the bowdoin orient - vol. 144, no. 12 - january 23, 2015

8/9/2019 The Bowdoin Orient - Vol. 144, No. 12 - January 23, 2015

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FEATURES:MIND THE GAP OPINION:

EDITORIAL: A more vocal majority.

SPORTS: WINNING STREAK

KICKING THE CAN: David Steury 15 on thestate of our union for the next two years.

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Sophie Meyers 17 reflects on her gap year experience

teaching in Costa Rica andworking for Obama.

Womens basketball cruised pastHusson 81-51 on Tuesday night inBangor to record its 13thconsecutive win.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: BROCK CLARKE

Professor Brock Clarketalks about his newnovel and book tour.

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BRUNSWICK, MAINE BOWDOINORIENT.COM THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY VOLUME 144, NUMBER 12 JANUARY 23, 2015

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Mills proposes starting semester after MLK Day

BY SAM CHASE

ORIENT STAFF

Search fordirector ofcenter formulticulturallife begins

BY JOHN BRANCH

ORIENT STAFF

BY JOE SHERLOCK

ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin announced JB Wells as its29th head football coach Wednesdaymorning. Wells joins the Polar Bearsby way of Endicott College, where hewas the first coach in program historyand accrued a 75-48 record over his 12seasons with the Gulls.e announcement came directly

aer a 7 a.m. meeting in Kresge Audi-torium where Wells introduced him-self to the entire team.

Wells knows the NESCAC well, ashe graduated from Trinity College in1991 and started for three years as anoffensive lineman for the Bantams.He also held assistant coaching posi-

THIS LITTLE LIGHT

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN ATHLETICS DEPARTME NT

GET WELLS: JB Wells, a Trinity football alumnus, will coach the Polar Bears next season. Wells is pictured

above at his previous position with the Endicott College Gulls, whom he led to a 75-48 record over 12 seasons.

JB Wells of Endicott College named head coach of Bowdoin football team

The College will hire a directorfor the recently-approved StudentCenter for Multicultural Life bythis summer. The director willwork to develop and coordinatemulticultural-oriented programsand events.

The idea of creating a new mul-ticultural center with a new direc-tor began in fall 2013, when DeanLeana Amaez led a committee toreassess her position, its respon-sibilities, and how it could betterserve the College.

I began working on the centertwo years ago, said Amaez. Wemet with a group, came up with a

proposal, gave it to Dean [of Stu-dent Affairs] Tim Foster and hesaid This is fantastic, but it lookslike anoth er job.

Once Amaez returned frommaternity leave last summer, theconversation picked up again anddetails were finalized during thefall semester.

The Colleges Multicultural Lifehas traditionally been supportiveof student-led programs and ac-tivism but Amaez and AssociateDean of Student Affairs and Direc-tor of the David Saul Smith UnionAllen Delong explained that theCollege has been looking to havecollege-led programs.

Bowdoin continues to evolvein this really beautiful wayif youlook at the demographic of the stu-dent body and in some ways, you

Please see CENTER, page 5

President Barry Mills has recom-mended that the College begin thespring semester aer the Martin LutherKing Jr. Day when planning future aca-demic calendars.

Mills sent an email to the campuscommunity last ursday detailing the

recommendation. With the holidayscheduled to fall during winter breakfor the next four years, Mills proposedchange to the calendar would begin in2020.

Currently, the College begins the

spring semester on the holiday threeout of every seven years, falling on thefinal week of winter break in the otherfour.

Mills said in an interview with theOrient that he had been thinking aboutthe change for a number of years. How-ever, the political climate on campusplayed a role in the timing of his rec-ommendation.

As I was thinking about what weveseen over the last number of months,the feeling that people have towardsMartin Luther King Jr. Day has reallyintensified and the day has taken onmore than just being a national day of

remembrance, Mills said. Its a nation-al day of service in a lot of ways.

In a follow-up email to faculty andstudents, Dean for Academic AffairsCristle Collins Judd reiterated theColleges policy regarding the holiday.Bowdoins course catalogue specifiesthat, as with major religious holidays,students are allowed to miss classes orexams for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

observances.is year, the College held severalevents for the holiday: a commemo-ration breakfast, a childrens event in

Administrationfalls silent on

Cracksgiving

appropriation

incidentBY JULIAN ANDREWS

ORIENT STAFF

e administration has fallen silenton the incident of cultural appropria-tion that took place shortly beforeWinter Break at an off-campus partyand developed into an embarrassingnews story for the College, with doz-ens of news outlets reporting on it.

Dean of Student Affairs Tim Fos-ter and Jason Archbell, head coach ofmens lacrosse, both declined to com-ment for this story.

Ashmead White Director of Ath-letics Tim Ryan wrote in an emailto the Orient that the message con-

veyed by Dean Foster has been re-ceived across our campus commu-nity and we are all moving forwardbefore declining to comment further.

Ryan was referring to an email Fos-ter sent to the student body on De-cember 9 expressing his frustrationand disapproval of harmful behaviorby students who should know better.e full text of the email can be foundon the Orients website.e email was written in response

to Cracksgiving, a party thrown at 831/2 Harpswell Roada house rentedby members of the mens lacrosse teamcommonly known as Crack House. Inspite of recent programs to educatethe student body about the harmfulnature of cultural appropriation, 14members of the team dressed up asNative Americans at the party.

In the email. Foster wrote that

Bowdoin will not condone or toler-ate behavior that divides our com-munity and denigrates others, norwill we accept a plea of ignorance as

Please see MLK, page 4 Please see CRACKSGIVING, page 3

Please see WELLS, page 13

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTToshi Reagon (left) and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon (right) perform This Little Light of Mineat Pickard Theater on Monday evening. The concert wrapped up a day of

programming put on by the College in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For more on the Reagonsperformance, see article on page 9.

tions at both Trinity and Bates dur-ing the 90s.

is was really less of a football

decision and more of a career deci-sion, said Wells. I played in the con-ference, and the NESCAC means a lotto me. Ive always seen myself as re-turning to the NESCAC in one of thepositions, I just didnt know where itwas gonna be.

For Wells, the decision to leave theEndicott program, which he built fromthe ground up, was not an easy one.

I cant thank Endicott enough forthe opportunity I was given as a 31year-old, unproven head coach, hesaid. ey handed me a blank can-

vas and all the art supplies I needed topaint a picture and put my vision on

that canvas. To see it come to life andsee it succeed in the way that it did wasremarkable. It was hard to leave.

Aer Dave Caputi stepped downthis fall aer 15 years as head coach,Ashmead White Director of Athlet-ics Tim Ryan sat down with the teamand established a set of desired char-acteristics for its next coach. He thennarrowed the applicants down to thosewhich he presented to the selectioncommittee. e selection committee was head-

ed up by Ryan. Also on the committeewere team captains Parker Mundt 16,Brendan Lawler 16 and Dan Barone16, Assistant Athletic Director for


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WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD

I got onto a game show in Taiwan.

They had to have subtitles because I

dont speak Mandarin.

My friends dog ate my retainer. I t was

stupid. It was in an open bag on the

ground.

Justin Dury-Agri 15

STUDENT SPEAKWhat is the wildest thing that happened to you over Winter Break?

COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH

I swam with a six-foot moray eel.

Sara Hamilton 16

I saw the movie Wild.

Erin Voss 16

THE FATE OF THE TOSSED

TURKEY: WHERE IS IT?

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

MAY THE ART BE WITH YOU: The new exhibit located in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Collaborations and Collusions, opened November 6th and will run through February 8th.

BY THE NUMBERS

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19students on campus for the

entirety of break 2014-2015.

students here for any part ofbreak, not including arrivals

after 1/14

9-9the coldest temperature in

Brunswick during break

Hunter White 17

While most students areeager to get off campus forthe monthlong Winter Break,some students remain on

Bowdoins quiet campus. Hereare some stats from ResLife.

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On the wild night of the Bowdoin-Colby mens hockey game in Decem-ber, in the middle of a crucial play, ahuge, frozen, raw turkey was thrownfrom the stands onto the ice. Playstopped as the crowd fixated on thestrange and featherless spectacle.

Moments later, the turkey was re-moved from the premises, and thecrowd quickly forgot the fate of thatsad piece of meat. All but one- KatieCraighill 17.

I had a brilliant idea, saidCraighill. It just clicked.

As it turns out, Craighill was in aclass called Forest Ecology, and hadbeen working on a managementplan for a new property that Bow-doin had acquired from the NavalAir Station Brunswick.

Part of my job as a class memberwas to go out onto the property andcollect data for the wildlife and vege-tation. I had set up a motion activatedcamera in the woods, but I neededsomething to bait it.

ats where the turkey came in.eyre just gonna throw it out!

thought Craighill, as she dashedaround the rinks perimeter in pur-suit of the carcass. You cant use thatto eat a thanksgiving meal! What thehell else are they going to do with it?

While initially suspicious of hermotives, facilities agreed to giveCraighill the turkey at the conclu-sion of the game, thinking she wasthe person guilty for tossing it ontothe ice in the first place.

I was like no I swear, I just want itfor my forest ecology project! I wantto bait my camera, said Craighill.

When the game finished, Craighillproudly carried her acquired bait

home in a garbage bag slung over hershoulder. A few days later, she stakedit down in the woods.

Although the episdoe showcasedthe resourcefulness of Bowdoinstudents, the result was kindof disappointing, actually, saidCraighill. We got some picturesof some squirrels, and somecrows. We were hoping for foxes.

COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD, GRACE HANDLER AND HY KHONG

4848the warmest temperature in

Brunswick during break

The Bowdoin Prizee Bowdoin Prize, the highest honor the College awards, was awarded this Tuesday. It is presented every five years to a graduate

or former member of the College, or member of its faculty...who shall have made during the period the most distinctive contribu-

tion in any field of human endeavor. is year, the prize was given to Geoffrey Canada 74 and Stanley F. Druckenmiller 75. ey

each have remarkable resumes: Canada is an educator and Druckenmiller is an investor, and together they have been pivotal in the

success of the Harlem Childrens Zone, an organization devoted to helping children and families out of poverty through education.

Past Winners Include:

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton, Class of 1909

Journalist William Hodding Carter Jr., Class of 1927

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Class of 1962

U.S. Senator Paul Douglas, Class of 1913

Red Cross Commissioner Harvey Dow Gibson, Class of 1902

L.L. Bean Chairman Leon A. Gorman, Class of 1956

Rear Admiral Donald MacMillan, Class of 1898

U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, Class of 1953

Olympic Gold Medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson, Class of 1979

Bowdoin President Kenneth C.M. Sills, Class of 1901

Druckenmiller, Mills, and Canada pose for a photo. COPYRIGHT JEN DELCASTILLO, 5TH AVENUE DIGITAL


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Professors, students begin to plan

teach-in for environmental reformBY HARRY DIPRINZIO

ORIENT STAFF

Applications drop 2.4% for the Class of 2019

BY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGERORIENT STAFF

Between Early Decision I (ED I),

Early Decision II (ED II) and regulardecision candidates for the Class of2019, the Office of Admissions has re-ceived a total of 6,765 applications tothe College this year, down 170 fromlast year.

However, the overall numberof ED I and ED II applications in-creased. Six hundred and sixty sixED 1, 287 ED II and 5,812 regu-lar decision applications were re-ceived. ED I applications were upby 68 and ED II applications wereup by 34 from last year. Whilethose numerical increases aresmall, they represent substantialgrowth percentages in the ED Iand II applicant pools.

Two hundred and eight appli-cants were accepted ED I this yearfor an admittance rate of 31 per-cent, a number that is substantiallyhigher than Bowdoins overall ac-ceptance rate of around 14 percent.

The Office of Admissions is cur-rently reading and evaluating EDII and regular decision applica-tions. ED II decisions will be an-nounced in the middle of Febru-ary and regular decisions will beannounced in early April.

We have passed the January firstdeadline so we have all of our appli-

cations in, but we are in the processof reading them at this time, saidDean of Admissions and FinancialAid Scott Meiklejohn. We are cur-rently busy getting a sense of theapplicants. Everyone is plowingthrough the applications. We are

just start ing to get a sense of t he ap-plicant pool.

According to Meiklejohn, thisyears numbers do not represent a

significant change from previousapplication pools. Bowdoin re-ceived a record 7,052 applicationsfor the class of 2017 and 6,935 ap-plications for the Class of 2018.The acceptance rate has hoveredbetween 13 and 15 percent over thepast three years.

These numbers are very similarto last years numbers. A differenceof 170 is a blip. I think that our qual-

A group of professors and studentshave begun to plan a day-long, cam-pus-wide teach-in that will examinethe intersections of climate change andsociety this coming fall.e proposed event is intended to

engage the entire College for the pur-poses of education and action. Orga-nizers of the event also hope to offer abroad view of the complex causes andeffects of climate change and propose

viable options foraction.

Our goal atthis point is tohave an eventin the fall that ishigh profile andsubstantive, andaddresses climatechange and social

justice, and in-volves the largestpossible segmentof the Bowdoinpopulation, saidAssociate Profes-sor of Physics andAstronomy MarkBattle, one of the faculty members ac-tively involved in the planning.

We will structure it in whateverway is required to meet those goals,he added.

While the group has receivedadministrative support, specificallyfrom President Mills, the proposed

format of a day-long teach-in has yetto be approved. Typically, a teach inwould involve the cancellation of allregularly scheduled classes on the dayof the event.e scope and ambition of this event

has little precedent at Bowdoin. eteach-in is a commonly used format,but Associate Professor of Biology andNeuroscience Hadley Horch, who isalso helping to plan the event, said thatBowdoin has not canceled classes forthe entire school since an event follow-ing the Kent State shootings in 1970.

Horch explained that she would bewilling to compromise about the for-mat of the teach-in if certain changesneeded to be made.

A teach-in would be really symbolicand great and important, but I thinkthere are ways of having these conver-sations on a Saturday or evenings, shesaid. I would love to see it be a teach-in, but its not a deal-breaker for me.

Battle also stressed that the group isstill in the planning stages and the con-tent and structure of the event couldchange drastically between now andthe fall.

In a campus-wide email sent on De-cember 16, Battle initially indicated thatthe event would be held this spring.

Battle explained that following re-cent events in Ferguson, Cleveland andStaten Island, the scope of the event was

expanded to cast a greater focus on thesocial impacts of climate change, caus-ing the decision to delay until the fall.

My vision is to have a communitywide discussion about how climate in-tersects with society, said Horch. atmeans we need to understand the sci-ence of climate change and we have tounderstand the implications for differ-ent societies. How is it affecting peoplein different locations? Of different

classes? Of differentraces? Of differentcountries?

One of the greattragedies and chal-lenges of climatechange is that it af-fects everyone andit affects the dis-advantaged more,Battle added. ewealthier you arethe more you caninsulate yourselffrom the effects ofclimate change.

Sinead Lamel15, one of several

students directly involved in the plan-ning process and a member of thestudent group Radical Alternatives toCapitalism, explained how corporatecontrol of resources is a significant fac-tor in the climate issue and hopes for itto be addressed during the event.

Our club, Radical Alternatives to

Capitalism, thinks that climate changeis a result of irresponsible corporatecontrol of resources, she said. Forexample, deforestation happening allover the world and the burning of fossilfuels. We have the technology to not dothat but there are certain corporationsthat are, for example, fighting wars foroil and pushing the car model.

Battle also explained how in address-ing social aspects of the climate issue, hehopes to speak to a desire he sees in thestudent body for more intense discus-sion of important issues.

One thing that has become veryclear for me [is that there is] the desirefor substantive, diffi cult conversationsabout issues people feel have gone un-

addressed for a long time, and you cantseparate any of these tensions on cam-pus, he said.

While the organizing group has re-ceived input from students and manymembers of the faculty, it is activelyseeking more students and facultywishing to get involved in the plan-ning process.ey also intend to write an open

letter to the campus in the comingweeks announcing a more formalplan and soliciting further commu-nity involvement.

Despite fewer applicants, overall

number of Early Decision applica-

tions increased.

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license to avoid accountability.

e College plans on taking dis-ciplinary action against those whodressed up as Native Americans,according to Foster, who has not in-dicated what form this punishmentwill take.

Several members of the lacrosseteam have recently decided not to re-turn for the spring season, but thereis no evidence linking their depar-ture to this incident. e captainsof the team refused to comment onboth the party and the departure oftheir teammates.

Our goal...is

to have an event in

the fall that is high profile and

substantive, and addresses climate

change and social justice, andinvolves the largest possible

segment of the Bowdoin

population.

MARK BATTLE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS

ity of doing business has remainedthe same as in previous years.

According to Meiklejohn, Ad-missions has high hopes for an in-coming class.

Our job is to deliver to Bowdoina very exciting group of people inAugust. The College has high as-pirations for its students. Our jobis to find smart, talented, diversestudents.

COMPILED BY GRACE HANDLER AND HY KHONG


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Martina Duncan 97 namednew registrar of the College

BY MAURA FRIEDLANDER

ORIENT STAFF

Delong, Hintze receive new campus rolesBY PHOEBE BUMSTED

ORIENT STAFF

Newly appointed registrar MartinaDuncan 97 says she hopes to improvePolaris by considering feedback fromstudents and faculty. Duncan workedin the Offi ce of the Registrar duringthe initial implementation of the sys-tem and said she believes it can be im-proved further.

Were always going to continuebuilding on our systems functional-ity, said Duncan. Our goal is to un-derstand what comes next and alwaysmake sure that Polaris is providing thekind of functionality to the campus thatis needed.

Dean for Academic Affairs CristleCollins Judd announced that Dun-can had been promoted registrar ofthe College in an e-mail sent out tostudents and staffon January 15. Dun-can will offi cially transition from hercurrent role as an associate registrarto registrar on February 2, taking overresponsibilities from the Interim Reg-istrar Jim Higginbotham, who is also aClassics professor.

Duncans appointment was ap-proved by a search committee whichwas convened by Judd and comprisedof faculty members Professor of Soci-ology and Anthropology Sara Dickey,Associate Professor of Biology and Bio-chemistry Anne McBride, Professor ofMathematics Adam Levy and SeniorAssociate Dean of Student Affairs KimPacelli. e committee unanimouslyrecommended Duncans promotion,

according to Judd.[Duncan] has wide-ranging ad-

ministrative, academic, and mana-gerial experience; she has quicklybecome a valued member of the reg-istrars office since her appointmentas associate registrar a year ago;and she is an established and valu-able member of the Bowdoin com-munity, wrote Judd in an e-mail tothe Orient. e committee was im-pressed by the depth and breadth of

her experience, her problem-solvingskills, and her commitment to main-taining and enhancing the excellentservice the registrars office providesto the campus community.

As registrar of the College, Duncansresponsibilities will shi from chieflyacademic-related duties to a focus onthe student and faculty interactionswith the Office of the Registrar.

In my former position I focusedmore on the curricular side; now Imtrying to really learn more about thestudent side, said Duncan.

I really like working in an office thathas such a great staffand I really enjoyworking with all the faculty and stu-

dents, said Duncan. Im a Bowdoingrad so its nice to work in my almamater and feel that what we do is reallycentral to the campus.

Due to some restructuring and shi-ing in the office based on the needs ofthe new program, no one has been ap-pointed to take over Duncans formerrole as an associate registrar. e officerecently hired Brett Bisesti as a systemsspecialist for the Banner program, theprogram that is the basis of Polaris.

Dean of Student Affairs Tim Fosterannounced on Monday a resuffl e inpositions that play a role in student life.

Former Director of Student LifeAllen Delong will become associatedean of student affairs and directorof the David Saul Smith Union, whileformer Associate Director of StudentActivities Nate Hintze will become thedirector of student activities, effectiveimmediately, according to Dean of Stu-dent Affairs Tim Foster in a campus-wide email on Monday.

A lot of its more representative ofthe duties I was already doing, saidHintze. [Its] really exciting to be able

to have a new title but be able to con-tinue doing the fun things that we weredoing in our office all along.

As director of student activities,Hintze will be responsible for a rangeof student programming such as free

bowling on ursdays and hot dogsat the Colby hockey game. His newposition will also include budgeting,attending meetings and other admin-istrative tasks.

Hintze is also helping organize thisyears Winter Weekend, which he saidwill include horse-drawn carriagerides, sled dogs and a throne of ice.

Hintze will continue to work closelywith the Offi ce of Residential Life,College Houses and Bowdoin StudentGovernment in his new role. He said

GRACE MALLETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

REGISTERED:After a unanimous search

committee vote, Martina Duncan 97 has been hired

as the Colleges new Registrar, effective February 2.

that he enjoys hearing from students athis office behind the information deskin Smith Union, and that his door isalways open.

e spring is such a fun time be-cause there are so many things going

on, and were just excited to work withstudents and have everybody back oncampus and have a really fun and safespring, Hintze said.

Delong will now have a role in thedevelopment of the new Student Cen-ter for Multicultural Life, and he iscurrently working with the ResourceCenter for Sexual and Gender Diver-sity and alumni programs to organizea reception during Spring Break inNew York City for LGBTIQ alumniand students.

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Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, twopanels in a course taught by Consor-tium for Faculty Diversity PostdoctoralFellow in Government Cory Gooding,and a performance by civil rights ac-tivists and musicians Bernice JohnsonReagon and her daughter Toshi.

During the performance, Toshiplayfully criticized the school for hold-ing classes on the holiday, and calledfor a wider variety of programming forthe holiday.

A lot of holidays we have are so faroffthe mark from what we would likethem to do, but this one has so muchpotential to bring up so many issues,she said.

I dont know why you would bring

students to school on MLK Day un-less you were giving them the oppor-tunity to express all of the differentmovements that are concerning themthat they would like to give voice to,she continued.

Ashley Bomboka 16 was amongthe students who chose not to attendclasses. She attended the breakfast,participated in a panel, and attendedthe concert.

It was an educational experience

Im learning a lot more about his work,his change over time, and the way thatweve appropriated his life tofit our civilrights narrative, she said.

She added that her professors werevery supportive of her decision not toattend class.

Bomboka said she supported therecommendation from Mills.

It makes sense to honor what[King] did and where he pushed us togo as a countryhow he was able to bea role model for so many other activ-ists, she said.

Some students felt that the changewas overdue.

Im pretty excited about it. I thinkit took long enough for it to happen,said Michelle Kruk 16, who helpedorganize campus responses to the non-indictments of the officers in the Mi-chael Brown and Eric Garner cases last

semester.Im disappointed that its not going

to happen during my time here, be-cause I think the College tends to dowhats easy a lot of the time, she add-ed. e better alternative would havebeen to just have the day offthis year.

Most of Bowdoins NESCAC peerswithout a winter term are given the dayoff already, including Amherst, Con-necticut College, Hamilton, Trinity andTus. Bates holds themed workshops

in place of classes, while at Wesleyanthe day is used for enrollment for thespring semester.

Mills acknowledged that the poli-cies of other colleges factored intohis decision.

A whole lot of other schools havedecided to start the day aer, he said.

Ultimately, Bowdoins CalendarCommittee will make the final decision.

I decided not to declare this assome sort of edict, because the calen-dar is something that many people onthe faculty and staffconsider carefully,and any modifications to the calendarattract a lot of attention, Mills said.

Mills said that while he would notsupport mandatory events in placeof classes during the holiday, he didsee the potential for College-orga-nized activities on the holiday in lieuof classes.

We sometimes forget that MartinLuther King Jr. Day has really been des-ignated as a national day of service, soif everyone were back on campus andclasses werent starting until the nextday, one could see the McKeen Centerorganizing another Common GoodDay where students reach out to thecommunity, he said.e Calendar Committee will be

meeting this spring to decide on futurechanges to the academic calendar.


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all have evolved quicker with ouradministrative structures, saidDelong. Were good, but we havestudents come to campus with areally sophisticated vocabulary intheir own identities in a way where

they didnt when I went to college.e new Center and its directors

offi ce will be located at 30 CollegeStreet and will share the space withthe Student Center for Religious andSpiritual Life. However, the Centerwill host some events and program-ming at the John Brown RusswurmAfrican American Center as well.

Russworm has a historicalplace in the College and 30 CollegeStreet houses Multicultural life,said Amaez. The Center is com-prised of two sister spaces.e director will serve to central-

ize and coordinate various programsfrom different organizations at theCollege such as the McKeen Center,

the Resource Center for Sexual andGender Diversity, and the SchwartzOutdoor Leadership Center.

Really, this position will serveas the hub on the wheel, said De-long. This person will be the cen-tral clearinghouse to ensure thatif there are areas that we can im-prove, then well do that.

I cant tell you exactly how this

Center is going to evolve, saidFoster. But I have no doubt thatwhen we look back on this a year,two, three years from now, weregoing to see a vibrant Center thatsoffering lots of programing butalso support for the community inways that are going to be pretty ex -citing for th e place.

Amaez and Delong intend onposting the position publically andfinish assembling the search com-mittee of faculty, staff and studentsby next week.

When I think about a year ortwo from now, I think the ques-tion will be what did we do beforewithout this person? said Delong.

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

OUR HOUSE: Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster announced the creation of a new Student Center for Multicultural Life, which will be housed in 30 College Street,

along with the existing Student Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. The College plans to select a director for the Center by this summer.


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SECURITY REPORT: 12/22 to 1/22Monday, December 22

A student was found in pos-session of drug paraphernalia at

Stowe Inn. A student was cited for posses-

sion of marijuana and drug para-phernalia at Helmreich House.

Three students at Brunswick

Apartments were found in posses-sion of a stolen security barricadeand two wall telephones that were

stolen from Helmreich House.

Tuesday, January 6

A student reported the theft ofa womans maroon North Face win-

ter knee-length coat from a roomat Russwurm House.

Sunday, January 11

A smoke alarm at Osher Hall

was triggered by overheatingfood in a microwave oven.

A complaint of loud noise w asreceived at Baxter House and a

small unregistered event was dis-persed.

A basement stairwell handrailing was vandalized at Baxter

House. Staff members at the Museum

of Art gift shop reported that a vis-itor shoplifted beads.

Burnt food in the kitchen atBaxter House set off the buildings

fire alarm. Brunswick Fire Depart-ment responded.

Wednesday, January 14

A smoke detector was found

covered with a plastic bag in a stu-dents room at 8 School Street.

A chain link fence borderingCollege property at the old navy

base was vandalized. A repair wasmade.

Friday, January 16

A faculty member with a head

injury sustained in a fall while ice

Monday, Janu-

ary 19

A noise com-plaint at Bruns-wick Apartment

J resulted from anunregistered event, which was dis-persed.

Thursday, January 22

A black child-size Specializedmountain bike with red letteringwas reported stolen from a bikerack at Coleman Hall sometimeduring winter break.

A student with flu symptomswas escorted to Mid Coast Hospi-tal.

Important Life Safety Advisory:In recent weeks there have beenseveral environmental health andsafety violations recorded in resi-dence halls, mostly involving in-terference with fire detection andsuppression systems. Please beaware that is a fire code violationto hang materials (including cloth-ing or holiday decorations) fromfire sprinkler nozzles and pipes,smoke detectors, or emergencylights and signs. In addition, cov-ering or tampering with sprinklersand smoke detectors, or blockingdoorways, stairwells, and otheremergency egress routes is prohib-ited. Thank you for your coopera-tion.

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skating atWatson Arenaand was escort-ed to the MidCoast PrimaryCare and Walk-In Clinic.

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MIND THE GAP

BY MADDIE WOLFERT

CALLIE FERGUSON

GRAIN TO GLASS

Bath Rd. bakery Bun Buns born out of owners lifelong dream

While I was home for anksgiv-ing in New York last November, I metup with a couple of B owdoin alums ata crabeer bar on West 45th Street.e place looked like a trendy cel-larslender, dimly lit, and a few stepsdown from the sidewalk outside.

And perhaps cellar is the right word,because while the bar had a few taps,this was really a bottle shop.e real selection resided in

a long wall of coolers contain-ing an enormousarray of bottlesrepresent ingsome of thefinest beersavailable.

Jostling be-tween severalgroups of stylish,bearded people,I made way from thefridges and hunted for one of my fa-

vorite IPAs from the West Coast.Returning to our tablea var-

nished plank straddling two up-

turned oak barrelsI was surprisedby my friends selection: an elegant,slender brown bottle, with a sim-ple, unmistakable white label. Shedfound Zoe, an amber ale from a smallcrabrewery, Maine Beer Company(MBC), located twenty minutes fromBowdoins campus in Freeport.e design of the bottle, clean and

unassuming, suggested it might havebeen out of place among craales (itlooked almost like a wine bottle). Butthat assessment was soon belied by theflavorful contents within. MBC wasntout of placeit was distinctive.

Its a brewery with the unassum-ing charm of a local business andthe prowess to compete in the big

leagues. I wasnt surprised to findMBC among such a fine company ofbeers because their beer is excellent. Iwas simply surprised to find it so farfrom its home in Maine.

MBC is a real started-from-the-bottom story. Begun as a hobby thenfounded in a garage, it eventuallygrew from nano-brewery to micro-

brewery to the brewery that producesbeers so popular that it cant meet itsdemandgood luck finding bottlesof their IPA Lunch.

As an indication of MBC s success,prominent beer writer Joshua Ber-nstein uses its flagship brew, PeeperAle, as a paradigmatic example of theAmerican Pale Ale style in his best-selling coffee table book on beer tast-

ing. Truly, their story is so quint-essential and inspiring that youcan find it on their website, pre-sented in a digital chapter-bookformat. Read it to your kidsor

someones kids.But although MBCs repu-

tation began to extend wellbeyond mid-coast Mainewith a demand to matchit, it chose to stay small.When I asked an employ-ee about expansion over abeer last October, she im-plied that the owners werehappy with what theydbuilt. ey didnt feel theneed to expand.What MBC does feel the

need to do is the right thingthisdoesnt just mean drinking beer. Dowhats right is the brewerys slogan,or more aptly put, the brewerys mis-

sion statement. One percent of theirgross sales are donated to environ-mental non-profits and each beercontains a paragraph on its labeldescribing the non-profit towardswhich its sales contribute.

All cra beers wear a noticeablyhigher price tag than their mass-marketed compatriots, but at leastwith MBC you can feel like the fewextra dollars are truly well spent.

Now, reader, do whats right anddrink MBCs beers.

I may be exposing a bias, but Ithink its hoppier offerings are wherethe brewery excels. As a general note,MBC beers are not assertively bittereven those which showcase their hops

at the front of the palate. I love MBCbecause I can rely on interesting, de-licious hop profiles when Im not inthe mood for an astringent beer. I rec-ommend MBC pale ales and IPAs tothose of you who typically arent fondof IPAs or those who are interested in

Maine beers offer quality,

classic underdog story

BY KELSEY SCARLETT

ORIENT STAFF

Sophie Meyers 17 has had plen-ty of time to reflect on how herdecision to take a gap year affectedher Bowdoin experience.

When Meyers graduated fromhigh school, she said she felt burntout academically. In order to takea break from the books and try adifferent kind of learning, she lefthome to explore other options inPittsburgh, Pa., Lexington, Mass.,Washington, D.C., and even far-ther away in Costa Rica.

Im very into the idea of learningby doing, she said. Theres a lotyou can learn from the classroom,but theres so much to learn aboutthe world and yourself by puttingyourself in situations where yourenot necessarily comfortable.

Meyers first stop was in Pitts-burgh where she joined the Obamacampaign. ere she worked as anorganizing fellow, canvassing, phonebanking, and training new volun-teers. She even had the opportunityto work at events which featured BillClinton and Bruce Springsteen.

Next, Meyers moved back toher hometown, Lexington, Mass.,where she volunteered in Boston atan independent school for students

from low-income families. Thereshe helped students prepare to ap-ply to private high schools.

I was working with eighth grad-ers on applications and trying toget them to dig deeper with essayquestions, she said.

In the spring, Meyers traveledto Costa Rica, where she lived in arural village with a host familyahighlight of her gap year. She spentmost of her time teaching Englishand math at an elementary school,but outside of work, she learnedhow to make empanadas with herhost family and immersed herselfin its culture.

That was an unbelievable ex-

perience, Meyers said. I love thecountry and I want to go back and

visit my ho st f amily.With her gap year coming to a

close, Meyers continued to try newthings and moved to Washington,D.C., for ten weeks as an intern

Meyers 17 reflects on travels, service

Just in time for Valentines Day,Bun Buns Bakeshop is opening inBrunswick at 30 Bath Road on Feb-ruary 2.

Owner Laurie Smart-Pottle saidshe is enthusiastic for the grandopening of the bakery, whichboasts free WiFi, comfy booths,and of course, baked goods.

Its so exciting sometimes I justfeel like I am going to burst andother times I think, wait a minute,am I dreaming? said Smart-Pottle.

Owning a bakeshop has been adream of Smart-Pottles for her en-tire life. She said she initially start-ed decorating cakes so she couldstay home with her children and

Please see BEER,page 8

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BUSINESS TIME: Bun Buns Bakeshop, located at 30 Bath Road, opens its doors February 2. The bakerys ownerhopes to cultivate a comfortable atmosphere where patrons can enjoy its tasty treats.

COURTESY OF SOPHIE MEYERS

TEACHABLE MOMENTS : Sophie Meyers 17 (above, left) traveled to Costa Rica where she taught Englishand math at an elementary schoolone of many stops on her gap year. She also worked as an organizer forthe Obama campaign and interned at Public Citizen, an organization working for consumer rights.

Please see BAKERY, page 8

ANNA

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stepchildren, who are now adults.As a self-proclaimed military

brat, she traveled while young, andbriefly worked with water waste inthe military before marrying a ca-reer soldier. No matter where shewas living, Smart-Pottle foundherself happiest in the kitchen.

Family and friends are every-thing to meIm just a real down-to-earth person who loves to bearound people and make them hap-py with really good food, she said.

The decision to make a leapfrom her normal life and open upher own bakeshop started with herhusband.

My husband and I just got tothinking, because hed been thinkingof retiringhes been in the Guardfor 28 yearswe were thinking,

what can we do to get our retire-ment years going? she said. So westarted thinking of opening a restau-rant, a little buffet kind of idea.e idea seemed far-fetched and

expensive to them at the time, butthey eventually decided that theirdream might actually be a possibility.

One night [my husband] lookedat me and was like, Why dont youopen up your bakery? and I waslike Really? and so thats what wedid, said Smart-Pottle. We justfound a location, got the town in-

volve d to get the requi red code s,started hiring the right crewplumbers, electricians, that kind ofcrewand it kind of snowballed.

Small-Pottle is cultivating a warm

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Art has existed for thousands of years,but our definitions of and uses for arthave changed over time. is is the first

in a series of pieces that will explore theperception and use of art and crasthroughout history, as well as their placeand relevance in the modern world.

Around 1.76 million years ago, earlyhumans created the first hand-axe bystriking the edges of stones into flat,pointed shapes. Fast-forward to 40,000years agoalmost nothing on theevolutionary timelineand humanswrought five-note flutes from mam-moth tusks. irty-thousand years ago,bone needles stitched cl ot hi ngfrom rough hides andskins. And over the next15,000 years, humansdeveloped all majorforms of art, using pig-ments, stones, animalparts and clay to paint,draw, sculpt, engrave andmake music.

Two years ago whenI got into Bowdoin, mymother began sewing mea quilt. She chose a pattern(repeating Xs and Os). She se-lected favorite, familiar scraps from herrag bagflowers, pinks, greens and or-anges. She cut, pieced, pinned, sewed,batted, backed and finally machine-stitched smooth whorls through the lay-ers of fabric.

When I moved into Maine Hall, shetold me that if I didnt want to keep it onmy bedif I thought it was embarrass-ing that my mother made me a quilt, or

if I didnt like the patternI could put itright in storage. I kept the quilt.

My mothers quilt falls into thelegacy of millions of years of humancreations. Quilts and quilt patternsare prominent in American history.Generations of frontier women taughttheir daughters the useful arts of quilt

BY PENELOPE LUSK

CONTRIBUTOR

-making, knitting, lace-making, weav-ing, spinning and dyeing, which all de-

veloped alongside human civilizationas homo sapiens moved indoors. Longaer the needle was invented, the do-mestic arts were born.

Tools made for pure necessity be-gan a tradition of human creation tomemorialize culture and to demon-strate love. From the bone needles thatbrought life-saving warmth in furs andhides were born the silver needles thatstitched African visual traditions intoslave quilts; one of those silver needleslatched into the sewing machine thatmy mother keeps by the big window ino u r home studio.

e earliest ex-amples of pigment-

ed stone, crudeflutes, and evensimple needles

andaxe-headsare treasures be-cause they document the or ig in sof humans creative expression, the

very beginning of humans uniquedesire to expose their souls through aparticular medium.

Modern forms of creative expressionare innumerabledigital arts, writ-

ing, performances, 100 iTunes musicgenres, and the vestiges of the once-necessary domestic arts.

Today, the domestic arts are likelythe least respected, least popular formof creative expression, but perhaps themost used art form for demonstratinglove. To make a person an item to wear,

Function follows form: the art of craftsto usea scarf or a dress or a blanketin an era when Walmart and Amazonbring commodities cheaply to our fin-gertips, is an ultimate labor of love.

Unlike fine arts, which are not pur-chasable in the same way a quilt is pur-

chasable, cras turn creative expres-sion into a form of love, for the self, forsomeone else, for the very act of sew-ing, knitting, or weaving. New to ourtime is the qualifying statement whenthe quilt is finishedyou dont have tokeep it if you dont want to.

My mother told me I didnt haveto keep the quilt she made me, thatI didnt have to use the quilt, andso I wonder: when did homemadequilts become embarrassing, in-stead of precious?

How did acts of creative expres-sionfrom weaving to sculptingthathave been part of human history for

legions of time shi from waysof recording stories, of

celebrating tradi-tion, of explor-ing the beautyof the world,to the tropeof the starv-

ing artist?In the pieces

that follow in this col-umn I hope to explore what we can

learn from considering the breadth,depth and width of human expres-sion through creative artsin historyand in modernity. I will also addressthe significance of making thingsforourselves and for other peopleandwhat that does for self-image, personalgrowth and the growth of societies.

Humans make things. We make use-

ful things, pretty things and superflu-ous things. ings for each other, forourselves, for pets, for the dead. Forty-thousand years from now, when ar-chaeologists uncover our civilizations,what will their findings tell them?

-Penelope Lusk is a member of theClass of 2017

BAKERYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

working their palate up to more dar-ing, hoppier experiences.

In his book, Bernstein describesPeeper Ale as a sunny beer. Maybethis is a nod to its hazy, yellow ap-pearance, but more likely it charac-terizes the effervescent, citrusy tang.Peeper Ale finishes dry, with linger-ing buttery-malt sweetness. Mo is anequally delicious, slightly hoppier,piney pale ale. I cant decide which Ilike better.

Lunch is MBCs most popularbeer. Drinking it for the first time, Iremember feeling surprised by thecomplexity of unexpected, even un-

conventional hop flavors that gaveway to an almost graham cracker-yfinish. e name is not a suggestedreplacement for the meal itself, al-though you have my permission.

Zoe is the outlier of my recommen-dations in that its an amber ale. How-ever, as MBC has termed it a hoppyamber. Zoe is a great beer for those inthe mood for malty, heartier and dark-er beer with some hoppy distinction.

You can try most of these and moredown at the brewery in Freeport, andI suggest that you do. Its totally un-like the bar in midtownthe placeseems designed to resemble its beerlabels, with clean, white, understatedwalls and an elegant bar to the side.You really do feel like youre drinkingthe beer at its home.

BEERCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

COURTESY SOPHIE MEYERS

ALMOST FAMOUS: As part of of her gap year, Sophie Meyers 17 worked for the Obama campaign where sheperformed a variety of tasks including helping out at events featuring Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen.

and inviting feel for the bakery.[Its] super friendly, almost like

a going-home-to-moms kind ofplace, because everything youregoing to eat is going to be home-made, not pretentioussomethingthat youd probably get at yourmoms dinner tablehopefully,said Small-Pottle.

Due to staff restrictions, the bak-ery will not deliver to Brunswick,but it will make an exception forBowdoin. Smart-Pottle said she en-

visions parents sendin g eight-i nchcakes to students on their birthdays.

We would deliver it with a card

and balloons to the locationthatway you have a little piece of homeon the occasion, she said.

Smart-Pottle has a number ofideas for the future of h er business.She already sees the need for more

space and has thought about opeinga food truck that would sell coffeeand muffins. She also hopes to puttents and picnic tables in the park-ing lot so she and her husband canhold lobster bakes and pig roasts.

Im just really excited to openthe doors, because so many peoplehave stopped by and are really ex-cited about a bakery coming, shesaid. They have all been so sup-portive and so friendly, I think Im

just re ady to op en the door s and b ea real legitimate business.

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for the global trade watch team atPublic Citizen, a non-profit orga-nization and think tank that advo-cates for consumer rights.

For Meyers, every experience wasan opportunity to think about differ-ent options and possible careers.

Meyers felt like she came tosome conclusions about her futurethat she would not have reached ifshe had gone straight to school.

Its nice to have those experi-ences when Im thinking about go-ing forward, she said. At the endof the Obama campaign, you couldhave asked me, Do you want tobe in politics? And I would havesaid, Yes. Totally. But by the timeI got back from Costa Rica I hadreflected a lot more on that experi-

ence, and I think that might not bewhere Im he aded.

Brunswick is Meyers most re-cent stop. Many students who takegap years worry about the transi-tion to college life and the possi-bility of feeling disconnected fromtheir peer but Meyers feels that hertransition was fairly smooth.

I would not have been as com-fortable here my freshman year

if I hadnt gone and done my gapyear, she said. I think I neededthat time to regroup, reflect, andthink about what I wanted to belike moving forward.

Meyers transition was alsoaided by the fact that she kept intouch with some friends from highschool who also took gap years.

Some of them had easy transi-tions to college, some of them hadharder transitions to college. Butthat was the same with my friendswho didnt take gap years, shesaid. So I think that sort of justdepends on the person.

This year, Meyers plans to de-clare a major in math and a minorin education. She discovered herlove of teaching in Costa Rica andBoston, and it was only when shewas reunited with math at B owdoinshe reached her decision to major.

Although Meyers has decided

what to study, her gap year experi-ences have shown her that our futuresrarely turn out exactly as we plan.

What youre doing right nowdoesnt necessarily dictate whatyoure doing five years from nowas much as were conditioned tothink, said Meyers.

Next for Meyers, she may studyabroad in Edinburgh and see whatelse she can learn there.

MEYERSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

WINTER WEATHER: Students will have to avoid diagonals for the next few months. The College does not clear all paths on campus until spring. Snowwill be allowed to build up on the paths in red.

Snow day: Bowdoins removal policy


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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Prof. Clarke travels cross-country with new novel

Please see DUCHAMP,page 10

e Bowdoin community sang andclapped through the Martin LutherKing, Jr. Day celebration on Mondayin Pickard eater, led by activistsand songwriters Dr. Bernice JohnsonReagon and her daughter, Toshi Re-agon. e pair revisited protest songsfrom the Civil Rights Movementsongs of freedom.e Reagons sang familiar songs

like is Little Light of Mine, aswell as originals written about socialissues in South Africa and Brook-lyn. e singers happily coached thecrowd through their bluesy rendi-tions as Toshi plucked a guitar.

As a member of the Freedom Sing-ers and the Student Nonviolent Coor-dinating Committee (SNCC), BerniceReagon has been a major voice forsocial change since the 1960s. She isthe founder of the all-female African-American a cappella group Sweet Hon-ey in the Rock, which has used music asa way to speak out against injustice, andis a respected professor and curator ofAfrican American folk music.

Toshi is continuing her motherstradition of activist music with herband BIGLovely. e band also in-cludes Bowdoins own AssistantProfessor of Africana Studies JudithCasselberry, who originally met theReagons in the performance circuit

and has developed a close relation-ship with the duo.

While the College held classes onMartin Luther King Jr. Day this year,Bowdoin formed a committee to

honor the holiday by organizing cel-ebration activities in remembrance ofthe Civil Rights Movement.

We wanted something to honorKing, but, more than honoring justKing the man, honoring his legacyand the work he was committed to,

said Leana Amaez, associate deanof multicultural student programsand a member of the programmingcommittee for Martin Luther King,Jr. Day.

e programming themes in 2013and 2014 were the eradication ofpoverty and activism, respectively.is years theme was faith, and thecommittee thought the Reagons werea good representation of the role offaith in social movements.

Sometimes we focus on peoplewho are passed away. We think aboutthese things in a historical context,which is part of how we should thinkabout it, but theres also a very pres-

ent context. Dr. Reagon is living his-tory, said Casselberry. I think itsimportant for us to all remember thatthis isnt a long ago history. Its a cur-rent history, and people are still livingwho did work in that time period.e Reagons returned to this

theme in their performance, invit-ing the audience to carry forward thespirit of African American folk musicand protest music.

One time I heard my mom talk

about songs that came out of the CivilRights Movement, and she told peo-ple, dont think of them as museumpieces, Toshi told the audience. Youhear a song from the Civil RightsMovement, and you kind of separateyourself from it as if you dont actu-ally need it to be a part of your con-temporary world, as if it cant still doservice to so many situations that aregoing on in the world today.e committee also saw the Reagons

partnership as mother and daughter asa reminder that activism requires col-laboration between generations.

To have Bernice and Toshi to-gether is for the community, and stu-dents in particular, its great to see theintergenerational continuity and howimportant that can be for how youngpeople think about moving in theworld, how young people think aboutthe future, said Casselberry.e Reagons delighted as hun-

dreds of audience members liedtheir voices for the choruses of eachnew song.

Im gonna invite you to par-ticipate in these songs as if theyreyours, said Toshi Reagon. In caseyou didnt know, we like people tosing along with us.e audience responded enthusiasti-

cally, giving the community the oppor-tunity to experience the songs the waythey were experienced during the CivilRights Movement.

e traditions in which thiscomes fromold hymns, old Negrospirituals, protest musicits all about

BY MICHELLE HONGORIENT STAFF

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

THERE AND BACK AGAIN:Toshi Reagon (left) and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon sing call-and-response songs with the audience on Monday night.

Duchamps legacy: panelistsdiscuss his conceptual art

Marcel Duchampthe conceptual

artist best known for exhibiting a urinalas a work of original artwas the focusof a well-attended panel entitled eLegacy of Marcel Duchamp, in KresgeAuditorium on Wednesday.

is depiction of a urinal was notimmediately accepted into the art world.Fountain, the title of the piece, onlybecame well known years later, but theoriginal dismissal of the piece did notstop Duchamps success as an artist.

is rejection [of the piece] occa-sioned an opportunity for Duchamp tocollaborate with other artists to deter-

mine what the purpose of the artworkwas, said Anne Goodyear, co-directorof the Bowdoin College Museum ofArt.

By taking a urinal out of its everydaycontexthe attached a new idea to theobject and transformed it conceptually.Boundaries that had previously beenunderstood between art and everydayworld fell apart.

e panel featured three individu-als, each with a different perspectiveon Duchamps work. Panelists includ-ed Scott Homolka, associate conser-

vator of works of art on paper at thePhiladelphia Art Museum, James W.

BY GABY PAPPER

ORIENT STAFF

Activist musicians Dr. Bernice and Toshi Reagon perform on MLK Day

Professor of English Brock Clarkehas been on sabbatical since the startof the fall semester, going on tour topromote his newest book, e Hap-

piest People in the World.Clarke described e Happiest

People in the World, released in No-vember 2014, as a sort of literary spynovel for people who dont like spynovels. I dont like spy novels. ebook is chock full of labyrinthineplot lines, characters with multipleidentities and dramatic irony.

According to Clarke, the novelscomplexity increased as the book de-

veloped. It started, in January 2011,with a first-person narrator, but asClarke realized the implications ofall the secrets harbored by variouscharacters in the book, he created anomniscient narrator to provide theperspectives of multiple characters.

I begin with a very specific ideaof what the books going to be likeand then the book sort of confoundsthat at every turn, until I get over myoriginal impression of the book andgive in to what the book is demand-ing of me, said Clarke.

He added that this process ofgradual transformation took placewhen he was writing his other booksas well.

Clarke sees the act of complet-ing a novel as less concrete than onemight imagine. At one point whenhe felt that e Happiest People inthe World was complete, his edi-tor made a suggestion that resulted

in Clarkes adding a completely newfirst chapter to the book.

ere is essentially nothing in itthat, removed from context, makesany sense, wrote J. Robert Lennonin a glowing review of e HappiestPeople in the World, published in

e New York Times.In response, Clarke said, ose

are the kind of books I like. eydont have any logic in them excepttheir own logic. ey dont lean onthe world for the logic of their book.So I took that as total praise.

Its sort of a book for people wholike satiric literary fiction but alsolike their satire to have a little moreemotional quality than most satirehas, said Clarke. For people wholike Muriel Sparks novels, but whoalso like Co en brothers movies, thatshow I th ink of it.

Although e Happiest People inthe World is about a cartoonist whoends up running from terrorists,Clarke said he resists connectionsto the recent attacks on the satiricalFrench newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Its difficult to talk about my bookin the context of those cartoons, be-cause the cartoonist [in the book]doesnt draw the cartoons for anykind of political purpose, and thepeople who burn down his housedont do it for a political purposetheyre not jihadists and hes not apoliticized cartoonist, he said.

Clarke was on tour with e Hap-piest People in the World from mid-October to mid-December, from Mi-ami to San Francisco, reading mostlyat bookstores. A day in the life of a

touring author is hectic, betweentravel time and appearances. Clarkesaid he used his small pockets of freetime for writing, radio interviewsand taking walks outside.

Although touring requires a sig-nificant amount of what can only

be described as schlepping around(eres a lot of sitting on air-planes), for him, going on tour is adream come true.

I dont know how I could com-plain about it at all, said Clarke, whohad always aspired to be a novelist,and grew up thinking Id love topublish a book some day, I wouldlove to have someone give a shitabout it.

One strange phenomenon Clarkenoticed in giving public readings atbookstores is the type of intimacythat the reader oen assumes withthe author. Some audience memberspresume a pre-existing rapport withClarke, wanting to banter and actingas though they knew him really well.

Its flattering, but also a little un-nerving, said Clarke.

At a typical reading, there arearound thirty audience members.ey are fans of C larkes work, as wellas people who have read the reviewsand heard the hype. Clarke said thereare occasionally stray knitters, sittingin the bookstore with their balls ofyarn, who other wise dont care aboutthe book. Regardless of the interestof the audienceor even its size,which can range from two to 80Clarke is happy to have the forum tospeak and sees the whole experienceas a dream.

BY EMILY WEYRAUCH

ORIENT STAFF

Please see REAGONS,page 10

NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH:James McManus discusses Duchamps infamous piece Fountain.


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HIPSTER DRIVEL

MATTGOODRICH

BY BRIDGET WENTORIENT STAFF

For Carly Berlin 18, writingis not just an academic interest

or a frivolous pastime. An aspir-ing creative writer, Berlin usesher words as a medium to betterunderstand herself and the world.

Berlin, a native of Atlanta, Ga.,keeps a drawer of past journals anddiaries by her bed which hold thehistory of her love for writing. Eversince she can remember, she hasbeen writing and illustrating stories.

Ive been writing my wholelife, she said.

During high school, Berlindeveloped a more serious com-mitment to her craft. A month-long creative writing program thesummer before her senior yearcrystallized her dedication to cre-

ating works of fiction.About a year ago, Berlin started

her blog, Endless Foolery, where,she posts entries ranging fromshort stories to daily thoughts andstreams-of-consciousness.

Berlins inspiration for starting ablog came from a high school cre-ative writing workshopping class.

I was really happy with thethings I was coming out with andI felt like I just wanted other peo-ple to see them, she said.

Several months ago Berlincommitted to writing in a journaleach night before she goes to bed.

When I write something I like,I type it up and put it on the blog,she said. Thats usually aboutonce a week.

The front page of the blogincludes a Shakespeare quote:Lord, what fools these mortalsbe! After coming across thisquote in a Shakespeare quotebook, Berlin was struck by theword fool and found it expres-sive as a title for the blog.

I think no matter how seri-ously we want to take ourselvessometimes, we are all a little fool-ish, she said.

For Berlin, the blog is as much

for personal fulfillment as itis for sharing her work with abroader audience.

When Im writing, Im writingfor myself. But I am hoping that

other people feel something fromit, she said.

As a first year, Berlin is in themidst of the transition from liv-ing at home to college life, andshe has grappled with the transi-tion in many recent blog posts.She hopes other students sharingthis sentiment feel consoled whenthey read her posts and realizethat someone else is feeling thesame way.

Berlin draws stylistic inspirationfrom Virginia Woolf. Aer read-ing a book by Woolf, she says shesubconsciously adopted Woolfsstream-of-consciousness style, par-ticularly in her blog entries.

As for her Bowdoin career,Berlin is on the staff of TheQuill, where she will have workpublished later this semester.She is currently taking VisitingAssistant Professor of EnglishsSarah Braunsteins AdvancedFiction Workshop.

Beyond Bowdoin, Berlin ex-pressed her dreams of becominga published fiction writer.

I see myself writing for mywhole life, and I would love tothink I could be this aspiring nov-elist, she said.

Berlins greatest satisfactioncomes from hearing that peopleare reading and appreciating herblog, and she hopes to get morereaders interested in the blog inthe future. Yet her writing alsoserves a personal purpose, form-ing a framework for how she nav-igates the world.

I know that for me its sucha therapeutic thing to write;it helps me stay sane and self-aware, she said.

To suggest an artist for Portraitof an Artist, email Arts & Enter-tainment Editor Emily Weyrauch

at [email protected].

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participation, said Dean Amaez.e performance elicited an emo-

tional response from the audience,ranging from excited to nostalgic.

It was absolutely breathtaking.It reminded me of my grandmotherwalking around the house singingsome of the same type of Civil Rightsspirituals, old church songs, said Mat-thew Williams 16, student directorfor activism and social justice at theOffice of Multicultural Life.e Reagons encouraged the au-

dience and reminded them that so-cial change is driven by the youngpeople in a communitya particu-larly relevant point for student activ-

ist groups on campus.Young people always speak to the

current and contemporary energyof the time, Toshi told the crowd.Older people cant shape that dia-logue for young people. Youngpeople shape the dialogue, and oldpeople get behind them and supportthem while they do it.

Casselberry agreed.Each generation has its own issues

to deal with. Even if those issues aremaybe not quite as clearly connected,or at least feel like they arent as clearlyconnected, I think that its important foryoung people to remember that theyrethe ones that always make things hap-pen, she said.

Williams also felt the songs wererelevant to the work students are do-ing on campus to impact the com-

munity, like the protest acts followingthe unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and thepetitions for divestment.

Williams said he was surprised bythe diversity of the turnout.

I did not think that place wasgoing to be that filled, let alone thatdiverse, said Williams.When theyturned the lights on, I saw that itwasnt just the entirety of the blackpopulation here, but it was filled witha lot of people from a lot of differentwalks of life.

Williams added, I think it reallydoes show how their music can relateto things that are happening on cam-pus or even in our world today.

The last event celebrating Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day will beCommon Hour with Reverend Dr.Emilie M. Townes on February 27.

McManus, emeritus professor of arthistory at California State University,Chico, and Michael R. Taylor, directorof the Hood Museum of Art at Dart-mouth College.

Scott [brings the] perspective of a

paper conservator who thinks about thephysical evidence of a work of art; Jimbrings an academic perspective and Mi-chael has an art museum background ascurator and director of the Hood Mu-seum at Dartmouth, said Goodyear.e panel was held in conjunction

with the Museum of Arts current exhi-bition, Collaborations and Collusions,which focuses on networks of modernartists including Duchamp, Pablo Pi-casso, Mary Cassatt and others.

e art museum is a place wherestudents can be exposed to ideas,speakers and artists that collectivelytake us beyond Brunswick, said Good-year. One of the goals of this exhibitionis to think about ways different artistswork together and inform one another.It helps us understand why one mightwant to engage with the everyday in themodern world.

According to the the panelists, Du-champ was a conceptual artist whomade viewers question the definitionof art in our society. Duchamps ex-treme precision gives his artwork adeeper meaning.

Duchamp is an outstanding exam-ple of an artist who wants us to challengeour assumptions, said Goodyear.

Duchamp, more than almost anyother artist in the twentieth century,taught us how to think about and look

at works to get beyond the physicality ofthe object and understand the structureof the work, said McManus. is iswhat makes him so attractive and chal-lenging at the same time.

Duchamps style of art continues tobe relevant today, according to Taylor.

Duchamp remains extremely cur-rent because he was so far ahead of hispeers that we are still catching up with

his ideas, which are still very radical,said Taylor. He remains the kind ofartist you can still admire and find newideas from.

McManus had a similar assessment.e challenges presented by Duch-

amp are no less critical today than theywere in 1917 when he presented Foun-tain, he said. Duchamp swung thedoor open to think about what can beart and what cannot be art, and it con-tinues to have an impact.

To call Sleater-Kinney the best rockband of the last two decades is to missthe point. It's an argument that hasstormed across the internet like, well,a Sleater-Kinney song ever sincethe trio announced its returna few months ago aer a ten-year hiatus.

But I suspect Corin, Carrieand Janet don't give a damnwhat we think about them.No Cities To Love, a searingrecord of tight melodies andgripping charisma, asks manyquestions, but do you stilllove us? is not one of them.What if your mom couldkick your ass? however, cer-tainly is.

Indeed, these riot grrrlsare now riot women. ey'vecome a long way since theearly 90s DIY punk scene atEvergreen State College inOlympia, Wa.

Carrie Brownstein's fameas curator of hipster hodge-podge Portlandia haseclipsed her fame as snarlingguitarist in Sleater-Kinneythoughyou wouldn't know it from No CitiesTo Love. It's less a reunion album thana reignition record. ere's no painfulattempt to recreate the sublime here. Itturns out lightning can strike the sameplace twice. Or, in this band's case,eight times.

We first caught a glimpse of thealbum back in November, when thesingle Bury Our Friends announcedSleater-Kinney's take-no-prisonersreturn. e song is a piece of popmastership, anchored by Weiss' thun-

derous drumming, and driven tosing-along heights by Tucker's wild-eyed yawp and the band's signaturedueling guitars.

It was a reminder of what madethem so good in the first placean

unpretentious dedication to cra thatnever sacrificed fury for listenability.Sleater-Kinney is the rare band thatpulls offpissed and pop.

What's all the more impressive isthe trio's command of tone. Tuckersings with all the urgency of a wild-fire, yet the flames never consumethese songs' emotional subtlety. efuzz-rock opener Price Tag, for in-stance, evokes the concept of socialcost for cheap consumer goods, as told

through the eyes of single mothersstocking shelves at a department store.e irony, of course, is that this

kick in the bourgeois derrire is evenmore relevant now than when Sleater-Kinney soundtracked the anti-global-

ization debate two decades ago. I waslured by the cost, Tucker admits ofmarked-down sale items, a godsendfor those who live paycheck-to-pay-check. But really, we never checkedthe price tag, since there is so much

child labor, dangerous chemicals, car-bon pollutionunaccounted for. Callit econ 101, or call it the way Sleater-Kinney open an album, capturing

consumer guilt with poise.Of course, this whole

project is kind of meta. OnSurface Envy, Tucker sings,bordering on platitude, thatwe win, we lose, but only to-gether do we break the rules.Later on, she rhymes thatwith make the rules. Wecould take this as somethingof a manifesto. Sleater-Kin-ney have the trappings of agreat punk band with distort-ed guitars, leist politics, andshred-your-throat vocals. Yetthey've also become every-thing a punk band is not sup-posed to beidolized.

What happens when ananti-authoritarian banditself becomes an author-ity? Sleater-Kinney, aer all,might be described as our

version of the Sex Pistolsbrash and iconoclastic, if

infinitely more talented. ey them-selves are certainly not asking to berevered, as No Anthem makes clear.at is why the best rock band ar-gument is absurd.

Unquestionably, Sleater-Kinneydeserve to be added to the pantheonof musical divinity, not because they

are the token feminist punk band, butbecause they are so much more. In-stead of comparing legacies like phal-luses, their fate is to invent [their]own kind of obscurity, one in whichthe music speaks for itself.

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e womens basketball team domi-nated its competition over WinterBreak, posting double digit victoriesover seven of eight opponents andextending its win streak to 13 games.Tuesdays win at Husson brought thePolar Bears overall record to 16-2 (4-0NESCAC).e team opened up with a domi-

nating 90-29 win against Clark Uni-versity (3-12). All 12 Polar Bears on theroster logged double digit minutes andscored at least one basket.e Polar Bears then coasted through

their final three non-conference games,crushing the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (7-10) 63-45, Rhode IslandCollege (4-11) 75-56 and EmmanuelCollege (8-9) 70-49.e team opened up its NESCAC

play with a decisive 87-53 win overConnecticut College on January 9 (12-2 overall, 2-1 NESCAC), which pushed

its win streak to nine games.Shannon Brady 15, Sara Binkhorst

15, Marle Curle 17, and Kate Kerrigan18 all had double-digit performances,helping the team rout the Camels.

Aer eight minutes of play, Bowdoinalready held a 19-6 lead and continuedto dominate in the opening half, enteringhalime with a comfortable 41-23 advan-tage.e Camels narrowed the gap to sixpoints in the second half, but the PolarBears quickly responded and jumpedahead to afinal score of 87-53.

Bowdoin continued its impressiveplay when they welcomed Wesleyan onJanuary 10 (7-8 overall, 0-3 NESCAC)with a 75-52 stomp.e team then traveled to William-

stown, MA where they dealt 18th-ranked Williams theirfirst home loss ofthe season 59-50.e team was very proud of the

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e mens basketball team didntmiss a beat Wednesday night, defeat-ing UMaine-Presque Isle (9-8) 78-57in Morrell Gym aer winning five outof six games over Winter Break. Pointguard Bryan Hurley 15 paced the Po-lar Bears, scoring 17 points, with eightassists and three steals. e Polar Bears(12-4 overall, 3-1 NESCAC) are tied forfirst place in the NESCAC.

A week aer they returned to cam-pus on December 28, the team hostedthe University of Southern Maine. JohnSwords 15 led the team with a double-

double, tallying 19 points and 12 re-bounds in the teams 76-61 win.

Two days aer the win, the PolarBears travelled to Bridgewater St., where

Lucas Hausman 16 stole the spotlightand put up an impressive 28 points tolead the team to a 84-78 overtime vic-tory. Bowdoin was leading 68-59 goinginto the final minutes of play. Bridge-

water St. made a late run to bring thegame to 71-71, forcing the game intoovertime. Aer the extra five minutes,Bowdoin held onto an six-point lead.e day aer the closely contested

game against Bridgewater St., Bowdoinarrived at Connecticut College ready toplay, beating the Camels 77-48. Haus-man again led the team in scoring, thistime with 22 points.

e team is starting to come to-gether more as a unit, said Hausman.If we put everything together, if wework hard, have chemistry and do whatcoach tells us to do, I feel like we hon-estly have the potential to beat anyone.

With their win streak at five, the Po-lar Bears faced the Wesleyan Cardinals

in Connecticut on Saturday, January10. Bowdoin kept the score close in thefirst half, with the game tied at 31 athalime. Despite Hausman scoring 26

points, Wesleyan overpowered them inthe second half, winning 77-62.e team took no time to hang their

heads, as they immediately prepared tohost reigning D-III runner-up Williams.

e Ephs remain a NESCAC heavy-weight this season, but the Bowdoin vet-erans were determined to fight for a win.is time it was captain Keegan Pieri 15who lead the way with 20 points and 10rebounds in a 67-60 victory.e final game of the break was

against Hamilton. Hausman contin-ued his streak, scoring 28 in the teams89-74 win.

Ive seen it every year, said Pieri15. e second half of the season,especially coming offof Winter Break,the team seems to be clicking better,whether its the basketball itself, usstarting to get in a rhythm from all thepractices, or just being together all thetime over Winter Break.

e team will play on Saturday aer-noon at Colby, a team ties with Bowdoinfor first place in the NESCAC and who-defeated the Polar Bears in December.

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SOARING, FLYING: Bryan Hurley 15, left, and Keegan Pieri 15, right, glide into the paint during the Polar Bears Wednesday win over UMaine-Presque Isle.

win at Williams, said Head CoachAdrienne Shibles. ey are a greatteam and they always play well athome, so we were excited to get the

victory on the road.Binkhorst, Brady, and Curle all

reached double digit figures, a feat noWilliams player matched.e Polar Bears headed into half-

time with Williams holding a slightedge 31-29, but soon aer the secondperiod began the Polar Bears gained asix point lead, rounding out the scoreto 35-29.

With less than 14 minutes lein thegame, Bowdoin never trailed again.Despite tying the game at 46-46 with

just 7:13 remaining, the Polar Bearsdefense kept Williams scoreless for theremaining 4:18 of the game.

In their most recent conferencegame, the team traveled to New Yorkto play Hamilton College, dominat-ing the Continentals 75-48.

Brady and Binkhorst each posteddouble-digit figures while Curle, Ker-rigan, and Siena Mitman 15 all addedkey figures, helping the Polar Bears se-cure the win.e Polar Bears then traveled to

Husson University (8-6), winning theirfinal non-conference game 81-51.

Although the starting lineup has

stuffed the stat sheet as of late, Shiblescredits the teams recent success to thedepth throughout its roster.

While we have some players whohave been putting up big numbers andwho have garnered some nice recog-nition we have a deep and balancedteam, said Shibles. On any givennight, someone else could be the lead-ing scorer or rebounder. Our balance,depth and team chemistry are ourgreatest strengths.

Shibles hopes to keep the team fo-cused despite its recent success.

Rather, we talk about treating eachgame with the same intensity, focusand preparation. Our goal is to get atleast 1 percent better each day.

e Polar Bears look to extendtheir win streak tomorrow at 3 p.m.when they welcome Colby to MorrellGymnasium.

WOMENS SOCCER GOALIE BRIDGET McCARTHY TO BE

NAMED ALL-AMERICAN

In December McCarthy 16 was named to the D-III Second Team. The All-American honor is the most prestigiouspost season honor conferred on a Bowdoin womens soccer player in 10 years. McCarthy has played in all but onegame during her time at Bowdoin and has led the NESCAC in save percentage this season.

McCarthy was also named to the First Team All-Region team. Jamie Hofstetter 16 and Kathleen Smith 15 alsoearned All-Region honors on the second and third teams respectively.

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e womens hockey team playedseven games during winter break, going4-2-1.e teams record is currently 8-3-3 (4-1-1 NESCAC).

In the second day of the New Year,the Polar Bears traveled to Minnesotato take on the University of St. omas.Bowdoin defeated the Tommies 4-3 inovertime. One day later, Bowdoin beatHamline University 4-1.

According to Head Coach MarissaONeil, the team built important chem-istry during their trip to the Midwest.

We played against two tough teamsout there, but the bonding and chem-istry we were looking for was reallygetting built, ONeil said. Its toughin the first semester when we have fallathletes joining us, and we have examsand reading period. at chemistrydefinitely contributed to our successwhile we were out there and since wevebeen back.at Friday, Bowdoin played Con-

necticut College in the first game of itsdoubleheader. e Polar Bears lost 2-1but avenged the loss with a 3-1 win thenext day. On January 13, Bowdoin lost6-3 to the University of Southern Maine.

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In high school, Chris Gen-co 15 acknowledged that hepassed on the long jump simplybecause he did not like sandin his shoes. In college, afterwinning the event at last week-ends Bowdoini n v i t a t o i n a l ,he is moreopen-minded,calling it thenext logicalp r o g r e s s i o nfor someonewho can runfast and jumphigh.

When hearrived atBowdoin, Genco anticipated

competing in the high jumpand as a sprinter. But what pro-pelled his leading score for themens tream at the BowdoinInvitational on January 17 wasin fact his performing the long

jump. Genco also finished inthird place in the high jump,raising his score to 15. Theteam gained 95 points in total.His first-place finish was Bow-doins only top finish of theInvitational. Gencos winninglong jump occurred in the firstset of jumps, allowing him to sitout the final heat when no onecould match his best jump.

Genco competed in the

long jump only once duringhis first year at Bowdoin andperformed poorly. At the timehis jump approached only 4.27meters (Hiswinning jumpat the BowdoinI n v i t a t i o n a llast weekendwas 6.66 me-ters). Havingnever jumpedin that eventcompetitively before, he feltdiscouraged, even thoughHead Coach Peter Slovenskibelieved the jump correlatedperfectly with his natural ath-letic abilities.

I would have thought hewould have picked up the long

jump in high scho ol, Slove n-ski said. Long jumpers benefitfrom having a lot of spee d. As ahigh school sprinter, he pickedit up quickly.

Slovenski observed thatGenco shares physical simi-larities with most long jump-ers, compared to being shorterthan some high jumpers. Heparticularly praised Gencosintuition for jumping and histechnical IQ, which he be-

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lieves pervades most track andfield events.

He can make most adjust-ments to his technique and un-derstand them better than mostathletes in any sport, Slovenskisaid. If someone gets ahead ofhim, he knows what he has todo to catch up.

By his soph-omore year, hewas practicingthe long jumpc o n s i s t e n t l y .However, heretained thehigh jump, astrange pair-ing given theirwildly differ-ent and some-times conflict-

ing techniques. Genco called it

counterintuitive.I struggled at the high jump

after I started the long jump, hesaid. My approach got faster.

In addition to the longjumps fas ter approac h, the twojumps have ver y d iffe rent pen-ultimate steps. The long jumpemphasizes lowering the hipsin preparation for the outward

jump whil e the high jumpe rstend to keep their hips higher.

A lot of track events have anatural simplicity, Slovenskisaid. They look natural. Buttheres a lot of complex things tobring togetherto accelerate onthe runway, get a good takeoff,

and then get a good jump. Oneof the ways he makes it lookeasy is that he has a good senseof how to bring it all together.

Slovenski not-ed the improve-ment in Gencosperformance inthe long jump.Genco said thatit has been hisprimary focusthis season.

His sophomore year he wasvery compe titive at the state lev -el, Slovenski said. His junioryear he became very competi-tive at the New England level.

The hope is that Genco can becompetitive at the national levelin his final year. Having neverqualified for Nationals, this isthe goal he set for himself.

More than anything, Slovens-ki praised Gencos contributionsas a teammate and captain.

What really stands outabout Chris is not how he con-tinues to place first. Its what agreat teammate h e is.

e sports editor of the Orientchooses the Athlete of the Weekbased on exemplary performance.

Won the long jumpcompetition at the BowdoinInvitational Earned 15 of Bowdoins 90points at the meet

HIGHLIGHTS

e mens hockey team recoveredfrom a three-goal deficit, bestingWesleyan (2-12-0 overall, 1-7-0 NE-SCAC) 4-3 in a battle on Saturdayevening in Watson Arena. ree dayslater the Polar Bears returned to theice and beat the University of NewEngland (6-10-1) 4-2. e victorybrought the Polar Bears record to9-4-2 (4-4-2 NESCAC).

Aer falling behind 3-0 in the firstperiod against Wesleyan, the PolarBears scored one in the second andnotched three in the final period tosecure the win.

e teams success was limited in

the three games prior to this come-back. e team tied 4-4 at Hamilton(5-5-4 overall, 4-3-2 NESCAC) onJanuary 9 before falling 4-2 to Am-herst (10-3-2 overall, 6-3-2 NES-CAC) on January 10 and 2-1 to Trin-

ity (12-1-1 overall, 7-0-1 NESCAC)on January 16.

Hamilton is a very difficult trip, thelongest trip we made. We were behindand we showed resiliency and cameback, said Head Coach Terry Meagher.On Saturday we played a good game aswe played all year and we ended up los-ing to Amherst.

In the tightly contested matchupagainst Amherst, the Lord Jeffs goalieDave Cunningham made a total of45 saves in the face of heavy pressurefrom Bowdoins offense.

ey have one of the top goal-tenders in the East, said Meagher.Again, we played a solid game. Butgoal sports, especially ice hockey, are

challenging as the goaltender is so sig-nificant in the play.

Bowdoin sits at fih in the NESCACbehind Trinity, Williams, Amherst andHamilton.

Weve done well in handling adver-

sity, said Captain Ryan Collier 15. Wehad some challenges in scoring goals inthe last eight games or so. But we keepour heads high and keep going, whichwe know will eventually allow us to getback to scoring goals and winning morehockey games.is year, 20 of the 34 team mem-

bers are underclassmen. e first-yearsand sophomores have managed to holdtheir own. Forward Matthew Melan-son 18 scored the winning goal againstWesleyan.e Polar Bears return to NESCAC

play tonight at Middlebury (6-2-2overall, 3-2-2 NESCAC) and will

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