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BY JAMES CALLAHAN
ORIENT STAFF
The College is moving forward with
a controversial plan to merge the Wom-
ens Resource Center (WRC) and the
Resource Center for Gender and Sexual
Diversity (RCGSD) in spite of wide-
spread opposition from student direc-
tors in both centers.
The two centerswhich currently
share the space at 24 College Street
will become the Center for Gender and
Sexuality starting on July 1. Its direc-
tors will be Kate Stern, associate direc-
tor of student affairs and director of
the RCGSD, as well as Leana Amaez,
associate dean of students for diversity
and inclusion. In their new positions as
associate deans of students for diver-
sity, the two will oversee several other
centers as well. Dean of Student Affairs
Tim Foster announced the changes
on Tuesday afternoon via a campus-
wide email.
Current WRC student director Dia-
mond Walker 17 expressed concerns
that the merger decision was made by
administrators without student input.
If they were really concerned
about the needs of women on campus
and the needs of LGBTQ students on
campus, they would have come to us
and asked us what would be best for
us instead of talking to each other,
said Walker.
Last fall, administrators held a meet-
ing with student directors from the
WRC and the RCGSD to solicit input
on the issue. Associate Dean of Student
Affairs and Director of the David Saul
Please see 24 COLLEGE, page 4
College already meeting petition demands Proposed bill adds requirements
BY CAMERON DE WET
ORIENT STAFF
On Wednesday, a small group of stu-
dents met with President Clayton Rose
to present a petition with seven demands
of the College in response to the policies
of the Trump administration, particu-
larly President Donald Trumps January
27 immigration ban. Rose made it clear
that the College is already meeting most,
if not all, of the demands put forth by
the students. The organizers have also
planned a rally in the David Saul Smith
Union todaywhich coincides with the
Trustees meeting on campuswhere
they plan to speak more about the meet-
ing and the demands of the petition.
The petition outlined a number of
steps that the organizers wanted the ad-
ministration to take, including providing
pro bono immigration lawyers for stu-
dents who may be impacted by the ban,
guaranteeing full financial assistance to
N LAWYER TALK
Two immigration attorneys addressed student
concerns. Page 3.
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Bowdoin cuts Cambodian exchange program after six years
BY SARAH BONANNO AND EMILY COHEN
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin has decided to end its part-
nership with the Harpswell Founda-
tionan organization that seeks to
empower young women in Cambo-
dia through educationat the end of
this academic year in order to allocate
money elsewhere. Senior Vice President
for Communications and Public Affairs
Scott Hood confirmed the change.
Both the Bowdoin and Harpswell stu-
dents involved with the program have
expressed disappointment since hearing
students who may lose federal aid and to
students whose family financial support
may be upended during Trumps tenure
and beyond. It also asks the College to ad-
vocate for citizenship for undocumented
students and for the administration to be
more transparent with the Bowdoin com-
munity about how it supports students
and resists aspects of Trumps policies.
As a follow-up to his meeting with the
roughly 10 student organizers, Rose sent
them an email that addressed each of the
demands specifically and outlined how
the College is already meeting them.
Regarding to the call for the College to
provide pro bono legal immigration law-
yers to students, Rose pointed to the letter
that he wrote to the campus on January
30 in which he stated that the College had
identified students who may be in jeop-
ardy because of these new laws and has
been providing them with legal assistance
at no cost. Rose also indicated in the let-
ter that students should reach out to staff
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and audits classes. Page 7.
the decision, noting that the exchange
brings a unique global perspective to
campus and provides access to educa-
tion that is otherwise unattainable for
women in Cambodia. Juliet Eyraud 16,
a former tutor for the program, created a
petition that gathered 250 student signa-
tures encouraging the administration to
continue its partnership with the Foun-
dation and sent it to President Clayton
Rose over Winter Break.
Since 2011, the program has
brought two Cambodian women to
the College each year on full scholar-
ships provided by the College. They
in human resources if they felt as though
they were in need of legal consultation.
Regarding the organizers concerns
about financial aid, Rose said in the
email that the College fulfills the dem-
onstrated need for all refugees, immi-
grants and international students with
College resources and will annually re-
place lost federal aid for citizens and eli-
gible non-citizens who may lose federal
grant aid eligibility.
He also indicated that the College ad-
justs the aid granted to students if their
family financial circumstances change.
On the topic of the call for the College
to advocate for citizenship for undocu-
mented students, Rose said in the email
that he has and will continue to advocate
for these students. He cited the letter that
he wrote to the Bowdoin community on
November 22, 2016 when he praised the
role that students who are protected un-
Please see PETITION, page 5
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have received support from the Cen-
ter for Learning and Teaching (CLT)
and the Office of Off-Campus Study.
Hood was not involved in the deci-
sion-making process and had no knowl-
edge of the petition that Eyraud sent to
Rose. Hood noted that the exchange has
been re-evaluated by the College on a
yearly basis since the relationship began
in 2011 under former President Barry
Mills. According to Hood, Rose wanted a
chance to evaluate the program himself.
Rose could not be reached for comment.
In a phone interview with the Ori-
ent, Executive Director of the Harpswell
for out-of-state students to vote
BY JESSICA PIPER
ORIENT STAFF
A proposed bill in the Maine leg-
islature would increase the proof of
residency required of college stu-
dents registering to vote in the state of
Maine. L.D. 155An Act To Protect
Voting Integrity by Establishing a Res-
idency Verification Requirement for
Purposes of Votingwould require
students living in college-provided
housing to obtain a Maine drivers li-
cense, register their cars in the state of
Maine or pay state income tax.
Amanda Bennett 17, a leader of the
Bowdoin Democrats, expressed con-
cern that the bill would make it diffi-
cult for students to vote in Maine. She
has been talking with the ACLU of
Maine about organizing student op-
position to the bill. A public hearing
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Foundation Alison Pavia called the deci-
sion very disappointing from the Foun-
dations perspective, but both Pavia and
Founder of the Harpswell Foundation
Alan Lightman said they respect the result
of the Colleges cost-benefit analysis.
Hood stressed that the decision was
primarily a budgetary one and not a
reflection of the Cambodian students
contributions to campus. The College,
Foundation and students all empha-
sized that the exchange has been valu-
able for all parties.
Please see HARPSWELL, page 4
on the bill will take place at 9 a.m. on
Wednesday, February 15 at the state
capitol building in Augusta. Bennett is
hoping to organize vans so that Bow-
doin students can attend and voice
their opinions.
Weve seen in the past these types
of bills and laws trying to restrict stu-
dents rights to vote in other states as
kind of Republicans ways of keeping
traditionally liberal students from
voting, she said.
As it is currently written, the bill
does not provide a reason for these
changes in voter residency require-
ments. Representative Kenneth
Fredette (R-Newport) who sponsored
the bill did not respond to an Orient
request for comment.
Jack Lucy 17, a native Mainer, not-
Please see VOTING, page 5
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Students write on the merging of two
campus resource centers. Page 13.
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STUDENT SPEAK:
What is the dish from home that you miss
the most?

Kevin Ma 17
"Shanghainese soup dumplings. Its like a round
dumpling filled with pork or vegetables and theres
soup inside of it, you cant just eat it in one bite
otherwise youll burn yourself theres a whole
technique around it. Its a dangerous food."

Jenna Scott 19
"My mom makes this cool noodle tuna casserole
thing with eggs and she just makes a giant bowl
ALEX WESTFALL
of it. There was this one time my mom left me
alone and I didnt want to cook anything else...its
breakfast, lunch and dinner for a few days."

SECURITY REPORT: 2/3 to 2/9 Avione Williams 20

Friday, February 3
There was an excessive noise complaint reported on
the 12th floor of Coles Tower.
A student was spoken to about defacing posters in
David Saul Smith Union.
A person falsely activated a blue light emergency
phone near Searles Hall.
A security officer treated a spectator for a laceration after
she was struck in the head by a hockey puck at Watson Arena.
A student reported the theft of headphones from the
mens locker room at Morrell Gymnasium.
An intoxicated student tampered with a generator
near Moulton Union.
Saturday, February 4
An officer responded to Jack Magees Pub to assist
with an intoxicated student.
An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicat-
ed student near Chamberlain Hall.
A student at Appleton Hall with a possible allergic
reaction was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.
Sunday, February 5
A complaint of loud music was reported at West Hall.
After complaints from neighbors, Brunswick Police
Department (BPD) warned two students for disorderly
conduct at an off-campus student rental property on
Maine Street.
Officers checked on the well-being of an intoxicated
student at Appleton Hall.
A student at Harpswell Apartments was asked to turn
down the music volume after a noise complaint was received.
"I miss my mothers baked macaroni and
Monday, February 6
Security and Brunswick Fire Department responded cheese. On the outside its very crispy and
to a fire alarm at Memorial Hall at 3 a.m. The cause of the then when you go inside its very, very
alarm was not determined.
A fire alarm at Brunswick Apartment H was caused cheesy. There are no breadcrumbs involved."
by burnt microwave popcorn.
BPD served a disorderly house notice on a student
rental property on Weymouth Street.
Tuesday, February 7
Preston Thomas 17
Excessively loud music was reported at Bruns- "My dad makes ribs with the bone. They are
wick Apartment N. Students were asked to consider
their neighbors. really good. They have a nice barbeque sauce
Officers checked on the well-being of an ill student at thats marinated and it tastes just really rich and
Howard Hall.
The drivers of several student vehicles were warned
genuine and homemade."
for unsafe driving in the Watson Arena parking lot during
a snow storm.
A granite bollard on College Street was struck and
knocked down by an unknown vehicle. Dante Moussapour 19
Wednesday, February 8 "Iranian food. Basically stews that could be eaten
A wall clock was smashed in the mens locker room at as a soup and you cook the rice in an Iranian rice
Farley Field House.
cooker and it comes out as a cake. You can actually
Thursday, February 9 slice into the cake and serve it in triangle forms and
A student at Brunswick Apartment N was spoken to
about complaints about his loud music.
serve it on the plate, smush it up with the stew on
top and with the salad garnish on the side."
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Compliments to the chef: the comment cards of Moulton dining

BY GWEN DAVIDSON
ORIENT STAFF
The illustrious bulletin board dotted
with neon comment cards is a staple at
Moulton Union. For those who are un-
familiar, comment cards are a way for
students to communicate with the dining
staff by making a request or expressing
their appreciation for a certain dish.
These compliments range from the
tactful: Love the blueberry coffee to
the passionate: CHEEZE PIZZA IS
SO GOOD!
According to David Crooker, head chef
at Moulton and the man who answers the
comment cards, a great deal of the cards
are compliments. Even the requests are
usually nothing but polite.
Even if they are wanting something
really badly that we dont have, a lot of
the time theyll start out by saying how
great we are, Crooker said. [You guys
are really great] but Im going to eat
at Thorne if you dont get Life cereal in
here, he joked.
Although most comment cards have
been pleasant, there have been a few
strange requests over the years. Crooker
recalled someone asking if they would
make shark fin soup.
No, Crooker said. They would not.
While most food requests are helpful,
some students use the comment cards
to make impractical requests, like asking
for goat milk (which costs around $65.75
for a half-gallon) or fruits that arent in
season Crooker, however, is nothing but
understanding in his responses.
Well sometimes we just have to ex-
plain that there are a lot of things that are
in season somewhere in the world, but
of course theyre very expensive. Some-
times between the growing areas theres
a lag or just the weathers been bad so
they just arent very good. So we dont
get them, Crooker explained. But
we still keep getting comment cards:
Where are the strawberries? Where are
the strawberries?
So to any of the students request-
ing strawberries in the middle of win-
ter: knock it off. Its the dead of winter.
Theyre trying their best.
A few comment cards will compare
Moulton to its larger sibling, Thorne.
According to Crooker,
sometimes a stu-
dent will write
something like:
They have Crai-
sins every day
at Thorne, why
dont you here?
In that type of situa-
tion, Crooker just calls
up Daran Poulin, head
chef at Thorne, for clarifica-
tion. Turns out, Thorne does
not have them everyday.
Despite a few odd requests,
overall, the comment cards are a pos-
itive force in Moulton and a great way for
students to get in touch with the dining
staff for any reason at all. For those who
are worried about their identities being
revealed though, comment cards can also
be filled out anonymously online. PHEOBE ZIPPER
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NEWS IN BRIEF Immigration lawyers address
uncertainty, student concerns
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SUSTAINABLE BOWDOIN TO
ENCOURAGE GREEN LIVING BY JESSICA PIPER
ORIENT STAFF
On Tuesday, Sustainable Bowdoin will launch the Green Living Commitment, a pro- Immigration attorneys Mike Murray
gram designed to help students create healthy habits and reduce their carbon footprints. and Sara Fleming of FordMurray Law in
The program is a revamped version of a previous Sustainable Bowdoin initiative, Portland spoke at Bowdoin on Monday
Green Dorm Room Certification. Bethany Taylor, the sustainability outreach coordina- to address President Donald Trumps
tor, said that the new program is designed to be more individualized. immigration policies and answer stu-
If you really want to recycle, but your roommate is not at all interested, you are no dent questions.
longer responsible for their inaction, Taylor said. Murray and Fleming noted that the
Through a survey, students can pledge to different actions and habits for three differ- haste of the administrations policies
ent levels of certification: Bronze, Silver and Green. An online checklist outlines a point have taken many immigration lawyers
system, where students earn points based on their habits. Low commitment activities, by surprise, making it difficult to predict
such as buying a plant, earn fewer points, while higher commitment activities, like car- how future scenarios will play out.
pooling to campus, earn more points. This administration is really taking
Additionally, participants will be entered in a raffle each month to win prizes for their actions that we havent seen before and
dorm depending on their certification level. The higher the certification, the better the prize. its raising laws that I never even knew
The competition should reinforce peoples participation, Taylor said. Its ongoing were on the books, Murray said.
[and] you are encouraged to go back if you want to raise yourself up a level. The pair first discussed the implica-
The Green Living Commitment will run this semester in conjunction with another tions of the Trump administrations
campus-wide energy-saving competition that will begin on February 27, International travel ban, an executive order that
Polar Bear Day, and run through April 22, Earth Day. banned nationals of seven Muslim-
Taylor hopes that the Green Living Commitment will become a permanent part of majority countries as well as all refu-
Sustainable Bowdoins programming. gees. The ban is currently suspended. A
This semester will be focused on taking in student feedback and coming up with a federal judge in Washington granted a
better version of it to start in the fall, she said. nationwide order that halted its imple-
To promote the Green Living Commitment, Sustainable Bowdoin will host a Love mentation last Friday, and a three-judge
Your Planet Valentine event where students can write notes to each other in the spirit panel of the United States Court of Ap-
of the holiday. peals for the Ninth Circuit in San Fran-
cisco upheld the Washington judges
order yesterday.
BCA DEMONSTRATES AT OFFICE
Murray said that Trump does have
the legal authority to ban certain foreign
OF SENATOR ANGUS KING individuals from entering the country,
citing U.S. Code 1182, which states the
Last Friday, Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) brought 15 students to the Augusta, president can suspend the entry of all
Maine office of Senator Angus King on Friday to express disapproval of Kings vote to aliens or any class of aliens as immi-
confirm Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. BCA members also urged King to reject Scott grants or nonimmigrants. The statute
Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), reject all of Trumps ap- says that the president can restrict im-
pointees and support a democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. migration when they find it necessary
Although King was not present in his office, members of BCA spoke to staffers and and does not need a good reason or
presented them with a letter for King. cause, Murray specified.
The letter expressed disapproval for Kings support of Tillerson. It noted Kings dem- Still, Murray said the bans constitu-
onstrated support of climate justice. It also outlined Tillersons involvement in funding tionality remains in question. He cited
climate denial and lying about climate change realities as a former CEO of ExxonMobil. a provision of the ban which allows the
Senator King has always portrayed himself to be a climate leader and has aligned Secretary of Homeland Security and the
himself with the values of climate justice, said Isabella McCann 19, a leader of BCA. State Department to make exceptions
To see him vote in favor of Rex Tillerson on Wednesday was a surprise and a disap- and admit certain individuals, including
pointment. members of minority religious groups.
Staffers responded with a statement prepared by Kings press team. If this part of the executive order turns
With respect to Mr. Tillersons nomination, and particularly in the wake of the out to be favoring Christianswho are
Presidents hasty executive order to severely restrict immigration last weekend, Sena- a minority religious group in much of
tor King believed it was important to immediately install a critical moderating influ- the Middle Eastthen the order could
ence and counterweight to the more compulsive forces within the administration, read violate the establishment clause of the
Kings statement. first amendment, which dictates that
BCA is determined to stay politically active. the government cannot favor one reli-
In a Trump era, our representatives are our first line of defense against his racist xe- gion over another.
nophobic sexist and climate-denying agenda, said McCann. Given the significance of the case,
For more coverage of the demonstrations, visit bowdoinorient.com. Murray expects it to ultimately end up
before the Supreme Court.
The attorneys also addressed Presi-
TOWN TO SELL MERE POINT LOT dent Trumps executive order on sanc-
tuary cities, which suggested the fed-
AFTER REJECTING PETITION eral government would try to take away
funding from municipalities that did
On Monday, Brunswick Town Council voted (7-2) against a citizens petition that not assist in immigration enforcement.
called for the town to hold a referendum on whether to reverse the councils previous The attorneys said that the term sanctu-
decision to sell a waterfront property on Mere Point Road. The petition proposed that ary citiesgenerally referring to cities
the property be converted into a community park in an effort to preserve public access that do not enforce federal immigration
to the coastline. The petition gathered over 1,100 signatures, the most in town history. lawswas not a legally defined concept
Brunswick will move forward with the sale of the property, as the council originally but a political term.
decided in a contentious 5-4 vote last September. The town had acquired the property Though the federal government gen-
last year after its previous owners failed to pay property taxes for nearly a decade. erally enforces immigration laws, state
Soxna Dice, a principal organizer speaking on behalf of the petitioners, feared for the and municipal government can choose
towns loss of public waterfront access. At the town meeting on Monday, she argued that to voluntarily assist federal immigra-
a park at Mere Point would be accessible for all citizens, such as school groups on field tion enforcement but are not legally
trips, clammers and the elderly. According to Councilor Stephen Walker, there is cur- required to do so. As a result, Murray
rently scarce public access to the waterfront for Brunswick residents. was skeptical of the impact of the ex-
Though questions were raised concerning the councils legal obligation to meet the ecutive order.
petitions demands, the councils major concerns included the cost of converting the Theres really not a lot of teeth to that
property into a park as well as the quality of the property itself and its accessibility for because there really isnt much federal
the elderly. funding thats given to states and cities
During its deliberation, the town council considered the merits of the property as a to enforce these laws, he said.
public park. Objectors found contention with the potential cost to the town. Not only Murray also noted that the executive
would Brunswick be unable to collect the tax revenue on the waterfront property, but order did not include any mandate for
the town would also be obligated to front the costs to convert the land into an accessible colleges like Bowdoin.
park. According to Dice, the petitioners did not propose a budget for the park, arguing One great thing about it is that it
that that responsibility would fall to the town if the referendum passed. doesnt at all address whether private
Though the Council is moving forward to sell the property, councilors on both institutions like colleges and univer-
sides of the vote expressed commitment to expanding public access to the water- sities have to come into these agree-
front in the future. ments to enforce federal law, he said.
SALIM SALIM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Its just not there. They didnt reach
that far.
Fleming then addressed Deferred Ac-
tion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a
program under the Obama administra-
tion that allows individuals who were
brought to the United States undocu-
mented as children to register with the
government and receive a two-year re-
lief from deportation as well as permis-
sion to work.
During his campaign, Trump prom-
ised to repeal DACA upon taking office,
but he has left the program intact so far.
DACA has been pretty popular
across the board, Fleming said. I
think there is a lot of empathy on both
sides of the aisle for people who were
brought here as children and who
grow up in the U.S. and just want to
continue their lives here.
She noted that the BRIDGE Act, a
bill proposed by Senators Lindsey Gra-
ham (R-S.C.) and Dick Durban (D-Ill.)
which would allow DACA-eligible indi-
viduals to continue living in the United
States, replace DACA if the Trump ad-
ministration dismantles the program.
However, she questioned whether any
immigration proposal would make it
through the House of Representatives.
The pair answered questions, both
from the audience and from students
who had anonymously submitted ques-
tions before the event. One anonymous
student question asked about marrying
an undocumented friend in order to
give them legal status.
You are a very good friend. Friend
goals, Murray said. However, you
may not do that. You cant do that.
That is against federal law. It is a felo-
ny. It is visa fraud.
Although marriage to a U.S. citizen
can give an undocumented person le-
gal status, the marriage has to be real,
Murray said. Trained immigration offi-
cers will interrogate married couples to
make sure they actually plan on creating
a life together.
Another anonymous question asked
about the politics of illegal immigration:
Whats so wrong about wanting people
to enter the country legally?
In response, Murray said that im-
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS: (TOP:) Ben Miller
17 asks a question to immigration
attorneys Mike Murray and Sara
Fleming of FordMurray Law in
Portland in Main Lounge in Moulton
Union on Monday afternoon. (LEFT:)
At the presentation, Murray and
Fleming discussed President Donald
Trumps recent executive orders on
immigration and addressed student
concerns about the future of immigra-
tion policy.
migration laws have not been equally
enforced.
The immigration system is broken
in many ways, he said. The Canadian
border is much more open and porous
than the southern border, so there is
many times a very selective enforce-
ment of immigration laws.
Murray pointed out that the major-
ity of undocumented immigrants are
not actually from Mexico, and added
that even if the United States perfectly
secured its borders, the question of how
to address these undocumented immi-
grants would remain.
If we came to a place where we felt,
OK, finally we are properly regulating
who can come in and out of the United
States, then at that point I think its only
fair to legalize everyone who is here in
the United States without perfect sta-
tus, Murray said. Presidents again and
again and again, whether Republican or
Democratic, have decided not to do a
mass removal or deportation of individ-
uals who are here without proper status.
If we are going to let people in that situ-
ation live here, we should give them full
rights We shouldnt have a second
class of citizens who feel as if they cant
reach out to law enforcement or public
agencies if they need help.
Students reactions to the talk were
overwhelmingly positive.
Very often in the media that infor-
mation is watered or dumbed-down so
that the regular consumer to under-
stand it, said Ural Mishra 20. So to
get it straight from an expert who is
well-versed in their field, I think that
was really great.
Mingo Sanchez 17 echoed that senti-
ment, saying that the talk clarified issues
that he had previously heard of but not
fully understood.
I was really surprised to learn that
sanctuary cities are not really a thing,
that there isnt a formal definition for
that, Sanchez said.
Several students said they hoped the
administration would sponsor similar,
expert-led events in the future.
More talks like this are great, said
Ellie Heywood 19. I think thats what
I want to see.
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Druckenmiller 75 discusses current political, economic climate
BY MARINA AFFO
ORIENT STAFF
Stanley F. Druckenmiller 75, H07,
a private investor, chair of Bowdoins
Investment Committee and longtime
benefactor of the College, discussed the
potential economic, educational and
environmental implications of the new
presidential administration in a con-
versation with President Clayton Rose
on Wednesday evening. Over 400 stu-
dents, community members and alums
attended the event, An Investors Per-
spective on Trump, Trade, and Global
Populism, in Pickard Theater.
After introducing Druckenmiller,
Rose asked him about the new presi-
dential administrations handling of the
economy and trade.
Druckenmiller was optimistic that
the new administration could make
some positive change.
I think this administration has the
opportunity to actually raise the long-
term growth rate in this country, he
said. What we need is not another dose
of sugar, not another dose of tax cuts,
not just infrastructuressome stimu-
lus program thats gonna give us a sugar
high for 18 months. We need serious
structural reform in the tax code.
When asked about President Donald
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Smith Union Allen Delong was present
along with Stern.
It became really clear that students
were committed to maintaining the
model that we have and thats really
hardthats hard for everyone because
were moving towards a new model,
said Delong.
In his email, Foster expressed hope
that the merger would be an opportu-
nity for the College to better address
issues of gender and sexuality in an in-
tersectional manner.
Leana and Kate have distinguished
themselves as leaders on the topic of di-
versity and inclusion, as educators, ad-
vocates, trainers, role models, and men-
tors. This realignment of responsibilities
allows them to work with a talented
team of professionals to think broadly
about differenceincluding race, eth-
nicity, religion, class, first-generation
status, gender, sexuality, disability, and
political ideology, he wrote.
Pat Toomey 17, a former RCGSD
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Though not given as a reason for
ending the relationship by Hood,
Lightman said the College has ex-
pressed concern with the Harpswell
students English proficiency over the
course of the partnership.
Lightman said that Cambodian stu-
dents who have spent a year at Bowdoin
have gone on to pursue important proj-
ects in Cambodia, such as investment
management and teaching English to
young Cambodian students. He be-
lieves that the Bowdoin community has
benefited from the exchange program
as well. He has appreciated Mills and
Roses support of the partnership.
These Cambodian students have
suffered enormous hardships and ob-
stacles to get where they got, Lightman
said in a phone interview with the Ori-
ent. And they come from a war-torn
country, they come from poverty, and I
think their life storiesI hope their life
stories have been inspiring to the Bow-
doin students and community.
Harpswell Scholar Keavatey Srun, who
Trumps views on free trade agreements
and his plan to reform current trade
agreements, Druckenmiller was more
critical of the administration.
I think the economic growth to be
gained by improving trade deals is min-
iscule, at best, he said. The thing Im
worried about most is that they think
there is some economic delta to be
gained from this.
Druckenmiller stated that although
not every trade agreement is perfect,
the administration should proceed with
caution in reforming them out of fear
that foreign powers will retaliate with
trade embargoes if negotiations get ugly.
Rose then opened the floor for stu-
dents and audience members to ask
Druckenmiller questions. Students
asked questions about topics ranging
from income and wealth inequality to
Druckenmillers predictions about the
new administrations policies on educa-
tion and trade.
Druckenmiller said that a change in
education begins with changing the ex-
pectations of students at a young age as
well as hiring teachers who are passion-
ate about teaching students.
On the subject of income inequal-
ity, he noted the problem of un-
equal opportunity.
Youre always going to have income
student director, expressed concern
that the merger was wrongfully con-
flating two separate issues.
Theres a problem with assuming
that womens issues and issues of gender
should automatically be lumped into a
box with queer issues, Toomey said.
Walker also expressed concern
that the merger posed a threat to stu-
dent identities.
The identities of all the students in-
volved would be at risk, said Walker. Its
sort of like if we were just going to merge
LASO [the Latin American Student Or-
ganization] and the Af-Am [African
American Society]. You cant do that.
Delong said that the merger will in-
crease the availability of administrators
to students as Stern moves from a part
time position to a more full-time one.
There will be more staff time com-
mitted to the center than was available
[before], he said.
As part of the new merger, Stern
and Amaez with be supervising the
Office of Religious and Spiritual Life,
the Student Center for Multicultural
Life, and Upward Bound in addition
was on campus for the 2014-2015 aca-
demic year, described her experience at
Bowdoin as life-changing in a Skype
interview with the Orient.
In the United States I learned to be
open-minded, to step out of my com-
fort zone and to experience new things,
meet new people and learn to commu-
nicate, learn to ask for help, Srun said.
Another Harpswell Scholar, Sopoan
Keo, who spent the 2015-2016 academ-
ic year at Bowdoin, was saddened and
surprised by the Colleges decision. Keo
lived in Howell House, participated in
an Alternative Spring Break and joined
the Asian Students Association (ASA)
during her time on campus.
I feel I lost something significant,
she said in a Skype interview with the
Orient. You probably might meet a lot
of privileged people at Bowdoin but
the girl who got the scholarship or the
girl whos living in Cambodia right now,
most of them are underprivileged
And if they could get a scholarship to go
to Bowdoin like me, I think it would be
the best experience for their life.
Theo Hurley 20, a tutor for the Harp-
swell Harpswell students currently on
campus, echoed Keo, saying that the
the bowdoin orient
differential in this country, and
Im for that. Im a red-blooded,
free-market capitalist, but I do
think its ridiculous when you
look at the advantages of some
4-year-olds in this country ver-
sus other 4-year-olds, he said.
One student asked Druck-
enmiller what classes he should
take if he wanted to get rich.
If I was giving any advice
to young people, even if it was
how to get rich, it is follow your
passion, Druckenmiller said.
Although many students in
attendance did not agree with
some of Druckenmillers view-
points, they enjoyed the event.
Andrew Cawley 17 appre-
ciated Druckenmillers can-
didness.
I think that he is an older, THE BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: President Clayton Rose (left) and investor Stanley F. Druckenmiller
white, really rich male, and 75 H07 converse onstage in Pickard Theater on Wednesday night.
in that sense I think there are
some things he is really out of
touch with, Cawley said. But that be- administration could solve some of the ticipation of Bowdoin students who
ing said, I think he was super, super problems, particularly with health care, questioned Druckenmiller.
honest and super candid and I really ap- he said.
preciated that.
Justin Pearson 17 was interested in talk, was impressed by the event.
Druckenmillers economic arguments.
I think from the economic stand- wanted to hear from a good investor, thoughtful and structured questions,
point the interesting thing about his Marsh said.
to the newly reconceptualized Center
for Gender and Sexuality. Those offic-
es will retain their current directors,
while Stern and Amaez will serve as
the directors for the Center for Gen-
der and Sexuality.
Amanda Spiller 17, a current WRC
student staff member, expressed con-
cern about how the center will be run.
Dean Amaez and Kate Stern will be
leading all the centers on campus and
reconceptualizing a whole new center?
It seems like too much work, she said.
Its hard to get an appointment with
Dean Amaez now she has so much
to do already.
Amaez, however, is enthusiastic to
take on her new role.
We have this really exciting mo-
ment in time, she said. To look at
the Womens March and the message
of solidarityit was incredibly inter-
sectional. And the recognition that in
order to move forward on an agenda
that respects the rights of women, you
have to also respect the rights of other
[minority] groups.
With the WRC currently receiving
Harpswell students bring a valuable in-
ternational perspective to campus that
would not necessarily be represented on
campus without the help of the Founda-
tion.
Both Keo and Srun, however, expe-
rienced issues adjusting to a new envi-
ronmentin particular the language
barrier and living away from home.
According to Eyraud, though Harp-
swell students take classes in English in
Cambodia, the style of education differs
from that of the classes at Bowdoin.
English is not my mother tongue, its
my second language, so it was a bit hard
for me to catch up with the lessons,
Srun said. So I would often go to office
hours and also had a tutor to help with
my lesson and also my English. Though
it was challenging, I was very grateful
that I had so many people around me to
have and support along the way so that I
could get through it better.
I think definitely a lot of Harpswell
students struggle in class, but thats to
be expected, especially for any first-
year studentthats not that unusual.
Obviously the language barrier poses
the greatest challenge, Eyraud added.
As a result, the College re-evaluated
perspective was that he thought this
Sean Marsh 95, who attended the many students were here, and I was
I am not a very good investor, so I students got up and asked really
around twice as much money as the
RCGSD, there are questions about what
funding will look like going forward.
Stern unequivocally affirmed that
there will be no loss in funds.
Is there going to be less money?
No, she said.
Spiller was also displeased by the lack
of transparency throughout this process.
We had no idea what the struc-
ture was going to look like until Dean
Foster sent out that emailand wed
been asking. Thats a problem, said
WRC staff member Amanda Spiller.
The administration just moves for-
ward with things at Bowdoin that
students arent a part of when stu-
dents are the most integral aspect of
these corners of campus. The admin-
istration has not given us answers.
Toomey, who had expressed concern
that the integration of the two centers
would alienate gay men on campus, felt
ignored during and after the meeting
with the administration last fall.
I felt that our student concerns
were being totally ignored by the ad-
ministration andespecially as a gay
the implementation of the exchange
program every year to ensure a more
positive experience for the students,
explained Christine Wintersteen, di-
rector of International Programs and
Off-Campus Study and the admin-
istrative liaison of the partnership
between the Foundation and the Col-
lege. This reevaluation has resulted in
an increase in English tutoring and
the inclusion of Harpswell students
in first-year orientation program-
ming among other changes, according
to Wintersteen.
Eyraud said she has noticed that
Harpswell students English has been
better upon coming to campus each
year during her four years with the
program. English for Multilingual Stu-
dents Advisor Lisa Flanagan also noted
that the students have showed tremen-
dous improvement between their first
and second semesters at Bowdoin.
Still, she noted that the first semester
in particular takes a toll on the students
psychologically.
[In] some ways it may be almost
cruel to have put them in an environ-
ment where they are so outmatched,
Flanagan said.
february 10, 2017
EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Marsh was also pleased by the par-
I was very impressed with how
also really impressed with how many
he said.
maleI felt really not listened to and
marginalized, he said.
Other students disagreed. Adam
Glynn 17, a student director at the RC-
GSD, sees the more intersectional ap-
proach as a step in the right direction.
Its a given that there are just so
many different subgroups of what queer
is. Its famously been said that there are
as many genders as there are people,
said Glynn. And if we were to have a
student group for every different sexual
and gender identity and if we had ev-
ery student group for every nuance we
would have a lot of student groups.
While Glynn still expressed disap-
proval with the manner in which ad-
ministrators went about making the
decision, he sees name changes as ul-
timately not that important.
I feel sometimes that the queer
community at Bowdoin is lacking
[but] I dont feel like its up to a room
or a title of a center or one administra-
tive staff to change thatI really think
its up to the students, he said.
Meg Robbins contributed to
this report.
She also said that a school like Uni-
versity of Southern Maine with a dedi-
cated English language bridge program
could provide an additional layer of
support that Bowdoin does not offer.
Despite the outcome, Lightman is
grateful for Wintersteen and Flanagans
dedication to the program.
Though both Harpswell and Bow-
doin students said they hope the part-
nership will be renewed in the future,
there are currently no plans for rein-
statement of the program.
After delivering her petition, Eyraud
met with Rose to discuss Bowdoins
commitment to making campus more
diverse on a global scale. She cited the
importance of having socioeconomic
diversity within the international stu-
dent population at the College.
It would be awesome if Bowdoin
could have a more global campus
[but] President Rose and the admis-
sions team might find that its really
hard to do without the help of NGOs,
Eyraud said. If there are students that
have similar backgrounds to the Harp-
swell students that have little access to
this type of education, theyre going to
need just as much funding.
february 10, 2017
Pope 67 criticizes militarization, argues for alliances and diplomacy
BY NELL FITZGERALD
ORIENT STAFF
Laurence Pope 67, a former U.S.
ambassador and 31-year veteran
of the United States Foreign Ser-
vice, spoke about the revenge of
globalization and the continued
importance of diplomatic ties in a
talk in Kresge Auditorium on Mon-
day evening.
Pope said that the Trump admin-
istrations abandonment of century-
old American alliances, such as ties
to Australia, would prove threaten-
ing to global order. He argued that
this strategy would inevitably lead
to armed conflict, noting that many
of Trumps advisors, such as Steve
Bannon, Trumps chief strategist,
and Mike Flynn, his national secu-
rity advisor, who have demonstrated
their inclination to use force, espe-
cially in the Middle East.
Pope used the term revenge of
globalization to describe recent
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der the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) policy and students
who are undocumented play on college
campuses across the country. In his email
to the organizers he also pointed to a let-
ter from February 2, 2017 sent to Trump
that he signed along with the presidents of
forty-seven other colleges and universities
that urged the president to rectify or re-
scind the immigration ban.
Regarding the call for Rose to be
more transparent with the Bowdoin
community about how the College uses
its power to support students, Rose
pointed to the three messages that he
has shared with campus since the elec-
tion, writing that, in each I have rein-
forced our values and discussed the ac-
tions we are taking to support members
of our community.
I think that for me the big message
is that the College has been doing virtu-
ally everything that the students are con-
cerned about and I share their concerns,
which is why weve been doing them,
Rose said in a phone interview with the
Orient. The other point that I made to
them is that Ive been talking about these
things since November when these issues
first surfaced as being real ... We will con-
tinue to try to stay ahead of helping our
community think about these problems
[and have an effect on them].
Rose also reiterated how he will choose
to engage with issues like the immigra-
tion ban.
In my January note to the campus I said
that there are two criteria that I will use, not
exclusively, but in general, [to] guide when
and how Im going to engage, said Rose.
One is whether members of our commu-
nity are in some, way, shape or form threat-
ened and the other is whether the mission
of the Collegeour intellectual and aca-
demic missionis threatened.
The student organizers said that the
meeting with Rose was productive and
that they are happy with many of the
steps that the College has already taken
to support students. However, they hope
that the College is more clear about
the steps that it is taking in response to
policies like the immigration ban mov-
ing forward.
I think when it comes to transpar-
ency thats an overarching theme not just
for this particular petition but also for a
lot of things on campus where students
dont know of the resourceswhether
they exist or notand that sort of creates
unnecessary difficulties for their time
on campus, said OSA Omoregie 18, one
of the petition organizers. And that by
world events. He cited the struggles
of the European Union, the poten-
tial breakup of the United Kingdom
and the rise of nationalist politics
in states such as France and Poland
as examples of anti-globalization.
The most obvious example of the
revenge of globalization, Pope said,
is Donald Trumps recent rise to
power.
A skillful demagogue exploited
the fears generated by globalization
and promised to reverse the pro-
cess, he said.
President Trump did so with false
information, Pope said. He cited the
presidents questioning of former
President Barack Obamas birth cer-
tificate and his allegation that mil-
lions of illegal immigrants voted in
the election.
Pope served as ambassador to
Chad from 1993-1996, where he
worked to organize the countrys
first presidential election. From
1997-2000, he was a political advi-
MEETING THE PRESIDENT: Cesar Siguencia 18 (left), Salim Salim 20 (center) and Michael Butler 17 check their notes minutes before meeting with
President Clayton Rose on Wednesday to address a petition they led. The petition called on the College to take action in light of President Donald Trumps policies.
informing [Rose] of these kinds of things
it actually opens his eyes to [the fact that]
there are a number of things where [the
administration] think[s] that students
know and [students] dont and that [they]
could just be more clear about that.
The student organizers indicated that
a greater level of communication and
transparency from the College could help
to alleviate worries of current students,
such as for students who feel as though
their immigration status might be at risk.
They said that the impetus for the petition
rested on anecdotes from students who
were unsure of how the administration is
supporting them.
I think one of the most important
things that came out of the meeting
was the fact that there are pro bono
lawyers that are offered to students
here, said Kiki Nakamura-Koyama 17,
another student who helped organiza-
tion. What we were initially worried
about was that these lawyers were only
accessible to the students who the ad-
ministration had identified as vulner-
able but now that President Rose has
explicitly said that these pro bono law-
yers are offered to students and students
can access them by contacting different
resource centers, I feel that the meeting
was a success.
Nakamura-Koyama said that a large
part of why she helped organize the
petition and set up the meeting with
Rose was that the action being taken at
the bowdoin orient
sor to General Anthony C. Zinni,
Commander and Chief of the United
States Central Command. He retired
in 2000 but was called back into ser-
vice by Obama in 2012 to become
the top United States diplomat in
Libya after an attack on the Ameri-
can embassy in Benghazi.
Pope began his talk by reflecting
on his own service, as well as on the
experiences of many of his friends,
colleagues and Marines who had
graduated from Bowdoin.
Pope argued that the United
States is currently its own biggest
threat. He asserted that, although
America created a system of inter-
national norms built on alliances
and diplomacy, the country is cur-
rently straying away from these
norms and moving towards a world
dominated by force and nuclear
weapons.
He stated that current American
foreign policy focuses too heavily on
national security with not enough
and by other colleges made her feel as
though Bowdoins response was lacking.
I think that the transparency of other
colleges made me personally feel like
Bowdoin wasnt doing enough, said
Nakamura-Koyama. But in a way, by
having this meeting it doesnt necessar-
ily make the College look bad. Its actu-
ally making the College look really good
because the students that signed the pe-
tition were able to show the administra-
tion that we think the administration is
lacking in certain areas when in actuality
theyre doing a lot more than we thought
they were.
The organizers of the petition also at-
tended the Bowdoin Student Govern-
ment meeting on Wednesday evening.
They explained the goals of the petition
and debriefed the meeting that they had
with Rose, as well as gauged broader stu-
dent support for the petition.
It was clear that students were really
supportive of the petition and wanted to
find ways in which they could fill in those
gaps or fill in the requests of the petition.
I think if anything the Bowdoin Student
Government showed what kind of school
we go to, said Nakamora-Koyama. So
even if the administration might not be
willing to do something students are and
students are trying to have the most im-
pact that they can without the administra-
tion being involved.
At the time the organizers met with
Rose the petition had 308 signatures. As
emphasis on diplomacy.
The Foreign Service remains a
reservoir of talent available to the
president and the secretary of state;
the opposition in its ranks to the
administrations ill-considered ban
on immigration from some Muslim
countries, revoking visas already
granted, shows that its basic reflex-
es remain sound, he said. But its
role in todays militarized national
security process is much dimin-
ished.
Pope argued that this shift has
derived as a reactionary force to
globalization and that to counter-
balance the strong forces of global-
ization, the world has begun to re-
sort to old orders and alliances.
The world is not flattening out
into a homogeneous liberal eco-
nomic and political order. On the
contrary, tectonic forces of global-
ization are generating new moun-
tains and valleys along old stress
fractures, he said.
JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
you have a student who is coming to
of Thursday night it had 322 signatures.
An older version of the petition had
indicated that the signees would partici-
pate in a walk-out from classes should the
demands go unmet. After students ex-
pressed concern over this particular tac-
tic, the organizers decided to not pursue a
walk-out and organized the rally in Smith
Union instead.
The organizers said that the fate of the
petition will depend on what students say
at the rally in Smith Union on Friday.
[The petition] depends on the stu-
dent bodys response and if students
see that President Rose still hasnt done
enough and there are ways in which he
still hasnt done enough then absolutely
we would be there to stand with whoever
thought that President Rose could do
more and the reasons why because I feel
like the College should always be pushed
to be better, said Nakamura-Koyama.
In the phone interview, Rose expressed
his support for the rally.
I think its great for students to come
together to talk about the things they care
deeply about and to try to figure out how
to have some impact on the problem, and
[if this meeting] will be helpful in some re-
gard then I think thats fantastic, he said.
Rose said that the meetings with the
Trustees will be going on during the rally
and that he regretted that he probably
would not be able to attend, but that the
Trustees will likely discuss the immigra-
tion ban and the petition.
news 5
Student reactions to the talk were
largely positive.
I thought that his discussion
of the revenge of globalization was
especially interesting and relevant,
and his call for the U.S. to renew
their focus on the international in-
stitution that weve built up for the
last seventy years was especially im-
portant, said Aidan French 18.
It was interesting to hear a more
historically informed perspective on
the implications of Trumps foreign
policy and military intentions, said
Emilie Montgomery 18.
Pope closed by offering Bowdoin
students a piece of advice.
The choices you make will define
you, just as they defined my fathers
generation and my own, he said. So
let me make one suggestion: no mat-
ter where your studies take you, take
a moment to reflect on the right uses
of American power in the world. It
will not be a theoretical proposition
for your generation.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
ed that the state has reasons to hold
residency requirements, especially for
individuals who are only living in the
state temporarily.
If youre voting, youre claiming
you are a Maine resident. So being a
Maine resident, you have rights, like
you have the right to vote in Maine,
but you also have these responsibili-
ties, such as [paying] income tax, reg-
istering your car, things that the state
has an interest in, Lucy said. If youre
a resident, the state understandably
doesnt want you picking and choos-
ing what youre doing.
He added that Bowdoin students
who come from out of state do not
always have the best understanding of
Maines politics.
You could certainly make the ar-
gument that the state has a vested
interest in prioritizing the policy
views of people who plan to be in
the state long term, he said. So
Mainein some cases theyve never
been north of the Bowdoin campus.
They dont necessarily have a great
grasp [of ] the state.
At the same time, Lucy said that
encouraging political engagement
including votingamong Bowdoin
students should always be a priority.
We certainly want to encourage
students to be active in Maine poli-
tics, he said. Students call Maine
their home for the most part and I
think anything that would hamper
that would potentially be disruptive.
Elise Morano 20, who is from New
Jersey, registered to vote in Maine last
fall. She found the process very easy
and said it took less than 10 minutes.
In an Orient survey conducted pri-
or to the presidential election last No-
vember, 44.8 percent of Bowdoin stu-
dents who responded said they were
registered to vote in Maine.
Morano said she was unsure if
she would have been able to register
if the new residency requirements
were passed.
I didnt pay income tax. I dont
have a car. I dont know if I could get
a Maine drivers license. I dont know
what that would entail, she said.
The bill is one of two addressing
voting rights in Maine this legislative
session. L.D. 121An Act To Re-
quire Photographic Identification to
Votewould require voters to pres-
ent a photo identification when vot-
ing in future elections.

6 the bowdoin orient
Swanson 18 turns family
scenes to artful screens
BY ROHINI KURUP
ORIENT STAFF
Television screens in trees may seem
unusual, but for junior Nevan Swanson,
it was just part of the artistic process.
Titled Screens, Swansons summer
photography project aims to explore
associations with screens, their content
and their environment. The project is
currently on display in the Edwards
Center for Art and Dance.
Over the course of the project, Swan-
son recorded videos on his familys old
camcorder once used for home mov-
ies, treating it as a visual diary. He
played the videos on television screens
in different locations, which he pho-
tographed by either freezing certain
frames or doing long exposures.
Through the images, he attempts to
show a layering of time and the overlap
of moments that took place in the past
as they may appear in the present.
Life in the present can be different
because of the context, Swanson said.
Swanson took his photos with a
medium-format film camera, which al-
lowed him to create high quality images
without the comfort and immediacy of
a digital camera. The images were shot
primarily in Mainearound Lisbon
Falls, Brunswick and Bar Harborand
also in his home in Connecticut.
At the start of the project, Swanson
was unsure of what direction to take
and was driven to try a variety of op-
tions.
I was trying to experiment as much
as I could with what I wanted to do, the
types of pictures I wanted to take and
how I wanted to take them, Swanson
said. This opportunity was both rare
and valuable.
According to Swanson, the freedom
Zum Martin Sepp Ros 2012 proves to be a cool guy wine
BOTTOM OF
THE BARREL
WILL SCHWELLER AND JUSTIN RAMOS
Schweller: Moulton Light Room
breakfaster, grew a mustache all
summer, has a pretentious major,
has worn his beanies super far back
on his head, doesnt eat meat, brews
his own beer, the little-known Bow-
doin Don Dada of the Birkenstock
clog, lives in Cleave
Ramos: Sneaky theater guy, lis-
tened to Vampire Weekend in 07,
thinks La La Land is straight hype,
macaroni art enthusiast, not as
crunchy as Will, lives in Cleave
A lot of the time, we sacrifice for
you folks. We drink duds so that we
can create amusing musings tangen-
tially related to said duds so that you
can read them out of sympathy for
us, but you never leave the exchange
between author and reader feel-
ing like you want to go out and buy
the duds and drink them and share
in our experience. This week your
columnists were feeling like ~cool
guys~, and ~cool guys~ dont buy
just any old dud. So we made a trip
towards Tess Market over on Pleas-
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to experiment was liberating.
I cant do that all the time here. I
dont have the ability to break away
from one certain idea and just go off on
that idea for a long time.
Swanson received the Patterson Re-
search Fellowship last year, which sup-
ports student research over the sum-
mer months. The funds allowed him to
spend his summer in Maine pursuing
an independent photography project
under the mentorship of Associate Pro-
fessor of Art Michael Kolster.
Charlotte Youkilis contributed to
this report.
PRESS PLAY: Nevan Swanson 18
recorded videos on his familys old camcorder
and photographed the resulting products as
they played on television screens. His work is on
display in Edwards Center for Art and Dance.
ant Street for some ~cool guy~ wine.
And ~cool guy~ wine did we
find in the Zum Martin Sepp
Ros 2012.
This pale, pale, pale,
ros wine is mysterious.
Elusive. Found covered
in dust on the floor of a
narrow row in the back of
Tess Market, the bottle is
shaped weirdly relative to
your standard Hannys fare.
The bottle is squat, probably
a 1-liter. Instead of a cork, it
had a beer cap, which to Will
suggests some sort of small-
time, back-alley secretlike this
wine was quickly bottled and then
hidden away. The label is simple,
slightly faded and torn. The wine is
advertised as an Austrian ros, and
the label bears a street address in
Vienna. Perhaps that of the vintner
who so carefully stashed this bottle
on Pleasant Street for us to find. De-
scribed on the back of the bottle as
a dry red wine reminiscent of Pinot
Noir, the Zweigelt grapes promised
to create a wine complex, spicy, sug-
gestive of times spent discussing
Das hollndische Gruppenportrt
with Riegl before the War. The fact
that the wine was called simply Ros
friday, february 10. 2017
COURTESY OF NEVAN SWANSON
should have been a suggestion that about, making all kinds of noise. It
we were in for light fare, tastes like jumping into Sewell Pond ADDITIONAL NOTES
but regardless we were from the rope swing and stopping at
surprised as all get- DQ on the way back. But, FR FR, it
out when we poured only tastes like this for like a milli-
a liquid the color of a second. Then it tastes dry. Like lick- Tonights Soundtrack: LOL :-)
pinkish-yellow fit for ing a dogs bone two seasons after
a nursery. it buried it dry. Clean. Like straight by Trey Songz feat. Gucci Mane and
We first tasted the booze, sucking the moisture out of Soulja Boy Tell Em
wine very lightly your mouth. But in a good way. It
chilled. It smelled makes you think. Several friends
big. In your face. who sipped this sweet (sweet only
JNCO jean big. in the sense of sweet juice being a
Justin: Hot take: being sick is not a
It tastes, upon common turn-of-phrase, and com- ~cool guy~ move.
first sip, like a mon turns-of-phrase [not to men-
summer spent tion overly complex sentences] [or
in Brunswick semi-niche hip-hop references] be- Will: This is honestly the first wine
Apartment K3. It ing our bread and butter [see what
tastes like keep- we mean]) juice commented on
that I want to buy multiple bottles of
ing the windows their fondness for it. to drink. Really, genuinely, liked it, no
open at night even Public Service Announcement:
though folks are wine is good. Being sick is bad.
poorly conceived jokes needed.
outside milling One of the reasons being sick is
bad is that it makes wine, which is
good, taste bad. For our sniffling
and sneezing columnist, Justin, this
Nose:
~cool guy~ wine had a lot of antic- Legs:
ipation. But ultimately it tasted
like dry water with a boozy af- Mouthfeel:
ter taste. So, for those afflicted
with the common cold, leave Taste:
the ~cool guy~ wine for an-
BROOKE GODDARD other time. Overall:
friday, february 10, 2017
How the subtleties within our language affect those who hear us
BEN YORK
AN AUTISTICS GUIDE
TO AUTISM
The ways in which we use language
reflect how we think about the world.
The words we use to describe someone
or something are indicative of how
we view that someone or something.
There are different ways that we can
talk about things, and those ways of
speaking telegraph our explicit and
implicit beliefs about those things.
More specific to the topic of this col-
umn, there are different ways of talking
about autism. In general, there are two
different ways that people talk about
autism. Most people arent aware of
the implicit assumptions of those view-
points, but they are there, and they
have meaning.
To me this difference in viewpoint
through language can best be exem-
plified by whether someone refers to
another person as an autistic person
BEHIND THE NAMETAG
From Bulgaria to Brunswick: MacKillops work goes beyond the bookstore
BY ELEANOR PAASCHE
ORIENT STAFF
Radka MacKillop is a Renaissance
woman. A Mainer by way of Bulgaria,
she is a scholar of both German and
cinematic studies, a library volunteer, a
former member of the television indus-
try and a lover of the wilderness.
MacKillop was born in Sofia, Bul-
garia. Before moving to Brunswick
in 2011, she had a career in television
broadcasting for the Bulgarian National
Television Station. While there, she met
her husband, who was working in the
companys Macedonia office. The cou-
ple now has two sons.
MacKillop and her family fell in love
with Maine after spending several va-
cations in Georgetown, about 20 miles
from Brunswick. After years of travel-
ing around for her husbands work, the
or as a person
with autism. For now, I
will focus on the mean-
ing of the latter.
Consider what we
mean when we say that
a person has autism or
that they are a person
with autism. What are
some other things that we
refer to in this way? Well, a
person might have a chair, or
a home or a desk. These are con-
crete objects, things to hold and
possess. We also say that people
family settled down in Brunswick, a
coastal college town where they could
take advantage of the resources the Col-
lege has to offer.
Although she has embraced life in
Maine, MacKillop misses her friends
and the vibrancy of a big city like Sofia.
There arent many opportunities
here to sit in a caf and talk, thats the
thing that I miss, MacKillop said.
Before she began working at the
Bowdoin Store in August of 2016,
MacKillop spent two years immersing
herself in Maine culture and working at
L.L.Bean.
MacKillop said her favorite thing
about her job at Bowdoin is the Col-
leges community.
My colleagues are very nice, under-
standing and helpful, she said. Com-
municating with young people is always
fun, which is most of my work.
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fun, which is most of my work.
RADKA MACKILLOP
She has also enjoyed observing and
participating in the campus efforts to
be environmentally friendly.
In her time here, MacKillop has
noticed other commonalities among
many Mainers.
I like that there are many people
that are not just trying to work 24
hours a day and make a lot of money
but they are trying to balance [work]
with having some time for leisure ac-
tivities, she said.
In her free time, MacKillop vol-
unteers at the Brunswick Public Li-
brary and audits classes at the College.
MacKillop has taken Cinema History I
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have cancer or
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logical ailments,
w h i ch w h i l e
more abstract
than chairs and
desksare still
things, related
to but separate
from the indi-
vidual to whom we
refer. It is in this cat-
egory that we place autism
when we say that someone has
autism. We are saying that autism is
a thing, distinct from the individual
who has it.
There is another view of autism,
which we reference when we say
that someone is an autistic person.
This does not use the word autism
to refer to a thing, a noun. Our use of
autism here is as an adjective, a de-
scribing word. Here we say that some-
and II, as well as courses in German.
She is now in her third semester with
the language.
Ive always liked to study German
but Ive never found the time for it, so
this was such a great opportunity to
take a class, she said.
She spent years trying to teach her-
self the language, but without the struc-
ture found in Bowdoin classes, it was
difficult to stay on track.
I learned a lot from both the cinema
studies department and the German
department, I dont have enough words
to say how thankful I am and how much
I am enjoying the classes, she said.
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one has the quality of being autistic, i.e.
that autism is a quality, and that that
quality is a part of the person we are
referring to.
This may seem like a merely syn-
tactic difference, of no importance to
anyone but the grammarian. However,
in my experience this distinction can
mean a great deal to the person being
referred to. As I have said before, when
we refer to others as being persons
with autism, we are indicating that
autism is a thing separate from the
individual. In our society, this often
comes with the connotation of autism
being a bad thing, in the same way that
it is bad to be a person with cancer:
something that someone does not want
and should not want to have. It is that
connotation that I am fundamentally
opposed to, and it is that connotation
that I believe we avoid when we refer
to people as autistic. By referring
to autism as a quality, we change our
viewpoint to one in which autism is
an identity, a part of who a person is
rather than a thing a person has.
MacKillop enjoys being able to walk
straight from class to work on Mon-
day, Wednesday and Friday mornings
and being part of the Colleges com-
munity. Her favorite place to eat on
campus is Moulton.
I like the Hungarian mushroom
soup and the kale salad, she said.
While there are positive aspects
about being in Maine, it is difficult for
MacKillop to be away from the place
she lived for so many years. I miss that
atmosphere of the big city, but at the
same time I do enjoy the quietness. You
cant have everything.
MacKillop is looking forward to
the summer months when she can go
hiking in Baxter State Park and enjoy
the Maine wilderness. For now, she is
content knitting at home, listening to
Tchaikovsky operas and watching mov-
ies with her sons.
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8 features the bowdoin orient friday, february 10, 2017

ZOOMING IN:
POLAR EYES

ICONIC BOWDOIN TEXTURES

With graduation looming, I feel an early-onset nostalgia for everyday life at Bowdoin. This
photo essay presents a closer look at the patterns and textures that surround us on campus.
BY HANNAH RAFKIN
friday, february 10, 2017 the bowdoin orient 9

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

R&B artist ELHAE to perform for Black History Month
BY ELIZABETH FOSLERJONES
ORIENT STAFF
R&B and hip-hop artist ELHAE
will perform at Studzinski Recital
Hall tomorrow night in the first
collaborative show put on by the
African-American Society (Af-Am)
and WBOR, Bowdoins campus ra-
dio station.
This concert is a part of Black
History Month programming.
Were hoping to be able to draw a
lot of people from different parts of
the campus to get together and try
some new music out, said WBORs
concert director Nick Benson 17,
who co-planned the event.
The choice to hold the perfor-
mance in Studzinski was both a
practical and atmospheric one: it has
an almost 300-person capacity and
the auditorium lends itself to a more
calmer, more controlled setting.
At this point, [my music is] very
melodic, chords-driven. I love dark
chords and very ambiance, vibe-y
tracks on top of hard hitting drums,
said ELHAE, which stands for Ev-
ery Life Has An Ending, in a phone
interview with the Orient.
ELHAE is a slower type of music.
Its not fast paced or anything, it is a
little more R&B, so I think there will
be good vibes, said Af-Am minister of
public relations Lydia Godo-Solo 17.
Although Studzinski generally
hosts classical and jazz concerts,
the auditorium was designed to ac-
commodate various music styles.
Depending on the performance,
curtains can be deployed to absorb
sound reflection and shape the re-
sponse of the room.
For instance, for something like
ELHAEs performance, which will
be a little more percussiveand its
contemporary music stylingwe
tend to dampen the reverberation
of the room, said Chris Wilkenson,
adjunct lecturer in music and recital
hall technical director.
In terms of a visual aesthetic, art-
ists perform on a bare stage with
minimal light and backdrops. This
contributes to the small, intimate
feeling of the auditorium.
We try to let the artist present
themselves in their own right as best
they can, said Wilkenson.
For ELHAE, this means perform-
ing what he knows best: songs from
his first album, Aura, which he re-
leased as an EP in 2015.
Nine times out of 10 thats where
a lot of people have heard me from,
said ELHAE.
He also plans to perform a few
songs from his most recent album,
All Have Fallen, which debuted last
March.
ELHAE compared the process of
writing songs to his childhood hob-
by of coloring.
When I was a child, I used to
have my coloring books and I would
trace the lines first with a crayon
and then once I had the lines per-
fect, thats when I would go in and COURTESY OF DANNY FOSTER
color in the picture, said ELHAE.
For him, tracing the picture is
equivalent to murmuring in the
studio. Once he develops a melody
from that murmur, he begins to
write the lyrics. The lyrics are him
coloring in his picture.
ELHAE grew up in Georgia and
has always been interested in pur-
suing musicboth his mother and
grandmother sang in church choirs.
He began writing songs when he was
12 and then started working in the
studio a few years later. JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
I always knew that I was going ON A HIGH NOTE: (TOP:) Atlanta-based R&B artist ELHAE. ELHAE will visit campus on Saturday to perform hits from his first album,Aura.(BOTTOM:)
to do something with music. I didnt Studzinski Recital Hall, which will host Saturdays concert, was chosen as the venue for its seating capacity, acoustics and sound absorption.
know what it was going to beei-
ther behind the scenes or in front of
the camera, said ELHAE. I had no sequel, Aura II, at the end of this songs. music heard globally is the end goal.
idea, but turns out Im in front of the month. Ultimately, ELHAE hopes Helping people through my music ELHAE will perform tomorrow
camera. that people will be able to relate to is what Im here to do, he said. So in Studzinski Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Following a successful release of his music and connect with the per- hopefully making that on a bigger Tickets are free and available at
Aura, ELHAE plans to debut the sonal situations he talks about in his scale, a grander scalegetting the the door.

Black keys, black music: notes on cultural heritage and sound

CONNOR MOORE
TO THE CROSSROADS
One of my first memories of mak-
ing music involved me sitting on my
grandmothers lap in front of her
drawbar organ when I was about
five years old. Whenever Id visit her,
I would stand in her living room,
basking in the glow of the light re-
flected off the varnished and oiled
wood panels of the majestic Ham-
mond M3. When I was feeling bold,
I would sit at the bench and play with
the pearlescent switches, keys and
knobs, unsure as to what I was con-
trolling but engrossed in the fantasy
that I was making music.
Eventually, the day came that my
grandmommy sat down with me at
the bench. The first thing she showed
me was how to make a C-major
scale out of the white keys. That was
simple enough, and once I could do
that, she went on to show me how to
make it good and bluesy. She point-
DIANA FURUKAWA ed out which black keys I could tick-
le in order to change the aesthetic
character of the music to something
more soulful.
Although I didnt realize it at the
time, this exchange represented the
passing down of a diasporic cultural
tradition from one generation to
another. When Africans were first
brought to the Americas as slaves,
they brought with them a rich and
nuanced musical tradition. This tra-
dition included musical concepts
and approaches to music making
that hitherto had not been explored
in Western music. Among these are
the idea of call-and-response, the use
of syncopated rhythms, an emphasis
on lyrical and musical improvisa-
tion and the extensive employment
of blue notes. In showing me which
black keys to tickle whilst playing in
C major, my grandmother was in fact
teaching me how to incorporate blue
notes into my music making, thereby
passing down an important tradition
that goes all the way back to Africa.
Throughout the history of Ameri-
can culture, black music has acted
as the vessel in which certain facets
of African culture and artistic ex-
pression have been retained. Rather
than letting their cultural identity be
erased by the institution of chattel
slavery, the Africans who were forced
to come to America preserved their
cultural identity through song and
dance. Eventually, these Africanisms
found their way into the mainstream
musical consciousness and became
jazz, gospel, blues, rock and hip-hop.
These Africanisms were central to
the development of nearly every kind
of American music genre.
For example, rock n roll music
(and all its derivative genres) is based
heavily off of blues music. Blues mu-
sic, in turn, is characterized by its
emphasis on the use of blue notes.
The blues scale (a minor penta-
tonic scale with the addition of a
blue note in the form of a dimin-
ished fifth) is foundational to rock
music, and without the blue note, it
does not exist.
Similarly, Africanisms can been
found at the core of contemporary
innovations in music. The presence
of a hype man in the background of
a hip-hop track ( la Waka Flocka
Flame shouting Brick Squad or
making gun noises in the back-
ground of all of his songs) is a fairly
recent development. This is a great
example of call-and-response, where
the claim of the artist acts a call, and
the affirmation and echoing of the
sentiment by the hype man acts as the
response. Moreover, the now-famous
and much-lauded Migos flow is an-
other contemporary innovation root-
ed in Africanisms. The groups style
is unique in that it is based around
cross-rhythm (another African-
ism)lyrics are delivered in bursts
of eighth-note triplets over beats that
are generally in duple meter.
My grandmother has been dead
for about 10 years now, and that
beautiful Hammond M3 that I had
hoped to inherit was eventually re-
possessed by the bank. However, the
impact my grandmother made on
me at that keyboard was profound
and has stayed with me ever since.
She introduced me to a musical tra-
dition that stretches back hundreds
of years and thousands of miles.
10 a&e
In new book, Kolster captures legacies of once-polluted Atlantic rivers
BY BRENDAN PULSIFER
ORIENT STAFF
What started as simple curiosity
turned into a meaningful adventure for
Associate Professor of Visual Arts Mi-
chael Kolster. His new book, Take Me to
the River, explores four rivers stories of
contamination, neglect and restoration.
Environmental photography and
history are not new topics for Kolster.
Originally from the West Coast, he has
worked on projects examining natural
transformations in San Francisco, Los
Angeles and New Orleans. Around
2008, he became particularly interested
in the Androscoggin River, which runs
through Brunswick and would become
the eventual inspiration for the book.
At first, I felt like by studying the
Androscoggin, I could get the know
the place Im living in a little bit bet-
ter, said Kolster. The Androscoggin
was one of the most polluted rivers in
the United States, and now its a place
full of life, where people are frequently
spending time.
Kolsters fascination with the An-
droscoggin led him to find rivers with
similar stories. His search took him all
the way down the Eastern seaboard as
he documented the three other rivers
that are also featured in his bookthe
Schuylkill in Pennsylvania, the James
in Virginia and the Savannah, which
defines the border between South Car-
olina and Georgia.
These rivers were sewers, said Kol-
the bowdoin orient
ster. Nowadays, they are cleaner, but
perceptions are slower to change. Its an
interesting moment in their transition
where theyre just starting to become
noticed as valuable property.
To capture these rivers perfectly
through a camera, Kolster used ambro-
types, positive images formed on an
8-by-10 inch glass plate. The process is
done completely by hand and is quite
laboriousKolster had to bring a por-
table darkroom to the riverside with
him, where he poured chemicals on the
wet plate to prepare, develop and var-
nish the image. But the final product,
he said, is worth the extra effort.
People say, Why bother? You can
make things with a phone. But there
were these imperfections that would
COURTESY OF MIKE KOLSTER
speak back to me as I made the pic-
tures, he said. It reinforces this cor-
relation between the unstable and dy-
namic qualities of subject that I was
photographing and the actual images
themselves. It was a wet process photo-
graphing a wet subject.
For this project, Kolster teamed up
with Bowdoin Associate Professor of
History Matthew Klingle to collect oral
histories from Maine residents about
the Androscoggin.
After conducting dozens of infor-
mal interviews in order to understand
Mainers relationship to their environ-
ment, Klingle wrote a series of essays
for the book that were heavily influ-
enced by these stories. Most notably,
Klingle observed the generational
friday, february 10, 2017
IN FOCUS: (TOP:)From Chestnut Street
Bridge.(BOTTOM:)Percivals Island (left) and
Rice Center Trees in Cove (right). These images
are selected from Professor of Visual Arts Michael
Kolsters book,Take Me to the River. Kolster
discussed the book last night in Kresge Auditorium
at a panel in celebration of its publication. Kolster
used a 19th-century photographic process called
wet-plate collodion to produce false negatives
on glass that become positives once set against
a black background. Using this method, Kolster
photographed four rivers on the East Coast of the
United States: the Androscoggin in Maine, the
Schuylkill in Pennsylvania, the James in Virginia and
the Savannah on the border of Georgia and South
Carolina. All four of these rivers were once famously
polluted and since have been cleaned up.
divides between older people who
thought of the river as polluted and
younger people who saw its pristine
beauty in the community.
Although the release of this book
represents the end of a journey that
started in 2011, Kolster not leave the
rivers he visited. His next project will
take him to Hawaii for another work
focused on environmental history,
but for now, Kolster can look out to-
wards his backyard and marvel at
the Androscoggin.
A panel and discussion was held
last night at Kresge Auditorium in cel-
ebration of the books release. Panelists
shared their thoughts on the making of
the book and its larger significance in
the community.

friday, february 10, 2017
Mens track
takes silver
at Maine
State Meet
BY ROITHER GONZALES
ORIENT STAFF
At the Maine State Meet last
Saturday, the Bowdoin mens track team
was unable to defend its title despite
outstanding individual performances,
falling to Bates by nine points.
Being close doesnt necessarily
make it easier. Sometimes it hurts
more, said Assistant Coach Damon
Hall 09. There were a few events
that could have gone our way. Track
is where hundredths of a second and
inches really make a huge difference,
and we have to do what we really
need to do to make sure we have those
next time around. We look forward to
seeing [those teams] again.
Last year we won, this year we
got second, said Brian Greenberg
18. And thats especially brutal
because every individual person on
the team feels like they could have
made the difference.
While the meets result was
disappointing, the team put together
a number of standout performances
on the weekend. A strong showing
from Greenberg earned him the Peter
Goodrich Award for Outstanding
Field Athlete for the second year after
winning the triple jump and placing
second in the long jump.
[Greenberg] had a great
performance, said Hall. A personal
best in the triple jump, a really
outstanding performancehe was
really fired up, and he definitely
deserved that award. He gets
everybody involved; the entire team
gets behind him and supports him.
The jumps are usually one of the first
things that start the meet, so he can be
a good catalyst for others performing
later in the day.
In addition to Greenberg, the
Womens basketball enters senior weekend on six-game win streak
BY DAVID BROWER
ORIENT STAFF
On Tuesday, the womens basket-
ball team extended its win streak to
six games and improved its over-
all record to 18-3 with a 96-65 win
over Husson (17-3). The dominant
performance by the Polar Bears set a
new Bowdoin record with 15 three-
pointers in a single game. The team is
currently ranked 3rd in the NESCAC
and 20th in the nation.
There have been many stand-out
performances by the Polar Bears over
the course of their win streak. This
week, Maddie Hasson 20 was named
Freshman of the Week by the Maine
Womens Basketball Coaches Associ-
ation after shooting 10 out of 10 from
the floor for 22 points last Friday
at Hamilton (10-10, 3-5 NESCAC).
Taylor Choate 19 has led the team in
scoring in its last two games, racking
up 12 points in each.
Much of the teams success comes
from its fast tempo and fierce press,
SPORTS
OFF TO THE RACES: (TOP:) Liam Nicoll 18 takes o in the first leg of the 4x400-meter relay, which the Polar Bears won by .18 seconds.
(RIGHT:) Sean MacDonald 19 leads the pack in the 4x800 relay. (LEFT:) Hideyoshi Akai 19 sprints to the finish line in the 400-meter dash.
teams 4x400-meter relay won its
race and John Pietro 18 won the
shot put and placed second in the
weight throw.
There were a few things that we
did really well, said Hall. I was
pretty happy with the performance
of our throwerswe outscored the
competition overall in the throws, and
we were happy to see that. The hurdles
were another great event for us, so
those were the two areas where we
particularly excelled.
which is only possible because of its
impressive depth and team chemistry.
Its incredible because were so
deep and so we have a lot of fresh legs
so we get to push the ball in transi-
tion a lot, which is a huge strength of
ours, captain Marle Curle 17 said.
Our team chemistry and our abil-
Moving forward and in postseason play, its
important to play for your team and to not pay
attention to who the other jersey is.
MARLE CURLE 17
ity to connect with each other off the
court has definitely led to much of
our success this year.
Whenever someone makes a big
stop on defense or sinks a deep shot,
the Polar Bear sideline erupts with
celebration. Building this camarade-
rie is very important to Head Coach
Adrienne Shibles and greatly influ-
ences her recruiting policies.
I think we try to identify student
athletes in the recruiting process
Although the team did well, the
meet highlighted areas that still need
improvement, and the team hopes to
better capitalize on future meets.
The state meet was an opportunity
that we might have let get away, and we
dont want to repeat that in the future,
said Hall. So, I think that were going
to maximize or do more to fully reach
our potential this outdoor season and
the coming season as well.
This weekend, the team will travel
to Boston University for the David
who are really selfless, and passion-
ate about the game and being a great
teammate, Shibles said. The people
that we brought in have formed this
special bond and combined with the
strong leadership of those that have
been in the program for four years.
Its something thats really truly
unique in college sports today.
Heading into senior weekend, the
team will host fellow NESCAC com-
petitors Wesleyan (7-13, 1-7 NES-
CAC) and Connecticut College (16-
6, 4-4 NESCAC). The team hopes to
continue to improve its rebounding
and defense in order to secure two
victories this weekend.
We want to put our best foot for-
ward this weekend since these are
two great teams, said Shibles. They
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hemery Invitational as they gear up
for championship season.
We just need to work to make
sure that were prepared, said Hall.
We need to bring along the younger
guys. The top athletes need to show
their talent when it most matters in
these big meets, so track is kind of a
sport where you build to the season
and peak at the right time. We just
have to make sure that everybody
who is trying to peak is there and
ready to go.
are also two big teams so rebounding
is going to be a major focus. Keeping
them off the glass will definitely be
necessary for success.
Two in-conference wins would
set the Polar Bears up well for the
NESCAC championship, where
they hope to qualify for the NCAA
Division III championships for the
fourth straight year. As undefeated
Amherst leads both the league and
the nation, followed closely by Tufts
(21-1, 8-1 NESCAC), the NESCAC
tournament will undoubtedly be
hard-fought.
With such stiff competition, the
team has found continued success by
honing in on its own strengths.
I just think moving forward and
in postseason play, its important to
play for your team and to not pay at-
tention to who the other jersey is,
Curle said. If we just play our game,
Im sure well do great.
The team will first face Wesleyan
at 7 p.m. on Friday, followed by Conn
College on Saturday at 3 p.m.
the bowdoin orient 11
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
Staying sharp. The womens
ice hockey team (11-7-3, 6-5-2
NESCAC) gears up for a tough
faceoff this weekend against
league-leader Connecticut Col-
lege (13-6-2, 9-4 NESCAC). In
their previous matchup, the Po-
lar Bears dominated the Camels
in a 3-0 shutout win that fea-
tured an outstanding 24 saves by
Kerri St. Denis 19. Bowdoin is
coming off a hard-fought week-
end at Hamilton (12-6-2, 7-4-1
NESCAC), who is currently sec-
ond in the NESCAC standings.
They split the weekend series,
earning a 2-1 win last Friday, but
falling 3-2 in overtime on Satur-
day. The team will take on Conn
College on Saturday at 3 p.m. in
Watson Arena.
Top talent. The nordic ski
team put forward an impressive
team performance at the Univer-
sity of Vermont last weekend. In
the mens 10k classic, the team
placed two racers in the top 10
for the first time since 2008, with
Malcolm Groves 17 placing 8th
and Sean Cork 19 placing 10th,
followed by Orion Watson 20
in 25th and Jake Adicoff 18 in
26th. Hannah Miller 17 led the
women with a 17th place finish
in the classic and Lily Johnston
20 took 52nd for the top wom-
ens race in the sprint. The team
will travel to Dartmouth this
weekend for its next carnival.
Coming up short. Last
weekend, the womens and mens
squash teams competed in the
NESCAC championships, placing
sixth and eighth respectively. The
mens team defeated Hamilton in
the opening round before losing
to Bates, Amherst and Wesleyan,
while the womens team beat
Hamilton and Tufts, but fell
to Williams and Amherst. The
teams will close out the regular
season today against Colby in a
rescheduled match at home.
On thin ice. Mens ice hockey
(8-12, 5-9 NESCAC) heads to
Connecticut this weekend to face
fellow conference competitors
Wesleyan (11-5-4, 6-4-4 NES-
CAC) and Trinity (11-6-3, 7-5-2
NESCAC) as they look to hold
onto a NESCAC playoff berth.
The team is currently ranked
eighth in the league with four
games left in the regular season,
making each match critical to the
teams postseason hopes.
COMPILED BY ANJULEE BHALLA
12 sports the bowdoin orient friday, february 10, 2017

JUST WANNA HAVE FUN: National Girls and Women in Sports Day drew (TOP:) Eve Allen 19, (RIGHT:) Caroline Corban17, (BOTTOM:)
Morgane Ponen 18 and local girls to Farley Field House for a day of athletics, empowerment and community building with the Polar Bears.

Record numbers at girls in sports day

BY ANJULEE BHALLA
ORIENT STAFF
On Sunday, a record number of
more than 300 girls from midcoast
Maine flooded Farley Field House
for the Colleges National Girls and
Women in Sports Day program. The
theme of the day, as Assistant Coach
of Womens Soccer Ellery Gould 12
said, was empowerment.
The girls rotated through 11
different stations run by Bowdoin
student athletes. Many tried sports
such as sailing, field hockey, track and
field, soccer, rowing, rugby, ultimate
frisbee, basketball, tennis, lacrosse
and softball for the first time.
The athletic department has
organized the program for the past
15 years to celebrate National Girls
and Women in Sports Day and to
bring Bowdoin student-athletes
and community members together
through sport. According to Ashmead
White Director of Athletics Tim Ryan,
community interest has continued to
grow every year.
The surge in interest in the event
is likely related to an increase in
advertising and outreach through
local schools and social media, an
effort Gould identified as one of the
main goals for this years program.
The early session brought over 200
girls in kindergarten through third
grade and the afternoon brought
an additional hundred girls from
fourth to twelfth grade, in addition
to the many Bowdoin athletes and
coaches that helped organize and run
the stations.
I was only anticipating maybe
200 girls [in total] so I think the fact
that its grown so much is great, said
Gould. And the more that we can
grow it and get more girls involved,
the better.
The day provides girls in the
surrounding community an
opportunity to both try new sports
and learn more about familiar sports
in an enthusiastic and engaging
setting, while also gaining positive
role models. This years turnout
bodes well for the development of
the program.
In order for this event to be
successful you need all teams to
participate and to participate with
full enthusiasm about their sport,
said Mettler Growney 17. That
happened and thats why we were
so successful and have been so
successful. It really starts with us and
we have the ability to get younger
girls in the area interested.
The tone for the day was set early
on, with the girls bringing eagerness
and excitement to each station.
The energy was really high and
I think that came from the girls just
being really excited, said Gould. And
then our students did a great job being
engaged and showing their passion for
their sport and their knowledge for
their sport, so they fed off the energy
of the little girls.
It was pretty organic. We werent
super rigid and it just flowed really
well. On the day, we had 200-plus
girls running in, so much energy,
theyre bouncing off the walls
and then we just brought them all
together and from there it ran itself
because of the students and how well
they were able to work with the little
ones, she added.
Growney noted the importance
of sparking interest in girls when
theyre youngespecially as similar
experiences led her to play both field
hockey and lacrosse at Bowdoin.
However, according to Growney,
the young girls arent the only ones
benefiting from the day.
Its such a great opportunity to give
back to the sport and younger girls in
the community, said Growney. It
feels good to give that back and to get
more girls excited and to kind of pass
the torch down. Its a really rewarding
experience to see these girls all excited
about a brand new sport and having
learned from other girls and women
in the community.
Gould found it gratifying to grow
interest in female athletes and to see
girls of all ages feel empowered to try
new things.
At the end of the day, I just felt
really accomplished, said Gould.
[The girls] confidence stepping right
into this new sport, grabbing a frisbee
for the first time or running into a
rugby pad and jumping with a rugby
ballto see these young girls come in
with so much energy and confidence
was really rewarding and exciting for
the future of womens athletics. ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Womens swimming and diving opens postseason with NESCAC championships at home
BY HARRY JUNG
ORIENT STAFF
The womens NESCAC swimming
and diving championship splashes
into the Leroy Greason Pool this
weekend, and the Polar Bear women
look to build upon a strong season
and break personal records at home.
Im really excited for the team to
come together and really bring extra
energy and excitement at home, said
captain Erin Houlihan 17.
The team, which won three of its
four NESCAC dual meets this season,
is anchored by captains Houlihan and
Isabel Schwartz 17. The team also
features Mariah Rawding 18, Ster-
ling Dixon 19 and Sophia Walker 17,
who all qualified for NCAA Champion-
ships within the past two years.
Earlier this season, Dixon was
named a NESCAC Performer of the
Week for her three first-place fin-
ishes in the meet against MIT and
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
While her season has featured cur-
rent best times of 25.46 seconds
in 50-yard freestyle and 1:53.33 in
200-yard freestyle, Dixon is still
looking to improve this weekend.
[Dixon] had very strong season in
a number of races, said Head Coach
Brad Burnham. For her, she still
wants to drop a quite of bit of time.
Looking at its results over the
course of the season, this years team
is very similar to last years, which
placed sixth at NESCACs. However,
the makeup of the squad has shifted
with more middle and long distance
and stroke swimmers.
We try really hard to treat it as a
team, like this is the 2016-17 team,
Burnham said. Expectations are al-
ways there to really see how much
you can improve and race every race
you can but not compare too much
to what we have done in the past.
Even though the team gradu-
ated five swimmers last year, the
Polar Bears continue to find success
through strong performances by first-
year swimmers.
We gained many important first
years who are integral to the team,
Houlihan said. A lot of people
stepped up and took leadership roles
and really have been working hard in
practice every day.
Two of the teams top swimmers,
Dixon and Walker, have been deal-
ing with injuries throughout the sea-
son but hope they will be ready to go
this weekend.
We have a few nagging injuries, but
[our swimmers] have done a fantastic
job of working around it, Burnham
said. We are not going to lower our
expectations because of that.
Two weeks ago, the team started ta-
pering in preparation for the upcoming
championship, meaning they are gradu-
ally swimming less and resting more.
On Wednesday, the team plans to bring
in Dr. Tiff Jones, a sport and psychology
consultant hired by the College, in order
to boost team chemistry and mentally
prepare before the meet.
The three-day, trials and finals
meet is taxing physically and men-
tally, and the team is honing in on
getting the most out of this weekend.
We teach them to figure out
what gets them ready to race, give
every race 100 percent effort and
try to recover as quickly from each
one as you can and spend the rest
of the time supporting teammates,
Burnham said.
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Academics in action
In the wake of the election, some professors have confronted our political
landscape in and out of the classroom, modeling healthy discussion, writ-
Voices against the merging
of marginalized identities
ing letters to President Trump and incorporating current events into their
curricula.
Last Friday, Professor of Government Paul Franco moderated an event
where attendees discussed the value of ideological diversity on campus. This
Thursday, a panel of professors from the government and legal studies de-
partment offered their perspectives on Trumps election and its implications. We, members of the student staffs sibility on these leaders. This may of women faculty and serving as
In January, Professors Mark Battle and Madeleine Msall partnered with of the Womens Resource Center consequently limit their role in sup- a sanctuary space. In the past 37
physics professors across the country to pen a letter to Trump advocating he (WRC) and Resource Center for porting students navigating queer years, the WRC has built upon its
take widely accepted ideas about climate change into account when making Gender and Sexual Diversity (RC- and womens identities. Supporting original mission, becoming a center
policy. GSD), do not support the adminis- intersectionality should not result that produces an extensive range of
In an Orient op-ed this week, Professor of History Patrick Rael argues that trations decision to merge the two in the consolidation and disintegra- programming. It is a historical cen-
a fierce commitment to politically neutral yet discerning academic values is centers. Queer students and women tion of support, spaces or services. If ter, a political center and a space for
more important now, in an era of alternative facts. have strived to create safe, indepen- the decision to merge reflected the grassroots thinking and organizing.
In addition, we have noticed some of our professors are integrating dis- dent spaces; administrators would needs of affected students, then the The RCGSD was created more re-
cussion of current political events into classes, giving an example of how the be remiss to consolidate them with administration would foster collab- cently to address issues specific to
knowledge and skills we are learning can be used to analyze, understand and one top-down decision. This deci- oration between the WRC and the the LGBTQIA+ communities that
influence the world. sion was made without input from RCGSD, rather than merge the two. were not found within other spaces.
For example, Assistant Professor of Government Maron Sorensons Judi- the affected students. We believe The proposed changes hinder ef- For many of us, these centers have
cial Politics course has left parts of the syllabus open to address the nomina- that this merge will hinder inclusiv- forts to increase inclusivity within been our refuges and our homes.
tion of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks. A class in ity, advocacy and visibility, reduce conversations about gender and In merging the two centers, these
the gender, sexuality and womens studies department has routinely been resources in leadership and con- sexuality. Although the merge seems spaces and their respective paral-
leaving time at the beginning of class to discuss news and current issues. found the missions of two marginal- to prioritize inclusion and inter- lel focito support, program and
A few classes addressing executive power and political regimes have high- ized groups. We request that the ad- sectionality, it abandons the aims advocate for women and queer stu-
lighted historical connections with the present. ministration reconsider the decision of each individual center to pro- dents of all backgroundsare lost.
In discussing the recent actions of our professors, we have been reminded to combine the Womens Resource mote inclusive and intersectional This merger represents a misguided
of the oft-repeated alumni line: Bowdoin taught me how to think. Likely, Center and Resource Center for programing. As separate entities, notion of intersectionality that
our professors have been teaching us how to think since we stepped foot Gender and Sexual Diversity. the WRC and RCGSD already face prioritizes breadth of inclusion in
on campus, but the immediate link between current events and professors Combining the WRC and the RC- challenges in reaching diverse seg- rhetoric over depth of purpose and
actions has made that much more apparent. We are learning to confront and GSD would obscure the focus of each ments of the student population. efficacy of service in practice.
evaluate ideas that oppose our own, to use our knowledge to encourage po- center: to serve and provide spaces Thus, moves to consolidate these The decision to merge the WRC
litical action and to use information and methodologies from the classroom for women and queer students. We centers while continuing to address and RCGSD demonstrates a lack
to solve problems other than those posed in homework assignments. recognize that these identities are issues of diversity and inclusion are of understanding of the needs of
While we have enumerated several positive examples, theres a sense on intertwined and intersectional and overly idealistic in their scope. In the student body as a whole. The
campus that many professors arent engaging substantively with current is- we support efforts to increase co- fact, the merger may have the un- Bowdoin administration should be
sues. Making time for this type of learning is especially important in this programming and collaboration intended consequence of repelling committed to valuing and respect-
new age. Professors should find a way to connect academics and current between the two centers. However, those who do not feel comfortable ing input from our student body
events, whether it be in or out of the classroom. Doing so shows us that our we strongly believe that meaningful approaching their gender and sexu- and those minority populations that
learning is relevant, giving us the intellectual tools to engage with the world and successful programming must ality as integrated identities. There- feel marginalized on our campus. In
using deeper frameworks of knowledge. be specific. While gender and sexu- fore, merging centers will come at response to Dean of Student Affairs
ality are intertwined concepts, they the cost of effective outreach to and Tim Fosters e-mail, we are ready to
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board,
require distinct needs for two differ- engagement with groups that are al- share our ideas and begin this con-
which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Meg
ent experiences of oppression. ready marginalized at the respective versation. We have common goals
Robbins and Joe Seibert.
The merge will diminish the vis- centers, particularly women of color, with the administration to continue
ibility of queer people and women queer people of color, people of dif- the support necessary for all stu-

Bowdoin Orient
The on Bowdoins campus. The centers ferent religious groups and gay men. dents on this campus, but we ask
will lose resources fundamental in As such, we do not recommend the that this be a collaborative effort.
supporting students, such as profes- merging of these two symbolic and We believe the proposed deans offer
sional and student staff and identi- functional spaces any more than valuable leadership to the various
ESTABLISHED 1871 ty-specific programming. The direc- we would the merging of the Afri- centers on campus, but each unique
tor and coordinator of the RCGSD can American Society and the Latin space requires individual attention.
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 and WRC, Kate Stern and Stephanie American Student Organization. The WRC and RCGSD must remain
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news Rendall, respectively, have been in- The name chosen by the admin- separate entities and deserve to be
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following professional journalistic standards in writing and reporting. The Orient is ing the leadership of the WRC and which erases the foundational his- This article was written by: Aman-
committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and
debate on issues of interest to the College community. the RCGSD means losing identifi- tory of women at the College. The da Spiller 17, Scout Gregerson 18,
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who serve distinct communities. port students during the shift to Toomey 17, Paul Cheng 17, Aliya
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Photo Editor Olivia Atwood Amanda Newman
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No one, of course; and this is the ciplines and I am confident that in any
Copy Editor Opinion Editor BY PATRICK RAEL
Web Editor OPED CONTRIBUTOR problem. Intellectual fearlessness rigorous, methodologically sound ex-
Marina Ao Julia ORourke
Grace Handler presumes that our central challenge is change, such notions would be swiftly
Dakota Grin President Clayton Rose has offered overcoming a fear of ideas. This inac- debunked as the pseudo-academic
James Little Lucia Ryan Page 2 Editor
Liza Tarbell Eleanor Paasche intellectual fearlessness as our pre- curately characterizes the concerns nonsense they are.
Data Desk ferred stance in responding to the that have been raised about the politi- The only thing I fear about such
Lexi Gray Sr. News Reporter Calendar Editor present political climate. The appeal cization of academic life and it diverts ideas is lending them a credibility in
Gideon Moore James Callahan Rohini Kurup of this formulation is clear. It seems our attention from the real challenge. academic discourse they in no way
Ste Chavez politically neutral, enjoining all to en- I do not fear ideasnot of those merit. I fear that it is not intellectual
Social Media Editor Cameron de Wet Business Manager gage in a wide range of ideas. It sug- who deny anthropogenic climate fearlessness that drives campuses to
Jono Gruber Maggie Coster gests that especially those in majority change, nor the Holocaust nor hu- acquiesce in promoting inflammatory
Vivien Lee positions should practice the toler- man evolution. Scientific racists and anti-intellectualism out of a concern
ance they preach. And in making the white supremacists, young-earth cre- for balance, but fear of political pres-
realm of ideas the terrain of debate, ationists and anti-vaccers are all ripe sure from those outside the academy
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it forestalls challenge. Who, after all, targets for reasoned discourse. I relish
The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions expressed in
the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors.
would take up the banner of intellec- the opportunity to engage any of their
tual fearfulness? arguments through our academic dis- Please see FEARLESSNESS, page 14
14 opinion
Career Plannings misguided
prioritization of lucrative fields
RACHEL BARON
ZERO CHILL
In November, I was particularly
struck by a poster produced by Bow-
doins Career Planning Center (CPC).
The poster was for an event titled Con-
sulting Across Sectors. While the mes-
sage in itself may not immediately ap-
pear harmful, its subtext screams, Dont
worry humanities majors! You too can
get a consulting job. The posters head-
line is ironically titled Broaden Your
Perspective, and I would suggest that
the CPC take some of its own advice.
Despite the CPCs pronouncements
that they will give advice on all profes-
sions, the reality is a little more skewed.
As the poster suggests, regardless of what
you are interested in, the CPC will sug-
gest you take a finance or consulting job.
In the CPCs video featuring last years
graduating seniorsa video which cur-
rent seniors attending the virtually man-
datory sessions have now seen twice
most of those interviewed had a job
in one of these two areas. A dispro-
portionate number of CPC
events address
professions in
these fields,
and a quick
scroll through
eBear will con-
firm this is the
type of job listed
most regularly.
It is abundantly
clear, despite the
CPCs protests
otherwise, that the
CPCs vision for most
Bowdoin students is a
corporate one.
The reason for this
seems obvious and
at first-glance may
seem unobjection-
ablejobs in finance
and consulting give graduates
Big fear, small talk: navigating conversation with anxiety
MAURICE ASARE
AFRICANXIOUS
My greatest fear has seven letters and
two syllables, but has no sound Silence.
The uncomfortable nature of silence
cannot be understated. Silence often
screams the loudest at the most inop-
portune moments; when we run into an
acquaintance at the printer or in line at
Moulton or Thorne. In order to alleviate
the discomfort of silence, we use small
talk as a placeholder. Silence can be awk-
ward and uncomfortable; therefore, it
must be avoided entirely. This fear of si-
lence often prompts us to engage in small
talk. This brief chatter, while tedious, is
a necessary ritual in everyday life. The
art of small talk may be something most
people take for granted, but the origins
of nearly all of our relationships can be
traced back to some variation of it.
As Bowdoin students, our small talk
often begins with the archetypal, How
are you?, or my personal favorite, How
was your break?, and ultimately lingers
frequently prestigious, well-paying jobs
right out of college. I am not claiming
here that jobs in finance and consult-
ing jobs are necessarily immoral or that
people who take these jobs are greedy.
Of course, people who wish to take con-
sulting jobs can do so and should look to
the CPC for advice.
Instead, my issue is with what I see as
a one-sided approach. Recently, a friend
of mine who is interested in political
non-profit work visited the CPC for ad-
vice. Rather than helping her, the CPC
representative told her the office was
advising people interested in this area
to consider finding jobs in corporate re-
sponsibility instead. This was reinforced
in the recent Non-Profit Symposium the
CPC held in which the keynote speak-
er was from JPMorgan
Chase and spoke on
corporate philan-
thropy and the
nonprofit sector.
The issue
with this
DIANA FURUKAWA
on to lamentations over the amount of
coursework or readings we have. Ive of-
ten found humor in the seemingly com-
petitive nature of these conversations be-
tween Bowdoin students alike. In a sense,
each student seems to try to convince the
other that he/she/they has more work.
This form of small talk seems to be
universal. We use it to commiserate; we
use it to bond and to reinforce our status
as members of a unified community. In
other words, all Bowdoin students are
able to rely on exchanges about work-
load as a pathway to actual conversation.
Hence, small talk is not only convenient,
but is also necessary. It is the gateway to a
richer, more meaningful discussion.
For many with anxiety, however, the
small talk that others engage in so easily
can sometimes feel out of reach. There is
plenty of literature that offers advice on
how to mitigate the stress-inducing na-
ture of these interactions. The solutions
that are offered seem to emphasize the
notion that the anxiety elicited by con-
versations is all in ones mind. Really?
Many of the articles that Ive read on this
topic stress the subjective nature of men-
tal disorder, while diminishing the ob-
the bowdoin orient
is that corporate responsibility and non-
profit work are not synonymous terms.
They have different aims and ends and
should not be conflated. Both types of
work may aim to improve society, but
non-profits structures and goals can be
vastly different than corporationsand
often may take aim at assumptions that
corporations hold dear. Further, the
reason to push corporate responsibility
seems to have a reason similar to the
push for finance and consulting: these
jobs will most likely be higher paying.
Again, the desire for a job in corporate
responsibility is entirely reasonable
but blurring the lines between non-
profit and corporate work is a disservice
to students who are interested in taking
another direction. Not all do-gooder
jobs are interchangeable.
While fortunately this Bowdoin stu-
dent did not take the CPCs advice to
heart, I cannot speak for others. Particu-
larly because in order to ever be able to
use eBear to apply for jobs as a senior,
students must meet with a CPC repre-
sentative. This creates an environment
where students who are forced or
are pressured into meeting with a
representative may be pushed
in this particular direction
when their actual interests
lie elsewhere.
The CPC should
work to expand
the range of its
programming
and services. If
it fails to do so,
it should make
its various events
optional. It may
be fine to promote
a viewpoint that is
focused on finance
and consulting, but
only if listening to this
viewpoint is voluntary.
Ultimately, the CPC is sup-
posed to be here to serve
us, and it can only do so
by accurately reflecting
our interests.
jective reality of its sufferers. Ive come to
realize that the issue for those with social
anxiety is not the small talk which elic-
its these nerve-wracking thoughts, but
rather the thoughts themselves.
Social interactions, such as these, can
incite an intense fear of judgment and
scrutiny. People with social anxiety
regularly face a series of self-critical
thoughts throughout a conversa-
tion. Typically, anxiety sufferers
avoid situations involving small
talk completely, because they are
certain that they will perform
poorly. If they do force them-
selves to endure it, they will face
an uncomfortable and nearly
unbearable level of nervousness.
As someone with anxiety, my
difficulty with small talk is a fre-
quent barrier to my social perfor-
mance. I sometimes find myself
struggling to fill silences with
statements lacking substance and
instead choose to remain silent.
While awkward small talk can be
nerve-wracking for anyone, those
who suffer from social anxiety are
more likely to stumble upon words or
FEARLESSNESS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13
who seek to exploit its very openness
to attack reasoned conversation in the
pursuit of their own power.
Intellectual fearlessness as yet of-
fers us only two choices: we can run
from ideas or we can engage them. As
I have not heard calls on campus to
cower from ideas we find too fright-
ening, perhaps we may all then safely
consider ourselves fearless engagers of
some sort.
The question, then, is not whether
we will engage controversial ideas, but
how. All ideas cannot deserve the same
consideration, after all; otherwise ev-
ery crackpot seeking a forum would be
entitled to one on campus, regardless
of the absurdity of their reasoning, the
cost of bringing them or their lack of
social significance.
A vast range of possibility remains
to be parsedfrom offering Milo Yi-
annopoulos ungodly sums of cash for
delivering a prominent and widely
promoted evening lecture in Kresge,
to classes in which small groups of stu-
dents and faculty subject close read-
ings of his speeches to critical analysis.
The good news is that we are well
positioned to do this work. Distin-
guishing between the relative merits
of arguments, and deciding whether
or how we wish to address them as an
academic communitythat is what
faculty members trained for and what
we are charged to teach. It is our ex-
act purpose.
Are Richard Lynns claims that race
maps IQ differences best taught in a
biology course on human evolution,
or an anthropology course on the de-
velopment of scientific racism? Should
we study Holocaust denial as one
among many plausible historical inter-
pretations, or as a manifestation of an-
tisemitism? What exactly does it mean
for human evolution to be a theory?
Can we study the impact of Christi-
anity in our history and in our lives
without being Christians, or endors-
ing Christianity? What about Islam?
Is it possible to discuss scientific evi-
dence on climate change without be-
ing political? What social effects of
immigration policies are measurable?
As scholars and educators, our daily
lives are consumed by such concerns.
We can even apply our academic train-
avoid the interaction altogether, which
ultimately excludes them from a key step
in forming new relationships.
Small talk is undoubtedly a
fundamental tool in forming
new relationships. Each interac-
tion, however, provides an op-
portunity to engage in (or
friday, february 10, 2017
ing to studying this very connection,
between politics and academics, which
I am discussing now.
Engaging ideas happens not in a
moment, but through a process. It be-
gins in the classroom, the lab and the
library. Only sometimes need it land
on the front page of the Orient, or the
Washington Post. We may never reach
consensus on innumerable matters in
dispute. But in the process we will have
learned and honored the basis of all
academic life: ideas should be judged
not on whether we like them or not,
but on how they emerge from process-
es of reasoned deliberation.
College campuses are languishing
sanctuaries for these difficult, unfash-
ionable values. We are here because
generation upon generation of hu-
mans learned the hard way that when
information becomes the property of
the mob, the authoritarian or the oli-
garch, terrible outcomes ensue for hu-
manity and the planet.
Principles like academic freedom
stand as testimony to previous genera-
tions hard-won wisdom: ideas serve
us best when they emerge from rea-
soning processes that are ultimately
independent of politics. We learned
that the earth revolves around the
sun even if the church disagreed; we
learned that the idea of human races
served primarily to enslave, oppress or
exterminate those defined as inferior.
We do not treat all ideas equally,
and not simply because we lack the
resources to promote them all. The
standards of our disciplines tell us that
some ideas deserve to be exposed as
unreasonable and unworthy of further
consideration, except as studies in the
ways power corrupts the development
of knowledge.
The truth is that we stand for the re-
markable proposition that all ideas are
not equal, and that through discipline
and training, we can develop tools for
usefully distinguishing which deserve
our commendation, which our scorn
and which our utter neglect.
Nothing about this is intellectu-
ally fearful. Amidst a public culture
steadily retreating from the rigors of
rational debate, we are committed to
valuing knowledge as more than a tool
of power. We are fiercely dedicated to
working through methodologies that
are explicitly apolitical. We commit to
that because we know that we as indi-
viduals are not.
avoid) these opportunities to connect
with others.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
friday, february 10, 2017
Evaluating conservatisms place within the mission of the College
RYAN WARD
HOLDING FAST
Last Friday, the Joseph McKeen
Center for the Common Good part-
nered with a number of student or-
ganizations to put on an event called
Partisanship on Campus: Confront-
ing a Culture of Caution. In keeping
with President Clayton Roses mis-
sion to foster intellectual diversity
on campus, the discussion focused
on both the nature of the problem
of political homogeneity and ideas
for possible solutions. There were
a number of good questions and
comments, but one student posed a
question that particularly intrigued
me. Essentially, he asked whether
conservatism is underrepresented
on campus because its values are in
fact opposed to the mission of the
College to advance values of equality
and inclusiveness.
The thrust of the question may have
been aimed more at the appalling opin-
ions held by some Trump supporters
than at conservatism in general, but I
think there is a point to be made about
the incongruity of conservative values
with the mission the College has set for
itself today. If this is the case, then it is
possible that the deficiency of political
diversity on campus is driven by more
than just a dearth of conservative stu-
dents. The problem lies instead with
the fundamental assumptions of the
College that directly contradict the
core values of conservatives.
For at least the last half-century,
the American academy has on the
Considering intersectional perspectives in efforts of activism
ARI MEHRBERG
OUT LOUD
Two weekends ago, I traveled
with five other members of BQSA to
Marlboro, Massachusetts, to attend
the transgender-centric First Event
conference. As a young nonbinary
person who is still quite early in the
process of figuring out their iden-
tity, I truly believe that I needed this
experience in my life.
It wasnt just the time I got to
spend bonding with some of my
closest friends at Bowdoin and it
wasnt just the new friends I made in
workshops and at mealtimes. There
was a feeling that I cant put into
words, no matter how hard I try, a
feeling that came from being sur-
rounded by the largest number of
transgender and queer people that
Ive ever seen in one place in my
life. From teenagers and young kids,
supported by their proud and loving
parents and grandparents; to adults
and seniorsalone or with their
partners and friendsthey filled the
hotel, the lobbies, the banquet halls,
the conference rooms and the nar-
row hallways. The energy that I felt
simply from being in such a pres-
ence was indescribable.
But as amazing as it all was, as
exhilarating and validating and in-
spiring, it is still important for me
to keep in mind what was missing.
During his keynote speech at the
banquet dinner on our last night
whole viewed conservatism with
skepticism at the very best and
downright hostility at worst. This
is probably not due to any personal
animus on the part of individual pro-
fessors, but is largely a function of
how colleges and universities frame
their own role in society. By seeking
to advance scientific knowledge in
both the natural sciences and the hu-
manities, some colleges largely disre-
gard conservatives for their stubborn
insistence upon the value of the past
and their reticence towards the very
notion of historical progress. When
the goal is not to preserve the wis-
dom of past ages but to change this
one for the better, the conservative
can only act as an impediment to the
very goals of higher education.
New York University moral psy-
chologist Jonathan Haidt has done
extensive work to point out the in-
herent biases in the social sciences
and in academia more generally. He
is the director of Heterodox Acad-
emy, a site that provides a great
primer on how the underlying as-
sumptions of disciplines such as so-
ciology psychology and to an extent,
political science, actually constitute
a very particular way of envisioning
human nature. These assumptions
happen to be based entirely upon
what we might generally call a lib-
eral worldview. Haidt identifies sev-
eral of these entrenched but ques-
tionable assumptions, including the
view that humans are blank slates,
that humans naturally possess uni-
versal human rights and the role
that society plays in constructing
the individual through impersonal
social forces.
at the conference, minister Louis
Mitchell, a black transman and ac-
tivist, called attention to the prob-
lem that I had begun to sense earlier
in the weekend. That is, while there
were certainly other groups repre-
sented at the conference, the vast
majority of attendees were white and
presumably relatively well-off trans-
women. Mitchells speech brought
to the forefront a crucial message
about the nature of privilege, one
that applies not just to the trans and
gender-variant community, but to
many other groups of people.
Mitchell spoke to several inequal-
ities within the trans community. He
talked about passing privilege, and
many trans individuals tendency
to look down on others who do not
conform quite as well to the appear-
ance and gender presentation that is
expected of them. He talked about
race and how First Event is not the
only time in which transpeople of
color are vastly underrep-
resented. He talked
about class and
the inherent
privilege
held by all
of the confer-
ences attendees
simply for be-
ing there, while so
many other trans people
in America and around the
world are homeless, or are living
in poverty, or are forced to sell their
bodies in order to survive. But, most
importantly, he talked about why
the bowdoin orient
These beliefs provide the founda-
tion for those disciplines which hope
to not only describe social condi-
tions, but also to change them. This
outlook has spread beyond the con-
fines of the social sciences and has af-
fected how many modern academics
envision their taskthat is, to draw
attention to unjust social relations, to
expose them to critical analysis and
to work toward reform in the name of
social justice. These are such verities
in academia today that to question
them does indeed seem very hetero-
dox, perhaps even heretical. Indeed,
you might say that any worldview
that denies these accepted facts is
not really worthy of inclusion in
an academic environment.
But I submit that conservatives
offer a perfectly reasonable alter-
native to many of the orthodoxies
held by academics and students
today, for conservatism is not
simply a political ideology. It
is a disposition that inclines
people to regard any attempt
to change human nature for
the better with skepticism.
It recognizes that man is a
flawed creature and that any
attempt to improve society by
reducing man to an object of
study is bound to end in failure and
will often make us worse off.
The goal of the social sciences and
humanities to improve the world we
live in is laudable, but only insofar
as they take into account the accu-
mulated wisdom of the past and the
inherent limits to human endeavors.
The conservative acts not only as a
boring scold who puts roadblocks in
front of human progress, but rather
this matters.
It is crucial for all of us to engage
with the parts of our identities that
give us advantages in society, regard-
less of whether other aspects of our
identities are working against us. For
example, I am gay and nonbinary,
but I am also white, and because of
this, my experiences will be vastly
different from those of a gay nonbi-
nary person of color, or of one who
is from a working-class background.
Similarly, a white cisgender woman
will be disadvantaged in society
compared to a white cisgender man;
howeverand this is something that
seems to be forgotten especially
often in some circlesher
challenges will vary in na-
ture and scope from those
faced by a woman of
color or a trans-
woman.
as someone who questions the very no-
tion of historical progress in the first
place. For conservatives, the academy is
important not because of its revolution-
ary capacities, but because of its function
as a repository of the wisdom of the past.
It is at this unique place that we meet
with the great minds who came before
us and dealt with many of the same pe-
rennial problems that we encounter with
human nature. What we find may chal-
lenge our most deeply held convictions,
but that is precisely the point of a lib-
eral education.
Recognizing and talking about
these privileges is often uncomfort-
able for us, but, as Mitchell said in
his keynote speech, in order to make
any kind of positive difference we
must make ourselves feel uncom-
fortable. If we cant allow ourselves
to adopt an intersectional perspec-
tive and recognize other voices are
out there that are different from
our own, the causes for which we
advocate will never truly be able
to succeed.
In todays climate, I have no doubt
that many of you who are reading
this have some sort of movement
that you are passionate about.
Whether you are debating with viduals also need access to informa-
peers and relatives, or calling
government representa-
tives, or attending pro-
tests or simply shar-
ing articles on
social media,
there is a
good
DIANA FURUKAWA
opinion 15
The liberal assumptions chal-
lenged by this outlook are deeply
entrenched in our campus culture,
and many will find it offensive even
to suggest that they are open to ques-
tioning. But if we are truly interested
in intellectual diversity on campus,
we must allow this alternative world-
view to have a place in academic
discourse. Rather than writing off
the conservative view of human na-
ture as outdated and wrong-headed,
we would do well to take it seriously
enough to chasten some of the as-
sumptions that lie at the heart of the
Colleges mission.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
chance that, as a Bowdoin student
in 2017, you are currently engag-
ing in some form of activism. While
it is certainly important to involve
yourself with causes that personally
affect you, and to fight to end injus-
tices that you are directly hurt by, I
ask that you also keep in mind the
diversity of the human experience,
and the reality that others may be
impacted by the same forms of op-
pression in different ways.
Recognize that transwomen are
also hurt by misogyny, instead of
equating the uterus and genitals
with womanhood in your femi-
nism. Recognize that LGBT indi-
tion about sexual health, instead of
centering your sex education and
positivity around heterosexual rela-
tionships. Recognize that people of
color experience their own unique
forms of oppression, instead of
building your movement on the in-
terests and goals of white people.
Recognize that disabled people,
and immigrants, and religious mi-
norities, and poor people and so
many others, have causes that
are just as worth fighting
for as yours. Recog-
nize that they may be a
part of your cause too,
rather than only think-
ing about movements that
involve yourself and people like
you. Use your privilege to make the
world hear their voices. Use your
privilege to make change.
16 the bowdoin orient friday, february 10, 2017

FEBRUARY
FRIDAY 10
EVENT
Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival
Celebration
There will be performances, trivia and food to celebrate the
Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival.
30 College Street. 5 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
"The Vagina Monologues"
There will be a film screening of the popular play written by Eve
Ensler. The play is comprised of several monologues that touch
upon aspects of the female experience.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
ValJam 2017
In the spirit of Valentines Day, there will
be performances by a cappella groups
Miscellania and the Longfellows.
The Chapel. 8:30 p.m. ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE SANDLOT: Matt Saord '20 and Josh George '20 try out the new interactive sand art exhibit in the Hawthorne-Longfellow library. The exhibit allows students to mold sand
while a projector shines a topographical map that follows the shape of the sand.

SATURDAY 11
PERFORMANCE
50 Shades of Improvabilities
MONDAY 13 WEDNESDAY 15
Improvabilities, one of Bowdoins two improv groups, will LECTURE LECTURE
perform. Doors open at 7:45 p.m. "In Search of a Desi Drag Queen" A Reading by Author Susan Faludi
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m. Kareem Khubchandani, Mellon assistant professor of Theater Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi,
and Dance at Tufts University, will discuss the restrictions of research associate in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies,
CONCERT South Asian drag performances and the way people examine will discuss her newest book, In the Darkroom, which deals
ELHAE Concert cultural practices. with her fathers sex reassignment surgery and the meaning
As part of Black History Month programing, Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 6 p.m. of identity.
rapper/singer ELHAE will perform. Some Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:15 p.m.
of his most popular songs include Doesnt
Matter feat. Kehlani and Needs."
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 8 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY 14 THURSDAY 16
Oce Hours Improv: Love Hurts FILM SCREENING
Office Hours will present a Valentines Day themed show 2017 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animated LECTURE
improvised from audience stories. Frontier will screen the animated short films nominated for the Career Conversation with Feature Film
Chase Barn. 9 p.m. 2017 Academy Awards. There will be screenings at several times Special Eects Artists Dave Fogler 90
through the week. David Fogler '90 will discuss his path from Bowdoin to success in
Frontier. 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. creating special effects for films like "Avatar."
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.
EVENT
SUNDAY 12 The Faces of ME
Howell House and the Muslim Students Association will host a
discussion with five Muslim immigrant Mainers who will speak
LECTURE
Social Justice Advocacy in NYC
Ellen Baxter '75, H'05, founder and executive director of the
EVENT about their experiences in wake of President Trumps Broadway Housing Communitya non-profit dedicated to
"We Love our Members" Sale executive order barring immigration from seven primarily solving problems of inequality and homelessness in New York
The Museum of Art will have a sale for museum members. Muslim countries. Citywill discuss social justice advocacy.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 1 p.m. Howell House. 7 p.m. Room 315, Searles Science Building. 7:30 p.m.

17 LECTURE 1188 EVENT

EVEN
EV ENTT 19 CONCERT 20 21 FILM SCREENING 22 23
Gallery
Conversation with Winter Weekend George Lopez: "Angry Inuk"
Bowdoin Arts Refreshments Clavierubung III Screening
Society