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Students launch petition for sanctuary campus

BY MARINA AFFO AND URIEL LOPEZSERRANO
ORIENT STAFF

In addition to demonstrations
and calls for conversation, Bowdoin
students reacted in the week after
Donald Trumps presidential win by
creating a petition calling on the administration to designate the College
as a sanctuary campus for undocumented immigrants. As of press time,
the petition had 522 signees, which
included students, alumni, parents,
faculty and community members.
This week, more than 100 colleges
have called for the creation of sanctuary campuses, including Harvard,
Columbia, UMass Amherst and Wesleyan. The movement is similar to
the concept of sanctuary cities, municipalities across the country where
local law enforcement declines to
release information about undocumented immigrants to Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Trump has promised to mobilize ICE
to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants.
Every campus has a different definition of a sanctuary campus, but
many include steps which would
ensure the safety and privacy of undocumented students.
The Bowdoin petition, among
other demands, asks for the Colleges immediate assurance of its
support of undocumented students,
refrainment from voluntary information sharing with ICE and refusal
of physical access to campus to ICE.
It is addressed directly to President
Clayton Rose, Dean of Student Af-

a woman of color surrounded by

this many white people that are all
marching for the same cause that I
am has made me so empowered, she
told the crowd.
King was surprised by the results

Several departments, in particular the Dining Service, have experienced difficulty this year in hiring an adequate number of student
employees. Though the number
of student workers has risen since
last fall, multiple campus departments are still understaffed, likely
resulting from an increase in the
total number of jobs on campus and
students working less hours due to
higher pay.
The number of filled jobs has expanded from 1,642 to 1,826, while
the number of students who are
employed on campus has increased
only slightly, from 1,008 last year
to 1,042 this semester. Nearly every department on campus hires at
least one student employee and six
departments are still looking to hire
studentsDining Service, the Office of Development, Campus Services, the Office of Safety and Security, the libraries and Information
Technology.
Supervisors are not receiving the
same quantity of applications as
usual, according to Associate Di-

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Please see DINING, page 5

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SPEAKING UP: Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze urges students to speak out against injustice at an on campus rally on the Quad last Friday. Students
gathered for a show of love and unity following the results of the presidential election.
fairs Tim Foster, Associate Dean of
Students for Diversity and Inclusion
Leana Amaez, Director of the Student Multicultural Center Benjamin
Harris and Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols.
Many students also took the postelection political conversation out-

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No new cases of mumps have been diagnosed by Bowdoin Health Services or by

Mid Coast Medical Group since November 7. All five students who were diagnosed
with mumps are no longer contagious and
are out of isolation. Unless another case
occurs, students who are not immunized
can return from exclusion on November
25, 18 days after the onset of symptoms
from the most recent mumps case.
Director of Health Services Jeffery Maher said that while there is some concern
about students who may still be carrying
the virus spreading it to other places over
Thanksgiving break, the likelihood of the
situation escalating is small.
The reality of all mumps outbreaks
is that the vaccinated herd in the world
keeps mumps outbreaks from generally
spreading to larger populations, he said.
The world is pretty safe from the mumps
in places where there are intact public
health services.

NOT SO FAST

Dining Service
struggles to
find student
employees
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BY JULIAN ANDREWS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

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side of the College, attending protests in Brunswick or Portland.

Jhadha King 20 gave an impromptu speech at a rally in Portland last
Friday.
I just want to thank everybody
for being here because this is the
most safe Ive felt in awhile. Being

Full classes limit students in computer science, sociology

BY JAMES CALLAHAN AND ROITHER GONZALES
ORIENT STAFF

As Bowdoin students register for spring

semester courses, many are rushing frantically to get on waitlists after finding themselves shut out from classes. In departments
such as computer science and sociology,
the problem is particularly acute: there are
simply not enough professors for students
to take classes they sometimes need for
their majors.
Its lowkey like The Hunger Games,
said Beleicia Bullock 19.
Interest in computer science as a discipline has skyrocketed over the past few years
at Bowdoin according to Laura Toma, chair

of the computer science department.

The number of majors quadrupled over the
last five years, she said. We went from 12 majors
a year to now 39 majors a year. And the number of
faculty has stayed more or less the same.
Students must pass Introduction to Computer
Science and Data Structures before they can move
onto any higher level classes, although some students with programming backgrounds are allowed
to skip Introduction to Computer Science. This semester, the department is offerings two sections of
each class. After the first round of class registration,
one of each of the respective sections were full.
The computer science department is also offering six upper-level computer science classes this semester. After the first round of registration, all six
were were completely full.

Computer Science is not the only department

struggling with over-enrollment. For spring 2017,
101 students requested places in a 50-seat Introduction to Sociology class.
Sociology and Anthropology Department
Chair Nancy Riley noted that the intro class numbers are a consistent problem.
Last semester, the department offered two
50-student sections of the classes, which still was
not enough to meet demand.
We know that, if we add a section, it will fill.
It doesnt matter how many sections we addthey
will fill, Riley said. We want that course to be
available to as many people as possible, but we only
have limited staffing.

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New committee aims to educate faculty, students on disability

BY EDUARDO JARAMILLO
ORIENT STAFF

In order to better address disability on campus,

the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Student Advisory Board was established at the beginning of this semester. Under the leadership of
Director of Accommodations Lisa Peterson, seven students are striving to educate Bowdoin on
accessibility and bridge the gap between faculty
and students on disability and accommodations.
I think that sometimes in higher ed settings
there can be a tendency to be doing for and not
with students, said Peterson. So I thought
this was a great opportunity to have students
be leading the charge.

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The Women of 75 series continues as female

Bowdoin students take to the field. Page 7.

One of the ways the Board hopes to achieve its

goals is by appointing professor liaisons to each
department. These professor liaisons would undergo a training session with Peterson and student members of the Board on how to help other
professors in their department handle accommodation requests. That way, when a student asks for
accommodations, the professor has a colleague
that can walk them through the process of providing help to students with disabilities.
A major part of Petersons current position
as director of accommodations involves ensuring there is a clear process for students to
request accommodations and checking in on
such accommodations.
Peterson also hopes to address how members
of the Bowdoin community think about disability

GIRLS IN GORILLA SUITS

An anonymous female artist talks inequality

and activism. Page 9.

BUILDING A TEAM

and accommodations on campus.

This student advisory board was a way for me
to make sure Im having the widest reach possible
and able to have a lot of talented voices in the conversation about campus climate, Peterson said.
Peterson hopes to promote what is called the
social model of disability, which holds that disability is caused by the ways society functions and
not by individual impairments of disabled people.
The social model is about thinking through
what the things in our environment are that we
havent thought about in a critical way, or might
havent thought about in a critical way, that could
be presenting barriers for students, she said.
Zoe Borenstein 18, a leader on the Board, said

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KINDNESS WILL PREVAIL

Savannah Horton 17 discusses moving

forward post-election. Page 14.

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SECURITY REPORT: 11/10 to 11/17

friday, november 18, 2016

STUDENT SPEAK:
What is your least favorite Thanksgiving food and why does it
oend you?
Arnav Patel 18
Ive only had three Thanksgivings
before. Im not gonna lie, Thanksgiving
foodpeople rave about itbut it
has no taste in it, all of it, it has no taste
in it.

Saidou Camara 19
I really, really dislike dry turkey, that
just annoys me. It just saps all of the
moisture out of my tongue, its not
pleasant.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON

Thursday, November 10
A student accidentally smashed a wall mirror while
lifting weights at the Peter Buck Center for Health
and Fitness.
Friday, November 11
There was a report of a malfunctioning gas fireplace
at the Burton Little Admissions House.
Saturday, November 12
A Longfellow Avenue resident reported excessive
campus noise at midnight.
An intoxicated minor student was transported from
Stowe House Inn to Mid Coast Hospital.
A student with excessive ear pain was escorted to
Mid Coast Hospital.
A glass marijuana pipe was found on Reed
Houses patio.
A student using a hair straightener activated a
smoke alarm at Moore Hall.
A students white Free Spirit bicycle was reported
stolen from outside of Smith Union. An officer recovered the bike and returned it to the owner.
Young males in a passing vehicle shouted a vulgar remark to a female student on Maine Street in
downtown Brunswick.
Brunswick Rescue transported an ill student from
Appleton Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.
Sunday, November 13
Dining staff at Super Snacks requested a wellness
check for an intoxicated student.
An intoxicated student was reported to be causing a
disturbance at Super Snacks.
A student was cited for public urination.
A student called Security from his room as he was
concerned about his level of intoxication. An officer
checked in on the student twice during the night.

Monday, November 14
An ill student in Winthrop Hall was escorted to
Mid Coast Hospital.
A student was examined by security officers
and Brunswick Rescue after she fainted in her
campus residence. The student did not require hospitalization.
A student walking downtown reported that a man
acting strange near the gazebo was making obscene
gestures at passersby. The call was referred to the
Brunswick police.
A student experiencing throat discomfort was taken to Mid Coast Hospital.

Luis Guerrero 20
Its mashed spinach or something like
that. [Its] really dark green, kind of like
wet and soggy and you try and pick
it up with your fork and it just flops
down.

Grace Bilodeau 20
I dont like cranberry sauce, sometimes
it comes out really gross. Sometimes if
its homemade or if you try making it
yourself its really horrible... It looks like
brains.

Tuesday, November 15
An intoxicated student was reported to be walking
on Garrison Street. A security officer located the
student near Farley Field House and escorted him
safely to his residence.
An officer checked on the well-being of a nauseous
student at Brunswick Apartment. The student elected to go to the Health Center the next morning.
Vandalism was discovered to a cherub wall painting
in Banister Chapel.
A staff member reported receiving a series of
strange text messages.
A student with a persistent bloody nose was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

Hannah Pucker 19
I think stung turkey with stu is
pretty gross. Turkey on its own is good. I
like stung on its own, a lot, I really like
it. I just think the pure turkey is good. Im
a purist.

Wednesday, November 16
A student reported the strong odor of marijuana in
his residence hall.
Thursday, November 17
A glass water bong containing marijuana residue
was found on the patio at Reed House.

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Beard ye beard ye: the many faces of No-Shave November

BY ELEANOR PAASCHE
ORIENT STAFF

No-Shave November is an initiative to raise awareness for all kinds

of cancers by letting ones body hair
take its natural course. The webbased non-profit asks participants
to donate the equivalent sum of their
monthly hair-maintenance expenses to cancer education, research
and prevention organizations. NoShave November also encourages
participants to create a fundraising
page. Many Bowdoin students have
chosen to refrain or reduce their
hair grooming to highlight the fact
that hair loss is a side effect of cancer
treatment. Here is the official Page 2
guide to the varying facial manifestations of No-Shave November.

Minimalist, basic stache

Wispy bits

Show-o stache

Noticable stubble

No-shave lifestyle

Face hair

Hairy

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COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF BRUNSWICK

ROUX CENTER PLAN MOVES FORWARD

Last week the Brunswick Planning Board unanimously approved an initial
sketch plan for the Colleges new Roux Center for the Environment. The sketch
includes a footprint of the site and the floor plans for the buildings Vice President and Interim Head of Finance and Administration Matthew Orlando hopes
that the final design done by early April so the College can begin the bidding
process.
[The architect] Tim Mansfield has been in hundreds of planning boards all
over the place, and our [Director of Capital Projects] Don Borkowski does a
great job putting together the full package, so [the board] was very impressed
with the organization and the comprehensiveness of it, Orlando said.
Earlier this year, the Programming Committeeled by Interim Dean for
Academic Affairs Jen Scanlonmet with the architects on a monthly basis to
go over updated designs and make suggestions on the initial sketch plan. According to Orlando, President Clayton Rose set the goal to make the building
not limited to the scientific study of the environment, but rather a space for
interdisciplinary exploration.
The idea is to have the classroom space in there flexible enough so it can
accommodate all sorts of disciplines and not just be focused on scientific research, Orlando said.
Orlando also hopes that the building will be able to achieve LEED Platinum
certification, the highest level of sustainability certification awarded by the U.S.
Green Building Council.
That is a challenge to achieve any time youre talking about laboratories and
scientific research being conducted in the building, so were still hopeful that
we can hit the platinum goal, but it will be a challenge, he said.
The College will go back to the planning board in February to share any
variations from the sketch plan, which will also be subject to the boards review.
There will inevitably be a little bit of shifting here and there. Were still in
the design phase of the building, so we have not approved a final design yet so
things could certainly be shifted, Orlando said.

AMTRAK ADDS THIRD TRAIN TO BOSTON

Beginning November 21, the Amtrak Downeaster line will run a third
daily train between Brunswick and Boston. The new line will leave Brunswick Visitor Station at 11 a.m.
Amtrak is also adding a third train from Boston to Brunswick, which
will leave North Station at 6:15 p.m. every day. This later train was made
possible by the construction of a new layover facility in Brunswick, which
opened in October and allows trains to spend the night in Brunswick, rather than having to return to Portland each night, according to the Bangor
Daily News.
Currently, the Downeaster line runs trains from Brunswick to Boston at
7:25 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. and from Boston to Brunswick at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The train ride takes about three and a half hours.
Concord Coach Lines also runs a bus service between Brunswick and
Boston, which leaves from Brunswick Visitor Station at 10:25 a.m. and 1:45
p.m., and leaves Boston for Brunswick at 11:35 a.m. and 5:35 p.m. The bus
ride takes about three hours.

DIEGO GROSSMANN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

#THISIS2016: Students pose with racist comments as part of photoshoot sponsored by ASA and SASA. The exhibit is on display in David Saul Smith Union.

Panel and photoshoot reveal everyday prejudices

BY DIEGO GROSSMAN AND JONO GRUBER
ORIENT STAFF

A group of students of color held a

panel at Quinby House to discuss their
experiences with racially based confrontations at Bowdoin and beyond in a program entitled Shit White People Say to
POCpeople of coloron Tuesday.
The event was organized by the Asian
Student Association (ASA) and the South
Asian Student Association (SASA). The
two groups also collaborated on a photo
exhibit in David Saul Smith Union that
went up on Tuesday night highlighting
microaggressions against Asians and
Asian Americans.
The program, moderated by ASA
President Mitsuki Nishimoto 17, asked
seven panelists how they respond to
leading questions about their identitiessuch as, Where are you from?
and, If you hate it here, why dont you go
back?and led discussion on how their
social and academic experiences have
been shaped by instances of stereotyping.
Raquel Santizo 19 raised her qualms
with the segregated party scene at Bowdoin. Alexis Espinal 17 spoke about being both white and Honduran and being
marginalized by both groups because of
her identities. Olivia Bean 17 told of being consistently mistaken for a different
black student by a professor in a seminar.
Although planning for the event started months ago, and the election of Donald
Trump and the subsequent racial attacks
across the country have shocked many on
campus, the event went on as planned.

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is designed to highlight stereotyping of

Asians and Asian Americans. Inspired
by #thisis2016, a hashtag and story series
that exposes aggressions against Asian
Americans that are not often discussed,
ASA attempted to take a more Bowdoin
specific angle and include a more diverse
set of Asian voices.
We really wanted to do a photoshoot
that kind of addressed stereotypes that
Asians and Asian Americans might face
and some microaggressions that weve
experienced or heard from other people,
Nishimoto said.
I cant say that I know what the black
students or the Latinx students were going through last year, even though we
all are students of color, but we did feel
that Asian Americans are often left out of
conversations, not only at Bowdoin, but
also in general in this country.
ASA hopes to continue its programming by inviting Ben Chin to campus in
December. Chin is a Bates graduate who
was met with racist attack ads during his
campaign for mayor of Lewiston.
ASA has been pretty dormant over
the last few years, said Kang. We havent
had any bad incidents, so we thought this
would be a good time to do something.
What I loved about ASA was that
it created this really awesome community of students who identify as Asian
or Asian American on campus, said
Nishimoto. But something I felt was
lacking was kind of like campus activism, if you will, or just kind of making
ourselves more present on campus as a
community.

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[The event] was [originally] intended

to be a small thing like What Kind of
Asian Are You? because Asian Americans, we experience different microaggressions, said Arah Kang 19, an organizer of the event. And then we were like,
why dont we expand this? Because a lot
of POCs feel these microaggressions.
We had heavy discussion: do we
push this back or go as planned? Especially right after the elections because a
lot of things got shut down and things
were being pushed back, and I was like
No, this is what we needed the most.
At the event, seats were scarce, and
many students were left standing. Afterwards, students expressed gratitude that
the conversation had taken place.
I was very happy that a lot of nonPOCs were here to listen to the talk, said
Bethany Berhanu 20. Because I was honestly expecting mostly people of color just
listening to the things we were going to go
through. So it was really nice that a lot of
people came here to be informed about
these things that we all go through.
Xin Jiang 20 thought the event was
very accurate.
Im very grateful that they did this,
she said. As a first year, the other event
that they did that touched on race was
during Orientation and I felt like that one
was more meant as an educational program, while this event was more revealing the actual truths that people of color
are going through every day.
Although the panel discussion
evolved to include the voices of different students of color, the photo exhibit

Though Maine voters chose to

legalize recreational marijuana last week,
Bowdoin students will not be able to
smoke freely, Dean of Student Affairs Tim
Foster informed students and employees
in an email on Monday.
Bowdoin will continue to prohibit
students from using marijuana both on
and off campus, Foster said. Allowing
drugs on campus could jeopardize federal
funding for the College, due to the DrugFree Schools and Communities Act of
1988, which bans marijuana and other
drugs at colleges and universities.
Bowdoin employees will also continue
to be prohibited from consuming or being
under the influence of marijuana on
campus, in accordance with the Colleges
Employee Handbook.
The handbook states that any
employee under the influence of illegal
drugs or alcohol or who possesses or

consumes illegal drugs at Bowdoin is

subject to College disciplinary procedures
and action, up to and including immediate
termination of employment.
The handbook continues to list
marijuana as an illegal drug, based on
federal law.
The most recent Orient survey on
marijuana use, conducted in 2013,
found that 58 percent of respondents
had smoked marijuana at least once to a
few times at Bowdoin, while 31 percent
reported smoking every month or two
or weekly or more.
Bowdoin is not the only college having
to address marijuana legalization after
last weeks elections. Massachusetts
voters chose to legalize the drug as well
last week, however, none of Bowdoins
NESCAC peers affected by legalization
have publicly announced policy changes.
Additionally, the Orient confirmed
that students at Amherst, Williams and
Colby have not received information
about policy changes at those schools. It
is unclear whether Bates and Tufts have

issued statements to students.

Colleges in Colorado, Washington,
Oregon and Alaska have come up with
various policies following marijuana
legalization, which generally ban oncampus recreational use and vary with
regards to off-campus and medical use
of marijuana.
There also remains a chance that
legalization will not go into effect in
Maine. Different ballot counts found
the margin in favor of legalization was
between 2,620 and 4,402 votes. On
Wednesday, opponents of legalization
filed for a recount, according to
WMTV-Portland.
Maine governor Paul LePage has
also said that he will ask President-elect
Donald Trump to enforce federal law,
which would mean that people who
sell or possess marijuana in the state
could face federal charges. President
Barack Obama has declined to enforce
federal marijuana laws in the four states
where marijuana became legal during
his presidency.

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After attacks on other Bowdoin students tie for first in

campuses, BSG revives Maine Food Innovation Challenge
Safe Walk system
BY SALIM SALIM
ORIENT STAFF

BY JONATHAN CALENTTI
ORIENT STAFF

In response to racially motivated

attacks on several college campuses
across the United States, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) announced
a revamped Safe Walk program to
ensure students do not have to walk
alone. BSG President Harriet Fisher
17 informed students of the program
in an email on Saturday.
As part of the program, students can
sign up to help others, or confidentially
request accompaniment and receive
contact information of students who
have signed up to help.
Theres one form where you can
offer up your time, put in your name,
your phone number, your email, what
your commute is to campus and what
times of day you would be available,
Fisher said. On the other form, all you
have to submit is your email. As soon
as I see a request for that, I automatically share that email with all the contact information.
As of press time, nine students have
requested assistance and 74 students
have offered their help.

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Bullock is planning on majoring in

computer science, and has been frustrated by the difficulties of getting the upperlevel classes she needs.
This semester, I did not get into a
single computer science classtheyre all
full nowand so I had to go to the head
to the department, she said. The department is super helpful. Its not even an issue
with the class, its an administrative issue.
Bullock recognized the tension between catering to majors and catering to
those who want to simply take one or two
computer science classes.
You definitely want people to be able
to come in and explore computer science and to be able to have that liberal
arts experience, she said. But theres
another point where youre like this
professor should be teaching an upper
level class.
Limited faculty is not the only problem

Bowdoin Safe Walk first formed as

a Facebook group last fall, after several
sexual assaults were reported including
an incident in which multiple female
students were groped while walking at
night.
Fisher said that this years Safe Walk
system builds off of the momentum of
last years program, but said that it had
a different goal in light of incidents at
other colleges following the election of
Donald Trump as the next president of
the United States.
At the University of Michigan, a
Muslim student was approached by a
man who threatened to set her on fire if
she didnt remove her hijab, according
to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A number of African American firstyear students at the University of Pennsylvania were added to a GroupMe
conversation that threatened a daily
lynching and made other racist remarks, the Washington Post reported.
[The Safe Walk program] is in light
of the election results. I dont see it as
kind of the same thing [as last year], because I think it serves a new purpose,
said Fisher.
facing the computer science department.
They also have difficulty increasing class
sizes due to lab space.
We are bound by the lab size, Toma
said. So those classes cannot grow beyond
30 because the lab can only sit 32 people.
Introduction to Sociology is a prerequisite for all upper-level sociology
classes, although some classes allow
students to substitute Introduction
to Cultural Anthropology as the prerequisite. Unlike in the computer science department, only two of eight
2000-level sociology classes have filled.
Department staffing is dependent
upon the Office of the Dean of Academic Affairs, which announces whenever new tenure track professor positions
are available.
We talk to the Deans Office a lot
about staffing and theyve been really good in terms of replacing anyone
whos going on leave, said Riley. But
the College has only limited resources
and were not the only department.

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Last weekend, a team of five Bowdoin students tied for first place in
the second annual Maine Food System Innovation Challenge for their
proposal to turn wasted grain from
breweries into flour. Bowdoin hosted the event, which brought college
students from all around the state
to create new ways to reduce food
waste in Maine and support the local
food production and distribution.
Eliza Huber-Weiss 17, one of
Bowdoins team members, explained
that much of the grain waste produced at Maines craft breweries is
edible and can be turned into flour
and used for other purposes if processed correctly.
We talked to breweries about
how much waste they were actually producing. We talked to farmers
who were taking that waste already
and seeing what the issues were,
Huber-Weiss said.
Teams came up with their ideas
before the competition, then spent
the weekend refining their pitches
before ultimately presenting a business plan to a set of judges.
The Maine Food Innovation

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of the election but is curious to learn
why so many people voted for Trump.
I dont just want to be angry or mad
or resentful at people. I wanted to understand the other side of it. I didnt
want to base everything off my common misconceptions, she said.

Our business does not solve food waste, but

it does maybe aid in the process of reducing
food waste.
ELIZA HUBERWEISS 17

Challenge first took place last year,

bringing college students and community members who had ideas and
some experience with production,
aggregation, processing and marketing that would help improve local
food production.
Emeritus Professor of Biology and
Biochemistry Thomas Settlemire
was one of the founders and a facilitator of the event.
The whole purpose of this thing
is to try and create awareness within
bright minds [of students] as to what
this problem is all about, how can we
create a new economic incentive to
make it work, whats that economic
incentive and do it in a constructive
positive way, he said.
This years competition tasked
students with coming up with an
idea to reduce food waste.
In the United States, it is estimated that about 40 percent of food
produced is wasted, according to

Settlemire. This is due to several factors including the poor harvesting

and losses in the supply chain and in
the market.
Huber-Weiss acknowledged that
the groups brewery plan would
only make a small dent in the major
problem of food waste.
Our business does not solve food
waste, but it does maybe aid in the process of reducing food waste, she said.
She also felt that the event helped
her connect with people outside
of Bowdoin who work in the same
field she aspires to someday join.
She plans to continue meeting with
the Bowdoin group, and has thought
about the possibility of starting a
flour business after she graduates.
Settlemire was also pleased with
the event.
Its a wonderful way to take a real
problem [and] create an enterprise that Bowdoin students actually
run, he said.

up youre telling others that this is a

space where we do support you and
we do welcome you.
At its Wednesday meeting, BSG
discussed how it could better support students. Members contemplated the possibility of establishing
Bowdoin as a sanctuary campus,
though BSG did not create the petition in circulation.
While the number of undocumented
students at Bowdoin
is relatively small,
Class Representative
to the BSG Beatrice
Cabrera 20 said that
the symbolism of the
petition matters.
R e p r e s e nt at i v e
At-Large Jacob Russell 17 suggested
that BSG could also
help with immigration lawyers.
There is privilege on campus.
There are a lot of people who know
lawyers, he said. We can get immigration lawyers.
Cabrera said that regardless of political beliefs, students should help
one another.
We are all part of the Bowdoin

about the election results.

In our position as BSG we can
only act as a conduit for conversation at Bowdoin, said Vice President for the Treasury Irfan Alam 18.
Alam said his place of privilege
and his position on BSG gives him
the ability to help others process the
results of the election.
I felt like because I have that
privilege, I have a responsibility to
use my voice and to fight for those
that felt very disempowered by the
results of the election, he said.
Last Friday, BSG hosted an open
discussion that used software allowing students to submit questions and
comments anonymously that were
then projected onto a large monitor.
Although students made comments,
Alam said BSG still has work to do to
encourage students with more conservative opinions to speak up.
It seems that Donald Trump supportersand this is not me speaking
on their behalfdid still feel like it
was a hostile environment, he said.
Perhaps the anonymity prevented
them from feeling like they would be
personally attacked, however, they
still felt that potentially their ideas

I dont just want to be angry

or mad or resentful at people.
I wanted to understand the
other side of it. I didnt want
to base everything off my
common misconceptions.
JHADHA KING 20
King said she will continue to protest off campus in an effort to spark
more dialogue and keep the movement
going. At Bowdoin, she felt that lack of
political diversity left her searching for
answers about the results.
It feels like here you have to have
a conversation about it and still go
back to your dorm and be surrounded
by the unknown of why people would
vote this way, King said.
Daniel Castro 17 attended an oncampus Rally For Love and Strength
organized by seniors Hayley Nicholas
and Julia Berkman-Hill last Friday and
a protest in Brunswick on Saturday and
hopes that such events will help those
targeted by Trumps words feel safe.
A lot of people after Trumps victory feel they are not safe on this
campus, theyre not safe in Brunswick, theyre not safe in the United
States, he said. When youre out
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Perhaps the anonymity prevented them from

feeling like they would be personally attacked,
however, they still felt that potentially their ideas
would be attacked and that persistent requesting for
them to speak up was just people chomping at the
bit to jump on an idea that was contrary to theirs.

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community and that comes first before who is left and who is right,
she said.
BSG members also thought about
how to lead campus conversation

would be attacked and that persistent requesting for them to speak up

was just people chomping at the bit
to jump on an idea that was contrary
to theirs.

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rector of Student Employment Meredith Haralson. Dining, the largest
student employer, has experienced
the greatest need.
Dining obviously has the greatest number of positions, so they feel
it more so than some of the other
departments, said Associate Director of Dining Service Operation Michele Gaillard.
The lack of student employees is
the reason the Dining Service has
resorted to self-service in the food
lines at every meal this year.
Higher wages could be causing
students to work fewer hours than
in previous semesters, Haralson
said. With all student employees
making at least a dollar more per
hour than they did last year, students can make the same amount
while working fewer hours.
Dining Service is particularly
looking to hire for daytime weekday
shifts, but has had trouble finding
students for these times.
To resolve the employment difficulties, Haralson and Gaillard are
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ployment on campus, increase the
desirability of certain jobs and advertise openings.
Im not sure if we completely
understand why students work. I
think there are various numbers of
reasons as to why they want to work
and why does someone want to work
in Dining or not want to work in
Dining, said Gaillard. Were working on figuring out how to find the
students that really want to work in
Dining.
Dining Service has advertised
positions at the check-in desks in
both dining halls. Additionally, it
is revising the descriptions of jobs
to provide more specific information about job responsibilities and
is working with the Career Planning
Center about how skills acquired
in Dining can be represented on
a resume.
The Office of Student Employment is also helping other departments to better advertise jobs and
communicate what the students will
gain and the positions appeals.
Im working with managers
[and] supervisors across campus to
do similar things and look at those
job descriptions, said Haralson.

Hopefully we can do that across

the board so that students will be
more interested in some of those
opportunities because there are a lot
of great skills they can learn.
Student Employment recently
placed posters in the first-year
dorms in an attempt to target students who may not know about this
the student employment website.
Haralson said she has struggled to
find the most effective way of advertising online due to the various
means of electronically communicating on campus.
Part of it I think is getting students to understand what jobs are
out there, and do they know whats
available and what opportunities
are on campus. Are they looking at
JobX, are they seeing whats posted
or how can we do a better job of
communicating that out to students? said Haralson.
Haralson is available to meet with
any students seeking jobs. The Office of Student Employment is temporarily located at 216 Maine Street.
Campus employers are already
beginning to post jobs for next semester on the Student Employment
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that professors are often unsure how to
handle students accommodations requests and go directly to Peterson. She
believes that having a liaison for each
department will improve the accommodations request process.
Lisa [Peterson] has so much stuff to
do and so many roles, and we think that
it would be so much easier for [professors] to have someone in their department to help, she said.
Borenstein said that the Board aims to
organize and focus the work being done
by the various separate groups advocating

for recognition of students with disabilities on campus. She pointed out that just
a few years ago, there was relatively little
discussion of these issues on campus.
Now we have all this stuff happening,
and were starting to realize that we have
to kind of sort things out a little bit more
because there arent really clear definitions of what particular groups are doing
differently from the others, she said.
She added that student organizations
focused on issues of disability have
largely emphasized outreach to other
students. She hopes that the Student Advisory Board will be more successful in
bringing administrators and faculty into
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Bowdoin professors
and staff flock to
Ebenezers for trivia
BY ALLISON WEI
ORIENT STAFF

Having a Ph.D. doesnt hurt when

it comes to trivia competitions.
Every Wednesday night, two Bowdoin faculty teams and one staff team
go to Ebenezers Pub on Pleasant Street
in Brunswick to compete in trivia night
with members of the Brunswick community and occassionally students.
Associate Professor of Classics
Robert Sobak and Professor of History Patrick Rael, who is currently
on sabbatical, lead one of the two
faculty teams. Their team includes
local community members as well.
The group used to go to the trivia
night hosted at Byrnes Irish Pub in
Brunswick, but the group switched
to Ebenezers about two years ago.
Lecturer in Classics Michael
Nerdahl served as a filler for Raels
team whenever there was an open
spot, but due to Ebenezers six-person-per-team rule, he started his
own team with Lecturer in Mathematics Michael King. Their team includes Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow Ellen Tani and a few professors.
Like Sobak and Raels team, their
group also includes non-Bowdoinaffiliated members.
Social Sciences Research and In-

struction Librarian Beth Hoppe,

O.O. Howard Papers Digitization
Project Supervisor Meagan Doyle,
Assistant Director for OneCard,
Events and Summer Programs Chris
Bird and other staff, friends and
family make up the staff team.
Wednesdays trivia night is hosted
by Ryan Sullivan, a local chiropractor. According to Nerdahl, the way
Sullivan runs the night has made
Ebenezers event stand out.
[Sullivan] really just does a wonderful job, he said. Byrnes is fun
too, but [Sullivan] scratches the itch
just a little bit better. He has more
categories and doesnt ask a lot of
trivia categories that are totally random where you have to guess wildly
because its a crazy question.
In addition, King said that Ebenezers trivia night is short and
fast, which benefits busy competitors. According to King, Ebenezers
typically lasts only one hour compared to several hours at other trivia
events hes been too.
At Ebenezers, teams compete in
eight-week seasons. Each week, the
first-place finisher gets three points
and the second and third place
teams get two and one respectively.
The winning team gets to choose the
category for the following week.

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TRIVIA TIME: Every Wednesday night, two teams of Bowdoin faculty members and one team of sta members compete alongside members of the Brunswick
community in a trivia night at Ebenezers Pub on Pleasant Street. Lecturer in Mathematics Michael King (top left) encouraged students to get involved so they can test
their trivia skills against Bowdoins experienced faculty. While there are many dierent places to do trivia around town, Ebenezers trivia seasons run for eight weeks at a
time with points tallied up at the end of the season to determine the winning team, which gets a gift certificate as a prize.
In the event that two teams tie at
the end of the season, they compete
in a non-trivia-related tiebreak.
We tie the staff team a lot, said
King. Theres tiebreakers, and sometimes they do funny ones, like build
a paper airplane and whoevers paper
airplane goes the farthest wins. We
did one where you have to draw a
breakfast-related tragedy, and [Tani]
drew an Eggo lodged in someones
throat sideways. It was very cartoonish, and we won.

For Nerdahl, taking part in trivia

night each week has been the perfect
combination for testing his knowledge and creating friendships with
the community outside of Bowdoin.
Ive always enjoyed answering trivia questions, and Ive always enjoyed
games, said Nerdahl. And its really
good company. There are in-jokes and
internal competitions that we have
with the people because we know them
and were friends. Its more fun to beat
your friends than strangers.

King echoed Nerdahls sentiment

and encouraged students to challenge
their faculty and staff at the 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday night event.
During the week, Im just in the
grind of being in the office or at home
working all the time, so its nice to
have a mid-week break, King said.
Also, theres a lot of fun aspects to
it. Some of us are competitive, and
I get really competitive about trivia.
We challenge student teams to come
try their hand against us.

Tapped Out: Lenins beer may be hard to pronounce, but its easy to get down
BY JAEYEON YOO
COLUMNIST

Please note: personal opinions on

things other than beer, such as American politics, below.
Guess what Vladimir Lenins favorite
drink was? Contrary to stereotype, it
was not vodka. When I visited Lenins
well-kept estate where he died (I was in
the room where it happened), I learned
that Lenin did not care much about food
but loved a good beer. His favorite: the
Russian-brewed brand e,
or Zhigulyovskoe. It was practically
the only mass-produced beer during
Soviet times and is still very popular in
Russia. Zhigulyovskoe is available pretty
much everywhere here, although unfortunately not in America. Lenins beer
was too interesting not to try.
I bought one liter on tap from the
local beer shop in a very utilitarian, undecorated plastic bottle (it was also very
cheaphooray). Pouring it into a glass, I
was struck by how thick the head was and
also by its light golden color. I was a little

worried that the thick foam would get in

the way of drinking later, but it was actually not a problem. The smell was probably the best part about the beer; it had a
strong, lovely aroma that resembled caramel. This sounds strange, but was true. If
this beer were a cereal, it would certainly
be those Shredded Wheat squares. Its
light and sweet, with a strong taste of
toasted wheat. None of the flavors are
over the top and, overall, it goes down
easily. The amount of carbonation was
perfect, although maybe because it was
on draft. However, I could understand
how the sweetness could get annoying
if you dont like sweeter beers. Although
it wasnt spectacularly special, I personally found this beer pleasant, smooth
and surprisingly delicious, especially for
being one of the cheaper beersperhaps
equivalent to Budweiser or Heineken. in
the United States. Go Leninalthough
its not my favorite beer of all time, I approve of your choice in alcohol.
I actually didnt plan to write about
Lenins beer this week. When I was
searching for topics to write about, my
first Google search was: beer to drown

your sorrows in. I thought it was appropriate. But then I realized that this
was not productive in any way, either
for the article or for myself (although I
did find out that there is a Black Galleon Drown Your Sorrows ale brewed in
England and a Spiteful Brewing Dumb
Donald IPA).
Theres no denying that last Wednesday was shocking and difficult for many.
Here in Moscow, its both easier and
harder to process my distress
over the election
results because I
am not reminded
of it every moment. It was an
ordinary morning
on
Wednesday;
of course, most
people knew about
the results, but it was
very possible to not be
as aware of the consequences. Maybe thats
the hardest part of it all.
I need to remember that
not only am I, as a Korean

woman, my friends, and the U.S. directly

impacted, but that the whole world is
impacted by a Trump presidencyand
that this really is our new reality. I need
to be awareand for me that means, at
this moment, I need to be terrified, confused, sad and upset. And awareness is
essential, always, in order for any kind of
forward action to happen.
So, reader of mine, I propose a toast
(and I presume that you will forgive my clichs):
here is to not
drowning

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millenial way.

our sorrows. Heres to swimming in our

sorrows. Heres to remembering. Heres
to mourning, to fearing, to protesting.
Heres to not running to Canada. Heres
to liquid courage found at the bottom of
your beer glass. Heres to still dreaming
drunkenly of hope.
Lastly, as always, heres to drinking responsibly.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Tonights Soundtrack: Started out with
Redby Taylor Swift (in honor of Lenin),
but switched over after 47 seconds to Bob
DylansBlood on the Tracks
Tonights Toast: See above.

PHO
EBE

ZIPP
ER

Conclusions on Zhigulyovskoe:
Appearance:
Smell:
Flavor:
Mouthfeel:

Overall:

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PART FOUR: COMPETING AGAINST TRADITION

THE WOMEN OF 75
The Orient article announcing Bowdoins first-ever womens sports team is a
tiny blurb titled Hockey Jockettes tucked
away on the third page of the October 15,
1971 issue. It announces the creation of
the field hockey team, which was coached
by Sally LaPointethe wife of Bowdoins
Lacrosse Coach Mortimer LaPointeon
a voluntary basis.
Celeste Johnson 75 and Stephanie
Monaghan 75, members of Bowdoins
first coeducational class, both played on
this first field hockey team, which was as
impromptu as Bowdoins first coeducation committees.
I think they kind of never thought
about the idea that girls need uniforms, so
we ended up being given the boys soccer
uniforms, said Johnson in a phone interview with the Orient.
Women in their class also had options
for getting involved in Bowdoins physical education and free play programs.
According to Edward Coombs, the acting director of athletics, Modern dance,
tennis and swimming, were popular with
women during the fall of 1971. In terms
of participation in Intramural and Intercollegiate programs, he chose to adopt a
wait and see policy, he wrote in his annual report to Shirley Gray, Chairman of
the Committee on Physical EducationAthletics.
Women were also welcome to play in
the interfraternity White Key teams. A
November 1, 1974 Orient article called
Out of the Kitchen: Females Possess the
Key reports on women participating in
the interfraternity sports.
I cant think of anything where we got
told that we were asking for too much,
said Johnson. It would probably be Sally

[LaPointe] pushing the envelope for trying to get us more.

Bowdoins Athletic Department was
more prepared for the arrival of women
than some other areas of the college, such
as health services.
The 1971 annual report of the Committee on Athletics budgeted $9,000 to
providing private showers and facilities
for a womens locker room. These changes
would be made in time for the incoming
Class of 1975. A later request would add
hairdryers to the locker room, but the
College purchased salon-style over-thehead hair dryers that the women found
completely inconvenient.
There was one time when I was
changing in the locker room and a male
coach walked straight through the womens locker room, said Christa Cornell
75, who ran recreationally at Bowdoin, in
a phone interview with the Orient. So I
went to protestI had to protest a lot of
things.
Cornell said she spoke to the head of
the Athletic Department and his reply was
that the coaches are used to the old locker
room layout and that she should be careful in case he does it again.
Although the 1971 Report saw no need
for an increase in the size of the Athletics
staff, the June 1972 report of President
Howells special Commission on Athletics
did see a need.
The Presidents Commission wrote that
it is evident that the present staff will not
be able to meet the needs of a steadily increasing number of women students. At
the time, the athletic departments female
staff consisted of Sally LaPointe in a voluntary coaching position and June Vail,
an instructor of modern dance and the

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

EARNING THEIR STRIPES: Stephanie Monoghan 75 (top left) and Celeste Johnson 75 (first
row, second from left) played on Bowdoins first womens field hockey team.

wife of an economics professor.

The Commission also designated a
$5,000 fund for womens sports for the
1972-73 year.
The women students have been most
reasonable in their requests. It is imperative that maximum flexibility be built
into any programs so that the interests of
the women students can guide the scope
and direction of those programs as they
evolve, stated the Commissions report.
A March 13, 1973 memo to President
Howell from Coombs and Dean of the
College Leroy Greason claims that the
Commissions recommendation to add
a woman to the Athletics staff full-time
has not yet been implemented, citing
budgetary considerations and a desire
to wait for a clearer sense of direction in
programs of particular interest to women.
A September 21, 1973 Orient article
counts LaPointe as a new member of
Bowdoins staff, as Coach of the Womens
Athletic Program, shifting her coaching
from volunteer to a formalized position.
Later that semester, an Orient article
reported on the seven Bowdoin womens
sports teams, most of which were organized informally and faced challenges
such as having only a few opponentsthe
team would play against the Brunswick
Womens Recreational Center and Brunswick High School. Director of Admissions
Dick Merserau was voluntarily coaching
the womens basketball team at the time.
In 1976, the College hired Lynn Ruddy
as an Assistant Coach. During that school
year, a September 17 Orient article reported that 42 percent of women were involved in athletics. In this article LaPointe
cited Title IX as a reason for the growing
number of female athletes at Bowdoin,
since they arrived at the College with athletic training from secondary school.
It is important to note that although Title IX, part of the U.S. Education Amendments, was passed in 1972, LaPointe and
Ruddy claimed it did not greatly affect the
operation of the Athletics Department at
Bowdoin. In an Orient article on October 8, 1976, Ruddy said this was because
much of Title IX deals with athletic scholarships, which arent awarded at Bowdoin.
Here, Title IX is irrelevant,
said Ruddy.
However,
Monaghan
saw
things differently.
Title IX had gone through, so the
College was scared to death about doing

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ORIENT STAFF

something wrong, she said, referring to

the Colleges eagerness to accommodate
women in athletics.
At the end of that academic year,
LaPointe wrote to President Howell in a
1976-77 report that the female population has risen to over 500, we are trying
to handle twelve intercollegiate programs
with two full time people while there are
twenty-one intercollegiate programs for
men with nine full time coaches and a
few part timers. I have never felt the need
for increasing the help for the women as I
have this year.
In 1979, the womens indoor track team
echoed this need. Team members wrote
to the Athletic Director and Deans of the
College asking for a separate coach for the
womens track team who can devote his
or her time to their needs. Today, there
is still one head coach for the mens and
womens teams. However, the team has
three other assistant coachesincluding
Ruddy, hired in 1976, who now coaches
high jump and sprintas well as volunteer coaches.
But in the years between 1971 and today, women have helped to shape a strong
athletics department. LaPointe went on to
coach for 20 years at the College and died
in 2007.
Now, women play 16 varsity sports and
three club sports at the College. However,
the legacy of an all-male institution lives
on. A November 11 Orient article reports
that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) found a decreasing gap
in the salaries of male and female head
coaches throughout the league, although
that gap still exists.
Sports for women at Bowdoin today
take on a different role, in a balanced
gender ratio college setting, than the early
teams. For the first coeducational classes,
womens teams were an important refuge
from the overwhelmingly male environment of the College.
When we were out there playing field
hockey, we were just elated to be able to
have this opportunity to come together
around a goal it was just all us [women], said Johnson. As soon as the game
was over, we were back in the world where
it was the 10-1 ratio again There was
a lot of happiness and camaraderie I
think that was something that we really all
cherished.
Julia ORourke 19 contributed to
this report.

FIRST SEASONS FOR

WOMENS SPORTS
This timeline represents the years that
the College began ocially fielding
womens teams in various sports.

1971

Women enter in the class of 75

1972

First field hockey season

Presidents Commission on Athletics
Title IX introduced

1973

First tennis season

1974

First lacrosse season

1975

First basketball season

1976

First outdoor track and field season

First squash season

1977

First swimming and diving season

1978

First indoor track and field season

First soccer season

1982

First softball season

1984

First ice hockey season

2003

First rugby season

Exploring activism in Brunswick and beyond: our places as political spaces

PENELOPE LUSK

EXPLORING MAINE

Our sense of place may be seen as

inherently connected to our physical
location, but at the same time, we are
connected to innumerable places at any
given moment, regardless of where we
are. I usually write about my explorations
of Maines beautiful coastmy search for
connections in the pebbly serenity of my
adopted home state. But over the past
week and a half, I have been compelled
to reevaluate my sense of place within
the historical and present political context of physical and emotional safety
in Brunswick.
A presidential election radically shifts
our sense of place from the micro to the
macro: we become not just Bowdoin

students or New Yorkers but residents of

the U.S. We become aware not just of the
people within our communities but the
people living in the remarkably different communities, from this small town
on the Atlantic to across the country on
the Pacific.
From coast to coast, the U.S. has not
recently been a safe place for an incredible number of its residents. It has been
some time since we have had a major
political leader who normalizes vitriolic language and has built a campaign
on the exclusion and hatred of groups
of people, but racismand classism,
sexism, transphobia and homophobia,
ableism and xenophobiaare American realities and have been American
realities throughout national history. To
overlook this history in the face of new
political concerns is to overlook the
generations of people who have been
fighting and waiting and struggling.

Here in our Brunswick microcosm,

within the first week following the election, I heard stories about aggressive harassment over Hillary Clinton bumper
stickers, conflicts between students and
town residents and schoolchildren yelling
racial slurs out of school bus windows. But
in the United States macrocosm, these instances are neither novel nor one-off.
During my three and a half years at
Bowdoin, there have been explicit reports of racism, homophobia and sexism
manifested through language and violencenot to mention the innumerable
moments that go unreported and affect
people of so many identities. There was a
violent homophobic altercation on Maine
Street and many cases of sexual violence,
harassment and rape. Within the past year
alone, three explicit acts of racial bias occurred on campus. Discrimination, marginalization and fear for personal safety
are not new to this place, but neither is the

fight and the struggle that many are beginning to participate in for the first time.
Privilegewhite privilegeis never so
clear as when people begin to experience
fear for the first time, without realizing
that their neighbors, friends and classmates have been experiencing fearand
fighting against discriminationfor their
entire lives.
This week, Im not going to visit any
beautiful Maine locations (although
that respite is one that everyone should
still take, and I could write pages upon
pages about my fears and griefs regarding Trumps environmental policies and
the potential for literal destruction of this
place I love so dearly). Instead, Im planning to attend on-campus events about
experiences of discrimination, go to
Portland for community meetings and
join students who are planning political
actions. Those are a few of my own ways
to understand how hometowns have be-

come even less safe for so, so many people

in the past week and to contextualize my
sense of place within that reality.
Caught between the micro and the
macro, the awful truths of the past and the
terrifying realities of the present place
takes on new, layered meanings. It holds
the memories from which we should
learn and possibilities towards which we
should look forward. But it also carries
the physical and emotional well-being of
marginalized people across all identities.
It carries the fears of people who are being
told that places, from their home towns
to the entire U.S., will no longer be open
to them. As a white woman living with
chronic illness, I am looking for ways in
which I can continue to be a better ally, a
better listener and a better fighter, for everyone experiencing marginalization who
have always been fighting. For me, its not
about making our country great again, but
making our places safefinally.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

MIKE PENCE, INDIANA AND ME
Like many people on this campus,
I was filled with shock and dismay as
the results of last Tuesdays election
became clear. However, I was already
keenly aware of the non-urban, rust
belt, working class whites who delivered the Trump-Pence victory. They
are my neighbors, former classmates
and teachers and, yes, even my friends.
I am from the heart of Trump country.
In fact, I am from Mike Pences hometown: Columbus, Indiana.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Mike Pence and I are similar people. We grew up a few miles
from each other. We both attended
and graduated from Columbus
North High School. And heres my
favorite: we were both president
of Bartholomew County Young
Democrats. Of course, that misses
profound differences. Hes Donald
Trumps Vice President. He crushed
teachers unions, fought for legalized discrimination against LGBTQ
people and signed a regressive anti-choice bill that mandated fetal
funerals. I am an environmental
studies major with fond memories
of driving with my mom around the
block over and over again to yell at
anti-choice protesters that Planned
Parenthood saves lives.
Mike Pence and I hold very different values but are both somehow representatives of our shared town and
state. Anyone who knows me well is
probably aware that I have a complicated relationship with my home-

town and it continues to shape me,

the person I am and the person I will
be. At the same time, I think if you
asked my close friends, they wouldnt
hesitate to tell you I really dislike it.
They arent really wrong. The sight of
sunsets over rolling fields will always
hold a special place in my heart, but
to me, my hometown represents 18
years of feeling out of place.
Though I lived my entire precollege life in Columbus, most of
my neighbors and classmates there
would not call me a local. Being a
Hoosier is about heritage and values,
not birth. In all fairness, I didnt really consider myself a local either and,
when I headed to Bowdoin, I naively
assumed that my hometown and
home state would be an unimportant part of my identity. I was eager
to drive 22 hours to Maine and forget
about it all as I moved on to better
and brighter days. I was going to my
peoplethe ones I had been waiting
18 years to meet.
At Bowdoin, I have found my
best friends in the world but Indiana remains a peculiar part of me.
I didnt know that I had an accent
before I came to Bowdoin. I didnt
know that my floormates would
think my being from Indiana explained my music tastes. I didnt
think about the fact that I had
never skied or sailed. I didnt realize I would feel compelled to speak
upin class and elsewherefor the
same rural Americans I was bullied
by at home.
After this election, I must consider

and explain my hometown in a

new context. While my peers
from the coasts and cities
may speak abstractly
about the non-urban whites in the
rust belt, this
suddenly relevant part of
our country
is something
very concrete
to me. It is
my best friend
from
second
grade who was
not allowed to
spend time with
me after his mom
found out I was
the ring bearer in
a lesbian wedding.
But it is also my
neighbors who rushed
to bring me balloons and
a card when they found
out I had pneumonia. It is
all the kids in elementary and
middle school who shunned me
when they found out I wasnt baptized and made certain I was aware
I was going to hell. But it is also my
high school teacher who still sends
me care packages and takes me out
to lunch when I go home. While
kids in high school hated me for
my Democratic political activism,
my best friends traveled over 1,000
miles just to visit me for three days
during our first year at college. To
me, my town is a complex, weird,

LIBERAL ARTS: NOT SO

LIBERAL

PHOEBE ZIPPER

I come from a bubble of

liberalism. As a New Yorker who attended the same
small private school for
all 14 years of her education prior to Bowdoin, I
had only been exposed
to a very progressive,
very liberal perspective.
I had more openly gay
friends than I did straight
friends, until recently had
never encountered an individual who was pro-life
and had only been taught
by Democratic teachers.
There were four conservative students at my
high school and not one
them openly shared their
opinions with the student
body. School-wide assemblies were aimed to figure
out how to better participate in the womens rights
movement and class discussions were focused around the
intersectionality of identity. My
home life was even more onesided. Since the first Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2008,
my mother has donned pink jeans,
pink Converse, pink sunglasses and

PHOE
BE ZIP

lived experience. But

to others it is the
rust belt, the corn belt, tornado alley and now, Trump/Pence country.
As many of my peers struggle to understand a part of this nation they
have never seen and dont want to, I
a pink T-shirt with an authoritative
portrait of Secretary Clinton on a
weekly basis. I was vacuum-packed
within my bubble.
Although Bowdoin is a predominantly liberal campus, I come from
a community that makes Bowdoin
seem conservative in comparison.
Bowdoin is my first exposure to
living in a community with people
who possess fundamentally different views than my own. Difference
in political atmosphere is the largest adjustment I have had to make
in my transition to college. Despite
the fact that it has been engrained
into my mind to listen to views that
differ from my own, as that is central to progress, I have never had to
put that into practice until now.
On the first night of my pre-Orientation trip, outside a cabin along
the Appalachian Trail, my group
launched itself into a deep conversation about racial inequality. The
debate was centered around the
validity of the Black Lives Matter
movement and affirmative action.
Perched in a hammock by the light
of a campfire, I was stunned that
people could find fault in the efforts of the movement. Although I
did speak up, I found myself struggling to form a coherent argument
to counter the one with which I
so fundamentally disagreed. I had

PER

feel obligated once again to own and

represent a place that is part of me
but isnt really mine.
Nickie Mitch is a member of the
class of 2018.
never had to defend my beliefs before. My beliefs had always been the
shared by the people around me.
There had never been a cause for argument. Upon returning to campus,
as the election progressed, I found
myself face-to-face with views that
women should not participate in
combat roles, that there is an age
that qualifies as too young to get
gender reassignment surgery and,
most shocking of all, that Trump
should be elected president.
While I was never ignorant of that
fact that somewhere in the world
there were people whose ways of
thinking deviated from that of my
community back home, it was never
a world in which I lived. Bowdoins
different environment has caused
me to question the roots of my beliefs. Most importantly, while it was
obvious before, it is even more obvious now that based on the recent
election results, a liberal perspective (my liberal perspective) is not
the correct perspective. It is just one
perspective among a diverse array
of political thought, both on this
campus and in the country.
Sara Caplan is a member of the
class of 2020.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Guerrilla Girls visit builds on campus social justice conversations

BY ELIZABETH FOSLERJONES
ORIENT STAFF

An anonymous woman in a gorilla mask visited campus last night to

speak to students about the discrimination found in the art world and beyond. The speaker, a founding member
of the Guerrilla Girlsan New York
City-based collective of anonymous
female artists devoted to combating
sexism and racism in the art world
goes by the pseudonym Frida Kahlo
in order to preserve her anonymity.
Formed in 1985, the Guerrilla
Girls are known for their protests of
social inequality through humorous
multimedia and speaking engagements. Primarily in the form of witty,
provocative posters using dry humor
and statistics, the Guerrilla Girls generate discussion about the lack of diversity found in major institutions in
the United States, such as household
name museums and Hollywood.
In her talk, Kahlo discussed her
experience working as a part of the
Guerrilla Girlswhat she called the
conscience of the art worldand
described their various projects, including a projection on the Whitney
criticizing wealth in the art world that
proclaimed: Art is sooo expensive.
We didnt do it at the Whitney. We
did it on the Whitney, said Kahlo of
the projection.
Much of what the Guerrilla Girls
aim to do is bring awareness to the
gender inequality of art in museums
and galleries; one poster they made in
2011 states that less than 4 percent of
the artists in the modern art section at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art are
women, although 76 percent of the
nude images in the museum are of
women.

In general, its a lot easier to be

a male artist than a female artist in
terms of being respected and being
critiqued, said June Lei 18, head of
Bowdoin Art Society (BAS). If the
Guerrilla Girls did not do what they
did, like in the 80s, I think we would
live in a very different world today in
terms of the arts and the way our culture is represented. Theyve done some
really important things.
Through their striking imagery and
biting social commentary, the Guerrilla Girls have created major change in
the global art society and sparked a new
wave of activism.
I think theres a whole generation of
artists now who are training to be artists
and are rejecting the conventional idea of
an artist as someone who produces expensive works of art for rich people, said
Kahlo. Now, art students are rejecting
that. And they want to use their skills to
improve circumstances in the art.
Lei came into contact with Kahlo
during the summer of 2015 while interning at the Brooklyn Museum. She
said that the issues the Guerrilla Girls
address are beneficial for all Bowdoin
students and emphasized the importance of engaging arts, not only as a
solution, but as an avenue to a more
equal society.
Following the For Freedoms initiativea project that brought the works
of the only artist-based super political
action committee (PAC) to Bowdoin
earlier this yearLei hopes that the
Guerilla Girls visit will serve to further bridge the gap between art and
social activism on campus.
I think the arts at Bowdoin can often times feel very removed. My hope
is that people see the work of the Guerrilla Girls in the public sphere and they
see that its a socially relevant thing as

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

GUERR(ILLA) GANG: Guerrilla Girls founding memberFrida Kahlospeaks to a crowded Kresge Auditorium on Thursday evening. The artist from the
anonymous female art collective addressed the lack of female and minority voices in the art world.
a way to get engaged and channel what
they are feeling in their experiences of
politics and social injustice, said Lei.
And that they can then use those experiences and create something that
speaks to other people.
Beyond pushing for social change
within museums, the Guerrilla Girls
also use their hard-edge humor to spark
discourse on civil commitment and social change at universities and colleges
across the country.
Last year, there was this whole conversation surrounding race on campus
and so thats really a nationwide student

movement thats happening, said Lei.

I think that theres a certain value to
bringing in the big leagues and someone
who knows what they are talking about
and has a lot of experience with this.
Kinaya Hassane 19, who organized
the program with Lei, thinks that bringing Kahlo to speak on campus can also
help address issues that are especially
salient given the presidential election.
[The Guerrilla Girls discuss]
broader politics and broader issues
of gender and race, and I think now
thats especially relevant, given the
fact that we have elected Donald

Trump as our president, said Hassane.

Im an art history major, so the issue of representation in art has always
been important to me, said Hailey
Beaman 18, creative director of the
BAS. Hearing that there are people
who are so impassioned about that issue and have been for so long is really
inspiring as a young person hoping
to go into the art world in some capacity.
For Kahlo, the work shes done
over the past 30 years can be summed
up in one phrase: Its righteous fun.

Meta-theater: Circle Mirror Transformation puts acting class on stage

BY SURYA MILNER
ORIENT STAFF

In a dance studio on the sixth floor of

Memorial Hall, five strangers play theater
games and make strange noises in a circle.
It is here, in student-led theater troupe
Beyond the Prosceniums (BTP) fall show,
Circle Mirror Transformation, that the

audience is required to take off their shoes

and suspend their belief as they are immersed in the lives of its minimal cast: a
drama teacher, her husband, a divorced
carpenter, a former actress and a high
school junior.
Directed by Cordelia Orbach 17,
the show follows a theater class at a local community center in rural Vermont.

Although the characters lead drastically

different lives, their interactions with one
another provide relatable snapshots of everyday life.
Acting is an exercise in empathy. Its
about learning about other people and
trying to know them and figure out what
makes them tick, Orbach said. The
world is big and we are just college stu-

EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NO SHOES, NO SHOW: Jamie Boucher19, Cordelia Orbach17 and David Reichert18 rehearse for the opening ofCircle Mirror Transformation.Performed
in a dance studio on the top floor of Memorial Hall, the show follows the interpersonal dynamics of a community theater class in a small Vermont town.

dents. But our lives are real and our struggles are felt, and thats an important part
of this show.
According to Orbach, the range of
character experiences in the show produces an appreciation of the seemingly
insignificant: the 16-year-olds all-consuming desire to be the lead in the school
play is felt as deeply as the loneliness of the
divorced carpenter.
BTP was founded by Orbach and Sarah
Guilbault 18 in 2014 in an effort to bring
student theater to non-traditional spaces
on campus. The organization produces
most shows in a three-week period, which
Orbach said appeals to busy Bowdoin students who want to engage in on-campus
theater but might not have time for a seven-week production.
With small cast sizes and intimate venues, BTP also prides itself in its ability to
create unity among the cast as well as to
break down the barrier between the audience and the actors. With just a yoga ball
amd a hula hoop for props, Circle Mirror
Transformation is one of the groups most
personal shows yet.
Part of the mission of BTP is bringing
the audience into the play instead of asking them to opt in, Orbach said.
According to Jamie Boucher 19,
who plays divorced carpenter Schultz
in the show, the cast was able to tap
into the messages of the play in order
to overcome their greatest obstacle:
finding the motivation to rehearse
after an intense election week.

SEE IT YOURSELF
Circle Mirror Transformation will
be performed tonight and tomorrow
at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall room
601. Tickets are $1 for students and
$3 for Brunswick residents.
Boucher noted that the universal
themes of the showloss and love, fear
of death, importance of the individual,
among otherswere ultimately a comfort
for the group.
Its a valuable lesson that one can
apply to rest of ones life: everybodys
just human, just futsin around, trying
really hard all the time, Boucher said.
No one really knows what theyre doing, and so its a lesson to remind people that when it feels like the sky is falling down because Donald Trump has
been electedor even if it doesnt, even
if youre celebratingeveryone only
has two sets of eyeballs out of which
they look at the world.
So much of theater is learning to
be vulnerable and exploring parts of
yourself that may really not be you,
or parts that are more you than you
realize, added Rowan Staley 18, who
plays the drama teacher in the show.
Its interesting to both be that person
whos acting and being vulnerable but
then also playing someone who is being vulnerable and acting.

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Provocative student art brings menstrual blood, Trumps face into view
of the project was for the message
and themes of the photographs to
take precedence over authorship. He
Over the past two weeks, con- encouraged students to think about
troversial art exhibits have been the interaction between the space,
installed around campus as part of the audience and the installation.
Professor of Art Michael Kolsters
This assignment resulted in nine
Large Format Photography class. different installments around camOne of these installationswhich pus. Victoria Pitaktong 17 attempted
prompted a response from the ad- to reduce the stigma around womens
ministrationinvolved photos of periods by hanging images of her
Donald Trump taped over photos of friends bloody pads in the stalls of the
students in David Saul Smith Union. mens bathroom in David Saul Smith
In order for students to explore Union.
the concept of installation, Professor
I think theres a lot of taboo
Kolster asked students to curate an around the periodthat its nasty,
installation anywhere on Bowdoins people just dont want to talk about
campus. Throughout the assignment, it, she said. I find it difficult to
hear when men
I think the visceral reaction of the
say that women
viewer is something I was really going are just whining
about their perifor, because were going to have to
ods when theyre
going
through
get used to it. Seeing his pictures
pain. You cant
in the Union for five minutes is way
even look at
less painful than having him as our
these things directly, how can
president for four years.
you say women
are weak?
NICK BENSON 17
Nick Benson
17 produced an
Kolster emphasized nontraditional equally provocative installment, in
space, encouraging his students to which he covered the pictures of stuplace photographs in areas where dents in the hallway of Smith Union
members of the community dont with large pictures of Donald Trumps
normally encounter artwork.
face.
Large Format Photography is a
I hate looking at his face; it really
2000-level class in which students har- grosses me out. I think I dislike lookness the large format camera to con- ing at his face so much because I astinue developing skills and themes sociate it with his voice and I associate
explored in Photo 1. The cameras his voice with idiocy, said Benson.
bulk, heft and myriad adjustments re- I was trying to set up an installation
sult in a totally different photographic for people like me who hate looking
experience than that of smaller cam- at his face but woke up on Wednesday
eras. Students shoot one negative at a morning knowing that we have to get
time, slowing down the photograph- used to the realization of seeing it.
ic process.
According to Benson, the installStudents could choose to use their ment was met with mixed reviews:
own photographs or the photographs only twenty minutes after he inof others for their installations. Ac- stalled it, college administrators
cording to Professor Koster, the goal moved the pictures to the other side
BY NELL FITZGERALD
ORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF NICK BENSON

INSTALLATION STATION: Nick Bensons17 installation project hangs in the David Saul Smith Union the day after election day. The exhibit was met with
critical response, as members of the administration moved the photos to the opposite side of the hallway shortly after its installation.
of the hallway. After Benson repositioned them in their original spot, a
student ripped up the pictures and
threw them in the recycling bin
in a matter of minutes. However,
this strong reaction didnt discourage Benson.
I think the visceral reaction of the
viewer is something I was really going

for, because were going to have to get

used to it, said Benson, I mean, seeing his pictures in the Union for five
minutes is way less painful than having
him as our president for four years.
Despite the varied reactions to the
installments across campus, Kolster
said he was proud of how the projects turned out.

There were varying degrees of

provocation and varying degrees of
things that they were trying to say,
varying degrees of social or aesthetic engagement that the installations
worked with, he added. All of us as
image makers seek on some level to
have them be seen, to make a contribution to the larger conversation.

Visiting performance artist

showcases female determination
BY JANE CHANG
ORIENT STAFF

Performance and sculpture artist Kate

Gilmore introduced herself to a crowded
Kresge auditorium on Monday evening
with a series of videos of herself covered
in dust. Hammering away at a hardened
bucket of plaster stuck on her foot, the
Halley K. Harrisburg 90 and Michael
Rosenfeld Artist-In-Residence kicked off
her week-long visit with a presentation
of her work. One such presentation depicted her with an axe, chopping down a
giant, fake-blood-oozing wooden heart.
Gilmores video presentations primarily showcased females working through
obstacles with relentless determination. In some of her graduate school
productions, Gilmore even dressed up
as Hillary Clinton as a symbol of female perseverance.
Im interested in looking at power
structures in society, Im interested in
using art as a means of communication
to talk about things that should change
and Im interested in the conversation
between art and power, said Gilmore.
Gilmore, who will spend the rest of her
visit with students in the classroom discussing their work one-on-one, emphasized the importance of unity for both
aspiring artists and accomplished artists
within the art community, specifically in

the aftermath of the recent election.

Gilmore said that a majority of the
art community is shaken up by the election, although she maintains a hopeful outlook.
We need to not be isolated anymore,
[we need to be] like a community. We
should do something better for the world
in general while doing things together
and creating personal, lasting relationships, she said.
According to Anne Curtis 20, a student who attended the event, Gilmores
work, particularly her Clinton piece,
spoke to the empowerment often found
in feminist art.
Ms. Gilmore was a very engaging
speaker who was very passionate about
her work and was excited to share that
passion with us, she said. Her approach
to art was very interesting, and she has a
very unique method to convey her messages.
Emily Olick-Llano 20 was particularly
interested in Gilmores video of women
stomping on ceramic vases full of paint.
I really enjoyed Kate Gilmores video
of women stomping on ceramic vases full
of paint, Emily Olick-Llano 20 added.
It was a scene that [Id never pictured]
when thinking about art, but I loved the
uniformity of the color and arrangement
before and after the vases were destroyed.
It was both unsettling and empowering.

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HIGHLIGHT
REEL
All-American bears. Four
members of the volleyball teamKatie Doherty 17, Quincy Leech 17, Erika Sklaver 17 and Caroline Flaharty
20were honored by the American
Volleyball Coaches Association
(AVCA) in their All-American selections this week. After an exceptional
collegiate career, Doherty was named
a Third Team All-American, becoming just the third Polar Bear in program history to earn a spot on one of
the three All-American teams. Leech,
Sklaver and Flaharty were all named
Honorable Mention All-America.
The foursome was also named AVCA
First Team All-Region last week.

Leading the pack. Sarah Kelley

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DOWN AND OUT: Members of this years football team sit dejectedly on the sideline during a 38-7 loss to Trinity College in October. Despite many coaching changes over the last two seasons, the team has failed to
make significant improvementit was winless this year and has not had back to back winning seasons since the 1970s. As the team looks to change its losing ways, its lack of a winning history poses the biggest challenge.

Football team faces familiar woes after winless season

BY COLIN TIERNAN
ORIENT STAFF

The Bowdoin football team has never

had any periods of sustained success. Since
1990, the team has had just two seasons
with five or more wins. The team has not
had back-to-back seasons over .500 since
1979-80. In 125 years of football, the team
has gone 394-516-44equating to a .436%
winning percentage.
Many players point to confidence as the
key to turning around the program.
Its really a sense of belief, and that
comes with a few years of success, captain
Nadim Elhage 16 said.
Past players, present players, coaches

and administrators all believe that, even

more than recruiting or coaching, a winning tradition is the most important factor
for achieving success.
Winning and losing are habitual,
Football Head Coach J.B. Wells said.
The difficult part is breaking the cycle.
Trinity was often mentioned as an example of a team accustomed to winning. Players can sense the gap in attitudes between
programs like Bowdoins and Trinitys on
the field.
The biggest difference is that [teams
like Trinity] they expect to win year after year, Elhage said.
The top teams in the NESCAC really
do win every year. Since 1990, Trinity has

had only one losing season. They have also

had seven undefeated seasons in that span.
Another NESCAC powerhouse, Amherst,
had a 21-game winning streak spanning
four seasons before they lost to Middlebury this fall.
Recruiting plays a crucial role in determining a football programs success. The
official description of NESCAC recruiting
was detailed in a 2005 New York Times
article, as well as 2014 articles by both the
Orient and the Bates Student.
In football, recruiting essentially entails
trying to acquire the biggest, fastest, quickest players, who have the best instincts for
the game and the best character off the
field, who also wont fail in the classroom.

More than in most sports, size is crucial.

One of the biggest things you notice
when playing against the top teams, is that
you see the guys are bigger, like the Trinity
offensive line, their boundary side tackle
is like 6-4, 320 lbs and a lot of times you
would think theyre more athletic, said Elhage. I think that has to do with the academic caliber at Bowdoin. Not to make an
excuse, but were not letting in a lot of the
students that a lot of the other schools are
letting in.
The size differences of playersdrastic
at timesmarks the most visible, calculable difference between top NESCAC

Please see FOOTBALL, page 13

Shibles creates her own legacy while honoring former coach

BY ANNA FAUVER
ORIENT STAFF

When womens basketball coach Adrienne Shibles

started coaching, she drew inspiration from her former coach at Bates, Marsha Graef, who passed away
last fall at age 61. Years later, Shibles has gone on to
inspire many of her own players to take up coaching, forming a coaching tree of her own.
After holding a ceremony to dedicate Bates new
womens locker room to Graef, Alison Montgomery 05current Bates head coach and Shibles
former assistant coach at Bowdoinand Shibles
announced that the season-opening Maine Tip-Off
Tournament will be renamed after Graef as well.
Since [Graef] passed last winter, its been a real
opportunity for the people in the Bates community to honor everything she gave to our community when she was here and also when she passed,
Montgomery said. And Adrienne said that we had
that celebration in October, but she wanted to continue that celebration and honor her again with this
tournament.
Shibles not only appreciates Graef for everything she
did for the Bates basketball program, but also for inspiring her to go into the profession at a time when Shibles
did not even think it was a career that was open to her.

I realized that she was leading in a way that I

wanted to. Once I saw she could do it, all of a sudden doors were open to me, Shibles said. I thought,
Wow, I can do this. If I did not have her as a coach, I
wouldnt have followed in that path. I wouldnt have
even considered it as a possibility because I had only
seen men in that role up to that point.
Today, Shibles still strives to emulate Graef s caring attitude toward the individual players.
Our coaching styles are very different but at the
core of her coaching style, theres the same foundation of caring about the person and really empowering women to be leaders, Shibles said. I know she
was passionate about the same things I was passionate about.
According to Montgomery, this passion for players is characteristic of Shibles coaching style.
[Shibles] loves basketball and loves to coach basketball, but she is so invested in the people she is
working with, Montgomery said. I think she sees
this as an opportunity to educate young women, of
course about basketball, but having a perspective
that there is actually a much bigger picture and her
relationship with these young women is really what
matters.

Please see BASKETBALL, page 12

18 and Nick Walker 17 continued

to lead the womens and mens cross
country teams, respectively, with
strong finishes at the NCAA Regional
Championships in Westfield, Massachusetts last weekend. Kelley placed
eighth overall in the 6K race to earn
the best finish for a Bowdoin woman
at the regional championships since
2008 and Walker finished tenth overall in the 8K for the best finish for a
Bowdoin man since 2013. Their outstanding performances earned both
of them qualifications for the NCAA
Division III National Championship
in Louisville, Kentucky this weekend.
The womens and mens teams both
placed eighth overall, out of 59 and 56
teams respectively.

Smooth sailing. The sailing team

earned their best-ever finish at the
Atlantic Coast Championship last
weekend, placing sixth in a highly
competitive pool of 18 teams after
edging out Yale in a head-to-head
tiebreaker. The Polar Bears qualified
for the regatta after finishing third at
the Schell Trophy at the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy.

Chowder champs. The womens

rugby team closed out their fall season
with an astounding comeback win
against in-state rival University of New
England in the Maine Chowder Cup.
Although the Polar Bears ended the
first half down 22-10, they dominated
the second half, tying the Noreasters
within the opening minutes and keeping them scoreless in the second half to
finish the game 32-22.

COURTESY OF ADRIENNE SHIBLES

PASSING THE TORCH: (LEFT) Womens Basketball Head

Coach Adrienne Shibbles celebrates with her coach Marsha Graef when
she was a student at Bates. Shibbles works to continue Graefs legacy
by inspiring her former players to pursue collegiate coaching as well,
forming an extensive coaching tree of her own.

Get in line. Bowdoin mens ice

hockey will face Colby for the 207th
time in program history at Watson
Arena on Friday, December 2 at 7 p.m.
Tickets will be available beginning at
8:30 a.m. on Monday, November 21 in
the lobby of Morrell Gymnasium.

COMPILED BY ANJULEE BHALLA

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Is it time to clean house at the U.S. Mens National Team?

ERIC ZELINA
THE RELEGATION ZONE
Dating back to World Cup qualifying matches in 2001, Columbus
Columbus, Ohio, of all placeshas
been the U.S. Mens National Teams
(USMNT) fortress against archrivals
Mexico, with four straight 2-0 wins
against El Tri at Columbus Crew
Stadium (now MAPFRE Stadium).
So, when the USMNT learned that it
would be playing Mexico in the first
match of the Hexagonal, the final
round of qualifying for World Cup
2018, it was only natural that it woul
be in the state of Ohio.
Before the match last Friday, the
banner unfurled by the American
Outlaws, the teams rowdy supporters
group, paid homage to old and new,
with the likeness of 18-year old wunderkind Christian Pulisic, stylized as
the demon haunting Mexican fortunes, holding up two fingers on one
hand and a big zero on the otherthat
famous Dos a Cero scorelineover
the tagline Nightmares are Real.
All good things come to an end
though, as the US capitulated to the
visiting Mexican side early, then
again in the matchs dying minutes,
after clawing back to make it one-all.
The traveling Mexican support sang
out Dos a Uno, Dos a Uno as the
match ended, casting off 15 years of
nightmares and history in Columbus.
The 2-1 loss represented not just the
end of Fortress Columbus, but also
the teams first World Cup qualifying loss to Mexico on US soil in over
40 years.
If a crushing 2-1 loss to the teams
most bitter rival wasnt enough agony
for one week, the USMNT then traveled to Costa Rica for the second
match in the Hex on Tuesday night
and were run off the pitch by a rampant Costa Rican side. Johan Venegas
headed goal a minute from halftime
broke the Yanks spirits and opened
the floodgates for three more goals in
the second half and a 4-0 thrashing.

Opening the Hex with

two straight losses has
left the USMNT adrift at
the bottom of the qualifying group and desperately searching for
answers. While losses to
two of the regions strongest sides is nothing to
be ashamed of on paper,
more alarming is how
the squad looked without direction for long
periods of those matches. The team has seemed
generally rudderless for
sometime now. Against
this backdrop, its time
for the Jurgen Klinsmann experiment to end
as USMNT manager.
Klinsmann has no
doubt brought the USMNT great success. His
recruiting and scouting efforts have helped
to restock the squads
cabinet with talented
youngsters like John
Brooks, Lynden Gooch
and the aforementioned
Pulisic, and the teams
great escape from the
Group of Death at
the 2014 World Cup
remains stuff of legend,
overexaggerated as that
squads
performance
may be. Despite that,
Klinsmann has clearly lost
the
script with the team and its doubtful
if he will find it again.
One of the selling points of Klinsmann has always been his ability as
a motivator and man-manager. Its
those efforts of giving youth a chance
and teasing out the best in players
that inspires willingness in some
players to charge through a brick wall
for Klinsmann. The teams matches in
the last year or so have demonstrated
that he no longer inspires that confidence in his players though, and if
a motivator can no longer motivate,

ALEX WESTFALL

what good is he leading the USMNT?

This rift was on full display in
Columbus last Friday, as Klinsmann
made the puzzling decision to start
the match in a 3-5-2 formation, playing an unfamiliar formation with
three at the back against an incisive
Mexican attack, leading to Mexican
domination and an early goal. As a
result, US captain Michael Bradley
and ageless warrior Jermaine Jones,
the two most vocal leaders in the
field at the time, argued openly with
Klinsmann about tactics during a
stoppage. While the team reverted

Harvard soccer incident sparks campus discussion

BY EMILY COHEN
ORIENT STAFF

After the recent discovery of the

2012 Harvard mens soccer teams sexually explicit scouting report, which
rated Harvard womens soccer recruits
on their physical appearance, several
Bowdoin student groups planned a
discussion about locker room talk.
Held on Wednesday night in Ladd
House, the talk brought together
students and faculty in an effort to
reflect on the presence and norms of
crude and sexually explicit language
on campus.
After reading news about the report, Bowdoin Men Against Sexual
Violence (BMASV), the Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC)
and Bowdoin Womens Resource
Center (WRC) decided to address the
kind of inappropriate speech found
in the scouting report from a Bowdoin perspective.
We hope to talk about how we
dont feel that there is a place for that
at Bowdoin, said Michael Eppler 17,
a varsity soccer player and member of
the SAAC who helped to coordinate
the talk. [And moreover] to discuss
where were at with our norms for not
just sports teams [but] for just everyone in terms of language when it comes
to talking about some of these topics.
Attended by mainly male and fe-

male athletes, the events discussion

focused in part on the expectations of
being a male athlete and the effectiveness of BMASVs facilitations.
People [at the event seemed] to be
interested in actually creating change
and doing something about it rather
than just creating spaces for dialogue,
which is also important but is not going to solve all of the worlds problems
by itself, said Dana Bloch 17, a member of the sailing team who attended
the event.
Killian Dickson 20, a member of the
crew and swim teams, was impressed
by the number of male athletes who attended, as he believes that the problem stems from this demographic.
Other students expanded upon this
idea, discussing the stereotypes and
expectations about sex and hypermasculinity surrounding male athletes,
which often perpetuate ill treatment of
women, especially when locker room
talk is not treated as a serious issue.
Several students praised BMASV,
which meets with all varsity mens
sport teams at the beginning of their
seasons to combat these expectations.
Others, both men and women, took
issue with BMASVs facilitations and
questioned the groups efficacy since
talking about sex and physical attractiveness in crude terms is still a problem at Bowdoin.
Ashmead White Director of Athlet-

ics Tim Ryan echoed Blochs perspective on proactiveness.

It was beneficial to be able to hear
perspectives from students about
ways that we could be doing things
differently to address these issues on
our campus, he said.
Maybe in the future they [will]
change BMASV training so that it caters to everybody and [so] that everybody feels like theyre getting something out of it, because it seemed like
there were some dissenting views on
that, said Rebkah Tesfamariam 18,
who works for the WRC and organized and moderated the discussion
along with Eppler.
I have no idea about what BMASV
does with those facilitations [but] now
its making me consider what my role
is as a student director and how I can
better appeal to women on campus,
added Tesfamariam.
After the talk, Eppler noted that the
discussion centered on athletics and was
dominated by voices from inside of the
locker room, though at the beginning of
the talk he and Tesfamariam clarified that
this language may be found anywhere.
Our overarching goal for this
program was to be sort of more
inclusive in terms of the whole community, said Eppler. Moving forward
I would like to see, sort of, more programming bringing together more
parts of campus on this topic.

back into a familiar 4-4-2 formation

after the confrontation, the damage
was done and the rift between manager and players evident.
Perhaps more damning was the
way that the US capitulated against
Costa Rica after the half, going into
the break just down a goal. The Yanks
came out of the break looking listless
and without desire in a vital match,
showing just how little confidence
Klinsmann inspires in his men.
Even the worlds best managers
have a shelf life and it looks like
Jurgen has reached his with the US-

BASKETBALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
As a coach, Shibles has broken records both at Bowdoin and at her previous school, Swarthmore. According
to Shibles, the main reason for the
success of her former players and the
program itself is the type of player
the Bowdoin womens basketball program attracts.
I think we search for people who
embrace being pushed to be their
best self as a leader, and we, with
our program, have a shared leading
model, Shibles said. So we stress
that youre going to have a voice right
away as a first yearyoure going to
have ownership of the program and
youre going to be pushed to really
serve as a leader within this program
and youll also be encouraged to do
so on campus.
Shannon Brady 16, who now is an
assistant coach at Colby, argues that
part of the reason that Shibles is so
successful as a coach is the trust that
she builds with her players.
I would go into battle with Coach
Shibles any day because I know that
she has my back and I have hers,
Brady said. So its that mutual trust
that she really instills that makes me
want to make her proud so I think
its a combination of being nurturing and demanding at the same time
that has lead to a lot of her success,
and I think winning is just a byproduct of that.

MNT. His constant refusal to accept

responsibility for puzzling tactical
decisions and lackluster on field
performance date well beyond the
most recent losses (the Gold Cup
debacle against Jamaica and CONCACAF Cup loss to Mexico, both
last year, come to mind). The USMNT doesnt have another qualifier
for nearly 4 months, a match against
Honduras that is now a must-win.
If he has truly lost the locker room,
as it seems, the time is now to make
a change and part ways with Jurgen Klinsmann.
Not only is Shibles inspiring on
the court and in the locker room, but
also in encouraging players to go into
coaching, according to Jill Pace 12,
the womens basketball head coach at
Pomona-Pitzer.
The way she influenced me as a
player and a student-athlete at Bowdoin kind of made me want to give
back to the coaching world and also
the student-athletes that are now me
at Pomona-Pitzer, Pace said. I always
saw the way she impacted me and my
teammates and so after graduation, I
was like, why not do this same thing
that can impact student athletes lives
in such a positive way.
According to Brady, Shibles also
was extremely helpful during her
job search.
As soon as I let her know that I was
interested in graduate positions and
coaching positions, she immediately
started looking around, contacting
coach friends and looking at different
opportunities for me, Brady said. So
she was helpful right off the bat with
that.
According to Pace, Shibles impact
is not limited to Bowdoin due to the
amount of players that have continued
in her footsteps.
I think Coach Shibles can look out
and see that theres a little piece of her,
like now theres a little piece of her out
in Southern California, hundreds of
miles away from the Northeast, Pace
said. Shes always influencing people
in all the little places where we are.

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the bowdoin orient

sports

13

New coaching duo prepares mens hockey team for season debut
BY COURTNEY GALLAGHER
ORIENT STAFF

This weekend, the mens ice hockey

team will look to start their season off
well with new Head Coach Jamie Dumont at the helm. Dumont replaced
Terry Meagher, who coached the team
for the past 33 seasons.
Dumont, however, is no stranger to
the program. He began his assistant
coaching career at Bowdoin in 2001, assisting in the recruitment of many AllNESCAC and All-American players until 2005 when he left to coach in Europe,
in the American Junior Hockey League
and at Division I Bowling Green State
University before returning to Bowdoin
in 2011. Upon his return, Dumont assisted Meagher in tallying 83 victories
and a remarkable .681 winning percentage, as well as two NESCAC titles.
Dumont definitely has his own style.
Its the same in some ways and different
in ways. Meagher is a legacy and will always have a place in Bowdoin hockey,
but coach Dumont is definitely bringing
his own style this year, said Sebastian
Foster 19. He is very into fast-paced
practices and has been a little more up
tempo this year, and hopefully that leads
to good results for us.
Dumont is not the only coaching
change that has been made this seasonEric Graham, former head coach
at North Yarmouth Academy, was
named assistant coach and is brand new
to the Bowdoin program.
He is a local guy that has done a really good job building up the North Yarmouth Academy program and has had
a handle at developing college players,
Dumont said. His handle on recruiting
and networking is outstanding. He has

FOOTBALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
teams and the less successful teams in the
league. In football, size might not be everything, but uneven matchups on the line are
tough to overcome.
The offensive line is the only place
where size matters a ton, said Wells.
Theyve got to sit back and anchor their
feet. Offensive linemen are either like
sledgehammers or railroad spikes. If you
have to get off the ball and hit somebody,
youre like the hammer. But you also
have to put your foot in the ground and
sit down against somebody running into
you, you gotta be able to absorb that. Thats
where size matters most.
For deans and athletic directors around
the NESCAC, recruiting is a touchy subject. In a 2014 Bates article on the subject,
the Bates Dean of Admissions declined to
comment on recruiting, saying that it was
against league policy to discuss the process.
Ashmead White Director of Athletics Tim
Ryan does not think there are any recruiting differences between NESCAC schools.
Every institution has essentially the
same process, said Ryan. There are parameters across the conference that are
the same in terms of the overall number
of support opportunities Different
schools can allocate those resources as
theyd would like across their own individual programs, but there are guidelines
in place to ensure the system is consistent
across the whole conference.
NESCAC guidelines allocate two recruiting spots to each team at a school,
with the exception of football, which receives 14. However, each college is allowed
to decide how these spots and the associated resources are actually spread amongst
their individual programs.
Once each team uses up its recruiting
spots, the team largely relies on admissions
to accept students who play each sport at a
high level. Wells suggests that cooperation,
as opposed to working outside the system,

done a really good job stepping in here

and having a great relationship with our
players.
While the team is excited about its
new coaching staff, the loss of key leaders of the Class of 2016Chris Fenwick,
Matt Rubinoff and Johnny Malusa
calls for new leaders to take their spots
this year. However, both the coaches
and players alike are confident that this
void can be filled.
We had some really good leadership
and character last year from the graduating seniors, Dumont said. But if you
are graduating some good people, you
are doing some good things. The big
thing for us, I think, is that those guys
were really good role models and really
led the way so that our seniors can adapt
to that role this year.
Likewise, the players are confident
that they have prepared the team with
the leadership, coaching and teamwork
needed to have a successful season.
Dumont understands the history
and tradition that the hockey program
was built on and that is clear in his approach, said Camil Blanchet 18. As
players, we are confident and excited
about our first opportunity to play under him on Friday.
This weekend, the Polar Bears will
kick off their season with a doubleheader at homefacing Williams at 7
p.m. on Friday, followed by Middlebury
at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The Polar Bears
hope to sweep the weekend and avenge
last years season-opening 4-1 loss to
Williams.
Williams is a fast, skilled and disciplined team. They are always tough to
play against. Were excited to see how
we match up with them, Blanchet said.
It should be a good measuring stick
is the key to acquiring recruits that might
be considered borderline applicants by the
admissions office.
I think a lot of people point fingers at
the admissions office and they say, theyre
too stringent, theyre not giving you the
players you need. You hear that a lot,
theyre not giving you the players. Well,
its not admissions responsibility to give
us anything really. Its the responsibility for
the offices to work together, he said.
Wells also noted differences in recruiting at Bowdoin compared to when he
was the Head Coach of the Endicott football team.
The average student at Endicott was
probably going to visit three, four, five,
times before making a decision, he said.
Here they might be able to visit one time.
So, one of the biggest differences between
recruiting at Bowdoin and Endicott is the
limited face-to-face contact, the limited
times that each recruit gets to visit campus
at Bowdoin.
Ryan does not believe schools lower admission standards for football players in a
significant way.
There may be slight variations, but no
institution is going to have members of
an athletic program who are considerably
outside the range of the rest of the student
body, he said.
This provides an explanation for why
Trinity would be able to out-recruit a
school like Bowdoin: they have lower
academic averages in the admissions process, and therefore have a greater pool of
student-athletes to choose from.
Schools like Wesleyan and Tufts are
simply bigger. Tufts has 5,000 undergraduates, and Wesleyan has 3,000, so they have
a greater pool of admitted students who
want to play football, outside of standard
recruits. So they have the potential to receive more walk-ons.
Removing Trinity, Tufts and Wesleyan, what explains Amhersts success?
If Amherst and Bowdoin are assumed to
be on the same academic level, why are
they able to stock their team with more,

ASHLEY KOATZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HIT THE ICE: New Head Coach Jamie Dumont (left) and new Assistant Coach Eric Graham are ready to take the helm of the mens hockey team.
for us. Our goal is to get four points
this weekend.
Dumont plans to play many first
years this weekend in order to get them
accustomed to college hockey. Despite
their inexperience, Dumont has high
hopes for all of them in their upcoming
games and the rest of the season.
We have some really talented first
years, especially on paper, Dumont
said. We knew coming in that they
would have a lot of good qualities,
but the rubber hits the road now that

they are playing different teams and the

referee is on the ice and the clock is on.
It will be a challenge for them, but
we really like what we see so far, Dumont added. There are going to be
some growing pains, just like anything
else. The big thing about that first year
group is [that] their outstanding coachability has been through the roof.
Looking at the upcoming season,
both Dumont and his players are ready
to come out strong and battle in each
game, just like they have in previous

and bigger, bodies?

Thats the million dollar question. If
you figure that out, call me. Thats the code
[were] trying to crack, Wells said.
An important difference between the
schools, in Wells view, is consistency in
staff. Having the same coaches, year after
year, delivering the same message to the
players, is important.
If you dont have a lot of turnover on
your staff, that allows you to improve more
effectively, communicate more effectively,
teach more effectively, Wells said. If you
have good coaches that are good recruiters, over a long period of time that helps
your team.
Wells also pointed to communication
between offices as a key to success.
With football, you really have to be
vertically aligned. From your players, to
your coaches, to your athletic director,
to your admissions office, to your president, you all have to be on the same page,
Wells said.
At the end of the day, however, games
are played on the field, not at desks. Bowdoin players and administrators have emphasized that, record aside, the team is
moving in the right direction.
Theres never a time when were playing a team, and what were doing is just
completely wrong. For example, Coach
Bloom has been great at dissecting opposing offenses really any time there have
been big plays against our defense its kids
not executing. When were doing what
were supposed to against the best teams
in the league, theyre not able to do anything, Elhage said.
In building a successful football program, the margin of error is incredibly
small and a host of factors puts Bowdoin
at a disadvantage. Bowdoin does not operate with the same set of rules as Trinity or
Amherst. When compared to other Maine
schools, Bowdoin actually performs quite
well. Bowdoin has traditionally been the
best DIII football program in the state and
has won the most Colby-Bates-Bowdoin
championships, with 20.

Mens basketball embarks on

75th season, Gilbride thinks
back on 32 years as coach
BY DAVID BROWER
ORIENT STAFF

The Bowdoin mens basketball team

begins its 75th season today against
Southern Vermont. For the 32nd year,
the team is led by Head Coach Tim
Gilbride. During his tenure, the program has improved considerably. The
combined winning percentage of all
coaches before him was .378; under
Gilbride the Polar Bears boast a winning percentage of .593. The Polar
bears have also qualified for the NESCAC playoffs for the last 15 years.
According to Gilbride, much about
the program, as well as sports culture
in America, has changed during his
time at Bowdoin.
I think what has changed the most
is you used to get more two-sport athletes. It is not necessarily that Bowdoin
has changed; its more that kids now
specialize much earlier, said Gilbride.
You know if they have done that, they
are fully invested in your particular
sport which is nice, but I also thought
it was beneficial to get people that competed in different sports. Maybe they
were the star in one sport and they
werent quite as good in another sport
so they learned how to interact in all
those roles.
Gilbride claims one thing that has
not changed for him is his admiration
for his players, not just as athletes, but
as students and young men. The pleasure he draws from working with Bowdoin students is what keeps bringing
him back year after year.
They love basketball, said Gilbride.
They are committed to playing but

years. Dumont plans to retain the positive culture of the Bowdoin hockey team
and capitalize on their past success.
We have a really good core of leaders in our senior class that have seen
what it is like to win a championship
their [first] year, and they are certainly
eager and ambitious to go out as champions, Dumont said. We have a great
great nucleus of players. The juniors and
seniors are eager to lead and willing to
play hard for the jersey and play hard for
their teammates.

they have tons of other interests. They

are really inquisitive and want to learn
a lot of things. They have so much going for them; the fact that they are so
passionate about basketball I find exciting and interesting as a coach.
The team graduated some of its key
members last year. It lost Lucas Hausman 16, 2015 NESCAC Player of the
Year and a First Team NABC AllAmerican, as well as Matt Palecki 16,
the teams leader in rebounds last year.
Much of the teams success this year
hinges on the performances of underclassmen. 2016 NESCAC Rookie of
the Year Jack Simonds 19 is poised to
have an even more impactful sophomore performance. Gilbride hopes that
Hugh ONeill 19 and David Reynolds
20 will be able to make a significant
impact as well.
As the season begins, the team has
been focusing on playing smart team
defense, as well as improving their lateral quickness, according to Gilbride.
Since NESCAC teams do not start
practices until November 1, a full two
weeks behind the rest of NCAA Division III, the Polar Bears are at a disadvantage this weekend against non-conference opponents Southern Vermont
and University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Still, under the leadership of
captains Neil Fuller 17 and Jack Hewitt
17, the team is ready for the challenge.
We are just looking to go in there
and play the kind of ball that we have
to play to succeed, said Hewitt. We
can be a very good team that people
might be sleeping on. If we keep working hard, we could be one of the best
teams in the NESCAC.

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the bowdoin orient

OPINION

friday, november 18, 2016

At home in all lands

A petition is currently circulating through the Bowdoin community, in

Brunswick and beyond, to make Bowdoin a sanctuary campus. According to
the petition, this would mean those documented under Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and undocumented peers are able to remain on
campus and focus on their education instead of their fears of being forced
to abandon their education and separate from their families. The initiative
comes in response to President-elect Donald Trumps threat to deport undocumented immigrants from the United States during his presidency.
The petitionaddressed to President Clayton Rose, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster, Dean of Multicultural Affairs Leana Amaez, Director of the
Student Center for Multicultural Life Benjamin Harris and Director of Safety
and Security Randy Nicholsseeks to protect our current and future students from intimidation, unfair investigation, and deportation. The petition
urges administrators to take action prior to Trumps inauguration on January
20, 2017.
The Orients editorial board vehemently endorses the establishment of
Bowdoin as a sanctuary campus. In an email to the campus community on
November 10, following the debrief of the election organized by the McKeen
Center, Rose noted that Bowdoin is among a small number of institutions
in America that are designed and especially well-equipped to engage, understand, and debate ideas, to build the skills necessary to respectfully disagree
and bridge differences, and to transform ideas into action. He continued to
note that taking action is [at the] center of our purpose, and also at the center
of our democracy. Establishing Bowdoin as a sanctuary campus is a way to
transform conversations about support into action establishing inclusion.
Many cities, including Portland, Maine, Boston, New York, Washington,
D.C, and Seattle are designated sanctuary cities. Sanctuary refers to cities who
have pledged to refrain from assisting federal officers seeking to deport undocumented immigrants.
In addition to established sanctuary cities, many campuses across the country have launched similar petitions and staged walkouts over the course of the
last week. We believe Bowdoin should join this effort for national action. This
is one of many ways the College can take an active, public stance in favor of
the Common Good both on and off campus.
Bowdoin as a sanctuary campus not only embodies the Offer of the College,
but contributes to the Common Good. Given the nations current political
climate, working towards the Common Good and ensuring everyone knows
that they are accepted and have a true home here is more important than ever.
To echo the petition, This is not a time for silence.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board,
which is comprised of Marina Affo, Julian Andrews, Steff Chavez, Grace Handler,
Meg Robbins and Joe Seibert.

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In the push for justice, kindness prevails

SAVANNAH HORTON

BACKGROUND NOISE

In 2000, my elementary school

organized a mock vote for the BushGore election. I was five and knew
nothing about either candidateexcept their names, sort ofso I voted
for Bush. George Bush reminded me
of rabbits; Al Gore reminded me of
the Child Catcher (the supporting
antagonist of Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang). After Bushs actual election,
I saw how dismayed the adults in
my life were, and I felt extremely
guilty. I was convinced Id affected
the results in some significant way,
as if the consensus had depended on
my vote. I cried for a few minutes
and then forgot all about it.
I assumed Id have a better voting
experience the second time around.
Last week, I went alone to Brunswick Middle School and spent all
of two minutes casting my ballot. I
streamed the election in my room,
by myself. I wasnt overly concerned,
mostly because Id spent weeks assuring my election-obsessed boyfriend that there was absolutely no
reason to worry.
Theres absolutely no reason to
worry, Id told him, every freaking
day. He cant possibly win.
Obviously, Im no clairvoyant.
I should probably stop predicting
anything as to avoid jinxing the results. Ive never considered myself
psychically gifted, Ive just always
assumed that basic human rights
were at least sort of important to
most people. Of course, my surprise
is due in part to my privileged ignorance as a white person. Still, Im
horrified that racism and sexism
and Islamophobia and homophobia (I could go on) have been validatedno longer just existing, but
thriving. Personally, I feel unqualified to discuss political specifics
when I have peers more eloquent,
informed and diligent than I am.
What I can talk about are emotions,
because I have them.
Usually, when Im having a bad
week (or two), I sit down in a big
chair and open my planner. I love
my plannerits small and orange
and I rarely use it. Often, Ill find it

under a pile of clothes and scribble

vague commands inside like read
or READ. Then, Ill ignore it for
three weeks. When I start feeling
stressed, I just look at my planner
and remember I have the power to
put my life back in order.
After the election, I tried to get
organized. I was floundering, and
I wanted to take back control. Im
an anxious person. I find peace in
schedules, in crossing off assignments with red pens. On Saturday, I
went to a coffee shop to reflect and
revitalize. I ordered coffee. I sat in
a big chair with my little planner
and watched my boyfriend drink a
caramel macchiato. (This is a true
story.) Then I tried to make sense
of my feelings. I was sad and angry
and scared and disappointed and
hopeful and ashamed and confused.

value as a human being. I did not

watch a presidential candidate bully
others without reason. I keep thinking about the five-year-olds today
who have watched this election
through five-year-old eyeswho
have understood it through fiveyear-old brains and felt it through
five-year-old hearts. I hate to be
gloomy, but this part just kills me.
I do have hope in kindness. Kindness is one thing over which we
have total controltreating those
around us as allies of the Earth
(even if that sounds like the lamest
superhero team imaginable). I hope
for kindness for each other, and importantly for those who are young
and impressionable.
At an interview last month, a man
with a cat-sized beard asked me how
I want to be remembered when I die.

Kindness is one thing over which we have total

controltreating those around us as allies of
the Earth (even if that sounds like the lamest
superhero team imaginable). I hope for kindness
for each other, and importantly for those who
are young and impressionable.
I wished I was wearing a mood ring.
I hadnt done anything all week
except eat and sulkbut I was exhausted. I couldnt focus on anything. I saw a dog who looked like
he was smilingthe curled lips,
wide eyesand even though I knew
he wasnt actually smiling, I started
to cry. All week, tears seemed to be
my automatic response to anything.
I would cry without reasonin the
library, while sending polite emails
to potential employers and professors and grandparents and a friend
of a friend who Id publically stalked
on LinkedIn.
To move forward, Ive looked to
the pastinstructions from virtually every humanities class. This
week last year, I was writing Pet
Reviews about my cockatiel, Peter
Pan, for money. This week 16 years
ago, I was living in general oblivion,
particularly regarding politics. I was
incredibly lucky to have grown up in
a community full of supportive, accepting adults. I did not have to fear
for my own safety, nor defend my

Sure, I thought, I think about this

all of the time! I wanted to explain
to him the cases I had prepared for,
but instead I just sat there. I couldnt
remember any quotes from famous
people, and Im not good at improvising on the spot (see my previous
article).
Id like to be remembered for being kind, I said, eventually. When
it counts and when its difficult.
Then we just stared at each other.
I didnt get the job. Unfortunately,
kindness cannot compensate for my
lack of quantitative skills. Still, I
think its more important than anything. Every person deserves empathy and acceptance. Ive been inspired by the efforts of my peers to
spread love and security in the past
few days, and I hope we can sustain
the push for justice as a community.
Please continue to love one another.
Please continue to stand up for one
another. Please continue to donate
to Planned Parenthood in Mike
Pences nameout of the kindness
of your hearts.

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opinion

How journalism can recover from flawed coverage of the 2016 election
IAN WARD

ON SECOND THOUGHT
Pop Quiz: Identify the following quotation:
Rarely have so many people been so
wrong about so much. Never have the
consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.
A) Friedrich Nietzsche on the Bible
B) Richard Nixon on the Vietnam War
C) Jon Stewart on the 2016 Election
D) You on the Moulton vs.
Thorne Debate
Read on for the answer.
Its a strange, strange time to be a
young journalist. Frankly, its probably
strange to engage in any number of professions at this point in our countrys
history, but boy, is it a strange time to be
a young journalist.
At 11 p.m. on Election Night, staring numbly at the talking heads pontificating with all their might on the
screen before me, I remembered a
bit of text from David Brooks recent
book, A Road to Character. In it,
Brooks writes, Im paid to be a narcissistic blow-hard, to volley my opinions, to appear more confident about

them than I really am, to appear

smarter than I really am, to appear better and more authoritative than I really am.
In a letter from 1956, C.S. Lewis
wrote to a friend: That journalists
can be saved is a doctrine, if not contrary, yet certainly above, reason.
Even before then, the always
pithy Oscar Wilde wrote: There
is much to be said in favour of
modern journalism. By giving us
the opinions of the uneducated, it
keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
I could go on. My point is that
journalism has never been immune
from public scorn or even from the
scorn of fellow journalists. Media-bashing isnt new.
But if youre still wondering, the answer to the above pop quiz is B, Richard Nixon on the Vietnam War. Gotcha.
Hopefully the answer was fairly obvious, but it says something about the
current state of American journalism
if you even had to think twice about it,
which, if youre under the age of 35, you
probably did.
So disdain for the media isnt new,
but it certainly has changed. Even before these dreaded 18 months of torturous babble disguised as an election got

that your case alone had spurned

them from their ignorant ways
and that they were back on the
path to medical integrity, you
would still look elsewhere the
next time you discovered a little
brown spot on your back.
So why not do the same to the
existing media? In the wake of
this massive abnegation of responsibility, is there any hope for
the future of news media?
I sincerely hope so. Perhaps
the current generation of professional pundits have no hope
of recovery, their cultural and
intellectual authority having
BROOKE GODDARD
been thrown out along with your
underway, journalism of all types was in Hillary 2016 yard sign. But I am caua precarious cultural position. Just look tiously optimistic about the prospects
at it now.
of the next generation.
Perhaps Lewis is right and jourIf the next generation of political renalists souls are beyond salvation, porters and pundits hopes to regain the
but what about their profession? If trust of even a sliver of the public, we
every doctor you consulted told you would do well to learn from this curthat that little spot on your back was rent catastrophe.
positively, surely, absolutely nothing
First, we should follow Brooks in beto worry about and then you devel- ing more upfront about our fallibility.
oped skin cancer three months later, Certaintyeven the appearance of ceryoud probably never go back to those taintyshould be avoided at all costs.
doctors. Even if, after your skin can- Pundits should reaffirm their commitcer diagnosis, your doctors sent you ment to complicating, not simplifying,
a deeply apologetic letter telling you political problems.

Next, we should learn our lesson

about the limits of data and polling in
reporting. Yes, data is important, and
polls do offer some insight into the mind
of the electorate. But we must learn that
even numbers can lie and mislead. We
ought to temper our zeal for polling with
a sense of the variousness and unpredictability of the human mind. Talking to 20
living, breathing, human beings is sometimes more illuminating than viewing a
graph of 30,000 data points.
Lastly, the next generation of journalists and punditsagainst the grain
of so much reporting todaymust
inject some empathy back into public
discourse. Journalists must recommit
to understanding and fairly representing the positions of those all across
the political spectrum, and pundits
on both sides must redraw the playing
field so as not to pit the enlightened
and the woke against the willfully ignorant and the superstitious.
As Oscar Wilde wrote elsewhere: In
America the President reigns for four
years, and journalism governs forever
and ever. Perhaps there will come a
day when we should let our understanding of journalism die, but today is
not that day. With any luck, these four
years will pass. We cannot let responsible journalism pass with them.

Recognizing our prejudices will lead to progress

HARRISON DUNNE
POLITE

MIXED REVIEWS

OKE

BRO
GOD
D
DAR

This week I had planned on writing about the responsibilities of

privileged persons. I wanted to share
my opinion that those who are unaffected by discrimination, prejudice
and unjust biases are obligated to
focus their attention on both thoroughly understanding and dismantling these issues. For whatever
reason I was struggling to translate
these thoughts to paper. Thats when
Ivy Elgarten 19 saved the day.
For those of you who do not know
Ivy, she is a white cisgender Bowdoin
student in the Class of 2019. Frankly, she is wonderful and you should
all get to know her. This Tuesday, Ivy
posted a Facebook status where she
admitted to once having attitudes
toward certain groups of people that
she now recognizes as inappropriate
and misguided. She went on ask others who share her position to reflect
and address their own inner biases
as well. She took accountability for
her actions and asked for others to
do the same but only after leading by
example.
What Ivy did in 751 characters is
what we should aim for in dialogue
and our overall pursuit of harmony.
The purpose of addressing these

types of issues should be to generate an understanding of a different perspectives. This often

results in an understanding of
previously misunderstood issues. We need the receptors of
these messages to be as willing
to be wrong as Ivy is. For that
reason, I think we as a community should applaud Ivy
and others like her who submit
themselves to the purpose of
progress.
However, it is important to
recognize that we should not be
celebrating Ivy. The only reason
to applaud those who overcome
their prejudices is because people are not naturally compelled
to do so. Not being ignorant
should be nothing less than
normal. Unfortunately, things
are not as they should be. We
live in a world full of ignorant
influences. As a result, many, if
not all, of us hold biased beliefs.
For these reasons being educated in this regard is special.
This is not to say that people
like Ivy deserve more attention
and recognition than members
of marginalized communities
and participants in movements that
direct their efforts toward issues of
difference as well. We still need to
recognize that the leaders of any
type of progress are those who are
overcoming an obstacle(s). That be-

ing said, a pat on the back will not

undermine progress altogether.
Acknowledging Ivys deed as a
good one only encourages further
similar behavior. Hopefully, if in
the fight against inequality and op-

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NOVEMBER
FRIDAY 18

EVENT

Coee with Academic Technology

David Israel, senior producer for academic new media will be

available to talk about how the college will be implementing 3D
printing technology.
Nixon Lounge, Hawthorne Longfellow Library. 10 a.m.
LECTURE

The Accidental Conservationist

Kate Dempsey 88, state director of the Nature Conservancy

in Maine, will speak about the fortuitous events that guided
her career path. The Nature Conservancy is an organization
dedicated to protecting nature in Maine and 70 countries
around the world.
Room 111, Adams Hall. 12:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP

Prep for Finals

The Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) will host a workshop
to help students prepare for final exams. Members of the CLT
and a student panel will give advice on starting papers, learning
from notes, being stress-free and more.
Room 107, Kanbar Hall. 1:30 p.m.

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

EYES ON THE PIES: Summers Askew 20 serves pumpkin pies at Thanksgiving dinner last night at Thorne Hall. The highly anticipated annual dinner, which comes a week
before Thanksgiving Day, is a student favorite. Many enjoy celebrating the holiday early with friends before leaving for next weeks Thanksgiving Vacation.

SATURDAY 19

FILM SCREENING

Equal Means Equal

Frontier will screen the documentary film which examines

the status of women in America. The film, directed by Kamala
Lopez looks at true stories and legal cases to comment on discriminatory practices against women, from mistreatment in the
workplace to domestic violence. The film argues for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment first proposed in 1923.
Frontier. 2 p.m.

PERFORMANCE

FILM SCREENING

Viva Italia!

Family Saturday at the Museum of Art

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will host a family-friendly

event with student-led activities that are related to the exhibitions on display.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 10 a.m.

LECTURE

Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Chemical

Self-Replication

The Bowdoin College Concert Band, led by director John P.

Morneau, will perform traditional Italian songs.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m.
EVENT

Bowdoin Inter-Faith Service of Thanksgiving

FILM SCREENING

The Pearl Button [Le Bouton de Nacre]

Enrique Peacock-Lopez, professor of chemistry at Williams,

will discuss chemical spatio-temporal patterns in open
systems of peptide systems that use a singlet or a duplex as
catalytic templates.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 3 p.m.

SUNDAY 20

As part of the Francophone Film Festival, the Department of

Romance Languages and Literatures will screen this 2015
Chilean documentary which examines the link between
Patagonian waterways and genocide as the waterways were
used to dispose of the bodies of the victims.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

There will be a Thanksgiving service led by Bowdoins faith

groups with musical performances. All faiths are welcome.
Bowdoin Chapel. 7 p.m.

MONDAY 21

FILM SCREENING

Come On, Old Sport, Lets Watch A Movie

CONCERT

Harps of Gold

The Bowdoin Chorus, directed by Anthony Antolini 63 will collaborate with harpist Virginia Flanagan on a concert of music for
the holiday season. Flanagan plays the harp with the Midcoast,
Bangor and Augusta Symphonies. There will also be a concert on
Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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VACATION

Thanksgiving
Vacation

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HOLIDAY

Thanksgiving Day

PERFORMANCE

DINNER

The Portland based country and bluegrass quartet will perform

at Frontier. The band has performed all over the country and has
released three albums. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 on
the day of the show.
Frontier. 8 p.m.

There will be conversations in Italian over dinner.

Pinette Dining Room, Thorne Hall. 5:30 p.m.

Tricky Britches

There will be a screening of The Great Gatsby. Pizza will

be served.
Burnett House. 6 p.m.

Travola Italiana

TUESDAY 22

EVENT

Prohibition

The semi-formal event will feature pool, poker and mocktails to

celebrate the 1920s prohibition era.
Howell House, 9 p.m.

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VACATION

Thanksgiving
Vacation

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VACATION

Thanksgiving
Vacation

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LUNCH

Nuclear Power and Environmentalism

There will be a discussion of nuclear power.
Mitchell South, Thorne Hall. Noon.

VACATION

Thanksgiving
Vacation

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