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BRUNSWICK, MAINE THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY VOLUME 142, NUMBER 20 APRIL 5, 2013
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FEATURES: I-CLUB HOLDS ANNUAL WEEKLONG FEST
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MORE NEWS: DIGITAL STUDIES COURSE;
MILLS MODERATES PANEL ON CLIMATE
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL: Bowdoins Project
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SPORTS: LAX PHENOM GORAJEK BREAKS RECORD
Carolyn Gorajek 13, leading goal
scorer for womens lacrosse, netted
six goals over the weekend, break-
ing Bowdoins all-time scoring record
of 145 career goals and helping her
team to a 1-1 split in the process.
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OP-ED: Parker Towle 13 on what the NAS
report teaches us.
COURSE: Two professors will co-teach a course
that combines the humanities and computation.
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PANEL: Professors from a variety of academic
departments address climate issues.
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The International Club hosts its annual
International Week amid budgetary
complications this year.
PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Remi Kanzi recited a poem in Ladd House last night as part of theSlam Poetry for Justiceevent.
Please see HAZING, page 3
BY SAM MILLER
ORIENT STAFF
Results from a December survey ad-
ministered to graduates of the Class of
2011 show that 68 percent of respon-
dents are employed part-time or full-
time, 26 percent are attending graduate
school, and 3 percent are still seeking
employment. Over 220 alumni re-
sponded to the survey.
Compiled by the Om ce of Insti-
tutional Research, these statistics are
nearly identical to those from last years
one-year out survey of the Class of
2010, which found that 67 percent of
respondents were employed, 15 percent
were attending graduate school, and 3
percent were seeking employment.
While these statistics suggest wide-
spread success among recent graduates,
Nyle Usmani 12 pointed out that these
surveys include non-career-oriented
jobs and part-time jobs, and therefore
might be artifcially high.
Te statistics dont lie. Most people
leaving Bowdoin will fnd themselves
at a good place. But in my case, Im still
fghting to be at a good place and Im
unemployedits not happening the
way that I imagined.
Usmani is currently an unpaid intern
at a hedge fund and continues to search
for paid work at a consulting frm.
Te survey results show that educa-
tion, business and fnance continue to
be among the most popular frst em-
ployment opportunities for Bowdoin
graduates. However, Director of Career
Planning Tim Diehl described the in-
dustry breakdown for Bowdoin grads
frst job as a pie that has a lot of pieces
in it.
Industries including consulting and
fnance, education and nonproft, gov-
ernment and law, scientifc research,
those are very popular entry-level op-
portunities for Bowdoin students with-
in a year of graduation, he said. Not
Please see ALUMS, page 3
NAS releases
360-page
critique of
Bowdoin
BY GARRETT CASEY
ORIENT STAFF
Please see NAS, page 5
Mens tennis
team punished
for violation of
hazing policy
Valuables stolen in second Crack House burglary
BY LINDA KINSTLER AND
MARISA MCGARRY
ORIENT STAFF
Bowdoin students spend too much
time talking about identity, dont
know enough about the founding fa-
thers, and have way too much sex.
It took the National Association
of Scholars 19 months to reach those
conclusions, which, among others,
are detailed in Te Bowdoin Proj-
ect, the organizations report on the
College.
Totaling 360 pages, the report ap-
plies conservative ideology of the past
three decades to virtually every aspect
of Bowdoin policy, academic afairs,
and student life. Te report assails
Bowdoin on topics as wide-ranging as
sustainability and climate change, gay
marriage, and am rmative action.
In astonishing detail, it lists
quotes, factoids, and perspectives
that claim to indict the College as a
hotbed of the type of liberalism that
the studys authors and fnanciers see
as undesirable.
Te report was independently
commissioned and was not supported
by the College.
Te Bowdoin Project was funded
by Tomas Klingenstein, an inves-
tor and board member of the NAS, a
think tank that has issued several re-
ports on progr conservative organiza-
tion that has published several reports
on the state of higher education in the
The mens tennis team will for-
feit its next four matches and will
be barred from post-season com-
petition as a result of a hazing al-
legation and subsequent investiga-
tion by the Office of the Dean of
Student Affairs and the Athletics
Department.
Dean of Student Affairs Tim
Foster and newly appointed Ash-
mead White Director of Athletics
Tim Ryan 98 informed the student
body of the incident in an email
sent Wednesday evening. This is
the first hazing event brought to
the Bowdoin communitys atten-
tion since the mens rugby team
was found to have hazed first years
at its annual Epicuria party in Sep-
tember.
This latest incident was brought
to our attention late last week by
a concerned student unaffiliated
with the team, Foster and Ryan
wrote in the email.
The Deans office originally
planned to talk to all members of
the team as part of its investigation
into the incident, but we didnt
have to, Foster said in an inter-
view with the Orient.
It became pretty clear after talk-
ing to a number of the members of
the team that this happened, he
BY NORA BIETTETIMMONS
ORIENT STAFF
A burglar stole thousands of dollars
worth of property from 83 Harp-
swell Roadcolloquially referred to
as Crack Housewhile its residents
played lacrosse games at Middlebury
and Williams last weekend.
Chelsea Fernandez-Gold 13 dis-
covered the thef when she went to
the house to drop of something for
her boyfriend, Max Rosner 13.
She walked in and the house was
kind of disheveled and things were
all over the place and she noticed that
the TV was missing, said Connor
Handy 13, a Crack House resident.
Handy said Fernandez-Gold called
Rosner to ask if any of the houses
residents had moved the TV. He said
no one had, so she looked around the
rest of the house.
All of our bedroom doors that
had been padlocked were kicked
down, and one of my roommates had
a 40-something-inch fat screen that
was gone, said Handy.
Handy said that in addition to the
two TVs, a 24-inch iMac computer, a
Canon Rebel SLR camera, and three
sports jerseys had disappeared. Te
jerseys bore the names Carlos Boozer,
Christian Laettner and Corey Dillon.
He estimated that the total cost of the
stolen property was over $5,000.
Te houses residents fled a report
with the Brunswick Police Depart-
ment (BPD), who sent over a detec-
tive. Tey reported the serial num-
bers of the missing items, so that if
the burglar attempts to pawn them,
they will be fagged as stolen.
Handy said he does not suspect
that Bowdoin students were involved
in the burglary.
Our next best guess is someone
that lives in the area that keeps watch
on our house or knows we play la-
crosse, he said.
Te presence of countless cigarette
butts suggested to Crack Houses
Please see BURGLARY, page 6
STRICTLY SPEAKING
Athletics affect course selection, not GPA
President Barry Mills delivered a
report on athletics at a faculty meeting
on February 4, providing a rare look
at the Colleges eforts to recruit ath-
letes and opening a discussion about
their collective performance in the
classroom.
According to Professor of Latin and
Greek Barbara Boyd, at one of the fall
faculty meetings earlier in the year,
Professor of Religion Jorunn Buckley
voiced her concern with a number of
students that she said were underpre-
pared for the academic work at Bow-
doin, and noticed that some of them
were athletes.
Several members of the faculty be-
gan actively discussing the issue dur-
ing the meeting, and Mills returned at
the February 4 meeting with informa-
tion to answer some of their concerns,
citing the diference in cumulative
grade point average between athletes
and non-athletes at Bowdoin as the
smallest or next to smallest of any
school in the NESCAC.
Te collective GPA of female ath-
letes is slightly higher than that of the
general female population, while male
athletes are just a shade below the
male average. According to a Bow-
doin Academic Afairs web page, at
the end of the fall 2005 semester the
cumulative GPA of student athletes,
including members of club teams,
was 3.22, almost indentical to the all-
student cumulative GPA of 3.25. Te
College has not updated these statis-
tics since 2005.
Its absolutely a point of pride with-
in our campus community and the
athletic department, said Tim Ryan,
althetic director, about the negligible
GPA diference between athletes and
the student body at large. Its a testa-
ment to the work our coaches do to
bring highly talented students to cam-
pus who are dedicated to their aca-
demic interests.
Multiple professors on campus
pointed out that they were not con-
cerned with athletes in general, but
rather a select few who seemed to be
underperforming academically.
Basically [Mills] message was
that, on average, the GPA of athletes is
on par with the rest of the College. Av-
erages can be misleading, said biology
and biochemistry professor Bruce Ko-
horn. It would be better to look at the
individual GPAs of individual athletes
and perhaps those of specifc teams.
Each admissions cycle, Bowdoin
is limited, like all other NESCAC
schools, to 77 athletic recruitsstu-
dents who gain admission aided by the
fact they play sports. Bowdoin has a
self-imposed, fexible cap of admitting
around 120 student athletes in each
frst-year class. Tis means a total of
43 athletes are admitted solely on the
basis of their academic achievements.
No other NESCAC school has a simi-
lar limitation.
President Mills instituted the cap
of 120 when he came to Bowdoin in
2001.
I believed that we could have com-
petitive and excellent teams, and at
the same time, given our small size,
it would leave enough space to admit
people with other interests, he said.
BY SAM CHASE
ORIENT STAFF
Please see RECRUITING, page 16
Survey nds 68 percent of
2011 graduates employed
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SPORTS: Womens tennis
FEATURES: Lobster rollin
A&E: Geologist Kirkeby exhibits mixed media
Prominent Danish painter and geologist Per
Kirkebys exhibit, featuring paintings, sculptures
and more, opens at the Bowdoin Museum of Art.
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I will have learned nothing as a
liberal arts student if I cannot learn
to appreciate the process of fguring
things out. Afer all, isnt that what
were getting a degree in?