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Sinead Lamel ‘15 on a Jewish American’s perspective on Israel-Palestine.

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Katherine Churchill ‘16 discusses Americanness and Colin Swords ‘15 refl ects on what he will take with him after graduation.

New Head Football Coach JB Wells brings along two coordinators.

MORE NEWS: MEN’S SUMMITBowdoin’s third annual men’s summit prompts conversation on campus about what it means to be a man.

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Dean Judd to leave Bowdoin for Mellon Foundation

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Luke Cleary ‘18 reads the letter announcing his admittance into Helmreich House for the 2015-2016 school year at the Mail Center on Thursday afternoon. The Offi ce of Residential Life released all College House decisions via campus mail on Thursday after a two-month review of students’ applications. This year, 270 students applied for a total of 201 spots in the eight College Houses.

Mills sits down at divestment sit-in

On campus, political correctness is growing concern

McKesson ’07 discusses Twitter activism and the purpose of protestPlease see JUDD, page 4Please see POLITICAL, page 4

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WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON: President Barry Mills answers Bowdoin Climate Action’s (BCA) questions about the College’s stance on fossil fuel divestment outside his offi ce in Hawthorne-Longfellow Hall last night. The meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, came during the second day of BCA’s sit-in, which BCA plans to continue indefi nitely.

Dean for Academic Affairs Cris-tle Collins Judd will leave the Col-lege at the end of August to become the Senior Program Officer in the Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities Program for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City.

The Foundation offered the posi-tion to Judd over Spring Break, and after careful consideration and dis-cussions with President Barry Mills and President-elect Clayton Rose, Judd decided to accept the position, beginning on September 1.

“This is an opportunity that came to me unbidden,” said Judd. “The foundation reached out to me at the start of Spring Break.”

Judd said her new position will have a lot in common with her cur-rent role at the College.

“One of the things I love, have loved, and continue to love at Bow-doin has been the creative thinking and big program thinking about broad issues in higher education and that’s the essence of this new job,” she said.

Judd has been the dean for aca-demic affairs and a professor of music at the College since 2006. Her duties include oversight and support of all the academic depart-ments as well as responsibility over faculty, libraries and the museums. Judd is also responsible for much of the communication that comes out of the academic affairs office.

Judd has been instrumental in many of the College’s enhancement initiatives, including the Digital

Sixty nine percent of respondents to a recent survey conducted by a class taught by Associate Professor of Government Michael Franz indi-cated that they believe that political correctness is a ‘problem at Bow-doin currently.’

Th e respondents represented an even distribution of class years and genders, and were numerous enough to represent the broader Bowdoin community.

Students’ individual definitions of political correctness vary, but the survey indicates that students are unhappy about the level of po-litical correctness on campus. Some students the Orient spoke with ar-gued for political correctness, while others said that it has become diffi-cult to voice a minority opinion on campus.

“It seems to me that people have this idea that there is this pervasive force among Bowdoin students that is the language police,” said James Jelin ’16, who writes a column for the Orient. “And if you say anything that doesn’t gel with the currents of appropriateness that you’re sud-denly going to be exiled from the Bowdoin community.”

The survey also asked about Cracksgiving and the Inappropri-ate Party, two recent events that have sparked discussion about the necessity of political correct-ness. Twenty seven percent of re-spondents approved of the way the College handled Cracksgiving, 47 percent did not approve, and 25 percent felt they did not have enough information to say. Thirty

President Barry Mills took a seat in the middle of Bowdoin Climate Action’s (BCA) sit-in for fossil fuel divestment last night and debated with protesters for over an hour, reiterating that the College has de-cided not to divest, explaining why it made that choice, and taking questions from about 25 assembled students.

BCA has been occupying the sec-ond floor of Hawthorne-Longfel-low Hall, which houses Mills’ office, since Wednesday morning, pledg-ing not to leave until the Board of Trustees commits to divestment. A handful of students have contin-ued the sit-in overnight, sleeping outside Mills’ office last night and Wednesday night.

On August 16, seven days aft er Mi-chael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo., DeRay McKesson ’07 left every-thing and drove to St. Louis. He did not know a single person in the city and initially planned to stay for three days just to witness what was happening in the aft ermath of Brown’s death.

He ended up staying for much lon-ger, sleeping on the couch of another Bowdoin alum and using social media,

primarily Twitter, to share stories of pro-tests against police violence and racism.

He now has over 76,000 follow-ers on Twitter and is nationally rec-ognized for his work in St. Louis. McKesson received the Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award and was named one of the world’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine.

Before his experiences in St. Louis McKesson had worked as a sixth grade math teacher in Brooklyn, at the Harlem Children’s Zone and had started an aca-demic enrichment center in Baltimore.

McKesson spoke to close to 300 students, faculty, staff and commu-nity members last night in Kresge Auditorium.

He began his talk by remarking about his understanding of the Off er of the College.

“It has always been such a radical promise about what education can be and what a society can be,” said McKes-son. “When I think about coming back here of all the places that I have been fortunate enough to speak about the protests it means something particular

to me mostly because of what I believe the Off er promises.”

McKesson was quick to juxtapose the Off er of the College with the American dream. He pointed out that the Ameri-can dream is rooted in violence against people of color and is something “that has been a dream too oft en and not an off er” for oppressed groups of people in this country.

Th e bulk of McKesson’s talk fo-cused on fi ve concepts and how they relate to his work in St. Louis: prox-imity, storytelling, redefi ning the win,

pressure and allyship.McKesson shared many of his tweets

and videos from his time in St. Louis. He spoke about how when he started out in St. Louis he used Twitter as a way to work through his own feelings about the protests. Twitter evolved into a means for him to bring the story of the protests to a wider audience.

“Some of what I do is tell the story. Some of what I do is amplify the story,” said McKesson.

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“I really like when it’s really muddy and it smells really gross outside. You feel

like you have to worry about [the mud] infi ltrating you.”

Nick Barnes ’18

STUDENT SPEAKWhat are you most excited about this spring?

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“I feel like spring doesn’t actually exist at Bowdoin. It’s winter, and then mud, and

then summer.”

Tucker Gordon ’17

“Rabbits.”

Maggie Seymour ’16

DING DONG DITCH:Where did the Chapel bells go?

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTMODEL CITIZENS: The Upright Citizens Brigade, a travelling improv comedy troupe based out of New York City, performed for students in Kresge last Saturday.

BY THE NUMBERS

1515bells currently in South Tower

years since the bells were first installed

1111bells made by Meneely and

Co. in 1923“Feeling like Blair Waldorf sitting on the museum steps. I do that every

year, and I judge people as they walk by.”

Molly Soloff ’15

In celebration of the return of the Cha-pel bells that provide a soundtrack to the daily lives of Bowdoin students and underscore each day with chimes, here are some statistics about the bells.

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For many months this winter, Bowdoin’s campus felt starkly silent every quarter hour, but no one could fi gure out why. Th ere was a strange sort of feeling as students moved from class to class, their chatter un-accompanied. But then, the spring came, and all of the sudden every-one realized what had been miss-ing: the chapel bells, and now they are back in business.

For the fi rst time since the bell towers were rebuilt in 2002, the bells ceased to play this winter due to the extreme conditions.

“When it was so cold and snowy, [the bells] got fainter and fainter, and we fi nally looked into it. Indeed, it was just so cold the belfry was full of snow,” said Delmar Small, the con-cert, budget and equipment manager for the music department,

According to Small, the bells are played by electromagnetic solenoids that cause that clapper to hit the bell.

“Th ere was ice built up on those magnetic surfaces, so the surfaces weren’t really being hit,” said Small. “Nothing happened, essentially.”

Once Small discovered the ice problem, he turned the bells off .

“Instead of getting this feeble sort of every another note thing, we just waited until it warmed up a little and then they were fi ne again,” said Small.

Th e bells began to fade around the time Maine was hit with Winter Storm Juno, and stayed muffl ed, but now that the faithful chimes have returned, they have quite a season ahead of them.

Th e bells have about 60 to 80 songs in their repertoire, but typically only play a dozen or so. Every quarter hour, campus is treated to the West-minster Chime, and on Fridays at two in the aft ernoon, “Simple Gift s” plays, in the hope of inspiring a mo-ment of meditation across campus.

For Commencement, the bells will be inspected and then put to use to play Raise Songs to Bowdoin for the graduates. Th e Class of 2015 will then walk off the Quad and move on to other pastures, where their lives aren’t musically accompanied every quarter hour.

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History department to change major requirements

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SLEEP IN: Jamie Ptacek ‘17 and Jennings Leavell ‘17 camp out on the fl oor outside of President Barry Mills’ offi ce in Hawthorne-Longfellow Hall on Thursday night. Ptacek and Leavell are among the approximately 25 students participating in Bowdoin Climate Action’s (BCA) sit-in to encourage fossil fuel divestment,.

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

The College’s Curriculum Im-plementation Committee (CIC) is currently reviewing and approving two considerable changes to the History major.

The history department has pro-posed to reduce the number of re-quired non-Western courses from four to three. It has also proposed to eliminate the stipulation that students must take three upper-level seminars across two fields and instead only require that students take three upper-level seminars in any field of study they choose. Fields of study in-clude Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, Unit-ed States, Atlantic Worlds and Colo-nial Worlds.

If the CIC ap-proves the chang-es, they will be effective for all current and new majors beginning next fall.

Chair of the Department of History and As-sociate Professor of History Dallas Denery said the changes were a result of student and faculty opinion that the cur-rent requirements, implemented five years ago, were too stringent. There were 47 history majors in the class of 2009, making it the third most popular major. There are 26 history majors in the class of 2015, leaving it tied as the seventh most popular major.

“The main reason to change the major is because a number of stu-dents and a number of faculty in the history department, acting as their advisors, had been finding it dif-ficult to make sure students could navigate the major,” said Denery.

The history department con-ducted a survey of majors, minors and students in history courses and found that these were the ar-eas with which students had the most trouble.

“It was difficult for students particularly to fulfill those two re-quirements,” said Denery.

Th ese requirements were imple-

mented in order to ensure a breadth in the courses students took. Denery stated that aft er adding the require-ments, the major became too diffi -cult for students to complete.

Discussions on the changes in the major have been in the works for about a year but did not get se-rious attention until the summer of 2014.

“We wanted to wait to see how the current major worked out, but student frustration with the major didn’t seem to go away so last sum-mer we had a series of meetings that these changes were a major fo-cus of,” said Denery.

Th e depart-ment spoke about it informally throughout the fall semester and at a staff meeting early this semester the department voted overwhelm-ingly in favor of the changes. Th ey then submitted the changes to the CIC and are now awaiting approval.

“We don’t fore-see many prob-lems with it,” said Denery.

Reactions to the change have been very positive.

“I’m really ex-cited,” said junior Allyson Gross, a double major in History and Gov-ernment and Legal Studies.

Gross said that it was diffi cult to pick courses because there was so much structure around which cours-es fulfi lled which requirements.

“Lessening it is going to help me fulfill the rest of my requirements,” Gross said. “I was potentially going to drop down to a minor, but if that is what is going to happen, I can ab-solutely keep it.”

Sophomore Benjamin Bristol is also pleased with the changes, particularly the reduction in non-Western course requirements.

“The [reduction of non-Western history class] requirements is part of the reason I declared a history major,” said Bristol, who officially became a history major in Febru-ary. “My interest is mainly in the Western realm so the thing keep-ing me from being a history major was the four class [non-Western] requirement.”

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Mills argued that divestment was a symbolic tactic that would dam-age the College’s finances without creating meaningful change.

“We don’t think that the trade is worth it because frankly—as you all admit on your signs—this is a tac-tic,” he said. “The result from the tactic is incredibly burdensome to the College.”

Matthew Goodrich ’15, an orga-nizer of the sit-in, disputed Mills’ claim that divestment would be ineffective, pointing to the 1980s movement to divest from apartheid South Africa.

“In 1986 a bipartisan Congress overrode President Reagan’s veto of the anti-apartheid sanctions act be-cause of the divestment movement,” he said. “It builds the political man-date for a carbon tax, and that’s why we’re doing it.”

“I hear it. We just don’t agree,” said Mills. “Well, we don’t agree, and that’s why we’re here,” re-sponded Goodrich. It was the first of several moments when Mills and the BCA protesters simply did not agree.

Mills also argued that in order to divest the roughly 1.5 percent of the endowment that is invested in fos-sil fuels, the College would have to stop giving its money to some of its highest-performing external fund managers.

“The tactic results in this College losing hundreds of millions of dol-lars and puts at risk all of the other things that we do for the common good,” he said.

Senior Vice President for Invest-ments Paula Volent estimated in 2013 that divestment would cause the College to lose $100 million over a ten-year period.

Michael Butler ’17 asked if the College would still lose millions of dollars if it invested in fossil-free funds created by firms like Cam-bridge Associates. Mills said that it would, citing a study conducted by Cambridge Associates in 2013, which found that if Pomona Col-lege divested from fossil fuel com-panies, its endowment would grow by $485 million less over a ten-year period and would therefore gener-ate $66 million less for the College to spend.

The protesters then argued that investments in fossil fuel compa-nies undermined the College’s com-

mitment to the common good.“Is it appropriate for a university

to invest in fossil fuels?” Goodrich asked Mills.

“Sure,” Mills responded after a short pause.

“Well, there’s where we dis-agree,” said Goodrich. “The point of divestment is to align Bowdoin values, right? We are the College for the common good. The Col-lege is something more than just a business model seeking profit at any cost. The College is a place of education and a place of values that has existed for a very long time, and Bowdoin is particular in that we have made it our mission to further the common good, and that role, I think, is being under-mined by our investments in the fossil fuel industry.”

Several students noted that a number of other schools have com-mitted to divestment in some form. The University of Maine recently announced its plan to divest, while Stanford and most recently Syra-cuse have pledged to end their di-rect investments in fossil fuel com-panies. Mills said that some of these schools’ announcements have been “cynical” and will have little to no actual impact.

“I don’t think it was real,” he said. “I don’t believe that any of those schools that divested, that said they will not directly hold fos-sil fuel stocks—I bet if you investi-gate those schools they don’t hold

a nickel of stock of any company [directly].”

Bowdoin does not have any di-rect investments in fossil fuel com-panies, according to Mills.

Hugh Ratcliffe ’15, who said he was looking for the “middle ground,” suggested that Bowdoin announce that it will not directly invest in fossil fuels in the future, which would give the divestment movement more political clout without damaging the College’s en-dowment.

“I don’t believe in taking politi-cally easy stands that don’t mean anything,” Mills told Ratcliffe.

Monique Lillis ’17 asked for more engagement from the College and said that BCA’s request for a working group involving students, faculty members and trustees was a reasonable one. Mills responded that the demand for a working group put the College in an unfair position, since it presupposed that the College would divest.

“If you just read the demand that you’ve created, that you sent to the Trustees, you didn’t write, let’s create a working group to discuss whether this is a good idea,” Mills said. “You wrote, we want a work-ing group to work toward divest-ment. Since we don’t agree, you’re asking us to create a working group to do something, which we don’t agree to.”

BCA said that it still plans to continue its sit-in.


WIRED: Elizabeth Kenny ‘16 works on her computer to pass time during BCA’s sit-in outside President Mills’ offi ce. Kenny was one of several students who spent the night sleeping over in Hawthorne-Longfellow Hall in a demonstration to encourage the College to divest from fossil fuels. BCA plans to continue the sit-in indefi nitely.


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Ladd House recently announced it will not host its annual Inap-propriate Party. Which of the below statements comes closest to

your view on the matter?

As you may be aware, Bowdoin Climate Action is currently campaigning to have Bowdoin divest its endowment from fossil fuel corporations. Based on

what you know about divestment, do you support this mission?

Yes, I believe Bow-doin should divest its

endowment.

Yes.

No.

No, I believe Bowdoin should not divest its endowment.

I don’t have enough information to say either way.

Students in Ladd House made the right call.

17.4%

47.2%

36.3%

25.4%

34.7%

5.2%23.8%

27.4%

38.3%

36.6%

7.7%I don’t have enough information to

answer this question.

Students in Ladd House unfortunately caved to

pressure from Res Life.I see the merits of both sides.

I need more information about divestment to decide.

I have no opinion on the topic.

Do you approve of the way the College handled the so-called “Cracksgiving” party last semester?

eight percent of respondents indi-cated that ‘students in Ladd house unfortunately caved to pressure from Res Life, ’17 percent believe the Ladd house residents “made the right call,” 37 percent said that they “see the merits of both sides” and eight percent said that they did not have enough information.

Director of the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Kate Stern feels that the limited dis-cussion surrounding these events is the bigger issue.

“I think people use the term po-litical correctness like a stop sign and then we don’t go past that,” Stern said. “We don’t talk about what the impact was of Cracks-giving on our Native American students. We just talk about the administration being politically correct. But we’re not getting to that next step.”

Yet many find it difficult to get to this next step, divided on whether political correctness is a neces-sary roadblock. Especially with the heated opinions surrounding events like Cracksgiving and the Inappropriate Party, it has become increasingly challenging to define political correctness as a protector or antagonist.

“[I think it’s] everyone’s responsi-bility to engage in conversation and to promote a space where political correctness doesn’t inhibit, but also protects those it is meant to pro-tect,” Michelle Kruk ’16 said. “I don’t think that being politically correct necessarily means censorship.”

Debate about Yik Yak mirrors the debate about political correct-ness, particularly in regards to cen-sorship. Some believe that Yik Yak provides a platform for students to speak their minds freely and voice potentially unpopular opinions.

“People feel more inclined to speak their minds when you don’t have to sign your name aft er it. If you feel comfortable speaking up for yourself there, then I would say go for it,” said Ned Wang ’18.

Stern echoed this attraction of anonymity and its accompanying low stakes.

“I think part of the PC back-lash—which I agree with—is that if we just don’t say it because we’re not allowed to say it, it doesn’t change how we’re thinking,” Stern said. “Th at feeling of I can’t say it, but I’m still thinking it, drives the conversa-tion to Yik Yak.”

Some people however, believe

that Yik Yak too easily allows for hurtful comments to be made. In a recent column in the Orient, Vee Fyer-Morrel ’15 warns that Yik Yak has led to particularly harmful com-ments with regard to body image, allowing people to “lash out from behind the anonymous comfort of a screen.”

While the anonymity of Yik Yak is lost in the classroom, some be-lieve political correctness remains prevalent there. Associate Profes-

sor of English and Africana Studies Tess Chakkalakal encourages “live-ly debate” in her classes, yet often finds political correctness hinder-ing discussion.

“I think that disagreement, de-bate, argument, is an important part not only of an academic institution like Bowdoin College but also of a democracy,” Chakkalakal said. “I encourage disagreement and I wor-ry that political correctness forces us to all agree, which I believe, and

according to that survey, we do not. We have diff erences of opinion that I believe should be voiced respect-fully—but voiced and not stifl ed.”

Many activist voices have not been stifl ed this year. Between BCA’s sit-ins and the Ferguson die-ins, activism on campus has been busy, perhaps contributing height-ened attention to open discussion.

Some people attribute the prob-lem of political correctness to cam-pus activists.

“I think a lot of the activists on campus are the biggest offend-ers,” Nick Mansfield ’17 said. “The people who think they are the most liberal free thinking people are the most intolerant ones. Most of the ones I’ve encountered have no de-sire to negotiate or understand the opposing viewpoint at all.”

Mansfield cites the hostility he has noticed towards people who take a pro-life stance as an example of people who are supposedly lib-eral taking an intolerant position.

“If you’re pro-life at Bowdoin you would get shot down in a hailstorm of bullets,” he said. “No one would really respect that viewpoint even though you’re perfectly entitled to it and you might have your reasons for it.”

Hayley Nicholas ’17 believes such a sentiment is a result of a lack of communication on campus.

“I don’t think it’s the activism it-self [perpetuating this divide,] it’s the lack of communication,” she said.

Nicholas referred to Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) as an ex-ample of a group failing to commu-nicate.

“The only problem that I have with BCA is that they realize that there’s a huge disconnect on cam-pus between students who want to divest and students who don’t, and I feel like they haven’t been trying to bridge that gap,” she said.

Yet Nicholas was careful not to attribute political correctness to ac-tivism.

“I think people confuse the terms activism and political correctness,” she said. “They think they’re one and the same.”

Jelin thinks the lack of communi-cation can be characterized differ-ently. He believes that campus dis-cussion has become too one sided, and opposing voices are plentiful but simply hesitant to engage.

“I think that all of the people who disagree with this primary dia-logue, they’re just not talking about it. Nobody else is writing letters to the editor in the Orient, nobody else is holding rallies,” Jelin said. “I think that there’s this fallacy that everyone at Bowdoin believes these things when really it’s just a small but vocal minority.”

The survey’s results clearly sup-port Jelin’s theory, considering the majority of the student body is un-satisfied with the current state of discussion. There is a clear desire to disagree and engage.

“I don’t think it’s the administra-tion’s responsibility,” Chakkalakal said. “I think it’s the students’. I put it on you.”

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and Computational Studies initia-tive.

President Mills informed the student body and faculty of her departure in an email sent out on Wednesday.

Mills stated that Judd, in her role as dean, is responsible for hir-ing almost 40 percent of the cur-rent faculty. She has worked hard to enrich the College’s arts pro-grams, environmental programs and coastal studies programs.

“It is difficult to overstate Cris-tle’s accomplishments and her contributions to Bowdoin,” wrote Mills. “She has led efforts to secure important grants; to introduce new support and opportunities for faculty development; and to foster a culture of engaged intellectual inquiry among students through

focused work on our curriculum, academic advising, and student fellowships and research.”

Apart from her duties as dean of academic affairs, Judd current-ly teaches Introduction to Music Theory. She has taught the course throughout her tenure at Bowdoin.

“I don’t think any dean at a place like Bowdoin should stop being active in their research and their classroom…that’s what the heart and soul of the place is about,” she said in a 2013 Orient article.

Judd says that this new posi-tion will allow her to continue the work she has been most passionate about at the College.

“I love Bowdoin. Bowdoin is so completely in my bones that this is all about the common good. In the same way that we talk about the right and the peculiar obligations,” said Judd. “What better way to see the common good than to be work-ing with a foundation that does so

much tremendous work to support the arts and humanities?”

The Andrew W. Mellon Founda-

tion donates about $250 million every year in the form of grants to enrich and enhance the arts and humanities across college cam-puses, including that of Bowdoin. The Foundation is responsible for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program and the Mel-lon Humanities Initiative that the College utilizes. It also funds part of the College’s post-doctoral pro-gram.

“The Andrew W. Mellon Foun-dation is an extraordinary organi-zation,” said Judd. “I’ve done a lot of work with them on the receiv-ing side. I’ve also been fortunate to work with them and to be in-vited when they were hosting some round tables.”

Judd said she is also looking for-ward to working with places like Bowdoin in a greater capacity.

“I’m thrilled at the opportunity to take all of the things I’ve learned at Bowdoin and to take all of the

COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS

CRISTALLIZED: After nine years at the College, Dean for Academic Aff airs Cristle Collins Judd will step down from her position in August to join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as senior program offi cer in the higher education and scholar-ship humanities program.

things that I learned before that at Penn [University of Pennsylvania]and be able to work with presi-dents, liberal arts colleges and big universities both nationally and internationally,” she said.

Before coming to the College, Judd was a professor at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania for thirteen years. She graduated magna cum laude from Rice University and re-ceived a master’s degree in musicol-ogy from the same university. She received a second master’s degree in music and her PhD from King’s College, University of London.

An active scholar, Judd’s many writings include the published the award-winning book “Reading Re-naissance Music Theory: Hearing With The Eyes.”

President-elect Rose will be in charge of finding Judd’s successor. Judd said she will remain at Bow-doin until August to help with the transition.

Crack House, Divestment and Being Inappropriate

In March, Associate Professor of Government and Legal Studies Michael Franz conducted a scientifi c survey to gauge the campus social climate. Close to 300 Bowdoin students responded.

Below are some notable results.

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Yes.

No.

I don’t have enough information to say either way.

68.4%

20.5%

11.1%

Some people think that Bowdoin administrators and many students too often override the facts and common sense in the name of political correctness. Is po-

litical correctness a problem at Bowdoin currently?

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Naculich wins national physics fellowship

Professor of Physics Stephen Nac-ulich was awarded a Simons Founda-tion Fellowship in Th eoretical Phys-ics in March. Naculich is one of 14 professors awarded the fellowship this year, and he is the fi rst physicist from a small college to receive the award. Th e fellowship supports re-search in mathematics and theoreti-cal physics, and is designed to fund the second half of a sabbatical.

“Bowdoin, like many colleges, al-lows professors to take sabbaticals every six or seven years to focus full time on their research,” said Nacu-lich. “Usually you’re eligible for a year, but you’re only funded for half of it. Th ere’s always the question of how to supplement that.”

Naculich will spend the year of his sabbatical working on research at the University of Michigan. He was ap-proached over the summer with an off er to spend the year there, and the Simons fellowship will allow him to do so.

Th e proposal Naculich presented in his application for the fellowship was entitled Amplitudes for Gauge Th eory, Gravity and String Th eory. Amplitudes are a property of waves on a subatomic level, and Naculich will spend the year trying to fi nd new and easier ways of calculating them.

“People have known how to cal-culate these amplitudes for a long time...but they’re very complicated in general,” he said. “One of the things we’re trying to do is under-stand some of the symmetries of

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

these theories better to be able to calculate the amplitudes either in a more effi cient way or even to calcu-late amplitudes that have never been calculated before.”

As a theoretical particle physicist, Naculich creates models to predict behaviors of subatomic particles. He’s the only theoretical physicist at the College and probably, he says, in the state of Maine. Th e University of Michigan, on the other hand, has a leading center for particle theory.

“I’m excited for the potential of face-to-face collaboration with

others in the field,” said Naculich. “I do interact with people through email, phone, going to conferences and stuff...this is an opportunity to have a collaborator down the hall instead of at the other end of the phone line.”

Naculich said that the fellowship gives him the opportunity to drop everything here at Bowdoin and take advantage of the resources available for particle physics at the University of Michigan.

“I’ll learn a lot—I’ll get a lot of done,” he said. “It’ll be a great experience.”

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

THE SCIENCE GUY: Professor of Physics and Astronomy Stephen Naculich received a Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics in March. Naculich was the fi rst physicist from a small liberal arts college to win the award. He will be using the money from the fellowship to fund research on particle physics at the University of Michigan during his sabbatical next year.

Men’s Summit prompts conversation about masculinity at Bowdoin, beyondBY SAM CHASEORIENT STAFF

Last Friday, 75 Bowdoin men sat down to discuss their feelings.

Th e meeting was the third-ever Bowdoin College Men’s Summit, an event designed to bring men together to discuss issues of masculinity, includ-ing its role on campus. Invitations to the event were not limited to students.

“We included faculty and staff who identify as men, and students got to pick those,” said Associate Dean of Stu-dent Aff airs and Director of the David Saul Smith Union Allen Delong, who helped organize the event. “So at every table at the men’s summit, it wasn’t just young men but also an older man to be part of the conversation.”

Th e event was led by keynote speak-er Dr. Frank Harris, an associate profes-sor at San Diego State University who has written extensively on the subject of masculinity. Much of his talk was about a concept of “good guys,” a term he uses to describe men who use leadership roles on college campuses to change their communities for the better.

“I think it went great,” said Delong. “One of the reasons is because Frank’s work is a little diff erent than some other people writing in the fi eld in that he doesn’t focus on boys behaving badly. Th ere are a number of people writing that. Th at’s not his research. He talks about culture changers and the simple things that you can do to be a good guy. I love that he is positive and makes it simple.”

Aft er Harris’ talk, the room broke into small groups to discuss the issues that had been presented.

Th e fi rst Bowdoin Men’s Summit took place in Spring 2012, when Sarah Levin ’13 arranged for Michael Kim-mel, professor at Stony Brook Univer-sity and author of “Guyland: Th e Peril-

ous World Where Boys Become Men,” to visit campus.

“Women wanted to be part of this conversation, and men wanted a more private conversation. We tried to cover that territory while Kimmel was here,” said Delong. “On the Th ursday night he did a speech in a packed Kresge, and that was for anyone who wanted to come. Th en he keynoted the men’s summit. Th at provided a sort of struc-ture that we used for the subsequent two men’s summits.”

Last year, Sam King ’14 led the ef-fort to organize a second Men’s Summit. Mark Tappan, a profes-sor at Colby and co-author of Pack-aging Boyhood: Saving our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Oth-er Media Stereo-types, led the discussion.

Th e event was brought back for a second consecutive year thanks to what Delong called a “groundswell” of stu-dent support.

“From an administrative perspec-tive, we were thinking we’d do it every two years. Some students said ‘We want to do it more oft en than that, and we want to do it this year.’”

A student committee consisting of Jarred Kennedy-Loving ’15, Oliver Klingenstein ’15, Jared Feldman ’16, Noah Salzman ’17, Tim Long ’17 and Greg Koziol ’17 organized the event.

For Klingenstein and Feldman, the Summit continued a conversation that they’ve been having since the begin-ning of the school year. Along with a fl uid group of approximately ten other male students, they have met on a weekly basis to discuss issues of mascu-linity under the simple name of Bow-

doin Men’s Group.Th e group originated in a discussion

group hosted by Brunswick resident Reverend Frank Strasburger, who came to campus in September to give a talk on the themes in his book “Growing Up: Limiting Adolescence in a World Desperate for Adults.”

“Th e talk was to be followed up by six Th ursday night discussion groups on topics in the book,” said Strasburg-er, whose children graduated from Bowdoin in 2007 and 2008. “Th e fi rst discussion group, an extraordinary

thing happened: Only guys showed up. Th at absolutely never happens. At the end of it, I said that we should recruit some women for next time. But that weekend, I emailed everyone and said ‘Maybe we shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Th ere aren’t that many men’s groups—maybe we should make a men’s group.’ Th e fol-lowing week they agreed.”

Strasburger has had a long and var-ied career in education and ministry, notably spending 11 years as Episcopal Chaplain at Princeton University and founding Princeton in Africa in 1999.

Both Feldman and Klingenstein were acquainted with Strasburger be-fore the fall. He presided over the mar-riage of Klingenstein’s parents, while Feldman met and bonded with him in a VIP Tires waiting room last spring.

“He came to one of our rugby games and was talking with my brother. My

brother mentioned he went to the Har-vey School [in Katonah, New York], and Frank was like, ‘Oh yeah, I was head of the upper school at Harvey.’ He’s that kind of guy.”

With Strasburger as facilitator, the Men’s Group spends Th ursday nights discussing any and all facets of mascu-linity and being a man at Bowdoin.

“It’s not like we have anything planned for these conversations,” said Klingenstein. “Maybe an idea, and sometimes an idea carries through the whole time, or sometimes someone ex-

presses something off of that that ev-eryone really wants to be talking about, and, boom, we go in a whole diff erent direction.”

“We had an in-teresting debate about what we thought men on

this campus were versus how men were expected to be outside this cam-pus,” said Feldman. “Th at question has been the foundation for a lot of our conversations.”

Th e group has a solid foundation of dedicated members, and Feldman said he believes the weekly and inti-mate nature of the discussions is to thank for that.

“It’s genuinely fun. It’s a fun conver-sation,” said Klingenstein. “It’s fun and light-hearted when we want it to be, and it’s intense and vulnerable when we want it to be.”

“We understand how hard it is to get people to come out at 7 p.m. on a Th ursday night, and we want to fos-ter a conversation that’s enjoyable and doesn’t feel like a classroom setting,” said Feldman. “No one wants to be in a class on a Th ursday night.”

Starting this week, Strasburger is

moving from his role of facilitator to one of an advisor.

“One of the things that I am con-cerned about and have expressed a number of times is whether my pres-ence inhibits conversation,” he said. “On the one hand, I see my job as to keep everybody honest, to push them past the nice things they think they ought to say to the things they re-ally feel. But at the same time, I’m 50 years older than anybody in the room and my place might formalize things a bit, while what we’re going for is an informal student conversation.”

“While we’re surprisingly open with [Strasburger] there, when we’re talking about issues of masculinity particularly on this campus, students can some-times open up more eff ectively without Frank there,” said Feldman.

“He has a wealth of knowledge that we can rely on,” Feldman added. “Our plan is to have a planning meeting with him once a week where the stu-dent leaders chat with him to discuss potential topics.”

As the group goes forward, the Men’s Group looks to balance the personal nature of its meetings with outreach eff orts. Among other ideas, Feldman mentioned a panel on masculinity fea-turing Bowdoin men that will be open to all students later this month.

“Future steps are still kind of up in the air, but for the remainder of this se-mester, we’re looking to solidify a dedi-cated group of people who are commit-ted to coming to Men’s Group,” he said. “In the back of my mind, I defi nitely have thought about what we’re going to do if we grow beyond 15, 20 people. Th at would be a great problem to have.”

“Th e group isn’t to necessarily change the school, it’s to facilitate a con-versation and not much beyond that,” said Klingenstein. “Th at’s proven to be amazing in and of itself.”

BSG reconsiders BCA’s charter, Ivies alternatives

Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) discussed possibilities for chem-free alternatives to Ivies, and decided not to revoke the charter of Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) at a meeting on Wednesday.

BSG spoke about the upcoming re-chartering of clubs with the close of the academic year. Notably, the ongo-ing BCA sit-in for divestment raised questions regarding the club’s charter. Controversy sur-rounding BCA and its status as a student group was also de-bated when former BSG president Sarah Nelson ’14 threat-ened to revoke the charter of Green Bowdoin Alliance in the spring of 2013. At the time, BCA was a subsidiary of Green Bowdoin Alliance and members of the group pitched a tent on the Quad to raise awareness of divestment.

“We could certainly speak with the club leadership over the next couple of weeks [regarding] their practices and whether or not they’re in line, but I don’t think BSG… revoking their char-ter would be constructive,” Josh Raff ’15 said.

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A student approached the Good Ideas Fund, which fi nances program-ming and project ideas independent from the usual club-funding process, with the idea for a chem-free alterna-tive to the party at Brunswick Quad on the Friday of Ivies. Th is event will likely occur on Dudley Coe Quad and include a variety of infl atables.

“Th e idea is people want to be out-side, but maybe they want to start off over there. Maybe they want to be able to go back and forth,” said BSG

President Chris Breen ’15.

BSG is also partnering with the Offi ce of Res-idential Life to organize a sepa-rate chem-free spring festival using the Good Ideas Fund.

In addition to the discussion s u r r o u n d i n g Ivies, Th e Enter-tainment Board addressed their

decision to cut Racer X from the line-up this year. Two of the professors have left , and there was minimal interest in the band from students according to the Ivies survey results.

BSG also discussed the upcoming Wellness Week for fi nals period, which will include massages, therapy dogs, yoga and the possibility of gelato.

Bowdoin Men’s Group

Meets Thursdays from 7-8 p.m. at the McKeen Study in Massachusetts Hall to discuss masculinity on and off campus.

“We could certainly speak with the club leadership

over the next couple of weeks [re-garding] their practices and whether

or not they’re in line, but I don’t think BSG...revoking [BCA’s]

charter would be constructive.”

JOSH RAFF ‘15


SECURITY REPORT: 3/26 to 4/2Th ursday, March 26• Th ree intoxicated local men

were ordered to leave campus aft er causing a disturbance at Jack Ma-gee’s Pub and Grill.

Friday, March 27• A student with a lacerated fi nger

was escorted from Chamberlain Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A student in Coleman Hall was cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

• Th ere was an alcohol law violation in Coleman Hall.

• A group of local youths skidding their bicycles on the synthetic turf fi eld caused surface damage.

• An offi cer spoke with a student at Baxter House who was creating a noise disturbance.

• Th ere was a hard alcohol policy violation at Brunswick Apartments.

• At 11 p.m., an employee at 216 Maine Street reported that a man in dark clothing exposed himself through a fi rst fl oor window. A sim-ilar incident occurred minutes later at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern. Th e Offi ce of Safety and Security and Brunswick Police Department (BPD) responded. Th e incidents are under investigation.

• Students roughhousing on the 14th fl oor of Coles Tower accidentally smashed a large exterior plate glass window. Some glass pieces fell to the sidewalk below and the area had to be cordoned off . A student took respon-sibility for the incident and he will be charged for the damage.

Saturday, March 28• Students

at Cham-berlain Hall were asked to reduce their noise level af-ter a complaint was received.

• A student was found to be responsible for severely vandalizing a door in Baxter House, result-ing in $500 in damage.

• An offi -cer checked on an in-toxicated student

who was walking on Harpswell Road.• Vandalism to basement walls was

reported aft er a registered event at Baxter House.

• A smoke alarm at Winthrop Hall was activated by burnt food in a microwave.

• BPD issued court summonses to three underage students who were in possession of alcohol on Park Row near Brunswick Apartments.

Sunday, March 29• A student at Ladd House with

an ankle injury was escorted to Mid Coast.

• An offi cer checked on the well-being of a student at Stowe Inn.

Monday, March 30• A hard alcohol policy violation was

reported at Brunswick Apartments.• The north door at Baxter

House was vandalized, causing $500 in damage.

• A sick student at Coles Tower was taken to Mid Coast.

Tuesday, March 31• A student driving carelessly in the

Dayton Lot knocked over a sign post and then left the scene of the accident. Security and BPD located the student and an accident report was fi led.

• A student accidentally activated a fi re alarm at Sargent Gym when a backpack made contact with the pull station mechanism.

• Loud noise was reported on the third fl oor of Chamberlain Hall.

Wednesday, April 1• A student reported that her car

mysteriously ended up on blocks while it was parked on Cleaveland Street.

Two students took re-sponsibil-

ity for the April Fools’

Day joke and made things right.

Thursday, April 2

• Offi cers r e s p o n d e d to a report of two students (a man and a woman) argu-ing at Stowe Inn.

—Compiled by the Offi ce of

Safety and Se-curity.

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DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

GRACE HANDLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NURTURER AND FRIEND: President Barry Mills and Deray McKesson ’07 share an embrace in Kresge Auditorium on Thursday night. McKesson spoke to students and community members about his experiencesas one of the leading Ferguson protesters, emphasizing the importance of Twitter activism.

He also emphasized the importance of showing tender, positive moments on Twitter. For example, he loves seeing couples in protest spaces.

“Th e stories we tell matter and if any-thing the protests have made me see that in a deeper way,” McKesson went on.

His talk was fi lled with personal an-ecdotes and remarks about how he used social media to tell stories that tradition-al news outlets were not reporting.

“Twitter allowed us to tell the sto-ry [of Ferguson] in real-time,” said McKesson.

“It allowed us to take back the narra-tive and when CNN wasn’t saying any-thing and when MSNBC wasn’t talking about it we actually got to push the nar-rative anyway,” he continued.

He said that when he fi rst arrived in St. Louis he was part of a group of pro-testers that was tear gassed by the police and that this experience helped to rede-fi ne his outlook on the protests early on.

“Th ere was this thing about being tear gassed in America that was so foreign to me,” said McKesson. “It was this notion that this is actually not the America that I know. Th is is not the America that I

love. Th is is not the America that I think is fair to people, and that was what made me make a diff erent choice about being in the work.”

McKesson stressed the importance of authentic commitment to protesting, saying that many people like to say that they are committed to social justice, but in actuality are not willing to really en-gage with the issues.

He related this commitment to the concept of proximity.

“When we talk about the protest spaces, we are saying that we stand with these families that have lost people; we stand with marginalized people and for us it was like putting our bodies on the line and saying here we are,” said McKesson.

He went on to explain how Twitter has enabled this sort of commitment from many diff erent types of people.

“What I am so proud about in the protest space is that Twitter specifi cally has allowed us to have a vertical com-munity where socioeconomic status is actually not that important anymore in terms of how people have come togeth-er,” said McKesson.

McKesson emphasized the diff erence between what he calls “the good and the necessary” and actual justice.

“Justice is either never experi-

encing the trauma at all or [justice] is accountability for people who perpetuate or initiate the trauma,” he said.

He cited the six resignations of vari-ous offi cials in Ferguson as “good and necessary,” but not as true justice for the people of Ferguson.

To conclude his talk, McKesson got to the heart of his protest ethos.

“We protest not to confi rm the worth of our lives. We know that our lives are worthy. We protest to expose the depth of the evil that we face,” said McKesson to a chorus of snaps from the audience.

His talk ended with a lengthy ques-tion and answer session, during which students asked questions ranging from how to reach out to groups of people on campus who have not yet decided to en-gage with issues of race to how he man-ages to stay positive when faced with intense resistance to his message.

Abby Roy ’16 asked him about how he views race education existing in the classroom today.

McKesson responded that the class-room is incredibly important to eff ective education about race.

“Twitter and the classroom are the last two radical spaces in America,” he said.

FEATURES the bowdoin orient 7friday, april 3, 2015

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTFIRESIDE CHATS: Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn is a collector of old photography and an avid hiker. Though he said he does not believe in fate, upon arriving at the College he discovered several artifacts connecting Bowdoin and his family in his parent’s home.

BY MIRANDA HALLSTAFF WRITER

Please see WINE, page 8

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN MILLERSTARTING STRONG: Pai Men Miyake’s brussel sprouts with a fi sh sauce vinaigrette base (right) are the restaurant’s most popular appetizer. The pork buns (front left) are also a big hit.

BRYCE ERVIN AND BRANDON OULLETTE

BOTTOM OF THE

BARREL

Real ramen on the rise at Pai Men Miyake

Meiklejohn refl ects on connections to Bowdoin through photos, artifacts

Simone Sauvignon Blanc: A training wheel wine bargain

BEN MILLER

BEN APPÉTIT

In 1890, photographer Guy Sho-rey took a photo of some men on a mountain. In the same year a young doctor by the name of Hen-ry Marble signed his diploma to graduate from medical school. Al-most a hundred years later, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Scott Meiklejohn uncovered the connections of these seemingly unimportant events to both him-self and to Bowdoin.

Meiklejohn has been at the Col-lege for almost eighteen years. He never saw coming to Bowdoin as fated, despite the clues he found that linked him, through time, to the College. He made these discov-eries through two of his favorite hobbies—hiking and collecting old black and white photos.

Meiklejohn loved growing up close to the mountains in New Hampshire and would often go hiking with his parents.

“We lived in a very ordinary town near Hartford, Connecticut origi-nally, but my grandmother had a place near the mountains in New Hampshire,” he said. “We visited there when we were children and eventually my parents moved there.”

His parents bought a home in the area, only two hours away from the base of the White Mountains. Th is house would prove to be the fi rst tie to both Guy Shorey and Henry Marble.

Meiklejohn told the story of his parents holding their wedding re-ception at what was then the Carl-

ton Brook Inn, where a member of the Marble family had lived. Fifteen years after the reception, his parents bought the inn and live there to this day.

“Aft er I started working at Bowdoin, we were looking in the basement and we found a diploma from the Medical School of Maine belonging to a man named Henry Marble,” he said.

The diploma is made with genu-ine sheepskin and Meiklejohn has kept it in his office as a memento since he started working here.

While it no longer exists today, when Henry Marble graduated from Bowdoin in 1870, the Medi-cal School of Maine was housed in Adams Hall.

Meiklejohn said he didn’t see

this first clue as a sign of his in-evitable arrival here at the College.

“I don’t know about that inevita-bility, but it’s been fun to find these connections” he said.

The second connection he found was also tied to his parent’s house. During his lifetime, Guy Shorey was well-known for creating post-cards that were often sold at local

inns. One of those inns was the Carlton Brook Inn.

“His studio was actually in-side the Inn’s tea house where the Inn served guest’s meals. Shorey’s studio was right there across the brook. He was just sort of a legend-ary figure that I knew about grow-ing up,” said Meiklejohn.

Meiklejohn said they always had photos lying around the house, but he really began to take interest in collecting them in his twenties and has been doing so ever since.

“I found a great one recently. It is a group of hikers on top of Mount Madison and one of the hikers is wearing a Bowdoin shirt. On the back of the post card it says it was taken one hundred years ago. I have it hanging in my house,” Meiklejohn said.

Certain photos like this one, which Meiklejohn found only three years ago, are particularly special.

“All of his photographs are of places that I know but the photo-graphs are all from one hundred years ago. My favorites are the ones that give you a sense of what it was like at a different time. I keep them in albums. Most of these moun-tains I’ve hiked so often that I feel that there are a set of images that I own in my head,” he said.

Meiklejohn views all of these connections to Bowdoin as just a wonderful chance occurrence.

“I don’t believe much in fate,” he said. “I think you make your own path and make your own choices but I certainly believe in good luck and I’ve been very lucky to make it here.”

Queso: check. Solo cups: check. Cheap-ass white wine: check. An-other successful Tuesday night in Tower 12B. While the presence of re-fi nement in these wine columns was questionable to start, it certainly will not be found at this late point in our senior year. Our fi rst assessment of our wine for this week was “this will be an experience,” and likely not an amazing one.

Why this reaction? We bought this bottle for only $4.99. Yes, you read that cor-rectly. We bought this wine for less than Sabra Hum-mus at the C-Store (don’t you love those mark-ups?). For better or for worse, this is what we have come to.

But there appears to be a light at the end of this dark, boozy tunnel. Our wine, Simone, a Sauvignon Blanc from Chile (certainly no California ar-senic for this column!), received 87 points and was labeled a best buy by

Wine Enthusiast. Naturally, we were quite surprised that anything so cheap could be rated so highly. Th e only little hiccup was the small print indicating that this award was actu-ally for the 2008 vintage, and our bottle tonight is from the ripe young year of 2013.

Despite the deceptive advertis-ing, Simone is actually quite tasty and not off ensive at all. It is hard to

gauge if our predilection for fi ne wines and purebred vintages has simply disap-

peared under the yearlong bombardment of under-$10

wines, but at this point we really don’t care. Th e wine tastes crisp and refreshing. It’s more or less exactly what you would want out of a cheaper Sauvignon

Blanc. While it is nearly impossible to smell anything

but plastic when the wine is in a solo cup, we could still make

out slight fruity notes with hints of citrus.

Th e color of the wine is a light silvery-gold akin to the inside of a pear, and the mouthfeel is smooth; we may even go so far as to say slightly eff ervescent. Th is is a great spring wine. Even though it seems

What a menu. Rarely before visit-ing Pai Men Miyake had a laminated sheet of white paper attracted my gaze so magnetically, but there I sat, devouring the list items with my eyes. While the boldfaced names and rea-sonable prices of Pai Men Miyake’s off erings had initially drawn me in, the breakdown of imaginative ingre-dients under each heading enticed me even further.

Th e spirit of experimentation is alive and well in chef Masa Miyake’s kitchen, but the menu steers clear of anything that could be called fusion. Instead, the restaurant’s wide variety of off erings communicates a strong sense of place: the culinary landscape of modern Japan.

When it comes to comfort food, the conversation too oft en seems to focus on familiarity: a taste of home, a fast food fl ashback, or almost any dish that would transport Guy Fieri to “fl avor-town.” Ramen, however, rarely gets the comfort-food respect it deserves. Th ough many Americans may under-stand an abstract concept of authentic Japanese ramen that doesn’t include MSG packets and microwave instruc-tions, the cheap version unfortunately dominates the collective conscious-ness on campus.

Over the past decade, real ramen has arrived stateside and developed a huge following in many American cities, and nearby Portland is no ex-ception. Less than two weeks aft er my return to Maine from New York City—the American ramen oasis I call home—a Friday night craving drove me to the front door of Pai Men Mi-yake with four hungry friends (Oriana Farnham ’15, Margaret Lindeman ’15, Emily Tucker ’15 and Callie Ferguson ’15) in tow. Callie came to Pai Men Miyake with a hidden agenda (an in-satiable thirst and an upcoming Ori-ent column, page eight ).

Aft er the waitress arrived at our long-awaited four-top table to take in Callie’s short sermon on hopped bev-erages, ever-astute Margaret invoked the magic words: “Ben, you should just to order for all of us.” Aft er a mo-ment of feigned uncertainty, I readily rattled off some appetizers and my cu-rated ramen choices, which I tailored to suit the respective Myers-Briggs profi les and dietary restrictions of my dining companions.

“Oriana will have the kimchi beef ramen, Callie should get the miso, and

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Pai Men Miyake’s creative beer list inspires WINECONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

MIYAKECONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

I stood before a big chalkboard on the wall opposite the foyer of the res-taurant—the menu—like it was a great painting. My eyes descended the list, clinging to each item like a rung on a ladder; in reaching the bottom, the menu had become a stack of tough de-cisions. Th is menu had been cultivated to appeal to a diverse range of palates. Among the staples were surprises, more uncommon fi nds that suggested the restaurant’s desire to provide its patrons with novelty as well as quality. But despite the range and va-riety, the items on the menu were united in their commit-ment to a sense of place: the Portland beer scene.

Th e menu, or draught list, at Pai Men Miyake—where I found myself coming for dinner and drinks this past Friday—embodies Port-land’s enthusiasm for craft beer in its selection of lo-cal Maine beers as well as interna-tional craft s from countries like Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and California (yes, I include Califor-nia, whose brewing prowess makes it a kind of beer “country”). Portland is a beer drinker’s Epcot in its stylistic and geo-graphic diversity, and Pai Men, though a Japanese restaurant, embraces the spirit of Portland’s diversity.

So yes, decisions, decisions. Luck-ily, I didn’t have to make many, as I brought along with me a troop of tast-ers: three other senior ladies who had consented to tackling the taps with me. We also had Ben with us, a sophomore and our designated driver, but also a self-described “serious eater.” You can read his column on page seven to see for yourself. While I stood slacked-jawed before the draught list, he stood with his nose in the air, commenting on how good the place smelled. Th e place smelled like yummy soup.

Besides the perfunctory addition

CALLIE FERGUSON

GRAIN TO GLASS

how about the veggie-based broths for Margaret and Emily,” I proclaimed as their beers arrived.

Th e waitress seemed unsettled—either by my personalized ordering style or my domineering represen-tation of the patriarchy—but I just smiled and took a rejuvenating sip of my yuzu lemonade.

Th ough all the appetizers arrived to-gether aft er a very short wait, I suspect-ed that one would disappear long before the others. Th e crispy brussels sprouts are Pai Men’s most popular starter for a reason; with a punchy fi sh sauce vinai-grette base and aromatic cameos from cilantro and mint, every crunchy leaf is a beautiful battle between fl avor and tex-ture. Even beer-fi xated Callie stopped sipping and piped in, describing the sprouts as “downright silly…like in a good way.” Th is dish is a successful ex-periment to say the least, and seems like the groundbreaking solution to convert sprouts naysayers for good.

like we’re still in the depths of win-ter, there are signs that spring has fi -nally sprung. Perhaps this wine will become a spring staple in our room.

In terms of taste, this wine was quite good. We honestly don’t know if the pleasing aft ertaste was the que-so or the wine (Brandon found that it had nice oakiness), but in either case we really enjoyed it.

All in all, this wine surprised us. We went into it with fairly low ex-pectations that were quickly sur-passed. Maybe this is a sign for Bot-tom of the Barrel that it’s time for us to drop the queso and start pairing with better options. Or maybe it’s a sign that the queso is making every-thing better. As the weather begins to match our Senior Spring attitude, we’re likely to believe in the latter. Graduation is swift ly approaching (hello cap and gown order forms, and LOL to registering for classes or

entering the lottery), and this means that we only have a few short weeks left to enjoy life in college. Honestly, there’s no better way to savor this time than to hang out with friends over a bottle of wine and snacks. We’ll drink to that.

Additional Notes: Brandon: “I feel like this wine is

a good training wheel wine. It’s pre-paring me for my future life of guz-zling Sauvignon Blanc at every avail-able opportunity.”

Bryce: “While 87 points may be

generous, a couple bottles of this could make a nice spring sangria.”

Nose:Mouthfeel:Body:Taste: Get your hands on Simone while

it’s still at a crazy low sale price! Shaw’s: $4.99.

Among the other appetizers were two hearty savories to whet even the most ravenous omnivore’s palate. Th e hamayaki, which centers on a sizeable mix of broiled scallop and crab, stuff s an overwhelming amount of fl avor into a scallop shell by combining the sweetness of eel sauce and Japanese kewpie mayo with truffl e oil and sticky rice. Th e result is a rich, if heavy, way to start a meal.

Th e relatively straightforward pork buns, however, are not to be missed. Th e perfectly simple mix of tender pork belly, pepper relish, and a dab of subtly spicy gojuchang (chili) mayo on two pillowy steamed buns made for some truly transcendent bites. Every-one at the table wanted a taste, but aft er returning from my porky plane of exis-tence, I noticed Oriana’s quiet dismay at the disappearance of bun number two. Let this be a lesson to you all; more pork buns make everyone happy.

Th e noodle soup feast that followed was, of course, the main event and eu-phoric fulfi llment of my craving quest. Th ough I opted to venture into ad-vanced ramen territory with my choice

of a low-broth mazemen—complete with delicate sliced scallop, powerful miso dashi, creamy corn puree, XO sauce, and salty orbs of roe—the bro-thy options I had selected for my fellow diners were all the more solid as com-fort food with a creative spin.

Reaching across the table, while no doubt an aff ront to every rule Karen Mills had taught my sophisticated senior companions, was a necessary evil for my purposes. Th e spicy, beefy broth chosen for Oriana was best when it came to solid ingredients, most notably the crunchy kimchi and tender beef that could be pulled apart with chopsticks. Callie’s miso ramen was, as I had expected, a more classic powerhouse of fl avor that combined every broth style under the rising sun, topping it all off with the requisite soy sauce egg, scallions and nori.

Before passing judgment on the tsukimi udon soup, I asked Emily (the self-proclaimed “veg-human” on call) her thoughts.

“I love that they’re playing Contra, it’s my favorite Vampire Weekend al-bum,” she replied.

Anyway, the tsukimi udon spoke for itself with deep shiitake mushroom fl a-vor and bright pickled accents, though the udon noodles were a bit unwieldy with slippery chopsticks. Margaret nodded in agreement, further securing her role as the most cooperative dining companion in the game.

Th e experience at Pai Men Mi-

yake delivers on so many levels, but most importantly the establishment stays true to its unique identity as a Japanese pub in Portland, Maine. No matter what you enjoy, Pai Men Mi-yake always has an authentic fl avor, a delicious experiment, or an unex-pected pairing that will surely leave a lasting impression.

of Sapporo (a cheap, ubiquitous Japa-nese lager), the tap list was clearly assembled with the interest of a beer drinker in mind. My advice to beer drinkers who are headed to Pai Men (and beer drinkers, you ought to be headed there) is to follow the im-plicit suggestion of the restaurant and choose the beer that seems most exciting to you. Th e conspicuously robust and thoughtful tap list sug-gests that Pai Men wants to honor its identity as a restaurant in Portland, Maine as much as a purveyor of de-licious Japanese fare. Th e disjunc-tion between Pai Men’s cuisine and its beer off erings (a tension encap-sulated in the restaurant’s similarly unique moniker “Japanese pub”)

should relieve restaurant patrons of the task in trying to discern

“right answers” when it comes to pairing the food and drink.

Th at said, it isn’t a bad idea to keep in mind some of the principles of pair-ing beer and food.

Usually, when we think of sophis-ticated food and alcohol pairings, we think of wine. But beer is an excellent companion with food, and its numer-ous styles means there are endless combinations to play a round with. Th e most basic rule of thumb when pairing beer with food is matching strength with strength. If you order a subtly-spiced witbier and proceed to chow down on a bowl of spicy curry, the curry will surely overtake the delicate complexity of the beer. Th e

same is true for the reverse: a strong and smoky rauchbier will cancel out the delicacy of sashimi. Order what you like—there is no right or wrong choice—but try not to create too much competition for your taste buds.

If you are concerned with creating a happy marriage between your food and your beer, keep the following in mind: what do you want the eff ect of our pairing to entail, fl avor wise? With beer, there are major “eff ect” categories when it comes to pairing: complementary (roasty stouts and sa-vory meats); juxtaposition (a dry and cleansing pale ale with a fattier dish); and, for lack of a better word, the cre-ation of a new fl avor from the union of two distinct fl avors (who knew that the combination of imperial stout and oysters resulted in a delicious in-be-tween sensation?).

Pai Men’s tap list encourages cre-ativity, so run wild with it. I did.

Our waitress came over and asked Margaret what she wanted to drink. I respond-ed, “We’ll take a Bissell Brother’s Swish, a Bunker Bunkerator, a Liquid Riot Tripel, and, hmmm, okay let’s go with the Rauchbier.”

Young Benjamin or-dered a lemonade and

scribbled something about mayo and scallops. For what

would not be the fi rst time that night, Emily noted that the

music was good (a refrain that took the place of reviewing the food). “Stop asking me what my beer tastes like,” she said aft er we ordered a second round. “Eat your

miso,” she said.“Can I try your miso?” asked Ben.“Oriana, can I try Margaret’s stout

with your pork bun?” I asked Oriana.Since our meal on Friday, the tap

list has already rotated, and what delightful (and failed) combinations I discovered over the course of din-ner—how the Rauchbier’s smoked malts overwhelmed the food, yet alone, tasted like a drinkable bar-beque; how the sweetness in the Bunkerator Bock harmonized with the savory brussel sprouts—are not much help to you. While the tap list may constantly change, the com-mitment to excellent and interesting beer is consistent, making Pai Men Miyake as much a drinker’s paradise as a haven for Japanese comfort food. Everything is a safe bet, so my advice is to experiment.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN MILLERA BEAUTIFUL BOWL: Pai Men Miyake is best known for its Japanese noodle soups. The kimchi beef ramen delivers spicy satisfaction and for vegetarians, the tsukimi udon (above) is not to be missed.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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TALK OF THE QUAD

INCIDENTAL MEMORIES

NOT QUITE APPLE PIE

This spring, as I struggle with the idea that my time at Bowdoin will soon end, I have found my-self rereading a piece that first ap-peared on this page last April. It’s one that resonated with me back then but speaks to me in new ways each time I return to it. In two months, in two years, and beyond, I hope I will continue to appreciate its message. I am referring to “Life per second,” by Toph Tucker ’12.

As a quick disclaimer, I cannot claim to really know the author be-yond the strange way that any two random Bowdoin students do—well enough perhaps to chat at a party but not necessarily enough to off er a quick hello in passing. And be-cause his piece deals with life aft er Bowdoin, I cannot even maintain that I truly understand the depth of what he writes. I still have two months before the reality of post-grad life sets in, and I am keenly aware of the time that remains.

Avid readers of the Bowdoin Orient (of which I am a self-pro-claimed number one fan) know the gist of it. But for those of you who have not yet read his piece, Toph beautifully and precisely re-flects upon his time at Bowdoin, as well as the year that had elapsed between his 2013 graduation and last April. What he finds, living in the country’s most populated city, is that there is actually far less density of social interaction in the real world than at Bowdoin. It’s an

interesting notion and one worth considering, even if it is not yet relevant to my life.

But one line has stood out to me time and time again: “When I ar-rived at Bowdoin I thought only of work. By the time I left, I thought only of people.”

It’s such a succinct way to sum up the years we spend in Brunswick. And while I lack the wisdom or ex-perience to meaningfully refl ect on much else of what he wrote, I look two months ahead to graduation and fi nd that these words already linger with me. I will always prefer to think about the nights spent with my friends doing nothing and every-thing, than to remember the hours I put into studying for that one exam in that one class. Even today, that all seems so inconsequential.

But I could not say the same about myself four years ago ( I ’ m h a p p y to say I think I’ve grown a lot since then). I c a n n o t speak for the rest of my peers, but I came here, like many new-ly matriculated college students, with the idea that higher edu-cation would serve as a means to a successful future. The idea of really enjoying my four years in Bruns-wick was, at the time, much more

of an afterthought.Back then, I valued

academic success and

the possibility of securing a job immediately after graduation over so many other things. Because re-ally, who needs a break between school and work when you get two weeks of vacation and ten sick days per year? Don’t forget about fed-eral holidays—thank God for Co-lumbus Day. Of course, I still value this type of success now, though the feelings have tempered.

A friend described this to me over Spring Break as Bowdoin’s “culture of work and doing presti-

gious things” (not the catch-

iest des-ignation, I know). Having

arrived at college on the heels of successful high school careers, we can all relate to this idea. For the Class of 2015, each of us represents about twelve other applicants who, for one reason or another, ended up elsewhere, and it’s almost as if we work so hard just to validate

that we earned these spots.Amidst the pressure to become a

Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar, graduate Phi Beta Kappa, and land a respected internship with a full-time off er attached at the end of the sum-mer, we sometimes ignore what else Bowdoin has to off er. We ignore the classes which truly interest us for the sake of the 101 (or, now, 1101) that will preserve our GPAs. In between meetings with the Career Planning Center and the fellowships offi ce and our professors, we forget to “lose [ourselves] in generous enthu-siasms,” as the Off er of the College

directs. In-stead, we

l o s e

o u r -selves to the

idea that some-thing better is on

the horizon. All we have to do is make it through these four years, and then we’ll coast. Th is is an idea I have fi nally begun to question.

I will always be proud of what I’ve accomplished academically here at Bowdoin. But at what cost do I hold that pride? I put off going abroad for the sake of my majors and in the interest of devoting enough time to

the junior year internship search. Of course, the new friends I made here (while some of my closest friends studied in Spain, the United Kingdom and Russia) have helped define my Bowdoin experience in a meaningful way. But still, losing myself to a semester abroad would have been a worthwhile experience.

So when the memories of each lecture fade and we lose touch with Bowdoin’s culture of work, what do we want to remember? What will we remember? For me, I hope to push aside any recollection of my first year seminar and to instead think about the hours I spent ly-ing with my friends on the Quad each spring. And when I look back on Tuesday nights, I want to be re-minded of drinks at Joshua’s, not problem sets in the library.

It’s a sentiment I am glad to have realized at this point in my college career, but it’s one I wish had meant more to me four years ago, back when Bowdoin was still fresh.

So while I anxiously prepare myself to graduate on May 23, I fi nd myself in the thick of never ending problem sets, papers and

exams. But in two months when I walk across the steps of the Art Museum to shake President Mills’ hand, these obligations will cease to be relevant. In the end, it won’t be my academic successes or failures that measure the four years I spent in Brunswick. Rather, it will be the happy and incidental memories I made during those moments, howev-

er fl eeting, when work was the last thing on my mind.

Colin Swords is a member of the Class of 2015.

Foreignness is strange. Ameri-canness is stranger. It’s subtler, like the feeling of self-conscious-ness when I order an Americano and feel my place in a heritage of the (however briefly) expatriated longing for a cup of brewed coffee. Perplexed and under caffeinated, I am learning what it is to be foreign and what it is to be American. The Americanness is what surprises me.

I recently boarded a plane and an Irish man engaged me in conversa-tion. He was a Civil War buff who had been to the U.S. several times and had some strong and, truth be told, bizarre opinions. “The United States,” he said, “is not a nation. It is a confederation of states. Ireland is a nation.” I bristled.

While my travel aquaintance’s view of the U.S. seems out of left field even for a non-American, it did give me pause. In Ireland, I am sometimes reminded of my Amer-icanness in tangible ways. My passport is blue and I have to get it stamped in the Non-EU line at the airport. My accent is wider and more nasally. When I’m picking out salad greens, I look for “aru-

gula” instead of “rocket.” When I can’t find it, I get frustrated be-

cause the grocery stores here are ineffi-

cient and I think I could make them better.

What really catches me off-guard, however, is feel-ing my Americanness in the

abstract and missing my imagined community very strongly. I belong more to Oregon (where I have nev-er visited and may never go) than to Belgium, where I went last week. I feel a connection to Iowans and

Hawaiians and Texans that far exceeds only a

h u m a n i s t bond.

Alaska is farther away from my state, New Jer-sey, than New Jersey is from Europe. So why, when I think Alaska, do I still think home?

When I first arrived in Ireland and people asked where I was from, I said, “the U.S.,” or, if I wanted to spend the breath, “the United States.” “Oh, the States!” my inter-locutor would say. “The States! I’ve been to Miami and Las Vegas and New York City and LA.” Always (for some reason) these cities. But more notably, always “the States.” As if the plurality was the only

essential bit and the “United” superfluous. I now say the “the States,” in con-versation, but it always feels awkward in my mouth. Why do I feel that the “United” is essential? Isn’t it?

How do I explain that American-ness doesn’t sound like English? That it doesn’t look like a Walmart or J.Crew aisle or smell like an apple pie?

We talk a lot about nationalism—if it is

good, if it is bad, if it is real, if it is necessary. Whatever

it is, it is on my mind all the time. I feel it nagging at my heels

when I cross streets where the cars

drive on the opposite side of the road. Waiting for a walk signal, my

Americano in hand, I make my list.Americanness is uncanny, the

foreign always familiar. It isn’t hav-ing or not having guns, it’s worry-ing about them.

Americanness is race with a big question mark and religion with a big ellipsis and work ethic all in quotations.

Americanness is knowing that there are 300 million people and a few islands and an enormous land mass in the Western hemisphere that you are supposed to be allowed to belong to and that are supposed to belong to each other. It is as big as homesickness and as soft as my favorite blanket and as loud as a call with one as the country code.

How is it so big and so little at the same time? When does it fit and when does it feel too large or small? What is it about “we” that is so irresolvable but so strong that it spans oceans and thousands of miles, the magnetic field of us-ness reaching me all the way in Ireland, huddled around my coffee cup, with my me-ness compass’s arrow pointed home?

Katherine Churchill is a member of the Class of 2016.



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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT SJP organizes week to promote awareness of confl ict in Palestine

BY ADIRA POLITEORIENT STAFF

Professor Wethli shows work in French gallery

Mark Wethli, the A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, has been traveling near and far during his sabbatical this semester. Th ree of his works are cur-rently being shown at Galerie Look & Listen in Saint-Chamas, France.

Running from March 21 to May 16, the show, entitled “Trames” (the French word for weft —crosswise threads on a loom), focuses on works of various me-dia that involve woven fabrics. Wethli’s three paintings, done on handmade canvases of woven paper, are shown alongside pieces from thirteen other European and American artists.

BY LOUISA MOOREORIENT STAFF

Wethli’s three paintings, “Ghost Pa-rade,” “You Just Haven’t See My Good Side Yet,” and “In Case You Ponderin’,” were created in 2014. Th ey are each 10 by eight inches each and painted on woven Jaipur paper with Flashé acrylic.

“I had a number of paintings on paper that weren’t going anywhere (art speak for boring), and I suddenly wondered what they would look like if I cut them into strips and reassembled them,” wrote Wethli in an email to the Orient. “Th at turned out to be not all that interesting either, but the struc-ture of the object caught my attention as a surface to paint on.”

Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) spent months planning a week of programming—Justice For Pales-tine Week—which came to an end Wednesday night.

The week’s activities began on Saturday, with a screening of the documentary “The Stones Cry Out,” which sheds light on the struggles of Palestinian Christians, who are a minority in predomi-nantly Muslim Palestine. The film-maker, Yasmine Perni, said that she found that people in the West are more likely to pay attention to others’ struggles if they are Chris-tians as opposed to Muslims.

Sunday, Tuft s faculty member Th omas Abowd visited Bowdoin and gave a talk entitled “Gentrifi cation and Urban Manifestations of Colo-nialism: Palestine to USA.”

On Monday, members of the Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble visited and performed. One of the members had recently traveled to Palestine and shared letters written by Palestinian children.

Th e club held a Skype conversa-tion on Tuesday with a nurse work-ing in the West Bank. Th e club also received and listened to a video mes-sage from a student in Gaza.

On Wednesday, the club hosted a fi lm screening of “Budrus,” a docu-mentary about the non-violent resis-tance of a West Bank village.

SJP is a fully student-run organi-zation, though it receives funding from the Student Activities Fund-ing Committee.

Members of the group cited cam-pus-wide awareness and education as their goals for the week, as well as for the club in general.

“Mainstream media tends to be extremely biased in favor of Israel,” said Sinead Lamel ’15, a member of SJP. “Our government oft en speaks in a way that assumes total support and alliance with Israel. Even when people do criticize Israel, they do it in a narrative that ignores Palestinians. We’re trying to bring out the voices of Palestinians.”

SJP is also hoping to attract students who may have never discussed, or even

thought about, these ongoing issues.“Everyone comes to the subject

of Israel and Palestine from very different levels. It can be intimidat-ing to talk to people who are very passionate about [these issues] because people might not feel like they know enough to have opinions about it,” said Christopher Wede-man, one of the founders of Bow-doin’s chapter of SJP.

Encouraging discussing is another of the group’s goals.

“Part of the point of the week was to encourage people to come by their own volition so that they can make up their own mind and maybe de-bate [the issue] with their friends.”

During the summer of 2014, Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip left 2,200

Palestinians, including 521 children, dead. SJP honored these children by stringing up 521 red flags, each with a name of a child, across the first floor of Smith Union.

“We wanted to try to put numbers into perspective,” said Wedeman.

SJP is taking further action to bring attention to these issues on campus.

“There will hopefully be a vote on the ballot for the BSG elections asking the student body whether or not it wants to support the aca-demic and cultural boycott of Is-rael,” said Wedeman.

SJP meets every Thursday at 9 p.m. next to the dance studio in the David Saul Smith Union. The peti-tion is still being drafted but will be made public in the near future.

ELIZA GRAUMLICH (LEFT) AND BO BLECKEL (RIGHT), THE BOWDOIN ORIENTJUSTICE: Red fl ags in the David Saul Smith Union honor deceased Palestinian youth (left) and members of the Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble plays Monday night as part of a weeklong initiative to raise awareness of confl ict in Palestine.

COURTESY MARK WETHLI (LEFT) AND BOWDOIN COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS (RIGHT)PAINT AND PATCH: Mark Wethli, “You Just Haven’t Seen My Good Side Yet,” 2014, painted with Flashé acrylic on woven Jaipur paper. Wethli teaches painting and is on sabbatical this semester.

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Performing Abramovic in Smith UnionBY CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL

CONTRIBUTORS

For 736.5 hours in 2010, Marina Abramović made eye contact with three-quarters of a million people in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For two hours in 2015, Carly Ber-lin ’18 and Tessa Westfall ’18 made eye contact with twenty people in the David Saul Smith Union at Bowdoin College.

Abramović is known as a pioneer of performance art, particularly in her use of the body as a me-dium. For forty-two years, she has dedicated herself to fostering temporary spaces designed for vulnerability and psychic connec-tion with her audi-ence. In 1974, Abramović p e r -f o r m e d “Rhythm 0,” in w h i c h s h e p l a c e d seventy-t w o items on a table—includ-ing a feather, a scalpel and a loaded gun—and sat passively while her audi-ence wielded these objects on her body as they chose.

We tinkered with the idea of schlepping a table into the Union with a Bowdoin Log, a Canada Goose, and a loaded gun. But we

couldn’t aff ord the jacket.We decided to go with “Th e Artist is

Present.” If Marina could make eye con-tact for three months straight with mini-mal bodily harm, heck, we could too.

Participants in our rendition were permitted to make eye contact with ei-ther of us for however long they wanted. Th ey were allowed to speak or move freely, as long as their eyes remained locked with ours. We did not allow our-selves to respond; we wanted to recre-ate Abramović’s stoicism to allow par-

ticipants their own experiences

as projected through us, rather than as a shared experience with us. While one of us made eye contact, the other would record observations and keep time.

First, Tessa sat down with her future roommate, who she had pried away from his calculus problem set.

“You’re just making eye contact with

people,” he said dismissively.Aft er an excessive amount of whin-

ing about how no one was going to show up, he decided to comply. Four and a half minutes of sustained eye contact later, he stood up, hugged Tessa.

“I feel much closer to you. I’m glad we did that,” he said.

Throughout the evening, we saw a slew of responses.

For some, holding eye contact was excruciat-ing. One

girl made two attempts: fi rst clocking in at fi ft een seconds, and then removing her jacket, only to make it for twelve.

“I’m fi nding out horrifying informa-tion about myself,” she said.

Most participants began by smiling

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Canine parody fi lm provides scathing commentary

PERFORMINGCONTINUED FROM PAGE 10

BY ARIANA REICHERTSTAFF WRITER

How did you fi rst getinvolved with WBOR?

Molly Stevens: I wanted to join since I was a prospective student. I ended up coming to Bowdoin and one of the fi rst things I joined was WBOR. When Emma came I begged her to have a show with me.

Emma Stevens: She even wrote on her Bowdoin application that she wanted to be a DJ.

Tell me about your show, Sister Act.

ES: Well, Molly and I have very dif-ferent taste in music. Mine is better, obviously.

MS: Not really.ES: Molly listens to these obscure

bands that everybody tries to “out-hipster” each other with and I tend to like pop and country. We thought of the idea for Sister Act on our way up to school together at the beginning of this year. We decided that we could each play a couple of songs as we were coming up but whenever Molly would choose, I would complain about her song choice. Our parents thought it was funny and suggested we start a radio show.

Who are your musical heroes?

ES: Taylor Swift .MS: Somewhere between Joni

Mitchell and Brian Transeau. I feel like there are some things that we can agree on, though…like Neil Young. Don’t tell me that doesn’t get you sentimental.

What kind of music do you listen to

in your spare time?ES: I listen to country and pop

mainly. And Disney. I love Dis-ney. Maybe I should have a Dis-ney radio show.

MS: I think you’d run out of ma-terial eventually. If you do, just play the Tarzan soundtrack over and over again. I tend to listen to more elec-tronica, more indie rock. Older stuff basically, more classic rock.

If you had to pick one genre ofmusic to listen to for the rest

of your life, what would it be?MS: Th at’s hard. I’d have to say in-

die rock. It’s such a broad genre and it doesn’t really have a defi nition. If I want to get my dancing on I could listen to Hot Chip but if I want to sit and wallow and feel things, I could listen to Sigur Ros or Josh Ritter. Th ey’re all in the same section of the record store, but they all have com-pletely diff erent sounds.

ES: I would say R&B. When do you listen to music? When you’re work-ing out. R&B has that rap and hip hop component that you can defi nitely run to but if you want to get your feels

on you could defi nitely sit and listen to some R&B. Also, if you want to make out with someone on a couch—R&B. You can do a lot with it.

What was the fi rst album

that you ever bought?MS: “Flood” by Th ey Might Be Gi-

ants. Excellent album.ES: “Metamorphosis” by Hil-

ary Duff.MS: You can see the diff erence

between the two of us right there. Although, I hate to admit it, but I se-cretly know the words to every single one of those songs.

What else are you involved

with on campus?MS: I’m the president of the Peu-

cinian Society, which is our literary and debate society on campus and I’m a manager on the radio station. I do classics and classic archaeology so I hang out with all the classics people. I tend to stick to humanities.

ES: I’m more interested in science, like earth and oceanographic science and chemistry and I play soft ball. I’m still trying to fi nd my niche and fi gure out what I’m going to do here.

Who’s your intended audience?ES: To be honest, mostly our family

and our friends. Th ere are constantly members of our family calling in. A lot of my friends listen and call in and cause trouble.

MS: Some of my friends in Cham-bo 318 are pretty regular listeners. Th at being said, our intended audience is re-ally anyone who wants to listen. Espe-cially people who like “Car Talk.”

What is it like havinga sibling on campus?

MS: Kind of relieving in some ways. It’s comforting if you’re having a bad day or you need someone to go to dinner with to know that you have someone around. It’s also great for life advice. Because we do very diff erent things it never really feels stifl ing.

ES: I was so nervous the fi rst time I saw her at a party. I kept on thinking, “Oh my god, this is my sister! Th is is so awkward.” But I like having her on campus. I steal her clothes all the time. I don’t want her to graduate.

Do you have any fi nal words

for your listeners?ES: I am the better sister.MS: You may be the faster and

stronger sister, but my taste is better. Th at’s all you need to know.

Tune in to “Sister Act” with DJs Mol-ly and Emma Stevens on WBOR 91.1 FM every Sunday from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. or stream online at wbor.org. To suggest a DJ for DJ of the Week, email Arts & Entertainment Editor Emily Weyrauch at [email protected].

DJ OF THE WEEK Molly ’15 and Emma ’18 Stevens

LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSISTER ACT: Molly (left) and Emma’s (right) radio show airs Sundays from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m.

and giggling uncomfortably. Some were able to breach that stage, their faces settling into a focused, though oft en tense, expression.

In Abramović’s performance, nobody was allowed to speak and many participants sat silently across from the artist and cried. Th e addi-tion of speaking in our piece created a diff erent dimension for explora-tion. Nobody cried, but we did hear a few confessions. Something about eye contact as a pause from all other activities seemed to make strangers eager to share intimate details of their lives.

“I’m secretly applying to the same internship as my best friend. I’m not telling her because I know I’ll get it and she won’t,” one participant said, while eating his seaweed snacks and blinking excessively. “Look, I’m con-fessing things to you.”

A complete stranger sat down and began describing a New York Times article she had read for a class. She shared her unease that a past hookup had been featured in it.

“Th ings like that have been hap-pening a lot in my life recently,” she said. “Th is is the stillest I’ve sat all day.”

At least four people began with, “I guess I’ll tell you about my day.”

Some people had impressive stam-ina. We had to cut off one person aft er 15 minutes, though she prob-ably could have gone all night. She did not stop talking about the trag-edy of unreasonable peanut aller-gies, about her fi rst-year fl oormate who returned at ungodly hours with mysterious golf clubs, about how she would “rather be happy than funny.” Unlike other participants, this girl said she was talking because she likes to talk, not because she was uncomfortable with the silence. We question this in retrospect.

Our second-longest lasting subject went for around seven minutes, and sat in complete silence.

“It was fi ne,” she said aft erward. For Tessa, it was decidedly not

fine. As soon as the girl rounded the corner, Tessa had a conniption and needed to walk it off. The si-lent space felt emotional for Tessa, who was busy crafting an internal narrative of all the connection that was occurring in the space between them. As blank canvases, we com-mitted ourselves to not revealing our personal responses so that the subjects could have his or her own space to experience. In practice, though, it was admittedly difficult

when this participant articulated no significant reaction.

In Introduction to Psychology last semester we learned that people are hardwired to recognize faces in their surroundings. But when we look closely for an amount of time that feels unnatural, faces cease to be fac-es and become Picassos and aliens, all eyes and noses and skin. We become hyper-conscious of our own faces and movements while under the un-wavering gaze of another.

We found ourselves wondering: what does all this say about a person? We never get someone that sits across from us silently and gives us their full attention. Something about this non-verbal, non-tactile interaction trig-gers something deeper. It allows for both introspection and connection; you can be deeply alone yet irrevo-cably engaged with another person at the same time. Th ere’s nothing to hide behind. What emotional con-nection would happen if we did this all the time?

In a six-by-six foot study room on the third floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, we made eye contact with each other for a prede-termined four minutes. We willed it to be an emotionally significant moment for us. It was not. With the pressure off, we felt only calm.

Students and professors gathered to watch dogs in human uniforms head off to the trenches of World War I on Monday night in Smith Audito-rium. Th is was “Gone to the Dogs: Heroism and Parody in ‘So Quiet on the Canine Front,’” a screening of and discussion about the satirical short 1931 fi lm. Jakub Kazecki, Assistant Professor of German at Bates College came to discuss the humorous short, a parody of the 1930 epic war fi lm “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

Th is 1931 short is part of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer series called All Barkie Dogville Comedies. Kazecki described Barkies as “movies with dog actors dressed like people with human voice-overs.”

“Th e whole concept of the Bar-kies was to have them be parodies of mainstream movies in popular Hol-lywood genres,” he said.

Th e dogs are suspended by wires so that they walk on their hind legs throughout the entire fi lm. Seeing dogs adapt a human form in terms of dress and walk makes the parody of the fi lm instantly apparent. As the fi lm continues, the audience begins to see that the fi lm is less a parody and more a serious commentary on

the war fi lms of the time.“Th e comedic strategy employed

in ‘So Quiet on the Canine Front’ shows the incongruity in the fi lm. Animals take on the roles of sol-diers and civilian and imitate human moves,” said Kazecki. “Th e only time the dogs use all fours and walk natu-rally are during moments of panic. [Otherwise,] the dogs march like sol-diers. Th is appears unnatural to the viewer, but also allows for refl ection for the impact of military training on the male body.”

According to Kazecki, the fi lm can be viewed as a commentary on the gender norms of a masculine state formed by military values. Th e fi lm goes beyond its role as a mere parody and becomes a refl ection of the war-rior culture of the 1930s.

“Th e soldiers on the battlefi eld are following orders. Th e animal cast sits, lies down, stays and plays dead. Th is makes the soldiers obedient like dogs,” said Kazecki. “You see diff erent social roles exemplifi ed in the ani-mals. Th e parody reaffi rms the value of loyalty and heroism and it assigns those values to masculinity.”

Parodies like “So Quiet on the Canine Front” can mean more to an audience than just a good laugh. Ka-zecki notes that “the canine parody consciously mocks American sys-

temic choices” and “hegemonic mas-culinity” while amusing the audience.

Ginny Crow ’18 attended the talk as part of her class. Fighting Fascism: Th e Spanish Civil War and Cinema. “So Quiet on the Canine Front” par-alleled the tragic comedies she had just watched in class.

“We discussed the nature of guilt and humor in fi lm,” said Crow. “Th ere’s an element of humor because no one can really communicate since everyone speaks a diff erent language, but there is also a powerful element of guilt.”

Parodies and tragic comedies can quickly shift away from hu-morous entertainment.

“At fi rst, the images of dogs wear-ing little hats and putting their paws on the table seemed cute,” said Crow. “When he showed the clip and you saw the dogs being pulled along, sud-denly, the movie changed a lot for me.”

The context of the production of the film can influence the audi-ence’s interpretation.

“Parodies feed from our tendency as an audience to be a little bit of reb-els,” said Kazecki. “By watching the parodies, it is a safe way to do this.”

Th is discussion was sponsored by the German and the Romance Lan-guages departments and the Cinema Studies Program.

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A friend in New York, who knew about Wethli’s unique canvases and paintings, helped put him in touch with one of the show’s organizers, and his work was then included.

“Th e way I found out about the show in France is a very good exam-ple of what a sabbatical can do, and also one way in which the art world works, which is by word of mouth,” wrote Wethli.

Th is sabbatical and a parental leave last semester have provided Wethli time to focus on his family and his artistic career outside of Bowdoin. He is currently living in Princeton, N.J., with his wife and daughter to be closer to the art scenes in New York and Philadelphia.

“Sabbaticals are a wonderful op-portunity for Bowdoin faculty to delve into our fi elds of interest, travel to pri-mary resources, and strengthen our knowledge in our respective fi elds,” he wrote. “In my case, this has included more time in the studio and closer in-volvement with the art world.”

In addition to the current show in France, Wethli has been part of a group show at Th e Painting Center in New York and organized a show at Th e Curator Gallery during his leave from Bowdoin.

“My goals are simply to pursue my work, introduce more people to what I do, and establish a better under-standing of current issues in contem-porary painting through fi rst-hand studio visits and conversations with curators, art dealers, and other art-ists,” Wethli wrote.

When he returns in the fall, he will

be teaching Drawing I and Painting II.“Th e benefi ts of this time away

have a direct relationship to the class-room when faculty return to their teaching,” he wrote. “Many of the photos and mental notes that I make during my gallery visits are with my classes in mind.”

Wethli realized his potential in art in high school and has been involved with it ever since. He has taught vi-sual arts at Bowdoin since 1985.

“During my fi rst few years of teach-ing I felt a strain between my time as an artist and my time as a teacher, but a single remark by a wonderful artist, Betye Saar, gave me the answer,” he wrote. “When asked how she divided her time between her art and being a mother, she answered, ‘I didn’t.’ She found ways to make them work togeth-er to enhance both—something I look forward to applying as a parent as well.”

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New head football coach JB Wells’ coaching staff is beginning to take shape. Shem Bloom and Tom Blumenaur, who worked un-der Wells at his previous position at Endicott College, have been hired to serve as Bowdoin’s defen-sive and offensive coordinators, respectively.

Ryan Sullivan, who is the Polar Bears’ head softball coach, and had also been serving as an assistant football coach, will now focus on softball and will also begin to over-see Bowdoin’s intramural sports program.

It is not unusual for assistant coaches to leave and other staff-ing changes to occur when a head coach leaves, according to Ash-mead White Director of Athletics Tim Ryan ’98, who said that these staffing changes were simply the result of a broader reevaluation of the football program, not a re-sponse to the performance of the former assistants.

Bloom was a defensive lineman at Wesleyan College. Prior to join-ing Endicott’s coaching staff, he served on Wesleyan’s sidelines for four seasons and Middlebury’s for two.

Blumenauer’s past experience comes from outside of the NE-

SCAC, but still within D-III. A more recent addition to Endi-cott’s coaching staff, he previously served at St. Lawrence University, which plays in the Eastern Col-legiate Athletic Conference, and in a variety of positions at the el-ementary, middle and high school levels.

Ryan said that as Wells orches-trates a new strategy for the foot-ball team, the College felt it was important that he be surrounded by individuals he had worked with in the past.

“One of the benefits of being at Bowdoin is that our student ath-letes are able to build great rela-tionships with their coaches and any time there is turnover in any position it takes time for those re-

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away eight shots in the first half to keep her team in the game.

“The game was much closer than the score made it seem… We worked really hard throughout the game to get it to where we were, es-pecially with defense,” Sippel said.

Sippel also said that the Ban-tams’ momentum allowed them to control the final result.

“[Momentum is] a big part of the game, unfortunately. People are

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This past Saturday, the women’s lacrosse team (7-2, 4-2 NESCAC) fell to No. 1 Trinity (9-1, 5-1 NES-CAC) in an 11-6 loss. After much preparation and talk of the match-up against the top ranked Bantams, the Polar Bears could not complete a second half comeback, ultimately conceding the final four goals of the game after chipping the Trinity lead down to one. The loss marked the team’s second straight defeat to a top-five team.

The Polar Bears returned to ac-tion on Wednesday with an 8-7 victory over Bates (5-7, 1-6 NES-CAC) and will play Endicott Col-lege (6-3, 2-1 TCCC), on Howard F. Ryan Field tomorrow at 4 p.m.

Clare McLaughlin ’15, who scored two goals against the Ban-tams, described the team’s approach to the match-up last Saturday.

“We went into the game really excited to improve from our loss against Middlebury. It was a low scoring game; we were [behind] 4-2 at halftime,” said McLaughlin.

Th e Polar Bears continued to fi ght at the beginning of the second half, but the pace of the game shift ed.

“We had a lot of confidence that we were in it and we held it 7-6 for a while,” McLaughlin said. “For us it felt like in the blink of an eye, [the game] went from a 7-6 battle to all of a sudden they’re winning by four.”

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lationships to develop,” Ryan said. Wells, Blumenaur and Bloom are

already on campus, and have begun meeting the returning team mem-bers, and familiarizing themselves with Bowdoin tradition and cam-pus culture. Ryan said he believes that that the new coaches’ experi-ences in similar environments will allow the new program to hit the ground running next season.

Community responses to the staffing changes have been largely positive. Many said it brings new energy and excitement to a pro-gram that has faced challenges in recent years.

According to Tom Capone ’17, while the new direction will be-

Women’s lax falls to top-ranked Trinity Sailing starts off strong as they hope to return to nationals

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ON GUARD: Emma Beecher ’16 (left) and Genna Warner ’15 (right) attempt to guard a Trinity midfi elder in the Polar Bears’ 11-6 loss on Saturday to the No. 1 Bantams. Although they lost to Trinity, a Wednesday win at Bates has the Polar Bears still in the top 10, currently ranked seventh nationally.

After posting impressive fin-ishes in three regattas two weeks ago, the sailing team competed in two team race regattas last week-end and again excelled. The coed sailors finished second out of six teams in the Staake Trophy, there-by qualifying for the New Eng-land Team Race Championship. In addition, the women’s team pulled out solid races at the Du-plin Trophy, fin-ishing third out of ten teams.

The Polar Bears had a series of tight races against three other top teams in the Staake Trophy at Connecticut Col-lege, finishing with a record of 7-3. The Staake featured a series of races pitting two teams against each oth-er with three boats each, a type of competition known as a team race regatta.

Each boat was assigned a point value corresponding to the place in which it finished, and the team that finishes with 10 or fewer points wins.

According to Head Coach Frank Pizzo, several races were deter-mined within the final 20 feet be-fore the finish line.

“We were pretty happy about our performance on Saturday,” said skipper Michael Croteau ’15. “[But] we knew that we needed to sail well on Sunday, because the top four teams all had five or six wins. We were all one win apart. And only two teams are going to be qualified.”

One of the team’s most competi-tive races was against Boston Uni-versity (BU) in the second round robin on Sunday.

The team had just lost to Con-necticut Col-lege in the same round and was looking to avenge a loss to BU from the day before.

“It was a must-win race for us. That was the race that sealed our

fate,” said Pizzo. Early on, the Terriers had boats

in both first and second place, but Bowdoin was able to take the top spot and put two boats ahead of BU’s second. This rebound from third-fourth-sixth to first-third-fourth secured Bowdoin’s win.

“If we didn’t win that race, we wouldn’t be moving on,” said Cro-teau. “On the last leg, we basically got their boats slowed by getting

Men’s lacrosse now at three weeks since last win

After a 1-6 start to the season, the men’s lacrosse team nearly got back on track this past Saturday, but ultimately fell 8-7 at Trinity in overtime. The team then hosted Bates on Wednesday, falling to the Bobcats 15-8.

Bowdoin dominated the fi rst quarter of the Trinity game. Attacker Shawn Daly ’18 netted the lone goal of the period six minutes into the con-test. Both teams were able to maintain strong defensive presences through-out the fi rst half, holding each other to only one goal in the second quarter. Bowdoin held a hard-earned 2-1 lead at the halft ime break.

Trinity began to take control af-ter halftime, with the Bantams ty-ing up the game only eight seconds into the third. Peter Reuter ’16 an-swered to pull the Polar Bears back into the lead. The lead was short-lived, however, as Trinity went on a four-goal run to jump to a 6-3 lead.

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with 11 seconds left in the third, cut-ting the lead to two and bringing the Polar Bears within striking distance.

Aft er one more Bantam tally with nearly 13 minutes remaining, the score remained deadlocked at 7-4 until se-nior Captain David Nemirov fi nally found the net with 2:07 left in the game. Bowdoin fed off the momentum, and was able to fi nd the net two more times in a minute as Nemirov netted another, and Reuter tied the game at 7-7 with 53 seconds left to play.

Despite Bowdoin’s tremendous effort to tie the game, Trinity re-corded the only goal of overtime, winning the thriller 8-7.

While the score remained close throughout the contest, Bowdoin struggled to earn possessions on both ground balls and faceoff s. Th e Ban-tams held a 14-5 advantage in face-off s and were able to grab 31 ground balls compared to only 15 for the Polar Bears. Th is allowed Trinity to control the majority of the possessions in the contest, with the Bantams getting off 50 shots,17 more than Bowdoin.

Against Bates, the Polar Bears got down early and never got back in the game. Aft er Bowdoin tied the game 1-1 six minutes into the fi rst period, Bates scored four goals in a row, even-

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“Right before fi nishing the race, we fi -nally made the play work and we were going to win. [But] there was a huge wind shift, so we ended up losing the

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Skipper Erin Mullins ’16 opened the spring sailing season with a dominant display at the St. Mary’s Women’s Regatta. Mullins, along with her crew mates Dana Bloch ’17 and Emily Salitan ’16 won division A by 43 points.

Th ese points are awarded based on place—a fi rst-place fi nish is worth one point while a fi ft h place fi n-ish is worth fi ve. Th is means the team placed around three positions better than their closest competition. Th e ef-fort won the three New England Intercollegiate Sailing (NEISA) Sailors of the Week. Mullins and Salitan followed up that per-formance a week later, helping Bowdoin clinch third place among nationally ranked competition.

Mullins, a Rhode Island native, has skippered most of her life, but said that her Bowdoin decision was somewhat independent of her desire to sail.

“Bowdoin is one of the pretti-est places to sail,” she said. “But I picked the school for the school; sailing was a nice bonus.”

Mullins embodies the collabor-ative personality of the Bowdoin sailing team. Some skippers prefer to dic-tate orders, but Mullins treats races like a conversation. As Bloch put it, “some skippers really don’t want to hear from you.”

“It’s really nice of her to say ‘what do you think about this?’” said sophomore crew Mimi Paz. “I think she likes asking questions and likes working together like that. Most of the time we defi nite-ly agree on what to do. If we don’t, she totally knows what to do.”

Mullins was quick to defer praise to her crew. Of Bloch, she acknowledged, “Dana pretty much does everything for me out there.”

Mullins cracked the top of the team’s lineup during her fi rst spring on the team, racing in the B division. She moved to the A division her sophomore fall, fol-lowing the expected trajectory of a skilled. Mullins made a leap her junior fall, however—an im-provement Coach Frank Pizzo

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credits to her time spent in the boat with Bloch.

“She’s been able to get to a really high level,” he said. “She started sailing with Dana in the middle of the fall; I think Dana’s really helped her make that leap.”

Pizzo spends a lot of time mix-ing and matching skippers and crews. He said he learned that

Mullins excels when she stays calm in the boat, so she’s seen success when work-ing with crews with similar approaches.

“Both of those girls sail best when

they’re having fun and keeping it light, personality-wise,” Pizzo said. “It’s very hard to describe the anxiety a skipper feels when they’re holding the tiller.”

Similarly, Mullins has had suc-cess with Salitan and Paz.

“She really thrives in a positive environment,” Paz said. “She lets the crew pay attention to the big-ger picture. I think that’s why she likes suggestions.”

Paz also called crewing “a lot of turning around” because of how focused skippers are at looking forward. Mullins called Bloch her “eyes and ears” in the boat.

Mullins succeeds not only be-cause of the chemistry she’s found with her crew, but also because

of her base technical abil-ity. She has improved her place in a num-ber of races because of her handling and speed while racing.

“She’s really smooth in all of her boat handling maneuvers,” Bloch said. “If the breeze is real-ly light and you need a couple of tacks to get up to speed, it’s usu-ally really smooth. Some people can’t use their boat-handling to their advantage because it’s really messy.”

“It’s definitely a lot about ex-perience,” Salitan said. “But she also doesn’t go for the risky, complicated maneuvers. Of the set of skills a sailor has, she knows what her strengths are and sticks to them. It’s her own personal diligence.”

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

To suggest an athlete, email Sports Editor Jono Gruber at [email protected].

• Skipper of the boat that won the A-Division St. Mary’s Women’s Regatta• Named Sailor of the Week along with the two crew members in her boat

HIGHLIGHTS

All varsity and large club sports teams were challenged to complete a series of five environmentally-conscious tasks as part of a new Ef-ficiency Initiative Team Challenge, launched this year by the Office of Sustainability and the Athletics Department.

Although only the women’s volleyball, men’s ice hockey and squash teams have completed all five tasks as well as an Above and Beyond challenge, the initiative’s creators are optimistic about its future.

“We have someone who is knowledgeable about a sport tailor the goals to that sport,” said Emma Chow ’15. “For men’s hockey, we can say ‘Is it doable to go trayless for a week? Is it doable to go tray-less for a day?’ We want to give them something that’s achievable but still going to stretch them a little bit.”

Chow, along with fellow seniors Emi Gaal and Tori Munson and ju-nior Lela Garner—who works di-rectly in the sustainability office as the representative for Green Ath-letics—has led the challenge dur-ing its debut year.

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Sports teams work toward green goalsfurther. After brainstorming the idea last spring, the group’s leaders worked out logistics with Ashmead White Director of Athletics Tim Ryan and Coordinator for a Sus-tainable Bowdoin Keisha Payson to finalize plans for the year.

“We all saw that there were so many tiny things that we do ev-ery day,” said Gaal. “That kind of fueled the club to begin. Just go-ing through athletics and help-ing varsity athletes and some of the larger club sports participate in this program gets them think-ing about these things day to day and as a group, and hopefully that is just one step for the college to move forward in changing people’s mindsets and helping understand that they can do little things.”

The tasks were decided upon at the beginning of each season and customized to fit team’s spe-cific needs and desires. The teams’ progress is tracked on the Green Athletics website as well as on a display board in the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness.

In order to encourage teams to participate in the challenge, every team that completes all five chal-lenges will be invited to a pub night featuring music and free food.

Another key feature of the chal-lenge is its Above and Beyond component. The Above and Be-yond program encourages teams

and athletes to exceed their chal-lenges’ requirements. Each Above and Beyond task is given a point value depending on its level of in-tensity.

“Those are really opportunities for teams to take initiative on their own, so it would be really nice to see more teams engage in that as-pect and get excited because they can do cool things like fundraisers and different events,” said Chow.

The winners of the Above and Beyond challenge will receive a gift card for Atayne, a sustainably-sourced athletic wear company founded by a Bowdoin alumnus. The gift card is for use for the team as a whole and will further take the challenge’s step of environmental consciousness while providing in-centive for teams.

Going forward, the initiative hopes to achieve total participa-tion, including in the Above and Beyond challenge. This would then facilitate the ultimate goal of campus-wide awareness of the is-sue and participation in environ-mentally-friendly measures.

“I think I’m excited to have the annual award winner announced by Tim Ryan at the end of year athletic banquet, so just having athletics back us really legitimizes everything and makes teams feel more compelled to participate,” said Chow.

Baseball continues underwhelming season

The baseball team dropped two of three in a NESCAC East Divi-sion series against Tufts in North-boro, Mass. last weekend. The Polar Bears fell to 6-10 (1-2 NES-CAC) as the Jumbos improved to 11-4 (2-1 NESCAC).

Bowdoin jumped out to a hot start, claiming the opener of Fri-day’s double-header 6-1. Tufts got back on track, winning the night game 6-0 and Monday night’s rub-ber match by a score of 10-1.

In the first game on Friday, Hen-ry Van Zant ’15 pitched a complete game, allowing only four hits and

striking out three batters. Van Zant successfully retired seven consecu-tive Jumbos to start the game until Tufts’ Tom Petry hit a single in the third inning.

For his efforts, Van Zant was named NESCAC Pitcher of the Week. So far this season he has

struck out 23 batters in 21 innings.“[Van Zant] was fantastic in

that game,” said Head Coach Mike Connolly. “Obviously, the mix be-tween his fastball and his slider and his changeup was really good and he pitched really well. It was a great performance from a captain and a leader to set the tables for the rest of the season.”

Senior Cole DiRoberto opened scoring in the second inning by reaching home on a Peter Cimini ’16 sacrifice fly.

Bowdoin lit up the scoreboard in the sixth, notching a five-run inning that included home runs from Erik Jacobsen ’15, Cimini and Chris Nadeau ’16.

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“It’s defi nitely a lot about experience, but she also doesn’t go for the risky, complicated maneuvers. Of the set of skills a sailor has, she knows what her

strengths are and sticks to them.”

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tually taking a 6-2 lead into the second quarter. Th e Polar Bears cut the Bates lead to three right before halft ime but the Bobcats answered, scoring fi ve goals before the Polar Bears’ next one.

The Polar Bears have a very young roster this year, with 20 of their 44 players being first years. This requires the older players on the team to take on more of a lead-ership role in order to integrate the younger players into the program. The number of first years in the program has also been a big help on the field.

“We have a small junior and senior class, so we needed a couple more guys,” said captain Mac Caputi ’15. “All 20 of our fi rst years are capable.”

The team currently sits in ninth place in the NESCAC. with an over-all record of 1-7 (1-4 NESCAC). They host non-conference oppo-nent Endicott tomorrow at noon.

“If we had to lose a series of that mag-nitude at any point during the year it’s much better that happens now rather than later on. I think it’s defi nitely go-ing to be a learning experience and the turning point for us, because we all know that we have an incredibly

talented team.”

NICK SADLER ’18

“It’s really nice of her to say ‘what do you think about this?’ I think she likes asking questions and likes working

together like that.

DANA BLOCH ’17

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to tack and duels. We had them do some extra boat handling, and forcing them to sail into adverse currents. So my teammates sailed fast and got ahead.”

It was the first regatta for the coed team after the team’s Spring Break trip to California. Compet-ing were Jack McGuire ’17, Char-lotte Williamson ’15, Harrison Hawk ’18, Julia Rew ’16, Michael Croteau ’15, Mimi Paz ’17, Olivia Diserio ’16 and Matt Lyons ’17.

After a first-place finish at St. Mary’s Women’s Interconference, the women’s team finished with a best-ever record of 12-6 at Dup-lin Trophy in Tufts last weekend, earning a third-place finish. The shifty wind pattern on Sunday, however, produced several unex-pected incidents.

“We had a race against Brown. We were trying to execute a dif-ficult play,” said Lizzy Hamilton ’15. “My teammates did a good job executing it. Right before finishing the race, we finally made the play

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work and we were going to win. [But] there was a huge wind shift, so we ended up losing the race.”

“We ended up losing a couple of races [on Sunday],” said Pizzo. “But it was still a good day. We beat a bunch of teams—there is a lot of competition.”

Lizzy Hamilton ’15, Jade Willey ’17, Ellis Price ’18, Courtney Koos ’16, Sydney Jacques ’18, Erin Mul-lins ’16, and Emily Salitan ’16 all sailed at the Duplin Trophy.

Due to unseasonably cold weather, the team did not get many chances to practice before its spring regattas.

“We haven’t had a lot of practice leading up to the regatta. We were excited to be out on the water,” said Croteau.

The Polar Bears are ready to compete at the BU Trophy, the Marchiando Team Reace, the Del-lenbaugh Trophy and the Barque Eagle Team Race this weekend.

Thanks to their finish in the Sta-ake Trophy, they will travel to Har-vard for the New England Team Race Championship on April 11 and 12.

Th e men’s tennis team (2-0 NES-CAC, 7-1 overall) opened up its post-Spring Break play with a dominating 8-1 win over Wesleyan (0-2 NESCAC, 2-5 overall) on Saturday.

Th e No. 8 Polar Bears’ only loss on the season came at the hands of No. 4 Pomona-Pitzer during the team’s Spring Break trip to California.

Against Wesleyan, the Bears jumped out to an early lead, winning all three doubles matches. Luke Trinka ’16 and Luke Tercek ’18 dominated fi rst dou-bles, winning 8-2, and second and third doubles pairs Kyle Wolstencroft ’15 Gil Roddy ’18 and Kyle Wolfe ’18 Chase Savage ’16 held their own, winning 8-3 and 8-4, respectively.

Men’s tennis improves doubles play as it coasts to seventh win

Th e doubles wins were a revelation for a Bowdoin squad that, despite their near-impeccable record, was swept in doubles play three times in California. To mix things up, Roddy and Wolfe switched spots on the No. 2 and No. 3 teams against Wesleyan.

Bowdoin’s only loss on the day came in fi rst singles, as Trinka lost 6-4, 7-5.

“I think everyone was very happy to have such a strong result against a very talented team,” said captain Kyle Wolstencroft ’15. “Th at being said, we’re still in the early parts of our season and, while it was a great result that we enjoyed in the moment, we’re putting our heads down and looking forward to the matches we have this weekend against Brandeis and aft er that, a long road trip to Hamilton and Amherst.”

Tomorrow’s matchup with Brandeis goes down at 11 a.m. in Farley Field House.

BY JONO GRUBERORIENT STAFF

SCORECARDSa 3/28 v. Wesleyan W 8-1

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hot at certain moments through-out the game. It’s not concerning, but it’s a lot better when the mo-mentum is going in your direc-tion,” said Sippel.

McLaughlin also remarked on how momentum is a defining characteristic of the sport, which proved on Saturday to be key in Trinity’s win.

“In lacrosse you can still come back from that, but we didn’t respond at the times that we needed to,” said McLaughlin. “We were down by four and the time was ticking.”

McLaughlin also mentioned how lost draw controls and 50/50 balls swung the pendulum in Trin-ity’s favor.

“Against top-ranked teams, a draw control can mean a game,”

McLaughlin said. “When it was our chance to answer those goals, we didn’t capitalize. Passes went out, or we missed shots, or things didn’t quite get executed right. It was kind of tough to see, because it wasn’t like we weren’t getting the opportunities. It was just that we couldn’t quite finish them off.”

The loss against Trinity marked the second game in a row that the Polar Bears fell to an in-confer-ence rival. However, McLaughlin argued that the pattern doesn’t de-fine her team.

“I think it’s okay that we lost two in a row. Our captains said to us in practice today, ‘This is a road-block—we’ve lost to teams before and still had amazing seasons,’” she said. “It’s almost like this bump is a time to refocus for Bates on Wednesday.”

Th e Polar Bears worked hard in practice between the Trinity loss and

the Bates matchup to attack draw control and 50/50 balls—it paid off .

McLaughlin said how the team’s morale and togetherness continue to boost its spirit and performance.

“A theme has been, ‘We don’t re-ally have superstars, so we’re going to do this together and for each other. This is fun,’” said McLaugh-lin. “And that attitude going for-ward will lead to good things.”

Bowdoin has historically had great success against Endicott, yet the Polar Bears approach this con-test with deliberate care.

“I wouldn’t say that [Endicott] is a [Trinity] or a Middlebury…. Rank-ings don’t really tell the whole story,” McLaughlin said. “A team could just play a style that’s really hard for us to go against. I’m confi dent that we can go against any style, but it is impor-tant that a team that might not have as many wins can still beat a team with a lot more wins.”

ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BEE IN THE TRAP: Mettler Growney ’17 works her way around a group of Trinity defenders in the Polar Bears’ loss last Saturday. Although the Polar Bears are now fi fth in the NESCAC, Trinity, Colby and Middlebury—three of the teams above them in the standings—are ranked fi rst, second and third in the nation, respectively.

come most obvious during the sea-son, he and other team members are already seeing positive chang-es, from a new emphasis on nutri-

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tion to revamped workout plans. “We’re competing in ways that

we haven’t in previous years. I think that this coaching staff defi-nitely brings a revitalized sense of competition. They’re really moti-vating us to work hard in the off-

season,” Capone said. These changes come at the end

of a string of lackluster seasons for Bowdoin football. Only time will tell if the new coaching staff can start a new chapter for the strug-gling program.

MEN’S LACROSSE NESCAC OVERALL

W L T W L TTufts 5 0 0 9 0 0Middlebury 5 1 0 8 2 0Amherst 4 1 0 9 1 0Williams 4 1 0 7 1 0Wesleyan 3 2 0 6 4 0Colby 2 3 0 6 3 0Bates 2 4 0 5 4 0Hamilton 2 4 0 6 4 0Trinity 2 4 0 4 6 0BOWDOIN 1 5 0 1 8 0Conn. Coll. 0 5 0 2 8 0

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

SCHEDULESa 4/4Tu 4/7

v. Endicott v. Colby

3 P.M.7 P.M.

W L T W L TTrinity 5 1 0 9 1 0Colby 4 1 0 9 1 0Hamilton 4 1 0 8 1 0Middlebury 4 1 0 7 1 0BOWDOIN 4 2 0 7 2 0Tufts 4 2 0 8 2 0Amherst 2 3 0 6 3 0Williams 2 3 0 5 3 0Bates 1 6 0 5 7 0Conn. Coll. 0 5 0 2 7 0Wesleyan 0 5 0 4 6 0

Compiled by Sarah BonannoSources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off

NESCAC Standings

SCHEDULE

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v. Endicottat Babson

NOON

7 P.M.

SAILING SCHEDULESa 4/4 at Dellenbaugh Trophy

at Marchiando Team Raceat Barque Eagle Team Race at BU Trophy

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

BASEBALLNESCAC EAST OVERALL

W L W L TTufts 2 1 13 4 0BOWDOIN 1 2 6 10 0Colby 0 0 9 3 0Trinity 0 0 8 5 0Bates 0 0 5 5 0

NESCAC WEST OVERALLW L W L

Williams 3 0 6 5Wesleyan 0 0 9 4Hamilton 0 0 7 5Amherst 0 0 7 6Middlebury 0 3 0 9

SOFTBALL

NESCAC WEST OVERALLW L W L

Hamilton 2 0 7 7Middlebury 2 0 9 3Amherst 0 2 8 6Wesleyan 0 2 7 9Williams 0 0 12 3

NESCAC EAST OVERALLW L W L

Bates 0 0 1 7BOWDOIN 0 0 11 5Colby 0 0 4 7Trinity 0 0 3 9Tufts 0 0 16 0

SCHEDULESa 4/4

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v. Batesv. Bates at Southern Me.at Southern Me.

NOON

2 P.M.3:30 P.M.5:30 P.M.

SCHEDULESa 4/5Su 5/5

at Bates vs. Batesvs. Bates

TBA 1 P.M.

3:30 P.M.

MEN’S TENNIS SCHEDULESa 3/28 v. Brandeis 11 A.M.

WOMEN’S TENNIS SCHEDULESa 4/4We 4/8

v. MIT v. Bates

4 P.M.4 P.M.

TRACK AND FIELD SCHEDULESa 4/4 Bowdoin Invitational 11:30 A.M.

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Ortiz should let his bat do the talking

If I were to list the people I’ve never met who have contributed the most joy to my life, David Ortiz would be at the top. His postseason heroics embody the magical unpredictability of sports, and he is largely the reason for my un-conditional and irrational love for the Boston Red Sox. I read Dan Shaugh-nessy’s Curse of the Bambino before the 2004 season, and aft er the Yan-kees took a 3-0 series lead in the 2004 ALCS, my 11-year-old self seriously questioned his depressing loyalty to the Sox. Th en Ortiz, Big Papi, lift ed the Sox with walk-off hits in Game 4 and 5. He swatted the Curse of the Bambino out of Fenway, and set the Sox on the path to their fi rst World Series in 86 years.

Nine years later in the 2013 ALCS, Ortiz revived a sluggish Sox off ense with an eighth inning grand-slam into the bullpen, famously depicted in a photo of bullpen cop Steve Horgan cheering and Torii Hunter doing a faceplant over the wall. Mr. Clutch once again brought happiness to Boston with one powerful, magical swing of his bat.

And yet, questions about the source of his power will always overshadow the magic in Big Papi’s career. As much as I want to believe that my childhood hero is innocent, David Ortiz cheated, failing a drug test in 2003. He adamantly main-tains that he was misled regarding the legality of the over-the-counter drugs that he took.

In a recent article for Th e Player’s

Tribune, Derek Jeter’s website that features fi rst-person stories by ath-letes, Ortiz asserts with gusto, “I’m no bullshitter. I never knowingly took any steroids.” Sorry Papi, but I’m calling BS on that one.

Ortiz asserts that his success comes solely from his meticulous prepara-tion, “the hours and hours and hours of work.” I’m not buying the argu-ment that someone so dedicated to self-improvement could be blissfully unaware of the supplements that he put into his body. If Manny Ramirez, the goofi est space cadet ever to play in a Red Sox uniform, knew that he was taking steroids (as he has since admitted), it’s hard to believe Ortiz’ plea of ignorance.

Ortiz wrote the article to defend his case for the Hall of Fame. On this subject, he is on far more solid ground. On the basis of performance alone, Ortiz is a fi rst- or second-bal-lot Hall of Famer. He will break the 500 home run barrier sometime in the next two seasons. He is the best designated hitter of all time and one of the best postseason hitters ever, with a clutch gene that helped turn the Red Sox franchise from a lovable loser to a postseason powerhouse.

And aft er a brief slump in 2009, the 39-year-old has staved off the typical decline of aging power hit-ters, with his 35 homers ranking sixth in the majors last season. Giv-en the extensive testing that players undergo in the post-steroid era, it is fair to presume that Ortiz has con-tinued his success cleanly. He hasn’t failed a test since that one in 2003.

Steroid allegations have kept a number of Hall of Fame worthy play-ers out of Cooperstown. Objectively

speaking, even unlikeable cheaters like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens deserve a spot in the Hall based on their pre-steroid exploits. And yet, they are remembered for artifi cially extending their careers with illegal drugs at the height of the steroid era.

Guys like Mark McGwire and Ra-fael Palmeiro, who would have made the Hall 20 years ago because they broke 500 home run barrier, may never make it because their careers became defi ned by steroid use.

Ortiz’s career narrative is diff erent. While steroids may have helped revive his fl edgling career in 2003, he contin-ued his success deep into the post-ste-roid era. Objectively, he should be in, as should Clemens and Bonds. But unlike Clemens and Bonds, he has a chance to win over the subjective votes of the writers. By the time he reaches Hall of Fame eligibility six or seven years from now, baseball writers will be less jaded by the confusing and disheartening era of constant steroid allegations.

But to ensure that he wins the hearts and minds of the writers, Ortiz should keep his mouth shut and stop making an unconvincing case for his inno-cence. He should put the allegations behind him and let his game speak for itself. Antagonizing skeptical writers like the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaugh-nessy, whom Ortiz aff ectionately refers to in his article as “the reporter with the red jheri curl,” won’t help his case.

Unfortunately, the same swag-ger that has made Ortiz great on the fi eld carries over into his off -the-fi eld comments. He may have won the fans over years ago, but he still needs to win over the Cooperstown moral police, the Baseball Writers Associa-tion of America.

in a complete-game effort. Aaron Rosen ’15 was the lone offensive bright spot for the Bears, going 4-4 from the plate with four singles.

In the series’ final game on Monday night, Rosen started the Polar Bears off with a home run in the top of the first inning, but Tufts responded with a total of five runs over the first, fifth and sixth innings. The Jumbos secured the game with a five-run eighth and won the game by nine.

Tufts’ pitching was dominant after the first inning, recording a total of six zero-hit innings in the rest of the game. Zach Slinger struck out five in seven innings, and Zach Brown pitched a per-fect final two in-nings.

“The two pitchers from Tufts, Andrew David and Kyle Slinger, they both pitched really well,” said Connolly. “So the first thing that we ran into was that those guys did a great job.”

Although the team did not achieve the result it was hoping for, Connolly said he saw many positives in the game. He believes that as the season progresses, the team’s approach will continue to get better.

“I thought that the energy in all three games was great and I felt that they went about it the right way,” said Connolly. “The second really big positive was we played great defense. The guys caught the ball all weekend long and in every

aspect of defense I thought that we were at the top of our game.”

Despite their struggles batting against the Jumbos, the Polar Bears played well in the field, commit-ting only one error in the three-game series.

“If we can continue to catch the ball like that all year long we’re go-ing to be in a great spot,” said Con-nolly. “From an offensive perspec-tive we’re just going to continue to work all year on trying to become a little more consistent so that we can continue to put pressure on teams.”

Nick Sadler ’18, who scored a run in Friday’s opener, is hopeful that the team will hone its game in time for the playoffs.

“If we had to lose a series of that magnitude at any point during the year, it’s much better that hap-pens now rather than later on,” he said.

“I think it’s definitely going to be a learning experience and

the turning point for us, because we all know that we have an in-credibly talented team—the key is just fitting all the pieces together at the right time.”

Bowdoin’s game at 5-5 Bates, who is yet to play an in-conference game, tomorrow has been post-poned to because of unplayable field conditions. The two teams’ Sunday doubleheader will now start at 1 p.m. at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.

NESCAC play has just begun and the Polar Bears are currently sitting in second place of the con-ference’s Eastern Division with a record of 1-2.

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LEFT OF PESKY POLE

WILL OSSOFF

“[Van Zant] was fantastic in that game.... It was a great performance from a captain and a leader to set the

tables for the rest of the season.”

HEAD COACH MIKE CONNOLLY

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President Barry Mills’ announcement on Monday that Dean for Academ-ic Aff airs Cristle Collins Judd will be leaving the College for the Andrew

W. Mellon Foundation means that two of the highest-ranking offi cials in the College are stepping down this summer. Since Judd is the administrator with the most impact on the College’s curriculum and faculty, her departure gives us an opportunity to evaluate the state of academics at the College and to share our hopes for certain changes under President-elect Clayton Rose.

The Dean for Academic Affairs Office may seem detached from student life, but it has a tremendous impact on the academic experiences of the en-tire student body. And while the College has found several ways to collect student input on academic matters—including class surveys at the end of each semester, lunches with prospective professors, and student-written rec-ommendation letters for faculty who are up for promotions—we would like to see more direct and impactful student involvement. Students should be part of tenure and faculty search committees, and student feedback should weigh heavily in any decisions regarding the curriculum. Our next dean for academic affairs should institute changes that increase the transparency of what is now an opaque office.

In 2005, the year before Judd’s arrival on campus, the Orient reported that just three of Bowdoin’s 150 instructional faculty members were African Amer-ican. Th at same year, 20 out of 190 faculty members identifi ed as minorities, according to the College’s Common Data Set. Th is year, that number is 32 out of 235, meaning that even now, less than 14 percent of Bowdoin’s professors are minorities. Bowdoin has the third lowest percentage of minority faculty in the NESCAC, trailed only by Bates and Connecticut College. Increased faculty diversity has been a goal for at least 10 years, yet the College still has a long way to go. It will be the responsibility of the new dean for academic aff airs to follow through on achieving that goal.

In the last few years of Judd’s tenure, her office has sought to adapt Bow-doin’s curriculum to the needs of the information age and defend the liberal arts against those who question its value. In an effort to incorporate modern technology into traditional classroom settings, Bowdoin began the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative (DCSI) two years ago. Additionally, computer science has become so popular in the past few years that some pro-spective majors and minors have been unable to enroll in the department’s courses. The new dean of academic affairs will need to expand the computer science department and continue to carefully integrate technology with the rest of our curriculum.

When President-elect Clayton Rose appoints Judd’s replacement, he will set a tone that will endure for the rest of his presidency. Th e Board of Trustees indicated its priorities—a balance of fi nancial and academic leadership—when it elected Rose, and now Rose will indicate his academic priorities for the Col-lege by selecting a new dean for academic aff airs. Unlike Mills, Rose has expe-rience as a faculty member, and we hope that he will take a leading role in set-ting the academic policy of the College and working to facilitate collaboration and trust between the faculty and the administration.

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pact of high-CBD marijuana on their son, Calvin, who has suf-fered from epilepsy since he was two years old. Over the years, they tried different diets and countless drugs, none of which helped to ef-fectively reduce the occurrence of his seizures. When Calvin was on one of his most powerful cocktail of antiepileptic drugs, he still suf-fered up to 12 seizures a month. Although the drugs help mitigate the worst effects of seizures, they also smother brain activity and in some cases exacerbate epilepsy’s impact on cognitive develop-ment. Since switching to a mix of two drugs and two cannabis oils, Calvin suffers far fewer seizures (down to three or four a month). What’s more, Shake says that he now enjoys “improved sleep, im-proved mood, improved focus and less hyperactivity,” which has al-

lowed her to “wean him off of 70 percent of his ben-zodiazepine.” While one family’s example cannot compare to the rigors of a thorough clinical study, Shake and Kolster have noted that medical marijuana has had a no-ticeable impact on their son’s well-being.

For now, however, anecdotes are really the only gauge of medical marijuana’s effectiveness. Because marijuana shares the same sched-ule as heroin, LSD and ecstasy, research in the United States is highly regulated and in order to acquire research-grade marijuana,

After Colorado, Oregon, Wash-ington and Alaska, is Maine next in line to completely legalize marijuana? That’s the hope of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol, an activist group petitioning for marijuana regula-tion in this state. Last week, the group filed initial paperwork to get the question on ballot papers in the 2016 election. Whether or not Mainers ever vote on the issue is contingent upon the Secretary of State’s approval and the propo-nents collecting 62,000 signatures. If current national trends play out here as they have in other states, it seems very likely that Maine will legalize marijuana next November.

At a federal level, by contrast, legalization is a long way off. Under current law, mari-juana is classified as a Schedule I sub-stance, the cat-egory reserved for the most danger-ous narcotics that, according to the Drug Enforcement Ad m i n i s t r a t i o n , “have no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervi-sion, and a high po-tential for abuse.”

When we talk about marijuana legalization, we should not approach the is-sue from the standpoint that it will only help people who want to get high. To think about marijuana purely in terms of its psychoactive properties is to ignore the plant’s extraordinary medical poten-tial. Cannabis-derived medicines are used to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea, cancer cells, mi-graines, Crohn’s disease and mul-tiple sclerosis. Studies overseas are currently underway to determine the effectiveness of high-CBD strains of marijuana in treating childhood epilepsy; thus far, the results look promising.

Associate Professor of Visual Arts Mike Kolster and his wife Christy Shake have seen the im-

The U.S. must give medical marijuana a chancescientists have to have their proj-ects approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the DEA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In August 2014, the New York Times described the byzan-tine process that researchers have to follow in order to conduct clini-cal trials, many of which are reject-ed because they have the potential of portraying marijuana in a posi-tive light.

Despite the popular push for a relaxation of marijuana’s status, neither Congress nor President Obama has an appetite for change. To their credit, Congress recently (and quietly) approved a change to federal marijuana regulations. Un-der the new law, federal agents are prohibited from raiding medical marijuana dispensaries in states where the drug has been approved for therapeutic use. It is an en-couraging move from the federal government, but it is far from what

is necessary to expand research into cannabis-derived

medicine. Un-fortunately for marijuana advo-cates, the shift in marijuana policy necessary would require changes that nei-ther Congress nor President Obama are will-ing to make. In a recent interview with Vice News, the President

commented, “le-galizing marijuana

shouldn’t be young people’s biggest pri-

ority.” Young people, Obama said, should be

“thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs,

war and peace.” It’s true that there are many important issues facing our world today and it can seem that the right to light up a joint falls fairly low on the list of priorities. But the legalization (or at least the decriminalization) of marijuana has significant implica-tions that go far beyond just get-ting high. For every moral or ethi-cal reason that may be presented to maintain the status quo, there are dozens of Calvins, countless victims of PTSD and innumerable people in pain who need the re-search. For their sake alone, legal-izing marijuana is a cause worthy of being a priority.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORGeneration Climate RisingTo the editors:

In the fall, 100 Bowdoin stu-dents travelled to NYC for the People’s Climate March, a historic collection of people in support of a greener future. Now, another movement is starting in our own state of Maine, and it could be the perfect opportunity to unite different perspectives under the shared goal of protecting the en-vironment and our future. If you have an opinion on how to solve the climate crisis, come to Genera-tion Climate Rising and make your

voice heard!Governor Paul LePage is failing

to protect Maine and its residents by vetoing policies that aim to make the state more sustainable. Maine citizens are currently at risk from warming waters and record snowfall which disproportion-ately affect indigenous groups and those who rely on Maine’s natural resources for income and industry. The burden of climate change will be passed to our generation. This is not just an environmental issue. This is an issue of justice.

Hundreds of students and citi-zens will march on the Blaine

House in the biggest climate action in Maine’s history. Join Green Bow-doin and Bowdoin Climate Action as we march in Augusta. Let us re-mind our governor what our state motto—“Dirigo,” (I lead)—really means.

The march will take place on Saturday, April 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Contact [email protected] about transportation.

Come protect the common good. Come preserve Maine’s nat-ural wealth. Come make history!

Sincerely,Maddie Lemal- Brown ’18Ellie Mersereau ’18


18 opinion friday, april 3, 2015the bowdoin orient

was one of the few students permitted to interact with the Trustees. Th e Trust-ees are a group of professionals who are leaders in their fi elds and enthusiastic lovers of Bowdoin. In between their

tales of Bowdoin, some of them off ered me kind advice for my job search. Al-though I wore my orange square, none of the trustees recognized me from the

deal with the issue of politics on cam-pus. With my other commitments as a senior, I knew I did not have the time or the energy to challenge the institutional status quo of student government.

Aft er refl ection, I realized that I would rather spend my time engag-ing with issues as an activist. Sitting in silence while writing my honors

of fuel, these companies have bought out politicians, communities and in-dividuals so they can continue to play by their own rules and profi t from the lives and lands of people who are un-able to protect themselves.

When they began to extract shale near my home, the rules of the game changed. It was the fi rst time I was ex-posed to the destruction and corrup-tion of this extractive industry.

My community was shrouded in ignorance and taken captive by an industry that off ered pittances in exchange for pollution and environ-mental degradation. I didn’t know where to turn to express the anger and confusion that I felt in the presence of

Confl icts of interest: stepping down from BSG to become an activist

Growing up in a community ravaged by fracking: why I decided to sit in

It isn’t much, but it’s beautiful, and it’s my home.

Growing up in rural Pennsylva-nia, I spent my childhood wandering through the countryside. Th e woods and mountains were my playground, the rivers and creeks my pools. My childhood memories were built in a land that seemed to possess a certain enduring purity, a ceaseless beauty.

Th en I grew up. And I learned that the mountains where I spent my youth had the potential to serve a purpose beyond fueling the imag-ination of a little girl—they were able to fuel something much more destructive.

My home lies on one of the larg-est deposits of Marcellus Shale in the United States. And as I grew up, the fracking industry moved in.

As profi t seeking, highly unregulated private companies fl ooded my home to indiscriminately extract natural gas from the foundation of my childhood, the trails and mountain paths that once wel-comed me with open arms were replaced by caution tape and locked gates.

Natural gas is a misnomer. Hydraulic fracturing is a process of drilling during which vast quantities of water, sand and over 40,000 gallons of 600 diff erent chemicals are pumped thousands of feet into the earth to fracture ancient beds of shale, releasing gas from the

Today, I sat down with my friends and fellow students. We addressed the silence we have faced from the administration in our requests to engage in a reasonable dialogue re-garding the disconnect between Bowdoin’s values and its investments. A month ago, I left Bowdoin Student Government (BSG).

I ran for a position on BSG believ-ing in its mission to act as an advocate for the student body. However, once I joined, it became clear that BSG’s greatest strength, its close connec-tions with administrators, is also its biggest weakness. As a BSG execu-tive, I had all the resources I needed to make an idea happen. Th e student government’s current power is the power the administration lets it have. Th is, unsurprisingly, comes into con-fl ict with the mission of advocating for the student body.

Stories whispered in private and amplifi ed in the union show that stu-dents’ interests do not always align with administrative procedure. To tru-ly address these problems, our elected representatives have to ask diffi cult questions of the same administrators they rely on to make BSG initiatives like concert shuttles and newspaper subscriptions possible.

Further, as a member of the BSG, you have great opportunity to benefi t professionally from your position. As a member of the executive committee, I

divestment presentation in October, and I did not have the courage to push them to remember.

In that moment, I felt ashamed. I realized that I could not be an activist

while on BSG. Th at is why I left . You will be hard pressed to fi nd votes in the assembly that do not pass unanimously, and even harder pressed to fi nd any that

rock. Th ere’s nothing natural about it.Th is has not only

put a strain on already dwindling water sources, but has also resulted in the pol-lution of our air, the contamination of our water, and gen-eral devastation of the landscape.

Driven by my-opic profi t maxi-mization and a misguided belief that they are acquiring a reliable source

blatant injustice.Now, I am sitting in because the

institution that I have chosen to dedi-cate four years of my life to, to which I have given my money and entrusted my education, is invested in the very industries that are destroying my home and polluting the landscapes of my childhood.

I am sitting in because it is the only thing I can do at Bowdoin to stand up for my community back home, and against the industries that threaten it.

Bowdoin profi ts from practices that not only counteract my personal be-liefs, but also go against the promise that it made to us—to “count nature a familiar acquaintance” and to work

towards the common good.

T h e i n v e s t -

ment of Bow-doin’s endow-

ment in the fossil fuel industry signifi es

a tacit compliance with these industries’ morally

ambiguous practices that dispro-portionately aff ect poverty stricken

populations who do not have the re-sources to prepare for the impending ramifi cations of climate change.

Practices that not only have for-eign, distant consequences, but that have ramifi cations in our very own backyards.

Practices that are decidedly con-trary to the common good.

With 70 faculty members and al-most 1,000 students supporting us, we presented our case to the Board of Trustees in October.

Now we are taking action. Along-side over 80 students who have signed the pledge to take a stand for climate justice, I’m sitting in because, as Bow-doin students, it is our duty to stand up—and sit down—for what we be-lieve in. It is our time to be the leaders that Bowdoin has encouraged us to be, that Bowdoin should be proud of.

We have petitioned, presented and done our part. Every institutional route to the Trustees has been closed to us, and we have been left with few other options.

Joseph McKeen, the fi rst president of our college, said that “Literary insti-tutions are founded and endowed for the Common Good.” It is hypocriti-cal for Bowdoin to continue to profi t from the fossil fuel industry’s indiscre-tions.

I am here because it is time for the Trustees to engage in an honest and transparent dialogue with their stu-dents. I am here because the Board of Trustees, the faculty, and the students, together, need to conduct a thorough investigation of what fi nancially re-sponsible divestment from fossil fuels would look like at Bowdoin.

I am here for my home. And I will be here until my voice is heard. Neu-trality is no longer an option.

Trustees, it is time to decide. Whose side are you on?

Jamie Ptacek is a member of the Class of 2017.

project, I am making a far stronger statement than I had during my six months as vice president for facili-ties and sustainability. My choice to sit-in with Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) would not have been diff erent if I were still on the student govern-ment. However, sitting in validates my choice to step down.

Today I, along with dozens of oth-er students, ask the administration to formally pursue the appropriate, unique way Bowdoin can divest from fossil fuels. I ask it to explore these is-sues in the form of a committee that includes students in BCA, faculty members, and at least one trustee that will be on the board in the fall.

Th is is a very reasonable ask con-sidering that divestment is now the policy that 26 universities around the world have committed to, including the University of Maine system. We have to remember that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for lobbying that makes energy markets anything but free and that it displaces people all over the world in the process of extraction.

BSG has inherent power as an elected body. It can prioritize rights over Robert’s Rules by focusing on issues rather than event planning. Because I did not have the pluck as a member of the executive team to change this paradigm, I did what I needed to align my actions with my values. I invite all of us to do the same.

Bridgett McCoy is a member of the Class of 2015.

BY BRIDGETT MCCOYCONTRIBUTOR

BY JAMIE PTACEKCONTRIBUTOR



the bowdoin orientfriday, april 3, 2015 opinion 19

“Do you identify more as white or black?”

Michelle’s brother posed this question to her when she was 16, and it forced her to think about how much of her identity she could actually construct for herself. The obvious answer to the question was Not Applicable—she is an Asian American.

For Michelle’s brother and for many other people in this country, conversations about race mostly function on a black-and-white bi-nary. What her brother was really asking was, “As an outsider, which team are you rooting for?”

But Michelle is not alone in her struggle to place herself within this constructed racial binary. As three individuals from different U.S. geographical regions and Asian ethnicities, we are connected by our feelings of otherness—of not belonging to either black or white identities.

On one hand, South and East Asian Americans’ relatively high educational achievements and family income levels are used by our society to call us “model mi-norities.” (Curiously, most Ameri-cans seem to forget that 40 percent of Hmong Americans and 38 per-cent of Laotian Americans drop out of high school.)

The “model minority” stereo-type operates on the harmful as-sumption that merely with hard work, any ethnic or racial group can climb the social ladder out of poverty. It also has the unintended effect of pitting Asian Americans against African Americans and La-tinos by positioning them as some-

never learned about my history in textbooks or in school… My re-search has shown that history can be personal and [be] about you. It doesn’t have to be objective,” said Genevieve Clutario, a cultural his-torian at Harvard University.

Clutario spoke at the East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU) Conference earlier this year, which Paul attended. It was the first time in college when Paul had found a public space where conversations on race centered on his own Asian American identity and where he didn’t feel like the “other.” Curiously, that first expe-rience was not at Bowdoin.

Whether through public spaces like ECAASU or private conversa-tions with friends, we know that race for us does not operate on a black-white binary. We know that our experiences cannot be eas-ily compartmentalized as white or black, and we know that our con-versations on race are richer when we expand the dialogue.

Next Wednesday, Multicultural Student Programs will hold a dis-cussion on Asian American race, identity, and activism. But we can do more. Petition the school to add more courses in Asian studies (there were none this school year), or ask the Women’s Resource Cen-ter and Health Services to follow up on Kristina Wong’s talk on the high rates of depression among Asian-American women. What-ever your cause, let’s show that Bowdoin values its Asian Ameri-can students.

Wendy Dong is a member of the Class of 2018. Michelle Hong is a mem-ber of the Class of 2016. Paul Ngu is a member of the Class of 2017.

Which accusations are false? Questioning sexual assault statistics

Include Asian-American voices in racial discourse

I recently had a discussion where I found out that a lot of my friends are ter-rifi ed of being falsely accused of sexual assault. Th ey think it could happen at any moment and that there is nothing they can do about it.

As if reading from a script, everyone had something to add:

“You know the girl carrying around the mattress? I was reading about it, and it seems like she made it up.”

“I had a friend who it happened to and it’s kind of ruined his life. He was asked to take a semester off without a hearing, and when he came back he found out she had dropped the case. Th e worst part is that even though I have no reason to, part of me still doubts him just because she said it.”

“It’s like the worst form of slander—your friends stop liking you; you can’t get a job.”

I was shocked. I had never worried about falsely accused men. When sexual assault came up, my fi rst thought was always for the survivor. It has always felt like my duty as a feminist to trust any woman who accuses a man of rape.

In order to debunk my friends’ claims, I began researching false reports of sexual assault on college campuses. I had heard that only two percent of ac-cusations were false, and I wanted to confront my friends with the facts.

I found numerous studies that esti-mated what percentage of reports are false. Th ough most put the percentage between 2 and 11 percent, there was almost no consistency. David Lisak, a prominent psychologist who studies the behavior of rapists, found that six percent of reports were false and 14 per-cent did not include enough evidence to make a determination of their accuracy.

Th at study was done at one school: American University. I am skeptical that a single school can represent every college in the country, only included cases that were reported to the univer-sity’s police.

I was also surprised to fi nd out that

there is very little consistency in how con-sent is defi ned; American University calls sexual contact non-consensual if one par-ty is “under the infl uence of a controlled or intoxicating substance.” Any amount of alcohol or drug, then, could arguably pre-vent someone from giving consent.

Bowdoin’s policy says that people cannot give consent in a state of “inca-pacitation” that prevents them making “informed, rational judgments. States of incapacitation include, without limita-tion, sleep, blackouts, and fl ashbacks.” With diff erent samples of women and diff erent versions of consent, it didn’t seem to me that Lisak’s study was even relevant to a place like Bowdoin.

It started to become clear that there is no existing research that can give us an accurate understanding of how oft en false accusations happen at colleges.

I started questioning other statistics I’ve heard. Th e study fi nding that one in fi ve college women experience sexual assault or attempted sexual assault has been widely cited. Th e study only sur-veyed students two large public univer-sities, however. Again, two large public universities cannot adequately represent

how different from other minority groups and as honorary whites.

And yet, the three of us have never felt fully white. We are nev-er quite sure what people mean when they ask us, “Where are you from?” Even though Michelle and Wendy were born in America (and Paul immigrated when he was six), people assume that all three of us have a special familiarity and con-nection with our homelands and speak an Asian language fluently. This complicates our status as so-called honorary whites, and sug-gests that we may be forever for-eigners under the gaze of society.

In high school, Wendy was ex-cited when her teacher announced a new unit in the health curricu-lum centered on race and identity. It would be a rare public space for her and her peers to talk about race, a topic that was seldom dis-cussed in her predominantly-white high school in New England.

But when she watched the movie that her teacher said was about race in America, she only learned about issues facing blacks and whites. When the movie was followed by a student panel that her teacher said was “comprised of all different cul-tures and backgrounds,” she was equally disappointed to not see a single Asian face in the panel.

Who would speak to her experi-ences as an Asian American? How did an educational space suppos-edly set on affirming her race in-stead affirm her feelings of other-ness?

All three of us are privileged not to face the same systemic dis-crimination that many African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans face. But we also think that it can be all too easy for our communities and governments to neglect the critical issues affect-ing Asian Americans, such as the little-known fact that they have higher poverty rates than the na-tional average.

Even at Bowdoin, we have felt culturally and socially slighted, and have found that many spaces on campus centered on race rarely seek to actively include and affirm the voices of Asian Americans.

“Growing up [as Filipina], I

the entire nation.Th e study also included someone “rub-

bing up against you in a sexual way, even if it is over your clothes” in its defi nition of sexual assault. While this forced contact is undoubtedly unacceptable, it is clearly not what people imagine when they hear “sex-ual assault.” Th is data, too, did not seem applicable to our conversation.

I looked into the Center for Disease Control (CDC) report that recently found that one in fi ve women in Amer-ica (not just in college) experience rape or attempted rape. Th e study found that two million women, 1.6 percent of the female population, experienced rape or attempted rape in 2011. In a Depart-ment of Justice survey, 250,000 women reported experiencing rape or attempt-ed rape. Confusing things further, the FBI found that only around 80,000 cases were actually brought to police.

Perhaps this discrepancy comes from the CDC’s language: it asked women if they had ever experienced specifi c sex acts while “drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent.”

Critics have been quick to point out the word “or” prompts women to

In hindsight, many Americans will admit that the Vietnam and Iraq wars were colossal mistakes, yet the pro-longed silence of American citizens allowed for the deaths of millions of innocent citizens. Lest we let our inac-tion lead to genocide, Americans, espe-cially Jewish Americans, must begin to change the narrative around Israel.

Growing up as a Jewish American, I was oft en taught about the Holocaust and the long history of discrimination that Jewish people have faced, from slavery to extermination. I knew if I was born in another place and time, I would have been sent to the camps. Th ough it means many things to me, a large part of my Jewish heritage is resistance to op-pression, slavery and discrimination.

Zionism came about in the 19th cen-tury in response to European anti-Sem-itism. Organizations like the Jewish Na-tional Fund (JNF) launched campaigns to urge Jewish settlement in historic Pal-estine, claiming it was a “land without a people,” which was blatantly not true. In 1947, as a response to the Holocaust, the United Nations drew borders for the state of Israel, proclaiming it a home-land and safe haven for Jewish people. In that same year, Jewish militias began a violent project of ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and by May of 1948 the Israeli army (funded by German war repara-tions) had destroyed 500 Palestinian villages, displacing over half a million Palestinians, to create a Jewish state.

Th e Palestinians remaining in Israel have since been treated as second-class citizens and a demographic threat to the Jewish majority vote. Th ose in the West Bank and Gaza have suff ered under the realities of Israel’s constant expansion into their shrinking homeland, illegal Israeli settlements stealing Palestinian resources, and a military occupation since 1967, among other things. On ei-ther side of the 26-foot apartheid wall, Palestinians are placed within bars and cages, and penned up behind blockades as more of their land is stolen by Israel. All this despite valiant resistance move-ments on the part of Palestinians to re-tain their homeland and their dignity. (In pre-Holocaust Europe, the Jews re-sisted as well. Would we call the violent

resistance of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto terrorism?) Americans remain supportive of Israel, giving them three billion dollars in aid a year—all while Israel is attempting to commit geno-cide against the Palestinian people.

Many liberals criticize the aggressive actions of the Israeli government and see reconciliation as possible if Israel would abandon its illegal settlement of the West Bank and return to its 1967 borders. President Benjamin Netanyahu has been making that vision seem less possible, promising to no longer recog-nize the Palestinian state and continuing to build settlements in the West Bank.

We must remember, however, that a more liberal-sounding Zionism is still Zionism, an ideology that justifi es the expansion, conquest and exploitation of the Palestinian land and people for the exclusive benefi t of Jewish people. While liberal Zionists may not support some of the more obvious brutalities of Israel’s actions, they refuse to allow the right of return to the Palestinians who were forced to leave their homes during the Nakba (1948) and since, and they do not address the discriminatory nature of a state which accords privileges to Jew-ish citizens at the expense of others.

Zionism became powerful because it exploited (and continues to exploit) the fears of Jewish people. Racism cannot be resolved with more racism; we are hop-ing to create a world where people can coexist in peace and dignity. It is not an-ti-Semitic to reject Israel as a state with racist laws and genocidal practices. Such criticism shows a thoughtful consider-ation of the Holocaust and the dangers of a normalized narrative of oppression. It is tragic that Israel was created in re-sponse to the Holocaust. We’ve been taught to internalize fear and self-pro-tectionism, instead of internalizing the need for love and acceptance of those diff erent from ourselves.

In the midst of another Israeli mas-sacre of Palestinians in Gaza last sum-mer, hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors signed a letter condemning Israel for its “ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.” “Genocide begins with the silence of the world,” the letter read. “Never again must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!”

Sinead Lamel is a member of the Class of 2015 and Students for Justice in Palestine.

A Jewish-American perspective on Zionism and Israel-Palestine

BY SINEAD LAMELCONTRIBUTOR

include drunk or high sexual encoun-ters to which they consented. On the fl ipside, the range of encounters this language encompasses allows for the in-clusion of instances that women might be hesitant to self-label as rape. Should we be including instances that the vic-tim herself doesn’t consider rape? Th ere doesn’t seem to be a clear answer.

Th e more I learn about these statis-tics, the more I realize how unhelpful they are. I don’t buy just 80,000 cases in a year, but I don’t buy two million ei-ther. It’s nearly impossible to come to a conclusion about rates of sexual assault when there is no widespread agreement on what sexual assault and consent are.

Ultimately, I don’t think we can ap-ply this data to our everyday lives. My friends can’t prove their fears are valid and I can’t prove they aren’t. We’re all just going off our contradictory and ir-reconcilable gut feelings.

All I can say is this: I’m going to pay close attention to the sobriety of my sexual partners to make sure that they’re not anywhere close to “incapacitated.” If I do that, I seriously doubt I’m going to be accused of sexual assault.

For Michelle’s brother and for many other people in this country, conversations about

race mostly function on a black-and-white binary.

ANOTHER WHITE GUY

JAMES JELIN

BY WENDY DONG, MICHELLE HONG AND PAUL NGU

CONTRIBUTORS

Even at Bowdoin, we have felt culturally and socially slighted, and

have found that many spaces on campus centered on race rarely seek

to actively include and affi rm the voices of Asian Americans.

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3FRIDAY

FILM "Ernest and Celstine" The Bowdoin Francophone Film Festival will screen the French animated fi lm, which portrays a bear and mouse from opposite worlds who navigate their friendship while exiled from their respective communities. The fi lm will be shown with English subtitles. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

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FILM "Ballet 422"Frontier will screen Jody Lee Lipes' documentary about Justin Peck, a young dancer-turned-choreographer for the elite New York City Ballet (NYCB). The fi lm follows Peck as he works with NYCB's dancers, musicians and tech team to create the company's 422nd ballet. Frontier. 2 p.m.

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RELIGIOUS SERVICEChapel Service Reverend Geoff Parker of the First Parish Church will lead-the evening Easter mass.The Chapel. 7 p.m.

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LECTURE "The Arab Spring Four Years After"In his lecture, Journalist and Writer Akram Belkaid will examine the aftermath of the Arab Spring, discussing the ways it could be seen as a failure in light of recent events and the rise of ISIS. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT Feminist Porn Screening and DiscussionAs part of the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention's annual Consent is Sexy Week, Maddy Magnunson, a feminist porn producer and educator, will lead a screening and discussion of their fi lms.Reed House. 8:30 p.m.

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LECTURE "Message in a Bottle"University of Utah Professor Sarita Gaytan will discuss her research on various drinking and consumption cultures, specifi cally focusing on the links between tequila, Mexican nationalism and gender. Room 208, Adams Hall. 4:15 p.m.

LECTURE "The 21st Century Museum"President of the American Alliance of Museums Ford W. Bell will examine his personal experience of how museums have evolved and rebranded in contemporary America with a focus on advocacy. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.

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EVENT Refl ection on Race, Belonging and IntegrationFreddie J. Cook, who graduated from Morehouse College in 1968, will refl ect on his time at Bowdoin in 1965 as a person of color on a predominantly white campus during the Civil Rights Movement. Russwurm African American Center. 6 p.m.

LECTURE "Because what is Beautiful is Good"Cornell University Professor Noliwe Rooks will deliver a lecture on Dove's use of feminism as a marketing tool as well as the role of women of color in Dove's advertising campaign. Rooks' current research involves studying how popular culture, history of politics and society aff ect race and gender. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

LECTURE "Climate Politics are Everywhere!"Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire Stacy Vandeveer will discuss global environmental politics and its impact on governance in a transnational community. Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.

FILM "The Love Part of This "The Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity will screen Lya Geurra's documentary, which follows two women who leave their husbands and attempt to build a life together. 24 College Street. 7 p.m.

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LECTURE "Why do Journalists Fact-Check?" Brendan Nyhan, government professor at Dartmouth College, will discuss new data on fact-checking and its infl uence on political journalism. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4 p.m.

LECTURE "From Malcolm Little to El Hajj Malik Shabazz: A Journey of Faith" Zaheer Ali, a PhD candidate at Columbia University, will examine the impact of religion on Malcolm X's politics. Room 315, Searles Science Building. 6 p.m.

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SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTGENDERBREAD COOKIES: As part of Tuesday's National Trans* Visbility Day, Sarah Guilbault '18, Nick Barnes '18, Cordelia Orbach '17 and the Out in the Bricks facili-tators organized a conversation about the diff erence between gender, sex, sexual orientation, and gender expression while decorating cookies in the fi rst year dorms.

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