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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: IVIES OPINION:EDITORIAL: Give us a break.

SPORTS:

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KICKING THE CAN: David Steury ’15 on respecting human dignity before freedom of speech. Page 17.

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Ivies documentary “SurvIvies” by Rickey Larke ‘15 follows three students during the notorious last weekendof April.

NATIONAL TREASURES: Cross Country Captains Avery Went-worth ‘15 and Kevin Hoose ‘15 raced at D-III Nationals.

BEST OF THE BEST: Rachel Kennedy ‘16 and Colleen Finnerty ‘15 earned All-American Field Hockey honors.

MORE NEWS: FALL APPROVAL RATINGS

See the results of the Orient’s biannual approval ratings survey.

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BRUNSWICK, MAINE BOWDOINORIENT.COM THE NATION’S OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY VOLUME 144, NUMBER 11 DECEMBER 5, 2014

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Faculty endow Barry and Karen Mills scholarship

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Campus leaders organize responses to non-indictmentsBY STEFF CHAVEZORIENT STAFF

Administration addresses high demand for CS spring courses

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

BY VERA FENGORIENT STAFF

Since a grand jury in St. Louis County, Mo. decided against indicting Darren Wilson, a now-former police offi cer, for the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown, protests have raged across the nation—and have even spread to Bowdoin. Student activists have held a candlelight vigil, joined protests off campus and are currently planning more events to raise aware-ness and spur action.

Across the nation, many have felt called to action to protest the racial dynamics present in law enforcement and to demand justice for these civil-ian deaths.

Over the past few months, students on a large number of college campus-es such as Stanford University, Ober-lin College, Texas A&M, Harvard

Faculty surprised President Barry Mills at the faculty meeting on Monday by announcing the en-dowment of a new scholarship in honor of him and his wife Karen Mills and the commitment they have made to need-blind financial aid at the College.

Dozens of students were unable to enroll in next semester’s com-puter science courses because of skyrocketing demand for the de-partment’s classes.

Dean for Academic Aff airs Cristle Collins Judd and her offi ce met with computer science faculty during reg-istration to ensure that all junior and senior majors will be able to register for courses they need during the add/drop period, but many sophomores intending to major in computer sci-ence were left without any options.

Computer science professors have agreed to teach additional sections of their classes and plan to allow their class sizes to surpass the limits set at the beginning of registration. How-ever, students and faculty are con-cerned that increasing class sizes and course off erings without adding more professors will negatively impact the quality of Bowdoin’s computer sci-ence curriculum instruction.

Judd wrote in an email to the Ori-ent that the Offi ce of Academic Af-fairs is working with the computer science department to write registra-tion rules that will ensure “that the right populations of students have the highest priority for the appropriate courses.” She wrote that sophomores who intend to declare majors are one of these populations.

According to the Offi ce of the Registrar, all computer science courses were fi lled aft er Round One

University, Yale University, Colorado College and Howard University have taken action.

At Harvard, for example, students staged a traffi c-blocking die-in at Har-vard Square where people lay down as if they were dead; Oberlin held a walk out, workshops, and class discussions; and students at Howard took a photo

BSG to launch re-evaluation of Thanksgiving Break length

with their hands in the air to demon-strate solidarity and mobilized others to participate in marches in Washing-ton, D.C.

As for Bowdoin, on the night of the grand jury decision, Symone Howard ’15 and the Central Com-mittee of the African American So-ciety organized a campus-wide vigil

on the Bowdoin College Museum of Art steps—the fi rst organized event on campus that directly addressed the grand jury decision.

“As soon as the decision came out, we knew we needed to do something because the issue hit so close to home as black women and men,” said How-ard. “In the back of our heads, we knew that was the likely outcome.”

Between 75 to 100 students arrived at the John Brown Russwurm African American Center at 10 p.m. for the vigil. Candles were distributed, but the organizers eventually ran out.

On the way to the Museum steps, the group stopped outside of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) to announce that the vigil was about to take place, and more students joined them.

Th e scholarship, funded by dona-tions from over 175 current and for-mer faculty members and an anony-mous alumni donor who contributed $30,000, is endowed in the amount of $100,000. Starting in 2015, one student each year will receive the “Bowdoin Faculty Scholarship in honor of Barry and Karen Mills” and will obtain roughly $5,000 as part of his or her fi nancial aid package.

Mills, who received a standing ovation after the scholarship was revealed, said he was “completely caught off guard,” by the gesture.

“I’m still sort of walking around in suspended disbelief,” Mills said. “Th is doesn’t happen very oft en that a college president sees this kind of recognition from faculty and I really

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Please see BREAK, page 4

BY RACHAEL ALLENORIENT STAFF

Although Thanksgiving Break may not have officially started un-til the morning of last Wednesday, many students and faculty across campus missed or canceled Tues-day classes.

In order to determine how wide-spread this phenomenon is, Bow-doin Student Government (BSG) President Chris Breen ’15 con-firmed in an email to the Orient that BSG will soon be sending out a sur-vey concerning Thanksgiving Break to determine how many professors cancelled classes and how many stu-dents skipped classes. The informa-tion could, as in previous years, lead to more discussion of changes to the fall semester schedule.

Camille Serrano ’18, from Olathe, Kansas, ended up coming back from break this past Tuesday instead of Sunday to reduce the cost of her five-and-a-half hour flight home.

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Please see RESPONSES, page 7

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Laura Hernandez ‘17, Chris Warren ‘17 and Genesis Escalante ‘18 perform a piece titled “Let’s Dance” on the opening night of the December Dance Concert at Pickard Theater last night. The dance was a fi nal project for their class Modern I: Repertory and Performance. The show will also take place on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and will feature several pieces choreographed by the dance department and guest artists. For more on the show, see page 10.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FIRST RESPONDERS: From left: Elina Zhang ‘16, Caroline Martinez ‘16, Symone Howard ‘15 and Michelle Kruk ‘16, who organized various campus responses to the events in Ferguson and the grand jury’s deci-sion not to indict Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown.

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“If you’re feeling miserable about fi nals, just remember that time and

fl uids heal all ills.”

“Studying ahead of time? I don’t know, this is my fi rst year taking fi nals, so...”

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STUDENT SPEAKWhat are your survival tips for fi nals?

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“Eat as much gelato as possible. Maine Wild Blueberry Crisp.”

Andrew Miller-Smith ’15

“I don’t usually survive.”

Cedric Charlier ’17

STRESS OVER LOCATION OF STRESS BALLS

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTMILLING ABOUT: President Barry Mills and his wife Karen Mills answer questions about each other in “The Newlyweds Game,” hosted by ASAP last Tuesday in Kresge Auditorium.

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Over Family Weekend, the base-ment of Ladd House turned into a smiley-faced stress ball jungle, as part of an installation hanging from the ceiling at the Bowdoin Art Society’s 340 Miles North art show. Th e instal-lation has since been dismantled, but the question remains: where did the 3,500 stress balls go?

Tom Rosenblatt ’16, one of the heads of Art Society, had an answer.

“Um...they were thrown out,” he said in an interview with the Orient.

When the balls initially arrived on campus, there were so many that “the mail center said that it was beyond their capacity to accept [them],” said Rosenblatt.

Th e balls were instead delivered by truck to West Hall and 15 boxes of them were wheeled off the truck’s ramp to Ladd House.

“People had talked about doing something with [the balls] aft erwards but nothing ended up happening. Th ey had been drawn on, and they all had strings through them,” said Rosenblatt, denying that students would enjoy misfi t and mutilated stress balls during the incredibly stressful fi nal frontier of the semester.

“They weren’t at their peak,” he said.

According to Rosenblatt, the balls weren’t very useful for relieving stress anyway, because they were rather fi rm.

“You’d really have to squeeze them,” said Rosenblatt. “A fi rm squish.”

Rosenblatt believes the balls short-lived existence on campus did not go to waste. At the brainstorming event for the exhibit, Rosenblatt saw a few students playing catch. He also said that if he still had the balls in his pos-session, he would have liked to build “some sort of play pen of stress balls.”

Rosenblatt said he isn’t troubled by the ultimate demise of the stress balls.

“With temporary exhibits, the idea is that it is going to be something re-ally great, but it’s just going to be up for a short amount of time,” he said.

However, there is one student who will be comforted by the fi rm squeeze that only a stress ball can off er this fi -nal’s period: Rosenblatt himself.

“I grabbed like two of them,” said Rosenblatt.

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For the eighth consecutive semester, the Orient conducted an unscientifc campus-wide approval ratings survey. Students evaluated 25 notable campus fi gures, departments, movements and organizations. The survey was distributed via email on Dec. 1 and Dec. 3 and 485 student responses were received.

The approval rating percentage is calculated without factoring in the “No opinion” option, but the four graphs below show a breakdown of all fi ve response options. The graph on the left represents the fi ve lowest and highest approval ratings.

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Portland METRO looks to expand bus service to BrunswickBY SARAH DRUMM

ORIENT STAFF

Search for next College president continues

BY CAMERON DE WETORIENT STAFF

The Presidential Search Com-mittee met recently in Boston. Often, this sort of meeting allows the entire committee to meet cer-tain candidates, though Jes Staley ’79, a Bowdoin trustee and chair of the selection committee, would not elaborate on the nature of this specific meeting.

According to Staley, there is not yet a set date for when the next president will be announced. Since President Barry Mills will hold the position until the end of this academic year, Staley said that the committee does not feel any pressure to name a successor by a certain date.

“We have a lot of terrific candi-dates and we want to be very thor-ough and very confident with our decision,” said Staley.

“We still have a number of can-didates that we are engaged with and talking to,” he added.

He did not mention whether the committee has narrowed down the search to a specific number of candidates.

On November 18, Middlebury College chose Laurie L, Patton as its newest president. Patton is a professor of religion and the dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. She will be Middlebury’s first fe-male president.

“She looks like a great candidate and we’re excited for Middlebury,” said Staley.

He added that the decision would have no bearing on the Col-lege’s own selection process.

President Mills originally chaired the search committee for his own presidency, but he was asked to step down so that he could be considered for the position himself. Staley would not say whether or not any cur-rent committee members are be-ing considered for the position at this time.

Brunswick town officials are ex-ploring the possibility of adding a commuter bus service between Portland and Brunswick. Pre-liminary discussions took place in mid-November. According to the Portland Press Herald, the addition of this service to Brunswick would build upon Portland METRO plans to expand service farther up the coast next summer.

However, this pilot program has not received grant funding for expansion to Brunswick, with funds given towards new routes to Freeport and Yarmouth instead. If the service were to be extended to Brunswick, the town would be responsible for the cost of the ad-dition, which is estimated to be ap-proximately $200,000 per year, ac-cording to a document shared at the November 17 town meeting.

Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasury Katy Longley said that the College met with Town Manager John El-dridge last month and was informed that discussions were taking place regarding the bus service.

Although the College has not been directly involved in these dis-cussions, Longley said that the bus service could be very attractive to both employees who commute to

campus and to students.“We would be very interested to

see this service become available,” she said.

According to Chair of the Bruns-

wick Town Council Benet Pols, the town’s discussions with METRO of-fi cials are in the early stages.

“Historically, there are parking problems around the College’s cam-pus that make it in the College’s in-terest to have the students have ac-cess to public transit either around town or to get out of town if they want to,” Pols said.

“I think that, for a variety of rea-sons, taking steps to extend the network of public transportation in southern Maine is a positive ac-tion,” said Emma Moesswilde ’18. “Not only is this commitment valu-able for the town of Brunswick, but it makes a statement to Maine as a whole that infrastructure needs to be reorganized in an environmen-tally and economically friendly way for maximum progress.”

Helen Ross ’18 said she would like-ly utilize the extended bus service.

“I would defi nitely be more in-clined to take advantage of our prox-imity to Portland if I didn’t have to rely on the inconvenient timetable of the Downeaster,” she said.

Pols said that the Town Council is scheduled to meet with METRO representatives today to discuss a more formal proposal.

until you graduate,” said Majercik. Currently there are widespread

worries among the aff ected students about whether they will be able to count on getting classes they want in the future. With this low chance of getting in, many students can feel discouraged from majoring or mi-noring in computer science.

“My class was up to 39, but a cou-ple of students unregistered because they thought it was hopeless.” said Majercik. “Th ey asked me: ‘do I have a chance of even getting in?’ What they were saying was that they are trying to decide whether they should register for Nature-inspired Com-putation and hope maybe they’ll be lucky. Or they should not do that, and maybe that’s a waste of registra-tion slot. Spend their slot on another course so that they don’t get locked out of that course.”

Women have been long been un-derrepresented in computer science courses at the College. About 10 percent of Bowdoin majors now are women, eight points below the na-tional average of 18 percent. Th e re-cent diffi culties with registration have hurt BWICS’ eff ort to recruit more women to study computer science.

“It’s been very frustrating for us.” said Bustamante. “We are trying re-ally hard to bring women into CS courses. It becomes much more dif-fi cult to bring women into it, when the chance of getting our courses is this low.”

Th e College’s inability to meet

demand in the Department of Com-puter Science is not new this year. Like many colleges around the coun-try, Bowdoin has witnessed rapidly growing interest in computer science courses in recent years. Last year, the Orient reported that students were experiencing diffi culty registering for the department’s introductory-level courses. Th e College resolved the problem by expanding class sizes.

“We’ve started to see an increase in interest in intro classes a couple of years ago,” said Toma. “We used to teach two intro classes every semes-ter with 22 each. As the demand went up, we doubled the class size. So we are teaching two intro classes capped at 44 each. Th en last semester, we also doubled the size of two classes of Data Structures.

Professor of Computer Science Eric Chown predicted that the in-creased demand for courses will be unlikely to reside. Th e number, he said, may only get worse as more students are unable to take computer science courses. Upper-level courses, which require more personal interac-tion than introductory-level courses, could have particular challenges ca-tering to rising demands.

According to Chown, the Data Structures course places a natural limit on how many students can take upper-level courses, because it is a prerequisite for nearly all of the ad-vanced classes. With twice as many students completing Data Structure last year, 100-130 students may try to enroll for upper level courses in the Fall of 2015, which Chown said is two to three times more students than the department has enrolled in

those courses previous years.“It’s carrying over,” said Toma.

“Of course high demand in intro class means high demand in every-thing else in the sequence. Next se-mester it means higher demand for everything essentially.”

Majercik agreed that the depart-ment will soon be facing an insuffi -cient number of upper level courses.

“We’ve enlarged our capacity at the beginning of the pipeline, but we still haven’t enlarged enough at the end of the pipeline.”

Aware of these looming issues, students have become involved in ef-forts to encourage the College to take action. Last fall 80 students signed a petition for the College to hire an ad-ditional professor in the department. Th is year, another petition with 23 prospective majors or minors was emailed to Judd. It asked for Judd to communicate with students who could not get into the courses they wanted to.

“We are concerned that women who were on the path to major or minor in computer science previ-ously will be deterred by the quality of such over-enrolled classes, and by the fact that they may need to change their future plans in terms of classes, studying abroad, and exploring oth-er fi elds,” representatives for BWICS wrote in an email to Judd this week.

“Th e main response I got was very defensive,” said Caroline Pierce ’16, who led the petition last year, “I think it’s a problem they are working on, but I don’t know how high a pri-ority this is for them.”

“Another thing that frustrated us was that they said it is a temporary

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admire these people. It’s really pretty cool... The fact that they chose to honor us in supporting financial aid and our commitment to students and families is incred-ibly impressive.”

On Monday, professor of phys-ics and astronomy and Chair of the Committee on Governance and Faculty Affairs (GFA) Thom-as Baumgarte presented Mills with a wrapped certificate that read,

“The Bowdoin Faculty Scholar-ship in honor of Barry and Karen Mills presented to Barry and Kar-en Mills on behalf of the faculty with gratitude for their service to the College.”

Baumgarte said the commit-tee and faculty wanted to give Mills a gift before he left, and after multiple conversations, the committee decided on endowing a scholarship.

Fundraising began at the start of the fall semester.

“The [faculty] worked together through the fall semester to raise

problem,” said Bustamante. “Essen-tially we want to grow the depart-ment and make it more interesting and attractive to people. If they just take it as a temporary problem, that itself is a problem. We need more professors, more resources, to attract more people.”

Some students expressed their con-cern over the quality of education they will receive in overenrolled courses.

“I’m not worried in the sense that I will not graduate,” said Pierce. “But I’m worried in the sense that I don’t think I will be able to take the classes that I want to take or leave here feel-ing like I haven’t got enough out of the computer science department and my computer science major.”

“I’ve been seeing these guys work-ing all the time,” said Liam Taylor ’17. “Th ey work, perhaps unreason-ably, to just try to get the things done, to answer all the questions. I know my professor has expanded his offi ce hours. He is staying in the evening twice a week. And that’s kind of un-usual in the fi rst place.”

According to Judd, her offi ce does not believe that the increased class sizes will signifi cantly diminish the quality of the department’s courses.

“We are confi dent that students will have the quality of experience that we all expect of a Bowdoin edu-cation,” she said. “Th e numbers are larger than we have historically seen in computer science and so the class-es may feel diff erent to seniors who began when the department was one of the smallest majors in the College. Th e class sizes for the spring are still well within the Bowdoin range of small classes.”

the money to do what they needed to do to endow it and kept it all a secret,” said Dean for Academ-ic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd. “It expresses the faculty’s shared commitment to need-blind finan-cial aid. It expresses the gratitude for Barry’s commitment to finan-cial aid and what he has done for the College.”

Baumgarte said that the idea was well received by faculty and that it was easy to convince fac-ulty to participate and donate to get the scholarship endowed.

“We think that financial aid,

student support and accessibil-ity to the College are the issues that he feels most passionately about, and we would like to honor and celebrate that engagement and commitment of his,” said Baumgarte.

Mills was particularly glad that the scholarship was named in honor of both him and his wife.

“The idea that they recognize the real important contributions she’s made to the College over the years means a lot to the both of us,” he said. “It’s an incredible statement by our faculty.” COURTESY OF MICHELLE STAPLETON

“We still have anumber of candidates that we

are engaged with and talking to.”

JES STALEY ‘79CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH

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BSG discusses Health Center with director Birgit Pols

Last Wednesday night, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) hosted Dr. Birgit Pols, director of Heath Services, for a conversation about the current state of the College’s Health Center.

When asked by BSG President Chris Breen ’15 about her own views on the decision to not change the Health Center’s structure, Pols said that Bowdoin’s current system off ers the benefi t of a staff that is “specifi cally trained and specifi cally looking out for the issues that aff ect college students.” She also highlighted student privacy and close relationships with the athlet-ics programs as additional benefi ts of having in-house Health Center staff .

BSG representatives weighed in with their own thoughts about improving the Health Center. Vice President for Facilities and Sustainability Bridgett

McCoy ’15 asked about the possibil-ity of having an electronic check-in so students could preserve privacy, not announcing their reason for checking in to the whole waiting room. Pols re-sponded that a system of online check-in and appointment scheduling was incompatible with the Health Center’s current electronic records system.

Addressing the concern of At-Large-Rep Josh Raff ’15 that there seemed to be fewer chances to get fl u shots this year than in the past, Pols informed the assembly that the Health Center has been operating this semester down one nursing staff position and one health care provid-er. Health Services is currently in the process of hiring replacements.

Following Pols’ departure, Breen urged BSG members to start think-ing about ways to improve this year’s Winter Weekend to be held from February 6-8.

BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

“The main reason why I [skipped Monday and Tuesday] was that it was a lot cheaper…to fl y when it’s not the day before Th anksgiving,” she said.

Even aft er her longer break, Serra-no still arrived in Kansas at midnight and left at 4 a.m. for her fl ight back to Maine, bringing homework with her from the classes she missed.

“A good amount of people leave early anyway. It would just benefi t everyone I feel if [the Monday and Tuesday before Th anksgiving] we just didn’t have class,” she said.

Although many students left last Tuesday, most classes remained in ses-sion. Most, like Professor of Govern-ment Paul Franco, who held his Tuesday aft ernoon class, stuck to the schedule.

“[Th e Tuesday before Th anksgiv-ing] is an offi cial part of the school

calendar; therefore, I show up on the days they tell me,” Franco said.

However, he expressed sympathy for students who had to miss Tues-day classes.

“Th ere is a bit of case-by-case consideration there. I understand people have a long way to go. It’s a very short time to make such a long trip,” Franco said.

In 2012, the BSG proposed a schedule change that would have moved the start of first-year Ori-entation to Saturday instead of Tuesday—lengthening the program by a day and freeing up the Tues-day and Wednesday of that week for classes. These two days would take the place of the Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving Break. BSG organized a protest outside of a 2012 faculty meeting to promote this proposal.

In a letter to the editor sent to the Orient, BSG members wrote that the change would solve “a hectic Orientation, an even crazier Phase II registration, and a financially taxing break schedule.”

Because of a number of con-cerns including interference with exam preparation and summer faculty research, no change came from the proposal.

“Any time you deal with our cal-endar, it’s a house of cards of sorts,” Dean of Student Aff airs Tim Foster said. “I think the timing of when Th anksgiving falls is not ideal in that it falls so late in the semester. You have 12/13ths of the semester over, then you take this pause and people return to sprint to the fi nish.”

Unlike Spring and Fall Breaks, which give students time off in the middle of each semester, Thanks-giving Break comes only two weeks before reading period.

“I find [the break now] kind of disruptive to the rhythm of the class, especially because you have such a short amount of time after Thanksgiving with only two weeks left to go,” Franco said. “[With a longer break] you have less time to get back into the groove after Thanksgiving holiday.”

Other New England colleges do give students a full week of break,

A new policy this year will charge all guests $30 to attend the Junior-Senior Ball, sparking some complaints among students who take issue with the use of financial obstacles on campus.

“I don’t like the idea that Bowdoin is using economics to dissuade peo-ple,” said Danny Mejia ’17. “If they only wanted it to be a junior-senior event, they could simply have it be a junior-senior event and not have any underclassmen. To restrict it with money just seems contrary to what Bowdoin is about.”

Associate Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze said that over-attendance last year motivat-ed them to charge for non-junior and non-senior guests this year.

“It was busy. We had almost 1,000 people attend that ball,” said Hin-tze. “Realistically there were 600 to 700 juniors and seniors on campus. And we probably had over 300 other students—either fi rst-years, sopho-mores or guests attend.”

Hintze explained that last year members of the Classes of 2014 and 2015 were registering first years and sophomores as their guests, but not actually attending together.

“If you’re a sophomore or fresh-man, you have to be with the person who registered you,” said Senior Class President Josh Fried-man. “There were some problems with some people just trying to come in last year. They had a bracelet, but they weren’t with the person who registered them. The people who were working the door were having the time of their life trying to figure everything out.”

“Whole teams would get regis-tered,” added Hintze. “The spirit of the event was juniors and se-niors have a chance to get together as a group and it almost turned into a campus wide.”

The over-attendance posed a problem for multiple reasons, in-cluding the fact that 1,000 guests was close to reaching the maximum capacity that fire code regulations allow for Thorne Dining Hall.

Additionally, there was not

enough food to serve 1,000 guests in accordance with Bowdoin’s policy for events that serve alco-hol. Depending on the number of guests attending, there must be a sufficient amount of food to serve alongside the alcoholic options.

In a follow-up email, Hintze said, “One of our main goals is making sure students are safe and, as with any Bowdoin event with al-cohol, food must be provided and making sure there is enough food for all those in attendance will help make sure that students stay safe.”

Senior Class Treasurer Molly Soloff said that the class councils reached the decision to institute a ticket price because they did not want to fund the attendance of stu-dents from other classes.

She added that the wristband price would dissuade under-classmen from coming, and Stu-dent Activities worked to choose “a number that they thought would disincentivize people from coming.”

“Thirty dollars is a lot for any college student. And it’s really sup-posed to be a junior and senior event, and the junior and senior class councils pay for it,” said Sol-off. “When it’s all underclassmen, it’s like we’re funding an event and the freshmen and sophomore class councils aren’t paying for it.”

Soloff also said that the $30 charge was intended to accommo-date interclass couples.

“Our options were either having thirty dollars or not allowing any freshmen or sophomores, and we thought that was unfair to people who have boyfriends or girlfriends in younger classes,” she said.

Ultimately, the charge may have already served to strength-en the identity of the event. Hintze said he has been moni-toring the registered guests and believes the charge has dissuad-ed many first-years and sopho-mores from going.

“There are definitely fewer guests this year and Res-Life and the College Houses are doing a number of events to encourage people to not just go to the ball,” said Hintze.

Underclassmen to be chargedto attend Junior/Senior Ball

BY HARRY DIPRINZIOORIENT STAFF

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yet maintain similar exam schedules to Bowdoin. Amherst, Bates, Hamil-ton and Yale are among some of the schools with reading and exam pe-riods that nearly parallel Bowdoin’s. Colby, on the other hand, has a short

Th anksgiving break like Bowdoin and begins its reading and exam pe-riod almost a week earlier.

Despite being out of classes, students often have to complete homework and prepare for upcom-ing exams. For the 62.3 percent of students from outside of New Eng-land—a percentage that has risen within each class by over five per-cent over the past four years—the problem rests in the financial and time costs of traveling home for such a short period.

“As a teacher, a pedagogue, I like the fact that it’s a shorter break,” Franco said. “As a fellow human being, I understand, especially for people who have longer travel.”

“Th ere’s not any current discussion [with the calendar committee or any other committee of the College] I’m aware of in terms of extending the Th anksgiving Break,” Foster said. “I know there’s interest on the part of students. Th ere has been interest for the past…fi ve or so years.”

“Any time you deal with our calendar, it’s a house

of cards of sorts. I think the timing of when Thanksgiving falls is not

ideal in that it falls so late in the semester.”

TIM FOSTERDEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

“A good amount of people leave early anyways.

It would just benefi t everyone I feel if [the Monday and Tuesday before

Thanksgiving] we just didn’t have class.”

CAMILLE SERRANO ‘18

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SECURITY REPORT: 11/21 to 12/4Friday, November 21• BPD cited a student for operating

aft er suspension and speeding on Long-fellow Avenue.

• A sick student was escorted from Reed House to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

• Smoke reported in Ladd House was caused by the unauthorized use of a smoke machine. NOTE: Smoke ma-chines are only allowed in public venues with the express permission of Facilities Management.

• A group of students in Maine Hall was found in violation of the hard alco-hol policy.

• A student was found responsible for throwing a fresh turkey (not a live bird) onto the ice during the Bowdoin-Colby men’s ice hockey game at Watson Are-na. Th e incident caused a delay of game and the Bowdoin team was warned by game offi cials. A report was fi led with the Dean of Student Aff airs.

• Two students were removed from the stands at Watson Arena for exces-sive celebration during the Bowdoin-Colby men’s ice hockey game, i.e., hang-ing from the scoring lights aft er a Polar Bear goal and kicking the glass. NOTE: Excessive banging or rocking of the glass may cause the glass to shatter and may also cause structural damage.

• A resident of Longfellow Avenue reported excessive noise coming from a registered event at Ladd House.

• A group was dispersed in Hyde Hall and three students were cited for pos-session of hard alcohol.

• A visitor was warned for urinating in public at Baxter House.

• A student was cited for under-age possession of alcohol outside of Baxter House.

Saturday, November 22• An offi cer checked on the well-

being of an intoxicated student at Super

Snack. Aft er an evaluation, the student was escorted to his residence hall.

• A second noise complaint was called in by a resident of Longfellow Avenue, related to a registered event at Ladd House. Th e music was turned off for the night.

• A bike that was reported stolen from Hyde Hall was found by a security offi cer near Reed House and returned to the owner.

• An unregistered event and a drinking game were dispersed in Os-her Hall. Two students were cited for alcohol violations.

• A large unregistered event was dis-persed at Brunswick Apartments. Th ree students took responsibility for hosting the unauthorized party.

Sunday, November 23• A visibly intoxicated, underage stu-

dent was cited for an alcohol violation near Farley Field House.

• A steel parking sign that was re-moved from College Street was located inside Quinby House.

Monday, November 24• A complaint of excessive noise was

reported at Howard Hall.• An offi cer checked on the well-

being of a student at Brunswick Apart-ments with an allergic reaction.

Tuesday, November 25• Th ere was a complaint of loud mu-

sic being played on the third fl oor of Stowe Inn.

• A student reported that someone was trying to break in through a win-dow at Baxter House, via the fi re escape, by cutting a window screen at 2:20 a.m. Security offi cers responded and found an intoxicated visitor on the fi re escape. Th e visitor was staying with a diff erent student in Baxter and got locked out of the building. Th e visitor is barred from returning to Bowdoin until further no-tice, and the visitor’s host has been as-

sessed the screen damage repair cost. • A student with fl u-like symptoms

was escorted from the Health Center to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A gray Specialized Sirrus bicycle was stolen from a bike rack at Haw-thorne-Longfellow Library. Th e bike’s registration decal number 03982.Th ursday, November 27• Th e south half of the campus had a

storm-related power outage a 12:45 a.m. Power was restored at 12:30 p.m. Multi-ple snow laden tree branches on campus were down.

• A student with neck pain was es-corted from Coles Tower to Mid Coast Hospital.

Saturday, No-vember 29

• A student r e p o r t e d loud voices and bottles b e i n g smashed b e h i n d Q u i n b y House.

Sunday, No-vember 30

• A town resi-dent reported an intoxicated and distraught stu-dent on a private back porch on Page Street. Th e student was transported to Mid Coast Hospital with symptoms of a prescription drug-al-cohol interaction.

• A student baking bread accidentally set off a smoke alarm at 52 Harpswell.

Monday, December 1• A student curling her hair and us-

ing hair spray activated a smoke alarm at Chamberlain Hall.

• A report was fi led with the dean’s of-fi ce regarding a student having accumu-lated multiple parking violations during the fall semester.

Tuesday, December 2• A student with a sprained ankle was

taken to the Mid Coast Primary Care & Walk-In Clinic.

• A student with a large splinter was taken to the Health Center and later to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A lit candle was extinguished in a Pine Street

apartment.

NOTE: Fire code prohibits lit candles in College residences.

Wednesday, December 3• A local man was reported to be

drinking an alcoholic beverage on the steps of the Museum of Art. Th e man was asked to leave campus property.Th ursday, December 4• A student who fell on ice was es-

corted to Parkview Adventist Medical Center with a possible broken wrist.

—Compiled by the Offi ce of Safety and Security.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTMAD SCIENCE: Though Ian Kline ’15 was home schooled in high school and traveled the world with his family, the realization that a more traditional education would be necessary for a career in science eventually led him to Bowdoin. About 20 to 30 home schooled students apply to Bowdoin each year.

Home schooled and on the road: non-traditional paths to Bowdoin

BEHIND THE NAME TAGBY KELSEY SCARLETT

Although Course Materials and General Book Manager Michael Tucker is a lifelong bibliophile, it took him a while to fi nd his calling.

“I originally thought that I was going to be a physical therapist, so

Books a constant companion for Tucker

I started my college career at [Ithaca College],” said Tucker. “I remem-ber sitting in chemistry class and my professor was passing back the exams. She said, ‘the grades ranged from a 44 to a 99 percent,’ and I looked at mine and it was a forty-seven. I just realized that I kind of picked the wrong fi eld.”

Born and raised in Syracuse, New

York, Ithaca College was only the start of Tucker’s college career. Aft er his change of heart, he transferred to Syracuse University—which was too big for his liking—and eventually found his place at Le Moyne College.

“I had a great professors there—Dr. Clarkson—she used to smoke a cigar and we’d go into her offi ce and she’d have a little teacup,” said Tucker. “She was just a character, but she was a great teacher.”

Th e small, Jesuit, liberal arts school gave him the one-on-one relation-ship he wanted with his professors, and helped rediscover his true pas-sion: English.

“In high school I wrote for my school newspaper, and when I got to college I began writing for my college newspaper,” said Tucker. “Books have always been there, writing has always been there, and I have done other things with my life, but I have always

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BY OLIVIA ATWOODORIENT STAFF

Ian Kline ’15 didn’t exactly follow a normal school schedule in high school. Sometimes his family jetted off to New Zealand for three weeks in November, just for fun. He learned about coral reefs, and then snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reefs. He studied opium production in Th ailand, and then explored the Golden Triangle. But Kline wasn’t skipping school to go on these expeditions; he was in school. Kline is one of Bowdoin’s few home-schooled students.

“It was the best education ever,” he said.

Marina Marlens ’16 had a diff erent home schooling experience. Marlens switched to a more traditional high school for her last two years aft er having been taught at home for fresh-man and sophomore years. Her fam-ily didn’t follow a strict curriculum, choosing the path of “unschooling,” a method of learning based on “cus-tomizing the academic experience to each individual,” instead. Her par-ents objected to the idea of “uniform compulsory education,” and with a large community of home schooling groups in Marlens’ then-home state of California, the choice to home school was obvious.

“It was really good for [both my sister and I] when we were young,” said Marlens, “Th e culture that you are home schooled in is going to have a huge impact on the experience you have. In California, we were in this huge home schooling group, there were constantly events, like museum

days or hikes.” Once the family moved to Colorado, however, things changed.

“Not as many people were home schooling for reasons similar to us. Most people were doing it for religious reasons. Th at defi nitely changed things,” said Marlens.

Kline’s family moved to Asia after his ninth grade year and in-stead of sending their children to a Singapore-American school, which cost 40,000 dollars per year, the family opted for home school-ing, despite the cautions given out

by Kline’s former Knoxville, Ten-nessee high school.

“Before I left , I asked my teach-ers, ‘Can you give me maybe a cur-riculum?’ Th ey told me if you [home-school], you’ll fail. You won’t get into colleges,” said Kline.

Marlens, too, was nervous when it came time to gather her materials and apply to college. “I think that it’s always sort of unpredictable how any kind of alternative application is go-ing to be received,” she said. “I was defi nitely nervous.”

For Marlens, having the two transcripts, one alternative and one more traditional was an added ben-efi t because she felt the high school transcript gave her other transcript a frame of reference. Th is was a refer-ence Kline did not have.

Jumping into home schooling was a risk that the Kline family decided to take, but the transition wasn’t easy. Klein said that the fi rst few months of home schooling were rocky. His mom found a curriculum online that had rave reviews, but it was incred-ibly Christian, and the fi rst line of the curriculum’s Chemistry textbook was ‘Evolution is fake.” Th is curricu-lum wasn’t suited to Kline, who had been in AP Chemistry beforehand. Halfway through the year, Kline took it upon himself to fi nd a new path of study, and ended up using an online resource called “Th ink Well” which consisted of online lectures.

“Th at fi rst year was defi nitely about fi guring it out,” he said. “What if those teachers were right, back in Knoxville? When we applied to col-leges, it was really scary.”

Th e warnings from the teach-ers back in Tennessee haunted the family, especially when Kline got rejected from the fi rst three schools he applied to.

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It’s that time of year again. I know what you’re thinking, but rest assured that I’m not prema-turely suggesting any yuletide, Maccabean or Kwanzaa-related feasts. Rather, I am referring to the gustatory gap between Thanksgiv-ing and peak holiday season where many Bowdoin students sustain their morale only with fond flash-backs of gravy-drenched turkey and daydreams of the coming late-December feasts.

I think this lull in culinary excite-ment is poorly timed. With the com-bined onslaught of upcoming exams and treacherous weather, it only makes sense that Polar Bears should fi nd indulgence somewhere amidst the hardship. A quick trip to Beale Street Barbecue in nearby Bath can help us all traverse the pre-fi nals fj ord with some comfort food.

My own inspiration for finding decent Southern fare near Bowdoin came from a conversation with the illustrious Evan Montilla ’17, who was born and raised in Mississippi.

Though you may know him as one third of Treefarm, one twelfth of Ursus Verses or one whole of his

Beale Street BBQ boasts southern authenticity

BEN MILLER

BEN APPÉTITsolo act, the down home dream-boat also has a classically-trained palate for all things barbecue. Singing and making strange per-cussive noises gets me very hungry (that’s normal, right?), so it was only natural when I asked Evan to share his wisdom during a late-night a cappella rehearsal.

“To be honest, I haven’t even tried to find good barbecue up here,” he told me as a single tear welled up and dropped from his eye.

Alas, I hadn’t bothered to seek out any slow-smoked delicacies either. In my mind, Maine had its regional specialties, some solid international off erings and not much else. But talking to Evan made me wonder: if Maine is the “South of the North,” then shouldn’t some Southern-style dining be a perfect fi t?

Though I am no bona fide Southerner, my hometown boasts several joints that challenge the re-gional limits of good barbecue. If New York City can pull it off, may-be BBQ also has a home in Maine. With that hunch, I was determined to find some Southern comfort food to satisfy our craving, authen-ticity be damned. What we found at Beale Street Barbecue exceeded our expectations.

The short drive into Bath’s his-toric downtown felt like a road

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JESSICA GLUCK, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTBOOK IT: Michael Tucker originally thought he would be a physical therapist, but found a new career path at Bowdoin as the Course Materials and General Book Manager. He has been at the college for ten years.

“Books have always been there, writing has always been there. I have done other things with my life, but I have always

fallen back to being around books”

MICHAEL TUCKER

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BRYCE ERVIN AND BRANDON OULLETTE

BOTTOM OF THE

BARREL

Going into the end of the se-mester is a trying ordeal for any stressed college student. We whole-heartedly endorse using wine as a medicinal coping mechanism for when you can no longer deal with reality. Brandon is a psych major, so you know our advice is legit.*

Deciding to kick the class up a notch this week, we chose Spo-tify’s “Coffee Table Jazz” to play as we expertly sampled our wine, a California Ries-ling appropriately labeled “Belle Ambiance.” Our spit cups nowhere to be found we decided to drink the whole bottle like we usually do. Keep the music classy, but true wine con-noisseurs need to be able to taste the en-tire bottle.

As Brandon popped the cork we noticed that our “Belle Ambiance” Riesling fit the en-vironment quite well. With a delight-ful glugging akin to a

cherub’s laugh, the glasses were filled and the bottle was suddenly half empty.

A very light nose greeted us with floral notes, not very strong over-all, but quite pleasing. Also, who really cares what it smells like as

long as it tastes good, right? The color of the wine is a white gold, and the body is relative-ly light.

Rieslings are known to be quite sweet and low in alcohol content. This wine delivered on only one of those qualities.

Typically German, our California Reisling was sweet, but not cloying. With an American twist, however, our wine was at a com-fortable 12 percent alcohol by vol-ume, resting on the higher end of the scale for this type of wine. Have we found a wine that gives us the best of both worlds?

The wine is re-freshingly sweet at first, yet finishes well with a light acidity. Easy enough to sip on its own, we didn’t feel the need to pair it with

anything but more wine.

The aftertaste is lovely and lends itself to making this a casual sip-ping wine. It also makes you want to drink more.

This wine is the ultimate stress reliever. We highly suggest pairing it with some smooth jazz, even if you aren’t a fan, and then just let yourself feel the stress melt away. If you wish to go into a happiness coma grab two bottles, turn on the music, and throw on the Parent Trap (Lohan version, obviously).

Remember: you’re going to be okay, if you let the Belle Ambiance take you away.

Additional Notes: Brandon: I can imagine putting

on a record, curling up in front of the fire with my (as of yet, nonex-istent) significant other and escap-ing into the Belle Ambiance.

Bryce: I am actually at such a relaxed state right now that I could find Nicolas Cage repair-ing the Coles Tower elevator and I wouldn’t even be fazed.

Nose: Mouthfeel: Body: Taste:

As per the good doctor’s orders

go grab your weekly bottle and de-stress. $9.99 at Target.

*Disclaimer: Brandon is not an

actual doctor of psychology.

Slip into the ambiance of this Cali Riesling

Aft er the stop at H-L, the group as-sembled on the steps for fi ve minutes of silence—a minute to represent each of the four hours that Brown’s body lay in the street.

Following the minutes of silence, several students spoke and read poems, and then the group made a silent walk around the Quad.

Michelle Kruk ’16, who read a poem entitled “Cuz He’s Black,” said in an email to the Orient, “As a campus, we have done an unsatisfactory job—in my opinion—in discussing what is happen-ing in Ferguson and taking some sort of concrete action about it. I am deeply dis-appointed in the administration’s silence surrounding this topic.”

Th e vigil lasted about 45 minutes. Noting the diversity of students at the protest—diff erent student organiza-tions, athletic teams and individu-als—Howard found the vigil to be very meaningful.

“Honestly, I think that Bowdoin students could do a bit more [about the issue]. Th e vigil was a start to that,” said Howard. “It shows that even though we’re all part of these diff erent organizations and we all have really busy schedules and do many diff erent things we can come together to con-front this issue.”

Bowdoin President Barry Mills sent an email to the student body Th ursday evening addressing the issue.

“Everyone in America must be able to be confi dent in the rule of law and in the equal and fair application of the law to each of our citizens,” he wrote. “Th is is a basic tenet of our society. Here at Bowdoin, our steadfast focus on serving the common good means that we must continue to engage these issues that are so central to our future growth, wellbe-ing and humanity.”

Th roughout the latter part of this semester, there has been a group of students participating in weekly Inter-

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group Dialogue discussions regarding race and training students to facilitate such conversations.

During their discussion on Monday, the group split into two—people of color and Caucasians— to discuss what students of color want from their white counterparts, and vice versa.

“A big thing for people of color ask-ing white people was to use your privi-lege and be confi dent and brave enough to know that you have a part in the struggle,” said Elina Zhang ’16, the head of A.D.D.R.E.S.S. “A lot of people who are white really question their legiti-macy in participating in these actions, but I defi nitely think that people of color were asking for the courage to speak not on behalf of people of color, but with people of color.”

Zhang also said that the group of white stu-dents asked for patience and for there to be a readiness to correct their mis-takes.

“A lot of them talked about how they’re here to learn from these conversations and they want to be called out if neces-sary,” said Zhang.

One of the more powerful things Zhang heard at the Intergroup Dialogue discussion was when one person of col-or asked that white people interact more with people of color.

“I thought that was really powerful because [the student of color] talked a lot about how the only way to feel like black lives matter is if you actually inter-act with black people,” she added.

From these meetings, A.D.D.R.E.S.S., another student organization, has gath-ered questions to create further dialogue on campus.

On Tuesday, they held a meeting on the shooting and lack of indictment. Af-ter setting some ground rules for discus-

sion, eight groups were formed to talk about the Intergroup Dialogue’s ques-tions, including: What was the most prominent and immediate emotion af-ter the non-indictment? And, were you or your family immediately or person-ally aff ected by the events in Ferguson?

Th e gathering began with a moment of silence followed by a video. Zhang, said the fi lm discussed the inherent frustration of how repetitive and cycli-cal events like these are. She added that human beings have limits, which is why protesters are now hitting the streets.

For Zhang, it is most infuriating to hear people deny the gravity

of what happened. “[I want Bowdoin students to] at

least acknowledge what’s going on, take time to do research and understand why people are literally quitting their jobs to protest peacefully,” she said. “I want to beg the Bowdoin population to go out of their way to learn about what’s going on. I really, really wish people cared more.”

Zhang also said there will be a die-in, which will take place today in the dining halls. Another member of A.D.D.R.E.S.S., Caroline Martinez ’16, is from St. Louis and went to Ferguson for the city’s Weekend of Resistance, a weekend of protest and demonstration, in October.

On October 8, her fi rst day there, another young black man, Vonderrit

Myers, was shot in St. Louis by a po-lice offi cer. Seeing the action, including marches, protests, and vigils every day, moved Martinez.

“It was great and powerful. It was in-credibly sad and at the same time it gave me a lot of hope,” said Martinez. “People were in pain and mourning together.”

One of the more powerful actions she took part in was a protest outside of the Ferguson police station.

“It was pouring rain and people would just not leave,” said Martinez. “In the end, police offi cers did not end up arresting many people, but it was great to be there with people who I

loved and deeply care about his is-sue and are will-ing to sacrifi ce their comfort and fi nancial stability for it.”

M a r t i n e z also spoke to the power of hearing people chanting, es-pecially lines such as “Black lives matter.”

“It is in-credibly im-portant be-cause I think

that in the U.S. we can see that so many policies or lack of policies show that black lives don’t matter—the fact that Darren Wilson was not indicted, the fact that there’s really poor housing and people of color do not have access to the same type of educational resources,” said Martinez.

Another chant she remembered was, “Th e whole damn system is guilty as hell. Indict, convict, send that killer cop to jail.”

Martinez said this chant is important because it shows the connection be-tween Wilson and other systems of op-pression that are in place in the United States. To her, and to many others, it is not just about Brown but also a refl ec-

tion of all the systems of injustice that she feels are in place in the United States.

“When I think of Ferguson, I’m not scared of the protesters,” said Martinez. “I’m scared of the police that are liter-ally there with sniper guns and I don’t think there’s been enough attention put on this as much as there has been on the rioting.”

Martinez said that more action is needed–especially on campus.

“I haven’t seen people connect this with how race is dealt with or not dealt with at Bowdoin,” said Martinez. “If we just think about important resources and groups on campus—for example, if we think about the Outing Club, the Outing Club is the largest club on campus and it is predominantly white. I love the Outing Club, but most trips that I go on I am not just the only Lati-na, but the only person of color. I think that that’s very telling—that the College isn’t putting a big eff ort getting students of color at the Outing Club.”

Justin Pearson ’17 would like to see more people participate in conversa-tions surrounding race, class, gender and privilege.

“We, students at a prestigious institu-tion and benefi ting from the best educa-tion in the country, must create the ini-tiatives and address the problems head on. We cannot become comfortable with the status quo,” he said in an email to the Orient.

Th is week brings more developments around the issue of race in the US. On December 3, a New York grand jury did not indict white police offi cer Daniel Pantaleo for causing the death of a black man, Eric Garner, with a chokehold. Th is decision has ignited even more protests across the nation.

“Bowdoin, as an institution and as a student body, ought to, at the very least, acknowledge that these trag-edies are happening and that they do aff ect us—even here in Brunswick, Maine,” wrote Kruk in an email to the Orient. “Th ere are students at this school who do care. We need to mo-bilize those students.”

The tales are eye opening. Tear gas, birdshot and police brutal-ity define vivid recollections of a revolutionary time, but this week brought a reminder that nothing has really changed. No, I [Alex] am not talking about the Civil Rights Movement and Ferguson, MO, but instead about the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring and his imminent release from jail after the charges against him for overseeing the deaths of 800 protesters were thrown out by a judge.

Being abroad has given me the opportunity to interact and talk with people who lived and shaped the events that we in the bubble only read about in the internation-al section of the New York Times. Over the past few weeks, an Egyp-tian professor of mine has been slowly divulging his experiences of living in Tahrir Square, while vent-ing his frustration with the current regime for releasing back into soci-ety those who supervised the vio-lence he experienced.

My professor joined the pro-tests after a canister of tear gas flew through the window of his classroom at the American Uni-

versity in Cairo. This, among other events caused the University’s ad-ministration to cancel classes and evacuate all non-Egyptian students and professors. Over the next two weeks he lived in the square, only returning home to shower, change his clothes and see his family.

During the course of the protests he documented the scenes he saw in over 13,000 photos, witnessed eight protesters die and was shot in seven places with bird pellet, one piece of which he refused to let the doctors remove so it could serve as a reminder of the crimes the regime had committed against its people.

My professor’s story is just one of many, and these stories aren’t a new phenomenon. Scholars and intellectuals have a long history of involvement in conflict but today, more than ever, academic institu-tions have become specific targets for attack. Universities, academics and students across the world, from Colombia to Pakistan, are being targeted by governments and mili-tants for their desire to learn and engage with the global academy.

This singling out has led to a massive exodus of professors and students from conflict zones to refugee camps and areas where

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trip, nay, a veritable quest for smoky meaty goodness in the fro-zen north we call home. Walking in, I noticed the wood pile and barrel smoker set up in the park-ing lot. This was a good sign. I sec-ond-guessed the omen when I saw that the brick-walled interior had

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plenty of open booths and empty bar stools, but held out further judgment until my take-out order was ready.

Back at Bowdoin, I unveiled the heaping plate of ribs, brisket, corn bread, coleslaw and mashed sweet potatoes. Wordlessly, Evan and I investigated the supposedly Ten-nessee-inspired meal before us.

After a few moments of reassur-ing silence, we looked up from our

feast and began to over-analyze what we tasted.

“Okay, so the ribs are actually really good,” Evan said. “You can tell that someone in the kitchen is from the South.”

“There’s something crazy about the barbecue sauce, ” I ventured.

Pairing equally well with the spice-rubbed bark on the ribs and the charred seasoning on the sliced brisket, the tangy sauce was—if

you’ll excuse the Fieri-ism—boss. Both the pork and beef were also

perfectly smoky and so the proph-ecy of the barrel-wood smoker proved legitimate. The ribs were textbook-executed in the St. Louis style, with a peppery dry rub that complemented the chewy crimson bark deliciously. Though somewhat lean, the thin-sliced—nearly shred-ded—brisket was juicy inside and chewy around the edges.

“You can also tell it’s legit be-cause they actually give you solid pickles and onions to go with the brisket,” Evan added.

Admittedly, the coleslaw and mashed sweet potatoes that accom-panied our $21 meal for two left something to be desired, but the quality of the meat overwhelmed their mediocrity.

The cornbread, on the other hand, proved polarizing. With sub-tle hints of jalapeño and a sliced-bread appearance, Evan was less receptive of the starchy sacrament, noting how it was “somewhere be-tween moist and dry.” I enjoyed the dense cornbread, but agreed that recipes usually end up moist and chewy or dry and crumbly.

If Thanksgiving Break can teach us anything positive, it should be an appreciation for slow cook-ing and voracious eating. Though preparing for finals doesn’t leave much time for the lethargic diges-tion period that many of us en-joyed after devouring our turkey, I would still recommend Beale Street Barbecue as a great take-out or eat-in option to break up an ar-duous study schedule.

Though it’s only 15 minutes away, a BBQ jaunt to Bath has the soul-rejuvenating (and artery-clogging) effects of a road trip down South.

fallen back into being around books.”About 15 years ago, Tucker and

his wife moved to Maine. Prior to their move, they had both worked at the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. Whenever a new store would open they would be relocated, moving from Syracuse to Rochester to Buff alo.

“We just got tired of moving and we decided that we were just go-ing to pick a place to settle down. We just decided on Maine,” Tuck-er said. “When we first got here, neither of us had jobs, which was kind of scary...Then I saw an ad in the paper advertising for this job. I loved books and had the back-ground in it and applied.”

This December is his 10-year an-niversary working at the College.

Some of his responsibilities in-clude ordering the textbooks—searching for used books and put-ting in orders for new books—and coordinating with the Events Office when there are events on campus that involve book signings. Tucker said the people are by far his favor-ite part of working at Bowdoin.

“There are so many creative and interesting people. We just have a great community,” he said.

Tucker finds many ways to di-versify his hobbies. From surfing lessons to cricket, from printmak-ing to learning to play the electric guitar, he pursues various passions. It all comes back to books, however.

“I do write a lot for myself, cre-atively,” he said. “I travel to Wood-stock, New York. Every year there’s a festival down there, and I meet a lot of creative people there...I promised my mom that I would get published in her lifetime.”

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“Oh, no, we were thinking. We’ve ruined my future. We were crying,” re-called Kline. However, he was then ac-cepted to three schools on the same day, one of which was Bowdoin.

“It was like, okay, breathe,” he said.Kline and Marlens are members of

the small and relatively unexplored home-schooled population here at Bowdoin.

Janet Lohmann, the dean of fi rst-year students, noted that there have been home-schooled students on campus from time to time.

“I don’t neces-sarily see [home-schooled students] as having a col-lective or fi nding one another, but I would say that of-ten times there are similar issues that they face,” said Lohmann, who has in the past been able to con-nect home-schooled students to one and other.

“I’ll say, you know, this might be a good person for you to talk to; they can help you fi gure out this place,” said Lohmann.

Lohmann has noticed that some-times the transition to Bowdoin can be diffi cult for home-schooled students.

“I think there are certain articu-lated expectations here: how to meet deadlines, how to communicate with faculty,” explained Lohmann.

Lohmann described one occa-sion where a student did not realize that showing up for an exam at the time when it was scheduled was a re-quirement. It seems absurd, but the student explained that he had never had to show up to take an exam at a specifi ed time. For home-schooled students, a big part of the adjustment is learning expectations, like what it means to go to class, meet deadlines, ask for help and use resources.

“While lots of people think of this place as very small, for home- schooled students, this place can feel very big,” said Lohmann.

Kline said that he does not know of any other home schooled students at

Bowdoin, which Lohmann also noted.“I don’t know what the critical mass

is,” said Lohmann, “I certainly could talk with Admissions and say, how do we identify those students and how do we create sort of a [community]. Th ere are so few of them that it becomes hard to get a critical mass.”

“It would defi nitely be cool to talk to other people about their experi-ences. It was obviously a huge part of my life, but it isn’t something I think about day to day,” said Marlens, who also is not aware of other home-schooled students on campus.

Dean of Admissions and Finan-cial Aid Scott Meiklejohn said that Bowdoin gets between 20 and 30

applicants from home schooled students each year.

“It’s like every-thing else,” Meikle-john said, “It’s re-ally hard no matter where you’re from or what you’ve done. Some years we’ve admit-ted some home schooled students,

and some years we haven’t.”Marlens said that when she applied,

with her transcript mainly from her home schooling and partially from her high school, she felt that Bowdoin was accommodating.

Th e Bowdoin admissions website specifi es that “Home school appli-cants are required to submit ACT test results or SAT test results with two or more SAT Subject Test results. SAT Subject Tests should include a science and Math Level 1 or Math Level 2.” Applicants from regular backgrounds are not required to submit test scores, since Bowdoin is test-optional.

Kline took six SAT subject tests and fi ve AP tests. His mother felt comfort-able grading his English assignments, but everything else was based off of his grade on the AP.

“If I got a fi ve on the AP, I got an A. If I got a four, I got a B, and so on,” said Kline. “It was all based on that fi nal grade.”

Meiklejohn said that though home-schooled students send in slightly dif-ferent materials, Admissions reviews their applications like all others.

“We see academic achievement and talent and promise and personal

qualities and ways to add to Bowdoin community. Th e review is not any diff erent, but the contents of the ap-plication are sometimes diff erent,” said Meiklejohn.

Marlens does not regret the way she conducted her education. How-ever, she does think the application process would have been easier had she switched to traditional schooling freshman year of high school.

“If I could do it again I would abso-lutely still home school up until that point,” said Marlens, adding that she “probably have decided to start go-ing to school freshman year. It would have been less stressful.”

Lohmann said she thinks students who are admitted to Bowdoin are usu-ally prepared to take on the challenge.

“I think while every student has transitions, some students are fi ne with fi guring this place out on their own. I think students fi nd their way here,” she said.

While Lohmann may have heard of some students struggling to adjust, Kline found the switch from home-schooling to Bowdoin relatively easy.

“I found it way easier academically here,” said Kline, “because I had peo-ple telling me what to read, when to read it, and what to write a paper on.”

Back at home, Kline’s mom would have him pick a book that he liked, design a schedule around it, read it, discuss it and write a pa-per on whatever he wanted.

Marlens also enjoyed the switch from home school-ing to the more traditional model, be-cause she craved more structure.

“I like a lot of structure. [Home schooling] works in diff erent ways for diff erent people,” said Marlens. “I am pretty self-motivated and I was able to get a lot done, but I wanted ex-ternal requirements and guidelines.”

Kline felt similarly, saying, “I was very used to doing things indepen-dently, so when I came here, having other people structure things, it was very easy.”

Home schooling was never easy

for Klein. He recalls handing in his fi rst ever paper, and having his mom rip it up, declaring that they needed to work on his writing skills.

“She really made sure that when I made a point, I knew how to defend it,” said Kline, “I was able to write ar-gumentative papers very well coming into college.”

Marlens said that her education was rigorous, but also incredibly untradi-tional. She just picked it up on her own.

“Kids want to fi gure it out,” said Marlens, “It depends on the person, but kids want to learn things. Kids are naturally curious, I think.”

Th e biggest benefi t of Marlens’ home schooling was her time spent outdoors.

“I cannot emphasize enough how much time I spent outside as a child. An unbelievable amount of time...that’s the biggest thing I cannot imagine. I can’t imagine being inside for 8 hours a day my entire childhood,” she said.

In terms of the social adjustment in coming to college, Kline and Marlens felt very well prepared, though they have both found that home schooling stereotypes still exist and oft en get surprised reactions when they men-tion their backgrounds. However,

both feel that be-ing home schooled enhanced their so-cial abilities.

According to Kline, the nice thing about home school-ing is it did not limit him to talking to only people of his same age. With a family that traveled a lot, Kline got to talk to people who were anywhere be-tween the ages of four and 87. “You

get to meet people from all walks of life, and you learn how to talk to people from all walks of life,” said Kline.

As a result, Kline has friends on campus from all over the world.

“I’m really lucky because I’m friends with Allison [Voner] in the mail center, Sue [O’Dell]from the science library, Guy Mark Foster, an English professor, Sandy, on the housekeeping staff ,” said Klein. “I have a lot of people whom I consider really great friends who are not stu-dents here. And I feel like that’s be-

cause of home schooling.”Marlens too found herself in groups

of people outside her own age range while being home schooled, noting that it feels almost unnatural to be kept alongside kids of only her age, as in the traditional school setting.

Growing up, Kline initially felt forced to meet people outside his age range, but eventually, he started look-ing out for friends who were diff erent than him. In Singapore at outdoor eating areas, Kline would strike up a conversation with the people cooking.

“I got whoever I could interact with,” said Kline.

Kline feels like the biggest transition for him was switching from spending his time with his family to living with roommates not related to him, but even that didn’t trip him up too much.

Home schooling worked for Kline. He found his way around Internet cen-sorship in China, and smuggled edu-cational resources into the country. He bought himself textbooks and watched biology experiments on YouTube. Each Sunday, he would write out a schedule for himself, and by the end of the week, he made sure everything had been ac-complished, even if he had to scoot things around to accommodate for unexpected outings in Singapore, like mid-day family hikes. Kline would write his own exams trying to trick himself.

“I’m very self motivated. Home-schooling works when you have that self-motivation,” said Kline, “It might not work for somebody else.”

“It’s so dependent on the individual. For some kids, [traditional] school is great, and for some kids, it’s destructive,” said Marlens.

Home schooling, according to both Kline and Marlens, gives students the opportunity to explore. Both studied what interested them and read what they enjoyed.

“Th ere’s a diff erence in the work that you do when you have a consciousness that you are doing it of your own voli-tion,” said Marlens. “Most kids don’t really think about school as something that is optional. I think I had a greater awareness, like, I don’t want to waste my time here.”

“I feel that fl exibility is really power-ful in education,” said Kline, “I feel like you can’t learn something if you don’t feel motivated by it. And I felt motivated by what I was studying, so that got me to study more.”

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they are unable to continue their research and studies. The rise in academic refugees has largely been a product of the increasingly hos-tile stance towards scholarship taken by those fighting wars. Take Boko Haram, a militant group in Nigeria whose name means “west-ern education is forbidden,” or ISIS, which has waged a campaign of destruction aimed at academic institutions across Syria and Iraq.

This is a problem not only for the students and teachers it directly af-fects, but also for the international academic community that has lost valuable participants in scholarly discourse to violent conflict.

So what can we inside the bubble do for those who have been forced to leave theirs?

For one, Bowdoin could con-sider hosting displaced academics from conflict zones around the world that have been unable to find institutions in their immedi-ate regions. This precedent has existed since World War II, when American colleges and universi-ties played a crucial role in helping scholars flee Nazi Europe.

Today, organizations such as the

Institute for International Educa-tion continue this legacy by facili-tating temporary placements for academic refugees at willing host institutions until domestic condi-tions in their home countries are conducive for their return.

Hosting academic refugees would not only help these pro-fessors who wish to continue their teaching and studies, but also help our campus.

Bowdoin is a pretty ho-mogeneous place when it comes down to it, but there exists a yearning on campus to engage fur-ther afi eld. Th is desire ought to be met by the institution. In bringing professors to campus who may have experi-enced fi rst-hand what we learn about in government, history and sociology class-es or who have new insights on regional topics, we would broaden our perspec-tives as an institution.

Th is is not to say that our education today is lacking—our professors fos-ter our abilities to think criti-cally, write well and apply what

we learn to a variety of situations. However, we do need more op-portunities to hu-

manize the issues that are all too oft en sensationalized in the media,

through the thoughts and ideas of

those g r a p -

p l i n g with the

i s s u e s fi rst hand.

Th ese perspec-tives aren’t prevalent

in the American academ-ic and scholarly discourse or

in our immediate community, and these international scholars could

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ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

provide them. Th is proposal would clearly represent a fi nancial burden to the College, but we believe that the benefi ts to the College, and such an immense contribution to the common good, would greatly out-weigh any costs.

Our experiences, whether abroad or on campus, have con-vinced us both that there are many ways that Bowdoin students can begin to unravel the problems that our world faces. As global dynam-ics change, it has become clear that we must work more concertedly to engage with scholars and opinions from outside the West.

Besides building a knowledge-base to tackle relevant issues, it is necessary that we as students begin thinking critically about how we engage the world through the structure and content of our Bowdoin education.

Besides conventional intellectu-al engagement, it is important that we freely invite and explore the views of those whose experiences are truly immersed in the realities of our changing world. In other words, let’s ensure that Bowdoin graduates continue to feel at home in all lands, and confident that they have the key to the world’s li-brary in their pockets for years and years to come.

“The culture that you are home schooled in is going to have ahuge eff ect on your experi-

ence.”

MARINA MARLINS ’16

“I don’t necessarily see [home-schooled students] as having a collective but I would say that

there are similar issues that they face”

DEAN OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS JANET LOHMANN

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY BRIDGET WENTORIENT STAFF

Dance concert puts eclectic spin on department showcaseTh is weekend, the tradition of the

December Dance Concert contin-ues as 20 students showcase their course work from the fall semes-ter. Contributions from Bowdoin and Bates faculty accompany the student performances creating an exciting and diverse exhibition.

Students from Modern I, II and III: Repertory and Perfor-mance will perform in three dif-ferent acts. Bates faculty members Carol Dilley and Rachel Boggia are visiting to perform a duet, and Chair of the Th eater and Dance Department Paul Sarvis will show a short dance fi lm. Th is perfor-mance showcases work from a va-riety of student experience levels.

“You’ll see some students who have never danced or performed ever and then other students who have more previous experience,” said As-sistant Professor of Dance and pro-ducer of the show Charlotte Griffi n.

Th e dances for the Modern I and II classes are choreographed by Senior Lecturer Gwyneth Jones. Griffi n choreographed Modern III’s piece. Despite the professors’ obvious infl uence on the artistic direction of the shows, there is still collaboration from their students.

“Even when it’s specifi cally con-structed [by faculty], it’s for that particular body, for that particular student, for that particular artist, so it’s always a collaboration, it’s al-

BY LOUISA MOOREORIENT STAFF

ZACH ALPERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT DANCE REVOLUTION: Students in dance department classes perform Thursday night in Pickard.

Rickey Larke ’15 to premiere‘SurvIvies’ film next Friday

BY EMILY WEYRAUCHORIENT STAFF

Rickey Larke ’15 has never attend-ed Ivies. But that hasn’t stopped him from creating a 45-minute docu-mentary about the notorious spring music festival.

Captain of the track team, Larke has missed Ivies every year because of a NESCAC meet. Larke, an Africana studies and government and legal stud-ies double major with a cinema studies minor, has had aspirations of creating a fi lm since his sophomore year when he took a documentary course with Visit-ing Assistant Professor of Cinema Stud-ies Sarah Childress.

“I wanted to make a fi lm that would make people forget about their home-

‘Sleep Dealer’ uses sci-fi to talk immigration

work, all these loft y ideas and seri-ous themes we always talk about at Bowdoin,” said Larke. “I wanted to make a fun fi lm, and Ivies is the per-fect subject.”

For an independent study, Larke created a documentary, “SurvIvies” (inspired by Director of Safety and Se-

curity Randy Nichols’ iconic name for the event), that was about the creation of a fi lm about Ivies (it’s “pretty meta,” he said). Th e fi lm begins 50 days be-fore Ivies and ends on the Sunday of Ivies.

“It’s kind of an exploration of me trying to make this fi lm, getting all my equipment, getting everything together, getting people to agree to fi lm their Ivies,

Filmmaker and digital media art-ist Alex Rivera screened his film “Sleep Dealer” on Wednesday in Kresge Auditorium, followed by a discussion on the issues of technol-ogy, immigration and globalization highlighted in the film.

“Sleep Dealer,” released in 2008, imagines a dystopian future in which poor workers on the Mexican side of the border with the United States digitally control robot facto-ries that have replaced the need for their labor. The film raises ques-tions about the injustices of border control and economic globalization through the story of Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña), who flees his family’s home after a deadly drone attack and ends up connecting his body from a digital factory in Mex-ico to a robot laborer in the U.S.

In addition to his 2008 feature film “Sleep Dealer,” Rivera’s works include two music videos, includ-ing one for popular R&B artist Aloe Blacc, as well as various short films, websites, and other projects. His films have been screened at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Getty and Lincoln Center. “Sleep Dealer” won multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival.

“Using sci-fi as a way to talk about issues in the contemporary moment provides a way to think about how far we can push immigration,” said Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Marcos Lopez, who helped bring Rivera to campus.

Rivera’s film made its way onto several syllabi at Bowdoin before the director’s visit this week. Three upper-level Spanish classes, a labor course taught by Lopez and a film course taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies Sarah Childress use “Sleep Dealer” as a source on issues of labor, immigra-tion and place.

While fictional, the reality of the film anticipated legal and cultural questions that have attended more widespread use of technology in the developing world.

“This idea that was at first po-litical satire is now becoming real-ity in so many ways,” said Rivera.

“Sleep Dealer” critiques the dig-itization of the modern world and the U.S.’s exploitation of migrant workers for cheap labor and re-flects on the human cost of quick-ening globalization.

“The accelerated cross-border migration that we’ve seen in the past 20 or 30 years is a different side of the extraordinary explo-sions in technology that have also occurred,” said Rivera. “It’s all one process of globalization and of dis-integration of space.”

In the film, Rivera draws a paral-lel between the sense of alienation that comes with life in the digital world and that which comes from living on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The film questions the purpose of incremental changes in technol-ogy, who they serve, and how to reconcile the personal disconnec-tions created in the digital age.

“It’s a chance to ask these ques-tions through a multicultural point

of view, and that’s how technology, which is an international matrix, needs to be seen,” Rivera said.

Immigration, Rivera added, is the only part of globalization that is criminalized. Though migrant workers are a necessary element of the American economy, he wanted to highlight the barriers to entry that remain prevalent.

“There’s this xenophobic, nativ-ist rhetoric that [people use to re-fer to] undocumented people and treat them as these precarious la-borers,” said Lopez.

“We, in this capitalistic soci-ety, exploit those who don’t really have a voice and who we deem as lesser than us,” said Michelle Kruk ’16, one of the leaders of the Latin American Student Organization (LASO). “But at the same time we rely on their labor to function.”

Kruk said that LASO had hoped to bring the issue of immigra-tion to the surface, and the group played a major role in bringing Rivera and his film to campus. She noted the film’s relevance to the student body.

“There are a lot of Latino stu-dents who either were undocu-mented or have family members who are or were undocumented and it’s a really difficult discussion to have,” Kruk said.

The event was sponsored by the Blythe Bickel Fund, Sociology and Anthropology, Romance Lan-guages, Latin American Studies, Cinema Studies, the Office of the Dean of Multicultural Student Af-fairs, the McKeen Center for the Common Good and LASO.

ways a conversation,” said Griffi n.Five of Griffi n’s students per-

form in a piece titled “Th reshold.”“It’s an abstract work and has

a range of emotional tones, but it’s very rhythmic and has a really strong kinetic spark,” she said. “It defi nitely makes you want to move.”

“Th reshold” was the favor-ite piece of Fiona Iyer ’18 who saw the show Th ursday night.

“While it was well rehearsed, it came across as spontaneous,” said Iyer.

In contrast to the student perfor-mances, Dilley and Boggia of the Bates dance faculty perform a duet. Griffi n said she is excited to have them share their work, as they are art-ists from two diff erent generations.

“[Dilley] is a mature artist who’s been running the dance program at Bates for some time, and [Boggia] is newer faculty,” said Griffi n. “It’s real-ly lovely seeing them work together.”

Th is collaboration between Bowdoin and Bates is part of a recent push to bring the dance departments of Bowdoin, Bates and Colby together.

“We’ve been building some bridges that have been really en-riching for the program and for the students,” said Griffi n.

Students and visiting artists have been traveling between the cam-puses, and Griffi n felt that it was important to invite these two Bates professors to share their work. Th e performance by guest artists is a new addition to the show this year.

“Th ey’re not just teachers, they’re also artists themselves,

and I thought it would be nice to give them the opportunity to share work that way,” she said.

Th e fi nal component of the show is the digital media that Sarvis will pres-ent. It is also a way for him to showcase his work as an artist to a community that sees him mainly as a professor.

“It’s nice to see the juxtaposition of live performance next to digitally me-diated performance,” said Griffi n. “I’m interested to see how the audience feels about [this added dimension].”

Iyer, for one, received it well.“It was edge, moving and so

fresh,” said Iyer. “Sarvis’ piece re-ally made the dance show di-mensional and added depth.”

Last year, the December Dance Concert was performed in the dance studio in Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and Dance. It was the fi rst time the space was used for this show since the transformation of Edwards Art Center from an elementary school into Bowdoin’s arts facility. Th is year, the department decided Pick-ard Th eater was a better space for the audience and the performers.

“We have a nice large house to accommodate the guests both from the campus and the community,” said Griffi n.

In addition to the performance that was given last night, there will be two more performances on Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. in Pickard Th eater. Tickets are free at the Smith Union in-formation desk and at the door.

Please see SURVIVIES, page 11

COURTESY OF RICKEY LARKE GOING PRO: Alex Marecki ‘14, Nick Benson ‘17 and Regina Hernandez ‘17 fi lmed their 2014 Ivies experiences with GoPro cameras for Larke’s fi lm, which tracks the students before and during Ivies.

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BY ADIRA POLITESTAFF WRITER

ASHLEY KOATZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Isaac Jaegerman ’16

For most, doodling repre-sents absentminded gibberish. For Isaac Jaegerman ’16, it has always been a passion.

“I’ve loved art for as long as I can remember,” Jaegerman said. “I was always doodling.”

Jaegerman, a visual arts major from Portland, Maine, decided in high school that he wanted to pursue art in college. It was not until he began classes at Bowdoin that he realized he wanted a de-gree in visual arts. Jaegerman’s portfolio includes drawings, paintings and printmaking.

“I’ve found paintings to be the most intellectually intensive [art form] and I really enjoy [that] process,” he said. “But I have the most fun with printmaking.”

Jaegerman spent this past summer interning at Pickwick Press, a print studio in Port-land. There, he was able to learn woodblock printing and use presses not available at Bowdoin.

Although Jaegerman said that there is not a consistent theme throughout his portfolio, most of his pieces fall into the genre of realism.

“I’ve been most inspired by realism so far. Claudio Bravo is one of my favorite painters. I also did a copy of one of Rich-ard Estes’ paintings just this year,” Jaegerman said. “It’s easy to fall back on realism, but I’m still trying to figure out what my style is.”

Bowdoin’s art department is allowing Jaegerman to expand his artistic horizons. This se-mester, he is taking Landscape Painting with Associate Profes-sor of Art James Mullen. He’s currently working on an oil-on-canvas painting of a forest setting. He’s also working on his own self-guided projects, as he is a teaching assistant for Printmaking and is always in the studio.

As for his creative process,

Jaegerman sticks to a calculated, organized method.

“I usually have a good sense of what I want my project to look like before I begin,” he said. “I move very logically, step-by-step. I work progressively from area to area. There’s a lot of planning involved.”

Jaegerman is a prominent ar-tistic figure on campus. His art is featured both in the Visual Arts Center (VAC) and in the Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Ed-wards Center for Art and Dance. His panorama painting of the Quad is on display in the fish-bowl in the VAC, and one of his landscape paintings hangs in Edwards. His work was also on display in Bowdoin Art Society’s fall show “340 Miles North.”

While Jaegerman’s pieces re-main on display for the enjoy-ment of students, faculty and vis-itors alike, the artist himself will be taking his talents overseas. Next semester, Jaegerman will travel to Florence, Italy, where he will study etching, drawing and art history at SACI, the Studio Art Centers International.

This summer, following his semester abroad, Jaegerman will hike across Iceland with Adeline Browne ’16 and Matthew Goroff ’16, thanks to a fellowship from the Bowdoin Outing Club. Jae-german is planning an indepen-dent study using photos from his Icelandic journey to create landscape paintings.

“It’s exciting because I’ve never really done a series before,” he said.

Jaegerman feels that the Bowdoin arts community has something special.

“You can go into Edwards at any time of night, like two or three in the morning, and there will be several people there working on their projects,” he said. “It’s really nice.”

Jaegerman’s multimedia port-folio can be accessed online through his Weebly account (http://isaacjaegerman.weebly.com/).

that’s half of the fi lm. And then the other half is just the weekend,” said Larke.

Larke set his sights high: he wanted to explore Ivies not just from one per-spective, but through several diff erent lenses. And high-quality ones, too.

Larke rented three GoPro cameras from Bowdoin and attached them to volunteers who would take them around for the entirety of their Ivies experiences: Alex Marecki ’14, Nick Benson ’17 and Regina Hernandez ’17. Larke fi lmed the creation process as well as the festivities with a DSLR camera until he left for his meet on Saturday, when Destiny Guer-rero ’14 volunteered to fi lm the concert.

“You see it from the perspective of the kid in the crowd, crazy, pushing every-one,” said Larke. “Th en you see it from the perspective of the kid in the crowd getting pushed around for what appears to be no reason, so it’s really interesting in conversation with one another.”

One challenge Larke faced was fi -nancing. Larke bought his own DSLR

camera, lenses, microphones, light-ing equipment and personal GoPro camera for the process. To do so, he got multiple jobs on campus and saved up his earnings.

Larke also had to collect release forms for students who were fi lmed—he estimates probably about 70 in to-tal. Although some students were un-derstandably reluctant to have their weekends fi lmed, Larke explained that there are no illegal or immoral activities taking place on camera.

“All the drinking [other than my-self] is from water bottles and solo cups, it’s not from cans or handles or things like that,” said Larke. “No one’s smoking in the fi lm. No one’s doing all these crazy things that you would ex-pect to be in the fi lm—not explicitly.”

Th e conception of Ivies as “some crazy bacchanal of debauchery” is something Larke wanted to examine in his fi lm. In order to understand Bowdoin’s—and his own—identity, Larke had questions he wanted to ex-plore in this fi lm.

“Is Ivies an outlier of our character as a community, or is this our true es-

sence?” asked Larke. “Is this us really showing who we are, or is this us per-forming who we’d like to be?”

Aft er creating “SurvIvies”—which he is still fi ne-tuning before its release on December 12—Larke is tired, but excited to create another fi lm in the future, most likely aft er he graduates. He is fascinated by the idea of cap-turing the same event from multiple perspectives and comparing how people experience it.

Although Larke produced the en-tire fi lm, he is extremely grateful for everyone involved and those who supported him throughout the pro-cess. He thanks Childress (his adviser for the independent study), the entire cinema studies department, Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies Ericka Albaugh, Associate Professor of English Guy Mark Fos-ter, Associate Professor of Africana Studies Brian Purnell as well as ev-eryone he interviewed and each stu-dent who agreed to be fi lmed.

“SurvIvies” explores an event ex-perienced by most Bowdoin students and Larke is not going to show the fi lm to the outside world.

“Bowdoin students should see it because it’s for them, it’s about them, it’s for their eyes only,” he said. “The purpose is holding a mirror up to Bowdoin.”

“People have this idea of Ivies as being crazy, everyone’s just blackout drunk—but that’s not the case! Th ere’s way more footage of people Snapchat-ting than drinking,” said Larke.

“I think people will be surprised,” he added.

The film will be shown Friday, December 12 in Smith Auditorium in Sills Hall at 7 p.m.

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An exhibit in the Lamarche Gallery in David Saul Smith Union displays multicolored hand-written posters cre-ated by victims of sexual assault. Th e display is in partnership with “Surviv-ing in Numbers,” a non-profi t organi-zation launched in October of 2012 by Alison Safran, an activist, who col-laborated with senior Gabriela Serrato Marks to bring the show to Bowdoin.

Safran’s goal is to bring attention to the prevalence of sexual assault on col-lege campuses across the country by developing and implementing preven-tion curricula for high schoolers. Th e organization provides an online forum for survivors to share their experi-ences. Safran has shown her exhibit at the U.S. Consulate in China, the Mas-sachusetts State House and colleges across the country.

Marks was inspired by her friendship with Safran to organize the exhibit.

“[Safran] told me she was looking for diff erent colleges to show her exhibits so

I thought we might as well do one here at Bowdoin,” said Serrato Marks. “She started it as a way to have survivors of sexual assault tell their stories in a for-mat that they were able to control.”

Th e large marker-decorated posters use numerical information and statis-tics to illustrate the realities of surviv-ing sexual assault.

“I think [Safran] liked the idea to use numbers because it quantifi es things in a way that would otherwise be hard to describe. It separates you a little from

the story and I think that makes you realize that these posters could be any-one,” said Serrato Marks. “I really like the format for that reason.”

Th e statistical content of most of the posters also makes clear both the chal-lenges victims of assault face and the successes they can achieve in the pro-cess of recovery.

“Some people are still aff ected by their assault 50 years later and that’s signifi cant,” said Serrato Marks. “Other people are able to write down that it’s been 12 months since their last panic attack. Th at’s also highly signifi cant and

a great victory for that person. Putting numbers to things helps outsiders un-derstand the experience.”

Serrato Marks hopes that the exhibit will help members of the Bowdoin community understand the impact that sexual assault has on individuals.

“I can’t say that the exhibit will pre-vent assault; I think that only changes in behavior can prevent assault,” she said. “I hope that the exhibit will make people think twice about their interac-tions and remind them to make sure they’re being careful to get consent ev-ery time.”

Th e exhibit is meant to reach ev-eryone at Bowdoin, regardless of prior exposure to or knowledge of sexual as-sault.

“I like to think that [the exhibit] will help people understand survivor ex-periences a little bit better because un-fortunately, there are a lot of survivors on this campus,” said Serrato Marks. “Ideally, because of this exhibit, there wouldn’t have to be any more survi-vors, but for now I think that love and support is what we can off er.”

“Surviving in Numbers” came to Bowdoin with the help of many cam-pus groups and offi ces including Resi-dental Life, the Women’s Resource Center, Th e Department of Gender Violence Prevention and Education, Bowdoin Men Against Sexual Vio-lence, V-Day, Safe Space, the Bowdoin Queer Straight Alliance and the Alli-ance for Sexual Assault Prevention.

“We all have similar missions but we seldom cooperate because of issues such as scheduling,” said Serrato Marks. “It was really nice to work together.”

Members of the Bowdoin commu-nity who have survived sexual assault as well as people not affi liated with the school contributed to the exhibit by creating the posters.

“Surviving in Numbers” will be on display in Lamarche Gallery in Smith Union through Sunday December 7.

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ORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF SURVIVING IN NUMBERSSTRENGTH IN NUMBERS: A Bowdoin student holds up a poster from “Surviving in Numbers.”

COURTESY OF RICKEY LARKERACE TO THE FINISH: A still from “SurvIvies” of Racer X performing on Friday of Ivies 2014.

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What is love? Sticky, messy and complicated—just ask Van Ettenits title—on the altar for sacrifice: is there an elegant way for a heart to break, a graceful falling out of love?

Van Etten has no answers, but in crafting the record she makes the case for something which I have suspected since I was 16 and ac-cidentally belonged to another person. Our turns of phrase are in need of updating—we don't fall in love, so much as stumble into it.

Perhaps it's because our emo-tional wiring dangles like stubborn shoe laces, perhaps it's because be-cause we're rarely as honest with ourselves as we'd like to think, but love is what happens when we're busy making other plans. Van Etten sings with all the intensity this cruel irony—that our most in-timate feelings might only be in-

telligible in retrospect—inspires. With “Afraid of Nothing,” the al-bum opens with the swirling haze of an arpeggiated guitar grounded by a gentle, melancholic piano line. The effect is the passage of time, as if soundtracking the car on the cover forever whisking by sub-urban neighbor-

hoods. Van Etten stares out the window, searching for something unseen ahead. She knows she won't find it: “I can't wait 'til we're afraid of nothing.” Waiting for love's confirmation is the wait of a lifetime. Love requires risk and leaps of faith. It is urgent, and will not abide by “a lame 'wait shit out,'” as she chides the song's second person. Love is fickle. It

I first fell in love when I was 16 and immediately regretted it. Love was sticky and smelled slightly off. It consisted of long, ooz-ing tendrils wrapping themselves around my heart and yanking at inopportune moments. I felt both weightless and claustrophobic in it, buoyed and breathless in love's thick embrace. To fall in love, I discovered, is to be suspended in something resembling my aunt's endearing at-tempts at bread pudding (a dish, no less, savored by my then girlfriend). By the time I was 17, I realized how thor-oughly I had fallen in when I tried to ex-tricate myself from love's mess. Evi-dently, love, again like my aunt's bread pudding, goes bad. It's even stickier and holds on ever tighter, when it does.

Sharon Van Etten knows this. She has lived this, and she has sung about it. Nowhere are her thoughts more refined, nor her feelings more concentrated, than on her masterful fourth album “Are We There.” It is a sonic tour de force of the daily triumphs and trials of love, a testament to the en-durance and occasional idiocy of the human spirit, as well as to the healing powers of the heart. The record does not ask love's burning questions so much as slam them—as stark and question mark-less as

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does not come with a eureka.“Are We There” is not a break up

record, though it could function as one. It is more an album about thresholds, the spaces in between lovers, getting mired in the mess. On the show-stopping “Your Love

is Killing Me,” Van Etten, in one of the finest vo-

cal performances of the decade, cap-

tures the vul-nerability of

hearts that l i v e

outside our chests. She needs the language of violence in order to describe the in-ner turmoil of a long-distance rela-tionship: “break my legs so I won't run to you” and “stab my eyes so I can't see,” but “steal my soul so I am one with you.” It's easy to forget that the person in charge of your heart is a real human being. The physical force of Van Etten's performance—and the message to “taste blood, ev-

erybody needs to feel”—helps to re-mind us that we are just flesh, even our ex-lovers.

The confusion comes to a fore on “I Love You But I'm Lost.” Even the assuredness of a feeling in the pres-ent doesn't guarantee it's longevity. We're all changing (or do we call it growing?) and disappointment is inevitable: “to know somebody in and out, it's a real challenge.”

How accurate are our representa-tions of each other, and can love en-dure the transitions from one pic-ture of a person to the next? “You know me well,” she half commands on the next song, but it isn't enough to fill the brick house of a rela-tionship, built without the sides.

We might never actually know each other fully, but going

through hell together at least offers familiarity. Whether that's enough, to conceive of the signifi-cant other with emphasis on the “significant” and downplaying the “other,” is debatable, but it's a start. Relationships work through willing partners, and Van Etten displays such determined com-passion as she sings “I will reach you.”

“Are We There” is a dif-ficult album to listen to because it grabs your at-tention by punching you

in the gut. It's hard to relegate it to the background, because it makes whatever you are doing—cooking, doing homework, lounging around on the internet—seem insignificant to the torment of heartbreak. Raw and rich, “Are We There” rewards multiple listens, as it unfolds to the haunting, gravelly quavers of Van Etten's voice. Listening to it is a little bit like falling in love for the first time, stickiness and all.

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Men’s basketball loses steam after perfect start to season

The men’s basketball team built on its perfect performance in the Rick Martin Tip-Off Tournament with at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine (3-3) and the University of New England (UNE) (1-5) before falling by double digits to Babson College (5-1) and Bates College (7-0) this week, lowering its own record to 4-2.

In the UNE game, Bowdoin dominated early, going on a 17-6 run that carried the Polar Bears to a commanding 37-26 lead at the half. The team shot 43 percent from the field and reached the free throw line 14 times, missing only once.

Captain Keegan Pieri ’15, with 22 points and seven rebounds, and captain Bryan Hurley ’15, with 14 points and six assists, pushed the Polar Bears to an impressive 67-48 win over the Nor’easters with their individual performances.

Th e Polar Bears’ strong start to the season was due in part to the strong team chemistry. With only 13 play-ers, they have been able to form an especially cohesive unit.

“Because we are such a small team, we are around and interacting with each other all the time—on the court and off the court,” said Pieri. “We really got to know each other right off the bat.”

Th e Polar Bears’ perfect start ended when they traveled to Babson a week aft er the UNE game and suff ered a 20-point loss.

Senior center John Swords led the Polar Bears with a double-double and Pieri added 11 points to the team’s total. Nevertheless, the team could not keep up with the Beavers and lost the game 68-48.

“It was the fi rst time we were re-ally tested,” said Hurley.

Both captains agreed that hav-ing all of their fi rst six games on the road has actually been benefi cial to the team.

Th ey said that they have been able to get stronger early in the season by competing in so many diff erent venues. It also means that they will have more home games toward the end of the season, which could lead to a late-season run.

For the Polar Bears, the Babson game was their fi rst taste of a noisy crowd, and many players were able to feed off the energy of the away crowds just as much as their own.

“I prefer the silence of away crowds rather than excited home crowds,” said Hurley.

Th e highlight of the season so far has been the team’s shooting—with a season total of 43.8 percent from the fi eld and 81 percent from the free throw line, the Polar Bears are run-ning a high-effi ciency off ense.

Yesterday the Polar Bears fell to Bates, again by 20 points. Lucas Hausman ’16 had 22 points on 7-13 shooting but the rest of the team shot only 34 percent from the fi eld.

Th e team looks to get back on track tomorrow when it plays Colby in its home opener.

Women’s hockey dominates early in the season

After loss, women’s basketball rebounds into winning form

Women’s basketball defeated Bates 65-48 on November 22 but came out flat against the University of New England (UNE) three days later. However, the Polar Bears came back with a lopsided vic-tory against Salve Regina Univer-sity and the University of Southern Maine (USM) the following week. Bowdoin’s overall record this sea-son stands at 5-2.

“After that loss [against UNE] we’ve been working a lot on de-fense and just making sure we’re getting out to shooters and that we’re really communicating,” said Sydney Hancock ’17. “It shows in our last couple of games.”

The Polar Bears entered halftime with a 31-25 lead against Bates, but the Bobcats closed the gap early in the second half. Rallying for the win, the Polar Bears kicked their

offensive play into gear with a de-cisive run that extended the lead to 57-34 with six minutes left.

Captain Megan Phelps ’15 ex-ploded for eight points in the last few minutes. Overall, Phelps had 15 points in the contest.

Bowdoin held Bates to 26.6 per-cent shooting for the game and 15.2 percent from three-point range.

In a back and forth match against UNE, the Polar Bears ulti-mately suffered a tough 68-64 loss.

“There were a couple of unfor-tunate turnovers that hurt us down the stretch, and we left some of their key shooters open and they made some big plays,” said senior captain Sara Binkhorst. “We had a couple of lapses defensively. I think overall we played a solid game. There were moments when we re-ally showed how good we can be.”

After a wild first half, UNE led 37-31. Bowdoin gained a 47-45 edge over the Nor’easters when Lauren Petit ’18 sunk a three-pointer with 11:20 remaining in the game. The Polar Bears gained momentum and maintained their lead until the last three minutes

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TWO MEMBERS OF NATIONAL RUNNER UP FIELD HOCKEY TEAM NAMED ALL-AMERICANS

Kennedy was named a First Team selection, NFHCA New England West Region Player of the Year, and NESCAC Player of the Year. She led the NESCAC with 32 goals. Kennedy had 10 game-winners this sea-son, including an overtime goal in the NCAA quar-terfinal to advance the team to the final four.

In addition, 93 Bowdoin athletes earned NESCAC All-Academic awards by maintaining a 3.35 GPA. Fifteen of the senior recipients earned the award for their third time, the maximum number of years one can win the award.

Eight fall athletes were also named to the NESCAC All-Sportsmanship team. Elected by players and coaches from their respective teams, these students demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship in their respective sports.

Th e women’s ice hockey team is off to its best start since 2002, staying un-defeated at 3-0-2 aft er beating Nichols College on Wednesday.

In their season opener, the Polar Bears handily defeated Colby (2-4-0) in Waterville, winning 6-1. First-year Mi-randa Bell stepped up for the team that had two of its top six scorers from last season graduate, scoring a hat trick in her fi rst game as a Polar Bear.

Bell scored once, unassisted, in each of the fi rst two periods, giving the Po-lar Bears a 2-0 lead going into the fi nal 20 minutes of play. Colby scored early in the third off of a power play, but fel-

low fi rst-year Julie Dachille answered a minute later to re-establish Bowdoin‘s two-goal lead. Th e fl oodgates opened seven minutes later as the Polar Bears scored three goals in three minutes to put the game away.

Th e next day, the team welcomed the Mules to Brunswick. Although it failed to fi nd the back of the net as easily as it had the day before, the team was able to shut out Colby and earn a 1-0 victory.

Th e game stayed scoreless through the fi rst two periods as Lan Croft on ’17 racked up 19 of her eventual 30 saves and Colby’s Angelica Crites held her own at her end of the rink.

Th e only goal of the game was not until halfway through the fi nal period when, on a power play, Marne Gallant ’17 fed the puck across the ice to Schuy-ler Nardelli ’15, who found Maryanne Iodice ’18, who fi red the puck just inside the left post.

Two days before Th anksgiving, the team needed a third period goal to tie Th e University of Massachusetts Bos-ton (5-2-3). Five minutes into the game,

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Finnerty was named to the Third Team and was also named All-NESCAC First Team and All-Region First Team. A defender, Finnerty had three defensive saves—including a clutch save at the goal-mouth during the NCAA quarterfinal game—seven goals and five assists during the season.

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Dachille fi red a shot that was defl ected by the UMass goalie, but Maureen Grea-son ’18 knocked in the rebound and gave Bowdoin a 1-0 advantage.

Th e Polar Bears held the lead until midway through the second period, when the Beacons scored twice in two minutes against Beth Findley ’16 who was making her fi rst start in the net this season. Ariana Bourque ’16 came up big for the Polar Bears three min-utes into the third period, equalizing the score at 2-2.

Four days later, the Polar Bears strug-gled through a defensive battle against Holy Cross (7-2-1), with both teams failing to score in the 0-0 tie. While Croft on had to save 15 more shots than her Holy Cross counterpart, the Polar Bears had multiple opportunities to take the lead, including chances from Grea-son and Dachille.

Th e team hopes to continue to receive an impressive contribution from its fi rst years when they host Saint Anselm Col-lege tomorrow and Norwich University Sunday before taking a month off .

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BY QUYEN HAORIENT STAFF

Th e men’s cross country season ended on November 22 at the NCAA D-III Cross Country Championship at Th e Golf Center at Kings Island in Ma-son, Ohio. Senior captains Avery Wen-tworth and Kevin Hoose competed as individuals on the 8k track, fi nishing in 88th and 210th place respectively.

“My hope the entire season was to help the team qualify for nationals,” said Wentworth. “So it was kind of a bitter-sweet experience. I had never been to the nationals before, and I was really excited to have been able to make it as a senior. At the same time, it would have been great if we made it as a group.”

With the sludge of melted snow covering the entire racecourse, Mason welcomed 32 teams representing vari-ous colleges and universities across the nation, as well as 56 individual quali-fi ers. Racers from these teams and the individual qualifi ers made up the pool of 280 competitors. Th e Bowdoin duo earned their qualifi cation following their performances at the New England D-III regionals a week before.

“Racing at a golf course was fun with the up-and-down terrain. Th e snow had already melted, everything was muddy, and adverse conditions made running a little more exciting,” said Hoose.

Having fallen down twice due to the slippery track, Hoose’s progress in the race was hindered, and he ended his impressive cross country career with

a time of 26:00.9 to fi nish in 210th place. Wentworth added to his cross-country resume with an 88th place fi nish, improving his personal record to a 25:14.7 time.

“If there is anything about this race that I wish to be highlighted, it would be Avery’s performance,” Hoose said. “He had an incredible year leading our team, and for him to perform so well in the last race of the season, we are all very happy for him and very proud of him as well.”

Last week, Wentworth was named a NESCAC All-Sportsmanship recipi-ent, and also earned fall All-Academic honors for the third consecutive year. Th e NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team recognizes student-athletes from each varsity team who have demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship in their re-spective sport. In order to be qualifi ed as an All-Academic, an individual must be at least a sophomore and a varsity letter winner with a cumulative grade point average above 3.35.

“Looking back, I really have no regret at all,” said Wentworth. “We came into this season as a fresh team. Last year, we graduated fi ve of our seven varsity runners, and we were uncertain about how things would go on from there.”

“But I am really proud of all of us, especially with the younger guys who really stepped up and performed amaz-ingly well,” he added. “I am excited to continue to train and race with them, now that we are moving on to indoor track and fi eld in the winter.

Two Polar Bears race in NCAA cross country championship

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RUN THIS TOWN: Senior captains Avery Wentworth and Kevin Hoose raced in the Division III cross country championships two weeks ago. The two battled through muddy conditions and fi nished in 88th and 210th place respectively out of 280 racers.

Free-scoring men’s hockey maintains undefeated start

The men’s ice hockey team con-tinued its strong start to the sea-son, winning its last five games to remain undefeated and improve

its overall record to 6-0-1.In the annual Colby-Bowdoin

showdown the Polar Bears rallied from a 2-0 defi cit in the fi rst period to win the contest 5-3 at Watson Arena. Daniel McMullan ’18 scored his fi rst career goal right before the end of the fi rst period to bring the score to 1-2.

John McGinnis ’15 brought the Polar Bears back, scoring twice in the second period to give Bowdoin the lead. Th e Mules evened the score at 3-3 at the beginning of the third pe-

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Connor Quinn ’15 has scored at least one goal in each game so far this season and sits sec-ond in the NESCAC in scoring with eight goals and five assists. Quinn scored a hat trick in Bow-doin’s 6-3 win over Colby be-fore Thanksgiving and tied the season opener against Williams with 52 seconds remaining to keep the team undefeated.

In the last two weeks, he grabbed a goal against Went-worth Institute of Technology and recorded two assists against Salve Regina University. He has scored in both power play and short-handed situations this season, using his speed to create breakaway opportunities even with only four Polar Bears are on the ice.

With linemates John McGin-nis ’15 and Matt Lison ’18 ranking fi rst and fourth in scoring, Bow-doin’s front three players have been more productive than entire NES-CAC teams.

Quinn start-ed skating at age two and said he fell in love from the beginning.

“Practicing was a lot more fun than in other sports,” he said. “You think on your feet; there’s not as much set-up play. Th e physicality is nice too. You get to throw your body around a little bit.”

Quinn started as a defend-er but his high school coach moved him to forward against his wishes because he was “an offensive defenseman.” Quinn went so far as to call himself a “liability” in the position. How-ever, his speed and willingness to fight for the puck down low made for a seamless transition to offense.

“One of the things that stands out is his puck protection in the corner,” said captain Danny Pa-lumbo ’15. “He’s good at escap-ing. He likes to play in the dirty areas and he’s always in front of the net on powerplays.”

Head Coach Terry Meagher calls the ability to escape a key to being a great player and spoke highly of Quinn.

Quinn’s desire to freelance matched well with Meagher’s position-less style of hockey, and Quinn credits the system as one of the main factors that led him to Bowdoin. Meagher calls Quinn a left wing in name only because “where he lines up is not where he ends up.”

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Connor Quinn ’15

MEN’S HOCKEY

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“He’s reminiscent of a few great players that have a unique style of play,” said Meagher. “You have to let them go and protect around them because they are so gifted athletically and so creative. He’s arguably one of the most exciting ath-letes in our league and really the East.”

Meagher noted that despite Quinn’s speed—Palumbo said he believes he could be the fast-est player in the conference—many of his goals have come in situations that require reacting in front of the net or in scrums. His speed also has a tremendous impact on penalty kills. The Polar Bears play an aggressive style of penalty killing that al-lows Quinn to attack if he inter-cepts the puck in the opponent’s defensive end.

“Sometimes it can hurt, and I can get caught out of position, but I like to think my speed

helps me make up for that,” Quinn said. “I’ve always been fast. I went to a few skat-ing camps, but they say it’s not something you

can coach. I guess I got lucky.”Despite his early scoring run,

Quinn acknowledges that he has not been a prolific scorer in the past. He is more than half-way to his scoring totals from last year with only a quarter of the season’s games played.

“Coming into the season, I wanted to be a goal scorer. I haven’t really been a goal scorer in the past,” he said. “Playing with [McGinnis], who’s a playmaker, makes my job a lot easier.”

Quinn also returned to play-ing rugby when he arrived at Bowdoin, which he had played through high school but given up temporarily to go to prep school for hockey. It is almost unprecedented for a varsity ath-lete to take on a club sport, par-ticularly one that meets regularly and involves significant contact.

Quinn has been a consis-tent contributor to Bowdoin Men’s Rugby during his time at Bowdoin, and Meagher said he has always embraced the contri-butions that rugby has brought to his style of play in hockey.

“It’s not common throughout the game to have a player with such a unique style,” Meagher said. “Most players pass the eye test, they’re just a little better, a little stronger, a little faster, but conventionally. His is an unpre-dictability, in a good way.”

• Scored a hat trick in the team’s three goal win at Colby• Leads the Polar Bears with eight goals this season

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“He’s arguably one of the most exciting athletes in our league and

really the East.”

HEAD COACH TERRY MEAGHER

Destiny thy name is Landon: an MLS fi nal

It’s a season that Landon Donovan probably never wants to end, but luckily for him, he’s got one more game to play. Donovan’s LA Galaxy eliminated the Seattle Sounders last weekend on an away-goals tiebreak-er aft er a 2-2 draw across two legs of competition, setting up a date with the New England Revolution this Sunday in the MLS Cup fi nal. Th e fi nal will be Donovan’s last game as a professional footballer, as he an-nounced his retirement from soccer in August.

The Galaxy took a 1-0 lead into Seattle for the second leg but quick-ly fell into a hole. After Brad Evans scored early for the Sounders to tie the aggregate score at one, World Cup hero Clint Dempsey put a weak dribbler past LA keeper Jaime Penedo six minutes later to put Se-attle on top.

Brazilian midfi elder Juninho lev-eled the score at two apiece with a low rocket from outside the box that tied the aggregate score at two and gave LA the advantage by virtue of its away goal. Seattle tried desper-ately to fi nd a late winner, but the Galaxy held on to advance to their record ninth MLS Cup fi nal.

In the East, the New England Revo-lution faced the New York Red Bulls and another retiring legend in Th i-erry Henry. Th e Revs took a 2-1 lead into the second leg at Gillette Stadium and went through to the fi nal behind two Charlie Davies goals, winning the two-legged tie 4-3 on aggregate and dashing any hopes of Henry and Donovan facing off for the Cup.

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There are plenty of storylines to be gleaned from Sunday’s match-up. The Galaxy are seeking an MLS record fifth championship, while the Revolution are looking to claim their first title despite having already competed in four finals. The two franchises have met in the Cup final twice before, in 2002 and 2005, with the Galaxy claiming both titles.

But there’s also Donovan, who is probably the biggest storyline of all. He has decided to hang up his cleats at the relatively young age of 32, and throughout his career he has accu-mulated fi ve league titles and pretty much every major scoring record in the MLS. It is puzzling that he is retiring now, as he’s still a prolifi c player. Th is season alone he posted 13 goals and 15 assists.

Donovan is a complex character. He has publicly acknowledged the role that soccer has played in per-petuating his depression. He’s stat-ed many times during this playoff run that he would quit when the game was no longer fun and when it “felt right.” In that sense, retiring now is Donovan’s career in a nut-shell; it’s him doing things on his own terms, whether that is leaving England for the MLS, taking a sab-batical from soccer during World Cup qualifying, or quitting with miles left in the tank.

Standing in the way of a Holly-wood ending for Donovan’s career is a red-hot Revolution team featuring MVP fi nalist Lee Nguyen and U.S. national team phenom Jermaine Jones. Th e Revs won 10 out of their last 12 matches of the regular season to climb to the No. 2 seed in the East heading into the playoff s.

Th e diff erence for the Revs was defi nitely the acquisition of Jones late in the season from Turkish

club Besiktas. Manager Jay Heaps has built a strong, scrappy team by compiling castoff s from other teams like Nguyen and Davies, while trad-ing for and draft ing players like Teal Bunbury and Andrew Farrell.

Davies is a great story on his own, because he has returned to strong form after a near-fatal car crash in 2010. New England are surely the underdogs going in, but are peak-ing at the right time to battle for their first Cup.

The Galaxy are a veritable jug-gernaut, holding the statistically most productive offense and stin-giest defense in the league. LA is home to many of MLS’ flashy names to complement its gaudy stats. The attacking trio of Donovan, newly crowned MLS MVP Robbie Keane and Gyasi Zardes combined for a ridiculous 48 goals and 29 assists this season, making them the most electrifying attack in the league. Anchoring the backline are Omar Gonzalez and Robbie Rogers, two of MLS’s best defenders.

It’s hard to pick against this Gal-axy team. Th e image of Donovan leaving on top in front of a home crowd at the StubHub Center is cer-tainly compelling, and his team will surely have extra motivation to cap off his legendary career.

The Galaxy also waxed the Revs 5-1 in their only other meeting this season, with Keane and Zardes both scoring twice. If New Eng-land can pull off the upset, it will be on the back of Nguyen, who has carried the Revs all season, and Jones, who will need to be massive in front of the backline to stall the prolific LA attack.

As hot the Revs have been lately, I don’t think even they can stop desti-ny: Donovan will retire a champion as the Galaxy claim their fi ft h title.

when UNE took a 56-54 edge.“UNE changed up their defense

and I felt like that affected us a lit-tle bit for a while—then we finally got into a rhythm against their zone defense,” said Head Coach Adrienne Shibles.

Th e game was extremely close in its dying moments. Binkhorst made a jump shot with six seconds remain-ing to pull the Polar Bears within two. However, UNE converted six straight from the free throw line in the fi nal 38 seconds to secure their victory.

“We really could have done a better job of taking care of the ball and we had some great opportuni-ties—baskets that just rolled out.” said Shibles. “I mean, that’s sort of just how things are in the game.”

Although Binkhorst and Shan-non Brady ’16 scored an impres-sive 19 and 18 points respectively, the team’s sporadic scoring led to its defeat.

“Basketball is a game of runs and momentum and that’s bound to hap-pen,” added Shibles. “I do feel like we can be more consistent and it is early in the season—we are a young team—so these are important les-sons to learn that will help us.”

Bowdoin came back with a blowout 77-33 non-conference win against Salve Regina four days af-ter the loss to UNE.

Petit opened the game with a three pointer and Bowdoin ran away with a 47-14 lead. After a promising 11-point run from the

Seahawks in the second half, the Polar Bears answered right back with a 13-2 run of their own to put the game away.

Th e exceptional defensive perfor-mance was accompanied by a solid off ensive attack led by Brady with 16 points and Marle Curle ’17 and Sie-na Mitman ’15 with 10 points apiece. Ally Silfen ’17 contributed eight re-bounds and eight points.

The team is optimistic about the season.

“I think we’ll do great,” said Hancock. “I think those first cou-ple losses were just really good learning opportunities in the be-ginning. We’re really going to peak at a great time when we start play-

BASKETBALLCONTINUED FROM PAGE 13

ing really hard NESCAC teams and we’ll be right in the position we want to be in—one of the best teams in the league.”

Shibles said she shares this op-timism and acknowledges that the team has shown great progress, but knows the Polar Bears must also apply what they have learned so far to the rest of the season.

“There’s a lot we’re working on,” said Shibles. “On the defensive end I feel like we made a big improve-ment from the UNE game to the Salve game. Our defensive intensity was much better and our closeouts were much better. Offensively I think we just need to be consistent-ly aggressive.”

ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

POWER IN THE PAINT: Siena Mitman ’15 battles two University of Southern Maine defenders in the key during the Polar Bears’ 65-44 rout of the Huskies.

16 sports friday, december 5, 2014 the bowdoin orient

Field hockey falls to TCNJ in NCAA fi nal

Th e fi eld hockey team had yet another successful season, fi nishing as national runner-ups with a 19-3 record (9-1 NESCAC). Th e team played in the NCAA Division III Championship Game for the second year in a row, but fell to Th e College of New Jersey (TCNJ) 2-1.

The Polar Bears had a phenome-nal run in the tournament this year, advancing to the Final Four after beating Skidmore College 2-1 in overtime at home in the quarterfi-nals on a breakaway overtime goal. Bowdoin then faced Salisbury Uni-versity in the semifinals and won 2-1. This season was the fifth time Bowdoin has played in the Champi-onship Game.

For the twenty-first successive season, a Bowdoin player has been named a National Field Hockey College Association (NFHCA) Division III All-American. Rachel Kennedy ’16 and captain Colleen Finnerty ’15 were both named NFHCA All-Americans.

The overtime win against Skid-more set the Polar Bears on track for a strong tournament run as the team entered the Final Four.

“Skidmore was such an emo-tional win,” said Head Coach Nicky Pearson. “After that, you realize you

are off to the Final Four. It feels like a very special time.”

“Coming off the win at home was amazing. We beat Skidmore in overtime and were riding on an emotional high from that,” added captain Pam Herter ’15. “We were really excited to have made it to the Final Four. One of the biggest goals of the season is always to get to the Final Four and then the na-tional championship. Going into the Final Four, we were really fo-cused and really excited.”

Bowdoin continued their on-field excellence during the semi-final game against Salisbury, who they faced and beat in last year’s national championship game. The team was determined to win and excited to have the chance to face them again.

“Often you go into the semifinals playing a team you are not really fa-miliar with, but there was an aspect of familiarity with Salisbury,” said Pearson. “I think that was comfort-ing for the team and the team could go into the game believing they could beat Salisbury.”

Bowdoin led the game against Salisbury from the beginning. The first goal was lifted in by Kennedy. The second goal was buried into the corner of the goal by Mettler Growney ’17.

“We were all excited to get out there [against Salisbury]. We had possession of the ball for a lot of the game,” said Herter.

“We felt pretty good about the win and played pretty well as a

team. There were good transitions and connections all the way back from our goalie to our defense and up to our offense,” she added.

After the crucial semifinal win against Salisbury, the focus be-came the game against TCNJ. Be-ing the defending champion squad, Bowdoin players had experience competing for the ultimate prize.

“There was a lot of good experi-ence and leadership on the team,” said Herter.

“We knew that this was a big deal and that we were at a high na-tional level, but we also did not let it get to our heads too much. We were definitely excited and appre-ciated the moment,” she added.

Despite the tough loss, Herter took comfort in the fact that the Polar Bears could look back on a season with few flaws.

“We still played our game. We had to recognize what an amaz-ing feat we had accomplished,” she said. “It is hard to be sad when you have accomplished so much and your season has been so great.”

While the team will be without some core members next year, Pear-son still has expectations for success.

“We graduate six seniors so that is going to be a significant loss for the program,” she said. “We are still going to have a strong core of returning players who experienced the tournament play this year. The returning players know what it takes day in and day out. My hope is that they will step up and lead the team next year.”

BY GABY PAPPERORIENT STAFF

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BOWDOIN v. Winona State 11 A.M.

ACRA/USAR DIVISION IISemifi nals - Saturday, Dec. 6

Held at Palm Coast, Fla.

WOMEN’S RUGBY

NESCAC Standings

riod but Matthew Lison ’18 and Con-nor Quinn ’15 each scored to secure the Bowdoin win.

In the second game, held at Colby’s Alfond Rink, the Polar Bears once again found themselves trailing early, when the host team scored less than two minutes into the game. Brendan Conroy ’17 equalized for the Polar Bears with his fi rst career goal min-utes before the Mules scored again. Just 52 seconds before the end of the fi rst period, Quinn scored to tie the game going into the fi rst intermission. In the second period, Kendall Culb-ertson ’17 and Lison each scored once while Quinn had two more goals in the third period before Colby scored again, making the fi nal score 6-3.

“I believe that league experience in games where you’re down and come back was critical,” said Head Coach Terry Meagher. “Th e juniors and seniors have been through long seasons and they knew to stay steady and not to panic.”

Two days before Th anksgiving, Bowdoin beat the University of New England 3-0. Alec Root ’15, Danny Palumbo ’15 and Quinn each scored for the Polar Bears. Goaltender Max Fenkell ’15 made 24 saves and earned his second shutout of the season.

Th e Polar Bears then hosted Went-worth Institute of Technology on Sat-urday in the fi rst day of the Bowdoin/Colby Face-Off Classic tournament, with Bowdoin winning 6-1. McGin-nis, McMullan, Spencer Antunez ’18 and Mitch Barrington ’17 each scored to give Bowdoin a 4-0 lead at the end of the fi rst period. Wentworth had a goal in the second period, but it wasn’t enough. Palumbo and Quinn both scored additional goals to seal the

win. Th ree of Bowdoin’s goals came from power plays.

“Th e confi dence of the team is di-rectly correlated to your special team’s play, and that’s a reason why we’re off to a good start,” Meagher said. “Our special teams play, man up and man down, has been excellent.”

Th e Polar Bears continued the im-pressive start to the season Sunday as the team cruised to an 8-0 win against Salve Regina. Lison scored twice, and Conroy, Matt Rubinoff ’16 and Cullen Geary ’18 each tallied goals in the fi rst period. Tim Coff ey ’15 and McMullan scored in the second period. Matt Sullivan ’17 round-ed out the scoring with a goal in the third period. Fenkell recorded 27 saves.

Meagher believes a combination of talent, preparation and leadership has been crucial for Bowdoin’s success.

“Th ey know the importance of a good start. What it’s coming down to is the quality of leadership, especially in the senior class,” said Meagher. “Th eir preparation in the summer and their preparation in the fall are as good as I’ve seen.”

To continue in its early season dominance, the Polar Bears hope to continue to innovate in practice as they prepare for the heart of the NE-SCAC schedule.

“We want a team that has a degree of sophistication and is layered. We don’t want a team that’s linear in play, which means there’s a lot of diff erent looks in how you connect it all,” Mea-gher said.

“We need more support scoring,” he added. “It’s been skewed to two or three individuals. We had a little bit of it in the last game, but if you want to be successful, you need more sup-port scoring.”

Th e Polar Bears hope to extend their win streak when they return to the ice tonight at 7 p.m. for an away game against Connecticut College.

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OPINION the bowdoin orient 17 friday, december 5, 2014

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The two weekdays on campus before the start of Bowdoin’s Th anksgiving Break are surreal. Professors announce “sick days” well in advance. Class attendance plummets. Th e dining halls are conspicuously empty, and stu-

dents who live close enough to drive start taking off by Monday aft ernoon.In the last three years, the faculty has rejected two separate proposals by the Of-

fi ce of the Dean of Student Aff airs and BSG respectively, that would have extended Th anksgiving Break to a full week and moved up the beginning of the academic year by two days. Faculty members voiced concerns that the plans would hinder their summer research and would be unfair to students who would not be able to aff ord a week-long trip home for this holiday. We do not feel that the faculty acted in the best interest of all students in making their decisions.

While the faculty’s arguments for vetoing a longer Th anksgiving Break are not invalid, they are a selective reading of the facts. Th e proposal would indeed lessen professors’ research time by two days at the end of the summer, but it would also give students and faculty four extra days for Th anksgiving Break. And although lengthening the break to nine days would leave a few students on a quiet campus for a longer period of time, it would also grant about an additional 20 percent of the student body the opportunity to share Th anksgiving dinner with their loved ones. According to a survey conducted by the College in 2011, 84 percent of re-spondents said they would be able to travel home during a week-long break, com-pared with the 64 percent who said they would go home either way. Th e percent of students from outside New England has increased from 62 to 66 percent just between the Class of 2017 and the Class of 2018. For the extra Bowdoin students who could see their families those few days would make all the diff erence.

Without faculty approval for a schedule change, students and professors cur-rently get the worst possible outcome. Classes empty out on the Monday and Tuesday of Th anksgiving week as students from outside the Northeast vote with their feet and schedule earlier fl ights home. In seminars, the absence of only a few people signifi cantly aff ects the quality of discussions, while some professors cut back on lesson plans or cancel their lectures altogether. Th ose who do fl y on Wednesday are subject to the most expensive ticket prices, a schedule too tight to account for weather emergencies, and the threat of delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Th is issue has been in the minds of students for at least the last four years. Th e Orient editorial board has voiced its support for a longer break in 2010 and 2012. Th e faculty has repeatedly failed to consider how important this issue is to stu-dents. Th anksgiving is an important family holiday that is celebrated nationwide, and many students would undoubtedly appreciate the opportunity to spend it with their loved ones.

Aft er returning from this year’s Th anksgiving vacation, students quickly needed to get back into the swing of things. In the Bowdoin way, everyone greeted each other by asking how their breaks were. Th e common refrain given by almost every student was: “Too short.” It is time to re-examine the case for a longer Th anksgiving break.

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Give us a break LETTERS TO THE EDITORResponse to Honegger ’15

To the Editors:Your articles about the death of Wil-

liam Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional Law and International Law and Government Richard E. Mor-gan ’59 were comprehensive and ap-propriately laudatory. But you raised a question that others have asked: “Why should such a distinguished professor and productive scholar be content to teach undergraduates at a small liberal arts college?”

Obviously, he had a deep aff ection for the College—his own alma ma-ter—and its academic traditions that include a high value placed on qual-

ity teaching, but an additional reason you could have added was: “Bowdoin is in Maine!” I am speaking as his high school friend and his roommate here each year, when we lived together in the old Beta Th eta Pi house on McK-een Street.

Dick was a military brat who never put down roots in any of his father’s placements as an Air Force Colonel. Like a wanderer who has found shelter in the sandy but academically produc-tive soils of Brunswick, he found a kind of fi rst home. Aft er graduate stints in New York City (Columbia) and Cam-bridge (Harvard) he was truly delight-ed to return to Bowdoin and to Maine. He developed a love of the outdoors

and had a home in Harpswell in view of the sea, from where he could launch his canoes. He became an avid hunter, canoer, fl y fi sherman, birder and good judge of Scotch whiskeys. A cabin in the wilds of central Maine gave him even more opportunities to do these things and participate in conserva-tion organizations such as the Ruff ed Grouse Society.

When he walked about or hunted in his tweeds, he could look like the per-fect 19th century country squire, com-plete with Tory politics. But something that should never be minimized is that part of his love for the college is rooted in geography—“Bowdoin is in Maine!”

G. Raymond Babineau, M.D. ’59

Embracing the right to human dignitythere is a passage that in some interpre-tations may serve to limit it.

In it, the College affi rms its responsi-bility to protect its community from dis-crimination and intimidation, and says that “[E]very student and faculty mem-ber at Bowdoin must maintain toward every other student and faculty member an unqualifi ed respect for those rights that transcend diff erences of race, sex, or any other distinctions irrelevant to human dignity.”

Now, fi rst, let me say that that is a fan-tastic sentence. Were I in a lazier mood, I would leave the discussion right there because there is absolutely nothing that can follow the message and construc-tion of that phrase, which came from a book with possibly the dullest title ever.

It is easy to dismiss a person whose ideas, routines, preferences or culture do not fi t into your ideal. But diff ering

opinions and the experi-ences that shape them can challenge our own opinions and experiences, and we should not shy away from that.

Learning about a diff erent view might add nuance to our own opinions, even if they are changed very little or not at all. It seems that if we are serious about our inquiries and our desire to sharpen our minds and our arguments, we must not ignore our critics.

Perhaps the most cherished idea at Bowdoin—and indeed in the entire American experiment—is that human beings are equal at their core. Th is does not mean that diff erences in character-istics that lead to success do not exist. Clearly, some people are better equipped

Lately, Bowdoin has been full of events that point to one question. What do freedom of speech and critical inqui-ry mean on our campus, particularly in relation to each other?

Undiscussed is a student group that has brought speakers with opposing viewpoints on abortion to campus to spark conversation and thought.

Much of the campus recently par-ticipated in Yellow Shirt Day, an annual event inspired by a protest of an anti-gay marriage speaker who visited Bowdoin in 2005.

Last year, two student group advisors were booted from their positions for failing to sign a non-dis-crimination agreement that they felt ran con-trary to their faith.

In an inappropriate letter to the editor, a trustee condescend-ingly chastised a student for his pro-Palestine views and accused him of not understanding the First Amendment. As a campus, we tend to be very progressive and are of-ten loudly proud of that fact. But we also had all seen the Off er of the College innumer-able times prior to signing the matriculation book and began our fi rst years at Bowdoin ready to gain a standard for the criticism of our work and views.

Can Bowdoin have a specifi c viewpoint and still claim to be an institution of critical inquiry, or does the College’s adoption of an idea preclude it from fairly weigh-ing diff erent viewpoints?

First, let us dispense with the idea that this is a First Amendment debate. It’s not. Th e First Amendment prevents the government from restricting free-dom of speech, not private institutions like Bowdoin. However, Bowdoin does exhort the importance of free speech and states that it is the “cornerstone of intellectual life” at the College. Th us, it is our own standards, not those of the government, to which we must hold ourselves.

In the Faculty Handbook, immedi-ately aft er the lionization of free speech,

to succeed in today’s world than others. Others get lucky.

But we are all aff orded an equal measure of human dignity, and a right that is given to one of us should not be withheld from another. We have tried to build a society on that idea, and we will continue to progress with that principle squarely in our sights.

Bowdoin has consistently affi rmed its commitment to the common good and its unequivocal stance on political equality, and it has no obligation to give a platform to speakers with views con-trary to that mission.

If a certain political statement cannot be made without “unqualifi ed respect for those rights that transcend…dis-tinctions irrelevant to human dignity,” then it has no place in a pluralistic soci-ety or an intellectual tradition like Bow-doin’s, and we do not need to give it the

time of day.Even keeping

in mind, that we should constantly be engaging in self-

criticism and questioning whether or not our views are correct, there are certain things that we can take as given. Human dignity is one of those things.

If an argument does not begin under the assumption that humans must have po-litical equality, there is no reason for Bowdoin to provide a purveyor of that argument with a soapbox.

While Bowdoin should not be in the business of rejecting an argument’s conclu-sion, it can and should be in the business of

rejecting premises that deny human dignity.All too oft en, the fi rst

people to complain that their free-dom of speech is being trampled are the ones with arguments that relegate an entire subsection of humanity to a second-class position. Along with free-dom of speech comes a marketplace of ideas. Time and space are valuable, and we should not expend such scarce resources giving a platform to valueless positions.

Bowdoin, as both a buyer and seller in that marketplace, has no obligation to use its resources to further argu-ments that are contrary to its pluralistic worldview. If you are losing in the mar-ketplace of ideas, you should perhaps re-evaluate your position.

KICKING THE CAN

DAVID STEURY

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

18 opinion friday, december 5, 2014the bowdoin orient

instilled strict dress codes stating that women are for-bidden from wearing items like tank-tops, shirts that show their bra straps, or short skirts. I do think these early instances of clothing-shaming contribute to the way we judge women later in life.

All that should mat-ter in a school is that students come to class ready to learn. And sure, dressing respect-fully can be important in instances such as say, interviewing for a job. The reasoning behind school dress codes is that class-rooms deserve an equal level of professional-ism and respect. Makes sense. But what exactly does “appropriate” or “respectful” mean?

What if a student came to school wearing a gigan-tic M&M costume? That’s not exactly professional, but if her bra isn’t showing, is it considered permis-sible? The real question is, why are the majority of these rules so quick to police the female body?

tem of domination that works against them. We may voice our grievances, but to take action—even with something as simple as a boycott or as intense as loot-ing—is to go too far. Corporations may exploit us, and that is legal and alright, but the people may not exploit corporations.

Cover up your judgement: clothing choice does not refl ect sexual desire

In defense of looting: how protesters can challenge corporate systems

Society divides protesters into a binary of good and bad. Good protesters are peaceful, nonviolent and non-threatening. Bad protes-tors are aggressive, threatening and rule-breaking.

Since the Civil Rights era, the dominating rhetoric has privileged peaceful protests. The only reason that legislation in support of Civil Rights was passed was supposedly because the movement was largely nonviolent. Yet let us not forget that the champion of nonviolence within the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was killed by the same system of oppression that claims to respect nonviolence.

Good protestors do not loot—only thugs loot. Th is is the message fed to us by the white supremacist media, government and police force.

Three girls walk into a bar. They look around, surveying the terri-tory when their eyes fall upon two other young women. These other ladies are wearing short dresses, five-inch pumps and a lot of make-up. “They’re such sluts,” the three girls whisper spitefully. “Put some clothes on.”

Before you roll your eyes at what has become the Feminism 101 cli-ché of “slut-shaming,” I want to look into what these circumstances actually suggest. Firstly, the notion of “slut-shaming” is troublingly unspecific. Are we chastising women for the actual act of sleep-ing with multiple partners, or for dressing like they want to be do-ing so? This is, of course, not to label all women mean-spirited, but to expose clothes-shaming, or the “Crop Top Effect” (patent pend-ing), as an issue that merits equal attention.

While I want to focus on girls’ critiques of each other, I do think it’s relevant to examine some in-stances of clothing-shaming that have recently come to light but are in no way new phenomena. For years and years, schools have

On Black Fri-day, I attended a peaceful protest in honor of Mi-chael Brown in front of the Macy’s in Her-ald Square, the largest de-partment store in the United States. The pro-test called on people to boycott Black Friday in an effort to not exercise spending power in favor of corporations that profit off of mar-ginalized communities around the world.

The protest was not that large; there were at most a couple hundred people. Yet there were sev-eral dozen NYPD officers, all armed. And once protes-tors started walking into the Macy’s, almost every single officer followed, because al-though the police claim to protect and serve all people, including protesters, they clearly serve sources of pow-er, including corporations.

Marginalized people constantly have to defend them-selves as peaceful in a culture that has violently created a sys-

I don’t consider myself an ex-plicit supporter of looting, but I am wary to criticize it. Compa-nies like Walmart and Target are known to exploit workers here and abroad; top executives profit while factory and store work-

ers barely scrape by. To loot companies like these is one

method of civil disobedi-ence against this system of exploitation.

Furthermore, why shouldn’t impoverished communities take advan-tage of an opportunity to acquire free things? Private property only benefits those in power, so what is the point of abiding by rules that do

not benefit us?We live in a country where c o r p o r a t i o n s own everything, and marginal-ized communi-ties hardly own anything. It is no coincidence that the media vehe-mently opposes looting when they profit off of the same system these

corporations do. It is no surprise that the

police and government

protect corporations when they are generously funded by them.

Not only does looting actively resist a system of capitalist repres-sion, it is also a method of gain-ing attention and pushing those in power to listen. If you are a person of color, you don’t have a dominant voice, so if looting is what gets those in power to listen, so be it.

The media tries to portray loot-ing as a violent, chaotic, selfish and apolitical act when it really is none of these things. It would be easier to not take a risk, to stay docile, to go by the terms of the dominant few. To loot is an act of aggression against the system of oppression that was founded on the domina-tion of people of color.

I support those who loot be-cause I value human life over the life of a corporation, over the sale of a manufactured object, and I have no interest in preserving the racist system that thrives off of capitalism.

Why is it so quickly assumed that someone’s wardrobe choices are intentionally sexually provoca-tive rather than merely comfort-able or convenient?

When younger girls are sent home for wearing their

skirts too short, or wear-ing a “skimpy” top, this only teaches girls to be ashamed of their bod-ies. It also dangerously implies that their edu-cation is in some way subordinate to their

appearance.Now, why are girls so

hard on each other? One ar-gument is that girls feel com-petitive with one another for male attention, and thus feel threatened when other women dress to impress men.

People generally tend to make “thinking errors” in these types of situations. A “thinking error” means that we tend to invent reasons for other people’s behaviors that often have no basis in reality, but are instead the projected products of our own insecu-rities or beliefs.

So, we might think, “this girl wore that sexy outfit to purposefully undermine me and my subtle beauty” in-stead of, “that girl looks great

in those pants and I am not going to assume that the reason she wore those clothes has anything to do with my personal reaction to her!”

Obviously I’m being a bit face-tious here, but I’m sincere in my overall belief that clothing is of-ten an unfair standard by which to judge other women. If we are to assume a girl is dressing to make it “easier” for men to see she is interested in having sex, this has serious consequences. This kind of thinking is deeply problematic, and I don’t think it would be too far of a stretch to say that it falls directly in line with the “she was asking for it” paradigm. It is just not our job to ascribe motives to another person’s way of presenting themselves to the world. To do this is presumptuous and unfair. When will a girl’s body just be able to be her own?

What would be better than cov-ering women up would be provid-ing them with educational op-portunities, sex education, media literacy, and the ability to make informed choices about their own bodies. And yes, the way we dress can make a statement about who we are or how we feel, but it doesn’t necessarily. To assume that it does is, at best, catty, and at worst, hazardous. We have power in setting the standards, and we can do better.

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

We live in a country where corporations

own everything, and marginalized communities

hardly own anything.

MY 77 CENTS

VEE FYER-MORREL

DOING IT WRONG

MAYA REYES

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Private property only benefi ts those in power, so what is the point of abiding by rules that

do not benefi t us?

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tions that uphold values of racial equality and justice. Why hasn’t the College taken a public stance on the issues of racial inequality

that have been brought to the public’s atten-

tion by the death of Michael Brown in

Ferguson?

All students need to show support for marginalized individuals

Why hasn’t the College taken stronger stances, actions on racial issues?

I come to you today from a place of anger, but also of hope and love. I write this because I am upset and because it needs to be said, but also because I believe that love means speaking up when you are hurt and trusting that your words will not fall on deaf ears.

As an institution, Bowdoin has failed people of color and will con-tinue to do so if we don’t take im-mediate action. Yes, as a per-son of color I have had many happy mo-ments at Bowdoin and received various benefits that come with belonging to this institution, but that does not make the way the College deals with race—or rather doesn’t deal with it—ac-ceptable.

Bowdoin, as a small c o m -m u n i t y , reflects the racial issues of inequality that have brought people across the U.S. and the world to the streets to demand change.

The fact that women of color are the most dissatisfied group on campus, that the Outing Club—Bowdoin’s largest club on campus—is overwhelmingly white, that students continue to dress up like Native Americans, Mexicans and other oppressed people, all show that Bowdoin has a long way

“No one has the right to hurt you. You have the right to feel better.”

This is what Benje Douglas, Bow-doin’s director of gender violence prevention and education tells all sexual assault and abuse survivors. It would be a simple, almost poetic sentiment if it were not so painful.

When I interviewed Douglas a few weeks back for a class assign-ment, I was asking specifically about how he talks to survivors of sexual violence, but his words have resonated with me on a multitude of other issues.

This year alone, photos of the nude bodies of a number of female celebrities were released on the In-ternet, a student at University of Virginia (UVA) described how she was brutally assaulted by seven men at a frat party during her freshmen year, and a black 18-year-old body lay on a street in Ferguson, Mis-souri for over four hours.

These events have done nothing but remind us that this country privileges certain bodies with an excess of power, and allows them to exert themselves violently over other bodies—specifically those women, transgender men and women, queers and people of color. The perpetrators of these events more often than not go unpun-ished, which signals to the masses that no, you do not have the right to feel better and yes, someone does

have the right to hurt you.Under what circumstances does

someone have the right to hurt you? For the above events, the narratives presented by the media blame the victim and vindicate the perpetrator. The media manages to obscure truth with a sleight of hand, momentarily manipulating the power imbalance by holding the victim accountable.

Sexual violence survivors have become familiar with this kind of victim-blaming, specifically what Douglas calls “participatory vic-timization,” comparable to being blamed “when you leave the key in the i g n i t i o n and your car gets stolen.”

The problematic rhetoric he said he often hears from survivors who have internalized their own role in their assault is “I shouldn’t have been doing this, why did I call my ex-boyfriend…”

When Jackie told her story about being gang raped by seven men

at UVA to Rolling Stone, she de-scribed how her friends would find her crying and ask, “You’re still up-set about that?” and “Why didn’t you have fun with it?” Not only was Jackie held accountable for being raped, she was portrayed as a threat to the university when her room-mate asked her, “Do you want to be responsible for something that’s gonna paint UVA in a bad light?”

When officer Darren Wilson

told the grand jury what he saw right before he killed Mi-chael Brown with six gunshots, he described Brown’s face as “the most intense aggressive face” and said Brown looked “like a demon.” These words invoke a white per-ception of blacks as “a supernatu-ral threat,” a phenomenon that was

to go in making this a campus where people of all races are at home and where there is racial equality.

We do need to create more awareness, but we also need the College administration to take ac-

examined in a study at Northwest-ern University.

Wilson’s testimony recasts him as the victim and Brown, unarmed and with his hands up, as the de-mon. For this and other reasons, the jury chose not to indict Darren Wilson, the supposed victim.

Whether you are comfortable with it or not, I hope you recognize that you are a part of a country that has given certain bodies to have

a degree of excessive, unearned

power. As a Bowdoin student, soci-ety has arbitrarily decided that your life is more valuable than somebody who is less educated. The key word is arbitrarily. No life is more or less valuable than the next one.

Please understand that beyond

ELINA ZHANGCONTRIBUTOR

BY CAROLINE MARTINEZCONTRIBUTOR

these power structures that have shifted blame to the victim, real people with real lives are hurt-ing. Survivors still have to walk around their campuses, places they call home, with their rapists possi-bly living in the dorm next door. Michael Brown’s family still has to hear their dead son be demonized by a murderer who told ABC News that he has “a clear conscience.”

Please understand that many of these marginalized individuals, be they sexual violence survivors, people of color or members of an oppressed group, live on Bowdoin’s campus and hurt every day.

In order to return power to members of these groups who live on this campus, the student body needs to demonstrate broader im-mediate support. Not speaking out and acting out is sheer apathy about issues where people’s lives and well-being are at stake. Always

assume you have the legitima-cy to be concerned about

other people’s strug-gles and recognize it is in your interest to participate in groups like A.D.D.R.E.S.S. and Safe Space, just to

name two. We need you, even if you are not

a person of color or a survivor of sexual violence. Do not look away when we are talking about the lives of your peers.

Elina Zhang is a member of the Class of 2016.

At a time when the community of color is in mourning over the deaths of its youth and the terrible reactions of the country and justice system to these deaths, Bowdoin has been cold and silent.

I don’t want to keep talking about how race is a problem; about how it made me feel when an officer in St. Louis asked me for my Social Secu-

rity number; about the fear in my body when I heard the KKK was heading to Ferguson where my family was protesting; about when a Bowdoin student asked me if I was just some Mexican; about when some of my clos-

est friends left crying from Crack House because it was too hard to see students dressed up like Native Ameri-cans right in their faces.

I want stu-dents to con-tinue connect-ing with each other and the commu-nity around them about

issues of race, but more than

that, I want my college to imple-

ment policies that won’t allow the same

things to keep happening over and over again. I am a Latina and a Na-

tive American student, and I wonder if Bowdoin will ever

be a home for me the way it is for a white, wealthy male student.

I don’t want the College to tell me that it cares about diversity—I want

it to show me that it does. Some Bowdoin students, includ-

ing myself, have planned events around Mike Brown’s death—there’s been a shoe memorial, a vigil and discussions—and around other issues of race like cultural appro-priation, but we need the College to support us.

I want Bowdoin to make more conscious efforts to integrate this campus and reach out to people for whom this college was not initially made: people of color, people who are not straight, low-income stu-dents and women. I want the Col-lege to make a public statement that Bowdoin has solidarity with people of color at this difficult time. I also want the College not to allow the athletes who dressed up as Native Americans at Crack to participate in the rest of their season.

I ask students to please ask themselves these questions before raising their eyebrows and dis-missing what I’ve proposed: What does it mean when a student can dress up as a Native American or “dirty Mexican” and just get a stern talk, while plagiarism can get a student kicked out of school? What purpose does this type of sanction-ing serve? What does the College accept and what doesn’t it? What does this mean about our institu-tion and our values?

The College’s silence around the justice system’s failure to in-dict Darren Wilson and its fail-ure to implement consequences when issues of race arise show that Bowdoin as an institution either doesn’t understand the problem of race or doesn’t care about it as much as it cares about other issues. And this is unacceptable.

Caroline Martinez is a member of the Class of 2016.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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5FRIDAY

COMMON HOUR Music Department Ensembles Four chamber ensembles from the Department of Music will perform a piano quintet, "Ave Maria" and more. Studzinksi Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 12:30 p.m.

EVENT "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Photo Students will gather to take a photo with their hands raised to show support for the Ferguson protesters, as well as to commemorate the lives of black men and women who have died due to police brutality. Students are requested to wear all black. Steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 2 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Bowdoin Music Collective Showcase In its end of semester performance, the Bowdoin Music Collective will feature acoustic acts and bands. Jack McGee's Pub and Grill. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Bowdoin Orchestra Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will conduct the orchestra as it plays Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 and a variation on a theme by Joseph Haydn. Studzinksi Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE December Dance ConcertThe Department of Theater and Dance will showcase the work of students and faculty in repertory classes and welcome guest performers from Bates College. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.

6SATURDAY

AUDITION "The Vagina Monologues" Auditions will be held for the annually performed series of monologues written by V-Day founder Eve Ensler. Any students who identify as female are encouraged to audition. No acting experience is required. McKeen Study Room, Massachusetts Hall. 2 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Chamber Choir Concert Professor of Music Robert Greenlee will conduct Bow-doin's Chamber Choir, which will perform music from Germany and America.The Chapel. 3 p.m.

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EVENT Sustainable Stuff Swap Students will be able to clean out their closets before the end of the semester and exchange any unwanted item for items brought by other students. Burnett House. 1 p.m.

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FILM "Love is Strange"Frontier will screen Ira Sachs' fi lm that chronicles the lives of Ben and George, a married couple living in New York City. When one of them loses a job, they are forced to sell their apartment and live apart from one another. Frontier. 2 p.m.

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PERFORMANCE Jazz Night Senior Lecturer in Music Frank Mauceri will direct a number of student jazz ensembles. Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCEFive Pairs of Shorts Students in Directing, taught by Professor of Theater Davis Robinson will perform their fi nal projects, including scenes from plays written by authors ranging from Shakespeare to LaBoute. Wish Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.

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EVENT Relax & Recharge: Meditation & YogaThe Counseling Center will lead a 30 minute workshop to help students relax and deal with end of semester stress. Yoga Studio, Buck Fitness Center. 4:30 p.m.

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8MONDAY

FILM "The New Black" Filmmaker Yoruba Richen will lead a discussion about her new, award-winning documentary, which delves into the African-American community's response to the gay and civil rights movements. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 6 p.m.

EVENT Felted Ornaments The Craft Center will lead a class to teach students how to create festive felted ornaments from raw wool. Craft Center. 6 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Student Piano Recital Students who have taken private piano lessons with Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will perform the pieces they have been learning this semester. Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.

RELIGIOUS SERVICE Catholic Advent Mass The Chapel. 8:45 p.m.

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Lessons and Carols

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSING AND TELL : Matt Leventhal '17 performs at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's Coff ee House last night, which celebrated student musicians, poets and artists.