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Rule violations
mar election for
BSG chairs
by Sarah Drumm
Orient Staff
Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) canceled and then re-held
its election for six Executive Team
positions this week after concerns
about possible violations of elec-
tion rules. After a meeting of the
Election Commission, Nora Cul-
len ’18 and Justin Weathers ’18,
chair and vice chair of the Judicial
mass email by Aneka Kazlyna ’20
and Fanta Traore ’20 who were
running on an unofficial ticket
together.
“During all of the information
sessions, or at least some, from
what I understand, I explained
to potential BSG candidates that
they were allowed to send mass
emails as long as those emails EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
were not using email lists—like ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Security officers break out the rickshaws and take them for a test drive in preparation for this weekend’s Ivies festivities.
the Class of 2021 email list, for

Psych department struggles to meet demand

Board, respectively, presided over
the new election independently of
the BSG Executive Team.
On Sunday evening, shortly be-
fore polls were set to close, the BSG
Election Commission notified the
student body in an email that the
election for chair positions had
been canceled and rescheduled.
Polls opened for the second time
on Tuesday at 10 a.m. and closed
at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Ben Painter ’19 was elected
chair of student affairs, Nikki Tjin
A Djie ’21 chair of academic affairs,
Mamadou Diaw ’20 chair of diver-
sity and inclusion, Jenna Scott ’19
chair of student organizations, Har-
ry Sherman ’21 chair of the treasury
and Nate DeMoranville ’20 chair of
facilities and sustainability.
On Wednesday evening, after
results had been announced, BSG
President Irfan Alam ’18 addressed
the student body at BSG public
example. I was wrong to say that,”
Alam said at the meeting.
Kazlyna and Traore said they
did not use such an email list, but
sent emails about their candidacy
to about 400 students, which was,
by their understanding, not a vio-
lation of election policy.
DeMoranville confronted
Alam about the mass emails policy
at comment time. He said he left
his own information session with
a clear understanding that mass
emails were against campaigning
rules. He also questioned how
holding a second election changed
the impact of these emails.
“To my understanding 580
emails were sent on behalf of two
candidates encouraging people
to vote for them…how does the
impact of 580 emails change in the
new election—you’re still encour-
aged to vote for the same people,”
said DeMoranville.
by Nina McKay
Orient Staff
During Round 1 of course
selection for the fall 2018 semes-
ter, there were 62 requests for 35
spots in Abnormal Psychology,
reflecting a strong student inter-
est in clinical psychology and an
under-resourced department,
according to Samuel Putnam, pro-
fessor of psychology and chair of
the department. The class was also
overenrolled last year.
“It’s a crisis that I think we need
to start talking to administration
about,” Putnam said. “I fear that
we’re going to be turning students
away from careers that would be
very rewarding.”
Abnormal Psychology is a
course that focuses on the treat-
ment of mental illness, including
depression, bipolar disorders, anx-
iety disorders, obsessive-compul-
sive disorder, post-traumatic stress
disorder and eating disorders. The
course can only be taught by a clin-
ical psychologist, or someone who
studies mental illnesses and ways
to treat them, which puts a strain
on Bowdoin’s small psychology
department and hinders students
who want to take the course.
None of the other 2000-level
non-laboratory psychology classes
filled to capacity during Round 1.
Kelly Parker-Guilbert, a visiting
assistant professor of psychology,
will be teaching Abnormal Psy-
chology in the fall semester. She
is filling in for Hannah Reese, an
assistant professor of psychology
who is on leave for the 2017-2018
academic year.
Parker-Guilbert explained that
the course begins with an exam-
ination of mental disorders and an
exploration of how “abnormality”
is defined. She supplements text-
book readings with materials writ-
ten by individuals with different
mental disorders to give students
an idea of the daily challenges and
experiences that go with having
certain mental illnesses.
“It’s of interest to a lot of peo-
ple,” Parker-Guilbert said. “Mental
disorders and mental illnesses are
quite prevalent—you know, almost
one in two people will experience
a psychological disorder in their
lifetime. So I think people have
personal experience, either them-
selves or friends or family, and they
want to learn more about it.”
Due to the specialized nature
of psychology, the department
contains faculty members with
different specializations who are
therefore qualified to teach dif-
ferent courses. Putnam explained
that many of Bowdoin’s peer in-
stitutions have larger psychology
Please see PSYCH, page 3

College to open testing center for accommodations

comment time. With a six page
statement, he took responsibility
for the confusion over campaigning
rules that resulted in candidates un-
wittingly committing violations, in-
cluding the sending of a mass email
by two candidates, and candidates
not being informed that others had
dropped out of the race.
The candidates, according to
Alam, enumerated six separate
concerns about the election pro-
cess: the names included on the
ballot and the order in which they
appeared, the ability of candi-
dates to table in David Saul Smith
Union, accusations about the
removal of posters, the legality of
sending mass emails and the Elec-
tion Commission’s handling of the
entire process.
In an email to the student body
on Monday, Cullen and Weathers
explained that “due to the details of
the original campaign complaints”
they decided to administer the
election without involvement from
any BSG members.
The second election included
no changes to the ballot. Neither
students nor the Orient were giv-
en any further information by the
Election Commission and were
instructed to vote while rumors
swirled about which candidates
had violated campaigning rules.
A major issue raised both by
candidates during the election
period and at Wednesday’s BSG
meeting was the sending of a
Alam apologized for misin-
forming candidates, and noted
that the way he explained the elec-
tion rules was the same way they
had been explained to him last
year when he ran for a position. ning,” said Lesley Levy, the director and three students, has used the that Bowdoin has dedicated a
Samuel Lewis ’19 questioned by Harry DiPrinzio for accommodations for students demands of a student petition con- director of accommodations for
how BSG could fairly evaluate the Orient Staff with disabilities. ducted last April as its roadmap. students with disabilities, the po-
impact of the potential rule-break- Bowdoin will hire two full-time The new hires and testing cen- All of the changes currently in the sition which Levy now holds. Pre-
ing and associated controversy on employees devoted to accommo- ter accompany a number of small- works were outlined in the peti- viously, the duties of that position
the election’s outcome. dating students with disabilities er changes to accommodate peo- tion, issued by the Disabled Stu- had been only one element of a
“It seems that the consequence next year, pending Trustees’ ap- ple with disabilities. The College dents Association (DASA), which single dean’s set of responsibili-
of what [DeMoranville] says, is proval of the budget this May. is close to finalizing a map, to be is led by Daisy Wislar ’18 and Zoe ties. Those responsibilities rotated
that candidates who were meticu- Additionally, the College will published online, that highlights Borenstein ’18. between deans every two years.
lous were disadvantaged because designate a testing center in Haw- accessible spaces and entrances “The petition has been a guide- The appointment of a staff person
of a mistake that you made,” said thorne-Longfellow Library where on campus and is working on post,” said Senior Vice President fully focused on disability was one
Lewis. “How are you holding your- students who receive academic ac- increasing signage that notes ac- for Finance and Administration of students’ primary demands last
self accountable…and how is this commodations such as extra time cessibility on campus. Information and Treasurer of the College Matt spring.
going to be made right for the can-will be able to take exams. Technology has done preliminary Orlando, who leads the Accessi- Wislar, who has been active on
didates who did follow the rules?” The new developments re- work to create a lending library of bility Task Force. “It was the first disability issues throughout their
Alam said that him abstain- spond to calls from students with technology—for example text-to- thing we reviewed as the task force time at Bowdoin, was recognized
ing from presiding over the new disabilities who, over the past three speech apps or smart pens—that committee. And [Wislar], Astrid with the President’s Award, which
election was a way to hold himself years, have sought to start a con- make studying easier for some [Self ’20] and Ana [Timoney-Go- honors a student who shows cour-
accountable. versation about disability at Bow- students who receive accommo- mez ’18] have been fantastic at age, imagination, and generosity of
Weathers noted that the behav- doin, laid out specific demands dations, and the office of the Dean helping us get student input on spirit. However with graduation
for more resources for students
ior of candidates in this year’s elec- for Accommodations for Students everything we’re doing.” approaching, Wislar is worried
tion did not strongly deviate from with disabilities and have shared with Disabilities is in the process of In addition to the develop- that students’ efforts to push the
past years. negative experiences in receiving acquiring software to automate the ments mentioned above, the Col- College to provide more compre-
accommodations themselves.
“If you went back to like the last procedure for requesting accom- lege hopes to make the new apart- hensive accessibility will dwindle.
four elections, there’s several peo- The College is in the process of modations for disabilities. ments to be constructed on Park “We are the last class that had a
developing a job description for
ple that held positions that cheated, These changes are the product Row fully accessible, according to pretty negative experience getting
the assistant director of accommo-
basically, if we go by a strict inter- of the work of the Accessibility Orlando. accommodations. I don’t want we
pretation of the bylaws,” Weathers dations for students with disabili- Task Force, which was reconvened There are also plans for the as an institution to forget about
said. “There [are] people that ran ties and it hopes to hire somebody and renamed in the fall after the College to erect a ramp so that stu- that just because the ones that
this year that last year would havewith a background in disability Americans with Disabilities Act dents can fully participate in com- were affected by that aren’t here
been disqualified, had we held services to start by mid-August. (ADA) Committee had not met mencement, which takes place anymore,” they said. “I’m spending
people to the same standard. So I “Their position will be locat- for over two years. either on the steps of the Bowdoin a lot of energy right now on how
think part of the confusion is justed in the testing center and they The task force, comprised of College Museum of Art steps or on we can make this memory live on.”
will have a lot of responsibility for staff from departments across a raised stage in Watson Arena. Mitchell Jurasek contributed to
Please see BSG, page 3 getting that test center up and run- campus, faculty representatives This academic year is the first this report.

F ONE CHILD N SURVEY SAYS A GINGERSNAP S FINISH STRONG O FINAL ADVICE

Scout Gregerson ’18 addresses speaking See the results of the Orient’s biannual Meet the student band opening for Track and Field rides a good performance into Osa Fasehun ’18 offers words of wisdom to
for others in academia. Page 5. student survey. Page 7. D.R.A.M. on Saturday. Page 8. NESCAC championships this weekend. Page 9. students before graduation. Page 11.
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SECURITY REPORT
4/20-4/26
Friday, April 20
• Two students were smoking marijuana inside Win-
throp Hall.
• A concerned student requested a wellness check for
a student.
Saturday, April 21
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of a student who
had been drinking and became ill at Thorne Hall.
• A student called security when he became disoriented
while walking in a town neighborhood. A security officer
located the lost student and brought him back to campus.
• A minor student was found to be in possession of two
fraudulent identification cards.
• Local residents of Pine, Bowker, and Chamberlain
streets complained of team busses, associated with a track
meet at Whittier Field, parking on the
street or using neighborhood streets
as throughways. The matter was
addressed with the bus drivers,
and the director of athletics
was informed of the issue.
• A men’s lacrosse athlete
who sustained a broken jaw
in a game was transported to
Maine Medical Center.
• Four alumni were found in
possession of two kegs of beer at a lacrosse game at Ryan
Field.
• An unregistered event was dispersed at Harpswell
Apartments.
• A student was found unconscious in the Moulton
Union women’s room. Brunswick Rescue evaluated the
student and did not transport her.
• A wellness check was conducted for an intoxicated
student who fell and bumped his head.
• A male student was seen openly urinating and expos-
ing himself as he was walking on the sidewalk on Harp-
STUDENT SPEAK:
appeared distraught.
• Brunswick police cited a minor student walking on
What is your favorite Ivies memory?
Garrison Street for possession of alcohol and littering.
• A student reported his bicycle stolen. A security offi-
cer recovered the bike at Brunswick Apartments.
Lisette Watters ’20
• A student who was longboarding on Harpswell Road
reported that an odd acting man lunged toward him. The "The welcome champagne brunch
at Ladd before Laddio."
student was not harmed.
Monday, April 23
• A student riding around on his loud moped near Coles
Tower at 1:00 a.m. disturbed students who were trying to
sleep. The moped rider was told to shut it down and be
more considerate. Louisa Izydorczak ’20
• A ceiling tile was vandalized in the first floor rest
room at Helmreich House.
• A vehicle and a bicycle collided at the
"I came up with a good pun. There
intersection of Maine Street and Columbia
Avenue. The student who was riding the
was a blow-up whale at Smallpools
bike was transported to Mid Coast
Hospital for a broken clavicle and
and people tried to get lifted up on
other injuries. The student was wear-
ing a helmet.
it but it didn’t go whale."
• An officer aided a student at
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Reed House who was having an aller-
gic reaction. Yuejay Reeves ’19
"Hmmm."
• A student was taken to Mid Coast Hos-
pital with flu-like symptoms.
Tuesday, April 24
• A pair of KRK headphones was reported stolen from
the media commons at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.
• A student’s unlocked bike was stolen from the bike
racks at Coleman Hall. The bike is a light purple Raleigh
cruiser.
• A student took a spill while riding a bike on Park Row
Giselle Hernandez ’19
"Fried Oreos. Can we have those
near Admissions. An officer treated a leg injury and then
escorted the student to Mid Coast Hospital.

again?"
swell Road near Bowker Street in broad daylight. Security
cited the student for indecent conduct. Wednesday, April 25
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated • A power outlet in a student’s room at Coles Tower
student near Harpswell Apartments. was sparking and smoking. The fire department and elec-
• A 22-year-old Topsham man lost control of his ve- trical shop responded.
hicle at high speed on Harpswell Road at the corner of • Students cooking in the MacMillan House kitchen
College Street and crashed through the construction fence activated a smoke alarm. Cesar Siguencia ’18
at the Roux Center for the Environment at 11:40 p.m. The • The Brunswick police arrested a suspect who violated

"I brought my shopping cart and

vehicle continued through the construction site, knocked a student’s court issued protective order.
down a power pole, damaged a lift, and finally came to rest • A smoke alarm at Maine Hall was caused by burnt

someone gave me a ride at Quad

on its side at the far end of the lot. The building was not microwave popcorn.
damaged. The driver received relatively minor injuries and
Brunswick Rescue transported him to Mid Coast Hospital. Thursday, April 26
The driver was charged with operating under the influence
and operating after license suspension.
• Loud noise was reported to be coming from Ladd
House. An officer dispersed an unregistered event in the
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Your Ivies horoscope (April 23-29, 2018)

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Libra (September 23 - October 22) Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)
by Samuel Rosario
Orient Staff Rational thinking will not be with you this The people all around you will try to tip your It is not the time to be choosy. You can’t have
week. But enjoy the blissful ignorance. Let scales. AJR might be worse than D.R.A.M. But it all. Make sure to head into the weekend with
go of thoughts of the fast-approaching finals don’t let it stop you from making things right your priorities set and don’t lose them. Your
Aries (March 21 - April 19) week. Don’t be afraid to try new things even if and just. Have transport services on speed demands will be met if you set them up cor-
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for all you see all three of your besties shaking their dial. You are ready to save lives this week. rectly. Everything is in your grasp, even that
year. Listen to the beast inside you, gnawing heads. They don’t know that true happiness cutie on the soccer team.
to get out. Become the dance floor animal you comes in the ill-advised moment. Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)
were destined to be. Jump on stage and show You will not let anyone kill your vibe this Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)
D.R.A.M. you got the broccoli. Leo (July 23 - August 22) week. You are a strong, independent polar Hopefully you polished your throne this week
You spent weeks perfecting your Super-Me- bear and you know it. You will dab on these because you will be pulling it out at every
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) ga-Detailed 2018 Ivies plan. Everything is cal- haters and flaunt that outfit your friends told opportunity. Be sure to do face exercises so
Love energy is in the air this week. It will seep culated to the ounce. No more and no less. Just you was a mistake. You will attract everyone’s your stank look can be on point. Remember
into your heart as the IPA seeps into your liver. sit back and watch all the pieces and plastered attention everywhere you go. Just remember to keep repeating the phrase: “These foolish
The AJR boys are looking like delicious Bow- friends fall right into place. Trust in your plan- they are laughing at how awesome you are and mortals are so ignorant to the true fun in life”
doin logs. Do not stray away from your desti- ning skills and let it lead you to your rightful they won’t forget it. as you finish up that problem set you teacher
ny. Do not let your future hubbies escape your place: the front of the pack. assigned the day prior.
net of love. Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)
Virgo (August 23 - September 22) Beware of the car that carries your entire fam- Pisces (February 19 - March 20)
Gemini (May 21 - June 20) We are finally at the last segment of the “Bow- ily and little baby Susie for a surprise visit. You will channel the spirits of Ivies past. Let
Your friends will gift you with many treats doin destroys my life” marathon. You have kept They have decided to bring the whole fami- them guide you to the land of the porta-pot-
this week. Be sure to smell them first and have a careful pace throughout, keeping your head ly along to tell you that Susie spoke her first ties. There you will discover what you have
your roommates taste them first. Always sec- low (do not recommend for actual runners). words. Don’t let little Susie start to repeat how been looking for all week. Or something like
ond guess yourself–that might be a returning You see the finish line in the distance and your many firsts you experienced the night before. that.
intuition at the door. Also, make sure to hold heart is starting to pump a beat faster. You are Also, it’s not recommended to play peek-a-boo
up the lines at the food trucks, you want to be almost there. Just be sure to jump over the while hungover, you might just disappear.
able to savor everything on the menu. empty kegs and thrown out textbooks.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Professors propose urban studies minor
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
A group of professors has sub-
mitted a proposal for a new urban
studies minor as result of growing
interest in the topic amongst stu-
dents and faculty. Though this is
not the first time an urban studies
minor or major has been pro-
posed, faculty believe that there
are now enough courses, drawing
from various departments and
areas of study, to sustain a minor.
“Faculty are [thinking] cre-
atively about how to connect dif-
ferent areas of the curriculum, but
are also responding to larger in-
terests in society at large,” said Jim
Higginbotham, associate dean
for academic affairs and chair of
the Curriculum Implementation
Committee (CIC).
In the last decade, nine stu-
dents have declared a self-de-
signed major related to urban
studies.
Previous discussions about
creating a formal area of study fo-
cusing on urban studies occurred
in 2004, but there were not enough
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from years and years of the process
not being checked.”
Students and many candidates
were present at comment time and
expressed continued frustration
over BSG’s response to the situa-
tion and questioned how a new
election held two days later fea-
turing the same candidates could
right the wrongs committed.
In a statement to the Orient,
Kazlyna said that she felt that she
course offerings to create one at
that time. With a growing num-
ber of courses that address the
topic, and demonstrated interest
from students and faculty, the
time seems appropriate, said Jill
Pearlman, senior lecturer in envi-
ronmental studies. Pearlman has
overseen 12 self-designed majors
involving urban studies since 2004,
and she spearheaded the effort to
produce the proposal, along with
Associate Professor of History and
Asian Studies Rachel Sturman.
“For various reasons it didn’t
go through [before], mostly be-
cause we didn’t have enough bod-
ies on the faculty to make it work.
Now we do,” said Pearlman. “We
[now] have 26 classes. It is becom-
ing a field that other universities
and colleges have departments
and majors and minors in. We
have enough people and there is
great enthusiasm for it.”
The group believes a minor is
most practical because there are
currently only enough courses of-
fered to sustain a minor, but not a
major. If interest in the field holds,
the minor will be a logical step to
and Traore had been targeted by
BSG throughout the election pro-
cess for the use of campaigning
methods that had been explicitly
approved by Alam.
“When we were tabling, a BSG
executive member came to our table
and attempted to rudely rip off our
poster without speaking one word
to us. Before he/she could yank it
off, I spoke up and told him/her to
‘respect me as a human being and
talk to me.’ I repeatedly informed
him/her that I had permission to
table as granted by Irfan Alam and
NEWS
an urban studies coordinate ma-
jor or stand-alone major.
“If there is growing interest
around a minor, you could imag-
ine where contributing depart-
ments might think, ‘Oh it’s in our
best interest to offer these courses
on a recurring basis.’ That begins
to create the underpinnings of
what could be a major,” said Hig-
ginbotham.
Among NESCAC schools,
Trinity is the only one to offer a
major in urban studies. Pearlman
cited programs at Dartmouth,
Vassar and Bryn Mawr as models
for Bowdoin’s proposed minor.
The current urban studies
proposal outlines a minor that
includes five mandatory courses
and elective courses from a vari-
ety of disciplines, but the specifics
of the minor have not been con-
firmed.
The group is hopeful that the
minor will be available for fall of
2018, but the proposal must be
approved by the CIC, the Cur-
riculum and Educational Policy
Committee (CEP) and the faculty
as a whole. The proposal has gone
the BSG bylaws. I was shocked by
his/her behavior,” she said.
The pair was called to sit in front
of the Election Commission on
Sunday evening regarding potential
violations—they were the only can-
didates to be questioned. Kazlyna
was disheartened by the hearing.
“In my opinion, there was ab-
solutely no point in the hearing.
Rather, I feel that it was an attempt
by certain members of the BSG
executive team to disqualify us,”
she said. “I felt that we had been
specifically targeted and previous
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through the first round of com-
mittees, where questions such as
the necessity or desire for an in-
troductory course arose.
Part of the interest to faculty
and students is the interdisciplin-
ary nature of the proposal.
“It’s a great thing for faculty
to come together who are from
totally different departments and
be thinking and discussing the
same thing,” said Pearlman. “It
also does the same for students
studying in all departments or
fields who normally wouldn’t
come together—[they] will come
together around these issues.”
Sturman was impressed by
the wide range of departments
and professors who will be repre-
sented in the area of study, if it is
approved.
“We have professors from
Asian studies and Africana stud-
ies, Latin America studies, history,
different literatures,” she said. “We
have a lot of different sociology,
government [courses]. Seeing the
number of different fields which
students will be able to approach,
study is really cool.”
candidates who are also in this cur-
rent election and had performed
the same emailing practices as us
were not.”
“I urged the Election Commis-
sion to take into account the inap-
propriate behavior of the executive
team towards Fanta and me and
consider the possibility of the final
election results being jeopardized
by the very people who handled
them,” she said. “I encourage the
student body to fight for complete
transparency from the BSG and
question what they see.”
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departments that allow them to
over-represent clinical psychol-
ogists in their faculty and thus
respond to the large demand for
clinical psychology courses.
“If you think about people who
are going on into careers, a fairly
small portion of them go into ac-
ademia and some of them go into
research, whereas a pretty healthy
slice of them go into counseling
psychology or clinical psychology,”
Putnam said.
Reese is currently the only
clinical psychologist occupying
a permanent faculty position at
Bowdoin. Putnam noted that that
there will be a semester overlap
between Reese and Parker-Guil-
bert next spring, so that the de-
partment can offer two sections of
Abnormal Psychology, which may
act as a temporary “relief valve,”
but he does not feel that it consti-
tutes a permanent solution to the
high demand for courses taught by
clinical psychologists.
James Higginbotham, associate
dean for academic affairs, drew
attention to the difference in com-
position between the group of 35
students who got into Abnormal
Psychology and the group of 27
students who did not. Polaris gave
the highest priority to junior and
senior psychology majors, all of
whom got into the class.
“Since you can’t accommodate
everyone all the time, you can’t
just make the classes bigger and
bigger. You try to make sure that
those people who get into the
class are the ones who actually
need it,” Higginbotham said. “So
departments and the Registrar’s
Office work to make sure the
courses have logical preferenc-
es…that help [those who need it]
to get into the class.”
3
In an email to the Orient, Hig-
ginbotham disclosed that there
were 17 sophomores who did not
get into the course and may be
intending to major in psychology.
He explained that those students
will have the highest priority
among the students in their year,
should they try to register for the
course again in the future.
Higginbotham added that
many departments would like
to add staffing, and that funding
limitations present a restriction.
Departments can make requests
for additional staff members
by writing a proposal to be re-
viewed by the Curriculum and
Educational Policy Committee
(CEP), composed of staff, faculty
and students. The CEP reviews
proposals in conjunction with
data about course registration,
considering each request in an
institutional context that balanc-
es college-wide priorities before
making a recommendation to
the President about a position.
Higginbotham does acknowl-
edge that the data available does
not account for cases in which
students see a plethora of requests
for certain classes and choose not
to attempt to register.
Lauren McLaughlin ’19, a psy-
chology major, said she never tried
to take the class.
She noted that that many stu-
dents who are not majoring in
psychology try to take the class,
given that the only prerequisite is
the popular Psychology 1101.
“Not only do you have psych
majors trying to take it but also
people who have just taken psych
1101 and think it’s an interesting
class,” McLaughlin said. “So I
think this happens every year. I
never tried to take abnormal… I
always knew that it was going to
be hard to get into just for that
reason.”
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4 Friday, April 27, 2018
Erin Johnson fuses art, tech and activism
by Mollie Eisner
Orient Staff
I met Visiting Assistant Pro-
fessor of Art Erin Johnson in her
studio in the Edwards Center
for Art and Dance. Midday sun
streamed in through room’s the
large windows, generously light-
ing the space. There was very little
furniture in the room, giving it an
airy quality. We sat at Johnson’s
work table.
Johnson is in her third year at
the College and has, in her short
time here, already made an im-
pact.
Alongside two other profes-
sors, Johnson was awarded the
2018 Donald Harward Faculty
Award for Service-Learning Ex-
cellence. The honor was awarded
by Maine Campus Compact, a
group whose mission is to connect
higher education to service and
annually awards Maine educators
who integrate community service
into their curricula.
“I felt very honored to be nom-
inated and to represent Bowdoin,”
Johnson said. “I’m excited to con-
tinue to develop classes that move
the learning inside the classroom
outside to the larger community
and the kinds of challenges that
provides.”
Johnson’s work and interests
are the very definition of interdis-
ciplinary. While an undergraduate
at Warren Wilson College, she de-
signed her own major called Art
and Community Organizing.
“My work is focused around
building projects over time with
communities. There is a natural
progression between seemingly
disparate parts coming together
in my activist practice and my art
practice,” Johnson said.
Her undergraduate practice
Museum steps to maple branches: seasons on the quad
Space, Place,
and Sucking
Face
by Jonah Watt
“The quad is really the heart
of campus,” I used to tell uncon-
vinced tour groups, faking a smile
as we walked along snow banks
piled four feet high through the
winter. “It’s really beautiful during
the first and last weeks of the
year!” I promise them. And it is.
Once the permafrost thaws and
the giant puddles of water dry up,
the quad truly is a beautiful place.
I fell in love with the Bowdoin
quad when I first visited on an
August afternoon. One year later,
I listened to President Barry Mills
welcome our class with promises
of endless Bowdoin Hellos and
the best four years of our lives.
During orientation, I reveled in
the late summer sun, enjoyed ba-
gels in front of Hubbard Hall and
waited in line for twenty minutes
for gelato on the museum steps.
In my first few weeks, I sat with
my geology textbook and floor-
mates and soaked up the last rays
of summer sun, watching with
wistfulness (or early onset sea-
DIGITAL DESIGN: Assistant Professor of Art Erin Johnson was awarded the 2018 Donald Harward Faculty
Award for Service-Learning Excellence. She currently teaches the Art, Technology and Design for Social Change.
focused primarily around print-
making and book arts, though she
began to incorporate video and
sound into her work as a graduate
school at the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley.
“[Book arts] has a natural
translation to video art because
book arts and video art are both
time-based experiences,” she said.
Johnson brings her interdisci-
plinary interests into the courses
she teaches at Bowdoin, many
of which are cross-listed with
the Digital and Computational
Studies (DCS) department. This
semester, the course titled Art,
sonal depression) as a maple next
to Hyde turned a premature fiery
orange.
As classes and extracurricu-
lars and work and the chaos of
Bowdoin life pick up, the leaves
begin to change. If you blink (or
never leave H-L), you may miss it.
By Family Weekend, the quad is
ablaze in a palette of oranges and
reds and yellows. I wonder if the
College plans this. Early morning
light dapples the quad in kaleido-
scopic patches, and it is still warm
enough for the intrepid quad-go-
ers to sit under the falling leaves.
We immortalize this landscape on
Instagram and the next day the
trees are bare.
When we leave for Thanksgiv-
ing in late November, the quad is
ominous and uninviting. Skeletal
trees and brisk November winds
whisk us off campus and make
us grateful that we only have one
month left.
We return from Winter Break
to an impenetrable wasteland.
The quad is no longer our friend;
the bitter cold lashes out at us as
we try to dash across campus in
our five-minute passing time.
Sure, the ice rink can be fun when
it’s actually frozen, but I never
made the time to pull out my yard
Technology, and Design for Social
Change combines several fields of
study, and in the process asks stu-
dents to explore answers to a series
of questions.
“How do digital media and
technology affect the way we re-
late to each other and the larger
community?” Johnson prompted.
“How can we harness and utilize
different skill sets, whether they’re
visual or programming or cod-
ing-based to do work that moves
us toward the greater good?”
Through the McKeen Center
for the Common Good, Johnson
has connected the course with two
sale ice skates from the back of my
closet.
But sometime in March, the
snow begins to melt and I can
walk directly from the Searles to
Moulton without making ninety
degree angles. I am reminded of
what the Earth looks like and that
there are paved paths that neatly
bisect the quad.
By late April the quad becomes
the Outing Club’s playground as
Chaco-clad students string up
hammocks and slacklines and
scamper up trees and practice
acroyoga. The College wets itself
at this sight, especially if it coin-
cides with Admitted Students’
weekend. Frisbee boys take over
the quad, impervious to the
space they take up,
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
organizations: Avesta Housing and
Catholic Charities Refugee and
Immigration Services. Johnson
sat down with both organizations
to create a list of challenges and
concern voiced by the non-profits.
“The challenges included, ‘we
want the general public to be more
engaged with the issue of afford-
able housing,’ or, ‘we want people
who are experiencing homeless-
ness or are waiting for affordable
housing on a list to have access to
be able to speak with their legisla-
tors about issues they’re confront-
ed with,’” Johnson said.
Art, Technology, and Design
and I duck my head to avoid
decapitation. “It’s only fifty de-
grees,” I am tempted to tell the
underclassmen playing spikeball
in their pastel pink shorts. I hold
my tongue, though, and let them
have their fun as I pull out my
sunglasses and laptop.
As the seasons change, the
quad’s function change, too. It goes
from being a thoroughfare to a
destination, from icy paths to invit-
ing patches of grass and shade. The
quad becomes a watering hole, as
one friend put it. We no
longer hurry through
windswept trees on
our way home, but
instead stop to chat
for Social Change prioritizes the
concerns of its partnering organi-
zations over technology.
“We start with the question,
the challenge,” Johnson said. “We
figured out which tools are best
suited to dealing with that chal-
lenge, instead of starting with the
technology and [trying] to push it
into something.”
At the beginning of the semes-
ter, Johnson presented the chal-
lenges of the two organizations
to her students, who then picked
challenges of interest and worked
in small groups to create different
prototypes, responding to feed-
back from partnering organiza-
tions throughout the process.
“Some students are creating
websites; some students are cre-
ating data visualizations that are
projected in windows for the
public to see; some students are
creating videos that are embedded
in physical objects that tell stories
about people who have secured
affordable housing,” Johnson said.
Johnson explained that this
class is different than others that
she has taught because of the sus-
tained relationship between the
students and the organizations.
She listed many other ways that
the class is designed to benefit
students: from learning about the
state of Maine to how to work well
in a group.
“By giving students open-end-
ed challenges where they find
their own path, that introduces a
lot of moments of precarity, con-
tingency and potentially anxiety,”
Johnson said.
Despite—or maybe because
of— that open-endedness John-
son says that her students’ work
this semester has thrilled her.
“They have come up with
astounding, elegant, innovative,
with friends or appreciate budding
trees, though we know that their
leaves will just barely be emerging
by the time we leave in May.
In a month’s time, hammocks
and laptops and spikeball nets
will be replaced by rows of plastic
chairs and expectant families and
hungover students, subsumed by
the pomp and circumstance of
graduation. We’ll cross the stage
and exchange stiff handshakes and
hug our friends and say goodbye.
We’ll leave behind
the lush green
JENNY IBSEN
interesting projects that I, as
the instructor, could never have
dreamed of. They’ve been led
through the process, but the pro-
cess is theirs.”
Johnson formerly worked as
an organizer at Service Employees
International Union (SEIU), and
finds that community organizing
skills are useful in her work as an
artist.
“The skills that are useful in
both realms can be employed in
a single art practice. The visual
thinking processes that you use in
art-making can be employed in a
community organizing context,”
she said.
Her exhibition in the Portland
Museum of Art Biennial displays
her argument perfectly. The piece,
entitled “The way things can hap-
pen,” depicts some of the 5,000
residents of Lawrence, Kansas
who were cast as extras in the 1983
film “The Day After.” Johnson was
interested in investigating the way
the film blurred the distinction
between the fictional narrative
of the film and the actual lives of
Lawrence’s citizens. To complete
the project, Johnson had to utilize
her community organizing skills.
“I’m knocking on strangers’
doors, saying, ‘Hi, were you in this
film? Can we meet? Can we talk?’
[I was] building a community
of people to make this video art
project that lives in a museum or
gallery,” she said.
Johnson invites members of
the Bowdoin community to join
her and the students enrolled in
Art, Technology, and Design for
Social Change for a community
‘report-back’ in which students
will summarize their projects. The
event will be held on Tuesday, May
8 from 4-5 p.m. in the Shannon
Room in Hubbard Hall.
grass and summer shade, and
the quad will prepare for its next
round of Bowdoin Hellos and a
new generation of slackliners and
Frisbee throwers and classmates
who will learn to dread the winter
chill and embrace the spring thaw.
They will come to appreciate the
solitude of a late night cry on the
museum steps, the rush of wind
and adrenaline of streaking the
quad on a late summer night, a
crescent moon rising between the
chapel towers on a midnight walk
home from the library and the glo-
rious warmth of the first true day
of spring.
Friday, April 27, 2018
AMERICANS LEARNING
ITALIAN
“Perché gli americani vo-
gliono imparare l’italiano?”
(“Why do Americans want to
learn Italian?”) This was the
question my friends asked
when I told them that I was
going to go from working on
my Master’s in Italy to teach-
ing Italian conversation at
Bowdoin.
My reply was aloof,
well-hidden behind an ex-
ploratory and reassuring
tone: “Hopefully I will able
to tell you the reason when I
am back.” At that time, I told
myself that I could say “pizza”
with a faint American accent.
That could always be my an-
swer when I returned home
if I did not find a better re-
sponse overseas. I also imag-
ined that Americans would
be interested in studying
Italian politics, perhaps, to
handle their Berlusconi-style
president’s policies and lov-
ers. Back in August, I did not
know that I could simply say
that they wanted to under-
stand all the dialogue in the
Oscar-winning film “Call Me
by Your Name.”
I am still thinking about
using these answers when
I return to Italy, since they
ON CHINA’S ONE-CHILD
POLICY: REFLECTIONS OF
AN ADOPTEE
Two years ago during my
sophomore fall, I stumbled
across an opinion article by
Professor of Philosophy Sarah
Conly in the Boston Globe.
Professor Conly was writing
on the heels of China’s deci-
sion to end its decades-old
one-child policy and allow
two children per family. Her
argument asserted that China
was making a grave mistake in
relaxing this policy. She wrote
not only that China should
reinstate the one-child policy,
but that the rest of the world
might benefit from adopting
this strategy as an effective
method of controlling the
global population. Professor
Conly has also written and
published a book on the sub-
ject.
I am not writing to debate
population ethics or to hash
out the philosophy of natalist
policy. Instead, I’m writing to
speak about my experience
reading Professor Conly’s
piece, why it has taken me
years to respond and why it
means so much to me.
Sometime in October of
1995, I was left by my birth
family in a bustling train sta-
tion in Hangzhou, China. I
was adopted in March of the
following year by a white,
single, American woman. I
have always connected the
circumstances of my sepa-
ration from my birth family
to the one-child policy. Why
else would a family abandon
its child, leaving her with
nothing except a tender note
that included her birth date
and a wish for good luck? In
still sound valid to me. But if
someone wants a more sat-
isfying response, I want to
be ready. So here I am, less
than one year later, trying to
fit some of the stories I have
encountered here at Bowdoin
into the scrapbook I will bring
back home.
My ideal response is
multi-faceted. It has the fac-
es of the students who let me
peep into the consciousness
that brought them to the Ital-
ian language and culture. I
a way, it is easy to imagine
that a policy—some faceless,
inanimate force—was respon-
sible for the separation, rather
than something wrong with
my birth family, or worse yet,
something wrong with me.
Some twenty years later
I found myself in Bruns-
wick, surfing the internet
one quiet evening. I en-
countered Professor Conly’s
Globe article, “Here’s why
China’s one child policy was
a good thing.” While I was
confused by the piece, I was
even more confused by my
intense and contradictory re-
actions. My mind felt at war
with my body. A little voice
in my head, the model Bow-
doin-trained critical thinker,
piped up: Rationally engage
with the argument. But my
body was tensing up. Read
it for comprehension. Why
couldn’t I breathe? Assess its
strengths and weaknesses. My
body seemed to be shaking,
near revolt. Respond.
In the minutes after fin-
ishing the article, I tried to
laugh it off, grasping onto
anger and cynicism, those
universal emotions that cover
up pain so effectively. I in-
stinctively grabbed my phone
and without thinking hit the
top contact. “Hi honey, how
are you doing?,” my adoptive
mom answered. A jumble of
words fell from my mouth as
I tried to explain what was
happening, and suddenly I
was in tears, incomprehensi-
ble even to myself. My mom
sat with me on the end of the
line through the eruption of
sadness, anger, powerlessness
and rage that poured from
me. I had no idea I what emo-
tions I was excavating in the
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Talk of the Quad
imagined that some American
students wanted to trace back
their roots through the acqui-
sition of the language. Yet I
did not expect that for them,
learning Italian meant even-
tually discovering that their
grandma was unable to speak
it anymore. Indeed, grandma
was told to forget the language
as her heavy accent affected
her English pronunciation
and limited her opportunity
to find a good job. It is at this
point of the story that I take
moment.
But I have a better
understanding now.
My reaction to Profes-
sor Conly’s article was
a visceral response to
her speaking about
me and for me. It
was a stirring of
the ghost memory
of structural vio-
lence that links
my history to
millions of oth-
er women and
girls affected
by this poli-
cy. Professor
Conly notes
that the
one-child
policy is not
responsible
for the sex-
ism, the forced sterilizations
and abortions, the dispropor-
tionate rates of female child
abandonment and infanticide
and the subsequent gender
imbalance in China seen in
the years after the policy was
instated. Yet it was this policy
through which cultural sex-
ism was exacerbated and en-
acted. It was this policy that
codified the proper family
and placed limitations and
restrictions on the bodies
and souls of women. It was
this policy that forced the
separation of daughters from
their mothers, producing un-
thinkable consequences for
so many women and their
families.
Professor Conly’s article
stresses the moral obligation
to protect future unborn gen-
erations from the devastation
of overpopulation through
policy made in the image of
the one-child policy. While I
EMMA BEZILLA
a deep breath, trying to sense
what the act of learning a lan-
guage—a language new to the
student, but at the same time,
old and forgotten to their fam-
ily—implies.
As a student of languages, I
know the new skin one can put
on when speaking a language
different from one’s mother
tongue. I even make fun of the
fact that most speakers—and I
am one of them—change their
voices when shifting from one
linguistic identity to another.
agree with the
intention of this argument, I
cannot overlook the ways in
which it excuses the suffering
of current generations at the
hands of such a policy. In this
thought experiment, there
is no room to consider the
ways in which I’ve struggled
to make sense of my identities
and experiences as an orphan
and as an adopted person or
the experiences of countless
others in my position. My ex-
periences and those of people
That’s why I was surprised that
it was only after that a student
said, “L’italiano è una lingua
perfetta per descrivere mo-
menti come questi” (“Italian is
a perfect language to describe
moments like this one”), after
having listened to an Italian
recording of the description of
a cloudy sky, that I understood
how this principle applied to
those learning my home lan-
guage, too. This student’s wide
open eyes were trying to catch
all the imaginative power and
the descriptive strength con-
cealed in the Italian language
while listening to the voice in
the earphones. Can you imag-
ine the smile on my face when
the same student told me that
they started reading “Città
invisibili” by Italo Calvino in
Italian, despite not taking an
Italian course this semester?
I am quite positive that, after
having read the entire book,
they will go back to Italian
classes.
Language is a plane. It is
a plane that brings you to a
more neutral sphere where
you can claim to belong to a
different culture that has dif-
ferent values. It gives you the
tools to bind together pages
with refreshing new words.
It helps you shape an image
that will contain what your
like me become inconsequen-
tial, just a small factor in a
scheme for the greater good.
I’m sharing this experience
with the hope of generating
more sensitivity, thought
and reflection within our ac-
ademic discourse. We hold
immense narrative power as
an intellectual community.
With that power must come
awareness of whose stories
we are telling, for whom we
speak and the consequences
5
parents taught you, but also
incorporates what they taught
you not to.
This is not just my story.
This is the story of brave legs
and brains that move forward,
sometimes painfully and con-
fusingly. They keep moving at
the rhythm of a new intonation
on their tongue. (Something
that, according to the German
ears, sounds like: Babedib-
ubedi.) They keep learning it
because, as they have told me,
they are sure that their families
will eventually comprehend:
Indeed, choosing Italy as the
background of their smiling
faces—for a semester, a year
or even longer—will eventu-
ally prove to be a better idea
that stepping into the picture
in which their parents might
have imagined them.
Italian is also the smile that
appears on the face of the stu-
dent sitting at the next table in
the dining hall as I pronounce
a sentence in Italian—maybe
in too ebullient of an Italian
voice—in which they might
have found a familiar word. I
don’t know which word it was
that popped into their ears,
but I can see that it brought
them to a reality that can only
be described in Italian.
Arianna Apicella is the Ital-
ian Teaching Fellow.
CAROLINE CARTER
of our words.
We must take
into consideration
the lived experiences
of the real people we
write about and invite
those people into the
conversation. And I hope
that those whose stories are
not represented may find the
support and security to find
their voice.
It has taken me over two
years of thinking since first
reading Professor Con-
ly’s article and more than
two months to write this
short piece in response. I’ve
struggled to make sense of
the vast stake I hold in this
discussion alongside my un-
certainty and fear of how I
might be received. Yet here I
finally am, and I am certain
that saying this is one of the
kindest things I can do for
myself.
Scout Gregerson is a mem-
ber of the Class of 2018.
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QUINCEAÑERA
The Latin American Student Organization
(LASO) held its third annual Quinceañera
on Saturday night. Based on the coming-of-
age ceremony for a fifteen-year-old Latina
or Latin American woman, the celebration
included a traditional corte de honor dance,
choreographed and performed by LASO
members. Miriam Fraga ’18 (below) was se-
lected as the quinceañera. “The quince sym-
bolizes that Latinos have a place at Bowdoin
and that Latino culture can be appreciated
and celebrated,” Fraga said.
By Ann Basu
Friday, April 27, 2018 NEWS 7

Bowdoin Orient Student Survey

SPRING 2018 RESULTS
Compiled by Hannah Donovan and Jessica Piper

GENERAL APPROVAL RATINGS Last week, the Orient sent
out a revised version of its
DINING SERVICES biannual approval ratings
survey, known as the Bow-
THE FACULTY doin Orient Student Survey,
which asks students about
SAFETY AND SECURITY
their habits and opinions in
THE LIBRARIES
relation to the College. The
survey was sent to all 1,816
BOWDOIN COLLEGE students and yielded 409 re-
sponses.
BRUNSWICK, MAINE As with last semester’s
survey, students were asked
PRESIDENT ROSE questions about demograph-
ics, academics and lifestyle.
HEALTH CENTER In previous years, the sur-
vey had included only de-
REGISTRAR
mographic questions and
approval ratings for various
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
campus institutions.
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT As with last semester’s
survey, “No Opinion” was the
OFFICE OF OFF-CAMPUS STUDY center option for students to
select. However, there was
RESIDENTIAL LIFE no default option, unlike last
semester when “No Opinion”
CAREER PLANNING CENTER was also the default. Students
did select “No Opinion” less
BSG PRESIDENT IRFAN ALAM
in this semester’s survey
compared to last semester’s.
YOUR CLASS COUNCIL
Disapproval of the Bruns-
COLLEGE HOUSE SYSTEM wick Police Department
(BPD) spiked dramatically
STUDENT ACTIVITIES FUNDING COMMITTEE this semester. 56 percent of
respondents disapproved
OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS or strongly disapproved of
BPD compared to eight per-
OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS cent last semester. The shift
in opinion comes after BPD
BOWDOIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
issued summons to several
students for violations rang-
ing from possession of liquor
by a minor to jaywalking
and shut down the Cold War
party in February. Last week,
Director of Safety and Secu-
rity Randy Nichols advised
students to exercise caution
and discretion during Ivies
weekend after BPD broke up
a party at Bowker Street the
weekend before last.
Disapproval of the Office
of Safety and Security in-
creased from four percent
last semester to seven per-
cent this semester, although
the percentage of students
who approved or strongly ap-
proved of Security remained
constant at 87 percent.
The survey asked students
about their political beliefs
in addition to certain de-
mographic characteristics.
Notably, students who iden-
tified themselves as varsity
athletes also identified as
more conservative-leaning
than other students.
Members of the Class of
2019 continued to disapprove
of their class council at a rate
higher than other class years.
Dining Service remained
the most popular institution
on campus, with 97 percent
of respondents’ approval.

COUNSELING SERVICES

DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS STRONGLY APPROVE

JUDICIAL BOARD APPROVE
ENTERTAINMENT BOARD
NO OPINION
DISAPPROVE
BRUNSWICK POLICE DEPARTMENT

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% STRONGLY DISAPPROVE

CLASS COUNCIL APPROVAL RATINGS VS. CLASS YEARS BPD APPROVAL RATINGS VS. CLASS YEARS

2018 2018

2019 2019

2020 2020

2021 2021

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

ARE YOU HAPPY?

VARSITY ATHLETES VS. POLITICAL BELIEFS RELATIVE TO BOWDOIN
STRONGLY LIBERAL
YES NO
84% 16%
LIBERAL
NON-ATHLETE
AVERAGE
DO YOU GIVE A DAMN?
ATHLETE CONSERVATIVE
YES NO
STRONGLY CONSERVATIVE
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
83% 17%
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Friday, April 27, 2018

A strong start:
Gingersnap to
open Ivies

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

by Nicole Tjin A Djie
Orient Staff
Although the student band
Gingersnap is relatively new
to the Bowdoin music scene,
it is already leaving its mark
on campus. Last week, the
group won first place for
its performance at Battle of
the Bands—only its second
performance together—and
earned the spot as the open-
ing act for D.R.A.M. in to-
morrow afternoon’s Ivies
concert.
Band members Isabel Udell
’19 (vocals), Zakir Bulmer ’19
(guitar and vocals), Jon Luke
Tittman ’19 (bass), Ellis Lai-
fer ’19 (piano and vocals) and
Milo Richards ’21 (drums)
will perform a mix of covers
and original music.
The band’s setlist for to-
morrow includes four original
songs by Bulmer, one of which
features lyrics by Udell.
“[Bulmer] has a beautiful
voice and could be singing
this stuff, but then he trusts
me to sing it and gives me
such a leash with it,” said
Udell. “I’m going to stretch
the melody, I’m going to play
with the phrasing, but he just
lets us go with it. He’s a great
teacher. He’s really flexible
with us kind of shaping his
music into what works for the
whole group.”
One original song, “Places
She Goes,” was a joint effort
between Udell and Bulmer
—Bulmer wrote the music,
Udell the lyrics. Along with
“Places,” the band’s Saturday
setlist will include “She Sleeps
in the Library” and “Sally
Jean,” also two originals.
Bulmer’s songs have a com-
mon romantic theme.
“They are all love songs.
Zakir doesn’t like it when I
call him a bleeding heart, but
he is,” Udell said.
Gingersnap’s members are
eager to take on the challenge
of performing at Ivies and
have been practicing almost
daily since Battle of the Bands
in preparation.
“It went from fine-tuning
three songs to having to cre-
ate a set that is like an hour’s
worth of songs,” said Udell.
Nevertheless, Udell is opti-
mistic about tomorrow’s per-
formance.
“I think we can bring great
energy and a smooth transi-
tion into D.R.A.M.,” she said.
Although a majority of the
five members have experience
in jazz, they don’t categorize
themselves as a jazz band, cit-
ing hip-hop, reggae and Latin
music as influences on their
sound.
“I think we can bring great energy and
a smooth transition into D.R.A.M.”
–Isabel Udell ’19
“We have all played in dif-
ferent groups and with peo-
ple in other bands too but
when you put different music
groups together, you bring to-
JAMS BEYOND JAZZ: (Clockwise from back left): Milo Richards ’21, Isabel
Udell ’19, Ellis Laifer ’19, Jon Luke Tittman ’19 and Zakir Bulmer ’19 comprise
the band Gingersnap, which will open for D.R.A.M. tomorrow afternoon.
gether different combinations excited about going to see
of music tastes—you make a shows,” said Tittman. “I think
sound that’s cool and that’s 20/20 raised the bar of what
worth listening to,” said Titt- student bands could do on
man. large stage performances, so
Members said they also I think we want to continue
draw inspiration from oth- their momentum.”
er campus bands, including As for the group’s unusual
World Peach, The Commis- name, members were unable
sion and 20/20, last year’s to reach a consensus on its
source.
“We really don’t know,” said
Richards.
“Isabel has red hair,” Laifer
suggested.
“That’s really not why,” said
Udell.
“I like the name—you can
Ivies opener. quote me on that,” said Laifer.
“The music scene at Bow- “Anything with ginger is great.”
doin, compared to our first Gingersnap will perform
year, is much more engaged, tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Farley
and a lot of people are more Field House.

On PolarFlix: Make your Ivies like “Project X”

police helicopters, drugs rain- Greatest One-Liner: guests. The cool part about Ivies have no idea what that would’ve Watch/Don’t Watch:
by Calder McHugh ing from a garden gnome and “I’m going to go have a long is that you see most everyone been like (mostly kidding every- If I’m being honest, I think
Orient Staff
much of the neighborhood on cry and then start calling some you know on the Brunswick one!). Other than that, it’s meant this is a pretty stupid mov-
Welcome to the fourth week fire. In other words, things get lawyers.” Costa says this after Quad at some point. I have to attract any and all people who ie. But, like almost every-
of On PolarFlix, a column a little out of hand. the revelry is over and the trou- some personal trouble relating like the idea of partying and/or thing else, it feels a lot more
meant to do exactly what it ble the kids are in slowly begins to the movie in that all three of watching others party. charming during Ivies week.
sounds like: review films on Best Mood for Watching: to be clear. A word of advice: the main characters are kind of
Bowdoin Student Govern- The film has a really fun do your best to make sure that losers at their high school, and I
ment’s movie streaming ser- soundtrack, which lends itself this isn’t what your Ivies Sun-
vice, PolarFlix. Given that (if to easy watching. The tagline day looks like, unless of course
you haven’t heard) it’s Ivies on the poster is “The party you are a member of the about
week, we’re reviewing a true you’ve only dreamed about,” 30 percent of Bowdoin students
party film: “Project X” (2012). so it’s helpful to be dreaming with lawyers for parents and
about or more broadly inter- you’re just calling to have your
Plot Summary (since the ested in a party while watch- regular Sunday chat.
movie has a tenuous plot, ing. On the one hand, this
either no spoilers or all makes it the perfect film for Intended Bowdoin Au-
spoilers depending on your Ivies week. On the other, it’s dience:
personal definition of the maybe too crazy? To the po- The cool part about
word): tential disappointment of ea- the party in “Project
When Thomas’s (Thomas ger first years reading this, I X” is that it has
Mann) parents go out of town have to admit that Ivies does a real eclec-
for his birthday weekend (yes, not generally include peo- tic mix of
you’ve heard this type of story ple jumping off roofs onto
before), he and his two idiot bouncy castles or yelling, en
friends Costa (Oliver Coo- masse, “Cops go home!” as
per) and J.B. (Jonathan Daniel the police attempt to shut
Brown) decide to throw a par- down an event. (I will ad-
ty at Thomas’s house. A night mit with an increased BPD
that begins in a fairly innoc- presence around campus
uous manner ends with thou- in recent months, the latter
sands of people in Thomas’s does seem more possible
backyard, a car in the pool, this year.) KODIE GARZA
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SPORTS
Friday, April 27, 2018
RUNNING AWAY WITH THE WIN: Sarah Kinney ’19 won the 3000M steeplechase at the Aloha Relays last weekend. The women’s team won the meet by almost 100 points, beating second-place
Track hopes to carry success to NESCACs
Bates 214-120. The men’s team also had success last weekend, winning the Maine State Championship for the second year in a row. The teams are looking to carry this success to the NESCACs.
by Kodie Garza
Orient Staff
Both the men’s and women’s
track teams dominated their meets
last weekend, with the men team
winning its second straight State
Championship and the women
winning the 30th annual Aloha
Relays by almost 100 points over
second-place Bates.
“This weekend is the full
team highlight of the outdoor
track season. Our rivalries with
Bates, Colby and Southern
Maine track teams have a lot of
energy and prestige for Maine
college track. It was a fantastic
weekend to win both meets,”
wrote Head Coach Peter Slov-
enski in an email to the Orient.
Winning the Aloha Relays was
a particularly meaningful victory
for the women’s team this year as
Baseball looks to rebound from Middlebury, beat the Mules
by Harry Jung
Orient Staff
After losing a non-conference
series against Middlebury this
weekend, the baseball team (11-
16, NESCAC 4-5) seeks to win
its final three conference games
against Colby (5-18, NESCAC
1-8) this weekend.
The Polar Bears currently
stand in fourth place out of five
teams in the NESCAC East divi-
sion and are tied for sixth overall
in the NESCAC. Winning at least
two games against Colby, ranked
last in NESCAC, will push Bow-
doin’s conference record to the
0.500 mark, meaning that the
team will have won half of its
games.
Captain Sawyer Billings ’18 is
hopeful that the team can sweep
the series.
“[Colby] definitely had their
down year, and it would be a
statement to win three and ba-
sically say, ‘Sure, [the season]
didn’t go the way we wanted—
but it ended on a high note,’” said
Billings.
This season, the Polar Bears
have failed to sweep any teams.
The baseball team has a negative
thirteen run differential, mean-
ing it has conceded thirteen
more runs than it has scored
throughout all its conference
it celebrated senior day for team
captain Sarah Kelley ’18. Kelley
was named NESCAC women’s
track performer of the week after
winning the 800M with a time of
2:14.63 and the 1500M with a time
of 4:37.62. She currently holds the
top NESCAC time in the 1500M.
“We host the meet, so we set
the tone for what we expect in the
coming up years,” said captain Sara
Ory ’19. “We’ve won the Aloha
Relays for the past several years,
so it is really exciting to keep that
tradition going.”
Although the team has won this
meet for the past several years, this
year’s margin of victory was vast.
“The women ended up winning
by a lot of points, so I think it was
really exciting to see how well ev-
eryone performed,” Ory said. “I
guess we exceeded our expecta-
tions.’”
games. In exact numbers, the
team has scored 141 runs while
giving up 154 runs.
This makes it difficult for the
team to qualify for the NESCAC
tournament, which was its goal
at the start of the season. The
top two teams out of five in each
division qualify for the tourna-
ment. This format will change
next season when the top eight
teams out of ten will qualify for
the tournament.
“There’s just no margin for
error. If you want to make the
tournament, you have win ev-
ery weekend, you need to sweep
teams and you need to bound
teams off,” Billings said. “There
were lots of weekends when
things just didn’t go our way. We
didn’t compete in the middle of
games or, you know, just a num-
ber of factors.”
The team looks to bounce back
from the loss against Middlebury
(2-4) last weekend. In the first of
the three games, Bowdoin took
a 0-4 lead after two innings, but
Middlebury exploded offensive-
ly and jumped out to a 9-5 lead
after the sixth. The Polar Bears
answered back and came back to
tie the game in the ninth inning,
but an RBI single by Middlebury
in the bottom of ninth gave the
Panthers a walk-off win.
In the second game, the Pan-
The men’s track team also had
its share of success in the Maine
State meet. Papa Sekyere ’20 won
the Alan G. Hillman Memori-
al Most Valuable Track Athlete
Award after winning the 100M
and 200M and anchoring the first
place 4x100M relay. Brian Green-
berg ’18 won first place in the long
jump with a mark of 6.95 meters
and was named the NESCAC
men’s field performer of the week.
Despite the numerous excel-
lent performances from the men’s
track team, the Maine State meet
was a narrow victory, with the
men winning by only 11 points
with a score of 224.
“The men’s state meet was a
super scrappy meet,” said captain
John Kennealy ’18. “It was really
close between us and Bates, and the
conditions were not great for it. It
was really windy, a little bit cold, and
MULES NEXT TO BAT: Austin Zakow ’21 high-fives his teammates. The team recently lost the Middlebury series 0-3.
thers again came back from a 2-4
deficit by scoring three runs in
the final inning to win with a fi-
nal score 5-4. In the final game of
the series, the Panthers’ pitching
staff shut out Bowdoin’s offense
to secure a 3-0 win.
“It was really tough. I just feel
like you [have] to show up ready
to compete all through nine and
seven [innings], and then we had
low periods in the middle of the
game that hurt us, but they were
good battles,” said Billings. “And
that’s baseball.”
“Everyone pitched great.
From a hitting standpoint we
hit pretty well, but we didn’t hit
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD/BOWDOIN ATHLETICS
almost every event was really close.
We were fighting for every point all
day long. And, in the end, when we
came out on top, it was really close.”
Next week, the women’s and
men’s track teams will be com-
peting in the NESCAC champi-
onship competition. Last year, the
Bowdoin women finished 5th in
NESCAC and the Bowdoin men
finished 3rd. This year, the men’s
track team intends to secure a spot
in the top two, which has not been
done since 2002.
“We’ve got a really strong team
this year, so we’re hoping for an
elite performance, which I think
we would consider top three in
NESCAC,” said Kennealy. “Tufts
and Williams are currently strong
programs. They have bigger teams
and more resources. They’re always
the top two, so if we can knock one
or both of them off of their spots
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD/BOWDOIN ATHLETICS
when we needed to hit,” he con-
tinued. “There were some couple
bounces that didn’t go our way,
and I think in baseball when you
have two teams going at it like
that, pretty evenly matched, it’s
going to come down to timely
hitting and timely defense. It
wasn’t our weekend I guess.”
In order to get back into the
win column, the team will be
focusing on doing well in all as-
pects of the game so that they do
not repeat the mistakes made in
the Middlebury series.
“I think when we are at our
best we are playing well in
all three facets of the game:
then that would be a really good
day for us.”
The women also have compe-
tition in Tufts and Williams, two
teams that were not present at the
Aloha Relays this weekend. “We
saw Bates and Colby this weekend,
but once we get out of Maine, we
start to really see those outstanding
teams,” said Ory.
Coming off an exciting victory,
the team expects to step up to the
level of their competitors.
“We’re coming to compete.
We’re coming to try to win ev-
erything we possibly can. We are
peaking. We have a lot of individu-
als and teams who are really ready
to compete with these other amaz-
ing NESCAC competitors.”
The teams will travel to Trinity
College this weekend, with the 2018
NESCAC Championship kicking
off at 9 a.m.
pitching, hitting and fielding,”
said captain Joe Gentile ’18. “I
think we’ve seen that the three
facets of the game don’t really
line up with each other well.
So we might hit really well one
game but not really have the
pitching form to close out a
game. So, having consistency
in all three facets will lead us
to success against Colby this
weekend.”
The team will travel to take
on the Mules on Friday at 4 p.m.
The final two games of the series
take place at home on Saturday
and Sunday at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.
respectively.
9
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
WHAT LEGENDS: The
College announced six
inductees for the 2018
class of the Bowdoin
College Athletic Hall
of Honor, a biennial
event founded in 2002
to remember individuals
who have accomplished
greatness in athletics.
This year’s awardees are
1955-1983 track and field
coach Frank Sabasteanski
’41, who also coached
the Ghanaian national
Olympic track team in
1964, defensive-back
Dana Verrill ’74 who holds
the Bowdoin record for
interceptions in a season,
national champion shot
putter and offensive line-
man Dick Leavitt ’76, soft-
ball, soccer and basketball
star Christine Craig ’86,
three-time all-NESCAC
honoree field hockey
and ice hockey stand-out
Marissa O’Neil ’05 and
the most decorated bas-
ketball player in program
history, Eileen (Flaharty)
Moore ’07.
NETTIN’ THOSE WINS:
Second-ranked men’s
tennis (15-1, NESCAC
6-1) rallied back after its
first lost of the season,
beating fourth-ranked
Williams (12-3, NESCAC
5-1) in a tight 5-4 match.
The Polar Bears won two
out of the three doubles
matches in order to take a
2-1 lead going into singles
play. On Wednesday,
the team continued its
streak against Bates in
its last regular season
home game, beating the
Bobcats 5-0. The team
will have its final regular
season matchups against
Tufts and Wesleyan this
weekend on Saturday and
Sunday respectively.
COMING FROM BEHIND:
The women’s lacrosse
team (11-4, NESCAC
6-4) came back after
trailing 4-5 at halftime in
order to beat Williams
(6-9, NESCAC 2-8) 10-9
thanks to a goal by Katie
Miller ’21 in the final two
minutes of the game on
Saturday. The Polar Bears’
win streak ended against
Tufts (12-3, NESCAC
8-2) in their last regular
season game on Wednes-
day, a close match which
ended with the Jumbos
on top 11-10. Despite the
loss, the women’s lacrosse
team did enough to
earn a spot and a home
game in the NESCAC
tournament and will host
Wesleyan at noon on
Saturday.
COMPILED BY ANNA FAUVER
 O OPINION
10 Friday, April 27, 2018

Fun in the sun

Marketing conservative counter-
culture: a response to Steve
If you have not experienced it (actually, you’re in the middle of ex-
periencing it), you have probably heard the stories. Drinking games in
class on Thursday and Friday (bad). Students sprinting across Brunswick
Quad with stolen beers, pursued by the rightful owners of said beers (de-

Robinson ’11
pends on the brand of beer). The pretense of an ever-so-classy champagne
brunch to drag you out of bed on Saturday (two thumbs up). Enough
shoving at the front of the Saturday show to trample a small animal to
death (our preemptive condolences to the vertically challenged among
us).
The weekend, though, is about much more than that. Or perhaps, much
less. In the end, Ivies is not one thing but many. It’s about having a good pression).
time and reacquainting ourselves with the ideas of “the outdoors” and For all their
“nice weather.” It’s about spending meaningful time with old friends and
Relevant Politics ridiculing
by Brendan Murtha
meeting new ones. It’s a release valve for the pressure that accumulates of “safe
from everyday academic and personal stressors, and it’s a break from the spaces”
often deadening routine of Bowdoin weeks. Everyone goes about these ac- On Monday, April 16, Steve Rob- and liberal
tivities differently and should feel comfortable continuing to do so, even inson ’11 returned to campus to snowflakes,
on the last weekend in April. give a talk entitled “Conservatism conservative
What we will say, though, is to take advantage of a warm, spring week- and the Liberal Arts: How Bowdoin firebrands like
end in Maine, in whatever way makes you happiest. This probably means Made Me Conservative.” Robinson make
staying out of the library and away from the Brunswick Police Depart- During his time at Bowdoin, Rob- their waves by LS
ICHO
ment. We endorse both of those moves. We also endorse: selfies with inson was outspoken about his con- peddling a narrative B EN
OE
Randy, one drink an hour interspersed with H2O, recovery naps, the rally servative beliefs and penned a regu- of conservative oppression PH
(with or without the boot), jean jackets (but not jean skirts), outfits so lar column in the Orient (similar to and fragility. From warnings of
bad they’re good (are they though?), unironic fun, embarrassing yourself this one) that was well known for its “white genocide” from the Alt-Right
in front of Irene and Connie, questionable class swag and Mohamed Nur. controversial content and audacious to laments of censorship from prin-
So, if you’re replacing your blood with booze this weekend or just out headlines (all of which are archived cipled centrist conservatives, the
here trying to catch a few rays, have a happy Ivies, Bowdoin. on the Orient’s website). During his ingredients for the narrative are all may have shifted around within the
talk, it was clear that Robinson’s af- there. sphere of conservatism-libertarian-
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board,
finity for inflammatory rhetoric has In the conservative movement, ism, but the underlying foundations
which is comprised of Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Calder McHugh and Ian Ward.
not subsided—in addressing a wide this myth has several functions: pol- of his conservative thought were al-
variety of political topics, his hard- icy-wise, it elicits fear, a powerful ready in place. Thus, the title “How
line conservative opinions were pre- motive. If you can convince a ma- Bowdoin Made Me Conservative”
sented with the sneer of superiority jority (in this case, white America) is misleading—a better title may
typical of someone who loves stir- that they’re suffering from some have been “How Bowdoin Made
ring the pot. sort of imagined oppression, you Me a Firebrand.” Maybe there’s an
While the talk was rich in explicit can then manipulate their fear of echo chamber issue on both sides
policy positions worthy of rebuttal, I this oppression for political gain. of the aisle, with people digging in
ESTABLISHED 1871 think it is most useful to push back On the flip side, you can then mar- their heels when faced with oppos-
on the talk’s underlying premise tyr conservatives in predominant- ing arguments. However, to claim
rather than specific points of con- ly liberal communities, like the that liberalism is the “path of least
tention. At its core, this talk was a Bowdoin campus, and hail them as resistance” is absurd, especially
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 marketing pitch for the conservative heroes. In Robinson’s talk, this nar- here at Bowdoin. If you really are
movement, crafted in a way that rative of perceived oppression was committed to liberal/leftist caus-
presented conservatism as a “cool” used to market himself and fellow es—especially as a white student—it
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and and “rebellious” counter-culture to campus conservatives as such mar- will involve confrontation with in-
information relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its the “status quo” of campus leftism. tyrs—brave pioneers pushing back credibly unpleasant truths that will
administrators, the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional While few would deny Bowdoin’s against some sort of institutional- make you uncomfortable. It will in-
journalistic standards in writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open campus is predominantly liberal— ized bias, willing to lose everything volve confronting your own role in
forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College or at least left-leaning—this idea of in pursuit of their cause. He spoke institutionalized power structures
community. conservatism as a brave new “count- of being berated by professors and that are unjust, reflecting on the
er-culture” is incredibly dangerous students alike, spurned by the Col- language you use and the products
to the very values Robinson himself lege president, cut off by friends. At you consume. This is no walk in the
seemed to exalt: diversity of thought, face value, these stories might seem park. When Robinson dismissed
Sarah Drumm Harry DiPrinzio free sharing of ideas, et cetera. to be deterrents to campus conser- such difficulties as the trivial re-
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief In order to market conservatism vatism—but coupled with the rest sults of “skin-deep diversity,” he
as both brave and rebellious, Rob- of his rhetoric, they are merely ex- dismissed the very values he was
inson first had to present conserva- tensions of a marketing strategy in- ardently defending: the free sharing
tives as a repressed demographic of tended to make conservatism “cool.” of thoughts and individual self-bet-
Creative Director Managing Editor News Editor minority status. He did so through After all, in an age where #Resist is terment.
Jenny Ibsen Ellice Lueders Emily Cohen distasteful allegory, frequently al- a medal of wokeness, resistance it- I do not want this to come off as
Calder McHugh luding to his “coming out moment” self becomes glamorized even if it is an attack on conservative students
Surya Milner which then encouraged more “clos- against an imagined enemy. here on campus. I disagree with
Photo Editor Jessica Piper eted” conservatives on campus On the topic of bravery, Robinson your ideas, yes, but I respect your
Sports Editor
Ann Basu to show their true colors in some explicitly referred to liberalism as right to them and encourage open
Anna Fauver
Ezra Sunshine perverse moment of self-empower- the “path of least resistance,” assert- debate. This is instead an attack on
ment. Clearly, equating conserva- ing that liberals arriving on campus the marketing strategy that the con-
Associate Editor tives at Bowdoin with LGBTQ youth won’t really have their ideas chal- servative movement is using to rile
Layout Editor Features Editor in America is ridiculous and insult- lenged in our current climate and you up and a stern rebuttal to Steve
Rachael Allen Alyce McFadden
Emma Bezilla Roither Gonzales ing to the actual discrimination and thus equating conservatism with Robinson in particular. The free
Ian Stewart Dakota Griffin violence the latter faces on a daily Bowdoin’s own mantra of intellec- sharing of ideas is not so free when
Nicholas Mitch basis. Yet the strategy in the com- tual fearlessness. The thing is, Rob- one side is perceived as cooler, more
A&E Editor
Louisa Moore Isabelle Hallé
parison is transparent. The conser- inson himself arrived on campus rebellious or more courageous than
Copy Editor Allison Wei vative movement desperately wants a conservative. Maybe he couldn’t the other. Mr. Robinson, you are
Nell Fitzgerald to be oppressed (ironic considering articulate his positions as well as tainting your own values by perpe-
Shinhee Kang its propagation of legitimate op- he can now and some of his views trating such labels.
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Friday, April 27, 2018 OPINION 11

Ten words of wisdom: lessons

learned outside the classroom
Polar Views
by Osa Fasehun
Instead of waiting until
junior year of college to go
abroad, I dared to study in
France during my junior year
of high school. During my
stay, my mother imparted
me with words of wisdom via
email. That “words of wisdom”
series soon became the back-
bone of her parenting style as I
reached young adulthood. For
my last column before gradu-
ating from Bowdoin, I have 10
pieces of wisdom to share with
any student who could benefit
from them. My time at Bow-
doin has been bittersweet, but
I’ve dedicated much of it to
ensuring that those who come
after me do not have to feel
the pain or frustrations that I
faced on campus. My words of
wisdom are the following:
1. Be firm in your beliefs.
Don’t constantly qualify your
statements in the classroom
by saying, “I could be wrong,
but… ” Studies have shown
that those with marginalized
identities (from women, to
people of color, to those of a
lower class) tend to lose their
confidence early in childhood.
Let’s bridge that confidence
gap by speaking our minds
with conviction.
2. If you finish college,
you’ll be able to finish any-
thing. Regardless of the
frustrations you might have
encountered along the way,
college instills the discipline
to constantly quench your
thirst for knowledge and to
finish what you’ve started. I
don’t know if that’s worth a
gazillion dollars—maybe it
can be done for cheaper. Still,
college teaches you that you
can handle crisis, failure and
a near overload of commit-
ments and come out stronger.
3. Don’t let your schooling
get in the way of your educa-
tion. A recent Bowdoin grad
shared this gem of wisdom
with me. Knowledge acquisi-
tion and production happen
inside and outside the class-
room. Living on campus is like
“Life 101,” and naturally, it’s
easier than in the Real World™.
4. The Bowdoin Hello
should be a mantra in life.
Kindness is underrated in so-
ciety; people think it equates
to weakness. Compared to
cruelty or apathy, much more
effort is necessary to be kind,
to give so much of oneself
without expecting anything in
return and to constantly come
across those who are unap-
PHOEBE ZIPPER
preciative. People’s suffering
is overwhelming when you
are helplessly compassionate.
Heal the world with that rad-
ical empathy.
5. Intimacy should have
the flavor of love and respect.
Sexual consent that is given
can be withdrawn at any giv-
en time. Emotional consent,
however, is a personal call that
involves considering emo-
tional well-being. A hookup
should not mean compromis-
ing one’s sense of self-worth.
6. Learn from those who
came before you. There’s an
old Nigerian proverb that goes
something like, “As much as
a young person might have a
lot of clothes, they will never
have as many rags as an adult.”
What we mil-
lennials have over our
elders in technology litera-
cy or “wokeness” is outclassed
by their experience and wis-
dom. A professor, a parent or
a Bowdoin grad has been in
your shoes before, though at a
different time. Their past can
inform our present and future.
7. Find friends who gen-
uinely like you for your per-
sonality or essence, not your
politics. In the millennial
world, peers can idolize you
as a social justice icon and
then disown you as a friend at
the drop of a hat if you voice
an opinion that they disagree
with. These are not friends,
and they
never liked
you. They
liked the representation of
themselves in your views. No
one is programmed to think
the same way, but people can
disagree without being dis-
agreeable. Your true friends
will probably be outside of the
“conscious” community.
8. There is no perfect way
to be an ally to those who are
oppressed. If you make an
error in your efforts to help,
apologize and move forward.
If your efforts address the real
sources of oppression and less-
en the burden on its victims
in the long run, continue to
advocate
for their
benefit. Some-
day people will see that it
makes sense.
9. “If you have character,
nothing else matters; if you
don’t have character, nothing
else matters,” said Senator
Angus King when addressing
the Class of 2021. I was sitting
with my proctees at the Orien-
tation dinner, hoping this idea
would sink in for them. In a
world where there are leaders
who lack morals and ethics,
this mantra should be self-ex-
planatory.
10. These days, to be woke
is to be socially aware of op-
pressive structures and conse-
quently disillusioned with the
world. To my fellow people of
color: dare to be woke, mela-
nated and happy at the same
time.

Continuing the conversation: beyond carbon neutral 2020

by Bowdoin Climate Action
Op-Ed Contributors
In a campus-wide email
last week, President Rose an-
nounced that the College has
reached carbon neutrality two
years ahead of schedule. Bowdo-
in Climate Action is pleased to
hear of the steps the College has
taken to reduce emissions and
reach this goal, and we are ex-
cited to engage in conversation
around the College’s plan for
2030. However, we have some
concerns about how the Bow-
doin community approaches
climate change in conversations
across campus. We raise these
in the hopes that members of
our community will be able to
engage more meaningfully with
the complex realities of climate
change moving forward.
We do not say this to min-
imize the important efforts of
those who have led this charge
over the past several years. Rath-
er, we think that is necessary to
clarify misconceptions around
what it means to be “carbon
neutral.” To many, this phrase
may imply that Bowdoin has
reduced its carbon emissions
by 100 percent. It is important
to acknowledge, however, that
Bowdoin has only reduced its
emissions by 29 percent, though
this reduction is certainly com-
mendable and a significant step
in the right direction. The re-
maining percentage is account-
ed for through the purchase of
carbon offsets and renewable
energy credits (RECs) which
help fund renewable energy in-
frastructure and development.
Bowdoin then subtracts the re-
sulting reductions from its own
emissions.
As a wealthy institution,
this is a worthwhile use of our
financial resources. However,
while the purchase of offsets
and RECs can help to promote
renewable energy, the logic
of offsets perpetuates the sta-
tus quo. By purchasing offsets
and RECs, institutions such as
Bowdoin can continue emitting
at the same rate while claiming
“neutrality.” Airline companies,
for example, allow passengers
to purchase offsets to assuage
the guilt that comes from high
emission travel. In short, the
offset market enables pollut-
ers and the fossil fuel industry
to continue with business as
usual—the degradation of our
planet and its resources as they
place profit over people.
Our emissions reduction is
essential, but it is only a drop in
the bucket in the fight for large-
scale climate change mitigation.
What is of even greater concern
is how we often gloss over the
issues of climate change and cli-
mate justice. In all of the recent
announcements of our recent
achievement, the term climate
change is rarely used and cli-
mate justice is never even men-
tioned. Bowdoin must begin to
address the effects of climate
change, as well as its anthropo-
genic causes, in conversations
around emission reduction and
carbon neutrality.
Climate change is not only
a threat to future generations,
but real and happening now.
It is disingenuous to discuss
emission reduction and solar
arrays without mention-
ing communities affected
by climate change. It is
a disservice to mem-
bers of our community
whose families breathe
air polluted by Shell
and Exxon refineries,
whose water sources are
threatened by fracking
and whose hometowns
went without electricity
for weeks following Hurri-
cane Maria. As we continue
to discuss our goals for a more
sustainable future, we must also
talk about climate justice.
Through conversations
about metric tons of emissions
and megawatt hours, we de-
politicize and greenwash the
climate crisis. As we move to-
wards a new 2030 goal, we must
stop shying away from conflict
and controversy and embrace
an intellectually fearless dis-
course around the realities of
climate change. Just as Bow-
doin has taken bold leadership
in emission reduction, we urge
the College to speak up on
climate justice, too. Critical,
intersectional analyses are a
hallmark of the Bowdoin ed-
ucation, and we must extend
similar approaches to our dis-
cussions on climate change. It
is our responsibility to engage
with the complex intersections
of race, capitalism, gender and
the environment. We cannot
afford to be politically neutral.
Even if the whole world
miraculously stopped emitting
carbon dioxide tomorrow, we
would still face the effects of
cli- R
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mate NY
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change for KA
years to come.
As we continue to re-
duce our emissions at Bow-
doin and around the world, we
must also address the realities
of climate change and incor-
porate an understanding of
climate justice into our plans
for 2030. We congratulate our
fellow students and the staff
at the Office of Sustainability
who have helped us reach this
milestone, and we look forward
to engaging in conversation
around what it means to be car-
bon neutral and how we can be-
come even bolder climate lead-
ers as we look ahead to 2030.
This piece represents the views
of several members of Bowdoin
Climate Action: Sarah Corkum
’21, Bri Canning ’21, Jillian Gal-
loway ’21, Jesse Dunn ’20, Matt
Keller ’20, Calvin Soule ’20, Tes-
sa Epstein ’19, Arnav Patel ’18
and Jonah Watt ’18.
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12 Friday, April 27, 2018

FRIDAY 27
EVENT
Brunswick Apartments BBQ
Pinky D’s Poutine food truck will serve food for the Ivies
celebration at 2 p.m.
Brunswick Apartments. Noon.

LECTURE
“Dostoevsky in the 21st Century”
Kate Holland, professor of Russian literature at the Universi-
ty of Toronto, will draw connections between Russian Artist
Dostoevsky and social consumption today.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 1:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 28 ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

YOU’RE THE ONE: Lucian Black ’19 shows his Bowdoin “one” in David Saul Smith Union. BowdoinOne Day is an annual fundraiser during which
students show their Bowdoin pride around campus and plaster it all over various social media platforms. On BowdoinOne Day alumni, students and
EVENT faculty reflect, share and invest in the Bowdoin experience.
Crafts at Howell House
There will be crafts such as decorating a pot, stuffing a bear

TUESDAY 1 THURSDAY 3
and making stress balls at Howell.
Howell House. 1 p.m.

PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE LECTURE

Ivies Concert “Immateriality and Infinity:
Rapper D.R.A.M. will headline this year’s concert with an
opening act Gingersnap. Students are limited to two guests
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
per person. Guest registration is available at the David Saul Richard Pousette-Dart’s Paintings”
Professor of Mathematics Jennifer Taback, Andrew W. Mel-
Smith Union Information Desk.
lon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion Anna A. Golovkova and
William Farley Field House. 3:30 p.m.
Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Peggy
Wang will discuss the conceptual and spiritual themes of
Richard Pousette-Dart’s paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.
SUNDAY 29
This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition
“Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting/Light/Space.”
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 12 p.m.
FILM
Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story
3 at the door.
Measured Words: Computation and
Writing in Renaissance Italy
Arielle Saiber, professor of romance language and literatures, will
debut her book “Measured Words: Computation and Writing in
Renaissance Italy” with Aaron Kitch, professor of English.
Nixon Lounge, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 4:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Spring Dance Concert
The annual event will feature student performances of original
works choreographed by students and faculty. The show will
feature guest choreographer Katy Pyle, who will perform
original work. There will also be performances on Friday and
Saturday. Tickets are free and are available at Smith Union or

This documentary will take viewers on the dangerous and
unpredictable process of rescuing an elephant while also
exposing the plight of Asian elephants. The documentary
follows a conservationist’s struggle to bring an elephant 500
miles across Thailand to freedom.
Frontier. 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 2
EVENT
Creative Writing Honors Thesis Readings
English honor students Alexandra Moreno ’18, Sarah Jane
Weill ’18, Rachael Allen ’18, June Lei ’18 and Carly Berlin ’18,
will read from their creative writing theses.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Bowdoin Chorus
The Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors Orchestra will
present “Music in Stalin’s Shadow” which features choral
pieces that were written during Stalin’s reign.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

MONDAY 30
EVENT
Pop-Up Poetry Under the Calder
Slam poets, Katherine Chi ’19 and Sanura McGill ’20, will
conclude the “Pop-Up Poetry Under the Calder” series. The
series honors National Poetry Month.
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 12 p.m.
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Bowdoin Orchestra
The Bowdoin College Orchestra will play works from
Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony, Brahms and others. The
concert will feature Hanna Renedo ’18, August Posch ’18,
Kelvin Guo ’18 and Scout Gregerson ’18.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
EVENT
The Consequences of Shape: Non-uniform
Muscle Dynamics in Hollow, Cylindrical
Muscular Organ
Dr. Joe Thompson, professor of biology at Franklin and
Marshall College, will discuss the result of body shape on the
musculoskeletal biomechanics of soft-bodied invertebrates.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 4 p.m.

4 EVENT 5 6 PERFORMANCE 7 8 CONCERT 9 10

Are You Satisfied? Ursus Verses Final Jazz Night

Concert