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A win for Bowdoin’s workers? Campus reacts to wage hike

by Diego Lasarte
and Nina McKay
Orient Staff
The College will spend an ad-
ditional $1.6 million annually to
increase wages for benefits-eligi-
ble hourly employees beginning
July 2022.
As President Clayton Rose
announced in an email to the
campus community on Monday,
this will cover both an increase
in wages for workers who cur-
rently make less than $17 an
hour, which will be the College’s
new minimum starting wage for
hourly benefits-eligible employ-
ees, up from the current starting
wage of $12.65. For employees
who currently make more than
$17 an hour, their wages will be
increased proportionally.
In an interview with the Ori-
ent, Rose explained the rationale
behind the decision.
“We did this because it’s the
right thing to do for our employ-
ees in the context of the realities
of the labor market, and [out of]
a desire to remain a leader in the
state and in the region,” he said.
He added that this was a log-
ical step for the College and was
the product of a regular review of
compensation and benefits com-
pleted by Senior Vice President
for Finance and Administration
and Treasurer Matt Orlando.
Housekeepers, a subset of the
College’s hourly workers whose
wages have been the subject of
scrutiny and contention by stu-
dent activists, had much to say
regarding the wage increase. Sher-
ry Cousins, a long-time Bowdoin
housekeeper, said she was satisfied
with what the raise represented.
“I think we are headed in the
right direction of fixing what is
broken and making a better future
for the newcomers,” she said in a
meeting with members of Bowdo-
in Student Government (BSG).
However, she added that she
was worried about what it meant
for her, a veteran of the house-
keeping department who already
makes more than the entry wage
for Bowdoin housekeepers.
Sandy Green, a housekeeper
at Bowdoin for 11 years, told the
Orient in a phone interview that
she was disappointed with the
Please see WAGES, page 5

Faculty to consider
motion calling for
Rose’s account of
Brooks’s fellowship
by Ian Ward
Orient Staff
The faculty will consider a
motion at next Monday’s facul-
ty meeting that would require
President Clayton Rose to
produce a written account of
the process that led to Arthur
Brooks’ appointment as the in-
augural Joseph McKeen Visiting
Fellow.
Brooks was the president of
the American Enterprise Insti-
tute, a right-leaning think tank
based in Washington, D.C.,
from 2009 until July 2019.
If passed, the motion would
require Rose to present the fac-
ulty with a report detailing how
the College is financing Brooks’s
visit, how and why he was se-
lected as a visiting fellow and
whether any members of faculty
were involved in the decision
to appoint him to that position.
The motion also requires Rose
to “provide any and all details
relating to the involvement,
financial or otherwise, of any
organizations or interests other
than Bowdoin College, at any
stage or part of these processes.”
The motion, introduced at the
last faculty meeting on October
7, did not specify a timeline for
the production or release of the
report.
Associate Professor of Clas-
sics and Chair of the Classics
Department Robert Sobak in-
troduced the motion.
“I’m trying to better under-
stand why faculty were neither
consulted on the decision to
create the fellowship nor on the
naming of Arthur Brooks as
the inaugural fellow,” said So-
bak in an email to the Orient.
“Hopefully my motion not only
results in more transparency on
this particular issue, but also
prompts genuine collaboration
going forward.”
Several students and some
alumni also reacted with confu-
sion and even anger at Brooks’s
appointment in April of this
year.
Scott Hood, senior vice pres-
ident for communications and
public affairs, declined to com-
ment on the motion.
Brooks will visit campus
from November 7-9 to partic-
ipate in a series of moderated
discussions and workshops
with students and faculty. He
will return for a similar two-
day event sometime during the ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Please see BROOKS, page 3 Putting on a musi-COLE this weekend. See PAGE 9.

BSG passes statement in support Got milk?

of college’s hourly workers
by Andrew Bastone
and Seamus Frey
Orient Staff
Bowdoin Student Government
(BSG) passed a resolution Wednes-
day supporting the College’s
wage increase for housekeepers.
The resolution was unanimously
approved after BSG debated the
terms of the resolution, adding an
amendment supporting continu-
ing engagement with this issue and
removing language about specific
wages.
The resolution was passed after
a vote on a previous draft was de-
layed at last week’s session.
BSG hosted two unofficial con-
versation sessions with housekeep-
ers on Monday and Tuesday. BSG
President Ural Mishra said the
sessions were intended to inform
members’ vote on the resolution.
“[They were held] to gain new
perspectives on a conversation that
we’ve had, and to see if there was
any additional information that
We do.
we have not yet attained,” Mishra
explained.
Director of Student Affairs Nate
Hintze and reporters from the
Orient were also present at both
meetings.
Caroline Poole ’22, who coor-
dinated the meeting, expressed
mixed feelings about the realiza- See PAGE 8.
Please see BSG, page 5

N JUST DANCE F IT TAKES THREE A SUMMER LOVIN’ S END OF AN ERA O CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL
Bowdoin’s Dance Marathon chapter hopes CXD expands accessibility with its new Recipients of summer visual arts grants Nate Richam-Odoi ’20 looks back on a How Arthur Brooks’s think tank helped
to raise $40,000 this year. Page 3. peer advisor program. Page 6. display their work. Page 10. historic Bowdoin football career. Page 11. disseminate climate change fallacies. Page 15.
2 Friday, October 25, 2019
2 PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT
10/17 to 10/24
Thursday, October 17
• A student reported a suspicious person at
Brunswick Apartments. The person was
determined to be an I.T. technician following
up on a work order.
• A student reported a strange encounter with
a man on Park Row near South Street.
• A student was cited for vaping in Coleman
Hall after the vapor activated a smoke alarm.
Friday, October 18
• An officer checked on the well-being of an
intoxicated student who was sick in a Cole-
man Hall restroom.
• A parent requested a well-being check for a
first-year student. All was well.
Saturday, October 19
• An intoxicated student at Coleman Hall was
transported to Mid Coast Hospital.
• Officers checked on the well-being of an
intoxicated guest who was visiting from
another college.
• An officer removed a sliver from a student’s
finger at Winthrop Hall.
• An intoxicated student was transported from
MacMillan House to Mid Coast Hospital.
• A student driving a College van was involved
in a minor collision in Massachusetts.
• A student reported the theft of a black and
red road bike (unknown make) that was
locked to a street sign at the corner of Park
Row and Longfellow Avenue.
• In response to a noise complaint, three small
gatherings were dispersed on the Brunswick
Apartments quad.
• A student was cited in Chamberlain Hall
after marijuana smoke activated a smoke
KYRA TAN
Eight places to hide from your parents this weekend
by Lily Randall
Orient Staff
Let’s not beat around the bush. It’s been a good
eight weeks since the majority of us saw our
parents, and backsliding into our high school
personas does not exactly sound like the best
time. Sure, actually getting a hug from your mom
is great and all but explaining the empty Natty
Light cans littering your dorm? Less so. If you’re
looking for a way out this weekend, we’ve got you
covered. Here are the best places on campus to
hide from your parents.
1. The vault in Massachusetts Hall. Known by
few, hidden by those who do, the vault is perhaps
the most cryptic aspect of the College’s campus.
It’s rumored that the vault is home to a cryogenic
chamber holding Nathaniel Hawthorne himself,
as well as a nuclear fallout shelter and a portal to
the fourth dimension. Whether or not any of this
is true, the vault is the perfect place to hang low
for an afternoon. Bonus points if you can make it
down the Mass Hall stairs without bashing your
head into the rafters.
STUDENT SPEAK:
What college memory would you not want to tell
alarm. A bong, grinder and a small amount
of marijuana were seized. your parents?
• A student was cited for possession of
alcohol by a minor on Park Row. Tia Hannah ’21
• Two students at Mayflower Apartments
were asked to reduce noise levels after a
complaint was received.
"My eating habits. I might get scurvy,
Sunday, October 20
Mom."
• A student and a guest entered Super
Snacks and obtained food without paying.
Monday, October 21
• A student riding a bike on Park Row
flipped over the handlebars and fell hard Alexandra Niles ’22
onto the pavement, receiving abrasions
and bruises. An officer escorted the stu-
dent to the health center for treatment.
"Skipping class to watch Netflix."
• A staff member reported sexually explicit
graffiti on a wall in the Craft Center.
• Brunswick police are charging three local
juveniles in connection with two arson
fires that occurred on September 29 inside
Sargent Gymnasium and in the Sargent
restroom, that resulted in fire damage
at both locations. The same juveniles Emily Coffin ’22
were also involved in the vandalism of a
Smith Union restroom on September 29
and a Sargent Gym restroom on Octo-
"Everything I did at Ivies."
ber 14. In both cases, feminine hygiene
products available in those facilities were
destroyed. The three juvenile suspects
and two other juveniles were served with
criminal trespass warnings barring them
from all College properties. In addition to
the Brunswick police, the Brunswick Fire
Department and the state fire marshal’s Marina Henke ’19
office assisted Bowdoin security with these
investigations. "Having my significantly out-of-college
Tuesday, October 22
• A visiting faculty member was transported
girlfriend stay in my freshman brick."
to the hospital for treatment of an injury
sustained on a treadmill at the Peter Buck
Center for Health and Fitness.
Thursday, October 24 Lizzy Kaplan ’23
• An officer escorted a student to Mid Coast
Hospital for possible strep throat.
• The Office of Safety and Security issued a "I fell backwards off a ledge and broke
timely warning informing the community
of a criminal suspect who has been re- my wrist. "
leased from prison after serving a sentence
for violation of privacy involving Bowdoin
students in 2015.
COMPILED BY DIEGO LASARTE AND MAIA COLEMAN
2. Moore Hall. Does this place even exist? Unless you’re one of 6. The Shannon Room in Hubbard Hall. If you’re looking to hide out in
the unfortunate first-years who call Moore Hall home, this is a style, this is for you. You’ll feel like you’ve been transported back in time to
pretty safe bet, if you can find it. the 1920s, and should any trouble arise, the ghost will protect you. If your
parents come looking for you, they will get too distracted by the Arctic
Museum a floor below you. Gets em every time.
3. Bowdoin Organic Garden. This one is for those looking for
a change of pace. Tired of your parents’ conservative bullshit?
Wander through the garden to clear your mind. Maybe you’ll 7. Make a cave under your lofted bed. Throw it back to the early 2000s
by making a “No Parents Allowed” sign to post outside your bunk. If it
find a yoga mom if you’re lucky.
worked in second grade, why shouldn’t it work now? Regression is back,
bitches.
4. Russian VHS closet in Sills. Most of our parents were raised
during the Cold War, and they might disown you if you’re found
intermingling with the commie tapes. Despite the fact this is 8. Gender Neutral Bathrooms. No one over the age of 40 understands
this. If you’re really desperate, this is the holy grail. You’re guaranteed safe
quite possibly the most obscure location on campus, the fact
that we have a Russian department with a vast VHS collection here. Good luck, soldier.
seems fitting; both are pretty irrelevant. While you decompress,
you can watch Putin’s sex tape and pretend it’s still 1990.
5. The Roux Center. Not only is the Roux Center a great place
to get some natural light and recover from the weekend’s
emotional trauma, but the horde of rich boomers descending
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on campus would never set foot in a building dedicated to YR
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protecting the environment. If anything good is to come of SYD
climate change, exploit your parents’ denial of it, and bathe in
the vitamin D-saturated light of the Roux.
Friday, October 25, 2019 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF COMPILED BY AURA CARLSON, ROBERT SHEPHERD,

AND HORACE WANG

STUDENT ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTS

NEW ANONYMOUS HAZING FORM
In an email sent to the student body earlier this month, Student
Activities introduced a new online form for students to report haz-
ing incidents.
No hazing forms have been submitted yet. The Office of Safety
and Security will investigate all reported incidents, whether or not
they were submitted anonymously.
The survey encourages students to enter their contact informa-
tion, but students also have the option to submit the form anon-
ymously. In the past, the only way students could anonymously
report hazing was in a sexual misconduct or bias incident form.
Last spring, Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze attended
the American College Personnel Association’s conference, where
he attended a session led by Elizabeth Allen, a professor at the Uni-
versity of Maine, about the best practices for handling hazing.
“She mentioned one of the best practices was having an anon-
ymous form for people to be able to indicate if they have been a
witness to or heard about hazing,” Hintze said. “I hope that stu-
dents take it seriously. Hazing is not something that I tolerate at
all. I want to make sure that we can investigate it and get it to stop.”
Hintze also noted the importance of educating all club leaders
about hazing.
“We do a full hazing introduction to what Bowdoin classifies
as hazing which goes along with [raising awareness about] Maine
state law,” Hintze said. “Bowdoin takes this really seriously because COURTESY OF BOWDOIN DANCE MARATHON
not only is hazing against college policy—it’s against the law. And FOR THE KIDS: At last fall’s dance marathon, members pose for a picture with children from the Barabara Bush Children’s Hospital.
so [we are] making sure that students are well aware that not only
could you get in trouble with the College, you could be arrested.”
If teams, clubs or any other groups want to host initiation
events, Hintze urged leaders to meet with him beforehand to hear
their plans and ensure that there will be no intentional or uninten-
tional hazing.
Dance Marathon chapter expands
FORMER EPA ADMINISTRATOR
outreach to attain $40,000 goal
GINA MCCARTHY TO GIVE The club hopes to raise forts of] 13 people, I don’t take how to fundraise and pushing
by Keyna Mecias Quiñonez
LECTURE ON CLIMATE CHANGE Staff Writer
$40,000 this year, a sum which that as a bad thing,” said Heidg- people to fundraise, we had
will go to the hospital to pro- erken. “It means that we have significantly more people fund-
Last year, Bowdoin’s Dance vide toys and activities to keep 13 people who are incredibly raise something.”
A former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admin- Marathon chapter raised the children’s spirits high. The involved with the cause itself.” At the end of November,
istrator Gina McCarthy is coming to campus today to lecture $30,000 for the Barbara Bush funds will also be used to help Still, Dance Marathon sees Dance Marathon will collabo-
on climate change and environmental protection. The lecture Children’s Hospital. However, the hospital pay their full- the importance in growing rate with Bowdoin’s men’s and
will take place in Kresge Auditorium in the Visual Arts Center two-thirds of the money was time teacher so that students the chapter. Aitelli and Heidg- women’s basketball teams by
at 12:30 p.m.. raised by just 13 individuals, can continue curricula during erken emphasize that getting tabling at their games against
In addition to her lecture, McCarthy will visit an Environ- so this year the group is testing treatment. involved is easy and does not the University of New England
mental Studies class, have lunch with faculty and visit the Pres- out new methods to increase “Getting to help these kids have to be a stressful time com- to rally more participants.
ident’s Summer Research Symposium. donations and club member enjoy their childhood the best mitment. “This is the first time we’re
McCarthy’s lecture is sponsored by the College’s Arnold D. participation. they can is really special,” said “You don’t have to do some- doing a partnership with a
Kates Lecture Fund, which supports regular lectures, seminars Dance Marathon is incen- co-leader Audrey Aitelli ’20. thing every single week. Really, sports team like this,” said
and colloquia on scientific topics, especially from guests who tivizing participation through “The money that we fundraised you can register for the event, Heidgerken. “It’s not just Dance
specialize in biological or health sciences. a series of smaller events held in the past years has gone to forget about it, and then that’s Marathon tabling at basketball,
The organizers of the lecture hope that McCarthy’s varied throughout the year. It has different initiatives like putting all, if that’s all you want to do or it’s Dance Marathon and bas-
experiences in both politics and science will expose students to hosted two events so far, and an Xbox in every single room can do,” said Heidgerken. ketball working together.”
the different ways studying biological and health sciences can over 75 students have already in the hospital or paying for Aitelli emphasized the “Our motto for the year is
be applied—whether by conducting scientific research or pur- registered to participate and bears or different games that growth in the participation of ‘A Marathon You Don’t Have
suing a career in public policy. help fundraise. In the club’s the kids can play while they’re the club since its founding. to Train For’,” he added. “You
Prior to her work at the EPA, McCarthy served as an environ- most recent event last Satur- there.” “If you look at our first year don’t have to dance to do Dance
mental advisor to five different Massachusetts governors and day, students were able to meet Although the club is trying we had a lot of people that Marathon. You don’t have to be
was the Assistant Administrator for the EPA’s Office of Air and some of the children from the to expand its core of fundrais- registered but then didn’t end athletically fit. You don’t even
Radiation. She led the EPA from 2013 to 2017 as the agency’s hospital. ers, Heidgerken noted that up fundraising at all and their have to stand up to do Dance
13th administrator. McCarthy is currently a Senior Leadership “We had the children there it does not matter that most main participation was coming Marathon. All you have to do is
Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the so you could see what you’re of the money raised last year to the event,” said Aitelli. “If show up, fundraise for the hos-
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as an oper- actually donating towards and came from a handful of people. you compare our very first year pital, be there for the kids and
ating advisor at Pegasus Capital and a member of the Board of fundraising for,” said co-leader “The fact that the majority of to last year when we put a lot put yourself in a place where
Directors at the Energy Foundation and Ceres. Rodger Heidgerken ’20. our funding came from [the ef- of emphasis on teaching people you can help other people.”

BROOKS
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GOT SOMETHNG TO SAY? spring semester.

Brooks last visited Bowdoin
on October 2, 2017 to partic-
ipate in a moderated discus-
sion with New York Times
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event, called “Talking Face to
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to Eye,” was the second in a
series of events planned by a
committee convened by Rose
and designed “to encourage
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and phone number. Jean Yarborough and received
mixed reviews from students.
4 NEWS Friday, October 25, 2019

Golz lecturer discusses women’s role in Indian history

Janaki Nair, professor at the Wills and Female Personhood.”
by Rohini Kurup Centre for Historical Studies at In her lecture, Nair told the
Orient Staff Jawaharlal Nehru University in story of a debt owed to a banker
How do historians interpret New Delhi, India, addressed this family and the efforts to claim it
the surprising presence of or- question on Tuesday at the Alfred by its women inheritors, before
dinary women in the historical E. Golz Memorial Lecture titled it was ultimately converted into
archive? “Inheritance of Loss: Women’s public charity.
In 1845, banker Damodar
Dass of Mysore loaned money to
the Maharaja Krishnaraja Wod-
eyar III, going unpaid for over
70 years. Nair discussed the four
female family members’ claims
to the unpaid debt and the legal
and bureaucratic challenges they
faced in their attempt to recover
it. These stories reveal a complex
framework of laws pertaining to
women’s rights and the creation
of a new moral order at a time
when India was becoming into a
modern bureaucratic state.
The story of women’s inheri-
tance that Nair presents speaks
to the importance of using archi-
val research to read beyond the
official language or legal docu-
ments and courtroom speeches
to understand the experiences of
women.
“Our circumscribed task may
be to hear in the interstices of
DIEGO VELASQUEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT official reports, in the fragmen-
FAMILY AFFAIR: Janaki Nair, a professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University tary speech of the courtroom,
in India, addresses the crowd during her lecture in Kresge Auditorium. the exercises of choice, however
vulnerable and the displays of
female solidarities, however
doomed,” said Nair. “These small
voices of history must be made
to yield their potential to disturb
the univocality of statist dis-
course and recover for the wom-
en whose lives have been invol-
untarily collided with authority,
a place that was not intended for
them.”
The traces of the women Nair
describes can be found in the ar-
chives only because of their fail-
ure to produce male heirs. Their
personhood, Nair explained, is
difficult to recover.
“Sandwiched between the
intents of the colonial, princely
state and the patriarchal struc-
ture of the feudal family, we’re al-
lowed small glimpses in the rips
and tears of the fabric of the law
from the personhood of wom-
en,” Nair said. “The determined
effort of the state to deny them
these claims forged them into
the tortured fragments of our
archive.”
In her introduction to the
lecture, Associate Professor
of History and Asian Studies
Rachel Sturman remarked on
Nair’s advocacy for intellectual
freedom under India’s current
right-wing government, which
has campaigned against univer-
sities, intellectuals and the free
press.
“In the context of increasing
repression and intimidation,
Professor Nair has been a prom-
inent voice fighting for intel-
lectual freedom and for broad
economic and social justice and
political rights that seem so pre-
carious at present,” said Sturman.
Sturman, who organized
Nair’s visit to campus, has fol-
lowed her scholarship after first
reading her work in graduate
school. After meeting Nair at a
conference in Delhi five years
ago, Sturman knew she wanted
to invite Nair to Bowdoin.
Sturman thinks that while
the lecture might have been
challenging to folllow for some
students unfamiliar with the
topic, it was still an interesting
opportunity to understand the
legal rights of Indian women in
the 19th century.
“This is a context of British
colonialism but where the Brit-
ish didn’t rule directly … it’s
this very interesting combina-
tion of colonial logics and very
strong modernizing logics and
ideas about what kinds of rights
women should have and de-
bates about what kinds of rights
women should have and where
modernity is identified for the
British, in particular, with prob-
lematizing women’s rights but
not necessarily giving women
rights,” said Sturman.
Earlier in the day, Nair visited
Sturman’s seminar, “A History of
Human Rights,” and discussed
contemporary women’s rights
debates in India. Sturman be-
lieves that this experience was
valuable for her students.
“I think it’s useful for stu-
dents to be exposed to different
styles of academia. This is an
example of Indian academia
and Indian intellectual work and
an opportunity for students to
think about how the question of
women’s rights or the question
of human rights … appear with-
in an Indian context and for an
Indian academic,” said Sturman.
“We expect things to translate in
a way that is automatic, that hu-
man rights or women’s rights has
a kind of immediate readability
universally, but even the concept
itself gets interpreted differently
in different academic contexts.”
Nina McKay contributed to
this report.

Activist addresses living with FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM

disability in a global context
by Rebecca Norden-Bright
Staff Writer
Sitting in a lounge chair
onstage in Kresge Auditorium
Monday night with a stack
of books on the table next to
him, author and activist Ken-
ny Fries took the audience on
a global tour of living life with
a disability.
In his talk, Fries discussed
with members of the Bowdo-
in community the challenges
in confronting perceptions of
disability around the world.
The talk, entitled “Disabili-
ty Everywhere: Writing the
Body Different at Home and
Abroad,” was the second in
a series of lectures hosted at
Bowdoin this year about dis-
ability and accessibility—a
topic often missing from con-
versations about inclusivity.
Fries explained that as a
gay, Jewish and disabled man,
he grapples with the complex-
ities of identity daily, a bal-
ancing act that guides much
of his writing. His lecture
centered on the intersection
of his experiences with the
changing discussion of dis-
ability and inclusion.
Fries’s work, including
three memoirs and three col-
lections of poems, follows his
own travels around the world,
from his birthplace in Brook-
lyn, New York to Germany and
Japan. During his lecture, he
explained how traveling and
living abroad is often compli-
cated for an individual with a
disability, but also provided
insight into the perception of
disability in other cultures.
Citing an excerpt from his
2017 book “In the Province of
the Gods,” Fries recalled ar-
riving as a foreigner in Japan
and acclimating to customs,
such as the expectation of
removing one’s shoes before
entering a home. Fries lives
with a physical disability
that limits his mobility and
requires wearing specially de-
signed orthopedic shoes. His
shoes are bulky and difficult
to remove quickly, so this ex-
pectation was difficult to ful-
fill. When he first visited the
country in 2002, Fries noticed
that people with disabilities
were not a visible or outspo-
ken group there. But, in the
years since, he has noted that
Japanese society has become
more inclusive. In Germany,
too, social norms are shifting
towards inclusivity and acces-
sibility.
At the end of the lecture,
audience members had the
opportunity to ask questions,
spurring a conversation about
Fries’s most recent work.
Entitled “Stumbling Over
History: Disability and the
Holocaust,” it focuses on Nazi
Germany’s Aktion T4 pro-
gram that targeted individu-
als with disabilities.
The talk elicited numer-
ous responses from audience
members, many of whom had
Bowdoin’s interactions with
accessibility and inclusivity at
the front of their minds. Thais
Carrillo ’23, who attended
the talk, expressed hope that
events like Fries’s lecture
would pave the way to more
conversations about topics
surrounding disability.
“I wish that there were
more forums to talk about
[disability] because there re-
ally [aren’t],” said Carrillo.
“Going back to orientation,
we talked about socioeco-
nomic diversity and racial di-
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versity, but accessibility isn’t
something that’s mentioned
really ever.”
Nor, as Fries noted, is
disability always depicted
respectfully in literature.
That’s why Fries developed
the pioneering literary the-
ory known as the Fries Test,
which outlines certain crite-
ria that a disabled character
must meet in order to portray
disability accurately.
“[The work] needs to have
more than one disabled char-
acter,” said Fries. “The dis-
abled characters need to have
their own narrative purposes
other than the education and
profit of a non-disabled char-
acter,” he added later. ”Also,
the character’s disability
should not be eradicated by
curing or killing.”
Assistant Professor of En-
glish Alex Marzano-Lesnev-
ich was the primary architect
in bringing Fries to campus.
One of their goals in doing so
was to encourage attendees to
view disability through a so-
cial rather than medical lens.
Thinking about disability in
this way can be somewhat
radical they said.
“I always think that the
definition of success in an
event is whether people have
a passionate response to it,”
said Marzano-Lesnevich.
“And it seemed like it resonat-
ed with a number of people
there.”
The event was sponsored
by the Harold and Iris Chan-
dler Lectureship Fund, and
co-sponsored by the English
department; Asian studies
department; Gender, Sexu-
ality and Women’s Studies
program and the Student Ac-
cessibility Office.
Friday, October 25, 2019
MORE MONEY, FEWER PROBLEMS: Students, faculty and staff participated in the Rally for a Living Wage last spring. The protestors marched to President Clayton Rose’s office with a petition demanding a living wage for college employees.
WAGES
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
timetable of the wage increases.
“When I read that email from
President Rose, I almost walked
out and quit,” she said. “I think
it’s just to keep us quiet ... This is
what they did to us last July. It’s
three years until it’s $17 dollars.”
Members of the Bowdoin
Labor Alliance (BLA), a student
group that has organized protests,
demonstrations of student sup-
port and a rally around the issue
of a living wage for College em-
ployees, reacted to Rose’s email
with trepidation.
Diego Grossmann ’20, a leader
of BLA, expressed uncertainty as
to whether the wage hike will still
be enough by the time it is actual-
ly implemented.
“What students, workers
and community members are
asking for is for Bowdoin to
catch up with the bare mini-
mum,” he said. “What is the
‘living wage’ if not that?”
Senate candidate grows grassroots
at on-campus town hall
by Alyce McFadden
Orient Staff
The odds are not in Betsy
Sweet’s favor—but, as she told
on-campus town hall attendees
on Sunday, that’s a critical part
of her bid for the Maine Dem-
ocratic nomination for U.S.
Senate.
“I’m all about structural
change; I’m about thinking out-
side the box,” she said. “When
people say we can’t do some-
thing, I say, ‘you wanna bet?’”
Sweet, a former gubernato-
rial candidate and state lobby-
ist, addressed a modest crowd
of students and Brunswick
residents on the second floor
of Moulton Union. If Sweet
wins the June primary, she’ll
go on to face Senator Susan
Collins (R-ME), who has been
widely criticized following her
tie-breaking 2018 vote to con-
firm Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh.
Sweet’s afternoon remarks
emphasized the corrosive role
of money in politics and high-
lighted her plans to change the
nature of federal elections by
implementing 12-week elec-
tion cycles and passing a law or
constitutional amendment to
overturn the Supreme Court’s
“Citizens United” decision.
Benjamin Ray ’20 who leads
BLA with Grossmann, agreed.
“Seventeen dollars an hour,
three years from now, is not a
living wage.”
According to Bowdoin’s fre-
quently asked questions page
about housekeeper compensa-
tion, the College does not use a
living wage philosophy in deter-
mining the wages it pays its em-
ployees.
The page defines a living wage
framework as: “[a] program that
is structured to pay different wag-
es for the same job based on at
least thirteen different personal
circumstance categories (e.g., one
adult; one adult with one child
[etc …]).”
The page further explains that
Bowdoin uses an “equal pay for
equal work” philosophy instead,
meaning that two people who
hold the same job will receive the
same wage regardless of family
situation.
Rose stressed that the decision
to raise wages was not prompted
Sweet walks the walk in this
regard; her campaign is ‘grass-
roots’ in the purest sense of the
term. On Sunday she used the
phrase “power … to the peo-
ple” without a touch of irony,
and has pledged to refuse mon-
ey from corporations and Su-
per PACs. In the middle of the
town hall, her campaign man-
ager implored the audience to
“I’m all about structural
change; I’m about thinking
outside the box.”
–Betsy Sweet, candidate for U.S. Senate
spread the word about Sweet’s
campaign by downloading a
‘digital canvassing’ app.
Sweet wants voters to re-
member all this; it’s a critical
part of what distinguishes
her from the race’s current
front-runner, Maine House
Speaker Sara Gideon. Gideon’s
campaign is supported by the
core of the Democratic Party
machine—she’s been endorsed
by the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee and her
campaign has attracted wide-
spread attention from national
media.
Sweet, on the other hand,
NEWS
by student activism.
“If this were some sort of re-
sponse to the noise, we would have
gone to $15 [per hour] and be
done with it,” he said. “That is not
what we’re doing. This is a much
more comprehensive, thoughtful
and appropriate program for em-
ployees.”
Ray said that the BLA was
proud of its efforts.
“I know this wouldn’t have
happened two years ago,” he said.
“I don’t think there was a base of
students willing to push hard for
our community, to make things
better around here, as it affects
wages and working conditions
around campus, until the BLA
was able to organize that.”
BSG President Ural Mishra ’20
said that he was happy with the
new $17 minimum wage, as op-
posed to the $15 minimum wage
floated by student activists.
“I never thought 15 was
enough, so seeing it higher than
15 is a great thing,” he said.
“To be perfectly honest, I don’t
spent much of Sunday’s event
touting her left-wing bona-
fides, like support for Medicare
for All. She supports a Green
New Deal, and her climate
policy proposals range from
the wacky—pods off the coast
to harness the kinetic energy
of the ocean—to the radical—
public ownership of the electri-
cal grid.
Through her out-of-the-box
policy proposals Sweet weaves
a rhetoric of gritty optimism
and hopeful determination.
On Sunday, her message came
through crystal clear: better
things are, indeed, possible.
“We could do it—we could!”
she said. “We could fix this, [but]
we don’t have the dedication,
we don’t have the spine. Doing
what’s good for the environment
is good for the economy.”
Sunday’s event was orga-
nized by the Bowdoin Demo-
crats. The club plans to host a
similar event with Gideon in
November.
think the BSG has done a whole
lot,” added Mishra, when asked
about BSG’s involvement in the
decision. “I think Arein [Ngyuen
’21, BSG vice president] and I es-
pecially have tried to do our part
to push senior [administrators]
to think about this whole process
from the eyes of the housekeepers
and the students, but a lot of the
leg work was done by the students,
who for the past few years have
stood by these housekeepers.”
In Monday’s email, President
Rose noted that the College re-
views its compensation program
regularly, and reserves the right
to adjust the program when war-
ranted. For instance, a scheduled
raise for faculty and staff was
frozen between 2009 and 2011,
following the 2008 financial
crash. This is the only modern
precedent for such a change to
compensation.
However, the vast majority of
hourly workers’ pay remained
unaffected, as the salary freeze
did not affect staff earning under
BSG
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tion of the conversation.
“I think that I had a very differ-
ent idea of what these conversa-
tions would look like,” Poole said.
All six housekeepers who re-
turned the Orient’s request for
comment said they did not expect
any faculty or staff to present.
Housekeeper Beth Icangelo was
satisfied with the way the event un-
folded.
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$40,000 a year. In 2011, the frozen
raises were applied retroactively
to all employees.
The details about the propor-
tional wage increases, as well as
information about budget re-
structuring to finance the raise,
will be announced as the Board of
Trustees continues to determine
the budget for the next fiscal year.
The new minimum wage will
not apply to “casual” employees,
or to those who work fewer than
20 hours a week. According to
Orlando, the College has “ab-
solutely no plans to add casual
employee hours” to the proposed
budget beyond usual fluctuations,
ensuring that current full-time
workers will not be reclassified
to part-time in order to offset the
cost of the rising wages.
While the total number of
casual employees has remained
steady in recent years, given that
many of the casual employees
only work at Bowdoin for a short
time—sometimes only for a sin-
gle event—the number of casual
“I think everybody that went
[to the meetings] was open and felt
good about it,” Icangelo said.
Wednesday’s assembly session
began with public comment time,
where Nicholas Bower ’22, among
others, addressed the assembly.
“In the face of victory we should
give recognition to the groups on
campus that fought ardently for
this change,” Bower said. “The
Bowdoin Labor Alliance, an in-
dependent student-led group, put
a great deal of effort over the past
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ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
employees at the College varies
significantly throughout the year.
“The fluctuation from year to
year is largely dependent on the
many programs the College of-
fers to the local and broader com-
munities as well as the volume of
special events we run,” Orlando
wrote in an email to the Orient.
Addressing the question of in-
lation, Orlando explained that the
$1.6 million estimate does not in-
clude the money that is allocated
to the regular staff increase pool,
which is determined based on
factors that include the competi-
tive market and inflation.
Although BLA contends that
the group’s activism on campus is
far from over, Ray is happy with
what the campaign for a living
wage has already accomplished.
“I think this campus is fired up
in a way it hasn’t been in a long
time, and we’re at a point in our
world where we need that more
than ever,” said Ray.
Reuben Schafir contributed to
this report.
one-and-a-half years into raising
awareness on campus about work-
ers’ insufficient compensation.”
Following public comment
time, BSG entered a 37-minute
executive session, during which
seven members of the public,
three Orient members and Mike
Ranen, associate dean of student
affairs and director of residen-
tial and student life, and advisor
to BSG, were asked to leave the
room until the executive session
concluded.
6 Friday, October 25, 2019
F FEATURES
New peer advisor program expands CXD’s accessibility
by Annika Moore
Staff Writer
Career Exploration and
Development (CXD) is in-
troducing a new peer advi-
sor program this semester in
an effort to provide students
with more opportunities to
learn about the office and re-
ceive career support.
The three peer advi-
sors—Elly Veloria ’20, Mike
McAlarney ’21 and Amanda
Rickman ’20—offer regular
drop-in hours in the CXD
and David Saul Smith Union
to help students with basic
career tasks like crafting a
resume or drafting a cov-
er letter. The peer advisors
will also conduct workshops
throughout the year to famil-
iarize students with the CXD’s
resources.
CXD Associate Director and
Career Advisor Meg Springer,
who manages the program,
said the peer advisors may help
students feel that they have eas-
ier access to career resources,
such as resume and cover letter
help.
“For years I’ve been dream-
ing about having this program.
I’ve worked with student in-
terns in our office, and I see
them doing amazing things
and bringing the student per-
spective to share with us,”
Springer said. “While the peer
advisors are not replacing the
professional staff here at all,
sometimes it’s a really nice en- CXD’S NEW THREE: (From left to right) Amanda Rickman ’20, Elly Veloria ’20 and Mike McAlarney ’21 are Career Exploration and Develop-
try point.”
Express breakfast:
a practical proposal
Forking Around
by Will
Donaldson
As most upperclassmen
know, Bowdoin offered “ex-
press breakfast” at Moulton
during finals in the spring of
2019. Students could swipe
in at the Moulton Express
counter and grab a breakfast
sandwich, a cup of coffee and
some yogurt to go. What fewer
students know is that Bowdoin
still offers express breakfast—
but only to students in two
3000 level classes in the edu-
cation department.
The two classes, which are
corequisites, send students to
teach in and observe Portland
middle schools every Friday.
Nate Blum ’20, who takes both
classes, gave me the scoop.
“We need to make it to
Portland by about 7:30 a.m.,
and it’s a half hour drive. We
leave before the dining halls
open,” Blum said. Because
of this, Bowdoin gives Nate
and his peers a bag of yogurt,
granola, coffee and milk. “It’s
incredible of them, and almost
everyone in the class uses it,”
he said.
The advisors, who are paid
employees of CXD, went
through an extended applica-
tion and interviewing process
before being hired and received
training from full-time advisors
before meeting with students.
Veloria said in a phone inter-
view that she hopes the peer-to-
peer drop-in hours will allow
more students to feel comfort-
able coming to the office.
“Students don’t always feel
like they are prepared or ready
to speak to a professional ad-
ment’s peer advisors, part of a new program aimed at making the office’s resources more accessible to students.
When asked if he had any sug-
gestions to improve the breakfast,
he reemphasized his gratitude
and satisfaction, but added that
he had heard minor complaints:
there was nothing hot.
When I first found out
about this limited offering of
express breakfast, I began to
wonder why Bowdoin didn’t
expand it. I personally prefer
to take my time at breakfast,
but I imagine many students
would appreciate the option
to grab a bag of food at 8:25
a.m. on their way to an 8:30
a.m. class. In order to find
out whether Bowdoin had
any plans to expand express
breakfast, I spoke with Ken
Cardone, the interim director
of Bowdoin Dining Services.
First, here’s the good news;
express breakfast will be back
for finals this fall. Cardone
said that he received positive
feedback on express breakfast
last year, contributing to the
decision to offer it again.
Now, the bad news: Bowdo-
in dining does not currently
have plans to offer express
breakfast full-time. The prob-
lem, Cardone explained, is a
staffing shortage.
One upside of the staffing
visor … [and if ] they feel like
they can’t come to the office
because of that, then they just
won’t show up,” Veloria said.
“I think students often find it
much easier to talk to some-
one their age and be honest
and say ‘I really have no idea
what I want to do, I’ve never
been to the office before.’”
McAlarney, who has met
with about 15 students this
semester, said he aims to help
peers identify how their in-
terests and extracurricular in-
shortage is that Bowdo-
in dining has positions
open for all shifts. If you
are looking for a lucra-
tive campus job ($12.50/
hour), you can find a din-
ing shift online at Bowdo-
in’s student employment
website.
“We need to meet our
current obligations for Su-
perSnack and weekend meals
before we can consider addi-
tional services,” he said. He
believes one of the reasons for
the current staffing shortage
is that students are more en-
gaged in extracurricular ac-
tivities than in previous years,
which, in itself, is not a bad
thing.
The staffing shortage,
however, is a major obstacle.
Bowdoin dining was forced to
cancel one SuperSnack in Sep-
tember because of it, though
they made up for the cancelled
SuperSnack by offering free
food trucks on Dudley Coe
Quad. Furthermore, the short-
age prevents Bowdoin dining
from expanding its services.
It also seems hard to solve.
The main problem, as I see
it, is that dining hall jobs are
more like real jobs than many
volvement can be connected
to a career path.
“That journey is something
that took me a while to fig-
ure out, and I think my goal
is to try to accelerate that
for everyone I interact with,”
McAlarney said.
This program is the first
of its kind for CXD. In the
past, students employed at
the office worked on specific
projects and supported events
planned by the CXD’s full-
time advisors rather than cre-
of Bowdoin’s
other employment
opportunities, which
sometimes involve
little more than sitting
at a desk and doing
homework. As long as
these “jobs” are avail-
able, students will tend
to prefer them to the
actual work involved in
staffing the dining halls.
But perhaps there is a way
for Bowdoin to provide ex-
press breakfast without hiring
more staff. Diego Lasarte ’22
suggested the following idea
when I mentioned this article
to him.
Imagine this: from 7:30
a.m. to 10 a.m. you could get a
bagel or other food item and a
cup of coffee to go at The Café
ating their own programs and
office hours.
Rickman said the goal of
the workshops is to create an
inviting and fun atmosphere
where students can begin to
think about career opportu-
nities.
The peer advisors recently
organized an event that of-
fered students the chance to
take headshots for applica-
tions or a LinkedIn profile.
They are planning another
headshot photoshoot on No-
KATIE BACALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
using a meal swipe. A potential
downside of this idea is that The
Café could become overcrowd-
ed. There could also be difficul-
ty in keeping The Café stocked
with enough food to feed the
masses. However, I think the
idea is worth pursuing.
vember 15. On October 31,
they are offering a Hallow-
een-themed workshop fea-
turing snacks, assistance with
cover letters and resumes and
a “fortune telling” activity
that helps students identify
potential career interests.
Peer advisors can also re-
duce the burden on full-time
advisors by helping students
with basic questions, includ-
ing accessing the Handshake
platform or setting up a
LinkedIn profile.
The peer advisor program
is part of a broad effort by the
CXD to expand the accessibil-
ity of its resources, including
directing more programming
toward first years and sopho-
mores.
On October 21, the office
held a networking event that
encouraged underclassmen to
connect with juniors and se-
niors to learn about their career
searches. Over winter break,
CXD will offer a sophomore ca-
reer boot camp, connecting 200
students with a host of career
development resources during
the last four days of the break.
Springer said she hopes
to grow the program beyond
the current three peer advisor
positions in this year’s pilot
program.
“So far the feedback that
we’ve gotten from students
has been very appreciative,”
Springer said. “It’s serving to
really expand our services,
and I think meet students
where they’re at.”
HOLLY HARRIS
Bowdoin dining should
offer express breakfast at The
Café on an “as supplies last”
basis, for a trial period of one
week. Mr. Cardone, I hope
you’re reading this.
Editor’s Note: Diego Lasarte
’22 is a member of Orient staff.
Friday, October 25, 2019
THE DESCENT INTO
THE ABYSS
These self-portraits were
made by William Utermohlen,
a 20th century contemporary
artist. He was diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s in 1995. At the
onset of his Alzheimer’s, he
decided to sketch a portrait
of himself once a year until
2000—he died in 2007. I re-
member Christoph Straub,
a visiting assistant professor
in neuroscience, showing me
these drawings in a class on
neurological disorders.
The drawings were trou-
bling to see because Uter-
mohlen had the courage to
display his own deterioration
while still living. These draw-
ings also offered me a way to
view my father’s degenera-
tion. Art, in a way, widened
my perspective and provided
me with a strange empathy.
TO THE INDIVIDUAL—
THE POWER OF FASHION
Fashion is an essential
part of my identity; it’s partly
rooted in my personality, but
it truly stems from a cultural
expectation of dress I learned
while growing up in an Afri-
can family living in Boston.
My earliest memories are
of my mother dressing me for
school every morning. I was
like her doll, and she adored
putting me in sweater vests
with a khaki-shorts-high-
socks combo. I never fought
back because I secretly liked
her stylistic choices.
Once I finally started dress-
ing myself—at an embarrass-
ingly late age—I had a sub-
Ranging from lighthearted moments to serious reflections about life at and beyond
Bowdoin, Talks of the Quad feature the Bowdoin community’s best short-form writing.
They are published every other week and can be written by any member of the Bowdoin
After countless diagnoses
and brain scans, my father
was recently diagnosed with
frontotemporal dementia
(FTD) at the age of 52. He is
suffering, both in mind and
body, and I’m not really sure
he knows what is going on. It’s
as if a monster has overtak-
en his consciousness, and he
can’t control it. When I look at
my father in his present state,
I am reminded of a quote by
Frederick Nietzsche: “Who-
ever fights monsters should
see to it that in the process he
does not become a monster.
And when you look long into
an abyss, the abyss also looks
into you.”
My father is fighting mon-
sters and has, at times, been
a monster. Sometimes I am
scared of the words he mut-
ters under his breath: “They’re
eating you alive,” “They’re rip-
ping your body apart.” Other
conscious standard of what
style was acceptable, largely
based on the cultural norms
I grew up with. This standard
was particularly high due to
my mother and stylish sisters.
Leaving the house in certain
clothing simply wouldn’t be
tolerated.
Even though I’m at Bowdoin
and out of the judgmental glare
of my mom and sisters, I still
carry those expectations in my
head—and I’m so glad I do.
Here, the Bowdoin “uni-
form” is clear: Chacos, Pa-
tagonia quarter zips and the
coveted Canada Goose jack-
et. It is easy to blend in here
if you choose to. But there
is also a group of students
curating a unique sense of
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times he stares into a mirror
and looks as if he has fallen
into the abyss, or as Dante
would call it, the Inferno.
My family and I struggle
to figure out how to deal with
the reality of Robert Welch,
my father. Sometimes the
solution is to cry, other times
it’s to laugh, but the most fer-
vent emotion in all of us is an-
ger. Anger at what? Some God
who made him this way—a
force or energy in the uni-
verse we can’t control. Fate.
Sometimes I choose to be
angry and embarrassed at him
for his FTD behaviors. Other
times I find myself laughing
at how he wants to eat at Mc-
Donald’s every day and walk
10 miles up and down the
same street. Whether it be
laughter, sadness or anger, the
special moments are the ones
where I can see my father for
who he was. These moments
style. These students are often
women of color who contin-
uously turn out looks; they
refuse to conform to typical
Bowdoin attire and turn hall-
ways into runways and side-
walks into catwalks.
To the small number of
students who have taken the
liberty to curate your own
image, I commend you for
not letting the Bowdoin uni-
form become your uniform.
After all, it is easier to blend
in than stand out. And to all
the students who are afraid
to wear that romper or those
bell-bottoms or are scared to
stand out period: don’t be.
I wish that I could go back
to 13-year-old me and smack
him on the side of the head
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are when I can accept my fa-
ther and feel complete bliss.
But, as you know, these
moments of happiness are
like a butterfly. As Lana Del
Rey writes in her new song,
“Happiness is a butterfly, try
to catch it like every night. It
escapes from my hands into
moonlight.”
Once the moment escapes
from my grasp, I go back and
forth fighting some way or
another for something more
in my father, something that
will never be there. But then
I ask myself, what if it’s not
about fighting the past or the
future situation, but about ac-
cepting my present situation?
I tell myself to accept his con-
dition, accept his impending
death.
Sometimes I can accept
it, but other times it’s a fight
between me and my will. In
“Everybody’s Protest Novel,”
for caring about what other
kids thought. Being able to
express yourself is so satisfy-
ing and something I appreci-
ate every day.
Last year I felt external
pressure from others, and at
some points an internal pres-
sure, to assimilate which I am
glad I ignored. The institu-
tional pressure to assimilate
is palpable here at Bowdoin,
but the radical—and more
liberating—choice is to be
yourself.
So if the Bowdoin uniform
is for you, then go ahead and
live your truth! It’s not for me,
and it never will be. And I’m
glad I realized this.
Ayub Tahlil is a member of
the Class of 2022.
James Baldwin writes of ac-
ceptance: “But our humanity
is our burden, our life; we
need not battle for it; we need
only to do what is infinitely
more difficult—that is, accept
it.”
Acceptance is the first
step. My way of accepting
my father is writing poems
in an attempt to preserve his
memory, enjoying sunsets at
Sea Cliff Beach (his favorite
beach) and facetiming him at
night. Even though my father
is not the same father from
my childhood, I enjoy these
times of bliss and invite him
into my body.
As the Buddha says, “I am
aware that my father is fully
present in every cell of my
body. I invite my father to
breathe in with me. Breathe
out with me. I would like
to invite my father in me to
sit with my back—this is my
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back, but it is also his back.
Father and son. Father and
daughter. Breathing together.”
Now all this may sound
trivial and simple, but I
thought my father and moth-
er would live forever. Then,
reality set in. My first reac-
tion was to deny his diagno-
sis, avoid confrontation and
imagine that he would be the
same father I had since child-
hood. Unfortunately, I was
wrong. I had no choice but
to accept that my father will
die before most mothers and
fathers do. The situation still
doesn’t seem real to me.
As I continue to write po-
etry and try to catch the but-
terfly, I begin to realize that
these moments are what I live
for. It is a hunger to exist that
I believe is unique to the hu-
man condition.
Dylan Welch is a member of
the Class of 2021.
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PHOTO ESSAY

MOOVIN’ ON UP
This fall, Bowdoin Dining switched its milk supplier
from Portland-based Oakhurst Dairy to the family-
run Baker Brook Farm located just 30 minutes away in
Gray, Maine. Baker Brook manages a herd of 120 cows
that provide milk for both Bowdoin and Colby. If you
fill up your glass with milk on the dairy’s delivery days
of Wednesday or Saturday, the milk is just three days
removed from the cow’s udder. That’s up to twice as fresh
as milk from Oakhurst!
Owner Scott O’Brien said, “They really are our family.
Some people have cats and dogs. Well, we have cats and
dogs and cows.”
By Ann Basu
 AS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, October 25, 2019
A legendary tribute: musical remembers the life of Cole Porter
by Lucie Nolden
Orient Staff
With a shimmering silver and
gold beaded curtain framing the
stage, audience members of all
ages will be transported back in
time to the glitz of Broadway in
the roaring 20’s. The vehicle is
the music of composer extraor-
dinaire Cole Porter, performed
by the students in the Musical
Theater Performance class in-
structed by Professor of Theater
Davis Robinson.
Thursday night marked
the opening performance of
“COLE,” a musical weaving
together many of Porter’s most
famous songs, created by the
Theater and Dance Depart-
ment. At first glance, COLE is
about Porter’s life: his glamor-
ous, jet-setting adventures; his
maybe not-so-secret identity
as a gay man and the horseback
riding accident that left him dis-
abled for the final 30 years of his
life. But while its opulent setting
may be exciting to many audi-
ence members unaccustomed
to the glamour of the roaring
20’s, Robinson hopes that its
larger themes will resonate with
students (and their parents vis-
iting this weekend in 2019.)
“Musicals say a lot about
the world that we live in, every
musical does, really,” said Rob-
inson, citing Hamilton as “the
show of this decade.”
So what does it mean to put
on a show built around songs
composed and performed in
the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s in
2019? “COLE” has given stu-
dents the opportunity to both
immerse themselves in time-
less songs and to get creative
with the staging of those songs
in order to tell new stories and
magnify hidden ones.
As a closeted man in the ear-
ly 20th century, Porter wrote
his love songs to include few
female pronouns.
In doing so, he broke con-
ventions in an era when ho-
mophobia was rampant and
commonplace.
Robinson and his students
have arranged many of the
songs differently than Porter’s
original arrangements to imag-
ine the queer relationships that
may have inspired them and
create a musical that explores
love in more universal ways.
Lucy Sydel ’22, who will be
performing in “COLE,” helped
choreograph the show. She fo-
cused on using the movements
of the actors to explore how
stories can be told through
bodies and their visual cues.
“I’ve been trying to make
small visual nods,” Sydel said.
“I’ve been really interested in
exploring, for example, het-
eronormative partner dances
9
and how we can queer those.
Being gay, that informed a lot
of [Porter’s] life. And so I’ve
been really interested in how
to incorporate dance in telling
his story.”
For Sydel, whose back-
ground is centered more in
modern dance rather than
in choreographing musical
theatre, this process involved
incorporating new forms of
movement into what she calls
her “movement vocabulary”
and teaching them to fellow
students with varying levels of
dance experience.
Actors have rehearsed since
the start of the semester, meet-
ing twice per week in addition
to two weekly two-and-a-half
hour class sessions. Robinson
has been careful to use the re-
hearsal process as a learning
experience, distributing work-
load and solo performances
evenly among the students.
“Really, it’s an ensemble show,
even though everybody has their
individual highlights, and ev- ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
erybody’s got their moment to TAKING CENTER STAGE: Student actors have been preparing since the beginning of the academic year for
shine,” Robinson said. “You want “COLE,” attending multiple weekly rehearsals and working closely with Professor of Theater Davis Robinson.
to give people a positive experi-
ence with healthy work habits, in “COLE” are theater majors Porter to life. some tears, some laughs.”
set a professional level of skill … who could go on to become “It’s like this jet engine that COLE will be playing in Wish
We want to make sure that they Broadway stars, while others takes off, you carry the audi- Theatre on Thursday, Friday and
are singing on key and singing may have no such aspirations. ence and then you put them Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. and
with volume and support and But each has been completely down somewhere else after- on Sunday at 4 p.m.. A limited
dancing at the same time.” immersed in the process of wards,” Robinson said. “I think quantity of tickets will be avail-
Some of the student actors bringing the magic of Cole there’ll be some goosebumps, able at the door.
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‘Assyria to America’ exhibit places ancient art in modern context
by Elizabeth Flanagan
Staff Writer
In 1860, Bowdoin Medical
School alumnus Henry Byron
Haskell facilitated the shipment of
five Assyrian reliefs from the site
of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq,
to Brunswick, Maine. These large
stone pieces from the Northwest
Palace of King Ashurnasirpal
II, built in 879 BCE, traveled on
camelback and steamship to arrive
where they are now.
The reliefs have been in Bow-
doin’s possession ever since, but
are now the focal point of a new
exhibit entitled “Assyria to Amer-
ica” at the Bowdoin College Muse-
um of Art (BCMA).
“This whole exhibition is con-
ceived of as a … reintroduction
and a recontextualization of our
reliefs,” said Sean Burrus, Andrew
W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial
fellow. “They’ve been here for 150
years, and we want to invite our
visitors who have become so fa-
miliar with them to look at them
in a new light.”
In addition to the six Assyrian
reliefs, the exhibit will also include
loaned artifacts from the Metro-
politan Museum of Art and the
Harvard Semitic Museum.
“We feel like this is part of a
CREATIVE CURIOSITY: At the Summer Art Grant Exhibition on Wednesday, students had the chance to learn about the work of their peers. Each partici-
pant gave a short presentation on their individual projects, which will remain on display until October 27 in the Edwards Center for Art and Dance. .
Grant recipients unveil summer projects
by Julia Jennings
Staff Writer
Filling a dimly lit room in
The Edwards Center for Art and
Dance with shining images of
wood veneer and brightly toned
paintings, 11 Bowdoin students
presented their summer artwork
in a series of Pecha Kucha pre-
sentations on Wednesday night.
These students represented
the majority of recipients who
had been selected for either
the McKee Photography Grant
or the Kaempfer Summer Art
Grant for 2019. Both grants al-
low students to spend the sum-
mer independently studying
visual art forms under the guid-
ance of a faculty member.
“If anybody is looking to
expand their independent prac-
tice, it’s a very valuable time,”
said Marie Bergsund ’20, one
of the recipients. “The ability
to have no limitations on your
project, and also the support of
professors over the summer—
it’s just a great resource to tap
into as an artist.”
This past summer’s recipients
larger, shared goal among muse-
ums to take advantage of resourc-
es in different parts of the world to
better understand aspects of the
ancient past,” said Anne Good-
year, co-director of the BCMA.
“It’s really exciting to be able to
tell a fuller story of ancient Assyr-
ia,” agreed Frank Goodyear, co-di-
rector of the BCMA.
In order to tell this story, the
exhibit is arranged in three time
frames in order to tell this fuller
story. First is the ancient, which
includes the reliefs themselves and
other ancient artifacts. Second is
the original documents, which
narrate the discovery of the tab-
lets and their journey to Bowdo-
in. Third is the present dialogue
which surrounds ancient art as it
exists today.
“We have to remember that the
past is not neutral—that we, all of
us are involved in using the past to
tell stories about who we are and
how we got to where we are,” said
Burrus in reference to two mod-
ern-day events at the forefront
of this exhibit: the looting of the
Baghdad Museum in 2003 and the
destruction of the original site of
these reliefs at Nimrud by ISIS in
2015.
On display are pieces by con-
temporary Iraqi-Jewish artist Mi-
include Amani Hite ’20, Brian-
na White-Ortiz ’21, Brennan
Clark ’20, Isabelle Hallé ’20,
Maddie Squibb ’20, Kodie Garza
’21, Sam Betts ’21, Will Larson
’21, Caroline Dranow ’20, Niles
Singer ’21, Phoebe Nichols ’20,
Marie Bergsund ’20, Tala Glass
’20 and Enrique Mendia ’20.
The work created by each
student—from photography, to
sculpture, to painting—is now
on display in the Edwards Cen-
ter for Art and Dance. In con-
junction with this exhibition,
students provided reflections
and a look at their work through
Pecha Kucha presentations. This
specific presentation style allows
the presenter to speak about 20
different slides for 20 seconds
each, providing each artist with
a platform for deeper insight.
“It’s nice to see everyone’s
works on the walls or in the stu-
dio spaces, but it’s really fascinat-
ing to have … each artist present
their ideas and goals, because it’s
something that you never see,
except for maybe through an art-
ist statement on the walls,” said
Betts, one of the grant recipients.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
chael Rakowitz. Anne Goodyear
noted his work as paramount to
understanding the exhibit on a
larger scale.
“With the addition of the work
of Michael Rakowitz we are able to
add an accent of our own contem-
porary moment through the eyes
of an artist to see how and why
these objects continue to be reso-
nant in the present day,” said Anne
Goodyear.
Rakowitz’s colorful pieces use
Middle Eastern packaging materi-
als to recreate scale replicas of the
artifacts lost in a 2003 looting of
the Baghdad Museum.
“I wanted [visitors], as they’re
looking at these ancient artifacts,
to think deeply about our connec-
tions to the past and our respon-
sibilities to the past as well,” said
Burrus. “And I think [Rakowitz’s]
works do a really good job of
prompting us to think about those
issues.”
The exhibit takes advantage of
modern technology to connect
the ancient past to the present day
in novel ways. A projector adds
color to a relief, allowing visitors
a glimpse of its original splendor.
There will also be interactive com-
ponents including a timeline, but
most impressive is a replica of a
statue of King Ashurnasirpal II.
Students described their ar-
tistic processes and explained
what inspired their individual
projects. Many also reflected on
the value of the grants, not only
for the development of their
work, but also for their own
growth as artists.
“The value of Kaempfer is
the value of learning a process
and learning what your studio
practice looks like, and of be-
ing free of material constraints
and working in your own time,”
said Larson. “[What] Kaempfer
opens up in terms of possibility
is really thinking about, how do
I go out and manage my own
way of art.”
The exhibition and presen-
tation mark the first time that
these artists came together and
learned about one another’s art
in a collective showing.
“Probably one of the most ex-
citing things is coming back and
seeing everybody’s work as a co-
hesive show, because none of us
were really around each other in
the production,” said Bergsund.
Many of the artists, howev-
er, had collaborated in visual
AN EXTRAORDINARY REVIVAL: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Burrus and Associate Professor of
Classics James Higganbotham discuss the modern-day importance of the Assyrian reliefs at a talk on Thursday.
The original statue can be found
in the British Museum’s collection.
This replica was produced from
over 1,000 pictures taken of the
original statue which was then
3D-printed into 28 segments.
“We wanted to not only look at
these works of art in their context,
but also to show how contempo-
rary or more up-to-date technol-
ogies are helping us understand
their culture.” said Jim Higgin-
botham, associate professor of
classics and associate curator for
SOPHIA WEI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
arts courses previously, and the
shared thematic and aesthetic
influences were clear.
“It’s a really good way to see
the parallels between everyone
that had the same studio cours-
es, because there’s definitely a
bunch of visual compliments
between works,” Betts reflected.
Above all, the presentations
demonstrated the vibrancy of
the student-artist community.
“What’s awesome about
talking to other artists and inter-
acting with other artists is that
you get an appreciation of peo-
ple working in different media
… and everyone has their own
way of approaching how they
make art,” Larson explained.
“The real value of doing it in a
group is that it brings up all of
these kinds of discussions, and
you see people working in pho-
tography or painting or drawing
or sculpture. And that intermin-
gling of different ideas is what’s
really important.”
The exhibition will remain on
display in the Edwards Center
for Art and Dance through Oc-
tober 27.
the Museum’s ancient collection.
“I think that the technology is
allowing us to not only just make
replicas, but it is an important way
going forward, that we can help
preserve art that would otherwise
be lost.”
In conjunction with the open-
ing of the exhibit, Higginbotham
and Burrus gave a talk yesterday
highlighting the importance of
this exhibit, its historical and
present day implications and the
story of the relief’s long journey to
Mandel embraces
artistic contradictions
by Sophie Burchell
Staff Writer
Through the mechanized
movement of light, projections
and objects, artist and Universi-
ty of Massachusetts at Amherst
Assistant Professor of Art Robin
Mandel creates dynamic sculp-
tures that explore the power of
repetition. In a talk last Wednes-
day, “In Rotation: From Motion
to Meaning,” Mandel explained
how his videographic portrayals
of contrasting objects can help
viewers to better embrace oppos-
ing ideas.
“Think of it as an antidote to
extremes,” said Mandel. “To un-
derstand the situation in which
two opposing ideas are true at the
same time, that one thing can be
understood in two completely
opposing ways, depending on
where you stand. That is the kind
of understanding that I want to
encourage.”
Mandel’s work primarily con-
sists of kinetic sculptures that are
made of everyday objects, mech-
anization and light. As visible
gears turn, a wine glass is filled by
the phantom projection of wine
while a wine bottle is uncorked
by a projected hand. The opening
of a larger door corresponds to
the opening of a dramatically-lit
12-inch door. A two-dimen-
sional silhouette of a bottle spins
to create a three-dimensional,
ghost-like bottle.
Pieces of Mandel’s work will be
featured in the Center for Maine
Contemporary Art’s newest ex-
hibit, “Temporality: The Process
of Time.” Opening November 2,
the exhibit will incorporate work
from a variety of artists using dif-
ferent media that are connected by
their exploration of the concept of
time.
In his “Hold” series, Mandel
Friday, October 25, 2019
ISABEL ALEXANDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Bowdoin.
The “Assyria to America” ex-
hibit opens on October 24 and will
be up until December 2020. The
length of the exhibit will allow for
it to be a platform for a variety of
programs, educational initiatives
and new research. Scholars, re-
searchers and art conservators will
be visiting campus to continue to
expand the story of the reliefs.
“This exhibition is not the end
of a process,” said Burrus. “It’s the
beginning of a process.”
also worked with the looping of
sound. Projectors display faces
of individuals holding a breath,
musical note or scream for as long
as they can. During that duration,
the projected video spins while
its frame remains stationary, thus
holding the image still. The faces
are held still or rotated in cycles
according to the timing of their
actions.
As light illuminates the instal-
lation in cycles, the sounds of the
piece interact with the motion’s
patterns.
“Sometimes the singing and
the screaming would be happen-
ing in sort of a duet, sometimes
... one would start and another
one would end and they would
happen in succession,” said
Mandel. “And just because each
of those three clips were differ-
ent lengths, those combinations
were constantly kind of shifting
and changing.”
Mandel created a different
piece called “Chorus” for his alma
mater Swarthmore. In the piece,
Swarthmore student vocalists
were recorded singing one note
and their rotating visages were
projected onto the buildings sur-
rounding the quad. Each night,
a new face and note were added
until the final night, when the
student vocalists accompanied
their projected faces and voices in
person.
As a professor, Mandel is famil-
iar with the variety of voices found
on college campuses, whether
they are projected onto a building
or otherwise.
“Many voices made the music
more complex, but also they are
the college campus,” said Mandel.
“Their song also echoed in a way
that the process of intellectual
discourse [is] sometimes har-
monious, sometimes discord, but
always has diverse participants.”
Friday, October 25, 2019
S SPORTS
‘Controlled rage’ and running free:
Nate Richam-Odoi reflects on a life of football
More Than a
Game
by Ian Ward
Nate Richam-Odoi ’20 was a
latecomer to football. Instead of
putting on a helmet at age six,
he had to wait until he turned
seven.
Chalk it up to the rules.
In Richam-Odoi’s hometown
of West Hartford, Connecti-
cut, the local pee-wee football
league mandated that players be
either seven years old or in the
third grade before they padded
up. Richam-Odoi, whose De-
cember 28 birthday made him
the youngest kid in the second
grade, was neither.
I met the running back out-
side the entrance to Hyde Hall,
where he lives as a proctor.
“All my friends were playing,
and I was just like ‘I want to play
this sport so badly; I want to be
with all my friends so badly,’
and I just couldn’t do it,” says
the running back.
In the 14 years since Con-
necticut deemed him old
enough to put on a helmet,
Richam-Odoi has made up for
any lost time. Now in his senior
year, he has become one of the
most decorated running backs
in Bowdoin football history. He
holds the single-game rushing
record—which he set on Sep-
tember 22, 2018, breaking a
42-year-old record with a 288-
yard effort against Middlebury
(6-0)—and, on October 12,
he became the first Bowdoin
football player ever to rush for
With success at Head of the Charles,
Bowdoin Crew remembers Zietlow ’22
by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin crew team
stroked their way to the top
at this past weekend’s Head
of the Charles Regatta in Bos-
ton, with the men’s first var-
sity boat placing fourth out
of 41 boats in the men’s col-
legiate 4+ event and the wom-
en’s first varsity boat coming
in 13th in the women’s college
4+ out of a field of 36 crews.
The men’s fourth place fin-
ish was the second-best finish
at the regatta in the men’s pro-
gram’s history, second only to
a third-place finish in 2014.
This year’s crew finished the
5k race in a time of 16 min-
utes and 34.6 seconds, more
than two minutes faster than
the 2014 crew’s time of 18
minutes and 59.7 seconds.
Bowdoin entered a histor-
ically high eight boats in the
regatta—one in the women’s
collegiate championship, two
each on the men’s and wom-
en’s collegiate fours, two in
ONE OF OUR FINEST: Nate Richam-Odoi ’20 stands on Whittier Field, the setting for many of his greatest moments in a Bowdoin jersey, as he reflects on his historic career.
more than 100 yards in three
consecutive games. He current-
ly sits second in the NESCAC in
rushing yards and carries, and
his 1,861 career rushing yards
are the seventh-most all-time
among Bowdoin players. He is
on track to move into sixth or
even fifth place by the end of
this season.
In the 2019 season, Ri-
cham-Odoi is responsible
for 30 of Bowdoin’s 68 total
points; over his four seasons,
the men’s club fours and one
in the women’s club fours.
The regatta, which is the
highlight of the team’s fall
season, is one of the world’s
largest two-day rowing
events, drawing over 11,000
high school, collegiate, pro-
fessional and masters rowers
from around the globe.
Both the men’s and wom-
en’s finishes represented an
improvement from 2018,
when the men’s first varsity
crew finished 14th in its event
and the women’s first varsity
crew finished 19th.
“From the recent past, [the
performance] was a jump up,”
said Head Coach Doug Well-
ing. “Bowdoin crews have
been on the medal stand in
past years … but any year you
can come away with medals
is pretty incredible, espe-
cially considering the size of
the schools we’re competing
against.”
The men’s crew, composed
of Walter Gadsby ’20, Jack
Tarlton ’20, Matt Donnelly
he has put on some of the most
mind-blowing displays of ath-
leticism that Whittier Field
might ever witness.
His numbers are made all the
more impressive by the fact that
he has missed the functional
equivalent of an entire season
due to injuries—a lateral collat-
eral ligament and meniscus tear
midway through his sophomore
season and a bad case of turf toe
in 2018.
The injuries have not
’22, Kenny Lamm ’20 and
Andy Bolender ’21, finished
behind teams from the Uni-
versity of California, Los An-
geles; Orange Coast College
and University of California
Santa Barbara.
“You’re racing against the
best of the best … it says a lot
for a small club program to
finish up with those [teams,]”
said Assistant Coach Ry Hills.
The Head of the Charles
is unlike other regattas that
the team competes in, said
Welling. As the world’s largest
collegiate regatta, the HOCR
attracts a higher standard of
competition than the small-
er regional regattas that the
team normally races in. The
stakes, as a result, are much
higher: every year, the banks
of the Charles River and the
bridges that span it are lined
with upwards of 300,000
spectators.
“The HOCR has a repu-
tation. Everybody knows its
grand reputation, and anyone
who’s been involved in row-
changed his approach.
“I run left, and I run right,
and I look for a hole. I just run.”
• school,] I didn’t think I had
We walk together to the Da-
vid Saul Smith Union, where he
tells me about the football ca-
reer he never thought he’d have.
Today, Richam-Odoi is 5’11”,
able to hang clean 350 pounds
and squat 500. He looks like the
kind of guy you really, really
wouldn’t want to arm wrestle.
But it hasn’t always been that
ing knows what they’re going
into, but then actually step-
ping into it is eye-opening,”
said assistant coach Ry Hills.
“We talk about what it’s going
to be like, we talk about the
distraction on the shore …
but the eye-popper is when
you get there and it’s like,
‘woah.’”
Beyond dealing with the
crowds and spectacle of the
event, the HOCR also pres-
ents one of the most chal-
lenging courses for crews
and coxswains to navigate.
Unlike typical courses that
follow straighter and unob-
structed paths, the HOCR’s
4.8 kilometer course on the
Charles includes hairpin
turns and tight squeezes un-
der the many bridges that the
boats pass under.
“It’s a coxswain’s race,” said
Bolender, the coxswain for
the men’s first varsity crew.
“It’s staggering how much
time a solid line through
the course can save you. The
fact that the boats turn super
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
way.
“From my [highlight] tape
that I had junior year [of high
enough of what it took to be
a college athlete,” says Ri-
cham-Odoi, who considered
playing collegiate lacrosse in-
stead of football. “I remember
sending my tape out to a lot of
other NESCAC schools, and all
of them were like, ‘We’re not
Please see FOOTBALL, page 12
slow and there are a lot of
sharp turns on the Charles
that are really hard to execute
on their own makes it really
hard.”
“Often, the sign of a good
[race for the] coxswain … is
that you don’t really notice
[them,] but this race course
is totally different,” said
Donnelly, one of the row-
ers in the first varsity boat.
“You can feel the effect that
the coxswain is having, and
if they have a good race, you
can absolutely make up time
and make up distance.”
Bolender stressed the
importance of coming into
race day with a plan for how
to navigate the course while
also remaining flexible in the
face of the course’s numer-
ous surprises. For example,
he described how he had to
react to the boat ahead crash-
ing and seize the moment to
overtake them rather than
get caught in the bottleneck.
Please see CREW, page 12
11
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
DO OR DO NOT,
THERE IS NO TRY:
The women’s rugby team fell
to Vassar 32-24 on Saturday,
snapping a four-game
winning streak. The Polar
Bears jumped out to an early
start, carrying a narrow 12-10
lead into half. After a series
of Vassar tries, Bowdoin
trailed by a single point with
two minutes left and had an
opportunity to take the lead,
but a late turnover allowed
Vassar to seal the victory with
another try. The Polar Bears
return to action against the
University of New England
this Saturday.
TAKE IT SLOW SO WE
CAN LAST LONG:
The men’s soccer team came
up short in a 1-0 double-
overtime loss to Colby on
Wednesday, putting a dent
in their NESCAC playoff
hopes. The Polar Bears
dominated for nearly the
entire game, recording 15
shots to Colby’s five, but
were unable to get past
Colby goalkeeper Matt
Morin. The Polar Bears face
two crucial contests against
Williams and Tufts within
the next week. Bowdoin will
almost certainly need to win
at least one of these games
to have a chance at securing
the final NESCAC playoff
seed.
COLLEGE CRUISES,
COLBY LOSES:
At a Monday night contest
under the lights, the field
hockey team continued
its spectacular season with
a narrow 2-1 victory over
Colby. The victory was Head
Coach Nicola Pearson’s
350th as coach of the Polar
Bears. Colby jumped out
to an early 1-0 lead, but
Bowdoin responded with
two quick first-half tallies and
maintained the lead until the
final whistle. The Mules had
an opportunity to equalize
with a penalty shot as time
expired, but Bowdoin held on
for the win. The team closes
out the regular season with
matches against Williams and
Tufts before the NESCAC
playoff seeds are announced.
PINK IS THE NEW
BLACK:
Following the volleyball team’s
annual Dig Pink game on
October 4, where the team
recorded a thrilling 3-2 victory
over Williams in Morrell
Gymnasium, the team has
completed its fundraising
efforts and announced the
final numbers for this year’s
event. The Polar Bears
recorded 100 digs against
Williams, and between
per-dig donations and other
fundraising sources the team
was able to raise over $5,000
to donate to the Side-Out
foundation, which promotes
research and treatment for
Stage IV breast cancer.
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Caroline Flaharty: 1,000 kills and digs and counting
by Holly Harris
Staff Writer
When Head Volleyball Coach
Erin Cady watched Caroline Fla-
harty ’20 play for the first time
during the recruiting process, she
knew she wanted Flaharty on the
team.
“I think my notes were ‘yes, yes
please,’” Cady said.
As Flaharty wraps up her final
season, she has surely exceeded
Cady’s expectations.
Earlier this season, Flaharty
became the sixth player in Bow-
doin volleyball history to reach
1,000 kills. Last week, in the
team’s victory against Endicott
(17-7), she also hit 1,000 digs,
making her the third Bowdoin
player to record 1,000 in both
stats. With another 3-0 sweep
versus Worcester Polytechnic
Institute (13-9) last weekend, the
team now celebrates both Fla-
harty’s accomplishment and its
eight-match winning streak.
Since Flaharty’s first season,
when she was named Rookie of
the Year for the NESCAC, she has
consistently led the conference in
statistics.
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The regatta was a special
one for the team off the water
as well as on it.
On the Friday before the
regatta, team members at-
tended a dedication ceremo-
ny for a new trophy honoring
Henry Zietlow ’22, a member
of the crew team who passed
away last winter. The cere-
mony was held at the studio
of William P. Reimann, the
sculptor commissioned to
create the trophy.
“Funds were raised by
many people, including a sig-
nificant number of our Bow-
doin rowing team members,
and [the trophy] is a stun-
ning piece of art [depicting]
Henry standing and holding
his oars on top of a walnut
base,” said Hills.
The trophy will be award-
ed to the men’s singles cham-
pion at the North West Inter-
national Rowing Association
Junior, a regatta that Zietlow
himself competed in. The
North West region covers the
upper midwest and central
BRINGING HOME THE BACON: The Bowdoin crew team had a historic weekend
at the Head of the Charles Regatta, fielding eight boats and placing on the podium.
“She’s always striving to get
better and to perfect her game,”
Cady said. “Even if it’s just a little
bit each year, she is really focused
on changing up her offense with a
variety of shots.”
Cady appreciates Flaharty’s
versatility on the court, as her
ability to play both back and front
row for six rotations enables her
to contribute throughout the
whole game. It is her dedication to
self-improvement and her team-
mates that led her to achieve such
a rare milestone, Cady believes.
Heading into the game on
Saturday with 999 digs, it was
Flaharty’s first dig from middle
back that sent her coaches and
teammates into applause from the
bench.
“It was so early in the game that
we didn’t stop or do anything cra-
zy, but it was awesome,” Flaharty
said.
Though Flaharty is proud of
her achievement, she feels more
grateful for her teammates and
coaches who have supported her
in realizing these goals.
“I think it’s the kind of [ac-
complishment] that speaks to the
entire program I’ve been a part of
Canada, including St. Paul,
Minnesota, where Zietlow
grew up and where his par-
ents live.
“It was a time of remem-
bering and talking about
Henry … it was nice for his
parents, too, to see the de-
votion that this team has to
him,” said Hills. “He will be
forever a team member.”
According to Welling,
the weekend was especial-
ly meaningful to the team,
since the HOCR was one of
Zietlow’s favorite events.
“We first met Henry at the
HOCR when he was a junior
athlete after he competed in
a single. And, of course, last
year he was rowing for Bow-
doin at HOCR surrounded
by family,” said Welling. “It’s
just amazing to get to see
all of the people that were
so touched by Henry even
before we took to the wa-
ter—both family and a lot of
friends from the Minnesota
area.”
“There is not a day that
goes by that we don’t think
about him,” said Welling.
“Every day at sunrise.”
COURTESY OF DOUG WELLING
SPORTS
for four years,” Flaharty said. “In
order to get any kind of stat in vol-
leyball, [you have to] depend on
the people around you. It speaks to
the generations of people that I’ve
played with and coaches I’ve had
to set [me] up to get those kinds of
achievements.”
As the season comes to an end,
Cady expects Flaharty to continue
to be a dominant force and team
leader in their important upcom-
ing matches at Middlebury (11-7,
4-2 NESCAC) and Amherst (16-3,
5-1 NESCAC) this weekend.
Success in these matches will
determine the team’s seed in the
NESCAC Championship Tour-
nament the weekend of Friday,
November 8. Cady hopes to head
into the tournament with the
third-place seed.
Flaharty recognizes the NES-
CAC championship as “a com-
pletely different ballgame,” and is
now focused on “[putting] in the
work so that [the team] can come
out on top there too.”
“We are practicing a champi-
onship mentality [with] every ball
we touch,” Flaharty said. “Every
point that we are in should be
treated as if it’s the championship
FOOTBALL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
looking much right now, we’ll
get back to you.’”
The only coach to get back to
him was Kevin Loney, Bowdo-
in’s assistant coach for running
backs and the team’s player de-
velopment coordinator.
“We were watching his film
and we thought, ‘OK, this kid is
actually a really good tailback,
so we reached out to judge his
interest,” said Loney, who also
grew up in West Hartford,
playing football against Ri-
cham-Odoi’s high school.
Then, on his first visit to
Bowdoin that fall, a 16-year-old
Richam-Odoi walked into the
coaches’ office and declared his
intent to commit to Bowdoin.
The barriers that Ri-
cham-Odoi had to clear be-
fore stepping into that office,
however, were greater than a
lackluster highlight reel. The
child of two immigrants—his
mother arrived in New York
City from Jamaica at 18, his
father from Ghana at the same
age—Richam-Odoi is the first
member of his family, includ-
ing two older siblings, to go to
college.
But it’s what he’s done while
here that’s meant the most to
him and his family.
“We had a family shakeup a
couple years ago, and my rela-
tionship with [my dad] wasn’t
always the best before that,” Ri-
cham-Odoi explains. “But after
going to college … that’s kind
of brought him more into my
life, just out of support and out
of the joy of making something
out of his son.”
His father now texts him
supportive messages before
most games and has attended
a few himself. His mom, Mi-
chelle, has been to all but one.
Family is a blessing that he
doesn’t want to go unacknowl-
edged. After going by “Nate Ri-
cham” for the first three years of
college, he took on his father’s
full last name, “Richam-Odoi,”
this past year.
FOUR-FIGURE CLUB: Caroline Flaharty ’20 became just the third Bowdoin player to record 1,000 kills and digs last week.
point of the championship match.”
Cady similarly looks forward
to seeing success in the upcoming
games and eventually attaining
a second chance to defeat Tufts,
who is currently seeded first in the
league with a 19-1 overall and a
“Seeing me in college is like
the biggest source of joy for
him,” says Richam-Odoi. “I
kind of wanted to have that full
name back.”
But Richam-Odoi, who
speaks with the staccato
rhythm of someone for whom
speaking is a labor of love, is
characteristically understated
about his background.
“If anything, being those
accolades—first-generation,
African-American college ath-
lete—is more of a confidence
boost to myself. Just knowing
that through the adversity I’ve
gone through—not having that
kind of knowledge of what col-
lege is like, how to even apply
to colleges, how to do any of the
logistical stuff for it and getting
here and making it through—
“There are a few things in life I enjoy, and
football is number two, family is number one,
and number three is far, far away.”
–Nate Richam-Odoi ’20, football captain
it’s more of a confidence boost
than anything to feel marginal-
ized for,” says Richam-Odoi.
It’s just another thing that,
over the years, he’s learned to
take in stride.
“I always grew up in a pre-
dominantly white town, so
standing out wasn’t something
new to me,” he says. “I realized
this, like, two weeks ago, that I’m
the only black person on [the
team’s] offense, and I think [it
has] been that way for the past
two years.”
He pauses to think.
“It’s not something that I have
to deal with or put a weight on
my shoulders for, but it’s just an-
other label that you can put me
down as.”
And labels, as he’s learned,
often hide more than they reveal.
“When I got [to Bowdoin],
I wasn’t sure if I could do the
school work because of the stig-
ma of being a student-athlete
and only being here for football,”
6-0 NESCAC record.
With playoffs soon approach-
ing, the team will be looking for a
second chance to defeat Tufts.
“Even though she’s accomplish-
ing so much as an individual, her
goals are always oriented towards
he says, matter-of-factly. “But
after one semester, I knew that
I could do this work. I was as
smart as any of the kids here. I
can just do this.”
He pauses, his mind running
left, running right, trying to find
a hole.
“I don’t think it’s any more
difficult because of football, and
I don’t think it’s easier.”
• learned from this game, being
Fourteen years after taking
the field for the first time, Ri-
cham-Odoi will step off of it for
good in 14 days. It’s not easy to
organize pickup football, he ex-
plains.
With the end in sight, he’s
grappling with a college career
that has given him both so much
and so little.
Over three and two-thirds
seasons, the 11 members of the
class of 2020 have a 1-31 record
to their name. Every passing
week represents a lost chance to
raise that one to a two.
Over time, it takes a toll.
“A lot of football is just con-
trolled rage, and I’ll hold up stuff
and just let it loose on the foot-
ball field,” says Richam-Odoi.
“I think a lot of it comes from
having bad games in the past
and wanting to get some guys
back for it.”
When he looks back on his
Bowdoin football career, the
stats are not what he’ll remem-
ber—or at least so he says.
“We always talk about how,
even looking back at high school,
you always say you don’t remem-
ber the records of the games. You
really don’t,” he says. “You always
remember the guys that you had
with you the entire time. And I
think these senior guys are more
resilient than any other guys I’ve
met in my entire life.”
Friday, October 25, 2019
REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
the team,” Cady said.
“The NESCAC championship
is anyone’s,” said Flaharty. “We’re
trying to put in the work so that
we can come out on top.”
Caroline Flaharty ’20 is a mem-
ber of the Orient Staff.
But surely, knowing what he
does know—that four years of
toil would yield only one win—
would he have chosen a different
path?
“Maybe…” he hesitates, look-
ing skyward. “Maybe. ... I don’t
think I made the wrong deci-
sion at any point along the way.
I think everything this college
has given me, everything I’ve
on this team—it’s taught me a
lot more than some other teams
would have, honestly.”
After graduation, Ri-
cham-Odoi—an economics ma-
jor with a minor in psychology—
will work as an equity research
analyst in the Manhattan offices
of Bank of America, where he
interned in the summer of 2018.
He says he liked the work, but
finance is not his long game.
“I’m a huge fan of green grass,
dogs and kind of chill vibes, so
going to work right on 42nd
Street at Times Square was defi-
nitely an adjustment,” he says.
“People aren’t really too worried
about smelling the roses.”
His short-term goal is to
make some money to give back
to his family before he can get
back to the things he loves the
most: working with kids and
coaching football.
“There are really few things
in life I enjoy, and football is
number two, family is number
one, and number three is far, far
away.”
As we part ways, Ri-
cham-Odoi for an econ class, I
for home, I ask him if the effort
is ever just too much—if some-
times he just wants to lie on the
couch all day, eating Doritos and
playing video games.
“That’s what Sundays are for,”
he says, and chuckles.
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SPORTS IN BRIEF One game at a time, women’s soccer

COMPILED BY IAN WARD

FOOTBALL FALLS TO 0-6 AFTER

SHUTOUT LOSS TO TRINITY
claws its way back into contention
Head Coach Brianne Smithson leadership team of Gallagher, season. They will face Williams
Bowdoin football suffered its first shutout loss of the season by Andrew Chang also cited several significant in- Lemmer and Lynn Farquhar ’21, (8-3-1, 6-2-0 NESCAC) at Pick-
Staff Writer
on Saturday, falling to Tufts (3-3) 49-0 in Medford, Massachu- juries as an early-season setback. have been instrumental in keep- ard Field on Saturday and will
setts. The Polar Bears drop to 0-6 with the loss and are tied After an 0-4-1 start to its sea- These injuries led to constant ing the team united. They have travel to Tufts (10-1-2, 6-1-1
with Bates (0-6) and Colby (0-6) for last place in the NESCAC. son, the Bowdoin women’s soc- changes to the lineup and some- tried hard to reach out to the NESCAC) on Tuesday. In order
The 49-point margin of defeat represents the fifth-worst cer team has turned a corner, times forced players into new younger players and help build to have a chance at qualifying
loss in program history. The loss was the Polar Bears’ first successfully winning six out of positions mid-game. As a re- a sense of inclusion, whether it’s for the playoffs, Bowdoin will
shutout since October 27, 2018, when they fell to Wesleyan their last eight games. With a sult, Smithson emphasized how through weekly team bonding have to win at least one of those
(5-1) 24-0. 2-0 victory over Bates (2-10-1, important a process-oriented events or simply getting meals two games.
Bowdoin’s defense surrendered 622 yards to the Jumbos, 0-8-0 NESCAC) on Sunday, mindset has been to the team. together. Smithson credited the When asked what her hopes
falling only one yard short of the all-time record for most the team has improved to 6-6-1 Gallagher echoed her coach’s returning players for fostering are for the next two games and
yards allowed in a single game. The record of 663 yards was overall (2-5-1 in NESCAC) and sentiments. team cohesion. beyond, Gallagher’s response
set by Trinity on October 23, 1993. put itself in a position to make a “We’ve been focusing a lot on
On offense, the Polar Bears posted only 181 yards behind run for the conference playoffs. the process and things that we
Matt Marcantano ’21, who got the start at quarterback for the Team leaders Morgen Gal- can control, rather than becom- “We’ve been focusing a lot on
first time this season. Marcantano took over for Austin Mc-
Crum ’21 midway through the Polar Bears’ loss to Amherst
lagher ’20 and Sophia Lemmer
’20—the women’s soccer team
ing obsessed with our results,
and that’s helped us actually get
the process and things that we
(4-2) on October 12. does not have captains—at- the results that we want,” she can control, rather than becom-
“[McCrum] is not playing very well ... so we need to make tribute the team’s newfound said.
a change to give a little spark,” said Head Coach BJ Hammer. success to more time spent in Neither player expressed ing obsessed with our results,
“We’re pretty stagnant right now, so it’s one of those things
where we’re going to see if [Marcantano] can help us.”
practice, which has allowed the
relatively young team to adjust
doubts regarding the team’s
talent—it was simply a matter
and that’s helped us actually get
Marcantano threw for 143 yards on Saturday on 16-36 at- to the more intense pace and of putting it all together. That the results that we want.”
tempts and one interception. physicality of college-level play. moment came on September –Morgen Gallagher ’20, women’s soccer leader
Hammer said that he plans to experiment with McCrum at “Our early schedule was re- 28, when Bowdoin defeated
wide receiver to fill the void left by Bo Millett ’21, who suffered ally jam-packed, [with] back- Trinity (5-6-2, 3-4-1 NESCAC)
a torn medial collateral ligament during Bowdoin’s October 5 to-back games where we didn’t 2-1 for its first NESCAC win of “We have been impressed was simple: “To play as long as
loss to Amherst. Millett, who led the team in receptions, will have much time to practice the season. with how well the team has han- we can.”
miss the remainder of the season. together as a team … we were “That was a big mental shift dled the adversity and resulting Once again, she and Smith-
Bowdoin kept the Jumbos scoreless through the first quar- making these little errors, and for us, where we put everything changes,” Smithson wrote. “We son are on the same page.
ter before surrendering three touchdowns in the second, two we didn’t really have much time together offensively and de- are fortunate to have a strong “Our conference is incred-
in the third and two in the fourth. to fix them,” said Lemmer. “As fensively, and we were seeing group of veterans who have set ibly competitive, and we have
Running back Brendan Ward ’22 led the team in receptions, the season went on, we’ve been the results on the field,” said the tone for us in this area.” learned over time that any team
catching five passes for 65 yards. Greg Olson ’21 had four catches able to have full weeks in be- Gallagher. “It was helpful for Moving forward, Gallagher, can get a result on any given
for 47 yards. The Jumbos defense held Nate Richam-Odoi ’20 and tween games, which just let us our morale and just affirmation Lemmer and Smithson look to day,” wrote Smithson. “We
the Bowdoin offense to 38 yards on the ground. focus on what we need to fix … of the work we’re putting into maintain their process-oriented know we have the opportunity
Bowdoin faces undefeated Middlebury (6-0) on Saturday at in order to succeed.” practice.” mindset as the team plays the to keep this season going—one
Whittier Field at 1 p.m.. In an email to the Orient, The veterans, especially the final two games of the regular game at a time.”
14 Friday, October 25, 2019

O OPINION
The right thing to do
If all goes to plan, by July 1, 2022, Bowdoin’s minimum starting wage
for hourly employees will increase to $17.00 an hour, and existing employ-
ees will receive raises to compensate for the effects of wage compression.
President Clayton Rose announced the wage increase after last weekend’s
meeting of the Board of Trustees. We commend this action—cautiously.
Rose attributed the wage increases to simple economics. In Maine’s “ex-
tremely tight labor market,” nearby Bath Iron Works’ plan to hire 1,000
more employees in 2020 means that competition for workers in the area
will be fierce. As Rose pointed out in his announcement, the new minimum
wage represents a 34 percent increase over the College’s current minimum
wage of $12.65 and a roughly 42 percent increase over Maine’s 2020 mini-
mum wage of $12.00, plus yearly cost of living increases.
We are pleased that the administration has decided to increase wages.
But we also acknowledge that the College still faces a long list of prob-
lems associated with raising the starting minimum wage, including reck-
oning with wage compression for existing employees and hard budget deci-
sions to find the money to pay for these wage increases.
Regardless of the stated reasons for this wage increase, we commend
the staff and student activists who created, as President Rose put it, “noise”
for change on this campus. Housekeepers spoke out about their working
conditions and their economic hardships. Students listened and stood in
solidarity with the housekeepers, mobilizing around the issue and demand-
ing that the College pay attention.
But the work is not done.
Students, staff and faculty must not fall under the illusion that this wage
increase will resolve all the issues that the College’s staff have brought to
light over the last two years.
In an op-ed three weeks ago, members of the housekeeping staff de-
scribed the details of their shocking working conditions, including being
asked to perform tasks for which they had not been properly trained. This LILY FULLAM
practice will not change when the wages go up. We must continue to apply
pressure to the College to resolve these problems.
Moreover, students have a responsibility to maintain the spaces that
they inhabit. As Nicole Feleo ’18 argued out in an op-ed last week, students
ought to treat campus with more respect than they do. Clean up after your-
Only Bernie can defeat Trumpism
self; it’s not that hard. Housekeepers are working professionals employed by Bernie’s base is bolstered by nurses, she fails to acknowledge America’s
the College. They have plenty of work to do without having to clean up the Who’s Left? teachers, waiters and police officers, history of human rights abuses and
little messes we leave. They do not work for the students, nor should they by Livia Kunins- whereas Warren has constructed a blatant violations of international
be treated as though they do. Berkowitz coalition dominated by white, col- law. On the other hand, Sanders is
As Rose pointed out, a wage increase is the right thing to do in the con- lege educated voters. Bernie’s ability building a movement that spans far
text of a competitive labor market, and we commend the College for doing This summer I had the oppor- to unify people across difference is beyond American voters and Amer-
so; improving working conditions is the right thing to do. Period. tunity to hear both Senator Bernie especially poignant in a time where ican borders.
Sanders and Senator Elizabeth War- pundits often lament that America is Sanders lost the election in 2016
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, ren speak to a room of grassroots more culturally divided than ever. but started a political revolution—
which is composed of Emily Cohen, Roither Gonzales, Rohini Kurup, Alyce McFad- activists from across the country. Bernie and Warren often use simi- one that is shaking communities
den and Jaret Skonieczny. Warren delivered her usual stump- lar rhetoric, yet their policies indeed across the U.S. and daring Ameri-
speech—rousing and effective. She differ. Bernie is the only candidate cans to dream once again. Policies
detailed her phenomenal plans and thus far to have proposed universal that once seemed impossible, like
exuded competence. Bernie, on the school lunch, national rent control Medicare For All and free college
other hand, simply used his time and a complete cancelation of stu- are now mainstream positions with-
to thank the activists for their hard dent debt. Bernie’s wealth tax is also in the Democratic Party due to his
ESTABLISHED 1871 work. Bernie didn’t seek to convince far more comprehensive than War- persistence. Immediately after the
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 the people in the room; no matter ren’s. Bernie proposes an extra tax election, Sanders started Our Rev-
who they were voting for, these ac- on wealth over $32 million, while olution, an organization dedicated
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information tivists were already part of Bernie’s Warren’s tax begins at $50 million. to grassroots activism with chapters
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators, political revolution. In that moment, Furthermore, Warren proposes a flat now in every single state in America.
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in I fully understood that Bernie’s vi- three percent tax on net worth over Furthermore, his unrelenting ide-
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse sion extended far beyond the pres- one billion, whereas Bernie proposes alism has inspired countless young
discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. idency. He is creating a grassroots a graduated system that goes up to an progressives to launch their own
movement dedicated to engendering eight percent tax on wealth over $10 campaigns, resulting in a new van-
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief true societal change. Their speeches billion. It is no wonder some billion- guard of leadership such as U.S. Rep-
Emily Cohen Alyce McFadden struck such different tones, and this aires are falling in line behind War- resentatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cor-
compelled me to consider the other ren as a last defense against a Sanders tez and Ilhan Omar. I am voting for
Digital Director Managing Editor News Editor differences between the two candi- presidency. Bernie because he generates hope in
Steven Xu dates. Indeed, both candidates would Bernie and Warren also have dif- so many, even in the midst of these
Maia Coleman Andrew Bastone
Anna Fauver Aura Carlson transform this country for the better, ferent perspectives on U.S. foreign political dark ages. I am also voting
Roither Gonzales but it is Bernie’s movement, not War- policy—a distinction that must be for Bernie because he is the pragmat-
Photo Editor Rohini Kurup Features Editor ren’s plans, that will be the antidote emphasized given the president’s ic choice. Almost every credible poll
Ann Basu Nina McKay Emma Sorkin to Trumpism and to the greater cor- unfettered power as command- declares that Bernie can resound-
Mindy Leder Ian Ward rupt and oppressive forces that have er-in-chief. Bernie is the candidate ingly defeat Trump. In fact, he is
Sports Editor governed the United States for far thoroughly committed to ending currently the only candidate polling
Dylan Sloan too long. America’s endless wars. He has open- ahead of Trump in Iowa.
Layout Editor Executive Editor
Emma Bezilla It’s Bernie who unites people ly criticized American military in- The reality is that Bernie and
Kate Lusignan A&E Editor
Jaret Skonieczny across race, religion, age, gender tervention for his entire career and Warren are rather different candi-
Eliana Miller Cole van Miltenburg
Ian Stewart and region. The Sanders coalition is is the only candidate who has voted dates; only in a country that lacks a
Opinion Editor truly diverse—49 percent of Bernie against every single one of Trump’s serious left is it possible to conflate
Associate Editor Diego Lasarte supporters are white compared to proposed increases in military bud- them. Warren is a ‘capitalist to her
Data Desk Editor 71 percent of Warren’s. At a recent get. His commitment to anti-imperi- bones,’ while Bernie is a commit-
Kathryn McGinnis
Gwen Davidson Lucie Nolden Page 2 Editor rally at a historically black university alism has earned him the support of ted Democratic Socialist. Liz is a
Drew Macdonald Reuben Schafir Lily Randall in South Carolina, Warren handed leaders throughout the world includ- technocrat—she believes that select
George Grimbilas (asst.) out signs saying “African-Ameri- ing San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin smart people in office will be able to
Nimra Siddiqui (asst.) Calendar Editor cans with Warren,” yet she spoke Cruz, who is now a co-chair of his reverse the destructive policies intro-
Head Copy Editor Jane Godiner to a mostly white audience. At the campaign. Bernie is unafraid to call duced by Trump. Bernie was birthed
Head Illustrator Devin McKinney same time, Bernie also appeals to out human rights abuses even when by movement culture; he believes in
Sara Caplan Senior News Reporter
the so called “white-working class” coming from American allies. This is people power and collective action.
Nate DeMoranville that has occupied our imaginations most notable in his unequivocal con- His candidacy is a rousing call for
Copy Editor Horace Wang
since the 2016 election. By the end of demnation of Israel’s expansion into mass mobilization that will continue
Social Media Manager Sebastian de Lasa
Ayub Tahlil Danielle Quezada Senior Sports Reporter August, Bernie had raised double the the West Bank. Meanwhile, Warren far beyond Bernie’s first day in office.
Sophie Friedman Emily Staten Ella Chaffin amount raised by Warren, Biden and vocally supported Israel’s military It is this type of diverse and commit-
Buttigieg in counties that voted for actions in the Gaza Strip in 2014. ted coalition that will truly allow us
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016— Warren’s foreign policy plans criti- to exorcise Trumpism and defeat the
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions precisely the counties that must cize the military’s carbon footprint system that produced it. Only then
expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors. be won in order to defeat Trump. and the exorbitant cost of war, but can we truly begin to build anew.
Friday, October 25, 2019 OPINION 15

Do you believe your thoughts hold no ideological bias?

empowerment of first-genera- the left are clearly divided, such of finding the common ground by the rules of those that called our hearts and minds. With
by Radu Stochita tion, low-income students is a as in some European countries based on compassion, love for the common ground. further movement, either to the
Op-Ed Contributor
problem that can be addressed (Spain: PSOE, Podemos—on and unity, we might just throw But now, the call for the right or to the left, the Ameri-
What should we think of by both the right and the left, the left—and Vox or PC—on ourselves into the teeth of the middle ground is louder than can people feel more divided
Bowdoin over-emphasizing we must ask ourselves: how the right), we cannot ignore wolves. This suicidal act will be ever. With the rise of the alt- than ever.
the need for reaching a com- would each of the side do it? that the ideological differenc- applauded by the loud voices right, the neo-fascists It is scary indeed, and the
mon ground between different Would they find a common es still play an important part on the other side of the in Europe and call to reach beyond ideology is
political sides? What should solution, or would the right in the differences between the spectrum, that are waiting the neo-Nazi present at every step we make
we think of Arthur Brooks— rather inspire low-income, parties. And those differences only for the right moment group that has in this society. We are told to
who works at a right-wing first-generation students to aim dictate our trains of thoughts to crush us with their ide- entered the lay our ideas aside and join to-
think tank—coming to campus to work at a morally-corrupt and the way we look at issues if ology and assure us Greek Parlia- gether to try to find solutions
in an attempt to mediate a dis- government surveillance agen- we decide to understand some- that’s what mid- ment, anxiety that are objectively beneficial
cussion on love and solidarity cy, while the left might want to thing as being an issue. The dle ground has begun to to this society. I would love to
and its importance in bridging destroy the system that created political opinion we adhere to looks like. crawl into ask that person who believes in
the social and political gap? the conditions of existence for gives us the tools and instru- Before we objective action, to tell me the
What the posters about him the low-income students in the ments that we use in order to get our pow- truth: do you actually believe
forgot to advertise is that his first place? work towards our goals. er to rise up your thoughts hold no ideolog-
political views are far-right, While those differences Trying to bridge the differ- again, we will be ical bias?
nowhere even close to the might be applicable in a polit- ences that exist between the locked in a sys- Radu Stochita is a member of
‘center’ for which he claims to ical system where the right and left and the right, with the aim tem, playing the Class of 2022.
be advocating. The presence of
Arthur Brooks only reaffirms
the status quo that domi-
nates this campus—the empty
promise of joining together
across party lines and fighting
for a more just world. Before
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raising our fists in agreement SARA C
with that point of view, we
need to think about what this
fight entails. And how exactly
are we planning to fight for
that cause?
The language of solidari-
ty earns us compassion and
promises us a future based on
values of cooperation and mu-
tual understanding between
the sides. We are told that the
problems we are facing nowa-
days can only be solved if we
bridge the division that exists
in politics. It tells us that the
left and the right should come
together, even if the values
that both of those sides stand
for are different. And it is not
just the values that are dif-
ferent, but also the methods
through which they would
like to accomplish their goals.
If we are to assume that the

LETTER TO THE EDITOR LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Under Brooks, AEI denied climate change Challenge the status-quo

To the Editor,
Opinions about how we should run our econo-
my and society should be welcomed and discussion
from multiple viewpoints is important. In that
regard, we might be interested to engage with Ar-
thur Brooks. While we may disagree with another
viewpoint, it can help to listen and debate. But an
institute of higher learning should not provide a
platform for the dissemination of misinformation,
especially when it is clear that the propaganda is
deceitfully wrong. Nor should it support those
who push and actively promote such agendas.
Brooks directed the American Enterprise Institute
(AEI) for the last 10 years and oversaw the active
and frequent promotion of climate change denial.
While we are informed that Brooks himself may
accept the science demonstrating a humanity-in-
duced climate change due to the burning of fossil
fuels, under his direction AEI actively promoted
misinformation on the subject. Misinformation is
not opinion—it is misinformation, and its dissem-
ination is contrary to the goals of an educational
institute. As the inaugural Joseph McKeen Visiting
Fellow at Bowdoin, I hope that Brooks will champi-
on the efforts to reduce our carbon footprint, and
promote the common good.
Bruce Kohorn
Linnean Professor of Biology and Biochemistry
To the Editor,
As a recent subscriber to the
Orient, I was really pleased to see
your editorial in big support of the
Bowdoin staff and the Bowdoin
Labor Alliance! Clear and properly
outspoken! Well done. And, as to
the courage of the 12 housekeepers,
I feel real gratitude for their daring
to lead the way toward principles of
fairness at Bowdoin. It seems that
the College’s economic principles
have more to do with interest than
with fairness or democracy. In that
way, they are a reflection of our cor-
porate-run federal government, and
your choice of the word “shameful”
is just right. We won’t move away
from our national crises (econom-
ic disparity, global climate change,
militarism and resource wars) until
we begin to challenge the status quo.
The very wealthy must be made to
shift gears without delay. If its for-
tunes they’re after, there are fortunes
to be earned in making that shift. I
hope to see more Bowdoin students
and alums insisting on it.
Rosalie Paul
Community Member

QUESTION OF THE WEEK Last issue’s response:

HAVE YOU BEEN TO A DO YOU ENDORSE THE BSG MOTION
IN SUPPORT OF HOUSEKEEPERS?
BOWDOIN SPORTING
EVENT THIS YEAR? 75% YES
25% NO
Answer at bowdoinorient.com/poll. Based on answers from 168 responses.
16 Friday, October 25, 2019

OCTOBER
FRIDAY 25
LECTURE
“The Future of the Planet: Climate
Change and Environmental Protection”
Former EPA administrator and Professor of the Practice of
Public Health at Harvard University Gina McCarthy will discuss
the current state of the planet and its critical future.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

EVENT
President’s Summer Research Symposium
Students will present their summer research in a poster session
open to all Bowdoin students, families, faculty and staff.
Morrell Gymnasium. 1:45 p.m.

EVENT
Family Weekend Dessert Reception
The Black Student Union will host a reception to socialize ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

and enjoy provided sweets for all students and their families. POST-SHOW CHAT: Comedian and talk show host Patti Vasquez, who has collaborated with personalities such as Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney
and Kevin Hart, answers Bowdoin students’ questions after her standup show last Friday.
Russwurm African American Center. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 26 MONDAY 28 WEDNESDAY 30

LECTURE EVENT
EVENT
Halley K. Harrisburg ’90 and Michael Are You A Sexpert?
Harvestfest Rosenfeld Artist-in-Residence Lecture Bowdoin Healthy Relationships, along with College
Reed House will host an outdoor event with fall treats, live Physician Assistant Julie Gray, will host a night of sexual
Artist Andrea Dezsö, who has worked extensively in a
music, yard games, face-painting, crafts and apple-bobbing. education trivia featuring student-submitted questions.
wide range of media, will discuss building a sustainable
7 Boody Street, Reed House. 2 p.m. Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill. 8 p.m.
art practice and how her art has reflected her values and
understanding of humanity.
PERFORMANCE
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
Student Group Performances
Bowdoin’s student groups—including dance and a cappella—

THURSDAY 31
will perform for students and families.
Morrell Gymnasium. 7 p.m.

LECTURE
“AI and You: the Truth Behind the
Fiction about how Artificial Intelligence
is Changing Our Lives”
Professor of Digital and Computational Studiesand former
head of Bowdoin’s RoboCup team Eric Chown will examine
the reality behind headlines and stories related to artificial
intelligence, and what lies in the future of AI innovations.
Room 315, Searles Science Building. 11 a.m.
TUESDAY 29
LECTURE
“The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To
Win the Vote”
Elaine Weiss, Author of “The Woman’s Hour: The Great
Fight to Win the Vote,” will discuss the struggle for
women’s suffrage, 100 years after the passage of the
19th Amendment.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
“Landscapes, Not Landfills”
Artist, environmental activist and Maine resident Mariah
Reading ’16 will display her eco-art, “Recycled Landscapes,”
that aims to bring attention to the need to preserve and
protect the environment.
Room 116, Edwards Arts Center. 3:40 p.m.
EVENT
Spin-Indoor Cycling
Instructor Matt O’Donnell will hold an evening spin class.
Room 213, Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness.

SUNDAY 27
LECTURE 6:15 p.m.
Alpha Delta Phi Society Visiting Writers
Series: Grace Talusan FILM SCREENING
EVENT Lecturer at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at “Damnationland X”
Absen-Tea Time Tufts University and the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence Frontier will be screening “Damnationland X,” in which Maine
Bowdoin students will be able to fill out and mail their absentee at Brandeis University Grace Talusan will discuss her memoir filmmakers redefine the traditional horror and thriller genres
ballots. Tea and other refreshments will be served. and first book, “The Body Papers.” through a series of short films.
Conference Room, David Saul Smith Union. 8 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m. Frontier. 3 p.m.

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