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MORE NEWS: BSG CHANGES SOOC POLICY; FACULTY THANKSGIVING BREAK PROPOSAL

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL:. Debunking divestmentPage 14.

SPORTS: MEN’S ICE HOCKEY FALLS TO LORD JEFFSThe week after the men’s ice hockey team was ranked its highest ever in D-III, the team lost 6-3 at home to Amherst. The team has fallen to No. 3 in the nation but has maintained its position atop the NESCAC. Page 10.Page 5.

Page 3.HALF-ASSED: Judah Issero! ’13 on pursuing your passions after graduation.

BSG: Judicial Board will now be responsible for hazing investigations.

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BREAK: Week-long Thanksgiving break not possible for next academic year.Page 3.

LASO hosts annual Valentine’s Day eventto raise money for charity, auctioning dates with students.

JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

The Senior Class Gift Campaign launched last night with a reception in the Druckenmiller Atrium.

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BY NORA BIETTETIMMONS ORIENT STAFF

Farrell leaves ResLife staff Ben Farrell, former associate

director of residential education, left the College at the end of Janu-ary.

“Ben Farrell is no longer work-ing at the College,” Director of Residential Life Mary Pat McMa-hon wrote in an email to ResLife staff members on January 25. “He is currently pursuing some inter-esting creative and professional opportunities.”

McMahon also sent the email to Howell House residents, as Farrell served as their staff advisor.

“Chris Rossi will take on many of Ben’s responsibilities including serving as primary point person for the ResLife student staff,” Mc-Mahon wrote.

Farrell’s last day at Bowdoin was January 25. The reasons for his de-parture are unclear.

“I won’t comment on personnel changes,” McMahon said.

Farrell’s temporary replacement, Michael Wood ’06, began working in the Residential Life office on Monday, January 28.

“He’s somewhat on loan from the first-year dean’s office,” McMa-hon said. “He’s working a day and a half for the first year programs, and three days for us.”

“We were looking for someone who could walk in on short notice and be a really valuable resource,” she said. Wood served as a proctor and a head proctor during his time at Bowdoin and will advise Bur-nett and Reed Houses.

Residential Life will soon begin the search process to permanently replace Farrell and Rossi, assistant director of residential life, whose contract expires in June.

The deadline for student appli-cations to Residential Life was Jan-uary 30, though a handful of ap-plicants were given extensions due to submission difficulties while studying abroad.

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1.4 percent of endowment invested in fossil fuels

BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTERORIENT STAFF

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Asst. hockey coach crashes SUV intoDruckenmiller

Longfellow School renovations underway

BY GARRETT CASEY AND LINDA KINSTLER

ORIENT STAFF

In the past few months, divestment has evolved from a burgeoning move-ment on a handful of college campuses to a nationwide e) ort, though only three schools have agreed to divest their en-dowments from fossil fuels thus far. At Bowdoin, members of Green Bowdoin Alliance (GBA) have scaled up their ef-forts to push the College on the issue, and submitted a formal proposal last week that urges President Barry Mills and the Board of Trustees to divest from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies within the next * ve years.

In a joint statement provided to the Orient on Wednesday, Mills and Paula Volent, senior vice president for invest-ments, wrote that approximately 1.4 percent of Bowdoin’s endowment is in-vested in these 200 companies. + e Col-lege invests in them through large com-mingled funds that contain hundreds of other stocks. Divesting from fossil fuels would require a turnover of over 25 per-cent of the endowment, according to the statement.

Bowdoin’s investment o, ce estimat-ed that by substituting a fossil fuel-free index for the commingled funds with exposure to fossil fuel companies, the endowment’s average yearly return over the past decade would have been * ve percent lower.

From that estimate, which Volent

+ e Brunswick Police Depart-ment (BPD) arrested Holly Lorms, assistant coach of the women’s ice hockey team, around 10:45 p.m. Sunday night on suspicion that she had crashed her SUV while under the in- uence of alcohol, according to the Bangor Daily News.

Lorms’ Lexus SUV veered o) of Sills Drive, crossed a divider—nar-rowly missing several trees—drove over a portion of the Polar Loop parking lot, struck a light post, and crashed into the east side of Druck-enmiller Hall.

On Monday a. ernoon, dark black tire marks were visible on Sills Drive. A small section of bricks had been dislodged from the wall of Druckenmiller Hall.

Lorms, Interim Athletic Director Tim Ryan, and women’s ice hockey Head Coach Marissa O’Neil all de-clined comment.

Two students studying in the atri-um of Druckenmiller Hall heard the impact when Lorms crashed into the building not far away from them.

“I heard a loud thud. I didn’t check on it. It startled me, but it sounded exactly like a dump truck dumping in garbage,” said Zach Os-trup ’13. “Probably about * ve min-utes later, I see two cop cars pull up;

BY GARRET CASEYORIENT STAFF

Less than three months after the project began, electrical and mechanical work is beginning on the new Longfellow Arts Building. The project will transform the old Longfellow Elementary School into a new hub for art studios, offices and gallery space. It is on schedule to be completed in August.

After acquiring the building from the Town of Brunswick in the fall of 2011, the Board of Trustees approved the project durings its meeting this October.

The building, which was built

in the 1920s and had subsequent additions and renovations in the 1940s and 1980s, will maintain much of its original design and character.

“We’re trying to recycle as much as we can,” said Dean of Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd.

The building, which will be ex-panded from 38,000 square feet to 44,000 square feet, will include a digital media lab, a woodshop, a printmaking studio, a dance studio, gallery spaces, faculty of-fices and studio space for draw-ing, painting, sculpture and other visual arts classes.

“The point of this is to consoli-

date all of our visual arts,” said Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Katy Longley.

Currently, the art facilities are scattered in six different buildings around town and according to Judd, some of them are “less than ideal.”

The completion of the Longfel-low Arts Building on the south end of campus will mark the fourth on-campus arts building, with Pickard Memorial Theatre at the north, Studzinski Recital Hall on the east, and the Bowdoin College

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Class size policy leaves classrooms cramped

Nearly 45 classes this semester have exceeded the maximum enroll-ment listed on Bearings. Of these, the Department of Mathematics has the most over enrolled classes with nine, the Department of Government ranks second with four classes above their designated limits.

+ e course with the most students is Professor Samuel Putnam’s Psychol-ogy 101, with 64 students enrolled.

This is significantly smaller than last spring’s highest enrollment for Classical Mythology, which had a whopping 96 students and last fall’s Environmental Studies 101, which had an enrollment of 81. To accomodate popular courses, the department will somtimes offer ad-ditional sections.

+ e maximum number of students in each course o) ered by the College is determined by two comities within the Department of Academic A) airs, the Committee on Curriculum and Education Policy (CEP), and the Cur-

riculum Implementation Commit-tee (CIC).

Each department also has the abil-ity to suggest the size of their courses, when they propose them to the CEP and the CIC.

“If there’s nothing special about the introductory class, the minimum maximum is * . y,” said Dean of Aca-demic A) airs, Cristle Collins Judd. Professos may admit additional stu-dents at their discretion for these in-troductory courses.

Other circumstances may limit the size of introductory classes. For instance, this may occur for courses were there are a limited number of microscopes, computers, or easels available to students.

Additionally, all language classes are capped at 18 students, due to the “pedagogical evidence” that stu-dents learn languages best in small-er settings.

“You want everyone in the class to be able to speak for at least two min-utes,” said Judd.

For these reasons, the 18 student cap is non-negotiable, according to

Judd. However, this semester, Spanish 102, as well as both sections of Spanish 204 have nineteen students enrolled.

“When it’s a class that’s been de-signed as a large lecture class with many di) erent interactions for stu-dents, the professor doesn’t have to go over * . y, but in consultation with the department, they can,” said Judd of the policy.

First-year seminars are not to be larger than 16 students.

“+ at’s an absolute part as what we see as a signi* cant part of the experi-ences,” said Judd. “It changes when it gets to 17.”

With the debut of the College’s new online registration program, Polaris, the College expects it to improve the process by which they determine the number of courses available.

Judd hopes that the College will be able to o) er students a sneak peak at future course o) erings, making it easi-er for students to plan out their majors ahead of time.

“I think it allows students to have students to think about their options in ways that they can’t now,” said Judd.

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Fenkell allowed only three goals in 80 minutes last weekend against Hamilton and Amherst.

SPORTS: Athlete of the Week: Max Fenkell ’15 FEATURES: “348 and Maine”Evan Horwitz ’15 critiques the workwear fad in his latest serving of style advice.

A&E: Stepping Outside the WireAdam Driver of “Girls” participated in a dramatic reading of Sophocles’ plays in last night’s “Theater of War” production.

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NORTHERN LIGHTS

H-L sta! members memorialize library’s fallen staplers

Frustrated with the tendency for their staplers to break and disap-pear, circulation desk sta5 ers at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library have taken to naming each one and have erected a memorial sign to the fallen.

“Sometimes you have students that try to staple 200 pages at once and the poor staplers can’t handle it,” said circulation sta5 member Chris Gravallese ’14. “We have a list of the ones that have served.”

As soon as the library has to re-place a stapler, anyone on sta5 can name the new one. Previous sta-plers, commemmorated on a paper “Roll of Honor” have borne liter-ary monikers ranging from Harold James Potter to Babar.

“We’re just keeping ever vigilant for those who would wish harm on our o6 ce supply brethren,” Graval-lese said.

Student environmental e! orts promise to reduce food waste

This week marked the start of “Veguary,” an effort that originated at Middlebury College with the aim of encouraging less meat con-sumption.

Samantha Burns ’13 says that vegetarianism isn’t the only stated goal for students: there are “also options for being a vegan, which is no meat or dairy, or pescatar-ian which means no meat but fish.” Die-hard meat eaters can choose to be “flexitarians,” which is merely reduced red meat consumption. The average American, says Burns, eats “about 100 pounds of meat a year,” which is “too much” to be environmentally sustainable.

Bowdoin students are also be-ing encouraged to participate in “Recylemania,” a North American college-level tournament to reduce campus waste. This year is the first year Bowdoin has participated in the challenge, a decision made by the College’s Eco Reps.

In the spirit of competition, multiple efforts are being launched to boost recycling output. A ban-ner at Smith Union will be updated weekly with Bowdoin’s recycling ranking, which Burns hopes might inspire students to get “a little competitive against the other NE-SCAC schools.”

In addition, “all the freshmen bricks have a compost bucket in their basement right now,” said Burns. “That’s going to be a tem-porary experiment.” Organizers at Bowdoin hope that the focus on composting, which now also includes College Houses, will cut down on food waste. Currently, the average student produces .75 pounds of waste per meal.

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PHOTOS BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTERSAME SPACE, NEW STYLE: The former Longfellow Elementary School gym is being transformed into a digital media lab, a design studio, a sculpture studio and a photography darkroom.

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Museum of Art on the west.“7 is location as a hub for student

arts couldn’t be better,” Judd said.In addition to the transformation

of the building, lights will be added to the path from Brunswick Apart-ments to 7 orne Hall. 7 e Town of Brunswick will lease the playground adjacent to the Longfellow School from Bowdoin and it will remain a public recreation area.

The total budget for the proj-ect is $6 million and is primarily funded by proceeds from a recent bond issue.

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BY EMMA PETERSORIENT STAFF

At last Monday’s faculty meeting,a working group tasked with exam-ining changes to the fall semester academic calender announced that a weeklong Thanksgiving break would not be feasible for the 2013-2014 academic year.

“A lot of time and energy has been spent on this issue by many folks,” said Mar-garet Hazlett, senior associate dean of student affairs. “I hope there’s a benefit down the road for students.”

The working group received o v e r w h e l m i n g support from stu-dents and faculty about the idea of extending Thanksgiving break. However, support for other changes to the calendar was inconsistent.

“If we’re adding two days of break to Thanksgiving, they have to come from somewhere,” said Scott Sehon, working group chair and professor of philosophy. “We’re not talking about just cutting two days of classes from the schedule; the question is where they would come from.”

Possible rearrangement options included starting the school year earlier, shortening reading period, and even compressing Orientation.

“There are several different plac-es from which we could get a day and then there are all the combi-nations whereby we could get two days,” said Sehon. “Each of them has advantages and disadvantages.”

The working group found that cutting down Orientation would be especially problematic as next fall the College will introduce its online course registration pro-gram, Polaris.

“It seems really unwise to do

anything this year that would give us less time to deal with glitches in the registration process,” said Sehon.

The idea of extending Thanks-giving break was in part proposed to appeal to the increasing popu-lation of students from outside New England. The full week would make travel easier and more finan-cially viable.

“We thought it was an attractive idea because it’s at least, ar-guably, fam-ily friendly. It’s nice to be home for that holiday,” said Sehon.

B o w d o i n Student Gov-ernment (BSG) a d v o c a t e d strongly for a Thanksgiv ing

break extension this past fall. BSG organized a demonstration in favor of the proposal, that resulted in the formation of the faculty working group.

“I’m happy with the progress that we’ve made,” said Dani Che-diak, BSG president. “Of course I would’ve loved for the calendar committee to come back and pres-ent a motion that would be voted on at the next faculty meeting. But that’s not necessarily the pace that our school usually runs at.”

Though Thanksgiving break will not be extended next year, the proposal has not been shut down completely. Particularly, changes to the start of the school year will continue to be examined.

“Any options compressing reg-istration period were off the table for this fall but we didn’t think they should be off the table perma-nently,” said Sehon.

“I’m a huge proponent of trying to get a few days at the front end so students can have a fuller first week of classes,” said Hazlett.

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Residential Life also gave exten-sions to “a few juniors who are choos-ing not to study away,” McMahon said.

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“We’re not talking about just cutting two days

of classes from the schedule; the question is where they would come

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PROFESSOR SCOTT SEHON

returners have applied to be proctors and RAs for next academic year. 5 ere are only 71 positions available for a total of 132 applicants. 5 is number is down from last year, when 145 stu-dents applied.

Proctor and RA decisions will be announced before Spring Break.

admitted was conservative, the invest-ment o6 ce approximated the mone-tary impact that divestment would have on the endowment.

“Over a ten-year period we would lose over $100 million,” Volent said.

Mills said that without that $100 million, the College would be crippled 7 nancially and would have to make signi7 cant cuts to the yearly operating budget.

“Let’s say we don’t have that money,” Mills said. “Would we 7 re faculty? Would we 7 re sta8 ? Would we kill programs at the College? You can’t save that much money without drastically changing the program of Bowdoin.”

Mills met with six students from GBA last Friday to discuss the group’s proposal. Matthew Goodrich ’15, Bridget McCoy ’15, Hugh Ratli8 e ’15, Courtney Payne ’15, and two other students were present at the meeting, where Goodrich presented Mills with a formal proposal for divestment, titled “Consider the Polar Bear: Divesting from Fossil Fuels at Bowdoin College.”

Goodrich, McCoy and Margaret Lindeman ’15 are listed as the main contacts for the initiative in the docu-ment, which was adopted from a simi-lar proposal submitted by students at Tu9 s University.

5 e discussion last Friday centered around the feasibility of divestment, and Mills spent the majority of the hour-long meeting explaining how the College spends and invests the endow-ment, and asking the students how they would compensate for the monetary loss that divestment would incur.

“5 is is not a new subject. For four years, alums have asked about socially responsible investment,” Mills said. “We know we would earn less. If we could have earned the same or more, what do you think we would have done?”

5 e GBA proposal frames divest-ment as a moral obligation that super-sedes economic concerns, while also ar-guing that green funds can perform just as well or better than traditional funds.

“We don’t think you’re going to lose that much money from the endow-ment,” one GBA representative told Mills at the meeting.

“It is morally wrong for Bowdoin to invest in, and pro7 t from, corporations whose business model is antithetical to the common knowledge of the sci-enti7 c community and the common good of this planet,” the proposal states. “Financing our education is not worth selling our future.”

Doing the math

Environmental activist and Middle-bury Scholar in Residence Bill McK-ibben has positioned himself as the public face of the movement, and just concluded his nationwide “Do the Math” tour of college campuses to urge students to push their schools to divest. Middlebury President Ronald Liebow-itz said that he is willing to look into divestment in a campus-wide email in which he also disclosed that 3.6 percent of Middlebury’s $883 million endow-ment is invested in fossil fuels, accord-ing to 5 e Nation. McKibben o8 ered a di8 erent 7 gure, telling the press yester-day morning that less than 1 percent of Middlebury’s endowment is invested in fossil fuels.

According to GBA, over 500 Bow-doin students, faculty and sta8 have en-dorsed its cause, which similar groups are pushing for at 234 colleges around the country, at McKibben’s latest count. Unity College, Hampshire College, and Sterling College are the only schools that have committed to divestment.

5 e GBA proposal cites McKibben several times. McKibben will partici-pate in a panel discussion on divest-ment at Bowdoin this weekend via

Skype, joining Unity College President Stephen Mulkey, Sierra Club Executive Director Glen Brand, and other envi-ronmental activists.

At last Friday’s meeting, Mills asked the students to “be equally skeptical of McKibben as you are of me.”

GBA’s proposal argues that the Col-lege has a responsibility to do whatever it can to support the e8 ort to combat climate change, and states that divest-ment will send a strong message com-pelling the federal government to end subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

5 e investments of every college en-dowment in the country account for 0.1 percent of investment in U.S. oil and gas companies, according to a study by the American Petroleum Institute.

“Divestment is not synonymous with sacri7 ce. It does not have to lower in-vestment returns or reduce the diversity of Bowdoin’s student body by slashing 7 nancial aid. Socially responsible funds can perform just as well as traditional mutual funds,” the proposal states.

5 e authors o8 er several options for how the endowment could be rein-vested in funds that are not tied to fossil fuels. 5 e 7 rst option is to invest with Green Century Capital Management, which invests in environmentally re-sponsible mutual funds. 5 e second is to adopt a self-managed green revolving fund (GRF) to invest in Bowdoin’s sus-tainable infrastructure.

Mills said that although green funds do sometimes outperform other mu-tual funds, they will not outperform the funds in which the College has invested.

“Bowdoin invests its money without a lot of risk but earns returns that are at the highest level of almost any other college or university in the country. 5 e people who are going to come here to-morrow—the socially responsible peo-ple—they’re going to describe to you how you can invest your money and they’re going to compare that to people who basically invest their money in a very plain, vanilla way,” Mills said. “So when they say they can earn the same return that our investment committee is returning, it’s not true. 5 ey can earn a return. It will just be less.”

In 7 scal year (FY) 2012, the endow-ment returned 2.6 percent, bringing it to $902.4 million in a year when the national mean for endowment returns was -1.0 percent, according to Cam-bridge Associates. In FY 2011, the en-dowment returned 22.3 percent and stood at $904.2 million.

Mills said that the College has an obligation to maximize endowment returns in order to ful7 ll its 7 duciary responsibility to donors.

“For 200 years people have been giv-ing Bowdoin College money as an en-dowment and they give us the money because they want us to educate stu-dents and create a campus like we have,” Mills said. “5 ey tell us, ‘I’m giving you this money,’ and it’s our responsibility to manage it prudently to get a maximum return.”

Mills and Katy Longley, senior vice president for 7 nance and administra-tion, said that the College has invested heavily in sustainable infrastructure since the fall of 2008.5 e College com-mitted to carbon neutrality by 2020 in fall 2009.

Over the past 7 ve years, Bowdoin has spent over $2.5 million from its op-erations budget on sustainability proj-ects, including converting properties to natural gas, weatherizing buildings, and installing solar panels on 5 orne Hall.

5 e College has also spent over $93 million on large capital projects like the construction of Watson Arena and Buck Fitness Center—both certi7 ed green buildings. Longley said that a large portion of the budget for capital projects was direct investment in sus-tainability.

“It’d be fair to say that of that $93 mil-lion investment under capital projects, at least 10 percent of that is e6 ciency related,” she said.

In total, the College has allocated at least $11.8 million to sustainability ini-tiatives since fall 2008.

Time will tell

GBA’s proposal cites the success of past divestment campaigns at the Col-lege, o8 ering them as examples for how the administration should proceed.

“In 1987, the College completely wrested its portfolio from the hands of the apartheid regime in South Africa, and in 2006, cleansed its earnings from the blood of Sudanese genocide victims in Darfur,” the proposal states. “Bow-doin was able to make these statements of social responsibility without sacri7 c-ing student 7 nancial aid or other essen-tial programs of the College.”

Mills said that these past examples were di8 erent because the U.S. govern-ment had placed legal restrictions on investments in Sudan and South Africa.

“5 e two times we divested before it was basically illegal to do business with those places,” Mills said. “5 e govern-ment had enacted rules that made it a problem to invest in the Sudan. 5 e same thing was true back in the apart-heid days.”

Volent added that the College did not technically divest from Sudan, since it had no investments there in the 7 rst place.

“We didn’t have any investment in Sudan,” Volent said. “It was against the law to invest in Sudan, so we didn’t have any exposure.”

Mark Kritzman, senior lecturer in 7 -nance at the MIT Sloan School of Man-agement, studies the costs and bene7 ts of socially responsible investment. He gave a presentation at a divestment panel hosted by Middlebury College on January 22. 5 e 7 nal slide of his presen-tation asked whether there was a more e8 ective strategy than divestment.

“Well intentioned investors should attempt to measure whether it is more e8 ective to restrict investment choices and incur a direct cost or to invest with-out restriction and deploy the savings directly toward social improvement,” Kritzman suggested.

Mills said that he believes that Bow-doin can better serve the environment by producing scientists than by divest-ing from fossil fuel companies.

“5 e answer to this problem is fundamentally investment in edu-cation and science,” he said. “5 at’s what we do. We are an educational institution. We are not a political ac-tion committee.”

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Faculty proposal to extendThanksgiving break tabled

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BSG addresses divestment, hazing and Winter Weekend

cial Board, handle the investigation of hazing.

Class of 2016 Representative Mi-chael Colbert ’16 questioned wheth-er such a change would overload the Judicial Board, but Kim responded that he did not believe that would be an issue.

BSG members ultimately brought the motion to a vote, and it passed unanimously among the 19 voting members present.

Chediak also introduced a pro-posal to approve an expenditure of up to $2,550 on the BSG’s Winter Weekend, which is scheduled for February 15 and 16. A large part of the money would go toward catering a campus-wide event on February 15 at Ladd House before the hockey game against Tu5 s.

At-Large Representative Sarah Nelson ’14 detailed some other planned uses for the expenditure, including novelty Winter Weekend cups and a ra6 e of vintage Bowdoin gear. She also emphasized the value of Winter Weekend as a “communi-ty-building activity.”

7 e expenditure was put to a vote and also unanimously passed among the voting members present.

Members absent from the meet-ing included Cole Duncan ’14, Sam Vitello ’13, Jordan Goldberg ’14, Asher Stamell ’13, Kaitlin Donahoe ’13, Max Staiger ’13, and Michael Yang ’14.

On Wednesday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) representatives discussed and ultimately declined to take an official stance on divest-ing the endowment of fossil fuels. BSG intends to hear from a rep-resentative of the administration before issuing a statement. Peter Nauffts ’15 and Ben Richmond ’13, of Bowdoin’s Climate Action Group, attended the meeting to request that BSG make an official statement calling for the College to investigate divestment. However, after discus-sion, BSG decided to refrain from making a proposal until it had more information on the issue.

Nau8 s and Richmond both ad-vocated strongly for an o9 cial state-ment concerning divestment, es-pecially in time for the meeting of the Board of Trustees taking place this weekend, which has since been cancelled due to inclement weather. Richmond stressed that “now is the time for action.”

Vice President for Facilities Tessa Kramer ’13 emphasized that divest-ment was a “big-picture issue” with high student support, and that a BSG call for investigation was a low-risk position to take.

President Daniela Chediak ’13 called for an executive session, and all non-voting members of BSG were asked to vacate the room. Ul-timately, the executive committee did not make an o9 cial call for the investigation of divestment.

BSG also voted on an update to the Student Organizations and Oversight Committee (SOOC) by-laws. Vice President for Student Or-ganizations Brian Kim ’13 character-ized the current bylaws, which ask the SOOC to oversee the hazing ad-judication process, as “unwieldy and uncharacteristic for the committee.”

Instead, it was proposed that the College, and specifically the Judi-

their lights are : ashing. So I go out to see what was going on and I see this girl about our age.”

One student said the woman who got out of the car looked disorient-ed. Both students heard Lorms say that she had reacted to a pedestrian walking in front of her car. 7 e skid marks on Sills Drive begin just a5 er a crosswalk.

Ambulances arrived on the scene shortly a5 er the crash. Lorms went into an ambulance but emerged al-most immediately to take what ap-

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Thursday, January 31• A student who was riding a bi-

cycle on South Campus Drive near Moulton Union collided with a car. The student received a hand injury and a car door was damaged.

Friday, February 1• Brunswick Rescue transported

a student with abdominal pain to Parkview Medical Center.

• A visitor fell on the ice at Wat-son Arena and received head, neck and back injuries. The person re-fused medical treatment.

• Three students were involved in taking recyclable bottles and cans from Searles, Hubbard and Adams Halls, without permission.

• Two local men were given tres-pass warnings and ordered to leave campus after a report of suspicious behavior at Smith Union and Sar-gent Gym.

• A spectator at Watson Arena was struck in the head by a hockey puck. Brunswick Rescue trans-ported the person to Parkview Medical Center

• A student took responsibility for hosting an unregistered event at Stowe Hall.

• Students reported people smash-ing glass bottles in a parking lot at Brunswick Apartments.

Saturday, February 2• A complaint of excessive noise

was reported on the second floor of Coleman Hall.

• A student cooking food at Brunswick Apartments F set off the building’s fire alarm.

Sunday, February 3• Marijuana smoke in the base-

ment of Burnett House during a registered event triggered the fire alarm.

• Officers checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student at a registered event at Ladd House.

• Brunswick Fire Department responded to Hyde Hall after

someone maliciously pulled the basement fire alarm.

• A theft and arson were re-ported at Harpswell Apartments. Two wooden College chairs and two golf clubs were stolen from a porch, and then destroyed in a bonfire. A group composed of stu-dents and alumni was found to be involved. An alumnus took prima-ry responsibility.

• Light fixtures and thermostats were vandalized during a regis-tered event at Ladd House.

• A fire extinguisher was mali-ciously discharged in the basement of Ladd House.

• An officer escorted an ill stu-dent from Chamberlain Hall to Parkview Medical Center.

• Brunswick Police Department arrested an Athletics staff mem-ber for operating under the in-fluence of alcohol after she lost control of her car on Sills Drive, knocked down College light pole, and crashed into the east side of Druckenmiller Hall. The staff member declined medical treat-ment. The car and building were damaged.

• Loud noise was reported to be coming from the first floor com-mon room at Chamberlain Hall.

Monday, February 4• A student complained of in-

toxicated alumni at Chamberlain Hall.

• A student took responsibility for breaking a door and door frame at Brunswick Apartments.

• A student’s sweatshirt that was reported stolen at Watson Arena was returned.

Wednesday, February 6• A student reported receiving

unwanted text messages.• Wall damage was reported in

the second floor hallway at Cole-man Hall. A student took respon-sibility.

Thursday, February 7• A black Gary Fisher bicycle was

reported stolen from the Coles Tower bike racks sometime over winter break.

• An employee reported that a backpack was stolen from her vehicle that was parked in the Co9 n lot dur-ing the early a5 ernoon. 7 e back-pack contained items of minimal val-ue. 7 e car had been le5 unlocked.

-Complied by the O! ce of Safety and Security

SECURITY REPORT: 1/31 to 2/7

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peared to be a field sobriety test.“Things got heated when she had

to perform the—whatever you call it—the line, the heel-to-toe test,” said Ostrup. “And then the officer started what seemed to be yelling at her, chastising her, definitely elevated voice. And then she was handcuffed.”

Deputy Chief Mark Hagan of the BPD said that the officers who responded were immediately sus-picious that Lorms was under the influence of alcohol.

“When the officers were talking to her—after rescue looked at her—they were suspicious that there could be a potential of her being

under the influence,” he said. “Af-ter she was medically cleared they began talking to her further.”

Lorms submitted to a Breatha-lyzer test, but the BPD cannot re-lease the results. She posted bail and has a court date on April 2 at the West Bath District Court.

There is no indication of wheth-er Lorms will continue in her role with the women’s ice hockey team.

In April 2010, Assistant Baseball and Football Coach Trevor Powers ’06 was arrested for operating un-der the influence on Coffin Street. Powers did not coach either the football or baseball teams the fol-lowing season.

• Proposed the J-Board will handle future investigations of hazing in student clubs

• Approved expenditure of up to $2,550 for Winter Weekend

• Refrained from taking o! cial position on divesting the endowment of fossil fuels

TOPH TUCKER , THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSKATING TO A HALT: Wall damage seen here on the morning after Assistant Women’s Ice Hockey Coach Holly Lorms crashed her SUV into Druckenmiller Hall.

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LASO to auction off Valentine’s dates to raise money for charity

someone who will turn into mar-riage material.”

Or maybe you’re looking for Ky-lie Moore ’16, a neuroscience major from Anchorage, Ala.

“Even if I am hoping for a cer-tain bidder, surprises are always an adventure,” Moore said. Her spirit animal is the leopard.

Sophia Rivero ’15 says her ideal date would involve her date cook-ing her dinner—especially if they made her favorite food, mac and cheese. She is an anthropology ma-jor and spanish minor from New York City. Like Moore, she would

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTCUPID CHARISMA: Rossignol, Rivero, and Wolf rehearse charming smiles.

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Whether you love it, hate it or secretly love it, everyone knows it is that time of year—Valentine’s Day is just a week away. Whether you are buying chocolates, sculpt-ing paper hearts or pretending the holiday does not exist, remember to come out for this year’s Valentine’s Auction.

This Saturday, Latin American Student Organization (LASO) will be hosting its annual Valentine’s Auction in Jack Magee’s Pub from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. If you still need a date for next weekend, this is your chance.

More than 20 Bowdoin students will be participating in the auc-tion. In past years, “dates” have been sold for anything from $20 to $300—and LASO requests cash only, please.

Every year, LASO donates the money to a different non-profit. In the past, the organization has sup-ported relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake and programs like Mano en Mano, which provides support for migrant workers in Maine.

This year, proceeds are going to Tengo Voz, a center for Latino women in Maine. It provides assis-tance with social services, employ-ment, housing and education, and support groups for women who have suffered domestic abuse.

Caroline Martinez ’16, one of the

event’s organizers and a participant herself, said, “Tengo Voz is a great program because it’s not just stuff with jobs and housing, but they help with personal matters as well.”

At the auction, Masters of Cer-emonies Melody Hahm ’13 and Asher Stamell ’13 will introduce each potential date. The students will then dance to a song of their choice, and the bidding will begin.

Who can you expect to see on stage this Saturday night?

Sarah Levin ’13 is a history ma-jor and sociology minor from San Diego, Calif. She is manager of the swim team, a Student Activities intern, and works for Residential Life. After graduation, she will be teaching kindergarten.

Kjetil Rossignol ’16 is from Caribou, Maine. As a first year, Rossignol plans to major in biol-ogy. He is also a talented musician and works as a lab technician, and many are intrigued by his secret ability to feed birds out of his hand.

Next in the lineup is Max Wolf ’15, who recieved the highest bid for a male last year: $150 from George Ellzey ’13.

On Wolf ’s ideal date, he would “wake her up with co3 ee and donuts from Frosty’s, walk down to the local farmer’s market for fresh food to cook for brunch, and then take a trip to the humane society to play with puppies.” He is a math major and visual arts mi-nor from Moline, Ill., and is taking the auction seriously.

He adds, “Maybe this year I’ll 4 nd

not object to a pleasant surprise at the auction.

Sam King ’14 grew up in Rye, N.Y. and he’s an environmental studies and religion coordinate major. His ideal date would be “get-ting a bid for top dollar at the auc-tion, heading to a premier college dining hall for dinner, and seeing where things go from there.”

Luckily for King, LASO and Bowdoin Dining Services will be serving dinner for the dates and their bidders in Lancaster Lounge on Saturday, February 16.

According to Martinez, “The

dinner is going to be great. It will be delicious and romantic.”

Most participants, however, are less worried about the dinner date than the actual auction. Moore ad-mits, “I’m terrified at the idea of being auctioned off, but I’m also excited. I’m currently trying to convince everyone I know to come and bid.”

King added, “This is my first time participating in the auction. I don’t have too many expectations, I am just hoping not to end up on a 10-cent date with my roommate.”

Even amid the nerves and stage fright, everyone is willing to step out of their comfort zones in the spirit of the Common Good.

When asked why she chose to volunteer as a date, Rivera said, “I decided to participate this year be-cause I told myself that I would try new things and this seemed like a good place to start—not to men-tion that the money raised goes to a great cause.”

During the auction, LASO is also providing free pizza, music, dancing, and door prizes that in-clude gift cards to Wild Oats, the Little Dog Cafe and Gelato Fiasco.

The LASO Valentine’s Day cel-ebration will be full of surprises—you never know who you might meet. Martinez disclosed that one year, a student bid on a girl he had long been interested in, and after their dinner date they remained together for the rest of their time at Bowdoin.

After opening my first col-lege acceptance letter, I was over-whelmingly filled with relief. I was done. Done with interviews. Done with worrying about rejection. At last, finally done trying to prove to some complete stranger that I was unique, talented, creative, and “worthy” enough for their approv-al—in less than 500 words.

Alas, I was naive. If you are like me and feel like

you are a generally sociable person who prizes a community atmo-sphere, you have probably decided that you want to live in a “College House,” and you are caught in the midst of yet another application process. Granted, this one may not hold nearly as much weight as that of applying to college, but it’s cer-tainly not without the stress.

Walk through the first-year bricks and you’ll find they are dominated by conversations re-garding College House admission. Feelings of apprehension and ten-sion are abuzz. In fact, just a couple days ago I overheard a few students comparing the College House ac-ceptance rate (67 percent for 2012-2013) to the acceptance rate of Bowdoin itself (13.8 percent for Class of 2016 regular admission).

Many students are worried about their blocks, the origin of

most application stress.We were told by Residential Life

that a good block consists of a “di-verse” group of students. But what exactly does this mean? What con-stitutes as diverse? Should we try to block with friends from differ-ent parts of the country? Should we block with students involved in a variety of activities? Do they want us to try and look like the cover of an admissions pamphlet?

In addition, we were told that, for the most part, we can only ap-ply to houses people in our block are affiliated with. Thus, some who hit it off with a couple of their hallmates, but are not ecstat-ic about their affiliate house, have begun to reconsider whom they’re choosing to live with next year. It’s a strategic game.

On top of this, the limit of four people per block can cause ten-sion among friends. Indeed, it is very hard to tell someone you have grown close with that you do not have enough room for them in your group. Perhaps it is even harder to be on the receiving end of this in-formation.

And, of course, there is that dreaded box: “If your block is not accepted, would you like your ap-plication to still be considered individually?” There is certainly something a little daunting about deciding to leave your friends be-hind.

Then, when it comes to the appli-cation itself, the whole thing feels very reminiscent of writing college essays. The questions may seem

simple at first, but because they leave so much open for interpreta-tion, hours can be spent trying to come up with perfect answers.

Unlike college applications, these questions have no word lim-its. How much one is expected to or should write can be daunting. Will a paragraph suffice? Or per-haps a saga on how your entire life has been a series of events leading up to College House admission is more fitting? All of a sudden that 500-word guideline from senior year of high school starts to look appealing.

Steering clear of stress while ap-plying to College Houses can seem very difficult. Many may be bang-ing their heads against walls or wishing they “could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy.”

However, what we as applicants must realize is that in the grand scheme of things, applying to a College House is not a big deal. Playing “the College House game” is unnecessary. Don’t over think it. Keep in mind that College Houses are not sororities or fraternities. They are not exclusive. Our cam-pus is small enough that you can pop over and see your friends any-time you like.

We’ve all made it into Bowdoin, which was the real feat. We have already proven that we are unique, talented, creative, and worthy enough to be here. In the end, the unnecessary stress and pressure for a silly application is simply not worth it.

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If you’ve recently visited an Ur-ban Outfitters (I’m willing to bet you have), then I think you know. If you’ve seen even a preview of Girls, or—gasp—if you’ve actually walked the streets of Williamsburg (if you think I’m talking about a colonial village in Virginia, I can’t help you), then I’m pretty sure you know. If you’ve walked across Bow-doin’s campus in this decade, then you certainly know. “Know what?” you may ask.

Workwear is trendier than Lena Dunham herself.

Now some of you may be won-dering what workwear actually is. This is probably the same ones of you who thought the streets of Wil-liamsburg were cobbled and full of people with odd facial hair churn-ing artisanal butter, making spe-cialty preserves, and speaking in funny accents. Oh wait, that is ex-actly Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

But I digress. Workwear is—brace yourself—what you wear to work. And by work I don’t mean the kind of work you can dress for by pretending to live in a Banana Republic ad. By work I mean man-ual labor, like building a house or fixing a car or plowing a field with your bare hands and teeth. And by you, of course, I don’t mean you.

Because the chances that you are a construction worker or a mechanic or a farmer—and no, you’re not a farmer if you went farm camp and learned how to plant six varieties of heirloom squash—are very slim.

I’m puzzled, then, why you are covered head to toe in industrial

grade denim and canvas from Dickies and Carhartt. Does half this school—and all of Brooklyn— secretly spend its afternoons coal mining with Ms. Dunham? Is that why I can’t make it across campus without seeing at least 27 denim work shirts in various shades of

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indigo, grey, and charcoal? This can’t be the reason because I have never been invited to a coal-mining or even a concrete pouring party by any cast member of Girls, and I, too, sometimes walk by a mirror or a mildly reflective windowpane and, after contemplating my face for sev-eral minutes, realize that I am also wearing a denim work-shirt.

Nota bene: You may be wonder-ing why I am devoting so much space to Lena Dunham, and the truth is that I don’t know. The re-cent trend for utilitarian chic (I’m being generous in calling it chic for it is anything but) well preceded the ascendance of Girls to the pantheon of zeitgeist-y-ness. Moreover, I’ve never seen Lena Dunham actually wear anything workwear inspired on the show, but I really feel that her Hannah Horvath must wear a horrific denim shirt to work at Cafe Grumpy. Or maybe not, but I bet you a soy latte that everyone else in that Park Slope perch is bundled in workwear, getting their ca4 eine 5 x between midday freelance writing and evening cheese-making class.

So why do we feel the need to dress as if we might be called upon at any moment to lay railroad tracks or build a pyramid? 6 ere is a reason that workwear is worn by those who work in manufacturing or construction or whatever it is they do in the Mid-west that is the backbone of America. Workwear is practical. It’s protective and sturdy and reliable. But guess what else? Workwear is ugly.

I don’t mean to insult the ward-robe of hard laborers the world over, but truth be told, no one cares what your boots look like when you spend half the day under-ground and the other half covered in coal dust. The upside of work-ing in a coal mine is precisely that: nobody sees or cares what you’re wearing. And you don’t work in a coal mine—of this much I’m cer-tain—and I know that you’ve worn the same heinous utilitarian jacket and Carhartt pants and construc-tion boots (don’t tell me they’re steel-toed) and, yes, that stiff, shapeless denim shirt, or some variation of this, every day for the past four months. Don’t fret, there is an upside to not working in a coal mine: no black lung.

We do not go to school in a mining camp. We are not highway builders for the WPA. We do not live in the Soviet Union. It is there-fore unlikely that any of us will be called upon to pave a highway or build a car or shovel coal. (I know I have an obsession with coal min-ing; I don’t know why. I’ll call my therapist when I’m done writing.) So there’s no reason to be dressed as though Stalin could roll in at any second and ask you to carve his face on a mountain. Enough with the denim workwear, give it a rest. Your skin misses lighter fab-rics, your feet long for shoes with-out steel toes, and, most impor-tantly, I’m really, really done with cargo pants.

Former U.S. Congressman Tom Allen ’67 celebrated the release of his new book “Dangerous Convictions: What’s Really Wrong with U.S. Con-gress” with a book signing at Rines Auditorium in Portland last Friday, where he read a selection from the work before 5 elding questions from an audience of about 50 people.

Allen represented Maine’s first Congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2009. He was re-elected five times, and ran as the democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2008. After los-ing to Republican incumbent Susan Collins in 2009, Allen became CEO of the Association of American Publishers.

“Dangerous Convictions” ex-plores the underlying causes of con-gressional gridlock, arguing that the fundamentally opposed worldviews of Democrats and Republicans make political compromise virtually impossible.

“Interest group politics is now of-ten overwhelmed by world view poli-tics: a widening, hardening con7 ict between those who believe that the mission of government is to advance the common good and to those who believe government is an obstacle to that end,” Allen said.

Republicans, Allen argues, value individualism and self-reliance, while Democrats value coopera-tion and community. 6 e introduc-tion to “Dangerous Convictions” touches upon the key lessons Allen learned during his tenure on Capitol Hill before moving on to successive

Allen ’67 releases book on experience in U.S. Congress

chapters on the budget, taxes, Iraq, healthcare and climate change.

Allen, who played on the track and football teams at Bowdoin, said that he continues to be in-fluenced by the College’s commit-ment to public service.

“What I learned at Bowdoin was that it’s possible to just go and do things,” wrote Allen in an inter-view with the Orient.

“For me, the core message of the College is that educational institu-tions are endowed not for the indi-vidual benefit of those who attend them, but for the common good,” he added.

This insight guided his analysis of the difference in intentions of political parties in Washington.

In a lecture over Reunion Weekend last summer, Allen told fellow alumni that he set out on the project “partly out of the frustration over the media cover-age, which seems to me to be either too shallow or too partisan,” the Bowdoin Daily Sun reported.

“Both parties have taken advantage of procedures,” Allen told the Orient. “Both parties have run campaigns that are not all that admirable. So I’m not trying to say that Democrats are blameless.”

6 ough Allen’s political career started well a8 er his graduation from Bowdoin, the roots of his Bowdoin edu-cation are not hard to 5 nd in “Danger-ous Convictions.”

“Not to distort the ending for you, but the last two words of the book are ‘common good,’” he said. “I might have used a different word or a different phrase if the Bowdoin experience hadn’t seared that phrase into my mind.”

Bowdoin’s list of 50 things to do before you graduate holds age-old challenges for students to accom-plish before leaving Brunswick. One of these traditions on the Ori-ent’s list is simply stated as “Tues-day at Joshua’s.”

“Joshua’s senior night on Tuesdays is an underground tradition,” said Dani Chediak ’13, Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill Entertainment Manager.

Tuesday senior nights be-gan at Player’s, currently known as Pedro O’Hara’s. Fraternities, namely the hockey fraternity Beta 6 eta Phi, congregated at Player’s while Joshua’s was still then in its early days.

T.J. Siat-ras, owner of Joshua’s, said, “We opened up, and we almost imme-diately became the other college bar.”

Player’s eventual-ly went out of busi-ness, and Joshua’s emerged as the new home for senior night. The tradition has continued since, and it still attracts a consistent group of regulars.

Many of these regulars join The Mug Club: a loyalty rewards pro-gram in which patrons lease a mug for the year for $50 and get dis-counted prices for beverages.

Siatras describes it as “a way that we give back to the people that

make this their choice of where they’d like to come socialize.”

While not all seniors who attend make the commitment of joining the club, several frequently attend.

“There’s a cult following of peo-ple who are going,” Chediak said.

Simon Bordwin ’13 often par-ticipates in this Bowdoin tradition, going to Joshua’s with friends from his house or a cappella group.

“There’s always a contingent of bros, and one of the off-campus

houses will be represent-ed,” he said.

The number of students going out to senior night re-cently has been high, which Siat-ra thinks is due to s m a l l e r w o r k l o a d s at the begin-ning of the semester.

S i a t r a s said, “We al-

ways have f o u n d that when [seniors]

come back from winter break there’s a big Tues-day, because they

don’t have any homework. Tues-day before spring break is also a big night.”

The number of seniors who show up during the fall is typically lower than in the spring. Siatras estimates that about 40 to 80 seniors might show up on an autumn Tuesday,

while the spring boasts better atten-dance. However, this year’s senior nights have not been quite as well attended as those in the past.

“This year’s senior class is may-be a little tamer than some of the past classes,” he said. “As of yet, we haven’t seen a level of senior par-ticipation that we have in the past.”

The Senior Class Council spon-sors senior nights in Brunswick and Portland. These sponsored se-nior nights at venues like My Tie Lounge are typically more crowd-ed. Tuesday nights at Joshua’s offer a mellower experience.

“It’s a really chill place to hang out with your friends instead of a place where people really want to party,” said Bordwin.

“If you’re just at Joshua’s it’s kind of a faux pas to get too drunk, un-less it’s your 21st birthday.”

“It’s a good change of pace be-cause it’s different from a house party,” Jay Spry ’13 said.

“You just talk, hang out, and get some appetizers with your friends. A lot of kids like to play pool, too.”

The tradition is also an oppor-tunity to reconnect with old room-mates, classmates, and pre-orien-tation friends. Mike Lachance ’13 said that the best part of senior night is “seeing people from differ-ent groups in our class. It’s some-times hard to maintain relations with everyone at Bowdoin because everyone is so busy.”

The beginning of the seniors’ last semester has encouraged many more to journey to Joshua’s. “We’re realizing that it’s senior year and Bowdoin’s about to end. We’re tak-ing advantage of every opportu-nity to hang out together, but once work starts up again, that definitely comes first,” said Lachance.

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Classes, groups and new spiritual director open religious inquiry

Our second week of investigation into students religious involvement on campus demonstrates varied will-ingness to engage in open discussion about faith.

Dave Raskin ’13 said he 4 nds reli-gion to be a topic of interest among his group of friends and appreciates that such an opportunity for discussion arises—even when they have dissent-ing opinions. Raskin said he and his friends take on a meta view of religion, and try to assess its complex purpose and signi4 cance in society.

“I 4 nd there’s so much variation in belief systems and degrees of beliefs that even here, where most of my friends are atheists—as I think I am—there’s still a lot of disagreement about what that means, about whether religion as a whole is good or bad,” said Raskin.

“5 ere are still a bunch of people who, at the end of the day, do believe in God or have faith in something super-natural,” he added.

For other students, discussions about religion are centered on their personal faith and beliefs. Andrew Hilboldt ’13 is pleased to share his re-ligious views with his peers.

“When I came to Bowdoin, I became more comfortable with my Christian faith,” said Hilboldt.

“I’m not going to 6 aunt it, but I’m not going to hide it,” he said. “If some-one asks me a question, I’m happy to answer it. It’s a really rewarding experi-ence to have those conversations out-side of church.”

Inevitably, Hilboldt turns to his inner circle for more nuanced dis-cussion about the role of religion in people’s lives.

“I mostly talk about it with my roommates, teammates, or a close pro-fessor,” Hilboldt said.

“I never try to convert anyone, but I like talking about what I believe and hearing why someone else doesn’t be-lieve that. I hope people continue to be comfortable talking about this in ev-eryday life,” he added.

Unfortunately, Hilboldt’s ability to foster open dialogue is not a reality for all Bowdoin students. As a member of Circle, Lucy Walker ’14 meets with oth-er club members once a week to discuss her spiritual views. Outside of Circle, Walker 4 nds it too di7 cult to engage in conversations about personal faith.

“I’ve been surprised to hear that people at Bowdoin say they have regu-lar discussions with their friends about religion or spirituality because for me, that hasn’t been the case,” said Walker. “I’d say in my average relationship at Bowdoin, I wouldn’t feel comfort-able sharing my views with people or broaching that topic, though I’d really like to.”

Kate Kearns ’14 is also puzzled by the lack of religious or spiritual conver-sation at Bowdoin, given that religion

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is an integral part of daily life for many people around the world.

“I do think it’s interesting that reli-gion, which for many people is some-thing that’s so connected to their sense of self, doesn’t come up that much in conversation for me,” said Kearns.

Kearns is a coordinator of 5 e Undiscussed, a forum for Bowdoin students to share their thoughts on a wide variety of topics in a safe and con4 dential space. 5 e central topic of group meetings this year is the idea of happiness at Bowdoin. Monica Das ’14, another coordinator for 5 e Undis-cussed, noted an uptick in mentions of religion or spirituality given this year’s theme.

“In our discussions about happiness and unhappiness, spirituality is coming up a lot,” said Das.

“Bowdoin doesn’t have that many religious spaces,” Das said. “Religion is much more personal and something that people pursue on their own.”

Walker agrees that religious life at Bowdoin seems to be largely private, but she anticipates a renewed interest thanks to the appointment of Bob Ives ’69, the new director of religious and spiritual life.

“I think it will be wonderful to have that person here to bring religion and spirituality into more of the public life of Bowdoin,” Walker said. “If there are students seeking support with that, it’s not as di7 cult for them to 4 nd it.”

Leah Kahn ’15 also appreciates how Bowdoin is approaching religion and spirituality. She believes Ives can help accommodate those students interest-ed in learning about religions or spiri-tual practices that they had not been exposed to before.

“Hiring this director should help to

show that the administration is pay-ing attention and knows that there are people here who want to have someone help them through religious questions,” said Kahn. “For a lot of kids, this is the 4 rst time they’ve le8 home and seen any other religion. 5 ey might think, ‘Maybe I want to learn about Bud-dhism without signing up for a course about it and being graded.’”

However, Hilboldt believes that college can also be a time to strength-en one’s beliefs rather than explore new ones.

“I feel like a lot of people come in and are either going to do the Chris-tian thing or not,” said Hilboldt. “I wish people could be comfortable with whatever degree of faith they have and know that it’s okay.”

“My hope for Bowdoin is that people won’t feel intimidated to talk about religion; like in a class, you shouldn’t be ashamed about asking a

question,” he said.For David Smick ’15, taking courses

on religion have made it easier for him to initiate discussions on the subject.

“A few times I’ve had that conver-sation about personal faith, but may-be not enough people take religion classes to have enough fodder to have that talk,” said Smick. “I de4 nitely had conversations with guys in the religion class I took, but my imme-diate circle hadn’t read or done the same coursework so we couldn’t have that conversation.”

Even outside of the religion depart-ment, students are exposed to reli-gious thought through other relevant courses.

“5 is semester, I’m taking a philoso-phy class called Free Will, and religion comes into play a lot,” said Raskin. “I 4 nd a lot of academic roads lead to religion, but there’s more of a focus on intellectual ideas rather than faith.”

“One of the things that contributes to feelings of isolation or alienation at Bowdoin is a lack of open dialogue,” said Das. “People should know that others on this campus feel similarly. I think that having a community is im-portant to a lot of people’s sense of hap-piness, so having a place for discussion is important.”

Discussing topics vital to student life can eventually inspire action. Lead-ers like Das demonstrate that students have the responsibility and power to change Bowdoin’s culture.

“As an upperclassman, I’ve realized that we need to create the Bowdoin that we want to be a part of,” said Das.

If you are interested in discussing spiritual life on campus, we will be host-ing a forum to continue the conversation on Monday in the Cafe from 4 to 5 p.m.

“I feel like a lot of people come in and are either going to do the Christian thing or not. I wish people could be

comfortable with whatever degree of faith they have and know that it’s okay.”

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COURTESY OF SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENTA REAL HEARTWARMER: Zombie R fi ghts his cold-blooded nature in this date night compromise between thriller and rom-com.

In the opening scene of “Warm Bodies,” a pale, gangly boy with bloodshot eyes, disheveled hair and what looks like vomit crusted on his sweatshirt shu5 es slowly across the screen, asking himself, “What am I doing with my life?”

No, this is not an exposé on the lost souls emerging from Baxter basement at 2 a.m. on a Saturday. 6 is boy—the 7 lm’s protagonist—is a walking corpse who eats inno-cent people’s brains for lunch. And I found him to be one of the most endearing protagonists that I’ve en-countered in a while.

6 e story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which our zom-bie hero “R” (Nicholas Hoult) and his comrades wander aimlessly around an abandoned airport, unable to in-teract beyond grunts and the occa-sional outing to snack on some hu-mans. But R wishes he could connect with people, and, when he meets the remarkably well-bathed Julie (Teresa Palmer), that is exactly what he be-gins to do.

Having taken a liking to Julie that not even his cannibalistic tenden-cies could prevent, R protects her from the less morally-conflicted zombies, and through their strug-gles the two develop a relationship that brings out R’s human side. Of course, this is no walk in the post-apocalyptic park. 6 e pair runs into

trouble with the human military, an especially icky class of zombies who have ripped their own skin o8 , and a seriously uncomfortable situation involving Julie’s ex-boyfriend (Dave Franco).

But despite this series of distress-ing predicaments, the best word I can 7 nd to describe this movie is, aptly enough, “heartwarming.”

Certainly “Warm Bodies” is at times twisted, bloody and gory—as any zombie movie should be. But these moments are tied together by a cohesive storyline that rises

above the regular slew of zombie flicks and a restrained, awkward-ly sweet connection between its leads that sets it apart from your everyday romance.

One of the most enjoyable fea-tures of the movie is its cast of young actors, who are likeable and multi-dimensional throughout. Hoult in particular does an impressive job of maintaining his broken speech and slow shu5 e without instilling the same lethargy in his viewer.

6 e 7 lm also features a cameo by Rob Corddry, who—in this ensemble

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of relative unknowns—ends up as more of a distraction than a successful come-dic addition.

Admittedly, the underlying mes-sage that love at first sight really can change the world (albeit one flesh-eating monster at a time) is a little over-played. But ultimately the film’s dry humor and shameless embrace of its own twisted nature won me over and let me enjoy this recycled plotline all the same.

Now we’ve all heard the familiar complaint that it is hard to find a movie for “him and her.” In fact,

when I told a group of male friends that I wanted to go see a zombie movie, they asked, “What time?” Granted, when I added that it was about a zombie who falls in love with a human, they scoffed, “So this is zombie Twilight?”

While I was only able to convince one brave gentleman to accompany me, I can assure the skeptical zom-bie-enthusiasts of Bowdoin that this is not zombie Twilight by any stretch of the imagination. “Warm Bodies” offers a great deal more depth and genuine adventure than that.

It is nearly impossible to 7 nd a good old-fashioned zombie love story these days. “Warm Bodies” may be the 7 rst to succeed in bridg-ing such seemingly disparate genres, making an enjoyable cinematic ex-perience for all parties.

To top it all o8 , the 7 lm boasts witty dialogue (or inner monologue, in the case of R), a well-thought-out soundtrack and charming young stars. In my book, this made “Warm Bodies” an unexpectedly perfect date movie.

Okay, I admit that it might not be for everybody. Maybe you are more of the kissing-in-the-rain, sweeping music, Josh Duhamel-loving movie-goer who has been counting down the days until “Safe Haven” comes out in all its feverishly romantic glo-ry February 14.

But if you are looking for a subtle, yet smart and sweet movie (with the occasional bout of flying intestines) for you and that special someone this Thursday, “Warm Bodies” is my pick.

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TESSA KRAMER

‘Theater of War’ comes alive at Bowdoin through voice of HBO star

6 ere were few empty seats in Kresge Auditorium last night during the 216th production of 6 eater of War. A simple table with four seats and four microphones appeared on stage. 6 e actors entered, and a9 er brief in-troductions, began dramatic readings of scenes from Sophocles’ plays “Ajax” and “Philoctetes.”

Labeled a “social impact project,” “6 eater of War” selects scenes by Sophocles that deal with a range of emotions including loyalty, abandon-ment, mental a5 iction, honor and dis-grace. 6 e theme of mental instability and the struggle for empathy while in the throes of injury as demonstrated by Philoctetes transcend their time pe-riod and serve as narratives that relate seamlessly to experiences had by the military community and the civilians e8 ected by war.

“6 eater of War” is a production of Outside the Wire, a social impact company, and last night’s performance consisted of a reading of scenes fol-lowed by a panel discussion about the challenges members of the military face both on the front and when they return home. 6 e actors then engaged the audience in a town-hall style fo-rum.

“6 eater of War” has been per-formed for civilian and military audi-ences in places as far-: ung as Europe, Japan and Guantanamo Bay. Adam Driver of HBO’s “Girls” lent his voice

to Ajax and Neoptolomus. Jennifer Kosak, associate professor

of classics, was behind the e8 ort to get Outside the Wire to come to Bowdoin. As a specialist in Greek tragedy, Ko-sak saw “6 eater of War” performed at Boston University and thought it would be a valuable project to bring to campus.

“Tying together these great dramas of antiquity, matters of public policy, interest in theater—all of those strands I think are coming together when we have this sort of thing at this sort of community as opposed to just a mili-tary community,” she said. “We can provide multiple perspectives on this event.”

Indeed, the audience at Kresge was

made up of a mix of students, faculty, and community members—some of whom had served in the armed ser-vices themselves. It became clear a9 er the 7 rst few audience comments that the dialogue had a deeply emotional impact on many viewers. Within the 7 rst 10 minutes of the conversation, an elderly woman spoke of how her hus-band, a5 icted with PTSD, screamed in the night. Another young woman commented on being the wife of a sol-dier , and said that she had lost a friend to suicide caused by PTSD.

Driver, known primarily for his starring role in Lena Dunham’s “Girls”, joined the Marines shortly a9 er Sep-tember 11 and said he identi7 es with many feelings presented in the Greek

tragedies.Although “Girls” and “6 eater of

War” could not be more di8 erent in content, Driver said he 7 nds ful7 ll-ment in contributing to projects that stir up conversation.

“Tying the two projects together, the great thing about that show and this project is that it feels like it is stir-ring up a conversation,” he said. “To be involved in a show [“Girls”] that’s cre-ating a conversation not just domesti-cally but that also has an international e8 ect is gratifying. It feels active and relevant.”

Bryan Doerries, artistic director of Outside the Wire and the creator of “6 eater of War”, facilitated the discus-sion that followed the readings. With a

classics degree from Kenyon College and a directing degree from the Uni-versity of California at Irvine, Doerries’ idea for the project was borne from his study of Greek texts. He translated the excerpts from Sophocles that make up the production.

“I felt helpless as a civilian reading the newspaper everyday and wanted to do something and all I had was Greek and Latin,” he said.

Each production of 6 eater of War is very di8 erent because the thoughts and reactions of audience members di8 er enormously depending on the locale and demographics. For a project that started as a performance solely of-fered to military audiences, 6 eater of War found a mostly civilian audience at Bowdoin.

“6 ere are not too many students who are directly involved in the mili-tary here, but we are members of the community, and students should be in-troduced to these issues that are a8 ect-ing people all around us,” said Kosak. “Wars are being fought in our name, wars are being fought in the name of students everyday, and I think that it’s really important for students to be ex-posed to these ideas.”

While Doerries stated that one of the purposes of “6 eater of War” was to “comfort the a5 icted and a5 ict the comfortable,” his 7 nal message was one of solidarity. In keeping with the tran-scendental nature of Sophocles’ work, he hoped the audience would leave the auditorium knowing that “You are not alone across time.”

BY KATE WITTEMANORIENT STAFF

CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTPAX AJAX: Adam Driver performed a series of dramatic readings of Greek tragedies in an event centered around the idea of community.

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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Sarah Haimes ’15

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Sarah Haimes ’15 first be-came interested in photography when she was in eighth grade. One lazy summer afternoon in the country, her mother sug-gested she get up, go outside, and do something.

“I took my father’s point-and shoot-camera and I went around taking pictures of my mom’s f lowers,” said Haimes.

“I uploaded them and was like, ‘I’m actually really good at this!’ That summer I asked for a DSLR camera for my birthday, and the rest is history.”

Since then, Haimes’s love for photography has stayed strong. She took an independent study and advanced photography classes in high school, and found a mentor in one of her teachers, who happened to be a professional photographer.

“She took me under her wing and became my second mother,” said Haimes. “She would give me ideas of shoots to do and look at my pictures afterwards and helped me enter a bunch of contests.”

Haimes found success in her high school photo competi-tions. She took home several scholastic art awards, includ-ing silver and gold regionals for an individu-al photo, a gold regional for her senior portfo-lio, and a gold national for an individual photo.

When it came time to apply to college, Haimes was cautious about attending an art school.

“I didn’t want to go to art school because I just really wanted to do something else with my life,” said Haimes. “I wanted to be able to have pho-tography as my side thing that I do for fun.”

Haimes came to Bowdoin ex-pecting to be a chemistry ma-jor, but soon found her calling in the visual arts and art history departments.

“I dabbled in a bunch of dif-ferent subjects and then I just kind of realized that I wanted to do art,” said Haimes.

“It’s definitely good because here professors are serious about the work they do, but they don’t put too much pressure on you.”

At Bowdoin, Haimes has taken courses in photography, drawing, and architecture.

She supplements her visual arts experience with an inter-disciplinary major in art his-tory and has noticed its impact on her own work.

One of her pieces, titled “Two-Faced,” reminds her of a work by Picasso.

“It’s good to know the history behind what you’re doing,” said Haimes. “I feel like it informs my work.”

This is her first semester

without a studio art class. “It’s a little crazy for me, be-

cause I feel like I need that stu-dio time to be productive in do-ing homework that doesn’t feel like homework,” she said.

To compensate, Haimes has set up a studio in her Stowe Inn apartment.

She currently has a series of photographs on view in Smith Union’s Blue Gallery, several of which she took at her makeshift studio.

The exhibition, titled “The Presence of Adolescence,” showcases 15 original black and white portraits of young adult-hood.

“I feel like adolescents, teens, and young adults, a.k.a. the people that I’m surrounded by all the time, are one of the most expressive groups of people,”

said Haimes.The show re-

f lects Haimes’ personal phi-losophy about p h o t o g r a p h y. Haimes is hap-piest when her photos are able to connect with the most inti-mate parts of

her subject.“I kind of dabble in every-

thing, but I usually am happi-est with my pictures of people,” said Haimes.

“I feel like I’m a very people-oriented person, and it’s just a way I can connect with them more.”

Haimes purposefully makes her photos black and white in Photoshop in order to bet-ter convey the themes in her work.

“I feel like color can get kind of distracting and I really want you to focus on the person,” said Haimes.

Haimes had her own show at the Isselbacher Gallery in New York this past summer.

Next year, Haimes hopes to study abroad and someday plans on going to graduate school.

She envisions herself work-ing for a magazine or gallery, ideally doing fashion photogra-phy or portraiture.

But for now, Haimes is happy with her show, which she con-ceived and set up herself, along with some help in printing and framing from her dad.

“I’ve had a lot of good feed-back,” says Haimes. “I need to establish myself as a photogra-pher here.”

“5 e Presence of Adolescence” will be on view in Smith Union until the end of February.

MBV makes heartfelt comeback It’s not Smile, it’s not Detox, and it’s

not Half-Life 3. It’s better. And it’s real.A6 er 21 years of false starts, broken

promises, and nervous breakdowns, Kevin Shields has emerged from his reclusive lair, no longer hamstrung by crippling perfectionism: My Bloody Valentine’s third album in as many decades has seen the light of day. And rather than enjoying the sun, the band, true to form, continues to gaze down at their shoes.

I am not a hardcore MBV fan by any measure. I was not one of the 13,491 people to like the band’s Facebook sta-tus update last Saturday announcing their return with a simple sentence: “We are preparing to go live with the new album/website this evening.”

I was not one of the frenzied 40 year-olds desperately refreshing said website only to be denied again and again. I tried only once, stymied by a blank 404 page. 5 e only thing that stood between me and MBV’s leg-endary return was an internal service error—and the many ravenous fans causing it.

5 e internet hardly existed when MBV last released an album, in 1991. Hell, I didn’t exist at all! My Bloody Valentine were innovators back then, doing things with guitars no one had imagined before. So the question is, of course, how much catching up do they

have to do now?For context, the band’s second

album, “Loveless,” was released two months a6 er “Nevermind.” Whereas Kurt Cobain shot himself a6 er be-coming the spokesman for a gen-eration, Kevin Shields retreated into the shadows of his own insecurity a6 er becoming the non-spokesman for a non-generation. Shoegaze was quickly overtaken by grunge and Britpop. We haven’t heard much from Shields and MBV until now.

It’s impossible to talk about this new album (titled “m b v”—two decades and they couldn’t think of a better title) without comparing it to “Loveless”—the perfect embodiment of My Bloody Val-entine. But if “Love-less” was the pinnacle of shoegazing as a genre, “m b v” shows where that sound can go a6 er years of digestion. And by golly, it sounds like the band is actually having fun.

5 e opener, “She Found Now,” is not the brilliant mind-fuck that was the swirling majesty of “Loveless’s” fa-mous starting track, “Only Shallow,” but it doesn’t need to be. “Only Shal-low” worked because it de7 ned a sound that everyone wanted—guitar music that no one had heard before—but on

“She Found Now,” the band has noth-ing to prove. 5 ey are not rehashing old territory to reclaim lost honor (are you listening, Billy Corgan?), but rather are playing around on their signature sound of layered e8 ects and reverb crunch. “She Found Now” eases its way into your ear with its subtle melodicism as much as “Only Shallow” hits you over the head with its relevance.

My Bloody Valentine tweaks the strange, mechanical, ethereal sound

that gave “Love-less” its, well, love-less quality into something a little warmer on “m b v.” “In Another Way” (another apt title) shows how much fun they can have as Colm Ó Cíosóig’s over-the-top rock-star drums ground a

rollicking jam against Bilinda Butch-er’s most catchy vocal part yet.

In short, “m b v” has all the work-ings of a My Bloody Valentine album without sounding like a caricature. With any other reunited 1990s band, I might be tempted to cringe at the news of any other release (or gaze in hor-ror, watching the term “Sirvana” being coined live). But My Bloody Valentine possesses the grace not to fall short of anything less than perfect. Here is an album worth waiting 21 years for.

“I kind of dabble in everything, but I usually am happiest with

my pictures of people. I’m a very people oriented person,

and it’s just a way I can connect with them more.”

BY MATT GOODRICHCOLUMNIST

The fi ne art of comfort food at 555I feel as though I’ve already dined

at 555, though I have yet to make an o9 cial reservation.

5 e moment I step into the space on Congress Street to meet with ex-ecutive chef Steve Corry, I’m over-come by a sensory overload. And this is before the topic of food is even put on the table.

5 e restaurant’s interior is a con7 gu-ration of brick and wide windows di-vided by sleek black panels. It is at once open and intimate, sophisticated but practical. It subtly gestures to both the cosmopolitan and the rustic, reconciling the dual personality of Portland itself.

“I want to create a period of time in the day where the customer is con-tent,” said Corry. “I want to them to have a complete experience. It’s quite a responsibility.”

Part of Corry’s duty as executive chef lies in accommodating a com-plex clientele.

“Maine is intimidated by the white tablecloth,” he said. “A lot of our clients aren’t convinced that they should try something new, so we try to cater to the customer’s sense of comfort. But we do so in a whimsical way.”

Many dishes on the 555’s menu echo this theme of the familiar adventure.

“One of our most popular is the ‘lob-ster mac and cheese’,” Corry said. “It sets the customer at ease.”

Maybe the familiar “mac and cheese” tag does o8 set the elegance of the sub-text: shucked Maine lobster, artisanal cheese blend, torchio pasta, white tru: e oil, and shaved black tru: e. Under the guise of comfort food, these thoughtful accents remind you that this is a chef who knows what he’s doing.

Corry has been working to create and execute such artful creations for 555 since he founded the restaurant in 2003. But his 7 rst taste of the culinary world was a sip rather than a bite.

A6 er earning a biology degree from

the University of Massachusetts, he moved westward to California where he enrolled in a six month intensive at the American Brewer’s Guild.

“I was intrigued by the business,” he explained. “It seemed wild and raw and fun.”

But a6 er completing the programs and working as the head brewer at the Mammoth Lakes Brewing Company, Corry found himself inspired by the ar-tistic vibrancy and community element of food preparation.

“I felt myself drawn towards the kitchen as a creative space,” he said. “With brews you’re con7 ned to vari-ables. It’s a lonely job. I felt that cooking o8 ered a more social end.”

Corry attended the New England Culinary Institute in Burlington, Vt., “and from there, I was totally hooked on food,” he said.

He traded coasts once again to try his hand at 7 ne dining. He worked un-der Chef Robert Curry at the renowned restaurant and winery Domaine Chan-don in Napa Valley. Despite his success, Corry still wasn’t quite satis7 ed.

“[My wife and I] had a desire to run our own establishment,” he explained. “We wanted to work towards something being ours.”

Corry’s 7 nal shi6 back to the east coast and the establishment of 555 brought with it the artistic challenge of catering to Maine’s speci7 c sense of place.

“We realized that it is a seasonal town, and to sustain the long winter we had to build a restaurant for the people,” he said. “So we listened to feedback from customers. Our 7 rst menu was really straightforward. We didn’t push bound-aries; we just did simple, fresh food. From there we expanded our repertoire to more exotic ingredients.”

5 e menu at 555 is constantly in ; ux. 5 e restaurant o8 ers two tasting menus with set prices for special occasions, and the main menu is always changing based on seasonality and new ideas.

“It’s really at the whim of the kitchen,”

he said.Like any artist, Corry’s creative pro-

cess is driven by both individual instinct and a collaborative e8 ort.

“It’s not brain surgery; you can’t over-think it. 5 ere are certain [ingredients] that classically go well together, so you just experiment with them,” he said. “But the best dishes that come out of the kitchen are ones that are born from a conversation while we’re cooking. We all build it together. We get writer’s block like anyone, but it’s important to stay in-spired and have con7 dence to try it.”

But while Corry is inspired by his team, he has also developed an indi-vidual methodology in his approach to creating a dish.

“First, it has to taste good,” he told me. “5 en you have start thinking about balance, which of course plays into tast-ing good. You also have to consider sea-soning. 5 ere needs to be acid and fat. 5 ere should be a liveliness. Appearance is also important. Visually, the compo-nents need to work in harmony. 5 ere should be some de7 nition to the dish. 5 ere should be a hot and cold compo-nent to the plate.”

5 is artistic doctrine keeps Corry accountable for the caliber of his cui-sine. “It’s easy to fall into that trap of just adding more butter. But some-times you need to look for more cre-ative alternatives.”

Take, for example, one of Corry’s most classic and well-received creations: the pepper-crusted New England scal-lops with a carrot emulsion.

“Here we’re playing with things that are sweet: scallops, carrots, vanilla—even the fennel has a sweet quality to it,” said Corry. “5 en there’s the spici-ness of the peppercorns that you can’t hide from. 5 ere’s a richness because eighty percent of the sauce is butter. 5 e potatoes have a rich, creamy qual-ity as well.”

“I think people are intrigued by the dish because they don’t think it could work,” he suggested with a shrug.

But of course, it does.

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Despite multiple scoring chances throughout the rest of the game, Bowdoin was never able to draw within two goals to Amherst. A quick goal at the beginning of the

No. 3 men’s hockey splits weekend to No. 10 Amherst and HamiltonBY LUKE LAMARORIENT STAFF

The men’s ice hockey team, hot off its highest D-III ranking in team history (No. 2), lost to Amherst at home last Friday for the first time since the Sidney J. Watson Arena was built.

The team split the weekend, beat-ing Hamilton the next day. In the team’s first game after its bye week, the Lord Jeffs got off to a quick start by scoring four goals in the first period against Steve Messina ’14. That was enough for Head Coach Terry Meagher, who switched net-minders at the beginning of the sec-ond period to Max Fenkell ’15. The Polar Bears were only able to score one goal from senior captain Dan Weiniger in the period.

“Goal sports are tough—the bottom line is that sometimes they go in and sometimes they don’t,” said Meagher. “I thought we played as strong a game for most of it as we’ve played all year. But if we brought close to our best game and played well, then you’ve got to tip your hat to

The Saturday game was indeed much closer, but the defeat was perhaps more painful as the men lost on their Senior Night to No. 9 Williams in overtime, 76-64. After the teams played to a halftime tie, Williams looked to be taking con-

Men’s basketball drops three straight gamesBY SAM CHASEORIENT STAFF

The men’s basketball team is in the midst of a 3-game slide as it prepares for its final two regular season games this weekend.

Last Friday the Polar Bears fell to No. 6 Middlebury by a score of 72-61. The Panthers controlled the game throughout, building a 43-30 lead at halftime. Bowdoin narrowed the lead to just seven with 13 minutes left, but a shrewd timeout by Middlebury Head Coach Jeff Brown halted the Polar Bears’ momentum. Panther soph-omore forward Hunter Merryman sank a critical 3-pointer on Mid-dlebury’s subsequent possession and the lead never shrank below 10 thereafter.

While the Polar Bears played with Middlebury neck-and-neck throughout the second half, Head Coach Tim Gilbride said he knows that the Polar Bears need a complete 40 minutes of good basketball to best a team of that caliber.

“When you’re playing the best teams in the country, you have to play well the whole way through to have a chance at knocking them off,” said Gilbride. “When we re-ally play our best we can be right there. We just have to stay focused for longer stretches of time.”

Keegan Pieri ’15 scored 13 points for the Polar Bears in his return to action after missing two games due to concussion-like symptoms. Andrew Madlinger

’14 scored 14 points, as did John Swords ’15, who came off the bench. Swords also grabbed nine rebounds and threw down a thunderous two-hand dunk in the game’s waning moments, per-haps giving the team some mo-mentum heading into the next day’s showdown.

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third period put the game on ice for the Lord Jeffs, who went on to win 6-3, dealing Bowdoin only its sec-ond loss of the season.

“When you get that time off from playing the game, you’re not used to the game speed, especially when

you’re playing a quick, physical team like Amherst,” Weiniger said, acknowledging some of the strug-gles the team faced coming back from a bye week. “But to be frank, I thought we played a great game, and we’re really not concerned

about it moving forward.”The Polar Bears seemed ready

to rebound on Saturday against the Continentals. Weiniger scored in the first period after Ollie Koo ’14 penetrated the zone with speed, circled around the net and found him in front. A bad giveaway led to a Hamilton equalizer, but John Mc-Ginnis ’15 was able to rekindle the team’s lead, putting away his own rebound into the Hamilton net.

“If you’re going to be in the hunt then you need resiliency and the ability to bounce back,” said Meagh-er. “You have to be realistic and ana-lyze what happened and what you are. Especially against a tough team 4 ghting for a playo5 spot. I think that was the key for the weekend.”

In a game that would prove to be back and forth all night, Bowdoin soon found itself on the power play when Rob Toczylowski ’13 was able to fire it past the Hamilton goalie’s stick side after only 12 seconds. The second period saw only more offense as Weiniger scored his sec-ond goal, increasing Bowdoin’s lead to 4-1.

In the third period, Hamilton closed the gap to 4-2 before Wei-niger found an empty net goal with less than a minute to play, complet-ing the hat trick. He was awarded

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POWER-FORWARD: Brian Hurley ’15 and Maximilian Staiger push forward against Middlebury on Friday.

Counselor uses visualization training to improve athletes

BY DIMITRIA SPATHAKISORIENT STAFF

Athletic training o6 en conjures the image of athletes running sui-cides in the gym or taking swings in a batting cage. Bowdoin’s Director of the Counseling Service and Wellness Programs, Dr. Bernie Hershberger, however, likes to approach athletic training from a di5 erent perspec-tive—focusing on the mental as-pect of performance rather than the physical one.

“Most athletes recognize that about 70-80 percent of game perfor-mance is mental, but most athletes spend only 10 percent of their train-ing time thinking about their mental game,” said Hershberger.

Hershberger said he believes that mind-body integration, meditation and hypnotherapy all work hand-in-hand and have drawn him into the 4 eld of sports psychology.

He calls his training sessions “visualizations” because he helps teams to visualize and thereby im-plement the game-day goals they want to achieve.

Football and women’s basketball were the 4 rst two teams at Bowdoin to try this training with Hersh-berger roughly six or seven years ago. While football no longer trains using his techniques, women’s bas-ketball continues to attend training sessions with him about 4 ve to eight times a season.

Hershberger in general 4 nds that women’s sports tend to be more interested in his services: he also works with women’s so6 ball, volley-ball and lacrosse. Hershberger is just starting to work with men’s teams

again, speci4 cally men’s tennis. Her-shberger’s sessions di5 er for women and men.

“I wouldn’t say to the men, ‘OK, lay down and each of you touch the teammate beside you and we’ll make a spider-web of connections,’” he said. “At best I would get men to sit in a circle shoulder to shoulder.”

In an average session, Hershberg-er starts by asking the athletes what they need to play at their highest level, helping them write a positive “script” together. He then tries to relax the players’ bodies and minds because he believes mental sugges-tion is more e5 ective when a per-son’s brain waves are in an alpha state, relaxed but focused. 7 is re-laxed/focused paradox is central to Hershberger’s training.

“Paradox works really well be-cause it disarms the mind. If your mind is too far into the game then you won’t play well,” said Hersh-berger. “Its funny we’re doing mind training, but we’re almost training the mind to let go. In martial arts there’s a saying that if you can out relax your opponent you’ll win, with sports teams it’s the same thing.”

Hershberger o6 en uses the phrase “lighten up and 8 y straight” for women’s basketball this season, which translates to execute the game plan but have fun.

“I 4 nd it really helpful,” said cap-tain Anna Prohl ’14. “You basically relax yourself prior to playing and visualize things you want to work at, seeing yourself out on the court do-ing things that you want to do dur-ing the game.”

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Garner ’16 came in first place in the 200-IM with a time of 2:14.38. Bridget Killian ’16 took first in the 100-free with a time of 1:55.44.

For the men, captain Basyl Stuyvesant ’13 won both the 100- and 200-backstrokes with times of 52.75 and 1:56.75. Linc Rhodes ’14 won the 1000-free with a time of 10:30.20 while Peter Deardorff ’15 took the 200-free with a time of 1:45.41. In the breaststroke, John Lagasse ’16 won the 100-yard event with a time of 59.73 and JR Chansakul ’15 took came in first in the 200 with a time of

Foley ’13 breaks record as swim beats ColbyBY RYAN HOLMESORIENT STAFF

Katherine Foley ’13 smashed Bowdoin’s 1000-meter freestyle record by three-quarters of a sec-ond on Saturday as both the men’s and women’s swim teams beat NE-SCAC rival Colby by a landslide in their home pool.

6 e men beat Colby by a score of 211-83 while the women won 198-95.

For the women, Foley domi-nated the pool, winning both the 1000- and 500-freestyles with times of 10:33.19 and 5:12.86, the first of which broke the school record that had stood for eight years. Foley, in her final season at Bowdoin, now has two appear-ances in the team’s record book—she also holds the fastest time in the 500-yard freestyle, which she broke last year.

“It was satisfying to get the re-cord in the 1000 at this point in the season, as I’ve been doing distance training all year,” Foley said.

Among the team’s other impres-sive performances, Teri Faller ’15 won the 100- and 200-backstrokes with times of 1:01.00 and 2:15.13. In the breaststroke, Maeve O’Leary ’14 won the 100- and 200-yard races with times of 1:09.58 and 2:32.88. Captain Kaley Kokomoor ’13 took the 50- and 100-yard frees with times of 25.24 and 55.01. Lela

Both squash teams knocked out in quartersBY ALEX MARECKI

STAFF WRITER

Both the men’s and women’s squash teams came up short against Middlebury in their quar-terfinal rounds at the NESCAC championships held at Trinity in Hartford, Conn. last weekend. The Polar Bears struggled heav-ily against the Panthers, with the men and women falling 8-1 and 9-0, respectively.

Will Fantini ’13 was the lone Bowdoin player on Saturday to win

a match in the NESCAC champi-onship tournament, earning a 3-0 shutout at the No. 3 position.

“The team battled hard last weekend, but unfortunately we lost a couple of tough ones,” said Fantini. “But with each match our younger players gain more experience.”

After the quarterfinal round, both squads earned bids into the tournament’s consolation bracket. The women dropped a pair of very close matches to Wesleyan, 5-4, and Hamilton, 6-3.

Michaela Martin ’14 (No. 4), as well as Monica Wlodarcyzk ’13 (No. 5) and Sara Wlodar-cyzk ’15 (No. 6) earned victories in both matches. Rachel Barnes ’15 (No. 2) recorded a victory against Wesleyan.

The men won a 9-0 match against Hamilton and subsequent-ly lost 5-4 to Amherst in their con-solation bracket, with captain An-drew Hilboldt ’13 (No. 1), Fantini

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“I’m just trying to take as long as possible to 7 nish college,” the 21-year old sophomore Max Fenkell joked. One of two goalies respon-sible for the playo8 -bound men’s ice hockey team, Fenkell has taken a roundabout path to the top of the conference leaderboards. Fenkell leads the NESCAC in goals allowed average, is a close second in save percentage, and Bowdoin has yet to lose a game he has started.

If the season ended today, Fen-kell would have Bowdoin’s high-est-ever save percentage by a goal-keeper in a season, and he would be third on the list of lowest goals allowed per game for a season.

Like many college athletes Fen-kell started early, following in the footsteps of his father, who played on the last NCAA hockey team at the University of Penn-sylvania before the program was rele-gated to club status due to budgetary constraints. His fa-ther’s participation in what Max called “the beer leagues” gave him the requi-site exposure to the game. Becoming a goalie, though, proved to be an un-usual decision.

“It’s the position no one wants to play,” said Fenkell. “Most par-ents don’t want their kids playing it because it’s the most expensive position. But I was always in-trigued by it.”

“He has a love of the position and a love of the sport,” said Head Coach Terry Meagher. “I know a lot of cliche expressions are overused, but that is because they do apply. He’s a hockey player: he pays atten-tion, and he really understands.”

Fenkell spent his formative years rigorously drilling with a variety of coaches, each of whom he said le9 a distinct imprint on him, be-fore attending the Avon Old Farms School. He then 7 nished his high school career at Phillips Exeter Academy, repeating his junior year.

Fenkell was already on Bow-doin’s recruiting radar a9 er a championship season at Exeter led to the team scouting one of his high school teammates, Dan Wei-niger ’13. But Fenkell decided to follow his dream of playing in D-I hockey, choosing Colgate Univer-sity over Bowdoin.

But Fenkell decided to leave Colgate a9 er a year, and he joined the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, a ju-nior team in the British Columbia Hockey League.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Max Fenkell ’15 GOALIE * MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

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“It was a good experience,” he said. “It was good hockey in a competitive league but the team wasn’t too strong that year, which was a bit disappointing.”

Bowdoin kept in touch with Fenkell during his year o8 through assistant coach Jamie Dumont, and Fenkell felt the same allure for the strength and tradition of the Bowdoin program that lured him there in the beginning. Fen-kell matriculated this fall into the Class of 2015.

Still, there was the question of his role on a team already full of excep-tional goalies. Bluntly, Meagher told him that if he played well, he would see time.

Fenkell’s early play earned him a share of the starting role beside Steve Messina ’14, a talented goal-tender in his own right. Meagher has decided to split the two goalies’

goal-tending time equally, with Mes-sina starting Friday nights and Fenkell playing Saturdays.

“We have depth in goal,” Meagher said. “It’s a healthy situa-tion to be in, and it’s a joy to observe.”

6 e split has also added a bit of unpredictabi l ity to the Polar Bear’s

game plan, since Messina and Fenkell have learned very di8 er-ent, even complementary, styles of goalkeeping.

“I play deeper into the net be-cause of my size,” the 5-foot-8-inch Fenkell said. “I try to read plays and keep in position. Steve is more athletic. He sprawls over the crease and can take risks—I can’t play that way. ”

6 is makes it di: cult for teams to prepare against the Polar Bears adequately, since they risk be-ing unprepared for either goalie. Meagher said he believes split-ting goalkeeping duties between the two players has been a large part of the Polar Bears’ dominant showing this season.

6 e team’s strength in front of the goal allows it to play a more up-tempo, ice-stretching attack. It has also fostered the spirit of com-petition amongst the several goalies, and should continue to make goal-tending an anchor of the team for the foreseeable future. Fenkell said he certainly does not appear to be letting up in his determination.

“You know you are in good shape when you can give your goaltender the keys to the rink,” Meagher said. “First on, last o8 .”

! e sports editor of the Orient chooses the Athlete of the Week based on exemplary performance.

• Allowed only three goals in 80 minutes of play over the weekend• Leads the NESCAC in goals allowed average, third in D-III in save percentage

HIGHLIGHTS

“Most parents don’t want their kids playing [goalie]

because it’s the most expensive position. But I

was always intrigued by it.

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(No. 3), Andrew Ward ’15 (No. 7), and Alex Reisley ’16 (No. 9) win-ning hard fought battles against the Lord Jeffs.

After an extensive weekend of play at the NESCAC champion-ships the Polar Bears have set their sights on the tasks ahead. This coming weekend, a handful of players were going to be chosen to compete in the inaugural D-III Squash Individual Championship at Bowdoin. Due to threat of in-clement weather, the champion-ship had to be cancelled, with no plans to reschedule as of yet.

The women’s team will travel to Yale University on February 15 for the College Squash Association team nationals. The men’s team will follow on February 22.

According to Fantini, both squads are excited to compete and are confident in their abilities.

“I expect a strong showing from the team at nationals in three weeks,” said Fantini.

2:12.66. Ryan Kulesza ’15 won the 200-IM with a time of 1:58.09. William Shi ’15 won the 50-free with a time of 21.84 while Kevin Koh ’15 won the 100-butterfly with a time of 51.86.

In the diving events, both Sage Mikami ’15 and Tommy Kramer ’15 took first in their respective 1- and 3-meter events.

The Polar Bears won all four of the relay events held last Saturday.

6 e teams will travel to Colby on Saturday for the Maine State Event where they will face o8 against Colby and Bates, barring inclement weather.

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FLYING HIGH: Caitlin Hutchinson Maddox ’14 competes in the 200-yard butterfl y race against Colby.

NESCAC Player of the Week hon-ors for his performances in both of the weekend games.

“We were trying to get the pucks in deep and work their defense be-low the goal line,” said Weiniger. “6 at’s where we found our success.”

With a weekend blizzard loom-ing over most of New England, the Polar Bears travel plans have changed to accomodate the weath-er. The team will start their week-end play as scheduled at NESCAC

No. 4 Trinity on Saturday. On Sun-day night, the team will face Wes-leyan, who it was originally set to play tonight. Wesleyan is the only team Bowdoin has lost to this sea-son besides Amherst.

“Being able to get another crack at Wesleyan, it’s going to be a fun game for us,” said Weiniger. “We de7 nitely have our eyes set on beating them.”

With the playoff picture still shaping up and a variety of interest-ing matchups around the league, the outcomes of this weekend’s games have major implications. Following the Amherst loss, Bowdoin has only slipped one spot in the U.S. College

Hockey Coaches Association polls, from No. 2 to No. 3. And because Williams and Trinity—who were right behind Bowdoin in the NES-CAC—both lost games last week-end, the Polar Bears retained their 2-game lead in the conference. With a little help from other teams this weekend, Bowdoin could even secure home ice for the playoffs be-fore the final games.

“All we are worried about is the first period Friday night,” said Mea-gher. “We’re not looking at all this stuff outside the glass.”

-Ron Cervantes contributed to this report

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The women’s ice hockey team (14-4-2, 8-3-1 NESCAC) stumbled in Hartford this past weekend, where it was swept in a 2-game se-ries by the Trinity Bantams (11-5-4, 6-3-3 NESCAC).

The series came down to defense and penalty kills—two categories in which Trinity is ranked No. 1 within the NESCAC.

Captain Kayte Holtz ’13 said the low score was due to a lack of rhythm between Bowdoin players on the ice.

“Both teams had a lot of penal-ties which made it difficult to get into a rhythm during the game,” Holtz said. “During our power play we had trouble getting shots on net because they [Trinity] were very aggressive in their de-fensive play.”

“I think that they had a really good goalie that we just couldn’t seem to put the puck past,” Holtz said. “She was very large and took up a lot of space in the goal, which made it more difficult to find open areas to score.”

Trinity’s defense is anchored by a strong goalie, junior Alexa Pujol, who played exceptionally well in both games, stopping 71 shots and allowing just two goals. She has the second-highest save percentages in all of D-III. Bowdoin’s Kayla Les-sard ’13 is ranked fourth.

In the first game, Bowdoin had two power play opportunities in the first 15 minutes but ultimately failed to convert on either.

Two more power plays were un-successful before Bowdoin scored the first goal of the game. Defend-er Madeline Lane ’14—with some help from Chelsea MacNeil ’15 and Holtz—scored the lone Bowdoin goal of the night.

In the final two minutes of the second period, the Bantams were able to tie the game.

6 e deadlock was not broken until the 17th minute of the third

While most of the time the ses-sions are quiet and relaxing for the athletes involved, Hershberger also said he feels team bonding is an important part of the work he does with teams. One of his more trusting and comical exercises is called “ha-ha.”

“6 is was an exercise to let us dis-tress,” Prohl said. “When you’re los-ing games it can be really stressful and can make you really unhappy. He had us put our heads on every-one else’s stomachs and so when you laugh everyone’s stomach moves and it makes other people laugh.”

Adrienne Shibles, the head coach of women’s basketball, said that her team had attended a session with Hershberger prior to the teams’ wins at Colby and Eastern Connecticut last week.

“Bernie really did a lot with them.

I’m not there so I don’t know what he says to them, but whatever he said really worked,” said Shibles.

Hershberger said his initial moti-vation for conducting visualization training for athletic teams at the Col-lege was to meet athletes, a group he claims o7 en utilizes counseling less than other students. He cited the in-dependent nature of athletes, their “push through it” mentality, and their desire to maintain a strong outward image as reasons for their disuse of counseling.

Sports psychology is a growing field, and professional athletes such as Olympians Lolo Jones and Kerri Walsh turn to sports psychologists to increase their performance.

“It’s definitely a Division-I trend,” Hershberger added, commenting on the developing trends at the col-legiate level. “I notice that there are some colleges where the counseling centers are looking to hire people who are sports psychologists or people who enjoy doing that and

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ORIENT STAFF

Women’s basketball tops Midd but loses to No. 25 Williams

BY DIMITRIA SPATHAKISORIENT STAFF

The women’s basketball team topped Middlebury 60-40 last Fri-day but lost on Saturday to nation-ally-ranked Williams 50-42, drop-ping the Polar Bears’ record to 12-9 (3-5 NESCAC).

The Polar Bear’s scoring against Middlebury was a balanced effort. Shannon Brady ’16 led the effort with 12 points while Siena Mitman ’15 scored 11 and Megan Phelps ’15 added 10.

Bowdoin dominated in the post, outscoring Middlebury 42-22 in the paint.

“We recognized early in the game that we could really take it to them on the inside, so we focused on that,” said Head Coach Adri-enne Shibles.

The Polar Bears’ offense was also fueled by their defensive stops—they converted 17 points off of 15 Middlebury turnovers. Their defensive strategy focused on ball pressure.

“They were pretty sloppy with their passing,” said captain Anna Prohl ’14. “Having a defensive player like [Mitman] come in and make every pass hard for Middle-bury really helped us break away.”

The loss to Williams on Saturday marks the first time in ten years that the Ephs have beat the Polar Bears in Morrell Gymnasium.

The game was extremely low scoring, with the teams making only two baskets apiece in the first

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eight minutes. Bowdoin carried a 21-15 lead into halftime, but Wil-liams dominated the second half.

“Williams was one of those days we just couldn’t score the ball; maybe people were too amped up or nervous,” said Prohl. “It was disappointing because we had good looks, we just couldn’t fin-ish them.”

The Polar Bears shot 19 percent from the field. Williams’ 6-foot senior Danny Rainer also blocked nine Bowdoin shots.

“We talked a lot about it [refer-ring to Williams’ ability to block shots] and did post work practice on up-fakes, but positions two through five [were] 5’11 and up,” said Shibles.

Captain Kaitlin Donahoe ’13 kept the Polar Bears alive as best she could, scoring 22 points by driving to the basket and repeat-edly drawing fouls. She helped get the Ephs into early foul trouble, and racked up a total of 16 free throw shots.

On Williams’ side, Brunswick’s own Claire Baecher had a big per-formance in her hometown with a season-high 22 points as well as 10 rebounds.

“I knew she’d have a big crowd, I talked about it with the team to mentally prepare them,” said Shibles.

“This was a really hard loss, not only because it was Kaitlin’s Se-nior Day but because we’ve been stressing all season to play for 40 minutes and we just didn’t do that,” said Prohl.

The Polar Bears have a cru-cial weekend ahead, travelling to Connecticut to face Wesleyan and Connecticut College. All three teams have the same 3-5-confer-ence record.

can send some support to the ath-letic department.”

Hershberger said he does not be-lieve his training is di8 cult.

“Everybody can do this,” he said. “My 17-year-old daughter does visu-alizations to parody me, and they’re pretty good.”

Shibles conducts visualization sessions two hours before her team plays.

“I don’t know if everyone buys into it, but I think over the course of their four years they start to a little more and for those that do [buy into it], it helps them a lot,” said Shibles.

“I’m interested in people being able to do the best that they can, whether they’re on the basketball court or if they want to feel more confident speaking in class,” said Hershberger. “I think there are a lot of situations where we don’t get to bring out our true potential because there might be a level of anxiety or lack of confidence that holds us back.”

period, when Trinity scored the game winner on a power play. Even though Bowdoin outshot Trinity 9-5 in the 9 nal period, they were unable to 9 nd the back of the net. Lessard rejected a total of 27 Trinity shots in 60 minutes.

In the first period of the second game, Trinity scored courtesy of a power play. Neither team would score again until the third period, even though Bowdoin outshot Trinity in the final two periods.

Holtz tied up the game with a power play goal of her own, but Trinity scored the go-ahead goal shortly thereafter. In the final 30 seconds of the game, Trinity scored its third goal to an empty net.

Trinity is now ranked No. 4 in the NESCAC, and with the play-offs a few weeks away, the two teams have a high probability of facing one another in an elimina-tion game.

The Polar Bears, on the other hand, dropped from No. 1 in the NESCAC to No. 3.

Bowdoin will face Hamilton at home today at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m.

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trol of the match, jumping out to a 9-point lead in the second half. But the Polar Bears stormed back, and the teams traded baskets until overtime. Matt Mathias ’14 nailed a quick 3-pointer to open the ex-tra period, but it was all downhill from there for the Bowdoin men. Soon after, several Bowdoin de-fenders failed to pursue a rebound, leading to a momentum-changing 3-pointer by Williams. The Ephs finished the overtime period on a 15-0 scoring run.

“It got them going while we were still like ‘What just happened?’” said Gilbride. “All of sudden we were behind by too much with not enough time left.”

Mathias carried the team with 20 points, including an impres-sive five 3-pointers. Pieri scored 13 off the bench, while point guard Bryan Hurley ’15 dished out 14 assists and pulled down seven rebounds.

Williams’ high-scoring duo of juniors Taylor Epley and Mike Mayer played well for the Ephs, combining for 43 points on 17-24 shooting. Despite the tough loss, Pieri said Bowdoin was able to take away some positives.

“It was frustrating to lose in overtime, but if you take a step back you realize that we played a complete basketball game,” said Pieri. “We executed our game plan and we had good performances from several people.”

The Polar Bears suffered anoth-er disappointing loss on Tuesday night, falling to a talented but in-consistent Bridgewater State Uni-versity (BSU) team, 79-65.

After jumping out to a 15-point lead less than eight minutes into the game, Bowdoin was thoroughly outplayed for the rest of the night. BSU senior Brendan McDonald led the victors with 19 points while Pieri, Madlinger, Mathias, and Swords all finished in double fig-ures for the Polar Bears.

“We handled their full-court pressure pretty well,” said Gil-bride. “We got some open looks and shot well. When they went to good, tough man-to-man defense we did not handle that well for whatever reason. We stopped get-ting open looks and started mak-ing poor decisions.”

The Polar Bears will finish their regular season on the road this weekend against Connecti-cut College on Saturday and Wesleyan on Sunday. Conn. Col-lege is 0-8 in NESCAC play this year, but the Wesleyan Cardinals are 3-5 in the conference, the same record as Bowdoin.

Depending on their play and that of other teams this weekend, the Bowdoin men could enter the conference playoffs seeded as high as No. 5, or could fail to make the playoffs entirely. Pieri said he thinks the team will benefit from this uncertainty.

“In the back of our minds there’s the notion that we really need to bring it,” he said. “The added pres-sure is a positive.”

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Men’s track fi nishes second behind Bates in State Meet

At the Maine State Meet last Saturday, the men’s track and field team came up short in its quest to defend its 2012 title at the Univer-sity of Southern Maine. Bates fin-ished in first with 207 points while the Polar Bears tallied just 139.

“Going into the meet we were considered the underdogs, and while we met that expectation,

Women’s track takes fi fth consecutive State Meet

4 e women’s track and 5 eld team captured its 5 6 h-consecutive Maine State Meet victory last Friday.

The Polar Bears accumulated 203.6 points, enough to handily top Bates (185.6), Colby (183.8), South-ern Maine (110), St. Joseph’s (15), and Husson (3).

In the sprints, Samantha Cop-land ’14 broke her own school re-cord in the 60-meter dash (8.06), while captain Michele Kaufman ’13 won the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.20.

In the field events, Erin Silva ’15 won the pole vault (3.38m) and Katherine Krupp ’16 took the tri-ple jump (10.72m).

The Bowdoin throwers contin-ued their streak of recent successes as Randi London ’15 won the shot put (11.78m) and Katherine Har-mon ’14 won the weight throw (14.17m). Harmon also entered into the triple jump for the first time, and placed fifth.

The Polar Bears implemented their pre-meet strategy of enter-ing individuals in three or four events rather than the customary one or two.

“It’s definitely a strategic meet,” said Silva. “We go for the win in this one; it’s about school pride and be-ing the best in Maine.”

Considering that Harmon usually just throws, Silva said she found her triple jump 5 nish especially impressive.

“I feel like that’s what the state meet is all about: doing several events, trying events you never do, and scoring a few points,” said Silva.

Because the meet can come down to a small difference in points, Silva said that everyone does their best to step up, even if they are just scoring one point, to ensure the victory.

According to Silva, this team-first mentality helped her keep her own pole vault performance in per-spective. Despite her victory, Silva’s final height was her second-lowest of the season.

This weekend the Polar Bears were planning to shift focus from the team victory to the more indi-vidually oriented Valentine’s Invi-tational at Boston University, but it was cancelled due to the threat of inclement weather. The team’s next event is the D-III Championship at the University of Southern Maine on February 16.

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we didn’t really reach our goal of winning,” said captain David Bean ’13.

“Our goal from Day One was to beat Bates, even though they were seeded above us,” added fellow captain Matt Gamache ’13.

Despite this, Bowdoin had a number of impressive individual performances during the meet. Coby Horowitz ’14 won both the 1,000-meter run and the mile. Sam Seekins ’14 took first in the 5,000-meter run, shattering both the Bowdoin and meet records with a time of 14:45.00.

Other notable performers in-cluded Kyle Leblanc ’14, who took second in the 55-meter dash, captain Sam Chick ’13, who ran 1:22:97 to seize second in the 600-meter, and Eddy Page ’13, who cleared 4.15 meters to place second in the pole vault.

Although Bean and Gamache said they were disappointed with the meet’s outcome, they were impressed by the individual re-sults as well as the enthusiasm the team displayed throughout the long competition.

“Our team had a great attitude going into the meet,” said Gam-ache. “The energy was there, the team atmosphere was there, but things just didn’t come together as we had hoped.”

The Polar Bears had been look-ing forward to their next meet, at Boston University on Saturday, but it was cancelled due to the threat of inclement weather. The team will next compete at the New England D-III Championships on February 16 at Bates.

-Compiled by Matt Shen

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEYNESCAC OVERALL

W L T W L TBOWDOIN 11 2 1 17 2 1Middlebury 9 3 2 10 8 2Williams 9 3 2 12 5 3Trinity 8 3 3 11 5 3Amherst 8 4 2 12 5 3Wesleyan 5 6 3 9 8 3Conn. Coll. 3 8 3 7 10 3Hamilton 3 9 2 5 12 3Colby 2 10 2 4 13 3Tufts 1 11 2 6 12 2

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEYNESCAC OVERALL

W L T W L TMiddlebury 10 2 2 13 5 2Amherst 8 3 1 10 8 1BOWDOIN 8 3 1 14 4 2Trinity 6 3 3 11 5 4Conn. Coll. 6 7 1 10 9 1Hamilton 5 6 1 11 8 1Williams 4 7 1 8 11 1Colby 2 10 0 8 12 0Wesleyan 2 10 0 6 13 0

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLNESCAC OVERALL

W L W LAmherst 8 0 22 0Tufts 8 1 22 1Williams 7 1 18 4Trinity 4 4 13 8Bates 4 5 11 10BOWDOIN 3 5 12 9Conn. Coll. 3 5 9 12Middlebury 3 5 12 10Hamilton 2 6 11 10Wesleyan 2 6 9 10Colby 1 7 8 14

MEN’S BASKETBALLNESCAC OVERALL

W L W LAmherst 8 0 20 2Williams 8 0 20 2Middlebury 7 1 20 1Tufts 6 3 15 8BOWDOIN 3 5 12 9Hamilton 3 5 12 10Wesleyan 3 5 11 11Bates 3 6 9 14Colby 2 6 6 15Trinity 2 6 9 13Conn. Coll. 0 8 7 14

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING

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Debunking divestmentIn December, this editorial board argued that the merits of divestment

from fossil fuel companies were impossible to evaluate so long as data on how the College’s endowment is invested remained obscure. Now that we have the facts, the case for divestment has little ground to stand on.

About 1.4 percent of Bowdoin’s $902.4 million endowment is invested in fossil fuel companies. If the College were to divest, a full quarter of the endowment would have to be transferred away from high-performing commingled funds. This would mean lower annual returns, a lower oper-ating budget, and a big hit to the endowment overall.

If the College had invested exclusively in fossil free funds, its average annual rate of return would have been 5 percent lower over the past de-cade, and Bowdoin’s endowment would be at least $100 million smaller.

Annual returns on the endowment allow the College to function as it does. Each year, Bowdoin spends a portion of the endowment on the oper-ational budget, which we hope to recoup in annual returns. Despite what the size of the football team’s budget might suggest, Bowdoin does not have money to waste.The losses incurred from divestment would have to be compensated for elsewhere, likely by cuts to financial aid, staff salaries or both. However noble a cause divestment may be, these are not sacri-fices we are willing to make, and the students campaigning for divestment should not be so cavalier about the implications of their proposal.

We agree with Green Bowdoin Alliance that eliminating the consump-tion of fossil fuels is a crucial goal that must be achieved in the immediate future. But this does not mean Bowdoin should lead the charge. If the College does elect to divest, it will be a meaningful gesture that is unlikely to impact long-term change. The combined investments of all college en-dowments in the country make up only 0.1 percent of total investments in U.S. oil and gas industries.

Climate change is an unfortunate reality that few on this campus would refute, and we have already begun to see its effects in unusual weather patterns and natural disasters around the world. But divesting would do virtually nothing to abate carbon emissions, and would hurt the Bowdoin community much more than it would help combat climate change.

We commend the students involved with the Green Bowdoin Alliance for their persistence in pursuing action. Their commitment to sustain-ability is laudable, and we urge them to continue pushing Bowdoin for more practical ways of mitigating climate change. The College has in-vested over $11 million in sustainable initiatives in the last five years, and the Green Bowdoin Alliance should work with administrators to find solutions that make sense for the campus.

Instead of offering up the endowment for the sake of a symbolic ges-ture, the College should instead continue its efforts to maximize returns and put that money to work for pragmatic and reasonable sustainability projects.

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To the Editor:I would have been satisfied if our

meeting with President Mills yield-ed a commitment to formally con-sider our proposal to divest Bow-doin’s endowment from fossil fuels. Instead, we left with our heads full of “stay the course” rhetoric.

President Mills doubts the claim of the Aperio Group, an invest-ment management firm that pub-lished a report finding that divest-ment poses virtually no risk to endowment returns.

I trust these facts, over the profit versus environmental responsibili-ty paradigm, because my Bowdoin education does not accept conven-tion as truth.

Bowdoin, we must criticize our-selves as much as we criticize poli-ticians and corporations. Our in-stitution inexcusably benefits from the common wrong.

We are connected to all lands and ages by our contributions to global warming. We can change that connection by no longer bet-ting our endowment on CO2.

I love this school, and reaching the $1 billion endowment mark will be important for the future, but I want even more for Bowdoin. By divesting, we can join the City of Seattle, Hampshire College, Unity College, and hopefully the City of San Francisco as a leader in the moral challenge of our time.

Are these two aims mutually ex-clusive? We must demand action to know for sure.

Sincerely, Bridgett McCoy ’15

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor:In his job in the travel and tour-

ism industry, Auden Schendler ’92 has clearly become well-versed in greenwashing.

At least enough, as the tone of his column, “Bowdoin is falling dangerously behind on climate change,” makes clear, to point out where an industry expert would deem the paint too thin.

Schendler’s column demon-strates two points extremely well. He is right that Bowdoin shouldn’t be hiding behind green slogans and should be taking action that

To the Editor:Following on Auden Schendler’s

January 24th piece calling for Bowdoin to take action on climate change, I am writing to express my strong support for his arguments.

I first advocated Bowdoin take steps in this direction when I was editor of the Orient in the mid-1990s.

Reading Auden’s article brought home how little has been done since I wrote those editorials.

My hope is that the College will take steps in three areas: minimiz-ing its own environmental footprint, building a leading edge sustainabil-ity curriculum, and investing the en-dowment with a sustainability focus.

Since I am the co-founder of a fund that invests primarily in clean energy companies, I will add a ref-erence that the Board may want to review the next time it allocates to new fund managers.

There is a recent essay in the book “Evolutions in Sustainable Investment” about the investment philosophy of Generation Invest-ment Management, founded in 2004 by former Goldman Sachs executive David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore.

By March 2011, the authors found, the firm's Global Equity Fund "had delivered a positive 17.38 percent outperformance over the benchmark since inception in the middle of 2008."

We are fortunate to live in a time when we as investors can do good at the same time as doing well.

Sincerely,Zeb Rice ’94Managing Partner at Angeleno Group, LLC

will drive actual change. Additionally, the text of his letter

is a perfect example of how to use unbearably caustic words to destroy the possibility of consensus.

For consensus is exactly what Bowdoin needs right now. Take the two headline sustainability initia-tives that have come up for debate recently: achieving carbon neu-trality and divesting the endow-ment of petrochemical firms.

These causes are basically two sides of the same coin, and any coherent sustainability strategy would either accept or reject both of them, but at Bowdoin we find ourselves stuck in between.

Both initiatives sound great on paper: who doesn’t want to be able to parade around with a “100 per-cent renewable” sticker on their chest? And yet both are fundamen-tally flawed.

As Schendler helpfully points out in the only constructive suggestion in his letter, Bowdoin’s last 30 per-cent of carbon emissions are diffi-cult and inefficient to mitigate.

While buying renewable energy certificates sometimes does fund otherwise impossible renewable energy development, a more well-thought-out approach would re-invest that money in longer-term sustainability projects that could cause real change in Brunswick, such as investing in local green businesses.

The proposal to divest the Col-lege’s endowment completely from fossil fuels suffers from a similar lack of perspective.

The policy completely ignores the huge positive impact that natural gas has as a low-emission transitional source of energy, and leaves open the question of what exactly counts as a “fossil fuel” company.

Deforestation is a massive con-tributor to climate change, so would the policy also bar the College from investing in timber futures, for example? If not, di-vestment would serve no material purpose.

And if so, what else would be prohibited? Would we divest from shipping firms because bunker oil is highly polluting?

Anyone wearing anything Made In China would be a hypocrite to agree.

Both policies would go a long way to demonstrating—at least in the headlines—the College’s devo-tion to sustainability, which makes them attractive.

While in my opinion they both are poorly conceived and waste-ful uses of funds, I can understand

Bowdoin must focus on fossil fuel divestment before its endowment

Schendler has been “greenwashed,” fails to help reach consensus

College should reinvest in clean energy funds

why some support them, and I would be able to accept them if they were backed up by a coherent sustainability strategy.

Regardless of anyone’s personal opinion, the fact remains that any institution with a coherent sustain-ability strategy would either adopt or reject both measures.

Bowdoin is not there yet, and whichever way we swing, there needs to be agreement between stakeholders.

What the administration, alum-ni and students need to work on is building this consensus, not engaging in a self-destructive war of words, and that is where Mr. Schendler stepped over the line.

Sincerely, Benjamin Ziomek ’13

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The pursuit of happiness after the best four years of your life

What would happen if we knew ex-actly how much time we had le5 ?

What if the fact of our mortality, a notion acknowledged by us intimately only in times of tragedy, was a routine companion in our lives?

How would that alter our person-alities? 6 e decisions we make? Our dreams of the future?

How would Bowdoin’s seniors, scrambling anxiously to secure our jobs and grad school acceptance let-ters, reconceptualize our embarka-tions into a life beyond Bowdoin if we knew for precisely how long the promises of the “real world” could be enjoyed?

Well for one thing, we’d be intoler-ably anxious.

People at Bowdoin deal poorly with just the stress of midterms—preoccupa-tion with death would just be too much.

And yet, a de7 nitive understanding of life’s transience might also shatter some of the illusions that are easy to harbor this close to graduation.

For starters, we might forego the be-lief that the successes of our lives need be tethered to our future employers.

We might be able to go out in the world without feeling the need to ac-count for the cost of our time at Bow-doin.

It is undeniable that “the price of college” lurks subterraneously in the minds of every student, professor and administrator at the college. Bowdoin is expensive and it exists in a world dominated by innovations in 7 nance, science and technology.

In this era, a liberal arts education just seems quaintly outdated. But, our re-lentless drive to justify the extravagance of our college years is a real shame.

It is tragic that Bowdoin—a5 er schooling us in what has been eternal-ly enjoyable—is also forced to counter the charge of irrelevance by pointing to the “unique skills” imparted to lib-eral arts students that prepares them for a life of “productivity.”

6 is situation is unfortunate for two reasons:

1. Because Bowdoin’s gi5 is that it teaches us to savor the riches of friends, sports, books, art, and nature. It is not that we receive the gi5 of productivity.

2. Because the narrative of the eco-nomic utility of a Bowdoin education seeps into the employment and general life decisions made by graduating se-niors.

6 ose of us about to leave have recently learned that the skills and temperament needed to be successful

in gaining employment are o5 en the bastardized cousins of those traits that made us successful in school.

It is true when a returning alum or CPC counselor says that we are all “good enough” to thrive in the world of adulthood.

However, while the value of the stu-dent lies in his or her depth and curi-osity, the value of a job applicant lies in his or her appearance and re7 nement.

ating in the wealth of this school, of living only for the timeless values of free inquiry or community service or even sensual pleasure without regard for the brutal realities of cost and con-sequence, many Bowdoin students suddenly turn away from a lifestyle that treats every day like the rarest and most precious of all gi5 s.

Our time in college, as we o5 en say, will be the best four years of our lives.

6 ere is nothing intrinsically wrong with the career of “7 nance and con-sulting.”

6 e character of the individuals in those professions is not compromised by the nature of their employment.

Indeed, it is blatantly irresponsible to generalize that all jobs in consult-ing or all jobs in 7 nance are the same. 6 at’s just inaccurate.

What is true, however, is that there is something incongruous about the fact that recruiters for those two industries abound on this campus. And that the number of applications they receive and hires they make is a veritable feast.

6 is disconnect resides in the fact that those professions, while not morally dubious, are o5 en morally irrelevant.

A5 er spending four years at a school that teaches its students to be-come liberal humans—in the sense that they should 7 nd joy in the many diverse disciplines that inspire genius and wonder—what sense does it make

that many of those students will seek out careers that abstract so profoundly from what is human?

6 e only sense it makes is that Bow-doin students feel compelled to rede-7 ne “success” as we prepare for our next steps.

Many of us have said during this process, including myself at times, that the spiritedness of our time in college will not serve us once we move on.

We should be satis7 ed with a job that is simply challenging or high pay-ing. We shouldn’t expect to be serving the causes or values or aesthetics that made life worth living while in school. Especially not right away.

6 is article began with a god-aw-ful thought experiment. To be sure, knowing our death date probably wouldn’t counteract the push to mea-sure success a5 er college with a di8 er-ent ruler than the one we had while we were here.

As defeatists say, “6 at’s just the na-ture of the world we live in.”

Just don’t be so ready to forsake the spirit that has and could continue to push you towards subjects that have been eternally meaningful: teaching, ad-vocacy, art, politics, nature conservancy, music, ecological study, or writing.

In the end—and the end is always nearer than we think—it will make us happier and make the world a better place.

HALFASSED

JUDAH ISSEROFF

YOUNGSHIM HWANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Much of the quick study that we do to prepare for a job in these several months before graduation is a cynical twist on the learning we’ve done so far.

Rather than substantial, it is cos-metic. And it exposes the reality that Bowdoin students are funneled, sub-consciously or otherwise, towards careers that commit us to an ideal of success that has less to do with what is beautiful and right, and more to do with conventionally materialist no-tions of what leads to happiness.

A5 er nearly four years of luxuri-

In this era, a liberal arts education just seems quaintly

outdated. But, our relentless drive to justify the extravagance of our

college years is a real shame.

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12TUESDAY

DEADLINE Orientation Trip Applications Due Students interested in leading ! rst years on orientation trips next August must submit their applications via eBear. eBear, Midnight.

LECTURE SERIES “Su! ering What They Must”CFD Postdoctoral Fellow Cassandra Borges will discuss her book about the aftermath of the Trojan War. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.

9SATURDAY

EVENT Bowdoin Climate Action Panel Environmentalist Bill McKibben will Skype into this panel discussion on sustainable reinvestments. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

COMEDY Improvabilities The improv troupe will perform its usual short-form comedy laughs, and will play “The Dating Game.” Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8:30 p.m.

FUNDRAISER LASO Valentine’s Day Auction The annual auction will raise money for Tengo Voz, an organization committed to helping victims of domestic violence, by bidding on dates with students.Jack Magee’s Pub. 8:30 p.m.

11MONDAY

PERFORMANCE Ying Quartet The ensemble will play classical pieces from its full program. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7 p.m.

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8FRIDAY

COMMON HOUR Ying Quartet The chamber ensemble will perform unique classical selections accompanied by George Lopez, Bowdoin’s artist-in-residence, on the piano. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 12:30 p.m. THEATER Outside the Wire: “End of Life” The social impact theater troupe will read from Sophocles’ “Women of Trachis” to generate a discussion about chronic su" ering. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

SEMINAR A Seminar with Stuart Kirsch Stuart Kirsch, anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, will deliver a talk about indigenous rights, environmental issues and nuclear testing. Room 312, Adams Hall. 2 p.m.

FILM Argo The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2012 drama about the CIA mission during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis . Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE BMC Showcase Ten student musical acts will perform at the Bowdoin Music Collective’s kick-o" event of the semester. Jack Magee’s Pub. 8:30 p.m.

10SUNDAY

FILM Ban! Mountain Film Festival Two vans to transport students to the festival. Students can reserve a spot by signing up at the Bowdoin Outing Club. State Theater, Portland. 7 p.m.

LECTURE The Climate Reality Project Dr. Richard Jennings will deliver Al Gore’s presentation on the realities of climate change. ES Common Room, Adams Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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13WEDNESDAY

WORKSHOP Managing Your Online Reputation Career Planning’s Holly Sherburne and Sherry Mason will lead an interactive informational session on strategies for maintaining a professional online pro! le. Electronic Classroom, H&L Library. 4:30 p.m.

FILM Dakota 38 Producer Silas Hagerty will visit campus for a screening of his biographical ! lm about a Native spiritual leader’s journey through the American midwest. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

DEADLINE College House Applications Due O" ce of Residential Life, 11:59 p.m.

14THURSDAY

VALENTINE’S DAY CAREER PLANNING Calling All Entrepeneurs Professional investors and entrepeneurs will meet with students to discuss business ideals and to learn what investors look for in companies. To schedule a session, email terri@segfmaine.com. Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good. 3 p.m.

LECTURE The Complexion of Sodomy Greta La Fleur, an English professor at the University of Hawaii, will discuss her research on the history of sexuality. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.

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GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FLYING HIGH: Chris Granata ‘14 clinches the lead in last weekend’s swim meet against Colby.

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