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TALK OF THE QUAD OPINION
EDITORIAL: Casting a wider web; Creating a
safer space
SPORTS: HOROWITZ HITS MILESTONE
Page 11.
ALL OUT OF LOVE: Drew Van Kuiken 17 on the
appeal of the anti-heroin American TV.
Page 19.
Page 18.
David Treadwell 64 on the approach of his 50th re-
union; rst year proctor Natalie Clark 14 bids farewell
to Mary Pat McMahon.
Page 10.
Coby Horowitz 14 ran a 4:02.12 mile last weekend,
giving him the fastest mile time in Bowdoin history
and earning him the honor of D-III National Athlete
of the Week.
FEATURES: THE PRETTY GAME
Anonymous 17 discusses
objectication and Bowdoins
cult of feminine body
consciousness.
Page 11.
STARTING A DIALOGUE
Kearney to
open Sat.
Ivies, says
manager
Please see MCMAHON, page 3
McMahon to take deans post at Tufts
BY ERICA BERRY AND
NORA BIETTETIMMONS
ORIENT STAFF
A look inside the J-Board selection process
BY KATE WITTEMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Mary Pat McMahon, the asso-
ciate dean of student affairs and
the director of Residential Life
(ResLife), will be leaving the Col-
lege over Spring Break to become
the dean of student affairs at Tufts
University. Dean of Student Affairs
Tim Foster announced her depar-
ture in a schoolwide email sent on
February 12.
McMahons imminent depar-
turewhich was received by many
shocked members of the Bowdoin
communitycomes in her twelfth
year at Bowdoin. Arriving at the
College in 2002 as assistant dean of
student affairs, McMahon became
the dean of first-year students in
2006 and then took up the director-
ship of ResLife in the fall of 2008.
She is such a day-to-day pres-
ence, not just someone locked in
her office with a ton of adminis-
tration things to do and no time
to talk to an RA in Brunswick or
a proctor, said Salem Harry 14,
who is head Resident Advisor (RA)
in Coles Tower and who has been
on the ResLife staff for three years.
Her new role at Tufts will dif-
fer from her current position at
Bowdoin. Perhaps most notably,
McMahon will now serve as a dean
to approximately 8,000 undergrad-
BCF advisors
refuse to sign
policy, vacate
role at College
Colleges insurance plan to
see changes under the ACA
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
The Affordable Care Act (ACA)
is bringing changes to insurance
plans across the country, and Bow-
doins is no exception. Students on
the Colleges health care plan could
see increases of up to 16 percent in
their premiums next year.
To comply with the new law,
the Colleges health insurance will
provide dental and vision care for
students under 19 for the first time
next year. The plan has also gradu-
ally been phasing out coverage
limits for individual conditions,
and next year all such limits will
be eliminated.
The likely increases in premi-
ums will be a result of these expan-
sions, as well as new taxes and fees
starting next year. Those taxes are
expected to raise rates anywhere
from 2 percent to 6 percent. This
year, the premium for the Colleges
plan $1,544.
We expect that insurance rates
are going to go up next year, and
some of it were expecting to at-
tribute to some of those fees, and
then the next part is how some of
the required changes under the
ACA will play out, said Senior
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Kim Pacelli.
Bowdoins insurance is underwrit-
ten by UnitedHealthcare. Te Illi-
nois-based Arthur J. Gallagher Risk
Management Services Inc. assists the
College in designing the plan.
Te majority of students opt to
waive the Colleges insurance plan
and stay on another plan instead.
Tis semester, 537 students are en-
rolled in Bowdoins planabout 30
percent of the student body. Five
teaching fellows are also on the plan.
Please see INSURANCE, page 5
BY NORA BIETTETIMMONS AND
EMILY WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
The Judicial Board (J-Board)
is a campus governing body that
adjudicates cases of alleged viola-
tions of the Social and Academic
Honor Codes that are brought be-
fore it by students or faculty. Not
every allegation is brought before
the J-Board, but for cases that are,
the J-Board acts as a jury and rec-
ommends sanctions to the Dean
of Student Affairs if violations are
deemed to have occurred.
Students are initially introduced
to the J-Board during Orienta-
tion when every matriculating first
year signs the Academic and Social
Honor Codes. Many students do
not encounter the J-Board for the
rest of their time at Bowdoin, and
as a result the Board is a largely
unknown entity; though comprised
of students, it exists mainly on the
periphery of campus life.
In this first section of a two-part
series, the Orient aims to unpack
that proposition and demystify the
J-Board and its highly competitive
selection process.
In an email to all students on
January 16, Assistant Dean of Stu-
dent Affairs Lesley Levy invited
students with sound judgment
and insight, maturity and a strong
sense of integrity to apply for the
Singer-songwriter Mat Kearney
will open the annual Ivies concert
on Saturday, April 26, according to
Kearneys manager.
Te show is confrmed. Every-
thing is done, said Josh Terry, Kear-
neys manager, in a phone interview
with the Orient on Tursday.
According to Terry, Kearney will
open at 3 p.m., followed by the duo
Timefies. Timefies management
team did not respond to requests for
confrmation before press time.
In a statement to the Orient,
Entertainment Board (E-Board)
co-chair Matt Friedland 15 wrote
that the E-Board has not fnalized
contracts with all of its Ivies artists
and is therefore not in a position to
confrm or deny any speculation, as
it may complicate negotiations.
Associate Director of Student
Activities Nate Hintzewho works
with the E-Boardalso stated that
the weekends acts were not fnal-
ized.
Te Orient was contacted earlier
this week by Kearneys management
team about scheduling an interview
with the singer.
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ON BOARD: The J-Board adjudicates cases of alleged violations of the honor codes.
Please see IVIES, page 5
Please see J-BOARD, page 4
Rob and Sim Gregory, who have
served as volunteer advisors to
the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship
(BCF) for eight and nine years re-
spectively, will step down from their
roles at the end of this academic
year due to their refusal to sign
the Colleges Volunteer Agreement.
Though the Gregorys will no longer
hold an official position at the Col-
lege, they are not banned from visit-
ing or giving talks on campus.
Introduced this fall, the Agree-
ment requires all volunteers asso-
ciated with the College to formally
agree to comply with the Colleges
policies. Among the policies out-
lined in the Agreement is Bowdoins
Freedom from Discrimination and
Harassment policy, which prohibits
discrimination against any Bow-
doin community member based on
BY MEG ROBBINS AND
MARISA MCGARRY
ORIENT STAFF
Please see BCF, page 6
After refusing to sign a non-
discrimination policy, Bowdoin
Christian Fellowship advisors
are no longer permitted
to volunteer at the College.
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Abbie Geringer 14 takes center stage in this years rendition of The Vagina Monologues,directed by Callie Ferguson 15 and Xanthe Demas 15. The show will run
both Friday and Saturday nights in Kresge Auditorium at 7:30. Tickets are on sale for $5 at the info desk. Please see full story on page 13.
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INNS NAME THROWN OUT
In addition to the recent launch
of Chipotle Fridaythe burrito
delivery service spearheaded by
Sam Silverman 14another en-
trepreneurial business has been
gaining popularity on campus
since its start in January.
Gab Renaud 16 has recently
launched Luigi Laundry, a laun-
dry pick up and delivery service.
One night my roommate and
Iwell, actually, he pretty much
gave me the idea, said Renaud,
referring to his roommate Monty
Barker 16, an owner of the Cam-
pus Food Truck.
I thought it was a great idea,
said Renaud. I think that theres
defnitely a demand for that
maybe for people who dont have
close laundry machines like at
Pine or Harpswell [or] of-cam-
pus [houses].
Luigi Laundry ofers same-day
delivery for $15 and two-day de-
livery for $13.
Te service includes washing,
drying, folding and the price of soap.
I give you a Luigi Laundry
bag. Whatever you can ft in the
bag you put in, then you leave it at
your door, said Renaud.
Renaud washes and dries the
laundry orders at Mr. Suds on
Chamberlain Avenue so that he
can operate numerous machines
at once and so that he doesnt get
in trouble with the school by us-
ing the Colleges machines.
Renaud has started small, only
servicing two clients so far, but
said that if the demand came, I
can expand. Orders can be taken
by phone or on the Luigi Laundry
Facebook page.
Renaud has one important ca-
veat for his laundering service: it
services men only.
Girls have more dry cleaning
items, Renaud explained. Tey
have things to fold in a certain
way and I just dont really have the
knowledge of girls clothes right
now. I just think guys clothes are
On February 4, a federal judge
ruled that the Inn at Brunswick Sta-
tion must change its name by April 4,
according to an article in the Bangor
Daily News.
Tis judicial order is the latest
in the dispute between the Inn at
Brunswick Station and the Bruns-
wick Inn. Te Brunswick Inn fled
suit against the Inn at Brunswick Sta-
tion in March 2012, claiming that the
similarity between their names was
trademark infringement.
-Compiled by Nicole Wetsman
Graphic Image

Tom Rosenblatt 16
Lunch and dinner with friends
and the Vagina Monologues
at night.
Peyton Morss 14
Im literally dying of illness and I just
inhaled ve chocolatesthat
about sums it up.
STUDENT SPEAK
What are your plans for Valentines Day?
COMPILED BY JOE SHERLOCK
Molly Stevens 15
Probably a Lord of the Rings movie
marathonyeah, actually.
Logan House 17
Im going to watch The Lego Movie
with some friends.
The College recently changed its
online financial aid instructions to
ensure that they comply with fed-
eral law, according to Director of
Student Aid Michael Bartini.
Te changes came afer Rep. Elijah
Cummings of Maryland, the ranking
Democrat on the House Committee
on Oversight and Government Re-
form, sent a letter to Secretary of Ed-
ucation Arne Duncan on February 3.
In the letter, Cummings alleged
that 111 institutions were violating
federal law by requiring applicants
for federal aid to fill out forms in
addition to the Free Application
for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),
or by failing to make clear that
only the FAFSA was required.
Amendments made to the High-
er Education Act in 1992 prohibit
institutions from using any form
other than the FAFSA to determine
federal financial aid.
Bowdoin was not named in
Cummings letter, but clarified its
instructions anyway.
Previously, the Colleges instruc-
tions made no mention of appli-
cants for federal aid, but stated,
Candidates for financial aid must
file the 2014-15 College Scholar-
ship Service (CSS) PROFILE to be
eligible for Bowdoin grant support.
Since this statement refers only
to eligibility for Bowdoin grants, it
does not violate federal law, but the
College added a paragraph to its
instructions to ensure that it was
not misleading students wishing to
apply exclusively for federal aid.
Te FAFSA is required to deter-
mine eligibility for all sources of fed-
eral assistance. If all you wish to do is
apply for federal aid, then completing
the FAFSA is your only requirement,
the new online paragraph reads.
There are few Bowdoin students
who only apply for federal aid, ac-
cording to Bartini.
For the most part I dont get
many students who say, Mike, all
I really want is federal funds, he
said. You get a few each year who
recognize theyre not eligible for
our resources, but they do want to
apply for a federal loan.
Bartini said that applicants for
Bowdoin grants must file the CSS/
Financial Aid PROFILE because
it asks for more information from
applicants than the FAFSA does.
The FAFSA is a condensed ver-
sion of the questions being asked
on the PROFILE, he said. We get
a far more expanded display of in-
come and asset information about
the family [from the PROFILE],
Bartini says. What were trying to
do is direct our resources to our
neediest students and the PRO-
FILE helps us do that.
Te PROFILE is a form created by
the College Board that comes with a
$25 fee the frst time a student sends
it to a college and a $16 fee for each
additional college. Bartini said that
these fees could be waived if they are
too expensive for a student.
There are several avenues in
which there are fee waivers. Col-
lege Board offers fee waivers. The
College offers fee waivers, he said.
The profile fee should not be a
barrier. Contact us and well work
something out for you.
GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
College adjusts instructions to
comply with nancial aid law
A fre alarm was maliciously
pulled on the sixth foors east
stairwell Coles Tower at 11:28
p.m. Te building was evacuated
and Brunswick Fire Department
responded. A security investiga-
tion determined that a student
was responsible for pulling the
false alarm. A report was submit-
ted to the Dean of Student Afairs
and the student will be charged
the cost of the fre department
response ($650). (February 8).
An om cer checked on the
wellbeing of an intoxicated stu-
dent in Winthrop Hall who was
found sleeping on the restroom
foor with his pants pulled down
(February 9).
SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS
RENAUD 16 BEGINS
MAKING CLEAN MONEY FROM
LAUNDERING SERVICE
ENVIRONMENTAL INSTRUMENTALS
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LLast night, the Bowdoin Outing Club hosted Love the Environment Coffee House, a night of music and poetry performances at the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center. From left to right: John
Swords 15, Simon Moushabeck 16, Andrew Roseman 14 and Tim Hunt 14 play Semantics Gamesa song written by Rosemanin front of the fireplace.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
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uate and graduate students in the
arts and sciences and engineering
programs. She will oversee Tufts
residential life program, judicial
board, and what the University
calls the Group of Sixthe LGT-
BQAI Center, Womens Center, Af-
ricana Center, Latino Center and
International Center.
Te news released in Fosters
email on February 12 noted that Mc-
Mahon will take up her new position
at Tufs in March, during Bowdoins
Spring Break. She will be on campus
to take part in the fnal decisions re-
garding next years ResLife staf se-
lection, but she will not be a part of
the fnal selection of College House
residents for next year.
Its not by design meant to be
disruptive to the institution, said
McMahon. Its really more based on
life ofering me a pretty terrifc op-
portunity right now but it defnitely
comes with the idea that I need to
get there. If Im going to take the op-
portunity I have to go. People here
have been great about recognizing
that and being supportive about it.
While her husband and two chil-
dren stay in Brunswick until the
school year ends in June, McMahon
will move to the Boston area and
split her time between Boston and
Maine. Her family will then move
permanently this summer. She cites
that this decision and move comes
in part because she wants to be clos-
er to her mother.
McMahon will take on the role
of Bruce Reitman, who is now the
Dean of Campus Life and Leader-
ship at Tufts. Tufts posted the job
opportunity in October and stated
that the candidate would need to
begin in the middle of the spring
semester. McMahon had a campus
visit in January and found out that
she got the job last week.
We are ecstatic about our selec-
tion, and we look forward to her
getting here, said John Barker, dean
of undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents at Tufts, in an interview with
the Orient. She brings a high level
of energy, shes extremely smart,
charismatic, understands people,
understands students, and is really
able to engage individually.
Meadow Davis, associate director
of student affairs and deputy Title
IX coordinator, will take over Mc-
Mahons role as soon as she leaves.
This will not be an interim position.
I am incredibly excited about the
ResLife piece, said Davis. MP lef
BY KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
At the most recent faculty meet-
ing, the Curriculum and Educa-
tional Policy Committee (CEP)
proposed a change to the Colleges
current policy that would make it
possible for students to take on-
line courses for credit. Currently,
Bowdoin does not accept transfer
credits from online courses of any
kind, and the new policy would
leave it up to departments to de-
cide whether or not to grant credit
for a course.
Professor Andrew Rudalevige
of the government department, a
member of CEP, stressed that the
policy sets a high bar, and that de-
partments will review courses to
ensure that they are accomplish-
ing something that we at Bowdoin
think is relevant and worthwhile.
Professor Bruce Kohorn of the
Biology department, also a CEP
member, emphasized that the
critical thing is that the depart-
ment has the choice, just like with
any transfer credit.
Kohorn called the proposal a
very small part of a very large dis-
cussion about online courses.
That conversation needs to
happen at Bowdoin, he said.
However, he also acknowledged
that there are strong emotions on
either side surrounding the topic
of online education.
Both professors noted the grow-
ing popularity of online education.
Rudalevige emphasized that a lot of
places are having this conversation,
including peer institutions such as
Pomona, Smith and Wellesley.
Were trying to be a little bit
ahead of the curve, he said.
One professor who is likely to
vote against the CEPs proposal,
Robert Morrison of the religion
department, expressed skepticism
about the benefits of online educa-
tion for Bowdoin students.
In a lot of cases, online educa-
tion can really enhance ones expe-
rience, he said, citing its ability to
connect students in the same dis-
cipline across the world. However,
he added that Im not sure what
the gain in general would be when
the instructor is no longer in the
room all the time.
Although the proposal does give
departments a choice in whether
or not to accept online classes,
Morrison still disagreed with the
principle.
If we leave it up to departments,
thats sending a message that more
often than not, we should be ac-
cepting these classes, he said.
Faculty members will vote on
the proposal at their next meeting
on March 3.

very, very big shoes to fll. Im not
completely sure of all of the details
of what my role will be there yet.
McMahon said that she had no
doubts about Davis capacity to
take over.
Meadow has the incredible abil-
ity to be somebody who is at the
nexus of a lot of things and helping
everybody get bettershe is per-
fect for this job in the sense that
she will be a resource and an inno-
vative and responsive presence in a
lot of ways, said McMahon.
This announcement comes a
week after Assistant Dean of Stu-
dent Affairs Jarrett Young an-
nounced he would be leaving at the
end of the academic year. In ad-
dition to these two departures, the
four-person ResLife staff has seen
significant turnover in the past
year, with former Assistant Direc-
tor of Residential Life Chris Rossi
10 leaving last spring and former
Associate Director of Residential
Education Ben Farrell leaving at the
end of January 2013.
There have been a lot of transi-
tions in the office in the past year
so I think all those transitions defi-
nitely exacerbated the emotions
surrounding Mary Pat leaving,
said Head RA of Brunswick Apart-
ments Neli Vasquez 14. We always
say ResLife, ResLove, because its a
family in addition to a job and its
like the mother of that family is
leaving. But because it is like a fam-
ily we are always so happy for each
other. I cant stress enough how
happy people are for her.
-Nicole Wetsman and Marisa
McGarry contributed to this report.
Faculty committee proposes
credit for online courses
Mills rolls out new post-grad
advice workshops for seniors
BY EVAN BULMAN
ORIENT STAFF
On Monday night, roughly 70 se-
niors focked to Kresge Auditorium to
hear President Barry Mills give advice
for their post-collegiate lives. Mills new
four-installment series, called Get
Ready for Life Afer Bowdoin: A Crash
Course on Practical Skills, was created
with the help of Robin Transgrud 06.
In his column on the Bowdoin Daily
Sun, Mills wrote that Transgrud assisted
in the development of these workshops
as she studied for the bar exam.
You commonly hear young people
say I wish I knew this or I wish Id had
more experience in understanding how
to set my own budget or get my own
apartment, said Mills in an interview
with the Orient. So, the idea is to sup-
plement or add on to what we do here
in an excellent way and get seniors ready
for the next level.
In his frst presentation, Mills cov-
ered a range of topics revolving around
workplace interactions. Over the course
of an hour and a half, Mills discussed
the basics of om ce life, including ev-
erything from how to dress for a job to
when to leave a job. Mills also addressed
bigger ideas, stressing the importance of
respect, diligent work and an awareness
of your own reputation.
Seniors in attendance Monday had
generally positive responses.
President Mills had a lot of really
practical advice, said Mark Hansen 14.
He was able to boil down anecdotes,
or things hed experienced, into a bul-
let point: try doing this, dont do this.
When I lef I said, OK, I know at least
six things I can do to ft in better in the
workplace, to get a job, or to keep a job.
Te next two sessions will introduce
students to everyday knowledge about
fling taxes, investing and saving.
In the second and third sessions,
they will get some really practical advice
that I think could be useful to them al-
most immediately, said Mills.
Tese next sessions will also include
speakers other than Mills. Represen-
tatives from the Fullbridge program,
which has run real-world skills seminars
on campus both this year and last, will
provide fnance and investment exper-
tise during the two presentations.
In the fnal session, various Bowdoin
alumni will join Mills to describe their
post-graduation experiences in Wash-
ington D.C., San Francisco, Boston and
New York.
Ive heard really great stories about
that, and some kind of saddening sto-
ries, so Im really excited to get advice
about what thats going to be like, said
Neli Vazquez 14 on the prospect of re-
location.
Tough roughly 70 seniors turned
out for Mondays session, some of the
other sessions have even higher pre-reg-
istration numbers than the frst.
While not guaranteeing his own par-
ticipation next year, Mills said he hoped
that this would become an annual event.
My goal is actually to establish the
program, said Mills. Not to seem too
egotistical, but my view was that if I
started this of, some people would show
up. I would hope that well be able to fg-
ure out ways in the future to have this be
sustainable, where it doesnt rely on the
president of the College. But, as a way to
get people interested, I thought Id lend
some of my weight behind it.
Regardless of the long-term plan, this
years goal is clear.
My hope is that it will be both for
the students as they become grads im-
mediately, but that it will also have some
lasting impact down the road on the way
that people think about their lives, said
Mills.
Coles Tower is getting a long overdue makeover. This summer, the College will spend $2.8 million to renovate
the building, which turns 50 this year. Four oors will be renovated each year for the next four years. The
completed project will cost approximately $5 million, according to Katy Longley, the senior vice president for
nance and administration and the college treasurer. The College will partner with Harriman, an engineering
rm in Auburn and Massachusetts-based Consigli Construction Company, which has an o ce in Portland.
Consigli worked with the College in 2007on the Art Museum and in 2004 on the Chapel.
Reaching new heights
SUMMER 2014:
-Install new elevator cabs
-Updated electrical wiring
-Upgrade re alarm system
-Fix exterior masonry
-Repair windows on each oor
-Add additional exit door near old
Bowdoin Cable News O ces
BY SUMMER 2017:
-Upgrade student bathrooms
-Paint walls and renish oors
in student rooms
-Replace interior lighting
-Replace OneCard readers for quad doors
For more information and an interactive infographic, please see www.bowdoinorient.com
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
McMahon will leave for Tufts after Spring Break.
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J-Board. Though more than 40
students apply to the J-Board ev-
ery year, the application and selec-
tion process remains a mystery for
those who do not participate in it.
Applications for the 2014 to
2015 school year were due on Janu-
ary 30 and 50 students applied13
more applicants than in 2013.
New members will be announced
as early as next week. Applicants
are nominated by themselves or
by other members of the Bowdoin
community, often a coach, profes-
sor, or friend.
The initial application asks appli-
cants to provide personal informa-
tion, such as hometown, class year,
and extracurricular commitments.
Applicants are also required to
write short essays on why they want
to be on the J-Board, how their
particular backgrounds would con-
tribute to the J-Boards diversity,
their thoughts on the academic and
social honor codes, and how they
have dealt with a difficult ethical
situation. One recommendation
letter is also required (often writ-
ten by the professor or coach who
nominated an applicant).
After their applications are re-
ceived, all applicants receive an
individual interview. Then after
a round of cuts, finalists partici-
pate in group interviews that are
focused around academic and so-
cial case studies. The committee
deliberates and invites a few ap-
plicants to become members of the
J-Board.
Judicial Board Chair Chelsea
Shaffer 14 is the only member
that would speak with the Ori-
ent. The other student members
of the 2013-2014 board are Mag-
gie Acosta 16, Kendall Carpenter
15, Susanna Howard 14, Jacques
Larochelle 15, Margaret Linde-
man 15, Teresa Liu 15, Christo-
pher Nadeau 16, Tom Peabody
14, Adrian Rodriguez 14, Ujal
Santchurn 15, and Duncan Tay-
lor 14. Jordan Goldberg 14 is the
BSG representative on the selec-
tion committee.
Shaffer said that the board
weighs all aspects of the selection
process evenly, from the initial
application to the individual and
group interviews.
It gives a lot of different kinds
of people the advantage to highlight
different skills or assets, she said.
Each individual interview is
with about half the members of the
Boardto save time, according
to Shaffer. Students who have ap-
plied reported varied experiences
of the process.
Schaffer was nervous as she went
into her own individual interview
when she was a first year but re-
J-BOARD
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members it as a positive experience.
Everyone was very nice to me
and I dont think it was judge-
mental, she said. I think some-
times when you are interviewing
in front of other students, you have
this perception that theyre judg-
ing you and are going to bring this
outside of the context...and I never
felt that.
Andrew Miller-Smith 15 had
a different experience during the
application and selection process
when he was a first year.
They awkwardly asked me
what I thought were somewhat
meaningless questionslike How
would a friend describe you? or,
If you are in a group of people,
how do you act? he said. I was
a little surprised by that. I thought
the recruiting process would start
off a little bit more insightfully.
Disciplinary records do not nec-
essarily disqualify students who
apply.
Students applying to the J-Board
are asked to address and explain
any record of disciplinary action
in their applications. Tommy
Spurlock 14 applied as a sopho-
more and was not selected. In his
application, he emphasized that he
had learned from the run-ins he
had with the administration as a
first year.
Because Id had disciplinary is-
sues, I could look at [cases] from
a different perspective, he said.
One of the big things I stressed
was learning from my mistakes.
When Spurlock was preparing
I think sometimes when you are
interviewing in front of other
students, you have this perception
that theyre judging you and are
going to bring this outside of the
context...and I never felt that.
CHELSEA SHAFFER 14
JBOARD CHAIR
for his individual interview, he
received unsolicited help not au-
thorized by the J-Board. Because
of the unorthodox nature of the
situation, he declined to provide
the Orient with details.
Someone with knowledge of
the interview process, before my
interview, offered me very, very
helpful advice about what sort of
questions they might ask, he said.
In that situation, one might feel
they had an advantage, but I cant
say it made a difference. I wasnt
selected even with that help.
Applicants who pass an initial
round of cuts are invited to a group
interview in which they are pre-
sented with hypothetical J-Board
casesone social and one academ-
icand observed by the selection
committee as they deliberate until
they reach a conclusion.
I felt like we were in a viewing
gallerythey just sat and stared
at us as we awkwardly discussed a
case, said Miller-Smith.
However, the case studies pro-
vide interesting perspective and
discussion for some applicants. Cal
Brooks 15 was on his high schools
judicial board and applied for the
J-Board as a first year, but was
turned down.
The debate that I had regard-
ing the case that we discussed was
more stimulating or as stimulating
as any of the ones I had done in
high school. Most people changed
where they stood from immedi-
ately after reading to after wed all
discussed itwe reached better
conclusions.
Selection committee decisions
After the group interviews, the
selection committeewhich con-
sists of the student members of the
J-Board, Levy and a representative
from the BSGmeets again to de-
cide which of the applicants will
be invited to join the J-Board.
Although the board historically
has a dozen members and tries to
keep an even balance across class
years, Shaffer made it clear that
this number of J-Board members
is not concrete.
Were not looking to fill roles;
were looking to have the most
worthy candidates, she said.
Well take as many good appli-
cants as we have, while still be-
ing conscious of the fact that the
board generally has 12 members.
Before making any final deci-
sions, the committee runs the list
of applicants past the deans, the
Office of Residential Life, the Of-
fice of Safety and Security and BSG.
At that point, were looking for
any major red flags that have not
come out already in the applica-
tion process, said Levy.
When ultimately selecting new
J-Board members, both Levy and
Shaffer emphasized that diversity
is a crucial factor, though Shaffer
added a clarification.
Oftentimes when people hear
the word diverse, they think of so-
cioeconomic [diversity] first, she
said. I think that maybe a better
way of describing it is representa-
tive of the campus. The selection
committee aims to choose people
from different walks of life within
the Bowdoin community.
It takes a group of people com-
ing from different backgrounds
and experiences with different
learning styles and communica-
tion styles to make the process
fair, said Shaffer.
Emma Chow 15 a student who
applied and was rejected as a first
year, said that she understood the
selectivity.
Because its so intensive, I do
trust...the students who are on the
board and the decisions that they
make, she said.
Peer school comparison
The J-Board at Bowdoin differs
from many of its counterparts at
peer schools, some of which have
wholly or partially elective selec-
tion processes and/or limited term
lengths.
For Amhersts equivalent com-
mittee, two male and two female
students are elected each year and
serve two-year terms. Williams has
two elected seats on the board per
class year.
Middleburys Judicial Board is
appointed, but members need to
reapply every year.
Students on Colbys Student
Conduct Board are appointed,
serve one-year terms and are bal-
anced by gender.
Although the judicial boards
of other NESCAC colleges differ
in selection process, Levy has not
heard any complaints about Bow-
doins selection process, adding
that there havent been any sig-
nificant changes over the last six
years.
Shaffer thinks that the current
process allows applicants to high-
light their different strengths: Its
not like were just going to have
people make a stump speech and
you get elected.
Newly selected members will be
notified next week, and the names
of the students will be released to
the community by the end of the
month. The new members will go
through training during Senior
Week in May before becoming of-
ficial members.
I felt like we were in a viewing gal-
lerythey just sat and stared
at us as we awkwardly
discussed the case.
ANDREW MILLERSMITH 15
Were not looking to ll roles; were
looking to have the most worthy
candidates. Well take as many good
applicants as we have, while still
being conscious of the fact that the
board generally has 12 members.
CHELSEA SHAFFER 14
JBOARD CHAIR
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
J-BOARD 13-14: Top: Chelsea Shaer 14, Jordan Goldberg 14 (representative of BSG who sits on the selection committee), Margaret Lindeman 15,
Tom Peabody 14. Middle: Teresa Liu 15, Maggie Acosta 16, Jacques Larochelle 15, Duncan Taylor 14. Bottom: Chris Nadeau 16, Adrian Rodriguez 14, Kendall
Carpenter 15 and Ujal Santchurn 15. Not pictured: Susanna Howard 14.
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Trustees promote ve to rank of associate professor with tenure
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
Nadia Celis of the romance lan-
guages department, Danielle Dube
of the chemistry and biochemis-
try departments, Brian Purnell of
the Africana studies and history
departments, Vyjayanthi Ratnam
Selinger of the Asian studies de-
partment and Robert Sobak of the
classics department will officially
be tenured faculty on July 1, after
the Board of Trustees voted to pro-
mote them to the rank of associate
professor with tenure in their an-
nual February meeting last week-
end.
Cristle Collins Judd, dean of
academic affairs, noted that there
was no one who did not receive
tenure who was in consideration
this year to receive it.
Professors on the tenure track
typically stand for tenure in their
sixth year, or in their seventh if
they have taken a years leave from
the College, according to Judd.
However, if professors arrive hav-
ing already been on the tenure
track at another institutionlike
Brian Purnell, who was an assistant
professor at Fordham University for
four years before he came to Bow-
dointhey may stand earlier.
Professors who receive tenure
must display, according to the
handbook, Excellence in teaching
and distinction in research.
Each professor has excelled and
distinguished him or herself in
diverse ways. Celis organized a
trip to Colombia with her Gabriel
Garcia Marquez class; Dube has
introduced students to innovative
lab work; Purnell is the author of
a prize-winning book on the civil
rights movement; Selinger orga-
nized an exhibit of Japanese prints
at the Bowdoin College Museum of
Art. Sobak is the recipient of the
Karofsky Prizethe only prize of-
fered at Bowdoin to junior faculty.
Each of the five professors ap-
pointed this year has had his or her
work published either in books or,
in Dubes case, scientific forums.
In an email to the Orient, Purnell
said that he found the expectations
for tenure at Bowdoin very clear.
Bowdoin has several steps along
the way, like a first-year evaluation
letter, the course evaluation forms,
and the third-year review process,
when professors on track for ten-
ure receive substantive feedback
on the quality of their teaching, on
their scholarly productivity, and
on the level of their service to the
college, he wrote. The process
helped me become a better teacher
and historian, and for that I am
very grateful.
For me, the evaluation pro-
cess in particular elicited a lot of
reflection in order to understand
my role as a part of the Bowdoin
community, said Celis. Being a
international professor, over time
Ive gone through significant ad-
aptation and this was a wonderful
opportunity to revise my place in
the larger pictureground myself
in Maine, the US, the world.
For Dube, the tenure process
was, both a retrospective process
looking at what Ive done in the
time I have been at Bowdoin and
forward looking at where I hope
to go.
When she thinks about the pro-
cess, Selinger commented that she
thinks about her maturation as
a scholar and teacher. She noted
that with every year, she becomes
more aware of the research that she
wants to do, the kind of questions
she wants to ask and the ways she
wants to teach. Especially since
tenure often coincides with the
publication of books, she noted
that she felt like the process in-
tertwined with the journey of [her]
book and how much [she] grew
during process of writing a book.
Sobak could not be reached by
the time of publication.
Faculty are at the heart of what
Bowdoin is and once someone is
tenured they have the institutions
promise in a long career here, said
Judd. Hopefully for students, it
is real confidence in the kind of
faculty Bowdoin has built and is
building for the future.
Terry said that the show had been
confrmed two weeks ago. Te Ori-
ent was unable to confrm by press
time who from the College had
signed the contract.
Te show is scheduled to have a
capacity of 3,500 people, according
to Terry. He did not have any addi-
tional details to share.
When deciding which acts to
bring to campus, the E-Board con-
siders the results from campus sur-
veys distributed each fall.
Last year, Hoodie Allen and
Guster performed on Saturday, with
DJ 3LAU opening the weekend on
Tursday night. Te Orient was un-
able to determine if there will be a
third act this year.
Mat Kearney is a singer-songwrit-
er from Nashville, Tenn., whos latest
album, Young Love, was released
in August 2011.
His song Nothing Lef to Lose
peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard
Hot 100.
Timefies is a self-described elec-
tro hip-pop dub something duo,
comprised of singer Cal Shapiro and
producer Rob Resnick who graduat-
ed from Tufs in 2011 and are popu-
lar for their songs I Choose U and
All the Way.
According to a March 2013 Ori-
ent article, the E-Board has worked
with a talent budget of $65,000 for
the last two years, though the art-
ists contracts prevent disclosures
of their booking fees. On Kearneys
online booking agency profle at Ce-
lebrity Talent International, his min-
imum price range is listed at $30,000
to $50,000.
COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: (left to right) Purnell, Selinger, Sobak, Dube and Celis recieved tenure as a result of their work both in academia and in the classroom. Purnell, one of the ve to receive tenure, praised Bowdoin for its tenure process.
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French Prof. Ketner leaves Bowdoin for ME Dept. of Edu.
BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF
Former Assistant Professor of Ro-
mance Languages Jay Ketner, who
taught French language courses and
French-related seminars at Bowdoin
for the last two and a half years, lef
the College at the end of January to
serve as World Languages Special-
ist and Regional Representative for
Cumberland County at the Maine
Department of Education.
Someone else heard about [the
position] and spoke to me about it,
thinking that I might be a good can-
didate for it, said Ketner. I decid-
ed that it would be something that
would really interest me.
His new position consists of two
diferent components.
As the World Languages Spe-
cialist, he is the advisor for foreign
language education for grades K-12
across the state.
He is also helping to develop stan-
dards for the new profciency model
for language learning being imple-
mented in K-12 schools throughout
the state.
Profciency based education fo-
cuses on what students are able to
do, not how they do it, and in which
period of time, said Ketner. In re-
gards to foreign language education,
Ketner says profciency means stu-
dents attain a certain level of ability
communicating and understanding
foreign language.
Students will have diferent op-
tions for meeting that standard. Te
new system is more focused on how
learners can reach a certain level of
profciency rather than the time they
spend learning a certain subject.
Professor Ketner is also helping
to make the standards students will
have to meet in order to graduate.
In addition, he is helping teachers
make the transition to the new prof-
ciency model.
As the Regional Representative
for Cumberland County, he serves as
the liaison between the Superinten-
dent of Cumberland County and the
Department of Education, and the
point person for the Maine Depart-
ment of Education in the County.
Im most looking forward to
bringing my background and skills
to help support foreign language
teachers in the state as they move to
a profciency based teaching model,
said Ketner, and to expand the cur-
rent opportunities for students and
teachers of all levels throughout
Maine.
However, Ketner said that he will
miss Bowdoin and that working at
Bowdoin has been a phenomenal
experience. He will miss teaching
and learning from his students.
To waive the plan, Student Health
Insurance Coordinator Leslie Nuc-
cio said, students need a health care
plan that can easily provide them
with local care. This can take the
form of a preferred provider orga-
nization with physicians in the area
or a point of service plan, where
patients can receive care outside of
their providers network.
Bowdoin is less likely to approve
of health maintenance organiza-
tions (HMOs). These plans often
only cover urgent and emergency
care, meaning that students would
have to return to their home doctor
for things like physical therapy or
preventative care.
Thats why Bowdoins hard and
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fast rule is, if its an HMO plan,
you have to have the school insur-
ance policy, said Nuccio.
Both Nuccio and Pacelli men-
tioned the possibility of the price
increase being as high as 16 per-
cent, but they emphasized that
much is still up in the air.
We dont know that itll be 16
percent, said Pacelli. When you
hear people in the student health
insurance industry talking about
what rates might do, theyre sort
of talking across all students and
all student health insurance plans.
Thats why we work really closely
with Gallagher to discern the best
way we can structure our student
health insurance plan.
Pacelli said that the College is
currently in discussions with Gal-
lagher to see exactly how much
more plans will cost, and expects
to have an estimate from the com-
pany in about six weeks.
Obviously, we need to make sure
[our plan is] ACA-compliant, and
we want to do that, but we also want
to make sure that its afordable for
students and families, said Pacelli.
In recent years, the College has
already moved to increase the ser-
vices included on its plan, in part
to comply with the ACA.
When Bowdoin first partnered
with Gallagher in 2005, Nuccio
said, the plan had a $5,000 maxi-
mum per condition. That number
increased gradually to $50,000,
where it stayed until it increased
to $100,000 when implementation
of the ACA began in the 2012-2013
academic year. This year, the maxi-
mum is $500,000, and next year
there will be no maximum.
Routine physicals are also a rela-
tively recent development.
It used to be accident and sick-
ness only, nothing preventative.
Now its changed to be compliant
with the ACA, Nuccio said.
With the expanded coverage,
premiums have already risen dra-
matically.
In 2005 the premium was prob-
ably less than $500, and now its
$1,544 for this year, starting this
past fall, said Nuccio.
With another increase expected,
Pacelli said the College was open
to making additional changes to
the plan in efforts to keep it afford-
able, such as potentially instituting
a deductible.
Right now, we dont have a de-
ductible under the Bowdoin insur-
ance plan, she said. Were going
to look at what itll cost to keep
that next year.
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factors that include race, religion,
sex and sexual orientation.
The Gregorys said that sign-
ing the non-discrimination policy
would violate their faith and the
Christian gospel they teach, specifi-
cally their scriptural interpretations
of sexuality.
The Bible teaches that human
sexuality is expected to find its
fulfillment inside of the twoness
of persons and the twoness of gen-
ders, said Rob Gregory.
Though the Gregorys agreed to
sign the Agreement with a Reserva-
tion of Rights to Religious Beliefs
and Practices, Dean of Student Af-
fairs Tim Foster denied the request,
saying it was unfair to grant policy
exemptions to some groups and not
to others, regardless of the reason.
If someones participating in
an organization and they are LG-
BTIQA and they are not allowed
to participate in that organization
because of their sexual orientation
or they cannot lead that organiza-
tion because of their sexual orien-
tation, then thats discrimination,
said Foster. And that is a violation
of Maine law and therefore also a
violation of College law.
Sexuality and BCF
The Gregorys and BCF are un-
der the advisory of InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship, a national
organization that defines itself as
an evangelical campus mission,
according to its website. While the
Gregorys have never been paid em-
ployees of InterVarsity, according
to Rob Gregory, they have deferred
to the northern New England In-
terVarsity directory in their com-
munications with the college over
that issue and have used InterVar-
sity letterhead in some communica-
tions with members of BCF.
The most controversial issues
with BCF in recent years involved
two chapel servicesone in 2009
and another in 2011that offend-
ed some members of the Bowdoin
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community, who felt the remarks
made were homophobic.
There is something that speaks
to all of us that makes us uncom-
fortable...It doesnt come as a sur-
prise, Rob Gregory wrote in an
email to the Orient in 2011 in re-
sponse to the incident that year.
We want to be as broad and fair in
looking at as many texts as we can.
Though BCF has welcomed LG-
BTIQA-identified students into its
group over the years, InterVarsity
has a national reputation for refus-
ing to let LGBTIQ students hold
leadership positions in its campus
chapters.
I want to make it clear that to
make this issue an issue of LGBT-
sexual orientation is to mix the
bigger picture of the gospel, youve
lost the picture, youre off the map,
said Rob Gregory.
Every time we open the scrip-
tures, every time we meet each oth-
er on the grounds of the scriptures,
we expect that some part of us is
going to be offended. The reason?
Because Jesus doesnt come to flat-
ter the crowds, he said.
Bob Ives, director of religious and
spiritual life, helped to counsel the
Gregorys as they debated whether
or not to sign the Agreement.
It kind of came to a head just a
month ago, when the actual docu-
ments were there, when we gave
them to the Gregorys, and they
then refused to sign them because
of their moral convictions, he said.
While the discussion did not
ultimately result in a compromise
both groups could agree on, Ives
and Foster both praised the pairs
devotion to the College over their
tenure. The Gregorys led regular
Bible studies and have in the past
taken BCF members to Mount Ka-
tahdin. Recently, the pair, accom-
panied by nine students, travelled
to the Black Ministrys conference
in Boston.
One student married the Grego-
rys son while she was still enrolled
at the College.
I think they are probably some
of the most dedicated advisors
weve had, not that the others are
not dedicated in any way, but in
terms of the amount of time that
they spend with our BCF members
and the activities that they partici-
pate in. Its really quite remarkable,
said Ives.
Foster echoed this sentiment.
I think its hard to imagine for
some of our students someone else
serving in that advisor capacity, he
said.
Olivia Cannon 17 said that the
Gregorys dedication to BCF was a
huge reason she was drawn to Bow-
doin. When she found out about
their upcoming departure, she felt
somewhat blindsided.
On paper its really confusing,
but at heart it just really hurts,
Cannon said.
But with the guidance the Grego-
rys have given to the members of
BCF over the years, Lauren Skerritt
14, a current leader of BCF, feels
confident that with the group is
prepared to move on.
It was a blessing to have them
for the time that we did and we
hope to continue what theyve cre-
ated for BCF, Skerritt said. What-
ever happens is supposed to hap-
pen, its in Gods hands.
Despite this, not every student
member of BCF agreed with the
beliefs espoused by the Gregorys,
according to Ives.
There are a number of students
who have mentioned that this is
why they are no longer in BCF, he
said, referring to the Gregorys out-
look on homosexuality. But there
are other students who say they
arent in BCF for other reasons, that
its just a little too conservative a
take on Christianity.
New volunteer policy
Associate Director of Student
Activities Nate Hintze, Foster, and
the Human Resources department
decided to draft the Volunteer
Agreement last spring as part of an
effort to make sure all volunteers
working with the College were
aligned with the policies of the
College and the laws of Maine. The
document was sent out to all vol-
unteers during the first week of the
academic year.
One of the things we realized,
said Foster, is that we have peo-
ple on our campus working with
students, spending a significant
amount of time with students, and
we dont know a lot about a lot of
these people.
According to Foster, the initia-
tive grew partially as a reaction to
the Penn State scandal in 2011 in
which assistant football coach Jerry
Sandusky was convicted of multiple
counts of child molestation.
With the change in policy, all
volunteers affiliated with Bowdoin
were also required to undergo a
background check, similar to the
one that faculty undergo when ap-
plying for a job at the College.
Te overwhelming majority of
volunteers agreed to participate in
the background checks and signed
the Volunteer Agreement without
any complaints. However, according
to Hintze, two individuals declined
the background check because they
did not approve of HireRight, the
company that Bowdoin uses for all
its background checks, and six DJs
for WBOR never responded to Hin-
tzes messages in the frst place. All
eight of these individuals have since
terminated their volunteer relations
with the College.
Foster stressed that the Grego-
rys were the only volunteers who
refused to sign the Agreement.
The advisors of both the Muslim
students organization and the
Catholic Students union signed
the agreement without requesting a
religious exemption to any parts of
the policy.
Although Bowdoin Student Gov-
ernment (BSG) and the Student
Organization Oversight Commit-
tee were not involved in the deci-
sion making process with regards
to BCF, BSG President Sarah Nel-
son 14 said that BSG stands behind
the new policy.
Our number one priority is to
have a community in which ev-
ery student on this campus feels
welcome and safe and the non-
discrimination policy is central for
the principles of Bowdoins phi-
losophy, said Nelson. We strongly
believe in the non-discrimination
policy as BSG.
NESCAC-wide issue
Similiar controversies have un-
folded at peer schools in recent
years. In 2011, the Colby Christian
Fellowship (CCF) prevented a ho-
mosexual student from leading a
weekly Bible study meeting on the
basis of her sexual orientation.
Afer a thorough review of the
matter, we have determined that
CCFs actions were not in agreement
with the full inclusion requirement
of College policy, Associate Dean
of Students and Director of Campus
Life Jed Wartman wrote in an om cial
notice, according to the Colby Echo.
As a result, CCF gave up its Stu-
dent Government Association rec-
ognition in the fall of 2012 and now
operates unofficially.
It wasnt because of her faith
or her personal views, it was just
strictly of a sexual nature, said Ives
of the incident. She was broken-
hearted, devastated, and is in coun-
seling still. This is exactly what
were hoping not to do.
Similarly, the Tufts Christian Fel-
lowship (TCF) lost its recognition
as a campus group in 2012 after it
required student leaders to adhere
to eight basic tenets of the Chris-
tian faith as outlined by InterVar-
sity. TCF debated whether or not to
request an exemption on religious
grounds. In May 2013, the group
decided it would not reapply for
official student organization status
with the Tufts Community Union.
But not all of the controversies
have ended negatively. In 2011, a
student leader of the Bates Chris-
tian Fellowship was involved in
a same-sex relationship, which
prompted many in the group to
consider whether she should main-
tain her leadership role. Through
conversations with the their leader-
ship, the InterVarsity Christian Fel-
lowship representatives, multifaith
chaplains, the dean of students of-
fice, and the head of student gov-
ernment, the fellowship was able to
work through the issue.
The successful outcome was
made possible because of those
conversations, said Emily Wright-
Magoon, Acting Multifaith Chap-
lain at Bates. Everyone decided
to stay curious and respectful of
the others viewpoints and find a
way to go on together. In the end,
the student was allowed not only to
participate in the Bates Christian
Fellowship, but to hold a leadership
role without needing to hide that
major part of her identity.
Ives said he expects to hold a fo-
rum with members of BCF to dis-
cuss the future of the group in the
coming weeks. He stressed that
though it is still possible that BCF
will renounce ties with the College
and operate as an unofficial campus
organization, it is likely the group
will proceed to find a new advisor.
If the students of Bowdoin Col-
lege have decided they have found
another way to move forward as
Christian students, it isnt essen-
tial that [we] be involved, said Rob
Gregory, and we can look back on
our eight to 10 years of service as
being a time we have tried to be
faithful and I hope to some extent
we have been faithful.
Erica Berry, Garrett Casey and
Ron Cervantes contributed to this
report.
I want to make it clear that to make
this an issue of LGBT-sexual
orientation is to mix the bigger
picture of the gospelyouve lost
the picture, youre o the map.
ROB GREGORY
One of the things we realized is
that we have people on our campus
working with students, spending
a signicant amount of time with
students, and we dont know a lot
about a lot of these people.
TIM FOSTER
DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
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SECURITY REPORT: 2/6 to 2/13
Thursday, February 6
A student reported that his Yel-
low Bike was missing afer he lef it
locked to a tree on the cross country
trail near the Pickard Athletic Fields.
Friday, February 7
Loud noise was reported on the
third floor of Moore Hall. Students
were asked to lower the noise level.
Saturday, February 8
An officer checked on the well-
being of an intoxicated student in a
Maine Hall rest room.
The Brunswick Police Depart-
ment (BPD) issued warnings to
three students who were walking on
South Street while in possession of
alcohol. The police turned the mat-
ter over to Bowdoin Security.
There was a complaint of loud
noise on the fourth floor of Win-
throp Hall.
A fre alarm was maliciously
pulled on the sixth foor east stair-
well at Coles Tower at 11:28 p.m.
Te building was evacuated and
the Brunswick Fire Department re-
sponded. A Security investigation
determined that a student was re-
sponsible for pulling the false alarm.
A report was submitted to the Om ce
of the Dean of Student Afairs and the
student will be charged the cost of the
fre department response ($650).
Sunday, February 9
BPD encountered an intoxicat-
ed student walking on Maine Street.
The student was warned for posses-
sion of alcohol by a minor and then
turned over to Security.
There was a complaint of loud
noise on the first floor of Chamber-
lain Hall.
A student fell on a sidewalk on
Pleasant Street, receiving a possible
concussion. An officer escorted the
student to Mid Coast Hospital for
evaluation.
An officer checked on the well-
being of an intoxicated student
in Winthrop Hall who was found
sleeping on the rest room floor with
his pants pulled down.
There was a hard alcohol viola-
tion in Winthrop Hall.
A table, wall and thermostat
were vandalized in Ladd House.
Use of a spray air freshener set
off a smoke alarm in Appleton Hall.
Monday, February 10
Complaints were received of
marijuana smoke wafting in the
area of Brunswick Apartments N.
A student in Druckenmiller
Hall received cuts when a glass
tube broke in his hand. An officer
escorted the student to the Health
Center.
Wednesday, February 12
A student playing intramural
basketball in Sargent Gymnasium
smashed a ceiling light with a ball.
Thursday, February 13
Security and Brunswick Rescue
assisted a student having a diabetic
episode at Coleman Hall.
-Compiled by the Office of Safety
and Security.
BSG proposes new club
oversight roles for SOOC
BY HARRY RUBE
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) began its Wednesday meet-
ing in a closed executive session,
welcoming Chair of the Judicial
Board Chelsea Schaeffer 14 and
Dean of Student Affairs Lesley
Levy for a presentation of the
nominees for the Judicial Board (J-
Board).
According to BSG President
Sarah Nelson 14, one of the stu-
dent assemblys constitutional
roles is approving the names of the
students who made it to the final
round of nominations. Nelson said
that the BSGs role is largely proce-
dural, with BSG serving as a final
source of oversight at the end of
the selection process.
Following the J-Board presenta-
tion, Vice President for Student Or-
ganizations Daniel Mejia-Cruz 16
opened debate on a set of proposed
changes to the rules and regulations
of the Student Organization Over-
sight Committee (SOOC). Prefac-
ing the changes, Mejia-Cruz said
that the reforms would mostly cod-
ify the already existing rights and
privileges of the SOOC.
If approved, the new guidelines
would retool club constitutions to
serve more effectively as contracts
between clubs and the SOOC,
standardize the timing of elections
of club leaders, and improve com-
munication between those leaders
and the SOOC.
Mejia-Cruz said that a major
motivation for these reforms is
ensuring that clubs are not rud-
derless in the spring, especially at
crucial times when they need to
coordinate with the SOOC or the
Student Activities Funding Com-
mittee (SAFC) to plan for the up-
coming year. All clubs would be
required to hold elections for and
submit the names of the next years
officers to the SOOC within two
weeks of returning from spring
break. Depending on the club, the
new constitutions might include
articles mandating the appearance
of club leadership at certain SAFC
meetings at the end of the year.
The reforms would also give the
SOOC more power in punishing
violations of the SOOCs rules and
regulations.
Currently the committee is al-
lowed to revoke a clubs charter if
it violates SOOC rules.
However, the new reforms
would enable the SOOC to remove
club leaders and call for new elec-
tions. An additional proposed ar-
ticle would allow club members to
petition the SOOC for an inquiry
into the effectiveness of current
club leadership.
As most of the representatives at
the meeting had not yet read the
full text of the proposed reforms,
a full debate and vote was pushed
to next week.
The assembly also introduced a
number of resolutions that passed
unanimously. The first was to
spend $200 to fund the refresh-
ments for this semesters Food for
Thought student lecture series,
held every other Monday night in
Hawthorne-Longfellow Librarys
Nixon Lounge.
The second was a motion to
offer shuttles to two concerts in
Portland this semester. BSG is pro-
viding two 50-person buses for the
Avett Brothers show on March 3,
and Darius Rucker on March 29;
ticket prices were estimated at $10.
The final motion was to pay $100
to fund refreshments for this Fri-
days Uncommon Hour talk.
FEATURES
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BY MAGGIE BRYAN
ORIENT STAFF
John B. Russwurm House: a window into Bowdoins past
the program has grown consider-
ably and moved its om ces from the
Russwurm House to Adams Hall.
Although the Russwurm House
is no longer home base for the Af-
ricana Studies program, it still has
an academic function, housing an
extensive library that is heavily uti-
lized by faculty.
Its like a resource center for
us, said professor Tess Chakkal-
akal, who is serving her third year
as director of the Africana Studies
program. We have a remarkable
collection of books related to Afri-
can-American and African Studies.
[Te House] serves mostly a so-
cial function now, though we also
host many of our speakers, perfor-
mance artists, or even academics to
give lectures, talks and panel discus-
sions there, said Chakkalakal.
Vernon is a member of the Afri-
can-American Society and currently
lives in the Russwurm House with
three other students who are mem-
bers of either the African-American
Society, African Alliance or the Lat-
in American Student Organization
(LASO). According to Vernon, these
three student groups elect members
to live in the house each year.
You really get to know the people
youre living with, since its only four
people, she said.
A big of part of [Russwurm] is
catering to the frst years and giving
them a space where they feel com-
fortable, said President of the Afri-
can-American Society Dominique
Wein 15, stressing the importance
of the house as a social center.
Last year we had a weekly
meeting for African-American So-
ciety that was kind of like a trea-
sure hunt based on Black History
Month, she said. It was pretty
fun. And even the little meetings
where you get to see everyone and
just talkthats probably my fa-
vorite part [of the Society].
Despite its many purposes, both
Vernon and Wein said they believe
that the houses potential has not yet
been fully realized.
I would defnitely like to see the
house used even more as a resource
In 1826, John Brown Russwurm
became the frst African American
to graduate from Bowdoin College.
Nearly 200 years later, the House
named in his memory is a thriving
center for academic, social and cul-
tural events on campus.
Te son of an English merchant
and an unknown black slave, Russ-
wurm was born in 1799 in Jamaica.
He and his father moved to Port-
land, Maine in 1812, where he at-
tended Hebron Academy. In 1824,
with the support of his stepmother
and her second husband, Russwurm
enrolled at Bowdoin.
Afer graduation, he led an il-
lustrious career as an abolitionist,
serving as editor of Freedoms Jour-
nal (the frst newspaper owned and
operated by African Americans) in
New York for several years before
emigrating to Liberia in 1829, fol-
lowing his controversial support of
African American colonization of
Africa. He served as editor of Te
Liberia Herald for several years and
became governor of the Maryland
section of the colony in 1836, hold-
ing this post until his death in 1851.
The Russwurm House is really
interesting because it has the his-
tory connected with the Africana
Studies program and gets recon-
nected to student groups too, said
Brittany-Renee Vernon 14, an Af-
ricana Studies major.
Originally built in 1827 (with a
long history of ownership and name
changes), the Mitchell-Little House
on College Street was rededicated as
the John Brown Russwurm African-
American Center in 1970, a year
afer the creation of the Africana
Studies program. Since that time,
for the whole campus, said Wein.
Tere may be a stigma on campus
where people think that Russwurm
House is only for black people and I
want to see it used in a wider scope.
Vernon is currently spearhead-
ing Februarys Black History Month
Film Festival and hopes that the
films will attract a diverse crowd.
Although the film screenings are in
Cleveland Hall, the festival repre-
sents one of many types of events
put on by the organizations based
in the House. The documentary
Free Angela was screened last
night, and the critically-acclaimed
drama Fruitvale Station will play
on February 27.
I wanted to do something that
would appeal to the whole campus,
said Vernon, but I kind of wanted
to do my own thing too, so we didnt
do movies that people had already
seenI chose [Free Angela] be-
cause I wanted the flm festival to
have an educational aspect, and it
was also about a woman, so I wanted
to do that too.
Fruitvale Stationit was a movie
that got a lot of hype. It had won a
ton of awards and it hadnt had any
viewings in Brunswick movie the-
aters at all, so I defnitely wanted to
bring that to campus, she added.
Vernon and Wein would also like
to see more collaboration between
the groups that utilize the House.
Te house brings the people to-
gether to live in the House but theres
not as much overlap as you would
think, said Wein.
Te Africana Studies department
co-sponsored the flm festival, which
is great, Vernon said, but I really
havent seen many other events that
have brought everyone together. I
think that would be wonderful.
COURTESY OF THE BOWDOIN COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HOUSE OF HISTORY: The John Brown Russwurm House, rumored to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, was built in 1827. (Middle
row, bottom row) Photos from the interior of the modern House. (Top left) Eldridge Butler 71 was invited to speak on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (Top
right) President Howell (right) attended a reception for Arna Bontemps (middle), sponsored by what was then called the Afro-American Society.
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Casa de Campo is juicy...
Literally, it may be juice
Have you ever wondered what
a gold medal tastes like? Or how
about defeat? They say victory is
sweet, but so is eating packets of
Sweet & Low. While Ryan was in the
oxymoronic state of dry season
for swimming and attempting to
win his own gold this week, I tried
to find my answer through wine. I
turned to the Fates to find me a new
compatible columnar colleague.
As the divine trumpets of a pass-
ing ambulance were faintly heard
from Maine Street, my calls were
answered as Sam Karson 14 saun-
tered towards me. So now, glasses
in hand, Sam and I shall venture
forth to review the Casa de Campo
2012 Moscato.
Casa de Campo is
a Moscato. Muscat
grapes are tucked
away in the north-
eastern region of
Piedmont, Italy. Te
Muscat grape has
both red and white
varieties, but the Muscato wine is
exclusively made from the white
grape Muscat Blanc Petits Grains
variety. When wine is made using
grapes specifcally from the Pied-
mont region, it may be called a
Moscato dAsti or simply an Asti.
However, the Casa de Campo is
from Mendoza, Argentina and thus
cannot receive such lexiconical la-
beling. Instead of a fancy name, our
wine had an amateur painting of a
cow. Te artist decided to color the
cow green, but apparently aban-
doned that idea halfway through
the process, leaving the depiction of
a cow in Astroturf stockings.
Te frst thing you recognize
about the Casa (or as Sam and I
like to afectionately call it, Te Big
House) is its rich golden color. It
harkens back to memories of Brian
Boitano or that Keystone Light you
poured down the sink last Saturday
when you told everyone you were
going to shotgun it.
As we brought the glasses closer
to our nostrils, we were hit with
strong floral scents, notes of apple,
caramel and a slight acidity. The
nose, such as that of Owen Wil-
son, is not particularly strong but
is clearly identifiable. The bottle
told us we would experience ripe
peaches, citrus notes, and delight-
ful orange blossom perfume. This
Shaun White of a wine, however,
did not perform as we had hoped
and expected it to.
Moving our glasses defly to our
expectant lips, we noticed a slight
efervescence swirling in the wine.
Was this the promise of oeniphilial
bliss or just an Alka-Seltzer related
ploy? We allowed the golden vino to
pass across our trembling tongues,
we made eye contact, and afer a
few obligatory raises of the eye-
brows we both simultaneously con-
fessed that this wine was not very
good. Te frst gustatory feature
we recognized was the overwhelm-
ing sweetness of this wine. We also
noticed favors of apple and a touch
of the peach we were promised in
the nose. Te wine is tannin-less
and has little favor to cut through
its saccharinity. As we
sipped this libation,
we slowly came to the
conclusion that we
might just be drink-
ing expired apple
juice that had been
mislabeled. But as far
as expired apple juice
goes, this isnt too bad.
Te wines mouthfeel supports
our hypothesis that we are not actu-
ally drinking wine. Te juice is syr-
upy with a light bubble that skates
across the tongue as daintily as gold
medal-winning and all-American
hero Michelle Kwan.
It fnishes with a whirlwind
amalgamation of high-fructose
corn syrup and that Keystone Light
you poured out before. If you like
Welchs and want to get some sweet
sex syrup for Valentines Day, look
no further than Casa de Campo. As
the sagacious Jefrey Roscoe Dash
Johnson Jr. once said Imma sip
Moscato, you gon lose dem pants.
Additional Notes
Sam: Great for wet season!
Dan: Imma pour this on my wam es.
Nose:
Mouthfeel:
Taste as a wine:
Taste as a juice:
Serve with the bitterness of Olympic
defeat. $8.99 at Bootleggers.
DAN LIPKOWITZ
AND RYAN PEABODY
BOTTOM
OF THE
BARREL
That time of year most taxing on
the heart has arrived once more.
Throughout the semester hints and
signals have traveled inno-
cently back and forth,
imaginary plans
have been made,
possible scenarios
thought out. Most
people are filled
with either fear of
rejection or fear
of having to reject
someone. People
have grown wea-
ry of hearing
their friends
complain and
have lost
nearly all
ability to
t o l e r a t e
such ques-
tions as
W h a t
am I go-
ing to do
about this
s i t uat i on?
and Should I
go for it or do you
think Id be crazy
to? Thats right, the time
has come to begin planning out
next years living situation.
Although I am not entirely sure
whether planning out living ar-
rangements for next year so early
in the spring semester is common
among students not applying to
live in a College House, I know
that I have already begun to delve
into the matter.
As a first year, I underestimated
the complexity that choosing hous-
ing entails. In my mind, all that was
required was to gather a group of
Taking applications for valentines, housing
people willing to live together. I did
not consider that every person in
that group would have their own,
distinct preference.
That said, I feel as if my time fig-
uring out housing for 2014-2015
has gone much more smoothly than
that of some of my fellow first years.
While I have heard tales of block-
ing arrangements gone sour, poten-
tial roommates remaining
indecisive, and
future roommates
coming to realize
that they were on
completely dif-
ferent pages, the
most trouble my
friends and I have
had is determin-
discouraged too soon. There is still
plenty of time left to figure things
out and housing miracles are just
waiting right around the corner.
We cant help thinking about
housing the way we do about the
holiday that is on everyones mind
at the moment. I am referring not
to Valentines Day, but to the an-
cient Roman festival of Lupercalia.
Celebrated from February 13 to
February 15, the festivities were
held in honor of Luper-
cus, the god of fertil-
ity, and celebrated in
Lupercal, the cave
where the mythical
she-wolf suckled
the founders of
Rome.
People in-
dulged in vari-
ous fun activ-
ities during
the festival,
such as sac-
rifcing goats
and dogs, and
a lottery in
which young
men ran-
domly drew
the names of
young women
they would be
paired up with
for the duration
of the festival. Tey
went overboard
at times, whacking
women with skin from
sacrifced animals to ensure fertility.
Given the liveliness of such an
event, it is important that we do
not let the festival of Lupercalia fall
into the vacuity of history. Luckily,
we have the scramble for housing as
a replacement.
In our last-chance efforts to find
roommates, and not just valentines,
we can strive to keep the memory
of the festival alive. It is in honor
of the she-wolf that I would like to
wish everyone a happy holiday.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MARCUS WRIGHT
WRIGHTLY SO
The nose, such as that
of Owen Wilson, is not
particularly strong but is
clearly identiable.
ing how to stay close to each other
while living apart. I suggested we
forego college housing altogether,
gut a school bus, lay some shag
carpet down and form a commune.
Though my idea has yet to catch on,
I remain hopeful.
To those people whose living ar-
rangements are not coming togeth-
er so smoothlyand are not en-
ticed by the prospect of commune
livingI wish the best of luck. I
also advise you to not become too
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TALK OF THE QUAD
50 YEARS LATER:
A REUNION OF INNOVATION
tory of the Bowdoin College Bowl team.
And theres the Chapel, where I went to
religion class right afer learning of JFKs
assassination and where the one-person
Placement Om ce was located. And
theres Smith Hall, where my freshman
English professor handed out Ds and Fs
with a sneer and no written comments
and Searles Hall, where my frst-year
physics class met Tuesdays, Tursdays
and Saturdays (not a misprint) at 8 a.m.
Oh, and Pickard Teater where Presi-
dent James Stacey Coles assured our
class, at opening Convocation, that we
were destined to be future leaders.
We soon launched our future lead-
ership journeys by marauding down
Maine Street determined to parade
across the stage of the Cumberland
Movie Teater, a prank which amused
neither the Brunswick gendarmes nor
scolding upperclass Orient reporters.
And there was the Zeta Psi house
(now Ladd House) where orientation
involved wearing a beanie and a sign
kneeling to recite the Zete prayer before
entering the house and lying in a com n
while getting branded on the arm at the
om cial induction ceremony, an event in-
stilling great pride.
Bowdoin was a traditional college
back then, but we students werent pas-
sive. We succeeded in eforts to elimi-
nate required chapel restriction and
loosen social ones. We worked to have
national fraternities change restrictive
clauses, and some chapters chose to go
local rather than discriminate. We did
not prevent the building of the Senior
Center (now Coles Tower), which we
saw as a threat to fraternities. Rather, we
stood around and cheered one snowy
night in January, 1964, when the scaf-
folding of the Center (then Maines tall-
est building) went up in fames.
A FAREWELL TO MARY PAT
As a student in the early 1960s, I
sometimes saw old Bowdoin alumni
doddering around campus, fossils
who couldnt possibly know about my
Bowdoin. I had the quaint notion that
Bowdoin started when I entered in Sep-
tember 1960 and closed down upon my
graduation in June 1964. Well, 50 years
later Im one of those old fossils. While
preparing for my 50th reunion in June,
Ive had ample opportunity to com-
pare the Bowdoin of yesterday with the
Bowdoin of today.
Here are some words penned by a
long-dead Bowdoin graduate:
Ah me, the 50 years since last we met
Seem to me 50 folios bound and set
By Time, the great transcriber, on his
shelves,
Wherein are written the histories of
ourselves.
What tragedies and comedies, are
there;
What joy and grief, what rapture and
despair!
(From Morituri Salutamus, Poem
for the Fifieth Anniversary of the Class
of 1825 in Bowdoin Colllege, by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.)
Oops, the poem puts to rest my Bow-
doin-started-when-I-arrived premise,
because the same sentiments apply to
my own 50th Reunion.
Lets briefy tour my Bowdoin back
then. Teres Appleton Hall, site of row-
dy water fghts with Hyde. And Moulton
Union where the students unam liated
with the Greek system (only two percent
of the student body) ate their meals, and
where the entire campus converged in
January, 1964, to celebrate the fnal vic-
Tere are om cially 31 varsity teams
on campus, but the largest and most
infuential one operates of the feld.
Te players make warm and fuzzy
boards instead of scoring goals and
decorate hallways in place of
racing; we spend free time
practicing toleration and ac-
tive listening.
I write to announce that
Associate Dean of Student Af-
fairs and Director of Residen-
tial Life Mary Pat McMahon
will be leaving Bowdoin to
become the next Dean of
Student Afairs at Tufs
University. Although its
hard to say farewell to
such an incredible col-
league and friend, I invite
you to join me in sending
her of with well wishes as
she embarks on this chal-
lenging and impressive next
chapter in her career, Dean
of Student Afairs Tim Foster
wrote in an email to the student body
on Wednesday.
Te Residential Life (ResLife) staf
at Bowdoin sets the tone of our cam-
pus community, and this spring we
will say goodbye to our head coach.
I met Mary Pat McMahon my
frst year on campus. I felt like a very
bland studenta deer in the head-
lights of the I got into Bowdoin, now
what? realization. I wasnt in clubs
and didnt stand out in
any particular way.
I spent my time
making friends
and hanging out with my new boy-
friendhow college.
Somehow, I was chosen to live in
MacMillan House my sophomore
year and somehow, my housemates
elected me President.
I sheepishly marched up the front
steps of Moulton Union for my
frst meeting with ResLife,
thinking they would
change their mind once I showed up.
During my meeting with Chris
Rossi, Mary Pat poked her head
in the om ceI remember that her
excited tone, fast speech and deter-
mined gaze made me feel momen-
tarily excited, om cial and important.
Te ResLife om ce is in the people
business
the stafs personal goal is to shape
your Bowdoin experience. Tink
about your frst year roommate, your
proctor, the people you met in your
College House and the R.A. you had
as a sophomorethese people infu-
ence your time on campus and have
provided you with support at all
times.
In other words,
ResLife has got your back. And Mary
Pat has ours.
Ive been involved in many aspects
of campus over my Bowdoin career,
but by far the most fulflling has been
as a proctor with ResLife. I am an odd
recruit: a former College House Prez
(insert fst pump) going into her se-
nior year. I went into my interview last
spring thinking I had already lost the
job. Bowdoin students, as the best and
brightest, most creative and thought-
ful, have a tendency to make me feel
defeated.
Mary Pat asked me a series of ques-
tions about my time abroad, my deci-
sion to join staf as a senior and my
priorities for the year. I never felt like
I was convincing Mary Pat of my abil-
ity to be a proctorshe was calm and
inquisitive, and genuinely interested in
my thoughts. She even wanted to know
how I would handle Senior Nights at
Joshuas, and if I would miss living with
my friendssocial things that had
been important to me for three years.
She knew I was afraid to leave parts of
senior year and she made me question
why I was fearful of ditching.
I am in no way the most impor-
tant or vocal member of ResLifeor
the most qualifedbut it would be
a mistake to let (as Tim Foster wrote
in his email to the student body) our
incredible colleague and friend leave
on such short notice without honest
words of gratitude for her demeanor
and commitment to this institution
and its students.
Mary Pat McMahon makes decisions
from her gut. She knows you within
seconds, is candid with her thoughts
and morally consistent. She will make
time in her schedule, listen to your
problems and quickly put them in per-
spective. She connects, thanks and
forgives people; she sees the potential
in every student no matter their history
and empowers them.
But it would also be a mistake to glaze
over the fact that Im upset.
Im sad about the hundreds of stu-
dents who shes infuenced outside
the om cial ResLife sphere who are
also rocked by the news. Im emo-
tional because she has had a thank-
less, invisible role in the student body
I love. But Im excited for the Tufs
students shell be able to infuence in
similar, powerful ways.
I am not alone in saying that Mary Pat
and the ResLife om ce saved me from the
doldrums of insecurity and plainness
and gave me the confdence to make my
time at Bowdoin what it has been.
Mary Pat is headed into a new
chapter in her career, and I have a
feeling the staf will be gathered in
Moulton Union next year invigorated
by her lasting policies and leader-
shipbut also bragging about how
many home runs she hit in
her latest Jumbo game.
-Natalie Clark, Class of
2014.
Okay, enough nostalgia! How has
Bowdoin changed?
In the early 1960s, Bowdoin had no
women students and no women fac-
ulty. As to diversity, our class of 223
included only two African-Americans,
two Asian-Americans and no interna-
tional students. Gays? Not an issue; no
one dared come out. Our class enrolled
more students from my high school in
Delaware (3) than from the states of
Florida, George, California, Oregon,
Washington and Texas combined (1).
Study abroad? Didnt happen. Summer
research opportunities? Ditto. Tech-
nology consisted of a typewriter
and a telephone. Condomssel-
dom needed sad to saywere
called safes. No one used drugs
beyond booze. Te food quality
depended upon the talent and
mood of the fraternity chef, and
Brunswick ofered just two de-
cent restaurants. Tuition was
$2,500 a year and the aver-
age GPA was 2.3 (C+).
Tat scenario may
sound horrible. Well, I
havent noted the terrifc teach-
ers, the long chats with good
friends, the close ties with team-
mates or fellow club members,
bridge games and boisterous hockey
nights when the chants Colby sucks!
or Safety school rocked the Dayton
Arena. (Some things dont change).
Bowdoin is a far better place today.
Consider the tremendous diversity of
the student body, enhanced immea-
surably by the presence of women; the
transformation into a truly national lib-
eral arts college; the exciting educational
opportunities which span the globe; the
extraordinary physical facilities; and yes,
the food.
Somehow, despite bumps and bruises
along the way, good things happened
to our class afer Bowdoin. As 50th Re-
union Yearbook editor, Ive reveled in
reading about my classmates signifcant
achievements, proud that theyve heed-
ed the Ofer of the College: To make
hosts of friends who are to be leaders in
all walks of life, to lose yourself in gener-
ous enthusiasms.
campus in the summer, thanks to the
Gibbons Summer Research Program
(endowed by John Gibbons 64)? Do
you know someone whos won the Dr.
Samuel and Rose A. Bernstein Prize
for Excellence in the Study of Europe-
an History (endowed by Roger Berle
64)? Were you one of the Bowdoin
students who received a scholar-
ship to spend the summer in Zambia
working with Community Without
Borders (a program launched by Dick
Bail 64). Other class members serve
in countless ways: establishing schol-
arships, giving mock interviews, being
host parents, attending concerts or
cheering on the Polar Bears.
Two events highlight the year for
many Bowdoin alumni and, I daresay,
for students: (1) Te annual Scholar-
ship Luncheon in May when students
and donors celebrate the long legacy
of fnancial aid at Bowdoin; and (2)
Commencement when seniors frst
march between two lines of alumni
and then alumni march between
two lines of seniors.
Te Class of 1964 is connected
to generations of Bowdoin students
from Longfellows days right up to
the present. While the College has
changed, some elements hold true. Just
as in the past, todays students engage
with professors who prize teaching.
Tey enjoy a collegial learning envi-
ronment. Tey appreciate the charac-
ter, if not always the climate, of Maine
and they feel a genuine commitment to
the Common Good.
So Bowdoin students, look kindly on
the old fogies walking around the cam-
pus at Reunion or any other time. We
Polar Bears have much in common. It
has always been so.
-David Treadwell, Class of 1964.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
But what does the Class of 1964 have
to do with Bowdoin today? Well, have
you ever been to the Farley Field House
(Bill Farley 64) or played on the Howard
F. Ryan Field (Al Ryan 64)? Have you
taken a course from Kristen Ghodsee,
John Osterweis Associate Professor of
Gender and Women Studies (endowed
by John Osterweis 64) or Stephen Per-
kinson, Peter M. Small Associate Profes-
sor of Art History (endowed by Peter
Small 64)? Have you done research on
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The pretty game: objectication, humiliation and the liberal arts
spend all Sunday in sweatpants. But,
as is the pattern, I dont, and we walk
towards the party.
Her boyfriend Jacob meets us outside
the entrance where the bouncer stands.
Tey fght constantly, Jacob telling her
what to do, and her passively aggres-
sively doing it. We hear something that
could be a scream and could be laughter,
the soundtrack of the night. Te boy at
the front door is about a foot taller and
wider than Jacob and glances apprecia-
tively at the fimsiness of Madisons shirt.
He nods at her, but shakes his head at Ja-
cob. What? Come on, man. Im in your
psych class. Te bouncer drawls an in-
sincere apology.
Tis is ofen how it goes: pretty
girls are let in and boys dont even get
a chance. Tey try to pass a diferent
test, playing a diferent game all to-
gether. We are re-
warded for being
beautiful, given
power over the
very boys that
hand it to us. I
can see Madison
smugly glanc-
ing at Jacob from
the corner, poised to walk in the door,
whispering, Youre the one who told
me I had to go out tonight. Its not my
fault he wont let you in.
As Madison conferences in harsh
whispers with Jacob, I see a girl I know
from one of my classes walking towards
the door. Shes Katie-with-the-hair,
her short dark waves a way of distin-
guishing from the hundreds of Katies
populating the campus. She eats
snacks with
cr i nkl y
wrappers in class while other students
are shocked into silence by either the
emotion or confusion that accompa-
nies poetry. She seems like the kind of
girl who would cook herself a full meal
while babysitting and who watches porn
unapologetically. But I dont really know
her at all. Im just hoping shes diferent
than the rest of us and will deal with
the test in a diferent way. I feel my own
heart beat faster when she walks up to
the bouncer. She is scarily cool, dressed
at least semi-appropriately for the cold.
He looks at her and cannot check any-
thing of the list, no exposed cleavage,
no drunken stagger, no wink or smile.
All of a sudden hes shaking his head
no. And I want to scream at her so bad-
ly to please yell at him, please laugh
in his face, or spit on his shoes, or at
least question his decision, or at least
question why you want to be here.
But Katie just turns to go. She is alone
and catches my eye. It is a drunken
sort of understanding, one you are
not quite sure if you remember right
the next day. We have had few ex-
changes and this is only one of them,
but we are both hurting for her, the
denied, and I, the barely accepted.
When the bouncer allowed Madi-
son to go in,
I was given
a quick nod
as well, a sec-
ond thought
next to her cleavage. Te
friend. I can summarize these
nights because I am on the fringe of par-
ticipating. I am not beautiful in the way
that attracts immediate groping. I am
not loudly or messily drunkinstead
when intoxicated I tend to enthusiasti-
cally bring up independent flms or re-
cycling, things which tend to thwart
gropers. I am the observer, the outlier,
in love and in a relationship, narrating
in my head the whole time. I hold my
friends hair above the toilets. I do
not wear a crop top.
But I, like so many
girls, am the one
assessing my per-
formance on this
pretty test, and
two years ago I
would have said
I was passing. I
weighed much
less than I do
now, maintained
by drinking cof-
fee and distilling
my personality
into numbers.
I measured heat
energy because
it was the only
way I knew how to
calculate worth. I
thought I was beau-
tiful because people
told me so. I also
thought I was dying.
Earlier this month I
found myself discussing my past eat-
ing disorder with the doctor at the
Health Center, who smiled knowingly
when I said I do not like to keep suf-
fered from anorexia on fle. I tell her I
am disturbed by how prevalent eating
disorders seem on campus. For me, it
is not a body type that
feels so recognizable to
my anorexic self, rather
the ferce but empty
eyes, one of a brave sol-
dier losing a 10-year
battle. And losing any
battle with yourself
feels unacceptable, but
much worse is to be
unsure of what youre
fghting for.
I do not starve myself
anymore, not even close, but I do still
think about how my thighs touch, how I
am no longer part of the elite and envied
club of the over-disciplined. I ask the
ones I love and admire most about their
experience with disordered
eating and thinking, always se-
cretly hoping they have escaped
unscathed, always shocked when
they tell me otherwise. Of course
I want attention to be called to
this issue, but I am exhausted
when an article in the Orient
inappropriately blames the
salad bar for a problem that ex-
ists outside the dining
hall.
There
is no easy
explanation for this
phenomenon though the staf
writer bravely tries to suggest one as
she summarizes results from a survey
and interviews.
Its not that there arent beautiful and
thoughtfully heart-wrenching elucida-
tions on eating disorders and versions
of the pretty test. Tere are books and
memoirs, and Ive read them all, always
at frst inspired by the words that are
easily forgotten as I face the day
and the scale. I still
have the irrational uncertainty that one
night I will be turned away from a party
because of how much dessert I ate the
night before.
And to be clear, it is not that these
parties are so legendary or epic that
they are worth extreme humiliation: the
music is usually too loud or too sof, the
alcohol always dwindling by the time
people start to arrive, the basement so
dark you are unable to see the face of
the person you are dancing with. It is
the very fact that you are there, part of
something that is awful and delusional
and selfsh and thrillingpart of some-
thing everyone who has gotten a degree
has supposedly experienced.
And its not just Bowdoin, although
at frst I was sure it was. Friends at pres-
tigious universities and small colleges
alike tell me similar stories of pretty tests
on the phone. Some fraternities hand
out tickets to parties based on profle
pictures, some sports teams open their
doors only to girls rated 10 on an un-
Anonymous 17 is a female mem-
ber of the Class of 2017 and a guest
contributor to this column. All names,
events and locations in this narrative
have been altered in order to disguise
recognizable identities.
We all know the drill of arriving at a
party. It smells like old beer and exhila-
ration. Te designated bouncer stands
in our way, a football player with an
unimpressive drunken glaze, reclining
against the door to stay upright. Tis
barely legal boy will decide if we are
pretty enough to be graced with the op-
portunity to grind our bodies against his
other unremarkable team members and
drink warm alcohol, hypnotized and ex-
hausted by a throbbing black light in a
dirty basement. It is just another of-
campus party.
We call it the pretty test. And we
take it, all girls and women, every day.
Every time you cant button your jeans,
you fail. Every time you get whistled
at or hit on, you pass. It just
so happens that Bowdoin
has a culture that makes this
test prevalent and obvious.
It is well known you should
be prepared for the boy that
decides whether you are ac-
cepted or rejected, beautiful
or ugly. Hes the diference
between intoxicated dancing
and calling your mom while
eating microwave popcorn.
So you better wear a crop top
in sub-zero weather and stop
eating the sof serve.
Te test begins far before
the boys decision at the door.
Back in my room, my friend
Madison and I get ready to go out.
She is an aspiring artist and a math-
ematician; she cannot do her own
dishes yet readily and graphically
discusses her sex life. All she wants
to do tonight, she tells me, is curl up
and watch a movie and sleep. Its the
typical pattern of the weekend: me
telling her she doesnt have to go out,
her agreeing to trust her instinct, then
quickly changing her mind because
her newly acquired boyfriend calls. Te
last time we went out together was to a
party during the frst weeks of school,
where she drank too much sorbet-fa-
vored Smirnof and ended up ripping
of her costume before puking all over
our couch.
Tonight she changes once, twice,
three times. Tilting her head in front
of the funhouse-esque mirror, she fur-
rows her eyebrows. I recognize the
same look in my close friends, my
mother, myself. Turning to me, she
asks, Do I look okay? I swear to God
I gained ten pounds this week. Tere
is an inevitable pause. It is the one
ques t i on
I could
answer a
t hous a nd
times cor-
rectly, the
one she will
always have
her own an-
swer to. I tell
her she looks
beautiful be-
cause she does. And as usual, I
hold back the addendum that never
feels appropriate to voice. I want to tell
her she looks just as beautiful when
we are working at the organic garden
and she is covered in mud, or when we
written but agreed-upon scale. Tese
parties are not at clubs in downtown LA
with waiting lines of sequined women,
but they almost could be. We are paying
$50,000 a year to be in a diverse environ-
ment conducive to learning, yet what we
are being taught is that our brains are
not what gets us in the door.
But it doesnt make sense. We know
that we are smart. We write scath-
ing essays and fnish problem sets
quickly, we have hobbies and sports.
We do service, we read the news. We
are students, daughters, siblings, loyal
friends. We have attended the alcohol
and drug safety lecture, we under-
stand statistics and nutrition. We are
labeled some of the brightest minds in
the country. We should know better
than to black out or starve.
Tis pretty test is one we didnt learn
to study for in ACT prep class, instead
researched the rules religiously in the
Cosmopolitan bible under forescent
airplane lighting. Our mothers and
friends and favorite celebrities are our
teachers. Pain is the classroom setting
we work best in. Te dining
hall is our laboratory,
the experiment of our
waist size. As over-
achieving students,
we will always go the
extra mile, especially
on the treadmill.
Add alcohol to the
mix, an acceptable
college vice, and it
makes it all easier.
It hurts a little less
to starve yourself or
to be rejected when
you cant remem-
ber it. It allows you
to make rules that
curb desire: drink
what you want if
you only eat what
you allow. Te pain of
restriction is forgotten
for a couple hours dur-
ing a wild college night,
the paradox of starvation and binge
drinking seemingly accepted and en-
forced. If the pretty test were actually a
multiple-choice exam, it would arrive
accompanied by a bottle of vodka. Tis
is one evaluation they do not warn you
about at admissions, and we are all fail-
ing in our own way.
Te pretty test results are in, at least
for tonight. Madison will walk into the
party, dance with a few boys and drink
too much from random cups before
begging me to leave with her. Later,
she will call Jacob, where she will cry
and apologize for leaving him behind.
Next weekend he will hold tonights
events over her head, dragging her to
another party they may or may not be
allowed to attend.
I dont know what Katie will do af-
ter discovering her verdict because I
dont really know her, only from afar,
only from the comments she makes
in class. I hope that she is making art
or reading a book or kissing someone
who knows shes as awesome as I think
she seems. I can only hope she still
feels beautiful tonight.
THE BEARS
AND THE BEES
ANONYMOUS 17
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The DFP intending to wreak havoc
The DFP, named after lyriscist
and main singer David Franco
Phipps 14, formed in February of
last year. Other members include
drummer Andrew Roseman 14,
composer/guitarist Sam Roberts
14, and keyboardist Tom Keefe
14. Senior Ruxton Dellecese man-
ages the group.
How did you guys get started?
Keefe: At Build-A-Band Work-
shop at Quinby, it was the Bowdoin
Music Collective (BMC) event.
[Keefe and Roberts are co-presidents
of the BMC.]
Roberts: The band actually start-
ed with David, Tom, myself and
Nate Joseph 13, who lived in Quin-
by and who graduated last spring.
Nate was the original drummer.
After Nate graduated, Roseman
joined the group after seeing them
perform at Quadzilla and becoming
excited to play with them.
Roseman: I saw them perform,
and immediately was like...I want
to play with these guys.
Roberts: Ruxton [also known as
RJ] is a founding member.
Dellecese: [Being manager] was
originally a joke position because
I didnt play an instrument, but I
was good friends with all the mem-
bers. The only thing I did for them
last year was getting them access to
practice rooms.
This year, Ive been looking to
help out a little more with logistics.
I communicated with Mac before
and after the show about logistics.
I also get them paid and get them
new suits. Im just excited to see
them all succeed.
Where do you all draw your
inspiration?
Roseman: [Our music comes
from] the collective life and expe-
rience that is representative of all
of us.
Roberts: We just try to opti-
mize the life and times of the DFP.
Thats really what its about. [Da-
vid Phipps] is a guy known across
campus as someone who rages
harder than anyone at the social
houses and racks up story after
story. He wreaks havoc and thats
what we try to do on stage.
Phipps: There are elements of
HIPSTER DRIVEL
MATTHEW GOODRICH
Mark McGuires Along the Way draws on progressive-rock roots
Recently, Ive realized that the
albums I use in playlists for when
Im cranking out a paper have in-
filtrated the playlists I put on when
Im having sex. Yes, you can find
those playlists on my Spotify ac-
count. Yes, you can borrow them
whenever you want for whatever
your reason, and yes, you can find
Mark McGuires new album Along
the Way on either one.
Beyond the carnality of my essays,
the collegiality of my lovemaking and
the banality of my playlist titles, Mark
McGuire reveals a trend in electronic
music in the post-dubstep world with
his dichotomous soundambient
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
yet visceral, and ethereal yet physi-
cal. Much like fellow producers like
Burial, Nicolas Jaar and Jon Hopkins
conjure sterile soundscapes only to
fll them with life and feeling, Mark
McGuire marries the hedony of Don-
na Summer disco to the austerity of
Aphex Twin ambience.
Maybe that isnt quite fair. Afer
all, the frst sound we hear on open-
ing track, Awakening, is an acous-
tic guitar, hardly the staple of the
electronic musician. But how does
one even begin to defne an electron-
ic musician in 2014, 10 years afer all
the rock kids sold their guitars to
buy turntables? Refektorthe de
facto Arcade Fire/LCD Soundsystem
collaboration last year might have f-
nally rendered distinctions between
genres like rock and electronic mu-
sic irrelevantif theyve ever been
relevant at all.
Whats strange about the progress
truth in every song that represent
all of the members of the DFP.
How do you interact with the
Bowdoin community?
Keefe: We serve as the link be-
tween them and what the energy of
the party is.
What was it like performing
at MacMillan House for
the Cold War party?
Roberts: Tom, David and I did
all live in Quinby, so performing at
Mac was a loyal departure for us.
Based on the amount of people,
energy from the crowd, and the
length of our set, I would say it was
our most successful show to date.
There was even real crowd surfing!
Dellecese: One of the former
Mac House members said it was
the best time they have had at a so-
cial house party since they lived in
Mac, which was two years ago. The
band got a lot of compliments!
Does the band have any events that
are coming up?
Roseman: DFP will be one of
the many bands being featured on
the Bowdoin Compilation.
Te 62 photos currently displayed in
the Lamarche Gallery as part of the Of-
fce of Of-Campus Studys Exposure
exhibit range from professional shots
to pictures snapped from a fip phone
that are barely Facebook worthy, ac-
cording to Kate Myall, assistant direc-
tor of Of-Campus Study. However,
these photos are not hanging because
they are deemed excellent works of art,
but because they tell unique stories of
Bowdoin students abroad.
Christine Wintersteen, director of
Of-Campus Study, and Myall sent
out prompts to students who were
abroad in the past year, asking them
to send in photographs and include
a short caption explaining the image.
It was a way for the students to fnd
a diferent means of processing their
abroad experience and refect back on
it, trying to see whatever country they
were in, in a diferent light, said Abbie
Geringer 14, the curator of the exhibit.
I wanted to do a little more knit-
ting together of the on- and of-campus
communities, said Myall. I think its
really important that students are able
to talk about their time abroad beyond
the sort of superfcial, How was it? It
was great! Cool! Do you want to go to
Torne or Moulton?
Myall emphasized the signifcance
of keeping personal records as part of
Exposure exhibit reveals
study abroad experiences
BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
ORIENT STAFF
that independent music has made,
at least as far as Along the Way
can tell us, is how much it sounds
like the 80s. Tis record is the most
throwback album Ive heard since
Daf Punks Random Access Memo-
ries. But whereas the robots brought
in the real life musicians, from Nile
Rodgers to Giorgio Moroder, to craf
their retro-futurist-funk, McGuire
merely takes inspiration from his
stylistic forbears. Along the Way
is how a Pink Floyd record would
sound if Roger Waters were raised
on Explosions in the Sky, which is
to say, like a dazzling spaceship be-
ing launched into space by an arpeg-
giator, which is to say, very silly.
Te length of the album is enough
to justify its comparison to a Genesis
record. Clocking in at over an hour
with eight songs breaching the fve-
minute mark, listening to the whole
thing alone is an undertaking. Mc-
Guire has an innate ear for melody,
however, and each noteno matter
how arpeggiatedcarries the listener
further into the songs Martian uni-
verse. Maybe the best thing we can call
it is space rock, the lyrics sucked from
McGuires mouth by the void, leaving
only the musical notes to squiggle on
as cosmic vibrations.
In what I hope is a nod to his prog-
rock heroes, McGuire complements
the physical edition of Along the
Way with an 8,000-word book of
lyrics, describing the mostly instru-
mental music as the quest of the
individual seeking the answers to
the great mysteries of life. What else
than the very struggle for the mean-
ing of human existence could endow
this music with the proper gravitas?
But such weight does not sink
Along the Way like an Alfonso Cu-
arn script. Te albums lush pedigree
informs our experience listening to
it, and we can delight in its historic-
ity. McGuire did not create the 21st
century version of Te Wall, nor
even Dark Side of the Moon, but I
dont think he meant to. He referenc-
es the bloated and pretentious spirit
of prog-rock in his spacey sounds
and liberal-arts storyline, but hes
having too much of a blast to take it
too seriously. Tis is a goofy record
thats aware of its place in history and
acknowledges the campiness of its
endeavor, and yet still performs as
if everything is on the line. It knows
how to have fun.
Maybe thats why it proves a good
companion to writing history on the
page and making it between the bed
sheets. As a musician in 2014, Mark
McGuire has learned how to have fun
with the past rather than being crip-
pled by it. Along the Way is a record
for all your Valentines Day needs at a
liberal arts college.
the study abroad experience, although
she recognized the daunting nature of
the task.
Sometimes the idea of journaling
isnt so appealing, said Myall. What
we wanted to do was fnd a way to do
journaling for the 21st century. We fg-
ured, people already have cameras with
them; people are already taking pic-
tures. Why not use that form of journ-
aling as the means of refection?
Myall came up with 10 prompts to
speak to diferent phases of the study
abroad experience, including the ex-
citement of frst arriving, the shock of
a new school, and the discomfort along
the way.
Geringer commented on the sheer
volume of student responses.
We ended up getting way over 100
photos, said Geringer. We had to go
through them all and narrow it down
to the 62 we have, and then create an
exhibition based on the variety of the
experiences these students have had
and the variety of ways in which they
responded to our prompts.
Myall praised Geringer for her ex-
ceptional work on gathering the photos,
picking the ones to be displayed, and
soliciting her peers. We wanted to give
her the opportunity to do something
like this.
We had this great privilege, every
week, of getting a handful of photographs
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
GUITAR HEROES: The DFP band members Sam Roberts 14 (left) and David Franco Phipps 14 (right) rehearse for an upcoming performance.
JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
AROUND THE WORLD IN 62 PHOTOS: Exposure displays pictures taken by students studying
abroad. The exhibit is currently on display in Smith Unions Lamarche Gallery.
Please see EXPOSURE, page 13
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Vagina Monologues premieres tonight
Tis weekend, Bowdoins V-Day con-
tinues an annual tradition with its pro-
duction of the Vagina Monologues to
beneft Sexual Support Services of Mid-
coast Maine.
Co-directors Callie Ferguson 15 and
Xanthe Demas 15 will lead a group of
about 50 female students in a dramatic
reading of Eve Enslers iconic narrative
this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in
Kresge Auditorium.
Te script is a set of monologues
about womens relationships with their
vaginas. Tey range from intensely
emotional to plainly comic.
Bowdoin V-Day is a chapter of a
global organization started by Ensler
to prevent violence against women and
girls. Each year the club receives the
script from the global campaign, and
this years includes a poem by Ensler
that has never before been performed.
Te show is opening on Valentines
Day this year. Janki Kaneria 14, one of
the leaders of V-Day, says this was not
deliberate but has worked to the shows
beneft.
I think Valentines Day is one of
those days thatas fun as it isis sort
of centered around a gender hierarchy,
said Kaneria. We thought itd be kind of
fun to do a kind of feminist event.
Te passage of the Campus Save Act
legislation last march, which V-Day
supported, includes laws that require
higher education institutions to educate
students, faculty and staf about sexual
assualt prevention.
For many of the performers, it was
the spirit of activism that drew them to
the production.
I have this group of really close
friends, and we all went into col-
lege, and by the end of our fresh-
man year, out of the 10 girlfriends,
three of them had been sexually as-
saulted, said Marcella Jimenez 16.
Te piece for me that was really
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Ben Cumings 15
Although Ben Cumings 15
believes he peaked a decade ago,
his late-night talk show (as well
as his forthcoming involvement
with theater and improvisation)
would suggest otherwise.
The funniest Ive ever been or
ever will be was in middle school
at the cafeteria table when I was
making my buddies laugh and
making the dumbest jokes and
people were just dying around
me, said Cumings. And thats
the best feeling in the world.
It was that feeling that prompt-
ed Cumings to join the Improv-
abilites, Bowdoins improvisation
group, and then to create Dont
Sleep with Ben Cumings, a live
late-night talk show that will
debut later this semester at Jack
Magees Pub.
BY JODI KRAUSHAR
ORIENT STAFF
In August I was thinking
about doing a podcast-type
radio show, said Cumings. I
then said, forget a radio show,
lets do this as a whole late night
talk showWhen I found out
that there is this theater studio
class being offered, I thought it
would be the perfect place to
get it underway.
The class, which meets twice
a week, allows students work-
ing on independent studies to
share their work. Cumings says
it served as a sounding board
for his ideas.
Ive read a lot of books on
[late night talk shows] and
Ive watched pretty religiously
people like Craig Ferguson and
Conan OBrien, he said. Ive
been writing jokes and writing
segments and working on inter-
viewing people.
However, the class is not
Cumings only venue for editing
and improving his show.
Im lucky to work with the
funniest people on campus twice
a week, an hour and a half each
time at improv, he said. I have
great feedback from people like
Peter Tracy [14], Simon Brooks
[14] and Jared Littlejohn [15]
who are hilarious and helping
me to be funnierbecause I
need it.
Ive found that my im-
prov skills have been a crutch.
Any time that one of my jokes
BY MICHELLE HONG
ORIENT STAFF
ASHLEY KOATZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
doesnt land, just doing goofy
improv stuff can help me save a
laugh, or make something just
a little less awkward, Cumings
added. If Im doing a 45 min-
ute show, about 17-20 minutes
of it are actual contentthat I
have to script and write, like my
jokes and the comedy segment.
The interviews are all basically
improvised.
Through the Improvabilites,
Cumings has learned more than
just comedic skills.
Really working hard on [im-
prov] is really so rewarding
changing how you approach
scenes, getting better every time,
getting discouraged and encour-
aged in equal amountsits a re-
ally challenging thing, he said.
Trying to recapture that feel-
ing of just trying to make your
buddies laugh and having a
communal experience of laugh-
ter is the best thing about it,
said Cumings. Every one in the
group agrees; we would all be up
there doing it and enjoying our-
selves if there were two people
or 300 [in the audience].
I think my main comedic
inuences are Bugs Bunny,
caeine and Dennis Kucinich
important was to stand up and raise
awareness.
According to Ferguson, the is-
sues discussed in the monologues are
uniquely relevant to college students.
Tis is a point in time when people
are ex-teenagers and pre-adults, so
there are a lot of remaining insecurities
from growing up and coming into their
adult selves, said Ferguson.
She also fnds that the female-centric
production is also empowering:
Te idea of dispelling myths and
creating a more casual, comfortable
conversation around womens issues
and vagina issues is really signifcant to
women who watch it and women who
are in the show, said Ferguson.
Cumings is currently preparing for his live late-night talk show Dont
Sleep With Ben Cumings,to debut later this semester at the Pub.
When you see that girl in your his-
tory class or you see that girl who runs
next to you in the gym perform these
monologues, you get the sense that its
automatically grounded at Bowdoin in
a way it wouldnt be if you saw 30 wom-
en perform it at a community theater,
said Kaneria.
Te production this year is larger
than in previous years.
Having an enormous amount of
women on the stage is a really visu-
ally powerful spectacle and increases the
weight of the words, said Ferguson.
Most of the cast members do not
have previous acting experience and are
simply interested in the issues related to
the monologues.
Tis years performance will also see
the reintroduction of the Vagina War-
rior recognition, which is awarded to
one male and one female faculty or staf
member that have advanced womens
causes on campus. Te recipients this
year are English Professor Peter Coviello
and Womens Rugby Head Coach Mary
Beth Matthews.
As one of V-Days biggest events
of the year, the Vagina Monologues is
meant to start a dialogue. Afer Friday
nights performance, the club will hold a
reception to continue discussion of the
ideas presented in the play.
Larger cultural change takes a while
to happen, said Kaneria. One of the
things we hope for is we want people to
refect on what theyve seen and what
theyve heard.
Besides promoting the activist
mission of V-Day, the leaders of the
production hope to change the way
people talk about female sexuality in
daily conversation.
I hope that people become more
comfortable with the word vagina
literally the language surrounding it,
said Ferguson. Men, yes, but espe-
cially women. I hope that people feel
more comfortable with themselves
and that they feel connected to a larg-
er narrative.
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on each theme from around the world.
My inbox was brimming with them, ex-
plained Myall. We did this for about 18
months.
Myall cannot pick a favorite pho-
to, although she noted that a picture
that stands out to her is a really ter-
rible photo that is blurry and clearly
taken on a camera phone, which fea-
tures a maid watching television.
Myall summarized the story told
in the caption.
Te student has befriended the
housekeeper, and gotten sense of her
side of the socioeconomic situation,
said Myall. By befriending the
housekeeper, in some ways shes dis-
rupted the natural ecosystem, and
she learns the housekeeper is going
to be let go.
Te student, having heard both
the maids unhappiness and the fam-
ilys displeasure, was privy to both
sides of the decision.
If I were just looking at this
photo, I would be like, oh what-
ever, said Myall. But by reading
the words, it is so deep. It speaks
to really interesting things about
our privilege when were visiting a
place, what were stepping into, and
how we need to be observers and
while also interacting.
Geringer also noted that though
the quality of the actual photographs
might not be stellar, the prospect of
creating an exhibit of amateur work
was intriguing.
Its cool because then you pay
more attention to the theme behind
the photo, said Geringer. Tis is a
more intimate show because its ask-
ing you to connect on a more per-
sonal level with these people and
these photographs.
Tere are some beautiful pieces
from a student who was in Paris. She
takes these magazine quality pho-
tographs, but in some ways I think
the photos that are barely Facebook
worthy are just as important, added
Myall. Ultimately, most memories
live in snapshot form.
The funniest Ive ever been or
ever will be was in middle school
at the cafeteria table when I was
making my buddies laugh.
Between improv and his in-
dependent study, Cumings is
working hard to improve and
develop his comedic voice.
At present its a little grumpy
and wacky, whereas Id like it to
be nicer and wacky, he said. I
think my main comedic influ-
ences are Bugs Bunny, caffeine
and Dennis Kucinich.
The thing I would work on
most is being more confident
in my voice, and not hiding be-
hind any of the physicality or
voices or crude humor that I
sometimes find myself using as
a crutch, he said.
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SPEAKING UP: Quincy Koster 15 rehearses her monologue. Organizers of the show hope to encourage conversations about feminine sexuality.
I hope that people become
more comfortable with the word
vaginaliterally the language
surrounding it.
CALLIE FERGUSON 15
V-Day members emphasized that
the performance can still be an educa-
tional and relatable experience for men
in the audience.
Tis is a good way to break those
barriers and start a conversation be-
tween men and women about these
thingsstart a public discourse,
said Jimenez.
Although some of the situations
presented in the monologues are not
necessarily those experienced by a
typical Bowdoin student, all the stories
bring out an emotional response, says
Jimenez. Tere are some that are like
you dont really see whats happening,
but I can appreciate that womans story,
and there are some that are like, yes,
thats it. Its a range.
On a small campus like Bowdoin, the
audiences personal connection to the
actresses can make the plays message
even more efective.
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With four games remaining,
mens hockey fourth in CAC
Coming of a bye week and enter-
ing one of the most crucial parts of
its season, the mens hockey team
split its games last week, beating
Hamilton and losing to NESCAC-
leader Amherst (11-3-0 NESCAC,
13-6-1 overall).
Te Polar Bears had their longest
road trip of the year last weekend,
traveling seven hours to Hamilton to
take on the Continentals and another
three hours to Williams the next day.
Its a long trip [and] its the hardest
trip of the year, and to go out and win
the frst game was certainly a plus,
said Head Coach Terry Meagher.
Against Hamilton, the team dug
themselves an early hole, allowing two
goals only 34 seconds into the second
periodone an unassisted goal of of
a rebound put away by Evan Haney.
However, afer coming back from
many early defcits this year, the team
knew it could fght back.
Its sort of been our M.O. for what-
ever reason, but we were showing
good resiliency and we have won a
few when we were down, said Mea-
Horowitz sets school
record with 4:02.12 mile
Coby Horowitz 14 set a new
school record in the mile last week-
end with a time of 4:02.12, as the
mens indoor track and feld team
competed at the Dave Hemery Val-
entines Invitational at Boston Uni-
versity, a non-scoring meet includ-
ing D-I and club teams.
Meanwhile, the Bowdoin wom-
en took part in the Maine State
Track Meet held at the University
of Southern Maine (USM). Te
women totaled 195.5 points to fn-
ish second behind Bates (205.5), but
were able to edge out Colby (183.5),
USM (111), Husson (10.5) and Saint
Josephs (6).
Men
Horowitz led the way for the
men, winning the mile amongst
D-III runners and finishing 20th
overall out of 300 runners. Horow-
itzs mile time was the fastest in
D-III in 11 years and the fourth-
fastest time in D-III history, earn-
ing him D-III National Athlete of
the Week honors.
Despite his massive personal ac-
complishment, Horowitz praised
the entire teams performance.
Recording the fourth-fastest
time ever in D-III and the fastest
time ever for Bowdoin was huge for
us as a program, he said. I do all
the workouts with the other run-
ners and they all ran good races
,so I think we can all take pride in
our success. Notably, James Boed-
ing [14, 4:18.66], Calvin Henry
[16, 4:20.94] and Kevin Hoose [15,
4:25.13] all achieved personal bests
in the mile.
Senior captain Sam Seekins and
Jacob Ellis 16 also produced top
performances for the Polar Bears.
Seekins (8:24.34) placed 40th over-
all in the 3000m and Ellis (1:55.31)
placed 63rd overall in the 800m.
Ellis has been coming back from
a foot injury, and is hoping to re-
gain the form he had last spring
when he placed fourth at NCAA
D-III Championships, said Head
Coach Peter Slovenski. He did a lot
of cross-training in the fall, so were
hoping he will be able to race very
well now that his foot is healed.

Women
Te women had multiple athletes
place above their seeded places and
15 personal-best performances at
the state track meet. Te team fn-
ished second and scored 30 more
points than expected.
Senior captain Katherine Harmon
repeated as state champion in the
weight throw (15.8m) and placed
eighth in the triple jump (9.94m).
Randi London 15 and Pamela Za-
bala 17 took third and fourth in the
Squash teams host D-III Individual Champs
BY ALEX BARKER
ORIENT STAFF
Last weekend, the Bowdoin
mens and womens squash teams
hosted the first-ever D-III Individ-
ual Squash Tournament. Although
all college squash teams techni-
cally compete at the D-I level, the
invitational tournament offered
an opportunity for NESCAC and
other typically D-III schools in the
area to send their top four players.
As an individuals-only event,
the tournament was a unique op-
portunity for all involved, ex-
plained womens team captain Ra-
chel Barnes 15.
Theres an individual tourna-
ment after nationals, but thats re-
ally tough because you can play, for
instance, the Harvard number one
in the first round, she said.
Moreover, the tournament se-
lected for schools of a similar size,
ensuring an even playing field.
In college squash, we com-
pete in one comprehensive group
which includes schools from all
divisions, wrote Head Coach To-
mas Fortson in an email to the
Orient. Over the last few years,
the influx of world-class players
from other countries has made
it very difficult for D-III athletes
(especially NESCAC) to compete
at the national stage.
D-I and D-III schools have dif-
ferent practice schedules, so its
gher. Its just the way goal sports go
sometimes.
We were playing pretty well, so we
knew if we just kept at it, wed get one,
said Mitch Barrington 17.
Te Polar Bears quickly turned the
momentum in their favor with a huge
power-play goal by Matt Rubinof 16
2:12 into the second period.
Later in the period, Bowdoin tied
the game with a short-handed goal by
Colin Downey 14.
Afer the weekend, Downey leads
D-III with three short-handed goals
on the year. Te whole Bowdoin team
has excelled in penalty kill situations
this year, leading D-III with 10 short-
handed goals.
I think our penalty kill is what
separates us from the rest of the
teams in the league, said Danny Pa-
lumbo 15.
Te Polar Bears took the lead when
Harry Matheson 14 scored with just
under a minute lef in the period.
From that point on, Bowdoins stel-
lar defense held on to the lead.
With 16 saves in the third period,
including eight short-handed saves,
goaltender Steve Messina 14 secured
the game for Bowdoin.
Afer beating Hamilton 3-2,
Bowdoin fell to Amherst 5-3 the
next day.
BY NEIL FULLER
STAFF WRITER
Womens hockey beats, ties Trinity
BY PETER CIMINI
ORIENT STAFF
kind of good to differentiate based
on [that factor], added Barnes.
In the tournaments A Division,
consisting of the top two players
from each teams lineup, Barnes
advanced to the quarterfinals,
while Chloe Polikoff 17 won three
matches in the B Division, advanc-
ing to the finals before losing to
Tufts Paige Dahlman.
The mens results were also
encouraging, with team captain
Stephan Danyluk 14 taking fourth
place in the A Division before los-
ing to Kevin Chen of Williams.
One unusual aspect of the tour-
nament was that players from
the same team occasionally had
to play each other, though such
a pairing did not occur for the
Bowdoin women.
On the mens team however, No.
3 Reid Wilson 14 and No. 8 Will
Winmill 14 faced off.
BY ALEX MARECKI
ORIENT STAFF
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SCORECARD
Sa 2/8 at Maine Champs (W)
at BU (M)
2ND/6
NONSCORING
SCORECARD
Fr 2/7
Sa 2/9
at Trinity
at Amherst
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Te womens hockey team earned
a crucial three points last weekend
beating Trinity (10-6-4, 5-5-2 NES-
CAC) on Friday night and tying on
Saturday in Watson Arena. Te team
improved its overall record to 9-8-3
(4-5-3 NESCAC). Sophomore Ari-
anna Bourque led the way with two
goals and three assists and was named
NESCAC Player of the Week.
On Friday night, the Polar Bears
took time to fnd their footing, allow-
ing Trinity to jump to a 1-0 lead in
the frst period.
We had a good week in practice,
but we came out pretty fat, said
Head Coach Marissa ONeil. We
kind of took a back seat to Trinity and
watched them play a little bit.
Bowdoin fended of the early Ban-
tam surge, and the score remained
the same until early in the third pe-
riod. Tat was when Colleen Finnerty
15 scored of a pretty backdoor pass
from Bourque. Later in the third, the
two connected with another goal, this
time with Finnerty fnding Bourque
on a similar cross-ice play to score the
game-winning goal.
Te third period was completely
diferent story for the Polar Bears, as
they were able to take control and dic-
tate most of the play.
In the third, we really had that
sense of urgency, ONeil said. We
were all over them.
Saturdays rematch followed a simi-
lar course, with the Polar Bears strug-
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
READING THE DEFENSE: Madeline Lane 14 bides her time in the oensive zone against Trinity last weekend. The Polar Bears won one game and tied another.
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
OFF THE WALL: Michaela Martin 14 hits a forehand in last weekends D-III individual tournament.
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Sa 2/8
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It was clear from
the interview pro-
cess, that [Weaver]
cares deeply for her athletes and
their entire
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF
Ariana Bourque 16 turned
heads with a five-point per-
formance last weekend in two
games against Trinity. She
scored two goals, including the
game-winner in Fridays 2-1
victory and assisted on Bow-
doins other three goals. The
left winger turned a likely loss
into a tie with Saturdays effort,
notching a goal and an assist
in an 18-second span to erase
a 3-1 deficit. Bourque now
leads the team in points with
16, equaling her mark from
last season with five regular
season games left to be played.
She shares the team lead in as-
sists with Mallory Andrews 14
and trails leading goal-scorer
Chelsea MacNeil 15 by just
one goal.
Bourque, a Massachusetts
native, decided she wanted
to play hockey when she was
five years old, but her par-
ents feared that she was too
small for contact sports. Still,
Bourque was determined to
play and finally started skating
at age 12. She played defense
until high school, drawing
light-hearted comparisons to
Boston Bruins hall-of-famer
Ray Bourque because of their
shared surnames and the fact
that she wore his number for a
period of time.
Bourque left Massachusetts
to attend high school at The
Holderness School in New
Hampshire, where she played
soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse.
She had been playing soccer
since she was three and consid-
ered it her primary sport until
her sophomore year.
I think I was a better soccer
player but I just liked hockey
better, said Bourque. Hockey
is just a faster game. In soccer
there are places on the field
where you can just stand there
and nothing is happening.
She also moved from defense
to left wing in her first year at
Holderness.
I realized I wasnt really
good at defense, she said. If
you look at me now, Im prob-
ably one of the worst backward
skaters on the team.
She has established a reputa-
tion as a player who fights for
pucks in the corners and for be-
ing generally competitive.
Her teammates even give her
a hard time about it, said Head
Coach Marissa ONeil. If shes
tying her shoes, she wants to be
the frst one. As a coach you love
to see it. If were going out to a
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Ariana Bourque 16
WOMENS ICE HOCKEY
COURTESY OF ARIANA BOURQUE
restaurant, she always fnds a way
to turn it into some sort of game.
ONeil said that Bourques
athleticism and speed also stand
out, noting that upperclassmen
were raving about her during
preseason when she first arrived
at Bowdoin. She is often the first
one to enter the offensive zone
and can start a possession with
a quick shot that the other for-
wards can chase.
Colleen Finnerty 15,
Bourques right winger, be-
lieves that Bourque is a natural
scorer based on her play this
season. However, Bourque is
unconvinced.
I didnt know I was the lead-
ing scorer, she said. Thats not
the role Ive played. Its not the
role Ive ever played.
Bourques scoring numbers
have risen in part because last
years NESCAC champions lost
seven seniors, at least four of
whom were consistent contribu-
tors, according to Finnerty.
Scored or assisted on
all five of Bowdoins goals
against Trinity last weekend
Leads team in scoring
with 16 points on the
season
HIGHLIGHTS
If shes tying her shoes, she
wants to be the rst one. As a
coach you love to see it. If were
going out to a restaurant, she
always nds a way to turn it into
some sort of game.
MARISSA ONEIL
HEAD COACH, WOMENS HOCKEY
#SPROTS
SAM CHASE
Bourque noted that the
teams success last year was for-
eign to her.
I was never on a winning team,
ever, she said. I might have won
30 game over my career.
Hockey teams typically play
at least 20 games in a season.
Bowdoin won 21 games last year
on the way to the championship.
Linemate and center Mac-
Neil said that Bourques read
on the rush is to typically go to
the net. Finnerty has noticed
an improvement.
I feel comfortable giving her
the puck and knowing that she
will know what to do with it,
she said. The finishing piece
has been her real focus this
year. Shes learning how to be
that person.
According to ONeil,
Bourque wont be seeing any
additional time on the ice, no
matter how well she plays.
She pretty much cant get
more playing time than she al-
ready gets, she said.
Te sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week
based on exemplary performance.
Bowdoin students from out of
state like to talk about Maine in ro-
mantic, if sometimes condescend-
ing, terms. Maine is eccentric, id-
iosyncratic, and of the beaten path.
Maine is quaint, Maine has its own
little traditions.
Teyre not wrong, of course. My
hometown of Orono has an annual
tradition of using a lottery system to
select a single citizen to be stoned in
the town square. Each and every un-
afected family has great fun.
Tats just us, though. Maines best
traditions are those that bring folks
together from all of corners of the
state. My personals favorites are the
boys and girls high school basketball
tournaments, which are now starting
in Bangor, Augusta and Portland.
High school hoops is an oddly
big deal in Maine. Even in relation
to its small population, the state
produces very few D-I basketball
players. A small percentage of the
states best players, however, go on
to become excellent D-II and D-III
players. At smaller schools, plenty
of kids who wouldnt see court time
almost anywhere else in the coun-
try can play significant roles on
playoff-bound teams.
Take me, for example. Despite be-
ing a turnover machine who shot
about 25 percent from three, I went
into my junior season ready to take
on a starting role afer my team lost
some key players from the previous
year. Nonetheless, in anticipation
of a possible playof appearance, I
convinced my youth groupone for
cool teenz, not lame ones, I prom-
iseto reschedule our service trip
so it wouldnt coincide with the
tournament.
We went 2-16 that season.
But, for some reason, our fans kept
showing up to games. And it wasnt
just our parents. It was middle-school-
ers, local families and awesome old
guys that gave me rides when they saw
me walking to games. From what I can
tell, thats how it is all over the state.
Keegan Pieri 15, a forward for the
Bowdoin men, won two state cham-
pionships at Camden Hills Regional
High School in Rockport.
A local bank bought tickets for
everyone at our school, so everyone
went to the fnals game for free,
said Pieri, one of several Bowdoin
basketball players I spoke with who
seemed stoked to talk Maine hoops.
On Main Street, every store would
have signs up in support for us. Its a
unique experience, having an entire
town rally behind you.
Megan Phelps 15, a captain for
the Bowdoin women, grew up on
Mount Desert Island and remem-
bers well the pilgrimage that MDI
fans made to the now-replaced
Bangor Auditoriumalso known
as The Meccato watch their Tro-
jans compete.
Anytime either the boys or girls
team would travel for a tournament
game, someone would hang this gi-
ant plywood sign by the entrance
to the island on the bridge that said
Last one of the island: turn of the
lights, she said.
For non-ballin high school stu-
dents, tourney time is a chance to
paint their bodies, support their
friends and yell obnoxious things in
a crowded setting. Tats as good as
high school gets, right there. Since
the tournament is also one of the few
Maine sporting events broadcast on
television, these games can be rare
opportunities for Maine kids to be
on TV.
It was a big thing to sit on the
wooden bleachers at the end of the
Augusta Civic Center because at
halfime you could get on TV, said
sharp-shooting Polar Bear Selena
Lorrey 16, who attended Traip
Academy in Kittery. Tat was a
huge thing for them, she added,
laughing.
Even folks with no team al-
legiance whatsoever fock to the
nearest tournament site to buy day
passes and camp out in the bleachers
with a bucket of popcorn. So what
is it that makes Maine high school
basketball, a product that is, frankly,
not awesome, an event that capti-
vates many in the middle of Febru-
ary each year? I think the answer
is simply that Mainers love basket-
ball. Tey talk about it year-round,
whether in regard to their local JV
girls or the Boston Celtics. Hell, you
cant go to a Maine State Fair for fve
minutes without seeing a Larry Bird
graphic tee. Of course, sometimes
high school hoops win out by nature
of being the only game in town.
In the winter, its just somewhere
for people to go, said Lorrey.
So if you fnd yourself coming
down with the sports apathy that of-
ten goes around Bowdoin this time
of year, fnd a radio and scan for a
tourney game. Youll know youve
found one when you hear a hoarse
announcer being drowned out by
screaming tweens, moms and randos.
Tourney time is Februarys Maine event
Errant timeout costs mens hoops at Midd
Chris Webbers infamous timeout
in 1993 cost his Michigan Wolverines
a chance at becoming National Cham-
pions. While the timeout the Bowdoin
mens basketball team called in their 69-
66 loss on Sunday to Middlebury (5-3
NESCAC, 15-7 overall) did not cost the
Polar Bears a title, the sentiment the loss
lef to a team shaping up to make a run
in postseason play was similar in its an-
ger and gloom.
Te Panthers took a fve-point lead
heading into halfime and, while they
never had more than an eight-point
lead, were able to prevent the Polar
Bears from making a big run early in
the second half. Bowdoin fnally cut the
lead down to two with 11:27 lef in the
game and the score remained close as
both teams exchanged baskets for the
remainder of the half.
With eight seconds remaining, Jack
Roberts of Middlebury hit a free throw
to put the Panthers up by three. Te
Polar Bears called their last time out to
draw up a play and hopefully send the
game into overtime. And, with 2.2 sec-
onds remaining, Grant White 14 hit a
game tying three from the lef corner.
However, forgetting the team was out
of timeouts, Head Coach Tim Gilbride
called one to set up defensively for Mid-
dleburys last play. Te illegal timeout
warranted the Polar Bears a technical
foul, which put Middlebury on the free
throw line and gave the Panthers pos-
session of the ball afer the subsequent
attempts. Middlebury missed one of
the technical shots but made both of its
next attempts afer the Polar Bears were
forced to foul immediately on the ensu-
ing inbound.
It was just a mess up on my part,
said Gilbride. I thought we had a time-
out but it was my mistake; we didnt
have it. Personally I felt worse than nor-
mal, but everyone else had their normal
look afer a tough loss.
As for overall quality of play during
the game, the team continued to fnd its
rhythm ofensively, only having trouble
on the defensive side with the Panthers
point guard.
John [Swords 15] played great,
Grant really attacked well, and Andrew
[Madlinger 14], those three really had
great, great games, said Gilbride.
Despite the ending to the game, the
Polar Bears remain ahead of Middle-
bury in the NESCAC standings and
look to host a game as the No. 3 seed
in playofs. To do so, though, they
need to get wins at Bates and Tufs to-
day and tomorrow.
For the Bates game theyll probably
end up playing their best game of the
season and the place will be going crazy,
said Gilbride. And then Tufs will be se-
nior day for them so well have two very
intense NESCAC games well have to be
ready forand I think we will be.
Our team is confdent, he added.
We know we can play with anyone.
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Su 2/9 at Middlebury L 6966
BY JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SWINGMAN: Keegan Pieri 15 holds o a Trinity defender in Morrell Gymnasium on January 31.
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It was a really close match that
came down to the final game, and
I think that is a testament to our
depth and the strength of our line-
up, said Danyluk. [Winmill] was
actually winning for a long time,
and [Wilson] had to come back.
Although the invitational was
originally scheduled to take place
last year, a storm prevented the
tournament from going forward.
This year, Fortson and the Athletic
SQUASH
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weight throw, respectively.
Te women also excelled in the
mile. Camille Wasinger 15 (5:11.56)
and Lucy Skinner 16 (5:11.38) fn-
ished second and third, respectively.
I am very proud of Camilles per-
formance and my own, said Skin-
ner. It was a very competitive meet
and its always exciting to see how
our rival Maine schools improve
from year to year.
Bowdoin also had three repeat
champions at the event. Erin Silva
15 won her third consecutive state
meet at the pole vault (3.55m),
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Following a close loss to No. 11
Amherst last weekend, the wom-
ens basketball team rebounded
with one of their most impressive
performances of the season, top-
ping Middlebury with a final score
of 92-55 on Sunday. The Polar
Bears built a comfortable 25-point
lead at halftime before going up by
as many as 47 points late in the sec-
ond half.
Guard Sara Binkhorst 15 led the
team with 16 points. Selena Lorrey 16,
Shannon Brady 16 and Anna Prohl
14 also scored in double fgures. Me-
gan Phelps 15 had game highs with
eight rebounds and fve assists.
I think it was a really good
gling during the early minutes of the
game. Te Bantams scored two frst
period goals to jump out to a com-
manding 2-0 lead.
I think we controlled play in the
frst [on Saturday], but we were down
2-0, ONeil said. So similar result,
but we played a lot better.
Te Polar Bears answered in the
second, when Finnerty tallied her
second goal of the weekend, assisted
by Bourque.
Trinity added to its lead with an
early third period goal, but Bowdoin
responded with two late goals to tie
the game. Bourque scored her second
goal of the weekend to cut the lead to
one, and captain Chelsea MacNeil 15
tied the game only 18 seconds later.
After a few close chances for
both teams, the game ended in
a tie, leaving the Polar Bears just
behind the Bantams for fourth
Womens basketball trounces Middlebury
team win, said Binkhorst, who has
scored in double figures in each
of the teams last ten games. We
came out from the start and played
really hard.
The team had an intense and
physical week of practice follow-
ing the loss to Amherst, according
to Head Coach Adrienne Shibles.
Phelps said the tough week of prac-
tice helped the team raise its game.
I think if we play like how we
played on Sunday, we can beat any-
one, said Phelps.
The team hopes to maintain its
momentum tonight against Bates,
before traveling to Medford on
Saturday to face the NESCAC-
leading No. 5 Tufts Jumbos for
the final game of the regular sea-
son. While the team has already
clinched a spot in the NESCAC
post-season tournament, two
more wins this weekend would
likely earn them a spot in the
NCAA tournament, which begins
in three weeks.
We approach every game the
same way, but of course there is
added emotion and intensity for
our last weekend of regular season
NESCAC play, said Shibles.
While preparing for the matchup
against the Jumbos would seem like
the top priority for the Polar Bears,
Binkhorst knows that the Bobcats
are not a team to underestimate.
Any time you play Bates, re-
cords go out the window, she said.
Anything can change in a big state
rivalry, so we are definitely focused
on that game first, and then we will
bring it to the Jumbos.
On paper, the Tufts game looks
to be a close contest. The Jumbos
boast the best defense in the NES-
CAC, allowing only 49.9 points per
game, while the Polar Bears have
the second highest-scoring offense,
averaging 70.3 points per game.
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
NOT FADE AWAY: Ally Sien 17 pulls up for a jumper over two Husson Eagle defenders in Morrell Gym on January 28. Bowdoin won in a blowout, 85-50.
BY MICHAEL EPPLER
ORIENT STAFF
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W. HOCKEY
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placethough they now own the
tiebreaker.
Bourques play has really taken a step
forward this year afer her frst-year
campaign; she leads the Polar Bears
with seven goals and nine assists for a
total of 16 points. Tis was her second
time this season being named NES-
CAC Player of the Year, an honor that
she struggled to put into words.
I dont really know how I feel
about it, Bourque said. Tis is kind
of new for me.
ONeil believes that she deserves all
the accolades.
Te kid is just an absolute com-
petitor, ONeil said. She puts a lot of
pressure on herself and is rising to the
occasion at the right timejust an in-
credible team player.
Recently, the Polar Bears have received
exceptional play from both goaliesLan
Crofon 17 and Beth Findley 16a lux-
ury that most teams do not have. Te pair
made a total of 53 saves over the weekend
and share a similar save percentage
.906 and .918 respectively.
A key diference between the
goaltenders is that they use opposite
hands to catch the puck, where Lan
is a lefyor a regular catcher
Findley is a full right catcher. ONeil
believes that splitting time between
them leaves opponents at a disad-
vantage, as they have to face two
diferent goalies that catch diferent
ways each weekend.
Its really nice to be able to play
both in the NESCAC, ONeil said.
Its just a totally diferent look.
Looking forward, the Polar Bears
have four crucial games lef, two
against Hamilton this weekend
and then two against Amherst next
weekend. Both ONeil and Bourque
stressed the importance of start-
ing on a strong note this weekend
against Hamilton.
Te biggest thing for us is play-
ing 60 minutes of hockey, ONeil
said. Tats what weve struggled
withthere are such momentum
shifsbut we need our lows to be
not as low.
London took frst in the shotput
(12.09m), and Katharine Krupp 16
placed frst in the womens triple
jump (10.96m).
Captain Emily Clark 15 had
two key performances in the
200m dash (26.53) and 55m hur-
dles (8.76), finishing second and
fourth, respectively.
Both teams travel to Tufts next
weekend to participate in the Tufts
Invitational. Team morale is high
as the Polar Bears prepare for the
tail-end of their indoor season. The
Invitational is also the seasons last
chance to qualify for the final meets
of the season, including the D-III
New England Championships and
the ECAC Championships.
Department were keen to make the
event successful.
It takes time to organize an event
like this, said Fortson. We tried to
keep players from the same school
away from each other in the draw
and had to consider starting time is-
sues for teams traveling from afar.
Next year, the second inaugural
invitational will move to a differ-
ent host school.
The plan is for this tournament
to rotate and give different schools
a chance to host an elite event,
said Fortson. I expect it will come
back to Bowdoin in the future.
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SQUASH THE COMPETITION: Rachel Barnes 15 competes last weekend at the Lubin Squash Center.
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Though the Polar Bears lost by
two goals, the score did not tell the
story of the whole game. Bowdoin
dominated most of the game, hold-
ing an advantage in shots (33-16)
and puck possession.
I think we played one of our
best games of the year, said Bar-
rington. We were dominating
them throughout the whole game
and then we had a few breakdowns
and they capitalized on pretty much
every one of them.
We had so many doorstep
chances, added Palumbo. But I
M. HOCKEY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14
Compiled by Joe Seibert
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
Standings & Schedules
*Bold line denotes NESCACTournament cut-of
MENS ICE HOCKEY
WOMENS BASKETBALL MENS BASKETBALL
F 2/14
Sa 2/15
at Bates
at Tufts
8 P.M.
4 P.M.
W L W L
Tufts 8 0 21 1
Amherst 8 1 21 2
BOWDOIN 6 2 19 3
Trinity 6 3 14 8
Williams 5 3 19 3
Conn. College 4 4 12 10
Hamilton 3 5 10 11
Wesleyan 3 5 12 9
Colby 1 7 7 15
Middlebury 1 7 7 15
Bates 0 8 7 15
NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L
Amherst 8 1 20 3
Williams 7 1 19 3
BOWDOIN 5 3 18 3
Middlebury 5 3 15 7
Trinity 5 4 14 9
Hamilton 4 4 13 9
Colby 3 5 13 9
Wesleyan 3 5 10 12
Conn. College 2 6 9 12
Tufts 2 6 11 11
Bates 1 7 11 11
NESCAC OVERALL
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
Amherst 11 3 0 13 6 1
Trinity 11 3 0 16 4 0
Williams 9 3 2 13 5 2
BOWDOIN 7 6 1 12 6 2
Colby 7 6 1 10 7 3
Middlebury 6 7 1 8 10 2
Conn. Coll. 6 8 0 7 12 1
Wesleyan 5 8 1 10 8 2
Hamilton 3 9 2 4 12 3
Tufts 1 13 0 3 17 0
WOMENS ICE HOCKEY
Sa 2/15
Su 2/15
at Hamilton
at Hamilton
3 P.M.
NOON
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
Middlebury 11 0 3 16 2 3
Williams 8 2 2 11 7 2
Amherst 7 2 3 11 5 4
Trinity 5 5 2 10 6 4
BOWDOIN 4 5 3 9 8 3
Wesleyan 4 5 3 7 9 4
Conn. Coll. 3 8 3 9 10 3
Colby 3 8 1 7 11 2
Hamilton 0 10 2 6 12 2
MENS SQUASH WOMENS SWIMMING & DIVING
F 2/14 NESCAC Champs @Williams (3 days) TBA
F 2/14 TeamNationals (3-day event) 4:45 P.M.
NORDIC SKIING
F 2/14 at Williams Carnival @Prospect
Mt., Vermont (2 days)
9 A.M.
M/W TRACK AND FIELD
Sa 2/15 at Tufts Invitational TBA
F 2/14
Sa 2/15
at Bates
at Tufts
6 P.M.
2 P.M.
F 2/14
Sa 2/15
v. Trinity
v. Wesleyan
7 P.M.
4 P.M.
guess we just didnt bury it.
The scoring started with a goal
from Amhersts Chris Roll, but
was quickly followed by a goal four
minutes later from Harry Mathe-
son 14.
Te Lord Jefs regained the lead
with two unanswered goals later in the
period, leaving Bowdoin down 3-1.
Minutes later, Kyle Lockwood 14
scored to bring Bowdoin within one
goal going into the second period.
After the break, Downey, Bow-
doins leading goal-scorer, netted
his 16th of the season on a 5-on-3
power-play to tie the game at 3-3.
Held scoreless in the second pe-
riod, Amherst netted two goals off
Bowdoin miscues in the third, in-
cluding the eventual game-winning
goal by Mike Cashman.
We were pretty frustrated with
the loss, said Barrington. But in
the locker room, we were saying
that we knew we outplayed them, so
lets keep on playing like this, and if
we do, well have a real good shot at
the tournament.
Bowdoin now must shift its focus
to a tough Trinity team that they
lost to earlier in the season 5-1.
Its payback time from our
time down there in Hartford, said
Palumbo.
The team will play Trinity (16-4-
0) on Friday at 7 p.m. and Wesleyan
(10-8-2) on Saturday at 4 p.m. at
Watson Arena.
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BEHIND THE NET: Danny Palumbo 15 attacks the Williams College defense from behind at Watson Arena on January 25. The Polar Bears lost 2-1 to the Ephs.
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New threat to Bowdoins environmental mission
The front lines in the battle
against climate change are rarely
as glamorous as the issue it-
self. Yearly intergov-
ernmental climate
meetings, failed bills
in Congress, idiotic
shouting matches
on Fox Newsthese
are all the headline-
grabbing facets of the
movement, which
too often obscure
the importance of
the more day-to-day
struggles happen-
ing outside of the
sensationalist lime-
light. Although its
clear that the U.S.
government has
acted negligently
and dropped the
ball on climate
change, this
doesnt mean
that the move-
ment has fol-
lowed suit.
I mp o r t a n t
campaigns are
being run ev-
erywhere and
at all levels: con-
cerned individuals are
installing solar panels on their
homes; colleges and companies
are striving for better environmen-
tal standards; advocacy groups are
pushing local governments for bet-
ter legislation. And while its true
that these struggles may not carry
the full weight needed to tackle the
maliciously penalizes renewable
energy production.
Specifically, CMP power has pro-
posed a new standby fee that will
charge every customer with on-site
energy productioneven a single
solar panelaccording to their
highest hourly usage.
While customers that produce
their own energy actually con-
sume less, CMPs planned tariff
will charge them on the fact that it
must still be able to provide energy
to them at all times, even though
this delivery might be on standby.
Those who buy less will
be forced to pay more.
What this means for
Bowdoin is that the College
will now have to pay more
for its
h e a t i n g
facility and
the solar ar-
ray that is in
development.
How much?
Try $289,000 per
year, or roughly
an 11 percent in-
crease to our annual
$2.5 million energy
bill. Tis is not small
change or something
that Bowdoin can just
pull out the checkbook for.
But theres way more to
this than just the initial price
tag. As much as the College
often struggles in its quest for
carbon neutrality by 2020, Bow-
doins new 1,300 kilowatt solar in-
stallationset to launch this sum-
meris a very serious and laudable
problem, they are (at the moment)
our front line of defense against
climate catastrophe and thus are
worth protecting.
Recently, Bowdoin College has
found itself deep in the trenches
of this struggle, and Im not
just referring to the
important divestment
and neutrality movements.
In conjunction with many
other Public Utility Commissions
(PUCs), our utility provider Cen-
tral Maine Power (CMP) is seeking
state approval for a devastating rate
change on its customer base that
Te Curriculum and Education Policy Committee (CEP) recently proposed a
revision to the Colleges transfer credit policy that would allow departments to start
awarding credit for online courses. Te CEPs proposal is progressive for a college
that just introduced online course registration this year. Courses taken online are
ofen viewed as antithetical to the small, interactive learning environment of a liberal
arts school. Bowdoin values the close interaction between professor and student,
and frequently boasts of its low student-to-faculty ratio. However, it is time to ac-
knowledge that scholarly work can be accomplished through web-based classes.
While it is unlikely that many students will take online courses in addition to
Bowdoin curricula, this allowance would enable students taking leaves of absence to
earn credit while away from campus. Students on leavemedical or otherwiseof-
ten enroll in several classes, either to prove they are capable of completing academic
work or to avoid falling behind in their degree progress. Not all students have access
to an institution of higher learning while away; online courses provide an alternative.
Te proposal would give departments the authority to determine whether an
online course meets the high standards of the College, and we are confdent that
online courses would be held to the same scrutiny as any others. Tat is why the
CEP proposal would neither threaten the Colleges commitment to classroom learn-
ing, nor diminish the quality of a Bowdoin education. What it would do is provide
further academic options to Bowdoin studentsparticularly those who need them
the most. We encourage faculty to vote in favor of this proposal.
BY HUGH RATCLIFFE
CONTRIBUTOR
Questioning the morality of LASOs date auction
Last weekend, the Latin Ameri-
can Student Organization (LASO)
hosted a Valentines Day Auction,
during which, according to the stu-
dent Digest, LASO would auction
off dates with more than 15 lovely
Bowdoin students. LASO is to
be applauded for its effort to raise
money for a very deserving organi-
zation, Safe Passage. Nevertheless, I
think there is something inherently
immoral about a date auction in
general. This isnt an attack specifi-
cally geared towards LASO. It is a
critique of the date auction.
What does the term date in-
voke? Most people associate a date
with free time, a fun experience, an
activity over which one has auton-
omy. Now think of the word auc-
tion. What comes to mind? Sadly,
because of this countrys history,
we are often reminded of phenom-
ena such as slavery and prostitu-
tion when we hear the word auc-
tion. We also think of objects. In
an auction, the idea of obligation is
involved. After an item is bought at
an auction, it is required to be given
to the highest bidder. Already, there
is a contradiction in this term. A
date that is sold in the context of a
date auction is not really a date, be-
cause there is an element of obliga-
tion involved. There are definitely
social pressures at play, as with all
sorts of agreements. A date result-
ing from a date auction is more like
a debt than a date.
At a date auction, people are bid
on in exchange for money. When
you buy a certain amount of time
with someone, you are effectively
putting monetary value on them.
In a date auction, you are not only
paying for a date, you are payng for
a specific person. If you were just
paying for a date, then the auction
would be anonymous.
Being sold at a date auction is
therefore a form of reification in
the Marxist sensethe action of
turning a person into a thing. As
thoughtful members of society, we
have to think about the psycho-
logical and societal consequences
of putting a price tag on a person.
What is even more distressing than
the reification that occurs in the
process of a date auction is the fact
that when you sell someones time
at an auction, you are essentially
selling their rights for a period of
time.
Besides putting monetary values
on people, thereby degrading their
worth to that of a commodity, a date
auction also places comparative val-
ues on people. At an auction, people
get sold at diferent prices. Tis is
not necessarily a sinister thingob-
viously diferent bidders have difer-
ent economic means. Still, because
money is a measure of worth in our
society, the people up for auction
leave with diferent values of worth.
A date auction therefore serves
as a mechanism of comparing the
worth of people. I dont think any-
one should have to feel that they are
worth less than the person standing
next to them. It is intensely dehu-
manizing to place monetary value
on someones personal attributes.
How can it be acceptable for one to
judge something like that?
The idea of a date auction may
not be that shocking to people be-
cause our society thrives on the
objectification of people. The re-
ality of labor in our society puts a
price on peoples time, and we see
the attributes of people, especially
women, objectified in the media
all of the time. Even the word ob-
jectification itself has been nor-
malized to the point that people
gloss over accusations of it. How-
ever, a date auction is a very ex-
plicit form of objectification that
cannot be ignored.
YOURE DOING
IT WRONG
MAYA REYES
Please see THREAT, page 19
Being sold at a date auction
is therefore a form of reication
in the Marxistthe action of
turning a person into a thing.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Casting a wider web
Creating a safer space
Dean of Student Afairs Tim Foster wrote in a campus-wide email on Wednesday
that the College is creating the position of Director for Gender Violence Education
and Prevention. According to Meadow Davis, associate director of student afairs
and adviser to the Student Sexual Misconduct Board, this new director will advise
the student groups that deal with these issues and work one-on-one with students
who come forward with complaints. Te establishment of this position comes at a
time when many of our peer institutions have come under fre for their treatment of
sexual assault violations and allegations.
Most notably, Amhersts procedure for responding to accusations of sexual as-
sault came into the national spotlight in October 2012 when former student Angie
Epifano penned an op-ed in the Amherst Student revealing how poorly Amherst
had responded to her report of sexual violence. Dartmouthwhich has also in-
curred heavy criticism for its handling of sexual assault casesannounced last week
that it is creating a campus center for the prevention of sexual assault and violence.
Although Bowdoin has not come under the same scrutiny as Amherst or Dart-
mouth, its handling of sexual assault cases has not totally escaped criticism. In 2010,
the Center for Public Integrity reported on the case of a Bowdoin student, to whom
it gave the pseudonym Ariel Brown, who alleged that she was raped by a male stu-
dent in December 2007. Te College found the male guilty of sexual assault, not
rape, a decision which Brown found inadequate. Her testimony is proof enough that
there is always room for improvement.
We believe that Bowdoin students currently have many outstanding resources in
the event of sexual misconduct, but by creating this position the College am rms its
commitment to addressing these issues thoroughly and efectively.
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The allure of Don Draper: why the anti-hero in modern TV is so compelling
Social costs of outsourcing the Health Center
Two weeks ago, the Orient pub-
lished a review of possible changes
to the Health Centers structure fol-
lowing Director of Health Services
Sandra Hayes departure. Conceiv-
able modifcations to the Health
Center model include outsourcing
the Health Centers services to a pri-
vate frm, outsourcing administra-
tive work to another healthcare pro-
vider, and maintaining the current
model with a replacement Director
of Health Services.
While acknowledging the short-
comings of any system is healthy,
and entertaining the possibility of
change is important, there are still
many overlooked benefits to the
current Health Services model.
For instance, under the current
College model, Bowdoin employs
all staff members of the Health
Center. These excellent health care
providers voluntarily chose to work
in a college setting. They have a
personal investment in community
health and are passionate about the
health issues college-aged students
face. When a student makes an ap-
pointment at the Health Center,
the care this student receives is in-
formed by campus knowledge and
a community-based approach to
health care.
Empathy goes a long way in
health. Outsourcing the Health
Center may mean an end to health
care providers with a specific in-
terest in working in a college en-
vironment. While such a structural
change may bring more walk-in
hours and shorter wait times, it
may also mean that the type of care
Bowdoin students receive will lack
knowledge and understanding of
the campus culture and norms that
influence the health issues we face.
It might also inhibit personal
relationships with the Health Cen-
ter staff. For many students, being
able to meet with a particular staff
member is important in evaluating
the Health Centers work. Discuss-
ing particular health issues can be
challenging for some students, and
having a Health Center staff mem-
ber act the role of not only a pro-
vider but also a confidant and men-
tor can facilitate honest discourse
between provider and patient.
Upon outsourcing the Health
Center to another firm, that per-
sonal contact may no longer exist.
It may be difficult for students to
establish a rapport with a particu-
lar clinical worker if these posts
at Bowdoin are merely rotational.
Reaching the point where a student
feels comfortable sharing sensitive
information with a healthcare pro-
vider may take much longer and be
more strenuous.
Time, however, is precious at
Bowdoin. We cant seem to get
enough of it. Its understandable
that some students would prefer
to be seen by Health Center staff
immediately, have a quick appoint-
ment, get antibiotics, and then get
out. For many other students at
Bowdoin, spending time with their
healthcare providers and forging
personal bonds with them are es-
sential to navigating health issues
in their college years. Indeed, re-
lationships with Health Center
staff are integral to many stu-
dents Bowdoin experiences, and a
change in the model may put that
type of experience in jeopardy.
Outsourcing the Health Center
could also rupture vital relation-
ships between the Health Center
Don Draper commands atten-
tionenough to merit an entire
TV show, in fact. On the 60s era
drama Mad Men, Draper com-
mits heinous acts and lives by an
extraordinarily questionable code
of ethics, yet still never fails to fas-
cinte.
Askmen.com has hailed him as a
role model for men everywhere,
and he is among those named
men of the year by GQ magazine
almost every year.
Even for those aware of his
flaws, Draper holds a peculiar at-
traction. His serial philandering
and rampant sexism certainly earn
him his fair share of criticism, but
casually dismissing him as the vil-
lain of a TV show does ignore the
bigger problem: people look up to
this man.
I should take this moment to
step down off my high horse, and
admit that I too find Draper fas-
cinating. Mad Men is really the
only TV show I watch, despite the
ever present lure of Netflix-assist-
ed procrastination. Even so, I know
enough to know that Draper isnt
alone on TV; these days, just about
every major TV drama offers a
take on the classic anti-hero.
I paid close attention a couple
months ago when people bounced
off the walls waiting to find out
what happened to Walter White,
who ran a meth empire. And when
White died, fans
hosted and paid
to attend to his
fake funeral.
Draper and White
certainly arent the first mod-
ern anti-heroes, or even the most
popular. James Dean popularized
the trope portraying Jim Stark, the
emotionally confused lead of the
1955 film Rebel Without a Cause.
But Dean was of a different time.
The anti-heroes of today come by
the dozen, each with a different
vice designed to appeal to a differ-
ent group of viewers, but Dean was
unique.
In an era that thrived on the
impeccable leading man, Dean
matched up against
characters like Rick
Blainethe man whos biggest flaw
was successfully doing everything
on his ownand Atticus Finch,
who could only speak words of
wisdom. These characters defined
their time.
staff and other College staff or stu-
dent groups. Events like Sex with
Sandraduring which students
discuss sexual health with Director
of Health Services Sandra Hayes in
a low-key settingmay not exist
if clinical practitioners show no in-
terest in working outside of clini-
cal hours. Similarly, free Plan B
Dayswhich Peer Health runs in
partnership with the Health Cen-
termay no longer be possible if
staff members of an outsourced
Health Center take no initiative in
spearheading the program.
While these programs and
events fall outside the clinical
practice of the Health Center, they
are vital to the wellness promo-
tion efforts of campus groups like
Peer Health. Raising awareness of
health issues, disseminating accu-
rate health-related information to
students, and providing students
with tools and resources to navi-
gate the complex health environ-
ment that we call College would
be significantly stifled without the
help of the Health Center.
Recognizing all the options and
being mindful of what may no lon-
ger exist following changes to the
Health Centers current model are
vital to an informed understanding
of the issues Dean Foster and the
College are currently addressing.
I encourage all Bowdoin students
to learn more about these possible
changes and voice their opinions
about them.
We are lucky to have a Health
Center that employs staff members
with college health literacy and
competency, that hands out barrier
methods and emergency contra-
ception on demand, and has strong
partnerships with other on-campus
resources. All of these attributes
help cultivate a holistic vision of
college health and wellness.
Greg Rosen is co-leader of Peer
Health and a member of the class
2014.
BY GREG ROSEN
CONTRIBUTOR
Today we see optimism as en-
dearing at best; our heroes are
hard-bitten realists entirely cog-
nizant of the mediocrity of the
worlds they inhabit. We value their
ability to manipulate their peers
and exert their will. But
above all, we value
their ability to do
so without getting
caught.
Our hearts
race when Wal-
ter White kills
someone or Don
Draper cheats
with his best
friends wife. We see
the unattainable
the things we could
never dream of do-
ingand we latch
on, desperate for
any vicarious
pleasure.
But the
explosion of
these charac-
ters popular-
ity shouldnt
come as a
surprise. The
1950s were notable only for how
normal they werethe idealiza-
tion of the nuclear family is just
one example of our conformist
national idealogy. Contrast that to
today, when the Internet has trans-
formed even our least thoughtful
citizens into comment crusaders
determined to save America.
The change reflects our new so-
cial mindset: go harder. Be it the
brinksmanship that now character-
izes our nations capitol or the brav-
ery behind every frat stars newest
drinking challenge, we are now a
people destined to bend the rules.
This puts Bowdoin students at
an interesting crossroads, where
the moral codeinstilled in us at
every turnbumps up against the
increasing appeal of the anti-hero
lifestyle. We might well ask, how
can a moral code that tells us we
have no excuses, just an empty hole
in our lives, ever hope to compete
with an ideology that offers the
constant convenient excuse, Im
sorry you couldnt handle my in-
tensity.
One of lifes greatest skills is em-
pathy. And here at Bowdoin, we
pride ourselves on developing in-
terpersonal skills that will lead us
to triumphant places in life.
So, as a student body, we owe it
to ourselves to embrace the moral
hole in our existence. Why else
would we have come here? And
when we receive enticing snap-
chats from our friends at other
schools, we will receive them like
champions, because, soon enough,
the next season of Mad Men will
come out.
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OF LOVE
DREW VAN KUIKEN
step in the right direction. But its
also a substantial financial invest-
ment and risk: we stuck our neck
out assuming no one would change
the rules of the game, but CMP is
trying to do just that.
Suddenly our ability to pay back
the investment in solar becomes a
lot more problematic. Instead of
reaping the financial benefits after
10 to 12 years, the College might
now have to wait decades. What are
the odds then that Bowdoin would
even consider a similar investment
in the future? Carbon neutral-
ity and climate responsibility look
much farther away than 2020 in this
new picture.
But this isnt just an issue new
to Maine: similar new rate struc-
tures are in the
works all across
America23 states
in total at the mo-
ment. Millions are
finding themselves
in the same situa-
tion as Bowdoin,
where artificial
constraints on en-
ergy production
are killing renewable energy.
Its been said by the more con-
servative players in the energy
game that a movement away from
carbon polluting energy can only
occur once renewable technology
can compete economically. Renew-
able technology has finally begun to
reach this pointthat is, until util-
ity companies declared war.
In a recent report titled Disrup-
tive Challenges released by the
Edison Electric Institutethe trade
group of U.S. investor-owned utili-
tiesthe utility monopolies decid-
ed that it was finally time to squash
out competition from solar tech-
nology, recognizing it as a substan-
tial threat to their monopoly. They
were tired of being forced by states
to pay individuals and groups for
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producing and distributing energy
for them, and they were worried
by the rise of energy-independence
and micro-grids.
Yet no one really seems to have
noticed, except for a handful of play-
ers such as Bowdoin and other solar
providers, who will experience par-
ticularly devastating fnancial losses.
To date, there has been just one ar-
ticle published about this in Maine,
and no major national publications
have picked up the story.
Maybe its because the workings
of PUCs are inherently unsexy, or
maybe its because the legal frame-
work through which these rate
changes occur is too opaque. Re-
gardless, this is one of those hid-
den battles that we cannot afford to
lose; the ramifications are too huge.
The solar panel industry is in its
infancy. Groups have just begun
to invest in clean energy at a level
that is actually be-
ginning to change
the overall energy
picture of America.
With this proposed
fee, people like your
neighbor might not
buy that one so-
lar panel because
theyll have to pay
even more for it,
or some green-minded company
like IBM wont even consider more
renewable energy for the next 20
years.
The stakes are high and the
voices too quiet. Its time to call
on CMP to reassess its supposed
commitment to the environment
and customer satisfaction; its time
we tell our state government that
this is unacceptable for Maine and
that the PUC monopoly must be
reined in.
Write CMP, write your local
newspapers and elected officials,
and post on Facebook or Twitter.
Lets make sure we guard our front-
line and win the battles we need to
win.
Hugh Ratcliffe is a member of the
class of 2015.
Bowdoin will now have
to pay extra for its heating
facility and the solar array that
is in development. How much?
Try $289,000 per year.
For many students at Bowdoin,
establishing bonds with their
healthcare providers is essential to
the way they navigate health
issues in their college years.
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DONT GO BREAKING MY HEART: Emily Tucker 15, center, leads Miscellania in its ValJam performance with the Longfellows Wednesday night in the Chapel.
The two groups sang a rendition of Hate that I Love Youby Rihanna together.
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FRIDAY
PANEL
Alternative Energy Career Conversation
Trevor Peterson 02, Katie Chapman 07 and Abriel Fer-
reira 10 will speak to students and give advice about
how to get started in the alternative energy industry.
Environ. Studies Common Room, Adams Hall. Noon.
EVENT
Recycled Valentines Station
The EcoReps will run their annual Recycled Valentines
station, where students can make valentines out of
recycled materials.
Smith Union. Noon to 5 p.m.
UNCOMMON HOUR
Love (Not Quite) Actually: What
Socrates Has to Say About Eros
Jean Yarbrough, professor of government, will present
the frst 2014 installment of Bowdoin Student Govern-
ments TEDTalk-style lecture series, followed by a Q&A.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
On the Wing, A Celebration of Birds
Pianist and Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez
and mezzo soprano Krista River will perform a collection
of 12 songs about birds.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 4 p.m.
FILM
Annie Hall
The Bowdoin Film Society will screen Woody Allens
Oscar-winning 1977 rom-com starring Allen and Diane
Keaton.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Slamentines Day
The Slam Poets Society will host a Valentines Day-
themed poetry show. Bring poetry, music and a friend.
MacMillan House. 7 p.m.
ACTIVITY
Valentines Day Contra Dance
The Of ce of Religious and Spiritual Life and the Bow-
doin Outing Club will host a contra dance with a band.
Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Vagina Monologues
V-Day will orchestrate a performance of Eve Enslers
Vagina Monologues to raise money and awareness for
the Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine.
Tickets are on sale for $5 at the Smith Union Info Desk.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
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TUESDAY
WORKSHOP
Making Independent Films in Cuba
Miguel Coyula, Cuban director and flmmaker, will present
a workshop for anyone interested in flmmaking.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 4 p.m.
WORLD CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL
The Return
Andrey Zvyagintsevs 2003 Russian flm will be presented
by Kristina Toland, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow
in the Russian department.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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SATURDAY
FILM
Stage Beauty
Bowdoin Film Society will screen Richard Eyres 2004
romantic drama starring Billy Crudup as a Shakespearean
actor and Claire Danes as an aspiring actress.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
On the Wing, A Celebration of Birds
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Vagina Monologues
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
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MONDAY
WORLD CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL
Memories of Overdevelopment
Miguel Coyulas 2010 Cuban flm will be presented by
Coyula, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages Nadia
Celis, and the Latin American Student Organization to
kick of the World Cinema Film Festival. Each flm in the
festival will be followed by a discussion.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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MONDAY
LECTURE
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TUESDAY
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SUNDAY
EVENT
Brunch with Queer Sta and Faculty
The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity will
sponsor a brunch with queer and allied Bowdoin staf and
faculty. People of all genders and sexualities are welcome.
24 College Street. 11 a.m.
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RECITAL
19th Century Russian Music and Poetry
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 2 p.m.
WORLD CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL
The Great Beauty
This 2013 Italian flm, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, will
be presented by Allison Cooper, assistant professor of
romance languages, and Gretchen Williams 14.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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THURSDAY
WORLD CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL
The Ambassador
This 2011 Danish flm, directed by Mads Brugger, will be
presented by Assistant Professor of Government Ericka
Albaugh and Reed House.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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Benjamin Jealous,
Former President
of the NAACP
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FETA LASAGNA, SHEPHERDS PIE
GREEN BEANS WITH BACON, SOLE
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CHIPOTLE CHICKEN PASTA, PIZZA
LINGUINE, CHICKEN VESUVIUS
T
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25
CHICKEN TENDERS, POLENTA CAKES
CHICKEN TENDERS, MAC & CHEESE
T
M
40
30
TURKEY STEAK, CHICKPEA CURRY
LONDON BROIL, VEGGIE LASAGNA
T
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Family Day at the
Arctic Museum
The Importance
of Being Earnest
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QUESADILLAS, LONDON BROIL
HAMBURGERS, TORTELLINI
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PIZZA, MANDARIN NOODLES
FRIED SHRIMP, MAC & CHEESE
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SPAGHETTI, MEATBALL SUBS
GENERAL TAOS CHICKEN, EGG ROLLS
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THEATER COMMON HOUR
Julia Poitras
Santos
ARTIST TALK