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FEATURES: TALK OF THE QUAD OPINION
EDITORIAL: Rules of Engagement.
SPORTS: WATER POLO WINS CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
Page 13.
KICKING THE CAN: David Steury 15 on
campaign ads in polarized politics.
Page 15.
Page 14.
Stevie Lane 15 on modern Jewish identity; Hy Khong 16
on nostalgia and the sophomore slump.
Page 7.
After victories against Wesylean, Yale and Bos-
ton University last weekend, the womens club
water polo team will advance to
the national championship.
A&E: SPRING DANCE SHOW
The performances in this weekends spring
dance showcase
both the political
and the abstract.
Page 9.
25 campus email accounts
hacked in phishing attack
BY JULIAN ANDREWS
ORIENT STAFF
Please see PHISHING, page 3
Thawing campus gears up for next weeks Ivies
Brunswick not exempt from opiate epidemic
BY GARRETT CASEY
AND SAM MILLER
ORIENT STAFF
Tey are among Brunswicks stay-
at-home moms, its career criminals,
its 50-year-old businessmeneven
its high school studentsand they all
have at least one thing in common.
Tey are Brunswicks heroin and pre-
scription opiate addicts.
Te opiate addiction epidemic has
gained national attention in the past
year as the number of fatal heroin
overdoses has skyrocketed, particu-
larly in New England. In January,
Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont
dedicated his entire State of the State
address to the problem. In March,
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachu-
setts declared opiate abuse a public
health emergency.
In his own State of the State
speech in January, Maine Gover-
nor Paul LePage called drug use a
troubling epidemic, and said that
927 babies in the statemore than 7
percent of all newbornswere born
addicts in 2013.
LePage had been hesitant to ap-
prove the distribution of Nalaxone
an overdose reversal drugfearing
that it would give addicts a false sense
of security. Last week, afer intense
criticism from lawmakers, health
professionals and the media, LePage
fnally approved a bill that allows fam-
ily members of addicts to receive the
potentially life-saving drug.
Everyone the Orient interviewed
for this articlea substance abuse
counselor, the director of the outpa-
tient behavioral health at Mid Coast
Hospital, Brunswick police om cers,
a defense attorney, and a psycholo-
gistsaid that Maines opiate prob-
lem is not unique to certain cities,
ethnicities, ages, or socioeconomic
levels. Addiction exists everywhere,
Brunswick included.

Addiction
Te most common path to heroin
addiction begins with medicinal
or recreational use of prescription Please see OPIATES, page 4
Bowdoin email servers experi-
enced an attack in which hackers
used several student accounts to send
spam on Monday evening between
the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. When
the breach was detected, Bowdoin
Internet Technology (IT) temporar-
ily shut down the accounts involved.
Te initial cause of the breach is not
known at this time, but the accounts
have since been restored.
Monday nights incident was a
phishing attack similar, but unrelated
to the one reported by the Orient in
late September. Information and Tech-
nology Security Om cer Steve Blanc
said that no personal or sensitive infor-
mation was compromised and that the
purpose of such attacks is merely to use
Bowdoin servers to send spam to other
locations on the Internet.
Most phishing attacks are dis-
covered very quickly, as they tend
to send a massive amount of mes-
sagesusually up to 10,000in the
frst few minutes of the attack. Tis
massive outfow of messages triggers
alerts and security systems. Accord-
ing to Blanc, in this attack hackers
took control of 20 accounts and sent
fve to 10 messagesevery few min-
utesallowing them to stay under
the radar for longer.
For students whose accounts were
disabled, it was a frustrating night.
Megan Massa 14, said that she re-
ceived no warning that her account
would be disabled, but was suddenly
unable to access her email, wireless
or computer account from anywhere
on the Bowdoin campus. In her com-
munications with IT, she requested
that the department develop a way of
notifying students, possibly through
their phones, when their accounts are
at risk. Blanc said that this is some-
thing IT is working on.
It lef us metaphorically and lit-
erally in the dark, said Massa. I
couldnt get on any place on campus
in terms of my account, it was just
gone.
IT discovered the breach when
a spam detection service, Spam-
Cop, alerted them to the inordinate
amount of spam they had been sent
from Bowdoin accounts.
AARONWOLF, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
END OF AN ERA: President BarryMills announcedhis plans toleave Bowdoinat theendof the14-15academic year inacampuswideemail onMonday.Though
hemadehis decisioninMarch, his announcement cametothesurpriseof most inthecommunity, whoexpectedhimtostayat least anadditional year.
President Barry Mills announced on
Monday that he plans to step down at
the end of the 2014-2015 academic year.
Mills has been president since 2001.
Transitions are inevitable, and afer
what will be 14 tremendous years as
president, I believe it is time for me to
make way for new leadership to propel
Bowdoin into its next period of great-
ness, Mills wrote in an email to campus.
In an interview with the Orient, Mills
said that he came to the decision in
March. He notifed the Board of Trust-
ees of his decision on Monday morning,
followed by an email to the campus.
In 2011, Mills told the Orient that
he would stay at the College for at least
fve more years, making his departure
in 2015 a year earlier than expected.
Mills graduated from Bowdoin in
1972 with a double major in Govern-
ment and Biochemistry. He holds a
Ph.D in Biology from Syracuse Univer-
sity and a J.D. from Columbia Universi-
ty School of Law. He was a partner at the
New York-based law frm Debevoise &
Plimpton LLP before assuming his posi-
tion at Bowdoin.
Please see MILLS, page 3
President Mills to depart next spring after 14 years
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
The Board of Trustees will form
a search committee by its next
meeting on May 8 to select the
Colleges 15th president.
A new policy for this years
Ivies limits the number of guests
that each student can register to
two, down from last years three,
and raises the price of their entry
to $30, an increase from the $20
charged in the past two years.
BY EMILY WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
Students are held accountable for
any problems that occur with their
guests.
Pick wisely who you decide
to bring along. Every year pretty
much guaranteed, well have situa-
tions where guests misbehave and
well have to remove them from
campus, said Director of Safety
and Security Randy Nichols, who
will be helping supervise his ninth
Ivies this year.
Security will begin to increase its
staffing on Wednesday to account
for raised levels of student activity.
An increased volume of alcohol
certainly lends towards a higher-
risk environment for us to deal
Please see IVIES, page 3
President Mills Monday
morning announcement came
relatively abruptly, but it was a
coordinated effort. Vice Presi-
dent for Communications and
Public Affairs Scott Hood said
he learned of Mills plans in a
number of conversations over
the weekend.
The first order of business
once he had made his deci-
sion was to tell his bossesthe
Board of Trustees, said Hood.
Afer informing senior staf
members of the decision individ-
ually, Mills placed a conference
call to the trustees at 11 a.m.
An email announcement to
staff, students and faculty came
half an hour later, followed by
an email from Debbie Barker
80, chair of the Board of Trust-
ees. Hood said that both of
those emails were written over
the weekend, and were not ed-
ited by the Office of Commu-
nications and Public Affairs
beyond simple copy-editing.
After Mills email, Hood
said, his office took over with
getting the word out. The
Bowdoin Daily Sun quickly
posted online and promoted
painkillers like Vicodin, OxyContin
and Percocet. Tese powerful drugs
are ofen prescribed to patients fol-
lowing surgeries and can quickly
lead to dependence.
One of the fastest growing popula-
tions for addicts in the opiate world is
adults who have had surgeries, werent
recreational drug users, and now are
breaking into their neighbors house
going through their medicine cabinets
because theyre desperate for drugs,
said Geno Ring, a licensed substance
abuse counselor who works both with
Bowdoin students and at Brunswick
High School.
Nothing on their radar prepared
them for this happening in their lives.
Teyre married. Teyve got kids.
Mid Coast Hospitals Addiction Resource Center: performs in the
top 2 percent of addiction centers nationally
927: Number of babies born addicted to drugs in Maine in 2013
4,967: Number of Mainers who sought treatment for opiate addiction in 2012
200: Number of Brunswick residents who sought addiction
treatment at Mid Coast last year
95: Approximate percentage of crime in Brunswick relating to drugs.
NEWS ANALYSIS
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Quick Facts
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FUCK YOU AND HAVERHILL.
WORST TOWN USA.
Te Bowdoin Student Govern-
ment (BSG) Assembly unani-
mously voted for an initial approv-
al of changes to the BSGs bylaws
at their meeting on Wednesday
night. According to the BSGs
constitution, a two-thirds major-
ity of the assembly must approve
the changes again next week to put
them into efect.
Among other things, BSGs
bylaws govern the roles of the
elected student representatives,
regulate election procedures and
determine the structure of impor-
tant student government bodies,
such as the Student Organizations
Oversight Committee (SOOC).
Last weeks elections moved
several whole articles from the
BSGs constitution to the bylaws,
including articles delineating re-
sponsibilities of the President
and Vice Presidents on Student
Government, discussing the stu-
dent representatives on the trustee
committees and the fnal approval
of Judicial Board nominations.
None of these articles has actually
been modifed, just shifed to a dif-
ferent section of the constitution.
A new section including strict-
er rules for representative atten-
dance was added, exceeding the
limit of three unexcused absences
for meetings of the BSG Assem-
bly or subcommittees. Going over
the limit (or a total combination
of fve absences from both types
of meetings) will result in an au-
tomatic expulsion from the as-
sembly without a vote. Expelled
members may, however, be rein-
stated by a two-thirds vote of the
executive committee.
Changes to the SOOCs guide-
lines have now codifed some of
the organizations new roles, such
as its stewardship of the Orbit, or-
ganization of the Student Activi-
ties Fair, and holding club leader
training sessions. Some of the
changes contained in this years re-
assessment of the SOOCs guide-
lines are also mentioned here.
Vice President of the Treasury
and SAFC Chair Megan Massa
14 also presented an initial set of
changes for the SAFC guidelines,
arguing that it was more efective
to change the guidelines at the end
of this year, rather than at the be-
ginning of the next academic year.
Massa stated that her proposed
changes came from a desire to save
money next year.
One change Massa proposed
was to cut down the amount of
of-campus meals the SAFC sup-
plies for clubs that travel. Call-
ing the practice unsustainable,
Massa explained we give you
the means to go, we give you the
transport, food is a luxury that
you have to pay for.
Massa noted that under her
proposed changes, there would
still be ways to fund meals for club
trips, such as board transfers
each club would still be allowed
two per semester, although certain
athletic clubs could get permission
for more additional funds from
Associate Director of Dining Ser-
vices, Ken Cardone. Massas pro-
posal also adds an additional $50
of travel snack money to supple-
ment food funds.
Since BSG has no meeting next
week, the Assembly will vote on
these proposed changes at their
meeting the week afer.
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John Swords 15
Was it Colby that just had some guy
named Bro Adams? We should get
some woman like Dudette Smith.
Courtney Chuang 15
Martin Krzywy 16.
STUDENT SPEAK
Who would be your dream president of Bowdoin College?
COMPILED BY JOE SHERLOCK
Patrick Kamieneski 15
Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Sarah Frankl 16
My cat.
The student operators of Cam-
pusFoodTrucks (CFT) launched a
Kickstarter campaign on Wednes-
day to try to raise $12,000 in order
to buy the truck outright and stay
in business.
If they do not reach their goal by
May 12, it is likely that the food truck
will close afer this spring, the third
year that it has been in operation.
CFT is owned by Lee Monty
Barker 16, Ben Citrin 16, Steve
Borukhin 14 and Eric Edelman 13,
but they rent the actual truck from
Reade Brower P13, its Rockland,
Maine-based owner.
They currently pay $400 a month,
which is covered by revenue from
food sales.
However, as of mid-April, Brow-
er has decided to sell the truck for
$10,000, giving priority to CFT to
buy until the middle of May.
The Orient was unable to speak
with Brower before print time
about his motivations for selling.
Te four owners of CFT, which
sits in the Dayton parking lot behind
Smith Union, attempted to winterize
the food truck during the fall, but
were unable to get it ready for busi-
ness due to a fryolator malfunction.
They have not been able to find
a different, cheaper truck to buy in
the area.
In an email to the Orient, Isaac
Brower 13, one of the original CFT
founders and son of the trucks
owner, said that they did not face
any financial issues while he was at
Bowdoin.
The owners said that they had
considered trying to buy the truck
outright in the past, but the setback
this winter made that impossible
without outside help.
The College treats CFT as an out-
side contractor and does not have
an official relationship with the
business beyond allowing it to op-
erate on campus.
According to Director of Student
Life and the Smith Union Allen De-
long, the College will not help them
cover the costs of buying the truck.
We wish them luck, but they are
entrepreneurs. They have beaten
the odds so far, there is no doubt
in my mind that they will beat the
odds this time, but this is just an-
other part of running a business,
said Delong, who acts as the ad-
ministrative point person between
CFT and the College.
The students have turned to
Kickstarter in the hopes that fans
and patrons of the food truck will
help ensure its existence for years
to come.
The Kickstarter campaign went
up on the website on April 16 and
the deadline for donations is set for
May 12.
The Kickstarter goal of $12,000
includes $10,000 to buy the truck,
and $2,000 for needed repairs.
As of the press time, the Kick-
starter has 11 backers and has
raised $450.
Kickstarter only collects the
money from people who have
pledged to donate once the goal of
$12,000 is reached.
I defnitely support it. I would
throw $10 or $15 towards it because
there is really nothing to eat afer Su-
per Snacks and thats annoying, said
Connor Moore 17 of the Kickstarter.
Jacob Russell 17 also spoke to
the lack of alternatives for late
night campus snacking, noting that
he would also be willing to chip in
$10 or $15.
Theyre doing Gods work, Rus-
sell added.
The owners of CFT have offered
up a variety of perks in exchange
for various tiers of donations.
These prizes range from one
free menu item and a CFT bumper
sticker for a $20 pledge, to hav-
ing an existing burger named after
whoever pledges $200.
A pledge of $1,000 can get you
one free menu item per night, while
a pledge of $2,500 guarantees you
the opportunity to design CFT
uniforms.
Were hoping that well get a lot
of donations from a lot of people at
Bowdoin because we figure there
have to be hundreds of people here
that use the food truck, that know
what the food truck is and would be
willing to put in five or 10 to make
sure that its around for next year,
said Barker.
BY CAMERON DE WET
ORIENT STAFF
CAMPUS FOOD TRUCKS GIVEN ULTIMATUM TO BUY TRUCK, NEEDS $12K BY MAY 12
LAW & ORDER
Bowdoin Student Government
amends constitution, bylaws
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
On Wednesday, Gelato Fiasco held its annual Brunswick Teen Center Scoop-A-Thon, donating sales beyond the daily seasonal average to the Brunswick Teen Center. Every hour, a dierent round of selected
scoopers took over behind the glass. Here, representing the Chaos Theory womens frisbee team, Elise Engquist 15 dips into one of the avors.
DAIRY CHARITY
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Breen voted BSG President for 14-15 year
BY PHOEBE BUMSTED
ORIENT STAFF
Chris Breen 15 was elected presi-
dent of Bowdoin Student Govern-
ment (BSG) in a student election that
ended Sunday at 8 p.m. Breen edged
out David Levine 16 by 24 votes,
winning 403 votes to Levines 379.
According to BSG, 830 students vot-
ed in total, resulting in a 45 percent
turnout rate for the student body.
Only 93 seniors voted, while 227
and 226 juniors and seniors voted,
respectively. Te frst year class had
284 votes.
I really feel passionate about
Bowdoin, and I feel like I can rep-
resent a large number of viewpoints
from different parts of the student
body, Breen said.
Breen was an at-large representa-
tive as a frst-year, which is an elect-
ed position that engages in commit-
tees. As a sophomore, he served as
the vice president for BSG afairs.
Two other BSG executive com-
mittee races were closely contested.
Chrissy Rujiraorchai 17 garnered 16
more votes than Matthew Goodrich
15 for the position of vice president
for academic afairs, 381 to 365; Har-
riet Fisher 17 received 413 votes to
fellow frst-year Ryan Hermans 279
and will serve as vice president for
student organizations next year.
Several other vice presidents were
elected in uncontested races, includ-
ing Charlotte McLaughry 15 (stu-
dent government afairs), Justin Pear-
son 17 (student afairs), Ryan Davis
15 (treasury) and Bridgett McCoy
15 (facilities and sustainability).
I know that Chris [Breen] has a
couple of projects that he wants to
work on that Im very supportive
of, said McLaughry.
Breen said during the campagin
that he hopes to increase visibility
during the College House selection
process and to alter the Credit/D/
Fail deadline, among other goals for
the coming year. McLaughry said
she wants to increase BSGs connec-
tion with the student body.
McLaughry describes the posi-
tion of vice president for student
government affairs as a highly ad-
ministrative position. She sees her-
self as skilled at working patiently
with people and delegating tasks.
My goals are really to keep the
BSG running smoothly and help
the president with what he decides,
McLaughry said.
This will be McLaughrys first
year on BSG.
Rujiraorchais primary goal is to
allow students to see syllabi while
choosing courses on Polaris. She also
said that she wants to create a text-
book exchange system for students.
Breen sees the role of the BSG as
consiting of two parts: procedural
work like chartering clubs, and ad-
vocating for the student body.
You want students to feel con-
nected to BSG, Breen said.
This task may be harder than an-
ticipated.
I didnt really know what the po-
sitions really didI didnt know that
many of them even existed until read-
ing the ballot, said Elise Engquist 15.
He has been popular among stu-
dents, with approval ratings in Orient
surveys consistently above 90 percent.
Barrys been a really remarkable
leader for this place, said Dean of Stu-
dent Afairs Tim Foster. I dont think
I know anyone who has such passion
for Bowdoin. You take his strategic
mind and his relentless drive and his
high aspirations for this place, and its
quite extraordinary to see whats been
accomplished.
Mills has also proven an efective
fundraiser, helping to grow the en-
dowment from $433.2 million in his
frst year in om ce to $1.03 billion in
2013. Te amout of money the Col-
lege puts toward fnancial aid has
more than doubled during his ten-
urefrom $14.6 million (unadjusted
for infation) in 2001 to $32.3 million
in 2013.
Mills is currently the second longest
serving president in the NESCAC.
Colbys William D. Adams has been in
om ce since 2000, but plans to retire at
the end of this year. Mills tenure is the
longest for a Bowdoin president since
James Coles, who was in om ce from
1952 to 1967. Overall, Millss length
of tenure will rank sixth-longest of 14
Bowdoin presidents.
Few members of the Bowdoin com-
munity knew of Mills plans before
Monday.
Everyone knew this day would
come, but it was a surprise, said Foster.
Senior Vice President for Finance
and Administration and Treasurer
Katy Longley said she was hoping it
wouldnt be this soon.
Mills said the timing of his an-
nouncement was meant to give the
Board of Trustees enough time to start
thinking about the transition in time
for its annual meeting in May. Te
Board now has 14 months to fnd a suc-
cessor and prepare for the transition.
Chair of the Board of Trustees Deb-
orah Barker said that the committee
is going to revisit Bowdoins mission,
and think about where the College is
currently headed, and then draf a job
opening based on these considerations.
A president needs to be every-
thing, she said. He needs to be a chief
executiveor she doesa politician,
a leader and a fundraiser.
Barker said that the Trustees hope
to approve a search committee at their
meeting on May 7 and 8.
Tats the most important respon-
sibility the Trustees have, Foster said.
We have a stellar board, and theyll
get it right.
Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) President Sarah Nelson 14 sent
an email to rising juniors and seniors
Wednesday night inviting them to ap-
ply to represent the student body on
the search committee. According to
Barker, the board has reached out to
all constituent groupsstudents, fac-
ulty, and alumnito fnd potential
committee members.
Mills said he does not plan on being
involved in the search process.
Its not wise for a person to be in-
volved in choosing their successor, so
it will be up to that committee and the
trustees to fnd a new president, he said.
He cited the Colleges stability as the
main reason for his decision to depart
a year earlier than he had planned.
Its not a lot earlier, he said. I
recognize Ive been here a long time.
Fourteen years is a long time to be a
college president, and the transition is
going to be somewhat challenging for
the school. My own view is that its im-
portant to allow a place to go through
a challenging point when its in an in-
credibly good position.
Mills also emphasized the impor-
tance of a presidents commitment to
a long tenure.
Its an incredibly good time for the
College, he said. It deserves a new
leader who is going to have a run rate
of 10 to 15 years.
For now, Mills said he is focusing
on his remaining time at Bowdoin.
Lots of people have asked me to
refect on the past, and Im actually
not interested in refecting on the past
right now. Im interested in thinking
about the future, he said.
He listed fundraising for the Col-
leges fnancial aid endowment,
supporting the Digital and Com-
putational Studies program, and pro-
moting the Coastal Studies Center as
top priorities for his remaining time
at Bowdoin.
As for his plans afer Bowdoin,
Mills said that his decision to step
down should not be interpreted as a
retirementthough he does not plan
to practice law again.
I dont want to retire, he said.
I have a lot more years ahead of me
where I think I can be incredibly
effective and energetic and success-
ful. And so Im open to all kinds of
opportunities.
-Garrett Casey and Nicole Wetsman
contributed to this report.
MILLS
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Te danger of these attacks does not
necessarily lie in the leaking of conf-
dential information, but rather in the
possibility that Bowdoin servers could
be blocked in other places on the In-
ternet if they send too much spam.
Blanc said that this is the most com-
mon type of attack the College sees. In
spite of the incident, IT remains conf-
dent in their security systems.
People dont always understand
PHISHING
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that when they get the dozen or so
spam messages a day in their mailbox
that were actually blocking a thou-
sand for that person that arent get-
ting through, said Blanc.
Tina Finneran, director of academ-
ic technology and consulting, said that
having someone in Blancs position
gives the College information security
that not all institutions have.
Bowdoin is way ahead of the game
in having Steve already, Finneran
said. He went through serious train-
ing and recertifcations keep his skills
up to date.
with, said Nichols.
It takes probably twice as many
or maybe three times as many sched-
uled om cers to get the job done. I
would say that for the day of the
concert, every single om cer is work-
ing at least one and ofen two shifs.
Security currently employs 16
patrol officers.
Te rain location for the Satur-
day concert is inside Farley Field
House, although due to space con-
cerns, guests would not be allowed
entrance in the event of rain. Stu-
dent Activities will notify students
on the Friday of Ivies if the location
is changed.
Having the concert in [Farley
Field House] just isnt the same as
having it outside on Whittier Field,
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said Nichols. The rain plan will
only be instituted if we have no op-
tion other than to go inside.
Security is adding extra lighting
at the Whittier Field pathway so
that students can attend Pinestock
on Saturday night through the field,
without the need to walk through
Bowker Street or other town resi-
dential areas.
Although alcohol-related trans-
ports are not usually numerous at
Ivies, injuries requiring hospitaliza-
tion do occur.
People have stepped on glass and
received some pretty bad cuts and
have had to go to the hospital. We
encourage students not to use glass,
that would be helpful, said Nichols.
Te planning of Ivies involves
careful coordination between Secu-
rity, Student Activities, Dining Ser-
vices, Facilities Management, Bow-
doin Student Government, and the
Department of Athletics, and these
bodies have been meeting regularly.
Nichols said that it is important that
students themselves cooperate with
the plans and behave in safe ways.
Security will send out a notice
to the College Neighbors Asso-
ciation explaining the schedule of
Ivies, and Student Activities will
send out flyers to all residents near
Whittier Field. Security also coor-
dinates with the Brunswick Police
Department (BPD) and students
can expect that more BPD officers
will be on patrol on the streets near
campus during Ivies.
Students are accountable for
their conduct throughout Ivies just
like they always are at Bowdoin. I
want Ivies to be a good memory for
every student, said Nichols.
More information from Secu-
rity and general information will be
emailed to students next Friday.
it on the Colleges social media
channels. The article was also
sent in an email to alumni, par-
ents, and the widows of alumni.
The biggest challenge is
making sure that things hap-
pen fast enough, so that youre
not leaving people out, so that
theyre not hearing it in ways
other than what we would pre-
fer, which is from the College,
said Hood. It was all done in 40
minutes.
Bowdoin students are very
technologically savvy, he add-
ed. We knew that as soon as
that email went out, itd be out
on Twitter. And it was.
Mills himself was also in-
volved in the social media blitz,
posting a photo taken during
the conference call to his per-
sonal Instagram account after
the call ended.
This was all Barry, Hood
said. Were sitting there, the
phone calls going on, and he
hands his phone to one of the
senior officers and says, Take a
picture!
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SECURITY REPORT: 4/12 to 4/15
Saturday, April 12
A student complained of loud music
coming from Brunswick Apartments L.
A visitor attending a basketball day
camp was transported to Mid Coast
Hospital with a broken clavicle.
Sunday, April 13
Loud music was reported on the
11th foor of Coles Tower. Students were
asked to lower the volume.
An om cer cited an underage student
who was walking on College Street car-
rying an open can of beer.
A student was reported for being
uncooperative with the front desk mon-
itor at Super Snack.
An om cer investigated a report of
someone entering Pickard Field House
afer it was closed for the night.
Afer receiving a neighborhood
noise complaint associated with a large
gathering on Garrison Street, Bruns-
wick Police Department (BPD) issued
disorderly conduct warnings to six stu-
dent residents of an of-campus house.
Security and BPD responded to
reports of loud yelling in the neighbor-
hood of Brunswick Apartments at 2 a.m.
A basement restroom wall was van-
dalized at Ladd House.
An om cer investigated a report of
suspicious activity in the foyer bath-
room at Banister Chapel.
Tere was a noise complaint and
hard alcohol violation on the sixth foor
of Coles Tower.
A student reported that a bottle of
prescription medication was stolen from
an unlocked room in Howell House.
Monday, April 14
An om cer checked on the well-be-
ing of a student at Druckenmiller Hall.
A student reported the thef of a
purple Schwinn 700C bicycle from out-
side Stowe House Inn.
A suspicious man approached a stu-
dent outside Quinby House asking for
help distributing his poetry. Te man
was described as being middle-aged
and having brown hair, and smoking a
cigar. He was driving a silver Ford com-
pact with many colorful bumper stick-
ers. Te man lef the area and was not
located.
A student complaining of nausea
was escorted to the Mid Coast Walk-In
Clinic.
A student who hit his head on the
trunk lid of a car on North Campus
Drive was taken to the Mid Coast Walk-
In Clinic.
Tuesday, April 15
Burnt microwave popcorn set of a
smoke detector in Appleton Hall.
A student reported an iPhone 5 to
be missing or stolen from a car parked
at Burnett House.
An incident involving alleged disor-
derly conduct and the use of homopho-
bic language was reported and is under
investigation.
A student at Morrell Gym with an
elevated heart rate was escorted to Mid
Coast Hospital for an evaluation.
-Compiled by the Of ce of Safety and
Security.
Teyve got careersand all of a sud-
den theyre spiraling out of control,
said Ring.
Yet it is not only adults develop-
ing opiate dependence through pre-
scribed drugs. Sixty-seven percent of
teens receiving treatment for opiate
addiction were prescribed painkill-
ers in the previous year, according to
the American Society for Addiction
Medicine.
Director of Outpatient Behavioral
Health at Mid Coast Hospital Eric
Haram said that failing to dispose of
unused pills also poses a risk, since
teenagers will ofen fnd them and
use them for recreational purposes.
Most teenagers fail to realize the risks
involved, or simply feel invincible, but
Haram said everybody is vulnerable
when it comes to opiates.
Nobody chooses to be an addict;
nobody wants to have track marks
all over, be losing their kids, be losing
their teethBlack teeth are a tough
thing to see in the morning at the
jail, said Brunswick defense attorney
Chris Ledwick 95.
Opiates always produce physi-
cal dependence. Its not one of those
things that doesnt happen to people
its simple biology, added Haram.
Ledwick said that in the last fve
years, about 70 percent of the drug
cases he had seen were based on legal
drugs and prescription pills.
Anyone who goes into a surgery
comes home with 50 pills for get-
ting a tooth pulled. Its crazy, he said.
So you can have a grandparent with
500-pill bottles in their houses, and
the nephew, grandson, stepson, they
know about it and thats how they get
hooked on this stuf.
Te progression from occasional
recreational use of painkillers to ad-
diction can be rapid.
Te way it usually works for people
is that theyre using this once or twice
a month at parties, and then its once a
week, and then its three to fve times a
week, and then theyre an addict, said
Haram. Ive heard that story thou-
sands of times in the last few years.
He said the number of patients he
sees has doubled to 800 in the past
seven years. In the past year, about
200 of those patients were Brunswick
residents.
Responses to the rise in painkiller
addiction have included reducing
availability and reformulating pills
like Oxy 30 to make them more dif-
fcult to abuse. An unintended con-
sequence of these changes has been a
spike in the use of heroina cheaper,
more accessible and ofen more po-
tent alternative.
Its a demand issue no matter how
you put it, Haram said. When you
restrict access to pain medication, you
havent reduced the volume of addic-
tion; you havent reduced the demand
in a community for that high.
Since heroin is an illegal substance
with an established social stigma,
newspapers and politicians tend to
devote more attention to it than pain-
killers. But from a treatment and pub-
lic health perspective, Haram said,
there is no diference.
Opiates are opiates, Haram said.
Teres social stigma associated with
[heroin]did you get that Oxy from
your moms medicine cabinet or did
you get heroin in the alleyso it
sounds much graver.
Te likelihood of an accidental
overdose from heroin and prescrip-
tion painkillers is the same, according
to Haram.

Treatment
Brunswick is home to one of the
countrys most efective addiction
treatment centers. Te Addiction Re-
source Center at Mid Coast Hospital,
which Haram oversees, has won na-
tional awards for improving patient
outcomes using science-based ap-
proaches. According to Mid Coasts
website, the Centers approach has
reduced wait times from 11 to two-
and-a-half days and improved its
treatment completion rate from 60 to
94 percent.
Treatment for opiate addiction
generally includes detoxifcation,
followed by counseling and the
controlled use of medications like
Methadone or Buprenorphine (ofen
referred to by the brand name Sub-
oxone). Tese medications act on the
same parts of the brain as heroin and
can reduce withdrawal symptoms and
cravings.
Te Center uses BASIS-24, a com-
puterized outcome measurement tool,
to evaluate its efectiveness. Patients
are asked questions halfway through
treatment and every 90 days thereaf-
ter. Teir responses receive scores in
six categoriesdepression and func-
tioning, emotional lability, psychosis,
relationships, self-harm and substance
abuseas well as an overall score. Te
scores of Mid Coasts patients are then
compared to the scores of similar pa-
tient populations around the country.
Mid Coast performs in the top two
percent of treatment centers nation-
ally, which makes it competative with
well-known counterparts like the
Cleveland Clinic, the Hazelden Foun-
dation and the Caron Foundation.
People pay 40 grand up front for
going to places like this, Haram said.
Were a publicly funded, commu-
nity hospital and can produce those
same kind of outcomes, but treatment
where I work might cost four grand.
Despite a sharp increase in the num-
ber of addicts over the last decade, pub-
lic funding for Maines Om ce of Sub-
stance Abusewhich funds treatment
centers like the one at Mid Coastwas
lower in fscal year 2012 ($26.7 mil-
lion) than it was in fscal year 2006 ($29
million). In the same time period, the
number of Mainers seeking treatment
for opiate abuse increased from 3,023
in 2006 to 4,697 in 2012, according to
the Maine Om ce of Substance Abuse.
Harams primary problem has been
meeting the demand for treatment.
Te number of beds, the number
of detox, the number of outpatient
slotsjust the number of treatment
slots in generalgets cut every year,
he said. Certain medicines that are
available to treat opiate dependence
that are FDA [approved]this ad-
ministration has reduced access to
those medications specifcally.
Providing access to treatment be-
came even harder this January, when
cuts to Maines Medicaid program
kicked in. Haram says that about 15
percent of his patients, or roughly 100
people in the greater Brunswick area,
lost their health care coverage.
OPIATES
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Typically what happens is those
people drop out of treatment and re-
turn to street use, Haram said.

Law Enforcement
Te opiate addiction epidemic has
caused problems for the Brunswick
Police Department (BPD) as well. De-
tective Richard Cutlife, who works
with BPD and the Drug Enforcement
Agency, estimated that 95 percent of
all crime in Brunswick is drug related.
He said that other than marijuana,
heroin is now the most commonly
used illicit substance in town.
Tere have been several arrests for
tram cking heroin in Brunswick over
the last year, including that of Angel
Quinones of Connecticut last May.
Sergeant Marty Rinaldi of BPD told
the Bangor Daily News at the time
that Quinones was a substantial deal-
er in the area.
Brunswicks central location ofers
one explanation for these tram cking
arrests.
We live on the Route 1 corridor.
Youve got I-95 and youve got Route 1.
So anybody whos traveling to bring their
drugs anywhere, youve got to come
through Brunswick, said School Re-
source Om cer Aaron Bailey, who works
for BPD at Brunswick High School.
Once drug ofenders enter the legal
system, however, district attorneys at-
tempt to diferentiate between career
criminals and addicts who simply are
desperate to continue funding their use.
When someones on probation
for a year or two and fails a drug test,
the old response used to be to throw
them in jail for 30 daysTeir life
falls apart, and they start using drugs
again, Bailey said. Probation has
been a little ahead of the curve, espe-
cially in Cumberland County, about
looking at other ways to deal with it,
like having graduated sanctions.
LePage and law enforcement are
concerned that recovering addicts
will abandon from their treatment
programs and either abuse or sell
synthetic opiates meant for medical
use like Methadone and Suboxone,
a pattern experts call diversion. Tis
has been cited as a reason for limiting
access to these drugs; Haram said that
he spends around half his time work-
ing to prevent it.
Making people show up to count
their medicine, by doing observed
urines, by controlling the size of the
prescription, that they can only get it at
one pharmacythese are all strategies
we use to prevent diversion, he said.
Diversion mitigation plans are re-
quired by law, but Haram said Mid
Coasts is way more robust than
most. He meets on a weekly basis
with Brunswick, Bath and Lincoln
County Police to discuss drug and
crime issues.
Te frst question at every meet-
ing: Have you arrested anybody who
had medicine that we prescribed? And
month afer month afer month afer
month the answer is no, Haram said.
According to Ledwick, however,
these synthetic opiates are a major
problem, particularly in Maines pris-
ons.
Suboxone is the big thing right
nowWere really struggling with it
right now, almost more than Oxys
in this region. If you talk to anyone
in [the Maine Department of Cor-
rections], thats the bane of their ex-
istence, he said. People melt them
onto the pages of the letters they send
in; they melt them into the glue of en-
velope, and [inmates] can reactivate
them once theyre in there. Its very
easy to hide...You can ft a lot of those
strips inside a body. And people get
pretty creative with that.
Ledwick explained that the accessi-
bility of drugs like Suboxone in prison
makes it a place where recovering ad-
dicts are likely to relapse.
Tere used to be this notion that
at least if theyre in jail, they wont be
able to do drugs. And thats just not
the case anymore, especially in Cum-
berland County, he said. A lot of my
clients will tell me theres more readily
accessible drugs in the jail than there
are on the street.
Tat is just one of the reasons that
people like Ledwick and Haram think
that the criminal justice system alone
cannot end the opiate epidemic.
We wont arrest ourselves out of
this problem, Haram said. It really
is both a public health problem and a
public safety problem. We need to ex-
pand treatment while at the same time
getting smarter about law enforce-
ment strategy.
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fruit tones die out early, leaving only
acidity and a weak sour feeling.
For the money, you would be
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Tracking the long, rigorous road to a tenured professorship
BY JOE SEIBERT AND KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
Except for snippets of conversation
from those occasional end-of-semester
dinner parties at professors houses,
the details of what it means to be a
professor outside of the classroom
are generally hidden from students.
Te faculty are expected to meet high
standards not only in teaching, but
also in engagement and participation
in their felds and in service to the
College. Tis is the frst in a two-part
series looking at the hiring processes
and academic expectations that shape
faculty experiences at the College.
Hiring process for tenure-track
faculty
When Associate Professor of
History Page Herrlinger first vis-
ited campus as a prospective hire,
she almost underestimated the
Maine weather.
I remember being really ner-
vous the night before my visit and
getting a phone call from a pro-
fessor who told me to make sure
to wear boots on my visit, said
Herrlinger. I remember feeling a
little uncomfortable about wear-
ing boots but when I got to cam-
pus and Maine winter was well
underway I just felt like someone
here was looking out for me, which
made the visit a lot easier.
Her journey ended when she
joined the Bowdoin faculty in 1998,
completing a rigorous tenure-track
faculty hiring process which lasts,
on average, around 18 months.
The tenure-track process is a
place where as we hire someone,
were saying, Bowdoin has these
really high standards and we want
you to meet those standards, said
Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle
Collins Judd.
According to Judd, the hiring
process begins when a department
or program makes a request to the
Committee on Curriculum and Edu-
cational Policy.
As part of that, the program has
already looked to understand where
the discipline is going, to under-
stand the kind of search that might
be involved and how to create as
large a pool of candidates as pos-
sible, said Judd.
At this point, hiring committees
begin to form to address the posi-
tions in question. Te corresponding
department or program has the most
responsibility in hiring for positions,
but the committees also include fac-
ulty from diferent academic felds.
Once a list of candidates has been
assembled, the process continues
on their research and meet with stu-
dents, faculty, the hiring committee
and the dean for academic afairs, as
well as the president of the College.
Can they be successful in the
kind of research they want to do
here and can they be successful in
our classroomsthese are the ques-
tions were asking, said Judd.
Part of attracting candidates that
will do well at a liberal arts institu-
tion is incentivizing the opportunity
to work at Bowdoin in various ways.
One of these incentives is Bowdoins
Partner Accommodation Policy,
which makes it easier for profes-
sors with partners and/or families to
come work at the College.
Bowdoin is not in a major urban
center, and there are fewer institu-
tions of higher learning close by for
partners of existing faculty members
to turn to while looking for a job.
Te Partner Accommodation Poli-
cy was instituted in 2007 to create op-
portunities for couples in which both
partners are employed in academia.
Partners of existing faculty can ap-
ply for a position through the Partner
Accommodation Policy and if they
are accepted, the partners share one-
and-a-half teaching appointments.
Tis means that in an academic
year, the two partners will teach a
combined six classes as opposed to
the typical eight. If both are in the
same department, each will teach
three classes over the course of the
academic year. However, if the part-
ners are in diferent departments,
the original faculty member will
teach the standard four classes while
the partner hired under the policy
will teach two.
Its a creative way to deal with
a problem that a lot of institutions
have, said David Hecht, assistant
professor of history. Hecht is mar-
ried to Associate Professor of Eng-
lish Aviva Briefel, and was hired
under the policy in 2009 afer be-
ing at Bowdoin as a visiting faculty
member for several years. Hecht
and Briefel live with their two young
children in Brunswick.
Te policy also enables the Col-
lege to retain faculty members who
might otherwise consider leaving
because of family commitments.
If Im working here, then Aviva is
more likely to stay, said Hecht.
The editors of a should-not-be-
named college paper, that may or
may not be too proud of publish-
ing once a week longer than any-
one else, wanted us to review Fran-
zia Chillable Red. You all know
what that tastes like.
In case youre still wondering,
it does not taste very good. Natu-
rally, there are always worse things
to drink, including: radiator fluid,
chilled strawberry soup and or-
phan tears.
Eric Asimov at The New York
Times (which publishes every day)
sent out a request for reviews of
Beaujolais, a French wine that nei-
ther of us had ever tried before. So
in our constant bid for retweets
(find us on the Twittersphere), we
found ourselves sitting in Tower
6A with a bottle of 2011 Jean-Marc
Burgaud Les Vignes de Thulon
Beaujolais-Villages instead (#pay-
attentiontous).
The deep red of the wine grabbed
our attention right off the bat. An
inky erubescent, the Beaujolais
remained translucent when held
up to the light. The wine resisted
clinging to the glass, in line with
its lower alcohol content (12.5%
ABV). According to wikihow, the
best way to get retweets is to refer-
ence the J.J. Abrams upcoming Star
Wars: Episode VII. So be prepared,
Star Wars reference dropping is
about about to go down like Alder-
aan in episode IV.
If you havent noticed yet, we
have an entirely self-serving agen-
da in writing this column. Step
one: review Beaujolais instead of
Franzia. Step two: get retweeted by
Eric Asimov. Step three: gain Twit-
terverse momentum (#masstimes-
velocityequalswinecolumn). Step
four: get retweeted by J.J. Abrams.
DAN LIPKOWITZ
AND RYAN PEABODY
BOTTOM
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Step five: use our notoriety to
meet our personal hero, nationally
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chef Guy Fieri.
If you would like to help, please
submit our column to Buzzfeed (15
pictures of wines and pandas that
are better than Franzia) or Upwor-
thy (Tese two college students
drank a bottle of wine and you wont
believe what happened next!).
Viticulture has been practiced
in the Beaujolais region of France
since Roman times. Modern Beau-
jolais wines are made primar-
ily from the gamay grape, a 14th
century grape that became popu-
lar when residents of Gamay re-
alized that it ripened far quicker
than pinot noir. Recovering from
the black death, village residents
had occasion to drink and began
planting the grapes everywhere
(because seriously, #blackdeath
#winewednesday). In 1395, how-
ever, Philip the Bold, Duke of
Burgundy, declared the grapes to
be full of very great and horrible
harshness and outlawed them to
increase pinot noir production.
Grape cultivation retreated south
to the Beaujolais region, a De-
gobah-like refuge.
With a relatively weak nose, this
wine made us feel like we were like
two patrons in a Guy Fieri restau-
rant, wandering in search of olfac-
tory hints to the character of what
lay before us. We were able to de-
tect notes of blueberry and black-
currant, with hints of sugar. As
the wine warmed, alcoholic heat
began venting, bringing to mind
Asimovs instructions to chill a
Beaujolais slightly before drinking.
Te taste stood in contrast to the
nose. Hints of dark berries were
trumped by a strong sour acidity
and a metallic taste on the back of
the tongue. Te saccharine elements
we recognized earlier were nowhere
to be found.
You know what else is nowhere to
be found? Retweets of our column.
Get on that. A low alcohol con-
tent lef the Beaujolais light in the
Please see TENURE, page 6
Can [professors] be successful in
the kind of research they want to
do here and can they be successful
in our classrooms these are the
questions were asking.
CRISTLE COLLINS JUDD
DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
through various stages. At frst, the
committee compiles a long list of
around 20 potential candidates to in-
terview via phone or Skype.
From this list, the pool is nar-
rowed down to 3 to 4 candidates who
are invited to campus to give a talk
Research expectations for getting
tenure vary across departments...
Allen Wells, a history professor,
noted that a book is the coin of
the realm in his department.
Getting Tenure
After a professors first year at
Bowdoin, she is reviewed by her de-
partment chair and another mem-
ber of her department, the first
standardized step in the tenure-
seeking process.
Te next, more comprehensive
stage of review is reappointment,
during a professors third year. Pro-
fessors must turn in a self-evaluative
statement as well as course materials
to their departmental review com-
mittees. Te committee will then of-
fer a recommendation to the Om ce
of the Dean for Academic Afairs,
which makes the fnal decision on
whether the professor is reappointed.
Teyre evaluated primarily on
their teaching when they go up for re-
newal afer three years, said Associate
Professor of History Dallas Denery.
Physics professor Mark Battle
agreed that reappointment is an op-
portunity for a department to ensure
that things are on track in a profes-
sors career. Te process also ensures
that faculty members are ready to
take the typical fourth year sabbati-
cal, during which they are expected
to make signifcant strides in their
research or professional work.
During a faculty members ffh
year at Bowdoin, she begins the
multi-stage tenure process, which
involves many more levels of review.
A professors department, the Com-
mittee on Appointments, Promotion
and Tenure (CAPT), and reviewers
outside the College are all involved
in evaluating the candidate and mak-
ing a recommendation. Te dean for
academic afairs and the President
of the College use this information
to make recommendations of their
own, and the Board of Trustees then
makes the fnal decision on tenure.
According to Judd, these reviews
aim to explain and contextualize the
signifcance of a persons work with-
in their discipline.
A. LeRoy Greason Professor of
Music Mary Huntercurrently serv-
Initial candidates undergo phone or
Skype interviews
PROSPECTIVE PROFESSOR
3 to 4 candidates present research on
campus and are formally interviewed
One candidate hired as an
assistant professor
Assistant professor is reappointed, which
occurs after three years at the College
Assistant professor goes on sabbatical
to research in the fourth year
In the fth year at Bowdoin, multi-
stage tenure review process begins
Individual receives tenure and is
promoted to associate professor
Present additional research to a board
that determines full professorships
Individual is appointed a full profes-
sor and tenure process is complete
FULL TENURED PROFESSOR
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Te role of CAPT, on the other
hand, is to act as a more objective
body. Battle, who has been a member
of CAPT, emphasized that he works
hard to abide by the language of the
Colleges contract when evaluating
candidates up for tenure.
Art buff: Manager of Museum Security Hanson is also a globetrotter
in a different culture, feeling how
other people feel and perceive the
United States...is really, really an
amazing experience.
After graduating high school,
Hanson attended University of
Maine in Orono. There he stud-
ied French, Spanish and Russian,
earning a degree in Modern Lan-
guages. In college, Hanson studied
in southern Spain for a year and
visited Morocco and France. Af-
ter graduation, however, Hanson
struggled to find a job in his field.
I wasnt too excited about the
employment prospects, so I de-
cided that I would get certified as
an ESL teacher, he said. I did that
and then I went to Spain with the
intent of teaching English as a for-
eign language. It didnt work out
because in 2008 the economy there
was really hitting the pits. I stayed
there for about eight months and
then I came back and I needed a
job, so I found a job in security,
just as a security officer in a cor-
porate account. I did that for a few
years and then I came here.
Hanson now lives in Brunswick
with his wife, who also loves to
travel. They save money for trav-
eling and enjoy back-trail hiking.
Manager of Museum Security
Operations Timothy Hanson is a
true Mainer. Growing up in Rum-
ford, Hanson led a normal life
with loving parents and traditional
schooling. In his junior year of
high school, his horizons expand-
ed past Maine, when he learned
that his passion lay in a six-lettered
wordtravel.
When I was in high school, I
started taking a Spanish class and
convinced my teacher to bring us to
Mexico...It was pretty wild, he said.
She was a fantastic teacher and I
was amazed that she was convinced
because it was a bunch of 16, 17 year
olds that she was going to bring to
Mexico. And then I got the bug for
languages and travel at that point.
In his final year of high school,
Hanson went to Mexico City to
explore. He rented a hotel for 30
days, immersing himself in the
culture. On his trip he got his pass-
port stolen and admits to making
some poor choices.
I figured, I survived. ...The ex-
perience of being so far from home,
COURTESY OF TIMOTHY HANSON
OPA!: Timothy Hanson hiked up a volcano on Nea Komeni island on his trip to Santorini, Greece.
BEHIND THE NAME TAG
BY KELSEY SCARLETT
Sam Garvey 16 considers home a gift
Following the opening of the exhibit
Here, Having Been Tere curated by
Andrew Cushing 12 and Marta Misi-
ulaityte 14, students have been encour-
aged to join a discussion about socio-
economic diversity on campus. Te
discussion that followed stimulated
thoughts about what made home dif-
ferent for me, personally.
Home has always been a transient
concept for me.
Characterizing my home in a photo-
graph helped me visualize and concep-
tualize a part of me Ive never addressed
head on. For years I have lived in and
out of homeless shelters, houses pro-
vided by housing assistance programs,
and rental homes. Although none of
these may be the most traditional can-
didates for home, for me they have
embodied every aspect of a home
I have ever needed: Safety, warmth
and family unity. But the home in the
photograph is especially poignant and
meaningful, as it represents my child-
hood spent in ephemeral living spaces.
Afer being named an Intel Science
Talent Search semifnalist in 2012 and
gaining national media attention for
my achievement in the face of adversity,
that home became the most meaning-
ful part of my entire award experience.
My home was a gif from our county
executive for my achievements. At the
time, the gif of a house seemed unfath-
omable. To this day, it seems unbeliev-
able that the place I have resided in and
have cherished, a place that is and has
been and continues to be fundamen-
tal to my very being, was the result of
boundless generosity.
COURTESY OF SAMGARVEY
HERE, HAVING BEEN THERE
BY SAM GARVEY
ing on CAPTagreed that the de-
partment has to make it clear to the
College committee what the feld
competition is like.
Research expectations for getting
tenure vary across departments, and
can be anything from a book to a se-
ries of scholarly publications. Allen
Wells, a history professor, noted that
a book is the coin of the realm in
his department. Although its possi-
ble to get tenure without a published
book, he emphasized that it is the
standard toward which most history
This fall they are going to Barce-
lona and Paris.
At Bowdoin, Hanson is respon-
sible for management of all security
at the Bowdoin College Museum
of Art, working with the Peary-
MacMillan Arctic Museum and
the campus. At the art museum, he
generally runs into three different
groups of visitors: visiting students,
members of the Brunswick commu-
nity and Bowdoin students. Hanson
particularly enjoys when Bowdoin
students visit because of their fa-
miliarity with the security and staff
members. He recalled a humerous
incident when a visitor did not fall
into any of these categories.
Working at the museum, of-
ten times you get unique person-
alities, he said. There was one
gentleman who just had a very
strange way with acting. He would
make all sorts of gestures at the
artwork while he was looking at
it. He would shoot his arms out at
the artwork and do little dances in
front of it. The gentleman would
come into the museum, change his
clothingput on different shoes
and socksthe whole nine yards
go in, look at the art, come back
out, change, again, to go home.
TENURE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5
professors work.
Outside reviewers are especially
important in departments such as
music or art, in which professors
may be producing work other than
traditional scholarly publications.
For example, Associate Professor
of Music Vineet Shende is a com-
poser, and thus part of his tenure
evaluation was based on pieces he
composed. However, he emphasized
that having a piece performed by
the national symphony, for example,
was analogous to having a book pub-
lished by Oxford University Press
in other words, that recognition by
prestigious institutions can be un-
derstood across all departments.
Te number of professors who are
accepted for tenure each year is gener-
ally high. Battle attributed this in part
to the self-selection efectpro-
fessors are generally made aware of
whether or not they are likely candi-
dates for tenure before they come up
to receive it.
Afer achieving tenure and being
promoted from assistant to associate
professor, it would be theoretically
possible for professors to slow their
eforts at teaching and research. One
safeguard against this is the yearly
Professional Activities statements
that tenured professors submit to
Academic Afairs, describing their
activities within and beyond the
College as part of the basis on which
salary increases are awarded. In ad-
dition, associate professors generally
continue to work to be promoted
to full professor, a title which also
brings a salary increase.
More generally, Judd pointed
out that working toward tenure
sets the stage for continued hard
work after promotion.
Shende agreed, noting that ten-
ure solidifies your relationship
with the institution.
Next week: A look at the lives of vis-
iting professors and post-docs, and ex-
pectations for faculty balancing teach-
ing, research and service at the College.
After achieving tenure and being
promoted from assistant to
associate professor, it is theoretically
possible for professors to slow their
eorts at teaching and research.
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TALK OF THE QUAD
THE SEDER, AS A
MODERN JEW
my Jewish heritage, which I simul-
taneously know almost nothing
about and have never felt any in-
terest in exploring.
Inexplicably, I also feel like Im
part of some invisible global Jew-
ish network. When Im out-
side of my home in the
greater-New York-met-
ropolitan areawhich
one-third of the Jew-
ish population calls
homeI feel an im-
mediate connection
with other people I
meet who are Jew-
ish. Its like their
Jewishness au-
t oma t i c a l l y
makes them
c o mf o r t -
ing, safe,
f r i endl y
even if theyre
complete strang-
ers. Not that Id pick
up an ominous-looking
hitchhiker carrying a lead
pipe and smelling like form-
aldehyde if he told me he was
Jewish, but I guess I have to admit
that it wouldnt hurt his case. After
all, he could turn out to be, like my
Grandma thinks of Aaron Sorkin,
a nice Jewish boyright?
Im thinking about this in
Moulton Union while members
of Bowdoin Hillel recite Hebrew
BEYOND THE SLUMP
Are you Jewish?
Its a girl I sit next to in my Eng-
lish class. She is now sitting across
the table from me at Bowdoins
Passover Seder.
I give her my standard, terribly
long-winded response:
Yes, well, I mean, my mom is
Jewish, so technicallyI use big
air quotesIm Jewish. But I never
went to Temple and I never was Bat
Mitzvah-ed and we celebrate all the
Jewish holidays but also Christmas
because my dad is Christianwell,
technicallymore air quoteshes
both because his dad was Jewish
but they werent religious so its
more of a cultural thing I guess.
So, yeah. Im half-Jewishor, like,
three-quarters. But basically no.
Not religiously or anything.
And like everyone else I tell that
to, including most likely the reader
of this article, my classmate doesnt
care all that much.
Oh. Cool, she says.
And yet, its important to me,
every time that question is asked,
to clarify my level of Jew-ness,
to emphasize that, though non-
practicing, I am a technical Jew.
Its a surprisingly central aspect of
my identity. I feel like I owe some
strange, intangible allegiance to
Walking through Smith Union
two weeks ago, I saw more students
crowded near the mail center than
Id ever seen before (even more so
than the week before Spring Gala,
when everyone seems to have a
Nasty Gal clothing package). The
sounds of S.U. box doors swinging
open, paper crinkling and high-
fives meant only one thing: College
House decisions had been released.
As I navigated my way through
all the commotion, I kept hearing
one phrase pop up in conversa-
tions: Im so excited for next year.
Living in a House has been one of
the best experiences Ive had at
Bowdoin, so its understandable
that accepted applicants would feel
the same thrill I felt one year ago.
But I couldnt feel completely
excited for them. I grew a little
bit more uncomfortable with each
text that came in carrying names
of those who would be succeeding
us at Reed. It was a look into the
future, but what about the present?
It wasnt until I was walking
down a sunlit Boody Street later
that week that I realized my time
is coming to an end, just like the
rapidly melting snow. These letters
were more than just the announce-
ment of the future of the Houses
they were a subtle reminder that
my housemates and I only have
a month left. Exactly one month
from today, our OneCards will no
longer open the doors to the place
we all call home.
I feel as if were running out of
time. Where did this year go?
Theres still so much I want to do
with the people I run into in the
kitchen, so many late night con-
versations to be had in the living
room and events I wish could take
place in our yard. (We do have the
best yard in the game, after all.)
The limited time I have left in
Reed terrifies me because I feel as if
I havent made the most of the year.
Like trying to hold onto sand, so
many months
feel as if
they just
slipped between my fin-
gers. I expected a tremendous year,
and it wasfor the most part. Re-
turning to campus from the sum-
mer, my housemates and I laid out
in the sun, cooked endless meals
together and thoroughly took ad-
vantage of the fact we were all living
under one roofsomething wed
never get the chance to do again.
The elation and nave hope with
which I entered the school year
quickly dissipated as the tempera-
tures plummeted. I felt myself suc-
cumbing to the legendary sopho-
more slump.
I grew increasingly disenchant-
ed with the House system, with the
winter months; Bowdoin
began to feel stagnant,
and I grew increasingly
stressed by the big decisions loom-
ing overhead and the smallest of
thingslike someone not return-
ing a text messagewould upset
me more than it should have. My
attempts to forge new friendships
and to strengthen old ones, some-
thing for which the College Houses
are the perfect platform, felt feeble.
I fixated on this slump as if it was
the heart of being a sophomore on
campus. For four to five months,
one bad day would continuously
lead to another until I had dug
myself into a rut of debili-
tating loneliness.
leaving Bowdoin, at least sometimes.
Sophomore year narrows your
horizon. Friend groups grow clos-
ersometimes to an irritatingly
insular degreeand study abroad
and major declaration decisions
feel burdensome and momentous.
But my year has been so much
more than just a slumpits been
a year of youthful adventures, im-
mense growth and lasting memo-
ries. Yes, its a year of ridicu-
lous highs and lows, but
Id argue the highs
overshadow any low.
It wasnt until I
looked through the
photo album of candid
mome nt s
from this
yearin its entirety, for the first
timeduring Spring Break that I
managed to pick my head up and
remember how fulfilling living
in Reed has been. Each memory
came flooding back to me as I
glimpsed at each 4 x 6 pho-
tograph. I used to compulsively
upload these
photos to
Facebook at the end of each week,
obsessed with not letting any hi-
larious incident or cute portrait
be forgotten. Im sorry if my mass
uploading of midnight soccer,
impromptu swimming-with-the-
bioluminescence trips, or weekend
revelry popped up on your news-
feed when you needed to study.
Actually, Im not sorry. These are
the memories we need to cherish.
However, I noticed there was a
big time frame missing in my al-
bum. Four to fve months of the year
were not documented because I was
submerged in my sophomore slump,
convinced that I was miserable with
Bowdoin. Tese months are now
time that Iwith only a month lef
in Reedwish I still had.
As the year winds down and my
housemates and I prepare to pass
the torch down to New Reed,
Im taking photos again because
although were on our way out,
this month is still the last chap-
ter of our time at Reed and of
our sophomore year.
When I return from being
abroad in the spring, itll be a
little odd not to walk down Boody
Street to my room, let alone have
half my grade off campus. But
if theres anything this year has
taught me, its to make the most
of the present because it will fly by
you faster than you can realize.
To the new generation of Reed:
Sophomore year will be one of the
bestyou just have to
look beyond the slump.
-Hy Khong, Class of
2016.
prayers Ive heard every year at
my familys Seders that still sound
entirely foreign. Im mouth-
ing along, pretending I know
serve them again. I snack prema-
turely on the matzo in the center of
the table; I eat the charoset (sweet
apples and cinnamon) but skip the
maror (bitter herb).
Looking around the room at
faculty, students and com-
munity members, I wonder
why my Jewish identity is
so inextricably tied to the
person I believe myself to
be. Especially when con-
sidering I care so little
about observing the
religious traditions
of this holiday (I
skip the hardboiled
egg, too).
Its so interest-
ing to see all the
people who are
Jewish at Bowdoin,
my friend comments.
I think that most of these peo-
ple arent Jewish, I say. But I dont
mean it as a judgment at all. That
observation is, in fact, precisely
what I like so much about Bow-
doins Seder. Open to anyone, in-
cluding my redheaded Irish Cath-
olic friend sitting diagonally from
me, the Seder is far more about
community than anything else.
Yesits about celebrating a
Jewish holiday. But its also about
not caring if a fellow student skips
over the difficult Hebrew words in
the Haggadah (the Jewish guide
for the order of the Seder). Its
about amending the Haggadah so
that the story of Joseph, my knowl-
edge of which is limited to the plot
of the musical Joseph and the
Technicolor Dreamcoat, includes
him committing himself to the
Common Good. Its about com-
ing together with a group of peers
and enjoying each others company
over a delicious and bountiful meal
(thank you, Bowdoin Dining!).
Having grown up in a vaguely-
Jewish household, I feel relatively
confident in claiming that nothing
is more Jewish than that.
So I can take from my Jewish-
ness what I wantI can value it
while also denouncing my religios-
ity. I can eat the charoset and not
the maror because I am in a po-
sition to ingest what I want from
this experience and leave the rest
on the table.
The time comes for the closing
remarks. Its my friends turn to
read from the Haggadah. This is
the second Seder shes ever been to,
(the first was the Bowdoin Seder
last year.) She comes to a Hebrew
word, and stumbles embarrass-
ingly. Someone a few seats down
murmurs the pronunciation. I sup-
press laughterpartially because
of my friends mistake, but mostly
because I have no clue how to pro-
nounce the word either.
-Stevie Lane, Class of 2015.
more than I really do, and think-
ing about the forthcoming meal,
which is also my habit at Seders.
Last year, Bowdoin served roasted
root vegetables. I wonder if theyll
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Nights I didnt go out I spent on
my bedroom floor staring at the
ceiling, trying to make sense of the
dark corners I hadnt known my
mind contained.
My personal sophomore slump
pushed me into a severe depres-
sionone I disguised with a heavy
workload and Im just tiredand
I cannot say that I
didnt think about
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BY MAGGIE BRYAN
ORIENT STAFF
Made in Maine: Untying hidden secrets of the Bean Boot factory
with folks on college campuses,
folks in urban settings, and in the
fashion community. So I think that
speaks volumes about the boot and
the fact that its design has changed
very little over 100 years.
This original design was first
conceived in 1911, when company
founder Leon Leonwood Bean
fed up with getting wet, cold feet
on hunting tripsdecided to stitch
rubber bottoms to the leather up-
pers of his boots in a quest for wa-
terproof comfort.
He really was a man ahead
of his time, said McKeever. He
started what truly revolutionized
the outdoor footwear industry.
Beans initial efforts to market
the boots did not immediately
meet with success.
He got 100 orders, said McK-
eever. 90 of the first 100 failed.
The rubber separated from the
leather. And, true to his word, he
gave back all the money, went back
to the drawing board and corrected
the problem. It almost bankrupted
him refunding everyones money,
and had it, none of this would be
here today.
Royce Haines has been Head Su-
pervisor of Brunswick Manufactur-
ing for two years and has worked for
L.L. Bean for almost three decades.
He said that although the busi-
ness has expanded greatly through-
out the years, all of the boots are
still assembled in Brunswick, while
the rubber bottoms are crafted in
a smaller facility in Lewiston. The
company currently sends cata-
logues to over 160 outlets and has
tional tan and dark brown options,
the company has dabbled in shades
of red, blue, green, black and white.
The inside of the Brunswick
factory is a well-oiled machine of
Bean Boot production.
To this day, very little of the
manufacturing process is auto-
mated. Workers could be seen
crouched over sewing machines or
cutting leather by hand during the
tour of the factory. While we were
navigating our way through the
room, an employee stopped Haines
for feedback on a minor issue with
some boot eyelets.
Its still a little rough here, see?
he said, offering up a leather boot
upper as example and running his
finger over the metal eyelets to
demonstrate his point.
A small portion of the factory is
set aside entirely for repairs, a tes-
tament to the companys 100-per-
cent satisfaction guarantee. Cus-
tomers who are not satisfied with
their boots can exchange them for
a new pair anytime at no charge.
For a small fee, they can also send
in their worn-out boots for repair.
Were one of the only compa-
nies out there that really lets the
customer decide what satisfaction
is, said McKeever. The interest-
ing thing about the boots is that
Although its the point in the
spring season where students are
swapping their trusty winter foot-
wear for ballet flats and Sperrys, the
iconic Bean Boot has been a staple
in the typical Polar Bear wardrobe
for the past several years (much to
the chagrin of fashion columnist
Evan Horwitz 15), and has recently
experienced growing popularity on
college campuses everywhere.
What is it about these seemingly
basic boots that has caused them
to strike the fancy of a genera-
tion? The Orient decided to go the
sourceL.L. Bean Manufacturing
in Brunswickto find out.
The factory is just a few miles
from campus, a few turns off McK-
een Street.
We welcome the popularity,
said Mac McKeever, spokesperson
for L.L. Bean. I was in Manhattan
recently, struck and amazed by the
number of people that were wear-
ing Bean Boots, just on the street. I
think there is a shift among young-
er folks back to this trend of Amer-
icana. We have this boot that was
designed and developed really for
hunting, to keep your feet warm
and dry, but its also garnered favor
people fall in love with them
they become kind of like Linus
with his security blanket and they
dont want to let them go, because
the leather has molded to their leg,
or theyve become emotionally at-
tached to them or they just love the
comfort of these boots.
In the world today, repurpos-
ing, recycling has become a trend,
said Haines. Its nice to see people
taking advantage of that.
At the repair station, bins are
stacked high with boots that have
undergone all ranges of wear.
Oh wow, look at these, these
have been around for a while, said
Haines, gesturing to a pair where
only the worn leather uppers re-
mained intact.
Each pair of boots has an ad-
dress tag; they hail from all over
the country, from New York City to
Ashland, Va.
At one point, McKeever shared
an anecdote about a man who left
his Bean Boots on the dock at his
camp. A big storm blew the boots
into the water, and he thought they
were lost. Several days later the man
went snorkeling, and his boots were
on the lake floor waiting for him.
Every pair of boots has a story,
said McKeever. Everyone loves
themwhats not to love?
The interesting thing about the
boots is that people fall in love
with themthey become kind
of like Linus with his security
blanket and they dont want
to let them go.
MAC MCKEEVER
SPOKESPERSON FOR L.L. BEAN
international retail stores in Cana-
da, China and Japan.
We have a very heavy presence in
Japan, said Haines. About two doz-
en outlets. Tey love the fun colors.
Although all models of the boot
are based off of the original, time-
tested design, L.L. Bean has ex-
panded its height and color options
in the past few years to cater to the
growing tastes and demands of
consumers. In addition to the tradi-
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MUDDY BUDDIES: All Bean Boots are assembled at Brunswicks L.L. Bean Manufacturing before being shipped out to consumers. Though these hand-assembled boots were initially designed for hunters, the boots have since expanded into urban fashion.
1ui vowuoi ovii1 9 iviu.v, .vvii 18, io1
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Spring dance doesnt shy away from political, creative risks
Diversity is the name of the game at
the Spring Dance Show in Pickard Te-
ater this weekendnot only as a politi-
cal issue, but also in terms of diversity of
tone, style and function. Te show rang-
es from political to abstract to classi-
cally choreographed, and the result has
something to ofer for every viewera
holistic exhibition of dance at Bowdoin.
Te show kicks of with What the
Funk?, created by the class Black-White
Boogie: African Derived Dances in
America. Despite the class subject, the
BY JOE SISE
CONTRIBUTOR
dance only touches briefy on the racial
diferences of the 60s, instead celebrat-
ing a multiplicity of styles. Te stage
becomes cluttered with wild, interesting
motion. Te energy of the piece is pal-
pable, and the dancers invite the viewer
to share in the breathtaking joy of unin-
hibited dance.
Te next piece is Everything, per-
formed by Ben Eisenberg 17. Te solo
work began as a short study in the class
Making Dances, and spun into a longer-
form display of Eisenbergs considerable
talent. His body is rigidly disciplined
from his legs to hands to face, and he
makes excellent choices with the time he
is given. His dance is set to the song Ev-
erything by Ben Howard, which makes
for a much more introspective, intimate
piece than what comes before.
Eisenberg is alone on stage, but
never lonely; he seems bigger than he
is, flling the space he inhabits with
intense focus and intricacy of motion.
It is a smart choice to situate the two
pieces together, for his piece is a long
exhale afer the vibrancy of the opener.
Following that is Six of One,
performed by Modern III: Repertory
and Performance. Tis piece comes
closest to popular conceptions of
modern dance. Te choreography
is impeccable, and each individual
dancer is lost amongst precise syn-
chronicity of motion. It is, quite sim-
ply, a pleasing dance to watch, full of
choreography to admire, and while
it lacks some of the efervescence of
the earlier pieces singular choices,
it makes up for that through sheer
aestheticism and ability. It is also a
longer dance than those preceding;
it lingers and transforms itself across
diferent musical styles and tempos.
One has to admire the stamina in-
volved, which is touched upon later
in the production.
Wanted is dance as politics,
Exhibit brings modernity to Arctic museum
BY JODI KRAUSHAR
ORIENT STAFF
An exhibit featuring contempo-
rary Inuit art titled Cape Dorset
and Beyond: Inuit Art from the
Marcia and Robert Ellis Collection
opened yesterday at the Peary-Mac-
Millan Arctic Museum.
The exhibit is part of a larger
effort by the museum to redefine
itself as more than a purely histori-
cal center.
People tend to think of [the
museum] in a historical sense,
but we really try to communicate
what contemporary life is like in
the arctic, and of course, contem-
porary artists are one way to do
that, said Arctic Museum Cura-
tor Genevieve LeMoine. The art
frequently goes back to traditional
times, but theres often modernity
in it as well.
LeMoine added that the exhibit
is a way to introduce the modern
northern world to southerners.
The exhibit is organized themat-
ically by subject. It includes work
by Barnabus Arnasungaaq and Da-
vid Ruben Piqtoukun, both well
known contemporary Inuit artists.
Much of the art is rooted in Inuit
mythologyfor example, a carving
of the Inuit sea godess Sedna.
The pieces are so nice. Theres
lots just to look at and enjoy.
Theyre accessible in that sense
Theyre beautiful, elegant, interest-
ing, said LeMoine.
Te pieces themselves cover a range
of themes, touching on spirituality
and humans connection to nature. All
the pieces are of either Canadian or
Alaskan origin.
Its very interesting that, al-
though we have other collections
from other collectors of Inuit art...
there are very different types of
pieces, LeMoine said.
LeMoine anticipates that the ex-
hibit will be unexpected as well as
informative.
In Maine there are not a lot of
people who are familiar with Inuit
art, she said. I think they might
be surprised at how much variety
there is in it, the different choices
people make when deciding what
they want to have in their home.
The exhibit opened yesterday
with a talk from Arctic Museum di-
rector Susan Kaplan, titled Whats
in Your Closet of Curiosities?
COURTESY OF LOUIS WEEKS
Weeks 11 staying composed
Te musical experiences Louis
Weeks 11 had at Bowdoin have
helped him navigate a dual career as
a singer-songwriter and commercial
music composer in Washington, D.C.
Weeks writes music for television
shows, flms and video games while
simultaneously producing two of his
own records.
Weeks, who majored in music,
had a relatively smooth transition
from Bowdoin to the professional
music world.
I am lucky...that my previous port-
folio and body of work made me qual-
ifed, said Weeks in a phone interview
with the Orient. I found out pretty
quickly that I needed to learn a lot of
new skills, but for the most part I tran-
sitioned seamlessly from Bowdoin.
Weeks said that the music experi-
ences he had at Bowdoin have helped
him with his current work.
Te music department gave me
an extremely practical and valuable
education in not only writing music,
but talking about music, listening to
music and communicating music to
other people, said Weeks.
In his work, this education has be-
come so important because Weeks
has to talk to clients every day about
what they want out of his music.
I have to have a really good sense
of what they are hearing and my edu-
cation at Bowdoin particularly got me
ready for composing music as a means
of communication, said Weeks.
Weeks was also a part of the Med-
diebempsters while at Bowdoin.
Being in the Meddies made me
a much better singer and arranger
and solidifed my love of vocal mu-
sic, which is what I do when I am not
composing, said Weeks.
He debuted a full-length record
in January called shif/away and is
currently working on his second al-
bum, haha.
I basically live in the studio, said
Weeks. Any free time I get, I am
working on either new recordings or
new pieces.
Tus far, Weeks has really tried to
take on projects that interest him,
and he said it is dim cult for him to
pick a favorite.
I want my work to mix composed
music that I learned how to write at
Bowdoin with the recordings and song-
writing that I have done, he said. I
want to create a conversation between
those two things.
ALUMNI IN THE ARTS
BY ELLEN CAHILL
Please see DANCE, page 10
starring Winston Antoine 16 as a
young man caught up in the thorny
injustices of American race rela-
tions. There is text here, which
speaks of black male incarceration
rates and how they compare to
those of other races, and a chorus of
newscasters describing a suspect as
a young black male, which repeats
over and over again.
Antoines movement is high-energy,
lithe and tightly controlledhe seems
at frst to be an actor among dancers,
but that impression gives way to his
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FROZEN IN PLACE: Statues from an exhibit featuring contemporary Inuit art at the Peary-Mac-
Millan Arctic Museum. The collection will be on display until February 2015.
CATHERINEYOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FEELING GROOVY: Students from Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Nyama McCarthy-Browns dance class Black-White Boogie: African Derived Dances in America perform in the Spring Dance Concert. This piece is just a sample of the many oerings in the
show. According to Theater and Dance Chair Paul Sarvis, [The show] purposefully doesnt have an overall tone, but ends on an up note. It provides a random sampling through diverse lenses through which dance can be seen.
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BNL provides new kind of Ivies late night
Live, from Bowdoin College, its
Tuesday night! Simon Brooks 14
will unveil his independent study,
Bowdoin Night Live, on Tuesday as
part of Ivies week. Taking place in
Kresge Auditorium at 9 p.m., the show
will follow the classic Saturday Night
Live format with a musical guest
campus band Te NARPsand ce-
lebrity cameos. Tickets for Bowdoin
Night Live (BNL)are available at the
Smith Union Information desk.
I love Saturday Night Live; its my
dream to be a part of that writing
team, said Brooks.
Te project has been an indepen-
dent study this semester.
I want to write sketches, said
Brooks, I write sketches in my free
time, so I fgured, why not get credit
for it?
He has spent the semester pursu-
ing the independent study under the
guidance of Davis Robinson, a Te-
ater professor.
We tried to make it as close to the
timeline of the real SNL as possible,
said Clare DeSantis 16, writer and
cast member. Te diference is, writ-
ing sketches is their only job, and we
have to go to classes too.
Brooks assembled a team of writ-
ersthough he had the fnal say on all
sketchesand then assigned roles.
Te cast of eight includes Sam
Chase 16, Catalina Gallagher 16,
Chuck Rollins 14, Liv King 14, Clare
DeSantis 16, John Swords 15, Leo
Shaw 15 and Brooks himself. Te
writing team created sketches with
specifc cast members in mind.
DeSantis said that prior to working
with the group, she vaguely knew fve
of the eight, noting that Brooks did
a good job of gathering people from
diferent social groups on campus.
It is interesting to pick up on what
diferent people think are the funny
things about campus, the interesting
quirks of Bowdoin, she said.
Te sketches focus on humorous
elements of life on campus.
Te idea of SNL is social commen-
tary on the world, explained Brooks,
So rather than do what the profes-
sionals do, we decided to comment
on our small world, with sketches and
jokes about Bowdoin.
Other than hinting at its structure,
Brooks is tight-lipped about what else
the show will include.
BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
ORIENT STAFF
I dont want to give away any of the
sketches, he said.
Brooks decision to stage the show
at the onset of Ivies stems from his
perceived lack of campus comedy
shows during the festivities, which are
overwhelmed by musical performanc-
es. Te group has rehearsed almost
every night this past week, and they
have been flming the digital shorts
inspired by Te Lonely Islandfor
over a month. However, most of the
sketches will be live.
People like laughing, said
Brooks. Teres more of a demand
than supply for comedy on campus.
DeSantis agreed. Maybe this could
start carving out a niche for more
comedy on campus.
DANCE
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quick feats of athleticism. Eventually,
he sheds his black hoodie for a white
one, to match the rest of the dancers on
stage, and they join together to a Roger
Bonair-Agard poem about being loved
despite diference, read excellently by
Matthew Williams 16.
If all this sounds a bit on-the-nose, it
is, but in a way that lends itself well to
dance and feels like it needs to be said.
One also gets the sense that the political
issues are subservient to the needs of the
performance, rather than vice versa, and
this makes a huge diference. It is emo-
tionally honest in a way that, like What
the Funk?, invites the viewer to share in
its emotion.
Running Out of Breath, a dance
originally created in 1976, is the ffh
piece on display, and perhaps the most
abstract. Like Everything, it is a solo
piece, but the two are markedly difer-
ent. Denis Maguire 15 runs around the
stage while reciting memorized text,
which, in a touch of self-refexivity, ba-
sically consists of telling the audience
he is running around the stage while
reciting memorized text. He invites the
audience to watch him simply run out
of breath: no more, no less.
Te result is mesmerizing, especially
because it leaves interpretation up to the
viewer. Troughout all his recitation,
Maguire never actually says anything of
substance. Te words are there simply to
be struggled over, to create a question in
the mind of the audience and a spark of
inquiry that will hopefully cling to their
brains on the way out.
Water Soluble closes the produc-
tion. Put on by Modern I: Repertory
and Performance, it is a piece that plays
to its strengths, a return to expressive
fun afer several thought-provoking
pieces in a rowwhich is welcome. It
seems more concerned with the mak-
ing of interesting tableaus and motion
repetition than anything else, but there
are interesting choices made here, with
props like fippers and water bottles. Te
fnal segment, set to Its Raining Men,
is an absolute delight.
Te Spring Dance Show is an in-
troduction to the vast spectrum of
styles and purposes encompassed by
the concept of dance as a form. It is
sound and fury that signifes a great
deal, and it bursts at the seams of its
hour-and-a-quarter runtime. Anyone
in the mood for a night of thought-
provoking and well-executed dance
should make this a must-see.
CATHERINEYOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LEAP OF FAITH: Ben Eisenberg 17 performs his solo piece titled Everything.
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
DOING IT LIVE: Bowdoin Night Live, the culmination of an independent study by Simon Brooks 14,
will take place at 9 p.m. next Tuesday in Kresge. Free tickets are available at the Smith Union info desk.
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BY LILY RAMIN
ORIENT STAFF
Womens tennis wins two on road
Afer sufering two close losses
last weekend against Amherst and
Emory at home, the womens tennis
team (12-4 overall, 5-1 NESCAC)
topped Colby and Bates in a double-
header last Wednesday. Tomorrow,
they will travel to Middlebury for
their penultimate regular season
match of the year.
On Wednesday night, the Polar
Bears, who were recently ranked
No. 7 in the nation, played Bates
in Lewiston, crushing them with a
score of 8-1.
Te Polar Bears won two out of
their three doubles matches and
swept singles.
Earlier that afernoon, they domi-
nated against Colby, defeating the
Mules in all nine of their matches.
Tifany Cheng 16 did not drop a
single game in a shutout against the
No. 1 singles, and in No. 3 doubles
game with partner Pilar Gifenig 17.
Strong doubles play has been key
to the teams success this season.
Weve been doing well in our
doubles, said Emma Chow 15. I
know compared to years past, we
used to struggle with it, and it kind
of turned into a habit where we
would come out of doubles down 2-1
or 3-0. Whenever youre down you
have to be mentally resilient, but be-
ing able to come out on top...gives us
confdence heading into singles.
Captain Kate Winingham 14 and
Samantha Stalder 17 are undefeated
this year as a doubles team.
[Winingham]s a really good
doubles player and shes been helping
me a lot, said Stalder. Shes a great
mentor, friend and supporter.
On April 13, the Polar Bears faced
No. 2 Emory in a morning match-up
at home, which Emory won 5-4.
Afer the doubles, Bowdoin led with
wins from the duo of Winingham and
Stalder, and Gifenig and Cheng.
Emory took four of the six sin-
gles matches. Te two victories for
Bowdoin came from Emma Lewis
15 at No. 5 and Joulia Likhanskaia
17 at No. 3, both in three-set wins.
We ended up losing 5-4. Ob-
viously we wouldve liked to have
pulled up another single to win,
but it was still a really good match,
said Chow.
People competed well, [with] lots
of good energy, she added. We al-
ways talk about competing, and that
these big matches dont come down
to shots and skill, they come down
to your heart and how well youre
going to compete.
Last Friday the team lost to Am-
herst 6-3. Te Polar Bears won two
of the three doubles matches with
wins from the same two pairings as
on Sunday. However, they struggled
with singles, with just one win com-
ing from Joulia Likhanskaia 17.
It was really encouraging to see
how well the team did rebound, so
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF
First year Emily Grim n has
established herself as a capable
member of the Bowdoin sofball
team. Grim n has started on the
mound seven times this season,
tied for the team lead with senior
Melissa DellaTorre. Last week-
end, Grim n held Colby scoreless
and limited reiging D-III na-
tional champion Tufs to almost
two runs below its season aver-
age. Typically, frst years do not
contribute as much to the team,
particularly not as pitchers.
Te last time it happened was
with Melissa. It really is remi-
niscent of Melissa, said captain
Hannah Wurgaf 14. Tat being
said, its not very ofen.
Head Coach Ryan Sullivan
said he agreed.
You never like to think that a
frst year is going to come in and
have that kind of an impact, he
said. It would be almost unfair.
I had no idea what to ex-
pect, she said. I dont ever as-
sume Ill get much playing; I fg-
ured Id have to do my time on
the bench.
Te frst-year pitcher has been
part of a very balanced pitching
rotation; the four pitchersDella-
Torre, Grim n, Julia Geaumont 16,
and Alana Luzzio 17have started
seven, seven, six and four games, re-
spectively. Each one ofers a difer-
ent style of pitching. Tough Grif-
fn has a vast repertoire of pitches,
she can strugglelike many frst
yearswith consistency.
I came in with an inconsistent
drop ball, Grim n said. Ive been
working on that in practice. My
curveball was stronger. I think its
actually reversed now.
She leads the team in at-bats
and hits while sporting a .379
batting average. When she is not
pitching, Grim n starts in cen-
terfeld, and is therefore respon-
sible for communicating with the
right and lef feld.
In the time that Ive been
here, shes probably the most di-
verse player Ive ever seen, said
Cielle Collins 15. And the really
crazy thing about it is that she
does each thing so well.
Ofen at the top of the line-
up, Grim n bats as a slap hitter,
meaning that she bats lef-hand-
ed and takes a running start at
a bunt, hoping to beat the ball
to frst base. Her teammates
note that although her incred-
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Emily Gri n 17
SOFTBALL
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ible speed makes her ideal for
the role, she is one of the few
slap hitters strong enough to
power the ball into the outfeld.
Wurgaf remembered an at-bat
where Grim n recorded a triple
by turning a potential bunt into
a blast over the outfelders head.
Te threat of a long ball into the
outfeld makes Grim n particu-
larly dim cult to defend because
defenses cannot slide to cover
the bunt.
Grim ns skill in all three facets
of the game has demanded a rig-
orous practice schedule. She ofen
pitches for 20 to 40 minutes then
splits the remaining practice time
between hitting and felding. She
has divided her time similarly for
double-headers.
I think it would be exhausting
to do what she does each game,
Collins said. Shell pitch a game,
get four at-bats, and then have to
stay focused in center feld.
Before coming to Bowdoin,
Grim n had played most of her
career on the West Coast, ofen
traveling to California with her
team. Te Arizona resident lived
in Massachusetts until age nine
and had always anticipated re-
turning to the Northeast. Her
childhood goal was to play for
Dartmouth but she was swayed
by her talks with Sullivan.
Grim n said that she started
playing sofball with her towns
youth team because her parents
wanted her to make friends.
Once she began playing more
competitively, she was forced to
give up horseback riding, which
she had been doing competitively
since she was fve. She has since
rekindled her love of riding, prac-
ticing with the equestrian team in
the fall when it does not confict
with sofball.
Sullivan recalls that he brought
Grim n to Bowdoin even though
the distance between Maine and
Arizona prevented him from see-
ing her play in person. He de-
scribed the dim cult evaluating
process that he and his pitching
coach went through when studying
footage of her. In the end, he con-
cluded that between the tape, her
reputation and her contributions
to a high-level club team with a
national championship to its name,
he could take a shot at it.
So far, Grim n has not disap-
pointed.
Te sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week
based on exemplary performance.
Ranks among NESCAC top-
ten in ERA, wins and strikeouts
per game.
Second on Bowdoin pitching
sta in innings pitched as a
rst year
HIGHLIGHTS
well defnitely build of of that as we
head into this weekend, Chow said.
Tomorrow, the team will hit the
road to play Middlebury (10-4 over-
all 4-1 NESCAC) at 1 p.m.
Te team said they have al-
ready begun mentally preparing for
the NESCAC tournament, which
Bowdoin is hosting in two weeks.
Were practicing the way we
need to play to beat the best teams,
said Stalder. We have them in
mind when were practicing. We
just have to stay focused and keep
working hard. Weve been doing
all the right things so far, were on
the right track, we just have to keep
working at it and really commit to
each of our games.
Chow agreed with Stalder.
Were in the position that we want
to be in, she said. Weve beaten all
the teams that we need to beat so far.
Were defnitely more optimistic than
ever, especially with our doubles
performance. Its great to be able to
come out on top of these really great
teams afer doublesit gives us a lot
of confdence.
SCORECARD
Fr 4/11
Su 4/13
We 4/16
v. Amherst
v. Emory
at Colby
at Bates
L
L
W
W
63
54
90
81
Womens water polo wins regional title
Te womens club water polo team
won its conference for the second
time in three years. Following a 11-5
victory against top-ranked Yale last
Saturday and a 9-5 win over Boston
University in Sundays North Atlan-
tic Regional championship game,
the women will travel to the national
championship tournament, held in
Geneva, Ohio.
Te womens success this year is espe-
cially signifcant as it follows a rebuild-
ing efort last year. Following a confer-
ence championship in 2012, the Polar
Bears struggled to perform in 2013 afer
two new teamsYale and B.U.joined
their conference.
At the beginning of the year, we
were kind of looking at this as a re-
building year, said Teresa Faller 15.
Most of our team had never played
water polo before and didnt know
the rules.
Our goal was to make it to the top
half, said Head Coach Spencer Ve-
spole 13. We expected to do better
than last year, but we didnt expect to
win [the conference] until we beat Yale
last Saturday.
Te teams prospects changed follow-
ing the arrival of several new players.
A lot of the swim team girls decided
to join this year and that made a big
diference, but we also got a lot of girls
who arent involved in the swim team...
and they contributed a lot, said Faller.
Vespole said the team is enormous-
ly athletic.
We have a few really good players,
he said. Patty Boyer [15] and Lela
Garner [16], I think, are the two best
players in the conference. We have a
lot of really inexperienced players who
have improved from one tournament
to the next.
Te Bowdoin women practice in
bigger pools than their opponents,
which may have helped them over
the weekend.
Te fact that we have so many swim-
mers on our team just gives us a big ad-
vantage, said Faller. It might have been
a fuke, maybe [Yale was] tired, but we
also played really well.
Te end of the season included some
of the best games that weve ever played,
Faller said.
Despite the success it has achieved so
far, the team is ambivalent about its pros-
pects at nationals, where it will compete
against other conference champions.
A lot of the other teams practice year
round, said Faller. We cant because of
the swim season and other sports.
Vespole said that going to nationals
will be a learning experience.
Weve won two conference champi-
onships in the last three years, but we
havent really won much else past that,
he explained.
Vespole also noted that the women
still have areas for improvement. He
cited ball handling as the squads pri-
mary weakness.
Weve won a lot of games based on
athleticism and defense, Vespole said.
A few players really carried us.Next
year [the team] needs to work on depth.
However, given this years success,
and with the entire lineup returning
next year, the Polar Bears are poised for
another conference championship.
Next year, we will be pretty heavy
favorites, said Vespole.
BY ALEX BARKER
ORIENT STAFF
CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
GOING DOWN SWINGING: Emma Lewis 14 battles against Amherst in a 7-2 Bowdoin loss last Friday.
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BY JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF
Te sofball team went 3-2 this past
weekend, sweeping Colby (1-4 NE-
SCAC, 5-12 overall) in a three-game
series, but then fell in a double header
the following day against defending
D-III national champion Tufs (5-0
NESCAC, 21-3 overall).
Although the team relied mostly
on the strength of its bats early in the
season, the teams pitching has been
earning it wins recently. Afer giving
up six runs in her opening start of the
season back in March, Melissa Della-
Torre 14 threw her second shutout
of the year in the Polar Bears 2-0
win over Colby on Saturdayand al-
lowed just one hit.
Although the Polar Bears ofense
got of to a slow start, junior Adriane
Kruls single batted in Siena Mitman
15 for what would be the winning
run in the ffh. Casey Correa 14, who
went 2-3 that afernoon, added an in-
surance run for DellaTorre with a solo
homerun in the seventh inning.
Weve kind of had two diferent
seasons. One early in the year where
we hit really well and our pitching was
slow to come along, said Head Coach
Ryan Sullivan. And then the last six
or seven games, our hitting has lev-
eled of a little bit and our pitching has
come up strong.
Sullivan is somewhat surprised to
see the pitching surge come this late in
the season.
Sofball pitchers can go and go
and go, but what you fnd is over the
course of a season they start to wear
down, Sullivan said. So I think that
were fortunate with four quality
pitchers were able to mix and match
a little bit.
Te following day the Polar Bears
opened up their double header with a
win in what turned out to be a pitch-
ers duel against Colby. Emily Grim n
17 emerged victoriouspitching a
1-0 shutoutbut the winning run did
not come until Correa hit a walk-of
single in the bottom of the seventh.
Te teams bats started to pick up
in the third leg of the double header
in a 4-2 win. Colby got on the score-
board frst, but a double from Dimi-
tria Spathakis 16 and another Correa
home run in the third helped settle Ju-
lia Geaumont 16 down, who fnished
the complete game.
Softball sweeps Colby, drops 2 to Jumbos
On Sunday, the team travelled
to Medford to play its third day in
a rowthis time a double header
against Tufs. In the frst game, Tufs
Allyson Fournier, who is a perfect
10-0 this season, was too much for the
Polar Bears. Although Grim n found
her rhythm late in the game, the team
could not battle back from a Tufs
three-run homer in the frst, ultimate-
ly losing 4-0.
Errors killed the Polar Bears in
their last game of the weekend, as Del-
laTorre only gave up one earned run
in a 3-1 loss. Te errant play may have
been partially due to the fatigue built
up over the weekend.
Its hard. Its physically demand-
ingbut the mental part is really the
key though, said Sullivan. It doesnt
require as much physical stamina as
other parts, but mentally you have to
be engaged the whole time, and it can
be really mentally draining.
Te Polar Bears travel out of confer-
ence this weekend with double head-
ers at Husson today and one at home
against Brandeis on Saturday.
Weve had a nice rivalry with both
of those programs over the last six or
seven years, said Sullivan. Teyre
quality programs so my message go-
ing into this weekend is lets treat this
like a conference weekend because
they are quality teams.
Rowing takes gold at
Knecht Cup in New Jersey
Te club rowing team posted
strong fnishes this past weekend at
the Knecht Cup in Mercer Lake, N.J.,
with four crews winning medals, in-
cluding golds for the frst varsity men
and women. It was the frst regatta of
the season for the Polar Bears. Over
70 schools from all over the nation
competed, including several Division
I and II programs.
Bowdoin entered seven crews, in-
cluding frst varsity men, frst and sec-
ond varsity women, lightweight men,
frst novice men, and frst and second
novice women.
Out of the seven boats that raced
on Saturday, fve advanced to the f-
nals on Sunday. Four out of those fve
crews medaled.
Te womens frst varsity boat post-
ed the fastest time out of more than
100 womens fours at the regatta, win-
ning by a margin of 25.78 seconds.
Te boat was made up of coxswain
Sophie Berube 16, captain Katie Ross
14, and juniors Emily Martin, Court-
ney Payne and Mary Bryan Barksdale.
Te mens frst varsity boat rowed
the second fastest time of all fours in
the regatta.
Tis boat was manned by coxswain
Jennifer Helble 14, and juniors Cal
Brooks, Chris Breen, captain Nathan
Post and Mark Endrizzi.
Second varsity women, which in-
cluded coxswain Maddy Livingston
16, Amy Spens 15, and sophomores
Nora Hefner, Erica Hummel, and Au-
drey DeFusco captured a silver medal.
First novice womenmade up of
coxswain Emma Young 15, Emily
Lowell 15, Sarah Stefen 16, and frst
years Holly Rudel and Liza Tarbell
captured the bronze, thanks to a last
minute surge in the fnal 200 meters of
the race.
Te Knecht Cup was a huge suc-
cess for the program and the crews
stellar performances took everyone
by surprise, said Ross. Now we know
how much potential we have across
the feet [and] our results from the
Knecht Cup set a high bar that were
all committed to improving upon as
we approach the rest of our regattas
this spring.
Te team is looking to peak at its
fnal race, the Aberdeen Dad Vail Re-
gatta, which will take place in Phila-
delphia on May 9 and 10 and is the
largest intercollegiate rowing event in
the United States.
We raced against crews from all
over the eastern seaboard and the
southern U.S., including some from
as far as Texas and Oklahoma [this
past weekend], said Post. Most of
our races are against other crews from
New England, so seeing these compet-
itive crews at Knecht is great prepara-
tion for [the Dad Vail Regatta].
Bowdoin will row in Lowell, Mass.
this weekend.
BY KATIE KAUFMAN
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Fr 4/11
Sa 4/12
Su 4/13
v. Colby
v. Colby
v. Colby
at Tufts
at Tufts
W
W
W
L
L
20
10
42
40
31
Te mens tennis team opened play
last weekend with a convincing 7-2
victory at Tufs on Saturday but lost
by the same margin to Amherst on
Sunday at home. Yesterday, the team
topped Colby at home, 7-2.
Against the Mules, the Polar Bears
took two of three doubles matches
and fve of six singles matches. Luke
Trinka 16, Sam King 14, Kyle Wol-
stencrof 15, Chase Savage 16 and
Hugh Mo 17 all took singles victories
in straight sets.
According to Head Coach Conor
Smith, the men knew the weekend
would test their strength and skill
level, beginning with the Jumbos
on Saturday.
We knew [Tufts] was completely
dangerousdangerous enough to
beat us. We wanted to give them no
hope for a win in their matches,
said Smith.
Wins from Bowdoins No. 1 dou-
bles team of Wolstencroft and King
BY CAYLA LIPTAK
ORIENT STAFF
Amherst stops mens tennis winning streak
SCORECARD
Sa 4/12
Su 4/13
Th 4/17
at Tufts
v. Amherst
v. Colby
W
L
W
72
72
72
and the No. 3 team of Noah Bragg
15 and Chris Lord 14 gave the Po-
lar Bears a 2-1 advantage going into
singles playa rarity for the team
this season.
Weve struggled to come together
in doubles this year, said Savage.
With the teams were playing, we
cant go down 3-0 in doubles. Its re-
ally a tough spot to come back from.
Its big, really big, to get to a 2-1 lead
in doubles for us, especially against a
solid team like Tufs, said King.
Te Polar Bears carried the win-
ning momentum into their singles
matches, eliminating any chances
for a Tufs comeback with four
straight-set wins from Trinka, King,
Lord and Savage.
Smith credited the senior pair of
King and Lord for keeping the team
focused on Saturday.
Both Sam and Chris came to
play, he said. Tey had some tough
matches, but took care of business
pretty well. Teyre the heart and soul
of the teamthe emotional leaders
and they really showed it.
Back in Brunswick on Sunday, the
Polar Bears took on the No. 2 Lord Jefs
indoors at Maine Pines Tennis Club.
Despite falling behind 3-0 in dou-
bles play, the Polar Bears continued
to battle, but each of the top-three
singles players fell in three sets.
Smith applauded his teams perse-
verance against the Jefs.
Our guys still believed we had
potential to come back and pull out
a win. Tey showed a ton of heart,
he said.
Both King and Savage stressed the
importance of the teams prime ft-
ness condition, which allows them to
keep working hard throughout their
doubles and singles matches.
Were a team built on ftness, said
King. Our ftness level is better than
it ever has been and we can play all
nine games all the way through.
Wolstencroft and Savage man-
aged to take points back for
Bowdoin in singles play at No. 5
and No. 6, respectively.
Currently sitting at 8-5 overall and
3-1 in conference play, the Bears look
to rebound from their Amherst loss
and take down Colby on Tursday
and Middlebury on Saturday.
Before losing to Amherst, the Po-
lar Bears were on a six-game winning
streak. With the setback, the team
hopes to continue improving and to
quickly regain its energy.
Our momentum has really been
brewing since spring break, said
King. Were focused and ready to
work harder.
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WIND IT UP: Julia Geaumont 16 prepares to deliver a pitch against Colby last Saturday. Bowdoin swept the series, only surrendering two runs in three games.
Compiled by Joe Seibert
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
Standings & Schedules
*Bold line denotes NESCACTournament cut-of
WOMENS TENNIS
SAILING
Sa 4/19 Admirals Cup
George Morris Trophy
Womens NE Championship
9 A.M.
10:15 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
Sa 4/19 at Middlebury 1 P.M.
MENS TENNIS
MENS LACROSSE
W L W L
Tufts 7 1 11 2
Wesleyan 7 1 10 3
BOWDOIN 6 3 9 4
Amherst 5 3 10 3
Middlebury 5 3 7 6
Williams 5 3 8 5
Conn. College 4 4 8 5
Colby 3 5 6 6
Bates 1 7 4 7
Trinity 1 7 4 9
Hamilton 1 8 4 9
NESCAC OVERALL
F 4/18
Sa 4/19
M 4/21
at Southern Maine
v. Williams
v. Williams
at Thomas
at Thomas
3:30 P.M.
NOON
2:30 P.M.
3 P.M.
5:30 P.M.
WOMENS LACROSSE
W L W L
Amherst 8 0 13 0
Trinity 7 1 10 2
Williams 7 1 12 1
Middlebury 6 2 10 3
Colby 4 4 6 5
Tufts 4 4 8 5
BOWDOIN 4 5 8 5
Bates 3 5 7 6
Hamilton 2 7 5 7
Conn. College 0 8 4 9
Wesleyan 0 8 5 8
NESCAC OVERALL
BASEBALL
NESCAC EAST OVERALL
W L W L T
Tufts 3 1 20 2 0
Colby 4 2 13 6 0
Bates 2 2 11 10 0
BOWDOIN 4 5 13 9 1
Trinity 3 6 9 14 0
NESCAC WEST OVERALL
W L W L
Wesleyan 6 0 18 5
Amherst 4 1 18 5
Williams 4 5 7 11
Middlebury 2 7 4 12
Hamilton 1 4 8 9
SOFTBALL
NESCAC WEST OVERALL
W L W L
Middlebury 5 1 14 8
Williams 5 1 15 6
Amherst 4 4 15 7
Wesleyan 2 6 9 15
Hamilton 1 5 7 16
NESCAC EAST OVERALL
W L W L
Tufts 5 0 23 3
BOWDOIN 5 3 16 8
Trinity 4 5 6 16
Bates 1 4 5 12
Colby 1 4 5 12
F 4/18
Sa 4/19
W 4/23
at Husson
at Husson
v. Brandeis
v. Brandeis
at U. of NewEngland
at U. of NewEngland
3 P.M.
5 P.M.
1 P.M.
3:30 P.M.
3:30 P.M.
5:30 P.M.
Sa 4/19
W 4/23
at Endicott
at Tufts
1 P.M.
7 P.M.
W 4/23 v. Tufts 7 P.M.
Sa 4/19
W 4/23
at Middlebury
v. Bates
10 A.M.
4 P.M.
MENS TRACK AND FIELD
Sa 4/19 at State Meet (Colby) NOON
WOMENS TRACK AND FIELD
F 4/18
Sa 4/19
Aloha Relays Heptathlon
Aloha Relays
4 P.M.
11:30 A.M.
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BY ALEX MARECKI
ORIENT STAFF
Te womens lacrosse team out-
scored Wesleyan 9-6 in an important
NESCAC game last Saturday and then
capped of the weekend by defeating
Wheaton by a resounding 17-2 score
on Sunday at Ryan Field. Yesterday,
the team crushed the University of
Southern Maine 17-4 in Portland. Te
Polar Bears improved their record to
8-5 (4-5 in NESCAC play).
Yesterday, seniors Betsy Sachs and
Jordan Smith led the blowout with
four and three goals, respectively.
USM is an important regional
game and it has national tourna-
ment implications, because we have
to do very well outside the league
since we havent been doing as well
in the league this season as we have
in previous seasons, Sachs said be-
fore the contest.
Te women started of last week-
end strong against Wesleyan, lead-
ing at the end of the frst period by
a score of 4-1. Smith accounted for
all four goals in the opening round
of play. Bowdoin pushed the lead
further with a powerful run at the
start of the second period. Two
more goals by Smith, coupled with
goals from Betsy Sachs 14, Lindsay
Picard 16 and Megan OConnor
16 allowed the Polar Bears to take
a 9-4 lead with just ten minutes lef
to play. Te Cardinals were able to
score twice more in the dwindling
moments of the match, but it was
too little, too late.
We have been working on making
smarter feeds into the middle for the
past few weeks, and we defnitely saw
this pay of in the Wesleyan game,
said Smith. We were able to attack
the zone and fnd the openings, which
gave us a lot of opportunities that we
were able to capitalize on.
On Sunday, the Polar Bears
celebrated their Senior Day. The
women conceded the first goal
of the match to give Wheaton a
1-0 lead, which the Lyons would
not hold onto for long. The Polar
Bears scored 10 unanswered goals
over the next 20 minutes. Going
into the intermission, Bowdoin led
the match 10-2, and then contin-
ued their offensive pressure in the
second period.
In a dominant second half, the
Polar Bears managed to sneak sev-
en shots past the Lyons goalkeeper
without allowing any themselves.
Sachs and OConnor led the scor-
ing with four each, while Molly
Popolizio 14 led the team with
three assists.
This weekend was definitely im-
portant for us in terms of our con-
fidence as well as our standing in
the NESCAC, said Popolizio. We
have been working hard to play well
for a full 60 minutes in our last few
games. This weekend, we didnt let
Cardinals drop mens lax
in battle of NESCACs best
BY REBECCA FISHER
ORIENT STAFF
Afer Wesleyan scored late in the
second half, the mens lacrosse team
was defeated 11-10 by the Cardinals
last Saturday afernoon in Connecticut.
Despite the loss to playof-bound
Wesleyan (10-3, 7-1 NESCAC), the
Polar Bears (9-4, 6-3 NESCAC) have
secured a postseason spot and are
battling to host a frst-round game.
Tey play Endicott on Saturday and
conclude NESCAC regular season
play on Wednesday at Tufs.
Wesleyan raced out to a 3-0 lead in
the frst few minutes of the game, but
Bowdoin scored four unanswered
goals to rise to a 4-3 lead at the end
of the frst quarter. Wesleyan scored
twice and Bowdoin once during the
second quarter, leaving the teams
tied 5-5 at intermission.
Te Cardinals outplayed the Polar
Bears in the third quarter, gaining
an 8-6 edge heading into the fnal 15
minutes. Bowdoin scored four of the
seven goals in the fnal quarter.
After Robert Talcott 15 fed the
ball to Will Wise 14 for a goal, the
Polar Bears had a 10-9 edge with
7:27 left. The Cardinals equalized
the score at 5:51 when Aidan Dani-
ell bounced a hard shot just inside
the left post. Shortly after, another
Wesleyan player sent a low shot
into the back of the net from ten
feet inside the box, putting the Car-
dinals ahead.
Wesleyan fought to maintain con-
trol of the ball during the fnal four
minutes, but Bowdoin defender Ben
Brewster 14 forced a turnover be-
hind the net and the cleared the ball
into Wesleyans zone. Bowdoin got a
fnal shot afer a timeout with 0:07
remaining, but Wesleyan goalie Jus-
tin Schick made the save to preserve
the win.
Connor Laughlin 15 collected
eight saves for Bowdoin, while
Schick had six. Posting hat tricks for
Bowdoin were leading scorer Frank-
lin Ries 14 and Brandon Lee 17. Ries
has 25 goals and 39 points on the year
so far and Lee came into the game
with 10 assists on the season but no
goals. Rob Talcott 15 won 14 of 35
faceofs, had an assist, scored a goal
and won four ground balls.
It came down to a lot of missed
opportunities on ofense and break-
downs on defense, said Lee. We
failed to convert on a couple man up
opportunities, so it came down to a
one-goal game.
Wesleyan had fve penalties in the
game while Bowdoin had none.
We certainly played hard enough
[to win], said Head Coach Jason
Archbell. But Im not sure we played
well enough. If we clean some things
up or tweak a few things, hopefully
we can be on the winning end.
Bowdoin plays at Endicott at 1
p.m. tomorrow and returns to NES-
CAC action at Tufs (7-1 NESCAC,
11-2) on Wednesday.
Tufs is arguably the best team
in the NESCAC the past couple of
years, said Archbell. Tey have a
really high-powered ofense and are
very athletic. It will be a tough test
for us, but there is tons of incentive
in the game to win. Tis will decide
our destiny in the NESCAC playofs.
Were just really looking forward
to the playofs, said Lee. We love to
play at home, but weve also won re-
ally big games on the road.
SCORECARD
Sa 4/12
Su 4/13
v. Wesleyan
v. Wheaton
at USM
W
W
W
96
172
174
Womens lax dominates outside of CAC
SCORECARD
Sa 4/12 at Wesleyan L 1110
Te mens and womens track team
competed at the University of New
Hampshire (UNH) in a non-scoring
meet for the second consecutive week-
end as they tune up in preparation for
vital upcoming meets. Tis weekend the
men travel to Colby for the Maine State
Meet, while the women will host the
Aloha Relays.
Te following weekend, both teams
will travel to Waterville to compete in
the NESCAC Championship. Athletes
who qualify will then go on to com-
pete in the New England D-III Cham-
pionship, Open New Englands, the
ECAC Championship, and fnally the
NCAA Championship.
One Bowdoin athlete with a consid-
erable chance to make it to Nationals is
captain Coby Horowitz 14, who spe-
cializes in the one-mile and 1500 meter
(.93 mile) runs. Coming of an indoor
season where he broke the D-III mile
record and then took the national title
at the D-III Tournament, Horowitz has
already transitioned well to the out-
door season.
Last weekend, facing over a dozen
D-I runners at UNH, Horowitz again
won the 1500 event, clocking in at
3:53.37. However, it was only the 11th-
best time this season in D-III, which
means he will have tough competition
if he gets to defend the national title he
won last season. Horowitz was named
last weeks NESCAC Track Performer
of the Week, and said he was optimistic
about the prospects of the team for the
rest of the season.
Te transition from indoor to
outdoor can be pretty tough due to
the weather we get in our early sea-
son meets, but everyone has handled
it well so far and were looking strong
heading into the championship sea-
son, said Horowitz.
He also thought it was great to race
D-I competition as they provide a good
opportunity to hit qualifying times.
But Horowitz was not the only
Bowdoin athlete to best D-I compe-
tition last Sunday, as Erin Silva 15
turned in a stellar performance on pole
vault, clearing 11-11.75 to take frst. Ju-
nior Emily Clarks 1:07.42 time in the
400-meter hurdle and sophomore Katie
Krupps 36-08 triple jump were good for
second in their respective events, while
Jacob Ellis 16 took home frst in the
800-meter.
As both teams prepare for their up-
coming meets, Horowitz voiced his ex-
pectations for the team.
Were hoping to be one of the top
teams at the state meet and NESCACs;
were hoping for some freezing rain or
snow to give us an extra edge in the up-
coming meets since Bates and Tufs top
guys have been known to skip meets to
watch reruns of Friends at the frst signs
of precipitation.
Te baseball team dropped its frst
home series of the year at Pickard
Field to Colby, winning the second
game but losing the frst and third.
On Wednesday, the team dropped
a close non-conference game to
Husson, 6-5. Te three losses sink
Bowdoin to 13-9-1 on the year and
4-5 in NESCAC play.
Last Friday afernoon, Bowdoin
stepped onto Pickard Field for the
frst time this season to take on the
Mules.
Contributing two hits and scor-
ing a run, Peter Cimini 16 led the
charge in the matchup against the
Mules on Friday. However, stifled
by the pitching performance of
Colbys Scott Goldberg, Bowdoin
gathered just six hits and two runs
on the day.
[Goldberg] was very efective said
Sam Canales 15, [He] was keeping
us of balance and hitting his spots.
He hit the outside corner a lot and
was probably an inch or so of the
plate, noted Stephen Girolamo 16.
Its tough, as a hitter, to go up there
and tell yourself to swing at that frst
pitch of the plate because obviously
youre going up there looking for a
pitch you can drive, that you can get
an extra base hit on.
Te Polar Bears stayed close
through three innings, but a fve-run
third inning opened up a lead for
Colby and created an insurmountable
defcit for Bowdoin, who eventually
lost 8-2.
Te next day, the Polar Bears host-
ed a double header against Colby.
In the early game, Bowdoin again
struggled to produce runs in the
early going, partially due to Colbys
great defense.
Tey put together a really solid
efort on the mound and in the feld,
said Sam Herzig 14. Tey made
some amazing plays, and their short-
stop did a great job making plays the
whole series.
Late in the game, the Polar Bears
were sparked by two great plays in the
feld and one at the plate, which led
them to the comeback win.
Aaron Rosen [15] had a big
play in the feld that saved a run at
second base. He kept the ball from
going into the outfeld and actually
made an out instead. Sam Canales
had a great play on a bunt coming
in from third base. Both of those
defensive plays were huge and saved
runs, said Herzig.
In the bottom of the sixth inning,
Chad Martin 16 capitalized on a
hanging breaking ball and crushed his
third homerun of the year.
Pete and [Cole DiRoberto 15]
did a good job of getting on, and then
with Chad, I mean, the kid can hit a
homerun at any point in the game,
so its nice to have him in the lineup,
said Canales.
In the afernoon, DiRoberto and
captain John Lefeber 14 led Bow-
doins ofense with two hits apiece.
While Lefeber drove in two runs
himself and Jay Loughlin 14 held
the Mules to just two hits in fve in-
nings of work on the mound, Colby
managed to scrape across four runs,
stealing the rubber match from the
Polar Bears.
We had the bases loaded in the
first and second inning and when
you have the opportunity to open
up a game like that, especially ear-
ly on, you have to do it, said Gi-
rolamo. Because if you dont take
advantage of it in the beginning of
the game, who knows whats going
to happen.
In their game agains Husson on
Wednesday, the Bears took an early
4-0 lead. However, a sixth inning four
run surge helped Husson take the lead
and hold on for a 6-5 win.
Bowdoin was led by Rosen, Martin
and DiRoberto, who each contributed
multi-hit games in the efort.
Te Polar Bears, fourth in their
division at 4-5, will look to move
past the defeat when they play at the
University of Southern Maine at 3:30
p.m. today.
Once you play a game, especial-
ly a close one like that, the worst
thing you can do is dwell on the
loss, said Girolamo.
Track and eld tunes up for
Maine Meet, Aloha Relays
Baseball dips under .500 in conference
up our intensity throughout the
games and continued to play well
cohesively on the defensive, mid-
field and attacking ends.
Smith and Sachs lead the Po-
lar Bears on offense this season
with 34 and 33 goals, respectively.
Popolizio is currently leading the
team with 19 assists. On the defen-
sive side, Sachs and Popolizio lead
the Polar Bears with 18 ground
balls apiece.
Te team returns to action when
they host Tufs on Wednesday in the
regular season fnale.
Te Polar Bears have already
qualifed for the frst round of the
NESCAC tournament; their match
against Tufs next week will deter-
mine their seeding.
All of our NESCAC games against
top opponents have been very close
games this season, explained Sachs.
We are confdent going into the play-
ofs because we know we can play with
those teams.
We are planning on traveling for
our frst game of NESCACs, and I
think that having that mentality going
into the weekend will make us even
more focused, added Popolizio.
BY NEIL FULLER
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Fr 4/11
Sa 4/12
We 4/16
v. Colby
v. Colby
v. Colby
v. Husson
L
W
L
L
82
32
42
65
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Rules of engagement
A green parable: looking into Bowdoins environmental future
On May 24, 2033, Bowdoins com-
mencement speaker, Elias Grodin,
was just a frst year; he was selected
to speak because his birthday co-
incided with Bowdoins dramatic
actions around climate change, an-
nounced in the summer of 2015. Be-
low is the text of his speech.
Tank you for joining us to cel-
ebrate the 18th year of Bowdoins
climate revolution, on this hot but
clear and beautiful May morning. Its
remarkable to note that it was, of all
things, a little boy that fnally woke
Bowdoin up to the challenges of cli-
mate change. To be precise, it was
El Nio, the unusually warm waters
of the coast of South America, that
woke us up.
Even though nine out of the ten
warmest years recorded since 1880
occurred in the 21st century, the
warmest years are typically magni-
fed by El Nio. And thats what hap-
pened in the spring of 2015, when
snow melted early in Brunswick and
hot and dry weather settled in for
the spring and summer. Tempera-
tures over 100 degrees sweltered the
state, hammering the summer tour-
ism business. As we all remember
how could we forget!dry light-
ning storms that had begun to fre-
quent the coast triggered a forest fre
that wiped out the entire 33 acres of
Bowdoins famous white pines, even
those that were 125 years old, some
of the last old growth in the state.
Tat fre was so worrisome and so
saddening that we were forced, f-
nally, to act.
Te fre came on the heels of in-
creasingly strident warnings from
the scientifc community. As Jus-
tin Gillis reported in the New York
Times on April 13 2014: Te coun-
tries of the world have dragged their
feet so long on global warming that
the situation is now critical, experts
appointed by the United Nations
reported...and only an intensive
worldwide push over the next 15
years can stave of potentially disas-
trous climatic changes l a t e r
in the century. Tis
followed shocking
and rare statements
by the American
Academy for the
Advancement of
Science urging
the U.S. to act
swifly to reduce
carbon emis-
sions and lower
the risks of cli-
mate catastro-
phe.
All this was
enough for the
science, phi-
losophy and
history teach-
ers at Bow-
doin, who,
with stu-
dents at their
sides, met
with trustees
to discuss
me ani ngf ul
action on cli-
mate. Te trust-
ees and admin-
istration realized
that their worthy
actions to reduce
the carbon footprint
of the school were important but
not relevant to actually solving the
climate crisis, and therefore could
not be the foundation of the schools
climate program. Instead, the school
decided to take high-profle, nation-
al action. Te frst step: the New York
Times Op-ed by Barry Mills that, in
its vision and scope, blew away Har-
vard President Drew Fausts weak
statement on the schools climate
plans from the previous spring. Te
second step: divesting the schools
endowment from fossil fuels. Te
argument at the time was simple:
Bowdoin cares about the future of
our students. Tats why we are so fo-
cused on providing fnancial aid for
those in need. But it doesnt
make sense
to derive that fnancial aid from the
very businessescoal, gas, and oil
that are destroying the livability of
the planet on which those students
will live. Like a snake eating its tail,
this is a self-defeating approach.
Little did the administration
know that even though fossil fuels
made up only a small percentage of
the endowment, the great carbon
crash of 2018which followed the
passage of a national carbon tax and
renewable energy standardwould
have cut the endowments return by
a small but meaningful amount. In-
stead, Bowdoins reallocation of its
investments into the Climate Lead-
ers Fund far outperformed the S &
P 500. (Tat fund, which included
Starbucks, Ford and GE, also held
positions in some small but grow-
ing Maine businesses focused on
sustainability, like sportswear
manufacturer Attayne, which
recently purchased Patago-
nia and Te North Face.)
More important than the
fscal prudence of the
move, the divestment
was covered in the
national and inter-
national press, and
spread to 150 oth-
er major univer-
sities in the U.S.
Tis was
good news
for Bowdoin,
as appli-
cants from
c onc e r ne d
young peo-
ple skyrock-
eted. It was
also good
news for
the coun-
try, as the
e x t e n s i v e
press cover-
age, and subse-
quent shareholder actions that it led
to, forced Exxon Mobil, Chevron,
Shell and BP into increasing their
investment into renewable energy,
em ciency, and carbon capture tech-
nology a thousand fold. Te change
was so radical, in fact, that this sum-
mer the trustees will meet again
with students and science faculty to
consider, of all things, buying back
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n October 1972, an Orient columnist quipped, As most upperclassmen will readily agree, it requires a
fairly strong issue to fire Bowdoin students up over virtually anything, with the possible exception of the
hockey season. For the most part, this sense of political apathy has continued within the Bowdoin Bubble.
However, the past two years have seen student activism coalesce around a handful of topics more forcefully
than at any point in recent memory. Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
and the 2012 Yes on One initiative, among others, have involved students, faculty and staff in efforts that
have produced meaningful conversationseven if they have not always met their goals.
Today, President Barry Mills plans to receive a petition from BCA that was signed by more than 1,000
students and asks Bowdoin to divest its endowment from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel compa-
nies. This weekend also features the Colleges first Palestinian Film Festival, organized by SJP. These are
only small steps toward addressing contentious global issues, but they have fostered lively debate among a
historically apathetic student body. When Bowdoin students attend a lecture by an activist from the West
Bank or a hearing at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, they are engaging with a community that
lies beyond Brunswick.
These student-led efforts have not gone unnoticed by Bowdoin faculty. Last May, 24 professors emailed
BCA a letter of appreciation for its efforts encouraging the College to divest. The note communicated that
while the individual faculty members might not believe that divestment is the best solution for climate
change, they are grateful to the students for dramatically energizing the conversation on campus. In open-
ing up a critical space for dialogue on social, political or economic issues, students have earned the right to
collaborate with their educators and administrators.
It can often feel overwhelming to navigate a Smith Union filled with event posters and tables of vocal
activists. Many students blindly accept pamphlets and sign petitions out of a sense of social obligation or
brush by without engaging at all. This is a disservice to peers who are pushing for change, even if that change
comes incrementally. We do not have to sign the petitions if we disagree with them, but we should be willing
to have a conversation and think deeply about our own beliefs. When our signatures reflect a genuine desire
for change, the petitions will carry more weight when presented to the administration.
Activists at Bowdoin face a particular challenge because their goals may not come to fruition during their
four-year tenure at the College. Though we might not agree with each component of what SJP, BCA and
other advocacy groups fight for, it is detrimental to look down on student activism at Bowdoin as a whole
and abstain from the conversation. These efforts should be respected, not derided.
into Exxon Mobil stock, because that
business is now a key part of the cli-
mate solution.
Some have said its quite ftting
that El Nio was the event to wake
Bowdoin from its slumber into na-
tional leadership on climate. Te
term El Nio, of course, didnt frst
refer to warm ocean currents: it re-
ferred to the Christ child. And the
real El Nios message, about lov-
ing your neighbor and treating oth-
ers as they would like to be treated,
always had an eerie similarity to
Bowdoins core commitment to the
common good. It was 18 years ago
today that we togetherstudents, al-
ums, administration and parents of
studentscollectively realized that
in the modern world, the only sure
way to protect the common good for
the long term was to deal with the
climate problem.
We are not done. We still have
miles to go. But today is a ceremo-
nial moment, as we place the first
white pine seedlings on these hal-
lowed 33 acres that used to be called
the Bowdoin Pines, and which we
now call the Burn. We recognize
that this problem can indeed be
solved, and we are proud that Bow-
doin was recently recognized by the
president of the United Statesthe
climate hawk and Unity College
graduate Samantha Longoas hav-
ing led the charge. Today, as we
place our shovels in the ground, we
remember Walt Whitmans words:
The press of my foot on the earth
springs a hundred affections. For
us, that affection is for the Bowdoin
Pines of 2115, and the students who
will walk among them as if we nev-
er had to do this work.
Auden Schendler 92 is Vice Presi-
dent of Sustainability at Aspen Ski-
ing Company. Naomi Oreskes P17
is Professor of the History of Science
and Af liated Professor of Earth and
Planetary Sciences at Harvard.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Looking beyond the SAT: the need for a new, innovative evaluation
Electile dysfunction: campaigns need civility
Spring is in the air. Brunswick, Maine
is fnally melting. Ivies is right around
the corner. Tis morning, I heard birds
chirping outside my window, and I sus-
pect that the frst buds will appear on the
Quads trees any day now.
And, because its an election year,
there are absolutely hilarious ads from
primary candidates surfacing, either vi-
ciously targeting incumbents or sprint-
ing ahead in a race to the ideological
bottom.
In todays environment of
political polarization and
competitive primaries, candi-
dates bring out the rhetorical
big guns in primary races,
attacking their opponents
for being too conciliatory
or not ideologically pure
enough. In order to ca-
ter to the ideological el-
ements that make up a
signifcant percentage
of primary voters,
candidates swing far
to the extremes of
their party.
Te impractically ideological rheto-
ric in primary campaigns can have dan-
gerous implications for policy when
weird candidates advance through the
election system and eventually become
elected om cials.
When Te Moment is Right is a
new ad released in opposition to John
Boehner by J.D. Winteregg, a primary
challenger. Te ad prescribes Win-
teregg as a remedy for electile dysfunc-
tion, or rather the condition of having
a Boehner for 23 years. Winteregg
childishly reduces Boehners name to
its phonetic pronunciation and con-
demns the Speaker of the House for
activities such as playing golf with the
president, which is supposedly indica-
tive of Boehner being too comfortable
in Washington and not being able to
get the job done.
Another gem, this one from Mon-
tana, depicts a Republican Candidate
for the House of Representatives shoot-
ing down a drone allegedly belonging
to the US government. Entitled Rife
Shot, the ad demonstrates to viewers
exactly what Matt Rosendale thinks
about government surveillance.
Not only does the ad focus on an
issue that does not existthe govern-
ment does not routinely deploy drones
to spy on American citizensbut it also
advocates
violent remedies to the
make-believe problem. To Rosendale,
any infuence by Washington is a huge
problem, and he literally opens fre on
the problems he perceives.
Sensational campaign ads are hardly
anything new. Daisy, perhaps the
most famous campaign ad ever (its
universally known among people
who study that sort of thing), appears
to promise nuclear Armageddon if
Barry Goldwater rather than Lyndon
Johnson is elected president. Tat ad
was aired during the halcyon days af-
fectionately referred to as the golden
age of American politicsdays when
polarization was at a minimum.
Ads fre up the electorate and may
not be completely representative of the
political situation; they appeal to base
No Bowdoin studentanyone who
attends an elite college or university in
the United States for that mattertoo
far removed from the college admis-
sions process to know it is more in-
tense and cutthroat than ever.
Statistics might suggest that over-
all enrollment at American universi-
ties is declining, but that isnt relevant
to Americas best and brightest (and
yes, fortunate) high school students.
Admissions om cers at many top-tier
schools admit that they are turning
down well-qualifed students who are
indistinguishable from ones they are
accepting and who they would have
given the thumbs up to in the re-
cent past. Admissions counselors are
running out of tactful ways that jus-
tify choosing one qualifed applicant
from another.
While I regard the upcoming
changes to the SATwhich include
making the essay portion optional
and removing the vocabulary section
in favor of gearing the test towards
what students actually learned in high
schoolas an improvement, they do
not do enough to fairly and critically
assess the most intellectually accom-
plished students applying to the very
best American universities. In the
nontransparent and inconsistently
judgmental system that is college ad-
missions, the institutes of higher edu-
cation governing boards owe it to the
students to come up with a more ef-
fcient system of evaluation.
I propose a mandatory and origi-
nal, innovative supplemental test
to complement the SAT for a list
of selective schools, which will give
admission counselors a fresh, more
thorough way to evaluate its appli-
cants. Tis supplemental test should
be designed to determine skills such
as critical thinking, problem solv-
ing, and creative expression. Tese
attributes are as important as aca-
demic knowledge and are critical
for an enriched collegiate experi-
ence and a prosperous career path.
Leading innovators, education spe-
cialists, and management compa-
niesthe likes of Bill Gates, IBM,
and Khan Academyshould work
together to create a standardized
assessment based on an algorithm
that combines the best of creative,
intellectual and technical insight.
A compilation of multiple-choice
questionssuch as what Te Learn-
ing Channel does with its list of Test
Yourself creative questions that
measure critical-thinking skillsis
a must. I applaud the work of Four-
Sight, a company that creates creative
training skills to help individuals solve
problemsan abridged version of its
assessment to identify thinking styles
is also a great ft.
Tis new testing method should
have a more insightful writing
section than the SAT that sparks
imagination. Having the ability to
write logically and efectively is a
meaningful skill for life, whether
you want to be a chemical engineer
or a journalist. Some responses or
sections of this supplemental exam
dont necessarily need to have a right
or wrong answer, but simply need to
give admissions om cers a more in-
depth look at what really makes up
the students they are evaluating.
While this would be additional
testing and time spent for students
and admissions om cers alike, I believe
that this would best serve each groups
interests in the present and long-term
future. Furthermore, this system
emotions such as fear, hate, or frustra-
tion and ofen do so quite crudely.
Campaign ads are designed to edu-
cate the public about candidates, sway
undecided voters, and pump up a candi-
dates core electorate. As public opinion,
especially that of voters who participate
in primary elections, becomes increas-
ingly polarized, rhetoric in those races
gets ferier and candidates positions and
promises get more extreme.
Tis is especially true in primary
elections. Tose who vote in prima-
ries tend to be party elites and those at
ideological extremes. Joe Six-Pack does
not generally vote in the
primaries. Te more can-
didates rely on rhetoric and
base emotions to sell their
positions, the more present
such rhetoric and emotion
becomes in everyday po-
litical discourse.
I dont want to
argue for civility as
a virtue. Obviously,
the defning feature of
these ads is vitriolic and
ofen rude rhetoric, but a
lack of civility is a symp-
tom, not a problem in
and of itself. Its a symp-
tom that feeds back
into and perpetuates
the original problem
of polarization, but politeness is not
inherently a virtue in politics, a realm
where remaining silent can result in
disastrous consequences.
While ads such as Rosendales and
Wintereggs may just be pure political
calculation to win votes, they legiti-
mize an environment in which law-
makers can hate each other, engage in
ad hominem attacks, and imply vio-
lent action against things with which
they disagree.
Shooting drones while seated on
a four-wheeler with grain silos in the
background may win votes from a vocal
minority, but bringing such imagery to
an already gridlocked and dysfunctional
legislative environment does little to im-
prove Americas outlook.
Ernest Hemingway once famously
said that courage is grace under
pressure.
When a group of warriors clad in
skin-tight clown suits bravely stood
in front of the Google Buses in San
Francisco, protesting the Silicon Val-
ley-led spike in living cost, I couldnt
help but appreciate the beauty of
Hemingways phrase. Books may well
cover Kent State, Tiananmen Square
and the San Francisco clown protest
in future editions.
But in case they dont, the clown
protest deserves attention in the pres-
ent. Im a proud resident of suburban
New Jersey, but I can only withstand so
many jokesI have to fnd a real city
one day, or else my sense of self-worth
may be crushed. Its a struggle many
Bowdoin students face, as seniors ship
out to a huge number of jobs covering
every corner of the globe and under-
classmen search for internships right
alongside them.
But some of Bowdoin graduates top
destinations relegate all but the richest
citizens to the outskirts of the city. Data
compiled by the real estate service Zil-
low show a trend in fve of Americas
biggest cities. In San Francisco, Los An-
geles, Chicago, Washington D.C. and
New York City, middle class families
almost universally struggle to rent even
the cheapest housing near city centers.
While many Bowdoin students might
make enough money to live within any
citys most expensive area codes, there is
a reason we dont rank frst on Payscale.
coms return-on-investment list: not
everyone here is motivated by money.
Yet, to claim that some ulterior motive
should relegate them to the city limits
hurts both the student and the city itself.
Cities began as the American dream
in its most accessible form, but Zillows
data shows the dream may be dying.
City centers frst began gentrifying
in the early 1960s as decaying hous-
ing projects and booming business
districts brought am uent families into
newly built homes. Te gentrifcation
made sense from an economic stand-
point; people wanted to live in the most
desirable places and paid accordingly.
But the gentrifcation failed to take into
account the impact of a diverse society
on a citys welfarereinforcing Amer-
icas dim culty with social mobility and
the income inequality gap. Given that
cities support an entire spectrum of
jobs, it makes little sense to exclude
the less lucrative from contributing an
equally important service.
Te clowns acted as part of a big-
ger movement to lower San Franciscos
costs, one thats gotten more desperate
with time. Recent highlights include the
set of angry protesters who handed out
pamphlets in front of Google Executive
Kevin Roses house that called him a de-
structive parasite.
To San Franciscos credit, the city has
put considerable resources into fxing
the situation. Mayor Ed Lee 74 recently
announced that he planned to build or
rehabilitate 30,000 new homes by 2020
and designate a third of those homes as
permanently afordable to lower income
residents. His om ce has also proposed
several other policies designed to keep
residents currently in rent-controlled
housing from moving out and incen-
tivize the construction of low income
apartment building.
Mayor Lees reforms should be com-
mended as a step in the right direc-
tion, but only that. San Francisco and
many similar business hubs throughout
America will continue to face serious
challenges to their economic diversity in
the coming years. Te moneyed inter-
ests in each hub will make most reform
dim cult, but ofen the most powerful
decision comes from standing in the
face of what looked invincible, sort of
like the clowns did.
would not play into the expensive SAT
and ACT tutoring programs that have
ofen been at the core of arguments
about these tests favoring the am uent.
On a separate note, the elite insti-
tutions I speak of should give mean-
ingful advantages to applications in
other ways amidst the review pro-
cess. For example, students who are
bilingual, have the undeniably prac-
tical skill of computer coding, who
describe a meaningful experience in
the professional world on a Com-
mon App section, or who list an in-
tention to study abroad and explore
other cultures should not be seen
only as their SAT scores. College-
bound students who see the bigger
picture and show it through their
skills and work experiences, should
be rewarded.
Tis year, Stanford had an accep-
tance rate of 5 percent; in the liberal
arts feld, Amherst and Bowdoin both
had admission rates less than 15 per-
cent. Tese impressive fgures are not
going to change anytime soon. Tere-
fore I propose a more honest, modern
way of refecting on the competitive
market of college admissions. And in
reality, students must prepare for the
even more competitive job market.
Harvard education specialist Tony
Wagner is on point when he says that
the pre-collegiate and university sys-
tems are not adding the value and
teaching the skills that matter most in
the marketplace. Te cultivation and
implementation of these attributes
whether its critical thinking or prob-
lem solving skillsshould be further
proactively developed by professors
within the classroom walls and colle-
giate seminars.
In Tom Friedmans writing on La-
zlo Block, the senior vice president of
people operations at Google, he said
that the company has determined
that GPAs and test scores are very
poor predictors of success when hir-
ing, but that they see those who in-
novate and think well on the fy as
most benefcial to them. He lists fve
key skill markers: general cognitive
learning ability, emergent leadership,
intellectual humility, ownership and
technical skill.
More critically assessing the very
best of prospective American col-
lege students is a pertinent and ur-
gent need to maintain our status as a
global leader.
Instead of just bandaging the
wound like the changes to the SAT
does, signifcant reform is necessary
for the education hole we are in. A
bold move that tackles higher educa-
tion in a more comprehensive manner
and has its students better prepared
to be successful leaders in the real
word. We have the resources and in-
telligencelets do it already.
ALL OUT
OF LOVE
DREW VAN KUIKEN
KICKING THE CAN
DAVID STEURY
No more clowning around: living
costs in major cities too high
RIGHT ON
POINT
GABRIEL FRANKEL
More critically assessing the very
best of prospective American
college students is a pertient
and urgent neet to maintain
our status as a global leader.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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FRIDAY
PANEL
"The Future of Cars: Bridging Towards
Petroleum Alternatives"
This panel, led by professionals in the feld of renewable
energy, will focus on alternative ways to power cars in the
near future.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.
ACTIVITY
Contra Dance
Students will shake and shimmy while participating in
this classic Maine tradition consisting of partnered folk
dancing with a live band.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
FILM
"Salt"
The Bowdoin Film Society will screen Phillip Noyce's
2010 spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a Russian
sleeper agent who goes on the run to clear her name.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
FILM FESTIVAL
"Omar"
Students for Justice in Palestine will screen Hany
Abu-Assad's 2013 drama about a Palestinian freedom
fghter who agrees to work as an informant after he is
blamed for the murder of an Israeli soldier.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Spring Dance Performance
Students will perform a wide range of dance styles in
this year's spring dance concert. See story on page 9.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.
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TUESDAY
EVENT
"Bowdoin Night Live"
Simon Brooks '14 will present his Saturday Night Live-
inspired independent study featuring live sketches and
digital shorts. See story on page 10.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 9 p.m.
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SATURDAY
FILM FESTIVAL
"Amreeka"
This 2009 independent flm, which follows a Palestinian
family in both the West Bank and post-9/11 Chicago, will
be screened by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Improvibilities
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Spring Dance Performance
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.
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MONDAY
HOUSING LOTTERY
Triples and Singles Lottery
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 6 p.m.
LECTURE
"Spanish Fascism and the Spectacle of
Garcia Lorca's Missing Corpse"
Carmen Moreno Nuo, professor of Hispanic studies at the
University of Kentucky, will discuss the debate
surrounding the memory of the Spanish Civil War.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30 p.m.
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MONDAY
LECTURE
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SUNDAY
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Protestant Chapel Service
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY

HOUSING LOTTERY
Doubles and Open Rooms Lottery
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 6 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Piano and Voice Recital
Piano and voice students of music instructors Joyce
Moulton and Karen Pierce will perform. The recital is free
and open to the public.
Room 101, Gibson Hall. 7:30 p.m.
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THURSDAY
FILM
"Vanishing Point"
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will screen this
2012 documentary about Navarana, an Inughuit elder
who attempts to connect with two estranged Inuit
groups in northern Greenland that were separated
during a migration in the 1860s.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
IVIES CONCERT
Racer X
After a one-year hiatus, the '80s cover band, featuring
English professor Aaron Kitch and music professor Vineet
Shende along with bassist Pat Cyr and drummer Dave
Morill, will kick of Ivies weekend.
Smith Union. 9:30 p.m.
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BLACK BEAN BURGERS, MUSSELS
HERB CHICKEN, GRILLED CHEESE
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CHICKEN PARM, PESTO PASTA
CHICKEN PARM, MUSSELS
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CHICKEN GUMBO, HOPPIN' JOHN
SRIRACHA CHICKEN, MAC & CHEESE
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CUBE STEAK, ORANGE PORK
TURKEY STEAK, TOFU RAVIOLI
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Mat Kearney
and Timeies
"What Does
Neuroscience
Teach Us About
Free Will?"
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THREE BEAN SALAD, LIME CHICKEN
BAKED ZITI, CHICKEN BURGERS
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SPICY RED DAHL, BBQ CHICKEN
LEG OF LAMB, TOFU STEAKS
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EGGPLANT PARM, CHICKEN MARSALA
TACO BAR, SPICY BAJA FISH TACOS
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Middle Eastern
Ensemble
LECTURE PERFORMANCE