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FEATURES: BOWDOIN MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR
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MORE NEWS: POPE RETURNS FROM LIBYA;
STUDENTS AT HIGH RISK FOR FLU
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL: A call to disarm.
Page 13.
SPORTS: MENS ICE HOCKEY DEFEATS MIDDLEBURY
The mens hockey team, hot o an un-
defeated start to the season, went 7-1
over the winter break to hoist
themselves to a three-game
lead atop the NESCAC and
secure a third place ranking
in all of D-III.
Page 9.
Page 5.
Page 3.
HALF ASSED: Judah Issero 13 on the
importance of the Manti Teo scandal.
H-L Library exhibits
Civil War memorabilia
to commemorate the
sesquicentennial.
LIBYA: An interview with former U.S. Ambassador
Laurence Pope 67.
Page 14.
FLU: Health Center warns of increased u risk.
Page 3.
TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Facilities Management sta bundled up to spray water on the Quad as temperatures approached zero degrees in order to prepare Bowdoins outdoor ice rink.
Please see INAUGURATION, page 2
Town begins issuing marriage
licences to same-sex couples
As a result of Maines vote to le-
galize same-sex marriage in Novem-
ber, the Brunswick Town Clerks of-
fce has begun the process of issuing
marriage licenses to gay and lesbian
couples.
Te om ce frst opened its doors
to same-sex couples on December
29, and has so far issued nine inten-
tions of marriage. Six of these have
come back notarized as marriage
licenses, according to Town Clerk
Fran Smith.
Smith said that although the
forms for marriage had been al-
tered to make them more gender-
neutral, the Town Clerks om ce had
not needed to make any signifcant
changes to the rest of the process.
Please see DIRECTOR, page 7
BY SOPHIA CHENG
ORIENT STAFF
College honors
Martin Luther
King Jr., Mills
attends Obama
inauguration
Please see BILL, page 3
Although there are a multitude of
religious groups on campusinclud-
ing Bowdoin Hillel, Bowdoin Chris-
tian Fellowship, the Muslim Stu-
dents Association and the Catholics
Student Unionthe College lacked
someone who would facilitate among
Please see MARRIAGE page 3
BY DIANA LEE
ORIENT STAFF
FREEZING POINT
Te Bowdoin Community paid
tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
with a ceremony in the Chapel Mon-
day evening. Te Longfellows, Slam
Poet Society and the Bowdoin Com-
munity Gospel Choir performed in
memory of Dr. King, and Brian Pur-
nell, assistant professor of Africana
studies, spoke of MLKs legacy.
It was obvious how much this day
meant to people, said Ben Osher 15,
who performed at the service. I felt
like the lines between the secular and
the religious were becoming blurred.
It was a day for all of us to step
back for a moment and refecta
day to remember principals of equal-
ity and of individual achievements,
President Barry Mills said.
Tis years holiday also marked the
inauguration of President Obama for
his second term in om ce. Te pro-
ceedings in Washington, D.C. were
broadcast around campus.
Obama was as eloquent as ever,
Conor Tillinghast 16 said.
When you think about MLK
looking over the mountain top, this
could have been part of what he saw,
Ellery Maya-Altshuler 15 said. Its
an incredible thing when you know
that 50 million people voted for an
African-American.
In an efort to increase security
in Maine schools, State Senator Da-
vid Burns (R-Washington County)
proposed a bill earlier this week that
would enable teachers and school
employees to carry concealed weap-
ons on the job. Te Portland Press
Herald announced that Burns sub-
mitted the bill on Wednesday.
Tis is not a mandate for any-
body, Burns told the Press Herald.
Tis is an option for school systems
to consider as they look at the overall
responsibility and problems of pro-
tecting children and staf in school
environments.
Burns, a frst-term senator who
was previously a state trooper for
24 years, also proposed that school
districts have the opportunity to
hire armed security guards. Under
the proposed bill, all school om cials
could carry a frearm under the con-
ditions that they frst obtain a state
permit, enlist in a frearms training
course, and pass a psychological
exam. Te full text of the bill will
be released next week, according to
Amy Cookson, a representative from
the om ce of Brunswick State Senator
Bill would allow school employees to carry arms
BY SAM WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
Bob Ives 69, the founder and di-
rector of Te Carpenters Boat Shop
in Pemaquid, Maine for 33 years, of-
fcially assumed his position as the
Colleges frst Director of Religious and
Spiritual Life Monday when he gave the
benediction at a chapel ceremony com-
memorating Martin Luther King Jr.
Director of Student Life Allen De-
long announced the appointment
of Ives in a campus-wide email on
January 17.
Bob will work closely with the re-
ligious and faith-based student-organi-
zations, with individuals of any faith or
spiritual tradition, and those who wish
to refect on their spiritual life in a safe
environment. Delong wrote.
Ives has a Masters of Divinity from
the University of Edinburgh and has
served as the minister of a number
of small churches in Maine. He also
founded and directed Te Carpenters
Boat Shop, a nonproft boat-building
Independent
Senator King
aims to change
Senate culture
with new bills
BY NORA BIETTETIMMONS
ORIENT STAFF
Shortly afer being sworn into of-
fce on January 3, Senator Angus King
had already begun making the political
rounds in Washington, meeting with at
least 30 of his new colleagues on Capitol
Hill and appearing on NBCs Meet the
Press opposite Newt Gingrich.
Since winning the Senate seat in
November, King and his team have
been busy setting up the Senators
Maine and Washington om ces, re-
viewing hundreds of applications for
only 35 positions.
We were more selective than Stan-
ford or Bowdoin, King said.
King and Bernie Sanders of Ver-
mont are the only Independents in
the Senate, though both caucus with
the Democrats. King is also one of 11
former governors currently serving in
the Senate. He said he is considering
starting an om cial caucus of former
governors, because the experience of
holding executive power at the state
level is so diferent from holding a con-
gressional position.
Governors, King said, are much
more used to working in a bipartisan
way, and theyre also used to things get-
ting done.
King said he shared the idea of a
potential former governors caucus
with someone in Washington, who
Please see KING, page 4
HONGBEI LI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Te only thing thats changed is
that couples of the same sex can now
come in to be married, said Smith.
Although they have not yet had
much time to observe, the Town
Clerks Om ce expects an increase in
the number of licenses issued each
year.
Youre allowing a new population
of couples to marry, said Smith.
Folks have been waiting many
years.
She added, On our frst day of
being open [to same-sex couples],
we had seven couples come in. We
never have seven couples a day.
Members of the Bowdoin commu-
nity are enthusiastic about the new
options open to same-sex couples.
Brunswick, like all areas of the
state, has existing, committed, lov-
organization for individuals who are
in various states of transition in their
lives.
Coral Sandler 12, who proposed
the creation of a Director of Religious
and Spiritual Life with Jennifer Wenz
12 last spring, said she hopes Ives will
build a safe welcoming community
around the diverse group of students
who are here and really create more
of a spiritual center or home on cam-
pus.
Te establishment of Ives position
coincides with an ongoing discussion
in the media about the rise of athe-
ism among American youth. National
Public Radio (NPR) recently broadcast
a series called Losing Our Religion
on the declining numbers of Ameri-
cans who are religiously am liated.
One-ffh of all Americans and a third
of young Americans say they dont be-
long to any religion, NPR reported.
Sandler said that she grappled with
questions concerning her own spiritu-
ality when she frst came to Bowdoin.
Ives 69 named director of religious and spiritual life
Stan Gerzofsky.
Tere are likely to be several bills
about arming teachers/school per-
sonnel, Cookson added. As Chair
the Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Committee, Senator Gerzofsky, a
Democrat, will likely review many of
the proposed bills.
Under Burns bill, schools would
individually have the option to opt
in or out, and each local superin-
tendent, principal, and school board
would need to approve the action.
Students parents would be notifed
BY KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
GUIDING SPIRIT: Ives is the Colleges
rst director of religious and spiritual life.
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After nishing its 2012 season 1-7, the football team is set to
return the most upperclassmen and starters of any NESCAC team,
which bodes well for the squads chances next fall.
SPORTS: Hope for the football team?
FEATURES: Bursting the Bubble
Seniors Quinn Cohane and Melody Hahm
speak with students about how their relation
to spirituality and religion on campus.
A&E: Artist Putnam draws on Science
Artist-in-Residence Barbara Putnams work suggests
that science and the arts may not be such disparate
pursuits.
Page 10.
Auden Schendler 92
Please see op-ed, Page 15.
Bowdoins mascot
and most famous non-poet
graduate legacy are endan-
gered. Te schools very mis-
sion is threatened at its core.
It sure seems like Bowdoin,
more than any other college,
ought to be working hard to
solve climate change.

OVERHEARD
Page 7. Page 6.
Te spring semester om cially began
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and
though classes were in session, many
campus events commemorated the cel-
ebrated civil rights leader, who spoke on
campus on May 6, 1964.
Te College has come a long way
since Kings visit to campus, which
closely followed the completion of con-
struction on what is now Coles Tower.
In 1964, only three African-American
students were enrolled out of a total of
820 students, as Secretary of Develop-
ment John Cross notes in his Whisper-
ing Pines column. Today, 32 percent of
the frst year class is made up of students
of color.
An Orient article announcing Kings
visit calls him a believer in non-violent
resistance who has taken Gandhi as his
model. Te Bowdoin Political Forum
invited King to Bowdoin, along with
civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, in an
efort to encourage students to take ac-
tion in support of the movement.
Speaking from the pulpit of First Par-
ish Church in Brunswick, King said he
would address the question of whether
we are making any real progress in the
area of race relations in our nation.
We have come a long way, but we
have a long, long way to go before this
problem is solved, he said. Te time
is always ripe to do right. In January
1988, the Portland Press Herald wrote
four weeks afer leaving Maine, King
went willingly to jail in St. Augustine,
Fla ., protesting a segregated motel. Five
months later, he stood in Oslo, Norway,
the youngest man ever to win the Nobel
Peace Prize.
-Compiled by Nora Biette-Timmons
BOWDOIN BRIEF
The Bowdoin mascot turned
100 last week, and everyone wants
a piece. Madison Whitley 13 re-
cently spotted a hat in a SeaWorld
San Diego store bearing the current
incarnation of the Colleges polar
bear logo. The College is now con-
tacting SeaWorld, and SeaWorld is
investigating.
Whitley is the Orients co-Busi-
ness Manager.
Our company is currently looking
into the matter, wrote David Koontz,
SeaWorld San Diegos director of com-
munications, in an email to the Orient.
On the Colleges end, the issue
is being handled by the Treasurers
Office, which handles trademark
and copyright issues, according to
FLASHBACK
PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
I HAVE A DREAM: The Bowdoin Community Gospel Choir was among one of many acts commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday at the Chapel.
Remembering Martin Luther
King Jr.s 1964 visit to Bowdoin
Bob Ives 69, the Colleges newly
appointed director of spiritual life
was working at Hawthorne-Long-
fellow Library when Martin Luther
King Jr. was shot on April 4, 1968.
It was so devastating that both
my roommate and I decided we
would go to his funeral in Atlanta,
Georgia, Ives told the crowd inside
the packed Chapel.
When Roy Greason, the president
of the College, heard that Ives and
his roommate planned to travel to
the funeral of King, he asked if they
would accept plane tickets paid for
by the College and represent Bow-
doin at the funeral.
Representing Bowdoin at MLKs
funeral, Ives said, became one of the
most pivotal and inspirational mo-
ments of his life.
MLK once said that the problem
of human and civil rights would of-
ten be more acute in the north than
in the south, Ives said. In the north
Vice President for Communications
Scott Hood.
Tell Shamu to sleep with one eye
open, tweeted @BowdoinCollege.
Wow, that is lame what Sea-
World did, wrote Michael Morrow
of Morrow Creative Group, which
designed the logo, in an email to the
Orient. Morrow also noted that it
was more likely a SeaWorld licensee
who had infringed.
The hat does not appear in the
SeaWorld online store.
Although Hood and Morrow
pointed to SeaWorld, Asher Stamell
13 hopes it was Bowdoin who in-
fringed: I hope it comes out that
our designer stole it so we can go
back to the original mean growl-
ing beast of a bear, he tweeted. The
current logo was introduced in Oc-
tober 2008, replacing a plethora of
older designs, including the popu-
lar teeth-baring running bear.
Stamell is not alone in scorning
MILLS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
the current bears lack of feroc-
ity; in early 2009, Lenny Pierce
10 wrote a lengthy critique in the
Orient
No teeth are shown, he noted.
No skull-crushing abilities are in-
dicated.
Still, the logo has plenty of fans.
Both Hood and Morrow indepen-
dently recalled an instance a cou-
SeaWorld involved in possible
infringement of polar bear logo
ple years ago in which an Iceland
store decided they liked our bear
too, wrote Hood, and took it as
their store logo. We sent them a
letter, which solved the problem.
That was really crazy, wrote
Morrow, who was Nikes creative
director before he started his
own agency in 2000. I guess its a
backhanded compliment.
-Compiled by Toph Tucker
MADISONWHITLEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
COPY BEAR: A side-by-side comparison of the two logos.
SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS
A spectator at Watson Arena
who was struck in the head by a
hockey puck was transported to
MidCoast Hospital by Brunswick
Rescue (January 5).
people hide their prejudices against
one and other; in the south people
know where they stand.
Among those attending the inau-
guration were President MIlls and
his wife Karen.
I was there not as the President
of Bowdoin College, Mills said. But
as the spouse of Karen Mills, the
Administrator of the Small Business
Administration.
I was delighted that Barry could
join me to celebrate such a historic
day, Karen Mills said. Our day was
flled with memorable moments, in-
cluding the Morning Prayer service,
a view of the National Mall as the
President took his oath and dancing
at the White House.
Te couple was seated at the Presi-
dential stand along with Maine Sena-
tor Angus King, Secretary of Defense
Leon Penatta, United Nations am-
bassador Susan Rice, former Presi-
dents Clinton and Carter, to name a
few.
President Mills and his wife end-
ed their day at a party in the White
House.
It was just all too cool, Mills said.
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Over winter break, a group of Bow-
doin students returned to campus
early to participate in the Fullbridge
Program, an intensive learning expe-
rience designed to give students prac-
tical business skills and expose them
to a workplace environment. Full-
bridge usually holds residential pro-
grams students on its main campus in
Cambridge, Mass. and Bowdoin was
the site of the companys frst external
program at a college exclusively for
that colleges students.
Te Fullbridge program covered
topics ranging from fnancial state-
ments to Microsof Excel.
A lot of it was fnancial analysis,
said Daniel Mejia-Cruz 16. We were
learning how to make and read bal-
ance sheets as well as a lot of other
business skills. I got a lot of vocabu-
lary just from reading material that
they gave us.
Each day, students were given a
quick intro by their coaches on what
they would be covering that day and
then worked through various learning
modules on that topic. Students were
broken into teams of fve or six, and
while most of the exercises were indi-
vidual, some involved group work.
Going into the program, Ryan
Holmes 13 said that he had hoped
to come out of the program with a
foundation in business math as well as
more familiarity with Microsof Excel.
I am defnitely more familiar with
Excel because of the constant rein-
forcement, he said, but I didnt really
like the teaching style for the rest of
the material.
Pilot Fullbridge Program receives
mixed reviews from participants
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Following the attack on the U.S. Em-
bassy in Benghazi, Laurence Pope 67
came out of retirement to serve as charg
daaires in Libya. Pope completed his
tour of duty this month, and spoke to
the Orient about his career in the For-
eign Service. e following is an excerpt
of the interview, the full text of which is
available online.
Linda Kinstler: When did you re-
turn from Libya?
Laurence Pope: I came back on
January 5I never intended to stay
longer, I couldnt stay longerI made
that clear, I have a life here and my
wife is here, and obviously she couldnt
come out there. Tere are no families
there for obvious reasons. Security is
so tightSo that meant that I was by
myself, and three months of that is
enough. But I was glad that I could do
it.
LK: When we spoke in October, you
said that you were focused on security
and bringing the perpetrators of the at-
tack in Benghazi to justice. What steps
did you take to achieve those goals?
LP: Te issue involved the cooper-
ation of the Libyan government. Tis
was a crime committed on Libyan
territory. It was the responsibility of
the government of Libya in the frst
instance, but it was also of interest to
the United States and we have laws in
our books that make it a crime to kill
American citizens abroad. Te FBI
sent a team to Libya and I worked
with that team to try to make sure that
the Libyan government cooperated
with the investigation that we were
conducting on both sides. Tat was
one focus of the embassys work there.
FBI Director Robert Mueller was just
in Libya for a couple of days ago, so
the process continues.
LK: How was this experience difer-
ent from your previous tours of duty?
LP: It was a unique situationthis
was an embassy whose ambassador had
been killed, and the folks there had gone
through that experience, and I arrived
there about a month afer the Beng-
hazi events so they were still somewhat
fresh. When I got there, there was still
considerable disruptionbut mainly
because the embassy had lost its leader,
and other colleagues. A sizeable num-
ber of the staf had been evacuated back
to the United States, still leaving about
100 lef. So it was a question of getting
the embassy back and operatingand
it was operating, but there were some
issues there.
And then [it was a matter of] report-
ing to the Libyan government, checking
in with the Libyan government, going
to see the foreign minister, going to see
the prime minister and the president,
and saying the United States is still here,
and even despite whats happened were
not going to abandon Libya.
LK: What was it like working with
the Libyan government?
LP: Te Libyan government is a
work in progress. Its a transitional gov-
ernment, the purpose of which is to
run the country during an interim pe-
riod until permanent institutions can
be put in placea constitution, and
the institutions that guard that con-
stitution. Tere had been an election
in July, which was quite a successful
election for the General National Con-
gress. Two hundred representatives
had elected a prime ministerwhen I
arrived the frst prime minister had re-
signed as a result of the withdrawal of
the confdence of this General National
Congress, a sort of proto-legislature, in
him, and a new government was tak-
ing shapewhen I arrived they were
sort of between governments, between
transitional governments...
...Now they have a lot of problems,
and their principle problem is estab-
lishing security in Libya, and what
happened in Benghazi is part of that.
Te militias, the popular uprising that
did away with Qaddaf with some help
from NATO and the air force of the
United States, theyre still there. And
so making the transition from a state
which was liberated by militias to a
state which is governed by the rule of
law and permanent institutions, is [on-
going].
LK: Do you have any advice for
students hoping to enter the Foreign
Service?
LP: My father, who also went to Bow-
doinand he was chair of the board at
Bowdoin for three yearshed been in
the Marine Corps in the Second World
War. He used to make fun of people
who used to say Oh, you should have
been in the old Marine Corps, the pre-
war 1930s Marine Corps. So you look
back at institutions and its easy to say
it was great when I was there but then
its deteriorated ever since. I would not
say that about todays Foreign Service
I do think it needs to recover a sense of
what its mission is in the world and
that requires some political leadership.
Teres a problem there when po-
litical functions migrate to the White
House and when the Defense Depart-
ment has too large a role in foreign pol-
icy as opposed to defense policy, and
when political appointees of the State
Department are it seems at a lower and
lower level as it seems every year. But,
the United States is a statewe think
of ourselves as an exceptional state,
but were still a state. And the rules of
the world involve state-to-state rela-
tions, and there will always be a need
for skilled, experienced people to con-
duct those relations, and you call them
diplomats.
Its an honorable career, and a career
which I would recommend to anybody,
without illusions about the current state
of the institution and the problems that
it faces. I think that in some ways the
pendulum in these matters tends to
swing, and I hope it will swing back to a
recognition of the importance of diplo-
macy and the diplomatic service and
the relations between sovereign states,
even in the world of information revo-
lutions and globalization.
Former Ambassador Pope 67 returns to U.S.
BY LINDA KINSTLER
ORIENT STAFF
Mejia-Cruz agreed. Tey tried to
emulate a working environment, but
I think if they had a more hands on
approach the things would be easier
to apply. We were essentially reading
pdf s independently and then taking a
quiz on the material, which was kind
of dim cult without further explana-
tions, but regardless, I learned a lot.
Mejia-Cruz said that he would rec-
ommend the program to others, albeit
not wholeheartedly.
I would hesitantly suggest it just
because I was really let down by the
manner in which was presented, he
said. It wasnt what I expectedyou
basically sit in front of a computer.
Along with fnancial literacy, the
program stressed interpersonal skills.
Tey stressed skills that you keep
usingleadership, group skills, pre-
sentationand these are all things
that you need at Bowdoin, and will use
actively here, said Mejia-Cruz. Te
program is especially good for people
who arent as confdent in their pre-
sentation skills.
Holmes also said that he was
unsure if he would retain all of the
information.
I have more of a vocabulary
around business math, he said, But I
dont think I could do [the math] now.
I have access to the materials, though,
so if you gave me time to refresh I
could do it.
Holmes said that, along with the
in depth work with Microsof Excel,
the best part of the program was the
interaction with some of the people
involved in Fullbridge.
Te founder and fnancial expert
for Fullbridge were really interesting
people to talk to, he said.
MARRIAGE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
ing gay and lesbian couples as part
of the community, and these couples
now have the opportunity to re-
ceive legal rights and protections
and make a public declaration of
their commitment, said Director
of Career Planning Timothy Diehl,
a board member of the LGBT ad-
vocacy group Equality Maine.
Kate Stern, director of the Re-
source Center for Sexual and Gen-
der Diversity, echoed these senti-
ments, but also emphasized that
the most exciting part of the new
law was the increased range of
choices for same-sex couples.
I think that whether people de-
cide to get married or not is less
of an issue, but the bigger issue is
that people know that they have
the ability to get married and to
be treated equally if they choose
to, said Stern. Just like all het-
erosexual people didnt have to get
married before, people in same-sex
relationships now have the choice.
This is an important legal and
statewide recognition, but it hasnt
fundamentally changed the com-
mitment to each other that [same-
sex couples] have had, said Diehl.
He also added that he does not
believe that the new law will result
in significant change in attitudes
in Brunswick.
I think Brunswick is a very in-
clusive and supportive community,
and has been for a long time, said
Diehl.
College at high u risk, asks
students to take precautions
Health Services is anticipating an
increase in infuenza cases over the
next few weeks as students return
to campus carrying germs from all
over the world.
Usually about a week afer stu-
dents return from winter break we
start seeing patients with fu-like
symptoms, said Sandra Hayes, di-
rector of health services. However,
she added, I think were preparing
for the fu in the best way possible.
Tis past fall over 800 students
received the infuenza vaccine via
the health center, which protects
aginst the H3N2, H1N1 and Infu-
enza B strands of the virus. H3N2
is a strand of infuenza that was last
common in 2003 but is expected
to be seen more frequently this fu
season.
In accordance with both local and
national trends, Bowdoin saw an in-
crease in H3N2 cases prior to break.
Te exact number of cases is public-
ly unavailable in order to protect the
privacy of afected patients.
Hayes estimated that there were
between 20 and 25 infuenza cases
detected by the health center frst
semester.
Since the start of this semester,
there has been only one confrmed
case of fu at Bowdoin. Although,
Hayes expects the number of infu-
enza cases to rise as students come
into contact with each other during
their frst week back.
Living in a small campus like
this means youre touching the same
[things] as other students, which
puts everyone at a higher risk for in-
fuenza, said Hayes.
Te health center encourages stu-
dents to practice healthy habits like
washing their hands and covering
their coughs in order to decrease the
risk of infuenza or any other virus.
Despite precautions being taken,
there is no evidence that the fu sea-
son this year will be any more severe
than in the past.
Its too soon to tell whether this
year will be diferent than other
years, said Hayes. I will say that
we did see an increase in fu cases
before break as compared to other
years.
In contrast to the rise of infu-
enza frst semester, the number of
documented STI cases on cam-
pus dropped following a spike last
spring, although the health center
hasnt specifed a reason for the
drop.
Whitney Hogan, coordinator of
health education, sent an email to
frst years and several other campus
groups last March warning students
of the increase in STI diagnoses.
Tis fall the number of diagnoses
decreased, although the exact num-
ber of cases was still publicly un-
available.
We still encourage students to
get tested, said Hayes. Students
should be tested anywhere from
every three months to every year
based on their sexual practices.
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BY EMMA PETERS
ORIENT STAFF when a school employee registers to
conceal a frearm, although the indi-
vidual identity would be kept secret.
My bill would have the option
of either putting together a train-
ing curriculum through the [Maine]
Criminal Justice Academy or it
would be put together by private
vendors trained in frearms, Burns
told ABC News.
In the six weeks since the Decem-
ber 14 elementary school shooting
in Newtown, Conn., there have been
fve additional school shootings in
the U.S.
State Represen-
tative Peter Kent,
a Democrat who
represents a por-
tion of Brunswick,
is against the new
bill, and said he will
not be voting for it.
I dont think
guns belong in
schools, he said.
Tats the bottom line.
Maine law permits colleges and
universities to decide whether to al-
low frearms on their property, and
Bowdoin allows its students and fac-
ulty to have frearms under the con-
dition that they are stored with the
Om ce of Safety and Security.
Tomas Lilly 14 stores two shot-
guns with Security, goes shooting a
few times a semester in Falmouth,
and buys ammunition at Dicks
Sporting Goods. Maine state law al-
lows individuals over the age of 18 to
purchase frearms and ammunition
without a license.
Lilly decided to transport his guns
to school, because I found out that
Bowdoin had a policy where I actu-
ally could bring them, he said. Tat
led me to investigate what I could do
in the area.
Lilly said he did not feel the need
to bring his guns to college and
would not have been upset had he
not been allowed to bring them.
When he returns to campus afer a
break, he knows to bring his guns
straight to Security.
Youre not allowed to have [guns]
on campus at all, so when I come
back from home I go right to Secu-
rity and drop them
of, he said.
Educators have
expressed opposition
to the bill already,
and have brought up
the possibility that
teachers could get
distracted and a stu-
dent could grab the
weapon, according to
the Portland Press Herald.
Jamie Caron, the Portland School
Board chairman, and Mike Sau-
schuck, the Portland police chief, are
both against the new bill. Caron pre-
fers the idea of expanding school in-
tercom systems which can be used
to signal a lockdownwhile Sau-
schuck objects to the bill because he
believes that teachers will not receive
adequate gun safety training, accord-
ing to the Press Herald.
-Kate Witteman contributed to this
report.
I dont think guns
belong in schools.
Thats the bottom line.
PETER KENT
MAINE STATE REPRESENTATIVE
65TH DISTRICT
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SECURITY REPORT: 12/17 to 1/23
Monday, December 17
A student driving a Zip Car skidded
on snow and ice and struck a stop sign
on Tower Drive.
A student reported a bike lost or
stolen in the vicinity of Moulton Union.
A green Giant bicycle was reported
stolen from a bike rack at Coleman Hall.
An intoxicated female student at
Osher Hall was transported to Parkview
Adventist Medical Center.
Tuesday, December 18
An unregistered event was reported
at Baxter House.
A student with fu symptoms was
taken to Parkview.
An employee fell on an icy walkway
near the Museum of Art.
A live Christmas tree was removed
from a room in Stowe Inn. Live trees
are prohibited by College policy as they
present a fre hazard.
Drug and hard alcohol violations
were reported in Stowe Hall.
Friday, December 21
A branch of a large tree behind Bur-
nett House fell and damaged the roof of
a private home.
Tuesday, December 25
Tree local residents were removed
from Bowdoin property afer they were
seen driving recklessly in the Watson
Arena parking lot.
ursday, December 27
An employee was transported to
Mid Coast Hospital afer falling on ice
outside the Buck Fitness Center.
Saturday, December 29
A student with possible frostbite
was escorted to Parkview.
Wednesday, January 2
A fre extinguisher box at Sargent
Gymnasium was vandalized.
Saturday, January 5
A spectator at Watson Arena who
was struck in the head by a hockey puck
was transported to Mid Coast Hospital
by Brunswick Rescue.
ursday, January 10
Tapestries hanging from a ceiling in
Quinby House presented a fre hazard
and were removed.
Friday, January 11
A tapestry hanging on a wall in
Stowe Inn that was covering fre and
smoke detectors was removed.
Saturday, January 12
A students vehicle that was parked
in the Com n Street lot was broken into.
A side window was smashed and a Gar-
min GPS and a wallet containing credit
cards were stolen.
Sunday, January 13
Two students wrestling in a hallway
at Baxter House damaged a door.
A rock was thrown through a win-
dow at the Admissions Om ce.
A complaint of loud noise was re-
ported on the third foor of Chamber-
lain Hall.
Tuesday, January 15
A Bowdoin students North Face
jacket was stolen from the womens
locker room at Farley Field House. In-
vestigation determined that the jacket
was stolen by a high school student.
It was recovered and the student was
barred from using Bowdoin facilities.
ursday, January 17
A suspicious vehicle was reported in
t he area of Pine Street Apartments.
A vending machine at Farley Field
House was vandalized.
Friday, January 18
Two students vehicles collided in
the Farley parking lot. One student re-
ceived a minor head injury. A report
was fled with the Brunswick Police De-
partment.
A minor two-vehicle accident oc-
curred in the Dayton parking lot.
Saturday, January 19
A large unregistered event was dis-
persed at Quinby House.
Sunday, January 20
A security om cer reported a drunk
driver to the BPD. Te suspect was
stopped and arrested.
Monday, January 21
A student was apprehended for
shoplifing at the Brunswick Walmart.
BPD issued a court summons. Te stu-
dent was barred from the store for one
year.
A green and silver mountain bike,
unknown make, was stolen from the
Osher Hall bike rack. Te unregistered
bike had been lef unlocked.
Tuesday, January 22
A BPD om cer observed an intoxi-
cated male student urinating in public
at the corner of Pleasant and Union
Streets. Te student was warned for
indecent conduct and turned over to a
security om cer. A report was fled with
the deans om ce.
Te use of an electronic air fresh-
ener set of the smoke alarm in a room
at Osher Hall.
A Chamberlain Hall student with
fu symptoms was escorted to Parkview.
Wednesday, January 23
A smoke alarm in Coles Tower was
activated by a student using a hair dryer.
these organizations and serve as a
resource for students who had ques-
tions about their religious and spiri-
tual beliefs, said Sandler.
When I frst got here I was starting
to explore some of these sort of bigger
spiritual questions in my life. What do
I believe in? she said. Te summer
afer my sophomore year I realized that
I really felt a little alone in my quest at
Bowdoin...Tere were diferent reli-
gious groups but there wasnt space for
studentsmaking spiritual questions.
Last spring, Sandler raised her con-
cerns in a letter she and Wenz wrote to
President Barry Mills.
Teres been a sense of there being
a taboo around spiritual and religious
life at Bowdoin, said Sandler. Another
thing we wrote in the letter is that stu-
dents are [either] outliers in their spiri-
tual life, or were in the [campus] main-
stream and put their spiritual life on
hold because it was taboo. And thats
not celebrating their diversity.
When Sandler and Wenz met with
Mills, he gave them an assignment.
He said now I want you to go and
bring back this group of students who
represent this diversity that you speak
of at Bowdoin and research what other
NESCAC schools haveand with the
results of that research tell me what
you think would work here and what
wouldnt, said Sandler.
We got this group of students and
we had two meetings [with Mills] and
it was in the middle of fnals last spring
and everyone made it, she said. It was
so incredible for all these Bowdoin stu-
dents to say, yeah Im going to priori-
tize this right now. It was so gratifying.
Allen Delong, director of student
life, said Sandlers proposal demon-
strated that the Colleges system of
spiritual and religious support at Bow-
doin was too tenuous. Although fac-
ulty and staf were generously advising
students, spending time with students
around questions of faith or perhaps
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on spiritual journeysthese people
had other full-time jobs, he explained.
I think that what I envision is a per-
son who is identifed for students to
whom they can go to think about ques-
tions of faith, Delong added. One of
the really exciting things about Bobs in-
terview is that he talked about spiritual
journeys, and how ofen students come
to campus and its the frst time theyre
outside of their spiritual communities.
And they may experience some type of
confict with a roommate of a diferent
faith or who may have beliefs that con-
tradict that students faith.
According to Delong, Ives back-
ground as a minister, schoolteacher,
lobsterman and director of Te Car-
penters Boat Shop makes him particu-
larly well-suited to answer questions
students may have.
For me, personally, Bob is so
thoughtful in a way that really sug-
gests hes had all these diferent posi-
tionsand that he has approached
each one from a spiritual perspective,
Delong said.
Te ffh generation in his family to
attend Bowdoin, Ives said he hopes to
help charter the course of life for oth-
ers here on campus in the same way
Bowdoin did for him. Shortly before
Ives began his frst year of college, his
parents passed away.
Tey had died during my junior
year of high school, and so Bowdoin
met so many kinds of needs person-
ally and socially, and it was just a
great foundation and grounding for
my personal development in life,
Ives explained.
Ives said he envisions his new role
as fourfold: he will act as a coordina-
tor among students of diferent faith
groups, a liaison between students
and faith groups throughout Maine, a
counselor for individual students, and
a chaplain or minister who is able to
address the dim culties that the Bow-
doin community might experience.
Probably 70 percent of my time will
be spent with individual students, said
Ives. When students come here, a lot of
students come with all feelings about re-
ligious traditions. Some are very enthu-
siastic, some are deeply hurtI think
Im here to simply talk with peopleto
help them fnd their way and to nurture
them at whatever point of faith they are
at this point.
While Ives is from a Quaker back-
ground, he said he wants to reach out to
students of all diferent faiths.
I think as the director of religious
and spiritual life I dont have any desire
to be ministering to one faith, but all
faiths. I work to celebrate the diversity
of religion on the Bowdoin campus and
the religious lives of all students, he said.
Melanie Gaynes 13, president of
Bowdoin Hillel, interviewed Ives last fall
and said she was impressed by his expe-
rience working with young people. She
said she hopes Ives focuses on promot-
ing interfaith dialogue on campus.
One of the things that Im excited
about is having somebody to help the
diferent groups of faith work together
more fuidly, said Gaynes. I think that
everybody gets wrapped up in their
own group and their own needs and we
dont always look for who else we could
be working with. I think that Bob Ives
is able to help us to think about how
we can work together and think about
what kind of programs we can do.
For now, Ives said he is going to
take his new role one day at a time.
Im a little leery of putting forward
too much, he explained. Im going to
try to see where the students are really
working, see what theyre thinking, and
then begin to put together things that
are really helpful and meaningful and
purposeful.
I think what I envision is a person
who is identied for students to
whom they can go to think about
questions of faith.
ALLEN DELONG
DIRECTOR OF STUDENT LIFE
said, it could also be called the ex-
tremely frustrated caucus.
The governor has the opportu-
nity to set the agenda and pick out
particular priorities, King said. In
Congress, youre one of 535 [legis-
lators]. Its a different dynamic. Im
frustrated already The framers
designed the system to be slow and
cumbersome and they succeeded
beyond their wildest expectations.
King announced his candidacy to
replace retiring Senator Olympia Snowe
last spring, when he was teaching his
popular Leaders and Leadership lecture
course. King began teaching as a distin-
guished lecturer at the College in 2004,
afer completing his term as governor.
Now that he has once more taken public
om ce, wthe course is no longer ofered.
I wanted
to try to think
systematically
about leader-
ship as op-
posed to just
doing it, King
said. Over the
years of teach-
ing the course,
it allowed me
to focus on principlesall of which
have helped me think through what Im
doing now.
King said he fnds lessons he
learned from Winston Churchill to be
particularly relevant to his day-to-day
life as a senator.
I teach a whole section of Churchill
on how to do brief memos, King said.
Brevity and the principle of getting
straight advice from your staf All of
those things are part of what I learned
and what Im now applying.
King sits on the Armed Services,
Select Intelligence, Budget, and Rules
Committees, the last of which refects
his stated intention to reform the fli-
buster, which has come up in most of
his conversations with fellow senators
Democrats and Republicans alike.
Both sides were open and honest
about what their goals were, King said.
Right now, opinion of the flibuster di-
vides itself by seniority. Teres a group
of mostly younger Democratic senators
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
who have had it with the flibuster.
Conversely, Republicans favor the fl-
ibuster in its current form because they
view it as their opportunity to control
Senate proceedings, King said, adding
that senior Democrats warn against
making a change that will haunt them
when theyre back in the minority.
I come down on the side that weve
got to do something, King said. Te
Senate isnt functioning the way it used
to as recently as fve or six years ago.
However, even King isnt totally conf-
dent that change will come: Its not easy.
I give it 50-50 that somethings going to
happen, he said.
On Tuesday, King and Senators Tom
Udall (D-NM), Tom Harkin (D-IA)
and Jef Merkley (D-OR) introduced a
proposal to support flibuster reform,
which includes eliminating the flibuster
on motions to proceed. (Currently, the
flibuster can be used by a minority of
senators to block standard
administrative happenings
in the Senate.)
King is also frustrated by
the current legislative battles
in the Senate, especially the
refusal of congressional Re-
publicans to increase the
debt ceiling.
Tey ought to just do
it, he said. It shouldnt be
controversial. It shouldnt be used as a
political weapon.
King explained that raising the debt
ceiling a rountine legislative is back-
ward looking; it allows us to borrow
money weve already spent.
True to his independent am liation,
King has dissented from the Democrat-
ic agenda as well. In an interview with
the Associated Press last week, he said
that he does not yet know whether or
not he will support President Obamas
proposed assault weapons ban.
Kings steadfast identifcation as an
Independent hasnt been a problem in
Washingtonat least not yet.
So far, the reception and respect and
seriousness with which Ive been ac-
corded have been better than I would
have hoped, he said. Ive been taken
seriously by the leadership Its been
very cordial.
But, he added, whether that will
translate into efectiveness remains to
be seen.
The framers designed the system
to be slow and cubersome
and they succeeded beyond their
wildest expectations.
SENATOR ANGUS KING
-Compiled by the O ce of Safety and
Security
FEATURES
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New Years resolution: You do you, but exercise more style
Tis was the week in which we
woke up from our long winters naps
and returned to early rising, fever-
ous note taking, and, of course, the
inescapable frigidity of the ArticI
mean, Midcoast Maine weather.
Some of you will protest that your
vacation was not a long winters nap,
but rather a series of sun-induced
dozes on your towel in Boca Raton.
But most of you, if I may be so bold,
did a lot of nothing over your hi-
bernation period. Even those of you
with deep tans, natural or spray-on
(which, by the way, will fade), spent
a lot of time doing nothing with or
without sand between your toes.
But now the time has come for
you once again to wash your hair at
least twice per week, to change your
underwear at least once a day, and to
do something more productive with
your time than watch marathons of
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
or Law and Order. Now you must
put away your Juicy sweats, those
heinous housecoats of the twenty-
frst century that you bought in
eighth grade, and put on some real
clothesclothes that will get you to
class in sub-zero weather.
As someoneor perhaps ev-
eryoneonce said, transitions are
hard. And the change we face from
the languor and ennui and online
shopping of winter break to the ex-
haustion of drunkenness and study-
ing (and online shopping) of spring
semester is no exception. No longer
can you graze in the open refrig-
erator for hours at a time; now you
must synchronize your feeding peri-
od with the odd hours of the dining
halls. No longer can the days main
Bowdoin boys in Blueand Gray commemorates Civil War
A new exhibit on the second
floor of the Hawthorne-Longfellow
(H-L) Library pays homage to the
American Civil War from a unique
historical perspective: that of the
Bowdoin students who fought in
the conflict.
Te exhibit, called Bowdoin
Boys in Blueand Gray, seeks
to document the participation of
Bowdoin students in this pivotal
historical event through personal
letters, journals, drawings, news-
papers and om cial documents, all
culled from the Colleges extensive
Civil War archive in the George
J. Mitchell Department of Special
Collections.
The exhibit is one of several
other programs that Bowdoin is of-
fering to commemorate the sesqui-
centennial, or 150th, anniversary
of the Civil War.
Since the start of 2013, H-L Li-
brary has been keeping a daily
blog called On This Day in Civil
War History that offers digital
selections from various civil war
manuscripts, mostly diaries of
Bowdoin soldiers and their letters
to Bowdoin students and alumni.
The journals in particular offer an
insiders perspective of daily mili-
tary life in the 1860s.
In addition, Bowdoin will be
hosting an Alumni College series
on the sesquicentennial August
8-11 featuring guest speakers and
talks by Bowdoin faculty.
The Colleges sesquicentennial
celebrations mark the 150th anni-
versary of Civil War accomplish-
ments by a Bowdoin alumnus in
1863, rather than the declaration of
war in 1861.
We chose to use 2013 as the ses-
quicentennial year largely because
1863 is the 150th anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg, and because
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had
such a central role at Gettysburg
and Bowdoin, said Richard Lin-
demann, director of the Librarys
Special Collections.
Chamberlain, who graduated
from Bowdoin in 1852 and taught at
the College in the late 1850s before
joining the Union army, is probably
the most recognizable alumnus fea-
tured in the exhibit.
He received the Medal of Honor
for his heroism at the Battle of Get-
tysburg, served four terms as the
Governor of Maine afer the war,
and was President of Bowdoin from
1871 to 1883. Chamberlains ac-
complishments have established
him as a key part of Maine and
Bowdoins history.
The exhibition sprung from a
desire to highlight the abundant
Civil War materials in Special Col-
lections. Lindemann noted that
Bowdoin has a unique ability to
document this important time in
the nations history.
We have so much Civil War ma-
terial because so many Bowdoin
men participated in the Civil War,
he said.
According to the exhibit, 317
out of Bowdoins then-living 1,125
students and alumni served in the
Civil War. Only 18 fought for the
Confederacy.
Most of the documents located
in the two display cases on the
second floor of the H-L Library ar-
rived at Special Collections via do-
nations from alumni. The first half
of the exhibition represents the
Students will also recognize
the name of Thomas H. Hubbard,
Class of 1857, after whom Hubbard
Hall is named. Hubbard served
as Brevet Brigadier General in the
war. He also raised money for Me-
morial Hall, originally constructed
to commemorate the service of
Bowdoin students in the war.
The other two families featured
in the first half of the exhibit, the
MacArthur and Howard families,
sent a number of their sons to the
College, all of whom went on to
serve in the Union military.
Te second half of the exhibit uses
manuscript materials to present sev-
eral topics: life on the home front, the
role of Bowdoin Boys in the Con-
federacy (which the and Gray of
the exhibits title refers to), and other
notable alumni that didnt make it
into the separate family section.
A point of interest in the second
section is a series of pictures and
engravings by the artist Winslow
Homer depicting contemporary
scenes of military camp life and ac-
tivities on the home front that were
published in the popular magazine
Harpers Weekly. The pictures,
some which began as woodcut en-
gravings, offer a good counterbal-
ance to the vast amount of hand-
event be logging into eBear to look
for internships only to be distracted
by Scott and Kourtneys latest tif;
now you must go to class and do
homework and actually fnd some-
thing to do over the summer or, if
you are a senior, with the rest of your
life. But no longer do your parents
questions hover over you; now your
stress falls to a never ending cascade
of emails from Career Planning.
Soat this moment when we
leave something like the real world
and return to the so-called Bowdoin
bubblelet me take a moment to re-
fect on the diferences between how
we dress at Bowdoin and how people
dress in the larger world.
I spent my break in New Haven,
Manhattan, Chicago, and some plac-
es in between. It is to the inhabitants
and visitors of these towns and cities
that I will compare us Polar Bears.
As we sit in the Union or run to
Torne before it closes, how does
COURTESY OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
BOWDOINS MAINE MEN: Soldiers, some of whom were Bowdoin students, ready their
drums as the army headed to battle (above). Joshua Chamberlain sports a Union uniform (below).
BY HARRY RUBE
STAFF WRITER
EVAN HORWITZ
348 AND
MAINE STREET
our garb rival the habiliment of New
Yorkers languishing on the steps of
the Met or tromping through Madi-
son Square Park to get to Eataly? Or
to the sartorial leanings of New Ha-
venites charging across the Green to
get to the new Shake Shack? Or even
to the attire of Chicagoans doing
whatever it is they do (eating steak
and building skyscrapers, as far as I
can tell)?
Te answerbecause I can make
it sois complicated. First the good
news: Bowdoin students, on the
whole, are more fashionable than
your average American urbanite.
Now the bad news: we are far less
stylish than those metropolitan
masses. You are wondering now what
the diference is between fashion and
style. Ill tell you.
To be fashionable is to own and
wear nice clothes, pretty clothes, the
essential pieces that Cosmo or GQ
told you to buy. But style is more
elusive; style is something unique
and intriguing about the way you
wear clothes. Style is not having the
required pieces and looking better
than everyone else.
At Bowdoin, we students have
fashion but no style. Yes, some of
you sport Barbour jackets and Tory
Burch fats (or their knock-ofs), but
so does everyone else. And I guess
that is precisely the point: fashion is
what someone else tells you to wear,
style is when what you wear tells
others something about you. If you
want to see some style, you need not
look any further than our profes-
sors, particularly those (though I am
biased) in the English or theatre de-
partments. You can learn something
from your professors afer all.
In this new year, lets make an ef-
fort, in this new year, to be more
stylish. Take risks, be bold, and
wear a kimono to class. Above all,
you do you; no one else can.
written text, which makes up the
majority of the exhibit.
We wanted to feature Winslow
Homer, who doesnt have any ties
to Bowdoin, except that his papers
are at the art museum. He was a re-
nowned artist with Maine connec-
tions, and the College claims him
as a Maine son, if not a Bowdoin
son, said Lindemann.
He admits that the exhibit is a lot
to absorb in one viewing.
I dont expect that anyone is go-
ing to go through that exhibit and
read every card from beginning to
end, but theres a story there if you
do that. You have to savor it. Get
a little flavor, go away, and come
back. Its a great exhibit to take a
little piece at a time.
The exhibit will be on view
through June 1.
The Colleges sesquicentennial
celebrations mark the 150th
anniversary of Civil War
accomplishments by a Bowdoin
alumnus in 1863, rather than the
declaration of war in 1861.
experience of Bowdoin soldiers,
focusing on four alumni families
that were prominent in the war
and at Bowdoin through photo-
graphs, letters, and some Civil War
memorabilia.
Viewers will recognize the name
of Chamberlain in a display case
entirely devoted to his memoirs,
letters and notes, as well as his sig-
nature in a students copy of what
could be called the 1860s version
of a yearbook.
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Students value varied spiritual support
QUINN COHANE AND MELODY HAHM
BURSTING
THE BUBBLE
Last week, Robert Ives 69 was
appointed Bowdoins new director
of religious and spiritual life, which
inspired us to think about the nature
of spirituality at Bowdoin.
When asked about the Colleges
religious culture, David Smick 15
replied, I think its personal, if no-
ticeable at all. Te only time I really
saw that there was religious interest
here was last year at Easter time; half
the people I know, including myself,
went home to celebrate.
A variety of students we spoke
with echoed Smicks observation. At
a secular institution like Bowdoin,
it is no surprise that religion is not
outwardly prominent on campus.
However, this does not imply that
students do not contemplate their
spirituality.
While exploring diferent belief
systems two summers ago, Lucy
Walker 14 came across Western Bud-
dhist teachings. Te following fall,
she serendipitously stumbled upon a
table for a new club called Circle at
the Bowdoin Student Activities Fair.
It was just what I was looking for
at that moment, said Walker. Circle
is a safe space for students to come
together no matter their religious or
spiritual beliefs. Even if they dont
identify with any sort of religion at
all, it is a comfortable, confdential
forum where we can share our ex-
periences and connect with other
people on their journeys.
Trough Circle, Walker found a
group of students on campus who
have a similar desire to live more
mindfully. Tough Walker defnes
spirituality as a process of personal
exploration, she emphasizes the im-
portance of connecting with other
spiritually curious individuals.
I found Circle to be a place to
share what I was beginning to dis-
cover and to connect with other
people through what I was explor-
ing on my own, said Walker, who is
now a co-leader of the group.
During her initial days at
Bowdoin, Leah Kahn 15 also sought
out a community to help ease her
transition to college life. Coming
from a Jewish household, Kahn
wanted to continue celebrating the
traditions from her upbringing.
I saw Hillel at the Activities Fair
and went to the frst Shabbat dinner,
then kept showing up because it was
a fun group of people, said Kahn.
I associate Judaism with my fam-
ily and visits to my cousins or grand-
parents house for dinner, so being
around this new group of students
through Hillel felt very welcom-
ing and familiar, said Wahn. Te
people drew me to Hillel; it wasnt so
much that I wanted to be more in-
volved as a Jew at Bowdoin. I would
consider my involvement with Hillel
as more cultural than spiritual.
Now a board member of the
Bowdoin Hillel, Kahns view of Hil-
lel as a cultural group parallels her
larger personal views on the role of
religion in life.
For me, religion is about the tradi-
tions and events you do together, the
food and the people, the shared knowl-
edge because youve grown up in the
Jewish culture, explained Kahn. Te
more spiritual questions like Does
God exist? are not as relevant to my
is semester, Bursting the Bubble will
focus on undiscussed issues on campus
as they aect students daily lives.
Judaism, especially at Bowdoin.
In contrast, other students choose
to join faith-based organizations
that have a strong focus on religious
practice in addition to cultural tra-
ditions. Andrew Hilboldt 13 was
raised in a Christian household and
wanted to grow stronger in his faith
during his time at Bowdoin.
Hilboldt joined the Bowdoin
Christian Fellowship (BCF) as a frst
year and became close with BCF
staf leader Rob Gregory. He shared
an idea with Gregory for creating
another opportunity for students to
remain connected with their Chris-
tian faithinspired by a group he
came across when touring Amherst
College as a member of the varsity
squash team.
At Amherst, I met up with a
friend I knew, and she took me to
a Bible study for athletes, said Hil-
boldt. I realized Bowdoin didnt
have one and thought it might be
cool to start it.
At frst, Hilboldt was wary of com-
ing to a college with such a secular
reputation. Ultimately the lack of a
religious culture became more of a
reason for him to choose Bowdoin.
Hilboldt felt a responsibility to show
how multi-dimensional the Chris-
tian faith could be.
I noticed at Bowdoin that there
was this notion that you were a
Christian or you werent a Chris-
tianit was very much black and
white, Hilboldt said. If you were
Christian, you didnt go out and
drink, didnt socialize.
Unfortunately, much of col-
lege life is debaucherous, so a lot of
people think Oh, I was Christian in
high school, but in college theres no
place for that, he added.
In order to change the simplistic
notion of Christianity on campus,
Hilboldt created the Athletes Bible
Study, a weekly group open to all
members of the Bowdoin com-
munity but aimed at athletes and
sports fans, which discusses liv-
ing a Christian life through study
of the Bible. He wanted to lead by
example, and show that a Bowdoin
student-athlete can continue to
lead a devout life.
My motivation for starting Ath-
letes Bible Study was targeting that
audience of people who put their
faith on hold, said Hilboldt. I
wanted to show that someone can
play a sport, go out, be smart, and be
a Christian who has a strong faith.
Hilboldt was concerned that his fel-
low believers might have been hesitant
to identify themselves as Christian
because they were not participating in
ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ
JULIA BINSWANGER
FRESHMEN
FIFTEEN
Is it over? Remarks on
5-week winter break
Getting back into the old college
routine for the frst time in a month
was a bit of a strange feeling. Id been
away for weeks, but once I was back, I
felt that I had never gone. Everything
seemed just like I lef it. As I walked
through campus, I was reunited with
many familiar faces, and received
many wonderful yet awkward hugs.
Ten came the seemingly never-
ending small talk. Im pretty sure
that every single conversation that
Ive had this last week has started the
exact same way: Hey! How was your
break? Good, and yours? Good.
In fact, it might have been impossible
to start chatting any diferently.
And yet, even though this is how
almost every conversation I had this
week began, every time I answered in
this manner I couldnt help feel that
my response of good was not quite
adequate. Tis break was long. Re-
ally long. So when friends asked me
how my break was, I short-circuited.
It took too much thinking to suf-
fciently answer the question, and
a one word generic answer was all I
could muster.
How was my break? Well, which
week? Week one was exciting. Te
holidays were near and I received a
lot of kick-ass sweaters. Not to men-
tion one beautifully crafed hand-
knit scarf sent from my roommate.
My mom made delicious pies and
I avoided all potentially awkward
mistletoe situations. Week two was
also fun. I fnally had the chance to
catch up with old friends and made
a resolution to spend my Polar Points
more wisely this semester (well see
how that pans out). Week three was
a bit of a lull. I went on vacation and
got sick, so I began spending a lot of
quality time with my brothers Netfix
account. (By the way, I highly recom-
mend Breaking Bad.)
Week four was interesting in how
uninteresting it was. Unlike some
of my more productive peers who
took advantage of an internship or
job, I decided to do absolutely zilch
with my break, and by week four the
boredom started setting in.
In high school, winter break was
a precious time. For a mere two
weeks, I didnt have to worry about
papers or tests. I had the chance
to do absolutely nothing and it felt
fabulous, for doing nothing is some-
thing I do best.
And yet, a whole month of doing
nothing began to feel a little unfulfll-
ing. By week four my siblings had aban-
doned me, and most of my friends were
back at school. I was all by my lone-
some. Tus, to occupy my time I weird-
ly got involved with domestic activities.
I began baking, cleaning my house, and
running errands.
As a result, by the end of week
four, I started missing this place.
And missing school was something
that I never thought possible before
Bowdoin. I missed hanging out with
my college friends andcall me a
nerdbut I actually missed some of
my classes. Tus, although my break
was indeed good, Ive got to admit,
its good to be back.
formal religious activity.
You dont have to be doing some-
thing as part of an organization to be
living a Christian life, Hilboldt said.
For me, playing squash in a way
that serves God is just as valuable as
reading the Bible for an hour.
Hilboldt strongly believes there is
a place for Christianity in athletics
and sees parallels between religious
teachings and sports training.
I use Christianity to enhance my
performance on the athletic field.
There are so many analogies in the
Bible about pushing ourselves phys-
ically and mentally as a team and
the importance of sportsmanship,
said Hilboldt. Christianity can be
seen as motivation to reach our po-
tential in sports for more reasons
than self-gain.
While Hilboldt is not afraid to
speak openly about religion, he is
more cautious when it comes to
defining spirituality.
I defnitely know of people who say
theyre spiritual but not religious, said
Hilboldt. My dad always says there
are non-believers, seekers, and believ-
ers. I think the people who toss around
the word spirituality are the ones in
that seeker categorytheyre curious,
said Hilboldt.
Tough students may be quietly
questioning their religious or spiri-
tual beliefs, Hilboldt, Walker and
Kahn all corroborated Smicks rec-
ognition that in general, Bowdoin
students seem to only prioritize
religion and spirituality during the
Christmas season or high holidays.
Hilboldt notes that even for
those who do belong to religious
organizations, putting faith into
practice is often limited to the
groups meeting times.
If youre in a religious group,
thats like an extracurricular activ-
ity as opposed to part of an everyday
lifestyle, said Hilboldt. You dont
see religion in everyday lifeits
much more a special thing.
Kahn also feels that religion is not
a large part of life at Bowdoin.
Te majority of my friends dont
do anything in regards to spiritual-
ity or religion, he said. You dont
hear of too many people going to
church every Sunday or having to
deal with the dining hall because
they keep Kosher.
Walker agrees that Bowdoin students
generally appear to be non-religious or
non-spiritual, but questions the under-
lying reasons for this attitude.
In general, Bowdoin just feels like
a very secular place, and Im not sure
if thats to do with the structure of
Bowdoin as a whole or if it comes down
to students not having the space in their
schedules or minds to really make that
kind of inquiry, said Walker.
Tough Hilboldt, Kahn and
Walker come from diferent reli-
gious backgrounds and have distinct
ideas about spirituality, they all be-
lieve religion or spiritual growth is
vital to their Bowdoin experience.
For me, playing squash in a way
that serves God is just as valuable
as reading the Bible for an hour.
ANDREW HILBOLDT 13
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Coastal Studies Artist-in-resi-
dence Barbara Putnam makes her
return to Bowdoin this semester af-
ter having spent the majority of the
fall abroad, working among artists
in the Arctic, studying the fjords in
Norway, and attending an exhibi-
tion opening in Bucharest.
Putnams interest in Arctic envi-
ronments motivated her decision
to come to Bowdoin, where she
knew the connection to the Arctic
goes back more than a century.
I am attracted to harsh envi-
ronments and fragile places, like
intertidal zones, wetlands, planes
places within which survival of
plants and animals requires some
strategy, said Putnam. Winter is
so short and there is nothing like
the light produced by snow reflect-
ing a weak but earnest January sun.
Drawing connections between
different disciplines is key to pro-
viding a liberal arts education, and
in that spirit, Putnam will draw on
her experiences and perspectives in
both art and environmental studies
to teach Visual Arts 271, Drawing
on Science.
Putnam comes to the College
with an extensive background in
the visual arts and a focused inter-
est on drawing, woodcut prints and
visual representations of the envi-
ronment.
Growing up, she was influenced
by her artistic grandparents and
her mother and fathers medical
careers. Putnam says she has al-
ways been aware of the similarities
between the ways artists and scien-
Putnams ability to combine her
artistic pursuits with science also
stems from a formative artistic
residency she did in the late 1990s
in Manitoba, where she made art
alongside biologists and ecologists
who were hard at work analyzing a
local duck population.
Her current works are primarily
large, abstract woodcut prints on
multi-colored fabric. Using grass
and seaweed as primary subjects,
Putnam creates close-up depictions
of scenes found in nature.
I want them to read as works of
art but I also want them to be read-
able and credible to scientists, she
said.
Despite the Drawing I prerequi-
site, many students taking Putnams
class are oceanographers, biologists
and environmental scientists.
With each visual arts class I
take, I realize how relevant it is to
my studies in science, and I be-
lieve science and art really do mesh
beautifully, wrote Kailey Bennett
14, an earth and oceanographic
science and visual arts double ma-
jor, in an email to the Orient.
Students in the course will re-
ceive a breadth of assignments that
give them direction while allowing
them some leeway in their obser-
vations and representations of the
coastal landscape. Students will
also complete an assignment based
Artist-in-Residence Putnam returns to campus
on objects in the Peary-MacMillan
Arctic Museum.
My sense is that were trending
to more interdisciplinary courses
because technology is improv-
ing; scientists and artists are using
some of the same technologies, but
BY TASHA SANDOVAL
STAFF WRITER
David Becker 70 was still a student
at Bowdoin when he gave his frst gif
to the Bowdoin Museum of Art. His
generosity continued until his death
in 2010, when he gave his alma mater
a fnal donation from his extensive art
collection.
Over the last forty years, Becker
donated more than 1,500 prints to the
Museum and temporarily worked as
curator at the Museum of Art. He was
also director of the Peary-MacMillan
Arctic Museum and served on the
Board of Trustees.
Now, an exhibition at the Museum
is being held in his honor. Print-
making ABC: In Memoriam David
P. Becker seeks to pay tribute to the
donor while continuing his lifelong
goal of sharing his love of printmak-
ing with the Bowdoin community and
beyond.
Te collection spans the last 500
years, and includes prints by Rem-
brandt, Drer and Picasso.
Curator Joachim Homann struc-
tured the exhibition in order to give a
broad overview of the history and va-
riety of printmaking, in the hope that
there will be something for everyone
on display. Homann says he drew on
pieces of the existing collection, as
well as from Beckers particular inter-
ests and personality, for Printmaking
ABC.
I tried to learn from the playful
spirit that David Becker brought to
collecting, says Homann. I picked up
his interests in writing manuals and
alphabets and decided that we should
present selections from the collection
according to letters of the alphabet, as-
ABC spells out David Beckers legacy
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
ORIENT STAFF
sociated with terms that resonate with
the collection in interesting ways.
Te gallery space will be organized
alphabetically-pieces showcasing
writing manuals and text design can
be found in the gallery under A for
alphabet. Other letters include L for
lithograph, J for jest, and Xfor
xxx.
Perhaps the print most refective
of Becker himself is David Hockneys
1966 work, Two Boys Aged 23 or 24,
which shows two men lying in bed to-
gether. Becker was a huge supporter
of LGBTQ rights throughout his life,
founding the group OUT and funding
programming at the College to sup-
port LGBTQ life and education about
the LGBTQ community.
He was a determined social ac-
tivist, and I think one of his lasting
legacies to Bowdoin was to have been
openly gay and to insist that the Col-
lege take that into account, said long-
time friend and coworker Katy Kline.
Becker was deeply involved with
the College throughout his life. He
was a benefactor, a trustee, and even
curated some exhibitions at the Mu-
seum himself.
Beckers fnal donation, as well as
his involvement with the museum
throughout the years, has had a pro-
found impact on the Colleges art
communityespecially the print-
making department.
At other schools, in order to go see
a signifcant museum show you have
to get on a van or a bus and travel for
a long ways, said Mary Hart, visiting
professor of art. Here, you walk fve
minutes and the door is open and
theres this amazing resource.
Hart took her Printmaking I and II
classes to the Museum this fall, where
many students were inspired by the
works on display. Audrey Blood 13
found herself particularly drawn to
Leonard Baskins woodcut print Hy-
drogen Man.
I had seen Leonard Baskins prints,
but I had never been able to interact
with them in this way before, said
Blood. Tis show is like my dream
come true. Its such a huge gif.
Becker was known for his gener-
osity, and many continue to feel his
presence by way of his print collection
now that he is gone.
His uniform was a gray blue fan-
nel shirt and an L.L. Bean jacket and
this really crummy-looking hat that
looked like it came from a thrif shop,
recalled Kline. He had a wicked sense
of humor...I have wonderful memo-
ries of hearing him hoot; he almost
snorted when he got laughing too
hard.
Becker established many connec-
tions and friendships in the Maine
and international art communities.
A symposium titled Reading
Prints: David P. Beckers Legacy will
be held at the Museum on January 31
and February 1, and will feature speak-
ers from the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston, Harvard Art Museums, and
the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In the exhibitions guest book, visi-
tors are encouraged to give feedback
and pay tribute to Becker. One visitor
seemed to sum up Beckers legacy.
What an eye, what a heart, what
generosity!, one visitor wrote.
Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam
David P. Becker will be on view at
the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
from November 15 to March 24. Te
symposium in his honor is free of
charge and open to the public.
using them in different ways, said
Putnam.
Students are pooling skill sets
and knowledge from a variety of
subject areas and communicating
in a visual language with content
that honors the natural world.
COURTESY BARBARA PUTNAM
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Putnams piece Zone C Lobster Baitshows a close-up view of nature
typical of her artistic style.
tists see the world.
Were both searching for truth,
were observers by nature and hab-
it, wrote Putnam in an email to the
Orient. I like adding this element
of scientific exploration. It changes
how you think when you have a
little bit of science in your art.
PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BARBARA PUTNAM
Artist-in-Residence
Something happens when sud-
denly we can count the degrees on
one hand. It comes with the secur-
ing of a hat, the coiling of a scarf.
Its a gaze downward and a shuffle
of boots along the path, marking
with percussive treads the transi-
tion between dirt, ice, and asphalt.
When at last those boots reach the
linoleum in the Smith Union
the largest piece in the country,
in factthe gaze might lift and it
might just intersect with another
traveler who has also found refuge
in the Unions warmth.
Robin Brooks shows me a digital
image of her painted paper collage
Winter Wood, and at once Im
reminded of what Ive seen a thou-
sand times but perhaps lately have
been too wind-bitten to register.
A horde of streamlined trunks ex-
tends vertically, shifting between
grey black and brown to reiterate
their bareness. Hints of green edge
their way into the foreground, but
its just the teasing burst of color of
coniferous trees. The image is still
winter in its most familiar form: a
patchwork of shards of sky, stalks
of wood, sheets of ice.
The layering of paper reminds
me that a selfless hand has reas-
sembled what Ive failed to see by
keeping my eyes on my boots.
There is a dialogue between
artist and medium, Brooks, who
works with media ranging from oil
paints to collage, tells me, recount-
ing the experience of pasting these
layers. Something happens as I
move from medium to medium:
painting, pastel, photographyall
these different ways of interacting
with a technique lead to different
ways of seeing. Thats the role of
the artistto help people see.
Brooks has seen a great deal. She
currently works as a visual artist in
Topsham, but the scope of her art
extends throughout multiple spac-
es and communities. After earning
a B.F.A. in arts education at Boston
University in 1979, Brooks stud-
ied at Parsons School of Design
in New York. There, she found
herself among a community of art
students, romantically reviving the
European Salon tradition.
We worked from life and we
worked from museum pieces, she
explained to me. It was an incred-
ibly rich experience.
Brooks moved to New Jersey
after college and worked in the
Newark Museum of Art, where she
accessed another artistic realm,
another community.
They have a large collection
of African-American art, she re-
called. I grew up near the Mu-
seum, but I never knew this huge
collection existed until my work
brought me there.
And twenty-six years ago, when
she uprooted, yet again, to Maine,
she found herself navigating a new
network of paths. I felt like I was
moving into a small world of art
Intersecting planes: the
collages of Robin Brooks
BY AMANDA MINOFF
STAFF WRITER
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After watching the barrage of
exploding heads, unthinkable tor-
tures and international crises that
were Django Unchained, Zero
Dark Thirty, and Argo, it was a
relief to walk out of Silver Linings
Playbook without the urge to look
twice over my shoulder.
Nonetheless, due to all the media
hype surrounding the movie, I was
expecting a film that redefined the
genre of romantic comedy, and in
this I was disappointed.
The film begins with the engag-
ing story of Pat (Bradley Cooper),
a man with bipolar disorder who
returns home from a psychiatric
facility to live with his parents, in-
cluding his OCD father (Robert De
Niro), to get his life back on track.
Pat, fixated
on rebuilding
his marriage
and hindered
only by a good
ole restraining
order, meets the
indefinably cra-
zy Tiffany (Jen-
nifer Lawrence),
who agrees to help him if he will be
her partner in a dance competition.
This plot twist, which takes place
almost exactly halfway through
the movie, is where this tale full
of complex characters and twisted
motives devolves into your average,
sometimes laughable, predictable
romantic comedy.
Like many viewers, I appreciate
the filmmakers choice to incorpo-
rate a serious, thoughtful perspec-
tive on mental health into the rom-
com genre.
However, the second hour of the
film lacks the subtlety and realism
that makes the first hour so com-
pelling.
In the second half, this melting
pot of clinical disorders is neatly re-
solved by a dance performance.
After just a few dance lessons,
Pat can suddenly sleep soundly
through the night and miraculous-
ly overcomes his obsession with
his wife.
Andwhats that?a dance
number in which the protagonists
break all the rules in an edgy, mod-
ern routine instead of conforming
to societys stuffy expectations?
What an original plot twist that
no one has already seen in Dirty
Dancing, Save the Last Dance,
Center Stage, and nearly every
BY TESSA KRAMER
CONTRIBUTOR
other dance movie in history!
Still, this far-too-tidy resolution
to such an honest, messy story is
not my biggest complaint.
I was much more let down by the
flms portrayal of women and its
gendered treatment of mental illness.
The movie features a cast of high-
ly unlikeable women. There is Pats
unfaithful wife Nikki, who treats
him as an inferior, cheats on him
when he doesnt lose weight and
whose only apparent redeeming
quality is her good looks.
There is Pats friend Ronnis de-
manding, neurotic wife who always
wants more, brings him down,
keeps his balls in her purse and
wont let him listen to the music he
likes.
And finally, there is Tiffany, who
is, as far as we are ever told, just a
crazy slut.
T h o u g h
we know that
she has taken
me d i c a t i o n ,
her craziness
is never openly
diagnosed and
manifests only
in her erratic
outbursts, lying
and promiscuity.
Oh, but she knows a lot about
football and downs beers with the
guys, so all is forgiven from the per-
spective of a script so clearly writ-
ten and directed by a man.
The male characters, on the other
hand, are categorized by their clini-
cal conditions, be it bipolar disor-
der, depression or OCD.
I found fault with this gendered
depiction of mental illness in which
men have conditions outside their
control but women are either de-
manding wives who make their
husbands miserable or instead, in
a desperate movement towards sex-
ual liberation, choose to embrace
their dirty side.
All feminism aside, the film fea-
tures impressive performances by
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence,
Robert De Niro and the lesser-
known Jacki Weaver. And although
a big part of me was unsatisfied
with the tied-with-a-bow ending,
my inner 15-year-old hopeless ro-
mantic thrives on the happily-ever-
after and couldnt help but leave the
theater smiling.
And like Pat says, The worlds
fucking hard enough as it is. Cant
somebody just say Hey lets be pos-
itiv. Lets have a good ending to the
story?
COURTESY OF THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
STARS ALIGNED: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper give redeeming performances in a lm
replete with sexist understones and predictable plotlines.
Yo La Tengo still going strong in new album
Fade, Yo La Tengos thirteenth
full-length album, opens with a
repeating, clicking rhythm that
immediately invites foot-tapping.
This beat is shortly joined by an
otherworldly sound, like the croon
of some mystical beast. The ten-
sion rises as the drum and shaker
come in. This beat is contrasted
with the floating harmony, which
together evoke separate inclina-
tions in the mind and body, one
to the dance floor and the other to
the skies.
Supported by a classic Yo La
Tengo guitar jangle melody and
fuzzy bass line, the opener creates
a sense of tantric bliss reminiscent
of the tracks name, Ohm.
The songs lyrics paint a darker
picture, however, as the sullen
monologue of a misanthrope who
feels his love slipping, slipping
away.
As the melody reaches the height
of its euphoria, and all you want to
do is slip away into the music, the
sexless vocals begin their chant of
resisting the flow. The unison
drone of the lyrics contributes
to the jams effortless tranquility,
while the mantra itself subverts a
state of nirvana, reflecting the par-
adoxes of emotion the two sounds
create.
A feeling of uneasy hope runs
throughout the album as the lyr-
ics deal with the loss and pain of
failed relationships (Its sad / but
not untrue / what cant come backs
what we bear to lose in Is That
Enough) through the perspective
of a pensive romantic character.
This emotional turmoil is voiced
by either the wearied drawl of
Ira Kaplan or the soulful husk of
Georgia Hubley.
Though a real-life couple (indie
rocks couple-in-chief, after the
breakup of SonicYouths Thurston
Moore and Kim Gordon), the two
rarely exchange words in the same
song.
The story not told by the lyrics
hides in the instrumental aspects
of the songs. String instruments
punctuate Is That Enough and
serve as counterpoints to a more
somber lyric.
Yo La Tengo have spent al-
most thirty years perfecting their
unique style and this album is the
BY MATTHEW GOODRICH
COLUMNIST
Playbook has silver
lining despite faults
result. It is as lush as the tree on
its cover, dense with layers of com-
plexity and a diversity of sounds
and influences.
The group has pared down their
style for this albumtheir short-
est in decadesresulting in tight-
er jams and more focused songs.
From the ebullience of Ohm
to the spare tenderness of Ill
Be Around, Fade succeeds as a
soundtrack of adult love and ma-
turing relationships.
The albums quiet grace and un-
deniable grooves prove why Yo La
Tengo are described as one of mu-
sics most consistent bands.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
ists, she told me. I felt like I
could do a lot more here.
Brooks is now busy collaborating
with twelve other local artists cre-
ating banners for political rallies in
Augusta and Portland. She shows
me another image, this one of
white and red block letters spelling
Citizens Unite against Citizens
United! printed unapologetically
against a green backdrop.
Brooks explained that the pro-
cess of creating political art is a
collaborative effort. The artists
come in with sketches and together
they refine the image and settle on
a specific aesthetic, so its a pow-
erful artistic statement as well as a
political one, she says.
Though the banners are defi-
nitely compelling in their striking
acrylic tones and cartoonish em-
blems, as I look back to Winter
Wood and her several other land-
scape collages, I get the sense that
Brooks values the local as well as
the global in her mission to help
people see.
She first got the idea for Win-
ter Wood while snowshoeing
through a friends backyard, taking
snapshots of snow and trees.
I like looking at things that
arent scenic, that someone would
bulldoze over without thinking
twice about, Brooks says.
When not focusing on her own
work, Brooks teaches visual art at
Lincoln Elementary School in Au-
gusta.
The glimpses of the Maine land-
scape that she reconfigures remind
us of the duty of perception just
as powerfully as a banner express-
ing a national concern. And this
patch of nature that she has super-
imposed upon a canvas in Win-
ter Wood is a restoration effort
of sorts. It has restored, for me at
least, the beauty of a five-degree
day.
Its hard to say if it is, in fact, a
seasonal occurrencethis trope of
the solitary traveler passing from
point to point unbotheredor
if its a reality of our age. Brooks
art offers an alternative for when
we do wish to be interrupted
and made to look at something.
Her collage work layers lines and
planes and suggests the gaze not of
one, but of many.
We need more art in our lives
to make us feel whole and connect-
ed, she tells me.
Its how tribal people lived. I
think we still have a hunger for
that.
COURTESY OF MATADOR RECORDS
FADING INTO VIEW: Yo La Tengo puts forth a fresh, almost ethereal sound that is well illustrated
by their latest albums cover.
She knows a lot about football and
downs beers with guys, so all is
forgiven from the perspective of a
script so clearly written by a man.
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Womens basketball falters toward end of break
Womens basketball looks ahead to
a tough matchup tomorrow at Colby,
aiming to keep their playof hopes
alive. Te Polar Bears had a successful
4-0 start to kick of winter break but fell
apart the second half, dropping four
straight conference games.
Head Coach Adrienne Shibles and
captain Kaitlin Donahoe 13 cited lack
of intensity and confdence as the reason
behind the teams failure.
We took a few steps back and got
a little intimidated by our opponents,
said Donahoe. We just werent able
to put together a 40-minute game, we
would have one good half every game
but slide in the other half.
We cant just play 20 minutes and ex-
pect to win games, said Shibles.
Te Polar Bears had mixed success
in close games over the break, battling
from behind to beat Emmanuel College
65-63 and then losing to Bates 67-64
and Trinity 46-43.
We all thought we were going to win
[against Trinity] and they made a few
shots down the stretch, said Shibles.
Shibles foresees a challenging path
ahead for her team, with the relative
parity in the conference. However, she
said she believes Bowdoin absolutely
Mens ice hockey skates to No. 3 in all of D-III at 16-1-1
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The mens ice hockey team has
been hot since the weather got
colder, winning seven out of its
eight games, including all its road
matches. The Polar Bears have
managed to remain undefeated on
the road this season.
It was an arduous schedule,
but it was a windfall for the team
because you can build a team on
the road, said Head Coach Terry
Meagher. It certainly brought us
together as a team and it showed
a level of collegiate maturity to get
off a bus against teams that want to
hold that fort.
The team started the break at
Amherst, where the Lord Jeffs
got out to an early 1-goal lead.
Bowdoin managed to stay tied
with Amherst throughout the sec-
ond period with goals from Jay
Livermore 14 and captain Dan
Weiniger 13, but it was a late tally
by Colin Downey 14 that sealed a
3-2 victory. The next day Bowdoin
faced off against Hamilton, where
goals from six different Polar
Bears overwhelmed the Continen-
tals on the way to a 6-2 win.
We always come together and
play great hockey over the Janu-
ary break and this year was no dif-
ferent, said Weiniger. We are a
very close group and being able to
spend a few weeks without any dis-
tractions together really helps us.
Bowdoin returned home for a
tightly-fought game against the
University of New England, where
it took a third-period power play
goal from Harry Matheson 14 to
lift the team to a 4-3 victory. That
weekend the Polar Bears hosted
Wesleyan for what seemed poised
to be another victory with a 4-1
has a shot in the playofs with fve con-
ference games lef.
Te Polar Bears won their most re-
cent match against Maine Maritime
Academy on Tuesday. Te win marked
Shibles 100th win for the College.
We got a hint about it right before
the game, said Donahoe. She didnt
have any idea about it, so it was a nice
BY DIMITRIA SPATHAKIS
ORIENT STAFF
lead in the second period. But the
Cardinals clawed their way back
in the third period to even the
score at 5-5 and force the game to
overtime. With less than a minute
remaining in overtime, Wesleyan
scored the game-winning goal,
dealing Bowdoin its first loss of
the season.
The hard thing on any kind of
run in a goal sport is dealing with
the variability of the goal tending,
said Meagher. With a little luck or
a bad bounce, they can be the most
unfair of any sport. Wesleyan didnt
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BLADES OF GLORY: Ollie Koo 14 shoots the puck at the USM goal on Tuesday. The team has won four straight and gone 7-1 since the start of winter break.
give up and earned that victory.
Losing to Wesleyan was a tough
pill to swallow at first because we
were our own enemy, said Weini-
ger. We completely beat ourselves
in that game, but moving forward
we treat it as a learning experience
to make sure it doesnt happen
again down the road.
The Polar Bears came back with
a strong effort the next night at
home against Trinity. With the
Bantams trailing by one, Ollie
Koo 14 and Connor Quinn 15
each scored to seal a 5-2 victory.
Bowdoin then went back on the
road against Williams, where the
team built a 3-1 lead after a score-
less first period with goals from
John McGinnis 15, Tim Coffey 15
and Koo. Matheson sealed the deal
with a goal early in the third pe-
riod for a 4-1 win.
Bowdoin then traveled up to
Middlebury for a much antici-
pated matchupthe Panthers had
handed the Polar Bears their only
tie of the season on November 17.
Matheson made a statement from
the start, scoring the first goal 43
seconds into the game. After a
goal by McGinnis in the second
period, the Panthers upped the
pressure on goalie Max Fenkell
15, who turned aside a couple of
point-blank shots. A second goal
by Matheson brought the score
to 3-0 and 38 saves by Fenkell
preserved the shutout, marking
Bowdoins first win at Middlebury
since 1993.
It was great being able to pick
up two huge wins on the road
against Middlebury and Williams
and it has put us in a great position
heading into the final six games,
said Weiniger. We are very happy
with two wins, but we know that it
is in the past, and we still need to
keep improving if we want to meet
our goals come March.
With classes back in session,
Bowdoin hosted the University of
Southern Maine on Tuesday night.
After an uninspiring scoreless first
period, with the Polar Bears down
1-0, Bowdoin scored five goals in
surprise for her.
Its nice, but I was much more ex-
cited about the great team win, said
Shibles. It was wonderful to see every-
one play with such intensity and I con-
sidered that to be much more gratifying
than what I consider to be reaching an
CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
COMING UP SHORT: Shannon Brady 16 hooks the ball over a Maine Maritime Academy defender on
Tuesday. Bowdoin trounced MMA 80-43 and helped secure Head Coach Adrienne Shibles100
th
career win.
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With many starters returning,
football looks forward to 2013
To say that the football team wants
to put the 2012 season behind it is an
understatement. Last seasons 1-7 mark
was the teams worst record in a decade,
since the Polar Bears fnished winless
in 2003. Te seasons disappointing
outcome refects a season marred by
major and untimely injuries. In order
to ensure a signifcant improvement
next year, the team will look to execute
its newfound playing style and stay
healthy.
Te frst wave of injuries occurred in
the pre-season, and sidelined the teams
BY BERNIE CLEVENS
ORIENT STAFF
two most productive ofensive players,
senior captain and wide receiver Sean
OMalley and junior running back Zach
Donnarumma. Although Donarrum-
ma returned in week three, OMalley
was out the entire year.
During the season, injuries plagued
the already short-handed Bowdoin
squad. In the frst game, starting quar-
terback Grant White 14 and starting
linebacker David Nurse 13 joined
OMalley and Donnarumma on the
sideline. Nurse did not return until the
seventh week, and White was kept of
the feld all year. No other NESCAC
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BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PUSHING FORWARD: The Polar Bear defense matches up against Bates earlier this season. Despite a 1-7
nish, there is hope that Bowdoin will start 2013 as one of the most experienced squads in the NESCAC.
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BY ALEX VASILE
STAFF WRITER
Success on the ice is not
new to Harry Matheson 14.
The Ontario native has gone
through all the proper chan-
nels since he started skating
at age four, learning the basics
on his own backyard rink. He
came to the United States to
go to prep school, following
in the footsteps of his brother
and hockey role model. He
also emulated his prep school
coach, who played hockey at
Bowdoin.
Mathesons success as a Po-
lar Bear began almost as soon
as he arrived. As a first year,
he often got ice time during
power plays and immediately
demonstrated an ability to put
the puck in the net. He has also
proven to be a gifted passer
from his spot on the wing, and
leads the NESCAC in assists.
Head Coach Terry Meagher
has called him a core player
since day one and counts on
him to perform when the game
is on the line.
Matheson sports the ath-
letic IQ, work ethic, and com-
petitiveness that captain and
line-mate Dan Weiniger 13
said makes him a phenomenal
hockey player.
Harrys pretty focused, and
kind of quiet, said Mathesons
roommate and fellow team-
mate Colin Downey 14. He
leads by example.
But Mathesons success
has made it difficult for
him to stay under the
radar. This season
has been his most
productive. He
has now pulled
into a tie for
the con-
f e r e n c e
lead in
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Harry Matheson 14
Harry possesses
everything you want in a
player: a solid skill set and
understanding of the game.
Hes a coachs dream.
TERRY MEAGHER
HEAD COACH, MENS ICE HOCKEY
CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
points after netting three goals last
week, a performance that earned
him NESCAC Player of the Week
honors. He has scored six more
points than the next player on the
list, a stat the modest Matheson
claimed he is oblivious to.
According to Coach Meagher,
Harrys success was imminent.
He went through the adjust-
ment and development phase but
he had a quick learning curve,
Meagher said. Harry possesses
everything you want in a player: a
solid skill set and understanding of
the game. Hes a coachs dream.
Matheson acknowledged that he
has progressed as a player during
his time at Bowdoin.
I have a bigger role on the team
now, he said. It means Im being
counted on, expected to produce
or score goals.
Matheson is always
picking apart his own
game. He said that
showing more disci-
pline in the defen-
sive zone would
make a differ-
ence to the
team, and
make him
a more
w e l l -
r ound-
ed player.
We i n i g e r
has noth-
ing but praise for
Mathesons discipline.
He is just so easy to
play with, he said, You always
know hes going to make that
little play that helps the team
win games.
He works hard down low so
I can get space, or he gets open
so I can feed him the puck,
said Downey, echoing that sen-
timent. He thinks well.
According to Downey,
Matheson takes his job seri-
ously and always finds a way to
be in the right place at the right
time. When he is not working,
he is recharging so he can work
some more.
He values his discipline
and seeks to improve it, even
though it has become one of
his defining characteristics. It
allows him to focus, or play
and compute at pace, as Mea-
gher put it.
His focus in games shows
his passion, said Meagher.
Its like his Novocain. The
game of hockey suits
him.
H i s
discipline
even perme-
ates into his
preparation.
I get dressed
the same way, finish
warming up at exactly
the same time, Matheson
said, before claiming he is not
one to believe in superstitious
pre-game rituals. Sometimes
I kick a soccer ball around be-
fore just to clear my mind of all
things hockey.
But Im ready when the
game starts, he said, as if justi-
fying his own relaxation.
To his credit, he has proven
ready all season long.
Scored 43 seconds into the
January 19 Middlebury match
Leads the team in points-
per-game, and is tied for rst in
the NESCAC with 26 points
Tops the NESCAC in assists
and is tied for third in goals
HIGHLIGHTS
M. HOCKEY
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the second period to coast to a 5-1
victory.
It was a close game and then
we had a little surge, said Mea-
gher. We are a surge frenzy team
and when that occurs, were re-
ally good, but when were cruising
were not that good.
Bowdoin heads into its bye-
weekend preparing to host
Amherst and Hamilton next
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team this year sufered injuries to their
most productive quarterback, wide re-
ceiver, running back, and linebacker
simultaneously.
Nevertheless, these injuries aforded
once inactive players the opportunity
to become starters and have the playing
time to become stars. Tommy Romero
14 became the starting quarterback for
most of the season. Nick Goldin 13,
David Black 15 and Daniel Barone 16
quickly became his favorite targets at
wide receiver, catching passes to com-
pensate for injured and graduated re-
ceivers from last year.
On the other side of the ball, junior
linebackers Joey Cleary and Brian
Glazewski found themselves start-
ing due to Nurses absence. Defensive
backs Jibrail Coy 16 and Dan Johnson
15 were tasked with flling holes in the
defensive unit. Sophomore defensive
linemen Tom Wells and Clarence John-
son anchored the defense up front in
the absence of seniors Cedric and Kyle
White.
As the coaching staf restructured
ofensive and defensive strategies to
better suit the healthy personnel avail-
able for any given week, the identity of
the team took shape. By the end of the
year, the Polar Bears were known for
their tough defense, a relentless ground
game, and big receivers.
Te defense improved each month
of the season, allowing 32.0 points
per game (ppg) in September and just
15.5ppg by December.
Te rushing attack improved steadi-
ly until the fnal two weeks. Te backs
accrued 126.5 yards per game in the
frst two games and 148.5 in the follow-
ing four before dipping to 67.5 yards
per game in the fnal two contests. Te
ofense focused on targeting tight ends
along with the wideouts. Afer com-
bining for only four receptions and 52
yards in the frst half of the season, tight
ends Matt Perlow 15 and Mike English
14 accounted for nine receptions, 174
yards and one touchdown in the sec-
ond half of the season.
With a whopping 15 returning start-
ers, Bowdoin hopes to implement this
style of play more efectively in their
2013 campaign.
Te ofensive unit only needs to fll
a receiver slot and three linemen posi-
tions next season. Te wide receiver
spot is already flledOMalley is set to
return to school in the fall.
Sean will be a huge addition. He
is an extreme athlete that can play
anywhere on the feld. Hes a big facet
of our ofense and special teams. said
Donnarumma.
No one on the team is close to him
with experience, added captain Beau
Breton 13 linebacker and punter for
the 2012 squad.
Next to OMalley, Donarrumma is
the most experienced ofensive threat,
returning for his third year in the start-
ing lineup. Despite missing one-fourth
of the season due to injury, he fnished
fourth in the conference in rushing
yards and was selected to the All-NE-
SCAC Second Team.
We will be running a similar style
of ofense, said Donarrumma. Im ex-
pecting to get the ball.
On defense, the Polar Bears return
eight starting players. Te defensive
unit is tasked with selecting two starters
at the safety positions and one at defen-
sive tackle.
Linebacker Grim n Cardew 14, one
of the most productive defensive play-
ers in the NESCAC, is poised to have
another exceptional year. In 2012, his
97 tackles led the NESCAC en route to
his being selected to the All-Conference
First Team. Also on the defensive side
of the ball is sophomore defensive line-
man Clarence Johnson, one of only
eight sophomores in the NESCAC to
earn All-Conference recognition.
Returning players ofer the potential
for an improved season and also give
the team an advantage through their
leadership. Historically in the NESCAC
the teams with more upperclassmen
and returning starters tend to have a
better record the following year.
For example, in 2011 the top four
teams with the most returning upper-
classmen fnished one through four in
the conference. Te 2011 champion
Amherst and runner-up Trinity each
had 32 upperclassmen and 10 returning
starters. Te only other teams to have
over 30 upperclassmen and 10 return-
ing starters, Williams and Middlebury,
fnished third and fourth overall, re-
spectively.
Tis trend persisted in 2012 as well.
Te 8-0 Trinity team included 30 up-
perclassmen and 12 returning starters.
Runner-up Middlebury had 32 up-
perclassmen and 14 returning starters
while third place Amherst had 31 and 8.
Should this statistical tendency con-
tinue to hold in 2013, Bowdoin will
fnish in the top tier of the NESCAC
in 2013. Amidst the 34 upperclass-
men, the team consists of 15 returning
starters, more than any other NESCAC
opponent can boast. Wesleyan follows
close behind with 14 starters poised
to return and 38 upperclassmen while
defending champion Trinity returns 13
starters among 40 upperclassmen.
Tere shouldnt be any reason why
[we] are not an upper level team in the
NESCAC this year, captain Martin Ro-
bledo 13 said. Top three, he projected.
I think we will be in one of the top
three positions, Clarence Johnson said,
refecting a similar outlook. Last sea-
son is always going to be in the back of
our heads and we are going to do every-
thing in our power...to not let that hap-
pen again.
Although the number of seniors,
juniors and returning starters is not
a recipe for winning the NESCAC
championship, it can be a blueprint
for fnishing the season at .500 or bet-
ter. Te NESCAC teams in 2011 and
2012 with over 30 seniors and juniors
as well as 10 or more returning starters
have fnished 4-4 or better in the past
two seasons, with the exception of one
team in each season. Te odds say that
Bowdoin will fnish at least 4-4, which
is a conservative estimate according to
the players.
We have a lot of experience and
great younger players. We know what
we have to do to win, said Donnarum-
ma. Will we do it? Tats the question.
But, I like our odds right now.
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arbitrary milestone.
Shibles said that was the teams frst 40
minute performance perhaps all season.
She attributes the intensity spike to the
teams refective conversations the previ-
ous weekend.
Tey were feeling a lot of pressure
about these conference games. We [the
coaching staf] emphasized that we just
want their best efort, whether its a win or
a loss, we just want to see intense, physi-
cal, gritty basketball for 40 minutes.
Although the Polar Bears came out
on top in their previous non-conference
meeting against Colby, the two rivals
have similar records and the Mules will
have home court advantage.
Tey have an incredible senior
leader Diana Manduca, theyre shooting
exceptionally well in their own gym, and
last night they broke a school record for
most three pointers scored in a game,
said Shibles.
With fve NESCAC games lef Dona-
hoe put it simply, we need this win.
Tis season the young Polar Bears
fnd themselves in the position of the
underdog rather than the frontrunner.
We have something special to bring
to the rest of this season, were in the po-
sition to surprise a lot of people which
normally is not the case, said Donahoe.
weekend. The Polar Bears are cur-
rently ranked third in D-III and
have a commanding three game
lead ahead of Williams for the
first-seed in the NESCAC playoffs.
We want to be playing our best
hockey at this point in the year,
and that definitely starts with Am-
herst, said Weiniger. They have
a very strong team and we played
them to a very close 3-2 game at
their barn this year. We are excited
at what lies ahead and we are ready
to take a kick at the can.
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forth between both teams that led to an
exciting overtime fnish for Bowdoin on
the back of a last second goal from cap-
tain Kayte Holtz 13.
Not only did Holtz score the game-
winning goal, she also joined Bowdoins
career 100-point club, a highly respected
milestone amongst hockey players.
Holtz is the tenth player in the history
of the program to reach this mark and
the frst player to join the groups ranks
since 2007.
Looking back on the winter trip,
ONeil was pleased with the way the
Polar Bears handled their tough Mid-
western opponents.
ONeil said Concordia was an
NCAA tournament team last year
but they have not done well so far this
year. Ofensively, they were better than
we expected. Tey had some kids who
could rip the puck. It was very physical
which is fne because our kids can play
that. Tat kind of play helps prepare us
in case we meet up with them or other
Midwestern teams in postseason play.
Returning to Brunswick, the Polar
Bears then hosted Conneticut College.
Bowdoin swept the Camels, winning
4-0 in the frst game and 3-0 in the sec-
ond contest.
In their frst matchup, Chelsea Mac-
Neil 15 tallied a hat trick while Schuy-
ler Nardelli 15 scored the teams fourth
goal. Kim Tess-Wanat 13 had three as-
sists, Maura Allen 14 had two and Holtz
had one.
In the second game, Holtz and Mac-
Neil found the back of the net again
while Colleen Finnerty 15 also added
a goal. Tess-Wanat had two assists and
Womens ice hockey glides to 14-1 record
BY ANDRES BOTERO
ORIENT STAFF
Afer playing 15 games and travel-
ing thousands of miles, the womens
ice hockey team is ranked No. 6 in the
nation. Stephanie Ludy 13 and Rachel
Kennedy 16 have been honored as NES-
CAC Players of the Week, and Bowdoin
is sitting in frst place in the NESCAC.
Te team traveled to the Midwest to
begin its winter break and had success,
winning 14 games in a row and clinch-
ing a spot in the NESCAC playofs.
Our strength of schedule is ranked
third toughest in the country and that
is going to help us, Head Coach Mar-
rissa ONeil said about the teams playof
chances. Tose wins certainly help us
in getting a bid to Nationals. To play a
team in every single D-III conference
and beat a team from every one is a
good achievement for us.
ONeil says she was thrilled with the
trip and how the team responded to
playing unknown teams despite some
players being sick.
Te experience was great, ONeil
said. Traveling with the team is always
a great bonding experience. Unfortu-
nately, a few kids got sick with a stomach
bug but we stuck it out. We got an early
lead and just held on. It was just mind
over matter at that point.
In Bowdoins second matchup against
Concordia, there was dramatic back and
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success over winter break
Although many Bowdoin students
take time to relax during their winter
breaks, the mens basketball team was
anything but idle between semesters.
In January, the Polar Bears have had
four games decided by four points or
less, a 3-game winning streak, a 3-game
losing streak, two overtime victories and
one game-winning shot. Teir 5-4 re-
cord thus far in the month brings them
to 10-6 overall and 2-3 in NESCAC play.
Bowdoin returned from a month-
long hiatus with a 75-53 road win over
Plymouth State on January 2. Bowdoin
opened conference play against Ham-
ilton two days later. Te Polar Bears
surged past the Continentals in the sec-
ond half for a 64-51 win. Afer, the men
hosted NESCAC rivals Tufs and Bates.
Te Tufs-Bates weekend was a big
one for us, said Head Coach Tim Gil-
bride. Te last few years weve lost both
of those games.
History looked as though it might
repeat itself afer the Polar Bears fell
to the Jumbos 82-69. Tufs was on fre
from outside, shooting 13-20 from
3-point range.
[Tufs is] very physical and pre-
sented some matchup problems to us.
We struggled with them, said Gilbride.
Tat [loss] made the Bates game very
important.
Te men had previously played the
Bobcats in December, defeating them
in overtime 74-70. Te Polar Bears also
won the second matchup in overtime,
this time by a score of 61-60. Bryan Hur-
ley 15 had a tough day, fnishing with
six turnovers and only four assists, but
he stepped up when it counted. With
the team trailing by two points with less
than a minute lef, Hurley stole the ball
and went coast-to-coast to tie the game.
He then proceeded to hit the game-
winning jump shot with eight seconds
remaining in overtime.
Tings quickly turned for the worse
for the Polar Bears, who subsequently
lost three games in fve days. Losses to
UMaine-Farmington and Trinity were
particularly brutal, as Bowdoin held
second-half leads in each game before
letting them slip away.
You have to be able to handle pres-
sure and execute, and we started to do
that in the second half [against Trinity]
and got ourselves a lead, said Gilbride.
Ten, like every game, they made a run
and got it closer. Tat was the frst time
where I thought having lost a couple
games in a row was in the back of our
minds. Guys missed plays and shots that
they would normally make.
Losing three straight games made
Tuesdays road matchup with a tough
Babson team particularly important.
Te biggest thing is to keep team
morale up afer losing to teams we were
supposed to beat, said Hurley.
Bowdoin won in overtime yet again,
68-66. Hurley, who comfortably leads
the NESCAC with 7.8 assists per game,
fnished with 20 points, eight rebounds,
seven assists and four steals.
We still were a little nervous and
we still missed some plays, but it was a
learning and growing experience as a
team, said Gilbride. To get the win was
huge. Psychologically, we needed it and
we got it.
Te men return to action tomorrow
at home against archrival Colby.
BY SAM CHASE
STAFF WRITER
Foley 13 earns conference
honors as swim tops Bates
Te swimming and diving teams
performed well in their meets over the
break, decisively defeating Bates on
January 17 before a strong showing at
a non-scoring meet against UMaine
Orono the next day.
Afer returning to Brunswick from
their training trip to Puerto Rico, the
men triumphed over the Bobcats 177-
121 while the women bested their op-
ponents 149-139.
Katherine Foley 13 made a big con-
tribution to the victory, winning both
the 1000-and-500 meter freestyle with
times of 10:38.35 and 5:08.14 respec-
tively. Other strong races for the women
included frst year Lela Garners 4:40.45
frst-place fnish in the 400 individual
medley. Helen Newton 14 and Maeve
OLeary 14 took the top two spots in the
100 yard breast, while frst years Mariah
Reading won the 50 butterfy and Bridg-
et Killian won the 200 free. Divers Sage
Makami 15 and Serena Taj 16 took frst
and second in the 1-and 3-meter events.
Te women also won the 400-free
relay with a team made up of Foley,
Killian, Garner, and captain Kaley Ko-
komoor 13 with a time of 3:37.81.
On the mens side, captain Basyl
Stuyvesant 13 won both the 50 and
100 backstroke, and Ryan Peabody 14
won the 1000 yard free. Bowdoin swept
the top three slots in the 400 IM, with
Ryan Kulesza 15 taking frst place, JR
Chansakul 16 in second and Peabody
in third. Chansakul won the 100 breast
with a time of 1:02.01, Linc Rhodes 14
won the 100 free with a time of 49.31,
Kevin Koh 16 won both the 100 and 50
butterfies with times of 52.57 and 23.57,
and Peter Deardorf 15 won the 200 free
with a time of 1:47.48.
Te men had a particularly strong
outing in the relays, with the team of
Stuyvesant, John Lagasse 16, William
Shi 15, and Deardorf winning the 200-
yard medley relay with a time of 1:38.57.
Lagasse, Stuyvesant, Deardorf, and
Rhodes combined to win the 400-free
relay with a time of 3:16.30.
Te men continued their winning
streak at Orono the next day in a non-
scoring meet. Tom Kramer 15 came in
frst in both the 1-and 3-meter diving
events with scores of 255.40 and 254.50.
Stuyvesant won the 50 free with a time
of 22.96. Rhodes triumphed in the 400
IM with a time of 4:24.40. Lagasse took
frst in the 100 breast with a time of
1:03.05. Koh won the 100 yard butterfy
with a time of 53.41. Peabody came in
frst in the 200 backstroke with a time
of 2:06.72. Kulesza won the 100 IM with
a time of 55.75 while teammate Chan-
sakul fnished frst in the 200 breast with
a time of 2:16.45.
On the womens side, Foley won the
100 IM, while Teri Faller 15 won the
200 back with a time of 2:19. Newton
came in frst in the 200 breast with a
time of 2:37.98. Rounding out the week-
end, Kelsey Goodwin 15 won the 200
butterfy with a time of 2:20.61 and Gar-
ner took frst in the 100 butterfy with a
time of 1:05.09.
In recognition of her outstanding
performance, Foley was named NES-
CAC Womens Swimmer of the Week.
I think the reason that weve been so
successful is because we are very sup-
portive of each other, said Foley.
Te swim teams will host NESCAC
rivals Wesleyan and Trinity tomorrow
in Greason Pool at 11 a.m.
BY RYAN HOLMES
ORIENT STAFF
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Squash has rocky play over winter break
The mens and womens squash
teams were both in action this past
weekend as they traveled to Yale to
face off against Drexel, Stanford,
Yale and Columbia.
On January 19 both squads
kicked off against Drexel and Stan-
ford. The men won 5-4 and 9-0,
while the women won 6-3 and lost
8-1, respectively. The first day of
matches saw promising play from
both teams.
Both squads ran into stout com-
petition against Ivy League oppo-
nents later in the weekend. Yale
and Columbia defeated the men
8-1 and 8-1 and the women 9-0
and 9-0 respectively.
Captain Andrew Hilboldt 13
believes the team is building con-
fidence before an upcoming set of
difficult matches.
We had a very tough stretch
this last week, said Hilboldt. Re-
cently we have beat Amherst, Wes-
leyan and Drexel, which were big
morale boosters for us. Our goal is
to make the B division and teams
like Brown stand in our way.
Hilboldt has beaten the Middle-
bury and Williams No. 1s this year
and hopes to continue his fine
form in future matchups.
I have been enjoying the best
squash of my life and am trying
to keep riding the wave, Hilboldt
added. Having beat players I lost
to last year is a testament to the
commitment the program has on
improving.
The Bowdoin men also played
this Wednesday when they trav-
eled to Bates. The Polar Bears lost
8-1 against a formidable Bobcat
lineup.
Senior William Fantini has also
performed very well this season
at the No. 3 position and believes
good things lie ahead.
The team has improved sig-
nificantly since the beginning of
the season, he said. Everyone is
physically much fitter, and playing
at a much higher level.
Fantini anticipates that the up-
coming match against Brown will
be a very telling test for the squad.
Brown has been a very big rival
of ours since my freshman year, he
said. We anticipate a close match.
We know we will get nine strong
efforts from each individual on the
team, and hopefully at the end of
the day we will end up on top.
BY ALEX MARECKI
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD MENS
Su 1/20
Tu 1/22
We 1/23
at Yale
at Yale v. Columbia
at Colby
Bates
L
L
W
L
81
81
63
81
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F 1/18
Sa 1/19
Tu 1/22
at Amherst
at Trinity
at Babson
L
L
W
8070
6967
6866
Emily Tang 14, Kenzie Novak 13, and
Kennedy had one each.
Te team then had a 4-game road
trip comprised of two non-conference
matches and a NESCAC 2-game series
against Wesleyan.
Just prior to the start of the spring se-
mester, Bowdoin hosted Middlebury for
a 2- game series.
Bowdoin won the frst game 3-0,
scoring one goal each period and hand-
ing Middlebury its only shutout loss of
the season.
Kennedy scored the frst goal of the
game in the opening period. In the sec-
ond Tess-Wanat drove the puck home
of of a Holtz pass to double the score,
making it 2-0.
In the fnal frame, MacNeil won a fa-
ceof and passed to Holtz, who drilled it
into the net to make the score 3-0.
In the second of Bowdoins match-
ups against the Panthers, Middlebury
came out the gate playing aggressively,
keeping the two teams in a deadlock
through the frst period.
Middlebury struck frst in the middle
period, taking advantage of some em -
cient passing that spread the Bowdoin
defense. Te Panthers scored their sec-
ond goal moments afer their frst.
Kennedy cut into the Middlebury
lead, knocking home a rebound before
the end of the second period.
Bowdoin promptly tied the game one
minute into the third period. However,
Middlebury rallied, notching two more
goals for a 4-2 win.
Afer a week of rest, Bowdoin will
head to Williams for a two-game series
today and tomorrow.
The Bowdoin women hosted
Colby last night, winning 7-2
against the Mules, who entered the
match with a 4-6 record.
Standout Rachel Barnes 15 said
she is excited about the upcom-
ing matches. The Polar Bears will
face Tufts today, and then Boston
College, Boston University and
Wellesley tomorrow.
The college squash world is
rather small and we play a wide ar-
ray of talent every week, she said.
We have a lot of tough matches
coming up, which could be a good
opportunity to get back into the
mix for a bid in the B division of
the national championships.
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Sa 1/19
Su 1/20
Th 1/24
at Yale v. Drexel
at Yale v. Stanford
at Yale
at Yale v. Columbia
v. Colby
W
L
L
L
W
63
81
90
90
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FRONT AND CENTER: Alex Reisley 16 strikes
the ball in a match against Bates on Wednesday.
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NESCAC Standings
MENS ICE HOCKEY
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
BOWDOIN 10 1 1 16 1 1
Williams 7 2 1 9 4 2
Amherst 6 3 1 10 4 2
Trinity 5 2 3 8 4 3
Middlebury 5 3 2 6 8 2
Wesleyan 4 4 2 8 6 2
Hamilton 3 5 2 5 8 3
Conn. Coll. 1 6 3 5 8 3
Tufts 1 7 2 5 8 2
Colby 1 10 1 3 13 1
WOMENS ICE HOCKEY
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
BOWDOIN 7 1 0 13 2 1
Middlebury 7 1 2 10 2 2
Amherst 5 2 1 7 6 1
Hamilton 4 3 1 9 4 1
Williams 4 4 0 8 8 0
Conn. Coll. 4 5 1 8 7 1
Trinity 2 3 3 7 4 4
Colby 2 8 0 6 10 0
Wesleyan 1 9 0 5 12 0
F 1/25
Sa 1/ 26
at Williams
at Williams
7 P.M.
3 P.M.
WOMENS BASKETBALL
NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L
Tufts 6 0 19 0
Amherst 5 0 18 0
Trinity 4 1 13 5
Williams 4 1 15 3
Bates 3 3 9 8
Middlebury 2 3 9 8
Conn. Coll. 2 4 7 10
BOWDOIN 1 4 9 8
Colby 1 4 7 10
Hamilton 1 5 9 9
Wesleyan 1 5 8 8
Sa 1/26
Tu 1/29
at Colby
at Eastern Conn. State
4 P.M.
7 P.M.
MENS BASKETBALL
NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L
Amherst 5 0 16 2
Middlebury 5 0 16 0
Williams 5 0 16 2
Tufts 4 2 10 7
BOWDOIN 2 3 10 6
Colby 2 3 6 10
Trinity 2 3 8 10
Bates 2 4 7 11
Wesleyan 2 4 8 10
Hamilton 1 5 9 10
Conn. Coll. 0 6 6 12
Sa 1/26
Tu 1/29
at Colby
v. Thomas
2 P.M.
7 P.M.
MENS SWIMMING & DIVING
Sa 1/26 v. Wesleyan, Trinity 11 A.M.
WOMENS SWIMMING & DIVING
Compiled by Carolyn Veilleux
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
*Bold line denotes NESCACTournament cut-o
WOMENS TRACK & FIELD
Sa 1/26 at Wesleyan Invitational 10 A.M.
MENS TRACK & FIELD
Sa 1/26 v. Wesleyan, Trinity 11 A.M.
Sa 1/26 at Wesleyan Invitational 10 A.M.
MENS SQUASH
F 1/25
Sa 1/26
Su 1/27
v. Tufts
v. Boston College
v. Wellesley
v. Boston University
at Brown University
6 P.M.
10 A.M.
NOON.
2 P.M.
1:30 P.M.
WOMENS SQUASH
F 1/25
Sa 1/26
Su 1/27
v. Tufts
v. Boston College
v. Wellesley
v. Boston University
at Brown University
6 P.M.
10 A.M.
NOON.
2 P.M.
1:30 P.M.
NORDIC SKIING
Sa 1/26
Su 1/27
at Colby Carnival (Day 1)
at Colby Carnival (Day 2)
10 A.M.
10 A.M.
Mens track comes in rst at its
two meets over winter break
Te mens track team worked hard
this winter break, with several runners
earning top scores.
Sprinter Kyle Leblanc 14 took frst
place in the 6-way home meet on Janu-
ary 12 and the 4-way home meet on Jan-
uary 19, making him one of the top four
sprinters in the NESCAC this winter.
Bowdoin took second place in the
4x400-meter during the 6-way meet
on January 12 afer Jarred Kennedy-
Loving 15 fell on the track. In pursuit
of a Colby runner during the frst lap,
Kennedy-Loving landed on the track,
rolled, jumped up, and used the next
300 meters to make up his lost ground.
Bowdoin was behind Worcester Poly-
technic Institute (WPI) by six points go-
ing into the last event of the meet. Te
shot putters Cam Woodford 15 and
Cam Chisholm 16 outscored WPI by
six points, ending the meet in a tie.
Christian Sleeper 15 is currently one
of the top scorers for the Polar Bears. His
success this winter in the 1000-meter
run shows a marked improvement from
his previous seasons.
Christian is racing with a lot of skill
this season. Hes working hard in prac-
tice, and he has become one of the best
kickers on the team, said Head Coach
Peter Slovenski, referring to a runners
sprint at the end of the race known as
the kick. In their last meet of the break,
Eddy Page 13 and Peter Tracy 14 took
frst and second place in the pole vault.
Eddy and Peter are technically very
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smart, and mentally very tough in com-
petition, said Slovenski. Tey had a
great day for the team.
Tis weekend, the Polar Bears will
face of against several schools at the
competitive Wesleyan Invitational.
-Compiled by Rachel Gladstone
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Womens track fares well at
winter break home meets
Te womens track team opened the
season with a commanding victory on
December 8, scoring 185 points to de-
feat the University of Southern Maine
(USM) (126), Colby (19), St. Josephs
(16) and the University of Maine-Farm-
ington (4).
Erin Silva 15 broke her own school
record to secure frst in the pole vault.
Bowdoin also won other feld events.
Hayleigh Kein 15 took the high jump,
while Michele Kaufman 13 won the
long jump and Katharine Krupp 16 won
the triple jump.
On the track, several Polar Bears
topped their events: Camille Wasinger
15 (600m), Samantha Copland 14
(60m), Gina Stalica 16 (1000m), and
Brenna Fischer 15 (3000m).
Despite the numerous victories, Co-
pland noted that the Polar Bears always
look from top to bottom to be competi-
tive.
Te frst meet was just to see where
we are and to introduce the frst years to
college track, she said.
Bowdoin returned early from winter
break to train before sweeping the com-
petition at the home meet on January 12.
Bowdoin earned 180 points to top
USM (149), Colby (125), Connecticut
College (66), Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute (55) and St. Josephs (3). Te Polar
Bears performed well, scoring points in
all but two events.
Copland said the team worked out
two and sometimes three times a day
over the break in preparation for the in-
creasing intensity at meets. She also said
nightly team bonding was an important
step to post-break success.
Tough Bowdoin graduated a strong
class last year, Copland says team co-
hesiveness has motivated the team to
strong fnishes.
At the end of the meet we have Word
on the Track, where we say who PRed
[broke a personal record] today, Co-
pland said. Its a nice way for sprinters
and jumpers and throwers to all come
together and see how we are doing.
In the fnal meet before the end of
break, Bowdoin was tied for the lead
going into the fnal event, but was ulti-
mately edged out by two points by Tufs.
Kaufman won both the 60m hurdles
and long jump for Bowdoin, while Was-
inger took the 600m. Te 4x400m relay
team also fnished frst.
In her frst year running the event,
Copland added both a personal record
and a school record in her second-place
fnish in the 60m (8.10). Emily Barr 12
held the previous record (8.13).
Tomorrow the Polar Bears will travel
to the Wesleyan Invitational. Te meet
is larger than their earlier competitions
and will be an important benchmark.
Te Polar Bears dont have specifc ex-
pectations, but Copland said, We want
to beat our times from previous meets
so we can improve and peak at the right
time.
-Compiled by Clare McClaughlin
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To the Editor:
Although Eric Edelman intends to
challenge the Bowdoin communitys
attitude towards sexuality (Do Not
Put Me in a Box, Bowdoin: Leaving
Sexuality Undefned), his writing
only confrms an attitude among
many students, perhaps even the
school administration, which does
not give our intellectual and ethical
compasses their proper roles.
Te answer for Bowdoin is not
to do as we please, for the sole rea-
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
son that we think it might make our
lives more enjoyable...Te only thing
thats important is that you do you.
Do whatever you want to do with
whomever you want to do it with
but thoughtful refection by indi-
viduals and groups on the meaning
of sexuality.
Tis critical feature of the human
condition, explored for centuries by
poet and philosopher alike, should
not be lef to the moral laziness of do
you relativism, but guided by our
deepest principles.
Although Bowdoin can never be-
come a monastery, students have the
responsibility to seek truth in the
most intimate, meaningful pieces of
themselves: love and relationships.
Until then, we will struggle with
the consequences the Bowdoin Ori-
ent so courageously described previ-
ously (Everyones doing it: Defning
campus hookup culture).
Sincerely,
David Jimenez 16
Orient owes community an anonymity policy
In an editorial published in the No-
vember 30 edition of the Orient, the
editors attempted to tackle the thorny
issue of anonymity. Broadly, they suc-
ceeded in illuminating the Orients
guidelines as they relate to the use of
anonymous sources. However, they
failed to put forth a coherent policy
that outlined the circumstances un-
der which students identities are re-
vealedor not revealedin conjunc-
tion with breaches of school rules or
the law.
Te piece that provoked the editori-
al was an interview with the individual
behind the Twitter handle @notbow-
doin. Te Orients editors granted the
student anonymity in the piece, which
ran on the front page of the paper. Te
editors explained, Te Orient was
granted an interview with the student
behind @notbowdoin on the condi-
tion of preserving the individuals ano-
nymity, which the student requested to
preserve the nature of the account.
Te editors further defended their
decision to grant anonymity, explain-
ing that they adhere to Te New York
Times principle that the use of un-
identifed sources is reserved for situ-
ations in which the newspaper could
not otherwise print information it
considers reliable and newsworthy.
I agree with the editors that grant-
ing anonymity to the person behind
@notbowdoin was appropriate in this
case. Te story was timely and rel-
evant, and both the writer and the ed-
itor-in-chief could confrm the iden-
tity of the source. As such, the Orient
was able to bring a story to its readers
that it would not have otherwise been
able to print, and it could be confdent
about the integrity of its content.
However, the editorial also brought
up another topic that is closely related
to the question of granting anonym-
itythe disclosure or non-disclosure
of the names of students who have bro-
ken laws or school rules. Te editors
wrote, Te Orient is always reluctant
to grant anonymity in reporting, but
we recognize certain, narrow circum-
stances in which little is to be gained
by naming individual students.
Tey go on to give the example of
students who are summonsed to court
for alcohol violations. Te Orient does
not identify these individuals, and their
reasoning for doing so is that in almost
every case, that information is not valu-
able to the general community.
I absolutely agree that there is little
to be gained from printing the names
of students who have received a sum-
mons for alcohol violations. However,
it is their next sentence that raises an
issue of potential concern.
is relevant to the Bowdoin commu-
nity, and our frst obligation is to the
truth. However, to my knowledge,
there are no clear rules governing
when the Orient discloses or chooses
not to disclose a students name.
During my tenure as an Orient
editor, those decisions seemed to be
made on a case-by-case basis. Gener-
ally, students who had been charged
with a misdemeanor remained un-
named while students who had been
charged with a felony were identifed,
but even that rule was not followed in
certain cases.
Te issue of student identifcation
has already come up at least once this
year. Following the Epicuria party
in September, one student was sum-
monsed to court for allowing a minor
to possess or consume liquor, and
both the president and vice president
of Ladd House resigned their posts.
Afer students approached the editors
with concerns about being identifed,
the editorial staf elected not to name
the students involved.
Tat decision was not necessarily the
wrong one. However, the Orients lack
of standards regarding these cases of stu-
dent anonymity calls into question how,
and why, the editors made the decision
not to reveal the students identity.
Te primary problem is that at a
small school like Bowdoin, there is a
strong chance that at least one mem-
ber of the editorial board is going to
have a relationship with the accused
party. Te small community we have
is one of the great things about Bow-
doin. However, the confict of inter-
est that such an environment creates
can be very problematic, and without
a clear policy on identifying accused
parties, the integrity of the Orients re-
porting can sufer.
Establishing a clear set of guide-
lines that is accessible to its readers
makes sense for any newspaper, but I
think it is particularly important for a
newspaper at a small school like Bow-
doin. Te Orient owes it not only to its
readers, but also to the students whose
identities may or may not be revealed
as a result of those guidelines.
A call to disarm
On December 21, the Chapel bells tolled 26 timesonce for each victim of
the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Te unthinkable violence that cost
20 frst graders and six adults their lives has shaken the nation. In the weeks since,
there have been fve more school shootings in the United States, including one this
Tuesday at Lone Star College in Texas.
New legislative sessions have begun in Augusta and Washington, and in the af-
termath of these tragedies it looks as though lawmakers are fnally serious about
reforming gun laws nationwide. Maines senators will vote on President Obamas
gun control proposal in the coming months, and Brunswicks state representatives
will soon evaluate a number of bills that would alter gun regulations throughout the
state. One bill submitted this week would permit school employees to carry con-
cealed frearms in the classroom.
Carrying a concealed weapon on a college or university campus is banned in 21
states, but Maine is not one of them. Here, the decision to ban or allow concealed
weapons on campuses is made by each institution individually. Compared to other
states, Maine has relatively lenient laws when it comes to gun ownership: no permit
is necessary to purchase a rife or a handgun and no registration is necessary for
these guns, although a permit is required to carry a handgun.
Bowdoin prohibits the possession of frearms and ammunition on all College
property. Students who want to bring a frearm to campus must request to store
the weapon with Security and provide a trigger-lock for their guns, though very
few students elect to do so. We ofen feel secure at Bowdoin because we have such
a capable Security force protecting our campus, but there are some things that
are beyond its control. Te Walmart in Cooks Cornera ten-minute drive from
campussells an array of frearms that can be easily purchased due to Maines
permissive gun laws.
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, 336 college presidentsincluding
Barry Mills and presidents from eight other Maine schoolssigned a gun safe-
ty letter advocating for a weapons ban on all campuses, ending the gun-show
loophole, and requiring the highest level of safety in gun manufacturing. Put-
ting more guns in our schools is not the answer to these issues and will only
increase the potential for violence.
We support the Obama administrations recently proposed legislation that would
ban the commercial sale of assault weapons, which are unnecessary for self-defense
or hunting. Te proposal would also mandate waiting periods and background
checks for gun purchases. On the state level, Maine legislators should not permit
school employees to carry frearms while at work, and should introduce similar
measures as those being considered by their federal counterparts.
As new gun control bills are entertained, many have argued that more stringent
gun laws will not prevent gun violence. Te fact is that there will always be people
who want to cause violence, but good governance can limit their ability to do so.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Bowdoin in 1964, he said,It may be
true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true
that the law cant change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. We urge our
state and national legislators to heed the call of Dr. King and work together to pass
more stringent gun control laws.
Te editors wrote, As a student-
run newspaper, we empathize with
and understand the concerns of our
peers who request that their names
not be attached to sensitive stories or
to those that may cause a loss of liveli-
hood afer graduation.
Tose traits of empathy and un-
derstanding are reasonable, and even
desirable, for editors of college news-
papers. As Orient critics ofen remark,
Its not Te New York Times. How-
ever, that empathy only reinforces the
need for a clear set of standards that
the Orient follows when deciding
whether or not to identify students,
and the editors must be very careful
not to allow empathy to get in the way
of journalistic integrity.
Te editorial staf acknowledges
that obligation, writing, As the Bow-
doin College newspaper of record, we
are responsible for covering news that
The Orients lack of standards
regarding these cases of
student anonymity calls into
question how, and why, the
editors made the decision not
to reveal the students identity.
PUBLIC EDITOR
JIM REIDY
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Just four days after the tragic
shooting in Newtown, Cerberus
Capital Management, the New
York-based private equity firm, an-
nounced it would sell its holding in
Freedom Group, the manufacturer
of the semi-automatic weapon used
by the Sandy Hook shooter.
The New York Times reported
that Cerberus made this sale in re-
sponse to ethical concerns raised
by the California Teachers Pension
Fund, which has over $750 million
invested with the firm.
The move to drop Freedom
Group may have surprised many
of Wall Streets rank-and-file, who
often assume that an investments
ethical or social impact is irrel-
evant. However, Cerberus sale is a
sign that the times are changing.
Each year, more investors de-
mand putting their capital in funds
that only invest in socially respon-
sible or sustainable business ven-
tures.
As students continue to advocate
for divesting Bowdoins endowment
from fossil fuels, Bowdoin finds
itself in the heart of this changing
investment landscape.
If President Mills and the Board
of Trustees refuse to consider di-
vesting the endowment from fossil
fuels, they will be siding with the
Wall Street logic of their genera-
tion, which preaches that business
and investment decisions should
not mix with ethical and social con-
siderations. Frankly, Bowdoin de-
serves better.
Bowdoin should assess the fea-
sibility and costs of restricting en-
dowment investments from some of
the worst fossil fuel firms. Moving
towards divesting fossil fuels puts
Bowdoin on track to follow the
business logic of current students
generationthat good investment
decisions can go hand-in-hand with
the common good.
Any campaign to divest our en-
dowment from fossil fuels will un-
fortunately be a long one, as it ap-
pears President Mills is opposed to
the idea.
The December 7 edition of the
Orient quoted President Mills who
stated, Management of the endow-
mentis not something which at
Bowdoinor frankly any other in-
stitutionis subject to a large dem-
ocratic effort as to how the money
Divesting of fossil fuels for ethical endowment growth
Bowdoin participated in [the
South Africa] divestment cam-
paign based on the demands of
students, facultuy, the actions of
other institutions, and our societys
outrage.
is invested.
Contrary to Mills remarks, some
of the most successful divestment
campaigns in history are the prod-
ucts of so-called large democratic
efforts. For reference, see the di-
vestment campaign which crip-
pled South African businesses and
helped end apartheid.
Bowdoin participated in this di-
vestment campaign based on the
demands of students, faculty, the
actions of other institutions, and
our societys broad outrage at the
events occurring in South Africa.
Sounds like a large democratic ef-
fort to me.
If Bowdoin joined divestment
campaigns in the past, why wont it
join the current campaign to divest
from fossil fuels?
President Mills argues that in the
South African scenario, there was
widespread national and interna-
tional agreement that the subjects
that we were dealing with were ab-
horred, implying that there is not
a similar level of agreement about
fossil fuel firms.
It is true that there is not broad
moral outrage over burning fossil
fuels at the same level that there
was against South Africas institu-
tionalized racism, although it is dif-
ficult to even try to compare these
two distinct cases.
Fossil fuels allow us to attain a
very high standard of living. They
heat our homes, power our cars,
and provide us with the majority of
our electricity. However, there is a
widely accepeted argument that in
the long term, burning fossil fuels
is not good for the earth, and that
it needs to stop or slow to prevent
some of the worst consequences of
global warming.
Fossil Free, the national organi-
zation which advocates for divest-
ment from fossil fuels, recommends
divesting 200 publicly traded com-
panies which control the majority
of the worlds gas, oil and coal re-
serves. These are the large energy
firms with records of massive oil
spills and human rights violations.
They are not the local heating oil
delivery companies. There is broad
consensus that some of these large
firms have committed deplorable
crimes, and that they do not de-
serve our endowment dollars.
Te frms on the divestment list
include BP, responsible for the Deep-
water Horizon explosion, the largest
ofshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Dutch Royal Shella frm that
has refused to clean up repeated oil
spills in the Niger Delta area and
recently paid $15.5 million to settle
charges that it collaborated in the
killings of nine political dissidents
in Nigeria in 1996, is also on the list.
ExxonMobil is one of the larg-
est firms on the list, responsible for
the disastrous ExxonValdez spill in
Alaska.
The list of environmental disas-
ters and human rights violations
these companies are responsible for
is beyond the scope of this article,
but the point is clearsociety uni-
versally abhors many of the crimes
of these large fossil fuel firms.
Examining past divestment cam-
paigns and the behavior of the larg-
est energy firms seems to present
a very practical situation in which
Bowdoin would join a fossil-free
divestment campaign. But another
major reason Bowdoin is likely re-
fusing to even consider divestment
is that it wants to defend its endow-
ment. Restricting investment deci-
sions means that the endowment
might get lower returns, or that it
may not grow at the fastest possible
pace.
The endowment is important,
as it provides Bowdoin with its
operating budget and factors into
various prestige rankings. Bow-
doins endowment is pretty close to
reaching the $1 billion mark, so we
wouldnt want to slow it down now,
would we?
This desire for more funds and
prestige prevents Bowdoin from
even considering divestment.
President Mills and other college
officials may argue that making in-
vestment decisions to maximize the
endowment is simply in the best in-
terest of the College. But is it? Lets
say Bowdoin makes amazing profits
from investing in an energy firm
that improperly disposes hazard-
ous waste. The investment makes
sense under the ideology that the
investment with the best return is
in the best interest of the College.
But increasingly, the idea of social
investment is on the rise in the in-
vestment world.
The Forum for Sustainable and
Responsible Investment reports
that as of 2012, sustainable and
responsible investment (SRI) en-
compassed a record breaking $3.74
trillion out of the $33.3 trillion U.S.
investment market.
Increasingly, investors want to
use their savings to promote ethical
business growth. These investments
may not be as profitable as just any
investment, but the sheer quantity
of investments in this sector dem-
onstrate that investments can be
both profitable and ethical.
Most students, faculty, admin-
istrators and alumni would likely
be willing to accept small changes
in the endowment (with its corre-
sponding changes at Bowdoin) in
return for investing the endowment
in ethical, sustainable businesses.
The final argument against di-
vesting fossil fuels is that Bowdoins
efforts to divest would have little
impact on fossil fuel use, an argu-
ment similar to the one that South
African divestment would have lit-
tle impact on apartheid.
In December, the Orient quoted
Paula Volent, VP for Investments
at the College, arguing that, Mar-
kets are efficient and it is unclear
if one group of investors decides to
boycott a specific sector that there
is any meaningful result. Other in-
vestors will step in and buy cheaper
securities. Financial professionals
during South African apartheid
also argued that divestment would
have little effect on that nations
racist policies. Private South Af-
rican divestment campaigns led
to broad government-sponsored
economic sanctions and massive
capital flight from South Africa.
Crippled South African businesses
eventually begged the government
to renounce apartheid, leading to
the systems fall.
Divestment campaigns work, and
Bowdoin can help to lead a divest-
ment campaign against fossil fuels
and help create real change in the
energy sector.
We students belong to a genera-
tion that sees investment not only
as a means for profit, but also as an
indication of our social values. We
want to create real change in the en-
ergy sector by divesting fossil fuels.
The question is whether Bow-
doins decision makers, the Board
of Trustees, the Office of the Presi-
dent, and alumni donors will sup-
port students in this progressive,
exciting and challenging journey.
The first step is to assess the fea-
sibility of divestment, a threshold
at least one of our peer schools has
already crossed. I sincerely hope
that President Mills reconsiders his
position.
BY BEN RICHMOND
CONTRIBUTOR
The saga of Manti Teo: The story that shamed a voyeuristic America
Manti Teo is six months older
than I am. We both attend upper-
echelon colleges. We are both in
the midst of job searches. Manti
majored in graphic design, while
Im majoring in government. He
is a standout college football play-
erthe kind of player that exists at
schools other than Bowdoin. Manti
turns 22 on Saturday.
Over the course of the last week,
the story of Teos fabricated girl-
friend, Lennay Kekua, has taken
America by storm. Commenta-
tors have called it the story that
broke the Internet. The unfolding
mystery quickly upstaged Lance
Armstrongs admission of Perfor-
mance Enhancing Drug use and his
(bullshit) apology.
Thats right, the story of a fake
online romance has transcended
the fall from grace of a cancer-sur-
viving, world-champion American
hero.
Of course, those arent all the
details of the hoax perpetrated
against the Notre Dame star. Teos
relationship had received publicity
throughout the football season be-
cause of the fake girlfriends alleged
death after a battle with Leukemia
and, more importantly, the trag-
edys role as motivation for him as
an athlete.
Teo, we have found out, was
given undue sympathy and praise
for performing well on the football
field while battling through giga-
byte-generated heartache. He even
intimacy with a young woman who
died of Leukemia six hours after
the passing of his grandmother.
However, prior to learning de-
finitively of his victimization,
America disgustedly shook its col-
lective head and bemoaned its own
duped-ness.
The public had been suckered
into a fantastical story and now
thirsted for the details that would
make them triumphant in the face
of anothers misery. We Ameri-
cans hate to play the fool and well
shame you until we forget that we
were ever thrown for a loop.
Boy, werent we taken advan-
tage of ? We, under false pretenses,
added fuel to the fake narrative of a
college linebacker bearing his bur-
den bravely and playing inspired
football.
By golly, we should only sit, eat
and watch football with that much
passion when someone has truly
earned our intrigue. Teo, we sus-
pected only days ago, was a babe-
inventing fraud who manipulated
us into praising and pitying him.
How could he do this to us?
Here is where I pause and ask: is
America freakin serious?
At the height of our uncertainty,
the possibilities were threefold.
1. Teo was cruelly duped by an
online impersonator.
2. Teo was duped initially and,
HALFASSED
JUDAH ISSEROFF
after finding out, perpetuated the
lie out of embarrassment or for the
attention.
3. Teo is desperately insecure
about his popularity and/or sexu-
ality so he invented a tragic story
around a girlfriend that resided
only in his cerebral cortex.
In which of these situations are
the spectators of college football
and news watchers generally
owed something by this troubled
college student? Ill tell you: at no Thats right, the story of a fake
online romance has transcended
the fall from grace of a cancer-sur-
viving, world-champion American
hero.
spoke about his love for Kekua on
ESPN, concealing the fact that he
had only communicated with his
girlfriend by phone and on Face-
book.
To be fair, though, was the rela-
tionship really fiction? Most Bow-
doin couples never make the leap
from texting to vocal telephonic
communication.
We have now learned at least
for the time beingthat Teo found
out that Kekua was an invention
around the same time we did. For
the better part of a year, he was cru-
elly led to believe that he had found
point ever.
We took umbrage with our own
voyeuristic vulnerability when a
glossy narrative of pain and per-
sonal struggle was substituted for
a grainier narrative of pain and
personal struggle. Thats why the
story became a sensation. Because
America lost its collective shit
when the support structure of an
overly idealized 21-year-old began
to crack.
It should go without saying that
Teos privacy has been violated. If
We Americans hate to play the
fool and well shame you until we
forget that we were ever thrown
for a loop.
you think hes getting what he de-
serves for talking about the story
in the first place, youre probably a
terrible person.
Successful college athletes are
commoditized and glamorized by
a system that certainly does not
ask for consent. Secondly, this was
a college kid who messed up on the
Internet. He didnt break the law.
He didnt cheat his way to athletic
success. I ask again, what does he
owe us?
Finally, I should say that I
dont believe that any members of
the millions-large audience that
watched this saga unfold can or
should be held individually re-
sponsible for the way we treated
Teo. Like most issues in a world
with seven (thats right, seven)
billion people, the problem is sys-
temic.
As disgusting as this sounds,
the media was only showing what
we wanted to watch, and we only
watched what the media was show-
ing us. Somewhere in that circular
doom spiral, culpability disap-
pears. However, I think we all need
to examine whether we can take
America and its blighted culture
seriously when the titanic story of
this winter break was that a mostly
meaningless college sports story
was as fantastical as we wanted it
to be. And so we were outraged.
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Hillary Clinton and Singh Pandey: What does equality mean?
doesnt have a global impact.
Tat might be a relief, actually, since
the 2020 goals of carbon neutrality are
unachievable. Come clean, get that
monkey of your back, and think bigger!
How might Bowdoin expand and
consolidate its oferings in sustainabil-
ity and develop a focus on this issue
like, say, Middlebury has?
From its website: At Middlebury,
sustainability is about more than our
renewable energy projects and green
buildings. It is an integral part of how
we teach, work and play. Wow!
Bowdoin, meanwhile, doesnt yet
Bowdoins electronic Seasons Greet-
ing card this year concluded by wish-
ing Polar Bears everywhere the magic
of family and friends this holiday sea-
son. As a Polar Bear myself, I appre-
ciate Bowdoins sentiment. But theres
one constituency for which that note
must ring hollow: actual polar bears.
Arctic sea ice is melting much, much
faster than even the most fatalistic cli-
mate models projected. Melt this sum-
mer equaled half the square mileage of
the lower 48 states. Scientists predict
Arctic summers could be ice-free by
mid-centurythe end of the line for
polar bears.
Tis situation would have been
hellish for another Polar Bear: Robert
Peary. Pearys graduation from Bow-
doin in 1877 marked almost the exact
time global warming started to heat his
beloved Arctic, thanks to the Industrial
Revolution.
What will the displays at the Peary-
MacMillian Arctic Museum look like in
2100, afer the World Banks projected
four degrees Celcius of warming, which
they say will bring unimaginable costs
to people and society?
Since its inception, Bowdoin has
been devoted to the Common Good.
Given that climate change means more
storms and droughts, fres and foods,
crop failures and food scarcity, and all
of the resulting loss, poverty and con-
fict, the common good today looks a
hell of a lot like solving climate change.
Bowdoins mascot and most famous
non-poet graduates legacy are endan-
gered. Te schools very mission is
threatened at its core. It sure seems like
Bowdoin, more than any other college,
ought to be working hard to solve cli-
mate change.
But its not. Te schools actions
have been tepid. Im not talking about
greening the campus. Greening op-
erations is the stuf of good press these
days; most colleges are doing it. But
these actions are not nearly enough be-
cause climate is a global problem, not a
Bowdoin problem.
Im talking about the administra-
tions general lack of concern about the
climate, lack of response to student and
alumni prodding, and the unfortunate
result that other schools capture the
benefts of leadership.
For example, Middlebury, with a
world-class sustainability curriculum,
is eating Bowdoins lunch in attracting a
whole new coterie of students focused
on sustainability and climate change.
I know because I get their impressive
resumes. One works with me. Middle-
burys approach backs the schools mis-
sion and its bottom line.
Te University of Michigans Gra-
ham Environmental Sustainability
Institute ofers a competitive program
that accepts 25 to 30 high-performing
students into its Undergraduate Sus-
tainability Scholars Program, an inter-
disciplinary leadership efort.
Fellow Maine institution Unity Col-
lege is moving rapidly on the divest-
ment conversation and getting national
press.
Unity College president Stephen
Mulkey is willing to speak out aggres-
sively on climate. From a letter to other
college administrators quoted in the
New York Times and Time Magazine:
In the near future, the political tide
will turn and the public will demand
action on climate change...Our stu-
dents are already demanding action,
and we must not ignore them.
No ofense Unity, but shouldnt Bow-
doin be the leader? But far from lead-
ing, Bowdoins Environmental Studies
home page doesnt even list the words
climate change or global warming.
Seriously?
On the fip side, what kinds of fun
and rewarding results might fow from
a serious discussion about how Bow-
doin can fnd and use its biggest levers
to drive climate solutions?
Bowdoin might discover that carbon
neutrality isnt an ideal goal because the
marginal 30 percent is so expensive to
achieve, and greening Bowdoin itself
Like it or not, Bowdoin is advanc-
ing its own socio-political agenda by
default, as an owner of businesses that
hold the carbon that will destroy, or by
staying in the ground salvage, the fu-
ture for Bowdoin grads from this day
forward.
My God, what an opportunity for
Bowdoin! To become a material part
of nothing less than saving civilization!
Talk about serving the common good.
Lead the charge on solving climate
change and, as Shakespeare said: From
this day forward until the ending of the
world, we in it shall be remembered!
Lets bring this issue to the fore, put
it on the cover of Bowdoin magazine,
host a brainstorming conference with
Bates and Colby, and recognize it as
what NASAs James Hansen calls the
predominant moral issue of the next
centurysomething Obama told
Time Magazine weve got to get right.
Te current Bowdoin administra-
tions focus on increasing the endow-
ment to allow students from all walks of
life to attend, ensuring a diversity of eth-
nic as well as economic backgrounds,
is admirable and in keeping with the
Common Good. But that very goal is
threatened by a societal miss on climate:
afer four degrees Celcius of warming,
nobody gets to go to Bowdoin.
As Polar Bear Henry Wadsworth
Longfellows friend and colleague Hen-
ry David Toreau pointed out, and I
paraphrase: What, afer all, is the use of
a fne college if you havent got a toler-
able planet to put it on?
Auden Schendler 92 is Vice Presi-
dent of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing
Company and author of Getting Green
Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines
of the Sustainability Revolution.
Bowdoin is falling dangerously behind on climate change
THE LIVELY
STATESWOMAN
DAISY ALIOTO
bowdoinorient.com
BY AUDEN SCHENDLER
CONTRIBUTOR
ofer the kind of climate/business/sus-
tainability/policy education that will
prepare students for the modern world.
Instead, the focus is more about coastal
studies and research. Tats important,
but its a subset of climate.
Te reason Maine has public radio
is that Colby, Bates, Bowdoin and the
University of Maine teamed up to es-
tablish it.
How could Bowdoin and other col-
leges contribute to a statewide efort to
grow and support Maine green busi-
ness (some just several hundred feet
from campus) and reduce emissions?
Just as with public radio, others
would almost certainly jump in and
follow an initiative to invest dollars,
supporting research, internships, tech-
nical support and information sharing
to make Maine a green business leader.
Need some seed funding? Stop
spending money on Renewable En-
ergy Certifcates (RECs) that dont do
anything and repurpose the cash to
make your own RECs. In the process,
students could reconnect with now
Senator Angus King to provide the
fre support he needs to create national
policies on climate that would support
the Maine revolution.
Why cant Bowdoin have a conver-
sation about divestment, which was at
frst rejected by the president when stu-
dents brought it up?
Perhaps we should instead call it
INvestment: in corporations with
strong sustainability records and bal-
ance sheets, like those listed on the
Dow Jones Sustainability Index, whose
returns can equal those of fossil fuel
companies. Tis would be both a lead-
ership opportunity and a way to engage
students in research and analysis.
Far from leading, Bowdoins
Environmental Studies home page
doesnt even list the words climate
changeor global warming.
Seriously?
The success of individual women is
not license to unfurl the Mission
Accomplishedbanner.
We can do better than solve in-
equalitythere, I said it. Talk of in-
equality on a global scale may lead
countries toward an identical, mod-
ern lifestylebut it wont elevate us.
Writing for CNN, Frida Ghitis
compares the realities of Hillary
Clinton and Jyoti Singh Pandey; in
the same week, both womens hospi-
talizations dominated the news.
But the discrepancy between their
prevailing identitiesone, arguably
the most admired woman in the
United States, the other, the victim
of a brutal rapeleads Ghitis to con-
clude that their parallel stories point
to a sharp divide in the worldwide
struggle for womens equality.
I dont fnd Ghitiss method too
efective. Te side-by-side compari-
son of a female leader of the frst
world with a casualty of the devel-
oping world is a reductive premise
to explore the international state of
women as a whole.
One could just as easily note the
discrepancies between Joyce Hilda
Banda, president of Malawi, and a
teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio.
We know that some women will
receive respect and admiration in
their lifetimes, while others will be
ignored, or worse, abused.
Te success of individual women
is not license to unfurl the Mission
Accomplished banner only to say
that, in a state of inequality, lifestyles
fall along a drastic spectrumwith
this, Ghitis agrees. However, her
framing of female inequality risks
being labeled as an example of ap-
ples and oranges.
Rather than make a point tied to
the fate of distant individuals, why
shouldnt we examine the ways in
which each society could better value
human life?
Releasing the issue of inequality
from a direct comparison frees us to
acknowledge cultural diversity as we
look at how the value of human life
has evolved.
Te discussion of lifes value in-
cludes both men and women. It be-
gins with the very defnition of what
it means to be human.
If asked point-blank what does
it mean to be human? we may feel
daunted by the enormity of the ques-
tion, when the truth is thatin two
primary wayswe defne the term
for ourselves all the time.
Te frst way is through cultural
norms. During my semester abroad
in Morocco, afer more than a few
days without a shower, it wasnt rare
for an American student freshly
emerged from the bath house to
proclaim, I feel like a human being
again. Human: by this defnition,
clean. Its an om and remark with
bold connotations.
Or take the cultural norm of lit-
eracy, advocated by the UN and
we bring our preconceived notions of
the good life, and we want to observe
that every citizen is equally valued.
I remember sitting in my host
familys living room in Rabat, as fam-
ily members proudly recounted vot-
ing in 2011s constitutional referen-
dum. What about Mama Soumia? I
asked, and paused as there was a brief
exchange in Arabic. Someone trans-
lated: she didnt go to the polls, she
was making the couscous.
Looking at this woman, I did not
see someone thwarted in her civic
duty by traditionalism. Where oth-
ers might see a subservient domestic,
I saw a strong wife and mother per-
fectly capable of making a judgment
as to how she should allot her time.
Her lack of civic participation
would be problematic to some ob-
servers, but I would venture to say
they are employing Ghitiss fawed
framework.
Tis brings me to the second way
in which we defne being human: the
ability to perceive the value of hu-
man life. Tis defnition, by its very
nature, is self-dependent.
When we want to create distance
between ourselves and those who
commit atrocious, unfathomable
acts, we revoke their human label.
Tey become monsters.
As Badri Singh Pandeyspeaking
to Sunday People, said of his daugh-
ters rapists, I dont have the words to
describe the incident. All I can say is
theyre not human, not even animals.
Teyre not of this world.
World creeds and religions may be
outdated on issues of social equal-
itybut at their core they contain a
directive to value human life.
For this reason, interpretation and
re-interpretation evolves interna-
tional communities in ways that an
imposed framework cannot.
Foregrounding the value of human
lifewhether male or femaleulti-
mately resolves inequality, and coun-
teracts the impulse to commit rape.
Crossing cultural boundaries to il-
lustrate inequality isnt conducive to
progress, even in matters involving
universal rights.
Parallel stories tell a tale of in-
equality, but their function is limited.
Te literacy with which we should
be most concerned is the ability of all
cultures to value human life.
Striving to be less animalistic
doesnt necessarily make us more hu-
manthis is not a vague platitude of
comfortable privilege, its a challenge
to the notion that improvement is
simply narrowing the gap between
the Hillary and Jyoti.
included in a list of internationally
supported Millennium Development
Goals.
Is literacy a necessity for all hu-
mans to lead a fulflling life?
Literacy adapts an individual to
the demands of a society that values
literacyas if it were a form of tech-
nology. However, in pockets of the
globe where books are scarce, can we
assume that daily existence is bur-
dened by illiteracy?
When we go into another society
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TUESDAY
FILM FESTIVAL
Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)
The 2010 lm featuring Gael Garcia Bernal chronicles an indig-
enous populations conict against the Bolivian government.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
EVENT
Student Activities Fair
Enliven spring semester by signing up for one of
Bowdoins student organizations at this annual fair.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 7 p.m.
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SATURDAY
CONCERT
Vox Nova Chamber Choir
The ensemble will perform a celestial program of Heaven
on the Horizonunder the Chapels soaring beams.
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
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MONDAY
LECTURE
Can We Listen to Symphonies with Our Eyes?
The Russian Department will sponsor a screening of two short
Russian sound cinema lms once thought lost to history after
decades of Soviet censorship.
Room 117, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
FILM FESTIVAL
Lope
The Latin American and Spanish Film Festival will celebrate
the expansive culture through nightly lm screenings. Lope
will detail the adventures of a passionate playwright.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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FRIDAY
COMMON HOUR
A Scientist Looks at the Ocean
Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Collin
Roesler will discuss her current research on the oceanic
response to climate change.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

PRESENTATION
FUNdamentals of Dog Sledding
The Arctic Museum will host a presentation about the
basics of dog sledding. Attendees can enter a ra e to win a
dog sled ride on the Quad following the talk.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 12:30- 3 p.m.
INFORMATION SESSION
Residential Life Meeting
Students interested in joining ResLife sta next semester are
encouraged to attend. Applications are due January 30.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 3 p.m.
EVENT
Arctic Museum Reception
Student Activities is hosting a student night at the Arctic
Museum to celebrate the start of the spring semester. Arctic
punch, wine and hors doeuvres will be served.
Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Matana Roberts
Renowned alto saxophonist Roberts will showcase her
experimental approach to musical communication.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
EVENT
LGBTIQ Luncheon
Students and faculty are invited to celebrate the resource center.
24 College Street. Noon.
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SUNDAY
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Sunday Night Chapel Service
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY
FILM FESTIVAL
Undertow (Contracorriente)
This dramatic lm captures the struggles of a poor Peruvian
sherman in the wake of tragedy.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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THURSDAY
OFFICE HOURS
Dean Fosters O ce Hours
Information Desk, Smith Union. 3 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM
Reading Prints: David Beckers Legacy
Guest speakers will discuss printmaking tradition
utilizing Beckers collection of prints. See story p. 7.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 3:30 p.m.
INFO SESSION
Summer Fellowship Programs
Students interested in working at the Bowdoin
Scientic Station on Kent Island are encouraged to attend.
Room 110, Druckenmiller Hall. 7 p.m.
LECTURE
Managing Your Online Reputation
Creator of the controversial gossip website Juicy
Campus Matt Ivester will discuss cyberbullying and the
role of digital identity in the professional world.
Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater. 7:30 p.m.
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SENIOR SPRING: Bowdoin seniors crowded around the bar at Pedro OHaras last night to toast the start of their last semester.
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BALSAMIC CHICKEN BREAST, MUSSELS
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SUPER BOWL
49ers v. Ravens
Portland
Pub Crawl
Musical Performance
The Bobs
Theater Performance:
Outside of
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