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Working group forms
to address housing
Data reveal demographic disparities
among students living on, o campus
BY JESSICA PIPER
ORIENT STAFF
A working group of students,
faculty and staff will be gathering
community input this semester to
develop recommendations for a new
policy regarding off-campus housing
that addresses both the financial
impacts of off-campus housing and
its effects on Bowdoins community
and social scene. The group plans to
submit its recommendations to Dean
of Student Affairs Tim Foster and
Senior Vice President for Finance and
Administration and Treasurer Matt
Orlando by the middle of April.
The groups formation follows an
announcement by Foster in January that
the College will only permit 200 students
to live off campus for the 2017-2018
academic year after 217 students lived
off campus this year. The percentage of
students living off campuscurrently
12 percenthas trended upward in
the past two years after holding steady
around eight percent between 2011
and 2014, according to the Colleges
Common Data Set.
Foster also cited a loss of over $500,000
in revenue for the College based on the
number of students living off campus this
year compared to the average between
2008 and 2015.
In an email to the student body on
Monday, Foster listed several statistics
which highlight the social disparities that
Residents of Off-Campus Housing
Compared to Student Population
White
Students of Color 36
and Nonresident
Aliens 19
50
Men
50
Women
39
35
Varsity
Athletes
45
Financial Aid
Recipients
28
Representation (% of students)
in population
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exist between on-campus and off-campus
housing. 81 percent of the students
living off campus are white, while only
19 percent are students of color and
international students. According to the
Colleges Common Data Set, 64 percent of
Bowdoins student body is white.
Just 28 percent of students living off
campus are recipients of student aid,
compared to 44.7 percent of the total
student body being on aid.
Foster also noted the disparity in
off-campus housing across gender and
between athletes and non-athletes. Sixty-
one percent of the students living off
campus are male, though the Bowdoin
student body is split equally in terms
of gender. Fifty-five percent of students
living off campus are varsity athletes, while
34.6 percent of the student body is on a
team, according to the U.S. Department
of Education Equity in Athletics Report.
The working group is really to look
at the development of an off-campus
housing policy. We wanted people who are
going to speak to different perspectives,
said Director of Residential Life (ResLife)
Meadow Davis, who is leading the group.
The group plans to meet with student
organizations, conduct open forums
and send a survey to the student body
to inform recommendations.
Weve already developed some ideas of
groups that we should talk to BSG, the
Alcohol Team, Peer Health, ResLife,
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SNOW DAY: (From left:) Sam Harder 20 slides down a hill by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on a metal tray while friends look on. Classes were cancelled
on Monday as a snowstorm hit much of New England.
Snow cancels class, brings joy and inconvenience
BY JANE CHANG
ORIENT STAFF
This past week Bowdoin was hit
by a series of snowstorms, the worst
of which occurred late Sunday night
and continued through Monday
morning. They were accompanied by
high winds. As a result, classes were
cancelled Monday, the first weather-
related cancellation in almost 10 years
and the second in close to 40 years, ac-
cording to a 2007 Orient article.
While many students were excited
by the cancellation and headed out-
side to enjoy the snow, Bowdoins es-
Home for how long? Bowdoin students
feel impact of immigration policies
BY JONO GRUBER AND CALDER MCHUGH
ORIENT STAFF
On Saturday, January 29, Bowdoin stu-
dents joined 4,000 Mainers at Portland In-
ternational Jetport (PWM) to protest Presi-
dent Donald Trumps immigration ban.
While no one was being held at PWM, the
protest was carried out to stand in solidar-
ity with people trapped both at U.S. airports
and around the world as a result of Trumps
executive order.
While many individuals who attend
political protests may not feel immediate
fear, some Bowdoin students do. We spoke
to four students who have been directly im-
pacted by our presidents actions: Mohamed
Nur 19, Giselle Hernandez 19, Anu As-
aolu 19 and Hayat Fulli 19.
Nur is the son of Somali immigrants.
His parents fled the Somali civil war in
the 90s and arrived in Portland in 1993.
While there are now thousands of Somali
people living in Portland, Nurs parents
were some of the first to come to Maine.
Weve been trying to get my moms
side of the family, our grandfather, some
of our uncles, to come to the US for years,
and now thats no longer going to be an
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sential employees from Facilities and
Dining Service set to work clearing
the roads and sidewalks and prepar-
ing meals for all on-campus students
and staff.
This [storm] was of particular
concern because of the rapidity of the
snowfall and the fact that there [were]
blizzard conditions in conjunction
with it, said Director of Facilities Op-
erations and Maintenance Ted Stam.
Stam said that one of the biggest
challenges his department faced this
week was having to remove the mas-
sive amounts of snow in such a short
option anymore [now that Somalia is on
the list of banned countries], said Nur.
Many of Nurs friends from home in
Portland have had similar experiences.
[The order] was absolutely insane,
because there are so many people that I
know in Portland who are from Soma-
lia, who are from Iraq, Iran, Syria. All my
friends are from those countries, and ev-
ery time I call home or text friends from
home, something new has happened,
said Nur.
Whether parents are stuck in Iraq,
or their sick grandma whos been trying
to come to the U.S. for decades cant
come here anymore and now she has
to stay wherever she is and continue to
be sick, its just really devastating and
difficult to hear.
Asaolu immigrated to Minnesota from
Nigeria in 2001 and while Nigeria is not
one of the seven countries on the ban, she
is nervous about the possible expansion of
the order.
Nigeria is not on the list, [but]
Somalia and Libya, other African
countries, are on the list and Muslim
territories and if you dont know, the
northern part of Nigeria is Muslim,
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window of time. In order to keep up
with the snowfall, all 20 of the Col-
leges grounds department employees
found themselves plowing, shoveling,
applying salt and sand and operating
the Colleges assortment of trucks,
plows and snowblowers.
In addition to the work done by
these employees on the central cam-
pus, outsourced contractors brought
larger machines to clear farther-away
areas such as the Farley Field House
parking lot.
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[and includes] Boko Haram terrorists,
said Asaolu.
While she would like to take some sort
of action, Asaolu has also felt the need to
monitor herself.
I shared [a petition] on Facebook,
then that night my mom called me she
said, Why are you doing thisyou dont
want to draw more attention to yourself
than you need to, Asaolu continued.
Theres a lot of fear because I want to be
active, but at the same time she is right. I
cant put myself in the open.
Hernandez is more personally con-
cerned about Trumps Mexican immigra-
tion policy and his proposed wall. Her
mother immigrated illegally from Mexico
and she knows people will not stop at-
tempting to enter the country.
A wall will just make it more danger-
ous for people trying to pass. said Her-
nandez. Hundreds of people, hundreds,
have died in the past decade coming into
the U.S. And [the wall] is just going to
increase those numbers. Its not going to
keep people out, its just going to make it
more dangerous for people to come.
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STUDENT SPEAK:
What was your initial reaction to the Snow
Day announcement? What did you do?

Nick Barnes 18
"I think I was kind of annoyed because I still had a lot
of work due Monday, but everyone in the library was
yelling and I couldnt really do anything so I had to go
ALEX WESTFALL home."

Kate Powers 17
"I knew that I would have to shovel my eight-car
driveway. My first reaction was that it would take
me a really long time. I shoveled for over two hours
and didnt even make it to my car, which is the last
car in the driveway.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON

SECURITY REPORT: 2/10 to 2/15
Friday, February 10
An injured athlete was taken from Farley Field House to
the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.
A fire alarm at Pine Street Apartments was caused by a
faulty detector.
An unregistered event was dispersed at Stowe Inn. Two
students took responsibility for hosting.
Excessive noise was reported on the third floor of
Stowe Inn.
A third-floor hallway wall at Ladd House was vandalized
during a registered event.
Saturday, February 11
Excessive noise was reported on the 15th floor of
Coles Tower.
A student was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital for
treatment of a chin laceration after falling at an off-cam-
pus residence.
A gathering was dispersed at Appleton Hall and the room
resident was cited for an alcohol violation.
A plastic spatula that was left on a hot burner caught fire
in the Ladd House kitchen. The fire department responded
and the building was ventilated to clear the smoke.
Rodger Heidgerken 20
"When I heard, I went into the hallway
wearing only underwear and started yelling,
SNOW DAY! SNOW DAY!' and it was not well
Sunday, February 12
A College van went off the road on I-295 in Freeport, causing received because everybody knew already and
minor damage. The student driver and two student passengers they were just like, Rodger shut up, what are
were not injured.
An ill student at Coleman Hall requested to be taken to the you doing?'"
Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic. Sophie de Bruijn 18
Monday, February 13 " I thought, Oh boy, Saturdays are for the boys
A large unregistered event, composed of students celebrating
snow day classes being canceled, was dispersed at Ladd House. but Snow Days? Snow Days are most certainly
A student accidentally smashed a wall mirror with a weight at for the girls.' I just really invested my day in some
the Peter Buck Fitness Center for Health and Fitness.
great friendships with some great ladies. Our love
for each other thawed the ice and plowed the
Wednesday, February 15
A student accidentally backed his vehicle into a parked stu-
way towards a new tomorrow."
dent car at Brunswick Apartments, causing minor damage. Alex Uys 20
"We played these crazy games, like these word
association games where you just ri back and
Compiled by the Office of Safety and Security. forth, like if I say dog, you say cat. It was wild. We
started doing that out of nowhere and we were on
a roll for 30 minutes."
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
BY SAMUEL FRIZELL
ORIENT STAFF
There is a large Tupperware on Pat
Myshrall's desk by the Hubbard-side
window of H-L Library, full of doggie
treats that have an unrivaled crunch
and smack of steak tartar. Professor
Paul Franco's black lab, Reggie, bounds
up to Pat's window every morning
for his snack, as do Mr. Jones, Bean,
Sam and Charlie, the other Bowdoin
dogs who know her like true Pavlov-
ian disciples, conditioned by her leg-
endary doggie treats and her croon-
ing affection.
But until recently, someone else had
been getting into Pat's Tupperware.
And he's not a dog. Nor has he ever
been invited. And before he was caught
in Librarian Sherrie Bergman's Ha-
vahart Live Animal Trap last Saturday,
the squirreldubbed Mr. Knightley
by the library staffhad stolen candy
from the library after breaking and en-
tering countless times.
The library staff relishes sharing
their Mr. Knightley anecdotes, and
Squirrelus Librarius
when I came in to visit, their stories
about the squirrel came down like
acorns on a windy fall day.
"I was sitting right there at my desk
by the window, and all of a sudden I felt
a swishing on my face. I thought it was
my hair," said Barbara Harvey, circula-
tion and government documents assis-
tant. "Then I felt a paw on my cheek.
Mr. Knightley was sitting on my shoul-
der."
Donna Van Dyck, the ordering as-
sistant in technical (tech) services, saw
Mr. Knightley scrupulously putting
the netting protecting a Quad-side
window into his mouth one bite at a
time, and then sneaking away with his
trophy to a tree. Someone else chimed
in that he has also been spotted drag-
ging large items like peanut butter jars
across the Quad. Digital Technology
Integration Librarian Mike McDer-
mott even saw him "casing the joint,"
citing Mr. Knightley's subtle inspection
of the various windows of the library,
undoubtedly searching out an entry-
way for a future break-in.
It was Mr. Knightley's frequent
visits to the library that earned him
his nickname.
"He was such a pet, you had to name
it," said Pat. "We named him afteroh
dear, Barbara, what was it?" Pat has a
low and soothing voice, and she looks
like everyone's favorite nanny. "You
know dear, I just can't remember. From
Jane Austen. 'Persuasion,' was that
where Mr. Knightley came from?" She
thought for a moment.
"It was 'Emma!'" said Barbara Har-
vey from the circulation desk, sud-
denly remembering that the squirrel
was named after Emma's judicious and
honorable suitor.
"You know, there's a three-year rule
with pets," said Pat slowly. "When
they've been around for that long, you
get to name them."
Lucy Smith, receiving coordinator
in tech services, believes there is more
than one Sciurus carolinensis in the li-
brary. She wrote a "tactical report" on
Mr. Knightley's first foray into H-L in
May, when he bounded through a two-
inch open window, flinging himself
from cubicle to cubicle like a trapeze
artist on the run.
"It's obvious that there is a squirrel
terrorist cell in the immediate environs
of H-L," she wrote an email to the li-
brary staff on May 25. "It will wreak
havoc on staff morale to remain con-
stantly alert to screams and other star-
tling behavior resultant from surprise
squirrel attacks. We urgently request
that Headquarters' top brass investi-
gate remediation measures."
Other members of the library staff
treated Mr. Knightley's raids with simi-
lar gravity.
"Homeland Security has branded
today a RED ALERT day for potential
squirrel attack," Sherrie informed the
staff in an email response on the same
day. Phyllis McQuaide, former super-
visor at the circulation desk, assigned
students to squirrel lookout posts, H-L
employee Greg Stowe suggested start-
ing "serious negotiations," while Dan
Cunningham in tech services went as
far as to recommend mandatory mus-
ket training for the library staff.
Guy Saldanha, InterLibrary Loan
supervisor, explained the legal proce-
dures underway against Mr. Knightley
after he'd been trapped in a Havahart
last weekend.
"We were afraid he would not re-
ceive a fair trial," said Guy. "So he was
brought to South Harpswell pend-
ing arraignment." Guy added that Mr.
Knightley's assaults appeared suspi-
ciously well-planned.
"He was very familiar with the layout
of the library," he said. "I don't want to
say it was an inside job, but we're not
ruling out purposeful negligence on
the part of the staff."
Sherrie blamed the recent squirrel
intrusions on the architecture of H-L.
There are no steps leading up to the en-
trance, she said, and the windows are
low to the ground and have no screens.
"The library is squirrel-compliant,"
she said.
After the flurry of squirrel stories,
everyone went back to their desks to
work. Sherrie walked by Pat's desk on
her way back to her office. "Oh, Sherrie,
I forgot to tell you," said Pat. "There's a
mouse in admissions."
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NEWS IN BRIEF Cold War party will continue without wallCOMPILED BY JESSICA PIPER
BY ISABELLE HALL
ORIENT STAFF
COLLEGE RESTATES SUPPORT MacMillan House and Quinby House
doing Cold War, what are the thoughts
of the campus? And if there was enough
concern, if we found people were seri-
ously upset about it, we were definitely
MacMillan, was not concerned by the
partys theme and supports the Houses
mutual decision to host the event.
As someone who is personally

FOR AFFECTED STUDENTS AMID will co-host their annual Cold War party
this Saturday, despite the Inter-House
Council (IHC) Executive Committees
IMMIGRATION CONCERNS recommendation to cancel the event.
The party, held annually, features Mac-
In an email to students and employees on Tuesday, Associate Dean of Students for Millan as the Soviet Union and Quinby
Diversity and Inclusion Leana Amez wrote that she will serve as Bowdoins point as the United States. In past years, stu-
person for students immigration-related issues. Amez also reiterated the Colleges dents have constructed a wall out of
commitment to supporting students affected by the immigration policies of President snow between the two houses, but mem-
Donald Trump. bers agreed not to construct a wall this
Amezs email cited deportation actions by federal immigration officers that made year because they deemed it inappropri-
news last week as cause for a heightened state of anxiety for vulnerable communities, ate given the discourse about walls in
including members of the Bowdoin community. She noted, as President Clayton Rose current American politics.
has previously stated, that the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs has been in contact Tessa Westfall 18, President of the
with students who could be affected by the policies, and continues to provide appro- IHC and former member of MacMillan,
priate support, including access to legal resources. said that the IHC objected to the party
On Tuesday, several major national news outlets reported that a 23-year-old man theme based on the recent actions of the
named Daniel Ramirez Medina, who had been protected under the Deferred Action Trump administration.
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program under the Obama administration, was ar- The goal of the Houses is to serve
rested by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Seattle. campus, said Westfall. A lot of people on
Under DACA, individuals who were brought to the United States undocumented as this campus are directly affected by new
children could register with the government and receive permission to work or attend executive orders that the presidential
school, as well as a two-year relief from deportation. About 750,000 immigrants are administration is performing, [so] I think
registered with DACA nationwide. that a performative nationalism party is
In an executive order on January 25, Trump expanded the categories of immigrants not in the best interest of campus.
who are considered a priority for deportation. Under the Obama administration, de- Officers from the executive com-
portation priority was mostly reserved for individuals who were convicted of a serious mittee, who lead the IHC, offered their
crime or were deemed a threat to national security, but Trumps executive order ex- opinion to the IHC, which includes the
panded this label to include people who have committed acts that constitute a charge- vice president and programming direc-
able criminal offense and gave immigration officials more discretion in deporting tor from each College House. However,
individuals. the Houses themselves were ultimately
Full data on the immigrants arrested by ICE since the executive order have not been responsible for deciding whether to hold
made public. the party.
Last Thursday, MacMillan House
hosted a discussion in order to re-
ceive student input on its intention to
interested in changing the theme, said
Michael Lee 19, vice president of Mac-
Millan. No one came to that talk, so
we were like, Alright, were going to go
through with it.
According to Quinby House Vice
President Jon Luke Tittmann 19, only
members of MacMillan and Quinby
attended the discussion, although the
small turnout may have resulted from a
lack of advertising.
For me, the most compelling argu-
ment against having the party was that
America stands for a lot of different
things now, due to the political climate,
than it did a couple months ago, and
some of those things are negative
things that attack peoples identities, said
Tittmann. And so the idea of having a
lot of drunk people in a college basement
chanting USA might inherently seem
exclusive to people who think America
stands for something that is not inclusive
right now.
But Tittmann suggested that the party
will not necessarily have a negative effect.
However, its also dangerous to as-
sume that people will feel that thats
exclusive, said Tittmann. Its hard to
choose whether or not we should have
this party, I think, because so many peo-
ple identify themselves and identify what
America means to them in such different
ways. So my idea is that we should throw
the party but have a really mindful
party and try to be as inclusive as pos-
affected by the election of Donald
Trump and whose family will be af-
fected by the policies that he wants to
put in place, a Cold War party, which
is obviously supposed to be satirical
and funny, is really small in terms of
the scale of things that I could be hurt
by with respect to things that Donald
Trump could actually do as president,
Hassane said.
Following their discussions, MacMil-
lan and Quinby decided to discontinue
the tradition of building a snow wall be-
tween the two houses this year.
I think walls stand for a lot of
things this year that they didnt
stand for last year, and in previous
years, said Tittmann. And so the
question is, again, do we need the
wall? If we have the wall, would that
imply certain inherently exclusive
ideologies and things like that?
In the actual party, I dont think
the wall is going to make that much
of a difference, so I think thats an
actionable thing that we can get
rid of to make the party seem more
inclusive, he added.
This is not the first time that the Cold
War partys theme has been a topic of
discussion.
Ive always found the party to be
questionable, especially two years ago
when I was living in Mac, just because it
is based off of a war, said Mitsuki Nishi-
moto 17, Quinby House proctor. Its

College Houses scrap affiliate have the party.

We said hey, were thinking about

So many people identify themselves and

sible.
Kinaya Hassane 19, a member of
not really something to celebrate, and
I always thought that there were better
ways to showcase this rivalry between

requirement, MacMillan House identify what America means to them in such

different ways. So my idea is that we should
Mac and Quinby.
Nonetheless, Nishimoto was pleased
with the conversations that led to the

receives most applications

BY PETE BULL
ORIENT STAFF
College House applications, which
were due on Sunday, allowed stu-
dents to apply to any house, regard-
less of their first-year affiliation.
Two-hundred and ninety students
applied to live in College Houses
this year, up from 270 last year, but
still well short of the 341 students
who applied in 2012. There are 201
living spaces available in the College
House system, split among the eight
houses.
MacMillan House received the
most applications of any College
House for the 2017-2018 academic
year with 61. Baxter House was the
second-most popular house, fol-
lowed by Quinby House.
In previous years, students could
only apply to live in a house if a
member of their block was affiliated
with that house as a first year. House
affiliations are determined randomly
by first-year floor, with the exception
that all chem-free floors are automat-
ically associated with Howell House.
Housing decisions will be an-
nounced in early April. The results are
non-binding, meaning that students
are not required to live in the house
that they are accepted to, a departure
from the policies of previous years.
Assistant Director of Residential
Life (ResLife) Mariana Centeno was
one of the people who administered
change to the application and deci-
sion policy.
One of the major reasons I de-
cided to make that [change] is that
youre always struggling to make
your block, which meant that some-
times people would end up blocking
Houses choice.
throw the party but ... have a really mindful Ultimately, I want it to be the Houses
decision, and I think it was really great
party and try to be as inclusive as possible. that a lot of critical conversations came
with people they didnt really know out of the planning.
because they just really wanted to JON LUKE TITTMAN 19 Jessica Piper contributed to this report.
live in Ladd, said Centeno. The
benefit of the decision to allow peo-
ple to move outside their affiliations
is that it puts the power in the stu-
dents to say where they want to live.
Like in previous years, students
were allowed to list houses they
would like to live in beyond their
first choice. But this year, ResLife
will create a waiting list for each
house, which could allow students
to gain a spot in a house if other stu-
dents decline.
The waitlist is now more formal-
ized will create a really robust round
two, Centeno said.
Rhianna Patel 20 wants live in a
College House for the shared living
space.
I like the camaraderie of a [first-
year] floor, and from what Ive heard
from upperclassmen, if you choose
to live in, say, Stowe Hall, you dont
interact with many people outside of
your roommates, Patel said.
Tessa Peterson 20 said positive ex-
periences with College Houses as a first
year influenced her decision to apply.
I participated in BOC Leader-
ship Training in the fall, and a lot of
my closest sophomore friends live
in College Houses and have [had] a
really positive experience there, so I
felt very welcomed into the College
House fold, she said. I enjoy the
small insular community and living
with my friends. There are draw-
backs like the lack of privacy or the
responsibility for the space, but oth-
erwise I was able to see a lot of posi-
tives. Having a space to hold events
and be a community ... was a pretty
big deal for me.
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Muslim Mainers talk life and activism under Trump

BY HORACE WANG
ORIENT STAFF
Four Muslim immigrants and refu-
gees from Portland and Lewiston
shared concerns as well as messages of
hope about living in Maine under Presi-
dent Trumps administration at a panel
discussion on Tuesday. Over 70 people
crowded into Howell House to hear
them speak.
Opinions among the panelists were
divided, with some more optimistic
than others.
I believe that things are OK, said
Abdullahi Ahmed, assistant principal
at Deering High School in Portland. I
think that this is a time when people
with this crisiswill come together and
move forward, and I think that good
things will come out of this.
Pious Ali, Portland City Council
member and the first African-born Mus-
lim to hold elected office in Maine, spoke
about how Islam has never been fully
accepted in the United States despite its
long-standing history in the country.
However, he agreed that there was reason
to stay positive, pointing to the increase
nationwide in Muslims who ran for of-
fice in 2016, especially compared to the
number who ran when he was elected to
the Portland Board of Education in 2013.
Other panelists did not fully share
Ahmed and Alis optimistic outlooks.
Writer and Muslim scholar Reza Jalali
addressed the possibility of Muslims be-
ing fingerprinted, documented or sent
to camps in the months to come.
Please dont blame us for being
frightened, said Jalali. At times I find
myself pleading and asking my stu-
dents and others that if I should be reg-
istered, would you also stand up with
me and demand to be registered?
Panelists also discussed their person-
al experiences with protesting and gave
advice on mobilizing against Trump.
Fatuma Hussein, founder of United
Somali Woman of Maine, recalled the
racism that she and other Somalis en-
countered when they first moved to
Lewiston.
Reflecting on her own experiences
protesting against Lewiston Mayor
Robert Macdonald and Maine Gover-
nor Paul LePage, Hussein addressed the
need for Americans to be allies with the
Muslim community.
We really have to do a lot of work
and create a foundation thats not
jeopardized by fear, said Hussein.
In American culture, many people
are against what they see, but you
dont see them rise and speak up. We
need to break that silence and speak
up for the vulnerable.
The event was organized by the Mus-
lim Student Association and moderated
by Salim Salim 20 and Mohamed Nur
19both of whom come from immi-
grant families living in Maine. Nur de-
cided to organize the event to humanize
the discussion about refugees and im-
migrants in the current political climate.
I wanted to have something on
campus to talk about Muslim refu-
gees and immigrants in Maine, Nur
said. I think that when we think of
immigrants and refugees, theyre
nameless, faceless, and that really
isnt true.
MEGHAN PARSONS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Attendees said the event allowed
STRENGTH IN COMMUNITY: Mohamed Nur 19 (left) looks on while Portland City Councilor Pious Ali, the first African-born Muslim to hold an elected
them to better understand the experi-
ence of being Muslim in Maine as well oce in Maine, addresses students at an event entitledThe Faces of ME: The Lives of Muslim Immigrants and Refugees in Maine under a Trump Presidencyon Monday.
as how to be a better ally to the immi-
grant and refugee communities. rect it to something specific, said Rayne political process. but we never really go out and push
Before [the panel] I had been a gen- Stone 18. I think the panelists gave me Eskedar Girmash 20 echoed this ourselves to change these things, and I
eral ally to the cause, but I hadnt figured an idea of how to use my privilege to get sentiment. think thats something we should strive
out [how] to channel that energy and di- involved in these organizations and the We talk about issues on campus, to do, said Girmash.

BSG discusses College climate action, carbon neutrality HOUSING

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BY EMILY COHEN
ORIENT STAFF
On Wednesday night, Bowdoin
Student Government (BSG) welcomed
Coordinator for a Sustainable Bowdoin
Keisha Payson to update members on
the Colleges progress and goals in
its sustainability efforts, specifically
Bowdoins goal of becoming carbon
neutral by 2020.
At the meeting, Payson explained
that the College is seeking to reduce
its own emissions from electricity,
fuel combustion and other onsite
sources by 28 percent by 2020, and
account for the rest of its emissions
through renewable energy credits.
The initiative began in 2008.
Payson reported that as of
2016, the College had reduced its
emissions by 19 percent. This figure
represents a smaller reduction
from 2008 levels than Bowdoin has
reached in the past. It reached 22
percent in 2012.
Despite this setback, Payson
and the Office of Sustainability are
continuing efforts to reduce carbon
emissions, with ongoing projects
such as increasing solar energy
usage and a new water turbine that
generates six percent of the Colleges
electricity. Payson also outlined
possible future actions to achieve
Bowdoins original goal including
insulating old buildings on campus
and incorporating more hybrid cars
in the Colleges fleet.
Payson said another significant
aspect of the Colleges climate
action initiative is reducing waste.
Bowdoin has been successful in
this area: in 2016, it diverted 50
percent of its waste from landfills
and incinerators, the highest waste
diversion ratio ever achieved by the
College. This waste was recycled (42
percent) or composted (8 percent).
Nevertheless, the College
produced over one million pounds
of trash last year. Projects to further
reduce trash include increasing
composting opportunities and
offering reusable containers for to-
go food.
Overall, Payson cited behavior
changes as a critical factor in
reaching the goal of carbon
neutrality. Two projects recently
initiated by the Office of
Sustainabilitythe Green Living
Commitment, in which individuals
pledge to change their habits, and
an eight-week competition between
residence halls to reduce energy
useaim to encourage students to
make simple changes that reduce
their carbon footprint.
This is just another opportunity
for students to engage in thinking
about how to conserve energy, said
Payson. When you leave Bowdoin,
once you have your first apartment,
when youre paying that electric bill,
or youre paying that heat bill, youll
be like, Oh yeah, I remember those
things that I learned at Bowdoin that
I can implement now.
In an interview with the Orient,
Payson said that while she didnt
have a specific agenda for BSG
involvement, she is open to
fostering a relationship with the
assembly, perhaps through funding
and publicity.
I would love [BSGs] support in
helping to promote both our carbon
neutrality goal and our dorm energy
competition, our Green Living
Commitmentany of those projects
that were working on that engage
with students, Payson said. Or if
theyre working on something and
they see an opportunity to connect
with what were doing, I welcome
that.
The BSG meeting continued with
an overview and discussion of BSGs
upcoming events and proposals.
One proposal is a campus-wide
party that addresses the perception
that Bowdoins social life has been
moving more toward off-campus
residences, raising concerns about
security and inclusivity.
The event, a competition of
parties between Baxter, Ladd and
Quinbyeach of which will team up
with various other campus groups
such as a cappella groups, varsity
sports teams and cultural student
groupsaims to bring different parts
of campus together and demonstrate
how College Houses can be a fun, all-
inclusive place to party, according to
Vice President for Student Affairs
Ben Painter 19, who introduced the
idea to the committee and lives in
Quinby House.
Other future plans for BSG include
hosting a panel of professors to
discuss class at Bowdoin, a Social
Hour for faculty, staff and students
in Jack Magees Pub from 5 to 7 p.m.
this evening and Winter Weekend
festivities, including horse-drawn
carriage rides, this weekend.
Davis said. But then there are a lot
of students who arent connected to
the natural groups, so wanting to
make sure we hear from students who
are living off campus this year [and]
students who are planning to live off
campus next year. So [we plan on]
specifically inviting those groups of
students to come in and talk to us.
Parker Sessions 18, who is a member
of the working group, highlighted the
importance of student engagement with
the groups process.
Bowdoin [is] going to make an off-
campus housing policy, Sessions said. I
wanted to be able to contribute my point
of view and hope that we can get to a
meaningful [and] fair compromise.
Such a compromise is expected to
include a limit on the number of students
permitted to live off campus as is the
policy of most NESCAC schools as well
as incorporating improvements to on-
campus housing.
Hopefully well be able to tweak
some of the College policies that will
incentivize kids to live on campus,
Sessions said.
He cited the lack of washers and
dryers in Harpswell Apartments and
Pine Apartments as opportunities for
the College to improve amenities in
upperclass housing.
The working group is comprised of
Davis, Sessions, Irfan Alam 18, Esther
Nunoo 17, Carlie Rutan 19, Reeder

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Intergroup Dialogue accepts half of applicants for spring

BY EDUARDO JARAMILLO
ORIENT STAFF
Sixteen studentsonly half of
those who appliedwere accepted
for Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) for
the spring semester. The program
consists of seven two-hour sessions
during which students discuss issues
surrounding race and identity.
Associate Dean of Students for Di-
versity and Inclusion Leana Amez said
that the reasoning behind not accept-
ing all applicants hinges on a need for
small groups, which are more condu-
cive to having in-depth conversations.
It gets harder and harder to find your way
into the dialogue if there are too many
people in the room.
LEANA AMEZ, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS
FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Not every student jumps on pub-
lic speaking, and so for students that
really hang back and wait it gets
harder and harder to find your way
into the dialogue if there are too
many people in the room, she said.
When IGD began in 2014, only one
group of students participated in the
program. Since two groups of students
participated during the fall semester,
this academic year will see three groups
of students go through the program.
Amez said that an increase in the
number of faculty, staff and administra-
tors trained to lead these conversations
allows the College to run more groups.
At the end of the program, par-
ticipants have the chance to decide
if they want to undertake another
four-hour training session and be-
come certified to facilitate conver-
sations for other groups on campus,
such as athletic teams or College
House members.
Esther Nunoo 17 took part in
IGD during the fall of 2014, and re-
members the program as a safe and
positive environment to have un-
comfortable conversations.
I think what I appreciated about
it the most was that before they sent
us out to facilitate discussions, it
made me uncomfortable on many
different levels, which is something
that I didnt expect to happen to the
extent that it did, because I like hav-
ing hard conversations. So I like that
it put us through that, Nunoo said.
However, Nunoo believes that not
all students who go through the pro-
gram should end up as facilitators, a
sentiment that Dean Amez echoed.
I like having hard conversations. So I like
that it put us through that.
ESTHER NUNOO 17
I think that the expectation
seemed to be that they had to facili-
tate, and I dont want students to sign
up just because they really like to be
facilitators and leaders, Amez said.
I want some students who really do,
and I want some students to sign up
just because they want to be part of a
seven-week dialogue on race.
Looking to the future, Amez
hopes to increase the number of
conversations led by students who
have completed IGD. Although the
program has had no problems find-
ing applicants, she believes that
more can be done to encourage
student groups to take advantage
of trained facilitators in single-ses-
sion workshops.
Part of that is thinking about
how we do some outreach to groups
to let them know that these work-
shops are available and that this is
what you do to sign up for a work-
shop and this what it would look
like, she said.
She also sees the role of IGD as
something that might change going
forward and believes the programs
format can be used to help students
have meaningful conversations fo-
cused on issues other than race
and identity.
I think theres a lot of potential
to use [the IGD] model for other
things, she said. We consistently
hear from students that we dont talk
enough about class.

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Stam also noted the necessity of
maintaining power throughout such
weather emergencies. Director of
Dining Mary Kennedy said that this
was also a major concern of Din-
ing Service.
Thats why Im here, said Kennedy,
in response to the possibility of a power
outage. Operationally they dont really
need me, but if something happened
and people just couldnt get here or we
lost the power, then people [would]
be too busy getting the food out to be
making [special] arrangements.
In order to make sure that as many
dining employees as possible can make
it to work during serious storms, Ken-
nedy explained that the College makes
the night at the nearby Brunswick Inn.
We spend a lot of time with whos
coming from where, [and if they] can
get home at the end of the shift, said
Kennedy. Usually they dont want to
stay; usually they want to go home,
but then they realize its bad, so many
of us stay [at the Inn].
Kennedy said that one employee
who needed to be at the dining hall by
5:30 a.m. was given a ride to work by a
man plowing her neighborhood. He
saw her in her driveway trying to get
out and he said You think youre go-
ing somewhere? and she said I have
to go to work!
In addition to causing some
minor complications for commuting
employees, not all students were
thrilled with the storm.
Ive grown up all my life just in sun
and I used to complain about the sun,
but I would take that over this any
day, said Amanda Rickman 20, who
is from Jamaica.
Other students took advantage of
the lack of classes.
I saw some people sliding down the
steps of the museum while on trays,
and it actually worked, said Clare
Murphy 20. There was an excited vibe
on campus, and I could tell people were
really happy about having the day off.
Kennedy picked up on this positive
atmosphere at Thorne Hall on
Monday.
People came in much more leisurely
[and] I didnt miss the 1:10 p.m. rush
when everyone comes in, Kennedy
said. Everyone was pretty laid back, ALEKSIA SILVERMAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Japanese Students Association plans remembrance of internment
BY ROHINI KURUP
ORIENT STAFF
Next week, the newly formed Japa-
nese Students Association and the Stu-
dent Center for Multicultural Life will
pay tribute to the 75th anniversary of
Japanese-American internment during
World War II. With themes of remem-
brance and commemoration, the week
will focus on a student-created exhibit
representing the dehumanization of
Japanese Americans and a lecture by
Associate Professor of History and En-
vironmental Studies Connie Chiang
to provide important historical and
cultural context to Japanese-Ameri-
can internment.
February 19 marks the 75th anni-
versary of President Roosevelts Ex-
ecutive Order 9066, which ordered the
internment of Japanese Americans in
concentration camps in response to
growing anti-Japanese legislation and
racism in the U.S. and the bombing of
Pearl Harbor.
In years past, events commemorat-
ing the Day of Remembrance have
been smaller in scale. This year, how-
ever, students felt that the event was
even more important to mark given the
current political climate.
The Day of Remembrance ex-
hibit will be installed in public
spaces such as the dining halls on
Bowdoins campus. It is based on
a similar project by artist Wendy
Maruyama on display in the Uni-
versity Art Gallery at San Diego
State University. Maruyama created
thousands of tags similar to the ones
Japanese Americans were forced to
wear when taken to the internment
camps. The students working on the
project were inspired by the strik-
ing visual and wanted to recreate it
at Bowdoin.
Bowdoin students bridge gap between liberal arts and public health
BY ALYCE MCFADDEN
ORIENT STAFF
Students interested in public health
and medicine have stepped off campus to
volunteer at Oasis Free Clinics in order
to gain an interdisciplinary perspective
on practicing health care and supple-
ment their experiences in the classroom.
Oasis is an organization in Brunswick
that offers free medical care to the unin-
sured and low-income members of the
local community.
Sarah Steffen 16 started volunteering
with Oasis during her sophomore year
at Bowdoin. She graduated last semester
CHECK-UP: Sarah Steen 16 volunteered at Oasis when she was a student and is now an employee.
FEATURES
A travel tag for luggage makes sense
but a travel tag for a person is dehu-
manizing, said Kiki Nakamura-Koya-
ma 17, one of the interns at the Stu-
dent Center for Multicultural Life and
an organizer of the project. Organizers
plan to install the tags in the dining
halls, where they cannot go unnoticed.
As with Maruyamas work, the ap-
proximately 400 travel tags made by
students will commemorate the in-
carcerated Japanese Americans by dis-
playing their names, relocation centers
and assigned identification numbers.
Another key part of the commemo-
rations will be Chiangs talk. Mitsuki
Nishimoto 17, co-president of the
Asian Students Association and a
leader of the Japanese Students Asso-
ciation, invited Chiang to speak on the
event because of her expertise on Japa-
nese incarceration.
We thought that she would be a
great person to not only educate the
campus about the history and legacy of
that but also to facilitate a conversation
of what remembrance means in the
present day, Nishimoto said.
In her talk, Chiang will discuss the
broad history behind the Japanese in-
carceration, highlighting the fact that
the incarceration of Japanese Ameri-
cans during the war was the culmina-
tion of years of federal and state-sanc-
tioned anti-Japanese sentiment. She
will also talk about the impacts of the
incarcerations and the parallels to to-
days xenophobia and politics.
This is not something that hap-
pened in just three years, it actually
started much earlier and continues to
this day, said Chiang.
It has had a very long-lasting im-
pact on the Japanese-American com-
munity specifically but I think Asian-
Americans more broadly, said Chiang.
In the second half of the program,
and has been an employee at Oasis since
January. Steffen said that her work with
the organization has equipped her with
a unique perspective on medicine and
public health that correlates with her ex-
perience as a student in a liberal arts in-
stitution.
I originally wanted to be a biology
major, but once I started taking sociol-
ogy classes I was hooked, and I couldnt
go back, Steffen said. I love that Oasis
works with a vulnerable population and
shows that there is a combination of so-
cial factors that influence health.
As an employee at the clinic, Steffen
coordinates Oasiss events, manages its
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WRITING TO REMEMBER: Mitsuki Nishimoto 17 (left) and Kiki Nakamura-Koyama 17 recreate travel tags that Japanese Americans wore when they
were forced from their homes and taken to internment camps. The tags are part of an installation for the Day of Rememberance marking 75 years since the internment.
Chiang will facilitate a discussion. She
plans to bring documents, such as a
copy of Executive Order 9066 and a
loyalty questionnaire for attendees to
look through and discuss.
Chiang said that she hopes that stu-
dents of all backgrounds will find the
talk interesting, regardless of whether
or not they have an immigrant back-
ground or have a personal connection
to the historical events.
Nishimoto said that while it has
always been important to remember
the internment of Japanese Americans,
this year it felt particularly pertinent.
Remembrance, I think, takes on
social media and is in the process of con-
ducting a community-needs assessment
to evaluate how the clinic can improve its
care for patients.
It can be hard to find opportunities to
get your foot in the door in public health
because Maine doesnt have a big central-
ized public health program, said Steffen.
But if you find a mentor at a hospital or
a smaller clinic that can be a really good
way to meet other people who are re-
ally passionate about what they do.
Julia Michels 17 has worked with Oa-
sis since the beginning of her junior year
at Bowdoin. She said that shadowing
physicians and interacting directly with
patients has been the most rewarding
part of her volunteer experience.
A lot of patients have mental health
issues or unhealthy habits, and the
doctors really respect that and try to
make them healthier, happier humans,
she said. Theres never any judgement
for their actions or their history or
their past.
Students are not the only Oasis
volunteers with Bowdoin ties.
Director of Health Services Jeffrey
Maher volunteers at Oasis once every
three weeks and is enthusiastic about
helping connect students with Oasis.
Maher became involved with the clinic
before working at Bowdoin after being
frustrated with his inability to treat
patients without health insurance. He
describes the community need which
even greater meaning in this current
political climate, Nishimoto said.
Nishimoto added that President
Trumps recent executive order barring
immigration from seven predominant-
ly Muslim countries and his proposed
Muslim registry offered significant
parallels to the events of the World War
II period.
Chiang plans to touch on the
parallels between the incarceration of
Japanese Americans in World War II
and Trumps recent executive order.
I think there are real substantive
differences but also uncanny parallels
as well, Chiang said.
Oasis seeks to fill as endless.
Until a decision is made at a macro
level to insure everybody, my best re-
sponse is a micro level: what can I do to
help in the time that I have, he said. Its
a challenge to think of that every day, but
you do the best you can.
Anita Ruff, executive director of Oasis
Free Clinics, emphasized the importance
of volunteering for students interested
in medicine.
You may be doing a wide variety of
things that may not seem interesting or
fulfilling to you, but every opportunity
is a chance to learn, she said in a phone
interview with the Orient. Whether its
learning about public health directly or
how to be a good teammate or what it
means to run a good program.
The opportunity to complete a rigor-
ous education in a variety of disciplines
while still pursuing a career in medicine
is part of what drew Ilana Olin 20 to
Bowdoin. She hopes to start volunteer-
ing with Oasis.
I also really like philosophy, and not
being on a strict pre-med track where ev-
ery [first year] is doing the same thing, I
have the opportunity to take the classes I
want to and get a liberal arts education,
she said.
Olin is a certified Emergency Medi-
cal Technician (EMT) and worked as a
member of an ambulance crew during
high school. At Bowdoin, Olin is part of
the Public Health Club and volunteers at
friday, february 17, 2017
LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Nakamura-Koyama hopes that the
talk and installation will encourage
people to notice the contemporary
relevance of the incarcerations.
We forget so easily that we had
discriminated against an entire people
just because they had the face of the
enemy, she said. That is the message
that I want to get out, remembering
that Americas history is not as pure as
wed like to believe and that were very
vulnerable, in times of fear like right
now, to making this mistake again.
The art installation will be set up on
Sunday, February 19, and the lecture will
take place the following Wednesday.
Partners for World Health, a Portland-
based organization that sends unused
medical products to developing coun-
tries. She is looking forward to joining
Steffen in volunteering at Oasis, which
she hopes will provide her with yet an-
other perspective on what it means to
work in the field of public health.
I think the more exposure I get to
different areas of medicine, the more in-
terested and more passionate I become,
she said.
Oasis is not the only place where Bow-
doin students have found an outlet to
gain experience in public health.
Mason Bosse 18 believes that working
or volunteering with medical organiza-
tions is critically important for students
interested in careers in medicine or pub-
lic health. Bosse is also a licensed Ad-
vanced EMT and works on ambulance
crews based in both Lisbon and Lewis-
ton, Maine and works as an instructor
for United Ambulance in Lewiston. He
leaves campus almost every weekend,
departing on Friday and returning Mon-
day morning.
There is a big problem with
physicians and physician assistants
in the medical field who are very
scientific but arent very good with
people, he said. Volunteering,
getting involved and actually getting
hands-on experience can really open
your eyes to whether or not its the
right field for you.
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Maine Street Sweets brings Brunswick old-fashioned treats

BY MAIA COLEMAN
ORIENT STAFF
When Brunswick residents Julie
Marshall and her business partner
and boyfriend Paul Giggey saw a
brick and timber store-front with
large windows at the end of Maine
Street, the couple knew they had
found the ideal property for Maine
Street Sweets, their old-fashioned
candy shop.
The store sparks nostalgia and
stays up to date with a wide selec-
tion of sweets; from classic peach
ring candies to bright modern-fla-
vored jelly beans for children.
Paul and I are kind of old souls
anywayso thats why we [have] the
nostalgics, said Marshall.
In their search for potential lo-
cations, Marshall and Giggey felt
strongly that the space should dic-
tate the type of business and not the
other way around.
When the space on Maine Street
was finally put up for sale, its old-
timey feel charmed the couple, who
felt the space was perfect for a candy
shop. The dream came to fruition as
Maine Street Sweets had its grand
opening last month.
More than just inspiring an idea,
the distinctive, antique feel of the
space has also played a major role in
other decisions, such as decor and
inventory.
Marshall and Giggey designed
the store as a nod to the past: a con-
temporary spin on an old-fashioned
candy shop.
Marshall said she hoped that the
stores antique interior and collec-
tion of candies will make customers
say, remember when.
Marshall, who is originally from
Virginia, has lived in Maine for twen-
ty years. She and Giggey, who works
as a schoolteacher in Lisbon, attend-
ed both high school and college to-
gether. The long-time friends started
dating five years ago.
The couples decision to open
Maine Street Sweets was prompted
by Marshallan accountant by
trade with the long-term aspiration
of becoming a business owner. She
explained that the prospect of own-
ing a store of her own only recently
became tangible.
While she is currently keeping
her day job, Marshall also decided
to follow her longtime dream of
owning a shop. She is thrilled to be-
gin a new chapter in her life.
I [said], What do I want to do
for the next ten years of my life?
Well, [I thought] I better do it now
because when Im older Im not go- JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ing to be able to. So I started look- BEAN FIEND: Maine Street Sweets has one of the largest assortments of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans in the
ing around, she said. state of Maine. The candy shop was opened last Friday by business partners Julie Marshall and Paul Giggey.
As for Marshall herself, owning
a Brunswick business has been an in bookkeeping. Everything was be- said. Just to have people come in
exciting change of pace. hind the scenes, in the backroom and say, Wow, this is so cool is the
All the jobs Ive had have been where you dont see people, she most satisfying thing.

Midas Touch offers a tipsier

insight into ancient Greek history
TAPPED OUT
NICK BENSON AND JAE-YEON YOO
Id dump any girl who cared about
Valentines day, quoth Nick, as we fes-
tively sat drinking beer and grumbling
about our English papers on a fine Tues-
day evening aka Valentines day aka the
evening before our beer article is due. But
do not fear, dear Reader, that our Tuesday
was lackluster, for our beer was pretty out
of the ordinaryand educational to boot.
Just like last week, we headed over to
Uncle Toms for some inspiration, where
Dan, the owner, told us a fascinating story
about an ancient ale called Midas Touch.
Pro tip: ask Dan about beerhe knows
his whole stock and gives stellar recom-
mendations.
As we checked out, he told us, This one
has a history behind itwhen they did an
excavation of King Midass tomb [Midas
being the greedy guy in Greek mythol-
ogy who got his wish fulfilled, which was
that everything he touched would turn to
goldhe didnt meet a happy end], they
found the broken remains of what looked
like a wine urn. They micro-analyzed the
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
pottery pieces and found the ingredients
of the urns contents.
Voila, that was the recipe for our beer
of the night. @BowdoinClassicsDepart-
ment, please take note of our dedication
to the ancients. As we sat down, both of
us were immediately aware (and truth
be told, scared) of the sediment floating
around in the beer. The beer is advertised
as containing Muscat grapes, honey,
and saffron, so perhaps there were grape
fragments still in therenevertheless, it
was intimidatingly chunky. Only Midas
knows. When poured into a glass, the
beers color was bright orange, like plastic
Halloween pumpkins, with zero head on
top. The sediment surprisingly cleared out
when poured and neither of us were both-
ered by it while drinking. The smell was a
combination of normal toasty wheat and
sweetness that was pleasant but not par-
ticularly noteworthy.
Then we got around to tasting the beer.
True to his mathematical roots, Nick drew
a graph of the taste scale, which Jae-Yeon
tried her best to represent in words: the
first split-second tastes of nothing before
a deep hoppy bitterness kicks in briefly.
There is fleeting acidity as the taste tran-
sitions into honey sweetness; the sweet-
ness increases exponentially with every
second that passes, making for a very in-
teresting and very extended finish. This is
not your usual saccharine sweetness that
comes from high fructose corn syrup or
its equivalent but something tangier and
more unusual. The mouthfeel was rather
flat, without much carbonation, and the
strong taste definitely prevented this beer
from being one to smash. And yet, at
9% ABV, it was remarkably light. With its
unique flavoring and light body, Midas
Touch would make a great starter beer for
anyone looking to step outside of the La-
ger/IPA comfort zone. It was like the love
child between a traditional honey mead
and a lager; the more we drank, the more
we felt the honey seep through all else.
And for a beer with such a rich and an-
cient history, it was surprisingly modern.
Even if you do not end up liking
this historic beer (although we did),
at $3.55 its cheaper than going to a
museum, and it will get you tipsy.
Concluding remark? Worth itafter
all, we Bowdoin students are wont to
pursue academic knowledge purely for
the love of learning, inside and outside
the classroom.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Tonights Soundtrack: We started
out with the comfortable whirling of
the dishwasher, but digressed into the
1980s with The Path of Most Resis-
tance by Pepe Bradock. Perhaps King
Midas would have liked the 80s, with all
of the neon and the excesses.
Tonights Toast: My hopes are not al-
ways realized, but I always hope. -Ovid,
courtesy of BrainyQuote. One of my
hopes actually was realized on Monday
with the miracle of a snow day, so I am in
a less cynical mindset and propose that
we keep on almost-fruitlessly hoping
aided by a good hopeful beer.
Conclusions on Abbey Ale:
Appearance:
Smell:
Flavor:
Mouthfeel:
Smashability:
Overall:
CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: Anu Asaolu19, Hayat Fulli 19, Mohamed Nur19, Giselle Hernandez 19.
IMMIGRANTS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
As Hernandez noted, coming to the
United States legally is not a realistic pos-
sibility for some immigrants.
People say, You just have to do it right,
you have to [immigrate] legally, Hernan-
dez continued. Sometimes, thats not an
option If my mom had been waiting, it
would have taken her 26 years, [like it did
for my aunt] to become a legal resident.
Instead, Hernandezs mom crossed
the border to the United States illegally in
1990. She became a legal resident 23 years
later in 2013, not because her paperwork
was finally processed but because her el-
dest daughter turned 21.
Like Nur, Fulli was born and raised in
Portland. Her parents are from Ethiopia
and, while she too worries about the ex-
tension of the immigration ban, its im-
mediate and unexpected arrival has left
her disoriented.
I dont know, I think its hard just be-
cause I feel like I havent even processed
it. So sometimes especially with the con-
versations at Bowdoin Im fearful it will
be expected that I have all these answers
and kind of have all these experiences that
Im just supposed to share when in real-
ity I just dont really know what it means
for me, said Fulli. I have these certain
emotions but I dont really know what that
looks like, and [what] actions [to take], or
what that means.
The escape Bowdoin offers Fulli can be
relieving, but the lack of any casual con-
versation about the ban on campus has
also been worrying.
I think theres this false security that I
feel at Bowdoin that sometimes I lean on
but at the same time makes me feel a little
incomplete, because at home, 40 minutes
away, its just a different environment.
Hernandez has found strength in Bow-
doins tightly-knit community.
The people that I associate with, the
people that Im friends with, generally
have all expressed the same thing: No
ban, no wall. Thats really reassuring,
she said.
Nur, though, has also noticed a
difference in tone between how his
Portland community has reacted com-
pared to Bowdoin, and is frustrated
by Bowdoins lack of daily dialogue on
the subject.
My high school that I went to,
theyve been protesting left and right
Its really inspiring to see high
schoolers getting out there, protest-
ing, marching and knowing that theyll
stand up for their friends I wish, at
least here at Bowdoin we were more
vocal or just as vocal as them because if
they can do it why arent we.
Asaolu also believes the student
body can do more.
How much people are not talking
about [the ban] really freaks me out.
There are select target populations of
people speaking about it but there
are so many people who claim to be
liberals on campus who dont view this
as something to be discussed, she said.
Nur agreed, noting, I want more
people to talk about it. Because there
are definitely people on this campus
who are being directly impacted by
[Trumps actions]. I want people to be
able to attach a face to a name, to hu-
8 features
STREETWEAR AND STREET
WORK: THE FASHION HUSTLE
About a week ago in my urban cri-
sis class with Brian Purnell, Associate
Professor of Africana Studies, we had
a lively discussion about hustling in
The Wire a popular TV show based
in Baltimore revolving around the nar-
cotics world. Central to this world is
the hustledrug users hustling drug
sellers by using fake money, drug sell-
ers selling a diluted brand to maximize
profit and sellers secretly accumulat-
ing their own stash from the suppliers
pot. We came to an understanding that
hustling is an exploitative practice
with the intent to maximize profit,
usually with a manipulative under-
tone. One party discreetly benefits
more from an unequal exchange. It
was at this time that I thought about
a hustle that I was once a part of, one
that got people camping out on streets
for the supply to be distributed, one
that preyed on an almost unwarranted
obsession and has a huge returnthe
fashion hustle. And yes, it was perfectly
legal.
The hustle is founded in the resale
market of the fashion industry through
big brands with high exclusivity. For
example, Supreme, founded in 1994,
went from being a skateboard com-
pany with a relatively small following
to outfitting the biggest stars, from
A$AP Rocky to Neil Young. Now that
BOWDOIN BACHELORS AND
BACHELORETTES
I have recently found a new solace
for my brain in Bowdoins constant pa-
rade of raucous academia: The Bach-
elor. This is not my first interaction
with ABCs reality dating
DIANA FURUKAWA
TALK OF THE QUAD
celebrities are wearing it, being cool
had a marked-up price tag bigger than
ever. To have a Supreme hoodie in 2017
means being seen in the same clothes
or with the same sense of style as these
celebrities, and it is not easy dressing
like these celebrities. Supremes online
store opens occasionally with out-
fits exclusive to that season, and their
stores do not allow cameras. Even if
you have the means to afford a piece of
cloth with the Supreme logo on it, you
need an in, either having the time
and knowledge to camp out during
their exclusive drops at selected stores,
knowing someone who has a connec-
tion to Supreme or knowing someone
that had a lot of Supreme clothing be-
fore its popularity. Exclusivity drives
this market, and from this comes a
new group that flourished: the middle-
man in the resale market, where the
majority of the hustling in the fashion
world occurs.
The resale market occurs mostly
online, through easily recognizable
names like eBay and Craigslist. Other
means include social media platforms,
like Facebook, Instagram or various
blogs online like WordPress. People
post a picture of the product, list the
selling price and communicate with
each other about the exchange online.
Hugh Mo is a prominent fashion
icon on campus who runs @_mo-
style_, a fashion blog on Instagram
with over 11,000 followers. Although
Mo wouldnt call himself a hustler, he
show where one person simultaneously
dates 25 roommates in a month-long
scramble to find love. I attempted to get
on the bandwagon last year, but found
myself unable to stomach the premise.
For me, it represented a total abandon-
ing of healthy relationships and finding
real love. One year later, I decided to
give it a shot, recognizing that despite
the tag as reality television, this is
not how life works. However, as I
watch more and more episodes,
I have begun to notice ways in
which the scripted
Bachelor/Bach-
elorette culture
of romance has
seeped into re-
ality, even here
at Bowdoin.
Upon reviewing
candidates on seasons
of both the Bachelor
and the Bachelorette,
there is only one true
constant: they are
all wickedly good-
looking people.
While this makes for
more profitable TV, it
reinforces the narrative
that the most impor-
tant factor in any sort of
romantic relationship,
the bowdoin orient
does understand the resale market
in the fashion industry very well and
once profited from it. This past sum-
mer, he camped out for a pair of Fear
of God jeans, which he purchased for
$1,800. Two days later, he resold the
jeans for $3,500.
Good money is involved, and
some items crescendo in value. Its
about predicting the market, like
stocks. For example, the first Yeezy
350 low tops, when it first came out,
people were not sure if it was worth
$400-500 resale price from a $200
retail price. Now they are worth
$1,700-$1,800 brand new. If you
were smart then, you bought as many
pairs then as possible, explained Mo.
This practice seems simple, en-
from making out to marriage, is physical
attraction. I think that it is safe to say that
there is not a ton of emotional discovery
on the shows. By the time contestants are
proposing, they have spent maybe five
hours of one-on-one time together.
While I dont believe that the Bach-
elor/Bachelorette are the social artifacts
that drive the core of our romantic cul-
ture here at Bowdoin, the framework of
these shows provides an extreme that can
make our own behaviors a little more ap-
parent. While most of the people here
arent planning on going from meeting to
matrimony in five short weeks, there is a
culture of romance that relies dispropor-
tionately on the physical, and sidelines
any sort of emotional connection as an
added bonus.
The first time I became aware of this
at Bowdoin was a Friday night out last
year. Personally, I really value weekend
nights and going out as an opportunity
to meet new people and maybe to spend
more time getting to know my smile-n-
wavers: people that Ive been introduced
to and say hello to, but have never actual-
ly talked to. I was in a basement and saw
someone spill their drink all over one of
my smile-n-wavers. I went up to ask if
she was alright, and she cut me off in the
middle of my inquiry to give me the once
over before informing me that she was
not interested in hooking up with me.
ticing and extremely profitable, but
there are many barriers to entering
this market.
Moe said that to join the market,
you either have to have a lot of capi-
tal to begin with or you can start by
hustling anything you see, starting
with socks, newspapers, anything
and build up to sneakers.
In addition to having the means
to join this market, one must have
the smarts and knowledge of the
market prices in order to avoid be-
ing hustled. Not knowing the mar-
ket price could lead you to overpay
for a product.
Lack of expe-
DIANA FURUKAWA
At the time I was largely thrown off and
walked away, because this person appar-
ently had a very goal-driven night.
Except perhaps the brusqueness, I
dont think that this is a wholly uncom-
mon interaction here. I think that people
view their nights out as a condensed ver-
sion of the Bachelor, where the goal is
to find love through physical attraction.
The fact that the first thing this person
thought was happening when some-
one approached her was that they were
swooping in for some undisclosed physi-
cal mouth assault is troubling. Dating
and romance were things that had never
crossed my mind with regards to this
person. Her once-over scan deemed me
not a physically apt enough candidate to
engage in any sort of romance.
What is troubling here is that I believe
that there are huge parts of attraction
that originate in peoples personalities,
their humor and whether you enjoy
being around them. I dont want to
deny that being physically attracted
to someone is important in physical
intimacy and that there are plenty
of physically intimate situations that
dont necessitate a deep emotional
connection. But I think that approach-
ing your romantic life based solely on
a lustful desire of pure physical attrac-
tion is really damaging. Many people
go into spaces that have potential for
firday, february 17, 2017
rience could lead to a faulty pur-
chase, where the product could end
up being fake or not showing up in
the mail. Sometimes, even some of
the more seasoned fashion bloggers
get hustled.
Mo has been hustled before,
which he said is a necessary learning
curve for people starting out in the
business. People are intent on mak-
ing money, and such practice opens
doors for the inexperienced to be
hustled. Mo said his reputation is
worth more than a couple of scams.
Simon Chow is a member of the
Class of 2019
finding some iteration of romance, fil-
ter out potential partners based on the
presence, or lack thereof, of immedi-
ate attraction, and hope that perhaps
over a conversation at breakfast the
following morning they might find
some emotional overlap.
Additionally, although my experi-
ences as a straight male have been with
women here at Bowdoin, this is abso-
lutely a phenomenon that goes in all di-
rections. I honestly dont think that any
group is necessarily guiltier than anoth-
er, and that everyone could benefit from
thinking about this a little more.
I believe that many more people
could find the sorts of relationships
they are looking for if, as a campus, we
separate ourselves from considering the
Bachelor/Bachelorette as television that
represents reality. Thinking someone is
physically attractive may not have any
bearing on what one looks for in rela-
tionships (most people choose friends,
people they like spending time with,
based on traits other than physical at-
tractiveness). But looking for someone
who you emotionally connect with, and
finding that attractive, will most prob-
ably result in a stronger foundation for
anything from a hook-up to a commit-
ted relationship.
Simon Cann is a member of the Class
of 2019.
friday, february 17, 2017 the bowdoin orient 9

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Masque & Gowns Blown Youth puts women on center stage
BY JULIAN ANDREWS
ORIENT STAFF

The Masque and Gown mainstage

welcomed several new members last
night as it debuted Dipika Guhas 2015
play, "Blown Youth." The cast of the
production is all women, the majority
of whom are women of color and the
rest of whom are OutPeers. It is entirely
composed of people who have never
been in a Masque and Gown show.
Bringing more kinds of people into
Bowdoins theater community is a focus
for director Mackenzie Schafer 19. This
was reflected in her selection of "Blown
Youth" when applying to direct the
Masque and Gown spring production,
as well as the decisions she made casting
the production.
There hasnt been a single per-
son of color in a Masque and Gown
show since Ive been on campus,
said Schafer. I could feel the frustra-
tion of different friends who feel like
they werent getting cast because there
were no roles for them because the
shows that kept getting selected were,
like, white family dramas that were
very heteronormative.
While the process of finding the per-
fect show was neither easy nor quick,
Schafer is looking forward to showing
"Blown Youth" at Bowdoin.
It took me so long to find the show,
but I was really excited to find it be-
cause it offered a lot of roles for dif- ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ferent types of people, she said. I feel SOUND IT OUT: "Blown Youth" cast members (from left:) Bethany Berhanu '20, Meredith Outterson '17, Ivy Williams '20, Sophie Sadovniko '19, Anu Asaolu '19, Katie Doherty '17 and Aziza Janmohamed '19 pose
like so many people are so underrepre- during dress rehearsal on Wednesday evening. The play, which features an all-female cast with an emphasis on women of color and queer women, will be performed Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater.
sented in theater, especially people of
color and queer people. I also thought tions, but never makes it into the casting kind of goofing off and singing and be- them and have them help me also. Theres those are stories too, but then also looking
that we had a really strong community room, always running out before her ing weird, and I think that lightness and an honest connection there. for new things, said Janmohamed.
of actresses on campus and I really name is called. energy to the cast has really helped keep Schafer and other members of Masque The cast of "Blown Youth" is excited
wanted to showcase that. The three phrases I use to describe us out of a place where were constantly and Gown worked hard to recruit a di- for their run and for what the show
"Blown Youth" tells the story of seven [Celias] story are ambition, mental illness in our heads. verse group of people for auditions, which means for campus.
women living in and around an all-fe- and loss, said Sadovnikoff. That is a lot of The cast of "Blown Youth" contains ultimately gave them the flexibility to Its so many firsts in so many ways. Its
male intentional community. The play the work Im doing in the show. Its telling several members who have not acted at cast the show in the way they did. Hav- all women, written by a woman of color,
is divided into three parts: one with the the story of a person who is overcome by Bowdoinor at all. This has presented ing brought new people into Bowdoins directed by a woman, we all are sort of
characters five years out of college, an- mental illness and wasnt able to achieve challenges but also opportunities for theater community, and a play to campus going through this new pathway and I
other with them in their 30s and a third the things she wanted to. the cast to grow together and learn unlike many of the other ones that have hope its a trend that continues. Not just
section that is a flashback to their time The show deals with many heavy and from each other. been produced, the question now is how for Masque and Gown but for theater at
in college. According to Guhas website, timely themes, which the cast has spent Its definitely changed things, but in such to keep the momentum going. Bowdoin in general, said Janmohamed.
the play asks what happens to the uni- a lot of time discussing, but the rehearsal an exciting way," said Aziza Janmohamed I think its really important for the the- Its nice to be able to bring this story to
verse if a woman is at its center. process has remained positive. 19, who plays Margaret in the show. "Its ater community at Bowdoin to continue the forefront and be like, this is whats
At its core, "Blown Youth" is about Its been a tiring experiencethere really fun to get people who have never to keep these really open minds and to happening, were here, we also live in this
the experiences of women navigating are some really intense moments in the done it before because they have these continue to look for different stories and world and were here to tell our stories.
the world as real, complicated, multidi- show. I think our cast does a really good new and different perspectives that you unique perspectives that may or may not "Blown Youth" will be performed to-
mensional people. job of turning it on when were working may not have and I think one of the most be told. That doesnt mean you cant do night and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Pick-
Sophie Sadovnikoff 19 plays Celia, and turning it off when we dont need to helpful things for me has been the ques- whats been done in the past. Theres some- ard Theater. Tickets are $1 for students
an aspiring actress who, despite her pas- be, said Sadovnikoff. We have a lot of fun tions that they ask ... With them especially, thing really great about older playwrights and $3 for non-students and are available
sion for it, cannot act. She goes to audi- together as a cast, we spend a lot of time its been really fun to watch them and help and the things they have to say, because at the David Saul Smith Union Info Desk.

Voraciously readable: James Baldwin confronts race relations through time

PENELOPE LUSK
BOOK CLUB
When I approached Assistant Profes-
sor of Africana Studies Judith Casselberry
at the end of class and asked her for the
name of the book that has most influ-
enced her, she had an instant response.
When I asked why, she called her choice
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
revelatory. Hallelujah, she said.
"The Fire Next Time" pairs a letter, en-
titled My Dungeon Shook, that Baldwin
wrote to his nephew on the 100th anni-
versary of Emancipation along with his
essay Down at the Cross: Letter from a
Region in my Mind. Published in 1963,
"The Fire Next Time" is philosophy, the-
ology, sociology and a cultural history of
American race relations. It is also vora-
ciously readable: Baldwins brilliance is
both sociopolitical and linguistic.
He writes about the experience of be-
ing a black Christian man in the 1960s
with elegance and a surprisingly lilting
sense of hope within his clear condem-
nation of American society: The uni-
verse, which is not merely the stars and
the moon and the planets, flowers, grass,
and trees, but other people, has evolved
no terms for your existence, has made no
room for you, and if love will not swing
wide the gates, no other power will or
can. To a reader, Baldwins language is
beautiful, heart-wrenching and indicative
of the similarities between 1963 and 2017.
James Baldwin was born in New York
City in 1924. Down at the Cross covers
his experiences as a young black man in
Harlem, exploring religion as an alterna-
tive to the perceived depravity of life on
the Avenue, and to the snarling realities
of American racism. My class with Profes-
sor Casselberry, Spirit Come Down: Reli-
gion, Race, and Gender in America, cuts
to the heart of intersectional scholarship
by centralizing black women in narratives
of black American religion. Both pieces
in "The Fire Next Time" have a decidedly
male perspective. Even while Baldwin
writes about the female preacher who in-
spired his own religious conversion, he is
writing to the male experience. But
Baldwin, a gay black man,
brings his own angle
to the themes of
identity
and sexuality that inform his discussion very difficult to act on what they know.
about race and religion. To act is to be committed, and to be
My Dungeon Shook is only twelve committed is to be in danger. In this
pages, but its intimacy shook me almost case, the danger, in the minds of most
more than the entirety of the books fol- white Americans, is the loss of their
lowing essay. Writing to his nephew in identity. He strikes to the heart of the
the 20th century, Baldwin is speaking current ongoing conversations at Bow-
directly to the history and lived ex- doin and nationwide about the impor-
perience of black men. His tance of "showing up" and decentralizing
words on American race the emotional responses of white allies.
relations and identity "The Fire Next Time" is beautiful in
find ironic prophesy in its lucidity and its calm perceptiveness.
their applicability to I found it thought-provoking both per-
our time. sonally and academically, recommended
Speaking of the by a professor who has deeply impacted
racism of white many of my classmates. "The Fire Next
people toward Time" stretches from the personal to the
black people, classroom to the wide world, from his-
Baldwin tells his tory to the present and into the future.
nephew: Many This book is literary nonfiction at its
of them, indeed, best, rightfully considered one of the
know better, but, most important books on American
as you will dis- race relations, and a testament to the
LL cover, people find it lasting power of James Baldwin.
FA
WEST
ALEX
10 a&e
Susan Faludi confronts estranged fathers gender reassignment in new book
BY FARIA NASRUDDIN
ORIENT STAFF
Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize-win-
ner and research fellow for Bowdoins
Gender, Sexuality and Womens Stud-
ies Department, read excerpts from
her new memoir, In the Darkroom,
to a packed audience in Massachu-
setts Hall on Wednesday.
Published in June after 12 years
in the making, In the Darkroom
details Faludis reunion with her es-
tranged father, Stephanieformerly
SteveFaludi, who had undergone
gender reassignment surgery.
Brock Clarke, professor of English
and organizer of the event, said that
the reason the novel is unique to him
is because it is difficult to pin down.
If you start describing it one
way, you realize youre leaving out a
bunch of other things, said Clarke.
Its about her reuniting with her
[father]. Its a travel book, its about
the Jewish diaspora after World War
II, its about what its like to live
in Nazi-occupied territory during
World War II.
Focused primarily on Stephanie
Faludis various identities through-
out her lifetime, the memoir begins
with an email from Faludis father
From portraits to DNA, Allie Wilkinson 11
returns to debut ink and graphite exhibit Within
BY ELIZABETH FOSLERJONES
ORIENT STAFF
Allie Wilkinsons 11 artwork, she says,
is all about humanity. She discussed her
exhibit Within, which is filled with ink
and graphite pieces ranging from a por-
trait of her friends to a horizontal depic-
tion of DNA yesterday afternoon in the
Lamarche Gallery.
My art really focuses around the
things that we share as human, said
Wilkinson. Whatever political views or
differences we have, we all love, we all
have fears, we are all insecure. Its what
unites us. I think thats where art has the
potential to be very profound.
Wilkinsons father is a sculptor and
although she grew up surrounded by art
in New York City, it wasnt until she took
a drawing course during her first year at
Bowdoin that she realized she wanted to
pursue art as a career.
Ive been making art my whole life,
LIFE IN COLOR: Allie Wilkinson '11 speaks on Thursday afternoon at the opening of her exhibit, "Within," currently on
display in the Lamarche Gallery in David Saul Smith Union.
titled Changes, in which Stephanie
Faludi informed Susan Faludi of her
gender reassignment.
My father had been silent for
so many years, said Susan Faludi
in an interview with the Orient. As
a young child, I had always been
pressing her for stories about life
and would get nowhere.
My father was kind of an identity
zelig; one way of looking at her life is a
lifelong struggle of era-defining iden-
tity crises, Susan Faludi said during
the event.
Stephanie Faludi was a wealthy Jew-
ish child in Hungary before World War
II. During the Holocaust, she survived
by passing as Christian with false iden-
tity papers and a Nazi armband.
After the war, she went to the U.S.
at a time described by Susan Faludi
as the height of very traditional gen-
der roles and assumed the posture of
the all-American commuter, subur-
ban dad with a barbecue grill and big
Christmas tree."
Afterward, she reinvented herself
again by moving back to Hungary and
supporting the right-wing regime, be-
fore traveling to Thailand for gender-
reassignment surgery.
Susan Faludi added that writing
about her father was the most challeng-
but it really took off here, said Wilkin-
son at her talk.
Through her professors and her
senior studio, Wilkinson learned les-
sons about perseverance and the im-
portance of continuing to make art
regardless of circumstance.
Motivation is a lie. Motivation is not
going to strike you and come out of the
sky and motivate you for the rest of your
life, said Wilkinson. That message to
keep going and keep persisting was re-
ally valuable to me.
After graduating with an interdisci-
plinary art history and visual arts ma-
jor, Wilkinson soon became discour-
aged with the professional art spheres.
She put art on hold and began teaching
English in France. However, she even-
tually decided she needed an outlet for
creative expression and began to draw
portraits of her friends.
Wilkinson continued to draw portraits
and produced a collection of nine por-
JANE CHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
the bowdoin orient friday, february 17, 2017
ing journalistic assignment she has ever
taken, but she felt that she needed to
write about this experience for herself,
as both a writer and as a daughter.
Im a writer and thats how I come to
terms with things I dont understand,
she said in an interview with the Orient.
Whether it got published or not, to fig-
ure it out in my own life, figure out my
relationship with my father.
Susan Faludi said that her journalis-
tic approach to the experience of reac-
quainting with her father served well as
a buffer for her and for her father to get
comfortable with each other once again.
It was a way for my father, who was
a pretty closed person, to open up, and
[it] gave me comfort, as someone who
knows how to be a reporter, she said
on Wednesday afternoon. In the end, I
had to accept the fact that I was as much NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
as participant as observer in this story. IN THE FACULTY ROOM: Susan Faludi reads three excerpts from her recent novel, "In the
Beyond coming to terms with her
own experience, Susan Faludis specialty
Darkroom," to a crowded audience in the Massachusetts Hall Faculty Room on Wednesday afternoon.
is in gender research. age peoples lives. This was just a very historical dynamics at work that I
I felt that I couldnt continue to write vivid, personal, individual window needed to understand to understand
honestly about gender without admit- into that." how my father perceived each of
ting to my own experience, she added. Faludi said that in order for her these roles, she said. All of these
I see a lot of connective tissue be- to understand her father, she needed were essential to my grappling with
tween my fathers story and the books to understand the broader political my fathers struggle and to grapple
Ive written earlier, she added. All of and cultural background of each era with the larger question in the book,
my books are grappling with the ways in which her father lived. which is the question about the mean-
gender mythologies distort and dam- At every step, there are deep ing the of identity.
traits of her friends in 2016. The collec-
tion, titled Hiding, is on display in the
Lamarche Gallery as part of Within. In
it, she used colored ink for the first time
and found that she enjoyed the medium.
Wilkinson primarily works with ink
and on denril, a type of paper gener-
ally used by architects. All of the pieces
showcased in exhibit are done on denril.
One of the pieces, called Connect,
was created specifically for the La-
marche Gallery and is the first piece
Wilkinson has done horizontally. Con-
nect features a strand of multi-colored
DNA on two layered sheets of paper.
All of my pieces are very rooted in
the figure, said Wilkinson. [DNA]
just seemed like a great thing to ex-
plore abstractly.
Two of the other works of art shown in
the Gallery, Fall and Rise, were done
in 2014 using graphite and ink on denril.
The pieces are influenced by some of the
work Wilkinson did at Bowdoin. Dur-
ing her senior year, she
had a solo art show in
the Visual Arts Cen-
ter called Wanting. It
featured large pieces of
paper with two figures,
one drawn in Sharpie
and the other obscured
behind it, similar to
the figures explored in
Fall and Rise.
Like many of her
pieces, Fall and
Rise capture the hu-
man experience and
examine the ways in
which we hide from
ourselves and others.
I made them at a
point in my life where
I felt like there was a
disconnect between
what I was showing the
world and what was go-
ing on inside me, said
Wilkinson. I think
thats something a lot of
people experience and I
wanted to capture that
with these pieces.

friday, february 17, 2017
LAST ONE, FAST ONE: Caitlin Loi 20 celebrates a strong freestyle race during her first NESCAC championship. The meet featured many standout individual performances and the team broke 12 Bowdoin records.
Womens swim and dive shatters records at NESCACs
BY ANJULEE BHALLA
ORIENT STAFF
This weekend, the womens swim-
ming and diving team put for-
ward a number of record-break-
ing performances as 11 teams
flooded the LeRoy Greason Pool for
NESCAC championships.
The meet was highlighted by a
number of accomplishments, from
12 new Bowdoin records10 swim-
ming and two divingto Diving
Coach Kelsey Willard being named
Womens basketball to open postseason on eight-game win streak
BY HARRY JUNG
ORIENT STAFF
The Bowdoin womens basketball
team (20-3, 8-2 NESCAC) hopes to
carry the momentum of its eight-game
win streak into the first round of the
NESCAC tournament this weekend.
The third-seeded Polar Bears will face
off against sixth-seeded Connecticut
College (16-8, 4-6 NESCAC) at home
in a rematch of last weekends game.
While Bowdoin is the favorite in the
face-off as the upper seed and has av-
eraged 74.9 points per game to Conn
Colleges 68.1, Conn has won eight of
its 12 away games this season and will
be looking for revenge after losing to
Bowdoin 68-49 last weekend.
In the Polar Bears dominant perfor-
mance last Saturday, Lauren Petit 18
played particularly well, scoring nine
points in addition to having two re-
bounds and two steals.
I thought [Petit] had a really solid
weekend, Head Coach Adrienne Shibles
said. Shes really stepping up for us as a
leader and someone we can count on.
Despite the win, however, Shibles
believes that the team didnt perform
its best due to the emotions surround-
ing the senior weekend game. She be-
SPORTS
NESCAC Diving Coach of the Year
for the second consecutive season.
Receiving that award, its really
nice that my other peer coaches in
the NESCAC recognize what goes
into it, said Willard. But I cant
take too much credit because the
work that the athletes are putting in
is what gives me that award. Hav-
ing three of them in the top eight
theyre contributing the most points
out of any of the other divers to the
team and thats where that award
comes from.
lieves the team has room to improve
on Saturday.
We have five phenomenal senior
leaders so whenever you have a strong
group like that there is a sort of pro-
pensity towards everyone wanting
to do their best for the seniors, said
Shibles. There were times when our
offense didnt flow just quite the way it
normally does.
The team seeks to constantly im-
prove and not remain complacent. The
Camels leading scorer Mairead Hynes
18 did not play last weekend yet will
return in time for the first playoff game
and the Polar Bears will restrategize to
counter the centers big presence.
Now we begin a whole new chap-
ter in our season, Shibles said. We
cant just rest on our laurels on what
we did before. The importance of this
week is staying focused on what we
can do to improve.
This year is the eighth time in the
past nine seasons the team reached 20
wins under Shibles, a clear mark of her
contributions to the teams work ethic
and chemistry.
We look for selflessness and hard
work, Shibles said. We look for over-
all character in our recruits we bring to
Bowdoin, so thats the first stepget-
Divers Christine Andersen 17, Thea
Kelsey 20 and Rebecca Stern 19 all
placed in the top eight in both diving
events, a main goal of Willards and the
teams for the season. Andersens domi-
nant performances not only garnered
second-place finishes in both the one-
meter and three-meter dives but also
set new school records in both events,
breaking Victoria Tudors 06 scores
from 2006.
For the past few years, NESCAC
Championships have been a time to
set many school bests. Last year the
TURNING UP THE HEAT: Kate Kerrigan 18 dribbles down the court as part of the Polar Bear
attack that outscored Wesleyan last Friday 58-43. The team looks to extend its win streak to nine on Saturday.
ting the right people. And from there
we are pretty intentional about what we
do. We talk a lot about our team values,
try to emphasize them during practice
and we do a lot of team bonding exer-
cises. Those things are really respon-
sible for our team chemistry.
The players echo the same senti-
ment and stress the importance of
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
womens team broke 14 Bowdoin re-
cords at the meet.
Records are made to be broken,
said Willard. They are always
aware of the records, but being able
to see that they can surpass them
gives them just the sense of accom-
plishment that is the whole point
of being able to break a record. Its
not necessarily about the number
more than that self-assurance that
theyre capable.
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LOUIS MENDEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
supporting each other.
We always have each others backs
on and off the court and I think thats
what really unites us. When we are on
the court, we can go through anything
together, captain Marle Curle 17 said.
Moving forward, that becomes even
Please see BASKETBALL, page 13
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HIGHLIGHT
REEL
All-American Bears. Paige
Pfannenstiel 17 was named to
the second-ever class of Rugby
All-Americans by the National
Intercollegiate Rugby Associa-
tion (NIRA) after an outstand-
ing season as a flanker for the
Polar Bears. The class of 31
comes from the 14 colleges that
competed in the inaugural 2016
NCAA League season. This
year, NIRA additionally named
12 honorable mentions, which
included captain Cristina Lima
17, who played prop and No. 8
for Bowdoin this fall.
On the fast track. Indoor
track and field traveled to Boston
University last weekend for
the David Hemery Valentine
Invitational, where the womens
distance medley relay team of
Meghan Bellerose 17, Caroline
Corban 17, Demi Feder 17 and
Sara Ory 19 placed fifth overall.
The season-best performance
has them currently ranked fifth
nationally in Division III. Brian
Greenberg 18 is also in the top
five nationally in the triple jump
after his standout performance at
the Maine State Meet. While it is
still early in the season, the high
rankings bode well for NCAA
Division III qualifications.
In flight. Mens squash heads
into the College Squash As-
sociation (CSA) national team
championships this weekend at
MIT with a record of 4-14 after
a 6-3 loss to Colby last Friday.
The Polar Bears will compete in
the Conroy Cupthe D-division
of the tournamentas they are
ranked 27th nationally and are
joined in the bracket by fellow
NESCAC competitors Conn
College, Hamilton, Tufts and
Wesleyan. The team will open
play against No. 30 Stanford at
2:30 p.m. today.
Fight to the finish. Mens
ice hockey (8-14-0, 5-11-0
NESCAC) will face conference
opponents Tufts (10-9-3, 8-7-1
NESCAC) and Conn College
(4-15-2, 2-12-2 NESCAC) as it
looks to turn around a three-
game losing streak to close out
the regular season. The weekend
carries the added pressure of
determining conference playoff
berths since Tufts, Bowdoin
and Conn College are currently
seventh, eighth and ninth, re-
spectively, in the league and the
top eight teams qualify for the
postseason. The Polar Bears will
face the Jumbos at 7 p.m. today
and the Camels at 3 p.m. tomor-
row in Watson Arena.
COMPILED BY ANJULEE BHALLA
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Womens hockey seeks home-ice advantage

BY ANNA FAUVER
ORIENT STAFF
The Bowdoin womens ice hockey
team (12-7-3, 7-5-2 NESCAC) beat
Connecticut College (13-7-2, 9-5-0 NE-
SCAC) 2-1 in a close league matchup on
Saturday, handing the Camels their 5th
loss of the regular season and causing
them to drop from first to third place in
the league. The Polar Bears are preparing
to face Trinity (8-12-2, 7-6-1 NESCAC)
today and Saturday in its last two regular
season games.
Although the team had already beaten
Conn this season during the Frozen Fen-
way matchup in January, captain Mad-
eline Hall 17 said that against such a com-
petitive opponent, the players had to put
the win out of their minds and focus on
the game at hand.
We really wanted to separate our
last win against them at Fenway and our
game on Saturday, she said. We had
to make sure that we knew that Conn
would be a very different team than
the one that we faced at Fenway. I dont
think we saw Conns best game there.
They were very much out for revenge
[this weekend].
The two teams were tied at the end of
the second period, but Bowdoin took ad-
vantage of a five-on-three power play to
pull ahead of Conn and win the game in
the final minutes.
We gave ourselves the lead with three
[minutes] to go and then did an incred-
ible job of staying composed, keeping the
puck down their end and trying to limit
their opportunity to take our goalie out,
Head Coach Marissa ONeil said. We
tried to have a really good style of play,
patience and discipline. We struggled
with that the previous weekend against
Hamilton and a week later, I guess every-
one figured it out.
According to ONeil, the main factor
in the teams success this season and abil-
ity to perform well in key matchups is the
team culture.
Weve won, weve lost, weve tied,
but weve done it as a team, and thats all
you can hope for, she said. If you have
that foundation you can rely on no mat-
ter what, its easier to bounce back as a
team than a group of individuals. In a
game, period-to-period or weekend-to-
weekend, they are able to be resilient be-
cause they know they have the support
of their teammates.
Looking ahead to Trinity, Hall believes
that the team cannot afford to underesti-
mate the Bantams because of their sixth-
place standing.
Trinity has been one of the teams
that have been on the bottom of the
pack this season, she said. They had a
tough first semester playing Middlebury
and Amherst back to back but theyve
definitely come back up the rankings as
the weeks go on. So we definitely cant
take them lightly, but at the same time,
we know we can beat them twice if were
playing our game.
Last week, Trinitys goalie Sydney Be-
linskas 18 was named NESCAC co-play-
er of the week. However, ONeil believes
that the team can take measures against
her in order to win.
One, being deceptive in your shot tak-
ing, put pucks on nets and get rebounds,
she said. You may not score on the first
shots, but the second and third chance op-
portunities are the ones we need to capi-
talize on. Two, puck possession in their
zone. If you dont have the puck in their
zone, then it is tough to score goals.
Although Bowdoin has clinched a
NESCAC quarterfinal berth, the games
against Trinity will determine its fi-
nal standing.
Right now, were sitting tied in fourth,
but we could end up as high as 2nd and
as low as 7th, ONeil said. You cant go
out there afraid to fail. Were not worried
about how low we could drop, but instead
were thinking Alright, were in fourth
right now, but we could go to second.
If the team maintains or improves
upon its fourth-place ranking this
weekend, its quarterfinal game will be
at home.
Our players already know, just given
the parity in the league, how tight it is. Its
not just going to come down to the last
weekend, but the last game to determine
[whether we play at Watson], ONeil
said. We can win games on the road, we
can lose games at home, but it would be
nice to earn the right to host a game.
Hall agrees that the prospects of host-
ing add pressure to the teams last two
games. However, the players are using the
higher stakes as a source of motivation.
We want to win every weekend ob-
viously, but this just has more on the
line, she said. Having one more home
game, especially for the seniors, would be
amazing so that definitely just adds more
emotion to it. DAVID MICHAEL LEEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
The womens hockey team will travel to CRUSHING THE ICE: (TOP): Cassidy Pratt19 breaks away in the Polar Bears 2-1 win over Con-
Trinity for its final series today at 7:30 p.m. necticut College. (BOTTOM): Marissa Fichter 19 fights for possession in a faceo against a Camel skater.
and tomorrow at 4 p.m.

Mens swimming and diving hopes for individual bests at NESCAC championships
BY DAVID BROWER
ORIENT STAFF
This weekend, NESCAC cham-
pionships will draw all 11 mens
swimming and diving teams in the
conference to Wesleyan for what
is sure to be a highly competitive,
three-day meet.
In general we are prepared to see
people on all these teams to drop in-
credible times and swim lights out,
said captain Tim Long 17 said.
As the first meet in tapered, cham-
pionship season, a number of team
members are looking for big per-
formances in individual events and
hopefully NCAA qualifications.
Karl Sarier 19, already named a
NESCAC Performer of the Week for
his two individual first places in the
meets against MIT and WPI in No-
vember, is the defending NESCAC
champion and top seed for the 200
yard freestyle. Diver Mitchell Ryan
19 is seeded 2nd for both the three
and one meter dives, and Stephen
Pastoriza 19, Michael Netto 18,
Drew Macdonald 20 and Daniel
Williams 19 are also poised for im-
pressive swims and potentially quali-
fications this weekend after strong
performances this season.
However, the team will have to
perform at its full potential this
weekend as the meet is sure to draw a
very competitive field of athletes.
All 11 NESCAC teams will be in
one place in one weekend in peak
shape and well-rested, so it will be a
good apples-to-apples comparison of
the swimmers, said Head Coach Brad
Burnham. The pool is crowded with
a lot of guys who want to go fast so
they will definitely be some impres-
sive performances.
The team has a 3-3 record, which is
identical to the teams record last year
going into the conference champion-
ships where they placed 6th.
I dont think we are going to move
up or down in the team rankings too
much, swimming is a little too pre-
dictable that way, said Burnham.
But I think the guys have trained
better. They seem to be at a bet-
ter place and have a much greater
understanding of how they want to
approach their races. I think they
worked harder this year.
Typically, the NESCAC champion-
ship meet is much faster than regular
season meets. According to Burn-
ham, the swimmers are usually about
two seconds faster per 100 yards.
Such an improvement is partially due
to the swimmers being well-rested,
but also due the to electric atmo-
sphere of the meet.
Two-hundred and fifty guys on
deck all screaming their heads off
plus another 500 or so fans in the
stands gets quite loud, said captain
Michael Given 17. It really does
make a difference.
The mens team is also riding the ex-
tra motivation of witnessing the wom-
ens NESCAC championships, which
were hosted at Bowdoin last weekend.
We got to volunteer a little bit but
also just go and be on deck for [the
womens] meet, said Long. It gave
everyone, especially the first years
who have never experienced the NE-
SCACs before, a kind of primer for
this weekend. It just got everyone
pumped up.
The Polar Bears will take to the pool
at 10 a.m. today for the first prelimi-
nary session of the three-day meet.

SWIMMING
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
While breaking records continues a
trend for the program, a particularly
noteworthy record was broken this
year by Marshall Lowery 20Ruth
Reinhards 93 200 backstroke time
of 2:05.27 from 1993the oldest re-
maining team record.
One of my favorite parts about
breaking that record was know-
ing that it is representative of how
amazing a coach we have because it
was the last record that [Head Coach
Brad Burnham] had not seen set,
said Lowery. Now that Ive broken
that record, he has coached every
single record holder on the Bowdoin
womens swim team, and I think
thats pretty impressive.
In addition, Andersen, Lowery and
Sterling Dixon 19 earned NESCAC
All-Conference recognition for their
top-three finishes in individual events.
Though the team has seen im-
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
provement each year, the Polar Bears
remain in the middle of the league,
MAKING WAVES: A heat launches from the blocks at the womens swimming and diving NESCAC championship last weekend, where Bowdoin placed sixth. finishing sixth at NESCACs for the
second consecutive year. Accord-
ing to Head Coach Brad Burnham,
the teams unchanging overall finish
correlates with the entire sport get-
ting faster.
As the team looks ahead to poten-
tial NCAA qualifications, striving for
big goals is one aspect of team culture
that can help propel the program into
the upper echelon of the conference.
Training with people who have
big goals helps you have big goals
too, said Lowery. I am hoping that
having those goals and fostering a
team that has similar goals to me
will help create a team where every-
one is invested and people are very
ambitious, and fostering a team like
that would help us move up in the
NESCAC rankings and have more of
a national presence.
While the swimmers will have to
wait until next week to find out if
they qualify for the NCAA cham-
pionship, the process for diving is
notably different and four of the
five members of the womens and
mens dive squads have already
qualified for the regional meet that
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MLS expansion may spell death for promotion/relegation dreams

ERIC ZELINA
THE RELEGATION ZONE
Major League Soccer (MLS) is just a
few short weeks away from kicking off
its 22nd season. It will start the season,
fittingly, with the additions of its 21st
and 22nd clubs: Atlanta United FC and
Minnesota United FC. Despite teams
continually adopting European football
naming conventions (looking at you,
Real Salt Lake and Sporting KC), the
league and its commissioner Don Garber
have repeatedly stated that they will not
adopt one great bastion of the European
leagues that the MLS emulates aspires to
bepromotion and relegation.
Promotion/relegation (known as pro/
rel) is the standard operating model
in European football. In the Premier
League, the bottom three teams each sea-
son fall through the relegation trapdoor
into the second divisionthe Champi-
onshipwith three teams climbing the
ladder from the lower tier to take their
place. The cycle continues down to lower
leagues, creating a constant churn of
clubs through the leagues.
Even the mention of instituting this
system in MLS raises blood pressures
in U.S. soccer circles. Supporters of pro/
rel, like the owners of clubs in the Unit-
ed Soccer League (USL) and the North
American Soccer League (NASL), the
two lower leagues in the U.S., see the
system as a gateway to the top tier and
the prestige and increased revenues that
come along with it. Similarly, the fans
gravitate toward the excitement that
comes along with a promotion push
or fight to avoid relegationa full 88
percent of U.S. soccer fans surveyed by
Deloitte last year said that pro/rel would
increase quality of play across the board.
In that vein, supporters argue that the
system incentivizes pouring both time
and money into increasing the standard of
play and investing in player development,
and adds excitement to otherwise mean-
ingless late season MLS matches between
league bottom feeders. In his exhaustive
U.S. Promotion/Relegation Manifesto
in Howler Magazine, former MLS and
NASL executive Peter Wilt writes that
the risk of relegation would ensure pres-
sure on [cellar-dwelling MLS] teams to
improve and win, even if the prospects
of winning a championship that year are
bad. That pressure would catalyze fan in-
terest and create exciting narrative, much
as it does in England and across Europe.
Theres also a certain romance to a
provincial lower league side investing
wisely in the club and capturing light-
ning in a bottle to climb the ranks. Who
will forget Leicester Citys promotion
climb, then furious fight to stave off rel-
egation in 2015, only to win the title in
2016? Or even Sunderlands annual great
escape to avoid the drop?
But MLS owners and United States
Soccer Federation (USSF) executives
dont deal in romance. For them, the eco-
nomics of pro/rel are not worth it for a
team that has already attained MLSand
thus top divisionstatus. USSF president
Sunil Gulati has argued that it fundamen-
tally changes the rules of the system MLS
owners bought into, saying that if you
make an investment today and the next
day the governmentin this case, us
changes the rules completely and changes
the value of your investment? Thats going
to lead to some serious problems.
To be sure, it makes little economic status thanks to the recent USL jump increased incentives to invest in on-field
sense for an MLS investor like Robert from third-tier status, its a logistical performance and player development
Kraft or Stan Kroenke, or even David headache to institute a pro/rel system that promotion and relegation would
Beckham with his nascent Miami proj- with that many clubs and interests at the bring to the U.S. soccer landscape, with
ect, to risk losing most of their invest- table, at least in the short term. MLS expansion looming and pent-up
ment value overnight. In 2016, Forbes While many fans (myself included) demand to join the league, pro/rel re-
valued MLS teams at an average of $185 would appreciate the competition and mains a distant pipe dream.
million; most NASL and USL teams are
worth less than $10 million. That gap
would close somewhat in an open sys-
tem, but the difference is still massive.
Further complicating and, in my
mind, ending the debate at least tempo-
rarily is the oncoming expansion. Last
week, MLS fielded bids from 12 cities
Cincinnati, Charlotte and St. Louis, to
name a fewfor four expansion teams
by 2020, to bring the league to 28 teams.
Spots 23 and 24 are reserved for the Los
Angeles Football Club and the future Mi-
ami team. The expansion fee is expected
to be a whopping $150 million.
Expansion should put the pro/rel de-
bate to rest at least temporarily for two
major reasons. First, even with the exor-
bitant MLS-set expansion fee, there are
12 ownership groups in place willing to
buy into the league, which signals excess
demand for MLS franchises. MLS and
these investors are not going to upset
the status quo in the short term. With an
expansion, part of what these ownership
groups are investing in is exclusivity. If
there is an avenue other than expansion,
like promotion, into MLS, the fee the
league commands for that exclusive right
vastly diminishes along with the value of
the franchise.
The other stumbling block is the sheer
size of the league. With 28 teams on the
horizon and both USL and NASL occu-
pying an odd parallel second-division SOPHIE WASHINGTON

BASKETBALL the larger Bowdoin community in

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
more important as the season gets lon-
ger and the games get more important,
it is important to have one anothers
best interests at heart.
The team began the season with a
record of 8-0 before losing a nail-bit-
ing 46-43 game against Tufts (23-1,
9-1 NESCAC) in January. The game
was not only the closest matchup the
Polar Bears have had all season, but
was the smallest margin the Jum-
bosNo. 3 in the nationhave won
by this year.
According to Curle, it was strong
senior leadership that pushed the
team to get back on their feet and
keep moving forward after the
loss. Shibles agrees that the se-
niors presence on the team has
been indispensable.
I think the only reason we are
here is the five seniors we have
on the team, Shibles said. They
have just exemplified the values of
our program and contributed to
amazing ways.
Besides strong team chemistry
and leadership, the team, at 16 play-
ers, has the numbers to outlast its
opponents.
Thats a huge strength because
the depth allows us to run on teams
the whole game, to pressure teams
the whole game, said captain Ra-
chel Norton 17. Most teams dont
play as many players as we do so at
the point in the game when they get
tired we have another layer of play-
ers to throw at them.
While the teams strong perfor-
mance this season bodes well for
this weekend, the players enter the
playoffs taking it one game at a time.
At this point nothing is guaran-
teed, said Norton. You have the
game in front of you and you have
to win to move on, so we are defi-
nitely not looking past Connecticut
College coming here Saturday. Espe-
cially as a senior, this is my last go
around and Im super excited and
dont want this to end. I just want to
keep playing as long as possible.

LOUIS MENDEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HOT SHOTS: (TOP:) Taylor Choate 19 drives for the basket in the teams dominant 58-43 win over Wesleyan (7-15, 1-9 NESCAC) last Friday. (RIGHT:) Sydney
Hancock 17 looks for a teammate as part of the dynamic Polar Bear oense. A three-pointer by Hancock in the fourth quarter pushed Bowdoin to a double-digit lead.
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14 the bowdoin orient friday, february 17, 2017

Promote off-campus inclusivity

In an email on Monday, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster notified the campus
of the formation of a working group focused on developing a policy for off-campus
President Rose on intellectual
fearlessness, reasoned deliberation
housing and improving upperclassmen housing options. The email included a de-
mographic breakdown of students living off campus.
The data presented by Foster reveal inequity between students who live off cam-
pus and the student body as a whole. The numbers indicate that these students are
more likely to be male, wealthy, white or a member of a varsity team. Of the students
living off campus, only 28 percent receive financial aid, which is considerably lower reminds us, history is filled with are persuasive.
than the 44.7 percent of the total student body that receives aid. BY CLAYTON ROSE questionable ideas and ideas that As a great institution of higher
The College is right to be transparent about these statistics (and we encourage the OPED CONTRIBUTOR are just plain wrong. A central mis- learning, we are responsible for
same degree of transparency with respect to other spaces on campus, such as the sionif not the central missionof developing insights, creating data,
College Houses and the athletic department). The data presented in Fosters email In an op-ed in last weeks issue of the academy is to create and nurture finding fact and engaging, as Pro-
confirm many of our suspicions about the skewed demographics of off-campus The Bowdoin Orient (Challeng- the environment, the capability and fessor Rael writes, in the processes
housing, and they highlight a need for a proactive off-campus housing policy that ing President Roses political stance the insight to parse the good from of reasoned deliberation that in-
remedies the demographic imbalance among students living off campus. on intellectual fearlessness), Pro- the bad, the right from the wrong. In forms the work of separating good
As this group moves forward there are important dynamics it should be aware of. fessor of History Patrick Rael shared what Professor Rael calls the pro- ideas from the bad, the wrong from
An inclusive off-campus housing policy would ensure that students who receive his views regarding the role of the cesses of reasoned deliberation, we the right. Engaging with ideas does
financial aid have an equal opportunity to live off campus as those who do not. In academy in evaluating the merit of are able to understand which ideas not, in and of itself, lend credibil-
most cases, the College factors the cost of living off-campus for students receiving ideas and his thoughts on a concept are worthy of further engagement, ity to those ideas. The academy is
financial aid into the total billed expenses meaning students who receive financial I have been promoting since my in- and which demand no further atten- uniquely positioned to examine and
aid and live off campus dont pay the college room fee. However, many students auguration: that Bowdoin must fos- tion. And as Professor Rael points test many different ideas, to develop
receiving financial aid are unaware of this policy and assume that living off campus ter an environment of vigorous and out, this process is taking place a reasoned view of which are cred-
is not a feasible option for them. Just as the College holds information sessions for respectful intellectual engagement in our classrooms, our labs and ible and which are not and to expose
students who want to study abroad, the College should hold information sessions on the most challenging and uncom- in the libraryindeed, all across the flaws and falsehoods. The ideas
for students who express interest in living off campus, where information about fi- fortable ideas, where students ques- our campus. of intelligent design and climate
nancial aid is transparent. tion their beliefs and develop the I have said on many occasions change denial have been exposed
The off-campus lottery, as it was implemented this January, is biased towards ac- skills, knowledge and disposition to that intellectual fearlessness is and debunked through engagement
cepting large groups. According to an email from Director of Housing Operations become intellectually fearless. about the ability and sensibility for and the use of facts and data, not by
Lisa Rendall, a student who is accepted to live off campus will be able to pull the It may be that the current politi- each of us to engage in thoughtful, pushing them aside. Critically, we
rest of their group into their house. This means that the larger a group, the more cal environment has given pause to honest, respectful and rigorous de- are also responsible for developing
entries it effectively has in the pool. These large groups have the ability to create those who hear me advocate for in- bate and discourse about the most in our students the sensibility and
exclusive social spaces that dominate campus culture. tellectual fearlessness. While I un- challenging and important issues of skills that equip them to engage all
Finally a cap on off-campus housing has the potential to inadvertently cause off- derstand the effect of this moment, our time, and with ideas that make manner of ideas wherever in life
campus rent to rise, perpetuating the bias of off-campus living toward wealthier my charge is not motivatedas Pro- us uncomfortable or may offend us. they find them, long after they have
students. If there is a constant demand for students to live off campus, coupled with fessor Rael suggestsby a preferred In my view, intellectual fearless- left Bowdoin. How do our students
the limited 200 available spots, it is possible that landlords will raise rent prices to stance in responding to the present ness does not presume, as Profes- do this without the engagement nec-
match or exceed Bowdoins housing fee. political climate. I have been talk- sor Rael suggests, a fear of ideas. essary to develop the tools to have
Moving forward, the College has to recognize that students will continue to live ing about this in various ways since I Rather it seeks to avoid an unhealthy their ideas prevail? To this point, I
off campus. If Bowdoin intends to regulate the off-campus housing policies, it is the arrived at Bowdoin in 2015, includ- certitude and complacency. have been deeply impressed by the
Colleges responsibility to develop a policy that makes off-campus housing as acces- ing in my inauguration address, at A critical challenge for each of desire in our students to work with
sible as possible to prevent further social divide. Commencement, at Convocation, in us is to step out of our echo cham- one another and struggle on their
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board, my welcome to the first-year class ber and engage with others with own to engage in this work.
which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Jenny and in an interview with Bowdoin whom we disagree in a thoughtful, Professor Rael and I agree on a
Ibsen, Meg Robbins and Joe Seibert. magazine. This is an articulation of reasoned way. This is a challenge number of things, and specifically
my longstanding view. in our societya society driven by on this: bad and wrong ideas, once
That said, I am grateful to Profes- a cable television and social media understood and discounted, should

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engaging with those views that re-
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this requires that they be confront-
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community should be discussing. have effect in the world, to really processes of reasoned deliberation
I hope others will jump in and add make a difference, we must not only and intellectual fearlessness.
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friday, february 17, 2017
Fearing patriotism: land of the free; home of the afraid?
SONS OF
LIBERTY
FRANCISCO NAVARRO AND EZRA RICE
Are Bowdoin students really at home
in all lands and all ages, as the Offer of the
College asserts?
Tomorrow night Quinby and MacMil-
lan Houses host the perennial favorite
Cold War party. In prior weeks, concerns
were raised relating to the partys theme.
Some feared the patriotic nature of
the party might trigger students. After
contentious house meetings, a panel dis-
cussion and guidance from Inter-House
Council, the theme was left intact. Yet
many involved were left wondering: are
Bowdoin students proud of, or even com-
fortable in, their own land?
Patriotism is defined: love and loyal
or zealous support of ones country In
America, that means a commitment to
stand by, have pride in and promote our
Constitutions purposes: to establish jus-
tice, domestic tranquility, common de-
fense, general welfare and the blessings of
liberty for all. Patriotism does not require
backing the current administration, sup-
porting our entire history or chest thump-
ing chauvinism. Patriotism is not partisan;
it is an adherence to your country, an out-
ward sign that one cares about the current
and future welfare of our nation and its
people. We all strive for and believe in ide-
alistic forms of America; in working for
and holding such goals we are all patriots.
So why are some afraid to demonstrate
their pride and reluctant to be around oth-
ers displaying their own?
Bowdoin students angst toward public
Alternative forms to activism given the inefficacy of protesting
IAN WARD
ON SECOND THOUGHT
In this column two weeks ago, I dis-
cussed a tendency within 21st-century
American liberalism toward self-satisfied
smugness. I argued that this smugness,
aside from being intellectually lazy, actu-
ally stands in the way of pursuing a seri-
ous liberal agenda by coaxing those on
the left into a cozy haze of cerebral self-
righteousness rather than encouraging
them to take concrete action in the politi-
cal sphere. It is this passive aloofness that
remains the target of President Donald
Trumps frequent censures of empty talk.
I was encouraged by the feedback that
I received in response to this piece, and
not only because I now know that at
least someone reads these
things. A fair num-
ber of my
displays of patriotism is representative of
growing ambivalence across progres-
sive America. Richard Rorty, the self-
proclaimed liberal philosopher, asserts,
there is a problem with this [new] left: it
is unpatriotic. In the name of the politics
of difference, it refuses to rejoice in the
country it inhabits. It repudiates the idea
of a national identity, and the emotion of
national pride.
National pride connects citizens to one
another and to larger causes outside their
own individual and material pursuits. The
larger cause of America is the pursuit of
equal rights, freedom and opportunity for
all, which all Bowdoin students seek.
Some claim they cannot rejoice in
our national mission due to numerous
atrocities in the past or shortcomings in
the present. Repudiating patriotism does
nothing to heal these scars. Rather than a
sweeping defense of our entire history, pa-
triotism is the realization that this country
is striving for greatness. While acknowl-
edging the problems of the past, we must
also celebrate the progress made and the
sacrifices it required. The imperfections of
the American memory should never limit
the potential of the American destiny.
Many take issue with American patrio-
tism on grounds that it is arrogant and
connotes superiority over other nations.
Pride in ones country allows apprecia-
tion for the pride others have in their own.
Patriotism is like parenting; only when we
have children of our own will we appreci-
ate the love our parents had for us. Fur-
thermore, the best parents comprehend
their childs strengths and weaknesses and,
with unceasing love, nurture the former to
overcome the latter. Without devotion no
child reaches their potential. America is
a young country, still maturing; with our
peers enthusiastically agreed with my
sentiment, commenting that they, too, are
frustrated by the smugness and inaction
on campus. This response in itself, along
with the remarkably large attendance at
the discussion of ideological diversity on
Feburary 3 moderated by Professor of
Government Paul Franco, raises a num-
ber of interesting questions about political
diversity on our campus.
Another handful of readers ap-
proached me to ask what would qualify
as meaningful forms of political action on
campus. What about protests, walkouts,
petitions and the like? These questions got
me thinking, and I figured they warranted
a proper response.
At the end of my previous column, I
encouraged students who feel dismayed at
the lack of socioeconomic diversity to ap-
ply for a summer internship in the Office
of Admissions.
the bowdoin orient
nurturing and devotion she will grow.
Some students see the patriotism
wielded by the current administration as
an effort to promote a homogenous and
exclusionary vision of America. Patrio-
tism is the greatest unifier of our country
with the singular capacity to include all
Americans. Communities and identities
generally gain relevance by separating
us from them. There are no identities, experiment is known, our commitment
passions or hobbies all Americans share.
This country was not founded with a
shared ethnicity, religion or ruler. We are
bound together by our values and beliefs:
liberty, equality, justice. Patriotism, un-
like other identities, unites rather than
divides Americans. Labeling patriotism
as exclusionary is fundamentally inaccu-
rate and weakens the countrys ability to
unify and cooperate for our shared values
and beliefs.
Our generation is a fortunate one;
little personal sacrifice has yet been
required from us. When future
challenges arise one must wonder
whether current Americans will
muster the conviction to sacri-
fice. The original Sons of Liberty,
our veterans, abolitionists, suf-
fragettes and many alumni found
strength in patriotism and would
be dumbfounded, if not offended, by
the perceived threat of patriotism on
campus today.
We are living in the midst of the Amer-
ican experiment. While fallible, the suc-
cesses of representative self-government,
separation of powers and respect for the
individual have changed the course of his-
tory for better at home and abroad. War-
ren Buffett asserts, The luckiest person
ever born in the history of the world is
the baby being born in America today.
I hope that the importance of this type of
action was not lost behind the rhetorical
flourish. On a small, geographically iso-
lated campus like our own, involvement
within the College is a tremendously im-
portant mode of political engagement.
The opportunities for student engage-
ment within the infrastructure of the Col-
lege are vast and, I fear, underutilized. Run
for Bowdoin Student Government. Work
as an assistant in an administrative office.
Conduct policy-focused research with a
professor. The opportunities are myriad.
Outside of the strict purview of the
College, we should take greater advantage
of our extracurricular organizations. Po-
litical groups like the College Republicans
and Democrats are a good place to start,
especially in election years that focus on As David Frum recently observed in the
get-out-the-vote efforts and campaign-
ing. Additionally, the Joseph McKeen
Center for the Common Good lists 28
student-led service organizations on its
website. Imagine the political effect
on the College if every single
Bowdoin student were in-
volved in one of these
28 organizations.
The same
goes for life
DIANA FURUKAWA
We possess an immenseand unique
American privilege. It is such a privilege
that people risk their lives crossing oceans
and deserts for a chance at it. Let us look
to the past and be grateful; let us look to
the future and be hopeful. Let us realize
the successes we enjoy exist due to the
passion, perseverance, love and sacrifice
of past Americans. The potential of the
in their defense. The time is ours. May we
to it is not.
At the party
tomorrow and
for the rest of
your life be the
first to wave your
flag. Reclaim the
as a private citizen. Instead of interning
at Bain and Company over the summer,
respond to constituent mail in your con-
gresspersons district office. Go canvas
during an election. Hell, run for public
office. How many recent Bowdoin gradu-
ates do you know who are public servants
compared to, say, financial consultants?
The big question, especially as of late,
hovers over protests. What are the role
of mass protests in the emerging politi-
cal milieu? What makes for an effective
protest? Considering that college students
continue to both populate and organize
protests, this question intimately con-
cerns us.
In my mind, we ought to recognize
protests as, at best, a double-edged sword.
policy of the Trump administration that
Atlantic, With the rarest exceptions
and perhaps the January 21 demonstra-
tion will prove to be oneleft-liberal
demonstrations are exercises in catharsis,
the release of emotions. Their operating
principle is self-expression, not persua-
sion. In this cathartic capacity, protests
promote the smug inaction that I ad-
dressed in my last column.
Beyond simple catharsis, protests can
draw attention to a cause. But attention on
its own rarely translates into action. In
an article in New York Magazine,
Fabio Rojas, a professor of sociol-
ogy at the University of Indiana
is quoted saying, There are some
people that think that protests
solve everything; you just have a
protest, its going to make every-
thing change...Thats not trueit
is a tool that does a very specific
thing, and you have to understand that
when you start out.
These objections represent fairly stan-
dard critiques of protests. But elsewhere,
opinion 15
pride your country deserves and appreci-
ate the tremendous opportunity you have
to craft the future of this mighty nation.
The torch has been passed and it is our
responsibility to preserve for posterity the
freedoms we hold dear. President Obama
believes, a freedom without love or char-
ity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of
our founding ideals and those who died
be worthy.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
Frum has offered a more insightful and
pressing concern, arguing that short of
being simply ineffective, protests might
be counterproductive in the Trump era.
Frum writes, Civil unrest will not be a
problem for the Trump presidency. It will
be a resource. Trump will likely want not
to repress it, but to publicize it Immi-
gration protesters marching with Mexican
flags; Black Lives Matter demonstrators
bearing anti-police slogansthese are the
images of the opposition that Trump will
wish his supporters to see. The more of-
fensively the protesters behave, the more
pleased Trump will be.
Frums observation is important to bear
in mind, especially on college campuses.
I vigorously support opposition to any
infringes upon the civil liberties and rights
of Americans, but students should think
twice about the role of public protests in
todays political atmosphere. We ought to
be weary of the self-fulfilling prophecy:
the right lampoons the liberal and aca-
demic elite for being snobbish and out of
touch, and in turn we protest to urge our
college president to meet a list of demands
that the College has already been meeting.
Trump and the press in turn point to these
protests as proof of academias snobbery
and isolation, and the cycle continues.
Although vocal opposition to
public protests has long been a fa-
vorite in the playbook of the reac-
tionary right, desperate times call
for desperate measures, and the left
would be wise to be more hesitant
before taking to the street. So while
we should encourage opposition to
Trumps unconstitutional measures
in as many forms as possible, we
should think twice before picking up
the megaphone.
16 the bowdoin orient friday, february 17, 2017

FEBRUARY/MARCH
FRIDAY 17
LECTURE
Common Hour: "Visual Eects in Film: Art,
Craft and (Sometimes) Bad Movies"
David Fogler 90 will speak about his experience creating visual
effects for movies. Fogler has worked on movies such as "Avatar
and "Pacific Rim." He is currently an associate visual effects
supervisor on "Transformers: The Last Knight."
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

EVENT
Snolympics
The Bowdoin Outing Club will hold a day of snow-themed team
activities to celebrate the winter weather.
Events will include snow archery, mini-sled
racing, snow sculptures and more.
Bowdoin Outing Club. 1 p.m.

EVENT
Student, Faculty and Sta Social Hour
There will be an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to
socialize. The event will include games and trivia.
Jack Magee's Pub and Grill. 5 p.m.
TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
FESTIVE FEAST: Joy Huang '19 and Yuri Watanabe 19 celebrate the Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival at 30 College Street last Friday. The event, sponsored by the Asian Student
Association, Chinese Language and Culture Club, International Club and Chinese Language Program, included dinner, student performances and karaoke.

SATURDAY 18 MONDAY 20 WEDNESDAY 22

Winter Weekend FITNESS CLASS LECTURE
EVENT Vinyasa Flow Yoga "Managing Coastal and Ocean Acidification:
Polar Plunge The yoga class led by Lucretia Woodruff will focus on breathing Challenges and Opportunities"
David Saul Smith Union. 9 a.m. and alignment. Aaron Strong, assistant professor of marine policy at the
Room 312, Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 4:30 p.m. University of Maine-Orono, will discuss the threat of coastal
EVENT and ocean acidification.
Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides Room 004, Druckenmiller Hall. 4:15 p.m.
Outside the McKeen Center for the Common Good. 11 a.m.

EVENT
Hot Chocolate & S'mores TUESDAY 21
Hyde Plaza. 11 a.m.
LECTURE
"Modern Medieval: Materiality and
THURSDAY 23
EVENT
Make Your Own Polar Bear Snow Globe Spirituality in German Expressionism" EVENT
David Saul Smith Union. 1 p.m.
Curatorial Assistant Honor Wilkinson will deliver a Gallery Live Poetry Jam with Harold Green III
Conversation on German Expressionism in the 20th century Author, actor and poet Harold Green III will perform his poetry
based on the exhibit at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art with The Nat Simpkins Jazz Trio. Green is a celebrated poet
titled Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in and performed an original poem at the inauguration of Rahm
German Expressionism. Emanuel, mayor of Chicago.

SUNDAY 19 Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Noon.

FILM SCREENING
David Saul Smith Union. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
CONCERT Angry Inuk "Performing Art
George Lopez Concert Performance There will be a screening of the 2016 documentary that defends The Bowdoin Slam Poets Society and students in the
Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will perform the Inuit seal hunting as a crucial practice for the Inuit people department of theater and dance will perform in response
third volume of Bachs Clavier-bung. despite significant pushback. to the works on view at the Museum.
The Chapel. 2 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 7 p.m.

24 LECTURE 2255 EVENT

EVEN
EV ENTT 26 EVENT 27 28 1 LECTURE 2
Bowdoin Film
"The Reproductive "Policing the
Justice Framework" Ebony Ball Society: Oscars
Police"
Night!