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MORE NEWS: BSG SUBSIDIZES ABSENTEE
VOTING SOFTWARE; NEW PROFESSORS
TODAYS OPINION
EDITORIAL:
Page 13.
SPORTS: CROSS COUNTRY OPENS SEASON
The mens and womens cross country teams
opened their seasons last Saturday at the
University of Southern Maine Invitational,
nishing 3rd and 8th, respectively.
Page 10.
BSG ELECTIONS: Read the candidacy state-
ments of students running for the 2014 and
2017 Class Councils.
VOTING: TurboVote free for Bowdoin students.
Page 14-15.
Page 3.
Garrett Casey 15 on reconciling living
humbly with a cause.
Page 6.
NEW PROFESSORS: Seven tenure-track profes-
sors join the faculty.
Page 3.
BY NICOLE WETSMAN
ORIENT STAFF
Pulitzer-winning Faludi on modern feminism
BY NORA BIETTETIMMONS
ORIENT STAFF
Please see HACKING, page 4
FIELD DAY
TOP: GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT; BOTTOM: KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Top: Members of 350 Maine joined Bowdoin students in their campaign for fossil fuel divestment outside of last Saturdays football game at Whittier Field.
Bottom: Meanwhile, at Pickard Soccer Field, Athlete of the Week Kiersten Turner 16 confronted a Middlebury defender. Bowdoin lost 2-1.
2 students
arrested
for OUIs in
24 hours
J-Board heard
5 academic, 2
social code
cases in 12-13
Please see FALUDI, page 7
Please see OUI, page 3 Please see J-BOARD, page 4
BY MARISA MCGARRY
ORIENT STAFF
Te Brunswick Police Depart-
ment (BPD) arrested two Bowdoin
students for drunk driving last Sun-
day, according to Bowdoin Security.
Te two students, aged 20 and 21,
were charged with operating under
the infuence (OUI).
In both cases, Bowdoin Security was
directly involved.
Te frst incident occurred at 12:40
a.m. on Sunday. According to Director of
Security Randy Nichols, Bowdoin secu-
rity om cers and om cers of the BPD were
at the intersection of Com n Street and
Longfellow Avenue on an unrelated call.
Om cers then heard squealing tires
coming from down Com n Street in
the vicinity of Pickard feld house, said
Nichols. One of our security om cers on
bike patrol actually went up to the inter-
section and stopped the vehicle, and a
BPD om cer came over and investigated.
Te male student driving the car was
21 years old. Te student was arrested for
OUI and brought down to Brunswick
Police Station, where he was booked and
bailed. Te vehicle was towed.
Moments before the student was
stopped, he had other students in the
car with him, said Nichols. He had
just dropped them of.
Te second incident occurred at 6:15
p.m. on Sunday. A Security om cer saw
and followed an erratic vehicle from
Bath Road to the upper Stowe Inn park-
ing lot and called it in to BPD.
Te New York Times on Susan Fa-
ludis desk was turned to the Business
section, where a headline asked, To ad-
dress gender gap, is it enough to lean in?
Te articlewhich featured a few of Fa-
ludis own annotationsreferenced the
fall-out from Sheryl Sandbergs Lean
In, the book that dominated the femi-
nist news cycle over the summer.
FaludiPulitzer Prize-winning jour-
nalist, celebrated feminist author, and
visiting 2013-2014 Tallman Scholaris
not tired of talking about Sandbergs
controversial book.
Im of two minds, she said. I
completely agreethat the absence
of women at the top in corporate
America is something that needs to
be redressed.
But, having said that, I dont think
were going to achieve gender equality by
telling women they just need to change
their own behavior and defeat the inter-
nal obstacles within them, she added.
Are there internal obstacles? Sure, but
thats not why 40 percent of single moth-
ers are at the poverty line.
Faludi is well known for articulat-
ing this sort of insight and discussing
the need for equality in daily American
lives. Tis more populist approach to
feminism also meant she was a good ft
for Bowdoin.
Te Bowdoin Gender and Womens
Studies Program (GWS) is a program
that really likes to focus on the inter-
section of women and issues of class
and race, said GWS Director Kristen
Ghodsee. Where some other programs
are more esoteric in terms of the gender
theory they do, we tend to really focus
on practice: real women in the real
world, gender issues broadly construed.
Faludi has been writing about social
issues for decades and reached national
success in the early 1990s. She won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her reporting
on the human costs of Safeways fnan-
cial practices, which she spent months
researching while working for the Wall
Street Journal.
Her frst book, Backlash: Te Un-
declared War Against Women, was
published that same year, and shortly
thereafer, Faludi lef the newspaper
industry because she really wanted to
probe more deeply and concentrate on
feminist issues.
BY BRIAN JACOBEL
ORIENT STAFF
Hackers test digital security
in campus-wide email attack
Te Colleges digital security was
tested Wednesday morning as hack-
ers sought to gain control of Bowdoin
email accounts in one of the more so-
phisticated attacks seen to date.
In an email to students and fac-
ulty, Chief Information Om cer Mitch
Davis announced that while the at-
tack had briefy succeeded in gain-
ing control of a limited number of
accounts on campus, the breach had
since been contained.
According to Director of Systems
and Enterprise Architecture Adam
Lord, Bowdoins email inboxes are usu-
ally protected by a system in place that
catches the majority of messages that
are malicious.
Tis attack circumvented those bar-
riers by frst compromising the email
account of a Bowdoin student then
using that account to mail over 70,000
other addresses on and of campus.
Lord said that because the mail origi-
nated from an account within the Bow-
doin network, the security systems in
Information Technology (IT) subjected
the emails to less scrutiny than if they
had come directly from hackers.
It is still unclear what led to the com-
promise of the initial account, but both
Lord and Davis suspect a weak pass-
word was to blame.
Te email contained a message sup-
posedly from the IT Help Desk notify-
ing students that their email accounts
would soon expire. Linked in the email
was a web page that displayed an exact
replica of the login screen for Bowdoins
Te Judicial Board (J-Board) heard
seven cases in the 2012-2013 Academic
Year according to its annual report re-
leased Wednesday. Of these cases, fve
were connected to violations of the Aca-
demic Honor Code, and two dealt with
violations of the Social Honor Code.
Additionally, the Student Sexual Assault
and Misconduct Board heard two cases.
Tis marks a signifcant decrease
from the 18 cases heard during the
2011-2012 year, and 15 cases during
2010-2011.
Te report, which can only be ac-
cessed online by members of the Col-
lege community, lists the violations and
the subsequent punishments handed
down by the Board.
In one instance, a student was found
to have plagiarized portions of an ap-
plication for a national fellowship. Tis
posed a initial challenge to the board,
who ultimately decided that fellowship
applications were considered academic
work. Te Board recommended that
the Academic Honor Code should be
altered to include fellowships as part of
academic work.
Te names of the accused in each
case are kept private in all instances.
J-Board Chair Chelsea Shafer ex-
plained that the report is intended for
the Bowdoin community to familiarize
itself with the issues that Board is re-
sponsible for overseeing.
Te reason that we have the an-
nual report is so that students have
COPYRIGHT DENNIS GRIGGS
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STUDENT SPEAK
Bowdoin blackout
I think people who
are cynical are people
who really care deeply
and have just had their
hearts broken.
Tallman Scholar Susan Faludi,
on youthful idealism and feminism
Please see full article, Page 7.
OVERHEARD
On September 21st, at 2:14 p.m., the
power on Bowdoins campus and in
the surrounding areas was out for fve
hours, due to three successive failures
in breakers at the Topsham power sta-
tion. Te power went on and of in-
termittently on the North and South
Loops of campus throughout the day.
Directory of Safety and Security Randy
Nichols said, we knew from the outset
that this was going to be a bit longer in
duration than usual. For this power
outage, students were notifed via Black-
board Connect, on email and by phone
call. In the event of an emergency such
as a snowstorm, the more sophisti-
cated Cistera Rapid Broadcast would
link each student to Randy Nichols,
allowing him to broadcast a message.
-Compiled by Natalie Kass-Kaufman
What did you do when the power went out?
Abby Roy 16
I went to the Druck Atrium
and Snapchatted a lot.
Bryan Hurley 15
I dont know if I can tell you.
Ellery Altshuler 15
I was in the shower and I just
proceeded as per usual.
Compiled by Joe Sherlock
Elizabeth Snowdon 17
I was just reading. I could still
seewasnt a big deal.
PARIKSHIT SHARMA, BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
INSTRUMENTAL: Thumbscrew demonstrated its unique style of improvisation last Friday while Edgar Meyer wowed the sold out audience with his double bass skills.
BY HARRY RUBE
ORIENT STAFF
Lending library lures
lovers of literature
Look out Hawthorne-Longfellow
Library, theres a new competitor in
town. Observant passersby on
Com n Street may have seen this
strange newcomer to the Bruns-
wick book community as they
headed to practice at Farley Field
House, or caught a glimpse of it
before crossing at the corner of
Com n and Longfellow Avenue.
Perched on a wooden fence,
this white box with a glass door
that bears striking resemblance
to an overlarge birdhouse stands
out among the otherwise ba-
nal, suburban surroundings of
the Brunswick neighborhood. It
is covered with quotes from famous
works of literature, and its shelves are
haphazardly packed with books. It is
inscribed with the title: Free Lend-
ing Library: Borrow a bookreturn a
book, always freenever for sale.
Te library is the brainchild of Jay
Ketner, who is a visiting professor of
French in the Department of Romance
Languages at the College. He construct-
ed and decorated the book house last
spring at a community event sponsored
by the Curtis Memorial Library in as-
sociation with the Little Free Library
organization, and set it up in July on his
front-yard fence.
Ketner cited two reasons for mak-
ing the library. On the one hand, he
sees the library as a way to make books
accessible to anyone who happens
to walk past it and see if there was
something in there that they wanted
to read.
same way as the Little Free Library ki-
osks that have been springing up around
the world since the organization began
in 2009, he chose not to am liate directly
with the project. He felt the nominal
registration fee each library proprietor
pays to the umbrella organization con-
tradicted the principle that the libraries
are free of cost.
Anyones free to take a book and
never give it back, anyones free to take
a book and never donate a book, peo-
ple are free to donate a book and never
take one, he explained.
Ketner initially supplied the seed
books for the library, but he found that
those ran out quickly. However, peo-
ple began donating their own books to
the library, making it self-generating,
with a life unto its own.
Ketner says that a diverse slice of
the Brunswick community has taken
interest in his library.
Its all kinds of people from the
community, of all ages; there are
people with kids who take childrens
books, there are middle-aged people,
there are pre-teens, and even Bow-
doin students have taken and lef
books, said Ketner.
Tara Palnitkar 16 recently de-
cided to utilize the library and is cur-
rently reading Les Fleurs du mal by
Charles Baudelaire in her free time.
Ive only read a little bit of itits
French poetry, said Palnitkar.
However, not all use has
been positive. Two weekends
ago, the solar panel that pow-
ers the boxs internal light was
vandalized and broken. Ketner
doesnt know who did it, but has
now set up a sign and donation
jar explaining the destruction of
the light, and soliciting funds to
buy a new one.
Nevertheless, Ketner has high
hopes for the future of his library.
Its defnitely a little part of the
campus experience, he said. He
hopes that the library will continue
to be a point of connection between
Bowdoin and the surrounding
neighborhood.
Bowdoin really is such a bubble,
Ketner said, and its cool to me when
the Bowdoin experience overlaps
with the community experience, and
its something for both.
BY THE NUMBERS
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Students in Plant Psysiology,
Advanced Chinese I, among
others, according to the Om ce
of the Registrar.
64
Students in Introduction to
Environmental Studies, the
largest class this semester,
according to the Om ce of the
Registrar.

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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
On the other hand, he sees the li-
brary as a tool to educate people and
bring them together. He wants, to
encourage people to read, to share
the wisdom that people have writ-
ten through the ages, to make it free,
and to give people an alternate way
of interacting with their environment
and community, as opposed to doing
something on a screen or online.
Te library operates on generosity and
spontaneity rather than any fxed rules.
Although Ketners library functions the
SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS
A male student was observed
walking on Maine Street near Mac-
Millan House wearing only a pair of
boxer briefs. An om cer spoke with the
student and instructed him to put his
pants on and remain in MacMillan
House for the night. (Sept. 21)
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BY NICK ZABLOTSKY
STAFF WRITER
Tis fall, 33 new faculty joined the
teaching staf. Of the 33, seven are ten-
ure-track professors.
According to Dean for Academic Af-
fairs Cristle Collins Judd, all hirees have
met the Colleges rigorous standards, in-
cluding excellence in teaching, distinc-
tion in research, the potential and evi-
dence that someone will be an excellent
teacher, and that they make important
contributions to the curriculum.
Barbara Elias, the only hire in social
sciences, joined the government and le-
gal studies department. She received her
undergraduate degree from Brown Uni-
versity and her PhD from the University
of Pennsylvania.
Elias research centers on counterin-
surgency war policy.
Essentially, I examine how large
states like the United States coerce other
countries during counterinsurgency
wars, she said.
Marcos Lpez is an assistant Profes-
sor of Sociology. Educated at the Univer-
sity of California at Santa Cruz, Lpez is
teaching Immigration and the Politics
of Exclusion, which is cross-listed with
the Latin American studies department.
Emma Maggie Solberg has taken a
position teaching in the English depart-
ment. She received her undergraduate
degree from Oxford University and her
PhD from the University of Virginia.
A medieval English literature special-
ist, her dissertation is titled Doubt-
ing Mary: Early English Drama from
N-Town to Shakespeare. She currently
teaches a seminar on representations of
Islam in early Europe and a 2,000-level
course on medieval British literature.
Additionally, three new faculty mem-
bers joined the sciences, while one
joined mathematics.
David Carlon, whose last posi-
tion was at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa, is an associate Professor of Biol-
ogy. He will fll the recently created posi-
tion of the director of the marine lab on
Orrs Island. As director, he is in charge
of the labs administration, grant writing
and the allocation of resources among
faculty researchers.
Amanda Redlich is the newest
member of the math department. She
received her BA from the University of
Chicago and her PhD from MIT. She is
currently researching probabilistic com-
binatorics with a team at Rutgers, which
is being funded by the National Science
BSG to sponsor absentee
ballot distribution system
BY PAUL NGU
STAFF WRITER
In an efort to increase voter par-
ticipation among students, Bowdoin
has recently partnered with Turbo-
Vote to make voting an easier and
simpler process.
TurboVote, a nonpartisan and
nonproft organization, provides
absentee ballots by mail to its mem-
bers. Trough the Colleges partner-
ship with TurboVote, students can
receive mailed absentee ballots in
any state.
TurboVote will also help students
register to vote and provide them
with reminders about upcoming
voting deadlines.
Students register online and pro-
vide basic contact and mailing infor-
mation. Tey then choose which state
they would like to vote in and recieve
absentee ballots from their selected
state.
Although registration with Tur-
boVote is free, members pay a
nominal fee to recieve absentee
ballots with prepaid and addressed
envelopes. This year, however, the
Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) will cover all expenses for
students to receive absentee ballots
from TurboVote.
Its a service we thought would be
really useful for students. Active par-
ticipation is really important, and we
thought it made sense as far as BSG
initiatives go, said BSG President
Sarah Nelson 14.
Other student organizations may
also get involved with the Colleges
partnership with TurboVote.
Were working with and will in-
clude the Bowdoin College Demo-
crats and the Bowdoin College Re-
publicans, Nelson said. Te Bowdoin
College Republicans are unchartered
as of yet.
Although BSG does not conduct
voter-participation studies, Nelson
noted that, at least anecdotally, she
has observed several obstacles that
students traditionally face with vot-
ing, including busy schedules and
time conficts.
Afer learning of the implementa-
tion of TurboVote at several other
colleges, including Bates, Nelson
worked with the College over the
summer to partner with TurboVote.
She sees their mission in promoting
democracy through easy voting as a
vitally important goal.
Its a great way to encourage ac-
tive participation. Te right to vote
is a huge and great thing. If you can
make it simpler for people [to vote],
youre bound to get more people to
participate, Nelson said.
While TurboVote is not used
for school elections, Nelson seems
optimistic that the Colleges part-
nership with the organization may
highlight the role of exercising
ones civic right to vote, both lo-
cally in school elections and on a
larger, national scale.
I guess any positive habits you can
build are bound to repeat themselves in
your life. I would hope that it just gets
people more mindful about how impor-
tant voting is, and how great it is that we
get a chance to vote, Nelson said.
She hopes that students will beneft
from TurboVote and take advantage
of its resources to make voting easier.
If its a service that students fnd
valuable, then we would continue it,
said Nelson.
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Te security om cer approached
the vehicle, saw at this point that it
was a Bowdoin student, a male driver
age 20, said Nichols. BPD arrived
moments later, and again investigat-
ed, had the student preform sobriety
tests, then placed the student under
arrest, and brought him to Brunswick
police for booking.
Again, the student was released on
bail and the vehicle
was towed.
According to
BPD Deputy Chief
Mark Hagan, the
police department
treats Bowdoin
students just as
they would anyone
else in the commu-
nity.
However, he
noted that OUIs have not been a big
problem with Bowdoin students.
Its not usually a huge issue with
Bowdoin students, he said. We
probably get a few a year.
According to Bowdoin security
records, there have been seven OUIs
involving Bowdoin students since
2010.
In Maine, driving a vehicle with a
blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08
percent or above is cause for arrest.
Under Maines zero tolerance law,
drivers under 21 cannot operate a ve-
hicle with any amount of alcohol in
their bloodstream.
Both students have court appear-
ances scheduled for November. Teir
licenses have been suspended until
that date, and they are prohibited
from consuming any alcohol during
the weeks leading up to their court
appearances.
Te penalties, if convicted, include
a minimum of a $400 fne and 90-day
license suspension.
Certain aggravating factors can
increase legal penalties in Maine;
these factors include the drivers
BAC, speed, presence of passengers
under 21 and attempts to elude an
officer.
Te BAC of the two students was
not released.
Two in one
weekend is highly
unusual, said
Nichols. One in
one weekend is
highly unusual.
Over the years, stu-
dents have general-
ly made very good
decisions. Students
rarely drink alone.
Is it possible that
no one had the opportunity to pre-
vent these two students from driving
drunk? I doubt it.
Nichols noted alternatives to driv-
ing available to Bowdoin students,
including SafeRide, Brunswick Taxi
and Security.
Call me if you want to, he said,
Just dont get behind the wheel in-
toxicated.
Both students will also face penal-
ties from within the College.
In an email to the Orient, Dean of
Student Afairs Tim Foster said that
the College has systems in place to
address student violations of state
law. According to the student hand-
book, disciplinary actions within the
College may occur without regard to
any concurrent legal proceedings.
Its not usually a huge
issue with Bowdoin
students. We probably
get a few a year.
DEPUTY CHIEF MARK HAGAN
BRUNSWICK POLICE DEPT
Foundation.
Im currently researching this exten-
sive theorem about logic and fundamen-
tal basic statements about mathematics,
said Redlich. It has many applications
in computer science and tries to explain
how things are connected.
Athough she loves doing research,
she came to Bowdoin to teach.
I enjoy how serious the faculty are
about their teaching, and how enthusi-
astic both the faculty and students are,
says Redlich.
Michle LaVigne was hired to fll
a position within the Department of
Earth Oceanographic Science, where
she was an assistant professor last year.
She received her PhD from Rutgers, and
her research specialties are in marine
biochemistry and paleoceanography.
Erika Nyhus has joined the neurosci-
ence and psychology department. She
recently completed her postdoctorate
work at Brown University. Nyhus is a
specialist in neural processes that sup-
port cognitive control and memory,
and is teaching Laboratory in Cognitive
Neuroscience.
In addition to these tenure track
hires, Bowdoin has seven visiting pro-
fessors, three adjunct professors, and 10
postdoctoral fellows.
Judd emphasized that despite com-
ing from various backgrounds and aca-
demic felds, the new faculty all shared
common attributes.
Tese people are really accom-
plished scholars who are deeply com-
mitted to undergraduate education,
said Judd.
HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Barbara Elias, one of seven new professors.
Seven tenure-track profs join faculty
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SECURITY REPORT: 9/19 to 9/25
ursday, September 19
Tere was a complaint of loud
noise coming from the third foor of
Stowe House Inn.
Friday, September 20
Loud singing, dancing and music
in Brunswick Apartments G led other
students to complain of excessive noise.
An om cer checked on the well-be-
ing of an intoxicated frst-year male stu-
dent on the 10th foor of Coles Tower.
Saturday, September 21
An om cer checked on the well-
being of an intoxicated male student in
Osher Hall.
An om cer assisted a student in
Chamberlain Hall with the treatment
of an abrasion.
A major power outage at 2:30 p.m.
afected the entire campus and much of
Brunswick and Topsham. Power was
restored at 7:30 p.m.
A Middlebury football player who
was injured during a game at Whittier
Field was transported to Mid Coast
Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.
Six students in Winthrop Hall were
found to be in possession of hard alco-
hol and playing a drinking game.
A male student was observed
walking on Maine Street near Mac-
Millan House wearing only a pair of
boxer briefs. An om cer spoke with the
student and instructed him to put his
pants on and remain inside MacMillan
House for the night.
Sunday, September 22
BPD arrested a 21-year-old male
student for drunk driving on Com n
Street at 12:40 a.m.
An uncooperative group of visi-
tors was escorted to their vehicle and
ordered to leave campus.
An om cer checked on the well-be-
ing of an intoxicated student on Cleave-
land Street.
A concerned student at Pine Street
Apartments asked to have an om cer
check on an intoxicated friend.
A stairwell wall was vandalized at
Brunswick Apartments S.
BPD arrested a 20-year-old male
student for drunk driving on Bath
Road and Federal Street at 6:30 p.m.
A student with fu-like symptoms
was escorted to Parkview Adventist
Medical Center.
Monday, September 23
A Bath resident seen removing
items from a dumpster at Brunswick
Apartments was asked to leave campus.
A student took responsibility for
kicking holes in two walls at Helm-
reich House.
BPD warned a student who crossed
Maine Street afer dark in front of
Quinby House without using a cross-
walk, nearly causing an accident.
Tuesday, September 24
A faculty member who experi-
enced chest pains at the Hatch Science
Library was transported to Mid Coast
Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.
A student reported the thef of a sil-
ver Courier bicycle from the area of
Coles Tower. Te bike bears Bowdoin
registration 03839.
Wednesday, September 25
Several people reported loud
popping noises in the area of Harp-
swell Road at 1 a.m. An om cer dis-
covered evidence of expended fre-
works in the road near the Schwartz
Outdoor Leadership Center.
-Compiled by the O ce of Safety and
Security.
webmail system, which would send
any passwords entered into it back to
the hackers.
Incidences of this type of traptar-
geted social engineering attacks known
as spear phishinghave risen sharply
over recent years, according to comput-
er security frm Kaspersky.
Calling the attack well thought-out
and smart, Davis noted that Bowdoin
was likely not the hackers end target.
Rather, Davis noted that the college
is a worthwhile target because of its
digital resources, including large inter-
net bandwidth and high-capacity email
servers. Had hackers gained control of
these resources, Lord said, they could
have used Bowdoin to send massive
volumes of spam, generating money for
themselves while damaging Bowdoins
ability to use the Internet.
Very few on campus opened the
email. In total, four or fve accounts
were compromised, but the hackers
control over those accounts was short-
lived because the afected users quick-
ly realized their mistakes and changed
their passwords.
Rather than increasing security, IT
plans to increase the already high level
of hacking education.
Te spammers will come up with
something better than what they just
did, says Davis, so just be aware
if something looks suspicious, it
probably is.
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J-BOARD
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an understanding of what the Judi-
cial Board does, and what kind of
violations bring you before the Board,
Shafer said. Its so that we can be as
transparent as we can while protecting
students privacy.
Afer the hearing takes place, the
Board determines whether or not a vio-
lation of either the Social or Academic
Code has occurred. Te Boards deter-
mination once made cannot be over-
ruled by the Om ce of Student Afairs.
While 12 members make up the full
Board, only fve members hear each
case. In cases of Academic Code viola-
tions, the Board is made up of three stu-
dents and two professors; in Social Code
violations, fve students hear the case.
Afer the Board determines that a
violation has occurred, members delib-
erate further on the appropriate sanc-
tions for each ruling. Shafer explained
that while the Board does try to adhere
to precedent as much as it can, the indi-
vidual circumstances of a case will have
an efect on the outcome.
Tere are so diferent many factors
that go into the deliberation and sanc-
tioning process and we as a Board want
to make it as fair as possible, said Shafer.
FEATURES
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BY CAITLIN WHALEN
ORIENT STAFF
Legitimate posers: nude models take pride in their occupation
Were using the
body of the model in
the same way we use
still life in the be-
ginning of class,
said Gandolf.
As for the
models, they
have their own
reasons for
bearing all in
the name of art.
For most, it is
both a job and an
empowering ex-
perience.
Sara Hamilton
16, who modeled in
her first class yesterday,
found the job listing on
Bowdoins student em-
ployment website this
summer after having
difficulty finding a
job on campus.
Id heard that
with nude model-
ing, they have a
really hard time
trying to fll it,
so I was like, Im
defnitely apply-
ing for that one,
said Hamilton.
While she is
excited to have
the job, Hamilton is also focused on
the personal experience.
And Im a Gender and Womens
Studies major and spend a lot of time
thinking about what roles nudity and
sexuality play in our society. I just
realized how much constructed anxi-
ety there is around it and I just didnt
want to be a victim to that, she said.
Sam Caras 15, another mod-
el who began last spring, takes a
straightforward approach to nude
modeling.
It pays well, its a job. I dont see
anything wrong with it, so I think
its just kind of an easy thing to
do, and I think its liberating,
she said.
Matuszewicz became a nude
model afer taking drawing
classes throughout
high school and Drawing I during
her frst year at Bowdoin.
Ive always come at it from an-
other angle where Ive done a lot of
drawing live figures. So I was com-
fortable with the idea of other peo-
ple drawing me just because I know
what perspective theyre coming at
it from, she said. So its really cool
actually to be on the opposite end
of that.
And like the other models, the ex-
perience and the paycheck were en-
couraging benefts for Matuszewicz.
Te job is one of the highest-paying
student jobs at Bowdoin with an
hourly wage of at least $12.
It was partially a personal chal-
lenge to see if I could do it. Teres
this critical moment where, you
have on your robe and you get up
there and then theyre like, Okay, do
it, and you just have to go for it. And
it was like, Can I actually do it?
she said. Its great that its so much
[money] for such a short time. But
the money part was not big because
you dont do it consistently
so its not an income you de-
pend on.
Models work schedules are based
around the need of the classes.
For Drawing I, nude models are
not used until the last third of the
semester when students have ac-
quired the necessary skills for life
drawing.
Drawing II classes spend more
time with their models.
Ofen times a model will work
Would you rather do a naked lap
around the Quad or go to class na-
ked? For a select few on campus, the
latter is the easy choice.
Every year, the visual arts depart-
ment hires Bowdoin students and
members of the Brunswick com-
munity, both male and female, as
nude models for the Drawing I and
Drawing II classes.
Te tradition of using a model in
drawing classes goes back hundreds
of years and has been a part of ev-
ery art class that Ive ever taken or
taught, said Adjunct Lecturer Jessi-
ca Gandolf, who teaches Drawing I.
During class, the models will ei-
ther hold one position for the two-
hour class with breaks every 20 min-
utes, or go through a series of quick
poses. Te poses can range from sit-
ting to some that involve movement.
For longer sessions in Drawing II
where the model does the same pose
for extended periods of time, mod-
els are asked to sit or even lay down.
It can be a really meditative
experience. There was one where
I was lying down and I dozed off
a couple of times because I was so
comfortable, said nude model So-
phie Matuszewicz 15.
Models are also asked to think
of their own poses as they change
positions every minute so that the
class can practice gesture drawing.
Tese sessions are more active for
the models and at times feel like a
performance.
For a Drawing I class, the profes-
sor wanted me to turn in a circle. I
had to rotate 360 degrees and do this
kind of dance to I move all my limbs
in diferent directions while com-
pletely naked as they tried to cap-
ture the gesture of the movement,
Matuszewicz said.
Te diferent poses are structured
to focus the students attention on
a specifc skill or part of the body.
Classes with live fgures teach con-
tour drawing, gesture drawing and
value studies.
Two-Buck Chuck is easy on the wallet, but hard on the palate
According to an educational
YouTube video, there are seven easy
ways to open a wine bottle without
a corkscrew. First-hand experience
proved to us that two of them dont
work: the nail and the screw hook.
After overcoming this immedi-
ate hurdle and shoving the cork
into the bottle, we poured our first
wine for this column into two hast-
ily rinsed mason jars.
Charles Shaw, afectionately
known as Two-Buck Chuck, sells
multiple varieties of extreme bar-
gain wine, perfect for the college
connoisseur looking to whet their
whistle without breaking the bank.
Shiraz, or syrah, is a red wine
originating from the Rhne region
of France.
It is now grown internationally
and is extremely popular in most
wine-producing regions of the world.
We selected a 2012 from the Napa
and Sonoma regions in California.
There are multiple theories as
to the origin of the name shiraz.
Some believe that it is named after
the city in Iran where the type of
grape used for the wine suppos-
edly originated.
One myth says the grapes were
transported to Rhne by a crusad-
er named Gaspard de Strimberg.
Others believe it was a hermit of
the mountains.
We like to think it was named
after a small woodland animal or
a magician.
Syrah wines are generally full-
bodied, though the actual nose and
favor of the wine will vary drasti-
cally depending on local soil and
climate conditions.
A younger shiraz may have
notes of darker berries, pepper
and espresso, though these may be
supplemented as the wine ages with
earthier overtones.
A shiraz will not be easily over-
shadowed by a meal, and pairs well
with grilled meats and vegetables, or
in our case, favor-blasted Goldfsh.
Old Chucks nose was a little
sharp; we described it as:
Elderberry?
Pepper.
Alcohol.
The body was not as robust as
we would have expected. It was
smooth and light, with a slightly
watery mouthfeel.
Was our wine replaced with
water? Or were we just drinking
cheap wine?
We may never know.
Te frst note of the Shaw Shiraz is
defnitely sugar. It is a relatively sweet
wine with a distinct acidity. Te middle
gives a hint of berry accompanied by a
mouthful of diluted alcohol.
As the wine fnishes, the tannins
fnally kick in, but are never present
enough to distinguish it.
In the end, Two-Buck Chuck did
not give an impressive performance.
Te favors present were shallow
and lackluster and did little to mask
a boring, weak body.
Charles Shaw tries to live up to
its more popular and higher-caliber
relatives from Napa, but ultimately
ends up embarrassing itself while at-
tempting to impress its audience, like
a younger cousin at a Tanksgiving
dinner. Defnitely not a conversation
wine, but wine nonetheless.
Additional notes:
Ryan: I think I have cork in my teeth.
Dan: Afer further inspection, this
wine really came into its own on the
fourth glass.
Te previous glasses, which were
largely composed of a watery taste
and vapid character, now have a
certain zest of favor and a make my
stomach warm.
Letting the wine breathe has
worked in its favor. Te wine strug-
gles in its nascent stage but makes
great gains afer half a bottle.
Nose:
Body:
Mouthfeel:
Taste:
Serve with Moulton Unions Bust-
a-Wrap Extravaganza. $2.99 at
Trader Joes.
We poured our rst wine for
this column into two hastily
rinsed mason jars.
with the same class repeatedly as
they hold the same pose for multiple
sessions.
While the models are comfort-
able with their decisions to pose
naked, they have all gotten mixed
feedback from friends and family.
Reactions range from envy and
support to horror.
A lot of my close friends are
pretty liberal people so theyre all
like, Thats awesome! I want to do
it. You get paid how much? But, on
the other hand, my dad doesnt like
to talk about it. And I have a re-
ally great boyfriend, but he doesnt
really like to talk about it. I think
he feels uncomfortable, Hamilton
said.
She added, I have
defnitely gotten some
people who are taken
aback and look at me a little
diferently. Teres a lot around
the idea of a woman using her
body to make money making her
less proper.
Despite mixed reactions from
peers, the models felt uniformly
positive about their decision to take
this job.
Why should people care about
people seeing their bodies? And I
think its something that, in an ide-
al world, everyone would be okay
with, said Caras.
Afer classes and during breaks,
the models are allowed to walk
around the room and look at the
students work and see their role in
class on the page.
I think its a really cool thing to
be the landscape that gets painted,
Matuszewicz said. Youre physically
involved in the art thats being made
because youre the object of it, but
youre not actually participating in
making the art. Its a really interest-
ing relationship.
And she added, While portrait
modeling in drawing can some-
times be the opposite of an ego trip,
its liberating and its challenging.
And then you get to be a part of all
these people who are making art
and learning.
I think its a really cool thing to be
the landscape that gets painted.
SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ 15
Letting the wine breathe has
worked in its favor. The
wine struggled in its nascent
stage but makes great
gains after half a bottle.
I have denitely gotten some
people who are taken aback and
look at me a little dierently.
SARA HAMILTON 16
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
DAN LIPKOWITZ
AND RYAN PEABODY
BOTTOM
OF THE
BARREL
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TALK OF THE QUAD
LIVING HUMBLY FOR A CAUSE
The passage that jumped out
at mea passage I thought I un-
derstood then, think I understand
now, and will probably understand
differently in another five years
was the advice Holden receives
from his former teacher, Mr. An-
tolini, whose words address this
childish dream.
The mark of the immature
man is that he wants to die nobly
for a cause, while the mark of the
mature man is that he wants to
live humbly for one, Mr. Antolini
tells Holden.
The Orient reported on Septem-
ber 20 that Counseling Services
was changing its policies regard-
ing appointments, partially to ac-
commodate the record number of
students who are seeking help with
mental health.
In an interview last year, Bernie
Hershberger, director of counsel-
ing services, told me that the most
common problem for students of
our generation is anxiety.
Hershbergerwhose softly lit of-
fice, deliberate speech, and warm
manner relieved me of any anxiety
I was feeling at the timeexplained
that seniors in particular worry
about their futures, not only about
securing a job, but also about find-
ing a meaningful one.
Some of that comes from the
privilege students feel that theyve
gotten in terms of their life, Her-
shberger explained. Their par-
ents have done all these things
for them, and they should now
take that and do something really
amazingly spectacular.
Hershberger characterized this
sentiment as Millennial anxiety,
and althoughas Holden would
tell usthis worry is not unique to
our generation, I think he is right.
The parents of many current
Bowdoin students were the first
in their families to attend college,
and they faced different socioeco-
nomic realities than most of us do.
Anxieties over grandeur and
fulfillment were not luxuries they
could necessarily afford.
For many of our parents, college
was often a means to a clear end: a
remunerative job, economic stabil-
ity, andhere it is, the ambiguous
refrain of the American Dream,
the task that faces each succes-
sive generation of Americansthe
chance to give us, their children, a
better life.
So here we are, having
lived the better
life, wonder-
ing how we
can possibly
keep sing-
ing the re-
frain, how
we can give
our own
children an even better life. It doesnt
seem as simple as it once was.
Landing a job and raising a fam-
ily in a nice neighborhood with
good schools wont cut it for us
Millennials. That was the progress
our parents made, and they fought
for it so that we could accomplish
something more, something high-
er, something impressivesome-
thing thats hard to describe and
harder to achieve.
Think about the platitudes
that youve heard at high school
graduations and Bowdoin convo-
cations, the assurances youve re-
ceived from beaming grandparents
and strangers who spotted your
Bowdoin sweatshirt on the train.
While Val Jam and Pres Jam, col-
laborative concerts with the Long-
fellows and Missy, Meddies and
Bella respectively, may suggest some
competition between groups, the
tension between groups is really
minimal. And though there may be
friendly rivalries, no two groups are
extremely diferent.
After speaking with Emily Tuck-
er 15 and Adi White 15 of Mis-
cellania, I realized that one point
where the movie and Bowdoin
have considerable overlap is the
social scene.
Although the dynamics and
people in the movie are grossly
exaggerated and this creates cari-
catures like Fat Amy, there truly is
a team dynamic to the groups.
With the amount of time we
spend in Ursus going over parts,
deciding on vocablesthe doos
and cas which my camper mar-
veled overand singing our songs
again and again, teamwork is key.
Though there may be a lot of
hard work involved, the social
aspect of this team is also a big
draw for me, Tucker, White, and
Dan Lipkowitz 14, a fellow Ursus
member who saw a cappella as a
good way to meet new people.
I was never big into team sports
in high school and I wasnt good at
those that I did
compete in.
REGARDING FAT AMY
Even after two years spent work-
ing towards a Bowdoin English
major and thousands of hours
curled in a ball in Massachusetts
Hall reading Victorian novelists,
African-American poets, French
deconstructionist theorists and
my personal favoriteIndian writ-
ers writing in English, the passage
that most resonates with me is still
one I read in high school.
It doesnt come from a novel
that carries much intellectual ca-
chet. Its not old and dense like
Joseph Conrad or Leo Tolstoy; its
not postmodern and trendy like
George Saunders or David Foster
Wallace; it speaks more to naivet
than sophistication.
Thats part of what makes it so
important, not just for me, I think,
but for our generation.
The novel is J.D. Salingers The
Catcher in the Rye, published in
1951. Its the quintessential book
for angsty, disaffected teens, and
although I was more happy-go-
lucky and innocent than brooding
and rebellious in tenth grade, I
like millions of high school stu-
dents before mewas taken with
its narrator, one Holden Caulfield.
I didnt relate to Holdens cyni-
cism or his snark, quite the oppo-
site, in fact. I identified with Hold-
ens dream job, which involves
standing in a big field of rye and
catching children before they fall
from a nearby cliff.
The dream is pure in its ideal-
ism and its selflessness, reward-
ing in its simple, single-minded
purpose, andof courseludi-
crously nave.
Do you know Fat Amy? Does
one person go doo doo doo and the
other ca ca ca? Telling my campers
this summer that I was in an a cap-
pella group at Bowdoin was prob-
ably one of the biggest mistakes I
made as a camp counselor, all lies
about being Harry Potters nephew
and a Norwegian goat farmer aside.
I have none other than Pitch Per-
fect to thank for my problem, or as
people now would say and I cringe
at the sound of it, aca-drama.
For campers and Bowdoin stu-
dents alike, this movie has allowed
outsiders to get a glimpse of what
goes on behind the scenes of colle-
giate a cappella.
My sister somehow convinced me
to watch Pitch Perfect one night
this summer, and being a member of
Ursus Verses, I thought it would be
a good idea to see what all the com-
motion was about.
While some might say that the
movie is biographical of their in-
volvement in a cappella groups, Im
much more hesitant in making this
comparison, and not just because I
have yet to see somebody projectile
vomit while singing in the Chapel.
For me, a cappella has been a
much less contentious and much
more easygoing experience. Every
Sunday, Monday and Wednesday I
head to Main Lounge in Moulton for
Ursus rehearsals just like how I go to
weekly BSG meetings in Daggett.
And while nobody sings at BSG
meetings, theyre honestly
not too different from a cap-
pella rehearsals.
It might be cool when
watching the movie to
think that one person
decides to sing a song
and then everyone
magically knows their
part and starts to bust
out the harmonies, but
rehearsals have just as
many hurdles to tran-
scend as student gov-
ernment does, or any
other student activ-
ity at Bowdoin for that
matter.
Te movie romanti-
cizes the idea of preparing songs to
sing. It completely ignores arrang-
ing music, which can be a grueling
process of writing notes one at a time
onto a computer program
while going back and
forth between YouTube
videos and the Finale fle of the song
youre working on.
Nobody is going to sit through
a movie of somebody sitting alone
at their computer for hours arrang-
ing a song for their group, but the
Youre going to do big things, they
tell us. Youre going to change the
world. Youre going to make a dif-
ference in peoples lives. Youre the
future leaders of
our country. Youre going to make
the world a better place.
With messages like these, our
parents and educators have culti-
vated in us a highbrow naivet, the
belief that our intellect and elite
education will allow us to shape,
change, and improve society, not
merely slot into it.
This Holden-like naivet pre-
vents us from seeing the potential
for happiness or meaning in the
ordinary careers weve learned to
scorn, the careers that 90 percent
of us will eventually pursue. No
wonder were feeling anxious.
Occasionally it seems that if I
dont become the next Paul Farm-
erthe global health icon who
has spent his life toiling away in
rural Haiti on behalf of some of
the worlds poorest peoplethen
Ill be a failure. I want to beall
Bowdoin students want to be, to
some extenta catcher in the
rye, someone selfless and con-
sequential and pure and ex-
traordinary.
Of course, Holden
would tell us that Paul
Farmer is a phony,
someone who only
does good deeds so that
people will give him a
slap on the back. Thats
another issue.
Mr. Antolinis advice
resonates with me be-
cause it lets me know
that I dont
have to be-
come Paul
Farmer or
president of
the United
S t a t e s
or Su-
perman or
Mother Teresa (another phony, ac-
cording to Christopher Hitchens) in
order to fnd fulfllment.
Ive started to think that I might
be happiest teaching English at a
high school, coaching the junior
varsity baseball team, and advising
the school newspaper. Sometimes I
worry that this isnt a grand enough
ambition, that Ill be letting down
all the people who seemed so sure
I would change the world.
How fitting then that I have
another teacher, Mr. Antolini, to
reassure me with a simple truth:
theres nothing wrong with living
humbly for a cause.
-Garrett Casey, Class of 2015
Being last to pass through the
slalom on your alpine ski team ev-
ery time can certainly make for a
good laugh with teammates, but
that bond only goes so far.
Where Pitch Perfect gets it
right is how singing together and
the adrenaline of performing for
an audience can unify a group in
ways that other clubs cant.
Singing, especially with the ad-
vent of shows like Glee and The
Sing-Off, attracts a wider array of
students: where BSG is typically
interesting to people who like poli-
tics or student activism, singing is
a fun outlet for people from dras-
tically different social circles, and
Ursus has introduced me to people
who I likely wouldnt have ever be-
come friends with otherwise.
Pitch Perfect isnt completely
of-mark.
The team dynamic is definitely
apparent in Bowdoins groups, and
the movie does a good job of por-
traying this.
Tough a cappella may be a lot of
hard work, our parties are guaran-
teed to have better singing
than what youll hear in
the basement of a generic
College House party.
-Michael Colbert,
Class of 2016
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
amount of time and efort that this
can require is a signifcant commit-
ment, especially when groups are per-
forming a lot of songs in a semester.
Bowdoin a cappella is markedly
diferent from the music
scene in the movie.
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Stifed: Te Betrayal of the
American Man and Te Terror
Dream: Fear and Fantasty in Post
9/11 America were published in
1999 and 2007, respectively.
From an early age
As a child, Faludi found she had a lot
in common with the titular character in
Harriet the Spy, the 1960s novel that
has served as a sort of handbook for de-
cades of curious young girls.
I realized that when I picked up my
notebook and went around and asked
people questions, I suddenly had a lot of
power and authority, Faludi said.
She got her start writing for her el-
ementary school newspaper; by ffh
grade she was writing stories criticizing
school adminstrators.
Te principal would say, please, do
you have to write that?, she said.
Her interest in feminism developed
alongside her journalistic skills. Te
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was
a topic of national debate when Faludi
was in middle school and Roe v. Wade
was still a few years away.
I did a survey of the classI asked
what they thought about the ERA, I
asked what they thought about repro-
ductive rights, she said. Te students
were overwhelmingly in favor.
At the next school board meeting,
Faludi said an angry woman was
waving the newspaper and ranting
and raving that this was a fascist
communist Pinko plot.
It was then that Faludi realized
that the issue of womens rights was
FALUDI
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
profoundly charged and pro-
foundly important.
When Faludi arrived at Harvard in
the late 1970s, she planned on pursu-
ing a career in law or academia.
But I got caught up in the Crim-
son, she said, referring to Harvards
student-run daily paper.
Te male-female ratio among Har-
vard students was three to one during
Faludis time. She says she covered the
faculty and wrote about womens issues.
According to Faludi, Harvard then had
no om cial sexual harassment policy
the issue was only addressed if a woman
came forward and fled a chrage.
Afer graduation, Faludi was a copy
girl at the New York Timesa glori-
fed intern position that involved writ-
ing stories of the clock and without the
credit of a byline. From there she moved
to the Miami Herald, making her way
to the San Francisco bureau of the Wall
Street Journal, where she wrote her Pu-
litzer-winning story.
Feminism and journalism for me
are both ways of questioning what I
see, she said. Both of these callings
are about challenging the world around
me and hoping tobe a part of chang-
ing society for the betteras hokey as
that sounds.
e road to Brunswick
Faludi returned to Harvard in 2008
as a fellow at the Radclife Institute
for Advance Study. A few years later,
Ghodsee completed the same pro-
gram, and the women met as alumni.
We hit it of immediately, said
Faludi, and the two applied for an ex-
ploratory seminar grant. In October
2012, they taught a two-day seminar at
Radclife called Gender, Socialism, and
Postsocialism: Transatlantic Dialogues.
Because she had worked so well
with Faludi, Ghodsee thought it
would be really fantastic if we could
get her to Bowdoin.
Te Tullman professorship rotates
through departments and is a unique
position; it can be flled by a professor
of practicesomeone who has real-
world professional experience instead of
a traditional academic pedigree.
Professor Ghodsee pitched the idea
of Faludi flling the professorship for the
upcoming year, and the deans agreed.
Its really an amazing coup for
Bowdoin. It shows the intellectual vi-
brancy of our program that we dont
ofen get credited with, said Ghodsee.
Te Tullman position only requires
professors to teach one class a semester.
Faludi is currently teaching a frst-year
seminar, Mothers, Sisters and Facebook
Friends: Is Feminism a Dysfunctional
Family?, but Faludi is quick to say its not
about social media. She says she uses
Facebook friends as a code word for
the ways feminism has been thwarted
by inter-generational confict.
Te class isnt made just for women,
said Adam Glynn 17, the only male stu-
dent in the class. He knew Faludis repu-
tation before he got to campus, and says
it was a big factor in his choosing to take
the course.
To go to the class knowing about
the caliber of her as an academic, it was
incredible to have someone so down to
earth, so humble, so interested in what
we as freshmen in college have to say,
he said.
Glynn says being the sole male hasnt
impacted his classroom experience.
I dont have to be sensationalized as
the only male in the room, he said.
Faludi says she appreciates the
youthful idealism of frst year col-
lege students.
I think people who are cynical are
people who really care deeply and
have just had their hearts broken,
she said. What scares me is the kind
of ironic...take on the world; the dis-
afected pose that I sometimes see in
popular journalism today.
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TOP PHOTO COURTESY OF INSIDE COLBY; BOTTOM PHOTO BY KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
DUAL PERSONALITY: The recent renovations of both the Colby and Bowdoin Art Museums demonstrate a harmony between antiquity and modernity.
Century of Bowdoin arts
showcased in H-L library
Please see CHVRCHES, page 9
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
One of the urgent needs of our
course is instruction, to some extent
at least, in the masterpieces of painting
and sculpture.
So read the editorial in the Novem-
ber 29, 1882 edition of the Orient, and
so begins Sight and Sound: Launch-
ing the Next Century of Fine Arts at
Bowdoin. Te exhibit is on display for
the fall semester in the second foor
gallery of the Hawthorne-Longfellow
Library.
In the exhibit, visitors can fnd vintage
promotional pamphlets, photographs of
some of the frst arts professors at the
College during classroom instruction,
typewritten transcripts of their lectures,
and old course catalogues.
Curated by Archivist Caroline
Moseley of the George J. Mitchell De-
partment of Special Collections and
Archives, the exhibit examines the his-
tory of the fne arts community at the
College. Courses in the visual arts and
music were frst added to the curricu-
lum in 1912 and 1913. Moseley created
the exhibit to mark the centennial an-
niversary of this landmark in the arts at
Bowdoin.
Te exhibit aims to show how artis-
tic interests at the College have transi-
tioned from casual, hobby-based ac-
tivities to the more serious academic
pursuits today.
In 1813, James Bowdoin III be-
queathed his collection of paintings
and drawings to the College. Tese
works were scattered and displayed
throughout campus until 1894, when
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
ORIENT STAFF
Renovations reinvigorate collaboration
Tough Bowdoin and Colby are
ofen considered rivals in sports, the
recent opening of the new Alfond-
Lunder Family Pavilion at the Colby
College Museum of Art reinvigorates
the two museums collaboration ef-
fortsboth between the institutions
and with their student communities.
Colby opened its new art museum
to the community on July 14 and to
the campus on September 12. Te
sleek glass building is an addition to
the existing four wings of the mu-
seum. Te pavilion is 26,000 square
feet and makes the Colby Museum of
Art the largest art museum in Maine.
Te new space provides galleries
where students and faculty can take
a closer look at objects in the collec-
tion for specifc academic work. Te
museum also has new visual art stu-
dio spaces.
Were excited to have the cre-
ation of art, the learning about art
and the refection on art all happen-
ing in one building, said Sharon
Corwin, director and chief curator
of the museum.
To celebrate its opening, the muse-
um has seven exhibitions on display,
including over 250 works of Ameri-
can art from the Lunder Collection
donated by Peter and Paula Lunder.
BY MICHELLE HONG
ORIENT STAFF
Colbys pavilion is similar to the
Bowdoin Art Museums renovation
in 2007, which added an entry pavil-
ion and glass wall and updated the
interior.
On the exterior, both museums
blend modern architecture with the
older styles that exist on the rest of
the campuses. On the interior, they
both embody similar missions to
educate their students and their re-
spective communities.
While both have a well-rounded
array of pieces, Colby has a large
collection of American and contem-
porary art, while Bowdoin boasts a
the Walker Art Building, which now
houses the art museum, was donated.
Te students were aware of the piec-
es the College had, said Moseley, so
occasionally there would be this cry for
why arent we doing more with this?
When more formal course oferings
in the arts were introduced to the Col-
leges catalogue in 1912, they were still
considered by many to be purely for
the enjoyment of leisure.
As the school began to take arts
more seriously, the administration put
another burst of energy into develop-
ing programs.
All of this really refects what was
going on nationwide in terms of schol-
arly endeavors and instruction, said
Moseley. But it also refects the energy
and professionalism of the people the
College brings in.
Expansion continued in the 1950s,
creating much of the music, theater
and visual arts community of today.
Before the 20th century, there were
a lot of student groups. Glee Club,
banjo and guitar clubs, says Moseley.
Really it was mostly student run and
oriented.
Te 20th century saw the creation of
some of the Colleges early a cappella
groups, such as the Meddiebempsters,
the hiring of Professor of Music Fred
E. T. Tillotson, and the construction of
Gibson Hall of Music in 1952.
Tese developments contributed to
the Colleges reputation, evidenced by
the slogan on a pamphlet from the 60s:
Bowdoin is a singing school!
In the coming month, Moseley hopes
to integrate iPads with interactive music
and photo samples into the exhibit.
HIPSTER DRIVEL
MATT GOODRICH
Chvrches new LP shows promising synthesis of recycled sounds
I frst put on Gun, a single from
the band Chvrches new LP Te
Bones of What You Believe, over
breakfast on a bright August morn-
ing some weeks ago. Tis was the frst
time Id heard the of-hyped electro-
pop outft of bright-eyed Glaswe-
gians. Tey had released their debut
EP, Recover, to modest fanfare back
in March afer a string of appear-
ances at Austins South by Southwest
music and arts festival. Although I
was there, Vampire Weekend and the
Yeah Yeah Yeahs had kept me from
catching a performance.
But afer listening to Gun while
munching my Wheaties, I was furi-
ous at myself: I had chosen to see
established stalwarts instead of tak-
ing a chance on an up-and-comer.
Now, Chvrches are making good on
the initial promise of that EPand it
sounds fantastic.
Not that Chvrches are the mak-
ing of a generation-defning band.
No, their rise to fame is as curious as
it is unlikely. How many bands tot-
ing synthesizers has this post-LCD
Soundsystem decade spawnedand
how many more of them are actu-
ally any good? Contemporary pop
music is drenched in sounds lefover
from 80s pioneers like Eurythmics;
Stereogum recently posted an ar-
ticle heralding the decline of guitar-
based rock (citing Chrvches, no less,
and of course Tom Yorkes gloomy
statement in 1993, pop is dead).
I knew something was amiss
when my father walked into the
room and exclaimed that this mu-
sic was much too poppy for a
Radiohead snob like me. How did
GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
100 YEARS: Special Collections debuts Sight & Sound,exhibiting a history of the arts at Bowdoin.
COURTESY OF VIRGIN RECORDS & GLASSNOTE RECORDS
decadeswon the cold hearts and
steely minds of Pitchfork staffers?
Stacking the odds against Ch-
vrches even further is the fact that
its nigh impossible to describe them
without a comparison to more es-
tablished acts. Tey owe the most
to M83, the French dream poppers
who have practically trademarked
the expressive wails that also ap-
pear on Te Mother We Share,
the opening track to Te Bones of
What You Believe.
Next on the list is Purity Ring, an-
other unlikely star of the synth-pop
world, but whose hip-hop style beats
made them a standout in 2012. Also
the tUnE-yArDs, who popularized
the exploitation of earbud technolo-
gyshum ing the sound from one ear
to the otherto send a shiver down
the listeners spine. Such infuences
infect much of Chvrches music.
Please see RENOVATIONS, page 9
a law-school-grad-cum-music-
journalist (Lauren Mayberry), a
touring member of the Twilight Sad
(Martin Doherty), and a serial un-
derground underdog (Iain Cook)
come together to form a pop out-
fit thatthrough a genre of music
thats been hashed and rehashed for
Colbys new art museum addition provides a framework for future work with and alongside Bowdoins museum
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Mollie Friedlander 14
You lose yourself in the music
and leave your academic
worries at the door
Wrecking Ball creates cultural chatter
Mollie Friedlander 14 has
been dancing since she was
nine years old. What she de-
scribes as terrible feet and an
imperfect sense of balance
has helped her find a creative
outlet within an ambitious
Bowdoin career.
Actively involved in her
high school dance teamsin-
cluding lyrical, jazz, and hip
hopdance was her most im-
portant extracurricular ac-
tivity before Bowdoin. She
performed in multiple compe-
titions, took ballet to keep up
the basic techniques of dance,
and practiced in a local studio.
Friedlander said that when
she made the high school
teams she felt accomplished...I
soon found I was really pas-
sionate about it and wanted to
continue.
Coming to Bowdoin I made
a conscious decision to prioritize
academics, but I knew I wanted
to dance. I loved it so much that I
knew it wasnt something I could
just drop afer high school, she
explained.
At Bowdoin, Friedlander is
involved in Arabesque (Ballet)
and Vague (Jazz/Lyrical), and
has been the leader of Obvious
(hip-hop) since the end of her
sophomore year. She also par-
ticipated in Elemental Dance
(jazz/modern) as a first year.
BY YASMIN HAYRE
STAFF WRITER
She noted that dance made
her step outside of her comfort
zonenamely becoming the
leader of a hip hop groupbut
that is something she appreciates
about dance.
Its always been a challenge and
pushed me past my limits. I think
that is mainly why I love it, she said.
Because of her hectic sched-
ule, Mollie never knows when
inspiration for choreography
for Obvious will strike.
It usually happens on the
stationary bike at the gym, or
bopping along the radio while
driving home, she said. To be
honest, its all about the music.
A song will get my feet tapping
and Ill run to a studio or start
haphazardly dancing around
my room.
Friedlander is pleased that
Bowdoin places an emphasis on
a well-rounded educational ex-
perience.
I dance 12 to 18 hours a week
and still do an honors project
with the neurology department.
I didnt have to choose and only
focus on one academic disci-
pline, she said.
After graduation, Friedland-
er is primarily focused on ap-
plying to MD-Ph.D programs
to become a physician scientist.
While she notes that this is a
seven- to nine-year commit-
ment, there is one thing that
will keep her grounded.
Dance will be an outlet...
it does a great job of helping
me putting aside academics
and escaping high stress situa-
tionseven if for only a couple
of hours each day.
She acknowledged that it will
not require the same time com-
mitment that she put in during
college, but she definitely wants
to continue pursuing it.
It isnt something I want to
pursue professionally, but it will
continue to be an important of
my life in some way, shape or
form...even if its on the dance
floor at my kids wedding.
Miley Cyrus has done what the
Republican Party could not. She has
awakenedin our collective uncon-
sciousa debate on God, the gen-
der binary and the American family.
Mileyunlike Gaga, Romney and
Hovahas brought public health to
the forefront of the American mind.
Her album Bangerz has inspired
us to ask big questions: What does
a video of Nick Cages head super-
imposed over Mileys naked body
really mean? Who does the sledge-
hammer in Wrecking Ball repre-
sent? Is it Liam Hemsworth, or Mi-
ley herself ? Are we meta, yet?
Did Miley Purell that hammer
she so lovingly licked? I hope so.
Miley has revolutionized lan-
guage. Imagine googling wreck-
ing ball a year ago or, more
provocatively, turnt. Her popu-
larization of turnt (defined by
Urban Dictionary as the most
wonderful feeling in the world...
the only way to reach maximum
swag) has crossed cultural bound-
aries. Though turnt has been in
use for yearssee Juicy J, Roscoe
Dash and Soulja BoyMiley is the
champion wordsmith who carried
it from the relatively obscure to the
common (and by common, I mean
white) linguistic bank.
Shes introduced us to words we
didnt know we wanted.
Miley understands the societal
implications of this choice. On Au-
gust 12th, she tweeted, i [sic] know
what color my skin is. you [sic] can
stop with the friendly reminders
b*tch. Her appropriation of both
language and dance are inciting a
true American debate over race.
Shes basically entering politics.
Billy Ray Cyrus understands Mi-
leys role as a visionary. When asked
about Wrecking Ball, he said: the
songs a smash...and her perfor-
mance vocally on the tune refects
hersheer God given talent.
I agree. Maybe Miley was divine-
ly placed there, dressed in white
cottonlike an angelto spark a
dialogue on the American condi-
tion vis-a-vis family structure and
religion. If so, it worked.
Following the release of Wreck-
ing Ball, a GIF of naked Miley rid-
ing Billy Rays head went viral. Tis
illustrates the Oedipus Complex
playing out in our collective imagi-
nation. Another GIF showed Miley
twerking on Robin Ticke at the
VMAs, while Billy Rays face foats
omnipresent overhead. Tese im-
agesnot unlike George W. Bushs
fne artbring both the heavenly
and the terrestrial father to mind.
My biggest question for Miley
artist, angel, linguistis this: What
about the children? What happens
when little Hannah sees Wreck-
ing Ball and decides to lick a dirty
sledgehammer? Who is there to
warn her about asbestos poisoning
or the dangers of heavy metals? Mi-
leys Wrecking Ball music video
broke Vevos record for most views
in 24 hours. Tat means a lot of little
Hannahs saw Miley riding around
on that ball banging against things.
We all know that while Miley
is grand for a cultural makeover
and debate, she is also dangerous.
Her discovery of her tongue for
instancelike a child fnding its
thumb for the frst timereminds
us to honor our bodies. Shes the Eve
Ensler of the inner mouth. Howev-
er, with this power comes great re-
sponsibilityand its responsibility
we have yet to see.
Tus, I have a proposition: Chris
Christie/Miley Cyrus in 2016. Miley
has brought up the issues the Amer-
ican people need to wrestle with
(she is also gluten free). Te King
of Bacon and Te Girl Who Cant
Stop should work together to create
a better nation.
It would be like that time my
skinny alcoholic aunt married a
fat-and-sober rich guy so she could
help him lose weight and he could
help her stop drinking. Its symbiot-
ic. Miley Cyrus and Chris Christie
would make a dream team: creating
art, changing the world and making
sure we, as a nation, sanitize large
metal objects before straddling
them and/or tracing our tongues
across their surfaces. GOP, its time
to get turnt.
CHVRCHES
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8
However, Te Bones of What
We Believe rarely sounds deriva-
tive. Part of whats so refreshing
about Chvrches is Mayberrys voice
and the tone of the bands music:
its relentlessly ebullient. Whereas
on M83s albums Anthony Gonza-
lez sings as though he bears the fate
of the universe, Mayberry intones
with simplicity. On Te Mother We
Share, she works her way through
the easy melodies of her lyrics with
a dulcet grace, as if she walks in
slow-motion through the explod-
ing sounds of the synths around her.
Her elegance belies a quiet melan-
choly to the lyrics. When she sings
Never took your side, never cursed
your name, its half in celebration
and half in desperation.
Gun takes a similar approach.
On the strength of a simple hook,
Mayberry spins a tale of a crum-
bling relationship while sounding
like shes on the top of the world.
The soaring chorus of There is
no other way/ Never run far/ Take
a good swing at me/ And every-
thing is even hints at the mutual
destruction of love once shared,
HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
However, her heavy dance
involvement hasnt stunted her
academic growthshe is a pre-
med double major in neurosci-
ence and Spanish with a minor
in chemistry. She also studied
abroad in Argentina. However,
Friedlander admits it is difficult
to factor dance into her aca-
demic life, and notes that her
class schedule often conflicts
with her dance committments.
In addition to her rigorous
course load, Friedlander is a
tutor for the Quantitative Rea-
soning Program, a study group
leader for chemistry, a research
mentor for two first years, and
an admissions tour guide.
However, Friedlander finds
dance as a way of de-stressing
from all of it. Its not an academ-
ic pursuit, which makes it more
fun. You lose yourself in the
music and leave your academic
worries at the door.
SNARK WEEK
ALLY GLASS-KATZ
but when she utters, I will be a
gun and its you Ill come for, the
listener cant be sure if its a threat
meant to menace or something
more plaintive.
Coupled with the take-it-or-leave-
it drama of Tether, these songs make
up the singles released so far. Many
bands have lived by the strength of
their frst singles and died by the ba-
nality of everything else stufed in the
album. Hype ofen kills a band that
doesnt live up to the promise of its
best songs. (Remember Black Kids?
Exactly.) While Te Bones of What
What happens when little Hannah
sees Wrecking Balland decides
to lick a dirty sledgehammer?
signifcant transhistoric internation-
al collection.
Tese diferences in collections
facilitate collaboration between the
two museums. Colby recently bor-
rowed several pieces from Bowdoin
for its Arts and Humanities theme of
censorship this year.
According to Anne Goodyear, co-
director of the Bowdoin Museum of
Art, the museums are hoping to fur-
ther expand this collaboration.
Were in really close conversa-
tion with our colleagues there, said
Goodyear. Were imagining perhaps
the opportunity of joint teaching,
perhaps some distant learning be-
tween the two campuses.
Te Bowdoin Museum of Art is an
active part in student life on campus,
from hosting student nights at the
museum to providing a forum for
dance performances. Corwin says
she would like to see the same hap-
pen with Colbys new space.
Were interested in being an in-
tellectual, creative, and social hub
on campus, so the students will
be able to gather there for events,
performances, lectures and poetry
readings, she said.
Anne and Frank Goodyear, her
husband and co-director of the
Bowdoin Museum of Art, agree that
the new Colby pavillion is a testa-
ment to the importance of art on
campus.
Te new building has a large glass
exterior facing wall behind which
is this extraordinarily colorful Sol
LeWitt wall drawing. You can see
it from a great distance, at night its
all lit up, and what it says is Te Art
Museum, said Frank Goodyear.
Both museums also serve as aca-
demic resources for their visual and
art history departments, as well as
many interdiscinplinary areas.
We see over 80 courses a year
come in with their professors to
study objects in the collections or ex-
hibitions on view for courses ranging
from physics to the classics to Amer-
ican studies, said Corwin.
Both Colby and Bowdoin of-
fer students opportunities to help
behind the scenes at the museums
through docent programs and in-
ternships.
Te skys the limit in terms of
looking at what might be possible and
ensuring that Bowdoin is an active
participant in the larger intellectual
community, said Anne Goodyear.
RENOVATIONS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8
We Believe, at forty-eight minutes,
is dangerously long, Chvrches proves
that it has more than a few ideas for
how to structure a pop song. Te al-
bum is surprisingly diverse, both inti-
mate and expansive, efusive and coy.
To mix metaphors, Chvrches is tread-
ing familiar waters but bring us down
unexpected paths. Its music incites a
longing for childhood, a yearning for
love, andmost importantlya feel-
ing that you dont want this moment,
whatever moment it is, to end. Tis is
pop music, done better than anyone
has done it for a long time.
COURTESY OF VEVO
BREAKING BARRIERS: Miley swings from a wrecking ball in her new, provocative music video.
SPORTS
10 1ui vowuoi ovii1 iviu.v, siv1imviv i,, io1
Womens rugby opens with
win in Middlebury rematch
The womens rugby team fought
to clinch a 25-5 victory over Mid-
dlebury last Saturday after a rough
first half.
Te contest was a rematch of
last years New England Small Col-
lege Rugby Conference (NESCRC)
Championship, which the Polar Bears
won 15-10. Te game progressed
slowly at frst. Te ball made its way
back and forth along the pitch, but
neither team was able to make it into
the end zone.
We started out really slow, said
Captain Maura Allen 14. Te ball
was pretty wet, and we had some dif-
fculty handling it. But afer twenty or
so minutes, we really came together
and started to play.
Te frst half of the game was re-
ally rough for us, said Hayleigh Kein
15. But once we got into the swing
of things, we picked things up, and
were able to do better.
In the 23rd minute, Kein broke
through Middleburys defenses and
made it into open space, bringing the
score to 5-0 Bowdoin. Shortly afer,
Addison Carvajal 16 kicked the ball
downfeld and recovered it to score
again for Bowdoin, bringing the
game to 10-0.
In terms of scoring, Addison
Carvajal, a sophomore, really used
her athleticism to make a number
of statements on the feldboth of-
Panthers stie womens soccer at home
Middlebury handed the womens
soccer team their frst loss of the
season on Saturday in a contested
2-1 match. Te defensive struggle
marked the Panthers sixth-straight
win over Bowdoin.
Te Panthers started of strong
from the opening whistle, putting
pressure on Bowdoin and grabbing
the frst goal of the match in the 31st
minute. Forward Jamie Hofstetter
16 scored Bowdoins only goal of
the match.
In the 84th minute, we got a free
kick right outside the box, said Hof-
stetter. We had practiced our free
kicks the day before, so we were pre-
pared. I shot it right over the wall,
and it went in the goal.
Te goal tied up the game at 1-1.
However, Middlebury scored with only
a few minutes lef to seal their victory.
Towards the end of the game,
Middlebury got a free kick just over
Mens soccer overcomes own goal to tie Midd
BY ADAM LAMONT
STAFF WRITER
Afer an uninterrupted week
of practice, the mens soccer team
(1-2-1) returned to NESCAC play
last Saturday with a 1-1 tie against
Middlebury (1-1-1). An own goal by
Bowdoin in the frst half put Middle-
bury ahead, but Andrew Jones 16
leveled the score early in the second
half. Neither team managed to pull
ahead afer 30 minutes of scoreless
overtime.
Bowdoin entered the game hav-
ing lost in-conference showdowns
to Wesleyan and Amherst. Te team
was eager to avenge those losses
and earn new Head Coach Scott
Wiercinski his frst NESCAC victo-
ry. For Wiercinski, the game carried
extra signifcance since he graduated
from Middlebury in 1999. Last year
Bowdoin managed a late goal to beat
Middlebury 1-0.
Scoring began midway through
the frst half when a Middlebury
Panther lofed a long ball towards
the box. Te Middlebury striker and
Bowdoin defender Ben Brewster 14
both went up for the header. Brew-
ster won the battle and headed the
ball back towards the Bowdoin goal
for the keeper to control. Unfor-
tunately for the Bears, keeper Will
Wise 14 had also come out to corral
the header. Tis miscommunication
led to Brewsters header dribbling
into the back of the net.
Tis goal did not temper Bow-
doins play, as the Polar Bears contin-
ued to put pressure on the Middle-
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Sa 9/21 v. Middlebury T 11
fensively and defensively, said Head
Coach Marybeth Matthews. Hay-
leigh Kein, playing fullback, had a
really terrifc game. Amanda Monte-
negro 14 and Emily Athanas-Linden
15 also both had really impactful
performances.
Bowdoin built momentum in the
second half, scoring multiple times
and allowing Middlebury to get by
only once. Kein and Athanas-Lin-
den ran the ball down the feld to-
gether to net another fve points for
Bowdoin, raising the score 15-5. Car-
vajal racked up another fve points
before a coordinated efort by Allen
and Kein saw the ball through to the
end zone a fnal time, bringing the f-
nal score to 25-5.
Te good news is that we played
very well in the second half, and
managed to pull of a good win in the
frst conference game against a very
well coached team, said Matthews.
I think the learning opportunities
will come from recognizing what
went wrong in the frst half, where
we didnt play very well.
Matthews also expressed her satis-
faction with the skill of the returning
team members, as well as the perfor-
mance of newcomers to the sport.
Tis is a young team without a ton
of rugby experience, and for them to
work out the issues that they encoun-
tered was really to their credit, said
Matthews. Even though we gradu-
ated a lot of talented individuals last
year, in my experience, those new to
the program have always been will-
ing to step up, and play a great game.
Te team next plays at 1 p.m. to-
morrow at Tufs.
BY MATT SHEN
ORIENT STAFF
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Mens and womens XC teams
place 3rd and 8th at USM
Te mens and womens cross-
country teams opened their seasons
this past Saturday at the University of
Southern Maine (USM) Invitational.

Mens
Captain Coby Horowitz 14 and
the rest of Bowdoins squad justifed
their preseason ranking of ffh in D-
III, as they placed a close third in the
competitive USM Invitational. Ahead
of them by one point was Bates, with
85, ranked No. 7 nationally. Te some-
what surprising victor was MIT with
37 points, ranked at No. 28 before the
race.
Bowdoin was missing its second-
best runner and team leader, senior
captain Sam Seekins, whom Head
Coach Peter Slovenski elected to rest
because of a relatively minor training
injury. Last year, Seekins was runner-
up at the New England Division III
Championships.
Horowitz won the meet by a second,
fnishing just ahead of Bates Mike
BY NOAH SAFIAN
STAFF WRITER
Martin, whom he chased down over
the last 200-meter stretch. Despite the
close fnish, the win was a continuance
of Horowitzs dominance, as he won
his third straight regional race in the
past year. Te current captain fnished
his penultimate season on a high-note
by winning the NESCAC and New
England Division III Championships.
For his eforts, Horowitz was named
the Athlete of the Week for the U.S.
Track and Field and Cross Country
Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)
and the NESCAC Cross Country Per-
former of the Week.
Horowitz will gladly welcome back
Seekins this weekend, as the Polar
Bears host the Bowdoin Invitational.
Having Sam back will be huge,
said Horowitz. He makes it a lot eas-
ier because having a teammate there
will push me when I feel like I cant
keep going.
Some of the younger runners also
played important roles for the Polar
Bears, as frst year Matthew Jacobson
fnished fourth among all Bowdoin
runners, eighth among all frst years,
and 31st overall. Nick Walker 16
was right behind him, placing 33rd
overall. Horowitz complimented the
two younger runners on the tough
work they put in over the summer.
bury defense.
Te team responded well and
continued to create dangerous
chances, said Wiercinski. It was
good to see that we battled back
and got the equalizer, and didnt rest
there.
Tat equalizer happened near the
beginning of the second half, when
frst year Matt Dias Costa crossed
the ball into the middle for captain
Zach Danssaert 14, who controlled
it near the front post and spotted
Jones open at the far one. Jones hit
the bouncing ball solidly into the
back of the net to tie the game. From
there, neither team could manage
another goal before the end of regu-
lation.
Te best chance either team had
in overtime was right at the end of
the second period. Middlebury had
won a corner and pushed everyone
except the goalie up into the box.
A Bowdoin clear lef Jones with
the ball at midfeld with only one
Middlebury defender near him,
the half way line. Tey took it, and
we were not organized enough, said
Hofstetter. One of their midfelders
shot the ball, and it was a really nice
shot. It was a heartbreaker, since
there were only two minutes lef in
the game.
Tis situation is something that the
team has to work on in the future, ac-
cording to Coach Brianne Weaver.
We were trying to push for the
win, since we had the momentum,
said Weaver. But emotions were
running pretty high, and thats
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ANKLE-BREAKER: Midelder Molly Popolizio 14 jukes a Middlebury defender in last Saturdays matchup. Bowdoin lost at home to the visiting Panthers, 2-1.
KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
HEADS UP: Captain Ben Brewster 14 skies over a quartet of Middlebury defenders to connect on a header.
but the defender defected his shot,
bouncing the ball harmlessly to the
Middlebury goalkeeper right as time
expired.
Tough Middlebury held the ad-
vantage in shots 25-17, Bowdoin
had more notable chances. Beyond
his miscommunication on the own
goal, Wise played well, stopping all
eight shots fred at him.
Te team is still adjusting to the
type of play Wiercinski wants, and
the time between games showed
with marked improvement. Te of-
fense, despite only netting one goal,
looked better in this game afer only
netting one goal total in their last
two games. Danssaert says the team
displayed much better passing and
creativity.
I think we fnally looked very
confdent playing under the new
style and formation of Coach
Wiercinski, he said.
Bowdoin will look to keep build-
ing on Friday night when they travel
to a 4-2 Tomas College squad.
BY HUNTER WHITE
STAFF WRITER
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Footes three TD passes sink Bears
Middlebury defeated the foot-
ball team 27-5 last Saturday at
Whittier Field in the season opener
for both teams. Although the elec-
tricity was out for the entire sec-
ond half, the game continued on in
near-perfect weather conditions.
Last seasons All-Conference quar-
terback McCallum Foote threw for
362 yards and three touchdowns
for the Panthers, who had not won
in Brunswick since 2001.
Last year, Bowdoin lost 42-18 to
the Panthers. The Polar Bears had
416 yards of total offense in that
game, and Foote threw for 285 yards
and five touchdowns. Middlebury
lost several seniors from last year,
including first-team All-American
tight end, Billy Chapman.
Numerically, we did better [this
year] but we still lost, said captain
Griffin Cardew 14. He said he also
felt the team was more prepared
this year because of a preseason
that started two weeks earlier than
it had in years past.
We played against a quarter-
back who has almost every single
passing record in the league, said
Head Coach Dave Caputi about
Footes performance. He is very,
very good, and we dont want to
take anything away from him or
what the team didbut I think
that we can play better.
Middlebury received the open-
ing kickoff and marched down
the field, gaining 71 yards in nine
plays. To finish the drive, Foote
passed to William Sadik-Khan in
the endzone, giving Middlebury a
7-0 advantage.
With 6:10 remaining in the first
quarter, Dan Johnson 15 made a
diving save to down a punt at the
Middlebury one-yard line. On the
first play of the Panthers ensuing
possession, Cardew gave the Polar
Bears a safety by stuffing Matt Rea
in the endzone. Bowdoin took the
ensuing kickoff and accumulated
its longest drive of the day for 14
plays and 55 yards. Shortly after,
Andrew Murowchick 16 kicked a
field goal with 14:20 left in the half
to cut the lead to 7-5.
Middlebury regained control
at the twelve-minute mark when
Foote capped off a nine-play, 68-
yard drive with a screen pass to
Joey Zelkowitz. Zelkowitz quickly
rushed through the Bowdoin de-
fense to score a touchdown, mak-
ing it a 14-5 Middlebury lead.
Captain Joey Cleary 14 and
Reeder Wells 17 each intercepted
Foote early in the second quarter,
but the team was unsuccessful in
converting either turnover into
points. Bowdoin fumbled in field
goal territory later in the half.
With under three minutes left in
the second quarter, Panther Matt
Crimmins intercepted a pass by
Mac Caputi 15 at midfield, allow-
ing the Middlebury offense to go
50 yards. Sadik-Khan won a jump-
ball pass in the middle of the end-
zone with 1:43 left before halftime
to make it 21-5.
The last scoring play of the game
happened with 2:29 left in the
third, when Middleburys Rea dove
one yard into the end zone.
BY REBECCA FISHER
STAFF WRITER
Mens rugby treks north to beat Black Bears
Te mens rugby team defeated
University of Maine-Orono (UMO)
on their home feld, with a fnal
score of 42-15. Tis represents a ma-
jor turnaround for the Polar Bears,
who lost a match decisively last
spring when Bowdoin played many
inexperienced frst years.
Tere are a lot of hold-overs
[from last year], said Head Coach
Rick Scala of the No. 10 Polar Bears.
Teyre a formidable team.
He also noted UMOs reputation
as a physical team.
Teyre the most physically
dominating [team] in the stateby
a lot, he said.
Te Polar Bears also faced heavy
wind during the game, something
which can be particularly prob-
lematic for rugby matches as it in-
terferes with kicking. According to
Scala, however, it was not a huge
factor on Saturday.
Both teams handled the wind
BY ALEX BARKER
ORIENT STAFF
fairly well, he said. It didnt favor
either team.
In one particular play, outside
center Connor Quinn 15 distract-
ed UMOs team, allowing the Polar
Bears to pull to one side and open
up a spot for Quinn. He carried the
ball closer to the try zone, passing it
to Charlie Allen 14, who sped in for
a successful try.
Quinn chalked up Bowdoins
dominant overall performance to
better tactics on the field than in
previous games.
A lot of guys came in and worked
on stuf over the summer, said
Quinn. We were able to work well
together as a team.
Quinn also said that the teams
new emphasis on tackling was efec-
tive against UMO.
That was our problem last
spring, he said. We werent mak-
ing tackles so [UMO] was breaking
through and just running all over
us. We had great tackles from the
forwards [this year]. Thats huge.
During the game, the Polar Bears
teamwork contributed largely to
the victory. In awarding the Man of
the Match, Scala said that he could
make a case for everyone. Accord-
BY ALEX VASILE
ORIENT STAFF
Last year, Kiersten Turner
16 took a weight off of first-
year coach Brianne Weavers
shoulders by asserting herself
into a starting forward posi-
tion. As a freshman, she tallied
six goals in 17 games, tied for
eighth-most in the NESCAC. A
year later, Turner is on pace to
surpass that total, netting her
fourth goal in six games this
season. She currently ranks
second in the NESCAC in goals
and third in points, and is one
half of a capable pair of for-
wards along with Jamie Hof-
stetter 16.
Turner scored both goals
in the teams 2-0 victory over
Bates. She added another goal
on a penalty kick Tuesday eve-
ning against the University of
New England.
According to various team-
mates, Hofstetters technical
game pairs well with Turners
pure speed.
Working of and with the
other forward is such a critical
part of being an attacking unit,
Hofstetter said. I really think
that [Turner] has taken it upon
herself to make sure that we be-
come really successful.
On the feld, Turner plays
what Coach Weaver calls the
speed-forward position. She
plays the furthest up feld and
pressures opposing defenses
with the threat of outpacing
them on long passes. Her con-
stant activity makes her dim -
cult to defend. Coach Weaver
also praised the accuracy of her
shots and her ability to settle
balls on frst touch.
While not an overwhelming-
ly vocal locker room presence,
Turner provides stability and
energy both on and of the feld.
Shes so consistent, Weaver
said. It doesnt matter who
were playing. Shes a great
standard and she raises the
level of the team because she
works so hard.
Her speed gives her an easy
advantage when battling for 50-
50 balls and trying to take balls
out of the air.
I think she does a great job
of stressing out the defensive
line, Hofstetter said. Her con-
stant runs tire out and confuse
the defense.
Turners history with soccer
is a familiar one. She tried the
sport at an early age, played for
her town, then gradually in-
creased her commitment until
she was travelling year round.
Te Gorham, Maine native
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Kiersten Turner 16
JEFFREYYU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
found her way onto Bowdoins
radar quickly and the College
began actively recruiting Turner
by her junior year in high school.
Despite the close proximity
to the College, location did not
have anything to do with Turn-
ers fnal decision to become a
Polar Bear.
I always loved soccer, but ac-
ademics was always in the back
of my mind, Turner said. Soc-
cer wasnt the thing I was going
to continue doing later in life.
But Bowdoins academic re-
cord was not the deciding fac-
tor either.
Te people made the biggest
diference, she said. I felt wel-
come right away.
She also cites this feeling as an
explanation for her strong start.
Confdence is a huge thing,
she said. I needed to be com-
fortable in my surroundings.
Ten, once my confdence began
to grow, I started to play well.
Tis did not take very long,
according to Coach Weaver.
The first time I really saw
her was the summer before her
first year, Weaver said. She
stood out from the very first
day of tryouts. Shes 100 per-
cent determined about every-
thing she does.
After a season and a half,
Turner is likely to continue to
stand out, especially to oppos-
ing teams.
I really think that Kiersten
is and will remain a key to our
game, Hofstetter said. I have
faith that her goal tally will keep
growing this season and in sea-
sons to come.
Turner is leaning toward a
major in government or psy-
chology. When free from off-
season conditioning, she makes
a habit of attending school
sporting events, particularly
hockey games. Generally, she
enjoys campus programspar-
ticularly if her teammates are
involved. She is also the team
representative to the Bowdoin
Student Athlete Advisory
Council.
e sports editor of the Orient
chooses the Athlete of the Week
based on exemplary performance.
Scored both goals in 2-0
win at Bates
Netted four goals thus
far, second highest in the
NESCAC
Ranked third in confer-
ence with eight points
HIGHLIGHTS
She stood out from the
very rst day of tryouts.
Shes 100 percent
determined in everything
she does.
Head Coach Brianne Weaver
Womens Soccer
ingly, he ended up giving the awards
to the forwards and the backs as a
whole, an unusual decision that re-
fected the contributions of the en-
tire team.
Te team seemed ready to bounce
back afer a frustrating last season
last, when it was forced to forfeit
two games afer a hazing incident,
including one that was scheduled
against UMO. Tomorrow, the team
will play at home against Colby, an-
other top-ranked club.
Colby, in the last 10 years, has
been very strong, said Scala.
Going forward, the men hope to
fnd themselves in the New England
playofs, which annually involves
nearly a hundred teams. Tey prom-
ise to remain strong for the next few
years. Currently, the starting team
is evenly divided: fve seniors, fve
juniors, and fve sophomores. Tis
trend is set to continue, according
to Quinn.
We have a good nucleus, he said.
Te sophomore class is very good,
and we actually have a good fresh-
man class. Teyre obviously learn-
ing the sport for the frst time, but I
think afer a season of fguring it out
theyll be great.
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The game was frustrating be-
cause we felt like we were in a po-
sition to make plays, Caputi said.
We have to play a little better and
coach a little better.
He emphasized that the team
needs to work on developing more
consistency in the ofense, but despite
this, felt the defense played well.
We let up some big plays, said
Cardew. We have a team goal to
only allow a certain number of big
plays every game, and they went
over that. Its not good to start off
the season with another team scor-
ing on the first drive.
Middleburys total offense was
the most potent in the NESCAC
last year, averaging 466.9 yards
per game. The Bowdoin defense
played well, allowing 459 yards
and forcing two turnovers. Strong
performances from Bowdoin in-
cluded Cleary and Cardew, who
led Bowdoin in tackles, and Zach
Donnarumma 14, who rushed
for a game-high 95 yards. Cardew
also had two tackles for losses and
a sack. Middlebury had a 33:59-
26:01 edge in possession and held a
459-290 advantage in total offense.
Bowdoin travels to Amherst to-
morrow to play the Lord Jeffs at 1
p.m on Amhersts new field.
BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
RUNNING DOWNHILL: Running back Zach Donnarumma 14 evades the Panthers defensive backs.
FORWARD WOMENS SOCCER |
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He stressed that Jacobson needed to
not push too hard and burn out at
the beginning of the season before
adjusting to the longer distances run
in college.
Slovenski seemed to think Horow-
itz was leading by example.
Te seniors showed a lot of in-
telligence in the way they ran [at
USM], he said. He looks for the
team to continue its strong start
tomorrow, when they host the
Bowdoin Ivitational at noon.
Womens
Te women placed 8th overall, just
making the top half of the 19-team
feld. Te meet featured fve teams
from the ultra-competitive NESCAC.
All fnished in the top eight, a sign
of the tough season to come. Last
year, the team fnished seventh out
of eleven in the NESCAC champion-
ship and eleventh out of 51 in the D-
III New England Championships. Six
NESCAC teams fnished in the top
ten at New Englands, cementing the
NESCACs reputation as the toughest
D-III conference in the region.
Despite graduating several key ath-
letes last year, the team looks to im-
Field hockey beats Middlebury,
Bates by 12-2 combined score
Te feld hockey team upset
fourth-ranked Middlebury (2-1 NE-
SCAC, 3-1 overall) 4-2 at home this
past Saturday. Bowdoin got on the
scoreboard frst, when Rachel Ken-
nedy 16 scored with nine minutes
lef in the frst half. Te Polar Bears
refused to give up the lead for the
rest of the game.
Afer Kennedys goal, the Pan-
thers responded with a goal of
their before the end of the half. But
Bowdoin started the second half
strong. Colleen Finnerty 16 capital-
ized on a penalty stroke seven min-
utes in. Middlebury tied the score
two minutes afer Finnertys goal,
but the Polar Bears responded im-
mediately with Kimmie Ganong 17
tapping in a shot near the lef post.
Kennedy added an insurance goal
with 4:26 remaining. Captain Katie
Riley 14 assisted on three goals.
Scoring frst was pretty impor-
tant because it set the pace for the
game, said Finnerty. In feld hock-
ey one goal can decide the game. So
its important to get that frst goal
and show the other team how youre
going to play.
The win over the formerly
fourth-ranked Panthers also kept
Bowdoins home winning streak
alive at 35.
Coach Pearson emphasized the
value of winning on the teams
home turf, saying Its huge. It really
is huge, we really enjoy the support
we get at home. That really makes a
difference.
Te crowd support was not the
only thing that helped the team
power through the gameBowdoin
found extra motivation from the
competition.
Te win felt awesome, said
Finnerty. Its always a big rivalry
between us and Middlebury because
were the top two teams in the NES-
CAC almost every year.
Te rivalry has only grown more
intense in recent years. In 2011, de-
spite losing to Bowdoin in both the
regular season and the NESCAC
championship game, Middlebury
destroyed the Polar Bears national
title hopes by beating them in their
fnal four matchup. Last year, Mid-
dlebury fipped the script and won
both the regular season and NES-
CAC championship making this win
for Bowdoin an even bigger one.
On Wednesday, the Polar Bears
made quick work of Bates in Lew-
iston, scoring four goals in the
games first nine minutes and going
on to win 8-0. Emily Simonton 15
notched a hat trick and Kennedy
put in two goals of her own.
Were not looking too far
ahead, said Coach Pearson. We
are excited about some of the
things weve added to our game
but were just going back to the
drawing board. Weve got plenty of
things to work on.
BY JONO GRUBER
STAFF WRITER
something that we have to manage.
We cant forget our responsibilities
at the end of a game.
According to Hofstetter, the team
expected Middlebury to be a tough
opponent.
We have not won against
Middlebury since 2008, she said.
Hopefully we get another chance
later in the season during the NE-
SCAC tournament.
Weaver agreed with this sentiment,
mentioning that Middlebury was a
very strong team that is usually on the
top of the NESCAC, and ofen in the
hunt for the NCAA championship.
She also said that the match was
important for team morale.
Te match showed us that we
could play with this caliber of team,
she said. We were right in there for
the entire match.
Te team rebounded quickly, de-
feating the University of New Eng-
land 4-0 in Biddeford on Tuesday.
Goals from Hofstetter, Turner, Molly
Popolizio 14 and Evan Fencik 17
propelled the Bowdoin triumph.
They have a match against No.
17-ranked Brandeis at home on
Saturday.
Brandeis will be a very strong
team, but we are going to face a lot
of tough teams in the NESCAC this
year, said Weaver. But they will
certainly provide a good challenge.
Weaver added that the Brandeis
match could potentially beneft
Bowdoin later on in the season.
Last year, our performance
against Brandeis really helped solidi-
fy our status as a team in the hunt for
an at-large bid in the NCAA tourna-
ment, said Weaver. So a good per-
formance in this game could really
pay of later in the season.
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prove throughout the season. Slovens-
ki, now in his 28th season at Bowdoin,
attributes the teams good work ethic
and optimistic attitude to the example
set by his seniors.
Te team has a great attitude, said
Slovenski. Tey have had really good
leadership through the September
workouts.
Madalena Rizzo 14, the fastest of
the seniors, fnished second among
Bowdoin runners at USM, coming in
at 44th overall with a time of 19:24.06
on the 5-kilometer course.
Te teams top performer on this
day was Lucy Skinner 16 who fnished
ffh overallher best collegiate show-
ing to date, with a time of 18:24.23.
Slovenski was keen to describe
Skinner as patient in her training,
and attributed her success to work-
ing hard over the summer. He said
she had done very good training in
running and other activities such as
rock climbing Shes become a very
athletic runner.
Skinner herself was modest about
her performance.
I just runI dont have a plan, she
said of her goals for the season. She said
she is inspired by her senior teammates.
The women host the Bowdoin
Invitational tomorrow. The race
begins at 11 a.m. on Pickard Cross
Country Course.
OPINION
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Buckskin Bill and Americas caustic gun culture
Not too long ago in Idaho, along
the banks of the Salmon River,
lived a man who went by the name
of Buckskin Bill. He lived of the
land, and was something of a her-
mit, ofen accompanied by only his
30-millimeter rife in the gun tower
he built overlooking the river. His
sworn enemy was the National For-
est Service, and had fortifed his
landon which he was allegedly
squattingto defend against its
agents. Nothing and no one would
take away his freedom, he swore.
He liked his way of life and would
stop at nothing to retain it.
Buckskin Bill and his miniature
cannon are illustrative of the gun
culture that grips much of America
today. Whether it is reasonable or
not, reactionary citizens believe the
government is attempting to subvert
their values and way of life, and be-
lieve that their gunslarge, scary
guns, of the sort seen in Arnold
Schwarzenegger flmsare the only
things standing between them and a
progressive, totalitarian government.
When politicians, especially the
liberal variety, start talking about
gun control, these reactionaries get
very skittish. Rather than seeing a
good-natured efort to reduce the
availability of guns to criminals,
they view it as a sinister plot to rid
real Americans of their guns and
thus relieve the people of their last
recourse against the government.
Along with anti-government
paranoia comes the belief that
well-armed, law-abiding citizens
should always be their own means
of self-defense, though this mani-
festation of the gun culture is more
pernicious and open to abuse. Many
people carry weapons believing that
if they were ever in a situation rang-
ing from a store robbery to a mass
shooting, they would be able to take
out the perpetrator and restore or-
der. Tis degree of machismo is silly
and destructive. In most situations
such as these, civilians with guns
would only add to the chaos and
likely result in more carnage.
In 2007, in my hometown of Mos-
cow, Idaho, there was a mass shoot-
ing. A man named Jason Hamilton,
armed with an AK-47, barricaded
himself in a church tower and start-
ed shooting. One civilian, armed
with a handgun and the invincible
attitude that comes from having (al-
legedly) just watched Die Hard, rode
his bicycle to the scene instead of
staying where it was safe. Of course,
he was shot four times, though
luckily he survived. Te perpetra-
tor shot himself in the head before
a SWAT team could, and the wan-
nabe hero proved to be just another
casualty.
Moscow is a little blue oasis in
the middle of a very red state. I am
fairly well acquainted with the gun
culture, having lived in rural Idaho,
which loves its guns, for roughtly 18
years. In spite of the pervasive gun
culture in Idaho, I despise the laws
that allow people like Jason Ham-
ilton and Aaron Alexis (the Navy
Yards shooter) to legally acquire
for debate. But many guns that our
neighbors have certainly are for
those anti-government purposes,
and they are not about to give them
up. Guns ofer a sense of security
against the urban elite that sup-
posedly wishes to impose its will
upon the rural everyman. Many
gun owners take pride in the illu-
sion that they are the front line in
the fght against tyranny.
Te gun culture is the main in-
hibitor of change on gun policy.
Members of the gun culture hate the
idea of diminished access to guns
and believe that any restrictions will
reduce the ability of law-abiding
citizens to defend themselves, their
families and their ideals. Tis overly
self-confdent and arrogantly self-
reliant culture is why, in the current
environment, we will have little or
no change in gun control. Te gun
culture has disproportionate sway
over legislatorsspecifcally non-
coastal Republicans and red-state
Democratswho will not vote for
any gun restriction out of fear of
losing donors and elections.
To alleviate the gun problem,
first we must change the gun cul-
ture. People need to learn from
the example of the man in my town
who was shot four times as he
rushed into the line of fire, thinking
he could do the polices job better
than the police.
Gun owners must be convinced
that public safety is not contin-
gent on their ownership of assault
weapons, and that making it more
dim cult for criminals and the men-
tally ill to acquire frearms will not
prohibit law-abiding citizens from
owning guns. Only then will leg-
islators be safe to enact reasonable
restrictions, without the fear of
losing elections to gun-crazy near-
psychopaths. Te government, both
local and national, must instill con-
fdence in the population and re-
mind constituents that democracy
and separate powers, not paranoiacs
with big guns, protect the American
experiment.
Buckskin Bill and his gun make
for a great story, but a pervasive gun
culture does not make us ft to be a
city upon a hill, with all eyes upon
us. It makes for a violent society
and a cautionary tale to those who
observe us.
Earlier this year, Rand Paulthe
junior senator from Kentucky,
did something that has seldom
happened in the Senate in recent
memory: he filibustered. For 13
hours. That is, he actually filibus-
tered, rather than just stopping the
Senate through procedural trick-
ery. I would certainly commend
him for his stamina and verbos-
ity were it not for the fact that his
long speech was a disheartening
reminder of the increased polar-
ization of the American political
scene.
Pauls speech highlighted what
I feel to be one of the great idio-
syncrasies of the American politi-
cal scenethat this multi-faceted
nation has been dominated by a
dual party system. The longevity
of this highly flawed system has
done more damage to the cause
of democracy than anything else:
more than Super PACs, lobbyists
or special interest money. It all but
forces many Americans to vote for
parties that do not necessarily best
represent their concerns. This is no
doubt an important factor in the
disillusionment with government
and politics in America today.
A greater spread of opinions is
needed on the political scene to
account for the 30 percent of vot-
ers who dont identify with either
of the two big political parties. It
is time to rethink the system and
to strongly consider an alternative
that has been ignored for too long:
multi-party democracy.
During the primary season, the
two dominant parties have to es-
pouse radical views to ensure that
they can win votes from the fringe.
Both have members whose views
are diametrically opposed. Con-
sider the divergence in opinions
between Dennis Kucinich and
President Obama in the Demo-
cratic party.
Once the primaries are over, a
candidate has to switch back to a
more moderate viewpoint in order
to make their views more palatable
to the general public. In a multi-
party democracy, there are specifc
political groups that provide for
more radical views, like the British
National Party or the Cape Party in
South Africa. Tis does not prevent
larger parties from existing, who can
and do represent the larger segments
KICKING THE CAN
DAVID STEURY
A call to break our nations dual-party system
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guns of any sort, much less the as-
sault weapons toted by the former
and the tactical shotgun used by
the latter. A system that allows
someone to purchase or own weap-
ons afer having domestic violence
complaints fled against him or hav-
ing shot the tires of a neighbors car
like Hamilton and Alexis respec-
tivelyis broken.
As with many issues, there is a
stark urban/rural divide on guns.
My parents own a small farm which
is both their hobby and their retire-
ment project and, as such, we own
guns. Tree of them, in fact, which
puts us about dead-last for frepow-
er in rural Idaho. My parents also
both hold Masters degrees and vote
Democratic.
Of course, we do not own them
for self-defense or to defend our-
selves against the IRS, and our guns
are not exactly the ones that are up
Whether it is reasonable
or not, reactionary citizens
believe the government
is attempting to subvert
their way of life.
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BOWDOIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Statements of Candidacy for
the Classes of 2014 and 2017
Voting is open from 8 a.m. today until 8 p.m. on Sunday, September 29.
Students can vote online at bowdoin.edu/vote.
2014 Class President
Simon Brooks
Hi friends! You look super today
and I want to be your Senior Class
President. You have all contributed
to my wonderful Bowdoin experi-
ence. Now let me return the favor by
working tirelessly to foster a sense of
unifcation and provide consistent
opportunities where you can escape
the burden of leaving Bowdoin and
embrace the feeling of being a Bow-
doin senior. From being Improv-
abilities leader to Ladds Program-
ming Director, my success is rooted
in an innate ability to unite people
around creative events that appeal to
all. So what are my ideas? Glad you
asked! SENIOR DINNERS: Reserve
Torne/Moulton for Seniors Only
at various times throughout the year.
SENIOR CARNIVAL: Teres cur-
rently a shortage of moon-bounces
on campus. 90s COVER BANDS: A
little Blink 182, Spice Girls and TLC
cuz were not ready to grow up! ALL
YOUR IDEAS: I cant do this alone!
COMMON GOOD SENIORS: A ta-
ble to write letters to soldierseasy
and makes a diference. VITAMIN
D LIGHTS: Keep spirits up in win-
ter. GEAR: Hawaiian shirts, pon-
chos, sunglasses, mugs, sweaters and
blankets. A LEGENDARY SENIOR
WEEK: Unify our grade, increase
fun and maximize smiles. I know
Bowdoin. I love Bowdoin. I PROM-
ISE to make our year unforgettable.
Emma Johnson
Hi seniors. Im Emma. If you are
reading this you may be considering
voting for me for class presidentId
like that.
Im running for president because
I love Bowdoin, I love our class, and I
want this year to be our best yet. For
this to happen, we need a leadership
team that is experienced in planning
events on campus, energetic enough to
follow through on plans, and dedicated
to discoveringand then enacting
your wildest senior dreams (Brews
with Barry? Hot air balloon rides over
Brunswick? 2014 snapbacks?). I have
boatloads of enthusiasm that I will
channel into my presidency. Since be-
ing a leader in MacMillan House and
on the Inter House Council, Ive been
committed to bringing creative, en-
gaging and diverse programming to
our campus. If elected, I will work to
ensure that this year is full of awesome
events that everyone enjoys.
My personal goals for the year are
simple: meet all the seniors I may have
missed, and have a lot of fun. Maybe
get a job too, but lets not worry about
that yet. If elected, I will combine your
ideas, my passion and Bowdoins re-
sources to turn all our goals into an
unforgettable senior experience.

Niliezer (Neli) Vazquez
Dearest members of the Class of
2014, my name is Neli Vazquez and I
would be absolutely honored if elected
to serve you all as your Senior Class
President. I am running because I
am willing and wanting to put in the
hard work, energy and efort needed
to make our fnal year at Bowdoin the
most memorable. In speaking with
the senior class presidents of previous
years I received feedback such as I
defnitely would have tried to delegate
tasks better and the president MUST
MUST MUST be able to communi-
cate and facilitate within the Council
because there are going to be disagree-
ments. I believe that the communica-
tion skills I have gained through years
of ResLife training in tandem with my
prior leadership and programming
experience on this campus make me
the most qualifed to tackle any road-
blocks that may arise on the path to
planning an unforgettable senior year.
I want to do the fun programs of years
past such as Senior Nights in Bruns-
wick and Portland, but also new things
such as more networking events, a Se-
nior Class Prom and more! If you vote
for me, I promise to work hard so you
can play hard.
Alex Tougas
Hey, 2014! Im Alex Tougas, and Im
running for re-election as your Class
Council President. Over the past three
years, the Council has accomplished a
great deal. For example, weve held a
pumpkin carving, the First Year Semi-
formal, the Mr. Polar Bear Pageant, a
gelato giveaway and the Junior-Senior
Ball. We gave out free T-shirts and
sweatshirts, and sold Ivies gear to raise
money for Senior Week.
I have greatly enjoyed getting to
know many of you and working to
promote class unity, and I embrace the
opportunity to do these things again
for our fnal year at Bowdoin. Draw-
ing on my plethora of experience with
the Student Activities Om ce and other
campus administrators, I am confdent
in my ability to plan an epic Senior
Week. In addition, I am personable,
I communicate well and know when
its time to listen, and I am goal-driven
and will work to get things done for
our class. Finally, my positive attitude
is evidenced by a sheet of paper taped
next to my bed that says, Tis will be a
great day! For a fun-flled and memo-
rable Senior Week and senior year, re-
elect Alex Tougas for President of the
Class of 2014!
2014 Vice President
Chris Lord
Hello Class of 2014, my name is
Christopher Lord and I am running
for Vice President of our Class Coun-
cil. As your newly elected VP, I plan on
creating all sorts of events designed to
unite our class as a whole to the largest
extent possible before we graduate at
the end of the academic year, including
unique dinners in each cafeteria, trivia
nights, expeditions around Maine and
movie screenings. I want to improve
our senior nights; introduce some trips
to Portland and really mix things up,
and fashion some sweet gear that we
can all rock together. I know that this is
our last year to give back; community
service trips around this unique part
of Maine would be a great way to end
the year. More than anything, I plan
on being an outlet for students to get
involved and bring their ideas to the
table, because ultimately this is how we
can commence the best senior year of
our lives. I spent freshman and sopho-
more year as the Entertainment Board
representative to the BSG, and know
how to navigate working with student
bodies in order to achieve the best end
result. Vote Chris Lord for VP!
2014 BSG Representative
Laurel Varnell
My name is Laurel Varnell, and I
want to represent the Senior Class on
Bowdoin Student Government. Over
the past three years, I have been ex-
posed to many diferent parts of cam-
pus. I want to use that knowledge to
bring a diferent voice to the Bowdoin
Student Government.
As someone that has no experience
with BSG but lots of experience in
other places on campus, I am hoping
to bring to light issues that have not
been addressed while making sure se-
niors continue have a say in what hap-
pens at Bowdoin. Im also the kind of
person who can get things done and I
am also very excited to be part in the
planning all of the social events for se-
niors. For as long as I can remember,
Ive loved planning events and Ive
gotten the opportunity to plan many
diferent events at Bowdoin. I became
the programming director of Helm-
reich House my sophomore year, and
since then Ive worked with many dif-
ferent people and departments to plan
events like Relay For Life, Date Night
in Daggett Lounge and the Womens
Leadership Lunch. But really, you
should vote for me. You dont really
have any other options.
2014 Treasurer
Martin Bouroncle
My name is Martin Bouroncle, and
I am running for the position of Senior
Class Treasurer. It has been a pleasure
to be part of Class Council for the last
two years. As a sophomore, I served
as BSG Representative, and last year
I was elected to the position of Class
Treasurer, where I served on both the
Class Council and Student Activities
Funding Committee (SAFC). Senior
year is a very important year for Class
Council, because we are responsible
for planning events such as Senior
Nights, the Junior-Senior Ball, pub
crawls, and, most importantly, Senior
Week. I want to use my experiences
from the last two years working with
groups, overseeing budgets and plan-
ning events to make our fnal year at
Bowdoin the best and most memo-
rable so far!
Chelsea Bruno
Class of 2014. We were once called
the big class. Each of us has accom-
plished something great during the
past three years, and such prominent
greatness should be capped with a year
full of events that capitalize on how
fantastic we really are. Afer gradua-
tion we will go our separate ways, but
that time is far from now. Right now
we need to come together and embrace
the fnal months of the best four years
of our lives. As treasurer I promise to
play an active role in planning the best
senior events Bowdoin has ever seen.
I will work hard along with the other
class om cers to ensure that our money
is spent in a way that maximizes living,
loving and laughing. I will personally
see to it that every dime in our budget
leads to a stronger union for the class
of 2014 and a senior week of epic pro-
portions. I understand the power of
being treasurer, and it is my solemn
promise to the class of 2014 that I will
do my very best to make sure that our
senior year surpasses all expectations
and the wildest of imaginations.
2017 Class President
Amanda Bennett
Hey fellow classmates! My name is
Amanda Bennett and I am running for
Class President. I am originally from
Lewiston, Maine (no, I dont support
Bates) and moved to Presque Isle at the
end of my freshman year. I was class
president and National Honor Society
president at my school. I was lucky
enough to be elected Class President at
my new school which gave me the ex-
perience of holding a leadership posi-
tion without knowing every student in-
dividually. I am confdent this will help
me fulfll the duties as class president
while still getting to know everyone.
Tat being said, I believe leader-
ship is about expressing the desires of
the class as opposed to solely the class
cabinet. My frst goal, if elected, would
be to establish a page where people
can express ideas for activities. Having
lived in Maine my whole life I know of
fun activities and places to arrange to
go as a class. A few of my ideas are bus-
es to Portland, a paintball trip, the tra-
ditional semi-formal, and music and
free food on the Quad. I would really
appreciate your vote and look forward
to getting to know all of you. You stay
classy, Bowdoin!
Rajathurai Nagarajah
Hello fellow freshman! My name is
Rajathurai Nagarajah, but you can call
me Rajah. Tis year, I am running for
the position of frst-year Class Presi-
dent. Many of you are probably won-
dering, why Rajah? I dont even know
the kid!
Many of my friends think of me as
a genuine, caring, loving, creative, and
outgoing person. Id love to bring of
all my top attributes and share them
amongst our class. Besides the rea-
son of coming here for the academics,
and probably many other reasons, I
bet one of the top reasons a major-
ity of you came to this place is for
the community. A warm, welcoming
and tight-knit community is what I
love to be a part of, and if elected as
President one of my top goals will be
to help unify our grade and bring us
together. Ive also got some awesome
ideas for events further into the year.
Id love to get to know you all through-
out this year and, if not, throughout
our four years here! Good luck to you
and all, and I hope to have your vote
next week! Dont be afraid to say hello
to me when you see me around!
Justin J. Pearson
We are Bowdoin. When faced with
dim culties, we are triumphant. We are
Bowdoin. In adverse times in the Na-
tion and around the world we answer
the call to make this world a better
place. We are Bowdoin. In events that
shake the conscience of our nation
we defend an idea embedded in this
institutionthe Common Good. I
campaign for the honor of being Presi-
dent of the Class of 2017. I believe in
Who We Are. A group of people crazy
enough to believe they can change the
world. And serious enough to try and
do it. We have phenomenal lives; have
done extraordinary things. Sitting and
talking with classmates for 10 min-
utes and listening you learn so much.
You hear how weve triumphed over
autism. Or how weve served in UN-
Lebanon. Or how we run a non-proft
in Hong Kong. Why? What makes the
Class of 2017 do such things? Why are
we making a diference each day? Why
are we balancing our tasks to self and
world? Easy answer. We are Bowdoin!
Amanda Spiller
Hello friends! My name is Amanda
Spiller, and I am running to be your
class president. I bring to this position
not only unmatched enthusiasm and
passion, but also prior experience and
success as a student government class
president. I wish to represent the tal-
ented Class of 2017; and talented we
are, indeed. Class of 2017, it is all about
the journey. My ultimate goal is to fll
our collegiate journey with laughs,
smiles and experiences that will last us
a lifetime. My presidency will involve
fostering a close relationship between
the class and the student government.
I intend to integrate the ideas of all 497
students in this class to work towards
our collective goals. With me as your
president, my priority is you. It is as
simple as that. I will organize events
that will make us the closest class Bow-
doin has ever seen. With me as your
president, our journey will be unfor-
gettable. So Bowdoin Class of 2017,
vote for the journey. Vote Spiller for
President.
2017 Vice President
Logan Jackonis
In 1297, Scotsman William Wallace
raided the small English town of La-
nark and killed the towns sherif. Tis
sparked a full-fedged revolution in
Scotland. Wallace and his revolution-
aries waged war on King Edward I for
eight years before the English captured
Wallace. Much like this Scottish hero, I
also wear a kilt. Hi! My name is Logan
Jackonis and I am running to be Vice
President of the Class of 2017.
Did you know that it could take a
photon 40,000 years to travel from the
core of the sun to its surface, but only
eight minutes to travel from the sun to
the earth? Much like a photon, it took
me a long time to arrive at Bowdoin
College, but it will not take long for
me to try to brighten your day! As Vice
President, I promise to put forth every
efort to be outgoing and communica-
tive with the Class of 2017 to help all of
our class functions run smoothly. I will
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cool and all havin a great time at this
awesome school. But the only thing
that Im needing you to do, is vote for
me for the student government crew. I
promise we wont get in one little fght
and your mom wont get scared, as
long as you vote for me our happiness
at school will be shared.
Vote Lauren Nguyen for the Class
of 2017 Representative to the General
Assembly!
Jacob Russell
If elected I promise to listen your
needs and your interests. I will be ex-
cessively accessible. In fact, email me
at jrussell@bowdoin.edu. Second, I
will attend the meetings and speak up
for our class. Lastly, I will make sure
to sit on the Student Activites Func-
ing Committee, which I feel are very
relevant to the freshmen class. I par-
ticipated in and loved student govern-
ment all through high school. Te rea-
son I bring this up is that, at my school,
every year a new bunch of bright-eyed
bushy tailed frst-year would run
promising long and ambitious agendas
and accomplish absolutely nothing.
What I found made great represen-
tatives was a desire to help the school
community, the courage to speak out
in meetings, keeping in touch with
constituencies, volunteering at events,
and balancing always representing
the specifc needs of your grade with
working for the general welfare of the
school. Tese are all things I know I
can bring to the table. Tank you for
taking the time to read this.
Hunter White
My name is Hunter White, and I am
running for the position of Class Rep-
resentative to the General Assembly.
I have had the opportunity to meet
most of the Class of 2017 by now, but I
have certainly not met everyone. How-
ever, judging by those of you that I have
encountered, our class is incredibly di-
verse and talented. I am completely in
awe of the abilities of each and every
one of my peers here at Bowdoin.
With that in mind, it would be an
honor to serve this wonderful class. I
believe that I would be the right per-
son for the job because I am very ap-
proachable. I think that most people
in the freshman class feel comfort-
able talking to me and sharing their
ideas with me.
I will be able to understand these
ideas and share them with the Gen-
eral Assembly. Tank you very much
for exercising your right to vote, and I
look forward to (hopefully!) represent-
ing our class in front of the Bowdoin
Student Government.
do my best to make this year go swim-
mingly! Remember, a vote for me is a
vote for kilts and sunshine!
Tanks a ton!
Kiki Nakamura- Koyama
For the longest time I thought that
leaders should have three character
traits plus a nouncourage, inspira-
tion, passion and action. However,
I have realized through my leader-
ship experience that leadership is not
about having those character traits
rather its about highlighting those
character traits in the people you are
leading. Te position of vice president
is to serve the people, and afer meet-
ing many Class of 2017 students, I
personally have been inspired to serve
you. I believe that our class has the po-
tential to unite, and become a legacy. I
believe that with both my experience
and confdence to lead our class I can
work individually with you to make
sure I highlight courage, inspiration
and passion, and turn all of that into
action.
I believe in all of you. Do you be-
lieve in me?
Lets make this happen 2017,
Kiki Hope Nakamura-Koyama
Two-year captain of Alpine Race team
National Honor Society President
Tree-Year Student Body Class Rep.
Secretary of Student Body
(Peachy Kiki)
Cristina Lima
I was drawn to run for Vice Presi-
dent of the Class of 2017 because we
are such an amazing group of diverse
intellectuals that I would be honored
to represent. As frst years we struggle
with the challenge of a new place with
new faces. Terefore, we should con-
tinue to organize activities to get to
know more of our class.
I would make sure that our class
gets the most out of our budget. As
Vice President I would act as a me-
dium between our student govern-
ment and the rest of our class. I am
involved in several aspects of campus
ranging from athletics to the arts. Tis
will allow me to better represent your
opinions and perspectives. I am very
approachable and willing to listen to
your ideas or complaints.
Trough past experiences as class
representative and, during my se-
nior year in high school, head of my
schools student council, I have gained
leadership skills that I would certainly
employ as Vice President. I am hard
working and I would love the opportu-
nity to help make this year a blast! Vote
for someone committed to you. Vote
Cristina Lima for Vice President!
Eleanor (Ellie) Quenzer
As a proud member of the Bowdoin
Class of 2017, it is my honor to run in
the Class Council elections as a can-
didate for Vice President. With past
experience in student government or-
ganizations, I am a qualifed candidate
who is devoted to sharing my enthusi-
asm with my peers.
Specifcally, I am motivated by the
planning responsibilities that accom-
pany the role of Vice President. In high
school, I successfully organized Junior
Prom, Senior Dinner Dance, Senior
Spirit Week, graduation, themed semi-
formal dances, school-wide pep rallies,
handball fundraising tournaments,
car wash fundraisers, and bake sales,
to name a few things. In the future, I
am eager to continue these trends, and
more.
Most importantly, I am always look-
ing to bring new ideas to the table.
With the input from members of our
class, I will organize a variety of events
and programs that will not only be
enjoyable to attend, but that will also
serve as a source for class unifcation.
I need the support of the Class of 2017
to make these possibilities realities.
What you want, I will make happen.
Tank you, and dont forget to vote El-
lie Quenzer for Vice President of the
Class of 2017!
Chrissy Rujiraorchai
Many of you observed my enthusi-
asm for Bowdoin throughout the sum-
mer. Why? Simply, because I care. I
care about the frst year class goals and
objectives. I want our grade to transi-
tion smoothly into the Bowdoin com-
munity.
But more than anything, Im hop-
ing we show Bowdoin what the Class
of 2017 has to ofer. Te truth is, as
frst years we are all still relatively new
here and still trying to fnd our place. I
want to unite our class and make it so
everyone thoroughly enjoys the next
four years.
As Vice President, I would work
closely with our council, Bowdoin staf
and the sophomore council. I want to
ofer more events for our class such as
a class-wide game of Assassin, laser
tag, and movie events. I want to repre-
sent our class in the best way possible.
I hope that fellow Bears are com-
fortable enough to approach me with
their concerns and wants. Right now
many of you only know of my name.
I hope to change that. In high school I
was student body president and I truly
believe I can help lead this class in the
right direction. RujiraorchaiSee it
Rue-jee-laa-chai...Say it. Believe it
VOTE RUJIRAORCHAI for VP.
2017 Treasurer
Zaima Shahzia Mazumdar
In coming to Bowdoin, one of my
main goals was to immerse myself in
its community and culture. I have no
prior experience in student council,
but I feel that there is no better time
and place to get involved than right
here, right now. I want to channel my
passion into distributing allotted funds
rationally, helping plan events and
trips for my class, and being an integral
part of the work that goes into making
Bowdoin a superb community.
As class treasurer, I can bring hones-
ty, tenacity, devotion and responsibility
to the table (coupled, of course, with
enthusiasm inversely proportionate to
my size). In doing so, I hope to grow to
love Bowdoin very unhealthily and to
develop a deeper understanding of its
corethis will be a journey that I can-
not wait to commence.
2017 BSG Representative
Jiaqi Duan
Hi, my name is Jiaqi Duan, and I am
running for frst year BSG Representa-
tive. I grew up in Beijing, China and
moved to a suburb in Los Angeles fve
years ago.
Although both of these cities are
signifcantly diferent from Bowdoin,
when I set foot on campus for the frst
time last November, I felt instantly at
home in this close-knit community.
What I believe shapes the welcoming
atmosphere at Bowdoin is the positive
interactions among members of the
community.
Terefore, I fnd it extremely valu-
able to connect with each member of
the frst year class, as well as to forge
deeper bonds among members of our
class. It is my goal to voice suggestions
and concerns from the frst year class
to the General Assembly of BSG and
to work with the Class Council to
bring members of our class closer to
one another. I am always eager to meet
new people and to hear new ideas. So,
feel free to chat with me about BSG
and beyond, anytime. As clich as it
sounds, I love every minute of my time
at Bowdoin, and I only hope to pay it
forward.
Dylan Robert Johnson
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend
me your ears; I come to represent you.
Having studied, lived and traveled ex-
tensively in Spain and grown up in a
Spanish-American home, I appreciate
cultural nuance and am open to all
sorts of ideas. In spite of having moved
between schools and cities a dozen
times, from Texas to New York to
California to Illinois, I have challenged
myself academically and athletically
while also engaging in extracurricular
and community activities.
As sophomore President of my
class, I worked with organizations like
Toys for Tots and Hearts for Haiti and
organized school dances and other
events. My multicultural parents incul-
cated in me the desire to go beyond my
comfort zone to seek new opportuni-
ties, new challenges, new people, new
ways of thinking. I also enjoy quotid-
ian lifedrinking a Spanish espresso,
attending local concerts, discovering
new global perspectives in the news-
paper, sampling regional food.
As your class representative, I hope
to use my experiences to serve all of
you. We must avail ourselves of the
collaborative potential inherent in
our diverse community, and promote
the expressive, creative and visionary
power of art that allows us to connect
with our common humanity. Valar
Dohaeris.
Wildon Kaplan
Class of 2017, my name is Wildon
Kaplan and I want to be a Representa-
tive to the General Assembly. My cam-
paign is not focusing on superfciality,
but actuality.
Bowdoin is a great place to go to col-
lege. Who would turn down the best
campus food in America? You didnt
you picked this college out the many
that ofered you admission. However,
is anything perfect?
Son Ngo 17: Te laundry is too
expensive.
Carla Olivares 17: We need real
Mexican tortillas in the dining halls.
Sophia Walker 17: We need more
ethnic food. Especially Asian!
Steve Cho 17: Professors dont hole
punch our handouts.
Anonymous 17: We NEED Miley
at Ivies!
Nothing is perfect, but lets try to
make Bowdoin a little more perfect. I
want to focus on real issues, and not
just real Mexican tortillas.
Lauren Nguyen
Hey Polar Bears from the Class of
2017! Why should you vote for me as
our Class Representative to the Gen-
eral Assembly? Well, this is a story all
about how our lives could be fipped-
turned upside down, Id like to take a
minute just sit right there, Ill tell you
all the reasons Im the best candidate
Polar Bear. In western Washington I
was born and raised, ready to bring
great ideas to Brunswick, Maine. We
could be chillin out, maxin, relaxin all
of the voting population.
However, these larger political
groups dont overwhelm the sys-
tem and allow for other views to
be heard. In the United States, this
alternative to the big two comes
only from independent politicians,
a promising idea in principle that
is nullified when you realize that
there are no independents in the
House and only two in the Senate,
both of whomincluding Maines
own Angus Kingcaucus with the
Democrats.
Tere arent any third party
candidates in Congress because, as
Barry C. Burden of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison explains: citi-
zens vote strategically to avoid wast-
ing their votes on hopeless candi-
dates and spoiling the election.
It is tragic that the likes of Angus
King are the exception, rather than
the rule, in this nation. One of the
main problems in the U.S. is that
alternative parties are either too
issue-specific, like the Prohibition-
ist Party or too extreme, like the
American Nazi Party.
Its no small wonder that people
would feel that their votes are wast-
ed, even on larger third parties
like the Libertarians or Greens. If
the big two were relieved of their
extremist burdens, they would be
able to use their well-established
positions to represent the majority
of voters, while still allowing the
more radical elements to have their
own distinct, voice in government.
There are those who argue that
there is an inherent instability in
an actual multi-party democracy,
pointing to examples like Iraq or
Italy where governments (that is
to say, cabinets) are often held to-
gether by figurative scotch tape.
They argue, correctly, that govern-
ments in those countries are forced
to concede to the whims of small
extremist groups.
Italy, since it became a republic
in 1946, has had more governments
than the years passed. An interest-
ing fact, certainly, that has no re-
lationship to the American reality.
Indeed, in Italy parliamentarians
can also be members of the govern-
ment, whereas in the United States,
due to the separation of powers, a
member of Congress cannot also
be a member of the Presidents
cabinet, which prevents the execu-
tive branch from being strangled
by political machinations. And in-
stead of gridlock in the House, the
presence of at least a third party
would encourage the two main
parties to make real compromises,
either with each other or the new
party, instead of the preposterous
deals and arrangements that con-
tribute to bloated and ineffective
legislation.
Others argue that the system
works and that it doesnt need to be
changed at all, that this is the way
its always been, as if that some-
how justifies inaction. A political
system that fails in its primary pur-
pose shouldnt continue to exist.
In many governments, multi-
partyism helps raise the level of
political discourse and strength-
ens the cause of democracy, as is
the case in Germany, Australia and
New Zealand, to name a few.
Certainly, the long-standing tradi-
tion of duopoly will be hard to break
in America but it must be done for
the good of the country, its legislature
and, most importantly, its people.
DUAL-PARTY
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FRIDAY
LECTURE
Making Lou Gehrig into a Mouse
Dr. Rob Burgess from the Jackson Laboratory will speak
about modifying the mouse genome to model
neurological diseases. Students interested are invited to
attend lunch with Dr. Burgess prior to the talk.
Lunch: Dining Room, Moulton Union. 11:30 a.m.
Talk: Room 004, Druckenmiller Hall. 12:30 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM
Women Artists in 20th-Century China
The symposium will open with a keynote address by
Julia F. Andrews, professor of art history at the Ohio
State University. Scholars from across the United States
and Asia will discuss the work of female artists in
conjunction with Breakthrough, the latest exhibit at
the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.
FILM
Leviathan
The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the prize-winning
2012 documentary about commercial shing o the
New England coast.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Bonnie Rideout, Scottish Fiddle
Award-winning Scottish ddler Bonnie Rideout will
perform piobaireachd, a unique genre of Scottish music.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
ACTIVITY
Grocery Bingo
Student Activities will host bingo; students will have a
chance to win food prizes. Class of 2017 T-shirts will be
distributed.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 8 p.m.
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TUESDAY
FILM
Faire Quelque Chose (Do Something)
The Department of Romance Languages will screen
Vincent Goubets documentary, Faire Quelque Chose,
about the French resistance during World War II. The lm
will be followed a discussion in English with Goubet.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
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SATURDAY
SYMPOSIUM
Women Artists in 20th-Century China
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8:45 a.m.
EVENT
Common Good Day
Students, faculty, sta and alumni will volunteer all
across midcoast Maine as a part of Bowdoins 15th annual
Common Good Day, organized by the Joseph McKeen
Center for the Common Good.
Farley Field House. 11:30 a.m.
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MONDAY
LECTURE
What is a caldera volcano?
The Department of Earth and Oceanographic Science will
host a lecture delivered by Dr. Darren Gravley, director of
the Frontiers Abroad o-campus study program in New
Zealand, about environments in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.
Room 020, Druckenmiller Hall. 4:15 p.m.
30
MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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SUNDAY
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Protestant Chapel Service
The Chapel. 7 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY

EVENT
O-Campus Study Fair
Members of the O ce of O-Campus Study and students
who studied abroad will talk to underclassmen about
study abroad program options.
Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 3 p.m.
3
THURSDAY
SYMPOSIUM
Adolescents in the Americas
This two-day symposium will explore the dierent ways
in which youth from the United States, Canada and Latin
America impact politics, culture and social relation-
ships. The event will be sponsored by the Departments
of Education and Sociology and Anthropology, the Latin
American Studies Program and the O ce of the Dean for
Academic Aairs.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 4 p.m.
BOOK RELEASE
Gloria Swanson: Ready for her Close-up
Associate Professor of Film Studies Tricia Welsch will read
and discuss excerpts from her new biography of actress
Gloria Swanson, a seven-decade acting veteran. The
Department of Film Studies will sponsor this event.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:30 p.m.
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PERFORMANCE
The Matter
with Hamlet,
with Aaron Kitch
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ORANGE PEEL BEEF, VEGGIE LO MEIN
CHICKEN JAMBALAYA, REDFISH
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BBQ CHICKEN PIZZA, CORNED BEEF
CHICKEN VESUVIUS, LINGUINE
T
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70
49
RED CURRY BEEF, CHEESE RAVIOLI
SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN, MUSSELS
T
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70
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GRILLED EGGPLANT, VEGGIE PIZZA
TAPAS TABLE, VEGGIE LASAGNA
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Peter Jenkin
(clarinet) and
George Lopez
(piano)
Bead Bling
Bangle Class
LECTURE
La Reine Margot,
by Patrice Chereau
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CHEESE QUESADILLA, LONDON BROIL
HAMBURGERS, FETTUCINE ALFREDO
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MANDARIN NOODLES, PIZZA
MAC N CHEESE, FRIED SHRIMP
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SHAVED STEAK SUB, PULLED PORK
GENERAL TAOS CHICKEN, EGG ROLLS
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CRAFT CENTER FILM SCREENING