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SURVEY SAYS
What Bowdoin students rated
themselves, on average.
0

What they rated the typical Bowdoin

student, on average.

29.87

VOLUME 145, NUMBER 21

How liberal is the Bowdoin liberal arts student? Professor of

Government Michael Franz surveyed 358 students in order to
measure opinions about a variety of issues on campus, including
students political views. The survey asked students to rate their
political views from 0 (very liberal) to 100 (very conservative) as
well as to rate the typical Bowdoin students views.

36.28

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6 to 10 11 to 15 16 to 20 21 to 25 26 to 30 31 to 35 36 to 40 41 to 45 46 to 50 51 to 55 56 to 60 61 to 65 66 to 70 71 to 75 76 to 80 81 to 85 86 to 90 91 to 95 96 to 100

Perceived Safety Expressing Political Views on Campus

Students were asked to evaluate the statement: I feel safe expressing my political views on Bowdoins campus.
Strongly
agree

16%

24.34

Agree

37%

26.24

Rose defends
endowment
in response
to Congress
ORIENT STAFF

A frequency distribution of students responses to the question: generally speaking, on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being very liberal and 100
being very conservative, where would you place your own political views? We represented answers in groups of 5.
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APRIL 15, 2016

BY JAMES CALLAHAN

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Distribution of Self-Identified Political Views

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Avg. rating
of political
views

President Clayton Rose responded to a congressional inquiry into

the finances of Bowdoin in a letter
dated March 17, stressing the importance of Bowdoins $1.393 billion
endowment for providing financial
aid for students.
Seeking to survey the numerous
tax preferences [56 colleges whose
endowments exceeded $1 billion]
enjoy, the February 8 congressional inquirysigned by Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressmen Kevin
Brady and Peter Roskamcame
after recommendations from the
Nexus Research and Policy Center
advocating an excise tax on private
college endowments greater than
$500 million. According to Bloomberg News, in January Republican
Congressman Tom Reed floated the
idea of a bill that would mandate
what percent of college endowment
incomes would be devoted to financial aid.
Senior Vice President for Finance

Please see ENDOWMENT, page 5

Amendment
requires good
standing for
BSG members
BY JOE SEIBERT

ORIENT STAFF

Neither
agree nor
disagree

15%

41.95

Disagree

20%

47.39

Strongly
disagree

12%

59.62

BY STEFF CHVEZ
ORIENT STAFF

While political discussions about the

presidential election or controversial
events on campus are common, the community is still working to navigate the
presence of a liberal majority on a campus with a range of views.
The average Bowdoin student identi-

fies as liberal. On a scale of 0-100, with

0 being very liberal and 100 being very
conservative, the average Bowdoin student places themselves at 36.28, though
respondents spanned the entire spectrum.
Approximately a third of the student
body does not feel safe expressing their
political views on campus; 32 percent of
students do not agree with the statement

I feel safe expressing my political views

on Bowdoins campus.
President Clayton Rose has repeatedly emphasized the importance of fullthroated discourse on campus.
The 32 percent of students who say
they feel unsafe expressing their views on
campus are on average more conservative

Bowdoin Student Government

(BSG) voted last week to add a
Good Standing Amendment to
their bylaws, which will require
students sitting on and running for
BSG to be in good standing with
the College. In order to obtain information about standing, BSG will
require students to sign an agreement permitting the deans office to
release the necessary information
to the Executive Committee.
BSG members that do not possess good standing will be required
to inform the BSG president and
will be removed from office. These
students will be given the chance
to appeal their removal to BSG Executive Committee, made up of the
student body president and the six
vice presidents, who can choose to
reverse the decision.

Please see SURVEY, page 4

Please see BSG, page 5

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friday, april 15, 2016

STUDENT SPEAK
are you preparing for
Q: How
the arrival of spring?
Ethan Winter 19
Wearing my adventure
sandals without socks.

Charlie DiPasquale 18
Doing my linear algebra
problem set on the quad.

Dhivya Singaram 17
SOPHIE WASHINGTON

SECURITY REPORT: APRIL 8 to APRIL 14

FRIDAY, APRIL 8
A student reported a verbal altercation between a male and a female student
on Coles Tower Drive. Both students were
located and determined to be alright.
Wind gusts caused a brief power outage on the south portion of campus.
A student reported seeing a suspicious man walking in the area of
Maine and Potter Streets. The man left
the area without incident.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9
Officers checked on the wellbeing
of a student whose friends reported
had locked herself in a bathroom and
was not responding.
A fire alarm at Ladd House was
accidentally activated by a student using a curling iron.
An underage student was cited for

attempting to transport alcohol in a motor vehicle. Five students in the vehicle

were warned for possession of alcohol
by a minor.
SUNDAY, APRIL 10
The Brunswick Hotel and Tavern reported to the BPD that a man was asleep
in the lobby. The 19-year-old student
had been drinking. A security officer escorted the student to his residence.
An exterior door at 8 School Street
Apartments was reported to be wide
open at 2 a.m. An officer investigated
and secured the building.
A bedroom smoke alarm at Hyde
Hall was activated by burnt popcorn.
TUESDAY, APRIL 12
A student was discovered inside
the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

at 4 a.m., well after the building had

been closed for the night.
At 8 a.m., a vehicle was found stuck
in a drainage ditch in the center of the
Coffin Street parking lot. A local woman was found sleeping in the back seat.
BPD was called to the scene. The woman was arrested for operating under the
influence, and the vehicle was towed.
Bluegrass musicians practicing on
the 10th floor of Coles Tower at 10:45
p.m. generated noise complaints.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
A local man was observed acting
strangely on campus. BPD was called
to take the man home.
Thursday, April 14
A bedroom smoke alarm was reported at Pine Street Apartments.

Im busting out the carrom

board, celebrating holi and not
wearing any jackets.

Elizabeth Miller 17
Stepping out of Druck for the
first time in months.

Scout Gregorson 18
Petting every quad dog.

COMPILED BY JENNY IBSEN

EGG-regious: Mutton-headed students cant find remaining eggs

BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND CALDER MCHUGH
ORIENT STAFF

DIANA FURUKAWA

While Easter began and ended on March 27, the remnants of

the holiday still exist all over campus. Due to a clear dearth of care
on the part of Bowdoin students and Brunswick community residents participating in Easter Egg hunts around campus, many eggs
remain and are often stumbled upon by unsuspecting students,
surprised to see such an out of place object on the usually perfectly
orderly Bowdoin campus.
Most of these sad, lonely left-behind eggs can be found in the
Theater Department as a result of the annual Theater Department
Work Study Easter Egg Hunt. Students merely traipsing through
the building prior to the hunt and uninvolved with the Theater
Department noted that eggs were in the elevator, behind fire extinguishers and even in the beams. Most of these obviously placed
eggs were later found, though a sheepish student who wished to
remain anonymous did blush, I was going up to a meeting in the
elevator and I saw an egg. I opened it and was like, golly! Reeses!
And then I ate it. I hid the evidence in my backpack.
The students of the theater do not view the inability to recover
all the plastic orbs an act of negligence on the part of the searchers.
Greer Bingham 17, who has friends involved in the Department, noted that there must just be general confusion on how to
find easter eggs.
However, Elena Shaef 16, a member of Work Study who has
engaged in this hunt for many years now, counters Binghams
point, stating that locating lost eggs after the fact has become a
beautiful convention.
Finding eggs months, even years, after they were originally hidden has become a loving tradition of the Theater Department. I believe while Michael [Schiff-Verre, Director of Theater Operations]
was hiding the eggs this year, he found one from several years ago.
We went, oh, how did you know it was from several years ago? And

he was like, the jellybeans were fossilized, said Shaef.

Its sort of a wonderful, happy, cheery thought to think that
no matter what the time of year youre in the theater, theres
probably at least two or three eggs somewhere just waiting for
some lucky finder.
Brooke Goddard 17 was particularly enlivened by the idea of
potentially finding eggs.
I had heard nothing about the eggs before this interview but
you better believe that I will be keeping my eyes peeled, she said.
Connor Moore 17, also previously unaware of these plastic
wonders left behind in Pickard, was at first appalled.
Are they real eggs? If theyre real eggs that would be disgusting,
he said.
Upon hearing that they were filled with chocolate Moore
changed his tune.
Oh, thats...thats awesome.
Moore was moderately incensed about the somewhat weak efforts of the egg-hunters themselves.
I mean obviously they half-assed it, he shrugged. But thats
just more candy for me, I guess.
Goddard noted that should she be given the opportunity
to hide the eggs herself, she would make sure they would be
gone for eternity.
If I could hide [the eggs] anywhere on campus, I feel like
I could hide [them] somewhere that, guaranteed, no one
would find [them]. Like in my room. Because no one goes
there, she said.
Ultimately, this iteration of the Easter Egg hunt may not have
been as ignominious as, say, the multiple microwave incidents
that shook the campus earlier this year, but it has still once again
been an experience that has shed additional light on what seems
to now be clear: Bowdoin students are incapable of performing
tasks generally entrusted to those somewhere around the 11-13
age group.

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NEWS IN BRIEF College hopes to increase faculty

diversity through funding focus on
BAAUER TO HEADLINE IVIES
tenure track hiring practice
COMPILED BY MEG DUSTIN AND MEG ROBBINS

Baauer will be the headlining performer for Ivies, the Bowdoin Entertainment Board (eBoard) announced on Wednesday. Baauer, DJ and producer
best known for Harlem Shake, is replacing eBoards original selection, M,
who canceled her Bowdoin performance and several other concerts in the
Northeast at the end of March.
The concert will take place on Saturday, April 30.
In addition to Harlem Shake, which went double platinum in the U.S.,
finishing at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2013 and inspiring a
series of viral videos that garnered millions of views, Baauer has worked
with popular artists such as Jay Z, M.I.A., AlunaGeorge, Diplo and Just
Blaze, whom he toured with in 2013. He has also produced remixes for Nero,
Flosstradamus and Disclosure, among others.
Waka Flocka Flame remains booked for Ivies and will perform on Thursday, April 28.

LANGUAGE COURSES RETITLED

For the Fall 2016 Semester, all Romance Languages and Literatures courses have been retitled to better reflect the inclusion of culture and history
within the course material. The major and minor requirements have not
changed, nor has the material of the courses themselves.
Enrique Yepes, associate professor of romance languages and literatures,
offered insight on how the names of the classes have been changed to better
reflect the material. The new names include Francophone Studies, Hispanic
Studies and Italian Studies. The Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee approved of the name change in order to convey that these classes
teach language, literature and culture. The major and minor requirements
have not changed.
Yepes noted that he hopes the name change will clarify the difference between Latin American Studies and Hispanic Studies. Latin American Studies
focuses on the Latin American region and countries that speak Portuguese
or French, as well as on Latinos in the United States. Hispanic Studies instead focuses on regions where Spanish is spoken, including Spain.

BY DANIEL VIELLIEU
ORIENT STAFF

As part of its goal of diversifying

Bowdoins faculty, the College will
shift funding and resources from the
Consortium for Faculty Diversity
(CFD) fellowship program towards
hiring more tenured faculty through
the Target of Opportunity policy. By
decreasing the number of CFD fellows that Bowdoin hires annually
from six to three, the College will be
able to create two new tenure track
positions to increase and further recruit diverse faculty.
Having more faculty of color on
the tenure track will increase the
excellence that we have on our campus, and it will also increase the desirability of our campus to all kinds
of people, not just other faculty of
color but, a more diverse academic
environment is a good thing for
everybody, said Interim Dean for
Academic Affairs Jennifer Scanlon.
Scanlon hopes one or both of the
Target of Opportunity positions can
be filled in the next academic year.
While these new faculty could be
current non-tenured faculty, it is
more likely they will be new professors that different departments find
and nominate. Departments will
also have the opportunity to fill gaps
in their curriculums by proposing
new candidates for Target of Opportunity positions.
Candidates usually are here for
one or two years, and during that
time they have a reduced teaching
load, and they have mentoring, and
the idea is that they really have the
opportunity to work on their own
research and get a little bit ahead for

the job market, and also so they have

an opportunity to teach in a liberal
arts institution, added Scanlon.
Bowdoin adopted the Target of
Opportunity policy in 2008. This
hiring policy, which other colleges
across the nation have adopted, allows Bowdoin to hire and tenure
exceptional minority faculty outside
of regular openings or a national
search. Similarly, the CFD, developed as a way to help young people
of color launch their careers, is an
organization of liberal arts colleges
that aims to promote faculty diversity by placing minority postdoctoral
fellows in its member institutions.
The Consortium for
Faculty Diversity program
has
been terrific,
and were not
eliminating
it, but what
were doing
is were saying we can
do
both,
said Scanlon.
Were saying
lets put some resources towards a
more direct route to increasing the
diversity of the tenure track faculty
at the College.
The Target of Opportunity hiring policy, which again colleges all
around the country have, is to say
that if we can find a candidate who
would diversify our faculty and who
meets our criteria of excellence, we
can go out and we can try to recruit
that person into a tenure track line
at the College, said Scanlon.

However, Scanlon explained Bowdoin has not hired many individuals through the Target of Opportunity process, and the College has not
been able to offer many CFD fellows
longer-term positions.
She hopes to reinvigorate the
practice with this new focus and
funding for Target of Opportunitys
tenure hires.
Despite this new initiative, Scanlon reiterated her stance regarding
the Colleges standing commitment
to seeking minority faculty through
the regular search process, which she
explained in an Orient article last fall
about the diversity of professors.

Having more faculty of color on the tenure track will

increase the excellence that we have on our campus,
and it will also increase the desirability of our campus
to all kinds of people, not just other faculty of color but
a more diverse academic environment is a good thing
for everybody.
INTERIM DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
JENNIFER SCANLON
I would still maintain [that] the
most critical way to diversify the
faculty is through the regular faculty hiring process, Scanlon said.
This is by no means a retreat; this
is a way to say there is not just one
avenue. [The regular search process]
remains the most important avenue,
but why not look at how we allocate
our resources, and why not think
about are there creative ways that we
could employ that would enhance
the diversity of our faculty.

ASA will not host fashion show,

club shifts away from recruitment
BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF

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In a change from past tradition,

the Asian Students Association
(ASA) did not host its annual fashion show as part of this years Asian
Week. This marks a shift in ASAs
programming; the fashion show had
been a staple of Asian Week since
the 1980s.
One of the biggest changes we
made was, our previous mission
statement was that the purpose of
our club was to serve the purpose
of diversity recruitment and part
of [how we accomplished that] that
was the Asian Fashion Show, said
Son Ngo 17, Co-Vice President of
ASA. Weve realized thats not what
we want to do and that we want to
focus more on identity, community
and on bonding between members
and the community.
Co-President Jeffrey Chung 16
explained that the change to Asian
Weeks program reflected an attempt
to turn away from presenting Asian
cultures to campus and focus more

on different views of all Asian and

Asian American students.
In place of the fashion show, Asian
Week will culminate with comedian
and Bowdoin Alumnus Hari Kondabolu 04 performing at Pickard Theater tomorrow night. Last year, Kondabolu was scheduled to perform, but
he had to cancel due to illness.
In order to expand the diversity
of programming, ASA has partnered
with other multicultural groups on
campus such as the African American Society, the Intercollegiate Sri
Lanka Education (ISLE) Program
and Anokhathe Colleges South
Asian student association.
ASA, which boasts a membership
of about 180 students, has coordinated a wider variety of programming because of these collaborations.
On Tuesday, MacMillan House
hosted Panda Bear Tales where
students of all different ethnicities
told stories about their personal
experiences and identities. Ladd
House hosted An (Asian American) Portrait of the Artist with

writer and poet Jenny Zhang on

Thursday night.
According to Ngo, these shifts in
programming have helped make this
years Asian Week more successful
than in years past.

Our previous mission statement

was that the purpose of our
club was to serve the purpose
of diversity recruitment...Weve
realized...we want to focus more
on identity, community and on
bonding between members and
the community.
Son Ngo 17, Co-Vice President of ASA

Theres been great turnout so far.

People seem to be more interested
in the things were doing, said Ngo.
Weve seen a lot of participation we
havent usually seen.

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(they had an average self-identified
political score of 47-59 on the 0-100
scale) than are people who do feel
safe (they had an average self-identified political score of 24-26).
If in fact you know students who
identify as more conservative are
more likely to [feel unsafe expressing their views], thats an important
thing to know. What does it mean?
What should you do about it? Thats
a little beyond my area of expertise, said Professor of Government
Michael Franz who, along with his
Quantitative Analysis in Political
Science course, administered the
Polar Poll, which sought to gauge
students attitudes on various campus issues.
A lot of the time...people are
afraid to put their voice out there
because theyre afraid of being labeled, said Nick Sadler 18, a registered independent who leans
conservative and said he does not
always feel safe expressing his political views on campus.
Jack Lucy 17, president of the
Bowdoin College Republicans acknowledges that it is complicated
to have a conservative viewpoint at
Bowdoin.
We know were in the minority
on campus and I guess within our
generation as well. I would also say
its a viewpoint that can at times be
harder to articulate clearly and coherently without a lot of explanation, particularly with issues of social conservatism, said Lucy.
Despite this notion, Lucy feels safe

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points with his friends, but not in

class.
I feel like classrooms are dominated by the most passionate viewpoints and mine is not the most intense, Jackonis said.
When talking with other people
on campus, especially about recent
controversial topics, Jacknois it is
sometimes easier to just say mhm
in agreement, even though he may
disagree with what someone is saying.
Its not an alternate opinion Im
afraid of necessarily, its just not particularly comfortable when people
are so passionate and Im so not. I
dont have that same fire. Even if I
disagree, its just uncomfortable,
said Jackonis.
Alexis Espinal 17 identifies as
a liberal but, due to her Louisiana
roots, has more moderate views. She
has been able to comfortably engage
in political dialogue at Bowdoin.
A lot more people are liberal here
than at homeI think theres more
liberal [people] here anyways. But
at the same time I have some weird,
more Republican views that Ive said
before and no one tried to murder
me. At home if you were a liberal it
was a bad word, Espinal said.
The average Bowdoin student also
perceives themselves to be rather on
par with the rest of Bowdoin students; on a scale of 0-100, the average Bowdoin student assesses a typical Bowdoin student to be at 29.87.
Franz expected to see a bigger difference between how liberal Bowdoin students assess themselves to
be and how liberal they perceive
other Bowdoin students to be.

The word safe might not be an adequate word to define it

because Ive never felt unsafe expressing my views here. I think
there are certainly times where students of all opinions feel its
not in their best interest necessarily to get involved on a controversial topic.
JACK LUCY 17
expressing his views on campus and
enjoys engaging in exchanges with
people across the political spectrum.
However, it does not surprise him
that people with conservative views
dont all share his sense of safety.
The word safe might not be an
adequate word to define it because
Ive never felt unsafe expressing my
views here. I think there are certainly times where students of all opinions feel its not in their best interest
necessarily to get involved on a controversial topic, said Lucy.
Amanda Bennett 17, president
of the Bowdoin College Democrats,
feels safe expressing her liberal
views on campus.
Im very liberal. I think [Bowdoin] is a great space in order to
have political discussion for the
most part, she said.
Though she feels safe expressing her views, Bennett is aware that
conservatives might not, and she
acknowledges that liberals at Bowdoin can be quick to shut down their
conservative peers. Bennett thinks
that liberals try to be very accepting of all viewpoints but they do not
always accept the views of conservatives, for liberals assume that conservatives are intolerant of others.
It seems like both sides are kind
of generalizing. You have conservatives thinking that the liberals wont
accept their viewpoints and then you
have the liberals grouping all viewpoints that conservatives may have
and [excluding them], she said.
Logan Jackonis 17, who identifies
as a libertarian, said he would feel
comfortable discussing his view-

The respondents assess the average Bowdoin student to be liberal,

in fact more liberal than them, said
Franz. What I thought I would find
more was a bigger difference between them. I thought the average
student might say, yeah, Im 36 but
that the average besides me is a 10,
or something like that.
Espinal attributes conservative
discomfort to the fact that liberals
outnumber conservatives.
I think it has more to do with human nature than Bowdoin. People
like to feel they have a whole bunch
of people supporting them [when
they speak out], she said.
Franklin Taylor 19, who identifies as liberal, said that liberals feel
safer expressing their viewpoints because most of campus is liberal.
Having a community around me
where people have the same views as
me definitely helps so that I can express how I feel, he said.
Charlotte Hevly 19, who identifies as fairly liberal, said I think
theres a perception that if youre an
intellectual youre going to be liberal.
Lucy echoed the idea that academia is a discipline that attracts
professors of a liberal persuasion.
Were at an institution and this
is a trend present in all of academia
that people of a liberal persuasion
are more likely...professors, he said.
Sadler, Lucy and Bennett want to
encourage people to listen and be
respectful of peoples viewpoints.
Sadler would also like to see more
conservative speakers brought in
and for people to genuinely consider

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Perceived Safety by Reported Gender

Students evaluated the statement: I feel safe expressing my political views on Bowdoins campus.
By percentage, out of 151 women and 159 men (310 total)

STRONGLY
AGREE & AGREE

NEITHER AGREE
NOR DISAGREE

STRONGLY DISAGREE
& DISAGREE

59.6%

47.8%

14.6%

14.5%

25.8%

37.7%

Perceived Safety by Class Year

Students evaluated the statement: I feel safe expressing my political views on Bowdoins campus.
By percentage, out of 84 first-years, 83 sophomores, 71 juniors, and 83 seniors (total 321)

46.4%

FY
STRONGLY
AGREE & AGREE

49.4%

SO
JR

56.4%

SR
FY
NEITHER AGREE
NOR DISAGREE

61.5%
16.7%

SO

13.3%

JR

14.1%

SR

15.7%

FY

36.9%

STRONGLY DISAGREE SO
& DISAGREE
JR

37.4%

SR
what they might have to say, so as to
spur substantive discourse.
The Polar Poll, which was completed by 358 students after it was
sent by email to a random sample of
475 Bowdoin students, also included
a question that was designed to examine the effects of peer networks
on accepting or not accepting a controversial opinion.
The question asked half the sample if they would consider a critical
opinion of affirmative action if it
came from a Republican congressman; and asked the other half if they
would consider a critical opinion of
affirmative action if it came from an
opinion piece in the Orient written
by a student.
Fifty-four percent of respondents
said they would consider the congressmans opinion, while 66.5 per-

29.6%
22.9%

cent said they would consider the

Bowdoin students opinion. Though
12.5 percentage points is a small
difference, a greater proportion of
students are willing to accept the
argument against affirmative action
when it comes from a Bowdoin student than when it comes from a Republican congressman.
[This] might mean that how we
evaluate information is in large part
determined by whether we like or
dislike whos making the argument,
said Franz.
He emphasized that everyone has
people in their social networks
the crazy uncle, for examplewho
communicate opposing ideas.
That might actually be good
for us, to have the crazy uncle who
posts those crazy stories because we
like our crazy uncle and we might be

more willing to listen to what our

uncle says even if its the same exact
thing that Donald Trump is saying,
said Franz.
Although students appear more
likely to consider the opinion of a
peer, Sadler said he does not believe
many at Bowdoin can be unwilling
to change their views.
I think a lot of the time people
here are affirmed in a lot of their
views and theyre not challenged to
change them and I think a lot of the
times theyre not willing to change
them even though changing your
beliefs is a lot of how you grow up
and mature, he said.
Rachael Allen, Calder McHugh
and Lucy Ryan contributed to this
report.

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BSG

Our office would not communicate with the BSG about a students
academic or social standing without the students permission, FosIn addition, students running for ter said. Its very important and it
office will be required to be in good would be a breach of confidentiality
standing. Students in poor stand- if a student didnt give us permission
ing can also appeal to the Executive to share that information.
Committee to have their names addPart of the inspiration for the
ed to the ballot.
Good Standing Amendment comes
Starting with this election, all from a desire to protect members
candidates have signed this agree- of BSG from a very public impeachment. I emailed Dean [of Student ment process.
Affairs Tim] Foster and hes going to
I know that I would never want
someone
to
Google my name
and have the word
impeachment
next to it, said
Mejia-Cruz. Its
a matter of optics,
and what it means
for reputation after their time at
Bowdoin, and this
was a way to avoid
that.
According to
BSG PRESIDENT DANNY MEJIA-CRUZ BSG bylaws, students who fall out
get back to me confirming whether of good standing can choose not to
all candidates are in good standing, appeal their removal from BSG. In
and if someone is not that person this case, The Assembly will immewill not be qualified to run in this diately begin the process by which
election, said BSG President Danny the member was originally chosen
Mejia-Cruz 16.
to fill the empty seat.
Foster confirmed that the administration will only share information
Harry Rube contributed to this rewith BSG if students explicitly per- port.
mit the deans office to do so.

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I know that I would never want someone to

Google my name and have the word impeachment next to it. Its a matter of optics, and what
it means for reputation after their time at Bowdoin, and this was a way to avoid that.

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and Administration & Treasurer

Katy Longley noted that government
mandates and taxes on the endowments of nonprofit colleges would
represent a fundamental shift in
their purpose.
The purpose of an endowment
is to have a gift in perpetuity yield
as much as it can for the institution.
The purpose of the donors who gave
this money hundreds of years ago
was to support the schoolnot to
support something else.
In the letter, which is now available online, Rose noted that sixtysix percent of student financial aid
comes from endowment specifically
designated for financial aid. Out of
the over 1,600 funds in the Colleges
endowment, 833 are restricted by
donors to financial aid.
Rose wrote that Bowdoin uses a

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make education here accessible
Amherst College submitted their
and affordable to all students. The response to the inquiry on April 1,
nearly one-half of Bowdoin students similarly speaking to their endowwho receive financial aid from the ments dedication to financial aid.
College are granted an average of The letter noted the discrepancy
$39,620, which is approximately between the growth of their endowtwo-thirds
of
tuition
and
fees
charged.
Longleys
office further noted
that, in addition
to
paying out
a total of
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE AND
33.1 million
ADMINISTRATION & TREASURER KATY LONGLEY
in salaries
to
Brunswick residents in FY 2015, the Col- ment and the need for financial aid,
lege gave $125,900 in unrestricted determining that their financial aid
payments to the town. This money, has increased at nearly double the
however, was paid out of the Col- rate of the endowments growth.
leges operating budgetnot its en-

The purpose of an endowment is to have a gift in perpetuity yield as much as it can for the institution. The
purpose of the donors who gave this money hundreds
of years ago was to support the schoolnot to support something else.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

SEARCH FOR JUSTICE:

Sam Monkman 18 and David
Reichert 18 perform in the
opening night of Death and
the Maiden, which Jamie
Weisbach 16 directed as part
of his independent study. The
show chronicles a woman who
attempts to confront her rapist
years after her assault. There will
be two additional performances
on Friday and Saturday evening
at 7 p.m. in 108 Memorial Hall.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Laura Peterson Choreography

performs for dance students
BY SARAH LIM

ORIENT STAFF

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

POWER OF POETRY: Poet Jenny Zhang led a student workshop and did a reading of her own work as part of programming for Asian Week.

Poetry & the Asian American experience

BY SURYA MILNER
ORIENT STAFF

For writer and poet Jenny Zhang, being an artist means confronting issues that
arent always comfortable. In its exploration of race and gender, Zhangs work
offers insight into the politics of identity
through the lens of deeply personal, written experience. Yesterday evening, Bowdoins Asian Students Association (ASA)
hosted Zhang, who is based in Brooklyn,
for a reading and workshop in an effort to
foster dialogue and increase awareness of
the Asian-American experience.
Being Asian in America its like
youre a ghost, Zhang added. People
dont know anything about Asians in
America, and when you get down to the
nuances of all the different Asian- American groups, people know even less.
Zhang, who is the published author of
poetry collections, Dear Jenny, We Are
All Fine and HAGS, is also a long-time
contributor to online teenage magazine
Rookie, where she writes about her experiences as a woman of color.
I feel better and less confused and less
sad if I can say something and share it with
everyone, she said. Instead of harboring
this shameful thing that made me feel lost
or dark, Ive converted it into this object
that hopefully, when consumed by other
people who have felt lost, can shed a tiny
bit of light and do some tangible good.

Zhangs work and its synthesis of humor, sincerity and wit caught the attention
of ASA board member Elina Zhang 16
who then contacted the writer and invited
her to campus for the reading.
Race can often be a white-and-black
issue, and even this country is divided
in that kind of binary, Elina Zhang said.
Being Asian puts you in an interesting
positionit makes you an ally for African-Americans, for Latinos, but we have
our own challenges as well.
According to Elina Zhang, Asian Week
and its programming are an effort to both
better engage those who dont typically interact with Asian culture as well as provide
a platform for those who do to further discuss and celebrate the Asian identity.
Beyond just the psychic relief of how
important it is to have these events, theres
also a real need for certain groups to gain
some visibility to be talked about and considered because theres real suffering happening, Jenny Zhang said. Asian Week at
Bowdoin is addressing a lot of that stuff,
and I think thats great.
Despite the discomfort that often
comes with addressing the convoluted
aspects of identity, Jenny Zhang stressed
the importance of it, as both a person
and a writer, in order to better understand oneself.
No matter how you see yourself, if
youre a woman, if youre a person of
color, if youre queer, transbasically any

kind of marginalized identitytheres

going to be a time when youre going to
have to encounter a vision of yourself that
is prescribed and bound by one or more
of those identity categories, she said.
Maybe its not meaningful to say that
youre Asian American, but at some point,
if you live long enough, thats who youre
going to be seen as, and youre going to be
treated in a way that might not recognize
the full extent and facets of who you are
as a person.
For Erik Liederbach 19, who identifies as a cisgender, straight white man,
Zhangs workshop and reading proved
insightful, despite his inability to relate
at times.
She wasnt so much talking about
whiteness as much as she was talking
about her own experience with white
people, Liederbach said. And, I think
theres something true to that. You
dont need to relate. You just need to
listen and understand.
The gatekeepers of literature have
always been white men, Jenny Zhang
said. Those are also the people who
have the privilege and ability to pursue
something that has so little financial
stability. You have to kind of catch up
to that. There were a lot of times when
I felt like it would be crazy for this Chinese immigrant to think that anyone
would be interested in hearing what
she had to say.

Taking a unique, formalist approach

to dance and choreography, Visiting
Artist in the Department of Theater and
Dance Laura Peterson offered students
an interesting look behind her own
creative processes when she arranged a
lecture demonstration by her company,
Laura Peterson Choreography.
Peterson is teaching three classes this
spring: Choreography for Dancers: Improvisation and Invention, Modern
III: Technique and Modern III: Repertory and Performance. Open to current
dance students, the Wednesday event
in Wish Theater was a valuable supplement to the curriculum.
The kind of trend right now is
much more towards a nonlinear, earthbound sort of emotive form of dancing which has proliferated in the last
20 years or so, explained Chair of the
Theater and Dance Department Paul
Sarvis. Lauras work is more linear, but
its also more austerethats something
that students just dont have a chance to
see that much anymore.
According to Sarvis, Petersons work,
which is influenced by the minimalist
artists of the 1970s, expresses a unique
style of old and new that is rare in the
current dance world.
I think [Peterson] would describe
herself as a formalistso someone
who approaches dance making from
a standpoint of disinterested curiosity about the material and the fact of
the movement, said Sarvis. She deals
with form, and she has a lot of elaborateoften mathematicalscores that
she uses to make her dances.
Alessandra Laurent 18, a student in
Petersons Choreography for Dancers:
Improvisation and Invention, appreciated the opportunity to see excerpts
from Petersons final choreographed
work that reflect the improvisation
techniques done in the class.
In terms of set choreography, it
was interesting just to see a lot of the
stuff shes talked about physicalized
and to recognize a lot of the phrases
we learned in class in the excerpts that

they performed, said Laurent. Basically what weve been working on in

our class, which is improvisation with
a score.
Three dancers from Petersons company performed a series of lectures and
demonstrations of three works from
the companys repertory: The Atomic
Orbital, The Futurist, and Forever.
[The dancers] gave a debrief of each
dance right before they showed it, so
we got to hear what goes on behind the
curtainhow the dance is conceived
and producedbefore it is performed,
said Gina Fickera 18, one of Petersons
students. When audiences come, they
form their own opinion on it, but its
nice to hear the dancers own perspective because they are the ones who are
working hard up on the stage.
Sarvis admires Petersons approach
in constructing performances, from
the meticulous research to the creation
of a singular architectural space that
has captivated audiences from the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts in Washington, D.C. to venues all
over the world.
[Petersons] work values physical
effort in a sense that taps almost a romantic strand of the artist thats sort of
sacrificing themselves for an audience,
he said. She highlights the physicality
and endurance aspects of dancing.
Fickera thought that seeing the potential of simple movements generated in Petersons class to become a full
show was an inspiring experience.
She does a lot of site-specific
work, so she takes the space and
uses a part of that as a frame for
the body, said Fickera. We use the
architecture and the landscape and
the texture of a space to inspire our
movement, and well take pieces
from that generated improv and expand on that little piece into a full
show.
The way that [Peterson] does it,
theres set choreography that tends
to be very specific and very geometric and analytically thought-out,
added Laurent. It was very interesting to see that embodied in an actual
touring company.

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Pulitzer Prize winner biographer Maraniss and searching for truth

BY LIZA TARBELL
ORIENT STAFF

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss shared his writing process with students and the greater
Brunswick community in his talk
on Tuesday, and conveyed his desire
to dig for truth and his belief in the
power of stories. His talk was entitled The Art of Biography and the
Search for the Truth.
Maraniss completed his work,
Once in a Great City: A Detroit
Story in September, which is the
culminating book in a trilogy about
the 1960s. He currently serves as
an associate editor at The Washington Post.
According to Director of Events
and Summer Programs Tony
Sprague, Maraniss experience with
politics and particularly with the
happenings of the presidential campaign trail made him a particularly
appealing invite to campus. Maraniss wrote a 1995 biography of Bill
Clinton, and received a Pulitzer
Prize for his coverage of the Clinton campaign.
Maurice Asare 19 was particularly
interested in Maraniss discussion of
the Clinton campaign.
[I was interested in] the nature of
Hillary Clinton and how her personality, the defensiveness that she has
created in herself as a result of her
husbands mess in his political and
personal life, translates into her candidacy in this presidential election.
In his talk, Maraniss revealed
his own writing inspiration and
his mentors.
I was lucky. My father was a newspaperman, and he was my first mentor, he said. Ive had authors ranging from Robert Caro, the author of
[The Years of Lyndon Johnson] and

VALERIE CHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

POLITICS AND LIES: Earlier this week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss gave a lecture entitled The Art of Biography and the Search
for the Truth. Maraniss has written several critically acclaimed books, including biographies of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
The Power Broker...[to] some people that Ive never met, like George
Orwell, [as inspiration]. Not his
novels, but his essays have inspired
me too. It is the clarity with which

he wrote that made me think, Well

thats obvious! So why hasnt anybody
else written it like that? Thats sort of
a model that I try to get to.
He emphasized the writers refrain

that the obvious only becomes obvious when its obvious.

Something that should be apparent just washes over me in a more
profound way, he said.

Sprague aimed to bring a speaker

to Thomas Brackett Reed Professor
of Government Andrew Rudalevige
asked Maraniss to speak about his
obsessive writing style.
[Obsession] springs from who
I amits a combination of things
that I love that also happen to have
some larger essence to them, said
Maraniss. Im looking for both the
dramatic story and for the larger sociological themes.
Chasing these obsessions has taken Maraniss all over the world.
My motto is really to go there,
wherever there is, he said. And that
makes all the difference in understanding the culture and the sociology of the place.
I was impressed by his sociological imagination, said Sarah Steffen
16, who attended the talk. I try to
go to as many different talks and lectures while Im at Bowdoin because
I dont know when Ill be in such a
vibrant learning community after
these four years.
Steffen was also struck by Maraniss description of his emphasis on
his subjects upbringing, identity and
sense of self.
I was really interested in the idea
of how your background shapes everything in your life, she said. How
he differentiated between physiological analysis and his explanation
of what he meant by that was really
compelling.
At age 43, Maraniss had never
written a book. But then he went
on to write his lauded biography of
Clinton and later, one about Obama.
[I] had some opportunities, but
it didnt feel quite right, said Maraniss. And then I covered Clinton in
92 for the newspaper and woke up
the day after election and said, Im
ready.

For the love of cartoons: animation of Rick and Morty & Over the Garden Wall
TREVOR MURRAY

NETFLIX AND STRESS

My long and complicated relationship with television finds its roots in

my childhood and Saturday morning cartoons. Long before I would
binge The Sopranos into the wee
hours of the morning, I was waking
up at 9 a.m. to catch the next episode of Jackie Chan Adventures.
Ive always had a wild imagination
that was drawn to fantasy, and these
cartoons were all fantastical in one
way or another. As an adult, I still
have a spot in my heart for animation, and I think its a very special
category of television. From this, Id
like to recommend three shows that
rise above the rest and showcase the
best that animation has to offer.
Even if its writing and acting are
top notch, high concept television
instantly becomes campy when its
production value cannot realistically fulfill its vision. Perhaps the
largest advantage that animation
holds over live-action television is
that its only limits are in the realm
of imagination.
Through this lens of boundless
potential, the creative geniuses of
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland
converge into the best science fiction
on TV: Rick and Morty. Animation allows this show to be about as
high concept as it gets. It follows the
adventures of super scientist Rick

Sanchez and his grandson Morty. It

vacillates between outlandish sci-fi
adventure, absurd comedy and genuinely introspective moments. Some
plots are domestic and grounded,
some are action-packed with science
fiction and others parody movies
and television. The best part about
this show is that in two seasons, its
versatility demonstrates that it has
nowhere to go but up.
Rick and Morty is targeted exclusively to adults, but in terms of
universal appeal, there is no title
that supersedes Cartoon Networks
one-off series, Over the Garden
Wall. Between its network and limited run, this 10-episode animated
miniseries managed to slip under
almost everyones radar. Each episode is only 12 minutes long, but
in just 120 minutes, showrunner
Patrick McHale tells a beautiful
and gripping story. The tale follows
two brothers journey to escape the
mysterious and nonsensical realm
known as the Unknown. Its filled
with wondrous visuals, musical
numbers, sinister plot twists and
genuinely lovely moments.
Both this description and the
shows beginning episodes may
make it seem juvenile, but do not be
fooled; this is in every way a story
for all ages. It is another excellent
example of how a self-contained series can use each episode to build
more and more into a plot that concludes in one, cathartic finale. Every
pair of episodes raises the stakes of
the narrative, and by the sixth, its

practically impossible not to

rush through to
see how the story ends. Over
the
Garden
Wall captures
pure youthful
wonder with a
cast of charming characters;
if you have a
couple of hours,
I cannot recommend this adventure enough.
This last show
is one that uses
animation as a
tool to blend the
worlds of realism
and absurdity. In
early showings,
previewers said
it was too dark
and not funny
enough, so the
creative
team
decided to make
half of the cast
animal-people,
and
Bojack
Horseman was
born. Will Arnett voices the
titular character,
a washed up actor struggling to bring
happiness back into his life. I have never seen a show so effortlessly fluctuate
between laugh-out-loud comedy and
brooding, depressive drama. It starts

SOPHIE WASHINGTON

out slowly, but halfway through its first

season, the show explodes into inexplicably compelling writing. The second
season follow-up is nothing short of a
whirlwind, dealing out explosive and

topical plotlines episode after episode.

Bojack is a gripping journey that hits
every emotional target it can findyet
another brilliant mark on Netflixs increasingly impressive resume.

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friday, arpil 15, 2016

Lacovara on discovering worlds presumed largest dinosaur

BY MARTIN SHOTT
ORIENT STAFF

Instead of enjoying the first springlike afternoon of the season outside,

dozens of students, faculty, children,
and parents packed into Searles 315
to hear a world-famous paleontologist share the stories of exploration
and discovery.
Professor of Paleontology at Rowan
University Dr. Kenneth Lacovara visited Bowdoin on Wednesday to share
the story of his unearthing of Dreadnoughtus schrani, a titanosaur widely
considered to be one of the largest terrestrial vertebrates ever discovered.
After several years of excavation in
Southern Argentina, Lacovara and his
team produced a report examining
the unusually complete set of Dreadnoughtus remains. The discovery of the
estimated 65-ton dinosaur was widely
reported by international media, contributing to an increasing global interest in paleontology and its application
with new technology.
When you get yourself in the right
geological situation, you are going to
find fossilsthats a given. The question is will you find something thats
relatively complete and then did you
find something that is significant to
science, and thats the thing thats harder to predict, said Lacovara. I was first
surprised by the size of the material we
were findingI expected we would
find some big sauropod dinosaurs, but
these were some of the biggest bones
we had ever seen in the worldand
then I was flabbergasted when we saw
the completeness of the Dreadnoughtus skeleton.
Lacovara spent much of the talk
discussing the integration of classic
paleontological field techniques and
cutting-edge lab techniques, including
3D scanning and printing, CT scanning, biomedical engineering, genome
sequencing, and protein isolation.
Lacovara, along with many of his coworkers, are pioneering the application of these methods based on the
wealth of information made available
by the discovery.

DAVID ANDERSON THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DINOSAUR MAN: Professor of Paleontology at Rowan University Kenneth Lacovara led an international team of researchers that discovered what is considered to be
one of the largest terrestrial vertebrates ever discovered. Dr. Lacovara recently gave a TED talk that will be released on Earth Day, April 22, 2016.
The international fame and success experienced by Lacovara and his
team was not earned easily. He began
working at the site of the eventual
discovery100km from the nearest
power gridin 2004, and was able
to secure additional grant money
following the excavation of a rare
2.2-meter femur fossil. One year later, he hit the jackpot, and spent the
next four years excavating the nowfamous set of fossils.
In 2009, the fossils were shipped
to the United States, where three
labs and more than one hundred fossil experts analyzed the samples for
five years.
There are a lot of paleontologists
who would literally step over an animal like that. Its too much work, its
too much money, it takes too long,
said Lacovara. On the other side is

that its been very satisfying since weve

published Dreadnoughtus. It achieved
a lot of notoriety around the world.
A Drexel University service that
tracks the audience an article gets
estimated the audience reached by
the Dreadnoughtus story was 4.3 billion people.
Lacovara started his career in paleontology in 2nd grade, with the
submission of an essay comparing
different types of rock. Through
college, he took as many physical
science and geography classes as
he could, ultimately leading him
to a PhD in Paleontology from the
University of Delaware. His first big
break came following a discussion
with a lecturing paleontologist at the
Academy of Natural Sciences.
I went up and introduced myself and I said I loved your talk Dr.

Dodson, but your sedimentology

was all wrong.
We had a discussion and the gist
of that discussion was basically OK

One of the things that I try to

tell my students is that comfort is way overrated. When
youre comfortable nothing
much happens really.
DR. KENNETH LACOVARA

kid, if you think you can do a better job why dont you come to Egypt
with us. By the end of that week I
was on the team and two months
later I was digging up dinosaurs in

the oasis in the Sahara desert.

For Lacovara, the best part of paleontology is the travel. This urge to
explore lead him to Southern Patagonia, an extremely remote region
of Argentina with the ideal combination of appropriately-aged sedimentary rock and the high rate of erosion
typically found in deserts. His next
project, however, allows him to remain much closer to home.
Lacovara has assumed the role of
Director of Rowan Fossil Park, a facility at an active fossil site in New Jersey
that seeks to perpetuate research and
education in Paleontology.
The educational component of it
is super important, but also I think
were starting to unravel clues here
that will lead to a much more complete understanding of the extinction
event that wiped out the dinosaurs
65 million years ago, said Lacovara. This, for some students, will
be their first exposure to the STEM
disciplines and for many it will their
first exposure to a university setting.
Were immensely excited about this.
While he doesnt believe that everyone should be a paleontologist
joking about how there are enough
of those already in the worldLacovara emphasized the importance of
teaching the scientific method and
scientific method from a young age.
Addressing a Searles classroom full
of students of all ages, he hoped to
inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers of all sorts.
One of the things that I try to
convey to my students is that comfort is way overrated, said Lacovara.
When youre comfortable nothing
much happens really. Whether that is
prospecting for dinosaurs in a desert
or standing up in front of everyone
you know and getting married or
getting up on stage and performing,
youre uncomfortable in every one of
those situations. Every one of those
kinds of situations has the potential
to lead to some of the most profound
moments in your life.
Lucy Ryan contributed to this report.

Parting the Red Sea: Manischewitz Concord Grape wine

BOTTOM OF
THE BARREL
WILL DANFORTH AND MARTIN KRZYWY
This month, your esteemed critics
were faced with a predicament that
has plagued sitcom writers since the
beginning of timenamely whether
to produce a holiday-themed installment before or after the true day of
celebration. Luckily, fulfilling our
remaining Kickstarter rewards from
last semesters wildly successful $135
bacchanalia impressed upon us the
necessity of delivering this review in
advance of Passover. Thus, we have
finally brought to fruition Wills sororal obligation to sample Manischewitz Concord Grape wine.
While France and Israel have both
developed robust Kosher wine industries, the Manischewitz bottle is what
most American Jews reach for when
celebrating Seder or Shabbat. Despite
Martins preemptive chiding by a fellow Hannaford shopper when purchasing the wine, our consumption
took place under decidedly non-cer-

emonial circumstances. However, we

took care to pair our drinking with
one of Manischewitzs other Kosher
offerings: Everything Matzahan
essential nosh not only for times of
lessened leaven, but also for all 353,
354, 355, 383, 384 or 385 days of the
lunar year.
The Passover season also allowed
your esteemed critics to indulge their
shared passion for musical theater,
as the obvious soundtrack to our
nights proceedings was Fiddler on
the Roof. Though we at first erroneously settled upon the 1995 Anthony
Newley rendition, we were quick to
correct our mistake and substitute
in the exemplary original 1964 cast
recording, anchored by legendary
thespian Zero Mostel. The emotional roller coaster we rode from
Prologue: Tradition to Anatevka
proved the perfect accompaniment
to our prolonged consumption of the
generously sized bottle.
Though the 1.5L Magnum ($8.99)
provided double the usual quantity of
wine, its wide neck foiled our normal
decanting method with the VinOair.
Even without this aerating augmen-

tation, the Vitis labrusca-corn syrup

medley manifested itself in a powerfully grapey nose and mucilaginous mouthfeel. We immediately had
transcultural flashbacks to the Scuppernong debacle of last
January 29, but the
ritualistic qualities
of the Manischewitz
proved much more
comforting than its
similarly sweet cousin. We were then
transported even
further back to
the tweenage
joyreal and
imaginedof
swallowing
thimblesworths
of
Mani at bar
and bat mitzvahs, dreams
of adult beverage adulation whirring
in our heads.
Now ready
to make good

on those earlier aspirations, we find

that this wine performed poorly by
every single college metric we have
developed to date. However lacking in taste the Manischewitz may
have been, it more than succeeded
in reminding us of the rich cultural
heritage of the Jewish people. Recreational Manischewitz use may prove
to be unwise, and JSwipe may not
pass muster as a digital Yente, but as
we neared the end of the bottle, our
yearning for connection was satisfied. Chag Sameach!

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
TONIGHTS SOUNDTRACK

Fiddler on the Roof (Original

Broadway Cast Recording).
WILL

Can my quote be, Could whoever took my boots with yellow

laces from Red Brick please them
return to me?
MARTIN

If I was an Israeli trap DJ, my

name would be Lazer Wolf.
NOSE
BODY
MOUTHFEEL
LEGS
TASTE
SOPHIE WASHINGTON

3.6/5
1.8/5
1.8/5
3.6/5
1.8/5

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When our bodies force us to stop Beyond the stigma; disability

DOUBLETHINK
CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL
Sometimes it feels like everyone at
Bowdoin is slightly under the weather.
Maybe its something about the vaguely
sticky chairs in the Union or snagging
bites of vegan sin city off our sneezing
friends plates. We tend to collectively
hover at a level of not-quite-healthybut-still-functional. Both of our Jewish mothers would be appalled at
the volume of sniffles and coughs in
the classroom.
We have both fallen below the functional threshold in the past year. Last
week, Carly went on brain rest for a
concussion she got playing frisbee.
Last semester, Tessa was bedridden for
two weeks with a nasty case of mono.
Both of us were rendered useless for
solid chunks of time.
At first, being really sick
at Bowdoin can feel like
playing school-sponsored
hooky. Our professors tell
us to rest! To not worry
about upcoming assignments! We got to experience Bowdoin with the veil
of responsibilities magically
lifted off of us. In those first
moments of uninhibited
lounging, it was all Otter
Pops and David Sedaris audiobooks. The world transformed into a cozy, if a bit
foggy, luxury.
But the fog settled in
real quick. What started
as a fun break from reality
soon became long hours in
our dimly lit rooms, feeling
awkward about asking our
friends to bring us nourishment and missing our
aforementioned mommies.

We got lonely. We got frustrated. We

were mad at our bodies for not letting
us participate.
Having a concussion, having mono,
having anything that keeps us away
from day-to-day life for a sustained
time, takes a mental toll. We could
deal with being lonelyan en masse
text announcing open office hours
and bricking our doors would remedy
our woes. We could deal with being
frustratedwere both lucky enough
to have emotional outlets to help calm
us down. To an extent, we could deal
with being mad at our bodies because
deep down we trust modern medicine
enough to intellectually justify rest.
The barb that snagged us was not being able to think. Not remembering,
not making connections, not tracking
conversation as we normally could
was entirely destabilizing. Losing our
cognitive ability made us feel inhu-

man. Our normal process for understanding the world was slowed down,
put on hold.
Its easy as college students to believe that our bodies are infallible.
Were constantly able to push our
physical limitswe stay up late, party
hard, wake up the next day to write a
paper. And so on. Being sick, like we
were, is a rude awakening. It reminds
us that our bodies can betray us, and
thats terrifying.
In our darkest hours, the two of
us were convinced that we would
never heal. Against all odds, sleep,
vitamins, fuzzy blankets and time
returned us to our normal selves. Being incapacitated also provided space
for our friends to show how they
care for us. We each felt the Bowdoin
community stepping in, coming to
us when we were not able to engage.
And we got better.

SOPHIE WASHINGTON

can positively forge identity

BEN YORK
AN AUTISTICS GUIDE TO AUTISM
I am a disabled person. Much of
my life is dictated by the fact that I
am autistic, and that therefore I am
unable to do certain things easily.
Being autistic dictates where I go to
eat every day, where and with who I
spend my time, in what places I can
work and study and enjoy myself. If
a food is too complex I cannot eat it.
If a place is too loud then I cannot
be there. If a statement is too vague,
then I cannot understand it. As well,
that which I consider in excess is
just fine for the typical person. In
short, because I am autistic there are
things that are much more difficult
for me then they are for the majority
of other people.
And yet, I consider autism to be
fundamental to my identity: to my
internal conception of myself. When
I give a presentation about autism, or
write an article about autism, or just
talk about autism in casual conversation, I try to make it very clear that
I do not consider autism like an ailment that I am stuck with, but as a
part of who I am. So much so, that
I have changed the way that I speak
about myself: from a person with
autism to an autistic person. I also
try to make it clear that I would not
want to be any other way than I am
now. Despite all the difficulties I
experience because I am autistic, if
some procedure were developed that
would stop me from being autistic
then I would refuse it (and vehemently at that).
Why?

Two reasons.
The first concerns the concept of disability itself. Having a disability is often associated with bearing a burden,
or with withstanding a trial. When we
speak and think of disability, we are often making the implicit statement that
there is something wrong with that
person, because there is something
that they have difficulty with, or that
they cannot do. Or put another way,
a person with a disability is to some
degree broken. I maintain that this
is false. To have a disability literally
means that one is limited in ones ability to perform certain tasks or actions.
That does not mean that the person
with a disability needs fixing. Human
beings should never be considered broken, because they never are. Not only
is that conception emotionally harmful to individuals with disabilities, who
grow up to think that they are broken,
but it is a misunderstanding of what it
means to be disabled.
The second concerns the specific
nature of autism. As autism is neurological in nature, to say that someone
is autistic is to say that their brain
works or is arranged in a certain
way. A device that claimed to cure
a person of their autism would have
to changein a very fundamental
waythe nature of that person. To
cure a person of their autism would
be to change the way that they process and perceive the world. To cure
a person of their autism would be to
kill that person, and replace them
with a new, non-autistic person, who
would then take up residence in the
body of the deceased. As such, I consider my difficulties, numerous as
they may be, a reasonable price to
pay for my continued existence.

ASIAN WEEK: (clockwise from top left): Paper crane

made at theOrigami and TeaEvent in Lamarche Gallery;
Cam Chisholm16 at the Panda Bear Tales story-telling
event at MacMillan House. Poet Jenny Zhang works with
students Winston Antoine16 and Maddie Lemal-Brown
18 at a writing workshop; Hassaan Mirza17 speaks at
the Panda Bear Tales event; Ellery Rourke17 samples tea
Origami and Tea event; Kevin Ma16 and Adela Yang16
at the Origami and Tea Event.
COMPILED BY LOUIS MENDEZ, DANA WILLIAMS, AND
JENNY IBSEN.

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features

the bowdoin orient

friday, april 15, 2016

TALK OF THE QUAD

THAT GIRL FROM THE
FACEBOOK GROUP
I thought that falling out of one's
chair due to sheer excitement was
something that didn't actually happen in real life
December 15, 2011. 4:57 p.m.
Thursday afternoon, probably just
hours after Id gotten my acceptance
letter to Bowdoin. The beginning.
Members of the Class of 2016,
youll remember this. Even if you
didnt read it firsthand, you heard
about it on move-in day, on your
Pre-Os, in the dining hall during
the first few weeks of school. Olivia
Stoneyou know, that girl from the
Facebook group? Thats me, the girl
who, as soon as she was accepted
to Bowdoin, started posting in the
Bowdoin Class of 2016 Facebook
group and just didnt stop.
It made me kind of famous. My
dear friend and roommate told me
today that she recalls seeing me in
the line to get breakfast the morning after we all slept in Farley asking
if there were any gluten-free bagels.
Recognizing me from my Facebook
photos, she thought, Of course
Olivia Stone would be gluten-free.
(Im not anymore.) Someone else
apologized to my first-year roommate that she had to live with me.
My fame was not all that flattering.
I remember distinctly sitting at

THE OLD BOYS DIDNT LIKE IT

What is a college president there to do?
Willard Enteman began his term as
Bowdoins 11th president in 1978. Enteman was new to Bowdoina Williams
graduate in the midst of an academic career as a philosophy professor. In his first
semester at Bowdoin, he moved quickly to
engage with two of the dominant political
issues facing the College. He appointed
one committee to look into gender discrimination at fraternities (in other words,
the fact that they did not admit women)
and another to examine the possibility of divesting the Colleges endowment
from countries involved in apartheid
South Africa.
Progress was slow. By 1980, a threesided conflict at Bowdoin had developed
between the Governing Boards (of which
there were two at the time), the Faculty,
and Enteman. Fraternities remained allmale and the College had divested from
nothing. Another controversy arose over
faculty salaries, as the College was forced
to make tough budgeting decisions in an
era of double-digit inflation.
During the summer, the Boards appointed a secretive committee to review
Entemans performance. In October, the
Faculty passed a resolution condemning
the corporate procedure of the review.
On November 10, Enteman resigned.
At the time, many students and faculty at Bowdoin were frustrated by the
mysterious circumstances surrounding
the conflict. Signs appeared on campus
the day the news broke saying Presi-

my kitchen counter probably

somewhere around 4:50 pm
that day and deciding that
college was a chance for me
to be as weird as I wanted to
be, as publicly as I wanted to
be. I remember feeling bold
and therefore cool as I typed
out the above comment on
Alex Roches post. I remember my palms sweating a little while I waited for people
to reply, and when they did,
being excited by the opportunity to get to know all of
my future classmates.
I was helpful; I answered
questions about what kind
of laundry detergent we
should get (high efficiency),
whether twin XL sheets are
necessary (not really) and
what color the couches were
in the first year bricks. (I
had already asked around
theyre all different colors.)
I asked about under-bed
storage and clarified the difference between Carolina
blue and just regular blue.
In case you are wondering,
there is a Wikipedia page for
Carolina blue.
Hate to be that kid, but anyone
NOT follow sports here? I typed,
thinking that was funny and hip. I
reposted the KONY 2012 video in an

photo of my friend Arvind

(he doesnt go here) and I
at senior prom, our hands
awkwardly twisted into Bs
with the caption Bowdoin
goes to prom!
I had no idea that my
overeager Facebook presence would label me as
Facebook girl for the Class
of 2016. I found out during
orientation when, between
bouts of diarrhea from some
virus I picked up hiking (or
maybe just pre-first-day-ofschool nervousness, lets be
real), I introduced myself to
my classmates and discovered that they already knew
exactly who I was.
I was mortified. To be
honest, I am still kind of
mortified when I think
about it. In a lot of ways, it
has shaped how I use social
media nowI almost never
make posts anymore, have
purged many people from
my friends lists and sometimes deactivate my Facebook account. I go back and
DIANA FURUKAWA
forth on whether I should
make a comeback post in the
attempt to reveal how informed and 2016 group before graduation (now
socially conscious I was. Yeah, thats accepting suggestions), but as a gencringe-worthy, I know. Almost as eral rule, I have stayed far, far away
bad as when I posted the legendary from that thing.

Despite the lingering embarrassment and my not-ideal first impressions, though, Bowdoin has turned
out to be more or less exactly the
welcoming community I hoped it
would be. I feel comfortable being
just as weird as I want to be, and
luckily, this has morphed into a different kind of weird than the one I
put forth on the Internet before arriving at college. Its a kind of weird
I feel a lot more comfortable with
than the one who giggled as she
commented labyrinth with david
bowie on the post Describe your
sex life in a movie title. I can assure
you, that was not true, nor was it really that funny.
The Bowdoin Class of 2016 page
remains an archive of how Ive matured, as I bet this Talk of the Quad
will serve me years from now when
I feel nostalgic about the old couch
in the well-loved apartment where I
wrote it. Now, I cheesily thank the
Class of 2016 for helping a Facebook
girl figure herself out. To quote my
December 15, 2011 self again, By
the way, congrats to everyone, we
have all worked really hard to get
here. we did it!!!!
P.S. The comment FIRST OLIVIA STONE POST!!! on that original
post, made a year and a half later,
got 50 likes.
Olivia Stone is a member of the
Class of 2016.

dent Enteman was screwed. Over 100

students protested outside the meeting
where the Boards accepted the presidents resignation.
The Enteman affair is exemplary of
the way things are usually handled at this
institutionimproperly, read a stinging
editorial in the Orient published the week
of the resignation.
The Governing Boards review was
published on November 22, but even
then little detail was given about the specific gripes board members had with the
president. For his part, Enteman told the
Orient at the time, There is a certain level
of support a President needs to have, and
I got to a point where I was not receiving
that support.
A quote given by Lawrence Hall, an
English professor, to the Harvard Crimson at the time gives some clues about
where the conflicts lay. Hall told the paper
that the president had "tried to withdraw
the college's investments in South Africa,
delivered a pay raise that the faculty was
promised a long time ago, and he insisted
that women be allowed to join the fraternities, and said that The old boys didnt
like it.
Enteman returned to academia after
his resignation, taking a position at Rhode
Island College and teaching at various
other institutions. 35 years later, the gritty
details of his departure remain frustratingly elusive: Secretary of Development
and College Relations John Cross 76,
who acts as the Colleges historian, told
me that he knows little about the events
because the relevant documents in the
Bowdoin archives are still sealed.
Enteman is retired now, living in Providence, R.I. I reached out to him be-

cause I was curious to hear about his time

at Bowdoin and his departure from his
perspective. He was kind enough to correspond over email even though he was
recovering from a recent surgery.
I should warn you that I have nothing
nasty or scandalous to say about Bowdoin
then or now, he wrote. I left Bowdoin as
I joined it: filled with admiration for the
very positive and nearly magical educational success achieved by faculty and students working together.
We werent able to speak in much detail about his time at the College, but his
dedication to applying an academic lens
to every facet of his work struck me.
I remember after one speech I gave
early in my time at Bowdoin, a faculty
member came up to me and said that he
thought liberal education was like a religion for me, he wrote. I saw the divestment issue in that context. I thought if
we were going to engage that debate, we
should do so in the context of liberal education.
In the context of the debates surrounding divestment nowand many other debates about the Colleges policies today
there is something subtly radical about
this idea. Like it is at many colleges and
universities, the presidency at Bowdoin
is as much about organizational and financial management as it is about in-theweeds academic policies and ideas. Barry
Mills came from a background in law,
and Clayton Rose comes from finance;
each has worked to apply the managerial skills from those backgrounds to the
high-powered institution with a complex
bureaucracy that Bowdoin is.
To their credit, both also seem to have
worked hard to maintain a campus cul-

ence had a lasting effect on how Bowdoin

approaches social and political change.
However, for such a historically significant
figure, he seems to be largely forgotten.
Think about it this way: its hard to go
four years at Bowdoin without committing the names of most of the Colleges
presidents to memory without even trying. Their names are attached to locations
most of us know and frequent from our
first months here: Appleton and Hyde
Halls, Coles Tower, the McKeen Center
for the Common Good, and on and on.
The decision to name one building after
any one person happens on an individual
basis, but collectively theyre an important
part of the way that institutional memory
functions at a place like Bowdoin. A name
attached to a part of Bowdoins physical
landscape is not an endorsement of every
facet of that persons character, but it is an
indication that the namesake is part of a
group that made a significant contribution to Bowdoins past.
Presidents who came after Enteman
have something to their names. Greason
might be stuck with the pool, but its better
than nothing. Bowdoins newest academic
building is named for Edwards, and its
hard to imagine that Mills wont have a
building before long. But theres no Enteman Hall, or Enteman Auditorium, or
Enteman Center.
It doesnt have to come in the form of a
building, but it should come from somewhere. We owe it to ourselves to reckon
with the legacy of Willard Enteman
and the old boys who didnt
like it.
John Branch is a member
of the Class of 2016

ture that takes the ideals of a liberal education seriously. But theres a distinction
between being a facilitator and an active
participant, and your answer about which
is better probably depends on who you
are. Clearly, the facilitators have been able
to accomplish more at Bowdoin than Enteman was. Clearly, someone like Enteman was willing to approach issues like
divestment from a philosophical perspective in a way that his more recent successors have not.
Things that happened during Entemans brief tenure reverberatedand are
still reverberatingin the years after he
left. The College required fraternities to
go co-ed in 1982, less than two years after
Entemans departure, and moved further
by requiring them to give women equal
standing in 1991. In the 1980s, the Colleges bylaws were amended to require
a committee that considered the social
responsibility aspects of Bowdoins investments. That committee was dissolved in
1998, but the debates over fossil fuel divestment in recent years have often referenced those about South Africa.
In a column in the Orient last semester, Maya Reyes 16 discussed how little
the College discusses Franklin Pierce and
asked for more conversations about the
actions and products of Bowdoin that we
arent so proud of. When it comes to Willard Enteman, I have a different, if related,
ask: I want Bowdoin to be proud of him
and what he stood for as a president.
Many of the questions the College faces
todayabout where it invests, about the
social inclusion of historically marginalized peoplecame to a head during Entemans tenure. Enteman may not have
been at the College long, but his pres-

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SPORTS

the bowdoin orient

11

Despite top-20 national

ranking, sailing team
sees room for improvement
BY COLIN TIERNAN
ORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF ELLEN FRIEDLANDER

ON FIRE: Grant Urken 19 wins a point during a training session. The mens tennis team is now 11-0 and defeated Amherst 9-0 over the weekend, handing the Lord Jeffs their worst loss in a decade. Bowdoin is currently ranked No. 2 in the country, and now faces a formidable opponent
in No. 3 Middlebury this weekend. The team has not defeated both Amherst in Middlebury in the same regular season in 15 years.

Mens tennis uses dynamic approach to

deal Amherst worst loss in a decade
BY JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF

The undefeated mens tennis team

put on a show for the Polar Bears
in attendance last weekend as it dismantled Hamilton (4-8 overall, 0-3
NESCAC) and powerhouse No. 14
Amherst (12-5 overall, 3-2 NESCAC)
in its home openers. The team swept
both matches 9-0, did not lose a set
in either and is now ranked second
nationally with three weeks left in the
regular season. The Polar Bears will
hope to continue their stellar play
this weekend when they take on No.
23 Brandeis today at 3 p.m and No. 4
Middlebury on Sunday. Both of this
weekends matches are away.
While the victory against a Ham-

ilton team that has yet to win a set

in NESCAC play this season was expected, the results against Amherst,
who has won two national championships in the past five years, were more
up in the air. Still, the win against
the Continentals was paramount for
the Polar Bears as it helped get them
in the right mindset for the next
days match.
I knew we were going to have a
good result [against Amherst], or at
least play our best, because of our
match the day before against Hamilton, said senior captain Chase
Savage.
Hamilton is the bottom of our
conference. Theyre by no means a
team that should beat us, and I feel
pretty confident saying that, Savage

Please see SAILING, page 12

continued. But what guys did in that

match was be really focused, really
disciplined, take nothing for granted
and just go out there and do their job.
And that has been why weve been
successful this year.
In the contest against Amherst,
the Polar Bears stayed disciplined
early on in the match as Luke Tercek
18 and senior captain Luke Trinka
jumped out of the gate to an 8-2 win
in first doubles. Kyle Wolfe 18 and
Jerry Jiang 19 quickly followed suit
with an 8-4 win of their own, as Savage and Gil Roddy 18 wrapped up
the doubles in a hard-fought 9-8 victory in third doubles. Things werent
as dramatic in the singles matches

Please see M TENNIS, page 12

Womens track and field kicks off outdoor

season with second-place finish
BY MADDIE JODKA
ORIENT STAFF

The track and field teams competed

last Saturday at home at the Bowdoin
Invitational at Magee-Samuelson
track. The women finished with 164
points to put them in second place,
ahead of Husson (80), Colby (56), University of Maine-Farmington (39) and
St. Josephs (7) but just behind the University of Southern Maine (199), who
won the meet.
We were resting a couple of our
people who would score a lot of
points for us, said captain Lucy
Knott 17. So in the future, our
points situation could be a little
higher, which would be nice. But we
also had some great moments.
Before transitioning from the indoor
to outdoor seasons, a few Bowdoin
women also competed in the NCAA
Championships in March. Katie Krupp
16 and Sarah Kelley 18 both received
their first All-American honors during
a successful weekend. Kelley finished

The Bowdoin sailing team currently sits tied for 15th in the national
coed sailing rankings and 13th in the
national womens rankings. Teams
surrounding the Polar Bears in the
rankings include Stanford, Yale and
Georgetown. There are no division distinctions in collegiate sailing, so Bowdoin competes against the best teams
in the country.
One aspect of the teams ability to
compete against top competition is
the interchangeability of its roster. The
team typically competes in four to five
regattas each week, meaning Head
Coach Frank Pizzo divides his sailors
into as many as five separate groups
and sends off several groups without a
coach.

On many weekends, a few units,

which are generally made up of first
years and sophomores, handle regatta
responsibilities on their own. This
tends to cultivate an experienced, mature senior class. According to Pizzo,
this years sailing team has had unusual
mental toughness, even for a team used
to such independence.
Theyre pretty resilient, and some
of the adversity we went through in the
fall helped with that. Its a pretty weathered team, said Pizzo. Thats a bad
analogy with sailing, but its a pretty
tough group. They dont get rattled by
too much.
Regattas have two types of race:
team racing and fleet racing. Fleet racing is two people per boat competing
in a race of 18 boats, each from a dif-

COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD/CIPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

BEST OF THE REST: Seamus Power sprints out ahead of the pack during Bowdoins dominant victory
in its first outdoor meet of the season this past weekend. Bowdoin won 14 events and finished with 317
points. The teams point total was 240 more than the second-place finisher.

Mens track and field

wins first outdoor meet
BY ELI LUSTBADER
ORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD/CIPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

STARTING ON A HIGH NOTE: Addison Carvajal 16 bends over the bar on the high jump. The
womens track and field team took second at its first outdoor meet this past weekend.
the mile in 4:56.40 to finish in sixth
place and was one of just three nonseniors in the group of 10 competitors.
She finished just four seconds behind
the winning pace. Meanwhile, Krupp
broke her own record in the triple

jump with a distance of 11.92 meters

on her third attempt and finished fifth
in the triple jump.
The Bowdoin women were outstand-

Please see W TRACK AND FIELD, page 13

The mens track and field team

dominated in its first meet of the outdoor season this past weekend. Bowdoin finished with 317 points, 240
more than the second place finisher,
UMaine-Farmington (77 points).
Colby (76 points) placed third, Husson (68 points) finished fourth and St.
Josephs (21 points) fifth.
I think in general it was just a really strong race, captain Nick Walker 16 said. Usually when you start
outdoor track people usually dont
hit their personal records, but in
general this was a really good meet

all around.
The win should come as little surprise, as the team posted many impressive results throughout its indoor
season. The most notable include a
second place finish out of 50 schools
at the ECAC Meet and first place at
the Maine State Meet.
Ive just been blown away by
how hard everyone on the team
has been working every single day,
Walker said.
Walker cited middle- and long-distance races as the teams biggest improvement compared to past seasons.
In terms of the state meet, last

Please see M TRACK AND FIELD, page 12

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the bowdoin orient

friday, april 15, 2016

M TENNIS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

COURTESY OF JERRY LEVASSEUR

FLYING HIGH: Nathaniel Kent 18 hurdles during Bowdoins victory at the Bowdoin Invitational this past Saturday. Unlike recent seasons, the mens
track team has shown that it can compete in all facets of track and field: sprinting, middle- and long-distance running, jumping, and throwing.

M TRACK
AND FIELD
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

year and in past years it always

seems like we narrowly lose to
Bates, he said. This year we were
finally able to edge them out and I
think the thing that really changed
was that the distance runners are
consistently performing at a high
level, which is in large part because
of a really strong freshman class.
The team won 14 events overall
on Saturday. Latif Armiyaw 18 won
the 100 meters (11.76 seconds), Harrison Porter 19 won the 400 meters
(51.76 seconds), John Kennealy 18
in the 800 meters (1:59.29) and Matt
Jacobson in the 1500 (3:59.40). The
relay team of Andrew Murowchick
16, Jibrail Coy 16, Porter and Armiyah took the 4x100 meter relay (44.20
seconds) and the relay team of Porter,
Liam Nicoll 18, Seamus Power 16
and Jacob Ellis 16 won the 4x400 meter relay (3:37.16).
Sprinting, jumping and throwing have been consistently strong

over the past couple of years, and

that has continued this year. Saturday was no exception, as Brian
Greenberg 18 took the long jump
(6.59 meters) and triple jump (13.81
meters), Joseph Staudt 19 won the
high jump (1.80 meters) and 110
meter hurdles (15.42 seconds), John
Pietro 18 won the hammer (46.28
meters) and shot put (13.89 meters),
and Thomas Rehnquist 16 won the
discus (39.20 meters).
Past years weve had certain individuals or teams or relays that were
really strong, but we havent had a
team that was this strong across the
board in my entire time at Bowdoin,
Walker said.
According to Walker, another factor that differentiates this team from
past seasons and has contributed to
their elevated level of play has been
the inclusiveness of the team.
Ive noticed in past years that
event groups usually just hang out
together, Walker said. There isnt
a lot of intermingling. This year I
see people interacting across those
boundaries a lot more. It just seems
like a much more relaxed atmosphere,

so thats been maybe the nicest part

of the track season for me so far and
has maybe helped us get some of our
good results.
In the next three weeks, the team
has two of its biggest meets: the
outdoor Maine State Meet, which
will take place on April 23 at Colby,
and the NESCAC Championship
meet, which will take place April 30
at Amherst.
States is just kind of a personal
pride thing for our team, Walker
said. Bates, Colby and USM are usually our biggest competitors there and
if we can win it just means a lot for
our team and pride.
Walker noted that the NESCAC
Championship Meet is also important
in rallying the team toward a common goal.
Something about missing the Saturday of Ivies creates almost an extra
commitment that people bring to that
meet, he said.
The team will look to continue its
recent successes as they travel to Middlebury this weekend to compete in
the Middlebury Invitational on Saturday, April 16 at 11 a.m.

with all 12 sets going Bowdoins way.

While the Polar Bears were impressed with themselves after the
shutout win, they are most excited
looking forward, as they believe their
potential has yet to be reached.
I dont think anyone on our team
expected it to be 9-0. We know how
good we are, but we also know were
playing a top-10 team, said Savage.
The scary thing about the group
is that after some of these really
great wins, there are specific things
that we can all do to get better. So
in many ways, its a group that still
has a lot of room for improvement,
added Trinka.
This years team is also a fairly
young onecaptains Savage and
Trinka are the only two upperclassmen on the teamwhich makes the
win against Amherst, who only lost
three seniors from last years Elite
Eight team, even more impressive.
Although they are still developing,
the Polar Bears credit most of their
success to the focus and preparation
they are putting into their matches.
Guys have been very intentional
in their preparation in ways that differ from seasons past, said Trinka.
People were really thinking out
loud about their matchups for the
coming weekend. [They are] very
deliberate about strategizing within

practices against teammates just to

try to replicate what we would be up
against on Sunday.
Sundays match against Middlebury carries extra weight as Bowdoin
hopes to avenge last seasons losses
to the Panthers both in the NESCAC
tournament and in the Sweet Sixteen
of the NCAA tournament. The team
has not beaten both Amherst and
Middlebury in a single regular season in 15 years, and playing on the
Panthers home court adds an extra
obstacle to the matchup.
To be honest, Middlebury is one
of the toughest places to play, and
it has as much to do with their fans
on the side of the court as it does
the players on the court, said Savage. They like to make it an intimate
atmospheretheir fans like to get in
your face a little bit, which is something unusual for a tennis match,
and so they try to take you out of
their game. In years past, weve had
guys whove gotten taken out of their
game, and I feel like with this years
team, thats not going to be the case.
The team will hope to stay undefeated against the Judges and
the Panthers.
I think [our court conduct] has
slowly started to change to a team
thats got a little bit more of an edge to
it than before, Savage said. We walk
a very smart line with it...theres a bit
of a different competitive fire that we
bring to some of these matches than
we have in years prior.

CRUSHING IT:
Yangeng Jiang 19 whacks
a forehand during a training
session. The mens tennis
team treats each practice like
it is a match setting, which
has helped it jump out to
a 10-0 start and the No. 2
ranking in the country. The
team will have its hands
full against Middlebury
this weekend, though. The
Panthers are currently the
No. 3 team in Division III.
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ferent school. Team racing also consists of two people per boat, but boats
from the same school race at once and
try to communicate with each other to
finish first.
Both Pizzo and captain Courtney
Koos 16 mentioned that the recent
Marchiando Team Race, hosted by
MIT on the Charles River, was a season
highlight so far.
The Marchiando is really competitive. There were 14 other schools, and
our team race finished fourth. The
team gelled really well and had a great
weekend, Pizzo said.
The fourth-place finish was quite
significant for the team, especially for
the seniors.
It was the best Bowdoin finish in
our history at the Marchiando race.
So that was pretty exciting for us,
Koos said.
While they enjoyed the historic
Marchiando finish, the Polar Bears recognize they have room to improve.
Last weekend at the team race
championships, we struggled a little bit
on Saturday. We just werent able to get
winds when we needed to get winds,
Pizzo said. Sunday we sailed much
better, but it was too little too late.
More so than any Bowdoin sport,
the sailing team is at the mercy of the
weather. Some practices and regattas
have been cut short due to too much
wind, and sailing in the cold also poses

challenges.
While it has had solid performances
so far, the team remains focused on
the process, largely ignoring regatta
results.
Were trying to streamline everythingto have the same pre-race routine every time. If we have a bad race,
we want to be boat handling, so tacking
and jibing, three times after the race to
shake it off, Koos said.
Sailing as a sport poses unique challenges. While every member of the
team can work on footwork and fundamentals, Koos said that the team as a
whole has been working on communication for team races.
Were working on making our communication better, Koos said. Youre
coordinating between three boats on
the water and executing these maneuvers against other teams on the water,
and sometimes thats really difficult to
do. You have to be very synchronized.
Pizzo also noted that the team has
some more technical improvements
to make.
[Last weekend], we were given a
couple of red flags mostly for Rule 42
stuff, he said. You cant use your body
movements to propel the boat forward
or skull the rudder or physically throw
your weight forward in the boat. The
best teams are good about knowing
where the line is. Going forward, we
want to keep umpires out of our races.
The Polar Bears are back on the water tomorrow in competition at Boston University, Coast Guard Academy
and MIT.

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FULL SPEED AHEAD: Shekinah Pettway 18 races out to a lead in the 4x100 relay, an event which
the team won this past weekend at the Bowdoin Invitational. Bowdoin finished second at the meet.

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AND FIELD
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ing on Saturday during the throwing

events, sweeping all but one. Pamela
Zabala 17 won the discus with 36.17
meters, Knott captured the hammer
with 44.73 meters and Ellen Masalsky
17 won the javelin with 38.66 meters.
Addison Carvajal 16 also had a strong
performance, winning the high jump
with a 1.55-meter jump. Meanwhile on
the track, the 4x100 relay team did very
well and Meghan Bellerose 17, who
won the 800 meters in 2:19.77, and
Sara Ory 19, who won the 400 meter
hurdles in 1:08.52.
A lot of the marks on both the mens
and the womens side of the throwing
events put people in the top five or top
three in NESCAC standings, so that is
really exciting, said Knott.
Knott noted that this was also an
exciting time for the first years who
got their first taste of the outdoors.
The transition from indoor to outdoor
competition can be difficult because
of the alterations in the events in both
settings. For example, the indoor track
is 200 meters while the outdoor track
is 400 meters. In addition, pole vault-

ers have to do their events inside even

at an outdoor meet which can be tough
for them because it removes them from
the rest of the team.
I think the majority of our team
would prefer indoor because youre
so much less susceptible to the elements. You dont have to worry about
wind or if its going to be rainy or cold,
said Knott.
Knott said that the team already feels
like a cohesive unit at this point, with
the first years fully integrated, which is
an impressive feat in a sport like track.
Track is such an individualized
event, said Knott. There are so many
different event groups within track,
so its very easy to rely on your event
group. This year, there is such a collective feeling [on] the team, and weve
pretty much broken down the event
group barriers.
Looking forward, the women will
next attend the Middlebury Invitational this weekend.
The following weekend is the Aloha
Relays, which is the womens state meet
held at Bowdoin. The women have won
this meet the last seven years in a row
and are hoping to get the win again, a
goal that Knott said is currently at the
top of everyones mind. After a great
start to the outdoor season, the team
hopes to only go up from here.

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OPINION

No experience necessary

e know there is a byline at the bottom of this editorial, but here the
people who write it each week. Our names are Julian Andrews, Jono
Gruber, Matthew Gutschenritter, Meg Robbins, Nicole Wetsman and
Emily Weyrauch. All of us are white. All of us come from high schools that had
the resources to support a student newspaper and four of us worked on that publication. Five of us grew up in a state touching the Atlantic Ocean. All of us are
liberal-leaning. Our goal is to represent the entire student body, so we are falling
short if our staff does not reflect as many of the perspectives, experiences and interests of Bowdoins students as possible. This week we will send out applications
for next years Orient leadership and we would like to reach out to people who do
not necessarily fit the current mold.
We are proud of the weekly paper that we produce. We think our stories are
well-reported, we stick by journalistic ethics and we cover topics that are important to the campus. We are happy that weve been a forum for discussion on campus and that our opinion section has included a diverse range of perspectives.
We are also lacking in some key areas: writers who dont have experience writing journalistic articles before college often fall through the cracks because we
dont do enough to train them, and some avoid approaching us in the first place
out of fear of being under-qualified. Because our article topics are generated by
a group of students that represents a relatively small community on campus, we
miss some potential stories from groups we dont have connections to, and our
newspaper doesnt include as many conservative voices as we would like. While
we have strong women members of leadership, there is very little representation of
racial and ethnic minorities on our staff, especially in leadership.
These are not new problems, and they are not ones that are exclusive to our
campus. As Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of the New York Times wrote on the
importance of newsroom diversity this year: When the group is truly diverse, the
nefarious groupthink that makes a publication predictable and, at times, unintentionally biased, is much more likely to be diminished. And thats a good thing.
We want to let all studentsnot just those who seek us out and come into our
house (which is notably removed from the most trafficked areas of campus)
know that the Orient can be a place for them if they are interested. We are looking
into the factorssocial, cultural, political and financialthat discourage students
from joining our staff and we are committed to doing our best to break down
these barriers.
We want to share the opinions and experiences you bring to the College. We
want to hear the stories that you think are important and want us to cover. Wed
like to talk to you about how to make the Orient better and more inclusive. Most
importantly, if youve ever wanted to contribute to the Orient, wed love to have
you. No experience necessary.

This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board,
which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Jono Gruber, Matthew Gutschenritter, Meg
Robbins, Nicole Wetsman and Emily Weyrauch.

friday, april 15, 2016

Not all men, but something is still wrong

BY HAYLEY NICHOLAS

OPED CONTRIBUTOR

Two articles have been published

recently about the prerogative of
men at Bowdoin. Skye Aresty 16
discussed how male entitlement pervades our social culture, and Ben
Citrin 16, in response, lamented the
confrontational nature of her piece
and its generalizations.
Ben recognizes the inaccessibility of
Skyes piece to people who do not usually have conversations about male entitlement. It seemed like an attack on
all men, but I do not believe that was
the intent. Rather, it was an attack on
male entitlement, and Id like to differentiate between the two. I agree with
Skye wholeheartedly that male entitlement exists at Bowdoin and the culture
needs to change. Some may feel alienated or confused, though, if this distinction is not made clear.
Male entitlement is an institutional
problem. Men have always been afforded privileges that women have only
recently obtained or are still fighting
for, such as the right to vote, access to
healthcare and equal pay. Women have
been, and still are, systematically excluded based on the presumption that
men are inherently better and more
equipped for full participation in the
political, economic or social sphere.
As a result of historic disenfranchisement of and discrimination
against women at the institutional
level, notions of male entitlement have
become deeply embedded in our social
interactions. Some may counter, But
I dont discriminate against women!
While an individual may not actively
discriminate, there are stereotypes
that are ingrained in all of our subconsciouses as a result of operating in a

male-dominated society. To deny this

is to deny history.
I believe Skyes piece should have
included this distinction between an
individual and a system. The problem
Skye describes is not men. The problem is the institutionalization of male
entitlement which perpetuates womens marginalization in ways that men
may not even recognize.
The stories Skye shared are symptomatic of this pandemic. Two are examples of hookups gone bad, and the
other is unquestionably rape. They are
not representative of the entire Bowdoin hookup scene, but they are not
isolated incidents. They are evidence
of a larger issue. Ben claims that not all
men are actively entitled and contribute to this problem, and rightfully so.
Saying not all men, though, detracts
from the issue.
Not all men are entitled, and not
all men constantly act in an entitled
manner. Making that claim would be
patently inaccurate. But because male
entitlement is normalized, men enact this privilege at their convenience,
either purposely or unintentionally.
Skye touched on the fact that male entitlement can take shape in more overt
ways, as in the case of rape, but its also
so insidious that sometimes its difficult to see. Just look at the responses
to Skyes articlemany have called
it overemotional, as though showing emotion somehow invalidates her
credibility. This kind of rhetoric minimizes a womans voice and disregards
her point of view.
Male entitlement hurts men as well.
It creates unrealistic standards for
masculinity that are more often than
not unhealthy. At Bowdoin specifically, friends complain that they need
to appear detached and emotion-

less while hooking up with a girl, even

if they like her. A lot of men struggle
with body image but dont discuss it
because thats seen as a womens issue.
Thats not okay. Men should not have to
abide by these strictures. Furthermore,
if someone does not subscribe to the
gender binary, they may feel pressure
to conform as well.
Now, how do we fix this? We cannot immediately dismantle a system
that is deeply rooted, but we can take
small steps to work toward change. Not
all men participate in this culture of
entitlement, but at the bare minimum,
they must recognize that by being a
man, they inherit privileges that others
are continually denied.
Men can try to recognize their implicit biases against women to shift the
narrative. For instance, men cannot assume a girl is too attached if she asks
to get a mealmaybe she just wants
to have an interesting conversation.
Women, too, can chip away at this
culture by not judging men who are
not stereotypically masculine. And all
people, regardless of their gender identity, must ask for consent rather than
assuming consent is granted.
We may be limited in how much
structural change we can make, but
we are powerful at the individual level. It is all of our responsibility to use
this power. There needs to be more
conscious efforts from people of all
genders to deconstruct this systematization, and claiming there is not a
problem when evidently there is, does
not help the matter. It may not be all
men, but something is wrong, and it
is our collective responsibility to talk
about it and to fix it.
Hayley Nicholas is a member of the class
of 2017.

Sports at Bowdoin perpetuate an unhealthy culture of division

JESSE ORTIZ

SIGNIFYING NOTHING
I still remember my spring 2003
Little League batting average. It was
.000. So, Im speaking as a NARP
when I say this: varsity sports are the
worst thing about Bowdoins culture.
When I first came to Bowdoin,
I felt immediate pressure to join a
team. I went to rugby practices for
four days, got named on the Frisbee
team, had a fling with club cycling
but havent stayed in any of these
groups. Why did playing a sport at
Bowdoin feel like a crucial part of
fitting in?
At a school as small at Bowdoin, a
large percentage of students are athletes. According to the most recent
Office of Postsecondary Education
(OPE) data, just over 43 percent are
varsity athletes. Students feel this
divide. In a recent poll administered
by Associate Professor of Government Michael Franz and students in
Gov 2080, 29 percent of respondents
said that Athletes/non-Athletes is
the greatest point of division among
students on [Bowdoins] campus.
This result came nestled between
Race (30 percent) and The Culture
of Political Dialogue (27 percent).
Keep these other results in mind.
Two years ago, an Orient article
explored the divide between athletes

and everyone else. This article did a

fair job of representing the differing
experiences of students on campus.
However, the piece ultimately suggests that we need to grow past
the divide, as social barriers come
down as you get older. As a counterpoint, consider the tweet pinned
to the top of the Bowdoin Mens Lacrosse twitter profile which lauds
STUDENT athletes for getting
jobs at the likes of Barclays, SSGA
(an asset management firm) and the
Bank of Montreal. Given that this
group of white male lacrosse players got similar jobs, the influence of
varsity athletics clearly isnt limited
to our time at Bowdoin.
As Ive mentioned, Bowdoin students feel (slightly) more divided
over race than athletics. However,
it would be unproductive, if not impossible, to separate out these two
categories. Many sports that are felt
to be socially exclusiveice hockey,
field hockey, lacrosse, baseball
are dominated by white, cisgendered bodies.
Sports programs cost money. According to the OPE, the grand total
of expenses on varsity athletics is
$7,154,057. Of course, much of the
funding for athletics comes from
donations specifically for athletic
teams. However, what does it say to
an incoming first year that Bowdoin
is willing to pour so many resources
into what is, for all intents and purposes, an entertaining pastime?

Competitive sports hold binary

oppositions sacred. The logic of student athletics is the same that drives
all sports: a win is always worth
pursuing and can be measured easily. The same culture of aggressive
competition that defines sports can
be found in the hypercompetitive
and self-interested work of financial institutions.
Sports clearly take up a massive
amount of resources at our college
particularly the time of students. In
a 2013 Orient article about the academic experiences of student-athletes, mens club rugby player Ezra
Duplissie-Cyr 15 described a typical day of practice: Two hours a day
at practice translates to a two-hour
practice, a half-hour dinner with the
team, minimum, and a half-hour
of cleaning up and getting ready
to do work. This is an enormous
amount of time that athletes invest
in their sport.
When youre recruited as an athlete, you have a social group before
you ever get to Bowdoin. Bowdoin
admits a wide range of bright, hardworking students that are intrinsically nave and uneducated. But
what happens when those students
are segregated into groups of people
that all have the same gender, body
type, and often, race and social class?
Its no wonder that students find
The Culture of Political Dialogue
to be such a problem at Bowdoin.
The separation between athletes and

DIANA FURUKAWA

non-athletes affects the conversations on campus as well as the access

that students have to career networks and future employment.
We can never have a healthy discourse when students are fed into a
system of social compartmentalization
that the College reinforces. By May

2000, Bowdoin rid itself of fraternities

that were perpetuating a toxic campus
culture. But disbanding frats didnt
eliminate the culture of division and
hierarchy that fraternity life represents.
Sports can be healthy and exciting
ways to spend time, but that shouldnt
come at the expense of student life.

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opinion

15

Together, listening and learning to speak the truth

BY MICHAEL MCQUILLAN
OPED CONTRIBUTOR

Let me lead with a quote from Henry

David Thoreau:
It takes two to speak the truthone to
speak, and another to hear.
I discovered this quote while writing
a paper back in my college days (*sigh*),
and it has been one of my favorites ever
since. It has never been more relevant
than it is right now.
As Ive kept up with the many reactions
to the tequila party on social media
and online news outlets over the past few
weeks, I havent been able to get Thoreaus
words out of my head.
At this point, Ive either established a
lot of street cred with you for dropping a
Thoreau quote or bored you away to Reddit because you dont want to read another
op-ed on ethnic stereotyping. This one
will be a little different, I promise.
I think we can all agree that our country is polarized on a variety of social and
political issues (note the irony). If youre
unconvinced, watch the next Republican debate, attend a Hillary Clinton rally
or go on Brunswicks Yik Yak feed. To
use Thoreaus words, we are a long way
from speaking the truth. One coherent
truth, at least.
People are very different and think very
differently. This is a beautiful and defining
feature of our democracy. But these differences in thought can paralyze us if closemindedness prevails. When a democracy
is at its strongest, its people and its elected
representatives can coalesce around some
semblance of a coherent, unified truth.

This requires open-mindedness. I think I

can say, uncontroversially, that our country has room to improve here.
Our campus is a microcosm of our society, although Bernie Sanders favorability ratings and per capita Vineyard Vines
ownership are both way higher than the
national averages. This means that the
Bowdoin community, like the rest of society, has a role to play in mitigating polarization and getting us to a point where
we can start speaking the truth together.
This article is not going to attempt to
define what we should be saying when we
finally start speaking the truth. I have a
few opinionssome are probably right,
others are probably wrong. But Im hoping that you wont be able to figure out
what my opinions are by reading this article. I want to talk about the process rather
than the resultthe process of getting to
the point where we can begin to speak
the truth together. If we havent gone
through the process, we cant claim to
know the real truth, let alone speak it.
So Ive decided to unscientifically
break down Thoreaus quote into a few
stepsthree, to be exactto help with
that process.
Before getting into the steps, I want to
note that I think they are useful for folks
on both sides of the aisle.
Step 1: Find a two.
It takes two to speak the truth. This
means we cant do it by ourselves. So first
things first, find a two to help.
Who is a two? It could be someone
with a different skin color or someone
who comes from a different socioeconomic background or someone who hails

from a different country. Or, in the context

of recent events, someone who thinks or
feels differently about the tequila party.
There are plenty of twos out there,
even on Bowdoins campus. Finding a
two isnt difficult, but looping them in
for Step 2 and Step 3 certainly is. It takes
a lot of courage.
Step 2: Speak.
As Thoreau says, it takes one to speak
when speaking the truth. But we should
let our twos do the speaking for now.
Step 2 is really just here to get us to Step 3.
Step 3: Hear.
This is the most important and most
difficult step of the three.
Hearing what our twos say to us is
an essential part of the process. Or better yet, instead of simply hearing our
twos, we can listen to them. Only when
we listen to our twos can we begin to understand their perspective. We dont need
to agree with our twos, but we do need to
understand them. If we dont understand
our twos, then we wont be able to speak
a coherent truth together.
When were with our twos, we might
hear new information from them. By
definition, our twos are different from
us in some meaningful way, so they
will probably say something we havent
thought of or felt before. New information
can come in the form of facts or feelings.
Both are valid kinds of information and
deserve our attention.
Our beliefs are founded on our information. Beliefs arent permanent because
information isnt permanent. The only
way our beliefs become permanent is
if we stop listening and stop accepting

new information from our

twos. When the new information we receive challenges
our existing beliefs, it becomes
especially hard to accept, but that
doesnt make it any less worthy of
our consideration.
In my view, what comes next is the
hardest part of all.
Our twos might say something in conversation that
we find to be particularly
repulsive. If this happens, it
can be a great learning experience, so long as we keep listening. When our twos talk
to us about their beliefs,
the what often precedes the why. If we
begin speaking over
our twos or start
thinking about our
next point to make
right as we hear the
what, then that means
we arent actually listening to the why.
Passion and level-headedness
are not mutually exclusive, although they
often seem to be. Empathy isnt born out
of a shouting match or making someone feel wrong or stupid for the beliefs
they hold. If we do this to our twos, we
will only generate resentment, make our
twos shut down and inhibit the productive exchange of information. This makes
the already-long process of building empathy even longer.
Bowdoin students and alums are the
brightest and most compassionate people

DIANA FURUKAWA

I know. If we cant handle Step 3, then

theres no way society can.
Last thing: if you decide to start practicing these steps and begin to find people
out there to listen to, dont stop after your
two. Go find a three, a four and a five too.
Because I think Thoreau is wrong. It
doesnt take two to speak the truth.
It takes us all.
Michael McQuillan is a member of the
Class of 2015.

We demand that trustees put aside conflicts of interest and take action
BY ISABELLA MCCANN

OPED CONTRIBUTOR

This past Tuesday, students across the

country leveraged their power in a national movement for fossil fuel divestment.
They tasted victory at James Madison
University when the administration took
the first step and agreed to investigate divestment. When students at Harvard and
University of Massachusetts Amherst sat
in and were arrested, they promised that
this was only the beginning.
Students took action because the urgency of climate change requires swift,
bold action on behalf of ourselves, our future and all affected by the climate crisis.
Understanding the fossil fuel industry to
be the root of climate change, Bowdoin
Climate Action (BCA) began campaigning for fossil fuel divestment in the fall
of 2012, and the movement now reaches
more than 500 campuses worldwide. Divestment is a powerful way for students to
leverage the wealth and influence of their
colleges to challenge the fossil fuel industrys destructive practices.
On Tuesday, Yale students achieved
victory when the University announced
it would begin to divest its $25.6 billion

endowment from fossil fuels. In a letter

to the Yale community, Chief Investment
Officer David Swensenwho mentored
our own Senior Vice President for Investments Paula Volentcondemned the
fossil fuel industry as both a risky and declining investment and counter to Yales
morals. He is, in Bowdoins own words,
a leader.
Clearly the time to divest is now, so
why hasnt Bowdoin? We were curious
about what might be obstructing dialogue on this critical issue, and what we
found was extremely concerning. Several
trustees on our Investment Committee
have deep ties to the oil and gas industry,
which may be impeding them from taking leadership. Today, we wish to share
these conflicts of interest.
Take Sheldon Stone, for example. Stone
sits on Bowdoins Investment Committee
and is responsible for advising the College
financially. His investing expertise comes
from his position as principal and portfolio manager at Oaktree Capital, which
boasts $2 billion in energy investments,
largely in oil and gas infrastructure. In
2003, the firm invested in the Longhorn
Pipeline, a 764-mile pipeline transporting refined petroleum products through

Texas. In 2014, Oaktree purchased Highstar Capital, an energy-focused fund with

large oil and gas pipeline and storage
holdings. To top it off, Greenpeace named
Stone a kingpin of carbon in 2014.
John Studzinski, namesake of Studzinski Recital Hall, also serves on the Investment Committee. He acts as managing
director of The Blackstone Group, a firm
with 6 percent of its total assets invested
in the energy sector for a total of $1.5 billion. In 2015, it jumped on slumping oil
prices and began scrambling to buy up
shares in distressed energy corporations,
U.S. shale operators and international energy exploration.
A third key decision-maker at the
College is Stanley Druckenmiller, whose
influence extends way beyond the name
of our science building. Druckenmiller is
the sole emeritus member of the Investment Committee and plays a pivotal role
in managing our endowment. His hedge
fund, Duquesne Capital Management,
has invested in high-risk natural gas wells
in the Gulf of Mexico, a project run by
Energy XXI, which boasts the slogan,
Acquire. Exploit. Deliver. Duquesne
Capital also bought up shares in Massey
Energy just months before the Upper

Bowdoin Orient

Big Branch Mine Disaster in West Virginia, where 29 miners were killed in an
explosion in April 2010. Massey Energys
former CEO, Don Blankenship, was just
sentenced to prison after being found responsible for the explosion due to unsafe
working conditions.
It is extremely concerning that the
man who endowed our science building
would so clearly undermine his commitment to advancing climate and environmental science by investing in such
destructive practices.
Together, these facts paint a troubling
picture. Stone, Studzinski and Druckenmiller have no incentive to engage productively on divestment when they are
themselves financially tied to the fossil
fuel industry.
As a prospective student, I hoped to
find an institution whose values aligned
with my own. Upon reading the Offer of
the College, I believed I had found such
an institution. Leadership, commitment
to the Common Good and connection
to placeBowdoin portrays itself as a
college committed to meaningful climate
action, and I was excited to be among the
community. Stepping on campus for the
first time as an enrolled student instead

of an aspiring one, I was disappointed

to learn instead that my education was
partially funded by this destructive industry. However, my love for Bowdoin
wasnt lessened. Now, I, along with my
fellow BCA members, strive to better
Bowdoin, to make it a place of effective
climate leadership that we can be proud
of. We do this out of loveand a fear for
our future.
Our goal is not to condemn things that
happened in the past or money that has
made our education possible. What we
hope is to have a transparent relationship
with our decision makers, unclouded by
the influence of the fossil fuel industry.
We bring these conflicts of interest to
light in order to create the possibility for
change, not obstruct progress.
Today is just the beginning. To Sheldon Stone, John Studzinski, Stanley
Druckenmiller and the Investment Committee: we ask that you demonstrate that
your ties to the fossil fuel industry are not
holding us back. With a crisis so urgent,
we must take bold action. Its time for
Bowdoin to lead with us.
Isabella McCann is a member of the class
of 2019.

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the bowdoin orient

friday, april 15, 2016

APRIL

FRIDAY 15
Open House for the Class of 2020
Night Two
Bowdoin A Cappella Ensemble - Chapel. 7 p.m.
Film Society: Film Screening - Smith Auditorium, Sills
Hall. 7:30 p.m.
Literary Groups Panel - The Orient House. 7:30 p.m.
15 Villainous Fools, Bowdoin comedy sketch - Kresge
Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BATTLE GROUND: On Thursday night, Gotta Focus bandmates (left to right) Alec Ferguson-Hull '19, Jeb Polstein '17, Leo Levine '17 and Will
Conover '17 competed in the Battle of the Bands. The winner of the competition, Duck Blind, gets to open for the Ivies act of its choice.

Dance Show - Edwards Center for Art and Dance. 8 p.m.

Senior Art Spotlight - Blue Box Gallery, Third Floor Smith
Union. 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 16

Bowdoin Student Government Panel - Faculty Study

Room (3rd Floor), Massachusetts Hall. 8 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

EVENT

Bowdoin Orchestra

Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will direct the

Bowdoin Orchestra as it performs concerto movements
featuring soloists from the Class of 2016.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

Arts and Crafts - Bowdoin Craft Center. 8 p.m.

Beyond the Proscenium: Workshop with one of
Bowdoins theater groups - Chase Barn. 8:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

Bowdoin Women in Computer Science - Searles Science

Building. 8:30 p.m.

Hari Kondabolu

Maine Street Tour Featuring Gelato Fiasco - Polar Bear

Statue. 9 p.m.

ASA/Af-Am Party

The Asian Students Association and the African American

Society will host a party as part of Asian Week.
Russworm. 11 p.m.

All Night Relay for Life - Farley Field House. 10 p.m.

Masque and Gown Workshop - Pickering Room, Hubbard
Hall. 10 p.m.

SUNDAY 17

Howell House Campus-Wide Rave - Howell House, Maine

Street. 10 p.m.

Bowdoin Outing Club: Smores - Schwartz Outdoor

Leadership Center. 10:30 p.m.
Game Night - Game Room, Smith Union. 11 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

Haunted Campus Tour - Admissions (255 Maine Street).

11:30 p.m.

Pianist Lucy Luo 16 will perform for the community.

Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

Earth Day
Celebration

Spring Service
Day

EVENT

Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Violence

Part of a program for Bowdoin men concerning masculinity and sexual assault. Open to all people who have
identified as a man. There will be a guest speaker from the
Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine.
Torrey Barn, Cram Alumni House. 7 p.m.

Senior Sex Panel

A group of senior panelists will speak candidly about sex

and the importance of consent in any and all situations.
The first event of Consent Week.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts
Center. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT

WEDNESDAY 20

EVENT

Dining Services: Super Snack - Thorne Dining Hall.

10 p.m.

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Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English Morten

Hansen will discuss the work of Junot Diaz, a Dominican
American writer.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.

EVENT

Open Mic Night - Jack Magees Pub, Smith Union.

9:15 p.m.

EVENT

Transnational America: The Brief

Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the New
Ethnic-American Novel

Stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu 04 will perform for

the Bowdoin community. The New York Times has called
Kondabolu "one of the most exciting political comics in
stand-up today.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 9 p.m.

Improvabilities - Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

9 p.m.

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TUESDAY 19

PERFORMANCE

Bowdoin
Chamber
Choir

EVENT

Film Screening: Not My Life

Lucy Luo 16

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THURSDAY 21

25

PERFORMANCE

Middle Eastern
Ensemble

26

There will be a screening of Not My Life sponsored by the

Womens Resource Center.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

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PERFORMANCE

Afro-Latin Music
Ensemble

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