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Trans Day of Remembrance New program to fund

honors 326 lives lost worldwide Bowdoin tuition for
hurricane victims
LET IT SINK IN: At a vigil in the Lamarche Gallery, members of the community gathered as students read the names of 326 individual victims of transphobic
violence since the last Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2016. Violence against transgender people has risen in each of the last three years.
by Harry DiPrinzio and
Aisha Rickford
Orient Staff
Editors note: At their request,
the first names of some individu-
als interviewed in this piece have
been abbreviated to protect their
identity.
The walls of the blue box gal-
lery in David Saul Smith Union
currently display a memorial to
the 326 people killed by acts of
anti-trans hatred in the preced-
ing 365 days worldwide. In the
days leading up to Transgender
Day of Remembrance (TDOR)
last Monday, Ari Mehrberg 20,
Sadie Morris 18, Rayne Stone
18 and S. Pollack 21 spent
countless hours compiling the
names and details of each indi-
vidual person who was killed,
finding photos and other details
of their lives in order to create
the handmade posters that me-
morialize each person.
The [most important part of
the] event is recognizing and
taking back the personhood
of people who have had their
humanity denied through vio-
lence, said Morris.
The same level of care and
attention went into the vigil
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
held last Monday evening in the
Lamarche Gallery, organized in
honor of all the trans lives lost
this year.
Students, faculty and staff
packed into the small glass box
on the edge of Smith Union,
many of whom were standing
and even more spilling out the
door. The event began with a
Please see VIGIL, page 3
by Mitchel Jurasek
Orient Staff
Bowdoin announced yester-
day that it is initiating a Guest
Semester Program for spring
2018 designed to accommo-
date students who currently
attend inoperable universities
in Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands. Students who
cannot attend their schools
because of transportation,
housing or financial difficul-
ties have until December 18 to
apply for the program.
We want to allow students in
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin
Islands who are at institutions
that are not operational to have
a safe harbor so they can con-
tinue their studies, said Scott
Hood, senior vice president for
communications and public af-
fairs in a phone interview with
the Orient.
Bowdoin is among a hand-
ful of institutions across the
country that are implementing
similar programs. Among the
NESCAC schools, Amherst will
also host a similar initiative.
While the College is unsure
of the exact amount of students
who will be admitted to the
guest semester, each student ad-
mitted to all class years will be
provided with full coverage of
tuition, room and board, books,
winter clothing costs and trans-
portation to campus.
Strictly due to capacity,
we really have room for only a
handful of students. We will see
how many will apply and take it
from there, Hood said.
While the Office of Admis-
sions brought up the idea, all
areas of the College were taken
into account when making the
decision to start the program.
Student Affairs, Admissions,
the Deans Office and the Pres-
idents Office have been discuss-
ing the process for weeks. All
departments want to help hur-
ricane-stricken students thrive
while at Bowdoin.
We will make whatever
accommodations they need to
make so that the students who
come here have an opportunity
to be successful, Hood said.
Hood noted that this pro-
gram is only one semester,
since hopefully by fall of 2018,
colleges and universities in
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin
Islands will be able to house
and teach students. As of right
now, many colleges in these
communities face an uphill
battle to open. For instance,
The University of Puerto Rico,
which enrolls almost 60,000
students, estimates $118 mil-
lion in damages to its facilities.
The Guest Semester Pro-
gram is an extension of an
earlier change by the College
to accommodate students ap-
plying for matriculation for
the Class of 2022 from areas
hit with natural disasters such
as hurricanes, wildfires in the
west and the earthquake in
Mexico City. These students
can expect accommodations
that range from fee waivers to
extensions and more.

Town residents find College Faculty political donations

contributions lacking are limited, mainly liberal
by Isabelle Hall
Orient Staff
Two op-eds by Brunswick
residents published this month
in local newspapers expressed
that the College should make
a greater financial contribution
to the town.
In a letter to the editor pub-
lished on November 14 in the
Coastal Journal, Brunswick
resident Jean Powers called for
the town to request a greater
gift-in-kind from the College.
A majority of Bowdoins
propertyworth approximate-
ly $165 millionis tax-exempt,
due to the Colleges nonprofit
status. Like many institutions
of higher education, the Col-
lege gives the town a voluntary
annual contribution in lieu of
taxes, known as a gift-in-kind.
This year, this contribution will
be $172,200, an increase from
last years $167,200.
This has been a taboo sub-
ject for years (actually decades)
in the Town of Brunswick
and town officials have always
been afraid to discuss it with
Bowdoin College, wrote Pow-
ers. Many residents feel the
Bowdoin Colleges gift-in-kind
should be at least $500,000 this
year and every year and more
than likely more than that.
Brunswick resident Jon-
athan Crimmins expressed
many of the same concerns
in a separate op-ed published
in The Times Record on No-
vember 15 titled Non-Profit
Means Big Savings.
Looking back long term,
you know, from a taxpayers
standpoint, and just in general
the town has been on the short Individual donations from tion day in 2016.
end of that stick, said Crim- by James Callahan Bowdoin were relatively small These numbers, however,
Orient Staff
mins in a phone interview with in sizeapproximately 86 per- do not capture all political
the Orient. During the 2016 election cent of the contributions were contributions. The Center
The College pays far less cycle, Bowdoin employees do- amounts of $100 or less. for Responsible Politics
than what they would normally nated less to political causes Bowdoins lack of conser- which runs the site Open-
pay if they were a homeowner as a group than employees of vative political donations Secrets.orgnotes that only
or if they were a private citizen many other NESCAC colleges. zero out of 179 separate some donations are available
of the town. And I understand When Bowdoin employees did contributionswas not un- to the public.
that due to tax laws and what- donate, none gave to conser- usual in the NESCAC: Colby Under federal law, all
not that as a nonprofit, theyre vative candidates or groups. College employees made zero contributions of more than
not required to [pay property According to publicly avail- conservative contributions $200 to federal candidates,
taxes]. But for a college that able records from the Federal out of 284 and Bates College PACs, or parties must be
really goes out of its way to talkElection Commission, Bow- employees made three out of itemized and disclosed to
of inequities of the rich, poor doin employees donated the 165one to John Kasich and the Federal Election Com-
that dynamicthey ought to second lowest aggregate sum two to Donald Trump. mission. Donors must report
be putting their money where of any of the 11 schools in the With this one-sided giving, their name, address, employ-
their mouth is, so to speak, NESCAC in 2016 with $12,164. Bowdoin, Bates and Colbys er and occupation, and these
especially with such a robust Connecticut College employ- politically active employees records are publicly available
valuation of the property. ees donated the least with appear to be far more liberal from the FEC and several
Despite the colleges tax-ex- $11,839, and Williams College than their fellow Maine citi- other websites, according to
empt status, the College will employees donated the most zens who split 48% to 45% for OpenSecrets.org.
with $41,241. Data were not Hillary Clinton and Donald
Please see TAXES, page 4 available for Tufts University. Trump respectively on elec- Please see DONATIONS, page 3

N STARTING CONVERSATION F MOURNING ALONE A TWO-WOMAN SHOW S PUCK THE MULES O HAIL MARY PASS
This week, Bowdoin hosts its largest ever Lillian Eckstein 18 reflects on grief at Curtain Callers stages The Last Five The hockey team gears up for the Colby Daniel Covell 86 considers the future of
event series on HIV/AIDS. Page 3. Bowdoin. Page 8. Years in the Pub. Page 5. series. Page 9. the football program. Page 10.
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
STUDENT SPEAK:
1 Thats ____ (film-
set cry)
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13 14 15
What type of boat best represents your personality?
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6 Harmonious homeland

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relationship 70 With 71-Across,
13 Cold time rivalry #4...or the 23 24 25

14 Grasslands
16 With 17-Across,
hockey game this
weekend
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"The Titantic, but right before the
iceberg when everyone was hav-
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rivalry #1 71 See 70-Across
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taking 1 Antiocidant-rich 46 47 48 49

19 Mac alternatives berry 50 51 52 53 David Leen 20

21 The Big Apple 2 Adds water to
"I think Id be one of those man-
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24 Sports official 5 It prevents drying
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26 With 29-Across, up
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fun.
meas.
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judge? 8 Ancient scrolls 39 Spots 60 Impale
35 Got up 9 Bit 47 Type of doll 61 Provocative Samuel Milligan 20
37 _____-Magnon 10 Hockey legend 48 Measuring system 62 Pie _____ mode
38 Inclined Bobby 51 Fragment 64 Uncooked "One of those inflatable life rafts."
40 Jumped over 11 Some auto 53 Take care of 65 Misbehave
41 With 42-Across, accessories 54 Year of the Boxers rebellion 67 Stanley Cup org.
rivalry #3 12 Blue-green shade 55 Moby-Dick captain
42 See 41-Across 13 Big name in
43 Double agents computer
44 Night before 15 _____-Cat (winter Nina Silverman 19
45 Shopping binge vehicle)
46 Cul-de-____
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20 Ghostly figure
23 Hold in esteem
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Chinese menus 27 Black-and-white orient@bowdoin.edu.
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abbr. 31 Random individual solution to this week's puzzle or visit our "A solo sailboat. Like the kind you
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alarm activation at lain Hall was caused by the prohibited use of guy-wire at Brunswick Apartments, causing
Brunswick Apartments. a candle. vehicle damage.

11/17 to 11/28
Friday, November 17
The Yellow Bike Club (YBC) bike
Gisela was reported stolen from a bike rack
at Coleman Hall.
Saturday, November 18
An officer checked on the well-be-
ing of an intoxicated student in the Coffin
parking lot.
A student applying make-up accidentally
activated a smoke alarm in Chamberlain Hall.
A student in Moore Hall activated a
smoke alarm while using a hair straightener.
There was a report that students had ac-
cessed the roof at Burnett House through a re
exit door.
Sunday, November 19
Ofcers humanely removed a bat from a
students closet in Baxter House. The bat was
last seen ying toward Russwurm House.
A student reported being the victim of a
campus sexual assault in 2014 that she had not
previously reported.
A student with a fever was given an es-
cort to the Mid Coast Walk-in Clinic.
A student cooking bacon caused a smoke
A student in The use of a blow dryer caused a smoke
Moore Hall reported alarm in Appleton Hall. Tuesday, November 28
that someone urinated in a clothes hamper. An ofcer discovered two juveniles A student riding a bike at the corner of
A student with a toothache was escorted along with the odor of marijuana in Memorial Cofn and College applied the brakes and
to Mid Coast Hospital. Hall. ipped over the handlebars. An ofcer took
the student to the Mid Coast Walk-in Clinic
Monday, November 20 Satuday, November 25 for treatment of a facial injury.
A ood light lens on Evidence of the A two-hour power outage affected
a rig parked in the Watson use of marijuana was dis- Burnett House, Mustard House and Pine
parking lot was smashed. covered in Hubbard Hall, Street Apartments. Power was restored at
A student report- and three local juveniles 11:45 a.m.
ed a pair of athletic will be given trespass or- An ofcer on bike patrol reported that
shoes stolen at the Haw- ders barring them from a perimeter fence had been cut at the for-
thorne-Longfellow Li- campus for one year. mer navy base property, now owned by the
brary. The shoes, which College.
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A bike that was SARA CAPLAN reported a burglary of an Saturday
stolen from Pine Street unlocked students room Ticket required for admission. Doors
Apartments was found near Thorne Hall and in Chamberlain Hall and the theft of a Vera open at 6:00 p.m.
returned to the owner. Bradley wallet containing Nissan car keys, a Backpacks are not allowed inside Wat-
A student who fell and received a head Visa credit card, a drivers license and cash. son Arena for this game (and will not be
injury at the Coastal Studies Center was taken stored for you).
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A student reported the theft of a YBC A student working the Edwards Center Visibly intoxicated and/or disruptive/
bike from the area of Baxter House during the for Art and Dance left the sink water running disorderly people will be denied entry or re-
weekend. The bikes name is Jane Bennet overnight. Water overowed and caused some quired to leave the premises.
and the registration number is 03597. water damage. For safety reasons, pushing, kicking, or
Two holes were punched in a wall out- excessive banging on the glass is prohibited.
Tuesday, November 21 side the third oor mens room at Moore Hall.
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Friday, December 1, 2017
College commemorates World
AIDS Day with week of events
by Mitchel Jurasek
Orient Staff
This week, Bowdoin hosted
the largest event series in the
Colleges history in recognition
of HIV/AIDS. The schedule
surrounding todays World
AIDS Day recognition has so
far included a screening of the
Oscar nominated documentary
How to Survive a Plague, as
well as a discussion with a cast
member and a panel on the
local and global view of HIV/
AIDS. Today, to commemorate
the worldwide event, there will
be screenings of several short
documentaries on the ongoing
epidemic. The event series will
continue until Monday.
Planned by Rowan Staley 18
and June Lei 18, the events are
intended to create discussion on
campus about the prevalence of
HIV and AIDS.
The goal of these programs
is to start conversations and
not provide any comprehensive
knowledge because the issue is
so interdisciplinary and mul-
tidisciplinary. It also ranges
through multiple decades, so it's
impossible to get all that infor-
mation across in the short time
we have, Lei said.
Lei also wants students to
realize that while HIV and
AIDS are commonly talked
about as a problem of the past,
it is still prevalent in commu-
nities around the world and
needs attention.
There is a local and global
aspect to HIV/AIDS, because
while here in Maine it is not as
prominent, it's still here and its
DONATIONS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Professor of Government
and Legal Studies Michael
Franz noted that the cam-
paign finance system in
the United States has a lot
of transparency built into
it. Though there is some
non-disclosed money that is
directed towards SuperPACs,
it tends to be a relatively
small amount. Tradition-
al PACs are subject to both
contribution limits and dis-
closure requirements.
Where weve seen the
evolution in recent years is in
outside organizations [Super-
PACs] who sometimes orga-
nize as non-profit groups who
are allowed to accept contri-
butions and spend those funds
without disclosing where the
contributions came from, said
Franz. [But] its not a huge
amount of money in the grand
scheme of things.
Of the 179 disclosed dona-
tions from Bowdoin employ-
ees, most went directly to can-
didateswith Hillary Clinton
and Emily Cain receiving the
highest number of separate
donations.
Among the 179 contribu-
tions from Bowdoin employ-
ees, most were from faculty
and staff, though several came
from students who listed their
employer as the College.
The two largest one-time
prominent around the world
where there are pockets that are
still struggling, Lei said. HIV
is a contemporary issue that is
pressing and affects us all.
Rowan Staleys uncle, Peter
Staley, a passionate HIV/AIDS
activist in New York, was a cast
member in How to Survive
a Plague, the documentary
on HIV/AIDS activism that
screened on Tuesday in Kresge
Auditorium. Peter Staley is the
brother of Jes Staley 74 P11, a
trustee at the College.
Rowan Staley hopes the
events this week will be as
eye-opening to students as the
documentary was the first time
she saw it.
I think it's super important
to put on events about HIV/
AIDS in both Maine and the
global context, especially at
Bowdoin because I think peo-
ple our age know so little about
it, said Rowan Staley. I think
it is really baffling that, before
I saw this film, I didn't even
know this about my uncles
past. He was just my uncle. It
was really eye-opening for me
to see this film at 16, and I want
to create that feeling for my
peers and friends.
The programming is de-
signed to dispel the myth that
certain knowledge or interests
are necessary to get involved in
HIV/AIDS activism. Staley and
Lei both come from different
academic fields and stress that
anyone who finds passion in this
issue is needed.
We are really interested in
how HIV/AIDS spreads across
so many discussions we have at
Public Political Donations of NESCAC* Employees
Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Colby
Connecticut
School
Hamilton
Middlebury
Trinity
Wesleyan
Williams
$0.00 $10,000.00
GIVING LIBERALLY: Bowdoin employees contributed the second lowest amount of NESCAC schools to political
campaigns in the 2016 election cycle, with none of those donations going to conservative candidates or groups.
reported donations came
from Professor of Art History
Pamela Fletcher and former
college treasurer Catherine
Longley. Fletcher gave $1,000
to Hillary Clinton and Long-
ley gave $1,000 to Senator
Angus King whothough an
Independentcaucuses with
the Democrats in the Senate.
President Clayton Roses
name does not appear on the
list of donors for the 2016
election cycle. However,
in past years, he has made
several large political dona-
tionsparticularly during
his time in Essex Fells, NJ,
where he donated mainly to
the JP Morgan & Co PAC as
well as to democratic candi-
this school. Rowan is pre-med
and I study art history and En-
glish, and we have found that
you can study any major at
Bowdoin and have a stake in this
issue because it overlaps with ev-
erything, Lei said.
The discussion of the epidem-
ic is especially timely due to the
new tax bill proposed by Pres-
ident Trump and a Republican
coalition, which includes cuts to
public health relief funding. This
means cuts to the Presidents
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR), an American funded
global HIV/AIDS relief fund.
We are advocating for people
to call their representatives. So
calling Senator Susan Collins
from Maine and asking her to
not support the tax bill is im-
portant, Lei said. We have to
be also thinking about action as
well as history.
The programming is also tied
to a course this semester, Viral
Cultures: HIV/AIDS in Science,
Policy and Culture, taught by
Consortium for Faculty Di-
versity Postdoctoral Fellow in
Gender, Sexuality and Women's
Studies, Marika Cifor,
While Bowdoin has held
various events related to HIV/
AIDS over the years, Staley and
Lei felt that this course rep-
resents a shift in the Colleges
approach to teaching students
about the ongoing epidemic.
Cifor was excited to be con-
tacted by two Bowdoin activists
before she even set foot on cam-
pus. The students and Cifor be-
gan having conversations over
the summer about the vision for
the events.
$13,464
$12,164
$14,492
$11,839
$25,041
$23,133
$20,000.00
Donation Total (in dollars)
dates like Barack Obama.
Rose donated $2,300 to
Barack Obamas campaign on
February 29, 2008. This was in
the midst of the heated prima-
ry campaign between Obama
and Clinton.
NEWS
Related Coverage
See page 5 to read about Peter
Staleys visit to campus on Tuesday.
The ideas for the program-
ming are fundamentally theirs,
but I was able to help get lec-
tures and concerts funding for
support, Cifor said.
Student projects from the
class will be on display at the
last event for the programming
on Monday.
Along with this partnership,
the events are co-sponsored by
organizations within and out-
side of Bowdoin. Lei was par-
ticularly excited to partner with
Student Global AIDS Campaign
for Health GAP. Health GAP
(Global Access Project) is an
organization that is dedicated
to ensuring people across the
globe have access to life-saving
HIV/AIDS medicines.
The event series hopes to pro-
vide a diverse range of narratives
for students to interact with. Ci-
for stressed that the continuation
of these discussions on campus
and access to external activism
resources is critical to Bowdo-
in students understanding the
HIV/AIDS health crisis.
World AIDS day presents
an opportunity to have that
conversation to mourn and
to recognize the long history
of the epidemic and the many
people who fought and died of
AIDS-related causes, Cifor said.
Also, I think it is more import-
ant for us to stop and recognize
the state of the epidemic now, to
bring attention, to use that his-
tory [that] we learn to mobilize
action in the present.
$31,519
$29,442
$35,198
$41,241
$30,000.00 $40,000.00
*Excludes Tufts
DREW MACDONALD, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Rose, however, did make
one conservative contribution
while he was at JP Morgan:
$1,000 to Republican Senator
Phil Gramm of Texasthe
then-chairman of the Senate
Banking Committee.
VIGIL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
guitar performance by Pollack
and a speech from Morris.
The event was intended as
a moment to come together
in honor of the lives lost and
in recognition of the endemic
violence that occurs against
trans people in our country and
worldwide.
TDOR is very much a time
of solemnity and grieving and
honoring the people that weve
lost, said Stone. There is a
message of resilience, but its not
a particularly positive time.
After the speech and a mo-
ment of silence, 10 students
took turns reading each of the
326 individuals names, ages
and locations, which under-
scored the magnitude of the
violence. This was followed by
a slam-poetry performance by
Maddie Lemal-Brown 18 and
closing words from Morris.
The sheer number of peo-
ple killed is difficult to com-
prehend, especially when one
considers that there have likely
been many more unreported
murders of transgender people.
Violence against transgen-
der people has risen in each
of the past three years. The
Human Rights Campaign re-
ported that, so far in 2017, 27
transgender people have been
killed by violent means, great-
er than the 23 deaths in 2016.
Forty percent of trans people in
America believe their lives will
end prematurely.
A large majority of the vic-
tims of anti-trans violence are
trans women of color, who are
subjected to living at the inter-
sections of racism, transphobia
and misogyny. This multi-lay-
ered marginalized identity is
often coupled with living in
impoverished communities
that lack confidence in a po-
lice force that will effectively
address hate-driven violence.
Oftentimes, trans women of
color are at risk of mistreat-
ment by the police, and there
are many cases of trans women
of color who file police reports
about transphobic attacks, only
to get arrested or be subjected
to more violence.
The events organizers were
clear in their intention to ex-
pose the violence for what it
is: acts of hatred motivated by
transphobia. Often, transphobic
violence gets reported in ways
that obscures this underlying
prejudice and instead places
blame on trans individuals.
In her speech, Morris out-
lined one way in which this
happens.
Trans women who pass are
blamed for not disclosing their
trans status to their partners,
and the trans panic defense is
often used to protect their as-
sailants, she said.
The feelings of shock are
not responsible for the death.
Whats responsible for the death
are feelings of shamefeelings
of internalized shame or trans-
phobia related to finding out
that you had sex with a trans
person, said Pollack.
Similarly, sex workers, who
are being killed with increased
frequency, are often blamed
for their deaths because of
their participation in an illicit
industry, despite the fact that
they are experiencing over-
lapping systems of oppression
and are often forced to do sex-
work for survival.
3
Trans people across the
world are murdered simply for
being trans, said Morris. The
stigma of gender non-confor-
mity [is] so strong that even
exploring ones gender presen-
tation so frequently leads to
premature death.
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The first ever Transgender
Day of Remembrance was held
in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann
Smith, a transgender woman,
artist and activist, and it was
intended to honor Rita Hester,
a transgender woman who was
murdered the previous year.
Since then, the event has been
held every year on November
20 and honors the lives of every
recorded murder of transgender
people worldwide.
The packed audience at
TDOR this year reflected the
growing and strengthening
trans community at Bowdoin.
Its not that there werent
trans people at Bowdoin be-
foreIm sure there were still a
lot of trans peopleI [just] feel
like fewer people were out, and
we hadnt all found each other
yet, said Mehrberg.
As the community at Bow-
doin grows in size and visibility,
so do the concerns of out-trans
individuals, who have to nav-
igate being representatives of
the already small community.
Choosing to be visible at Bow-
doin, and beyond, often means
assuming the burden of advo-
cating for oneself and educating
the larger cisgender commu-
nity. For some, it means living
your life with the understand-
ing that you can be the victim of
violence or ignorance.
Having to advocate for your-
selves and having to educate
people about your identity and
your experience in your body
and then having to navigate a
society that most of the time
doesnt recognize you or see you
as you actually areit takes a
lot out of you, said Stone.
I navigate Bowdoin with the
constant awareness that I am
not physically safe in the world
at large, said Morris.
Last spring, feces was dis-
covered in a newly installed
receptacle for menstrual prod-
ucts in a mens restroom in
Smith Union, an act that sent a
message of intolerance to trans-
gender students, for whom the
addition to the bathroom was
meant to foster safer and more
inclusive campus spaces.
For the organizers, reflecting
on the murders of trans indi-
viduals is about acknowledging
and condemning the wide-
spread transphobia that moti-
vates those murders.
For Morris, confronting
transphobia is most important-
ly about accepting trans people.
[I want] acceptance that
someones gender can change in
their four years here. That trans
people can be as beautiful or de-
sirable as cis people. Acceptance
that being friends with a trans
person doesnt need to be hard,
she said.
I would appreciate not just
institutional policies changing,
but programming and educa-
tion that provokes thoughtful
conversation that helps people
improve and be better to trans
people at Bowdoin, and I think
that a much more holistic ap-
proach than any one policy is
whats needed to support us,
Morris added.
4 NEWS
Yashere brings color to campus comedy scene
by Devin McKinney
Orient Staff
As part of Bowdoins No Hate
November programming, Africa
Alliance and the Student Center
for Multicultural Life co-spon-
sored a performance by Nigeri-
an-British comedian Gina Yashere
on Thursday night. The show
brought a full crowd of students,
faculty and community members
to Kresge Auditorium.
The show was something new
for Yashere as she doesnt perform
at colleges very frequently and had
not been to Maine before.
I had no idea what to expect,
Ive never been out here, Ive
never been to Maine so I had no
idea, said Yashere. I was expect-
ing probably all white people, I
didnt expect so much of a beau-
tiful mix of people so that was a
very pleasant surprise.
One of the goals for the event
was for students to enjoy them-
selves, but also recognize the rel-
evance of the comedic material
and become more aware of bias on
Bowdoins campus.
I think being able to laugh and
hear jokes that really hit on some
nerves that maybe you have dealt
with as a person [is] another way
that you can interrupt bias, so I
think comedy has a great role in
that. Comedy can be, if thought-
ful, very effective in raising aware-
ness of some things [and] making
it acceptable to have a conversa-
tion about, said Benjamin Harris,
director for the Student Center for
Multicultural Life.
While aimed toward the intro-
duction of critical conversations,
the show also promotes more
representation on campus and
exposes individuals to perspec-
tives that they may not have ex-
perienced firsthand.
[Yashere] is a Nigerian come-
dian out of the U.K., [...] so I think
representation is important, said
Harris. Its great to see folks of
color of all different talents on the
Bowdoin stage, from speakers to
comedians. I think its important
to see the representation, and I also
think its important for students to
hear voices that are different than
the norm here at Bowdoin.
Both Sophie de Bruijn 18 and
Collin Litts 18 are members of
Office Hours improv, and appre-
Town residents express concern over Colleges Pine St. proposal
by Nina McKay
Orient Staff
At a town meeting on the
evening of Monday, November
20, Brunswick residents com-
mented on Bowdoins proposed
plan to discontinue Pine Street
in order to build a new athlet-
ic facility. If accepted, this plan
would mean discontinuing the
portion of Pine Street that runs
between Bowker Street and Bath
Road, adding a perpendicular
extension between Pine Street
and Bath Road through what is
currently a wooded area. Many
residents expressed concerns
about potential negative im-
pacts, such as increased traffic
on residential streets, that the
new road configuration could
have on the neighborhood.
Matt Orlando, Senior Vice
President for Finance and Ad-
ministration and Treasurer, ex-
LAUGHING OUT LOUD: British-Nigerian comedian Gina Yashere performs in front of a packed Kresge Auditorium
Thursday night as part of No Hate November.
ciated the diversity Yasheres per-
formance brought to the Bowdo-
in comedy scene.
Bowdoin comedy is very white.
So I think thats why events like this
are so important and so successful,
said de Bruijn, also a member of
Purity Pact. It can be hard if you
dont see yourself reflected doing
something to envision yourself
doing it. And comedy comes from
perspective, and so the more per-
spectives that are represented, the
funnier shows are.
It can pave the way for others
to be inspired by comedy and it
doesnt have to be such a white
thing. She was so great and I won-
der if she will inspire others to
participate in the Bowdoin com-
edy scene, because I know Office
Hours improv for instance is look-
ing for that, said Litts.
President of Africa Alliance,
Anu Asaolu 19, said one of the
primary reasons she and Harris
decided to bring Yashere to cam-
pus was because they were look-
ing for an innovative approach to
address the main ideologies of No
Hate November.
When I was organizing this
with Ben Harris, we were talking
about how the idea of [No Hate
November] is to be willing to
plained that under state law, the
Town Council has to approve a
road discontinuance, and a public
hearing must be held before the
Council can make the decision.
Orlando also outlined the
process through which, during
the months prior to the public
hearing, the College has en-
gaged in dialogue with town
residents. We held three neigh-
bor meetings and one site walk
We invited criticisms, obser-
vations from the neighborhood,
and we heard their feedback
and weve made a number of ad-
justments. They compromised
on their end, as well.
At the hearing, Jean Shaw, a
Brunswick resident, expressed
mixed feelings about the commu-
nication between the College and
its neighbors.
I just wanted to thank Bow-
doin for taking the time to do
the walkthroughs that they did
step out of the comfort zone, said
Asaolu. How do we use some-
one in a different medium who
is talking about things that are
relevant but in a more accessible,
approachable way?
The addition of a comedian
for this years No Hate November
programming follows a trend of
last years keynote speaker, Aasif
Mandvi, who approached these
tough topics in a lecture style with
humor that was more severe.
I think [Yashere] does an
incredible job of walking a fine
line of being very humorous and
funny about really sensitive things
but knowing where that line is. She
knows the line, as opposed to Aas-
if [Mandvi] whereas he said some
things last year that were cringe-
worthy, said Mohamed Nur 19,
BSG vice president for academic
affairs.
For Asaolu, Yashere offers a
relatable perspective, which she
feels not only benefits herself as a
woman of color, but most students
at Bowdoin.
Ive been here for three years
now, and seeing somebody coming
to campus not only to give a talk,
but somebody whos relatable, who
looks like me, whos shared similar
experiences and that is good to see
with us and the meetings they did
with us, she said initially.
She continued, When I saw
that this was on the agenda
I was very surprised to see
that Bowdoin was considering
closing Pine Street, because at
those meetings that we had, the
community, which was consid-
erablea lot of us came out it
was very clear, that the neighbors
didnt want to close Pine Street.
Many of those opposed to the
discontinuance of Pine Street
identified potential increased
traffic on what are currently
quiet, residential streets as a pri-
mary concern. While both the
College and the town of Bruns-
wick commissioned traffic stud-
iesboth of which found that
staying on the main road would
result in a trip about the same
length as cutting through the
residential streetssome resi-
dents felt that human behavior
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
as a trajectoryits just getting bet-
ter in terms of trying to raise aware-
ness and increase representation on
campus, said Asaolu.
From her playful crowdwork
to her prepared material, Yasheres
show succeeded in this goal of
being very relatable to Bowdoin
students.
Her crowdwork was really
incredible and I thought it was
actually the best part of her show
because it really brought her
down to the Bowdoin students
level and was able to speak with
us directly, said Litts.
Sometimes comedians are not
relatable to everyone but she was
really relatable to the black com-
munity, which I very much appre-
ciated, said Bethany Berhanu 20.
I got all her jokes and didnt feel
excluded in this, which is great.
To all potential comedians out
there, Yashere offered a few words
of advice:
Work hard. Pull experience
from your own life. And dont do
it for the money, do it for love,
the money will come if youre
good enough and you follow your
dream properly and youre not just
doing it for the wrong reasons.
Anjulee Bhalla contributed to
this report.
was not properly factored into
the studies.
Mark Battle, associate profes-
sor of physics and a Bowker Street
resident, cited a traffic study, In-
vestigating Urban Route Choice
as a Conflict Between Waiting
at Traffic Lights and Additional
Travel Time that was published
in Transportation Research
Procedia to support concerns
he raised at the hearing that the
Colleges current proposal could
increase traffic on surrounding
residential streets.
Heres what they found: when
drivers could choose between
two routes taking equal times,
two-thirds of them picked a route
without a traffic light even if its
more distance, but equal times. In
fact, even when the route without
the light took 40 more seconds,
20 percent of them still chose it,
Battle explained.
In the proposed plan drivers
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pay approximately $206,000
to the town in property taxes
this year. Some college-owned
properties are not eligible for
tax-exempt status, including
housing for faculty and staff.
The College owns $11.2 mil-
lion worth of taxable property
including over 20 rentals across
Brunswick for faculty and staff.
Other taxable properties in-
clude Reed House and Bruns-
wick Apartments.
In FY 2016-2017 the College
paid over $21,000 in taxes on
Reed. While the other seven
College Houses are tax-exempt,
Reed has remained on the towns
tax rolls. Senior Vice President
for Finance and Administration
and Treasurer of the College Matt
Orlando speculates this has to do
with the location of the house on
residential Boody Street and the
colleges desire not to take reve-
nue away from the town.
Had Reed not existed in that
spot, there would be two or three
residences on that lot, you could
fit two or three houses there, and
they would have paid taxes there.
So that may have been part of the
rationale, Orlando said.
Due to a tenant unconnected
to the College residing in one
of the units, Brunswick Apart-
ments is also not tax-exempt.
Bowdoin contributed $94,000
in property taxes on the com-
plex in the last fiscal year.
The Colleges annual contri-
bution to the town is decided
through the annual budget
process, and reviewed by se-
nior staff and President Clayton
Rose. Orlando oversees these
contributions.
Bowdoin has continued to
increase the size of its charita-
ble contribution, according to
Orlando, despite an increase
in the Colleges property tax-
esfrom $187,699 in FY 2016-
2017 to $206,497 this current
fiscal year which was due to
a town-wide revaluation that
was finalized this past summer.
In addition to the annual gift-
in-kind, the College regularly
contributes to the Brunswick
Downtown Association and to
the town of Harpswell, where
Bowdoins tax-exempt Coastal
Studies Center is located. It also
pays for services provided by the
town like policing, fire protec-
could use the road between Bath
Road and Pine Street to avoid the
traffic light at the intersection of
Bath Road and Sills Drive.
Sean Boyle, another Bruns-
wick resident, expressed concerns
about people already driving too
fast in his neighborhood. Ac-
cordingly, he feels that traffic
calming measures, such as speed
bumps or speed limits, should
be a requirement of the plan, not
something to be considered in
the future.
Im all for just having the traf-
fic calming already implemented,
and I think we should look at the
whole community and say, Hey,
maybe there should be a speed
limit sign near the bike path.
Maybe there should be a speed
limit sign on Chamberlain [Av-
enue], because theres nothing
now, said Boyle.
Another Brunswick resident,
whose name couldnt be identi-
Friday, December 1, 2017
tion and waste disposal.
Orlando pushed
against several of the claims
made in Powers piece.
back
Jean Powers sort of glossed
over, or made this insinuation
that were afraid to talk to each
other, like theres this divide,
said Orlando. And thats just
not true. Weve had a long,
open, transparent relationship
with the townat least, Ive
been in this chair for a year
now, and Ive had very open
conversations with the town
manager and town councilors.
We really appreciate the
collaboration we have with the
town, and we are mutually in-
terested in the vitality and the
well-being of the Brunswick
community, and the op-ed piece
was disappointing in that it
omitted all that, Orlando added.
Frank Strasburger, a Bruns-
wick resident and father-in-law
of three Bowdoin alumni, wrote a
response to Crimmins op-ed, de-
fending the various ways that the
College contributes to the town
and echoing Orlandos sentiments.
Im a townie, all too aware of
the effect of Bowdoins tax-exempt
status on my own hefty real estate
taxes. But Bowdoin is the very rea-
son we moved here, he wrote.
Strasburger cited opportu-
nities to visit the Colleges mu-
seums, attend events and audit
classeslargely free of charge for
residentsas advantages of living
in Brunswick. He also mentioned
that Bowdoin employs many
town residents and allows Bruns-
wick High Schools swim and
hockey teams to use its facilities.
According to Brunswick
Town Council Chair Allison
Harris, the debate is not unique
to Brunswick or to Bowdoin.
Its always a balancing act to
figure out what is the appropriate
contribution for the College to
agree to make, she said. And its
tricky for every college town Ive
ever lived in. I would say yes, there
are those who feel that Bowdoin is
not paying its fair share of the cost
of running the town. Its a topic
that comes up from time to time.
[Bowdoin is] not the only
nonprofit that has tax-exempt
status in certain areas so that
I think that we look at all the
tax-exempt institutions and
say, gosh, are they paying their
fair share? added Harris.
Emily Cohen contributed to
this report.
fied, reiterated the effect that the
proposed plan could have on
town residents.
He pointed to the houses de-
noted on a map of the area and
emphasized the investment each
homeowner made in purchasing
the houses.
Thats their claim, and they
have a right to feel safe and feel
the value of what they invested is
going to be protected by the town
they choose to live in.
He continued, I think what
needs to be considered is not
whats most convenient or cheap-
est for the College, or even whats
cheapest for the townalthough
I recognize that that has to be
a considerationbut you have
to consider what is in the best
interest of the people who have
decided to make this town their
home and are going to be living
along the streets that are going to
be majorly affected by this.
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Friday, December 1, 2017
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
How to Survive a Plague: Staley on AIDS activism
by Sabrina Lin
Orient Staff
Peter Staley was working
as a bond trader at JP Morgan
when he was diagnosed with
AIDS-related complex in 1985.
The country was in the midst of
an AIDS crisis, and homopho-
bic sentiment was at an all-
time high.
Staley visited campus on
Tuesday night for a screening
of How to Survive a Plague,
the 2012 Oscar-nominated doc-
umentary in which he was fea-
tured, as part of programming
for World AIDS Day. The doc-
umentary presents an authentic,
insightful and heart-wrenching-
ly powerful chronology of AIDS
activism in the 1980s.
[JP Morgan] was one of the
most male-dominated, misogy-
nist, homophobic work environ-
ments in the country at the time.
It felt like working in a mens
locker room in high school, said
Staley. I wasnt out to my family
... I had this very bifurcated life.
Staleys life took a drastic
turn in 1987, when he stumbled
upon a demonstration on Wall
Street by AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power (ACT UP). Sta-
ley remarked on witnessing its
transformation into the greatest
movement in LGBT history.
Ive never had more life
pumped into me in such a short
time. The first meeting I went to
had over 100 people, filled with
the sense of unity and purpose
and seemingly no doubts that
they were already making his-
Curtain Callers redefines The Last Five Years
by Lowell Ruck
Orient Staff
Jason Robert Browns The
Last 5 Years is an unconven-
tional musical. Centered on
a tenuous relationship, it fea-
tures only two actors whose
interactions with each other
are limited and whose stories
run in chronologically oppo-
site directions. Tonight and
tomorrow, Curtain Callers will
stage its own production of this
Broadway success, but with the
unconventional flair the group
has come to be known for: the
show will take place in Jack
Magees Pub and Grill, with
two women in roles typically
played by a man and a woman.
Curtain Callers, which
presented Into the Woods
and Heathers: The Musical
last year, continue to expand
the bounds of theater with
the groups latest production,
which chronicles the rise and
fall of the relationship and
eventual marriage of a novelist
and actress. The mans story is
traditionally told from begin-
ning to end and the womans
from end to beginning. By
casting women in both lead
roles, this weekends show
makes use of a non-tradi-
tional performance space and
tory, he said. And it just kept
rolling from thereACT UP
became my religion.
The political action group
ACT UP was founded in 1987
by playwright and activist Larry
Kramer. Since its conception,
ACT UPs mission has been to
effect change through protest-
ing various organizations, in-
cluding pharmaceutical compa-
nies that overcharged for AIDS
medicine. The groups protests
even succeeded in shutting
down the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration (FDA) for a day
as part of an effort to urge the
agency to approve potentially
life-saving drugs. ACT UP rep-
resented the gay communitys
outcry after six years of battling
in anger, fear and desperation.
The film shows a clip of Staley
hanging up a banner at the FDA
headquarters with the words
Silence=Death.
It was the first time Amer-
icans had seen hundreds of
homosexuals doing anything,
said Staley. We were the Occu-
py [Wall Street] of our age, the
Black Lives Matter of our time
[keeping] AIDS in national
news for at least three years.
We shattered the Ameri-
can myth of the homosexual as
weak, cowering in shadows, too
afraid to stand up for himself,
he added.
The film documents activists
race against time as they fight for
new treatments, FDA approv-
als, federal funding and public
support. Featuring footage and
first-person stories from ACT
TIME WARP: Hope Keeley 21 (left) and Tori Clarke 20 (right) star in Curtain Callers production of The Last Five
Years, a show comprised of only two characters who tell the story of their relationship through an unusual chronology.
subverts the gender binary
dynamic common to many
dramatic works.
Jae-Yeon Yoo 18, the shows
director and musical director,
explained the value of these
stylistic choices.
I found the content to be
perpetuating a lot of negative
gender stereotypes, she said.
ACT UP: Peter Staley (left), featured in How to Survive a Plague, takes part in a Q&A with Rowan Staley 18 (right) following the documentarys screening.
UP members, many of whom
were HIV-positive, the rage
and sadness became palpable as
efforts were shut down by indif-
ferent politicians.
The most powerful mo-
ments of the film are those
of griefmembers dumping
ashes of AIDS victims onto the
White House lawnas well
as those of great resilience,
as members continue to fight
with unyielding conviction and
determination.
Each and every week, it
had a heavy mix of selflessness,
anger, empathy, passion, love,
I didnt want to cast it in
the traditional way. It could
be two women, it could be
two non-binary characters, it
could be two men. I knew I
just wanted to break that and
open up the show to a more
non-binary interpretation.
Tori Clarke 20, one of the
shows two actors alongside
youth, power, sexiness, laughter
and tears, Staley said. We use
reason to suppress fear and re-
fuse to let a virus divide us.
Staley, who is an Oberlin
College graduate and brother
of Trustee Jes Staley 79, P11,
came to the College to screen
the film after it first came out
in 2012. His return to Bowdo-
in was organized by his niece
Rowan Staley 18 and June Lei
18, who both share a passion
for the cause.
I had been introduced to
these films by an organization I
interned for two summers ago
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hope Keeley 21, said that de-
spite these changes to the pro-
duction, the focus is still on
the challenges of relationships.
I think that to a certain
degree, the fact that the show
has been cast with two women
doesnt really make much of a
difference, because its just two
people and their story about
called Visual AIDS, said Lei.
[Rowan and I] joined forces
and started planning this larger
scale program for this year.
I feel like it has a really mul-
tifold message, said Rowan Sta-
ley, niece of Peter Staley. I think
to some extent its HIV/AIDs
awareness ... filling a gap that all
our AP US history classes never
covered. But I also think there
are so many messages ... as far
as seeing how far LGBTQ rights
have come, and also how activ-
ism can be effective.
Activism did triumph in the
end. In 1991, Staley founded the
SEE IT YOURSELF
The musical will be performed tonight and Saturday night from
8-9:30 p.m. in Jack Magees Pub and Grill. Entry is free and all are
encouraged to attend.
their relationship, said Clarke.
The source material, apart
from what we are doing with
the show, deals a lot with the
tension of being in a relation-
ship, and how you can exist
as your own person but also
love someone else and give to
someone else.
According to Yoo, the
groups use of the Pub as a per-
formance space has its chal-
lenges, but it also provides a
more intimate and interactive
atmosphere. Both actors move
into the audience during the
show, sitting down at tables
and engaging directly with
their viewers.
I love performing in un-
usual spaces because I think
it opens up a lot of opportu-
nities to view theater and the
show in a new light, and also
because its so exciting to see
a space you inhabit regularly
and have that transformed
into a theatrical space, said
Yoo. I really want [this] to
be a very, very intimate musi-
calnot like when you go to a
show, the house fades to black
5
PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Treatment Action Group, which
collaborates with pharmaceuti-
cal companies to conduct AIDS
research. The development
of protease inhibitors in 1996
represented a breakthrough in
efforts to treat the virus. Staley
is optimistic about the strides
the movement will continue to
make in the future.
Todays AIDS activists live in
an age of having these tools, and
therefore its a very optimistic
type of activism ... If you push
the right political buttons, and
get everybody on the same page,
you can save lives in real time.
and you just see the actors on
stage far away.
Both Yoo and Clarke em-
phasized the accessibility of the
musical through its focus on
themes to which many students
can relate.
I think that one of the
ongoing themes in this show
is about success, and [it] por-
trays this idea of there not
really being enough success
to go around, that not every-
one can achieve that success.
I think that at a prestigious
school like Bowdoin, thats
kind of a fear that a lot of us
have, said Clarke.
Yoo hopes that audiences will
be able to connect to the show
personally and emotionally.
We dont need every show
to make a big political state-
ment. Sometimes, its enough
to explore the human connec-
tionthe joy, the heartache
and all the angst that comes
from navigating these rela-
tionships, and see those ex-
pressed in a really beautiful
poignant musical fashion,
she said.
6 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Friday, December 1, 2017

Portrait of an Artist: Daniel Mayer 21 on bass

by Nicole Tjin A Djie
Orient Staff
Nicole Tjin A Djie 21:
What got you started with
music?
Daniel Mayer 21: My dad
and my brother were both mu-
sicians, so I got started on pi-
ano really early. I didnt really
like it so I started playing my
dads guitar and I picked that
up really easily. I got into bass
with some other musicians at
a summer camp where I was
put into this rock ensemble.
There were five guitar players
who all had to split up their
parts while the bassist got the
rest. So basically I switched
to bass because I saw that not
many people were playing it,
but I thought it was just as in-
teresting as guitar.
NT: What else drew you to
play bass?
DM: I guess the ability for
the instrument to be both a
percussive, low-end instru-
ment supporting the ensem-
ble, but to also be a solo in-
strument when necessary. I do
not think a lot of instruments
have the ability to be an im-
portant component of a band
while also being able to stand
alone as a solo instrument.
CUT TO THE BASS: Daniel Mayer 21 likes the versatility of bass, both electric and upright, as it can serve as both the
NT: You play bass in The support for a group and a solo instrument in its own right. Mayer plays independently and in a first-year band.
Commissioncan you tell me
more about the band?
DM: We are a seven-piece
group of all freshmen. I met
the drummer and keyboardist
online on the Bowdoin Class
of 2021 Facebook page. We
slowly started to meet other
musicians as we got acquainted
with the music program here.
We all shared this desire to be
in a college band. I always had
this dream of being in a college
band and playing at house par-
ties and do stuff like that. I did
a lot of gigs in high school as
a jazz musician, but they were
usually for corporate or other
types of events. It was not re-
ally involved, whereas with the
house party scene the people
watching are really invested in
the performance, instead of us
just playing wallpaper music at
other gigs.
NT: Does your band write
its own music?
DM: We are going to start
doing that, but right now we
just do soul covers of modern
pop artists. We play a lot of
Stevie Wonder and Michael
Jackson, but we also do some
sort of contemporary music
like alternative rock groups.
We do a lot of Vulfpecktheir
music kinda suits our instru-
mentation quite well. We have
a lap steel player, so we end up
doing a lot of hip-hop songs
by famous R&B artists like
Erykah Badu. We are going to
try some more of her songs be-
cause there are always a lot of
cool samples in her pieces that
CHRIS RITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
incorporate these really long
and airy synth parts that can
be played and replicated on
lap steel. We are just trying to
find some funky jammy songs
that people would dig and that
suits the big-band instrumen-
tation we have.
NT: What do you think of
the music scene at Bowdoin?
DM: It is definitely small,
but I think there is more of
one than I thought coming to
a small school like Bowdoin.
There are so many talented definitely more of a rhythmic
players here and it is defi- instrument, where guitar is
nitely very supportive. All more melodic.
of the musicians intermingle
and play with each other. Al- NT: Besides being in The
though they have their own Commission, how have you
bands they all jam together pursued music while at Bow-
and all know each other. Its doin? What are your goals?
very friendly. There definitely DM: My prospective major
is no air of competition that is music so I am enrolled in a
I imagine there would be at few theory classes and perfor-
big universities where people mance classes. I am involved
have to compete for gig op- in the Bowdoin jazz combos
portunities. Its very support- here, so I have some excit-
ive here. ing gigs coming up. Our jazz
coach, Titus Abbot is open-
NT: Who were your inspira- ing for us at Port City Blue
tions growing up as a musician? on December 9 in Portland,
DM: I really liked the Red so that is going to be a pretty
Hot Chili Peppers, so Flea was cool gig. Other than that we
a big inspiration for me on kind of just do on campus
bass. I would learn all of their gigs. And my jazz playing has
charts. As I got more away definitely gotten way better
from funk and rock I went into here. My goal is to just get as
jazz music. I was listening to a good as possible. I do want to
lot of Jaco Pastorius on elec- be a professional musician ul-
tric bass. Moving strictly into timately, or now I guess, but I
upright bass[which Mayer just want to learn as much as I
plays]I was really into Paul can while I am here.
Chambers, Scott Lafaro and
Oscar Pettiford. Theyre my NT: Have taking music
main upright bass idols now, theory classes here helped
but in the beginning it was you with performance?
strictly Red Hot Chili Peppers. DM: Yeah, the music theory
classes here are second to none
NT: Can you briefly ex- compared to any other college.
plain the difference between I have a lot of friends who are
bass and just a regular guitar? studying music at music schools
DM: To be honest, there and they are impressed by how
are not many structural dif- difficult some of the course
ferences. They look very sim- material is in my theory class-
ilar. Electric bass typically has es. Even though Bowdoin is
four strings and the strings not a music school, the music
are thicker than electric guitar department here is very, very
strings. So where on a guitar deep and I think it gets kind of
you would use finger picking overlooked. The theory class-
techniques or a pick, you actu- esespecially for me since I did
ally use just your index finger not really have a theory back-
and middle finger predomi- groundare really difficult. It
nantly and pluck bass strings. takes up a lot of my time.
And it has more of a thump to
it and more of a presence. The NT: How often do you
goal with bass is to bring up practice?
the low-end frequencies, while DM: I try to practice at
with the guitar you create a least three to four hours a day.
high-end sonic sound. So it is

With Ctrl, SZA triumphantly returns with a sharper sound

The Aux Cord
by Chris Ritter
Top Dawg Entertainment
(TDE) owns a rap empire at
this point. Based out of LA,
the label boasts a roster that
includes Kendrick Lamar,
Schoolboy Q, Isaiah Rashad,
Ab-Soul and Jay Rock. But
then theres SZA. The pen
name of Solna Imani Rowe,
SZA is TDEs only claim to di-
versity; the only female artist
on TDE is also its only notable
artist who you couldnt defin-
itively call a rapper. In fact,
SZAs music defies most mu-
sical descriptors. Theres the
trippiness of psych rock, the
warmth of old school R&B,
the kinks of modern EDM
and the punch of trap. But
its all so well blended that it
would be unfair to pin SZAs
music as any one of these. That
sound has made her a prized
collaborator; shes featured for
nearly all of her more famous
label mates, and she wrote the
opener for Rihannas ANTi.
But with no solo work since
2014, SZA has caused more
conversations than her body
of work would warrant.
SZA has been between the
spotlight and the shadows for
too long. Her mixtapes S and
Z, as beautiful as they were
obscure, embodied that space.
The tapes displayed SZAs
ability to push the boundar-
ies of genre, but sometimes
the sonic experimentation
meant casting a shadow over
SZAs personality, as well as
her voice. She long hinted at
the release A, the comple-
tion of a trilogy (S, Z, A).
But with the passage of time,
as well as a frustrated tweet
from SZA herself suggesting
her premature retirement,
it seemed unlikely that A
would ever come.
But SZA didnt retire, and
we should all be thankful. We
still dont know about A, but
last June, SZA made a trium-
phant return with her debut
album, Ctrl. The album sees
SZA shedding the murkiness
of her early tapes, sharpening
her sound but retaining its
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the album while you read.
quirky nature.
The dissonant opener, Su-
permodel, sees SZA emerging
from the shadows of her early
records, ditching vocal effects
and stripping back production
to free up space for herself.
The track sees SZA strutting
from line to line and from bit-
terness to vulnerability: you
know you wrong for shit like
that / I could be your super-
model if you believe, if you see
it in me. Its a kind of effortless
confidence that will undoubt-
edly gain SZA comparisons
to the Knowles sisters. But
the sound is more Bjrk than
Beyonc here: a lone, gritty
guitar, a frantic drum set and
little else form this skeletal
track. Though many will clas-
sify Ctrl as R&B, it is clear
from the beginning that SZA
has much more to work with
in her repertoire.
The same is clear on Drew
Barrymore, a droopy rock
ballad that finds SZA empty-
ing her insecurities with ach-
ing honesty: you came with
your new friends / and mom
jeans and her new vans / and
shes perfect and I hate it /
oh so glad you made it. SZA
sounds most at home on Ctrl
where she channels endearing
characters like Barrymore,
celebrating her oddities even
when that means accepting
loneliness. The same can be
said of Go Gina, where SZA
takes a cue from the Martin
powerful as Let me tell you a
KAYLA SNYDER
character to dance in the face
of the bullshit.
And thats good, because
SZAs dealing with a lot of bull-
shit here. Whether a past love
keeps texting her (Love Ga-
lore) or shes getting straight
up played (The Weekend), looking for your, or anyone
SZA is as quick to point out
her own flaws as she is to call
out others. Like she laments
on The Weekend: How you
want me when you want a girl?
/ This feeling is reckless, of
knowing its selfish, and know-
ing Im desperate.
Theres a timely poignance
to lines like these. With
Ctrl, SZA details the strug-
gles of modern love as well
as, or better than, many pop
artists have this year, such as
Khalid, Lorde et al. But what
makes Ctrl unique is SZAs
brutally honest approach
to these struggles, whether
crying over an ex, or flicking
him off. Lines like Honesty
hurts when youre gettin old-
er / I gotta say Ill miss the
way you need me, are just as
secret / I been secretly bang-
ing your homeboy.
In a way, thats whats im-
portant about Ctrl: SZA
is dealing with many of the
same complicated problems
that artists have discussed this
year, but shes not necessarily
elses, approval. The result is
an album that feels uniquely
free of limitations. Its not the
album we waited for, or ex-
pected, from SZA, but Ctrl is
much better for it.
 F
Friday, December 1, 2017
FEATURES
Break the silence: calling out Bowdoins assailants
Love, Lust
and Like-Liking
Amber Rock and Anne Gregory
On December 5, 2015, I was
sexually assaulted.
I stayed in to study for an
exam. He had gone out. He stag-
gered through the hall, a little
queasy and smelling of liquor. I
gave him a trash can and a glass
of water. He cornered me, press-
ing himself against me, holding
up a condom. He went to bed
forgetting. I couldnt.
The next morning, I told one
person and made them swear to
secrecy. I was so wary to disclose.
I didnt want to force others to
choose between him or me. I
wanted a semblance of normal-
cy. I didnt want a reason for my
mother across the country to
worry about me.
After a week, I had mustered
the courage to talk to him about
Navigating through the fog with Concussion Recovery
by Kunica Kuy
Orient Staff
On the night before the 2015
NESCAC Volleyball tournament,
Dana Williams 18 didnt under-
stand why she was crying during
the team huddle. Her team was
happy and ready to take home
a shiny trophy at the end of the
tournament.
I thought to myselfthere is
something wrong with me, Wil-
liams said.
Though she didnt know it yet,
Williams had sustained a concus-
sion during practice.
I got hit in the head with
the ball. It came out of no-
where, she said.
The next day, although she was
convinced that she had not sus-
tained a concussion, her advisor
made her go home and emailed
her coach, her dean and the
Health Center.
Its been two years since
her concussion, and Williams
is still experiencing ongoing
it, but he had no recollection. It
pained me to have to recount the
events to him. I tried to explain
how he had made me feel dis-
gusted with my own body. How
I was nervous to walk down my
own hallway. He was immedi-
ately defensive. He reminded
me that he was drunk and didnt
remember. He dismissed me and
that was the end of the exchange.
I hated how much power he
had over me. I hated how he be-
littled our relationship by reduc-
ing me to a sexual object. I hated
how I had to endure his smiling
face immortalized on the wall
in Smith. I hated how passive I
was in abiding the side hugs and
polite conversation with him. I
hated how much I protected him.
While he inundated my
thoughts, he was able to live
unfazed. Yet, I didnt report the
assault to anyone. I didnt want
to ruin his life. I didnt want to
be seen as over-reacting. I didnt
symptoms like lethargy, partic-
ularly within several hours of
waking up in the morning. For
each individual, the symptoms
vary. Some common symptoms
include headaches, dizziness,
nausea and confusion.
Sarah Trenton 18, another
former member of the volleyball
team, sustained a concussion
during the same week as Wil-
liams after a missed-serve hit her
in the head.
I cant get my heart rate up too
high, so I cant be involved in any
physically straining activities. I
would get intense headaches and
be in a mental fog during classes,
Trenton said.
Because of their concus-
sion experiences, Williams and
Trenton created the Concussion
Recovery Group this year. They
wanted a space for concussion
sufferersand others suffering
from chronic painto openly
discuss their injuries and contin-
ual recovery process.
The amazing thing about this
want my assault to be invalidated
because it wasnt rape. We live
in a rape culture, and these in-
ternalized ideas permeated my
thoughts. It felt like it would be
my fault if he lost social capital
if I told. I carried the burden for
both of us while he took no ac-
countability for his actions.
As a society, we often shift
the blame from the perpetrator
to the survivor. What were they
wearing? How much did they
drink? Why werent they more
careful? This language blames the
victim and supports the notion
that women arent to be trusted at
face value. The patriarchy paints
women as untrustworthy, while,
in reality, the FBI reports that
false sexual assault claims only
make up 2 percent of all reported
cases, on par with all other felo-
nies. This statistic, of course, does
not factor in unreported instanc-
es, like my own.
Rape culture made me feel at
group is that we are able to talk to
each other about the emotional
aspect of it, said Trenton. Thats
not something people around
you can notice or understand. For
instance, your friends can notice
that youre off but they might not
know why. Thats not their fault.
While the Polar Brain Alliance,
another student-run group, pri-
marily works to aid students at
the onset of their symptoms, the
Concussion Recovery Group fo-
cuses on helping students handle
the long-term emotional effects of
chronic injuries.
None of the medical care I
sought really helped with the
emotional aspect of a concus-
sion, Williams said. We want
to create a space for validation
of the emotional difficulties that
come with having a concussion.
Because a lot of times, youre left
feeling like no one understands.
And so, validating that experience
is a challenge, and sharing it with
other people is empowering.
Not only are we in pain all the
fault. My parents raised me to be
vigilant. Never take a drink from
a stranger. Dont walk alone after
dark. Call security if you feel un-
safe. They didnt prepare me for
the threat in my own dorm. I felt
like there had to be something
that I could have done to prevent
my assault. Maybe if I wasnt so
maternal and helped him. Maybe
if I hadnt been wearing pajamas.
Maybe if I wasnt so tired. Maybe
if he hadnt been such a selfish
and manipulative abuser.
The way the media consumes
the assault narrative is perplex-
ing. With high profile rape cases
and a constant influx of new
assault allegations, its nearly
impossible to escape coverage,
regardless of how problematic
the coverage can be. Its easy to
dismiss this as an industry prob-
lem. It feels safer to think that
assault is confined to the hills of
Hollywood, but sexual assault is
disgustingly permeated and nor-
time but also our identities were
stripped from us, said Trenton.
One of the hardest things for me
is learning how to not be identified
as an athlete on campus because
that is something I identified with
for my entire life. going from thing to thing, I never
So far, the group, comprised of
approximately five people, has met
twice. In addition to check-ins and
discussions, the group spends an
hour meditating, a practice that
malized in our culture. In the era
of #MeToo, its hard to live with-
out knowing someone who has
been affected by sexual assault.
After nearly two years, I am com-
ing forward with my story. Social
media usage has changed the way
we interact with and consume
information. Although it seemed
as if women and their allegations
against heinous acts were finally
being taken seriously, the same
hashtag that has given women
a sense of agency and solidarity
has also provided a platform to
perform their allyship.
Earlier this week my assailant
shared an article from the New
York Times on Facebook about
the Unexamined Brutality of the
Male Libido and how important
it is to recognize womens pain.
Lets take a moment to relish in
the tragic, yet delicious irony.
In a moment of unbridled rage
spiraled by his gall and the sheer
hypocrisy, I did the wildest thing
has become important for both
Trenton and Williams.
Slowing down gave me the ing Service, the group has fund-
chance to really think about how
much I was doing and how much I
was always on the run. And always
cialists. Next semester, Trenton
really thought about if I actually
enjoyed it at all, Trenton said.
Now, I consciously choose what
I want to do and how I want to
spend each day is something that
7
I could imagine. I left a comment
asking him to reflect on his own
actions before sharing an article
to keep a persona intact. Leaving
this comment was the first time
I took agency over my assault. It
was a small, personal act of defi-
ance against his dominance over
my life. Although the article was
about acknowledging the voice
of assaulted women, he imme-
diately deflected and said I was
belittling him and any potential
discourse on the matter. He has
since deleted the post, unfortu-
nately squandering the excellent
discussion he wanted to promote,
and while this is just speculation,
it was probably in an attempt at
preserving his online image. If he
hadnt produced these layers and
layers of misguided nonsense,
I honestly may have repressed
what he did and the pain he
caused me indefinitely. So, thank
you for finally giving me the
courage to speak out against you.
makes me happy.
Co-sponsored by the Counsel-
ing to bring in professionals, such
as natural medicine doctors, yoga
instructors and acupuncture spe-
and Williams hope to take ad-
vantage of this funding, as well as
spread awareness about the group
through posters, emails and word
of mouth.
8 FEATURES
A YEAR OF GRIEF AT
BOWDOIN
There are three fish that live
in a tank in the waiting room
of the Counseling Center on
College Street and every week I
get to spend a few minutes just
staring at them. One is fat and
large; it swims slowly and only
turns just as it reaches the glass
wall. One is mid-sized and
floats along the bottom, brush-
ing the fluorescent green and
blue pebbles with its fins and
whiskers. The last one is small
and darts throughout the tank,
with seemingly no mind to di-
rection but a purpose in its fins.
I first met these fish last
January, almost two months
after I found out during the
final weeks of my time abroad
that I lost one of my oldest,
most loved friends to depres-
sion. The grief consumed me
in waves, washing away any
pillars of stability and the con-
trol of emotion that I thought I
had built in my life. I expected
these waves to subside before
my return but by the time I
came back to Bowdoin, it felt
like I could barely keep my own
head afloat.
Grief consumed me differ-
ently as the year went on, just
as it affects other people in
completely different ways. For
me, it felt like muffled cries
in the 3rd floor study rooms
DIRIGO: MUSINGS ON
MAKING A LIFE IN MAINE
I am quite fond of my life in
Brunswick, but the weeks be-
tween fall break and Thanks-
giving break are enough to
drive anybody bananas and,
coupled with the overloaded
semester I had created for
myself, I was ready to leave
or so I thought.
As I rode the bus to Port-
land, I listened to the driver
and a passenger realize with
delight they were long-lost
childhood friends who had
spent summers together in
Phippsburg and their fam-
ilies had known each other
growing up. Hearing this,
and watching Brunswick and
Freeport and Yarmouth pass
by through the windows, I
found myself increasingly
reluctant to part with this
place even for a few days. I
love Maine, with its wind-
ing back roads, skyscraping
pines, rocky gray coastline,
foggy beaches, rushing rivers
and pebbly lakebeds. I love
the way it is unrelentingly
wild, with shelves of stone
jutting out over the two-lane
highways. I love how you can
climb a mountain and look
out and see nothing but green
for miles.
Born to parents who sepa-
rated when I was nine months
old, I moved an unbearable
amount of times as a child.
Even when my mother final-
ly secured a home for us, my
father was still moving con-
stantly, and each court-man-
dated every other weekend my
brother and I spent with him
felt like another adventure in
a new part of Greater London.
Then, as I approached my
seventh birthday, my mother
informed my brother and me
of H-L, long weeks of feeling
like I could not call home and
the piling up of assignments
because of my own inability
to even open a book. It felt
like speaking an unknown
languageforcing myself to
try to explain to a dean why I
thought I needed to pass/fail a
class and having to hear that
my grief was probably not a
compelling enough reason to
petition the committee and
figuring out how to talk about
and trust love again.
I learned to meditate ev-
ery night before bed and take
walks alone, to pass my week-
ends without alcohol and my
weekdays without every min-
ute pre-scheduled, to focus on
the memories of the snuggles
and canoe trips and smiles and
big city adventures and laughs.
I attended Grief Group and
individual counseling sessions
as I began to force myself to re-
turn to the outward-processor
that I had once been. I know
that without these resources
and without my friends who
love me so much, I would have
been at even greater a loss at
trying to find myself again
on this campus. The love was
shown to me on walks when I
needed to process, knocks on
the door when my sobs could
be heard throughout our apart-
ment and continued patience
as I figured out how to live
we were moving to America.
Goodbye, Europe and its nar-
row streets, trips to the Kent
countryside, skiing Cham-
onix, family members on
every corner, squabbling uni-
formed schoolchildrenand
my father. Hello, my aunts
one-bedroom apartment in
New York Citya townhouse
in Long Islandand finally,
my home for the past 11 years,
a house in Middle Island.
As someone who has moved
a lot, I understand the tremen-
dous power in place and what
it can mean for you. All that re-
locating took its toll on me be-
cause now, when Im on Long
Island, I miss London.
When Im in London,
I miss the States bit-
terly. But when Im
in Maine? I dread
the moment that I
have to leave.
Its because
Maine is the
first place I
chose for
myself. I
Talk of the Quad
at Bowdoin
with the grief.
And yet, mourning
the death of a friend in a com-
munity which did not share
this grief was exhausting,
all-consuming and, at worst,
painfully isolating. It took
me months to begin to talk to
my parents again, to write for
myself and to tell professors
and bosses why it seemed like
feel like my heart was hidden
here before I was born, and
something has always been
drawing me out here to find
it. The academics are stress-
ful, the extracurriculars are
never ending, and the threat
of adulthood looms. But my
life here is beautifully uncom-
plicated, blissfully quiet and
at last stable. Dirigo, Maines
motto, means I directand
here, at last, I can direct my
life, free from my parents.
When I stood alone in the
shallows of Indian Pond on a
chilly morning in August, lis-
tening to the water lapping at
the rocks around my legs, feel-
ing the sediment between my
toes and thinking about how
I needed to wake up my
orientation trip co-leader
and our first years soon,
I had never felt more
certain about my
place in Maine: off
I was so far away sometimes.
Even now, I am still learning
how to respond when some-
one asks me about my time
abroad or my junior spring.
There is a lot that I still do
not know about this grief and
perhaps even more terrify-
ingly, a lot that I do not know
the grid, completely shut off to
the world, listening to the ev-
er-comforting song of the early
rising chickadee.
And yetmy certainty about
this place is always colored by
the reality of my race. Approx-
imately 94.4 percent of Maine
is white, and I am reminded of
my Otherness every day. Each
time, I feel my heart sink with
fear and a desire to disappear.
Like the time I was walking
across the Quad with music
blasting in my ear, spotted the
shadow of a woman closely
approaching me from behind,
and turned around swiftly to
see her hand outstretched,
inches from my hair, a sheep-
ish but fascinated look on her
face. Like the time I was on the
plane from Portland, and an
elderly white man attempted to
grab my long twists, muttering,
I wanna grab em, theyre just
so pretty. Like the time I was
late for a date at Gelato Fiasco,
rapidly riding my bike
in a skirt down
about love and happiness
and the everyday decision of
living. What I do know, how-
ever, is that every week I am
privileged enough to be able
to walk into the Counseling
Center and spend a few min-
utes considering the three
fish within that tank. Some-
times I am the big fish moving
Maine Street, when a group of
white men yelled something so
vulgar to me that two teenaged
Mormon missionary boys, so
disturbed by what they heard,
decided to flank me protec-
tively all the way to my desti-
nation. Like the time I went
to Little Dog Coffee Shop on a
day when I was already feeling
insecure about my Otherness,
and a white man looked at me
with a bizarre mix of shock and
delight, saying But theres no
black people in Maine!
But there are black people
in Maine. I am one of them,
and I have found my home
here, against all odds. And yet,
I dont feel like I am fighting
odds, nor do I feel like I should
have to. In Maine, in rural
Long Island, as a British-born
English and Sierra Leonean
woman in America, I have al-
ways been made to feel that by
the difference inherent in the
Friday, December 1, 2017
KODIE GARZA
slowly and sometimes I am the
midsize fish hiding at the bot-
tom, searching for something
along the way. Most of the
time now, though, I am that
small fish, swimming with
energy and appreciation for all
the space and time I have left
to grow.
Lillian Eckstein is a member
of the Class of 2018.
color of my skin and the tex-
ture of my hair, I am making
a political statement just by
existing. When really, I am just
myself. When really, I breathe
the same crisp Maine air and
walk through the same Maine
woods. When the view from the
top of a Maine mountain still
fills my heart in a way I cannot
name. Each time I leave, I ache
to return. Each time I return, I
can breathe freely again. Each
time I slip and call it home, I
realize just how much it is so.
The few people who try to
make me feel like I do not be-
long here will not change that.
Its sea envelopes me, its stars
shine down on meand each
time, Bowdoins pines welcome
me home.
Aisha Rickford is
a member of the
Class of 2020.
MOLLY KENNEDY
 S
Friday, December 1, 2017
SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT Mens hockey gears up to face rival Colby
REEL
Squashing the Camels: The
mens and womens squash
teams came back from losses
against Bates to beat Con-
necticut College 8-1 and 5-4
respectively on Sunday. All
players in the top five posi-
tions on the mens team gave
Bowdoin points, contributing
to Bowdoins ranking of 27th
in the nation. The womens
team also did extremely well,
with Lindsey Bindra 20
securing the win in the No. 1
spot. The team is ranked 24th
in the nation.
Receiving honors: Seventy-six
fall athletes were recog-
nized in All-Sportsmanship
and All-Academic honors
by NESCAC. Mens cross
country runner Naphtali
Moulton 19, womens cross
country runner Martha Bo-
ben 19, football player Tyler
MacNeil 18, and womens
soccer player Emily Pawlak
19 were recognized with
both honors. In order to be
recognized as an All-Sports-
manship honoree, athletes
have to demonstrate a com-
mitment to sportsmanship,
while to receive All-Aca-
demic honors, athletes have
to maintain a 3.40 GPA.
Puck off: The womens hockey
team kicked off its season
with the Colby series on
Nov. 17 and 18, resulting
in a 3-2 win and a 3-3 tie.
In both games, Bowdoin
edged Colby in shots on goal.
Maureen Greason 18 was
named NESCAC Womens
Hockey Player of the Week
after scoring three goals over
the course of the weekend,
including the game-tying
goal on Saturday.
Best of the northeast: Multiple
Polar Bears were named First
Team All-Region honorees
for fall athletics: mens soccer
players Stevie Van Siclen 18,
Riley Bubb 18 and Moctar
Niang 19; womens soccer
players Nikki Wilson 18 and
Julia Patterson 19; and field
hockey players Kara Finnerty
20, Elizabeth Bennewitz
19 and Juliana Fiore 18 all
received recognition. They
will now be in competition
for All-American honors.
COMPILED BY ANNA FAUVER
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
The mens hockey team (2-3-0,
1-1 NESCAC) will face long-time
rival, Colby College (2-2, 1-1
NESCAC) in a two-game series
this weekend. The team will play
its 209th game against the Mules
on Friday night at Colby, followed
by the 210th face-off between the
two teams at Sidney Watson Are-
na on Saturday.
Bowdoin students look for-
ward to the rivalry games be-
tween the two schools. All of
the 650 reserved student tickets
for the home game on Saturday
were distributed by Wednesday,
November 29, according to the
Bowdoin Athletics website. 515
student tickets were distributed
on Monday and the remaining
135 tickets were distributed in 30
minutes on Tuesday.
Theres something about
coming out of the tunnel going
onto the ice, you hear it. Its so
loud you feel it when youre skat-
ing around, said captain Daniel
McMullan 18. People will sing
the national anthem even louder
than the guys actually singing it.
Stuff like that is just unique. Its
something you dont experience
every week in sports.
The team is coming off an 8th
place standing in the NESCAC
league for the 2016-2017 season.
However, the team is using last
years performance as motivation.
We kind of had a rough sea-
son last year, but everyone came
in with a fresh attitude and fresh
start. said captain Matthew
Lison 18. Everyones excited.
Ball is life: Caputi and Gordon reflect on friendship
by Owen Silitch
Orient Staff
Many athletes at Bowdoin be-
come close with their teammates
and other athletes, but for basket-
ball players Lydia Caputi 18 and
Blake Gordon 18, their friend-
ship began far before Bowdoin.
Gordon and Caputi have
been next door neighbors since
the time they were four and five
years old, respectively. Growing
up living right next to each other
ONE-ON-ONE: Basketball players Blake Gordon 18 and Lydia Caputi 18 grew up in Brunswick and both came to Bowdoin.
Were five games in and everyone
is still positive and were doing
some good things.
Out of the five games, the team
has played two league games so
far. They began the season with a
3-4 loss against Williams followed
by a 2-0 win against Middlebury.
We just came off of a five-
game stretch in eight days against
five different opponents so its
a little bit of a grind, but we got
through it with some great learn-
ing moments and moments we
certainly need to improve on,
Head Coach Jamie Dumont said.
While a positive attitude is
crucial to the teams success, the
teams consistency throughout the
whole game is an ongoing focus.
Its just a matter of making
sure we [make good plays] for a
full game. Thats what we need to
make sure we do to have success
going forward, McMullan said.
Much of the teams success go-
ing into the Bowdoin-Colby Series
will be focused on solid execution.
Making sure were having
lapses in tight games, in rivalry
games its going to be one bounce
of the puck, one player, whatev-
er, you want to make sure youre
on the right side of that. So just
stringing together a full game is
going to be big, said McMullan.
Precision and attention are es-
pecially crucial in this series due
to the similarities in the schools
programs and abilities.
It will probably come down
to a couple of plays or a couple
of shifts, or a five-minute stretch
here or there that is going to be
the difference McMullan said.
The success of the team will
in Brunswick and having a shared
deep love for sports are what
brought them together initially.
We hung out a weird amount.
In elementary school, for whatev-
er reason, my family gave Blake a
ride to school every single day,
Caputi said. I dont think it was
because Blake couldnt take the
bus or couldnt get a ride himself.
It was just more fun.
We wanted to get to school
at the same time to play football
before class started, said Gordon.
ALL RILED UP: Students cheer on the Polar Bears at last years Bowdoin-Colby hockey game, which Bowdoin lost 2-1.
also depend on the momentum still hear everyone in the stands,
the team has throughout the we definitely build off of it and it
entirety of the game. This will gives us momentum.
be even more crucial in such an The historic rivalry between
evenly matched game. Bowdoin and Colby energizes
[The team] has to stay disci- both fans and players.
plined because these games have Its one of the best rivalries
such huge momentum swings, in college sports. One of the
we want to be able to maintain longest rivalries, its the biggest
these momentum swings and atmosphere Ive ever been a part
not let the game get away from of, said Lison. Everyone on
us, said Dumont. campus loves to get out there for
The teams attitude and the the game. Its an all-around expe-
way they play during the game rience for everyone.
often reflects the excitement of While the team is aware of the
the fans. energy surrounding the game,
[The crowds excitement] playing well and advancing its
is huge for us. When were out league standing are also priorities.
there and we hear the fans, it Its just another hockey game.
gives us a little bit of energy, said Its a league game, were trying
Lison. Whenever were tired in to win, were trying to get these
the third period, whenever we points, said McMullan.
They overlapped for 10 years thing more. The two now once
in the classroom and outside of again live right next to each oth-
school, played on the same base- er, in different parts of the same
ball team together and had one- duplex off campus, and are both
on-one pickup sessions every day seniors on the mens and wom-
at Bowdoin where Caputis dad ens basketball teams.
worked as football coach. In fifth We both just had this compet-
grade, they even told their parents itive nature when we were young-
that they were going to go to col- er, and that bond grew up as we
lege together. were maturing and going through
Over the years, their friend- puberty. Like middle school, high
ship has grown to be less focused school, and then we really solid-
on sports and their love of bas- ified our friendship, and it grew
ketball and turned into some- beyond sports into much bigger
things, said Gordon.
Now, if I have a bad day or if
something really cool happened
Ill go say whats up to Blake, Ca-
puti added. The order of things is
like, I tell my family and then I tell
Blake basically.
As a result of Caputi and Gor-
dons close friendship, the mens
and womens basketball programs
at Bowdoin have also grown
much closer together as teams.
If you throw a high five to
one person on the womens
team or one person on the mens
team, suddenly youre high fiv-
ing 10 of those guys or the entire
team because youre like Ok, I
dont just want you to do well,
I want your whole team to do
well, Caputi said.
The two teams have much to
congratulate each other about as
CAROLINE FLAHARTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT both the mens and womens bas-
ketball teams have had fantastic
9
LOUIS MENDEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
While the energy can be daunt-
ing, the main objective of the play-
ers is to focus on their game while
also enjoying the moment.
Its fun for our players. We tell
our players to go out and enjoy it
and just play hockey. Dont get too
wrapped up in it, said Dumont.
The biggest compliment as a
player you can get is when people
come watch you play, and for us
we just want to put a good effort
forward and just put a good prod-
uct on the ice and come out with
a win.
The puck will drop at 7 p.m.
Saturday night at Watson Arena.
While all student tickets have
been distributed for the game,
a limited number of returned
tickets will be available at the
door at 6 p.m.
starts to their seasons. Both teams
are on five-game winning streaks
and are ranked in the D3hoops.
com national polls, which has not
happened since February 2014.
Despite the successful records,
the womens team is still looking to
improve each game. Caputi is con-
fident in the Polar Bears ability to
perform well during their season.
We just have a little bit more
swagger when we step on the
court. We dont walk into a game
ever thinking that were going to
lose, she said. Call it cockiness,
call it confidence, I think its good.
We prepare ourselves; we know
what were going into.
According to Gordon, the
mens team is also taking the
season game-by-game with the
ultimate goal being the NES-
CAC Champion.
You know finishing top in
our conference is always a goal
that we all have. Were all hungry
to win a NESCAC championship
this year, he said. We havent
done it in our program, and were
a competitive enough team to do
it this year, and its a matter of ex-
ecuting and getting our mindset
right, treating every game like its
our last.
Both the mens and womens
teams play Colby on Saturday.
The mens team travels to meet the
Mules at 3 p.m., while the women
face off at home at 2 p.m.
 O OPINION
10 Friday, December 1, 2017

Call Collins on tax bill

Tax policy is not sexy. Seemingly the exclusive concern of policymakers and political
Bowdoin football: your
time is running out
junkies, changes to the federal tax code seem distant from the everyday concerns of
college students like us, some of whom have never seen a tax return. But as the House
and Senate consider major revisions to our countrys tax policy, we must care about this
otherwise niche issue. In reality, Congress action on tax reform holds weighty conse-
quences for our own lives and educations, and our engagement with the issue should
reflect the gravity of these consequences.
As conscientious and responsible citizens, we should oppose the tax bills on a num- were a combined 3-15 this year, with ball quagmire. First, the presidents
ber of grounds, not least of which is the fact that the Senate bill would add nearly one by Daniel Covell two of the three victories over the could collaborate to create an envi-
Op-Ed Contributor
trillion dollars to the federal budget deficit within the next decade, while offering gen- Polar Bears)will likely be worse. ronment in which perennially poor
erous tax cuts for Americas wealthiest citizens and most lucrative corporations and In 1889, Bowdoin students took Youth football participation rates performing programs might benefit
increasing taxes on some middle-class families. part in the Colleges first intercolle- are down across the country and are from restrictions such as limited
But as students, we must oppose the bill on two more specific grounds. The graduate
giate football game, losing to Tufts decidedly lower in the regions and at recruiting of prospects by stronger
programs many of us aspire to attend after we graduate from Bowdoin will become 8-4. Since that time, the program has secondary schools from which Bow- programs. A similar collaboration
much more expensive if the House enacts its proposal to tax graduate tuition waivers.had a few periods of modest success doin recruits prospects. Increasingly, occurred in the late 1990s, which
Presently, many universities waive the cost of a graduate students tuition if they also
but has mostly endured prolonged private secondary schools are shut- was described to me by former Bow-
conduct research or teach courses. Under the existing tax code, these waivers are notperiods of futility. In 126 years of tering their football programs due to doin president Bob Edwards at the
considered as taxable income, so that graduate students, who often subsist on meager football, no Bowdoin team has ever this decline, and those struggling to time. When elephants fight, the
stipends, do not pay exorbitantly high taxes. logged an undefeated, untied season. maintain programs are doing so with grass gets trampled, was how Ed-
The House bill would overturn this exemption, allowing the waivers to be consid- The 2017 squad was the first to lose greatly reduced rosters. One can de- wards portrayed this situation then,
ered taxable income. In doing so, the House bill would drastically increase the tax bur-
nine games in a single campaign and bate the reasons for this decline (fear with Bowdoin playing the role of the
den of graduate students, in many instances placing graduate education completely outdidnt register a lead in a game until of concussions being primary) and grass. Sounds familiar.
of financial reach for qualified students. Even more egregiously, this tax would dispro-
the 7:55 mark of the second quarter whether they are reasonable, but the This will be a tough sell, espe-
portionately prevent students from demographics that are already underrepresented in its fifth game of the season, a 28-7 numbers dont lie. cially at Amherst, where president
in higher-edparticularly students of color and low-income studentsfrom entering home loss to Hamilton. Additionally, more colleges in the Biddy Martin has just emerged from
academia, thus further homogenizing graduate programs. While it might be convenient to region have added football to attract a bruising nickname change process,
Secondly, we should oppose the provisions in both the House and Senate bills to tax
conclude that this past season was male students. This means more earning her the enmity of many
university endowments at a rate of 1.4 percent. Although the endowments of private Bowdoins worst ever, one would schools vying for fewer qualified alums who have responded with
institutions like Bowdoin are indisputably enormous compared with the endowments first need to examine the eight other prospects, which has also forced Ivy reduced annual fund giving. If she
of public institutions, these endowments allow American colleges and universities to Bowdoin squads that also suffered League programs to entice prospects were to deemphasize football next,
create and serve socioeconomically, racially and geographically diverse student bodies.
through winless campaigns (most formerly targeted only by Bowdoin that could well end her tenure. Out-
Education is meant to be our countrys great equalizer, and although private institutions
recently in 2016), or the 14 that and its NESCAC rivals. One school landish, you say, to posit that a NES-
of higher education in the United States still have a long way to go before they can fulfill
won only a single game. The current that has recently added football is CAC president would be fired over
this mission, this tax would invariably signify a step away from this goal. all-time record for Bowdoin teams Endicott College, from whence cur- athletic issues? There is precedent,
With the House already having passed its bill and the Senate planning to vote on its
stands at 394-525-44, and only three rent Bowdoin head coach JB Wells given what happened at Williams
version as early as today, the timeframe for action is shrinking. Maines Senator Susan
teams have had winning records came. Wells, a Trinity grad, built a in 1998 when then-president Hank
Collins, who is currently undecided on the Senate bill, holds one of the deciding votes
since a 5-3 mark in 1985, my senior strong program at Endicott. I wit- Payne denied his womens lacrosse
if (or, more likely, when) the Senate votes on the final bill. Call her. Email her. Send her
season. I played center and was a nessed the evolution of that program team the chance to go to the NCAA
carrier pigeons. two-year letter winner. in my capacity as the football PA tournament because the schedule
When Senator Collins spoke at Bowdoin last fall, she said that Liberal arts colleges
But this is not going to be one of announcer at Western New England conflicted with exams. Parents,
are well suited to lead the way in [a] renewal of American community: a sense that wethose back in my day screeds from University, where I teach. When coaches and trustees were outraged,
care for one another, a sense of tolerance, empathy, personal responsibility, individual
a grumpy old alum. I have spent the Wells was hired, I thought it was an and a year later he was gone.
freedomthose are core American values. Faced with an intolerant, harsh and irre- better part of my professional and inspired choice. Im pretty sure Wells The second option is for the pres-
sponsible tax bill, lets prove her right. academic career involved with and hasnt forgotten his football knowl- idents of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and
in the study of issues pertaining to edge since he arrived in Brunswick. likely Hamilton (whose three wins
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board, intercollegiate athletics, and Bow- So what does that mean? Would it this season came over, yes, the CBB
which is comprised of Rachael Allen, Anjulee Bhalla, Harry DiPrinzio, Sarah doin athletics in particular, and I take hiring Nick Saban to guarantee schools) to craft a joint statement
Drumm, Ian Ward and Allison Wei. can say without reservation that the wins at Bowdoin? Bill Belichick, an announcing the creation of a sepa-
future of Bowdoin football is very Andover and Wesleyan alum? rate football conference and to make
much in doubt. While Bowdoins As NESCAC athletic policies are, overtures to other programs to join
football past is largely grim, the fu- for better or worse, controlled by them. Macalester College, which
turelike that of many other simi- school presidents, there are three once lost 50 straight games, made
larly profiled rivals (Bates and Colby possible solutions to Bowdoins foot- a similar move from Minnesota In-
tercollegiate Athletic Conference
ESTABLISHED 1871 football play in 2014. Given the ex-
treme discrepancy in outcomes in
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discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. a similar dilemma and would eagerly
consider such a realignment, even a
cross-continental one.
Sarah Drumm Harry DiPrinzio The third option is to drop foot-
ball entirely. President Clayton Rose
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief
should be asked if losing 36 out of the
last 41 games, as his schools football
Creative Director Managing Editor Sr. News Editor teams have done, can in any way be
Jenny Ibsen Rachael Allen Anjulee Bhalla seen as a positive educational expe-
Sarah Bonanno rience, especially since most every
Ellice Lueders Asst. News Editor other athletic program at the Col-
Digital Director Emily Cohen
Nickie Mitch lege annually competes for NESCAC
James Little Allison Wei
Sports Editor (and in some cases NCAA Division
III) championships. He likely would
Photo Editor Associate Editor Anna Fauver
respond with a statement lauding
Ann Basu Roither Gonzales
Louisa Moore Features Editor the nature of competition and all the
Amanda Newman Alyce McFadden things that can be learned from the
Layout Editor game and decline to place import
Emma Bezilla A&E Editor solely on the outcomes of contests. If
Copy Editor Isabelle Hall
Ian Stewart so, someone should ask him if any of
Sam Adler
Eleanor Paasche his children or grandchildren played
Opinion Editor
Data Desk football, and if not, why?
Gideon Moore Rohini Kurup The future of Bowdoin football is in
Sr. News Reporter
doubt, and Rose and his colleagues need
James Callahan Calendar Editor
Social Media Editor to act if they want to preserve it. Ive
Kate Lusignan
Gwen Davidson Business Manager fought the urge to use a football analogy
Uriel Lopez-Serrano Edward Korando Page Two Editor to the end, but here it is: the presidents
Faria Nasruddin Ned Wang Samuel Rosario cant afford to punt here, because there
isnt much time left on the clock.
Daniel Covell is a member of the
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the Class of 1986 and was a member of
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions the football team.
ALEX BURNS
expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors.
Friday, December 1, 2017 OPINION 11

Reconciling the reputations of men whom we admire

@mycolumn
by Kinaya Hassane
Since the initial allegations
of sexual abuse against Harvey
Weinstein broke, many more
high-profile men from differ-
ent sectors have been accused
of similar transgressions. At
such a historic point in time,
Americans have been forced
to reckon with the reality that
many of the men whose work
we enjoy are in fact vile, rep-
rehensible people.
What makes this particular
cultural moment unique is the
ubiquity of the accusations. It
seems that every week brings
a new round of actors, politi-
cians and other public figures
whose reputations are ruined
by testimony of their abuse. The
destruction of these mens rep-
utations leaves us with the com-
plicated task of dealing with the
work they leave behind, which
is oftentimes unavoidable and
even beloved by many.
It is easy, for instance, to
eviscerate Roy Moore, a Re-
publican candidate for Senate
who was accused of sexually
assaulting or pursuing relation-
ships with several women when
they were teenagers. Moore
was an ultraconservative judge
on the Alabama Supreme
Court, best known for his pos-
turing as a morally righteous
man so virulently dedicated
to family values that he was
willing to lose his jobwhich
he did, twice. His downfall is
therefore far more clean cut for
liberals who will miss neither
his abhorrent behavior nor his
ridiculous politics.
Save for those who would
rather elect an alleged sex of-
fender to office than a Dem-
ocrat, reasonable people likely
agree that Moores reputation
is dead in the water and his
lifes work leaves virtually
nothing for us to celebrate. We
are suddenly, however, posed
with a moral quandary when
a critically acclaimed film or
TV series starts with a title
card announcing that Harvey
Weinstein produced it. And
we are especially vexed when
shown indisputable evidence
of wrongdoing by liberal poli-
ticians like Al Franken.
The paradox posed by
seemingly good men doing
horrible things opens up a
place for society to learn
from this difficult cultural
moment. Three years ago,
Woody Allens daughter
Dylan Farrow accused
him of sexual abuse, but
today Allens career
in film remains in-
tact. Many argued
at the time that
Allens iconic work
could be separated
from the terrible
things of which hes
been accused. But sep-
arating the cultural or
political contributions
of male offenders only
sends a message that
we are willing to tol-
erate violent behavior
for the sake of main-
taining some sense
of order.
Today, it is
imperative that
we do not over-
look the gravity
of the acts that
PHOEBE NICHOLS
accused men likely com- the cultural products we
mitted. It is admittedly like to consume. Symboli-
difficult to boycott all cally removing every movie
Weinstein produc- produced by the Weinstein
tions or to deny the Company from the cinematic
validity of the pol- canon would be an onerous
itics for which men task, but we can at least use
like Franken or dis- this moment to start recog-
graced Congressman nizing and encouraging work
John Conyers stood. by female directors, produc-
But the inevitability ers and actresses. And rather
of these mens work, than seeing the inevitable
or the likeability of the fall of men like Franken and
men themselves, is not Conyers as a painful political
an adequate excuse for loss, we should shift our fo-
the continued normal- cus to electing more women
ization of sexual vio- into office. By deemphasiz-
lence. ing the sense of collective
Instead, let this be loss we feel when a man we
a moment at which admire is accused of vio-
we reconsider the lence against women, we can
demographics of open up space for women to
those who fill advocate for themselves and
our legislatures very clearly demonstrate that
and who produce abuse is never justified.

Criticizing fuckboy/softboy misses the point

by Elena Gleed
Op-Ed Contributor
An article titled, The unin-
tended impact of the fuckboy
and softboy published in the
last issue of the Orient, argues
that the terms the Bowdoin
community uses to describe
opposite-sex relations creates
an unfair binary for the good
guys. In an attempted plea for
empathy, the author claims
that while not all men care
about ending rape culture,
he does, but he feels ostra-
cized and at a loss for how to
show commendable allyship.
However, criticizing women
for accusing men of benev-
olent sexism at the expense
of alienating all of the good
guys is insidious, misogynis-
tic victim-blaming.
The author of this piece
writes that his time in college
has been plagued by times
when women have miscon-
strued his acts of kindness
like holding the door open,
or complimenting women
on their appearance, for acts
of perpetuating the patriar-
chy. Even if these acts were
well-intentioned, they were
not perceived as such. Benev-
olent sexism, whether a symp-
tom of miscommunication or
simply of being uninformed,
is still sexism. Microagres-
sions function in the same
way. Any and every sexist act,
whether intentional or not,
serves to perpetuate inequal-
ity between men and women.
The author writes that
it is almost impossible for
women to comfortably trust
mena reality he thinks is
perpetuated by the unquali-
fied name-calling of Bow-
doin men by their girl[s]
of interest. I do not trust
Bowdoin men. And Im sor-
ry if anyone on this campus
feels damned by that im-
position. But my mistrust
is not a consequence of the
pre-packaged narratives
female millennials use to
describe college hookup cul-
ture. To suggest that the use
of the terms fuckboy and
softboy perpetuate a sys-
tem of gender inequality by the word fuckboy, specifical- ceived binary prevents men mistrusting women on this If this so-called binary
either condemning all men ly its black origins and white on this campus from find- campus is an erroneous un- makes you question your
as bad or by permitting co-option, is so important. ing tangible ways to prove derstanding of misogyny. actions towards women, let
men to ascribe to such cari- I reject the claim that Bow- theyre allies to women. I completely agree that the that be a good thing. Notice
catures misunderstands why doin women are responsible We are all responsible for current discourse on oppo- the imbalance in power. Ru-
women on this campus feel for creating a system in which perpetuating, or changing, site sex relations at Bowdoin minate in the trepidation you
unsafe. The power men have Bowdoin men are labeled any system that perpetuates may need great reconsider- feel in interactions with your
in sexual relations is one of as either a fuckboy or a inequality. To excuse yourself ation but villainizing the female peers.
the most obvious examples of softboy. More importantly, from the patriarchal system discourse and the women who Elena Gleed is a member of
gender inequalitybut this is I reject the idea that this per- by deflecting blame to the use it is a misguided attempt. the Class of 2018.
a symptom of the patriarchy,
not the cause.
Male domination extends
far beyond the reaches of col-
lege house basements. Harvey
Weinstein, Roy Moore, Louis
C.K., Al Franken, Matt Lauer
and Garrison Keillor force us
to confront the reality of the
patriarchal power dynamics
embedded in sexual rela-
tions. Their actions speak to
a patriarchal system in which
womens bodies are routine-
ly abused and disrespected.
Sexual assault is about power
and inequality. Confronting
rape culture, which the au-
thor expresses a desire to do,
requires going beyond these
labels and mitigating this
system of power.
A conversation about mi-
sogyny and sexism on our
campus in which Bowdoin
men seek tangible ways to
prove theyre allies to women
is necessary and commend-
able. But an article that uses
terms like tactical error to
describe personal frustration
after interactions with peers
of the opposite sex misses the
mark. Language matters.
The description of an an-
ecdotal conversation between
men and women as tactical
suggests implicit inherent
inequality between men and
women: men speaking about
interactions with women the
same way we speak about
military maneuvers evokes
an undisclosed motivethat
male interactions with wom-
en need to be plotted and that
women are to be conquered,
and controlled.
The words we use to talk
about other people and their
experiences are representative
of our politics. It is for this
reason that the authors in- JENNY IBSEN
clusion of the racial history of
 DECEMBER
12 Friday, December 1, 2017

FRIDAY 1
EVENT
Writing and Social Justice Reading
Nate Marshall, the author of Wild Hundreds and an editor
of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age
of Hip-Hop, will read and discuss his poetry in the context of
social justice.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

FILM
Screening of Visual AIDS, Worlds Aids
Day 2017
The Visual AIDS programming for World AIDS Day will
feature a selection of short videos by HIV+ artists.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
The Last Five Years SAM HONEGGER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

This two-person musical will explore euphoria and heartache BRUNSWICK SETS INTO WINTER: The days grow shorter as campus approaches the end of the semester, finals and winter break. With a week
of classes left, students take to the Quad to enjoy a sunset on the shortest day yet.
in relationships. The musical is produced by Curtain Callers
and is directed by Jae-Yeon Yoo 18.
Jack Magees Pub and Grill, David Saul Smith Union.

MONDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 6
8 p.m.

SATURDAY 2
LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Public Service in Times Like These Bowdoin Orchestra
Senator George Mitchell 54, H83 will discuss public service The Bowdoin College Orchestra will perform the Nutcracker
in a conversation moderated by President Clayton Rose. Suite by Tchaikovsky, Scherzo alla Marcia by Vaughan
LECTURE Mitchell will address how his experience as a US Senator, Williams and excerpts from Dvoraks Serenade for Strings.
Global Economic, Market, and Geopo- investigator and peacemaker influenced his view on public Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.
litical Outlook: Things That Keep Me service. The event is free of charge, but registration is
Awake at Night required. PERFORMANCE
John Doughty 88, vice president and director of research at Bowdoin Night Live
R.M. Davis will offer his views on the global economic market Bowdoin Sketch Comedy will perform its last show of
and geopolitical outlook. the semester.

TUESDAY 5
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 7
EVENT

SUNDAY 3
Deray McKesson Keynote Presentation
Deray McKesson 07, American civil rights activist, and one of
the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, will give the
No Hate November keynote speech. LECTURE
EVENT
Clothes Swap Morrell Lounge, David Saul Smith Union. 7 p.m. The Cold War Between the Medium
Sustainable Bowdoin will host a clothing swap for students. and the Message: Avant-Garde vs.
All clothes are donated by students and are free. EVENT Socialist Realism
David Saul Smith Union. 1 p.m. Dogs in the Library Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies
There will be therapy dogs in the library for students to pet, at New York University, Bors Groys, will discuss his research
EVENT cuddle and relieve stress. on Soviet-era art and literature.
Write Now, Write Here, Write-In! Chandler Room, Hawthorne Longfellow Library. 7 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
To help students write their final papers, the Center for
Learning and Teaching, writing assistants and reference li- PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE
brarians will be available for consultation during the write-in. Jazz Night Improvabilities Holiday Show
Refreshments will be available. Registration online required. Numerous jazz ensembles, coached by Titus Abbott, will Improvabilities will perform a holiday-themed show, its last of
The Center for Learning and Teaching, Kanbar Hall. perform. the semester.
2 p.m. Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m. Quinby House. 8 p.m.

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Desserts in Music at the

Purity Pact Show Museum with
December
George Lopez