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MORE NEWS: BRUNSWICK BUSINESS
SHAKE-UP; CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
BUSINESS: Lilees Public House and Back Street
Bistro close their doors.
Page 3.
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL: The Oer of Bowdoin.edu
Page 14.
SPORTS: JEFF WARD RETIRES
After 14 years at the helm of the Athletic
Department, Ward left the College this
summer to focus on building an athletic
consulting company.

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Daisy Alioto 13 on Mitt Romneys failure to
break from the GOP mainstream on abortion.
Maine lobstermen caught a
record number of lobsters this
year, sending prices into a sharp
decline.
CAMPUS: Facilities upgraded campus buildings
with an eye towards sustainability.
Page 15.
BY ELIZA NOVICKSMITH
ORIENT STAFF
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
First year Emma Beecher receives a hand as she navigates a precarious portion of the trail up Mount Katadhin on an Orientation Trip.
New system to change College House afliation
Please see HOUSING, page 4
HELPING HAND
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
Remembering Leslie Shaw,
professor of anthropology
BY DYLAN HAMMER
ORIENT STAFF
Visiting Assistant Professor Leslie
Shaw, who taught anthropology at the
College since 1998, died unexpectedly
on the evening of August 29 following
complications from surgery. She was 57
years old.
Shaw will be remembered for her
tremendous spirit, infuential work, and
role as a mentor, colleague, and friend.
Leslie quietly set a high bar for ser-
vice, excellence and collegiality, quali-
ties that we each hope to achieve with
some measure of grace but which she
embraced with seeming ease, Christle
Collins Judd, dean for academic afairs,
wrote in an email to the Orient,
Shaw demonstrated a clear passion
for her work that was evident to stu-
dents and colleagues alike. Professor
Susan Kaplan, chair of the sociology
and anthropology departments, said
Shaw brought quiet, but palpable en-
ergy to the departments.
Shed come into a room and shed
be a powerful presence, Kaplan said.
Very quietly, not grandstanding.
Shaw readily engaged students be-
yond the classroom, and frequently of-
fered to host major-minor dinners and
study-away nights.
Kaplan said that Shaw was ofen in-
volved in more elements of campus life
than was immediately apparent.
Tings would come up in casual
conversation and suddenly youd realize
that she was organizing. She was orga-
nizing a feld session to go down to Be-
lize, she was organizing the Wabanaki
festival, Kaplan said.
Shaws colleague Scott MacEachern,
professor of anthropology, wrote of
a fond memory of collaborating with
Shaw on the Colleges memorial page
in her honor.
Shaw once joined anthropology
professor Scott MacEachern and his
students on an excavation at the Cham-
berlain property he was working on for
one of his classes.
She essentially co-taught that
course, she became so involved, and
my students loved working with her,
MacEachern wrote. She was a wonder-
ful colleague and a great friend.
In addition to her teaching and re-
search, Shaw was a mentor to Bowdoin
students of Native American heritage
and an advocate on behalf of the Wa-
banaki tribe of Maine, dedicated to her
role as the adviser to the Native Ameri-
can Students Association (NASA) at
Bowdoin.
She was the real backbone of the or-
ganization, said Destiny Guerrero 14,
president of the NASA.
She was a gentle but frm person.
When she spoke people listened to her
because we knew what she would say
was helpful, said Guerrero.
On Wednesday, Dean of Student
Afairs Tim Foster announced that
the current system of am liation be-
tween frst-year bricks and College
Houses will come to an end next
fall, when each College House will
instead be am liated with foors from
various frst year bricks.
The changes to first year hous-
ing for this academic year will be
modest. In light of lower than usual
demand, chem-free first years now
live in Winthrop Hall, which is
bigger than Hyde Hall. Winthrop
Hall is now affiliated with Howell
House, which is also chem-free.
Hyde Halls affiliation has switched
to Burnett House.
Te signifcant changes will take
efect next fall, when foating chem-
free foors will be dispersed through-
out the frst year bricks, and the new
am liation model takes efect. Te
overhaul was shaped by last springs
extensive debates between students,
faculty and administrators.
In Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) meetings last year, students
raised concerns that it would be
unfair if Howell had a much more
challenging am liation than the other
houses, said Director of Residential
Life Mary Pat McMahon.
Te new model will make am li-
ation equally challenging for every
College House, and will be reevalu-
ated at the end of a two-year trial
phase. Te full implementation has
been postponed until next year to
give Residential Life, the Deans Of-
fce and the College Houses more
time to prepare for the shif.
Te idea people got excited about
was that weve always had this con-
nection of one brick to one house,
but what if we didnt have that? said
Foster.
Te administration hopes that
foating am liation will allow frst
years to form more connections with
classmates outside their bricks.
Revisions in chem-free living ar-
rangements have been percolating for
months. Te current plans refect the
recommendations of the Chem-Free
Redesigned website caters to
viewers outside the College
Century bond sale raises $128.5 million
Bowdoin took steps to secure
its financial stability over the next
century when it sold $128.5 mil-
lion worth of taxable bonds this
past summer. The College will re-
pay these bonds at a historically
low interest rate of 4.69 percent,
and the payment is due on July 1,
2112.
The $128.5 million will be put to
several uses. Bowdoin owes rough-
ly $98 million that has to be repaid
by 2039. The newly acquired funds
will go towards covering this debt,
leaving Bowdoin with, in effect, a
$30 million.
Before the century bond sale,
Bowdoin faced the possibility of
having to dip into its endowment
to pay off the 2039 debt, a step the
College was not eager to take.
You dont want to leverage your
endowment, explained President
Barry Mills.
In an article published on the
Bowdoin Daily Sun, Mills wrote,
We are going to use the extra $30
million over the next five years to
complete a number of small capital
projects on campus and to upgrade
our technology.
These projects include the reno-
vation of the Longfellow School
which the College will transform
into a space for dance and visual
artsimprovements to the Stowe
House, the construction of a small
administrative building, technolo-
gy upgrades, and the construction
of a storage facility at the former
Brunswick Naval Air Station.
Having secured financing
through the bond sales, the Col-
lege has started to move forward
with these projects.
They are underway, said Se-
nior Vice President for Finance
and Administration & Treasurer
Katy Longley. An architect has
been hired for the renovation of the
Longfellow School and an architect
has been hired for the design of the
new administrative building.
Longley says the century bond
transaction comes with relatively
little risk.
Assuming the College continues
doing well with its endowment and
fundraising and is fiscally prudent
with its spending, I would think
this borrowing fits in well with our
financial health, she said.
Mills agrees with Longleys eval-
uation, especially in light of the
low interest rate of 4.69 percent.
If one concludes that, over the
long term, we can earn in excess
of 4.69 percent on our endowment
while taking into account the like-
ly inflation over the period, this
Please see BOND, page 4
Yesterday morning, the College
launched the redesigned version of
Bowdoin.edu, the frst overhaul of the
site in nine years. Te homepage now
has a completely diferent appearance,
featuring Te Ofer of the College
superimposed over the image of a tree
on the Quad. Associate Vice President
of Interactive Marketing Robert Kerr
has been working to improve the in-
terface and user-friendliness of the
site, which was developed internally.
Te home page of the website has
been the same for nine years, said
Kerr. In that time there has been a
revolution in how people use websites.
People expect the information to be a
lot more fexible than it used to be, and
the new homepage is a step in the di-
rection of satisfying those needs.
Currently, the Bowdoin website
gets about 1.4 million views per year,
and while Kerr does not believe that
the redesign will garner much more
attention for the website, he hopes
that people visiting it will be able to
more easily learn about Bowdoin.
Its really about people that dont
know anything about the College.
Te majority of people who come
into the website are coming to learn
something about the College, said
Kerr. What the homepage is trying
to do is shif the focus from people
who are at the Collegeto better
telling the story to people that dont
know anything about the college.
Kerr, along with two members
from Bowdoins Interactive Market-
ing department, David Francis and
Kevin Travers, has been working
BY CONNOR EVANS
CONTRIBUTOR
Please see WEBSITE, page 3
Please see SHAW, page 4
July 8, 1955 -
August 29, 2012
Visiting Assistant
Professor of Anthropology
Leslie Shaw
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Brianne Weaver, new head coach of Womens Soccer,
kicks o the season with a 4-0 victory.
SPORTS: Womens soccer starts strong FEATURES: My rst college party
HEADS UP
Julia Binswanger 16 shares observations and lessons
learned from her rst weekend of Bowdoin social life.
Page 5.
A&E: Racer X will not perform at Homecoming
With two of its Bowdoin professor members on sabbatical, the popular 80s cover
band will not be holding its traditional Homecoming concert this semester.
Page 8. Page 12.
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
NATURAL BEAUTY: A visitor studies the work of artist William Wegman, whose exibit Hello Nature is showing at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art until October 21.
College Houses on Twitter
In an efort to better communicate
with the broader Bowdoin community,
Baxter, Reed and Quinby Houses have
been broadcasting slices of life beyond
the Quad on Twitter. Reed House, nev-
er one to miss a pun on its street name,
posted this picture on August 31:
ReedHouse: Rock it everywhere
Baxter House took to Twitter yester-
day upon receiving a TV from the of-
fce of Residential Life:
BaxterHouse_: the anonymous TV elf
has made himself known #helovesus
#crossi
Gluten intolerance stations at
Moulton and Thorne
In response to an unusally high
number of gluten-free incoming stu-
dents, Moulton has consolidated its
gluten-free options into a new sta-
tion on the counter at the front of the
light room, complete with an exclu-
sively gluten-free refrigerator, toaster
and cabinet. Torne also has a cabinet
which can only be opened by students
who were given a password.
First years arrived on campus with
expectations of a hyperfast Wi-Fi
system, but instead were met with
something far slower and glitchier.
Te Wi-Fi has been reportedly slow
throughout campus, and numerous
students have reported frequent in-
terruptions in access.
Campus-wide Wi-Fi problems
NEWS BRIEFING
Cornell du Houx 06 will not return to Maine state legislature
Alex Cornell du Houx 06,
Brunswicks representative in the
state legislature, announced that he
would not seek re-election on June
29. Cornell du Houxs re-election
bid had been mired by allegations
from his former fianc, Represen-
tative Erin Herbig of Belfast, who
claimed that he had stalked and
threatened her in a temporary pro-
tection from abuse order.
According to the Portland Press
Herlad, police stopped their inves-
tigation, and Cornell du Houx was
never indicted for any crimes. The
Bangor Daily News reported that
the pair reached an agreement out
of court.
The stipulations of the agree-
ment bar Cornell du Houx from the
city of Belfast for the next decade,
and require him to give Augustas
police force 48 hours notice be-
fore he enters the state capitol. The
agreement also required Cornell du
Houx to drop out of the reelection
race.
Cornell du Houx says he decided
not to run for re-election because
he became executive director of a
nonpartisan national nonprofit that
trains veterans to run for office, and
because his active duty training co-
incides with the next legislative ses-
sion.
He also claims that this new job
prompted him to sign the agree-
ment with Herbig, even though he
was innocent.
Because I was undergoing se-
curity clearance protocols for the
Navy during this time, for my
new job, I couldnt risk appear-
ing in court. Just doing that could
have damaged my promotion. So,
I signed an outrageous agreement
with Erin, Cornell du Houx wrote
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
One day after Michelle Obama
spoke at the Democratic National
Convention in Charlotte, NC,
Bowdoins own First Lady, Karen
Mills, made her debut on the con-
vention stage. Mills addressed the
convention in her capacity as a
member of the Small Business As-
sociation and a cabinet member in
the Obama White House.
When President Obama took
office, the economy was in free-
fall, said Mills. Credit was frozen.
Small businesses werent thinking
in an email to the Orient.
Although Cornell du Houx
reached an agreement outside of
court, he maintains that he could
refute the claims if it had proved
necessary.
If we had gone to a hearing I
would have countered all her al-
legations in the temporary order,
Cornell du Houx wrote in a written
statement. I broke off the engage-
ment on March 26, 2012 because
she seriously breached my trust.
So, I asked for my ring back, and
she turned on me with the tempo-
rary order.
In a text message exchange sent
to the Orient by Cornell du Houx,
Herbig writes, Call me when you
get off the call. I miss your voice
xo.
The text message is dated from
the period when Herbig claimed
to feel endangered by her former-
fianc.
Fred Horch, husband of Associ-
ate Professor of Biology and Neu-
roscience Hadley Horch, is run-
ning for Cornell du Houxs seat in
the state legislature. Now that Cor-
nell du Houx is a non-factor, Horch
says the race is wide open.
No ones asking whose seat it is
anymore. He was forced out in such
a public way, Horch said.
Horch, however, would not say
he was happy about the situation.
I never like to see a scandal like
that, he said.
Horch feels he was the better
candidate, even before the allega-
tions against Cornell du Houx sur-
faced.
I have a lot of practical experi-
ence. Alex had no understanding of
the energy market, of the physics,
Horch said. He is not the right
person to be leading our energy
policy.
Horch, the Green Party candi-
date, will run against Democrat
Matthea Daughtry and Republican
Grant Connors in the November 6
general election.
Toph Tucker contributed to this
report.
about expansion; they were think-
ing about survival.
Mills touted the changed atmo-
spheres within small businesses
during President Obamas first
term in office.
Today, small business owners
are having very different conversa-
tions than they were three-and-a-
half years ago. Today, theyre talk-
ing about strategies to fill larger
orders, blueprints for bigger facto-
ries and plans to hire more work-
ers, she said.
Mills also lauded the Obama ad-
ministrations hands-of approach to
helping small businesses succeed.
He understands that Wash-
ington doesnt create jobs; small
businesses do, Mills said. Gov-
ernments role is to put the wind at
their backs.
Mills has extensive experience
with small businesses, both per-
sonally and professionally.
Her parents, Ellen and Melvin
Gordon, own Tootsie Roll Indus-
tries. Her job at Solera Capital re-
quired Mills to interact regularly
with small businesses such as An-
nies Homegrown, an organic food
company based in Berkeley, Calif.
In 2007 she was appointed chair
of Maines Council on Competi-
tiveness and the Economy, accord-
ing to the Small Business Adminis-
BY NATALIE KASSKAUFMAN
STAFF WRITER
Karen Mills delivers speech at Democratic National Convention trations profile on Mills.
The SBA was elevated to a cab-
inet-level agency by President
Obama last year.
Given her background, said
Michael Porter, a professor at Har-
vard Business School, in an online
CNN article, she knows more
about entrepreneurship and busi-
ness growth than any administra-
tor in recent memory.
Mills ended her speech on a
hopeful note.
And when the American people
re-elect President Obama, he will
finish the work that hes started,
she said. Across this country, we
know when small businesses suc-
ceed, America succeeds.
OVERHEARD
The young woman I met
at a science fair who won
national recognition for
her biology research while
living with her family at
a homeless sheltershe
gives me hope.
- President Obama, speaking about
rst year Samantha Garvey in his
acceptance speech at the Democratic
National Convention last night.
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Closures shake up Brunswick dining scene
BY MAEVE OLEARY
ORIENT STAFF
Lilees Public House and Back
Street Bistro closed their doors
this summer, altering the restau-
rant landscape on Maine Street and
making room for the arrival of new
businesses.
Chris Pillsbury, a Brunswick na-
tive and the former owner of both
restaurants, opened Back Street
Bistro in 2004. Lilees, a less expen-
sive alternative, opened four years
later to increase revenues while Back
Street Bistro struggled through the
2008 recession.
Afer three years, the proft from
Lilees was not enough to support
Back Street Bistro, according to a re-
port by the Bangor Daily News.
Both restaurants closed last spring
during the fnal weekend of May.
Im sad for the town and for the
staf, especially at Lilees, Pillsbury
told Bangor Daily News just before
the restaurants closed. Its one of
those cool, comfortable places that I
think Brunswick will be lacking.
Local, a specialty foods store owned
by Sharon Smiley, renovated the space
vacated by Lilees and moved in during
the beginning of July.
We like to call it a country store
for urban foodies, said Matt Sand-
ers, the green grocer who buys pro-
duce for Local.
All our produce is locally grown,
we get our baked goods from a bak-
ery in Maine, and our beer section
comes from mostly Maine and New
England, but sometimes there is
something too good to pass up from
beyond, said Sanders.
Sanders said that the new store
has been well received by the com-
munity so far.
Eight years ago, a similar shop
called Provisions existed here, so
now when people walk in they go,
Oh wow, we missed that! Were
not really trying to compete with
anyone. Theres a little overlap that
will happen naturally, but were
really trying to keep in unique
items, he said.
Locals management owns the
space, and so the new store is im-
mune from the rising rent that
doomed Lilees.
At this point, nothing is slated to
replace Back Street Bistro.
Frontier Caf, which is located
down the street in Fort Andross,
reports an increase in business
since Pillsburys two restaurants
shut down.
Were defnitely busier at nights
and quite a bit just in general this
summer, said Frontier bartender
Sara Perry.
Perry believes that major renova-
tions to the restaurant, which oc-
curred last November and Decem-
ber, are also responsible for the surge
in business.
We expanded the kitchen exten-
sively, adding a grill and a full-ser-
vice bar, said Perry. We were more
of a caf beforeall we had was a
panini press, so the food had to be
pretty basic and simple. We served
beer and wine before, but now we
have 12 seats at the bar and more
tables to serve.
Perry also emphasizes that while
the Frontier Caf appeals to a clien-
tele similar to Lilees or Back Street
Bistros, they count on being more
than just a restaurant.
Were a movie theater and a gal-
lery as well, so that puts us in a dif-
ferent sort of box, she said.
Further up on Maine Street, the
Inn at Brunswick Station and the
Brunswick Inn are engaged in a legal
dispute over the similarity of their
names.
Te Brunswick Inn sued the Inn
at Brunswick Station last March,
claiming that its fnancial struggles
stem from patrons confusing the
two establishments.
Te attorney for Te Brunswick
Inn, James Goggin, said the owners
are looking for payment for damages
and a name change.
We can show that we have lost
business, Goggin told the Bangor
Daily News, but our primary focus
is to have them change their name.
Goggin predicts the case will be
resolved in December of this year or
early 2013.
A new parking system that promotes
a park once approach took efect at
the College on August 27, one of many
changes which greeted students arriv-
ing on campus this fall. Developed ac-
cording to the recommendations of a
hired parking consultant, the policy en-
courages students to leave their vehicles
in one place and walk or bike around
campus for the day.
Te parking consultancy conducted
research last semester to gauge vehicu-
lar use and determined that the Col-
lege has adequate parking, but needs to
make better use of it. In their observa-
tions of driving behavior, they noticed
that students with cars repeatedly cir-
cled the campus.
Teyd see people
drive from Farley into
Torne for lunch, park
at the admissions lot,
eat lunch, then drive
somewhere else for
class, said Katy Long-
ley, senior vice president
for fnance and admin-
istration & treasurer.
Students shouldnt use
their cars to get around
campus, but use them
for other purposes.
Te College is already taking mea-
sures to make campus more friendly to
walkers. A new sidewalk on Bath Road
makes it possible for students to walk
the perimeter of campus, and plans are
underway for new sidewalks on Com n
Street and other areas.
Te list of summer improvements
to campus includes expansive replace-
ments and repairs to the underground
steam pipe system that runs below the
Quad, a new slate roof on Hubbard
Hall, a refnished foor in Morrell Gym,
completion of a cyber security class-
room in Searles, and new skylights in
the Walker Art Building.
Facilities Management also reduced
parts of the grassy Quad to wide patch-
es of dirt this summer, one step among
several in the efort to improve, rede-
sign and reorganize the College.
Energy conservation was a key con-
sideration during construction. Facili-
ties switched ten buildings to natural
gas heating, upgraded lighting, and
weatherized rental properties. Tese
changes should help the College reach
carbon neutrality by 2020.
Parking overhaul among
new sustainable measures
Te most noticeable structural
changes to campus are the landscaping
projects at the Chapel and around the
frst year bricks.
Security will step up its parking en-
forcement in order to ensure that the
parking system functions according to
plan.
You cant do all of this without some
measure of enforcement, so safety and
security is trying to monitor the lots
and make sure the students park in stu-
dent lots and staf park in staf lots, said
Longley.
Some students with cars are dis-
mayed by the parking changes, be-
moaning the fact that they must walk to
class when they once could drive.
Others point out kinks in the system
that still must be resolved.
I got a parking ticket
in the frst week of school
for parking at Harp-
swell, and I live there,
said Alex Tompson 13.
Tats over the top.
Te staf at Haw-
thorne-Longfellow Li-
brary (H-L) has also
been busy with reorgani-
zation. Two om ces have
moved to the frst foor,
and equipment and col-
lections will move to
make space for new study areas.
Te microflm and microfche col-
lections, along with their digital scanner
and reader/printer machines, have been
relocated to the back of the basement
level, enabling library staf to convert
their former location to a frst foor
study area.
Tis new study room, currently
furnished with temporary seating and
desks, will be enhanced in the coming
weeks by the addition of individual car-
rels, a group study table, and comfort-
able seating. Original, library-themed
photography by James Boeding 14 will
decorate the walls of this study space.
We are conscious of wanting to cre-
ate a welcoming space for the students,
said Leanne Pander, a public services li-
brarian at H-L. Our move and reorga-
nization is meant to keep that in mind.
A second group study space is being
set up in the basement, which is also the
new home for the media center.
Te improvements are really start-
ing to come together, said Karina
Graeter 14. More seating and study
areas should make library group work
much less hectic.
BY LUKE MILARDO
ORIENT STAFF
CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ONE STORE CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS: Local, a specialty and local produce store, occupies the space vacated by Lilees Public House.
JEFFREYYU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TAKE A WALK: Students are no longer allowed to park in the Co n Street lot, one of the sites
that is closest to the Colleges academic buildings.
WEBSITE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
on the project since June, and while
they were the driving forces behind
the redesign, Kerr stresses the role of
students in making the website suc-
cessful.
What my group does is we kind of
think about the whole web and think
about how we can move it forward
and understand how people are us-
ing it, what people want, said Kerr.
Te website is an interesting thing
because its owned by the commu-
nity, its managed by the community,
its written on by the community, its
used by the community. But it also
needs to have a singular voice so that
were explaining the College well.
Students have started noticing the
changes in the website and some have
commended its new interface and
navigability.
The layout is fresh, said Stan-
ford Spurlock 14, and its hella
easy to navigate.
Yet others have expressed their
concerns with the redesign, citing
problems with the new layout.
I think it looks pretty but I work
in one of the departments and pro-
fessors felt like they couldnt fnd
anything, said Louisa Diaz 13. I
think its interesting that theyre
gearing it towards prospective stu-
dents as opposed to the current stu-
dent body.
Alumni have also weighed in on
the redesign.
I love it, said Will Donahoe 08,
who now does web design for a com-
munications agency he co-founded.
Im glad that they simplifed it, he
said, while also noting some layout
issues and the fact that the redesign
hasnt yet reached further than the
front page.
When Donahoe was applying to
Bowdoin, he remembers being im-
pressed by the website.
Its one of the intangibles I used
to determine where I wanted to go,
said Donahoe, adding that he re-
members thinking, Tis is a school
that appreciates good design.
Mark Hendrickson 07who co-
founded the social events startup
Plancast, and is now the Product
Lead for the habit-tracking app Lif
only had a chance to look at the site
on his iPhone.
Teres not a lot to it, but it doesnt
look very good, he said. Efectively,
students will be looking at it as a re-
fection of themselves.
Hendrickson says the website is
the main way in which people start
their [college] search.
Its a sign of quality, he added.
Kerr hopes that the redesign,
which includes new features such as
smartphone capability and content
from the Bowdoin Daily Sun will
prove successful. However, he is al-
ways looking for ways to improve.
Were going to continue to evolve
and when you launch something new,
thats when work starts, said Kerr. Stu-
dents in a lot of ways need to be driving
it, because you guys are the freshest
eyes on everything. Te more ideas we
can get from students the better.
Energy conservation
was a key consideration
during construction.
These changes should
help the College reach
carbon neutrality by
2020.
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transaction should be very good
for the College over the long term.
It is simply a superb hedge against
future inflation, Mills wrote in the
Bowdoin Daily Sun.
Bowdoin is the first small col-
lege to sell a so-called century
bond, but several large universi-
ties have already done so.
BOND
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Housing Review Committee (CF-
HRC), as well as alterations made in
several open forums, debate in BSG,
and objections raised by a group of
concerned Howell House residents
who circulated a petition against the
CFHRCs recommendations.
Te constant throughout the dis-
cussions was Howell House, which
will continue to be a chem-free Col-
lege House providing chem-free space
and programming for all students.
Te CFHRC sought to correct the
ways the current chem-free system
divides the student body by attaching
labels and assumptions of otherness
to students whose decisions to live
chem-free are in reality informed by
HOUSING
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
The Chronicle of Higher Educa-
tion reported that MIT, which se-
cured $750 million through a cen-
tury bond earlier this year, would
use its funds for large new capital
projects, including a new environ-
mental studies center and a per-
forming arts center.
The Ohio State University will
finance the construction of a new
hospital with funds raised from
a century bond, according to the
Wall Street Journal.
Bowdoin will resist the urge to
spend large sums on new build-
ings, despite projects going on
elsewhere in the NESCAC. The
construction of a new library is
underway at Williams College,
and Amherst College has broken
ground on a science center, esti-
mated to cost $200 million.
Mills said that projects at Bow-
doins peer schools would not
prompt the College to spend lav-
ishly on new buildings.
I dont care. Were not in an arms
race, he said. We need to be innova-
tive without building new buildings.
Longley acknowledges the pos-
sibility of new buildings in the fu-
ture, but says the century bond sale
has nothing to do with them.
There will be planning, invari-
ably, for the next big projects. What
those projects are hasnt been de-
fined yet, Longley said. Still un-
der consideration is the need for
a new humanities building, what
to do with the Brunswick Apart-
mentswhether to renovate them
or replace them. Those are two
things that often get mentioned
that were not funded by this bond.
SECURITY REPORT: 8/28 to 9/6
Tuesday, August 28
Brunswick Police Department
(BPD) warned two students who were
found in possession of alcohol in the
Watson Arena parking lot.
Neighbors reported excessive
noise coming from the 10 Cleaveland
Street Apartments. Nine students
were warned.
Two new riding lawnmower
tires were reported stolen from the
Facilities Management garage at
Rhodes Hall.
Two Thorne Dining employ-
ees received electric shocks from
a dish washing machine. One em-
ployee was taken to Mid Coast
Hospital for treatment. The appli-
ance was designated out of service
pending repairs.
A neighbor complained of noise
from students attending the Inter-
House Olympics at Farley Field House.
Wednesday, August 29
BPD warned a student for drinking
in public near Farley.
A large unregistered event was dis-
persed at Harpswell Apartments.
A Longfellow Avenue resident
complained of noisy students in the
neighborhood.
A noise complaint was received at
Harpswell Apartments. Students were
asked to call it a night.
A fre alarm at Hubbard Hall was
caused by a faulty smoke detector.
Te smell of marijuana smoke
was reported on the fourth foor of
Osher Hall.
A local man made a series of ha-
rassing phone calls to the Security
Communication Center. Te man was
identifed and BPD issued a court sum-
mons for harassment.
ursday, August 30
Tree suspects stole the U.S. fag
from the fag pole on the Quad at 3:40
a.m. Te suspects fed in a car from
Park Row.
Friday, August 31
A student was cited for bringing
alcohol into Jack Magees Pub.
A local resident reported annoying
encounters with dogs being walked on
the campus trails near Farley.
Gram ti was spray painted on the
exterior of Brunswick Apartments S.
Te gram ti read ALT Blues Talk.
A student with fu-like symptoms
was escorted to Parkview Adventist
Medical Center.
An unregistered event was dis-
persed on the third foor of Stowe
Inn. Some students were cited for
alcohol policy violations. An om cer
checked on the well-being of two in-
toxicated students.
Saturday, September 1
An om cer checked on the well-
being of an intoxicated student at
Stowe Inn.
A student at Osher Hall was escort-
ed to Parkview afer he sliced a fnger
on a blender blade while cleaning it.
A blue Nishiki Tamarac bicycle was
stolen from the area of Quinby House.
A student accidentally pulled the
fre alarm in the Coles Tower lobby.
Te building was evacuated and Bruns-
wick Fire Department responded.
An om cer checked on a sick stu-
dent at Elm Street Apartments.
A student reported two men acting
suspiciously in the area of Chamberlain
Hall. Security om cers located the men
and determined that they were looking
to party with students. Both men were
ordered of the property.
A student was cited for a hard alco-
hol policy violation in the basement of
Ladd House.
A student injured an ankle while
roller skating at Morrell Lounge.
Brunswick Rescue transported the stu-
dent to Parkview.
Sunday, September 2
An intoxicated frst year female
student was transported to Parkview
by Brunswick Rescue.
An apartment door at Brunswick
Apartments U was kicked in.
An unregistered event was dis-
persed in the basement of Baxter House.
An unregistered event was dis-
persed at Brunswick Apartments S.
Monday, September 3
Students reported a suspicious
man in the Smith Union game room
giving pool lessons.
A bike reported stolen from the
area of Winthrop Hall was recovered.
Tuesday, September 4
A grey Trek mountain bike with a
blue basket was reported stolen from
the bike racks outside of Moulton
Dining Hall.
Students driving on Bath Road re-
ported being followed by a truck. Secu-
rity om cers spoke with the truck driver.
ursday, September 6
At 12:40 a.m., a student reported
seeing a man at Howard Hall trying
to cut a bike lock. Om cers found the
man as he was using a hacksaw blade
to cut a cable lock in an attempt to
steal a students bike. Te man was
charged by BPD and trespassed from
all Bowdoin property.
An om cer checked on the well-
being of an ill student at Coles Tower.
-Compiled by the O ce of Safety and
Security.
very diverse factors. Foster reported
that in the BSG debates, there was
concern that simply spreading foat-
ing chem-free foors across the bricks
would be insum cient to change those
perceptions.
Te goal of the new system is to en-
rich the frst year experience. According
to Foster, chem-free dorms have tended
to be almost twice as socioeconomically
and racially diverse as other dorms.
Having all chem-free spaces in
one building has, in practice, seg-
Te arrival of the 492 students
in the Class of 2016 on August
21 marked the frst time in recent
memory when new students were
allowed a simple privilegethey got
to unpack.
All members of the frst year class
were expected to participate in Ori-
entation Trips this year. As such, ad-
ministrators saw no harm in letting
them move into their new rooms be-
fore leaving campus.
Everybody was here, so students
were allowed to make their beds
and hang their posters and meet
their proctors and roommates face
to face, said Janet Lohmann, dean
of frst year stu-
dents.
Tat really
set a very difer-
ent tone, at least
from my per-
spective, for what
happened dur-
ing the trips and
what happened
when students
got back on campus, she said. Ev-
eryone just felt a little happier, a little
more settled, a little more social.
Lohmann ruled the newly-man-
datory orientation trips a success; all
but eight frst years participated, and
the trips themselves passed with no
incidents, with the exception of one
minor injury requiring stitches.
Te fact that everyone was on a
trip meant that people were able to
break out of those siloed existences
that can happen for certain groups
here, said Lohmann.
Te Om ce of Admissions received
a record-breaking 6,716 applications
for the Class of 2016, and selected
an incredibly talented group of
492just one short of their tar-
get goal of 493, according to Scott
Meiklejohn, dean of admissions and
fnancial aid.
We have a group of really talented
Mainers, and a signifcant portion of
the class is made up of frst genera-
tion students, he said. Were provid-
ing a lot of opportunity in a way that
the College should.
Admissions saw notable increas-
es in students from outside the
Northeast, particularly from the
South and Southwest. Meiklejohn
called this trend a good thing for
Bowdoin and noted that increas-
ing the geographic diversity of the
student population has been a long-
time goal.
Te reported
test scores of en-
tering students
jumped this year.
Te median SAT
score is 1420,
compared to 1401
last year. Te me-
dian ACT score
also increased
one point to 32.
The College has yet to conduct
official surveys gathering feed-
back on this years Orientation,
but Lohmann said that on-campus
programming did not stray too far
from what was offered last year. As
a highlight, she cited a student per-
formance based on personal sto-
ries of this first year class, culled
from their college essays and re-
sponses to a survey titled Who we
are that the College sent out over
the summer.
Te entire class got to realize that
there are all these stories that make
up who this community is, said
Lohmann. It got a standing ovation.
Mandatory Orientation trips
considered success by College
BY CLAIRE AASEN
ORIENT STAFF
regated a disproportionate number
of international, minority and na-
tive Maine students. Foster called
the experience a deprivation for the
whole community.
Te proposed changes refect fnd-
ings of several surveys and focus
groups that examined the frst year
experience. Many students felt as if
their frst year experience was cru-
cially shaped by where they lived.
McMahon highlighted false presump-
tions that coalesce in those formative
frst weeks of the semester that people
dont have anything in common with
students who live chem-free.
Foster and McMahon both em-
phasized that the dialogue on chem-
free housing will not end here.
Just because its the culture of the
campus doesnt mean its whats best,
said Foster.
Jessie Kohn 13 remembered coming
to Bowdoin as a freshman and working
closely with Shaw in the NASA. You
could feel the warmth and acceptance
radiating of her, she said. She was
very good at sitting and listening to just
about anything you had to say and of-
fering her support.
Bowdoin was extremely lucky to
have a professor that really cared as
much as Leslie did, Kohn added.
Kaplan agreed that Shaw became
a friend and mentor to those students
who had the fortune of knowing her.
She became a really important men-
tor to the Native American students
who are organized around NASA, Ka-
plan said. She was very, very, very dedi-
cated to mentoring students.
Shaws close involvement with the
Native American community in Maine
lef a profound impact. She was named
Bowdoins Liaison for Native American
Afairs, and she spearheaded a program
for Bowdoin students to visit schools
throughout Maine and encourage Na-
tive American students to go to college.
Bowdoin, Bates and Colby started
this initiative of outreach to Maine
tribes, Kaplan said. She was the per-
son who really triggered that.
Kaplan said Shaw did not preach to
students that they should go to college,
but rather attempted to show them
some of the really interesting things that
you do at college and the fact that you as
a young person can do them.
Shaws work took her across the
world, from Easter Island to Belize. As a
specialist on the Maya, she co-directed
the Maax Na Archeology Project in
Belize with her colleague Eleanor King
from Howard University. Bowdoin stu-
dents were given the opportunity to
work alongside Shaw at the excavation
site.
She was taking them into the feld
and not just showing them what its like
to be an archaeologist but letting them
be archaeologists on her research proj-
ect, said Kaplan.
Shaw touched the lives of numerous
people beyond the Bowdoin campus,
many of whom are now posting on
Shaws Facebook page and the Bowdoin
memorial pages to Shaw.
Te network of people who knew
her and really prized working with her
is really tremendous, said Kaplan.
Bowdoin professors are among those
who have ofered statements. Associate
Professor of Anthropology Matthew
Klingle wrote on Facebook, Leslie was
the real embodiment of a professor
someone who is a teacher, scholar, and
activist because she could do nothing
else.
Professor Allen Wells refected on
the time Shaw presented her research to
a seminar he taught last fall.
It was one of those wonderful teach-
ing moments, where a scholar-teacher
with such evident passion for her work,
engaged a group of students and faculty
in an intimate three-hour conversa-
tion, he wrote on Facebook.
Shaw is survived by her daughters
Laura and Audrey, and her husband
John Cross 76, secretary of develop-
ment and college relations.
SHAW
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Chem-free dorms have
tended to be almost twice
as socioeconomically and
racially diverse as other dorms.
Were providing a lot of
opportunity in a way that the
College should.
SCOTT MEIKLEJOHN
DEAN OF ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID
FEATURES
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Beer and boys: My rst college party at Bowdoin
I dont know if youve ever seen the
movie Tangled, but when my parents
lef me all by my lonesome on the pres-
tigious Bowdoin campus two weeks
ago, I felt pretty much how I imagine
Princess Rapunzel did when she lef
her tower: struck by a mix of horror
and absolute freedom.
Indeed, these past two weeks as a
frst year have been a blur. I picked
potatoes in Presque Isle Maine while
others biked 50 miles, I saw count-
less speeches that inspired me to do
new things and meet new people and
soak up all of Bowdoins awesomeness;
and when Interhouse Olympics came
around, you can bet I was there awk-
wardly trying to incite a deep passion
for my am liate house (even though I
kept forgetting its name).
Needless to say, Orientation was
long. It was confusing, it was fun, but
now its over. Now, real college is kick-
ing in and yes, that does mean classes
are kicking of, but it also means some-
thing elseso are the parties.
Last weekend I went to my frst col-
lege party. Im not going to lie to you.
I was pretty darn excited for it. I dont
know about you all, but I came from a
strict boarding school that kept me on
a tight leash. One whif of alcohol and I
would have been out of that place.
So, when I showed up to my frst
social house soiree and realized I could
drink beer despite the fact that there
was a poorly drawn black X on my
hand, I felt liberated. I proudly sported
a red Solo cup and strutted around the
room pretending I was a master of fip
cup and beer pong even though, in re-
ality, I had only seen such antics in cli-
chd movies.
I was having a lot of fun and the
night seemed pretty promising, at least
until the end of the frst hour when we
all realized that the keg was tapped out.
Most of us frst years had only gone
through a beer or two at this point,
and the mood of the room suddenly
shifed. It seemed everyone around me
started saying things like, lets go to
Ladd, or I hear Baxters insane.
Before I knew it, I was out the door
on to the next College house. Unfor-
tunately, we soon realized that be-
ing tapped out was a phenomenon
spreading quickly across campus. Tis
brings me to the frst lesson I learned
about college parties: if you actually
want to party, being cool and fashion-
ably late is not always the way to go.
But dont feel too bad for me and
BY JULIA BINSWANGER
CONTRIBUTOR
native Falmouth, ME this summer,
and noted the hardships that come
with low prices in the lobstering
community. Now in his fifth year
of lobstering, Hanley says, This
season was definitely less profit-
able, as the price of lobster was at
an all-time low and the prices of
bait and gas were at all-time highs.
Hanley worked for himself using
25 traps, receiving a higher than
average price since he sold his lob-
ster at retail price instead of selling
his catch at wholesale price to dis-
tributors. Nonetheless, charging
$3.99 per pound this summer was
substantially less than the $6.50
he charged during his first season
lobstering in 2008.
According to The New York
Times, approximately 70 percent
of Maines catch is currently sent to
Canada to be processed into frozen
or prepared foods and the state is
trying to bring those jobs back to
Maine.
On August 10, Governor Paul
LePage used his weekly radio
broadcast to address lobstering
concerns, urging Mainers to sup-
port the addition of more in-state
lobster processing facilities.
Record harvest means Maine lobstermen get raw deal
BY KATHERINE FOLEY
CONTRIBUTOR
Maines seafood celebrity, the
lobster, made national headlines
this summer when fishermen
across the state brought in record
hauls of the crustacean, leading to
low market prices and frustration
in the lobstering community.
Soft-shelled lobstersknown as
shedders, (since they are newly
molted from their old shells)be-
gan showing up in traps as early as
April, more than a month before
they normally emerge, according
to NPR. This has been attributed
to the unusually warm winter and
higher ocean temperatures.
As the supply of soft-shelled
lobsters increased, prices dramati-
cally dropped. At times this sum-
mer, prices dipped to an unprec-
edented $2.00 a pound, according
to Bloomberg Businessweek. Vet-
eran lobstermen approximate that
these prices mark a 30-year low.
Some lobstermen have opted to
dock their boats in an attempt to
counter the rapid influx of lobster
into the market.
Tim Hanley 15 lobstered in his
One week later, the Maine Lob-
ster Advisory Council outlined a
$3 million, three-year marketing
strategy to overhaul brand iden-
tity and increase consumption of
Maine lobster, according to The
New York Times.
What can we as Maine students
do to help the local lobstering
community? We started the year
off well at last Wednesdays an-
nual school-wide lobster bake, for
which Dining Services purchased
1,400 lobsters from Quahog Lob-
ster Company in Harpswell. Al-
though neither Dining Services
nor Quahog Lobster Company
would disclose the price the Col-
lege paid for the lobsters, as of
Monday, their wholesale lobster
price was $4 a pound.
If you and your friends are
thinking of going out to dinner,
consider supporting Maine lobster.
Head to Libbys Market for their
famed and, at $9.50 for a generous
small, quite reasonably priced lob-
ster rolls. Or visit Camerons Lob-
ster Shack (formerly Morses) on
Bath Road, and pick up their sum-
mer special, a $16.95 Fried Lobster
Basket.
my youthful friends, because Saturday
is great for second chances. Tis time
we had learned our lesson and the real
fun began. We decided to go to Burnett
House and when we arrived the feel
was already diferent. For one thing,
the house was packed. I dont think I
can count the amount of gross sweaty
dudes I saw, which brings me to college
party lesson number two: even the re-
ally cute boy youve been eyeing in your
German class will be gross and sweaty
at a College House party. Dont worry
though, you can totally have a super
fun time dancing to that Party In Te
USA remix with him.
Remember not to get too distracted.
Te next shock of the night came when
I looked up and realized that a sea of
sloppily-making-out couples had re-
placed all of my friends. I tapped one
of them politely on the shoulder and
asked if they would move over so I
could escape and fnd my roommate,
but I guess they didnt hear me. From
this experience, I learned college party
lesson number three: for the love of
god, dont lose your friends.
Anyway, the night turned out to
be pretty fun. I met a couple of new
people, I danced like an idiot and I
lost hearing in my lef ear; so, overall a
pretty successful night.
BY DANIEL COHEN
CONTRIBUTOR
Julia Zauzmers new book, Con-
ning Harvard, tells the saga of the
now-infamous Adam Wheeler, who
plagiarized his way into some of
the most elite schools in the United
States, including Bowdoin.
Zauzmer, a Harvard senior and
staf writer for e Harvard Crimson,
has been following the story since it
surfaced during her freshman year.
Afer fling a Freedom of Infor-
mation Act request, sifing through
hundreds of documents, conducting
countless interviews and even spend-
ing a night at Bowdoin, Zauzmer
sheds new light on how Wheeler was
able to game the system. Below, Za-
uzmer responds to a few questions
about herself, the book, and Adam
Wheeler.
Q: What triggered your interest in
Wheelers story?
A: Well, at the very beginning, my
co-writer and I got very, very lucky.
We were the two freshmen who hap-
pened to be sitting in front of the
managing editors desk on the day
she got an email saying this Adam
Wheeler case broke. She said to us,
Tere is some guy who has plagia-
rized some documents from Harvard
or MIT if you want to look into it.
And from that minute we spent the
next fve days covering the case. Afer
that, we covered it all the way until he
pleaded guilty, which was the winter
break of our sophomore year.
Q: Is the book primarily interviews,
or is it more of a
timeline?
A: Its a narrative.
It starts with Wheel-
er in high school
when he started
plagiarizing things,
which is new in the
bookno one has
ever reported that
before. And it goes
up to the time that
he pleads guilty.
Q: It sounds like you discuss his per-
sonal life, not just his plagiarism.
A: A little bit, yes. If you read chap-
ter fve, its defnitely talking a little
about his girlfriends, his roommates.
But I knew a lot more information
about that than I thought was appro-
priate to include in the book.
Q: Were you able to interview
Wheeler himself?
A: I would feel so much better about
this whole thing if he wanted to be a
part of it because I think telling his
side of the story would be so enrich-
ing. Ive reached out to him by phone
and in person and by letters. Weve
spoken briefy a couple of times and
hes made it very clear he does not
want to be interviewed on the record.
Q: In the blurb it says that you dug
through records to expose even more
instances of deception. Can you give
an example?
A: One thing I happened to realize
when I was looking at his Bowdoin
application was that, in fact, the es-
says he used to get into Bowdoin had
been plagiarized. Tat is sort of new
news. Its hard to get used to looking
for plagiarism. Tere was a freshman
form at Bowdoin he flled out to tell
his RA, or maybe his advisor, about
his study habits and things like that.
It was a really basic form. He had a
two-sentence answer that was kind of
interesting and I was going to quote
it in the book. And in one of the last
drafs of the book I look at that part of
the chapter and Hey, I never checked
to make sure that he really wrote those
two sentences. I just put them into
Google and sure enough, it popped
right up. He plagiarized just a two sen-
tence response on the form.
Q: Did Bowdoin and Harvard try to
keep tabs on him aer he was caught?
How did he slip so thorougly under the
radar?
A: At Bowdoin, he was suspended
for academic dishonesty. No one
there had any clue that he had actual-
ly already applied for transfer to Har-
vard before he was even summoned
to the Judicial Board. He was going
to transfer no matter what. Tey did
send him letters every semester say-
ing, Your semester is done, you can
come back to Bowdoin now. But
fnally, afer about two years of not
returning to Bowdoin, he said that
he was going to do research and not
complete his degree. Tere is actu-
ally a box on that form that he turned
in that says, Have you transferred
somewhere else? and he said no. At
that point, he had been a Harvard
student for a year. As for Harvard
keeping tabs on him, they certainly
did.
When he lef Harvard, not only
did they start poking around his
Rhodes and Fulbright scholarship
applicationswhich had gotten him
caught at Harvardthey actually
went back and opened up his admis-
sions application. At that point they
realized ev-
erything had
been faked
and they
called the po-
lice. So from
Ha r v a r d s
point of view
this was a
criminal in-
vestigation.
Q: Based
on your expe-
rience at Bowdoin, what do you think
about the Academic Honor Code and
Judicial Board? How did that system
play into his deception and plagiarism?
A: One thing that just struck me as
a student about the Bowdoin judicial
system was that its a student organi-
zation, which is totally foreign to me.
I havent been to a school that works
that way and its really amazing; as I
walked around talking to Bowdoin
students, I started saying, Wow, is
that uncomfortable? Is it something
where if you go before the Judicial
Board you might be judged by a fellow
student and then come into class or
into the dining hall the next day and
be sitting next to them? And every-
one at Bowdoin has this really mature
attitude about it and said, No, thats
their job and if they are good at it,
theyre not going to go gossip to their
friends about it.
I dont think it made such a difer-
ence to Wheeler. He was going to do
what he was going to do no matter
what kind of justice system was facing
him because weve seen him behave
the exact same way in front of Bow-
doins system, Harvards adult-run sys-
tem, and the government.
Zauzmers book will be available
from Lyons Press for purchase online at
both Amazon and Barnes & Noble for
$13.99.
Conning Harvard: New book on Adam
Wheeler hits shelves September 18
JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
MORE FISH, LESS CHIPS: Maine lobstermen have been selling their hauls for prices as low as $2.00 a poundthe lowest in 30 years.
After ling a Freedom of Information
Act request, conducting countless
interviews and even spending a
night at Bowdoin, Zauzmer sheds
new light on how Wheeler was able
to game the system.
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TALK OF THE QUAD
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Union one afernoon, I notice that a
childrens summer camp has made its
hub in the Smith Union Sail Room,
pinning and draping sheets and tap-
estries across the furniture to create
a sof geometry of caves and curtains.
It was early August and I was one of
a few hundred students on campus
for the season. I was doing research
for a favorite professor, cooking three
meals a day, and exploring Maine on
the weekends with a handful of close
friends.
Later that day while walking across
campus, I make eye contact with a
camper who looks older than eight
and younger than twelve and is wear-
ing cherry red Chuck Taylors. He sits
underneath a maple in the Quad,
clutching his marker and notebook,
and squinting at me in the afernoon
sun.
Te talk of the Quad is diferent
in the summer, when the lines that
separate Bowdoin and Brunswick,
tourist and town resident, student
and visiting scholar, become even
more blurred.
Students from Upward Bound live
in Ladd House and play Frisbee in
the yard. At noon, Torne Dining
Hall is inundated by stringy middle
schoolers in mid-calf socks fresh out
of track camp. Osher Hall buzzes
with the scales and the vibrato of
teenagers at the Bowdoin Interna-
tional Music Festival Summer Study;
ensembles bring their cellos and vio-
lins onto the grass.
Every Thursday night, a Portland
theater company performs The
Tragedy of Macbeth, with Assis-
tant Professor of Theater Abigail
Killeen starring as Lady Macbeth
on the steps of the Art Museum. In
the audience, young families and
senior citizens picnic on blankets;
without the clusters of college stu-
dents that usually lay claim to the
space, the scene reads like a nega-
tive blueprint of Quad life during
the academic year.
Exchanging a hello with Red
Sneaker Boy, I move toward the
far end of the Quad. A gazebo-like
concession stand is erected outside
Pickard Teater, the home of Maine
State Music Teaters summer pro-
ductions. Te stand projects tinny
through Bowdoins Quad.
Hannah and Leah OBrien are the
current owners of Cotesthe young,
blond end of a lineage stretching
back 20 years to their grandparents,
who frst opened the store. Tey
work full time from late April to early
September with fve part-time scoo-
pers, dishing out 35 favors of sorbet,
frozen yogurt, and ice cream from
Shains of Maine. Te stand closes
this Sunday, September 9, or when-
ever the ice cream runs out.
I think of summer campus tour
guide Yimin Peng 14, who is alpha-
betically eatingand bloggingher
way through all of their ice cream
favors on her tumblr blog. She goes
a few times a week afer dinner, and
rates each scoop on a scale of one to
10, ranging from: Ill eat it if some-
one pays me $50 to do so (two) to I
think about this quite ofen (nine).
She gives the Grapenut favor an
eight and calls it unassuming and
simplea humble ice cream. It is the
frst review that truly makes me want
to try the favor.
Not every foray onto the Quad
in the past few months has been
this tranquil. One week in late
July, I was sitting in the grass
afer work with three friends,
our bikes toppled on the
grass next to us. We saw
a group of teenage boys
in basketball shorts and
muscle tees heading our
way from the direction of Mor-
rell Gym, but thought nothing
of it until they were only a few
yards away, staring at us. One of
them stepped forward, picked
up my friends bike, and with-
out turning around, biked away
while the oth-
ers laughed.
L o o k i ng
back on this
incident, Im
not sure what I would have done dif-
ferently. We called out a few times to
them, but we didnt yell, we didnt give
chase, and then we ignored them and
continued sitting.
When one of the bike-snatch-
ers friends came over to us a few
minutes later, he was full of mock
surprise that wed let it happen
Youre Bowdoin students, arent
you?and he targeted my male
friend, telling the rest of us we
should find a real man to hang out
with, someone who could take care
of us. A few minutes after he left,
we called Security, but my friend
quickly found her bike propped be-
hind Winthrop Hall, like a childs
toy quickly abandoned for bigger,
shinier things.
Walking through Bowdoins Quad
in the summerBrunswick teenag-
ers tanning on bright striped towels,
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summer interns to D.C. was in full
swing by the time I began my first
full-time internship at the end of
May. There were scores of college-
aged kids on the Metro with me
every morning, doing their best
to look like young professionals
in their suits and ties, pencil skirts
and heelsbecause even in the
heat and humidity of July, Wash-
ington is a very formal city.
On days when I took the blue
Metro line into work, most of the
people who boarded the train at
Foggy Bottom/George Washington
University were student-types, liv-
ing in George Washington Univer-
sity dorms and interning around
town, like Simon Bordwin 13, who
was the public policy intern at the
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educa-
tion Network (GLSEN) this sum-
mer.
Last summer, Bordwin lived at
home and commuted into New
York for work; this summer he
came to work for GLSEN in D.C.,
because their headquarters in
New York werent sure early on
enough. Washington also offered
him a new social scene to explore.
As an LGBT student at Bowdoin,
it was really great to live in a city
where not everybodys a bro, said
Bordwin. Although there are a lot
of bros here, dont get me wrong.
But it was more of going from
Maine to a real city thats not as
overwhelming as New York but
still has a surprisingly large gay
population that isnt intimidating.
In general, Bordwin said D.C. is
much more manageable, although
he was surprised by how expen-
sive it is to go out in Washington.
Julia Graham 13, and Louisa
Cannell 13, who both grew up in
the D.C. suburbs and also lived at
home this summer, agreed that go-
ing out in D.C. was not especially
easy.
When I want to go out, it has to
become an event, said Graham. I
have to drive to [a Metro stop], I
have to sleep over somewhere. Im
probably less social in D.C.
Bordwin acknowledged
a similar sentiment: at
home, Id rather sleep in my own
bed than on a friends couch after
a late night.
I live just four miles outside D.C.
in Arlington, V.A., and as a result,
my experience living at home and
commuting via bus and Metro
sometimes with my dadwas pre-
sumably less rowdy than the expe-
riences of other students living in
and only once ran an errand. Our
firms chairman was a former con-
gressman, who often invited the
office interns to accompany him to
his speaking engagements on the
Hill, one of which included sitting
on the floor of the House in chairs
usually reserved for Representa-
tives.
Tis was one of the handful of
times this summer when it was
hard for me to keep a cool, profes-
sional demeanor and not have a
full-on political
nerd freak
out. Other times included but are
not limited to: making eye contact
with Chuck Schumer (senior Demo-
cratic Senator from New York) as he
walked down the hallway of a Sen-
ate om ce building, and being present
on Capitol Hill when the Supreme
Court announced its decision on
the afortable Care Act, and standing
outside the Supreme Court listening
to Michelle Bachmann scream into
a microphone about the injustice
of the decision while Obama sup-
porters walked around smiling from
relief.
Tese experiences were excep-
tional, and I learned a lot about
working in an om cewhich, to be
honest, was a harsh reality check.
Tere was certainly a fair amount
of down time, and Im coming away
with few fast-times on the social cir-
cuit.
It wasnt a particularly glamorous
summermaybe I just didnt know
all the right peoplebut it was cer-
tainly interesting and educational.
Isnt that what intern-
ships are supposed to
be?
-Nora Biette-Timmons
BIKE THIEVES AND
SUMMER TREES
ONCE UPON A SUMMER
ON CAPITOL HILL
D.C. for the summer. (Being under
21 was also no small factor.)
Though the D.C. metropolitan
region was a great place to grow up,
none of the area natives I talked to
plan on moving back to D.C. after
graduationneither do I.
I absolutely will not live at
home. I refuse to be a member of
the boomerang generation, said
Graham.
My reluctance to return to D.C.
as a college graduate certainly
doesnt detract from
my experience in-
terning this summer. I worked full
timeabout 45 hours a weekas
an intern at a bipartisan lobbying
firm about three blocks from the
White House. The duties of my in-
ternship were rarely mundane; I at-
tended congressional hearings and
did lots of researchI occasionally
stuffed envelopes and made cop-
ies, but I never had to fetch coffee
There were scores of college-aged kids on the Metro with me
every morning, doing their best to look like young professionals in
their suits and ties, pencil skirts and heelsbecause even in the heat
and humidity of July, Washington is a very formal city.
students pleasure-reading in folding
camping chairs, playgroups and dog
groups and wide-eyed prospective
student tour groupsI appreciate
the space as more than just a hub
for movement between classes and
buildings.
During the school year, it is easy to
think that the campus exists for my
needs alone. Teachers might pursue
individual research, but I can trans-
gress to think of them as paper-grad-
ers, discussion-leaders. Te dining
halls exist to feed me lunch during my
free hours. Te paved pathways in the
Quad are there to ofer me a clean line
from Kanbar to Searles.
Spending a summer at the College
rattles this perspective. I hesitate to
validate the idea of the Bowdoin
Bubble, but something collapses be-
tween June and August, and I value
the chaos and magic of this newly
multi-dimensional
place.
-Erica Berry
show tunes from their current mu-
sical, 42nd Street. Every day since
June 2, the soundtracks from Le-
gally Blond, Sunset Boulevard,
and A Chorus Line have spilled
onto the Quad during matinee and
evening show hours.
Te performers are from Califor-
nia and New York, Kansas and Ken-
tucky. A friend of mine who lives of
campus tells me he ofen hears their
post-show backyard gatherings, the
rise and fall of their colorful stage-
trained voices.
Walking toward the theater steps,
I pass a Croc-coordinated fam-
ily who clutch dripping ice cream
cones. Cotes Ice Cream is across
Maine Street but only a minutes
walk from central campus, and I
wonder how many of their custom-
ers eat cones while meandering
The talk of the Quad is
dierent in the summer, when
the lines that separate Bowdoin
and Brunswick, tourist and
town resident, student and
visiting scholar, become
even more blurred.
ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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Boeding 14 captures summer scenes
With profs. on sabbatical,
Racer X tradition on hold
Tere was a notable absence in the
line-up of bands during last year's
Senior Week. Racer X, fronted by
Bowdoin professors Vineet Shende and
Aaron Kitch, was replaced by DJ Sex
Ray Vision, leaving many students dis-
appointed.
Although the controversial change
led to whisperings of money disputes
and miscommunication amongst stu-
dents, Shende attributes the bands
absence to simple miscommunication
with a Senior Week coordinator.
"It wasnt like we were holding out
for a pay day or something like that,"
Shende said.
Nonetheless, die-hard Racer X fans
may not be getting their fx anytime
soon. With both Professor Shende and
Professor Kitch on sabbatical for the
2012-2013 school year, the band wont
be able to play their usual Bowdoin gigs
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
STAFF WRITER
Hello Nature shows Wegman beyond Weimaraners
BY NATE TORDA
ORIENT STAFF
James Boeding 14 spent this sum-
mer taking more photographs than
most other students do in their life-
times. As a recipient of the Visual Arts
Departments annual McKee Photog-
raphy Grant, Boeding completed a
series of photos entitled Te Week-
ender: Millerton to New York City.
Boeding spent most of his sum-
mer traveling between his hometown
in Millerton, N.Y. and New York City,
where he had an internship. Having
grown up in a town of fewer than 1,000
residents, Boeding said he was initially
drawn to the liveliness of city life and
now appreciates both the quiet stillness
of Millerton and the energy of New
York City. Te Weekender captures
the contrast between these diferent
environments, documenting Boedings
personal relationship with each.
I began photographing using
a small point-and-shoot camera,
with the plan of taking a picture
every 15 minutes during the hours
I was awake, for five weeks, Boed-
ing said.
During Boedings fve-week shoot-
ing period, he chose to loosen these
rules and take shots outside of his des-
ignated 15-minute intervals.
He ended up with over 4,500 pho-
tographs, from which he selected a
handful to recreate with the bulkier
but more precise Digital Single-Lens
Refex camera, a process which result-
ed in photos of better quality and freed
Boeding from carrying the large and
expensive camera everywhere.
Every photographer must make dif-
fcult decisions about which shots to
use, but the volume of Boedings work
made editing a particularly challeng-
ing process.
He plans to leave part of his fnal
COURTESY WILLIAM WEGMAN STUDIO
DOG DAYS: In Wegmans 1989 chromogenic print, Windmill, the artist features his Weimaraner
In July, the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art opened William
Wegman: Hello Nature, a retro-
spective exhibit featuring three
decades of photographs, paintings,
drawings, and collages by the artist
William Wegman.
The show follows last summers
Edward Hopper exhibit in its at-
tempt to redefine a well-known
artist through the lens of his rela-
tionship with Maine.
The exhibit has been enormous-
ly successful, attracting national
media coverage as well as visitors
from all over the country, such as
Martha Steward, who attended the
opening gala.
Wegman is best known for his
clever portraiture of hunting dogs
and his beloved Weimaraners
make many appearances in the ex-
hibit, most notably in a 25-minute
detective film titled The Hardly
Boys.
Nature has always figured prom-
inantly in Wegmans work. Since a
teenage fishing trip to the Rangely
Lakes region, Maine has long been
a part of Wegmans relationship
with nature.
Although Wegmans works may
be disparate in form, each of the
pieces featured in Hello Nature
were either produced in Maine or
influenced by the states natural
splendor.
Wegman played a huge role in
designing and implementing the
exhibit, and the layout is a particu-
larly important part of the show.
Many people worked for and
with Wegman, but he made all
of the artistic decisions himself,
said Museum Curator Joachim
Homann. It's as if visitors experi-
ence the entire exhibit as a work of
art.
ful but incredibly sincere. There
is a refreshing innocence to his
exploration of nature; in its sim-
plicity, his work captures a sense
of childhood reverence for the
wilderness. There are also hints of
sadness throughoutWegman's
art is a reminder that growing up
means losing a blissful naivet. He
falls in the same domain as that of
Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill
Waterson, as both seek to explore
the tension between the child and
adult worlds.
While Hello Nature has helped
Wegman shed his reputation as
the guy who takes pictures of his
dogs in human clothes, it does not
diminish the importance of this
facet of his career.
"Visitors come in knowing about
the Weimaraner work, but at the
end of perusing the show, they
realize the dog photos are much
smarter, only one aspect of a body
of work that is much deeper, said
Homann.
In one painting, appropriately
titled Tents, Wegman investi-
gates the form and aesthetic of old
canvas tents. There is something
haunting about the cubist nature of
this workit is difficult to number
the tents he portrays, as they exist
in various forms of wholeness. The
fact that the canvas on which he
paints is the same material as his
this year.
In response to students asking if
Racer X has considered temporarily
replacing missing members in order to
continue playing shows, Shende said:
We were thinking about that and try-
ing to fgure out if we could do that for
a couple of gigs here and there, but I
think it would be a little weird.
Te group will, however, be mak-
ing one exception; Kitch plans on fy-
ing back from California to play at
the annual beneft for former student
Taryn King 07, who died while study-
ing abroad in January 2006. Te event,
which Racer X has performed at before,
will be held on November 10 in Boston.
Even though Racer X will not grace
campus this year, Bowdoin students
should rest assured that once Kitch
and Shende return, all will go back to
normal.
If we still ft into the leather pants,
said Shende, well be playing again
next year.
BY YOUNGSHIM HWANG
ORIENT STAFF
COURTESY JAMES BOEDING
MOTION PICTURES: Boeding often photographed from moving vehicles during his 15-minute intervals.
Indeed, though there is noth-
ing awe-inspiring about the scale
of Wegmans work, the exhibit is
compelling in its ability to cre-
ate a narrative that explains the
artists lifelong fascination with
nature. Wegmans work is play-
subject only adds to the complex-
ity of the piece.
With another work, Water
Damage, Wegman paints over a
vintage postcard, creating a col-
lage that generates a capricious
and fantastical landscape. A sim-
ple postcard becomes the view of a
lake through the open window of a
cabin. Wegman extends the view of
the lake through an open door and
paints water trickling curiously
into the cabin.
Wegman currently resides part-
time in Rangeley, Maine with his
Weimaraners.
The exhibit will be open until Oc-
tober 21.
"Visitors come in knowing about
the Weimaraner work, but at the
end of perusing the show, they
realize the dog photos are much
smarter, only one aspect of a body
of work that is much deeper."
JOACHIM HOMANN
CURATOR, MUSEUM OF ART
project up to chance: he will randomly
select photos from each 15-minute in-
terval throughout the day and exhibit
them in chronological order. Tis se-
quence will be juxtaposed with a hand-
picked set of photos, also representing
an entire day of 15-minute intervals.
I assume the ones I choose will be
more appealing, said Boeding, noting
that he also embraces the unpredict-
ability of the project.
His current task is to complete the
editing process and present his work in
an on-campus exhibition and lecture.
Boeding declared a Visual Arts
major afer taking Photography I as a
frst-year, but he says he does not know
what role photography will play in his
future.
Boeding has previously held a
show in Millerton entitled Book
Play and more of his work can
be found at his personal website,
www.jamesboeding.net.
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When Ian Trask '05 graduated from
Bowdoin with a degree in biology, few
would have bet on him becoming an
up-and-coming sculptor. He now regu-
larly sells artwork around Brooklyn and
Chelsea, and is preparing for his frst
solo show in New York this November.
Trask, 29, graduated as a biology
major having taken only a handful of
courses in the visual arts. Seven years
later, he is a notable emerging sculptor,
part of an ascendant cohort of young
American artists with an environmen-
tally conscious aesthetic. Trasks art is
made almost entirely of found objects;
New York City group shows in which
he has been featured include Trash
Talk and No Money No Problem, an
installment of Recession Art.
One afernoon in August, I met up
with Trask at the Invisible Dog Art
Center in Brooklyn where he is an
artist-in-residence. We shook hands
outside of the old factory building,
which now houses studios and exhibi-
tion space, and walked to the Muriel
Gupin Gallery next door on Bergen
St. Tere, Trasks Holon, a towering
14-foot cylindrical sculpture made of
rolls of cardboard, was featured in the
window display.
I make things out of what other
people dont want, said Trask. I call it
Holon [because] its a term about hier-
archies. Its both a sum of parts and part
of something else...its piecemeal.
Trask reimagines the function of
disposable goods by manipulating
cardboard, grocery bags, plastic pack-
aging, silverware, and more into works
of art. His background in science is an
obvious infuence in his work; when I
asked Trask to tell me about the sculp-
ture, he compared its outward simplici-
ty to mitosis, a concept I hadnt thought
about since high school biology.
I usually describe it through the
processwhat it looks like is constantly
changingperpetual recombination,
said Trask. Like when a cell divides.
Trask is one of 30 artists-in-res-
idence at Te Invisible Dog, which
opened in 2009. Te cavernous three-
story building previously housed a
manufacturing company that made
belts, suspenders, and Invisible Dog
leashesa hit 1970s party trick that
creates the illusion a small dog is
scampering beneath ones feet.
When Trask frst arrived at the In-
visible Dog months afer it opened,
the basement was still brimming with
brightly colored elastic lef over from
the old factory.
Tere was nowhere to walk, said
Trask.
Charged with clearing out the space,
Trask used the basement as a studio for
three months in the winter of 2009, and
began making artwork out of the aban-
doned elastic. In 2010, he became the
Invisible Dogs frst artist-in-residence.
At Bowdoin, Trask was minimally in-
volved in the campus arts scene, spend-
ing most of his time concentrating on
his biology major.
Teres no half-assing your science
degree, said Trask. It was hard with bio
labs to schedule anything.
He took Drawing I and Photo I his ju-
nior and senior years, respectively, and
began dabbling in sculpture by taking
silverware from the dining hall and try-
ing to bend it into new shapesa prac-
tice Trask and his roommates termed
Grand Tef Dining. Te game lef
a mark on Trasks artthe mother of
one of his Bowdoin roommates recently
commissioned a chess set made out of
silverware.
To me, the fun part was taking a
fork and creating a new, diferent ob-
ject, said Trask. I kept trying to build
things with them but I couldnt adhere
themit was a lesson in art that just
got destroyed, and I had dreams of
learning how to weld.
Still, afer studying abroad in Den-
mark the fall of his senior year, Trask
lef the College undecided about his
career trajectory. He moved back home
and began working at a hospital clean-
ing up trash.
Ten, afer two tech jobs in genetics
labs, in Boston and Salt Lake City, Trask
landed a groundskeeping gig.
It was around that time that [art]
became more of a priority, he said.
It really upset me how ofen I had to
pick things up of the ground...people
no longer see utility in things that are
still viable.
My art was what I tried to dedi-
cate most of my time to. Even though
I wasnt planning on being an artist. I
would go home and make sculptures
out of silverwarethat started from
Bowdoin dining hall, he said. Te way
I determined I could become an artist
was by not paying for materials.
Even while pursuing a career in sci-
ence afer graduation, Trask stayed
connected to the art world through
Bowdoins sculptor-in-residence, John
Bisbee. For many years, Bisbee orga-
nized collaborative community art
projects at Bonnaroo, an annual music
festival in Tennessee, and invited cur-
rent and former students to the concert
Alum turns from biology to New York art scene
to help set up the projects a week in ad-
vance. We created a project out of thin
airwith yarn and steel poles, recalls
Trask, who joined Bisbee in the sum-
mers of 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Just two years later, Trask showed his
frst solo exhibition at Bisbees Coleman
Burke Gallery in Portland, featuring his
trademark cardboard sculptures.
But before that, Trask moved to New
York City and decided to begin pursu-
ing art in earnest, supporting himself
with a day job at a frame shop. Tough
he can now sell his artwork at com-
petitive prices (the chess set went for
$1,200) living and working in Brooklyn
doesnt come cheap.
I didnt come to New York to do
the party scene, he said. Im fguring
out a way to support myself with it.
Im not opposed to continue doing a
nine-to-fve job.
Trask is now realizing his dream of
learning how to weld, working at a met-
al shop during the day and in his new
studio at Te Invisible Dog by night. He
showed me the beginnings of a piece he
was working on, a framed piece that will
spell YES entirely out of matchsticks
a pre-emptive answer to the question,
Should I light this on fre?
Tis is the frst time I have a studio
I can call my own, said Trask. Tough
he is no stranger to Te Invisible Dog,
he has never before been able to aford
to rent out a studio there independently.
Trasks small, whitewashed work-
space is littered with plastic bags, card-
board, pantone chips, and matchesall
art in the making, brimming with po-
tential.
I wouldnt have it anywhere else,
said Trask. It feels more like home than
home does.
BY LINDA KINSTLER
ORIENT STAFF
PHOTO COURTESY OF IAN TRASK
TRASK'S TASK: The Bowdoin alum experiments with one of the recycled materials he uses for his art.
SPORTS
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Former Athletic Director went beyond coaching for 14 years
Womens ice hockey coach
will also helm womens golf
COURTESY OF BOWDOIN OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
THE MAN BEHIND THE WINS: Je Ward,
Bowdoins inuential and driven athletic
director, left the College this summer to pursue
personal projects after a 14 year tenure.
Head Coach of the womens ice
hockey team, Marissa ONeil is tak-
ing the reins from the former Head
Coach, Gerry Caron who ismoving
to the position of assistant coach
due to personal reasons.
Interim Director of Athletics
Tim Ryan approached ONeil about
assuming the position when Caron
said he would be unable to com-
mit the time necessary to be the
leader of the womens golf program,
which he has grown and developed
for several years. The womens golf
team finished first in two tourna-
ments last year and three the year
before.
ONeil, who graduated from
Bowdoin in 2005, was an outstand-
ing athlete in her own right. reciev-
ing the Lucy L. Shulman Award, an
honor given to Bowdoins most out-
standing female athlete each year.
She played golf as a teenager, but at
Bowdoin focused her attention on
field hockey and ice hockey, which
she greatly excelled at.
Had golf been in the spring
when I was at Bowdoin, I probably
would have played but because I
played field hockey and [ice] hock-
ey, I didnt have the opportunity.
When I had time in the spring and
summer [golf ] is what I spent most
of my time doing, said ONeil.
Ryan predicts that despite his
title change, that Caron will still be
very involved with the womens golf
program.
Were able to have the best of
both worlds in this situation where
we have somebody whos on staff
and here on a daily basis, said
Ryan. And we have [Caron] who
is going to continue to work with
the team in an assistant role and
provide a lot of the skill-specific in-
struction the women will look for
while having [ONeil] on campus as
a resource.
Ryan also noted that there are
several NESCAC schools with golf
coaches who are involved in other
sports in some degree.
While ONeil will still be coach-
ing the womens ice hockey team,
she does not believe it will be diffi-
cult to conduct both roles simulta-
neously. She points to the fact that
the sports are in different seasons
and that NCAA rules prescribe
significant limits to coach involve-
ment in offseason training.
Despite a somewhat unusual
coaching situation, ONeil looks
forward to the coming season
and especially to the possibility of
bringing her team mentality from
coaching hockey to a sport that,
while still team-oriented, is much
more individualized.
Im very excited to be working
with these women, said ONeil.
Caron could not be reached for
comment.
Womens volleyball hopes to make up for loss
of star seniors with six promising rst years
The womens volleyball team hits
the road this weekend to begin its
2012 season with a non-conference
tournament at Endicott College.
The Polar Bears start the tour-
nament with a double header to-
day at 5:00 p.m. in a match against
Gallaudet, followed by Plymouth
State.
The action will continue on
Saturday with a match against the
host team, culminating with a fa-
ceoff against NCAA rivals UMass-
Boston.
The Endicott tournament is the
Polar Bears first outing since the
end of the 2011 season, the most
successful in the programs history.
The team finished last year 27-3
overall and 9-0 in the NESCAC,
shattering school records.
The team graduated three se-
niors in 2012, most notably the
teams kill-leader and All-Amer-
ican Kristen Hanczor 12. Head
Coach Karen Corey expressed
confidence in her squads ability
to build upon last years success in
spite of the holes created by gradu-
ating seniors.
This is a very different team.
Kristens absence has definitely
changed the leadership dynamic
on the team, but this is a fantastic
group, she said. We have a great
core of returners starting all over
the court and I have no doubt they
will be able to help lead the team
to victory.
Six first years will join the ros-
ter this season: Ali Ragan, McK-
enzie Kessel, Emma Patterson,
Hailey Wahl, Audrey Defusco, and
Christy Jewett.
According to Corey, the expand-
ed roster will help ease the burden
on the team, especially during long
games and tournaments through-
out the year.
Whereas in the past, a player
might have to stay in for an entire
match, now we will have an easier
time making substitutions, allow-
ing girls to take mental breaks, and
stay rested, she said.
The Polar Bears will get the op-
portunity to see the first years in
action for the first time today and
tomorrow.
AARONWOLF, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
UP IN THE AIR: After a 27-3 season, the Polar Bears hope to replicate last years success.
BY RYAN HOLMES
STAFF WRITER
BY SAM WEYRAUCH
ORIENT STAFF
During ice hockeys o-season,
Head Coach Marissa ONeil will
help lead womens golf
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This should be a great week-
end, these last few weeks in prac-
tice weve been working a lot on
our fundamentals, Senior captain
Melissa Haskell said. Im really
looking forward to this opportuni-
ty to play some play real six-on-six
volleyball and get a good look at
how this new team operates.
Haskell noted that due to NES-
CAC regulations, all of the other
teams competing at the tourna-
ment had the opportunity to start
regular season play a week before
the Polar Bearswhich might put
the team at a disadvantage.
The team will return for the sea-
son home opener next week, play-
ing the University of New England
on Tuesday, September 11 at 7 p.m.
BY ANDREW PARK
STAFF WRITER
As the Fall athletic season builds
momentum, the Bowdoin commu-
nity adjusts to the departure of Jeff
WardBowdoins athletic director
since 1998who announced in
early June that he would not return
this fall.
After 14 years guiding the ath-
letic department through some of
the best moments in its history,
Ward left his longtime post to
form an athletic consulting com-
pany.
Ward grew up in Oregon, swim-
ming competitively through high
school and into college. He entered
the world of athletic coaching as a
sophomore at Dartmouth College,
where he took the helm of a local
club swim team in Hanover, N.H.
In the fall of my junior year I
had to make the decision that I
could either coach or I could swim,
but I couldnt do both, Ward said.
I loved coaching and went with
that.
Ward stopped swimming com-
petitively to focus on coaching
for the second half of college, and
took a job as assistant swim coach
at the U.S. Military Academy af-
ter graduation. He then moved
to Columbia University, where he
helped create and lead the womens
swim team, then to Brown Univer-
sity, where he served as assistant
athletic director. Along the way
Ward also earned a masters de-
gree in higher education admin-
istration at Columbia and married
Margaret Broaddus, who currently
works as Senior Leadership Gifts
Officer at the College.
In 1998, Ward was chosen to
replace the storied Sidney Watson
as athletic director by the colleges
hiring committee. Ward was just
the fifth athletic director in Bow-
doins history. Tim Foster, dean of
student affairs and one member
of that committee, said they were
looking for both a gifted admin-
istrator and someone who could
preach but also practice a strong
educational philosophy.
We thought we were getting
somebody who would care deeply
about students, and as it turns out
he did, added Foster. He is the
number one superfan of Bowdoin
athletics.
In a February 1998 press release
annoucing his appointment, Ward
is quoted saying that the athletic
departments purpose is to use the
pursuit of victory as an education-
al tool.
According to Foster, that is ex-
actly what Ward did.
He hired fantastic coaches who
are educators on and off the field
and who take an interest in the
lives of their student athletes as
young people who are growing,
Foster said.
Foster also said that he and
Ward have spent countless hours
examining how Bowdoins stu-
dent-athletes perform academical-
ly. Although the data is confiden-
tial, Ward said, Its fair to say that
there is no distinguishable GPA
difference between those on teams
and those not on teams.
It has long been Jeff s driving
desire to see athletes perform at as
high a level as all students at the
College, if not higher, said Foster.
He himself has been a really won-
derful teacher and mentor to stu-
dents but especially to many young
coaches.
President Barry Mills agreed
that the academic success stems
from Wards skill in hiring and
mentoring dedicated coaches.
Hes about education and about
these coaches being educators, and
that really helped us maintain and
enhance an excellent program,
said Mills.
At a school of Bowdoins size,
overseeing the athletic department
means being a leader to dozens of
coaches and over 600 athletes
one-third of the student popula-
tion.
You really need to ensure that
the teams are an integrated part of
the college community, said Ward.
Mills praised Wards focus on
athletics as one component among
the many that make up the com-
plete student life experience, and
noted that part of this stems from
the fact that Bowdoin is one of
the only schools in the NESCAC
maybe the onlywhere the athletic
director reports to the Office of
Student Affairs.
Jeff s been collaborating on an
ongoing basis with a team that in-
cludes 15 department heads, and
were able to develop an esprit
de corps with those folks that we
might not otherwise have, said
Foster.
Ward supported broad-based
student life initiatives including
Girls and Women in Sports Day,
an event to introduce younger girls
to the importance of sport, and
Captains Training, a comprehen-
sive program that helps athletic
leaders understand the impor-
tance of their roles and how to do
their jobs most effectively.
Ward also inspired student-led
action to combat sexual violence
and homophobia in athletics.
Through the event Anything but
Straight in Athletics, he worked to
foster greater tolerance for LGBTQ
athletes and non-athletes alike in
the community.
I was never a student athlete,
but Jeff served as a huge inspira-
tion during my time at Bowdoin,
commented Brandon Asemah
12 on a Bowdoin Daily Sun post
announcing Wards departure.
Asemah worked alongside Ward
for the inaugural Anything But
Straight in Athletics event.
Too often people sit in silence
while others struggle. Not Jeff ! I
personally witnessed him show
student-athletes tremendous care
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Football team prepares for season action
In the frst three games of last sea-
son, the Polar Bears starting quarter-
back Grant White 14 threw 436 yards
and 2 touchdowns at a 62.7 completion
percentage. In the fourth game against
NESCAC rival Hamilton, White in-
jured his shoulder, leaving the reins of
the team to backup Mac Caputi 15.
Despite his relative inexperience,
Caputi led the Polar Bears to a 4-4
overall fnish, the teams best record
since 2008.
Along the way, Bowdoin retained
the Colby-Bowdoin-Bates trophy for
the sixth straight season and even
made an appearance on ESPNs Top 10
for two interceptions against Tufs.
Te Polar Bears key ofensive weap-
ons last year included running back
Zach Donnarumma 14 and receiver
Pat Noone 11, who together account-
ed for 1071 of the teams 1837 yards of
total ofensive yards while scoring a
combined fve touchdowns.
Sean OMalley 13 has assumed
Noones mantle as the lead receiver.
He will be looking to improve on his
explosive 8.2 yards per reception av-
erage last year, but surely recognizes
the dim culty of duplicating Noones
record-breaking senior year. He looks
to work alongside Cam Bishop 13,
Nick Goldin 13, and sophomores Da-
vid Black and Ethan Drigotas to round
out the teams receiving core.
As Donnarumma, Caputi, and
White return this season healthier,
stronger, and more experienced, fans
can expect more players to share the
ofensive load.
Depth proves to be a theme on the
defensive side of the ball as well. Te
defense features a returning lineback-
er core of juniors Grim n Cardew and
Joey Cleary, and no defensive position
lacks a key contributor from last sea-
son. Beau Breton 12, a defensive back,
says he considers this experience their
greatest asset.
We were going through a new de-
fense last year. We dont have that ad-
justment period this season because a
lot has carried over, he said.
Everyone is taking a bigger lead-
ership role including individual com-
mitment to the flm room and under-
standing the concepts.
With talent and leadership on both
sides of the ball, it comes as no surprise
that captain and ofensive lineman
Martin Robledo 13 is confdent in the
teams prospects.
Teres no reason we shouldnt be
in contention for a league title, he said.
Te expectations for an appear-
ance on ESPN, however, are not as
high as the season goals. OMalley
noted that, sometimes you need
more luck than skill.
Field Hockey seeks to rebound after Final Four
Last season, the Polar Bears won
the NESCAC championship and
posted a 19-1 record; the lone loss
accrued during the NCAA Final
Four against NESCAC foe Middle-
bury.
After beating Middlebury once
in the regular season and again
in the NESCAC championship,
the 3-0 seasonending defeat was
shocking.
After the last game of the sea-
son that is all you think about and
it takes you awhile to step back and
reflect on the season as a whole,
Head Coach Nicky Pearson said. I
really hope the players did that and
realized it was a fantastic season.
The Polar Bears graduated five
seniors last year who alone scored
34 of the teams 61 goals.
Our immediate concern is re-
placing that offense, said Pearson.
BY CLARE MCLAUGHLIN
STAFF WRITER
BY BERNIE CLEVENS
STAFF WRITER
Among possible new offensive
contributors are the six first years
who will join the roster this year.
Though Pearson has not yet de-
termined the starting lineup, she
believes each first year is capable
of playing an important role on the
team.
Because of the Polar Bears 19-1
record last year, it is hard to hold
this years team to that same stan-
dard. Despite this pressure, Pearson
plans to focus on the future.
We are a team that tends to
not look too far ahead and we only
work on things we have control
over, she said
Rather than dwell on last seasons
accomplishments, Pearson hopes
to build this new team around the
Polar Bears speed and athleticism.
Our goal is to value each posses-
sion and take advantage of oppor-
tunities we create, she added.
Last weekend, the Polar Bears
traveled to Lewiston to scrimmage
in-state rivals Bates and Colby.
Our spacing was good, we
moved the ball well, and we cre-
ated some good opportunities, said
Pearson.
With another week of practices
before the season opener against
Wesleyan, Pearson hopes to make
defensive improvements.
We are going to focus on keep-
ing constant pressure on our op-
ponents, our one-on-one defense,
keeping our defensive shape and
converting some of those offensive
opportunities we create, Pearson
said.
Although the Polar Bears de-
feated the Cardinals 1-0 last year,
Pearson insists her team must treat
every opponent as a serious com-
petitor in order to be the most suc-
cessful.
Every NESCAC game is worth
one point we try to maintain con-
sistent expectation and effort irre-
spective of who we play, she said.
WARD
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
both on and off the field, wrote-
Asemah.
Ward was the main driving
force behind the hiring of count-
less head coaches over his 14 years,
including 15 currently working
for the college. As one of his final
acts at Bowdoin, he pulled off the
daunting task of replacing legend-
ary 22-year mens lacrosse coach
Tom McCabe, who retired this
spring with the 15th-most career
wins in D-III history.
Ward returned to roots of his
own this past winter, when he
joined the swimming and diving
teams as an assistant coach to work
with the distance swimmers.
Jeff put a great deal of focus on
the technical aspects of the sport,
said Alex Tougas 14. We all know
the fundamentals of swimming,
but tweaking the small things,
[like] rotation in freestyle, allowed
us to improve.
Ward said that when he arrived
at Bowdoin, he underestimated
the role athletics played in the
community.
He has since discovered that the
crowds we get of local people are
pretty substantial, and I think that
sometimes we take that a little bit
for granted.
When asked to compare Bow-
doins overall athletic culture to-
day to that of 1998, Ward said,
There is much more of an expec-
tation now by those on teams to
be successful; teams have a much
more positive self image than they
did 14 years ago. I also think that
those within athletics feel the
connection between athletic and
academic success: the two can be
complimentary as opposed to in
conflict.
The anticipation of success may
be attributed to the 21 NESCAC
championships Bowdoin won and
the dozens of NCAA tournament
berths earned over Wards tenure,
but there is more driving it behind
the scenes.
According to Jim Caton, assis-
tant athletic director for commu-
nications, Jeff s legacy will likely
be the facelift that occurred within
facilities under his tenure. These
include the creation of a new track,
the turf field and squash center,
and Wards most prized produc-
tion, the Sidney J. Watson Arena
for hockey.
I think its one of the top couple
arenas in the country in every way;
there just arent very many places
that are as comfortable and invit-
ing as it, he said.
The Peter Buck Center for
Health and Fitness was also an
important construction project of
Wards, and according to Foster,
has reinforced the athletic com-
munity on campus.
For all the departments success
under Wards leadership, there
were also challenges. Ward dealt
with the unexpected death of a
star athlete, the vacating of a con-
ference title due to hazing, and the
elimination of the alpine ski team
in 2003 amidst school-wide bud-
get cuts and concerns about the
disruption caused by traveling to
competitions.
Nonetheless, athletic success at
Bowdoin has translated into good
fortune in later sports ventures
for a number of alumni. Arguably
the most successful is hockey star
Jon Landry 06, an All-American
hockey player who recently signed
a contract with the NHLs New
York Islanders.
In an email to the Orient,
Landry wrote about the value of
having an athletic director like
Ward while working through the
challenge of going to college and
playing a sport.
An athletic director is much
like a General Manager/Owner
of a professional team, Landry
wrote. They set the standards,
philosophy and vision for their
program and then hire the coaches
who fit into that plan.
Jeff always held an open door
policy to any of the athletes,
Landry added. My development
as a person at Bowdoin helped me
make tremendous strides as a pro-
fessional, and it is easy to see the
difference from players who did
not have the same support grow-
ing up.
Ward said his decision to leave
evolved over the course of the
year, and that he is looking for-
ward to passing on the skills he
has gained through a new entre-
preneurial company called Ath-
letic Endeavors Consulting. It will
focus on three main thingslead-
ership development for student-
athletes, professional development
for coaches, and management
consulting for athletic adminis-
tratorsand will also help high
school students navigate the col-
lege recruitment process.
There seems to be a real need,
and its exciting, Ward said. Ac-
cording to Mills, Wards commit-
ment to the College will be cel-
ebrated in some manner this fall.
For the time being, Tim Ryan
98 is filling Wards shoes as the
interim athletic director. Ryan,
who during his senior year sat on
the committee that selected Ward,
returned to Bowdoin in 2005 as
an assistant football coach after
working in banking post-gradua-
tion. After three years of coaching
he moved into the role of Associate
Athletic Director for Operations,
in which he oversaw the depart-
ments budget. Ryan plans to put
his name into consideration for
the permanent athletic director
position this fall.
This fall, Foster will chair a
search committee comprised of
students, faculty, staff, and alum-
niwith the ultimate decision
residing in the hands of Millsto
conduct a national search for Bow-
doins next athletic director.
And though Ward has left the
College, the Polar Bears are poised
to build upon unprecedented suc-
cess.
We won just slightly south of
two-thirds of our NESCAC games
last year, which I think is the best
weve ever been, Ward said.
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Under new head coach, womens soccer starts season off strong with 4-0 victory
After finishing the 2011 season
with a painful overtime loss to top-
seeded Amherst for the second year
in a row, the womens soccer team
is looking for redemption in 2012.
Last Fall, the Polar Bears ended
their season with a conference re-
cord of 2-5-3.
This year the team returns with
new fire and a new head coach,
Brianne Weaver. Last February,
Coach Maren Rojas stepped down
as head coach of the womens soc-
cer program after accepting an as-
sistant coaching position at Boston
College. Coach Rojas led the Polar
Bears for five years, accumulating a
total record of 39-30-10 and help-
ing five players earn First Team
All-NESCAC distinctions.
Returning defender Abby Ein-
wag 15 feels that the departure of
Rojas has brought the team closer
together.
Her absence in the spring sea-
son and not having any coach in
general has made our team much
stronger, began Einwag. We all
had to take on a greater responsi-
bility and I believe we did so and
became a better team overall.
Weaver coached at St. Marys
of Maryland for six consecutive
seasons after graduating from the
college in 2000. Over the course
of her time there, Weaver led the
Seahawks to three Capital Athletic
Conference (CAC) Womens Soc-
cer Championship Tournament
finals. In 2008, Weaver steered her
team to the schools first-ever CAC
championship crown, and was also
named the National Soccer Coach-
es of America Mid-Atlantic Region
Coach of the Year.
Coach Weaver has high hopes
BY HALLIE BATES
STAFF WRITER
for the season, and has been very
impressed with the drive and deter-
mination of the team.
Ive been especially impressed
by the captains on the team.
Theyve done a great job so far at
being team leaders, said Coach
Weaver. They had a really tough
challenge at the beginning of the
year and had to help the team ad-
just to not having a coach over the
summer, she said.
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COURTESY OF THE BOWDOIN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
READY FOR ACTION: Hot o a successful stint at St. Marys College of Maryland, Head Coach Brianne
Weaver is the new face of Bowdoins resurging womens soccer squad.
To bounce back from last sea-
sons five overtime losses, the Polar
Bears have been working on main-
taining composure for their fin-
ishes. Although the team graduated
two key players last year, six start-
ers return to the field this season.
Following up an impressive
first year at Bowdoin, sophomore
Amanda Kinneston hopes to re-
place Ellery Gould as the teams
leading scorer. Mirroring Kin-
nestons efforts to reach that top-
scoring position are captains Molly
Popolizio 14, Toni DeCampo 13,
and Casey Blossom 13, who each
scored three goals for the Polar
Bears in the 2011 season.
Equally important for this com-
ing year is the teams defensive
strategy. Last season, the team faced
many disappointing losses due to
single goals in overtime. This com-
ing year, it will be especially impor-
tant for the defense to step up and
keep the opposing attacks quiet in
order to avoid the tense overtimes
that riddled last years season.
In a scrimmage held this past
Sunday, the Polar Bears bested
Tufts, whom they lost to 3-1 last
season. According to Coach Weav-
er, the game was a preview to the
type of season she thinks the team
will have.
That game was our first oppor-
tunity to see the team in action, and
the girls only had one day to learn
the formations and plays. she said.
The team mentality this year
shows that the girls are very strong
Her absence in the spring sea-
son and not having any coach in
general has made our team much
stronger. We all had to take on a
greater responsibility and I believe
we did so and became a better
team overall.
Abby Einwag 15
Womens Soccer Starting Defender
and resilient; theyve shown that
theyre willing to work no matter
what, Weaver emphasized.
On Thursday, the Polar Bears
played the University of Southern
Maine, scoring four goals in the
second half to secure the win. The
first two goals of the night were
scored by first years Jamie Hofstet-
ter and Kiersten Turner, while the
last two goals were unassisted ef-
forts from Kinneston and Blossom.
Bowdoins defense played stoutly,
limiting their opponents to one
shot in the entire game. After seven
missed shots in the first half, the
Polar Bears were more efficient in
the second, and came home with
their first convincing win of the
season.
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SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8
Su 9/9
Beantown Collegiate Tournmt
Beantown Collegiate Tournmt
TBA
TBA
Compiled by Ron Cervantes
Sources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC
SCHEDULE
F 9/7
Sa 9/8
Tu 9/11
F 9/14
v. Gallaudet (Endicott Invtl)
v. PlymouthSt. (Endicott Invtl)
v. Endicott (Endicott Invtl)
v. Mass.-Boston (Endicott Invtl)
v. University of New England
v. Amherst
5:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
NOON
4:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
8:00 P.M.
MENS SOCCER
WOMENS VOLLEYBALL
SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8
Mo 9/10
v. Wesleyan
at Southern Me.
NOON
4:00 P.M.
SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8 Bowdoin Blast TBA
NESCAC Schedule
WOMENS GOLF
SCHEDULE
F 9/7 Stony Book Invitational TBA
MENS TENNIS
WOMENS RUGBY
FIELD HOCKEY
SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8
W 9/12
v. Wesleyan
at Husson
NOON
7:00 P.M.
MENS GOLF
SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8
Su 9/9
Th 9/13
Bowdoin Invitational
Bowdoin Invitational
at UMF Invitational
10:30 A.M.
9:30 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
SAILING
SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8 Womens Toni Deutsch (MIT)
Penobscot Bay Open (MMA)
Mt. Hope Bay Invtl (RWU)
Harry Anderson (Yale)
10:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
WOMENS SOCCER
SCHEDULE
Sa 9/8
We 9/12
v. Wesleyan
v. Bates
NOON
4:30 P.M.
Cross country welcomes new
assistant coach and recruits
BY RACHEL GLADSTONE
STAFF WRITER
After placing third in the mens
regional final and eighth in the
womens last season, the cross
country team will have to work
hard this season to replicate last
years success.
We lost some great seniors
but the underclassmen have been
working hard, Head Coach Peter
Slovenski said. He is hopeful that
both the men and women will be
in the top five of the region this
year.
A major factor in the teams
potential success will be runners
stepping up from last years sea-
son to fill in the holes created by
graduated seniors.
Senior Marcus Schneider and
sophomore Kevin Hoose have
made a lot of progress and look
like they will be top-seven runners
this year, Slovenski said.
Additionally, Maddie Lamo 14
and Reaha Goyetche 14 will be
integral in leading the team to suc-
cess. According to Slovenski, they
both worked dilligently in the off-
season to be potential varsity-level
runners this year.
First years Brianna Malanga and
Lucy Skinner have been looking
good in early season workouts,
Slovenski said specifically of his
new recruits.
He also mentioned his high
hopes for both Jacob Ellis and Tay-
lor Love, other first years showing
promise in what he has seen so far.
Helping out Coach Slovenski
this season will be a recent alum,
The cross training adds a good
recreational spirit to what we do
in our training. Everyday we have
runners who are swimming, bik-
ing, roller skiing, and doing other
sports that complement their
training as runners.
Peter Slovenski
Head Coach of Mens & Womens Cross
the new assistant Coach Elsa Mil-
let 12.
After a career as an all-American
track runner for Bowdoin, Millet is
filling in for assistant Coach Casey
Ellis while she is out on maternity
leave this year. Once the workouts
start in the middle of September,
Millets fresh experience with form
and speed-building drills from her
track days at Bowdoin will be an
asset to the team, Slovenski ex-
plained.
According to Slovenski, the
challenges of a long cross coun-
try season make the players men-
tally tougher outside the scope of
running. The team curriculum
includes a lot of cross training
designed to make his team better
overall athletes in addition to bet-
ter runners.
The cross training adds a good
recreational spirit to what we do
in our training. Everyday we have
runners who are swimming, bik-
ing, roller skiing, and doing oth-
er sports that complement their
training as runners, Slovenski
said.
Captains James Boeding 14,
Coby Horowitz 14, Greg Talpy 14,
Lamo, Olivia Mackenzie 13, and
Molly Porcher 13 have already ex-
hibited outstanding leadership so
far in preparing the team for the
season.
They will help lead the teams
with intelligent training and disci-
pline, Slovenski said.
On September 15, the Polar
Bears will compete at the South-
ern Maine Invitational. The team
is looking forward to getting on
the USM course, the site of big
championships later on in 2012
and 2013.
Its great experience to race on
the course thats going to host the
state meet in October, said Slov-
enski.
Across Maine, Bates men and
Colbys women are the defending
state champions, though Williams
and Middlebury have traditionally
been the top teams in the confer-
ence.
If we can get a win over any of
those top teams, wed be having a
good season, said Slovenski.
Womens Rugby sets sights on Nationals
Afer a 10-3 season last year, the
womens rugby team hopes to continue
its success this season despite having
graduated six seniors last spring.
Te outlook is promising for this
years squad. Seven playersMaddie
Baird 15, Anissa Tanksley 14, Kerry
Townsend 13, Dani McAvoy 13, Uche
Esonu 13, Katie Mathews 12 and Ran-
di London 15were voted onto the
All-Conference team and Mathews was
voted All-American.
Te womens rugby team will be
BY ANDRES BOTERO
STAFF WRITER
playing in a new conference this year
the New England Small College Rugby
Conference (NESCRC). Te winner of
this conference will be gaining an au-
tomatic bid to the national champion-
ships this year, which is diferent from
the system used last year.
Te conference is comprised of seven
schools: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Col-
by, Middlebury, Tufs and Williams
all of whom Bowdoin defeated last year.
With every fall season, the team sets
out on a recruiting campaign to bolster
its roster. So far this year, ffeen new
players have joined the ranks.
We are always looking for people as
we are a no-cut sport, said Head Coach
Mary Beth Mathews.
Tis year, the Polar Bears have to win
the conference title to earn a trip to the
national championships, which they
missed by only one game last year.
Te teams frst test is the Beantown
Preseason Tournament, which will be
held at UMass-Amherst on September
8 and 9. Teir opponents will be an-
nounced on-site.
Bowdoin swept three teams last year
and fnished 10-3 overall; the outcome
this year should be a good measure for
how the team will perform the rest of
this season.
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We are less confdent that Bowdoin is doing the right thing by choos-
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Colleges site is a work in progress. But we question what road it is going
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I hold that the members of the
Bowdoin administration and of the
Judicial Board are guilty of breach-
ing the Colleges Academic Honor
and Social Code.
Their crime is one of coercion.
They use the implied threat of dis-
missal from the College to force
students into signing an agree-
ment andby making them sign in
groupsto use social pressure to
prevent dissent.
According to the very agreement
we are all obligated to sign, they are
subject to formal disciplinary ac-
tion.
At the start of each academic
year, every first year sits with
the rest of his or her floormates
around a large, rectangular table
on the second floor of Hawthorne-
Longfellow Library. Surrounded by
a group of peoplewho will, for
most first year students, comprise
a makeshift familyeach person
must sign the document placed be-
fore him or her by the chair of the
Judicial Board.
The first line of this document
declares, During matriculation,
members of the incoming class
must agree to the statement that
reads: I have read, understand,
and agree to abide by the Academic
Honor Code and Social Code.
I remember sitting in that room
wondering, when, throughout the
entire application process, had I
been informed I would have to
agree unreservedly to this code?
Admittedly, the Colleges Aca-
demic Honor Code and Social
Code is a highly ethical document
and I find nothing inherently wick-
ed in it.
It encompasses expectations that
everyone should have of true schol-
ars. Why wouldnt you sign it if you
have nothing to hide?
My concern, then, is not with
the Code itself, but rather
with the method in which
students are pressured
into signing the
agreement.
Te document
states that
o n c e
students have studied and are famil-
iar with the Academic Honor and So-
cial Code, they will sign a statement
that reads: I have read, understand,
and agree to abide by the Academic
Honor Code and Social Code.
There is no room for negotia-
tionas if to study and be familiar
with something were synonymous
with assent.
I remember wondering what the
punishment would be if I didnt sign it.
Forget about the awkwardness
and embarrassment that would re-
My concern, then, is not
with the Code itself, but rather
with themethod in which
students are pressured into
signing the agreement.
being able to attend Bowdoin (and,
especially, through social pressure
to sign the agreement) is tanta-
mount to coercion.
I dont mean to dole out accu-
sations, and I do believe that the
Judicial Board and the College ad-
ministration hold our best interests
at heart. But in order to give an
example of what I consider a more
civilized form of honor code, I want
to mention another small liberal
arts college.
At Haverford, two-thirds of the
entire student body must ratify the
honor code every year.
If the ratifcation fails the frst
time, the students have three choices:
a. To vote to ratify the honor
code and give their reasons.
b. To vote to ratify the honor
code but raise objections.
c. To vote not to ratify and give
reasons.
The student body then dis-
cusses changes to the honor code,
and if a consensus emerges, the
charter survives.
Although some think it is absurd
that an honor and social code de-
cided wholly by students could sur-
vive, Haverfords has been in place
for decades and is an integral aspect
of the schools community.
Rather than being told that they
will sign the code, Haverford first
years are given the opportunity to
play an integral part in the creation
and survival of the practice. It is not
an imposed system of honor, but
rather a democratically elected and
drafted code.
Chris Wedeman is a member of
the Class of 2015.
BY CHRIS WEDEMAN
CONTRIBUTOR
sult if I made a scene in front of the
students I had just met. If I didnt
sign it, would I even be permitted
to attend Bowdoin?
Instead of venturing to discover
what would happen, I obediently
and uncomfortably signed my con-
sent just like every other first year
student.
The first article of the Social
Code states that conduct which is
unbecoming of a Bowdoin student
constitutes a breach of the Social
Code. Of the examples given of
such conduct, one is coercion.
I argue that the compulsion
through imperative language
through the implied threat of not
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Bookending Bowdoin: rst years and seniors reign on campus
Conventional wisdom holds that the
middle child always turns out funny.
He or she does not have the aura
of the oldest child, whom parents
often view as an unparalleled bless-
ing. Middle children dont receive
the adoration that the baby of the
family commands. Or worse, that
affection was bestowed on them for
a short time before being wrenched
away by some new infantile prince
or princess, inevitably producing a
lifetime of sibling rivalry.
Ultimately, in this absolutist
world of three-child families, the
middle child ends up slightly more
neglected.
The Bowdoin family has four
childrenfirst years, sophomores,
juniors and seniors. However,
now entering my final year at this
school, I have been struck by the
particular attention given to the
youngest and the eldest. This makes
sense, of course.
If you see a terrified person
walking around the Bowdoin cam-
pus, its probably a first year or a
senior. The first years have no idea
what theyre going to do in this
place; the seniors have no idea what
theyre going to do once they leave.
Meanwhile, the middle chil-
A couple of weeks ago, I herald-
ed the end of summer by purchas-
ing a big fat copy of ELLE maga-
zines September issue.
Near the front of the magazine is
a customary summary of this sea-
sons runway standouts, in which
the author draws from multiple
collections in order to distill au-
tumns overarching theme.
The gist of Irina Aleksanders
The Warrior Within revolved
around designers sudden desire
to protect women this season.
As I flipped the pages, I waited
for the authoror one of the vari-
ous quoted designersto invoke
what seemed like the logical rea-
son for this armored zeitgeist.
But instead of mentioning The
War on Women, I got an esoteric
quote from British designer J.W.
Anderson: Fragility is the sexiest
thing about a woman...to be frag-
ile you ultimately have to be very
strong. More on this later.
Ill be the frst to admit my in-
ability to transition smoothly from
Politico to Project Runway, but it
seems impossible to talk about arm-
ing and defending women without
at least mentioning recent political
initiatives that many observers see
as direct attacks on women.
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Romneys staunch views on abortion should cost womens vote
Holding ELLEs biggest fashion
issue of the year! in my hands, I
couldnt help but be reminded of
what constitutes the majority of that
extra bulkadvertising campaigns.
Meanwhile, a much more prob-
lematic form of marketing is tak-
ing place off the glossy page.
Its no secret that the Republi-
can Party is courting female voters.
In fact, our own Senator Olympia
Snowe (R. ME) gave the Romney
campaign valuable pre-convention
marketing advice in an August 24
op-ed in the Washington Post.
In order to restore the image
of the Republicans as friendly to-
ward womens interests, Snowe
wrote, Romney must prove to the
national audience that the overly
dren of the Bowdoin family coast
by blissfully, bolstered by years at
the College behind and in front of
them. In this unconventional fam-
ily, it pays to be a middle child.
Although every Bowdoin sopho-
more or junior is most certainly
tethered to a path replete with
both trials and triumphs (and my
years were no exception), I think
the Colleges manner of engage-
ment with its youngest and oldest
students is quite interesting.
Serving as bookends to my first
week back, convocation and the
mandatory senior-class Career
Planning Center (CPC) meeting
revealed a lot about the adminis-
trations approach to educating its
youngest and oldest childrenthe
newly-arrived and the soon-to-
leave.
At convocation, President Mills
riffed eloquently on the prepared-
ness of liberal arts students to enter
a world where the entrepreneurial
spirit and the ability to innovate
are indispensable survival skills. He
told an auditorium, filled mainly
with first years, that their Bow-
doin education would be an indis-
pensable asset in the real world,
that they would have the neces-
sary depth and flexibility. In other
words, the liberal arts model is not
defunct. Bowdoin students will be
more ready than most.
A week later, the senior class
settled into the still-warm seats
of Pickard Theater and had one
message drilled into their anxious
heads: if you do the right things,
you will get a job.
And then they told us how. De-
spite a few cheesy metaphors and
a very awkward claim that our pa-
tronage of the CPC is somehow
free (did Bowdoin do away with
tuition?), our career coaches did a
very credible job. They debunked a
bunch of myths, told us about dead-
line clusters for different employ-
ers, and got us on our way toward
getting paid.
They assured us that we are
ready for whatever comes next.
As you can see, both events
struck a very similar tone: pre-
paredness. President Mills and Tim
Diehl, director of Bowdoins Career
Planning Center, wanted to make
the point that Bowdoin students
will be or have already been prop-
erly equipped.
Now, this approach to education
at Bowdoin is likely the most re-
sponsible and has certainly paid its
dividends.
In an endearingly candid mo-
ment during his speech, President
Mills refected that Bowdoin had
taken a chance on him, a corporate
lawyer, when he was named presi-
dent.
And although Mills acknowl-
edged that the jury is still nominal-
ly out, the decision has been sump-
tuously rewarded. All we have to
do is look around to find evidence
of this: a stunning and frequently
renovated campus, brilliant faculty,
and engaged students.
President Mills and the CPC
were right on. There is no glory in
demanding utter isolation for the
liberal arts or the academy in gen-
eral.
To refuse to think of preparation
would do a huge disservice to Bow-
doin graduates. Moreover, Bowdoin
is made better when its students
and faculty reflect the worlds stun-
ning diversity.
And such a connection is only pos-
sible when Bowdoins administration
makes the commitment to engage
usthrough service, artistic exhibi-
tion, and even job preparedness.
The only smudge on this pretty
picture was well identified in Pro-
fessor Jorunn Buckleys convoca-
tion lecture, Using Your Culture.
In an unusually colorful speech,
Professor Buckley talked about the
fluidity of ones self-conception at
Bowdointhat who we are and
how we present ourselves is really
up for grabs.
Her questions about self-revo-
lution centered around the whim-
sical and the hilarious, not on the
useful.
And what first year could argue
against Buckleys rhetoric? Who
would demand grave seriousness
in the face of the poetry, mystery,
and joy of recognizing the mu-
tability of it all? Culture, social
standing, and all the rest.
As Im sure hed tell you, Presi-
dent Mills was laughing. Hard.
It probably is the job of the Bow-
doin administration to remind us
to hold ourselves accountable.
Its important that we dont re-
treat into disconnection and some
kind of decadent solipsism.
But its also vital that we, stu-
dents and even faculty, remember
our job: to be irreverent some-
times. To take convocation and
turn it into an unparalleled, come-
dic tour de force. Its really bleak
to always think about usefulness or
the next step.
So even if Bowdoin should be
preparing us for a changing world,
theres no shame in relishing the
privilege of being herewhether
youre new, old, or in the middle.
shows that he cares about their
well-being.
Instead of following Snowes
advice in his Republican National
Convention (RNC) speech, Rom-
ney made the vague promise to
protect the sanctity of life and
emphasized the number of women
who had high-ranking positions in
his State House.
The disparity between what
Snowe asked for and what Romney
delivered should be troubling to
women of any political inclination.
It reveals that Romney and his
strategists believe that they can
simply showcase a female sup-
porter in lieu of actual engagement
with issues affecting American
women.
While ELLE magazine anointed
Lisbeth Salander as this seasons
it girl for her mix of resilience
and vulnerability, but never ac-
tually used the word rape, the
Romney campaign sent out Ann
Romney to talk about exhausted
mothers, mounting grocery bills,
and the man she fell in
love with.
Heres the thing:
while its impossible to
deeply engage in wom-
ens issues without a
woman present, its en-
tirely possible to have a
woman present and still
lack meaningful en-
gagement with womens
issues.
In this regard, the
Romney campaign has
established itself as the
campaign equivalent of
the much-mocked Bic
for Her pen. Its a color
scheme, not a conversa-
tion.
As twisted as it is that a British
designer finds fragility sexy, hes
not running for President.
After the disappointingly reduc-
tive marketing strategy employed
at the RNC, I continue to worry
about the Republican Partys per-
verse attitude toward womens bod-
ies.
Nicholas Kristof noted in a Sep-
tember 1 op-ed that four states will
not grant women an abortion with-
out requiring that they first un-
dergo an ultrasound. These states,
according to Kristof, do not make
an exception for cases of rape.
The Republican Party sees it as
its solemn duty to wield power
over pregnant women.
Snowe asked Romney for the
simplest thing: To show that he
cares about womens well-being.
Forget the couture designers
padding coats with extra down,
forget the Intelligent Designers and
their brand of pseudo-science if
you can, but remember the ladies.
If Romney cant do just that one
thing, then maybe he might be bet-
ter off among actual mannequins.
Daisy Alioto is a member of the
Class of 2013.
HALFASSED
JUDAH ISSEROFF
BY DAISY ALIOTO
CONTRIBUTOR
While its impossible to deeply engage in womens issues without a
woman present, its entirely possible to have a woman present and still
lack meaningful engagement with womens issues.
If you see a terried person walking around the Bowdoin campus, its probably
a rst year or a senior. First years have no idea what theyre going to do in this
place; seniors have no idea what theyre going to do once they leave.
rigid language on abortion in the
GOP platformwhich includes no
exceptions for cases of rape, incest
or danger to the life of the moth-
erdoes not represent his view.
Snowe also advises that the
candidate emphasize his strong
record on womens issues, which
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TUESDAY
FAIR
Student Activities Fair
The Colleges student organizations will seek the
involvement of new members at this annual showcase.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 7 p.m.
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FRIDAY
WORKSHOP
Diving In, Polar Bear Style
Michael Woods, assistant director of rst year programs,
will facilitate a workshop for the Class of 2016 to equip
students with essential tools for making a successful
transition to college.
Room 107, Kanbar Hall. 12:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP
Writing a Personal Statement
Learn how to write a winning personal statement for
fellowships or graduate school applications at this workshop.
Room 208, Adams Hall. 1 p.m.
INFORMATION SESSION
Bowdoin Student Government
Students interested in serving as class council members
or at-large representatives must attend one of three
information sessions.
Conference Room West, Hubbard Hall. 4 p.m.
EVENT
Night at the Museum
A local breeder will bring real-life Weimaraners to this
celebration of William Wegmans Hello Nature.
Wine and hors doeuvres will be served.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 7 p.m.
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MONDAY
WORKSHOP
CPR Training
Human Resources will sponsor an American Red Cross CPR
certication course.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 10 a.m.
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WHAT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO: The annual lobster bake gave new and returning students a chance to catch up over a quintessentially Maine dinner.
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SUNDAY
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Protestant Chapel Service
Bowdoin College Chapel. 7 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY
FILM
Sunrise
The Film Studies Department will present the 1927
Academy Award Winner, Sunrise, a silent lm about a
farmer whose cosmopolitan lover tries to persuade him
to kill his wife.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 9 p.m.
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SATURDAY
SPORTING EVENT
Womens Field Hockey
The defending NESCAC champions will face
Wesleyan University in their season home opener.
Howard F. Ryan Field. Noon.
FESTIVAL
Greenstock
The festival, sponsored by the Green Bowdoin Alliance
and the Sustainibility O ce, promotes environmental
consciousness with music and eco-friendly activities.
Main Quad. 3 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Maine Pro Musica
The Bowdoin Orchestra will perform selections from
Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mozart under the direction
of Conductor Janna Hymes.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 3 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
A Cappella Recruitment Concert
All six campus a capella groups will showcase their
repertoires to potential new singers before holding
auditions next week.
Bowdoin College Chapel. 8 p.m.
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CHICKEN NUGGETS, ONION RINGS
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CHICKEN TENDERS, ASIAN NOODLES
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ROAST TURKEY, LASAGNA
CHICKEN PICCATA, BEEF
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THURSDAY
LECTURE
Artic Petroleum: Let Science Inform
Decisions
Dr. Brenda Pierce of the U.S. Geological Survey will discuss
the environmental implications of Artic exploration and
oer her opinion of oshore drilling.
Room 315, Searles Science Building. 7 p.m.
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MAC & CHEESE, SALMON
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BUFFALO CHICKEN BURGER
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GOOD DAY
COMMON HOUR
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CHICKEN PESTO PIZZA
SHRIMP SCAMPI PIZZA
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HAMBURGERS, QUINOA
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QUAD
FILM
Home is Where
You Find It
ROSH
HASHANAH
BEGINS
FREE COFFEE IN
SMITH UNION
LECTURE
NYTS
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
FILM
Frida
The Department of Romance Languages will screen the 2002
lm about artist Frida Kahlo.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.