B!"#!$% O&$'%(BRUNSWICK, MAINE THE NATION’S OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY VOLUME 143, NUMBER 9 NOVEMBER 15, 2013

1st C

LAS

S

U.S

. MA

ILP

osta

ge P

AID

Bow

doin

Col

lege

FEATURES: TALK OF THE QUAD

T!"

A&E: YOUTUBE POETRY OPINIONEDITORIAL: Veritas.

SPORTS: WOMEN’S RUGBY STORMS AHEAD

Page 10.

ONLY CHARCOAL TO DEFEND: Christopher Wed-man ’15 on reconciling November’s holidays. Page 14.

Page 13.The women’s rugby team stomped Holy Cross at home last Saturday by a score of 54-7 in an ACRA Round of 32 matchup. The team will play Hamilton tomorrow in the Round of 16.

Eliza Novick-Smith ’14 on Wil Smith ’00; Joshua Burger-Caplan ’14 on networking in bathroom stalls.

Page 6.

Internet bard Steve Roggenbuck performed to a full crowd in Ladd House last Saturday, sharing his now-viral words of optimism.

Page 7.

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Rich Thompson and Assistant Professor of Film Studies Sarah Childress reveal their partners’ biggest pet peeves in the “Newleywed’s Game” at Quinby House last night.

DISHING IT OUT

Dramatic Hail Mary pass catapults football to Colby win

Please see FOOTBALL, page 11

Please see MCLELLAN, page 4

McLellan renovations to cost town 10 times initial estimate

BY JOHN BRANCHORIENT STAFF

As Bowdoin prepares to move its of-) ces from the ) rst and second * oor of the McLellan Building by Hannaford to various locations on campus, the Town of Brunswick is debating how to pay for the building’s higher-than-expected renovation costs.

At a meeting last + ursday, the Brunswick Town Council discussed possibilities for ) nancing the renova-tion of the building, located at 85 Union St., which they estimate will cost nearly $1 million. + e town plans to use the building as a new town hall.

“A lot of this discussion has arisen because the price has escalated,” said town councilor Benet Pols.

Some councilors want to take out a bond that would allow the town to pay the cost of the renovation over ten or 15 years, while others prefer using cash re-serves to pay for the renovation.

+ e Council is slated to decide whether to keep the borrowing option on the table on November 18.

According to Pols, the o, ce of the town manager originally estimated

that the renovation would cost around $100,000 in Spring 2011, said Pols. + at estimate increased, ) rst to $200,000 and then to over $750,000. + e ) nal cost is ten times more than the initial estimate.

As a result, Pols supports keeping the option of borrowing open, which he said would provide a “hedge against raising taxes” in the event that the town needed more revenue to pay for the renovations up front.

“It’s pretty typical to borrow for big capital expenditures, when it starts to go up over three quarters of a million dollars or so,” he said.

According to an article in the Bangor Daily News, the renovations are now estimated at $805,000, with $88,000 in architect’s fees and $60,000 for a con-tingency fund.

Pols emphasized that authorizing the use of a bond now does not commit the town to using it later—that decision would come toward the end of the ) scal year next June, when a clearer picture of the town’s budget will be available.

Some council members are wary of borrowing.

Summit leads discussion of alcohol on campus

BY EMILY WEYRAUCHORIENT STAFF

During the two-hour Alcohol Sum-mit organized by the Alcohol Team (A-Team) last Friday, approximately 60 ) rst years and sophomores discussed alcohol-related issues with members of the A-Team and Peer Health.

According to an Orient article from April 2011, the A-Team launched the event in spring 2010 in response to a high number of transports preceding Ivies that year, and has presented the summit every year since.

As of last weekend, there have been five alcohol-related trans-ports on campus this fall. This is the lowest number in recent years—the first two months of the school year brought seven trans-ports last year, 12 in 2011, and 13 in 2010, according to a November 2012 Orient article.

Six student leaders discussed the role alcohol has played in their Bow-doin social lives on a panel moder-ated by A-Team co-chair Duncan

Taylor ’14. Following the panel, members of Peer Health and the 18 members of the A-Team facilitated breakout discussions with groups of underclassmen. + e Summit itself was closed to Orient reporters.

“At my high school, I was used to everyone being totally against drink-ing,” said attendee Josh Ellis ’17. He said he found the focus of this event to be not on abstinence but on pro-moting safe and healthy choices.

“First years in general seemed to really enjoy the Summit and get some-thing meaningful out of it,” said Taylor.

Laura Plimpton ’17 said that she valued the chance to see behind the curtain of upperclassmen culture.

“It was sort of unexpected because other than the social house parties or sports team events, it’s hard to under-stand what upperclassmen do,” said Plimpton.

Avery Loe- er ’15, a member of the A-Team, helped facilitate one of the tables of ) rst-year students. Discus-sion focused on the social role of al-cohol, changes students would like to see made in the social scene, and what students think about social life here.

“I had a really great group of ) rst years and we were talking about the social scene and what we like and

don’t like about it,” said Loe- er.+ e panel included students who

drink as well as those who do not. A-Team members shared personal stories, an aspect of the event which attendees said contributed to its pro-ductivity.

“I think this was an incredibly suc-cessful event. I hope that the dialogue around alcohol use at Bowdoin and the social scene in general continues to happen outside of the Summit,” said Taylor.

“I don’t know if it will necessarily change [my behaviors],” said Plimp-ton. Nevertheless, she said it will “give me a new perspective.”

A Spring 2012 alcohol survey dis-tributed at nine of the 11 NESCAC schools reported 83 percent of Bow-doin students drinking before their 19th birthday, suggesting that most students begin drinking before col-lege. In the survey, 42 percent of stu-dents said they drank occasionally and 41 percent drank o. en. Nineteen percent responded that they had been criticized for drinking too heavily.

+ e A-Team is sponsoring month-ly movie screenings of new releases with the Student Activities O, ce in Jack Magee’s Pub. + e ) rst movie is December 6 at 9:30 p.m.

A look into disordered eating at Bowdoin

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

Last week, the Orient circulated an anonymous survey to students investi-gating health and eating at Bowdoin.

Of the 538 respondents, 61 percent were female and 39 percent were male. Eighty-four percent of students said that they felt Bowdoin created a healthy eat-ing environment, while 55 percent of female students reported that they think they need to lose weight, and 45 percent of female students were worried about a friend’s eating habits. Six percent of stu-dents reported that they had been diag-nosed with an eating disorder.

According to Director of Health Ser-vices Sandra Hayes, issues of disordered eating are more complicated than a black-and-white diagnosis.

“It’s on a continuum.” she said, “I think that many people at some time in their lives have had disordered eating…we’re always on the spectrum.”

Greg Rosen ’14, a co-leader of Peer Health, said that although the Bowdoin students are likely well-informed about disordered eating, they may be reluctant

+ e football team capped o/ its season with a dramatic last-minute 32-22 win over Colby last Saturday at Whittier Field in the teams’ 125th matchup. A. er Colby came back from a 20-6 de) cit in the fourth quar-ter to tie it at 20-20, Bowdoin quar-

terback Mac Caputi ’15 found wide receiver Dan Barone ’16 on a Hail Mary pass, giving the Polar Bears the lead with just three seconds le. .

Facing fourth-and-nine with 12 seconds le. on the clock, Caputi took the snap, waited in the pocket, and threw the ball from mid) eld toward the end zone, where Barone made the dramatic 43-yard catch amid a crowd

of Colby defenders. “We had run that play before in

practice,” Barone said. “I just ran down the ) eld and when I got close to the end-zone, Mac had thrown the ball—and before I knew it I was on the ground in a pile with the ball and held on pretty tight. It was kind of joint-possession, then I wrestled it away.”

+ e play was No. 3 on ESPN Sport-Center’s Top Ten, marking the second time in three years the football team has been featured on the show. + e ) rst was in 2011 when now-senior linebackers Joey Cleary and Gri, n Cardew returned interceptions for 99 and 100 yards, respectively, against

BY PETER CIMINIORIENT STAFF

Please see EATING, page 3

A-Team members share stories with underclassmen; 5 alcohol-

related transports to date this fall.

!"# $%&'%() %*(#)! +*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304 2 )#&5

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTOn Tuesday, Professor Susan Kaplan organized Bowdoin’s fi rst Pop-Up Museum in Hubbard Hall, showcasing temporary exhibits of belongings brought by students and community members. See story on page 7.

Graphic Image

Monique Kelmnson ’15 “Oh, I like it... I like the variety

of mustaches on campus.”

Kristina Karlsson ’17“I don’t like it...I don’t think it’s an

improvement for anyone’s appearance.”

STUDENT SPEAKWomen: how do you feel about Movember?

COMPILED BY JOE SHERLOCK

Ally Silfen ’17“I really think that it depends on the person and their structure.”

Yaya Julien ’15“Facial hair’s cool.”

POP-ART

BOWDOIN’S MOVEMBER ’STACHE CACHE

John Swords ’15

Duncan Taylor ’14

Will Tucker ’14

Jordan Goldberg ’14

John Izzo ’15

Matthew Mathias ’14

PHOTOS BY KATE FEATHERSTON

Junior Cielle Collins arrived at 4 p.m. just to be first in line for last night’s Thanksgiving dinner. Her sister also drove over an hour and a half to enjoy the meal with her.

This year’s dinner is a week early to account for the late Thanksgiving this year—though the holiday is usually the second week of November, this year’s date falls only a few weeks be-fore the pre-winter break holi-day meal.

“If you really enjoy Thanks-giving dinner, it’s nice to have a little time between your big meals,” said Associate Director of Dining Services and Execu-tive Chef Ken Cardone.

Cardone said it’s not unusual to have both dining halls filled with people waiting in line for the food.

“That’s what’s great about it. It’s tradition,” said Adam Eich-enwald ’14. “We always have our friend group. We email. We have a set time, we come out and we’re here for Thanksgiving.”

“I think it really brings the school together and brings peo-ple together, as stupid as that may sound,” said Caroline Lo-gan ’14, echoing Eichenwald’s thoughts.

“Every year we usually go around and say one thing we’re thankful for and I think it’s just a great vibe in the dining hall,” said Logan. “It’s great that Thorne can provide that kind of environment.”

First years who experienced their first Bowdoin Thanksgiving dinner also gave glowing reviews of the much loved tradition.

“It’s a great way to bring part of home to college with you. It’s sort of like making this your new home,” said Kate Powers ’17. “You get to have a new tra-dition.”

Students raved about the ar-ray of options and the tradi-tional dishes. The biggest crowd pleaser was certainly the stuff-ing. Powers stated, “The stuffing is unreal.”

“There’s a plethora of veggies and I’m digging it,” said Ella Driscoll ’17.

“They’ve really outdone themselves this year,” Logan said about Dining’s perfor-mance on the dinner. “It looks great, the way that they’ve orga-nized everything has gone really smoothly. They blew it out of the park.”

Cardone attributed this to the level of preparation Dining does for the meal. In order to be prepared for the meal, there are certain items, like pumpkin, that need to be processed as early as Fall Break.

He said they used about 575 pounds of butternut squash and made between 38 and 40 gallons of gravy between Moulton and Thorne. In order to make sure everything is made on time and processed correctly, they have to plan up to six weeks before the meal date.

Cardone said the annual campus Thanksgiving dinner is without a doubt “the best at-tended meal” of the year.

THANKSGIVING DINNER COMES A WEEK EARLY DUE TO HOLIDAY SCHEDULING

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

!"# $%&'%() %*(#)!+*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304 )#&5 3

Printer issues stall completion of ‘We Stand with You’ exhibit

Around a dozen students and faculty met last Monday to com-memorate the “We Stand with You” photo display in Smith Union, a re-sponse to this fall’s bias incidents. Due to printer issues, only 177 of the 544 headshots of Bowdoin community members are currently on the walls.

6 e exhibit is the work of Daniel Eloy ’15 and came about as a result of the incidents of bias on campus and in Brunswick that a7 ected Bow-doin students. Two of these inci-dents occurred in late October and one occurred in late September.

While the original print job was for individual posters, Eloy said that the printer began cycling, and he ended up with 400 duplicates. Currently, the photos are individu-als that have been taped together. He has had to reformat them into 25 three-by-seven foot banners, which will be installed sometime this coming week.

The reactions of the people who attended the event launch were generally positive.

“I think that the picture gallery is a great thing because I’ve been here twice and each time I’ve come here it’s been the same pictures, but I’ve seen something di7 erent. And each time I just can feel myself join with the people that are up there,” said Roy Partridge, visiting assistant pro-fessor of sociology and anthropol-ogy and the special assistant to the president for multicultural a7 airs.

“It’s a subtle reminder of what we’re about without being too re-actionary,” said Andrew Millar ’16.

Molly Fargeorge ’14 made it clear that she supported the stand of the exhibit and thought that it was beautifully done, but she expressed some doubt about the effectiveness of the event.

“The people who are going to come to see this are people who al-ready hold the same opinions as the presenters,” she said.

Fargeorge did add that the choice of location added poignancy to the exhibit.

“The fact that it is on such a common space and that everyone walks by and sees it is really nice,” she said.

While agreeing that the exhibit is a reaction to the incidents of bias, Eloy hopes that it will be something more than that.

“I wanted it to be more of a piece

BY CAMERON DE WETORIENT STAFF

that got the campus to see that more people than they expected were in a position to demonstrate their solidarity to other members of the campus,” Eloy said.

Eloy sought to go beyond all-campus emails about the bias, and to create an exhibit that would be both a statement of solidarity and a measure to proactively prevent fu-ture incidents.

“I wanted people to stop and look so that they would get the message because I think that in an email form we don’t get the message,” said Eloy. “We read something that is displaced eight times over, that’s been a template that the school has saved so that every time this hap-pens we get the same kind of letter.”

“It’s not enough anymore,” he added.

Along with other anti-bias ad-vocates, Eloy set up a station to take people’s pictures outside of Moulton Union twice and Thorne Hall once for the entire time that dinner was open. Eloy also took people’s pictures during breakfast at Thorne one day.

Eloy asked people if they would agree to have their picture taken for an exhibit against bias in the com-munity and had each person who agreed sign a consent form. 6 is was due in part because Smith Union is open to the public and the consent form was needed for legal purposes.

However, Eloy also wanted people to think about what they were doing.

“I wanted people to have an ex-tra step to take to put their support into this,” Eloy said.

Eloy acknowledged that some people had been concerned about potential coercion going on with the process of getting the pictures.

“I hope people read what they were doing and hopefully didn’t feel coerced,” he said.

Eloy said that people were o8 en cu-rious about what the photos were for.

“I tried to give them the best ex-planation that I could in the shortest amount of time so that they could either take the photo or not,” he said.

“For the most part if people heard what it was for, they were interested in taking the photo,” he added.

Eloy said that there were some people who didn’t want to take part or that completely ignored him, but that he was fine with that.

“I figured those kinds of things would happen,” he said.

It has not yet been decided how long the exhibit will remain set up in Smith Union.

to admit problems with their own diet.“6 e di7 erence is that they rational-

ize their own eating habits as not being problematic,” he said.

Brittany Maxwell ’13 developed an eating disorder her sophomore year.

“I started exercising a little more and eating a little healthier and it was all done in a really healthy, well-balanced way,” she said. “I got such good feedback that I kept going. And all of a sudden it went from really healthy to really un-healthy.”

While she never counted calories, Maxwell said that her doctors and coun-selor estimated that she’d been eating about 500 to 600 calories a day while also over exercising. Eventually, her disordered eating patterns reached the point where friends and family began to take notice, and she took a year o7 from school to focus on recovering.

Sophie Namara ’16 thinks that some disordered eating patterns are linked to Bowdoin’s high-stress environment.

“You’re constantly doing work and trying to be in control of something, and [eating is] something that you can control,” she said.

Maxwell agreed.“6 ere are so many people here who

are perfectionists, it’s just our culture,” she said. “And that can lead to wanting to be the perfect healthy nut, the perfect 9 tness nut.”

Maeve O’Leary ’14, another co-leader of Peer Health, said that Bowdoin stu-dents are fairly aware of food and body.

“Students are pretty food conscious and body conscious in the dining halls and in spaces like the gym,” she said.

According to a number of survey re-spondents, however, that awareness is not necessarily healthy.

“I’ve become very conscious of my food intake which honestly for me has helped me become a lot healthier,” said a senior female. “For a lot of my friends, though, this environment has been hos-tile. Two of my best friends have eating disorders and I’ve seen casual acquain-tances shrink to a horrifying level.”

A junior female also discussed prob-lems with the College’s eating culture.

“If you’re a Bowdoin female and aren’t

self-conscious of your weight, you’re a minority,” she said. “Never before have I been so conscious of what I eat.”

According to Hayes, a number of fe-male students have told her that they feel that others are constantly watching what they’re eating.

“What’s reported to me, by women at least, is the feeling that people know or are looking at or are judging what or how people are eating,” she said.

A Balanced Plate

Maxwell believes that healthy options in Bowdoin’s dining halls are largely pos-itive, but that the environment can lead to disordered eating for certain students.

“It’s hard for people like me who can take things to the extreme,” she said. “It’s also hard if you look at the dining hall…You see all the girls with salads, there’s no protein or fat—it’s all veggies. 6 e salad bar in 6 orne—they never have proteins to put on the salad; it drives me nuts. 6 at can navigate people who have a fear of food towards certain things.”

While 84 percent of survey respon-dents said that they feel Bowdoin creates a healthy eating environment, a number of anonymous comments cited con-cerns about the culture that surrounds eating habits at Bowdoin. Several noted a regular tendency among female stu-dents to eat salads at every meal.

“I think Bowdoin creates a healthy eating environment in that the foods that are served are generally healthy,” wrote a sophomore female, “but I think there is extreme pressure to eat healthy for every single meal, meaning eating salads. 6 ere is a disconnect between what is healthy and what is low-calorie.”

According to Hayes, students should be eating all foods in moderation.

“People also need and tend to shrink away from fats and carbohydrates,” she said. “You can get a lot of really wonder-ful things on the salad bar. But if that’s all you’re eating, that’s a problem.”

! e Male Perspective

Male students also struggle with dis-ordred eating, though Hayes noted that it’s not always entirely clear how these is-sues manifest in male students.

“6 e majority of people that we treat are women; however, we know by re-

search that eating disorders or disor-dered eating are exploding within the male community,” she said. “6 at will look di7 erent than females.”

One 9 rst-year male respondent said that he was isolated by his disorder.

“I usually go to the dining hall and eat alone,” he wrote, “since I don’t really want other people to notice my eating habits. Not a single person at Bowdoin knows about my disorder, but I kind of like it that way. My male friends would probably not understand my disorder, so I’d rather just not bring it up.”

According to the survey, 23 percent of males feel that they need to lose weight, while 19 percent of males said that they need to gain weight.

Getting Help

While some students expressed anxi-ety about their own relationship with food, the survey also indicated wide-spread concern about the eating habits of others. Forty-9 ve percent of female respondents and eight percent of males said that they were concerned about their friends’ diets.

“In my group of nine-ish friends, at least six have serious eating issues, and two were anorexic at some point over the past two years,” wrote a junior fe-male.

“6 ere are two issues dealing with a friend’s eating disorder: one is getting them help, and the other is getting your-self help. 6 at process is usually really di: cult, emotionally straining and ul-timately very frustrating,” said O’Leary.

Hayes said that Counseling Services, Peer Health, the health center, and Co-ordinator of Health Education Whitney Hogan can be resources for students.

Hayes also called attention to Bow-doin’s contracted nutritionist and noted that a group of health professionals on campus meets multiple times per month to collaboratively help speci9 c students. Representatives from the Counseling Center, Health Services, the Director of Athletic Training, and the nutritionist make up this team.

“All of the students who are discussed on this team know we are sharing infor-mation,” she said.

Changing the Culture According to Rosen, Peer Health is

currently preparing body image and eating disorder programming for Feb-ruary. 6 e group’s work is focused pri-marily on prevention.

“Health is something that’s di7 erent for everyone, and people’s perceptions of health are very di7 erent,” he said.

A junior female agreed. “I think that Bowdoin is, by and large,

a very healthy environment. However, I also believe that we have created a cul-ture around a certain type of eating,” she wrote in survey comments. “I love Bow-doin, but I would hate it if we perpetuat-ed the idea that there is a single healthy way to eat. Di7 erent things work for dif-ferent people’s bodies.”

Hayes said that her motto is “health at every size.”

“We need to rethink what health looks like,” she said.

Many interviewed stated that the best way to help combat these issues on campus is to reframe perceptions around how food works with your body and start to have a conversation about eating culture at Bowdoin.

“I think that people want to have a conversation about it,” said Maxwell.Hayes agreed.

“We as a community at Bowdoin need to have this conversation,” she said. “What can we do to prevent this, what can we do to change the culture here at Bowdoin. We’ve done a phenom-enal job about homophobic language, bystander intervention…My challenge to the Bowdoin student community would be to [lets?] do it, let’s change the culture at Bowdoin.”

EATINGCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ABOUT FACE: “We Stand with You,” a photo exhibit created by Daniel Eloy ’15, is now on display.

4 !"#$ %&" '(#)(*! (+*"!% ,+*)-., !(/"0'"+ 12, 3415

SECURITY REPORT: 11/7 to 11/15Friday, November 8• A student with a cut 6 nger was

escorted from the Edwards Center to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

Saturday, November 9• A steam tunnel manhole cover was

found open near Hyde Hall at 2 a.m. and two students were seen walking away from it. 7 e tunnel was thoroughly checked to ensure that no one was inside and then re-secured. NOTE: Unauthor-ized access to steam tunnels is danger-ous and strictly prohibited.

• A student reported that his vehicle was struck and damaged by another ve-hicle while parked at Burnett House.

Sunday, November 10• An o8 cer checked on a student in

Hyde Hall who was ill and suspected of having food poisoning.

• A student reported being assaulted by another student on the Quad. 7 e student was taken to Parkview for treat-ment of facial injuries. 7 e incident re-mains under investigation.

Monday, November 11• An o8 cer checked on a sick student

at the Searles Science Building and then

escorted the student to the health center.Tuesday, November 12• A dining sta9 member sliced their

6 nger with a knife while cutting vegeta-bles at 7 orne Dining Hall. An o8 cer escorted the employee to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

• An o8 cer escorted a student to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic for treatment of an injury from a bicycle accident.

• A local resident reported the the: of a wallet containing $130 and personal property from the men’s locker room at Farley Field House.

• An o8 cer checked on the well-be-ing of a student at Hyde Hall.

Wednesday, November 13• An o8 cer checked on the well-be-

ing of a student at Osher Hall.• A student was cited for disorderly

conduct and an alcohol violation stem-ming from an incident at Moore Hall on November 3.

! ursday, November 14• Wall damage was reported on the

fourth ; oor of Osher Hall.-Compiled by the O! ce of Safety and

Security

ITAC proposes online Pub ordering system

At its meeting on Wednesday eve-ning, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) hosted Chief Information Of-6 cer for IT Services Mitch Davis for a summary of IT’s role in the Bowdoin community.

Davis announced that what most students would probably 6 nd as ex-citing news, that the Internet Tech-nology Advisory Council (ITAC) has come up with a new proposal: an online order form for the pub that would alert students when their food was ready.

Davis’ talk focused on Polaris and “the i9 y Wi-Fi.” With regard to Polar-is, Davis mentioned that this was “the 6 rst time [IT has] done a full student launch. Our goal was to get through this without any major problems.”

He noted that from the feedback he has heard, registering for classes for the spring semester has gone smoothly.

Davis said that while the wireless connection has always been a prob-lem, if students simply call him, he will respond and try to 6 x the prob-lem as soon as possible.

He noted that while “the relation-ship with IT is very limited . . . [he

BY YASMIN HAYREORIENT STAFF

believes that] the culture of Bowdoin is changing to become more tech-savvy.”

BSG’s regular business also includ-ed reports from various other com-mittees and members.

7 e Committees for Student Af-fairs and Academic A9 airs were pleased to announce the Uncommon Hour and Food for 7 ought collabo-ration event on November 21 at 8 p.m. in Main Lounge where Profes-sor of Music Roy Partridge and Dan-iel Eloy ’15 will give lectures.

7 e Student Organization and Oversight Committee announced that it has chartered a mock trial club which will be participating in mock trials and regional competitions if it advances.

Facilities and Sustainability noted that there is now a whiteboard in 7 orne—much like in Moulton.

In addition, the committee dis-cussed the rise of airport shuttle rates.

BSG President Sarah Nelson ’14 noted that “we wanted to be able to pick people up from airport” whereas in the past people had to get an ex-pensive taxi ride back to campus. Da-vid Levine ’16 noted that they “erred on the side of convenience for the individual.”

Allen Wong Yu ’14 mentioned in

the Executive Committee report that he started a program called “Speak Up Bowdoin” where people can go online to a website and annonymous-ly write any idea or complaint they have and other students can vote the remarks up or down. He noted, “it’ll bring together the random grum-blings you hear on campus.”

Remarks that get a lot of “up” vote will get a green light by the commit-tee to make those changes.

Nelson made remarks at the meet-ing, announcing that prior to the Bowdoin vs. Colby hockey game next Saturday, BSG will be hosting an event in Farley Field House at 7 p.m. with music and food.

She hopes that it will be a “cool, new way for us to approach get-ting people to an athletic event for the beginning [of the game] and a fun event for the student body as a whole.”

Nelson put in a 6 nal word about the bias incident and the programs that are already in place, noting “it is important that we take ownership of our community values and be thoughtful about what we want our community on campus to look like. Everyone should take the time to at least go to one of these events.”

MCLELLANCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

“7 e risk they see is that borrow-ing puts a small amount of pressure on the budget for the next ten years or so,” said Pols.

7 e Town acquired the building, lo-cated at 85 Union Street, on December 22, 2011. In exchange, Bowdoin re-ceived Longfellow Elementary School. 7 e school was turned into the Edwards Center for Art and Dance this summer.

Meanwhile, Bowdoin is prepar-ing to move its employees from the 6 rst and second ; oors of the former

McLellan Building in December. 7 at move was scheduled for spring 2014, but the town’s construction moved faster than expected, said Senior Vice President for Finance and Adminis-tration & Treasurer Katy Longley.

Currently, those two ; oors house the Controller’s O8 ce, O8 ce of Commu-nications, O8 ce of Human Resources, and the Interactive Media Group.

As part of the agreement with the town of Brunswick, the College can use the third ; oor for ten years a: er the sale. 7 e O8 ce of Communications and the Interactive Media Group will move to the third ; oor, while other o8 ces will move elsewhere, according to Longley.

CORRECTIONIn “Extension of Credit/D/Fail deadline up for debate” (November 8), the article originally stated that the Recording

Committee was working with BSG on a proposal; the online version has been updated to show that BSG has this proposal and the Committee is open to consideration of the policy but is not yet doing so.

" e Orient strives to be accurate in all of its reporting. If you believe a correction or clari# cation is needed, please email the editors at orient@bowdoin.edu.

FEATURES !"# $%&'%() %*(#)! 5+*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304

BY WOODY WINMILLORIENT STAFF

Course blends interface of digital world with humanities

“Computers are changing the world in many di5 erent ways—what they can do, how they connect people together, how we do research, how we commu-nicate,” he said. “Every aspect of soci-ety, every aspect of academia, is being impacted in some way. 6 e Digital and Computational Studies Initiative is a response to that and the idea that Bowdoin, as a responsible academic institution, should be teaching the stu5 not just to computer scientists but to people across the curriculum.”

6 e class teaches text analysis, im-age analysis and geographic infor-mation systems (GIS) mapping, and aims to examine “methods, tools, and projects in the Digital Humanities”

before teaching students how to use these tools in their culminating self-designed projects.

Michael Yang ’14, a government ma-jor with a concentration in political the-ory and who is in the course, originally hadn’t considered taking these types of classes at Bowdoin.

“I was interested in computer science but hadn’t taken any classes,” he said. “Because I thought it’s a practical skill, I can just go out and learn it, [so] why do I need to be at Bowdoin to learn it?”

And though he had heard of the dig-ital initiative, he didn’t realize it would even be an option while he was here.

“I thought it was happening years down the road,” he said.

Classmate Dana Hopkins ’14 is in-volved in the technical side of many theatrical productions at Bowdoin and she has brought her enthusiasm for the arts to the class—especially to the 7 nal project she is collaborating on with Ian Lee ’13.

“We’re looking at the history of the arts at Bowdoin and how to create—hopefully—a website in the end that mixes di5 erent histories of the arts at Bowdoin. Both the spatial—the ex-pansion and then contraction of actual physical spaces for art—but also the ad-ministrative view of it with the courses and curricula o5 ered and faculty and student perspectives,” Lee said.

“We’re looking at di5 erent ways to

A new course o5 ered this semester, Gateway to the Digital Humanities, is the College’s 7 rst foray into the inter-disciplinary Digital and Computational Studies Initiative (DCSI). Taught by Eric Chown and Pamela Fletcher, the heads of the computer science and art history departments respectively, the class was developed as a way to intro-duce humanitites students to the big data and computation that are becom-ing more prevalent every day.

Chown and Fletcher are the DCSI’s co-directors, while Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Program and Lecturer in Mathematics Eric Gaze, New Media and Data Visualization Specialist Jack Gieseking, and Post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities Crystal Hall will teach DCSI courses next semester.

According to Gateway’s syllabus, the course “will explore the possibilities, limitations, and implications of using computation to study the humanities. What sorts of questions can be asked and answered using computational methods? How do these methods complement and sometimes challenge traditional methodologies in the hu-manities? What are the primary tools and methods currently being used in the digital humanities?”

Chown said he is excited to see these new crossover o5 erings at the College.

Tavernello Pinot Grigio: getting what you pay for

Trevor comes home from school.“How was school?”“Okay. We had a test.”Trevor got a C. You look across the

table at Richard and wipe the speck of onion from the meatloaf o5 your upper lip. “How was work?”

“Okay. I didn’t get the promotion.”Later, you sit in your chair and try

to sort out the lump in the upholstery with your lower back. “Seinfeld” is on again. 6 at episode where they see who can go the longest without masturbat-ing. You’ve seen it, but it still makes you laugh. A little. Your husband asleep on the couch, you walk across the linoleum into your kitchen and open a bottle of Tavernello Pinot Grigio. Perfect.

Tavernello gives you the feeling that everything is just okay.

Tavernello inspires neither enthusi-asm nor criticism. Crisp and refreshing characteristics are found here, as well as the sense of unbearable mediocrity that sets in on Tuesday nights. (We’re hump day kind of guys.)

6 e pinot gris grape originated in the Burgundy region as a mutant clone of the Pinot Noir grape, which you might recognize from our previous column or the movie “Sideways.” (Besides Wikipe-dia and simply lying, “Sideways” is our primary source for this column). While pinot gris encompasses clones of the

grape grown around the world, only wines produced from clones grown in Italy earn the title of pinot grigio.

Many types of wine are made from pinot gris, varying in color from pink to orange. Most wines have some fruity characteristics and acidity, depending on the region and style. Pinot grigios in particular are bright and high in acid.

6 e Tavernello pours a pale yellow with a clean, pear-apple nose. It is light and refreshing, with some mild fruit 8 avors. Because of the lacking presence of tannins, an acidic body cuts through the slightly watery mouthfeel.

6 at said, the pinot is incredibly easy to drink. 6 ere are no standout 8 aws with it; it just does not stand out. It is average, and I hope it thinks of us some-day when it lives in the Connecticut suburbs with 2.1 children and 1.6 cars.

6 e two of us endorse the following as perfectly mediocre: Tavernello pinot grigio delle venezie, “Shrek 2,” Bowdoin co5 ee, Toyota Previa, Colby College and Connecticut.

Additional notes:

Ryan: We had a really great “pairs well with” but the Orient wouldn’t let us use it.

Dan: It was really clever and possibly o5 ensive.

Ryan: De7 nitely o5 ensive. De7 nitely the right call.

Nose:Body:Mouthfeel:Taste:

Pair with quiet desperation. $4.79 at Morning Glory Natural Foods.

DAN LIPKOWITZ AND RYAN PEABODY

BOTTOM OF THE

BARREL

create an immersive experience online,” said Hopkins. Other projects, she said, include a history of co5 ee, poetry analy-sis and work with colors.

Next semester will feature two new DCSI courses. Data Driven Societ-ies—taught by Gaze and Gieseking —will evaluate the value of computers in studying economics, politics and society. 6 e Rhetoric of Big Data: Co-pernicus to Climate Change—taught by Hall—will set parameters for how big data can reshape worldviews.

A9 er Round One of course reg-istration on Polaris closed yesterday evening, Data Driven Societies had 23 pending registration requests and 6 e Rhetoric of Big Data had 7 ve.

Until recently, I had not been one for exercise. I had not been one for any form of movement, really. There was little I enjoyed more than sitting around doing absolutely nothing. In fact, there is still noth-ing I enjoy more than doing noth-ing. However, I now force myself over to the Buck Center six out of seven evenings to, as the kids say, “Lift, bro.”

To be honest, lifting is not actu-ally a part of my routine. I just said that because I wanted to be cool, and I should be ashamed of myself. Nonetheless, it is true that I have incorporated going to the gym into my daily routine.

Some days ago it came to me in a dream that I should get in shape. In the dream I saw someone with a wonder-fully ripped torso and ex-cellent calves standing in front of a mirror. Even in the dream I knew that person was certainly not me, but I couldn’t help wishing he was. The little green monster of envy began to get to me.

I thought about how the person in the mirror probably does not run out of breath climbing to the third floor of his dorm or putting on his shoes. I thought about how the phrase “shirts v. skins” has never caused him anxiety.

After a few more thoughts passed through my head I awoke. I sat up in bed determined to turn

Jogging my way out of social obscurity

MARCUS WRIGHT

WRIGHTLY SOmyself into the next Mr. Universe. Then I immediately lay back down and gave some serious thought to the issue.

While it was true that I ate most-ly healthy foods (though eating heaps and heaps of healthy food in a single sitting was probably not the best thing to do), it was also true that I did not exercise and t h a t I had only myself to blame for my lack of stun-ning abs and calves.

During the last few weeks of my sum-mer, it was rare that I

ever le9 my room. What reason was there? I had a mini-fridge, a laptop, and my glorious, glorious bed. I had no need for the outside world and its sun, bugs, grass, fresh air, trees and…weather. Jogs around the neighborhood or visits to the gym seemed like preposterous undertak-ings. I was content with the dete-rioration of my physical state result-ing from copious amounts of sleep, food and general motionlessness.

Coming to college elicited no

change from me at first. I still chose not to move very much. The most strenuous physical activities I had performed were two 4 a.m. Frosty’s runs prior to the begin-ning of classes. I was certainly no exemplar of health.

But as I lay in bed thinking about my lazy self, I proceeded to question whether or not it was necessary for me to be ripped be-yond belief to be healthy and satis-fied. I came to the conclusion that it was not.

All I really wanted was to not be such an indolent

individual and to take a little better care of the body that has support-ed me for some 18 odd (very odd) years.

I decid-ed that a

3 0 - m i nute jog on the t r e a d m i l l

most days of the week and

scaling back on my food

c o n s u m p t i o n would be small but bene7 cial steps toward improvement.

I must admit that I am still haunt-ed by the torso in my dreams. For that reason, if you are ever to wan-der into Buck Center late in the eve-ning you will see the very pathetic sight of a fellow squirming about in mild agony under the guise of doing crunches, attempting to rid himself of the sad little pouch around his belly button that has too long been a 7 tting metaphor for him.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CODING COMPUTER LITERACY: Dana Hopkins ’14 and Michael Yang ’14 work on their fi nal projects about the history of art at Bowdoin in Gateway to the Digital Humanities’ lab component.HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

6 !"#$%&"' !&()#*, +,-"./"& 01, 2304 $5" /,6),(+ ,&("+$

TALK OF THE QUADWHERE THERE’S A WIL of normal people living everyday life.

He was frequently in places he did not speak the language of, but he commu-nicated with charades or napkin-draw-ings. He says he “learned from the com-mon people that most people in this world just want to go about their busi-ness, they’re not concerned with these issues that the government is waging wars about.”

When I spoke with him, he was reti-cent about his war stories and careful not to sensationalize his experiences in the Navy, evincing the humility and tendency to emphasize his role as al-ways one piece of a collaboration, rather than take credit or attention for himself. He consented to tell me one story about the time he was sure he would get shot down 7 ying a special operations mis-sion over Turkey.

“I guess the Turkish government didn’t know we were there and they sent planes up and I was looking out the window and I was looking at these jet planes with these missiles ready to 8 re and somebody yelling in the head-phones. I thought we were goners. And then within seconds they were gone, and I caught my breath again.”

When he was not deployed, Wil was based at the Naval Air Station in Bruns-wick, which ultimately connected him to the College. He had played baseball, basketball and football in high school and in his o9 -hours, he coached foot-ball and basketball at the Brunswick Junior High School. (Men’s soccer Coach Scott Wiercinski was one of the students he coached in basketball.s) Some parents were initially skeptical of him, but his dedication to the kids on the team quickly won them over. It was here that he met Tim Gilbride, the Bowdoin men’s basketball coach, who would eventually convince Wil to apply to Bowdoin and to play on the basket-ball team.

: e transition from life in the Navy to life as a student at Bowdoin had a steep learning curve for Wil. He was one of three African-American stu-dents in the class of 2000.

He hadn’t told anyone at Bowdoin much about his situation. He was living o9 -campus and took Olivia with him everywhere because he couldn’t a9 ord daycare. Having missed Orientation,

A BATHROOM PITCH

Wil Smith ’00 came very close to missing the 8 rst day of classes the fall of his 8 rst year at Bowdoin. At the end of August in 1996, he happened to be driving past campus and wondered when the semester was starting. He’d been accepted to the College the pre-vious spring, but no longer lived at the address Bowdoin had on 8 le from his application and had not received any preparatory material. So he was sur-prised when the deans informed him that classes began the next day.

He scrambled to make up for the time he’d lost in missing Orientation and began the semester with the rest of the student body that week. At 26-years-old, Wil was nearly a decade older than many of his new peers. When he showed up for his classes he brought an unannounced plus-one that caught his professors o9 -guard: his 16-month-old daughter, Olivia, who he was raising as a single father.

Professor Roy Partridge taught Wil’s First Year Seminar, “Racism.” He hid his surprise when Olivia and Wil came to class.

“I’d never had this experience before in my life,” he said. “I’d been teaching 15-20 years.”

Bowdoin in many ways was a whole new world for Wil, although one he would remain embedded in long a; er graduation. He grew up in Jacksonville, Fla., the youngest of 10 children. His mother died of cancer when he was 15.

Before Bowdoin, Wil spent seven years as an aviation electronics techni-cian, specializing in land-based anti-submarine aircra; in the Navy. He en-listed three years a; er he 8 nished high school and served in the 8 rst Gulf War. He was deployed to all corners of the globe: Sicily, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, Ice-land, Greenland, Panama, Puerto Rico and Argentina.

Growing up he had loved to read and learn about di9 erent places and people, and travel was one of the aspects he most enjoyed about the Navy. While deployed overseas, he made extra e9 ort to immerse himself in the places he was stationed, o; en venturing to areas the Navy had told him not to go in search

: ere is a Spartan feel to the men’s restroom in Smith Union. It has three reddish-brown stalls, three sinks and two urinals. : e 7 oor is an industrial sort of teal and remarkably clean for one of the most heavily tra< cked bath-rooms on campus. : e walls are almost bare—unadorned except for the sheet of paper hanging above the le; most uri-nal, advertising Sustainable Bowdoin’s strategies for being green.

Last time I used one of those urinals, I was reading that piece of paper for what felt like the third or fourth time. : e poster boards in other parts of Smith are a veritable orgy of ever-changing color.

: ey advertise poetry readings and

lectures, parties and candidates for student government. Yet despite this 7 ashiness, these posters are rarely read.

When people walk down the halls of Smith Union, they are al-most always headed somewhere. : ey do not have time to stop and peruse advertisements, or if they do, they choose not to look.

But on at least three sepa-rate occasions, I have read the same tips on how to recycle.

I am a senior this year, and I re-cently had my 8 rst meeting with the

Career Plan-ning Center. It went very well. I spoke with a lovely

woman named Sherry Mason about my future, and told her that I had always wanted to

be a corporate lawyer. And she began to tell me about several alumni who had realized my dream, including our Presi-

dent, Barry Mills. In three years, I had not

managed to discover that President Mills had been a corporate lawyer, and at that moment I realized something very impor-tant. : ough I knew, and have always known, that Bowdoin has an extensive and varied alumni net-work, I didn’t know any-

thing about it. And I began to wonder,

what would be the best way to bring information about alumni to Bowdoin students?

Where

can we post information about our distinguished alumni, such that it will be impossible to ignore, such that everyone who passes will take the time to read, and not only to read, but to absorb?

: e answer, of course, is in our cam-pus’ public restrooms.

Imagine if every stall and every urinal on Bowdoin’s campus contained a brief biography of a di9 erent Bowdoin alum-nus. Alums from all over the map—in both a geographic and career sense—could tell us how they came to be doing what it is that they do.

And students would really read them because they would have little choice.

Maybe, they would 8 nd some of the bios fascinating or motivating, prompt-ing thoughts about their own futures in a serious and thoughtful way.

Perhaps some of the featured alum-ni would provide phone numbers or email addresses so interested students could contact them and begin

having productive conversations about the world outside the Bowdoin bubble.

: ese pro8 les could help students to set goals for themselves—to imag-ine their lives a; er Bowdoin and strive con8 dently toward them, secure in the knowledge that they have a powerful support group to fall back on.

I believe that a program such as this could change the way students think about life a; er college.

I also believe that many alumni would 8 nd this to be a refreshing and fun way to connect with the Bowdoin student body.

: e bene8 ts of such alumni biogra-phies are potentially vast and there is no better real estate for them then the Col-lege’s under-utilized bathroom walls.

And only slightly less impor-tant, it would give me some-thing to read while I pee.

-Josh Burger-Caplan, Class of 2014.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

he didn’t know about how to sign up for a meal plan, or that he didn’t have to buy all his books but could read them on reserve in the library. In the Navy he had learned how to tinker with the hardware of computers but had never used word processing. He hadn’t been in a formal classroom since high school and did not feel his high school had prepared him for the rigors of Bowdoin:

“I had never been asked to write a critical paper, where I had to show, create a strong thesis and support it with evidence from the text.”

Wil struggled. He failed a Latin American history class with Profes-sor Allen Wells because he wasn’t able to buy all the books; Dean Tim Foster was the Dean of First Year Students at the time and Wil was the 8 rst student he met with on the job. Foster recalls that Wil lost nearly 20 pounds and he vo-calized anger at “the manifestation of a very unfair and unjust education system in the U.S. playing itself out at Bowdoin co-starring [himself].”

His classes introduced him to material and modes of thinking he had never encountered in high school. In the divides between his classmates and himself, he saw the dis-parities between most Bowdoin students—whose high school education had pre-pared them to be leaders—and the people from his com-munity who he felt had been prepared, “at best, to be managers at McDonalds.”

“We never talked about the grand theories of social structure,” he recalled. “Where I came from we talked about racism as a practical entity which we were experiencing, but never studied it in a sociological or economic frame-work. To hear that some of these kids came understanding the frameworks, was in many ways maddening to me, because this was the 8 rst time as a 27-year-old, who had been in a war and travelled around the world, had ever heard these concepts. And it made me feel like I was never meant to under-stand them.”

His di< culties did not go unnoticed. : at 8 rst fall Professor Partridge went to the dean’s o< ce to ask what kind of support they could give Wil. Foster told me that the College was prepared to do nontraditional things to help a nontra-ditional student succeed.

Betty Trout-Kelly, the assistant to the president for multicultural a9 airs

and a< rmative action, reached out. She said she didn’t know what Wil was dealing with, but that Bowdoin would not

let him go through it alone. Af-

ter telling his story, the ad-m i n i s t r a -tion quickly marshaled resources for Wil. : ey got him an apartment in Brunswick Apartments and a meal plan. An

people he trusted with Olivia and re-main some of his closest friends.

He remembered a turning point in an Econ 102 lecture where the profes-sor was talking about the boom of the Reagan years and the bene8 ts of sup-ply-side economics. He saw the other students nodding in agreement but felt that growing up had shown him that the things at the top never quite trickle all the way down.

“In my community, it was none of the rosy stu9 that this guy was describing. It was rampant unemployment, crack co-caine, the beginning of the war against drugs, the war against black men,” he remembered. He started building rela-tionships with other students too, who were interested in hearing and learning more about his experiences.

He got involved with a group of stu-dents on campus who “challenged the school to change the composition of the school, the demographics of the school, and it wasn’t just the students of color at the time, it was a lot of the majority stu-dents as well. : ey wanted people from backgrounds who were not like theirs to enhance their education.”

When Wil graduated in 2000, he ascended the museum steps carrying Olivia. : e two of them received his degree in Sociology and Economics and a standing ovation from the crowd. As a senior, he was the captain of the basketball team and received the athlet-ics award for outstanding commitment to community service, an award which was later renamed in his honor. A; er graduation he stayed at Bowdoin, in the Dean of Student A9 airs o< ce, working to continue the diversity initiatives he had begun as a student.

A; er several years, Wil le; Bowdoin and got his law degree at the Univer-sity of Maine, although soon a; er his graduation, Foster and several other administrators took him out for dinner and implored him to return to Bowdoin as the associate dean of multicultural a9 airs, a position they had created for Wil. Wil returned to the College dedi-cated to changing Bowdoin from—in his words—an institution for smart, East Coast kids that didn’t get into the Ivies to a place for dedicated students from high schools across the country.

-Eliza Novick-Smith, Class of 2014.

alum donated $25,000 to cover child care expenses for Olivia.

: e more time he spent with stu-dents at Bowdoin, the more he began to think di9 erently about being a student here. Basketball season started and the team immediately embraced Wil.

“I got to know my friends on the team, those guys were really good to me, and some of my babysitters for Ol-ivia. : ey were good people. And it was hard for me to reconcile my disdain for a group of people when they were treat-ing me so kindly.”

His teammates, Coach Gilbride and his wife, Lisa, were among the 8 rst

!"# $%&'%() %*(#)! 7+*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Please see INTERNET, page 9

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT LIVE AUDIENCE: Steve Roggenbuck performed in a packed Ladd House last Saturday night, a change from the outdoorsy settings of his YouTube videos.

LIVE MY LIEF: Manipulating Internet culture with optimism

Many of us have thought at one time, “My professor is wrong.” And some of us have felt the urge to abandon college and pursue some-thing we are more passionate about. But few of us ever act on these mo-ments. Steve Roggenbuck, a rising poet best known for his viral You-Tube videos, did exactly that.

After completing a degree in English at Central Michigan Uni-versity, Roggenbuck began courses at Columbia College Chicago for his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Poetry. However, when his profes-sors discouraged his more playful poetry—inspired by beat writers and Walt Whitman—he eventually dropped out.

“I was interested in doing this funny poetry that was based off the Internet,” said Roggenbuck. “I do misspellings in my work, sort of similar to how LOLCats have the misspellings. But my teachers didn’t really appreciate the value of that very much, and they discour-aged me from it. I needed to be able to follow what I was interested in and they were trying to push me in a different direction.”

Roggenbuck’s poetry is driven by irony, improvisation, positive messages and an engagement with our generation’s Internet culture. There is no strict boundary of what is and is not poetry for him.

“The thing is, people who say that I’m not a poet—I don’t have any strong argument against that,” he said. “If you look at the actual history of poetry, there are people

BY CAITLIN WHALENORIENT STAFF

who have made poetry that is just visual or just audio. There’s been video poetry. There have been po-ems as short as just a couple words. There’s so much that’s been done that you literally can’t say that something is or isn’t poetry based on that precedent anymore.”

He expressed his desire to contin-ue in the sport of his more traditional poetic predecessors.

“I want to remind people about carpe diem. And I want to remind people about love and appreciat-ing their life while they’re alive and just playing with language,” he said. “So I still feel like I’m do-ing what poets have done all those years even if it comes out in a very different form.”

Since dropping out of the MFA program last year, Roggenbuck has spent most of his time couch-surf-ing—most recently in Brunswick—

so that he could focus on blogging and writing as much as possible. And it has paid off—literally.

tour again. He now has plans to permanently reside in the area.

“I like Bowdoin and Brunswick a lot,” Roggenbuck said. “I like the library. I like the woods. And hopefully, I’ll have an apartment here soon if everything works out.”

As a 26-year-old rising Internet-star, Roggenbuck currently has 14,825 followers on Twitter. He has posted nearly 150 YouTube videos and his most popular video, “make something beautiful before you are dead,” has received approximately 105,350 views. He was recently in-terviewed by Gawker as well.

Beyond just entertaining his viewers, audiences and readers, Roggenbuck also strives to deliver positive and motivational messages through his work.

“I’m experiencing something now that a lot of people experi-ence, I think, when they get more

success or more popularity—more people looking at what they’re do-ing,” he said. “You start to feel a responsibility to make sure that you’re spreading a good message. So this year I especially have made sure that I’m spreading a positive message as I see it. And that has meant being a little more vocal about some activist causes that I believe in and just trying to focus on what’s going to help people.”

His poetic style that has gained so much renown is an amalgam of comedic commentaries and serious messages through social media. For example, one of his personal web-sites is entitled LIVE MY LIEF. Ac-cording to Roggenbuck, this very phrase epitomizes his intentional blend of messages, as he truly wants his followers to live actively, but he

Spears and Jesus: The comeback kids

At 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, I’m sitting in Moulton, discussing Britney Spears and Jesus. More speci5 cally their col-lective comeback. I asked my dinner companion: What does Britney rep-resent in 2013? What does the album title Britney Jean really mean? Is it an oblique reference to that time she and Justin Timberlake wore matching jean suits? Or is it because her middle name is Jean? Is it socially acceptable to purchase Britney’s 13th fragrance? Was it acceptable to purchase her 12th and 11th?

6 en we started talking about Je-sus. 6 ere’s a new musical out titled “SPEARS: 6 e Gospel According to Britney.” Patrick Blute, the creator, claimed in a Fox News article that this will be “the greatest story ever told to the greatest music ever writ-ten.” Blute—a Columbia grad—is careful to say that the show is not meant to be rude. He assures us that the musical, “tells an essential story

using fragments of pop culture in a non-o7 ensive way.” Blute says the piece is meant to reconcile “the anxi-ety 20-somethings feel about living in a society that has thousands of state-ments and not much substance.”

6 e musical played to this key audi-ence when it opened at Columbia be-fore moving into New York City.

We went on to wonder how one can tell Jesus’s story ino7 ensively. We decide we will assign our own choice Britney songs to Jesus’s story: “Hit Me Baby One More Time” for the 8 og-ging, “Toxic” for when Jesus meets

Mary Magdalene, “Work, Bitch” for the carpentry backstory, and so on. I asked my friend if this material is too religiously insensitive for an Ori-ent column, and she said it would be better suited for a drinking game. I thought wow—for Snark Week or Sat-urday night, that’s the question.

6 is conversation stayed with me. I spend the remainder of the evening knitting and listening to the music of the ’90s (side note: who knew that En-rique Iglesias was a thing in 1999? A

SNARK WEEK

ALLY GLASS-KATZ

Public curates two-hour Pop-Up Museum exhibit

It’s not everyday one finds a pro-gram for a 1970 Red Sox game, a record of sheep sacrifices from 1900 B.C. and an armadillo sewing basket sitting side-by-side. But at-tendees of Tuesday night’s Pop-Up Museum were privy to just that.

A Pop-Up Museum is essential-ly a temporary exhibit created by whoever shows up to participate. People arrive with an object in hand and put it on display to share with the public.

The Pop-Up Museum, held in Hubbard Hall, was an idea formu-lated by Susan Kaplan, professor of sociology and anthropology and director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Stud-ies Center. Inspired by her “Who Owns The Past” course, Kaplan decided to take a stab at creating Bowdoin’s first Pop-Up Museum.

“All objects have a story,” explained Kaplan. “Quite o9 en, [museum pieces]

BY OLIVIA ATWOODORIENT STAFF

are objects that were quite ordinary when they were made and then be-cause of their history, they become ex-traordinary. Objects have life histories.”

Tuesday’s turnout proved that the Bowdoin and Brunswick communi-ties are a welcome audience to these eclectic objects. With more than 80 patrons and nearly 100 objects dis-played across nine tables, the scene in Hubbard Hall was bustling. Dining Services catered the event with foods that contained the word ‘pop,’ like popcorn, cake-pops and Pop Rocks.

While some of the people who brought objects to the showing chose

Please see POP-UP, page 8

Dining Services catered theevent with foods that contained

the word ‘pop,’ like popcorn,cake-pops and Pop Rocks.

Please see SPEARS, page 8

“There’s so much that’sbeen done that you literallycan’t say that something is

or isn’t poetry based onthat precendent anymore.”

STEVE ROGGENBUCK

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“This past year is when I really built a foundation for myself with poetry sort of as a career,” he said. “And this year I’ve even been able to live off of it a little more.”

This fall he would spend a week on tour doing readings at various universities, and then a week here in town before heading back on

Steve Roggenbuck, a 26-year-old rising Internet bard with nearly 15,000 Twitter followers, shared his work on campus last week.

8 !"# $%&'!(, )*+#,-#% ./, 01.234# -*5'*&) *%&#)3

Westrio, a band of sophomore students, fi nds groove in second year

“Kooky and honest” is how Nick Walker ’16 describes the band Westrio that he and fellow sopho-mores James Sullivan and Jacob El-lis formed last year after perform-ing together at a cross-country talent show.

“Weird, definitely weird,” said Sullivan.

“I would say that we’re energetic,” Ellis added.

Bowdoin’s Westrio is a folksy acoustic trio, with Walker on gui-tar and vocals, Sullivan on bass and Ellis on the banjo. Sullivan said that their style, “started as much more folk pop and folk rock and [has been] digressing to more standard folk songs—a little bit more bluegrassy.”

Although the band has only been playing together for a year, it’s changed enormously since its first show.

“I remember the first time we played we were so bad, but we got the biggest rush after we played,” Walker said. “We were just not re-ally fluid at all…we just kind of learned to start listening to each other more.”

BY JODI KRAUSHARORIENT STAFF

Over the past year they have learned how to work together and developed a music style that they all feel more passionate and con6 dent about.

“It was really easy [at the begin-ning] to put together a song that everyone loves to play, but maybe without as much talent as is needed to play other songs and have fun,” El-lis said. “As we’ve gotten better as in-dividuals and better as a group, we’re able to play more mellow songs.”

Westrio has even begun to ex-periment with songwriting. So far, they have worked on about five original songs.

“I didn’t really know how you brought the lyrics and the song to-gether,” said Walker, but he has since

learned that “if you have some image that you want to tell, you bring that out in the mood of the song.”

Ellis looks forward to incorporat-ing more songwriting into the band’s future. “Every time we write a new song, I think [it] is our best one yet,” he said.

Westrio is still in the process of 6 guring out where they 6 t in the Bowdoin music scene.

“We definitely don’t fit into the two guitar, one bass, one drummer mold,” Ellis said. “We struggle a little bit trying to find what ven-ues and what types of shows fit our sound best. And then on the flip side, [we struggle with] how we can make our sound more full. Having an acoustic trio is really

On Thursday, Brunswick’s Fron-tier Café held a concert featuring compositions by students from Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and the University of Southern Maine.

7 is was the twel8 h such perfor-mance since the concert series began two years ago.

Bowdoin student Aleph Cervo ’14 was approached by Vineet Shende, associate professor of music and chair of the music department, who

BY MICHELLE HONGORIENT STAFF

asked Cervo to assemble a group to perform an original piece.

Cervo chose a composition he had written for a previous competition called “In 7 ree.”

“I was trying to expand my har-monic language a little bit. I wanted to write something that was accessible to a lay audience—someone who wasn’t musically endowed,” said Cervo. “But at the same time, I was trying to emu-late classical music while making the harmonic language my own.”

7 e title of the composition alludes to his theme.

Students exhibit compositions at Frontierto leave them the table with a label, other folks stayed close to their items—whether they were soap stone carvings, pony 6 gurines or vintage purses—with hopes of sharing the object’s story with others.

The pieces on display ranged from personal creations to pre-served entities. Norm Rosenbaum of Brunswick stood close by his ob-ject, a sculpture he calls Polar Mom that he carved in New Mexico in 1994. The item holds significance for him because he was once told that a “bear is your totem, your guiding figure.”

Peter Nardozzi, also of Bruns-wick, displayed an autographed program of a 1970 Red Sox game he attended.

“I paid $3.75 for a ticket...which I thought was a little high,” Nardozzi said.

Everyone at the museum was ea-ger to share the story behind what-ever they had brought to the table.

Nancy Desjardins of Brunswick brought an armadillo sewing basket that belonged to her mother.

“She did customized sewing for a certain clientele,” explained Des-jardins. “Her clientele involved Bowdoin professors’ wives. It was all customized sewing.”

“A boy gave her [the armadillo sewing basket] as a gift on their first date,” she added. “She was afraid of him because of his piercing eyes and didn’t go on a second date...but she got the basket.”

Harriet Lindemann and Judith Long of Brunswick explained that they had no expectations for the Pop-Up Museum, but were pleas-antly surprised by the amount of

“odd” objects displayed, and the wild stories behind them.

“It is such a clever idea,” noted Lindemann. “I think it really struck a chord.”

Cynthia Shelmerdine of Bruns-wick stood by what Lindemann and Long named the most interesting item at the museum: a cuneiform tablet from 1900 B.C. that depicted sheep sacrifices.

“My grandmother found it amongst [my grandfather’s] things and she called me and she said ‘I don’t know what this is but it’s old and you like old things, so why don’t you have it,’” explained Shelmer-dine. “I was a freshman in college and I went on to become a Classics professor. [We’ve] conserved this [tablet] and made it safe, stabilized it, and published it, and that’s why I know what it says.”

The Pop-Up Museum gives view-ers the ability to come in close con-tact with items that might normally be put behind glass, Shelmerdine explained.

“I haven’t given this to a museum yet, though eventually it will end up there,” said Shelmerdine. “I like to be able to hand it to students and say, here. This is from 1900 B.C. This is real.”

Kermit Smyth of Brunswick brought with him three displays of animal bottle caps from his collec-tion of approximately 2,000-2,500 caps.

“My daughter and I started col-lecting them 30 years ago,” Smyth explained. “The animals are our favorite subset.

Smyth thought the Pop-Up Muse-um was a huge success and expects increased attendance.

“I think if [Kaplan] does it again next year she’ll have 500 people in here and we won’t be able to walk around. It’s great fun,” Smyth said.

Alongside items brought by Brunswick residents were trinkets belonging to Bowdoin students, and throughout the room students struck up conversations with folks from around town, uncovering the mysteries that lay behind objects as simple as a solitary marble.

“People collect the most amazing things,” Kaplan said.

cool, but it definitely lacks some power.”

Walker concurred that the band is de6 nitely “less punchy” and “folk music is less get up and dance mu-sic.” Ellis added: “we’re de6 nitely a little o9 -center from the music scene [at Bowdoin].”

7 e three have all found that be-ing a part of Westrio has had a huge impact on their Bowdoin experi-ence. Walker said that joining the band “totally changed things for me at Bowdoin.”

Sullivan, who had been unable to run on the track team due to injuries since he arrived last year, said that Westrio is one of his main commit-ments on campus.

experience I had. It was the first strong connection I made with anyone or anything here.”

Ellis mentioned he has “become much closer friends playing music with [Walker and Sullivan]. Having a common goal brings you together in a way that you wouldn’t get just hanging out.”

For Walker and Ellis, the expe-rience of being in a band is com-pletely new. All three had come from musical backgrounds; how-ever, Westrio presents a unique op-portunity for all of them. Even for Sullivan, who had been involved in bands in high school, said that their band is “very different” be-cause it was “space-rock shoe-gaze genre.” Ellis only started playing the banjo last year, when the trio thought that it was a good addi-tion to the group. The idea to in-clude the instrument actually de-rived from their desire to perform a Mumford and Sons song at the cross-country talent show.

7 e band has come a long way since then, and is constantly experi-menting and trying to improve itself.

“I think we have good energy,” Walker said. “We may not be the rowdiest band out there, but we have a pretty fun time.”

POP-UPCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

true millennial). I realize that Britney has not only made waves in the drink-ing game, fragrance producing, child rearing, and theater making worlds—she has also signi6 cantly improved the security of our sailors abroad.

Merchant Navy O: cer Rachel Owens was recently quoted in an NBC article that sailors have been using Britney Spears songs to ward o9 Somali pirates. I am pleased by this; particularly, the mental image

SPEARSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

“It’s a four and a half minute piece but within there you have three main sections. It’s for a trio—piano, cello and violin. The time signature is in three-four time. Es-pecially the first section you feel is a waltz,” he said.

Cervo plays vibraphone, mallet percussion and piano. 7 e trio now consists of Dan Lesser ’14 on cello, Yo-won Yoon ’14 on piano and Nickolas Telenson ’14 on violin.

“It’s cool playing a piece a fellow student has written and be able to rehearse it with him there and talk about why he did certain things the way he did and what e9 ect he’s going for,” said Lesser.

7 e fact that Cervo is not a string player has made the musicians’ in-put particularly important to the overall performance.

“It’s been a learning experience for him, too. He’s not a string player, so some of the parts he’s written we have suggestions on, things he might change,” said Lesser. “It’s been a cool back-and-forth experience.”

Playing o9 -campus has been an-other facet of the experience, as such opportunities aren’t frequent.

“Nick and I play gigs. We did a wedding a month or so ago. I play at some churches sometimes in the area,” said Lesser. “But it’s not often that I play a piece by a Maine composer, or someone I know personally.”

“We definitely don’t fit into the two guitar, one bass, one drummer mold. We struggle a little bit trying to find what venues and what types

of shows fit our sound best.”

JACOB ELLIS ’16

“Freshman year, you don’t re-ally know where to go, in terms of friends,” Sullivan said. “Westrio was the first stable, fun friend

of sailors on tankers blasting “Toxic.” According to Owens, “[Britney’s]

songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most…it’s so e9 ec-tive, the ship’s security rarely needs to resort to 6 ring guns.”

Perhaps, if Tom Hanks’s character in the recently-released blockbuster “Captain Phillips” had employed this strategy, the pirates would never have taken over his ship. Metro News re-ported that in 2011 alone there were 176 pirate attack on boats o9 the Cape of Africa. Britney is helping stop this. She is is saving lives. Britney: pirate de-

terrent; Britney: shepherd to the ; ock. As I sat in Moulton contemplating

Britney and Jesus, something clicked into place. Britney is here. She helps travelers cross pirate-infested waters. She helps confused 20-somethings understand the story of Jesus. Brit-ney is protective; she has a mother’s touch. Britney—like Jesus—is here to make religion, travel, and art more palatable. It was then I realized that that Britney Jean is nothing less than a hagiography; she is a saint. We are experiencing a second coming—a second coming of Britney Spears. It’s Britney, bitch.

JOANNA GROMADZKI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT IN TUNE: Perched on Frontier’s stage, Bowdoin students impressed with a student-written song.

EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT BRO-HEMIAN RHAPSODY: Sophomores Jacob Ellis, Nick Walker and James Sullivan jam together.

One of the greatest aspects of thePop-Up Museum is the ability

to come in close contactwith some item that might

normally be put behind glass.

!"# $%&'%() %*(#)!+*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304 ,5# 9

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Daniel Eloy’15

Daniel Eloy ’15 is the type of per-son who will tell you his opinion about pretty much anything. When he met me in Smith Union, he had just rushed from the art studio; half-wearing a scarf, he immedi-ately slumped into an armchair. His voice was barely audible over the rambunctious conversations in the Union, but his words had weight (and marked lack of pettiness) so I leaned in to catch everything.

Most recently, Eloy proposed and executed the much-discussed “We Stand With You” photo-installation in response to this fall’s bias inci-dents. His work involved taking and editing portraits of 544 students (for more on the project, turn to “We Stand With You” on page 3).

“I just wanted people to look at them and feel like there was a sense of community here even in the face of bias and hate,” said Eloy.

Eloy has always been involved in the arts, but didn’t take art classes until he came to Bowdoin. It was only this year that he seriously start-ed considering art as a major and ca-reer path. Eloy said art is all he does now, but this wasn’t always the case.

Eloy does not expect the aver-age viewer to understand the in-tricacies of his work, nor does he necessarily want them to.

“I like very intimate things—stu6 that I or people that are in the art piece would understand, as long as it’s still aesthetically pleas-ing to everyone else. I don’t want what I make to be distancing in any way from the audience, but I do like that there is a level that they won’t understand sometimes.”

But Eloy goes beyond these am-biguities for the viewer. He says he is o7 en inspired by politics—do-mestic and international—as well as literature.

Eloy is a aisual arts major and an English minor (maybe major, if he takes two more classes). He feels a close connection to these subjects, and is aware of a relationship between art and text.

“I like to read for fun. And so if a book strikes me, a lot of times I’ll highlight passages that I can imagine as pieces.”

What Eloy aims to accomplish in his visual art varies from piece to piece. But a long-term and essential goal is to impact the viewer in more than a passive way.

“I want whoever is passing to stop and look,” said Eloy. “If they’re walk-ing through a space where there’s a lot of art, I want them to stop at mine because they want to look at it or something intrigues them.”

Eloy also participates in the Slam Poets’ Society, and sees his work there as an extension of his art.

“Writing is important to me. Any-thing I can do to express myself pri-vately: journaling, writing poetry for Slam, and then reading. I really like to read.”

Eloy sees the world through an artist’s lens, literally.

“I carry my camera every-where I go. So if the opportu-nity arises, I’ll take a picture,” he said.

“And I doodle a lot. I don’t know if that’s art, but sometimes those lead to things that are more than doodles.”

BY EMILY WEYRAUCHORIENT STAFF

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

INTERNETCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

does not want them to take it too seriously—hence the misspelling.

“I really like building rap-port with comedy and then say-ing something serious. A lot of the times the people. who like my stuff, like youth and indie people, they don’t like mainstream moti-vational speakers at all,” he said. “They’re not very receptive to it usually. So I like to sort of repack-age it into the goofy humor, the In-ternet culture humor, to create that message as a new package.”

Beyond the comedic aspects of his poems, Roggenbuck also ac-tively engages with this generation’s meaning of the Internet. His You-Tube videos are filmed as if they

audiences during live performances, he thrives on the accessibility and speed of the Internet.

“I can tweet something and it reaches all these thousands of people in the middle of their day. Some-body might be in class or even on their lunch break going through their Twitter and they can see it,” he said.

In delivering his messages so playfully, Roggenbuck hopes to make a difference in people’s lives by reminding them to enjoy the little things.

“That’s a main dynamic of my work and a lot of the stuff I like that’s being made now,” said Roggenbuck. “It’s like it’s funny but it’s not just a joke. Or like it’s serious but that doesn’t mean it can’t be joking around. A lot of people would say that a poet can’t really help people much, but I feel like you can.”

were “selfies.” He appears to be fas-cinated with YOLO (a term coined by recording artist Drake which stands for ‘You Only Live Once’), and turns his poetry into image macros (photos overlaid with hu-morous text). He communicates with his audiences in the comment sections online, especially engaging insults and criticisms.

“I like to use these populist forms,” he said. “I want to reach lots of peo-ple and I want to embrace the forms of the people, so I like to use these forms that anybody can make, like an image macro is so simple to make.

“I like using selfies and tweets, and videos that are recorded like selfies and patched together with copyrighted music that I didn’t even get permission to use.”

And while Roggenbuck enjoys the direct connection he can make with

COURTESY OF JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER The Chain Gang of 1974 rocked the stage at WBOR’s fall concert last Friday, November 4 in Smith Union, along with pianist Hassan Muhammed ’10 and the Slam Poet Society.

SOUND WAVES

“I like very intimate things—stuff that I or people that are

in the art piece would understand, as long as it’s

still aesthetically pleasing to everyone else.”

DANIEL ELOY ’15

“When I was a 8 rst year and a sophomore, I didn’t want to be an art major and when I took art classes, I kind of half-assed them and didn’t put a lot of e6 ort in. I did what I needed to do to get the grade, honestly. Sometimes I hit gold and other times I didn’t,” he said.

He decided to major in visual arts over the summer, coming with a new attitude this semester.

“At this point I spend as much time on a piece as the piece needs until it’s done—whatever that is, however long that takes—some-times it’s all-nighters and sometimes it’s a few hours.”

Eloy just 8 nished his submis-sion for a competition in his Public Art class, where students designed artwork for space in front Fort Andross. 9 e submissions had a $30,000 budget.

“It was a lot of fun to get to think in such a huge scale,” he said.

He is currently working on a photo-etching book of portraits, a project he said he was inspired by speci8 c close-up images and memories of those people.

SPORTS10 !"# $%&'%() %*(#)! +*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304

didn’t panic, and they took the lead ex-actly four minutes later on a solo e5 ort by Adrienne O’Donnell ’15. Just her third goal of the year, O’Donnell got on the end of a through-ball, got around Keenan, and was able to earn enough space from a recovering Tu6 s defender to 7 nish o5 the move for the score.

Soon a6 er, Tu6 s evened the score for the second time that a6 ernoon, capi-talizing on another penalty corner to tie the game in the 56th minute. Only seven minutes later, the Polar Bears re-captured the lead—this time for good. Captain Katie Riley ’14 7 nished o5 a penalty corner to score her 15th goal of the season. To protect the lead, Kimmy Ganong ’17 scored for the 7 rst time since late September to close out the game for Bowdoin.

NCAA tournament awaits fi eld hockey

BY HALLIE BATESORIENT STAFF

8 is weekend the 7 eld hockey team will take the long bus ride down to New Jersey for its second-round NCAA D-III tournament game. 8 ough they received an at-large bid to the tourna-ment, the Polar Bears were still seeded high enough to receive a 7 rst-round bye, and tomorrow they will take on New Paltz State, which defeated Wil-liam Smith on Wednesday.

Bowdoin hopes to rebound from a tough loss in the NESCAC 7 nals to the national No. 3 Middlebury, af-ter defeating Tu6 s in the semi7 nals. Avenging a 1-0 loss to Tu6 s in the team’s 7 nal regular season game two weeks earlier, Bowdoin put together an impressive 4-2 victory against the Jumbos last Saturday.

8 e team started out strong, putting pressure on Tu6 s goalie Brianna Keen-an. A6 er forward Emily Simonton ’15 blasted two on-goal shots against Keen-an, Colleen Finnerty ’15 7 red a shot into the lower le6 corner, giving Bowdoin the lead 22 minutes into the game. 8 e assist went to Kelsey Mullaney ’16, her 7 rst of the season. 8 e Jumbos had one good chance to tie it up before the half ended, but goalie Hannah Gartner ’15 was able to make the save.

8 e second half featured far more excitement, especially a6 er Tu6 s scored to tie the game at 1-1. Gartner made the 7 rst save o5 a penalty corner, but a long rebound was slotted between defenders and into the net.

But the veteran Bowdoin squad

8 e women’s rugby team defeated the College of the Holy Cross in a de-cisive 54-7 victory last Saturday in the American College Rugby Association (ACRA) Round of 32.

Men’s soccer nearly upends No. 1 Amherst

BY JONO GRUBERORIENT STAFF

Head Coach MaryBeth Mathews said that that Saturday’s victory was a hard fought team e5 ort.

“It was a total team win,” said Mathews. “8 ey played very well and continue to play better each week. 8 at was terri7 c to come away with such a convincing win, and Holy Cross was a tough team. Despite the score, they played all 80 minutes. 8 ey never gave up. So our team had to 7 ght for every point that they scored.”

Emily Athanas-Linden ’15 said that Bowdoin played a strong, physical game.

“8 ere was some great tackling from both of our [senior] captains, Maura Al-len and Amanda Montenegro,” she said. “8 e tackling was crucial because there were a number of points where we were very much on the defensive—they had about 10 meters until the try line.”

seven aces. Leech had 48 assists and 25 digs, with Brennan adding 15 kills and Vail tallying 17 digs. Vail now holds the school record with the most career digs with 1,567. With the win, the Polar Bears advanced to their second NESCAC title game in the past three seasons.

Bowdoin and Williams faced o5 on Sunday to battle for the NESCAC Championship. Bowdoin could not match the 7 repower of the Williams o5 ense, and the Ephs claimed the title with set scores of 25-16, 25-15 and 25-19 to secure a convincing 3-0 win and walk away with their eighth conference trophy since 2000.

According to Emi Gaal ’15, the team made a few important mistakes that al-lowed Williams to come out on top.

“We could have done a better job of reading and anticipating the op-ponent’s next move,” said Gaal. “Our play was more reactionary and less assertive, which made it hard to 7 n-ish long rallies.”

Head Coach Karen Corey said she was proud of the e5 ort and passion the team played with over the weekend. She was especially impressed with Jewett.

“[Jewett] really shone in these match-es,” said Corey. “She took the team on her back and played wonderfully.”

Coach Corey also stressed how well the team did against elite competition.

“Williams is an exceptional team,” she said. “8 ey have 7 ve hitters on the court at all times, and we were outmatched. I give a lot of credit to the girls, but Wil-liams was a great opponent.”

Gaal echoed those sentiments.“We had a hard time adjusting to the

Volleyball falls to Williams in NESCAC Championship

BY LILY RAMINSTAFF WRITER

A6 er two straight come-from-be-hind, 7 ve-set wins to start the weekend, the women’s volleyball team walked away from the NESCAC Champion-ships last weekend as runner-up, win-ning its 7 rst two games against Trinity and Amherst before falling in the cham-pionship match to Williams. 8 e Polar Bears were not o5 ered an at-large bid to the D-III Championship, and they end their season with a 23-7 record.

Captain Taylor Vail ’14 was named the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year, and is the 7 rst Bowdoin player to receive this distinction. Vail, captain El-lie Brennan ’14 and Christy Jewett ’16, were recognized as a Second Team All-NESCAC selection.

In the quarter7 nal round of the tour-nament, the second-seeded Polar Bears emerged triumphant against Trinity af-ter 7 ve sets of play with scores of 25-15, 17-25, 19-25, 25-16 and 15-13. Jewett led Bowdoin with 18 kills and 17 digs, while Brennan added 11 kills. Vail had four aces and a match-high 20 digs. Quincy Leech ’17 and Sophia Cornew ’14 combined for 38 assists to secure the Bowdoin victory.

On Saturday, the team topped third-seeded Amherst 3-2, claiming the win by set scores of 25-22, 22-25, 15-25, 25-20 and 15-13. Jewett was again critical in the victory, posting 24 kills, 16 digs and

On Sunday, the women faced the tournament’s No. 4 seed, Middlebury, in the conference 7 nals. 8 e Panthers came into the game fresh o5 an upset of top-seeded Amherst, who ended up not qualifying for the NCAA tournament as a result. 8 e two teams had not met since September 21, when Bowdoin de-feated the visiting Panthers 4-2.

8 e Polar Bears got o5 to a strong start this time around, scoring twice in the opening seven minutes through ef-forts by Rachel Kennedy ’16 and Simon-ton. But Middlebury proved their resil-ience when Bridget Instrum scored two for the Panthers to tie it up before half.

Riley was quick to respond for the Polar Bears coming out of the half,

COURTESY OF JOE PADUDA

FIGHTING FOR POSSESION: Adrienne O’Donnell ’15 fends o! a Tufts defender last weekend.

8 e 7 6 h-seeded men’s soccer team ended its season last Saturday by losing in a double-overtime match to top-seed-ed Amherst in the NESCAC semi7 nals. Bowdoin’s 8-4-4 record was not strong enough to earn the team an at-large bid into the NCAA D-III tournament.

Despite ending their season with a loss, the Polar Bears fared well against the undefeated Lord Je5 s, who have been ranked No. 1 nationally for most of the season. A6 er giving up a goal o5 a corner kick, the Polar Bears struck back when Matt Dias Costas ’17 capitalized on a rebound in the 56th minute.

Bowdoin was able to match the ag-gressiveness of the notoriously physical Je5 s and even had a couple opportuni-ties to end the 1-1 draw in overtime. But Amherst secured the win when Justin Aoyama put the ball in the back of the Bowdoin net from roughly 30 yards out with only three minutes remaining before a penalty shootout would have decided the game.

A6 er playing into Amherst’s strengths in a 3-0 loss earlier this season, the Polar Bears had to reevaluate their

Women’s rugby moves to Sweet 16

BY NOAH SAFIANORIENT STAFF

strategy to compete more e5 ectively in their most recent contest.

“8 e game plan against Amherst is pretty simple,” said Head Coach Scott Wiercinski. “8 ey play a very direct, very physical, very aerial style, and if you can deal with that, you’re going to be 7 ne.”

“We just went up for every 50/50 ball in the mixer—we were challeng-ing everything and just trying to be as physical as possible to match their size,” added Dias Costa. “But also the key is to just pass, move and work around them instead of going through them.”

Unfortunately, Bowdoin’s stronger performance was still not enough to de-feat Amherst. Despite several chances to win the game, including Amherst’s need for an incredible save in the 7 rst over-time, Wiercinski’s inaugural season as coach came to an early end.

“It’s a small consolation prize that we played well [in the] last game,” said Wiercinski. “8 ere’s kind of an empty feeling a6 er that loss now that it’s over, and that’s the way I spoke to the team a6 erwards.”

8 e Polar Bears’ rough start to the season contributed to their failure to earn an at-large bid to this year’s NCAA tournament. 8 e team didn’t earn its 7 rst conference win until nearly a

SCORECARD Sa 11/9Su 11/10

v. Tuftsv. Middlebury

WL

4!25!4

ANISA LAROCHELLE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

TAKE DOWN: Charlotte Kleiman ’15 attempts to tackle a Holy Cross ball-carrier in last weekend’s playo! game. Bowdoin defeated the Crusaders by a score of 54-7.

Please see VBALL, page 12

Please see RUGBY, page 11Please see M. SOCCER, page 11

SCORECARDSa 11/9 at Amherst L 2!1

Please see F. HOCKEY, page 12

SCORECARDSa 11/9 v. Holy Cross W 54!7

SCORECARD Fr 11/8Sa 11/9Su 11/10

v. Trinityv. Amherstv. Williams

WWL

3!23!2

3!0

!"# $%&'%() %*(#)!+*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304 56%*!5 11

Does locker-room culture need a change?

Matt Glatt: 7 ere’s been pretty much one story blowing up all the sports me-dia these past couple weeks.

Wiley Spears: 7 e Jaguars’ 8 rst win of the season?

MG: Close. 7 e Jonathan Martin sto-ry. I want to hear where you two stand on this crazy story.

Mikey Jarrell: Maybe you should give a quick recap for our listeners who have been living in a cave since October.

MG: OK, sure. Jonathan Martin, an o9 ensive lineman on the Miami Dolphins, le: the team due to what the organization referred to as a “non-football illness.” Reports came out of Martin’s camp—although not directly from Martin himself—that locker room bullying was the cause, and that guard Richie Incognito was at the center of the mess. Media outlets have gotten hold of a voicemail that Incognito le: Martin in April, calling him the n-word and saying he’d “s--- in [his] f---ing mouth.” Martin reached his breaking point a few weeks ago when Incognito and the rest of the Miami o9 ensive line immediately aban-doned the cafeteria lunch table when Martin sat down to join them. Martin threw his tray on the ground, grabbed his car keys, and hasn’t been back to the facility since.

WS: Well, Mikey, if you know any-thing about Incognito or have seen the video of him shirtless and drunk, screaming at a bar, it should be pretty clear to you that this guy is totally out of control.

MJ: Maybe he is, but I’m not blaming him for Martin’s quitting.

WS: What?! Incognito is a maniac! He even admitted to being a “locker-room cancer.” 7 e man is scum and has been his whole life.

MJ: 7 at’s all 8 ne and dandy, but there are plenty of guys like that in the NFL. Jonathan Martin is the 8 rst guy to quit on his team like this.

WS: First of all, some guy on Incog-nito’s Nebraska team in college quit for the very same reason, and second of all, professionals just don’t get bullied like this in their place of work every day.

MJ: Are you kidding me? Are you saying you can’t imagine a locker room environment where stu9 like this is the norm?

WS: Where leaving a voicemail for your teammate saying you’d slap their mother is the norm? No, Mikey, I can’t quite imagine that.

MG: Don’t forget, guys, Martin wrote him a text right back saying “I will mur-der your whole f---ing family.”

MJ: I think the most telling part of this whole story is that the team has had Richie’s back this entire time.

WS: Yeah but the rest of the NFL has been totally trashing Incognito, claim-ing that this nonsense would never go on inside their locker rooms.

MJ: If he was such a bad guy, his teammates would have spoken out against him, especially now that he’s

been suspended. Instead, they’ve been talking about how he’s one of the team’s leaders and the voice of the locker room, and how he and Martin are best buds.

WS: What are you trying to say? 7 at Richie Incognito is a good person? Be-cause that’s the dumbest thing you’ve said all day.

MJ: 7 ere has to be an anomaly here. Is it J-Mart or Richie? I’m saying it’s Martin. 7 e guy obviously just doesn’t have the constitution to handle being an NFL player.

WS: You can’t absolve the bully. Ever.MG: Here’s the thing. While you

two always want to take opposite sides in these debates, the answer is usually somewhere in the middle. Richie In-cognito is obviously not someone you’d bring home to your mother, but he’s probably not completely out-of-line for NFL locker rooms either. Jonathan Mar-tin is not unjusti8 ed for leaving the team, but he didn’t need to bring this negative attention to his teammates in the middle of the season. 7 e issue is really that the general culture of NFL locker rooms has gotten out of hand, to the point where something like this could happen. Da-mian Woodley called them “the most politically incorrect place in the world,” and that needs to change. Phew, that was exhausting. No-Fail Predictions time?

MJ: Alabama will reach the BSC Title Game, during which Brent Musburger will point out the attractiveness of AJ McCarron’s girlfriend on national TV for a third time.

WS: Richie Incognito will try to be a little more...INCOGNITO! Get it?

MG: 7 is column will get me a job nowhere.

BY ALEX VASILEORIENT STAFF

Senior Zach Donnarumma, a 8 x-ture in the back8 eld since his 8 rst year, ended his college career this past Saturday with a 23-carry, 100-yard ef-fort and three touchdowns, including a 32-yard scamper that put the team up 14-0 on the way to their victory over Colby. Donnarumma leaves the team with almost 50 more carries than any Bowdoin player before him. He appears three times on Bowdoin’s top ten for carries in a season and ties for 8 : h for touchdowns scored. He will also rank somewhere in the top 8 ve in career yards.

“My freshman year, I see this big Jersey kid with two stud earrings and I couldn’t believe how strong he was,” captain and o9 ensive lineman Bobby Driscoll ’14 said. “He was outbench-ing everyone in the freshman class.”

“You have to tackle his legs,” added linebacker Brian Glazewski ’14. “You don’t want to meet him chest to chest. 7 at’s a battle you’re not going to win.”

Donnarumma has been a con-sistent runner during his time at Bowdoin, averaging 20 carries a game at roughly 3.8 yards per carry over the course of his career. He started all four years, replac-ing an injured up-perclassman during his 8 rst season. Don-narumma’s stats are all the more impres-sive considering the injuries he’s dealt with for most of his career. He missed two games due to mononucleo-sis his junior year and saw only a few car-ries a: er straining his MCL this past season. Donnarumma says he also endured various injuries during his 8 rst two seasons but only had to miss one game. (His most serious injury, a broken leg, occurred when he was still a high school junior in the middle of recruitment.)

“It’s always been a battle,” Donna-rumma said. “You never know with injuries in football. You have to play each down like it’s your last.”

Head Coach Dave Caputi suggest-ed that the timing of the injury—at the beginning of the college recruiting process—led teams to overlook Don-narumma, who only began to attract major attention a: er a strong senior season.

“He was a downhill runner,” Ca-puti said. “7 ere was nothing really

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Zach Donnarumma ’14

FOOTBALL

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ni: y or fancy about him, but he got tough yards. He was like a salmon going upstream.”

Donnarumma started playing football in second grade and has been a running back from the beginning—he said he “always tended to be a little faster [than the other kids].”

Growing up he was known as a speed back. In high school, he be-came the downhill runner he is now a: er rehabbing the broken leg that prematurely ended his junior sea-son. During that period of inactiv-ity he was able to work on improv-ing two things that would shape his future football career—his strength and his grades.

Donnarumma believes that the time he spent improving his grades junior year increased his appeal to Bowdoin and other NESCAC schools, though the 10 pounds of muscle he added in the o9 season likely helped as well. Either way, he had visited and committed to play at Bowdoin less than three weeks a: er 8 nishing his senior season.

“I knew I didn’t want to stop play-ing,” Donnarumma said. “If I could play for four more years, I wanted to.”

Despite a reputation for being a hard-nosed runner, Donnarumma

has shown some ; ex-ibility over the years. He broke o9 two runs of over 50 yards this season, the result of both good blocking and his ability to beat the safety in space.

“7 e o9 ense has slowly been build-ing around him,” Driscoll said. “Be-fore he was here,

we ran the spread, but we’ve trans-formed in a power running o9 ense because of him.”

While the team still runs the spread on occasion, they spent a lot of time in the pistol formation this year, the formation used o: en during Don-narumma’s sophomore year. Caputi describes the o9 ense as “built to be a between-the-tackles team with some counterpunching to the outside.”

A: er four years of such consistent performance, Donnarumma will be hard to replace.

“We’re going to miss him,” Ca-puti said. “He was ‘Old Reliable’ back there. I thought he was going to stick around forever.”

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

• Scored three rushing TDs in season-ending upset victory over Colby last Saturday• Finished career with most carries in school history and is top fi ve in yards and TDs

HIGHLIGHTSMIKEY JARRELL

MATT GLATT

WILEY SPEARS

MIKE & WILEY IN THE PAPER

&&

“You have to tackle his legs. You don’t want to meet him chest to chest. That’s a battle

you’re not going to win.”

BRIAN GLAZEWSKI ’14LINEBACKER

Tu: s in Bowdoin’s 27-6 victory.7 e Polar Bears were led o9 ensively

by running back Zack Donnarumma ’14, who had 23 carries for 100 yards and three touchdowns. Quarterback Justin Ciero provided the o9 ensive spark for the Mules, passing for 227 yards and two touchdowns.

7 e Bowdoin defense came out strong, forcing two turnovers that ulti-mately led to o9 ensive scores. A fum-ble recovery on the Colby 27-yard line led to one of the touchdown runs by Donnarumma. He later scampered 32 yards for another score a: er an inter-ception from Jon Fraser ’15, bringing the Polar Bears to a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter.

Two Colby 8 eld goals trimmed the lead to 14-6 at half. A: er a scoreless third quarter, Donnarumma rushed for his third touchdown of the day, extending Bowdoin’s lead to 20-6. But the Mules answered quickly, scoring two late touchdowns in the fourth—both on passes by Ciero—to tie the score with only 51 seconds le: in regulation.

Bowdoin returned the ensuing kicko9 to its 34-yard line. Caputi then hit Ken Skon ’16 for a 10-yard gain

and scrambled for 12 yards on the next play, bringing the Polar Bears into Colby territory. A: er a sack and two incompletions, Caputi’s fourth-down Hail Mary gave Bowdoin the lead for good. But the game was far from over.

Sophomore kicker Andrew Mu-rowchick’s point-a: er attempt was blocked by Colby. 7 e Mules’ Jason Buco scooped up the loose ball and took it the length of the 8 eld for a two-point score, cutting Bowdoin’s lead to 26-22. On the ensuing kicko9 , Colby’s return team completed a series of lat-erals before Bowdoin linebacker Brian Glazewski ’14 snatched one out of midair and streaked into the end zone with no time remaining.

Glazewski was named NESCAC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance. He recorded nine tack-les—two and-a-half for a loss—a sack, and two fumble recoveries, including the one that he returned for the game’s 8 nal score.

With the win, the Polar Bears 8 n-ished the season with a 3-5 record, while the Mules 8 nished at 4-4. 7 e CBB Championship ended in a tie, but Bates will retain the trophy a: er win-ning in 2012.

Bowdoin has been plagued by inju-ries for much of the season. 7 e team struggled somewhat to replace these injured players, but Head Coach Dave

Caputi was pleased with the e9 ort the team displayed in 8 ghting through the adversity.

“We had some injuries during the course of the year, where we had to regroup,” he said. “We had to reinvent ourselves a little bit, and I thought the players did a good job doing that.”

Caputi also highlighted the team’s adaptability as a positive from the sea-son.

“We want to look forward to build-ing on those things,” he said. “We have a lot of returning players.”

Due to some of these injuries, the Polar Bears didn’t achieve the success on paper they had hoped, but beating archrival Colby was the highlight of the season—and was an appropriate capstone to the seniors’ college careers.

“7 at was de8 nitely a 8 tting way to end the season,” Barone said. “Obvi-ously, record wise, it hadn’t gone how we had hoped. But we thought with the Colby game, that was a chance to send our seniors out on a right note and send us into the o9 season on a high.”

“It’s not the season we had ex-pected coming in, but looking back on it with how guys regrouped—es-pecially how we 8 nished—I thought our kids displayed some character and resilience that made us proud,” Dave Caputi added.

FOOTBALLCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

month into the regular season.Bowdoin began to rapidly turn the

season around in October, however, improving from its 0-2-2-conference record to play 10 straight games without

M. SOCCERCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

Hayleigh Kein ’15, Cammie Ogden-Fung ’17 and Montenegro all contrib-uted important stops to help shut down the Crusaders.

7 e Polar Bears led 27-0 a: er the 8 rst half, and now have an 8-1 record.

Kein added that consistent, solid play across the board contributed to the win despite the team’s physical mis-matches.

“We did well in our rucking—our

RUGBYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

tackling,” said Kein. “7 ey were a pretty big, strong team but we at least slowed them down.”

Although the consensus among players was that this was a team win, some players stood out. Mathews noted Allen, Anna Piotti ’16, Charlotte Klei-man ’15 and Page Pfannenstiel ’17, in particular.

Bowdoin will next play Hamilton at Vassar College tomorrow at 2 p.m in the ACRA Round of 16. A win will put them up against the winner of Stonehill vs. Kutztown.

“We know very little about Ham-

a loss, including a six-game win streak. While many starters will return in the

2014 season, next year’s squad requires new leadership to succeed.

“7 ere’s a big di9 erence between fol-lowing and leading, though, so some ju-niors are really going to need to step up,” Wiercinski said.

ilton,” said Athanas-Linden. “We’ve heard that they’re like us—fast and small.”

7 is is the third year in a row that the women’s rugby team has won their conference; however, Athanas-Linden described this year’s team as di9 erent from that of the past couple of years.

“In the past two years we’ve had a couple of stand out players, who are recognized at the national level for be-ing really excellent players,” said Atha-nas-Linden. “But this year we don’t have players like that. So what we’ve gained instead is a real team talent.”

12 !"#$%! &$'()*, +#,-./-$ 01, 2304%5- /#6(#'+ #$'-+%

VBALLCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

variety of plays Williams ran against us,” she said. “7 ey really did a great job of exploiting our weaknesses, something that the other two teams didn’t do as diligently.”

Gaal also emphasized how well the

team had done throughout the season despite several setbacks.

“We had our fair share of challenges including sickness and injury, so there was never really one set of starters for the whole season,” said Gaal. “Neverthe-less, we were able to establish great cohe-sion on the court and we just had a lot of fun together.”

Overall, the team reported being

pleased with the season’s results. “7 e friendships made and the

games won made this season unfor-gettable,” said Audrey DeFusco ’16.

The team will graduate three seniors at the end of this year, but hopes to return stronger than ever. According to Gaal, the team has two goals: “Win NESCACs and crush Williams.”

In a hotly contested match last weekend, the men’s rugby team lost narrowly to Union College 17-15, ending their season as the No. 2 club squad in New England.

Charlie Allen ’14 scored o8 the opening kicko8 , with captain David Dietz ’14 also scoring a try within the 9 rst 10 minutes of the game. But Bowdoin was unable to score again, and Union slowly closed the gap, scoring a penalty in the last eight minutes to steal the lead.

7 e Bowdoin men were faced with a number of challenges, according to Head Coach Richard Scala.

“We just wore out,” he said. “We’ve

been playing bigger teams game a: er game and it takes its toll eventually.”

Scala also said that Union played an intensely physical game, which was di; cult for the Polar Bears.

“We took a really fast, early lead and we kind of assumed that they weren’t very good,” added Dietz. “For the rest of the game we weren’t really prepared for them to come back like they did. It wasn’t a prob-lem as much as it was something we didn’t see coming.”

Scala also noted a number of injuries that prevented upperclass-men starters Sam Patterson ’14, Roger Tejada ’14 and Kurt Herzog ’13 from playing in the game. This forced many underclassmen to cov-er the spots.

“We were using a lot of reserves, who did very well,” said Scala.

With the fall season over, the team will be taking a short break and

Compiled by Joe SeibertSources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC

MEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

NESCAC Standings

WOMEN’S RUGBY

FIELD HOCKEY

SAILINGSCHEDULESa 11/16 Atlantic Coast Champ. (Cornell)

Atlantic Coast Dinghies (SAISA)Atlantic Coast Tourn. (Conn. Coll.)

9:30 A.M.9:30 A.M.9:30 A.M.

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

NESCAC OVERALLW L T W L T

Amherst 8 0 2 15 0 2Wesleyan 7 3 0 9 6 1Williams 6 4 0 11 6 0Tufts 6 4 0 8 5 2BOWDOIN 5 3 2 8 4 4Middlebury 5 4 1 9 5 1Conn. Coll. 4 4 2 8 5 2Hamilton 3 4 3 5 7 3Trinity 3 5 2 7 5 2Bates 1 7 2 5 7 2Colby 0 10 0 4 10 0

NESCAC OVERALLW L W L

Williams 10 0 25 4BOWDOIN 8 2 23 7Amherst 7 3 20 8Tufts 7 3 20 8Conn. College 6 4 15 12Middlebury 5 5 18 7Trinity 5 5 15 12Bates 2 8 11 18Colby 2 8 10 14Wesleyan 2 8 8 15Hamilton 1 9 5 17

NESCAC OVERALL

*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-o!

FOOTBALL

W LAmherst 7 1Middlebury 7 1Wesleyan 7 1Trinity 6 2Bates 4 4Colby 4 4BOWDOIN 3 5Williams 2 6Hamilton 0 8Tufts 0 8

NESCAC

BOWDOIN v. New Paltz State2 P.M.

Montclair State v. Mount Holyoke 11 A.M.

NCAA D!III PLAYOFFS

Third Round - Sunday, Nov. 17

Second Round - Saturday, Nov. 16Held at Montclair State University

Second Round winners meet1 P.M.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S ICE HOCKEYSCHEDULESa 11/16Su 11/17

at Middlebury at Williams

7 P.M.3 P.M.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLSCHEDULEF 11/15Tu 11/19

v. Norwich at Salem Statev. Endicott

7:30 P.M.7 P.M.

MEN’S BASKETBALLSCHEDULEF 11/15 v. Western Conn. St. at Regis 7 P.M.

BOWDOIN v. Chris. Newport7:30 P.M.

Montclair State v. Colby-Sawyer 5 P.M.

NCAA D!III PLAYOFFS

Second Round - Sunday, Nov. 17

First Round - Saturday, Nov. 16Held at Montclair State University

First Round winners meet5 P.M.

Stonehill v. Kutztown2 P.M.

BOWDOIN v. Hamilton 2 P.M.

ACRA D!II PLAYOFFS

Second Round - Sunday, Nov. 17

First Round - Saturday, Nov. 16Held at Vassar College

First Round winners meet11 A.M.

M/W CROSS COUNTRYSCHEDULESa 11/16 at New England D-III’s (USM) 11 A.M.

Men’s rugby fi nishes No. 2 in New EnglandBY ALEX BARKERORIENT STAFF

SCORECARDSu 11/10 at Union L 17"15

then start intense conditioning a: er 7 anksgiving break.

“Come March or so we’ll do some practices in the gym, and hopefully we’ll be back on the 9 eld by April,” said Dietz.

The schedule for the spring exhi-bition season has yet to be decided, but the Polar Bears plan to par-ticipate in “sevens” tournaments. Sevens is a variant of rugby which limits each team to only seven play-ers on the field—instead of 15—and has short game times, allowing for what Dietz called “fast and high-scoring” games.

For now, however, the team is focusing on extending this season’s successes into the spring.

“I think the rugby [team] has gotten a little more serious over the past few years,” said Dietz. “I’d re-ally like to see that continue, and I think it will.”

scoring an unassisted goal on a long shot from the right side to restore her team’s lead. And with 28 minutes le: in regulation, Finnerty converted a pen-alty stroke to restore Bowdoin’s advan-tage. 7 ings looked good for the Polar Bears, who were holding a two-goal lead with less than 30 minutes to play.

But it was not to be for Bowdoin. Middlebury scored in the 60th and 62nd minutes to send the game into overtime, in which the Panthers rode the momentum home with a game-

F. HOCKEYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

ending goal just two minutes into overtime.

Head Coach Nicky Pearson was predictably disappointed with her team’s loss, but said she has already switched her focus to the upcoming NCAA games.

“We made a commitment to learn from it, and to use it to make us a stron-ger team,” she said. “We have to take the good things from that game, and learn from our mistakes to make our-selves a better team for this next phase of the season.”

Twenty-four teams received bids to the D-III 9 eld hockey tournament, and the top eight earned 9 rst-round byes.

Also in Bowdoin’s regional bracket is No. 1 Montclair State, the tournament hosts, who will play Mount Holyoke tomorrow. 7 e regional 9 nals will take place on Sunday, when the remaining teams will 9 ght for a chance to travel to Virginia Beach, Va., next weekend for the D-III Final Four. 7 e Polar Bears, who earlier this year knocked NCAA defending-champions Tu: s out of the NESCAC tournament, will look to win their fourth national title since 2007, and 9 rst since 2010.

“We’re focusing entirely on Satur-day’s game right now,” said Pearson. “We can’t a8 ord to underestimate our 9 rst opponent.”

OPINION !"# $%&'%() %*(#)! 13 +*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304

Two weeks ago, journalist Ali Abunimah came to campus to give a talk on “5 e Battle for Justice in Pal-estine.” A6 er the talk, he responded to the question of what average peo-ple can do to help alleviate the suf-fering of the Palestinians—su7 ering that is the result of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and human and civil rights abuses. Abunimah called for people to take part in the call for a boycott of Israel, including PACBI (the Palestin-ian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). Recently, Gabriel Frankel ’17 wrote a column in the opinion section criticizing the academic and cultural boycott of Is-rael for saying it repressed dialogue and singled out the state.

Frankel makes various disparate and blatantly incorrect claims re-garding the motivations for PACBI—a call for action that the Palestinian community (including various trade unions and civil society groups) and many international organizations (such as the Green Party of the U.S., and hundreds of prominent academ-ics) have o8 cially endorsed.

One claim he makes is that PAC-BI is part of a “larger campaign to compel the country to withdraw to pre-1967 Palestinian borders.” If one looks on PACBI’s o8 cial website, it is evident that this is not its o8 cial mission: its mission extends much beyond this goal. To clarify, the call for an academic and cultural boycott is part of an e7 ort to struggle against “Israel’s colonization, occupation, and system of apartheid.”

PACBI is not, as Frankel asserts, an attempt “to cut o7 the country intellectually and socially,” but part of a social movement that aims to show Israel the consequences of its human rights and international law violations. 5 is is not a boycott of individual people, but institutions in Israeli society that are those complic-it in “occupation, colonization, and apartheid” or pro9 t from it. PACBI does not target people on the basis of their nationality or background—it targets those who pro9 t from a state

During Abunimah’s talk, he spoke of a metaphor for the “dialogue” that occurs between Israel and Palestine. It is as if Israel and Palestine are try-ing to negotiate how to slice a pizza and, during negotiations, Israel starts eating up the pizza as fast as it can. Israel has been known to expand its settlements during peace talks with Palestine. If Israel really cared about bringing about any sort of peace, it would avoid breaking international law while it is supposed to be pro-moting peace.

PACBI does not criminalize dia-logue; it criminalizes criminals. Israel is a state that has committed crimes against its people. We should not stand by complacently as Israel pret-ti9 es itself by bringing dance troupes and orchestras to other countries—and it is not right for anyone repre-senting Israel to ignore or whitewash all of wrongdoing.

Hasbara is a form of public policy, more accurately explained as propa-ganda, that Israel uses to present a version of itself that ignores the fact that it is an apartheid state. It is also an element of the “Brand Israel” cam-paign—Israel’s attempt to make itself seem like an accepting democracy. Anyone who takes part in this cam-paign—an artist or group funded by it—is pro9 ting o7 of this propaganda, and is pro9 ting from a government that perpetuates oppression.

Refusing to support those who bene9 t from a settler-colonial state is an e7 ective, peaceful way of showing the world that this state does not de-serve special privileges or standing. PACBI does not single out Israel as the worst or only state committing crimes—it singles out Israel as a state that receives much support, approval and absolution while it violates, hu-man and civil rights. 5 e issue be-tween Israel and Palestine is not one that can be resolved with dialogue; the issue is not about two sides that need to learn how to get along. 5 e only way to deal with a state that commits crimes is to punish it for those crimes, and make it known that its actions are not acceptable.

Maya Reyes is a member of the Class of 2016.

Defending the cultural boycott: response to Frankel

T!"B%&'%() O*(#)! Established 1871

Phone: (207) 725-3300Business Phone: (207) 725-3053

6200 College StationBrunswick, ME 04011

5 e Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially indepen-dent of the College and its administrators, the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in writing and re-porting. 5 e Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. In addition to our print version, the Orient publishes all articles on our website, bowdoinorient.com, where we also feature multimedia and web-only content.

! e material contained herein is the property of ! e Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the editors. ! e editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regards to the above editorial, the opinions expressed in the Orient do not necessarily re" ect the views of the editors.

E!"#$ B%!!&, Editor in Chief N'!$ B"%((%-T"))'*+, Editor in ChiefM$!"+$ M#G$!!&, Managing Editor C,$"!% A$+%*, Managing Editor

P-'(' E."('!Kate Featherston

A++(. P-'(' E."('!Hy Khong

W%/ D%0%,'1%!Brian Jacobel

W%/ E."('!Matthew Gutschenritter

E."('!+-$(-,$!2%Maggie BryanGarrett Casey

Leo ShawKate Witteman

S3/+#!"1("'*+5 e domestic subscription rate is $56

for a full year. Contact the Orient for more information.

A.0%!("+"*2E-mail orientads@bowdoin.edu or

call (207) 725-3053 for advertising rates and a production schedule.

! e editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, which is comprised of Claire Aasen, Erica Berry, Nora Biette-Timmons, Marisa McGarry, Eliza Novick-Smith, Sam Miller and Sam Weyrauch.

N%4+ E."('! Nicole Wetsman

F%$(3!%+ E."('!Elana Vlodaver

A5E E."('!Natalie Clark

S1'!(+ E."('!Sam Chase

O1"*"'* E."('!Connor Evans

C$,%*.$! E."('!Joe Seibert

bowdoinorient.comorient@bowdoin.edu

Veritas One week ago, the staff of the Harvard Crimson ran an editorial em-

bracing a new trend in higher education—the growing number of students choosing to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) fields over the humanities. “Let them eat code” is currently the top-read article on the Crimson’s website, with 80 com-ments as of press time. The editorial applauds students who choose these more “rigorous” fields, characterizing the knowledge and skills gained through study of these disciplines as more practical in our ultra-com-petitive economy. Scholars in the humanities, they write, are of little im-portance because with or without them, people will still have access to literature, music and philosophy.

“Why spend four years listening to lecturers warn you that you can never really know anything?” asks the piece. We can’t help but note that this is neither an unenlightening nor a novel concept; Socrates argued that “the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

And while we do not believe that four years spent reading Woolf and Hume and Shakespeare is a waste of time, the strength of a liberal arts education is, in part, its breadth. Bowdoin’s new Digital and Computa-tional Studies Initiative proves that the two disciplines are not mutually exclusive; for one final project in the inaugural Gateway to the Digital Humanities class, two students are learning code to build a website that archives the history of art at the College. These classes prove that the disciplines are not only valuable in and of themselves but as complements to one another.

Institutions like Harvard and Bowdoin value learning for learning’s sake. We wonder how the Crimson’s editorial staff managed to overlook this reality in favor of this strange utilitarian and functionalist position.

Every year, students graduate from Bowdoin with degrees in English and Religion and Psychology. Somehow, few of them are homeless; most of them have jobs. These degrees do translate into marketable skills, but we feel that in choosing a liberal arts college we are opting for an educa-tion that provides us with more than just a job at the end.

In exploring both the sciences and the humanities we gain skills for life as well as skills for work, in the process reminding ourselves that the two are not always the same. Only the most robotic among us would reduce every class to the value it adds to one’s future earning potential, or assert that academic inquiry into art and literature adds nothing of value—quantifiable or otherwise—to a life.

S$) M",,%!, Managing EditorS$) W%&!$3#-, Managing Editor

E,"6$ N'0"#7-S)"(-, Managing Editor

BY MAYA REYESCONTRIBUTOR

that perpetuates this very notion of discrimination.

Boycotts are a well-established form of peaceful protest, that have been successful for many issues, the most prominent being divestment from South Africa during the coun-try’s apartheid regime in the 1980s. And yes, academic and cultural boy-cott was an element of the widely-employed boycott of South Africa. It is impossible for PACBI to be thwart-ing any sort of peace movement that is going on within Israel, as Frankel suggests, because it is by nature.

Israel treats its Palestinian citi-zens as second class. 5 ere is no Is-raeli nationality, because Israel has established itself as a Jewish state, in which Jews have the most rights and privileges, which are o6 en deter-mined arbitrarily because Israel lacks a constitution. Israel is not the open democracy that Frankel purports it to be—it is a fundamentalist sectarian state that uses religion and ethnicity to privilege one person over another.

Additionally, because they cannot vote in Israeli elections, the citizens of the West Bank and Gaza have no say in the occupation so the argu-ment that “Israel is a country that al-lows and encourages public disagree-ment with government policies,” is null. From non-consensually inject-ing Ethiopian immigrants with birth control, to displacing Palestinians from their homes, Israel is discrimi-natory to its very core. 5 is is not a state that encourages dialogue, but one that perpetuates the systematic oppression of its very own citizens.

Any dialogue that Israel might support is not meaningful if it does not count all voices as equal. How can we discuss encouraging public disagreement when people are dis-couraged from simply existing within that society?

Frankel’s misunderstanding of Is-rael as a society where all are free and equal is responsible for his preference for dialogue over boycott. However, what he fails to explain is that dialogue is only useful in situations where two or more sides with an equal amount of power can negotiate. 5 is is not the case with Palestine and Israel.

A++'#"$(% E."('!+Ron Cervantes

Natalie Kass-Kaufman

B3+"*%++ M$*$2%!+ Maya LloydHy Khong

P$2% T4' E."('!Joe Sherlock

G!$1-"# D%+"2*%!Alex Mayer

I,,3+(!$('!Anna Hall

‘No-Hate November’: Reducing bias at Bowdoin

Determining an appropriate campus response to the recent bias incidents considering the nature of the offenses is difficult; it is hard to imagine a reaction that would please everyone. I hope therefore, that you will take these thoughts in the spirit that they are meant—as an attempt to work through a dif-ficult issue that offers no easy so-lutions, and to consider how we can address the question of how to make Bowdoin feel safe and sup-portive to every student.

Every student here should know how seriously the College takes such incidents. However, I understand students who feel confused about the precise aim of the Bowdoin Stu-dent Government’s (BSG) recently recognized “No-Hate November,” or who don’t understand why these incidents warrant such a response, while incidents perpetrated by a

non-anonymous individual and dealt with by the Judicial Board, seem to be punished and then swept away.

Obviously, there are confiden-tiality issues at play, but J-Board incidents are seen as part of a norm—to be dealt with only on an individual level—while anonymous bias incidents elicit a campus-wide response. There must be some way for the administration to preserve confidentiality while also publiciz-ing J-Board statements at the time of the incidents and inviting an ap-propriate campus reaction.

As many have noted, we also need to take a more proactive role in shaping wider campus culture. 5 e fact that No-Hate November will be a yearly event is a step in the right direction, although working year-round to think about these issues through a series of scheduled events might be more e7 ective in making these e7 orts feel truly progressive and integrative. Furthermore, some

of the BSG responses read as general initiatives rebranded to combat in-tolerance.

For example, a talent show is a rather abstract attempt to com-bat prejudice. I understand the instinct to make it seem as if the student government is reacting strongly to these incidents, but ef-fort for its own sake can trivialize the problem. What changes peo-ple’s perspectives are stories—par-ticularly from people they know—or noticing something deeply unfair, or learning that people they respect feel strongly about an is-sue. To this end, bystander train-ing is an important and proactive offering.

I have heard more about the “Hate Stops With Us” exhibit than about the actual bias incidents. In an edi-torial a few weeks ago (Snappy Re-sponse, November 1), members of the Orient editorial board discussed

BY MONICA DASCONTRIBUTOR

Please see NO-HATE, page 14

14 !"#$#!$ %&#'(), $!*+,-+& ./, 01.234+ -!5'!#$ !&#+$3

From Guy Fawkes to Black Friday: Reconciling November’s holidays

November is the month when we descend into winter. Each holiday takes us a little deeper. 6 e sun shone when the month was young, and Hal-loween parties peppered the campus. I got giddy when I saw a couple Guy Fawkes masks—a symbol of the in-ternet hacktivist group Anonymous, of Occupy Wall Street, and of other anti-government and anti-establish-ment movements around the world. “We are legion!” yelled one masked Halloweener at one point, echoing the mantra of Anonymous.

I managed to remember the Fi7 h of November when it came. It re-ceived very little news coverage, but Twitter was full of pictures of protes-tors with Guy Fawkes masks in front of Buckingham Palace, the White House, and other symbols of power around the world. In 1605, London-ers lit bon8 res all over the city to cele-brate the foiling of Guy Fawkes’ gun-powder plot to blow up the House of Lords. To more and more people now, November 5 is a revolutionary day waiting for Fawkes’ reckoning.

But before I can romanticize a gun-powder plot, with November comes a day that is beautiful for many rea-sons, and would not tolerate more destruction. Kurt Vonnegut described how on November 11, 1918, “mil-

lions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another” and the First World War ended. 6 e day was named Armistice Day, and never again were we supposed to have an-other war like the one that cease 8 re ended. 6 e day is now known as Vet-erans Day—and we have had many wars since. Had Vonnegut and I been friends, we would have celebrated our birthdays together on this day, and maybe we would have talked about how we were never supposed to have such wars again.

6 en 6 anksgiving comes. A7 er being my favorite holiday for years, I had to come to terms with many in-ternal contradictions when it became clear to me what it

commem-orates. 6 e “First 6 anksgiving” refers to a meal that European settlers arriv-ing in North America supposedly had with indigenous Americans before the settlers (ancestors of many of us) slaughtered and replaced the land’s in-habitants. 6 e settler-colonial nature of the holiday meal sometimes makes it di9 cult for me to swallow, let alone gorge myself.

At the same time, 6 anksgiving is

about being thankful and showing gratitude. I’m all for that. I think we should try to show our gratitude and love more o7 en, and there is nothing like a large meal with loved ones for rea9 rming community and a: ection toward one another.

We found ourselves with this his-tory. We are not responsible for the sins of the pilgrims or any historical oppressor. But we have inherited a world that they created—while it is wonderful to have a fall feast where we give thanks for the

food and for each other, we should take the chance to remember the crimes of the past and be sure we don’t hopelessly repeat them. One day we will be responsible for some-one else’s past.

But the seeds of blunder are sown before the day’s end. On the TV screens of thousands of people, huge balloons and displays from Macy’s

rampant consumerism on the Friday a7 er 6 anksgiving and noted that, “If capitalism were a religion, Black Fri-day would be one of its most sacred celebrations.” All society demands of you on this day is: Buy! Buy! Buy!

And now I’m thinking, “What hap-pened to November?” 6 e month began with traditions of high hopes, change, and memory of the promise of peace. How can we forget that so fast it comes to embrace and perpetuate this vicious system of material capitalism?

In recent Novembers, the anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters has called upon its readers to #oc-cupyxmas and not buy presents for Christmas. Black Friday has another name: Buy Nothing Day. In previous years, disa: ected people voiced their refusal of the season’s consumerism with actions such as free non-com-mercial street parties, sit-ins, pub-lic credit card cut-ups, and zombie walks (when people amble around shops dressed as zombies, giving blank stares, and spreading the word to surrounding customers).

6 e struggle against capitalism and imperialism is healthy and strong, if you look for it. 6 e onus is on you. 6 e months a7 er this one may bring a powerful transformation in you, if you feel the magic of radical empow-erment and remember what real liv-ing is like.

But mostly, I hope that you don’t end up comatose on a couch, post-Thanksgiving dinner, with not a thought to spare for the Fifth of November.

6 anksgiving Day Parade ; oat down the streets of New York; foreplay for all the wonderful stores you can shop at the next day.

Midnight strikes and it is Black Friday. Employees, o7 overworked and underpaid, advertise endless dis-counts and bargains. Images of peo-ple 8 ghting tooth and nail for gi7 s circulate the web and Bowdoin stu-dents can gape at the videos of these barbarians online. Luckily we don’t have to go to any shopping malls and 8 ght over things. 6 ey are much more civilized when you have a com-

puter to shop on from the com-fort of your house.

But you are fooling yourself if you don’t see that this is all the same poison in the end. It is all about consumption. Shopping is impor-tant sometimes, but this horror show of human greed and material-ism makes it our purpose. In 2008, University of Oregon’s Daily Emer-ald highlighted absurd examples of

ONLY CHARCOAL TO DEFEND

CHRISTOPHER WEDEMAN

$10/ton: Costs of offsetting your carbon guilt

If you could pay someone to erase your carbon footprint, would you do it?

Let me rephrase that: would you pay someone to erase your carbon footprint, even if you weren’t sure that it would work?

6 is is the fascinating, if conten-tious, promise of the carbon-o: set-ting industry.

6 e idea behind carbon o: setting is that by supporting clean energy producers and projects that trap greenhouse gases, individuals and organizations can e: ectively cancel out their own carbon emissions.

6 e main way of accomplishing this is through purchasing Renew-able Energy Credits (RECs) and carbon o: sets.

When renewable electricity is produced on a mass-market scale, it is sent to the electric grid, where it is combined with conventional fos-sil fuel-generated energy and then distributed to consumers. RECs provide the opportunity to purchase “green energy” without having to buy energy exclusively produced from renewable sources. 6 is allows more expensive renewable energies to compete on equal footing with conventional power. According to the EPA—which created the pro-gram—purchasing RECs supports producers of renewable energy, and in the long term will help renew-ables take market share away from conventional power.

Carbon offsets take a different approach to “negating” carbon emissions. When an individual or

an organization purchases carbon offsets, they are paying a compa-ny to pursue a project that traps greenhouse gases that have already been emitted, or to prevent future emissions.

Common o: set projects include trapping and converting methane from land8 lls into usable energy, building wind farms, and upgrad-ing fuel and building e9 ciency. De-pending on the number of o: sets purchased, they can theoretically “cancel out” emissions from actions like airplane travel, driving, and conventional electricity use.

Most carbon o: setting compa-nies charge between $5 and $25 per ton of CO2, averaging about $10/ton. One ton of CO2 is the amount emitted during a 2,000 mile air-plane ; ight, and the same amount emitted by an average US house-hold over two months.

Like many solutions perceived as quick-8 xes, carbon o: setting has generated controversy among en-vironmental-minded people. Many take issue with the idea of congratu-lating people who pay to reduce their carbon footprints without making any personal changes. 6 e demand for a carbon o: setting in-dustry, they say, indicates a deeper con; ict between western-material-ist society and environmental jus-tice. 6 ey instead argue that funda-mental changes in both the energy sector and western culture must be made in order for real progress to take place.

Perhaps even more problematic is the fear that many in the environ-mental community don’t believe that carbon capture schemes really work as effectively as they claim to. Calculating long-term carbon stor-age trends can be a tricky business, and widely varying prices for off-

setting one ton of CO2 can inspire doubts about the efficacy of certain programs.

From a pragmatic perspective, RECs are a step in the right direc-tion. For some people and institu-tions, generating all of their elec-tricity on-site using renewables will never be possible or reasonable, given the availability of natural re-sources. For them, paying extra to keep renewable energy producers, running and innovating on the main grid is their best possible contribu-tion to the clean energy movement.

Common sense indicates that we should think of carbon off-sets as something akin to ‘climate change charities’. If a business is interested in purchasing offsets, it should research companies and their projects as if it were an aver-age person planning to donate to a lesser-known charity.

If businesses 8 nd themselves unconvinced by any carbon o: set-ting schemes, but still want to 8 ght the degradation of our planet, they should consider donating to more mainstream environmental non-pro8 ts. 6 ey might not be paying to inject CO2 into bedrock, but it’s better than nothing.

Bowdoin’s Carbon Neutrality Implementation Plan acknowledges RECs and carbon credits, most of them Maine-based, as necessary components of a zero-carbon goal, but “only to the extent that there are no e9 ciency or on-site power gen-eration options that cost less per ton of avoided CO2.” Given Bowdoin’s pledge to buy solar panel-produced elecricity from the planned array at the former Naval Air Base, it will be interesting to follow the College’s fu-ture decisions regarding on-site elec-tricity generation as an alternative to o: sets.

CLIMATEDISTILLED

EMILY TUCKER

the potentially coercive nature of the project. Feeling social pressure to resist prejudice is not always a problem, and I saw enough students decline to be photographed that I believe those who participated did so in good faith.

The criticism that I’ve heard more often is that this effort makes a one-off attempt at dealing with a pervasive issue, and then stops. I believe the organizers hoped that the exhibition would serve as a conversation starter; I participated in the exhibition because if there are students who feel better know-ing almost a third of Bowdoin stu-dents participated in this project, I do not want to take away their sense of comfort.

How many students though, look at this exhibition and wonder about the other two thirds of cam-pus? Furthermore, many students feel unclear about what it means to “stand with the victims of bias.” To sympathize? To sympathize pub-licly? To say, “It wasn’t me; I would never do something like that?” The bias incidents happened, and while we must make sure that anyone who feels victimized knows that they have support, too often events meant to start a discussion end up becoming the entire conversation.

I am sure that many similar in-cidents go unreported every year, just as the number of reported cas-es of assault pales in comparison to anecdotal evidence. There are a lot of reasons for someone not to report an incident—belief the in-stitution will try to help the perpe-trator, fear of social repercussions, convincing yourself that you are overreacting.

We need to create a culture in which such incidents are unaccept-able, and we need people to feel

comfortable speaking up. We only get four years here. We can make an enormous impact on campus culture, but these issues also need to be dealt with more strongly and transparently from an adminis-trative perspective if meaningful change is to take place.

Every effort by students, no matter how imperfect, is a positive step. Still, the most lasting changes come from taking responsibility at the personal level. Especially when alcohol is involved, too often a culture of permissiveness prevents us from taking true responsibil-ity for our actions, or confronting our friends despite our discomfort. According to the yearly reports on-line, a considerable percentage of the incidents that the Bias Incident Group and the J-Board investigate involve alcohol, so it is worth tak-ing a minute to say this: People can’t always control themselves when they are drunk.

But they can control whether or not they are in control. If someone gets in a fight or makes derogatory comments under the influence, his friends should not laugh this off, or tell him how funny he was last night. If he made anyone un-comfortable, he should know, and make the decision not to drink so much in the future, because there is no reason anyone should be un-able to have fun without impinging on the rights of others.

Often, the most challenging part of starting a dialogue is simply getting participants who do not all feel the same way together in a room. I hope that in the coming months, perhaps on the pages of the Orient, perhaps in other pub-lic spheres, and most of all in our day-to-day lives, we find ways to work proactively towards creating an environment in which such re-sponses are unnecessary.

Monica Das is a member of the Class of 2014.

NO-HATECONTINUED FROM PAGE 13

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

!"# $%&'%() %*(#)!+*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304 %5()(%) 15

The merit of global perspectives: JFK’s legacy for America’s youth

A flood of books, articles, TV shows, and films marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. In these attempts to understand our 35th president’s brief legacy and its tragic conclu-sion, a reoccurring phrase is: “what could have been.” But there is also new focus on aspects of his presi-dency that have always nipped at the heels of his “Camelot” repu-tation—questions raised by his foreign policy agenda to combat Communism, for example and his limited contributions to the civil rights movement.

A New York Times study re-vealed a 50 percent drop (60 per-cent to 10 percent) in the past de-cade in the number of Americans who consider JFK our greatest president. Journalist Adam Clymer writes that the public perception of Kennedy “has evolved from a char-ismatic young president who in-spired youths around the world to a deeply flawed one whose oratory outstripped his accomplishments.”

But for all the criticism now surrounding JFK’s name, there is an aspect of his legacy of his that needs no defense: Kenne-dy’s championing of American youths’—especially college stu-dents’—service to those less fortu-nate than themselves. In October of the 1960 presidential campaign, then-Senator Kennedy spoke to 10,000 energized students at the University of Michigan, asking them: “How many of you, who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Tech-nicians or engineers, how many of

you are willing to work in the For-eign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world?”

Senator Kennedy’s challenge to students, that they dedicate part of their lives to the American ideal of serving those in need around the world lead to the creation of the Peace Corps, an initiative that amassed the petitioned sup-port of thousands of young Americans before the organization’s of-ficial establish-ment in 1961. American stu-dents immedi-ately respond-ed; in the 1960s, over 20,000 col-lege students vo lu nte e re d with the Peace Corps, working hand in hand with local people to improve living condi-tions world-wide.

But much has changed in this regard since Ken-nedy’s presi-dency, and recent statistics prompt con-cern about the priority of global service to the American youth.

In the last 42 years, 210,000 young men and women have served with the Peace Corps in 139 countries, combatting health dilemmas and working to develop local business. But there has been

a dramatic drop-off in participants in recent years—only 8,000 Amer-icans are currently registered as volunteers with the program.

In the highly-com-petitive and in-creasingly-con-n e c t e d

world in which we live, there is no doubt that American students are under more pressure than ever to gain the skills they need for gainful employment.

Data dump: what new mathematical methods mean for social sciences

Thanks to the work of popular social science authors like Steven Levitt of Freakonomics and Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, data analysis is a hot new trend in social science. Unfortunately, not every-one can be a Silver or a Levitt.

Objective, data-driven research can help to clarify much in the social sciences, but scientists who jump onto these new methods with little statistical training or rigor do their disciplines a disservice. Ob-jective study is very important to social science, but so is traditional, subjective observation and we must remember that many of the social sciences were founded the develop-ment of regression analysis.

Academics, and we who encoun-ter their work, must be careful to receive statistical information with a health skepticism.

“Correlation does not imply causation!” Anyone who has taken a statistics class or any data-driven course, has heard this phrase (of-ten from a professor who is con-stantly peeved by people conflating the two concepts). Depending on the professor’s exasperation level, it is possible that she just finished reading a social science journal.

Granted, it’s relatively rare that an article will openly claim cau-sation where there’s none to be found, but implicit claims often lurk. And even in instances where causation is not claimed, some researchers dive no further into a topic after determining correla-tion. Correlation can tell us quite a lot, but we cannot pretend to understand an issue without deter-mining the causes behind it.

Correlative relationships are powerful rhetorical tools, and ev-eryone from self-styled Facebook pundits to Ph.Ds use them to try

cartels in central Kansas. Just because the causal relation-

ship is dubious doesn’t mean that it’s not great rhetoric. Correlative rela-tionships provide fantastic material for argument, but many of these ar-guments demonstrate just why sim-ple correlation shouldn’t be trusted as proof in academic research.

Causal relationships are shown by revealing the relationship be-tween correlated phenomena. Laboratory experiments are of lim-ited value in the social sciences, so such relationships are explored by examining the effect of one thing on another in real world context.

In many cases, researchers will accept statistical correlation as causation if there is a theoretical or cultural rationale for it—though they may sometimes do so to their own detriment.

For instance, I recently read an academic paper detailing the re-lationship between a Paraguayan’s native language and her educa-tional and economic achievement. The paper claimed that speaking Guaraní, the country’s most wide-ly-spoken language, has measur-able effect on—not just correlation with—achievement.

This phenomenon is culturally possible—the Guaraní language has the stigmatized reputation as be-ing backwards and less value than Spanish, the dominant language in Paraguay’s economy.

However, the researchers failed to control for their subjects’ socio-economic backgrounds. Socioeco-nomic background and language are no doubt strongly correlated, but both are also show strong cor-relation with achievement. With-out controlling for that variable,

as an impressively illustrative of the way that distorted or incomplete in-formation can create a gap between perception and reality.

Émile Durkheim, who found-modern sociology and shaped the structure of many modern social sciences, made these contributions to human understanding before mathematical analysis of huge data troves was de rigeur. Today’s so-cial scientists would do well to re-member that some of the best work done in their disciplines was com-pleted without the use of sohpisti-cated mathematical models.

Tim Groseclose, a professor at UCLA, observed that the social scientists who were mose effective-ly using quantitative methods often had a background in economics. I agree with Groseclose, but would expand this category to include all scientists with rigorous statistical or mathematical training.

However, the researchers best at analyzing troves of data will not necessarily be those who produce the best results in social science. The social sciences need academ-ics to interpret our world through logical analysis and thoughtful case studies and number-crunch-ers to filter through huge swaths of data and conduct rigorous analy-sis. What the fields do not need is flawed statistical study that con-tributes little to humanity’s under-standing of itself.

RIGHT ON POINT

GABRIEL FRANKEL

KICKING THE CAN

DAVID STEURY

American students, by and large, lack the international experience, cross-cultural understanding and foreign language skills to success-fully compete in this globalized

society, and the kind of inter-national service heralded by

Kennedy could, for many, represent a step toward

acquiring such skills. Furthermore, while a college degree has become essential to many high-flying ca-reers, I wonder, if that kind of status is really

all there is to a full and rewarding

life? JFK and his broth-ers could c e r t a i n l y have lived the glam-orous and easy life of the rich, but

were instead compelled to help others less fortunate than them-selves.

But there are encour-

aging signs. In the last 20 years the

number of American students studying abroad

has tripled, and that number continues to rise; last year,

238,232 US students studied abroad—a 3 percent gain from

the previous year. However, if one takes a closer

look, that’s really only 10 percent of the American college students. And these American students are going abroad, on average, for a shorter periods than the interna-tional students coming here. Last

Objective, data-driven research can help clarify much in social

science, but scientists need to jump onto these new methods quickly, or do their disciplines a disservice.

Correlative relationships provide fantastic material for argument, but many of these arguments demon-strate why simple correlation can’t be trusted in academic research.

to prove points. One familiar ex-ample is the oft-repeated claim that areas with high rates of gun ownership have comparably lower crime rates than those with lower gun ownership rates. This is true. But is it a causal relationship? Doubtfully.

Areas with high gun ownership tend to be rural areas that would see low crime regardless of the size of its weapons cache—there are, after all, few multinational drug

among others, it is impossible to know whether Paraguayans’ moth-er tongues truly influence their economic or educational success.

Cases like this bolster the ar-gument that nuanced social and economic issues are perhaps bet-ter examined through more quali-tative analyses than with complex mathematical models.

Western social and political thought is to this day heavily influ-enced by the discoveries of the an-cient Greeks and Romans; the great minds of these societies used little more than description and alle-gory to illustrate psychological and philosphical insights that remain relevant to this day. Political and social thinkers still cite Socrates’s allegory of the cave, for example,

year, 819,644 foreign students came to the U.S. and the top three countries represented—China, South Korea, and India—comprise some of our biggest competition on the international job market.

How can we ensure our country’s future when we’re so outmatched in this ratio of cultural exchange? It’s bad enough that only 30 per-cent of Americans own passports.

The College’s Office of Off-cam-pus study does an excellent job of encouraging its students to study and serve abroad. Each year, ap-proximately 230 Bowdoin students study away and by graduation more than half of each graduating class will have studied overseas. But, unfortunately, most Ameri-can college students don’t follow suit. Most of them enter college with rudimentary foreign language skills and little curiosity about the world around them.

Outside of the U.S. university system, initiatives do exist to en-courage students to study aborad, such as the “100,000 Strong” pro-gram established in 2009 by the State Deparment to increase the number and diversify the makeup of American students studying in China. We need several more pro-grams like this to demonstrate the merits of international and cross-cultural experiences.

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can for your country.”

I might have been born 32 years after JFK’s death, but his 1961 exor-tation still strikes a powerful chord with me. There has always been a strain of xenophobia in this coun-try, and in Congress in particular. Putting our heads in the sand has never worked as foreign policy, but this sentiment will only change if American youth seize the global opportunities available to them.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NOVEMBER16 !"# $%&'%() %*(#)! +*(',-, )%.#/$#* 01, 2304

LECTURE23 24 25 26 27 2822 FESTIVAL

Men’s Summit Bowdoin Concert Band

Thanksgiving

HOLIDAYDISCUSSION

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

TAKE A BOW: The Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra performed last Saturday under the direction of Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez (center).

15FRIDAY

ACTIVITY48 Hour Film FestivalStudents will spend the weekend making their own movies on the theme “déjá vu” and will show them in the Bowdoin Film Society’s 48 Hour Film Festival next week-end. Email ifranks@bowdoin.edu or mdas@bowdoin.edu if you are interested. Friday to Sunday.

COMMON HOURKurt Eichenwald P’14Kurt Eichenwald P’14, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, senior writer at Newsweek, former investigative reporter for the New York Times and bestselling author will give a lecture about his career as an award-winning writer.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

FILM“Persepolis”The Bowdoin Film Society will screen this 2007 adap-tion of Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel about a young girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

OPEN MIC NIGHT“What’s Not to Love”Bowdoin Student Government will host an Open Mic Night to showcase a diversity of talents on campus as part of No Hate November. Email nvazquez@bowdoin.edu for a time slot. Jack Magee’s Grill. 7:30 p.m.

51°33°

TMDIN

NER LONDON BROIL, POLLOCK

BAKED ZITI, CHICKEN BURGERS 16SATURDAY

LECTUREProject Blue CollarKristin Waters ‘89 will give a lecture on Project Blue Collar-Support the Underdog, a movement to remove the stigma surrounding shelter dogs. Banister Hall, McKeen Center. 3 p.m.

FILM“Lucky Number Slevin” The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2006 thriller starring Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman as two feud-ing crime lords and Bruce Willis as a mysterious hitman. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

17SUNDAY

FILM“Five Dances” Frontier will screen Alan Brown’s new ! lm about an 18-year-old dancer from Kansas who moves to the city and joins a small modern dance company, launching his career as a professional dancer. Frontier Café. 2 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.

EVENTThe Senior Etiquette Dinner The Career Planning Center will sponsor a dinner hosted by Karen Mills to teach seniors proper etiquette. The dinner will also take place on Monday. Lancaster and Main Lounges, Moulton Union. 5 p.m.

52°43°

PORK LOIN, VEGGIE STIR FRYCHICKEN MARSALA, ROAST PORK

TM

51°30°

SPAGHETTI, SEAFOOD SCAMPITACO BAR, BAJA FISH TACOS

T M

19TUESDAY

LECTURE Accra Shepp Artist TalkThe Brooklyn-based photographer and professor will speak about his recent work, including images of New York and Occupy Wall Street. Shepp will teach two classes at Bowdoin next semester. Room 115, Edwards Arts Center. 7 p.m.

SPORTING EVENT Women’s Basketball v. EndicottThe women’s basketball team will kick o" the winter ath-letic season with a home game against Endicott College. The team looks to eclipse their success in the 2012-2013 season, which ended at the NESCAC Semi! nals. Morrell Gym. 7 p.m.

18MONDAY

LECTUREWinter of Arab Discontent As’ad AbuKhalil, professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, will discuss current political trends in the Middle East. AbuKhalil has authored several books about the Middle East and its relationship with the United States. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

18MONDAY

19TUESDAY

20WEDNESDAY POLARISRound 2 Registration Begins 7 a.m. to Friday at 5 p.m.

EVENTRed Cross Blood DriveThis will be the second drive of the 2013-2014 school year. Visit redcrossblood.org to ! nd out if you’re eligible to donate. Smith Union. 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

21THURSDAY

CONCERTChamberfest The Department of Music will sponsor two student cham-ber concerts featuring brass, string and piano ensembles. Studzinski Recital Hall. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

36°22°

MAHI MAHI, PUMPKIN PATTIESBLACK PEPPER CHICKEN, SALMON

TM

55°34°

CHICKEN PARM, SPAGHETTICHICKEN PARM, MUSSELS

TM

42°24°

ROASTED HAM, MAC N’ CHEESEFRIED CHICKEN, KOREAN BEEF BBQ

TM

39°25°

BBQ PORK RIBS, VEGGIE BURRITOMAC N’ CHEESE, TURKEY STEAKS

TM

CONCERT

48 Hour Film Festival