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Eight students
cited for providing
alcohol to minors
by Andrew Bastone
Orient Staff
Eight Bowdoin students were
cited early Sunday morning
for furnishing alcohol to mi-
nors at a party at the students’
off-campus residence. The party
was held at 49 Pleasant Street,
known by Bowdoin students
as “Red Brick House.” All eight
residents of the house are mem-
bers of the men’s Ultimate Fris-
bee team.
The Brunswick Police Depart-
ment (BPD) issued court sum-
monses requiring the students to
appear in court in mid-November.
A 20-year-old student, who is not
a resident of the house, lied about
their age and was cited for pos-
sessing alcohol as a minor—a civil
violation. The house residents may
face more severe consequences.
Furnishing alcohol to minors is
a class D misdemeanor punishable
by a maximum of one year in jail
and/or a $2,000 fine.
BPD Commander Mark
Waltz said that the police action
was not intended to serve as a
warning to students.
“I wouldn't say so much a
Faculty and staff attend
privilege workshop
Wednesday evening
by Artur Kalandarov
Orient Staff
Last Wednesday evening,
Frances Kendall, renowned ex-
pert on diversity and privilege,
visited campus to lead two work-
shops on white privilege. The first
four-hour morning workshop
was held in Daggett Lounge for
approximately 70 faculty and staff
members, while the evening ses-
sion for students was cancelled a
couple hours before it was sched-
uled to start.
Students who had signed up
to participate received an email
from Benjamin Harris, director
of the student center for multi-
cultural life, citing “unforeseen
circumstances” as the reason for
the cancellation.
Harris decided to bring Ken-
dall after meeting her at the Na-
tional Conference on Race and
Ethnicity in Higher Education,
an annual five day event featuring
workshops and presentations by
leaders in the diversity and edu-
cation fields.
“I've been in day-long work-
shops with her and I think she
has a powerful message,” Harris
said. “She finds a way to really
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warning. I think it's probably
just showing we meant what we
said,” said Waltz.
“What we told the students
was, ‘if you are honest with the
officers and you're respectful and
cooperative, the first time we run
into you, you're likely to just get a
warning for stuff like possession,’”
Waltz said, citing a recent meeting
with students living off-campus.
“On the other hand, you don't
want to be the one providing the
alcohol or the place to drink the
alcohol because that's a criminal
thing. And we really can't look the
other way on that, so you're likely to
get charged,” Waltz continued.
Officers initially responded
to an area adjacent to the home, ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
near the St. John the Baptist Cath- DIGGING FOR GOOD: Audrey Tsai '22 picks out weeds from the campus of the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program for the College's 21st annual
olic Church, after receiving a noise Common Good Day. Every year, around 500 Bowdoin students volunteer from morning till noon. Some prospective students who were visiting for 'Explore
complaint from a neighbor, accord- Weekend,' also participated in Common Good Day.
ing to a police report.
IT resolves email hackings and WiFi issues
Around 1 a.m. Sunday morn-
ing, police stopped and ques-
tioned four students who were
walking on a sidewalk near the
residence. In interviews with the
Orient, three of the students said has further resolved the issue email service. This fall, other Bowdoin
they performed breath tests at the by Aadhya Ramineni by prohibiting off-campus ac- IT has notified the students community members in addi-
Staff Writer
cess to the old email service. whose accounts were hacked, tion to Fosler-Jones have expe-
Please see RED BRICK, page 3 Last Friday, Michael Cato, Cato compared SMTP to a and the next time they log into a rienced problems connecting
senior vice president and chief U.S. Postal Service mailbox on Bowdoin system or service, they to the WiFi network. Having
information officer of Infor- the sidewalk—anyone can walk will first be required to change resolved the email hack, IT
mation Technology (IT), sent up to it, drop a message in and their password. Cato said that is now focused on resolving
a campus-wide email detail- have it sent. Bowdoin’s SMTP if the students who were hacked problems with a new WiFi
ing email hacks that occurred mailbox required a name and reset their passwords the securi- system that was installed this
through Chegg, Bowdoin’s password to send an email but ty breach should be resolved. IT summer.
previous online textbook ven- was accessible from anywhere. also recommends that affected With the new system, Aru-
dor, as well as continuing WiFi Effectively, IT has now moved students change their passwords ba, devices temporarily lose
connectivity issues. According the mailbox inside of a building, for any other accounts with the their ability to ‘communicate’
to one email, the breach con- so you need to be in the build- same password and that stu- even though they are still
tained email addresses, ship- ing—on campus—to use the dents not use their Bowdoin connected to the network.
ping addresses, usernames and mailbox. email passwords for other ac- When the College discovered
engage with people around issues passwords. “Last year hackers stole over counts. the problem, IT started work-
of whiteness, white privilege, Although IT never released 40 million records from Chegg,” Elizabeth Fosler-Jones ’20, ing remotely with engineers
what that means [and] how that passwords or other personal Cato wrote in an email to the who was affected by the breach, from Aruba to troubleshoot
manifests itself in systems and information to Chegg, some Orient. “The SMTP service is went to the IT Help Desk after and resolve these issues. Ear-
institutions.” customers incidentally used still used by some systems, but changing her password because lier this week, the engineers
Associate Dean of Students their Bowdoin account pass- no longer needs to be accessible she was unable to login to the arrived on campus to work
for Inclusion & Diversity and words for their purchases. to the entire Internet.” Bowdoin WiFi network or to her further in-person.
Director of the Center for Sexu- Hackers then used those pass- Cato clarified that turning Bowdoin email on her phone. Cato said there are cur-
ality, Women, and Gender Kate words to access Bowdoin’s old off this old service would have “It isn’t a big issue, just in- rently no plans for large scale
Stern said the need for an event email service called SMTP. IT no effect on the new Office 365 convenient,” she said. changes to Bowdoin's WiFi.
on white privilege and racism
Bowdoin Votes leads registration campaign
came from discussions with the
Intergroup Dialogue on Race and
Inclusion, Diversity and Student
Affairs team.
She hoped the event would
allow faculty and staff to gain a lots, find out if they were reg- drew Lardie founded Bowdoin questing absentee ballots [was
new understanding about their by Tianyi Xu istered, [and] decide where to Votes in 2016 with the goal of almost as much] as [the total
Staff Writer
privilege and position. register,” said Will Donaldson promoting a culture of civic en- registrations] we had last year
“I'm hoping [the] staff and Clad in red and blue col- ’20, one of Bowdoin Votes’ de- gagement on campus and help- in the midterms,” said Lardie.
faculty develop some confidence ored top hats, student workers mocracy ambassadors. “I was ing students vote in elections. “The appetite is there among
and competence and skills in and volunteers congregated pleasantly surprised by how After Tuesday’s events, or- students to participate.”
thinking about what each of our in David Saul Smith Union many people [went] out of ganizers felt optimistic about Elections this year are most-
roles are on campus related to and Thorne Hall on Tuesday their way to sign up.” future student engagement in ly municipal and tend to have
race and racism,” Stern said. for National Voter Registra- Over the past few years, voting at Bowdoin. According lower turnout. Lardie noted
Rachel Reinke, associate di- tion Day. Bowdoin Votes, a voter registration has been to the group, 129 Maine voter that Bowdoin Votes’ Tuesday
rector of the Sexuality, Women non-partisan voting advocacy low among Bowdoin students: registration forms were filled event aimed to address voters’
and Gender Center, attended initiative on campus, tabled at turnout was as low as 36 and out and 84 absentee ballots for misconceptions about this
the workshop and found it to be both sites to spread awareness 53 percent in the 2012 and out-of-state registrations were year’s cycle.
thought-provoking and engag- and assist students with voter 2016 presidential elections, requested. “Most people think of odd
ing. registration. respectively. Associate Direc- “What we saw was a great years as being not election
“I think that it was [a] really a “We had all the resources tor of Service and Leadership deal of interest. [The number years, which is not correct,”
that people needed to register of the Joseph McKeen Center of] students who we assisted
Please see WORKSHOP, page 3 to vote, request absentee bal- for the Common Good An- yesterday in registering or re- Please see VOTES, page 3
F A BOWDOIN HELLO A WON'T YOU BE MIME S HOME TRACK ADVANTAGE O BOC: DUE BETTER
Bowdoin welcomes new Dean of Students, Broken Box Mime Theater comes to Men's and women's cross country season Why not all students should have to pay
Kristina Bethea Odejimi. Page 6. Bowdoin to perform and workshop. Page 7. begins in stride. Page 9. for an outdoor education. Page 11.
2 Friday, September 27, 2019

2 PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT
9/19 to 9/26 STUDENT SPEAK:
What is the craziest thing you did as a child?
Friday, September 20 transported to Mid Coast Hospital.
• Security officers checked on the well-being • Brunswick police responded to a neighbor-
of an intoxicated student at Osher Hall. hood noise complaint at Red Brick House on
Pleasant Street. As a result, eight students Alex Baselga-Garriga ’21
who live at the house were cited for furnish-
Saturday, September 21
• A student requested that Security check on
ing a place for minors to consume, one stu-
dent was charged with possession of alcohol
"I cut a cable and accidentally caused a
the general well-being of another student.
• A student using a hair dryer accidentally
by a minor after first refusing to provide a
correct date of birth to a police officer, and
power outage in the neighborhood."
set off at smoke alarm in Chamberlain fifteen other students received warnings for
Hall. possession of alcohol by a minor.
• A student reported finding damage to his • A television blaring at 5 a.m. resulted in a
vehicle that was parked in the Farley park- noise complaint at Brunswick Apartment B.
ing lot near the tennis • Burnt microwave
courts. popcorn caused a smoke Irene Lunt ’21
• A trespass warning was alarm at Moore Hall.
issued to a man loitering
near MacMillan and
"I tried to do a cartwheel off a seesaw
Quinby houses falsely
claiming to be a Bowdoin
Tuesday, September 24
• A fire alarm at Jewett
and cracked my head open. I was in
student.
• A silver Razor scooter
Hall was caused by a
detector malfunction.
Wales. They superglued it shut."
(with blue handles and • A mischievous toddler
light-up wheels) was pulled two separate fire
stolen from near the east alarms at the Children’s
entrance to Coles Tower. Center. Jared Foxhall ’22
• At 1 a.m., students • A bedroom smoke
inadvertently let a group
of eight unidentified men
alarm was activated on the
10th floor of Coles Tower.
"I used to cry deeply and frequently at
into Hyde Hall. Four
of the men entered a
SHONA ORTIZ
the fact that I didn’t have superpowers
student’s room looking for a place to party.
Students eventually asked the uninvit-
Wednesday, September 25
• A football player was taken to Mid Coast Hos-
like Shark Boy."
ed guests to leave the building. Shortly pital for treatment of a finger that was broken
afterwards, Apple Airpods were noticed during practice.
missing from the same room the men • A student reported being followed by a mid-
entered. The matter is under investigation. dle-aged man on a bicycle near the Edwards Amie Sillah ’20
Center for Art and Dance and Longfellow

Sunday, September 22
Avenue.
• A student at Thorne Hall reporting chest dis-
"I used to have a jewelry bead stuck
• A student accidentally pulled the fire
alarm in the Coles Tower lobby, resulting
comfort was transported to Mid Coast Hospi-
tal.
in my left ear. I shoved it there when I
in a building evacuation.
• An intoxicated student at Maine Hall was
• A student reported the theft of a Sector 9 long-
board from the west entrance to Sargent Gym.
was six ... one day it came out of my ear
sophomore year."
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COMPILED BY HAVANA CASO-DOSEMBET

Word-Up! CREATED BY AUGUST RICE

*The starred clues all relate to a
common theme.

ACROSS 59. ___ and outs

*1. Thurston’s surname on “Gilligan’s Island”
7. Ballet class wear
11. To loathe
12. Unusual
14. Signup times on the golf course
*16. Overcook on the grill
17. College of Saint Elizabeth (Abbr.)
18. Come again
*21. Ship’s steering gear
22. Bullets for short
23. 2019 Women’s World Cup champion
25. Young ‘___ (kids, slangily)
26. Locus plural
30. End of a nonprofit url, maybe
*32. Katahdin’s state park
*34. What the starred clues are
*38. Grassy stem
39. _____ Boulevard (LA street)
40. Cash source
42. Car rental company
44. Everest and K2, to name two (Abbr.)
*45. It’s “big” at McDonald’s
46. Oregon Institute of Technology (Abbr.)
48. Gentlewoman’s address
50. Second husband, say (2 wrds.)
52. Examination taken by boarding school hopefuls
54. ___ Dhabi
*56. Very small, coastal Virginia town
57. Fish for salad
58. No winner or loser
60. Iconic Supreme Court justice
61. Before, in poetry
*62. The most vulgar sounding one, honestly
DOWN
1. Bowdoin library
2. Having a high BMI, say
3. Car parts
4. Major at Bowdoin (Abbr.)
5. Marching directions (Abbr.)
6. Formal name for Uncle Sam I guess
7. President Taft is rumored to have gotten stuck in one
8. Big rock in Australia also known as Ayers Rock
9. Sticky stuff on the road
10. Ashes carrier
12. “Times” anagram
13. Spain’s abbreviation
15. If squeezed, they make juice
19. Krakow’s nation (Abbr.)
20. French name for the Scheldt river
24. Afternoon nap in Pamplona
25. Website link
27. Wind instrument
28. 9s in Ancient Rome
37. QVC competitor 50. Character in the Sound of Music that lives in the
29. Popular slushie brand
38. Greek letter that follows pi Abbey
30. Famous road described by Lil Nas X
41. Famous Pixar car Lightning 51. Ice in Munich
31. Tooth care
43. Country north of South Africa (Abbr.) 53. Field of study like math or history for short
33. Antetokounmpo and Bledsoe, for an example
47. “___ ___ see it my way!” 55. Laszlo _____, Hungarian journalist who patented the
35. National anthem contraction
48. Tropical fruit first practical ball-point pen
36. Chewing substance
49. One ___ __ time 56. First dynasty to unify China
Friday, September 27, 2019 NEWS 3

Lobbyist talks importance of bipartisan climate legislation

by Dani Quezada
Orient Staff
On Wednesday, Danny
Richter, vice president of
government affairs for Cit-
izens' Climate Lobby, an in-
ternational environmental
lobbying group, held a lec-
ture in the Roux Center for
the Environment about his
proposals for solutions to cli-
mate change which center on
implementing a carbon tax.
Citizens Climate Lobby
works with members of Con-
gress on both sides of the aisle
to reach compromises and
pass bipartisan legislation ad-
dressing climate change.
The lecture was funded by
the Climate Action Speaker
Initiative, created through
the donations of John Flinn
’05 and Luke Flinn ’10. This
fund is meant to connect the
College’s climate action work
with what students are learn-
ing in the classroom. Richter’s
visit to campus was sponsored
by the Office of Sustainabili-
ty, the Environmental Studies
program and Career Explora-
tion and Development.
Richter, who has been in-
tegral in three major bipar-
tisan bills that advocate for a
carbon tax, wanted to famil-
iarize people with the current
bipartisan bills for the U.S.
Congress and to create an
awareness of some of the di-
verse political considerations
surrounding this particular
moment in the United States.
He also wanted his lecture to
convey that there is a strong
expert preference for carbon
pricing.
“What economists really
like about carbon prices in
general is efficiency and get-
ting the desired outcome [at
the] lowest cost. This is what
Congress really cares about,”
Richter said.
Noal Leonetti ’22, who
attended the lecture, agreed
with the basis of Richter’s ar-
gument.
“We do need more biparti-
san work on this issue as well
as the states stepping up,”
Leonetti said.
Holden Turner '20, on the
other hand, appreciates the
effort Richter puts into ne-
gotiating the ecosystem of
lobbying on Capitol Hill, but
is more weary.
“It's too easy to consider
carbon taxes as a silver bullet
for climate action, especially
after an expert describes the
possibilities so thoroughly,”
Turner said. “I came away
from Dr. Richter's talk seeing
lobbying for carbon pricing
as just one of many avenues
forward. We can't put all of
our eggs in one basket.”
After former Bowdoin fac-
ulty member Michael Jones
recommended Richter to
Keisha Payson, the assistant
director of sustainability, she
reached out to Richter in June
and orchestrated his visit.
When choosing a speaker
for campus, Payson wanted
to invite someone who advo-
cated for climate change ac-
tions that have swift payoffs,
such as LED lighting projects
that could pay for themselves
within two years. She felt that
Richter advocates for a quick-
er approach to long term
solutions that would be more
financially affordable.
“It's getting more chal-
lenging because the invest-
ments we need to make don't
have such a quick payback,”
said Payson. “[If ] there was
a carbon tax, [it] would lev-
el that playing field between
the various energy sources:
[fossil] fuels versus renew-
able.”
When asked about how a
current carbon tax bill fits into
the Green New Deal, Richter
explained the deal’s flaws.
Bipartisan support is
needed to pass such a deal,
and Richter claims the Green
New Deal has no compo-
nents that appeal to Republi-
cans. He added that given the
inclusion of polarizing issues
such as universal health care
and immigration in the deal,
it may be too sweeping to
pass. He suggests that the
Green New Deal solely fo-
cus on addressing climate
change.
Samara Nassor ’22, who
attended the dinner, wonders
how plausible such action will
be.
“I was just asking myself,
how are we going to get there
as fast as we need to?” Nas-
sor said. “Consequences for ISABEL ALEXANDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
climate change can come TAX TO THE MAX: Vice President of Government Affairs for Citizens' Climate Lobby Danny Richter presents his
tomorrow.” lecture in the Roux Center, advocating the benefits of a carbon tax.

RED BRICK dents. Two of those cited are 22,

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request of police.
Waltz explained the devices
were Preliminary Breath Tests, or
PBTs, the results of which are not
admissible in court as evidence of
intoxication. The department’s only
Intoxilyzer, which produces results
that are admissible in court, is locat-
ed at BPD headquarters.
The questioning lasted approx-
imately 30 minutes, and one of the
students described the officer’s
demeanor as “hostile.”
“While [one officer] was writing
things down and asking us individ-
ually where we were from and what
our birthdays were, the other offi-
cer was kind of reinforcing these
threats of ‘if you do not comply
it will be a lot worse for you, so it
would be much easier if you were
just honest with us,’” said another of
the students interviewed.
Waltz said the responding
officers then proceeded to the
residence after they saw students
leaving the house.
After entering the Pleasant
Street residence, police issued the
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT summonses to each of the resi-
REGISTER TODAY: Maria Garcia '23 (LEFT) and Jada Scotland '23 (RIGHT) register to vote with Bowdoin Votes on Tuesday, National Voter Registration Day.
five are 21 and one is 20.
“The eight people that were
summonsed admitted they were
tenants of the apartment,” said
Chief of Police Richard Rizzo.
The responding officers also
issued warnings to some of the
underage students who were in
the house.
“I’m sorry to everyone who
was at the house when the police
showed up. [It’s] not an easy situ-
ation for anyone,” said one of the
residents in an email to the Orient.
“I hope other off-campus houses
can use us as a wake-up call just to
be safe and careful going forward.”
“Obviously there won’t be par-
ties at Red Brick in the foreseeable
future, and the bottom line is we’re
going to protect ourselves,” said
the same student in a subsequent
interview.
Of the seven other residents,
three declined to be interviewed,
while the other four did not re-
spond to a request for comment.
Editor’s Note: It is the policy
of the Orient not to publish the
names of students accused of a
crime until they have been formal-
ly charged.

VOTES voting processes can hinder

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said Lardie. “Municipal and
local elections [have] high-
stake[s]. Control of education
on the ground is done by your
city or town; control of your
police is done by your city or
town.”
Aoguzi Muhameiti ’23, one
of Bowdoin Votes’ student vol-
unteers, described how pro-
cedural complexity in states’
voter registration.
“It is very difficult to regis-
ter in some states. You have to
find out who your clerk is, you
have to find out their address,
you have to contact them to
get a form,” said Muhameiti.
“It's a very complicated pro-
cess.”
For those who choose to
register in their home state,
Bowdoin Votes helped stu-
dents fill out absentee ballots.
“We pay for postage, we
provide envelopes, [and] we
make sure that they fill out the
forms correctly before they get
submitted,” said Lardie.
Lardie also expressed con-
cerns over students’ apathetic
attitudes toward voting. He at-
tributes Bowdoin’s low turnout
rates primarily to this apathy.
“A part of our educational
outreach is to promote the
idea that [voting] is manage-
able. It might be stressful to
be confronted with all these
different choices to make, but
you can get prepared, and it
won’t take up a ton of your
time,” said Lardie.
This year, the group also
acted in association with NES-
CAC Votes, an initiative among
NESCAC colleges that routinely
holds conventions for helping
students plan events for the year
ahead.
Editor's Note: Will Donaldson
is a columnist for the Orient.
PRIVILEGE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
good chance to talk about things
that we don't talk a lot about at
Bowdoin,” said Reinke. “[Ken-
dall] lectured a little bit, but we
also talked a lot at tables … she
would pose questions, and then
we would reflect on them. We
[also] did some individual writing
exercises.”
Reinke said that an added
benefit for participants of the
workshop was the opportunity
to interact with members of the
Bowdoin community.
“It was nice to talk to other
colleagues. There was a really wide
representation throughout cam-
pus,” she said. “There were faculty
and staff from Student Affairs,
Academic Affairs and there [were]
also folks from housekeeping [and
the] Organic Garden. It was a real-
ly amazing opportunity to connect
with folks that I don't usually get to
on an everyday basis.”
4 Friday, September 27, 2019
AF ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Visiting mimes defy traditional conventions of theater
by Cole van Miltenburg
Orient Staff
Theater productions with-
out dialogue, props or scene
changes may seem unthinkable,
but miming is a traditional art
with a new look in the 21st
century. Tonight, three mimes
from Broken Box Mime Theater
(BKBX) will arrive on campus
to present students with an up-
close insight into this complex
and underrepresented form of
storytelling.
BKBX is a non-profit pro-
duction company based in New
York City that was founded
in 2011 by former members
of HYPE! Mime Troupe from
Tufts University. Over the past
eight years the group has grown
to welcome 13 members and
has performed on various stag-
es, in New York and elsewhere,
under the artistic direction of
Becky Baumwoll.
Baumwoll points to her ex-
perience performing in school
as inspiration to continue mim-
ing as a young actress.
“It seemed like an obvious
choice—when thinking about
what kind of work I wanted to
make on my own—to do some-
thing that no one else is doing.
And mimes have been really
out of fashion for the last few
decades,” she said.
In fact, BKBX is the newest
American mime ensemble to
emerge in the past 50 years.
For this reason, few people are
familiar with the art of miming
and think only of its stereotyp-
ical depictions in the world of
comedy and satire.
BKBX is working to push
these boundaries and revitalize
the art form of miming. To-
gether, members write a series
of short plays and productions,
giving them the flexibility to
craft narratives that display a
wide range of emotions and ar-
tistic creativity.
“We tell really complex
stories and they run the gam-
ut from really funny to really
heartfelt to dramatic, cinematic,
metaphorical, abstract—we can
do all of it,” Baumwoll said.
Baumwoll argues that the
stripped-down nature of BKBX
productions and its deviation
from traditional theater allow
for a more intimate perfor-
mance and connection to view-
ers.
“[Traditional techniques]
miss something in the potential
of what mime is, which we find
is the distilling of theater down
to its absolute essential and in-
troducing the audience’s imag-
ination as the final playwright
and as the heart of the medium,”
she said.
Lucy Sydel ’22 can attest to
this feeling after having the
chance to intern with BKBX
two summers ago and watch
several of their productions.
“I came in with all of these
preconceived ideas about what
[BKBX] would be based on
contemporary theater in New
York,” Sydel said. “And I just
remember being really blown
away by how immediate and
simple the stories are and how
much I felt connected to the
other audience members, who I
didn’t know, after the show.”
Over Winter Break last year,
Sydel saw BKBX perform again
and had the chance to recon-
nect with the group’s members
after the show, sparking the idea
of bringing them to campus to
perform.
Baumwoll will be joined this
weekend by company members
Tasha Milkman and Matt Zam-
brano, who both have diverse
backgrounds as teachers and
artists. After performing ten
short pieces, they will remove
their makeup and engage with
the audience in a talkback facil-
itated by Sydel.
The next day, the trio will
host a workshop open to stu-
dents of all backgrounds and
experiences aimed at increasing
awareness of body language and
physical movement in storytell-
BLACK , WHITE AND REED ALL OVER: Three mimes from the Broken Box Mime Theater will give an intimate
performance in Reed House tonight, followed by a workshop and dinner with students on Saturday.
ing. Students will also have the
chance to engage with Baum-
woll, Milkman and Zambrano
in a casual dinner in Thorne
Hall on Saturday before their
departure on Sunday morning.
“Lucy helped us design this
stay [so] that all three of the
engagements that we have this
weekend [are] about starting
discussion, and figuring out
how this seemingly niche idea
of performance and storytell-
Prof. Abigail Killeen stars
in ‘The Clean House’
by Esther Wang
Orient Staff
From September 24 to Octo-
ber 13, Abigail Killeen, associate
professor of theater and chair of
the Department of Theater and
Dance, will star in a production of
“The Clean House” at the Portland
Stage Company, directed by Cait
Robinson ’08.
“The Clean House” is written by
Sarah Ruhl, a playwright known
for her theatrical imagery and non-
linear storytelling that transcends
traditional narratives and themes.
The production is centered on a
Brazilian maid, Matilde, and how
her life becomes entangled with
three other women. Matilde’s hate
for cleaning and love for comedy
drives the play through moments
of poignancy and hilarity. Killeen
will play the role of Lane, a mid-
dle-aged doctor who employs
Matilde.
Killeen holds an extensive back-
ground as an actor and was invited
to audition for the role. It wasn’t
until after her audition that she
learned the production would be
directed by Robinson.
“What I admire [about] her
most in the rehearsal room is
[Robinson’s] intelligence and the
way she is really thinking about the
text in a way that I credit, in part, to
her education at Bowdoin,” Killeen
said.
Although Killeen did not per-
sonally teach Robinson, she did
attend the first play Robinson
ing can be an opening into lots
of other lots of other points of
inquiry,” said Baumwoll.
While BKBX’s stay in Bruns-
wick is limited, Baumwoll
hopes that bringing this unique
art form to a small community
like Bowdoin will expand the
mindset of students far beyond
theater itself.
“Those questions of: why are
we doing what we’re doing? And
why must it be in this medium?
directed as a student at Bowdoin.
Compared to that production,
Killeen thinks she has grown even
more thoughtful about her work
after gaining post-college experi-
ence and interning at the Portland
Stage Company.
“She’s still herself, but deeper,”
Killeen said. “Experience gives you
depth and I see that depth.”
“This is less an experience of
discovery and more a process of
satisfaction of seeing this big step
in [Robinson’s] career and it feels
like an honor to be taking that step
next to her.”
Killeen is still teaching three
courses at Bowdoin this semester.
Although this dual responsibility
of teaching and acting has proved
to be difficult, Killeen finds the
process rewarding.
“My work [at Bowdoin] is about
acting so it’s really gratifying to
stay consistently engaged with
the rehearsal room,” said Killeen.
“Whenever I do a play, I would
remember all that I am asking my
students to do in class.”
Killeen has found that her role
in “The Cleaning House” has en-
abled her to speak directly about
the production process with stu-
dents, particularly those in her
advanced studio course.
“It’s a very vulnerable and diffi-
cult thing. Self-doubt is part of the
vulnerability of creating work, and
it’s very uncomfortable,” she said.
“[But] if you’re engaged with the
field as your teaching, you have an
authentic and fertile and lively rela-
COURTESY OF BJORN BOLINDER
I would say [is] just as relevant
to a student who’s in any field
trying to figure out why they
want to be where they are [and]
doing what they are,” she said.
Baumwoll, Milkman and
Zambrano will perform in Reed
House on Friday night at 8 p.m..
The workshop will be on Satur-
day from 1-3 p.m. in Memorial
Hall Room 601, followed by a
dinner at 5:30 p.m. in Thorne
Hall’s Pinette Room.
tionship to the work itself.”
The Portland Stage Compa-
ny is a member of the League of
Resident Theatres (LORT), an as-
sociation that makes productions
specific to the context of its com-
munity.
“We are a diverse nation in
every sense of [the] word and
communities are distinct. [LORT
members] are local, geologically
precise and the stories that come
out of the geography of a region
need to be told in a particular way,”
Killeen said.
Killeen is a strong supporter of
the local theater community and
looks to help it thrive. She feels that
while shows on Broadway might
be a once in a lifetime experience,
the Portland Stage Company is
able to form an enhanced relation-
ship with its audience.
“One of the greatest pleasures
of living and working in Portland
is work[ing] with a number of the
same people,” Killeen said. Because
I have a relationship with [them],
we can get to deeper work faster.”
Killeen’s theater classes will be
attending the play this Saturday
afternoon. Although she is ner-
vous about acting in front of her
students, this opportunity is one
which also excites her.
“It’s scary for me because I’m
being held accountable to what
I’m teaching,” Killeen said. “I think
one of the strongest things about
our department is that we’re all en-
gaged artistically … It’s a question
of integrity.”
Friday, September 27, 2019
Printmaking fellow explores nature and feminism
by Sophie Burchell
Staff Writer
Throughout the vast array
of her life’s work, Visiting
Artist Claudia Fieo P’21 has
focused on the idea of re-
spect—be it to the forces of
nature, women overlooked by
society or the process of cre-
ating itself. On Wednesday,
Fieo gave her talk, “The Na-
ture of Printmaking: Process
and Possibility” as part of the
Martin Bileck Printmaking
Project.
Fieo, a professor of visual
art at Wheaton College, uses
media range from lithograph
and woodcut prints to collage.
Representations of nature
have consistently been a focal
point of her work. She strives
to capture the environment
in both detailed, sketch-like
prints and colorful, abstract
forms.
“I see the divine in nature,”
she said. “[My process] is not
prayer per se, but an act of
reverence, an act of honor-
ing something that cannot be
separated from who we are as
humans.”
Fieo believes that nature’s
cycles of life and death rep-
resent rejuvenation, but also
loss—a topic which contrib-
uted to her early connection
to art. She was in her mid-
teens and early twenties when
she lost two of her brothers to
blood disorders. Fieo said she
used art from then onwards to
search for self-purpose and a
Points of View: A gallery for artists of all ages
by Natsumi Meyer
Staff Writer
After traveling between
the same four buildings
across one main quad for
the first two weeks of school,
it’s easy to forget that there’s
a town beyond Bowdoin.
Brunswick is home to over
20,000 residents who live,
work and, sometimes, make
art here.
The Brunswick Business
Center, located at 18 Pleasant
St., looks like a traditional
red brick home. Today, how-
ever, it serves as an office
space for many individuals
and small businesses—as
well as the gallery space for
a group of Brunswick-based
artists who call themselves
the Points of View Artists.
The Points of View Art-
ists is primarily composed of
retirees; some have lived in
Brunswick their whole lives
while others, like Barbara
Snapp, have permanently re-
tired to their former summer
homes. Snapp is one of the
original members of Points
of View Artists and now runs
the group’s website and much
of their public relations.
“I thought being able to represent
what you see and put your emotions
into it ... sounded really neat to me.”
–Barbara Snapp, Points of View artist
THE POWER OF PRINT: Visiting artist Claudia Fieo P’21 gave a talk on Wednesday discussing her career as an artist, particularly highlighting her work’s
connection to the environment. Fieo plans to contribute to continue work on a printmaking book during her time on campus.
way to move forward.
After high school, Fieo
planned on becoming a med-
ical illustrator to give back to
the medical community. She
then chose to pursue graphic
design and printmaking in-
stead and went on to earn a
masters degree in printmak-
ing. Like medical illustration,
her early print career focused
on the precise, scientific
“I promised myself I
would take some art classes
when I retired,” said Snapp.
“I thought being able to
represent what you see and
put your emotions into it …
sounded neat to me.”
Snapp, a former teacher
of Advanced Placement (AP)
Biology in Palo Alto, Cali-
fornia, soon found herself in
Kathie Boldt’s drawing class
at Merrymeeting Adult Edu-
cation in Topsham.
Between 2003 and 2004,
a group of graduates from
Boldt’s art classes decided to
continue meeting regularly
to critique each other’s work
and practice art together.
This group of former novices
have gone on to show and sell
their work in the halls of the
Brunswick Business Center
after one of their members
was asked to do so by the
owner of the building, Art
Boulay.
If you were to enter the
Brunswick Business Center
expecting to find an airy,
well-lit gallery space, you
would be surprised to instead
find a number of individual
office rooms that shoot off
a narrow hallway. But lining
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
beauty of nature. She empha-
sizes nature’s complexity as a
way of paying respect to life
and its precariousness.
“I’m continually in awe, and
I tried to find beauty in the
world I see around me,” she
said. “I did a bunch of draw-
ings where the places were
not very beautiful at all, but
I was trying to call attention
to those discarded places and
LOCALLY SOURCED: Points of View Gallery, located blocks from campus in the Brunswick Business Center, features an array of pieces from local artists.
these hallways from the first
to third floor of the center
are a great number of art
pieces, including paintings,
prints and pottery.
By simply walking through
the gallery, Snapp can identi-
fy the works of each artist—
for example, the woman who
primarily works with pens,
and the woman who does ab-
stract pottery.
Putting together the dis-
play is a creative and collabo-
recognize that there’s a sort
of harmony that’s going on in
terms of the different life cy-
cles.”
After working in a variety
of graphic design and print-
making teaching positions,
Fieo was hired at Wheaton
College as a professor in both
disciplines. This academic
year marks her 28th at Whea-
ton, though she is spending
rative process in itself, Snapp
said.
“People bring their work
in, and we spread it all over
the table. We make a show
out of what people bring in,”
she said.
There is no curator or
owner of the Points of View
Gallery. The artists gather
together and go through the
process of deciding on a new
theme. While displays are
changed every month during
EMILY FULLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
this semester on sabbatical at
Bowdoin, where she is teach-
ing Printmaking I.
Fieo came to Bowdoin by
invitation of Associate Profes-
sor of Visual Arts Carrie Scan-
ga, whom she met at the Zea
Mays Printmaking workshop
and gallery in Northampton,
Massachusetts. Zea Mays
Printmaking is hub for print-
makers dedicated to non-toxic
the summer, once Septem-
ber hits, pieces will only be
changed once or twice before
May.
The artists must also nav-
igate a variety of challenges,
the most important of which
is their advancing age.
One member of the group
needs hearing aids and will
speak out in the middle of
a conversation, and one is a
90-year-old woman who lives
further from Brunswick and
5
printmaking practices.
Fieo’s current project,
which she hopes to continue
working on during her fellow-
ship, is a darkly comedic book
including text by Wheaton’s
Playwright-in-Residence,
Charlotte Meehan which
captures a deep friendship
between two aging women.
It is meant to represent the
friends’ common experience
of disappearing from society’s
eye.
“In our society where wom-
en are so often objectified …
you’re invisible, in a certain
way,” she said. “And then as
you get older you’re just in-
visible. It’s interesting how
overlooked sometimes an
older woman, especially in ac-
ademia, can feel.”
Although the book is un-
finished, it has already found
an audience. Fieo shared the
work in progress with mem-
bers of a non-profit group.
“The older women who
were present were like ‘Oh
my gosh, I could just cry,’ so it
struck a chord.”
Fieo wants women of all
ages to resonate with the mes-
sage of the book, which she
hopes to display at Bowdoin
upon its completion.
“I think it’s really import-
ant for women to have wom-
en friends and to support one
another. We’re not in com-
petition with one another,”
said Fieo. “I think we’ll make
progress for you guys, for the
next generation.”
GRAHAM BENDICKSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
is becoming increasingly dif-
ficult to reach.
Snapp joked, “Running
our monthly meetings is kind
of like herding cats.”
Snapp remains grateful for
Boulay’s generosity in pro-
viding a space for the artists
to show and sell their work
for free.
“We’re continuing to be
creative,” said Snapp. “The
main thing is that we have
fun.”
6 Friday, September 27, 2019
F FEATURES
One name at a time, Kristina Bethea Odejimi finds her groove
by Alyce McFadden
Orient Staff
Last Tuesday, newly-appointed
Dean of Students Kristina Bethea
Odejimi led a morning spin class
while the regular instructor was
on vacation. Why? Because there
was a problem to be solved, be-
cause Odejimi really likes to cycle
and because the class gave her the
chance to do what she enjoys most:
meet the individuals who make up
the community she has been hired
to serve, while getting in a tough
workout.
“I think they were all dead by
the end of the class,” Odejimi said.
“But that’s OK. That’s maybe how
you need to start off a Tuesday.”
Whether she is clipped into bike
pedals in the Peter Buck Center for
Students dive into Bowdoin Marine Science Semester
THE DEEP END: (LEFT): Sophie Walton ‘21 conducts research at the Coastal Studies Center as part of the Bowdoin Marine Sciene Semester, an intimate, semester-long program focused on an interactive study of marine science.
by Aura Carlson
and Emma Sorkin
Orient Staff
Every weekday morning this
semester, nine Bowdoin stu-
dents pile into minivans to travel
to their classroom: the Schiller
Coastal Studies Center. Swapping
laptops for test tubes and sneak-
ers for rubber boots, students in
Bowdoin Marine Science Semes-
ter (BMSS) explore coastal envi-
ronments through a hands-on, in-
timate semester-long experience.
From Monday through Friday,
BMSS students spend six hours
at the College’s 118-acre facility
on Orr’s Island, taking classes
on benthic ecology, methods in
ocean change ecology, history and
marine science. Students take one
course at a time, with each lasting
about a month. Instead of a final
exam, the semester culminates in
an independent study project.
“A large component of the
Marine Science Semester is stu-
dents’ projects,” said Olaf Ellers,
a research associate in the biology
Health and Fitness or installed in
her Moulton Union corner office,
Odejimi’s conception of what it
means to be Dean of Students is
hands-on, individualistic and in-
tensely student-focused. Odejimi’s
job, which she began August 1,
is to oversee the Title IX office,
Health Services, Counseling Ser-
vices and the Student Accessibility
office—in other words, the ser-
vices and professionals that help to
shape our experience as students
of the College.
Odejimi knows that building
relationships with students is
essential to her job, but also em-
phasizes the need for students to
engage with her.
“I recognize that the second
floor of Moulton Union is not a
place where people just come on
department. “They have to come
up with original projects, so we
want to provide an opportunity
for them to think about the ex-
isting scientific literature in fields
that are particularly interesting.”
Due to the small class size, dai-
ly assignments are largely driven
by student interests. This allows
instructors to engage directly with
students and provides more free-
dom regarding the content and
structure of classes.
“There’s definitely a structure
to [the classes], but if there’s a re-
ally good tide, and we need to hit
it, we’re going to hit that and then
we’ll get back to what we’re doing.
If something with our research
comes up, we’re going to do that,”
Sophie Walton ’21 said. “It’s just
one thing you’re focusing on at
a time, with an independent re-
search project woven throughout
[that] ties everything together.”
Research projects vary from
student to student, ranging
from clam filter feeding to mi-
croscopic colony organisms.
Participants are given free rein
their own, so really trying to make
sure that students understand we
have a lot of resources that we offer
[and] we want to make sure that
students are aware of them … that
is really important to me,” Odejimi
said. “Even as I move up in differ-
ent capacities, I think that the stu-
dent interactions are at the core. It
is why we are doing this work.”
To this end, Odejimi is making
an effort to designate times for stu-
dents to meet with her, just to talk,
as she put it, “eyeball to eyeball.”
Around a dozen have taken her up
on this offer.
“They are able to come and
meet and to just chat and exchange,
nothing serious in nature—just for
[me] to meet them,” she said.
These interactions can be the
highlights of Odejimi’s tightly and
to pursue their passions.
“I’ve never seen people get so
excited about getting in the mud
with giant boots and then getting
these samples of things that you
can’t even see with your eyes,”
Benjamin Felser ’22 said. “[They]
light up when they’re talking
about microbes.”
The program also emphasizes
field work and hands-on learning.
“We’ve been doing more
fieldwork than I’ve done in my
entire life in [the] weeks we’ve
had,” Felser said. “It’s much more
about experiential learning [and]
modeling what it’s like to be a
scientist.”
Students collect data and con-
duct labs and observations direct-
ly from the Maine environment.
“It’s a very intimate learning
experience, where you are contin-
ually working with data, working
with your own data [and] working
with local species and ecosystems.
That’s really fun,” Scott Kuhnle ’22
said. “[There is] a really strong
connection to the land and the
locality of it.”
meticulously packed schedule.
She tries to see the individuals
that make up her constituents, to
see students as complicated and
singular people rather than mere
members in the crowd.
For Odejimi, the key to this
task is names. She learns students
Her name, in case you
were wondering, is pro-
nounced “o-Day-jimi.”
names by repeating them over and
over: a technique that is effective,
if a bit unsettling. To demonstrate,
she leaned toward me, across the
circular table in her office and
opened her eyes wide.
While the benefits of an in-
timate learning experience are
evident, the program can also be
isolating due to the time and en-
ergy BMSS demands.
“It is a huge time commitment.
I would call it a kind of semester
away from Bowdoin. Not a se-
mester abroad or overseas, but
it’s definitely a semester away,”
Kuhnle said.
Felser also noted that partic-
ipating in BMSS can limit the
amount of time dedicated to
on-campus activities.
“I have to make sacrifices. I
can’t be as much a part of my
extracurriculars that I want to
be a part of, and I can’t see all
my friends that I want to see all
the time,” Felser said. “What I
keep reminding myself is that I
would have been much less hap-
py knowing that I passed up this
opportunity. I am now wrestling
with some of the difficulties that
accompany doing an intensive
program like this, but it feels very
worth it.”
Construction of a new dry lab-
“Alyce. Alyce. Alyce,” she said,
deliberately. “What’s your last
name? I try to make these associ-
ations because I think names are
important.”
Her name, in case you were
wondering, is pronounced
“o-DAY-jimi.”
Odejimi comes to Bowdoin
from Tappahannock, Virginia,
where she was the Dean of Stu-
dents at St. Margaret’s School—a
private boarding school, as well as
her alma mater. The transition, she
oratory, residence hall and dining
facility began this summer at the
Coastal Studies Center and is on-
going this fall. Besides some extra
noise and safety precautions,
participants said construction
has not negatively impacted the
program.
“It hasn’t impacted our re-
search, and it hasn’t impacted
the way that the classes run at all,
except we wear yellow vests when
we walk to the dock,” Felser said.
Walton joked about one of the
recent effects of construction.
“We were outside eating lunch,
and they were digging up the sew-
age line. So they told us to leave
for that.”
Ellers, the biology research
associate, predicts that BMSS stu-
dents won’t use the residence hall
and that they will most likely be
used solely by students conduct-
ing summer research.
“Many students don’t want to
live out there [during the school
year]. They spend all day there
and all weekend with us,” Ellers
said. “Many people said they’d like
says, has been smooth: staff mem-
bers are welcoming, students are
competent and Brunswick has ex-
actly what she needs—a Five Guys.
“Look. I love french fries—re-
ally good french fries. It’s kind of
my weakness,” she said. “But I’ve
visited Five Guys only three times
since I’ve been here.”
Odejimi advises students to
follow her example and find their
“thing”—something in their daily
life that brings them joy, whether
it’s spin class or french fries.
“If you don’t have joy, it’s
hard to navigate the ins and outs
of every day,” she said. “So just
finding that peace that keeps
you motivated, whether it’s one
thing or one activity, but fig-
uring that out for yourself is, I
think, critically important.”
MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
to come back to campus to have
their social life.”
Some of that time is spent on
field trips. This past weekend,
BMSS students traveled to Kent
Island, a Bowdoin-owned island
in the Bay of Fundy in Canada.
In October, they’ll snorkel in the
coral reefs of Hawaii—for re-
search purposes, of course.
“We’re not tanning on the
beach in Hawaii, [we are] mem-
orizing hundreds of Latin names
and taxonomy for the species and
stuff like that,” Kuhnle said.
From independent projects to
local fieldwork and cross-country
trips, BMSS offers students the
opportunity to deeply immerse
themselves in marine biology.
“It’s really cool. You have to be
into what we’re doing [because]
it’s a big commitment, but if you
are into it, it’s really fun,” Walton
said. “You don’t have to be a biol-
ogy major. The only requirements
are that you’ve taken intro bio
and a math class. Theoretically,
anybody could be in it. You just
have to have a passion for it.”
Friday, September 27, 2019
Beloved Brunswick
staple finds new home
by Keyna Mecias Quiñonez
Orient Staff
Whether it’s thanks to the sun-
light seeping through the skylight,
the endless display of cookies and
cupcakes or the freshly baked
bread, Bowdoin students and the
greater Brunswick community
gravitate toward Wild Oats Bak-
ery & Cafe, a long-time Brunswick
staple. After 28 years at the Tontine
Mall in downtown Brunswick,
Wild Oats will move to Brunswick
Landing at the end of next year.
David and Becky Shepherd, the
owners of Wild Oats, have been
planning the move for years with
the goal of expanding the business
in ways that are not possible at the
Tontine Mall.
“We’ve outgrown it,” Becky
Shepherd said. “Small things like
we have no heating or cooling in
our kitchen and our whole down-
stairs. A lot of those practical things
I’m really excited about. I’m also
excited to be able to produce more
of the products that we want to.”
According to the Wild Oats
Facebook page, “the new location
will have loads more parking,
additional indoor and outdoor
seating and more retail and pro-
duction space,” addressing several
frequent customer complaints.
“Imagine never having to wade
through a sea of people to get your
soup, not having to explain to a
stranger where to pay, not being
forced to eat with a family you’ve
never met, and finding a parking
spot on your very first try!”
While parking will be more
convenient, most Bowdoin stu-
dents do not have cars and may
have difficulty getting to the new
location. Shepherd emphasizes
Looking back: women make a place for themselves in Bowdoin Greek-life
Poke the Bear
by Sela Kay
It’s officially fall. Apple pick-
ing season has descended upon
us, frisbees litter the quad and
College House residents are
finally settling into their cas-
tles on Maine Street. The same
houses, I might add, which
many years ago were home to
fraternities; famous members
of these organizations include
William S. Cohen and Joshua
that, though the trip may take
longer, ensuring that Bowdoin
students would still have easy
access was one of the priorities in
selecting a location.
“I can be honest with you—one
of our biggest concerns was the
Bowdoin students,” she said. “We
don’t want to lose that communi-
ty, and we don’t want to lose that
walkability, but from the Bowdoin
perspective, it’s definitely going to
be bikeable.”
Though Shepherd is steadfast
in her belief that the move will
not pose much of a challenge for
Bowdoin students, the commute
to Wild Oats may be too lengthy
for some.
“If they’re two miles away, I
don’t think I’ll ever go. I think
there are other places to get coffee
nearby, and the dining halls are
closer,” said Cirque Gammelin ’20.
While the goal was not to cre-
ate distance between Wild Oats
and Bowdoin, it proved nearly im-
possible to find a place downtown
that had everything the business
needed.
“We’ve been looking for about a
year. We scoured downtown to try
to find a location because initially,
I planted my feet and said, ‘We’re
not moving out of downtown,’”
Shepherd said. “There was just no
place that offered us a chance to
expand and a chance to have un-
limited parking.”
Shepherd hopes that this move
benefits not only the business, but
Brunswick residents as a whole.
“I think that we created a com-
munity, and we made [a com-
munity in] the Tontine and the
downtown, and the downtown is
now thriving,” she said. “[Bruns-
wick Landing is] essentially an in-
Chamberlain.
Bowdoin’s nine College
Houses all once belonged to
nationally-recognized fraterni-
ties, with the exception of Alpha
Rho Upsilon, Bowdoin’s sole
local fraternity. Fraternities em-
ployed well-known rushing and
recruiting practices for potential
new members and took part in
standard features of common-
place Greek-life such as throw-
ing campus-wide parties, host-
ing meals and even hazing.
Louis Hatch’s “The History
of Bowdoin College,” published
FEATURES
DEVAKI RAJIV, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LET’S GET THIS BREAD: After
28 years in the Tontine Mall in down-
town Brunswick, Wild Oats Bakery
& Cafe will be moving to Brunswick
Landing at the end of next year.
dustrial park right now … I think
that we will be able to create some
community.”
With the move, Wild Oats
is committed to maintaining its
fundamental values: comfort and
community. Despite a newer, larg-
er location, Shepherd hopes that
Wild Oats will retain the charm
that people are often drawn to.
“For me, it’s all about the cul-
ture and the community that
we’ve created that makes the bak-
ery what it is. I want to conduct
business in that same culture of
people feeling like they’re being
nurtured,” Shepherd said. “That’s
something that I want to bring
forth in our new space.”
in 1927, records that the Col-
lege had 11 fraternities, but this
number eventually fell to nine
full-time fraternities complete
with live-in members, dining
contracts and house duties.
These nine fraternities grew in
size and popularity as Bowdoin
expanded, and by the mid-1960s
more than 95 percent of the stu-
dent population identified as
fraternity members.
That is to say, Bowdoin’s
model looked nearly identical
to our country’s standard Greek
life narrative—with one major
SYDNEY REAPER
difference.
While Bowdoin’s first frater-
nity was founded in 1841, the
College did not become coed-
ucational until 1971, 130 years
later. Women had to force their
way into the institution’s social
scene. Many did so by joining
Bowdon’s historically all-male
fraternities.
That’s right. Women joined
fraternities.
Sixty-five women joined 254
male first-years (and roughly
900 male students total) at Bow-
doin’s matriculation ceremony
in 1971, becoming members of
the College’s first coeducational
class. Among them was a young
woman named Patricia “Bar-
ney” Geller ’75.
Geller began as a dishwasher
in Psi Upsilon but would become
chapter president of that same
fraternity in the spring of her
first year at Bowdoin. Not only
was Geller the first female pres-
ident of a fraternity at Bowdoin,
but she was also one of the first
female presidents of a national-
ly affiliated fraternity. Once the
national chapter caught wind of
the fact that Barney Geller was,
in fact, a woman, Bowdoin’s
chapter became embroiled in a
national scandal.
Geller was not the only wom-
an to forge her own path in Bow-
doin’s male-dominated social
scene. Laura Carl ’84 pledged
Alpha Delta Phi during the fall
of her freshman year and be-
came one of a growing number
of women to challenge historic
fraternity rules. She would later
become her chapter’s in-house
historian.
In a phone interview, Carl
said that even though Bowdoin
was mostly male when she at-
tended, ranks of women pledged
fraternities and just about half of
the officers in her fraternity were
women. Bowdoin was experi-
encing a significant shift in its
culture, and multiple fraternities
began accepting women despite
national chapters being all male.
Alpha Rho Upsilon, another
popular fraternity, established
itself as completely accepting
of all genders and races and de-
clared its Greek letters to be an
acronym for “All Races United.”
The point here is that Bowdo-
in’s history of Greek life was not
the norm. Women in the United
States were rarely presidents of
nationally-recognized Greek or-
ganizations, they did not often
sit at the dinner tables of their
own fraternity houses and enjoy
meals with their brothers and
they were not usually tasked with
inviting dates to frat dances.
This is not to say that gender
discrimination did not exist
at Bowdoin. It certainly did.
7
Including, if not especially, in
the realm of Greek life. Some
fraternities only allowed wom-
en to join as “eating members”
or social members and did
not permit women to vote in
house matters, while two other
fraternities maintained their
all-male status years after other
fraternities became coed. And
while some fraternities allowed
female members to hold office,
the number of female presidents
during this time was discourag-
ingly low.
Taking this history into
consideration, the only sure
conclusion seems to be that
Bowdoin Greek life defies our
country’s traditional Greek life
narrative due to strong and
early female involvement in
the social scene. While Geller
broke down barriers for wom-
en countrywide, Alpha Rho
Upsilon reinvented itself on
unprecedented principles,
and the Bowdoin community
took coeducational expansion
(somewhat) in stride.
So as we continue through
the school year, walking the
same paths that many of these
female leaders from decades ago
walked, the question is, how can
we expand upon the ground-
breaking work of women in the
Bowdoin community and blaze
our own path to change?
8 Friday, September 27, 2019
FS SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
SEVENTH HEAVEN:
After a string of three
straight ties, the men’s
soccer team (3-1-3,
NESCAC 0-1-3) got back
to its winning ways with an
emphatic 6-1 win at home
over the University of
Southern Maine (0-7-2).
Jason Oliver ’20 opened
his collegiate scoring
account less than a minute
into the game and Charlie
Ward ’22 netted a hat-
trick, scoring three goals in
the first 20 minutes of the
second half.
NO BLUES AGAINST
THE BLUES:
The field hockey team
cruised to a dominant
5-0 victory at Wellesley
(4-4-0) on Tuesday,
bringing their record
to 6-1 for the season.
Coming off a weekend
victory over Wesleyan
(4-4-0, 0-4-0 NESCAC),
the Polar Bears jumped
to an early lead off a goal
from Manveer Sandhu ’22
and never looked back.
Bowdoin held an 18-1 shot
advantage, and Emma
Stevens ’20 padded her
stat sheet with two goals
and an assist to complete
the victory over the Blues.
OVER THE HUMP:
Following a shaky start to
this fall’s campaign, the
volleyball team got back in
the win column with a 3-0
victory over Connecticut
College (4-6-0, NESCAC
0-3-0) last Saturday.
Following a 3-5 start to the
season, the Polar Bears
generated momentum
early and carried it all the
way through against the
Camels, earning a crucial
first NESCAC win to
bring their conference
record to 1-1. Emily King
’21 dominated with 19 digs,
and Caroline Flaharty ’20
added 11 of her own in
addition to 10 kills.
A TRUE
SOUP-ERSTAR:
Joe Gowetski ’20, a
captain of the football
team, was named a
semifinalist for the
William B. Campbell
trophy on Wednesday.
The trophy honors
college football players
on the basis of their
athletic performance,
academic achievements
and community service.
Gowetski is one of 185
semifinalists from across
the nation. Of the
semifinalists, a dozen
finalists will be announced
on October 30, each of
whom will win an $18,000
postgraduate scholarship.
COMPILED BY DYLAN SLOAN
Don’t forget the name Sayar Khoyadari
The Sideline
Story
by Julius Long
If you haven’t heard the
story of Iran’s “Blue Girl,” it’s
not your fault. It has been a
blip in a news cycle dominat-
ed by Brexit, Antonio Brown
and the Global Climate Strike
that many within the Bowdo-
in community participated
in. But if you are one of the
few who has heard the news
about this 29-year-old activ-
ist’s death, you’re probably
wondering why it has gotten
so little attention.
In March, Sahar Khoda-
yari attempted to sneak into
Azadi Stadium in Tehran. She
disguised herself as a man,
cloaked behind the blue and
white colors of her beloved
Esteghlal Football Club. She
was confronted and arrested
after security guards dis-
covered she was a woman.
Earlier this month, when she
appeared in court, she was
told she could face six months
to two years in prison for
“appearing in public without
a hijab.” Upon learning that,
she doused herself with gas-
oline outside the courthouse
and set herself on fire. She
died days later in the hospital.
The events that led to her
horrific death began to un-
fold well before she was born.
The declaration of an Islamic
Republic in Iran in April of
1979 would shape the course
TRIPLE THREAT: Charlie Ward ’22 controls the ball during the men’s soccer team’s 6-1 home victory over the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday. Ward recorded his first career hat-
trick, and three other teammates found the net to round out the Polar Bears’ scoring. Bowdoin will seek to continue its momemtum when the team plays at Trinity on Saturday.
of her life—firstt and fore- and watch footb football, at to the family and friends of
most as a woman, n, but also as times in the th face [Khodayari] and reiterate
mid the gen-
a soccer fan. Amid of stron
strong stig- our calls on the Iranian au-
gregation
eral social segregation ma. thorities to ensure the free-
and repression, women Open dom and safety of any wom-
were barred from m enter- Stadium
Stadiums, a en engaged in this legitimate
diums.
ing football stadiums. movem
movement fight to end the stadium ban
The Republic, and of Iranian for women in Iran.”
ollah
its leader Ayatollah women seek- In the past, Iran has re-
Khoemeini, would e
ing to end the sponded to global pressures
to ev-
dig their nails into ban, has gained by temporarily lifting the
ic life,
ery aspect of civic prominenc
prominence and ban for particular matches,
ation’s
including the nation’s recognition over particularly when it knows
most decorated soc- the last decade. the world is watching. On
cer team. Posters call
calling for October 10, women will be
In 1970, Taj Teh- the ban to be b lifted admitted to watch the World
ran Football Club were visible in St. Cup qualification match be-
became the first club Petersburg during tween Iran and Cambodia,
ablish
in Iran to establish the 2018 World
Wor Cup according to Iran’s Football
a women’s footballootball in Russia an and out- Federation. While FIFA has
team. No aspectss of the side of domestic
domes sta- mandated that women have to
previous monarchistchist re- diums during league be allowed into football stadi-
gime were toleratedted in Iran play as well. ums for all matches, holding
lution, and
after the Revolution, Khodayari’s acts of the government to that will
Taj—which means ans “crown” resistance have been take much more than a dec-
in Farsi—was put ut under the celebrated by Es Esteghlal laration.
control of the government and swaths of Iranian soccer This isn’t the kind of sports
eghlal—“in-
and renamed Esteghlal—“in- fans throughout the coun- news that people like to re-
dependence” in English. try. Despite pressur
pressure from member or talk about. It isn’t
While the myth th of passive the government tto not a matter of equal pay, goal
compliance has dominat- acknowledge her death, celebrations or rule changes.
ed the Western n percep- “Blue Girl”—as she s has This is far outside the bounds
tion of Iranian women, been dubbed by social we know as sports activism.
Khodayari’s death ath has and international
internation me- But just like we have etched
highlighted and reinvig- dia—was print printed on names like Megan Rapi-
orated a movementment for the Esteghlal jerseys noe, Alex Morgan and Abby
social reform thathat has in their first match
mat fol- Wambach in the lexicon of
manifested itself in soc- lowing her death.
death champions for gender equal-
utset of
cer from the outset FIFA, soccer’s
soccer in- ity, we shouldn’t forget the
oughout
the regime. Throughout ternational governing
gov name Sahar Khodayari or the
the 40 years thatt wom- body, released a state- names of the countless oth-
en have been bannedanned ment saying, “W “We are er Muslim soccer fans who
from stadiums, girls aware of the tragedy
trage and choose to stand up in some
AN
and women have ve deeply regret it. FIFA of the most difficult of cir-
AT
KYR
continued to playy conveys our condolences
cond cumstances.
JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Friday, September 27, 2019 SPORTS 9

Under new leadership, women’s tennis starts

fall competition with a resounding victory
by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
Despite the facts that the
tournament was the first un-
der a new head coach and
the roster featured only six
players, the Bowdoin women’s
tennis team started strong last
weekend, with all three dou-
bles teams placing in the top
four at the Wallach Doubles
Invitational at Bates. With all
starters returning from last
spring and a new but experi-
enced coach at the helm, this
early success has set the stage
for an exciting fall season.
Following the resignation
of longtime head coach Paul
“Hobie” Holbach in August,
Ben Lamanna was announced
as his replacement. Lamanna
formerly coached the men’s
and women’s teams at Brandeis
University, where he built both
programs into true national
contenders.
“The [Brandeis] program
was in great spirits, it was in
a great spot and I left at the
height of the program,” said
Lamanna. “And that goes to
show you how highly I think
of the Bowdoin College rep-
utation and the way that the
student athletes are supported
[here].”
As with any coaching
change, the adjustment to a
new school and new team cul-
ture has taken time. Notably,
Lamanna arrived on campus
late in the summer and annual
recruiting cycle, which meant
he and the team had little time
to get to know each other be-
fore their first match. Never-
theless, players have already
noticed the impact a new
coaching style has had.
“Coach Lamanna is more
focused on building up rela-
tionships ... between players
and more [focused] on the
team as a whole rather than on
each person. That’s been dif- always show ... but it did,” much respect Tasha and Ken- time to adjust to a new system
ferent, and I think it showed said Lamanna. “We got to see nedi and all the effort they’ve and lay the groundwork for
last weekend that it’s effective,” some grit, we got to see some been putting in so far, so we’re the more competitive spring
said Sasa Jovanovic ’20, who fight [and] some clutch shots going to go out there and play season.
was one of the tournament’s in some big moments. Those our hardest and they’ll play “The way that we approach
co-champions. things were fun to see.” their hardest and whatever the fall is seeing it as a practice
If last week’s performance Because all three Bowdoin happens is for the team.” run, in the sense that we want
is any indication of what fans teams advanced to the final With a roster of only six to be building up skills now
should expect going forward, four, two Polar Bear teams players this fall, the team is that would be most effective
the team—small as it is—is met in the semifinal, where about as small as it has ever for the spring,” explained Jo-
one to watch for the remainder Jovanovic and Landau took been. However, this intimacy vanovic. “There are [not] any
does come with its benefits. results-oriented expectations
“The way that we approach the fall is seeing “[I’ve] never had this small attached to the fall besides just
it as a practice run ... we want to be building of a team, [but] I kind of like getting better at these skills
up skills now that would be most effective for it. We can really improve at a we’ve been working on in
the spring.” greater rate than other teams,” practice, and of course going
said Lamanna. “It’s great be- out there and battling like we
–Sasa Jovanovic ’20 cause everybody knows that always try to do.”
they’re going to be playing or The team will continue
of the year. Out of a 23-team an 8-2 victory over teammates they’re one injury away from along that learning curve this
field, all three doubles teams Kennedi Carter ’23 and Tasha playing. There’s not a lot of weekend at the ITA New En-
that the Polar Bears fielded Christ ’20. room for error.” gland Regional Championship
placed in the top four, with Jo- “We have a team culture of Lamanna is clear about his at Middlebury. Just a few weeks
vanovic and Fleming Landau you respect your opponent by objectives for the team: “We into the fall season, the Polar
’22 taking the top spot. playing your hardest,” said Jo- can win a national title here.” Bears have months to go before
“Everyone knew we were vanovic. “We ... took that ap- And while that remains the the spring season starts, but
the highest-ranked team going proach for playing our team- greater goal, the fall season these promising early results
into the tournament. It doesn’t mates, too. Obviously, I very is still, first and foremost, the make them a team to watch.

With faces new and old,

cross-country teams hit
the ground running
by Seamus Frey
Staff Writer
After finishing the last
season with both teams in
the top 10 at the NCAA
Division III New England
Regional Competition, the
Bowdoin women’s and men’s
cross-country teams kicked
off a fresh season with a
strong performance at the
first Bowdoin Invitational last
weekend. With a mixture of
seasoned scorers and promis-
ing new members stepping up
to fill the shoes of graduated
seniors, the two teams are
poised for success.
On the women’s team,
Delaney Bullock ’22, Claire
Wolff ’21 and Leila Trummel
’23 finished fourth, 19th and
21st overall, respectively. On
the men’s side, Andrew Mer-
edith ’22 led the way with a
fifth place finish overall, fol-
lowed by Luca Ostertag-Hill
’20 in seventh and Ted Fuell
’23 in eighth.
Head Coach Peter Slov-
enski attributed this strong
showing to team members’
extensive preseason efforts.
Unlike other sports teams,
members of the cross country
teams must train individually
over the summer in prepara-
tion for the season.
“We have a lot of freedom
in the preseason. We don’t
have a formal preseason. Our
season starts on the first day
of classes, technically,” said
women’s captain Sadie Saxton
’20.
The Polar Bears will hope
to build on last year’s nota-
ble success. For the men, that
means replacing six of the
seven core runners who grad-
uated last year.
“Coming into this year, we
graduated our entire scoring
team from last year,” said
Meredith. “So there was cer-
tainly not very high expecta-
tions from people who like to
make projections about where
NESCAC teams will finish at
the conference champion-
ship.”
Slovenski appeared to be
unworried about the loss of
these core runners.
“The men’s team will be
younger. We are likely to have
only one senior in the top six
of the men’s team. It will be
exciting to see the younger
runners get to participate in
the championships and gain a
lot of varsity race experience,”
wrote Slovenski in an email to
the Orient.
Meredith doesn’t view
this as a problem either—in
fact, he sees it as a potential
strength.
“Every year, I think we’re
going to get better, but seeing
how those guys did on Satur-
day and knowing we can con-
tinuously build in two years
when we’re all upperclassmen BEN MATHEWS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
... I think we’re going to have POETRY IN MOTION: Nicholas Maniatis ’22 sets the pace in last weekend’s Bowdoin Invitational, hosted on campus. It was the first meet for
a very good team, which is ex- both the women’s and men’s cross-country teams. They put up strong performances, showing promise for the remainder of the season.
citing,” said Meredith.
On the women’s side, a track or totally new, and it’s the women’s team.” tion and cautious optimism. two more meets at home, one
strong core of runners re- made for a really strong … As the first meet of the sea- “I think I had a good start, of which is the NCAA New
turns from last year, and Car- senior class.” son, both teams were looking but I faded in the end. And I England Regional Champion-
oline Shipley ’20 believes that Slovenski agreed, pointing forward to the Bowdoin Invi- think that as a team, that’s the ship, which they are definitely
the senior class is one of the to the experienced runners of tational but view it as just a general sentiment: we have a looking forward to.
team’s greatest strengths. the women’s team as admira- starting point for the rest of lot more in us,” said Meredith. “I think [we can] surprise
“I think what’s been really ble leaders. the season. “I think our whole scoring some people at the conference
cool about our senior class “Our women’s team in- “[This is] a practice race of team can be a minute faster race [and] beat some teams
is it’s actually grown pretty cludes a lot of veterans who just trying out your race strat- than we were on Saturday, that aren’t even thinking
substantially since freshman are ready to step up into the egy, seeing who you can run easily. … If that happens, I about [us] right now,” Mere-
year,” Shipley said. “I think varsity scoring positions,” with and just kind of figuring think we can be a pretty solid dith said.
every year different people wrote Slovenski. “We are things out,” said Saxton. team.” The Polar Bears will race
have joined on to the cross likely to have three seniors Reflecting on his race, Mer- This season looks bright for again in the Maine State Meet
country team, whether from among the top six runners on edith expressed both frustra- the Polar Bears as they host at Colby on October 5.
10 SPORTS Friday, September 27, 2019

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BALANCING ACT: Jamie Lau ’22 reacts to a loose ball in an early-season tie with Colby. The Polar Bears have faced an uphill battle in the first month of the season, but will look to find their groove in the next weeks of NESCAC competition.

Women’s soccer seeks to bounce back after early setbacks

by Sebastian de Lasa
Orient Staff
After losing three conference
games, the Bowdoin women’s
soccer team (2-4-1, NESCAC
0-3-7) has had an underwhelm-
ing start to its season. Though
the team lost only two seniors
last spring, preseason expec-
tations were high for the core
of returning starters. However,
the Polar Bears have yet to win
a NESCAC game this season.
With six in-conference games
still to play, time remains to
shift their trajectory.
Despite its lackluster re-
cord, the team has shown
promise in the early stages
of the season. Of the Polar
Bears’ four losses this sea-
son, two (against Middlebury
(5-0-1, NESCAC 2-0-1) and
Wesleyan (5-1-1, NESCAC
2-1-1)) were decided by goals
within the final five minutes
of the game.
With limited time to pre-
pare, the team had to hit the
ground running from day one
of preseason.
“Our schedule poses a seri-
ous challenge, and this year was
perhaps the toughest of all. We
had one full team practice, then
opened with [number] 12 in
the country the next day,” wrote
Head Coach Brianne Smithson
in an email to the Orient. “We
then faced [number] 5 in the
country within a week … that is
a tall order for any team. ”
The team will face Trinity
College (2-3-1, NESCAC 1-1-
0) this Saturday, which will be
a crucial match with the po-
tential to get the team out of
its early-season rut. The Polar
Bears’ only draw of the season
came against Colby (2-2-2, 1-2-
2 NESCAC), a team that beat
Trinity 2-0.
Bowdoin will also be pro-
pelled by its recent hot streak,
coming off of a 6-0 win against
the University of Maine-Farm-
ington (1-6-1) and a 2-0 win
against the University of New
England (3-2-2). Whether
these wins can be converted
into in-conference successes
remains to be seen.
Smithson stated that So-
phia Lemmer ’20, Morgen
Gallagher ’20 and Lynn Far-
quhar ’21 were the appointed
“team leaders” (the women’s
soccer team does not have
captains). They lead a team
with a good deal more young-
er players—18 sophomores
and first years compared to
12 upperclassmen, only five
of whom are seniors. Howev-
er, the lack of senior women
on the team is even less severe
than last year, when there
were only two seniors on a
team of 31 players.
Although the team’s up-
perclassmen are small in
number, their impact cannot
be underestimated.
“We have a[n] … experi-
enced group of returners, in-
cluding five seniors who have
given so much to this program
and are strong role models and
leaders,” wrote Smithson. “The
team has already made huge
strides in just a few short weeks.
As the season progresses and
each team member finds their
unique way to contribute, our
depth will become an asset for
us.”
This depth is already prov-
ing valuable as younger play-
ers establish their roles on the
team. For example, Rachael
Peacock ’23 has already ce-
mented her position as a reg-
ular starter; in fact, Peacock
co-leads the team in goals, with
two scored so far this season.
The team also returns six regu-
lar starters (players who started
more than 10 games) from last
season, as well as goalkeeper
Penny Rocchio ’22, who has
proven herself to be extremely
effective this season, with 22
saves and only six goals al-
lowed over seven starts.
The challenges the team
has faced so far—a challeng-
ing schedule, limited time to
prepare and injuries that have
prevented Smithson from be-
ing able to field a consistent
lineup—have put Bowdoin in
early jeopardy.
The team is choosing to
look on the bright side going
forward.
“We have just come off of
two good team wins, and the
team is committed to build-
ing off of everything we have
learned so far,” wrote Smithson.
“The team has put forth a tre-
mendous amount of effort in
spite of the rigorous schedule
and injuries, which says a lot
about [its] character.”
That character and the
team’s experience is there, and
the roster is still loaded with
talent. For the next few weeks,
Bowdoin’s NESCAC fate will
truly be a test of whether the
Polar Bears can convert those
close losses into wins.

Football suffers historic loss

by Ian Ward
Orient Staff
Bowdoin football (0-2, 0-2 NES-
CAC) suffered one of the most
lopsided losses in program history
on Saturday, falling to Trinity (1-1,
NESCAC 1-1) 61-7.
The 54-point margin of defeat is
the third largest in the team’s history
during the modern record era, which
began in 1921. Trinity is also respon-
sible for Bowdoin’s largest margin of
defeat on record, a 56-point drub-
bing (63-7) in 1993.
“They’re better than us. That’s life.
They’re better than us physically,”
said Head Coach BJ Hammer. “In
a rebuilding process, when you get
beat physically, it shows you where
you have to get to get to that level.”
After scoring only once in the first
quarter, the Bantams broke the game
open in the second quarter, posting
27 points in a span of just under 12
minutes. Trinity’s quarterback, Sea-
mus Lambert ’22, ended the game
with 391 yards and five touchdown
passes. Wide receiver DeVante Reid
’22 caught six passes for 246 yards
and four touchdowns.
Bowdoin’s offense posted 197
yards of offensive while surrender-
ing 572 yards to the Bantams. The
Polar Bears recorded their only score
of the game in the third quarter on
a one-yard touchdown pass from
Austin McCrum ’21 to Patrick Zepf
’22, which came only after a flag on
a personal foul saved Bowdoin from
having to punt.
McCrum completed 16 of 30
passes for 121 yards and one touch-
down. Brendan Ward ’22 led the Po-
lar Bears in rushing with 48 yards on
nine carries, and Bo Millett ’21 led
the team with three receptions for 48
yards.
Running back Nate Richam-Odoi
’20 had 15 carries for 32 yards, but
sat for most of the second half as a
precautionary measure after taking
several big hits in the first half, Ham-
mer explained.
“You can put a win or you can put
a loss behind you, it don’t matter,”
Hammer said. “You put it behind
you and you move on to next week,
‘cause you can’t let anything linger
week to week.”
Bowdoin faces off against Wil-
liams on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Wil-
liamstown. The Ephs sit at 1-1 after
falling to Middlebury in the first
week of NESCAC play and beat-
ing Tufts in the second. Williams
holds a 53-15-6 edge in the all-time
series between the two teams and
has won the last six contests, dating
back to 2007.
11 Friday, September 27, 2019

O OPINION BOC, due better

The outdoors have a financial accessibility problem. The College touts Maine as a
Introducing the American
valuable resource that professors and students should use as a forum for discovery and
experiential learning, and the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) is part of that. Assuming
we value an outdoor education, this resource must be available to all students without
Association of University Professors
hindrance, regardless of their financial situation. To the Bowdoin Community, dent organization that is “beholden that I care about and interventions
The BOC should lessen the burden on students receiving financial aid—about half to no person and no other entity; it in areas that concern me in higher
of our campus community—by creating an easier system to waive its $50 membership In the first faculty meeting of the is beholden instead to the principles education. I pay similar dues to or-
fee that doesn’t require a face-to-face request. year, I had the pleasure of announc- and standards of the profession,” es- ganizations that support my work
As of now, students get one “free trip card” at the start of the year. After that, with ing that Bowdoin now has an active pecially to the principles of academ- as a scholar; I see the AAUP as an
the current system’s paper form, waiving dues requires a conversation with either of chapter of the American Association ic freedom and shared governance. advocate for my work as a profes-
the Outing Club Assistant Directors, Tess Hamilton ’16 or Anna Bastidas. Students in of University Professors (AAUP). I In words that have special resonance sional.”
need of financial aid shouldn’t have to navigate Bowdoin differently than those who am writing here to offer a bit more for those of us here at Bowdoin Col- Yet another new member reminds
aren’t—this system forces them to do exactly that. detail about our mission, to invite lege, it seeks “to ensure higher edu- us that “we are fortunate to be at
A student could be facing this situation as early as September of their first year, when those who are eligible for member- cation’s contribution to the common Bowdoin in an era when large pub-
they may not feel comfortable approaching authority figures on campus about their ship to join us and to invite all mem- good.” lic universities are under political
needs. Students may also be uncertain whether their financial circumstances would be bers of the Bowdoin community to Those of us who have joined to- assault, and smaller private colleges
sufficient to allow for exemption. consider the AAUP as a partner and gether to open this Bowdoin chapter are watching their assets disappear.
Like the recently discontinued Out of the Zone program (OZ), the current process an ally. believe that it will provide us all with But our good fortune doesn’t mean
for waiving dues exemplifies a system that fails to expand access to a traditionally inac- Despite its formal title, the AAUP a valuable forum for reaffirming and we shouldn’t be vigilant and, when
cessible space, in the same spirit as the effort to compensate LT participants for missed is not just “for” professors. As we for acting on our deep commitment necessary, vocal in the defense of
work-study hours during trips. The next step is bridging the gap between the resource state in our new bylaws, all current to the principles of academic free- shared governance. The AAUP
and its actual availability. and retired faculty members and in- dom and shared governance here chapter is one way we can help
The precedent for rectifying the current system exists already. The BOC could utilize structional staff, whether full-time at Bowdoin, and to the ideal of en- maintain Bowdoin’s excellence—
a private opt-in system, with an in-email check-box indicating whether or not a student or part-time—including visiting gaged, optimistic, forward-looking today, tomorrow, and in the years
requires financial assistance. This self-reporting, followed up by verification with Col- and adjunct instructors, post-doc- citizenship. ahead.” Being vigilant, being vocal,
lege records, is the same structure that the Office of the Dean of Students uses to deal toral fellows, librarians and muse- And this model of citizenship also being engaged, on a local and on a
with financing meals over breaks. um staff—are invited to join us by extends beyond Bowdoin itself. As national level: these are our shared
Here’s our math: becoming members of the national members of the national chapter, we commitments.
According to an article published by the Orient in October 2018, the BOC receives chapter of the AAUP. affirm our support for those work- We are holding an Open House on
9.2 percent of the SAFC’s roughly $700,000 budget, or about $64,400. This money I urge anyone who is curious ing and struggling on other campus- Friday, October 4, from 3-4:30P.M.,
comes directly from a student activity fee paid by every student at the College. In effect, about the AAUP to spend a few es across the nation. One new mem- in the Shannon Room on the second
9.2 percent of that $528 fee goes to the BOC, meaning each student contributes about minutes on its website (www.aaup. ber writes, “I signed up to support floor of Hubbard Hall. We invite you
$50 regardless of their involvement. org/about-aaup). There you can all the good work that this organi- all to drop by, to learn more about us
Roughly half of Bowdoin students are on financial aid. Assuming the same fraction find detailed information about the zation is doing—negotiating for fair and to hear about some of our plans
of BOC members are on aid (which, demographically, is a generous assumption given work that it engages in, through its wages for adjuncts, protecting aca- for the coming year.
the lack of accessibility in outdoor recreation), 200 of the BOC’s 400 members are on tireless commitment to the core val- demic freedom, and advocating for
financial aid; in short, the BOC collects $50 from roughly 200 members, meaning they ues that sustain all academic insti- shared governance” nationwide. An- Sincerely,
receive an additional $10,000 from dues. Given that some students already have their tutions. I would just like to quote a other writes, “I looked at the issues Ann Kibbie
dues waived, this number is likely even lower. couple of passages here to sum up its and updates on the AAUP page and Associate Professor, Department of
In the larger scheme of Bowdoin finances, this is a fraction of the resources on this mission. The AAUP is an indepen- saw their support for many things English
campus. The capital for the $8 million renovations of the Whittier Football Field was
sourced “entirely through private donations from several individuals.” Many of the
College’s scholarships and projects are funded by the donations of generous alumni. To
gather enormous amounts of money for a football field renovation but allow financial QUESTION OF THE WEEK
need to inhibit some students from participating in their recreation of choice is an op-
tically unfortunate juxtaposition.
If we value our outdoor spaces and strive to equalize the way students approach all
aspects of life on campus, we should enact a policy that puts in practice the idea that the DO YOU FEEL SAFE GOING TO AN OFF-CAMPUS PARTY?
BOC should be accessible to students of all financial backgrounds.

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12 Friday, September 27, 2019

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
FRIDAY 27
DISCUSSION
“Does the Constitution Need Fixing?”
Government Faculty Discuss the
United States Constitution
Faculty members of the Department of Government and
Legal Studies will lead a discussion about amending the
United States Constitution for modern times.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 3 p.m.

EVENT
Anyssa Neumann, Piano
Anyssa Neumann, a graduate of the Manhattan School of
Music, Oxford University and King’s College London will hold
a lecture and recital entitled “Sound, Act, Presence: Classical
Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman.”
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

EVENT GOOD BOY: Students decompress after a long week by spending an evening with therapy dogs and enjoying Frosty’s donuts at the Doggies and
Mimes at Reed Donuts event last Friday.
Broken Box Mime Theater, a New York City-based

MONDAY 30 WEDNESDAY 2
nonprofit initiative, will present a contemporary mime
performance and allow students to meet the company. The
event will be followed by a discussion between students
and performers.
Reed House. 8 p.m. LECTURE
DISCUSSION
An Evening with Daniel Alarcón: “How to Journalism and War Games: Public
Listen: Telling Latin American Stories in Service Profiles
Sound and Print” Fred Hill ’62, founder of the State Department’s Office of
Daniel Alercón, an award-winning Peruvian-American novelist,

SATURDAY 28
Special Programs, will lead a discussion about his currrent
journalist and executive producer of an NPR Spanish language work in the State Department and his experience as a
podcast will give a multimedia presentation of stories pertaining foreign correspondent.
to Latin American culture as well as his own work. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:30 p.m.
EVENT Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
Glow Like a Greek God: Self Love Night

THURSDAY 3
Quinby House will host an evening of movies, face masks
and snacks.
Quinby House. 9 p.m.

FILM SCREENING
2019 Manhattan Short Film Festival
TUESDAY 1 LECTURE
Citizen Affects and Narratives: The
Frontier will join 350 cities across six continents in
DISCUSSION
Voices of Others
showing the ten finalist films for the 22nd Annual Mexican artist and cultural activist Lorena Wolffer will present
Manhattan Short Film Festival. Movie-goers will have the Gallery Conversation: “Getting the her recent projects pertaining to the stories of individuals who
chance to vote for their favorite film. General admission Art Idea” have been marginalized in Mexican society.
tickets are available online. Art historians Mary McGuigan and John McGuigan Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 5:30 p.m.
Frontier. 3 p.m. will lead a discussion on works by nineteenth-century
American artists Elihu Vedder and John Adams Jackson EVENT
alongside the exhibition “The Nineteenth Century: Associate Professor of English Ann
American and European Art.”
Museum of Art. Noon.
Kibbie with “Transfusion: Blood and
Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century
SUNDAY 29 EVENT
Open Writing Hours and Workshop
Literary Imagination” Book Launch and
Discussion
Associate Professor of English Ann Kibbie and Professor
EVENT The Stowe Writers Collective will host an evening of
Vinyasa Power Flow collaborative writing and snacks. They will dedicate the first of English and Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel will discuss
Yoga instructor Hailey Aronson ’22 will lead an evening half of the evening to open writing hours and the second half Kibbie’s newly published monograph, “Transfusion: Blood and
Vinyasa session. to a writing worskhop. Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.”
Room 301, Peter Buck Fitness Center. 5 p.m. Stowe House. 6 p.m. Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 5:00 p.m.

4 5 6 7 EVENT 8 LECTURE 9 10
Henni and Harry
Friedlander Award “Chance
for the Common Encounters”
Good