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With a month to go before graduation, David Steury 15 refl ects on the lessons he has learned during his time at Bowdoin.Page 10.

Page 10.What does your choice of Ivies beer say about you? Hint: if you dont like local craft beer, youre not cool.

Track and Field teams prepare for the NESCAC Championships this weekend.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: THE HIPSTER DRIVEL PLAYLIST

Matthew Goodrich 15 presents his ultimate Ivies playlist.

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IF YOU CAN DODGE A WRENCHCampus prepares for 150th Ivies Weekend

BY HARRY DIPRINZIO ANDJOE SHERLOCKORIENT STAFF

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Assistant Dean of First-Year Students Michael Wood and Assistant Dean of Student A airs Christopher Dennis compete in the fi rst annual dodgeball game for the O ce of the Dean of Student A airs on Monday afternoon. The game, which took place in Sargent Gymnasium, was designed as a stress reliever for the deans during a busy time of year. Dean of Student A airs Tim Foster hopes to be challenged by student or faculty teams next year. I imagine there are a few people who might like to throw balls at us! he wrote in an email to the Orient.

College alters neutrality policies as 2020 nears

MacMillan House on probation after hard alcohol incident

Professor salaries rise for fourth year in a row

BY JOHN BRANCH ANDCAMERON DE WET

ORIENT STAFF

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

For a fourth consecutive year, Bow-doin professors salaries increased in 2014-2015, according to data col-lected by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).Th e average salary for full profes-

sors jumped 1.6 percent to $137,300 from the previous school year, while the average salary increased 2.5 per-cent to $99,300 for associate profes-sors and 6.2 percent to $80,800 for assistant professors.Th e College determines faculty sal-

aries through its 4-5-6 policy, which was suspended during the recession and reinstated last year. Under this policy, the College determines salary increases at each level of professor-ship by looking at the three-year lag-ging average of percentage salary in-creases at the colleges ranked fourth, fi ft h and sixth by average salary in an 18-school peer group selected by the Board of Trustees.

Looking at the schools that are in the comparison group, we know whos going to end up above us and

As the 2020 deadline for Bowdoins pledge to reach carbon neutrality ap-proaches, the College is both review-ing its environmental policies and embarking on a publicity campaign for its sustainability eff orts.

A new website for Sustainable Bowdoin, the Colleges initiative dedicated to environmental sus-tainability and its pledge to be-

come carbon neutral by 2020, went live last Thursday.

It has an improved visual de-sign, but its really more about content, said Director of Digital and Social Media Holly Sherburne at last Fridays quarterly meeting of the Sustainability Implementation Committee.

New features include a timeline with signifi cant events in Bowdoins pursuit of environmental sustain-ability and a narrative video explain-ing the carbon neutrality pledge.

The update comes as the Col-leges approach to the goal of car-bon neutrality has seen significant changes in recent years.

Most dramatically, beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014, the College stopped buying credits to offset its energy use.

For the fi rst few years of the pledge, which came in October 2009, the College purchased renewable ener-gy certificates (RECs), which were

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Please see FACULTY, page 3

Its party time. Ivies weekend offi cially began on

Th ursday night with performances by Tree Farm and Reel Big Fish in Smith Union, but the College has been gear-ing up all week. Th e Meddiebempsters and the Long-

fellows got in on the Ivies hype, per-forming an Ivies Kickoff Concert on Wednesday evening in the Chapel, as did a group who staged the second an-nual Bowdoin Night Live on Wednes-day evening in Kresge Auditorium.

All week, Ivies was inevitably the subject of many conversations, as stu-dents began purchasing apparel and water bottles on Monday and rushed to fi nish homework before the events offi cially commenced on Th ursday.Th e fun has only just begun

though. Today, the Student Activities Offi ce is hosting an event on the quad of Brunswick Apartments in the af-ternoon and a party at the Harpswell apartments this evening. Th e main event comes tomorrow with perfor-mances from Th e White Panda and Logic, which will take place in Farley Field House for the second year in a row due to unpredictable weather forecasts and a muddy Whittier Field. Th e doors open at 2 p.m. and perfor-mances start at 3 p.m.

Some students expressed disap-pointment about the concert moving indoors, but the potential bad weather

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SMACDOWN: After a fi rst-year student was transported following an event at MacMillan House last Friday, the O ce of Residential Life has placed the House on probation until the end of the school year. This means that the House will not be able to host events involving alcohol. MacMillan is the fi rst College House to be placed on probation this year.

MacMillan, one of Bowdoins eight College Houses, was placed on house probation for violation of the hard alcohol policy last Friday following the transport of a first-year student who attended a party at the house the weekend before. Although there were initial conversations regarding a possible violation of the hazing policy, Res-idential Life (ResLife) ultimately determined that they would not investigate the incident further. This is the first College House that has been put on probation during this academic year.

The first-year student who was transported was accepted as a Mac-Millan resident for the 2015-2016 academic year; the party was a wel-coming event for new members.

MacMillan house has been placed on house probation for the remainder of the semester.

Social probation, I guess, is just for individuals, said house resi-dent Liam Finnerty 17. [Director

of Residential Life Meadow Davis] explained that house probation means theyre not going to look to investigated further into individu-als, just the group...I think they understand it was more of a mis-understanding than anything with mal-intent, the whole event.

While on house probation, Mac-Millan will not be permitted to register any events with alcohol.

Davis met with house officers last Friday to discuss the event they held and what the repercus-sions would be.

We also discussed our concerns regarding the event they held for new members, including poten-tial violations of Bowdoins hazing policy, wrote Davis in an email to the Orient. Following these dis-

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I feel like maybe wearing aprons or bibs would be the move, so you

dont spill on yourself.

Bring a portable phone charger. Or walkie talkies.

Cordelia Orbach 17

STUDENT SPEAKWhat are your survival tips for Ivies Weekend?

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Champagne brunch is not breakfast.

Matt Leventhal 17

Napping is not always a good idea. Youre not necessarily going

to wake back up.

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WHERES WALLET:The Yik Yak famous wallet, found

WYLIE MAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTASAS NEXT TOP MODEL: Students perform in the annual Asian Students Association Fashion Show, which took place last Saturday night in Smith Union.

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483483passengers driven on Decem-ber 6, the highest number for

any day this year

passengers driven on April 11, the first 45 degree day

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As the weather warms up, students feel better about walking home or trekking to parties. Here are some recent Bowdoin Shuttle statistics.

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Horror struck in Helmreich House room 204 last Friday on an otherwise quiet and ordinary weekend night. Th e trauma brought in three offi cers from the Offi ce of Safety and Security, two concerned girls in towels and one bereft boy with a dark blue coat, miss-ing his wallet. Th e boy was Jack Truskowski 17, and

he was understandably despondent. He had been at Ladd House, dancing up a storm, when his wallet was stolen from his coat pocket, and with it, his credit cards and $100 in cash.

I tore through the closet for 10 minutes looking for it, said Truskows-ki. I was super frazzled.

Truskowski then took to Yik Yak to broaden his search.

I posted really aggressively, said Truskowski, who made some light threats through the anonymous on-line forum, and then begged for the thief to take mercy on him and return his beloved wallet.

Truskowski also replied to com-menters, saying things like, Return it and we have no problem. Knock on my door and I will respect you.

Truskowski then called Security and fi led a stolen items report. Th ree offi cers arrived and interviewed him, while his friends stood by off ering support, even though they were fresh-ly out of the shower.

Truskowskis dad was also notifi ed at 1:30 a.m. and together they can-celled all his cards.

Before going to bed, empty-handed and deeply upset, Truskowski checked the status of his Yik Yak post. Some-one had replied, *fi nds wallet in other coat*.

Oh, this person thinks they are so funny, thought Truskowski bitterly while climbing into bed.Th e next morning he awoke and

stared at his other coat. Coinciden-tally, it was the exact same color as the coat he had brought to Ladd.

What do you know, said Trus-kowski. My wallet was in the pocket, intact and not stolen. My wallet never even left the room.

He called Security to accept the blame and was informed that an offi -cer had spent the morning tearing up Ladd in a brutal search.

Truskowski apologized profusely.Th e next day someone else posted

on Yik Yak, Wallet guy found his wal-let, in his room, in his coat. It got over 70 upvotes.

150 YEARS OF IVIES:Your guide to the weekend revelry

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

SATURDAY, APRIL 25

Brunswick Apartments BBQBrunswick Apartments Quad

Afternoon NightParty at Harpswell Apartments

Harpswell Apartments Parking LotThere will be a water station, a snack truck with

tacos and wraps, fi ve portable toilets, and music!Hot dogs and pizzza will be available, sponsored by BSG.

2 p.m.Gates Open

Whittier Field

3 p.m.The Duck Blind

A student band consisting of Harrison Carmichael 17, Kyle Losardo 17, Mike Paul 17, Stephen Melgar

16, and Tom Wells 15

4 p.m.The White Panda

A high-energy mashup DJ duo

5 p.m.Logic

An up-and-coming rapper

NightParty at Pine Street Apartments

Pine Street Apartments Parking LotThere will be a BSG-sponsored hot dog stand and pizza deliveries at 11 p.m. and midnight.

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intended to offset the environmen-tal impact of non-renewable emis-sions from electricity on campus.

Director of Finance and Cam-pus Services Delwin Wilson said that 35 percent of the Colleges electricity is green in accordance with Maine state law. When the College was buying RECs, he said, they were intended to offset the other 65 percent of the Colleges electricity use. This amounted to offsetting around 12,000 kilowatt hours a year, with an annual cost of around $35,000.

While these offsets helped to lower the Colleges net emissions, they were criticized by some who saw them as a shortcut or a sym-bolic gesture. A working group of students and faculty members con-vened and recommended that the College stop buying RECs.

People thought, while its sym-bolic to buy them, wed be better off taking the money and invest-ing it in the campus. So thats what weve been doing, said Katy Long-ley, vice president for finance and administration and treasurer.

We thought that it made sense to use it to reduce our own source emissions on campus before pur-

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we want to sit in that competitive place that means were still going to be there with schools with big-ger endowments than we have, said Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd.

Bowdoin ranks fi ft h in full profes-sor salaries among the 11 schools in the New England Small Colleges Ath-letic Conference (NESCAC), third in associate professor salaries and fourth in assistant professor salaries.Th e AAUP gathers salary data

from over a thousand colleges annu-ally and provides complete profi les of each college.

chasing offsets, Wilson added.Bowdoins net emissions rose in

FY 2014 as a result of the decision not to buy offsets, but the College has succeeded in lowering its actual emissions since the pledge began.

According to the Colleges An-nual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Update for FY 2014, the College emitted 15,813 metric tons of greenhouse gas during FY 2014. This was a decrease of 17 percent from FY 2008, the baseline year the College uses to measure its progress on the carbon neutrality pledge.

Bowdoins stated goal is to achieve at least a 28 percent reduction in emissions by 2020. Aft er that, said Wilson and Longley, the College is likely to resume buying off sets.

In 2020, well have to do some big thing to reach neutrality, so at that point we probably will have to buy some RECs in order to be to-tally carbon neutral, said Longley.

An analysis from the Portland-based Competitive Energy Servic-es, which is working with Bowdoin on its sustainability measures, proj-ects that the College will have to buy 12,760 tons of carbon dioxide offsets in 2020 to achieve carbon neutrality.

For now, though, the College is focused on other areas. A range of topics were discussed at last Fridays meeting, including last summers solar installation at Sidney J. Watson Arena, part of the largest solar in-stallation in the state of Maine.

While the panels were covered with snow for much of the winter, consultants from Competitive En-ergy Services said that the panels have still been producing as much energy as they expected.

The committee also discussed re-thinking heating in student dorms and ways to grow Sustainable Bow-doins presence on campus. With its new website, Sustainable Bowdoin is hoping to expand its visibility on campus and beyond.

We took a look at sustainability as a wholewhat are the messages we want to share? Sherburne said at last Fridays meeting.

does not seem to have dampened all excitement on campus.

Im really excited to spend some quality time with my friends and enjoy great music and the outdoors, said Devoe Arnold 18.

Im going to be excited, Im just not there yetIm still doing home-work, said Maddie Daily 16. Also, [Hatch Science Library] will be open on Saturday because Ill be working.Th is years celebration marks the

150th anniversary of the Bowdoin Ivy Day tradition, but acknowledgement of that milestone or of the events his-tory has so far been minimal.

While the Ivies hype is pervasive, some campus organizations have rec-ognized that a drunken, sweaty and crowded concert does not appeal to everyone and have scheduled alternative events. Counseling Ser-vices and Th e Bowdoin Outing Club will hold a self care retreat at the Coastal Stud-ies Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Planning and Changes

Th e Entertainment Board (eBoard) has been busy planning the Ivies lineup for months. In October, it con-ducted a survey of students prefer-ences, which it used to narrow down the list of possible performers. Th e eBoard also considered factors such as cost and availability before fi nal-izing contracts and releasing an an-nouncement video in early March. Th is year for the fi rst time, there will

be porta-potties placed in the parking lot of Brunswick Apartments between apartment units L and M on Friday.

We have porta-potties at Bruns-wick Quad, so use them, said Direc-tor of Student Activities Nate Hintze. Th ere was some damage to doors [last year] for people wanting to get into rooms to use restrooms.

Hintze noted that there are not many signifi cant changes being made to the diff erent activities and proto-cols for the weekend. Since the con-cert was held indoors last year, the College is better prepared to hold the concert indoors if necessary this year.

On Monday, Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols empha-sized the importance of safety in his annual SurvIvies Guide email to the entire campus.

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Nichols wrote that he and the Of-fi ce of Safety and Security will be fo-cused on mitigating the eff ects of risky behavior.

Our goal is always to get through it without any injuries or arrests or worse, said Nichols.

Security has added staff for the weekend and will maintain a sizable and visible presence at and around all of the major events.

Nichols said he expects to spend the night on a cot he sets up in his offi ce. Associate Director of Safety and Secu-rity David Profi t will be sleep in a hotel in Brunswick to be closer to campus.

While Bowdoin students pose a threat for risky behavior, Nichols said that students visitors and local residents have traditionally caused the most problems.

As they have in recent years, guests from other schools are required to

register with the Student Activities Offi ce and pay $30 for entrance to the Saturday concert at Whittier Field.

Nichols said that this policy minimizes disrup-tions because it makes students ac-countable for their

guests conduct. He added that Se-curity will not hesitate to confront a troublesome visitor.

If we do have a problem with a guest, we take it very seriously. Well re-move the guest from campus and well also notify their collegeif theyre a college studentfor any follow up ac-tion that they might take, he said.Th e Brunswick Police Department

is aware of the event but will not be in-creasing staffi ng or patrols according to Commander of Support Services Mark Waltz.

We do routine patrol unless we get called, he said in a phone call with the Orient.Th e College also hopes to miti-

gate potential health threats by mak-ing lots of food and non-alcoholic drinks available.

Super Snack will be closed today and Saturday. Th is aft ernoon there will be a snack truck serving tacos and wraps at the Brunswick Apart-ments Quad and tonight there will be hot dogs and pizza sponsored by BSG in the Harpswell Apartments parking lot.

Dining Services will supply food at the Saturday aft ernoon concert and BSG is sponsoring a hot dog cart and pizza deliveries for a party at Pine Street Apartments Saturday evening. Th e College will provide water at each event.

In 2020, well have to do some big thing to reach neutral-ity, so at that point we probably

will have to buy some [renewable energy certifi cates] in order to be

totally carbon neutral.

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Our goal is always to get through it without any injuries or arrests or worse.

RANDY NICHOLSDIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

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cussions, we decided that the actions of these students did not warrant fur-ther investigation for hazing but cer-tainly did violate our alcohol policy, and it for this that the house in on probation for the remainder of the academic year.

Last year, the 2013-2014 house residents pre-pared a scaven-ger hunt to wel-come this years house residents. This year, the 2015-2016 resi-dents attempted to do the same.

What we were trying to do is the same thing we had a lot of fun at last year and it ended up going not so well, said Finnerty.

According to MacMillain Presi-dent Patrick Toomey 17, hard al-cohol was provided at the event.

One of our traditions involved hard alcohol, which was obviously against college policy, but we were very con-scientious and did our best to try to be very safe about it, said Toomey. We made it clear that nobody had to drink at all, they didnt have to drink beer and they didnt have to drink hard alco-hol.We thought the people felt pretty comfortable and pretty safe.

Finnerty said that he didnt realize that the house was in danger of vio-lating the hazing policy during their welcoming event and scavenger hunt.

I kind of brushed through [the hazing policy] and was like check, check, check. In my mind [I have] the examples of hazing and I was

like were nowhere near that, were to-tally fi ne, he said.

According to Finnerty, Davis is interested in clarify the hazing policy for house residents in the future.

She wanted us to understand what wed done and she asked us how they could convey to the houses of next year what neces-sarily breaks the hazing policy and doesnt, he said.

Finnerty said that the house

cooperated fully with ResLife. Th e whole investigation, Mead-

ow asked for information and we gave it as soon as she asked for it, he said. We tried to be entirely hon-est and open with everything, and I think they felt that we were being honest and understanding that we had no ill feelings towards new Mac, we were trying to make it fun, we werent trying to make it scary for them or anything like that.

Rachael Allen and Nickie Mitch contributed to this report.

Saturday, April 18 An offi cer checked on the wellbe-

ing of an intoxicated student in a rest room at Osher Hall.

An offi cer checked on the wellbe-ing of an intoxicated student in a rest room at West Hall.

Th ere was a complaint that stu-dents playing soccer and cheering at the Pickard athletic fi elds were getting a bit too rambunctious. An offi cer stopped by and asked the students to try not to have so much fun.

A noise complaint at Brunswick Apartments resulted from students cheering while watching a basketball game on television. Th e students were asked to cheer quietly, or only when there is a particularly spectacu-lar play.

Sunday, April 19 An unregistered event was dis-

persed at Brunswick Apartments S. An intoxicated student at Brunswick

Apartments was transported to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.

An offi cer assisted a student at

Coles Tower who had a bleeding knife cut to his fi nger.

Noise complaints were reported on 9th and 14th fl oors of Coles Tower.

An offi cer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at Hyde Hall.

Loud music at 3:45 a.m. was re-ported at Hyde Hall. A student was told to shut it down for the night and try to be more considerate of students trying to sleep.

Woodwork on a Baxter House staircase was vandalized. A student took responsibility for the damage.

Monday, April 20 A report of a possible chemi-

cal spill at a Druckenmiller Hall lab turned out to be water.

Tuesday, April 21 A fi re alarm at Ladd House was

activated by a student smoking inside the building.

Wednesday, April 22 A student with fl u-like symptoms

was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.Th ursday, April 23 Brunswick Police issued a disor-

derly conduct warning to residents of 98 Union Street aft er receiv-

ing neighborhood noise com-plaints.

A gathering a Baxter House was dispersed aft er

noise complaints were received.

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S a f e t y and Security.

One of our [welcoming] traditions involved hard alcohol,

which was obviously against college policy, but we were very conscien-

tious and did our best to try to be very safe about it. We made it clear that nobody had to drink at

allthey didnt have to drink beer and they didnt have to drink hard

alcohol...We thought the people felt pretty comfortable and pretty safe.

PATRICK TOOMEY 17PRESIDENT OF MACMILLAN HOUSE

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

FEATURES the bowdoin orient 5friday, april 24, 2015MIND THE GAP

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Higginbotham talks love of cooking, ancient artifacts

ELENA BRITOS

FACULTY CHATS

Pick your poison: an Ivies beer for everyone

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PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIETTE ABORNCULTURE SHOCK: Mariette Aborn 17 (middle) attended school in Switzerland during the fi rst half of her gap year. Though her experience at school was positive, she did encounter many di erences between the Swiss school system and her previous experience in the U.S.

There and back again: Aborn 17 takes international, local gap year

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For Mariette Aborn 17, study-ing abroad runs in the family. Aborns mother, uncle, older sis-ter and younger brother all spent time overseas during high school. Though Aborn was unable to take time off to go away during high school, she knew that study-ing abroad was an experience she wanted before she started college.

That being the case, Aborn spent the fall semester after her high school graduation in Porrentruy, Switzerland, where she lived with a host family and attended Collge St Charles, a small, private Catho-lic school with only 18 students in each grade.

I didnt hesitate to take another year to figure out where I was go-ing, she said about choosing her destination.

Going to a new school, Aborn noted that while her new school in Switzerland was very strong in math and science, and had many foreign language programs, it dif-fered from U.S. schools in that there was little emphasis on liter-ary analysis.

When I was there, [students] wrote their first essay analyzing literature which was a big deal to them, and that to me was very sur-

prising, said Aborn. I did it all wrong, I guess, because I [titled the paper] Stairway, and I had this metaphor that went all throughout it and they laughed at me and said that was completely wrongthats not how youre supposed to do it.

Aborn also said schools in Swit-

zerland differed from schools in the U.S. because all of the students she attended school with were al-ready on a direct track college.

In Switzerland they sort of weed out before you get to high school whos actually going to college, so that decision is already made very early

on. All of the students in the high school that I was at were destined for college, she said. In the U.S. its dif-ferent because youre still all together. Th ey have diff erent schools: trade schools, vocational schools, and its fi gured out by grade six whether or not youre on that track.

Th us, unlike her peers in Switzer-land, for Aborn, going to school in another country during her gap year was an opportunity to let go of some of her earlier focus on academics and spend time getting to know her peers and speaking to them in French.

When I was in Switzerland, I saw it as an opportunity to not be the goody two-shoes I was in high school, she said. So I wasnt a model student.

Along the way, Aborn also expe-rienced some cultural misunder-standingsoften in the classroom.

I got in trouble with the teach-ers because I always had a water bottle in class and they always were telling me that this was not a room of picnic, she said.

After her fall semester, Aborn returned home to Manchester, Vt. to finish out her gap year, where she worked in a shoe store to earn money for college and had a social media internship at a nonprofit. Aborn said it was strange being back at home after graduating from high school and going abroad.

Everyone in my town thought I had dropped out of college, she said. I definitely was interacted with in a different way because I was this person who had gradu-ated high school and was back in town. I very much suffered some odd questions and dirty looks.

The publication of this article takes place at the height of drink-ing at Bowdoin, the Friday of Ivies. For a column that is rarely topical, Im excited to be writing for an audience that might see my biweekly contributions as, for once, relevant.

Surely you have heard the adage you are what you eat. It is an adage because it is true. Today, Bowdoin stu-dents will define themselves on the basis of what theyve decided to imbibe dur-ing this years festival of Lites. Since we all enjoy the anthropo-logical game that is observing each oth-er during Ivies, let this article serve as a handy resource.

What does your Ivies beer say about you?

Bud Light/Natural Light: You are bor-ing. Your life is bor-ing. You have made a predictable choice; as mainstream a beer as possible in the uni-verse of cheap, wa-tery lagers. You have made no eff ort to assert any sort of preference or style in your selection. You intend to play a lot of drinking games. Enjoy your naked lap.

CALLIE FERGUSON

GRAIN TO GLASSMiller Lite: Miller Lites nostal-

gic marketingwhich revives its simplistic white cans with serif, navy text from the 1960ssug-gests that you want to resist your normcore identity. You are not aware of this enough to have pur-chased PBR, but you still felt some latent hesitation as you contem-plated predictable Bud. This hesi-tation stems from the same place as the satisfaction that you had

when you attached a carabi-neer to your Nalgene despite that fact that you have never been camping and probably never will.

Miller High Life: The champagne of industrial lager beer. It denotes some semblance of taste and consideration despite the drinkable equivalent to half-assing an essay in

Times New R o m a n . ( S o m e people use C a m b r i a and those people are horrible.)

R o l l i n g Rock: Cool bottles.

B u d L i g h t Lime: You

abhor the taste of al-cohol and enjoy the taste of limeade because you

are a child. It is unclear why you are at Ivies, or at Bowdoin at all. Objectively speaking, there is no possible way that you are over the

age of twelve. Go find an adult to take you home.

Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR): You live in Reed House and/or are part of the Outing Club. You own a po-laroid camera. You are so excited for the new Mumford album. (Real fans call them Mumford).

Molson: Why? So random. You are the person in your grade that everyone will be shocked to learn exists when your name is called at graduation.

Blue Moon/Shock Top: Youve scorned the plebeian swillers of macrobrews from atop your high horse since you discovered a six pack of Shock Top in your parents garage refrigerator. You think this is craft which means you do not read my column which means you are horrible.

Craft beer: You spend way too much money on Ivies and steal all your opinions from the New Yorker.

Forties: You appreciate the econ-omy of this foul-tasting barf water, which means you have no respect for your body but respect for the cause. That you opted for it over the economy of a fruity mixed drink says volumes about your character.

Non-domestic cheap lagers: Youre not fooling anyone that you have good taste in beer because they come in glass bottles. Th e one excep-tion is Stella, in which case you are classy and Im intimidated by you.

Human urine: See Bud/Natty.Any beer in a beer helmet: Was

it easy finding new housing after they shut down Crack?

Any beer in a camelback: Mike Woodruff is going to be very angry with you on Monday.

I think my ability to demon-strate how disciplines come to-gether is maybe something my stu-dents dont know about mebut should, said James Higginbotham from his perch by the Assyrian re-liefs in the Bowdoin College Mu-seum of Art (BCMA).

Higginbotham is both an asso-ciate professor of classics and an associate curator of the ancient collection at BCMA. And outside of the College, his intellectual and extracurricular pursuitsfrom cooking to bejeweled fishblend together in unexpected and pro-ductive ways.

My interests are varied, he said. I was a zoologist and a bi-ology major in college. I took courses in archaeology to fulfill my humanities requirement and got hooked. I took a trip to Rome and never looked back.

In addition to his stint as a zo-ologist and before his commitment to classics, Higginbotham worked as a plumber on construction proj-ects around Detroit and spent some years as a banker after college.

Its a great argument for the lib-eral arts education; you can go in all these different directions, said Higginbotham.

Ultimately, however, his passion

for art and mindful presentation led him back to archaeology and curatorial work. Not only does his creative drive and appreciation for craft take him beyond the walls of the museum to international digs, but it manifests itself in his every-day life: Higginbotham is an avid woodworker, his familys chef and a trumpet player.

I have a shop in my basement and I make furniture, do construc-tion, make decks and also do cabi-net work. It helps me maintain a balance, he said. My father was a carpenter and my family goes back generations with house building and woodworking. We were also a musical family.

Higginbothams appreciation for precision and the fusion of disci-plines is also evident in his cook-ing. And as a world traveler for digs and studies, sampling world cuisine is one of the many perks.

I lived with my family for a year in Spain, and got completely con-verted to Spanish cookingI have a paella cooker, he said. I love being close to the College, but the other great part of my job is travel.

Although Higginbothams hob-bies and academic interests may seem eclectic, each informs the other. In fact, coming out of grad-uate school, Higginbotham wrote his dissertation, and eventually a book, on a subject that combined both his biological and artistic studies.

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JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTBLAST FROM THE PAST: Associate Professor of Classics on the Henry Johnson Professorship Fund and Classics Associate Curator for the Ancient Collec-tion in the Museum of Art James Higginbotham examines an artifact from the museums collection.

When I was a kid I used to make little people out of Sculpey Clay Sculpey babies, Sculpey moms, Sculpey girls with curls like the ones I wanted but couldnt have. They had names and personalities, and when I left them in the oven for too long and their edges blackened, I would be seriously upset. Play-ing God was a little too stressful for me, so now I use Sculpey to make beads and earrings.

This week, however, Ive been thinking a lot about God. Even though Im curious about what others have to think, I dont talk about God of-ten. I asked my friends if they believed in God while we were in the Craft Center, listening to Fleetwood Mac and having fun with Modge Podgea glue, sealer and finish.

God is maybe in the ocean, or in the sky, or in the ground. All around us, a man, a woman, a genderless be-ing, our Savior, our protector. God inspires fear or loveor both. What most people seem to agree on is that Godif they believe in Godis our creator. Th ere are as many creation stories as there are cultures.

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SEW WHAT?Humans are enthralled by cre-

ation stories. Evolution, our factual creation story, doesnt assign an ac-tor, and so I see the idea of God as the original crafter. Every time we make something we are recreating a tiny bit of that original making, in that we are crafting something the way we want it to beputting it into the world, giving it a purpose.

So maybe my fascination with people making things, crafting

things, stems back to the human desire for a creation story. Maybe my thought that crafting is a way of showing love for others, defin-ing ones selfhood and place and just figuring out a way to not freak out about life because youre doing something else with your hands has something to do with the com-fort that people get from the vari-ous creation stories.

People dont always craft with intention; theyre not always mak-

ing something in a particular way or for a particular purpose. But I think humans have always liked to believe that we were made in a particular way, for a particular purpose, even if we have no idea why or what for.

I dont have any answers. Im not sure I want to have any answers. What I actually believe in, or what my friends hold to be true, is almost less interesting to me than all the

possibilities, all the creation stories, all the myths, all the truths.

When I make s om e t h i ng re a l ly make something, think about it, invest myself in it, put it into the worldtheres a moment of letting go. All the crazy, intense eff ort is in the process and the product be-comes something that fl oats, borne by the re-actions (or lack there-of) of other people.

Crafting isnt al-ways so intense or imbued with meaning. For most people, most of the time, its a hobby or a way to make someone smile, a distraction from something else.

I didnt find God in the Modge Podge. But its good to ask ques-tions. Its good to think about the world in a way that I usually ignore. Whether my Sculpey be-comes little people or little beads, clay is clay, and I can make of it what I will.

Th ere was a great fad in antiquity in Roman periods of owning a pond where you could keep eels and red mullets, Higginbotham said. And some of the Romans actually put jew-elry on their fi sh and treated them like pets. I was really able to marry my in-terests in life science and archaeology with the ancient world.Th ese days, Higginbotham is still

doing exactly that.For me, there is strong belief in

what the sciences bring to archaeolo-gy, he said. I teach a class on Pompeii,

and so we need to understand not only what volcanoes do geologically, but what the volcano did to artifacts. I also teach a seminar on ancient coins, and I take dissection microscopes from the biology department and look at these things really closely. We can analyze how the artifacts were made and what they were made from.Th is method-based approach to the

aesthetic lends itself to his curatorial work at BCMA. Higginbotham is in the midst of assembling an exhibit opening April 28 called Contest! Challenge, Competition, and Combat in Ancient Art, a collection illustrating everything from heroic labors to musical competi-tionsall pulled from the archives.

Th e exhibit has an interactive com-ponent: visitors can attempt to solve ancient riddles that have been trans-lated into English.

Considering Higginbothams affi nity for the ancient contests, it is no surprise that he is a Game of Th rones fanboth the books and the television show.

My son and I are playing catch up watching the DVDs, he said.

Higginbothams interests are clearly wide-rangingfrom cook-ing to plumbing to carpentry. And yet, each is somehow an extension or reinterpretation of the other. Cre-ativity and commitment to craft , it seems, are the threads that connect his story.

Though she was nervous about returning to rigorous academics after her year was over, Aborn said she was glad she decided to take the year off.

I was very much nervous about writing papers again because I hadnt written a real paper for a long time, she said. I was very grateful for my first-year seminar opportunity to write again and re-ally focus on those skills.

She said the biggest difference she noticed upon arriving at Bowdoin after a gap year was that she had already adjusted to life after high

school. She had been away from her high school friends for a year, and grown apart from them more com-pared to some of her friends who were still more connected.

A year out, you talk to the peo-ple you want to talk to. But when you go home its like you never left, said Aborn. I was already at that point, [but] all of my friends here were still very much connect-ed to their high school friends and talking to them throughout their first couple months of college.

Now a sophomore, Alborn is settled into Bowdoin but has plans to go abroad again next year, this time to France. She will continue her language studies and hopefully become fluent in French.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Dorothea Rockburne discusses mathematical artistic infl uences

Consider Ivies an analogy forcollege: suspension in a state of liminal sublime... It is either the

worst state to capture themoment, or the best.

Although art and mathematics are oft en thought of as incompatible dis-ciplines, artist Dorothea Rockburne draws from both fi elds. Rockburne, an abstract painter, is heavily infl u-enced by mathematical concepts.

Rockburne presented a lecture en-titled Materializing Mathematical Concepts into Visual Art on Mon-day evening. During her speech, she discussed her life, inspirations, tech-niques and viewpoints.

When I taught, I always said that being an artist is like having a dog in New York. If you dont have to do it, dont do it, she said.

However, Rockburnes passion for art trumped the many challenges she faced while embarking on her career.

I was working all kinds of jobs at once, plus I had a child, said Rock-burne. I didnt have the money to buy art suppliestheyre expensive. I went across the street to the hardware store and bought gallons of crude oil.

Rockburne, whose exhibit A Gift of Knowing: Th e Art of Dorothea Rockburne is currently on display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, has utilized many non-traditional methods in her work.

Th is particular show relates to works in our collection, thats for sure, said Joachim Homann, the curator of the Museum. We have the expertise to show [Rockburnes] work, but the motivation to show this exhibition, really, is the academic in-volvement that it generates.

Rockburne was brought to Bowdoin by Professor of Mathematics Jennifer Taback through a mutual friend, Dave Peifer, a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina Ashe-ville. Peifer has researched the works

of Max Dehn, a prominent geometrist and expert in topology; Dehn was one of Rockburnes teachers at Black Mountain College.

Certainly [Rockburne] says [Dehn] influenced her, said Peifer, noting Dehns influence on many different artists in the subject areas of topology and geometry.

One of the reasons Im so thrilled to be here is that most mathemati-cians, not all, do not understand what Im doing, nor do critics, Rockburne said. Th ey think its beautiful work theyre looking at and thats not inter-esting to me. Im interested in fi nding out about how the universe ticks, and Im getting there my way.

In addition to the visual arts and mathematics departments, the Depart-ment of Th eater and Dance explored the concepts in Rockburnes work. Stu-dents in Assistant Professor of Dance Charlotte Griffi ns Making Dances course analyzed Rockburnes paintings and responded to them through dance.

It was a really cool experience be-cause everything that we normally do is so focused on the physical, said Lily Bailey 18. It was cool to take some-thing that was two dimensional and not bodily and then turn it into [dance].

Traveling in Maine with close friends last summer inspired Rock-burnes recent drawing, Th e Math-ematical Edges of Maine.

We drove everywhere in west-ern Maine and it was so beautiful, said Rockburne. I was looking at the edges of trees, the edges of the sky and the edges of small moun-tains. I began to work in the hotel room and it just came out.

Rockburnes exhibition, featur-ing works from the 1970s through 2014, will remain on display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through Sunday.

BY TOMMY LUNNORIENT STAFF

ZACH ALBERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSING YOUR HEART OUT: Zach Watson 16 and Adi White 15 perfom at Twenty-Somethings: A Musical Revue last Saturday in Kresge Auditorium.

20-somethings take the stage and belt it out in Curtain Callers musical revueBY BRIDGET WENT

ORIENT STAFF

Th e songs ranged from desperate ballads to quirky and satirical group numbers at Twenty-Somethings: A Musical Revue, but they all ad-dressed the oft en tumultuous transi-tions between high school, college, and post-grad life. Th e performance, staged by the musical theater group Curtain Callers, took place in Kresge Auditorium last weekend.

Directors Adi White 15, Erin Fitz-patrick 15 and Max Middleton 16 compiled musical theater songs about the so-called best years of our lives, highlighting the hilarious, terrify-ing and exciting experiences of being a 20-something. Th e revue featured numbers from musicals including Tales From Th e Bad Years, Avenue Q and Little Women.

A lot of the songs we chose are from musicals that arent as com-monly done or commonly known, said Fitzpatrick. So we wanted to bring some of that beautiful, mean-ingful, newer music to light.

Both Fitzpatrick and White became involved in Curtain Callers as fi rst years and took over leadership of the orga-nization in the fall of 2012. Th e group, which was founded in 2010, typically

stages a full-length musical in the fall and opts for a smaller-scale cabaret per-formance as its spring production.

Inspiration for Twenty-Some-things: A Musical Revue came from two of the directors refl ections on their position as graduating seniors.

It was a really nice group of songs that address this particular time were at in our lives, where theres a lot of weird transition happening, a lot of weird sexual experiences, the need for a job, the search for mean-ing, said Fitzpatrick. Th ere are a lot

of things that are going on that we wanted to address through [music].

Cast members auditioned in early February and were all given a part in the show. Fitzpatrick and White had the theme in mind but did not select specifi c songs until aft er auditions in order to cater to the strengths and persona of each performer.

We picked songs that fi t their per-sonalities or fi t what they were think-ing they liked or disliked about their college career so far, said White.

We did a lot of work trying to

match song energy to the persons energy, Fitzpatrick added. Th e pro-cess was about animating Bowdoin students through song.

Performers drew from their expe-riences as Bowdoin studentsand as 20-somethingsto bring their songs to life.

I think thats the beauty of musical theaterits a really interesting way to animate a persons inner thoughts that is more lively and more vulnerable than a monologue, Fitzpatrick added.Th e revue was comprised of indi-

vidual songs, small group numbers and ensemble pieces.

[Th e show] mixed satirical with more serious material, and did that in a really cool way, said audience member Sarah Nelson 17. Th e performance occurred during

Admitted Students Weekend, provid-ing prospective students and their parents with the opportunity to both witness Bowdoin musical theater and relate to the shows themes.

I hope that the songs and the per-sonability of the people singing them stripped away the fear of this life transition for the prospies coming in, said Fitzpatrick.

A lot of people at Bowdoin are very diff erent, but I think everyone at Bowdoin and certainly parents and even [prospective students] can relate to something they shared, said Emma Hamilton 17, who attended the show.

Fitzpatrick and White are leaving the leadership of Curtain Callers in the hands of Middleton, whom they are confi dent will lead the club in a positive direction.

Our group is founded on the premise of bringing more musical theater to campus and getting more people involved, said White. I hope that the legacy of the group contin-ues to fl ourish aft er we graduate.

Pause your existential crisis and play this Ivies mix

It doesnt get any better than this, you whisper into your Solo cup. You wont be saying this dur-ing Logic, but at any other point over our weeklong weekend, the refrain may dance across your lips.

Rites of passage, even vomiting after a beer mile, lend themselves to such thinking. First comes the warm blush of camaraderie (or is that the Natty?), then the icy clench of terror (no, thats the Natty).

That the best four years of our lives is happening this very instant is the arrogant claim of youth, our burden and our freedom. The ques-tion what if this is it? gives way to what better way to spend life than embracing who we are, a cavalcade of preening post-adolescents?

Crises of unearned nostalgia aside, consider Ivies an analogy for college: suspension in a state of liminal sub-lime. Dazed and confused, agonized and ecstatic, Apollonian and Diony-sian, high and imbibed, we are every-thing all the time in the threshold of existence. It is either the worst state to capture the moment, or the best.

Whatever were lusting afteror fleeing tolets do it to music. In-stead of curating the songs of the year appropriate for an Ivies playl-

ist, I have culled my picks for the best Ivies playlist of all time.

These songs encapsulate, if not necessarily replicate, the feeling of youth lost and won. Most of them are about drinking, some of them veer towards celebration and oth-ers towards resignation, but all them toe the same line as we do: between hedonism and nihilism.

Mark Kozelek will obviously ac-cuse me of selling out to beer com-mercial lead guitar shit, to which Ill gesture toward my Fender and PBR. We are half formed, maybe, but brimming with life nonetheless.

The Night of Wine and Roses by Japandroids

This is the sound of a pregame condensed into four minutes, com-plete with fireworks, melt-your-face drumming and a raucous cho-rus. If you can shout woah oh oh then you can sing along. It comes from an album called Celebration Rock (which contains a song called For the Love of Ivy, another con-tender), so lyrics about downing drinks in a funnel of friends and burning our blunts down the end feel inevitable and appropriate. But really, its the opening lines that car-ry this song to greatness: Dont we have anything to live for? / Well of course we do, but until they come true, were drinking.

This Hearts on Fire by Wolf Parade

Japandroids fellow Canadians bring us to the dance fl oor, and com-mand that we leave everything weve got on it. Sometimes, its the brute force of a hook that sets our souls afl ame, and sometimes its the fric-tion of sparking libidos. Learn to live on fi re, and well burn together. In be-tween the sweat and the tears, maybe well believe the chorus that proclaims, its getting better all the time.

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First Night by The Hold SteadyReally any song from these barfly

troubadours could have sufficed. Theres Party Pit, about a stagger-ing college student (or maybe Im projecting) who recounts meeting a girl in the mosh pit and boasts Im pretty sure we kissed but ul-timately resolves to walk around and drink some more. Or Stuck Between Stations, about the hor-ror-guised-as-boredom of youth-ful drinking culture.

But neither can compare to the poignancy of a piano ballad about Holly, whos not invincible / In fact shes in the hospital, and both inconsolable and uncontrol-lable, all because we cant get as high as we got...on that first night. Well play it as we contemplate our own decay after dusk, cigarettes in our hands.

Th e City by Th e Dismember-ment Plan

Five years before Kelly Clarkson, Travis Morrison shouted since youve been gone from his rooftop and into the empty streets of some desperate city. You probably re-fers to a partner, but it may as well be Morrison, trying to figure it all out, but never quite feeling him-self in his own skin. The scene he describes from his haunted perch sounds like the post-Ivies devasta-tion of campus: barren and silent, even as something seems to hap-pen somewhere else.

After a night of recklessness or restlessness, we might also turn inward for refuge. And, like Mor-rison, well be not unsympathetic to those of us whove left the city, striking out for elsewhere.

Its the collapsing of choice and necessity, a bittersweet refrain as we close the door and exit this threshold of our lives: all I ever say now is goodbye.

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BY LIZA TARBELLORIENT STAFF

Last week, the womens lacrosse team added two more victories to their winning streak, which now stands at seven games. The Polar Bears (8-2 NESCAC, 13-2 overall) beat Wesleyan (1-9 NESCAC, 5-10 overall) 17-5 and then Tufts (6-4 NESCAC, 10-5 overall) 11-9 to se-cure the third seed in the NESCAC tournament.

The Polar Bears now rank be-

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SPEAR-ETED AWAY: Lucy Knott 17 starts her run for the javelin throw in last weekends Aloha Relays. Knott placed second in the event behind fellow sopho-more Ellen Masalsky. The Polar Bears beat out seven other teams en route to winning the weekends Relay. The mens team could not pull out a win at the Maine State Championships at Bates, taking second place behind the host Bobcats. Both teams will compete in the NESCAC Championship this weekend.

Mens lax fails to reach NESCAC tournament

Th e mens lacrosse team lost its fi -nal game of the season 15-9 at home against Tuft s, bringing its record to 3-12 for the season (2-8 NESCAC). Th e Polar Bears fi nished the season tied for last in the NESCAC and did not qualify for the conference tour-nament for the fi rst time in 20 years.

Last Saturday, the Polar Bears fell to the Wesleyan Cardinals 9-8, de-spite a late fourth-quarter eff ort. Bowdoin started strong, earning a 3-2 lead aft er the fi rst 15 minutes of play, with goals from Shawn Daly 18, Sam Hodgson 16 and Brandon Lee 17.

Aft er the fi rst quarter, Wesleyan began to take control of the contest with fi ve unanswered goals through the next two periods of play.

Down 7-3 going into the fourth, the Polar Bears needed to rally in order to fi nd a way back into the game. Cap-tain David Nemirov 15 was able to capitalize on an early chance, ending the Wesleyan streak just 10 seconds into the fi nal quarter. Aft er one more

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BENCHED: Brandon Rothman 16 attacks the Wesleyan defense last Saturday. The Polar Bears failed to reach the end-of-season conference tournament for the fi rst time in 20 years with a 2-7 NESCAC record.

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goal from Wesleyan, Bowdoin strung together four goals in a row to even the score at eight. Nemirov capped off the rally by scoring another goal with fi ve minutes left in the game.

Two minutes aft er Bowdoin tied the game, the Cardinals found the net one last time to take the lead for good. Despite the loss, Bowdoin generated the majority of the scoring

chances in the contest, leading Wes-leyan 34-30 in shots.

Wednesdays game against Tufts was not as competitive. The Jum-bos went up 3-1 after the first quarter and extended the lead to 7-3 going into the half. Tufts put the game away in the third quar-ter, extending its lead by three, en route to a 15-9 win.

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BY ALEX VASILEORIENT STAFF

In the track and fi eld teams second-place fi nish at the Maine State Outdoor Championship, fi rst year Liam Nicoll took fi rst place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.06 seconds. Th e victory is the capstone of a season that has seen him rise from an unheralded new-comer to the 400-meter, through the many qualifying heats to a state championship and a second seed at this weeks NESCAC tournament.

Nicolls immediate success is rare for a 400-meter runner. Th e race is brutal: a sprint that requires near maximum exertion over a dis-tance the human body cannot ex-pect to cover at full-speed.

It was the most brutal thing Ive ever done in my life, former 400m runner Jimmy Donnel-lan 16 said. Donnellan, who has since moved to the 200m sprint, still practices with Nicoll, who re-ferred to these practices as essen-tial to his development.

Training for this race is diffi cult as well, because it is nearly impos-sible to practice racing speed trials.

Th eres a lot of trial and error to it. You cant run a full-speed 400, Nicoll said. If you did it any more than once every week or every two weeks, you wouldnt be able to do it anymore.

Instead Nicoll focuses on his form, staying relaxed, and map-ping out his run. He has stuck with a strategy of sprinting the fi rst 120

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meters, resting for the next 80 or so, and then sprinting the last 200 meters as fast as he can.

Donnellan also mentioned that typically, runners join the team with at least some 400m experi-ence. He said that only world-class athletes could expect to come in and run one competitively for the fi rst time. Yet Nicoll never ran the 400m in high school. In fact, he did very little organized running. A baseball player fi rst, Nicoll had some experience with a 300m indoor race, but never made it through an outdoor season with-out injury. A torn hamstring eff ec-tively moved him from the 200m and shorter races to the 400m in college. Th e next interval, the 800-meter, required a background in distance running that Nicoll did not have.

Nicoll started the season experi-menting with the 200m, and even ran an 800m, but settled into the 400m, which is now his strongest event.

On his race last weekend, and on the NESCAC Championship com-ing up, Nicoll said he was running for the seniors, particularly Jarred Kennedy-Loving 15, who ended his season in the fall by breaking his leg. Nicoll credited Kennedy-Lovings motivation for his performance, and believes that he is primed to improve his time at NESCACs. He is also looking forward to racing Colbys Brian Summers, one of the fastest runners in the division and the top-seeded runner in the 400m.

Won the 400-meter dash in last weekends State Championship Currently ranked second in the NESCAC for the 400m

HIGHLIGHTS

Tennis teams stay strong into fi nal weekend

hind first-place Trinity and sec-ond-ranked Middlebury. The Po-lar Bears lost to Trinity earlier this season 11-6 and fell to Middlebury 14-8. The team looks to continue their strong performance in the upcoming NESCAC Champion-ship and earn a shot at the NCAA D-III Tournament.

Grote praised her teams contin-ued momentum in the match-up against Wesleyan, proving again the strength of her players collab-orative style.

[Th e Wesleyan game] was a great team eff ort overall. We didnt expect

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WomenTh e womens tennis team hosted

Middlebury College this past Satur-day in a rematch of last years NCAA Regional Final and beat the Pan-thers 7-2. Th e Polar Bears continued their win streak with a dominating win against Tuft s (3-5 NESCAC, 6-8 overall).

The No. 8 Polar Bears (5-1 NE-SCAC, 12-3 overall) took down Middlebury in an impressive sweep of doubles play and four wins in singles action. The loss dropped the No. 9 Panthers to 8-5 (3-2 NESCAC).

Joulia Likhanskaia 17 and Tiff any Cheng 16 won their match at No. 1 doubles and Tess Trinka 18 and Kyra Silitch 17 defeated their op-ponents at No. 2 doubles. Chow and

Giff enig also got a victory at No. 3 doubles.

Likhanskaia earned the No. 1 sin-gles win with her three-set victory at 6-3, 2-6, and 7-5. Trinka won the No. 3 singles match in straight sets with scores of 6-3, 6-2, along with Silitch at number fi ve with scores of 6-4, 6-3, and Giff ening at No. 6 with scores 6-2, 6-4.

In the win against Tuft s the team continued its dominance in doubles, wininng all three matches. Trinka and Silitchs win stretched the pairs undefeated win streak to 10. In sin-gles, Samantha Stalder 17 got back on track, winning her match aft er losing 7-5 in the decisive third set against Middlebury.Th e team fi nishes its regular sea-

son at No. 3 ranked undefeated Wil-liams (16-0 overall, 5-0 NESCAC) tomorrow at 10 a.m.

MenLast week the mens tennis team

split its two matches, suff ering an 8-1 loss at home to Middlebury last Saturday but defeating Washington and Lee 6-3 on Tuesday. Th e No. 8 Polar Bears (11-4, 4-3

NESCAC) fought in a tough match Saturday against the No. 6 Panthers (16-2, 6-0 NESCAC), resulting in Bowdoins third NESCAC loss.Th e Polar Bears struggled right

out of the gate in doubles matches, losing all three of the matchups. Th e No. 1 doubles team of Luke Tercek 18 and Luke Trinka 16 lost aft er a tie break. During the singles match-es, Noah Bragg 15, Kyle Wolsten-croft 15, Tercek and Gil Roddy 18 all lost close three-set matches. At No. 1 singles, Trinka lost 6-2, 6-3. Bragg fought through three sets at

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going in to leave with that kind of score. It was played with such great team chemistry, said Grote.

The women were precise and fo-cused on details against Wesleyan (4-10, 0-9 NESCAC), working to-gether well.

We were shooting well, said Grote. Th ere were a lot of good connections. It wasnt just one per-son scoringit was everybody scor-ing. It was nice to see that sort of balance going on on the fi eld for us.Th e teams defensive squad proved

to be the diff erence.Defense was really stepping up

and causing great turnovers at just the right time, added Grote.

In preparation for the fi nal confer-ence game and the last match-up be-fore the postseason, the Polar Bears have been working hard in practice to hone their skills and remain fo-cused on their own style of game play.

Our main focus is usmaking sure that were getting better ev-ery day. [Were practicing] going

in and starting off playing strong right from that first whistle and continuing to play together as a team, said Grote.

Despite the extra intensity in practice, the Polar Bears went down 5-2 to the Jumbos midway through the fi rst half. Clare McLaughlin 15, Lindsay Picard 16 and Brooke Bul-lington 17 scored back-to-back-to-back goals to tie the game at six go-ing into the intermission.

The Polar Bears took the lead early in the second half on a Met-tler Growney 17 free position goal and never gave it up.

The team finished with a solid record last year (8-7, 4-6 NES-CAC), yet was beaten by Amherst in the quarterfinal of the NESCAC tournament. The Polar Bears did not receive a NCAA D-III tourna-ment bid.

The teams strong performance this season could lead to a differ-ent outcome in this years NES-CAC tournament and even a bid to the NCAA tournament.

Despite their exciting prospects, the Polar Bears have refrained from thinking about postseason play.

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No. 2 singles, coming back from opening losses but fi nally losing 6-2, 7-5, 10-8. Wolfe played at No. 3 singles and lost 6-2, 6-2, followed by a victory by Tercek at fourth singles.

Tercek, at No. 4, won straight sets 6-3, 6-2, securing the only point for the Polar Bears. Wolstencroft and Roddy each played three sets at fi ve and six, fi nishing with scores of 6-1, 7-5, 10-8 and 6-3, 6-0, 10-7 respec-tively, both in Middleburys favor.

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On Tuesday, the Polar Bears made up for the Middlebury loss with a 6-3 home victory against 32-ranked Washington and Lee (12-7). Th is victory improves their season record to 11-4.

During the doubles competition, Trinka and Tercek lost 8-5, a rough start for Bowdoin. However, Wolsten-croft and Roddy won 8-5 in second doubles, and Wolfe and Bragg cruised to an 8-2 victory in third doubles. Bowdoin sealed a 6-3 victory by tak-ing four out of six singles matches in straight sets.Th e team will host Tuft s today.

OPINION10 the bowdoin orient friday, april 24, 2015Its party time. Many Bowdoin students look forward to this weekend of raucous celebration all yearor even go as far as to plan their semesters abroad around itand a collective sigh of disappointment could be heard

on campus when it was announced that for a second year in a row, the concert would be held indoors. Th ough the weather may not be ideal, and the fl oor of the Farley Field House pales in comparison to the grass of Whittier Field, the show and the weekends fun should go on uninterrupted. All ivy needs both rain and shine to grow and thrive.

An urge for restraint may fall on deaf ears this far into the week of revelry, but it is important to remember that other peer schools have ended long-held traditions they deemed unsafe. Th is year, the Bates campus erupted in contro-versy aft er its administrators decided to end Trick or Drink, an aptly-named off campus Halloween celebration, stating that the event encouraged underage and binge drinking. Colby ended an annual tradition for graduating seniors called Champagne Steps aft er a slew of transports and property damage in 2009. Th e Tuft s administration decided in 2010 to ban alcohol from its Ivies-equivalent, called Spring Fling, following a year when more transports were called in than the local ambulance companies could handle. Last year, Bowdoin had three transports over the Ivies Weekend. Damage was also done to Bowdoin dorms and nearby Brunswick residents oft en complain about the noise. Aft er several incidents in previous years involving visitors who did not know anyone at the College, the administration began charging guests to enter the Saturday concert in 2012. And this year, to help mitigate the problem of public urination during the annual Brunswick Apartments Quad celebration, the College will provide portable restrooms for the fi rst time. Hopefully, preventative actions like these will continue to be the norm for the Colleges approach to making Ivies safe and fun every year.

While Ivies is a carefree time for students, that is not the case for everyone at the College. Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols is sleeping on a cot in his offi ce for the next few nights, and many Offi ce of Safety and Security offi cers are required to work multiple shift s over the weekend. Dining Services workers must be prepared to handle especially big rushes of students coming from the Brunswick Apartments Quad and the Saturday concert. Facilities Management shoulders the burden of some of the cleanup and repairs the damages that are too oft en a byproduct of the festivities. Student Activities has poured its time and energy into improving Ivies each year and ensuring that it runs smoothly. And fi nally, the Entertainment Board carefully considered students survey re-sponses and spent months planning the weekend; in addition, its members will forgo some of the weekends freedoms in order to staff events. Numerous people go above and beyond this weekend so that we can enjoy ourselves, and for that we should all be appreciative.

When the last of the champagne is poured and Security closes up shop at Pine Street Apartments, we hope to have done past generations of revelers proud. It may only be three (or four, or fi ve, or six) days long, but Ivies usually provides many of the most memorable moments of the year. Happy 150th, Ivies, and heres to many more.

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many of us might like. Obviously not every society and subset of society needs to share exactly the same rules and morals, but fundamental human rights are well worth defendingeven when that defense looks an awful lot like imperialism.

We are willing to label certain be-haviors or practices patently wrong within our own society, and there is no reason we should not extend our anal-ysiscarefullybeyond our borders. Were not right about everything, how-ever, and we must be willing to accept that and strive to improve. But we must also be willing to accept that there are certain things we are very much right aboutfor instance, that the right to dissent must be inalienable.

To claim that values are rela-tive and that atrocities such as

the Charlie Hebdo massacre could be excused because

of cultural diff erences embodies a very dark

form of nihilism that throws away millen-

nia of human social progress.

Rather than waste our

breath on misplaced

sensitivity, we should think

of what values can help humanity exist freely with-

out fear of violent reprisal for real or imagined slights.Ive learned that my peers have an

immense amount to teach me, and that your worldviews might be best fl eshed out late at night with your roommates while you try to fi nish that one last piece of homework before bed. Ive learned that columns can be written in an hour if youre suffi ciently desperate. Ive learned to accept criticism and to give it. Ive learned to learn by doing. Ive learned to better appreciate all the arts and sciences and to be fascinated by disciplines about which I know little.

Ive learned to learn at Bowdoin, and Ill carry these four years of knowledge with me for the rest of my life.

A lifetime of lessons: what I learned at Bowdoin

Its a scene that most seniors are fa-miliar with: youre with a few friends, chatting, having a good time, perhaps celebrating the coming of spring. A lull in the conversation comes, and one of your friends starts staring intently at his drink. Aft er that silence lasts just a second too long, he says, prematurely nostalgic, Im going to miss this place. Th e mood instantly turns

melancholy, and for a min-ute everyone stares into his drink, mumbling

in agree-ment. Fi-nally, some-one says he just doesnt want to think about it or that whatever, he is super excited for the real world.

With fi nals and then grad-uation uncomfortably soon, theres a question worth asking ourselves and our peers: What have we learned in our undergraduate years at Bowdoinfour years that are prom-ised to be the best of our lives?

Ive learned a few things. Ive learned that high-school me was dead wrong and that Ill use math quite a lot throughout my career.

Ive learned about the allegory of the cave, and that I unquestionably want to see more than the shadows on the wall and that I am mystifi ed when others do not. Ive learned that I love studying law, legal reasoning and all the impli-cations of the rules we write for soci-ety, and that I will probably go to law school. Ive learned that people from all walks of life have a shared humanity

and that no matter what, a person is a person, and should be treated as such.

Ive learned that Im not, as I be-lieved when I arrived on campus near-ly four years ago, a socialist. Instead of drift ing to the left at Bowdoin, my studies, my friends and my professors have put me on a political tract much closer to Michael Bloomberg than Ralph Nader.

As living proof that you can leave Bowdoin more conservative than you went in, I would like to congratulate the National Association of Scholars

and all right-wing alarmists for being so stun-ningly wrong about Bowdoin being a liberal indoctrination machine. To be fair, to have become more liberal than I was four years ago, I would need to wave around a copy of Maos Little Red Book and think that Rus-sell Brands ravings are even a little coherent. I also didnt exactly turn into Ronald Reagan.

Ive learned that moral relativism has to be much more limited than

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORProtecting biodiversityTo the editors on Earth Day:

We are now on the brink of an un-precedented anthropogenically-driven global defaunation, considered by many conservation biologists to be the planets sixth mass extinction. Aston-ishingly, in the time since some of us were undergraduates only 40 years ago, the number of individual birds, mam-mals, reptiles, amphibians and fi sh on earth has declined by as much as half. We know some of the causesforest clearing, urban sprawl, pesticide pollu-

tion, burning of fossil fuels, and ocean acidifi cation. Climate change will only accelerate the loss of biodiversity, trig-gering cascades into ecosystem func-tioning and human health and socio-economic well-being.

As individuals, as a nation, and as a College, we must immediately iden-tify means to stem population declines and prevent the worst eff ects of climate change on human, plant and animal populations. Th e College has taken admirable steps in promoting sustain-ability and reducing its carbon footprint on campus, but we need to come up

with major new ideas to deal with the problem of ecosystem degradation and species loss. Th e 23 signers of this letter, faculty, laboratory instructors and staff of the Biology Department, urge the Bowdoin College communityadmin-istration, faculty, staff , students, alumni, parentsto help shift the national con-versation towards meaningful solutions to the critical environmental issues that face us.

Respectfully yours, on behalf of my colleagues,

Nathaniel T. WheelwrightChair, Biology Department

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attendance records.Perhaps BSG would be wise to

engage directly with the current special interest representatives re-sponsible for their poor attendance records. Why prematurely fault the multicultural representative for the actions of other special interest representatives?

A fi nal concern expressed by several BSG members was how one multicultural representative could represent individuals of various races, sexualities, religions, and gen-ders. I think this inquiry is valid and merits further discussion.

Unfortunately, when I sent out an email last Wednesday to the BSG ex-ecutive committee members, class representatives, and At-Large repre-sentatives off ering to engage in fur-ther dialogue about these issues, I was dismayed to see only two of the over 22 currently serving offi cials respond. Aft er initially expressing interest in talking with me, one BSG member changed his mind and the other mem-ber did not respond to my follow-up to meet. (A week aft er no current BSG members had met with me, an incom-ing BSG member who was clued in on my request off ered to talk. Since then, three BSG members have been in con-tact with me).

As the school year comes to a close, I hope BSG will take a mo-ment to reflect on why it exists and who it serves. I hope BSG mem-bersespecially those serving next yearwill take the time to reread the constitution and better under-stand how they can better serve the students who elected them.

Paul Ngu is a member of the Class of 2017.

A constitution is meant to be a body of fundamental principles that guides how an organization is to be governed. In other words, an organization should regularly remind itself of its vested interests and purpose derived from its con-stitution. Bowdoin Student Gov-ernment (BSG) would be wise to remind itself of why it exists and who it serves.

According to the BSG constitu-tions preamble, BSG seeks to be a relentless advocate for student needs and desires[and] aims to serve as a thoughtful and fearless voice for conveying student opinion to the campus and beyond.

a candidate would accidentally print too many posters. With a chart on the petition that candidates have to sign agreeing to follow the rules, it should become clearer when candi-dates are intentionally breaking the rules. However, BSG President Chris Breen and I have still taken over-spending seriously and have looked into every potential violation with Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze and have done our best to deal appropriately with these cases.

Next, there has been talk about the early release of voter margins to certain candidates. Im not sure exactly what was said to whom and when, but I would start off by say-ing that Chris and I were, in fact, not the only people or students on campus with access to the num-bers while voting was happening. Regardless, when you log in to the administrative voting page, it has a simple list of candidates under their respective positions with a number next to their name. Th ere is no other data such as voter information or a timeline with the voting trends. While Im not sure exactly how it would advantage one candidate to know that they were losing by 100 votes, I am certainly committed to disseminating uniform information to all candidates. If the Orient had printed my reply to their questions about early voting release policies it

A response to various issues raised about the recent BSG election

Last week, the Orient ran an ar-ticle and an editorial with concerns about the recent Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) elections. Hi, Im Charlotte McLaughry. I am the vice president for BSG aff airs and I oversee all BSG elections.Th is fall, I conducted class council

elections for the fi rst-year and senior classes. In that election, there werent clear and concise rules about cam-paign spending. In November, I put together a proposal to try to simplify campaign rules and improve equal-ity in campaigns by limiting all cam-paign spending to $12 at the Copy Center. Th e election last week was the fi rst election with that system in place and it brought to light various enforcement problems with the new rules. As capable at enforcement as Im sure he is, it is not the job of Joe at the Copy Center to tell candidates when they are over their limit.

Since this issue came to light, I began creating a chart to give to all candidates with a breakdown of how much $12 in posters translates to. Th e Copy Center online submis-sion form doesnt tell you how much money you have spent when you submit a job. Th erefore, it is general-ly not with dishonest intentions that

would have read as follows:When I ran for VP for BSG Af-

fairs, among other things, I ran on a platform of increased transparency. Similar to real polls, I think there is merit in allowing candidates and students the ability to access the re-sults as they come out. Th is could be done at regular intervals throughout the election or in real-time. Pres-ently, BSG does not have a policy prohibiting or requiring the release of results before the polls close. Ad-ditionally, I believe this would deter candidates from lying about where they are in the polls as a campaign tactic. I have heard that candidates told voters that they were down or up a certain margin in their respec-tive race in order to persuade people to vote for them. Without transpar-ency, voters could not verify these claims themselves. Th at could be solved by releasing the results along the way before the polls close.

I know that Danny Mejia-Cruz, the BSG president-elect, articulated a similar approach to solving this problem and a commitment to ad-dressing this issue next year in an interview with the Orient. Im not sure why the Orient chose to cut those comments out of their report. Th ey seem to be more interested in investigating hearsay than discuss-ing the policies that enable or pre-vent the problem in the fi rst place.

Hopefully, under Dannys guidance, next years BSG will adopt new poli-cies dealing with potential problems of non-uniform dissemination of voting information.

Lastly, the extension of the vot-ing deadline seemed to be the fair-est decision to make sure that ev-eryone who had tried or wanted to vote would be able to vote. Last year, there was a similar glitch in the vot-ing website for at-large and class of 2016 and 2017 class council elec-tions. Th e voting deadline was ex-tended until 11 p.m. that evening. Unfortunately, the website wasnt fi xed as quickly this time. Th e deci-sion to extend voting was made by non-candidate members of the exec-utive committee in consultation, via email, with Nate Hintze, Associate Dean for Student Aff airs Allen De-long, Dean of Student Aff airs Dean Foster and Information Technology. Many of us stayed up until 2 a.m. on Sunday night to ensure that the web-site was running properly and that we wouldnt send out another bro-ken link. I then sent an update to the candidates. Th e following morning I sent staggered emails to the four classes so that everyone wouldnt click the link at once.Th is year, I focused not only on

equalizing campaign spending but also on trying to increase voter turn-out. At least on one front, I think

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this election was a huge success and set an enormous precedent. I appre-ciate that 68 percent of the student body took an interest in this years election. I hope that the Orients ar-ticle didnt make you feel that your vote was illegitimate or that we are running a corrupt voting system. In fact, I think the high number of votes proves that this election was more representative and fair than in other years.

Im not sure exactly why the Ori-ent ran a lengthy article and an editorial about an election that was conducted exactly according to the policies we have in place. Regard-less, I think they did a good job of highlighting some problems that BSG has been and continues to dis-cuss in regards to improving the fairness and equality of elections. Th ey are right when they say that a lot of our legitimacy as an organiza-tion depends on unbiased and well-run elections.

I was handed an imperfect and evolving system, but I have done my best to improve it and hope that my successors will continue to do the same. I wish the best of luck to BSG Vice President-elect Michelle Kruk and Danny next year in dealing with these types of election issues.

Charlotte McLaughry is a member of the Class of 2015 and the Vice President for BSG Affairs.

BSG needs to improve as student advocategrowing detachment from the stu-dent body.

One sentiment expressed by sev-eral BSG members was what specif-ic role the multicultural representa-tive would play. To understand the function of such a representative, BSG only needs to look at its own track record to see its dismal han-dling of multicultural issues.

Why, for example, did BSG re-main silent when Ferguson, Mo. and New York City protests swept the nation and Bowdoin campus? At a time when President Mills and Associate Dean of Multicultural Student Programs Leana Amaez ex-plicitly addressed these events and sought to acknowledge the emo-tional impact they may have had on students, what was BSG doing?

There are other examples as wellthe failure of BSG to address the issues at the Meeting in the Union on race, class, gender, sexu-ality, and climate change, as well as the BSGs lack of response to the open letter to the community.

What was BSGa self-pro-claimed relentless advocate and fearless voice for studentsdoing when many of its constituents had expressed dissatisfaction with their Bowdoin experiences?

While the BSG constitution states that the proceedings of meeting and meeting minutes [are] to be made public, as of publica-tion BSG has neglected to provide any meeting minutes online for the 2014-2015 school year. How can the constituents of BSG hold its elected officials accountable to its constitutionally derived functions when their actions are not for pub-lic record?

Another sentiment expressed by several BSG members was how the multicultural representative might be held accountable for her or his attendance. In the past, they not-ed, special interest representatives from the Department of Athletics and the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good have had poor

BY PAUL NGUCONTRIBUTOR

Spend time living your life, not taking pictures

In recent weeks Ive been asking fi rst years, sophomores, juniors, and nearly-graduates what they would tell their fi rst-semester fi rst-year selves about body image at Bowdoin. Some of the most poignant conversations I have had regarding this question have to do with the pressure of the pre-game pictures. What this means is those thirty min-utes before every party where girls (and maybe guys, too) line up and do their best to look fabulous and camera ready.

While certainly we still take pictures and want to document our nights, the phenomenon of taking pictures in full make-up and outfi ts with your roommates appears to reach its height around winter of freshman year. Per-haps this is because you have just ar-rived at college and you want to prove to all your high school friends that you actually do, in fact, have friends and are, in fact, attending college just like yo