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VOLUME 146, NUMBER 6
Dinesh DSouza will

speak on November 1
BY DANIEL VIELLIEU
ORIENT STAFF
BY ELEANOR PAASCHE
ORIENT STAFF
Please see DSOUZA, page 4
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BALANCING ACT: Cordelia Orbach 17 and Charlie Cambell-Decock 17 perform a scene in Masque and Gowns fall show A Delicate
Balance, directed by Jack Arnolz 19 and written by Edward Albee. Orbach plays Agnes, an uptight and organized mother attempting to keep
her fragile household together, and Campbell-Decock plays Tobias, her solid albeit quiet husband. In this scene, the two discuss their years
together and wonder what the future holds, with their daughter returning home after her fourth divorce and Agnes sister descending deeper
into alcoholism. The show runs through Saturday. PAGE 10.
BY JESSICA PIPER
ORIENT STAFF
Students gathered on the steps

of the Bowdoin College Museum of
Art last night to honor the victims
of last Junes shooting at the Pulse
nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The
vigil, organized by members of
Bowdoin Queer-Straight Alliance
(BQSA) and the Latin American
Student Organization (LASO) emphasized the importance of intersectionality, particularly in queer communities and communities of color.
When these shootings happened,
my parents called me and they were
like Chris, youre gay and youre

brown, this could have been you,
said Chris Hernandez Turcios 18,
who led efforts to organize the event.
At the vigil, students lit 49 candles on the Museum steps, one for
each victim, and read aloud all the
victims names and ages. Hernandez Turcios and Ernesto Garcia
17, president of LASO, gave short
speeches in English and Spanish to a
small crowd of students who turned
out despite a light rain.
Sophie Sadovnikoff 19, a leader
of BQSA, helped Hernandez Turcios
organize the event.
There are very few exclusively
queer spaces and we consider a lot of

[those] spaces safe spaces, she said.
So to have one of those taken from
us in such a violent way ... it really
freaked me out.
The vigil was a part of Out Week,
which BQSA sponsors each year.
Hernandez Turcios said he wanted
to emphasize intersectionality at the
vigil and during Out Week, both as
it pertains to the shooting and to
Latin American and queer communities at Bowdoin.
More than 90 percent of the victims were Latino and it was targeted
Please see VIGIL, page 3
Every summer, hundreds of

Bowdoin students make the trek
down Maine Street to lock up
their belongings at Cumberland
Self Storage. Get an inside look
at the man inside the maze and
how he navigates the storage
business.
PAGE 8.
WINTER IS COMING
Producer Chris Gary speaks about passion and curiousity. Page 3.
Dining Service began offering

fair trade bananas in both Moulton
Union and Thorne Hall this September, following last years campaign
by Bowdoin Advocates for Human
Rights (BAHR). Two cases of ripe
fair trade bananas are now delivered
to each dining hall every Friday, accounting for approximately 20 percent of the volume of bananas Bowdoin consumes.
According to Associate Director
and Executive Chef of Dining Service Ken Cardone, Bowdoin purchases about 728 cases of all bananas
per year, each with around 120 bananas, for a total of about 87,360
bananas.
Last year, BAHR led a campaign
to educate the student body about
ethical consumerism and to decrease College banana consumption to enable Dining Service to
switch to fair trade bananas. BAHR
handed out posters and fact sheets
Please see BANANAS, page 5
During Out Week, vigil honors Orlando shooting victims Faculty
KEEPER OF THE KEYS
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Dining
halls begin
to offer
fair trade
bananas
College
Republicans
to bring
conservative
commentator
The College Republicans will bring

neoconservative political celebrity Dinesh
DSouza to campus to speak on November 1. Despite negative student reactions
to a talk he delivered at Bowdoin in March
2007, the co-leaders of the College Republicans, Jack Lucy 17 and Francisco Navarro 19 believe his lecture Whats so great
about America? will offer a conservative
narrative that has been missing from campus discussion.
We thought [DSouza] was a great fit
for what we were trying to accomplish,
both as an intellectual counterpoint to
bringing Noam Chomsky to campus and
giving a voice to the conservative values
on campus in a way that hasnt been done
recently, Lucy said.
Navarro said that the funds used to
book DSouza came, in part, from alumni
who donated explicitly to bring a conservative speaker to campus.
DSouza grew up in Mumbai, India and
first came to the U.S. as a high school student. After graduating from Dartmouth
College in 1983, he followed a career, as a
writer, scholar and public intellectual, according to his website. DSouza identifies
as a neoconservative and has published
several books as well as three documentaries, Obamas America, America: Imagine a World Without Her, and Hillarys
America.
When DSouza spoke at Bowdoin in
2007, his talk centered around the war
in Iraq. He argued that the only way the
United States could lose the war in Iraq
was if the Democrats continued to challenge the Bush administration.
He characterized Democrats as willful
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COMING OUT CHRISTIAN
Adira Polite 18 writes about her reborn faith in

Christ. Page 9.
LETS TALK ABOUT SEX
New York City-based author Rachel Hills visits

campus and busts the sex myth. Page 11.
consider
guidelines for
unexpected
students at
meetings
BY SARAH BONANNO
ORIENT STAFF
In the upcoming weeks, the faculty will continue conversations about

situations when students attend
monthly faculty meetings unannounced and ask to address the faculty about student concerns without
prior approval. These conversations
could lead to formal guidelines for
how to manage these situations, according to Bion R. Cram Professor
of Economics Rachel Connelly, chair
of the committee on governance and
faculty affairs (GFA).
This conversation about procedure was sparked last spring after a
group of students unexpectedly attended a faculty meeting and asked
to speak about issues of racial inclusion on campus following the tequila party. Though GFA was surprised, the students were allowed to
speak for about five minutes after a
quick caucus, according to Connelly.
Please see FACULTY, page 3

S
ST. LOUIS-BOUND
Volleyball heads west in search of tougher

competition. Page 12.
ART SHOW CONTROVERSY
Garrett English 16 reacts to the censoring of

his art submission. Page 14.
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friday, october 21, 2016
THE (UNOFFICIAL) GUIDE TO BOWDOIN COFFEES

COFFEE
All Seasons Decaf
AROMA
A fine marriage of wood chips,

almond extract and mowed
grass.
MOUTH FEEL/TASTE
REMINISCENT OF...
BY ELEANOR PAASCHE AND ELIZABETH FOSLERJONES

ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEX WESTFALL
PAIRS WELL WITH...
AFTERTASTE/NOTES
Mild, almost sweet, smooth,

mushy.
Fruity herbal tea that your middle Gluten-free cookies and vegan
school nurse would give you.
cheese.
Christmas in the 1960s.
A cough drop, cinnamon chewing gum and diluted orange

juice.
Seacoast Choice Dark Roast
Burnt sugar, hazelnut notes.

Sweet, fruity scent and taste.
Not too harsh, small bite of

acidity, tenses up the jaw.
The liquid in the bottom of an

urban trash disposal.
Stale, diner pie that tastes like a

refrigerator.
Astringent, bitter, compost-y

notes.
Nicaraguan Fair Trade

Organic (medium roast)
The most quintessential coee

smell, touched with maplecoated turkey bacon.
Light, watery, sour in a spoiled,

not acidic way. Malty flavor.
Sticks to flavor receptors on the
tongue.
The flannel and soft, soft beard

of a hipster coee roaster in
Seattle. The morning public
transport commute.
A bleu-cheese burger with caramelized shallots and a port wine

reduction. But also, in the animal
world, a chipmunk hoarding its
food.
The water at the top of sour,

plain yogurt. Tolerable, but you
want to pour it o and enjoy
your Chobani.
Italian Roast
Burnt chestnuts, molasses.
Sharp, thick, coats the tongue,

acidic like a kumquat, jaw
-tightening.
50-cent gas station coee.

The best that 7/11 has to oer.
Purely fuel.
A bacon, egg and cheese sandwich wrapped in foil, or pretzel

rods. Needs salt to balance the
bitterness.
Pine needles, spruce sap. When

you let an uncoated pill stay in
your mouth for too long.
Snickerdoodle
Cinnamon, a Yankee candle

store, your fictional grandmas
bathroom Christmas potpourri.
Mild, soothing, shockingly

sweet, mellower than normal
coee.
A county fair in autumn, but hot

cider would be a better call for
the spice factor.
Rosemary-roasted turkey with

butternut squash pure and
sangria.
Glade plug-in air freshener in

your friends smelly dorm room.
Traces of pumpkin spice latt.
SECURITY REPORT: 10/13 to 10/19

Thursday, October 13
A grounds employee using a weed whacker accidentally smashed a plate glass window at Kanbar
Hall.
A students yellow bike that was stolen from Hyde
Plaza was recovered nearby.
A students yellow bike that was stolen from Hyde
Plaza was recovered at the Pickard Field House.
Student Activities requested assistance with crowd
management at an event at Pickard Theater.
Friday, October 14
Two students took responsibility for stealing two
bicycles from the bike rack at Stowe Hall. The bicycles have been returned.
A student reported the theft of the Yellow Bike
Club bike, El Solio, from outside of Coles Tower.
Two bicycles that were stolen from the Outdoor
Leadership Club on October 8 were recovered. At
the request of security, two local juveniles were
issued criminal trespass warnings in connection
with the thefts.
Security officers questioned a man who was reported to be at the Sargent Gym basketball court
without authorization.
A student reported the theft of yellow bike,
Wolverine, from the bike rack at Stowe
House Inn.
Brunswick police responded to 5-7 Carlisle Avenue after neighbors complained
of excessive noise. A student resident was
warned for disorderly conduct.
Saturday, October 15
Brunswick Rescue transported an intoxicated minor student from Thorne Hall to
Mid Coast Hospital.
A visiting Castleton University rugby
player was transported to Mid Coast
Hospital with a neck injury.
A Bowdoin rugby player was transported to Mid Coast Hospital for
treatment of a lip laceration.
A student with an infected hand was
escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.
Sunday, October 16
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Coles Tower.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated visitor at
Quinby House.
A yellow bike that was stolen from a bike
rack at Druckenmiller Hall was recovered.
A student reported that a tire was stolen from a

bike that had been locked to a bike rack at Howell
House over the past several weeks.
A student was cited for possession of marijuana
and drug paraphernalia near Whittier Field.
Monday, October 17
Overcooked microwave popcorn set off a room
smoke alarm in Maine Hall.
A student reported that he accidentally dropped
and broke the neck of his cello.
An ammonia alarm was received for a minimal
leak in the ammonia system at the Watson Ice
Arena. The building was evacuated and emergency
crews and repair technicians responded.
A minor student was cited for possession of three
fraudulent drivers licenses.
Tuesday, October 18
A student reported the theft of a gray Sport 1000
bicycle from outside Brunswick Apartment X.
A yellow bike that was reported stolen from Hyde
Plaza was recovered hours later.
Required semi-annual residential fire drills were
conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday. Among the
life-safety violations noted: several students failed
to evacuate; multiple rooms contained candles
and/or smoking materials; and items were found
hanging on sprinkler pipes and/or blocking sprinkler heads.
Wednesday, October 19
Contractors working in Jewett Hall accidentally triggered the buildings fire alarm.
An ill student in downtown Brunswick

was escorted to the Mid Coast Primary Care &
Walk-In Clinic.
A dining staff member reported encountering a suspicious man attempting to

enter a dinner event at Helmreich House.
A fire alarm at Winthrop Hall was activated by a student smoking an electronic
cigarette, which is a policy violation.
ADVISORY: Yellow Bike Club (YBC) bikes
are not community property for anyone to
use at will. YBC members pay an annual fee
of $40 authorizing them to use one specific
bike to which they have been assigned. If a
students assigned yellow bike is lost or stolen and cant be accounted for, the student
is held responsible for it and is billed $100
for the bike and $30 for the lock. Please
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STUDENT
SPEAK:
What is one thing you dont want your family to know about
your Bowdoin experience?
Ryan Herman 17
How little I shower slash do
my own laundry. I had a host
family who lived in Freeport,
and I would drive my laundry
there, and they would do my
laundry for me.
Sophie Sadovniko 19
How few of my readings Ive
done over the years. Because
its not many. A rough number?
Percentage wise? Fully? With
dedication? Like maybe 20
percent.
Nate DeMoranville 20
I havent had any vegetables
yet. At all. Not a single one. I
have bagels, french fries, some
chicken, maybe some pizza
thats ,like, it though.Thats the day.
Brewster Taylor 18
I just spent most of the
afternoon cleaning my apartment, so Im hoping thats the
image they see of me. I want
them to think that I take out
the recycling.
Shani Agarwal 20
My mom gave me a lamp
for my desk. I have not used
my rooms desk ever. And the
lamp is still in the box. That
lamp is gonna be in the box till
graduation.
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NEWS IN BRIEF Game of Thrones producer Chris

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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
EXPANDS HOURS TO
ACCOMMODATE DEMAND
In response to a large number of students using Special Collections this
semester, the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives has extended its Thursday hours. Students and other researchers are
now able to access Special Collections from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, as
opposed to the previous hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
According to Kat Setfko, director of Special Collections and Archives, the
increased hours are intended to better meet the needs of students.
Our concern is that the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. may not be the best for
students, who are often in classes during that time, she said. Because we
have a lot of students that are coming in this semester with a variety of classes
we wanted to be able to try to be open during hours that might better meet
their calendar needs.
Peter Mumford 17 is using documents from special collections for a research paper on how Bowdoin maintained its commitment to the liberal arts
model of education during World War II.
I think [the expanded hours] are a great idea, especially if youre trying to
work on a project that spans the entire semester. Having the ability to go in
there during normal study hours instead of during the day is pretty crucial,
said Mumford.
According to Stefko, Mumford and one other student made use of the first
set of expanded hours, along with another non-student researcher.
The office is open to the idea of adding additional hours depending on the
needs of students.
Were hoping whats going to happen is well see a lot of students during
those evening hours, which would be a good indicator that thats something
that we need to continue to do, said Stefko.
The office started the expanded schedule last week. The current schedule
will continue through the end of the academic semester. Special Collections is
open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays other than Thursdays.
FACULTY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Little precedent exists for dealing
with these situations.
Currently, guidelines do exist for
GFA to formally add students to the
meetings agenda if the students give
advanced notice. Students from BSG
and the Orient have also historically
attended faculty meetings on a more
regular basis, although they listen
rather than present.
I think the faculty really appreciated hearing from those students,
said Connelly. Our conversation
about [this] is not that that was necessarily a bad thing, but rather that
we should have a policy about such
things.
Connelly said that the faculty
generally supports hearing students
speak about issues important to
them at the meeting. Despite this
support, she suggested that the faculty meetings are not always the first
path that students should take in engaging with faculty since the meeting tend to be very procedural.
Faculty meetings in general are
not good places to have conversationsthey tend to be fairly stilted,
Connelly said. We can do a lot better than that as a go-to path.
Connelly believes that the faculty
meeting would be a viable option if
VIGIL
towards the LGBT community along
Latino lines, said Garcia.
They were all there because it
was a salsa night, Hernandez Turcios said.
Garcia noted the importance of
recognizing intersectionality not
only with regards to the Orlando
shooting, but also at the College.
Its really hard to find events [at
Bowdoin] where you have people
of color who also identify as not
straight, he said.
Gary talks failure and curiosity
He pursued a degree in finance at

Georgetown University, but after his
first internship he realized that Wall
Chris Gary, producer of works Street was not for him.
such as The Perks of Being a
They wanted me to conform, he
Wallflower, True Detective and said. Conforming [has always been]
Game of Thrones, highlighted the thing I was taught to never do.
the importance for students to folNear the end of the talk, Gary
low their passions and seek out new spoke about the movie The Perks
experiences his talk on Monday in of Being a Wallflower, a project in
Kresge Auditorium.
which he had found himself emoYoure only as good as you are tionally invested.
willing to discover new things,
[I] put more of myself into [the
he said.
project] than anything I had ever
During the talk, Gary discussed worked on, he said.
in great detail the role of curiosity,
While Gary said some projects
asking stupushed him to be
Youre only as good more creative, sindents what
they liked to
as you are willing to gling out Game of
Google. He
Thrones as his outlet
discover new things. for bold creativity, he
also upheld
the imporsaid Perks had enCHRIS GARY
tance of hobabled him to be more
bies, saying
emotional and more perthat hobbies stem from a profound sonal in his work.
love for random, quirky curiosities.
Gary concluded his talk by tellAlthough he originally neglected ing the audience to get comfortable
his own curiosities, Gary said he with being uncomfortable. He was
eventually found happiness once he greeted afterward by a long line of
focused on following his passion.
students, many of whom were hunEvery career that I had ever gry for more advice or had lingering
wanted had something to do with a questions about Game of Thrones.
character on a TV show, he said.
The presentation helped many auBY JONATHAN CALENTTI
STAFF WRITER
Faculty meetings in general are not good

places to have conversationsthey tend
to be fairly stilted ... We can do a lot better
than that as a go-to path.
GFA CHAIR RACHEL CONNELLY
students could not find other venues
or exhausted other options, such as
reaching out to student representatives on faculty committees.
We dont want to draw big generalizations when the circumstances
are all so very different, she said.
Professor of Cinema Studies Tricia Welsch spoke in support of the
GFA initiative at the faculty meeting
on Monday and echoed Connellys
desire to look at situations on a caseby-case basis.
It looked like we were moving in
the direction of some guidelines,
Welsch said. I think thats far more
flexible and useful to us over a long
run where circumstance might
change quite a lot.
Like Connelly, Welsch said that
the agenda-driven faculty meeting might not be the best forum for
discussing big ideas. When students
spoke last spring, Welsch felt there
was inadequate time for faculty to
respond or reflect. She did think,
however, that President Roses town
hall discussion about issues of race
was impressive, moving and wellattended by faculty.

Connelly said that the teach-in
last year worked well as an example
of faculty-student collaboration on
big ideas.
It was certainly a place where
faculty and students were in constant conversation, she said.
Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) President Harriet Fisher 17 said
she is excited that communication between students and faculty as well as
the role of the faculty meeting are both
being discussed. She added she would
like to see students use BSG as a platform where students can share their
experiences with faculty.
Going forward, GFA will continue
to talk with faculty about the presence of students at faculty meetings.
Connelly is unsure of the specific
steps that would need to happen for
GFA to finalize a new procedure, as
the faculty handbook generally outlines the way meetings are run, but
does not go into specific details.
Were in pretty grey area, she said.
Both Garcia and Hernandez Turcios hoped that bringing LASO and
BQSA together for the event would
emphasize the overlap of oppression based on race and sexuality. Because the Pulse shooting was a highprofile event, Hernandez Turcios
thought that holding a vigil would
honor the victims and provide a
powerful forum that all students
could understand.
I dont want to proselytize, he
said. I didnt want to have a workshop or a discussion because I feel
like when we have discussions
about intersectionality and queerness and race we have the same 20
to 30 people who come.

The vigil was emotional for many
of the students present; some also
saw it as a space for unity.
Queer-identifying people tend
to face a lot of fear in everyday life
because you sort of never know
how people are going to react to
you, Sadovnikoff said. Having to
face that fear in spaces where you
usually didnt became really difficult. So making sure that those
spaces continue to exist on this
campus and that we really make
the space for them in our lives and
remove that sense of fear has been
really important.
dience members consider how their

passions could become a careerespecially in the entertainment industry.
I went to the event because Im
interested in film and the creative
process, but Im not really sure
how it translates into something
that you can do to make money
and to survive because we do live
in a capitalistic society, said Railey Zantop-Zimlinghaus 19. Before meeting [Gary], I was missing
the connection between the liberal
arts mindset of find what youre
passionate about and take it and
run with it and the very real life,
where you have to pay rent.
I liked a lot of his advice, said
Summers Askew 20. I thought it
was an interesting perspective in the
industry. He actually knows whats
going on.
Zantop-Zimlinghaus added that
she was also impressed by Garys relaxed demeanor.
He was so chill, she said. He
was a real person not everyone
has to be a robot!
The talk was sponsored by Career
Planning.
Liza Tarbell contributed to
this report.
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DSOUZA
traitors who were supporting the nations

enemy, saying that domestic opposition
operates in service of the strategic aims of
Americas enemies and liberals are at best
unwitting supporters in the civilizational
struggle against radical Islam.
Jeffrey Selinger, associate professor
of government, was present at DSouzas
2007 talk as well as Chomskys recent talk.
He commented on the many purposes
and processes that go into choosing guest
speakers.
Some [speakers] are academics and
are accustomed to producing, even in a
large auditorium, a classroom-like feel,
he said. Sometimes we pull in celebrities of different kinds. They could fancy
themselves to be public intellectuals, but
sometimes theyre incredibly polemical
figures or deeply partisan or not particularly conscientious about research methods.
Sometimes weve even had figures
who come in who are unaware that
they are willfully misinforming our
students about the subject that they are
addressing, he added. We have to be
wary and mindful of the kinds of motives and purposes that lead visitors
to take us up on an invitation to come
speak.
Lucy noted that DSouza, like
Chomsky, speaks to the idea of American exceptionalism.
People on both sides of the aisle
feel like theyve been effectively left
behind for generations, he said.
Figuring out how to make this
country great and work for everyone
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is a focus of Chomsky and DSouza.
Selinger, on the other hand, questioned whether DSouza was the correct type of conservative speaker to
balance Chomskys liberal discourse.
Both figures are political celebrities,
he said, which means that they are not
speaking to college students and faculty
in order to learn from them and engage
in a larger intellectual conversation.
Selinger suggested that student
groups invite lower profile, more academic political speakers, and consult
faculty during the decision making
process.
There are so many fantastic conservative and libertarian and progressive thinkers and writers that are out
there and that could be drawn upon,
and that arent particularly expensive
either, Selinger said. Often times, the
most deliberative figures are cheaper.
Theyre not celebrities, theyre very
happy to come visit, they dont often
get the invitation.
Wednesday evening, Ladd House
discussed whether or not it would hold
an event to debrief the DSouza lecture.
Michael Walsh 19, a Ladd resident said
that while the College House system is
meant to be a platform to explore different ideas, many house members still
opposed the event.
Its tough because Bowdoin is such
an inclusive community and a lot of
the non-inclusive views [DSouza] has
go against everything we stand for, but
also because were in an inclusive community, [so] we should be listening to
these rather narrow-minded opinions,
Walsh said.
Research symposium to showcase students

summer research, breadth of liberal arts
BY JESSICA PIPER AND HORACE WANG
ORIENT STAFF
Over 150 students will deliver

poster presentations at the first annual Presidents Research Symposium today. In the past, there has only
been a forum for science research,
but President Clayton Rose opted to
expand the symposium to include research across all disciplines this year.
The presidents interest is in all
students and it seemed like such a
wonderful opportunity for science
students to showcase the work that
they do over the summer, but we
have students in the humanities and
the arts and the social sciences, said
Interim Dean of Academic Affairs
Jennifer Scanlon.
Michael Amano 17 is presenting
posters in both the neuroscience and
East Asian studies departments, after
presenting neuroscience research at
the symposium last year.
Ive been able to present on my
neuroscience research at the symposium because I was here doing research for that [last year], but I think
it will be exciting to tell people I did
this research [this summer], especially for the Hiroshima project.
Amano split his summer between
Brunswick and Japan. On campus, he
spent four weeks studying crickets for a
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neuroscience project. He spent the rest

of his summer tracking down survivors
of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing.
Amano and his project partner
Ginny Crow 18 are curating an exhibition based on drawing made by
Hiroshima schoolchildren, which
will open at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art in the spring.
We found four of them, and I interviewed them and learned about
their drawings. And then in addition
to that the question kind of developed into what does it mean to grow
up in a city devastated by a nuclear
weapon? Amano said.
It was an incredible experience to
be able to fit both of those projects that
I really think are representative of my
interests into one summer, he added.
Hyungyu Lee 19 spent the summer in a chemistry lab, trying to synthesize Phenylphosphabenzene, an
ingredient used in household items
such as soap.
Im excited about [the upcoming
presentation] he said. Im presenting about my favorite things, chemistry and just cant wait to see other people presenting about their science.
Evan Baughman 17, a recipient of a
Community Matters in Maine fellowship
through the Joseph McKeen Center for
the Common Good, will also be presenting at the symposium. He worked with
the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in

Portland over the summer.
I think that there couldnt have
been a better time to work with an
immigrant legal aid clinic that serves
low-income residents than this summer, he said. It has definitely made
me far more informed about such a
divisive and important issue in our
current political situation.
Baughman recognizes that his presentation topic is different from the majority
of students topics at the symposium.
Its good that theres a forum where
students that were on campus doing
work can display their achievements,
he said. However, I think that it
should be renamed if theres going to
be the Community Matters Program
participating because there [are] a lot
of fellowships that arent research.
Unlike in past years, the Presidents Research Symposium also
coincides with Family Weekend, so
some students will have the opportunity to share their summer research
with their relatives.
We got to thinking how wonderful it would be for parents of firstyear students to be here for Family
weekend, to walk through that event
and to see wow, these are the kinds
of things that Bowdoin students do
as they get a little bit further in their
work, Scanlon said.
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news
Russell 17 proposes BSG committee to address safety, town relations

BY ALYCE MCFADDEN
STAFF WRITER
During the Bowdoin Student

Government (BSG) meeting on
Wednesday evening, Representative
At-Large Jacob Russell 17 proposed
the creation of an Ad Hoc Committee for Off Campus Safety and Town
Relations in light of recent concerns
surrounding student safety.
Due to time constraints, BSG was
not able to vote on the committees creation. If approved, the committee will
be open to all members of the student
body who wish to participate. Russell
BANANAS
about the banana industry and attempted to garner student pledges
to eat fewer bananas.
For nearly a century, several banana companies have been accused
of massacring and threatening workers, supporting terrorist groups, underpaying their laborers, exposing
workers to harmful pesticides, destroying the environment and committing various human rights abuses
in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador and the Philippines. Bowdoin has
sourced its bananas from both Chiquita Brand International Inc. and
Dole Food Co, two companies that
have been blamed for these abuses.
Despite the progress made, Dining
Service still faces two major issues:
price and the lack of a ripening facility.
In order for Bowdoin to be able
to [fully] buy fair trade they needed
to decrease the amount of bananas
everyone eats, said Katherine Kirk
18, leader of BAHR.
Fair trade bananas cost about 30
percent more than standard bananas.
However, Cardone hopes that future
price decreases will allow Bowdoin
to offer more fair trade bananas.
Retail markets impact availability. I noticed an increased volume
of [fair trade] bananas in both local grocery stores. Hopefully it will
continue to increase and that helps
lower cost and increase availability, Cardone wrote in an email to
the Orient.
Dining Service also faces the
lack of a ripening facility. According to Cardone, Bowdoin does not
have the space to ripen the quantity
of bananas the College purchases.
Large fair trade ripening facilities
are several hours away. Kirk hopes
that Bowdoin might be able to form
a coalition ripening facility, possibly
with other institutions like Colby
and Bates.
specifically mentioned his desire to include students who live off campus and
members of sports teams in the committee. Members would be responsible
for meeting with municipal leaders
such as the town manager and generating proposals to be brought before BSG
for approval.
The renewed attention to safety
both on and off campus comes after
a number of incidents that occurred
last year, including gropings and a
sexual assault at Mayflower Apartments. Many students also reported
cat-calling and other forms of verbal
harassment when walking or exercising in Brunswick.
The assembly also discussed the

possible creation of a BSG-organized
workshop in response to students concerns about cat-calling. The workshop
would provide students with tools to
deal with harassment, specifically in
off-campus settings.
Representative At-Large Leah
Matari 20 spoke up in support of
the proposal, citing her own experiences with verbal harassment blocks
away from campus. She hopes that,
if established, the Committee for Off
Campus Safety and Town Relations
will work closely with the Brunswick
City Council, the town manager and
the Brunswick Police Department
(BPD) to foster better understanding between the municipal organizations and Bowdoin students.
I think that students will feel more
safe walking into town if students are
aware that BPD is aware of the kinds
of cat-calling that all the women and
girls have to deal with, Matari said.
Russell acknowledged that though
the school does not have the ability to
control the behavior of Brunswick residents in town, even the effort to reach
out could help improve the relationship between the town and the College.
I think just having a presence and
working with the police and making
that relationship more positive is an
important step, because right now

its going in a direction that is not
looking super positive, Russell said.
BSG will vote on the creation of the Ad
Hoc committee at their next meeting on
Wednesday, October 26.
In addition, Vice President for
Facilities and Sustainability Carlie
Rutan 19 shared plans to meet with
Vice President and Interim Head of
Finance and Administration Matthew Orlando to discuss the cost
of installing more overhead lights
around campus and to create a survey to send out to the student body
to gauge student opinion on which
areas are too dark.
Percentage of regular vs. fair trade bananas

purchased by Bowdoin Dining over eight months
Regular Bananas (82.5%)
Fair Trade Bananas (17.5%)
= 875 bananas
Last year, the College began offering a selection of fair trade bananas
in the C-Store, although the initiative struggled due to ripening issues
and the irregularity of shipments.
While Kirk was excited that Dining Service is beginning to offer fair
trade bananas, she expressed interest in the College increasing its fair
trade purchases. She called Dining
Services decision a big first step,

and believes that the College can
make the total switch to fair trade
bananas, particularly as Bowdoin
completely shifted to fair trade coffee two years ago.
One of the fair trade vendors
Bowdoin purchases from is Equal
Exchange, which was founded in
part by a Bowdoin alumnus.
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Its kind of cool that were supporting a Bowdoin grad when we

buy fair trade, Kirk said.
Kirk said BAHR plans to continue
to focus on promoting ethical consumerism in the future. She believes
that students do not always think
about the consequences of buying
non fair trade bananas because of
their isolation from the industry and
its abusesan issue BAHR hopes

to address.
Were trying to focus on that
more this yearfocusing on where
did this come from and realizing
that we live in a really global world
and what consequences that has
and that you dont really know what
moral decisions you
youre
r making when
you buy something, K
Kirk said.
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PART TWO:
THE WOMEN OF 75
Dr. Patricia Barney Geller 75, one of
65 women who matriculated at Bowdoin
as part of the first four-year coeducational
class in the fall of 1971, said she was a
hippie who went to Bowdoin because
she heard it was really liberal back then.
Geller recalls that Bowdoin felt like a golf
club for boys when she first set foot on
campus.
I was so not a fraternity kind of girl,
she said in a phone interview with the
Orient. However, by the spring of her first
year, Geller would end up becoming one
of the first women in the U.S. to become
chapter president of a nationally affiliated fraternity.
According to Geller, many of the nine
fraternities at Bowdoin offered women
the status of eating members, which
meant that they could eat in the fraternity,
but could not attend meetings or vote.
Geller moved her dining plan over to Psi
Upsilon (now Quinby House), a fraternity
that she found to be especially welcoming
to women.
Psi Upsilon was unique at Bowdoin in
its treatment of womenit was the only
national fraternity that allowed women to
pledge and be initiated. In the 70s, womens status at fraternities was ambiguous,
and the Bowdoin Womens Association,
which Geller co-founded, published yearly guides for women explaining in detail
what type of membership was possible at
each fraternity.
According to a 1996 report by David
Simmons 96 on the history of fraternities at Bowdoin, fraternities could be divided into three categories by the late 70s:
local fraternities that granted women full
membership (housing, voting, office),
national fraternities that gave women
these rights in the local chapters but not
in the national organizations and national fraternities where women were only
social members.
Geller began working in the fraternitys
kitchen washing dishes as a campus job.

From there, she became a social member and then a full voting member. She
moved into the house and was the only
woman living there at the time.
Professor of Government Allen
Springer wrote in his September 1984
report on the status of women in Bowdoin fraternities that the decisions to allow women as members of some of the
fraternities during the initial years of
coeducation was met with some alumni
resistance. However, others were more
supportiveoften for reasons other than
social inclusivity.
Some [houses], already facing financial pressures caused by declining fraternity populations and escalating costs, saw
women as a needed source of new members, wrote Springer.
While election proceedings were
happening during the spring of her first
year, Geller was working downstairs in
the kitchen.
Someone came down and said forget
the dishes, we just elected you president,
said Geller.
I think they kind of wanted to make
a statement: we want a full-time woman,
we want to show the school that we welcome women and support womens leadership, she said. So I went upstairs and
led the meeting.
The next day two men were coming
from the national chapter. I think they
were freaked out, but they went with it,
she said. Im sure there were phone calls
to their attorneys, but they went with it.
Geller ended up serving two terms as
president of Psi Upsilon, where she made
lifelong friends.
I felt that I had a home away from
home within a larger school, she said.
There used to be houses full of people
and dogs, you had dinner with 60 to 90
people who all knew you ... and there was
a sense of coming home.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PATRICIA GELLER
OUR HOUSE: Geller sits among her fellow fraternity members at Psi Upsilon, which
was dedicated as Quinby House in 1999.
IN AND OUT OF GREEK LIFE

BY EMILY WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
MAMA PSI U: Patricia BarneyGeller 75 was one of the first women in the United States to become chapter president of a nationally aliated fraternity.
She said that other fraternity members
referred to her as Mama Psi U, due to her
tendency to call the men out for making
messes and being crude.
They could be piggish, but I could call
them on it, said Geller.
As president, Geller spearheaded some
changes in the fraternity, including making rush more inclusive for women and
changing the fraternitys hazing rituals.
Id like to say we changed the world,
but we didnt, said Geller, who had a passion for social justice before college and
while at Bowdoin. We were a fraternity.
Geller stressed the heavy drinking and
party culture of Bowdoin during this era.
The president [of Bowdoin] at that
time [Roger Howell] would come to fraternity parties and pee in the bushes, said
Geller. It was the wild west.
Geller said sexism existed within the
fraternity and in Bowdoin as a whole and
manifested in a variety of ways.
In August of 1984, 48 percent of fraternity members and 37 percent of independent students said they felt there are
fraternities where women students are
unwelcome, and where women students
feel uncomfortable, according to a report
on the status of women in fraternities submitted to the Student Life Committee by
Dean of Students Roberta Tansman Jacobs and Associate Professor of Sociology
Liliane Floge.
In terms of harassment, the piece you
dont get there is that there was no language for that then, said Geller. There
was tons of date rape but they didnt even
call it date rape.
More than ten years after Geller graduated, the 1986 New England Association
of Schools and Colleges Accreditation
Report for Bowdoin wrote that the widespread feeling among women students
[is] that much of the problem of reported
student-student sexual harassment is attributable to activities which take place in
some of the fraternities.
The report continued: Evenif possiblemore worrisome, is the suggestion
that much of what happensincluding
allegations of general harassment, victim-
ization and acquaintance rapeis not reported, since it involves as victims women
who are members of the fraternities and
whose sense of loyalty to the group makes
it difficult for them to reveal to outsiders
problems they consider internal.
Even when youre with the people you
love, theyre also capable of ... being disrespectful, said Geller.
In 1987, President Leroy Greason gave
a talk to members of fraternities in the
Chapel in which he said that the fraternity system is a system that guarantees
women second class citizenship in those
fraternities whose national organizations
do not recognize women.
Then, in an April 1988 report (known
as the Henry Report) by the Committee
to Review Fraternities, Bowdoin recommended that fraternities should be coeducational by 1991.
Almost all reported cases of alcohol
abuse and sexual harassment occur in
fraternity houses, reported the 150 page
document, which had 53 recommendations on improving fraternities.
However, the Henry Report did not
specify any action to be taken against
houses that failed to admit both men and
women by 1991.
Finally, in February of 1992, President
Robert Edwards proposed measures to
expel any student who refused to comply
with the coeducation policy in all fraternities, aiming to close the loophole of the
Henry Report.
Although many students protested
these measures, citing a violation of their
freedom of assembly and an overly politically correct campus atmosphere, the
Orients Editorial Board endorsed the
abolition of single-sex Greek houses in a
February 14 editorial, writing that single-sex fraternities nonetheless represent
an institutionalization of discrimination
on the basis of sex. This is one of their
defining characteristics.
It was only May 27 of that year, after an
initial rejection of Edwards full proposal
in March, when the Governing boards
finalized a permanent ban on single-sex
fraternitiesthey would have to halt fur-
ther initiations by July 1, 1992 and disband by July 1, 1993.

The final decision was in no way easily reached or broadly supported, wrote
Michael Golden 94 in a September 11th,
1992 Orient article.
In fact, President Edwards administration received many passionate letters
from former students and parents in response to this ban on single-sex fraternities. Four wrote in favor of the policy, 78
wrote against it and six wrote asking for
more information.
Six months after being established
through a report issued by Bowdoins Reaccreditation Committee on Residential
Life, the Commission on Residential Life
released a report in March 1997 that the
Board of Trustees approved unanimously.
In this report, the Commission recommended phasing out all fraternities during
the next four years, and also envisioned
the creation of a house system and some
construction projects and renovations.
People had tears in their eyes when
we voted on this Saturday morning, not
because they didnt think it was the right
thing, but because of the recognition that
Bowdoin had outgrown these institutions was a substantially sad one, said
George Calvin Mackenzie 67 as reported
in a March 7, 1997 Orient article by Zak
Burke 98.
I had so much more fun there ... something really got lost when they got rid of
fraternities, said Geller, whose son Sam
Packard graduated in 2012. What I dont
think my son got that I had was that sense
of community.
Im a feminist, said Geller. I dont like
... the overdrinking or the abuse of womenbut that stuff still goes on.
When they went in there and cleaned
up all the houses, they made it like its another dormitory, said Geller. Bowdoin
has yet to figure out a way to recreate that
sense of community.
This is the second article in a series about
the experiences of women from the first
four-year coed graduating class at the College. The next article will be about the Bowdoin infirmary and healthcare for women.
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Considering ability and accessibility, on campus and beyond

PENELOPE LUSK
EXPLORING MAINE
This Monday morning, I drove 10

minutes from Bowdoin to Thomas
Point Beach, armed with a late-season apple I picked at Rocky Ridge
Orchard the weekend before. What
better way to start the week than
scampering down wide wooden
stairs, flopping in sand so warm it
feels like August, not October and
watching the shadows of minnows
darting over the ocean floor?
Two Mondays ago was the open-
an invisible disability rarely puts

me under the public eye. But living
with any type of disability means a
constant reevaluating of spaces and
places: navigating accessibility.
Everyone moves through space
with certain capabilities. I can run
down the steps at Thomas Point
Beach. I can flop in the sand with
the delightful mix of confidence and
carelessness that signifies comfort
and ease. Some other people can run
for exercise or take long plane rides
without the relief of Tylenol, which
are not options for me. Accessibility
is wavelike and mutable; everyones
specific abilities lead them to find
Accessibility is wavelike and mutable;

everyones specific abilities lead them to
find different spaces and places easier
or harder to navigate, and what we find
accessible can and will change.
ing of a photo exhibit about the experiences of Bowdoin students with
disabilities. Walking into a packed
Lamarche Gallery and seeing my
face on the wall was momentarily
surreal. Living with what is called
different spaces and places easier or

harder to navigate, and what we find
accessible can and will change.
Before continuing I want to note
that I am privileged to have insurance
that covers not only routine doctors
visits, but also the tens of thousands

of dollars worth of medication I take
each year. This dependence represents a sometimes forgotten way in
which this election will impact so
many lives. Trumps misogyny, homophobia, racism, xenophobia and
climate change denial are frightening, and his healthcare policies and
extreme ableism represent another
enormous potential harm to people
with disabilities and chronic conditions. T-2 weeks to Election Day.
My current medication increases
my quality of life, but it is also a powerful immunosuppressant, which
leaves me vulnerable to the kinds of
communicable diseases that flourish
when we return from breaks. I am
unable to travel through any regions
with a possible threat of yellow fever, including 43 countries in South
America and Africa. Accessibility can be local and global, personal
and communal.
At Bowdoin, we should hold each
other accountable for questions of
accessibility on all levels. Will every
space be accessible for every person? Likely not. Can we thoughtfully utilize places and change spaces
to make them navigable to as many
people as possible? Yes.
A few years ago, hiking Tumble-
down over Fall Break would have

been out of the question for me.
Perched atop its peak, I saw swathes
of red and umber, autumnal hills
ability at Bowdoin will also help us

understand one another and give students with disabilities space to advocate for themselves and their stories.
Trumps misogyny, homophobia, racism,

xenophobia and climate change denial
are frightening, and his healthcare policies
and extreme ableism represent another
enormous potential harm to people with
disabilities and chronic conditions.
spilling down to Webb Lake. Tucked
by the ascending path, Tumbledown
Pond reflected blue sky and yellow
trees in a splendor of complementary colors. The memory of scrambling up the rocky, leaf-sprinkled
path is a dear reminder that mobility is not a given in my lifemy own
narrative of accessibility in my connection to places.
Its easy to assign our own abilities
to other people, to overlook that one
person may need extra time to read
and process work for a group project,
while for another person the meeting location might pose a challenge.
Having a broader conversation about
But my story is not everyones

story. Climbing Tumbledown or
visiting Thomas Point are very different issues from climbing the
stairs to the top floor of a College
House. Basic accessibility should
not be a privilege, but an individual
rightone our community must
push itself to reflect upon. As Bowdoin students, we can look out for
one another and provide space for
community and personal advocacy.
We can open the conversation about
accessibility and ability and, in doing so, engage more deeply with the
personal needs people have for the
spaces and places we share.
Tapped Out: an introduction to the heightened flavor of unfiltered lagers

BY JAEYEON YOO
COLUMNIST
Ive been noticing unfiltered and

raw/live beer a lot on the menus in
Moscow. It turns out that this nofiltering thing is a whole trend in
beer brewing and not just on Instagram, so here are my thoughts and
some information on cloudy, murky,

living, breathing beer. Intrigued?
Disgusted? Read on.
Disclaimer: This article is less
practical and theoretically useful to
Bowdoin beer drinkers. Im sorry to
say that I couldnt find a concrete
brand or bar to recommend thats
available in Brunswick, although I
bet you could probably find unfiltered beer in Portland.
If you were depending on me as
your lifeline for
ALEX WESTFALL
beer, you could even try this thing

called wine (or water) until my next
article! Even your beer columnist
spent the other evening at a bar
called I Love Wine, (which I admit
was stellar).
My first unfiltered beer here was
a lager at Beer Time (I swear Im
not making up these bar names).
Beer Time is a small, cheap, dingy
and wonderful place filled with Russian bros plus one Asian girl. I didnt
really know I was ordering an unfiltered beer, because the name was
written in small text and it was the
cheapest option. When my beer appeared, it did not look appetizing.
There was barely any foam on
top, but the whole glass was
filled with a dirty yellow
liquid that had stray wisps
of stuff floating around
haphazardly. I had no
idea what exactly was
in my murky beer and
only found out after I
drank it (not recommended), but the taste
definitely made up for
its looks. Never judge
a beer by its cover.
Fans say that the
taste and aroma of
unfiltered beer are
more complex. There
are also some opinions on head retention
that vary from critic
to critic. From my limited experience, the smell
seemed averageI wont
lie and say I sniffed my beer
extensivelybut the taste was,
indeed, complex. Although I usu-
ally prefer the fuller flavor of ales,

my particular lager was very tastefilled. I cant categorize the taste of
all unfiltered beers because they
vary wildly, but in general the extra
yeast content lends another layer of
flavor. That flavor, in turn, enhances
the taste of other ingredients such
as hops. Basically, try it if you want
to heighten your beer flavors. It will
not transform a beer completely into
a whole new creaturemy lager was
still definitely a recognizable lager
but it makes it into a 2.0 version, if
done nicely.
As much as I liked the flavor,
its reasonable to be thrown off by
the unusual mouthfeel. The unfiltered lager had more of a substantial texture when I drank it; while
I couldnt physically feel the little
wispy things (just yeast, dont worry) in my mouth, the beer did feel
thicker. I didnt mind, but Im not a
reliable source on this frontI grew
up drinking kombucha, which has
wisps of slimy-feeling fungus floating around. I did like the amount
of carbonation in the beer, though,
despite its lack of foamit was the
right amount of bubbly. All in all,
Im now a newly minted fan of unfiltered beer. Although it is not a lifechanger of a beer, its still a pretty
great blessing on a Wednesday night.
The website www.homebrewtalk.com
sums up the factual differences of the unfiltered beer pretty simply: Not exactly a
beer style but a technique that can be
applied to any style, Unfiltered Beer
refers to any beer that is intentionally served with yeast remaining in the
cask, keg or bottle. Most mass-produced beers are filtered to give them
get your news the

millenial way.
a bright clarity. An unfiltered beer

may use the yeast to...contribute to
the flavor or mouthfeel of the beer
among other factors. Because unfiltered beers are more alive (more
yeasty), theyre not mass-produced
and usually only served on tap, as far
as I know. Fun fact: fish bladders are
a common beer-filter; who knows,
maybe the next trend will be coldbrewed, fish-bladder-filtered coffee
(just kidding, coffee doesnt need
yeast filtration).
ADDITIONAL
NOTES:
Tonights Soundtrack: A sports
match of some sort; loudly drunk guys
Tonights Toast: There were quite
a few toasts at Beer Time but I forget
them, so heres a random one that
has no connection whatsoever to this
article. Noroc, pronounced na-rok
cheers in Romanian. (@Costin, I didnt
forget this, here is proof.)
Conclusions on my unfiltered
lager, whose name I also forget
but isnt available in the USA so
ultimately is not relevant to this
Orient column:
Appearance:
Smell:
Flavor:
Mouthfeel:
Overall:
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Keeper of the keys

College students are masters of the nomadic cycleyear after year we move in, move out and repeat. For roughly 230 Bowdoin students, Cumberland
Self Storage is a crucial part of this cycle. During moments of intense transition, they lug their belongings in and out of its doors. Its a zone of
beginnings and ends, anticipation and reflection, sweat and butterflies. And manager Steve Howe has seen it all. BY HANNAH RAFKIN
Located in the Fort Andross Mill complex, Cumberland Self Storage has been operating since 1988. It has three floors of storage
lockers of varying sizes and a freight elevatora remnant of the textile mill it used to house.
Howe has been at Cumberland for 10 years. As he proudly advertises

on his oce door, he welcomes anybody in for a cup of coee, tea or
hot chocolate. Everybodys got a story to tell when they walk in here.
Maybe a move, maybe a breakup, maybe damage to the house.
I ask him what its like coming to work here every day,
walking alone through the mazes, closing up after dark. The
building creaks and groans and settles. I stop and I listen, and
if I continue hearing noises, I look a little deeper.
Steve has called Maine home since he moved here in 1976. To clear his mind, he
takes to the woods to hunt, hike, and fish. I dont waste any part of the animal, he
explains. You take a life, you darn well better respect it.
The place contains more than just mattresses and old furniture. Once a guy came in here, looked me square in
the eye and said, Do you have anything against stued heads?Turns out he had stued moose, deer and bear.
His wife gave him an ultimatum: either they go, or she goes.
Back when they created this place, they knew how to build things right and make them last. Steve is
building his own home today, taking inspiration from his workplace. I never take it for granted.
Every time I look around here, I always see something new.
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TALK OF THE QUAD

RUNNING AND EATING: AN
OPEN LETTER
I used to be an avid runner. I tackled all distances: 1600m, 5K, 10K
and even a half marathon. A full
marathon wasnt quite in my wheelhouse back then, but I was enamored
by every single aspect of the sport:
the scenery, regardless of if my legs
took me through a rural or an urban
route, the euphoria afterwards and,
most importantly, the drive to be better. The simple things captivated me,
too: clicking Save My Run on my
antique Garmin 405 and the gasps
when I would say, I went on an X
mile run! I loved everything.
I started out as a sluggish, outof-shape teen, but I slowly grew
stronger as a runner. My runs became progressively longer and my
pace followed suitbecoming quicker and quicker over time. I joined
my schools cross country team, and
within one academic year I went
from a junior varsity runner who
took nearly 20 minutes to complete a
three-mile course to a speedy varsity
runner, finishing courses in as little
as 16 minutes and 51 seconds. My
love for competition grew with each
run or race that I completed. With
each finished course, however, I grew
increasingly competitive with myself,
taking my body and mind to their ut-
COMING OUT CHRISTIAN

This past summer, I became a bornagain Christian. I have since harbored a
burning desire to share this experience
with others.
I was raised in a Christian household,
however, as I moved into high school, I
began neglecting most Christian teachings. I left little room for God within my
life of rebellion. I usually justified these actions by highlighting the hypocrisy of the
Church. Like many, I wrongly equated the
Churchwhich is a broken and earthly
institutionwith the divine Word of
God. I thus rejected Scripture due to human hypocrisy and fraudulence.
This year, everything changed. I first
began to sense shifts during the second
semester of my sophomore year. It began with a sudden disdain for Bowdoins
hook-up culture. I gradually began to
sense a darkness within the Colleges social culture. This was not merely a recognition of youthful pitfalls. Some might call
it the beginnings of a spiritual awakening.
Others might say I was finding myself.
For me and most other born-again Christians, it is obvious that God was chasing
me. I became aware of the works of certain forces that semester, but I could not
give the forces a name.
It was during this time that I also became more aware of a subtle emptiness
within myself. In hindsight, this void had
been present for years. It was not especially invasive; in fact, I had always been
a fairly happy person. On paper, my life
most extreme levels.

To put it simply, I stopped eating. I was cognizant of the harm it
did to my body, yet I chose to ignore
it. I tried to subdue the aches, pains,
numbness and countless headaches
because I valued becoming better.
I valued my speed, but I sacrificed
my sanity. A gallon-sized jug of water was fastened at my hip. Many
thought it was only for my hydration,
but I used it to mitigate my hunger.
Everything in my body screamed at
me, but I ignored that too. Instead,
I chose to hone in on nutrition labels, calories and macronutrients. I
thought I was helping myself; I truly
did. My race times continued to drop,
and so did my weight, even though I
had nothing to lose.
My love for running faded fast,
as did the color in my eyes and my
smile, too. I withdrew from running and spiraled into a life of selfloathing. I hated myself. I hated the
constant aches, pains and worries. I
hated everything. Running provided
balance, and without it I was a loose
cannon. I spewed sadness, guilt and
anxiety, and I continued to do soon
and off, left and rightfor months.
Much of what plagued me back
thennearly two years agostill lingers over my head. Though the pressure to become a better runner isnt
with me now, Im still caught in a net
of self-loathing. I cant navigate my

days comfortably; my arms, my legs,
my shoulders and my chest are all littered with healed slashes that remind
me of my weaknesses and pain. They
represent the worst days.
Not all my days are bad, however. Some are remarkably good,
and I find myself grateful for those
days. Im grateful to be hereto be
surrounded by vibrant trees, falling
acorns and the ocean. Im grateful
for the experiences so far, but Im
still struggling. Im struggling to do
the simplest, most basic things.
At Bowdoin, I cant be normal
without plunging into a full-fledged
war with myself. I cant make meal
plans with someone without coming
close to cancelling, nor can I enter
Moulton or Thorne without anxiety
looming over my shoulder. I can feel
my throat
tighten.
I cant go
one meal,
let alone
one
day,
without being riddled
with
food
insecurities
and anxieties.
Everything that is a part of me
my insecurities, my damaged selfperception, my struggles with run-
ninghas been so deeply ingrained

that it feels normal. This all feels
normal. My lack of happiness some
days feels normal, as well as the pessimistic view I have of myself. I dont
want it to be normal for me, but it is.
I wish my relationship with running was better when I initially started. I wish I could go back and yell at
myself. In fact, Im desperate for that chance. Id
be able to circumvent
so much unnecessary
painboth emotional
and physicaland Id
be without permanent
reminders on my body.
Id be free of constraints
and Id be free of myself. Id be liberated.
Sadly,
Im forced to
trudge onwards
was amazing. I had a privileged childhood, seventeen years of elite education,

great friends, hobbies and good grades.
I was not fighting severe depression or
dealing with family woes. Still, I did not
know Fulfillment.
One day during this past spring
break, my mom brought home the film
War Room. The movies plot centers
around a mother who is able to rebuild her broken family with the assistance of Jesus Christ. This suffering
woman is transformed into
what believers often call a
prayer warrior. I initially
approached the film with
skepticism and slight annoyance. However,
about
halfway
through the film, I
was overcome with
unexplainable awe.
Within days, I had
repressed the movies
message; fortunately, the film had
already planted a seed of faith
within me.
The turning point began at the
onset of summer. I spent the first
half of the summer conducting
research on mass incarceration and
the media as part of the Mellon Mays
program. I spent almost every waking
hour reading and writing in solitude.
As I studied the oft-concealed history
of our country, I began to see past the
elites web of lies. The deceptive illusions
blinding the public became startlingly
apparent. This realization heightened
my desire for knowledge. As my understanding of reality began to defog, it

became obvious that a key piece of this
puzzle was missing.
Though I had become aware of the
forces of darkness, the corresponding
Light was my last and most precious
discovery. As I was researching inside
Helmreich
House one
End of Days, I saw my own research. I

saw the chaos and deception that characterizes modern society.
As we all know, this summer was
especially violent. As I read, I realized
that all of the brutality, confusion and
destruction that we are seeingsuch as
increasing turbulence in the Middle East, government conspiracy and spikes in natural disastershas been
foretold. Not vaguelyspecifically.
In that moment,
my spiritual understanding came
full circle. I
spent years
attempting
to
ignore
my Christian
upbringing.
This summer, it
came back to me in the
most alarmingly beautiful
manner.
After the Mellon Mays program
ended, I began interning at the Innocence Project in New York. By no coincidence, my New York home was that
of my moms good frienda minister.
In the city, my faith in Christ flourished. The Innocence Projecta nonprofit law clinic that serves the wrongly
convictedtaught me the value and
necessity of servitude. My days there
strengthened my commitment to serv-
PHOEBE ZIPPER
July day, I found myself lost

in an internet hole. I was deep in this
study session when a source referred
me to the Bible. Strangely enough, in
my search for knowledge, I had inadvertently turned to the Book that I had
previously deemed outdated. Needless
to say, I was shocked by my findings.
Within the prophecies describing the
forced to face my consequences

each time I look in a mirror or down
at myself.
Jonathan Calentti is a member of
the class of 2020.
PHOEBE ZIPPER
ing the underserved. On August 14th, I

dedicated my life to Christ at a Brooklyn church.
Since that day, life has taken on
a new meaning. Frankly, the insignificance of the physical world is now
glaring. I have begun to understand
the Spirit. Moreover, I now understand the true meaning of good and
evil. I know it sounds crazy, and thats
because it is. Our world is obsessed
with explaining life through logic and
reason; as a result, our world is broken. That was my old world, and broken it was.
I did not understand the term bornagain until this ineffable transformation happened to me. I say happened
to me because this transformation occurred by no action of my own. I had
immense doubts and could not see
past the facades of religious constructs.
I was not searching for God when he
found me; it is solely by His grace that I
am found. Because of this transformation, I am able to truly see clearly for
the first time in twenty years. I now
know Life. And I am whole.
John 9:24-25: Then again called
they the man that was blind, and said
unto him, Give God the praise: we
know that this man is a sinner. He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know,
that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
Adira Polite is a member of the class
of 2018.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Poet Denice
Froman opens
up through
spoken word
BY DIEGO GROSSMAN AND JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF
For Latinx Heritage Month and Beyonds penultimate program, poet Denice
Frohman performed her brand of witty
and biting cultural narratives in spoken
word Wednesday night at Jack Magees
Pub & Grill.
The event began with four performances from members of Bowdoins Slam Poet
Society before Frohman took the stage.
Frohman, a queer Latina woman who
grew up in New York City, tackles issues
of identity, race and privilege in her work.
Her first poem of the night, Accents,
celebrates her Puerto Rican mother, who
makes play-doh out of concrete English.
Later, she spoke about two gay men she
saw at a Puerto Rican Day festival who
beautifully and unapologetically conquered the space around them on the
dance floor.
Almost all of the poems she performed
trace a personal narrative or dilemma.
Even The Hour Dylan Roof Sat in the
Church, a poem Frohman wrote as she
dealt with grief in the wake of Roofs
shooting of nine African-Americans at
an historically black church in Charleston,
South Carolina, was in part inspired by a
conversation with her hairdresser.
You have to think about the spaces in
which you operate with privilege and how
you talk to people moving along the spectrum [of racist actions], said Frohman.
How often am I who I say I am?
For Frohman, it is this personal
connection to her work that got her
into performing.
You have to think about the

spaces in which you operate
with privilege and how you
talk to people moving along
the spectrum [of racist actions].
How often am I who I say I am?
DENISE FROHMAN
I hated writing when I was in high
school, said Frohman. Generally speaking, I wasnt exposed to a lot of writers of
color, so when I got to college my freshman year, I was exposed to spoken word.
That really exposed me to a lot of writers of color and this idea that you could
sound like yourself and you didnt have to
change who you were.
The performance drew a packed crowd
to the pub, and inspired many of the audience members to begin or continue to
write their own work
It was really refreshing because she is
familiar with putting her culture into her
work, said Esther Nunoo 17, one of the
nights opening performers. She has an
accent, you hear her accent, she owns her
accent and I love that. I think thats dope,
and she makes me want to work.
Things like this are fantastic, said
Maddie Lemal-Brown 18, another slam
poet performer. Its expressed in a way
that you cant do in any other place. I
think it should be mandatory for every
Bowdoin student to come and see amazing performers like Denice.
The final event for Latinx Heritage
Month and Beyond will take place Thursday, November 3, when Pulitzer Prizewinning author Junot Daz speaks at
Kresge auditorium.
(TOP RIGHT) SALIM SALIM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT (LEFT, BOTTOM RIGHT) EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
POLAR OPPOSITES: (LEFT:) Silent Waters,an oyster shell sculpture (left) by Ben Eisenberg17 on display at the Bowdoin Art Societys annual Fall Art Show at Ladd House. (TOP:) Victoria Wu19 mimics a portrait of
her created by student artist Evelyn Beliveau19. (BOTTOM:) Co-curator of the show Hugo Hento19 observes senior Kelsey GallaghersIn Search of Birdswith his mom at the opening reception on Thursday night.
Red mint, green mint: Fall Art Show

examines polarizations in politics on campus
BY FARIA NASRUDDIN
STAFF WRITER
Amidst a hectic election cycle and in

the wake of a year full of divisive social issues, artists at Bowdoin reflect on
how our choices shape who we are in
the fourth annual student-led Fall Art
Show at Ladd House. Run by the Bowdoin Art Society and curated by Julian
Ehrlich 17, June Lei 18 and Hugo
Hentoff 19, the exhibition features student art in the yellow and mahogany
rooms, as well as a balloon installation
in the basement.
According to Lei, the curatorial team
constructed the student-led exhibits in
an effort to create an atmosphere where
art can be heard and impact the way
students think. They chose a theme
of polarization.
[This years theme was] both in abstract reference to the upcoming election but also regarding the seeminglyarbitrary choices we make at Bowdoin
that serve to construct our identities,
Lei wrote in the editorial statement for
the show.
We were really inspired by the idea
of taking a red mint versus a green
mintits such a little thing, but people
judge you on that, Lei said.
[Our choices] are influenced by
conscious and unconscious things in
the same way choosing a red mint or a

green mint is, Ehrlich added.
According to Ehrlich, the balloon installation in the basement reflects the larger theme of polarization both in regard to
the election and culture at Bowdoin.
What we liked about polarization
was that it was a relevant societal con-
My hope would be to think

about how even though
the choices we make can
feel constricting and create
categories, that they are less
different than we think.
JULIAN EHRLICH 17
cept and could be represented in a very
physical way, said Ehrlich.
The installation features 3,000 yellow and blue balloons printed with the
words right and wrong. Initially,
the balloons were in separate corners
of the room, but as more people interacted with the exhibit, the balloons
mixed together.
My hope would be to think about
how even though the choices we make
can feel constricting and create categories, that they are less different than we
think, Ehrlich said.
The main rooms of the exhibit fea-
ture artwork by students, with a range

of pieces across various media and social circles.
Evan Stevens 17 contributed a piece
on the neurological phenomenon of
synesthesia. His piece was inspired
by Dan Flavin, an artist who creates
minimalist sculptures with fluorescent
light fixtures. Hie piece, entitled Family Portrait, weaves together personal
and familial experience and is a form
of bioart.
Stevens piece features four fluorescent tubes covered in gels that make
them orange, red and blue when lit
up. Arranged in a rectangle, the piece
mimics the structure of DNA.
I had to be inspired by something
biological, neurological. Basically, my
synesthesia causes me to associate myself with the color orange and my parents, my mom and dad, with red and
blue respectively, said Stevens.
He added that it fits in with the
category of polarization since it was
largely about him recognizing how his
synesthesia affected his experience at
Bowdoin.
I want people, without even knowing anything about synesthesia, to be let
in this different world and experience
something transcendental, said Stevens.
In her piece, entitled Circle Xuan Qu
Waits to Pick Out Watermelon Slice,
Laura Griffee 17 tracks people as they

walk around Thorne Dining Hall. Intrigued by the webcam in Thorne and
the readily accessible video footage
online, Griffee intended to meditate on
the larger theme of surveillance in her
piece.
It reflects the culture of having
technology be pervasive throughout
our lives, said Griffee. There is a little
bit of polarization in that, whether it be
the extremes of it being received very
positively or negatively.
Griffee hopes that the piece can be
part of an active discussion on the
personal choice to use technology and
how this can influence our future.
At the opening last night, attendees reflected on both these pieces and
how the discussion of polarization and
choice influences culture at Bowdoin.
It was a very visceral way to represent divides on campus, said Theodore
Christian 19.
Natalie Youssef 19 added that there
have been events in which weve had a
lot of tension regarding race and discrimination, so its an important installation just to open the discussion.
Sponsored by Student Activities,
Residential Life, the Kurtz Fund and
Ladd House, the Fall Art Show will be
on display through October 23.
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Masque & Gown grips audience with A Delicate Balance
BY PETE BULL
ORIENT STAFF
Everything isnt always as it seems in

the living room of the plush and distinctly suburban house that sets the
stage of Masque & Gowns fall production, A Delicate Balance. The studentrun group premiered the story of suburban life, domesticity and emotional
anxiety last night in Memorial Halls
Wish Theater.
Written by Edward Albee in 1966, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on the
tenuous marriage between two suburbanitesAgnes and Tobiasand the conflict
that ensues following the arrival of old
friends and family. As much as the couple
tries to preserve their uncommunicative
yet seemingly peaceful marriage, these
visits ultimately disrupt their balance and
put the actions of the play into motion.
According to director Jack Arnholz
19, the theatre troupe decided on Albees
play because of its ability to convey a
SEE IT YOURSELF
A Delicate Balance will be
performed tonight and Saturday at
7:30 pm in Memorial Halls Wish
Theater.
sense of surprise through the inner turmoil found in a banal, suburban world.
The story was so unsettling, Arnholz
said. The characters were so complicated and the mundane setting allowed its
characters to stand out even more against
the contrasting plot. Edward Albee is my
favorite playwright, and when deciding which of his works to choose, I was
shocked by A Delicate Balance.
Although Arnholz felt that many
Bowdoin students might at first feel distant from the suburbanite characters,
he was hopeful that the storys themes
would ultimately feel familiar.
It concerns the impact of what hap-
SUBURBAN SLUMP: Olivia Atwood 17, Brendan Pulsifer 20, Sydney Benjamin 19, Cordelia Orbach 17 and Maddi Kuras 18 star in A Delicate
Balance. The show, which opened last night, will be performed tonight and Saturday night at 7:30 pm in Memorial Halls Wish Theater.
pens when you funnel up your emotions
inside and cage the anxieties inside yourself for too long such that they eventually
become realities, he said. Its a very universal realitywhen you dont express
yourself, you become paralyzed by those
anxieties ... [The plays] mission is for
people to leave with a better respect for
the importance of communication and
openness in relationships.
Arnholz has been working closely
with his six-person cast for months in
preparation for the shows this weekend,
Lets talk about sex: visiting author

Rachel Hills busts the sex myth
BY ISABELLE HALLE
ORIENT STAFF
Rachel Hills is changing the way

we talk about sex. Through her
writing and workshops, she strives
to examine cultural narratives
about sexuality and how they affect individuals.
On Tuesday night, students gathered in the Resource Center for
Sexual and Gender Diversity to participate in a workshop led by Hills,
a writer and journalist specializing
in issues of gender and sexuality.
The event, part of Bowdoin Queer
Straight Alliances (BQSA) Out
Week, was organized by BQSA president Rayne Sampson 18.
According to Hills, who is based
in New York City, the social implications of sexuality are not often discussed in a meaningful way. Having
conversations about sex can break
the sex myth, or disrupt the idea
that there are only a few acceptable
ways to experience sexuality.
We have quite a few conversations on this campus around issues
of sexuality ... but a lot of those conversations take place from a very
heterosexual and sometimes heterosexist frame of mind and from a very
cisgender-focused [frame] of mind,
said Sampson. We talked a lot with
Rachel about how we could work to
make this particular event really explicitly inclusive for people who dont
identify as heterosexual and cisgender because thats a demographic that
statistically isnt represented as much
as straight, cisgender people are.
Not every person I interviewed felt abnormal or

undesirable or defective when it came to their sex lives,
but quite a lot of people I interviewed had felt that way
at some point in their lives.
RACHEL HILLS, VISITING AUTHOR
At the workshop, Hills discussed
her recently published book, The
Sex Myth, which explores what she
describes as the invisible norms
and unspoken assumptions surrounding sex.
My project ... was to write a book
that would look at sexuality not just
as a biological phenomenon, but as a
sociological phenomenon and a political phenomenon, said Hills. The
aim of this particular workshop is ...
giving people a space to think critically about the messages that theyre
hearing about sexuality in their lives
and in their communities.
During the workshop, Hills
prompted students to write down
the messages they receive in their
daily lives about the ways they
should and should not engage with
sex. The group then discussed these
messages and the ways in which they
are affected by them.
Not every person I interviewed
felt abnormal or undesirable or defective when it came to their sex
lives, but quite a lot of the people
I interviewed had felt that way at
some point in their lives, said Hills.
And thats not just because we live
in a society that ... gives us a kind
of narrow set of parameters of how
were supposed to engage with sex.
Its also because we live in a soci-
ety that tells us that conforming to

those parameters is really, really
importantthat its something that
makes or breaks our identity or our
value as people.
The goal of Hills workshop was
two-fold. She hoped that students
would leave with a greater sense of
peace concerning their own sexual
histories and an understanding that
they are not alone, even when they
perceive their experiences as abnormal. She also hoped to leave students
with a greater sense of compassion
for people whose experiences are
different from their own.
After participating in Hills workshop, Maxx Byron 19 expressed a
desire to apply what he had learned
to his leadership of The Sex Project.
In the future, he hopes to discuss
sex from a sociological perspective
rather than a solely biological one.
Hills stressed the importance of
ongoing conversation.
I think that [continuing conversations about sex is] important because there is so much misinformation out there around sex, she said.
I think that having those conversations and having them on an ongoing basis can disrupt that idea that
there is one or just a small handful
of acceptable ways to engage with
sexuality.
with the last few weeks consisting of

six-hour rehearsals, four days a week.
According to Sydney Benjamin 19, the
small size of the cast and the intense rehearsals have both intensified the bonds
between the cast and given the cast views
of their characters that are more nuanced
and intimate.
It means that every combination of
actors on stage has its own very clear dynamic, which is super helpful on stage because then you understand the other characters on stage so well, said Benjamin.
Its been super intense, but also super

rewarding to be working in such a small
environment with such a close cast, she
added. Its helped me grow as an actress.
Beyond rehearsal time, Arnholz has
also enjoyed being able to sit down with
each of them for long meals discussing
the intricacies of their characters, a reality that was only made possible by the
relatively small cast size. According to
Arnholz, that dynamic contributed to
even greater character development and
ultimately a more gripping performance.
20 for 20: student grant

recipients debut summer
projects in short form
BY JANE CHANG
ORIENT STAFF
Tackling themes of identity and selfpresentation in photography and other

media, recipients of the McKee and
Kaempfer Summer Art Grants presented
their artwork on Thursday night as the
culmination of their summer-long independent projects.
Hosted in the Digital Media Lab of the
Edwards Center for Art and Dance, the
event served as a detailed, intimate platform where the artists could share their
projects on display in the buildings hallways.
Following the modern Japanese
PechaKucha format, each presenter shared
20 images of their work, each of which was
accompanied by a 20 second description.
Part of the reason why we ask them
to do the PechaKucha presentations is to
weave a narrative to see where [the students] projects took them, and to describe
the benefits of following work independently, said Michael Kolster, associate professor of art and chair of the art department.
These are totally self-designed projects
and a lot of the time theyll come out of
a project someone did in an art class, said
Eva Sibinga 17, whose conceptual copper
etchings were inspired by her Art and Science in the English Renaissance class as
well as her printmaking class.
The exhibit includes a range of subject
matters, themes and mediafrom Garrett Englishs 16 series of unidentifiable
portraits about identity, privacy and representation to senior Haleigh Collins exhibit focused on domestic crafts.
Collins remarked that she has always
focused her art around ideas of domestic
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The exhibit will be on display in the
Edwards Center for Art and Dance through
October 29.
crafts and what is and isnt considered
high art, though she prefers for her
exhibition not to convey a single concrete argument.
The whole hope is that students arent
thinking about what other people want
them to do, but theyre finding what they
really want to do, and what really interests
them, said Kolster.
Kolster also explained that the grant
was designed to augment the student experience in a way thats not a part of the
standard budget of the art department.
Students who received the grants had
full freedom to pursue their projects
throughout the summer in conjunction
with the proposals that they submitted last
spring. Some students just finished putting finishing touches on their works this
past week in preparation for the exhibit.
Collins said that her favorite moment
working on the project occurred on Tuesday, when she projected a short movie
shed designed on a knitted surface for the
first time. Prior to Tuesday, shed been unsure of how the two aspects would work
together, but was pleasantly surprised by
both how the colors mixed and how the
project as a whole turned out.
I really admire the work, dedication
and commitment that the students have
exhibited in putting together the shows,
Kolster said. This years show is as full of
those kinds of surprises and discoveries as
previous [shows].
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Volleyball
dominates
with weekend sweep
SPORTS
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
After a mixed start to the season, the

volleyball team swept its three home
matches this weekend to secure a NESCAC playoff bid. The team came out of
the weekend with a 3-1 win against Colby (5-17 overall, 0-8 NESCAC) and two
3-0 wins against Bates (7-12 overall, 3-5
NESCAC) and Emerson (16-9 overall).
The series of matches featured strong
play from Caroline Flaharty 20, who averaged 4.3 kills per set and had three service aces over the three games. The performance earned her NESCAC Player of
the Week honors.
The big thing with [Flaharty] is her
consistency, said Head Coach Erin Cady.
Shes constantly bringing a very strong
offense and able to play all around, so defensively shes also able to be an offensive
threat from the back row. With her consistency and her calmness on the court,
thats definitely earned her the right for
NESCAC Player of the Week.
Besides individual performances, Cady
was particularly impressed by the teams
offensive development this weekend.
There was a lot more flow to it, which
KILLING IT: Outside hitter Caroline Flaharty 20 was named NESCAC Player of the Week for her contributions to the Bowdoin oense, leading the team and ranking second in the league with 3.49 kills per set.
was obviously set up by a strong defense,
said Cady. But I think that was one
thingthat we really started to get a flow
and really get comfortable with running
several different plays.
The team is now ranked seventh in
the NESCAC after winning its last four
games, its longest win streak of the season. Last year, the team won the NESCAC tournament and finished the regular season with a record of 20-4, however,
the players arent letting the difference in
record define their prospects.
Were a different team this year, said
captain Quincy Leech 17. People have
been talking about our mixed results, but
we ignore it because what worked for us
last year may not be the same thing that

works for us this year.
This weekend the team will travel to
Missouri for the Washington University at St. Louis tournamentone that
they have never participated in before.
The team tries to take part in an out-ofregion tournament every other year in
order to face tough opponents it would
not normally play.
The other benefit to travelling outside of region [is] representing Bowdoin
outside of our New England region,
said Cady. I think [that] is huge from a
school standpointbuilding pride and
playing tough teams is just going to make
us stronger.
Leech added that it would also provide

exposure for players looking to get recruited to a national or professional team.
This year, the Polar Bears will face
Millikin and Illinois Wesleyan in addition to Texas-Dallas and WisconsinEau Claire, which are nationally ranked
No. 8 and No. 25, respectively.
Theres really no easy match coming into this weekend, so thats going to
be a challenge, but its very very exciting and I know our players are ready,
Cady said. Just making sure that were
taking care of our minds and bodies to
get readyI think that would be our
biggest challenge.
In the long run, both Leech and Cady
are looking at the weekend as solid

preparation for NESCAC and possibly
NCAA playoffs.
We have four matches, which is really tough to do in one weekend, said
Cady. So physically and mentally, it is
going to be taxing on us, but to push
through, to make us stronger [will] prepare [us] for the rest of NESCAC and
NESCAC Playoffs.
Staying humble but realizing that anything is possible will be key going into the
postseason, said Leech. Everything we
have done up until then will have been
preparation, but as long as were working
our butts off and competing with grit we
will have found success.
Womens cross country runs its way to Equestrian team hosts first show
second at Maine State Championship
BY ROITHER GONZALES
STAFF WRITER
BY MAIA COLEMAN
STAFF WRITER
Captain Sarah Kelley 18 won the

Maine State Cross Country Championship on Saturday to help the womens team to a second-place finish for
the second consecutive year.
Kelleys success on Saturday is only
one of her many accomplishments
this season, which have included first
place finishes at each of the three
NCAA Division III races that team
has competed in this year.
This week Kelley was named NESCAC Womens Cross Country Performer of the Weekan honor that
Head Coach Peter Slovenski sees as
a product of Kelleys competent racing strategy.
Sarah looked very strong. She
showed a lot of poise in the early
stages and thena lot of grit [pulling] away in that final mile as she did,
said Slovenski.
Even with her continued success
this season, the title came as a surprise
for Kelley since her training has not
changed over the past couple years.
Its a pleasant surprise to see improvement, Kelley said.
This weeks other notable performance came from Demi Feder 17,
who has quickly become a crucial
member of the team since joining this
fall. A longtime track runner, she has
shown steady improvement throughout the season, finishing fifth on the
team in the first meet and fourth in

the second meet.
[Feder] was a very smart track
runner, so we knew she could figure
out the complexities of distance running, said Slovenski. She has had a
really good intuition for when to hold
back and when to move forward in
workouts and races. Its not easy to
teach that andits been a big help to
the team this fall.
While her lack of cross country experience could be seen as an obstacle,
Feder credits her improvement in
large part to being a new member on
the team.
Coming into it new Ive been lucky
enough not to have expectations and
just take everything in, said Feder.
Ive been able to enjoy running for
running and its the first time that Ive
truly felt that at Bowdoin. Its taught
me to love the fall and be completely
infatuated with running through the
woods. Its more of a freeing experience in sport than Ive ever had at
Bowdoin before.
Looking ahead, the team is preparing for the upcoming NESCAC
Championship meet, which will be
held at Colby next Saturday. In 2014
the womens team placed 10th out of
11 at the NESCAC Championships
and in 2015, the team moved up to
8th place. Slovenski hopes that with
the proper training and focus the
team will continue the upward trend
this year.
ElLIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
STATE CHAMP: Sarah Kelley 18 took first

place at the Maine State Championship on Saturday
with a time of 18:38.3 in the five-kilometer race and
was named NESCAC Performer of the Week.
NESCAC has a lot of highly ranked
teams in the NCAA Division III so its a
really good conference for cross country. A top-five finish would be a great
accomplishment, said Slovenski.
Last weekend, the equestrian team

hosted its first home show in program history. The team performed
well with three riders placing in the
top three of their classes. The shows
overall success puts the team in a
good position to host future shows.
After a show was canceled last
spring, a spot opened up in the
schedule, prompting Bowdoins
league, the Intercollegiate Horse
Shows Association, to ask the team
to host the show.
We always wanted to have [a
home show], captain Carly Lappas
17 said. Normally teams have their
traditional weekend [each year] ...
so it was kind of hard to fit us in the
schedule before now.
Dartmouth College won the overall show, but Bowdoin, despite having a smaller club team, performed
well. Bowdoin also performed well.
Both Lappas and Meret Beutler 19
placed first in their classesthe open
flat class and the beginner walk-trotcanter class, respectivelyand Maddie Bustamante 17 placed third in
the intermediate jumping class.
With nine shows per season and
one show in the spring, the teams results are often mixed. It did, however,
place second in the last NESCAC
show two years ago.
We do okay. We dont do great,
and in part that is because we have a
very small team, said Tilly Tanga 19.
We dont have riders in every class,
which means that the classes where
we dont have riders were obviously
not going to win those classes...when
we do have riders in the class we tend

to do pretty well.
Horse shows are divided into individual class events based on ability. Most team members have riding
experience, while not necessarily
competitively, and two had no prior
experience riding before Bowdoin.
Bates and Middlebury, like Bowdoin, have small club teams, while
other schools in the league, like Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont
are considered varsity and therefore
receive more resources and support
from their institutions.
Most of the other teams that we
compete against are varsity...theyre
funded like our hockey team is
funded...There [are] big disparities,
said Lappas.
As a club sport, the teams entry
fees and transportations are covered by Student Activities, however,
each member must pay for their own
lessons, which cost approximately
$1,500 per year, per student.
Yet even with these setbacks, the
team has doubled over the past four
years and now consists of 15 women.
According to Lappas, a number of
them are likely to qualify individually
for the regional horse shows.
Since over half of its members are
seniors, the team is looking to recruit more underclassman, both men
and women.
Its definitely more organized than
some people might think, Lappas
said. I dont think people really understand what it is from the outside.
The team will compete this weekend at shows hosted by Dartmouth
and Colby-Sawyer in New Hampshire.
the bowdoin orient
sports
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Crew gears up for biggest

regatta of the fall season
BY COLIN TIERNAN
ORIENT STAFF
The crew team has had a successful

start to the year heading into the most
important regatta of its fall season: the
Head of the Charles. The largest two
day regatta in the world, the Head of the
Charles welcomes over 11,000 athletes.
Its really exciting. On the womens
side, our biggest goal is to have both
boats qualify for next years Head of
the Charles, said captain Erin Jeter 18.
So many boats from all over the world
want to row the Charles, so there arent
enough spots for everyone. You have to
finish in the top half to guarantee spots
for the next year.
The mens crew team also has a specific and lofty goal this season: to try to
reach the Henley Royal Regattaarguably the most prestigious rowing event
in the world. The Henley is held on the
Thames in England each year and a
strong performance this weekend will
determine Bowdoins chances to qualify.
The women will also aim to reach the
Henley Regatta next season.
The mens team will race two varsity and two novice boats as well as two
alumni boats in the Head of the Charles.
The college mens four is on Sunday.
We really hope well be in the top five.
There are significant consequences if
those guys can get that fast, Head Coach
Gil Birney said, referring to the Henley
Regatta. For the womens, Im just hoping the two boats in that Saturday event
can guarantee [a spot for next year]. Last
year they were 15th and 10th, which was
well within the top fifty percent.
According to Birney, the quality of the
competition at the Head of the Charles is
exceptionally highstronger than what
most Bowdoin teams face.
There are very few opportunities in
Bowdoin athletics to compete against
this level of competition, so getting in the
top fifty percent is a significant accomplishment, Birney said.
The team knows that its success in
regattas earlier in the season does not
guarantee anything when it heads down
to Boston.
We had a really good race this week-
end, and Coach said, you think you

went fast during those, you need to go so
much faster during this [race], Jeter said.
Both teams are extremely young, despite only graduating a few senior rowers
last year. Coxswains were in particularly
short supply heading into the fall, and the
experience level at the position is low;
many of the coxswains not only are first
years, but they are new to crew as well.
Despite their youth, no varsity A boat has
finished lower than fifth place, usually
out of a pool of 20, this season.
Im pretty happy with the progress
weve made, Birney said of the new
coxswains. Its a very, very hard job.
The first skill is steering. Its a 60 foot,
or 45 foot boat that youre steering. The
second skill is learning how to motivate and direct a crew. For a lot of these
kids, its counterintuitive and its a lot of
new vocabulary.
Both Birney and Jeter view the teams
overall youth as a positive and praise the
enthusiasm of the new rowers and coxswains. Birney compared this years team
favorably to those of previous years.
We had a fabulous group of people
graduate in 2015; in terms of just raw talent, that was a great group. These kids are
right on schedule to be as good as that
class was, said Birney. We dont have
as many standout individuals, but by the
time our sophomores are seniors, I think
its going to be pretty bodacious.
According to Birney, the team has
good technique overall, yet there is still a
lot of room for improvement.
The skill level is pretty high. The rowing stroke itself is actually pretty subtle.
Trying to get four people in the same
rhythm and the same time isnt easy, but
were working on it, Birney said. We
havent got as deep a cardio base as we
would with a bigger, upper class team,
but were getting there.
Birney noted that the individual differences between boats is part of the fun
of coaching.
Each boat develops its own rhythm.
Its fun to watch, said Birney. I have a
vision of what it ought to be, but you
get to a place where you say, ok, thats
how this boats going to row. I say thats
a strength.
SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
DOWN, NOT QUITE OUT: Last year, Bowdoin beat Hamilton for their first win. Yet a late touchdown helped Hamilton come away with the victory
on Saturday. However, the team is keeping a positive attitude heading into this weeks matchup against undefeated Trinity.
Narrow loss keeps football winless

BY ANNA FAUVER
STAFF WRITER
The football team lost to Hamilton (13) on Saturday in their closest game of the
season with a final score of 25-26. This is
the first season in ten years that the program has started a season 0-4.
According to Coach JB Wells, the
close score reflected the capabilities of
both teams.
I thought the game on Saturday was
a very even game, JB Wells said. When
you balance everything upkey points of
the game, big plays on both sideseverything became exactly what the score indicated, which was a 25-26 game.
Captain Timothy Drakeley 17 believes
that the game against Hamilton provided
hope for the teams future, but also highlighted some areas in which the team
needs to improve.
There were a couple mental errors that
definitely cost us that lead [that] we have
to get rid of but I think that will come as
the season progresses, Drakeley said. The
defense played really well; the offense has
to move the ball a little more and be a little
more efficient, especially on first downs,
but I think we saw a lot of positive things
and a lot of steps in the right direction.
According to captain Nadim Elhage
16, one of Bowdoins biggest assets is
their physicality.
One thing I think weve done well although we havent won is physically the
other team feels the effect of playing the
Bowdoin football team, Elhage said. I

would say were one of the more physical teams in the league. We are one of the
more aggressive teams in terms of hitting.
Captain Reeder Wells 17 said that in
order to win, the team needs to improve
its consistency.
Instead of playing perfectly 80 percent
of the plays of the game, I think we need
to be ready just about every single play,
Reeder Wells said. So I think thats been
our biggest thing: no mental lapses, just
being obviously more consistent and not
having 2 or 3 plays throughout the game
where we have big mistakes.
The team is currently playing more first
years than other teams in the league. According to JB Wells, as the first year students gain more experience, consistency
will follow.
Our play is kind of reflective of our
age, Coach Wells said. Consistency is
tough to get without experience. The one
thing that you just cant coach is experience ... Were getting there, but you cant
microwave it. It has to happen.
Reeder Wells believes that the players
have also been working on improving
team culture since last season.
That was one of our big things at the
beginning of the yearreally kind of trying to reinvent that, he said. It was something we started a little bit last year, but
definitely this year a lot of the team has
come together.
JB Wells agrees that the team dynamic has changed this season and credits
much of the improvement to the senior leadership.

Where weve really become a much
better football program this year is the
development of the team culture, he said.
And that has everything to do with Reeder [Wells] and the upperclassmen really
holding this team more accountable and
to higher standards than theyve been held
to before.
Looking ahead to the Trinity game on
Saturday, Elhage believes that the offense
and defense both need to work hard in order to play their best against the 4-0 team.
Primarily, [Trinity is] a run heavy
team and they have a massive offensive
line with a great running back and I think
part of that is complimented with the offense being successful at moving the ball,
Elhage said. Having extended drives allows the defense to get more rest than we
have been getting which allows both the
offense and the defense to play better.
Despite its performance so far, Reeder
Wells thinks that the team has a chance
of surprising people with the outcome
against Trinity.
I think were a team that they might
very well overlook, he said. Theyre ripe
to be beaten so I think were absolutely
going to use that to our advantage and
see where we can kind of catch them on
their heels and at the very least give them
a scare. Our hope is to obviously come up
with a pretty big upset. So were going to
be working with that in mind and were
working this whole week with that goal.
The issue with Abby Wambachs rhetoric

BY ERIC ZELINA
CONTRIBUTOR
U.S. Soccer has an Abby Wambach

problem. The World Cup winner and
international soccers most prolific goal
scorermale or femalemade headlines
again last week not for her scoring prowess, but for her off the pitch conduct. In a
very poignant and candid interview with
the New York Times, Wambach valiantly
discussed battling alcohol and painkiller
abuse and depression while coming to
terms with the end of her marriage and
career. The problem with the interview
came when was she asked about her previous criticism of the U.S. Mens National
Team (USMNT) Coach Jrgen Klinsmann and his use of so-called dual-nationalsplayers with multiple passports
who are eligible to represent both the U.S.
and other nations at the international
level. Previously, in an interview with
Bill Simmons late last year, she criticized
Klinsmann for bringing in foreign guys
to play for the USMNT, specifically naming Fabian Johnson and Jermaine Jones.
Her comments caused an uproar in many
U.S. soccer circles, and for good reason.
Both of the players she mentioned have
American passports and are the sons of

American servicemen who were stationed
in Germany, not to mention Johnson and
Jones are standout players for the US.
After keeping mostly quiet since those
comments, she doubled down on her
criticism of dual nationals in the USMNT in her interview with the Times,
this time attacking the players directly
instead of just Jrgen. She insinuated that
dual nationals took the easy way out in
choosing to play for the U.S., stating, to
me that just feels like they werent able to
make it for their country and earn a living, so theyre coming here.
She went on to question both their
killer instinct and how much they love
their country, this time calling out Norwegian-American Mix Diskerud.
Wambach is well within her right to
criticize Klinsmann (and, for my money,
levels some very fair criticisms on other
issues), but on the issue of dual-nationals,
not only is she dead-wrong, she is downright irresponsible. First and foremost, the
claim that dual national players could not
earn a living playing for their countries,
so they settled for the USMNT is factually
incorrect. Comparing U.S. national team
duty and earning a livelihood is an apples-
to-oranges comparison in that the

former makes up a small portion of
a players time and income. Further,
both Johnson and John Brooks, arguably the USMNTs best players currently and both German-Americans, play
at elite clubs in the German Bundesliga;
likewise, Jones spent the vast majority of
his career in Germany before moving to
Major League Soccer, as did Diskerud
with his native Norway.
More troubling though is the fact
that probably the U.S.s greatest player
of all time, mens or womens, and
undoubtedly a role model, is openly
questioning the patriotism and commitment of American players who have
chosen to represent the stars and stripes at
the international level. Many of the dualnationals subject to Wambachs criticisms
are the sons of American servicemen who
have seen firsthand what dedication to the
country she claims to love means. To claim
that John Brooks, who has both his familys
native Illinois and his native Berlin tattooed
on his arms, or Julian Green, who was born
in Tampa and raised in Germany, dont
love this country because they have dual
citizenship is frankly little more than thinly
veiled xenophobia. They pull on the U.S.
BROOKE GODDARD
kit and, to use the famous platitude, shed blood and sweat for this country,
the same as Wambach.
While Wambach is not alone in her
sentiments (U.S. legend Landon Donovan and former USMNT manager Bruce
Arena have made similar comments), she
has been the most outspoken critic. In the
midst of a presidential election characterized by ugly, bigoted and xenophobic
rhetoric, it falls on role models like Wambach to elevate the level of discourse rather
than reinforce such divides. Its a privilege
to represent the U.S. on the international
stage at any level, and to not only belittle

the efforts Jones, Johnson, Brooks and
others have made to do so, but to openly
question their love of this country brings
unnecessary division to sport, the sole
thing that brings together Americans of
all beliefs.
Soccer itself is unique in that its fan
base is exceptionally young and diverse.
Wambach needs to be more responsible
with her rhetoric and seek to unify, rather
than divide, U.S. Soccer at a time when the
program can serve as a model of inclusion
for a divided country.
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the bowdoin orient
OPINION
Two-way teaching
Last year, in the wake of the tequila party, a group of students interrupted one of
the monthly faculty meetings in order to urge faculty to participate in conversations
about race on campus. These students wanted their professors to be involved in issues
that exist outside of their classroomsand they were not the only ones expressing the
desire to engage.
Assuming a student jumps through all the necessary hoops in order to speak at a
faculty meetingwhich most students do not even know is an optionan opportunity
for faculty to respond and engage with that student does not currently exist. Since that
meeting last year, a group of faculty has been discussing whether to allow unannounced
students to speak at faculty meetings. In addition, at this weeks meeting, a number of
professors voiced a desire to engage with what students had expressed in the past. Creating opportunities for this to happen is a valuable pursuit for students and faculty alike.
When students or faculty do have concerns, there should be a forum where students
and faculty can talk to one another on a larger scale. Having a monthly meetingseparate from the faculty meetingwhere students and faculty are invited to converse and
express any concerns would be a step in the right direction. Meetings like this would
help bridge the gap that currently exists between students and faculty when it comes to
non-academic issues.
In order to make these meetings as effective as possible, it is important for faculty
and students to cultivate personal, non-academic relationships. For both parties to feel
comfortable expressing themselves in forums like this, there needs to be a degree of
familiarity and openness, which is built through engaging one-on-one outside of class.
While students and faculty can individually work with one another to strengthen such
relationships, the College should be more involved in encouraging these interactions.
For example, having a planned dinner that students can directly invite their professors to takes the pressure off of students to bridge the gap on their own. Formalized
events like this bring large groups of students and faculty together in a comfortable setting and facilitate the type of bonding that would make participating together in larger
meetings more accessible. Events like Pints with Professorsa Senior Week event
where students can invite their professors to get drinksis an example of this, but it
comes too late in our Bowdoin careers for us to take full advantage of the opportunity.
Outside of the classroom, connecting with faculty helps Bowdoin feel more like a
place students can call home. Constantly surrounded by other people our own age, it
can be refreshing to have close relationships with a different age demographic as well as
helpful to have advice from people other than our peers.
Schools like Bowdoin attract faculty that want to cultivate strong relationships with
their students. Instituting monthly meetings for students and faculty would accomplish
this. These meetings will be the most effective if students and faculty can build strong
enough one-on-one relationships so that when they are in larger groups they feel comfortable speaking openly and honestly.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board,
which is comprised of Marina Affo, Julian Andrews, Meg Robbins and Joe Seibert.
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True crime: cruel but educational

SAVANNAH HORTON
BACKGROUND NOISE
My favorite iPhone app is Podcasts. I

had no idea it existed until a few months
ago, mostly because I throw all the useless default apps (Stocks, Tips, etc.) into a
folder on a screen I never swipe to. However, now that I am 21 and quasi-mature
(I mean, I used the word quasi!), Ive become more sensible, more learned. You
know, the Podcasts type.
A quick background: Ive always
had a hard time falling asleep.
Ive tested and rejected numerous sleep-inducing solutions
with little success. Then, a few
months ago, I opened Podcasts
by accident and found my fix.
The problem is I dont like
just any podcast. I like a story.
Thus, I quickly found my way to
true crime. In case youre unfamiliar, true crime is a nonfiction literary
and film (and podcast!) genre in which
authors examine actual cases. It sounds
geekier than it issort of.
I go back and forth debating whether
my interest in murder investigations is
psychotic or uber-empathetic. I fall asleep
to horror stories and play them at the
gym. I admit, my curiosity has morphed
to fascination through a simple progression: first the podcasts, then the podcasts
about the podcasts (yes, these exist), then
the Netflix documentaries and the CBS
mini-seriesyou see what I mean.
Its a good time to be a true crime addict, because everyone with cash and a
camera seems intent on following homicide court cases. Over the past few years,
true crime has saturated the media via
Netflix (Making a Murderer, Amanda
Knox), HBO (The Jinx) and, of course,
podcasts (Serial etc.). Theres also been
a rise in realistic crime fiction. For example, HBOs The Night Of. I could
BY GARRETT ENGLISH
Send all submissions to

orientopinion@bowdoin.edu by
7pm on the Tuesday of the week of
publication.
Include your full name and phone
number.
also mention the fascination with crime

novels such as Gone Girl, The Girl on
the Train, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or The Woman in Cabin 10 (crazy
girls!), but Id rather wear a bionator again
(think: retainer but less glamorous).
There is no lack of media frenzy. The
internet seethes with opinionated viewers, equally uninformed and passionate.
Amanda Knox is your next TV obsession, Making a Murderer arrived at the
perfect time. The blend of entertainment
and crime
has be-
PHOEBE ZIPPER
come
so complex and problematicbut I still
want to listen.
It turns out a lot of professionals have
studied the emerging fixation on true
crime. First, theres the whole Freudian
interpretation of schadenfreude, the
pleasure derived from other peoples suffering. I dont particularly love this one.
Then theres Dr. Howard Formans explanation that the trend is rooted in empathy. Forman, a psychiatrist at Montefiore Medical Center, links his reasoning
to the overwhelming popularity of true
crime amongst young women, and data
seems to agree with him. For example,
the popular true crime podcast Sword
and Scale has a 70 percent female audience. The lure of popular true crime
only intensifies with women suspects
as seen in the case of Amanda Knoxa
young woman convicted of murdering
her roommate. The shock of the female

killer who may or may not have been the
mastermind behind group sex orgies
grabbed attention. Journalist Nick Pisa
admits to covering Knox far more than
others accused because there was no interest in the male suspects.
Associate Professor of Criminology
Scott Bonn of Drew University claims
that serial killers tantalize people much
like traffic accidents, train wrecks or natural disasters. He adds that true crime
allows us to experience fear and horror
in a controlled environment where the
threat is exciting but not real.
So we like rubbernecking, indulging in guilty pleasures at
the expense of other people.
Real peoplebecause thats
whats easy to forget. The
characters seen and
heard from are not characters at all. The cases we puzzle over are not invented. We
have dramatized crime into a
performancea strange blend of
fiction and reality.
Of course, media coverage is not
always detrimental. Many of the documentaries have worked to free suspects
who were subjected to mistreatment
and wrongful convictions. Adnan Syed
was granted a new trial after podcasts
reviewed crucial findings in his case.
The directors of Amanda Knox claim
the film aims to understand from a
human point of view what it would
feel like to be caught up in these
events and circumstances. Still, I have
the privilege of listening to someone
elses tragedy for entertainment, which
is pretty horrifying. I am aware of the
monster Im feeding. In some ways,
true crime is cruelin others, its educational. Its also terrifying, because
there is always the fear that it could
happen to you.
Its a lot to think about. Maybe if you
cant fall asleep, try a podcast and decide for yourself.
Censorship of student artwork

undermines freedom of expression
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
SUBMIT A LETTER TO
THE EDITOR
200 words or fewer
I submitted a series of three photographs to the Bowdoin Art Societys

(BAS) call for submissions earlier this
month with the hope that they would be
included in the fall show. Shortly after my
submission, I received an email from a
representative of BAS who told me they
needed to push back on my series. It was
rejected because the BAS felt the need to
err on the side of caution when it comes
to certain topics of controversy.
Two of the photographs depict a realistic dildo, one juxtaposed with my forearm and the other with the open hand of a
friend. They were made for an assignment
in VART 2401: Large Format Photography
that asked my peers and me to make photographs comparing objects that result in
the viewer questioning common notions
of the size of those objects. My images
were successful in that aim and were wellreceived by the class. The size differences
are so extreme that it is comical.
The most disturbing statement in the
correspondence with BAS was the disclosure that the organization made the
decision to reject my photos to respect
the Deans intentions for Family Weekend
and their contributions to the possibility

of the show. What are their intentions
and why do they differ so greatly from the
normal operation of the College where
my image is considered benign?
For context, BAS displayed a series of
photographs in last years fall show that
some administrators deemed inappropriate. As a result, the funding for the
show was reduced. Less funding means
less opportunity to exhibit student work
this weekend.
The Art Societys fall show should be a
place for the Bowdoin community to display work without filter or administrative
intervention. Failure of the organization
and the administration to allow all opinions and expression undermines the freedom to express opinions on this campus.
Art must be protected, even when dealing
with controversial issues or graphic subject matter. The actions of the administration threaten the academic and intellectual missions of this institution and should
be reconsidered immediately. The exclusion of art on these grounds sets a dangerous precedent for provocative art on this
campusallowing the administration to
censor any installation that does not meet
their standards for how they want the College to be viewed on any given day.
If Robert Mapplethorpes 1985 photograph Cock was currently on exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of
Art (BCMA), would the administration
have it removed as to not offend any visitors this weekend? Its remarkably similar
to my photographs and Mapplethorpe
has encountered the same reasoning for
censorship throughout his career. The
administration would never intervene
in the operation of BCMA. Because BAS
has a similar mission particularly when
it comes to displaying student work, administrators should allow students to curate the fall show free from interference
or threats.
To the Art Society: decide whether you
want an autonomous show that truly represents the breadth of talent at Bowdoin
College or money from an administration
that has no real appreciation for student
artists and the free expression of opinion.
You cannot have both.
The images are on view at
garrettenglish.com.
Garrett English is a member of the Class
of 2016.
the bowdoin orient
opinion
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What do we do on November 9? Finding empathy in the political climate

BY FRANK STRASBURGER
OPED CONTRIBUTOR
Since October of 2014, I have been

privileged, as adviser to the Bowdoin
Mens Group, to facilitate weekly discussions among male students about what
it means to be a man. The group has no
political agenda; the only agenda is that
set by the people present, who meet in
a spirit of willing vulnerability to share
insights and feelings that men share all
too rarely with one another. The result is
that, more than occasionally, we stumble
onto something profound. This week was
no exception.
The conversation was a difficult one
to frame. We wanted to talk about what
everyone else in the country is talking
aboutsexual assaultwithout the overlay of politics that seemed nearly unavoidable. But to get political would be to make
the discussion about other people, and the
distinctiveness of Mens Group discussions is that theyre about the people in the
room. So the question we explored is, If
for a third of the country, confessions of
sexual assault dont disqualify someone
for the presidency, how does that fact affect us? What does it tell us about our own
sense of ourselves as men?
It would have been easy, as some of the
participants observed, for those around
the table simply to pat themselves on the
back for being the good guys. But thats
not where we went. What we began to

talk about was objectification, and that
mens objectifications of women, while
wrong and often tragic, are not the only
kinds of objectifications in which people
indulge. This election and events leading
up to it have exposed a number of chasms
in American life in which one side objectifies the other, including race, ethnicity,
sexuality, gender and, of course, party. But
the signal division
right now is between
elites and those who
are described as left
behind.
Bowdoin
College and places like
it consider it a principal part of their
missions to bridge
those chasms. Recruiting an intentionally
diverse student body, the College seeks
to encourage people whom our society
has separated since birth to discover one
another and even to discover themselves
in one another. While, to be sure, colleges
and universities across America have fallen short of this lofty goal, study after study
nevertheless confirms that most students
leave college far more accepting of people
they had seen as alien when they arrived.
Yes, there are disturbing incidents on campus, and colleges could certainly make
more effective use of their diversity. But in
a nation as segregated as ours in every sector except college campuses, its hard not
to applaud this noble experiment.
All of that said, theres one divide that
college may not only be unable to bridge
but may actually deepen: the divide between the highly educated and the relatively uneducatedthe very divide driving this election. As Mens Group thought
about the sin of objectification, all of us
had to confess to having painted with a
broad brush many
of those who, for
whatever reasons,
have been left behind educationally.
Whether its Appalachia or the Rust Belt
or rural America or
Maines Second District (which has been
described as the Mississippi of New England, a characterization whose intent is
no kinder to Mississippi than to the Second District), many of us imagine monolithic populations that eschew objective
facts, mistrust science, hold government
in contempt and are especially susceptible
to conspiracy theories. We look down our
noses at their narrowness and quietlyor
perhaps noisilyconvict them of willful stupidity.
Some of you know intimately what
Im talking about, because you grew up
If ever our culture

needed empathy on
all sidesfrom men,
women, the educated, the
uneducatedits now.
in such places among such people. They

are your parents, grandparents and aunts
and uncles. And you know perfectly
well theyre not willfully stupid. But they
have been afflicted by inferior education,
stifled opportunity and economic stress.
And then theres the fear of losing you to
a world about which they know little, and
your feelings of guilt about their fearall
of which makes the prejudice you encounter on campus against people like
your family all the more painful.
So what does all of this have to do with
Mens Group and masculinity? The quality
that many men have the greatest difficulty
summoningin large part because in
our culture we are raised to think of it as
a largely feminine traitis empathy. Men,
of course, arent the only people who objectify those they think of as other; we all
do. But because our society places mens
capacities for empathy at risk, such compassion requires for a lot of them a conscious effort.
If ever our culture needed empathy on
all sidesfrom men, women, the educated, the uneducatedits now. But while
empathy across other social boundaries
is made easier on campus by the simple
proximity and shared experience of those
on opposite sides, no such proximity or
shared experience presently exists for
those who are highly educated and those
who arent. This is one problem schools
probably cant solve.

Developing such shared experience, increasing genuine engagement and breaking down the walls of mistrust may well
be the most important work of our societys emerging leadersthats you. You
are learning to bridge all the other divides;
this may be the toughest one of all. It may
require you to develop new institutions
and more inclusive social networks. It will
certainly demand all of your creative intelligence and magnanimity of spirit. And it
will challenge every ounce of your empathy. But Americas future may well rest on
the willingness of your generation to take
on this project.
As urgent as is the commitment of
all of us to equal opportunity, it isnt
enough, because in a country as broadly
and deeply unequal as ours, true equality of opportunity is likely to take generations to achieve. We cant wait that
long to learn to trust and value one another. Reconciliation begins with the
recognition that those we have tended
in the past to objectify are, like us, human beings and that, ultimately, our affirmation of their humanity is essential
to our own.
No matter what happens on November 8, thats the work to which were
called on November 9.
Frank Strasburger is a parent of members of the classes of 2007 and 2008.
Taking a break from social media may

provide a refreshing perspective
IAN WARD
ON SECOND THOUGHT
Im not on any social media platformsno Facebook, no Instagram,
no nothing. Like the vast majority of
Bowdoin students, I have a smartphone,
which I take practically everywhere
with me. I text, I email, I take the occasional selfie. I was on Facebook for a
few years in high school before deactivating my page prior to my junior year. I
havent been on since.
But Im not here to bash technology. If youre in the mood for some
technology-bashing, I can link you to
one of the hundreds of articles that have
been published within the last year in
every reputable news outlet about how
smartphones are turning us millennials into antisocial, apathetic and asinine zombies.
The issue isnt that the authors of
these articles are wrong (and in many
cases, they arent), as much as that their
apocalyptic, alarmist rhetoric is useless.
The articles keep coming, yet iPhones
keep selling, tweeters keeps tweeting
and Snapchatters keep ... doing whatever it is that they do. Social media is a
part of the fabric of millennial life. Rather than watch our elders get red in the
face with indignation, those of us who
have grown up with the stuff should try
to get a better sense of the lifestyle that
we live with an iPhone in hand.
I am not here to be self-righteous.
Do I think my absence from the world
of social media makes me morally superior? No. Despite how some media
outlets make it seem, signing up for Instagram doesnt also punch your ticket
to a lifetime lived in a hazy, solitary
and senseless purgatory. Social media
usage on its own is an almost entirely
irrelevant moral consideration.
My time off the grid (speaking
relatively, of course), has nevertheless
been informative. Maybe I miss out on
the occasional celebrity Twitter war or
that really cute picture of your friends
baby cousin, but I still keep in touch
with old friends, I still hear about campus events and I still keep up to date
with the news. In truth, Ive lost nothing from my digital hiatus.
I have gained something, though. I
deactivated my Facebook account because I started to feel the virtual world
creeping into the world of flesh and
blood. I felt the nag to go places with
my friends that would be conducive to
a post-worthy photo and I spent

an inordinate amount of time
thinking of witty captions. I have
a hunch that these feelings are far
from unique.
Aside from the carefully studied and well documented tricks that
software engineers use to make their
products as addictive as possible, I suspect that social media is so appealing
because it mimics the process of selfbuilding while doing away with all the
friction of actual self-building. By selfbuilding, I mean the whole network of
things that we do to build an identity
from what weve been dealtwhich
ideas we gravitate towards, which
people we associate with, our tenor of
interactions, etc. In the non-technological world, much of this self-building is messy. You happen to argue for
a position at a family dinner that your
uncle thinks is deplorable, and absent
faking sudden-onset food poisoning,
youre basically locked into that debate,
whether you like it or not. Or maybe
that really cute kid from across the hall
sees you drunkenly shoveling mozzarella sticks into your mouth at Super
Snacks. Maybe hell come up to you the
next day to divulge his love of mozzarella sticks and youll live happily ever
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after or hell grimace and move on.

Even if unpleasant, these messy moments of interaction are formative.
They force us to revise our sense of
what is good, how we should act and
who we should be.
These interactions by no means disappear on social media, but we gain a
degree of control over them. We choose
who to associate with, which comments
to respond to and which bits of our existences to share. Much of the happenstance and friction that makes interaction in the material world meaningful
has been controlled for.
This isnt to say that everyone should
delete their social media accounts for
the rest of time. But for a little while? Its
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not a
bad idea.
Many
college
students have been
on Facebook since at least the beginning of high school, if not before. How
long has it been since you went a day,
a week, a month, without interacting
online? Give it a try. Even if youre one
of those people who doesnt post often,
at the very least your thumbs will thank
you for a week of rest. If distance makes
the heart grow fonder, so be it. But at
least youll return to the digital realm
with a new perspective, a fresh sense
of the benefits and hazards of the online world.
Copy Editor
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
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FRIDAY 21
COMMON HOUR
"The Challenges of Creating Software with

Machine Learning"
Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, will speak about
using machine learning to design new software.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM
President's Summer Research Symposium

Students will present research conducted over the summer.
Morrell Gym, Smith Union. 1:45 p.m.
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: Students gathered by the polar bear wearing yellow shirts to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning members of the Bowdoin community. Yellow Shirt Day took place yesterday and was a part of Bowdoin Queer Straight Alliances Out
Week. For more on Out Week see Page 1.
EVENT
Sarah and James Bowdoin Day Celebration

Barbara Elias Klenner, assistant professor of government,
will deliver the keynote address in a celebration of student
academic achievement. There will also be a student address
and a book awards presentation.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 4 p.m.
EVENT
DISCUSSION
There will be a 5K run through the fields behind Farley

Field House.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Farley Field House. 8:15 a.m.
Cynthia Needham '99, technology editor at the Boston

Globe, will speak about the intersection of
journalism and technology.
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 7 p.m.
Family Weekend Fun Run
FILM SCREENING
"Inside Out"
The Bowdoin Film Society will host a screening of the

animated Pixar movie.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 26
SUNDAY 23
Career Conversation in Journalism
FILM SCREENING
TOUR
"The World of Wallace Stevens"
Haunted Bowdoin Tour
This Family Weekend mainstay features locations on campus

with paranormal connections. The tour will also take place on
Saturday afternoon.
Polar Bear Statue. 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY 24
There will be a screening of the documentary film exploring

the life of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens,
followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Alison Johnson.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
DISCUSSION
"Whats Wrong with Law and

Order: SVU?"
SATURDAY 22
LECTURE
Director of Title IX and Compliance Benje Douglas will

speak about the distortions of rape culture in the popular
crime drama.
ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
Burnett House. 7 p.m
PICK OF THE WEEK
Professor of Government and Legal Studies Paul Franco will

give a talk titled "The Enigma of Thomas More's Utopia."
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 11 a.m.
"Creating the Katahdin Woods and

Waters National Monument"
Assistant Professor of Sociology Theo Greene will give a talk

titled "Not in MY Gayborhood! The Rights of LGBT Youth in
Gay Neighborhoods."
Room 208, Adams Hall. 11 a.m.
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PERFORMANCE
VentiCordi
Performance
TUESDAY 25
LECTURE
Assistant Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science

Emily Peterman will give a talk titled "Seeing the World in
a Grain of Sand."
Room 004, Druckenmiller Hall. 11 a.m.
30
LECTURE
"Oh Shenandoah: Mercury and songbirds

in a changing world."
ORIENT
Special Family Weekend

Faculty Presentations
THURSDAY 27
Lucas St. Clair will speak about his experience leading

the effort that created the Katahdin Woods and Waters
National Monument, which placed over 80,000 acres east
of Baxter State Park under the protection of the federal
government in August 2016.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 4 p.m.
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Dan Cristol, professor of biology at the College of William

& Mary, will speak about how mercury can pollute the
food web and its effect on songbirds and other
animal species.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 4 p.m.
LECTURE
"Building New Lives with Old Books in

Renaissance Italy"
Sarah Ross '97, associate professor of history at Boston

College, will discuss two Venetians of the Renaissance era:
Laura Cereta, a writer, and Francesco Longo, a physician, to
argue that the humanities are critical to living.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30 p.m.
CLASS
Stained Glass
Art Class

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THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY

VOLUME 146, NUMBER 6

Dinesh DSouza will

Please see DSOUZA, page 4

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Students gathered on the steps

like Chris, youre gay and youre

queer spaces and we consider a lot of

Please see VIGIL, page 3

Every summer, hundreds of

Dining Service began offering

Please see BANANAS, page 5

During Out Week, vigil honors Orlando shooting victims Faculty

KEEPER OF THE KEYS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The College Republicans will bring

COMING OUT CHRISTIAN

Adira Polite 18 writes about her reborn faith in

LETS TALK ABOUT SEX

New York City-based author Rachel Hills visits

In the upcoming weeks, the faculty will continue conversations about

Please see FACULTY, page 3

Volleyball heads west in search of tougher

ART SHOW CONTROVERSY

Garrett English 16 reacts to the censoring of

friday, october 21, 2016

THE (UNOFFICIAL) GUIDE TO BOWDOIN COFFEES

All Seasons Decaf

A fine marriage of wood chips,

BY ELEANOR PAASCHE AND ELIZABETH FOSLERJONES

PAIRS WELL WITH...

Mild, almost sweet, smooth,

A cough drop, cinnamon chewing gum and diluted orange

Seacoast Choice Dark Roast

Burnt sugar, hazelnut notes.

Not too harsh, small bite of

The liquid in the bottom of an

Stale, diner pie that tastes like a

Astringent, bitter, compost-y

Nicaraguan Fair Trade

The most quintessential coee

Light, watery, sour in a spoiled,

The flannel and soft, soft beard

A bleu-cheese burger with caramelized shallots and a port wine

The water at the top of sour,

Burnt chestnuts, molasses.

Sharp, thick, coats the tongue,

50-cent gas station coee.

A bacon, egg and cheese sandwich wrapped in foil, or pretzel

Pine needles, spruce sap. When

Cinnamon, a Yankee candle

Mild, soothing, shockingly

A county fair in autumn, but hot

Rosemary-roasted turkey with

Glade plug-in air freshener in

SECURITY REPORT: 10/13 to 10/19

A student reported that a tire was stolen from a

An ill student in downtown Brunswick

A dining staff member reported encountering a suspicious man attempting to

friday, october 21, 2016

the bowdoin orient