THE BIG SHORTFALL$18,000

$19,500$5810

$2420

The total over expenditure the BOC has accu-mulated over the past few years. This discrepancy was accounted for by pulling money from the 2015-16 budget.

The amount the BOC’s fi rst requested to resolve their over expenditure. The SAFC

denied this request.

The amount the BOC’s requested in their second proposal to the SAFC.

The amount of money the SAFC granted the BOC yesterday.

! e Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) will receive $2,420 in additional funding from the Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC), which is enough to fund trans-portation costs for their trips until Spring Break. In March, SAFC will work with the BOC to reevaluate whether additional funding will be necessary for the club.

! e BOC discovered that it was $18,000 short on funds earlier this month. ! ough the budget conversation with the Outing Club has been tabled following the granting of additional funds, the situation raises questions about the Student Ac-tivities funding process, which allows for clubs to not to know exactly how much money remains in their budget through-out the year.

! e BOC

! e BOC requested $19,500 from the SAFC when they were " rst made aware of the de" cit. ! at amount was rejected at the SAFC meeting on February 8. ! e BOC returned with a $5,810 request, and

today, the SAFC granted them the $2,420 in additional funding.

“Based o# of the trimmed down bud-get that they sent us last time, that will be enough to get them to Spring Break,” said Vice President for the Treasury David Levine ’16. “! en we’ll reassess a$ er that.”

Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze said that the SAFC’s allocation to the Outing Club will not compromise the plans of any other student club this year.

“I’m not presently foreseeing any sort of major programming issues,” he said.

! e limited funding granted to the BOC by the SAFC will allow them to con-tinue operating, albeit on a smaller scale. ! e BOC also will not be able to o# er " -nancial aid for trips that have extra associ-ated expenses—for example, for li$ passes for skiing trips.

“We’re not shutting our doors,” said the BOC Assistant Director Sarah John-son ’13. “It’s really at this point a matter of scale. So if we get a couple hundred bucks, we can rent a couple of vehicles, we can buy a little food. ! e bare bones budget that was re-submitted to the SAFC I believe budgeted for our leadership training....and then for one to three trips

beyond that per weekend.”In previous years, the Outing Club has

run an average of " ve trips per weekend in the winter. ! ough that number will be reduced this semester to cut costs, John-son said that programs like snow shoeing, cross country skiing, mid-week walks and bird watching will continue unimpeded.

“! ose things can all happen without any money from the SAFC because we have everything we need,” she said. “What we really need that money for is for vehi-cles to do anything that isn’t within walk-ing distance from here.”

Acquiring vans typically costs the BOC substantially more than it would cost oth-er Bowdoin groups. Although the BOC is allowed to use Bowdoin vehicles, they are not allowed to reserve them in advance and must o$ en rely on an outside rental company, which charges close to triple the amount that Bowdoin charges.

Although it reached a head this year, Assistant Director Adam Berliner ’13 said that the BOC has been overspending their annual budget for a number of years.

“Part of it goes back to last April—a big part of it. And a lot of it goes back way fur-ther than that,” said Berliner. “Since, really,

this model of the Outing Club has existed where our funding has been determined by the SAFC largely—that’s the bulk of our money—and so I think that there’s been a chronic underfunding of the Out-ing Club since we started getting money from the SAFC...I think for a bunch of years there’s not been enough money, and chronically we’ve been overspending our budget and it kind of just all eventually came to a head. Every year we overspend a little bit, and all of a sudden it’s a lot.”

Berliner and Johnson said that they do not have plans to acquire additional funds from sources outside of the SAFC and that they have not heard of any other college departments able to " nance their shortage.

“No one else has money that they can give us,” Berliner said. “It’s the SAFC or bust.”

! e SAFC

At Bowdoin, an eight-person sub-committee of Bowdoin Student Govern-ment—the SAFC—is responsible for al-locating budgets to all student clubs.

Amid signi" cant spending in the 2016 election cycle and the emergence of campaign " nance as a national concern, the political contributions of Bowdoin’s Board of Trustees have become especially notable. ! e size and volume of Board member’s contributions shed light on the political a% liations of the College’s highest governing body.

! e trustees are active participants in the political process. According to data compiled from the Federal Election Com-mission (FEC), 10 members of Bowdoin’s Board of Trustees have donated over $20,000 to political campaigns since 1997. Five have donated over $200,000 and six of those 10 have made contributions primarily to Republican candidates and groups.

In" uence and Ideology

Signi" cant " nancial ties to political candidates can have some in& uence on the decisions these trustees make as Board members, according to according to As-sociate Professor of Government and Le-gal Studies Michael Franz. Franz teaches a course called Money and Politics, and his research investigates the role of interest groups in political campaigns.

He said that, though the contributions do not directly a# ect a trustee’s decision making, the contributions are suggestive

of political ideology, and that ideology af-fects a trustee’s decision making

“Ultimately I think you can separate the things you’re involved in with your political preferences in some fashion or another. So trustees who are primarily Re-publican donors or primarily Democratic donors likely have a perspective on the role of government and regulations that may in& uence the way they think about

BY MEG ROBBINSORIENT STAFF

BY HARRY DIPRINZIOORIENT STAFF

Please see ENDOWMENT, page 3Please see TRUSTEE, page 3

Please see BOC, page 5

Please see BUILDING, page 5

As its endowment has ballooned in recent years, Bowdoin has joined a small group of private colleges whose endowments exceed $1 billion. Now, Bowdoin and its peers are facing ques-tions from congressional Republicans about the operations and tax statuses of those endowments.

In a letter dated February 8, the chairs of two House and Senate committees—Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressmen Kevin Brady and Peter Roskam—asked President Clayton Rose to answer 13 questions concerning Bowdoin’s endow-ment. Presidents from 55 other colleges and universities received the same letter.

! e letter requests that responses be completed by April 1.

As of last September, when Bowdoin’s endowment " gures were last made pub-lic, the College’s endowment sits at $1.393 billion and returned 14.4% in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014-15. It has performed well above average in recent years, earning the “En-dowment of the Year” award from the " nance magazine Institutional Investor in 2014.

Legislators call for details about College’s endowment

Trustee campaign donations indicate political leanings

BY JOHN BRANCHORIENT STAFF

$ 10 million gift to fund new environmental building

In May 2017, the College will begin construction on a new building, ! e Roux Center for the Environment, funded with a gi$ of $10 million from Barbara and Da-vid Roux. ! e building, to be located on the corner of Harpswell Road and College Street across from the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center, will open in Fall 2018.

“We have a really amazing e# ort and amazing work that’s being done, and it be-came increasingly clear to me that there’s an opportunity to make it even better, even greater, to really cement our posi-tion as...the preeminent liberal arts college studying the environment over the next several years,” said President Clayton Rose in a phone interview with the Orient.

Rose has assembled a program com-mittee, which he will chair, composed of faculty, students, sta# and Interim Dean for Academic A# airs and Associate Dean for Faculty Jennifer Scanlon. Over the next several months, this committee will be working with Cambridge Seven Associ-ates, Inc., an architecture " rm, to discuss the possibilities for the building. By Fall 2016, the committee will be beginning to determine the " nal design.

BY DAKOTA GRIFFINORIENT STAFF

The $18,000 over expenditure at the Bowdoin Outing Club raises questions about oversight of expenditures made by student organizations.

WHAT IS AN OPERATING BUDGET? WHAT IS THE SAFC POOL?Lump sum budgets allocated to eighteen of the most etablished clubs on campus to cover predictable expenses for the year.

The money left over in the SAFC budget after all of the other operating budgets have been allocated. These funds are distributed to the clubs not under operating budgets on an event-by-event basis.

SAFC POOL: $133,703.91

BSG: $80,000

CREW:$51,051.20

E-BOARD: $131,000

ALL OTHER OPERATING BUDGETS: $215,244.89

$69,000The amount of money allocated to the BOC by the SAFC in 2014-15. All budgets are from 2014-15.

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ART AND ACTIVISM

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BREAKING RECORDS

Women’s swimming and diving team sets 14 school records at NESCAC championship. Page 10.

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Caroline Martinez ’16 on the keeping the Outing Club accessible for all. Page 13.

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One particular Physical ! eater class got a little too physical last Monday morning, bright and early at 9:30 a.m. For the last few weeks, the students have been partak-ing in research presentations on world-renowned move-ment groups. On Monday, a set of students presented on Jerzy Grotowski, an innovative performer whose approach to theater is very active. ! e students arrived to class and were thrown into physically draining activities instantly. ! e day began with the students running around the room, then performing lunges and " nally, doing wall sits.

Some of the students were borderline physically broken when the opening exercises concluded. But the fun was not over yet—the class then had to pair o# and carry their partner to the middle of the room while reciting a brief three-line speech. While some students matched each other in size, other members of the class were challenged with li$ ing someone twice their weight. All in all, it was a sweaty, physically draining hour and a half in the theater.

Maggie Seymour ’16 was one of the presenters. “! ere is a theory in the theater that if you get physi-

cally exhausted you will have a more raw and authentic performance, because you won’t have your habits. You’ll be so exhausted so you won’t have the tensions that you usually hold,” said Seymour.

She modeled the exercise off one of Grotowski’s methods: making people run for three hours, naked, in the woods.

Except, as Seymour would be remiss to leave out, “We made people run for about " ve minutes, in comparison to three hours, and everyone was fully clothed, in com-parison to being naked, and everyone was in a room in comparison to in the woods. So in the end, we really did

the class a favor.”Members of the class, however, were not exactly thrilled

with being made to sweat at such an early hour of the day. Eric Mercado ’18 noted, “It was very painful. It hurt.

Everywhere. Everything hurt. My whole everywhere hurt.”Many students were hunched over but a few minutes

into the run, and many complained of their blistering feet. Mercado lamented that he is still su# ering from the ef-

fects of the harsh classroom % oor.“I still can’t walk right,” he said, distraught.Julianna Burke ’18, the second leader of exercise, “felt a

little personally responsible.”However, she also noted that the class began mildly, but

once the hauling of fellow students commenced, it jumped up several levels of exertion.

“It started out at like a four out of 10, and then it ratch-eted up to like a 12 out of 10. I don’t know how I feel about it honestly,” Burke said. “I feel like people were put in mild physical harm. Maybe more than mild.”

One particular student, who prefers to remain anony-mous, pulled a muscle in her leg and is limping around campus. She did note that she is certainly not in peak physical condition, nor was the exercise outlandishly di& -cult, but that has not stopped her from complaining every hour on the hour about her injury.

“I feel like I ripped something. I need surgery. Or a new leg,” she said. “No one in the world has been forced to per-form as di& cult a physical task that early in the morning. Look it up. It’s preposterous.”

In other news, athletes on campus quietly rose the fol-lowing morning at 6:30 a.m. and headed to another brutal session of speed training.

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What’s the weirdest thing we would fi nd on your phone or computer?

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SECURITY REPORT: FEB. 13 to FEB. 16SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 ■ ! ree students took responsibility for

hosting an unregistered event with alco-hol in Hyde Hall.■ Multiple complaints of loud music were reported on the third % oor of Chamber-lain Hall. An o& cer spoke with a student who was trying out his new stereo system. ■ A minor student was found to be in pos-

session of a false driver’s license. ■ An o& cer checked on the wellbeing of

an intoxicated student at Reed House. ■ Four male students were spotted on the

Coe Quad. One of the students tackled an ice sculpture and knocked it over. Alcohol appeared to be a factor. ■ A security o& cer checked on an intoxi-

cated student at Super Snack. ! e student asked the o& cer for a ride to a residence hall. On the way the student vomited in the security cruiser, placing it out of ser-vice. ! e student will be billed for the clean-up cost. ■ An unregistered event erupted at Ladd

House shortly a$ er a registered event end-ed. ! e event was dispersed. ■ Loud music was reported on the " $ h

% oor of West Hall at 4 a.m. Two students were warned. ■ Furniture vandalism and wall damage

were discovered at Ladd House following an event. ■ Basement wall vandalism was reported

at Quinby House.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 ■ A student called 911 reporting that he

was “dying” and needed help. Brunswick rescue, the police, and security quickly re-sponded to the student’s campus residence. It turned out that the student was heavily intoxicated, but his condition was not as dire as he originally thought. A$ er being assessed, the student was taken to his room and monitored by his two roommates. ■ Brunswick rescue and police were called

to an o# -campus student house by a stu-dent who was concerned about having

mixed over-the-counter medication and alcohol. ■ A sprinkler pipe burst in Memorial

Hall causing substantial % ooding. ! e Brunswick Fire Department and Facilities Maintenance personnel responded. ■ A student reported being approached by

a suspicious man driving a silver Nissan Cube and asking directions to a College apartment complex.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 ■ A student with % u-like symptoms re-

quested an escort to Mid Coast Hospital. ■ A report of a gas smell inside 82 Federal

Street proved to be unfounded. ■ A water pipe ruptured in Drucken-

miller Hall. Brunswick Fire Depart-ment and Facilities Maintenance per-sonnel responded.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ■ ! rown eggs were smashed on the polar

bear statue at Hyde Plaza.

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Let’s get physical: theater kids wheeze through workoutBY OLIVIA ATWOOD

ORIENT STAFF

“My selection of movies. I have the original Star Wars Trilogy and Dear White People.”

Hailey Beaman ’18

“I have a poem that I wrote only by typing the next suggested word with Apple suggested type.”

Miles Brautigam ’19

“Probably crumbs on my keyboard.”

Clay Starr ’19

“I have this Japanese game called Neko Atsume. Cats come visit you and you buy them toys and they bring you fi sh to buy more toys.”

Evan Baughman ’17

“Not One Direction fan fi ction, if that’s what you’re asking.”

Allyson Gross ’16

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Michele Cyr ’76, P ’12 to serve as new Board of Trustees chair

As colleges and universities across the country are grappling with is-sues of sexual assault and race re-lations, Bowdoin Board of Trustees Chair-Elect Michelle Cyr ’76, P ’12 is uniquely prepared for her upcom-ing role.

Cyr is a professor of medicine and medical science and an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School. She specializes in women’s health, particularly menopause.

As former co-chair of Brown’s Sexual Assault Task Force, current chair of Brown’s Title IX Oversight and Advisory Board and a member of multicultural committees at both Brown and Bowdoin, Cyr noted that she is not the conventional pick for chair of Bowdoin’s Board of Trustees.

“I did joke with someone that in the 222 years of Bowdoin, this is probably the first time that an an-nouncement of the new chair of the Board has been associated with the words “sexual assault” and “meno-pause,” said Cyr. “I think this is a new day for Bowdoin.”

This is not Cyr’s first time break-ing into what have historically been male-dominated scenes. She was the only girl on her high school track team and was a member of the Col-lege’s second class of women.

Cyr, who attended a public high school, admitted that she was a little worried when she first came to Bow-doin in 1972. At the time, coming from public school to Bowdoin was not common, and that combined with her gender made her even more of a minority. However, she said that the College quickly adapted to being coeducational.

“You had an option. You could be in an all-women’s dorm,” said Cyr. “I decided to go all in, and I went for a co-ed dorm. I was actually in Appleton.”

An art and biochemistry double major, Cyr dabbled in medical illus-tration after graduation before going on to Dartmouth Medical School and fulfilling her residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

Cyr is aware that her background is not common on the Board of Trustees—about half of its members have financial backgrounds. She sees this as a strength, especially given the issues that colleges and universi-ties are facing today.

“As trustees we come to the Board as outsiders, so we all bring areas of expertise from our lives,” Cyr said. “This just happens to be my exper-tise—sexual assault and misconduct, and multiculturalism. I am currently chairing the search for the medical school’s associate dean for diver-sity and multicultural affairs here at Brown.”

Cyr explained that while her work can at times focus on hot-but-ton issues, it hasn’t been an issue at Bowdoin.

“Some of my work at Brown is in areas of controversy, especially sexual assault. At Bowdoin, I didn’t feel that there was controversy as a member of the Special Commit-tee on Multicultural Affairs. We all agreed that diversity and inclusion are important goals for Bowdoin,” Cyr said.

At Brown, Cyr welcomes Bowdoin medical school applicants person-ally and tries to make interview days special by inviting current medical students who graduated from Bow-doin to visit with applicants.

“I am on a mission to bring more Polar Bears here to be Brown Bears,” said Cyr.

Excited for her next trip to the College in the spring, Cyr was torn when asked about her favorite din-ing hall, and while she couldn’t make a final decision, she had an initial reaction.

“There was no Thorne when I was at Bowdoin, so I have a spot in my heart for Moulton.”

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ENDOWMENTCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

! e letter states that the goal of the survey is “an inquiry into the activities of colleges and universities related to the numerous tax preferences they enjoy.” It notes that despite “large and growing endowments, many colleges and univer-sities have raised tuition far in excess of in" ation.”

! e questions comprise of four cat-egories: “Endowment Management,” “Endowment Spending and Use,” “Dona-tions” and “Con" icts of Interest.”

Many of the questions asked in the letter concern procedures for determin-ing how much of the endowment a col-lege can spend. According to Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Katy Longley, Bowdoin’s policies allow it to spend between 4 and 5.5 percent of the endowment’s estimated value annually.

In FY 2015-16, 32 percent of the Col-lege’s operating budget ($48.7 million) is planned to be funded by the endowment. According to Longley, the largest program funded by the endowment is # nancial aid, 66 percent of which will be paid for with funds from the endowment.

As a nonpro# t institution, Bowdoin does not currently pay taxes on its endow-ment.

For now, college administrators are working on answering the letter’s ques-tions and are reluctant to speculate about what the implications may be.

“We’ve been asked to provide informa-tion to the Senate and House, and we’re going to comply with that,” said Rose. “! ere’s no [action] that’s on the table at the moment.”

! is is not the # rst time a legislative committee has requested information from Bowdoin. Senator Chuck Grassley made a similar request of private colleges and universities in January 2008, largely concerning tuition and # nancial aid. Bowdoin was included in that request, ac-cording to Longley.

Bowdoin made no direct changes as a result of that investigation; it was one of many schools to replace its tuition loans with permanent grants around the time of the request for information.

For now, it is unclear what course of action the legislative committees plan to pursue with the information they receive. College administrators are withhold-ing judgment until such a plan becomes clearer.

“I’d rather wait and see what kind of bill they come up with, and then we could say ‘Yeah, we think it’s good,’ or ‘It’s a bad idea,’” said Longley. “Congress is looking at all sorts of revenue sources, and endow-ments over the threshold of a billion are something they’re looking at as well.”

BY JOE SHERLOCKORIENT STAFF

Sheldon Stone

Robert F. White

John F. McQuillan

David. J RouxJes Staley

Geo! Rusack

Scott Perper

Leonard Cotton

Karen N. Walker

Stephen Gormley

The Board of Trustees’ Biggest Campaign FundersAggregate since 1997

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the world,” Franz said. “! at perspective may in" uence how they behave as trustees but I think the donations are a re" ection of those beliefs as opposed to the dona-tions as having an in" uence on what they do as trustees.”

No members of the Board of Trustees were available for comment.

! eory suggests that donations that follow the pattern of party alignment can be understood as indicators of ideological alignment.

Six of the ten top contributors to political campaigns on the board have donated consistently to Republicans and three have donated consistently to Democrats. Leonard Cotton has donated a roughly equal amount to both parties. ! is imbalance can likely be explained by the tendency for large contributors to support Republicans.

! e political a$ liations of the Board as a whole, as implied by campaign con-tributions, appear slightly unaligned with that of the student body. In 2012, the Orient reported that 47 percent of respondents in a survey of students were registered Democrats and 8 percent of respondents were registered Republicans. Only 35 percent of Board members have made political contributions that indicate a Democratic alignment and 33 percent of Board members have made contributions that indicate a Republican alignment.

! e implications of these contributions raise questions about the demographic composition of Bowdoin’s Board and its selection process.

New trustees are selected by a commit-tee of the trustees themselves. ! e State-ment of Trustee Roles and Responsibilities says that the Board’s Committee on Trust-ees takes recommendations for new mem-bers, evaluates them and recommends them to the full Board for approval.

According to Rose, the process of se-lecting trustees is a process of matching the Board’s needs.

“You think about mapping what your needs are at a given moment in time against who’s available and out there and who might be interested and willing to do it and then try to # gure out how to get from A to B,” Rose said.

One possible explanation for the ideo-logical divergence on the Board is the expectation that Board members make # nancial contributions to the college. Ac-cording to ! e Statement of Trustee Roles and Responsibilities, “Trustees are ex-pected to support the College # nancially by taking the lead in gi% -giving, thereby setting an example for others in the Bow-doin family.”

While trustees are only expected to contribute within their capacity to do so, there is an implicit incentive for trustees to

have signi# cant # nancial means. Nearly two-thirds of the Board is male

and almost 50 percent have spent most of their careers in # nance.

Understanding the donations

! e recipients of the trustees’ dona-tions are incredibly numerous and span the entire partisan spectrum, but accord-ing to Franz, the contributions likely share a similar purpose. ! ey facilitate the do-nor’s access and in" uence during the poli-cymaking process.

“If you’re an important businessman or woman and you feel that the success of your business partly depends on what the federal government decides to regulate or how it decides to act, you may decide that your campaign contributions allow you to have a seat at the table in the discussion of policy making,” Franz said.

! e e& ects of these contributions have been measured and quanti# ed.

“If the donor calls the candidate and says, ‘I’m going to be in Washington, it would be nice if we could get together and talk,’ research suggests that donors are much more likely to get those meetings,” said Franz.

! e signi# cant # nancial assets of each of these trustees suggest they have a di-rect interest in the policy making process. Each of these 10 high contributing trust-ees has direct or nearly direct involvement with large amounts of money. Seven have had careers in the # nancial services indus-try. As owners and senior management of hedge funds, private equity # rms and banks, six of these trustees oversee invest-ment portfolios worth billions of dollars. For example, Stone’s company, Oaktree Capital, has over $95 billion in assets un-der management. Roux’s # rm, Silver Lake, oversees over $26 billion and Great Hill Partners, the # rm Gormley co-founded, has over $2.5 billion in assets.

Even the large donors who are not in-volved in # nance are either professionally or personally associated with government policy and large sums of money. Trustee John McQuillan’s # rm Triumvirate En-vironmental navigates complex environ-mental legislation for a variety of corporate and public clients. Karen Walker’s law # rm Kirkland and Ellis reported $2.15 billion in revenue in 2014 and routinely represents the interests of multi-billion dollar corpo-rations in commercial litigation. Geo& rey C. Rusack ’78, P’13 owns a winemaking business in California with his wife Alison Wrigley Rusack, who inherited a portion of the fortume from the chewing gum com-pany that shares her name.

! e political donations available in the FEC database and compiled by the Orient include donations directly to candidates,

to joint fundraising committees and to Super PACS. Regulations that dictate con-tribution limits vary signi# cantly for each type of donation.

For example, in the 2016 election cy-cle, contributions directly to a candidate are capped at $2,700 per election. A do-nor can give that amount to a candidate twice—once for a primary and once for the general election. Such a donation, however, buys a limited form of in" uence.

According to Franz, party and con-gressional campaign committees, for which the contribution limits are sig-ni# cantly higher, buy a donor signi# -cantly more in" uence. Speci# cally, the donor gains access and in" uence with the party elites who exert more in" uence and have a greater ability to shape policy outcomes.

Contributions to party committees also have a far greater potential to shape the party’s outcome across many elections.

“Parties don’t really like to waste their money on sure winners, they like to spend their money on competitive races,” said Franz. “So you could give a $50,000 check to the DNC and that money is gonna go straight into Ohio next fall.”

! ese trustees have also made contri-butions to Super PACs, which have no contribution limits but they are prohib-ited by modern campaign # nance laws from consulting directly with candidates. Because these committees are so new—they were established by the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision—there has been little research into the direct ef-fects of Super PAC contributions.

Additionally, many of these trustees have likely made political contributions that do not appear in FEC data. A 501(c)(4) is a non-pro# t organization that is not required to disclose its donors. Donors of-ten use these organizations to shield their contributions from the public eye.

While the contributions of all but one of the ten high contributing board members skew signi# cantly le% or right enough to indicate a party alignment, many have given money to candidates or groups from the opposing party.

For instance, while Karen Walker has given to the Republican National Com-mittee, Mitt Romney, John McCain and George W. Bush, she also contributed to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Within the long list of Jes Staley’s demo-cratic donations, there is one to Rob Port-man, a republican senator from Ohio.

Franz believes these contributions are likely hedges and that they support the understanding that these board mem-bers buy in" uence and access. A donor who has an incentive for political access is likely to contribute to candidates despite ideological di& erences.

For detailed contributions from each of the trustees above, see bowdoinorient.com.

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TENURE GRANTED TO SEVEN FACULTY MEMBERSSeven faculty members have been granted tenure following the Board of Trustees meeting two weeks ago in Wellesley, MA.

Tenure is an important step in the career of academics, as it represents a commitment on the part of the institution to faculty members and vice versa. ! e tenure process is a 18-month review based on course materials, letters from students, research and other feedback. It’s veri" ed by the Dean of Academic A# airs, the President of the College and the full Board of Trustees.

Pipe breaks, fl oods Memorial with potential hazardous waste

A ceiling sprinkler pipe ruptured in Memorial Hall last Sunday due to low temperatures and high winds, causing water and hazardous waste to flood sections of the building. The pipe burst above the elevator on the landing of the fourth floor stair-well next to Wish Theater.

After the pipe broke, over 1,200 gallons of water flooded both the el-evator shaft and the ceilings as well as walls of sections of the third and fourth floors. After filling the pit at the bottom of the shaft, the water spread potentially toxic hydraulic fluids across the ground floor lobby.

The flood became potentially toxic as the water carried hydraulic fluid from a bucket at the bottom of the pit in the elevator shaft across the ground level. Due to normal use of the hydraulically powered eleva-tor, fluid drains into a several gallon bucket that inspectors empty during regular maintenance.

“! ere could have been a gallon or two of oil down in there, and of course we had 1,200 gallons of water,” explained Associate Director of Facili-ties Operations Je" Tuttle. According to Tuttle, the oil may have been safe and vegetable-based, but to ensure safe cleanup, it was treated as toxic.

When the pipe broke at about 4 p.m., the alarm system in Memorial was activated, and its occupants had to evacuate and wait for emergency services to arrive and begin the mul-tiple day cleanup process. While this particular stairwell has never had is-sues, this is the fourth time a water-related incident has occurred in the building.

According to Technical Direc-tor of Theater and Dance Deborah Puhl, in the last six years, pipes have exploded in other sections of the building due to cold weather. Last year, one of the roof drains froze, resulting in a flood. A malfunction-ing heater the previous year caused a pipe to freeze and burst in a dif-ferent stairwell. In a similar instance about six years ago, a box placed on a heater on the sixth floor triggered the rupture of a pipe.

Members of the Office of Safety and Security and the Brunswick Fire Department responded to the inci-dent Sunday evening. Eventually, they were forced to cut the build-ing’s water supply. By that time, the mixture of toxic fluid and water had spread to cover most of Drake Lob-by, the office of Director of Theater Operations Michael Schiff-Verre and the entrance to Wish Theater. The stairwell and the walls of the third and fourth floors in front of the elevator also sustained damage.

Due to the location of the burst, the majority of the water spilled into the elevator shaft. It did not extend into any classrooms or Wish Theater.

“I would say that literally an-

other ten minutes and it probably would’ve gotten into Wish because it had just reached the door to Wish when they shut it off,” said Puhl, who was present in Memorial Hall during the evacuation.

When Puhl was exiting the building, the elevator had opened on the second floor as part of its safety protocol. She noticed water rushing down the shaft and around the elevator.

“It was almost like a hose had been turned on above the elevator,” she said. “By the time Security got here, there was already a pool of water on the stone down there in Drake Lobby.”

Within several hours, the water recovery and toxic waste removal companies Servpro and Clean Har-bors arrived at the scene. The re-moval of the toxic hydraulic fluid and water continued through Sun-day night, and the process of drying the remaining water lasted through-out the week. The elevator was also out of commission Monday due to inspection. Servpro and Facilities cut holes in the walls of the third and fourth floor landings and placed fans and dehumidifiers in the build-ing to assist in the restoration.

Tuttle hopes that by the end of the week, there will no longer be any moisture present in the walls and carpet and Facilities can begin patching damaged drywall and com-mencing remedial efforts, including re-insulation. Tuttle estimates the repair and service costs to exceed thousands of dollars.

“Above the ceiling where this was, we’re actually going to take that ceil-ing and we’re going to re-insulate it,” Tuttle said. “It’s insulated but just probably not to the degree that it should be for whatever reason.”

Facility’s re-insulation and re-piping efforts after past floods have been successful in preventing repeated events in the affected ar-eas. However, a larger restoration process in the old building may be necessary to stop the trend of water-related disasters.

By Monday, the building was safe to enter; however, due to the ongo-ing maintenance, morning classes in Memorial Hall were relocated. Assistant Professors of Theater Abi-gail Killeen and Diomedes Koufte-ros had to move their morning classes to the Edwards Center for Art and Dance.

“Everyone worked really hard to make it a smooth day for the stu-dents,” said Killeen, who had to re-locate and shorten her Acting I class Monday morning.

Plans to re-carpet the lower lobby this coming summer were already in place prior to the accident. Over Winter Break, the College changed the carpet on the second floor of Memorial Hall; however, due to time constraints, they decided to wait to renovate the bottom floor lobby.

BY DANIEL VIELLIEUSTAFF WRITER

JEFFREY SELINGER: GOVERNMENT

MARGARET BOYLE: ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

DAVID HECHT: HISTORY

Associate Professor of Government Je" rey Selinger started with the College as a visiting professor in 2007 and began his position on the tenure track in 2010. Selinger sees his new role as a tenured professor at Bowdoin as empowering. For him, the position will improve both his research and his teaching. Selinger also praised the government department for its unique nature, saying it is both methodologically and politically diverse. For his future projects, Selinger is interested in looking into the history of legislative politics and the way legislative structures impact policy outcomes.

“[Seeing students] come to life intellectually and discover a world or area of inquiry that they never really considered is far more meaningful than seeing your name in print.”

Joining Bowdoin in 2012, Margaret Boyle is an associate professor of Romance languages and lit-eratures. She is an expert on Spanish and early modern Spain in conjunction with women, gender and theatre. Boyle is the author of “Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain,” which received an honorable mention as Best Book of 2014 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She and her students organized an exhibition on representations of women from early modern Europe in the fall of 2013, examining the Renaissance and contemporary documents. Moving forward, Boyle will do work on women’s health and healing in marriage in Spain.

Associate Professor of History David Hecht specializes in the history and public image of science. For Hecht, a big part of gaining tenure is the opportunity to evaluate where he sees his career going, including a writing sabbatical during the 2017-2018 school year. Hecht has spent time doing research in archives in Connecticut, and his plan for his sabbatical is to write a dra# of a new book. Last year Hecht introduced a history of energy course, which will now be a part of his rotation.

“I love the small classrooms and close relationships with students... [and] it’s incredible to see students carrying passion after the course.”’

“I’m really interested in the history of energy because as a historian of science, the history of energy is this fascinating thing: it’s the history of technology, it’s the history of science, it’s environment, it’s geography, it’s policy, it’s everything.”

YAO TANG: ECONOMICS

Yao Tang, associate professor of economics, came to Bowdoin in 2009. While he believes he has risen to the challenge of becoming a tenure track professor, he is also anticipating the challenges that come with the position. His future research will include projects on the economic uncertainty of global exchange rates, as well as issues of aging demographics, especially in East Asian societies. However, what Tang has found most rewarding during his time at Bowdoin has been working with students, including advising on senior theses.

“I look forward to doing better research and better teaching and trying to move [myself ] to the next level in what I want to pursue in my career.”“

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ABIGAIL KILLEEN: THEATER

For Associate Professor of ! eatre Abigail Killeen, tenure means that she can ask important ques-tions in the theater that can never be explored commercially because there’s too much money at stake. One of Killeen’s favorite projects was a theatrical adaptation of the short story “Everything ! at Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor with a company called Compagnia de’ Colombari. She will be going to Italy to work with the company again on a production of “! e Merchant of Venice.”

“I believe in the theater in the liberal arts. I believe in the theater as a lens through which to ask life’s most important questions.”“

JUDITH CASSELBERRY: AFRICANA STUDIES

A vocalist/guitarist and a distinguished scholar, Associate Professor of Africana Studies Judith Cas-selberry’s most ful$ lling experience outside the classroom is her collaboration with Angelique Kidjo, a Grammy Award-winning musician, singer and songwriter. ! ey co-hosted a common hour talk and gave a concert at the College. Casselberry is working on two projects simultaneously: one on Jamaican musician Grace Jones and how Pentecostalism was imprinted in her life and another on women’s music festivals and their place in American culture.

“Bowdoin is an interesting community. It’s in Maine, but the campus is really working to exemplify what we are looking for in the real world.”“

CRYSTAL HALL: DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Professor Crystal Hall, associate professor in the Digital Humanities, has been at Bowdoin for three years. During her time here, Hall has been very in% uential in developing the Digital and Computa-tional Studies program, increasing the course o" erings from only one class per semester to three or four. Hall has big plans for the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, a program she is very passionate about.

“I am thrilled about being granted tenure, as it means I can spend my career here at Bowdoin. I have such incredible colleagues, friends and students, and I am excited to have been given the chance to continue a lot of collaborative projects.”

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! e land for the Roux Center was ac-quired by the College in June 2000 when it was still occupied by the Lancaster House, the former Alpha Kappa Sigma fraternity house. In late November 2013, the College demolished it.

Before construction starts, the College will need approval from the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees, the Brunswick Planning Board and other local regulatory agencies. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., will be designing the building to ful-" ll the highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.

“What we’re hopeful for is that the center can act as a focal point for the many di# er-ent skills and disciplines and research that will be necessary to address the issue [of the environment],” said David Roux, in a phone interview with the Orient.

Roux feels that the College’s commit-ment to conservation and the environment matches his own. He hopes that his con-

tribution will allow the College to double down what he feels is an important area. Roux is a member of the Bowdoin Col-lege Board of Trustees. He is a co-founder, senior director and former CEO of Silver Lake Group. Barbara Roux is a graduate of University of Georgia and runs St. Bride’s Farm, an American show jumper breed-ing and training farm in Upperville, Vir-ginia.

Currently, Bowdoin’s environmental courses are dispersed around campus, primarily in Adams Hall and Drucken-miller Hall, with " eld work occurring at the Bowdoin Scienti" c Station on Kent Island and the Coastal Studies Center on Orr’s Island in Harpswell.

! e Roux Center would serve as a nex-us for environmental study at the College. ! at connective feature is crucial to Rose’s vision for the " eld.

“One of the things we needed was a place for those who are engaged in this work to do their work and to do it in a way that will allow them to be incredibly creative and collaborative, said Rose.

Each year, Student Activities receives a total budget that SAFC divides among two types of clubs: the 18 consistently large organizations that have annual operat-ing budgets, and the 110-plus others that must apply to the SAFC for funding on an event-by-event basis. Clubs with operating budgets—such as the BOC, Entertainment Board and the Orient—do not draw from the SAFC pool. ! e College tries to limit the number of clubs under operating bud-gets each year.

Since clubs with operating budgets are given a lump sum of money each year rather than being funded on a project by project basis, the oversight of their spend-ing is di# erent than that of the non-oper-ating budget clubs.

“Once we get the money put in our budget, we are no longer accountable to anyone except us,” said Berliner.

Hintze said that while clubs with oper-ating budgets have more $ exibility, they have to be especially careful about how they spend their money.

“! ey tend to be more freely able to come in and spend as they need because there’s a trust factor that they’re monitor-ing [their money],” said Hintze. “It is hard to get money from the SAFC if you’re on an operating budget and you’ve already spent your money, so there needs to be some personal onus on those clubs to make sure that they are staying within their allocated budget.”

Although SAFC decides how much money to allocate to each club—whether it has an operating budget or not—the committee is not responsible for distrib-uting the actual money or checking in on how it is spent, unless prompted to look into a suspicious case by Hintze.

“! ere’s no formal [SAFC] auditing process,” said Levine.

A% er the BOC situation, however, Levine asked Student Activities to exam-ine the operating budgets of the seventeen other large clubs to make sure they had su& cient funds.

! is student-driven club funding mod-el has been largely successful, but some people like Berliner take issue with the idea of students elected to one-year terms making decisions about the future of or-ganizations.

“[Budget allocation] is so contingent upon the whims of students who change every year,” said Berliner. “! ey don’t know that last year we asked for 80 grand but only got 60. ! ey just know what’s in front of them right then and there. It just makes it more happen that this kind of a situation happens again. If they all of a sudden decide that, oh look, the outing club can get by without this money, all of a sudden we’re getting less and that’s gonna kind of wean us back.”

Administrative oversight

In 2006 the College upgraded from a paper system of tracking club expendi-tures to an online " nancial reporting tool. Although the digitization increased Stu-dent Activities’ ability to monitor " nances, lag time between events and the process-ing of invoices for those events still make " nances di& cult to track in real time.

“Money transfers behind the scenes and it can take some time for [certain charges] to show up,” said Hintze.

! is kind of delay was one of the major reasons the BOC experienced budgeting di& culties over the last year.

“! ere were some invoices that hit us way later than we thought and there was just this timing discrepancy between see-ing the bill and spending the money that kind of threw us o# ,” said Berliner. “And then what happened was that they rolled it into this year’s budget.”

Hintze said that there is no regular schedule he follows to check the online tool to make sure that everyone is adher-ing to their budget.

“As much as I would like to say, ‘Every " rst Monday of every month I look at it,’ we’re in and out of there so o% en that you [only] have a sense as to where people are at,” he said. “I more scan for large numbers in red and ignore some of the black num-bers which are positives and look at who looks like they’ve spent too much because that’s really where the problem lies.”

Delong added that the College’s overall philosophy is to trust that students are us-ing funds appropriately.

“We’re never gonna assume that stu-dents misappropriated funds,” he said.

Although there is no formal process for checking that clubs are adhering to their budgets and spending money on the items they say they are, Delong said that the College has the ability to do audits at a number of checkpoints, whether that be through the Student Activities o& ce or the Controller’s o& ce.

! e only people who can access the information from the online " nancial re-porting tool are the " ve sta# employees of Student Activities.

“! at’s one downfall—I wish through IT we could have a portal there for stu-dents to be able to monitor their ac-counts,” said Hintze.

Although Hintze wishes students could check in on their budgets and expendi-tures more easily, he said there are no plans in progress to work with IT to allow access to the portal.

“I think the [current] system works re-ally well,” he said. “People are pretty good, budgets are pretty spot on. We have 130 groups and so it’s a lot to put on the SAFC who are students themselves. ! ey meet every Monday for two to three hours. To say also: ‘hey you’re going to come in and audit every single budget’ is [a lot].”

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! e African American Society (Af-Am) brought Bowdoin’s activist past to the foreground during its annual art show. ! e theme was Activism and So-cial Justice, and it was one of the many events that have been scheduled on cam-pus in honor of Black History Month.

In addition to student art, the show features photo albums, news clippings and other interesting artifacts from Bow-doin’s past in the Lamarche Gallery in David Saul Smith Union.

“You see these snapshots of...the way things were, and you also see some con-tinuity in some of the events that are still held,” said Justin Pearson ’17, who attended the show. “It’s good to see the past and sort of re" ect on the present in preparation for what we would like to do in the future—in the African American Society and also as a campus.”

One notable historic item includes an Orient news clipping from when the College created Bowdoin Experience in an e# ort to bring more students of color to campus.

Although the real photos and artifacts from Bowdoin’s past were captivating, the student art in the show cannot be overlooked.

“You also see some very striking art...that’s really bringing us to this present day reality of the struggles in the African American community, the black com-munity—with policing and violence and with the reality of the consistent oppres-sion and reproduction of that oppression that is sort of like our everyday lives,” said Pearson.

Halfway through the show, six mem-bers of Slam Poet Society performed original poems on the stage. Each mem-ber recited one or two pieces about a wide variety of topics centered around setbacks, struggles and triumphs that the black community has gone through.

Ashley Bomboka ’16, one of the mem-

bers of the planning committee for Black History Month, explained that Student Activities was interested in joining forces to hold a re" ective, impactful art exhibit this year. ! e two committees worked to-gether to organize this event.

Last year, Af-Am hosted a similar event in the Blue Gallery of Smith Union. ! e show displayed artifacts from the Af-Am’s past, as well as those from civil rights groups that had a particular im-pact on Bowdoin’s campus.

When Af-Am was deciding on a theme for the show, Bomboka said that it was almost a no-brainer.

“! is year, most of the events around Black History Month in general have fol-lowed the social activist trend because that’s what Bowdoin has been building up to for the past two years,” she said.

For Pearson, the art show was a way for Af-Am to share its message through art and photographs.

“We have to become more uncomfort-able with the realities of inequality that are created just because of the way you look,” Pearson said. “! is exhibit tries to tie in all of those, and it brings that to a place and a space where that conversa-tion needs to be had.”

! is Valentine’s Day weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in Eve Ensler’s ca-nonically feminist and controversial show, “! e Vagina Monologues.” Bowdoin’s annu-al performance of Ensler’s 1996 work seeks

to provide a forum for conversation as well as a community to women on cam-

pus. Last week, Surya Milner highlighted

several of the show’s concerns and criticisms

in the Bowdoin Orient.More o$ en than not,

American culture sees the word “feminist” followed by

“controversial.” In the case of “! e Vagina Monologues,”

these concerns are merited; En-sler’s theater essentially de% nes

the female by biological parts, inaccurately equating woman-

hood with ownership of a vagina. Although I was aware of this im-

precision when I auditioned, I still struggled with it throughout the dura-

tion my participation. Womanhood, like feminism, is deeply complex and more

than just parts. However, “! e Vagina Mono-logues” open discourse regardless of their scope of representation, and have done so for the past decade. My participation allowed me to think

extensively about my favorite part of feminism, which is that it o# ers the opportunity to recon-sider and deconstruct.

If anything, Ensler’s focus upon the vagina can be seen as an homage to the vagina’s role in arts, both ideologically and visually. ! e vagina has his-torically been rallying point for women: thus, the goal of the monologues is to unite women under a common experience. As a visual symbol in art, the vagina has done similar and notable things for America feminism. In a lineage of feminist art, these rallying points have made woman artists quite successful.

However, one must still keep in mind the pa-rameters against women for artistic success. Use of the vagina in art saw two of the 20th century’s most iconic artists % nd great achievement. In the mid to late 70’s, a woman and an artist named Judy Chicago created an installation piece that concurrently functioned as feminist encyclopedia. Currently at the Brooklyn Museum, “! e Dinner Party” comprises of a large triangular table with the place settings of prominent women of Western history. Each setting is individually customized to represent its sitter, with each plate depicting the large, abstract vagina meant to represent com-monality between women.

Another woman artist, Georgia O’Keefe, be-came known for creating dream-like abstractions of nature. Despite O’Keefe’s own reluctance to align with these interpretation, her paintings are now popularly seen as " oral and feminist repre-sentations of vaginas. As exempli% ed by the suc-

cess of these two artists, the symbolism of the vagina is an essential component of historical feminism in America. ! rough the tireless work of many woman and artists, the vagina has become a part of the art historical canon and a nexus for feminist art.

! e vagina has also become an impetus for ideological debate for feminists, as contemporary feminism includes transgender and LGTBQA+ rights. As previously stated: womanhood does not equate to having or wanting to have a vagina. ! e feminist rally point is exclusionary, and works like Chicago’s and Ensler’s do not re" ect this. Yet, this is not to say that these works have no place in today’s society: “! e Dinner Party” stands monu-ment to a time when feminists truly believed in the phrase, “divisions are diversions.” Diversity in feminism proves this quite the contrary: divisions are exactly what makes being a woman rich, com-plex and fascinating. Despite its pitfalls, Ensler’s play continues to % nd function in its controversy.

As a participant of “! e Vagina Monologues,” the show’s reception was overwhelmingly posi-tive. As a feminist, this was slightly disappointing. ! e presence of such a show on a college campus should provoke conversation about womanhood. If we do not talk about “! e Vagina Monologues,” and why it is both feminist and controversial, then it loses its dynamism. A lack of conversation of the show’s shortcomings suggests that Ensler’s play might still have a function on our campus. Perhaps there is something to be said for keeping up with the times.

Black History Month exhibit displays activism, College’s history

Politics of the vagina: considering womanhood in visual and performing art

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ART ACTIVISM: As part of Black History Month, the African American Society curated a social justice themed art exhbit showcasing student artwork, snapshots from Bowdoin’s history and spoken word poetry.

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This weekend, the Masque and Gown production of “Leading La-dies” will bring laughter to the in-timate Wish Theater with a tale of double identities and roman-tic entanglements.

In this comedic farce, two des-perate English Shakespearean ac-tors find themselves traveling to the Amish country of York, PA to im-personate two long lost relatives of an ailing woman for an inheritance. Even when it becomes clear that “Max” and “Steve” are nicknames for Maxine and Stephanie, the two de-termined actors remain undaunted, slapping on some lipstick and put-ting on a dress—giving way to a hi-larious series of events.

With cross-dressing and humor created through an absurd yet oddly coherent series of events, “Leading Ladies” was the much needed com-edy that Masque and Gown director Alexandra Belmore ’18 was looking for.

“I saw the play performed about five years ago, and it was a riot,” said Belmore. “I thought it would be a really fun show to do just because Masque and Gown hasn’t done a straight on comedy in a few years.”

President of Masque and Gown Madeleine Livingston ’16 agreed that it would be refreshing for a change in the group’s repertoire.

“We had done some much darker stuff with Masque and Gown in the last couple of years and some really modern plays, things that people didn’t really know very well. So for the winter production, we really wanted to do light-hearted, straight comedy,” said Livingston.

“There’s a lot of play within a play kind of stuff—very Shakespearean, very meta,” said Luke Scheuer ’17, one of the leads in the show. “It’s about fifty-fifty of the time on stage that the two leads have to cross-dress. It’s split very evenly between the two characters.”

With an extremely short rehearsal period—only three weeks to block the entire play—Belmore recalls the chaos not only within the plot but also behind the curtain.

“The costumes have actually prov-en to be one of the more technically challenging things for this show just because everybody has several dif-ferent outfits,” said Belmore. “The two boys, who are the leads, have to

switch back and forth between being men and women in costume, and they have a lot of quick changes.”

“Leading Ladies” will be the first Masque and Gown production in Wish Theater since fall of 2013. Livingston and Belmore hope the 150-seat setting of Wish will create a fuller crowd and make for an up-close-and-personal experience.

“There’s a different energy to hav-ing a show where there’s a really full audience,” said Livingston. “I think that will lend itself kind of uniquely to a true comedy in Wish because you’re going to be surrounded by people who are all laughing together at the same jokes.”

With the shorter rehearsal pe-riod, the tech team and actors have worked twice as hard to bring the play alive, and production manager Miriam Fraga ’18 hopes it will give the Bowdoin community a chance to sit down and laugh.

“We basically have been working over Winter Break to design the set and working with the department to get building plans approved,” said Fraga. “Wish Theater gives shows a completely different feel, bringing you in and letting you be bought into the story because you’re so close to the actors.”

“I think that this play is just out-rageously silly and ridiculous,” said Belmore. “I hope that it brings some laughter to people’s weekends.”

Musicians at the College have a new venue through which they may show-case their music, and it airs on Wednes-days at 5:30 p.m. from the basement of Dudley Coe. Hosted by Harry Rube ’16 and Sam Kyzivat ’18, “Live on WBOR” features student music and is the new-est radio program on WBOR, the Col-lege’s own FM radio station.

Modeled a! er Seattle’s KEXP live program, which invites artists into the studio for a dual interview-per-formance, “Live on WBOR” provides student musicians an opportunity for airtime in which they can both play and speak about their music.

As co-president of the Bowdoin Music Collective, a long-time WBOR DJ and founder of “Live on WBOR,” Rube has dreamt of developing a show like this one since he was a sopho-more, when he realized the music scene on campus lacked a forum where students could broadcast their own music.

“Until now, I never really had the equipment or the time or the help to put that kind of thing together,” said Rube. “I thought, ‘Hey, it’s my senior year, might as well go for it.’”

While there are several opportuni-ties to perform on campus—such as at College House parties, Pub Night, Chase Barn shows and weekly Bow-doin Unplugged sessions behind the Café—“Live on WBOR” not only stands out for its medium but also for its in-studio audio and video record-ings that are published to the show’s YouTube channel.

Rube recognizes that radio is regard-ed by many as a “dying” artform but hopes that bringing live performances to WBOR will draw in more listeners.

Kyzivat feels that the show will " ll a gap in Bowdoin’s music culture, and he performed in the inaugural session of the show. An electric violinist, he played a set of " ve songs—three origi-nal compositions and two covers—in the hour-long session, intermittently interviewed by Rube about the pieces.

# e " rst session was February 10. Kyzivat will co-host with Rube in fu-ture sessions.

“He knows about this kind of stu$ ,” said Rube about Kyzivat. “He knows how to put on a good act, so it’s just really interesting—loops, violins, ped-als. It’s very di$ erent.”

Both hosts hope that the show attracts a following on campus, both of the broad-cast and the online recordings.

Kyzivat said the he hopes students will take advantage of this new type of music experience at Bowdoin and actually tune into the show instead of just watching the videos a! erward.

Musicians are largely invited to be on the show through the Bowdoin Music Collective, where both Rube and Kyzivat already know many of the members. Rube encourages musicians on campus to reach out to him or Kyzivat if they want to per-form on the show.

“We’d love to have anyone that wants to play as long as they’ve practiced and their set’s pretty clean,” said Kyzivat.

# e show is not limited to any speci" c genre or style and is especially open to original work.

Students may follow the show via its Facebook page, where the recordings and news of upcoming artists are published.

Harry Rube ’16 is a sta! writer for the Orient.

Masque & Gown emulate Shakespearean comedies

WBOR broadcasts student muscians

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LIVE FROM BRUNSWICK: Sam Kyzivat ’18 performs in the fi rst episode for one of WBOR’s newest shows, “Live on WBOR,” which features recordings and interviews from student musicians.

BY SARAH LIMORIENT STAFF

BY LUCY RYANORIENT STAFF

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTLEADING LADIES: Hugo Hento! ’19, Luke Schuyer ’17 and Maddi Kuras ’18 perform in opening night at Masque and Gown’s winter comedy “Leading Ladies,” a show about failing Shakespearean actors.

“There’s a di! erent energy to hav-ing a show where there’s a really full audience...I think that will lend itself kind of uniquely to a true comedy in Wish be-cause you’re going to be surrounded by people who are all laughing together at the same jokes.”

MADELEINE LIVINGSTON ’16

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Students speak about their time in Advanced Winter Field Ecology

While most Bowdoin students might prefer to spend their wintry Friday mornings indoors, 11 biology students are spending theirs exploring the Maine backcountry, examin-

ing trees for saw! y cocoons and occasionally meeting black bear cubs. It’s all part of Advanced Winter Field Ecology, a class taught by Chair of the Biology Department Nat Wheelwright.

Last week, the group accompanied biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on a bear-tracking expedition near Columbia, Maine. " e trip was led by the department’s lead bear biologist, Randy Cross.

“It [involved] snowshoeing three miles and being snowmobiled out on through blueberry fields,” said Liam Taylor ’17. “It was kind of crazy. It got cold. But we all did it for the bears.”

The group was searching for a female bear that had previously been tagged with a radio collar.

“They [were] pinging the collar on the bear to track it down to this tiny little den,” said Ben West ’16.

Once they found the female bear and her two yearling cubs, the researchers tranquilized them and took measurements.

“They can look at their weight, take measurements, take DNA samples, check out their teeth... That’s just a way that they can keep tabs on the population,” said Han-nah LeBlanc ’16.

Bear tracking and tagging provide valuable data to in-form hunting regulations and manage human-bear inter-actions. But the expedition also allowed the Bowdoin stu-dents to get up close and personal with the furry creatures.

“They’re yearling cubs, so they [were] pretty big, like

50, 60 pounds, so we didn’t hold them very long,” West said. “The big myth that they were telling us is that bears smell stinky, but they smell more like a dog.”

Sarah McCarthy ’18, who had experience working with bears in captivity before, was nonetheless awed by the experience.

“I’ve never done much with wild bears before, or been that close to a bear,” she said. “I got to kiss it on the nose.”

The trip also provided students with the opportunity to connect with professional ecology researchers.

“It was cool to talk to Fish and Wildlife bear biolo-gists who do really cool field work,” said Sabine Berzins ’16. “That’s definitely something I would be interested in doing.”

Of course, the upper-level biology class isn’t just about talking with experts and cuddling furry creatures.

“We’re researching the introduced pine sawfly, which is a little bit less charismatic than the black bear,” said Taylor.

Sawflies crawl up trees and form cocoons during the winter. Since sawflies are an introduced species to Maine—they are originally from Europe—the students hope that their research will improve scientific understanding of the sawflies’ interaction with the rest of Maine’s environment.

“They are attacking the pines in a way that wouldn’t have happened without their introduction,” said West.

The students are researching how the specific location of sawflies’ cocoons on a tree affects their survival rate. They are also bringing live cocoons back to the lab, where they will carry out predation experiments. They hope to produce a paper with their findings.

“It would be really nice to be an author on a published paper,” West said.

" e saw! ies’ tendency to cocoon during the winter makes them an ideal species to research at this time of year. Nonetheless, winter # eld research also poses challenges.

“I had to buy a new jacket because mine wasn’t going to allow me to survive in the cold,” said Victor Leos ’16, who grew up in Texas. “And I had never purchased snow pants until this class. But…after a few hours you kind of forget that you’re in the snow and you’re just diving in.”

Advanced Winter Field Ecology follows an atypical schedule, meeting all day on Fridays to facilitate off-campus fieldwork. It is capped at 11 students so that they—and Professor Wheelwright—can collectively fit into Bowdoin’s standard 12-passenger vans.

Wheelwright first taught the class in 2000; this semes-ter is the fourth time he has led it. Despite the long hours, he said the class typically has a waiting list, though this year he was able to accept everyone who registered.

Regardless of the timing or the weather, conducting field work is a valuable experience for students hoping to continue scientific research after graduation.

“I’m hoping to go to grad school and I’m hoping to be a biologist and do research,” said Taylor.

But even if the students never conduct field work again, they will still cherish their memories from Ad-vanced Winter Field Ecology.

“We all feel so lucky that we get the experience of get-ting the timing right and having the opportunity to take this class,” LeBlanc said.

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It wasn’t easy to get First Parish Church’s Reverend Geo! Parker to talk about himself. His tone was eas-ily humble, but when he speaks about church, his voice goes up a little like it’s " lled with hope and home. When asked about his involvement in the Brunswick community, he de# ected from his own invested role.

“My job as pastor is really to be a cheer-leader and support and connector of oth-er people and their passions,” he said.

Whenever he meets someone new, he asks himself “How will [I] honor their story?” $ is is something that he treats as a matter of faith.

“I honestly believe that there is some-thing holy happening in every single per-son, and so it’s about ‘How can I get out of my own way to experience what that is?’” he said.

I experienced this myself, as through-out our interview, he would interject to ask about my perspective and re# ections. His engagement struck me and changed what started out as just an interview into a thoughtful and rewarding conversa-tion. Parker applies this principle gener-ally, emphasizing the importance of com-munity discussion about tough subjects.

“We’re making sure we’re engag-ing the serious conversations,” he as-sured. “One of the conversations about privilege is you know you have it if you don’t have to talk about these issues. It’s something we haven’t had to do, but it’s something we’re called to do in terms of seeking justice in the world.”

He credits Bowdoin for keeping the

congregation on its toes in terms of so-cial consciousness. $ ough he did not mention it in the interview, his pennant from Sarah Lawrence College and di-ploma from Yale Divinity School spoke to the intellectual engagement he dem-onstrates and values in this community.

“We enjoy all the rich bene" ts of having Bowdoin next door that help us really be an educated, engaged, learning congrega-tion,” said the reverend. “A lot of times we go. If you guys are talking about some-thing, it’s a really good cue for us that we should probably have some knowledge about what’s going on in the world too.”

Parker also appreciates the personal re-lationships between Bowdoin, Brunswick and his church.

“I can look around, and I can point in my pew to the number of members of First Parish that are Bowdoin host fami-lies,” he said. “$ ey make a real, inten-tional e! ort to make the church, as an ex-pression of the community of Brunswick, a welcoming place and a safe place.”

When I asked him to explain where this appreciation came from, he gave me some spiritual context.

“Here’s a big one that I stick with as part of my theological assertion—every-body is of worth and value just as who they are, not because of anything that they do,” Parker said. “And in a wonder-ful experience that is as challenging and as hardworking as going to college at a place like Bowdoin, sometimes you need a space for that. To be able to go, it’s not about what I got on my last test.”

"It’s not about how I’m doing in gener-al or how I’m even doing socially in this environment. Sometimes I need a place where I can just be accepted and of worth just as who I am.”

"I hope we can provide a pausing place

in the midst of a lot. You guys have really busy lives and so do a lot of people in the town of Brunswick,” he added.

$ roughout this interview, I was con-sidering the role faith played in his life and decision to become a reverend. I wasn’t raised in a particularly religious household, and I wanted insight into how faith comes to someone. It took the whole interview, but eventually, he let me in on some of his perspective.

“What did it for me? $ ere’s my belief in the story and scripture that drives my

tradition, but what drew me to get in-terested in that was actually the experi-ences of what felt like holiness in my life in many ways. So for me, it started out in a Winnebago because I was in a band, and so me and seven of my friends trav-eled around the country in a Winnebago playing shows.

“$ is is more embarrassing than it even sounds, but here’s the thing: you wake up every day, and you’re surrounded by your best friends, and you do what you most love. And it’s hard, and you have to

learn how you’re going to feed eight peo-ple on " ve bucks because you’re not mak-ing a lot of money, but what I took out of that was that I was incredibly moved by the experience of living in a community and working towards common goals and the belief that living in such a community could transform the world around you,” he explained. “So I call that church now.”

“And then, you know, being in college and a little depressed and reading a little too much Russian literature, that also helps,” he added.

Hello, precious readers! $ is week, I’m doing rapid " re—lots of questions and short answers.

As always, these were all actual ques-tions that have been submitted to my anonymous Google form.

Q. How do I put "being OK at Ga-rageBand once" on my résumé?

A. I believe it goes in the Skills sec-tion, next to “pro" cient in Dance Dance Revolution.” But I would ask Career Planning.

Also, you should say “being good at GarageBand once.” It’s ok to embellish.

Q. “How will people know that I'm having a bad day if I don't play Daniel Powter on repeat on Spotify publicly?”

A. $ ey will know if you walk around looking glum. Wear Doc Martins. Say, “I just can’t even with this week.” Ruin things for other people. Leave in the middle of conversations. Cry loudly in the Union. Spread your negativity far and wide. Alternatively, you could say, “I’m having a bad day” and talk it out.

Q. “Is it possible to delete one's Facebook and not have it be a social statement?”

A. No. Or at least people will think it is a social statement. But honestly who cares. Live your truth, you technological-ly adverse butter# y. Social media can be really tiring and sometimes toxic. If de-leting your Facebook is the right choice for you, then it honestly doesn’t matter if people think it’s a “social statement.”

Q. “How many OneCards should I go

through before I graduate?”A. $ is will depend on how much

you shotgun, how tight your pants pock-ets are, whether you are so messy that you can’t see your bedroom # oor, whether you have one of those fancy phone cases with the card carriers and how much time you spend in the vicinity of the hockey team. I could probably make a complicated sta-tistical model to conduct individual esti-mates if I hadn’t almost failed statistics.

Q. “What can I do to procure your love?”

A. 1. Avoid being seen.2. If seen, back away slowly.3. Make no sudden movements.4. Do not throw food at the wolf.($ is is actually just the " rst four bul-

let points on Wikihow’s “How to Survive a Wolf Attack.” I imagine, however, these still might be helpful).

Q. “Why does this classroom smell like soup when no one is eating any and we are far from any food serving areas?”

A. Is it Bannister? Because if so, you are so right. $ at classroom does always smell like soup. Also, are you sure that no one is eating any? Express lunchers can be sneaky.

Q. “Why is My Tie spelled like "my tie"? $ at's pretty stupid, don't you think?”

A. Yes, that is pretty stupid; however, I liked how at senior night, they served mini drinks in little test tubes.

Q. To wine or not to wine?A. $ at is the question.Jk. It’s not even a question. $ e an-

swer is To wine, obviously. I’m a SWUG, a% er all—what do you expect?

Out,Katherine

$ is weekend we remember a tense chapter in our world history. A con# ict so icy it would have prompted Randy to send out a winter advisory warn-ing. We are referring, of course, to the Cold War. $ e " erce chess match between two global powers had the people of the world on the edge of their seats as they waited to see who would make the " rst move. Tomorrow, the eyes of the Bowdoin student body will be " xed upon a similar rivalry, one between the Soviets of MacMillan House and the patriotic Americans of Quinby House.

To honor this historic event, we ourselves are pitting two international powers against each other in a battle of brews. Let’s bring out the contenders.

In Uncle Sam’s corner, weighing in at five percent alcohol by vol-ume, we have the one, the only, Bud-weiser: proudly brewed in the U.S. since 1876 and owned by Anheuser-Busch. For the past 140 years, the King of Beers has been a staple at every American barbeque, an an-nual fixture of Super Bowl commer-cial and the go-to of every panicked teenager who tries to purchase a late-night six-pack from a gas sta-tion Kwik Shop.

Standing in the (former) Soviet cor-ner, also weighing in at " ve percent ABV, we have Czechvar. $ is Czech beer has been brewed since 1785—a

full 91 years prior to An-heuser-Busch’s Ameri-can classic—in the city of &eské Bud'jovice, Czech Republic (which was under Soviet con-trol from 1946-1989 as part of Czechoslovakia). &eské Bud'jovice, or Budweis as it is known in German, " rst export-ed this beer to the Unit-ed States in 1871, inspir-ing Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser " ve years later.

Budweiser is a staple of American beer drinkers. Advertised for the past few years as the King of Beers, it brags to be a lager that is to the point, plain-spoken and “not brewed to be fussed over.” Budweiser is “for drinking, not dissecting.” Clearly we are meant to be impressed with this gru! rhetoric. We therefore approached our Budweiser ready to grunt and spit, but, surpris-ingly, we found the bottles to be twist-o! s. Our patriotic sentiments damp-ened slightly. $ is convenient corporate decision seemed to go against the very nature and spirit of this iconic beer. But then again, free trade and capitalism are pretty convenient.

As we dove into our Buds, we found the taste to be smoother than we had remembered. As a lager that brags of su-preme drinkability, we had to admit they were onto something. $ e malt, rice and barley were mixed in a perfect balance, much like the balance of powers created by our glorious Constitution. No single aspect of this triumvirate of ingredients outshined the others. George Washing-

ton would have been proud.When you " rst see the Czechvar,

your eyes jump to the # ashy golden foil covering the cap and bottleneck. $ is ostentatious touch, much like commu-nism, promises the everyday consumer their share of the Soviet wealth. $ is foil turned out to be a pain in the ass, also much like communism.

$ e Czechvar had a di! erent taste. It proved to be a touch sweeter, but with metallic hints and stronger taste of grains (perhaps in# uenced by the hammer and the sickle?). With very few notes of hops, the majority of the taste sprung from the sweetness of the malts used to brew this lager—we hear they are quite accomplished at re" ning sugar (and uranium?) over there.

A% er a few rounds of the bout and feeling a little punch-drunk, we both concurred that we should drink more Budweiser. $ e Czechvar helped us to pay homage to Budweiser’s roots, but as is the case with ice hockey, human rights and appropriately dressed lead-ers, a classic lager looks a little better in stars and stripes.

Reverend Geoff Parker on finding God in a Winnebago

Budweiser battles it out with Russian rival

From bad days to resumes; a Q&A advice marathon

FAITH IN BRUNSWICK: Geo! Parker, a reverend at Brunswick’s First Parish Church, values the connection between Bowdoin and the town.

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Wins against Wesleyan (18-6 overall, 5-5 NESCAC) and Connecticut College (12-12 overall, 3-7 NESCAC) last week-end narrowly propelled the men’s basket-ball team (12-10 overall, 4-6 NESCAC) into the postseason. / e Camels and Polar Bears were both 3-6 going into the regular season 0 nale, which made the game win-or-go-home for both teams. / e victory gave Bowdoin the seventh seed, and the team will face second seed Amherst (20-4

overall, 8-2 NESCAC) in their NESCAC quarter0 nal matchup at 4 p.m. on Satur-day.

/ e Polar Bears came into last weekend with a conference record of 2-6, feeling the pressures of not making the NESCAC Tournament for what would’ve been the 0 rst time in 15 years. Yet when it counted most, the team was able to come together and hopefully turn their season around.

“We’ve raised our level of intensity on the defensive end so that we have

/ is past weekend, the women’s swimming and diving team set 14 school records at the NESCAC Championship meet at Middlebury College. / e team 0 nish sixth out of 11 schools over the three-day period. / ey were just short of the top 0 ve, with a total score of 959 points. Last year, the Polar Bears earned 932.5 points, which was good enough for a 0 1 h place 0 nish.

“In swimming you work all year for one championship meet,” said Mari-ah Rawding ’18. “/ at hard training throughout the entire year made a huge impact at the end.”

/ e Polar Bears started strong from the very 0 rst day, when Rawding won an individual NESCAC title with a 29.32 in the 50 yard breaststroke.

“It was so exciting. I wasn’t expect-ing it going into the meet,” said Rawd-

ing. “Also, it was really fun to see the seniors do so well...that was really in-spiring to the rest of the team.”

Rawding, along with Bridget Killian ’16, Sophia Walker ’17 and Lela Garner ’16, 0 nished in fourth place at the 200 freestyle relay 0 nal.

Killian set a pair of school records in the 50 freestyle (23.84) and 100 freestyle (52.02). Garner set a school record in the 200 free (1:52.61), in the 50 backstroke (26.90) and in the 100 backstroke (57.21). In addition, Reading set new marks in the 50 2 y (26.08) and 100 2 y (57.82). First year Ally Fromson-Ho set a new record in the 200 2 y (2:08.37).

Other successes of the day included senior Mariah Reading’s eighth place 0 nish in the 50 butter2 y 0 nal, with a time of 28.13, and Garner’s sixth place 0 nish in the 50 backstroke 0 nal in 26.96. Killian earned a top three spot in the 50 yard free 0 nal and won 27 points with a 23.94. Finally, the 400

medley relay team composed of Gar-ner, Rawding, Reading and Killian took a third place 0 nish in the 0 nal with time of 3:48.92, setting a Bow-doin record. / e team itself racked up 393.5 points that day.

Last year, the team’s divers were absent due to injury. / eir presence in the competition this year made a huge impact. By the end of the week-end, Bowdoin’s two divers, Christine Anderson ’17 and Rebecca Stern ’19, accumulated a total of 106 points for the team. Stern 0 nished second in the three meter event with a score of 428.25, and Anderson followed in third place with 406.80. In addition, the diving coach Kelsey Willard won Diving Coach of the Year.

Continuing her winning ways from the 0 rst day of the meet, Rawd-ing brought home three records total in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke. Aside from capturing her individual NESCAC victory in the 50 (29.32),

she 0 nished in second place in the 100 (1:03.39) and third place in the 200 (2:19.76).

Even more records were set in the relays. Killian, Garner, Rawding and Sterling Dixon ’19 combined in the 400 free relay to set a new record with a time of 3:27.95. Holly Rudel ’17, Rawding, Reading and Walker set a record in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:45.48.

Both Rawding and Walker note that one highlight of the whole week-end was the senior women’s impres-sive performances.

“/ e senior women’s class was pretty incredible,” said Walker. “/ ey really brought it home... It is hard to take o3 time every year, especially in your last year at Bowdoin.”

A1 er this weekend, it appears the team has peaked in a way that they had hoped for by this point in the season. Rawding explained that ev-eryone went in with the mindset

of having worked and trained hard all season with this one weekend in mind and they are happy with how the championship meet turned out.

“/ e same things that we always work on—starts, turns, speed—the hard part is getting that all to come together at one particular moment in time, and I think we did a really good job bringing that together,” said Walker.

O4 cial NCAA announcements will be posted on February 24. While it is still to be determined, Rawding attests that at the moment it looks promising that a few relays will go to the NCAA Championships, which are held the 0 rst week of Spring Break in North Carolina.

“It is such an honor to go [to NCAAs],” said Walker. “/ e team is very excited to have some members able to compete.”

Women’s Basketball claimed the third seed in the NESCAC playo3 s with back-to-back road wins this weekend against Wesleyan University and Connecticut College. Now the Po-lar Bears will attempt to climb their way back to the NESCAC champion-ship, where the team su3 ered a hard fought loss against Tu1 s last season.

/ e team entered last weekend poised for a top four seeding and a home playo3 game. / eir 0 rst obsta-cle was the Wesleyan Cardinals who needed a win in order to rise into play-o3 contention.

Captain and lone senior Shannon Brady led the scoring e3 ort with 16 on the Polar Bears’ way to a 75-34 victory.

Bowdoin dominated almost every aspect of the game in the 39 point win. Defensively the team held Wesleyan to just 22% from the 0 eld while knocking in 48% from the 0 eld on their o3 ensive end.

/ e Bowdoin bench stepped up in the scoring e3 ort as well, led by Han-nah Graham ’19 with 11, outscoring

the Cardinal Bench 40-9. Next the team turned their attention

to the Conn College Camels who were also vying for the number 3 seed in the NESCAC.

Bowdoin began with a great 0 rst quarter and were able to carry the lead throughout the rest of the game. Bow-doin won each of the 0 rst three quar-ters, and despite a last minute push by the Camels the Polar Bears were able to maintain the lead through the 0 nal whistle, ending the game with a 73-61 victory.

Sophomore guard Kate Kerrigan led the Bowdoin e3 ort with 11 points, 15 rebounds and 6 assists. / e scoring was topped again by Brady who had another impressive performance with 21 points.

Bowdoin’s shooting percentage dropped from their last game but the team was able to compensate with ex-cellent team play, beating out Conn College in rebounds (42-37), turn-overs (8-16) and second chance points (17-10).

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STEPPING UP LATE: Liam Farley’ 18 dribbles around a defender during Bowdoin’s 73-51 over bates on February 9. The team won two must-win games last weekend to earn the number 7 seed in the NESCAC seed.

FROM RANGE: Lauren Petit ’18 takes a three point shot during Bowdoin’s fi nal regular season home game against Middlebury on Saturday, February 6. The Polar Bears won the game, 63-46. The team has won seven games in a row entering the playo! s, fi nishing the regular season with a 19-5 record.

RAISING THE BAR: From left: Lela Garner ’16, Bridget Killian ’16, Olivia Pfeifer ’16 and Mariah Reading ’16 comprise four of five seniors on the Bowdoin Women’s Swimming and Diving team at the NESCAC Championship at Middlebury this past weekend. The team finished sixth of eleven schools, but shattered fourteen school records. Killian set two records, in the 50 freestyle (23.84 seconds) and 100 freestyle (52.02). Garner broke three school records, in the 200 freestyle (1:52.61), the 50 backstroke (26.90) and the 100 backstroke (57.21). Reading broke records in the 50 fly (26.08) and 100 fly (57.82) Ally Fromson-Ho ’19 also set a record in the 200 fly (2:08.37). Mariah Rawding ’18 broke three records in the 50, 100, and 200 breaststroke. She also took first place in the 50 breaststroke.

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The issue of an athlete/non-ath-lete divide—whether or not it ex-ists, and if so, if it’s detrimental to our school’s culture—is a discussion with which most of us are intimately familiar. We want to leave that dis-cussion aside and instead draw at-tention to a concept that such a fo-cus on this unnecessary binary has caused many of us to overlook: the ways in which varsity athletics can be overgeneralized, considering that a sports season can dramatically al-ter athletes’ balance of social, aca-demic and athletic commitments. It seems like there are differences within the overly generic “athlete culture” brought about by the sea-sons in which teams play that no-ticeably affect the way these teams function. We want to explore the advantages and challenges of play-ing in each season and acknowledge the extent to which these differences vary our experiences as college ath-letes.

In an effort to emphasize aca-demics, the NESCAC has reduced the length of preseason. Fall sports (cross country, field hockey, foot-ball, golf, rugby, sailing, soccer, tennis and volleyball) seem to be most dramatically affected. While winter and spring athletes spend the months before their season together competing regularly, fall athletes are isolated from their teammates in separate parts of the country as they are committed to summer intern-ships and without guaranteed access to appropriate facilities. Preseason restrictions have pressured some fall teams to gather before official start dates in order to take advan-tage of those pivotal few weeks be-fore season. These “non-mandatory” gatherings can be expensive and inconvenient to facilitate. Enroll-ing in training camps and paying to practice off campus before housing opens seems to be the only way to stay competitive. Fall sports have only a short period of time to figure out the skills and resulting role of first years on the team.

“Because we only have a five-day preseason, it’s difficult to mesh as a unit before we start to play to-gether,” said Rachel Stout ’18, who plays women’s soccer. “Socially, it was tough as a freshman to make friends outside of soccer because I was so focused on my team and my

sport.” When asked if she would play in another season if possible, she responded, “I would stick with fall. Fall is the best time to play soccer, and I’ve always played in the fall.”

There are certainly disadvantag-es to being a fall athlete, but to be in season in the fall forges strong and immediate friendships and can help first years feel comfortable at a vulnerable time. In the postsea-son, fall athletes can branch out, develop other interests and study abroad, as their commitments are more limited.

Winter athletes (basketball, ice hockey, nordic skiing, squash, swim-ming and diving and track and field) not only forego time abroad but also several weeks of their winter breaks. Some return as early as the day after Christmas. One can argue that be-cause these athletes are making such a huge sacrifice together and spend-ing weeks with each other exclusive-ly, they bond more tightly than fall and spring athletes, creating a better team chemistry. This practice time is free from the distraction of other students and school work; winter athletes can more fully commit to their sport.

Is “J-break” an advantage they have over both fall and spring ath-

letes? Men’s ice hockey sophomore Danny McMullan thinks so. He claims to love it.

“It’s awesome,” he said. “We were able to put in a new system dur-ing J-break this year, and it’s been working out pretty well. During the school year, it can be tough to get to practice early, see the trainer and ice bath after because there are so many distractions with schoolwork and other obligations. J-break allows us to focus entirely on hockey.”

Certainly it is beneficial for teams to get to know their first years be-fore season and have a solid eight to nine weeks at school together to pre-pare. First years also have a chance to make friends outside the team. Jill Rathke, a sophomore on women’s soccer and ice hockey, describes a social distinction between her expe-rience as a fall and winter athlete.

“I think it’s nice to be on a win-ter sports team, even if I didn’t play a fall sport, because it gives me the opportunity to have friends outside of my team during season,” Rathke said. “Last year, the hockey girls in my grade got really close, but we all had our own friends from the fall, so it didn’t feel quite as forced.” Although they do spend all winter with their team exclusively, winter

athletes’ commitments lighten up in conjunction with the good weather and events on campus, namely Ivies which is a perfect celebration of their season.

Spring athletes never get to ex-perience a postseason at Bowdoin. Baseball, lacrosse, sailing, softball, tennis and track and field are per-petually anticipating and preparing for their seasons while at school. It would make sense then for their team units to be strongly integrated in their social lives on campus, as they have organized training that starts two weeks into the academ-ic year. First years have had time to build strong relationships with their teammates and demonstrate their skills in their respective play-ing arenas. This long buildup can be considered a little stifling but also advantageous for the team dynamic. Baseball sophomore Nick Sadler af-firms the benefits of playing in the spring.

“As a freshman, I think it’s an easier transition for spring athletes than it is for fall athletes,” he said. “It’s great to be able to settle into academics, establish friendships and get to know the team in the time leading up to season. Fall athletes go from 0 to 60, but we have the ability

to get to know each other and estab-lish a strong team chemistry before we start to play.”

Playing in the “spring” in Bruns-wick, however, poses unique chal-lenges. Softball senior Nicole Nelson notes that she and her teammates have to shovel and pick the ice off their home field.

“Last year we had barely any home games,” she said. According to Katie Gately, another senior on the team, their coach sets up water heaters and has a system of trying to get certain areas of the field to melt.

Spring athletes must often practice in the steamy Farley Field House and be prepared for game cancellations and schedule changes. In order to fi-nance Spring Break trips to warmer weather, the teams have to fundraise or pay out of pocket. Despite hav-ing to devote their vacation to their sport, spring sports athletes likely benefit from the stress-free compe-titions and somewhat enjoy relax-ing in destinations like Florida and California in the down time. When asked if he would play in another season, Sadler said he wouldn’t.

“I’d play in the spring, regard-less of weather limitations,” Sadler said. “Once the sun comes out and it warms up, it’s so much more fun to go out and play. I’m a spring guy.”

Our discussion does not quite ac-count for two-season sports. Senior sailor Erin Mullins and her team-mates are officially “in season” in both the fall and spring. For the team, the fall season is necessary to stay competitive on a national level.

“The fall is like a practice season for our National Championship sea-son in the spring,” she said. “Most of the spring season, we’re dry.” Ac-cording to Mullins, while this can be “socially hindering,” especially for first years, the winter can be a great time to explore and make other friends.

Obviously every athlete has a dif-ferent experience at Bowdoin. Al-though we cannot come close to summing up each season, we hope to have exposed how many of our so-cial lives and athletic commitments are season-dependent construc-tions. It is difficult to identify which season is most suited for success. It would be interesting to see how the athlete dynamics at Bowdoin (teams’ field performance as well as social patterns) would change if all teams were exposed to more similar sea-sonal conditions.

Breaking down ‘athlete’: the effect of seasonal change on athletesBY CLARE MCINERNEY AND HAILEY WAHL

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ALEX DOBBIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CRAZY EIGHT: The men’s hockey team scores a crucial first period goal in their 2-1

win over Trinity on Sunday at Watson Arena. The team also

destroyed Wesleyan the night before, 8-2. With the victories,

Bowdoin extended its win streak to eight games, and improved its overall record

to 12-7-3. They also moved to third in the NESCAC.The

team is in a position to host a NESCAC playoff game, and

this weekend/the last before the NESCAC tournament/

they will be facing Tufts and Connecticut College, which

are both at the bottom of the NESCAC.

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with an overall record of 19-5 (8-2 NESCAC). Next the team will pre-pare to take on Williams at 3:00 to-morrow. Bowdoin faced Williams at home in January and knocked off the Ephs (74-62).

As playo/ s approach, the team men-tality shi0 s toward one of increased fo-cus on execution. As every game from here on out becomes win or go home. 1 e Polar Bears 2 nd themselves on the brink of the playo/ s as they were last year, and the returning players are eager for another shot at the NESCAC title. Even though the personnel is similar to last year’s lineup, each year brings new changes and new challeng-es to every college roster.

“Having new players and having seniors leave, every team feels very di/ erent in their own way,” said Ker-rigan ’18. “But something that’s nice about the bowdoin basketball team is that our coach really holds us to a high standard, and every year that standard is the same no matter who le0 or who came in.”

Even with a few di/ erent players the team has been able to carry through

the high level of intensity and com-mitment that has been instrumental in the success of this program through-out the past few seasons. 1 is high standard has no doubt been achieved through the strong leadership of the only senior on the team, Shannon Brady. Brady has led the scoring ef-fort all season and has been a constant presence of positive energy and e/ ort which is re3 ected in the success of such a young team.

Even though the Polar Bears were triumphant in their last meeting with Williams, in the NESCAC no team can ever be taken too lightly. 1 e Ephs have a strong lineup with several play-ers over six feet in height, so rebound-ing will be key for a successful e/ ort from the Polar Bears. 1 e playo/ s re-quire everyone on the court to bring their best e/ ort.

“1 roughout the whole season you want to win every game that you can and play the best that you can,” said Kerrigan, “but once you hit the play-o/ s it starts to get a little di/ erent because you realize if you don’t play your best one day, this could be your last day on the court. I think everyone has a little extra to give and really digs deep to 2 nd it during the playo/ s.”

become a pretty good, solid, defensive team, which has helped us in winning the last three games leading into the tournament,” said Head Coach Tim Gil-bride. “And our understanding and con-centration on the o/ ensive end in trying to get good shots and shots for our best shooters has developed too. 1 ose two things have got us to the point where now we are playing, I believe, our best basketball at the right time of the year.”

1 e team’s defensive strength will be tested this weekend by Amherst’s staunch o/ ense. Armed with many strong shoot-ers and tall players, Amherst ranks second in the league in scoring o/ ense a0 er aver-aging 82.3 points per game this season.

“With [Amherst], we will have to defend a lot of shooters,” said Gilbride. “1 ey have a lot of guys that can shoot the ball well, they have good size, their big guys shoot it well, as well as their guards, so that’ll be a main focus for us during the week.”

Keeping the ball out of Amherst’s hands will go a long way in keeping Bowdoin in the match this weekend.

“Our rebounding is going to be big

because they have a 6’9”-6’10”, really athletic center and a couple other big guys that come o/ the bench so as they are a very good o/ ensive team,” said captain Matt Palecki ‘16. “It’ll be key for us to make sure that we only limit them to one shot every time they get down the 3 oor and hopefully if we’re playing good defense that’s a di4 cult shot or a contested shot. Obviously that’ll be a di4 cult task, but hopefully if we can do that, we can end up with a good result.”

1 e team had a strong showing against the Lord Je/ s during the regular season, going up by 17 points in the 2 rst few minutes only to lose a0 er a strong second half by Amherst. While the result was not ideal, Gilbride remains positive about their 2 rst half and what the team can ac-complish a0 er their progress this season.

“We showed that we can match up with them and do some things if we play at our best, and we’re really looking forward to it,” said Gilbride.

1 is year’s squad features 5 upperclass-men, 5 sophomores and 5 2 rst years. With such a young team, Gilbride expected some transition time for the team to come together, yet attributes the program’s suc-cess and growth throughout this process to the strong senior leadership on the

team and many players rising to the occa-sion when asked of them.

In the last week of the regular season, forward Jack Simonds ’19 earned a NE-SCAC Player of the Week honor as he helped drive the Polar Bear’s o/ ense, av-eraging 23.7 points and 7.7 rebounds per game on the week.

“[Simonds] is a very talented player. He’s got a couple big things going for him-self; he’s 6’5”-6’6”, so he can score some easy baskets around the basket depending on who’s covering him, but he also shoots the ball very well,” said Gilbride. “What has developed is he’s really getting a good feel for when are opportunities to score. 1 ere were good situations for him to score during this week, our team got him the ball in those situations and he came through.”

All of the 2 rst years have had an imme-diate impact this season and been a large part of the team’s ability to turn the tide of their season.

“Our whole freshman class is a testa-ment to Coach Gilbride and Coach Fau-cher’s recruiting; they’ve been phenom-enal for us in some big spots,” said Palecki. “As a group, there’s a lot of potential for them, not even just at the end of this year but for the next three years to come.”

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SUNDAY

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M BASKETBALL AT AMHERST 4:00 p.m.

LEADING THE CHARGE: Shannon Brady ’16 catches the ball at the top of the key. Brady, the lone senior on the women’s basketball team, has led the team in scoring all season. In addition, her strong leadership has helped drive the team to achieve at a higher level.

KEEPING COOL WHEN IT COUNTS: Jack Simonds ’19 drives past a Connecticut College defender in what is likely Bowdoin’s fi nal home game of the season. Simonds’ stellar play over the weekend helped to propel the Polar Bears to the NESCAC playo! s. Simonds averaged 23.7 points and 7.7 rebounds per game last week, which earned him NESCAC player of the week.

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Earlier this month, the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) reported a budget de! cit of $18,000 to the Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC). " e BOC is not technically in the red: the $18,000 it has overspent does not push it past

its 2015-2016 operating budget. Without additional funding, though, the BOC will have to alter its plans for the remainder of the academic year. " e number of trips per weekend will be reduced, less ! nancial aid will be o# ered and students will be forced to supply their own transportation for some trips. Many worry that the re-percussions of this could a# ect more than just those seeking to get away for the weekend. As Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) President Danny Mejia-Cruz ’16 said last week, “" e BOC is one of the crowning joys and major selling points of the College and we don’t want them to go stagnant.”

Since this information became public, some have questioned how an oversight of this stature could occur. Part of the problem is circumstantial; the BOC receives their operating budget while the previous year’s expenditures are still being calcu-lated. " is means that any debt from the previous ! scal year is repaid with the next year’s operating budget—i.e., there’s little consequence for going over budget year a$ er year.

However, the other part of the problem is procedural. " e BOC receives the bulk of its money from the SAFC, a committee of eight students, who are responsible for determining how much money to allocate to “student-run” clubs, according to the BSG website. It gives operational budgets to 18 student-run organizations includ-ing $2,000 to the Bowdoin Food Co-op, $6,617.96 to the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Team, and $24,010 to the Orient. " is funding alone marks the College’s ! nancial contributions to these student groups. However, there are several clubs that receive

additional funding outside of the SAFC, and whose chief leadership responsibili-ties rest on non-students. " ese clubs—among which are the McKeen Center and the Outing Club—are inherently unlike “peer” organizations that request funding.

" e SAFC gave the BOC over $69,000 for its 2015-2016 operational budget, but the BOC also received signi! cant funds from an endowment, and a separate budget for the salaries of its non-student sta# .

" e issue is not the amount of funding the BOC has at its disposal—it is that with three non-student sta# members holding its top leadership positions, the BOC is hardly a student-run organization. " e BOC operates at a level of organizational complexity that is beyond what the SAFC was designed to oversee, and they should not be considered among student-run organizations. " e SAFC’s responsibility should be focusing on clubs that are truly and fully student run. When the SAFC is tasked with the funding of organizations that are so massive in their operational ca-pacities and so integral to the College’s image, it is forced to take on a task too large for a small group of students. " e SAFC is not at fault—it ! nds itself in a di% cult situation out of its control.

Given the confusing relationship the BOC has with the SAFC, it is clear that this funding model is & awed. Without funding large organizations such as the McKeen Center and the BOC, the SAFC could focus on the small student-run clubs—like " e Quill, Taiko and Club Tennis—that it is best-suited to work with. It would be able to devote more of its time and resources to allocating and managing its funds properly among those clubs, while Bowdoin could recognize the McKeen Center or BOC as the large College-funded programs that they should be and deal with their funding separately and accordingly.

! is editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, which is comprised of Julian Andrews, John Branch, Jono Gruber, Matthew Gutschenritter, Emma Peters, Meg Robbins, Nicole Wetsman, and Emily Weyrauch.

Don’t abandon BOC diversity

The budget crisis is aboutmore than canoes and gorp

I came to the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) with zero outdoor experience. I decided to join because I went on a hike led by a student as part of the Explore Bowdoin program, which provides prospective students who are underrepresented at the College with the opportunity to visit Bowdoin before deciding if they will apply. A$ er getting my ! rst check from my work study job as a line server at Moulton, I walked to the BOC and paid the membership fee. I was excited, but nervous—was this a place for me?

I did every possible activity I could do with the BOC; from whitewater kayaking to camping at Merritt Island to joining Spring Leadership Training in order to be quali! ed to lead student trips. I quickly realized some-thing that many students have voiced concern about. " e BOC was overwhelmingly white, which seemed odd for a college that is as diverse as Bowdoin. I want-ed to change this and led trips with Explore Bowdoin and Out of the Zone Leadership Training, trips mostly comprised of students of color and low-income whites. While minorities were getting in touch with the BOC, it was clear that the BOC needed more.

In the past year, since the student-organized Meeting in the Union and open letter to the community pub-lished in the Orient, the conversation about race in the College has shi$ ed. With this shi$ , di# erent spaces on campus have changed to some extent as well. " e BOC started o# this academic year by putting a free trip pass for all students in their mailboxes and advertised that it would give ! nancial aid to students for whom the mem-bership fee presented an economic barrier. Intergroup dialogue has also been implemented in some programs. " ere is space for improvement, but for the ! rst time in my four years at the BOC, I felt like we were on the right

track to make it a diverse and inclusive space.But now the BOC faces new ! nancial di% culties,

which will force it to reduce its activities and its gen-erous ! nancial aid. Students who have cars, ! nancial resources and experience will still be able to participate in outdoor activities, but for others, the BOC is the only opportunity they’ve ever had to do outdoor activities. " e telemark skiing class, which the BOC subsidized for me my ! rst year at Bowdoin, might get cancelled because the BOC can’t a# ord to pay for the bus that takes students to Sugarloaf. " e BOC will also have to reduce other trips that go out every weekend, especially the ones that are overnight. " is is concerning because it is a halt to the progress the BOC has been making in creating a diverse environment (and I mean diverse in the racial, economic and cultural sense). Despite the BOC’s commitment to being ! nancially accessible to all students, there is no doubt that the students who will be most a# ected by the BOC’s budget shortage are those who don’t usually have access to the outdoors and haven’t gone on trips before because of the ! nancial barrier it presents.

Bowdoin is not a college that is ! nancially unstable. We have many resources (hopefully a type of emergen-cy fund for when there are budget shortages as well). I’m not asking the Student Activities Funding Com-mittee to give the BOC a disproportionate amount of money which would take away from other clubs. I’m asking the College to change the way they give funds to the BOC and to show they’re going to make sure we have the diverse and inclusive environment we’ve been struggling to create. I want to know that students won’t be the ones who have to pay the consequences of a bud-get mistake and bureaucratic processes of getting access to monetary resources.

President Barry Mills greatly changed the demo-graphics of the College by increasing the amount of ! -nancial aid the College o# ers to its students, which was a great step in the right direction. Now the College faces a new challenge: how to make students at Bowdoin have the same access to resources in their four years here and thus also increase its diversity in spaces like the BOC which have been mostly white. " e question now is if this is a priority for the College.

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Last year dispelled the hope of Europe on the cusp of a tranquil “end of history,” achieving a cosmopolitan, post-national harmony of peace and prosperity. Terror-ist attacks in Paris, the refugee and Greek crisis, the visible return of dark fascist un-dercurrents—such challenges test the sur-vival of the European project. But beyond such visible headlines remains another dis-turbing story: the continued persecution of French Jews.

A! er World War II, French Jews experi-enced a certain recovery in a postwar Europe, becoming the world’s largest Jewish diaspora community a! er the United States. Essays by Je" rey Goldberg in # e Atlantic and Marie Brenner in Vanity Fair reveal the increasing uncertainty of the community’s future. Al-though French Jews make up less than one percent of the county’s population, they are victims of half of all racist attacks in the country. A record number of French Jews emigrated to Israel in 2015, quadrupling from 2011. About 43 percent today are considering making aliyah—mov-ing to Israel—and 64 percent do not feel safe in France. When asked by Goldberg on his own plans to leave France, Alain Finkielkraut, an emi-nent philosopher, replied that “we should not leave but maybe for our children and grandchildren there will be no choice.”

Attacks by radicalized members of French Muslim communities are in$ ict-ing deep anxiety and fear

among French Jews. In 21st century Europe, riots oc-cur where horri% c chants can be heard, among them “Jews to the gas,” “dirty Jew” and “Jew, France is not for you.” In Toulouse and the banlieues outside of Paris, bonds of friendship and shared culture unit-ing older generations of French Jews and Muslims of North African descent risk evaporation in the face of mounting anti-semitism and radicalization. # e extent of this crisis is producing surreal outcomes. Fear of terrorism is even prompting some (albeit lim-ited) Jewish support for the far-right National Front, whose leader Marine Le Pen rebranded a party infa-mous for the Vichy nostalgia and Holocaust denial peddled by her father, the movement’s founder.

Hysteria and Islamophobia are not appropri-ate responses to this crisis and the broader ques-tion of terrorism in Europe. Many leaders across Europe recognize on the le! and right that the lib-eral democratic order must be defended with total con% dence. Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls stated unambiguously that a “France without Jews is not France.” Polls show that a strong majority of the French public share this sentiment of solidarity.

But juxtaposed alongside this Churchillian vigor in the face of extremism is a nihilistic malaise in circles of the European and American le! . Unable to be both faithful critics and defenders of their Western inheritance, they have lost the con% dence to challenge revived forms of secular and religious totalitarianism. No one reveals this more absurdly than the British Labor Party’s new leader, Jeremy Corbyn. We now have the leader of Britain’s second largest party with a long history of $ irtation with Putin’s Russia, Chavez’s Venezuela, Iran, members of Hamas and Hezbollah and British activists whose criticism of Israel unambiguously possessed anti-semitic undertones. . In an excellent“Dissent” mag-azine essay, Michael Walzer documents how legiti-mate fears of Islamophobia or a Manichean “clash of civilizations” narrative are making many le! ist intellectuals thinkers unable to challenge blatantly illiberal, reactionary expressions of Islam. Such

thinkers tragically reenact the same weaknesses as their predecessors on the Le! decades before, who frequently responded to the Soviet Union with a similar mix of silence, unwarranted sympathy and bizarre attraction even at the heights of Stalinist brutality.

Ultimately, the rising tide of anti-semitism in France reminds us why Zionism matters. Anti-semitism might be, to use our president’s exhaust-ed phrase, “on the wrong side of history,” but it is hardly vanquished from it. Not in a world where the president of a NATO country states that Israeli policies “surpassed Hitler in barbarism” and cer-tain Jewish community leaders in France recom-mend against the public wearing of yarmulkes for security reasons. Israel is the place where the Jewish people can preserve and nurture their culture and identity, in both rich secular and religious expres-sions. # e continued strength of such prejudices against Jews reminds us that the nation-state retains its moral legitimacy and political necessity into the 21st century.

Does this mean we should refrain from criti-cal discussion of Israeli policies? Of course not. After all, Israel’s finest statesman, Yitzhak Rabin, united a deep love for the Zionist project with a recognition that every nation must pursue a jour-ney of critical introspection and change. But many opponents of Israel today do not simply concern themselves with unquestionable problems of West Bank settlements, Bibi Netanyahu’s reckless diplo-matic style or discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens, concerns that countless loyal Israeli citi-zens and leaders acknowledge. The recent calls for a one-state solution and the condemnation of Zi-onism as an irredeemably corrupt, evil and racist enterprise demonstrate an inability to respect the very dignity of a Jewish nation-state. Such an ide-ology does more than neglect history. As demon-strated in today’s uncertain times for French Jews, it may equally ignore the dark omens of our pres-ent moment.

“Girls mature sooner than boys.” I’ve got a twin brother, so I heard this even more than most kids, and most kids hear it a lot. It’s the explanation for why girls paint each other’s toenails at slumber parties and boys try to burp the alphabet. It’s the reason parents trust 14-year-old girls to babysit their five-year-old kid. It’s why we’re not creeped out when an 18-year-old girl dates a 25-year-old guy. They may be seven years apart in experience, but emotionally they’re equally mature.

What constitutes maturity? I matured dentally very early. I got my wisdom teeth out when I was 15, which I think is interesting, but you probably don’t. Nobody cares how fast people lose their baby teeth. The maturity we’re talking about is the ability to handle responsibil-ity. It’s doing what you say you’re going to do. It’s judg-ing social situations and behaving appropriately in the context. It’s adhering to social norms. It’s not finding fart jokes funny.

We talk about social constructs a lot here. Social con-struction might be in the drawer of things you’re tired of hearing about, nestled between “problematic” and “ap-propriation.” Sorry! Often we call something a social con-struct in order to dismiss it. “What are job applications, anyway? Employment is a social construct. Hahaha!”

This is silly because understanding social construc-tion is really important. Calling gender a social con-struct means that it is something that we as a society make collectively, not something that “just is.” One of the ways we make gender is by telling and believing myths about how it “just is” that “girls just mature faster than boys.” From a constructivist perspective, it’s wrong because it relates maturity to biological characteristics. That’s enough.

But that’s not enough for the world outside of academ-ic feminism. It matters for the rest of us because it’s a myth that serves patriarchy (I know, again with the patri-

archy!). To be clear, I mean something specific by patriar-chy. It’s a system in which men, particu-larly old men, have eco-nomic and political power over everyone else.

The myth that girls mature faster than boys serves patriar-chy in (at least) two ways. First, it justifies romantic relationships between older men and younger women in which there is a substan-tial power gap (see my column on re-lationships between upper- and under-class students). And second, it excuses hurtful or irresponsible behavior in men but not in women.

The flipside of the first consequence is that we expect behavior of girls that we don’t expect of boys. Believing that girls become women earlier than boys become men is a way of justifying how much we ask of them. Emotional labor, or all of the “feelings” work that women do and men don’t (remembering birthdays, sending get-well-soon cards, giving emotional sup-port), is an idea that’s gotten a lot of traction in the pop-feminist community recently. The teacher’s pets, the helpful daughters, the obliging sisters, they’re all doing work. Labor. And after a life-time—or just an adolescence—it’s draining.

Somehow this maturity difference is still a thing that otherwise progressive people believe about gender. All too often I find myself nodding along, not sure how to suggest that I see things a little differently. So here it is: the belief that girls mature faster than boys is untrue, sexist and harmful.

My twin brother is more mature than I am by many counts. He works full-time, has bills and rent to pay and cooks all his meals. He thinks about health insurance and helping our dad around the house. Just because he’s a boy doesn’t mean he’s any less mature than I am—in fact, in some ways, he’s more mature. This goes to show, our maturity is de-veloped by our social world, not determined by our gen-der—even though I did get my wisdom teeth out when I was 15.

Believing girls mature faster than boys hurts everyone

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Amidst the papers, the tests, the problem sets, the internship search and the obsession with cra) ing a bet-ter future, we o) en forget about the big picture. Of course, family and friends matter the most in this world, but I am talking about an even bigger picture, I’m talking about your story, your cos-mic story.

It is commonplace, especially at a fantastic school like Bowdoin, to be-lieve that you are somehow special. * is is true to some extent, but I want to challenge this belief. I want to chal-lenge it at its very core until you realize that you are not special, at least not in the way you think. More importantly, I want to show you that you are part of something that de+ nes the notion of grandeur, which is the fact that you are intimately connected to the universe and all of its history.

Once upon a time (well, sort of, since time as we know it began at the Big Bang), there was an explosion of energy on a scale inconceivable to even our wildest imaginations. Don’t you re-member it? You were there. I was there. * e energy and matter that comprises everything you see, everyone you love, everyone you have ever heard of, ev-erything you will come into contact with and every living being and object across the universe was there. * is is where all of us and everything around us + rst originated.

Fast forward about one second and the particles that you are made up of form (protons, neutrons, electrons, etc.). Fast forward about half a million years and incredible amounts of hydrogen and helium form, but not our good friend carbon yet. It will take immensely high temperatures and high pressures to cre-ate the atoms that you are comprised of.

Luckily, the force of gravity is on your

side. Fast forward to the formation of stars. A long time ago in a place far, far away there was a star. * is star is one among many, but this star is of particu-lar importance to you.

* is star is a natural nuclear fusion reactor that “cooks” the heavier elements essential to life (such as our good friend carbon) until the forces become too great for the star to survive, resulting in a cata-clysmic explosion that launches these elements vast distances into the void of deep space, creating breathtaking spec-tacles such as the Crab Nebula (please look it up if you haven’t). Supernovas are some of the brightest spectacles in the universe, rivaling the brightness of entire galaxies (with hundreds of billions of stars). * e carbon atoms you are made of came from one of these spectacles; without supernovas, life as we know it (including you) would not exist.

Fast forward to an average-sized gal-

axy, one that you would not think much of given that there are billions of galaxies like this one. But look closer to a forgot-ten neighborhood on the outskirts of this galaxy. * is is our solar system. Our Sun formed just like the billions of stars around us and through the course of time it accumulated the planets that we all know and love today. Among these planets is one that just happened to be not too cold, not too hot, but just right. * is is our only home. * is is Earth. Out of pure chemistry, life emerged. * ese little creatures were unimpressive, but also resilient. * ese are your earliest an-cestors. It will take billions of years for multicellular life to evolve, but soon a) er multicellular life evolves, another explo-sion occurs: the Cambrian explosion. * is explosion of life would lead to the evolution of mammals, our primate kin and eventually us, Homo sapiens.

If we map the cosmic history of the

universe onto a year’s calendar in which the Big Bang was January 1 at midnight and the current moment is December 31 at midnight, all of human history has lasted about 15 seconds. Your life will last less than a second. Your cosmic journey is in its last sentence with your grandpar-ents, your parents and + nally you.

Against all odds, you are here, con-scious and reading scribbles on a re+ ned piece of a tree, but understanding these scribbles. Among all the matter and en-ergy around you, only you can question, only you can comprehend, only you can notice the beauty of the universe. Talk about privilege. And so here your cos-mic story ends in this current moment, with you wrestling with your everyday human worries. What will you do next? What will you make of it?

Once this cosmic perspective sinks in, it is impossible not to take a step back and ask questions. Why do we

+ ght so much? Why do we cause so much destruction? Why are we treating the Earth, our only home, so poorly?

I o) en wonder —if everyone were reminded of this cosmic perspec-tive—whether we would have borders, whether we would have wars, whether we would treat the Earth di, erently, whether we would treat our animal kin di, erently, whether I would end that stupid + ght with my parents, whether I would smile at every chance I get or whether I would appreciate more every-one and everything around me.

Amongst billions of galaxies and bil-lions of stars and billions of organisms, we exist here on Earth indistinguishable from the rest. However, in the words of Neil deGrasse Tyson, “We are all con-nected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” And don’t you ever forget it.

The universe and you: a cosmic perspective on our place and purposeBY NICK DISTEFANO

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In reading last week’s front-page story in the Orient titled “Race in College Houses,” I am inspired to share a story about a too-similar front page story in the Bowdoin Orient from 70 years ago—spe-ci+ cally, the February 27, 1946 front-page story titled “Longley Advises Abolish-ment of Campus Racial Prejudice.” As the daughter of the Longley in this 70-year-old headline, I write to add a bit of history to your important discussions.

Like so many post-World War II veter-ans, my father, an Irish Catholic kid from Lewiston, Maine, and a World War II ser-vice member, was able to enroll at Bow-doin because of the then-new “G.I. Bill.”

Once in a fraternity a year or so later,

Longley o, ered to share his room with another WWII veteran from Tuskegee, AL, a then-called “negro” fellow named Matthew D. Branche.

In important bits and pieces, I have learned about the inspiring words and deeds of my father and his roommate—the future Governor James B. Longley ’48 and the future Dr. Matthew D. Branche ’49.

As one of his + ve kids who trekked from Lewiston to Brunswick to watch Bowdoin hockey games, I somehow caught word that our father once so si-lenced everyone in the Bowdoin chapel that all listening that day could have heard a pin drop. Somehow, I also learned the name of this African American army vet-eran friend—again, Matthew D. Branche. * en, when Dr. Branche learned of Gov-ernor Longley’s early passing at age 56 of

cancer, we Longleys had the meaningful opportunity to meet the still-thankful Dr. Branche when he trekked to St. Patrick’s Church in Lewiston to help my family far more fully pay our respects.

* at next Christmas a) er our dad’s passing, and with great thanks for scrap-book gi) s to us from our well-organized, ever-the-chronicler mother, I received my copy of the Orient article. As you also can read (and ponder the reasons), in his Feb-ruary 1946 chapel speech to “advis[e] the abolishment of campus racial prejudice,” then-Student Council President Longley did not mention the name of his room-mate, then-class president Dr. Branche.

In my own chronicling for my Masters in History thesis on Governor Longley at UMaine, I learned more from my de-ceased father’s + les. Speci+ cally, I learned

how both Jim Longley and Matt Branche received positive recognition from at least one other fellow Bowdoin supporter. However, in a letter from Donald M. Hill, Esq., I also learned that Longley had “pledged” Branche but, due to howls of protest from Portland, Maine, to probably Portland, Oregon, Branche had to return his pledge pin.

Based on today’s research, both Matt Branche and Bowdoin have moved on. As noted online, when Blanche’s admission to Delta Upsilon led to protests from the national fraternity organization, the Bow-doin chapter withdrew from its a- liation with Delta Upsilon and converted to Delta Sigma. Branche’s groundbreaking athletic and social accomplishments brought a . ood of media attention, but “despite this storm he continued to distinguish himself

as both a scholar and an athlete.” Posthumously, I have wanted to pay

my own public respects to Jim Longley and Matt Branche every tenth anniversary of their e, orts to help our country live up to its promise of equality. * is 70th an-niversary year, I do so with the help of Bowdoin students willing to organize and the Bowdoin Orient willing to cover and the many Bowdoin College community members willing to add their own words and deeds. In the words of the Orient’s headlines, you heed the 1946 “Longley [and Branch] Advice [on] the Abolish-ment of Campus Racial Prejudice” by do-ing your parts in daring to address 2016’s “Race in College Houses.”

Susan Longley is the daughter of Former Maine Governor James B. Longley ’48.

Discussions of race in college houses are the next step in a long journeyBY SUSAN LONGLEY

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PERFORMANCEKlavierfest: George Lopez, pianoGeorge Lopez, Bowdoin’s artist-in-residence, will play the last sonatas of the "First Viennese School," with works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven in a piano concert for the community. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

LECTURE“Real Time with Donneau de Vise: The Mercure Galant and the Origins of Modern Journalism"Deborah Steinberger, associate professor of French at the University of Delaware, will be giving a talk aimed to answer this question: Can print journalism as practiced in the late 17th century by editor-in-chief Donneau de Vise, mouth-piece of an early modern totalitarian monarchy, be legiti-mately compared to the multimedia journalistic production of 21st century democracies? A discussion will follow. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT@StitchFix – Inside the Tech Startup in Silicon ValleyFound and CEO of Stitch Fix Katrina Lake will be speaking about her business, which has changed the way that women shop for clothes by providing them with a "personal stylist’" who delivers items that suit their taste and fi t their budget. 2nd Floor, Russwurm House. 3 p.m.

LECTURE"Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of the Modern World"Brett Walker, regents professor and Michael P. Malone professor of history at Montana State University and a current visiting professor at Harvard University, will discuss the environmental and health impacts of asbestos, related to the Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami.Room 315, Searles Science Building. 7 p.m.

EVENTA Reading by Poet and Novelist Paul BeattyPoet and novelist Paul Beatty will be reading some of his work. Beatty is the author of poetry collections and many novels. “The Sellout,” his most recent novel, was released in 2015. Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 7 p.m.

EVENT"Africa Schoolhouse: Shaping Education Literally and Metaphorically in Tanzania"Aimee Bessire, visiting associate professor of art and visual culture at Bates College, and Mark Bessire, director at the Portland Museum of Art will discuss the founding of Africa Schoolhouse with architects Pamela W. Hawkes and T. Scott Teas. The schoolhouse is a nonprofi t organization that pro-vides quality education in Northern Tanzania. Also, they will discuss African art’s impact on the United States. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.

LECTURE'Wonder' Author R.J. Palacio to Speak on CampusAuthor R.J. Palacio will be giving a lecture about how she came to write her number-one New York Times bestseller, “Wonder.” Books will be sold, and Palacio will be signing them as well.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

LECTURE"Fighting For Freedom in an Hour of Chaos"Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, distinguished professor of African American studies at Morehouse College will be delivering a lecture. Hill is a political contributor for CNN and is the host of Hu! Post Live and BET news. He was named one of America’s 100 most infl uential black leaders in 2011 by Ebony Magazine and is the author of three books. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

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CONCERTBlack History Month Concert: Kiya Lacey & YG TutKiya Lacey and YG TUT will be performing in the fi rst Black History Month Concert.Ladd House. 9 p.m.

PERFORMANCEMasque and Gown Presents:Leading LadiesIn this performance, two English Shakespearean actors attempt to pose as the nephews of a dying woman in order to receive her inheritance. However, they realize that the woman actually has nieces. Tickets are available at the Smith Union Info Desk and are $1 with a Bowdoin ID and $3 for the public. There will be a performance on Saturday.Wish Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCEKlavierfest: Musical Celebration of Elliott Schwartz's 80th BirthdayThere will be an 80th birthday celebration for Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus Elliot Schwartz in a performance of his piano works as well as an onstage interview.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

YOGA AND CHILL: Sam Kyzivat '18 played live music on his electric violin at yoga hosted by Zoe Borenstein '18 last night in the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness.

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