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OCTOBER 14, 2016

J-Board reports 11 academic honor violations from same course

BY JULIAN ANDREWS AND MEG ROBBINS
ORIENT STAFF

The 2015-2016 Judicial Board Report

to the Community revealed 22 Academic
Honor Code violationsa notable increase from previous yearsand included
the largest number of related cases in over
17 years. Eleven students were accused of
academic dishonesty in the same course
over two semesters and across multiple
sections of the class.
According to a student involved in the

cases, the course that brought forward the

violations was Introduction to Computer
Science. Last year, sections of the course
were taught by Professor of Computer
Science Eric Chown, Assistant Professor
of Computer Science Sean Barker, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science Clare Bates Congdon and Visiting
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Allen Harper. The Deans Office declined
to comment on which professor served as
the complainant and which department
brought the charges forward.

All 11 students in the related computer

science cases were charged with giving,
receiving or using unauthorized assistance on quizzes, tests, written assignments, examinations or laboratory assignments. Some of the students were also
charged with submission of work not a
students own original effort. The cases
did not all involve the same assignment.
According to Associate Dean for Upperclass Students and Judicial Board Advisor
Lesley Levy, five students were accused of
giving unauthorized assistance and five

were accused of receiving unauthorized

assistance. Additionally, one student was
charged with both.
All but one of the students charged
were eventually found responsible. Sanctions from the Judicial Board (J-Board)
included combinations of judicial reprimands, community service, reduction of
course grades and one and two semester
suspensions. Longer suspensions were
suggested in cases involving dishonesty or
deception in the J-Board process.
Five students involved in the related

cases appealed their sanctions with the

Student Appeals and Grievances Committee. All appeals were denied. Additionally, one students sanctions were changed
from a one-semester suspension to indefinite suspension without guarantee of
readmission after that student was found
to have purposely falsified information to
the J-Board and the Student Appeals and
Grievances Committee.
A software program called MOSS

Please see VIOLATIONS, page 4

Outsiders at College House

parties prompt campus concern
BY LUCY RYAN

ORIENT STAFF

ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

TALK THE TALK: MIT professor and author Dr. Noam Chomsky delivered a lecture to a packed crowd in Pickard Theater on Thursday night.

Dr. Noam Chomsky speaks on democracy

BY OLIVIA MURO
STAFF WRITER

Students, staff and residents from all

around Maine packed Pickard Theater on
Thursday evening for a lecture by Noam
Chomsky entitled The Democratic Experiment: Its State, Its Prospects.
Crowds of students who arrived just
before the talks 7 p.m. start time were
turned away, as the theater had already
reached its capacity. Those who were
able to listen expressed satisfaction with
Chomskys presentation.
His mind is so sharp and his analysis
is so on point, said Victoria Pitaktong 17.
Regarded as the father of modern
linguistics, Chomsky specializes in
language and its relation to society. He

has authored more than 100 books in

subjects such as politics, linguistics and
philosophy. He is best known for his
theory of transformational or universal
grammar, which postulates the propensity to use languages is innate and the
Chomsky Hierarchy, a system of dividing grammar based on expressive abilities. He is currently a professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On Thursday night, Chomsky addressed the history and future of
democracy in the United States and
around the world. He argued that
the influence of money in politics
degrades American democracy. Responding to a question from the audience, he suggested that the current

European refugee crisis is really a crisis of morality.

Many students connected Chomskys
talk to broader issues of U.S. politics and
the upcoming election.
I think everything he pointed out
on local government and starting from
the ground up is something that Bernie
[Sanders] has been trying to do for a long
time, said Danny Castro 17.
The event was sponsored by the Student Center for Multicultural Life, Student Activities, the John C. Donovan
Lecture Fund, Department of Government and Legal Studies, the McKeen
Center for the Common Good and
Bowdoin Political Union.
Alex Mayer contributed to this report.

Endowment sees first negative return in seven years

BY SARAH DRUMM
ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoins endowment generated an

investment return of -1.4 percent in fiscal
year (FY) 2016, a marked drop from last
years 14.4 percent increase. According to
Cambridge Associates, a firm that tracks
endowment performance across the
country, Bowdoins return remains in the
top quartile of its peer institutions despite
the drop.
N

JUST SAY NO

BCA and NASA team up against the Dakota

Access Pipeline. Page 3.

This years result marks the first negative return the College has seen since
2009, when the value of the endowment
decreased 17 percent. In the period from
2009 to 2015, however, the endowment
nearly doubled, increasing from $689 billion to $1.393 billion. As of June 30, 2016,
the endowment was valued at $1.340 billiona loss of approximately $53 million
from last year.
American colleges and universities saw
a mean return of -2.9 percent this fiscal
F

BY THE BOOK

The owners of Gulf of Maine Bookstore share

their story. Page 5.

year, according to Cambridge Associates.

Other NESCAC schools also experienced
negative returns, with Middlebury College
reporting a 4.5 percent loss and Trinity
College experiencing a drop of 5.4 percent.
Despite the years challenging market
conditions, Bowdoins negative return
does not concern President Clayton Rose
or Senior Vice President for Investments
Paula Volent.

Please see ENDOWMENT, page 4

A

WHITE LIKE ME

The show Friday night will address racial anxiety

with puppets. Page 7.

Later that night, Black and the alcohol

and event hosts debriefed with Nichols.
Were asking event hosts to be very
cognizant as to who theyre allowing
into events. If theres ever a situation
where somebody gains entrance to an
event that is causing a problem or it
doesnt appear that they should be there,
immediately report that incident to Security, Nichols said.
According to Assistant Director of
Residential Life Mariana Centeno,
the primary procedure to ensure a
safe event is vigilant door duty, in
which event hosts must request to
see Bowdoin ID from every partygoer at the door.
People have been getting really lax
with door duty, getting really lax with
letting people who are not Bowdoin students into their events, said Centeno.
In a meeting with all College House
officers on Tuesday, Nichols emphasized the importance of attentive House
members guarding the door at parties.
Baxter House successfully prevented
an uninvited partygoer from entering
during their second campus-wide of the
year in September.
This man, who was probably in his
40s, came to the door and had glasses
and a beard and definitely did not look

A recent uptick in trespassers at College House parties has prompted the

Department of Safety and Security and
the Office of Residential Life to reinforce the safety procedures set in place
to regulate crowds at such events. Security confirmed that non-Bowdoin
Brunswick residents have been present
at parties at Quinby, Baxter and Ladd
this year.
In the early hours of the morning
of October 1, Rojelio Garciawho is
currently on active duty with the U.S.
Navywas charged with criminal
threatening after allegedly brandishing
a knife in the direction of two Bowdoin
students. The student body was notified
of the incident in an email from Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols on October 2.
We are assuming that [Garcia] was
in Baxter prior to the incident, based
on the flow of traffic, but we cant determine that for sure, Nichols said.
However, Garcia was not the only
non-Bowdoin student or guest at the
College that night.
We can confirm that some of the
people that he was with the night the
knife incident occurred
When I asked them if they were
were at previous College
Bowdoin students, they couldnt answer
House parties, and at least
and then they tried to explain that they
one of them had returned
the next night, after the
knew someone there and couldnt come
knife incident, Nichols
up with a last name or where he lived
said.
or any other relevant fact about this
At a campus-wide parperson. LUCIAN BLACK 19
ty on the Saturday night
following the knife incident, Quinby like a student, but was holding a bag
members discovered four naval cadets of Twisted Teas, said Baxter House
had entered the party and were playing Programming Director Phoebe Bradbeer pong in the basement. At the time, berry 19, who was manning the door
students had not yet been notified of the at the time.
He tried to walk in and we asked,
alleged knife incident.
They set off several red flags to me Can I see your OneCard? And he said,
as to whether or not they were Bow- Oh sorry I left it at the dorm, Ill just
doin students, said President of Quinby leave. So then once he left, we called
House Lucian Black 19, who was one of Security and then a couple minutes later a student came in and said that there
the event hosts that night.
They all had military haircuts, they was a creepy man outside asking direcwere standing away from everybody tions to dorms and so they also called
else, he said. When I asked them Security, she said.
According to Bradberry, another inif they were Bowdoin students, they
couldnt answer and then they tried to cident involved alums from 2004 and
explain that they knew someone there 2006 arriving at an event hosted by a
and couldnt come up with a last name group using Baxter that night, but it was
or where he lived or any other relevant unclear whether or not they were the
fact about this person. Thats when I guests of students. A concerned party
knew to ask them to leave.
attendee called Security to have them
Black and the other event hosts then escorted out as well.
escorted the men outside as the alcohol
All of the trespassing incidents have
host called Bowdoin Security, who ar- involved post-college aged men.
rived promptly, followed by Brunswick
Emily Weyrauch contributed to
Police Department.
this report.
S

HALL OF HONOR

Six alumni were inducted over Homecoming

Weekend. Page 8.

MAINE PAPER

Ryan Ward 17 analyzes what a local industry

says about free trade. Page 11.

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news

SECURITY REPORT: 9/29 to 10/12

A smoke alarm in West Hall was set off by
a student using a vaporizer pen.

friday, october 14, 2016

STUDENT SPEAK:
Q:

Who is Noam Chomsky?

Monday, October 3
Burnt bread in a microwave set off a
smoke alarm in West Hall.
Obscene graffiti was found on a basement stairwell wall at the Visual Arts
Center.

Julia Berkman-Hill 17

Tuesday, October 4
Loud music was reported on the 12th
floor of Coles Tower.
A two-hour power outage affected
Pine Street Apartments and the Whittier
Grandstand.
Wall vandalism was reported in the first
floor rest room at Ladd House.

He is like the closest thing I

can think of to an academic
celebrity.

Wednesday, October 5
A student who was microwaving bread
in Appleton Hall accidentally activated a
smoke alarm.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON

Thursday, September 29
Brunswick Police Department warned an intoxicated
minor student who was walking on Federal Street.
Friday, September 30
A bedroom smoke detector in Chamberlain Hall was
activated by a student using a clothes steamer.
Two local residents were warned for rummaging
through a trash dumpster at Harpswell Apartments.
A student reported the theft of a bicycle at Quinby
House. An officer located another student using the bike and
the bike was returned.
An unregistered event was dispersed at MacMillan House.
Saturday, October 1
Neighbors complained of excessive street noise associated with a registered event at Reed House.
An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated
student at the shuttle stop at Brunswick Apartments.
A suspicious person at an event at Baxter House was determined to be a visiting alumnus.
Two students reported being threatened by a man
brandishing a knife on Harpswell Road near the Schwartz
Outdoor Leadership Center. The suspect was apprehended
in a vehicle on Bath Road and was issued a court summons
for criminal threatening.
Loud music was reported to be coming from Brunswick
Apartment I.
A Bowker Street resident reported that students were
smashing beer bottles, cans and cups in the road.
The door to the old chapter room in Reed House
was vandalized.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated
student at Baxter House.
Sunday, October 2
A smoke alarm in Coles Tower was apparently set off
by the use of a curling iron.
Students at a Quinby House event reported that there
was a group of non-students at an event.
An officer assisted an intoxicated student at Thorne Hall.
Officers conducted a wellness check for a student with
a head injury at Coleman Hall. The student declined medical treatment.
Officers assisted a student who was in emotional distress.
A student reported the theft of a silver Soma Cosmopolitan bicycle from the area of Brunswick Apartment W.

Will Doak 17
A linguist and a notorious
hater of French literary theory
and also a leftist activist of
sorts.

Thursday, October 6
A steam heater malfunction on the 10th
floor of Coles Tower activated a fire alarm.

Saturday, October 8
Brunswick police issued a student at the My Tie Lounge
a criminal trespass warning following an alleged theft and use
of fraudulent identification. The student is barred from the establishment for one year.
There was a noise complaint and an alcohol policy violation on the 10th floor of Coles Tower.
Two students gained unauthorized access to the roof at
Burnett House.
Two bicycles were stolen from the bike rack at the
Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center. Two local residents have been identified as suspects, and the matter
remains under investigation.

Aziza Janmohamed 19
Um hes a political figure that...
um he wrote that paper...wait
hold on let me Google this. Ask
me again tomorrow.

Sunday, October 9
Three students walking on Maine Street near Dominos
Pizza at a.m. reported being followed and taunted by a group
of five unidentified men.
Tuesday, October 11
A student arriving at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library on his skateboard slipped off and launched the board
through a window.
A smoke alarm at Brunswick Apartment C was triggered by a system malfunction.
An employee reported an encounter with an aggressive
driver on Maine Street. The driver later left a threatening
note on the employees windshield. Security was able to identify the vehicle and the matter was referred to the Brunswick
Police Department.
A smoke alarm in West Hall was triggered by a
faulty detector.
A Bowker Street resident reported being disturbed by
the sound of the sprinkler system watering the grass at Whittier Field at midnight.

Alex Poblete 17
Does he think that Americas
a terrorist state? I think he said
that once.

Sara Caplan 20

Wednesday, October 12
An officer escorted a student with stomach pain to Mid
Coast Hospital.
Student report the theft of the Yellow Bikes Sal Castro
and Bumble Bee from the bike rack at the west entrance Sargent Gym near the polar bear. Sal Castro has been found.
A student reported the theft a blue Diamondback
mountain bike from the bike rack at the west entrance to
Sargent Gym.

Hes a political psychologist

or something like that? I know
very little about him and thats
why Im going tonight.

COMPILED BY ELIZA GRAUMLICH AND ELEANOR PAASCHE

Compiled by the Office of Safety and Security.

The perks and PopCorners of being a student body president

BY CALDER MCHUGH AND ELEANOR PAASCHE
ORIENT STAFF

Harriet Fisher 17 represents the

entire student body as BSG president. Her role is dedicated to the
happiness and well-being of the
2,000 students that occupy this campus. When a popular snack company, PopCorners, contacted Fisher offering free deflated popcorn crisps,
her response was enthusiastic.

Im happy to accept free samples for

our student body any day, she said.
What happened next was nothing short of shocking. Fisher, arriving home on what at first appeared
to be a typical Tuesday night, was
confronted with a literal mountain
of PopCorners. While she may have
thought of keeping the stash for
herself for some cold winter nights,
Fisher ultimately decided not to engage in such squirrel-like behavior.

Tuesday night, the, my porch was

half full with them and last night
when I came back, the porch, all
the way, floor to ceiling was covered
with PopCorners, she said.
While PopCorners may not have
endeared themselves to Fishers roommates, who may have had to wade
through packages to gain entrance to
their home, the company still has the
chance to persuade the Bowdoin student body of their altruism.

While PopCorners has seven flavors,

including the mouth-watering Smokin
Jalapeno White Cheddar, Fisher only
received the Carnival Kettle.
Although this is certainly disappointing, the PopCorners website
notes: Theres no resisting our
popped corn chips, drizzled with
sunflower oil, cane sugar, and salt.
Its a sweet and salty experience that
will have you reaching for seconds.
The ultimate goal of this generous

gift is for each Bowdoin student to experience the Carnival Kettle flavor of
PopCorners and embrace this more seductive popcorn form. In order for this
to be executed properly, Fisher needs
help from the community.
If you have thoughts on how to
best distribute them to the student
body, let me know. You can write an
email to [email protected] or [email protected].

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NEWS IN BRIEF
COMPILED BY JAMES JELIN, JESSICA PIPER AND MEG ROBBINS

ASMEROM 73 DIES AT 66

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news

NASA and BCA rally against Dakota Access Pipeline,

spotlight indigenous and environmental issues

Bowdoin alum and Eritrean permanent representative to the United Nations Girma
Asmerom Tesfay 73 passed away in New York on October 5 at age 66, Eritreas Ministry
of Information confirmed.
Born in Ethiopia in 1949, Asmerom played for the Ethiopian national soccer team
and was a part of the 1968 African Cup before coming to Bowdoin. He played soccer
at the College as well, once scoring four goals in a game against Bates in 1971still the
second-highest number of goals in a game ever by a Bowdoin player. Although he only
played three seasons, his 32 goals during his time at the College set a record at the time.
Many times his actions on the field leave the opposition looking awkward and bewildered and the crowd chuckling, the Orient wrote of Asmerom in 1971.
Asmerom majored in government at the College before going on to receive his masters degree in international relations from American University. He returned to Ethiopia, joining the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front in 1978 to fight for Eritrean independence from Ethiopia. After Eritrea formally declared itself 1993, he served in several
diplomatic positions. He became Eritrean ambassador to the U.N. in 2014.
His death was met with an outpouring of grief on social media, as well as condolences from ambassadors of several other nations. Remembrances of the ambassador
described him as a man dedicated to the people and to the fight for equality.

COLLEGE REMEMBERS GROBE

Professor of Mathematics Emeritus Charles A. Grobe Jr. died after a long illness on
September 29. He was 81 years old.
Grobe taught at Bowdoin for 35 years. In an email to the Bowdoin community last
Monday, President Clayton Rose wrote that his former students and colleagues carry
with them fond memories of his sharp, dry wit and never-failing good humor.
Grobe began teaching at Bowdoin in in 1964, after earning his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan. In 1968, Elizabeth (Betsy) Mendell, his wife, also
joined Bowdoins faculty, becoming the first woman to have a faculty appointment
at Bowdoin.
He was a family man, said Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics William H.
Barker. He was just devoted to his two sons and his wife.
Grobe gained a reputation for impressive blackboard lectures.
He was very precise, said Barker. He would write very carefully and it was beautiful.
Outside of teaching, Grobe had a passion for photography. On the cover of the 19741975 Bowdoin course catalogue is an orange and red photo Grobe took of a boat at
sunset at Five Islands in Georgetown, Maine.
It was the only course catalogue cover in Bowdoins history to feature a photo that is
not of a building on campus. Very few covers have photos at all, most simply featuring
text and the College insignia.
He was always very proud of that photo, said Barker. It is a lovely shot.
Beyond mathematics and photography, both Barker and Rose remarked on Grobes
incredible character.
When he was ill, he showed true, really incredible courage, Barker said.
He was a remarkable member of the Bowdoin community and a remarkable teacher
and scholar and a remarkable partner with his wife, said Rose.

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

#NODAPL: Students rally around the Polar Bear statue to fight against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and show solidarity with the Standing Rock
Sioux community, where advocates have been protesting against the pipeline for over a month. The event took place on October 5.
BY LIZA TARBELL
ORIENT STAFF

The Native American Student Association (NASA) and Bowdoin Climate

Action (BCA) held a rally at the Polar
Bear statue on Wednesday October 5 to
generate support against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and show solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux community. The event was the culmination
of several days of fundraising and education efforts.
DAPL is a 1,172-mile pipeline that
runs through North and South Dakota,
Iowa and Illinois. One mile north of the
8,000-member Standing Rock Sioux
community, it runs under the Missouri
River, and could contaminate the reservations source of water. The $3.8 billion
construction project has been nearly
completed by Energy Transfer Partners,
L.P., according to the Washington Post.
Dylan Goodwill 17, co-president
of NASA, hopes the anti-DAPL events
have helped to educate Bowdoin students on the issue. BCA and NASA
members worked together to plan the
rally, an accompanying photoshoot
and several days of tabling in David
Saul Smith Union.
In a NASA-BCA joint meeting before
the rally, group members crafted signs
with the hashtag #NoDAPL, created information cards that were handed out at
tabling and decorated a banner that reads
Bowdoin Stands with Standing Rock,

which supporters signed at the rally. The

banner now hangs in Smith Union.
At the rally, Goodwill gave a speech
about Standing Rocks water protectors, and how advocates encountered
guard dogs and riot police at the spirit
camp where they were based. NASA and
BCA also handed out information cards
and asked people to sign their banner
in solidarity. Nearly 60 members of the
Bowdoin community posed for a picture
with the banner.
Its just really moving, and especially
to be working with NASA and the Multicultural [Coalition] and just to see everybody turn out and to be here myself
and to listen to Dylan speak, said BCA
co-leader Emily Ruby 19.
Sarah Washington 17, who attended the rally, was also touched by
Goodwills words.
I think it was very powerful to have
Dylan be a part of it, she said. [The
pipeline] is something that a lot of Bowdoin students dont know about.
Arnav Patel 18, a member of BCA,
found the series of DAPL-focused events
built upon the work of the Intersections:
People, Planet, and Power (IP3) event last
fall, which examined the intersectionality of social and environmental justice.
I think that if you look at the DAPL
issue, its a climate change issue [and] its
an indigenous rights issue, Patel said. I
think that you cant talk about one without talking about the other. Thats why I
think that [protesting] is not something

thats nice to doits something that we

have to do.
Goodwill first talked about DAPL
at Bowdoin during her contribution
to the first year Orientation program
More Than Meets the Eye, which
aimed to address race and diversity on
campus. At the time, she realized that
many students did not know about
DAPL and its related issues, but she
was pleasantly surprised by the turnout
at the rally.
My expectations were, unfortunately,
kind of low going in, and then I saw the
picture today and was like oh my goodness! I was very surprised. I was on the
verge of tears when I saw the amount of
people, she said.
The students also used GoFundMe to
help raise $6,720 in support of the spirit
camps Solar Trailer for Standing Rock,
which provides power for the protestors.
Goodwill urged people interested in
supporting the Standing Rock Sioux
community to follow the issue on Native
American news outlets, such as Native
News Online and Indian Country Today
Media Network.
NASA hopes to continue on-campus
education by holding a panel on climate change and bringing a speaker to
talk about DAPL.
This is not an issue just for Standing Rock, its an issue for everyone in
the world, she said. Because everyone,
indigenous or not, should be allowed access to clean drinking water.

Security releases 2015 Clery report: data on sex offenses,

alcohol and drugs similar to past years, peer schools
BY JESSICA PIPER
ORIENT STAFF

Fourteen sex offensesdown from

last years 20were reported at Bowdoin
in 2015, according to the Annual Security
Report on Campus Crime, Fire, Alcohol
and Illegal Drugs. Director of Safety and
Security Randy Nichols released the report in an email to the Colleges students
and employees on Friday, September 30.
Nichols said the difficulty of collecting
data on sex offenses means that outsiders
should not draw conclusions about the
Colleges year-to-year climate or safety
based on the report alone.
When the numbers go down, that
could mean that maybe our reporting unfortunately has gone down, he said. Or it
could mean maybe there is a reduction.
The report also noted 164 alcohol violations, a number within range of previous
years. Drug violations were down slightly,
with 30 citations in 2015 compared to
43 in 2014 and 51 in 2013. Nichols said
more evidence is necessary to determine
whether the decline represents a trend.

Every college and university in the

United States participating in federal
student aid programs is required to complete an annual safety report in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure
of Campus Security Policy and Campus
Crime Statistics Act of 1998.
The report is geographically limited
to on-campus buildings, other Collegeowned property and public property
directly adjacent to Bowdoin. Incidents
that occur at students off-campus residences or in the town of Brunswick are
not included.
Nichols noted that many of the sex
offenses counted in the report were reported anonymously and not all of the
offenses occurred in 2015. Sex offenses
are included in the dataset for the year
in which they are reported, which sometimes differs from the year in which
they occurred.
[The 14 sex offenses] are the number of incidents reported to us during
2015. That doesnt mean they occurred
in 2015, Nichols said. Some of these
that were reporting for 2015 actually oc-

curred about three years ago.

Sex offenses are classified into two
categoriesrape and fondlingboth
of which are defined by physical assault. The series of Peeping Tom incidents last fall did not fall into either of
these categories and was not included
in the dataset.
Bowdoins sex offense numbers were
similar to those of its NESCAC peers.
Colby reported 10 sex offenses during
2015, Bates reported 18 and Middlebury
reported 22.
The report found no hate crimes at
Bowdoin during 2015. Nichols noted
that none of the bias incidents that occurred last year met the reports federally
mandated definition of a hate crime.
In any given year we have a number of bias incidents on campus, but a
bias incident in and of itself is not a hate
crime unless it meets a certain threshold, he said. So as abhorrent as it is and
as offensive as it for somebody from a car
to holler out a racial epithet to a student
walking on Maine Street, thats not a hate
crimeits a bias incident.

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friday, october 14, 2016

Ministry asks staffers who disagree College names two new trustees
with its views on sexuality to resign
BY JAMES CALLAHAN
ORIENT STAFF

Advisor, student leaders say decision will not impact Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin

Yale

Trinity

Swarthmore

Penn

Princeton

Harvard

-6

Middlebury

-3

Dartmouth

Volent identified overvaluation of the

private equity market, record-low interest
rates and oil prices as factors that contributed to the poor market conditions and
impacted the performance of the Colleges
investment portfolio.
I think that its disappointing that its
negative. On the absolute level, Im disappointed; on a relative level, we did very
well, said Volent.
According to Rose, the Colleges performance in relation to its peers is a testament
to Volent and the investment teams ability
to navigate tough market conditions.
The thing to keep in mind is we are
long-term investorsso weve outperformed in the short medium and long
term in remarkably great ways, he said.
Although it is revisited every year, investment policy is based on long-term
strategy that focuses on five and 10-year
returns. While Volent expects the endowment to be more liquid in the coming years due to market conditions, she
does not expect a one-year downturn to
radically change the Colleges investment
strategy. She also noted that the overall
stock market outlook would likely make
it difficult for Bowdoin to achieve high
returns over the next few years.
One year is not an investment track
record; its more the 10-year number
we look to, said Volent. I think that
its going to be difficult to find absolute
returns going forward in the three to
five year period, just because interest
rates cant go lower. Stocks and bonds
have been correlated, so its hard out
there, she said.
The investment team now hopes to
prevent further portfolio losses, but will
continue to watch the markets for pockets

Cornell

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nition by the College, moved off campus

and founded the Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center at 65 Harpswell Road.
Despite this, Rob Gregory said that
there has never been a point at which
the group considered disassociating itself
from InterVarsity or switching affiliations,
mainly because InterVarsity is committed
to scriptural study, unlike other campus
ministries that emphasize discipleship
or evangelism.
Weve tried very hard to maintain
that relationship with InterVarsity and
Bowdoin and plan to continue to do so,
he said.
The reason we are committed to the
biblical text is because it is there that we
discover that the world is an ordered place,
and God speaks through the prophetic
word of the Old and New Testament
about His order for life for us as creatures
who owe our lives to the Creator, Gregory
added in an email to the Orient.
Perkins spoke to the importance of being connected to a national organization.
Its really important to have contact
with other Christians, she said. Christianity is not a localit is a local thing in
some ways, but its also a really big thing
that youre connected to lots of people.
Perkins said that the most visible impact InterVarsity has on student members
of the Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin is
organizing retreats.
The group holds weekly bible study
sessions on Wednesdays during which
they read several pages of scripture and
pray in accordance with the materials
studied. Members gather for morning
prayer during the week and on Saturdays and Ben Pascut also teaches a class
on the Gospel of John.

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InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA,

the national evangelical campus ministry
that has been associated with the Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin for over 40
years, announced that it is beginning the
process of dismissing any staffers who disagree with its views about sexuality, which
consider any sexual activity outside of a
heterosexual marriage to be immoral. An
email InterVarsity sent in July asked staff
members who disagree with this position
to identify themselves and conclude work
with the ministry starting on Nov. 11, according to an October 6 article in Time.
Rob Gregory and his wife Sim, the InterVarsity advisors to the Christian Fellowship at Bowdoinwhich has not been
officially recognized by the College since
2014received the email in July. Ben and
Malina Pascut, who also work with Bowdoin students in the fellowship and serve as
InterVarsity volunteers, did not receive the
email. Ben Pascut is a research fellow at the
Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center, a
nonprofit foundation created to house the
Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin after it
moved off campus. Neither the Gregorys
nor the Pascuts plan to leave InterVarsity
in light of their announcement.
InterVarsity had chapters on 667 college campuses, including each NESCAC
schoolthough not all are officially recognized by the collegesand employs
over 1,300 staff members. Since the announcement in July, an InterVarsity
Vice President and Director of Campus
Engagement Greg Jao said that five or
six people (from campus ministries and
national offices) have opted to conclude

work with the organization.

We hope we expect our staff to affirm
what our core beliefs are and to teach
those safely, said Jao in a phone call to
the Orient. If they disagree, were trusting
that people will let that disagreement be
known in part because we expect people
who disagree wouldnt want to be expected to teach something they disagree with
and to self identify and conclude employment.
Rob Gregory said InterVarsitys decision will not affect how the Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin operates off campus.
It has no bearing on the service we
provide to the campus, which is opening
the doors of our study center for students
to come to read the scriptures, to ask questions about the order of God [and] the
plan of salvation, Gregory said in a phone
call to the Orient. Were open to all the
students to come and investigate.
Juniors Amanda Perkins and Sam
Swaine, two of the co-leaders of the
Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin, echoed
this sentiment.
I dont think [InterVarsitys decision]
affects the way we do anything, Perkins
said. Its consistent with maybe our history, but its old news.
The Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin
has been connected with InterVarsity
since the group first formed on campus in
1974. The groups affiliation with InterVarsity and the beliefs it espouses has caused
tension with the College in the past, most
recently in 2014, when the Gregorys
refused to sign the Colleges Volunteer
Agreement after stating that signing a
non-discrimination policy would violate
their scriptural interpretations of sexuality. The group then lost its official recog-

Brown

ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin

BY MEG ROBBINS

Compiled by Lexi Gray and Gideon Moore.

of potential return.
The endowment portfolio is diversified
across various asset classes, which include
private equity, real estate and domestic
and international equities, among others.
Were participating in things like
drones and genomics, which is really exciting, Volent said.
Both Rose and Volent declined to comment on the distribution of the portfolio across investments due to disclosure
agreements with asset managers.
Approximately 46 percent of the endowment is designated to supporting student financial aid, making its growth crucial in maintaining Bowdoins accessibility
to all students. In FY2015, the endowment
contributed $50 million to the Colleges
annual operations, approximately $22.7
million of which went to financial aid.
The goal of the endowment is to generate the absolute best risk-adjusted returns for the College, so that we can invest
in our ambitions and aspirations and edu-

cate and train our students and provide

our faculty with the resources to do their
work, said Rose.
Rose does not expect this years results
to noticeably affect the student experience unless there is a prolonged period of
downturn in the marketa situation that
would force the College to make difficult
decisions regarding its ambitions.
Rose said the College will continue to be
more disciplined about the rate of increase
of the budget given current market conditionsa process that the investment team
implemented proactively during FY2015.
Beginning in about a year, well start to
see the distributions from the endowment
that go to cover operating costs of the college increase at a lower [rate], said Rose.
One of the things that a disciplined budget process can do is, even in the face of
some of the challenges we have, allow us
to find the resources to invest in our ambitions and aspirations, and I hope thats
what we will do.

At its meeting over Homecoming

Weekendthe weekend of October 7
the Board of Trustees voted to elect two
new members and establish a fund in the
Colleges endowment in honor of the late
Trustee Emeritus Frederick G. P. Thorne
57, H05, namesake of Thorne Hall.
The two newly elected board members
hail from different coasts and different
backgrounds. Robert Friedman P15, P20 is
the founder and president of the YF Group,
a California-based real estate investment
firm. Bertrand Garcia-Moreno 81, P17 is
a professor at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland where he is the chair
of the department of biophysics.
Chair of the Board of Trustees Michele
Cyr 76, P12 said that both Friedman and
Garcia-Moreno bring expertise, perspectives and experiences that we felt were
valuable for the deliberations of the Board.
Notably, Cyr emphasized Friedmans
extensive background in board governance: he has served in various capacities
on the boards of Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, Crossroads School
for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, California and the High Mountain Institute in
Leadville, Colorado.
When speaking of Garcia-Moreno,
Cyr highlighted his distinguished career
as an academic. In addition to serving
as a department chair, Garcia-Moreno
has served on various editorial boards
including that of the journal Proteins:
Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics,
where he is currently editor-in-chief.
Additionally, the Board elected Geoffrey C. Rusack 78, P13 to emeritus sta-

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(Measure of Software Similarity). It flags

submissions if they appear similar to other
entries in the system, and is routinely used
in the computer science department, but
its results are not treated as absolutes.
You would never have a process where
you would simply rely on a degree of similarity output that would say, Oh theres an
82 percent or a 96 percent or a 25 percent
degree of similarity here, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster said. You have a
process that allows you to carefully examine that, thats before it would even come to
us. The first thing you would hope would
happen with [MOSS] or any number of
these other products is that a faculty member will put his or her eyes on these work
products to then say, OK, whats the degree
of similarity here. Is it appropriate or not?
The College does not mandate the use
of MOSS or other plagiarism-detection
software, instead leaving the decision to
use such methods up to individual departments and faculty members.
The computer science department
generally considers verbal collaboration
acceptable, but does not allow written or
electronic work to be shared.
In its annual report, the J-Board also
listed two allegations of social code violations, both stemming from a verbal and
physical altercation. Both students were
found responsible and were issued judicial
reprimands.
Additionally, the Sexual Misconduct

tus in recognition of his long history of

service to Bowdoin. He has served as a
trustee since 2003.
Finally, the Board also voted to establish a fund in the Colleges endowment to
honor the late Thorne.
According to Cyr, this endowment
fund will exist for the president to spend
for general purposes at his discretion.
She hopes that it will be a fitting honor to
Thorne and a way for people to donate to
the College.
It provides a great opportunity for donors to give in Freds name, Cyr said.
President Clayton Rose emphasized the
benefits of having a flexible funding option.
The fund thats in [his] name will be
used for general purposes for the College, Rose said. [Thorne] understood
better than anyone the need for flexible
funds for the College to be able to direct
in whatever place is most appropriate in a
given year. Directed funds are terrific but
flexible funds are really powerful tools for
the College to have.
Rose declared the Board meeting a success in an email to the Bowdoin community Wednesday morning.
We spent a good deal of time talking
with trustees about our ambitions for the
College, opportunities and challenges for
fundraising, physical plant considerations
and some of the access, affordability and
demographic challenges and opportunities in admissions, he wrote.
A significant piece of this vision for Bowdoins future included the Boards approval
of the design and preconstruction services
for the new Roux Center for the Environment, which will be built on the now-vacant
plot of land opposite the Schwartz Outdoor
Leadership Center on Harpswell Road.
Board noted five instances of sexual
misconduct violations reported to Title
IX Coordinator Benje Douglas. In three
of these cases, the complainant chose to
move forward with an informal resolution. In one, the respondent resigned
from the college during the investigation
process. In another, the investigator found
insufficient evidence to find the respondent responsible for the charges.
J-Board hearings regarding academic
violations are heard by a committee of
three students and two professors. Cases
involving social code violations are heard
by five students.
The board is meant to be a committee
of peers of not only students but also of, in
academic cases, the professors who bring
the cases before the board, said Judicial
Board Chair Mike Pun. [In] social cases,
there isnt really a professor involved and
the students perspective is really valued a
lot more. The professors dont know what
its like to be a student whereas for an
academic case we really want students to
be able to serve as peers for the respondent and the possible witnesses involved,
but we also want professors to be able to
serve as peers to other professors.
Foster said he is not concerned that the
increase in academic honor violations this
year represents a larger trend.
I will be surprised if based on what
happens this past year we see some new
normal with an increase in the number of
cases. I think this will probably lead people to be much more mindful of the work
that theyre submitting, he said.

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FEATURES

the bowdoin orient

Local booksellers
tell their own stories
BY FARIA NASRUDDIN
STAFF WRITER

Walking into the Gulf of Maine

bookstore in Brunswick is like entering into a different era. Opened 38
years ago by Gary Lawless and Beth
Leonard, the bookstore holds no bestsellers. Instead, Beat-generation authors plaster one wall, Maine legends
line another and poetry climbs from
the floor to the ceiling.
Lawless and Leonard sit in the middle
of the store taking turns attending to
and chatting with customers. They reveal their intimacy with books little by
little through stories of their time in college and of the stores inauguration on
Maine Street.
The owners met in 1974 at a Brunswick bookstore called Bookland. Lawless
worked at the bookstore and Leonard
was a frequent customer.
Lawless said he and Leonard bonded
over a shared interest in reading, particularly in reading poetry.
The two went on to open their own
store that would carry small publications, poetry and literature: All the stuff
that wasnt commercial enough for the
chain, said Leonard.
We didnt have any expectations
of making money. We just wanted
to promote these writers we loved,
said Leonard.

The current collection and decor at

Gulf of Maine reflect the alternative lifestyle of Lawless and Leonard prior to
opening the bookstore.
Lawless spent his years after college
learning from Gary Snyder, environmental activist and member of the Beat Generation. Although he grew up in Belfast,
Maine, and went to Colby College, Lawless developed an interest in East Asian
religion after reading The Dharma
Bums by Jack Kerouac in high school.
The books protagonist is based on
Gary Snyder himself. Lawless wrote
to Snyder saying, I dont want to go to
graduate school, I just want to come live
at your house and be your apprentice.
After graduation, he hitchhiked to California to live with Snyder.
It was so different from the life I
lived in little sheltered Maine in the 50s
and 60s. All of sudden I was in California where every guy I met had a pony
tail. Nineteen seventy-threewhat a
wild time to be there, said Lawless.
I was opened up to this wider world
of literature, art, music and dance ... that
I wouldnt have even known about if I
stayed in one place, he said.
Eventually, Lawless returned to Maine,
where he started to work at Bookland
and would eventually meet Leonard.
Lawless explained that upon returning
to Maine, he sort of fell into this [job].
Theres a semi-logical progression

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BROADCASTING BOOKS: Local bookstore owners Gary Lawless (above) and Beth Leonard take pride in selling books by less well-known authors.
my life has always had to do with books,
literature and writing, he said.
Lawless was a writer-in-residence for
two years at Preble Street, an organization in Portland that provides services
for the homeless. Today, in addition to
co-owning Gulf of Maine, Lawless runs
writing workshops for underserved
communities and teaches at the Midcoast Senior College.
Last semester, I taught a Dante class
at the Midcoast Senior College, so I had
people that age talking about hell for
eight weeks. It was really different from
talking to a room full of 18 to 21-yearolds, since these people are close to the
end of their lives and thinking about
what is after the end of life.
Running their own bookstore makes

it easy to decide what kind of literature

they want to sell.
We do make it our business to push
other kinds of literature that we consider useful to the conversation of our
community, said Lawless.
Gulf of Maine does not carry any
right-wing commentators, said Lawless.
But our regular customers know that
and know we own our opinions and curate the books to reflect that, he added.
The bookstore also hosts events
such as readings and signings with famous authors.
We had Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary
Snyder, Terry Tempest Williams, Bill
McKibbensome of our heroes, said
Lawless.

Aside from the deep connection the

store has with authors and publishers,
the best part of the job, according to both
Lawless and Leonard, is getting to know
their customers.
I love our customersthe people
we meet. In a good bookstore, you meet
good people, added Leonard.
Its not like a grocery store, where you
usually do not tell stories to clerk. Here,
people tell you stories, said Lawless.
Lawless added, Bookstores are a community center for ideas and access to information. Information is tools. We try to
provide the information we see as tools to
social change and community building.
On November 4th, Gulf of Maine will
host a reading by translators of Zabel Yesayans acclaimed novels.

Santoro podcast sheds light on Considering autism, the birds and the bees
BEN YORK
the liberal arts experience
BY ROHINI KURUP
ORIENT STAFF

For the last several months, Associate

Professor of Education Doris Santoro has
been stepping into the increasingly popular world of podcasts. Embodying the
Liberal Arts, attempts to capture Bowdoin
students stories and share them with the
broader community. Santoro hopes that
the podcast will help students connect
with each other more deeply and honestly.
Santoro was inspired to start the podcast while on sabbatical last year. Observing what was happening on campus, she
felt as though there was a loss of respect
between students.
I like the medium of a podcast because
it enables you to just listen. There is no interruption, said Santoro.
She was further inspired after a conference where she met Marcia Chatelain,
associate professor of history at Georgetown University, who has her own podcast
where she interviews students. Santoro
later wrote to Chatelin, who encouraged
her to start a podcast at Bowdoin.
[The podcasts goal] is to promote the
practice of empathy and compassion, to
find points of connection where you may
not have known to look, Santoro said. She
also wants to foster connection where
students might feel like they are the only
ones going through something so that they
come to realize that they are not the only
one[s] who might be experiencing that.
Santoro added that the podcast speaks
to the unique nature of the liberal arts
experience and the Bowdoin experience
in particular.
For a very long time I feel like people

talked about This is what the Bowdoin

student looks like or that there is a norm
that either students should aspire to or
that they do aspire to. I try to make sure
Im talking to people who embody what it
means to be a Bowdoin student in really
different ways so that students themselves
can see that there is no norm even if it feels
like there is, she said.
In the podcasts, Santoro asks three
questions: what is most important to you,
what does a liberal arts education mean to
you, and what do you wish your professors
knew about you.
I just love those questions and how
open they are, said Santoro.
Mitsuki Nishimoto 17, one of the students featured on the podcast, agreed that
the questions allow for open interpretation, noting that while the questions are the
same, each podcast is incredibly unique.
I know that sounds cheesy but if you
look at all the different titles, if you listen to even the first five minutes of any
one, there are definitely some commonalities but there are a lot of differences,
said Nishimoto.
I think its really rare for professors to
ask questions like that. I have never really had a space where I could talk about
myself for 40 minutes, she said. That was
really meaningful to me ... to know that a
professor cared to ask me about my life.
For Professor Santoro, these meaningful conversations with students are at the
heart of the podcast.
I think that it would be hard to listen
to any of these folks no matter who they
are and not come away thinking how
thoughtful, brilliant and engaged they are.
Embodying the Liberal Arts is available
on iTunes or at embodyingliberalarts.com.

AN AUTISTICS GUIDE
TO AUTISM

When I was first diagnosed with autism, there were very few resources concerning how to navigate the autistic experience for parents and autistic people.
When I received my diagnosis at the age
of 4, my parents found that resources for
them, as the parents of an autistic child,
were few and far between. As time has
passed, as awareness has spread and as
careproviding institutions have realized that the autistic population is one
that needs significant support, resources
for autistic children have become more
widely available. Every day, more educators, doctors and others who work
with autistic children are learning how
to better provide for the autistic people
they work with. All of this is good. A lot
of progress has been made on improving
the lives of autistic people in my lifetime,
and while there is still a lot of work that
needs to be done, this progress is not to
be taken lightly.
Howeverand this is a big howeverwhile the resources for autistic
children have steadily increased, the resources for autistic teens and adults have

stagnated. Work on autism and work

for autistic people is almost exclusively
focused on services and resources for
children. Autism, whether explicitly or
implicitly, is viewed as a childhood disorder. As a result, the experiences and concerns of autistic adults are often forgotten and the resources that are available
to us are often almost indistinguishable
from those available to autistic children.
Sometimes, however, the problems that
autistic adults face are truly adult.
I must pause here to make a confession. I am going to talk about sex now. I
have written and rewritten this section of
my article some twenty times, trying to
make this topic seem less uncomfortable,
and I must now admit that it is beyond
my abilities as a writer to do so. This is
partly because for most people the subject is itself uncomfortable. Sex is not
something that we as a society often talk
about. References to sex are commonplace and seem completely acceptable to
the general population, but discussion of
the actual mechanics of the acthow sex
actually worksis still very much taboo.
Yet, for autistic adults, explicit instruction is exactly what we needand precisely what we are not getting.
When I came to college I was scared of
sex. I had, of course, a basic understanding of what
sex is and
how it
works. I
had talked
about sex
with my parents, in my high
school health class
and with friends
who had begun to
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explore physically
intimate relation-

ships. However, all of these voices were

from the perspective of non-autistic
people and could not address some of
my deepest fears.
I have sensory processing difficulties.
Intense physical experiences are often
overwhelming for me. How was I going
to react to what might arguably be the
most physically intense thing that two
people can do with each other? I also
have difficulty picking up on body language and tonal cues. How was I going
to know when my partner was and was
not giving me non-verbal consent? And
when their consent was verbal, could I
be sure that it was enthusiastic? That they
genuinely wanted to be physically intimate with me and were not just giving in
to a pressure I didnt know I was exerting
on them?
No one in my life could assuage these
concerns and I could find no resources
on the topic that offered advice specifically to autistic people. I was terrified of
sex, because I did not know if this very
intimate and by all accounts pleasurable
act was something that I could participate in without harming my partner or
myself. That feeling was not so fun.
Since first coming to Bowdoin, those
sexual experiences that I have had have
been overwhelmingly positive. Many of
my concerns have been assuaged simply
through long conversations and by taking things slow, and I have now learned
through personal experience that there
is no such thing as too much consent.
While access to resources about sex is no
longer a concern for me, it is still a concern for many autistic adults, and until
those resources become widely available,
there will still be many young autistic
adults who are concerned about having
sex. Concerned, like I was, about something they need not fear.

features

the bowdoin orient

friday, october 14, 2016

Myx Moscato and calamari is our summer diet

BOTTOM OF
THE BARREL
WILL SCHWELLER AND JUSTIN RAMOS
The hip-hop hot takes expressed in
this column do not reflect the opinions
of the Bowdoin Orient or Bowdoin College. However, hopefully, they do coincidentally coincide with those of President
Clayton Rose.
Hip-hop and grapes are inexorably
linked. Rappers have been discussing wine
in their tracks for decadesfrom Drakes
tweet on October 1, 2012: Dropped my
phone in a glass of winejust to give
you an idea of where my life is at these
days,to Drakes line from 2013s Pound
Cake/Paris Morton Music 2:
Afterhours at Il Mulino/Or
Sotto Sotto, just talkin women
and vino. Heck, rappers (one
in particular, it seems) even
cite their love of wine in print
publications. Take Claire Hoffmans April 2012 profile on
Drake for GQ Magazine
as a prime example: At
the ready are a bottle
of chilled white wine
and a pitcher of ice,
for tonight we shall
drink wine spritzers,
his favorite beverage
and also mine.
Your intrepid columnists do indeed
love wine. They also
do indeed love hiphop. Therefore, it is
not without coincidence that the wine
that they choose to re-

view this week is doubly inexorably linked

to hip-hop. Myx Moscato is Nicki Minajs
wine. She raps about it. She appears in advertisements for it. She co-owns the company that produces it. The wine does not
come packaged in a traditional, 750-milliliter wine bottle. Rather, it is sold as a
four-pack of 11.2-ounce, capped bottles.
Stylized like a curvier, sleeker bottle of
Bud Light Platinum, complete with twistoff bottle cap, Myx Moscato promises to
be a treat. This was not a wine selected on
a whim. This was a wine pursued.
Poured into a standard 18-ounce wine
glass, Myx Moscato is clear and lightly effervescent. It looks like water and smells
like sugar water. Butterflies would try and
drink Myx Moscato if you placed an open
bottle in a meadow. Justin immediately

thought of his summer evenings spent at

the esteemed NYC institution, La Marina.
Myx Moscato tastes like fruit juice, perhaps because it is wine mixed quite literally with fruit juice. Myx Moscato will
full guaranteebe the only moscato that
these two wine reviewers will ever consume on nightclub couches. Myx Moscato is smooth. Myx Moscato is tasty. Myx
Moscato comes in four small bottles. This
is pretty cool. Porsche Panameras have
four doors. This is pretty cool.
Perhaps our only complaint is that Myx
Moscato does not come in a larger bottle.
The size of the Myx Moscato bottle prevents it from being shared with friends
at table. Myx Moscato is worth purchasing. Myx Moscato is worth bragging
about purchasing.
SOPHIE WASHINGTON

ADDITIONAL NOTES
Tonights Soundtrack: True
Butter (2014) by Nicki Minaj
feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (as if it
could be anything else)
Justin: This is a Socratic wine.
Will: This is a moscato that
would inspire me to write favorable comments on this columns
online edition.

SOPHIE WASHINGTON

Nose:
Legs:
Body:
Taste:
Overall:

Learning from the

things left behind
BY EMMA MOESSWILDE
COLUMNIST

A few weeks ago, my feet carried

me up Mount Katahdin, allowing me
to check one more thing off of the 50
Things To Do Before You Graduate list.
Along with eight other women, I packed
a bag, hopped in a van and drove the 202
miles to Baxter State Parkthe famed
wilderness area frequented by orientation trips and visitors from around the
globe. We camped overnight before
waking up at dawn to hike up 5,267 feet
to the summit of Mount Katahdin, the
northern terminus of the Appalachian
Trail and the tallest peak in Maine.
Youve probably heard of Katahdin before, and maybe youve even climbed the
peak yourself. Baxter State Park and Baxter House have the same namesake and
are similarly famous among Bowdoin
students, but Baxter State Park is, probably, a little wilder and a little harder to
get to. When I decided to spend the majority of my weekend traipsing around in
the woods, I was less concerned about
getting to the top of the mountain, and
more about what it took to get me to
the trailhead.
I packed my belongings for this trip
in a North Face daypack and an L.L.
Bean overnight pack. I carried three
plastic Nalgene water bottles, wore layers of fleece, Gore-Tex and Capilene and
donned my trusty Patagonia trucker hat.
My fellow hikers and I drove in two Bowdoin minivans, stopping in the bustling
metropolis of Millinocket for gas, bathroom breaks and Cheetos. We camped
in tents owned by the Bowdoin Outing
Club and made by Mountain Hardwear,
and cooked our meal on a propane stove.
To keep up our strength as we hiked,
we munched Snickers bars, and when
we reached the top of the mountain, we
recruited another hiker to snap a photo
on my iPhone of us gathered around the
sign marking the summit.
You can probably see where Im going with this. Scholars, activists and
other college newspaper columnists have
talked about how much we consume and
how many products and items we use in
our daily lives. Each of the things I just
mentioned has a story and an impact
that is all its own, and I am privileged
to use these items for my own purposes.
My trip up Katahdin was a trip bigger
than myselfit was an accumulation of
adventure equipment branding strategies, petroleum products, peoples labor
and much more. In no way do I mean to
minimize the many benefits of outdoor

recreation, or the opportunity made possible by the Bowdoin Outing Club to

travel to northern Maine and hike this
iconic, beautiful and humbling peak.
Thinking about what got me to the top of
Katahdin was only one part of a wonderful experience in a beautiful part of my
home state.
Going anywhereBaxter State Park
or Baxter basementrequires some
preparation. It also requires consciousness about what were leaving behind.
Once were immersed in an experience, it
can be difficult to remember how we got
there and what impact were making as
we enjoy our adventure. But at the same
time, going elsewhere can remind us of
whats really important: what we bring
along with us and what we bring back are
both telling. Baxter State Park requires
you to bring out all trash that you bring
in, to only step on certain parts of the
trail to preserve vegetation and to brush
your teeth in the middle of a parking lot
with no running water, spraying your
used toothpaste into the air. Going places
can make us more consciouswhen you
see what you bring and leave behind, you
can learn something about yourself.
As Bowdoin students, we have a lot
of destinations, and something is always
getting us there. Were wrapped up in
something when we get up to the top of
the mountain, and this isnt a bad thing.
In fact, these things make our lives pretty
comfortable, and I really like having
three layers of fleece on when Im so high
up off the ground.
I havent calculated the total carbon
cost of my trip up Katahdin, but I have
thought about making my own Snickers
bars to avoid disposable wrappers (still
working on how to make nougat). We
dont have to stop driving a car or buying
things, but I think we could all be a little
more conscious about the stories and
impacts behind our experiences. This
consciousness can make our own stories
more complete and help us realize our
placeand the place of our actionsin
the world around us.
Even though thinking about our impacts can be uncomfortable, its a necessary part of having experiences. The list
of things to do before you graduate isnt
just 50 isolated things its part of a bigger narrative, and remembering what got
us to those points is part of our experience, too.
So lace up your Bean Boots. Zip up
your jacket. Take off for your next destination (even if its just to the library), and
keep in mind the things that are helping
you get there.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Gibson 10: newest student band to open for Louis the Child
BY SURYA MILNER
ORIENT STAFF

Last semester in the basement of

Gibson Hall, the student band Gibson
10 was formed. There they learned jazz
music with each other, improvised together and formed the basis for their
eclectic rock and jazz-influenced sound,
which will premiere this evening in
Smith Union as the opening act for electronic duo Louis the Child.
Formerly performing under the name
Cup of Poodles, the group became the
opener for the fall concert when Tobi
Omola 19 was asked by eBoard to perform following the release of his single,
Need U. Omola then enlisted the help
of bandmates Ellis Laifer 19, Dante
Moussapour 19, Jeb Polstein 17, Zakir
Bulmer 19 and Jon Luke Tittman 19.
The group plans to perform a mix of
originals and covers, with special attention to Omolas original single as well as
Laifers song, titled Silent Companion.
The group hopes that its performance
will spark what it perceives to be a slowly
blossoming music scene on campus. According to Moussapour, theyre optimistic that the music culture will expand to
include more social events centered specifically on student band performances,
rather than act as a supplement to preexisting social events.
One of the things that Bowdoin has
unfortunately developed is this party atmosphere in which bands are shoved in a
basement, Moussapour said. Performing live, especially when youre watching

your friends and fellow students perform

liveits a nice experience. Lets make
live music at Bowdoin great again.
It might sound cheesy, but we want to
inspire other people, Tittman added. At
Bowdoin there are sports, which is such a
dominant thing that people do and think
about. There are a lot of great musicians
that just dont play as much or get enough
recognition. So we want other people to
engage in the music world and build a
stronger music culture here at Bowdoin.
According to Tittman, the groups
diverse but cohesive taste in music has
made for a distinct soundeven when
performing classic pieces from the likes
of the Beatles and James Brown.
Were trying to utilize each instrumentalists skill in each song and to
maximize our musical skill into something that will please the audience,
Moussapour said.
Much of the music groups magic is
in the improvisation and diversity of
soundwith Omola on trumpet, Polstein on drums, Bulmer on guitar, Moussapour on saxophone, Tittman on bass
and Laifer on keyboard. With an even
spread of vocals between the six, their
collaborative dynamic is clear.
Were much more into music as a process than a final product, Tittman said.
But were still learning how to work
together, Laifer added. Its not been always harmonious. We dont want to have
one person dictate everything and its
difficult to have your voice be heard but
not be overpowering. Were still trying to
find the balance.

EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SOUND IT OUT: Gibson 10 members pose after practice. Clockwise from top left: Zakir Bulmer 19, Ellis Laifer 19, Dante Moussapour 19, Tobi Omola 19,
Jon Luke Tittman 19 and Jeb Polstein 17. The group met and was formed during Jazz Ensemble during the spring of last semester.
Its a balance that undoubtedly comes
with time, as the group will gain more
experience performing, songwriting and
collaborating with one another in the
context of the campus music scene. But
for now, the band is eagerly awaiting its
performance this evening and its recep-

Visiting author recollects family WWII narrative

BY EMILY COHEN
ORIENT STAFF

Prominent German author Uwe

Timm will visit Bowdoin on Tuesday
to read from his semi-autobiographical novel In My Brothers Shadow.
The book recounts Timms struggle
to understand the life of his older
brother, who volunteered in 1942 to
join Hitlers Schutzstaffel and died in
Ukraine a year later. Timm was only
three years old at the time.
Currently in the United States as
a guest of the Goethe-Institut and a
presenter at the Boston Book Festival, Timm was invited to campus
by Assistant Professor of German
Jens Klenner. Klenner took advantage of Timms proximity to campus
to invite the award-winning German author to read and interact
with students.
He tells really good stories, but
at the same time theyre stories
thatll leave you thinking for a very
long time, Klenner said. That
is something that I admire about
Timms work.
Besides the discussion, the event
will also encourage student participation in the reading. According to
Chair of the German Department
Birgit Tautz, the event offers a unique
opportunity for students to engage in
a different format of dialogue with a
living author.
It is also a fantastic opportunity
for students to get in touch with
an artist or with a writer who they
would only meet otherwise on paper,
said Klenner.
Both Tautz and Klenner admire
Timms use of historically and culturally relevant events in the novel. Though
it is derived from a personal narrative,
the novel also serves as a reflection on

tionwhat Laifer likes to call the space

between the final note and the reaction
that the audience gives.
Theres just an energy thats in the air
thats part of the experience, Tittman
said. Being in a room with people who
are playing music and having a good

Puppeteer Paul Zaloom

satirizes white anxiety in
on-campus performance
BY JAMES JELIN
STAFF WRITER

COURTESY OF GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON

A NOVEL IDEA : Award-winning German author Uwe Timm will visit Bowdoin on Tuesday.
Germany during World War II.
It is a very German story, said
Klenner. It is about Germany in
general, dealing with the atrocities
of the war, the complicities of the
ordinary German in the war crimes,
the question of, How could this
have ever happened?
Tautz also emphasizes that although
the event is sponsored by the German
department, the event is open and relevant to all students because engaging
in discussions about history, literature

and international perspectives is a key

mission of the College.
I think [events like Timms reading] speak to the nature of the College, said Tautz. This is really, I
think, an event that emphasizes that
the College is not just this place. Its
really in dialogue with the world and
with different aspects of the world.
Timms reading and discussion of In
My Brothers Shadow will take place
next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Shannon Room of Hubbard Hall.

time and a bunch of people who are listening to musicits special in that way.
It gives people joy.
Gibson 10 will perform tonight at 10
p.m. in the David Saul Smith Union,
followed by a concert by Louis the
Child at 11 p.m.

For its first performance on a college

campus, White Like Me: A Honky Dory
Puppet Show, will come to Bowdoin this
evening for a playful but wickedly satirical story about white anxiety.
Created by puppeteer and performance artist Paul Zaloom, the solo show
repurposes garbage, toys and tchotchkes
to explore the way white people respond
to the increasing diversification of the
United States.
Zaloom pinpoints the shows origins
to a pitch meeting years ago where most
of the artists wanted their work to focus
on issues like sexual orientation, ethnic
identity and race.
Im sitting there and listening to
artist after artist getting up and talking
about this. And at one point I said to
myself, geez, what about me? said Zaloom. And then my next thought was
Im a white male. What do I mean, what
about me?
The bulk of the show consists of a toy
theater spectacle called The Adventures of White-Man, which chronicles a
White-Man who leaves his home planet
of Caucazoid to civilize Earth. Eventually, White-Man begins to fear the
prospect of becoming a minority in the
United States by 2040.
According to Zaloom, his work has
always been political and his puppetry
has played an integral part in creating
subversive and satirical performance art.
Weve never been taken seriously,

SEE IT YOURSELF
The show will take place at 7:30
p.m. at Pickard Theater on Friday,
October 14th.
and that actually gives us a lot of power
in most cultures, puppets have satirized the powers that be, Zaloom said.
And theyve gotten away with it.
Though many high-profile comedians have stopped performing for college
campuses, saying that students are too
easily offended, Zaloom welcomes the
dialogue that his show inspires.
Students are really engaged in these
issues and thinking about them, said
Zaloom. Im really interested to hear
what people have to say.
Professor of Theater Davis Robinson, who worked to bring Zaloom to
campus, sees great value in this form
of comedy as a means to make light of
common anxieties.
Its a time when we need to be able
to diffuse and laugh a little bit about
the anxieties that are out there, he said.
[Hes] able to talk about contemporary
issues and politics in a way thats thoughtful but also entertaining, said Robinson.
Zaloom encourages all aspiring artists
and performers to try out puppetry.
Check it out, he said. You dont
have to make a career out of it, but you
can sure have a hell of a lot of fun and
amuse your friends. Or piss them off.
Or whatever.

SPORTS

the bowdoin orient

friday, october 14, 2016

SIX INDUCTED INTO HALL OF HONOR

Members recognized for inspiration and commitment to Bowdoin Athletics
Lora Trenkle

Compiled by Anjulee Bhalla

The Bowdoin College Athletic Hall of
Honor was established in 2002 to perpetuate the memory of those persons who have
brought distinction, honor and excellence
to Bowdoin through their accomplishments in athletics. Initially inducting a
class of five members every year, the selection committee transitioned to classes of six
members biannually in 2010. The Class of
2016 honorees joined the ranks of Bowdoin
sports legends this year at Homecoming.
Since its creation, the Hall has honored
exceptional athletes, coaches and staff who
have impacted Bowdoinfrom the very
beginnings of the athletic program to the
inception of athletic training, from the formation of womens teams to their domination on courts and fields.
The inaugural class included Bowdoin
sports icons Joan Benoit Samuelson 79,
who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the first-ever womens marathon,
and Sidney J. Watson, renowned hockey
coach who led the Polar Bears to four
ECAC Division II titles and a record of

326-210-11 over the course of his 24-year

career at the College.
As this years class joins this illustrious
group, they remarked on the widespread
impacts being a part of Bowdoin Athletics
has had on their lives.
I definitely think that playing basketball
and playing sports in general is a metaphor
for life, said Lora Trenkle Cooperman 04.
Its something that Ive carried on in my
years post-Bowdoin, working in finance
and having to work long hours and putting
in the extra time.
Ive always felt that being involved in
athletics requires discipline and character, said Leo J. Dunn III 75. Youve got
to fit that in with studies and everything
else, but thats the way I was brought up
and thats the way Ive approached things
in work and life.
The dedication and determination this
class brings to everything they do is clearly
evident in their widespread accomplishments and the legacy theyve left on Bowdoin Athletics.

Cooperman 04
During her time at Bowdoin, Cooperman and the
womens basketball team made it to the NESCAC Championship and the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament
every year. As a captain her senior year, Cooperman led
the team to a near-perfect season and the programs first
national championship game, as well as firmly established her place in Bowdoins record books. She is still
one of Bowdoins top ten all-time players in career and
single season points, assists, free throws, three-pointers
and many more statistics.

Leo J.

Dunn III 75
During Dunns time at Bowdoin, he demonstrated not
only immense talent on the track and football teams, but
also a deep commitment to the Bowdoin community.
After captaining the track team his senior season, he
graduated with six Bowdoin records in both indoor and
outdoor track, earning Division III All-American and All
New England honors. He was awarded the Elmer Longley
Hutchinson Cup for high conduct on and off the field as
well as the Polar Bear Award for his service to Bowdoin.

O. Jeanne dArc

Edward M.

As the first female physical therapist and athletic

trainer on Bowdoins campus, Mayo was integral in
the development of womens athletics at Bowdoin. She
arrived on campus at a time when athletic training services were dedicated solely to men, and took it upon
herself to see through the creation of high-quality
facilities and resources for women as well, consistently
fighting for equal access and opportunity in sports
throughout her career.

Good was a talented player and leader of the mens

ice hockey team during a historically great time for
the program. Described as the engine that drove
the team during these years, he led the team to
sixteen consecutive wins and an ECAC finals appearance his junior year and guided the team to their first
ECAC championship title as a captain his senior year.
A legendary scorer for the program, he graduated
as Bowdoins all-time leader in points and remains
fourth all-time in points per game today.

Robert H.

Darcy Storin

Over the course of his life, Pfeiffer has demonstrated a level of excellence and commitment to lacrosse
as a player, coach and official. He was Bowdoins
first All-American in lacrosse in addition to being
a standout player and leader on the hockey and
football teams. After graduating, Pfeiffer went on to
coach lacrosse at the University of New Hampshire,
Middlebury and Colby and officiate intercollegiate
games throughout New England.

Resch dominated cross country and indoor and

outdoor track at Bowdoin as well as on the national
stage. Her Bowdoin record in the 1500 meters remains
untouched 20 years later and she earned an astounding
ten All-American honors during her career. In addition to numerous regional titles and honors, she was a
Division III Outdoor Track National Champion twice
and finished in the top three at NCAA Championships
five times, making her one of the most accomplished
female athletes in Bowdoin history.

Mayo

Good 71

Resch 96

Pfeiffer 67

Photos courtesy of Bowdoin Archives.

Womens rugby team suffers first regular-season loss, second in five years
BY DAVID BROWER
STAFF WRITER

The University of New England (UNE)

defeated the womens rugby team 31-15
this past Friday in the Polar Bears first
loss of the season and only their second
regular-season loss in five years.
The team came out flat, quickly going
down 12-0. In order to counter UNEs
outside speed, Head Coach MaryBeth
Mathews shuffled Georgia Bolduc 17
out to the wing, Sierra Soghikian 19 to
outside center and Juliette Dankens 18
to scrum half, which helped the team
greatly on defense. Ultimately, the team

was unable to mount enough consistent defensive pressure to thwart the

Noreaster offense.
Despite the loss, Mathews thought
there were some strong individual performances.
Paige Pfannenstiel 17, Georgia
[Bolduc] and [Dankens] all played well,
said Mathews. They had good games
because they are very fit, they are good
tacklers, they use their voice and they
covered the field well.
Although the loss is disappointing, the
players are excited to be facing more challenging opponents now that theyve left
the New England Small College Rugby

Conference (NESCRC) after outscoring

their opponents by 270 points last season.
We left our conference to have
good games and UNE is a team that we
wouldnt really face until nationals most
of the time, so it was great to finally really
get to face a quality opponent this early
in the season, said captain Samantha
Hoegle 17.
This years team is young, the youngest
team in Mathews 23 year tenure, so shes
confident that their performance will improve as the season progresses.
They really need playing experience
so they can make better decisions under
pressure, said Mathews. Our decisions

on attack were poor at best and we need

to improve the communication that goes
into those decisions.
The team remains poised and focused
after the loss and takes it as a sign that the
program is moving in the right direction.
I dont mind a loss, certainly, we
moved up to this conference because
we wanted better competition, said
Mathews. Its not really about winning;
its about learning a new sport and women growing stronger and more confident
and all the other benefits that playing
rugby brings.
Hoegle also considers this loss a step
forward as it will leave the team better

prepared for the postseason.

I think its going to make us so much
better to see the teams we might see in
nationals, like UNE. To know what to
expect from teams of that caliber makes
it a lot easier to work harder because
you know what youre working against,
Hoegle said. No one wants to lose, but
at the same time, losing shows you what
you need to work on. It also changes your
frame of mind; it gives you motivation to
work harder.
The Polar Bears hope to return to their
winning ways when they face off on their
home turf against the Castleton Spartans
and the Middlebury Panthers.

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Mens tennis doubles pair

victorious at national cup
BY EDUARDO JARAMILLO
ORIENT STAFF

Mens tennis doubles team Kyle

Wolfe 18 and Jerry Jiang 19 won
their first match at the Intercollegiate
Tennis Association (ITA) Oracle Cup
on Thursday against the No. 3 seeded
team from Saint Thomas. The duo is
up against top teams from seven other regions across the country and will
face a No. 2 seeded team from Trinity
University in the semifinals today at
1 p.m. PST.
They have good competition,
the teams theyre going to be playing out there are all some of the best
teams in the country, there are no
walk-overs, said Head Coach Conor
Smith. [But] were pretty biased, we
feel like we have one of the strongest
regions. If New England isnt the
strongest region, its gotta be in the
top two or three.
To earn their spot at the Oracle
Cup, as well as All-American honors, Jiang and Wolfe won the doubles
tournament at the ITA Regional
Championships at Williams College
on October 1. They entered the draw
as the third seed and beat seventh
seed Middlebury to win the tournaments doubles finals for the first
time in program history.
Other members of the team also
performed well at the Regional
Championship. In the singles draw,
Grant Urken 19 made it to the quarterfinals and Eliot Rozovsky 20 made
it to the round of 16.
All nine members of the team were
able to compete in either the singles
or doubles portion of the Regional
Championships due to the teams
success last spring.
Based on our standing last year

we got more spots for the tournament so everyone was able to play,
Wolfe said. As a team we did really
well across the board.
Due to the Oracle Cup, Wolfe and
Jiang will miss the MIT Fall Invitational this weekend, the teams last
tournament of the fall season. The
Invitational will be highly competitive, but Smith is focusing on the
tournament as a chance for younger
players to gain experience.
Its going to be a great opportunity for our first years to play some
tougher competition that they may
not see otherwise, Smith said.
As the NCAA DIII defending
champions, the team has high hopes
for this year. However, Smith says the
team is not too worried about comparing itself to last years team and
living up to that standard.
I think we always want to focus on
the things you can control and being
the absolute best that this team can
be, Smith said.
Although it has had a promising
showing so far, the team sees the fall
as a time to focus less on strong results at competitions. Instead, the
team aims to use this season to establish a positive team culture and identity, learn which players work well
in doubles pairs and lay the groundwork for a successful spring season.
Smith, who has been with the team
for the past six years and was named
the ITA DIII Mens Tennis Coach of
the Year last year, sees team culture
as a crucial to success.
I look at our team and the culture that our guys have built the last
couple of years in particular and get
a real sense of confidence, Smith
said. Thats gonna be a huge edge
that we have over those other teams.

Golfs Dunleavy 20 named

to First Team All-NESCAC
BY HARRY JUNG
STAFF WRITER

Though the mens golf teams sixthplace finish in the NESCAC Championship Qualifiers was not strong
enough to put them through to the
championship this spring, first year
Thomas Dunleavys fourth place overall finish earned him a spot on the AllNESCAC First Team.
Dunleavy is the first Bowdoin student to make the team since Jeff Cutter 09 in 2008. With such success in
only his first year, Dunleavy said he
looks forward to what he and the team
can accomplish in the future.
We had a good weekend, said
Dunleavy. We wanted to crack
the top four, which would mean
we would move on to the NESCAC
championship, but it was a fun weekend for all of us and for me personally successful.
At the end of the first day of the
qualifier, Dunleavy was tied for second, just one stroke behind the leader.
Another strong performance the following day helped him finish with
a score of 144, with only five strokes
separating him and first place.
I look forward to making the
NESCAC and National Championship in the years ahead, Dunleavy
said. Its going to be tough, but I
think its doable.
The mens golf team has shown a lot

of potential this season. On October

8, the team won its first Colby Bates
Bowdoin Championship since 2013.
The team outshot both Bates and Colby by a margin of 21 strokes, a decisive victory as last year only 12 strokes
separated all three teams.
Captain Thomas Spagnola 17 led
the team with a score of 75, followed
by Dunleavy with 77 and captain Martin Bernard 17 with 78 to put together
a solid outing for the Polar Bears.
While the individual accomplishments are important, the players are
just as focused on their cohesive performance. Dunleavy credits the captains for creating the supportive team
chemistry on and off the course.
At times golf feels like an individual sport because at the base of
it thats what it is, Dunleavy said.
There can be no communication
or guidance between the two players
on the course but we get around
this by supporting each other when
things go good or bad.
The Polar Bears closed out their
season with a sixth place finish at the
Southern Maine Invitational on October 9-10. Spagnola was the top performer for the Polar Bears, tying for
13th overall. After the first day of play,
Bowdoin was in third, but dropped to
sixth overall by the end of the tournament as only nine strokes separated
the third through eighth-place teams
in a highly competitive pool.

sports

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OPINION

Clearly report

On Friday, September 30, Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols released the
2016 Annual Security Report, issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of
Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998. Among other things,
the Clery Act requires the College to disclose reported sex offenses over the previous
three years, defining sex offenses as rape, fondling, incest and statutory rape.
Bowdoins policies in regards to sexual assaults have consistently been forwardthinking compared to those of other institutions of higher education. In 2014, the
White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault issued a report with
recommendations to bolster sexual assault policies at colleges and universities. When
these recommendations were issued, Bowdoin did not have to amend its policies in
order to comply with the task forces counselthe College had policies in place that met
the standards set in every area of the report.
Given that the College has independently set progressive reporting policies (where
reporting means the Colleges disclosure of the number of incidents in a formal report)
relative to those of peer institutions, the College should continue along this vein and
further improve its formal reporting of sex offenses in its Annual Security Report.
We believe that the College has an obligation to go beyond the guidelines established
by the Clery Act. The Security Report should include a broader range of sex offense classifications in order to reflect a more accurate review of sex offenses. Students have a right
to know about incidents that may continue to pose a risk to the Bowdoin community.
Since the Clery Report has a limited definition of sex offenses, some occurrences
are not officially mentioned. For example, the Peeping Tom incidents of last fall
are not included in the Security Report because they dont fall under one of the four
aforementioned categories of sex offenses. A person unaffiliated with Bowdoin committed a crime by invading the privacy of Bowdoin students in their residences,
which posed a direct risk to student safety, and should have been formally included
in the annual report.
In addition, Bowdoins Security Report states that it includes statistics concerning
reported crimes that occurred on campus, in certain off-campus buildings or property
owned or controlled by Bowdoin College, and on public property within or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.
This language is inherently limited. Any crimes, including sex offenses, that occur
outside this scope, including those at or near off-campus residences, are not accounted
for in the Annual Security Reportand neither are instances involving Bowdoin students farther than the areas immediately adjacent to campus.
Not reporting incidents such as these is an oversight. They are relevant to all students,
and can directly affect their safety. Formally acknowledging such incidents as part of the
Colleges reported statistics is necessary. Bowdoin should be a leader among its peers
and demonstrate a willingness to go beyond the minimum requirements for officially
reporting sex offenses.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orients editorial board,
which is comprised of Marina Affo, Julian Andrews, Steff Chavez, Meg Robbins and
Joe Seibert.

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Beyond the buzzword: a look

into intersectional feminism
THE FEMINISTT
MANIFESTO

HAYLEY NICHOLAS AND EMMA ROBERTS

Intersectional feminism. Its a
term that gets thrown around a lot
at Bowdoin. Its the answer to half of
the questions asked by your Feminist
Theory professor. Its a buzzword. It
makes us sound smart when we say
it. But what does it actually mean?
We have been thinking about this
question a lot lately, specifically in
relation to the Black Lives Matter
movement, which strives for an end
to violence against black people in
the United States. For us, examining
this movements relationship with
feminism sheds some light on the often used and sometimes complicated
concept of intersectional feminism.
Historically, the feminist movement has excluded African Americans, as well as others who do not
identify as Christian, middle-class,
white, heterosexual, cisgendered
and able-bodied. For instance, in
1913, when 5,000 women marched
in Washington D.C. in support of
womens suffrage, the organizers of
the parade attempted to make black
women march in the back, behind
the white women and men. More
recently, Taylor Swift accused Nicki
Minaj of pitting women against
each other when Nicki called out
the VMAs racial bias. These are
only a couple of examples of the
many times that white feminists
have contributed to the oppression
of black people. Hint: this is not intersectional feminism.
When feminists intentionally or
inadvertently neglect issues facing
black people, they not only play a
part in the continued marginalization of black communities, but
also erase black women from their
narrative. This forces black women to prioritize either their blackness or their womanhood, which
is an impossible choice. Until the
feminist movement entirely embraces all people who identify as
women, it can only consider
itself feminist to an extent.
In order for feminism to
truly advocate for gender
equality, violence against
black people needs to be
considered a feminist
issue. If (white) feminists stand by and do
nothing when innocent black men and
women are killed
by the police, they
send the message
that they dont
care about black
c om mu n it i e s .
Black
issues
are
womens
issues. Period.
Police violence
against black
men is an epidemic, but we
must also acknowledge that
police brutality
affects black wom-

en too and that their struggles are

often brushed under the rug.
Now, fast forward to the Black
Lives Matter movement. Its not
common knowledge, but the movement was founded by three black
women, two of whom are queer.
Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, the founders of Black
Lives Matter, have worked tirelessly
to expose the injustices of systemic
racism, but are rarely mentioned in
mainstream media. This not only
undermines their integral role in the
movement but also reflects a more
extensive erasure of black womens
voices in our society.
People often associate black men
as the only victims of police brutality, but this issue also affects black
women, especially trans women and
women with disabilities. When the
media predominantly focuses on the
deaths of black cisgendered men,
it creates the impression that black
women are not affected by police
violence and thus excludes
their stories. We are in no
way discounting the very
real injustices facing black
men, or the fact that they
are disproportionately at
risk of dying at the hands
of police. But to ensure
that all black lives matter,
we must also #sayhername.
Any sort of feminism
is incomplete if it does
not include the voices and liberation of
black women as a
part of its goal, just
as any racial justice movement
cannot achieve

egalitarian objectives without recognizing the unique struggles facing

women of color. Omitting certain
stories invalidates those experiences
and renders them invisible. It simultaneously leverages one groups
interests over anothers, which furthers the oppression of already
marginalized people. This is where
intersectional feminism comes in.
It is a feminism that acknowledges
the vast diversity of womens experiences, that understands that each
woman has a multitude of identities and that constantly works to
be inclusive.
Intersectional feminism allows
us to see womens liberation as intimately connected to liberation for
black people, for the LGTBQ+ community, for people with disabilities.
It helps us understand that justice
for women necessitates economic
justice, climate justice, racial justice
and so much more. Our lives
are multidimensional.
And our feminism
should be too.

SOPHIE WASHINGTON

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Kneeling to take a stand

CARLOS HOLGUIN

RAMBLINGS OF A
MOUNTAIN MAN

Since late August, a number of highprofile American athletes have used their
platform to protest the racial inequality apparent in the treatment of African-American males by police and the criminal
justice system. From sitting to kneeling to
raising a fist to interlocking arms during
the national anthem, N.F.L. athleteslike
many other famous professional athletes
before themare causing a national stir
and igniting a ferocious debate about free
speech, criminal justice reform and the
disparate and harsh treatment that they
and their African-American brothers endure at the hands of oppressive systems.
While one U.S. presidential candidate
believes there has never been a worse time
to be an African-American in this country (he must have slept through civics and
the lessons on Jim Crow and slavery), I do
believe that it must be an unsettling time
to be an African-American man in America. As a proponent of free speech and using historical context and lessons, I stand
by these athletes choices to not stand for
the national anthem.
The history of this country is tied to
racial inequality. Americas original economy was founded on enslaving those of
darker skin. Essentially, blacks worked for

nothing and whites spent decades making profits from others hard work. This
system allowed whites to create a system
out of Social Darwinism, which still holds
to this day. Even when minorities were
freed, their status as second-class citizens
prevailed as they were kept away from the
society whites through racist laws which
once again allowed whites to further enhance their economic standing at the cost
of minority citizens. In turn, a system of oppression materialized, backed by laws that
perpetuated discriminatory practices, resulting in minorities, to this day, struggling
in their pursuit of the American Dream.
When one realizes the economic disparity created by systemic social inequality, it
becomes clear why minority athletes speak
out against these systems of oppression.
Lets take a walk down memory lane.
Some of the greatest minority athletes
of the 20th century protested the racial
inequality both during and after the civil
rights era. Jackie Robinsonnumber
42, who is celebrated annually by Major
League Baseballtook part in active protests during the Civil Rights era. This is
the same Jackie Robinson who broke the
color barrier in baseball and who could
have been cut from the team for his actions. These athletesdespite the unknown risks to themselves, their families
and their livelihoodsprotested so the
next generations could have a better life.
John Carlos raised his fist in defiance

at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City

during the Civil Rights movement.
He did this to protest the unfair treatment blacks were receiving under the
separate but equal laws.
Muhammed AliMr. Float Like
a Butterfly and Sting Like a
Beewas sentenced and lost
his boxing titles because he
would rather consciously
object to the Vietnam War
than serve in it. He would
later go on to reclaim this title
and establish himself as the
greatest boxer to ever live.
All of these athletes became
legends when they took a stand
during the peaks of their athletic careers, using their First
Amendment rights to publicly
stand up against the racist systems
of oppression.
The athletes who have protested in the
last couple of weeks play in the N.F.L. As
they use the only platform they haveas
overpaid entertainerstheir messages are
resoundingly clear: minorities are more
likely to be killed by police officers than
their white counterparts and they are also
more likely to get harsher penalties for
similar crimes committed by their white
counterparts. While he may have only
been the second string quarterback for
the San Francisco 49ers at the time, Colin Kaepernick came to understand these

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harsh truths,
and decided to use Sundays when millions of Americans are
glued to the TV screen to send a nonverbal signal against these injustices. The
basic premise of the argument is, Why
should I show allegiance to the country
which still actively oppresses me through
various means? and By protesting the
symbol that is supposed to unite our
country, will people wake up to our harsh
realities and spur real change?
Not only am I proud of these athletes,

but I also stand with them as a MexicanAmerican citizen whose people have been
similarly oppressed. Perhaps their actions
will spur revival of the Civil Rights movement. One can only hope that all of the
Americans who revere and worship athletes will be open to their message. Racial
equality in the United States is still the
goal, but it has been thwarted by oppressive systems. Theres no touchdown dance
happening outside of the stadium if you
are an African-American male.

A case study in trade policy: Maine paper mills reveal complexities of free trade
RYAN WARD

HOLDING FAST

In an election year where almost

nothing has gone as expected, one of
the biggest surprises may be the critique of free trade that has arisen from
the populist wings of both parties. Both
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders railed

against the detrimental effects of globalization in their respective primaries, and

both performed far above the expectations of the party leaders who largely
support the globalist agenda of free
trade and open borders. Even Hillary
Clinton, who in the not-too-distant past
pined for a hemispheric common market, has hopped aboard the trade skeptic bandwagon.
While I regard these challenges to free

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trade orthodoxy as a largely positive development, the rhetoric surrounding the

issue has unfortunately not risen above the
generally depressing tenor of this election
cycle. Where Trump could make good
points about the uneven distribution of
the costs and benefits of free trade, he instead blames Clinton for her part in every
bad trade deal of the past two decades and
the resulting demise of Americas onceprosperous manufacturing sector.
This gives the misleading impression
that Clinton and her free trade deals are
responsible for the struggles of every community that has suffered from a loss in
manufacturing jobs. While trade is undeniably an important factor in explaining
the decline of the American economys
manufacturing sector, the reality is far
more complicated.
A good case study in the mixed costs
and benefits of free trade is the Maine pulp
and paper industry. For the first half of the
20th century, Maine led the nation in paper production. Today, there are only six
mills with operating paper machines, and
those that still make paper are doing so at
a fraction of their former capacity. At first
glance, this looks like the perfect example
of an industry destroyed by international
competition enabled by bad trade deals.
But a closer look reveals a more complex
picture than this Trumpian narrative
might suggest.
On the one hand, international competition has certainly taken its toll on

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Maine paper mills. Earlier this year, a mill

partially owned by the New York Times
in Madison announced that it would be
shutting down. This closure was at least
somewhat due to competition coming
from a mill in Nova Scotia that produces
a similar paper and receives subsidies
from the Canadian government. Despite
the imposition of a 20 percent tariff on
the mills exports, the depreciation of the
Canadian dollar has kept the imported
product cheaper than what the Madison
mill could produce domestically.
But to blame the industrys recent
struggles on free trade would be to ignore other economic strains that have
put pressure on Maines mills. One major
factor is the decrease in demand for paper
products prompted by the increase in the
availability of e-books and digital news
sources. This trend is evidently not going
to reverse itself in the future, so mills that
fail to adapt in some way to the shrinking
market for paper products will lose out
to competition from mills both foreign
and domestic.
An example of a Maine mill that has effectively planned for the future is Woodland Pulp in Baileyville, which is in the
process of commissioning two new paper
machines. These machines will produce
products such as toilet paper and paper
towels, which are not quite as vulnerable
to changes in demand prompted by technological improvements. And for Woodland Pulp, international markets have

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investing millions of dollars in capital improvements at the mill.
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increased international competition
brought on by free trade. But there are
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costs have been more decisive factors in
the most recent mill closures, and while
competition in international markets has
certainly pushed some mills to the brink,
others have stayed afloat only because of
foreign investment.
The complexity of the issue unfortunately means that both sides of the
debate are prone to oversimplification. The lesson we should take from
the example of the Maine paper industry is that neither protectionism
nor unrestricted free trade will solve
the problems faced by U.S. manufacturers. The populist anger directed
against free trade has its source in legitimate grievances, but real solutions
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FRIDAY 14
SYMPOSIUM

Religion Before "Religion"

Scholars will discuss the ways people study, think about and
talk about religion both today and in ancient times. On the
first day of this two-day symposium, there will be a panel
titled Theorizing Religion.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 2 p.m.
EVENT

"White Like Me: A Honky Dory

Puppet Show"

Puppeteer Paul Zaloom will perform a satirical work of object

theater centered around Caucasian fears of becoming a
minority in America.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

KATHERINE BACALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SATURDAY 15
EVENT

Standing with Standing Rock: The Native American Student Association (NASA) and Bowdoin Climate Action held a rally on October 5 to
protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Students held banners and signed a petition to support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's eorts to prevent the
construction of a pipeline through sacred tribal lands.

TUESDAY 18

ORIENT

Improvabilities Show

PICK OF THE WEEK

Improvabilities, one of Bowdoin's two improv groups, will

perform their first show of the semester.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.

READING

Author Uwe Timm will read and discuss the English

translation of his novel "In My Brother's Shadow," in which
Timm contemplates the life and death of his older brother
who joined Hitlers army as a young man.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 19

CLASS

Learn to Use Sewing Machines

Instructors from the craft center will teach students to use

sewing machines.
Bowdoin College Craft Center. 8 p.m.

LECTURE

EVENT

Sarah and James

Bowdoin Day

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EVENT

Family Weekend

EVENT

This annual event works to end sexual and dating violence

and will feature speeches and music as well as a walk around
campus to take back previously unsafe spaces. The event
will be followed by a reception.
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Museum of Art Steps. 8 p.m.

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LECTURE

Poet, lyricist and educator Denice Frohman will address

ideas of intersectionality and identity to challenge
oppressive social constructs. Frohman is well known for
her slam poetry. One of her poems, "Dear White People,"
garnered widespread media attention and has over two
million views
on YouTube.
Jack Magee's Pub and Grill. 7 p.m.

Take Back the Night

David Thomson 08, visiting assistant professor of

history at Sacred Heart University, will speak about the
importance of Civil War bonds on the global economy.
Pickering Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:30 p.m.

Kevin Osterloh, Assistant Professor of History at Oregon

State University, will speak about the connections between Jewish and Roman views of masculinity as shaped
by Ancient Greek culture.
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 4:30 p.m.

Haitians Who Changed How the World

Treats AIDS, Tuberculosis and Cholera

EVENT

"Bonds of War: American Civil War Debt

and Global Capitalism"

"Maccabean Manliness: Exemplary

Jewish Virtue and Hellenistic
Masculinities"

DISCUSSION

An Evening with Denice Frohman

MONDAY 17

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LECTURE

"In My Brother's Shadow"

SUNDAY 16

THURSDAY 20

EVENT

Family Weekend

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Dan Fitzgerald, professor of medicine in microbiology

and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College, will
speak about Haitian advancements in prevention and
treatment of AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera. Fitzgerald
will tell the stories of Haitians who aided in these efforts
and are important in the field of public health.
Room 315, Searles Science Building. 7:30 p.m.

"A Delicate Balance"

Masque and Gown will perform Edward Albees 1967

Pulitzer Prize winning play, a drama about an uppermiddle class family whose lives are disrupted by the appearance of family friends trying to escape an unnamed
terror toppling the delicate balance of the household.
The play also runs on Friday and Saturday.
Wish Theater, Memorial Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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