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FEATURES: BEHIND THE NAMETAG
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MORE NEWS: A LOOK AT ACADEMIC
AFFAIRS, NAIROBI TERRORIST ATTACKS
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL: Party Foul.
Page 18.
SPORTS: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Luke Trinka 16 entered the ITA New
England Regional Championships unseeded.
After winning six consecutive matches,
Trinka was named tournament champion
and will soon head to nationals in Florida.
Page 15.
ONLY CHARCOAL TO DEFEND: Chris Wedeman
15 looks at the NAS report through the
lens of hasbara.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: Behind the scenes with
Cristle Collins Judd.
Page 19.
Page 3.
Michael Colbert 16 talks iPod games,
grandchildren and retirement with
Thorne dining hall superstar
Connie Chicoine.
Page 6.
NAIROBI: Clare McLaughlin 15 on her life in
Kenya following the terrorist attacks.
Page 3.
BY JULIAN ANDREWS
STAFF WRITER
Live stream: Netix CEO Reed Hastings 83
BY EMMA PETERS
ORIENT STAFF
Please see CLERY, page 4
JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Polar Bear Swing club holds its rst o cial dance lesson of the semester in Howell House.
Alcohol-related disciplinary
action increases in 2012
Please see HASTINGS, page 7
According to the Annual Clery
Campus Crime Report, there were
171 alcohol related disciplinary ac-
tions, six alcohol related arrests, 34
drug related referrals and four forc-
ible sex offenses on campus during
the 2012 calendar year.
The majority of violations were
for underage use or possession of
alcohol.
The College ranked third high-
est amoung NESCAC schools in
reported number of alcohol viola-
tions this past year. Wesleyan and
Trinity reported 604 and 266 viola-
tions, respectively.
Te 2011 Clery Report tallied 149
alcohol-related disciplinary actions,
Hours afer receiving his Bowdoin
diploma in the spring of 1983, Netfix
founder and CEO Reed Hastings board-
ed a fight to Swaziland, where he would
spend the next two and a half years.
Born and raised in Boston, Hastings
decision to attend Bowdoin was nothing
out of the ordinary. Afer he was accept-
ed, Hastings decided to defer for a year
to continue working his summer job,
selling vacuum cleaners door to door.
I loved it, strange as that might
sound, said Hastings. You get to meet
a lot of diferent people.
At Bowdoin, Hastings made his name
in the math department, according to
Bill Barker, one of his former professors
and the current chair of the department.
Hes a student you remember who
had confdence without arrogance. He
has a desire to make things work right
and get them going, Barker said.
In the early 80s, the math depart-
ment ran a self-paced calculus program
that stressed learning at the students
own rate. Instead of attending a tradi-
tional lecture style class, students would
meet one-on-one with professors and
peer tutors to complete the course load.
Hastings was deeply invested in the
program. He was a committed peer tu-
tor who took care, according to Barker,
one alcohol-related arrest and seven
forcible sexual ofenses. Tis year,
therefore, had a decrese in the num-
ber of sexual ofenses, but a marked
increase in the number of alcohol
related disciplinary actions.
So far in 2013, there have been
106 reported liquor law violations,
two of which involved arrests and
36 reported drug law violations.
With three months left in the year,
these statistics reflect slightly low-
er numbers of alcohol related in-
cidents and higher drug violations
than may eventually occur as the
year ends.
Bowdoin had the second lowest
number of reported forcible sexual
assaults in NESCAC, an improve-
Eveningstar Cinema meets
crowd-sourcing goal; lives on
BY EMILY WEYRAUCH
STAFF WRITER
With one screen, one schnoo-
dle and one Seed & Spark web-
page, Barry Norman, the owner of
Brunswicks Eveningstar Cinema
on, has been working nonstop to
keep his independent movie the-
ater alive.
Using the new independent mov-
ie crowd-funding site Seed & Spark,
Norman reached his goal of $46,000
in donations from 263 supporters
all over the world on Tuesday.
With the industrys increasing
pressures to convert from 35mm to
digital film, Norman recently pur-
chased a digital projector, leaving
the company with a huge bill and
not enough money to pay it off.
This is a small one-screen the-
ater, so it is a major burden on
financial operations having that
payment every single month, said
Norman. Its like getting a second
mortgage where you dont have any
additional income to pay for it.
Norman said that he was unable
to sell any of his old 1960s Italian
projectors.
There are a million of them on
the market with all the theaters
closing, he said.
When Norman bought Evening-
star in 2010, the film industry pre-
dicted that the switch to digital
would come in 2015.
However, at the end of 2012,
Norman discovered that Decem-
ber 2013 would be the end of
35mm film.
Please see CINEMA, page 4
to explain basic concepts to the average
student in ways they could understand.
Afer a year he wrote up this detailed
scheme on how we should revamp self-
paced calculus, recalled Barker. We ran
the program for well over 10 years and
no student had ever turned in anything
like that. He was already in the mode of
planning and doing things.
Not surprisingly, Hastings received
many accolades in the math depart-
ment. He was awarded the Smyth Prize
for receiving the highest grades in math-
ematics courses. His senior thesis was
one of the best honors projects weve
seen, Barker said.
During his junior year, Hastings
spent a semester abroad at the Univer-
sity of Bath in England, which piqued
his sense of adventure.
I got to travel and hitchhike
around Europe and North Africa and
it defnitely made me realize how little
of the world I knew, said Hastings.
Tis curiosity is likely why Hastings
found himself in rural Africa afer
graduation, teaching math with the
Peace Corps.
Hastings described his experience in
Swaziland in a letter he wrote to his for-
mer Bowdoin professors.
Te frst year I loved. I lived with
a family about 3 km from school, and
walked through gorgeous valleys twice a
day, he wrote. Te second year I lived
at the school with the other teachers and
spent my afernoons playing cards and
drinking beer.
Hastings found teaching there highly
rewarding. He wrote to Barker, If I ever
do go the grad school/professor route I
know I would be much more into teach-
ing, inspiring and developing the stu-
dents than my own research.
At the Hhelehhele School in Swa-
ziland, Hastings remembered his stu-
dents as super motivated. However,
his routine there was much slower than
the fast-paced life he was used to. He
enjoyed the routine of being fully im-
mersed in the community but at times
felt he was stagnating. He recalled oc-
casionally thinking, I would never
dribble away my days at home like this.
Hastings wrote in a letter to his
friends, enemies, Grandmothers,
siblings and assorted no-goods that
though his days were full, they had
acquired a monotony and the strong
feeling persisted that I wasnt very
challenged.
Hastings countered this by taking on
challenges outside of teaching.
Te answer to my boredom and
under-utilization was to get involved
with the community as a whole instead
of limiting myself to the school com-
pound, he said.
IN THE SWING OF THINGS
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
STAYING ALIVE: With his debt paid, the owner of Eveningstar Cinema is considers expansion.
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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TRY ME: On Wednesday, Legos VP of Marketing Michael Moynihan 89 brought Lego pieces to Smith Union for students like Tyler Cox 17 and Dana Bloch 17 to create Bowdoin Polar Bear Lego gures.
On Sunday, the Classes of 2014
and 2017 elected their class councils
for the coming year. Simon Brooks
14 was voted senior class president
with 155 votes and Justin Pearson 17
was voted frst-year president with
191 votes. Tere was record turnout
for both elections, with 74 percent of
the Class of 2014 and 82 percent of
the Class of 2017 casting votes.
Both presidents stressed class
unifcation as one of their main
goals for the coming year. One of
Brooks frst actions as president
was to acquire a class list in order
to learn the names and faces of all
senior class members.
One of my biggest goals this year
is to attempt to unify this class to
the best of my abilities, and I think
knowing everybodys name is the
frst step, said Brooks.
Since being elected, Pearson has
met with the class council as well as
an advisor for Student Activities, but
GOVERNMENT
SHUTDOWN
Funding shutdown spares
Bowdoin campus, hits alums
Despite the termination of non-
essential government funding
after Tuesdays budget deadlock,
Bowdoin expects no direct finan-
cial impacts.
The College has drawn down
the funds it needs for student loans
and grants so we dont expect any
financial issues in the near term,
wrote Senior Vice President for Fi-
nance and Administration & Trea-
surer Katy Longley in an email to
the Orient.
Though the National Science
Foundation is currently closed to
funding requests, campus research
on grants already procured will
continue, according to Longley.
For these grants, the College pays
research expenses up front and
seeks reimbursement later.
Though not directly influencing
campus finances, the government
shutdown is having immediate ef-
fects for members of the Bowdoin
community.
Matt Silton 13, an intern in
Brazil for the United States &
Foreign Commercial Service, was
furloughed on Tuesday when the
Department of Commerce an-
nounced it would cut funding for
their internship program as a re-
sult of the shutdown.
Weve all been paying atten-
tion to the news, and thought it
could happen, said Silton in a
Skype interview with the Orient.
I get to work at like 7 a.m., and
at 8:30 a.m. one of my bosses just
came up to me and said [I could go
home]until this is figured out.
Silton has been in Braslia, the
capital of Brazil, since July, but he
said his plans to stay on as an in-
tern until mid-November are jeop-
ardized with the budget impasse.
As a branch of the Department
of Commerces International Trade
Administration, the Foreign Com-
mercial Service aims to help U.S.
businesses export to other coun-
tries. Silton said that out of the
Services three U.S. employees in
Brazil, he was one of two who were
furloughed.
Im just communicating with
them, trying to figure out what to
dowere kind of in limbo right
now, said Silton. Im following
the news, taking some downtime.
When the Orient spoke with Sil-
ton, he was about to board a bus
back from Pirenpolis, a town
famed for its waterfalls and lo-
cated two-and-a-half hours from
Braslia.
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has not yet made any proposals.
Were waiting on getting the in-
put of candidates who we ran with
and ideas from our class, Pearson
wrote in an email to the Orient.
Brooks said he has made four or
fve proposals, which are still in the
process of getting approved.
Both presidents were hesitant to
cite the exact activities they planned
for the coming year, stressing the
importance of spontaneity.
Im coming up with new things
that people will hopefully be pleas-
antly surprised by, said Brooks.
Pearson would like to plan events
in the spirit of Orientation in order
to help frst years continue meet-
ing new people. Since Orientation
ended, he believes we have lost
opportunities to connect, and we
want to bring those back without so
stringent a schedule, he wrote.
Both candidates expressed ex-
citement about the coming year.
I trust this class and they trust
us. We can only march forward
from here, wrote Pearson.
BY KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
SUITED UP: U.S. & Foreign Commercial
Service intern Matt Silton 13pictured here
with former United States ambassador, Tom
Shannonbefore he was furloughed.
MATTHEWGUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Simon Brooks 14
President
Martin Bouroncle 14
Treasurer
Laurel Varnell 14
BSG Representative
Justin Pearson 17
President
Ellie Quenzer 17
Vice President
Zaima Shahzia Mazumdar 17
Treasurer
Jiaqi Duan 17
BSG Representative
Hunter White 17
BSG Representative
NEWLY-ELECTED CLASS COUNCIL MEMBERS BEGIN THEIR TERMS
Chris Lord 14
Vice President
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BY SAM MILLER
ORIENT STAFF
In response to the African al-Qaida
a liate al-Shababs horric four-day
siege on Nairobis Westgate shopping
mall last week, the Orient contacted
Clare McLaughlin 15, who is study-
ing abroad in Kenya this fall term.
She and one other Bowdoin student
currently in Kenya, Elizabeth Brown
15, were conrmed safe through their
respective o-campus study programs
on the day of the attack, according to
Bowdoins O ce of O-Campus Study.
e interview with McLaughlin
was conducted via email in a ques-
tion-and-answer format, and the fol-
lowing questions and responses have
been condensed for brevity.
Do you know where the Westgate
mall is and have you been there?
I know where the mall is because
we go out on the weekends to bars
in the Westlands area. My program
moves me around a lot to experience
all parts of Kenya (hunter-gatherers,
rural, urban, coastal etc.) so I dont
live in one particular place, but right
now I happen to be doing my three-
week urban homestay in Nairobi. I
dont live very close to Westgate, but
I go to classes near there.
Where were you on the day of Sha-
babs attack and what happened?

[On the day of the attack] my
friend and I planned to go shopping
in downtown Nairobiprobably at
a mall like Westgatefor clothes,
but we decided that was too Ameri-
canwe wanted to go out and do
something from this list of stuf to
News from abroad: McLaughlin 15 on Nairobi terrorist attacks
do before you leave that a professor
sent us.
And thus, we decided to be abso-
lute grandmas and go to the Botan-
nical Gardens and a Maasai Craf
Storeits always weird to think
about how lucky we were to be in an-
other section of Nairobi, called Lan-
gata, that day.
Basically, I was walking down the
street trying to catch a matatuthe
chaotic form of public transport here
in the form of overpacked vans usu-
ally bumpin reggae musicwhen
the director to my program called
me asking where [my friend] and I
were. She told us there was shooting
at Westgate, so dont go to the West-
lands.
To be honest, we had seen shoot-
ing situationsnot terrorist at-
tacksbefore and we didnt even
really finch. We just went about our
daily business assuming it was an-
other robbery or something. Ten,
news started coming out and details
unraveled when we got home that
night.
No one really made us stay some-
where but by default we stayed in that
night because 1) Westlands is the big
party scene and that was obviously
a no-go and 2) the mood was really
somber. Everyone knows someone
who knows someone who was killed,
and it was just a time where we all felt
we needed to show a united respect.
Do you know anyone who was at the
mall that day?
People I know lost relatives and
friends, but no one I had direct con-
nection to was there.
In general, what are your perceptions
of safety now? Is your program stricter
in terms of security and where you go?
Security has always been an issue
here and personally, I think the worst
thing to do is to follow the exact pro-
tocol of a white tourist, a muzungu.
It just makes the experience isolating
and kind of makes it seem like all Ke-
nyans are going to rob you, which is
so far from the truth. Te way I see it,
I just try to be wise about what pro-
tocol I choose to ignore.
With some things, I have found
its better to just go for it and trust
people. For instance: my friends and
I choose to use matatus and pikipi-
kismotorcycleswith the locals
rather than getting a cab. Tat prob-
ably isnt the most secure choice, but
its something Im willing to do to
have a fuller, more fun experience
here.
But because of security issues I
have witnessedsuch as the West-
gate attackI think Im more cog-
nizant of when I choose to take a
risk. Te irony, though, is that the
Westgate attack occurred at the very
placea nice expatriate facility
that we are shown is a safe place to
hang out in the city. I went into a Na-
kumattlike a small Walmartin a
mall similar to Westgate yesterday to
get some things and I defnitely got
chills.
Whats the situation like in Nairobi
now and how has it changed since
before the attack?
Tings are a bit diferent in a liter-
al sense. Nairobi has always had se-
curity guards everywherebut now
they seem more proactive by actually
scanning bags, checking cars and
looking more alert overall.
In a cultural sense, Kenyans are su-
per news-conscious so there is con-
stant reporting on Westgate. Te me-
dia constantly emphasizes the need
for unity and the importance of not
dividing along religious lines.
Tis country knows its reputa-
tion for ethnic divisions and vividly
remembers the 2007 post-election
ethnic violence. Im not sure, but
I think people keep this in mind as
they know the potential for Muslim-
Christian confict, and therefore urge
compassion and unity with Kenyan
Somalis and Muslims.
As for daily activitiesaside from
the obvious that no one can go to
Westgatepeople are going about
their daily business. It seems as if
people arent more wary of where
they go but perhaps more wary of a
greater evil out there. A lot of people
still seem to be grappling with the
idea of terrorism in itself.
Politics are always interesting here.
People are now looking to various se-
curity agencies to fnd blame in the
issue. Te president has demanded
beefed up security. Deputy President
[William] Ruto continues to try to
put of his crimes against humanity
trial at the [International Criminal
Court], as he says he needs to be in
Kenya in the afermath of Westgate.
Beyond the attack, whats your ex-
perience been like living in Kenya
so far?
Its amazing. I tried to come with-
out too many expectations, which
has allowed me to understand all of
Kenyas regional and demographic
complexities more fully.
Clare McLaughlin 15 is a Govern-
ment and Environmental Studies ma-
jor and writes for the Orient while on
campus.
Behind the curtain of the ofce of the dean for academic affairs
BY KATIE MIKLUS
ORIENT STAFF
As students trickle into Dean for
Academic Afairs Cristle Collins
Judds Introduction to Music Teory
class, she plays them a piece of mu-
sicDuke Ellingtons Satin Doll.
She then asks the roughly 20 student
class to compare the piece to one they
heard last class, and plays them two
more seemingly dissimilar pieces
Smoke on the Water and the Mis-
sion: Impossible theme song. Us-
ing the piano and the whiteboard as
teaching aids, she explains a variety of
terms that might hopelessly confuse a
non-musician, explaining those tech-
nical aspects of music that most of us
never even consider.
For Judd, teaching Introduction
to Music Teory is just one of many
priorities. As dean for academic af-
fairs, she oversees the Colleges en-
tire academic program, and is re-
sponsible for a wide range of topics
from faculty and curriculum to the
art museum and the Coastal Studies
Center. However, she emphasized
the importance of remaining con-
nected to the classroom.
I dont think any dean at a place
like Bowdoin should stop being active
in their research and their classroom,
said Judd. Tats what the heart and
soul of the place is about.
Judd has been passionate about
music from an early age, and at-
tended Rice University to study
musical performance as an oboist.
However, she soon transitioned to
the study of music theory, attend-
ing Kings College in London for
graduate school, and teaching at a
variety of institutions including the
University of Pennsylvania.
During her time at UPenn, Judd
became more deeply involved with
undergraduate students and became
interested in working with some of
the bigger questions of education.
Accepting the position of Dean for
Academic Afairs at Bowdoin in 2007
gave her the opportunity to pursue
both of those areas further.
One of the things that I really
valued about my own education [at
Rice] was the intimacy of the experi-
ence with undergraduates, said Judd.
Being in an environment where one
could focus on that was something I
was excited about doing.
As dean for academic afairs, Judd
manages a wide variety of programs
at the College. Most students know
that the Department of Academic Af-
fairs is in charge of hiring, supporting
and granting tenure to faculty as well
as organizing curricula. However, the
om ce also oversees many areas un-
known to most: Bowdoins libraries,
museums and research centers; its
academic support programs such as
Of-Campus Study; and its academic
spaces and new building projects, to
name a few.
Judd described her own role in the
department as one of oversight and
communication, and emphasized the
importance of working with faculty
members, because ultimately the
curriculum depends on what kind of
faculty we have.
Te daily routine of the Depart-
ment of Academic Afairs encom-
passes a wide range of activities,
from helping departments search-
ing for a new faculty member to
meeting with the Curriculum and
Educational Policy Committee
(CEPC) to attending faculty sym-
posium. Jennifer Scanlon, associate
dean for faculty, emphasized that
frequent daily communication is
keeps the om ce running.
The two most visible roles of the
Department of Academic Affairs
on campus are the hiring of new
faculty and the granting of tenure
to existing faculty; Judd plays a sig-
nificant role in both. The search for
new faculty members begins with
the CEPC, which crafts a search
plan. Judd must then interview all
tenure-track finalists, and once the
department has made its recom-
mendation, she has the authority to
choose a candidate.
Te process of granting tenure is
even more involved and requires ap-
proval by several more groups. Ten-
ured faculty members in a professors
department make a recommendation
to the Committee on Appointments,
Promotion and Tenure.
Te committee makes a recommen-
dation to Judd, who then makes a sepa-
rate, independent recommendation.
Both then go on to President Barry
Mills, whose fnal recommendation
goes before the Board of Trustees.
Our ideal would be that if we hire
well, mentor well, and do our evalu-
ations well, that everybody who
stood for tenure would get tenure,
said Judd. Its incredibly impor-
tantbecause of what tenure con-
fersthat the College maintains its
standards of the excellence of teach-
ing and research.
Judd sees the Department of Aca-
demic Afairs as having three broad
priorities beyond its specifc responsi-
bilities on campus. First, it must sup-
port faculty, which both Scanlon and
Associate Dean for Academic Afairs
Barry Logan agrees is one of its most
important goals.
Second, the Om ce works to create
a vibrant intellectual community on
campus, which entails a broad range
of areas, from curricula to resources
such as the library. According to Lo-
gan, one of the departments main
priorities is to represent and support
the academic core and to organize the
curriculum for students.
According to Judd, a third, less
obvious priority of the department
is to make connections in the aca-
demic program that are right at
this moment. For example, the
Colleges new Digital and Com-
putational Studies initiative gives
students the opportunity to learn
about the intersections between
fields like computer science and
the humanities.
We were looking to create op-
portunities for our faculty and our
students to begin to move outside
boundaries, said Judd.
Judd emphasized that she feels
lucky to have come to Bowdoin at a
time when such exciting initiatives
were taking place. She pointed to the
creation of Studzinski Recital Hall and
the establishment of comprehensive
distribution requirements as impor-
tant reforms that she was happy to
have been a part of.
For Judd, one of the most dim cult
aspects of her job is reaching out to
such a diverse community of scholars
and students.
The greatest thrill and privilege
of my job is getting to represent
such a distinct faculty, but thats
also the challenge, said Judd, who
must figure out how to help sup-
port [them] and take advantage of
all the knowledge they have for the
best use of the institution.
Although the job can be chal-
lenging, Judd emphasizes its re-
warding aspects.
I have the opportunity to work at
an amazing institution with a really
strong sense of who it is, to support
an incredibly talented facultyand to
work with an incredibly diverse stu-
dent body, said Judd. It doesnt get
any better than that.
COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS
Dean Cristle Collins Judd
Our ideal would be that if we hire
well, mentor well, and do our
evaluations well, that everybody
who stood for tenure would get
tenure.
CRISTLE COLLINS JUDD
DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
COURTESY OF CLARE MCLAUGHLIN
McLaughlin 15 is spending the semester in Kenya, and was near the site of the recent terrorist attacks
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Popularity soars for revamped leadership series
This years Leadership Develop-
ment Series, a program run by the
Student Activities Office and the
Bowdoin Student Government,
launched with a a strong start as en-
rollment increased from last year.
Te program, which has run in-
termittently for the past few years,
brings speakers from members of the
Bowdoin campus and the wider com-
munity to talk to students on Fridays
about practical leadership skills.
Several changes have been made
that Nathan Hintze, associate di-
rector of student activities, hopes
will make the program more acces-
sible. Last year, interested students
had to commit to attending a full-
year schedule of ten speakers.
As a result, 33 students regis-
tered at the beginning of last year,
but by the spring that number had
declined to 13, said Daniel Mejia-
Cruz 16, who attended the ses-
sions last year and helped plan this
years sessions.
I really enjoyed a lot of the ses-
sions, but there was definitely a
problem with retention, he said.
In response, the program this
year is divided into two semes-
BY JOHN BRANCH
STAFF WRITER
ters with five speakers each. Hin-
tze hopes this give more flexibility
to students who schedule classes
on Fridays and athletes who are in
season for part of the year.
This year, 35 students have
signed up for the full schedule, and
20 more for individual sessions.
Mejia-Cruz said that the first ses-
sion last week, with President Barry
Mills, attracted around 50 students.
The sessions still meet on Fri-
days, but during an hour and a half
lunch catered by Dining Services
instead of later in the afternoon for
three hours.
Ryan Davis 15, who participat-
ed last year and enrolled again this
year, thinks its an improvement:
You have a shorter, more defined
time, he said. Theres less waiting
around and more active doing.
Mejia-Cruz also said that the
Student Activities Office has made
an effort to make speakers topics
as relevant to their backgrounds
as possible. For example, Katy
Longley, senior vice president for
finance and administration and
treasurer at the College, talks about
negotiating contracts, and Allen
Springer, chair of the government
& legal studies department, speaks
about leading meetings effectively.
Between the distributors and
the companies that produce [the
35mm film projectors]there
are only four of themthey kind
of colluded to speed up the dead-
line, said Norman.
He was left with a choice: con-
vert or die.
Changing to a digital projector
wasnt easy, especially considering
the space involved.
Norman works in his dual-
function projection room and
office, with 56 ceilings, lots of
electronic equipment and books,
and a small schnoodleschnau-
zer-poodle mixnamed Scooter.
Things had to be ripped apart
to get everything up here to fit,
said Norman, motioning to the
small space of the projector room.
And then the person from the
company actually put it together
and set it up, and we also had to
have an electrician to completely
change the breaker box because of
the output that [the digital projec-
tor] requires.
With the financial burden of the
digital projector gone, Norman
can start imagining the future of
Eveningstar and the possibility
of expanding with to a space with
more screens.
There is a local developer
interested in building a multi-
purpose structure in downtown
Brunswick, with Eveningstar Cin-
ema as its anchor tenant. With the
debt load back in line, we can now
pursue that, he said.
Theres so many things you can
do when you have more screens
and more space, he added. I
couldnt even look at those plans
when I had this deck here, I was
on a collision course, so now Im
back. Ive eliminated debt.
With more screens, Norman
will be able to pursue his dream of
planning an annual international
film festival; Norman said that he
wants the Bowdoin Film Society to
be involved in that project.
I very much want the Bowdoin
Film Society to be the people to
run itI definitely want Bowdoin
to have an intricate relationship
with the theater, he said.
The Bowdoin Film Society has
collaborated with Eveningstar
Cinema in the past, and hopes to
develop this relationship in the fu-
ture, according to leaders Isabelle
Franks 14 and Monica Das 14.
I absolutely love that theres
always going to be a place for in-
dependent cinema, said Das in an
CINEMA
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CLERY
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ment from last year when it was
tied for third highest. However,
these numbers may not accurately
reflect levels of sexual assault on
campus, according to Head of Se-
curity Randy Nichols.
We can only report what comes
to our attention, says Nichols,
and sexual assault is notoriously
underreported.
The Clery Report is a mandated
release by all colleges that dis-
closes all on-campus incidents of
the crimes specified in the Jeanne
Clery Disclosure of Campus Secu-
rity Policy and Campus Crime Sta-
tistics Act of 1998.
These are federal statistics,
says Nichols. It is very specifically
defined what crimes get reported.
Bike theft and larceny, some-
what common crimes on campus,
are not included in the Clery re-
port.
Also not reported are incidents
that violate Bowdoin College poli-
cy but not Maine law, such as pos-
session of hard alcohol on campus
by non-minors.
The report only covers inci-
dents that occur on-campus or on
public property adjacent to cam-
pus, and does not include events
in off-campus housing or crimes
such as drunk driving that take
place off campus.
Nichols stresses the importance
of reporting crimes to Security.
Even in situations where solving a
case is unlikely, as is the case with
crimes such as burglaries, it is sta-
tistically beneficial for Security to
be aware of these incidents.
He also points out that year-to-
year variations in reported statis-
tics can reflect enforcement ini-
tiatives as well as actual incident
numbers.
Additionally, students are now
able to register to attend individual
sessions. While Hintze says that
preference is still given to students
who are able to commit to a full
slate of five sessions, the new op-
tion gives those with tight sched-
ules who are still interested in the
sessions a chance to participate.
So far, the frst session has received
high marks. Mejia-Cruz thought
Mills gave a great presentation and
lauded him for keeping the speech
focused on his personal experiences.
Davis thought it was really in-
formative and appreciated the way
Mills spoke about different leader-
ship styles.
For now, Hintze says, all class
years are represented, but first
years and sophomores outnum-
bered upperclassmen. He doesnt
think this is a negative: Its great
that they are so interested in be-
coming leaders on campus, he
said.
But looking forward, Hintze says
he also wants the program to reach
more campus leaders.
I would love to have all of our
club leaders participate, he said.
There are always new skills that
they can learn, especially during
their senior year.
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WISH UPON A STAR: After successfully crowd-sourcing the necessary $46,000 to fund its transition from analog to digital projectors, the Evening-
star Cinema got a new lease on life and will remain open for the forseeable future. It is looking to expand to a more specialized location in Brunswick.
At a glance
2011 Clery Report:
149 alcohol related disciplinary actions
7 forcible sex oenses
1 alcohol related arrest
2012 Clery Report:
171 alcohol related disciplinary actions
4 forcible sex oenses
6 alcohol related arrests
email to the Orient.
Norman said that he is friendly
with many Bowdoin film studies
professors, and hopes the theater is
seen as an extension of campus life.
Im a filmmaker and I love talk-
ing film with people, and a lot of
students have come by and weve
talkedwhich you cant do at just
any other theater, said Norman.
Norman is appreciative of the
support from community members.
They know that Im in this
business not because Im trying to
get richbecause no one can look
at this theater and think Im Ben
Gazzara in Roadhouse, raking in
the money from the good peo-
ple of Brunswick and Harpswell
around, said Norman.
I do it because I really love
independent film, the people that
would come to a little theater like
this to see a film, and the interac-
tions we have.
The Eveningstar Cinema is lo-
cated at 149 Maine Street.
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SECURITY REPORT: 9/26 to 10/3
Thursday, September 26
Students reported that two
local men were in the vicinity of
Coles Tower handing out flyers in-
viting students to a party in Bruns-
wick. The men were ordered to
leave campus.
Three students in Coles Tower
were found in possession of mari-
juana and drug paraphernalia.
A student backing a van out of
a parking space at Howell House
scraped the side mirror of a stu-
dents car.
Friday, September 27
Employees at Hawthorne-
Longfellow Library reported that
a local man was acting strangely in
the library and upsetting staff and
patrons.
A student with a knee injury
was escorted to Parkview Adventist
Medical Center.
Saturday, September 28
An officer checked on the well-
being of an intoxicated student at
Brunswick Apartments.
Female athletes question
nutritionists diet advice
BY EVAN BULMAN
STAFF WRITER
is is the second installment of a new
series on campus wellness.
At the start of the fall athletic season,
Brunswick nutritionist Dr. John Bagnulo
spoke with several of the female varsity
sports teams. Bagnulo gave a presenta-
tion last spring on his health and wellness
philosophy that prompted members of
the womens rugby team to invite him
back for small sessions in September.
Consulting with a nutritionist is not
unprecedented, and coaches routinely
run sessions on diet with their teams or
work with the schools dietician. How-
ever, some female
athletes expressed
unahppiness over
the percieved un-
feasibility of Ba-
gnulos presenta-
tion. He advocated
a simplifed diet,
closer to what Pa-
leolithic humans
consumed, com-
monly referred to
as the Paleo Diet.
Te presentation seemed very pi-
geonholed, and not open to other [food]
options, said Taylor Vail 14, womens
volleyball captain. He did not seem too
cognizant of what we have access to.
Bagnulos Paleo Diet entails cutting
down grain and processed foods and
focusing on eating what he believes hu-
mans would naturally consume.
According to his website, Bagnulos
ideal diet eliminates sugars and artifcial
ingredients, is high in fber, and includes
small fsh, poultry and eggs. Tis phi-
losophy is popular with diet specialists,
and its basic tenets are actually fairly well
received by Bowdoin students. Te less
positive portion of his talk, according to
Vail, was the specifcity of the foods he
recommended for regular consumption.
While the health benefts of his ap-
proach may be convincing, students
found it too infexiblesome foods,
such as blackstrap molassas or tuna, are
not easily available on campus.
Bagnulo said that these concerns were
valid. He said that several students ques-
tioned the practicality of his recommen-
dation that they eat sweet potatoes afer
workouts. However, Bagnulo said that he
ofered some reasonable alternatives.
Student said that more communica-
tion on what Bowdoin has available in
the frst place would have helped bridge
the gap between Bagnulos philosophy
and the resources at Bowdoin.
If there had been more structure or
communication with Bowdoin it might
have been better, said Amanda Monte-
negro 14, womens rugby captain.
Nevertheless, Montenegro had a pos-
itive outlook on the advice Bagnulo gave
her team.
While it may
have seemed limit-
ing, I think the goal
of the presentation
was how to add to
your diet and im-
prove it rather then
cut things out nec-
essarily, she said.
Ashmead White
Director of Athlet-
ics Tim Ryan agreed.
I think what were trying to do is pro-
vide as much information as possible to
our students so that they can make in-
formed decisions, he said. Certainly
not looking to provide a be-all and end-
all of nutrition information.
Bagnulo also acknowledged the dif-
fculties for people who dont necessarily
cook for themselves or control the op-
tions presented to them.
I fully understand that there are lim-
itations to what I recommend, especially
to a student-athlete who is on campus
eating dining hall food, said Bagnulo. I
did try to make it as applicable as I could
to student athletes at Bowdoin
Bagnulo also confrmed that strict
adherence to his dietary plan is not the
only solution. Tough it might have
been unclear at times in his presenta-
tion, he said that he feels strongly that
moderation and small gains are hugely
important, even if a 100 percent Paleo-
lithic diet isnt an option.
COURTESY OF McKEEN CENTER, COPYRIGHT JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER
560 Bowdoin students and faculty participated in the McKeen Centers annual Common Good Day held last Saturday. Participants traveled to locations
throughout the greater Brunswick area and did service projects at more than 50 dierent venues.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
A complaint of loud music was
received at Harpswell Apartments,
and students were asked to turn the
music off.
A wall thermostat was vandal-
ized in the first floor restroom at
Ladd House.
A student with an ear infec-
tion was escorted to the Mid Coast
Walk-In Clinic.
A student in Helmreich House
was found in possession of hard al-
cohol and a stolen campus parking
sign.
A town resident reported that
several students attending an event
at MacMillan House were urinating
on private property.
Sunday, September 29
An unregistered event was dis-
persed at Harpswell Apartments.
Officers checked on the well-
being of an intoxicated first year
student who had just returned
from an off-campus party.
An officer assisted a student at
Brunswick Apartments who was
suffering from a stomach ailment.
Tuesday, October 1
Students in Howard Hall were
found to be keeping a pet rodent in
a cage.
Students in Hyde Hall were
reported to be smoking in a bed-
room.
Wednesday, October 2
A housekeeper with chest pains
was evaluated by Brunswick Res-
cue. The employee refused trans-
port.
A fire alarm at Chamberlain
Hall was triggered by steam gener-
ated by a housekeeper.
Vapor from cooking wine ac-
tivated a fire alarm at Moulton
Union.
An officer assisted a student
with a bleeding toe injury outside
of Maine Hall.
Thursday, October 3
Brunswick Rescue transport-
ed a person suffering from chest
pains from Farley Field House to
Parkview.
GOOD DAY
The presentation seemed very
pigeonholed, and not open to other
[food] options. He did not
seem too cognizant of what
we have access to.
TAYLOR VAIL 14
FEATURES
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Student Activities provides free candlepin bowling on Maine St.
Te Bowling Bowl, Brunswicks
only venue for candlepin bowling,
now ofers free bowling for Bowdoin
students on Tursday nights.
Te Om ce of Student Activities
has decided to stop funding tradi-
tional bowling on Tursday nights at
SpareTime and switch to the Bowl-
ing Bowl, in part to save money.
Candlepin bowling differs from
traditional bowling in several keys
way. Whereas traditional, 10-pin
balls usually weigh between 10 and
16 pounds, candlepin balls weigh
only two.
Additionally, candlepin pins are
much narrower. These factors
along with the Bowling Bowls lack
of gutter guardslead to generally
lower scores.
The Bowling Bowl has a distinc-
tively vintage milieu. Three of the
lanes use machines from 1958 to
rerack the pins; the other three use
ones from 1959.
Unlike SpareTimes neon and ul-
traviolet lights, the Bowling Bowl
uses multi-colored icicle lights and
homey yellow overheads.
The music is also quieter at the
Bowling Bowl than SpareTime,
creating a setting more conducive
to conversation.
Matt Lafely, the current owner,
worked as a mechanic before pur-
chasing the venue from the Catho-
lic charity organization Knights of
Columbus, which operated it from
1960 to 2005 and began running
bowling for-proft at the site in 1940.
Located on Dunlap Street, just
of Maine Street, the Bowling Bowl
is within easy walking distance of
campus (though free taxi rides made
SpareTime similarly accessible).
Vice President for Facilities and
Sustainability David Levine 16,
who helped plan the program and
has enjoyed a few games at the
Bowling Bowl himself, emphasized
the facilitys positive atmosphere
and willingness to accommodate
the College.
We offered free bowling at Spa-
reTime last year, he said. This will
be instead of that. They normally
close at 10 p.m.; theyll be open
until midnight on Thursdays, he
said. The place is really nice. The
people are really friendly. Theyve
got refreshments for really, really
BY WOODY WINMILL
ORIENT STAFF
Just swiping in: Connies journey to Bowdoin
is is the rst article in a new series
that proles sta members.
If youre a Bowdoin student, Connie
Chicoine has probably said your name,
and shes probably done it with a smile.
Chicoine is one of the weekend On-
eCard swipers at Torne Dining Hall.
Afer answering an Internet job posi-
tion, Chicoine interviewed for a salad
prep position, but was asked about her
interest in the swiper position. She ac-
cepted the job and has been working at
Torne for over three years.
Before coming to Bowdoin, Chi-
coine worked as a receptionist for Nor-
ton Insurance Agency in Brunswick,
another job that put her in daily contact
with the public.
Chicoine grew up in Maine and
went to high school in Auburn. She
says shes been familiar with Brunswick
for a long time.
Ive always enjoyed the Brunswick
good prices.
He also praised the novelty of
the sport, commenting, Its also
fun because its a different type
of bowling. Its a new game, and I
know I personally enjoy learning
new games.
Please see CONNIE, page 9
BEHIND THE NAME TAG
BY MICHAEL COLBERT
area. I think its a quaint town, she said.
Chicoine has two daughters and four
grandchildren. Her daughter Sheri lives
nearby, and Chicoine enjoys attending
her grandchildrens games and dance
recitals. Chicoine also attends events on
Bowdoins campus ofen.
I try to get to the music shows at
Studzinski. I go to a lot of the men and
womens hockey games in the winter,
and Ive been going to the volleyball
games a lot recently. I even went to one
at Bates the other night that our girls
were playing in, Chicoine said.
Chicoine said she loves how this posi-
tion allows her to spend time with the
students, even afer she retired.
Ive always been a people person,
and the students add so much to my life.
Tey just do so much to make me feel
good, and the idea of being around peo-
ple all weekend is why I love it, she said.
In the chaos accompanying the
start of the academic year (not to
mention the recent uproar over the
shutdown of our federal govern-
ment), you may have missed the
news that the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
just released its 2013 assessment
report onyou guessed rightcli-
mate change.
The report is essentially a con-
densed version of all the signifi-
cant climate science research thats
been published in the past few
years, and an updated one is re-
leased every five to seven years.
Its meant to provide apolitical rec-
ommendations that set a baseline
for decision-making on climate
change.
Created in 1988, the IPCC is a
collection of the worlds leading
climate scientists who also have
the power to act as delegates for
their respective governments. As
neither a solely scientific nor po-
litical body, the IPCC does not
conduct original studies, but in-
stead evaluates recent climate re-
search and digests it into one very
long report, the first of which was
released in 1990.
In the 2013 report, a new line
CLIMATE
DISTILLED
EMILY TUCKER
Climate change now more
certain, according to IPCC
Please see IPCC, page 9
COURTESY OF CONNIE CHICOINE
CONNIE AFTER HOURS: Thorne
Dining Hall OneCard swiper Connie Chicoine is a
member of the Red Hat Club Society.
JOANNA GROMADZKI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CANDLEPIN STRIKES THE MATCH: Bowdoins free bowling location has moved to the Bowling Bowl, which features candlepin style bowling. While the new venue only oers six lanes, it possesses a more relaxed vibe than SpareTime, its predecessor.
The place is really nice. The
people are really friendly. Theyve
got refreshments for really,
really good prices.
DAVID LEVINE 16
Tese diferences do not suite
everyones tastes. Sam Fitchner 14
questioned the change of venue.
[SpareTime is] more of a social
environment, he said, even though
its farther. Candlepin bowlings also
just harder, and kids on Tursday
nights are probably drunk and want
to win more, to speak bluntly.
I guess Id prefer [regular] bowl-
ing, because I know how to play,
Emily Serwer 16 said.
Te Bowling Bowl also faces issues
of scale and lack of name-recogni-
tion. Its slogan, afer all, is Bruns-
wicks Best Kept Secret. With only
six lanes, it can entertain far fewer
bowlers than SpareTime, which has
32 lanes.
SpareTime also ofers beer by
the pitcher, but the Bowling Bowl
only sells single servings. Addition-
ally, the Bowling Bowl has some
big bowling shoes to fll, as many
Bowdoin students took part in bowl-
ing at SpareTime last year.
Associate Director of Student
Activities Nate Hintze emphasized
the cost-efectiveness of the switch,
commenting, We paid for it and by
the end of the year, with the cost of
the taxis and the cost of the bowling,
it became clear that we couldnt sus-
tain it.
So far this year, the Bowling Bowl
has attracted an inconsistent num-
ber of students. During a visit one
Tursday by an Orient reporter, the
facility never saw more than three
other customers, but on a later week
numbers had increased to nearly 40.
An employee at the Bowling
Bowl identified as Karen spoke
positively about the experience.
It was really good, she said, adding,
it was sort of a quiet night. Tey didnt
get here until 10:30 p.m.
She also noted that Bowdoin stu-
dents had patronized the Bowling
Bowl rarely before the introduction
of the Student Activities subsidy.
Tey popped in occasionally,
she said of students, but I think do-
ing it this way gives them more in-
centive to come.
Still, Hintze remained optimistic
about the programs prospects by
comparing it the introduction of the
free bowling at SpareTime last year.
He said of the number of stu-
dents who went, First week was 10.
Second week was 15. By the winter,
we had over a 100 people going...
By the end of the year, 856 students
bowled on a Thursday night.
We really promoted the free
aspect and the Brunswick taxi as-
pect, he said.
Hintze pointed to seasonal factors
and a lack of advertising as a reason
for the Bowling Balls slow start.
Weve been a little slower this
year getting the advertising out, he
said. Its still nice out, so it might
also be a little slower than during the
dead of winter when people really
want to get out and do something.
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HASTINGS
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In Ntonjeni, the small rural town
in which Hastings lived, he began
noticing opportunities to stream-
line everyday tasks. For example,
villagers struggled transporting
water to the schoolhouse located
on top of a hill.
Great view, cool breezes, but
getting water up there is a real
bitch, he wrote.
Hastings recognized that instead
of spending money on water pumps
that are expensive and notorious
for breaking down, it would be
possible to build tanks to collect
rain water on top of the hill. Hast-
ings made his plan sustainable by
involving community members in
the process, writing, the parable
about teaching someone to fish vs.
catching fish for them is a big phi-
losophy here.
He also got involved in the busi-
ness behind harvesting honey
from African killer bees, a project
he described as an escape valve.
Despite the peace the work gave
Hastings, his actual work was far
from peaceful.
Te killer bees approaching
America are the diluted descen-
dants of our bees. Smaller, slower
livestock (chickens, rabbits, etc.)
are not infrequently stung into
paralysis and death, wrote Hast-
ings. Faster creatures, like me, can
sprint out of harms reach with only
a few bees giving spirited chase.
For this project Hastings wrote
a proposal requesting U.S. aid for
Swazis to start their own sustain-
able beekeeping businesses. The
aid was granted, and Hastings,
with the help of an agriculture
teacher, taught an introductory
beekeeping course covering how
to build hives, manage bees, and
market honey.
Hastings industrious tenden-
cies didnt stop his time in Africa
from being adventurous. He re-
turned to the U.S. feeling uncer-
tain that he would ever experience
the freedom he felt in Swaziland.
In one of his letters he wondered,
Will I ever again race across the
hot savannah, bare chested, mo-
torcycle purring, admiring the
acacia trees heralding this is Af-
rica? I hope so.
Hastings began preparing for
graduate school while still in Af-
rica. He was drawn to the field of
artificial intelligence because itll
synthesize my two great interests;
psychology and mathematical
thinking.
In a statement of purpose for Stan-
ford, Hastings wrote, several nights
a week I light my lamps and pour
over a collection of introductory AI
Mine was a path of serendipity but
it was a path of just being passion-
ate about whatever I was doing
at that time. Im as surprised as
anyone about my business sucess.
REED HASTINGS 83
texts. Te more I read the more seri-
ous I become.
In 1985, Hastings enrolled in
Stanford Universitys computer
science program where he spent
the next few years studying artifi-
cial intelligence. Upon graduating,
however, Hastings decided he was
more interested in writing soft-
ware.
Hastings started his first com-
pany, Pure Software in 1991. This
venture ended up being lucrative
enough to fund his next project,
Netflix.
COURTESY OF THE BOWDOIN BUGLE
THE WAY, WAY BACK : Netix CEO Reed Hastings 83 sports an ice pick in his yearbook photo
from the 1983 Bowdoin Bugle. He majored in mathematics at Bowdoin.
The success of Netflix is rooted
in the fact that it rose in tandem
with another technology, the DVD.
In 1998, a friend told Hastings
about plans to release a new inven-
tion that was lighter and smaller
than a VHS yet served the same
purpose. Hastings connected this
breakthrough with video rentals.
In 95 or 96 Id had this really
large late [video rental] fee, said
Hastings. I remember it because
I was really embarrassed about it
and I didnt want to tell my wife.
He credits his memoryand the ease
of mailing lightweight DVDs with
the birth of Netflix.
The idea of a mail-in video rental
company that didnt charge late fees
was a huge commercial success. By
2007, Netflix had delivered a billion
DVDs. Perhaps even more impres-
sive is the companys constant inno-
vation in its business model.
When Hastings noticed the ris-
ing popularity of YouTube, he
again saw an opportunity to ex-
pand based on the success of a new
technology.
Its up to Netflix to harness the
power of the Internet better and
faster than other people, to provide
a great consumer experience, said
Hastings. Internet streaming now
accounts for about 90 percent of
Netflixs usership.
Hastings has continued to push
for creativity and expansion of con-
tent at Netflixthe company now
boasts a retinue of original pro-
gramming with a cumulative total
of 14 Emmy nominations.
Netflix releases entire seasons
of TV shows at a time, in response
to viewers tendencies to binge-
watch, a shift Hastings calls a nat-
ural evolution.
Fiction with Dickens was writ-
ten serially and a new part of it
would come out every month in a
magazine, said Hastings. Then it
got cheap enough to manufacture a
book and people started releasing
entire novels at once.
From Bowdoin to Africa to com-
puter screens across the country,
Hastings and his entrepreneurship
have made their mark on most ev-
erything theyve encountered.
Yet, Hastings says he never ex-
pected it.
Mine was a path of serendipity
but it was a path of just being pas-
sionate about whatever I was doing
at that time, he said. Im as sur-
prised as anyone about my busi-
ness success.
As he wrote in a letter to Profes-
sor Barker, life trudges on with me
happily by its side.
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Comfortable consent: only say yes to hooking up when you want to
Happy Friday, Bowdoin students.
What are your plans for the week-
end? If you answered to be the
drunkest girl at the party and crash
in someone elses room at 11 p.m.,
then your Saturday night might just
live up to my most recent weekend
adventures.
At 3 a.m., back in my room, I
woke up to my friend just getting
in. She grabbed us matching glass-
es of water and we went to sleep.
Seemed like a normal (if somewhat
embarrassing, on my part) night.
At brunch the next day, however,
she recounted a fairly unusual series
of events: she had gone to a College
House, danced under a blacklight
in a too-revealing dress, and even-
tually went home with a first year.
Thats not the unusual partit hap-
pens to the best of us.
But when she got back to said
first years room, she did something
I think most girls wouldnt do. She
ditched him.
Before you go slapping any labels
on her, let me explain further. They
made out for a bit on his bed before
she had a brief moment of clarity
(likely prompted by a glimpse of
the ubiquitous John Belushi Ani-
mal House poster on his wall) and
realized she was too drunk to be
anywhere but her own room.
She apologized and walked out.
No hesitations, no explanations.
Simply, Sorry. Im not comfortable
with this. Im going home.
At Bowdoin, were all about con-
sent. Consent is awesome. Consent
is sexy. Consent is everything. Con-
sent is also super gendered.
Its not anyones fault. I honestly
cant think of anything the College
could do to make students sex lives
safer. Socially, were all about ac-
ceptance and empowerment. But
Bowdoin isnt isolated from cul-
tural norms and expectations, and
sometimes those concepts make
their way into our consciousness in
potentially damaging ways.
Im going to apologize in advance
for being super heteronormative in
this next part. Im a girl who (most-
ly) likes dudes and this is something
Ive noticed affecting a lot of girls
I know in their relationships with
guyswhatever your definition of
girls and guys might be. Im not re-
ally positioned to make a comment
on queer sexual politics on campus.
Tat being said: as much as we
consciously try to break down gender
THE BEARS
AND THE BEES
ANONYMOUS 16
New Greek & Italian wine bar brings local ingredients to the table
farm-to-table community in
Brunswick. She can rattle off the
first names and profiles of each
proprietor Six River serves, illus-
trating the close relationship the
farm has with local chefs.
Speaking about her dining expe-
rience at Enoteca Athena, Hand-
maker gives a quick and enthusias-
tic review: it was good.
We have to agree with Handmak-
er. With local, authentic, relatively
inexpensive fare, and a relaxed, in-
viting ambience within walking dis-
tance of campus, Enoteca Athena
provided us with a satiating, satis-
fying dining experience.
We were hard-pressed to choose
between the dizzying array of
spreads, appetizers, and cheeses,
but we finally settled on sharing a
little bit of everything.
We sampled the tzatsiki, a rich
spread made of Greek yogurt and cu-
cumber, and the htipiti, a spicy spread
with feta and grilled red peppers.
The bread was unremarkable
and the spreads were both quite
salty, but they whetted our appe-
tites for the courses to come.
A highlight of the meal was the
dolmathes: a traditional Greek
dish of grape-leaves stuffed with
rice, raisins, pine nuts and herbs
and served with yogurt. The com-
plex flavors melded together per-
fectly, balancing and enhancing
one another.
Our only regret was not ordering
a second helping as a hint of cin-
namon lingered on the tips of our
tongues and the plate of dolmathes
was cleared. Next came savory ar-
tichokes wrapped in prosciutto.
Sweet balsamic vinegar completed
the mouthwatering combination of
Enoteca Athena, a new restaurant
and wine bar, joins Te Little Dog
Cofee Sshop, Little Tokyo and Little
Saigon on Maine Street, as the little
sister Tratorria Athena, a Parents
Weekend favorite.
Enoteca Athena has the same cozy
atmosphere and locally-sourced
Mediterranean cuisine as the Tratto-
ria, minus the trek to Fort Andross
and the strain on your wallet. Te
restaurant is both a wine bar ofering
small bites to share and a sit-down
restaurant with salads, appetizers
and main courses.
Jenna Bowley, a bartender and
waitress at the eatery, highlights their
emphasis on sourcing food locally.
Locavore and farm-to-table,
its very important to us, she said.
We continuously keep strong re-
lationships with the same farmers.
While she thinks highly of the
homegrown ingredients, Bowley is
even more proud of the artisanal
wine list.
The real star of the show is the
vino here, she said.
Enotecas wines are all hand-se-
lected and imported from family-
run vineyards in Greece and Italy.
The restaurant owners, with direct
Greek and Italian roots, spend
time every year visiting the Eu-
ropean vineyards, sampling their
wines, and nurturing friendships
with the families.
Maina Handmaker 11 works
at Six River Farm, a primary sup-
plier of Enoteca Athenas produce.
Handmaker became interested in
farming during an agricultural ap-
prenticeship with Bowdoin Outing
Club Director Mike Woodruff.
I knew September of my senior
year that this is what I was going to
be doing, Handmaker said.
Soon after graduation, she
joined the Six River Team full-
time, where she helps foster the
BY FRANNIE GURZENDA,
EMILY STEWART AND EMILY SALITAN
CONTRIBUTORS
smoky meat and earthy artichoke.
Share the spreads, order an extra
helping of dolmathes, and know
that appetizer portions serve one.
The main courses were diverse
and reasonably priced, and the re-
vithokeftedes (the Greek dishes are
a mouthful to pronounce), which
is simply baked falafel in pita, was
a tantalizing vegetarian option. If
you choose to indulge in the Pepo-
so (braised beef served on polenta
cakes) or the lamb burger, you can
rest easy knowing all the meat is
sourced from local farms.
Greek and Italian options
abound and it is impossible to
choose the wrong main course.
As sad as it was to take the last
bites of our entres, our friendly
waitress assured us that dessert
would not disappoint. We were
more than satisfied with the gener-
ous square of baklava, a traditional
Mediterranean pastry made of lay-
ers of phyllo dough with walnuts
and honey in between, and a spe-
cial, seasonal dessert of the night,
grilled peaches with whipped
cream. The baklava was unique
and unexpected; the texture of the
nutty, sweet filling complemented
the flaky melt-in-your-mouth
phyllo layers.
Enoteca Athena is a must-try
for foodies looking to explore off
campus.
A few short blocks from the fa-
miliar hustle and bustle of Moulton
and Thorne, Enoteca Athena is a
delicious way to spice up your usu-
al mealtime routine.
Grab some friends, clear a few
hours from your busy schedule,
and let the food transport you. We
promise you wont regret it!
JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MAMMA MIA: Tratorria Athenas sister restaurant and wine bar, Enoteca Athena, opened May 22, bringing food inspired by the Greek Isles and Italian countryside to Maine Street.
We do things we dont necessarily
want to do because our feelings
against arent strong enough to
justify making the eort to say no.
stereotypes, they ofen still exist in
our subconscious and we do some-
timesagain, subconsciouslytry to
live up to them. Femininity can feel
like it means being passive, acquies-
cent, quiet.
Bowdoin women are empowered
in so many ways, but that empow-
erment can break down in dealings
with guys. The Colleges focus on
consent means that hardly ever will
a person have sex if they dont want
to. Even less seriousIm using
this phrase in a pop culture sense;
you all know how I feel about hier-
archizing sexual actssex stuff is
subject to our strong belief in and
clear definitions of consent.
It is a power we know we can
exercise, but theres often internal
pressure not to do so except in ex-
cessively uncomfortable situations.
So we cope with it in other ways:
we make excuses, we compromise.
We do things we dont necessar-
ily want to do because our feelings
against it arent strong enough to
justify making the effort to say no.
And it can be an effort. Im not
trying to place blame on anyone; its
a cultural thing. In every movie, if a
boy tries hard enough he eventually
gets the girl. If a boy is nice enough
he gets what he wants. There is a
pervasive sense that girls need con-
vincing; that an excuse is masking
coy desires. I know you want it
and all that.
Okay, were not that bad. Theres
little Blurred Lines-style normal-
ization of coercion at Bowdoin,
at least in my opinion. Like I said
earlier, consent is respected here,
which, as a girl, makes me feel so
much safer than a lot of other plac-
es.
There are still things we can do
though. Im going to address the
dudes because, like I said, I only
have experience in the heterosexual
relations arena, but it really applies
to everyone.
If the person you brought home
makes an excuse or looks uncom-
fortable, pay attention. Dont erase
what sheor heis feeling.
I know some of this sounds basic,
but I think we get very wrapped up
in bigger instances where consent
is necessary and we forget the little
things.
This is almost more important,
though, for those giving consent,
boy or girl. Or not giving consent,
as it were.
Because knowing when you real-
ly want to do something and when
you dont and saying so regardless
of the situation is a major accom-
plishment, even if it doesnt seem
like it.
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has been drawn in the proverbial sand.
For the frst time, the IPCC has
established what Im terming a car-
bon ceiling. Basically, its the up-
per limit on how much total carbon
can be released into the atmosphere
without triggering the most danger-
ous efects of climate change.
Tis limitaccording to the 2013
reportis around one trillion met-
ric tons of carbon.
Te trillion-ton limit on CO2
emissions keeps global temperatures
from increasing beyond the estab-
lished benchmark of 3.6F (2C).
To go beyond that, researchers
say, would be to invite changes
that would increasingly threaten
the safety of society and the natu-
ral processes it depends on.
One of the most important
things to know about environmen-
tal science is that very few things
happen on a gradient. Basically,
you can have cause X and effect Y,
but increasing X tenfold wont nec-
essarily increase Y tenfold. In fact,
increasing X tenfold might not
show you any Y at all. However, if
you increase X fiftyfold or a hun-
dredfold, you might see increases
in Y on the scale of thousands or
more. And even if you stop in-
creasing X or even remove it com-
pletely, increases in Y might just
keep going once that tipping point
is reached.
This phenomenon can be seen
from glacial melting to desertifi-
cation to greenhouse gas driven-
warming and beyond.
For example: climate skeptics
often point to the slowdown in
global temperature change over
the past fifteen years as evidence
that climate change has stopped.
This, however, doesnt account
for the abilities of oceans and gla-
ciers to absorb heat energy up to a
certain point.
Beyond that point, though, the
CONNIE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6
Chicoine says her role as a grand-
mother is a factor in her famously
friendly demeanor.
I look at Bowdoin students as if
theyre my grandchildren. I look at
them and I say, these are somebodys
grandchildren, and I treat them like I
hope somebody will treat my grand-
children when they go to college some-
day, Chicoine said.
Swiping the OneCards of every
Bowdoin student who attends meals
at Torne means that Chicoine has
seen most Bowdoin students faces at
some point.
With such prolifc contact, Chi-
coine says she aims to know every
students name by sight, but with
so many students it can be dim cult.
Regardless of how many names she
knows, Chicoine says she loves the
Bowdoin community.
Bowdoin students are the best.
Teyre so welcoming to me, even the
frst years, and Ive gotten to know
some of them on a frst name basis,
she said.
Te cheerful woman behind the
checkers desk is active in and out of
the Bowdoin community.
Chicoine enjoys playing computer
games like Angry Birds, Bejeweled and
Zuma. Shes a prolifc reader and, at
the moment, has a particular interest
in old southern novels like Gone with
the Wind.
Chicoine has also volunteered for
the Maine State Music Teater for
11 years and ushers for the Portland
Symphony Orchestra and Portland
Ovations. She is a member of the Red
Hat Society, an organization of women
who meet for tea, dressed up in red
hats and purple clothing.
She added, Im very proud to work
for Bowdoin College. Its just a part-
time job and Im retired, and for me
this has been the best experience, get-
ting to know the students, the people
I work with at the dining hallthe
whole experience has been great.
IPCC
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
We havent hit the tipping point
yet, and theres still time
to change our trajectory.
effects of absorbing all that heat
will become eminently clear.
About half a trillion tons of carbon
have been released into the atmo-
sphere since the late 19th century. In
some ways, this is good news.
We havent hit the tipping point
yet, and theres still time to change
our trajectory.
But lets not get too comfort-
able. If we (speaking globally, since
most new emissions come from
developing nations that rely largely
on coal power) stick to our current
rates of energy consumption, were
set to hit the trillion-ton mark
around 2040.
By that time, current Bowdoin
students will be between the ages
of 45 and 50, slightly younger than
most of our parents are right now.
Its interesting to note that the
earths crust still contains an es-
timated three trillion tons of car-
bon-rich fuels.
to revolutionary technological in-
novations in renewable energy pro-
duction, greenhouse gas sequestra-
tion or (hopefully) both.
The 2013 IPCC report includes
very little in the way of new dis-
coveries.
The authors simply note that, as
opposed to being 90 percent con-
fident in human-caused climate
change in 2007, they are now 95
percent confident.
If this cant end the so-called
climate debate and usher us into
an era of groundbreaking new
green technologies, I dont know
what will.
After all, there are no 100 percent
guarantees in science, and we prob-
ably arent going to get much closer.
If were to observe the trillion-
ton limit, most of these reserves
will have to either remain un-
tapped or be harnessed in a way
that does emit greenhouse gases or
other pollutants.
From the right point of view, this
situation can be seen as a gateway
Tere is a pervasive myth that 50
percent of Bowdoin students marry
other Bowdoin students, but how ac-
curate is that?
It turns out, not very. As of late 2011,
only 8.61 percent of the living student
body was married to one another, ac-
cording to Matthew ODonnell, editor
of the Bowdoin Magazine. He said
this is fairly characteristic of compa-
rablysized colleges; Colby stated their
marriage rate is at around 11 percent
in fall 2010. Bowdoins numbers only
account for the years since 1975, when
the College became co-educational.
Natalie Johnson 13 and Will Rich-
ard 11 are one such couple. Te two
met when Johnson was a freshman at a
swing-dancing event at Howell House,
where Richard was a resident.
He asked me for a dance, and we
BY MEG ROBBINS
STAFF WRITER
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Love inside the Bowdoin Bubble: 8.6 percent of Polar Bears marry
Fly on the wall: confessions of a Chapel-wedding technician
BY RON CERVANTES
ORIENT STAFF
I now pronounce you husband
and wife.
If youve ever walked past the chapel
ona Saturday afernoonand seena gag-
gle of people clad in suits and dresses
streaming out of its old wooden doors,
its likely that moments earlier I was up-
stairs, listening to someone utter those
seven words to a newlywed couple.
Over the past two years, Ive had the
opportunity to see roughly a dozen
teary-eyed fathers walk their daugh-
ters down the blue-carpeted aisle of
the campus chapel. As a member of
the Colleges audio-visual department,
I ofen set up for events around cam-
pus that require technologyinclud-
ing the surprisingly frequent weddings
in the chapel.
I volunteer for the wedding gigs
primarily because a) no one else in
my department ever wants to, b) its a
good way to get paid to sit around on a
Saturday afernoon and c) I never quite
know what to expect.
Most of the events I cover for my job
are cut-and-dry: turn on the projector,
wait for the presenter to arrive, plug
their laptop in and leave. Weddings
always end up bringing a very difer-
ent group of people together each and
every time. From the upper balcony
of the chapel Ive never seen the same
wedding twice, and Ive experienced
more than my fair share of laughs and
frustrations while doing my job. Tere
are no other campus events that put
you into contact with bridezillas on a
regular basis.
Ive witnessed a few wed-
dings that went fawlessly, and
more than a few that werent
so lucky. At one memorable
wedding last year, a brides-
maid found out what the
chapels wooden foor tastes
like afer tripping on the
steps leading to the stage and
falling face frst. On another
Saturday afernoon, I
witnessed a young ring-
bearer so afraid of the
crowd sitting in the
pews that he crawled
into the fetal position
night prior; he apologized...Eventu-
ally, we started dating and were mar-
ried on the hottest day of the summer
of 88, a year afer my graduation, said
Beale Powers.
Other Polar Bear couples have met
afer graduating from Bowdoin. Lisa
Bossi 87 and Adrian
Bossi 85 met fve
and half years afer
she graduated, and
seven and half years
afer he graduated.
It sounds like
such a crazy coin-
cidence that we would
have met in San Francisco
when we both went to Bowdoin, but
we basically had a little satellite cam-
pus out there, said Lisa. It was inev-
itable that we would still be meeting
Bowdoin people, even many years
afer graduation.
She added, Adrian was on his
If youve ever taken a guided tour
of the College, you may have heard
the tour guide bragging about the
high percentage of alumni who get
married after meeting at Bowdoin.
Many of them, along with towns-
folk and friends of the College, ex-
change vows right here on campus
each year.
Although the Bowdoin campus
plays host to weddings throughout
the year, summer tends to be the
busiest season, largely due to the
lack of student events on campus.
Once the academic year begins, it
is harder to coordinate weddings
while taking into account the bus-
tling schedule of the college.
According to Director of Events
and Summer Programs Tony
Sprague, there are only two wed-
dings on the books for the academic
year as of yet. The first, which oc-
curred on September 7, joined two
alumni from the Classes of 2008 and
2009. The second, set to take place
in January, involves a couple with a
wider affiliation with the College.
A lot of what we see with wed-
dings in general is that its people
who have some type of affilia-
tionwhether its grandfather, par-
ent, they themselves went or theyre
marrying someone who went to
Bowdoinwhere having the
ceremony happen here on
campus is an important part
of the experience, said
Sprague.
Despite the legaliza-
tion of same-sex mar-
riage in Maine last year,
no same-sex couples
have approached Sprague to
request a ceremony at Bowdoin yet.
Tough the majority of couples
choose to hold their wed-
dings in the chapel,
other spaces on
campus, such as
the Cram Alum-
ni House are
also avail-
able to
rent .
In the
s u m -
mer of
2 0 1 2 ,
Bowdoi n
S e n i o r
H o u s e -
keeper David Reed
and his wife Kathi, who
works at Jack Magees
Pub, held their ceremony
in Smith Unions Morrell
Lounge.
BY CLARE DESANTIS
ORIENT STAFF
way from biking through the Andes
with two other Bowdoin friends and
he was thinking of moving to Se-
attle and he came to my party. I was
roommates with another girl from
Bowdoin. We were all very intercon-
nected. We had other friends but it
always seemed like there was always
some Bowdoin people.
Now, the Bossis live in Brunswick
with their children.
We realized that this town that we
didnt pay as much attention to in col-
lege was a great place to raise a family,
Lisa said.
Its actually been great living near
the school. Its been a great resource
for us as parents, taking the kids over
there all the time, Adrian said.
I was just talking with someone
today and I said, yes those Bowdoin
kids helped raise my girls. Tey were
our babysitters, mentors, friends, said
Lisa. Its still that way.
talked together for the rest of the eve-
ning, Johnson said.
Te two got married this summer
in the Bowdoin Chapel.
It felt ftting to have it there, since
we both come from very diferent
places, Colorado and Massachusetts,
so its a place that we share a connec-
tion, said Johnson.
When asked about her experiences
dating at Bowdoin, she said she found
it overall to be positive.
Bowdoin is work-oriented, but
that shouldnt be mutually exclusive
to other important aspects of your life:
love, friendship, family; I see those
things as enhancing your learning and
growing as a well-rounded human.
Finding love in the midst of a college
career only taught me more, and made
me a better student with broader per-
spective, Johnson said.
Alex Beale Powers 87 and Howie
Powers 84parents of Peter 16 and
Will 15met through a mutual fam-
ily friend who had told them to look
out for one another.
I went to the DKE house and in-
troduced myself to Howie. He gave
me a house tour and we talked into
the wee hours of the morning, Beale
Powers said.
Te Powers next
e n c o u nt e r
was any-
thing but
simple.
Te next
day, I returned
to the DKE house, as
they were hosting a day at
Popham Beach to rush us freshmen. I
said hello to Howie and he stuck out
his hand and said, Hi, Howie Powers.
Would you like a house tour?
Somehow, we started talking at the
beach and I mentioned to him that
wed had a L-O-N-G conversation the
IN FOCUS
BOWDOIN WEDDINGS
The chapel wasnt available that
day, said Reed. We were going to
do it in Daggett Lounge, but sum-
mer programs were here and so that
would have been too loud with a
band, and Cram was shut down.
According to Reed, when a
friend proposed the idea of hosting
the wedding in Smith, the couple
thought it was perfect.
It was a Bowdoin affair, Reed
said. Somebody from Bowdoin
made our cake, we had Bowdoin
help, Bowdoin bandsmight as well
have a Bowdoin building.
The price of a Bowdoin wedding
has increased substantially in recent
years. In 2011, a couple interested in
renting out the chapel was required
to pay $275 to reserve the facil-
ity and maintenance crew for their
event. Last fall, however, the fee rose
to $750.
The rate had been at that level
for a number of years, Sprague said.
It was shifted to make sure that
when people were looking at wed-
dings here, they were booking the
wedding because they really wanted
to be married at Bowdoin not just
because they were seeing Bowdoin
as the least expensive option.
After the fee is paid, Sprague and
the College work to make sure the
event runs smoothly.
We really try to stay involved,
more on just the facility side and
making sure that its set up the way
theyre looking for, that they have
what they need for instruments or
chairs or microphones, Sprague
said. We tend to not really get in-
volved in the ceremony aspects.
Though couples are granted ac-
cess to the Chapels piano and or-
gan, they must provide their own
officiator, musicians, photographers
and decorations.
Investigating the nuts and bolts of weddings at the College
in the middle of the chapel and cried,
forcing one of the groomsmen to go
pick him up and bring the rings for-
ward on his own.
Its easy to get wrapped up in the
novelty of the whole production, but
Ive actually sat back and had some
interesting realizations about wed-
dings in general by seeing so many
in such a short amount of time. Te
most striking aspect of the weddings
held in the chapel is how very difer-
ent they can be from one another
from the almost somber, ritualistic
and very choreographed Catholic
ceremonies, to the entirely non-reli-
gious ceremonies that have so many
musical acts theyre more like con-
certs than matrimonies.
Not very many of the ceremonies I
have witnessed have been highly reli-
gioussomething that may be large-
ly indicative of changes in our soci-
ety. In Maine, like in many states,
anyone who is a state-licensed
notary canom ciate a wedding,
and Ive seen a number of
weddings where the om cia-
tor was not a clergy mem-
ber but a close friend of
the bride and groom
who had received no-
tary certifcation for
that occasion.
In one
wedding, the om ciator even mentioned
how the couple had found his notary
services of Craigslist.
Most of the weddings feature at least
one alumni of the College, andits always
fun to hear the anecdotes about Polar
Bears who dated while at Bowdoin and
eventually decided to get married afer-
wards. One example that stuckout inmy
mind was a couple who apparently had
never reallyhungout together while they
were at Bowdoin but had met one sum-
mer afer graduation while working in
the same area, and were back in the cha-
pel within a year to say their vows.
If youre in a committed relationship
at Bowdoin and you think your part-
ner is the one, I highly recommend
coming back to the College to get
married in the Chapel. It can accom-
modate even the largest of families,
and if you pick the right time of year,
can provide for some truly fantastic
photo opportunities. And, if you seal
the deal within the next two years, you
might even see me up in the balcony,
adjusting microphone volumes while
you hear an om ciator say those seven
magic words.
COURTESY OF ANDREWBIEDRZYCKI, COPYRIGHT BREA MCDONALD PHOTOGRAPHY
TURNING A NEW LEAF: AndrewBiedryzcki, Audiovisual/Computing Specialist at the College, and his wife, Emily, married in the fall of 2012, holding their reception at the CramAlumni House.
COURTESY OF NATALIE JOHNSON, COPYRIGHT SOGGY DOG DESIGNS
POLAR BEAR AFFAIR: After meeting as underclassmen at a swing-dancing event in Howell House and getting engaged last year, Natalie Johnson 13 andWill Richard 11 tied the knot at the Chapel this summer.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SKY M
ONACO, THE BOW
DOIN ORIENT
SKY MONACO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SKY MONACO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
STUDENT SPEAK
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ALUMNI DO YOU THINK MARRY ONE ANOTHER?
COMPILED BY JOE SHERLOCK
KOTE MUSHEGI AN 17
34 percent.
MEGAN MASSA 14
I would say 15 percent.
IAN MCDOWELL 16
8 percent.
RACHEL ZHENG 16
I want to say 12.6 percent.
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BY OLIVIA ATWOOD
STAFF WRITER
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FAST FORWARD: Fichtner previews Gravity (top), Blue is the Warmest Color (left), Captain Phillips (right) and ve other fall icks.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Art Society to curate student work, discuss modern art world
CINEMA SCOPE
SAM FICHTNER
Tis fall, Bowdoin Art Society, a
new art interest group, entered the
Colleges art scene. For the past few
years, Bowdoin has had two diferent
art groups: Art Club, dedicated to the
making of art, and the Student Mu-
seum Collaborative (SMC), devoted
to bridging the gap between Bowdoin
College Museum of Art and students.
Art Societys agenda, however, in-
volves fostering conversations about
visual arts and creating art shows
composed of student work.
Art Society is about bringing
together people who have an in-
terest in the arts and forming a
nucleus for the art community on
campus, said Tom Rosenblatt 16,
Art Society co-president.
Right now, there are a lot of other
great art clubs, but we want to re-
ally centralize the artistic sphere on
campus, he added.
Art Society has its debut project
coming up over Family Weekend this
October. Tey plan on doing a stu-
dent-curated art show in Ladd House
from next Tursday to Sunday. Te
club will transform the public space in
Ladd to galleries, turning the chapter
room into a media room and the base-
ment into an interactive installation.
For the interactive installation,
Art Society has paired with College
House Eco Reps and Sculpture I to
collect individual red Solo cups and
create a giant Solo cup in the base-
ment of Ladd.
So much about the art world isnt
just the artists themselves, its the
people who are promoting [the art-
ists], said Emily Stewart 16, Art So-
ciety co-president. Tere has been a
lot of interest in the arts at Bowdoin,
but so far there hasnt really been a
centralized place [for art on campus].
We really wanted to bring some new
energy...and start our own thing.
Rosenblatt and Stewart both
agreed that art is a broad topic in
todays society.
[Art] is so interdisciplinary and
cross media. We might do events
with dance groups and with music
groups, said Stewart. Were not only
thinking about...like paintings and
drawing.
People dont understand the kind
of complexities that the contempo-
rary art world is engaging in nowa-
days, added Rosenblatt. We want
to try to bring some of that energy to
campus and see if Bowdoin can play
a role.
Both leaders said that Art Society
wants to take art to the next level.
We want to be doing something
more radical, said Rosenblatt. We
want to be doing something more
than just what traditional arts are.
We want to be bringing in new en-
ergy. We want to see what more we
can do with art.
College is supposed to be a place
where youre experimenting, where
youre pushing the envelope, agreed
Stewart.
Te other arts groups on campus
have made room for Art Society.
I think...the other [arts] clubs on
campus in relation to our club are
really healthy, said James Miller 14,
head of Art Club. Im really excited
about the perspective [Art Society] is
going to bring.
Art Club, as opposed to Art Soci-
ety, dedicates itself to the making of
art in its weekly meetings and creat-
ing a community where you can be
motivated to fnishing your goals,
according to Miller.
Abbie Geringer 14, one of the lead-
ers of SMC, agreed that Art Society
will have a place on campus.
Teres always been a lot of interest
from students in having the Museum
do student art shows, said Geringer.
But its a fne line between showing
student art and changing [the Muse-
um] from an institution of...higher art
into art thats still growing.
Geringer explained that the SMC is
a group of students who work to pro-
mote the Museum and just generally
make the campus aware of [the Muse-
um] as a resource and as a place where
students can go to see art...and go to
events. We want to get people into the
Museum.
Events like the SMCs Student
Night, taking place this evening,
helps to spread interest in the arts
throughout campus.
We...draw in a massive crowd of
people who are just there to socialize
and have a great time, said Geringer.
So even if theyre just interested in
seeing friends, the fact that we can
bring them to an art institution to do
that exposes them to the arts.
All three clubs agree that art has a
growing infuence on campus and is
beginning to connect everyone and
draw them into the arts.
When I frst started with Art Club,
I wasnt too confdent in the arts on
campus, explained Miller of Art Club.
But, as I continue my career, [art]
seems to be here much more.
Were getting there, Geringer said.
Baby steps. Its still a matter of reach-
ing out to everyone. Its still a matter of
getting interest.
(Full disclosure: A&E Editor Nata-
lie Clark 14 is a co-leader of SMC.)
Fall movies to refresh the big screen
Please see MOVIES, page 14
State of the Arts is a recurring col-
umn featuring contributions from stu-
dents involved in the arts at Bowdoin
about its role in the academic program.
Coming to college, I had few
hopes for pursuing theater at
Bowdoin. I had done theater in
high school and wrote my Common
App essay about my first experience
on the stage, but I imagined that
college theater would be cultish and
competitive. But after taking Acting
I with Professor Abigail Killeen in
my first semester to fulfill my VPA
requirement, theater has become an
essential part of my academic ca-
reer, despite some false stereotypes
of its merit in the Bowdoin Bubble.
One of the most valuable mo-
ments in my Bowdoin education
was my final project in the course
Acting II: Voice and Text. This
class challenged me to focus on
communication techniques to ex-
plain the meaning of theatrical
text and widen the range of char-
acters that I can play. For our final,
we had to interpret and present a
scene from Crave by Sarah Cane,
a postmodern play in which there
is no discernible plot.
Te challenge of the assignment
was to bring life to a scene that
wasnt grounded by typical plot
points or clear relationships. My
group worked hard rehearsing the
scene, but tried to shove the play
into the mold of realism and fabri-
cate clear relationships between the
characters in a cofee shop.
It failed. Miserably.
Afer watching two other groups
perform and present captivating
interpretations of the text using the
vocal techniques we had worked
on all semester, my group looked
at each other and realized just how
absolutely wrong we were. However,
we struggled through the perfor-
mance, and then sat down and dis-
cussed with Professor Killeen and
the rest of the class just how wrong
we were. In our desire to interpret
the scene in a clear way, we had mis-
treated the text, ignored the value of
postmodern theater, and failed to do
justice to the text and ourselves.
At no point during this discus-
sion with my professor and the
rest of the class did I feel like I had
failed personally or that my previ-
ous work in the class wasnt valu-
able. In fact, I think it is one of the
most valuable experiences that Ive
had in a classroom so far.
Tis experience is refective of the
power of artsparticularly theater
in a college education. Sometimes a
scene works, sometimes it doesnt,
but you have to perform anyway and
take that risk again and againoth-
erwise you make no progress. Te-
ater requires incredible bravery to
present your work and is constantly
encouraging risk and failure. Failure,
or at least not living up to personal
expectations, happens to students in
almost every discipline at Bowdoin,
but I think the prevailing ideal is that
a Bowdoin student would succeed at
pretty much everything.
I would argue that theater in an
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Masque & Gown president
evaluates role of theater
It was a pretty horrid summer in
terms of quality cinema. We were
drowned in a sea of over-budgeted
blockbusters about superheroes
many of which were sequels or tent-
poles. Te critics and blogs were all
over the issue ad nauseum: I cant tell
you how may think pieces Ive read in
the past few months about the sordid
state of American commercial cinema
(Im looking at you, Vulture). Afer so
much derivative destruction porn, one
can begin to despair. Can Hollywood
still dare to risk disappointment for
higher art? Can producers still trust
proven artistically-minded directors
with forward-thinking motion pictures
rather than money and brand names?
But dont just throw down your
hat, swear of the movies forever, and
live the rest of your lives re-watching
Breaking Bad and Orange is the New
Black. Te summer is over and this fall
promises to be one of the most excit-
ing seasons at the movies in recent
memory
Here are a few Im most excited for:
Gravity
Te excitement over Alfonso
Cuarns upcoming space epic has
reached insurmountable heights. Te
anticipation largely is founded upon a
sense of visual awe and extreme fear.
Gravity chronicles two astronauts
(Sandra Bullock and George Clooney)
who desperately attempt to survive a
disastrous meteor shower while sus-
pended in deep space. Te flm seems
to tap into a primal fear yet to be ex-
plored in mainstream cinemaits like
being stuck in open water, but only in
a deeper oblivion. Gravity may just
be the Jaws of the new millennium.
Purported to begin with a 17 minute
opening shot, Gravity has been ges-
tating for four years as technological
development has slowly caught up to
Cuarns bold vision. If its anything
like his visionary Children of Men
(his last flm which came out when
freshmen were in elementary school)
Gravity is shaping up to be the most
important space flm since 2001: A
Space Odyssey.
STATE OF THE ARTS
BY KATE KEARNS
We want to be doing something
more radical...We want to be
bringing in new energy.
We want to see what more
we can do with art.
TOM ROSENBLATT 16
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Art Society also plans on pro-
ducing a publication once a se-
mester to highlight student art
and student essays, and to report
about the art world in Portland
and Brunswick.
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Mark Hansen 14
BY JODI KRAUSHAR
STAFF WRITER
Socially, I sometimes feel like
the unnotice sibling of athletes,
even though last spring I rehearsed
13 hours a week...for the theater
departments production of Quake.
Gilgamesh, Humbaba and En-
kidu might sound like gibberish
to most, but to Mark Hansen 14,
those words are automatic. Han-
sens eyes light up when he talk
about the Epic of Gilgamesh, a
poem about Mesopotamian my-
thology. Hansen, an Earth and
Oceanographic Science (EOS)
major, is currently working on a
visual arts independent study with
the classics department in which
he will recreate the epic through
a series of annotated illustrations.
Hansen is a storyteller at heart.
He learned about the poem in a clas-
sics mythology course with Classics
Lecturer Michael Nerdahl, his cur-
rent advisor on the project. Afer his
class, he was hooked on the story
and wanted to explore it further as
well as examine it through a visual
arts lens. Hansen said his passion for
the project came from a scholarly
interest and a love for myth.
Hansen has always been inter-
ested in writing and illustrating. He
has taken numerous art classes both
on and of campus, and interned this
past summer at the art museum in
his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska
where he learned more about the cura-
torial side of art. He hopes to someday
write and illustrate his own books.
In describing his creative process,
Hansen said, Ill do rough drafs and go
to Professor Nerhdal and Dr. Higgenbo-
tham and say, Here are my characters,
this is what Im interested in showing.
Hansen says that he brings his ideas to
the professors and they help point him
to new leads.
On the surface, it is history and art
history, but Ive always thought that
visual arts contributed to it, Hansen
says in reference to the way classics are
portrayed.
People arent very familiar with the
epic of Gilgamesh[but] its a really
important poem. It really sets the stage
for the hero cycle and you see elements
of it appear in biblical stories in a lot of
Greek poems.
Hansen understands this knowledge
gap and wants to use his work to share
the epic poem with a wider audience.
Te Epic of Gilgamesh tells the story
of the partially divine King Gilgamesh,
his counter-part Enkidu and the mon-
ster Humbaba. Hansen fnds immense
intricacies in all of these characters. He
has been doing research to shed light on
the complexities of these characters, and
how they can be depicted in a way that
holds true to ancient artistic works.
Trough his project, Hansen wants to
academic setting is the environment
that most applauds dramatic risk and
supports students in failure. Te-
ater has helped me deal refectively
and resiliently with failure and en-
couraged me to feel confdent when
jumping into new or scary situa-
tionsbecause the worst possibility,
failure, really isnt so bad.
I dont mean to overstate the failure
in theater. Most of the time, risk in
theater pays of. In my physical theater
class, our frst assignment was a move-
ment-based interpretation of a Shake-
speare play. While I was apprehensive,
two groups presented Macbeth and
King Lear and captured the dark tone,
the heart wrenching betrayal, the de-
caying sanity and the desperation of
both pieces without the use of signif-
cant text. I realized that there is just as
much potential and power in physi-
cality as there is text.
While working as a senior inter-
viewer in the admissions om ce, a
prospective student asked me to de-
scribe the connection between my
coursework in history, Earth and
Oceanographic Science and theater.
Afer some thought, I realized all of
my classes had helped me construct
and share narratives. Much like a
scientist is provided with data and
historians are provided with facts
and original narratives, actors are
given text (and sometimes not even
that). We are challenged to bring life
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But there are drawbacks. Class op-
tions are limited in a small depart-
ment and the course options can be
dramatically efected by sabbaticals.
Even with Edwards, students, pro-
fessors and groups are ofen compet-
ing for rehearsal space.
Socially, I sometimes feel like the
unnoticed sibling of athletes, even
though last spring I rehearsed 13
hours a weekwith about four hours
of outside preparationfor the the-
ater departments production of
Quake. People ofen recognize ath-
letes as teaching important life lessons
(which I completely believe they do)
but they too ofen think theater must
be just for fun and doesnt actually
require much work, preparation or
skill. Occasionally, afer someone has
discussed another topic with me, I get
the impressionthey are surprised I do
theater, as if it is unique that Im an ac-
tor but Im not hippie, overdramatic,
ostentatious or self-involved.
I also think that people unac-
quainted with the arts on campus
assume student-led groups are the
same as academic classes. Work-
ing with Masque and Gown is just
like a theater class, right? Nope. As
president of Masque and Gown, I
believe it is an amazing opportunity
for students with little experience to
play an infuential role in produc-
ing or creating theater. But theater
classes and department produc-
tions are very diferent: classes are
more structured, focused, based in
research, and supported by literally
dozens of faculty and staf members.
You are mimicking the experience
of making professional theater; we
use the same databases and books
as historians do. Yes, I have loved
my extracurricular experiences with
theater, but my academic experi-
ences have consistently challenged
me to grow as an actor, an academic,
a student and a person.
While I am deeply committed to
theater as a challenging and artistic
expression in its own right, I also
want to emphasize that theater in
an academic setting is tremendously
valuable in many other ways. Profes-
sionally, I feel confdent in making a
formal presentation or understand-
ing what tactic to best solve an om ce
confict. In situations where I am be-
ing evaluated, I feel more comfort-
able because I have had practice
with failure.
Personally, theater has expanded
my capacity for empathy, generosity
and bravery. Teater forces you to
tear down your insecurities and your
preconceptions of others and forces
you to refect on exactly who you are,
how you want to connect with others
and what you want. Tese, I believe,
are some of the major things that a
liberal arts education should teach.
research themes that would have
appeared in Syrian and Babylonian
art, although he does not feel tied
down by physical descriptions of
the characters. He wants to incor-
porate ideas he learns about in his
readings, but ultimately the fnal
product will be new and his own.
Taking one look at Hansens
rough sketches of Humbaba and
Gilgamesh reveals the incredible
eye for detail that he has. Hansens
work is a slow and laborious pro-
cess of gathering knowledge, speak-
ing to professors, drafing sketches
and then researching more.
Tis is not Hansens frst series.
He has worked in the past on an il-
lustrated alphabet, and he believes
that series are, more powerful
than stand-alone works. Not only
because you can see the investment
the author put into itbut you get a
better sense of a story.
Tis love of illustrating and writ-
ing has infuenced Hansen in other
ways as well. He sees opportunities
for applying his interest in his feld
of EOS, and is interested in the
public relations side of the environ-
mental sciences, which he thinks is
sometimes inaccessible to the pub-
lic. He is also currently hosting a
radio drama on WBOR with a few
friends.
Hansen regrets not having dis-
played enough of his work and is
looking forward to making the
most of his last year. Hansen says, I
have one year lef and Im trying to
do what I can.
ART BY MARK HANSEN, PHOTOGRAPHS BY HONGBEI LI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HANSENS EPIC PLANS: (Clockwise from top left): Heaven,Enkidu and Gilamesh Wrestle,Humbaba,and Scorpion Man at the Tunnel.
HONGBEI LI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
to a story and to engage the audi-
ence and ask them to confront the
unknown, be it debilitating fear,
boundless compassion, unstoppable
rage, or desperate love.
Many of my Bowdoin professors
have supported me in my pursuit of
theaterthe small department size
has facilitated close relationships
with professors and staff members
who know my strengths and weak-
nesses. The opening of the Robert
H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Cen-
ter for Art and Dance, which brings
together visual arts, theater and
dance from disparate locations in
town, reflects a deep commitment
of the College to support academic
opportunities for the arts and an
awareness of the concerns of the
arts communities on campus.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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CREATION
THEORIES
AMANDA MINOFF
Maine-based photographer thrives on unexpected inspiration
It was on his way down from the
summit that Brunswick photogra-
pher Howard Search got his view. In
true Mainer fashionin true Maine
photographers fashionhe had as-
cended Pemaquid Lighthouse in
Bristol, hoping to get a shot or two
from the top.
Tat was the frst mistake: planning
the scene.
My pictures are not pre-planned,
he said, Tey happen. I may be look-
ing for something but something else
fnds me.
Something found him as he de-
scended the staircase. It nearly
slipped by him, but he stopped,
backed up three steps, and looked out
the window.
It was a miserably bleak day, he
recalled. But then there was this one
little bit of color out the window.
According to Search, this elusive
moment of inspiration happens with
uncanny frequency.
Teres some other force at play
here, he said, A subject has to pull me
in. Im not sure if I can quantify that for
you. Its that Ill know it when I see it
feeling. Teres something that brings
in an emotion, tells a story, its as if
what Im looking at is communicating
with me.
In this case, the product of that
exchange between artist and sub-
ject takes form as an arrangement of
negotiating pulls between light and
shadow. Te contrast between the
dark interior and bright windowpane
is stark, and even as the geometry of
the window frames the scene outside,
the bright white of ocean and the
multicolored foliage still manage to
pervade the dark with striking clar-
ity. Teres a drama here that Search
could not have found from the light-
houses summit.
But that is his style: ceaseless travel
interrupted by fts of inspired art-
making.
Search grew up just outside of
New York City and began photo-
graphing as a teenager. His penchant
for coastal landscape and want of
artistic training lead him to Maine.
In the early 80s he worked under
David Lyman at the Maine Media
Workshop in Rockport. Search cred-
its this education as jumpstarting his
professional work.
I was exposed to a whole diferent
level of photography, he said. It was
like my visualization and apprecia-
tion for photography and the process
took a quantum leap.
Search began his work in flm. He
was hesitant to switch to digital, but
as camera models advanced he be-
came increasingly comfortable with
the technology.
Once the technology caught
up with the creative process, I was
hooked, he said.
Search now works exclusively in
digital media, but his technique is as
diligent as ever.
I dont go out there and rapid
fire shoot and burn, he explained.
I still usually set up my camera
on a tripod, choose the aperture,
choose the f-stop. The process itself
has not changed, its just the tools
Im working with.
Search is patient and thoughtful,
but he is always prepared so that he
can act on impulse.
Wherever I go, I make sure cam-
era and tripod are in the car, he said.
I stay loose that way.
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Search has traveled extensively,
fnding his shots in canyons and old,
abandoned buildings along the way,
but some places compel him to take
out the camera more ofen than oth-
ers. Afer living in Vermont for 30
years, Search was pulled back to the
Maine coast, to Brunswick, in 2011.
I kept gravitating back to Maine,
he said. Maine is the place. Te is-
lands and the waterTats why
youve got so many artists here.
Maines historic identity as an artists
colony is essential inspiration for Search.
I love to be around other artists,
whether they are sculptors, painters,
musicians, whatever. Its all the same
game. I think we all feed of of the
same kind of energy, he said.
Search considers his own working
process to be similar to the steps a
painter would take in mapping out
a canvas. Every step in the process
is important to him: composition,
perspective, light and color.
I think I look at my subject mat-
ter with those same parameters, he
said. I get a lot from talking to other
painters. And Ive been told I have a
painterly quality.
Search expressed how, like all art-
ists, the solitary nature of his work
leaves him thirsty for feedback.
Years ago I could retreat into the
dark room, close the door, listen to
music and think. I need to concen-
trate and I need that alone time, he
said. But when it comes to the exhib-
its when I have people milling around,
thats when Im perfectly happy.
Search thrives on exhibiting his
work. He shows regularly at the Second
Friday Art Walk in Brunswick, and he
has also exhibited at the Cumberland
Club and the Salt Exchange restaurants
in Portland, and the Chocolate Church
Arts Center in Bath. He is currently
in negotiations to hold an exhibit at
Brunswicks Tao Yun restaurant.
I love it when other people love
my work. Its like applause to a musi-
cian, he said. Ive spent a lot of time
in theater, so I like being on stage. Tis
is just another form of that.
Search is able to keep the Brunswick
community applauding in part because
of the constant call to photograph that
the Midcoast Maine landscape inspires.
Whether he is descending a narrow
staircase or speeding down a paved road,
he happily compiles when the impulse
strikes, when a subject pulls him in.
One day I was coming down
Harspwell Road, fying past Harpswell
Sound. Ive been out there maybe ffy
times. But that day I hit the breaks, set
up a tripod and took a picture. Be-
cause that day, that tide, that sky, that
lightIt was something Id never seen
before, he said.
Tats the nice thing about land-
scape, you get a new subject every
time you look at it. It changes minute
to minute.
12 Years a Slave
In 1841 there was an African-
American freeman named Solomon
Northup; he had a wife and three
children and was a skilled carpenter
and fddler. One day his life changed.
He was deceived, drugged and sold
onto a plantation where he was a
slave for twelve brutal years. Tis
flm marks another entry in a recent
trend of flms that take up themes
of slavery and racial inequality in
America (the others being Djan-
go Unchained and Te Butler).
But Irish director Steve McQueen
(Shame, Hunger) will no doubt
create a far diferent kind of picture
than Quentin Tarrantino or Lee
Daniels. Given McQueens pedigree
as a visual artist and his immersive
and gritty style, I expect this flm to
be nothing short of revelatory.
Captain Phillips
Paul Greengrass (United 93,
Bourne Ultimatum) is a director
who is never afraid to shy away of po-
litical issues. He boasts a style marked
by handheld cameras that evoke an in-
tense realism and frenetic atmosphere.
His flms ofen tackle real world ac-
counts of terrorism head on, chal-
lenging the viewer to examine brutal
acts of violence. Captain Phillips
seems, in some sense, to follow the
trusty Die Hard model for actions
ficks: a singular, industrial location
(cargo ship; check), uncompromising
and sadistic villains (Somalian pirates;
check) and unwilling but inevitably
capable hero (Hanks; double check).
All is Lost
One of the most exciting and sadly
overlooked flms in recent history is
J.C. Chandors debut feature, Margin
Call. Boasting a dynamic ensemble
cast, its an expertly dramatic chroni-
cle of the frst night of a fnancial frms
catastrophic implosion. But Chandors
newest flm takes those same elements
that made his frst flm successful,
and essentially discards them. All is
Lost has only one character (played
by Robert Redford) and the narrative
follows him alone on his boat while he
is lost at sea. Unlike the recent ship-
wreck flm Life of Pi, Chandors flm
has virtually no dialogue. Te change
in tone and subject is striking and
certainly intriguing, and hopefully
Redford will turn a far stronger per-
formance than he did in this springs
paltry Te Company You Keep.
e Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese back in the sad-
dle, taking a look at the excess and
power of the 1 percent. DiCaprio
picking up where he lef of with Gat-
bsy, except with a little humor and a
hefy tint of douche-baggery. Mathew
McConaughey pounding his chest
like a gorilla. Trow in a few yachts,
Jonah Hill, a monkey walking around
the om ceand Kanyes in the trailer!
Whats not to like?
e Counselor
Tough Prometheus was ulti-
mately nothing more than a glori-
fed reboot of the long-dead Alien
franchise, Ridley Scott always has the
potential to deliver a visceral rush
when the material is strong enough.
Te new drama has Scott back in the
present day (a time period he tends
to avoid), as we follow a lawyer (Mi-
chael Fassbender) who fnds himself
caught deep in an intoxicating world
of drug tram cking. Te screenplay
is credited to renowned writer Cor-
mac McCarthy (No Country for Old
Men) and the cast is as good as they
come, with Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt,
Cameron Diaz and Javier Bardem.
Inside Llewyen Davis
Full disclosure: Im the most ex-
cited about this one. Its been three
years since weve seen a flm out of
the Coen Brothers, perhaps the can-
niest, wittest commercial directors
around. Tis music-drama is set in
Greenwich Village during the 1960s
and follows its titular charactera
destitute, struggling musician at-
tempting to put his life together and
get his music out into the world. Te
released trailers are short flms in and
of themselves, blending beautiful cin-
ematography, exquisite music, and
classic Coen-esque sardonic humor.
Blue is the Warmest Color
Te winner of the prestigious
Palm DOr at this years Cannes Film
Festival has attracted immense con-
troversy and hype in the past fve
months. Tis three-hour epic chron-
icling a young girls homosexual
awakening has been labeled every-
thing from explicit pornography to
harrowing masterpiece.
And a few more too look out for:
Nebraska (dir. Alexander Payne),
Te Immigrant (James Gray), and
Oldboy (Spike Lee).
COURTESY OF HOWARD SEARCH
ENLIGHTENED: Howard Search, a photographer from Brunswick, draws inpsiration from momentary light, such as glowing snow outside Smith Union.
SPORTS
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BY NOAH SAFIAN
STAFF WRITER
Volleyball sweeps Mid-Coast Classic
The womens volleyball team
continued their strong start by go-
ing undefeated when they hosted
the Mid-Coast Classic last week-
end. Led by senior captains Taylor
Vail and Ellie Brennan, the Polar
Bears bested the University of New
Brunswick, Brandeis and Colby-
Sawyer all in straight sets. The
teams record improved to 11-4
(2-1 in conference).
Mid-Coast play began on Friday
for the women, as they took on
the University of New Brunswick
(UNB) in an exhibition match.
UNB plays a winter season for
womens volleyball, so the games
they played at Bowdoin were part
of their pre-season preparation.
Vail stressed that despite a fairly
easy win, 25-14, 25-6, 25-10, the
games were not meaningless.
It was a really good opportunity
for us to improve our play and im-
prove what was happening on our
side of the net, she said.
Head Coach Karen Corey took a
similar attitude to the competition.
It was an opportunity for us to
keep improving certain compo-
nents of our game, she said. In
the Mid-Coast Classic we were
able to really work on these things,
and we won our games because we
did them well.
It was really exciting to finally
be at home this season, Corey
added. We just wanted to own our
home court, which we clearly did.
The team will need a little help
to contend for the NESCAC title.
Their only in-conference loss so
far was to Williams, who is still
undefeated in conference.
The Polar Bears had been sad-
dled with injuries at the time, and
so far four of their six starters have
missed games for injury this sea-
son. Vail said she was definitely
looking forward to playing Wil-
liams again with our full team in-
tact and ready to go.
Looking forward, Vail is wary of
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF
Unseeded Luke Trinka 16
busted open the bracket of the
USTA/ITA Mens Tennis Regional
Championship last weekend as he
played his way to six wins in three
days, bringing Bowdoin the tour-
naments championship trophy for
the frst time in program history.
Trinka, who faced three ranked
opponents on his run to the title,
won four of his matches in straight
sets. He overcame a 3-6 frst set
loss to fourth-seeded Matt Micheli
of Williams to win nine sets in a
row before dropping one in the f-
nal to Williams unseeded Conrad
Harron. Harron and Trinka have
known each other since they were
16, and have played together ofen
over the summer in their native
Chicago.
Trinkas victory earned him a
place at the Small College Cham-
pionships in Fort Myers, Fla. where
he will compete against junior col-
lege, DII and DIII athletes from
across the country.
Because tournament seeding is
based on previous collegiate suc-
cess, Trinka was never a serious
consideration for a seed, as he did
not play singles for the College as
a frst year. He did, however, part-
ner with Chase Savage 16 to form
a doubles team that fnished the
spring season undefeated.
Trinkas remarkable perfor-
mance last weekend did not come
as a shock to his team.
Guys knew how well he was
playing, Coach Conor Smith said.
Tey were saying, you know,
Lukes hot right now. Hes not
someone you want to play.
He beat four of the top guys in
the NESCAC, Savage said. Not
just beat, but rolled through some
of them.
Smith believes that a large part
of Trinkas success came from his
drive to crack the singles line-up
as a sophomore, a fact that Trinka
acknowledges.
My frst year was kind of dis-
appointing, he said. I came in
expecting to play, but for whatever
reason, I didnt enjoy the same type
of success [as in high school].
Tis was not a case of a player
underestimating the adjustment
to the college game. Trinka, whose
parents played collegiate tennis at
DI schools, saw many DI ofers
himself, but turned them down
to look for a school that priori-
tized academics. He is a seasoned
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Luke Trinka 16
MENS TENNIS
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
player who has played tournaments
throughout the Midwest. He regu-
larly competes against DI players.
Match count is important at this
level, Trinka said. I want to play
those competitive matches that you
cant replicate in practice.
Still, Trinka could not crack
the singles line-up, though Coach
Smith suggested that the depth of
the team played a part in that.
I felt that I could switch our four,
fve and six [singles players] with
our seven, eight and nine and be as
just as confdent, said Smith.
Tat depth remains largely intact
this season as the team lost only one
starter to graduation.
I fully expect Luke to compete
for that spot, Savage said. It would
be hard to say the best player in New
England isnt in the starting line-up.
Tere is a long layover between
the end of the fall season and the
beginning of the springabout as
much time as the team gets of for
the summer. Trinka acknowledges
that maintaining his momentum
will be a challenge.
Its a long time to go matchless,
he said. A lot of forethought has to
go into how youre going to train
because you can train very inem -
ciently.
Even if Trinka grabs that open
singles spot, he and Savage will al-
most certainly take the court as a
doubles team again. Te pair lost in
the fnals of the abbreviated fall sea-
sons frst tournament and lost again
in the frst round of the ITA, though
Savage said that even in that match,
their chemistry had noticeably im-
proved.
He can put things in perspec-
tive, Savage said. He doesnt get
caught up. Tats all you can ask of
a guy.
Trinka will miss the last tourna-
ment of the fall season to play in
Florida. He is keeping that in per-
spective as well.
Its a pressureless situation, he
said. I want to go down and do
well, but if I dont its still another
experience.
e sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week
based on exemplary performance.
Winner of 2013 ITA New
England Championship
after entering tournament
unseeded
Will compete in the ITA
National Tournament in Fla.
HIGHLIGHTS
He beat four of the top guys in
the NESCAC. Not just beat, but
rolled through some of them.
CHASE SAVAGE 16
MENS TENNIS
XC teams excel in Bowdoin Invitational
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LEAPS AND BOUNDS: Audrey DeFusco 16 takes to the skies to launch a spike over the net last Saturday.
Te mens and womens cross
country teams hosted the Bowdoin
Invitational last Saturday, fnishing
frst and second in their respective
races.
Mens
Saturday afernoon marked the
beginning of an exciting week for the
nationally-ranked mens cross coun-
try team. Tey earned an important
victory over their nine opponents in
the Bowdoin Invitational, the teams
only home race of the fall season.
Te eight-kilometer course is one of
the fattest courses of the season and
involves three laps through the trails
behind the Sidney J. Watson Arena
and Farley Fieldhouse.
The team, which currently ranks
No. 6 in DIII, took to the course
under sunny skies and unseason-
ably warm temperatures. Nick Saba
14 led the Polar Bears with a sec-
ond-place finish of 26.00.23. Three
other Bowdoin men joined Saba in
the top nine with James Boeding 14
finishing in third place just eight
seconds behind. Kevin Hoose 15
secured fifth place with a 26.24.13
finish. Eighth-place finisher Will
Ossoff 15 finished with a time of
26:34.99. All five top Bowdoin run-
ners finished within the 26th min-
ute of racing. Avery Wentworth 15
rounded out the Bowdoin scorers,
crossing the line just five seconds
after Ossoff.
Hoose said this meet in particu-
lar demonstrated the teams strong
chemistry and depth, particularly
because both of Bowdoins top two
menCoby Horowitz 14 and Sam
Seekins 14were not racing. He
also applauded the fans and spec-
tators who numbered close to four
hundred.
Its always exciting racing in front
of the home crowd, said Hoose.
Overall, the Polar Bears accu-
mulated 27 points, easily securing
first place. In an email to the Ori-
ent, Coach Peter Slovenski praised
the teams front-racing pack for
running very well and working
together.
matchups with Tufts and Middle-
bury, both of whom are still unde-
feated in NESCAC play.
Those are two games that we
look forward to and see as our big-
gest competitions left so we can
still battle it out for first place with
Williams, she said.
The Polar Bears will attempt to
continue their five-match winning
streak tonight at Colby, whose re-
cord stands at 4-6 overall and 1-1
in conference.
SCORECARD
Fr 9/27
Sa 9/29
v. UNB (Exhibition)
v. Brandeis
v. Colby-Sawyer
W
W
W
30
30
30
SCORECARD
Sa 9/28 Bowdoin Invtl (Men)
Bowdoin Invtl (Women)
1
ST
/19
2
ND
/19
BY CAYLA LIPTAK
STAFF WRITER
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
KICKING INTO GEAR: Bridger Tomlin 17 races towards the nish line in the Bowdoin Invitational.
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Te legitimacy and authority of
the NCAA is under attack, but its
going unnoticed. Two Saturdays
ago, 28 football players from North-
western, Georgia Tech and Georgia
protested against the NCAA dur-
ing their games by writing APU on
their wristbands and towels. Te
National Collegiate Players Associa-
tion (NCPA) orchestrated this dem-
onstration, known as the All Players
United campaign. Its stated goals are
to demonstrate unity among col-
lege athletes and fans...stand behind
individual players being harmed by
NCAA rules...direct a portion of
over $1 billion in new TV revenue to
guarantee basic protections.
Although casual fans of college
football may not know the 28 pro-
testors, they have certainly heard of
the reigning Heisman Trophy win-
ner, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny
Manziel. Te outgoing quarterback
allegedly breached his amateur sta-
Its time for student-athletes to receive their due compensation
tus this summer by signing auto-
graphs in exchange for cash. Te
NCAA was unable to confrm the
allegations, but still deemed that
he violated NCAA bylaw 12.5.2.1,
which forbids the use of his or her
name or picture to advertise, recom-
mend or promote directly the sale or
use of a commercial product or ser-
vice of any kind and suspended the
quarterback for the frst half of Texas
A&Ms opening game.
Amateurism prohibits college
athletes from being in contact with
professional teams or receiving any
type of benefts. In other words, the
student-athlete is not allowed to earn
money. Tis policy is in place to en-
sure the students priority remains on
obtaining a quality educational expe-
rience and that all of student-athletes
are competing equitably.
Schools, on the other hand, have
seemingly no obstacles in their ways
when it comes to turning sports
into proft. Te Texas A&M booster
club hosted a fundraiser where they
charged $20,000 a table to sit with
Manziel and David Crow, the Ag-
gies other Heisman Trophy winner.
Te table was full. Tis cash cow
was sanctioned by the NCAA and
occurred in early August, the same
time as rumors of Manziels auto-
graph sales began to circulate.
Te public outcry against the
NCAA following the autograph scan-
dal satisfed the NCPAs frst goal.
Fans, sports commentators and en-
tire media outlets are now question-
ing whether the NCAA should be
allowed to continue suppressing stu-
dent-athletes rights under the guise
of amateurism.
Everyone profts from college ath-
letics except the athletes themselves.
Teams generate massive revenue
and prestige for their schools and
the NCAA. Alumni giving, student
applications, merchandise sales
and television ratings increase with
the sports teams prowess. Te bet-
ter the football teams perform, the
more money the schools and the
NCAA make. As revenues increase,
salaries increase. Coaching stafs use
increased funds to search for bet-
ter athletes in hopes of maintaining
this proftable cycle. Players drive
this revenue, yet many still must ask
friends for laundry money.
If student-athletes leave the col-
legiate stage for professional arenas,
they receive compensation. Rookies
Brandeis, USM no test for womens soccer
BY HALLIE BATES
ORIENT STAFF
Te womens soccer team extended
their shutout streak to three games
this week with a pair of victories over
Brandeis University and the Univer-
sity of Southern Maine (USM). Te
Polar Bears improve to 7-1-1, with
six shutouts already tallied.
On Saturday, the team topped
Brandeisranked 17th national-
lywith a 4-0 victory. Abby Einwag
15 led the team in the first half,
scoring the first goal of the match
in just the ninth minute of play
off a cross from Kiersten Turner
16. Ten minutes later, Einwag and
Turner executed a nearly identi-
cal play, giving the Polar Bears a
2-0 lead. Early in the second half,
Turner managed to tally a point of
her own, beating a pair of Brandeis
defenders to score the third goal
of the game. Bowdoins final point
came midway through the second
half, when captain Becky Stoneman
14 lofted the ball off a free kick
into the box where Molly Popolizio
14 was able to connect and net the
header. Keeper Bridget McCarthy
16 continued her impressive sea-
son, collecting a total of nine saves
for the Polar Bears.
On Tuesday, the Polar Bears were
able to come out on top again, beat-
ing USM 6-0. Turner got the Po-
lar Bears on the board within ten
minutes of the first half, sending
a rebound from Popolizio to the
back of the net. A few minutes later,
Kathleen Smith 15 sent a long ball
into the box, where Popolizio was
able to serve the ball to forward
Audrey Phillips 16, who sent a shot
into the Husky net and ended the
first half 2-0.
Following halftime, Jenna DiCic-
co 15 was able to break through
the Huskies defense to loft the
ball into the far corner. Ten min-
utes later, Demi Feder 17 netted
a shot from midfield and followed
up minutes later with another tally
that bounced off the post and into
the goal. With less than three min-
utes left of play, Marissa Tidona 17
added one more to the scoreboard
by tapping in a loose ball that the
USM goalie had fumbled. Bowdoin
led the game with 51 shots on goal
while also holding a 13-0 advantage
in corner kicks. McCarthy started
in net before Casey Krause 17 took
over for the final twenty minutes.
Coach Brianne Weaver, who is
in her second year of coaching the
team, attributed much of this sea-
sons success to the strength of the
Polar Bear defense.
We have four veteran defenders
and a veteran goalkeeper who un-
derstand what it takes to compete
at the highest level all season long,
she said. They hold themselves to
very high standards and work to-
gether beautifully.
According to Weaver, the team
is employing several new strategies
this year in order to keep up the
winning streak.
Weve subbed often and this has
worked to our advantage in every
game, she said. It wears on oppo-
nents to have to continually adjust
to fresh legs and a new style of play,
so our teamwork can pay huge divi-
dends over the course of a match.
This Saturday, Bowdoin will
take on undefeated and top-seeded
Trinity.
FOR CAC
AND COUNTRY
BERNIE CLEVENS
one year out of college receive hefy
paychecks for doing the same thing
they did the previous year.
But careers are far from guaran-
teed afer college. Only 1.7 percent
of NCAA DI football, 11.6 percent
of baseball, 1.3 percent of hockey, 1.2
percent of basketball and 1 percent of
soccer players enter any professional
league afer college. Student-athletes
who do not sign a professional con-
tract are lef by the wayside. Teir
full-time collegiate commitment to
sportsthat ofen forced academics
into the backseathas no utility oth-
erwise. Tey may be lef without the
academic accomplishments that em-
ployers seek. Even worse, their work
up to that point is fnished. Imagine
spending four years doing something
you are extremely passionate about,
and then its suddenly all over.
Student-athletes cannot leave
with fnancial gains according to the
NCAAs 2011-2012 fnancial state-
ments. Approximately 96 percent of
the $871.6 million revenue is distrib-
uted directly to the Division I mem-
bership or to support champions or
programs that beneft student-ath-
letes. Te institutions have the means
for providing the fnancial gains. Te
NCAA is nonproft and uses the re-
maining 4 percent for general and ad-
ministrative costs and salaries.
In order to provide income, schools
need to remove the label of amateur-
ism. Te NCAA has made it clear this
will not occur, so colleges should dis-
band from the NCAA and restructure
into an autonomous organization.
Players should receive a monthly sti-
pend based on the standard of living
at their school and a small percentage
of their teams overall earnings from
merchandise sales. Tis structure in-
centivizes performance and personal
image, the two factors driving both
team success and jersey sales.
Te new organization of schools
should allow professional teams
to make ofers to student-players
as long as they fnish the semester.
If this change occurred, there is no
doubt the nonproft advocacy group
NCPA would see their desired basic
protections fulflled: permanently
injured players would receive guar-
anteed scholarships and no costs for
medical bills, all players would re-
ceive scholarship increases of $3,000
to $5,000. Afer all, it is only fair that
the people who start the movement
at least have a say in it.
SCORECARD
Sa 9/28 v. Brandeis W 40
Su 9/29 v. USM W 60
JOANNA GROMADZKI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ORDER IN THE COURT: Midelder Demi Feder 17 advances the ball against a Brandeis defender on Saturday. The Polar Bears shut out the No. 17 Judges 4-0.
After disappointing tie, mens
soccer obliterates UMF 10-0
BY JONO GRUBER
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
Fr 9/27 at Thomas T 00
Su 9/29 at UMF W 100
The Bowdoin mens soccer team
came out of its match last Friday
night with a scoreless tie against
Thomas University (4-3-1). The
game was the second in a row in
which the Polar Bears played two
overtimes. Despite the extra time
and empty scoreboard, goalie Will
Wise 14, who played the entire 110
minutes, only recorded two saves.
The Polar Bears controlled posses-
sion most of the game, frequently
getting into Thomas half of the
field, but the team was unable to
capitalize on any of its 24 shot at-
tempts, 11 of which were on goal.
I think everyones a little frus-
trated. We had possession of the
ball a lot of the time but didnt real-
ly finish them that well, said Wise.
Once we missed a couple we got
pretty anxious and tight and missed
a few shots we probably wouldve
made otherwise. I think we shot
ourselves in the foot a little.
Coach Scott Wiercinski added, I
think one of my frustrations Friday
night was the lack of urgency and
lack of professionalism in terms of
on the feld stuf, getting the right
things done.
While this was only the second
time the team has been shutout this
season, Wise and Wiercinski em-
phasized their frustration over the
lack of goal-scoring this season.
I think we should have more goals
to show for the number of chances
weve created, Wiercinski admitted.
We hope to design practice where
were getting subconscious reps on
the things we need to work on, but
the truth is we havent scored a ton
of goals in practice either.
Te Polar Bears fortunes turned
later in the weekend with a 10-0 vic-
tory at UMaine-Farmington (1-4-1).
Te men again controlled the game
and had their fair share of oppor-
tunities, but this time were able to
capitalize on their 21 shots on goal.
Bowdoin frst put some numbers on
the scoreboard in the ffh minute,
when Hunter Miller 16 scored the
frst goal of the game. Austin Down-
ing 17 fred in the next two goals,
one of which came during a six-minute
stretch where Miller, Andrew Gray
15 and Downing, with the help of
Were not always going
to score the highlight-reel type
goals. They were great to see,
but not ones we can count on.
SCOTT WIERCINSKI
HEAD COACH OF MENS SOCCER
a Farmington own goal, scored a
combined fve goals. Colton Hall 16,
Kiefer Solarte 16 and Sam White 15
also found the back of the net to give
Bowdoin a 10-0 lead going into half-
time. While no goals were scored in
the second half, the Polar Bears con-
tinued to dominate in the second
half, with UMF only managing to
get of four shots the entire match.
While impressed by Sundays
scoring barrage, Wiercinski does not
expect to regularly see such a perfor-
mance from his team.
We got more lucky than in previ-
ous days, he said. Were not always
going to score the highlight-reel
type goals. Tey were great to see,
but not ones we can count on.
Afer the two non-conference
games, Bowdoin reenters NESCAC
play this week with games at Trinity
and Bates on Saturday and Sunday,
respectively. According to Wiercin-
ski, the team is looking to exploit
Trinitys possibly predictable de-
fense, and keep the ball away from
their more dangerous front, in order
to get their frst conference win of
the season.
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Mens golf falls just short at Qualiers
BY ALEX MARECKI
STAFF WRITER
SCORECARD
Su 9/29 NESCAC Qualiers 5
TH
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Te mens golf team showed qual-
ity play this past weekend, fnish-
ing ffh at the NESCAC Qualifer
hosted at the par-72 Brunswick Golf
Club. Berths for the NESCAC Golf
Championship tournament in late
April went to the top four perform-
ers at this competition, while the top
fnisher earned the right to host the
prestigious competition.
Te Polar Bears entered the tour-
nament coming of a hard-fought
16th place fnish out of 24 at the
Williams Invitational last weekend.
Te NESCAC Qualifer included
teams from ten NESCAC schools,
pitting the top-fve performers from
each school against each other.
Bowdoin was represented by seniors
Tomas Lilly, Bobby Kaminski and
Matt Mathias, along with Dusty Bi-
ron 15 and Tomas Spagnola 17.
We have a very strong senior
class which has created healthy com-
petition for the starting fve spots,
explained senior captain Tomas
Lilly. Having tournament experi-
ence and being comfortable on the
course when the pressure is on is a
huge aspect of playing golf at a high
level. Our seniors bring this to the
table every weekend. Tis has also
brought out the best in some of our
underclassmen.
The first day of the NESCAC
Qualifier saw the Polar Bears fin-
ish in fourth place with a score of
311, while Middlebury came in
first at 292. The top performer for
Bowdoin was Lilly, who shot an im-
pressive 74just four strokes above
the lowest individual score of the
tournament.
On the second day of action,
Bowdoin stayed consistent and
earned a score of 315, rounding
out their play with a team score of
626. Unfortunately, a massive turn-
around from a determined Amherst
squad saw the Lord Jefs shoot a 302
on the day, 15 strokes under their
frst day performance, moving from
ffh to third in the process.
Amhersts improved performance
on day two, coupled with consistent
play from the other top three fnish-
ers of the frst day marginally edged
Bowdoin out of a top-four fnish.
Williams was able to claim the last
qualifying spot, shooting just four
strokes under Bowdoin. Tufs, the
sixth-place squad, shot 15 strokes
over the Polar Bears.
Middlebury closed out the week-
end with a total score of 595 to win
the NESCAC Qualifer, earning
them the right to host the NESCAC
Championship.
As seniors, we knew this was
our last chance to have an impact
and qualify for the spring tourna-
ment, something Bowdoin golf has
never done, said Matt Mathias 14.
We adopted a new practice regi-
men all designed to help us be in
the top four at the NESCAC tour-
nament. Unfortunately, we came up
a little short.
I am very proud of the collective
efort we pulled together last week-
end, Lilly added. Tis is the closest
we have ever come to qualifying.
Although the Polar Bears think
they have a lot to be proud about
from their NESCAC Qualifer tour-
nament, they must now prepare for
their next challenge this weekend,
when they travel to the Waterville
Country Club to compete in the
Colby Classic.
Head Coach Tom Fortson is de-
termined to finish out the season
with a continually high standard
of play.
We still have two more weeks of
competition so we will put our ef-
fort towards that, he says. We have
to focus this week in practice, we
are certainly very focused and mo-
tivated to find success against our
main rivals.
When we get to the champion-
ships, it will make us stronger if we
have good depth in the lineup, he
wrote.
However, Slovenski also pointed
out frst years Calvin Henry, Bridg-
er Tomlin and Ryan Barrett, who
have transitioned well to college-
level cross country and have already
learned a lot since joining the team.
Tufs, at second-place with 59,
fnished over 30 points behind
Bowdoin and fell from their nation-
al ranking of 14th to 25th this week.
Tis coming weekend, the team
will look to sweep another invita-
tional, this time in Indiana at Ha-
nover College.
With their top-ten national rank-
ing, the men hope to return to Ha-
nover in mid-November for the
NCAA DIII Championship. Hoose
is looking forward to this weekend
as an invaluable experience and
the key piece of preparation for the
fnal race of the season.
Womens
The Bowdoin women placed sec-
ond in the Bowdoin Invitational
this past Saturday with a combined
score of 52 points behind a Tufts
SCORECARD
Sa 9/28 at Amherst L 2711
BY BROOKE BULLINGTON
STAFF WRITER
Last Saturday, the football team
traveled to Amhersts Pratt Field
for their first road game of the
season. The Polar Bears fell to the
Lord Jeffs 27-11, dropping their re-
cord to 0-2.
Amhersts defense held Bowdoin
to just 16 rushing yards, while gain-
ing 102 of their own. Despite this,
the teams were comparable in their
passing yards, with 178 and 196 for
Bowdoin and Amherst respectively.
We threw the ball better than we
did in week one, Joey Cleary 14
said. We need to work on getting
touchdowns and not feld goalsbut
that will come with experience.
Te Lord Jefs started the game
strong, scoring on their frst posses-
sion. Bowdoin subsequently drove
all the way to the one-yard line, but
a holding call prevented them from
a touchdown. Andrew Murowchick
16 kicked a feld goal to leave the
game at 7-3.
In the second quarter, Grim n
Cardew 14 forced a fumble that was
recovered by Cleary on the Amherst
33-yard line. Despite the ofensive
opportunity, the team was unable
to get a frst down, and a turnover
on downs prevented Bowdoin from
taking the lead. Amherst scored a
37-yard feld goal late in the quarter,
giving them a half-time lead of 10-7.
Cardew and Cleary both had
strong performances on defense,
with ten tackles each and three tack-
les for losses between the two.
I think our defense played re-
ally well. I think we played tough,
Cleary said. We were on the feld
a lot and we fought pretty hard. We
actually held them to pretty good
numbers.
Troughout the frst and second
quarter, eight punts were exchanged
between the two teams.
In the third quarter, the Polar
Bears advanced to Amhersts 29-
yard line but were cut short by a
turnover that resulted in a long drive
by the Jefs. Afer 14 plays, Amherst
scored a feld goal and pulled away
with a 10-point lead.
Amherst scored early in the
fourth quarter after a lengthy 13-
play drive. In Bowdoins next pos-
session, Amhersts interception led
to a 30-yard touchdown pass. Am-
herst led 27-3.
Football 0-2 after bowing down to Lord Jeffs
We didnt make the plays that
we were capable of making, said
Head Coach Dave Caputi. I think
we dropped seven passes in the
game. We have to play better across
the board.
With the game slipping away, the
Polar Bears ofense was able to con-
vert when Tommy Romero 14 threw
a 42-yard pass to David Black 15.
Sophomore Trey Browns two-yard
run marked Bowdoins frst touch-
down of the season.
Te loss was disappointing.
We defnitely expected to win,
Cleary said.
In many respects [Amherst] was
a good matchup for us, Caputi said.
Caputi attributes the loss to a lack
of consistency. According to Cleary,
although the Polar Bears created op-
portunities for themselves, they were
unable to capitalize on them.
We could have forced a few more
turnovers on defense and ofensively
we could have converted more in the
red zone, Cleary said.
Looking forward, they hope to
improve mistakes they made across
the board.
Its minor tweaking, refning and
repetition, Caputi said.
Te Polar Bears are set to face win-
less Tufs (0-2) tomorrow at 1 p.m.
XC
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15
team that led all competitors with
only 19 points.
According to JV runner Phoebe
Kranefuss 16, the race day weather
was not as ideal as hoped.
Te high temperatures made it
too hot for racing, in my opinion,
said Kranefuss.
Nevertheless, the women paced
themselves well, with sophomore
Lucy Skinner securing a second-
overall fnish at 22:45.12. Madelena
Rizzo 14 kept time with the top
Tufs women and fnished in ninth
place with a time of 23:33.74. Rizzo
was followed by Brenna Fischer 15
(15th, 24:17.05), Reaha Goyetche 14
(21st, 24:31.05), and Ally Fulton 16
(23rd, 24:40.90).
Goyetche credited a supportive
crowdwhich included an eager
fan dressed as a polar bearas a sig-
nifcant contribution to the teams
success. Skinner, for example, ran
alongside the top four Tufs wom-
en for the frst 5,000 meters of the
course. With 500 meters to go, she
looked to be in fourth place, then
with 300 to go she took third, and
on the last 100 meters, she secured
second.
Fischer commented on the posi-
tive impact the six frst years have
made on the team thus far in the sea-
son, specifcally Gillian Kramer and
Caroline Sun, who have impressed
the upperclassmen with strong top-
fve potential. Slovenski was proud
of their strategic racing.
We ran very well at 3-4-5, and
those are very important positions
for the team competition, wrote
Slovenski. Fischer, Goyetche, and
Fultonwent out at a fast pace, but
were able to pass a lot of people in
the fnal mile.
Looking ahead, Goyetche says the
team plans to continue getting faster
and stronger as the season pro-
gresses. Tis weekend, Melissa Del-
laTorre 14 will join Skinner, Rizzo,
Fischer, and Goyetche as they travel
to Hanover College Invitational in
Indiana.
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5
Sa 10/12
v. Bates
v. Amherst
11 A.M.
11 A.M.
Compiled by Joe Seibert
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
SCHEDULE
F 10/4
Sa 10/5
F 10/11
Sa 10/12
at Colby
v. Simmons @ MIT
at MIT
v. Connecticut College
v. Tufts
7 P.M.
1 P.M.
3 P.M.
8 P.M.
2 P.M.
MENS SOCCER
VOLLEYBALL
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5
Su 10/6
Sa 10/12
Su 10/13
at Trinity
at Bates
v. Hamilton
v. Williams
11 A.M.
3:30 P.M.
NOON
NOON
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5
Su 10/6
Williams Fall Classic (Day One)
Williams Fall Classic (Day Two)
1 P.M.
8 A.M.
NESCAC Standings
WOMENS GOLF
WOMENS RUGBY
FIELD HOCKEY
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5
Tu 10/8
Sa 10/12
Su 10/13
at Trinity
v. Husson
v. Hamilton
v. Williams
11 A.M.
7 P.M.
11 A.M.
NOON
MENS GOLF
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5 Colby Classic NOON
SAILING
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5 DanmarkTrophy (Coast Guard)
Womens Invitation (Bowdoin)
Hewitt Trophy (Dartmouth)
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
WOMENS SOCCER
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5
Sa 10/12
Su 10/13
at Trinity
v. Hamilton
v. Williams
NOON
11 A.M.
1 P.M.
W L W L
Amherst 4 1 6 2
Middlebury 4 1 7 1
Tufts 4 1 6 1
BOWDOIN 3 1 6 1
Trinity 3 2 5 3
Colby 2 2 5 2
Wesleyan 2 2 3 4
Conn. College 1 2 3 3
Hamilton 1 3 2 4
Williams 1 3 3 5
Bates 0 6 2 7
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
Amherst 5 0 1 7 0 1
Trinity 3 1 1 6 1 1
Wesleyan 3 1 0 4 3 0
Tufts 3 2 0 5 2 1
Williams 3 2 0 5 2 0
Middlebury 2 2 1 3 2 1
Hamilton 1 1 2 2 2 2
Conn. Coll. 0 2 2 4 2 2
Bates 0 3 2 1 3 2
BOWDOIN 0 2 1 2 2 2
Colby 0 4 0 3 4 0
NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L
Tufts 3 0 11 4
Williams 3 0 13 1
Middlebury 2 0 10 0
BOWDOIN 2 1 11 4
Conn. College 2 1 7 6
Colby 1 1 5 6
Amherst 1 2 8 5
Trinity 1 2 9 5
Hamilton 0 2 3 10
Bates 0 3 7 10
Wesleyan 0 3 4 9
NESCAC OVERALL
W L T W L T
Trinity 5 0 0 8 0 0
Middlebury 3 1 0 5 1 2
Tufts 3 2 0 4 3 0
Amherst 2 1 2 3 1 2
BOWDOIN 2 1 1 6 1 1
Williams 2 1 1 4 1 2
Hamilton 1 1 2 3 1 2
Bates 1 4 1 2 5 1
Wesleyan 0 2 2 1 3 3
Conn. Coll. 0 2 1 2 3 2
Colby 0 4 0 2 4 0
NESCAC OVERALL
*Bold line denotes NESCACTournament cut-o
SCHEDULE
Sa 10/5
Sa 10/12
at Tufts
v. Hamilton
1 P.M.
NOON
FOOTBALL
W L W L
Amherst 2 0 2 0
Middlebury 2 0 2 0
Trinity 2 0 2 0
Wesleyan 2 0 2 0
Bates 1 1 1 1
Colby 1 1 1 1
BOWDOIN 0 2 0 2
Hamilton 0 2 0 2
Tufts 0 2 0 2
Williams 0 2 0 2
NESCAC OVERALL
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Party foul
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or some students, this weeks federal government shutdown may not
mean much more than a cancelled weekend trip to Acadia National
Park. But not all Mainers are as insulated, and the spending freeze will
be felt most acutely by those who are already vulnerable. According to
the Portland Press Herald, funding for Section 8 housing subsidies for
low-income residents is only guaranteed through the end of the month;
if federal funds arent restored, landlords will have grounds to evict ten-
ants. Similarly, money for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Chil-
dren is likely to dry up if the shutdown is not resolved before the end of
the month, leaving the more than 26,000 Mainers who receive assistance
through those programs unable to cover their basic expenses. Te Low
Income Home Energy Assistance Program that subsidizes utility costs
which will only increase as the weather gets colderneeds federal con-
frmation before November to be able to help underwrite heating bills.
Te previous shutdown, which lasted for 26 days between November
1995 and January 1996, cost the federal government $1.4 billion. Bloom-
berg projects the current shutdown will cost the federal government about
$300 million a day. Te results of an extended shutdown will be enor-
mous, and a swif agreement seems like a tenuous hope. We will hit the
debt ceiling on October 17, and if the government surpasses it, the Trea-
sury will not have the authority to borrow funds to close the gap between
spending and revenues. Tough Speaker of the House John Boehner has
publicly stated that he wants to avoid defaulting on our loans, the shut-
down is an unnecessary crisis and his egregious mishandling leads us to
question his ability to navigate another critical fscal vote.
Te 1995-1996 shutdown was precipitated by back-and-forth bud-
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conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer, has hijacked the governing
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No room for generalization in the Opinion section
Last Tuesday, the federal govern-
ment shut down. And while I likely
have some civic duty to provide
you with my enlightened opinion
on this legitimately significant
event, this column is a selfish en-
deavor, so I will not. Also, go read
the New York Times.
Instead, Id like to use this pre-
cious space to brag: two weeks ago,
the Orient published the first of my
ramblings. Now, for those of you
who have been calling me Edward
R. Murrow, Im flattered, but please
stop. I know many see the Orient
as a steppingstone to the National
Review Online, but I must stay
humble in the face of great success.
And although seeing my delight-
fully pixelated headshot appear
next to the column name I spent
so long perfecting certainly gave
me a thrill, something was amiss.
I looked around the paper, closely
examining my compatriots in ram-
bling. Their articles provided seri-
ous reflections on issues important
to every Bowdoin student. Mine
ALL OUT
OF LOVE
DREW VAN KUIKEN
While the Colleges eorts
to bring racial diversity to
campus certainly deserve
praise, Bowdoin still remains
a relatively homogenous place.
typically dominate the section.
While a little hurt, I recognized
the importance of age diversity in
an opinions section and wanted to
help.
Of course, finding someone
older than 22 on a college cam-
pus proved easier said then done.
I turned to my roommate, Mark
Schiller 17, who is a goalie on the
hockey team here, and who Im
pretty sure is 38 (young for the
team). He declined my offer and
went to Moulton. Clearly, I wasnt
going to find any age diversity on
campus.
But before searching for racial
diversity, I did some thinking.
Why did the Orient feel desper-
ate enough to ask for literally any
writer not fitting my exact descrip-
tion to come write? As a white man
aged 18-22, do I feel a cultural
obligation to share my opinions
with you? My dad certainly never
told me that a white males duty
includes shoving my opinion in ev-
eryone elses face. Still, its hard to
deny the homogeneity of the opin-
ion page.
Granted, Bowdoin is a relatively
homogenous place. I come from
a high school with a surprisingly
high level of diversity for a board-
ing school, and coming to Maine
has been an adjustment. While the
Colleges efforts to bring racial di-
versity to campus certainly deserve
praise, Bowdoin remains a relative-
ly homogenous place.
Of course, the school came un-
der fire last year for placing too
much importance on racial di-
versity via a polarizing report au-
thored by the National Association
of Scholars (NAS). The Orients
decision to call for a diversity of
opinions is fodder in the cannon of
the NAS report, which was written
by two old white men, Peter Wood
and Michael Toscano.
But assuming that, campus di-
versity stays constant in the near
future, I tried to make do with
what we have. After asking Reyada
Atanasio 17, an African-American
student, why she doesnt want to
write, she told me she had noth-
ing to write about. I told her that
wouldnt be a problem. She still
declined.
So, the onus has fallen on me to
provide a fresh perspective. The
problem is: what exactly is that
new perspective? Dont get me
wrong; I fully support affirmative
action and I often argued with my
friends about its merit this past
year. I understand the tangible
impact a diversity of perspectives
brings to a campus and I trust the
smart people who tell me that af-
firmative action effectively brings
in many of those perspectives, but
I may be lost after that.
Our opinions dont
come from a mythical
guidebook restricted to
certain races and ages.
told people to laugh. Oh well. But
then I glanced at the editorial,
which proudly proclaimed: Help
Us. (September 13) I shuddered
before realizing I could still prob-
ably write for the Drudge Report
one day.
The editorial went on to call for
an Opinion page that [reflects]
the diversity of perspectives, ac-
tivities, and personalities we see on
campus and lamented the lack of
diversity among the white males
between the ages of 18 and 22 who
It if helps, I promise I wont write
too much about Wes Anderson or
folk music. Four columns each,
tops. I could reexamine my left-
leaning political beliefsI have a
hard time seeing that perspective
as one that a large number of white
males 18 to 22 years old would pro-
vide in my stead. Im kind of stuck.
But I dont totally believe that
is a bad thing. My attempt to find
a new writer actually showed me
that. The search for diversity can
often be a noble cause, but, beyond
that, I take issue with the logic of
the Orient in their editorial.
To say that my opinion too close-
ly mirrors any of my fellow opinion
columnists largely discounts both
their upbringing and mine.Our
opinions dont come from a mythi-
cal guidebook restricted to certain
races and ages.
While affirmative action can
ensure that people from different
cultures and places attend a cer-
tain school, it doesnt ensure a dif-
ference in their outlook. Just the
same, my race in no way ensures
that I provide the same outlook as
any of my peers. I would hope that
next time, the Orient takes this
into consideration when assuming
what it is that I believe.
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White American hasbara and a new look at the NAS report
Internet opinions: just because you have one does not make it valid
Lolcats, Bubble Spinner, Dolphin
Olympics, Epic Fails and universal
mockery of the formerly respected,
activist turned streaker Kony 2012
orchestrator, Joseph Russell. Te In-
ternet has allowed for the creation
and distribution of an amazing va-
riety of unique and, well, culturally
signifcant materials.
On a less important note, the In-
ternet has also made it so that any
and all opinions, thoughts, men-
talities, treatises and, of course,
rants can be broadly and instanta-
neously shared.
While exposure to a diverse
range of views can be eye-opening,
most of these views, frankly, are
worthless conjectures.
But fear not! Anything can be
defended on the Internet by con-
cluding a statement with a simple
but thats just my opinion.
This false justification needs
to stop. While you have a right to
your opinion, you most certainly
do not have the right to having
your view respected. Nothing is
above criticism.
To further burst the collective
bubble, all opinions are not created
equal. The amount of respect an
idea deserves is a function of its ba-
sis in evidence and logic, as well as
the background and qualifications
of the one who proposes it. Both of
thesereason and reputationare
essential to achieve the highest lev-
el of legitimacy. To illustrate, let us
examine a possible scenario.
On the opposing front, if you
consulted a well-regarded doctor
and he prescribed pulls of Sena-
tors Club whiskey and corndogs,
you might be equally averse to
this opinion, whichwhile from
a trusted sourceis not grounded
in science or logic. Thus, the com-
bination of sensibility and relevant
background are critical to the most
legitimate opinions.
Some opinions (again, on the
Internet) take the argument a step
too far in asserting that other peo-
ple are not at all entitled to their
own views.
This is ridiculous and echoes a
Big Brother mentality. Who am I to
say you are not allowed to believe
in the 10 days of Ivies? You, how-
ever, should not expect others to
readily accept your position on this
revered Bowdoin tradition.
It is not the job of others to try
and understand or rationalize your
opinion. Do not pout and feel
wronged if others ridicule your
stance. Have reason for your be-
liefs, articulate them, stop caring
what others think and understand
that some will always oppose you.
I would like to conclude with a
disclaimer that I understand the
irony of an Opinion writer bashing
the expression of opinions. I intend
this piece, however, to be a focused
critique on peoples complacency
with unsubstantiated viewpoints.
Not every opinion is of equal
merit. You may dismiss my points,
find my rationale unconvincing
and ultimately disagree with my
opinion, and that is fine.
I do not demand external approv-
al of my own view, but I certainly did
not leave it undefended.
Hasbara is a Hebrew word that
means explanation; it is also a
euphemism for Israeli propaganda.
It frames the actions and history
of Israel from the Zionist perspec-
tivefixating on technological
achievements and terrorism while
excusing or ignoring human rights
abuses and ethnic cleansing.
So I was not surprised to learn
that the National Academy of
Scholars (NAS) supports Israel,
and frequently
features stories
and blog-posts
that vilify Pales-
tinian activists,
effectively playing
on fears of ter-
rorism under the
guise of academid
scholarship.
It is a shame that after so much
research359 pages of information
and analysisthe NAS report came
to such a hollow conclusion: that
Bowdoin has a misplaced interest
in diversity and global thought,
and that the College is somehow
antithetical to the American ex-
periment.
Somewhere there exists an ac-
count of US history detailing how,
after sharing a peaceful Thanksgiv-
ing meal with indigenous Ameri-
cans (who disappear after this part
of the story), a group of brave and
independent pilgrims naturally
settled across the continent, scat-
tering education and freedom ev-
erywhere. And, according to that
same account, the United States
never had an empire that reached
from the Philippines to Puerto
Rico. And after Martin Luther King
Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech,
racism died.
But that history is the narrative
of White American hasbara.
America is not a monolithic en-
tity. It was never a country of unit-
ed people. There have always been
jingoistic and exploitative forces,
class differences, racism and vio-
lence, just as there have been rebel-
lious and liberating forces.
If the American experiment be-
gan with the genocide of a conti-
nent of native inhabitants, the slave
labor of millions of African-Amer-
icans, the support and funding of
repressive and authoritarian lead-
ers around the world, and an ever-
increasing gap between the wealth-
iest citizens and the rest, maybe
we should take
pride in being
called antitheti-
cal to that ex-
periment.
I believe that
diversity and re-
spect for other
cultures and his-
tories is crucial to the development
of global consciousness.
After the Civil War, Joshua
Chamberlain declared Bowdoin
College shut up in the past and
tried to prepare Bowdoin students
for the postbellum United States. If
Bowdoin does not teach us the has-
bara that the NAS claims is miss-
ing from our syllabus, they do so
in the spirit of Chamberlains effort
to prepare students for a complex,
changing world.
So I had to grimace when Barry
Mills defended Bowdoin by outlin-
ing the Colleges patriotism. In a
response, posted on the Bowdoin
Daily Sun on April 10, 2013, Mills
wrote, We are told by the NAS
that American Exceptionalism is
a term of derision on the Bowdoin
campus.
Yet, this is the same campus
that just this year hosted a public
performance of the United States
Marine Band in Farley Field House
and where each year at Convoca-
tion, we open the ceremonies by
singing America the Beautiful.
Why must Bowdoins patrio-
tism be defended? Exceptionalist
nationalist hasbara sends soldiers
to kill and die when there is no
need. As Bowdoin considers which
global histories are most relevant
to students education, perhaps it
makes sense not to glorify America
or its history.
Maybe it is insensitive to sing
America the Beautiful at con-
vocation each year because there
could be someone in the audi-
ence from Iraq who has person-
ally experienced Americas excep-
tional violence abroad, or a Native
American student who is expected
to sing the words, O beautiful for
American exceptionalism and
the denial of imperialism are the
result of American hasbara. As
Noam Chomsky describes, Educa-
tion is a system of indoctrination
of the young.
And it seems as though Thomas
Klingenstein and Peter Wood are
upset that we are not being indoc-
trinated the way they would like
the young to be.
Im aware that College is inevi-
tably indoctrinatory, and I dont
know what kind of indoctrination
I am facing at Bowdoin, but I sure
am glad that it is not the sort of
hasbara that the writers of the NAS
report would have me swallow.
You are diagnosed with a life
threatening disease. A man with
no credentials approaches you on
the street and, in complex and ac-
curate biological terms, explains
a reasonable means by which you
ONLY CHARCOAL
TO DEFEND
CHRISTOPHER WEDEMAN
As Noam Chomsky
describes, Education is
a system of indoctrination
of the young.
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
America is not a
monolithic entity.
It was never a country
of united people.
DEAL WITH IT
WILL POWERS
While you have a right to
your opinion, you most
certainly do not have the right
to your view being respected.
Nothing is above criticism.
could be cured. While his opinion
might be entirely sound and offer
the best way back to health, you
would still be hesitant to heed his
advice due to his lack of formal
medical authority.
pilgrim feet, knowing that the
beautiful land in that song has
been steadily destroyed since those
pilgrim feet arrived.
OCTOBER
20 1ui vowuoi ovii1 iviu.v, oc1oviv , io1
COURTESY OFTHE 1952 BOWDOIN BUGLE
BACK IN THE DAY: (Clockwise from top left) Students and alumni gather behind Hubbard Hall for a pep rally, Friends of the Collegecheer together, Bowdoin
takes on UMaine in the Alumni Weekend football game, Bowdoins Polar Bear mascot defeats its UMaine counterpart before the football game.
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FRIDAY
COMMON HOUR
Impact of Always-On Technology
Internet law expert Chris Wolf 76 will discuss Internet
hate speech as a societal problem and the importance of
protecting ones privacy and reputation online.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM
Improving Childrens Mental Health
The rst day of the two-day Communities in Action
symposium will focus on providing a better understand-
ing of behavioral and mental health challenges facing
children and young adults. Talks will include Translat-
ing Science into Public Policy and Toxic Stress and its
Impact on Early Learning and Health.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 3:30, 7:30 p.m.
FILM
American Beauty
The Bowdoin Film Society will screen Sam Mendes
Academy Award-winning drama starring Kevin Spacey
and Annette Bening as a suburban married couple.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
EVENT
Student Night at the Art Museum
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will host a
reception for students in celebration of their Maurice
Prendergast exhibit.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 7:30 p.m.
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TUESDAY
LECTURE
Erling Sjovold Artist Talk
Painter and Artist-in-Residence Erling Sjovold will give a
talk entitled Old River, New Shore. Old Shore, New River
focusing on his recent work.
Room 315, Searles Science Building. 7 p.m.
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SATURDAY
SYMPOSIUM
Improving Childrens Mental Health
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8:30 a.m.
FILM
American Psycho
The Bowdoin Film Society will present Mary Harrons
2000 adaption of author Bret Easton Ellis dark satire,
starring Christian Bale.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Peter Jenkin and George Lopez
Peter Jenkin, one of Australias top clarinetists, and pia-
nist and Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will
perform a program including Brahms and Bartk. They
will be joined by Eva Gruesser on violin for select pieces.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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MONDAY
INFORMATION SESSION
Global Citizens Grant
The Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good will
host an information session about the Global Citizens
Grant, which provides students with the opportunity to
engage in public service abroad.
Room 106, Banister Hall, Chapel. 7 p.m.
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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SUNDAY
FILM
La Reine Margot
Patrice Chreaus 1994 period lm based on the 1845
Alexandre Dumas novel will be screened by the Depart-
ment of Romance Languages.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
10
THURSDAY
LECTURE
Prendergast: Themes and Variations
Richard Wattenmaker, former director of the Archives of
American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, will lecture
about Prendergasts artistic process and analyze his
unique position as an artist. The lecture will be presented
in conjunction with the exhibition, Maurice Prendergast:
By the Sea at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Beaded Bling Bangle
Craft Center. 6 p.m.
9
WEDNESDAY

FILM
Manhattan Short Film Festival
Ten short lms from across the world will be screened as
a part of the Manhattan Short Film Festival. Viewers will
be asked to vote for the best lm.
Frontier Caf. 2 p.m.
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JERK PORK, BBQ CHICKEN
CHINESE PEPPER STEAK, TORTELLINI
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PORK RAGU, CHEESE QUESADILLA
FRIED CHICKEN, BBQ PULLED PORK
T
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CHICKEN PAD THAI, ROUND OF BEEF
JERK CHICKEN, STIR-FRIED VEGGIES
T
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BAKED POLLOCK, POT ROAST
TURKEY STEAKS, SALMON FRITTERS
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MUSSELS, GARLIC GRILLED EGGPLANT
VEGGIE LASAGNA, CHICKEN HOT POT
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FAJITA BAR, SPICY BAJA FISH TACO
CHICKEN ENCHILADAS, STROMBOLI
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MAHI MAHI, CHEESEBURGERS
BEER BATTERED DOGFISH, PIZZA
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Fall break starts after last class
Womens Volleyball v. Conn. College
Morrell Gymnasium. 8 p.m.
HOMECOMING WEEKEND
12
Tour of Edwards Center for Art & Dance
Edwards Center. 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m.
Football v. Hamilton College
Whittier Field. Noon.
STATES OF UNION Exhibition
Blue Gallery, Smith Union. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
13
Phil Soule Phlail 5K and Kids Fun Run
Farley Field House. 10:30 a.m.
Mens Soccer v. Williams College
Pickard Field. Noon.
Womens Soccer v. Williams College
Pickard Field. 1 p.m.
FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY