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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Remembering Professor Richard Morgan 59 College receives record-high 662

ED I applications for Class of 19
BY SARAH DRUMM
ORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS

Richard Morgan59 passed away last Thursday at the age of 77. He was a widely respected scholar in the field of constitutional law and a beloved figure at the College for
more than four decades. A memorial service was held in the Bowdoin College Chapel on Thursday.
BY RON CERVANTES
ORIENT STAFF

Last Thursday, William Nelson

Cromwell Professor of Constitutional
and International Law and Government
Richard Ernest Morgan 59 died of
metastatic lung cancer at the age of 77.
A distinguished professor who taught
at his alma mater for 45 years, Morgan
was buried yesterday in Pine Grove
Cemeterywhere many former faculty
members, including Joshua Lawrence
Chamberlain and several College presi-

dents, are also buried.

According to fellow Bowdoin faculty
members, constitutional scholars from
around the country and four decades
worth of students, Morgan was a caring and dedicated scholar with a range
of passions outside the classroom that
added to his impressive life.
A Teacher at Heart
Many liberal arts colleges do not
have a permanent constitutional scholar on campus, and the most famous
professors in the field are almost all

faculty at prominent law schoolsnot

undergraduate institutions.
He was primarily interested in
teaching to undergraduates, said Michael Ulhmann, a constitutional law
professor at the Claremont Graduate
School who knew Morgan for over two
decades. Thats a rare thing in someone
whos marvelously competent at Con
Law. Im sure he was tempted by large
schoolsbut he deliberately decided
to return to his own school because he

Please see MORGAN, page 3

The Office of Admissions received a record-high 662 Early

Decision I (ED I) applications for
admission to the the Class of 2019.
This marks a 10.7 percent increase
from last years 598 applications.
The deadline was last Saturday,
November 15.
Over the past four years, the
number of applications has been
fairly consistent. Although 64
more applications does not seem
like a large numerical increase,
it marks a substantial percentage
point increase.
Although the exact date has not
yet been announced, decisions are
expected to be sent out between
December 10 and 15.
Admissions has made some
changes to its fall travel schedule in order to cater to a greater
number of high schools, but Dean
of Admissions and Financial Aid
Scott Meiklejohn does not attribute the increase in applications to
these scheduling changes.
Bowdoin is popular said
Meiklejohn. Every time I have
been asked in all my years why applications are up, I always say the
same thing which is, Bowdoin is
a great place and more people are
finding out about it.
This years applicant pool represents a greater number of high

schools than last years, with 482

schools represented this year, compared to 467 last year.
The number of private school
applicants increased slightly more
than the number of public school
applicants, and while there was
an increase in applications from
New England, the Mid-Atlantic
and the Southwest, the number
of applications from other parts
of the countryas well as international applicationsdid not
change significantly.
Meiklejohn said that students
who apply Early Decision do not
have a particular advantage over
Regular Decision applicants.
Its an option, said Meiklejohn.
Its supposed to be for that person who has absolutely convinced
themselves that this is the one
school where they want to be.
Admissions does not have a
fixed number of students it hopes
to admit from the ED I pool, but
the overall targeted class size is
495-500 students.
It depends on how excited we
are about what were reading, said
Meiklejohn.
Mieklejohn did not specify
whether the College is looking for a
particular type of applicant this year.
We want to give Bowdoin another collection of 500 wonderful
people, so the Colleges expecta-

Please see ED I, page 3

Registration Investigating student employment and wages at Bowdoin

improves
with Polaris
BY JULIAN ANDREWS
AND MEG ROBBINS
ORIENT STAFF

BY JULIAN ANDREWS
OREINT STAFF

Polaris fourth registration period went without any major hiccups. The Office of the Registrar,
however, continues to make minor
tweaks and changes to increase the
effectiveness and efficiency of the
system. The biggest change that
has been made is allowing instructors to enroll students in oversubscribed classes.
During Round One of registration for the spring semester, 84 percent of students got into three or
more of the classes they registered
for. Interim Registrar James Higginbotham said this percentage is an
increase from previous years. Higginbotham said that the increased
success of Round One is because Polaris makes it easier for students to
make more informed choices when
choosing classes.

Please see POLARIS, page 4

Whether they are reshelving

books at the library, serving their
peers in the dining halls or setting
up for sporting events, student workers are a visible and essential part of
campus life. Upwards of 70 percent
of the student body is employed on
campus, and this fall, the College
filled 1,835 job openings spread
across 80 departments and offices.
The largest student employers are,
in order, the Department of Athletics, Dining Services, the Center for
Learning and Teaching, Admissions
and the libraries.
Students apply for most on-campus jobs online through the Student
Employment Office (SEO) website.
However, some departments, including Athletics, do most of their
hiring internally.
The majority of students that
work at our games are connected
with the coaches that oversee our
game management operations for
each sport, wrote Ashmead White
Director of Athletics Tim Ryan in an
email to the Orient. For example,
our mens basketball assistant coach
oversees our mens soccer game

management, and the students that

chase balls at the games are members of our mens basketball team.
This isnt always the case, but it is
our most consistent approach.
Ryan added that he also reaches
out to College House leaders in the
beginning of the year to request student workers and has accepted students who contact him directly with
an interest in working at various
athletic events.

First Year Job Placement

When first years arrive on campus, they have two options for
finding a job: applying directly to
job postings on the SEO website,
or using the First Year Job Placement Program.
While an individual search
could yield more flexibility, many
job openings are already filled by
the time first years are ready to
start looking for employment. The
First Year Job Placement Program
offers less control but more stability. Incoming students answer
survey questions about their skills
and experience and agree to accept
whatever position the SEO assigns
them. Most of these jobs are in
Dining Services.
The SEO tries to match students

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SWIPE RIGHT: Audrey DeFusco 16 prepares Nick Barnes 18 a drink at the Caf. DeFusco is one of
about 1,250 students who have jobs on campus this fall. Over 70 percent of the student body is employed.
skills to potential jobs, but placements are mainly determined by
the order in which students submit
their applications and whether or
not they receive financial aid.
Not every student who enters the
placement program receives a job.
This year we were able to offer
positions to everybody who participated in the process, said Assistant
Director of Financial Aid and Student Employment Sarah Paul. That
doesnt happen every year. Typically
we run out of openings and there
are certain students on the list that
dont get a placement.

Types of work
Student work varies greatly from
department to department, which
suits the different interests of student
workers, according to Paul.
[Some] students want to have professional development opportunities,
to be able to work in positions that allow them to move forward professionally after Bowdoin, and some students
want to have positions where they can
just kind of come, be in a job for a period of time and move on, she said.
Sam Canales 15 works for athletics

Please see STUDENTS, page 6

MORE NEWS: PRO-CHOICE

FEATURES: LADD HOUSE

SPORTS

OPINION

Pro-choice speakers come to campus

to wrap up 2-part lecture series
about abortion.

Ladd House has skeletons in its closets.

LONG WAY TO THE TOP: Womens rugby and field

hockey are on the edge of national championships,
after wins earning them spots in their
respective semifinals.

EDITORIAL: Due course.

Page 3.

Page 5.

Page 12.

Page 18.

HOME IN ALL LANDS: Jean-Paul Honegger 15

shares his thoughts on ending the stigmatization of gay men donating blood.
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CAMPUS FOOD
TRUCKS FRIED
DOUGH EXPLOSION

WYLIE MAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

A SUIT-ABLE SONG: The Meddiebempsters serenaded Jillian Burke 16 at Meddielania, an annual concert co-hosted with Miscellania in Ladd House last Friday.

Library Chair Sit-in Vote

Last week, the Hawthorne-Longfellow librarians hosted a sit-in to gather student input about which chairs should replace
those currently in the Abrahamson Reading Room on the sixth floor of the Hubbard Stacks. The staff received a total of 525
votes, with most students sampling the seats and voting as they entered the library. Because the first and second place vote
totals were so close, the librarians have decided to purchase chairs in both styles, with coordinating colors for each type.

Grazie

Focus

Freelance

Cyclus

The anonymous world of Yik Yak

exploded last weekend with rave reviews of the fried dough at the Campus Food Truck (CFT). The brilliant
new dish, made by Ethan Drigotas 15, dominated the list of Hot
Yaks and attracted many customers to the truck.
Ben Citrin 16, one of the
trucks owners, said he was
pleased with the attention.
I think thats kind of cool, he said
upon hearing that the fried dough
had taken over the popular app.
The addition of fried dough to the
menu can be entirely attributed to
Drigotas.
He has been working a lot recently
and he started making it, and its really
good, Citrin said. He has a cinnamon sugar one, and then he fills one
with chocolate and puts powdered
sugar on it.
Citrin acknowledged that the
dough is addictive, but he does not
think Drigotas uses any illicit materials to enhance the flavor.
If Drigotas were adding illicit substances, I dont know if I would want
to know about it, Citrin joked.
Citrin considers Drigotas a boon to
the business and is not jealous of his
dishs success.
Last spring, CFT tried enticing the
masses with fried ice cream, but that
initiative did not go as well.
Fried ice cream wasnt as popular
as the fried dough, said Citrin, who
did not show noticeable signs of resentment or despair, I wish [Drigotas] would come up with more ideas.
Citrin swore that he did not Yak
about the fried dough himself, insisting that he would not stoop that low.
He does, however, promote CFT on
other social media platforms.
I wouldnt do [Yik Yak]. I dont
know why, said Citrin. But as long
as people are hearing about [CFT], no
matter the form, its pretty cool.
WRITTEN BY OLIVIA ATWOOD

BY THE NUMBERS

219 Votes
First Place

203 Votes
Second Place

68 Votes
Third Place

35 Votes
Fourth Place

ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANNA HALL

COMPILED BY NICKIE MITCH AND OLIVIA ATWOOD

STUDENT SPEAK

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. the mens

hockey team will face off
against rival Colby in what is
usually the most widely anticipated and best attended sporting event of the year. Here are
some statistics about the tickets
distributed for tonights game.

400

What are you thankful for this year?

student tickets distributed by

the Student Information desk

150
tickets distributed in the first
45 minutes

Ian McNamara 15

Rebecca Fisher 17

Molly Stevens 15

Trevor Murray 16

I am thankful for a second opportunity

to be featured in Student Speak, after
fumbling my first interview.

Im really thankful that Caroline

Montag [17] and I both have
matching chokers.

I am thankful that my sister is a

student here too.

Im thankful that Ive yet to have

a mental breakdown.
COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH

24
hours approximately until
student tickets were sold out
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COURTESY OF QUINN RHI AND DAVID SILVERMAN

UNDISCUSSED: Quinn Rhi15 (left) and David Silverman15 (right), co-presidents of Undiscussed, organized
a lecture series that brought pro-life and pro-choice speakers to campus to broaden students views about abortion.
OREINT STAFF

Undiscusseds recent lecture

series about abortion created a
forum for students to hear from a
pro-life and pro-choice advocates.
Samaa Abdurraqib, a reproductive
freedom organizer and a former
Bowdoin professor and Oamshri
Amarasingham spoke at the College on Thursday.
Alexander Sukles 17 said he appreciated Undiscusseds efforts in
bringing more than one viewpoint
to campus.
I feel many groups invite speakers that will support their viewpoint and not any opposing ones,
he said, Undiscussed, being something that wishes to bring discussion, is doing a very good job of
going beyond the Bowdoin norm.
Alice Wang 15 also noted that the
lecture series was successful because
it reached out to a large audience.
I think a lot of people knew
what was happening and a lot of
people wanted to see what Kristan
[Hawkins] had to say and are excited about the talk, Wang said.
Hawkins is the president of prolife organization Students For Life
of America. She delivered a lecture that provoked a protest from a
small group of students at the College last Thursday.
Co-president of Undiscussed
Quinn Rhi 15 said she believes
that the true gauge of the lecture
series success will come today
during the discussion portion,
which will take place at 1:30 p.m.
in MacMillan House.
I think the success is difficult to
gauge mostly because it is mostly
culminating in an event that we are
having [today], she said.
She hopes the lectures gave students a starting pointa point to
think about how these issues are relevant to our campus and to people
in our community.
The second half of the lecture series
brought Abdurraqib and Amarasingham of the American Civil Liberties
Union of Maine (ACLU) to campus.
Abdurraqib specializes in outreach and public education about
womens reproductive rights. Amarasingham serves as public policy
counsel for the ACLU.

Reproductive rights, reproductive health and reproductive

justice are all issues that are constantly in the daily conversation in
many places, said Amarasingham.
I think it is important for us to
remember that young people and
college students on college campuses are very much engaged in
this issue and eager to learn.
Unlike the pro-life lecture last
week, there was not a protest before
Abdurraqib and Amarasinghams
lecture and the number of students
that attended the talk was smaller.
Abdurraqib and Amarasingham
took turns discussing current issues
in the area of reproductive rights.
Amarasingham focused on the
legal history of reproductive rights
and explained the relevant legislature. She mentioned court cases in
which abortion and reproductive
rights were called into question,
including Roe v. Wade.
Abdurraqib highlighted the
ways abortion is affecting the lives
of women across the country and
the stigma that prevents people
from discussing the topic.
I think right now we are seeing
a struggle for reproductive rights
that we havent seen in previous
years, said Abdurraqib. I think
its really relevant to young people.
Abdurraqib said she hopes students take interest in the shifting
reproductive rights education.
I think that it is a problem to tell
women that they cant make their
own decisions about their own bodies, she said. I think women have
the right to bodily autonomy.
Abdurraqib also said that it was
important to end the stigma surrounding abortion.
I think its really important for
us to not shame women for the
choices they make about their bodies, she said.
In Maine, abortions are legal for
women who have been pregnant
for 12 weeks or less.
Amarasingham and Abdurraqib
were joined by Kate Brogan, vice
president for public affairs at Family Planning Association of Maine
during a question and answer session that followed their lecture.
Brogan said that women need to
learn abort contraception instead of
simply learning about abstinence.

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liked the idea of a liberal education in
the old sense.
Morgan was well published, writing numerous scholarly texts and
hundreds of essays and articles about
constitutional law for various journals
and think tanks throughout his career.
For professors like Uhlmann, Morgan
was a trendsetter in the study of the
Supreme Court, despite the relative
anonymity that came with working at
a small college in Maine.
[Morgan] made me rethink a lot of
things dealing with the First Amendment and the role of courts, Uhlmann said. [He] was, you might say,
an originalist before that term became
popular. Thats a pertinent and interesting point of view that really deserves
to be heard and [Morgan] was among
the very first in his own quiet way to do
that. And his First Amendment views
have really become the new orthodoxy,
if I can put it that way, among a lot of
very smart Con Law scholars. He had
a very useful impact on people who
follow these things closely, but not in a
world of larger fame.
Professor James Stoner, a constitutional law professor at Louisiana State
University who Morgan befriended
in the mid 1990s, echoed Uhlmanns
sentiments about Morgans role in
their field.
He could see a major case coming
well before it was ever picked up in the
press, Stoner said. He knew constitutional law so well that he had a whole
feel for what the Court was doing
and, mind you, thats not because he
thought the Court was doing the right
things, but he still had a real sense of
what direction they were heading in.
Morgan was as appreciated by his
students as he was by his colleagues.
Many of his students, like Mitch Zulkie
91, who studied law after Bowdoin
and now works for the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, alluded
to Morgans unique ability to question
their assumptions in a scholarly and
thought-provoking manner.
Hes not the type of guy who gives
you clear answers, Zuklie said. He
forces you to think through probing
questions. He trains people to ask those
kinds of probing questions. When you
ask, Should I do X or Y? he never really says X or Y. He leads you to your
own conclusion. But undoubtedly you
were much the wiser for the questions
he asked.
Students also greatly valued his narrative approach to constitutional law
a subject that has the reputation of being dense, repetitive and dry.
He had this way of taking case law
and bringing it to life, said Steve Robinson 11. Every class was like an episode of Law and Order. It didnt matter
if this was a murder that happened in
1886he had a way of narrating it and
bringing it to life with his Sean Connery voice. The entire class would be
in a trance and wanted to know what

happened next.
Morgans reputation as an outstanding constitutional law professor
earned him deep respect and admiration from his colleagues.
I can remember when I visited
campus interviewing, I went out
to dinner with him and [Gary M.
Pendy Professor of Social Sciences
Jean] Yarbrough and enjoyed that
conversation greatlyit was one of
the highlights of my job interview
here, said Associate Professor of
Government Michael Franz, current
chair of the department. To teach
his courses the way he did and have
students to the very end who admired his approach to teachingI
would love to have anything close to
that kind of experience.
Morgan was also well known at
Bowdoin for being one of the few
conservatives on a predominantly
liberal-minded campussomething
he was always aware of in class and
in the community.
One of his long-time colleagues
in the government department, Professor of Government Paul Franco,
remarked that one of the qualities
he admired most in Morgan was his
ability to balance his own political
leanings with a scholarly approach to
his studies.
Shortly after the election of George
Bush in 2000the famous Bush v.
Gore contesthe and I and Jean [Yarbrough] were invited to a dinner with
students, and...one of them addressed
Morgan and said. Professor, what do
you think of the Bush v. Gore case?
And he said, Well, as a Republican, I
couldnt have been more delighted by
the decision in Bush v. Gore. But as a
constitutional scholar, I say I found
the decision highly questionable.
An Old-School Gentleman
Many of the people who knew
Morgan best stressed his unique
position on campus, both literally
and figuratively. Roosting in his office atop Hubbard Hall, he dressed
like the picture of an esteemed college professor, had a well-known
love for fine scotch whiskey and
exercised a dry wit that so many
around him treasured.
I remember the first time I ever
met him, said Jordan Goldberg 14,
one of many students who grew close
to Morgan during his time at the College. I was waiting outside the honors talks freshman yearand [Morgan] came out first and I had never
met him before, and he put his hand
on my shoulder and he looked at the
offerings of desserts and coffee and
said, Candy is dandy, but liquor is
quicker.
I remember the first time that
I walked into his man cave out in
Harpswell, said Robinson, who occasionally helped Morgan and Yarbrough with tasks at their home. I
was helping him to carry his canoes
or somethingand after I got done
taking care of the canoes, he handed
me a $20 bill, and I said, Oh no, I

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tions of us dont tend to change
very much, he said.
While the number of applications received may increase
slightly over the next few days as
late applications trickle in, Meiklejohn expects the number to remain
close to 662.
Admissions has already begun
the process of reading applications.
Were excited. The number is just
a number until you actually open
the applications; thats when it gets
more interesting to see who would
love to come to Bowdoin, he said.

cant take that, and he said, No, you

have to do it, otherwise the College
will think this is slavery.
Morgan also led an active life in
the Maine woods. An avid hunter, canoer, fly fisherman and bird watcher,
he was never stopped from pursuing
his love for the great outdoors.
His outdoorsmanship is as deep a
part of his scholarship in a way, said
Uhlmann. I dont know that he was
any prouder of what he did intellectually than his work as an outdoorsman and as a Maine Guide.
Morgan was also known for steering clear of technology like email.
Lynne Atkinson 81, government
department coordinator, had the unofficial position of Morgans online
voicehelping students get in touch
with him and pointing them up the
spiral staircase to his office.
When I went to meetings with
other coordinators, where we were
having training sessions on how to
do this or there was some newfangled
thing we were going to learn, I was
always the one that had to raise my
hand and say, But what if you have
a faculty member who doesnt use a
computer? Atkinson said. I never
really heard anyone else ask that.
Many described Morgans deep
love for the College, which he carried
with him for all 49 years he spent on
this campus. He had been declining
in health for the past few years and
had begun preparing two final courses to teach before his retirement at
the end of the 2015-2016 academic
year. After being diagnosed with cancer, Morgan visited one of his former
students, President Barry Mills 72, to
discuss his future plans.
[Morgan] was doing what he
liked to do until he wasnt able to do
it anymore, said Mills. And when
he sat [in my office] five weeks ago,
he really thought he could finish the
semester and really wanted to plow
through the semester with his students despite the fact that he knew he
had some therapy to do.
Morgan brought his constitutional
law textbooks to his consultations in
Boston, Mass., preparing his lectures
as if nothing was wrong. And in his
last days, which he spent in a hospital
bed, his love for Bowdoin still shone
bright.
I visited [Morgan] at the hospital within a couple of days of him
actually passing away, said Franco.
He was in his hospital room, and
not in great shape... He found it difficult to actually speak very much. I
was making conversation, describing
how I was very impressed by working on this presidential search committee with the love of Bowdoin that
the Bowdoin Trustees have. And I
turned to [Morgan] and said, Dick,
I think of you as one of these super
Polar Bears. He was kind of staring
and then suddenly, he made a huge
growling noise to acknowledge his
Polar Bear-ness.
Sam Miller and Kate Witteman
contributed to this report.

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Public urination a growing

problem for College Houses
Members of the IHC think that the
problem is largely due to a shortage
of available bathrooms during regisCollege houses are struggling to
tered events.
address this years increase in urineIt is a form of damage to the
related damages in public spaces.
house, but people dont often think
The rugby teams annual toga
about it at the time, said Burk.
party Epicuria at Ladd House was
According to Burk, the Office of
the most egregious night for urinaResidential Life informed the IHC
tion in public spaces, according to
that the excessive urination may
President of the Inter-House Counlead to rodent problems.
cil (IHC) Jillian Burk 16.
There are mice. I hear them every
Inches of pee is the quote we
night, said Paz. Over Fall Break,
were given, said Burk, referring to
one girl [in our house] saw one.
a meeting she had with the Office of
Burk explained that there have
Residential Life (Res Life).
been conversations about having
But accordCollege
Houses
ing to Burk,
have one portaThere
are
mice.
I
unprecedented
potty per regishear them every night. Over
amounts
of
tered keg, but the
pee have been
idea was dismissed
Fall
Break,
one
girl
[in
our
discharged in
because it would
house]
saw
one.

hallways, public
force
College
rooms,
stairHouse residents to
MIMI PAZ 17
wells, and other
incur high costs
public spaces in
for other students
college houses
offenses.
throughout this semester.
While the College hasnt creMy roommate was at a party in
ated a new policy for addressing
Helmreich House and saw a boy
the urination, the IHC has encourwho shall not be named peeing in
aged house members to try to get
our trash can, said resident Mimi
the names of urinating students so
Paz 17.
that they may be held responsible
Assistant Director of Residential
for the damages.
Life Mariana Centeno explained
However, Centeno explained
that Res Life wants students to be
that she has not had any students
respectful of the living spaces of
turned in for their transgressions,
house members and that urinating
though Burk noted that some stuon their living space is highly disredents were held accountable for
spectful for the house members and
urinary damages last year.
the College.
Pees nasty said Centeno.

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Polaris is great in some ways
because you can actually look and
see if a class is oversubscribed or
not, he said. There are classes
that you have to take so you might
pile up the numbers, but if youre
sitting there thinking about some
other parts of the curriculum, you
can actually anticipate where there
might be a buildup of pressure.
When a course is oversubscribed, the spots are determined
by priorities set by the faculty. All
students with higher priority are
registered first before any students
with lower priority. Some courses
are set so that students previously
shut out during registration are
bumped up on the priority list.
In situations where priority is
equal and there are not enough
spots to accommodate all students,
the system randomly selects which
students to register.
Though Polaris has made the
process easier on registrar staff,
they still have their work cut out for
them when registration time rolls
around. A program with as many
moving parts as Polaris requires
extensive checking for errors both
before and after running the algorithm. Due to this double-checking
process, it takes longer to complete
a registration round than it takes
for the computer to spit out results.
With any complex computer
program you have to check for errors and make sure the data is in
place, said Higginbotham. Polaris is new for us so we want to make
doubly sure that things are right.
This year, Round Three has
changed to allow students to add

SECURITY REPORT: 11/13 to 11/20

Thursday, November 13
A student experiencing sharp
pains was escorted from Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to Mid
Coast Hospital.
A fire alarm at the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center was activated
by smoke from the fireplace.
A student with anxiety symptoms
was escorted to the Mid Coast Primary
Care & Walk-In Clinic.
Friday, November 14
An officer spoke with students
at Brunswick Apartment P about
excessive noise.
There was a hard alcohol policy violation in Helmreich House.
A bedroom smoke alarm in Winthrop Hall was thought be triggered by
a malfunctioning detector.
Saturday, November 15
An intoxicated student was evaluated and escorted to his room in
Coles Tower.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at Super
Snack and then escorted the student to
West Hall.
A student was verbally warned for
kicking the glass while celebrating at a
mens hockey game at Watson Arena.
NOTE: Excessive knocking and banging
on the safety glass is not permitted and
can cause the glass to shatter.
An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated visitor who had attended an event at Quinby House. The
visitors parent was called to take the
person home.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
West Hall.
A student was taken to the walk-in
clinic after falling off of a skateboard
and sustaining a hand injury on North
Campus Drive.
Students in West Hall were cited for
smoking marijuana in a room.

Students in a West Hall room were

cited for a hard alcohol violation.
There was a drinking game policy
violation at Stowe Inn.
A student in Burnett House
was cited for possessing a bottle of
hard alcohol.
Sunday, November 16
A visitor to Burnett House was
found to be intoxicated and in possession of a fictitious drivers license.
A student attending a registered
event at Burnett House accidentally
dropped a red cup containing beer
from a second floor stairwell, and was
astonished to find that he dropped it on
a security officers head. Not knowing
what do at that point, the student tried
to nonchalantly slip out of the building without being noticed. The officer
noticed. The student explained that it
was a thoughtless accident and that he
panicked when he saw what he had
done. The officer eventually dried
off.
An officer checked on the
well-being of an intoxicated
student at Osher Hall.
A white Trek bike was
reported stolen from a bike
rack at Reed House. The bike
bears registration number
04025.
A vehicle backed into a
College truck at the Watson
Arena parking lot, causing
minor damage to both vehicles.
A lime green Schwinn bicycle was stolen from the area
of Thorne Hall.
Monday, November 17
Basement wall damage at
Baxter House was reported
after an athletic team event.
A student twisted a
knee in Adams Hall and

was taken to Mid Coast Hospital by

Brunswick Rescue.
Tuesday, November 18
A student was cited for failure to
comply with the reasonable request of a
college official.
Wednesday, November 19
A student complained of excessively
loud music on the first floor at Stowe Inn.
Thursday, November 20
Students at Pine Street Apartments
were assigned to pick up an excessive
amount of litter that was strewn about
the complex.
Compiled by the Office of Safety and
Security.

DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

and drop classes with instructor

permission as opposed to the firstcome-first-serve system of years
past. Higginbotham hopes that
this change will allow for more
flexibility for faculty in accepting
additional students into over-registered classes and give students

Polaris will never be static...

We will always be making sure that
what we have works well and adding
new capabilities and functions
that make registration and
advising easier.
JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM
INTERIM REGISTRAR
more of a chance to know all of
their classes well before the semester starts, instead of having to wait
until the first day of classes to see
if they get off of waitlists.
The changes made to Polaris
since its creation, including the recent change to Round Three, were
not unexpected.
Polaris will never be static,
said Higginbotham. It will always

be changing and we will always

be making sure that what we have
works well and adding new capabilities and functions that make
registration and advising easier.
The dynamic nature of Polaris
is one of the reasons that the extensive double-checking of results
is so necessary and despite the
programs success so far, the Office of the Registrar is not prone
to overconfidence.
[Each time] were doing registration there are new capabilities
or things that weve changed and
adjusted to run more smoothly,
said Associate Registrar Martina
Duncan. We dont want to take for
granted that its just going to go.
But changes within Polaris are
not the only ones the Office of the
Registrar has faced over the last
few years. The implementation of
the Polaris system has changed the
makeup of the office itself.
Along with Duncan and Higginbotham, the office employs Cassaundra Harris, another assistant
registrar, whose primary duty is to
report Polaris data to departments
and the larger campus community.
Brett Bisesti, who has an IT background, has also joined the team as
a systems specialist.

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the bowdoin orient

Under lock and key: Ladd House holds secrets of murder, scandal
BY STEFF CHAVEZ
ORIENT STAFF

This article is the second in a short

series exploring the history of the
College Houses. Information for these
columns was collected through online
research and interviews with Secretary of Development and College Relations John Cross.
Despite its popularity among college
house applications, few students know
that Ladd House is worthy of a stop on
the Haunted Bowdoin Tour.
The fraternity Zeta Psi occupied
what is now Ladd House from 1927
until the 1990s.
In 1927, a new Zeta Psi chapter house
was erected at 14 College Streetdirectly in front of the place where the
previous house once stood for 24 years.
Sir Harry Oakes of the Class of 1896 donated over half of the $40,000 necessary
to build the new house.
Oakes later became a successful
entrepreneur in the United States and
New Zealand, making his fortune
from a Canadian gold mine. King
George VI of the United Kingdom
made him a baronet in 1939 for his
philanthropic work.
After acquiring his wealth, Oakes
wanted to give back to the fraternity
that shaped his youth.
When the house was dedicated to
Samuel Ladd in 2002, many Zeta Psi
alumni felt the house should have been
named for Oakes. The College disregarded their complaints since Oakes
was not a very pleasant person and was
thus rather unpopular.
Due to his business endeavors,
Oakes acquired various enemies
throughout his life.
In 1943, Oakes was brutally murdered on his estate in Nassau, Ba-

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS

A NEW DIRECTION: Before Ladd became the house we know today it underwent major structural changes. The 1927 version is shown above.
hamas. He was found bludgeoned
to death in his bed with his body
set on fire and partially covered in
feathers. Due to Oakes considerable
wealth and his apparent ties to the
then governor of the Bahamasthe
Duke of Windsor (formerly known
as King Edward VIII of the United
Kingdom)his murder became an
international sensation.
Upon discovering his body, investigators on the island reported Oakes death

to the Duke of Windsor. The Duke,

knowing full well that the murder of
such a wealthy man would cause a scandal, called in detectives from Miami to
investigate, even though local Bahamian
investigators, Captains Melchen and
Barker, were capable of handling the investigation.
Oakes had company on the night he
was killed: his friend and property developer Harold Christie. Christie told
investigators that he was completely

unaware anything had happenedhe

had slept through the murder.
He was never suspected because
most people on the island were convinced the murderer was Oakes sonin-law Alfred de Marigny, husband of
Oakes daughter Nancy.
De Marigny certainly had a motive: upon her fathers death, Nancy
would receive quite an inheritance.
Since there was a gap of approximately 30-minutes in his alibi, de Marigny

was arrested.
While de Marigny was being interrogated, the Duke of Windsor arrived.
He had a private conversation with the
investigators and left. Citing a perfect
fingerprint found on a screen in Oakes
bedroom, police formally charged de
Marigny with murder two hours after
the Duke left.
During the trial it was revealed that
Melchen and Barker had taken the fingerprint off of a box of de Marignys
cigarettes and planted it on the screen.
When this came to light, de Marigny
was acquitted.
Even today, nobody knows why de
Marigny was framed. One possibility is that the Duke wanted the case
closed as quickly as possible. If locals
handled the investigation, it might
have gone on much longer and the
Duke might not have wanted an international spotlight on the island for an
extended period of time.
Oakes murder remains unsolved, but
several books and films have been made
about his strange story, each supporting
a different theory about what transpired
at Oakes home on the night of his death.
Author William Boyd tells a version
of events in his novel Any Human
Heart, which was adapted for TV.
As Boyd tells it, according to an article in The Guardian, the fire that
burned Oakes body did not destroy
all of the evidence.
Boyd suspects Christie as a potential killer since Christie allegedly owed
Oakes a good deal of money.
It appears that the Duke of Windsor conspired with investigators to
incriminate an innocent man for the
murder of the man who provided
more than half the money to build

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Yoo 18 finds fulfillment through service Thanksgiving beer pairMIND THE GAP

ings for the whole family

BY JULIAN ANDREWS

GRAIN TO GLASS
CALLIE FERGUSON

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAE-YEON YOO

LESSONS LEARNED: Jae-Yeon Yoo spent a year working in a residential community for people with
special needs. She gained valuable life lessons and learned how to properly drink a Guinness.
do it, said Yoo. I got to be really
good friends with our vacuum and
toilet cleaner.
Yoo took valuable lessons away
from her gap year, but the transition to Bowdoin, and back to living only for herself, has presented
challenges.
I think the main thing [the gap

year] helped me to realize is how

valuable it is to care for another person and to be fully responsible for
someone else, she said. I had four
people who were getting me up in
the morning, and now I only have
to be responsible for myself. Thats

Please see GAP, page 6

The famous English theorist Alan

Sinfield determined that all hegemonic
ideologies sow the seeds of their own
undoing. Sinfield must have surmised this after attending
many holiday parties.
The holidays depend
as much on their strict
cultural traditions as
they do on the annual
mistakes that disrupt
themthe
dropped
Thanksgiving turkey,
the fallen-over Christmas tree. Its built into
the idea of the holiday
that the holiday must go
a little awry.
So allow to me
continue in the timehonored tradition of
reinforcing these cultural
narratives, if only to ensure the
survival of weird stories to share when
its all over. Here are some beer pairings for the stereotypical characters
that ought to be at your Thanksgiving
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Jae-Yeon Yoo 18 understands better than most what it means to care

for someone. During her gap year she
worked in a residential community
for people with special needs located
in Gorey, Irelandabout two hours
south of Dublin.
Yoo worked with an international
organization named Camphill Communities to assist 25 members of the
residential community, which is divided into small houses. She lived in
a house with a host mother and four
people with special needs.
Each day, Yoo would wake up and
either milk the communitys farm animals, or shower one of the members.
Her house family would then cook,
eat and clean up breakfast together.
After breakfast, everyone would go
off to workshopsincluding pottery,
weaving and other activities designed
to have the community create something together.
In the morning, Yoo would work
in the weavery, and in the afternoon, she would clean with the help
of some special needs members of
the community.
Because its an entirely selffunctioning community, you dont
have people from the outside, like
our housekeepers, that come in and

celebration. Even this stupid narrative

conceit is hopefully upended by the
irony that hey, since when do we drink
beer at Thanksgiving?
Your parents: I dont care if your
mother is a fun-loving progressive that
let you have wine at dinner during your
senior year in high school. When shes
standing over the turkey and wielding
a large kitchen knife, youll be
happy that youre on your
best behavior. Thats
why you should pair
your parents with a super low-ABV Lambic
beer. Lambics are Belgian style, spontaneously fermented sour
beers, meaning that the
beer is fermented over
a long period of time
with specially cultivated wild yeast strains.
Wild yeastwhich
begets the category of
wild beersimparts
funky, unpredictable,
but typically sour flavors,
and yields a refreshingly tart
and rarely boozy final product. Whats
particular about Lambics, however, is

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STUDENT

certain level of training or background experience.

Students must apply to become
writing assistants at the Center for
as a ball boy for womens soccer in
Learning and Teaching (CLT), for
the fall, and in the winter he runs
instance, and enroll in an educathe game clock and scoreboard for
tion course that teaches them the
mens hockey. Canales said that
skills necessary for being a sucthe jobs rarely feel like a burden
cessful tutor.
to him.
Noorissa Khoja 15 works as a
It doesnt really feel like Im
quantitative reasoning tutor at the
at work, he said. Because a lot
CLT, helping students to underof times I would have gone to
stand concepts or complete probthe games anyway and Im worklem sets for economics and math
ing with a lot of my friends, so it
courses. Each night presents a difmakes it easier.
ferent set of
In the dining halls,
challenges for
shifts are busy and
Khoja based
I think its a little bit unfair
students are almost
on what stualways hard at work.
dents
need
because youre getting paid
You have to adhelp with, but
the same as someone whos
mit that dining jobs
she said that
swiping cards at the gym
are very different
her work is
than being the [card
very rewardthat
can
be
kind
of
crummy
swiper] at [The Peing.
ter Buck Center
I really enCAROLINA DEIFELT STREESE 16
for Health and Fitjoy
teaching
ness], said Dining
others, Khoja
Services Associate
said. I think
Director of Opits cool beerations Michele Gaillard. I see
cause I learn a lot of things too and
them and they have their studying
figure out what I know and dont
or their reading or whatever, and
know about my [economics] mathats not the dining jobs. For some
jor, which is kind of interesting.
kids thats absolutely a deal breaker
because they have to study or they
How pay is determined
dont want to work the way our
In Maine, the hourly minimum
students work.
wage is $7.50 per hour, but stuDining hall managers like Carodent workers at Bowdoin are paid
lina Deifelt Streese 16 said that
no less than $7.75 per hour. Two
even as students move up in rank
main factors determine how much
in Dining Services, the workload
a student gets paid.
and the length of shifts do not
The first is how long they have
decrease. Not only do managers
worked in their department. Stusupervise other student employdents who stay with the same emees, they also monitor the dining
ployer are typically rewarded with
area and constantly evaluate what
small pay increases at the end of
needs to be replaced and restocked.
each semester or year.
Manager shifts also include a lot
The second factor is the level of
of clean-up, and run longer than
technical skill and knowledge remany other shifts.
quired for the jobs.
My brunch shift has run to six
The SEO has developed five
and a half hours during the week
pay bandsA, B, C, D and Efor
that Thorne was closed and we had
starting salaries based on student
to serve brunch to everybody, said
skill level, level of independence
Deifelt Streese. Other jobs you
necessary and task complexity. The
can negotiate your shift a little bit
breakdowns for these levels can be
but theseyou need to be here for
found on the SEO website.
the entire [shift].
The SEO supports supervisors
Other campus jobs require a
in determining pay grades for the

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the addition of fruit to the fermentation

tanks, giving these full-bodied, smooth
sipping beers an unmistakable fruitjuicy character.
I recommend picking up a bottle of
the Belgian Lindemans Framboise (2.5
percent ABV), if only because Lambics
are uncommon, and Ive seen this brand
around my local Whole Foods. Try their
option brewed with peaches.
The stately grandfather: The first
time I got buzzed, my very own stately grandfather was over for dinner
and I shook a lobster claw at
him at the dinner table. His
reprimand has left serious
emotional scars, and Ive
been desperately trying
to rebuild a reputation for decency ever
since. I imagine the
same is true for my
entire readership.
This Thanksgiving,
Im pairing my stately
grandfather with a Belgian Tripel. Tripels are pale, strong beers (with
ABV usually near 10 percent) that incorporate complex floral and citrus flavors with a sweet, yeasty malt backbone.
This might sound similar to other Belgians beers, but the Tripel is distinct in
its degree of bitterness.
Not unlike my grandfather, the Tri-

pels characteristic bite reminds me at

the front of every sip that I should sip
my drink slowly and respectably over
the course of the night.
The Allagash Tripel is by far my favorite on the market: it moves through
stages of spice, candied citrus and buttery malt, amounting to a beer so complex youll need to have several to account for its entire spectrum of flavors.
The crazy uncle: You would think
that this unprincipled, unshaven stereotype ought to be crushing
Buds all night long.
On principle, I cannot recommend a Bud
Light. Not even in the
noble pursuit of perpetuating stereotypes. Not even to
my worst enemy. And so I
suggest that you purchase a
six-pack of West Coast IPA.
IPAs push the limits of
whats palatable, but we love
them anyway. One sip of this
mouth-puckering,
ultra-bitter
brew will put the same look on your
face as one of your crazy uncles dirty
jokes, so why not kill two birds with
one stone?
I suggest Baxter Brewings exceedingly bitter Stowaway IPA (6.9
percent) and Sierra Nevadas palatetorquing Torpedo Extra IPA (7.2
percent)for their astringency and
because you can find them, fittingly,
in cans.
The fun aunt: Nobody rocks the
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jobs they post.

Student positions that require
more technical skills, like having
specific video editing skills or information technology or specific
research knowledge, thats where
you see the pay scale increasing,
said Paul. The other piece is level
of independence in terms of [supervision required] to accomplish
the job duties.
According Ryan, all jobs in the
athletics department fall into pay
grade Athe lowest paying category. Not many students with
jobs in the department are upset
by their low hourly wages.
Its very mindless labor and I dont
mind doing it so I think Im fairly
compensated for it, said Canales.
For others, pay rates can be
frustrating. Students who are employed with Dining Services and
have very busy shifts sometimes
feel shortchanged. Line servers fall
into the B pay grade and are paid
$8.25 an hour.
When youre just starting out as
a line server, I think its a little bit
unfair because youre getting paid
the same as somebody whos swiping cards at the gym, so that can
be kind of crummy, said Deifelt
Streese. But [with the raises] for
managers I think its fair.
Braedon Kohler 18, a current
line server, agreed.
Its not that I dont like this
[job], but with college being such
a work-heavy time, having some
sort of job where I could sit behind
a desk and do work or just goof
off and get paid the same amount
would be cool, he said. Id rather
do less and get paid the same.
Performance evaluation
The evaluation process for student workers is highly dependent
on supervisors taking initiative.
The SEOs online evaluation
form is not widely used, and the
office hopes to initiate further
conversation about student performance evaluation in the future.
For Paul and the rest of the SEO,
the main purpose of evaluation is to
determining how to make students
more comfortable in their jobs,
even in cases where a student might
pixie cut and technicolor scarf like
your fun aunt. Her name is probably
Deb. Her boozy alter-ego deserves a
similarly merry character, so peruse
aisles of your local liquor store (tip:
specialty wine stores are often the
best places to find a good craft beer
selection) and see which of your favorite breweries are offering a holiday
spiced ale.
This style varies in its offerings,
but spiced ales usually attempt to
encapsulate the holidays with festive seasonal flavors: cinnamon,
nutmeg, gingermaybe even some
hot peppers.
The brooding, antisocial sibling:
He claims that nobody understands
him, but his cigarette-burned Joy
Division T-shirt gives him away:
hes undeniably a stout. Plunge
into the dark abyss of your humanity with the taste of roasted malt,
smoke and ash. Forge in the smithy
of your soul with the help of dark
chocolate and bitter espresso.
Either way, the depth and range of
flavor going on in this popular and
delicious style will make your eyeliner run, its that good.
North Coast Brewings Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout (9 percent) is perhaps the paragon of dark,
brooding brews, and luckily, you can
pick up a six pack at Local on Maine
Street. Two dependable backups are
Guinness Foreign Extra Stout and Allagash Black, both 7.5 percent ABV.

Pay Grade

Base Pay Rate

Well-established procedural work, some

supervision required

$7.75

Medium level tasks with occasional

independent judgments necessary, limited
supervision required

$8.25

C
Interpretation of procedures and
independent judgment, supervision not
required

$8.75

D
Creating procedures and completing
complex and/or highly technical tasks,
supervision not required

$9.50

Wage determined by SEO on a position-byposition basis, involves unsupervised,

specialization-level work

N/A
GRACE HANDLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

not be doing their job well, or not

showing up for his or her shift.
This is a learning environment
for students. It may be a students
first job, so supervisors in general
are very thoughtful with checking
in with students if theyre having
challenges, said Paul. We have
very few terminations that happen.
All of the termination conversations that Ive had have been very
positive with supervisors and they
have resulted in most cases with
students staying in their jobs.
Paul said her goal is to set up
Bowdoin as a training ground for
students future job experiences.
Down the road students are going to have to negotiate salaries,
theyre going to have to understand their benefits, so anything
we can do here as an educational
tool for students is my aim in par-

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really relieving in the beginning but
at the same time you feel a little bit
empty. Im still dealing with that.
Yoos experience was also meaningful as it gave her a chance to get to
know socially marginalized people.
I think people should realize that
special needs people really arent very
different from us, she said. People,
when they hear about my gap year,
always say, oh my god, youre such
a good person, thats amazing, but I
think I gained more from the experience than what I was able to give
them. I discovered a lot about myself.
Yoo found through working with
the other residents of the community that the similarities between
everyone living there outweighed
the differences. She said that recon-

ticular, she said. If students are

coming back to me and saying,
This is a challenge, that is always
positive feedback. Where we run
into trouble as a society, as a work
community, as an educational institution, is when feedback is not
happening.
For many students, on-campus
jobs offer opportunities to learn
skills and gain experiences they
would not otherwise have acquired.
I like my jobIve met some
cool people and getting to know
how the food industry works is also
kind of cool. The chefs have actually had me bread tofu nuggets and
Ive done stuff that I never thought
Id do in my life, said Kohler. Ive
also met some people randomly at
College House partiestheyll be
like Youre the guy who gave me a
couple extra nuggets. I like you.
textualizing what seems like odd behavior in terms of ones own life can
help that understanding.
Yoo pointed out that we all desire
a certain order in our lives, and while
the reaction of a severely autistic person to a change in routine might be
different from others, the root cause,
a need for stability, is shared.
If you think about it in those
terms its really important that theyre
not that different, she said. I think
a lot of people forget that when they
hear about my experience. I am far
from being an angel.
Yoo said she has enjoyed returning
to her studies after taking a year off
from academics. However, she did
learn to drink beer with the correct
Irish technique.
I didnt do any studying unless
you count learning how to drink
Guinness, she said. That was a serious lesson.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

REMEMBERING MORGAN
I came to Bowdoin for two reasons: the food and the professors.
I wanted a place with small classes
and brilliant faculty. I wanted professors who would know not only
my name, but my aspirations, and
who would, however slightly, let
me into their world. I also wanted a
place where dining halls would serve
pad thai. Bowdoin was perfect.
Professor Morgan, whom I first
met during Constitutional Law I
in the fall of my junior year, was
just the sort of professor I had in
mind when I came to campus. He
would arrive promptly to class at
10 a.m. in a tweed jacket, the chain
of his pocket watch dangling from
his breast pocket, looking as if he
had just stepped out of a Spencer
Tracy film.
I remember being astounded
during the first few weeks of that
class by the obvious breadth of his
knowledge about what seemed to
be the entirety of constitutional
law. Having opened the textbook
at the beginning of class, he would
proceed to ignore it almost entirely
for the next hour and a half as he
told us anecdote after anecdote
about Chief Justice John Marshall.
I remember the look of excitement
that would come to his face as he
told us a particularly good story,
and how he would start to laugh a
sentence or two before he reached
the punch line.

LOOKING AT BOTH SIDES OF

A CATHOLIC EDUCATION
Like most juniors in college,
I dont think much about high
school anymore. The days of waking up at 6 a.m. and sitting through
seven-plus hours of class every day
are over, at least until I enter the
real world of nine-to-five employment. I am ostensibly much cooler,
smarter and more put-together
than I was as a teenageror at least
thats what Id like to think. However, every now and then something
will remind me of the uniqueness
(or if were being totally honest
here, the weirdness) of my middle
and high school experience.
From seventh through 12th
grade, I attended a tiny, all-girls
Catholic school. When I say tiny,
I mean tiny. There were about 180
students in the entire school and I
graduated with a class of 23. And
when I say Catholic, I mean really
Catholic. We prayed before every
class, attended daily mass, and
took theology courses where we
were taught strict Church teaching
on issues ranging from premarital
sex to abortion to homosexuality.
Needless to say, college was
something of a culture shock for
scared freshman me. After spend-

I didnt speak much to Professor

Morgan those first few weeksI
never had occasion to. But when
he handed back our midterm test,
I saw that on the back of mine
he had written see me, with no
further explanation. The next
day, as I climbed the three staircases to his office at the very top
of Hubbard Hall, I wondered
what lay in store for me at the
end of my ascent. And so when
I arrived, I asked him whether I
had done anything wrong.
No, no, he said. I just
wanted to know who you were.
And he did want to know.
For the next hour, he asked
me to tell him about myself:
the courses I was taking and
my extracurricular activities.
We talked about politics, about
Bowdoin, and at the end of our
conversation, he shook my hand
and said, Im going to expect to
hear from you more from now on.
I did begin raising my hand
more, and he called on me. I dont
recall ever stumping him, but I do
remember his smile of vaguely exasperated pride when I would ask a
particularly good question, or answer a hard one of his.
As I began to listen to him more
closely, I began to see individual
court cases not as disparate elements, but as chapters in a larger,
fluid story. I started making the trek
to his office more frequently and
quickly stopped being surprised at
how generous he was with his time.

Unfailingly kind and patient, he

would discuss his lectures with me
and the cases currently before the
Supreme Court justices, whom he

most two hours. It was completely

dark outside.
Professor Morgan gently rapped
his knuckles against his desk and

ing six years in a boy-free environment, there were suddenly boys living next door. No one was warning
me about the evils of birth control
anymore. Proctors on every floor
were handing out free condoms.
As I adjusted to this new and
foreign world, I was pretty
quick to repudiate my high
school experience. I met
new people, acclimated
to my surroundings, and
didnt define myself by
the environment Id left
behind. High school had
been one part of my life, I
thought, and college was another, totally different one.
But after Id gotten some distance
from all the bad things about my
high schoolthe needlessly strict
rules about everything from uniforms to eating in the hallways,
the constant focus on Catholic
social doctrines I disagreed with,
the fact that I knew every single
student at my school by name
I started to remember the good
ones. Most importantly, I started
to realize what I had learned
from my six years in an all-female environment.
I realize that most people stereotype the Catholic school girl
as a lesbian, prude and/or slut. But
my experience at an all girls school
was much more nuanced and empowering than you might assume.
First, it taught me not to obsess
too much about outward appearances. Spending all
my time with a group of

ashamed of having a healthy appetite or loving junk

food. We were free
from the male gaze,
and we relished
that freedom.
More concretely, the all-female
experience
also
taught me to be
assertive and value my own opinion. Our head
of school would
often stress that
she was not
teaching her
students to
be
nice
girlsshe
was teaching them to
be smart, confident
women.
My school wasnt
alone in this; a
2009 UCLA study
found that alumnae of all-female
high schools had
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
higher levels of
girls Id known since age 12 meant I
academic achievement and more
didnt have anyone to impress, and
confidence in their abilities than
wearing a uniform meant I put minstudents from co-ed schools. Meg
imal effort into my daily appearance.
Milne Moulton, executive director
Makeup was optional, and girls
of the National Coalition of Girls
would take pride in going weeks or
Schools, has suggested that all-girls
months without shaving their legs.
schools promote an environment
Nobody dieted or obsessed about
in which its cool to be smart, crecounting calories,
ating a culture
and nobody was
of
achieve-

DOIN
E BOW

, TH
HALL
ANNA

collectively called The Supremes.

Only once did he ever kick me
out of his office. I had arrived at
4 p.m., and we had spoken for al-

T
ORIEN

said, I think
I am going to head home
soon. I can hear the sound of ice
cubes clinking in a glass. I understood myself to be dismissed for
the evening.
I dont remember all, or even

most, of the cases that he had filed,

encyclopedically, in his head over
the course of decades, and which he
valiantly attempted to impart to me.
But I do remember being consistently and supportively challenged
by him, being pushed to think
deeply and support my positions.
From Professor Morgan I began
to learn patience and nuance and
the value of an obsessively detailed
study guide. I began to learn how
to make an argument without being argumentative, although I did
not, perhaps, employ this ability as
often as I should have.
Still, these are lessons I will
carry with me the rest of my life.
He gave me many of my proudest
moments at Bowdoin and when I
graduated, comfortable and largely
confident in my future, it was to
him that I owed much of the credit
for these emotions.
When I learned that he had
passed, I was amazed at all the
things I didnt know about Professor Morgan. His life outside of
Bowdoin had always been an abstract concept to me. I didnt know,
for example, that he was a veteran,
or a certified Maine guide. I didnt
know that he hunted or fished, although if pressed I probably could
have guessed these last two.
I didnt know these things about
him. But I knew Professor Morgan.
And I am glad and I am grateful to
have had that opportunity.
-Josh Burger-Caplan 14
ment in which a girls academic
progress is of central importance.
This description might sound
cheesy, but after two years of college Ive come to realize just how
important that experience was.
Ive noticed in many of my classes
(especially those in traditionally
male-dominated
departments)
that boys will confidently speak
up and defend their opinions, even
after pushback from a classmate
or the professor. Meanwhile, girls
will often speak more tentatively,
qualifying their comments with
statements like I could be wrong
or This is just my opinion. I too
am definitely guilty of this at
times, but I also try to remind myself that my ideas are valid and I
should express them regardless of
the genders of the other people in
the room.
Im definitely happy to have
moved from an all-female to a coed environment, and I like having
the opportunity to engage in discussions about controversial issues
that were often taboo at my high
school. At the same time, though,
Im grateful for the opportunities my time at an all-girls school
afforded me. My 14 year-old self
may not have seen the value in
an all-female education, but time
(and distance) have made
me more appreciative of
what it taught me.
-Katie Miklus 16

friday, november 21, 2014

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features

Meaningful mustache: the messages behind cultivating facial scruff

348 AND
MAINE STREET
EVAN HORWITZ
I can think of no better time
than the middle of Movember to
reflect on the mustache. Using
the mustache as a symbol of mens
health awareness is really kind of
a brilliant marketing move, as
those things go: its the most
homegrown, hairiest and
distinctive of all those
wonderful ribbons for
various health concerns.
So in recent years, and
not without historical
precedent, the mustache has come to symbolize health.
But the mustache, the
thing itself, means so much
more to us. It will never be,
nor never can be purely a
statement of advocacy. The
mustache is complicated.
I am a little troubledI
think only a littlewith the
idea that virility and hypermasculinity (which are also tied
up in the mustache) come to
stand for health, as if effeminate menor at least hairless
onesdont deserve it. In the same
way, I am troubled by the co-opting of the color pink by the breast
cancer awareness movement, as if
less feminine women, women who
dont care to be pretty in pink,
are excluded in some way. Im still
conflicted, but I do think it is important to consider what else we

may be saying when we consciously try to make a statement through

style and self-presentation.
A wise acting teacher of mine
always says that while on stage,
we are communicating something
with everything we do, whether or
not we are trying to. The same is
true for personal style: it always is
saying something, saying a whole

bling, saying that its just facial

hair, its not a big deal, its fun, its
for a good cause. Yes, to all those
things, but its just not that simple.
Because there is, of course, one
mustache that nobody talks about
during Movember. Its probably the
most conspicuous and infamous
mustache of the 20th century, and
it is a case study in how personal

about the meaning of our dress

and hair and mustaches: meanings
accumulate culturally and historically, and we cannot ignore them.
There is nothing evil, inherently, in the Hitler mustache.
Called the toothbrush mustache,
the style was somewhat popular in
the United States in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, and was
most famously sported by Charlie

lot of complicated things, really. So

we have to consider what we think
were saying with how we groom
and how we dress. Personal style
is always making a statement, even
if you think youre not trying, and
that statement is, in some ways, always political.
I can just hear readers grum-

style, especially the mustache, can

be transfigured and transformed
in its significations.
I am talking, of course, about
Hitlers mustache. It has come to
stand for terror and tyranny and
evil, but also can tell us much
about the co-opting of style and
how there is nothing inherent

Chaplin. The story goes, of course,

that Hitler was a great fan of Chaplins films and copied the look. So
this mustache took a journey from
minimalist aesthetic statement to
hilarious comic device to symbol
of evil. It did not begin as Hitlers
moustache, but it certainly became
his, and only his.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS

A GRUESOME END: Sir Harry Oakes graduated from Bowdoin in 1896 and donated thousands of
dollars towards the building of what is now Ladd House before being brutally murdered in 1943.

LADD

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

what is now Ladd House.
Over half a century later, after
Zeta Psi became Chi Delta Phi in
1991, the misfortunes tied to Ladd
House continued.
Tragedy struck on March 15,
1996, when 20-year-old University

of Maine-Orono student Cameron

Brett fell off the roof of the chi
Delta Phi house during a party and
died. This was the final straw for
the College when it came to dealing with fraternities. Administrators decided to begin the process
of phasing out the fraternities and
establish a new residential life systemthe College Houses we know
today.

Meaning
accumulates
and
sticks. As much as I adore Charlie
Chaplin, I could never grow such
a mustache (even if I had the sufficient facial hair). There is an argument to be made about reclaiming the toothbrush moustache, and
other styles the Nazis appropriated. We could try bringing them
back and robbing them of their oppressive power, as certain words in
black and gay cultures have been
re-appropriated. But Im not sure
thats possible and Im not sure
we want it to be.
We cannot scrub the histories of styles: we can consider
them, we can look at them, we
can even play with them, but
we can never remove them.
Trendy styles, as moustaches are now, try very
hard to erase any controversial meaning or politics
from themselves.
Thats dangerous and irresponsible. Wear a mustache if
you wish, if only for the month,
but think about it. Think about
it beyond the canned answer.
Mindlessness about personal style
is inexcusable.
P.S. I cannot write about mustaches without giving a shout-out
to my dad. My father is one of the
last, great wearers of a serious,
un-ironic mustache. He has had
it for nearly 40 years. It is universally beloved and it is never going
anywhere. I often see my father in
crowds where he could not possibly be, but it turns out to be just
another man with a mustache.
Should I be worried about faceblindness?

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Filmmaker Ford sparks conversation on gender equality, ethnic discrimination

BY MADISON WOLFERT
ORIENT STAFF

Drawing attention to both gender

inequality faced by women in Tibet
and ethnic discrimination faced by
Tibetans in China, award-winning
radio correspondent and filmmaker, Jocelyn Ford, visited Bowdoin on
Tuesday to discuss her documentary, Nowhere to Call Home.
The film follows a true story about
Zanta, a widowed Tibetan woman
who struggles to reconcile her desires to be a good daughter-in-law,
following the traditions of her village
and to seek an education and better
future for her son in Beijing.
Gender in Tibetan communities
has only been looked at by a very
small handful of people and I think
popular culture has totally ignored
it, said Ford.
Ford hopes her film will reinforce
the burgeoning conversation about
gender discrimination in Tibet and
urge audiences worldwide to think
about issues of discrimination on a
global level.
A lot of the issues in the film are
really universal issues, she said.
They happen to be happening in
China with a Tibetan minority, but
around the world we experience
discrimination based on gender and
different issues.
When Ford created her film, she
chose not to include information
on recent, highly charged political
issues in Tibet. This is not because
she was concerned with alienating

COURTESY OF JOCELYN FORD

NOWHERE TO CALL HOME: Ford tells the visual story of how Zanta (pictured), a widowed Tibetan woman, seeks to give her son a better future in China.
Chinese audiences, but rather because she did not expect to be allowed to show the film in China.
However, Ford has since had the
opportunity to screen it in China
and hopes to spark a conversation

on issues of ethnic discrimination

there. Ford feels that her film is one
of very few to show discrimination
faced by ethnic minorities in their
daily lives in China. For example,
in several scenes, Zanta endures

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
BOWDOIN COLLEGE CONCERT BAND

explicit discrimination directly because of her ethnicity.

This is quite shocking to a lot of
people in the Peoples Republic of China, because media there is not allowed
to cover this sort of dynamic, said Ford.

48-Hour Film Festival yields

quirky, unconventional films

PRESENTS

BY TOMMY LUNN

THE POWER OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT

After a mere 48 hours of writing,

shooting and producing a film, a few
of Bowdoins most driven filmmakers are ready to present their work.
The seventh annual 48-Hour
Film Festival, presented by the
Bowdoin Film Society (BFS), is
scheduled to take place this Saturday. The
screening

WHEN: Sunday, November 23 at 2 p.m.

WHERE: Studzinski Recital Hall
CONDUCTED BY: Director John Morneau

The Bowdoin College Concert Band will play a program

entirely dedicated to particular individuals and groups
that have had a profound influence on the lives of others. This program includes compositions that pay tribute to Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Charles Lindbergh,
Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of Endurance. The
concert also includes pieces honoring World War II Veterans, Olympic Athletes and Shakers.

Ford hopes that audiences

across the globe will relate to the
issues presented in her film. For
American audiences, who live in a
country where ethnic groups have
endured and continue to endure
discrimination, Zantas plight may
bring up familiar themes.
Im hoping that people will reflect on their own lives, people they
know, situations theyve been in,
and that in some way my film will
shrink the world, because we really
are all the same, she added.
Ford also recognized that many
Bowdoin students strive, in various ways, to take action in helping
people who are less advantaged.
I would like them to take away
that its not easy. You dont just
throw money at a problem and
solve ityou really need to try to
understand the mindset of the people you are working with, she said.
By the start of filming, Ford had
already been an active presence in
Zantas lifehelping her pay for her
sons education and, consequently,
challenging common perceptions of
journalism and documentary making.
This is the kind of action Ford
hopes to encouragenot just giving someone $100 and hoping it
will all work out, but actively engaging with people and helping
them to better their lives on their
own terms.
For now, she urges that what students can do is watch this film and bring
awareness to the issues faced by Zanta
and people like her across the globe.

ORIENT STAFF

stuffed animal and play 10 seconds

from a song chosen out of a hat.
You end up with some bizarre solutions to some problems that come
up. People have to make decisions
really quickly, whereas in a regular film production those decisions
will be thought out a little bit more,
Szantyr said. It was really interesting to see how people incorpo-

BOWDOIN CHORUS and BOWDOIN ORCHESTRA

PRESENT

MOZARTS REQUIEM
WHEN: Saturday, November 22 at 3 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 23 at
6 p.m.
WHERE: Studzinski Recital Hall
CONDUCTED BY: Director Emily Isaacson

Nearly 100 singers and 45 orchestra players will perform in the sold-out performances. The Bowdoin Chorus will be joined by Oratorio Chorale and members
of Roomful of Teeth, a Grammy-winning vocal ensemble. Members of the Bowdoin Orchestra will play
with musicians from the Maine Chamber Ensemble,
the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra and the Mozart
Mentors Orchestra. Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart was left unfinished at the time of his death
and is a piece surrounded by mystery.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

will be held at 7 p.m. in Smith Auditorium in Sills Hall.
The highlight of the festival is its
unique, time-restricted but relaxed
nature. After the announcement of
the rules, contestants have two days
to produce their films and turn
them in to the judges.
I think its really interesting to
see what people can come up with
in a really short amount of time,
Ryan Szantyr 16 said.
Every year, the festivals judges
impose two challenges in addition
to the time limit. This year, each
entry had to prominently feature a

rated the elements they didnt even

know would be part of the film until
right before they began.
The winning film will be awarded a prize by a panel of three judges, Isabelle Markert 15, Szantyr
and Tanisha Francis 18. A viewers
choice award was presented in previous years, but this years festival
will only feature two films because
only two films were submitted to
the competition.

Please see 48-HOUR, page 10

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Boycott poster exhibit frames the importance of art in protest

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

THE WRITING ON THE WALL: Students for Justice in Palestinein collaboration with the Maine BDS Coalitionis exhibiting a series of protest posters in Smith Union this week. The boycott posters highlight historical boycott movements from the 50s
to today. This travelling exhibition was shown last week at Bates and aims to re-introduce the idea of the boycott as an alternative to violent protests, especially as it relates to the urgent issues of today. The posters shown above (right) are contemporary and
historical examples of boycotts, protesting Israels apartheid policies toward Palestinians (2014), Nikes abuse of factory workers who are paid extremely low wages (2006), poor conditions for migrant farm workers (1970) and South African apartheid (1985).
BY SIAREE ALVAREZ
ORIENT STAFF

The wall of the ramp in David Saul

Smith Union has been transformed
into a nexus of political slogans as
part of an exhibition on the posters
of boycott movements over time.
A collaboration between student
group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and a community group,
the Maine BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) Coalition, the
week-long exhibit aims to show the
power of political messages told
through art.
Sinead Lamel 15, a member of

SJP, said the group has been working

on building a relationship with the
Maine BDS Coalition to bring awareness to the movement against Israeli
institutions and companies that profit from the occupation of Palestine.
Members of both groups said the
collaborative exhibit has the power
to educate students on boycotts past
and present.
Lamel said the purpose of the exhibit is to introduce the idea of boycotts as an effective form of political
non-violent protests.
The exhibit was shown last week at
Bates as a means to highlight the role of
art as a powerful tool for social activism.

By showing art involved in social

movements, [it] shows the humanity behind these movements and the
emotional or urgent situation of the
boycott, Lamel said.
SJP hopes the exhibit will create awareness of current political
situations with connections to the
Bowdoin community.
As students at Bowdoin one of the
reasons we think this exhibit is important is because there is a chance
that Bowdoin has invested in these
companies that profit from the Israeli
Occupation, said Lamel.
Lamels favorite poster is titled
Support Economic Sanction in

Swift is the crazy girlfriend, and we like it

SNARK WEEK
ALLY GLASS-KATZ
This weeks column was co-authored by Katherine Churchill 16.
We have been the crazy girlfriend. Some of us might still be the
crazy girlfriend. Weve booked last
minute international plane flights
and gained 20 pounds and lost 15.
Weve drunk dialed our ex-boyfriends at 4 a.m. to tell them how
incredibly happy we are for them
and that new girl theyre dating.
Welike Taylor Swifthave a
long list of ex-lovers. And theyll
tell you were insane.
In the music video for Blank
Space, the second song on Taylors chart-topping new album
1989, she takes on the medias
misrepresentations of women in
relationships. A shot in the first 15
seconds places a lace-clad Swift on
a white bed flanked by two horses.
Perhaps these beasts act as homage

to her earlier days of Love Story

and White Horse. Perhaps theyre
an allusion to Katy Perry (with
whom she has an alleged feud)
and Katys appropriative hit Dark
Horse with rapper Juicy J.
In 1989, Taylor distances herself from all that. She proves she
doesnt need the backing of Juicy
J or country music to sell 1.3 million albums in her first week. Instead, she creates her make-believe
version of 80s musicthe kind of
faux-innocent pop we wished existed but never did.
Blank Space is a great song to
groove to (see Katherines thirty
plus iTunes play count), but it does
more than abate our insatiable desire for pop. It addresses the pervasive and damaging stereotype of
the crazy (ex-) girlfriend.
In the music video Taylor moves
from serial dater to serial killer.
In the style of Henry VIII, queen
Taylor brunches and boozes with
beautiful men before threatening
to kill them. She golf-clubs a car a
la Elin Nordegren. She cuts nipple

holes a la Mean Girls, and then

proceeds to slice tiny female figures out of her boo-thangs shirt
feminizing him while also suggesting space for comment on fashion
industrys treatment of women.
Late in the video, Taylor handles a poison apple, proving she is
Snow White and Eve all at once. By
making so many cultural references, Taylor clues in the viewer. I am
in on the joke, she seems to say. I
know what you think about me. I
know you love to play.
And speaking of play, when Taylor croons, you love the game,
is she talking about the men shes
with? Or is she talking about us?
With her knowing glances
through the fourth wall, Taylor
comments on the way we track her
dating life and relationships, printing timelines and discussions of
her many men in magazines like
Business Insider, Billboard and
Vanity Fair. Taylor one ups all of
our references. She knows the cul-

Please see SWIFT, page 11

South Africa, which shows a injured

black worker trying to speak with his
mouth duct-taped shut.
Barbara West, a member of the
Maine BDS Coalition said that her
favorite work is of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott.
They are all ordinary people,
you wont see any superstars, its all
about the power of ordering people
to make change, who refuse to accept
injustice, West said.
According to West, the exhibit
shows that political posters can
be just as significantif not more
compellingthan any other type of
visual art.

48-HOUR
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

Being into film at Bowdoin, its

really cool that we have an event
where theres not pressure to make
some amazing film. Its just about
being innovative and taking what
it is that youre given and running
with the first idea in your head,
Markert said.
President of BFS Nick Magalhes
15 and Mark Endrizzi 15 produced
Run; Dont Walk. Noah Bragg
15 and Alex Sutula 13 produced
Dollhouse.
The first is a three-minute film
featuring a chase scene through the
woods, while experimenting with
the role of time.
It is most simply a zombie movie. It has a nice sort of structure
to it; it doesnt play out in a linear
setup, Magalhes said.
Magalhes has contributed to
the 48-Hour Film Festival in each
of his four years at Bowdoin and
drew on his past experience for
this years production.
Whenever I make a movie for
the 48-Hour Film Festival I like to
get one idea and keep it as simple

Some of these posters are beautiful and very artistic. There is a

tremendous amount of work and
thought that goes into these posters, said West.
The connection of art and
politics [is valuable] because it is
a very contentious thing in this
country, West said. Id be hard
pressed to say whether this was an
art exhibit or a political exhibit,
but in our culture there is still this
taboo if its political it can't possibly be good art.
Further collaborative projects
between the BDS Coalition and SJP
are in the works.
as possible because we have so little
time, so I kind of wanted to make a
movie in reverse and it built from
there, he said.
For the filmmakers, it is the time
crunch, not the extra criteria, that
ends up being the most challenging aspect.
The criteria werent so bad.
You can use a song ironically or to
match a mood, so a song is pretty
versatile, Magalhes said. The
stuffed animal was also not too bad,
though of the two criteria, that was
the one I found the silliest. The time
restriction is the hardest part of it.
Participants benefit not only
from making their own films, but
from viewing those of others.
Some people have really vivid,
wonderful imaginations and can
read a book and go to another
world, but when you see someone
elses other world in front of you
it can transform your experience,
Magalhes said.
Following this Saturdays festival
screening, BFS will continue to play
movies on weekend evenings after
the upcoming Thanksgiving break.
The first weekend back will feature
The Grand Budapest Hotel and
Obvious Child.

friday, november 21, 2014

Professors release books on women in history

ORIENT STAFF

JESSICA GLUCK, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

17th century manuscripts, said
Boyle in an email to the Orient.
But its the closest physical contact
I have with the true materiality of
my period, knowing that the people
I study hand-wrote or owned the
letters, records and books I study.
Smith said the most difficult part
was transitioning from research to
writing on the blank page, something many students might empathize with.
Its so fun to gather and take
notes and read for hours on end,
said Smith. But once Im in it, I
love the writing process.
Coming from liberal arts backgrounds, Smith and Boyle both
value the emphasis on writing and
personalized learning opportunities at schools like Bowdoin.
The small liberal arts college
fosters this cross-disciplinary inquiry. It was automatically clear
to me that I wanted history to be
a part of this book. I wanted art
history to be part. Its grounded
in German but its also an urban
studies, gender studies, film studies [book], Smith said. Its a very
interdisciplinary book.
Smith and Boyle encourage
Bowdoin students to use a variety of disciplinary lenses to their
advantage when venturing into research, dissertations and possibly
books of their own.
Find a subject that youre really
passionate about and a community
of peers and mentors that can support and invigorate your research
and writing process, Boyle said.

Blank Space is that domestic violence (which is actually what she is

portraying in her videothink of
the scene in which Taylor throws
tural chatter. She knows what we
a potted plant at her lovers head)
say about her and she laughs about
happens every day,
it. We call her crazy, and in
disproportionturn, she shows us what inately to womsanity actually looks like.
en, and very
Spoiler alert: it isnt pretty.
few people
In boldly calling out
call
that
the media myths surcrazy.
If
rounding her experia woman
ences with men, Taylor
gets mad
creates a blank space
when her
to revise the expectaboyfriend
tions of women and
isnt fulpower dynamics
filling
in relationships.
her emoShe shows us
tional
whats truly
needs,
insanecar
shes inclubbing,
sane. Dopicture
mestic vislashing,
olence, on
deers by firethe other
places, etc.
hand,
is
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
so that we can understand
wrong and
that emotional fulfillment, honbad but never crazy.
esty and writing as process isnt
The sad truth is that, while a
crazy at all.
woman asserting her personhood
The truly chilling thing about
in a relationship is abnormal in

our society, hurting women is not.

We only notice the insanity of
domestic violence when the assumed gender roles are switched.
We should point out that Chris
Brown has never been called crazy.
Hes bad, but not psychotic.
Back in the day, each of Taylors
relationships may have served as a
creative blank space. But now Taylors all grown up. Now, each man
is a literal blank spacea welldressed, well-off brunette whos
picture will add nothing to the hall
of mirrors Taylor already has built
with her immense talent and cultural savvy.
When one mans picture is
slashed, shell add on another. The
biggest picture shes slashing? Her
portrait as painted by the media
and societys expectations of women. Taylors tearing it down and
painting her own.
So, as we were saying: we may be
the crazy girlfriend. But in a world
that defines crazy girlfriend as
self-actualized woman and normalizes domestic violence, maybe
thats what we want to be. Either
way, with Taylor at our side, we
know were in good company.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

DJ OF THE WEEK

READ-ALOUD: Professors Smith (left) and Boyle (right) present their new books last Wednesday.
up in Berlin Coquette was featured in a first-year seminar Smith
offered in the fall of 2012: From
Flowers of Evil to Pretty Woman:
Prostitutes in Modern Western Europe. Smith said the course was very
gratifying to teach, and she tries to
integrate as much of her work into
classes at Bowdoin as possible.
Professor Boyles book, Unruly
Women, also inquires into the historical standing of women and potential contradictions in how women are
represented by society. The setting for
her book is early modern Spain.
I became hooked on early modern Spanish literature during my
time as an undergraduate at Reed
College, where the close-knit and
engaging seminar classes allowed
me to deeply explore the periods
culture and its theater, said Boyle
in an interview to the University
of Toronto Press. My engagement
as a feminist scholar was prompted
by my first encounters with representations of women, and violence
against women, in early modern
Spanish texts.
Unruly Women explores the
relationship between public theater,
custodial institutions and women,
specifically focusing on representations of deviance and rehabilitation
both on and off stage in early modern Spanish culture.
Despite the years of work involved
with writing and publishing a book,
both Boyle and Smith love the process of academic scholarship.
I love archival research. It can
be tedious to leaf through 16th and

SWIFT

11

Eva Sibinga 17
and Nick Benson 17

BY MARTIN SHOTT
On Wednesday afternoon, two
recently published professors celebrated the release of their new books
with faculty and students. Both
books focus on written representations and cultural views of women
in specific historical contexts.
Associate Professor of German
Jill Smith has written Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New
German Woman, and Assistant
Professor of Romance Languages
Margaret Boyle recently published
Unruly Women: Performance,
Penitence, and Punishment in Early
Modern Spain. Both books have
been on shelves for several months.
Berlin Coquette focuses on the
prostitution industry in the growing city of Berlin between 1890 and
1930 while examining the concept
of the New Woman, a feminist ideal
originating in the 19th century that
promoted education, independence
and autonomy for women.
My real question is what is the
relationship between how prostitutes were represented and how New
Women were represented, Smith
said. And if they wind up getting
intertwined, does that necessarily
mean that its a bad thing for both
partiesespecially New Women.
Smith was building on previous
work in her field, which criticized
any material that compared prostitutes and New Women on the
ground of misogyny without further exploring the cultural context
or the relationship between the two
historical character types.
It was a really long trajectory to get
to this book, she said. I was inspired
in graduate school by this question
of how prostitutes get represented in
German-language literature.
After graduating from Amherst,
Smith received her PhD in Germanic Studies from Indiana University,
where research leading up to her
dissertation became more focused
on Berlin. While writing Berlin Coquette, however, Smith was able to
expand on her previous work.
I really had a chance to delve
into a lot of archival research, and
to look at a broader cross-section of
texts, broadly construed, when I was
working on the text, Smith said.
Research that eventually ended

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LILI RAMOS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

AWKWARD HOUR: Sophomores Eva Sibinga and Nick Benson are on air every Monday at 3 p.m.
BY LOUISA MOORE
ORIENT STAFF

How did Awkward Hour form?

Nick Benson: Well, it was my idea
last year. I was hitting on Eva, and
I wanted an opportunity to spend
an hour with her without other
people around, so I forced her to
do a radio show with me.
Eva Sibinga: I was extremely nervous and I didnt really want to
speak. And I think the first day I
probably said ten words. But after
that it calmed down.
Whats behind the name
Awkward Hour?
NB: Im awkward. Evas awkward.
Were both super weird.
ES: Were not that weird. It does
a disservice to people who are actually really weird if we call ourselves very weird.
NB: Im weirdly straightforward.
ES: I think the Awkward Hour is also
nice because it gives us a lot of freedom. If you totally fuck up, you can
just be like, That was awkward!
What do you guys do on the show?
ES: Mostly we play music. We just
have a little bit of conversation every few songs usually.
NB: We fought for an hour today
about whether or not I should
wear a hair band. We play really
sick music though. Were probably really bad DJs, were probably really bad MCs, but we play
great music.
What do you play on the show?
NB: Literally everything.
ES: Not literally everything. We
dont play contemporary country or contemporary pop. Id say
for the most part its classic rock,
house, different forms of electronic music, low-key dubstep and
soulful things like Ben Howard.
NB: You cant box us in like that.
Were a box without edges, an infinite box.
Do you plan the show each week?
NB: Thats how we started, but
now we just go in and do whatever
comes to us.
ES: There are some ongoing
themes. And a joke about how I
never wear colors.
Whos your target audience?
NB: My mom and dad.
ES: Yeah, same.
NB: My two friends who will actually listen to us. Crazy old people
who live in the local area and call
us up and say we are the heart and
soul of America.
ES: That did happen once.

Do you have a lot of callers?

ES: We had two callers last year.
NB: Two quite religious listeners.
ES: And then some girl from his
poetry class who said we were the
best. That was pretty exciting.
Favorite moments on the show?
ES: I cant call to mind a date, but
I remember leaving the studio
feeling like, Wow, that was an incredible show. We just put on an
hour of really good music.
NB: Anytime someone texts me
or tells me after that they were
entertained for the whole hour is
just a great time.
Favorite lyric?
NB: I have a lot of favorite lyrics,
but the one thats coming to mind
right now is in American Girl by
Tom Petty when he says, God its
so painful that something thats so
close and still so far out of reach.
He says it really great, too, though.
I cant say it like Tom Petty. Its a
really great lyric.
Favorite artist?
ES: Bach. He really informs the
way that I listen to electronic
music. Its not reflected in the
show though.
Favorite concert experience?
ES: The National, June of my senior year of high school. It was at
the Barclays Center in Brooklyn
which is a pretty large, impersonal venue... But my friend and
I were standing in the general
admission, and Matt Berninger,
whos the lead singer, came down
off the stage and walked right by
us and we touched him and he
reached out his hand. It was just
exciting, and on top of that, I love
their music.
Final thoughts for your audience?
ES: When youre chilling out, just
put on WBOR and see whats on.
Even if youre not listening for
someone in particular, its really
fun to just hear what people do on
the radio.
NB: If we have an audience, please
text me. My numbers 207-4499890. Id really like to know that
someone listens to our show.
ES: Youre going to get no texts.
NB: Ill buy you a lot of food if
you listen to my show every week.
ES: Were not begging though.
NB: No, not at all.
Tune in to Awkward Hour with
Sibinga and Benson every Monday
from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on WBOR 91.1
FM or stream the show online at
wbor.org.

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friday, november 21, 2014

Field hockey off to national semifinals Mens soccer ends dream

run after loss to Brandeis
BY ELI LUSTBADER
STAFF WRITER

SCORECARD

BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

AWAY WE GO: Kimmy Ganong 17 advances the ball during the field hockey teams win over Mount Holyoke. Bowdoin then beat Skidmore, securing a spot in the semifinals.
BY QUYEN HA
STAFF WRITER

SCORECARD
Sa 11/15

v. Mount Holyoke

4-0

Su 10/16

v. Skidmore

2-1

Field hockey advanced to the

NCAA Division III semifinal after
two victories last weekend, a 4-0
shutout against Mount Holyoke and
come-from-behind, overtime win

against Skidmore in the quarterfinal.

The team hopes to defend its 2013
title at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. The Polar
Bears will face top-ranked Salisbury
University tomorrow in a rematch
of last years national championship
game, while second-ranked Middlebury College will meet The College
of New Jersey in the other semifinal.
With the quarterfinal against
Skidmore knotted 1-1 in suddendeath overtime last Sunday, Rachel

Kennedy 16 charged down the

middle of the field with nobody
between her and the Skidmore net.
She burst into the circle, veered
right around the diving goalkeeper,
and slid the ball into the net, sending Bowdoin into the semifinals
and the Ryan Field crowd into frenzied celebrations.
The Polar Bears had always expected that their opponents last

Please see FIELD HOCKEY, page 16

Sa 11/15

v. Brockport St.

W 3-2

Su 11/16

@ Brandeis

1-0

On Sunday, mens soccer suffered a season-ending 1-0 loss to

Brandeis in the second round of
the NCAA tournament. The team
defeated The College at Brockport
3-2 in overtime the day before, to
advance past the first round.
It was the first time the team had
made an appearance in the NCAA
tournament since 2010, when they
advanced to the semi-finals before a
loss to Lynchburg College knocked
them out of the tournament.
We always had high expectations for ourselves at the beginning
of the season, captain Thomas
Henshall 15 said. Our goal was to
win a NESCAC championship and
by doing that make an NCAA appearance. I always thought that we
had the ability to do that and we
are very pleased with that overall.
Against Brockport, Bowdoin fell
behind twice before moving ahead
for good. The Ellsworths took the
lead in the 5th minute when leading scorer Peter DiLorenzo 17

scored off a cross on the games

first shot.
I think DiLorenzo is as good
as a forward as we have played all
season long, Head Coach Scott
Wiercinski said.
Bowdoin struck back in the 41st
minute when Henshall hit a hard
shot that deflected off a Brockport
player and into the back of the
net to tie the game at 1-1. Brockport regained the lead in the 59th
minute when a corner kick went
directly into the goal. Bowdoin
equalized in the 70th minute when
Nabil Odulate 16 headed in a
corner from Sam Ward 18. The
Ellsworths dominated the first few
minutes of overtime until Hunter
Miller 16 stole the ball at midfield,
dribbled his way through several
defenders, then passed the ball
into the lower-right corner of the
net for game winning goal, which
doubled as his first goal of the year.
To go down twice in a game and
still win shows a lot out of the team
and kind of represented our whole
season, captain Eric Goitia 15.
Brockport led 13-12 in shots,
and 5-4 on corner kicks. Both
teams had 4 shots on goal.
I thought the guys were really

Please see M. SOCCER, page 15

Rugby stays undefeated as it Volleyball Head Coach Karen Corey resigns

battles through to semifinals
BY JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF

BY LUCIA GIBBARD
STAFF WRITER

SCORECARD
Sa 11/15 v. Rutgers @ Dartmouth W 29-23
Su 11/16 v. Marist @ Dartmouth W 22-14

The womens rugby team advanced to the D-II semifinals for

the first time in seven years after
wins over Rutgers University (2923) and Marist College (22-14) last
weekend in the regional finals held
at Dartmouth College.
After an undefeated season with
more than seven wins with over 50
point margins, the weekends opponents proved tougher matches.
The weekend was challenging, said Head Coach Mary Beth
Mathews. Both Rutgers and
Marist College were fierce competition, but our team had the poise,
patience and discipline necessary
to win.
The second round match against
Rutgers proved particularly difficult. Down 13-10 early in the first
half, the team faced its first deficit
of the entire season. Rutgers held
the lead until five minutes remained when Bowdoin scored a
try to take a 27-23 lead.
[The Rutgers game] challenged
us in a number of ways. We were
in the lead, but then the opposition
came back and played different defensive stylesones we hadnt encountered before, said Mathews.
However, the Polar Bears managed to bring it back. Marist were

also a big, strong, well-coached

team who played their hearts out.
It was a terrific game.
Last weekend was very tense,
but fun at the same time, added
Maddie Lemal-Brown 18. The
atmosphere was electrifying as the
other teams were also very fast and
strong and put up a good fight.
The team is especially excited
fot the semifinal appearance after
it lost in the American Collegiate
Rugby Association/USA Rugby
(ACRA/USAR) quarterfinals in
last years tournament.
We are always a strong team,
and we always make the post-season, added Mathews. Yet this is
the first time weve made it to the
final four since 2007. It will be an
exciting weekend for all.
Bowdoin will be competing
against Winona State University,
last years national champions, in
the semifinals held in Palm Crest,
Florida during the weekend of December 5-7.
The Polar Bears are the only
small college team attending the
ACRA/USAR DII 15s Championship. Alongside Bowdoin and Winona State University, Notre Dame
College and Kutztown University
will also be playing in Florida.
The biggest goal for this season
was to go to Florida, so we are all
very excited to play in the final
four, added Lemal-Brown. Plus,
we finally get to wear shorts again.
Impressively, while the team has

Please see RUGBY, page 16

A day after the volleyball teams

season ended in the NCAA regional finals, Karen Corey announced
her resignation from the College
after nine years as head coach of
the program.
Corey and her family will be
moving to Germany to allow her
husband to accept a promotion.
In her time at Bowdoin, Corey
transformed a struggling program
into a perennial national contender. Prior to her arrival the team had
had only four winning seasons in
its 20-year history.
During Coreys tenure the team
never had a sub .500 record, and
from 2007-2012 the team boasted a
home win streak of 40 matches. She
led the Polar Bears to a NESCAC
championship in 2011 and three
appearances to the D-III NCAA
tournament, including two trips
to the regional finals. The impressive 2011 campaign earned Corey
NESCAC and American Volleyball Coaches Association regional
coach of the year honors.
It is tremendously hard to leave
something that Ive really invested
myself inmaking the program so
strong and investing in the players and the recruiting process and
trying to make the program better
each year, said Corey. But, at the
end of the day we have a really cool
opportunity for my husbands work
and were going to pursue those opportunities right now.
Karens an incredibly talented
coach and teacher and brought a
level of expertise to Bowdoin that
led to an incredible amount of suc-

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN ATHLETICS

MOVIN OUT: Karen Corey, the winningest head coach in the volleyball programs history, announced her resignation and will move to Germany with her family.
cess, said Ashmead White Director of Athletics Tim Ryan.
While her on-court success singled her out, Coreys commitment to
the College and involvement in the
greater Brunswick community also
highlighted her time at Bowdoin.
She was incredibly involved [at
Bowdoin]she was an organizer
in Girls and Women in Sports Day,
shes been involved with the town
rec department, said Ryan. Shes
just an incredibly involved person

in our community and were certainly going to miss her.

Although the announcement
seemed somewhat sudden, coming
immediately after the Polar Bears
were eliminated from the NCAA
D-III tournament, Corey and
her family had been planning the
move for some time. Corey only
waited until the end of the season
to tell her team and the Bowdoin

Please see COACH COREY, page 17

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friday, november 21, 2014

13

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Wrong headlines coming out of Cleveland

BY MICHAEL EPPLER

Hunter Miller 16
MENS SOCCER

HIGHLIGHTS
Scored the game-winning
overtime goal in the teams
first round NCAA tournament
match
Started every game this
year

EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

fenders on that side of the field

failing to get in position to block
Millers run and with none of the
In the 96th minute of the mens
Polar Bear forwards far enough
soccer teams NCAA Division III
up the field to offer help.
Tournament first-round match
Brockport was very organized
against Brockport State, Hunter
defensively and always had numMiller 16 corralled a turnover
bers behind the ball, so a counaround
midterattack was alfield andwith
ways going to be
Hes creative and a little bit
no teammates
our best oppornearby for supunorthodox. Theres always that tunity to score,
p or t tu r n e d unexpectedness. Its that unpre- Henshall said.
upfield with six
It seemed to me
defenders and a dictable nature that you want to that they were
goalkeeper beplaying to tie the
have when youre attacking
tween him and
game and go into
the net.
penalty kicks.
HEAD COACH SCOTT WIERCINSKI
After speedMiller
has
ing away from
held a starting
the two players chasing him and
spot in midfield since the midregaining the ball through traffic
dle of his sophomore season.
in front of the net, Miller poked
As his goal highlighted, Miller
the ball into the lower right-hand
plays with speed and aggrescorner of the net to send the Posion and enjoys taking players
lar Bears to a round-of-32 match
on in isolation.
against Brandeis. It was the outWiercinski characterizes Millside midfielders first goal of the
er as an attacker at the midfield
season.
position despite the teams priMillers account was a little
marily defensive mindset.
more understated.
Hes creative and a little bit
I was in the right place at
unorthodox, said Wiercinski.
the right time to steal the ball,
Theres always that unexpectedhe said. No one stepped to me
ness. On the dribble, with his passso I kept going. When they fiing choices, his touchesits that
nally did, I pulled a move and
unpredictable nature that you want
went around them.
to have when youre attacking.
Head Coach Scott WiercinHenshall said that Millers
ski said that
speed and cona run of that
trol
allowed
When
he
started
o
on
the
run,
length
only
him to get
rarely produc- I was hoping that he would slow around
mides a goal.
down so that we could get more fielders without
How e v e r,
the need for
numbers forward. After he ran flashy moves.
Millers speed
left the tired
Wi e rc i ns k i
away from the second player, I
defense
in
noted that
was just praying that he would also
the dust. AcMillers lack of
score
cording
to
goals
during
W i e r c i n s k i s
the regular seaCAPTAIN TOM HENSHALL 15
expectations
son was more a
for his midproduct of poor
fielders, Miller would have
luck rather than poor play.
held the ball to allow his ofHes been very dangerous in a
fense to move forward belot of games, he said. That it was
fore starting a passing chain
his first goal of the year was ironic
through the midfield. But the
in a lot of ways, but we appreciate
game ending goal negated any
the day he chose to score it.
doubts Wiercinski had about
I was very proud and very
Millers aggressive run.
happy for Hunter that he scored
When he started off on the
that goal, Wiercinski continued.
run, I was hoping that he would
Attacking players in any sport
slow down so that we could get
derive confidence from scoring.
more numbers forward, said
Even though he wasnt scoring
captain Tom Henshall 15. Afand we had a stretch of games
ter he ran away from the secwhere we werent winning, he
ond player, I was just praying
didnt get discouraged. If he had
that he would score.
been discouraged earlier in the
Miller might have been less
year, he might not have had the
inclined to attempt a run of that
confidence to do what he did.
magnitude, but the nature of
Miller was one of three players
the turnover left him without a
to start every game this season.
teammate to pass to. Both teams
The Athlete of The Week is choseemed sluggish chasing Miller,
sen by the Sports Editor based on
with half of the Brockport deexemplary performance.
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF

CONTRIBUTOR

As a die-hard Cleveland sports fan,

Ive put up with a lot of grief over the
years. Not only do friends mock the
consistent losing records of Clevelands professional sports teams, they
attack a city known for being deserted when industry moved elsewhere
and a river that caught on fire. If you
think Ive had it rough as a sports fan,
my father, from whom I so proudly
inherited my passion for Cleveland
sports, has never witnessed a championship, at 53 years young.
LeBron James was a glimmer of
hope in an otherwise dead sports
town. Journey back to July 8, 2010,
when LeBron sat across from Jim
Gray during an hour-long primetime segment on ESPN to announce his decision.
The entire city of Cleveland
sat on the edge of their seats, eyes
glued to television sets, as their
hometown kidthe pride of Akron, Ohio, the person who delivered professional sport success
and hope to a city with almost
none since the Cleveland Indians
reached the World Series in the
90sabandoned his city to join two
superstars in South Beach, Florida.
Fans took to the streets to burn
James jerseys. We are all witnesses
billboards, enshrining LeBron, were
torn down. In an unprecedented
move for a team executive, owner
Dan Gilbert publicly pummeled LeBron. Cleveland reacted exactly how it
should have, after being embarrassed
in front of the entire nation.
What LeBron meant and represented to the people of Cleveland,
as a local kid returning to elevate a
franchise to sustained prominence,
should have been erased permanently when he decided to depart.
He prioritized his chances of
winning a national championshipeven as Clevelands ownership affirmed its commitment to
building around LeBronover
supporting his hometown team.

He left Cleveland fans in a state of

shock, heartbroken and damaged.
While I have not been back to
Cleveland since LeBron resigned
with the Cavs, it is obvious that he
has been re-embraced. Its a dream
come true for the media; SportsCenter has a headline every time Kyrie
looks at LeBron funny. Its hard to
blame Cleveland fans, who have had
little to cheer for since LeBron left,
other than a single postseason run
for the Indians in 2007.
But all the attention should be paid
to a different franchise in Cleveland.
What the Cleveland Browns have
done up to this point in the NFL
season is special, and should resonate so much more with the people
of Cleveland than LeBrons return to
the Cavs.
Before a tough loss last weekend,
the Browns led the elite AFC North
after ten weeks for the first time since
1994. The Browns have not been to
the playoffs since 2002, when they
lost to the Steelers at home. That
game had an infamous ending, as a
controversial call against the Browns
led to the entirety of the stadium
pummeling the field with beer cans
and hot dogs.
The team is led by quarterback
Brian Hoyer, a career backup, who,
while undersized and lacking the
physical gifts of top NFL quarterbacks, plays with a humble confidence that has the offense looking
as consistent as its been in recent
memory. And oh, yeah, Hoyer was
born and raised in Cleveland.
While the addition of some key
free agents, such as Paul Kruger and
Karlos Dansby, has played a role in
the Browns success, the foundation
of the team was built through the
draft and consistently solid moves
from the new front office.
LeBron came to Cleveland with
his two championship rings, all of
his revenue-garnering potential for
the Cavs ownership, and some sort
of awkward excuse for why he left
and why he is coming back.
Hoyer, who got his first chance

to start in Cleveland in 2013, came

with a commitment to work hard, a
love for the city of Cleveland, and a
desire to win football games for his
childhood team.
Hoyers story should appeal so
much more to a blue-collar city
that has had to fight and claw its
way to relevance.
To be fair, LeBron James is not
a bad guy. He supported many local charities throughout his time in
Miami, and he is undoubtedly one
of the most talented, hard-working,
and dedicated basketball players of
all time. But LeBron cares about
his legacy, a legacy that could have
been connected with his city. LeBrons association with Cleveland
and Clevelanders administration
for him should have ended when he
abandoned his town.
Anyone who knows me would
say Im about as self-righteous a
sports fan as they come. If I disagree
with the team you root for, whether
for a bandwagon factor or some geographic reason, I scorn your lack of
loyalty and make your life a living
hell every time you talk sports.
My older brother refused to talk
sports with me after switching his
baseball team allegiance because of
my passive aggressiveness. I even
tried convincing one of my friends
here at Bowdoin, a friend I consider to be a pitiful sports fan, to do
a sports-talk radio show with me
purely to give myself a venue to humiliate him.
While some people follow sports
simply for the love of the game, diehard sports fans feel a connection to
their team well beyond what happens
on the field. For some, its a connection to a joyful time or place. For
others, its passed down by blood.
Fans should stay loyal to their
teams, to their cities, with their
families and fellow fansthrough
good times and bad. Our heroes
should be held to the same standard. And if they prove to be no
longer dependable, well then, it is
time to find a new hero.

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friday, november 21, 2014

the bowdoin orient

sports

Drafting 100 percent of the shots you dont take Womens soccer ends season
LEFT OF
PESKY POLE
WILL OSSOFF
As the Patriots continue to tally
off impressive wins, the Bruins
maintain their spot in the playoff
picture. The Red Sox aggressively
pursue free agent Jon Lester and
the Celtics have been playingis
anybody even watching anymore?
Bostons least relevant team has
stumbled out of the gate thus far
and looks poised for another lackluster campaign.
With a 4-6 record at this early
stage of the season, the Celtics are
a half game out of the playoffs in
the pathetically weak eastern conference. Celtics fans are facing a
befuddling predicament with their
mediocre rebuilding team: root for
the Celtics to sneak into the playoffs with a low seed, or hope that
they deliberately underperform
and get a high draft pick?
It should be painful for any dedicated fan to wish ill for his or her
teamask a fan of the blatantly
tanking 0-11 Philadelphia 76ers, if
there are any fans left. But in the
drastically unequal NBA, in which
acquiring one or two of the leagues
few superstars can alter the fate of a
franchise, tanking can be an effective strategy.
The teams that finish with the
worst record have the highest
chance of getting a top draft pick
through the NBA draft lottery.
Some players have emerged from
the draft and immediately turned

teams around, such as Kevin Durant on the Sonics/Thunder and

Lebron James on the Cavaliers (his
first time).
However, because the lottery system only gives the worst team a 25%
percent chance at the top pick, even
the most talented tankers could miss
out on their coveted draft prospects.
Again, ask the 76ers, who ended up
with the 3rd pick last year despite
their best efforts to be horrible.
Furthermore, there are very few
sure thing prospects like Durant
and Lebron and many players selected later in the draft turn out
to have better careers. ESPNs Bill
Simmons re-ranked the players of
the 2011 draft based on their first
three years in the NBA, and these
are the original draft positions of
his top five: 15, 1, 11, 38, 22.
The moral of the story: the draft
is an utter toss-up. Thus, the Celtics should pursue other rebuilding
options with gusto. Besides, theres
no chance they out-tank the 76ers,
who lost by 53 points last Thursday.
Some argue that the Celtics
would have a better chance in the
draft lottery if they traded Rajon
Rondo, the mercurial-star point
guard who may leave this summer
in free agency anyway. But with a
solid young core of Avery Bradley,
Jared Sullinger and Marcus Smart,
Im not convinced the Celtics would
finish any worse than they did last
year when they got the No. 6 pick in
the draft. Trading Rondo, who is almost averaging a triple double this
season, will only delay the rebuilding process.
Instead, the Celtics should
make every effort to resign Rondo,

as the assist-machine can entice

talented 2015 free agents like LaMarcus Aldridge and Marc Gasol.
A playoff appearance this season,
even a 7 or 8 seed, would also
make Boston a more appealing
free agent destination.
Free agency in the NBA is an
unfair system. The warm weather
beaches of Miami and LA and the
big-city lights of Chicago and New
York are inherently more alluring
for players than snow-covered midsize cities like Minneapolis or Milwaukee. But unlike other relatively
small, cold weather cities, Boston
has tradition on its side.
The Celtics are the most celebrated team in NBA history, with 17
championships and a legion of hall
of famers that includes Bill Russell
and Larry Bird. Who wouldnt want
the opportunity to add their name
to this list and their number to the
crowded TD Garden rafters?
Thus, Celtics fans do not have
to choose between rooting for an
8-seed this year and hoping for
a championship in three years.
Theres no point in tanking for the
draft, as they could just as easily
get a star with the No. 15 pick as
the No. 1 pickreigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard was the
No. 15 pick in 2011. With a playoff run this year, Rondo would be
more likely to resign, other free
agents would be more tempted to
join him and the young Celtics
players would gain some crucial
playoff experience.
Let the 76ers try their luck in the
draftId rather see the Celtics take
on Lebron and the heavily favored
Cavaliers in the playoffs.

after first round of NCAAs

BY COOPER HEMPHILL
STAFF WRITER

SCORECARD
Sa 11/15

v. Roger Williams

3-0

The womens soccer team took

their early exit from the NESCAC
tournament November 1 as fuel to
motivate them on the larger stage
of the NCAAs at MIT on Saturday
against Roger Williams for an impressive third consecutive showing in the tournament. While they
came up short, losing 3-0, the loss
ended a fantastic overall season for
the Polar Bears.
It was Roger Williams, however,
that jumped out to a great start,
netting two goals in the first half
and another early in the second.
Despite a valiant effort, Bowdoin
was not able to climb back into
the game before the final whistle
sounded and they were knocked
out of round one.
It was the first start of the season
for first-year goalkeeper Rachel
Stout, who showed great potential,
recording nine saves for the day.
Despite the brevity of their playoff run, the team played a strong
season, finishing up with an impressive 12-5-0 overall record.
Their success began in early
September when the first game for
the Polar Bears set the tone that
carried them through the rest of
the season. In an interconference
match against the Wesleyan Cardinals, Abby Hammerl 17 netted a

double overtime goal for the first

win of the season.
The team went on to win five
games in a row before they suffered their first loss of the season
to Brandeis in a closely contested
1-0 match.
Very few teams are able to keep
an undefeated streak going all season, and to be frank, I actually
think that can be a very dangerous
and divisive goal, said captain Kaley Nelson 15 of the loss. We would
rather not feel that way again and so
we will always do whatever it takes
to try and get the win.
The team took this loss as an
opportunity to regroup and refocus, which propelled them into
two more winsincluding another
double overtime nail-biter against
Trinity College.
Even with numerous injuries
throughout the season, the depth and
willingness of each player to compete
allowed the Polar Bears to secure significant wins and allow them to earn
a bid into the NCAA tournament.
We have had some difficulties
with injuries here and there, but
luckily we have a deep and talented bench that helps us make up for
those losses, said Nelson. Getting
injured is unfortunately just part
of the college game, meaning that
sometimes we truly need every
single player to play and help us
win. Everyone on this team is up
for that challenge.
They finished out the remaining
five games 3-2, capping off their
regular season at 11-3-0.

friday, november 21, 2014

the bowdoin orient

Womens basketball starts

season off with a 2-1 record
BY HARRY DIPRINZIO
STAFF WRITER

SCORECARD
Sat 11/15
Sun 11/16
Wed 11/19

v. Roger Williams L 58-57

v. Me.-Fort Kent W 74-45
v. Endicott
W 68-48

The womens basketball team

opened its season in the Pepsi
Mariner Challenge at Maine Maritime Academy last weekend. After
losing in the final moments against
Roger Williams University on Saturday, the team ended the weekend
on a high note with a strong victory over University of Maine-Fort
Kent Sunday.
The Polar Bears also defeated
Endicott College on Wednesday
evening, 68-48.
The game against Roger Williams was close, with Bowdoin in
the lead at halftime. However, during the second half Roger Williams
rallied. In the last two minutes of
the game, the two teams exchanged
the advantage four times. With
two seconds remaining and a tied
score, Sydney Hancock 17 fouled
Roger Williams Angelica Ariola,
who made her final free throw to
win the game for the Hawks 58-57.
Roger Williams went on to win the
tournament in its next game.
Captain Sara Binkhorst 15 attributed the loss to poor defensive performance and lack of intensity.
We didnt play Bowdoin defense for
40 minutes, she said. They took advantage of some of the defensive mistakes that we were making.
Bowdoins 18 turnovers also hurt
the team.
We had some sloppy passes that
got picked off, said captain Megan
Phelps 15. We had close to 20 turnovers and its hard to win a game
[when you have that many.]
Phelps also noted an inability to connect against a strong opponent.
Roger Williams made some
big plays down the stretch and we
maintained positivity and made
some of our own great plays, she
said. But in the end, we didnt play
as tight as we needed to in order
to win.
Binkhorst added, I think we had
really good looks against their zone,
but unfortunately, offensively, our
shots didnt fall.
The Polar Bears were disappointed but took the loss in stride,
turning things around the following

M. SOCCER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12

mature and really mentally tough

to come back from some of the mistakes that we were making, said
Wiercinski. So in that way it was really rewarding to come away with a
win because we made things difficult
for ourselves at a couple of points.
In the second round, Bowdoin
was locked in a scoreless tie with
Brandeis at the end of the first
half, despite the Judges controlling
play. They outshot Bowdoin 9-0 in
the first half. The Polar Bears nearly had a goal in the 4th minute,
though, off the head of Matt Dias
Costa 17, who was ruled offsides.
I think Brandeis is skilled in
a lot of ways, said Wiercinski.
They pass the ball as well as any
team weve played all year and play
an aggressive style on defense. But
I thought our guys really stuck to

day with a strong game against Fort

Kent, winning 74-45.
Losing our first game to Roger
Williams definitely wasnt what we
expected, but I was really proud of
how we responded in the second
game, said Phelps.
On Sunday, the Polar Bears energized
their offense, picked up the intensity and
regained control over their defense.
Against Fort Kent, we came out
with our focused intensity, said
Phelps. We really brought it on the
defensive endtried to really focus
in on that because that was a weakness against Roger Williams. There
were definitely still some mistakes,
but we were hitting shots and that
always helps.
Phelps led the team with 16 points,
13 rebounds and four steals against
Fort Kent.
Megan Phelps really set the standard
for rebounding, getting in the passing
lane and getting steals, and really inspired us to play that level of defense,
said Binkhorst.
Binkhorst also expressed excitement
about the teams rookie performance.
Lauren Petit [18] really stepped
up in that second game, came in with
a lot of confidence and shot the ball
really well, she said. That really inspired everyone.
Phelps added, Were really lucky
because we have four super talented
freshman. They really came in and
embraced our team values and culture
and that makes our job as upperclassmen leaders so much easier. Im sad I
only get one year with them.
Petit also contributed significantly
to Bowdoins win against Endicott
this Wednesday, leading the team
with 16 points.
Following a tight score at halftime, Petit helped Bowdoin dominated the second half and secured a
significant lead.
Going forward, Bowdoin is going to continue working on honing
its defense.
Id say the majority of our practices
have been really focused on defense:
playing team defense and having each
others back, said Binkhorst. Theres
been a big focus on rebounding, both
defensively and offensively, and crashing the boards.
If everyone develops the way they
can and should, I think the skys the
limit, said Phelps.
Bowdoin takes on Bates in the
home opener tomorrow at 2 p.m. in
Morrell Gymnasium.
the game plan, and playing against
such a good opponent in Brandeis
is just difficult.
In the second half, Brandeis
scored the game winner in the 60th
minute off a header that found its
way just inside the far post. The
Judges outshot Bowdoin 18-4 over
the course of the game, with five
of Brandeis shots being on goal to
Bowdoins two. Brandeis advanced
to 19-2 on the season with the win,
while Bowdoin concluded the season with a 10-7-3 record.
It was a disappointing way to
end our season, Wiercinski continued. Only one team in the country
finishes with a win, and were not
that team unfortunately. But I think
the adventure we had as a team was
just an awesome experience, and I
think the guys can always look to
that NESCAC championship and
feel like theres really something
that came out of that hard work and
camaraderie and effort.

sports

15

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friday, november 21, 2014

the bowdoin orient

sports

Mens hockey debuts with shutout against Panthers Volleyball falls in regional finals

in coach Coreys final game

BY NICOLE FELEO
STAFF WRITER

v. Middlebury
v. Williams

served to be there and we had a shot

to move forward and play some really
tough matches, said Assistant Coach
Kristin Hanczor 12. We had a fantasSCORECARD
tic game [against Regis] and the entire
Fri 11/14
v. Regis (Mass.) W 3-0
team was so confident and proud.
Sa 11/15
v. MIT
W 3-2
On Saturday, Bowdoin faced MIT
Su 11/16
v. Williams
L 3-0
for the first time this season. The
Polar Bears and the Beavers split the
first four sets evenly.
The volleyball team suffered a seaMIT was the only team ranked
son-ending loss against Williams in
above us we hadnt yet played, said
last Sundays NCAA Regional Final
Jewett. We got really pumped, bematch, dropping all three sets. Head
cause we saw how beatable they were.
Coach Karen Corey announced her
Jewett played a large role in Satresignation the following day, making
urdays 3-2 victory over MIT. Corey
the regional final loss the last of three
said Jewett took responsibility for
NCAA tournament appearances for
the team with her 27 kills.
the team with Corey at the helm.
The girls are such a tight-knit
Despite the loss, the Polar Bears
group of people and they value playhad a successful run during the
ing together so much, and knowing
NCAA tournament.
the season was on the line, they wantBowdoin started off the tournaed to win to stay the next day and play
ment by sweeping Regis College 3-0
together again, said Hanczor. That
in the first round and beating MIT 3-2
was a key piece to get them motivated
in the second round.
to play well.
The win against MIT
After the Polar
I think its a huge privilege and
earned the Polar
Bears 3-0 their reaccomplishment that the team cord for the season
Bears a spot in the
Sweet Sixteen for the was able to get to the NCAA tour- stood at 23-9 (6-4
second time in three
in the NESCAC).
nament. We were able to gain an
years.
Three Polar Bears
at-large bid, which is amazing. were recognized at
I think its a huge
privilege and acthe end of the seaHEAD COACH KAREN COREY
complishment that
son. Jewett ended
the team was able to
the season as the
get to the NCAA tournament, said
schools single-season kills leader
Corey. We were able to gain an atand Erika Sklaver 17 finished as the
large bid, which was amazing.
schools single-season blocks record
Against Regis in the first round,
holder. Both Jewett and Sklaver were
the teams persistence and focus
named to the American Volleyball
were evident throughout the match
Coaches Association Northeast Alland Bowdoin did not give up a sinRegional team. Katie Doherty 17
gle set to The Lions. The Polar Bears
was named as Defensive Player of
earned an early advantage in both
the Year for the NESCAC.
the first and second sets.
Although Corey will no longer
The team was focused on trying
be leading the Polar Bears, the team
to play well, be efficient and win deciis in an unusually lucky position as
sively, said captain Christy Jewett 16.
it is not graduating any seniors, alThe team felt confident coming off
lowing the team to use its abnormal
the win and was determined to play
continuity to build off this seasons
even deeper into the tournament.
success without having to struggle to
Having such a big win on Friday
find a rythym at the begginning of
definitely showed the girls that we denext season.
BY GABY PAPPER

SCORECARD
Sa 11/15
Su 11/16

W
T

STAFF WRITER

6-0
3-3

Mens ice hockey opened the season

last Saturday with a dynamic 6-0 win
against Middlebury, shutting out the
Panthers with solid goaltending from
Max Fenkell 15. The Polar Bears,
ranked No. 14 nationally by US College Hockey Online, then tied Williams 3-3 on Sunday afternoon. After
the weekend Bowdoin and Williams
have records of 1-0-1 in the NESCAC,
and Middleburys conference record
stands at 0-1-1.
Just 2:36 into the opening frame of
the Middlebury game, forward John
McGinnis 15 took a feed from forward Matt Lison 18 and scored to
give Bowdoin the lead. Then, with
2:55 remaining in the period, McGinnis put another goal on the scoreboard, firing the puck into the net
from inside the faceoff circle.
In the second period, defenseman
Matt Sullivan 17 scored off an assist
from forward Matthew Melanson
18, shooting the puck into the top
right corner of the net from the left of
the faceoff circle.
With just three seconds remaining in the middle frame, McGinnis
again connected with Lison, who slid
the puck across the crease to forward
Connor Quinn 15, who knocked it
into an open net.
In the third period, first year forward
Spencer Antunez scored the fifth goal of
the game, and Sullivan scored his second of the night on a power play to send
the Panthers off with a 6-0 defeat.
Middlebury tested Fenkell with 20
shots, but the Polar Bear goalie came
away from the game with his first
shutout performance.
The next day against Williams, the
Polar Bears had a far closer game.

FIELD HOCKEY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12

weekend would be tough.

[The teams] who qualify for the
NCAA Tournament are always very
strong, said Adrienne ODonnell 15.
We knew both of the teams would
be tough, but we tried to concentrate
on our games rather than focusing on
theirs. I think our strategy works really well.
In Saturdays game against Mount
Holyoke, captain Colleen Finnerty
15 scored just two minutes into the
contest, taking advantage of the Polar
Bears first penalty corner to score her
seventh goal of the season. Kimmy
Ganong 17 fed the ball to Kim Kahnweiler 16, whose clean stop allowed
Finnerty to lace a shot that hit off the
pad of Lyons goalie Liz DiCesare and
went straight into the cage.
Twenty nine minutes into the
game, Ganong put the Polar Bears up
2-0 off a feed from Kennedy. Twenty
minutes later Kennedy blasted her
own shot past the reach of DiCesare,
assisted by Liz Znamierowski 16.
ODonnell closed out the scoring
by converting a pass from Mettler
Growney 17.
The next day, Bowdoin played
against Skidmore in a tense overtime game.
Skidmore is an exceptional
team, said Head Coach Nicky Pearson. In the last game, their goalkeeper and defenders played very
well. So did their two forwards, who
were immensely dynamic and excellent goal scorers.

ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SLIP SLIDING AWAY: John McGinnis 15 looks to deke past a Middlebury defender in the teams 6-0 win.
I think the big thing is when you
look at that game, to come off of such
an emotional game the night before
and then come right back the next day,
it was a big adjustment for our young
kids, said Assistant Coach Jamie Dumont. Everyone was pretty amped up
Saturday night, but you have to be just
as amped up on Sunday. I think some
of our guys were a little stagnant in
some areas, but I think thats chalking
it up to experience.
The first frame of the game was scoreless, but defenseman Mitch Barrington
17 opened the second period by slamming home a slapshot for the lead. The
Ephs answered quickly with two goals
from freshman forwards Colby Cretella
and David Italiano. However, McGinnis
tied the game up by redirecting a Barrington slapshot into the net.
Williams regained a one-goal edge in
the third when Cretella put another shot
past goalie Peter Cronin 18. The Ephs
lead stood for most of the third period,
but with 52 seconds remaining in regulation, Quinn scored to force overtime.
Neither team was able to score in the
extra period, so the game ended in a tie.
Cronin made 21 saves in the game,
and Polar Bears gave away only one
power play.

A number of rookies excelled on the

ice this weekend, according to captain
Ryan Collier 15.
The leadership of the team has been
focused on making [the first years] feel
welcome and starting out with good
chemistry even before the season began, said Collier. Right off the bat, given the fact that we just had two games,
most of the freshmennot allhave
played and stepped up to the plate and
contributed in different ways. I think
they are generally a deep group. All
across the board they bring something
to the table.
The Polar Bears will play rival Colby
at 7 p.m. in Watson Arena tonight, then
travel to Waterville to face the Mules at 7
p.m. tomorrow. Tonights home game
Bowdoins most poplar sporting event of
the yearis sold out.
We just need to focus on what our
game plan is and what we do well,
said Dumont. We need to establish
our forecheck and go after their defensemenreally put on some pressure.
If we can stay out of the box and stay
emotionally connected, I think we can
be successful.
The team continues its season with an
away game on Tuesday, against the University of New England.

Skidmore scored a goal five minutes into the game when Dani DeGregory rifled a shot past Bowdoin
goalie Hannah Gartner 15. Fifteen
minutes later, Skidmores Seeley
Francher nearly doubled the Thoroughbreds lead. She squeezed a shot
around a diving Gartner, but firstyear Meredith Tibbals 18 was on the
goal line to knock the ball away.
The Polar Bears had a number of
chances at the end of the first half,
including a shot from Finnerty that
hit the post, but they were unable
to find an equalizer. Their frustrations continued into the second
half. Less than five minutes after
play resumed, Skidmores goalkeeper just managed to stop a shot
with her foot, and 15 seconds after
that, a pass barely eluded captain
Pam Herter 15, who would have
had the ball in front of an open net.
Bowdoin finally found a goal
with 13:36 remaining in the second
half. Herter won a footrace down
the left side of the field, rounded
a Skidmore defender near the end
line and passed to Kennedy, who
one-timed it for the goal. The Polar
Bears almost added a go-ahead goal
a few minutes later when Kennedy
burst through the center and laid
the ball out for ODonnell, whose
shot was stopped by the onrushing
Skidmore goalkeeper.
Skidmore almost netted a winner off a corner with less than four
minutes remaining, firing a shot past
Gartner. Luckily for the Polar Bears,
Finnerty was in position on the goal
line and swatted the shot away before letting out a celebratory roar.

Deadlocked at 1-1, the teams

headed into a fifteen-minute, sudden-death overtime. Bowdoin wasted
no time with its aggression, earning
a penalty corner just one minute into
play. But, ODonnells shot from the
corner clanked off the post, and Skidmore took the ball and pushed down
the field, earning six consecutive
penalty corners .
Kahnweiler was injured on the second corner and came off the field, but
returned a minute later to help the
Polar Bears fend off the Thoroughbreds onslaught. Gartner successfully drove away each of Skidmores
shots during a tense, five-minute
flurry of attacks.
Our defensive group did an exceptional job of denying them all
scoring chances, said Pearson. They
allowed us to turn the tide in the end.
When Bowdoin regained possession after defending the sixth corner, Finnerty connected on a pass to
Kennedy, who was all alone at midfield and sprinted downfield to score
the dramatic game winner.
It was an exciting moment for all
of us, said Finnerty. That was my
last game on the home field, and the
goal is something I will remember
forever. Senior players always talk
about going out with a bang, and we
definitely did.
Tomorrow, the defending national
champions will play Salisbury in their
eighth Final Four in the last 10 years.
We have a lot of respect for Salisbury, said Finnerty. At the same time,
I think the game will come down to
who wants the victory more, and quite
frankly, I believe Bowdoin does.

RUGBY

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12

had repeated success over recent
years, the first time most of the
players every played rugby was after arriving at Bowdoin.
Most of our players come to
Bowdoin having never played
rugby before, said Mathews. We
pride ourselves on having a team
of mostly new players. They do so

well because of the team culture

and the leadership.
Mathews has high hopes as the
team moves to the national semifinals, and she is very pleased with
her teams undefeated play so far
this season.
I am very proud of the captains
and women on the team this season, not just for their on-field performance, but their commitment,
energy and discipline. They are a
terrific group of women.

friday, november 21, 2014

Mens basketball wins tournament crown

BY JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF

SCORECARD
Sa 11/15

v. Elms College W 77-57

Su 10/16

v. Westfield St. W 68-56

After losing three starting seniors

from last years squad the mens basketball team opened its season on
a strong note by claiming the Rick
Martin Holiday Inn Express Tip-Off
Tournament last weekend.
In the tournaments opening match,
the team beat Elms College handily
77-57. The Polar Bears stormed out
of the gate to gain a 15 point halftime
lead. Although their defense let up a

little in the second half, Bowdoin was

able to keep its double digit lead for
the last 30 minutes of the game.
The Polar Bears starting five
controlled the game with their
balanced attack, with each starter scoring in double digits. John
Swords 15 continued where he left
off last season, anchoring the team
with 16 points and eight rebounds.
But it was Lucas Hausman 16, last
years sixth man, who led the team
in scoring with 22 points.
In the tournaments final against
Westfield State University, the
team went down late in the first
half after Swords had to go to the
bench with early foul trouble. The
Polar Bears were able to cut down

the Owls lead and take a two point

lead of their own into halftime.
The Polar Bears opened up the
second half with an early 8-0 run
and never gave up the lead after that,
ultimately beating the Owls 68-56.
Despite his extended time on
the bench due to the early foul
trouble, Swords finished the game
with a 20-point, 16-rebound performance, helping him earn tournament MVP honors. While the
starters continued their impressive
play, the bench contributed only
four points to the teams total.
The Polar Bears hope to continue their perfect start to the season
when they travel to Saint Josephs
College tomorrow.

Cross country sends two to nationals

BY YASMIN HAYRE
STAFF WRITER

Strong performances from the mens

and womens cross-country teams
at the New England D-III regionals
earned 7th and 14th place finishes,
respectively, with seniors Avery Wentworth and Kevin Hoose qualifying
for nationals. The tournament, hosted
by Williams last Saturday, included 54
mens teams and 57 womens teams.
The DIII regional is a huge race and
there was a lot of intense energy, said
Brenna Fischer 15. I think the womens
team did a great job channeling that energy into excitement for the race.
The womens team entered the tournament seeded 16th.
We were quite pleased to beat Wesleyanwho we had lost to at NESCACsand we finished just behind a
strong Brandeis squad, Fischer added.
The womens team ran a 6K led by
Lucy Skinner 16, who placed 48th.
Caroline Corban 17 then placed 89th,
Sarah Kelley 18 90th, Allyson Fulton
16 96th and Fischer 112th.

We are used to running on the

relatively flat roads of Brunswick,
but we adapted surprisingly well to a
hilly course in the middle of the Berkshires, said Fischer.
Runners on the mens team benefitted from the tournaments competitive environment.
The Division III New England XC
Regionals was the most exciting race
of the year, said Matthew Jacobson
17. With National Championship
bids on the line and 58 teams competing the atmosphere on the course
was electric.
The mens team ran an 8K race led
by captain Avery Wentworth 15 who
finished 28th overall, followed by cocaptain Kevin Hoose 15 in 31st. Matt
Jacobson 17 in 40th place, Bridger
Tomlin 17 in 42nd and Will Ossoff
15 in 54th rounded out the top five
Polar Bear finishers.
With regard to how the mens team
performed, Jacobson said that the
mens team had their best showings
of the year when it mattered most.

Our top five runners all finished

within 31 seconds of each other, which
is quite impressive considering we had
two individuals qualify for nationals,
said Jacobson.
While it was disappointing to
miss out on an at-large team bid
for the NCAA Championships this
weekend, it will be exciting to see
two of our senior captains compete
at NCAAs.
For the NCAA championships,
64 mens and womens cross country
teams will meet in Mason, Ohio, this
Saturday. Leading up to it, all eight
regions hold a regional championship the Saturday before. The top two
teams from each region automatically
qualify for the championship race in
Ohio, and the remaining 16 teams
are selected by a national committee.
Lastly, the top 7 finishers from each
regional who are not members of the
selected teams qualify to compete at
the NCAA championshipswhere
Wentworth and Hoose will compete
this weekend.

Sailing finishes its fall season on high note

BY VERA WANG
ORIENT STAFF

SCORECARD
Sa 11/15

at ACCs (Women)
at ACTs (Coed)

sports

the bowdoin orient

4/18
7/15

On November 15, the womens

sailing team outdid last seasons
stellar performance, finishing
fourth out of 18 teams at the Womens Atlantic Coast Championship
(ACC) at MIT. The teams highestever ranking marks the end of the
fall season and sets the tone for a
prospective national championship meet in the spring. The Polar
Bears also competed at the Atlantic
Coast Tournament (ACT) at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
The coed team braved the tough
weather to achieve seventh among
15 teams.
The meets last weekend were
the last set of regattas for the teams
fall season.
According to Head Coach
Frank Pizzo, the Charles River
venue can be challenging because
of the buildings surrounding the
river, which significantly affect the
breeze direction. In addition, the
less-than-ideal weather increased
the unpredictability of the results.
It was just so windy. A lot of
teams were struggling, and we
struggled too, but relatively we
struggled less, said skipper Court-

ney Koos 16. A lot of boats were

flipping over. People got cold and
tired and got really discouraged.
But we persevered, which is good.
I think we had that advantage
coming from Maine. We sail like
this every day, said skipper Erin
Mullins 16.
The womens team sailed ten
races on Saturday and eight more
on Sunday. Despite shifty wind
patterns and harsh cold, A Division sailers put up good races with
consistent averages, while B Division sailers produced more erratic
results in the tough conditions.
Pizzo emphasized the stiff competition at the ACC, saying that
all the best teams in the country
are on the East Coast, with the exception of Stanford.
In this highly competitive environment, Bowdoin sailors navigated their way to the top four, just
one point shy of tying Georgetown,
which ranks third overall.
The womens team finished thirteenth overall in the ACC last year.
This year, the teams frequent practices and focus on fitness translated into remarkable progress.
Weve been building our fitness
stuff for years now, said Pizzo.
The strength coach here has got a
really good program for our team.
The team works out twice a week
in the season, and we have a lot
more work out of season.
We are working really hard off

the water, said Koos, who said that

the team wanted to make sure we
are as strong as we can be, as mentally tough as we can be, and as educated as we can be about sailing.
She cited tactical conversations
with their coach as an important
factor in the teams improvement.
Weve been practicing since
August, so its been a long season. We sailed almost every single
weekend, said Mullins.
Competing at the womens
ACCs were skipper Erin Mullins
16, crew Dana Bloch 17, skipper
Courtney Koos 16, and crew Frances Jimenez 16.
A coed team sent to ACT also
showed its potential by putting up
good scores against 14 teams in one
of the toughest events. The team included skipper Chester Jacobs 17,
crew Hunter Moeller 17, skipper
Matt Lyons 17, crew Paige Speight
16, and skipper Phil Koch 15.
Pizzo was not surprised by the
teams strong results last weekend due to its consistent sailing
throughout the season.
Our conference championship
was four weeks before at Dartmouth. The team finished fourth
there as well. They knew they
could do well, he said.
In the wake of the their achievements over the past two years, the
Polar Bears hope to carry their
success all the way to nationals in
the spring.

17

COACH COREY

expect Coreys volleyball recruits

to have an adverse reaction to the
announcement.
community of her retirement so
All of our coaches when they
her team could maintain its focus
talk to recruits, the most important
on the season.
decision for them to make is the
[The team] deserved to have
decision about attending Bowdoin,
no drama and [to not have] somesaid Ryan. A lot of things can
thing to distract them away form
change after you decide to attend a
our
program,
particular institusaid Corey. So I
tion, but the most
did choose to wait
Its tremendously hard to leave important thing
until the end of
is youre excited
the season so we something that Ive really invested about the academic
could have a focus myself inmaking the porgram experience youre
in season on what
going to have at
so strong and investing in the
we were doing and
Bowdoin.
players
and
the
recruiting
process
do it together.
Ive
been
Coreys decision
and trying to make tbe program speaking to [the
to postpone her
recruits]
and
better each year
announcement,
theyre all still inwhile designed to
terested and have
KAREN COREY
keep the team foHEAD COACH, WOMENS VOLLEYBALL applied early decused, came two
cision one and I
days after early
think the program
decision deadlines were due.
is going to be in a really healthy
When Head Football Coach
and strong place, said Corey.
Dave Caputi announced his plans
This years team had no seniors
to step down earlier in year, he did
and hopes to use the rare continuso in middle of the season with poity it will have next season to fill
tential recruits in mind.
the void in leadership left by CoIn reaction to Caputis decision
reys absence.
Ryan said the announcement was
As for Coreys replacement,
made early to make sure that the
Bowdoin hopes to hire a new coach
students who we are in the recruitby January.
ing process with are able to make
It would be great to have someinformed decisions about the comone here just to support the curposition of our coaching staff.
rent members of our program,
However, the college does not
said Ryan.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12

NESCAC Standings
FIELD HOCKEY
NESCAC

W
9
9
8
7
6
6
4
2
2
2
0

BOWDOIN
Middlebury
Trinity
Amherst
Tufts
Williams
Colby
Hamilton
Conn. College
Wesleyan
Bates

L
1
1
2
3
4
4
6
8
8
8
10

OVERALL
W L
18 2
19 1
13 4
12 4
12 5
9
7
9
7
6 10
6
9
3 12
4 11

SCHEDULE

Sa 11/22 v. Salisbury at Lexington, VA

MENS HOCKEY
NESCAC
W
Trinity
2
Amherst
1
BOWDOIN 1
Williams
1
Conn. Coll.
1
Wesleyan
1
Colby
0
Middlebury 0
Hamilton
0
Tufts
0

L
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
2

T
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
0
0

11 A.M.

OVERALL
W L T
2
0 0
1
0 0
1
0 1
1
0 1
1
1 0
1
1 0
0
1 1
0
1 1
0
1 0
0
2 0

SCHEDULE
Fri 11/21
Sa 11/22
Tue 11/25
Sa 11/29
Su 11/30

7 P.M.
7 P.M.
7 P.M.
4 P.M.
1 P.M.

v. Colby
at Colby
at U. of New England
v. Wentworth
v. Salve Regina at Colby

WOMENS HOCKEY
Amherst
Middlebury
Conn. Coll.
Wesleyan
Williams
Trinity
BOWDOIN
Colby
Hamilton

W
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
0

L
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
2
2

T
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0

W
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
0

L
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
2
2

T
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0

WOMENS BASKETBALL
Amherst
Bates
BOWDOIN
Colby
Conn. College
Hamilton
Middlebury
Trinity
Tufts
Wesleyan
Williams

W
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

W
1
3
2
2
2
2
3
1
3
1
3

L
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
2
0
1
0

SCHEDULE
Sa 11/22
Tu 11/25
Sa 11/29
We 12/3

2 P.M.
5:30 P.M.
2 P.M.
7 P.M.

v. Bates
at U. of New England
v. Salve Regina
v. Southern Me.

MENS BASKETBALL
Amherst
Bates
BOWDOIN
Colby
Conn. College
Hamilton
Middlebury
Trinity
Tufts
Wesleyan
Williams

W
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

L
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

W
1
2
2
1
2
2
2
1
0
3
1

L
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
2
0
2

SCHEDULE
Sa 11/22
Tu 11/25
Mon 12/1
Thu 12/4

at Saint Josephs
at U. of New England
at Babson
at Bates

3 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
7 P.M.

WOMENS SQUASH
SCHEDULE
Su 11/23 v. Penn
We 12/3 at Bates

11 A.M.
6 P.M.

MENS SQUASH
SCHEDULE
Su 11/23 v. Penn
We 12/3 at Bates

11 A.M.
6 P.M.

SCHEDULE
Fri 11/21
Sa 11/22
Tue 11/25
Sa 11/29
We 12/3

at Colby
v. Colby
v. Mass.-Boston
v. Holy Cross
v. Nichols

7 P.M.
3 P.M.
7 P.M.
7 P.M.
5 P.M.

*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off

Compiled by Sarah Bonanno

Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC

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OPINION

the bowdoin orient

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Due course

hen students were notified of their spring semester courses on

Monday, a number of computer science and neuroscience students were left without the courses they need to finish their majors. This issue did not stem from Polaris, which continues to work well.
Interim Registrar James Higginbotham reported to the Orient that 84 percent of students were enrolled in three or more classes during Round One
registration and that the back end of the system was operating smoothly.
Polaris provides a simple and streamlined process for studentsa welcome
improvement over the paper registration that students used as recently as
the spring of 2013. For computer science majors, the problem is that there
are too few courses to meet growing student demand. In neuroscience, an
interdisciplinary major without its own department, the issue is that students are only sometimes given priority for required biology, chemistry
and psychology courses.
Demand for next semesters computer science offerings was incredibly
high. Every course filled up after Round One registration, leaving dozens of
students who are hoping to major or minor in the subject without any options. Unfortunately, this is not a new trend. Last spring, Caroline Pierce 16
collected over 80 signatures on a petition asking the College to hire an additional computer science professor. The Office of Academic Affairs has said
that it is working to accommodate more students in next semesters classes,
but any solution it offers will be a stopgap. We understand that resources are
scarce and that expanding an academic department is an expensive and incremental process. However, the experiences of the many students who were
turned away show that long-term solutions are necessary.
Neuroscience majors also struggled during the registration process, although for different reasons. Because the major has no corresponding department, and courses are not listed specifically as neuroscience classes, it
can be hard to navigate the programs requirements. This is especially true
since majors do not receive preference for every biology and psychology
course that is part of the Neuroscience Program. These issues could easily be rectified by officially cross-listing relevant biology and psychology
courses with neuroscience and by offering neuroscience students priority
where necessary.
The problems faced by neuroscience and computer science students indicate that there is room for improvement in our curriculum, both in terms
of creating space where there is substantial demand and helping students
enroll in the courses they need. One of the Colleges greatest strengths is
offering intimate classes in which we can learn from our excellent faculty.
Students will be best served if the administration can ensure that they have
access to the courses they are required to take without greatly inflating
class sizes.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of Garrett Casey, Ron Cervantes, Natalie KassKaufman, Sam Miller, Leo Shaw and Kate Witteman.

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Response to Emerson 70
To the Editors:
I was dismayed to read last
weeks letter to the editor from
Jeff D. Emerson 70, wherein he
criticized the views of Christopher Wedeman 15. To be clear, I
dont share Wedemans views, but
I was disappointed that Emerson,
a Bowdoin trustee, would resort to
ad hominen attacks and straw man
arguments in order to put down a
current student.
For example, Emerson insinuated that Wedeman is disdainful of
the First Amendment because he
questions the wisdom of giving a
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vated each of these brave men and

women, but I sincerely doubt any of
them gave their lives with the hope
that their deaths would be used as
a cheap rhetorical ploy by a trustee
bullying a student.
I hope Bowdoin continues to recruit speakers who will challenge
the campus prevailing politics. I
also hope that students who oppose
such speakers views will continue
to voice their dissent.
But I most fervently hope that
the trustees as a whole possess better reasoning skills and a greater
depth of character than Emerson
has displayed.
Sincerely,
Kevin R. Larivee 06

Momentum grows for divestment movement

BY ALLYSON GROSS,
JULIA MEAD AND ADAM HUNT
CONTRIBUTOR

When the fossil fuel divestment campaign began at Bowdoin in the fall of
2012, it was comprised of a handful of
people in a sub-group of Green Bowdoin Alliance. Now, entering the third
year of the campaign, weve garnered the
support of over 70 faculty members and
1,200 students.
In February, 13 members of Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) traveled
to Washington, D.C., to take part in an
action against the Keystone XL pipeline.
In September, more than 100 students
from across the Bowdoin community
joined over 400,000 others at the Peoples Climate March in New York City.
On October 17, after two years of
campaigning, we presented our case
for divestment to the Board of Trustees.
Weve come a long way, and were only
moving forward.
The growth of the movement has
spread well beyond Bowdoin. Were one
of over 400 schools internationally with
campaigns for fossil fuel divestment. Already, 14 colleges have chosen their own
paths to divestment, including Unity
College, Pitzer College and the University of Glasgow. In May, Stanford committed to divest its $18.7 billion endow-

ment from direct holdings in coal.

From cities and churches to research
institutes, funds totaling over $50 billion
have been divested. Even the Rockefeller Brothers Funda fund built on oil
moneyrecently began divesting from
fossil fuels.
Just this week, Cambridge Associates, an investment consulting firm and
longtime critic of divestment, introduced a pathway to fossil free investing.
Support for the movement is rising, and
pathways to divestment will continue to
become more accessible.
This is all to say that the divestment
movement at Bowdoin is not happening
in a vacuum.
We are not under the impression that
the loss of investments from Bowdoin
alone will cripple the fossil fuel industry,
but divestment becomes a powerful tool
when understood in a broader context.
By focusing on the direct link between educational institutions and the
fossil fuel industry, divestment offers
a pathway to break through political
gridlock.
The goal of divestment is to catalyze
bold political action addressing climate
change, and to publicly stigmatize the
fossil fuel industry. In light of the midterm elections, it has become more
pressing than ever to find means of initiating climate action.

We can agree that climate change is

not a temporary issue, and its impacts
are only becoming more widespread.
Likewise, the climate movement is here
to stay and is only going to get stronger. BCA is looking to the future, and is
dedicated to continuing the discussion
of climate justice on campus with the arrival of the next president.
With the long-term trends of fossil fuel commodities, we believe that
divestment is not only a moral but
also a financial imperative. We do not
support divestment at the expense of
financial aid, but believe that the two
are not mutually exclusive. There is
no one pathway to achieve divestment. It can be done in a number of
ways, and Bowdoin should pursue its
own, with the input of its community
of original, critical thinkers. We will
continue the discussion of divestment on campus and work with the
Bowdoin community to make the
college a more sustainable and ideologically consistent institution.
With the direction things are moving,
climate change is a problem that is not
only permanent, but will be more and
more present. You can expect the same
thing from BCA.
Allyson Gross and Julia Mead are
members of the Class of 2016. Adam
Hunt is a member of the Class of 2017.

Addressing feminist issues by raising minimum wage

LEFT OF
LIPSTICK
JULIA MEAD

Copy Editors
Katie Miklus
Caitlin Whalen

However, the First Amendment

protects citizens only from government restrictions on speech.
There is no constitutional right
to be an invited speaker at a private college nor is there a constitutional guarantee that a choice of
speaker must be free from student
criticism. Accordingly, Wedeman
is of no immediate threat to our
constitutional rights.
Notwithstanding his incorrect
interpretation of constitutional
law, Emerson further contends that
Wedemans dissenting views somehow disparage Bowdoins military
veterans who died to protect our
freedoms. Emerson, neither you
nor I know exactly what moti-

On Election Day two weeks ago, San

Francisco joined Seattle to become the
second city in the United States with a
$15-per-hour minimum wage.
As a registered member of the Democratic Party, this was a mere BandAid for my gaping LePage/McConnell
wound. But as a current pseudo-communist, future social democrat and devout feminist (go ahead, NSA, put me
on your list!), my heart fluttered.
Seattle and San Francisco have more
than doubled the federally-mandated
minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Twenty-six states and Washington,
D.C., have minimum hourly wages
above $7.25, but some of them, including Maines, stand at $7.50.
Put simply, the paltry minimum
wage in this country means that a person can work full time and still live below the poverty line. If this isnt a blow

to the myth of the meritocratic American Dream, I dont know what is.
But raising the minimum wage is
not just an economic issue; it is a feminist issue. At Bowdoin, we constantly
hear about the wage gap between men
and women who do the same jobs: for
every dollar a man makes, a woman on
average makes 77 cents. Thats unjust.
Ill be the first to say that a male
doctor should not make $200,000 a
year when his female colleague makes
$154,000, but there is another pay gap
that has to do with the types of jobs
men and women work. According to
the National Womens Law Center,
about two-thirds of minimum wage
workers are women.
The push for $15 per hour has its
origins in the fast food labor movement. The fast food industry, like most
industries that employ minimum wage
workers, is composed disproportionately of women. Of these women, many
are women of color and many are parents, so it almost goes without saying
that the Republican myth of the minimum wage worker being a teenager

earning movie money is bullshit.

Not only does it incorrectly assume
the age of many laborers, it relies on a
dated idea of the nuclear family. She
may very well be a teenager earning
baby formula money.
Feminist discourse pays a lot of attention to the ceiling. Im excited to
have a woman president (you can see
on my Twitter that I follow Ready for
Hillary) and Ive started referring to
Bowdoins next president as she.
But check out the floor. Why are
there so many women at the bottom,
and why is the bottom so dismally low?
Maybe it feels more appropriate for
Bowdoin students to crack the ceiling because our career trajectories are
likely to collide with it. But feminism is
an ideology of equality. What good is it
to claim the label if you dont interpret
it expansively?
Fifteen dollars an hour sounds like
an opportunity to me. Lets fight for a
higher minimum wagea radically
higher minimum wagein the name
of justice, in the name of dignity and in
the name of feminism.

friday, november 21, 2014

opinion

the bowdoin orient

19

Why everyone should be allowed to donate blood, including gay men

HOME IN
ALL LANDS
JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER
Thirty-five million people around
the world live with HIV, including
over one million Americans. Onetenth of global patients are children,
the majority of whom contracted HIV
in the womb. Although anti-retroviral
drugs (ARVs) have significantly reduced annual mortality rates, HIV/
AIDS is still responsible for a staggering number of annual deaths.
In 2013, an estimated 1.5 million people died from AIDS-related
causes; thats greater than the population of Maine. Thirty years after
French and American researchers
identified HIV, the retrovirus that
causes AIDS, we are still far from
finding a cure. With World AIDS
Day just ten days away, we have an
opportunity not only to take stock of
HIVs massive toll, but also to pledge
ourselves to fight the disease and the
discrimination that has accompanied
it since its discovery.
One of the biggest problems facing AIDS awareness campaigners is
getting the message out about the
devastating impact of the disease.
According to my calculations based
on information from the Center for
Disease Control, on average more
people die from HIV/AIDS in a week
than have died in all of human history from Ebola, SARS, avian flu and
swine flu combined. However, the

attention-deficient media industry

only focuses on exciting illnesses.
These diseases deserve coverage, and
we are right to be concerned about
the latest pandemics. Media coverage of pandemics, unfortunately, is not
driven by public interest.
It seeks out the flavor of
the day to the detriment
of illnesses such as HIV,
hepatitis and diabetes.
Take Ebola, for example. The likelihood
of contracting Ebola
in the United States
is 1 in 13 million. By
contrast, the CDC
estimates that the
risk of contracting
HIV/AIDS,
depending on the
type of contact,
varies from six in
1000 (from sharing needles) to
one in 100 (for
u np r o t e c t e d
anal sex) to
one in 1000
(unprotected
vaginal sex).
I
suspect
that part of
the media
aversion to
discussing
HIV has to do with its primary mode
of transmission, sexual contact.
When doctors first noticed that
gay men in San Francisco and New

York had compromised immune systems, they treated it as a gay-only

disease. In the press,

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

the term GRID (gay-related immunodef icien- cy) gained traction. As

a response to the prevalence of HIV among
men who have sex with
men (MSM), the FDA
prohibited blood donations from homosexual
males beginning in
1977. Eventually it became apparent that
anyone, regardless of
gender or sexuality,
could get AIDS.
In spite of this,
the FDA has not reversed its ban. On
November 13, a
panel advised the
US Department of
Health and Human
Services (the parent agency of the
FDA) to partially
reverse the ban
for homosexual
males, provided
they were celibate
for at least a year.
Although this
was hailed in
some circles as
a step forward,
it is anything
but. As Human
Rights Campaign Director
David Stacy
remarked,
the policy change continues
to stigmatize gay and bisexual men,

preventing them from donating lifesaving blood based solely on their

sexual orientation.
I can understand the FDAs caution:
after all, MSM are statistically more
likely to contract HIV. The problem is
that high-risk should not be defined
as gay, commented Jamie Weisbach
16. Indeed, high-risk behaviors do
not permanently exclude heterosexuals from giving blood. Why should the
opposite be true for MSM?
Given that we can now identify
HIV much more quickly, it is not
beyond the capacity of medical technology to quarantine blood while
testing for disease. The standard HIV
tests used to determine the presence
or absence of the virus take up to of 3
weeks, well within the 6-week period
that blood can be refrigerated. In addition to screenings for diseases like
malaria, TB and typhoid, the American Red Cross also screens for HIV.
Thus the fear that MSM may donate
blood that is infected is already accounted for in standard donation
procedures.
To be blunt, allowing MSM to
donate blood wont solve frequent
blood shortages faced by hospitals
across this country. It will reverse a
discriminatory practice that is medically unsound and provide an opportunity to educate people about HIV/
AIDS. Without a reliable supply of
blood donations, nine people would
die every minute in the US alone. By
opening blood donations to people of
all sexual orientations, we can help
save lives now.

Speaking from experience: a response to Hunt and Emerson 70

BY CHRISTOPHER WEDEMAN
CONTRIBUTOR

Twice in recent memory have

older men accused me of profound
ignorance. The first occasion was
when retired Col. David Hunt responded to a question that I asked
following his terrorism lecture.
I asked why the U.S. continues to
give weapons and billions of dollars a year to military regimes such
as Egypt, authoritarian kingdoms
such as Saudi Arabia, and apartheid
colonial states such as Israel if it really wants to go after the causes of
terrorism. I also pointed out that
he had used Muslim and terrorist
interchangeably.
In his response, he sidestepped a
long history of Western intervention and war in the Middle
East and his own role in encouraging the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and
indicated that I was being ignorant if I didnt
think that Islam incited hate and misogyny.
The second time
I was accused of ignorance by an older
man was when Jeff
Emerson 70 wrote
in last weeks Orient
that I was ignorant if
I thought that Israel
was occupying any part
of Palestine. From the
small line that the Orient happened to quote
me on, Emerson deduced
about me: Clearly he does
not read the newspapers or watch
the news.
People can say what they want
to say, but the platform from which
you speak matters. Both men spoke
from relatively powerful positions

in society (one a retired colonel, the

other a Bowdoin trustee) and had no
qualms in making me appear young,
nave and ignorant. Certainly, I am
that about a lot of things, but I grew
up hearing the call to prayer five
times a day, navigating cities and
towns where Arabic and Hebrew
were the norm, lazing around
in the hot

pating my high school graduation,

the U.S.-backed and armed Mubarak
regime opened jails and cut off telephone services in an effort to repress
protests and create chaos. My neighborhood, like others all over Cairo,
organized into popular committ e e s

ing the sheer amount of water used

by luxury tourist hotels that cater
to foreigners and rich people, while
permaculture farmers in the neighboring towns organized to conserve
water in one of the driest places on
earth. I remember looking out the
window of a bus to Al Karak, the
nearby city and site of a 12th century Crusader castle, during Ramadan to renew my visa and buy a
couple chickens for my host family

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Egyptian summer, and farting through open air

markets in Jerusalem on the way to
soccer practice after a falafel sandwich. I know some things because I
remember them.
I remember when, as I was antici-

that defended against government-paid thugs and opportunistic

looters. It wasnt about religion; it
was about trusting your neighbor.
I remember hitchhiking with Israeli hippies down the Jordanian
side of the Dead Sea and witness-

to prepare for the Iftar (breaking

of the fast).
I remember kicking rocks around
my former East Jerusalem neighborhood this summer, where for days
young Palestinians had engaged in
street battles with heavily armed

Israeli soldiers and police after a

16-year-old neighborhood kid was
kidnapped, forced to drink gasoline,
and burned alive by Israeli settlers.
I remember waiting in line with
men and women at checkpoints in
the West Bank for the soldiers to
open the turnstile just long enough
for a few people at a time to walk
through and show them their papers and passports. And the lines of
Palestinian men waiting by the side
of the road while soldiers inspected
their bags and checked their IDs.
And the smell of the tear gas (manufactured in Pennsylvania) that soldiers and police shoot when young
people vent their anger with the
occupation by throwing rocks
at the eight meter high concrete walls and watchtowers
of the only democracy in
the Middle East.
But mostly I remember
the countless conversations, interactions and
relationships with living,
breathing, loving, caring
human beingspeople who
suffer from all the same human faults as we do, and who try
to retain their dignity in the face
of absurdity. I may be younger,
and thus less experienced, than
men like Hunt and Emerson, but
I know that a place looks different when you look at it from underneath a military helmet, and
I know that there is a double
standard in the way a lot of us
use the subjective and dehumanizing label of terrorist.
I just wish I could count all the
times I was welcomed into strangers homes, and all the laughs with
people who didnt hold it against me
that my government gives billions of
dollars a year to pay for the guns and
the gas and the bombs.

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the bowdoin orient

friday, november 21, 2014

NOVEMBER
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48 T HONEY MUSTARD CHICKEN, PIZZA

35 M MAC & CHEESE, FRIED SHRIMP

SUNDAY
EVENT

Pre-Thanksgiving Potluck

The African-American Society will host their annual potluck before students leave for Thanksgiving break. Please
email Symone Howard if you would like to prepare a dish.
Russwurm House. 6 p.m.

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54 T VEGGIE BURGER, PIZZA

47 M BOLOGNESE, SEAFOOD ALFREDO

MONDAY
EVENT
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE AFTERMATH: Last night students enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner at Thorne Hall and Moulton Union. The annual meal is a student favorite.

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FRIDAY

31
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22

T LONDON BROIL, SALMON

M HAMBURGERS, BBQ CHICKEN

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31

SATURDAY

T CHICKEN FLORENTINE PASTA

M GENERAL TSO'S CHICKEN

EVENT

FILM

Student activists will lead a discussion about action,

privilege and responsibility as members as various
student groups.
The Quad. 1:30 p.m.

Bowdoin will screen the award-winning animated

Disney film inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy
tale, "The Snow Queen." Attendees are encouraged to "let
it go" and sing along to their favorite songs. Coffee and
Frosty's doughnuts will be served.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 10 a.m.

"Frozen"

How Are We Part of the Problem?

EVENT

Pro-Life? Pro-Choice? Let's Talk About It

PERFORMANCE

The student group Undiscussed will lead a conversation

about the various opinions surrounding abortion. Afterward, students will discuss the issue in smaller groups.
MacMillan House. 1:30 p.m.

Mozart's "Requiem"

Directed by Emily Isaacson, both the Oratorio Chorale

and the Bowdoin Chorus will perform Mozart's dramatic
"Requiem." There will be two additional performances at
7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m at Kanbar Auditorium in
Studzinksi Recital Hall.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinksi Recital Hall. 3 p.m.

LECTURE

"Apologies: Theory, Empirics,

and Experiments"

Assistant Professor of Economics at Vassar College Benjamin Ho will present how apologies as a social institution
are essential for maintaining relationships.
Room 208, Hubbard Hall. 4 p.m.
EVENT

Asian Nibbles

The Asian Students Association will teach students how

to cook various Asian snacks including dumplings, spring
rolls and scallion pancakes.
30 College Street. 5 p.m.

Men's Hockey v. Colby

The third-ranked Polar Bears will take on their rivals, the

seventh-ranked Colby Mules.
Watson Arena. 7 p.m.

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EVENT

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BREAK

30

Chewonki Traveling Natural History Programs will visit

campus to educate students about the natural world and
its relationship to humans. The program will feature a saw
whet owl, a barred owl and a great horned owl.
Howell House. 7 p.m.

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TUESDAY

Masque & Gown Spring Show

Masque and Gown will hold auditions for their spring

production, "Dead Man's Cell Phone," which explores
modern technology's ability to both unite and isolate. No
preparation for the audition is needed. A sign-up sheet is
located on the Memorial Callboard.
Room 108, Memorial Hall. 3 p.m.

T RAVIOLI, QUESADILLA
M MUSSLES, SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN

FILM

"Soul of a Banquet"

Frontier will present Wayne Wang's documentary about

Cecilia Chiang, the first person to bring authentic Chinese
food to America. Her San Francisco restaurant The Mandarin
opened in 1961 and revolutionized the restaurant industry.
Frontier Caf. 2 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY

AUDITIONS

44 T MEATLOAF, CHICKEN TERIYAKI

31 M CLOSED

EVENT

Shuttles to the Airport

The Mermaid Travel shuttles will bus students to Portland

every 40 minutes starting at 4:00 a.m. for $30. No
reservation necessary.
Moulton Union. 4 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

FILM

PUMP the Movie

Mark Rosenblatt from Freedom Fuel Foundation will

lead a question-and-answer session via Skype about his
company's documentary, which chronicles the roots of
America's addiction to oil and how to end the monopoly of
oil companies.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

SPORTS GAME

Owls at Howell

EVENT

Thanksgiving
Break Ends

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39 T CLOSED
30 M CLOSED

THURSDAY
HOLIDAY

Thanksgiving

United States of America.

H ld
Holiday
PERFORMANCE

Afro-Latin
Ensemble

December Dance
Concert

PERFORMANCE