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Janet Lohmann to become Dean of Student Affairs in July

by Emily Staten
Orient Staff
In an email to the Bowdoin
community on Monday morn-
ing, President Clayton Rose
announced that current Dean
of Students Janet Lohmann will
serve as Bowdoin’s new Dean of
Student Affairs, effective July 1,
2019. Lohmann will replace cur-
rent Dean of Student Affairs Tim
Foster when he steps down at the
end of the academic year Rose
noted that the College conduct-
ed a national search to replace
Foster, ultimately interviewing
four finalists.
“The arc of Janet’s career—in
student affairs, as a member of
the faculty and as a leader who
has brought passion, judgment
and great insight to the key is-
sues affecting students and to
changing our college for the
better over a number of years—
makes her the ideal choice for
this critical position,” Rose wrote
in his email.
Foster anticipated that
Lohmann would bring a new
perspective to the position.
“She’s a remarkable person—
she’s quite modest and humble,
which I think in many ways
personifies what I love about our
student body,” said Foster. “She’ll
bring a different vision, a differ-
ent leadership style, a different
approach, a different focus to
the work than I have, and I think
that’ll be great for the College.”
At Bowdoin, Lohmann pre-
viously worked as a visiting
assistant professor of sociology,
assistant dean of student affairs
and dean of first-year students.
She left the College in 2016 to
become dean of students at Ken-
yon College, then returned one
year later to become the dean
of students at Bowdoin, then a
newly created position.
“I love Bowdoin and I love
Maine, and it excited me to come
back, but come back with sort of
a new voice about how I do this
work,” said Lohmann.
Lohmann says she is especial-
ly excited to have the opportuni-
ty to work more proactively on
improving student life.
“A lot of what I'm doing is
working with students when
Please see LOHMANN, page 3

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

LET’S ROCK ’N ROLL: The annual Battle of the

Bands was held in Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill on
Saturday. Seven student acts performed, with judg-
es watching from the balcony above while students
gathered below. The band Tusk came in first place,
although each of the top three acts will have the
chance to open for concerts during Ivies Weekend.
(LEFT) Students watch as Tusk performs. (ABOVE)
Martha Boben ’19 (left) and Lily Johnston ’20, both
members of Earl’s Girls, perform a number.

Countdown to BSG How does Bowdoin spend its money?

elections: unopposed
candidates dominate
by Aura Carlson
Orient Staff
On Wednesday, students filled
the chairs of Jack Magee’s Pub and
Grill to watch the annual Bowdoin
Student Government (BSG) elec-
tion debates. Moderated by the
Orient’s editors-in-chief Calder
McHugh ’19 and Jessica Piper ’19,
the debates gave students the op-
portunity to get to know the can-
didates for next year’s BSG execu-
tive team and hear their proposed
platforms.
This year’s voting process will
differ from previous years in one
key way: Dylan Hayton-Ruffner
’20 created a new software to facili-
tate ranked-choice voting through
Blink. Current Vice President for
Student Government Affairs Am-
ber Rock ’19 said that this election,
which features three presidential
Payroll makes up 65 percent of the College’s expenditures for the fiscal year 2018-2019
by Rohini Kurup, Diego Lasarte and Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
lion for the 2018-2019 academic
year. Bowdoin pays its faculty
functional categories.
Facilities Management and Se-
more than the average four-year curity, which includes housekeep-
candidates, serves as a good way of In recent months there has been a pattern of stories in the Orient private college. According to data ers, groundskeepers and security
seeing how ranked-choice voting exploring the complexities and limitations of Bowdoin’s endowment published by the Chronicle of officers, has 18 administrative staff
plays out on Bowdoin’s campus. and operating budget. To add context to the series of articles and op- Higher Education, assistant pro- and 144 support staff—the most
In their opening statements, eds, the Orient has decided to break down the numbers behind the fessors at Bowdoin, on average, employees of any functional cate-
all three presidential candidates money that makes Bowdoin run. made $82,499 for the 2017-2018 gory. Payroll for these employees
referenced the various experiences This is Part 2 of a two-part series examining Bowdoin’s budget. academic year, compared to an in- totals $10.4 million for the 2018-
and leadership positions they have Part 1 examined the College’s sources of revenue. This week, we look dustry average of $75,529. Bowdo- 2019 academic year.
held that make them qualified for at its spending. in’s average salaries for all profes- The category with the sec-
the presidency. Yet despite their sor ranks (assistant, associate and ond-most employees is Auxiliary
differing platforms, making stu- Bowdoin has 1,828 students, the operating budget goes toward full) exceeded those of any other Enterprises, which includes Dining
dents feel comfortable bringing 95 buildings, 376 administrators, salaries and benefits for the Col- college in Maine. staff and store employees. There
their ideas to BSG emerged as a 373 support staff, more than 200 lege’s roughly 940 full-time equiv- Not all faculty are compensated are 20 administrative staff and 115
clear goal. faculty, 24 academic departments, alent (FTE) employees. Salaries equally. Faculty salaries, like others support staff under this category,
Nate DeMoranville ’20 has heldeight academic programs, two din- total $80 million each year, while at the College, are based on market and total payroll is $9.1 million.
multiple positions on BSG. Previ- ing halls and one taxidermied polar health and retirement benefits wages, so professors in high-de- The remaining nine categories
bear. Maintaining the College as we
ously, he has been a class represen- come to roughly $28 million. mand fields such as computer all have more administrative staff
know it costs money—about $168
tative and a class president, and he The $80 million in total salaries science might be paid more than than support staff. The category
million for this academic year. Data
is currently the chair of Facilities is divided among about 200 facul- their colleagues in less marketable President, Finance, and Admin-
and Sustainability He also chairedfrom the Office of the Treasurer ty members, 368 administrators disciplines such as history. Bow- istration, which includes the
the dining advisory committee explain how this money is spent and 372 members of support staff. doin increases faculty payroll each President’s Office, the Treasurer’s
and played an influential role in across campus and beyond. Faculty and administrators are year based on average raises over Office, the Controller's Office and
bringing picnic tables to the patio Payroll salaried employees, while support the past three years at comparable Human Resources, has 31 admin-
Most of Bowdoin’s money is staff are paid hourly. colleges.
Please see ELECT, page 4 spent on people—65 percent of Faculty payroll was $27.6 mil- Staff payroll is divided into 11 Please see SPENDING, page 4

Read the stories of current students, who explain how they made the decision to come to Bowdoin. SEE PAGE 6.

N LOOMING LOTTERY F WORKING WOMEN A TOO MUCH LIGHT S #POLAR2ONE O MAINE AND THE WORLD
Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors Bowdoin’s first female professors didn’t Masque & Gown’s spring production New football coach B. J. Hammer revitalizes Lowell Ruck ’21 on why the Pine Tree State
brace for the housing lottery. Page 3. have it easy. Page 5. upends theatre as we know it. Page 8. the team’s social media presence. Page 11. isn’t so easy to classify. Page 14.
2 Friday, April 12, 2019

2 PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT 4/5 to 4/10
Friday, April 5 Sunday, April 7
STUDENT SPEAK:
• A student reported the theft of boots and shoes • A security officer responded to a loud noise (PROSPECTIVE STUDENT EDITION)
from the second floor hallway at Ladd House. The complaint at Harpswell Apartments at 3:00 a.m. to
boots are Doc Martens brand, maroon, size 7; the
shoes are Uggs brand, light brown, size 7.
find a student, with his apartment door wide open,
blasting music. The officer informed the student First impressions of Bowdoin students?
• A report of a suspicious man inside Smith Union that the party was over.
turned out to be a • The door mecha-
dining employee. nism on the Baxter
• An unlocked House exterior base- Ryan Kovarovics ’23 (tbd)
silver Ironhorse ment door was van-
mountain bike
with thin wheels
dalized.
• Wall damage was “Beary involved.”
was stolen from reported in the Ladd
the bike racks basement after a
outside the Haw- registered event.
thorne-Long- • A three-year-old
fellow Library. child (or one of Nicolas Bell ’23 (tbd)
Special safety ad- his older brothers)
visory to the thief:
the front brakes
pulled a fire alarm
inside the Visual “Very nice, mediocre at trivia
don’t work. Arts Center during
• An investigation
was initiated re-
an event at Kresge
Auditorium, causing
and less preppy than expected.”
garding a suspi- SHONA ORTIZ a building evacua-
cious individual tion.
making frequent • A student playing
annoying phone calls to College offices. loud music on the seventh floor of Coles Tower Aoguzi Muhameiti ’23 (tbd)
• A security officer checked on a student’s wellbe- generated noise complaints.
ing, at the request of the health center.
Monday, April 8 “Humbly intellectual.”
Saturday, April 6 • A student reported accidentally damaging a door
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxi- at the Searles Science Building.
cated student at Quinby House.
• An unlocked black Trek Dual Sport 2 bicycle was Tuesday, April 9
stolen from the bike racks at Coleman Hall. The • A student at Mayflower Apartments with a lac-
bike has an Ace Wheel Works sticker on the frame. erated finger was given an escort to the Mid Coast Ana Gunter ’23 (tbd)
• A noise complaint was received about students Walk-In Clinic.
banging on walls and ceilings at a registered event
at Brunswick Apartment O. The bangers agreed to Wednesday, April 10 “Quirky.”
stop being pests. • Students living on Belmont Street reported a sus-
• Loud music was reported on the third floor of picious vehicle with two suspicious looking men.
Chamberlain Hall. Investigation determined that there was nothing to
be concerned about.
COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY
COMPILED BY KATE LUSIGNAN

Word-Up!
CREATED BY AUGUST RICE

Across 57. Spanish party island

*58. Object that was photo-
1. Bits of paint graphed for the first time this
5. Skill or talent week, or a clue to what’s miss-
11. Short preposition ing from the other starred clues
13. A major part? 62. V doubled to Caesar
15. __ cetera 63. Steal
16. Is in the process of 65. Division in a textbook
*18. Children’s nursery song? 66. “Yolo Swag God,” according
20. Popular copier to Urban Dictionary (Abbr.)
21. Email summary abbr. 67. Topic in Vogue
22. Tate Modern offering 68. Popular congresswoman of
24. Tofu base New York’s 14th district
25. Toronto airport code
26. Fatigued
29. TOEFL prep course
*30. Social activist phrase?
Down
33. Not an asset, or a Lorde 1. Owed money
song 2. Lab report element
35. Drain cleaning solution 3. “Blowin’ in the Wind” sing-
36. Dosage words er-songwriter
38. Bedside fixture 4. Cinemax competitor
40. Type of card 6. 2007 animated film that
12. Attractive or cunning cept 46. Morsel of information
42. Fa follower gained a lot of internet popu-
14. Spanish, to “be” 30. Falsity 47. Williams of Paramore
*43. Bubonic plague? larity in 2015
17. Letters on the 7 of rotary 31. Goaded 49. New Hampshire’s second
48. Hangout for grapes 7. Suffix for “Israel”
phones 32. Email back largest city
50. “+” or “-” particles 8. International Baccalaureate
19. Violet’s relative 34. Diving hazard 54. Chow
51. River inlet (Abbr.)
23. With com, a movie genre 37. Married woman no more 56. Tennis match do-over
52. Office of New Animal Drug 9. Type of evidence needed
26. Joker, in some games 39. Keep it coming! 59. Audio Visual Lighting
Evaluation (Abbr.) when writing an English essay
27. Working no longer, abbr. 41. Belarus capital (Abbr.)
53. Popular recent type of oil 10. “Month” in Chinese
28. Text talk for “We’ll chat at 44. English philosopher’s pas- 60. Lennon’s wife
54. Swirl down the drain 11. “Lawrence of Arabia” actor
another time” times I ignored? 61. Driving req.
55. Type of feed Peter
29. Microeconomics 101 con- 45. It can be happy 64. Coll. forerunner
Friday, April 12, 2019
As the housing lottery approaches, all eyes are on Park Row
by Benjamin Mason
Orient Staff
As the semester winds down,
students must begin preparing
for the housing lottery, which be-
gins on Tuesday, April 16.
Like previous years, there are
four separate lotteries within the
overall housing lottery process,
each with its own application and
deadline. However, new develop-
ments could change the way the
lottery unfolds this year, most sig-
nificantly the fact that Park Row
apartments will be available for
occupancy in the fall.
“My expectation is that it will
be only seniors [who get] to live
there,” said Lisa Rendall, director
of residential and housing opera-
tions. “It seems to be very popular.”
The apartments, which have
been under construction all year,
have all single bedrooms with a
full-sized bed for each resident.
Each apartment also has a full
kitchen, living room and study
room.
Park Row will achieve passive
house certification, becoming the
College’s first residential building
to do so. Passive house is an en-
Keep the legacy, but change it, too; guest
Sophia Nelson explains her conservatism
by Nina McKay
Orient Staff
“Whenever you break the
mold and you do something
different or you stand for some-
thing, you’re going to get push-
back. You’re going to get people
who want to shun you and shut
you out,” said Sophia Nelson
during a moderated discussion
with Assistant Professor of Gov-
ernment Chryl Laird in Kresge
Auditorium on Tuesday evening.
“That’s America, though.”
Nelson—an author and po-
litical strategist—and Laird
discussed politics, race, identity
and patriotism in front of an
audience of students, professors
and community members. Be-
fore engaging in conversation
with Laird, Nelson addressed the
audience on her political views,
stressing that they are rooted in
the history of the establishment
of the United States.
“A lot of people find it strange
that a black woman would write
a book about the founding fa-
thers and about the founding of
this country, and say that there
is something good that we ought
to reclaim from that,” she said.
“The greatest story of America,
however … is that we perfect
this union. That it goes on. And
we correct those things that were
wrong, hopefully, and we make
those right.”
When asked by Laird about
her entry into the Republican
Party, Nelson explained that she
joined while in college after hear-
ing a speech by Jack Kemp—a
former professional football play-
er who had become a politician—
in 1988, when Kemp was running
for the Republican nomination
for president of the United States.
“I thought, ‘I must be one of
those Republicans,’ and that’s kind
of how I landed and have been
there ever since,” Nelson said.
ergy efficiency designation that
means a structure requires very
little energy for cooling or heating.
Harpswell Apartments, which are
being rebuilt and will not be occu-
pied next semester, will also aim to
achieve this status.
The introduction of Park Row
has also lessened student density
in other housing options. In Stowe
Inn, the one-bedroom triple apart-
ments will be double apartments,
and the two quint apartments will
now be quads.
Rendall foresees that Park Row
could have a ripple effect, opening
up more spaces in Coles Tower
for juniors. In addition, during
the lottery for off-campus hous-
ing, which already took place, the
College hit its 150-person cap, so
students seeking to live on campus
will have a little less competition.
Ladd will, again, be a se-
nior-only College House. Fol-
lowing the four- and six-person
lotteries, rising seniors will still be
able to opt to live in Ladd if they
have already indicated a potential
desire to do so.
“The thing that's different this
year is that students can submit
a pre-approval application,” said
“Now there have been moments
of utter despair, disbelief—being
a woman of color in the Republi-
can Party for the last 25 years has
not been easy, and if you google,
I’ve been very open about it. It
gets me in trouble sometimes, but
I so don’t care. Because that’s the
way you make change.”
Laird and Nelson also dis-
cussed healthcare, white privi-
lege, reparations and the Trump
administration’s lack of racial
diversity.
“I don’t want white people to
apologize and be sorry for some-
thing that happened 300 years
before they were born. That gets
us nowhere,” said Nelson. “Rep-
arations have to be about getting
equality of opportunity, equality
of access, equality of education …
the things that … we were margin-
alized out of, stripped from. You
gotta begin to give access to those
things in a way that lifts people
up so that they can contribute, so
that they can have a good life—the
American dream.”
Nelson’s visit was co-spon-
sored by the Bowdoin College
Republicans, Bowdoin Public
Service Initiative, the Lindsey
Fund for Guest Lecturers, the
Office of the Dean of Student Af-
fairs, the SWAG Center, Student
Activities, the Student Center for
Multicultural Life and the Wom-
en of Color Coalition. It was a
cross-campus, collaborative actu-
alization of a vision that Ben Wu
’18, a co-leader of the Bowdoin
College Republicans who is now
abroad, initially had in 2017.
“[Wu] had followed her—he
had read her columns,” said Fran-
cisco Navarro ’19, leader of the
Bowdoin College Republicans.
“He thought [she] was an inter-
esting person to bring to Bowdo-
in, specifically being a moderate
Republican and her view on race
within the party and within the
country would’ve been good for
NEWS
CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES: The four buildings that will make up the Park Row apartment complex are begin-
ning to take shape. Offering single bedrooms within suites, full beds, study rooms and kitchens, Park Row Apartments
are expected to go early in the housing lottery and will likely only be inhabited by seniors in the fall.
Rendall. “We're doing this for se-
niors that want to live in Park Row
as their first choice but Ladd as
their second choice.”
“A group of four could all submit
a pre-approval app to Ladd, go as a
the campus to hear.”
Rayne Elder ’21, the third
student organizer of the event,
explained that she had become
involved in the planning process
after an initial meeting with Na-
varro and Wu.
“I did find it fascinating that she
is a Republican, especially because
she came from a mostly Demo-
cratic family,” Elder said. “It’s just
that you don’t see a lot of black
Republicans. I kind of wanted that
to be shown more in the sense
that we don’t have to fit into one
ideology.”
Elder reached out to Laird
about serving as a moderator for
Nelson’s visit. After taking a first-
year seminar with Laird called
Women of Color in Politics, Elder
thought Laird’s specialization in
politics and intersectionality made
her a good fit for the event. Elder
also reached out to the Student
Center for Multicultural Life and
the Women of Color Coalition to
sponsor the event.
“I really wanted to get a lot of
women of color in this event,” she
said.
In addition to the speech, Nel-
son’s visit included a talk at the Ca-
reer Planning Center on Tuesday
afternoon that focused on how
women can go about building a
career when they have multiple
interests. She started a career as a
lawyer, transitioned to freelance
writing and then changed paths
again to become a political com-
mentator. Nelson spoke about the
importance of finding a career that
is a source of both financial stabili-
ty and personal fulfillment.
“[Nelson] said you always need
something that makes you money
and something that makes you
happy,” Elder said.
Both Elder and Navarro were
excited about how Nelson’s vis-
it went, noting that audience
members had engaged in dia-
logue with Nelson even if they
group of four to try to get one of the
Park Row four-person apartments,
and if they're not able to select it,
then the night of the lottery they
could select Ladd,” she continued.
While many rising sopho-
did not share her views.
“It was predominantly more
leftist questions, which I thought
was great,” Navarro said. “That
was the whole point of bring-
ing her—for people to have the
opportunity to ask questions or
make them think in a way that
wouldn’t happen if they didn’t
step in the room.”
Elder agreed, emphasizing stu-
dents’ willingness to engage.
“Personally I’m not Republi-
can, I’m not Democrat, I’m inde-
pendent, but I really enjoy how
the questions were respectful
and there was no bias coming in
towards her just because she was
a Republican,” she said.
Marcus Williams ’21, who at-
tended the talk, appreciated Nel-
son’s openness about her opinions
and experiences.
“I definitely, definitely do ap-
preciate the fact that she was so
willing to just come out about
her viewpoints and didn’t feel as
if she had to hide,” Williams said.
“I would definitely look forward
to future engagement with these
types of things and having more
conversations.”
Both Navarro and Elder viewed
Nelson’s visit as part of a larger
project of increasing opportunities
for public debate at the College.
More importantly, Navarro and
Elder also appreciated Nelson’s
approach to patriotism.
“I think what came across is
that you can be very proud of this
country and love this country and
understand that the reason to love
it is because you can still change it,”
Navarro said.
Elder agreed, appreciating Nel-
son’s nuanced perspective.
“She’s not tribalistic in a way
that ‘America’s great, America has
always been great,’” Elder said.
“She acknowledges the fact that
we got demons, but we gotta deal
with them. And that’s the only way
to move ahead.”
CAROLINE FLAHARTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
mores will be living in College
Houses next year, there are plenty
of current first years whose hous-
ing situations are still up in the air.
Rendall believes that in order
to be successful in the lottery, stu-
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they're feeling vulnerable, when
they're feeling like they're hit-
ting up against a bump,” said
Lohmann of her current posi-
tion as dean of students. “But
the Division of Student Affairs
encompasses not only that slice,
but really, the Department of
Athletics, Career Planning,
Student Activities, the Outing
Club, the McKeen Center. So
I'm really excited about how I
can be a little bit more proactive
in thinking about the student
experience.”
One of the ways she hopes
to do so is by strengthening the
connections between the Office
of Student Affairs and what hap-
pens in the classroom.
“I'm eager to think through
how we might deepen those
partnerships between Student
Affairs and Academic Affairs,”
said Lohmann. “I think I have
a pretty good connection with
faculty, and I'm eager to partner
with faculty around certain ini-
tiatives [about] how we might
deepen this connection.”
As Lohmann looks to take
on the many responsibilities as-
sociated with the position, she
anticipates spending more time
listening to the input of other
offices under the umbrella of
Student Affairs.
“[There are] … lots of places
in the Division of Student Affairs
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dents must not rely solely on their
first-choice housing option.
“Always have backup plans in
place so that you don't feel devas-
tated when you don't get the only
place you wanted to live next year,”
she said. “Some people get their
first choice, but not everyone.”
She said it is also important to
be honest with people regarding
whether or not you want to live
with them.
“It's a stressful time of year for
a lot of people … and we can all
spare a little kindness,” she said.
The deadline to enter four-
, five-, six- and eight-person
groups is Monday at 12 p.m.,
and the lottery will take place
on Tuesday. The deadline to en-
ter the substance-free lottery is
Wednesday at 12 p.m., and the
lottery will take place Thursday.
The deadline to enter one- and
three-person groups is Friday,
April 19 at 5 p.m., and the lot-
tery will take place on Monday,
April 22. Finally, the deadline to
enter two-person groups or the
available rooms lottery is Tues-
day, April 23 at 5 p.m., and the
lottery will take place Wednes-
day, April 24.
COURTESY OF SCOTT HOOD
MOVING UP: A first-generation
college student and former Bowdoin
faculty member, Lohmann will bring
a new perspective to the office.
that, while I partner with them,
I haven't necessarily supervised
those offices,” said Lohmann.
“My job [in the beginning] is to
kind of be on a listening tour and
really care what the offices have to
say about what they want to do.”
Lohmann also emphasized
the importance of student feed-
back in her work.
“By all means, the reason we
do this work is for students, so I
am not going to lose sight of the
fact that I need students to be a
part of this process and that we
need to factor in what students
are looking for in this work,” said
Lohmann.
Lohmann is currently in dis-
cussion with Rose regarding her
replacement. As of now, there is
no timeline for an announcement.
4 NEWS
Staff payroll by categories
Communications and Public Affairs
Admissions
Athletics
Development and Alumni Relations
Student Affairs
President, Finance, and Administration
Library and Museums
Information Technology
Facilities Management and Security
Auxillary Enterprises
Academic Affairs
DIVIDING UP PAYROLL: The left bar represents the number of College staff employed in various category distinc-
tions, while the right bar represents the total share of payroll taken up by all employees in that category. Facilities Man-
agement and Security, which includes security officers, housekeepers and groundskeepers, has the most employees of
any category. Communications and Public Affairs has the fewest employees. Faculty are not included in these figures.
Cost per student and tuition for the NESCAC
Williams
Middlebury
Amherst
Bowdoin
Colby
Hamilton
Wesleyan
Bates
Trinity
Connecticut
COST PER STUDENT: The cost per student (operating budget divided by the number of students) and tuition for NESCAC schools, excluding Tufts. Cost
per student data is from the 2017-2018 academic year, while tuition is for the 2018-2019 academic year. A college or university’s ability to spend more per
student than it charges in tuition depends on maintaining a large endowment.
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outside Moulton Union.
Ural Mishra ’20 has served as
a class and curriculum represen-
tative. He cited his continuous
efforts to make syllabi available
during class registration.
Salim Salim ’20 emphasized the
many perspectives he has gained
from being on class council, re-
porting for the Orient, working
with the Office of Residential Life
(ResLife) and experiencing Bow-
doin as an immigrant.
Throughout the debate, can-
didates voiced similar concerns
about mental health services and
campus divides. However, when
moderators pressed candidates
further about their platforms, it
was revealed that not all candi-
dates have similar solutions in
mind.
Salim stressed the importance
of making it easier for financial
aid students to access certain re-
sources and making UV lamps
more accessible during the win-
ter. He named the difficulty of
accessing these types of resources
as Bowdoin’s biggest flaw. He also
said Counseling Services could
benefit from increasing their
transparency and number of
counselors.
DeMoranville, on the other
hand, argued that Counseling has
an undeserved bad perception.
“They offer good services, but
we need to reduce the barriers of
entry,” DeMoranville said. “There
just needs to be a better way of con-
necting students to counseling.”
In addition to praising Ham-
ilton College’s efficient case man-
agement program, Mishra said
more money should be budgeted
toward Counseling Services from
alumni and the Office of Student
Affairs.
Mishra named the Dean of Stu-
dents Office when asked to share
OFFICE OF THE TREASURER
$69,950
$72,248
$71,166
$91,708
$68,680
$80,339
$72,500
$75,029
$68,490
$68,307
$72,164
$64,551
$69,018
$62,335
$71,710
$62,013
$69,670
what he thought was Bowdoin’s
biggest flaw.
“The bureaucratic structure of
the dean’s office gets in the way of
student activism,” he said. “I want
to convey to the administration
that it is difficult for students to
voice their opinions.”
For DeMoranville, Bowdoin’s
biggest flaw relates to campus di-
vides. He wants to encourage stu-
dents to act on the ideal of creating
an inclusive environment. He
proposed bringing back the Bow-
doin Hello, renovating David Saul
Smith Union’s game room and im-
proving connections between up-
perclassmen and underclassmen.
Both Salim and Mishra also
noted this issue on campus, too.
Salim advocated for more inter-
sectional dialogue, and Mishra
suggested utilizing student orga-
nizations and the College Hous-
es to fix the athlete and non-ath-
lete divide.
When Aneka Kazlyna ’20
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istrators and 11 support staff and a
total payroll of $5.8 million.
In addition to payroll for fac-
ulty and staff, the College spends
about $1.4 million on casual labor,
such as seasonal workers for sum-
mer programs, and $2.6 million
on student labor.
Health and retirement benefits
are available for all Bowdoin em-
ployees who work at least 20 hours
per week. The College budgeted
$12.8 million for healthcare costs
this year, though the amount it
actually spends varies based on
the health needs of its employees
each year.
Employees choose from three
healthcare plan options, which
have different monthly contribu-
tions, copays and deductibles. The
monthly contribution that each
employee pays toward a healthcare
plan varies based on salary. For
example, an employee who makes
less than $43,000 and is also cover-
ing a spouse’s health care pays $398
per month for a PPO Health Plan,
while an employee who makes
more than $140,001 pays $465 per
month for the same plan.
For retirement, the College
automatically contributes 10.12
percent to each employee’s 401(a)
Plan, or 12.13 percent if the em-
ployee is over the age of 50. Spend-
ing on retirement and other ben-
efits, including tuition assistance
and contributions to the Social
Security Wage Base, totaled $15.4
million for 2018-2019.
$119,028
$106,885
$105,242
Per student spending
Comprehensive fee
NESCAC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
and Arein Nguyen ’21, the vice
presidential candidates, took to
the podiums, they echoed the
sentiments of the presidential
candidates. They referenced
flaws in mental health services
and suggested cutting down the
BSG budget in favor of more
student-led activities. However,
they also introduced new ideas
unique to their own platforms.
Regarding mental health,
Kazlyna recommended training
students to operate hotlines that
respond to student concerns
about anything ranging from ac-
ademic stress to eating disorders
and depression. Referring to
Health Services’ limited hours,
she also outlined the benefits of
increasing the accessibility of
low-cost contraception and oth-
er health products, and empha-
sized streamlining the process of
reporting sexual violence.
Nguyen advocated pressuring
the administration to grant the
Operations
After payroll, the remaining
35.4 percent of the operating
budget for fiscal year (FY) 2018-
2019—approximately $59.3 mil-
lion—is used to pay for the Col-
lege’s operations. These expenses
are the things (not people) that the
College spends money on, includ-
ing everything from software and
library materials to travel and bro-
chures for admissions recruiting.
Auxiliary enterprises, which
generate revenue by providing ser-
vices to the Brunswick communi-
ty, constitute the largest category
of operating expenses in this year’s
budget, accounting for about 15
percent of all operational expens-
es. This spending goes toward the
Bowdoin Store, the shop at the
Museum of Art and the Children’s
Center, among others. Informa-
tion Technology and Academic
Affairs are the categories that re-
ceive the second- and third-most
funding respectively.
Some operational expenses tend
to stay relatively the same year after
year. The cost of insurance, for ex-
ample, is the same this year as it was
last year. Other expenses are more
subject to changes that the College
cannot control; for instance, the
cost of academic journal subscrip-
tions continues to increase.
Around $5.8 million (3.4 per-
cent) of the operating budget is
spent on major maintenance and
capital renewal, which includes
repairs, replacements and main-
tenance—projects such as the
replacement of floors or the on-
going renovations to Brunswick
Apartments.
The capital budget
While spending on mainte-
nance and capital renewal projects
comes from the operating budget,
large projects and maintenance
that cost more than $500,000
come from the capital budget—a
different budget altogether. The
capital budget, unlike the operat-
ing budget, is intended for one-
time projects, such as building the
Roux Center for the Environment
and Park Row Apartments.
Unlike the operating budget,
which draws money primarily
from tuition and the endowment,
the capital budget can be financed
through donations or debt.
This fiscal year the College an-
ticipates spending between $35-40
million on capital projects such as
the renovation of Boody-Johnson
House. This expenditure is part of
the College’s $153 million capital
plan that spans from FY 2017 to
FY 2022.
housekeeping staff a living wage.
In response to the moderators’
question about prohibiting bias
incidents, Nguyen commended
the efforts of Res Life and the
Real Talks on Class and Race, but
expressed interest in revitalizing
Common Hour, a time for stu-
dents to talk about issues together.
He also thought faculty training
played an important role in cam-
pus culture.
“As we become more diverse,
professors must be trained to
make students feel more comfort-
able and welcomed,” Nguyen said.
Other than Lily Tedford ’22
and Carlos Campos ’22, who were
running against each other for
Chair of Academic Affairs, the rest
of the elections were uncontested.
Though Rock doesn’t know
why there were so many uncon-
tested positions this year, she
noted there are a lot of first years
currently on the BSG assembly
who are running for positions.
Friday, April 12, 2019
What’s not in the budget?
A few of the College’s yearly
expenses don’t show up on the
balance sheet. The investment of-
fice, which has nine employees, is
funded out of its own returns.
Financial aid, which is rough-
ly $41.6 million this year, also
isn’t included in the $168 million
operating budget. That’s because
the College, rather than giving
students money that they would
then use to pay tuition, doesn’t
collect full tuition payments from
students on financial aid.
Putting the money
in perspective
The College spends $92,315 per
student each year, calculated by di-
viding the current operating bud-
get by the number of students on
campus. This figure puts Bowdoin
in the middle of the pack among
NESCAC schools. Spending per
student is generally correlated with
endowment size (Bowdoin’s en-
dowment is $1.63 billion). For ex-
ample, Bates (with an endowment
of roughly $300 million) spends
roughly $65,000 per student, and
Williams (with an endowment of
roughly $2.7 billion) spends rough-
ly $119,000 per student.
A budget, of course, is the
amount of money the College plans
to spend. What would happen if its
expenses are higher than expect-
ed? For instance, Bowdoin touts
its need-blind admissions process
and its commitment to meeting
students’ full demonstrated need.
But this also means that it is impos-
sible to predict the exact amount of
financial aid necessary in order to
fund every student’s education—
and therefore the amount of tuition
dollars the College will receive.
Similarly, healthcare claims could
be higher than normal, putting
Bowdoin over budget.
The College hopes that, if
expenditures were higher than
expected in one area, they might
happen to be lower than expected
in another. But in the event of a
deficit, Bowdoin has a reserve of
roughly $15 million, derived from
past budget surpluses, that it can
draw from if the planned budget
does not adequately cover the Col-
lege’s yearly expenses.
Bowdoin’s operating budget for
this academic year was 3.4 percent
higher than it was last year, and it
will likely continue to grow. The
College regularly fields sugges-
tions from faculty, staff, students,
the larger community and even
the federal government about how
it should spend its money. But for
now, its plan is set.
“It’s really cool to watch them
grow as leaders and take on these
new positions,” she said.
Both Tedford and Campos ad-
vocated for the implementation of
double minors as well as various
ways to improve students’ mental
health. Tedford proposed college
sanctioned surprise days off, lim-
iting assignments over breaks and
bringing mental health into more
conversations on campus, while
Campos proposed improving
non-academic spaces, helping
financial aid students gain better
access to textbooks and lab gog-
gles and expanding peer-to-peer
mentoring.
Voting opened this morning
at 9 a.m. and will remain open
until 9 p.m. on Sunday. BSG will
be providing iPads and QR codes
in Smith Union to encourage in-
creased voter turnout. Elections
for the Class of 2021 and Class of
2022 class councils will take place
next week.
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F FEATURES
WORKING WOMEN: Bowdoin’s first female professors helped shape a co-ed culture. These women supported female students, created the Children’s Center and argued for maternity leave, all the while teaching and conducting research.
Clockwise: History professors Nyhus, K. Smith, Howell, Jones, Karl and McMahon; German professors Cafferty, Hodge and Beckee; classics professors Nielson, Boyd and Williams Ambrose, Jr.
First female professors ‘complicate’ the classroom
by Nell Fitzgerald
Orient Staff
Hanging on Associate Pro-
fessor of History Sarah McMa-
hon’s wall, tucked between let-
ters from family members and
images of the Maine landscape,
hangs a quote from former
President of the College Robert
Edwards: “These colleges, this
one in particular, grew until
1970. That year we admitted
women, and for that, and a lot
of other reasons, we got compli-
cated.”
The quote resonates for Mc-
Mahon, who arrived in 1982
when the College was still be-
coming “complicated.”
Many students today do not
question the presence of female
professors in the classroom,
though just 50 years ago most
would pass through the Col-
lege having only taken classes
with male instructoårs. But the
College’s early female profes-
sors witnessed and experienced
the intense growing pains of
an institution which had been
exclusively male for over two
centuries.
Arriving at Bowdoin
The first women to teach at
Bowdoin did so during World
War II, when the College did
not have enough men to fill
its ranks. In 1943, Ruth Mari-
on Holmes, wife of a Bowdoin
math professor, was hired as an
instructor of mathematics, and
Ruth Yeaton and Marguerite
Little were hired to teach mete-
orology. The three women were
quickly dismissed when their
male counterparts returned at
the end of the war in 1945.
A more permanent move to-
wards a gender-diverse faculty
came with the College’s shift
to co-education in 1971, when
admissions allotted 300 slots for
women.
“Bowdoin was not the only
college making this transition,”
said Helen Cafferty, the first
female professor in the Ger-
man department and William
R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Ger-
man Emerita. “They were all
doing it. Because of 1968—the
student uprisings, anti-bour-
geois sentiment—there was
the feeling that single-sex edu-
cation was no longer appropri-
ate. The women’s movement
had begun.”
Although it had begun, it
progressed slowly at Bowdoin.
While the transformation of the
student body was immediate,
the shift in the faculty was far
more gradual, largely due to the
small size of the faculty and the
low turnover rates of tenured
professors.
In 1968, Bowdoin began ap-
pointing women to temporary
positions, as part-time lecturers
and replacements for men on
sabbatical. It was not until 1972
that the College hired Cafferty
and Melinda Small, the first
female faculty members to be
reappointed and tenured. By
1982—10 years after Cafferty
and Small arrived at Bowdo-
in—only nine other women had
received tenure or were on a
tenure track.
“I suddenly realized I was in a
kind of fishbowl,” said Cafferty.
“There were so few women stu-
dents and even fewer women
faculty. Becoming so visible was
disconcerting to me. I felt a little
restricted. The campus was still
in an old New England, sort of
WASP-y place.”
Women’s experiences at
Bowdoin varied greatly de-
pending on their department.
McMahon, who arrived in
1982, had a positive transition
to the College due in part to the
support of the history depart-
ment. According to McMahon,
the department was looking for
someone to teach women’s his-
tory, at the time a large gap in
the curriculum.
“They wanted to hire a wom-
an,” said McMahon. “I was very
fortunate, my department really
was welcoming. In fact, they
were so supportive that they
kept cobbling positions for me
to stay until a tenure track posi-
tion opened up.”
Across the quad in Sills Hall,
Barbara Boyd, now the Winkley
Professor of Latin and Greek,
had a starkly different experi-
ence. The classics department
had been resistant to hiring a
woman, and Boyd believes the
only reason she had been hired
was because of pressure from
the dean’s office to diversify the
department.
“[My colleagues] made it
very difficult for me. They real-
ly didn’t really want me to stay.
They really wanted me to say
bye-bye,” said Boyd. “I think
there was this distinctive kind of
ingrown boys’ club quality that
I think the College as a whole
had, but that it had really stayed
in the classics department.”
Boyd’s colleagues made her
feel unwelcome, often in unsub-
tle ways. Once, Boyd contracted
the flu suddenly and, after a
vomiting spell in her office, told
her colleagues that she would be
absent for a few days. They shot
each other excited glances. Lat-
er, Boyd realized that they had
jumped to the conclusion that
she was pregnant and would
consequently have to leave—
Bowdoin, of course, had no ma-
ternity leave at the time.
However, most women expe-
rienced treatment somewhere
between these two extremes.
Many felt they were treated as
equals by their contemporaries
but that there was a disconnect
with older members of the fac-
ulty.
“They were really more
awkward than anything,” said
Cafferty of her colleagues in
the German department. “They
were ready to put their coat
down for you to walk on. They
were very polite, but they didn’t
really necessarily treat you like
a colleague.”
In such an environment,
women relied heavily on their
female colleagues for support.
Through the 1980s, women
across departments came to-
gether through book clubs
and potlucks, reading feminist
theory, presenting their own re-
search and sharing tips on how
to navigate interactions with
difficult colleagues.
“We all could almost fit
around a single table at Moulton
Union. One was deeply aware of
being a member of a very small
group,” said McMahon. “I am
so grateful for all of the wom-
en who came before me, who
provided support. I really mean
that. The women who came be-
fore me were astonishing.”
Time in the Classroom
During the 1970s and ’80s,
as the College transitioned to
co-education, faculty members
taught some of the first women
to attend the school.
“In the early years, the wom-
en who came to Bowdoin were
really tough. They were very
outspoken,” recalls Cafferty.
Cafferty, Boyd and McMa-
“I felt a little restricted. The
campus was still in an old New
England, sort of WASP-y place.”
–Professor Emirita Helen Cafferty
hon fondly remember their
students during their first few
years of teaching, men and
women alike. Their time in the
classroom was the best part of
the job. Most of their favorite
students, however, were wom-
en.
At the time, students were
accustomed to male professors
and their teaching styles, which
posed a challenge to the female
professors.
“My colleagues had cults of
personalities. Students took
courses with them, not because
they loved Greek or wanted to
read Homer. What they loved
was the talk about the latest
football game, the occasional
dirty joke—that kind of male
bonding,” said Boyd.
Women who were highly
trained in their field, and equal-
ly as qualified to teach as their
male counterparts, found them-
selves judged unfairly because
they were unable to maintain
such rapport. One of Boyd’s col-
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leagues criticized her because
she was “failing to attract the
jockstraps like they were used
to.”
This attitude became harm-
ful to professors’ careers when
students submitted course
evaluations. Evaluations were
crucial to securing tenure, and
students held female professors
to higher standards than they
did male professors.
“[Students] admired author-
itarian, fun, no-nonsense kind
of people if they were male.
But if women acted that way,
they didn’t like it,” said Cafferty.
“There was a lot of discussion
when the evaluations came in
about whether this played a role
in the way women were evaluat-
ed versus men. Who has the au-
thority to speak? Who gets evalu-
ated positively for doing so?”
Maternity Leave
When the first women ar-
rived, the College’s faculty
handbook made no mention of
maternity leave. This remained
the case until 1986, over 15
years after women began teach-
ing at Bowdoin.
According to the College’s
first policy, “Childbirth entitles
a member of the Faculty to six
weeks leave of absence with
fringe benefits.” The faculty
member was also responsible
for making “appropriate ar-
rangements to ensure course
continuity” during their ab-
sence.
In 1986, McMahon and Ra-
chel Connelly, now the Bion R.
Cram Professor of Economics
and chair of the Department
of Economics, were among the
first professors to give birth
while on the faculty. Both ba-
bies were born in the summer,
so the College’s new policy did
not apply to them. They re-
5
ceived no maternity leave ben-
efits and both were expected to
continue research. When Mc-
Mahon had her child in June, a
member of the administration
thanked her for not “incon-
veniencing” her department.
Both professors returned to
class in the fall.
“It was stupid what I did,”
said Connelly of juggling child-
care and a full class schedule. “It
was ridiculously risky and po-
tentially dangerous for the child
and the mother and for our
students. As an institution, one
should try to minimize risks.
And this was not minimizing
anybody’s risk. It was sort of just
ridiculous.”
Aside from a lack of formal
maternity leave policy, the Col-
lege provided little childcare
support. The Children’s Center
did not open until 1988, and
even then only provided care
for children over the age of two,
leaving parents of infants with
few options. After giving up on
several partial daycare centers,
McMahon and her husband
hired a babysitter. Connelly’s
husband stayed home with their
children.
“Perhaps it is not a surprise
that Bowdoin did not have a
full-fledged childbirth policy
and any kind of support for
childcare,” said McMahon. “The
reality is you don’t have to cre-
ate those unless you’ve got a
demand. It took women having
children.”
Value of Women in the
Classroom
Reflecting on her career, Mc-
Mahon stresses the importance
of a gender-diverse faculty. She
attended Wellesley, where the
faculty had always been more
than half women.
“If Wellesley had looked
like Bowdoin did in 1974,
teaching at a college wouldn’t
have seemed like a possibility
for me,” she said. “It made a
huge difference. Having pro-
fessors who were role models
helped me realize that I could
do that, too.”
6 FEATURES Friday, April 12, 2019

What did you value when you were choosing a college?

We asked current Bowdoin students about their college decision.

“I valued, first of all, what I wanted to study.
And also, coming from a low-income family,
money played a big role. I really value the
scholarships and how Bowdoin supports me
financially.”
— Alison Ambrosio ’22
“Bowdoin had everything that I was
looking for, but I never visited, so I can’t
say that I fell in love the people because
I never met them. In the end, for me, it
just came down to getting a really good
financial aid package.”
— Giovanna Munguia ’21
““I didn’t even know what liberal arts
meant … The biggest thing was that I
had an idea that I wanted to leave Texas.
I wanted to experience a different part
of United States.”
— Ray Tarango ’20
“My search was in conjunction with
basketball. I had a couple of Division II
offers for scholarships. But at the end of
day, I was like, no, Bowdoin’s rigor and
reputation really speaks for itself. And
that was something that clearly meant a
lot to me and still does now.”
— Hannah Graham ’19

“I got the best advice from a friend
of mine, [which] I wish I knew when the
process started. He said, ‘You’re going
to get more or less—if you’re looking
at a lot of the same type of schools—a
pretty similar education depending on
where you go.’ So he told me to pick a
school based on where I felt the most
comfortable and where I thought I’d
have the best time.”
— Teddy Wecker ’22
“It was really the people I was look-
ing for, people who would be genuine
and would be very open and willing to
talk to me about their experiences. And
I found Bowdoin had those types of
people above all other colleges that I’ve
that visited. But I wish I had talked to
more students who were actually at the
College beforehand and seen how their
experiences evolved over time—that
really would have helped me.”
—Mike McAlarney ’21
“I think everyone values acceptance
rate to a certain amount. It plays much
more into what people are ready to
admit about how they make decisions
about the process … Acceptance rate
tells you a lot about how people really
want to come to the school, which is
good. And it tells you that they’ve got
a good admissions team, and it’s a good
school with good teachers. But that’s
one thing that I wish I had valued less.”
—Dylan Hayton-Ruffner ’20
“I valued the ability to pursue the things I
was doing in high school. I wanted to continue
with my extracurriculars, including track, but
also to do more than just run at a school … I
wanted academics to be a priority, and I want-
ed everyone to be doing something else that
made them feel fulfilled.”
— Julia O’Rourke ’19
COMPILED BY ANDREW BASTONE, JULIA KATTER AND ELIANA MILLER
PHOTOS BY ANN BASU AND EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Russian department booms, hires new lecturer

by Emma Sorkin
Orient Staff
When Alyssa Gillespie, now
the chair of the department and
associate professor of Russian,
came to Bowdoin in the fall of
2016, only one student was ma-
joring in Russian.
Since then, Gillespie has
worked tirelessly to expand the
department, which now has 15
majors and two minors. There
are classes in both Russian lan-
guage and culture, some of which
are taught in English translation.
Due to increased interest, the
College is adding a new position.
Next year, Reed Johnson, who
recently received his PhD in Rus-
sian Literature from the Univer-
sity of Virginia, will join the de-
partment as a lecturer in Russian,
working alongside Gillespie and
a language teaching assistant.
The department’s rapid expan-
sion was driven by several factors,
including the efforts of faculty, the
increasing utility of the Russian
language and an influx of funding
in both summer 2017 and 2018
from what Gillespie called a “loyal
Bowdoin family.”
In order to engage more stu-
dents, Gillespie has extended
outreach efforts across campus
through posters and events, as
well as crafting classes that ap-
peal to a wider range of students.
Classes taught in English
translation, such as Gillespie’s
current post-Soviet Russian cin-
ema class, are cross-listed and
give students exposure to Rus-
sian culture through their own the department’s versatility and The department has benefited permanent position will be creat- Johnson’s arrival and the past
disciplines. its connections to other areas of from Kupensky and several oth- ed in the future. three years’ momentum will
“I really try to place students study have been instrumental in er fellows in the past few years. “I feel so well supported by the put the department on an up-
and their interests, goals and attracting students and increas- While they have bolstered the department, by my colleagues ward trajectory.
opinions front and center,” Gilles- ing class enrollment. department’s course offerings, and by the Dean’s Office and ad- “It’s been really exciting to
pie said. “We also teach an inter- “Bowdoin’s commitment to the constant turnover in teach- ministration generally,” she said. be part of a program that is on
esting and diverse array of courses Russian studies has shown that ing staff has been a challenge for “But in the future, I would also the rise, that’s coming back to
featuring the timeless highlights there’s not only a demand in a both students and professors. love to have a third position.” life, that aspires to be one of the
of Russian culture as well as less- liberal arts environment for the However, this circumstance With a third faculty member, premier Russian language and
er-known and contemporary knowledge and proficiency of will change at the conclusion of the department could continue literature programs on the liberal
works, and I think that these the Russian language, but there’s the semester when Johnson, the to grow not only in size, but also arts level,” Kupensky said. “It’s
courses really capture students’ also great demand to learn about new lecturer in Russian, joins the in its range of classes, to include really inspiring to see what could
interest and excitement.” Russia as a place, as a culture and department in a more perma- a first year seminar every fall, two happen when a university makes
The Russian department’s as an end to learn about the rest of nent, stable role. courses in translation and four a commitment to the study of
tight-knit community has also the political system,” said Nicholas Gillespie said that she is excit- levels of language courses. Russia. Bowdoin made a com-
attracted students. Russian cul- Kupensky, the Andrew W. Mellon ed for the addition of a lecturer Whether or not an addi- mitment to this, and it’s really
ture and language can be chal- Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian. in Russian and hopes that a third tional new position is added, producing phenomenal results.”
lenging to understand, especially
for Americans, and creating a
sense of community within the
department helps students en-
gage more deeply with the ma-
terial, said Gillespie. Events such
as department-wide dinners ca-
tered by Dining Service, Russian
folk concerts and lecture series
have helped create a bond among
faculty and students.
“There are always events go-
ing on to spark interest outside
of the classroom,” said Kitrea
Takata-Glushkoff ’19, who is
majoring in Russian and Earth
and Oceanographic Science.
“It’s really fun to find a sense of
community, even if the people
aren’t actually Russian, and to
be able to connect over Russian
culture.”
Gillespie believes that stu-
dents tend to think of Russian
as a niche subject that would MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
have to be their only focus. But RUSHING INTO SILLS: Russian and music major Evan Marrow ’21 exits the Sills Hall stairwell, which is covered in posters advertising Russian department
she has found that publicizing events: lecture series, folk concerts and department-wide dinners. In the past three years, the department has grown from one to 15 enrolled majors.
Friday, April 12, 2019
‘The best of Jerusalem:’ sights and sounds of the Shuk
The Common
Food
by Sophie Friedman
It’s easy to tell who the lo-
cals are at the Machane Yehuda
Market. Jerusalemites gesture
emphatically and bicker loudly
with vendors. They insist on
only the freshest. They know
what’s in season and which
stalls have access to the best
produce. They know exactly
when to come on Thursday
afternoon or Friday morning
to make sure they get the best
quality food for Shabbat, while
still snagging a couple of cov-
eted just-before-closing deals.
Most only come on Thursdays,
picking up produce for the up-
coming week. Some loyalists go
to the same stalls every time,
and others scope out the scene
each week, looking for the new
best buy.
The rest of us—the visitors,
the newcomers, the clueless—
walk around the Shuk (“mar-
ket” in Hebrew) with a sort of
dazed, mesmerized look on our
faces. By the time a vendor tells
us a price, we understand the
rapid Hebrew and convert the
Shekels to our home curren-
cy, he has already sold us the
“freshest strawberries in the
State of Israel” and “the best
deal on pistachios in the Shuk,”
in addition to the “homemade
spice mix that will change our
lives forever,” which we actually
requested.
We soak it all in: the heaps
of spices, the mounds of dried
fruits and nuts, the neat stacks
of fresh veggies and colorful
pastries. We deflect heckling
vendors, dodge the trolleys
of the grandmotherly, expert
shoppers and sidestep lagging
children. When the bustle
becomes too much, we duck
under one of the storefronts,
sitting down for a beer and a
chance to breathe.
If you’re grabbing your beer
at around 8 p.m., you’ll watch a
massive transformation. Metal
storefront shops roll down to
reveal elaborate stretches of
graffiti. Bartenders set out ta-
bles and chairs where produce
stands used to be. They prepare
for the night, waiting for people
from all corners of Jerusalem
and beyond to flow in steadily,
until it’s impossible to get from
one shop to another.
During one of my first weeks
here, I sat with a friend who
gave me the lay of the land.
She propped up her legs on our
table and pointed to different
clumps of people.
“See, you’ve got the army
boys over there. Anyone with
a buzz cut is hopping on a bus
to go back to base early Sunday
morning, and you won’t see
them back here till two weeks
from now,” she said, while ges-
turing at a couple of men who
were clearly relishing the free-
dom of a weekend home.
Then, there are the bars that
have received the highest Kosher
ratings. In those establishments,
black hats and long skirts reign, as
the ultra-orthodox drink their rab-
binate-approved beers. Right next
to those bars is the hippy-mysti-
cal-alternative Israeli scene, where
long-haired, pierced, secular folk
dance on tables, avoiding the
mainstream and younger crowds
in the center of the Shuk.
“And, over there, do you see
the skinny guys with the Adi-
das pants and the kippot?” She
explained to me that the Yeshi-
va (or Jewish Seminary) boys
Filled with infinite corners,
characters and colors, it
seems impossible to ever
really know the Shuk.
travel in packs. They’re 18 and
from America and clear out at
11:30 p.m. sharp to make their
midnight curfews. All of the in-
visible boundaries of Jerusalem
exist in the Shuk as well; some-
times they blur as the night
progresses, but people generally
stick to their own.
Of course, there are other
Shuks in Israel: Tel Aviv’s Car-
mel Market, Jaffa’s Flea Market,
the Old City Arab Souk. All
have a similar model: street-fac-
ing stalls, yelling salesmen,
wandering shoppers and senso-
ry overflow that puts American
supermarkets to shame. But
when I interviewed people, they
all agreed that Machane Yehuda
was indeed The Shuk. Even a
loyal Tel Avivian family ceded:
“Sure, I love Shuk HaCarm-
el, but believe me, it’s not the
same.” She gestured wildly as
her son and husband nodded
along. “Nothing like Machane
Yehuda! Nothing!”
Machane Yehuda dates back
to the late nineteenth century,
FEATURES 7
when three businessmen found-
ed the market, naming it after
one of their brothers, Yehuda.
Local peasants brought their
produce to an empty lot. The
Shuk’s central location allowed
it to morph into an organized
market fairly quickly, but Ot-
toman rulers did not invest in
or develop any infrastructure,
so vendors were responsible for
managing their own facilities.
Come the British mandate,
Jerusalem’s first governor recog-
nized the centrality of the Shuk
to Jerusalem daily life and found
a city planner, Charles Robert
Ashby, to formally design and
build the infrastructure necessary
to maintain a sustainable market.
Ashby’s plans were too expensive,
and even after years of planning
for sewage, lighting, running wa-
ter and proper garbage disposal,
the Shuk stayed in its dilapidated,
fairly unhygienic state.
It took a while to standard-
ize maintenance of the Shuk.
Etz Chaim, a local Yeshiva,
took on managing, maintain-
ing and renting out a row of
shops in order to fund their
religious studies. The British
government oversaw other
stalls, which were rented out
to merchants. Eventually,
frustrated with high taxes and
health inspection regulations,
the merchants established a
new market down the street.
Finally, the Machane Yehuda
Management team, a group
that manages the Shuk even to-
day, formed through appoint-
ed merchants’ collaboration
with various other Jerusalem
representatives.
I’ve been grocery shopping
here for about three months
now, and the Shuk remains as
mysterious and thrilling as it
was in January. Filled with in-
finite corners, characters and
colors, it seems impossible
to ever really know the Shuk.
When I interviewed Shuk-goers
about their experiences here,
veteran store-owners and first-
time Shuk-goers alike agreed COURTESY OF REBECCA FRANKLIN
that there’s nothing quite like SHOPPING AT THE SHUK: Sophie Friedman ’20 interviews a local at the Mechane Yehuda Market, commonly known
Machane Yehuda. as the Shuk. Visitors and Jerusalemites of all ages intermingle while they search for the best deals.
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ENERGY IN ACTION: Masque & Gown’s new show features an intimate cast of seven. (LEFT) Alice Hawkins ’22, Penelope Mack ’22 and Katherine Pady ’21, (RIGHT) Mack, Hawkins, Adam Jackson ’21, Lucy Sydel ’22, Joosep Vorno ’22, Pady and Clay Starr ’19.
‘Too Much Light’ brings Neo-Futurism to the stage
by Cole van Miltenburg
Orient Staff
Even before the show be-
gins, shouts from the audience
and screams of “Curtain!”
set the stage for the vivacious
and fast-paced production
“Too Much Light Makes the
Baby Go Blind.” Tonight and
Saturday, an intimate cast will
take the audience through a
whirlwind of 30 plays—a se-
ries of emotional, hilarious
and thought-provoking sto-
rylines—in just 60 minutes.
Chicago playwright Greg
Allen and a small group of
Neo-Futurists first created the
production in 1988, and it has
undergone many renditions
since. Neo-Futurism can best
be described as practicing
Rachlin ’08 investigates cracks in criminal justice system
by Mitchel Jurasek
Orient Staff
When Benjamin Rachlin
’08 was studying English at
Bowdoin, he wanted to be a
rich short-story writer despite
the paradox. But when he re-
turned on Tuesday, it was to
discuss a work of nonfiction,
Rachlin’s first book, titled
“Ghost of the Innocent Man:
A True Story of Trial and Re-
demption.” The book follows
the true tale of a man who
lived a life unimaginable to
most Bowdoin students and
delves into the ugly and over-
looked cracks of America’s
criminal justice system.
Rachlin’s book follows the
lives of Willie J. Grimes, a
man wrongfully convicted of
rape, and Christine Mumma,
his attorney and co-founder
of North Carolina’s Inno-
cence Inquiry Commission.
Often people are quick to as-
sume the work is only about
Grimes, which Rachlin is
quick to correct, saying there
are two threads to this rivet-
ing story. One depicts Grime’s
innocence, nearly 25-year
stay in prison and subsequent
retribution. The other shows
theater in settings that mimic
daily life—actors play no role
other than themselves, adding
a deeply personal element to
each performance.
Director Hugo Hentoff ’19
is the creative mastermind be-
hind the production at Bow-
doin. He studied away in Chi-
cago last year, where the city’s
Neo-Futurist theater scene
inspired him to bring this cre-
ative format back to campus.
“All these plays are between
five seconds and three or four
minutes,” Hentoff said. “And
they just packed all of what
you would want in a play—all
of the honesty and the truth
and the comedy in such a
short amount of time. And
they did it so well.”
To pull off such an ambi-
Mumma’s tireless efforts both
to free Grimes and to improve
a dysfunctional system.
“There has been an ideal
set in American history that
[the criminal justice system]
provides unflawed care to the
accused,” Rachlin said in a
phone interview with the Ori-
ent. “The reality is that there
have always been people who
have been wrongfully convict-
ed, and this is just now com-
“The reality is that there have
always been people who have
been wrongfully convicted, and
this is just now coming into the
public’s view.”
–Benjamin Rachlin
ing into the public’s view.”
At the reading, Rachlin
spoke at length about his expe-
rience as a writer and how he
found such a thrilling story.
After mostly writing fiction
during his time at Bowdoin,
Rachlin found a love for non-
fiction prose while in gradu-
ate school at the University of
North Carolina Wilmington.
tious project, Hentoff had to
do more than simply receive
funding from Masque & Gown.
He also selected 30 plays from
a collection of several hundred
and formed a collaborative
group of actors, who each con-
tribute something unique to
the production.
“I was really looking for
people who were able to bring
their full selves to stage, who
were able to unselfconsciously
be themselves in front of peo-
ple,” he said.
The variety of plays takes
advantage of the cast’s range
and enthusiasm. From touch-
ing, romantic encounters to
an absurdly comical dance
line, actors challenge the tra-
ditional boundaries of theater
and approach the stage with
It was there that he found a
small excerpt in a local news-
paper about Grimes’s exoner-
ation, which sparked intense
curiosity. After months of
the news clipping rattling in
his brain, Rachlin finally suc-
cumbed to the artistic and in-
tellectual drive of how to put
this story into words.
The investigation started
with Rachlin trying to get his
hands on as many pieces of the
case as possible on his own,
though he quickly ran into ob-
stacles. Problems with consent
and power-of-attorney pro-
hibited him from getting a full
picture of what had happened
in the case.
So Rachlin went straight to
the source, traveling five hours
on a whim after a brief phone
call with Grimes to ask him if
unmatched energy. This style
of theater poses challenges in
more ways than one—not only
must performers speedily pre-
pare props between scenes,
but the order of plays is de-
termined completely by yells
from the audience.
This actor-audience re-
lationship is crucial to the
development of each play. In
fact, there are multiple plays
in which audience members
are asked to determine the
fate of an actor or even join
the cast on stage.
“It’s so exciting. Because
every single time [a play] is
really relying on an audience
member it’s completely differ-
ent,” Hentoff said.
Clay Starr ’19 is closing out
his Bowdoin acting career in
he would allow the writer in-
sight into his life. This was a
gamble, as Rachlin didn’t want
to trigger any past trauma.
“I went there knowing I had
to be okay with him saying no.
I had to let him say no,” Ra-
chlin said on Tuesday. “If he
did, I would look for another
story.”
But Grimes didn’t say
no. Instead, he waived pow-
er-of-attorney, giving Rachlin
full access to any and all re-
cords about his life, in and out
of prison, and relevant court
proceedings. Rachlin spent
the next four years researching
and writing the book, poring
over tens of thousands of doc-
uments and visiting Mumma’s
North Carolina home, where
powerful players had met a
decade ago to discuss criminal
justice reform.
The book, however, is not
just a critical look at America’s
incarceration problem, but a
portrayal of people’s lives. Ra-
chlin does not believe that ev-
eryone in the criminal justice
system is corrupt, but he sees
fundamental problems both
with how the system is struc-
tured and how some of those
within it see their jobs.
Hentoff ’s play. For Starr, one
of the most difficult challeng-
es is transitioning between
plays, which range drastically
in emotional content.
“You have no time to get
from that emotional state to
the other emotional state ...
but somehow you just gotta
do it,” he said.
The dynamic between the
cast of seven actors—forged
through many hours of au-
ditioning and rehearsing—is
especially important to make
each transition.
“There’s an element of re-
sponsibility to it,” Starr said.
SEE IT YOURSELF
“Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” will play at 7:00 and
9:15 p.m. tonight and Saturday night in Wish Theater.
“If you ask a bad prosecut-
ing attorney about their job,
they will say they need to get
convictions,” Rachlin said. “If
you ask a good prosecuting
attorney about their job, they
will say they need to find jus-
tice.”
It is the need to both expose
the faults of America’s system
and to portray the modern
champions of this reform that
compelled Rachlin to work fu-
riously on the book. Its duality,
with both Grimes and Mum-
ma’s storylines—the wrongly
convicted and the believer in
the need for justice—is what
gives “Ghost of the Innocent
Man: A True Story of Trial and
Redemption” its brilliance.
The book, which has been
praised by publications such
as “The New York Times Book
Review,” “NPR” and “The San
Francisco Chronicle,” is a
monumental achievement for
a young author like Rachlin.
Published by Little, Brown,
and Company, Rachlin can
now attach himself to one of
the biggest names in the book
business. Nevertheless, he re-
mains thankful for his Bowdo-
in roots.
“I got really good advice on
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“You kind of just have to trust
each other to figure it out.”
Katherine Pady ’21 echoed
the importance of having a
cohesive group for each per-
formance. If the group is in
the wrong state of mind, it can
affect the show. Luckily, she
said, that’s usually not the case
with this cast.
“Every time we put on a
show, every time we’re back-
stage, I think we really are able
to just channel and bring out
the best of ourselves when we’re
with each other … and I think
we’ve definitely formed this lit-
tle family,” said Pady.
this book from people who
knew better than me,” he said.
“Including some of those in
this room.”
Bringing authors like Ra-
chlin to campus demonstrates
the English department’s goal
of expanding its creative writ-
ing program to nonfiction.
Assistant Professor of En-
glish Alex Marzano-Lesnev-
ich, who teaches courses in
nonfiction writing, spear-
headed the effort to bring
Rachlin to campus. Their
students have received lessons
this semester that follow many
of the skills Rachlin had to
learn on his own and in grad-
uate school.
At Tuesday’s reading, Rach-
lin gave students insight into
the hardest part of nonfiction
writing, something that can’t
be easily taught in a class-
room: making connections
with real people who live lives
very different from your own.
This aspect of nonfiction, as
Marzano-Lesnevich pointed
out in her introduction of
Rachlin at the reading, is the
most valuable part of this line
of work and what makes it
possible for powerful narra-
tives to incite change.
Friday, April 12, 2019
Portrait of an Artist: Singer ’21 connects through film
by Ellery Harkness
Orient Staff
Niles Singer ’21 is a visual arts
and francophone studies double
major from Reading, Massachusetts.
He is the Head of Photography for
Avant-Garb Magazine and serves
as a darkroom teaching assistant for
photography courses.
The following interview has been
edited for length and clarity.
The Bowdoin Orient: How
would you describe yourself as an
artist?
Niles Singer ’21: I would say
that I’m someone who focuses pri-
marily on photography and vide-
ography, leaning more towards
the photo side of things. Before
coming to Bowdoin, I hadn’t tak-
en an art class since eighth grade.
And so this has been a revival here.
It has expanded from something
that I was not interested in at all to
something that is phenomenal and
is adding so much to my life.
Q: What was that initial
thing that sparked your interest
in photography?
A: One of my [Orientation trip]
leaders, Brennan Clark ’20 told
me, on a whim, “Hey you should
consider taking a photo class,” and
I had considered taking sculpture
going into Bowdoin. But photog-
raphy worked with my schedule
going in, and I thought, “This
would be phenomenal.” I also met
the photo professor when I visited
for accepted students weekend.
The variety of those factors fun-
neled me into a photo class. But
I’ve since realized that I had been
given a camera when I was very
young for family vacations and
stuff. So I was actually taking a lot
A look into the art museums of the Maine Big Three
Arts In These
Parts
by Kayla Snyder
With May 1 approaching
quickly, College Confidential has
blown up with mothers of high
school seniors who are desperately
searching for the ultimate answer
to the Colby vs. Bates vs. Bowdoin
(CBB) debate. These moms con-
verse as if they’re trading secrets,
whispering about the diameters of
the campus pond (Bowdoin’s can
be found between Moulton and
Hyde when it rains) and the width
of their tour guides’ smiles. While
the Maine Big Three may be com-
monly known for their small class
sizes and absurdly long winters, I’d
like to illuminate another parame-
ter: their art museums.
Bates, Bowdoin and Colby’s
museums certainly differ, but the
ways in which they explore the
connection between their campus
and the work on view are exciting
to witness—regardless of whether
you’re a prospective or current
student, an art lover or an intense
critic. So, if we are to care so much
about the color of buildings (I
proudly admit to finding Searles’
coral more satisfying than unset-
tling) and the strength of our foot-
ball teams (all pretty bad), why not
consider the museums of the CBB?
If I were to pick a college solely
based on its art museum, I’m sorry
to say that Bates definitely would
have been cut from my Common
POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Niles Singer ’21 captures unique moments and emotions through film, photography
and videography. This semester, he has followed Mormon missionaries and snapped shots at college parties.
of photos when I was younger, but
never in a formal sense, just more
for family or for fun.
Q: What is it that draws you to
photography and videography spe-
cifically? What is it about film pho-
tography that you prefer to digital?
A: I really love the power of
photography. I feel that there are
moments that I can capture with it
that can both preserve a memory
or an emotion and show something
that I didn’t even realize was hap-
pening with long exposures or flash
… I love to be able to slow down
and take a much more cultivated
approach. I also love the dark room
and the look of film itself.
I also feel very fortunate to
have found what could potentially
become a career or just a lifelong
passion. I’m constantly driven to
achieve in this field, and I know
that I can never become the perfect
App. While walking through the
Bates College Museum of Art’s two
small gallery spaces, I was more
acutely aware the sound of my
shoes made sliding on the waxed
floors than of the art on the walls.
The only show currently in
the museum is the Senior Thesis
Exhibition, a collection of pieces
by each of Bates’ senior Studio Art
majors. While I praise Bates for
providing these students the space
and the opportunity to display
their work, I wish the museum
wouldn’t have sacrificed a selection
of the intriguing objects in their
permanent collection to do so.
And honestly, something about
student-only work being shown
made the pieces feel less precious.
Maybe I would have received
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
photographer. But the process of
making things that can either cap-
ture a moment or potentially … put
a smile on someone’s face is really
important to me.
Q: Speaking of film, your latest
project is taking photos at parties.
Why did you start and how has it
been going?
A: So I’ve been taking photos of
parties as a part of my documentary
photography class. I’m not sure how
it started, to be completely honest,
but I took photos at a party, and I
realized [they] look really cool be-
cause there’s no light [at parties,] of-
tentimes everyone’s moving around
and you get these crazy photos of
people jumping, standing on tables
while other people are shouting at
them. There’s lots of great expres-
sions with hands and moments
that otherwise would just be lost in
motion or in the darkness.
the museum differently had a dif-
ferent exhibit been on view. But
with the meager size of the mu-
seum and a comparatively small
budget comes an inherent limit on
the quantity and quality of works,
so I’m still not sure if Bates’ art mu-
seum has a chance compared to its
fellow Maine NESCACs.
I remember the first time I
googled “Bowdoin,” and informa-
tion about the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art (BCMA) popped
up before the school itself. It is rare
to find a Bowdoin student who has
not visited our museum at some
point—on one’s own volition or for
the free snacks at a Student Night.
Either way, the strength of the
BCMA is well-known on campus.
More than both Bates and Col-
MACKEY O’KEEFE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Q: What other projects are you
working on right now?
A: The more serious project
that I’m currently working on, also
for the documentary photography
class, [is] where I follow two local
Mormon missionaries and try to
document what life is like for them.
I’m primarily interested in that be-
cause they are a community that I
don’t know a whole lot about and
has some negative stereotypes. And
they are also incredibly passionate
about it and vocal. They’re pretty
much my exact same age; they are
19 or 20 years old. They’re spending
a year, year-and-a-half or two years
out here trying to spread their faith.
It’s been a really interesting project.
Q: What have you learned from
doing this?
A: I’ve learned a lot about their
faith and also how difficult it can
be [for the missionaries] to be out
by, much of the BCMA’s work feels
intentionally tied to Maine and the
school itself. While actual student
work is not on view, many of the
current exhibitions have been cu-
rated by Bowdoin students. From
the Bauhaus exhibit that honors
architecture implemented on
Bowdoin’s own campus to show-
casing artists from Maine includ-
ing Winslow Homer and our very
own Mark Wethli, the BCMA is
intentional with each piece show-
cased. Plus, there’s something
about the bright teal walls and the
oddity of the boxy glass entrance
juxtaposed with marble columns
that feels so essentially Bowdoin.
While I was aware of the fan-
fare about Colby’s art museum, I
was not sure if it could compare
here alone. But I’ve also enjoyed
connecting with people that other-
wise I would have been less likely to
talk to or connect with. It really got
me into more of a journalism frame
of mind, in that I’m conducting
interviews and trying to get as ob-
jective a view of what they’re doing
as possible.
Q: Who are some of your favor-
ite photographers or artists?
A: Some of my favorite photog-
raphers are Winston Link [and]
Garry Winogrand. Andre Kertesz
has done a lot of really cool stuff.
to the high bar Bowdoin set. After
visiting, however, I must admit
that Colby Museum of Art is truly
one of the most phenomenal mu-
seums, let alone college art muse-
ums, that I have visited.
While a visitor must wind
through academic hallways to
reach the museum entrance, the
relatively unremarkable path ac-
centuates the magic of the museum
itself. Upon entering, I was greeted
by bright lavender walls that bore
an exhibit of 19th century prints. I
was also struck by the unmediated
introduction of student work; for
example, a work by Arthur Wesley
Dow, a famous printmaker and
teacher of Georgia O’Keefe, was
hung next to a woodblock carved
by a sophomore Colby student.
KAYLA SNYDER
9
And honestly every day I’m ex-
posed to so many different photog-
raphers in class. It’s really hard to
choose. I also really admire Richard
Avedon.
Q: Is there anything else you
want to add?
A: I think a big part of my pho-
tography is trying to connect with
people. I’m definitely more drawn
to portraiture or anything that has a
human connection to it. With pho-
tography, I hope that it is something
that can affect as many people’s lives
as possible.
This museum is perfectly con-
ducive to wandering, as though it
expected you to be overwhelmed
by the works and sought to gently
guide your way through cleverly
interconnected spaces. When I
reached the modern wing, how-
ever, I needed to pause a moment.
The photos from my Contem-
porary Art textbook seemed to
have leaped off the page. Name
an important artist from the 20th
century, and those white walls bore
a piece: Warhol, Pollock, Raus-
chenberg, Rockwell, LeWitt, Dix,
Grosz and the list continues. Next
door, a gallery with 20-foot-high
walls held hundreds of pieces just
by Alex Katz. The works by these
artists are objectively visually stim-
ulating, providing a crash course
in the wonderful eccentricity that
exemplified the range of 20th-cen-
tury artistic movements.
Although I must admit that
having a prior interest in art in-
fluenced my ecstatic response to
Colby’s museum in particular,
college art museums are inten-
tionally accessible to all students.
Don’t care about paintings one
bit? Visit Colby’s art museum and
see what a McDonald’s would
look like if it flooded. Interested
in art but can barely maintain
legible handwriting, let alone
render something? See Bates’
studio art majors play with mir-
rors and plaster. Want to learn
about art but don’t know where
to start? Just come to Bowdoin.
We’ve got this covered.
10 Friday, April 12, 2019

S SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
WHO LET THE MULES
OUT?: The men’s tennis
team (11-1, 3-0 NESCAC)
defeated Colby (4-7,
0-4 NESCAC) on
Wednesday. Doubles
partners Grant Urken
’19 and Jerry Jiang ’19
played in the top spot,
yoking the Mules 8-3. Five
singles wins clinched the
victory for the Polar Bears,
including triumphs from
Urken, Jiang, Justin Patel
’20, Evan Fortier ’22 and
Justin Wang ’21.

SLOW AND STERILE:

On Wednesday the
women’s lacrosse team
(7-4, 4-3 NESCAC)
defeated Colby (7-4,
3-4 NESCAC) 12-7 in a
runaway win. The Polar
Bears held a 37-20 shot
advantage, which helped
Fiona Bundy ’22 score four
goals and Eliza Denious ’21
net three. Erin Morrissey
’19 posted a strong
performance with several
key saves. The team will
travel to face Wesleyan
(10-2, 5-2 NESCAC) on
Saturday.
EASY OUT: The
baseball team (3-14-1, 3-3
NESCAC) grabbed its
first wins of the season
last weekend in a series
sweep against Colby
(6-9, 0-3 NESCAC). The
Polar Bears won 9-1 on
Sunday with a home run
from Jack Wilhoite ’19 and
three stolen bases from
Wilhoite, Eric Mah ’20 and
Austin Zakow ’21. Peter
O’Connell ’21 and Colby
Lewis ’20 provided the
bulk of the team’s pitching
while Dan Chapski ’21
closed out the game. The
team will face Tufts this
afternoon.
REDEMPTION:
After a 3-1 loss to the
University of Southern
Maine (12-9) yesterday
afternoon, the softball
team (14-10, 2-4
NESCAC) rallied to a
9-4 victory over USM
last night. Caroline Rice
’19 drove in two with a
baser-loaded single and
Sam Roy ’19 threw two
hitless innings to finish the
game. The team will take
on Colby this afternoon at
4 p.m.
COMPILED BY KATHRYN MCGINNIS
IT’S TENNIS TIME: Sarah Shadowens ’19 (LEFT) and Tasha Christ ’20 (RIGHT) compete against Caltech opponents in Pasadena over Spring Break. The team defeated Amherst last weekend 5-4.
Women’s tennis defeats third-ranked Amherst
by Viv Daniel
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin women’s ten-
nis team (9-2, 4-1 NESCAC)
had not beaten Amherst in
a record 13 years until a 5-4
victory over the third-ranked
Mammoths last weekend end-
ed the streak.
The win comes in the mid-
dle of a successful season thus
far, including some come-
from-behind victories on
the four, five and six courts.
Fleming Landau ’21 was the
clincher at number six.
“We were like ‘Let’s be the
first team to beat Amherst in 13
years,’” said Izzy Essi ’21. “We
knew it was possible; we knew
it wasn’t some far-off thing.”
The team made it a priority
to enter into this important
match like any other, albeit,
with a measured strategy.
“We talked a lot about not
overplaying and giving them a
Injuries threaten success of men’s lacrosse season
by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
Nearing the home stretch
of its regular season, the
men’s lacrosse team (6-6,
2-5 NESCAC) sits at .500,
but has struggled in the NES-
CAC, where it is currently in
ninth place. All is not lost,
though—the team sits just
one game behind the final
NESCAC playoff seed with
three conference games left
to play.
Since the beginning of pre-
chance to choke,” said captain
Tasha Christ ’20.
Yet Bowdoin’s journey to
victory was not a sure thing.
After losing the first sets of
the match on all but Landau’s
court last Saturday, Essi knew
the team had to step up its
game.
“When most of the first sets
were done, [Amherst] thought
they had the win,” added Essi.
“We [agreed to] at least
make [each match] long and
hard for Amherst because we
knew our mental game was
stronger,” Sasa Jovanovic ’20
said. “Even if you don’t win,
the person next to you might
because their opponent now
has more pressure on them.”
Women’s tennis is a very
small and young team, but
these factors—often seen as
challenges—have worked
as advantages for the Polar
Bears.
“Keeping the team’s energy
season, the Polar Bears have
set their sights on the highest
of goals.
“This year, just like every
year for the past couple of
years, our preseason goal has
been to win a NESCAC cham-
pionship,” said captain James
“As the season’s gone on, we’ve
been even probably more injured
[than last year.] It’s been tough.”
–Head Coach Jason Archbell
high with only seven people
was a big challenge at first,”
said Christ. “But then we re-
alized that everyone who’s on
the team right now wants to
be on the team and is compet-
itive and working hard. Now
having seven players, every-
one knows they have to be on
their A-game for the team to
be successful.”
The team has only im-
proved since the fall. Essi
felt that the same team that
lost to Skidmore in October
would not have won against
Amherst. Saturday’s win was a
validating progress report.
“This was a message that
we mean business and we are
contending for a spot [in the
tournament],” said Christ.
A particular improvement
has been in doubles action,
which plays first and often
sets the tone for the rest of the
match. The ability to clinch
the doubles point in many
DeSisto ’19.
Following a 9-6 loss to
Colby (6-4, 3-4 NESCAC)
on Wednesday, the team has
three chances left to secure
one of the final seeds and the
opportunity to play for the
NESCAC championship.
matches, including the Am-
herst match, has allowed the
team to go into singles this
season with an advantage.
Besides improving on the
courts, the women’s tennis
team is dedicated to uphold-
ing its unique system of val-
ues, including honoring a
value sheet players create each
year. The Polar Bears consider
grit to be one of their most
prized characteristics.
To members of the team,
“getting gritty” means a combi-
nation of mental toughness and
stamina, which allowed them
to stay in the match against
Amherst and eventually come
from behind for a victory.
Essi said Head Coach Paul
Holbach, or “Hobie,” was the
linchpin in turning the match
against Amherst through his
calm and positive coaching.
He also imbues his players
with the value of humility af-
ter a hard fought win.
This has been a season de-
fined by injuries, and coping
with the loss of key players
has been a tremendous chal-
lenge all spring. Nevertheless,
despite fielding many less ex-
perienced players, the team is
still within range of qualifying
for the tournament.
“We were young coming
into this season … but we had
a decent amount of experi-
ence,” said Head Coach Jason
Archbell. “Last year, particu-
larly in the second half of the
year, we had some younger
EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“Going into Hamilton the
very next day, something he
said was ‘yeah we’re good, but
we’re not really good,’” said
Essi. “He’s always able to tone
down our egos.”
The Amherst win has the
whole team motivated for the
rest of the season.
“I think it definitely shows
we have the capability to
compete with the best teams,
but I don’t think it’ll by any
means make us cocky,” said
Julia Marks ’22. “If anything,
it’ll motivate us more because
we know we can compete with
the best.”
“We want to keep beating
those really good teams,” add-
ed Christ. “We don’t want to
settle for one good win because
we still have a lot of strong op-
ponents ahead of us.”
The team will host its next
five matches, starting with a
faceoff against Brandeis on
Saturday at 1 p.m.
guys play a lot [due to inju-
ries.] So it wasn’t like we were
completely new … ironically,
though, as the season’s gone
on, we’ve been even probably
more injured [than last year.]
It’s been tough.”
With such a short season—
the team’s first game was just
over a month ago—it can prove
challenging to adjust amid in-
juries and reshuffling rosters
on the fly. However, the team
has taken some measures to be
Please see LACROSSE, page 12
Friday, April 12, 2019 SPORTS 11

40 years, 40 minutes: Olympian to run Boston Marathon

by Eliana Miller
Orient Staff
When Joan Benoit Samuel-
son ’79 returned to campus after
winning the Boston Marathon
the spring of her senior year,
she received a standing ovation
in Thorne Hall, then the senior
center. Sweaty and tired from
her 2:35:15 finish, she soon
learned that much of campus had
watched her on television as she
crossed the finish line in a Bow-
doin singlet.
“The applause was memora-
ble and certainly moving because
I didn’t realize that everybody
had taken notice of what I had
done,” she said. “It was sort of my
thing, my challenge. And I still
[run marathons] today to chal-
lenge myself.”
On Monday, Samuelson, at
61 years old, will run the Boston
Marathon again, with hopes of
finishing within 40 minutes of her
time 40 years ago.
Samuelson began running her
sophomore year of high school as
a way to rehabilitate her leg after
weeks on crutches from a slalom
ski race accident. She continued
at Bowdoin while also playing
field hockey. Seeing as there was
not a women’s cross country
team, Samuelson trained with
the men’s team and with anyone
else who could keep up with her
times.
“I ran with the guys. I ran lon-
ger runs with the football coach
and Sam Butcher, who was a
chemistry and environmental
studies professor, and a guy by
the name of Charlie Gordon, who
coached periodically at Bowdoin,”
she said.
After her first year at Bowdo-
in, Samuelson accepted a schol-
arship to run at North Carolina
State, where she stayed until her
junior spring. When she returned
to Brunswick, she kept training
on her own and occasionally with
a team out of Cambridge called
the Athletic Club, increasing her
mileage and intensity.
Despite her Olympic-level ath-
leticism, Samuelson was demoted
to the Bowdoin junior varsity field
hockey team after showing up ex-
hausted to a field hockey game
against Colby after winning a half
marathon in Portland, where she
beat the woman who was consid-
ered the best female distance run-
ner in New England at the time.
“Back then you couldn’t sub-
stitute players except at half time
and [my coach] Sally LaPointe
pulled me off the field and
punched me because I was so
tired that I could hardly move off
the line,” Samuelson said. “She did
the right thing, and I learned a lot
on that team, but then I realized
that I should just follow my heart
and pursue running.”
And so she did. Samuelson
won the first Olympic women’s
marathon at the 1984 Los Ange-
les Games. She set a world best of
2:22:43 in the 1983 Boston Mara-
thon. Two years later, she ran the
Chicago Marathon even faster,
with a time of 2:21:21. More re-
cently, she won the Veterans (50-
59) Division at the 2011, 2013 and
2014 Boston Marathons, setting
a Veteran’s record of 2:50:29 in
2013.
The challenge of running fast-
er and further kept Samuelson
going. She is a member of the
National Distance Running Hall
of Fame, the Maine Women’s
Hall of Fame, the National Track
and Field Hall of Fame, the US-
ATF Masters Hall of Fame and
the L.A. Memorial Coliseum’s
Court of Honor.
“It’s really all about passion. I’m
as passionate about running now
as I was back then, and that’s what
keeps me running,” she said.
A resident of Freeport, Sam-
uelson has kept running at Bow-
doin as well, occasionally joining
in on practices with the Bowdoin
cross country and track teams.
“I probably gain more inspira-
tion from the Bowdoin runners
now than they gain from me,”
Samuelson said. “They keep me
young, and they probably all run
faster than I run.”
Samuelson’s longer runs take
her from her home in Freeport
and around Pickard Field. As a
member of the Board of Trust-
ees, she comes to campus often
for meetings. Her roommates
from college are still her closest
friends, once her teammates on
the field hockey team and now
her ski buddies and neighbors
down the street.
Although Samuelson is sure
that she would have begun run-
ning marathons even if she hadn’t
gone to Bowdoin, she is grateful
for the College’s running commu-
nity and its proximity to Boston,
the main reason why she ran the
Boston Marathon in 1979.
“I didn’t fully appreciate the
history of the Boston Marathon.
I knew all about the Boston
Marathon, but I didn’t realize
how steeped in tradition it was,”
she said. “And now for me per-
sonally, there’s a lot of history in
that course.”
Will she wear the same Bow-
doin singlet on Monday?
“I just want to make it to
the starting line and then I’ll
decide,” she said. “At my age,
I’m pushing the envelope. You
COURTESY OF THE BOSTON GLOBE
never know what will happen.
Finishing, that’s the goal, that’s RUNNING UP TO BOSTON: Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 won the Boston Marathon during her senior
the hope, that’s the desire.” spring at Bowdoin. Forty years later, she hopes to finish within forty minutes of her time from that race.

What the hell is the Bowdoin football team doing online?

More Than
A Game
by Ian Ward
Anyone who follows Bow-
doin football’s social media ac-
count has probably asked some
variation of this question in the
past few months. Even a cursory
glance over the team’s Instagram
page makes it clear that the Po-
lar Bears’ new coaching staff, led
by Head Coach B.J. Hammer,
is doing something new with
the team’s online messaging.
Gone are the days of dramatic,
high-contrast action shots of
players drilling on the turf or
banging out reps in the weight
room. Welcome to the days of,
well, something … new.
If the Wells-era aesthetic
prioritized form over sub-
stance—minimalistic, vivid
images of athletic dynamism,
mostly devoid of text—the
Hammer aesthetic prioritizes
the opposite: substance over
form. #FacilityFridays show
off the team’s new locker room
facility, complete with a new
“hydrotherapy room” (read:
small jacuzzi). #JOBALERT
posts, complete with photo-
shopped picture and inlaid
text, announce when a senior
player has locked down a new
job or internship. (Casting
some doubt on the sincerity of
a recent post which announced
that “40+ majors @bowdoin-
college means student-ath-
letes have plenty of options to
choose from!”, four of the five
#JOBALERT posts have fea-
tured economics majors. But
shh!)
The team Twitter account
regularly retweets prospective
players’ posts, which all follow
a suspiciously similar format,
including a perfunctory thanks
to the coaches for the visit, a
picture of Bowdoin’s campus
and, last but not least, a snap
of the oh-what-could-be lock-
er set-up, complete with a
correctly-numbered jersey and
personalized nameplate.
In a series of five posts fea-
turing an abstract geometric
graphic of a five-pillared tem-
ple-like structure, the team
enumerated the “Five Pillars
of Bowdoin Football:” “Aca-
demic excellence” (“[Bowdoin
Football] DOMINATED in the
classroom once again this fall
with a 3.29 Team GPA. You
can have it all here!!” reads one
post); “Family” (“Bonds that
can’t be broken”); “Winning”
(presumably a work in prog-
ress); “Building impact men”
(perhaps ill-advised wording
for a sport built around literal
impact); and, of course, “Fun.”
The only deviations from
this trend come on #Wallpa-
perWednesdays, which feature
Fathead-esque photos of play-
ers pasted inelegantly onto ge-
neric gradient backgrounds. It
can’t all be substance, after all.
These otherwise eclectic
posts do, nevertheless, con-
tribute to a unified message,
summed up in the two hashtags
that adorn nearly all of these
posts: #theAwakening, #PO-
LAR2ONE (sic; “zone”). 2019
is the year for an emergence, a
(re)birth of Bowdoin football.
Or so the messaging goes.
“I want these guys to get a
fresh start with everything,”
said Hammer when asked
about the team’s reinvigorat-
ed online presence. “For our
players and our recruits, this
is a fresh start for Bowdoin
football, and we’re going to
take it to a different level of
expectation than it has been in
the past.”
Speaking of expectations,
Hammer goes about setting
them in an unorthodox way.
At least so say his players, who
are months into their offsea-
son training with the new staff.
“During the workouts, I
don’t think me or any of my
teammates have ever received
a compliment,” said captain
Joe Gowetski ’20. “You’re ei-
ther doing the best you can
do, which is what you’re sup-
posed to do, or you’re doing
less. There’s no way to exceed
expectations, because they’re
already as high as they can
possibly be.”
Hammer’s demeanor, de-
scribed by players as “no-bull-
shit” and “businesslike,” has
quickly earned him the respect
of veteran players, who had
grown used to the mostly jo-
vial, almost avuncular style of
former head coach J.B. Wells,
who once regaled his players
with tales of his college frater-
nity life into the wee hours of
the morning before a game.
“Wells talked about high
expectations, but I don’t think
they were as much of a reality
as they are now,” said Gowetski.
“Hammer’s not talking about it.
He’s doing it and living it.”
Aesthetics, in the end, are
only aesthetics, and athletic
performance is another thing
entirely. But there is something
to be said for consistency. On
its surface, Bowdoin foot-
ball’s new message screams
out from its profile in brutal
block font: “#theAwakening.”
But this is only the message
on the surface. Buried beneath
the photoshop and the graph-
ics, the real message—the one
being sent in the weight room
as much as online—lies latent BOWDOIN FOOTBALL INSTAGRAM
in the structure of the posts FIVE PILLARS OF EXCELLENCE: In addition to changing the team’s
themselves: Form be damned. workout regime, new head coach B.J. Hammer has revitalized football’s
Substance is king. social media presence, including the team’s pillars of values.
12 SPORTS Friday, April 12, 2019

Sailing team qualifies for Team Race Nationals in May

by David Yang
Orient Staff
This past weekend, the
Bowdoin Sailing team com-
peted in the Team Races of
New England Championship
at Connecticut College, fin-
ishing fourth overall. For the
first time in program histo-
ry, the coed team qualified
for the Team Race Nationals
which will be held in New-
port, Rhode Island on May
25-27.
Coach Frank Pizzo noted
the difficulty of qualifying
for the national champion-
ship and praised the team’s
continued growth. Only four
teams qualify out of approx-
imately 50 from the New En-
gland area.
“Almost every year, the
same teams qualify because
they have this really good
culture and knowledge base
that perpetuates [them], and
that’s been a hard group for
us to break into until this
year. To get to this event, it
[took] years of building the
culture and the knowledge.”
“We’ve had lots of ups and
downs in the last four years,”
said captain Louisa Lindgren
’19. “But I think we’ve all
learned a lot. We’ve all put
pretty much everything on
the line for this past week,
and then it paid off at the
end, which is really nice.”
Lindgren pointed to a pos-
itive team dynamic as one of
the reasons for the team’s suc-
cess this year.
“I think something that we
focus on a lot, especially this
year, was having trust in your
teammates, and being held
responsible for doing your
job on the water and being
able to trust your teammates
to do their job,” she said.
From now until nationals,
the team plans to refine its
strategy on the water.
“The nationals are at the
end of May, so we have a
lot of time to improve from
here,” said Pizzo. “There’s
a lot of the mental parts of
the game that we need to get
better at, like setbacks from
tough races or setbacks from
tough umpire calls.”
Captain Matt Kaplan ’19 is
looking forward to the com-
petition. Over the next few
weeks, teams from across the
nation will compete in their
respective qualifier matches.
“I think we can always get
faster. We can always work
on speed, boat handling, and
communication,” said Kaplan.
Sailing in Maine is dif-
ferent than elsewhere and
provides a unique set of chal-
lenges for New England com-
petitors. The team struggles
with low temperatures and
high winds.
“We practice every day, but
we certainly didn’t practice as
long as we would have if it
was warmer out,” said Pizzo.
“For our guys and girls, they
have the right mentality and
the right gear to deal with
that. When we go to other
places and it’s cold, I think
other teams sometimes have
an adjustment to that, [but]
we’re very much used to it.”
The women’s Team Race In-
vitational takes place this com-
ing weekend, followed by the
women’s Reed Trophy at MIT
on April 20 and 21. The Polar
Bears will compete at home
for the New England Dinghy
Championship on April 27.
“If people get time off
during Ivies, they can come
watch us sail,” Lindgren said.
“[It] might be better than
some of the concerts.”

LACROSSE Archbell made it clear that

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
prepared for those situations.
“Just because of how ros-
ters shape up, you’re just not
going to have a ton of depth,”
Archbell said. “You have to
do a good job of making sure
guys are ready to step up …
it’s just trying to make the
individual as comfortable as
possible when they step into
those roles.”
DeSisto echoed this senti-
ment, describing the team’s
culture as key to its ability
to react to the limited avail-
ability of more experienced
players.
“We’ve always had the
‘next man up’ mentality. Ev-
erybody’s getting equal reps
in practice, so it’s the expecta-
tion that you’re doing all the
work that you need to do to
be ready if you do get put on
the field,” said DeSisto. “As a
team, we have a pretty good
culture of [believing that]
nobody’s better than anybody
else. Anyone can earn a spot
on the field.”
Importantly, however,
the solution to overcoming
injury troubles wasn’t to
make dramatic changes to the
formula that has taken the
team to where it is now.
[They need to] understand
that … they don’t have to give
these herculean efforts,” said
Archbell. “But it’s more just
this guy steps up a little bit
here this guy steps up a little
bit here, and this guy maybe
plays a few more minutes
here. [That’s how] we can deal
with this.”
For all of the team’s strug-
gles, Archbell has never had
any loss of faith.
“If we get healthy enough,
we can we certainly have
enough talent and ability to
win [the NESCAC champion-
ship.] It’s more just [a ques-
tion of,] can we play together
for 60-plus minutes.”
The team will conclude its
regular season with three crit-
ical NESCAC contests, start-
ing with a matchup against
fourth-place Wesleyan (9-2,
5-2 NESCAC) at Whittier
Field on Saturday at 1 p.m.

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SKULL AND LACROSSE BONES: (TOP) Donal Mullane ’21 runs with the ball. (BOTTOM) Jeff Powers ’19 and Jake Crossman ’20 run toward Bates opponents in a match last week. The team has struggled to rise in the NESCAC ranks due to unexpected injuries.

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13 Friday, April 12, 2019

O OPINION
BSG, do better
This weekend, students will have the opportunity to elect officers for next
year’s Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) executive committee. Sort of. Only
three of the officer positions are actually contested this year—the chairs of di-
versity and inclusion, facilities and sustainability, student organizations and
the treasury will win by default.
It seems like the student body isn’t very engaged with BSG. There are plen-
ty of reasons why. As several candidates noted in this week’s debates, students
don’t have a good sense of what BSG does—and we think it’s because BSG has
done very little this year. The assembly has voted to change the way it votes
(ranked choice is good, but it’s not an accomplishment). Members changed
their own bylaws. They’ve sent several surveys, but it’s not clear what will
come from any of them. They’ve invited plenty of administrators to their
meetings, but little of the information they glean is conveyed to the student
body. In fact, much of what they discuss goes unreported, as the practice
of sending out meeting minutes has all but died off. Yes, some students use

NIK
services like Polarflix and the shuttle to Portland (though we don’t know

H
AC
how many), and BSG voted to spend $500 on condoms and dental dams for

B
TA
LIA
upperclassmen. But we can, and should, ask for more than this from our

DA
student government.
This lack of achievement might stem from candidates’ unrealistic platforms.
Candidates this year have proposed to implement the double minor, make syllabi
available before course registration and pressure the College to hire new coun-
selors. Most candidates want to revive Bowdoin Course Reviews, but students
almost never fill them out now, and it’s unlikely they will start, even if the website
gets a facelift. For years, president-hopefuls have promised to reconsider the ESD
Why I want to donate my
kidney to a stranger
requirement. This has never gone anywhere in the past, and candidates have not
made a compelling case for why things would be different this time around.
The unopposed candidates are a simpler problem. When voting in an un-
opposed race, students are still given two options: the candidate or a blank
ballot. A candidate running unopposed should have to beat the blank ballot,
and students should be made aware that voting blank can have a material effect would make any difference if this baby I first had this idea when I came across
on the race. In the event that an uncontested student fails to win more than 50 Our America was far away, maybe in another country, a story by Dylan Matthews of Vox. Mat-
percent of the vote, there should be a new election for the position, allowing by Lorenzo Meigs
but still at the same risk of death and still thews was similarly moved by Singer’s
other students to declare their candidacy and run against the formerly uncon- available for us to help just as easily. The drowning child thought experiment and
tested candidate. It should not be possible for a student to be elected to BSG answer, it seems, must remain the same: realized that in walking around with an
by simply tossing their name in the ring. It’s a position that should be earned. Living at the country club that is We still have an obligation to save the extra healthy kidney while there were
Setting grandiose and unrealistic goals, with no clear outline of implementa- Bowdoin College, I often forget just how baby. Distance has no moral relevance. over 100,000 people on a waiting list des-
tion, sets candidates up to fail once they take office. Additionally, when half of the much suffering there is in this world. If people are suffering and we have the perately in need of a kidney, he was acting
positions in an election cycle are uncontested, winners have no mandate from Deep in the stress and sleep deprivation means to easily help them, it shouldn’t no differently than the man who walks
the student body nor have they proven that they understand what is attainable. we all experience as Bowdoin students, matter where in the world or country past the drowning child. At little cost to
Rhetoric becomes empty, elections become shams and candidates are not forced I consistently fail to recognize that my they are. himself, he could donate his kidney and
to seriously consider the needs of the students. We’ve seen this with our BSG life is charmed beyond measure and Having helped us conclude this, Sing- save a life. So he did. Now, not only would
candidates in the past, and we’re worried that we’re going to see it again. that my experience at this school is, for er then points out that this secondary I like to do the same, I think I have an ob-
To next year’s BSG: do better. the most part, one wonderful experience scenario of the far away baby in need ligation to do the same.
after another. To state the obvious, I am is, in fact, emblematic of the state of our For as Matthews points out, donating
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, immensely privileged, and so, dear read- modern world. By donating a few mea- a kidney really does come at minimal cost
which is composed of Nell Fitzgerald, Dakota Griffin, George Grimbilas, Roither er, are you. Independent of our family ger dollars, we can empower charities to to yourself. It can take up to a month to
Gonzales, Calder McHugh and Jessica Piper. backgrounds, Bowdoin’s reality distor- provide food to the starving or malaria recover from the surgery, but the long-
tion field guarantees that we all have nets to those at risk. In short, instead of term health risks are extremely mini-
room to give and serve. As an elite class, buying a latte, we can save a life. Every mal—a one or two percent increase in the
what, then, are our duties? How much, day we have this choice, and every day chance of kidney failure. And should your
if anything, do we owe to those in need? we choose simple, fleeting pleasure for remaining kidney fail, your previous do-
The answer to this question—this ourselves over the very life of another. nation will mean you are bumped to the
question we do not ask nearly as often This is certainly a radical conclusion, top of the waiting list for a new one.
ESTABLISHED 1871 and as demandingly as we ought to— and a deeply divergent view of the true A kidney donation, then, can only
comes to us, I think, in the form of a nature of morality, but I find it uncom- really be life-alteringly positive. Selfishly,
famous thought experiment by the phi- fortably unavoidable. Singer, I think, is donating a kidney will provide you with
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011
losopher Peter Singer. completely correct. Our duties extend a profound sense of meaning, purpose
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information Singer asks us to suppose that our far beyond what convention and intu- and happiness in a way only serving oth-
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators, daily route to class takes us past a shal- ition require, and we thus shirk our du- ers can. As more and more research con-
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in low pond. One day, as we are walking ties daily. In this sense, Singer and the firms, giving generates far more pleasure
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse past the pond, we notice a baby drown- Scripture have much in common: we than receiving once we reach adulthood.
discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community.
ing in the pond. We know that we can humans are all sinners. We need to rad- Furthermore, you will create a lifelong
safely enter the pond and save the baby’s ically change our behavior and begin bond with your donor, a bond about
Calder McHugh Jessica Piper life but doing so will mean getting mud- acting much more benevolently. This which countless touching testimonials
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief dy and being late to class. Singer asks, do extends far beyond the way we spend can be found online.
we have an obligation to save the drown- our money. We at Bowdoin have so much good
Digital Director Managing Editor News Editor ing baby? It’s been over two years now since fortune, and it’s nothing to feel guilty
James Little Anjulee Bhalla Nina McKay The answer, of course, is an emphatic I first read Singer, and although I’ve about. But let us also make sure that we
Emily Cohen yes. Without a doubt, we must save the changed somewhat, I still haven’t find time to remember the drowning
Photo Editor Nell Fitzgerald Features Editor baby. It will cost us very little and it will changed enough. I still spend nearly all children around us. Let us always make
Dakota Griffin Eliana Miller save a life. As we can intuitively agree, of my time and money on myself, and sure that we remember that our duties
Ann Basu Rohini Kurup
Mindy Leder not only is it the right thing to do, it is I still daily choose my frivolous desires extend beyond ourselves. For me, this
Ezra Sunshine Associate Editor Sports Editor the morally required thing to do—to and preferences over the fundamental means donating a kidney, but maybe for
Kathryn McGinnis choose not to save the baby would not needs of others. I want to do better. That’s you it means something else entirely—
Anna Fauver
Roither Gonzales be a neutral act, it would be a morally why I plan, sometime soon after I grad- and that’s fine. I just hope you’ll join me
Layout Editor A&E Editor bankrupt act. uate, to donate my kidney to a stranger on the quest to live a more moral life. I
Jaret Skonieczny Amanda Newman
Lucia Ryan Sabrina Lin However, Singer then asks us if it in need. guarantee you won’t regret it.
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14 OPINION Friday, April 12, 2019

Our home away from home: where does Maine fit in?

Pine Tree
Perspective
by Lowell Ruck
In my two years at Bowdoin,
I have thought about my home
state more than ever before.
Surrounded by people from
different regions of the country
and around the globe, I have
the opportunity both to en-
gage with diverse perspectives
and to critically consider my
own. Yet as I approach the end
of this column, I find myself
wondering: where does Maine
belong in the world? What is it
that makes us different or spe-
cial? Though I’ve written much
already about Maine’s culture,
from Franco-Americans to
skiing to tourism, I have not
truly placed it in a broader
context. Where do we fit in, if
at all?
The answer lies in our his-
tory, geography and demog-
raphy. Though Maine is often
lumped in with the rest of the
predominantly Democratic,
urban and wealthy Northeast
region, this classification is
misguided at best. As I dis-
cussed in a previous column,
the Pine Tree State has many
different cultural regions—
some majority liberal, some
majority conservative—which
do not align neatly with Amer-
ican notions of political and
demographic divisions. While
Portland sits on the periphery
of the Northeast Megalopolis,
an urban zone extending from
Washington D.C. to Boston, it
is hardly accurate to lump it
and the rest of Maine in with
metropolitan areas like New
York or Philadelphia which
have far more wealth and na-
tional influence. Although
significant portions of Maine’s
coast are populated by what
might be called “coastal elites,”
these people share the water-
front with seventh-generation
working-class fishermen,
something that is becoming
increasingly uncommon along
the crowded shores of the At-
lantic Seaboard. Even if Maine
is firmly within the geographic
Northeast, it remains cultural-
ly separate.
Within New England, too,
Maine occupies a unique
space. It is larger, poorer and
wilder than the other states in
the region and is set apart by
its stronger maritime tradi-
tion and independent attitude.
Much of this is a result of its
early history. The British Prov-
ince of Maine was first settled
by West Country Englishmen,
not by East Anglicans as in
Massachusetts, and these first
immigrants brought with them
a love of the sea and an An-
glican tradition that divided
them from their neighbors to
the south. Subsequent waves
of Scottish-Irish immigra-
tion, followed by settlers from
Massachusetts and as far away
as Sweden, contended with
Maine’s unforgiving climate
and soil and created a culture
that was fiercely self-subsis-
MOLLY KENNEDY
tent, anti-authoritarian and
protective of the land. Though
parts of New Hampshire and
nearby Massachusetts and
Vermont have similar cultures
as certain areas of Maine, dif-
ferent groups and patterns of
settlement have divided Maine
from its peers.
We are also a frontier state,
a place where an international
border was not marked until
the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
of 1842. Maine’s proximity
to Canada has exerted an
important influence on its
development, and in some ways,
Maine shares more culture with
its neighbors in the Canadian
Maritimes than it does with any
other region. Though Maine
borders only one U.S. state, New
Hampshire, it is bordered on
three sides by three Canadian
provinces: Québec, New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia (by
sea). Lobstering is as vibrant an
industry here as it is in Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, and
residents of the St. John River
Valley on the northern border
have long shared a common
Acadian tradition. Immigration
in both directions has also been
common: several of my Maine
ancestors had roots in New
Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island, and many other Mainers
can say the same. Though a
border divides us, Maine and
Eastern Canada’s cultures
and histories are thoroughly
intertwined.
When we consider these
conditions, it’s clear to see that
Maine’s culture doesn’t belong
to just one region or even one
country. Though we are polit-
ically tied to the U.S. and his-
torically tied to New England,
the Pine Tree State straddles
both regional and international
boundaries. We are a border-
land, a frontier that never fully
closed, a territory that is de-
fined but somehow resists defi-
nition. That’s not a bad thing.
That’s precisely what makes us
unique—and I wouldn’t have it
any other way.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR QUESTION OF THE WEEK

DO YOU APPROVE OF BOWDOIN

Brunswick’s at-large town
councilor thanks students
To the Editor,
I wanted to publicly thank all the Bow-
doin students who are spending their
Saturday mornings this month teaching
Brunswick’s youngest schoolchildren
how to play soccer. I’ve seen firsthand
all the smiles these student-coaches
are bringing to kids’ faces as they play.
My own son is having a great time, and
other parents seem to be happy with
their children’s experience as well. This
STUDENT GOVERNMENT’S
PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR?
program is a collaboration between the
Answer at bowdoinorient.com/poll.
College and Brunswick’s excellent Parks
and Recreation Department, and I think
these partnerships are invaluable to the
cohesiveness of our community. So from
this Brunswick dad, thank you for bring-
Last week’s response:
ing joy and knowledge into our kids’
lives. Q: IS IT TOO COLD TO WEAR SHORTS?
Sincerely,
Dan Ankeles
63% YES
Brunswick at-large town councilor
37% NO
Based on answers from 174 responses.

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Friday, April 12, 2019 OPINION 15

BSG CANDIDACY STATEMENTS

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Nate DeMoranville ’20

After three years of public service, it is with great excitement that I run for President of Bowdoin Student Government. In this position, I will strive to bridge the
divides of this campus by working with students to help other students.
I want to create spaces where we can hangout and stop doing work. I would partner with Student Activities to host another Food Truck Night, and I would reno-
vate the Game Room in Smith Union. I would also like to better promote the services that BSG already provides, like subsidized movie tickets and free bowling on
Thursday nights.
Another goal of mine is to reduce stress on campus. I would facilitate more preventive programming with Counseling and establish liaison positions between
different students groups. I would also engage upper-class students in pre-major advising, revive Bowdoin Course Reviews and provide free planners for students
at the start of the year.
When BSG has exhausted its own efforts, I will work with the administration to affect change on campus. But mostly, I want to forget about the admin-
istrators and focus on the students. We have our own problems, but we can work together to solve them.
In my position on BSG as Chair of Facilities and Sustainability, I have worked under this model. During the fall, I organized a town hall in response
to bias incidents where students sat alongside administrators to build a more inclusive community. Throughout the year, I have also chaired the Dining
Advisory Committee, and we have suggested small changes, like separating sliced fruits in Thorne, that are being implemented. Just next week, we will
be placing benches in the Coles Tower Lobby!
There is work to be done on this campus, but we have made great strides already. I hope you will join me!

Ural Mishra ’20

Hi friends! Over my years at Bowdoin, I’ve actively worked to make our campus better for all students. My past three years here have been an incredible experience,
and I’ve grown so much from the kindness and generosity of our community. I hope to be given the privilege of serving as the next BSG President. I have tried to use
my time here to make Bowdoin a more inclusive, open and understanding place. Sitting on the BSG assembly for two years, serving as Reed House Programming
Chair, being a board member for the International Student Association (ISA), helping found South Asian Students Association (SASA) and being the current 2020
Class Council Programming Director have all given me the experience to continue to make this campus a better place.
As president I commit to:
1. Making syllabi available during course registration.
2. Cutting the BSG budget, making money available to student-led clubs through the Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC).
3. Revising the Exploring Social Differences (ESD) requirement so it is more reflective of contemporary power structures.
4. Bridging the athlete/non-athlete divide by hosting conversations between teams, College Houses, clubs and BSG.
5. Working with deans and the Counseling Center to expand mental health services.
6. Working with Bowdoin Security, the Office of Residential Life and Brunswick Police Department to remedy Bowdoin-Brunswick relations.
I’m running for president because I’m uniquely positioned to tackle the issues and projects I’ve made part of my platform. I’ve based my platform on
the important work I’ve already started in the first three measures and other issues that can be tangibly dealt with to improve the Bowdoin experience.
I’m so thankful for everything that Bowdoin and the community here has given me, and I hope I can help leave this place a better one than it was when
I first entered. Check my Facebook event for a full description of my platform!

Salim Salim ’20

Hi everyone! My name is Salim, and I am thrilled to announce my campaign for BSG President! I am passionate about serving our community and want to work
with you to address the important challenges our campus faces.
I have previously served as the Chair of Student Affairs on the executive committee, and as the Vice President to the Class of 2020. Outside of BSG, I have
been a member of the Office of Residential Life (ResLife) since sophomore year and will be the RA of 52 Harpswell this upcoming fall. My experiences in BSG
and Res Life have illuminated to me how important inclusivity is in our daily lives. I want all students to feel like they can claim Bowdoin and that they have a
voice in shaping our campus.
As BSG President, I will work collaboratively with students and campus partners to address a range of campus issues. Specifically, I will commit to
protecting and embracing student activism on campus, increasing and strengthening student access to counseling and mental health services and
promoting intersectional dialogue on campus. I can’t do this alone; I will need your voices, your perspectives and your ideas to transform Bowdoin
into an inclusive, equitable campus for all students.

VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Aneka Kazlyna ’20

Hi! I’m Aneka Kazlyna, and I’m a rising senior. At Bowdoin, I have held a wide range of leadership roles: the founder of an NGO on women’s education and domestic violence,
Multicultural Center Director, Student Interviewee for New Faculty, Student Representative to the Middle Eastern North Africa and Arabic Committee, Fellowship and First-
Gen Student Mentor, Student Activities Fellow, Muslim Student Alliance Events Chair, Anokha President and BSG Multicultural Rep.
I want actions and not simply words from BSG. I want to remind our community of the role of BSG and remind BSG of the responsibility it has to our community. This
place is yours. My goals are to make Bowdoin a place for all of us and to give you complete transparency.
Platform:
• Wellness Vending Machine: 24/7 accessibility to low-cost contraception and health products.
• Peer-Nightline: an anonymous mental health hotline to help with academic and non-academic stress.
• Work on extending Bowdoin Counseling Service’s weekday evening hours and adding weekend hours. Extended weekday hours would let Counseling Service
offer more appointment times and hire more counseling staff year-round.
• Ensure complete transparency and accountability from BSG via video highlights of each week’s meeting and develop a system to gather student concerns.
• Make an accountability tracker that will show the progress of achieving BSG’s goals throughout the year.
• Revisit how reporting happens in sexual violence response processes. I will streamline reporting processes as well as outline specific follow-up pro-
cedures to ensure cases are not lost or closed prematurely. I will ensure that resources are made more accessible by working with Safe Space and the
administration.
My vision is to empower ALL voices and listen to YOU. I hope to hear every concern on all the policies that the BSG will implement. I believe that together
we can make this place exactly what you want it to be.

Arein Nguyen ’21

Hello all! My name is Arein Nguyen, and I am running to be the next vice president of BSG for the 2019-2020 academic year. Over the last two years as an assembly member, I have
worked to make Bowdoin a better place for all students. I am running for vice president because I feel it is the next step to continue my work within the student government assembly
for the betterment of the student body. I hope that my agenda, as outlined in the following points, will help me gain your support for my candidacy.
1. Continue to pursue the revision of the ESD and International Perspective (IP) offerings to enrich academic life and truly fulfill the liberal arts education of Bowdoin.
2. Continue the work of our current executive team to add paper assignments to the exam “bunching rule”.
3. Cut the BSG operating budget in order to support more student-led events on campus.
4. Expand mental health and counseling services for Bowdoin students by hiring additional staff.
5. Follow other schools in implementing inclusion training requirements for tenure-track professors to create more inclusive classroom environments for our diversi-
fying student body.
6. Bring back Common Hour with stronger programming than we’ve had in the last three years.
7. Increase the pressure on administration to address the “living-wage initiative” for fair wages to all Bowdoin employees.
8. Foster an environment for the student body and the town of Brunswick to mend our torn relationship.
9. Increase student body engagement with BSG by hosting weekly meetings in places other than Daggett.
Relevant experience:
• Class of 2021 Representative to BSG
• Currently the Multicultural Coalition Representative to BSG
Please reach out to me with any questions or concerns! I am looking forward to hearing your input on how we can make a better Bowdoin for all of us.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
 16 Friday, April 12, 2018

APRIL
FRIDAY 12
EVENT
Let’s Get a Meal: A Conversation About
Experiences at Bowdoin
As a part of admitted student programming, current students
can join President Clayton Rose, faculty and prospective
students for dinner.
Thorne Hall. 6 p.m.

EVENT
Pan-African Fashion Show
Africa Alliance will host its biannual fashion show. Along with
a runway featuring diverse cultural dress, the night will have
music, dance, comedy and more.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE
“Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Masque & Gown will feature a neo-futurist play directed by FUN IN THE SUN: First-years Yasmeen Wirth and Kevin Ryff share a moment while hammocking on the quad on Thursday afternoon. Bowdoin
students hit the outdoors yesterday to enjoy the warm weather after enduring several snowy days earlier in the week.
Hugo Hentoff ’19. There will be performances on Saturday
night as well.
Wish Theater. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

MONDAY 15 WEDNESDAY 17
EVENT WELLNESS
An Evening With Governor John Kasich Meditation

SATURDAY 13 Former governor of Ohio and CNN senior political commen-

PERFORMANCE
Senior Recital by fortuno
Tobi Omola ’19 and Ellis Laifer ’19 will present their musical
narrative honors project “Proposal.” This work challenges the
traditional album structure by offering a dreamlike story that
utilizes autotune, synthesizers and other musical components.
Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.
tator John Kasich will participate in a conversation moder-
ated by President Clayton Rose and answer questions from
the audience. Kasich formerly served as a Fox News host and
recently authored the novel “Two Paths: America United or
Divided.” Online pre-registration for the event is required.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.
Local licensed acupuncturist Toby Sifton will lead a 45-
minute meditation session.
Room 302, Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 7:15 p.m.
EVENT
The Untold: Diverse Stories of Asian/
Asian-American Peers at Bowdoin
A panel of Asian and Asian-American students and faculty
will share stories about their experiences and identities.
Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT
Quinceañera
The Latin American Student Organization will host its annual
event to celebrate the quinceañara, a traditional coming of age
ceremony for girls turning 15. The event will feature a special
TUESDAY 16
EVENT
dance performance at 10:30 p.m.
Moulton Union. 10 p.m. Opening Reception for “Focusing on
Dating Violence” Gallery THURSDAY 18
Members of the 2018-19 Gender Violence Prevention and EVENT
Education Leadership Institute will present their An Evening with Comedian Fumi Abe
photography projects on dating violence on campus. Japanese-American comedian Fumi Abe will perform stand-
Blue Gallery, David Saul Smith Union. 7:30 p.m. up revolving around his Asian-American identity. Abe hosts
a podcast called “Asian, Not Asian,” and his work has been

SUNDAY 14
LECTURE featured in the New York Times, MTV Decoded and Vulture.
Vigil to Honor Victims of the New Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
Zealand Mosque Shooting
FILM SCREENING The Muslim Student Alliance will invite students to honor PERFORMANCE
Apollo 11 the victims of the recent mosque shootings in New Zealand. Longfellows, Ursus Verses Joint Concert
Frontier will screen “Apollo 11,” a film directed by Todd Doug- On March 15, 50 worshippers died after a white nationalist Student a cappella groups Ursus Verses and the Longfellows
las Miller which details NASA’s dramatic 1969 moon mission. attacked two separated mosques in Christchurch. will perform a joint concert.
Frontier. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Museum of the Art Steps. 9 p.m. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

19 EVENT 20 EVENT 21 22 EVENT 23 EVENT 24 25 EVENT

Earth Day Spotify’s Paul Lion Babe

Paint Night Pop-Up Poetry
Celebration Lemere Concert