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BCA thinks big

picture with
Sunrise alliance
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
For its next foray into climate
activism, Bowdoin Climate
Action (BCA) is connecting
with the Sunrise Movement,
a national organization that
advocates for political action
on climate change. Sunrise has
mostly recently been linked
to activism surrounding the
Green New Deal—not divest-
ment campaigns, for which
BCA had long been known.
BCA’s first major involve-
ment with the Sunrise Move-
ment occurred last December,
when 16 students attended
sit-ins at the Capitol Build-
ing in Washington D.C. The
action was organized by BCA
co-leader, Haley Maurice ’20,
who worked closely with na-
tional organizers during the
Sunrise Semester, a full-time
volunteer organizing program
that runs from June to elec-
tions in November.
Although the Sunrise Move-
ment was formed in April
2017, the national organiza-
tion gained momentum after
freshman House Representa-
tive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-New York) joined demon-
stration organized by the
Sunrise Movement at current
Speaker of the House Nancy
Pelosi’s office last November.
The Sunrise Movement has
over 100 “Sunrise Hubs.” Local
hubs play a crucial role in the
movement due to partnership
with Sunrise National to plan
local climate action.
Although BCA has been ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
at the forefront of organizing
political action around climate Tensions bubble up as blue-collar jobs leave town in “Sweat.” Lynn Nottage’s Pulizter
change on campus since 2012,
Prize-winning play is showing in Pickard Theater this weekend. SEE PAGE 7.
Please see BCA, page 6

Outing Club programming aims to foster

diversity and inclusion outdoors
by Anibal Husted
Orient Staff
There is a common per-
ception on campus that many
members of the Bowdoin
Outing Club (BOC) fit into a
particular stereotype. But this
semester, the BOC is renewing
its efforts to push back against
historical narratives about the
outdoors.
Through new programming
and positions, guest speakers
and grant money, the group is
putting new emphasis on diver-
sity and inclusivity.
“We have this narrative on
KATE LUSIGNAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT this campus but also in the U.S.
GATHERING FOR GREEN: Bowdoin students joined other activists to pro- at large about the outdoors be-
test outside U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ (R-Maine) Portland office last Friday. ing a white, male-dominated
space, an affluent white male
space,” said Tess Hamilton ’16,
assistant director of the BOC.
“We have the opportunity in
this space to change that.”
After Spring Break, the
BOC will be conducting focus
groups, comprised of students,
to evaluate the progress it has
made towards increasing diver-
sity and inclusivity. One area of
focus has been the Leadership
Training (LT) program, which
students must complete in order
to be eligible to lead BOC trips.
Not all of the programming
is new; diversity has been a
conversation at the BOC for
decades.
“[This year is] the latest iter-
ation of ongoing efforts, which
have been going on the past 20
plus years,” said Kevin Lane ’19,
co-officer of the BOC.
For example, the Wild Wom-
en Spring Adventures series
began over a decade ago and
Out of the Zone (OZ) Leader-
ship Training was piloted 11
years ago. Hamilton explained
that OZ was designed to make
the experiences provided in LT
accessible to students who have
historically felt excluded from
leadership opportunities on
campus and at the BOC, includ-
ing low-income students of col-
or and first-generation students.
Hamilton cited the erasure of
financial barriers as a central
component of this project; the
BOC waives member dues for
students in LT and pays them
for time they spend on trips.
“It [should not be] a choice
[between] ‘do I work this cam-
pus job and get the money that
I need’ or ‘do I go on this trip,’”
Hamilton said. “That was a huge
barrier.”
New programs, such as OUT
in the Woods, were created in
collaboration with groups such
as Bowdoin Queer Straight
Alliance, THRIVE, Interna-
tional Students Association,
African-American Society and
other affinity groups. These
partnerships show the BOC’s
commitment to increasing
inclusivity, but haven’t always
Please see BOC, page 5

Pre-Roe v. Wade meets post-Trump in reproductive rights talk

by Ellery Harkness
Orient Staff
While Bowdoin students
don’t remember a time before
the Roe v. Wade decision, local
grandmothers certainly do. On
Tuesday, Bowdoin Reproduc-
tive Justice Coalition brought
Grandmothers for Reproduc-
tive Rights (GRR) to campus for
a talk called “Life Before Roe v.
Wade with Grandmothers for
Reproductive Rights.” About
15 GRRs and roughly the same
number of students gathered in
the Baxter House living room
for a conversation about activ-
ism and women’s health.
GRR is a group comprised
primarily of women who grew
up in a time with little or no
access to birth control. Founded
in Maine in 2013, the organi-
zation now has chapters in 46
states. Members aim to protect
reproductive rights by lobbying
against restrictive bills, hosting
discussions and advocating for
sex education.
Founder Julia G. Kahrl said
the organization developed in
response to increasingly limited
access to the care guaranteed
in reproductive rights legisla-
tion in the decades since Roe v.
Wade.
“We knew that things [were]
getting worse and that the an-
ti-choicers were organizing
more and more. They’ve been
organized since 1973,” she said,
“but they were doing much
more work.”
Like many women, Kahrl
was upset by and angry about
the new restrictions on repro-
ductive health care.
“We decided we wanted to
change our anger into some-
thing positive,” she said.
Tuesday’s event focused on
storytelling, with GRR mem-
bers sharing their own experi-
ences and those of friends. The
speakers, who wore bright yel-
low pins that read “GRR,” began
the talk with a short film before
transitioning into a discussion
with the students who attended.
Participants noted that the
reproductive rights women
have today are ones that women
and girls died without before
Roe v. Wade. They argued that
the continued attacks on wom-
en’s healthcare pose a “slippery
slope.”
In the past, GRR has done
postcard signings and other
smaller events at Bowdoin. This
event, centered around conver-
sation and storytelling, left a
more powerful impression on
students.
“I think we sort of forget what
it was like,” said Eleanor Brake-
wood ’19, one of the co-leaders
of Bowdoin Reproductive Jus-
tice Coalition. “These women
know people who died getting
back-alley abortions, and they
Please see JUSTICE, page 3

N BEAUTY IN COLOR A VOYAGE WITHOUT A VISA F AFRICANA STUDIES ARRIVES S OVERCROWDED COURTS O ON SECOND THOUGHT
The Women of Color Photoshoot Immigrant stories come to life in the A history of the creation of the Africana Winter weather forces varsity teams to Brooke Vahos ’21 discusses relationships
seeks to empower. Page 3. performers’ U.S. debut. Page 8. Studies Department, 50 years later. Page 11. share limited space in Farley. Page 16. between under- and upperclassmen. Page 19.
2 Friday, March 1, 2019

2 PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT
2/21 to 2/28
STUDENT SPEAK:
What is your least favorite word?
Thursday, February 21 Monday, February 25
• An ongoing dispute between roommates prompted • Brunswick Rescue transported an ill student to Mid
a student to request a crash room. Coast Hospital. Stephen Leventhal ’19
• A student was cited
Friday,
February 22
for compiling 16 park-
ing violations since
“Wolves. It’s hard to say. Why not
• A student in Coles
Tower reported cash
October.
wolfs?!”
stolen from a wallet Wednesday,
in a burglary of the February 27
student’s bedroom. • A security officer
• A smoke alarm in a brought a student with
second floor hallway flu-like symptoms to
at Russwurm House the Mid Coast Walk- Caroline Poole ’22
resulted in a build- in Clinic.
ing evacuation. The
cause of the alarm
• A student reported
the theft of a backpack
“Crank. It just sounds angry.”
was undetermined. containing athletic
gear at the Buck Fit-
Saturday, ness Center. Security
February 23 recovered the back-
• A housekeeper re- pack and the matter
MOLLY KENNEDY

ported damage to a remains under inves-

women’s rest room tigation.
stall door. Madi Thies ’21
• A noise complaint Thursday,
at Harpswell Apart-
ments led to an
February 28
• An odor of natural
“I can’t even say it. I can spell it though:
unregistered event
being dispersed. A student took stepped up and took
gas was reported at
Maine Hall. Facilities Management personnel re-
F-A-R-T.”
responsibility for the violation. sponded to investigate and correct the problem.

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Atticus McWhorter ’22

As spring arrives, get “Phlegm. Because it’s spelled funny.”

ready for uncuffing season

by Reuben Schafir A member of the maintenance ber of bed-related orders to drop Jill Tian ’21
Orient Staff staff who spoke to the Orient not- following Spring Break and the

As the ice sheets covering Bow-

ed a significant increase in the
number of work orders relating
arrival of uncuffing season.
“I’m hopeful for me and my “Assignment...”
doin’s campus slowly melt into to bed repairs over the last two boyfriend,” said a recently-cou-
ankle-deep puddles sure to soak months. Citing the well-known pled first year. “Sure, I’ll miss
through the elastic siding of your fact that many students choose to him over the break. And yes, he
Blundstones, students become in- sleep in their significant other’s is going home to see his ex from
creasingly aware that spring will bed between December and Feb- high school, but he’s over her.
be arriving shortly. The sudden ruary, and that the College’s beds Plus we’re planning on working
departure of the endless grey skies are not designed to hold more than on a farm in rural Maine together
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serves as an indicator of another one person, the staff member ex- this summer, so we have to say
season that lingers just a few weeks plained that she expects the num- together.”
away: uncuffing season.
“It feels like everyone in my
friend group is in a relationship,”
remarked one sophomore.
The phenomenon is not uncom- The Security Report
mon; needing an excuse to stay in
bed all day as grey skies and short
days rule the winter season, stu-
dents quickly pair up in October
contained a record-low
and November.
“It didn’t feel good to spend all
day in bed by myself,” said a first
10 infractions this week.
year. “But when my girlfriend and
I started dating, it was sudden-
ly OK because someone else was (And one was about a gas leak.)
there and we had something to do.”
That same first year remarked
that with sunny days ahead, the
outdoors and “spending time with
my bros” is starting to look much
more enticing.
Some students find other ways
to solve their seasonal depression
Bowdoin students,
and chronic loneliness. One small
group of juniors held weekly or-
gies, beginning the night of the
please do better (worse).
first snow. However, one member
of the group anticipates that the
tradition will end as soon it be-
comes warm enough to play Spike- PHOEBE ZIPPER
Sincerely, your Page 2 Editor
ball on the quad.
Friday, March 1, 2019 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF Bowdoin women of color collaborate

COMPILED BY AURA CARLSON

BSG VOTES TO ADOPT STUDENT-

CREATED VOTING SOFTWARE
on annual photoshoot and gallery
On Wednesday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) represen-
tatives deliberated and voted on a new voting system. Out of the
three choices—a student-created, computer-based system, paper
ballots and software purchased from an external provider—the
majority voted for buying student-created software.
Along with the incorporation of ranked choice voting, as de-
cided at the end of this past November, the key part of the new
system is that it randomizes the candidates’ names, an ability that
Blink, the current system, does not have. This is meant to curb any
undue advantage a candidate might gain from being listed first on
the ballot. This new system is more user-friendly for both voters
and BSG members who receive and report the results.
“It is important to have something that we know how to operate
instead of bringing someone else,” said Chair of Academic Affairs
Jenna Scott ’19, explaining why BSG chose to have a student-creat-
ed system rather than external software.
Computer science major Dylan Hayton-Ruffner ’20 has been
experimenting with a new system that will meet BSG’s needs.
When discussing the costs and benefits of the new system,
Vice President for Student Government Affairs Amber Rock ’19
reminded delegates that student-created systems have been a prob-
lem in the past. She referenced a past election during which the
system crashed and, because the student-creator had graduated,
BSG didn’t know how to fix it.
Athletics representative Khelsea Gordon ’19 said that the pur-
chase of an outside computer software would decrease the prob-
ability of system crashes and maintain a team of professionals to
fix it.
Chair of the Treasury Harry Sherman ’21, however, had re-
searched potential new systems and did not feel confident in this ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
option.
MAKING HERSTORY: Raquel Santizo ’19, Arah Kang ’19 and Aisha Rickford ’20 prepare the finished products of the Women of Color Photoshoot to be
“Adopting another outside software would require us to funda- displayed in Lamarche Gallery in David Saul Smith Union. This year, women were encouraged to feature an important object or piece of clothing in their photo.
mentally alter our voting process,” he said. “It would take a group
of people to master the system and communicate the system to the craved.” photographers were Brianna white campus leads to a fear of
entire school. I’m not sure if it is worth it.” by Viv Daniel Santizo said she tries to be White-Ortiz ’21, Camille Far- fetishization.”
Orient Staff
For the paper ballot voting option, the consensus was that it intentional when she is in- radas ’19, Oceanna Pak ’19 Santizo has watched her
would harm voter turnout and make the process of tabulating Last night, the exhibition volved with programming on and Sam Valdivia ’19. event grow over the last
votes significantly more labor intensive. “Beauty in Color” opened in campus. Throughout March, “Having someone that looks three years. Participation has
“No one would want to spend that amount of time counting bal- the Lamarche Gallery in David Bowdoin will be celebrating like you [and who] comes doubled since the first pho-
lots,” Sustainability Representative Milo Richards ’21 said. Saul Smith Union. It featured Women’s Herstory Month, and from a similar place makes it toshoot, and this year will
Although Curriculum and Implementation Policy Represen- photos that were taken on Santizo thinks the Women of a lot easier,” Villa said. see the addition of student
tative Victoria Yu ’19 said handing out paper ballots and stickers February 3 during Bowdoin’s Color Photoshoot is an appro- Santizo hopes that the ex- interviews about the Bowdoin
in David Saul Smith Union would increase student motivation to third annual Women of Color priate way to kick things off. hibition of the photos will add WOC experience played on
vote, Chair of Diversity and Inclusion Mamadou Diaw ’20 empha- Photoshoot, where 40 Bowdoin “It’s at the end of February, to the empowering experience iPods throughout the gallery.
sized the possibility of a similar campaign with electronic ballots. women of color (WOC), three which I like a lot because it’s for participants. Villa says that the most com-
organizers and general photog- Black History Month, and “When you walk into space, mon comment she received
raphers gathered in room 601 then the next day is the be- and it’s like, ‘oh there’s an 11 by from participants is that they
of Memorial Hall. Each indi- ginning of Women’s Herstory 17 beautiful picture of myself wish there were more events at
JUSTICE have fewer options for care.
This is one of the reasons that
vidual was encouraged to bring
any clothing or items import-
Month. So it’s like a perfect
segue because it’s about wom-
that I got to pick out,’ that is
what I call a revolutionary act
Bowdoin centered around the
WOC experience, potentially
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Berman named the Bowdoin ant to her identity to feature in en of color,” she said. of self-love at a predominately in more casual settings.
can sort of give a more personal group the Reproductive Justice her photos. Santizo started planning white institution,” she said. “Some people talked about
take on it. I think it’s important to Coalition instead of the Repro- Raquel Santizo ’19, a stu- this year’s event in the fall and Santizo also hopes that the having 24 College be at night
not forget that that’s our history.” ductive Rights Coalition. dent director at the Sexuality, has spent the weeks since the event will spark discussions a space where they can come
Brakewood and co-lead- “Reproductive rights has Women and Gender Center photoshoot finalizing plans among non-participants about after parties and debrief with
er Becky Berman ’20, both of been framed as a relatively (SWAG), first conceived of for the exhibit and developing their experiences and those of other women who have simi-
whom work extensively with well-off, white women’s strug- the event when she was a the portraits in a darkroom in WOC. Santizo was originally lar stories and identities,” said
Planned Parenthood, said the gle to legalize abortion,” Ber- sophomore and brought it to the Edwards Center for Art most interested in conversa- Villa.
talk was particularly relevant in man said. “The emphasis on fruition with the help of both and Dance. She is excited for tions about hookup culture Although all the organizers
the context of the current status justice is to put the focus on student organizers and faculty the gallery opening but says on campus—a topic which she of this year’s WOC photoshoot
of reproductive rights. accessibility, things like these in what was then the Women’s that the photoshoot itself was wrote a paper on before orga- are seniors, they believe that
“After the election I think I Title X changes. For someone Center. The idea was in part an especially important part of nizing the first WOC photo- there are plenty of underclass
definitely had that moment—I who doesn’t face a lot of bar- inspired by the “Celebrating the experience. shoot. She hopes to publicize women involved in other ca-
think a lot of people had this riers to [health] care, [this] Women, Celebrating Bodies” “It’s a two-and-a-half hour the discussion of issues such as pacities who can take over
moment—where it was like all probably isn’t going to change photoshoots, which allowed block where we’re just a com- these which tend to come up when they graduate. They also
these things have been brew- their lives a lot, but for some- female and non-binary stu- munity of women of color, in conversation among friends hope to use the exhibition to
ing in the country, but it feels one who’s low-income, who’s dents to pose both clothed talking about our experiences or within affinity groups but stir interest and engage the
like a reality check,” Brake- in a rural area, who has a lot of and nude. Santizo said she with confidence and beauty that rarely permeate other Bowdoin student body in
wood said. different intersectional identity sensed a need on campus for and just being in that space campus spaces. WOC’s stories.
Brakewood said that now is factors that often bring dis- similar programming per- which is a powerful and vul- “This is obviously not ev- “Having it in Lamarche was
a particularly important time crimination, [this could be a taining to the experiences of nerable and a very happy eryone’s experience, but a lot really strategic, because even
for the talk because of Title X, big change].” WOC. space to be in,” she said. of women of color felt either if you don’t go to the event on
which provides federal fund- Berman hoped that the event “Women of color want to Juliana Villa ’19, another invisible because they weren’t the opening night, it will be
ing to health centers. Under a would increase interest and create a community togeth- student director at SWAG meeting standards of beauty there for a month,” Villa said.
rule proposed by the Trump involvement in reproductive er,” Santizo said. “And I think and co-organizer of the pho- and therefore we weren’t being “You’re going to be in Smith
administration last week, a justice. doing that in this specific toshoot, said that it was im- approached as much or at all,” at some point—you’re going
new domestic gag rule would “That’s definitely one thing environment at this specific portant to choose a WOC said Santizo. “That, or they to look up there and it will be
be attached to Title X. Under that we’ve seen all seen over the event is something that people as a photographer. The four felt hyper visible … Our very there.”
this rule, a healthcare provid- past few years—that it’s been
er in the United States who hard to get Bowdoin students
performs abortions or refers involved actively in this fight,”
patients to an abortion provid-
er would lose all of its Title X
she said.
Students who attended came Done reading
funding. away inspired.
Because tax dollars cannot
go toward abortions, organiza-
“I thought it was awesome,”
said Audrey Muscato ’20. “It the Orient?
tions such as Planned Parent- was really interesting to hear
hood rely on donor money to their stories. It made it feel so
offer the procedures on a slid-
ing scale to make them avail-
much more real, and hearing
them talk about what it was like
Frame it.
able to low-income women. If
they can’t accept government
before Roe v. Wade gave me a
renewed sense of urgency for Or recycle it.
healthcare, these women will our rights.”
4 NEWS Friday, March 1, 2019

Brock Clarke delivers Greason inaugural lecture

by Roither Gonzales
Orient Staff
Last night, Bowdoin students,
faculty and community mem-
bers huddled together in Kresge
Auditorium to listen to Professor
of English Brock Clarke’s in-
augural lecture as the A. Leroy
Greason Professor of English.
Clarke’s talk, titled “What the
Cold Can Teach Us,” focused less
on inclement weather itself but
instead on Clarke’s own experi-
ences and obsessions and their
influence on him as a writer.
“The cold, the climate cold,
has to do with where I grew up,
which is a small town in way
upstate New York. It’s frozen
half the time, and it’s generally
considered an unlovable place,”
said Clarke. “But there are
things embedded in it that I find
lovable, not because in fact they
are lovable, but because they’re
interesting to me as a writer.”
To Clarke, these lovable de-
tails aren’t simply the “generic
things” that connect people to
a place, such as family or rela-
tionships there; rather, these
details are often overlooked or
even dismissed out of hand as
backwards.
“What matters to me are these
things that are exactly what peo-
ple don’t like about the place,”
Clarke said in an interview with
the Orient. “So this is me making
an argument for writing about
things other people deem not to
be important, like a tiny shithole
mill town in upstate New York.
So, I think that partly manifests
itself in my writing.”
This focus on making the
naturally unlovable lovable man-
ifested itself during the lecture,
when Clarke repeatedly poked
fun at his hometown’s small
claims to fame. He referred to
how his town’s public relations ef-
forts sometimes seemed self-dep-
recating and humorous and how
these small details, which often
seemed absurd, actually made the
town more lovable and important
to him and his writing.
This absurdity and these
mundane details are important
to Clarke and his writing style.
During the lecture he men-
tioned notable writers like Joy
Williams and Paul Beatty and
how they approach subjects in a
“slantwise way” that shocks and
disarms the reader.
A perfect example of this is
in Clarke’s recent work, “The
Price of a Haircut,” a collection
of short stories that arose from
his experiences in Cincinnati
during race riots after a young
black man was killed by a white
police officer. According to
Clarke, his publisher originally
wanted him to write a nonfic-
tion book about the riots, but he
took another path.
“I thought, ‘How am I go-
ing to write this in a way that
distinguished itself from other
accounts?’” said Clarke in an
interview. “So I turned it into
this weird fable about a race riot
being blamed not on racist cops,
but on a racist barber who’s of-
fering really cheap haircuts.
And their response was like,
‘Who the fuck would do that?’”
It’s questions like these that
make Clarke feel he’s onto
something as a writer.
“When people asked that
question, that’s exactly when I
realized I was doing something
that I wanted to do,” he said. “For
me, if you’re doing it the same
way other people are doing it,
then you’re not quite living up
to the potential of whatever art
form you’re working in.”
For many who know Clarke,
his inaugural lecture captured
his personality, humor and
originality.
“Brock has a lot of insight
in writing and reading fiction,
and hearing how he formulates
his work is very interesting,”
said Aleksia Silverman ’19, one
of Clarke’s honors students. “In
particular, I’m really interested
about what he said about sat-
ire. Seeing how satire operates
in today’s atmosphere and how
you can use humor in your writ-
ing is great.”
The A. Leroy Greason Chair,
named in honor of the College’s
12th president, was first award-
ed in 1999 to Professor Emeri-
tus Mary K. Hunter of the Mu-
sic Department. The Chair is an
honor given to a professor who
specializes in the creative arts.
Clarke is the third professor to
hold the professorship and the
first to share the honor with
another faculty member, A. Le-
roy Greason Professor of Visual
Arts Mark Wethli.
Clarke said he was honored to
receive the named professorship.
“I spent a lot of time just, you
know, banging my head against
whatever I’m working on by
myself,” he said. “And so you’re
never quite sure that it’s having
an impact. So it’s nice when these
things happen, it lets you know
that at least someone thinks [your EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
work] is having an impact.” ICY INSPIRATION: In his inaugural lecture as the A. Leroy Greason Professor of English last night, Brock Clarke
discussed his process of making the overlooked or unlovable, like the cold in his hometown, appear lovable to readers.

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Friday, March 1, 2019
Bowdoin alum
talks ‘hacking
literature’
by Emily Staten
Orient Staff
Weaving together literature,
biotechnology, philosophy
and political theory, Eileen
Hunt Botting ’93 took to the
podium in the Searles Science
Building on Monday evening
to deliver her lecture “Shelley,
Hawthorne, and the Ethics of
Genetic Engineering.”
Addressing Bowdoin stu-
dents, professors and com-
munity members in a packed
lecture hall, Botting explored
the ethical and political im-
plications of advancements
in biotechnology through a
discussion of Mary Shelley’s
“Frankenstein,” Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s short story “The
Birth-Mark” and other works
she calls “hacker literature” in
a talk sponsored by the Peucin-
ian Society.
“Hacker literature hones its
attention upon the ethics and
politics of biotechnology, es-
pecially the artificial hacking
or transformation of human
life,” Botting said at the lecture.
“Frankenstein and the political
science-fictions it has spawned
are daring provocations to con-
sider the ethics and politics of
making artificial life from the
perspective of both the creators
and the creatures.”
At the University of No-
BOC
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been successful in creating
long-term change.
“I think one of the big prob-
lems with the Outing Club is
that when we do partner with
an outside organization or
affinity group, we don’t really
have retention of those same
students, who come back and
do trips on their own with
the Outing cCub,” said Meera
Prasad ’19.
Prasad is the diversity out-
reach coordinator for the BOC,
a position that was created last
semester. She completed LT
herself and will be involved
with the focus groups, which
will most likely implement
changes in the programming
next year.
The BOC is also working to
obtain additional grant money
to reimburse low-income stu-
dents who might miss work in
order to participate in leader-
ship training. Hamilton hopes
to expand this program to more
students in the coming years.
In addition to these changes,
the BOC has also taken steps
to create new programming
that promotes diverse conver-
sations about the outdoors.
Last Thursday, Szu-ting Yi, a
climber and author, came and
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tre Dame, Botting, who is a
professor of political science,
focuses her research on what
she sees as the increasingly
important ethical and political
implications of scientific ad-
vancements. At Bowdoin, she
majored in philosophy and
English and minored in Greek.
“After the European Enlight-
enment of the 18th century,
science has indelibly shaped
human experience, including
politics,” said Botting in a phone
interview with the Orient fol-
lowing the lecture. “Science is
also a big part of how we think
about ethics today, because MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
we're grappling with the impact ARTIFICIAL ADVANCEMENTS: On Monday night, Eileen Hunt Botting ’93 lectured on the urgent need for political and ethical reflection amidst the
of technology not only on na- increasing influence and growth of technology. The Notre Dame professor feels this is particularly important when considering the creation of artificial life.
ture out there, but also our own
nature as human beings.” netic engineering. ature, especially Gothic lit- “I realized that she would explore different avenues.”
Works of literature from “Technology isn’t something erature, with Professor Ann be a great person to bring be- “If they’re interested in tech-
Shelley and Hawthorne can to be afraid of,” she said. “I Kibbie and Professor [David] cause [her research] combines nology, maybe they should
highlight these important po- think it’s important for those Collings,” said Botting. “Tak- a lot of interests of members read more literature and …
litical and ethical dilemmas of us who have good, sober lib- ing those classes and debating of Peucinian Society and also connect the ethical questions
that surround advancements eral arts educations to use our ideas about rights in particular members of campus,” said Eis- of literature to the studies that
in science and technology, said reasoning skills and our critical shaped my interest in looking ner. “She deals with technology they are engaged with, and vice
Botting. thinking skills to think intelli- at Mary Shelley as a resource and innovation and science. versa,” said Eisner.
For instance, she argued that gently about what the conse- for thinking through contem- She deals with literature. She Botting is currently integrat-
“the story of the creature [in quences of these advancements porary ethical and political deals with political theory, and ing the ideas from her lecture,
‘Frankenstein’] presses readers are and might be, but in a so- problems related to the rights she bridges all these gaps in a discussion of the ethics of
to challenge biologically ter- ber, reasonable manner.” of artificially made creatures.” disciplines.” artificial intelligence and an ex-
ministic accounts of what it Botting partially attributes The interdisciplinary nature Eisner was largely responsi- ploration of the philosophy sur-
means to be a human, a child, her research interests to her of Botting’s work also served to ble for coordinating Botting’s rounding love and relationships
to love or to hold rights.” own liberal arts education at make her lecture accessible and visit to campus in her role as in a technologically advanced
Botting also emphasized the Bowdoin. appealing to a large cross-sec- impresario of the Peucinian world into a new book, “Political
importance of taking a mea- “I studied political theory tion of the student body, said Society. She hoped that the talk Science Fictions after ‘Franken-
sured, intellectual approach to with Professor [Paul] Franco Mollie Eisner ’21, who invited would encourage students “to stein’: AI, GMOS, and the Poli-
the discussion of ethics in ge- and I studied English liter- Botting to campus. be intellectually fearless and tics of Making Artificial Life.”
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
OUT WITH THE OLD, IN THE WITH INCLUSIVE: The Outing Club has worked with a number of affinity groups
this semester to launch a series of programs and trips that aim to foster inclusivity. (ABOVE) Carolyn Finney delivered
a talk in January. (RIGHT) Aisha Rickford ’20 participates in the Wild Women’s Ski Program in Lost Valley.
spoke at the Schwartz Outdoor “For her to describe overcom- about her book “Black Faces,
Leadership Center (SOLC) ing those obstacles in her own White Spaces: Reimagining the
about her relationship with the path is important for all of us Relationship of African Amer-
outdoors and some of the bar- to hear.” icans to the Great Outdoors,”
riers she had to overcome. Other programs include an which was incorporated into
“It’s important to give a event held Monday at the SOLC the spring LT curriculum.
platform for her story espe- called Wabanaki REACH, “We’re seeing positive
cially as a woman of color and where students came to hear change in diversifying … but
especially as an immigrant a tribe member speak about it’s by no means an end result
to hear those stories because stolen land recognition. Earlier that we are going to arrive [at].
that barrier to participation this semester, author Carolyn It’s very much a process,” said
is still strong,” said Hamilton. Finney was invited to speak Hamilton.
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in the last two years the group

has struggled to present a uni-
fied message on campus while
creating a formalized connec-
tion.
“We ended up organizing
around things that came up and
we never really had enough of a
long term vision to make some
kind of change,” said Maurice.
The leaders of BCA believe
that the affiliation with Sunrise
will give the group more polit-
ical power within the state of
Maine. The connections to the
College and to the organiza-
tion give BCA credibility when
working with outside groups,
which they hopes will result in
more effective organizing.
One of BCA’s top priori-
ties is building relationships
with local groups interested
in climate justice. With the
aid of Sunrise National, they
have reached out to middle
and high schoolers, the Maine
People’s alliance, farmers
and fisherman. BCA has also
been in communication with
the two other Sunrise Hubs
in Maine. One hub is located
in Lewiston and is associated
with students at Bates College
and the other is located on KATE LUSIGNAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Mount Desert Island.
BANDING TOGETHER TO STAND TALL: Through collaboration with Sunrise, a national organization with local chapters across the country, BCA is able to organize with other of these “Sunrise
While Sunrise National Hubs.” One example of this collective activism took place last Friday, when about 30 Bowdoin students joined 15 others in a protest outside Senator Susan Collins’ (R-Maine) Portland office.
encourages action at the lo-
cal and state level, the group biggest changes can be made made few public appearances wards climate justice. The new According to the chair of the the club,” said Scott. “In the
also encourages collaboration on the national level,” said Will since his defeat to King in the association with the Sunrise Student Organizations Over- long term what would happen
across the nation’s 100 hubs. Hausmann ’22. “There are only Senate race, was encouraged by movement is just part of the sight Committee (SOOC) Jen- when the GND ultimately goes
This includes sending mem- so many opportunities to influ- the action. necessary shifts. na Scott ’19, the group’s charter through?”
bers from hubs in Boston ence climate policy with south- “Climate change is the most After its formation in 2012, will remain under the name Despite these concerns,
and New England to actions ern Maine, so there could be urgent issue of our time,” said BCA’s commitment to divest- “BCA”. However, BCA is able Maurice believes that efforts to-
organized by BCA. Other greater impact made by stress- Ringelstein. “It’s going to be young ment spanned four years. How- to coordinate with Sunrise Na- wards climate justice will persist
benefits include the provision ing the national level.” people mobilizing who are going ever, in March 2017, after the tional. While Sunrise is able to after the vote on the GND.
of resources and trainings for Since the start of the spring to make the biggest change this results of the 2016 Presidential provide training to BCA, they “The Green New Deal is a
political action. semester, the group has carried world has ever seen.” election, BCA shifted its focus are not able to provide funding campaign [and] there is con-
In Maine, Sunrise National out two major actions: visits to During the action, protesters away from a divestment cam- for the group. cern [over whether a Sunrise
has emphasized on targeting King’s and Collins’ offices earli- sang, chanted and shared sto- paign and towards achieving Clubs sponsored by the Hub] on campus would last a
Collins and King, urging them er this month and a larger rally ries directed towards Collins—a climate justice through elector- SOOC are able to request while [because it is a campaign.
to support the Green New Deal at Collins’ office last Friday. foundational principle of the al politics. meeting space, use vans and However,] policy and things
(GND). Collins and King, both On Friday, approximately Sunrise Movement. Although “We didn’t know that divest- apply for funding through the change over time,” said Mau-
regarded as moderates, have 45 protesters attended the pro- Collins was not in her office, a ment made sense as a tactic to Student Activities Funding rice. “Sunrise will continue un-
supported environmental pro- test at Collins’ Portland office. member of her staff encouraged enact change on climate change Committee (SAFC). Due to the til climate change is no longer
tections in the past. Around 30 of the attendees students to come back to meet because we had Donald Trump grassroots nature of the Sun- a concern.”
“It makes sense for Collins were Bowdoin students. The with the senator. in office,” Maurice said. rise Movement, local hubs do Despite the uncertainty of
to sign on,” said BCA co-leader remaining 15 came from a va- “[Collins’ staffer said] it’s Since the shift to electoral not receive any funding from BCA’s official label going for-
Maddie Hikida ’22. “You like to riety of groups and institutions powerful to hear stories, but politics, beyond advocating for Sunrise National. ward, the group is confident
think that your politicians will such as 350 Maine, a group Collins really likes talking climate justice, BCA is known Eventually, the BCA would about the direction of climate
be consistent.” focused on climate action, and about policy,” Maurice said. on campus as the leading orga- eventually like to rebrand as action at Bowdoin and are
The reception to the affil- Colby College. “We’re probably going to go nizer of action for the progres- “Sunrise Bowdoin”. However, hopeful about the future.
iation with Sunrise has been Of the groups and individ- back and talk policy.” sive movement. Most notably, the SOOC has reservations “We have the policies we can
positive among BCA members, uals that the BCA reached out Due to the urgent and the group organized action at about a full transition to a hub push for, we have candidates
who believe the movement’s to, Zak Ringelstein, the 2018 fast-paced nature of climate Collins’ office to protest the affiliated with Bowdoin. can get behind, and we have
goal of climate justice comple- Maine Democratic candidate politics, BCA has undergone nomination of U.S. Supreme “We asked that they remain candidates we can target on
ments the work BCA is doing. for Senate, joined protesters in major changes in focus and Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh BCA because we were wor- specific policies that we didn’t
“With climate policy, the Portland. Ringelstein, who has tactics in order to move to- last September. ried about the longevity of have before,” said Maurice.

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A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

‘Sweat’ stages working-class
anguish with empathy

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS: (from left) Jessica Speigt ’21, Wayne Harding ’21, Chase Tomberlin ’21, Railey Zontop-Zimlinghaus ’19, Daniel Viellieu ’19 and Daniel Miro ’19 perform in “Sweat.”
by Brianna Cunliffe
Orient Staff
Once audiences are confronted
with the human cost of the Amer-
ican Dream, economics and poli-
tics will never look the same. On
Friday night at Pickard Theater,
tales of American workers take
center stage as the Department
of Theater debuts the Maine pre-
miere of the Pulitzer and Tony
award-winning play “Sweat” by
Lynn Nottage.
Set in a bar in Reading, Penn-
sylvania, once a center of indus-
try so famous its name is on the
Monopoly board but impover-
ished in the early 2000s, the play’s
central characters grapple with
the changing world. As the fac-
tory so integral to their identity
moves abroad, a tight-knit group
of workers witness their union
weakening, their worth discarded
and their hard-won futures slip-
ping away. Along racial and eth-
nic fault lines, they begin to crack.
Professor of Theater Davis
Robinson believes that the play’s
basis in interviews with real work-
ers lends an inescapable realism
to the events depicted.
“People get desperate, and
they turn to drugs, they turn to
violence, they turn on each other,”
said Robinson. “And when there
are just crumbs left on the table,
people start fighting over the
crumbs.”
Questions of blame and iden-
tity persist through the eight-year
time span as scenes alternate be-
tween 2000 and 2008, tracing the
arc of two election cycles and a
financial crisis, and painting vivid
pictures of much-invoked Ameri-
can ills: opioid abuse, unemploy-
ment, persecution of immigrants
and class resentment.
Though it premiered in 2015,
Nottage’s play takes on added
weight in the context of the 2016
election and the search for an-
swers after what was, for many, a
blindsiding verdict from middle
America.
“Every now and then, a play
comes along that has a kind of
seismic finger on the pulse of the
country,” said Robinson.
“Sweat” was one such play.
Robinson immediately pushed
for the production rights, drawn
by its profound empathy, as well
as a sense of urgency.
“It’s an examination of the
forces that led to so much despair
in the industrial Midwest,” said
Robinson. “It asks, ‘What can we
do to try to solve this together,
rather than blame [others], turn
on each other, turn on the immi-
grants, build a wall [or] further the
outrage?’—that’s clearly not getting
us anywhere.”
The events of “Sweat” are far
from distant. Robinson stresses
that these issues affect towns in
every part of America, including
Maine.
“Reading, Pennsylvania—it’s
Sanford, Maine. It’s Lewiston,
Maine. It’s the lumber mills. It’s
the mills in Brunswick that are
now antique stores. We’re at a
turning point, and there’s a lot of
anger and pain for people that are
slipping through the cracks,” said
Robinson.
“Sweat” does not shy away
from these emotions, in content
or in diction. Actors confront that
anger and pain head-on, giving
these lived experiences a second
life. For Robinson, the rehearsal
process was about ensuring that
students owned these stories de-
spite their complexity.
“It becomes a visceral experi-
ence, rather than just an intellec-
tual exercise,” he said.
With its colorful language and
elevation of working-class lives,
“Sweat” seeks to expand the sphere
of influence of live theater. Written
by a black female playwright and
featuring a racially balanced cast,
“Sweat” is also about ensuring that
the doors to Pickard Theater and
the performing arts at large are
flung wide open.
“Everyone should feel like they
are welcome; that it’s not an exclu-
sive or elite or white institution,”
said Robinson. “We want this
building to be a place that can tap
into what’s going on in the world.”
“Sweat” offers no easy answers
or resolutions. Its ending tableau
gazes forward into an uncertain
future with a single, tenuous sug-
gestion: take care of one another.
“Sweat” will be performed
tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Pick-
ard Theater. There will also be
a talkback session with the cast
at 7 p.m. Monday on March 4
in Room 601 of Memorial Hall
open to any interested students
or community members.

Music department seeks recruitment in admissions

by Cole van Miltenberg
Orient Staff
While many students step
into Gibson Hall each semes-
ter, very few know the inner
workings of Bowdoin’s music
department. Despite occasional
setbacks, new efforts are being
made to revive music programs
and recruit students through
a greater attention to musical
abilities during the admissions
process.
Faculty in the music de-
partment review hundreds of
music-based arts supplements
each year—listening to 323 in
2018—and grade the pieces
on a 15-point scale. However,
students’ accomplishments are
also evaluated on a more holis-
tic level, in order to create bal-
anced ensembles that represent
a diverse group of instrumental
abilities and musical interests.
Professor of Music and Chair
of the Music Department Vineet
Shende emphasized the impor-
tance of fit when looking at ap-
plication supplements.
“For example, in an orches-
tra, you need to have a certain
amount of horns, a certain
amount of oboes, a certain
amount of violas, etc.—without
these proportions, it’s almost like
you’re reading a text where every
fifth word is blacked out,” Shende
said in an email to the Orient.
Ultimately, however, the mu-
sic department has relatively
little say when it comes to the
admissions process. In fact,
over the past four years, the
number of students enrolled at
the College who submitted arts
supplements has gradually de-
creased. Thirty-six members of
the Class of 2019, 33 members
of the Class of 2020, 26 mem-
bers of the Class of 2021 and 24
members of the Class of 2022
submitted these supplements to
the College.
Shende hopes to see these
numbers change in the future
but understands the various
challenges and considerations of
the admissions process.
“Admissions has a lot of balls
that they’re juggling in terms of
creating a balanced incoming
class,” he said. “I’ve been here at
Bowdoin for 17 years, and we’re a
much more diverse student pop-
ulation in so many ways. Now,
during that time, the amount of
spaces reserved for Athletics has
remained constant—about one-
fifth of each incoming class; so
Admissions is tasked with filling
[students from] all of these ad-
ditional areas within that same
amount of space.”
A few programs, including
the chamber ensembles and
chamber choir, have seen a
drop in participation in recent
years. The number of chamber
ensembles has been cut in half
mainly due to a lack of student
cello players. This represents a
key difficulty created by the de-
partment’s overall lack of say in
admissions, as it prevents them
from considering the talents and
skills of new students to create
cohesive ensemble groups.
This being said, the admis-
sions process does not seem
to adversely affect all music
ANGEL RAMIREZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
programs at the College. After
MUSIC MATRICULATION: Sam Harder ’20 plays the piano. Every year, a number of students are admitted to Bowdoin
all, students who submitted
for their outstanding musical talents; the department wishes to bring in a diverse group of instruments and expertise.
supplements represent only a
fraction of the over 200 students The orchestra program has and making lessons completely the orchestra, music majors
who participate in an ensemble also grown from about 30 to ap- free for those on financial aid. were not the most common
program each semester. The de- proximately 70 participants over Shende is hopeful that the major by far [within the group]
partment has actually observed the past four years, and Jazz com- Music Department will observe … And of the 34 possible ma-
a new trend of students coming bos have tripled in size from two continued growth among all of its jors at Bowdoin, 30 of them are
out of the woodworks to join en- to six groups. In addition, the programs. He champions the di- represented in the orchestra. It’s
semble groups, despite not hav- music lessons program has seen verse interests of Bowdoin music interesting in that the students
ing submitted a performing arts a threefold increase, after recent- students as a key component of who are involved in our music
supplement when they applied ly expanding its reach to students the department’s ability to thrive. and our ensembles tend to be
to Bowdoin. with beginner musical abilities “If you look at a group like well-rounded,” Shende said.
8 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friday, March 1, 2019

‘Voyage without a Visa’ narrates immigration

by Dani Quezada
Orient Staff
On Tuesday night, students and
community members were taken
on a journey in Kresge Auditorium
with the performance of “Voyage
sans Visa, Tukki saa suné (Voyage
without a Visa),” which followed
immigrants travelling from Sene-
gal to France. The performance—
showing in the United States for
the first time ever—recounted
the stories of people who left their
homes for other lands, document-
ing their trials, happiness and
hopes for the future.
The performance starred
Boubacar Ndiaye, a celebrated
storyteller, singer and dancer who
seeks to promote the preservation
and propagation of oral traditions.
KAYLA SNYDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Ndiaye, who is originally from
Senegal but currently living in
MUSIC & MEMORY: Performers Boubacar Ndiaye, Cheikh Mbaye and Pape N’diaye Paamath delivered a moving
narrative of immigrants journeying from Senegal to France, combined with African oral tradition and musical beats.
France, was accompanied by Baye
Cheikh Mbaye, a composer and Ndiaye believes that if all frontiers oral traditions across the fran- three men’s music and voices
traditional drums player from Sen- were open, people would discover cophone world from the Middle would synchronize, emanat-
egal, and Pape N’diaye Paamath, a new places but ultimately return Ages to the abolition of slavery. ing throughout the auditorium.
musician and guitarist who creates to their home to build something She wanted her class to learn from Ndiaye’s movements and motions
“Afro francophone” music. new. a griot, a traditional West African engaged with the music, as if the
The narrative recorded the “This idea that the world is storyteller, in order to break down instrumentals were another com-
harrowing journey of three im- belongs to all of us,” he said. “This traditional ways about studying ponent of his voice as the griot.
migrants on a boat from Senegal dream of there not being any con- literature. “Behind the tongue there is on stage,” Dauge-Roth said. “I was so thrilled tonight to
to France, and depicted families straints to where we can travel and “There’s a way in which Europe music, always, and behind every The audience was captivated see so many new Mainers in the
of the immigrants whose loved where we can go.” has valued the written over the music there is a story,” said Ndiaye. by the performance, finishing audience and witness how much
ones eventually returned, embrac- Associate Professor and Chair oral, and oral traditions have got- Although the entire perfor- Ndiaye’s sentences or questions, the show and the public acknowl-
ing the theme of longing to travel of Romance Languages and Lit- ten really lost,” said Dauge-Roth. mance was carried out in French laughing in response to imbedded edgment of their cultural heritage
without constraints. eratures Katherine Dauge-Roth “The whole course tries to sort of and Wolof, a Niger-Congo lan- jokes and clapping with the tempo meant to them,” said Dauge-Roth.
The performance proposes a worked to bring Ndiaye, Mbaye turn all that on its head and look at guage spoken in Senegal and of the beat. At one point in the The event was sponsored by
greater outlook on immigration; and Paamath to Bowdoin for their different oral traditions in addition Gambia, the power of storytelling performance, Ndiaye prompted the Blythe Bikel Edwards Fund,
the title, “Voyage without a Visa,” first ever appearance in the United to written traditions.” moved the entire audience regard- the audience to rise, clap and sing the Africana Studies Program,
is inspired by the freedom of birds, States. Dauge-Roth was inspired Ndiaye’s storytelling relied less of language. along, with a member of the au- and the Departments of History,
who are able to leave home but by her course, “The Oral and the heavily on the use of music. There “I think a lot gets communicat- dience even running on stage to Music and Romance Languages
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THE AUX CORD
2019 release radar: the good, the bad and the average
by Chris Ritter
Zacari - “Don’t Trip”
You might not know Zacari’s name,
but you’ve definitely heard his voice.
It probably caught you on Kendrick
Lamar’s “LOVE,” where it soars in a
falsetto riff adapted from his own song,
“Lovely.” Or maybe you heard him
on “Redemption,” a dancey afrobeat
highlight from the star-studded “Black
Panther” album. “Don’t Trip” is Zacari’s
first solo offering since each of those
high-profile features, and it’s clear he’s
found a vibe of his own. The song plays
to the singer’s strengths: he’s got the
rhythmic sensibilities of a rapper and a
falsetto nothing short of ethereal. “Don’t
Trip” highlights them both, as Zacari
hazily laments over disappointing love:
“Yeah, I’m through / Everything’s mov-
ing in slow motion.” The emotion here
isn’t sure-footed, but it fits. Zacari crafts
a song so bright and hazy that when the
sound of a seagull shows up in the verse,
it falls right in place.
by Sebastian de Lasa
Rico Nasty - “Roof”
From the moment Rico Nasty says
“Kenny,” you know “Roof ” is going
to be a banger. The Kenny that Rico is
referring to is Kenny Beats, a frequent
Rico Nasty collaborator and the hottest
producer in hip-hop at the moment.
Rico’s hilarious lyrics, ad-libs and ag-
gressively in-your-face beat make this
song the most fun of 2019 so far. It’s a
whirlwind of a track and demands to
be played again and again.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
James Blake, Metro Boomin, Travis
Scott - “Mile High”
James Blake, Metro Boomin and Tra-
vis Scott are the trio no one knew we
needed. On “Mile High,” the three are
an absolute unit, doing everything a
supergroup should, highlighting all of
their respective talents without a wor-
ry of stepping on toes. Blake, the Brit-
ish producer-songwriter, has made a
living mostly through glitchy piano
balladry but has co-produced some of
the most idiosyncratic rap beats of the
past three years (see “King’s Dead,”
Kendrick Lamar’s “ELEMENT,” Vince
Staples’ “War Ready” and countless
others). Blake is joined here by Met-
ro Boomin, perhaps the most prolific
architect of trap music. Travis Scott is
an accomplished producer in his own
right, and delivers a masterclass in
murky vocals. Blake tries his hand at
that too, mimicking Scott’s line, “Fell
in love overseas” and adding his own
twist, “Fell in love like it’s easy.” Blake
sounds a bit sweeter in his attempt at
trap, but the result is fun to watch. At
its best, “Mile High” sounds like three
masters performing at their peaks,
and they’re playing off each other.
Rex Orange County - “New House”
It’s not that bad, but “New House” is
not exactly the return I expected from
Rex Orange County. 2017 was Rex
Orange County’s year, featuring the
excellent album “Apricot Princess” and
a string of massive singles (my favorite
of which is “Sunflower”). “New House”
has a lot of the aspects of a Rex Orange
County song that I expect—gush-
ingly romantic lyrics, piano, strings,
multi-layered vocal harmonies—but
it’s less immediately impactful than
many of his other songs. While I will
say that I appreciate the first half of the
song, it gets a little boring by the end
of the track. The song slows down but
doesn’t have nearly as exciting a climax
as a song like “Television / So Far So
Good,” and it ends up feeling slightly
dull and borderline morose.
Vampire Weekend - “Harmony Hall”
It’s been 11 years since we first heard
them and six years since we heard them
last, but Vampire Weekend still hasn’t
disappointed us. “Harmony Hall” is one
of two tracks the New York indie staple
has released from their upcoming al-
bum, “Father of the Bride”—their first
album since their all but universally ac-
claimed “Modern Vampires of the City.”
Not too far removed from that record is
“Harmony Hall,” which borrows a line
from one of its tracks, capturing the
same joy-tinged struggle, “I don’t wanna
live like this, but I don’t wanna die.” The
line seemed more anguished in 2013, but
Ezra Koenig sings it with a shrug here.
The instrumental is just as breezy. With
a busy Afro-pop rhythm section and a
piano bouncing through it all, the song
seems to harken back to the classically
inspired “Modern Vampires” and the
band’s lively debut album. Koenig makes
it feel current too, musing about snakes
in dignified places and people who sing
too loud to hear anything at all. In 2019,
Vampire Weekend still seems up to the
impossible task of doing everything we
expect of them.
Slowthai - “Peace of Mind”
Slowthai is one of the most exciting
things about the London-based genre
Grime at the moment. Hailing from
Northampton, England, he brings a
massively different perspective to his
music compared to most Grime artists.
On most tracks, he shows off a dexter-
ous and fast flow, similar to artists like
Wiley or Dizzee Rascal, but on “Peace
of Mind” he slows down his syllables.
It’s a fantastic track by an artist who
has been on a massive hot streak since
dropping the incredible “T N Biscuits”
in January 2018. If you’re a fan of
Grime, you should’ve been listening to
Slowthai for a while now, but his con-
sistently fantastic music appeals to all
hip-hop fans.
9
Tierra Whack - “Only Child”
Of the many rappers who broke
into the mainstream in the past year,
none have done it quite like Tierra
Whack. In 2018, Whack broke out
with “Whack World,” an album of
15 one-minute songs, displaying an
impressively wide array of talent in a
tiny timeframe. “Only Child” gives her
a little more space and showcases all
that made “Whack World” great: frank
lyrics, clever bars and a melodic deliv-
ery that ranges from sweet to bitterly
sassy. Whack raps and sings with a
sincerity you can feel, like she is speak-
ing directly to you and has no trouble
maintaining eye contact. It makes her
lyrics all the more sharp, whether she’s
telling her ex to literally stop breath-
ing or snapping out a laugh with “You
done turned my heart so cold, I should
work at Friendly’s (Ain’t shit sweet!)”
Without a doubt, Whack is unique, but
her success is no gimmick.
Big Thief - “UFOF”
Big Thief is back with its first song
since 2017’s “Capacity,” and it lives
up to the band’s very, very high
standards. The group has been busy
over the last few years, with constant
touring and lead singer and guitarist
Adrianne Lenker releasing a solo
album to critical acclaim. “UFOF”
is beautiful. Lenker’s vocals are
hushed and intimate, singing about
a “UFO friend,” using the meta-
phor of an alien abduction for a
past romance. The instrumentation
includes acoustic guitar, warm syn-
thesizers and a tight drum rhythm,
bringing to mind a combination of
Belle and Sebastian and Japanese
Breakfast. It’s a fantastic track and
just another highlight of Big Thief ’s
stellar discography.
SHONA ORTIZ
10 PHOTO ESSAY Friday, March 1, 2019

PHOTO ESSAY

INSIDE DUDLEY COE

From the outside, Dudley Coe doesn’t stand out. Set back on Dudley Coe Quad,
it looks like just another one of Bowdoin’s many white-windowed brick buildings. But
inside, the building has more than meets the eye.
After its construction in 1917, it served as the College’s infirmary. But when the Peter
Buck Center for Health and Fitness opened in 2009, it was stripped of its original
purpose—but only after handling a final outbreak of the swine flu.
Nowadays, the building brings together people from across campus. From the soft
sounds of students hosting a WBOR-FM radio show in the basement, to the Office of
Residential Life on the ground floor, to professors’ offices on the upper levels, there’s
always something going on in Dudley Coe.
With the announcement of the construction of Mills Hall and the Center for Arctic
Studies came the news of the demolition of the Colonial-style building, which will be
torn down to extend the Dudley Coe Quad in 2021, following the completion of the
two new buildings. Photos by Mackey O’Keefe
Friday, March 1, 2019
F FEATURES
INSIDE THE READING ROOM: Gary Lawless, owner of Gulf of Maine Books,, browses the store, curating bookshelves with input from customers. The shop, a hub for local readers and authors, celebrated its 40th anniversary this Saturday.
40 years of community at Gulf of Maine Books
by Mitchel Jurasek
Orient Staff
This past Saturday, custom-
ers of all ages buzzed in and
out of the trademark Bruns-
wick store, Gulf of Maine
Books, at its 40th anniversa-
ry celebration and sale. The
Maine Street store has drawn
readers and writers to Bruns-
wick, from local high school-
ers to best selling authors.
Gary Lawless and Beth
Leonard, who founded and
operate the bookstore to this
day, pride themselves on mak-
ing real connections with cus-
tomers—something that has
helped the store stay afloat
during an era of online book
sales and the closing of other
bookstores in Brunswick.
“I think almost anyone
who has been in Brunswick
has interacted with Gary or
Beth,” said Shawn Bayrd ’19,
Bowdoin in history: half a New affinity group provides
century of Africana Studies space for multiracial students
by Lucia Ryan
Orient Staff
Fifty years ago, Martin Lu-
ther King Jr.’s assassination was
a fresh wound in American
public memory, and white in-
stitutions across the country
were beginning to confront
major gaps in their course of-
ferings and their woefully ho-
mogenous student bodies.
In February of that year,
the nation-wide Black Campus
Movement came to a head.
Demonstrations demanding
increased diversity, in both
student body and curriculum,
at the University of Wisconsin
at Madison drew 900 national
guardsmen to the campus in
alarm. Within the following
months, dozens of colleges and
universities quickly established
a customer at the anniversary
event and life-long Brunswick
resident. “They are very per-
sonal. They really want to get
to know their customers.”
The two prefer to learn their
customers’ names and can re-
count decades-old interactions
with many of the people who
walk through the large glass
doors facing Maine Street.
Peter Simmons ’78, a previ-
ous director of the Bowdoin In-
ternational Music Festival and
passionate customer, has been
coming to the store since his
college days. Lawless and Leon-
ard remember Simmons and
his now-wife, Charlotte Agell
’81, a widely-published chil-
dren’s author, visiting the store
when they were college-age.
“It was sort of date night
for [Simmons] and Char-
lotte every time [they] came
to the store,” said Lawless.
“[They’ve] been coming ever
programs in Black studies, both
proactively and out of “white
guilt”—Bowdoin included.
On May 12, 1969, the Black
Curriculum Committee, com-
posed of Bowdoin students and
faculty, proposed a plan to cre-
ate an Afro-American studies
major the following semester.
The faculty approved the plan
on May 14. Over the course of
one summer, the College went
from offering just one course
relating to Africana studies to
offering a full major’s worth.
By 1969, the civil rights
movement was slowing down.
Even BUCRO, the Bowdoin
Undergraduate Civil Rights
Organization, was waning in
numbers and activity. Opinion
pieces by non-members in the
Orient wondered whether BU-
CRO was “dead.”
since. And then [their] chil-
dren started coming here too.”
Simmons, popping into
the store to recommend a
new children’s book to Leon-
ard and Lawless, was quick
to respond to this comment,
saying, “You know if I had any
grandchildren I’d buy them
books from here! It’s multi-
generational.”
Customers marveled at
the amount of people at Sat-
urday’s celebration. Lines
formed from the cash register
to the doors and, due to the
amount of people roaming
the bookshelves, the walls felt
closer together than usual.
A wide selection of books
line those (sometimes over-
flowing) bookshelves, curat-
ed by the owners as well as
the customers. If you have a
recommendation, Lawless is
all ears. The conviviality that
the two owners create with
What had the College
looked like in the 1960s,
while state-sanctioned vio-
lence against black Americans
sparked protests in much of the
country?
“A lot of the momentum in
the civil rights movement was
people of college age, but not
at Bowdoin,” said Dan Levine,
the Thomas Brackett Reed pro-
fessor in history and political
science emeritus, who arrived
at the College in 1963. “Maine
was sort of a backwater of civil alize you were mixed race?” for
rights activity, and Bowdoin was the entire hour.
a backwater in a backwater.”
In 1963, Levine was a young
professor teaching about the
progressive era and the welfare
state. Throughout his under-
graduate and graduate educa-
Please see LEVINE, page 13 like, ‘Ah, this is so good. This is
shoppers around literature is
their favorite part of owning
the store.
“The combination of us be-
ing able to look at any book you
want to and just having peo-
ple come in and talking about
books is great. Finding out
what they like to read and the
conversations and friendships
that come out of that is beauti-
ful,” said Lawless. “In 40 years
we’ve made some really good
friends and met some pretty
amazing people.”
Some of these friends in-
clude Pulitzer Prize winners
and National Book Award
fellows. Lawless and Leonard
are part of a literary family in
Maine that includes many of
the industry’s modern giants.
Most recently, the store
hosted Jane Brox’s publish-
ing party for her new book
“Silence: A Social History of
One of the Least Understood
by Nell Fitzgerald
Orient Staff
This Tuesday, members of
the newly formed Multira-
cial Student Union (MRSU)
crowded into a dining room in
Moulton Union. Although club
leaders Ayana Harscoet ’21
and Flora Hamilton ’21 came
prepared with a list of discus-
sion points, the group dwelled
on one question for the entire
hour: “When did you first re-
“These are things we all
have a deep desire to talk
about,” said Harscoet. “Every-
one started jumping in with
all these stories and anecdotes
that other people could relate
to. I could just sit back and be
Elements of Our Lives.” The
book was named an Editors’
Choice by “The New York
Times Book Review.” Brox, a
former visiting professor of
the College, is a Maine-based
author who frequents Gulf of
Maine Books.
Pulitzer Prize-winning
novelist Elizabeth Strout has
also called Gulf of Maine
Books one of her favorite
bookstores. In a 2013 inter-
view in The New York Times
Book Review, Strout praised
the owners for their willing-
ness to purchase new books
requested by customers.
Lawless himself is a widely
published poet and received
the Constance H. Carlson
Public Humanities Prize from
the Maine Humanities Coun-
cil in 2017. He was honored
for using poetry to bring voic-
es to refugee communities,
veterans and developmentally
why we needed this.’”
This semester, Harscoet and
Hamilton founded MRSU as a
space for students who identi-
fy as multiracial, multicultural,
multiethnic or racially ambig-
uous. The two sophomores
met at the Asian Students Alli-
ance (ASA) last year and began
envisioning a space for mixed
students after feeling a lack of
support from the group.
“It wasn’t that the existing
affinity groups are exclusive
in any way,” said Harscoet.
“We just felt like we have had a
unique experience that wasn’t
reflected by any of the student
organizations on campus.”
After chartering a formal
club, Harscoet and Hamilton
tabled at the Student Activities
Fair, put up posters and drew
from previous multicultural
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ANGEL RAMIREZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
disabled adults. He recently
toured Italy giving readings
and, thanks to the connections
formed with customers, even
once spent time at a Bowdo-
in Italian Studies teaching
fellow’s parent’s home while
abroad.
Leonard and Lawless’ vision
of their bookstore coincides
with their philosophy on art
and community engagement:
work hard to create space for
artistic genius to take root,
and you will watch wonderful
things grow.
Susie Hanley, another
attendee on Saturday said,
“[The owners] are an inte-
gral part of the [Brunswick]
community. In terms of social
issues, community building
with non-profit groups and
their own art, of course.”
“It’s just my favorite book-
store,” Hanley added. “I hope they
aren’t thinking about retirement!”
groups to recruit members.
They were surprised by how
many students shared their
sentiments; the club currently
has over 50 members on its
email list, and approximately
20 students have shown up to
meetings.
Most mixed students occu-
py a unique space on campus;
they feel their race is a salient
part of their life but have no
support networks dedicated to
the complexities of that iden-
tity. For these students, a for-
malized group is long overdue.
Morgan Pinado ’20 identi-
fies as half white and half black
and has never felt comfortable
attending African-American
Society (Af-Am) meetings.
“As someone who can live
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12 FEATURES Friday, March 1, 2019

Myth-bound borders and the mama bear of west Texas

Deep in the
Heart
by Surya Milner and
Phoebe Zipper
The bear wasn’t supposed
to be there. It was just a black
one, a mother whose deep eyes
held ours for too long—so long
that we continued to lock eyes,
paralyzed, our weary knees
locked by both reverence and
fright. Black bears were sup-
posed to be shy; they were
supposed to wander in pockets
of wilderness where humans
and their cars were sparse. But
the bear was there nonetheless,
only a few feet off the trail, a
mother with a small cub sitting
by her hind leg.
We had been stumbling
our way towards the end of
the trail, the low-slung motel
roof and crowded parking lot
of the Chisos Mountain Lodge
finally starting to materialize
through the trees. Our 10-
mile hike to the precipice of
Emory Peak was nearly over
and done: we had made it
up, and then down, from the
highest point in the Chisos
Mountain Range, the rigid
spine of mountains that bi-
sects Big Bend National Park.
This stretch of Texas, the far
west that sits nestled between
the Rio Grande and New Mex-
ico, had always loomed large in
our imaginations, and we had
set aside a week over Winter
Break to explore it together. It
was a place that was looming
larger in the national debate as
well. The Mexican border, and
all of the political noise that
surrounded it, seemed to hover
around the edges of each con-
versation and just beyond the
horizon of every empty vista.
Our sojourn to Brewster
County began in El Paso,
where we took Beto O’Rourke’s
hometown as a good luck
charm and ran, racing through
abundant orange-capped me-
sas and U.S.–Mexico border
checkpoints. We searched
through miles of highway for
all of the myths we had pro-
jected onto this landscape.
These were visions of
a vast, untamed
wilderness,
of American
lawlessness
and echoes
of a land
before time.
There were
images of a
national park
frozen amidst
a government
shutdown, of
migrants strand-
ed in no-man’s
land, of super-sized
burritos and of a pulse that
might be the heart of the place,
the heart of Texas perhaps, in
the way that the whole nation
seemed to flow south and pe-
ter out here.
What we found was a lot of
openness, a lot of nothingness,
a lot of silence and a lot of air.
Like the mother bear, or a
Prada store in the middle of the
desert, the landscape of West
Texas felt both real and unreal,
unbounded and elusive. We
spent our first night in the tiny
community of Marfa, which
rose to art-world prominence
after contemporary sculptor
Donald Judd decamped there
from Brooklyn in the 1970s.
The main street of Marfa
yawned unnaturally wide and
held that kind of expansive,
eerie silence that only lonely
small towns can claim. Except
around the corner, there was
a peel of female laughter—a
group of women arriving from
Austin, clad in cowboy boots
and leather fringe, posing for
a photograph. We saw them
again later that same day in a
coffee shop, where they sipped
turmeric lattes. A table over
sat another couple in black,
silently flipping through “The
Gentlewoman.” New Yorkers,
definitely, Surya quipped.
But Marfa still eluded us.
There was a bubbling under
the surface of the town: the
galleries that seemed closed
but were really open, the wait-
er who said he was leaving for
his smoke break only to disap-
pear, the security guards who
strolled around Donald Judd’s
“100 untitled works in mill
aluminum” in jeans and black
hoodies. There, at Judd’s Chi-
nati Foundation, it was unclear
where our personal agency
stopped and authority began.
Outside, we drifted through
his “15 Untitled works in Con-
crete”—these huge, hollow
cinder blocks that framed the
merging of desert and sky.
They were industrial, achingly
minimalist, but they belonged.
The border between the man-
made and the natural, it turns
out, is also arbitrary.
These contradictions did
not ebb—even after we quit
Marfa, looking to shake the
feeling of toeing the town’s
boundary lines: between si-
lence and community, cowboy
kitsch and art elites. But Big
Bend, like Marfa, felt both of
and not of its place.
Our first night in the wil-
derness, we trekked to Boquil-
las Hot Springs, a stone-stud-
ded alcove on the north bank
of the Rio Grande. Elbows
propped on the edge of the
warm lagoon, we pointed
across the stream at a tower-
ing mess of brush: to Mexico,
that place where you need
passports and plans and may-
be some broken high-school
Spanish. It felt too tangible,
nothing more and nothing
less than the other bank of the
river. The federal government
was a prickle on the back of
our necks, just a tension in the
air. Phoebe fought the urge to
swim across. When we left, we
did so only because the night
had made itself welcome.
Handcrafted tchotchkes of
vibrant colors, made by Mexican
artisans and left out for purchase
on the honor system, sat near the
hot spring’s dusty car park. As
with the limestone cliff drawings
all around us, or the standalone
Prada installation back in Mar-
fa, the people behind the art
were nowhere to be found. So
when we endeavored to witness
the 1,500-foot-tall Santa Elena
Canyon—keen to see its tow-
ering limestone cliffs and leafy
depths—we didn’t really heed the
park’s warnings that the area was
closed to the public. We drove in
anyway. Halfway down a should-
be-shuttered road, we arrived at
the plastic white blockade that
heralded the boundary of our
own journey. The powers that
be were there, we felt, and we
heard their gentle whisper: turn
around.
So we did turn around even-
tually, winding back through
Marfa, then Alpine, and finally
Midland, the energy hub at the
heart of the oil-rich Permian
Basin. Separately we flew into
Portland, traveled up Route 1
by car, trudged across Maine
Street to campus. Feet firmly
planted in the Bowdoin bub-
ble, the government shutdown
continued and the border was
back in the news. Things on
the screen seemed so clear,
conversations with friends
PHOEBE ZIPPER
charged with moral righteous-
ness and easy solutions. The
insularity of Bowdoin, we felt,
was so good at making us feel
like we could reduce the na-
tion’s largest problems into
smooth narratives: of displace-
ment and delusion, on the part
of our government and those
on whom it exerts its control.
But the reality was, the clos-
er we were to the border, the
less clear things seemed. Our
movement through west Tex-
as was a constant negotiation:
between ourselves and the
desolate Chihuahuan desert,
our low-slung Nissan Sentra
and the pointed inquiries of
border patrol agents, our own
survival instincts and the black
bear’s maternal ones. At Bow-
doin, the powers of nature and
of state often feel distant and
diffuse. But in the vastness of
west Texas, they felt visible and
then primal—at once there and
then quickly out of our grasp.
Caught in the bear’s gaze,
we were also caught in a qui-
et tug-of-war over who held
power in that moment. In the
end, it was her home, not ours.
We raised our arms and made
a run for it.

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their life almost passing as
a white person, my experi-
ence has been very different
from someone who is Afri-
can-American or looks more
traditionally African-Amer-
ican,” said Pinado. “I can’t
pretend that I’ve had the same
experiences.”
Harscoet noted some of the
unique challenges created by
not being perceived as a par-
ticular race.
“We get attention here for
being ethnically ambiguous,”
said Harscoet. “People have
been questioned about their
name or where their parents
are from or just, ‘Where are
you from? What are you?’”
Despite certain common
experiences, MRSU is differ-
ent from most affinity groups
on campus in that it attracts
a wide range of backgrounds
and races. While some at-
tendees consider themselves
multiracial, others identify as
multiethnic or multicultural.
Some students are bilingual
and still have grandparents
overseas: Harscoet, who is
French and Japanese, regular-
ly visits both countries. Others
lived in America for genera-
tions but consider themselves
racially ambiguous.
“The group allows for a
range of different experi-
ences to be heard and vali-
dated,’” said Pinado. “People
[at Bowdoin] see races as a
strict binary, which can kind
of be complicated when you
are biracial and feel like you
need to fit into one camp or
the other. It can be hard to
reconcile.”
MRSU provides mixed-race
students with a space to grapple
with such complicated tensions.
Last week, members discussed
relationships with their fami-
lies. Students shared stories of
parents and siblings who are
unable to relate to experiences
of being a person of color.
The first time Brigita Kant
’22 realized she was mixed race,
for example, was when she in-
troduced a friend to her mom.
The friend asked if she were
adopted.
“There are so many differ-
ent narratives that emerge,”
said Hamilton. “It’s still a pro-
cess, because everybody’s so
different. I feel like the more
we talk about it, the more we
flush it out.”
Hamilton hopes to take
advantage of the group’s
unique makeup. Because
many members are also part
of affinity groups, including
the Latin American Student
Organization, Af-Am and
ASA, MRSU leaders hope
that the group can act as a
bridge between the various
groups, facilitating dialogue
and collaboration.
Moving forward, Ham-
ilton and Harscoet have
several projects in the
works—such as a photoshoot
and a potential speaker se-
ries—which will bring the
conversations around mixed-
race identity to the broader
campus.
The group meets every
other Tuesday in Moulton
dining room. Harscoet and
Hamilton encourage any
students who might be inter-
ested to reach out via email
and emphasize that all are
welcome.
“Everybody in life is try-
ing to feel heard, to feel like
people understand them,”
said Kant. “You can see that
this group of people, they
understand. That’s a rare ex- ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
perience, especially for being DIVERSIFYING DISCUSSION: Manuela Velasquez ’21 (TOP), Emily Ha ’21 and group leaders Ayana Harscoet ’21 and
a very small minority.” Flora Hamilton ’21 (BOTTOM) discuss being mixed race on campus at a meeting of the new Multiracial Student Union.
Friday, March 1, 2019
Free (www.)ill: the design of decision-making in the digital age
Cyber Chase
by Sasa Jovanovic
From the decision to get up
in the morning to the decision
to go to bed at night, our days
are filled with choices. There
are big decisions, like wheth-
er to move to a different city,
state or country. There are
smaller choices, like whether
to eat at Moulton or Thorne.
There are miniscule choices,
like whether to respond to
the Orient’s weekly poll. The
course of our day, and like-
wise the people we meet along
the way, are determined by
these decisions.
But is there an intrinsic
difference between the deci-
sions we make in real life and
the decisions we make on-
line?
This week, I met with
Fernando Nascimento, post-
doctoral fellow in digital
and computational studies,
to consider these questions.
Prior to coming to Bowdoin,
Nascimento spent 25 years
working in the tech industry,
17 of which were at Motorola,
where he participated in the
development and expansion
of mobile device technology.
Parallel to his career, he pur-
sued his interest in philoso-
phy by first obtaining a mas-
ters and then a Ph.D. focusing
on ethics and hermeneutics.
I shared two articles with
Nascimento beforehand: “The
Illusion of Control in ‘Black
Mirror: Bandersnatch’” by
Howard Chai on Medium
and “Holding Artificial In-
telligence to Account: Will
Algorithms Ever be Free from
Bias if They’re Created by
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tion, he had never been offered
a course relating to Africana
studies. Such courses, he said,
did not yet exist. But he fol-
lowed the civil rights move-
ment and attended the March
on Washington that August
where he heard King speak
in person for the first time.
He would hear King a second
time in 1964, at the First Parish
Church on Maine Street.
It was after that visit from
Bayard Rustin and King,
Levine recalled, that Bowdo-
in’s own civil rights activism
emerged, albeit quietly. A
small group of students found-
ed BUCRO, which organized
forums on race and education,
and initiated Project 65, an
admissions effort intended to
increase enrollment of Afri-
can Americans at the College.
And Levine, the then-faculty
advisor to BUCRO and the Po-
litical Forum (the group which
brought King and Rustin to
campus) taught Bowdoin’s
first-ever course relating to Af-
ricana Studies.
“In about the fall of ’64
[when] Stokely Carmichael
said in a speech: don’t come to
Mississippi and teach us how
to vote—we know how to vote.
Teach black history at Berkeley.
Those are the people who need
it. So I thought to myself, OK
I’m not at Berkeley but I’m at
Humans?” by Matt Burgess
in Wired. Like last time, I
encourage you to read these
articles for yourself.
“The difference with tech-
nology today is the acceler-
ation,” Nascimento told me.
“Things are getting faster and
faster in terms of how tech-
nological artifacts are created
and how they are deployed,
especially because of mobile
devices and online platforms.
You can create a new app and,
in a few months, tens of mil-
lions of people may be using
that app. There is nothing like
that in our past.”
Nascimento is concerned
about this acceleration in
comparison to the length of
ethical discussions.
“Our ethical and legal dis-
cussions about technology are
not going at the same pace
as this acceleration,” he said.
“One has to be careful about
two non-productive extreme
positions with regards to
technology. The first one is
that all technologies are evil;
the second is that technol-
ogy is a panacea. The goal
of a profound reflection on
technology is to look for the
golden mean where technolo-
gy becomes a positive force to
human beings and the world.”
He pointed to the prolifer-
ation of data collection as one
of the ways in which an ethical
framework could be applied.
“People are producing a lot
of data; companies are storing
as much data as they want
and there are algorithms that
are getting more and more
efficient at processing all this
data. This triangle is what re-
quires our attention,” said Na-
scimento. “It is very powerful.
But who is giving direction to
a white college. Those are the
people who need to know about
black history,” said Levine.
“I said, well, I’m not gon-
na go to Mississippi; I’m no
good at teaching people how
to vote anyway. But what I can
do is teach black history,” he
said. “So what I’ve done with a
couple of subjects that I knew
nothing about, I have a semi-
nar in it. And the students and
I learn it together. So I had a
seminar on the civil rights
movement as it was happening
… I educated myself and the
students educated me and I
educated them.”
Levine continued to lead
courses on the civil rights
movement at Bowdoin for the
next 46 years, devoting much
of his research to the life of Ba-
yard Rustin, who inspired him
following his ’64 and ’78 visits
to campus. He would later join
the NAACP chapter in Port-
land, chair the College’s com-
mittee for non-western studies
and sit on its committee for
disadvantaged students and
committee for Afro-American
studies (CAAS)—three facul-
ty and student-led efforts to
diversify the curriculum and
student body.
“Asia didn’t exist. Africa
didn’t exist. Russia didn’t exist,”
Levine said of Bowdoin’s histo-
ry curriculum upon his arrival.
“It was a very narrow view of
the world. It was a very narrow
view of American society.”
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the power? How are issues
related to privacy and data
ownership being addressed?
It is up to society to decide
how to direct this discus-
sion.”
Algorithms use
data to learn users’
likes and dis-
likes, ultimately
narrowing your
options over
time so that at
some point you
only see the things
you liked in the
past.
“This narrowing is
problematic,” Nascimento
explained. “There are at least
two ways to reduce people’s
agency: one is to remove op-
tions, the other is to give the
options you want people to
have. The second case is the
worst case because your agen-
cy is decreasing, and you may
not even realize it.”
Machine-built interpreta-
tions of reality thereby iso-
late the choices with which a
consumer is presented during
their interaction with the re-
spective technology. Nasci-
mento suggests that we need
machine-built ways to distin-
guish when different types of
manipulations occur. I asked
for more clarification regard-
ing the ethical framework that
needs to be applied. Do ethi-
cal and legal frameworks nec-
essarily go hand in hand? Can
we have an ethical framework
without the legal one?
“If we had a utopian society,
the ethical framework would be
just fine. If everyone complied
with the ethical framework,
there would be no need for a le-
gal framework per say. But this is
not the case,” Nascimento said.
Beyond this curricular shift
in 1969, Bowdoin also saw its
first affinity group form: the
African-American Society
(Af-Am). With it came the
John Brown Russwurm Afri-
can-American Center, a place
for the society to gather. Among
its founding members were
Virgil Logan ’69 and Robert
Johnson ’71, two members of
BUCRO who were vital figures
in developing the Afro-Ameri-
can major, organizing the first
Martin Luther King, Jr. day cel-
ebration in Maine in 1970 and
recruiting the program’s first
chairman and the College’s first
African-American professor,
Reggie Lewis.
In its first year, the mere
presence of Af-Am disquiet-
ed many white students on
campus, who feared “separat-
ism”—going so far as to call it
“Black Nazism,” according to
the Orient from 1968-69. In a
November 8 letter to the edi-
tor, Levine spoke out against
this growing unease.
“It must, by necessity, be an
all-black organization,” wrote
Levine. “It is not discriminating
against white students; white
students are simply irrelevant
to its functions … I hear white
students ask how they help
[the civil rights movement.]
One way may be to support
Afro-Am, and keep hands off.”
For the most part, they did.
However, there are a handful
of reports of white fraternity
“We need to in-
clude technology concerns
in the discussion of how our
legal frameworks are struc-
tured. On one hand, both our
ethical and legal systems need
to evolve faster to follow the
ever-increasing pace of tech-
nological innovations. On
the other hand, ethical con-
cerns need to be included by
design in new technological
artifacts and architectures,”
he explained. “Ethics needs to
be a part of the technological
design process. It’s not only
about putting parts together
and optimizing algorithms
but thinking about how you
are going to impact society.”
There are social implica-
tions related to the digitiza-
tion of identity. Algorithms
develop identities by correlat-
ing and modeling data points,
but these are “closed identi-
ties,” closed because of their
inability to capture and inter-
pret unexpected, innovative
and unique events. Nascimen-
to suggests a narrative per-
spective as a necessary com-
plement to these data-driven,
brothers harassing members
of Af-Am and vandalizing the
Russwurm house. The College
was apparently slow to respond.
“The administration treat-
ed the incident as though it
were an embarrassing prank,”
wrote members of Af-Am to
then-president Roger Howell
following his choice not to
discipline the students. They
asked that he suspend them—
there is no correspondence
confirming whether he did.
Despite this push-back, Af-
Am continued to grow, as did
the Afro-American Studies
program. Lewis resigned with-
in two years in protest of the
College’s insufficient funding
toward the program; with his
resignation, he asked that the re-
maining of his salary be donated
to Afro-American Studies.
The Russwurm House be-
came the first African-Ameri-
can cultural center in the state
of Maine. CAAS remained
active into the 1970s and ’80s,
and made it its mission to
recruit more African-Amer-
icans, both faculty and stu-
dents, to the College.
Meanwhile, Levine contin-
ued teaching African-Ameri-
can history until 2010. For a few
years into retirement, he con-
tinued with research on cam-
pus, but has recently stopped,
devoting time to practicing the
cello and being with his grand-
children on Mere Point. When
asked if he continued to partic-
quantified selves.
“Your narrative offers a
privileged approximation to
your identity and weaves to-
gether your many discordant
experiences into an open
concordant story, always
being revised and in search
for meaning,” he said. “Such
narrative identity is impossi-
ble without including other
people in your story … To-
day, we had this conversation
and now I will be a part of
your narrative. Both of our
identities were changed, in-
terconnected and interwoven
because this particular event
is now included in your narra-
tive. I feel we have to discuss
technology in the context of
these narratives. In return,
technology must become a
meaningful part of our collec-
tive narrative.”
Whatever you decide to
call it—progress, change or
evolution—this narrative is
not presently accounted for
in algorithms from the most
COURTESY OF GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
TEACHING TOLERANCE: Dan Levine (TOP) teaches a civil rights class in
1967, and Robert Johnson ’71 (BOTTOM) gives a speech on MLK in 1970.
ipate in demonstrations after
the ’60s, he said, “my activism
is in my teaching.”
In the fall of 2019, Af-Am,
Africana Studies and Russ-
wurm will celebrate their fiftieth
year anniversary with a week-
end-long symposium celebrat-
ing alumni, the discipline, Afri-
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EY RE
SYDN
popular content providers.
Nascimento compared al-
gorithms to debaters.
“We normally say that
the winner of a debate is the
person who convinces their
opponent that their position
is right. But what have they
won? Their own opinion was
already in place and has not
changed. The person who has
been convinced is winning be-
cause he is taking out of that
debate something that he did
not have before.”
He continued, “The one
who has fixed convictions is
somehow closed to the dif-
ferent, and algorithms tend to
accentuate this difference. We
have to work within technol-
ogy and the algorithms em-
bedded in these technologies
to expand our horizons rather
than reducing them to our
past selves and the concordant
opinions artificially selected
by matching algorithms.”
Do we need algorithms for
this? I don’t think so.
Accumulate opinion. De-
bate difference. We can all
win.
can-American art and the past
fifty years of African-American
students at Bowdoin.
“It’s wonderful,” Levine
said. “It ought to happen ev-
ery four years or so, that the
students recall a little about
what the world was a half a
century ago.”
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
WALL
“Y el muro … ¿funcionará?”
“And the wall… will it work?”
asks an older man, who is kind
and usually smiling but now
looks concerned. He has dark
skin, wrinkles around his eyes
and a t-shirt torn at the sleeves.
I converse with him and his
wife while sitting in their back-
yard, where chickens roam and
neighbors lean over the fence
to say hello. Their son worked
for 11 years in wood process-
ing and other jobs in the U.S.
and is now likely trying to
return to Mexico—though his
parents haven’t heard from
him in a month.
“What will it be made of ?
Will people be able to climb
it?” They inquire with faces
that imply I know the answers.
They say it’s harder now, that
their son walked through the
desert and lost most of his
group crossing 15 years ago,
but that nowadays he prob-
ably wouldn’t find a way to
cross. They say their son was
treated well, but some of his
coworkers weren’t paid and
didn’t feel they could appeal.
The parents explain that, as
far as they understand, their
son went to the U.S. because
of a curiosity about life in an-
other country and a desire for
better pay.
“¡Nos odian!” “They hate
us!” exclaims a young man,
chatting and joking with
us, beer in hand. I stand on
A LOVE LETTER TO THE
LADY BEARS
When women were first ad-
mitted to the College in 1971,
they enthusiastically pushed
their way into all aspects of
campus life, especially the
athletic arena.
As former Athletic Direc-
tor Ed Coombs said in an
Orient article from 1979, “I
don’t think we or any of these
schools [that went co-ed] an-
ticipated the type of sports
these women would want
to play. They thought dance
classes and that sort of thing
would do it.”
But the women didn’t wait
around for the Athletic De-
partment to figure it out—
they fought for new teams and
programs, as well as proper
coaching staffs and trainers.
As her Bowdoin Hall of
Honor entry says, Ellen Shu-
man ’76 arrived in Brunswick
in 1972 and “found a college
with scarcely a women’s ath-
letics program and no wom-
en’s swim team.” So, without
missing a beat, Shuman joined
the men’s team—and went on
to set records, claim All-New
England honors six times and
become a New England cham-
pion. In her senior year, she
became the only woman ever
to reach the finals of the men’s
New England Diving Cham-
pionship, qualifying her for
the men’s NCAA Division III
Championship.
Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79,
whose legacy extends far be-
yond little Brunswick, entered
the arena around the same
time. After dominating New
England collegiate running
the balcony of a cheap
beachside hotel, talking
to a 28-year-old lawyer
who believes Trump (and
many American politi-
cians) hates Mexicans.
He says he wanted to
visit the U.S. once for
vacation, but the con-
sulate contended that
he and his dad would
try to stay for work
in the country. He
says they both pro-
vided proof of their
steady employ-
ment, and despite
the Americans’
skepticism, they
(just barely) got
travel visas for
the family.
“Una hora
y media, dos
…” “An hour
and a half,
two…” esti-
mates a young
woman casually
while walking
in the middle of
a lakeside road.
She studies in
Mérida but comes
from Northern Mexico. She
goes shopping in San Diego
and visits family in Pasadena
about every month. She’s esti-
mating how long it takes her
to drive there from her house,
but when I ask about the bor-
der, she admits that during
rush hour, it could be up to
an additional three hours just
waiting in the line. She says
during her time at Bowdoin,
as well as playing for the field
hockey team, Samuelson went
on to win the Boston Mara-
thon in 1979 and 1984 and
earned gold in the first-ever
Olympic women’s marathon
in the 1984 Summer Games.
But Bowdoin’s women’s
athletics program in the ’70s
and ’80s didn’t just play host
to a few star athletes, such
as Shuman and Samuelson.
Women wasted no time in not
only starting programs but in
excelling at their sports.
For example, when the
women’s field hockey team
was started in 1972, it busted
out of the gates with an unde-
feated 6-0 season. Within five
years, it had snagged back-to-
back Midwest Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women (MAIAW) champion-
ship titles.
Throughout the Orient
archives from this time peri-
od, you’ll find the tales of the
new “Lady Bears”—or “Lady
Booters,” “Lady Swimmers”
and “Mama Bears”—dominat-
ing fields, courts, tracks and
pools.
While such identifiers
make me laugh and roll
my eyes now and certainly
wouldn’t find themselves in
the pages of the Orient sports
section today, there is some-
thing about the term “Lady
Bears” that also feels unifying.
Rallying around this name,
you connect the female ath-
letes of the ’70s, who broke
down barriers to create their
programs, to the female ath-
letes continuing to build off
their legacy today.
You tie the women’s soccer
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Talk of the Quad
she likes it in California; the
shopping is good.
“Mejor, voy a Canadá.” “I’ll
just go to Canada,” concedes
an older woman with a defeat-
ed half-smile. I sit in my din-
ing room eating enchiladas
de mole, talking to my host-
mom. She says that, since
the U.S. is one of the only
countries that requires an ap-
plication for a visa for even a
team, which in 42 years of
existence has only had one
losing season, to the women’s
rugby team, which is the old-
est collegiate varsity women’s
rugby program in the nation
and also has only ever had
one losing season. You link
Bowdoin field hockey—which
earned the NESCAC cham-
pionship title for six of seven
years, as well as three nation-
al championship titles, from
2005 to 2011—with women’s
basketball—which earned
seven consecutive NESCAC
titles starting in 2001,
the first year the tour-
nament was estab-
lished.
From the Ma-
gee-Samuelson
Track to Morrell
Gymnasium,
where the
women’s
basket-
ball team
will start
its quest for
the national
title Friday eve-
ning, Bowdoin’s legacy
of strong, defiant and excellent
female athletes is on prominent
display.
So I’d like to take this mo-
ment to appreciate the Lady
Bears.
You’ve given me what will
forever be my fondest memories
of the College, from volleyball’s
thrilling comeback win against
Williams in the 2015 NESCAC
championship to the student
body threatening the structural
stability of Morrell’s bleachers
when women’s basketball took
down Amherst this year, and
everything in between.
DA
LIAT
AB
vacation, it’s
not worth it. She hates
long flights, but she’ll
fly to Canada instead of
dealing with American
bureaucracy.
“Tal vez si construyen
el muro, lo puedo pintar
allí.” “Maybe if they build
the wall, I can paint it
there,” dreams a young
woman while snacking
on pizza. She is a friend
from university and
has a job painting
murals—incredibly
beautiful ones. She
says she wants to
paint one telling
the U.S.’s history
with Native Amer-
icans and immi-
grants. She questions what the
response would be, imagining
pushback because she is a for-
eigner and wants to display
critical opinions of race rela-
tions in the U.S. We discuss
how, though it’s complicated
and vulnerable to plenty of
criticism, Mexico’s history of
colonization and mestizaje
is mostly out in the open. In
contrast, American students
I’ve been a sports reporter
for the Orient practically my
entire Bowdoin career, and
I’ve been unbelievably lucky
not only to follow our teams
every season, but to meet and
write about incredible women
who inspire me as a journalist
and as a fan.
Although in the rest of
the world, women’s
sports still
don’t get
AC
HNIK
struggle
to articu-
late anything
they learned about
Native Americans or im-
migrants in history class.
In only a month and a half,
I have found myself in each of
these five conversations. I did
not seek out these stories; they
are not interviews. They are
the everyday reality of people
who are now part of my every-
day reality. They may not be
scandalous or intimidating or
even shocking, and that’s the
point: neither is Mexican im-
migration. As an American in
Mexico, I have an obligation to
amplify these voices, combat-
ting the “single story” (Chim-
amanda Ngozi Adichie’s term)
the U.S. has of Mexico. It is not
all tequila, sombreros and par-
tying, nor is it defined by car-
tels, drugs and guns. There are
129.2 million stories here, and
I have told you bits and pieces
of only five.
American media is worried
about a potential wall, a recent
the recognition—let alone the
appreciation—they deserve,
Bowdoin has given us all a lit-
tle utopia, where no person on
this campus can deny the sheer
dominance of our women’s
teams.
As graduation nears and
I think about the things that
will make me most proud
NA FUL
LILY AN
Friday, March 1, 2019
“state of emergency,” but
those things already exist. We
have built—with anger, fear,
xenophobia, force and dom-
ination—a wall between our
untouchable American Dream-
land and this perceived waste-
land. We have created a state
of emergency wherein some
people cannot get paid a living
wage, are abused for their eco-
nomic value, are denied their
human rights or are feared be-
fore speaking a word.
Like my host-mom says,
“Que construyen el muro, para
que vean: no es la solución.”
“Let them build the wall, so
they see: it’s not the solution.”
We will just come and paint it
over with images of our despi-
cable history of imperialism
and colonialism anyways.
Anna Martens is a member of
the Class of 2020.
about being a Bowdoin alum,
I think of the Lady Bears. I
will tout Bowdoin’s legacy for
kickass women’s sports wher-
ever I go.
Thank you, all of you, for
showing us what it means to
be a Polar Bear.
Anjulee Bhalla is a member
of the Class of 2019.
LAM
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FS SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
SPAGHETTI SQUASH: Last
weekend the women’s
squash team (3-15) ended
its season in second
place in the E-Division
of the College National
Squash Tournament. After
defeating Dension and
Wellesley without giving
up a match, the Polar Bears
fell to Vassar 7-2. Natasha
Belsky ’19 was awarded the
2019 Ann Wetzel Award,
given to a senior woman
who started playing squash
in college and demonstrates
skill and sportsmanship. It
is the third time a Bowdoin
student has received the
honor. Belsky ended her
career in the number two
position on the team.
IS ITT SPRING
ALREADY?: The women’s
and men’s lacrosse teams
will begin their regular
seasons this Saturday in
games against Connecticut
College. The women head
into the season ranked 13th
in the nation according
to the IWLCA poll and
are returning nine of last
season’s top ten scorers.
The men’s team returns
to the field with an axe to
grind after losing in the first
round of the NESCAC
tournament last season. The
women kick off their season
at 12 p.m. at Connecticut
College, while the men take
on the Camels at Whittier
Field at 1 p.m.
SIMONDS SAYS:
Men’s basketball (15-9,
4-6 NESCAC) senior
Jack Simonds was named
Second Team All-
NESCAC on Wednesday.
He ends his Bowdoin career
with 1,595 total points,
fifth in program history.
Averaging 17.7 points per
game, with a league-high
42.4 three-point percentage
this season, Simonds was
crucial to the Polar Bears’
winning season.
STRAIGHT UP HIGH
SCHOOL HILL:
Renae Anderson ’21 and
Elliot Ketchel ’21 qualified
for the NCAA Nordic
Skiing Championships at
the University of Vermont
on March 6. Ketchel
finished in sixth place in a
10k skate on Friday and 16th
in a 20k race at the Black
Mountain of Maine on
Saturday. Anderson finished
25th in the 5k skate and
seventh in Saturday’s 15k
classic, making her the top
NESCAC competitor.
COMPILED BY KATHRYN MCGINNIS
WATER BOY: Julian Abaldo ’20 competes in the 50–meter fly. The Polar Bears scored over 1,000 points, but were still outpaced by Williams, who won with 1,822.
Men’s swim and dive scores over 1,000 points
at NESCAC championship, finishes fourth
by Ella Chaffin
Orient Staff
The men’s swimming and
diving team placed fourth last
weekend at the NESCAC Cham-
pionship meet. Scoring a total
1,019.5 points, the team exceed-
ed 1,000 points for the first time
in more than 40 years.
Despite the team’s record-set-
ting effort, Bowdoin was out-
paced by rapidly-improving
league competition.
“The times that it takes to get
into the finals at night are getting
Winter weather restricts field access, Farley overcrowded
by Emily Cohen
Orient Staff
Nearly every evening for the
past two weeks, the men’s base-
ball team has begun practice in
Farley Field House at 9 p.m., not
leaving until 11:30 or midnight.
The team works on the skills that
they can indoors, just feet away
from their diamond, which is
currently under several layers of
snow and ice.
“We know it’s kind of a sucky
situation, but we make the most
of it,” said pitcher and infielder
Jack Wilhoite ’19.
Though the below-zero wind-
chill might tell a different story,
it’s officially spring sports season.
For athletes, coaches and athletic
training staff, this means assem-
bling the annual jigsaw puzzle of
allocating limited indoor prac-
tice space and time as equally
as possible until the snow melts.
The puzzle is further complicated
by an overlap with winter sports
teams, athletic department de-
cisions about facility use and
non-varsity teams and groups
that want to use the space.
Lynn Ruddy, associate direc-
tor of athletics and an assistant
coach for the track team, has
been a part of piecing that puzzle
together since Farley was com-
pleted in 1987. At the beginning
of the spring semester, she meets
a lot faster,” said William Park
’19. “Other schools are moving
up and getting fast swimmers. I
think we are right up there and
definitely on an upward trend.
We are getting much faster too–
it’s exciting.”
The NESCAC’s short season,
which lasts only five months, forc-
es the team to train heavily in be-
tween competitions, which poses
problems for athletes, said Park.
“Most people are used to
swimming year-round,” said Park.
“It’s really a NESCAC thing [that]
we aren’t allowed to start until
with coaches to discuss which
time slots each team will take in
the case of inclement weather.
On a regular weekday, Farley
is completely booked from 4:30
p.m. to 12:30 a.m. by varsity
teams: track and field, tennis,
softball, baseball and lacrosse.
Schedules struggle to fit some
teams—such as men’s and wom-
en’s rugby—at all. The men’s
and women’s tennis teams can’t
practice at the same time, so one
squad practices at Maine Pines
Racquet and Fitness on Harp-
swell Road.
“It’s just like playing on five
chess boards at once and trying
to move things around the best
you can. I try to help people
as much as I can, but if we had
another field house it’d be filled
completely,” said Ruddy. “We
would still be looking for time
for people, because that’s how
much people want to do things.”
Other indoor spaces are
booked, too. At the moment,
Morrell Gymnasium is reserved
for the women’s basketball team
in its postseason. It also has
certain restrictions as to which
teams can use the space. Lacrosse
and baseball, for example, are
not allowed in this space. Sar-
gent Gymnasium is smaller and
booked for intramural and club
sports teams.
The two astroturf fields–
November 1. Most college teams
get to start before that and swim
all summer. I think teams are
taking advantage of the offseason
and training more in season.”
The team also struggled to
post consistent performances
throughout the day.
“It’s hard to wake up in the
morning and go fast,” Park said.
“[We need to focus on] empha-
sizing that we have to go in the
morning, and that it’s just as im-
portant as the night. I think over
all we did a pretty good job.”
The Polar Bears benefited
Ryan and Whittier fields–can
be plowed and used despite the
snow and cold. The women’s
and men’s lacrosse teams take
advantage of these spaces, but
other teams cannot, because of
predetermined restrictions on
timing and decisions made by
the athletic department.
Due to the recent two-phase
renovation of Whittier Field,
which included the introduc-
tion of astroturf, resurfacing the
Magee-Samuelson Track and the
addition of a new locker room
and training room facility, the
athletic department has not yet
scheduled other spring sports
teams, like baseball and softball,
to practice there. According to
Tim Ryan, Ashmead White Di-
rector of Athletics, the athletic
department is still becoming
accustomed to “managing use of
the facility.”
An agreement with neighbors
upon construction of the new
facilities at Whittier prohibits
practices from ending after 8
p.m. Currently, lacrosse is the
only team practicing on Whitti-
er Field, from 4:30-7 p.m, which
prevents other teams from prac-
ticing afterwards.
“There are no external param-
eters that are put in place that
would limit the teams that are
able to use Whittier Field,” said
Ryan. This includes its facilities
from multiple standout per-
formers in the meet, including
Mitchell Ryan ’19, NESCAC
Diver of the Year. Ryan placed
first in the 1-meter and 3-me-
ter springboard events and will
compete at the NCAA Regionals
on March 1.
In relay events, the team had
mixed results.
“We had a few disappointing
relay swims,” Karl Sarier ’19 said.
“But then we also had some real-
ly great ones that helped to bring
us back on track. I was personally
proud of the athletic and emo-
as well: a training room and the
new hydrotherapy room.
An overbooked Farley means
that some teams and staff leave
the field house in the early hours
of the morning.
“We’re not quite a 24-hour op-
eration during the overlap time
[with winter sports], but we’re
pretty close,” said Ryan.
Head Athletic Trainer Dan
Davies and his staff often work
11 hour days during this peri-
od. Davies arrives at 8 a.m. and
leaves at 7 p.m. Some athletic
trainers leave even later, since
there has to be a trainer present
whenever a varsity sports team is
practicing. The late-night prac-
tices, especially in conjunction
with several winter sports, puts a
real pressure on his staff.
“There are 31 sports teams
and six trainers [for all seasons],”
said Davies. “Do the math.”
The circumstances this year
are nothing new for spring ath-
letes. Though practicing outside
is the most desirable option, it
comes with its own challenges
and restrictions. For example,
the NCAA doesn’t permit teams
to practice when the tempera-
ture, including windchill, drops
below zero degrees.
“It is tough but it’s sort of par
for the course. You sign up for it
when you decide to play a sport
at Bowdoin,” said Paul Nardone
Friday, March 1, 2019
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD
tional effort that my teammates
would put in when they noticed
we were lagging in points and
morale.”
Regardless of individual per-
formances, the team finished the
season proud of the collective
efforts, said Park.
“Every year is different, but
this year has been a really close
group of guys,” Park said. “We
feel like we want to support each
other and want good things for
each other. That is very benefi-
cial, and not every team in the
NESCAC has that.”
’19, a member of the men’s la-
crosse team. The team hasn’t
yet practiced inside this season,
but Nardone admitted that the
players have gotten creative with
their layering in order to keep
warm–latex gloves under anoth-
er pair of gloves seem to do the
trick.
For Allison Williams ’19, a
member of the women’s lacrosse
team, practicing where the team
plays is worth enduring the
sub-freezing conditions.
“Being outside is just way, way
better [and] a more productive
use of our time, because the space
is so much bigger and it’s way
more game-like,” said Williams.
But Wilhoite said that prac-
ticing inside also has its advan-
tages. Late night practices force
the team to manage its time well,
completing homework before
practice. Additionally, the Polar
Bears can also work on all parts of
their game without feeling pres-
sured by another team waiting to
use the field house after them.
And then, finally, when the
snow and ice melt and the dirt
thaws, after weeks of being stuck
indoors, they’ll make the most
of it.
“It’s definitely less than ide-
al, but it’s good for our team
chemistry and character,” said
Wilhoite. “At least, that’s what
we believe.”
Friday, March 1, 2019
Indoor track and field teams vie for nationals
by Itza Bonilla Hernandez
Orient Staff
Last weekend, the women’s
and men’s indoor track and field
teams competed in the New En-
gland Division III Champion-
ships, placing fifth out of 31 teams
and sixteenth out of 23 teams, re-
spectively. Captain Julia O’Rourke
’19 broke the program record in
the 5000-meter run while Morgen
Gallagher ’20 set a new 60-meter
sprint record.
“I am so excited and still sort of
in shock about the record,” wrote
O’Rourke in an email to the Ori-
ent. “My first year, I got last in my
regionals race, so for a solid chunk
of my running career, I didn’t see
myself as capable of breaking any
records.”
O’Rourke attributes her suc-
cess to the support of Head Coach
Peter Slovenski. In the fall of 2018,
Slovenski, who recently began his
32nd year coaching the men’s and
women’s cross country, men’s and
women’s indoor track and field,
and men’s and women’s outdoor
track and field teams.
“Coach Slovenski was super
helpful [in training] and I know
that I wouldn’t have been able to
perform how I did at regionals if
he hadn’t been so flexible and cau-
tious,” O’Rourke wrote.
On the men’s team, Mateo
Rivera ’22 contributed the top
performance of the champion-
ship with a 4th place finish in the
400–meter dash.
“Mateo is very cool in pres-
Women’s basketball falls to Tufts in championship
More Than
A Game
by Ian Ward
Strange things happen when
you’re very high up. You lose
perspective. Things get a little
blurry. Vertigo sets in. And if
this past week of women’s bas-
ketball has been one thing, it
has been vertiginous.
After walking all over Mid-
dlebury in Saturday’s semifinal,
the Polar Bears suffered their
first loss of the season, falling
to third-ranked Tufts, 69–75,
in the finals of the NESCAC
tournament on Sunday. It was
the second year in a row that
the Jumbos knocked the Polar
Bears out of the tournament.
It was a bizarre spectacle
to watch. Bowdoin, usually so
RUN, TWO, THREE: Morgen Gallagher ’20 (ABOVE) prepares to compete in a sprint event. She broke the
program record for the 60-meter dash. Field event wins from Lydia Pitts ’22 (RIGHT) helped the team finish fifth.
sure-filled races,” Slovenski wrote
in an email to the Orient. “There
was a lot of contact in his race, but
he broke through and pulled away
for a high-scoring place.”
Both teams have had success-
ful seasons thus far. Women’s
track finished second to Bates in
the February 1 Maine State Meet,
where Sophia Slovenski ’22 broke
the meet record with a vault of 12
feet, which was 18 inches higher
than any other competitor. Men’s
track took second to Bates in the
Maine State Meetas well.
Still, both teams have faced
challenges with ongoing injuries,
collected and efficient, was pos-
itively out of sorts. The game
plan, Head Coach Adrienne
Shibles revealed after the game,
had been simple: keep Tufts
from scoring in the paint, and
shut down the Jumbos’ leading
scorer, junior forward Erica
DeCandido.
But the game did not go ac-
cording to plan. Tufts outscored
the Polar Bears in the paint 34-
24, and DeCandido scored 17
points and dished out five assists.
Senior guard Jac Knapp added 25
points for good measure.
“We looked frazzled,” said
guard Hannah Graham ’19 af-
ter the game. Frazzled indeed.
Tufts was tough, but Bowdoin
was their own worst enemy.
The team coughed up 21
turnovers, tying its season
high, which it set in its first
SPORTS
which have especially decimated
the men’s team.
“It’s definitely been a difficult
season. There have been a lot of
injuries; a lot of our top guys had
unfortunate knock ups and were
not able to compete. It wasn’t quite
the season we were hoping for,”
said captain Naphtali Moulton ’19.
“As is usually the case, some
team members have faced ongo-
ing injuries this season. It’s always
hard to lose a meet knowing you
didn’t have everyone in competi-
tion who might have been there
otherwise,” wrote O’Rourke.
Despite the ongoing injuries
conference game of the season
against Bates on January 4. You
can give the ball away 21 times
in your first conference game
against a middling team and
still win. Not so much in the
conference finals.
After trailing for most of the
first half, Bowdoin drew within
one point of the Jumbos by the
end of the third quarter, 51–52,
despite having two starters,
Abby Kelly ’19 and Graham, in
foul trouble. In typical fashion,
the team seemed to be finishing
strong. It wouldn’t have been
the first time that they would
have managed to overcome a
slow start to claim victory in
the fourth quarter.
But they never found their
groove. They quite literally
threw away the ball at a cou-
ple of crucial moments. They
SHOOT FOR THE MOON: (LEFT) Taylor Choate ’19 jumps for a shot against Tufts. (ABOVE) Abby Kelly ’19 dribbles
down court last weekend. The Polar Bears were unable to overcome the Jumbos in the Championship and lost 75–69.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
on the women’s side, the team sits
in a nice spot to qualify for the
NCAA championships. The Polar
Bears will know their final quali-
fication status after March 2. The
two relays that are likely to attend
the NCAA championships are the
women’s 4x400, which is current-
ly seventh in the NCAA stand-
ings, and the women’s distance
medley relay, which sits in ninth.
The top 12 relay teams make it to
the NCAA championship.
Track is one of the largest
teams on campus with about 90
athletes on the men’s and wom-
en’s teams together, yet they still
surrendered critical offensive
rebounds. They were on the
wrong end of a couple of, to put
it mildly, questionable calls by
the official, but they also failed
to execute routine, yet vital,
plays down the stretch.
Maybe it was nerves. With
Bowdoin in its first NESCAC
final since 2015, no member
of the team had ever played in
a conference final game—al-
though you would think that,
after last year’s trip to the Divi-
sion III NCAA championship
game, nerves wouldn’t really
be much of a problem. Maybe
Morrell was too loud. (I doubt
it.) Maybe Tufts, who upset
second-ranked Amherst in a
positively thrilling last-second
victory the day before, was just
jacked up on adrenaline.
In the end, however, Shibles
are just as close as a smaller team.
O’Rourke believes that their tight
knit community can be attributed
to athletes making an effort to
spend time with other teammates
who aren’t in their same event
groups.
“We all try to make sure we
meet up at dinner even if our
practices end at different times,”
said it best.
“This opportunity really
meant a lot to us. We all wanted
to really do it for the seniors,
especially. But I don’t think we
handled ourselves with poise
today,” said Shibles. “They al-
lowed heart to take over where
the head should be.”
It is certainly a glitch in the
whole cosmic meritocracy that
this class of seniors—Kelly,
Graham, Taylor Choate and
Cordelia Stewart—will grad-
uate without a NESCAC title
to their name. With these four
on the team, the Polar Bears
accrued a stupidly good re-
cord of 98-16 and made their
first trip to the Division III
NCAA championship game in
program history. With 1,162
points, Kelly is currently Bow-
doin’s seventh all-time leading
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
17
O’Rourke wrote. “Our team is very
big, and it’s also very loving! I’m so
grateful we have such a supportive
and driven group of women!”
Both teams will be away this
Saturday at the Tufts Invitational,
which is the women’s and men’s
teams’ last chance to qualify for
nationals before rankings are so-
lidified next week.
scorer. She currently trails the
sixth-place spot by 18 points.
In the end, though, the loss
was more a symbolic blow than
a tactical one. On Tuesday,
Bowdoin secured an at-large
berth to the Division III NCAA
tournament and will face off
against Hunter College (18-9)
at home tonight. Although the
NCAA does not disclose overall
seeds, it appears from its first-
round opponent and placement
in the bracket that Bowdoin is a
top-four seed. If that is the case,
and assuming it wins its first
two games, Bowdoin would
also be at home for its Sweet
Sixteen and quarterfinal games.
Nor did it do much to tar-
nish the Polar Bears’ prestige.
On Wednesday, the league
announced its annual All-NES-
CAC team, with the Polar Bears
represented handsomely. Kelly
won Player of the Year honors
and was named to the first team
along with Maddie Hasson ’20.
Choate was named Defensive
Player of the Year, earning a
spot on the second team. Final-
ly, Shibles was named Coach of
the Year for the second time in
her career on the heels of be-
coming the winningest coach
in Bowdoin women’s basketball
history with a record of 249-64.
If nothing else, the loss was
a timely reminder that things
can get a little funky at the
top. After all, it’s a dangerous
place to be. Heading into the
NCAA tournament, the Polar
Bears aren’t NESCAC cham-
pions, but they’re where they
should be: back on earth, with
two feet firmly planted on the
ground.
18 Friday, March 1, 2019

O OPINION
“How was your break?”
A week from now, the student body will scatter across the globe for spring
break. Some will head home, whether that is as close as down the road in
Brunswick or as far as China. Others will set off on vacations, to cities across
Live for and in the moment
the country and around the world. And some will stay here on campus. Ev- an 8:30 class, and after the mistakes that we don’t actually accomplish much
eryone will enjoy two weeks free of classes and (hopefully) assignments. But of first year, I told myself I would of anything. I wish students would
Say It Like It Is
when we come back at the end of March, we are all going to hear the same never wake up before 9 a.m. again. consider quality over quantity. Con-
by Nate DeMoranville
question: “What did you do over break?” But this class was different. I loved tinue to explore what interests you, but
The question may seem innocent and polite enough, but some students the material and taking pictures recognize your limits. Contrary to the
dread hearing it and its implication that we should be “doing” something For a long time during my fresh- made me feel alive. I changed my Bowdoin football team’s Instagram, we
noteworthy over break. As one image in the #MoneyMatters photo gallery man year, I stayed up until 2 or 3 sleep schedule to accommodate this really cannot have it all here.
reads, “going home for break is not always an option” for all Bowdoin stu- o’clock in the morning on a daily class, and I am a tremendously bet- Time and again, I have done more
dents. And for those who can go home, doing something more exciting than basis and slept for only a handful of ter student for having done so. After for other people than I have myself. I
hanging around their hometown or spending time with their family is not hours at a time. If I managed to wake prioritizing rest, I was able to absorb have led clubs, which brought no per-
possible. Not everyone can afford to have the kind of spring break that feels up for a morning class, I almost al- more of my readings and write better sonal satisfaction to my life, because
like a worthy answer to that looming question. ways fell asleep at my desk. On week- papers. other people wanted me to. I am do-
Although students should always be considerate around school breaks, ends, I slept for 10 hours each night Photography has also made me a ing no service to others if I cannot
spring break presents a unique set of challenges for low-income students. in a desperate attempt to ease some of better person. Shooting with film and help myself. There was a moment last
Spring break is more than twice as long as our other mid-semester breaks. my sleep deprivation. using a darkroom forced me to slow semester where the dizzying spells
This leads to a generally accepted assumption that students will at least go A really strange phenomenon hap- down. I could only see my pictures of my first year returned on a much
home, if not further—a theme that demonstrates how Bowdoin students can pens to me when I am completely after I had developed them, and even more spiritual level. I no longer rec-
easily forget about money when it doesn’t pose a constraint to them person- exhausted: the world tilts suddenly then, each individual photograph ognized what was happening in my
ally. off its axis. I blink and everything would take another hour to print. own life. I had lost direction.
Even beyond the ability to go home, in America and especially at a wealth- returns to normal, but the strange- This process did not provide instant In the past few weeks, I have
ier institution like Bowdoin, there’s a culture of lavish spring break trips. We ness of it all stays with me. Why am gratification. Instead, it pushed me stepped down from an organization
are bombarded with movies featuring college students blowing hundreds of I pushing my body to the extremes in to observe my surroundings and col- that I had previously thought I would
dollars on alcohol, pictures from Instagram feeds and even posters plastered order to be a Bowdoin student? lect my thoughts. The care I demon- one day preside over. I have declined
around the lobby of Coles Tower advertising cruises. For Bowdoin students, Like many others, I have over- strated for each photo increased my a contract that would have continued
taking spring break to travel around Europe, visiting other students there or committed myself. At this learning ability to care for others. I now listen a job I’ve held for two years now.
reliving their own abroad days, is very common. institution, I have more extracur- more than ever and think critically Before I am anything else, I would
Culture around us constantly tells us that remarkable spring breaks are an riculars than I do classes. In my about my connection to people and like to be a college student. I want
integral part of a college experience, which often creates a sense of isolation earnestness to create a home here to place. to make friends, find love and may-
or exclusion for students who can’t afford expensive trips. We as students do for every student of color, I forgot to Have you ever called someone nice be even attain inner peace. I say this
not have to add to that. build one for myself. I am a leader because they had no personality? Well, to the student body, drop your ex-
While part of this problem needs to be addressed by the College, the eas- before I am a student, but this has to Bowdoin’s a nice place. I think we as a tracurriculars and if you can afford,
iest and perhaps the most impactful change will come from the students. change. The most radical thing I can student body spread ourselves so thin quit your job. I truly believe this will
Only we can change the way we talk about break. This simple consideration, do here is to graduate in four years. improve the well-being of every indi-
which costs us nothing, is something each Bowdoin student needs to extend Last semester, I took Pho- vidual on our campus.
to one another. tography I with Profes-
So when we all come back together on campus at the end of March, let’s sor of Art Michael
abandon the common refrain of “What did you do over break?” Instead, let’s Kolster. It was
use the more open-ended “How was your break?” and hope more meaningful
conversation comes from it.

This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board,
which is composed of Anjulee Bhalla, Emily Cohen, Nell Fitzgerald, Roither Gon-
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Friday, March 1, 2019
The responsibility
of upperclassmen
On Second
Thought
by Brooke Vahos
In high school, I used to
think one’s age was indicative
of one’s grade. For me and my
friends, class year was an in-
dicator of maturity, academic
ability and social value. Your
grade was a defining char-
acteristic of your identity in
high school, and as such, it
was easy to tell by looks and
personality what grade you
were in.
It was refreshing to break
free of high school grade con-
straints when I come to Bow-
doin last year. For me, it was
genuinely hard to determine
what year someone was—
looks or academic ability did
not always equate to class year.
There was a relative sense of
equality between me and my
upperclassman peers, which
gave me the confidence to en-
gage with them in meaningful
ways. Yet, I wouldn’t consider
under- and upperclassmen
entirely equal. In fact, there
are ways that class years have
limited my friendships and
relationships at Bowdoin—
especially when it comes to
hookups and dating.
For too many reasons to
count, hook up and dating cul-
ture at Bowdoin is frustrating.
In my experience, one of the
most troublesome issues to
navigate has been the power
dynamics of hooking up with
and dating upperclassmen. As
an underclassman, my sexual
relationships with upperclass-
men, formal or informal, have
been riddled with confusing
problems. Time constraints,
gender dynamics and degrees
of experience are just some
of the many issues that have
placed undue pressure on sex-
ual encounters.
One of the more aggres-
sive problems has been when
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upperclassmen use their class
year to assert power and dom-
inance over me. I don’t think
I’m alone when I say there
is something exciting and
attractive about hooking up
with someone older. Admit-
tedly, it’s weirdly socially vali-
dating and fun (especially as a
first year).
The issue is not in being at-
tracted to this type of partner
or experience, but in how the
partner chooses to use their
grade to win affection and
attention. In my experiences,
many of my former partners
have used their class year as a
point of leverage to maintain
the upper hand in relation-
ships. Looking back, I feel ma-
nipulated and brainwashed to
have been swept up in the at-
traction of an upperclassman
partner. I wish I paid more at-
tention to their character and
how they treated me, rather
than how I perceived them
socially.
Yet, mulling over what I
could have done better seems
counterintuitive. I think my
partners shouldn’t have used
their class year to take advan-
tage of my naiveté. There are
countless times it has hap-
pened to my friends and others
as well: Pre-O leaders hooking
up with first years on trips,
College House members hook-
ing up with their buddies and
co-ed sports members hook-
ing up with new teammates.
While most of these acts have
been consensual, the grade
difference affects how young-
er partners are able to make
informed decisions about the
encounters.
The grade gap also creates
a power dynamic which leaves
the relationship largely in the
hands of the upperclassman.
In my relationships, this
power dynamic remained
widely undiscussed and
unacknowledged, resulting
in my present-day feelings
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LLAM
NA FU
LILY AN
of regret and anger. Angry
because, had we had an
open conversation, our
relationship might not have
been so lopsided, confusing
or detrimental to my self-
respect.
Upperclassmen need to have
more candid conversations
with their underclass sexual
partners. We can all pledge to
be more aware of these dynam-
ics, even as underclassmen, but
the onus of responsibility falls
on them. In these inter-grade
encounters, upperclassmen
need to prioritize equality with
their partners, rather than the
selfish feeling of superiority.
They should do whatever is in
their power to have safe dis-
cussions about the dynamics of
these relationships. To many,
this idea may seem to unreal-
istic; who would willingly have
a pre- and post-coitus conver-
sation about power dynam-
ics? The fact is that it might
be awkward, but the rewards
completely outweigh the risks.
Open conversations have
the potential to provide clarity,
understanding and dialogue
between two partners (a rare
commodity in our hookup
culture). It may seem annoy-
ing and outside the norms of
our modern dating culture, but
without these discussions, we
leave space for terrible things
to take place. Instances of in-
equality in sexual encounters,
even as small as grade differ-
ence, can lead to larger issues
of abuse, harassment and, in
the most extreme cases, rape.
As a community, we choose
to see the power dynamics of
upper/underclassman as iso-
lated from other issues such
as #MeToo and the Kavanaugh
protests; yet, they are closely
intertwined. Conversations at
the micro level are important
in breaking the cycle of abuse
that too often leads to bigger
crises of gender, domestic and
sexual violence.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Bowdoin’s treasurer on
housekeeper wages
To the editor,
We have been concerned about
misperceptions and incorrect or incom-
plete information published here, and
circulating elsewhere, about Bowdoin’s
compensation program for our house-
keepers. I want to take the opportunity
to set the record straight about our com-
pensation, the importance we place on
this issue, and our substantial, ongoing
efforts to make sure our housekeepers
are compensated appropriately. They
are a big part of what makes Bowdoin
special.
Recently, some students have voiced
concerns about job titles and wages for
housekeepers, suggesting that the Col-
lege intentionally misclassifies house-
keepers as “maids and housekeeping
cleaners” in order to pay them less than
the average of $14.10 per hour earned in
Cumberland County by “custodians” (or
what the state calls “janitors and clean-
ers”). These students have asked that we
move our wages for housekeepers to the
$14.10 average.
Our process for determining com-
pensation doesn’t rely on generic job
categories or labels, and we don’t have
anything to do with putting employ-
ees into state job categories. When we
examine wages, we review extensive
third-party data, and, for each source,
we look for job descriptions that most
closely match the specific work our
employees do. A comparison of com-
pensation for employees in various roles
across institutions is based on their ac-
tual job responsibilities and duties and
the total compensation—wages and
benefits—they receive.
Workers classified by the Maine
Department of Labor as “maids and
housekeepers” earn, on average, $11.28
an hour in Cumberland County. While
there are tasks performed by many Bow-
doin housekeepers that fall within the
state’s category for “janitors and clean-
ers,” there are also tasks within Maine’s
“janitor and cleaners” definition that
are not at all part of our housekeeper’s
duties. The point is that neither of the
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
HAVE YOU BEEN TO A WOMEN’S
BASKETBALL GAME?
Answer at bowdoinorient.com/poll.
Last week’s response:
Q: HAVE YOU EVER VISITED THE BOWDOIN
COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART?
91% YES
9% NO
Based on answers from 160 respondents.
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generic categories used by the state ac-
curately reflects the scope of our house-
keepers’ responsibilities. And we are
keenly aware that, because our employ-
ees often go the extra mile, there are oc-
casions when they do something beyond
the tasks listed in their job descriptions.
Today, Bowdoin housekeepers, on
average, earn $13.97 an hour (and this
is before shift differentials). Earlier in
January, I met with our housekeeping
staff and other hourly workers and an-
nounced that, effective July 1, there will
be a so-called “compression raise” to
keep hourly pay for seasoned employees
appropriately above starting rates for
new hires. The Orient was made aware
of this announcement before their most
recent article was published, but chose
not to report on it. As a result of these
wage adjustments and the regular July 1
salary pool increases, the average house-
keeper will earn an estimated $14.95 per
hour.
In addition to these hourly wages,
the College provides a benefits pack-
age that is equaled by few, if any, other
Maine employers. It includes competi-
tive health, dental, and vision plans for
employees and their families, fully vest-
ed retirement contributions, disability
and life insurance, tuition assistance for
employees, scholarships for dependents,
multiple paid holidays and paid vaca-
tion, paid sick leave, emergency paid
sick leave, and more.
These are the facts. We strive to com-
pensate our housekeepers and other
hourly employees appropriately with
wages and benefits that reflect their out-
standing contributions to the College.
As we have always done, we will con-
tinue to regularly review and adjust our
compensation program to ensure that it
remains among the very best in Maine.
Sincerely,
Matt Orlando
Senior Vice President for Finance and
Administration & Treasurer
A version of this letter was published on-
line on February 25, 2019.
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FRIDAY 1
WORKSHOP
Wicked Smart Fridays: Writing
Compelling Introductions
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Director of the
Writing Project Morten Hansen will discuss how students can
write engaging introductions that capture the reader.
Room 117, Sills Hall. 11:45 a.m.

LECTURE
“Haunted Bauhaus”
Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
History and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo
Elizabeth Otto will discuss the history of the Bauhaus
architectural movement and its long-standing cultural
influence as a school of art.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 3 p.m.
GWEN DAVIDSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PERFORMANCE LAUGHING OUT LOUD: Manuela Velasquez ’21 takes center stage at Purity Pact’s Stand-Up Show on Thursday night. MacMillan House hosted
SWEAT the comedy group, which is open to anyone who identifies as female, transgender or non-binary.
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play will showcase the
lives of middle-class factory workers as they face changing

MONDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 6
life circumstances from globalization and recession.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
The Women’s Cabaret LECTURE
The Women’s Cabaret will perform sexist pop, jazz and IN-BETWEENNESS: Psychological
theatre pieces to expose the underlying misogyny in perspectives on Africana workers in China
modern-day music. C. Jama Adams, associate professor of Criminal Justice at John
Ladd House. 8 p.m. Jay College, will discuss the growing number of foreign workers in
China who are not considered migrants yet cannot obtain perma-
nent citizenship, thus leaving them in a state of “in-betweenness.”
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
WELLNESS
Meditation
Local meditation instructor and acupuncturist Toby Sifton
will lead a 45-minute long meditation session focusing on
aspects of mindfulness including sitting and
breathing practices.
Room 302, Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 7:15 p.m.

SATURDAY 2
PERFORMANCE
Office Hours Show TUESDAY 5
Office Hours, one of Bowdoin’s student improv groups,
will perform. LECTURE
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. An Evening with April Ryan
White House Correspondent April Ryan will discuss her career
covering the Trump administration and her experience as the
only African-American reporter examining urban issues from
the White House. Ryan is a board member of the White House
Correspondents Association and was named “Journalist of the
THURSDAY 7
LECTURE
“Artificial Intelligence and You: The Truth
Behind the Fiction about How Artificial
Intelligence is Changing Our Lives”
Professor of Computer Science Eric Chown will discuss the
increasing presence of artificial intelligence in modern-day
society and dismantle false narratives behind its portrayal in
the media.

SUNDAY 3
Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2017.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
FILM SCREENING
Capernaum A Night with World Famous Trauma
Frontier will screen Nadine Labaki’s award-winning Surgeon Dr. Rafael Grossmann
Arabic-language film “Capernaum.” The movie follows Dr. Rafael Grossmann, a surgeon specializing in trauma and
12-year-old Zain who is forced to live in the streets after the use of robotic instruments, will discuss the intersections
experiencing neglect from his parents. between healthcare, education and technology.
Frontier. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Room 315, Searles Hall. 5 p.m.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.
LECTURE
“Stories from Earth”
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural
Sciences Rachel Beane will deliver her inaugural lecture
presenting her research and fieldwork on the inner-workings
of the geoscientific processes which have shaped Earth over
millions of years.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

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