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MORE NEWS: DAUGHTRY SPEAKS; RECORD NUMBER OF APPLICATIONSDAUGHTRY: Brunswick’s new state representative speaks with the Orient.Page 3.

APPS: Admissions receives 7,209 applications for Class of 2017. Page 3.

TODAY’S OPINION

EDITORIAL: On the right track.Page 14.

HIPPOCRITICAL HIPPOPTAMI: Eric Edelman ‘13 on unhappiness at Bowdoin.Page 15.

SPORTS: MEN’S BASKETBALL MAKES A COMEBACKThe resurgent men’s basketball team battled to a 12-6 record and fi fth place in the NESCAC race. It will face Middlebury and Williams this weekend. Page 11.

BY AMANDA MINOFFORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF KAITLYNN MILLER

Shelby Aseltine ’15 speeds through the course for the women’s Nordic skiing team. They will be competing at the University of Vermont this weekend.

College’s top earners see higher compensation

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BEST FOOT FORWARD

BY CONNOR EVANS AND NICOLE WETSMAN

ORIENT STAFF

In memoriam: RememberingSue Danforth, College Editor

BY LINDA KINSTLERORIENT STAFF

Susan Danforth, associate director of communications and College editor, died on Sunday at Maine Medical Cen-ter a) er su* ering a stroke at her home in South Portland on Friday. She was 53 years old.

In an email sent to all College em-ployees on Sunday evening, President Mills wrote, “Sue was a diligent pro-fessional whose careful work touched every corner of our campus for more than a decade...+ is unexpected and sudden loss of a truly talented and dedicated colleague touches so many of us, and reminds us of the fragile na-ture of life.”

Danforth arrived at the College in October 2000 a) er working for over a decade as a marketing assistant and publications coordinator for the Portland Symphony Orchestra. She graduated summa cum laude from Merrimack College in North An-dover, Mass., near her hometown of Methuen. Danforth went on to earn a masters degree in English literature from the University of Vermont.

“She was really an anchor down here,” said Scott Hood, vice president for communications and public af-fairs, who worked with Danforth over

the course of her 12-year tenure at the College. “+ e nature of this work means everyone moves very quickly...what Sue did was she helped us get it right.”

As College editor, Danforth edited all o, cial College publications, in-cluding the College Catalogue, com-mencement programs, and promo-tional materials.

“Basically anything with words on it, she was asked to look at,” said Megan Morouse, associate director of communications for publications. “She was just professional through and through...always seeking perfection, but in a human way. As an editor, she was committed to making sure every-thing was just right.”

“We appreciated her expertise, we appreciated her opinion, and we re-spected it,” said Morouse. “As a friend, she was just the sincerest and most true friend—so loyal and so depend-able. And I don’t know that many people are like that anymore —she was unwavering.

Danforth’s friends, family, and col-leagues gathered for a memorial ser-vice in her honor in the Chapel yester-day morning. Pastor Ron McLaughlin of United Baptist Church led the pro-

Bowdoin’s 13 most highly paid employees saw salary increases in the fiscal year ending in 2011, ac-cording to the Form 990 tax docu-ment filed by the College for the 2010-2011 calendar year. As a non-profit organization, the College is required to disclose the compen-sation packages of its highest-paid employees. The 2011 Form 990 is the most recent statement available.

Senior Vice President for In-vestments Paula Volent was the highest-paid administrator, earn-ing a total compensation package of $781,166. This figure includes a base salary of $416,456, plus re-

tirement and deferred compensa-tion ($42,890), nontaxable benefits ($19,615), other reportable com-pensation ($2,205) and a bonus and incentive package of $300,000.

Williams College Chief Invest-ment Officer Collette Chilton earned a comparable sum, with a total compensation package of $720,430 in the same year.

President Barry Mills is the Col-lege’s second-highest paid admin-istrator, earning a base salary of $380, 932, the bulk of his $483,183 total compensation package. Mills’ approximate $100,000 in additional compensation is largely made up of non-taxable benefits such as his College-owned residence.

Mills’ total compensation is ef-

fectively equal to that of Wesley-an President Michael Roth, who earned $483,349, and Pomona Pres-ident David Oxtoby, who earned $472,355 in the same year. The fig-ure positions Mills as the eighth-highest compensated college presi-dent in the NESCAC, followed only by President Leo Higdon of Con-necticut College ($478,709), former President Elaine Hansen of Bates ($452,564), and President Adam Falk of Williams ($417,245).

Following Volent and Mills, for-mer Senior Vice President for Plan-ning and Development Bill Torrey was the third-highest compensated employee at $309,333. Senior Vice

BSG, E-Board revive Winter Weekend tradition; SOOC revises bylaws

On February 15, Bowdoin will celebrate the season with the re-vival of Winter Weekend, an old tradition of the College. Dani Che-diak ’13, president of the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG), and Michael Hannaman ’13, co-chair of the Entertainment Board (E-Board) have been working togeth-er to organize an event to bring the campus together during the drab winter season.

“This is actually a tradition from back when frats were at Bowdoin,” Hannaman said. “And what we’re trying to do is revive, but also re-define, what it is. We’re trying to make it about sports at Bowdoin, and College Houses and being out-side during the winter.”

Winter Weekend was an annual

event at Bowdoin that included snow sculpting competitions, snowball fights and other activi-ties, though the festivities were largely restricted to fraternity life, and began to dissipate after fra-ternities were removed. The last reported instance of Winter Week-end was in 2006, but the celebra-tion had long since lost its lustre.

“It’s really about bringing the campus together as a community,” Hannaman said. “I think that we don’t have enough events on cam-pus where everyone is together being a part of the same college community. We have Common Good Day in the fall and Ivies in the spring and that’s about it.”

The event involves numerous groups and organizations around campus. Hannaman and Chediak emphasize the involvement of the Bowdoin community as a whole.

“It’s a lot bigger than E-Board

and BSG,” Hannaman said.Chediak sees the Winter Week-

end as a reason to celebrate winter itself, which often goes by without many campuswide events.

“We find that in February, a lot of times, we don’t really embrace the winter in Maine, we kind of hide from it, and then we come out, in spring, and have Ivies,” said Chediak. “We want to bring [at-tention] back to winter.”

On Wednesday, BSG discussed a proposal by the Student Orga-nizations and Oversight Commit-tee (SOOC) to eliminate clauses in the SOOC bylaws that stipulate that the SOOC oversees the hazing resolution process for clubs.

“There’s a lot of inconsistency in the way it [hazing] has been dealt with, especially when it comes to clubs,” said Vice President for Stu-

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COURTESY OF BOWDOIN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

BON HIVER: Theta Delta Chi fraternity members celebrate Winter Weekend with a sculpture.

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As the women’s basketball team’s only senior this year, Kaitlin Do-nahoe ’13 has led the Polar Bears to an 11-8 record .

SPORTS: Athlete of the Week: Kaitlin Donahoe FEATURES: “Goggles and Gloves”Kacey Berry ’13 reviews popular science-books, touching on topics not regularly discussed in classrooms or labs.

A&E: A Friendly Rivalry Curator Joachim Homann believes Bowdoin will benefi t from the opening of a new pavilion at Colby Museum of Art, noting that the extension may bring more art to Maine.

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How did you cope with the sub-zero temperatures last week?

Jared Littlejohn ’15Sky Monaco ’16Quincy Koster ’15 Erin St. Peter ’13

Photos by Hy Khong

“Covering up my face. I make a ski mask out of

my scarf and hat.”

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STUDENT SPEAK

“Drinking orange juice to build up my immune system—getting

the Vitamin C in.”

“Working out. It makes me feel more energized.”

“The Tower rooms are really, really warm.”

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Reed House in process of building very own ice-skating rink

Taking advantage of the cold weather and abundant lawn space, members of Reed House began constructing an ice skating rink in the house’s backyard last weekend.

A4 er Facilities cleared a snowy area roughly the same size as the Quad’s rink over Winter Break, residents have 5 lled the space with water using only a garden hose. While this week’s snowfall and warm temperatures have prevented progress for now, Reed members expect the rink to be skateable sometime next week.

“I like the challenge of working on a project we have no clue how to go about,” Peter Nau6 s ’15 said.

CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTMAN’S BEST FRIEND: Seniors Wils Dawson and Elizabeth Mamantov represented the Northern Bites, Bowdoin’s RoboCup team, at the Student Activities Fair last Tuesday in Smith Union.

Kacey Berry ’13 Please see column, page 6.

7 ese are cool science books, written for theoretical physicists, amateur biologists, second-wave feminists and rubber fetishists alike. 7 ey’ll teach you, among many other things, how to survive falling 35,000 feet out of an airplane and why the penis is shaped like that. ”

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Sophomores Clevens, Villari wed in fake ceremony at Baxter

Bernard Clevens ’15 of Cocoa Beach, Fla. and Christa Villari ’15 of Wayland, Mass., both 20, married under a Wal-Mart-bought arbor in the lobby of Bax-ter House on Sunday evening. Many well-wishers looked on, including a full wedding party of House residents. Students living in Baxter celebrate the mock ceremony annually. 7 e roles are chosen by House members.

As reported by the blog futilityclo-set.com, in the 1970’s, Bowdoin librar-ians began compiling a list of strange “how-to” titles held in the College’s catalog. Librarian Eric Lu4 even wrote a 2008 book on the topic entitled “7 e Inscribed List: Or Why Librarians Are Crazy.” Here is a selection:

• How to Abandon Ship (1942)• How to Label a Goat (2006) • How to Avoid Intercourse With

Your Unfriendly Car Mechanic (1977)• How to Become Extinct (1941)• How to Break Out of Prison (2003)• How to Bribe a Judge (2002)• How to Buy an Elephant (1977)• How to Wreck a Building (1982)• How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side

of the World (1979)• How to Embalm Your Mother-in-

Law (1993)-Compiled by Leo Shaw

Cataloguing strange “how-to” works held in Bowdoin library

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BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

The Office of Admissions re-ceived a total of 7,029 applications for the Class of 2017, a 4.7 percent increase over last year’s total of 6,716, and a new record total in the history of the College.

The Early Decision I (ED I) appli-cation process earlier this academic year also saw a new record total of applicants, 606. This year, the Col-lege admitted 189 students in ED I, an increase from 172 the previous year. In contrast, this year’s ED II application pool declined slightly compared to last year.

A growth in total applications has been a trend over the last de-cade, going from under 5,000 in 2000, to the new record this year. When asked if the Office of Admis-sions could offer an explanation for the increase, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meikle-john responded that the College spoke for itself.

“I think that more and more people are finding out about what a great place Bowdoin is. We can go out and spin all we want and talk about it, but if it’s not actually a great place then I don’t think we’d see what we’re seeing,” he said.

Brunswick honors College as its Member of the Year

spectively on goods and services last year alone. Tens of thousands of visitors, from prospective students and families to returning alumni, come through Brunswick each year solely because of the College.

Additionally, the College made a $10,000 donation to the Brunswick Downtown Association last year, ac-cording to its 2010-2011 Form 990, which is the College’s yearly tax 4 ling. 5 e same report shows that the College donated over $100,000 to the town of Brunswick itself.

Bowdoin acts as a cultural center in Brunswick and o6 ered 1,300 lectures, concerts, and related events open to the public last year, according to the Bowdoin College Economic Impact re-port. 5 e Bowdoin International Music Festival is also sponsored by the Col-lege and the Maine State Music 5 e-ater while the Museum of Art attracts 50,000 people annually.

Mills said upon accepting the award that Bowdoin students “provide thou-sands of hours volunteering in our lo-cal schools, shelters, nonpro4 ts, and throughout Brunswick. 5 ey entertain our community in the theater, recital hall, hockey rink, basketball court, dance studio, and art shows.”

President Mills also recognized the positive impact the town has on Bow-doin. He recounted how many of the College’s peer schools apologize for their location, whereas Bowdoin em-braces the Brunswick community.

Brown said that from speaking with a Waterville town administrator, “[Bruns-wick has] a much better relationship with Bowdoin than Waterville has with Colby.” As far as Lewiston’s relations with Bates, he said, “I don’t think it could be better than what we have here.”

BY DAVID SPERBERORIENT STAFF

He argued that Admissions wasn’t focused on the quantity of the appli-cation, but rather the quality.

“We don’t focus on getting more applications,” he said. “The empha-

by three percent to 3,172, another record high.

One of the more interesting shifts in the application pool is geographic. This year saw a five percent decrease in students apply-ing from Maine, and a 20 percent increase in students applying from the West.

Meiklejohn offered his explana-tion for the change: “In the bigger picture, all the data reports the slid-ing population in New England, in the Northeast generally, and in par-ticular Maine has a decreasing pop-ulation of high school graduates, while there’s population growth in other parts of the country.”

ED II decisions are due to be both mailed and—in a new move this year prompted by postal delays in previous years—emailed out to students in mid-February. Regular admissions decisions will follow later in the year. At the moment, the Office of Admissions estimates the 2017 class size to be about 485 students.

Meiklejohn noted that Admis-sions was just at the start of evalu-ating the Regular Decision appli-cations, but in his view, “all signs point to another very strong and interesting group of students apply-ing to Bowdoin.”

At its annual meeting last week, the Brunswick Downtown Association honored Bowdoin College as its Mem-ber of the Year. 5 e award is granted anually to an outstanding member of the Brunswick community and Presi-dent Barry Mills attended to accept the award on behalf of the College.

Mills spoke at the event about Bowdoin’s extensive contributions to Brunswick and the surrounding ar-eas. Bowdoin employs nearly a thou-sand individuals and pays over $40 million each year in salaries to local residents. 5 ere are “more than a half million dollars every year in pay-ments by the College to the Town of Brunswick in a variety of forms, and millions more for special projects,” said Mills in his remarks.

Town Manager Gary Brown said relations with the College are “excep-tional.” 5 ere are regular town-gown meetings between town o7 cials and Bowdoin personnel, and the Brunswick Police Department is in regular com-munication with Bowdoin Security and the dean’s o7 ce. 5 ere are also close ties between the town Department of Parks and Recreation and the College’s ath-letic department.

Brown also highlights that the town and College have engaged in mutually bene4 cial deals for property exchanges. 5 e College gave the town the McLellan Building in exchange for the Longfellow School and the two parties are engaged in talks regarding the Brunswick Naval Air Station.

5 e College and Bowdoin students support the local economy, spending nearly $5 million and $2 million re-

“We don’t focus on getting more applications.”

SCOTT MEIKLEJOHNDEAN OF ADMISSIONS AND

FINANCIAL AID

sis is all on the quality of the peo-ple who do apply, and I’ve said to them many times, I think if we do a decent job in admissions, that the pool will probably get a bit bigger every year, and we will reach more high schools, and more and more people will understand that it is a great place.”

Demographically, admissions data reflects this application in-crease across the board. Applica-tions from women are up five per-cent and from men up four percent. Applications from white students rose by one percent while applica-tions from students identifying as multicultural rose by 10 percent. The number of high schools rep-resented in the applicant pool rose

Record number of application for Class of 2017

President for Finance and Adminis-tration Katy Longley is the College’s fourth-highest paid employee, with a total compensation package of $300,874. Dean for Academic Af-fairs Cristle Collins Judd ranked fifth, taking in $261,865.

The next highest-paid were bi-ology professor Patsy Dickinson, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn, Chief Infor-mation Officer Mitchel Davis, and Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster.

The salaries of all employees listed on both Form 990s increased from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011.

“The 990 rules changed, so the forms you’re looking at actually cover a couple of pay periods,” Mills told the Orient. “So these numbers aren’t apples to apples from past years. But basically, we’ve been able to increase salaries for administra-tive staff around three percent.”

Mills explained that “going for-ward, given that it is evident that we’re going to have moderate in-

Mills added that federal summer stipends could factor into the com-pensation listed for these professors.

Under the College’s 4-5-6 policy, the College determines the salaries of its faculty members by looking at the three-year lagging average of percentage increases for fac-ulty at the colleges ranked fourth, fifth and sixth by average salary in Bowdoin’s peer group. This allows Bowdoin to “maintain its compen-sation for faculty at levels competi-tive with those of other excellent liberal arts colleges,” according to the College’s faculty compensation policy.

In essence, the policy allows Bowdoin to maintain its faculty’s salaries at a level similar to salaries at other top liberal arts colleges.

“The College has been attempt-ing to satisfy the 4-5-6 goal for faculty pay that we have met that in the past few years,” said Mills, “so the people who are at the top of that pay list are there because of their rank and seniority.”

-Nora Biette-Timmons and Gar-rett Casey contributed to this re-port.

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creases in tuition and that endow-ment returns are going to be un-predictable, it is likely that the kind of staff increases that we have seen over the last two to three years will be the kind of staff increases that we’ll see into the future.”

Mills went on to elaborate on the correlation between staff and administrative salaries.

“The principle has been to mim-ic what the administrative salaries increases have been except in cases where [administrators] have been promoted or that we have found that competitively they are being paid substantially less than similar positions at peer schools.”

This was the case with Meikle-john, whose total compensation increased by $30,222 after a com-parison of salaries for deans of ad-missions at peer schools.

5 e Form 990 disclosed the pay of 4 ve professors in addition to Dick-inson, who earned a combined total of $219,970 in salary and bene4 ts. Dickinson was followed by Craig McEwen (sociology), Bruce Kohorn (biology), Allen Wells (history) and Richard Morgan (government).

TOTAL COMPENSATION FOR NESCAC PRESIDENTSDATA FROM FORM 990s FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011

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SECURITY REPORT: 1/24 to 1/31! ursday, January 24• A student with concussion symp-

toms was escorted to the health center.• An o4 cer investigated a report of

a suspicious van at Pine Street Apart-ments.

•Students in Stowe Hall were cited for a hard alcohol policy violation.

Friday, January 25• Excessive noise was reported on the

5 rst 6 oor of West Hall.• A red Schwinn bicycle was stolen

from a bike rack near the entrance to Sargent Gym.

• A group of students in Stowe Inn was found baking treats with marijuana as the main ingredient.

• An intoxicated 5 rst-year female stu-dent was transported from Hyde Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

Saturday, January 26• A sta7 member reported a sus-

picious looking man entering Coles Tower. It turned out to be a suspicious looking alumnus.

• An intoxicated 21-year-old male student was transported from Pine Street Apartments to Mid Coast Hos-pital.

• An o4 cer checked on the well-be-ing of an intoxicated female student in Coleman Hall.

• A student at Pine Street Apartments was found in possession of drug para-phernalia.

• Wall damage was reported in a basement bathroom at Baxter House.

• A student who was deep-frying do-nuts set o7 the 5 re alarm at Pine Street Apartments. Brunswick Fire Depart-ment responded.

• A student reported that her coat containing a wallet was stolen from Ladd House. 8 e items were returned, having been picked up by mistake.

• A student reported a laptop stolen from Howard Hall. 8 e laptop was found, having been misplaced.

• A student with an allergic reaction was taken to Parkview Adventist Medi-cal Center.

• Four students in Appleton Hall were cited for a hard alcohol policy violation.

• A student in Hyde Hall was cited for possession of hard alcohol.

• 8 ree Coleman Hall residents were cited for an alcohol policy violation.

• A student in Coleman Hall violated the hard alcohol policy.

• A Stowe Hall student violated the drinking game policy.

• A student in West Hall was cited for possession of alcohol.

• A complaint of loud noise was re-

ceived at Maine Hall.Sunday, January 27• A student reported a suspicious

man loitering in Smith Union. 8 e man was the guest of a student.

• Loud noise was reported on the sec-ond 6 oor of West Hall.

• A student reported accidentally breaking a window with a football at Baxter House.

• A student accidentally broke a win-dow in Ladd House.

Monday, January 28• An o4 cer escorted an ill student

from the McLellan Building to the health center.

Wednesday, January 30• Two vehicles were involved in a mi-

nor accident in the Farley parking lot.• A student with a possible broken

5 nger was escorted to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

! ursday, January 31• Heavy winds blew down a large tree

near Baxter House, damaging a College pickup truck.

• Cooking smoke in the 8 orne Hall Bakery activated the building’s 5 re alarm. Brunswick Fire Department re-sponded.

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ceedings. Her brother, Stephen Danforth,

recalled childhood memories of his sister in a heartfelt eulogy. He began by sharing facts about Danforth that her colleagues and friends at the Col-lege may not have known.

“Susan had a love for music—she was a musician in her own right,” said Danforth, re-calling family gath-erings when Susan and her father would play trum-pet duets.

“She used to love acting,” he said, remembering that Danforth belonged to the drama club at Andover High School, where she starred in school productions like “8 e Mouse that Roared.”

Stephen Danforth referenced “Sus-tainably Incorrect,” a YouTube short that his sister made with her colleague Doug Cook, director of news and me-dia relations, to promote environmen-tally conscious living in 2010. In the video, Danforth plays a television an-chor of a sustainability program who teaches her co-host, played by Cook, strategies for decreasing his carbon footprint.

“She’s funny, she’s serious, she’s an-

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noyed,” said Danforth of his sister’s performance in the video. “All in all, I know she was thrilled to do that.”

“8 e last time I spoke with Sue was, I think, last Wednesday,” said Hood. “Security had some graphics that they wanted to put on their vehicles, and they sent them over to us. So I marched them down to Sue’s o4 ce and she said, ‘Are you just going to stand over me or

do I have a minute to look at it?’”

“Every time I see those Security ve-hicles I’ll think of Sue,” said Hood. “She had her hand in a lot of di7 erent things, but not in a way that would have put her front and center.”

Danforth said that his sister would travel several times

a month to visit their parents, George Arthur Danforth and Jeanne Bernar-din Danforth, who live in York. Her death, he said, is “going to be a big hole in their lives.”

In addition to her parents, Susan Danforth is survived by her brothers Arthur and Stephen Danforth, sister-in-law Cynthia Danforth, as well as several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and “a special cat ‘Samantha,’” according to the Portland Press Herald.

“She was modest, she kept to her-self,” Hood said. “Somebody said to me, when I told them the news this earlier in the week, that Sue was one of the grown-ups—I’m not sure what that says about the rest of us, but it says a lot about her.”

“She had her hand in a lot of di! erent things,

but not in a way that would have put

her front and center.”

SCOTT HOODVICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS

AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) released a “Fall Semester Report” this week summarizing completed, ongoing, and cancelled projects from the first half of the year. The report, compiled by the seven members of BSG’s Executive Committee, also specifies the sta-tus of BSG’s long-term goals. This is the first time in recent memory that BSG has published such a re-port.

“A lot of our work was prelimi-nary; I think this semester is going to be a lot more active-looking,” said Brian Kim ’13, BSG’s vice president for student organiza-tions. “For example, Dani’s GRE test prep program, which took forever to get off the ground, now is actually getting off the ground, which is awesome.”

The test prep program refers to a project spearheaded by Presi-dent Dani Chediak ’13 that aims to bring comprehensive graduate school exam preparation to cam-pus. BSG brought consultants to Bowdoin to evaluate the campus’ test prep needs, and Chediak is currently writing a proposal based on evaluations from Princeton Re-view and an independent tutor in Boston.

Other BSG successes from this fall include coordinating a Sep-tember 11 commemorative event with the Office of Student Activi-ties, the Bowdoin Democrats, and Bowdoin Republicans, sponsoring a photo booth for students to take professional profile headshots, and coordinating a viewing party for the results of this year’s election in Jack Magee’s Pub. Over 200 stu-dents attended the election night event.

BSG’s work this year has improved

its reputation among the student body. In the Orient’s annual approval ratings survey conducted in Novem-ber, 82 percent of students approved of BSG, up six percentage points from last year.

Additionally, BSG has made communicating more effectively with the student body a major goal for the year. The organization has revamped its website, increased its use of social media, and des-ignated a bulletin board in Smith Union for updates on new or ongo-ing projects.

“I think there are more events this year geared towards connect-ing BSG with everyone else on

campus,” noted John Izzo ’15, pres-ident of the 2015 class council and BSG at-large representative.

However, many students are still uninformed or apathetic of BSG’s work.

“I honestly don’t know what they did last term,” noted Sam Karson ’14.

According to Izzo, BSG’s work can be “underappreciated, but it’s a two-way street, and I think we’re moving in the right direction in terms of getting more people to understand what BSG does.”

“We’re talking a lot more, I’m just not sure how many people are hearing us,” added Kim.

While BSG fully accomplished

success in many planned projects last term, other goals did not pan out according to plan. Plans to establish a written College House selection procedure, to continue last year’s popular Uncommon Hour program, and to improve the SafeRide tracking system have all been postponed or abandoned.

Vice President for the Treasury and SAFC Chair Charlie Cubeta ’13 recognizes that it often takes BSG more than one academic year to implement larger proposals.

“One of the biggest challenges to the BSG is that it can be difficult to enact change quickly. I think this year the BSG has taken steps to create a foundation for future change that might only become ap-parent in the next few years,” wrote Cubeta in an email to the Orient.

For example, a proposal to add two days to the academic calendar in order to lengthen Thanksgiving break without curtailing Fall Break failed to gain enough traction among the faculty to take effect next year. Despite massive student support and a demonstration be-fore December’s faculty meeting, no faculty member made a mo-tion to vote on the proposal, and instead a committee was formed to consider all options.

“I think that in the sense of the SAFC allotting funds for projects, that’s a way BSG can be effective,” said Karson. “But in terms of ac-tual governance, I don’t think BSG does much or is able to do much. I think it would be most effective BSG were solely the SAFC.”

Currently, BSG is beginning to make headway on a number of spring semester projects. Its re-vival of Winter Weekend will take place next month, and a Super Bowl viewing party in Jack Magee’s pub will be sponsored by BSG on Sunday.

BY SAM MILLERORIENT STAFF

BSG releases report on fall semester progress

“It’s a shame that we won’t have Sarah’s talents on the BSG,” said Chediak, “but I understand her de-cision to resign and we are in the process of filling her position.”

The new vice president of stu-dent affairs will be selected from within the current assembly, and the new vice president will then have their position filled from out-side BSG.

If the person elected was ap-pointed by BSG, then the BSG will appoint someone for that posi-tion; however, if the individual was elected to their position on BSG, a school-wide election will be held for their replacement.

During the meeting, BSG also discussed a public comment by Catalina Gallagher ’16, who came before the BSG on behalf of Bow-doin Climate Action to discuss di-vestment from fossil fuels.

Gallagher said that the group wanted to assess whether if the BSG had interest in of-ficially backing di-vestment, and Vice President of Facili-ties Tessa Kramer ’13 said that it is something BSG should look at and discuss further.

Chediak said that BSG would be-gin perusing a proposal, and invite Gallagher back if were considering passing a resolution.

At-Large Representative Heidi Cao ’16, At-Large Representative Sam Vitello ’13, and Class of 2012 Representative Peggy Zhao ’13 were all absent from Wednesday’s meeting.

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dent Organizations Brain Kim ’13. “Right now, SOOC is supposed to sit in and adjudicate hazing [in clubs], which makes no sense be-cause we don’t have the training. There’s no consistency between the BSG and administration, and we want to allow the college’s haz-ing policy to supersede ours.”

Kim went on to say that the pro-cedures that govern hazing are un-clear, as individuals and groups are treated differently.

Furthermore, under the current policy, College administrators has the power to bypass the SOOC and deal with hazing cases involving clubs themselves.

At-Large Representative David Levine ’16 proposed that hazing cases be brought before the Ju-dicial Board rather than the SOOC.

A straw poll was taken to determine the possibility of amending the SOOC pro-posal to in-clude Levine’s proposition. Of the 22 BSG Dani Chediak ’13 said that she would speak with the administration and announce her decision at the fol-lowing meeting.

BSG will also be holding a vote to replace Vice President of Stu-dent Affairs Sarah Levin ’13, who resigned earlier this week for per-sonal reasons.

“We want to allow the college’s hazing policy to supercede ours.

BRIAN KIM ‘13VICE PRESIDENT

FOR STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

“I think there are more events this year geared towards

connecting BSG with everyone on campus.”

JOHN IZZO ’15PRESIDENT OF 2015 CLASS COUNCIL

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Brunswick Rep. Mattie Daughtry is youngest woman in Maine legislature

Two months into her new job as state representative, 25-year-old Mattie Daughtry has made her mark on Maine’s legislature. The youngest woman in the assembly, Daughtry has already proposed 11 bills in efforts tosupport education, action on climate change, improve-ment on mental health services.

Daughtry went to Brunswick High School, and took a few classes at Bowdoin during her time there, which resulted in a lifelong alle-giance to the College. Growing up in a political family—her parents were actively involved in the com-munity and her godmother was a state representative—Daughtry de-veloped an early interest in politics, and remembers campaigning on Maine Street to be president of the United States at the age of six.

“An older man walked up to me and told me that I couldn’t be presi-dent because I was a girl, and girls don’t become presidents,” she said. After that, “an amazing group of women involved with the Bruns-wick Democratic Town Committee

sort of raised me. It really does take a village to raise a state rep.”

At Smith College, Daughtry ma-jored in studio art and stayed in-volved with journalism, hoping to work at NPR after graduating. She started doing freelance work for photographer Michelle Stapleton after graduating in 2009, and also created a food blog.

“I once went to hear Governor Paul LePage speak, and he said that the reason many under-30 year olds could not afford health insur-ance was because they spend all their money on iPhones and iPads,” Daughtry said. “It got me really mad, so I went on a tirade against the governor on my blog and it

went viral. I started getting feed-back from people all over the state sharing their stories, and it got me fired up.”

She then went on to do opposi-tion and bill research for Maine’s Majority, an organization that rep-resents the 61 percent of Maine that didn’t vote for LePage.

Last June, Daughtry was follow-ing the senate primaries when Alex Cornell du Houx ’06 announced he was not running for reelection. “I was so fired up, I had so much I cared about, I saw work could be done in Augusta, and it was my hometown and there was so much at stake. I want kids from Bowdoin

to be able to stay in Brunswick.”After handily winning the race

for Maine District 66, which en-compasses a portion of Brunswick between McKeen Street and the riv-er and includes approximately 300 Bowdoin students, Daughtry was officially sworn in on December 5.

She now serves on the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and is a mem-ber of the under-35 youth caucus. One of her main focuses thus far has been to limit the creation of for-profit virtual charter schools.

“I’m opposed to surging forward to create schools to benefit orga-nizations and not kids,” she said. “Predatory companies are coming into districts and are not fitting the needs of our children, and they have already bankrupted many ar-eas.”

Another major focus of Daugh-try’s has been empowering the local food movement and making agri-cultural studies a required part of school curricula.

“I used to be teased for being a hick, but it just so happened that I grew up in Brunswick and my par-ents happened to own chickens and teach me about farming,” she said. “Many schools have built these new gardens, but because of the require-ments placed on teachers they can’t use the garden as a teaching tool.”

Other bills she proposed include banning dangerous coal tar sealants in pavement, and reclassifying the Androscoggin River because of re-cent cleanup efforts.

Maine’s paltry education budget also worries Daughtry, who thinks the lack of resources is driving away

young people from Maine.“Many municipalities are worried

that no matter what budget they create now, due to the governor’s extreme budget it’s going to get cut,” she said. “It will greatly hurt Maine, with the threat of cutting prescrip-tion drug assistance for the elderly and increasing property taxes—thus scaring youth from coming to the state—to make up for the defi-cit. The impact to Brunswick would be at least two million dollars, but I honestly think it would be closer to $5 million. The governor won’t let us raise revenue and it’s abso-lutely awful. Revenue should not be

a dirty word. The scary thing is the upcoming biennial budget would cut all municipal revenue sharing, which means the state would stop giving money to the towns.”

On the topic of global warming, Daughtry believes that the efforts to increase fuel efficiency, diversify Maine’s energy portfolio, and move away from fossil fuel dependency currently going in practice are help-ful, but not sufficient.

“I think climate change is really the number one issue for our age group,” she said. “It’s a reality as a global threat, but a particularly pertinent issue to Maine. Economi-cally it’s going to devastate us, as we depend on tourism and our ski areas are already having a decline

in snow making days. The tempera-tures are rising so the fisheries are in trouble, and fossil fuel prices are too high and lobster prices too low for lobstermen to go out. Now is the time to invest in innovation in re-newable resources, and this is when we figure out what we’ll do going forward.”

Daughtry said she is “all for gun control measures. We don’t live in the wild west and we have to make sure as a society that we’re safe. We have to enforce the existing laws; we need to close a lot of the loop-holes.”

Daughtry said she is “absolutely 100 percent opposed to the mea-sure that an educator should have a firearm.”

She sees the current state of the mental health system as the bigger issue, because of the stigmatiza-tion associated with counseling and health services.

“We can introduce as many gun measures one way or another, but until we are taking are of those who need it and have a health system that can cover everyone it won’t be enough,” she said. “People are scared to admit failure…The big-gest issue is a complete and utter overhaul of our mental health sys-tem where everyone has access to mental health.

“My goal is to get more young people involved with politics, be-cause if you have ideas, you can make real policy change,” Daughtry said. “I’m a firm believer that it just takes one step, and if I’m that per-son out there screaming her head off that we need to do something, all the better.”

“I want kids from Bowdoin to be able to stay in Brunswick.”

“I think climate change is really the number one issue

for our age group.”

COURTESY OF MATTIE DAUGHTRY

MATTIE DAUGHTRY

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Books that could fuel your research fl ame

Winter Break was a time to catch up on all that “fun” reading you’ve been meaning to do but have never have time for while entrenched in the Bowdoin Bubble. Alas, classes have started again. “Goodbye pleasure read-ing!” you say. “See you in the summer, maybe!”

But wait, I’ve got two books to recommend that really, truly, should occupy your nightstand this semes-ter. Reasons: 1. 3 ey’re fun to read, and so, so worth the last 15 minutes of your nights before bed. 2. You’ll learn a lot, about stu4 you’ve always wanted to know and things you never realized you needed to know. 3. 3 ey all contain stand-alone, quick-read chapters, perfect for your last 15 min-utes before bed.

At the top of this extensive list of compelling attributes is the fact that all three of my books are “Sci-ence Books” (this is the “Goggles and Gloves” science column a5 erall, and I am somewhere between ethically and legally compelled to talk science). But hold on, hold on—these are cool science books, written for theoretical physicists, amateur biologists, second-wave feminists and rubber fetishists alike. 3 ey’ll teach you, among many other things, how to survive falling 35,000 feet out of an airplane and why the penis is shaped like that. Like I said, cool science books.

Let’s say you do, in fact, want to know how to survive the airplane fall: Pick up a copy of 3 e Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2011 Edition (editor Mary Roach) to snag some tips on what to do the next time you 6 nd yourself plummeting towards Hawaii for the reality show

More than coffee attracts students to off-campus study hotspotsBY NATALIE CLARK

ORIENT STAFF

While juggling textbooks and travel mugs, the pursuit for good study spots in Smith Union or in the basement of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library can of-ten prove futile. For this reason, many students head o4 -campus to cafés in Brunswick where the reading chairs and latté-to-foam ratios are perfect.

Bohemian Co4 ee House, Wild Oats Bakery and Café, and the Little Dog Co4 ee Shop are three favorite study hotspots for Bowdoin students, but di4 erentiation between their atmo-spheres and products may demystify the experience.

Bohemian’s proximity to the Polar Bear—a mere 7-minute walk, accord-ing to Google Maps—is an important factor to Christine Walder ’15.

“3 e Bohemian Café is just along the way for me from where I live, so it’s convenient. It’s also close to campus,” she said.

Although many students pass it on their way to Hannaford, many have never really seen Bohemian.

“It’s a really weird location. It’s in that strip mall in front of Hannaford,” said Tristan McCormick ’13.

Inside, Bohemian exudes a relaxed playfulness. 3 e walls are a warm yellow,

contrasting with its dark plum ceiling. Potted green plants hang throughout the room, and patrons can sit at high-tops in addition to tables. 3 ere is a separate sitting room with doors that o4 er comfy couches and shelves of board games. Local art is o5 en displayed on the walls, currently showing photographs by Peter M. Robbins.

In contrast, the white walls, high ceil-ings, and framed catalog-type prints of food at Wild Oats create a more open feel. Wild Oats is in the Tontine Mall, a 10-minute walk down Maine Street.

“I like all the people that work there. Everyone’s very friendly,” said Walder.

Some of the tables have decks of Triv-ial Pursuit cards for guests to play. When you go to order your co4 ee, sandwich, soup, or baked good, you feel as though you are present in the kitchen.

However, the popularity of Wild Oats with Bowdoin students causes some to turn away.

“Really, the only issue is that some-times there are a lot of Bowdoin peo-ple,” said Walder.

A little further down the road, Little Dog’s atmosphere preserves it as a re-treat from the Bowdoin Bubble, Mc-Cormick explained.

“3 ere might be ten Bowdoin kids there, but we all have our own place,” he said.

“It’s better than being in Smith where you’re always running by peo-ple you know. Sometimes it’s really crowded, and they play music in the background,” he added. “During 6 nals, there will be a lot of students there. I like seeing other students studying too.”

A large, open window lets you peer out from dark, leather couches and chairs on to Maine Street. 3 e walls inside are burgundy, adding to the calm, sophisticated aura. 3 e open kitchen makes the experience seem

more informal. Local artwork by Catherine M. Scanlon is currently on display. 3 ere are children’s games and books available as well.

3 e white canine outline advertising Little Dog is 13 minutes from campus, the farthest of the three.

“It’s kind of far away if you’re walking,” said Walder.

Unlike McCormick, the size of Little Dog is a downside for Greg Rosen ’14.

“It can get pretty crowded because it’s a small space, and the tables are pretty

small,” he said. “You don’t have space to spread out like I would in the Union or in H-L occasionally.”

Although their environments di4 er, the three cafés have similar dedications to the quality and variation of their products. Bohemian and Little Dog have a host of baked goods, while Wild Oats is more of a deli.

“I generally don’t eat at Little Dog,” said Rosen. “I just go there for the co4 ee and the space. If I do get food, it’s most likely at Wild Oats.”

As of yesterday, Bohemian had nine di4 erent co4 ees brewed, Wild Oats of-fered eight, and Little Dog had 12. How-ever, their prices are very di4 erent. At Bohemian you can 6 ll your travel mug with co4 ee and buy a bagel all for $2.50. 3 e same snack will cost you $3.40 at Wild Oats and $3.14 at Little Dog.

3 e change in prices might motivate some students’ decisions.

“At Wild Oats, I like the fact that you get free re6 lls on co4 ee,” said Rosen. Re-6 lls cost $0.95 at Little Dog, and over $1 for most Bohemian sizes.

Wild Oats is the only one that has a deal for Bowdoin students, o4 ering a 10 percent Bowdoin student discount on Sundays, and accepting One Cards for payment.

-Michael Colbert contributed to this report.

KACEY BERRY

GOGGLES AND GLOVES

version of “Lost.” Hints: Hope you land in a marsh and not in water. For further details, turn to pages 232 through 238.

As you might imagine from the title, 3 e Best American Science and Nature Writing is the place to go to 6 nd a high concentration of engaging, multi-dimensional essays on a wide variety of scienti6 c subjects, all com-piled by a well recognized peer writer in the science writing world. Whether you’re looking for a cogent explora-tion of time (“Could Time End?” by George Musser, page 263), looking to understand the very human drama of cancer treatment research (“3 e Treatment” by Malcolm Gladwell page 157), or dubious about how any published research should be trusted in the 6 rst place (“Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science” by David H. Freedman, page 112), this is the place to start. Good science o5 en involves reductionist problem solving. 3 ese writers 6 nd a way to reintegrate these reductionism-based discoveries into holistic narratives. You’ll care about the stories beyond the bare-bones sci-ence. 3 rough these writers, you can see a variety of scienti6 c concepts as integral to humanity.

So why is the penis shaped like that? If I’ve piqued your interest, and you’d like to re7 ect on being human, you should read the book, “Why is the Penis Shaped Like 3 at?: And Other Re7 ections on Being Human,”

I wonder about the people who post “going home!” as their Facebook status on either end of winter break. I wonder what they really mean.

I’m not confused by what’s prob-ably intended—the excitement of going back, I assume—but I’m perplexed by the implications of the wording. I want to ask, “what exactly do you mean by a home in two places?” But I don’t, be-cause it’s Facebook.

Two homes: one at school, and one at, well, home. Both o4 er a familiar blend of comfort and routine—of be-longing. Back home, where we rest our achy brains by sleeping all night and all morning. Breakfast for lunch anyone? 3 e TV is on, the parents are out, feet are up on the couch; TV is still on (“I’m sooo bored”), is it dinnertime yet? Rinse and repeat until 6 nally a month goes by and then we’re aching in a di4 erent way, aching for Bowdoin, for people we can only describe as family.

We’re aching for 7 annel, the Bowdoin livery, and for thorne’s favorite Hono-lulu tofu. Back on campus and “it’s sooo cold,” but the people are warm. Everyone says, “How was your break?” in unison, and then, “Good” in unison, which we already know. We all did the same thing, unless you were—don’t say it—produc-tive, in which case shame on you, go back to the dark hole from whence you came. We’re back on the grind, awake all night, awake in the early morning—well, the science majors are—running to Moulton before they stop making eggs to order, going to class, prodded along only by the knowledge that it’s Wednes-day and we will be merciless with the sundae bar.

3 ese are descriptions of homes, of our geographical center of gravity. We, as college students, oscillate between these two stations, and we connect them because they o4 er us the comfort of dependable routines, albeit routines

BY CALLIE FERGUSONCONTRIBUTER

calibrated to di4 erent intensities. At home and at school, we feel similarly obligated (“It is my duty to 6 nish this history paper/Arrested Development: Season 3 ree”) and empowered (“I am furthering my education/my education in Arrested Development”), but most importantly we feel familiar with the people, places and things. Perhaps this is why we claim, sometimes, to have two homes.

But I have to disagree with my Facebook friends. Leaving aside the functional usages of the word, isn’t a home de6 ned by its assignment to a single place? A place of genesis, of sol-ace, of family, or even in another per-son, the home is evidence of itself. It is separate from all other places on the basis that it is unlike all other places. Its specialness seems inseparable from its singularity, and it cannot be pieced apart, divided and distributed. Per-haps it can be picked up and plopped elsewhere, but to multiply it would be to obliterate it.

It’s dangerous to cage subjective concepts into tidy de6 nitions, but this singularity clings to me with the es-sence of something inherently true. And to ignore it might be to ignore the frightening reality that our lives are making the jump from one stage to another, from one home to another, and that our suspension in mid-air is where we 6 nd ourselves at College.

So I wonder: Is the feeling of hav-ing two homes the feeling of having no home at all? At this exciting, liminal space in our lives—ex-teenagers, pre-adults—we don’t always notice the tug of our roots as we leave them behind us, and it may be a while before we see that they’ve snapped. I’ve been feeling homeless lately, but it isn’t bad, it’s ex-citing; it is movement and progress.

Bowdoin has o4 ered me “a home in all lands and all ages.” I’d revise that. Bowdoin has o4 ered me belonging in

“Home” for the Holidays

written by Jesse Bering, a science re-searcher and award-winning colum-nist. I admit that when I bought this nugget impulsively at my hometown bookstore over break, I had the 6 rst half of the title to thank. “Psh, no time for re7 ection!” I thought, as I 7 ipped immediately to page 17 for the answer. (Spoiler alert: the penis head may be designed to scoop out any competing sperm lingering in the female vaginal canal. For further details and nuance, read the book or talk to me).

Furthermore, few of the topics that Bering explores have been “6 gured out.” Yes, he shows us the current re-search in every area. (Who knew that people actually get government fund-ing to see whether women who have condom-less sex with men are less likely to be depressed than those who wear protection, or those who don’t have sex with men at all?). Certainly, Bering explores di4 erent possible biological mechanisms. But don’t ex-pect to emerge with the hard-and-fast truth. Especially if you’re into science research and thinking of going down that route in the future, take this as an opportunity to understand the exciting holes in current understanding; a re-search niche just waiting for you to 6 ll!

Perhaps you’ll understand you’re own humanity a little better. At the very least, you’ll have great material for next week’s o8 ce hours with your biology, philosophy, sociology and gender and women studies professors.

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NATALIE CLARK, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTCUPS WITH CHARACTER: From a dog to a gecko to a slice of bread, cafes show their style.

Callie Ferguson is a member of the Class of 2015

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TALK OF THE QUAD

On January 13, Madison Whit-ley ’13, Orient co-business manag-er, spotted a hat in SeaWorld’s San Diego store that featured a polar bear with a striking resemblance to the College’s mascot. She tweeted a photo to @bowdoincollege, and by January 18 the College had started investigating SeaWorld for pos-sible violations of trademark and copyright law.

If SeaWorld did indeed steal the image of the Bowdoin Polar Bear, it also stole a part of Bowdoin’s soul. The College relies heavily on po-lar bear symbolism and metaphor. Any ensuing legal battle will be a struggle to reclaim the College’s primary means of representing it-self, and a key component of its in-stitutional identity.

All this happened just as the Bowdoin Polar Bear geared up for its 100th birthday extravaganza in New York City.

The Polar Bear became the Col-lege’s official mascot on January 18, 1913, at a meeting of the Alumni Association in New York City. To celebrate its centennial, the Polar Bear returned to its birthplace over Winter Break.

In the self-absorbed spirit of the digital age, the Polar Bear document-ed its fun-4 lled trip on Facebook and Twitter, posting photos of a shopping

excursion to Brooks Brothers and ice skating at Bryant Park.

It also participated in another attention-seeking pastime, rising at dawn and grappling with the crowd outside the Today Show’s studio, hoping for even two seconds of face time on national television.

Only the day before, I had watched from my couch as the Polar Bear appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, awkwardly interact-ing with the show’s hosts. While on the air, the College’s mascot re-minded me of Barney—America’s favorite purple dinosaur—who teaches toddlers about family, friendship and love. Fittingly, the segment bore the title “What Have We Learned Today?”

World stole our mascot’s image. We have a richer history to draw from.

The Polar Bear has a paw in near-ly every pun at the College: eBear, Bearings, Polaris, Polar Points. We may be an intelligent bunch, but we aren’t very creative.

Few students know it, but the College does have a motto: Ut Aquila Ver-sus Coe-lum, Latin for “As an eagle to the sky.” It is an idiosyn-cratic and obscure motto, but we pay it no heed. Unfortunately, this motto isn’t the only piece of Bowdoin history we ignore.

We can boast that Joshua Law-rence Chamberlain, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow studied in Massachu-setts Hall and strolled beneath Bowdoin’s famous pines before claiming their places in American history. We don’t, though. For the most part, these figures exist out-side of our consciousness.

Hawthorne and Longfellow—both of the Class of 1825—are among the greatest literary figures in American history. Not once have I heard their words invoked at Bowdoin. Yes, the library is named after these great men, but we refer

they propagate. JuicyCampus was the rag du jour around 2008; when it shut down a year later it began redirect-ing all visitors to CollegeACB.com. Upperclassmen may re-member the “College Anony-mous Confession Board” for the controversy it generated on campus and the calls for its removal—thankfully, the URL now redirects to an online gaming site.

Like JuicyCampus, Col-legeACB claimed to be

“devoted to promoting actual discussion, not

provoking salacious posts or personal

attacks." In fact, both sites

attracted little more than the the

latter. But neither Juicy-

Campus nor Colleg-eACB was the first to

utilize the internet for less than well-meaning

projects—let’s not forget how Facebook got its start

almost ten years ago. Even before then, back in 2004, a site called BowdoinMatch—a primitive questionnaire-based dating site—took the College by storm. When Facebook ar-

BOWDOIN HISTORY BEARLY REMEMBERED

Few students know it, but the College does have a motto:

Ut Aquila Versus Coelum,“As an eagle to the sky.”

It is an idiosyncratic and obscure motto, but we pay it no heed.

JUICY CAMPUS

to it as H-L, reducing their legacies to an acronym bereft of meaning.

Chamberlain demonstrated cour-age during the moments for which

history remembers him—his defense of the Union

at Little Round Top in 1863—and the

moments which

history has largely forgotten. 5 is includes his valiant e6 orts to protect the rule of law a7 er Maine’s guber-natorial election in 1880. Chamber-lain is now so marginal a figure at Bowdoin that I’ve heard students wonder if his statue, which stands at the intersection of Maine Street and Bath Road, is a bronze cast of Senator Angus King.

There are many other stories the College has forgotten—stories I had never heard of until I stumbled upon “Under the Bowdoin Pines,” a collection of tales written by

Bowdoin alumni, published in 1907 by John Clair Minot.

One of these short tales, “The Thorndike Oak” by Thaddeus Rob-erts Simonton, might resonate with those who lack the genius of Cham-berlain, Hawthorne and Longfel-low. Simonton writes of George Thorndike, a member of Bowdoin’s first class, who did something quite simple. He planted an acorn. It grew into an oak tree.

5 orndike planted the acorn in hopes that he would be remembered,

and for well over a century, he was. Simonton wrote that Thorndike’s

memory would live on through

the oak, even “when all who

graduated at Bowdoin have passed from earth, and the fame of her sweet

poet, Longfellow, of her de-lightful romanticist, Hawthorne, shall have been dimmed by the lapse of time.”

Each year, Bowdoin’s graduating seniors have a reception beneath a new Thorndike Oak. They en-joy the tree’s shade, but have little appreciation for the tree’s place in Bowdoin history.

So let SeaWorld take our Polar Bear. It will force us to rediscover even older traditions, symbols and tales from Bowdoin’s past.

-Garrett Casey

Perhaps for those reasons, the show left me with the impression that Bowdoin was one of New York City’s elite preschools, not one of the nation’s oldest institutions of higher education.

That’s why I won’t be particularly outraged if it turns out that Sea-

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Matt Ivester wants to help. As founder of the once infamous anonymous gossip site JuicyC-ampus.com, Ivester gained noto-riety by selling poison to college students in the form of an online network ideal for sharing dam-aging and shaming information about fellow classmates. Now he’s selling the antidote in the form of his book, “lol...OMG!: What Ev-ery Student Needs to Know about Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbul-lying.” But judging from the paltry attendance at his talk in Pickard Theater last night, Bowdoin stu-dents aren’t buying.

Ivester said he is trying to “do something positive with the JuicyCampus experience,” which he described as a kind of “lol...OMG” moment in his life. Four years ago, when JuicyCampus was at the height of its popularity at Bowdoin, Ivester would hardly have been welcome on campus, let alone invited to dispense advice to students. By the time the site shut down in February 2009, Bowdoin’s JuicyCampus page included topics ranging from “If You Could Hook Up With Anyone on Campus, Who Would It Be?” to “Interesting

Hookup Places”, and “Cutest Couple”—that is, not ranging at all, according to a BCuria article from that year. Most discussions revolved around sex in all the worst ways. Occasionally, threads would just have someone’s name as a subject title, inviting un-named visitors to criticize the subject at will.

5 ough Ivester is now working to help students manage their online identi-ties by advising them to cross-link their social me-dia pro4 les and double-check their privacy set-tings, it’s obvious that he still takes a cer-tain pride in his in-famous creation.

“It was even an answer on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire,’” he told the audience in Pickard last night, after playing a clip from Good Morning America in which Ka-tie Couric calls JuicyCampus “a malicious cesspool of barbs, dis-ses, and insults.”

To get his cautionary message across, Ivester played an excerpt from Katy Perry’s hit “Last Fri-day Night”—the part that goes, “Pictures of last night / Ended up online / I’m screwed, / Oh well.”

“You are not Katy Perry,” Ivester said. If pictures of last night ended up online, “actually, you are screwed.”

For being reputed to besmirch your reputation forever, online gossip forums sure don’t seem to last long. At Bowdoin, they disap-pear into legend like the rumors

rived on the scene, it was hailed as a competitor, and I’d like to think that one of the reasons it has gained more traction than other sites is because of its repudiation of online anonymity. Facebook is practically unavoidable these days—take it from someone who has deactivated her account many times, only to reactivate minutes later—and forcefully encourages users to make their real identities cohere around virtual avatars.

The latest anonymous forum to debut on campus, Off-therecord.com, had the well-intentioned goal of promoting discussion of con-tentious topics at Bowdoin. The site was an ambitious if shortlived project, and likely not the last of its kind that the College will see.

In anonymous forums, speakers are able to remain cloaked in the shadows while casting a harsh light on the subjects of their gossip. This sort of hypocrisy, as Gawker founder Nick Denton has said, “is the only modern sin,” a new temp-tation of our technological age. Gossip has always existed, but un-til recently, a human being had to tell you about it; you couldn’t just harvest it for free. And you had to stick your neck out. Anonymous online posters don’t have any skin in the game.

-Linda Kinstler, with Toph Tucker

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY TASHA SANDOVALSTAFF WRITER

With new pavilion, Colby museum to become largest in MaineBY ERIN FITZPATRICK

STAFF WRITER

With the July opening of the $15 million Alfond-Lunder Family Pa-vilion, the Colby College Museum of Art will become the largest art museum in Maine.

The event will mark the comple-tion of a six year construction proj-ect that began in 2007 when Colby alumnus Peter Lunder and his wife Paula chose to donate the entirety of their $100 million, 500-piece private collection of celebrated American art to the institution.

Joachim Homann, the curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, sees Colby’s recent expan-sion as an exciting opportunity to discuss the advancement of college art museums.

“It is really a reason for the whole field to celebrate, because it pushes the boundaries of what academic art museums are doing,” said Homann.

Because of the fairly small net-work of art programs in Maine, the state’s curators have formed close relationships. The mutually bene-ficial dynamic thrives through the Maine Art Museum Trail, a formal collaboration between seven of the state’s leading art museums, in-cluding those of Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, and the University of Maine.

Elizabeth Finch, the Lunder curator of American art at Colby, cites this network as a key factor to each museum’s individual success.

“The opening of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion will deep-en the Colby Museum’s ties to its community and to other museums in the state, creating new oppor-tunities for creative collaboration and exchange,” said Finch. “Maine has a rich visual arts tradition that is only strengthened as our muse-ums grow and innovate.”

Bowdoin and Colby are espe-cially active in this tradition of exchange; indeed, there is rarely a Bowdoin installation without a do-nation from Colby, and the same can be said of exhibits at Colby.

This exchange system is espe-cially productive because the two collections are so different. The museums’ curators maintain that the offerings of the two collections are simply too disparate for there to be any competition between them.

“We always think of our holdings

as being complementary to each oth-er,” said Homann. “We are aware of the strengths of the particular muse-ums, and we use them to each other’s advantage.”

Colby’s strong point is its col-lection of contemporary American art, which will become even more expansive with the installation of the new pavilion. But the Colby collections is still only about 50 years old, according to Homann, and the collection is not yet old enough to offer any real historical perspective.

Bowdoin has been collecting art since it received its first donation in 1811. The early collections are still intact and provide an invaluable historical snapshot into the mind set of the 18th and 19th-century in-tellectuals who compiled them.

The most recognizable sign of the Bowdoin museum’s age, of course, is the historic structure of the museum itself, an original design built in 1894. According to Homann, the museum’s collec-tion of ancient art is unique in the state of Maine, and the collection

of colonial and federal portraits is unmatched anywhere else in the country.

“The most important aspect of being in an art museum that is al-ready practically 200 years old is that at Bowdoin, the museum is a center of attention and is cherished by all, revealing a deep apprecia-tion of the visual arts and a unique sophistication that I have not seen anywhere else,” said Homann.

In short, with their seasonal exhibits aside, Bowdoin’s hold-ings provide a window into the past, whereas Colby offers visi-tors a chance to experience more recent art.

Because of the close proximity and distinctness of each institu-tion, Homann expects that the increased traffic Colby sees with the opening of its pavilion will greatly multiply the number of visitors Bowdoin sees in the sum-mer months.

“I’m sure that, because we are located en route to Colby for most people who come out of state, they might stop by here, as well,” he said.

Homann sees the addition at Colby as a reason for the entire Bowdoin community to celebrate the importance of supporting the College’s strong tradition of art.

“For Bowdoin, it means we have an even stronger ally and friend,” he said. “I really congratulate Col-by on their success and sharing it with the public and with the neigh-boring institutions.”

Upcoming installations at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art include a program of the paintings of Pierre Kirkby, one of Scandi-navia’s most important living art-ists, and an exhibit of work of the postimpressionist painter Maurice Prendergast depicting the New England coast.

IMAGE BY FREDERICK FISHER AND PARTNERS ARCHITECTS, COURTESY OF COLBY COLLEGEMILLION DOLLAR BABY: The Colby College Museum of Art adds a large contribution to their collection of American art with the new pavilion.

After fi fty years as director,festival founder set to retire

For the past 3 4 y years, Bowdoin students doing summer research have had the opportunity to attend performances by world-renowned musicians at the annual Bowdoin In-ternational Music Festival.

Next summer, Lewis Kaplan, the man who made it all possible, will retire from his directorial post.

Since its founding in 1964, the fes-tival has evolved from a local, small summer concert series to an interna-tional training program for accom-plished young musicians.

“Having just graduated from Juil-liard, I never thought to start a sum-mer school,” said Kaplan.

“I was pretty much just starting out in my career when Robert Beck-with, who had just became chair of the music department at Bowdoin, called me on a Friday a4 ernoon to ask if the Aeolian chamber play-ers (we were four young musicians) would be interested in coming to Bowdoin in the summer of 1964 to

do a concert series, and if we would be interested in starting a summer school in the following summer of 1965,” said Kaplan.

Despite some hesitation, Kaplan accepted the o5 er.

“I never dreamt that the festival would be what it is 49 years later, I have to be honest about that,” said Kaplan.

As he travelled abroad to build his accomplished career as a violin-ist, Kaplan made great efforts to in-crease the Bowdoin festival’s global reach.

“I felt that this was the way the world was going, this was about twenty years ago,” said Kaplan. “I felt that the world was becoming smaller and more international, so I certainly made a short term plan to make the festival more international. I began to travel abroad much more, judging the major international competitions.”

As a result of Kaplan’s interna-tional outlook, the festival began

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will soon have two new di-rectors, Dean of Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd announced on Wednesday. Frank H. Good-year III and his wife, Anne Collins Goodyear, will serve as co-direc-tors starting June 1.

The search for a new director began early last year when Kevin Salatino, director of the museum for three years, accepted a position as the director of art collections at the Huntington Library in San Ma-rino, Calif.

“Foremost in our search was the desire to appoint a director who would exude a passion for the art museum’s unique and important collection,” wrote Judd in an email to the Orient.

A4 er meeting with the Good-years, the original “director” posi-tion changed to “directors,” a move that, according to Anne Goodyear, “is rather unusual in the art world.”

“Bowdoin, I think, is really doing something here that’s quite innova-tive,” said Goodyear of the College’s

decision to appoint the husband-wife team as co-directors.

The dynamic duo will bring a strong curatorial background to the museum.

Both currently work as cura-tors at the National Portrait Gal-lery in Washington, D.C., Frank as curator of photography and Anne as associate curator of prints and drawings.

Anne is also president of the College Art Association and a lec-turer in the Department at George Washington University.

Part of what drew the Goodyears to the College were the similarities they saw between the Bowdoin art museum and the Smithsonian.

“In some sense it’s a smaller ver-sion of the Smithsonian,” said Anne Goodyear. “Certainly the scale [of the latter] is much larger, but I think there is a similar commitment to ex-cellence.”

As co-directors, the Goodyears will play an integral part in decid-ing the path that Bowdoin’s muse-um takes in the coming years.

They will be responsible for de-termining the museum’s budget, staffing, educational opportunities,

and developing the collection. “They fully embrace Bow-

doin’s liberal arts mission and the unique role the museum of art plays in advancing that mission,” she said.

First on the Goodyears’ agenda is getting a sense of the Bowdoin community and getting as much public input as they can concern-ing the museum.

“I think the very first thing we have to do is meet with as many people on campus and people be-yond Brunswick as possible and listen to what they have to say,” said Frank Goodyear.

The Goodyears are also open to reaching beyond the walls of the museum to further educate the campus.

“We both have very much enjoyed combining teaching with our curatorial responsibil-ity,” said Anne Goodyear. “We certainly would never rule out teaching. I think it’s something that we love.”

“6 ey are the perfect 3 t for the museum and for Bowdoin,” said cu-rator Joachim Homann. “We can’t wait to get started!”

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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Natalie Johnson ’13

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BY MICHELLE HONGSTAFF WRITER

As liberal arts students tune into their passions, some might find that what began as an ex-tracurricular interest might become their life’s mission, as Natalie Johnson ’13, an English major and dance minor, quickly discovered.

Hailing from rural Colorado, Johnson originally planned on going into law but changed her mind after taking Choreogra-phy 270.

“I was a ballet and jazz teach-er in high school at a studio for children, ages six through elev-en, and I made pieces for them,” said Johnson. “I had never made a piece for my peer age, or con-sidered the amazing thought of making a piece for other people who are better dancers than me. It totally opened up my world and made me think, ‘This is what I want to do.’”

Johnson has been taking dance lessons since she was six and first became serious about ballet, tap and jazz in middle school.

On campus, she has expand-ed into modern dance, choreo-graphing and dancing for the spring and win-ter dance pro-ductions.

J o h n s o n ’ s deep involve-ment in the dance depart-ment includes leading Ara-besque, the Col-lege’s audition-based ballet group. She not only runs the group and choreographs the performances, but also o4 ers a ballet technique class on Sundays for all skill lev-els.

As a dance minor, Johnson has taken almost every class the department has to offer, and taken three independent choreography studies. In John-son’s experience, choreography is a mixture of method and in-stinct.

While she sometimes sets or-ganized goals and tasks for her-self, much of her work is gener-ated through experimentation.

“My process can be going into a studio late at night by myself and just improvising,” said Johnson. “Maybe it takes two hours where I’m just there, moving around and playing dif-ferent music. Or in silence, I ac-tually really like silence a lot.”

“You learn just as much, or more, in failure as you do in success. To fail teaches you a lot. To succeed feels wonderful but sometimes we don’t pick up as much information from that.”

Dancing at Bowdoin has taught Johnson to pick herself up after falling, literally and figuratively.

“I think for dancers, and maybe for people in general, we are afraid to fail. Especially

with something that is about how you look and what your body is doing,” she said. “For me, Bowdoin and my experi-ences outside of Bowdoin...[have] taught me that it’s okay to fail. You’re in a safe place where you can learn and grow from that.”

Although she has met some challenges in pursuing dance at a small liberal arts college, Johnson believes it has been the right place for her.

Being in a smaller dance community than she would have been at a conservatory, she has been able to impact the department, and receive fellow-ships and scholarships to study intensively.

“One of the good things about it is that I’m a bit of an anom-aly, and there-fore can maybe help change the department or show that peo-ple are inter-ested in dance,” she said. “It’s just that there aren’t so many

of me that I feel like I’m drown-ing in dancers. I’m able to get my work seen.”

Johnson appreciates Bow-doin’s approach to dance, which is more relaxed than the strict, body-conscious approach of conservatories.

“Bowdoin’s approach is much more open and more new age, kind of where dance is moving to anyway. You dance with the body and ability that you have, and that’s just as beautiful.”

The downside to being one of the few dancers on campus is that there is less acknowledg-ment of the merits of the art.

“People aren’t used to there being dancers, and they aren’t used to dance being a serious academic study. In some cases I’m afraid that dance is seen as the class you take to get your VPA, and it’s the easiest way to do it,” said Johnson.

“People are surprised that I’m taking four dance classes this semester. It is a lot, but would it be surprising if you were taking four government classes? Probably not.”

Johnson plans to move to New York City in hopes of re-fining her art in pre-profession-al dance training programs.

“I’m just doing what I love, and I would hope that every-one else is doing what they love, too.”

to experiment with different pro-grams, as it attracted more talented and accomplished young musi-cians. “I was constantly creating programs,” said Kaplan. “One of the most recent ones was called Bowdoin Virtuosi…The idea was to bring in young people who were well on their way to having a ma-jor career and to bring them to Bowdoin and give them things to do that would really support their career, give them a chance to try things they were going to have to perform.”

Kaplan added that these musi-cians “could go anywhere they wanted to go, and the fact that they came to Bowdoin and that they came back for two years says a lot for what the festival is.”

Kaplan garnered international acclaim as both a violin soloist and a composer.

Among his many awards and acco-lades, Kaplan is most proud of receiv-ing the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. 5 e knighthood was be-stowed upon him in recognition of his e4 orts to promote relations between

Overlooked fi lm highlights of 2012

From the art-house to the mul-tiplex, fiction to documentary, do-mestic to foreign, film was stellar this past year.

And by “film” I intentionally invoke the debates that continue among film critics about the death of the medium, usually coupled with a wary and obligatory ac-ceptance of film’s cheap successor: digital video. To the doubters, I say look around and let the celluloid on display speak for itself. This was a year where we were blessed with the gorgeous 16mm compo-sitions of “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Beasts of Southern Wild”, as well as the delectably rich 70mm panoramas of “The Master”. Yes, the business and technology are changing, but as Richard Brody of The New Yorker noted back in September: “The movies aren’t dy-ing (they’re not even sick).”

Even standard Hollywood awards-bait (such as “Lincoln,” “Life of Pi” and “Argo”) was a cut above the usual cheap-swill we’ve gotten used to around this time of year. As per usual, our super-heroes still saved the world a few times (“The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises” unsurprisingly topped the year-end box-office), but we also received action gems like “Skyfall” and “Django Un-chained.”

The year certainly didn’t skirt controversy either. Kathryn Big-elow opened up a critical and po-litical tempest with “Zero Dark Thirty” and we also saw Iran re-hash the age-old censorship con-flict, with Jafar Panahi’s touching and imaginative “This is Not a Film,” a work infamously shot on an iPhone and smuggled out of the country to a film festival inside of a birthday cake.

But there was a lot in this superb

year of cinema that was easy to miss. So here are 6 ve 6 lms you probably missed this past year.

1. “Amour”We have a living legend in our

midst in Michel Haneke. The Aus-trian director’s Palm D’Or winner at this year’s Cannes Festival is tru-ly a masterpiece of restraint; each moment is brilliantly controlled and utterly devastating. Haneke follows an octogenarian couple during the wife’s physical demise. He does it solely within the con-fines of their Parisian apartment. His stars, Jean-Lois Trignant and Emmanuelle Riva—both monu-mental figures of the French New Wave—are nothing short of aston-ishing. It won’t win Best Picture (it’s far too brutal for the glitz and glam of Oscar night), though its nomination hopefully will give the film the attention it deserves.

“Amour”’s DVD release date has yet to be set. Expect to see it on Am-azon some point this spring.

2. “The Deep Blue Sea”If you thought Jennifer Law-

rence gave the defining female performance of the year in “Silver Linings Playbook,” just prepare yourself for Rachel Weisz’s devas-tating portrayal of the existentially miserable Hester Collyer in Ter-rence Davies’ gorgeous adaptation of the 1952 stage play. Weisz, gor-geous as ever with stunning 50s London art direction around her, is caught in a doomed love triangle in which she bears the brunt of both of her lover’s indiscretions. Davies weaves us through Hester’s memories with swift camera fluid-ity and rich compositions, render-ing each character with unrelent-ing honesty.

See “The Deep Blue Sea” on Net-flix Instant Player or Amazon In-stant Video.

3. “Tabu”Miguel Gomes’ sophomore pic-

ture is a rich diptych about mem-ory and regret set in present day Lisbon and 1960s colonial Africa.

In a dryly comedic first act, we follow three elderly women—one

of whom, Aurora, is dipping into dementia in her dying days, and is convinced that her maid, Santa, is an incarnation of the devil com-ing to reprimand her for past sins. The film’s second half delves into said past through an extended voiceover detailing the passion and loss of a fatal love affair. Gomes’s black and white images evoke a perfect sense of fading memory, and, with perhaps the greatest use of music of the year, he renders the classic 60s hit “Be My Baby” the saddest piece of music you’ve ever heard.

The U.S. DVD release date for “Tabu” has yet to be announced.

4. “The Kid With a Bike”The Dardenne brothers have

a rare gift in elevating mundane actions—riding a bike down a street, a boy letting a faucet run, a father cooking a meal in front of his son—to the class of cinematic grandeur. “The Kid With a Bike” is centered around and gloriously upheld by its titular protagonist, Cyril (played by Thomas Doret), whom we so dearly wish to see tri-umph yet so often feel the need to step in and scold. At times so real that it hurts, the Dardenne’s hu-man tragedy is as pure and sincere as any.

Watch “The Kid With a Bike” on Netflix Instant Player.

5. “Searching for Sugar Man”In what was a banner year for

superb and provocative documen-taries, “Searching For Sugarman” offered a deeply interesting and uplifting tale of a legend that never was. Folk-rock artist Rodriguez was adored by producers in his day, but unknown by audiences, at least in the U.S. However, in South Africa, Rodriguez was a big as The Beatles, giving the country protest music it could stand behind during its tough history. Malik Bendjel-loul’s film unfolds with immediacy and insight, subtly subverting what we though we knew about the roc-kumentary.

See “Searching for Sugar Man” online on Amazon Instant Video.

“People are surprised that I’m taking four dance classes this semester, but would it be surprising if you were taking

four government classes? Probably not.”

the United States and Germany. Kaplan has judged at many pres-

tigious international music com-petitions, including the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels.

He has also taught at the Juil-liard School, Mannes College The New School for Music, the Interna-tional Summer Academy Mozarte-um, and of course, at the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

“I have worked under seven of Bowdoin’s 14 presidents. I am indebted to Barry Mills, who, es-pecially in his first few years at Bowdoin, was especially support-ive of the festival,” said Kaplan.

In celebration of the festival’s 6 7 y years and as a farewell to Kaplan, the 2014 festival will feature interna-tionally renowned musicians.

The event will culminate in a six-night showcase of Beethoven’s complete string quartet cycle, fea-turing sixteen quartets.

Those performing include the Ying, Shangai, Brentano, and Pa-cifica quartets, which, according to Kaplan, are four of the most talented small string ensembles in the world.

The festival will also welcome several prominent composers: Kaija Saariaho, the great Finnish composer; Sebastian Currier, for-mer student at the festival and win-ner of the prestigious Grawemeyer award; and Derek Bermel, whose original pieces will be premiered at the festival.

The fiftieth anniversary of the festival will serve as testimony to all that Kaplan has accomplished in the last half century.

“Personally, perhaps the greatest reward is that I started something [in an] almost musical vacuum,” said Kaplan. The College is forever indebted to him for creating some-thing “that has carried the name of Bowdoin to almost every continent in the world.”

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best 3 nish in school history. Captain Hannah Wright ’13 placed second for Bowdoin in both events, placing 46th in the 15K and 34th in the 3K.

On January 27, the team returned to action at the Colby Carnival held in Waterville, Maine. 4 e team im-

Skiing shines in record season start as Miller ’14 earns fourth at Colby BY HALLIE BATESSTAFF WRITER

4 e men’s and women’s Nordic ski teams have begun their season with several strong performances, making for what Head Coach Nathan Also-brook called the “best start to the sea-son we’ve ever had.”

According to Alsobrook, varying weather conditions and thin snow cover have done little to slow the team down, and although the Polar Bears only completed two of their six winter collegiate carnivals, Bowdoin skiers have already earned multiple NCAA qualifying points and set school records in both freestyle and classic events.

4 e team opened its campaign at the St. Lawrence Carnival in Lake Placid, N.Y., on January 18, 3 nish-ing 10th out of 13 teams. Individual performances made this race espe-cially successful for Bowdoin. Kait-lynn Miller ’14 placed 3 5 h, earning the best individual 3 nish for a female skier in the program’s history in the 15K freestyle. Miller was also the top 3 nisher for women in the 3K sprint, earning 16th place and the fourth-

Women’s hockey holds lead in NESCAC, shuts Williams out

BY ANDRES BOTEROORIENT STAFF

Thanks to the impressive depth of this season’s roster, the women’s ice hockey team fought back from a tie with Williams last Friday to beat the Ephs handily the next day. This kept Bowdoin tenuously atop the NESCAC standings.

After tying the Ephs in the first game, the second game was a blowout, with five different play-ers scoring. After the first tie, a loss against the Ephs would have cost the Polar Bears (13-2-2, 7-1-1 NESCAC) their first-place rank.

In the first game, Rachel Ken-nedy ’16 scored the first goal just a few minutes into the opening pe-riod, for her 11th net of the season.

Despite maintaining a signifi-cant amount of pressure in the Williams defensive zone, Bowdoin was unable to conjure up another goal in the rest of the period.

In the second, Williams played with renewed vigor, aggressively challenging Bowdoin by spending the majority of time in the Polar Bear defensive zone. Williams then scored to tie the game.

Even with multiple power plays in the third period and in over-time, Bowdoin was unable to break the deadlock. In overtime, the players tried to score quickly, in order to avoid giving any valuable points to Williams.

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was content with the power play, though said she wished for some better luck.

“In the third period, we got some good looks but we were making it more difficult for our-selves,” she said. “We were not connecting. Midway through the second power play, we were get-ting some nice chances but the goalie was making some plays. In overtime, the power play was a lot of pucks bouncing through the crease and we couldn’t put it in. We battled for 60 minutes but we just didn’t earn the breaks.”

However, O’Neil’s opinion is that the sense of urgency amongst the players may have done more harm than good.

“We like to keep things sim-ple, but we were trying to do too much,” O’Neil added. “Williams did a nice job defensively; they knew about our offense so they forced us to move the puck around a lot, challenging us to be creative to find lanes without holding onto the puck for too long. We were never down that game but we kept trying to play catchup. We were go-ing for the home run play instead of just establishing tempo.”

The second matchup had a near-ly identical start, with Bowdoin quickly opening the scoring. Chel-sea MacNeil ’15 scored an unas-sisted goal to open up the flood-gates for the rest of her team.

Captain Stephanie Ludy ’13 fol-lowed with her own goal a few min-utes later, her ninth of the season.

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we responded well,” said Binkhorst. In both games, the Polar Bears’ of-

fensive strategy was to work the ball inside and exploit their signi3 cant height advantage. By forcing extra de-fenders to aid the post, the Polar Bears have been able to push the ball out to shooters on the perimeter.

On Tuesday, the Polar Bears trav-elled to face Eastern Connecticut State.

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4 e women’s basketball team (11-8 overall, 2-4 NESCAC) had a success-ful week, defeating rival Colby for the second time this season 83-71 before beating Eastern Connecticut State 61-50. 4 e team hopes to continue gain-ing momentum as they face o6 against Middlebury and Williams back-to-back at home this weekend.

Captain Kaitlin Donahoe ’13 scored a career-high 28 points against Colby. Shannon Brady ’16 contribut-ed 16 points, and sophomores Megan Phelps and Sara Binkhorst also put up double digits.

4 e Polar Bears’ defensive strategy focused on containing Colby’s senior leader, Diana Manduca. Manduca is the only Colby player averaging dou-ble-digit points per game this season, and was held to just 15 points. 4 is opened up opportunities for Colby sophomore Brooke Chandor, who av-erages 7.9 points per game, to score 26 points on the Polar Bears.

“We wanted to make sure we had someone right up on [Manduca] all the time,” said Head Coach Adrienne Shibles. “We made a defensive change early in the game putting Kaitlin on her and she did an awesome job.”

Donahoe was named the NESCAC Player of the Week for her perfor-mance against the Mules.

“We de3 nitely look to [Donahoe] every game for her leadership, and she de3 nitely went above and beyond against Colby,” said Binkhorst.

4 e Polar Bears grabbed the lead midway through the 3 rst half, and were able to hold onto it even as the

Mules got within six points. “We’re playing with so much more

con3 dence—getting down by a few points isn’t a6 ecting the team mentally like it did in the beginning of the sea-son,” said Shibles.

Playing on enemy territory in Wa-terville also challenged the Polar Bears to keep their composure, especially on the free-throw line.

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proved with an eighth overall 3 nish out of the same 13 teams that com-peted at St. Lawrence. Alsobrook said that this was a real marker of progress for the team.

“Each weekend, we move to dif-ferent venues around New England,

but we race the same group, the same teams every time,” he said. “You can get some stability there, and if you see yourself moving up the rankings, that’s a real measure of success.”

Despite a better showing overall, however, Miller again stole the show,

capturing a fourth-place 3 nish in the 5K classic race, the highest-ever 3 nish by any Bowdoin skier. Both Miller and Wright were honored as All-State recipients. Captain James Crimp ’13 and sophomores Shelby Aseltine and Jackson Bloch took second-team honors.

Because of these impressive in-dividual performances, Alsobrook has high expectations for the team this year.

“Ideally, we’d like to break into the middle of the conference,” he said. “We want to 3 nish seventh or better by the time we get to the regional champion-ships. 4 is is a big goal seeing as we’re a developing team, but we’ve certainly seen some progress there.”

4 e conference is composed of 13 teams across New England, includ-ing Nordic powerhouses UVM and Dartmouth. Despite the daunting task of breaking into the middle of this dif-3 cult conference, Alsobrook said he keeps his sights set on success.

“We’re only two carnivals in out of six,” Alsobrook added. “It’s a really exciting thing that gives us real opti-mism for the next few weeks. We have a future ahead of us, but there’s some junior and senior leadership there that helps anchor down the week-to-week performances.”

4 e Polar Bears will travel to Stowe, Vt., this weekend for the UVM Carnival.

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Thomas College. Bowdoin spanked the vertically-challenged Terriers, winning by a final score of 93-43. Madlinger had 23 points and was joined in double figures by Mathias, Staiger, and Swords. Hurley doled out 13 assists and Grant White ’14 played 11 minutes off the bench in his first action since suffering a season-ending football injury in September.

Stiffer competition rolls into town this weekend as the Polar Bears prepare to face Middlebury today and Williams on Saturday. The Panthers and Ephs are ranked third and first in the conference, respectively.

Middlebury was undefeated this season until losing by one at Wil-liams last Saturday. Middlebury se-nior forward Peter Lynch leads the No. 6 nationally-ranked Panthers in scoring, averaging 15.8 points in only 23.8 minutes per game, and holds the second-highest field-goal percentage in D-III.

“Middlebury’s top in the coun-try, and they’ve always been that way,” said Madlinger. “Going into the game, we know that we have to

Men’s basketball preps for NESCAC’s fi nestBY SAM CHASEORIENT STAFF

In December, it took a 10-1 scor-ing run in the final four minutes for the men’s basketball team to beat Colby. In last weekend’s rematch, the Polar Bears wasted no time in whipping the Mules in a solid 63-49 victory.

Led by 18 points and 10 re-bounds from the resurgent Andrew Madlinger ’14, the Bowdoin men never trailed in their triumph in Waterville last Saturday. Sizzling shooting guard Matt Mathias ’14 chipped in 13 points while point guard Bryan Hurley ’15 added 12 points and eight assists.

Colby’s match-up zone, a hy-brid defense designed to pressure the opposition’s ball-handler, gave Bowdoin trouble in December. But after a month of training over Win-ter Break, the Polar Bears were bet-ter prepared for this season’s second face-off with their rivals.

“Instead of forcing the ball to the wing, [Hurley] would dribble through and we’d have men flashing to the high post,” said Madlinger. “Our big men had an easy time passing to each other, and we could also kick it back out to shooters.”

Bowdoin’s leading rebounder and second-leading scorer Keegan Pieri ’15 missed the game due to a concussion, which led to some lineup shuffling by Head Coach Tim Gilbride. Marko Peraica ’15 started in Pieri’s place, and centers Max Staiger ’13 and John Swords ’15 shared significant court time for the first time this season. The tall pair—who together stand 13’10”—recorded a combined 15 points and 16 rebounds.

Despite the impressive offensive performances from the Polar Bears, Gilbride said that defense was re-sponsible for the team’s victory.

“I thought we consistently played defense very well throughout the game,” he said. “We didn’t have any bad stretches and that helped us get and maintain the lead.”

On Tuesday, the men returned home to take the floor against

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This week marked the end of the regular season and the start of the postseason for both the men’s and women’s squash teams. Both squads travel to Trinity to face off against Middlebury and Tufts, respectively, in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC tournament this weekend.

No. 1 Torey Lee ’15 said she believes the women have played well this year and are confident going into the weekend because

they recently shut out Tufts.According to No. 4 Michaela

Martin ’14, the women are current-ly ranked No. 17 nationally and are on the cusp of the B and C divisions of nationals.

“Our play this weekend at NES-CACs will directly impact in which of these two divisions we will fall, which has definitely motivated us,” Martin said.

The men, on the other hand, won all five of their games in the past week: three 9-0 victories against Boston College, MIT, and Boston University, an 8-1 win over Tufts, and a breathtaking 5-4 triumph against higher-ranked Ivy League opponent Brown.

According to No. 2 Stephan Danyluk ’14, “We are just start-ing to find our rhythm. I think at the beginning of the year we were getting six or seven solid perfor-mances and now we are much more consistent with eight to nine strong showings every match.”

Brown was coming off of an impressive victory against Bates,

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As the women’s basketball team’s season heads into the home stretch of the season, it will depend on the team’s only senior, captain Kaitlin Dona-hoe.

Donahoe, the team’s sole starter from last year and their unquestioned leader, provides the team with more than just spirit. She has scored 15.5 points per game—the most on her team and the second most in the NESCAC. But it is her intangibles that the team will sorely miss next year.

“When there’s 10 seconds left on the shot clock, we look to Kaitlin,” said captain Anna Prohl ’14. “We always try to get the ball in her hands.”

“She’s someone I can go to for advice,” first year Shannon Brady said. “She’s like an older sister to me. I trust her.”

A vocal leader and positive in-fluence for the young team, Do-nahoe has taken up the mantle of role model with relative ease, man-aging everything from on-court adjustments to sending emails and ordering paraphernalia for the team’s breast cancer aware-ness game.

While she has earned a rep-utation for her positivity, she has never been afraid to single out places for improvement, frequently offering advice to the team’s eager group of first years.

“We have very entrenched tradition here,” Donahoe said. “There’s that pressure of living up to expectations when we lose to teams we are supposed to beat. I try to remind them to keep things in perspective.”

After playing point guard in previous years, the two-time NESCAC Player of the Week has logged significant time at the shooting guard spot this year. The change has allowed her to take over down the stretch in tight games.

Donahoe has recovered well from the ACL injury that ended her season last year and required surgery. Statistically, this is her best season on the team.

“She’s resilient,” Coach Adri-enne Shibles said, “She’s had a

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lot of injuries but she’s come back. I really admire that about her.”

“She never takes a play off, not even in practice,” Prohl added. “She represents Bowdoin basketball; she’s not one-dimensional but very in-volved.”

Donahoe is highly involved off the court as well. She has been part of the Alcohol Team, the committee responsible for the adjustments to chem-free housing, the Athletic Council, the Office of Residential Life, and Bowdoin Student Govern-ment. Her resume also includes working as a tour guide for the College and serving as presi-dent of Baxter House.

She has also carved out a niche role for herself on cam-pus, promoting awareness

about sexual as-sault and harass-ment prevention as a V-Space facilita-tor and performer in Speak About It.

Donahoe waited until the last pos-sible day to commit to Bowdoin. The campus environ-ment attracted her to Bowdoin over Division I schools.

Donahoe credits a lot of her suc-cess this year to the

team’s “visualization.” She ex-plained that after learning the week’s game plan and studying film extensively, the team dis-cusses its expectations for the game. This process highlights one of Donahoe’s most unique skills: her incredible memory.

“I think about it and I can remember the sets that teams have run in the past,” she said.

“Of course that’s definitely due to development,” she add-ed modestly. “If you had asked what Bates runs when I was a first year, I would’ve been to-tally lost.”

It is this faculty and the abil-ity to make on-court adjust-ments for which she has be-come known. Indeed, it is her attention to detail that sets her apart from her competition.

“She’s like having a coach on the court. There’s really no other way of putting it,” Shibles said.

“Sometimes I even remem-ber entire conversations we have in the lockerroom. I’m sure the rest of the team hates that by now,” Donahoe joked. “Hopefully, they’ll appreciate it more when I’m gone.”

• Scored a career-high 28 points in a critical road win against Colby• Leads the team with 15.5 points per game, the second most in the NESCAC

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“When there’s 10 seconds left on the shot clock, we look

to Kaitlin. We always try to get the ball in

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ranked No. 14 nationally, and the win made quite a statement for the Polar Bears.

“Coming out of the Brown match we have confidence that we can go far,” Danyluk said. “Our goal is to potentially make the national championships B division, which would require us to reach at least the semifinals of the NESCAC.”

The women’s squad is also com-ing off of an exciting weekend where they faced many highly ranked opponents. They record-ed morale boosting 8-1 victories against Boston College and Welles-ley, a 9-0 result against Tufts, and a hard-fought 0-9 loss against Brown University.

Lee said she takes a lot of posi-tives out of the recent results.

“We have played a bunch of Ivy League teams that are very highly ranked,” she said.

Both squads are in high spirit sas they prepare for their decisive weekend ahead and hope to enter the final stretch of their seasons with strength and grace.

play a notch better than we have. That’s the challenge and that’s the fun of it.”

Things do not get any easier against Williams, the No. 9 team in the country. The Ephs feature a ver-satile inside-outside offense. Junior center Michael Mayer is a four-time NESCAC Player of the Week this season, and is second in the con-ference in rebounds and third in overall scoring. Junior forward Tay-lor Epley is second in the league in scoring and is shooting 47.2 percent from 3-point range.

“We’re going to be very consis-tent in how we defend them,” said Gilbride. “Whether someone starts hitting shots outside or they’re scoring inside, we’re going to let them have their little run and stick to our game plan.”

Pieri is probable to return for this weekend’s action, much to the relief of his teammates. However, Madlinger notes his brief absence may pay long-term dividends for the team.

“It’s a good sign that we played so well without him,” Madlinger said. “It should give us some momentum

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UP AND OVER: Marko Peraica ’15 passes the ball in Bowdoin’s stomping of non-conference Thomas.

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If quality of entertainment is rated by popularity, then Super Bowl Sunday is the greatest show on Earth. More than 155 million people, about half the U.S. popula-tion, are expected to tune in for this weekend’s festivities. Viewers will spend roughly $200 million gorg-ing themselves on buffalo wings, chili and pizza while companies compete to capture their attention with 30-second advertisements costing $3.8 million apiece, or $130,000 per second.

Waiting for Sunday, eager fans follow the media frenzy to pass the time. Unlike the quick buildup to the BCS National Championship—where three lower bowl games are played that week—there are two long weeks between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, leaving plenty of time for the media to stir up drama and gather enter-taining quips from the players.

Perhaps the most intriguing in-

terview was also the most earnest. Ravens safety Bernard Pollard stole the show with his pessimism about the future of the NFL.

“Thirty years from now, I don’t think it will be in existence,” the seventh year veteran said. “It’s just my opinion, but I think with the direction things are going—where they [NFL rule makers] want to lighten up, and they’re throwing flags and everything else—there’s going to come a point where fans are going to get fed up with it.”

His complaints come in response to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s frequent suspensions of players and continual addition of rules in an attempt to reduce hel-met-to-helmet collisions and the consequent concussions.

In the 2010-2011 season, Goodell increased fines for hel-met-to-helmet hits as the season progressed—Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison was as-sessed $20,000, Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson $40,000, and New England Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather $50,000.

After the season, the location of the kickoff was moved back from the 30 to the 35-yard line to limit

injuries incurred by players col-liding at full speed. The Commis-sioner also updated roughing the passer rules.

According to Goodell, these rules and suspensions serve to “em-phasize the importance of teaching safe and controlled techniques, and of playing within the rules.”

Goodell plans to implement fur-ther equipment changes to decrease head injuries and is considering shortening the season. He is excited for the advent of more comprehen-sive research—the most highly an-ticipated of which will be conduct-ed by some intelligent JOBers—to facilitate his decision-making.

Harvard researchers, backed by $100 million in funding from the NFL Players Union (NFLPA), plan to spend a decade studying brain injuries. They will identify a group of 1,000 retired NFL players nation-wide and compare 100 healthy and 100 unhealthy former players.

By the time this study is complet-ed, Goodell may have implemented a handful of new rules—much to the dismay of players like Bernard Pollard. The Ravens safety is not the first to insist that viewers will become fed up with the decreased

violence of the game. There has been a general outcry by the public that the myriad of changes is emas-culating the game.

On the other hand, more restric-tions on defensive players’ ability to tackle opponents can provide po-tential benefits like increased scor-ing. As evidenced by other profes-sional sports, more offense equals more viewers.

In 2004, the NBA outlawed handchecking, a tactic whereby the defensive player places his hand on the offensive player. Banning this practice hinders the defense and provides speedy guards more free-dom to move.

The NHL instituted rules favor-ing offense just a couple years later. After the 2005-2006 season, the NHL reduced the standard size of the goalie’s equipment and short-ened the neutral zone. This created a faster paced game and contribut-ed to more scoring.

Perhaps the NFL is just behind the curve. While Commissioner Goodell’s new helmet-to-helmet rules are principally intended to protect the players’ careers, the reg-ulations may also spur high-octane offenses. Defensive players must

now concern themselves with the specifics of tackling, rather than just the action itself. In a game deter-mined by inches and split seconds, a defender’s hesitation, no matter how slight, may lead to missed or broken tackles, and therefore to bigger plays. This greater offensive production, following the examples of the NBA and NHL, may lead to increased popularity as well. And with more viewers comes greater revenue. A richer NFL won’t fold.

While it is hard to speculate what the Harvard study will find out about the long-term effects of helmet-to-helmet collisions, it will not lead to the demise of the NFL. In fact, by the time the researchers even complete this decade-long in-vestigation, the NFL may be at the peak of entertainment. Offenses will be even more pass-heavy, tak-ing advantage of defenses’ reduced ability to make legal open field tackles. Meanwhile, defensive strat-egies must be innovative to counter such offense.

Fans, players and purists alike may one day agree that the game benefited by substituting some of the violence with increased scoring and defensive nuances.

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“I knew it was going to be a battle.5 eir record doesn’t re6 ect how strong they are,” said Shibles. “5 ey’ve played a lot of great teams very close and just came o7 a huge emotional win beating Rhode Island College, whom we lost to by a lot early in the season.”

5 e Polar Bears started o7 slow but pulled away in the second half as they moved the ball inside more.

“We had a couple of posts come o7 the bench and give us really good minutes in the second half,” said Shibles. “Anna [Prohl ’14] and Si-enna [Mitman ’15] came in and did a great job on their littler posts who

were really scrappy and aggressive.”5 e Polar Bears have a tough week-

end ahead. On Friday they will play Middlebury, a team with comparable size, minimizing the height advantage the Polar Bears have enjoyed the past few games.

“Even though they’re big, they look to shoot a lot of three-pointers. 5 eir biggest player is their best three-point shooter, so we’re going to really have to go and defend them behind the arc,” said Shibles.

On Saturday the Polar Bears face No. 24 ranked Williams. Shibles fore-sees a challenging game against the nationally ranked team.

“Even though they’re huge, they can all handle the ball,” she said. “5 ey do a lot of one-on-one type basketball.”

5 e game is senior day for the Polar Bears, who will honor Donahoe, the team’s sole senior.

“I’m hoping our younger players bring a lot of emotion to that game,” said Shibles.

“We want to get it for our senior,” said Binkhorst.

With the eight-team NESCAC play-o7 s around the corner, this could be a de8 ning weekend for the Polar Bears. Two wins could potentially move Bowdoin from sixth to fourth place in the NESCAC, and two losses could drop the team all the way to the bot-tom of the conference.

“I’m not worried about the pres-sure, we’re in a great spot,” said Shibles. “I feel like we’re jelling at just the right time.”

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the rest of her team.Captain Stephanie Ludy ’13 fol-

lowed with her own goal a few min-utes later, her ninth of the season.

Kennedy was credited with an assist on the play, her 10th of her career with Bowdoin. Captain Kay-te Holtz ’13 and Kim Tess-Wanat ’13 assisted the play, their 10th and 13th respectively.

Kenzie Novak ’13 scored the third goal of the period with a low shot from the left face-off circle, her second of the season.

In the second period, a Bowdoin penalty for body checking left them down a player but Captain Kayte Holtz ’13 was able to score a short-handed goal to knock Wil-liams on its heels.

“We have great depth on our team,” O’Neil said. “The pace we played at on Friday created some

fatigue that you could notice the next day. It was tough for Williams to bounce back and once Kayte scored the shorthanded goal in the second, that was the nail in the coffin.”

Just 28 seconds in the final peri-od, Kennedy found the back of the net again for her team-high 12th goal—her fifth consecutive game with a score.

After that kind of performance, O’Neil believes that Kennedy has a strong chance at winning the NES-CAC Rookie of the Year award.

“She is absolutely in a position to win it,” O’Neil said. “She is a competitor and she competes her butt off. Every single shift, she goes out with purpose and makes something happen. She is a great athlete and great recruit. She has a lot of points and knows how to fin-ish a scoring opportunity and even when she does not score, she helps create situations for other players to score.”

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SPORTS ROUNDUPBoth swimming teams sweep Trinity and Wesleyan at home

The men’s and women’s swim teams trounced NESCAC rivals Wesleyan and Trinity in a home meet last Saturday.

3 e men improved their record to 4-1 with the dual meet, defeating Wesleyan 205-72 and Trinity 198-87.

The twin victories also placed the women’s record at 4-1 after the team beat Wesleyan 171-122 and Trinity 199.5-93.5.

Captain Basyl Stuyvesant ’13 led the men’s effort, coming in first in both the 100- and 200-yard back-stroke with times of 54.69 and 1:56.59. Diver Tom Kramer ’15 dominated the boards, winning both the 1- and 3- meter events. In the distance events, Alex Tou-gas ’14 won the 1000-yard free-style with a time of 10:31.53. Other first-place finishes for the Polar Bears included Ryan Peabody ’14 in the 500 freestyle (5:01.72), John Lagasse ’16 in the 200 breaststroke (1:00.71), JR Chansakul ’16 in the 200 breast (2:12.80) and Ryan Kulesza ’15 in the 200 IM (1:58.38).

In the relays, a team of Stuyves-ant, Lagasse, Kevin Koh ’16, and William Shi ’15 won the 200 med-ley with a time of 1:37.10 while a

team of Lagasse, Peter Deardorff ’15, Shi, and Linc Rhodes ’14 won the 400 medley with a time of 3:14.41.

For the women, Captain Kaley Kokomoor ’13 and Katherine Foley ’13 led the charge, both winning two individual events. Kokomoor took both the 50- and 100-yard freestyles with times of 24.90 and 54.71, and Foley took the 200- and 500- freestyles with times of 1:55.29 and 5:11.47. Lela Garner ’16 made an important contribution, winning the 200 IM with 2:13.51. In the 400- free relay, a team of Bridget Killian ’16, captain Sarah Hirschfeld ’13, Foley and Garner came in first with a time of 3:38.40.

“This past weekend was great preparation for NESCACs,” said Stuyvesant. “Although they were not necessarily our best times, we have yet to taper and this is a good sign that we will improve with rest. This year has been one of the most difficult in terms of swim set difficulty and we’re looking forward to how this ben-efits us in NESCACs.”

The teams return to action to-morrow with a home meet against Colby at noon.

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Men’s track to face heavily talented fi eld at State Meet

This past weekend, the men’s in-door track team competed against eight other schools at the Wesley-an Invitational. Because the meet featured non-scoring events, the Polar Bears were relieved from the stress of competition to focus

more on personal goals before the upcoming Maine State Meet.

“Just before the state meet, it helps to have a meet where we can concentrate on individual event performances and training, and not doubling and tripling people up for points,” said Head Coach Peter Slovenski.

Coming off of a number of significant victories over winter break, Bowdoin is hoping to per-form well at the tomorrow at the University of Southern Maine. De-spite the successes the team has seen throughout the season so far, Slovenski said the potency of the other teams in Maine would sig-nificantly affect the outcome of the state meet. According to Slovenski, Bates—currently ranked No. 8 in the nation—is one of the most ca-pable teams in the state. Bowdoin is ranked No. 22, the highest the team has been all year long, and just one spot ahead of Colby.

“The state meet is very com-petitive; USM and Colby have some great athletes,” said Sloven-ski. “Bates and Bowdoin have the most depth, but Bates right now is the top seeded team. It’ll take a great day for us to come close and upset them.”

Because of the intense compe-tition expected at the state meet, everyone on the team will be counted on to put their best foot forward. However, Slovenski said that he is especially looking at se-niors to really make a difference for the Polar Bears.

“The seniors have been leading the way this season, and they’ll be ready for great state performanc-es,” he said. “We have Matt Gam-

Women’s track runs away with Wesleyan Invitational

With two double-winners and several personal bests, the women’s track team made the most of the non-scoring Wesleyan invitational last weekend.

Captain Michele Kaufman ’13 won both the 60m hurdles (9.35) and the long jump (5.08m), while Samantha Copland ’14 raced to vic-tories in both the 60m (8.13) and the 200m (27.21).

3 e Polar Bears also managed to capture the top spots in each of the three relays.

Lucy Skinner ’16 won the mile in 5:26.82 to close out Bowdoin’s im-pressive slew of victories on the track.

In the 4 eld events, the Polar Bears dominated the scoreboard. Erin Silva ’15, Stevie Lane ’15 and Emily Lamb-din ’16 swept the pole vault podium. 3 e long jumpers also led their 4 eld. Behind Kaufman, Addison Carvajal ’16 and Katharine Krupp ’16 took second and third respectively.

Hayleigh Kein ’15 posted a season-best height in the high jump (1.57m) en route to winning the event.

Bowdoin continued to stack up personal bests in the throwing events.

“We had a great day in the wom-en’s weight throw,” Head Coach Peter

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Slovenski said. “We have a very smart and talented group of throwers and they have just about all set personal records in the last two weeks.”

Katherine Harmon ’14 and Randi London ’15 4 nished in the top two positions for the weight throw. While Harmon threw a personal best in the team’s previous meet, London im-proved her personal best to 13.12m on Saturday, as did the next two Bowdoin throwers, Alex N’Diaye ’15 and Dani McAvoy ’13, throwing 12.06m and 10.59m respectively.

Tonight Bowdoin will host the highly anticipated Maine State Meet. According to Slovenski, the competi-tion from Maine historically creates a closely contested matchup.

Slovenski said he plans to maxi-mize the team’s entries in the meet. While in some meets earlier this year athletes entered in only one or two events, in the state meet many Po-lar Bears will compete in up to four events each.

Slovenski expects Bowdoin to be very competitive in the throws, jumps, and sprints, while Colby and USM will be especially strong in the jumps and sprints. Bates, though, has the advantage in the tournament by being capable of potentially dominat-ing the middle- and long-distance running events.

Regardless of the speculation, Slovenski said he is con4 dent that the competition will be tight.

“Four teams will be within 20 points at the end of the night,” he predicted.

St. Joseph’s College of Maine and Husson University are set to join the competition in the Maine State Meet for their 4 rst time.

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ache, who will be one of the top 400m runners; Sam Chick, who will be in five different events. Da-vid Bean is ready to have a good night, as well as Drew Zembruski. I think the seniors will really be the important competitors for us at the state meet.”

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On the right trackBowdoin Student Government (BSG) has made meaningful progress towards

realizing the campaign platforms its members ran on last spring. We commend BSG for actively pursuing projects including bringing LSAT and MCAT prep cours-es to the College, extending 3 anksgiving break, and making the proceedings of the student government more transparent to the Bowdoin community.

It is a mark of BSG’s commitment to maintaining accountability that the Execu-tive Committee provided a comprehensive report of its progress to the Orient at the start of this semester.

BSG introduced a new website at the beginning of this academic year, which was the product of much time and e4 ort within the organization. 3 e site’s launch was a positive step toward establishing standards of institutional accountability and record keeping that will serve generations of students to come. Even small projects, like subsidizing discounted movie tickets to Regal Cinemas and Bruns-wick Taxi services, and reviving Winter Weekend, evidence the fact that BSG spent the fall working hard. BSG President Dani Chediak has put forward a pro-posal to bring graduate school test prep courses to campus, one of the promises she made to the senior class last spring. We urge the administration to accept her proposal so that students do not have to pay out of pocket for help preparing for graduate school.

Despite its successes, BSG has been held back by its rigid adherence to bu-reaucratic protocol when it could have focused more on improving e5 ciency.It is disappointing that last spring’s Uncommon Hour series did not continue this fall, and there is no reason why it should not restart this semester. It is also worrisome that BSG has let previous e4 orts at collaboration with Brunswick o5 cials 6 zzle now that there are no visible issues to be resolved between the College and the town. We cannot a4 ord to take our good relationship with the local community for granted, and hope to see more communication between BSG and Brunswick in the future.

BSG can also respond to student frustation by working with the O5 ce of Resi-dential Life to improve the College House selection procedure. 3 e current sys-tem is frustratingly opaque, and an improved protocol would include more input from current College House residents.

3 e proposal to extend 3 anksgiving Break dates back to the fall of 2010, when BSG reasoned that it would bene6 t students from outside of New England. 3 e faculty voted against a longer break last year, and this year—despite a BSG-organized protest—chose not to bring the issue to a vote. It is clear the student government is dedicated to furthering the interests of students, but bureaucratic measures have made it all but impossible for them to push this issue any further without the concerted help of the faculty and administration.

BSG has made good on a number of its promises thus far, but there is still much work to be done this semester. Our elected representatives cannot work in isola-tion—all students are invited to attend weekly BSG meetings, where they can speak up about problems on campus. BSG has made an e4 ort to better serve the student body, but it cannot do so without direction and participation from its constituents.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe Orient welcomes letters to the editor. Letters should not exceed 200 words and must be re-ceived by 7 p.m. on the Wednesday of the week of publication. The editors reserve the right to edit letters for length. Submit letters via e-mail to orientopinion@bowdoin.edu.

OP-EDSLonger op-ed submissions of 400 to 800 words must also be received by 7 p.m. on the Wednesday of the week of publication. The editors reserve the right to edit op-eds for length. Submit op-eds via e-mail to orientopinion@bowdoin.edu.

CONNECT WITH USOpportunities to contribute to the Orient

To the Editor:Mr. Schendler, in his article “Bow-

doin is falling dangerously behind on climate change,” chose to assert that Bowdoin faculty are not only not do-ing enough, but that they are doing nothing.

While all people and institutions can certainly do more to address the pressing issue of man induced climate change, Bowdoin faculty are certainly not doing nothing.

I trust that his opinion is simply a lack of exploration of the course con-tent, of the active faculty, and of student

LETTER TO THE EDITORparticipation in the climate issue.

It is likely that his sentiment is based on the availability of online sound bites that are so common and ring so hollow.

If you look closely at Mr. Schendler’s a5 liation, you will notice that he is an employee of the Aspen Ski corpora-tion, an establishment that itself pro-motes unnecessary carbon-emission through air travel, snow making, li7 service, slope grooming, and many other enjoyable, yet frivolous and privileged, carbon-producing events.

Let us use this unwarranted attack

on our faculty—many of whom have a long-vested interest in the climate issue—to re8 ect on what we each can do ensure our future and to engage with the faculty and students who are already active.

I also remind Mr. Schendler that his statement that nobody will be able to go to Bowdoin with the advent of temperature rise, is likely not correct, but it is sure that we won’t be skiing at Aspen.

Sincerely,Bruce Kohorn, Linnean Professor of Biology & Biochemistry

USPS must have autonomy to survive

Recently, it seems that not a week goes by without some news outlet trumpeting the imminent demise of the United States Postal Service (USPS).

The USPS—along with the likes of Kodak and Hewlett-Packard—has been accused of failing to deal with the realities of the 21st centu-ry: the world is becoming increas-ingly dependent on modes of com-munication that exist beyond the physical realm.

Some commentators argue that the USPS has had its day and should be allowed to die. 3 ese assessments base themselves upon the cold, hard mathematics of the marketplace while wholly failing to consider the disastrous consequences should the USPS collapse.

I wouldn’t dispute that the postal service is hemorrhaging money: ev-ery day the USPS loses up to $36 mil-lion and annually it loses billions (last year alone, it reported a net loss of nearly $16 billion).

Yet, it may come as a surprise that the postal service made a pro6 t of nearly $1 billion as recently as the 2006, the same year (not coinciden-tally) in which it delivered an impres-sive 213 billion pieces of mail.

Every year since has been marked by losses of incredible magnitude, be-ginning in 2007 with a reported net loss of $5 billion.

3 is came a7 er the organization delivered only 800 million fewer pieces of mail, hardly enough to change its 6 nancial situation by so great a number.

3 e problems stem largely from the USPS’s status as a quasi-govern-mental organization.

Although it traces its origins to

1775—when the Continental Con-gress appointed Benjamin Franklin as first Postmaster General—the USPS assumed its current form in 1971, when it was essentially made independent of the Federal govern-ment for purposes of day-to-day operations.

In 2006, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the Postal Account-ability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), which dealt a blow to USPS’ transfor-mation into a pseudo-corporation.

It is a supreme irony that the self-styled pro-business party should have dra7 ed an act so poisonous to a cor-poration whose very existence is guar-anteed by the Constitution.

In the world of corporate person-hood, one might even characterize PAEA as outright murder. 3 e act forces the USPS to pay for future re-tiree health bene6 ts, at the cost of tens of billions of dollars each year.

It also prevents the agency from un-dertaking important steps that would easily save it billions in unnecessary costs, by eliminating Saturday delivery or by consolidating sorting centers.

In fact, Congress has “too many con-8 icting and inconsistent demands,” for the USPS, according to postal policy consultant James Campbell.

Only postage rates are an e4 ective means for the agency to raise reve-nue—this month, the cost of sending a standard 6 rst-class letter went up to 46 cents and the cost of sending the same letter overseas rose to $1.10.

Even so, the fact remains that these are some of the lowest prices for mail in the developed world. People don’t seem to realize how extraordinary it is that the USPS will deliver between any two points in the United States (including Puerto Rico and Guam) for less than two quarters.

Neither FedEx, nor UPS nor any other courier service in the world can o4 er a better deal.

So low is the cost of sending mail in the United States that the price doesn’t seem to relate to the number of people

to which the USPS is legally obliged to o4 er delivery service: over 151 million households and businesses.

By comparison, the Swiss Postal Service (serving a country roughly the size of Maryland and a popula-tion similar to Virginia’s) asks for the equivalent of a dollar to send a letter nationally and double that for mail be-ing sent outside of Europe.

More expensive stamps only par-tially explain why the Swiss Post reported nearly a billion dollars in pro6 ts for 2011. Another important factor in its 6 nancial success comes from its status as a government-owned company that is allowed to act independently.

3 is has o4 ered the company a cer-tain degree of 8 exibility to adapt to the new realities of the marketplace, including the ability to close unpro6 t-able post o5 ces, expand its 6 nancial services wing, and expand into areas of interest that go beyond the parcel and letter delivery.

It is a model common to many postal services, including those in France, Ita-ly and Germany, to name a few. 3 eir key to success is autonomy, something that the USPS desperately needs.

For now it will continue to be beholden to the whims of lawmak-ers, whose supposed commitment to their nation’s postal service is no-where to be seen.

Essential cost-cutting measures are held up in Congressional dead-lock, and the prolonged wait con-tinues to push the USPS closer to the brink.

Now, more than at any other time during its long history, the agency needs the autonomy to adapt to the 21st century. Over the course of its 238-year existence, the USPS has sur-vived wars, economic collapses, and natural cataclysms, and persistently endured through the term of every single President.

Whether or not it can survive the partisanship of modern-day politics remains to be seen.

HOME IN ALL LANDS

JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER

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Living with the Bowdoin Hell(o): Dealing with unhappiness

The fervent education of a non-religious religion majorLast week I came across a col-

umn in the Orient—“Students value varied spiritual support (Jan. 25)”—on the small but significant role of religion in the lives of Bow-doin students.

I was inspired to think about my own religious quest here at Bow-doin—not at Bible study or a spiri-tuality club, but academically.

I’m an English and religion double major, but if I were to meet you on the street, odds are that I wouldn’t be honest about what I study.

“I’m an English major,” I’d o4 er, and even that with a little hesitation. At the very least, then, I could explain my love of writing, how I’m consider-ing becoming a teacher someday, and the joy I get from literature.

The religion part —that’s a little trickier.

Snide comments about my ma-jors abound: those disciplines are impractical, uninteresting, unsuit-ed to the pursuit of the common good. But these are the accusations that bother me least.

I’ve reconciled myself with the fact that I will neither cure cancer, nor am I likely to help the environment in any more signi5 cant way than recycling my paper and plastics.

6 e critiques that do keep me up at night are about my study of religion and come, most o7 en, from myself.

I wouldn’t identify as religious, though I adhere to a sort of faith-in-mankind doctrine. My rather irratio-nal insistence that people are good is a satisfying, albeit lonely, creed.

So when I read a feminist exege-sis of the Quran, or try to make it through the entire Book of Mor-mon in a week, I have to ask my-self: why am I doing this? And the question of why I study religion has required some, well, soul searching.

In any academic discipline, there will be things you shake your head at. Why would they run that exper-iment? Why would they argue that thing? How silly of them.

But it is only when I study re-ligion that a reaction of even the slightest condescension can pro-duce a wave of nausea.

Because I’m afraid, as I think

connection to them, right?When I began my time at Bow-

doin, I would have thought my parents naive. I thought I could achieve some of kind of academic, intellectual distance from the ma-terials I was working with.

In fact, I thought that detach-ment was the goal—the only way to study religion without falling prey to one’s own prejudices.

I was wrong. What I ended up lov-ing most about my time in religion class is that these texts, these people, and these stories do move me.

I’m an English and religion double major, but if I were to meet you on the street, odds are that I wouldn’t be honest

about what I study.

thereof stops me in my tracks. I think Buddhists are right

about the transient nature of the universe, but wrong to think that should necessitate abstinence. Or that Mormons are right about the divinity of love and friendship, but wrong to exclude women from their priesthoods. And Judaism makes a strong case for the impor-tance of obedience, but I don’t see much harm in ham.

It is in this process—locat-ing what I find true in religions, weighing it, tasting it, seeing where it can fit into my own worldview—that I am learning in the most crit-ical way.

I’m asking myself the most im-portant questions, and seeing what answers I can produce.

In a way, I think this approach to study— whatever you are studying—is a kind of religiosity of its own.

And our college, despite its sec-ular reputation, does encourage us in this hunt for connection with what we are learning. It supports us in our search for truths we can adopt, modify, and call our own.

It’s my hope that, whatever dis-cipline you belong to at this temple of higher education, you’re praying to learn something about yourself each time you enter a classroom or open a book.

“Hey, how are you?”“Fine, thanks. Just battling with

routine bouts of depression, feel-ings of alienation, and general anxiety about eating my meals with 400 other people in a Norse victory hall. How are you? Still bummed out about your parents’ Civil War reenactment of a divorce?”

As everybody knows, that’s not how the script works at Bowdoin. Every “how are you?” deserves a response of “good, thanks,” or the so-cially tactful non-answer of “hey, what’s up?”

We’re not sup-posed to talk about unhappiness at Bowdoin unless it pertains to our workloads or our dissatisfaction with the hookup/dating/celibacy scene.

To admit other sources of un-happiness is to admit weakness, to shatter the myth of the perfectly well-rounded, well-adjusted Bow-doin student.

And that just doesn’t sound ap-pealing. Because depending on who you ask, our college years are supposed to be some idealized love child of Animal House, Mona Lisa Smile, and Van Wilder: a montage of cuddly polar bears and Insta-grammed pictures of the quad —“the best four years of your life.”

While your time at Bowdoin could very well be the best four years of your life, the odds that you navigate it free of emotional distress, heartache, or run-of-the-mill unhappiness are zooming to-wards the lower bound of zero.

6 e fact of the matter is that it’s easy to be unhappy at our age and it’s even easier to be unhappy at Bowdoin.

The National Institute of Men-tal Health reports that 26 percent of people over the age of 18 suffer from a diagnosable mental illness in a given year.

Meanwhile, around 45 percent of Bowdoin students will use the counseling center at least once in their four years, according to a 2009 Orient article.

6 is is because you are set up to fail.It is practically guaranteed that your

brain is in turmoil right now. Your frontal cortex does not 5 nish growing until somewhere around age 25.

Which means that the part of your brain in charge of decision making, conscious-ness, and most impor-tantly, your emotions, has an “under con-struction” sign on it leading to unpredict-ability and messiness.

Adding to that difficulty, your late teens and early twenties are the sweet spot for the emergence of a host of mental illnesses, in-cluding anxiety disorders, bipo-lar disorder, panic disorders, and schizophrenia.

And if biology doesn’t get you, the environment just might. Not only can seasonal affective disor-der bring you down, but the stress-es of Bowdoin life can wreak havoc on your life as well.

As much as anyone may wish otherwise, Bowdoin is a highly competitive place, filled with stu-dents used to achieving at the highest levels.

Students are used to constantly benchmarking themselves against their peers and pushing themselves to do better. Be a better student. Be a bet-ter athlete. Have more friends. Have a better body. Have a love interest.

Oh, and I forgot to mention all the

tragedies and dramas of our family and friends outside of Bowdoin.

“So what’s your point?” you ask. “My brain hates me, I’m destined to be unhappy, and Bowdoin is only making it worse?”

So much of what makes us un-happy as Bowdoin students is out of our hands.

Rather than embracing the fact that we are all facing a chaotic juncture in our lives, we have cre-ated a culture that demands we smile our way through it all, stick-ing to safe conversations.

Instead of practicing empathy, the best we usually muster is half-hearted gestures of sympathy.

Like the famous Alcoholics Anonymous slogan, we expect each other to “fake it until you make it,” hiding unhappiness to avoid letting it affect others.

Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way. Hiding unhappiness doesn’t prevent it from affecting other people negatively. Waiting it out rarely works.

Happiness doesn’t just descend from the heavens—the solutions

require work. You have to deal with “your

shit.” Get help. Find ways to see silver linings. Feel the love. Learn to live with uncertainty. Keep your fingers crossed.

Being unhappy at Bowdoin doesn’t have to equal being unhap-py with Bowdoin.

In reality, we can improve our experience by acknowledging that no matter where we are, we’ll never be happy all the time.

Even the best four years of your life can suck sometimes.

HYPOCRITICALHIPPOPOTAMI

ERIC EDELMAN

all Religion majors should be, that I’m watching something I subcon-sciously see myself as above.

This is the last answer I want. I am not—I cannot be—studying re-ligion to feel superior.

This is the answer I want to wrap in linen, mummify and bury so that it will ever see the light of day again.

Often professors of religion or my peers will soothe these fears with calm words on the vast amounts of tolerance I must be gaining. And I don’t disagree: the study of religious traditions is condu-cive to multicultural understanding.

But for me, this isn’t quite enough. I’ve come to believe that my education should help me not just to understand others, but also to understand myself.

Yet, despite much popular con-fusion on this point, I am not in seminary, nor am I on the hunt for one tradition that suits me.

Each school break I come home to the question, “Converted yet?” from my well-meaning parents. And when I tell them no, they seem both relieved that their daughter will still enjoy a nice sec-ular Christmas and disappointed that I’m not working hard enough.

Surely the serious study of re-ligious traditions should yield a

BY MAE SPEIGHTCONTRIBUTOR

I don’t think any one tradition or philosophy has all the answers, or mandates the best way to live

out those answers.

They force me to think about what constitutes a well-lived life, about the things I fear, and how I could explain the worst in the world.

I don’t think any one tradition or philosophy has all the answers, or mandates the best way to live out those answers.

Often, where the philosophy of a religion appeals to me, the practice

The fact of the matter is that it’s easy to be

unhappy at our age and it’s even easier to be

unhappy at Bowdoin.

YOUNGSHIM HWANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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5TUESDAY

LECTURE Why the Political Homophobia of the 1950s? Rick Valelly, professor of political science at Swarthmore College will host a conversation about homophobia in the government. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.

2SATURDAY

FILM Holy Motors The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2012 drama about an assassin’s escapades through Paris. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Poetry Slam Poet Savannah Blue of the National Houston slam team will perform at the open mic co! ee house. Burnett House. 7:30 p.m. PERFORMANCE The Bobs This world renowned musical ensemble will perform both classic and contemporary compositions without instruments. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

4MONDAY

WORKSHOP Get That Gig! The Career Planning Center and Director of First-Year Programs Michael Wood will host an information session about summer job and internship opportunities for " rst years. Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:30 p.m.

LECTURE Reaching Hard to Reach Students Dr. Glen Cummings president of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences will host a panel discussion about strategies to engage “at risk” secondary school students in the classroom. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.

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1FRIDAY

INFORMATION SESSION Apartment 101 Property Manager Jay Stabile will lead a discussion about what happens after the move out of college housing. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 1:30 p.m. PRESENTATION Passion in Action: The Power of the Nonprofi t Sector Nicola Wells, state director of the Maine League of Young Voters, will discuss nonpro" t career opportunities and moderate a discussion with local nonpro" t professionals. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. Noon.

INFORMATION SESSION College HousesResidential Life will host an information session for current " rst years interested in applying to live in College Houses.Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4 p.m.

BOOK EVENT Tom Allen: Dangerous Convictions The former congressman and Bowdoin alum will discuss his new book on the political polarization of Congress. Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library. 6:30 p.m.

EVENT Senior Pub Crawl Seniors are invited on a First Friday excursion to Portland bars, sponsored by the Senior Class Council. Shuttle departs from the Polar Bear. 9 p.m.

3SUNDAY

SPORTING EVENT Super Bowl Party XLVII The San Francisco 49ers go head to head with the Baltimore Ravens. Jack Magee’s Pub will be o! ering discounts on wings, fries, pizza and beer. Jack Magee’s Pub. 6:30 p.m.

RELIGIOUS SERVICEProtestant Chapel ServiceThe Chapel. 7 p.m.

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6WEDNESDAY

HEALTH & WELLNESS American Red Cross Blood Drive Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 3 p.m.

7THURSDAY

EVENT Stuart Kirsch: Corporate Science Professor of Anthropology from the University of Michigan Stuart Kirsch will discuss his latest book about how captilistic corporations use science to succeed. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

THEATER Outside the Wire: “Theater of War” The social impact theater group will perform two Sophocles plays, which discuss the psychological impacts of wars. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

CAREER PANEL Dinner Career Conversations in Theater Masque & Gown and the Career Planning Center will co-host a panel for students interested in a career in the theater. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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KATE FEATHERSTON , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

THAWING OUT: The Quad’s shortlived ice rink melted into a wading pool as a result of the unusually warm weather this week.

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PerformanceYing Quartet

Lecture“Testing Chastity,

Evidencing Rape and Women’s Rights in

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