lot of theNew York art world, said Wethli.

Moore approached Wethli to curatethe show with a specific subject in mind.

She wanted a show of all Maineartists, and she knew I was fromMaine, said Wethli.

The show features work fromother members of the Bowdoincommunity, including Sculptor-in-Residence John Bisbee, former

In his statement introducing the artshow Second Nature: Abstract ArtFrom Maine, A. Leroy Greason Pro-fessor of Art Mark Wethli quotes com-poser John Cage: Art should imitatenature not in its appearance but in itsmanner of operation.is sentiment is reflected

throughout the exhibit. Each workreflects elements of nature in an un-conventional manner.

Maine is best known for its land-scape traditions. I became aware ofsome artists whose work is abstract,but who think through nature, saidWethli. eir work shares principleswith the natural world, not in appear-ance, but in the methods or structuresof the natural world.

The title Second Nature im-plies that these artists do not por-tray the elements of nature thatare immediately visible. Rather, itmeans that they think through na-ture without representing it con-cretely in their work.

The exhibit is the inaugural showof The Curator Gallery, foundedby former Time Inc. CEO AnneMoore and located in New YorkCitys Chelsea A rt District.

BY ELLEN CAHILL

ORIENT STAFF

Lost in the Dream: best heard on the road

For me, theres only one way to lis-ten to Tom Petty, on the road. I wasraised that way. Sure, Talking Headsor e Police soundtracked dinnerand family game night, but when myDeadhead of a dad ushered me into

the car, it was Tom Petty whod ser-enade us all the way to soccer prac-tice.

Damn the Torpedoes, FullMoon Fever and especially EchoI knew those records inside and out.ey were the type of album I alwaysheard all the way through, as I staredout the window at the golden shadeof streetlamps zipping by on theway home from New York City. Mymother and sisters usually dried offinto their own golden slumbers, so itwas just us boys: me, my dad and theHeartbreakers.e experience of listening to mu-

sic on a car stereowhether fromthe tape deck or radiohas an im-mediacy thats lost in the iPod age.I had no idea what the names of thesongs were (ok, they werent hardto guess, this is dont-bore-us-skip-to-the-chorus Petty aer all), giv-ing them an economy of ignorance,a preciousness out of fleetingness.Every now and then, I hear a songthat instantly transports me back to2:00 a.m. in the backseat of the oldGoodrich-mobile on an anonymousinterstate.

Funnily enough, this year hasbrought a return of the long driveanthem. Two o clock in the morn-ing on an anonymous interstate isexactly how one should listen to the

new album from the War on Drugs,Lost in the Dream.

Its more than the profound pleas-antness of heyday FM radio that theWar on Drugs capture and maketheir own. Its the yearning for a dis-tant past that we think well reach ifwe just take the road far enough inpursuit of a long-lost lover who aloneholds the power of our rejuvenation.Sometimes I think that every radiohit released in the 1980s riffed on thenostalgia of heartbreakLove Is aLong Road, Dancing in the Dark,e Boys of Summerand I canonly imagine listening to them withthe window rolled down and the ho-rizon calling my name.is is the legacy that the War

on Drugs have inherited. e road

HIPSTER DRIVEL

MATTHEWGOODRICH

is the medium on which lifes jour-ney plays out, whether lost on backstreets looking for the address yournew girlfriend gave you, or speed-ing down the highway away fromthe wreckage of a crash-and-burnrelationship. e sound that AdamGranduciel and company have culti-

vated over the years is so drenched ingauzy guitar reverb and Born in theUSA-era Springsteen that theyvepioneered a new genre, dubbedbossgaze by a puckish Pitchforkstaffer.

Lost in the Dream, their thirdalbum, continues this tradition ofupdating Springsteen and Petty. Itbegins with an out-of-place ticking

e show has been received ex-tremely well, and a lot of the artworkhas been sold already.

Catalina Gallagher 16 visited thegallery with Bowdoin friends overspring break. She noted the original-ity of the installations as well as theirgeometric connections to nature.

She noted that it was exciting to see

Bowdoins presence outside of Bruns-wick.

As curator, Wethli had to search outart that fit into his theme, but none of itwas created specifically for the exhibit.

None of these artists works withmy idea in mind, said Wethli. As cu-rator, I notice a pattern in these inde-pendent artists.erefore, I hope peo-ple will see a linkage between theseartists and reflect on this.

According to Wethli, this exhibitis of great significance to the visualarts department.

Its always great when Bowdoin isvisible in the world. It shows an en-gagement with contemporary art,said Wethli. Whenever faculty ven-ture into the world, they always bringback more for their department.

Wethlis own art will be featured intwo other shows in New York City thismonth. e first, titled New Work,consists entirely of Wethlis work andwill be on display in e PaintingCenter gallery. e second exhibit,Higher Learning, is on display atLehman College and features art by 50different professors.

Second Nature: Abstract ArtFrom Maine and Wethlis personalshow New Work will both be openthrough April 19. Higher Learningwill be open through April 12.

COURTESY OF ESTEVAN ORIOL

WEST COAST TO BEST COAST: MURS (above), a California underground rap artist, will performin Smith Union Saturday night at 9 p.m. His name stands for Making Underground R aw Shit.

COURTESY OF SECRETLY CANADIAN

COURTESY OF MARK WETHLI

CALL OF NATURE: (Left to right): Clint Fulkerson decorates a window of The Curator Galleryas part of the Chelsea exhibit Second Nature: AbstractArt From Maine;Lecturer of Art John Bisbee hangs a nail-art installation inspired by environmental patterns; a sample of XXLby Joe Kievitt.


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BY JODI KRAUSHAR

ORIENT STAFF

If dancing were a varsity sport,Laura Keller 15 would be thecaptain. As a member of Vague(jazz) and Obvious (hip-hop)and the lead choreographer ofArabesque (ballet), Kellers lifeon campus revolves arounddance.

Its a large commitment. Imspending like 10 or 11 hours [aweek] in the studio at rehearsaland then I have to spend timeoutside of that to choreograph aswell, said Keller. My friends al-ways know that I have to run offto dance in the evening.

She said that as big a commit-ment as dance is for her, its alsoan escape from the rest of herday.

I can do homework in theafternoon and then take a breakdoing something that I love andthen go back to doing home-work, she said.

Although she is a classicallytrained ballet dancer, Keller hasbeen trying different types ofdance her whole life.

Ive been dancing since I was

three, just like every other girl,except I actually stuck with it,said Keller.

more of a political piece but itsbeen a lot of fun, said Keller.

The main challenge is tryingto come up with choreographythat seams together all of thestyles, but also is something thateveryone can do, said Keller.So, for example, the people inthe hip-hop group who donthave any ballet training, how canwe add the ballet without havingit be too technically difficult?

The piece will be performedon April 30 at the student g roupsperformance and at the Vague

show at the beginning of May.Danae Hirsch 14, who was

the leader of Vague last semes-ter, came up with the idea forthe project. Keller mentionedthat the leaders of various dancegroups all liked the song andwere interested in working onthe piece.

We didnt want it to be associ-ated with any one dance group inparticular, but thought it wouldbe a really cool thing to show theunion of all of the dance groups,Keller said.

Keller said that due to theproject the groups are more con-nected now than ever.

We would never have beenable to pull off this collabora-tive piece before hand, becausethere were people who did eachdifferent style and that was allthat they did. It is really nice tosee that change happening now,from the dance community be-ing more segmented to beingmore cohesive.

She also noted the positive at-mopshere the dance groups pro-

vide.[The dance community is]

definitely a smaller group of peo-ple, but we are all very tight-knit.Its like having my own family. Ilove everyone that I dance with,said Keller.

Not only is it a small commu-nity, but it does not always get asmuch publicity as other groupson campus, likely because of thecomplexities of performing.

For dance we need a specialkind of stage, and it needs to bebig enough, it takes a long timefor us to prepare just one dancebecause its all choreographed byus and then we need to teach itand clean it, said Kelle r.

Its not as popular a thing forpeople to see but it is definitelyon the rise, she said.

PORTRAIT OFANARTIST

Laura Keller 15Keller is involved in three different dance groups: Arabesque, Obvious

and Vague. She is currently helping choreograph a colloborative piece toMacklemores Same Love that incorporates all three groups.

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTbut theyll make it look like its a hugespace.

POD was mostly filmed at thehouse of Wests stepbrother, WillFrank. Working in one house witha small cast and crew meant thatmany of them stayed in the housetogether.

Since the protagonist is ahoarder, the house looks filthy onpurpose, said West. But thats achallenge when youre living in thehouse.

Like most indie films, POD hada relatively low budget. For the di-rector and producers, however, this

meant they had more control overthe film.

I imagine things would be easierwith more money, but when every-one knows each other, its also easi-er, said West.e film is less of a gruesome

slasher and more a psychologicalthriller.

Working in a small town was amixed bag for the cast and crew.e local authorities were easily ac-cessible, but the film drew a lot ofattention.

When you have actors scream-ing at all times of the day, that pres-ents a prob lem, said West.e students enjoyed working on a

small production because it gave themmore exposure to the film process.

Students intern on set of alumnis horror film

Eleanor West 10 taught severalcurrent students the tricks of themotion picture trade by allowingthem to intern for her on the set ofthe indie horror film that she is pro-ducing, titled POD.e students worked on location

in Round Pond, Maine, from Febru-ary to early March.

Directed by Mickey Keating, themovie is about siblings who visit abrother in an isolated house on thesuspicion that something strange

is going on with him. Keating hasdone one other horror movie, Rit-ual.

West reached out to Bowdoin stu-dents through the theater depart-ment. Five students, Monica Das14, Nicolas Magalhaes 15, KiyomiMino 16, Natalie LaPlant 16 andChristina Sours 16, interned on setand did a wide range of tasks.e interns learned how crews

create illusion for the audience.When they were on set they weremostly setting up the scenes aboutto shoot, which included shovelingsnow to perfect various shots.

e magic of film is that the fourthwall of the camera can always trick

you, said Magalhaes. ey may onlyhave an inch and a half behind them

We could talk to the director; wecould talk to the cinematographer,said Magalhaes. ey were not up-tight, despite the fact that it was a 12-day shootevery minute counted.

West was an English major atBowdoin, but her career trajectoryhas been anything but linear. She hasworked as a photographer, a congres-sional campaign staffer and an internat a horror production house. Westsaid she advises Bowdoin students tobe open to varied opportunities.

Dont be afraid to try a lot of dif-ferent careers. Dont feel like the firstone has to stick, she said.

Although being a producer is moreabout organization and logistics thanit is about artistry, knowing what tolook for in a shot helps smooth theprocess.

To students who want to break intothe film industry, West said an openmind goes a long way.

Say yes to everything, whetherthats being an unpaid production as-sistant, an intern or working on a set,she said.

Since this is the first film Westhas worked on, she has been learn-ing cinema secrets alongside theinterns.

I learned that shaving cream getspaint and fake blood offwalls eas-

ily, she said. I never would havethought Id be doing this.

BY MICHELLE HONG

ORIENT STAFF

that quickly builds into hazy rumble,like the sound an old clunker makeswhen you put keys in the ignitionfor the first time aer a long winter.Listening to the War on Drugs aertheir three year hiatus is similarlypanic inducing. eir 2011 recordSlave Ambient sounded so good,ran so well, that I wondered if theymight need an oil check aer so longof a break. I neednt have worried.irty seconds in, the strugglingmass of sound suddenly resolves intothe memorable piano riffthat drivesthe opener, Under the Pressure.irty seconds in, and Lost in theDream is running beautifully.

Granduciel has gained the repu-tation of a perfectionist, which ex-plains the delay between albums. Hehasnt been wasting his time, how-ever. is record, despite its lo-fipre-tensions, might be the best-producedalbum since Da Punks RandomAccess Memories. e length ofeach songseven clock in at over

five minutesallows the band tosprawl out on the open highway, giv-ing them room to both maneuver U-turns and build chilling crescendos.e piano in Under the Pressure

Dark, feels like a car merging ontoa highway right as Granduciel givesa life-affirming exclamation and theguitars explode into an instantlyclassic riff.ese moments of brilliance,

though sprinkled throughout the al-bum, do run the risk of getting lostin the dream themselves. ey soundso natural, so utterly essential, thatthey slide into the background, bid-ing their time until the alert listenerstumbles on them. Such is Granduc-iels cra, taking an era of rock radionot known for its subtlety and draw-ing out the complex world of humanrelationships and emotions on anethereal, druggy highway.

Last summer, as my dad and I weredriving back from a late-night con-cert, we discussed the various tattersthat had become our lives. He movedto grab a comforting CDpresum-ably Pettybut I suggested we givemy music a chance. As we forgedforward, awash in streetlamp amber,I put on the War on Drugs. We satsilently, moving endlessly, nowherebehind us, nowhere ahead. e roadis life, and this is its soundtrack.

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Ballet has always been

my one true love.

I started out doing jazz andthen had to switch to ballet be-cause I needed the ballet tech-nique to advance in jazz andthen just fell in love with ballet,she added.

In high school, she picked upballroom dancing when balletbecame too much of a commit-

ment.However, she added, bal-

let has always been my one truelove.

At Bowdoin, Keller joinedArabesque at the beginning ofher first year and Vague duringthe spring. She was also involvedin the Salsa club during her firsttwo years. Keller was was wor-ried about the amount of timeshe was spending on dance, butshe could not resist joining Ob-

vious.The hip-hop group just

looked like so much fun so I de-cided to audition and join thatone as well, said Keller.

Keller is not the only studentinvolved in all three groups.

There is a lot of overlap, es-pecially this year, said Keller.I would say two-thirds of peo-ple in all of the groups are in atleast two of the different dancegroups. There are a five of us thatare in all three.

Keller added that there is agrowing partnership between thedance groups.

Were doing a collabora-tive piece between those threegroups. Were doing a danceto Same Love so its a little bit

COURTESY OF ELEANOR WEST

SCARY MOVIE:A still from indie horror film PODstarring Lauren Ashley Carter (left) and Dean Cates (right). Eleanor West 10 produced the film andinvited five Bowdoin students to intern with her on set in Round Pond, Maine. Production lasted from early February to mid March.

Funnily enough, this year has

brought a return of the long drive

anthem. Two oclock in the morning

on an anonymous interstate is

exactly how one should listen to the

new album from the War on Drugs.

inconspicuously drops out threeminutes in, replaced by a horn sec-tion that gives the song enough soulto ride out the remaining five min-utes in a happy groove. As Granduc-iel alters the melody slightly, singinglying on a hill / dancing in the rain/ hiding in the back / loosening mygrip, you can feel your hips movein the drivers seat before the refrainbursts out of him. e same goes forRed Eyes, which, inspired by theeuphoric build-up of Dancing in the


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BY MICHELLE HONG

STAFF WRITER

Museum acquires Winslow Homers camera, gains new perspective on artists life

e Bowdoin College Museumof Art is poised to offer new insightinto Winslow Homers life through

the lens of his camera. Maine resi-dent Neal Paulsen recently donatedthe legendary artists camera to theMuseum to add to its collection ofHomers works. It will be on displaystarting in 2015.

Winslow Homer is commonlyhailed as one of the greatest paintersof the second half of the 19th century.His work spans from commercial il-lustrations in Harpers Weekly Maga-zine to landscapes.

Its not just simply that he was outlooking for pretty, dramatic land-scapes. He was interested in the moreelemental forces at the root of thenatural world, said Frank Goodyear,co-director of the Museum.

Paulsen inherited the camera fromhis grandfather. He claims that hisgrandfather, an electrician, receivedthe camera from Homer in exchangefor electric services.

Aer a lengthy investigation, theMuseum has confirmed that the cam-era in fact belonged to Homer.

The first proof of its authenticitywas Winslows documented aware-ness of the new phenomenon ofphotography.

At the very least he was well awareof photography as a new visual tech-nology because he himself was pic-tured through photography manytimes, said Goodyear. He was awareof photography as a recording device.

Another clue was the negative

plate holder inside the camera, whichbears the date August, 1882 and the

initials W.H.Additionally, the model was manu-

factured and sold in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, which was very closeto the fishing village where Homerlived at that time.e Museum also used its current

Homer collection to identify the cam-era. In the Homer family papers, thereare photographs of Maine that matchthe period and the size specifications ofthe camera.

Photographic enlarging equip-ment wasnt really popularly intro-duced until the early 20th Century.If you wanted a big photograph, youneeded a big camera with a big glassplate, said Goodyear. Your nega-tive would have been put up against

a piece of photographic paper andcontact printed. e resulting image

would be the same size as your nega-tive.

Museum offi cials found that thephotos and the negative plate are infact both three by four inches.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, thecamera was on display at Scarbor-ough High School in Scarborough,Maine, but Paulsen thought the bestplace for the artifact was Bowdoin,considering the large number ofHomer works and artifacts in theMuseums collection, including a setof his watercolor brushes.e donation has curricular ben-

efits as well as cultural ones.Its a wonderful gi from the do-

nor. Its terrific that he had faith inBowdoin in its ability to use it both in

coursework and in the Museum, saidart history professor Dana Byrd. Im

teaching a history of photography classnext spring, so Ill certainly introduceWinslow Homers camera.e resurfacing of the camera has

yielded inquiries from several art his-torians who have expressed interestin conducting research on Homerswork as a photographer, a skill hehasnt previously been recognized for.

e $100,000 question here isdid Homer have an extensive inter-est in photography once he acquireda camera in the 1880s? Was he usingphotography throughout the 30 yearsthat remained in his artistic career?Did he take photographs that servedas the source material for paintings hemight have done? We do not know,he said.

At the time Homer used this cam-era, the art of photography was not as

accessible to the general population asit is today.

e birth of amateur photogra-phy doesnt really start until 1888when the George Eastman Companyintroduces the Kodak camera, said

Goodyear. Why this is interestingis because the camera that we haveacquired comes from before the in-troduction of the Kodak camera andwould have required some knowledgeof optics and chemistry.

Photography in Homers time re-quired a deeper understanding ofhow a photograph is producedmore for the serious amateur thanthe lay person.

Some of the photographs in the col-lection, which the museum can nowbe more certain were taken by Homer,are similar to the paintings he did.

ere are a couple of pictures inour collection that do seem to showthe coastline, the sea, waves breakingon the coast that kind of look a lot likeWinslow Homer paintings, Good-year said. We havent done enoughresearch yet to say that photographymight have been a source material,but thats what these exhibitions aremeant to doto pose some questionsthat can be the basis for dialogue.e fact that Homer owned this

camera might also just be an interest-ing new element to what historiansknow about his daily life.

e pictures that we have herethere are plenty of family pictures, sohe might have just seen photographyas a recreational pastimeand theseare in a sense early snapshots, he said.e Museum plans to put the

camera on exhibition during sum-

mer 2015 along with its collection ofHomers personal artifacts.

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

CHANGING FOCUS: Landscape artist Winslow Homers camera (above) was recently donated to the Art Museum and will be on display in 2015.


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BY MAGGIE BRYAN

ORIENT STAFF

roughout the school year, stu-dents flock to campus venues tohear their favorite a cappella groupsperform. Whether the event is thelarge holiday concert in Pickard ora more intimate, laidback gatheringin Ladd House, the performances are

well attended almost without excep-tion. However, there is a lot more tothe world of a cappella than beltingout your favorite Macklemore songin the chapel. ere are logistics in-

volved: organizing auditions, obtain-ing recording funds and the ongoingeffort to dispel the prevalent notionof tense rivalries between groups.e A Cappella Council, spear-

headed by Noah Gavil 14, works tofacilitate communication betweenthe six groups to ensure that theselogistics run as smoothly as possible.Although the groups perform to-gether three times a year, their con-tact is otherwise fairly limited, andthe Council has recently been work-

ing to change that.This year, for the first time that

I remember, we had a big meetingbetween all the other groups towork through some of the kinks,said Kevin Miao 14 of the Longfel-lows. In the past, it was much morefragmented and there wasnt muchcommunication.

One of the most important aspectsof this communication occurs duringaudition period. At the beginning ofthe year, each group goes aroundto the first year bricks to do dormsings, making sure not to overlaptoo closely with anyone else. Inter-ested students then sign up for audi-tions later in the week.

People kind of do their ownthing with auditions, but its mostlya variation of the same thing, said

Gavil, who added that aer the firstwave of auditions, leaders from eachgroup consult to create a schedule forcallbacks. is way, if someone getsa callback from two groups, they canattend both.

eres a big dra through allthe groups where we talk about whowants whom, said Erica Nangeroni14 of the coed group BOKA. If we

have someone we really cant make adecision on we say, Hey, you got intoa couple groups; you have a few min-utes to decide which one you want tobe in. Its a little high pressure.

As a side note, Nangeroni added,We tend to have more girls audi-tion than guys. e general trend isthat boys are pulled a little bit moretowards all-male groups and girls arepulled more towards coed group.

ere have been occasions wheresomeone has been in two groups,but it is somew hat discouraged, saidGavil. ey are always in one groupfirst and then if they want to be inanother group, they can audition inlater years.

e lack of overlap in groups couldfeed the idea of their being rivalriesamongst them, but Gavil, a memberof Ursus Verses, maintains that this isnot the case.

Its all artificial to meits sort offunny, he said. I think any rivalriesare not real rivalriestheyre not likeSeahawks and 49ersand I thinkwhat is cool is that all the groups def-initely have their own vibe, and theirsort of type of repertoire and type ofpresentation.

Meddiebempster Michael Yang14 agreed, highlighting the differ-ence in presentation between the twoall-male groups. Where the Med-diebempsters (Meddies) are morebarbershop and tongue-in-cheek,according to Yang, the Longfellowshave a slightly more modern style in

IN FBOWDOIN

BEHIND THE NAME: Ursus means bear in Latin, and verse is a musical term for a l ine of wordsMUSICAL STYLE: Pop music, ranging from hip-hop to folk

MOST POPULAR SONGS: Leaving Town by Dexter Freebish, Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus, Intro by the xx andfolk song Down to the River to Pray

TRADITION OR EVENT THEYRE ASSOCIATED WITH: Bursurka with BOKA

CLAIM TO FAME: The song No More Crazies from their 2012 CD was featured on the Best of A Cappella CD

RECORDINGS: Three CDs

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE: Semi-casual gray scale

BEHIND THE NAME: Named after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, class of 1825

MUSICAL STYLE: Pop, contemporary a cappella and traditional American choral pieces

MOST POPULAR SONGS: Hey Juliet by LMNT

TRADITION OR EVENT THEYRE ASSOCIATED WITH: ValJam with Miscellania

CLAIM TO FAME: Semi-finals at the International Championships of Collegiate A Cappella 3 years ago; made the Top 30on the showSing Offtwo seasons ago; sang the national anthem at a Celtics games

RECORDINGS: A new EP is on the way, and they have previously recorded three CDs.

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE: Black suits

BEHIND THE NAME: Created the year women were first admit-ted to Bowdoin; wanted the name to match the Meddiebempsters;looked in a dictionary and chose Miscellania

MUSICAL STYLE: Range of classical choral music and current pop

MOST POPULAR SONGS: Depends on the audience, butcurrently Royalsby Lorde

TRADITION OR EVENT THEYRE ASSOCIATED WITH: ValJamwith the Longfellows and Meddielania with the Meddiebempsters

CLAIM TO FAME: They were on Maine Public BroadcastingNetwork with the Meddiebempsters a couple of years ago.

RECORDINGS: Several CDs are out, most recently Little BlackDress,and another in the works for this year or next

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE: Black dresses

IF THEY COULD PERFORM ANY SONG, WHAT WOULD IT

BE: Scarborough Fairby Simon and Garfunkel

URSUS VERSES

MISCELLANIA

THE LONGFELLOWS

No treble in paradise: inside

FOUNDED 2001 * COED

FOUNDED 1972 * ALL WOMEN

FOUNDED 2004 * ALL MEN

ON A HIGH NOTE:Ursus Verses (left) and Boka (right) rehears e for their joint performance, Bursurkus. The annuaRoads by BOKA and a mashup of pop songs and Calvin Harris I Need Your Loveand Aviciis Wake Me Upby Ur

Check out bow

of Bellamafia,

how they lear

JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FACSTS COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD.


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terms of song choice, arrangementand choreogr aphy.

We sing completely differentthings, said Miao. e kinds of kidswho are attracted to the Longfellowsarent necessarily attracted to whatthe Meddies bring to the table and[vice versa].

However, just because such rival-ries do not exist does not mean that

they never did.I know that my freshman year,

some of the Meddie/Longfellow se-niorsI dont even know whojustpersonally didnt like each other,and that grew into a group thing,said Yang.

We have been trying to get rid ofthe perception of rivalries. Ive loveda lot of LongfellowsAs long as bothgroups are good, then that is a greatthing, he added.

Nangeroni expressed similarsentiments.

When I was younger, there weremore rigid rivalries so to speak, shesaid. I think there was just a littlebit more contention when I was an

underclassman, and I cant reallysay why.

She added that Thursday nightsBursurkaa joint concert withBOKA and Ursus Versesis agood way to dissolve the notion ofrivalries.

I think the [idea] stems from thefact that there are two male groups,two female groups and two co-edgroups, and automatically peoplethink that all of them are going to bebutting heads, she said. Bursurkais a good opportunity for us to showthe campus that the coed groups arehere to work together and were justhere to have f un with e ach other.

eres always a friendly rivalry,said Margaret Lindeman 15 of UrsusVerses, but I think it more comesfrom the fact that every group wants

CUSCAPPELLA

to make really good music. So werealways pushing ourselves to performbetter and be as good as we can be,not by putting other groups down,but by doing the best that we can.

One aspect of the a cappella com-munity that has always been strongis alumni relations, particularly withthe Meddies and Longfellows, whohold frequent reunions.

We have really tight alumni con-nections, said Yang. I know alumsfrom 06-07 pretty well even thoughI never went to school with them,because they visited here sometimes.Ive been added to the email threadlist of recent alumni from 2001 on,and theres a Facebook g roup too.

Although the alumnae networksin the all-female groups may not bequite as established, the leaders saythat their alumnae remain an im-portant part of their identity. OverSpring Break, Miscellania did aweeklong tour of New England andNew York, where they were able totouch base with several alumnae.

Weve done relatively informal

reunions in the past, but I think itwould be great to do a bigger, officialreunion, too, said Paige Gribb 14of Miscellania. Well have our 45thanniversary in 2017, so that will defi-nitely be cause for celebration.

Above all else, the singers all seemto agree that a cappella has been adefining part of their Bowdoin ex-perience, and many of them hope tocontinue singing aer graduation.

[A cappella] has helped me withmy personal confidence in terms ofsinging, said Nangeroni. Its honedmy leadership skills but also mypublic speaking skills. Aer college,I know that I want to keep singing.I dont know when or where, but Iknow that I need some sort of outlet,because its been a great way to justrelieve stress and I enjoy it so much.

BEHIND THE NAME: Randy Nichols said that the group was pretty in crime so they decided to incorporate it into the groups name.

MUSICAL STYLE: Mostly folk with some higher energy music.

MOST POPULAR SONGS: A mashup of Girl On Fireby Alicia Keys and Love the Way You Lieby Eminem ft. Rihanna

TRADITION OR EVENT THEYRE ASSOCIATED WITH: PrezJam with the Meddiebempsters

CLAIM TO FAME: They perform in many elderly homes in Brunswick and for the Portland Review.

RECORDINGS: One currently out, with another coming next year.

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE: Seasonal. They wear sweaters and try to coordinate.

IF THEY COULD PERFORM ANY SONG, WHAT WOULD IT BE: Elastic Heartby Sia

BEHIND THE NAME:It stood for Bowdoins Only Co-ed A Cappella, but the Best of College A Cappella CD acronym causedconfusion, so the C was changed to a K

MUSICAL STYLE: Pop, with a little bit of indie

MOST POPULAR SONGS: A mashup of As Long As You Love Meby Justin Bieber and Wide Awake by Katy Perry

TRADITION OR EVENT THE YRE ASSOCIATED WITH: Bursurka with Ursus Versus

CLAIM TO FAME: Low-key concerts for friends in college houses

RECORDINGS: The last CD was recorded 3 years ago, and another one is due this spring

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE: Jewel tones

IF THEY COULD PERFORM ANY S ONG, WHAT WOULD IT BE: No Scrubsby TLC

BEHIND THE NAME: The original story is thatsomeone was blindfolded while throwing darts at amap of Maine, and one dart struck Lake Meddybemps.

MUSICAL STYLE: Founded on barbershop, but theyalso do jazz arrangements and modern pop songs

MOST POPULAR SONGS: Mood Indigo by DukeEllington and Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby by LesApplegate

TRADITION OR EVENT THEYRE ASSOCIATEDWITH: PrezJam with Bellamafia, and their annual tour

CLAIM TO FAME: Theyve sung at the White House,in Korea and in California

RECORDINGS: Decades of CDs, including Christmaswith the Meddies

SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE: Khakis,white shirts, blue blazers, and Bowdoin polar bear ties

IF THEY COULD PERFORM ANY SONG, WHATWOULD IT BE: Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot

BOKA

BELLAMAFIA

THE MEDDIEBEMPSTERS

the a cappella communityFOUNDED 2007 * ALL WOMEN

FOUNDED 1937 * ALL MEN

Left: ELIZA GRAUMLICH, Right: HY KHONG,

l concert was held on last night in Ladd House and included interpretations of Head and the Hearts Rivers and

us Verses.

FOUNDED 1994 * COED

Online Video

doinorient.com for behind-the-scenes footage

he Meddiebempsters and BOKA rehearsals and

songs and perfect their craft.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT


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Womens tennis 7-2 afterspring break trip to Calif.

The womens tennis teamamassed a 7-2 record during itsSpring Break in Claremont, Calif.The team is currently ranked sev-enth in the ITA Division III Wom-ens National Team Rankings.e women dominated their first

match of the season against CaseWestern, winning 6-3. Singles vic-tories paved the way for the PolarBears. Captain Kate Winingham 14,Tiffany Cheng 16, Joulia Likhans-kaia 17, Samantha Stalder 17 andEmma Chow 15 all defeated theiropponents. Additionally, the dou-bles duo of Stalder and Cheng pulledout an 8-2 win.e next day, the team beat No.

26 Vassar 7-2. e doubles pair ofWiningham and Pilar Giffenig 17earned the teams only point in dou-bles action with an 8-3 win.

Just as against Case Western,the team dominated singles actionwith six straight-set wins. Wining-ham (6-3, 6-3), Cheng (6-2, 6-1),Likhanskaia (6-1, 6-0), Stalder(6-1, 6-0), Giffenig (6-1, 7-6), andChow (6-2, 6-0) all completelydominated singles action andsealed the victory.

Bowdoin continued its successwith an 8-1 win over No. 9 Wash-ington University later in the week.

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e womens lacrosse team facedsome of its toughest league compe-tition over Spring Break. e Polar

Bears faced off against three teamsthat are ranked in the top 20 in theNCAA Division III rankingsNo.15 Williams, No. 20 Hamilton andNo. 3 Middlebury. ey startedtheir season on the road at Williamswhere they lost a close game, 12-8.It was Williams first win againstBowdoin since 2010.

After Williams scored the firstgoal just three minutes into thegame, the Polar Bears quickly re-sponded with a goal from JordanSmith 14 and a pair of goals byLindsay Picard 16, all in the firstten minutes of the game. This suc-cess, however, was fleeting, as Wil-liams answered the Polar Bearssuccess with a 5-1 run during thelast 16:03 of the periodleavingBowdoin down 6-4 at halftime.

Our domination in the first 10minutes got a lot of fire going in thebeginning of the game, said captainBetsy Sachs 14. But it may have giv-en us too much confidencemakingus overestimate the control we hadin the game. We shouldnt have givenup a lead like that.

In the second half, Rebecca Mc-Govern scored a quick pair of goalsto put Williams up 8-5. The Bears,however, refused to back down.Bowdoin saw goals from seniors

The women improved their dou-bles play, beating all three Wash Ucombos for a 3-0 lead. Pairings ofLikhanskaia and C

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