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The Nation’s Oldest Continuously Published College Weekly Friday, April 20, 2018 Volume 147, Number 22 bowdoinorient.com
Amidst growth,
Brunswick faces
food insecurity
rate of 13.8 percent, but had
by Jessica Piper the highest number of food
Orient Staff
insecure people of any Maine
Behind Hannaford, a county at 40,330.
five-minute walk from Bow- Meanwhile, Maine’s un-
doin’s campus, sits the pri- employment rate has been
mary facility for Mid Coast declining steadily since 2010.
Hunger Prevention Program In Cumberland County, it hit
(MCHPP). The nonprofit, 2.4 percent in February 2018.
which handles over a million Employers, including Bow-
pounds of food each year, doin, have remarked on the
combats food insecurity—a difficulty of finding and hir-
perpetual and growing is- ing workers. Unemployment
sue that affects over 200,000 remains low even after Maine COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS
Maine residents each year. voters elected in 2016 to raise GOING GREEN: A solar field on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station contributes to Bowdoin’s efforts to becoming net carbon neutral. In order to fully
Karen Parker, executive the state’s minimum wage, achieve this goal, the College will support construction of a solar field in Farmington, Maine, that will become the largest solar field in the state.
N IVIES FORECAST F TAKING THE CROWN A HOW TO PRONOUNCE D.R.A.M. S NICE RALLY O FURTHER FUNDING
Randy Nichols prepares students for Ivies Three students reflect on growing up in Chris Ritter ’21 tells all you need to know The men’s tennis team beats the Mules The Editorial Board on fellowship
amid recent police action. Page 3. Kansas City. Page 5. about this year’s Ivies headliner. Page 10. after losing to Middlebury. Page 11. imbalances across disciplines. Page 13.
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resources. Jenna Scott ’19, Jono Harrison ’19 and Fanta Traore
’20 are running for this position.
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Friday, April 20, 2018 FEATURES 7
DIVERSITY MATTERS
DIANA FURUKAWA
ABOUT TOWN
HUNGER
campus.
“I always thought about
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 people going to Ghana or leav-
organization does home deliv- ing the U.S., and going and vis-
ery for medically homebound iting Perryman Village for the
patients in the area. first time made me realize that
Another MCHPP program you don’t really have to go that
is the Summer Food Service, far to help people who are in
which serves lunch to stu- need,” Armiyaw said.
dents who would typically Armiyaw got his first exposure
be receiving free or reduced to food insecurity in Brunswick
meals during the school year. when he volunteered at MCHPP
Last summer, the program with the football team.
operated at 10 sites in Bruns- “I think that gives those teams
wick, Topsham and Lisbon. kind of a window into the issue,
Latif Armiyaw ’18 worked but probably not as in depth as I
with MCHPP and the Summer went over the summer,” he said.
Food Service program last “Because it’s one thing to go in JESSICA PIPER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
summer while on a fellowship with your team on the weekend HELPING FIGHT HUNGER: Maine’s rate of food insecurity is among the highest in the nation, despite recent economic growth and a decrease in
from the Joseph McKeen Cen- and volunteer. It’s fun working unemployment. Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program’s pantry and soup kitchen (ABOVE RIGHT) provides food to local families six days a week.
ter for the Common Good. with your teammates; you do
One of his work sites was Per- something good for the commu- volunteered at MCHPP with the hall food in America and just two His sophomore year, Berlin of the week. He has found the ex-
ryman Village Family Hous- nity, and that’s it.” men’s water polo team when he minutes off campus there’s people started volunteering with Food perience eye-opening.
ing—a public housing devel- MCHPP is a common vol- was a first year. that are dealing with food insecu- Forward Volunteers, which brings “We have so much privilege,
opment near Cook’s Corner, unteer spot for many Bowdoin “I was really shocked that we rity. And not just a couple people,” leftover food from Bowdoin’s two and for the most part we’re just
three miles from Bowdoin’s sports teams. Dave Berlin ’19 at Bowdoin have the best dining Berlin said. dining halls to MCHPP most days blind to it,” Berlin said.
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ment (BSG)’s movie streaming ser- jettisoning his best friend and everything about us. I’m not sure if this to Zuckerberg directly after While
ZIPP
vice, PolarFlix. This week, in keep- co-creator Eduardo Saverin (An- this is a commonly held sentiment he finds out he has been squeezed “The Social
EBE
PHO
ing with the news, we are looking drew Garfield). While Zuckerberg on this campus, but in my hum- out of the Facebook ownership Network” has many
back at David Fincher’s “The Social and Saverin’s relationship is mostly ble opinion, the robots are taking structure. His contention is that lessons to be learned, I’d say
Network” (2010). a slow boil, “The Social Network” over and there’s nothing we can do all of this goes back to Zucker- the most useful is when in doubt,
is injected with drama through about it. This movie is very much berg’s jealousy that Saverin was remember that it always goes
Plot Summary (spoiler: Mark the appearance of Napster founder a human drama, but also makes it accepted into the Phoenix Final back to the chicken.
Zuckerberg creates Facebook): and general coke-head Sean Park- easy to see how Zuckerberg, if he Club (taking care of the chicken Watch/Don’t Watch:
The Zuckerberg that Aaron er (Justin Timberlake) and Tyler acts in real life the way Eisenberg was a hazing task, in which Sav- Intended Bowdoin Audience: If you haven’t seen this movie
Sorkin writes and Jesse Eisenberg and Cameron Winklevoss (Armie plays him, has coded into Face- erin ended up accidentally feed- The movie is about an emotion- before (which realistically is very
plays is fidgety, difficult and largely Hammer, doubled), also known as book an understanding of the ing the chicken chicken meat. ally stunted college student. I’d say few of you), watch it now before
motivated to create his multi- the Winklevii. world that prioritizes surface-level Naturally, the student newspaper it applies to quite a few of us. the new BSG leadership structure
billion-dollar company because connection and doesn’t consider was interested in this scoop.). rudely rips it away from us.
10 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friday, April 20, 2018
SPORTS
Friday, April 20, 2018
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
MAKING A STATEMENT:
Hannah Hirschfeld ’18
matches were not very close. We’d since we’ve been here,” said captain by (8-2, NESCAC 3-1) yesterday Roddy. “In their eyes, it’s a rivalry, was named both the
by Kathryn McGinnis get out to [an] early lead and clinch Gil Roddy ’18. “This year, they’ve afternoon, beating the Mules [but] not as much in our eyes. It’ll NESCAC Women’s
Orient Staff
the match early,” said Wolfe. “Our dealt with some injuries, so this 9-0. This game was an important be another mid-week match, so Lacrosse Player of the
Ranked second in the nation match against Brandeis Universi- past weekend was the first week- primer for the more challenging there are a lot of external factors Week and Intercolle-
going into weekend play, the men’s ty was closer, and [in] our match end the team was fully healthy. competition against No. 4 Wil- you have to shut out. I know it will giate Women’s Lacrosse
tennis team (12-1, NESCAC 3-1) against Middlebury, it became With a fully healthy team, they’re liams (11-2, NESCAC 4-0) on be a really important match for us Coaches Association Na-
suffered its first defeat of the sea- a very close situation where we right up there with the best teams Saturday. to take care of business in moving tional Player of the Week
son in a surprising 8-1 loss to No. 3 needed to win all the matches. in the conference for sure.” “Colby is a pretty tough team,” into Saturday.” after helping the team
Middlebury (14-3, NESCAC 4-1) That’s one of the biggest learning Despite the loss, Wolfe main- said captain Luke Tercek ’18 be- Going into the NESCAC tour- pull off two tight confer-
on Saturday, ending a 12-game points [from the loss] for our team, tains his confidence in the team, fore the match. “They have several nament, the team is looking to ence wins. In the game
win streak. With only five matches getting more experience playing in choosing to learn from its mistakes strong [players], so it should be a play its best in order to match its against Wesleyan on
left in the regular season, the Polar close matches.” against Middlebury. good match. A bunch of players on opponents. Saturday, the Polar Bears
Bears are striving to reclaim their Middlebury is one of the “Saturday [was] pretty disap- our team should be [challenged], “I think Williams will proba- were down by four with
top NESCAC position. strongest teams in the conference pointing,” said Wolfe. “We had a and hopefully we’ll get something bly be the toughest team we have 20 minutes remaining
The day before losing to Mid- and one of Bowdoin’s toughest pretty big rivalry with Middlebury out of the match and be ready to left on the schedule, but as it gets when Hirschfeld scored
dlebury, the Polar Bears beat competitors for the NESCAC and going, but we’ve talked a lot about face Williams on Saturday.” toward the end of the season a lot all five of her goals,
Brandeis (11-3) 6-3. According to NCAA championships. The two [how] Saturday’s result is not a Roddy expressed concern that of NESCAC teams are trying to including the game-win-
captain Kyle Wolfe ’18, these two teams have faced off in the NES- reflection of our preparation. We external pressures may have af- make the tournament and ele- ner, in the second half to
matches differ from the matches CAC finals for the past two years, didn’t feel like we could have done fected the mid-week Colby match vate their level of play as well, so help propel Bowdoin to a
played earlier in the season, spe- with Bowdoin beating the Pan- anything differently. They just more than the team’s actual skill. these will all be pretty competitive 13-11 win.
cifically those over spring break thers 5-4 in 2017. came out and executed a lot better His concerns were unnecessary as matches,” Roddy said.
in California, because of the close- “They have always been the than us. That’s allowed us not to get the team finished with a victory. The Polar Bears will look to
ness of the games. dominant team or one of the few too shaken about one loss and get “They’re always a really tough stay in the win column against SMASHIN’ IT: After
“We played a ton of matches dominant teams in the NESCAC. back to work this week.” team as well, pretty scrappy, and the Ephs at home on Saturday at
two losses last week-
in California and a lot of those They’ve been one of our big rivals Bowdoin faced off against Col- definitely excited to play us.” said 10 a.m.
end against MIT and
Middlebury, the wom-
As playoffs raise the stakes, hopes are high for men’s lacrosse
en’s tennis team came
back with a vengeance
against Colby with a
9-0 win. Tasha Christ
Despite their recent losses,
by Nicole Tjin a Djie the players remain optimistic
’20 and Sasa Jovanovic
Orient Staff
going into Saturday’s ‘senior
’20 had an 8-0 win
After two consecutive loss- night’ game. at doubles and Izzy
es this past week snapped an “I think definitely coming off Essi ’21 and Jovanovic
eight-game win streak, the this past loss, we’ve got some both went 6-0, 6-0 in
sixth-ranked men’s lacrosse more fire underneath us and I their respective singles
team (8-4, NESCAC 4-4) is think especially this senior day matches. The team will
more focused than ever as they we want to leave out everything hope to continue its
head into tomorrow’s game we can on the field,” said Henry success against Williams
against Williams (7-6, NES- Savage ’21. on Saturday at 2 p.m.
CAC 5-3). For Matthew Crowell ’18,
This past Saturday, the Polar the last two losses have served
Bears lost 8-12 to Wesleyan as a way to help the team recal- OUT OF THE PARK:
(10-2, NESCAC 7-1), who is ibrate and regain their focus.
SAM HONEGGER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT After losing the Tufts
tied for first in the NESCAC. “We were riding the wave IN THE BAG: The men’s lacrosse team faces off against Colby on April 11. The team lost a close game, with series 2-1 last weekend,
The prior Wednesday, the team of an eight-game winning the final score being 8-7. The team looks to finish the season strong after losing two NESCAC games in a row. the baseball team crushed
fought a close match against streak and we are trying to Husson 8-1 on Wednes-
Colby (5-6, NESCAC 2-6), in get back to working hard and really dangerous,” said Archbell. Nonetheless, he also notes ry. Everybody was fighting till day. The team started off
a game that ended with the showing up each day to prac- As the team gears up for the the game really comes down to the last second, which I think the game strong, scoring
Mules winning 8-7. tice. If anything, I think it has last two games of the season, the team’s dynamics. bodes well for us going into the all eight runs in the first
Reflecting on the team’s per- grounded us a little bit more,” Archbell has been rewatching “In the end it is always going playoffs,” said Savage. inning. Austin Zakow ’21
formance, Coach Jason Arch- said Crowell. past games and plays with the to be about what your funda- With the season coming to went deep with the bases
bell believes the game’s result Apart from the usual pres- players to see how they could mentally supposed to do as a an end, these next two games loaded; his grand slam
came down to basic mistakes, sures of the impending playoffs, improve. In addition to the team,” he said. “It always comes will be decisive. Out of the eight propelled the Polar Bears
rather than a lack of ability. the team has also faced an in- Polar Bear’s previous games, down to: what am I supposed to teams competing, only half can forward. The team will
“I think a lot of it comes crease in concussions this sea- Archbell also looks at their op- do as a Bowdoin Polar Bear in a host the first game and if Bow- look to stay in the win
down to fundamental errors,” son. This week, captain Daniel ponents’ past performances as situation?” doin wins on Saturday, they will column against Thomas
Archbell said. “I think that’s Buckman ’18 was out as the he plans. For Savage, despite their be able to host the start of NES- today at 4:15 p.m. fol-
been hurting us. Both teams result of one. “Understanding what the loss, last week’s game served CAC playoffs. lowed by the Middlebury
played really well against us “Even if the guy feels fine the other team is doing or going to as an indication of the team’s The team will face off against series, which kicks off on
and ... are good teams, so it is next day, we have to go through do and practicing—that is real- progress and as a source of the Ephs in the final regular Saturday at 4 p.m.
certainly good for them, bad the protocol because these things ly helpful in your preparation hope for playoffs. season home game on Saturday
COMPILED BY ANNA FAUVER
for us,” are really serious and [can] be for the game,” said Archbell. “No one showed any wor- at 1 p.m.
12 SPORTS Friday, April 20, 2018
I’m Aneka Kazlyna, and I’m running for chair of academic affairs with Fanta Traore, who is run-
ning for chair of the Student Organizations Oversight Committee (SOOC). I am the BSG multicultural Nate DeMoranville ’20
representative, a multicultural life student director, the Muslim Students Association’s chair; Anokha’s
president and representative to the Committee for Middle East/African Studies. I am also an interviewer Hi! My name is Nate DeMoranville, and I am running to be chair of facilities and sustainability.
for new faculty. I have already built a relationship with the administration. My experience shows that I I have three major goals for this position: 1. To increase accessibility for all on this campus, 2. To
am always looking for ways to enrich the academic experience. oversee student input on developing housing projects and 3. To facilitate dialogue on the College’s new
Our vision: revolutionize academic and personal support and increase access sustainability goals post-2020 carbon neutrality. Much of this work will happen in partnership with the
• Wellness Vending Machine: 24/7 accessibility to low-cost contraception & health products administration, and through my various leadership positions—class president, proctor, Multicultur-
• Peer-Nightline: an anonymous mental health hotline to help with academic stress al Coalition Co-Chair—I have already established the necessary relationships with administrators to
Policy: leverage meaningful change.
• Evaluate ESD/IP requirements and fight for a more culturally relevant curriculum Now, I have also set a few smaller goals to provide tangible products of my committee’s work while
• Allow first-semester students to take classes for credit only in order to transition we push through these larger, institutional reforms. I intend to make more bathrooms gender-neutral,
• Expand resources through drives for books and professional attire provide additional outdoor seating at dining halls and put compost bins in student spaces.
We will empower all voices with your support. Thank you. I hope you will consider me for this position. Thank you!
Harry Sherman ’21 I’ve planned Spring Gala and other events and worked in the Student Activities (SA) office, where I’ve
built great relationships and have helped lead numerous groups, including producing RISE 2018.
Hello, everyone! I am tremendously excited about the prospect of serving as your treasurer. As a rep- If elected, I’ll work closely with club leaders and SA staff to make student organizations run as
resentative to the Student Activity Funding Committee (SAFC), I understand the importance of a strong smoothly as possible. I will incorporate sexual assault prevention and mental health into new training,
relationship between the SAFC and the student organizations that it serves. Clubs should always feel plan dinners and awards for student organizations and work to unify various leadership trainings under
confident that the committee under my leadership will be doing its absolute best to provide all necessary the umbrella of Student Affairs. I’ve already started working with Nate Hintze and Lisa Peterson on
funding. Here are some steps I’d take towards improving the funding process: developing these ideas and am excited to implement them if given the opportunity!
1. Adding a glossary to the guidelines defining any confusing and “jargony” terms used throughout
the process
2. Should the SAFC be unable to fully fund a request, providing a list of other potential sources of
Fanta Traore ’21
funding from around campus I am Fanta Traore and I am running for chair of student organizations alongside Aneka Kazlyna,
3. Providing explicit justifications for all of our decisions who is running for chair of academic affairs. I am a RA with ResLife, the secretary of Africa Alliance,
Managing the $700,000 activities budget is a complex responsibility that deserves someone thought- the Muslim Students Association’s treasurer, the president of H4H, the leader for BASE and BSS pro-
ful, creative and detail-oriented to assume it. I trust myself with these responsibilities, and I hope you will grams and an intergroup dialogue facilitator. I know what it’s like to be on the other side of the re-char-
too. Thank you! tering process and have established myself in the very organizations in which I partake. This makes
me the most qualified and hands-on experienced candidate because I’m familiar with the failures and
successes that come with running clubs.
Our vision: Revolutionize academic and personal support and accessibility
• Wellness Machine
• Peer Nightline
SEE PAGE 3 to learn what the positions entail SOOC Vision:
• Strengthen the relationship among student organizations and enrich community events
and remember to vote by Sunday at 8 p.m. • Reconfigure the re-chartering process and hold hands-on club training workshops
• Open workshops for active members
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FRIDAY 20
EVENTS
Earth Day Celebration
The Office of Sustainability will be hosting an Earth Day
celebration. There will be Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, games,
music and other fun activities.
David Saul Smith Union. 11 a.m.
PERFORMANCE
Common Hour: Student Ensembles
Concert
Student musicians from the Department of Music will
perform classical and jazz pieces.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 12:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Lady Bits: A Night of Comedy with
Sophie de Bruijn CHRIS RITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PAUSING FOR POETRY: Michael Reed, Senior Vice President for Inclusion and Diversity, reads poetry under Alexander Calder’s “Red Fossils”
Sophie de Bruijn ’18 of Office Hours Improv and Purity Pact mobile in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library on Wednesday. Every weekday in April, a student, faculty or staff member will read a poem in honor of
Comedy will perform an original one-woman show as part National Poetry Month.
of her Honors Project on the history of women in stand-up
comedy in the United States.
MONDAY 23 WEDNESDAY 25
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8:30 p.m.
LECTURE LECTURE
TUESDAY 24
modern literature and the shift of that role pre-and post-9/11.
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:15 p.m.
SUNDAY 22 EVENT
“Fashioning a Home in Early America”
PERFORMANCE
Ivies Thursday Concert
Student band Gingersnap will open for indie-pop band
FILM Collector and fine woodworker Don Hare ’51, senior AJR. Students are limited to two guests per person. Guest
In Search of Israeli Cuisine consulting Curator Laura Fecych Sprague and curator registration is available at the David Saul Smith Union
Bowdoin Hillel and Bath’s Beth Israel Congregation will be Joachim Homann will show 17th and 18th century furniture, Information Desk.
screening the film “In Search of Israeli Cuisine.” chest and tableware. David Saul Smith Union. 10 p.m.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 3 p.m. Museum of Art. 12 p.m.