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APRIL 10, 2015
Digital studies
program offers
new computer
science path
BY PHOEBE BUMSTED
ORIENT STAFF
BCA and MSCJ, is the master of

ceremonies for the event.
All these different schools are
coming together and are basically
calling on Governor [Paul] LePage to seriously address climate
change, said Butler. He is such a
symbol of climate denialism.
While anyone is invited to attend the rally, Butler expects most
of those in attendance to be college students.
Next semester, Visiting Assistant

Professors Crystal Hall and Mohammad Irfan will co-teach an interdisciplinary course entitled Introduction
to Digital and Computational Studies
(DCS). The course will focus on the
context of computer science applications in the humanities.
Where Intro to Computer Science
(CS) focuses on the fundamentals of
programming, Intro to DCS will focus on the context for computation.
[DCS] does not go from comp sci to
problem. It goes from problem to comp
sci, Irfan said.
Irfan, who also teaches Intro to CS,
will supply the computer science perspective of the course. Hall, a professor of
the digital humanities with an emphasis
on the Italian Renaissaince, will focus on
the practical applications of computation.
Computer science is just one part of
digital and computational studies. We
really see it as a gateway for students
who want to use programming or digital tools in an English major or a government major, Hall said.
While Intro to DCS does include
some basic programming in Python, it
will not substitute Intro to CS as a prerequisite for other Computer Science
courses. Intro to CS focuses on computational thinking and the fundamentals
of programming, and it prepares its
students for Data Structures, another
course in the Computer Science department. Students will still need to take
Please see RALLY, page 5
Please see DIGITAL, page 6
BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Sky Monaco16 performs at the Battle of the Bands, which was put on by the Bowdoin Music Collective in Jack Magees Pub and Grill last night. Monacos band, Treefarm, won first place in the competition and as a result will open for
Reel Big Fish on the Thursday of Ivies. The Duck Blind, the band that placed second in the competition, will play on the Saturday of Ivies before the White Panda and Logic take the stage.
40 students to rally in Augusta for climate justice

BY JOE SHERLOCK
ORIENT STAFF
On Saturday, Maine Students

For Climate Justice (MSCJ) will
hold a rally in Augusta to draw
attention to issues of climate
change and to pressure lawmakers
to ensure that Maines economic
development is environmentally
sustainable. MSCJ is demanding
that the the state of Maine refrain
from building any new fossil fuel
Additional Content:
On April 2, DeRay McKesson
07 came to campus to discuss activism, his role in protests throughout the country
and the merits of using social
media.Following his talk in
Kresge, McKesson sat down
for a Q&A with members of
the Orient. Visit bowdoinorient.com for a full transcript
of the exclusive
interview.
infrastructure.
At the time of publication, an
estimated 500 students from across
the state of Maine are expected
to gather in front of the Capitol
Building in Augusta. Forty students from the College are expected to attend.
This rally comes a week after
Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA), a
primary member of MSCJ, ended
its sit-in for fossil fuel divestment
on the second floor of Hawthorne-
Longfellow Hall outside President

Barry Millss office.
While Bowdoin students from
BCA, Green Bowdoin Alliance,and
Sustainable Bowdoin are among
the primary organizers for the
rally in Augusta, MSCJ is a statewide alliance. Other participating
institutions of higher education
include Colby College, Bates College, the University of Maine, and
Unity College.
Michael Butler 17, a member of
Rose waits to weigh in SJP petitions for academic

on recent campus events and cultural boycott of Israel
BY JOHN BRANCH
ORIENT STAFF
As President Barry Mills enters

the final stretch of his 14-year
presidency, President-elect Clayton Rose is preparing to take over.
Rose, who has tried to spend at
least one day a week on campus
since he was announced as Mills
successor in January, said he has
been engaged in a listening and
learning mode at Bowdoin.
He has not shared his positions
on many issues of interest to students on campus this year, including fossil fuel divestment and the
state of political dialogue at the
College.
Im deeply mindful of the fact
that President Mills is the presi-
dent of Bowdoin College, and I

dont want to do anything that gets
in the way of his ability to do his
job, he said.
However, he emphasized a desire
to be open about these issues once
he assumes the presidency.
At the end of the day, [until]
June 30, [President Mills] is the
president, Rose said. On July 1,
then Im the president, and folks
can turn to me and...should expect
to have answers to those questions.
Rose currently serves as a professor of management practice at
Harvard Business School, and has
continued his teaching full-time
this semester.
Its been interesting to manage
Please see ROSE, page 5
BY VERA FENG
ORIENT STAFF
Students for Justice in Palestine

(SJP) is hoping for a student vote on a
thorny question: Should the College
participate in an academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions?
SJP began collecting signatures on a
digital petition this week, and if it can
garner the support of one fifth of the
student body (about 360 signatures),
then the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) will organize a referendum that would require a two-thirds
majority to pass. At press time, the
petition had 156 signatures.
An academic and cultural boycott of
Israeli institutions would mean that the
College would not take part in events
funded by Israeli institutions or invite
scholars to speak on campus as representatives of Israeli institutions. Israeli

scholars would be welcome to speak on
campus as individuals not affiliated with
any organization.
This sort of referendum, if it passed,
would be symbolic, according to Vice
President for BSG Affairs Charlotte
McLaughry 15.
They dont necessarily tangibly
mean anything, she said.
The goal of the academic and cultural boycott is to isolate parts of the Israeli
state apparatus that are normalizing the
maltreatment of Palestinians and abuses of their human rights, said Sinead
Lamel 15, one of the leaders of SJP.
This includes many Israeli universities
which havent spoken out against the
Please see BOYCOTT, page 4
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FEATURES: MINDTHE GAP
SPORTS: KICKING ACE
OPINION:
Tonight and tomorrow in the Pickering Room in

Hubbard Hall, Evan Horowitz
15 will star in a one-man,
20-character play directed by
Jamie Weisbach 16.
Eduardo Jaramillo 17 tastes turtle soup and fried squid

during his gap year in Taiwan.
Mens and womens tennis teams boast top 10

rankings after impressive starts to their seasons.
EDITORIAL: Vote Mejia-Cruz.
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Page 7.
Page 12.
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Zachary Albert 16, Evan Eklund 16 and Rachel Snyder 16 on SJPs one-sided approach
to Israel-Palestine.
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A SPUD WITH A STAMP:

The single potato in the Mail Center
ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MTV CRIBS MEETS BOWDOIN: To prepare students for the lottery and provide a sneak peek of the room choices, the Orient visited every upperclassmen housing
option, like sophomore Ella Driscolls School Street apartment. Take a closer look into students rooms by visiting www.bowdoinorient.com. Please see page 3 for a guide to the
housing lottery.
CAFFEINE CHECK:
A closer look at what Bowdoin runs on at the Smith Union Cafe
Most Popular Items
New Items
Coffee, Sunrise Smoothie, Tea,

London Fog
Chia Seeds, Soy and

Whey Protein Powder,
and Wheatgrass
To be added to smoothies
35 gallons per day

23 gallons hot coffee
12 gallons iced coffee
Cookies
Baked at 12:30 p.m., 8 p.m., and
throughout the evening after 8 p.m.
Sugar packets
1 case of 1,000 per month
Average Sales
To-go cups
1,500 per week
$7,500 per week during the

academic year
The Cafe offers five percent discounts if you bring your own mug or silverware!
Deli meat. Coconuts. Pumpkins.

Frisbees. Onions. Waffles. A potato.
No, the above are not just items one
might purchase at Hannaford. They
are, instead, things that have passed
through Bowdoins Mail Center, and
the last three have all been sent to
Brendan Soane 16.
The Mail Center employees were
slightly unsettled by the arrival of a
loose potato, especially given that it
is typically more common to receive
letters or food in the confines of a
sealed cardboard box.
It was just sitting there. Why is
there a potato here? Who ordered
a potato? said Ryan Strange 17, a
baffled Mail Center employee.
The baked potato festered in the
Mail Center for several days before
Soane arrived to collect his goods.
When I picked it up they were
like, oh, youre that guy, Soane said.
I was so embarrassed because I was
the kid who got the onion, too. And
the waffle.
However, there is an explanation
to the shipping of miscellaneous
food sorts.
Soanes girlfriend, Caley, a first
year at Colorado College and by all
accounts a free-spirited, unique individual, sends him spuds by mail,
because, well:
We call each other potatoes,
shrugged Soane. And she calls herself a waffle. Sometimes I call her a
waffle. We do a lot of food personification, and I just like onions.
Soane, however, isnt thrilled
to receive root vegetables via the
postal service.
I dont like getting the food, said
Soane. Its a nice gesture, but at the
same time, its exciting to get a package notification. When you realize
its a piece of food that you cant even
eatit loses all the excitement.
On this particular occasion, Soane
thought he was getting an Easter
package. When he opened his mailbox and saw that it said rotten potato on the mail slip, he was forced
to forgo the idea of enjoying peeps or
chocolate eggs.
She spent six dollars to send
this, said Soane, gesturing to the
now dilapidated spud. Thats the
funniest thing.
Soane keeps his collection on his
desk. The waffle is now very stale
and falling apart, while the onion is
a bit squishy.
BY THE NUMBERS
As the years winds down, papers, lab
reports and readings seem to multiply.
The lines at the printing stations seem
longer than ever as students rush to print
Here are some statistics about printing.
STUDENT SPEAK
42,628
What are your current complaints?
print jobs for the Class of

2015 in the fall semester
30,603
print jobs for the Class of
2018 in the fall semester
Steve Cho 17
Chlo Dietrich 16
Ben Troen 17
Daisy Wislar 18
They only have crispy bacon. They dont

have soft bacon. This is a diverse campus.
Im a soft guy. I need my soft bacon.
I threw my phone in the ocean

over Spring Break. It flipped out of
my pocket. Womens pockets are so
small...I blame the patriarchy.
I have to eat matzoh for the next six

days. Eating cardboard for eight days
straight makes you constipated, in full
honesty.
It just smells vaguely like dog in

this vicinity.
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729,063
total sheets of paper used
across all four class years in
the fall semester
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A GUIDE TO THE 2015 HOUSING LOTTERY

The housing lottery will take place on April 14, 16, 20 and 22. Please see bowdoinorient.com for more information, photos and an interactive version of the guide.
HARPSWELL APTS
52 HARPSWELL
7 SINGLES, 12 DOUBLES, 1 QUAD
Brand new
Used to be a retirement home
Nice kitchen
Lots of shared living spaces
Has parking
12 QUADS
Mostly seniors
Good party space
Far from campus
Has parking
No laundry
HOWARD HALL
11 QUADS, 3 QUINTS
Good location
Window seats
Large rooms
Have to clean your own bathroom
STOWE HALL
11 QUINTS
Communal efficiency kitchen
Good location
Mostly sophomores
Have to clean your own bathroom
COLES TOWER
16 SINGLES, 46 QUADS, 2 TRIPLES
Mostly seniors; some juniors

Dont have to go outside to go to Thorne
Just had 50 year anniversary; looks like it
SMITH HOUSE
8 SINGLES, 1 DOUBLE
Close to athletic complexes
Feels more like a house
Full kitchen
Has parking
BRUNSWICK APTS
37 DOUBLES, 51 TRIPLES
Kitchens
Shortcuts to Harpswell and
Farley
Thin walls
Ivies Brunswick Quad
MAYFLOWER APTS
4 DOUBLES, 8 TRIPLES
Quiet
Far from campus
In a neighborhood
CHAMBERLAIN HALL
46 SINGLES, 29 DOUBLES, 8 QUADS
PINE ST APTS
Great location
Nice, spacious rooms
Quiet
Shared bathrooms
12 QUADS
Pinefest
Far from campus
Close to science/language buildings
Has parking
No neighbors
No laundry
CLEAVELAND ST.
STOWE INN
SCHOOL ST. APTS
22 SINGLES, 12 TRIPLES, 2 QUINTS
2 DOUBLES, 1 QUAD, 1 QUINT
In town
Colorful walls and slanted
floors
Feels like a house
Has kitchens
Good location for a group of friends

Close to Maine St.
Has parking
Far from campus
2 TRIPLES, 2 QUADS
Right next to the Orient House
Spacious rooms
In between campus and Maine St.
Isolated from other housing
Close to academic buildings
No laundry
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

COMPILED BY ALEX MAYER
College Houses admit new residents Rhetoric specialist hired

BY NICKIE MITCH
ORIENT STAFF
Students were notified of College

House application decisions for the
2015-2016 school year around 1 p.m.
last Thursday, April 2. One hundred
and ninety one students were selected from 270 applicants to fill 201
spots in the College House System.
Ten of the 26 spots in Howell House
remain unfilled.
Committees work really hard and
give everyone an equal chance, said Assistant Director of Residential Life Mariana Centeno. They read all the recommendations and applications and they
make the decisions that they do.
The remaining spots in Howell will
be filled during the chem-free housing
lottery on April 16. Students selecting
Howell during the lottery will be given
the opportunity to join the house as
a full resident by signing the College
House resident contract, or to simply reside in the House as a non-House member. Centeno said that she had already
been contacted by many students interested in joining Howell as full members
during the lottery process.
While spots in all other Houses were
filled through the normal selection process, there was variation in the number
of first-choice applicants each of the
eight College Houses received. Centeno
said this led to significant disparities in
how many applicants each house was
forced to turn away.
Quinby House and Reed House
received the most first-choice applicants this year. Centeno also said that
there were more female than male

applicants. The selection committees
sought to maintain balance and diversity in gender, geographic origin and
athletic involvement.
This was the first College House application cycle in which students could
select the any House option. This option allowed applicant blocks to check
a box stating that they were willing to
live in any College House, not just their
Committees work really hard and

give everyone an equal chance.
They read all the recommendations
and applications and they make the
decisions that they do.
MARIANA CENTENO
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RESIDENTIAL LIFE
first through third ranked choices. By
introducing this option, the Office of
Residential Life (ResLife) eliminated the
ability for blocks to state non-binding
choices. More than 150 of the 270 applicants selected the any House option.
While joking that it complicated her
job somewhat, Centeno said that the
introduction of the any House option on the selection process was overwhelmingly positive. Because it gave
selection committees larger applicant
pools to draw from and therefore more
flexibility, she said, diversity was more
likely in each house. She also said she
believes it made the process fairer for
applicants, as any applicant selecting

the any House option was read by at
least two selection committees.
Although some concern was expressed over the new any house option
when it was first announced, Centeno
said that no students came to her with
complaints about getting into a house
they didnt directly apply to.
Centeno believes this is because she
was extremely clearboth in information sessions and on the application
that the choice was binding and applicants took it very seriously.
Centeno also offered reassurance for
students who did not get into a House.
This is not the end of the world, this
is not the end of the road and you will
always find a way to make an impact on
the Bowdoin community even if its not
in this way, she said.
Anna-Sophie Faucher 18, whose
block applied to but did not get into
MacMillan House, said she was still
looking forward to next year.
Of course Im disappointed we didnt
get into a House, she said. But plenty of
my friends did, and it will be fun to hang
out with them at their Houses.
Student selected to serve as
House residents next year largely
expressed enthusiasm.
Im going to be living with some
of my best friends in an environment
that is really unique to Bowdoin, said
Emma Moesswilde 18, who will be
a Ladd House resident next year. I
couldnt be more excited.
Duties for 2015-2016 College House
residents will officially begin with
spring orientation this Sunday.
to begin program at CLT

BY MATT SHEN
ORIENT STAFF
Next year, the Center for Learning

and Teaching (CLT) will welcome Meredith McCarroll as its first-ever director
of writing and rhetoric, a hire that addresses an apparent gap in Bowdoins
curriculumpublic speaking.
When this position was endowed, it
was endowed by someone who wanted
to make sure that when Bowdoin students graduated, they could speak and
write well, said McCarroll. As far as
I understand it, there isnt much of an
emphasis on speaking at Bowdoin,
and so thats one of the things I will be
working toward.
Similar to the CLTs Writing Project, the new Rhetoric initiative will be
integrated into a number of classes,
where students will be required to cooperate with tutors on certain projects
and assignments.
It probably goes without saying that
writing and speaking are hugely important skills for Bowdoin students to
master as they enter the job market, the
workplace, graduate school and the civic
arena, and these skills can always be improved, polished and perfected, wrote
Director of the Writing Project Kathleen
OConnor in an email to the Orient. Its
great that the College is able to devote
some more resources toward this goal.
OConnor was on the search committee to find a rhetoric director.
She added that the new hire
could affect the current duties of

writing assistants.
Its possible that they may take on the
task of helping students with oral presentations, or speaking assistants could
be trained separately, she wrote.
McCarroll will influence the curriculum as wellworking with the
First-Year Seminar program and collaborating with professors who want
to incorporate oral communication
into their coursework. She will also
teach a few workshops a year on writing and speaking.
McCarroll has spent the past three
years working at Clemson University in
South Carolina, where she established the
Writing Center that she currently directs.
She studied as an undergraduate at
Appalachian State University before
moving on to pursue a masters degree
in English at Simmons College. After
that, she obtained her Ph.D. in English
at the University of Tennessee.
McCarroll said that Bowdoins small
size and the friendliness of the community attracted her.
I have long had the desire to find
myself at a small liberal school. I did my
undergraduate studies at Appalachian
State, which then had about 13,000 students. And so when I went to Simmons,
I thought about how dramatically different that experience was for students in
a really positive way. I love the sense of
community that comes with a smaller
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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ONLY ONE CAN WIN: From left: Robo Tavel16, Danny Mejia-Cruz16 and Justin Pearson17 are running for BSG President for the 2015-2016 school year. The three candidates shared their visions for next year at a debate at Jack Magees Pub and Grill on Tuesday night. Voting
begins today at 8 a.m. and closes Sunday at 8 p.m. Please see page 16 for the Orients endorsement and page 19 for candidate statements.
Tavel 16, Mejia-Cruz 16 and Pearson 17 compete to lead BSG

BY QUYEN HA
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin Student Government

(BSG) held its Executive Committee
candidate debate at Jack MaGees Pub
and Grill on Tuesday night, the apex
of Bowdoin politics. Only three of the
seven races are contested.
Candidates were allowed two-minute opening statements. Afterward,
they had another two minutes to answer three questions from moderators, including BSG Vice President for
Student Government Affairs Charlotte
McLaughry 15 and BSG Vice President for Student Organizations Harriet
Fisher 17. At the end, there were oneminute closing remarks.
Running for BSG President are
Danny Mejia-Cruz 16, Justin Pearson
17 and Roberto Tavel 16.
Mejia-Cruz began by highlighting his past experiences, which
include his positions as a member
of the Student Activities Funding
Committee (SAFC) and Vice President for Student Organizations.
He cited his efforts in working on
long-term projects, such as reforming
the Credit/D/Fail policy, extending
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occupation but in fact have endorsed
whats happening and presenting a narrative that erases the ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians.
J Street U, a student organization
that describes itself as the political
home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans, issued a statement in opposition
to SJPs petition.
J Street U is a secular student group
that supports a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the
Palestinian right to statehood. However,
our student group does not feel that a
Bowdoin boycott of Israeli academic
and cultural institutions is a helpful step
toward peace, the statement read.
Bowdoins chapter of Hillel, the largest Jewish student organization in the
world, declined to take a stance.
Hillel doesnt typically speak out on
political issues. We tend to be a more
apolitical organization, said Leah Khan
15, president of the Colleges chapter.
According to its website, Hillel International will not partner with any host
organizations that Support boycott of,
divestment from, or sanctions against
the State of Israel.
SJP has reached out to students by tabling in David Saul Smith Union and distributing relevant literature to students.
I cant say if I exactly see it making
[it to the ballot], said Lilian Gharios 18,
a member of the SJP. We [have] a lot
of different kinds of students, students
Thanksgiving break and introducing

graduate school preparatory classes
and expressed a desire to see these initiatives through. Alluding to the colleges changes inadministration next
year, Mejia-Cruz emphasized the importance of keeping BSGs continuity
of leadership and stressed his credentials as someone who not only knows
but also contributes to what has been
done on campus in the past years. In
addition, Mejia-Cruz also hoped to
replace the Orbit with an everythingBowdoin Appan app he has been
working on since last summer, which
would include year-long Bowdoin
events and dining menus.
Pearson mentioned holding similar
positions in BSG like the other two
candidates, but stressed the differences
in their accomplishments.
When I was elected as Vice President
of Student Affairs, there were five Good
Ideas submitted to the Good Ideas Fund
during the entirety of that year, said
Pearson. Now we have over 25.
Pearson stated he would like to increase BSGs visibility on campus and
ensure that students opinions are represented clearly to the administration.
He went on to speak about facilitating
who are interested and not interested.
Personally, Im not too concerned about
getting it on the ballot as long as the students are having an incentive to learn
about Israel and Palestine and at the
same time learn about SJP.
Many students said they were undecided or felt uninformed about the issue.
I dont think Im educated enough
on that particular issue to speak which
side I take, said Ned Wang 18.
Others had strong opinions on
the boycott.
The United States is the biggest
sponsor of Israel, and Israel is a huge recipient of U.S. military aid, said Christine Rheem 15. Our tax money is literally supporting what Israel is doing and
the occupation of Palestine. I think we
are all implicated.
In December 2013, SJP sponsored a
similar petition asking the College to join
a boycott of Israeli academic institutions
sponsored by the American Studies Association (ASA). At the time, President
Barry Mills condemned the boycott for
stifling the free exchange of ideas.
The current petition proposes
that the boycott remain in place until Israel ends its occupation and
colonization of all Palestinian lands,
among other demands.
SJP is also trying to persuade
BSG to issue statement on the boycott. BSG would have to first vote
on whether to make a statement and
then vote on what stance to take, and
it is unlikely that it will be able to hold
a vote before the end of the semester,
according to McLaughry.
an open Bowdoin community and included informal events such as Gelato

or Smores on the Quad. He hopes to
create more discussion spaces that encourage dialogue on hotly contested
issues. Additionally, Pearson looks
to work with professors on uploading their syllabi to Blackboard before
classes begin.
Tavel said he believed this election
was not about who has the most experience, but who has the vision to redefine BSGs role to the student body.
BSG has become an event planner
first and a policy advocate second,
said Tavel. I plan to change this. I
think we have an awesome opportunity next year to work with President
Rose and fix some major policy issues.
Tavel spoke about BSGs role in
rallying and mobilizing students to
self-advocate for matters which they
care about, such as the lengthening
of Thanksgiving break. He stressed
BSGs role as a representative entity of
the student body rather than a mere
liaison between the students and the
administration, highlighting that it
should not only ask how students
feel about important issues but also
encourage them to take ownership
in those issues. He hopes to rejuvenate what the BSG means to its own
members and to make BSG meetings
and its administrative processes less
of a chore.
The race for Vice President for Student Government Affairs features Michelle Kruk 16, Riley OConnell 18
and Emily Serwer 16.
Kruk emphasized her experience
working with Bowdoin staff, faculty,
dean and trustee members. She mentioned her current discussion with
McLaughry for the creation of a multicultural liaison to BSG and pledged
to continue to represent marginalized
groups on campus.
OConnell stated that he would like
to bring an air of transparency to the
BSG by keeping students better informed on its meetings and agendas.
He stressed the importance of improving BSGs relationship with the administration and hoped to help facilitate
consistent meetings with President
Rose next year.
Serwer expressed her plan to improve BSGs presence on campus
through the use of social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram. She emphasized her work
as Director of Programming and said,

if elected, her experience would maintain BSGs cohesive workings as a team.
Lucia Gibbard 18 and Luke
Von Maur 16 are competing for
the position of Vice President for
Student Affairs.
Gibbard could not be at the debate.
Fisher spoke on her behalf. Reading
from the candidates speech, Fisher
stated that Gibbard understands
what issues at Bowdoin students
actually want to see resolved. She
pledged to popularize and increase
the students understanding of how
the SAFC operates.
Von Maur stated that he would like
to foster greater interaction between
classes, to reinvigorate the Good Ideas
Fund and Common Hour, and to
make Bowdoin the best four years for
all students.
Andrew Millar 16, Wylie Mao
18, David Levine 16 and Kevin
Hernandez 18 are running uncontested for, respectively, the positions
of Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Student
Organizations, Vice President for
the Treasury and Vice President for
Facilities and Sustainability.
ROSE
the time commitment, he said in
an interview with the Orient. Im
fortunate that I live and work in
Boston, so its manageable for me to
be here.
Rose plans to move to Brunswick
in late June, and will live with his
family in the house currently occupied by the Mills family.
Rose estimated that he has met
with 60 to 70 faculty members in
small meetings over coffee. He hasgotten to know the senior staff in
most departments of the College,
and met recently with the Bowdoin
Student Government (BSG).
On campus, my work has been
to try to begin to meet as many
people as possible in all parts of the
Bowdoin community, and then...to
begin the process of understanding
the issues that are facing Bowdoin,
and how the work is done here, he
said.
Hes also introduced himself to
students in other ways.
Ive gone over to Moulton and
gotten a tray and...asked people to
sit and have lunch, and thats been
awesome, he said.
Rose said he does not expect the
news
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Scanlon named interim

dean for academic affairs
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS
EVERYTHINGS COMING UP ROSES: President-elect Clayton Rose has been visiting campus and meeting with students and faculty in the past few weeks. He said he hopes these meetings will
help get him acquainted with theissues that are facing Bowdoin and how the work is done here.
day-to-day running of the College
to change very much in the early
months of his presidency.
Im more mindful of thinking
about the medium- to longer-term
issues...that we want to think about
for the next three to four years, that
will have an impact for a long period of time after that, he said.
One of Roses first decisions
came on Monday, when he named
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor

of the Humanities in Gender and
Womens Studies Jennifer Scanlon
to the post of interim dean for academic affairs for the next two years.
I took the counsel of other people, thought about options, but that
decision was my decision, he said.
Scanlon will replace Cristle Collins Judd, who has been at the College since 2006.
President-elect Clayton Rose appointed William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Gender
and Womens Studies and Associate
Dean for Faculty Jennifer Scanlon to
fill the position of dean for academic
affairs on Monday. Scanlon will act
as an interim dean for the next two
years, and there will be a national
search for a permanent dean during
the 2016-2017 academic year. The
news followed last weeks announcement that Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd will leave
the College for the Arthur W. Mellon
Foundation at the end of the current
academic year.
Scanlon said that she anticipates
continuing many of the ongoing initiatives within the Office of the Dean
for Academic Affairs, including the
Digital and Computational Studies
Initiative, during her two years in the
position. Scanlon has also been focused on faculty diversity in her position as associate dean for faculty, and
said that she plans on continuing that
work in her new position.
We will continue those kinds of
conversation on campus, she said.
I have every confidence that we will
continue to carry on these initiatives
that weve started.
According to Scanlon, conversations have been underway for some
time regarding transitions that may
occur within the Academic Affairs
office as Rose prepares to begin his
presidency. The 2015-2016 year
would have been the final year of
Judds contract, which also contributed to those initial conversations.
With the news that she had accepted a position at the Mellon
Foundation, we started to have much
more serious and engaged conversations over a week or so, said Scanlon. Clayton Rose invited me to
take the position on an interim basis
for two years which we thought was
really in the best interest of the Collegesince hes going to be new
that it would really be two years of
someone who could help introduce
him to the place and provide some
kind of continuity.
RALLY

[The name of the rally is] called
Generation Climate Rising, so its
very focused on our generation
the power that we have to make a
change, said Julia Berkman-Hill 17.
Organizers of the event will
be hosting a press conference in
the morning and will proceed to
march through Augusta, from the
Capitol Building to the governors
mansion, the Blaine House.
Theres been nothing like this
in a very long time and its certainly going to galvanize the conversation in Maine, said Butler.
RHETORIC
student body, said McCarroll.
McCarroll recognized that the new
program will require a period of review
before it is able to reach its full potential.
I think that the first stage will really
be one of asking a lot of questions and
listening to the responses, she said. The
COURTESY OF COMMUNICATIONS
NEW DEAN: Jennifer Scanlon, associate

dean for faculty and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor
of the Humanities in Gender and Womens Studies,
was appointed to serve as dean for academic aairs
for the next two years, following Cristle Collins Judds
departure. In her new position, Scanlon hopes to
continue existing initiatives and work on increasing
faculty diversity.
Scanlon said that Judd will continue to work with her on the transition through the rest of the semester
and into the summer. She does not
anticipate a rough transition in the
office.
I think we will have a great partnership over here, she said. We
have an incredible staff in academic
affairs. We have a lot thats going
well, and we have a lot that we will
continue to build on.
Scanlon will not be teaching classes over the course of her tenure as
dean for academic affairs.
There is lots of transition happening at the College, she said,
And it will be really important
that I devote my time and energy
to making the transition both for
this office without the dean weve
had for the past nine years and also
for President Roseto make that as
smooth as possible.
Scanlon said she is excited to be
taking the position.
I really am honored to do this,
she said. Bowdoin is such a terrific
place and to be able to play this kind
of role at a college like Bowdoin is
such a reward for me.
Theres going to be a large
group of high school students from
the Portland area, said University
of Southern Maine student organizer Iris SanGiovanni. Weve got
buses leaving from Portland, Ellsworth, and Bangor.
SanGiovanni, who will be liaising between Maine Students for
Climate Justice and local police
forces, explained that there are no
planned arrests for Saturday and
that the event is largely to galvanize support.
Were here for the long haul,
were committed, were prepared to
work with legislators and if things
dont start moving forward, were
prepared to also escalate, she said.
general sense that I have is that students
are getting what they need in terms of
writing, but there hasnt really been any
clear measurement of that, and there
hasnt been a sustained process of assessing how well students are doing. So,
I think that what Ill be doing is trying
to better understand what the current
situation is before I can suggest changes.
Emma Peters contributed to this
report.
news
SECURITY REPORT: 4/3 to 4/8

Friday, April 3
A local resident reported loud
noise coming from the area of Longfellow Avenue and Maine Street.
A student reported the theft of a
blue womens Schwinn mountain bike
from the area of Hubbard Hall. Security has a suspect and the matter is under
investigation.
Saturday, April 4
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at
Thorne Hall.
Officers checked on the wellbeing
of a student at Coles Tower.
Sunday, April 5
Officers checked on the well-being
of a second student at Coles Tower.
Brunswick Rescue transported an
intoxicated student from Hyde Hall to
Mid Coast Hospital.
An officer conducted a wellness check
for an intox i c ate d
student at
30 College
Street.
A
group of
minor
stu-
the bowdoin orient
dents was found in possession of hard

alcohol in Hyde Hall.
Monday, April 6
An ill student at Coleman Hall was
escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.
Smoke reported near the
Moulton loading dock was found to
be coming from a smoldering cigarette disposal can.
An officer checked on the
wellbeing of an employee who
fainted at the Edwards Center for Art and
Dance.
Fire drills were conducted at a

number of residence halls. Information cards were left behind at some
rooms to advise students to correct
life safety and fire code violations that
were noted, i.e., unauthorized
appliances, holiday lights
wrapped around sprinkler heads, excessive tapestries/wall hangings and
blocked doors.
Two students were
cited for failing to evacuate their residence halls
during fire drills.
There was a hard alcohol violation reported
at Reed House.
There was a hard alcohol violation at Harpswell Apartments.
Tuesday, April 7
A Thorne dining employee with a lacerated
finger was escorted to
the Mid Coast Primary
Care & Walk-In Clinic.
A student reported the theft of a bike
seat from a bike rack
at Druckenmiller
Hall.
We d n e s d a y,
April 8
An officer
aided an ill student at Smith
Union and accompanied the
student to the
Health Center.
Compiled
by the Office
of Safety and
Security.
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Professors renew CFD to

promote faculty diversity
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
The Colleges professors reaffirmed

their commitment to a diverse faculty on Monday, voting to reauthorize
the Committee on Faculty Diversity
(CFD) through the 2019-2020 academic year. The CFD was created in
May 2009 to promote the hiring and
retention of a diverse faculty at Bowdoin, according to a report distributed at the March faculty meeting.
Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle
Collins Judd said that a diverse faculty
has immense value for the College.
The value is about creating the richest educational environment that we
can, about bringing a variety of life and
intellectual perspectives to bear on what
we do, she said. The value is about
making sure as an institution that we
represent the broad diversity that is our
country and is our world.
Members of the CFD sit on tenuretrack search committees, helping to
ensure that those committees consider
diversity appropriately at every stage of
the search process.
The faculty search process, over the
years weve made that a more extended
process, so we begin by building pools
of candidates; we begin by figuring out
what the outreach is; we look at how best
to define a position so that we can bring
in the widest pool of applicants, and a
member of that committee served on
the search committee, said Judd.
Judd said that the CFD works toward
diversity in its broadest sense, considering not only the race and ethnicity of
candidates, but also their gender, socioeconomic background and country
of origin, and the undergraduate and
graduate institutions from which they
graduated. In recent years the College
has achieved a near perfect gender balance among its faculty, and it currently
employs professors from 21 countries.
When the CFD was formed, the fac-
DIGITAL
Intro to CS in order to take later CS
courses.
However, Hall and Irfan note that
the two introductory courses can
serve as complements to each other.
We imagine that students who are
really excited about computer science
will perhaps take both courses in tandem, Hall said.
Intro to CS teaches students to
write computer code and uses one
programming language throughout
the semester. Intro to DCS, however,
uses a variety of computational tools,
only one of which is programming.
Topics in Intro to DCS include
spatial analysis, text analysis and social networks as well as the societal
impact of these technologies.
Co-teaching is also a great way
of saying this isnt a computer
science course; its not a history
ulty included a five-year sunset clause

so that they could evaluate whether
it should continue to exist and how it
could be improved. A working group
formed last October, chaired by Peter
M. Small Associate Professor of Art
History Stephen Perkinson, reported
that the Committee has been able to
play a helpful role in searchesand
that the ultimate goal of embedding
best practices in the faculty as a whole
is broadly supported. These factors
strongly suggest that the Committee
should be reauthorized.
The working group also identified
ways that the CFD could be improved,
recommending that its members receive professional training in best practices regarding inclusive recruitment
and hiring, that they join the search
process earlier, and that they serve twoyear terms to allow for full training
and the presence of experienced members on search committees. The faculty
voted to implement all of these changes
on Monday.
Romney Associates, a professional
development company, is currently
helping the College design four training
workshops that will teach CFD members how to prepare for searches, how to
read dossiers and deal with unconscious
bias, how to structure campus visits for
prospective hires, and how to ensure the
success of faculty members once they
are hired. The first workshop will take
place in May.
Judd said the purpose of the CFD is
not simply to increase the number of
faculty members from diverse backgrounds, but also to change the way
that Bowdoin understands diversity as
an institution.
Its something that we have worked
very hard on, and were not there yet,
and were never going to be there yet,
she said. Its not a numbers game. Its a
way of being.
Marina Affo contributed to this
report.
course; its not a foreign language
course; its a little bit of all of those
ideas, Hall said.
The course is modeled on Gateway to the Digital Humanities, which
Professors Eric Chown and Pamela
Fletcher taught two years ago. Irfan
and Hall are concerned about the
courses visibility because it is listed
as an Interdisciplinary course in Polaris, which students oftentimes do
not see.
Irfan is currently teaching another DCS class called Social and
Economic Networks, which mostly
contains students majoring and
minoring in disciplines other than
Computer Science.
While there is no programming
in Social and Economic Networks,
it does cover some upper-level algorithms like Von Neumann or graph
partitioning.
There is an informational session
for Intro to DCS on April 14 at 7 p.m.
in the VAC, room 303.
FEATURES
the bowdoin orient
A Taiwanese gap year for Jaramillo 17 Crafting a space and building

a home: a year in Reed house
MIND THE GAP

BY MADISON WOLFERT
After graduating from high
school, Eduardo Jaramillo 17
chose to spend a year in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. While there he studied at a traditional Taiwanese high
school as a foreign exchange student through Rotary International
Youth Exchange.
Sitting in homeroom with his
new Taiwanese peers, Jaramillo
struggled to participate in class
with his limited grasp of Mandarin. A reprieve from this language
barrier came through extracurricular classes in traditional Chinese
arts that the school organized for
Jaramillo and two other foreign
students from France and Brazil.
In these classes, Jaramillo encountered traditional Chinese art and
calligraphy, learned to play the
Chinese harp and even practiced
kung fu and tai chi.
Those were really nice breaks
throughout the day from sitting in
the class with the Taiwanese kids and
just hearing Chinese and not being
able to understand it, said Jaramillo.
After school, Jaramillo would
sample the local cuisine and culture with his host mother.
We would visit temples and
other interesting parts of the city,
and she would try to teach me Chinese, he said.
Jaramillo progressively began
spending more time with the two
other foreign students from school.
Those were my two best friends
SEW WHAT?
PENELOPE LUSK
COURTESY OF EDUARDO JARAMILLO
EAT UP: During his gap year in Taiwan, Eduardo Jaramillo 17 spent a significant amount of time
renting mopeds with his friends and traveling to a beach community famous for its seafood.
throughout the year and theyre still
some of my best friends, he said.
When the three got off from
school they would go the beach,
bowl and sightsee.
We learned that we could rent
these little mopeds, which was
against the rules of our program, but
we did it anyway, said Jaramillo.
Transgressing at low to moder-
ate speeds, Jaramillo and his friends

would take their mopeds on the ferry
to an island off the coast, which became one of their favorite hangouts.
It was sort of its own little community and had its own beach and
a street that was famous for its seafood, said Jaramillo.
Please see GAP, page 8
It was Friday evening in Reed

House and a mess of rainbowcolored Walmart odds-and-ends
became the backdrop for our last
campus-wide of the year. Tablecloths taped to the floor became
giant board game squares; paper
plates on the walls were the Gumdrop Forest. The basement, of
course, was the Molasses Swamp.
Over the living-room door, sparkly letters spelled Candyland.
House members, myself included,
ate candy and looked at our work,
genuinely delighted with our ramshackle creations.
Reed has maintained a commitment to excellent campus-wide dcor throughout the year. From the
star-spangled basement created
for our Spacement party, to the
deflated Cinderella balloon from
Fantasyland that is still in the
living room, red tinsel hearts from
Reed my Lips, and letters that
now read Landycand, represent
our year in campus-wides.
One thing to know about Reed
is that its a little bit broken. The
right-side shower on the second
floor has a shockingly high water
pressure. The kitchen sink runs
warm water. The heater screeches
like a banshee and groans like a
ghoul. It took me several weeks to

learn how to operate the stove
and even when I did learn how to
turn it on I could never remember
to turn it off.
But one of the most wonderful
parts of living in Reed this year has
been occupying that very space
and making it my home.
The little quirks of the house
flood my memories, because Im
letting myself be nostalgic about
something that isnt even over yet.
Stress-cleaning the goopy fridge
during finals period with a few intrepid friends. Baking cookies and
cakes throughout the year (and
then almost burning the house
down). Drinking warm tap water
while standing in the kitchen in
pajamas, uniquely and perfectly
content in the presence of some of
the most delightful people I know.
At the beginning of the year, my
roommate and I took on a project
of absurdity: we printed out middle-school photos of our housemates, Crayola-d them with names
and dates, and turned the kitchen
wall into an amorphous birthday
calendar. The kitchen also boasts
charming posters urging house
members to clean up after themselves: Drop the Beet? Pick it up!,
and the only permanent decorations in the house: an American
flag painting, and a string of paper
plates that spell Reed House.
Were out of here in a little over a
Please see HOME, page 8
Tsui engages issues of identity in Chinese past and American present

FACULTY CHATS
ELENA BRITOS
Im nobody, but I could be everybody, reflected Shu-chin Tsui
in her office at 38 College Street.
Professor of Asian Studies and
Cinema Studies, Tsuis greatest
personal and academic preoccupation is the question of identity.
Who am I? How am I supposed
to behave here? Tsui finds herself
asking these questions to her students in the classroom and to herself in her home.
Tsui emigrated from China over
thirty years ago, and although
she has American citizenship,
she feels she will never be mainstream American. She spent her
youth and college years in Asia,
and moved to the United States for
graduate school. While Tsui has
made academia her lifes work, she
was not equipped for scholarship
from the outset.
We did not have a high school
or formal education because of
Chinas political history, explained
Tsui. We are the generation of a
cultural revolution.
While American teens at the
time might have been bussing
tables and saving for college, Tsui
was performing hard labor.
We were sent to the country-
NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WHO AM I?: Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies Shu-chin Tsui has focused much of her academic work and personal time on questions of
identity. She also designed her own house here in Brunswick to make sure it was a beautiful and peaceful space.
side to do labor work for ten years.
So when you ask me, Whats your
odd job?, we didnt have that. We
were in the fields doing labor by
hands, by shoulders, by back. No
machines. It was kind of like the
American lost generation in that
we lost education. I remember
when I came here for graduate
school I asked my T.A., How do I

write a term paper? I really asked
him that.
After years of toiling for her
PhD, Tsui became a professor. She
now lives in Brunswick in a house
she designed, which she described
as a psychological space, a place of
personal identity.
My house is a home; I wanted

to build it with my own hands. Its
a combination of modern simplicity with an oriental Asian touch.
Its home, and I feel very peaceful
in that space. For me beautythe
beauty of even a doorframematters. I made my house like a museum. You have to paint a wall a cer-
tain color to reinforce the art piece

hanging. My eyes are constantly
looking for something symmetrical and balanced and peaceful.
Tsui said that if she were to
pursue another field of study, she
would get a PhD in art history.
Along with visual arts, Tsui is
also interested in music. As a professor of cinema studies, most art
forms interest herthough she
does have genre preferences.
I know nothing about rock,
nothing about the Beatles, she admitted. Im not a part of American culture at all.
Tsui is instead a classical music
aficionado, and constantly listens
to it as she works.
I like listening through really
good speakersquality matters to
me, she said.
Tsui attends on-campus musical
performances and makes weekly
trips to see the Portland Symphony
Orchestra.
I dont watch television. To me,
its noise, said Tsui.
Although Tsui eschews this form
of media, she does not feel that she
is missing out.
Every day I start my day with
the New York Times and the news
in Chinese, simultaneously, she
said. I dont lose anything; I always know whats going on.
Tsui recounted a time when
there was a write-up in the paper
Please see TSUI, page 8
COURTESY OF EDUARDO JARAMILLO
FITTING IN: Jamarillo 17 is a Chinese minor, but said that being immersed in Mandarin helped him
learn better than any class could. He is planning on going abroad to Kunming, China.
GAP

Another favorite jaunt was a trip
to one of the many night markets
in the city. A Taiwanese staple,
these markets were full of clothing
vendors, carnival-like games and
booths selling all foods imaginable.
Theres one night market thats
really touristy. They have this shop

there that sells snake stew, so that
was probably the weirdest thing that
I ate, said Jaramillo. The snake
meat was kind of like a tough fish
meat. It didnt taste bad though. It
wasnt the worst thing that I ate.
Jaramillo said he mostly just ate
fried shrimp in the night markets,
but tried tripe soup once, quickly
discovering that he did not like it.
Jaramillo also developed a taste

for oyster omelets, a popular Taiwanese snack.
The experience Jaramillo considers most memorable, however,
took place far from the bustle of
the night markets.
Towards the end of the year, my
host grandmother, whom I never
actually met, died and I was able to
go to a very traditional Taiwanese
funeral in the countryside. It was a
different world. It was really wild,
especially after spending most of the
time in the city, he said.
Jaramillo looks forward to experiencing rural life again next fall
when he will study abroad in the
city of Kunming, China.
I chose Kunming in part because
its a less modern, less western-oriented city compared to Shanghai or
Hong Kong, he said. I want to see
how the rural part of China lives.
This time, language should not
be as much of a barrier, as Jaramillo
has been pursuing a minor in Chinese. However, he does not believe
his language education at Bowdoin
lives up to his experience abroad.
I think that immersion experience is so much more valuable
than this classroom experience
Ive been getting at Bowdoin, he
said. Nothing against the Chinese
department, but its really hard to
improve a language when you cant
speak it organically.
The human element: What makes a craft beer?

GRAIN TO GLASS
CALLIE FERGUSON
Have you seen the sex scene in Blade
Runner? In the moments before Harrison Ford kisses his co-star Sean Young
against a window pane, there are a series of close-up shots of Youngs face.
The intimacy of the camerathe way
it notices her soft cheeks, her strands of
flyaway hairhumanizes her, induces a
kind of empathy and attraction in the
viewer that simulates Fords, and that
hopefully overcomes the knowledge that she is an android. She
is, in those moments, human, in
the adjectival form.
Thats good filmmaking. It
makes you want to sleep with a
robot, or, at the very least, confuses your understanding of what
a robot is.
Sometimes, I have a similar
confusion about what makes a
craft beer craft. On Tuesday,
it was National Beer Day, and I
saw that Chicagos Goose Island
Brewery had posted a Forbes
article titled The 13 Best Craft
Beers in America. The 13 craft
beers were chosen by Matt Canning (the beer concierge at Hotel
Vermont) and among them is
Goose Islands Bourbon Country
Stout. The standard for all barrel aged stouts, Canning wrote.
Chocolate, caramel, and smoke
on the noseand rich oak from
the barrels on the finish.
But does Bourbon County
Stout deserve a place on Cannings list? Based on his description of the flavor, it seems so.
However, in March of 2011, the macrobrewing company Anheuser-Busch
purchased Goose Islandand thus, by
the definition put forth by the Brewers
Association, which states that a craft
brewery must be small and independentGoose Island is technically no
longer a craft brewery.
Can a non-craft brewery make craft
the bowdoin orient
features
beer? While it may be owned by the industrial brewers, Goose Island consistently produces delicious beer. Goose
Islands inclusion among the list makes
the implicit argument that craft beer is
about taste, and taste alone.
Goose Islands CEO and founder
John Hall stands by that argument.
Goose Island is a craft beer, period,
he stated to time magazine in an August of 2013 article that questioned the
status of Goose Islands craft identity.
The article explains that smaller, independently owned craft breweries initiated the questioning because they saw
Goose Island as a threat to the meaning
of the word craft.
director, agreed with Hall, saying that

the Brewers Association does not have
a hard and fast definition for what craft
beer is (unlike the outline it has for what
a craft brewery is). Like Hall, she leaves it
up to beer drinkers to make the decision.
Im a beer drinker. But I hope you
arent looking for an answer from me,
because I dont have one. Yes, I think a
lot about what it means to be craft beer,
and yes, taste is certainly something that
I consider highly importanthavent
you noticed my comical propensity for
hyper-specific flavor reviews? (Havent
you made fun of them?)
But Im also a romantic who likes to
meet her brewer. Ive been made fun
of for that, too. This is part
of my consideration when
I think about that scene
in Blade Runner, when
I think about Bourbon
Country Stout as a kind of
android beer: ostensibly
and empirically faithful to
a certain definition, but still,
lacking something essential
and untraceable.
I guess that would be
the human-ness of the
beer, which, I suppose,
signifies that feeling of
satisfaction you get from
drinking something that
was made nearby, made by
hand, made by people that
you can put a face to, that
have a story.
And yes, craft is conflated often with local, and
I know that is incorrect. I remember drinking Brooklyn
Lager at a pub in London
and thinking that it tasted
delicious, even a thousand
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
miles from where it came
from. Stone Brewery is one
The so-called definition of craft
my favorite breweries and it is located
beer has evolved over the years, Hall
in Southern California, and they make
continued. Both the brewery size and
213,277 barrels of beer a year (for referingredients have been changed. I believe
ence, that is nearly as much as the state
the beer drinkers are the ones who truly
of Maine produces annually).
decide what is a craft beer or isnt.
And yes, I keep saying and yes. Its
When time went to the Brewers Asthe sound a person makes when she
sociation for comment, Julia Herz, the
wants to be both a certain kind of conBrewers Associations craft beer program
sumer and a certain kind of connoisseur.
TSUI

about a controversial film being
aired for two days before official
censorship would take it away.
I brought the film that day to
my classroom and we spent that
week discussing it. Thats me. My
classroom is directly connected to
social reality. My classroom and
reality are on the same page.
While Tsui describes herself as a
small potato on this campus, she is
relentlessly committed to bringing
a global perspective to Bowdoin. In
2016, Tsui will put on a festival at
Bowdoin to celebrate Asian independent documentary films.
Be global, she said. Students
choose [courses that are] comfortable
or career-oriented. But each class can
really open up your horizons.
Tsui is so committed to the
cutting-edge in film and to international goings-on that she is willing to put her career and personal
HOME

month. The particular community
that Ive been a part of this year will
probably never spend more than a
few hours together all in a room together again. I knew when I moved
in that my time in Reed, like the
posters I hung in the kitchen and
the paper plates I taped up during
Candyland, would be transitory.
We all knew that.
But different house members
spent hours throughout the year
decorating this house, for parties
and just for ourselves. A Reed House
crest was designed. Banners were
drawn, painted and flown proudly. I
laid tablecloths on the floor, knowing well that they would be torn up
imminently by dancing feet, because
the decoration crew was committed
to showing Reeds true colors.
Living in Reednoisy, broken,
messy Reedhas been the high
point of a challenging year. Know-
safety on the line, she said.

I can be detained and sent to
prison by the Chinese government
for this, she explained. Im dealing
with controversial topics. I make
jokes in the deans office, If you
dont hear from me, look for me.
It is because of the gambles she
has taken that Tsui calls herself a
global citizen.
I am a private person; I am not
social, she said frankly. But take
my classes. I want to take [students] away from classrooms. I am
fascinated about classes Im dealing with. I want students to know
that part of me.
Looking back on her path to
Bowdoin, Tsui named the risks she
felt obligated to take despite the
sacrifices she had to make.
As a Chinese foreign woman,
coming here was a risk. Do I
stay here or do I go home? All of
my family is still in China. Also,
choosing a major, looking for myself. All life is risks all the time,
she said.
ing that I can finish class or finish
my work and go to a place where I
feel at home, where there are people
I care about and a communal mattress to collapse onto, is an incomparable happiness.
So what of all the goofy crafts
my housemates and I have made
throughout the year? I think we
made them because we claimed this
space entirely, and we were proud
of itproud enough to spend hours
designing and making things that
had no life span at all.
Our house might paint a mural
in the basement to join the American flag painting, a present to New
Reed but also a reminder that
we were here. Even if the house
doesnt get around to it, even if
nothing remains to say that I lived
here, the relationships built laughing giddily at 2 a.m. in the kitchen,
arent going anywhere.
We may be done decorating, but
the year isnt over yet. Spring has
just begun, the backyard is melting, and Reed House has big plans.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Weisbachs one-man show brings 20 characters to life in Hubbard

BY BRIDGET WENT
ORIENT STAFF
The tall arches of the Pickering

Room in Hubbard Hall transform
into the walls of a German antique
museum and secret homosexual
meeting group as senior Evan Horwitz performs more than 20 different characters in I Am My Own
Wife. The play follows the history
of a German transgender woman
who, against all odds, survived the
Nazi and Stasi regimes.
Based on a true story, I Am
My Own Wife tells the remarkable tale of Charlotte (pronounced
Shar-lotta) von Mahlsdorf, born
Lothar Berfelde, who lived in
Berlin throughout both the Nazi
invasion and the East German
Communist regime. The play premiered on Broadway in 2004, two
years after von Mahlsdorf s death,
winning numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony
Award for best play.
Playwright Doug Wright draws
on von Mahlsdorf s compelling
and controversial story through
his conversations with her, which
began not long after the fall of the
Berlin Wall. Encompassing themes
of gender identity, complicity under
evil regimes and the act of storytelling, this metadrama reveals the ambiguity of von Mahlsdorf s history.
Director Jamie Weisbach 16,
BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MY OWN WIFE: Evan Horwitz 15 acts as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf in the play I Am My Own Wife directed by Jamie Weisbach 16. Horwitz plays more
than 20 dierent characters in the one-man metadramatic show, which opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Pickering Room of Hubbard Hall.
who has been involved with dramaturgy, directing and tech, chose
I Am My Own Wife to embark
upon as an independent study
project. Weisbach and Horwitz
have been working on the production since last May, and began rehearsing in January.
For Weisbach, directing a oneman-show comes with its chal-
lenges and its benefits.

Its just you, the actor, the script
and thats it, said Weisbach. I like
that simplicity but its also a really
big challenge.
Examining the complexity of
narrative, the shows thematic content is complemented by the oneman-show format. With only one
person performing, the audience is
constantly reminded that they are

watching a storyteller tell a story.
Youre not really working in the
mode of realism, Weisbach added.
You have to find really clear ways
of telling the story physically that
are not realistic.
Bringing to life dozens of characters from the voice and body of
a single actor is no small theatri-
cal feat. As the only actor on the

stage, Horwitz was faced with the
challenge of making interactions
between characters feel genuine.
It has been interesting to find
ways to find authenticity and something that feels real, even when Im
the only one there, said Horwitz.
For me, character in life and
on stage is how we respond to the
world around us, he continued.
Character doesnt exist in a vacuum because we dont.
Horwitz exploited the presence of
an intimate live audience, feeding off
their reactions to gain further insight
into his characters.
Switching instantaneously from the
mannerisms, tone and posture of a
middle-aged American man to those
of an elderly German woman, Horwitz embodied a range of characters,
including the playwright himself.
Having the playwright be a character in the script highlights for the audience how the perspective of the storyteller influences the ways in which
we see a history, Weisbach said.
Horwitz worked extensively
with Associate Professor of German Jill Smith to refine his dialect,
and credited her indispensable insights into German language and
historical context.
Both voice and physicality provided
Horwitz with a portal to understand-
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Cornell prof examines racial Stevens redeems singer-songwriters, his mother

bias in Dove beauty campaign
HIPSTER DRIVEL
BY SARAH BONNANO
ORIENT STAFF
One need not be a scholar to

know when an ad campaign has
not succeeded. But when it comes
to evaluating the histories that
underlie problematic messaging,
a professor who studies race and
gender can offer invaluable insight.
Noliwe Rooks, an associate
professor in Africana Studies and
Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, delivered
a talk Monday evening in Kresge
Auditorium about the intersections of beauty, race and popular
culture in examining Doves Campaign for Real Beauty and its use of
black womens bodies as a marketing tool. Rooks lecture, sponsored
by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, also touched on the value of
beauty in society and its impact in
politics and policy making.
Rooks focused on specific images from the Real Beauty campaign, an ad campaign launched in
2004 with the intention of reflecting what women truly wanted to
see in advertising. One image in
particular showed a black woman,
a Latina woman and a white woman lined up in that order under a
before and after banner to demonstrate a transformation from
rough to smooth skin after using
the product. But as Rooks pointed
out, the image also suggested that a
transformation from dark to light
skin was desirable. Although Dove
claimed that race was not supposed
to be a part of the visual narrative,
the company eventually cancelled

the advertisement.
The demise of the overall campaign was especially telling in regards to its disconnecting the meaning of beauty from race and history,
Rooks said. Its puzzling they did
not catch something so simple as an
advertisement where large-boned
black woman became white and thin
after using the product.
Rooks spoke to the negative effects the campaign had on presenting black bodies.
The campaign never gave any
thought to broadening the message to include different races, nor
did it pay attention to how we read
and understand bodies that are
raced, she said. They used black
womens bodies only to denote the
ability to overcome a variety of
imperfections. By the end of the
campaign, black skin became another imperfection to overcome or
be washed away.
In the past recent years, Dove
has moved away from ads explicitly about body image to those
that generally empower women.
Rooks began her lecture by showing the Real Beauty Sketches, a
more recent Dove ad. In the video,
a group of women describe both
themselves and another woman in
the group to a sketch artist. The
women then spend time comparing the two sketches to see the differences between their perceptions
of themselves and a strangers perception of their beauty.
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MATTHEW GOODRICH
I have a confession, gentle reader, and I hope the same grace which
brings me to admit my sin also
inspires you to forgive it. When
last we met, I declared the impossibility of the singer-songwriter in
2015. Sincerity is dead, I thought,
taking with it our affable acoustic mensches. I spoke
too soon. (Even
tastemakers
are mortal.)
choruses and site-specific splendor.

What business does Stevens have
in 2015, being five years removed
from his last LP (unless you count
the disturbing amount of Christmas music he has recorded, which
sounded more like the data-driven
apocalypse than a flurry of hushed
hymnals)? After all the left turns
his career has taken, Stevens goes
the one unexpected route remaining with Carrie & Lowell: making
a straightforward folk album.
midst of disease and drug addiction. It is as if Casimir Pulaski

Day, the heart-wrenching opus
on Illinois about an ambiguously
gendered subjects relationship
to faith while dying of leukemia
(and doubling as a history lesson
in military holidays), was not entirely fiction. On Carrie & Lowell, Stevens doesnt have to weave
grand narrative arcs with oblique
metaphors in order to convey the
desperation of sickness
and of lovethe pain was
inside him all along.
DIANA FURUKAWA , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

I underestimated a
certain musician from Detroit with a penchant
for geographic grandiosity. If Father John Misty is the crucifixion
of songwriting, then Sufjan Stevens is the resurrection.
To be fair, Stevens is an unlikely
martyr. The year 2005 belonged
to the baroque absurdity of his
record Illinois, with its soaring
No, Carrie & Lowell is not the

fifty-first state. Stevens doesnt humanize the midwests most famous
serial killer, nor does he harmonize with gospel choirs in praise
of God. These eleven songs are not
sweeping declarations of anything,
really, except the muted intimacy
of childhood. The record is named
for Stevens mother and stepfather,
two parents trying to hold together
a family as it disintegrates in the
Carries
ghost haunts every song
on the album. She died in 2012,
but Stevens recounts that she had
abandoned him long before that,
whether she forgets about her toddler at a Blockbuster or takes him on
a car ride and drug trip to Oregon. As
much as he may wish it, Stevens cannot escape the memory of his mother,
whom he both pines for and despises.
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a&e
Installation presents various media representations of sexual and domestic violence

BY LOUISA MOORE
ORIENT STAFF
The living room of Quinby

House was transformed into an installation piece yesterday, the walls
covered with articles, headlines and
images about domestic violence.
Questions prompting viewers to
think critically about the media
they consume were interspersed
throughout the installation.
The exhibition, called Sharing
Trauma: Representations of Sexual
and Domestic Violence in Social
Media was put together by the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) as part of Consent is
Sexy Week, a week of programming
that aims to prevent sexual assault
and to promote healthy sexual encounters and relationships.
Jackie Fickes 15, one of ASAPs
leaders, was inspired to create the
exhibit by the recent, high-profile
media coverage of domestic abuse
and sexual assault cases, especially
those involving NFL player Ray
Rice and the University of Virginia.
Every time there is something
huge like that in the media, youre
going to get a lot of other smaller
opinion pieces and similar stories
that seem to be cropping up everywhere, said Fickes.
Fickes, with the help of sophomores Alexis Espinal, Ryan Herman, Caroline Montag, Hayley
Nicholas, Emily Weyrauch, Emma
Patterson 16 and Kaylee Wolfe 15,
began to think about the implications of these stories.
We started asking a lot of questions that people may not take
the time to think of, Fickes said.
Whos telling the stories? Whose
EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SHARING TRAUMA: Charlotte Dillion 16, a member of Safe Space, watches a multimedia presentation that was part of the Alliance for Sexual Assault Preventions (ASAP) installation last night in Quinby
House. The exhibition features online articles, social media posts and videos, and is interspersed with questions to the viewer. The exhibition will be open through the weekend.
stories are being told?Whose
voices are silenced? What does
it mean if we hit like or share?
What are the effects of all these
narratives on survivors?
With the power of social media,
sexual assault news is being circulated much more widely and quickly. The installation aims to provide
a setting for students to think about
the implications of that.
That was really our idea, to get
people thinking about the proliferation in the media of these issues
and how it gets represented and

then asking more critical questions, said Fickes.
Director of Gender Violence
Prevention and Education Benje
Douglas stressed the significance
of these critical questions.
Its an event thats meant to
combine peoples public understanding of the issue and go a little
bit deeper to the online public version, which is somewhat different,
said Douglas. I think thats an important juxtaposition for people
to see what is said, what is written

and what really happens.
The opening of the installation, which will be up through this
weekend, coincided with Leslie
Morgan Steiners Thursday evening talk titled Understanding
Relationship Violence in Kresge
Auditorium. Fickes has been
working since the fall to bring the
renowned author and sexual violence survivor to Bowdoin.
[Steiner] was in an abusive romantic relationship, so she uses her
own narrative to tell that story and

to raise awareness, said Fickes.
Quinby Houses more removed
location was ideal for the installation given the sensitive nature of
its subject.
[The installation is for] people
who specifically want to be looking
at this and asking those questions,
said Fickes. Its also easily avoidable if thats not something you
want to be engaging with.
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EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MEDIA BIAS: The installation featured articles and frequently-shared images from the Internet. It
asked viewers to think critically about web information on sexual and domestic violence.
MEDIA

Charlotte Dillon 16, a member
of Safe Space, attended the opening.
I think this is really nice because
it makes you reflect on [...] things
that you see every day, she said.
You see it in social media, on
the Internet, and sometimes its
very easy to not really stop and reflect, said Dillon.
Both Douglas and Fickes hope
DOVE

Rooks attributed the videos success
to both the warm, feel-good emotions
it elicited and its wide dissemination.
One month after release, it had garnered
more than 114 million views, making it
the most viral ad of all time. It was uploaded in 25 languages and has been
viewed in 110 different countries.
[The video] was a cultural phenomenon that spoke to women, and was
profitable at the same time, she said. It
tells us that beauty is internal and personal and race-neutral and individual
and should not have power in womens
lives. Many of us, fatigued with hearing and seeing the opposite, desperately
wanted to believe that all of this is true.
a&e
the bowdoin orient
that conversations like the ones

prompted by the exhibition and
speaker can continue past Consent
is Sexy Week.
I think its pretty easy as students here to get focused on the
everyday classes and sports and
other things that take up time,
said Douglas. This is a way to step
back and see whats really been
said about the issue.
Editors Note: Weyrauch is the Arts
& Entertainment Editor for the Orient.
Rooks went on to speak more generally about the role of beauty and race
in society. According to Rooks, less
conventionally attractive individuals
are less likely to be viewed as smart,
interesting, likeable, successful and
well-adjusted. She went on to say that
dark-skinned black women are considered 50 per cent less attractive than
those that are lighter-skinned. Rooks
then discussed the implications of the
internalizing of these perceptions by
young people.
Diamond Walker 17, who attended the talk, found the argument that beauty is more than just
aesthetics interesting.
We understand how beauty
works in a social setting, Ive never
thought about it an academic setting, said Walker.
I dont know where to begin,

he admits on Death with Dignity,
awash in memories too painful to
confront head on. But he attempts
a start, regardless: forgiveness.
Yet what happens when death
robs us of the chance to forgive?
On All of Me Wants All of You,
Stevens wonders, shall we beat
this or celebrate it, wondering
if its better for his mothers illnesses to end with death or if she
should keep fighting. The backdrop, of course, is their troubled
relationshipmore time to live
means more time to be let down as
much as it does more time to earn
redemption. Im just a ghost you
walk right through, he continues,
conflating himself with his mothers apparition and the ephemera of innocence. Now all of me
thinks less of you, he confesses.
But that doesnt break the bonds of
familial love as he sings, all of me
wants all of you.
The most important lesson we
learn from our parents isnt something they can teach us. It happens slowly, the decay of their
superhero status, though Stevens
realized it quicker than most. Witnessing the unbearable humanness of mothersimperfection,
ambiguity, mortalitydevastates
us, threatening even our own eternity. Stevens employs his historic
falsetto to make this point: were
all gonna die, and even now in a
manner of speaking were already
dead. Our parents mortality is our
own, even if their mistakes are not.
Im not sure Carrie & Lowell is
the best record in Stevens discography, but it is the best record of
the year. With it, he does more than
redeem the singer-songwriterhe
redeems his mother, turning it into
the redemption of the human race.
Loss stems from love, Stevens
reminds useven as he wishes he
could tear his eyes and his arms
out to numb his senses. He urges,
Everything I see returns to you
somehow, mother, center of the
universe, black hole, should I tear
my heart out now? And when
fireworks blossom on the Fourth
of July, a rainbow salute to passing,
may we remember what it means
to love and be loved.
ONE-MAN
ing and differentiating the facets of the

shows various characters.
This is a play about heroes, and the
stories we tell about heroes, and the
things we want to tell about heroes,
said Weisbach. Its about rejecting the
urge to make people either big flawless
heroes or to reject them entirely.
ABBY MOTYCKA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SKIN-DEEP: Noliwe Rooks spoke in Kresge Auditorium on Monday night. Rooks, an associate
professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell spoke on the connections between beauty and race in pop culture, focusing on the failure of a Dove campaign.
For me, character in life

and on stage is how we respond
to the world around us.
Character doesnt exist in a
vacuum because we dont.
EVAN HORWITZ 15
This play tells a phenomenal story

that needs to be told, Horwitz added.
Performances take place tonight and
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Editors Note: Horwitz is the author of the Features column 348
and Maine.
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Diamond Walker 17
JESSICA GLUCK, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HIP N HOPPIN: Walker 17 practices in the dance studio. She is a choreographer and leader of
Obvious, the hip-hop group, and looks forward to incorporating dance into a future career.
band and wife dance duo from
the TV show So You Think You
Can Dance.
Diamond Walker 17 tried out
They do the craziest isolations
for an Irish dancing team though a
and choreography, said Walker.
program at her elementary school
To this day I still watch some of
at age eight. She was accepted into
my favorite pieces of theirs to get
the program, which turned out to
inspired in my own work.
be the beginning of a lifelong love
Walker also finds inspiration
of dance. Now a sophomore inin music of all kinds.
volved in many projects on camI love listening to classical
pus, Walker still finds the time to
music when Im doing my homepursue her passion.
work, she said. Ill be sitting
Though Walker was an Irish
there and Ill start dancing to a
dancer in her childhood, she
classical beat which is very unswitched to hip-hop when she
heard of.
was 15. Walker took dance classes
Walker is involved with many
as a first year, and has continued
clubs and organizations outside
to be involved in dance through
of dance. She is currently a memher choreography and leadership
ber of Residential Life, serving as
of
Obvious
a proctor in
Dance Crew.
Osher, and is
Im a small person, so
Wa l k e r s
a student dicurrent projrector for the
in my dancing I like to do
ect has been
Womens Rebig expressive movements to
choreographsource Center.
show the big person I am
ing a piece for
Walker is also
the Asian Stua staff member
on the inside.
dents Assoat the McKeen
ciation (ASA)
Center for the
Fashion Show, which is coming
Common Good. She recently
up in two weeks. However, she
co-facilitated a four-week group
plans to do a more personal piece
discussion series about identity at
for the student show in May.
Bowdoin for Undiscussed, a stuUsually my dances are more
dent group dedicated to discussfun and I usually do my dances for
ing difficult issues.
other people, said Walker. I reIn her spare time, Walker loves
ally want to do a dance thats about
to learn about the science of hair
identity and about race with all the
and how to take care of it. She is
events that have been happening
passionate about social activism
this year, like Ferguson.
and loves to discuss issues surWalker said her family inspired
rounding race and diversity at
her to become a dancer.
Bowdoin. Walker wants to bring
Dancing in my family is norher love of dance into everything
mal. My mom played music in the
that she does and plans to incormornings while cooking or cleanporate her passion into whatever
ing and music is always on in the
career path she chooses to go
house, said Walker. We would
down. She uses dance as a methalways be moving which was
od of expressing herself.
something that I loved. I love to
I love to be big when Im
move. It was a way that I enjoyed
dancing. Im a small person, so
expressing myself and it was comin my dancing I like to do big exfortable for me, she added.
pressive movements to show the
Walker recalls times when she
big person I am on the inside,
would choreograph dances for
she said.
her cousins to perform.
My male cousin was always the
To suggest an artist for Portrait
footstool. He hated it, said Walker.
of an Artist, email Arts & EnterOne of Walkers sources of
tainment Editor Emily Weyrauch
inspiration is Nappytabs, a husat eweyrauc@bowdoin.edu.
BY ARIANA REICHERT
ORIENT STAFF
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SPORTS
the bowdoin orient
Mens tennis races past Brandeis, ranked No. 8 Womens tennis remains
undefeated in conference play
BY RACHAEL ALLEN
ka 18 and Kyra Silitch 17 (8-2),

and Pilar Giffenig 17 and Chow
(8-1).
Everyone was just really on
Sa 4/4
v. MIT
W 8-1
point with their game, Silitch said.
Wed 4/8
v. Bates
W 9-0
That just builds confidence for
singles.
Securing its fourth consecutive
With the encouragement of a
win, womens tennis continued its
3-0 lead going into singles, the
win streak with an 8-1 victory over
Polar Bears again delivered deciMIT in its first home match last
sively. Likhanskaia, Cheng, Trinka,
Saturday. The Polar Bears domiSamantha Stalder 17 and Silitch
nated in all of the doubles matchall won their singles matches.
es and won five of the six singles
Likhanskaia, Bowdoins No. 1, also
matches. On Wednesday, Bowdoin
featured as this weeks Athlete of
excelled again, beating Bates 9-0 in
the Week, pulled out a strong win
Farley Field House.
over MITs No.1 with 6-0 and 6-2
Its good bematches.
cause we not
Last Saturday
only won, but Its a really supportive environment, was the teams
won decisively, but everyone pushes you to do better. first home match
said
captain
Spring
You cant fade into obscurity, [which] since
Emma
Chow
Break, when the
15. That sends definitely contributes to all of our team traveled to
a message to
California, as well
success too.
the rest of NESas a return to acCAC and other
tion for the team.
KYRA SILITCH 17
top, nationallyWeve had a
ranked schools.
bit of a gap of
With a record of 8-2, Bowdoin
matches where over Spring Break
is No. 8 nationally, while MIT is
we played [eight matches in two
No. 13. Bowdoin has a conference
weeks] and then came back and
record of 3-0 after the Bates win.
had two weeks basically without a
We knew this was probably one
match, Chow said. Its [been] getof their biggest matches of the seating back into that match mode.
son, Chow added in reference to
However, womens tennis used
MIT. So we were definitely going
the time since Spring Break to
into it very prepared and wanting
practice and focus on getting
to win.
stronger, feeding off of each others
Bowdoin gained momentum
energy.
early on when all doubles teams
Were really just keeping up
wonJoulia Likhanskaia 17 and
Tiffany Cheng 16 (8-3), Tess TrinPlease see W. TENNIS, page 15
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ALL ABOUT THAT BASE: Chase Savage 16 and Kyle Wolfe 18 work the base line in their 8-2 doubles win against Brandeis. The team went a perfect 9-0 against the Judges.
BY MADDIE JODKA
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Sa 4/4
Th 4/9
v. Brandeis
at Bates
W
L
9-0
6-3
The mens tennis team won their

sixth match in a row on Saturday with
a 9-0 victory against Brandeis (6-8)
before falling to Bates 6-3 yesterday.
The Brandeis contest was the
teams second to last non-conference match of the regular season.
Seven of their last eight matches
will be against NESCAC opponents.
The win against Brandeis improved
Bowdoins record to 8-1 the season;
the loss at Bates, however, leaves
them 2-1 in the NESCAC.
The team went into the match
knowing that Brandeis was a strong
team. Brandeis had just beaten Tufts,

a team ranked 23rd in the country,
so the Polar Bears believed that they
were in for a challenge.
We knew that Brandeis was a
team that could beat us if we didnt
show up to play, said Chase Savage 16.
The Polar Bears took control of the
match from the beginning and won
all three doubles matches. Luke Trinka 16 and Luke Turcek 18 won their
first doubles match 8-6, followed by
Kyle Wolstencroft 15 and Gil Roddy
18 at second doubles, who won 8-4,
and Savage and Kyle Wolfe 18 at
third doubles pulling through with
an 8-2 win.
During the singles matches, all
players dominated. Trinka was victorious at first singles with scores 6-3
and 6-2, followed by second singles
Noah Bragg with 6-1 and 6-2, and

Wolfe at third singles with 6-2 and
6-1. Savage followed at fourth singles
winning 6-2 and 6-2, Wolstencroft at
fifth singles winning the closest individual match of the day 7-6 and at 6-3,
and Tercek only letting up one game at
sixth singles with 6-1 and 6-0.
Against Bates, one of the stronger doubles teams in New England,
the Polar Bears went down 2-1 in
doubles after the Bobcats won the
first doubles match in a tiebreaker,
ultimately falling 6-3. The three
wins came from the doubles team of
Wolstencroft and Wolfe at second
doubles, Bragg in second singles
and Wolfe at third singles.
The team has two conference
matches this weekend, traveling to
Hamilton tomorrow and Amherst
on Sunday.
Softball wins four out of OConnor edges lacrosse past Colby

five in busy week of play
BY LIZA TARBELL
ORIENT STAFF
BY YASMIN HAYRE
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Fri 4/3
Tue 4/7
Wed 4/8
at Bates
at Bates
at Bates
v. So. Me. @ St. Josephs
v. So. Me. @ St. Josephs
W 5-1
W 4-1
W 5-2
L 9-1
W 12-4
Despite a hectic schedule that

included four games in two days,
the softball team posted a 4-1 record this week, including a threegame sweep of division rival Bates.
After Bowdoin took down Bates
5-1 in last Fridays NESCAC opener, the teams Sunday doubleheader
was rescheduled for Tuesday, leaving the Polar Bears with a double
doubleheader of sorts: Bates in
Lewiston on Tuesday and Southern Maine (USM) on Wednesday
at St. Josephs College in Standish.
Bowdoin completed its sweep of
the Bobcats by winning 4-1 and
5-2 and then split the games with
USM, losing 9-1 before rebounding for a 12-4 victory.
Senior captain and rightfielder Tory
Rusch said the team was well-prepared for such a busy slate of games.
Considering that in Florida we
played 16 games essentially back-
to-back, our team was reminded

that that is definitely something
we need to work on, she said.
However, given the obstacles that
we have already had to deal with
up north regarding our opponents
and the weather, it appears to me
that our team has already begun
getting better at remaining in
the game and being able to push
through tough competition in order to win.
While Bates scored the first run
of Fridays contest in the bottom of
the second, the Bears answered in
the fifth inning with back-to-back
doubles from Marissa OToole 17
and Cielle Collins 15.
In the top of the sixth, Adriane
Krul 15 launched a solo home run
to put the Bears up by two. Katie
Gately 16 and OToole each contributed RBI singles that scored
Emily Griffin 17 and Lauren
Nguyen 17.
Julia Geaumont 16 pitched lightsout for the Bears, allowing only two
hits, striking out seven and walking
none. OToole, who went 2-3 with
two RBIs and a run scored, led Bowdoins offensive play.
On Tuesday, the Bears again travelled to Lewiston and took two more
Please see SOFTBALL, page 13
SCORECARD
Sa
Tue
4/4
4/7
v. Endicott
v. Colby
W 13-8
W 8-7
The womens lacrosse team (9-2,

5-2 NESCAC) beat out Endicott (74) last Saturday and pulled off a decisive win against rival Colby (9-3, 4-3
NESCAC) on Tuesday. Tuesday was
also Bowdoins Senior Day. The Polar
Bears hope to continue their winning
streak this weekend against Connecticut College (3-8, 1-6 NESCAC).
The 13-8 win against Endicott
marked a shift in the teams morale,
coming off of a dog fight win against
fellow Maine school, Bates (6-7, 2-6
NESCAC) and back-to-back losses
against top-seeded teams Trinity
(11-1, 7-1 NESCAC) and Middlebury (9-1, 5-1 NESCAC).
Wed obviously hit a bit of a lull
and its hard to go through a season
and come off of two big games in a
row, said Lindsay Picard 16, Trinity and Middlebury are great, but
[the Endicott game] has been really
great for us to refocus on how we
choose to play and the standard we
choose to set for ourselves.
Mettler Growney 17 emphasized how the team came together
to pull off the win.
Our attack worked really well
together, she said. [Endicotts]

goalie was really good, so they
made a couple saves on uswe
were a bit startled. But then we just
got moving on attack with good
combinations and feeds inside the
8-meter, and one-on-ones worked
a lot.
I dont know Bowdoin Lacrosse

without [the seniors]. Its going to be
a really big change because they have
all been incredible mentors
METTLER GROWNEY 17
The Polar Bears went into the
second half hot, leading Endicott
8-2. Growney and Picard added a
combined 7 goals and 3 assists. The
team pulled away to for the win by
a 5 goal margin in the end, fighting
back a three-goal final push by the
Gulls.
I would never remember that
they scored, Growney said. Thats
not something I would take away
from the whole game. I think we
played a really hard, full game.
Picard echoed how impressed she
was by her teammates performance.
When youre up by that much
you sometimes dont push yourself
until the end. But overall, I think
the second half was huge for us regardless, said Picard. What was
hard was that Endicott really pushed

themselves until the very end and
that was something that they did
really well, but I dont think it takes
away from how we played.
Growney stressed the importance
of the win against Endicott with a potentially tough matchup against Colby,
then the second ranked team in the nation, on the horizon.
Its really great that we had this
result against Endicott this weekend
because were coming away with a lot
of confidencemuch needed against
the number two, said Growney.
Last year the Polar Bears lost by
one goal after Colby scored in the
final minutes of the game.
We want to get revenge, said
Growney. The stakes are high. The
[Trinity] and [Middlebury] games
we could have won those games too,
but what really counts is doing the
little things right.
The team got pumped up for
the game, knowing they needed
to work together to realize their
potential and earn the win on the
Polar Bears Senior Day.
The energy in the locker room
beforehand and on the field and in
the huddle during the game was
confident, but not too confident,
said Growney. We knew that we
had the ability to win; we had a lot of
enthusiasm and self-belief.
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the bowdoin orient
13
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Baseball splits weekend against Bates

BY ALLISON WEI
Joulia Likhanskaia 17
WOMENS TENNIS
HIGHLIGHTS
Has won all but two sets
this season playing first
singles
Undefeated in her last seven
singles matches and three
doubles matches
BY ALEX VASILE
SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
can hit drop shots. But the abilORIENT STAFF

ity to come the net is definitely an
advantage.
Joulia Likhanskaia 17 startHead Coach Hobie Holbach
ed her Bowdoin tennis career
acknowledged that one of the bigat number three in singles, but
gest improvements Likhanskaia
moved to number one at the end
has made from last season has
of her first year when she earned
been physical.
All-American status. She has held
Shes competing better and shes
that spot this season and is unlikereally fit, he said. Those are two
ly to relinquish it.
things that stand out. She and the
In an April 4 match against
other girls put in a lot of effort in
MIT, Likhanskaia and partner Tifthe gym in the offseason.
fany Cheng 16 won their doubles
By competing better, Holbach
match 8-3. Likhanskaia also demeans that Likhanskaia is hanfeated MITs number one singles
dling the flow of matches, staying
player 6-0, 6-2 to give the team an
focused and confident if she loses
additional point on the way to an
a point, and finishing opponents
8-1 victory over the No. 13 ranked
off if she wins a few in a row. He
team in the country.
also noted the impact physical imLikhanskaia is likely to remain
provementsreal or perceived
with Cheng
can have on
for the rest Girls who play the number one spot confidence and
of the seaability.
sonChengs are not just going to miss. You have to
Playing the
speed, strong structure the point. If she wants to, she top spots, whats
groundstrokes
tough is even if
could never hit the same shot twice.
and
moveyoure not playment
along
ing a good team,
EMMA CHOW 15
the baseline
whoevers playcomplement
ing one or two
Likhanskaias capability at the net.
is still pretty good, Holbach said.
Likhanskaia played her way to
You dont get to take matches off.
the top of Bowdoins singles roster
He also said that women playwith a game reminiscent of many
ing near the top do not feel like the
of collegiate womens tennis best
team needs to depend on them.
players. She is consistent, rarely
This is because tennis matches are
missing easy shots, with a diverse
scored out of nine and the winshot repertoire and the fitness to
ners of the six matches and three
cover the court.
doubles each earn a point for their
Girls who play the number one
teams.
spot are not just going to miss,
Likhanskaia said she has nosaid captain Emma Chow 15. You
ticed the difference between this
have to strucsystem and the
ture the point.
junior tennis
If she wants to, Here, youre not playing for yourself; circuit, which
she could never youre playing for your team. You is almost enhit the same
tirely individufight for every point. And if I see that ally focused.
shot twice.
Of her skills, everyone else is doing well, it gives me
She thinks
Likhanskaia
she
prefers
more energy.
prefers
her
the focus on
serve because it
teamwork,
and
JOULIA LIKHANSKAIA 17
can be a source
she has fit well
of easy points,
within Coach
and her drop shot because some
Holbachs collaborative culture.
womens tennis players struggle
She does admit that she glances
to cover the court in front. Many
over to see how her teammates
are trained to move quickly laterare doing when she is in between
ally, since womens tennis is often a
points, and she also says that she
baseline game.
can turn her teammates perforA lot of girls are used to movmances into motivation regarding side to side, she said. When
less of how they are doing.
they have to move forward, its a
Here, youre not playing for
bit harder for them, so the drop
yourself; youre playing for your
shot helps.
team she said. You fight for evLikhanskaia is comfortable all
ery point. And if I see that everyover the court, which makes her a
one else is doing well, it gives me
versatile all-court player, accordmore energy.
ing to Chow.
The sports editor of the Orient
She does have the ability to
chooses the Athlete of the Week
come to the net, said Chow.
based on exemplary performance.
Versatility means shot-making.
To suggest an athlete, email
She can hit loopy balls or, if a girl
Sports Editor Jono Gruber at jgrudoesnt like coming to the net, she
ber@bowdoin.edu.
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Su 4/5
v. Bates @ F. Pierce
v. Bates @ F. Pierce
W 15-3
L 9-5
The baseball team split its doubleheader against Bates College

last weekend at Franklin Pierce
University, winning the first game
15-3 and dropping the second 9-5.
The team currently stands at 7-11
(2-3 NESCAC).
After losing two games in its threegame series against Tufts the previous weekend, the Polar Bears were
looking for more consistent play.
My hopes were for us to put together a complete day, said Head
Coach Mike Connolly in a phone
interview with the Orient. I honestly believe that when we play really well and when our team is at its
best level, typically were going to
win our games. Its just a matter of
us trying to put together 16 innings
of high-level baseball.
The Polar Bears dominated the
first game. Bowdoin jumped out to
a 5-0 lead in the first inning and
tacked on runs in the third, fourth,
fifth and sixth innings to secure the
win. Two Polar Bears were perfect
at the plate: Chad Martin 16 went
4-4 with four runs scored, and Sean
Mullaney 17 went 3-3 with three
RBIs. Chris Cameron 15 and Nick
Sadler 18 each had a pair of RBIs for

Bowdoin as well.
From an offensive standpoint,
we established that we were going
to battle every at bat and make the
pitcher pay for any mistakes, Martin said. We strung four or five
hits together at one point in the
first inning, and we got to a point
where the next man up couldnt
wait to step up to the plate and
keep the rally going.
Captain Henry Van Zant 15
pitched six innings, striking out
three batters and allowing only one
earned run.
Were trying to accomplish the

ability to play every pitch the same.
Theres a level that weve been able to
get to at certain times of the year, and
were trying to stretch out the period of
really high level play.
NICK SALDER 18
In the second contest, Bates (6-8,
1-1 NESCAC) struck first, scoring
in the first inning. The Bobcats extended their lead to 7-2 with runs
scored in each of the next four innings. Despite scoring two runs in
the eighth inning, the Polar Bears
could not complete the comeback.
Offensively, captain Sam Canales 15, Buddy Shea 15, Martin and
Mullaney led the Polar Bears with

two hits each. Bowdoin struggled
defensively, committing four errors. Captain Erik Jacobsen 15,
who started the game, pitched
three innings, giving up four
earned runs.
We all considered game two to
be a must-win game, but I think
our intensity died down a little after
the blowout in game one, Martin
said. Collectively, we felt that some
pressure was taken off of us because
we already had one game in the bag,
so we didnt necessarily grind out at
bats. We started to press at the plate
once Bates started to pull away,
and once that happens, your whole
plate approach changes and you put
yourself in a hole.
Looking forward, the team hopes
to be a contender for the NESCAC
post season tournament. In order
for that to happen, Connolly believes that the team will have to play
more consistently.
Were trying to accomplish
the ability to play every pitch the
same, Connolly said. Theres a
level that weve been able to get
to at certain times of the year, and
were trying to stretch out the period of really high-level play. If we
do that, our long term goals are to
get to the point when we are winning conference weekends.
The Polar Bears travel to Wesleyan University for a doubleheader tomorrow.
Mens lacrosse back in win column at Babson

the board, but it was too little too late as
Bowdoin lost 16-3.
BY COOPER HEMPHILL
ORIENT STAFF
SCORECARD
Sa
Tue
4/4
4/7
v. Endicott
at Babson
L 16-3
W 16-11
After suffering a blowout loss at the

hands of Endicott last weekend, the
mens lacrosse team got back on track
by taking down Babson on Tuesday,
giving the Polar Bears their second win
of the season.
Endicott took control of the game
early; the Gulls tallied the first 14 goals
and held Bowdoin scoreless through
the first three quarters. Brandon Lee
17 was able to find the net twice in the
final minutes to get the Polar Bears on
SOFTBALL
from Bates, upping their in-conference record to a NESCAC-best 3-0.

In the first game, Geaumont
struck out six Bobcats, allowing
only seven hits over seven innings
and only one earned run to pick up
the win for the Bears. She wasted no
time offensively, giving Bowdoin a
1-0 lead in the bottom of the first
with a two-out home run.
The Bears advanced their lead in
the bottom of the fifth on a double
from Krul that scored Claire McCarthy 18 and Lauren OShea 18.
The Bobcats finally scored in the
sixth inning, but Bowdoin successfully closed out a 4-1 victory.
In the next game, Griffin pitched
all seven innings for Bowdoin. Her
commanding performance included
striking out nine Bobcats and giving
up only two runs on eight hits.
Bowdoin took another 1-0 firstinning lead on a fielders choice,
and OToole advanced the Bears
cause with a two-run homer to give
Every Possession counts in that sort of

situation. Our defense came up huge
down the stretch, and our oense was
able to put a bunch on the board.
BRANDON LEE 17
Bowdoin was unable to secure possessions in the contest, which allowed
Endicott to maintain steady control
throughout the game. Bowdoin won
only six face-offs to Endicotts 16, and
lost the ground ball differential 29-19.
The team was able to break its sixBowdoin a 3-0 advantage in the
fourth. After picking up two insurance runs in the fifth, Bowdoin
smoothly cruised to a 5-2 win.
Given the obstacles that we have

already had to deal with...it appears to
me that our team has already begun getting better at remaining in the game
BRANDON LEE 17
We ended up sweeping all three
games against Bates, so its safe to say
that we started our NESCAC season on
a high, said Rusch. Its fueled our fire
to make us want to maintain that high
level of competition against the rest of
our opponents in these coming weeks.
All was quiet in the first of
Wednesdays two nonconference
games against USM until the
fourth inning, when the Huskies
exploded for six runs. USM pitcher
Erika Millett made sure the Polar
Bears never sniffed a comeback,
and the Huskies won by a final
score of 9-1.
game losing streak and bring its record

to 2-9 with a closely-contested win at
Babson three days later.
The game started as a back-and-forth
affair, as neither team could secure more
than a one-goal lead for the first 23 minutes. There were five lead changes in this
stretch, but the Polar Bears were able to
hang in and use the momentum to open
up a five-goal scoring run sparked by
a goal from Matthew Crowell 18 five
minutes into the second quarter.
Every possession counts in that sort
of situation, said Lee. Our defense
came up huge down the stretch and our
offense was able to put a bunch on the
board in the second quarter. After that
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Bowdoin rebounded strongly in
the second game, leading by eight
runs after five innings to invoke the
NCAAs mercy rule and winning 124. OTooles three-run home run and
Nicole Nelsons two RBIs led the way
for the Bears. Geaumont picked up
her eighth win on the mound, the
second-most in the NESCAC.
Thursday was a brief respite for the
Polar Bears, as they return to action
at 4 p.m. today at home against Tufts.
They will then play a doubleheader
against Tufts tomorrow and a tripleheader at Trinity on Sunday.
This weekend is most likely going to be our toughest weekend
that I have ever encountered on the
team, said Rusch. Every opponent
that we face is tough if we make it
that way, but being that Tufts is the
defending D-III national champion,
they are for sure going to be some of
our strongest competition.
Trinity has also always given us
some close games and beating them
is going to be really important in order for our team to seal our spot in
the NESCAC tournament at the end
of the season, she said.
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the bowdoin orient
sports
Predicting the Champions League semifinals

THE RELEGATION
ZONE
ERIC ZELINA
While the race for places in next
years Champions League heats
up in Europes domestic leagues,
the quarterfinals of this seasons
competition are set to kick off next
week. The round of 16 saw continued English futility as Manchester
City, Arsenal and Chelsea all got
bouncedthe latter two in ties
they probably shouldve won. Hipster darlings Borussia Dortmund
also exited the tournament.
I unpacked my crystal ball to
predict the teams who will move
one step closer to being crowned
European champions.
On Tuesday afternoon, Italian
champions Juventus will meet the
dullest team in Ligue 1, Monaco,
in Turin. Juve flew past Dortmund
in the Round of 16, cruising 5-1
on aggregate. The team from the
Principality squeaked past Arsenal
on away goals after a 3-3 aggregate
draw, but was especially impressive in a 3-1 win at the Emirates in
London in the first leg.
Perhaps more than any of the
other ties, this matchup will pit
fiercely clashing styles against each
other. Monaco hasnt earned the
dull moniker for nothing; the
team is quite content to sit back and
absorb pressure and then attempt to
score on the counter, a tactic it employed to devastating effect in the
first leg against Arsenal.
Juventus, on the other hand,
thrives with possession, allowing
its world-class playmaking midfielders like Pirlo and Paul Pogba
to break down defenses and set up
incisive finishers like Carlos Tevez.
This season is probably the Old
Ladys best opportunity for European glory before Pirlo retires and
Pogba moves to greener pastures
in England or Spain. Juventus will
cruise past Monaco and into the

semifinals.
Tuesdays other match is a Madrid derby between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, a rematch of
last seasons Champions League Final, where Real triumphed in extra
time to claim its 10th European title. Despite its high-octane attack,
Real looked vulnerable in the last
round, squeaking past Schalke 5-4
on aggregate. Atletico wasnt much
better, only advancing past Bayer
Leverkeusen after a dire penalty
shootout.
Despite Reals flashy names and
history, Diego Simeones men seem
to have their crosstown rivals number. Atletico humbled Ronaldo and
Real with a 4-0 victory the last time
the two met, and has lost its their
last 6 derbies, dating back to last
years final. With 52 total yellow
cards in those six matches, the tie
will be a physical affair, with Atletico looking to impose its will physically at the back and in the midfield
to counter Reals skill.
Atletico has skill of its own
though; forward Antoine Griezmann is one of the most underrated
players in Spain and will prove the
difference on the counterattack as
Atleti continues its recent stranglehold on the Madrid derby and advances into the semis.
Wednesday sees Bayern Munich,
the 2013 European champs, take
on FC Porto in Portugal. Bayern
demolished Shaktar Donetsk 7-0 to
advance, while Porto had a similarly
easy time, defeating Basel 5-1. The
two sides met in the 1987 European
Cup Final, a 2-1 Porto triumph.
Bayern should have no trouble
advancing past a pesky Porto side.
The Portuguese squads only real
hope is to get up early in the first
leg, as Bayern will be electric in
the return at the Allianz Arena in
Munich. Porto has class up front
in Jackson Martinez and Christian
Tello and creativity in the midfield
with Yacine Brahimi. That trio will
need to be on top of its game to give

Porto a fighting chance. Although
recovering from a torn ab muscle,
Arjen Robben is having one of the
best years of his career; he and
Bayerns variety of other weapons
should have no trouble providing
the firepower to advance.
In probably the most intriguing matchup, Paris Saint-Germain
(PSG) meets FC Barcelona on
Wednesday afternoon. PSG advanced in a thrilling match with
Chelsea, coming from behind twice
despite being down a man for over
90 minutes. Barca dispatched of
Manchester City with relative ease,
winning 3-1 on aggregate.
All the oil money in the world
hasnt been able to buy PSG European success yet, as this is the
teams first time in the quarterfinals since the Qatari takeover that
propelled them into European soccers financial elite, but Laurent
Blancs squad will be eager to show
that it has exorcised its Champions
League demons with its gutsy triumph over Chelsea.
PSGs laundry list of injuries and
suspensions will make that difficult. Talismanic striker Zlatan
Ibrahimovi is suspended for the
first leg, as is Marco Verratti, the
key cog in the PSG midfield and
one of the best young players in Europe. David Luiz and Thiago Motta
are both injured and will miss the
match. PSGs best chance is to dictate the game in the midfield and
keep the ball away from Barcas
forward line of Messi, Neymar and
Suarez. While the teams met twice
and split their matches in the group
stage, smart money is on the Catalans, as PSG is too banged up to
contain Barca over two legs.
The return of the Champions
League means another chance to
watch Europes best on display.
Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico, and
Bayern will continue their respective quests for European glory and
advance to the semifinals.
NESCAC Standings
MENS LACROSSE
NESCAC
W
Amherst
6
Middlebury 6
Tufts
6
Wesleyan
4
Williams
4
Bates
4
Hamilton
4
Colby
2
Trinity
2
BOWDOIN 1
Conn. Coll.
0
L
1
1
1
3
3
4
4
4
6
5
7
T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
OVERALL
W L T
11 1 0
10 2 0
10 1 0
7
5 0
7
3 0
7
4 0
8
4 0
6
4 0
4
8 0
2
9 0
2 10 0
SCHEDULE
Sa 4/11 v. Conn. College
Tu 4/14 at Colby
1 P.M.
7 P.M.
WOMENS LACROSSE
Trinity
Middlebury
BOWDOIN
Hamilton
Tufts
Colby
Amherst
Williams
Bates
Conn. Coll.
Wesleyan
W
7
5
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
1
0
L
1
1
2
2
2
3
4
5
6
6
7
T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
W
11
9
9
9
9
9
7
5
6
3
4
L
1
1
2
2
2
3
4
5
7
8
8
T
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
SCHEDULE
Su 4/12 at Conn. College
Th 4/16 v. Southern Me
NOON
7 P.M.
SAILING
SCHEDULE
Sa 4/11
at Emily Wick Trophy

at NE Team Race Champion
at Mystic Lake Team Race
L
0
1
2
3
0
L
0
2
2
3
2
OVERALL
W L
15 6
5 10
5 11
1 12
16 0
OVERALL
W L
14 3
8 11
11 5
10 11
9
6
SCHEDULE
Sa 4/11 v. Tufts
v. Tufts
Su 4/12 at Trinity
at Trinity
at Trinity
Tu 4/14 v. Saint Josephs
v. Saint Josephs
NOON
2:30 P.M.
10 A.M.
2 P.M.
4 P.M.
3:30 P.M.
5:30 P.M.
BASEBALL
NESCAC EAST
W L
Colby
2 1
Tufts
2 1
Bates
1 1
BOWDOIN
2 3
Trinity
1 2
NESCAC WEST
W
Amherst
3
Wesleyan
3
Williams
3
Hamilton
0
Middlebury
0
L
0
0
3
0
6
OVERALL
W L T
11 4 0
15 4 0
6
8 0
7 11 0
9
7 0
OVERALL
W L
10 6
13 4
6
9
7
5
0 12
Sa 4/11
Tu 4/14
at Wesleyan
at Wesleyan
at Husson
at Husson
NOON
2:30 P.M.
5 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
MENS TENNIS
WOMENS TENNIS
at Amherst
at Hamilton
v. Skidmore at Hamilton
NESCAC EAST
W
BOWDOIN
3
Trinity
2
Colby
1
Bates
0
Tufts
0
NESCAC WEST
W
Williams
2
Hamilton
3
Middlebury
2
Wesleyan
2
Amherst
0
SCHEDULE
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
Sa 4/11
Su 4/12
SOFTBALL
10 A.M.
9 A.M.
2 P.M.
*Bold line denotes NESCAC Tournament cut-off
Compiled by Sarah Bonanno

Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
Sa 4/11 at Hamilton
Su 4/12 at Amherst
We 4/15 at Colby
10 A.M.
11 A.M.
4 P.M.
TRACK AND FIELD
SCHEDULE
Sa 4/11
at UNH Invitational
11 A.M.
NEVAN SWANSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SAVED BY THE GOAL(IE): Peter Mumford 17 lunges into position to save a shot against Endicott in the Polar Bears 16-3 loss. The defeat was the teams sixth in
a row, tying it with Conn. College for the worst record in the NESCAC. Later in the week, though, the team beat Babson for its second win of the season.
M. LAX

initial back-and-forth bout, we were
able to separate ourselves.
Rob Talcott 15 had a fantastic game
for the Polar Bears, winning 17 of the 29
faceoffs in the contest and snatching up
10 ground balls.
In the final quarter, the Beavers inched
back into the contest with four late goals,
but Bowdoin protected the lead through
the final minutes, winning 16-11.
Thats the way a lot of games tend to

go, said Daniel Buckman 18. Whenever you see them score it motivates the
offense, but sometimes it can motivate
you too much and you start pressing
too much.
The Polar Bears came out ahead on
the stat sheet as well, winning ground
balls 45-28 and faceoffs 17-13. An increase in possession led to an rise in
scoring opportunities, and the Polar
Bears outshot Babson 46-30.
The team is still trying to find its
rhythm since 20 out of its 44 players are

first years. However, the younger players
have been contributing more and more,
and are becoming well-integrated with
the veteran players on the team.
The first years are learning quickly said Lee. They are adapting to the
college game really well, and theyre
stepping up.
Bowdoin improved to 2-9 (1-5 NESCAC) on the season with the win, and
will host Connecticut College (2-10 overall, 0-7 NESCAC) tomorrow at 1 p.m.
the bowdoin orient
Track and field teams sweep

weekend at Bowdoin Invitational
The women and mens track and
field teams kicked off their outdoor
seasons this past Saturday with the
Bowdoin Invitational. Racing in
rain, snow and high winds, the Polar Bears had fine showings, proving dominant against mostly instate competition. The men came
in first place, winning 129 of a total 160 points. The women also triumphed, taking 87.5 of 152 points.
In the field events, the Bowdoin
mens throwers swept the invitational, with wins from John Pietro 18 in the shot put, Anthony
Todesco 15 in the discus and
Cam Woodford 15 in the hammer throw. The Bowdoin jumpers
also excelled, with dominant performances from first years Brian
Greenberg and Collin Litts in the
long jump and triple jump, respectively. First year Frankie Pappalardo won the pole vault event as the
only competitor.
Randi London 15 singlehandedly swept the throwing events on the
womens side, topping the competition in the shot put, hammer throw
and discus. In the jumps, Hayleigh
Kein 15 won the high jump and
Katie Krupp 16 outleapt the field
to win the triple jump. Topping off
the dominant field performance for
the Polar Bears, Christine Anderson 17 won the pole vault.
In the track events, Bowdoin
started the day off strong with dual
wins in the 4x100m from both the
mens and womens teams.
The 4x100 is one of my favorite
races, said Shekinah Pettway 18.

We ran well and had great handoffs,
so Im excited for rest of the season.
Continuing the winning streak,
Ally Fulton 16 and Conor Donahue 18 won the 1500m. Donahue
pulled ahead of the Bowdoin contingent with a burst of speed in the
final 100 meters, leading the onefour sweep for the Polar Bears. Matt
Jacobson 17 won the 5000m with a
performance Head Coach Slovenski hailed as amazing. Fresh off a
fourth-place finish in the 1500m,
Christian Heath 18 won the 800m
in a race where Bowdoin runners
swept the podium.
The weather was definitely the
biggest factor in the meet, said
Heath. It started raining and with
the wind it was sort of coming in
sideways, which made it hard on
the straightaways, but I think that if
you can race well in tough weather
than you can run well anywhere.
In the sprints, Emily Clark 15
proved dominant, winning both
the 100m and 200m dashes. Paola
Maym 18 completed the sprint
sweep with her win in the 400m.
In the hurdles, first years Alan
Banks and Justin Weathers went
1-2 for the Bears, separated by only
5/100ths of a second. First year
Nate Kent proved victorious in the
110m hurdles.
The sound of the crowd
spurred me on as I hurdled, Kent
said. I feel like Im headed in a
positive direction as the competition moves outdoors.
Both the men and women compete tomorrow at the University of
New Hampshire.
W. LAX
W. TENNIS
Carrying this energy throughout

the game enabled the team to play
with finesse and to successfully execute the small details that proved
crucial to their success.
[Our] energy allowed us to win
50-50 battles during the game that,
in the end, added up and decided
the game, said Growney. Overall
the game was a very competitive,
fun battle and we pulled off the
win together as a team.
Picard praised her teams desire to
win and its style of play, which she
credited to the seniors leadership.
Overall weve had an amazing season. Its the best team that Ive seen
in my three years playing here, said
Picard. Everybody wants it, starting
from a really strong group of seniors.
Growney echoed that sentiment.
I dont know Bowdoin Lacrosse without [the seniors], said
Growney. Its going to be a really
big change because they have all
been incredible mentors.
Picard identified senior leadership as a key to the teams success
so far this season, and said this
leadership will continue to positively impact their season beyond
the conference championship into
the national tournament.
Because its their last year, they
really want it, and theyre leading
the team in an amazing wayeverything generates and sparks from
them, said Picard. Were looking
to take it really far this season and
so far weve proven that we have
the ability to do that.
The Polar Bears return to action against Connecticut College
(3-8, 1-6 NESCAC) this Saturday
at noon.
the intensity in practice, Silitch

said. I think our team is really
good about encouragement, building confidencebuilding almost
cockiness really helps us.
Since the team is made up of
seven players, everyones effort has
an impact on the final team score.
Its a really supportive environment, but everyone pushes you to
do better, Silitch said. They push
you as a result of being so small.
You cant fade into obscurity,
[which] definitely contributes to
all of our success too.
Against the Bobcats, the Polar
Bears were even more impressive, winning all of the 15 sets in
the match. In doubles, all three
pairs won their power sets 8-1. Although Chow and Trinka were an
All-American doubles team in the
fall, Holbach successfully switched
up the pairings for the spring season. As doubles teams, Chow and
Giffenig and Silitch and Trinka
have not lost a match this spring.
Silitch and Stalder were standouts in singles play, double bageling their opponents.
The team faces off against Amherst this Saturday at Amherst. On
Sunday, they will move on to play
Hamilton and Skidmore at Hamilton. The following weekend, the
team will return home to play Middlebury. The last matches will be
played against Tufts and Williams,
closing out the regular season.
[Were] looking forward to
these upcoming matches and leading into the NESCACs because we
definitely want to win NESCACs
and finally get ourselves a NESCAC championship, said Chow.
BY SAM SHAHEEN
ORIENT STAFF
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OPINION
the bowdoin orient
Vote Mejia-Cruz
hen the polls open for the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG)
elections today, the student body will have the choice of three
candidates for president. While all three candidates have impressive rsums and plans for the future of BSG, the Orient endorses
Danny Mejia-Cruz 16.
The president of BSG heads an organization that serves as a liaison between the student body and the Colleges administration, a role that will
be particularly important next year when President-elect Rose begins his
tenure. BSG has a real opportunity to determine Roses relationship with
the student body and help set the tone for his presidency. Each candidate
expressed his discontent with aspects of BSGs performance in previous
years, citing that BSG has to work on reconnecting to the students it represents. This disunion has prevented BSG from achieving important goals,
and we are eager to see it reversed next year.
All three candidates highlighted their desire to address two of the most
high-profile policy issues that have been discussed on campus over the
past few years: pushing back the Credit/D/Fail deadline and lengthening
Thanksgiving Break. The Orient editorial board has supported both efforts, as have recent BSG presidents, and yet they have fallen short every
year. Mejia-Cruzs willingness to apply constant pressure to the administration, as well as his intimate understanding of the work required to bring
these initiatives to fruition, weighed heavily in our decision. In recent
years, the faculty have nixed both an extended Thanksgiving Break proposal and a change to the Credit/D/Fail policy despite widespread support
from students and members of the administration. Achieving these policy
goals will require winning over skeptical professors, and we believe that
Mejia-Cruz will be best able to mobilize students and aggressively lobby
the faculty.
Mejia-Cruz will be a tireless advocate for the student body. His willingness to engage both himself and BSG as a whole in important campus
conversations will bring the student government out of the shadows. Additionally, his proposal to have a representative from the multicultural center
on BSG highlights his recognition that BSG could benefit from including
a voice that would speak specifically to issues of multiculturalism on campus. With three years of service in a variety of student government positions and various campus committees, Mejia-Cruz is familiar with both
the institutions and individuals that shape the College and he knows what
is required to maintain continuity with them in a transitional period. His
platform includes a plan to acquaint President-elect Clayton Rose with the
authentic student experience through forums and programming to be held
throughout the fall semester.
Mejia-Cruzs opponents, Robo Tavel 16 and Justin Pearson 17, are also
well qualified. Very rarely is the student body fortunate enough to have
so many excellent candidates to choose from. All three would make outstanding BSG presidents, but we feel that Mejia-Cruzs outspokenness and
energy make him uniquely suited to help BSG overcome its inertia.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial
board, which is comprised of Garrett Casey, Ron Cervantes, Sam Chase, Matthew
Gutschenritter, Nicole Wetsman and Kate Witteman.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SJP petition is anti-Semitic

To the editors:
For the second time in as many
weeks, Orient contributors have published articles as agents of Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP), a movement
that has called for an academic and
cultural boycott of Israeli institutions.
Israel is not a perfect nation, and
there are certainly aspects of its domestic and foreign policy that are open
to criticism and debate. But make no
mistake, the Petition for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel that
has been circulated by SJP, is deeply
anti-Semitic and should be labeled as
such.
I make this claim within the framework of our State Department under
former Secretary Clinton and President Obama who adopted the Three
Ds test for identifying twenty-first
century anti-Semitism:
1. Demonization: SJP and its agents
consistently and unfairly demonize Israel and compare its genocidal practices to those of the Nazis during the
Holocaust or South African apartheid.
Such comparisons are, of course, illegitimate and false.
2. Double Standards: The petition
notes Israels systemic violation of
fundamental human rights. The multitudes of nations with significantly worse
human rights records than Israel (China, Russia and Saudi Arabia to name a
small few) are left unmentioned.
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BY ZACHARY ALBERT,
EVAN EKLUND AND RACHEL SNYDER
CONTRIBUTORS
The Bowdoin chapter of Students

for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has called
for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, as evidenced by senior
Christopher Wedemans March 27 article entitled Israeli academic institutions treatment of Palestinians worthy
of boycott. We are writing to condemn this boycott and strongly urge
the Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) to reject the resolution. Instead,
we call upon Bowdoin students and all
members of the Bowdoin community
to initiate an informed conversation
that is respectful to all sides.
We must also recognize that

Israelis and Palestinians both have a
valid right to self-determination. In
doing so, we support both Israel and
Palestines right to exist, but not
at each others expense.
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regard to the above editorial, the opinions expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect
the views of the editors.
3. Delegitimization: The petition

questions Israels fundamental right to
exist as a Jewish state and SJPs agents
label Zionism (the movement articulating the principle of Jewish self-determination) as racist.
SJP and their boycott petition fail
the test.
In 2011, the State Departments
Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal
said, When all academics and experts
from Israel are effectively banned or
their conferences boycotted, or individual Jews are held responsible for
Israeli policythis is not objecting to a
policythis is anti-Semitism.
Rather than boycotting Israel, Bowdoin should strive to invite those from
all viewpoints to campus and expand
debate towards the shared goal of a
peaceful two-state solution.
Sincerely,
Alex Linhart 06
Public Transport in Brunswick

To the editors:
Whatever we may think of the Colleges divestment from fossil fuel companies, most of us probably agree that
using less of these fuels is a desirable
goal to avert climate disaster. Personal
vehicles account for nearly one-fifth of
all U.S. emissions. Did you know that
every gallon of gasoline you burn puts
nearly 20 lbs. of carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere?
You might now be questioning

how a gallon of liquid gasoline, which
weighs about six lbs. can turn into 20
lbs. of carbon dioxide gas. Combustion in your car engine requires oxygenthe carbon dioxide emitted is
mostly oxygen by mass.
So one trip down to Portland and
back, in most cars, puts about 40 lbs.
of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere.
Driven by both a climate perspective and from the angle of a mom
who wants her teenagers to have some
transportation independence, Ive become locally involved with advocating for increased availability of public
transit in the Brunswick and mid-coast
Maine areas.
The Town of Brunswick is currently in discussion with Portland
METRO about expanding their proposed Portland-Freeport bus route
to Brunswick. Imagine if you had
the option to catch a WiFi-equipped
bus several times per day from here
to downtown Portland? Or to the
mallor L.L. Bean along the way?
This project is likely to go ahead if
Brunswick can gather local match
funding. What do you think, Bowdoin Student Government? Would
this be a good project to support?
Lets think outside the car.
Sincerely,
Karen Topp
Karen Topp is a Senior Lecturer
in Physics.
Denouncing SJPs one-sided narrative
Kate Witteman, Editor in Chief
Sam Chase, Managing Editor

Ron Cervantes, Managing Editor
Nicole Wetsman, Managing Editor
Matthew Gutschenritter, Managing Editor
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

(BDS) is a campaign that advocates
for political and economic sanctions
against Israel to effect change in the
regions current status quo. To accept
the boycott of Israeli academic institutions would be to miss the benefit that
a small college provides, namely, the
ability to engage all voices present in
our community. Before considering a
resolution or a tactic, it is important
to understand not only the historical

narratives of both peoples, but also the
competing need for security in Israel
and justice for Palestinians and Israelis alike. We must also recognize that
Israelis and Palestinians both have a
valid right to self-determination. In
doing so, we support both Israel and
Palestines right to exist, but not at
each others expense. Only after this
foundation has been established can
there be an open dialogue between
the two sides.
We applaud SJP for bringing awareness to an important global issue
through their Justice for Palestine
Week, but we denounce the one-sided
narrative the group presents. Completely absent from their rhetoric is
Israels right to exist. Chasing students down the Smith Union hallway
to pitch a misleading narrative for
the purpose of collecting signatures
belies Bowdoins academic integrity.
Signatures on a petition are devoid
of meaning when the signatories are
minimally informed.
BDS and SJP miss the opportunity
to engage in an open dialogue. Rather, the movements seek to assign absolute blame to Israel. Both claim to
challenge Israels system of oppression of the Palestinian people, but
the weak framework of the proposed
boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions will in no way help
BDS and SJP realize this goal.
SJP claims the BDS movement
has been sweeping college campuses
across the nation. However, the group
ignores that many of the resolutions
brought to colleges and universities
have already failed. This most recent
proposal is the second attempt by
SJP to have Bowdoin boycott Israeli
academic institutions. President Mills
stood against the Academic Studies

Associations (ASA) boycott last winter, stating that rather than stifling
discussion and the free exchange of
ideas, Bowdoin seeks to serve the
common good through direct and
open engagement with and collaboration between researchers, scientists,
SJP claims the BDS movement has

been sweeping college campuses
across the nation. However, the
group ignores that many of the
resolutions brought to colleges and
universities have already failed.
teachers, and artists across the globe.
Similar boycott efforts have failed at
Colby, Amherst, Bates, Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Boston University, and MIT. We applauded these decisions then and continue
to support them now as we seek to
promote fair and balanced dialogue.
Bowdoins Academic Honor Code
and Social Code calls students to uncompromised intellectual inquiry. Instituting a boycott of Israeli academic
institutions is antithetical to Bowdoins
core values and silences debate over
an important and nuanced issue. We
disagree with the BDS movement, and
hope that, in recognizing the need for
an open discourse, the Bowdoin community does too.
Zachary Albert, Evan Eklund
and Rachel Snyder are members of
the Class of 2016.
opinion
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17
Laws should regulate only harmful religious action, not thought

KICKING THE CAN
DAVID STEURY
To effectively govern a civil society, people develop sets of laws by
which all members must abide. We
start with the obvious ones: Dont
kill and dont steal.
From there, we work through
the particulars and derivations of
those rules, outlawing assaults and
deciding that some forms of theft
(grand theft auto, bank robbery)
are worse than others (palming
a pack of gum). We regulate substances, trade, education and relationships, presumably in the hope
that such guidelines or restrictions
will make peoples lives easier and
more productive.
As the body of laws
grows, some laws that
burden one group
of people over another and compel them to do
something contrary to their
beliefs or heritage develop. At
that point, we have
three choices. First, we
can say tough beans and enforce compliance. Second, we can
re-evaluate the necessity of the law.
Third, we can make an exception.
The trend in the United States
has been towards the third option.

In 1993, Congress passed the federal version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
(RFRA) in response
to the State of
Oregons
refusal to extend
unemployment
benefits
to
two American
Indians. The
State of Oregon refused
on the grounds
that the American Indians had
ingested peyote,
an illegal drug, during
a religious ceremony.
A Supreme Court decision
penned by Antonin Scaliaupheld
Oregons judgment.
The RFRA passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. After
another Court decision limiting
the scope of the RFRA to federal
laws under the 14th Amendment, 21 states have passed
their own versions of the
RFRA with varying degrees
of fidelity to the original law.
The primary function of
the law is to prohibit the government from substantially
burden[ing] the free exercise of
religion, even with a law of general
applicability, unless the government could show both that the law
is pursuant to a compelling government interest and that the law
is the least restrictive method of

furthering that interest. That is, it
must withstand strict scrutiny,
the most stringent test for
evaluating the constitutionality of a law.
The first test of
the Free Exercise Clause
of the First Amendment
went in front of the
Supreme Court in
1878 in Reynolds
v. United States.
In Reynolds, the
Court upheld an
anti-bigamy
law,
worrying that if it granted a religious exception to the
law then religious convictions
would trump societal and governmental authority and every citizen
would become a law unto himself. The Court was right. Civil society does not function well when
citizens can opt out of certain
rules.
However those rules should not
be too onerous. We should
heed John Stuart Mills
declaration that the
only part of the conduct
of anyone, for which he
is amenable to society,
is that which concerns
others. In the part
which merely concerns
him, his independence
is, of right, absolute. That
is, it is antithetical to our notions
of liberty to restrict behavior that
does not do harm to others.
Disfavored behaviors tied to certain religious beliefs, such as the

use of hallucinogens, should not
be legislated against so long
as they do no harm to the
public. If we are to permit an exception to a law
on religious grounds, we
ought to strike
down the law
altogether.
Seeking to
control every
aspect of life is
illiberal, and we
ought to avoid
it. Otherwise we
might, out of respect to religious
freedom, end up with a
body of laws with so many religious holes in it that it resembles
Albert Hall in A Day in the Life.
Lacking a definition of religious
liberty in the Constitution, in the
Reynolds case, the Court
turned to a law passed in
the Virginia House
of
Delegates
and drafted by
Thomas Jefferson to define
the term. It
found that the
limit of religious
liberty
came
and government
could interfere when
principles break out into
overt acts against peace and
good order. This should continue
to be the standard against which

religious liberty is measured. Obviously, the government cannot turn into the thought
police, but society can
and must regulate behavior in a measured
and uniform way.
In a later letter, Jefferson wrote that religion is a matter which lies
solely between Man and
his God, that he owes account to none other for his
faith or his worship, that the
legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not
opinions and that he and the nation would be steadfast in defense
of a citizens right of conscience but
that he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. We
must write our laws precisely and
with a light touch so that they do
not require religious exemptions
and we must be careful to regulate
action, not thought.
Where we are inclined to offer
an exemption, we should ask one
question: Are we as a society comfortable extending this right to all,
regardless of religious belief ? If we
answer yes, then we should realize
that the law has no place in a liberal society. If the thought makes
us shudder, we should consider the
law one of Jeffersons social duties,
against which an individuals claim
to a natural right might be harmful
to others and thus must fail.
Illustrations by Anna Hall.
The imperative to take action: defending the state of campus activism

BY EMILY SIMON
CONTRIBUTOR
Last month, the Orient gave us

yet Another White Guy.
In his first piece for this column,
Activists must listen and empathize to have more effective conversations, junior James Jelin tackled
a controversial subject: the role of
student activism at Bowdoin.
Throughout the piece, Jelin used
an authoritarian voice to investigate
this topic. But the reader need not
look further than the first sentence:
The tone of activism on campus
has made it stop working. Here, the
self-proclaimed White Guy tells
us that he is a close listenerthat his
ear is so discerning, so finely tuned
as to make a credible, sweeping
evaluationand we are supposed to
trust him. The constant repetition
of the same few arguments about
privilege has resulted in a climate
where we feel it is only acceptable
to share one type of narrative about
injustice, Jelin explained to us.
I wonder who this we is. We
certainly dont all hear a constant
repetition like an incessant buzzing
noise, unpleasant, invasive, impertinent. Some of us hear the impressive efforts of students to address
real problems.
Jelin considered one of the stories
a student shared at the Meeting in
the Union in February: What matters is if that story, when publicized,
will effectively combat injustice,
if it will motivate people of different backgroundsstudents or facultyto overcome the fear of difference and better understand one
another.
He intends to tell us what matters, but what he really communicates is fear of a narrative he doesnt
understand. I would ask him: What
is the danger of a narrative whose

application the author of this article
cannot easily foresee?
The imagination of this author is
necessarily limited by his position.
He proudly claims ownership of his
status, musing biweekly from the
perspective of Another White Guy,
but his willingness (tonguein-cheek)
to
admit his
privilege
does not
exempt him
from it. Rather, it inhibits his
ability to listen.
Choosing
to
be an activist, Jelin
writes, is committing
yourself to a cause that
transcends just your identity An
activist has a responsibility to remove blame, recognize that we all
want the same thing, and strive for
understanding. This is not activ-
ismthis is diplomacy. This statement betrays the kind of fear felt

by only those who have power they
dont understand. I understand the
authors urge to address this fear
of his, the fear of the privilege he
didnt ask for and yet cant imagine
not havingbut it is up to
to speak in unison with those whose

experiences do not typify that of the
average white male. The activists
speech is necessarily inflammatory, because the task of locating
the injustice that so many of us per-
petuate,
knowingly
and
unk n o w i n g l y,
means breaking
through the fear
that keeps it hidden.
DIANA FURUKAWA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Activists make those who
are privileged feel temporarily unhim to recognize this fear and see
comfortable so that they might unthrough it.
derstand the discomfort of others in
Activists are idealists, not antagothe face of egregious, pervasive and
nists. They do not intend to speak on
persistent wrongs.
behalf of the students, but perhaps
What does it really mean to, as the
author implores us, listen and empathize, in the context of addressing issues of inequality? No one
will listen to you if you dont listen
to them first, the author writes. But
havent systematically oppressed
people listened enough? Isnt that
what the voices of privileged people
like this self-proclaimed White
Male compel them to do?
I am writing from a place of concern at best and outrage at worst
about the issue of dialogue on Bowdoins campus. On the one hand, we
dont have enough of it. Productive
conversations about divisive topics
generally occur in private spaces
and include the voices of individuals who are already more or less in
agreement. On the other hand, we
have public forums like the Orient
which (at least in theory) convene
the voices of any and all who elect
to speak.
I admire Jelin for taking advantage of this public forum to share
his ideas and inspire ideas in others;
but if he chooses not to listen, and
models this kind of irresponsible
engagement with his community in
an Orient column every other week,
then I fear that positive change will
never come.
When an individual rightfully
takes advantage of a space like
this to illuminate any issue, it is
imperative that we listen, but it is
also imperative that we reflect and
respond. If we feel that we agree,
then we should articulate our sound
reasoning. If we do not agree, then
we should challenge what we have
heard. There can be no free speech
in a community that is satisfied with
the end of a conversation. There is
no democracy in a community that
discourages lively debate.
Emily Simon is a member of the
Class of 2017.
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the bowdoin orient
opinion
How statistics can inform discussions of sexual assault

MY 77 CENTS
VEE FYER-MORREL
Last week James Jelin 16 wrote
an article about sexual assault, and
some of the nuances that make statistics regarding the issue murky at
best. My article is in no way meant
to attack Jelin. Rather, its purpose
is to discuss some of the issues he
brought up, and to try and reach
some kind of conclusion about the
messages we get about sexual assault at Bowdoin and in the culture
at large.
In his article, Jelin cites a few
of his friends concerns that they
might be falsely accused of sexual
assault. He also examines a number
of studies with seemingly dissonant
statistics regarding sexual assault.
For instance, the Center for Disease
Control (CDC) found that roughly
two million women experienced
rape or attempted rape in 2011, while
a Department of Justice Survey only
reported 250,000. These discrepan-
cies are troubling, certainly.

Jelin mentions the oft-cited statistic that one in five college women
experience sexual assault or attempted sexual assault, but notes
that, two large public universities
cannot adequately represent the entire nation. Therefore, the author
posits, these statistics are of limited
relevance to our conversation about
sexual assault here at Bowdoin.
And I see this point. Rape is an
especially complicated crime to
prosecute because of the intimate
nature of the act itself (and many
victims know their rapist) and the
frequent lack of concrete evidence,
especially if a victim reports the incident many weeks or years after the
assault took place.
Its also difficult to draw conclusions when there is significant disagreement about what constitutes
sexual assault and consent. The lack
of clear definitions, a victims potential hesitance to reveal her/his
attacker, and the role alcohol plays
in the entire sexual process, are only
a few reasons why data about sexual
assault might become convoluted.
It would be wrong, however, to

conclude that these statistics are
irrelevant to our discussion. Maybe we have to talk about them. It
might be relevant to examine why
these statistics can seem disparate,
and what some of the reasons for
this might be. It might be important to consider that certain studies on sexual assault are conducted through anonymous reports,
whereas reporting sexual assault on
a campusespecially one as small
as Bowdoinis a completely different endeavor.
It is an unfortunate fact that
when girls consider reporting rape
or attempted rape, they fear accusation of a false report and therefore
report nothing at all. Indeed, maybe the most important statistics to
think about are those that do not
and will not exist because they represent sexual violence that has gone
unreported.
These statistics lead us to something more relevant than numbers,
which is the issue itself. Are men
really concerned about being accused? OK, then we need to take
that seriously and think about why

the boundary between assault and
consent has become blurred.
We also have to examine some
of these concerns about false accusations. Is there a small chance a
reported rape is a false report? Yes.
But has it also been made abundantly clear that, more often than
not, a report is true? Yes. Having
spoken to several victims of sexual
violence, it has become clear to me
that reporting a sexual assault
much like the crime itselfis not
something to be taken lightly.
The chances that a young woman
would accuse someone at random
are extremely low, considering how
much effort, time, money and agony
are put into an official trial. And yes,
a sexual assault charge would injure
a persons professional and social
reputation; but being sexually assaulted will also have a lasting effect.
What does not make sense to me
is the attitude that being falsely accused of rape is worse than to being raped and not receiving justice.
Both are awful; but why has it become the default to privilege one
narrative over the other?

We can discuss mens worries that
they might be accused of sexual assault, but we should also be thinking
about why women continue to be
sexually assaulted. Here at Bowdoin,
we have to be careful about how we
define consent. As Jelin pointed out,
if you are paying attention to your
partner and really listening to them
for consent, it is unlikely you will
be accused. (And anyway, shouldnt
refraining from possibly sexually assaulting someone be a moral choice
rather than just an attempt to avoid
punishment?)
Overall I think statistics do not
do justice to the complexity of this
problem. Liberal arts schools like
Bowdoin encourage their students
to come forward and report rape or
attempted rape, and many people
do. But the process is extremely
fraughtespecially when the messages we receive so often blame and
shame the victim. Without a basic
level of trust, without a willingness
to believe a womans story, there can
never be peace for victims of sexual
assault. And that is a tragedy.
Labeling consent as sexy undermines its importance as a human right

BY DAMIAN RAMSDELL
CONTRIBUTOR
This week marks Bowdoins annual observance that consent is

just as it was last yearsexy. Consent is Sexy Week is how we as a
school have chosen to address the
issues of consent, coercion and assault that are all the more present
in the public eye in the wake of the
Rolling Stone debacle and other
highly publicized stories.
Consent is Sexy Week was and
is a great idea. Taking an annual
moment to reflect on what constitutes an acceptable sexual interaction in our culture is a valuable
and critical choice. That is why I
feel so conflicted when I say that I
really dont like parts of the weeks
message.
I feel that the phrase Consent
is Sexy makes consent sound like
a fun and optional extra. By operating under the principle that
sex sells, Consent is Sexy Week
places the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) in the

position of marketing the ethics
of informed and equitable consent
to the student bodya position it
shouldnt have to be in.
People have the choice to be
unsexy. I choose to be unsexy
when I show up to class unshowered, uncombed and wearing last
weeks sweatpants. However, there
is no option when it comes to consent. Consent should not have to
be sold, marketed, wrapped up in
a sexy ribbon, or otherwise presented to students as something
fun they might want to consider.
It always needs to be obtained and
maintained throughout an experience. It is a fundamental human
right, and never optional nor negotiable.
There are events during Consent
is Sexy Week that openly express
this idea. However, the majority of
the student body does not attend
these events. Limited space and
scheduling conflicts keep many

of us from actually going to the
events, and often the only takeaway is the saying consent is sexy.
Consent should not have to be

sold, marketed, wrapped up in a
sexy ribbon, or otherwise presented
to students as something fun they
might want to consider.
That is where I feel the biggest
issue lies. Some students rely on
this phrase to define consent. Last
year, two of my friends misconstrued the meaning of this week to
solely be, consent has to be sexy,
which is clearly not its main focus.
Advertising consent as being sexy
undermines the seriousness of
the issue. On the other hand, I do
recognize that Please Dont Rape

People Week doesnt have quite the
same ring to it.
It would seem that the basic
theses of the week (get consent, affirm consent, respect the ability to
revoke consent, etc.) should really
be self-evident. And they do seem
intuitive. Yet somehow, we still see
assaults happening at Bowdoin,
and there are a number of students that have suffered unwanted
and aggressive sexual advances on
campusmyself among them.
There are still people at Bowdoin who have managed to remain
ignorant (willfully or otherwise) of
the basic principles that Consent
is Sexy Week tries to convey. They
treat consent lightly or just dont
understand it. This could be because they believe that consent obtained from an intoxicated person
is admissible, or that 10 nos and
one yes really do add up to yes, or
that consent, once obtained from a
particular person, lasts indefinite-
ly and doesnt need to be refreshed

with each encounter. Somehow,
these misconceptions survive.
I believe that Consent is Sexy
Week represents a commendable
effort. Its events address the problems of assault, harassment and
coercion on campus. However,
whatever important and meaningful content the week may include,
most students experience of it is
limited to the tagline. Obtaining
consent in a way that doesnt derail the mood is great, and consent
can be obtained, maintained and
respected in a sexy way.
But thats not really the point.
Consent isnt trendy, fun, or optionalas calling it sexy implies. The slogan Consent is Sexy
presents is a fun, pastel image of a
gravely serious issue. Its time to
treat the crimes of assault, coercion and harassment with the seriousness they are due.
Damian Ramsdell is a member of
the Class of 2017.
opinion
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BOWDOIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Statements of Candidacy for

Bowdoin Student Government
BSG President
Danny Mejia-Cruz 16
Hi Polar Bears, my name is Danny Mejia-Cruz and Im running to
be your Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) President. I believe the
diversity of my activities on campus
and my three years of experience
on BSG would help me understand
exactly what our college needs and
wants. I have served you in the
past as Vice President for Student
Organizations, as Class Treasurer,
on the Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC), the Committee for Academic Affairs, and
by helping to organize events like
Spring Gala and No Hate November. My work for Residential Life,
both as Burnett House Proctor and
Head House Proctor at Quinby,
has provided me invaluable experiences with our student body and
the College House system. Finally,
and most importantly, I worked to
select members of the Presidential
Search Committee, which put me
in a unique position to help Bowdoin transition to leadership under
President Clayton Rose next year.
I intend to continue BSGs
strong current work, and also have
plans for establishing a studentled Presidential Transition Committee, as well as integrating an
everything-Bowdoin App to our
community, and adding a Multicultural Center representative
to the BSG. If elected, I will work
day and night to facilitate communication between students and
the administration. Serving you as
BSG President would be the greatest honor and the highlight of my
senior yearI hope youll consider
me when you vote!
Justin J. Pearson 17
I will work with groups of people
who are willing to embrace challenges and tough questions about
ways we can improve Bowdoin.
Gone are the days of a quiet BSG
on the issues you think are important. At Bowdoin, we cant afford
to be cynical towards the ideals
that brought so many of us to this
campus. Failure to move actively towards progress is stagnation. Your
voice, your ideas, and your views
should be the fabric of BSG. As BSG
President, I will help create policies
that make campus more enjoyable,
design programs that help us to interact with new people, and be your
strongest advocate.
Last year, I led an outstanding
Class Council as president, and
currently lead the Student Affairs
Committee as Vice President. As a
member of groups such as ResLife,
Board Game Club, and Big Brothers, Big Sisters, I can build connections between BSG and other student groups.
Bowdoin without us isnt a complete community. We should design it, create it, and mold it into
what we want it to be. We are Bowdoin.
Virtual Town hall tonight from
6-8p.m., tweet @JustinJPearson
with your questions and concerns.
Im always excited to talk with you.
Roberto Tavel 16
So, youve seen the posters. I
know, Robo fo Bobo may not be
the cleverest catchphrase. But my
campaign is about more than my
name and a slogan. I look toward
next year as a once-in-a-generation
opportunity for the BSG to regain
its footing in discussions with the
administration. In my time as Class
President and VP for Student Affairs, I have seen numerous policy
suggestions from the BSG fall flat.
Next year, with President-elect
Rose taking over, we have the
chance to create a new consensus
on the BSGs role as a policy advocate. If elected, I will work with the
BSGs Vice Presidents to craft specific proposals to be submitted to
the administration in the fall. These
proposals would cover a range of issues such as Credit/D/Fail, Health
Center hours, Thanksgiving break,
and campus WiFi capacities. I have
immense hope that the administration will be a willing partner. I
ask for your vote not because you
laughed at my posters, but because
you too believe that the BSG can
and should be a vibrant voice for
the student body.
Vice President
for Student
Government Affairs
Michelle Kruk 16
Hello! My name is Michelle Kruk,
member of the Class of 2016, and I
am running for the Vice President
for Student Government Affairs.
My qualifications include sitting on
two College Committees (Advisory
Committee for a Diverse Community and the Committee for Multicultural Affairs), being a member
of Residential Life for the past two
years, and co-leading two student
groups (Salsa Club and the Latin
American Student Organization).
Through my participation in the
aforementioned groups I have interacted with Trustees, Deans, Administrators, and current BSG representatives. I am a skilled communicator,
thoughtful listener, and unapologetic advocate. I would be honored to
serve as the VP of Student Government Affairs and know that I would
fulfill that role to its fullest extent.
Please consider voting for Michelle
Kruk as the VP of Student Government Affairs! Thank you!
Riley OConnell 18
Changethis word epitomizes
the new era our school is about to
enter. With a new college president
on the horizon, brand new possibilities are sure to follow. As Vice
President for Student Government
Affairs, I plan to take full advantage of this once-in-a-generation
opportunity to reinvent BSGs relationship with the administration
and with the student body. My first
action would be to work with the
Executive Committee to establish
consistent meetings with Presidentelect Rose, setting an important
precedent for BSG-administration
relations that will hopefully continue long after my time in office. I
also plan to bring transparency and
efficiency to the office. Students

should be kept informed about
meeting dates and agendas. When
someone comes to us with an interesting idea, we shouldnt just pat
them on the back and then sweep it
aside to be forgotten, as I have seen
happen all too often over the course
of my term on the General Assembly this year. If elected, I promise
change. I love BSG and I love this
school, but there is plenty of room
for improvement. Together, lets redefine what it means to be a Bowdoin student. Thank you.
Emily Serwer 16
My name is Emily Serwer and I
am running for Vice President of
Student Government Affairs. I believe I am well suited for this role for
a couple of core reasons. First, I love
working with people. I am by nature
a social individual and thrive in areas of communication and partnership. One of the main roles of the VP
of Student Government Affairs is to
work with all members of student
government to problem solve, innovate and set goals. In this position I
could put my people skills to work
by creating a more cohesive team
within BSG and allowing everyones
voice to be heard. I am also a good
fit for this role based on my previous
experience as Director of Programming for BSG. I have truly enjoyed
chairing the Spring Gala Committee, as well as helping to plan Winter
Weekend and Wellness Week. This
past semester I attended all executive meetings, where I learned how
the current President and VPs organize their time. Through my position as Director of Programming I
have fostered relationships with important figures on campus including
employees in Residential Life and
Student Activities. As VP of Student
Government Affairs I would look
forward to creating an open and
productive environment in student
government, where we could strive
to improve all aspects of Bowdoin
life.
Vice President of
Student Affairs
Lucia Gibbard 18
Hello, my name is Lucia Gibbard and I am running to be the
Vice President of Student Affairs.
I believe I could be great in this
position because I have the necessary experience, as I sat on the
Committee of Student Affairs this
year. I therefore learned the ropes
on how the committee should be
run, and gained a good idea of
what I could improve, if given the
chance to. I also work in the Office
of the Dean of Student Affairs, and
through this I have made many
faculty connections which I could
utilize in the VP position. For the
past year, I have sat on BSG as an
At-Large Representative, and listening to my fellow classmates
has really made me realize the
importance of student opinions.
If elected, I would take everyones
ideas on board. I have put a lot of
thought into what I would do if
elected to this position. I hope to
have your support with my campaign, as I believe I am the right

person to take the Committee of
Student Affairs forward.
Luke von Maur 16
Hi, my name is Luke von Maur,
and I am running for Vice President
of Student Affairs. I am drawn to this
position because I am a firm believer
in The Offer of the Collegean offer which emphasizes the intellectual
growth and personal development
of each and every student. Our time
at Bowdoin should be the best four
years of our lives, and I feel that it is
only through the actions of the BSG
that such a goal can be achieved.
I believe that my involvement at
Bowdoin has provided me with the
necessary skills to succeed in this
position. As Vice President of the
Class of 2016, I helped to execute our
Class Councils ambitious agenda.
By working with this small group, I
learned how to effectively collaborate
with others, as well as take charge
when necessary. Through my participation in the OutAlly program, Bowdoins Entertainment Board and local
mentoring groups, I have built strong
relationships with members of the
student body, faculty and community at large. I promise that if elected,
I will serve as a voice for my fellow
classmates, and make it my mission
to improve the college experience for
all Bowdoin students.
Vice President for

the Treasury
David Levine 16
Hello, my name is David Levine,
and I am running to be the Vice
President for the Treasury! I have
the experience necessary to lead the
Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC) as it works to balance the
needs of every club and to ensure that
the funding process runs smoothly. I
have served this past year as the Class
of 2016 Treasurer and have served
on the SAFC. This has allowed me
to participate in funding decisions
and leaves me prepared to direct the
SAFC as it makes these decisions next
year. In addition, I have served as a
leader in multiple clubs. This has allowed me to see the funding process
from the perspective of a club, in addition to that of an SAFC member. I
am well prepared to guide other clubs
through the process to make it as easy
as possible. Lastly, I have substantial
experience in the BSG proper, having served on the Assembly for the
past three years (one on the Executive
Committee). I have a familiarity with
the BSG that will leave me well prepared to work with the next President
to make BSG even stronger. I hope I
can count on your support!
Vice President for

Student Organizations
Wylie Mao 18
Over the past year that Ive
served as First Year Class Representative, Ive been able to see
Bowdoin at its best. Along with my
classmates, I was not too long ago
an excited and anxious 18-year-old
ready to take on college, but was
quite unsure as to what being at

Bowdoin would entail. Was Barry
right? How could he be sure that I
would fall in love with this place?
We all fall in love with Bowdoin
in different ways. For me, I have
found this deep sense of fulfillment
doing things like hiking through
Acadia and putting on events to
help the first-year class get to know
one another bettermy favorite was
seeing dozens of my classmates set
aside their school work and be 100
percent present around a bonfire on
a chilly fall day. A common thread
we all share is that we find a sense
of belonging through the richness
of our student organizations.
As the Vice President for Student Organizations, my foremost
goals are to support student groups
impartially, to encourage collaboration between clubs, and to work
with I.T. to overhaul the Orbit.
There is nothing more satisfying
to me than helping people get to
know one another. Now the question is, how can I support you?
Vice President for

Academic Affairs
Andrew Millar 16
Hello fellow Polar Bears! My
name is Andrew Millar and I am
excited to take on a new role as
BSGs Vice President for Academic
Affairs. I have three years of experience on BSG, including two years
serving on the Academic Affairs
subcommittee. I look forward to
working with members of the new
administration to make lasting policy changes. In particular, I will advocate for a later Credit/D/F deadline and work to improve Polaris
and the Bowdoin homepage. At the
same time, I plan to continue successful programming like the Food
for Thought student lecture series.
Lastly, I am eager to hear your ideas
and suggestions as to how youd like
to make Bowdoin an even better
institution for students. Thank you
for your support, and remember;
youll go far with Millar!
Vice President
for Facilities and
Sustainability
Kevin Hernandez 18
Hi, I am Kevin Hernandez and Im
running for the Vice President of Facilities and Sustainability. Because of
my current experience on the Committee of Facilities and Sustainability,
I believe that I can continue to ensure
current projects are achieved, such
as the implementation of new printers in Smith Union and Thorne, and
also creating greater collaboration
between the green groups on campus.
My primary mission, if appointed as
the VP for Facilities and Sustainability, would be to increase overall efficiency. I hope to work with the Health
Center to implement online appointments, improve campus-wide WiFi
issues, and also look to restructure
the Rideshare app to make it much
more user friendly. Serving as the VP
for Facilities and Sustainability would
be a tremendous honor, and I hope
you consider me when you vote!
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FRIDAY
APRIL
T MUSSELS, KUNG PAO TOFU
M RAVIOLI, CHICKEN TENDERS
LECTURE
"Hello Kitty Goes to Downton Abbey"
Associate Professor of Government and Legal Studies

Henry Laurence will speak about his research regarding
the media, popular culture and soft power.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. Noon.
EVENT
Student Night at the Museum
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WORK-IT: Featured Portrait of an Artist Diamond Walker '17 (far left) and fellow students walk the runway in the African Fashion Show hosted by Bowdoin's Africa
Alliance. The show celebrated African culture and fashion last Saturday night in Kresge Auditorium. See page 11 for the feature on Walker.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open its doors

for students to explore its new exhibit, "Past Futures:
Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art in the
Americas." There will also be performances by
Bellamafia and the Meddiebempsters, and refreshments
will be served.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 7 p.m.
13
15
58 T JERK CHICKEN, QUESADILLA

43 M LASAGNA, EDAMAME SALAD
MONDAY
EVENT
FILM
#Carbonfeed
PERFORMANCE
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library will host a

multimedia project about social media's direct impact on
the environment. Project creators John Park and Jon
Bellona will also host a reception to introduce the
installation. It will be featured until May 13th.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 6:30 p.m.
Concert with George Lopez
Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will conduct

Bowdoin's orchestra in its performance of Mozart's
"Sinfonia Concertante."
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
11
SATURDAY
"The End of Liberalized Autocracy in the

Middle East and North Africa"
53 T PIZZA, CHICKEN PARM

33 M HAMBURGERS, CALAMARI
Professor of Political Science at Muhlenberg College

Brian Mello will discuss his research regarding the aftermath of the Arab Spring and its effect on democracy.
EVENT
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30 p.m.
Talent Show
As part of International Week, local ethnic eateries will

cater dinner as students perform in a talent show. Please
RSVP to ihwang2@bowdoin.edu with your name and
Bowdoin ID number.
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 5:30 p.m.
FILM
Visiting Professors Crystal Hall and Mohammad Irfan

from the Bowdoin Digital and Computational Studies
Initiative will discuss upcoming courses and how
engaging in the initiative helps students after Bowdoin.
Room 303, Visual Arts Center. 6:30 p.m.
"A River Changes Course: Development &

the Environment in Cambodia"
SUNDAY
As part of Asian Week, Director Kalyanee Mam will

screen her 2013 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prizewinning documentary, which chronicles three families
living in Cambodia straddling their traditional way of
life, rapid development and environmental degradation.
Mam will lead a discussion after the screening.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Chapel Service
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
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HOLIDAY
EVENT
Relay for Life
18
BREAK
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16
57 T MUSSELS, CHICKEN FAJITAS

40 M MAC & CHEESE, GARDEN BURGER
THURSDAY
LECTURE
"Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's

March and American Memory"
EVENT
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
12
Frontier. 2 p.m., 6 p.m.
INFORMATION SESSION
T TOFU STEAKS, BBQ CHICKEN

M SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN
What is Digital & Computational Studies?
61 T HERB ROASTED CHICKEN

35 M CHICKEN MARSALA, FETTUCCINE
Frontier will screen the documentary that tells the story

of late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco and the
group's impact on west coast sound during the 1960s as
a group of musical trendsetters.
TUESDAY
62
40
"Cosmicomics: Improvised Fantasies on

Time, Space and Desire"
Senior Lecturer in music Frank Mauceri will lead a jazz
ensemble in a performance of multiple original
compositions all based upon a group of short stories by
Italo Calvino about imagination and science.
"The Wrecking Crew"
University of Maryland Professor of History Anne Sarah

Rubin will tell the story of Sherman's March, its
representation in media and how Americans' perceptions
of the Civil War have changed over time.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:30 p.m.
14
PERFORMANCE
63 T FALAFEL, BEEF TIPS

38 M TERIYAKI SALMON, VEGGIE BURRITO
WEDNESDAY
BREAK
20
"Snapshots of Dust and Time: Astronomy

and Visual Art"
Laboratory Instructor Elise Weaver will discuss astrophotography in relation to the Bowdoin College Museum of
Art's exhibits, "Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel,
and Postwar Art of the Americas" and "Star Charts and
Celestial Scenes from Bowdoin Collections."
Pavilion, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Spring Dance Concert
The Department of Theater and Dance will showcase the

work of students and faculty in repertory and
composition classes. Natalie Johnson '13 choreographed
a duet, and Tyler Micoleau '91 will return to campus to
design the lighting for the performance.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.
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Holiday
FILM
"The Arrival of
Drones"
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Holiday
23
FILM
"L'Image
Manquante"

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THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY

VOLUME 144, NUMBER 20

SKYS THE LIMIT

APRIL 10, 2015

BCA and MSCJ, is the master of

Next semester, Visiting Assistant

Please see RALLY, page 5

Please see DIGITAL, page 6

BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

40 students to rally in Augusta for climate justice

On Saturday, Maine Students

Longfellow Hall outside President

Rose waits to weigh in SJP petitions for academic

As President Barry Mills enters

dent of Bowdoin College, and I

Please see ROSE, page 5

Students for Justice in Palestine

scholars to speak on campus as representatives of Israeli institutions. Israeli

Please see BOYCOTT, page 4

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: ONE MAN SHOW

FEATURES: MINDTHE GAP

SPORTS: KICKING ACE

Tonight and tomorrow in the Pickering Room in

Eduardo Jaramillo 17 tastes turtle soup and fried squid

Mens and womens tennis teams boast top 10

EDITORIAL: Vote Mejia-Cruz.

friday, april 10, 2015

A SPUD WITH A STAMP:

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

A closer look at what Bowdoin runs on at the Smith Union Cafe

Most Popular Items

Coffee, Sunrise Smoothie, Tea,

Chia Seeds, Soy and

35 gallons per day

$7,500 per week during the

Deli meat. Coconuts. Pumpkins.

What are your current complaints?

print jobs for the Class of

They only have crispy bacon. They dont

I threw my phone in the ocean

I have to eat matzoh for the next six

It just smells vaguely like dog in

friday, april 10, 2015

the bowdoin orient

A GUIDE TO THE 2015 HOUSING LOTTERY

7 SINGLES, 12 DOUBLES, 1 QUAD

16 SINGLES, 46 QUADS, 2 TRIPLES

Mostly seniors; some juniors

46 SINGLES, 29 DOUBLES, 8 QUADS

SCHOOL ST. APTS

22 SINGLES, 12 TRIPLES, 2 QUINTS

2 DOUBLES, 1 QUAD, 1 QUINT

Good location for a group of friends

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

College Houses admit new residents Rhetoric specialist hired

Students were notified of College