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MORE NEWS: POPE RETURNS FROM LIBYA; STUDENTS AT HIGH RISK FOR FLU

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL: A call to disarm.Page 13.

SPORTS: MEN’S ICE HOCKEY DEFEATS MIDDLEBURYThe men’s hockey team, hot o! an un-defeated start to the season, went 7-1 over the winter break to hoistthemselves to a three-gamelead atop the NESCAC and secure a third place ranking in all of D-III. Page 9.

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HALF ASSED: Judah Issero! ’13 on the importance of the Manti Te’o scandal.

H-L Library exhibits Civil War memorabilia to commemorate the sesquicentennial.

LIBYA: An interview with former U.S. Ambassador Laurence Pope ’67.

Page 14.FLU: Health Center warns of increased fl u risk.Page 3.

TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Facilities Management sta! bundled up to spray water on the Quad as temperatures approached zero degrees in order to prepare Bowdoin’s outdoor ice rink.

Please see INAUGURATION, page 2

Town begins issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples

As a result of Maine’s vote to le-galize same-sex marriage in Novem-ber, the Brunswick Town Clerk’s of-) ce has begun the process of issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

* e o+ ce ) rst opened its doors to same-sex couples on December 29, and has so far issued nine inten-tions of marriage. Six of these have come back notarized as marriage licenses, according to Town Clerk Fran Smith.

Smith said that although the forms for marriage had been al-tered to make them more gender-neutral, the Town Clerk’s o+ ce had not needed to make any signi) cant changes to the rest of the process.

Please see DIRECTOR, page 7

BY SOPHIA CHENGORIENT STAFF

College honorsMartin Luther King Jr., Mills attends Obamainauguration

Please see BILL, page 3

Although there are a multitude of religious groups on campus—includ-ing Bowdoin Hillel, Bowdoin Chris-tian Fellowship, the Muslim Stu-dents Association and the Catholics Student Union—the College lacked someone who would facilitate among

Please see MARRIAGE page 3

BY DIANA LEEORIENT STAFF

FREEZING POINT

* e Bowdoin Community paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a ceremony in the Chapel Mon-day evening. * e Longfellows, Slam Poet Society and the Bowdoin Com-munity Gospel Choir performed in memory of Dr. King, and Brian Pur-nell, assistant professor of Africana studies, spoke of MLK’s legacy.

“It was obvious how much this day meant to people,” said Ben Osher ’15, who performed at the service. “I felt like the lines between the secular and the religious were becoming blurred.”

“It was a day for all of us to step back for a moment and re, ect—a day to remember principals of equal-ity and of individual achievements,” President Barry Mills said.

* is year’s holiday also marked the inauguration of President Obama for his second term in o+ ce. * e pro-ceedings in Washington, D.C. were broadcast around campus.

“Obama was as eloquent as ever,” Conor Tillinghast ’16 said.

“When you think about MLK looking over the mountain top, this could have been part of what he saw,” Ellery Maya-Altshuler ’15 said. “It’s an incredible thing when you know that 50 million people voted for an African-American.”

In an e- ort to increase security in Maine schools, State Senator Da-vid Burns (R-Washington County) proposed a bill earlier this week that would enable teachers and school employees to carry concealed weap-ons on the job. * e Portland Press Herald announced that Burns sub-mitted the bill on Wednesday.

“* is is not a mandate for any-body,” Burns told the Press Herald. “* is is an option for school systems to consider as they look at the overall responsibility and problems of pro-

tecting children and sta- in school environments.”

Burns, a ) rst-term senator who was previously a state trooper for 24 years, also proposed that school districts have the opportunity to hire armed security guards. Under the proposed bill, all school o+ cials could carry a ) rearm under the con-ditions that they ) rst obtain a state permit, enlist in a ) rearms training course, and pass a psychological exam. * e full text of the bill will be released next week, according to Amy Cookson, a representative from the o+ ce of Brunswick State Senator

Bill would allow school employees to carry armsBY SAM WEYRAUCH

ORIENT STAFF

Bob Ives ’69, the founder and di-rector of * e Carpenter’s Boat Shop in Pemaquid, Maine for 33 years, of-) cially assumed his position as the College’s ) rst Director of Religious and Spiritual Life Monday when he gave the benediction at a chapel ceremony com-memorating Martin Luther King Jr.

Director of Student Life Allen De-long announced the appointment of Ives in a campus-wide email on January 17.

“Bob will work closely with the re-ligious and faith-based student-organi-zations, with individuals of any faith or spiritual tradition, and those who wish to re, ect on their spiritual life in a safe environment.” Delong wrote.

Ives has a Masters of Divinity from the University of Edinburgh and has served as the minister of a number of small churches in Maine. He also founded and directed * e Carpenter’s Boat Shop, a nonpro) t boat-building

Independent Senator King aims to change Senate culture with new bills

BY NORA BIETTETIMMONSORIENT STAFF

Shortly a. er being sworn into of-) ce on January 3, Senator Angus King had already begun making the political rounds in Washington, meeting with at least 30 of his new colleagues on Capitol Hill and appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” opposite Newt Gingrich.

Since winning the Senate seat in November, King and his team have been busy setting up the Senator’s Maine and Washington o+ ces, re-viewing hundreds of applications for only 35 positions.

“We were more selective than Stan-ford or Bowdoin,” King said.

King and Bernie Sanders of Ver-mont are the only Independents in the Senate, though both caucus with the Democrats. King is also one of 11 former governors currently serving in the Senate. He said he is considering starting an o+ cial caucus of former governors, because the experience of holding executive power at the state level is so di- erent from holding a con-gressional position.

Governors, King said, “are much more used to working in a bipartisan way, and they’re also used to things get-ting done.”

King said he shared the idea of a potential former governor’s caucus with someone in Washington, who

Please see KING, page 4

HONGBEI LI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“* e only thing that’s changed is that couples of the same sex can now come in to be married,” said Smith.

Although they have not yet had much time to observe, the Town Clerk’s O+ ce expects an increase in the number of licenses issued each year.

“You’re allowing a new population of couples to marry,” said Smith. “Folks have been waiting many years.”

She added, “On our ) rst day of being open [to same-sex couples], we had seven couples come in. We never have seven couples a day.”

Members of the Bowdoin commu-nity are enthusiastic about the new options open to same-sex couples.

“Brunswick, like all areas of the state, has existing, committed, lov-

organization for individuals who are in various states of transition in their lives.

Coral Sandler ’12, who proposed the creation of a Director of Religious and Spiritual Life with Jennifer Wenz ’12 last spring, said she hopes Ives will build a “safe welcoming community around the diverse group of students who are here” and “really create more of a spiritual center or home on cam-pus.”

* e establishment of Ives’ position coincides with an ongoing discussion in the media about the rise of athe-ism among American youth. National Public Radio (NPR) recently broadcast a series called “Losing Our Religion” on the declining numbers of Ameri-cans who are religiously a+ liated. One-) . h of all Americans and a third of young Americans say they don’t be-long to any religion, NPR reported.

Sandler said that she grappled with questions concerning her own spiritu-ality when she ) rst came to Bowdoin.

Ives ’69 named director of religious and spiritual life

Stan Gerzofsky. “* ere are likely to be several bills

about arming teachers/school per-sonnel,” Cookson added. As Chair the Criminal Justice & Public Safety Committee, Senator Gerzofsky, a Democrat, will likely review many of the proposed bills.

Under Burns’ bill, schools would individually have the option to opt in or out, and each local superin-tendent, principal, and school board would need to approve the action. Students’ parents would be noti) ed

BY KATIE MIKLUSORIENT STAFF

GUIDING SPIRIT: Ives is the College’s fi rst director of religious and spiritual life.

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After fi nishing its 2012 season 1-7, the football team is set to return the most upperclassmen and starters of any NESCAC team, which bodes well for the squad’s chances next fall.

SPORTS: Hope for the football team? FEATURES: Bursting the BubbleSeniors Quinn Cohane and Melody Hahm speak with students about how their relation to spirituality and religion on campus.

A&E: Artist Putnam draws on ScienceArtist-in-Residence Barbara Putnam’s work suggests that science and the arts may not be such disparate pursuits.

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Auden Schendler ’92 Please see op-ed, Page 15.

Bowdoin’s mascot and most famous non-poet graduate legacy are endan-gered. 6 e school’s very mis-sion is threatened at its core. It sure seems like Bowdoin, more than any other college, ought to be working hard to solve climate change.

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6 e spring semester o7 cially began on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and though classes were in session, many campus events commemorated the cel-ebrated civil rights leader, who spoke on campus on May 6, 1964.

6 e College has come a long way since King’s visit to campus, which closely followed the completion of con-struction on what is now Coles Tower. In 1964, only three African-American students were enrolled out of a total of 820 students, as Secretary of Develop-ment John Cross notes in his Whisper-ing Pines column. Today, 32 percent of the 8 rst year class is made up of students of color.

An Orient article announcing King’s visit calls him “a believer in non-violent resistance who has taken Gandhi as his model.” 6 e Bowdoin Political Forum invited King to Bowdoin, along with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, in an e9 ort to encourage students to take ac-tion in support of the movement.

Speaking from the pulpit of First Par-ish Church in Brunswick, King said he would address “the question of whether we are making any real progress in the area of race relations in our nation.”

“We have come a long way, but we have a long, long way to go before this problem is solved,” he said. “6 e time is always ripe to do right.” In January 1988, the Portland Press Herald wrote “four weeks a: er leaving Maine, King went willingly to jail in St. Augustine, Fla ., protesting a segregated motel. Five months later, he stood in Oslo, Norway, the youngest man ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.”

-Compiled by Nora Biette-Timmons

BOWDOIN BRIEF

The Bowdoin mascot turned 100 last week, and everyone wants a piece. Madison Whitley ’13 re-cently spotted a hat in a SeaWorld San Diego store bearing the current incarnation of the College’s polar bear logo. The College is now con-tacting SeaWorld, and SeaWorld is investigating.

Whitley is the Orient’s co-Busi-ness Manager.

“Our company is currently looking into the matter,” wrote David Koontz, SeaWorld San Diego’s director of com-munications, in an email to the Orient.

On the College’s end, the issue is being handled by the Treasurer’s Office, which handles trademark and copyright issues, according to

FLASHBACK

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTI HAVE A DREAM: The Bowdoin Community Gospel Choir was among one of many acts commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday at the Chapel.

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1964 visit to Bowdoin

Bob Ives ’69, the College’s newly appointed director of spiritual life was working at Hawthorne-Long-fellow Library when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on April 4, 1968.

“It was so devastating that both my roommate and I decided we would go to his funeral in Atlanta, Georgia,” Ives told the crowd inside the packed Chapel.

When Roy Greason, the president of the College, heard that Ives and his roommate planned to travel to the funeral of King, he asked if they would accept plane tickets paid for by the College and represent Bow-doin at the funeral.

Representing Bowdoin at MLK’s funeral, Ives said, became one of the most pivotal and inspirational mo-ments of his life.

“MLK once said that the problem of human and civil rights would of-ten be more acute in the north than in the south,” Ives said. “In the north

Vice President for Communications Scott Hood.

“Tell Shamu to sleep with one eye open,” tweeted @BowdoinCollege.

“Wow, that is lame what Sea-World did,” wrote Michael Morrow of Morrow Creative Group, which designed the logo, in an email to the Orient. Morrow also noted that it was more likely a SeaWorld licensee who had infringed.

The hat does not appear in the SeaWorld online store.

Although Hood and Morrow pointed to SeaWorld, Asher Stamell ’13 hopes it was Bowdoin who in-fringed: “I hope it comes out that our ‘designer’ stole it so we can go back to the original mean growl-ing beast of a bear,” he tweeted. The current logo was introduced in Oc-tober 2008, replacing a plethora of older designs, including the popu-lar teeth-baring running bear.

Stamell is not alone in scorning

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the current bear’s lack of feroc-ity; in early 2009, Lenny Pierce ’10 wrote a lengthy critique in the Orient

“No teeth are shown,” he noted. “No skull-crushing abilities are in-dicated.”

Still, the logo has plenty of fans. Both Hood and Morrow indepen-dently recalled an instance a cou-

SeaWorld involved in possible infringement of polar bear logo

ple years ago in which an Iceland store “decided they liked our bear too,” wrote Hood, and took it as their store logo. “We sent them a letter, which solved the problem.”

That “was really crazy,” wrote Morrow, who was Nike’s creative director before he started his own agency in 2000. “I guess it’s a backhanded compliment.”

-Compiled by Toph Tucker

MADISON WHITLEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTCOPY BEAR: A side-by-side comparison of the two logos.

SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS

• A spectator at Watson Arena who was struck in the head by a hockey puck was transported to MidCoast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue (January 5).

people hide their prejudices against one and other; in the south people know where they stand.”

Among those attending the inau-guration were President MIlls and his wife Karen.

“I was there not as the President of Bowdoin College,” Mills said. “But as the spouse of Karen Mills, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration.”

“I was delighted that Barry could join me to celebrate such a historic day,” Karen Mills said. “Our day was 8 lled with memorable moments, in-cluding the Morning Prayer service, a view of the National Mall as the President took his oath and dancing at the White House.”

6 e couple was seated at the Presi-dential stand along with Maine Sena-tor Angus King, Secretary of Defense Leon Penatta, United Nations am-bassador Susan Rice, former Presi-dents Clinton and Carter, to name a few.

President Mills and his wife end-ed their day at a party in the White House.

“It was just all too cool,” Mills said.

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Over winter break, a group of Bow-doin students returned to campus early to participate in the Fullbridge Program, an intensive learning expe-rience designed to give students prac-tical business skills and expose them to a workplace environment. Full-bridge usually holds residential pro-grams students on its main campus in Cambridge, Mass. and Bowdoin was the site of the company’s 6 rst external program at a college exclusively for that college’s students.

7 e Fullbridge program covered topics ranging from 6 nancial state-ments to Microso8 Excel.

“A lot of it was 6 nancial analysis,” said Daniel Mejia-Cruz ’16. “We were learning how to make and read bal-ance sheets as well as a lot of other business skills. I got a lot of vocabu-lary just from reading material that they gave us.”

Each day, students were given a quick intro by their coaches on what they would be covering that day and then worked through various learning modules on that topic. Students were broken into teams of 6 ve or six, and while most of the exercises were indi-vidual, some involved group work.

Going into the program, Ryan Holmes ’13 said that he had hoped to come out of the program with a foundation in business math as well as more familiarity with Microso8 Excel.

“I am de6 nitely more familiar with Excel because of the constant rein-forcement,” he said, “but I didn’t really like the teaching style for the rest of the material.”

Pilot Fullbridge Program receives mixed reviews from participants

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

Following the attack on the U.S. Em-bassy in Benghazi, Laurence Pope ’67 came out of retirement to serve as chargé d’a! aires in Libya. Pope completed his tour of duty this month, and spoke to the Orient about his career in the For-eign Service. " e following is an excerpt of the interview, the full text of which is available online.

Linda Kinstler: When did you re-turn from Libya?

Laurence Pope: I came back on January 5…I never intended to stay longer, I couldn’t stay longer—I made that clear, I have a life here and my wife is here, and obviously she couldn’t come out there. 7 ere are no families there for obvious reasons. Security is so tight…So that meant that I was by myself, and three months of that is enough. But I was glad that I could do it.

LK: When we spoke in October, you said that you were focused on security and bringing the perpetrators of the at-tack in Benghazi to justice. What steps did you take to achieve those goals?

LP: 7 e issue involved the cooper-ation of the Libyan government. 7 is was a crime committed on Libyan territory. It was the responsibility of the government of Libya in the 6 rst instance, but it was also of interest to the United States and we have laws in our books that make it a crime to kill American citizens abroad. 7 e FBI sent a team to Libya and I worked with that team to try to make sure that the Libyan government cooperated with the investigation that we were conducting on both sides. 7 at was one focus of the embassy’s work there. FBI Director Robert Mueller was just in Libya for a couple of days ago, so the process continues.

LK: How was this experience di9 er-ent from your previous tours of duty?

LP: It was a unique situation—this

was an embassy whose ambassador had been killed, and the folks there had gone through that experience, and I arrived there about a month a8 er the Beng-hazi events so they were still somewhat fresh. When I got there, there was still considerable disruption…but mainly because the embassy had lost its leader, and other colleagues. A sizeable num-ber of the sta9 had been evacuated back to the United States, still leaving about 100 le8 . So it was a question of getting the embassy back and operating—and it was operating, but there were some issues there.

And then [it was a matter of] report-ing to the Libyan government, checking in with the Libyan government, going to see the foreign minister, going to see the prime minister and the president, and saying the United States is still here, and even despite what’s happened we’re not going to abandon Libya.

LK: What was it like working with the Libyan government?

LP: 7 e Libyan government is a work in progress. It’s a transitional gov-ernment, the purpose of which is to run the country during an interim pe-riod until permanent institutions can be put in place—a constitution, and the institutions that guard that con-stitution. 7 ere had been an election in July, which was quite a successful election for the General National Con-gress. Two hundred representatives had elected a prime minister—when I arrived the 6 rst prime minister had re-signed as a result of the withdrawal of the con6 dence of this General National Congress, a sort of proto-legislature, in him, and a new government was tak-ing shape…when I arrived they were sort of between governments, between transitional governments...

...Now they have a lot of problems, and their principle problem is estab-lishing security in Libya, and what happened in Benghazi is part of that. 7 e militias, the popular uprising that did away with Qadda6 with some help from NATO and the air force of the

United States, they’re still there. And so making the transition from a state which was liberated by militias to a state which is governed by the rule of law and permanent institutions, is [on-going].

LK: Do you have any advice for students hoping to enter the Foreign Service?

LP: My father, who also went to Bow-doin—and he was chair of the board at Bowdoin for three years—he’d been in the Marine Corps in the Second World War. He used to make fun of people who used to say “Oh, you should have been in the old Marine Corps,” the pre-war 1930s Marine Corps. So you look back at institutions and it’s easy to say “it was great when I was there but then it’s deteriorated ever since.” I would not say that about today’s Foreign Service—I do think it needs to recover a sense of what it’s mission is in the world and that requires some political leadership.

7 ere’s a problem there when po-litical functions migrate to the White House and when the Defense Depart-ment has too large a role in foreign pol-icy as opposed to defense policy, and when political appointees of the State Department are it seems at a lower and lower level as it seems every year. But, the United States is a state—we think of ourselves as an exceptional state, but we’re still a state. And the rules of the world involve state-to-state rela-tions, and there will always be a need for skilled, experienced people to con-duct those relations, and you call them diplomats.

It’s an honorable career, and a career which I would recommend to anybody, without illusions about the current state of the institution and the problems that it faces. I think that in some ways the pendulum in these matters tends to swing, and I hope it will swing back to a recognition of the importance of diplo-macy and the diplomatic service and the relations between sovereign states, even in the world of information revo-lutions and globalization.

Former Ambassador Pope ’67 returns to U.S.BY LINDA KINSTLER

ORIENT STAFF

Mejia-Cruz agreed. “7 ey tried to emulate a working environment, but I think if they had a more hands on approach the things would be easier to apply. We were essentially reading pdf ’s independently and then taking a quiz on the material, which was kind of di: cult without further explana-tions, but regardless, I learned a lot.”

Mejia-Cruz said that he would rec-ommend the program to others, albeit not wholeheartedly.

“I would hesitantly suggest it just because I was really let down by the manner in which was presented,” he said. “It wasn’t what I expected—you basically sit in front of a computer.”

Along with 6 nancial literacy, the program stressed interpersonal skills.

“7 ey stressed skills that you keep using—leadership, group skills, pre-sentation—and these are all things that you need at Bowdoin, and will use actively here,” said Mejia-Cruz. “7 e program is especially good for people who aren’t as con6 dent in their pre-sentation skills.”

Holmes also said that he was unsure if he would retain all of the information.

“I have more of a vocabulary around business math,” he said, “But I don’t think I could do [the math] now. I have access to the materials, though, so if you gave me time to refresh I could do it.”

Holmes said that, along with the in depth work with Microso8 Excel, the best part of the program was the interaction with some of the people involved in Fullbridge.

“7 e founder and 6 nancial expert for Fullbridge were really interesting people to talk to,” he said.

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ing gay and lesbian couples as part of the community, and these couples now have the opportunity to re-ceive legal rights and protections and make a public declaration of their commitment,” said Director of Career Planning Timothy Diehl, a board member of the LGBT ad-vocacy group Equality Maine.

Kate Stern, director of the Re-source Center for Sexual and Gen-der Diversity, echoed these senti-ments, but also emphasized that the most exciting part of the new law was the increased range of choices for same-sex couples.

“I think that whether people de-cide to get married or not is less of an issue, but the bigger issue is that people know that they have the ability to get married and to be treated equally if they choose to,” said Stern. “Just like all het-erosexual people didn’t have to get married before, people in same-sex relationships now have the choice.”

“This is an important legal and statewide recognition, but it hasn’t fundamentally changed the com-mitment to each other that [same-sex couples] have had,” said Diehl.

He also added that he does not believe that the new law will result in significant change in attitudes in Brunswick.

“I think Brunswick is a very in-clusive and supportive community, and has been for a long time,” said Diehl.

College at high fl u risk, asks students to take precautions

Health Services is anticipating an increase in in; uenza cases over the next few weeks as students return to campus carrying germs from all over the world.

“Usually about a week a8 er stu-dents return from winter break we start seeing patients with ; u-like symptoms,” said Sandra Hayes, di-rector of health services. However, she added, “I think we’re preparing for the ; u in the best way possible.”

7 is past fall over 800 students received the in; uenza vaccine via the health center, which protects aginst the H3N2, H1N1 and In; u-enza B strands of the virus. H3N2 is a strand of in; uenza that was last common in 2003 but is expected to be seen more frequently this ; u season.

In accordance with both local and national trends, Bowdoin saw an in-crease in H3N2 cases prior to break. 7 e exact number of cases is public-ly unavailable in order to protect the privacy of a9 ected patients.

Hayes estimated that there were between 20 and 25 in; uenza cases detected by the health center 6 rst semester.

Since the start of this semester, there has been only one con6 rmed case of ; u at Bowdoin. Although, Hayes expects the number of in; u-enza cases to rise as students come into contact with each other during their 6 rst week back.

“Living in a small campus like this means you’re touching the same [things] as other students, which puts everyone at a higher risk for in-; uenza,” said Hayes.

7 e health center encourages stu-dents to practice healthy habits like washing their hands and covering their coughs in order to decrease the risk of in; uenza or any other virus.

Despite precautions being taken, there is no evidence that the ; u sea-son this year will be any more severe than in the past.

“It’s too soon to tell whether this year will be di9 erent than other years,” said Hayes. “I will say that we did see an increase in ; u cases before break as compared to other years.”

In contrast to the rise of in; u-enza 6 rst semester, the number of documented STI cases on cam-pus dropped following a spike last spring, although the health center hasn’t speci6 ed a reason for the drop.

Whitney Hogan, coordinator of health education, sent an email to 6 rst years and several other campus groups last March warning students of the increase in STI diagnoses. 7 is fall the number of diagnoses decreased, although the exact num-ber of cases was still publicly un-available.

“We still encourage students to get tested,” said Hayes. Students should be tested anywhere from every three months to every year based on their sexual practices.

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ORIENT STAFF when a school employee registers to conceal a 6 rearm, although the indi-vidual identity would be kept secret.

“My bill would have the option of either putting together a train-ing curriculum through the [Maine] Criminal Justice Academy or it would be put together by private vendors trained in 6 rearms,” Burns told ABC News.

In the six weeks since the Decem-ber 14 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., there have been 6 ve additional school shootings in the U.S.

State Represen-tative Peter Kent, a Democrat who represents a por-tion of Brunswick, is against the new bill, and said he will not be voting for it.

“I don’t think guns belong in schools,” he said. “7 at’s the bottom line.”

Maine law permits colleges and universities to decide whether to al-low 6 rearms on their property, and Bowdoin allows its students and fac-ulty to have 6 rearms under the con-dition that they are stored with the O: ce of Safety and Security.

7 omas Lilly ’14 stores two shot-guns with Security, goes shooting a few times a semester in Falmouth, and buys ammunition at Dick’s Sporting Goods. Maine state law al-lows individuals over the age of 18 to

purchase 6 rearms and ammunition without a license.

Lilly decided to transport his guns to school, “because I found out that Bowdoin had a policy where I actu-ally could bring them,” he said. “7 at led me to investigate what I could do in the area.”

Lilly said he did not feel the need to bring his guns to college and would not have been upset had he not been allowed to bring them. When he returns to campus a8 er a break, he knows to bring his guns straight to Security.

“You’re not allowed to have [guns] on campus at all, so when I come back from home I go right to Secu-

rity and drop them o9 ,” he said.

Educators have expressed opposition to the bill already, and have brought up the possibility that teachers could get distracted and a stu-dent could grab the weapon, according to

the Portland Press Herald.Jamie Caron, the Portland School

Board chairman, and Mike Sau-schuck, the Portland police chief, are both against the new bill. Caron pre-fers the idea of expanding school in-tercom systems —which can be used to signal a lockdown—while Sau-schuck objects to the bill because he believes that teachers will not receive adequate gun safety training, accord-ing to the Press Herald.

-Kate Witteman contributed to this report.

“I don’t think guns belong in schools.

That’s the bottom line.”

PETER KENTMAINE STATE REPRESENTATIVE

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SECURITY REPORT: 12/17 to 1/23Monday, December 17• A student driving a Zip Car skidded

on snow and ice and struck a stop sign on Tower Drive.

• A student reported a bike lost or stolen in the vicinity of Moulton Union.

• A green Giant bicycle was reported stolen from a bike rack at Coleman Hall.

• An intoxicated female student at Osher Hall was transported to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

Tuesday, December 18• An unregistered event was reported

at Baxter House.• A student with 6 u symptoms was

taken to Parkview.• An employee fell on an icy walkway

near the Museum of Art.• A live Christmas tree was removed

from a room in Stowe Inn. Live trees are prohibited by College policy as they present a 7 re hazard.

• Drug and hard alcohol violations were reported in Stowe Hall.

Friday, December 21• A branch of a large tree behind Bur-

nett House fell and damaged the roof of a private home.

Tuesday, December 25• 8 ree local residents were removed

from Bowdoin property a9 er they were seen driving recklessly in the Watson Arena parking lot.

! ursday, December 27• An employee was transported to

Mid Coast Hospital a9 er falling on ice outside the Buck Fitness Center.

Saturday, December 29• A student with possible frostbite

was escorted to Parkview.Wednesday, January 2• A 7 re extinguisher box at Sargent

Gymnasium was vandalized.Saturday, January 5• A spectator at Watson Arena who

was struck in the head by a hockey puck was transported to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.

! ursday, January 10• Tapestries hanging from a ceiling in

Quinby House presented a 7 re hazard and were removed.

Friday, January 11• A tapestry hanging on a wall in

Stowe Inn that was covering 7 re and smoke detectors was removed.

Saturday, January 12• A student’s vehicle that was parked

in the Co: n Street lot was broken into. A side window was smashed and a Gar-min GPS and a wallet containing credit cards were stolen.

Sunday, January 13• Two students wrestling in a hallway

at Baxter House damaged a door.• A rock was thrown through a win-

dow at the Admissions O: ce.• A complaint of loud noise was re-

ported on the third 6 oor of Chamber-lain Hall.

Tuesday, January 15• A Bowdoin student’s North Face

jacket was stolen from the women’s locker room at Farley Field House. In-vestigation determined that the jacket was stolen by a high school student. It was recovered and the student was barred from using Bowdoin facilities.

! ursday, January 17• A suspicious vehicle was reported in

t he area of Pine Street Apartments.• A vending machine at Farley Field

House was vandalized.Friday, January 18

• Two students’ vehicles collided in the Farley parking lot. One student re-ceived a minor head injury. A report was 7 led with the Brunswick Police De-partment.

• A minor two-vehicle accident oc-curred in the Dayton parking lot.

Saturday, January 19• A large unregistered event was dis-

persed at Quinby House.Sunday, January 20• A security o: cer reported a drunk

driver to the BPD. 8 e suspect was stopped and arrested.

Monday, January 21• A student was apprehended for

shopli9 ing at the Brunswick Walmart. BPD issued a court summons. 8 e stu-dent was barred from the store for one year.

• A green and silver mountain bike, unknown make, was stolen from the Osher Hall bike rack. 8 e unregistered bike had been le9 unlocked.

Tuesday, January 22• A BPD o: cer observed an intoxi-

cated male student urinating in public at the corner of Pleasant and Union Streets. 8 e student was warned for indecent conduct and turned over to a security o: cer. A report was 7 led with the dean’s o: ce.

• 8 e use of an electronic air fresh-ener set o; the smoke alarm in a room at Osher Hall.

• A Chamberlain Hall student with 6 u symptoms was escorted to Parkview.

Wednesday, January 23• A smoke alarm in Coles Tower was

activated by a student using a hair dryer.

these organizations and serve as a resource for students who had ques-tions about their religious and spiri-tual beliefs, said Sandler.

“When I 7 rst got here I was starting to explore some of these sort of bigger spiritual questions in my life. What do I believe in?” she said. “8 e summer a9 er my sophomore year I realized that I really felt a little alone in my quest at Bowdoin...8 ere were di; erent reli-gious groups but there wasn’t space for students…making spiritual questions.”

Last spring, Sandler raised her con-cerns in a letter she and Wenz wrote to President Barry Mills.

“8 ere’s been a sense of there being a taboo around spiritual and religious life at Bowdoin,” said Sandler. “Another thing we wrote in the letter is that stu-dents are [either] outliers in their spiri-tual life, or were in the [campus] main-stream and put their spiritual life on hold because it was taboo. And that’s not celebrating their diversity.”

When Sandler and Wenz met with Mills, he gave them an assignment.

“He said now I want you to go and bring back this group of students who represent this diversity that you speak of at Bowdoin and research what other NESCAC schools have…and with the results of that research tell me what you think would work here and what wouldn’t,” said Sandler.

“We got this group of students and we had two meetings [with Mills] and it was in the middle of 7 nals last spring and everyone made it,” she said. “It was so incredible for all these Bowdoin stu-dents to say, yeah I’m going to priori-tize this right now. It was so gratifying.”

Allen Delong, director of student life, said Sandler’s proposal demon-strated that the College’s system of spiritual and religious support at Bow-doin was “too tenuous.” Although fac-ulty and sta; were “generously advising students, spending time with students around questions of faith or perhaps

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on spiritual journeys…these people had other full-time jobs,” he explained.

“I think that what I envision is a per-son who is identi7 ed for students to whom they can go to think about ques-tions of faith,” Delong added. “One of the really exciting things about Bob’s in-terview is that he talked about spiritual journeys, and how o9 en students come to campus and it’s the 7 rst time they’re outside of their spiritual communities. And they may experience some type of con6 ict with a roommate of a di; erent faith or who may have beliefs that con-tradict that student’s faith.”

According to Delong, Ives’ back-ground as a minister, schoolteacher, lobsterman and director of 8 e Car-

penter’s Boat Shop makes him particu-larly well-suited to answer questions students may have.

“For me, personally, Bob is so thoughtful in a way that really sug-gests he’s had all these di; erent posi-tions…and that he has approached each one from a spiritual perspective,” Delong said.

8 e 7 9 h generation in his family to attend Bowdoin, Ives said he hopes to help “charter the course of life for oth-ers here on campus” in the same way Bowdoin did for him. Shortly before Ives began his 7 rst year of college, his parents passed away.

“8 ey had died during my junior year of high school, and so Bowdoin met so many kinds of needs person-ally and socially, and it was just a great foundation and grounding for my personal development in life,” Ives explained.

Ives said he envisions his new role as fourfold: he will act as a coordina-tor among students of di; erent faith groups, a liaison between students and faith groups throughout Maine, a counselor for individual students, and a chaplain or minister who is able to address the di: culties that the Bow-doin community might experience.

“Probably 70 percent of my time will be spent with individual students,” said Ives. “When students come here, a lot of students come with all feelings about re-ligious traditions. Some are very enthu-siastic, some are deeply hurt…I think I’m here to simply talk with people…to help them 7 nd their way and to nurture them at whatever point of faith they are at this point.”

While Ives is from a Quaker back-ground, he said he wants to reach out to students of all di; erent faiths.

“I think as the director of religious and spiritual life I don’t have any desire to be ministering to one faith, but all faiths. I work to celebrate the diversity of religion on the Bowdoin campus and the religious lives of all students,” he said.

Melanie Gaynes ’13, president of Bowdoin Hillel, interviewed Ives last fall and said she was impressed by his expe-rience working with young people. She said she hopes Ives focuses on promot-ing interfaith dialogue on campus.

“One of the things that I’m excited about is having somebody to help the di; erent groups of faith work together more 6 uidly,” said Gaynes. “I think that everybody gets wrapped up in their own group and their own needs and we don’t always look for who else we could be working with. I think that Bob Ives is able to help us to think about how we can work together and think about what kind of programs we can do.”

For now, Ives said he is going to take his new role one day at a time. “I’m a little leery of putting forward too much,” he explained. “I’m going to try to see where the students are really working, see what they’re thinking, and then begin to put together things that are really helpful and meaningful and purposeful.”

“I think what I envision is a person who is identifi ed for students to

whom they can go to think about questions of faith.”

ALLEN DELONGDIRECTOR OF STUDENT LIFE

said, “it could also be called the ex-tremely frustrated caucus.’”

“The governor has the opportu-nity to set the agenda and pick out particular priorities,” King said. “In Congress, you’re one of 535 [legis-lators]. It’s a different dynamic. I’m frustrated already… The framers designed the system to be slow and cumbersome and they succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.”

King announced his candidacy to replace retiring Senator Olympia Snowe last spring, when he was teaching his popular Leaders and Leadership lecture course. King began teaching as a distin-guished lecturer at the College in 2004, a9 er completing his term as governor. Now that he has once more taken public o: ce, wthe course is no longer o; ered.

“I wanted to try to think systematically about leader-ship as op-posed to just doing it,” King said. “Over the years of teach-ing the course, it allowed me to focus on principles…all of which have helped me think through what I’m doing now.”

King said he 7 nds lessons he learned from Winston Churchill to be particularly relevant to his day-to-day life as a senator.

“I teach a whole section of Churchill on how to do brief memos,” King said. “Brevity and the principle of getting straight advice from your sta; … All of those things are part of what I learned and what I’m now applying.”

King sits on the Armed Services, Select Intelligence, Budget, and Rules Committees, the last of which re6 ects his stated intention to reform the 7 li-buster, which has come up in most of his conversations with fellow senators—Democrats and Republicans alike.

“Both sides were open and honest about what their goals were,” King said. Right now, opinion of the 7 libuster “di-vides itself by seniority. 8 ere’s a group of mostly younger Democratic senators

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who have had it with the 7 libuster.”Conversely, Republicans favor the 7 l-

ibuster in its current form because “they view it as their opportunity to control” Senate proceedings, King said, adding that senior Democrats warn against making a change that will haunt them when they’re back in the minority.

“I come down on the side that we’ve got to do something,” King said. “8 e Senate isn’t functioning the way it used to as recently as 7 ve or six years ago.” However, even King isn’t totally con7 -dent that change will come: “It’s not easy. I give it 50-50 that something’s going to happen,” he said.

On Tuesday, King and Senators Tom Udall (D-NM), Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Je; Merkley (D-OR) introduced a proposal to support 7 libuster reform, which includes eliminating the 7 libuster on motions to proceed. (Currently, the 7 libuster can be used by a minority of

senators to block standard administrative happenings in the Senate.)

King is also frustrated by the current legislative battles in the Senate, especially the refusal of congressional Re-publicans to increase the debt ceiling.

“8 ey ought to just do it,” he said. “It shouldn’t be

controversial. It shouldn’t be used as a political weapon.”

King explained that raising the debt ceiling — a rountine legislative is “back-ward looking; it allows us to borrow money we’ve already spent.”

True to his independent a: liation, King has dissented from the Democrat-ic agenda as well. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, he said that he does not yet know whether or not he will support President Obama’s proposed assault weapons ban.

King’s steadfast identi7 cation as an Independent hasn’t been a problem in Washington—at least not yet.

“So far, the reception and respect and seriousness with which I’ve been ac-corded have been better than I would have hoped,” he said. “I’ve been taken seriously by the leadership… It’s been very cordial.”

But, he added, “whether that will translate into e; ectiveness remains to be seen.”

“The framers designed the systemto be slow and cubersome

and they succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.”

SENATOR ANGUS KING

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New Year’s resolution: You do you, but exercise more style

5 is was the week in which we woke up from our long winter’s naps and returned to early rising, fever-ous note taking, and, of course, the inescapable frigidity of the Artic—I mean, Midcoast Maine weather.

Some of you will protest that your vacation was not a long winter’s nap, but rather a series of sun-induced dozes on your towel in Boca Raton. But most of you, if I may be so bold, did a lot of nothing over your hi-bernation period. Even those of you with deep tans, natural or spray-on (which, by the way, will fade), spent a lot of time doing nothing with or without sand between your toes.

But now the time has come for you once again to wash your hair at

least twice per week, to change your underwear at least once a day, and to do something more productive with your time than watch marathons of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” or “Law and Order.” Now you must put away your Juicy sweats, those heinous housecoats of the twenty-6 rst century that you bought in eighth grade, and put on some real clothes—clothes that will get you to class in sub-zero weather.

As someone—or perhaps ev-eryone—once said, transitions are hard. And the change we face from the languor and ennui and online shopping of winter break to the ex-haustion of drunkenness and study-ing (and online shopping) of spring semester is no exception. No longer can you graze in the open refrig-erator for hours at a time; now you must synchronize your feeding peri-od with the odd hours of the dining halls. No longer can the day’s main

“Bowdoin boys in Blue—and Gray” commemorates Civil WarA new exhibit on the second

floor of the Hawthorne-Longfellow (H-L) Library pays homage to the American Civil War from a unique historical perspective: that of the Bowdoin students who fought in the conflict.

5 e exhibit, called “Bowdoin Boys in Blue—and Gray,” seeks to document the participation of Bowdoin students in this pivotal historical event through personal letters, journals, drawings, news-papers and o7 cial documents, all culled from the College’s extensive Civil War archive in the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections.

The exhibit is one of several other programs that Bowdoin is of-fering to commemorate the sesqui-centennial, or 150th, anniversary of the Civil War.

Since the start of 2013, H-L Li-brary has been keeping a daily blog called “On This Day in Civil War History…” that offers digital selections from various civil war manuscripts, mostly diaries of Bowdoin soldiers and their letters to Bowdoin students and alumni. The journals in particular offer an insider’s perspective of daily mili-tary life in the 1860s.

In addition, Bowdoin will be hosting an Alumni College series on the sesquicentennial August 8-11 featuring guest speakers and talks by Bowdoin faculty.

The College’s sesquicentennial celebrations mark the 150th anni-versary of Civil War accomplish-ments by a Bowdoin alumnus in 1863, rather than the declaration of war in 1861.

“We chose to use 2013 as the ses-quicentennial year largely because 1863 is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, and because Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had such a central role at Gettysburg and Bowdoin,” said Richard Lin-demann, director of the Library’s Special Collections.

Chamberlain, who graduated from Bowdoin in 1852 and taught at

the College in the late 1850s before joining the Union army, is probably the most recognizable alumnus fea-tured in the exhibit.

He received the Medal of Honor for his heroism at the Battle of Get-tysburg, served four terms as the Governor of Maine a8 er the war, and was President of Bowdoin from 1871 to 1883. Chamberlain’s ac-complishments have established him as a key part of Maine and Bowdoin’s history.

The exhibition sprung from a desire to highlight the abundant Civil War materials in Special Col-lections. Lindemann noted that Bowdoin has a unique ability to document this important time in the nation’s history.

“We have so much Civil War ma-terial because so many Bowdoin men participated in the Civil War,” he said.

According to the exhibit, 317 out of Bowdoin’s then-living 1,125 students and alumni served in the Civil War. Only 18 fought for the Confederacy.

Most of the documents located in the two display cases on the second floor of the H-L Library ar-rived at Special Collections via do-nations from alumni. The first half of the exhibition represents the

Students will also recognize the name of Thomas H. Hubbard, Class of 1857, after whom Hubbard Hall is named. Hubbard served as Brevet Brigadier General in the war. He also raised money for Me-morial Hall, originally constructed to commemorate the service of Bowdoin students in the war.

The other two families featured in the first half of the exhibit, the MacArthur and Howard families, sent a number of their sons to the College, all of whom went on to serve in the Union military.

5 e second half of the exhibit uses manuscript materials to present sev-eral topics: life on the home front, the role of “Bowdoin Boys” in the Con-federacy (which the “—and Gray” of the exhibit’s title refers to), and other notable alumni that didn’t make it into the separate family section.

A point of interest in the second section is a series of pictures and engravings by the artist Winslow Homer depicting contemporary scenes of military camp life and ac-tivities on the home front that were published in the popular magazine Harper’s Weekly. The pictures, some which began as woodcut en-gravings, offer a good counterbal-ance to the vast amount of hand-

event be logging into eBear to look for internships only to be distracted by Scott and Kourtney’s latest ti9 ; now you must go to class and do homework and actually 6 nd some-thing to do over the summer or, if you are a senior, with the rest of your life. But no longer do your parents’ questions hover over you; now your stress falls to a never ending cascade of emails from Career Planning.

So—at this moment when we leave something like the real world and return to the so-called Bowdoin bubble—let me take a moment to re-: ect on the di9 erences between how we dress at Bowdoin and how people dress in the larger world.

I spent my break in New Haven, Manhattan, Chicago, and some plac-es in between. It is to the inhabitants and visitors of these towns and cities that I will compare us Polar Bears. As we sit in the Union or run to 5 orne before it closes, how does

COURTESY OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BOWDOIN’S MAINE MEN: Soldiers, some of whom were Bowdoin students, ready their drums as the army headed to battle (above). Joshua Chamberlain sports a Union uniform (below).

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our garb rival the habiliment of New Yorkers languishing on the steps of the Met or tromping through Madi-son Square Park to get to Eataly? Or to the sartorial leanings of New Ha-venites charging across the Green to get to the new Shake Shack? Or even to the attire of Chicagoans doing whatever it is they do (eating steak and building skyscrapers, as far as I can tell)?

5 e answer—because I can make it so—is complicated. First the good news: Bowdoin students, on the whole, are more fashionable than your average American urbanite. Now the bad news: we are far less stylish than those metropolitan masses. You are wondering now what the di9 erence is between fashion and style. I’ll tell you.

To be fashionable is to own and wear nice clothes, pretty clothes, the essential pieces that Cosmo or GQ told you to buy. But style is more

elusive; style is something unique and intriguing about the way you wear clothes. Style is not having the required pieces and looking better than everyone else.

At Bowdoin, we students have fashion but no style. Yes, some of you sport Barbour jackets and Tory Burch : ats (or their knock-o9 s), but so does everyone else. And I guess that is precisely the point: fashion is what someone else tells you to wear, style is when what you wear tells others something about you. If you want to see some style, you need not look any further than our profes-sors, particularly those (though I am biased) in the English or theatre de-partments. You can learn something from your professors a8 er all.

In this new year, let’s make an ef-fort, in this new year, to be more stylish. Take risks, be bold, and wear a kimono to class. Above all, you do you; no one else can.

written text, which makes up the majority of the exhibit.

“We wanted to feature Winslow Homer, who doesn’t have any ties to Bowdoin, except that his papers are at the art museum. He was a re-nowned artist with Maine connec-tions, and the College claims him as a Maine son, if not a Bowdoin son,” said Lindemann.

He admits that the exhibit is a lot

to absorb in one viewing. “I don’t expect that anyone is go-

ing to go through that exhibit and read every card from beginning to end, but there’s a story there if you do that. You have to savor it. Get a little flavor, go away, and come back. It’s a great exhibit to take a little piece at a time.”

The exhibit will be on view through June 1.

The College’s sesquicentennial celebrations mark the 150th

anniversary of Civil War accomplishments by a Bowdoin

alumnus in 1863, rather than the declaration of war in 1861.

experience of Bowdoin soldiers, focusing on four alumni families that were prominent in the war and at Bowdoin through photo-graphs, letters, and some Civil War memorabilia.

Viewers will recognize the name of Chamberlain in a display case entirely devoted to his memoirs, letters and notes, as well as his sig-nature in a student’s copy of what could be called the 1860’s version of a yearbook.

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Students value varied spiritual support

QUINN COHANE AND MELODY HAHM

BURSTING THE BUBBLE

Last week, Robert Ives ’69 was appointed Bowdoin’s new director of religious and spiritual life, which inspired us to think about the nature of spirituality at Bowdoin.

When asked about the College’s religious culture, David Smick ’15 replied, “I think it’s personal, if no-ticeable at all. 6 e only time I really saw that there was religious interest here was last year at Easter time; half the people I know, including myself, went home to celebrate.”

A variety of students we spoke with echoed Smick’s observation. At a secular institution like Bowdoin, it is no surprise that religion is not outwardly prominent on campus. However, this does not imply that students do not contemplate their spirituality.

While exploring di7 erent belief systems two summers ago, Lucy Walker ’14 came across Western Bud-dhist teachings. 6 e following fall, she serendipitously stumbled upon a table for a new club called Circle at the Bowdoin Student Activities Fair.

“It was just what I was looking for at that moment,” said Walker. “Circle is a safe space for students to come together no matter their religious or spiritual beliefs. Even if they don’t identify with any sort of religion at all, it is a comfortable, con8 dential forum where we can share our ex-periences and connect with other people on their journeys.”

6 rough Circle, Walker found a group of students on campus who have a similar desire to live more mindfully. 6 ough Walker de8 nes spirituality as a process of personal exploration, she emphasizes the im-portance of connecting with other spiritually curious individuals.

“I found Circle to be a place to share what I was beginning to dis-cover and to connect with other people through what I was explor-ing on my own,” said Walker, who is now a co-leader of the group.

During her initial days at Bowdoin, Leah Kahn ’15 also sought out a community to help ease her transition to college life. Coming from a Jewish household, Kahn wanted to continue celebrating the traditions from her upbringing.

“I saw Hillel at the Activities Fair and went to the 8 rst Shabbat dinner, then kept showing up because it was a fun group of people,” said Kahn.

“I associate Judaism with my fam-ily and visits to my cousins’ or grand-parents’ house for dinner, so being around this new group of students through Hillel felt very welcom-ing and familiar,” said Wahn. “6 e people drew me to Hillel; it wasn’t so much that I wanted to be more in-volved as a Jew at Bowdoin. I would consider my involvement with Hillel as more cultural than spiritual.”

Now a board member of the Bowdoin Hillel, Kahn’s view of Hil-lel as a cultural group parallels her larger personal views on the role of religion in life.

“For me, religion is about the tradi-tions and events you do together, the food and the people, the shared knowl-edge because you’ve grown up in the Jewish culture,” explained Kahn. “6 e more spiritual questions like ‘Does God exist?’ are not as relevant to my

! is semester, “Bursting the Bubble” will focus on undiscussed issues on campus as they a" ect students’ daily lives.

Judaism, especially at Bowdoin.”In contrast, other students choose

to join faith-based organizations that have a strong focus on religious practice in addition to cultural tra-ditions. Andrew Hilboldt ’13 was raised in a Christian household and wanted to grow stronger in his faith during his time at Bowdoin.

Hilboldt joined the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship (BCF) as a 8 rst year and became close with BCF sta7 leader Rob Gregory. He shared an idea with Gregory for creating another opportunity for students to remain connected with their Chris-tian faith—inspired by a group he came across when touring Amherst College as a member of the varsity squash team.

“At Amherst, I met up with a friend I knew, and she took me to a Bible study for athletes,” said Hil-boldt. “I realized Bowdoin didn’t have one and thought it might be cool to start it.”

At 8 rst, Hilboldt was wary of com-ing to a college with such a secular reputation. Ultimately the lack of a religious culture became more of a reason for him to choose Bowdoin. Hilboldt felt a responsibility to show how multi-dimensional the Chris-tian faith could be.

“I noticed at Bowdoin that there was this notion that you were a Christian or you weren’t a Chris-tian—it was very much black and white,” Hilboldt said. “If you were Christian, you didn’t go out and drink, didn’t socialize.

“Unfortunately, much of col-lege life is debaucherous, so a lot of people think ‘Oh, I was Christian in high school, but in college there’s no place for that,’” he added.

In order to change the simplistic notion of Christianity on campus, Hilboldt created the Athlete’s Bible Study, a weekly group open to all members of the Bowdoin com-munity but aimed at athletes and sports fans, which discusses liv-ing a Christian life through study of the Bible. He wanted to lead by example, and show that a Bowdoin student-athlete can continue to lead a devout life.

“My motivation for starting Ath-lete’s Bible Study was targeting that audience of people who put their faith on hold,” said Hilboldt. “I wanted to show that someone can play a sport, go out, be smart, and be a Christian who has a strong faith.”

Hilboldt was concerned that his fel-low believers might have been hesitant to identify themselves as Christian because they were not participating in

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Is it over? Remarks on 5-week winter break

Getting back into the old college routine for the 8 rst time in a month was a bit of a strange feeling. I’d been away for weeks, but once I was back, I felt that I had never gone. Everything seemed just like I le9 it. As I walked through campus, I was reunited with many familiar faces, and received many wonderful yet awkward hugs.

6 en came the seemingly never-ending small talk. I’m pretty sure that every single conversation that I’ve had this last week has started the exact same way: “Hey! How was your break?” “Good, and yours?” “Good.” In fact, it might have been impossible to start chatting any di7 erently.

And yet, even though this is how almost every conversation I had this week began, every time I answered in this manner I couldn’t help feel that my response of “good” was not quite adequate. 6 is break was long. Re-ally long. So when friends asked me how my break was, I short-circuited. It took too much thinking to suf-8 ciently answer the question, and a one word generic answer was all I could muster.

How was my break? Well, which week? Week one was exciting. 6 e holidays were near and I received a lot of kick-ass sweaters. Not to men-tion one beautifully cra9 ed hand-knit scarf sent from my roommate. My mom made delicious pies and I avoided all potentially awkward

mistletoe situations. Week two was also fun. I 8 nally had the chance to catch up with old friends and made a resolution to spend my Polar Points more wisely this semester (we’ll see how that pans out). Week three was a bit of a lull. I went on vacation and got sick, so I began spending a lot of quality time with my brother’s Net: ix account. (By the way, I highly recom-mend Breaking Bad.)

Week four was interesting in how uninteresting it was. Unlike some of my more productive peers who took advantage of an internship or job, I decided to do absolutely zilch with my break, and by week four the boredom started setting in.

In high school, winter break was a precious time. For a mere two weeks, I didn’t have to worry about papers or tests. I had the chance to do absolutely nothing and it felt fabulous, for doing nothing is some-thing I do best.

And yet, a whole month of doing nothing began to feel a little unful8 ll-ing. By week four my siblings had aban-doned me, and most of my friends were back at school. I was all by my lone-some. 6 us, to occupy my time I weird-ly got involved with domestic activities. I began baking, cleaning my house, and running errands.

As a result, by the end of week four, I started missing this place. And missing school was something that I never thought possible before Bowdoin. I missed hanging out with my college friends and—call me a nerd—but I actually missed some of my classes. 6 us, although my break was indeed “good,” I’ve got to admit, it’s good to be back.

formal religious activity. “You don’t have to be doing some-

thing as part of an organization to be living a Christian life,” Hilboldt said. “For me, playing squash in a way that serves God is just as valuable as reading the Bible for an hour.”

Hilboldt strongly believes there is a place for Christianity in athletics and sees parallels between religious teachings and sports training.

“I use Christianity to enhance my performance on the athletic field. There are so many analogies in the Bible about pushing ourselves phys-ically and mentally as a team and the importance of sportsmanship,” said Hilboldt. “Christianity can be seen as motivation to reach our po-tential in sports for more reasons than self-gain.”

While Hilboldt is not afraid to speak openly about religion, he is more cautious when it comes to defining spirituality.

“I de8 nitely know of people who say they’re spiritual but not religious,” said Hilboldt. “My dad always says there are non-believers, seekers, and believ-ers. I think the people who toss around the word ‘spirituality’ are the ones in that seeker category—they’re curious,” said Hilboldt.

6 ough students may be quietly questioning their religious or spiri-tual beliefs, Hilboldt, Walker and Kahn all corroborated Smick’s rec-ognition that in general, Bowdoin students seem to only prioritize religion and spirituality during the Christmas season or high holidays.

Hilboldt notes that even for those who do belong to religious organizations, putting faith into practice is often limited to the group’s meeting times.

“If you’re in a religious group, that’s like an extracurricular activ-ity as opposed to part of an everyday lifestyle,” said Hilboldt. “You don’t see religion in everyday life—it’s much more a special thing.”

Kahn also feels that religion is not a large part of life at Bowdoin.

“6 e majority of my friends don’t do anything in regards to spiritual-ity or religion,” he said. “You don’t hear of too many people going to church every Sunday or having to deal with the dining hall because they keep Kosher.”

Walker agrees that Bowdoin students generally appear to be non-religious or non-spiritual, but questions the under-lying reasons for this attitude.

“In general, Bowdoin just feels like a very secular place, and I’m not sure if that’s to do with the structure of Bowdoin as a whole or if it comes down to students not having the space in their schedules or minds to really make that kind of inquiry,” said Walker.

6 ough Hilboldt, Kahn and Walker come from di7 erent reli-gious backgrounds and have distinct ideas about spirituality, they all be-lieve religion or spiritual growth is vital to their Bowdoin experience.

“For me, playing squash in a way that serves God is just as valuable as reading the Bible for an hour.”

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Coastal Studies Artist-in-resi-dence Barbara Putnam makes her return to Bowdoin this semester af-ter having spent the majority of the fall abroad, working among artists in the Arctic, studying the fjords in Norway, and attending an exhibi-tion opening in Bucharest.

Putnam’s interest in Arctic envi-ronments motivated her decision to come to Bowdoin, where she knew the connection to the Arctic goes back more than a century.

“I am attracted to harsh envi-ronments and fragile places, like intertidal zones, wetlands, planes—places within which survival of plants and animals requires some strategy,” said Putnam. “Winter is so short and there is nothing like the light produced by snow reflect-ing a weak but earnest January sun.”

Drawing connections between different disciplines is key to pro-viding a liberal arts education, and in that spirit, Putnam will draw on her experiences and perspectives in both art and environmental studies to teach Visual Arts 271, Drawing on Science.

Putnam comes to the College with an extensive background in the visual arts and a focused inter-est on drawing, woodcut prints and

visual representations of the envi-ronment.

Growing up, she was influenced by her artistic grandparents and her mother and father’s medical careers. Putnam says she has al-ways been aware of the similarities between the ways artists and scien-

Putnam’s ability to combine her artistic pursuits with science also stems from a formative artistic residency she did in the late 1990s in Manitoba, where she made art alongside biologists and ecologists who were hard at work analyzing a local duck population.

Her current works are primarily large, abstract woodcut prints on multi-colored fabric. Using grass and seaweed as primary subjects, Putnam creates close-up depictions of scenes found in nature.

“I want them to read as works of art but I also want them to be read-able and credible to scientists,” she said.

Despite the Drawing I prerequi-site, many students taking Putnam’s class are oceanographers, biologists and environmental scientists.

“With each visual arts class I take, I realize how relevant it is to my studies in science, and I be-lieve science and art really do mesh beautifully,” wrote Kailey Bennett ’14, an earth and oceanographic science and visual arts double ma-jor, in an email to the Orient.

Students in the course will re-ceive a breadth of assignments that give them direction while allowing them some leeway in their obser-vations and representations of the coastal landscape. Students will also complete an assignment based

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on objects in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.

“My sense is that we’re trending to more interdisciplinary courses because technology is improv-ing; scientists and artists are using some of the same technologies, but

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David Becker ’70 was still a student at Bowdoin when he gave his 5 rst gi6 to the Bowdoin Museum of Art. His generosity continued until his death in 2010, when he gave his alma mater a 5 nal donation from his extensive art collection.

Over the last forty years, Becker donated more than 1,500 prints to the Museum and temporarily worked as curator at the Museum of Art. He was also director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and served on the Board of Trustees.

Now, an exhibition at the Museum is being held in his honor. “Print-making ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker” seeks to pay tribute to the donor while continuing his lifelong goal of sharing his love of printmak-ing with the Bowdoin community and beyond.

7 e collection spans the last 500 years, and includes prints by Rem-brandt, Dürer and Picasso.

Curator Joachim Homann struc-tured the exhibition in order to give a broad overview of the history and va-riety of printmaking, in the hope that there will be something for everyone on display. Homann says he drew on pieces of the existing collection, as well as from Becker’s particular inter-ests and personality, for Printmaking ABC.

“I tried to learn from the playful spirit that David Becker brought to collecting,” says Homann. “I picked up his interests in writing manuals and alphabets and decided that we should present selections from the collection according to letters of the alphabet, as-

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sociated with terms that resonate with the collection in interesting ways.”

7 e gallery space will be organized alphabetically-pieces showcasing writing manuals and text design can be found in the gallery under “A” for alphabet. Other letters include “L” for lithograph, “J” for jest, and “X”—for xxx.

Perhaps the print most re8 ective of Becker himself is David Hockney’s 1966 work, “Two Boys Aged 23 or 24,” which shows two men lying in bed to-gether. Becker was a huge supporter of LGBTQ rights throughout his life, founding the group OUT and funding programming at the College to sup-port LGBTQ life and education about the LGBTQ community.

“He was a determined social ac-tivist, and I think one of his lasting legacies to Bowdoin was to have been openly gay and to insist that the Col-lege take that into account,” said long-time friend and coworker Katy Kline.

Becker was deeply involved with the College throughout his life. He was a benefactor, a trustee, and even curated some exhibitions at the Mu-seum himself.

Becker’s 5 nal donation, as well as his involvement with the museum throughout the years, has had a pro-found impact on the College’s art community—especially the print-making department.

“At other schools, in order to go see a signi5 cant museum show you have to get on a van or a bus and travel for a long ways,” said Mary Hart, visiting professor of art. “Here, you walk 5 ve minutes and the door is open and there’s this amazing resource.”

Hart took her Printmaking I and II classes to the Museum this fall, where

many students were inspired by the works on display. Audrey Blood ’13 found herself particularly drawn to Leonard Baskin’s woodcut print Hy-drogen Man.

“I had seen Leonard Baskin’s prints, but I had never been able to interact with them in this way before,” said Blood. “7 is show is like my dream come true. It’s such a huge gi6 .”

Becker was known for his gener-osity, and many continue to feel his presence by way of his print collection now that he is gone.

“His uniform was a gray blue 8 an-nel shirt and an L.L. Bean jacket and this really crummy-looking hat that looked like it came from a thri6 shop,” recalled Kline. “He had a wicked sense of humor...I have wonderful memo-ries of hearing him hoot; he almost snorted when he got laughing too hard.”

Becker established many connec-tions and friendships in the Maine and international art communities.

A symposium titled “Reading Prints: David P. Becker’s Legacy” will be held at the Museum on January 31 and February 1, and will feature speak-ers from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Harvard Art Museums, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In the exhibition’s guest book, visi-tors are encouraged to give feedback and pay tribute to Becker. One visitor seemed to sum up Becker’s legacy.

“What an eye, what a heart, what generosity!”, one visitor wrote.

“Printmaking ABC: In Memoriam David P. Becker” will be on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from November 15 to March 24. 7 e symposium in his honor is free of charge and open to the public.

using them in different ways,” said Putnam.

“Students are pooling skill sets and knowledge from a variety of subject areas and communicating in a visual language with content that honors the natural world.”

COURTESY BARBARA PUTNAMUNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Putnam’s piece “Zone C Lobster Bait” shows a close-up view of nature typical of her artistic style.

tists see the world.“We’re both searching for truth,

we’re observers by nature and hab-it,” wrote Putnam in an email to the Orient. “I like adding this element of scientific exploration. It changes how you think when you have a little bit of science in your art.”

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BARBARA PUTNAMArtist-in-Residence

Something happens when sud-denly we can count the degrees on one hand. It comes with the secur-ing of a hat, the coiling of a scarf. It’s a gaze downward and a shuffle of boots along the path, marking with percussive treads the transi-tion between dirt, ice, and asphalt. When at last those boots reach the linoleum in the Smith Union—the largest piece in the country, in fact—the gaze might lift and it might just intersect with another traveler who has also found refuge in the Union’s warmth.

Robin Brooks shows me a digital image of her painted paper collage “Winter Wood,” and at once I’m reminded of what I’ve seen a thou-sand times but perhaps lately have been too wind-bitten to register. A horde of streamlined trunks ex-tends vertically, shifting between grey black and brown to reiterate their bareness. Hints of green edge their way into the foreground, but it’s just the teasing burst of color of coniferous trees. The image is still winter in its most familiar form: a patchwork of shards of sky, stalks of wood, sheets of ice.

The layering of paper reminds me that a selfless hand has reas-sembled what I’ve failed to see by keeping my eyes on my boots.

“There is a dialogue between artist and medium,” Brooks, who works with media ranging from oil paints to collage, tells me, recount-

ing the experience of pasting these layers. “Something happens as I move from medium to medium: painting, pastel, photography…all these different ways of interacting with a technique lead to different ways of seeing. That’s the role of the artist—to help people see.”

Brooks has seen a great deal. She currently works as a visual artist in Topsham, but the scope of her art extends throughout multiple spac-es and communities. After earning a B.F.A. in arts education at Boston University in 1979, Brooks stud-ied at Parsons School of Design in New York. There, she found herself among a community of art students, romantically reviving the European Salon tradition.

“We worked from life and we worked from museum pieces,” she explained to me. “It was an incred-ibly rich experience.”

Brooks moved to New Jersey after college and worked in the Newark Museum of Art, where she accessed another artistic realm, another community.

“They have a large collection of African-American art,” she re-called. “I grew up near the Mu-seum, but I never knew this huge collection existed until my work brought me there.”

And twenty-six years ago, when she uprooted, yet again, to Maine, she found herself navigating a new network of paths. “I felt like I was moving into a small world of art

Intersecting planes: the collages of Robin Brooks

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After watching the barrage of exploding heads, unthinkable tor-tures and international crises that were “Django Unchained,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” and “Argo,” it was a relief to walk out of “Silver Linings Playbook” without the urge to look twice over my shoulder.

Nonetheless, due to all the media hype surrounding the movie, I was expecting a film that redefined the genre of romantic comedy, and in this I was disappointed.

The film begins with the engag-ing story of Pat (Bradley Cooper), a man with bipolar disorder who returns home from a psychiatric facility to live with his parents, in-cluding his OCD father (Robert De Niro), to get his life back on track.

Pat, fixated on rebuilding his marriage and hindered only by a good ole’ restraining order, meets the indefinably cra-zy Tiffany (Jen-nifer Lawrence), who agrees to help him if he will be her partner in a dance competition.

This plot twist, which takes place almost exactly halfway through the movie, is where this tale full of complex characters and twisted motives devolves into your average, sometimes laughable, predictable romantic comedy.

Like many viewers, I appreciate the filmmakers’ choice to incorpo-rate a serious, thoughtful perspec-tive on mental health into the rom-com genre.

However, the second hour of the film lacks the subtlety and realism that makes the first hour so com-pelling.

In the second half, this melting pot of clinical disorders is neatly re-solved by a dance performance.

After just a few dance lessons, Pat can suddenly sleep soundly through the night and miraculous-ly overcomes his obsession with his wife.

And—what’s that?—a dance number in which the protagonists break all the rules in an edgy, mod-ern routine instead of conforming to society’s stuffy expectations? What an original plot twist that no one has already seen in “Dirty Dancing,” “Save the Last Dance,” “Center Stage,” and nearly every

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other dance movie in history!Still, this far-too-tidy resolution

to such an honest, messy story is not my biggest complaint.

I was much more let down by the 6 lm’s portrayal of women and its gendered treatment of mental illness.

The movie features a cast of high-ly unlikeable women. There is Pat’s unfaithful wife Nikki, who treats him as an inferior, cheats on him when he doesn’t lose weight and whose only apparent redeeming quality is her good looks.

There is Pat’s friend Ronni’s de-manding, neurotic wife who always “wants more,” “brings him down,” “keeps his balls in her purse” and won’t let him listen to the music he likes.

And finally, there is Tiffany, who is, as far as we are ever told, just a “crazy slut.”

T h o u g h we know that she has taken m e d i c a t i o n , her craziness is never openly diagnosed and manifests only in her erratic outbursts, lying

and promiscuity.Oh, but she knows a lot about

football and downs beers with the guys, so all is forgiven from the per-spective of a script so clearly writ-ten and directed by a man.

The male characters, on the other hand, are categorized by their clini-cal conditions, be it bipolar disor-der, depression or OCD.

I found fault with this gendered depiction of mental illness in which men have conditions outside their control but women are either de-manding wives who make their husbands miserable or instead, in a desperate movement towards sex-ual liberation, choose to embrace their “dirty” side.

All feminism aside, the film fea-tures impressive performances by Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and the lesser-known Jacki Weaver. And although a big part of me was unsatisfied with the tied-with-a-bow ending, my inner 15-year-old hopeless ro-mantic thrives on the happily-ever-after and couldn’t help but leave the theater smiling.

And like Pat says, “The world’s fucking hard enough as it is. Can’t somebody just say ‘Hey let’s be pos-itiv. Let’s have a good ending to the story?’”

COURTESY OF THE WEINSTEIN COMPANYSTARS ALIGNED: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper give redeeming performances in a fi lm replete with sexist understones and predictable plotlines.

Yo La Tengo still going strong in new album

Fade, Yo La Tengo’s thirteenth full-length album, opens with a repeating, clicking rhythm that immediately invites foot-tapping. This beat is shortly joined by an otherworldly sound, like the croon of some mystical beast. The ten-sion rises as the drum and shaker come in. This beat is contrasted with the floating harmony, which together evoke separate inclina-tions in the mind and body, one to the dance floor and the other to the skies.

Supported by a classic Yo La Tengo guitar jangle melody and fuzzy bass line, the opener creates a sense of tantric bliss reminiscent of the track’s name, “Ohm.”

The song’s lyrics paint a darker picture, however, as the sullen monologue of a misanthrope who feels his love “slipping, slipping away.”

As the melody reaches the height of its euphoria, and all you want to do is slip away into the music, the sexless vocals begin their chant of “resisting the flow.” The unison drone of the lyrics contributes to the jam’s effortless tranquility, while the mantra itself subverts a state of nirvana, reflecting the par-adoxes of emotion the two sounds create.

A feeling of uneasy hope runs throughout the album as the lyr-ics deal with the loss and pain of failed relationships (“It’s sad / but not untrue / what can’t come back’s what we bear to lose” in “Is That Enough”) through the perspective of a pensive romantic character. This emotional turmoil is voiced by either the wearied drawl of

Ira Kaplan or the soulful husk of Georgia Hubley.

Though a real-life couple (indie rock’s couple-in-chief, after the breakup of SonicYouth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon), the two rarely exchange words in the same song.

The story not told by the lyrics hides in the instrumental aspects of the songs. String instruments punctuate “Is That Enough” and serve as counterpoints to a more somber lyric.

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result. It is as lush as the tree on its cover, dense with layers of com-plexity and a diversity of sounds and influences.

The group has pared down their style for this album—their short-est in decades—resulting in tight-er jams and more focused songs. From the ebullience of “Ohm” to the spare tenderness of “I’ll Be Around,” Fade succeeds as a soundtrack of adult love and ma-turing relationships.

The album’s quiet grace and un-deniable grooves prove why Yo La Tengo are described as one of mu-sic’s most consistent bands.

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ists,” she told me. “I felt like I could do a lot more here.” Brooks is now busy collaborating with twelve other local artists cre-ating banners for political rallies in Augusta and Portland. She shows me another image, this one of white and red block letters spelling “Citizen’s Unite against Citizens United!” printed unapologetically against a green backdrop.

Brooks explained that the pro-cess of creating political art is a collaborative effort. The artists come in with sketches and together they refine the image and settle on a specific aesthetic, “so it’s a pow-erful artistic statement as well as a political one,” she says.

Though the banners are defi-

nitely compelling in their striking acrylic tones and cartoonish em-blems, as I look back to “Winter Wood” and her several other land-scape collages, I get the sense that Brooks values the local as well as the global in her mission to help people see.

She first got the idea for “Win-ter Wood” while snowshoeing through a friend’s backyard, taking snapshots of snow and trees.

“I like looking at things that aren’t scenic, that someone would bulldoze over without thinking twice about,” Brooks says.

When not focusing on her own work, Brooks teaches visual art at Lincoln Elementary School in Au-gusta.

The glimpses of the Maine land-scape that she reconfigures remind us of the duty of perception just as powerfully as a banner express-

ing a national concern. And this patch of nature that she has super-imposed upon a canvas in “Win-ter Wood” is a restoration effort of sorts. It has restored, for me at least, the beauty of a five-degree day.

It’s hard to say if it is, in fact, a seasonal occurrence—this trope of the solitary traveler passing from point to point unbothered—or if it’s a reality of our age. Brooks’ art offers an alternative for when we do wish to be interrupted and made to look at something. Her collage work layers lines and planes and suggests the gaze not of one, but of many.

“We need more art in our lives to make us feel whole and connect-ed,” she tells me.

“It’s how tribal people lived. I think we still have a hunger for that.”

COURTESY OF MATADOR RECORDSFADING INTO VIEW: Yo La Tengo puts forth a fresh, almost ethereal sound that is well illustrated by their latest album’s cover.

She knows a lot about football and downs beers with guys, so all is

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Women’s basketball falters toward end of break

Women’s basketball looks ahead to a tough matchup tomorrow at Colby, aiming to keep their playo3 hopes alive. 4 e Polar Bears had a successful 4-0 start to kick o3 winter break but fell apart the second half, dropping four straight conference games.

Head Coach Adrienne Shibles and captain Kaitlin Donahoe ’13 cited lack of intensity and con5 dence as the reason behind the team’s failure.

“We took a few steps back and got a little intimidated by our opponents,” said Donahoe. “We just weren’t able to put together a 40-minute game, we would have one good half every game but slide in the other half.”

“We can’t just play 20 minutes and ex-pect to win games,” said Shibles.

4 e Polar Bears had mixed success in close games over the break, battling from behind to beat Emmanuel College 65-63 and then losing to Bates 67-64 and Trinity 46-43.

“We all thought we were going to win [against Trinity] and they made a few shots down the stretch,” said Shibles.

Shibles foresees a challenging path ahead for her team, with the relative parity in the conference. However, she said she believes Bowdoin “absolutely”

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The men’s ice hockey team has been hot since the weather got colder, winning seven out of its eight games, including all its road matches. The Polar Bears have managed to remain undefeated on the road this season.

“It was an arduous schedule, but it was a windfall for the team because you can build a team on the road,” said Head Coach Terry Meagher. “It certainly brought us together as a team and it showed a level of collegiate maturity to get off a bus against teams that want to hold that fort.”

The team started the break at Amherst, where the Lord Jeffs got out to an early 1-goal lead. Bowdoin managed to stay tied with Amherst throughout the sec-ond period with goals from Jay Livermore ’14 and captain Dan Weiniger ’13, but it was a late tally by Colin Downey ’14 that sealed a 3-2 victory. The next day Bowdoin faced off against Hamilton, where goals from six different Polar Bears overwhelmed the Continen-tals on the way to a 6-2 win.

“We always come together and

play great hockey over the Janu-ary break and this year was no dif-ferent,” said Weiniger. “We are a very close group and being able to spend a few weeks without any dis-tractions together really helps us.”

Bowdoin returned home for a tightly-fought game against the University of New England, where it took a third-period power play goal from Harry Matheson ’14 to lift the team to a 4-3 victory. That weekend the Polar Bears hosted Wesleyan for what seemed poised to be another victory with a 4-1

has a shot in the playo3 s with 5 ve con-ference games le6 .

4 e Polar Bears won their most re-cent match against Maine Maritime Academy on Tuesday. 4 e win marked Shibles’ 100th win for the College.

“We got a hint about it right before the game,” said Donahoe. “She didn’t have any idea about it, so it was a nice

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lead in the second period. But the Cardinals clawed their way back in the third period to even the score at 5-5 and force the game to overtime. With less than a minute remaining in overtime, Wesleyan scored the game-winning goal, dealing Bowdoin its first loss of the season.

“The hard thing on any kind of run in a goal sport is dealing with the variability of the goal tending,” said Meagher. “With a little luck or a bad bounce, they can be the most unfair of any sport. Wesleyan didn’t

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BLADES OF GLORY: Ollie Koo ’14 shoots the puck at the USM goal on Tuesday. The team has won four straight and gone 7-1 since the start of winter break.

give up and earned that victory.” “Losing to Wesleyan was a tough

pill to swallow at first because we were our own enemy,” said Weini-ger. “We completely beat ourselves in that game, but moving forward we treat it as a learning experience to make sure it doesn’t happen again down the road.”

The Polar Bears came back with a strong effort the next night at home against Trinity. With the Bantams trailing by one, Ollie Koo ’14 and Connor Quinn ’15 each scored to seal a 5-2 victory.

Bowdoin then went back on the road against Williams, where the team built a 3-1 lead after a score-less first period with goals from John McGinnis ’15, Tim Coffey ’15 and Koo. Matheson sealed the deal with a goal early in the third pe-riod for a 4-1 win.

Bowdoin then traveled up to Middlebury for a much antici-pated matchup—the Panthers had handed the Polar Bears their only tie of the season on November 17. Matheson made a statement from the start, scoring the first goal 43 seconds into the game. After a goal by McGinnis in the second period, the Panthers upped the pressure on goalie Max Fenkell ’15, who turned aside a couple of point-blank shots. A second goal by Matheson brought the score to 3-0 and 38 saves by Fenkell preserved the shutout, marking Bowdoin’s first win at Middlebury since 1993.

“It was great being able to pick up two huge wins on the road against Middlebury and Williams and it has put us in a great position heading into the final six games,” said Weiniger. “We are very happy with two wins, but we know that it is in the past, and we still need to keep improving if we want to meet our goals come March.”

With classes back in session, Bowdoin hosted the University of Southern Maine on Tuesday night. After an uninspiring scoreless first period, with the Polar Bears down 1-0, Bowdoin scored five goals in

surprise for her.” “It’s nice, but I was much more ex-

cited about the great team win,” said Shibles. “It was wonderful to see every-one play with such intensity and I con-sidered that to be much more gratifying than what I consider to be reaching an

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COMING UP SHORT: Shannon Brady ’16 hooks the ball over a Maine Maritime Academy defender on Tuesday. Bowdoin trounced MMA 80-43 and helped secure Head Coach Adrienne Shibles’ 100th career win.

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With many starters returning, football looks forward to 2013

To say that the football team wants to put the 2012 season behind it is an understatement. Last season’s 1-7 mark was the team’s worst record in a decade, since the Polar Bears 5 nished winless in 2003. 4 e season’s disappointing outcome re7 ects a season marred by major and untimely injuries. In order to ensure a signi5 cant improvement next year, the team will look to execute its newfound playing style and stay healthy.

4 e 5 rst wave of injuries occurred in the pre-season, and sidelined the team’s

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two most productive o3 ensive players, senior captain and wide receiver Sean O’Malley and junior running back Zach Donnarumma. Although Donarrum-ma returned in week three, O’Malley was out the entire year.

During the season, injuries plagued the already short-handed Bowdoin squad. In the 5 rst game, starting quar-terback Grant White ’14 and starting linebacker David Nurse ’13 joined O’Malley and Donnarumma on the sideline. Nurse did not return until the seventh week, and White was kept o3 the 5 eld all year. No other NESCAC

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PUSHING FORWARD: The Polar Bear defense matches up against Bates earlier this season. Despite a 1-7 fi nish, there is hope that Bowdoin will start 2013 as one of the most experienced squads in the NESCAC.

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Success on the ice is not new to Harry Matheson ’14. The Ontario native has gone through all the proper chan-nels since he started skating at age four, learning the basics on his own backyard rink. He came to the United States to go to prep school, following in the footsteps of his brother and hockey role model. He also emulated his prep school coach, who played hockey at Bowdoin.

Matheson’s success as a Po-lar Bear began almost as soon as he arrived. As a first year, he often got ice time during power plays and immediately demonstrated an ability to put the puck in the net. He has also proven to be a gifted passer from his spot on the wing, and leads the NESCAC in assists.

Head Coach Terry Meagher has called him a core player since day one and counts on him to perform when the game is on the line.

Matheson sports the ath-letic IQ, work ethic, and com-petitiveness that captain and line-mate Dan Weiniger ’13 said makes him “a phenomenal hockey player.”

“Harry’s pretty focused, and kind of quiet,” said Matheson’s roommate and fellow team-mate Colin Downey ’14. “He leads by example.”

But Matheson’s success has made it difficult for him to stay under the radar. This season has been his most productive. He has now pulled into a tie for the con-f e r e n c e lead in

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Harry Matheson ’14

“Harry possesses everything you want in a

player: a solid skill set and understanding of the game.

He’s a coach’s dream.”

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points after netting three goals last week, a performance that earned him NESCAC Player of the Week honors. He has scored six more points than the next player on the list, a stat the modest Matheson claimed he is oblivious to.

According to Coach Meagher, Harry’s success was imminent.

“He went through the adjust-ment and development phase but he had a quick learning curve,” Meagher said. “Harry possesses everything you want in a player: a solid skill set and understanding of the game. He’s a coach’s dream.”

Matheson acknowledged that he has progressed as a player during his time at Bowdoin.

“I have a bigger role on the team now,” he said. “It means I’m being counted on, expected to produce or score goals.

Matheson is always picking apart his own game. He said that showing more disci-pline in the defen-sive zone would make a differ-ence to the team, and make him a more w e l l -

ro u n d -ed player.

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ing but praise for Matheson’s discipline. “He is just so easy to

play with,” he said, “You always know he’s going to make that little play that helps the team win games.”

“He works hard down low so I can get space, or he gets open so I can feed him the puck,” said Downey, echoing that sen-timent. “He thinks well.”

According to Downey, Matheson takes his job seri-ously and always finds a way to be in the right place at the right time. When he is not working, he is recharging so he can work some more.

He values his discipline and seeks to improve it, even though it has become one of his defining characteristics. It allows him to focus, or “play and compute at pace,” as Mea-gher put it.

“His focus in games shows his passion,” said Meagher.

“It’s like his Novocain. The game of hockey suits

him.”

H i s discipline

even perme-ates into his

preparation.“I get dressed

the same way, finish warming up at exactly

the same time,” Matheson said, before claiming he is not one to believe in superstitious pre-game rituals. “Sometimes I kick a soccer ball around be-fore just to clear my mind of all things hockey.”

“But I’m ready when the game starts,” he said, as if justi-fying his own relaxation.

To his credit, he has proven ready all season long.

• Scored 43 seconds into the January 19 Middlebury match

• Leads the team in points-per-game, and is tied for fi rst in the NESCAC with 26 points

• Tops the NESCAC in assists and is tied for third in goals

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the second period to coast to a 5-1 victory.

“It was a close game and then we had a little surge,” said Mea-gher. “We are a surge frenzy team and when that occurs, we’re re-ally good, but when we’re cruising we’re not that good.”

Bowdoin heads into its bye-weekend preparing to host Amherst and Hamilton next

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team this year su7 ered injuries to their most productive quarterback, wide re-ceiver, running back, and linebacker simultaneously.

Nevertheless, these injuries a7 orded once inactive players the opportunity to become starters and have the playing time to become stars. Tommy Romero ’14 became the starting quarterback for most of the season. Nick Goldin ’13, David Black ’15 and Daniel Barone ’16 quickly became his favorite targets at wide receiver, catching passes to com-pensate for injured and graduated re-ceivers from last year.

On the other side of the ball, junior linebackers Joey Cleary and Brian Glazewski found themselves start-ing due to Nurse’s absence. Defensive backs Jibrail Coy ’16 and Dan Johnson ’15 were tasked with 8 lling holes in the defensive unit. Sophomore defensive linemen Tom Wells and Clarence John-son anchored the defense up front in the absence of seniors Cedric and Kyle White.

As the coaching sta7 restructured o7 ensive and defensive strategies to better suit the healthy personnel avail-able for any given week, the identity of the team took shape. By the end of the year, the Polar Bears were known for their tough defense, a relentless ground game, and big receivers.

9 e defense improved each month of the season, allowing 32.0 points per game (ppg) in September and just 15.5ppg by December.

9 e rushing attack improved steadi-ly until the 8 nal two weeks. 9 e backs accrued 126.5 yards per game in the 8 rst two games and 148.5 in the follow-ing four before dipping to 67.5 yards per game in the 8 nal two contests. 9 e o7 ense focused on targeting tight ends along with the wideouts. A: er com-bining for only four receptions and 52 yards in the 8 rst half of the season, tight ends Matt Perlow ’15 and Mike English ’14 accounted for nine receptions, 174 yards and one touchdown in the sec-ond half of the season.

With a whopping 15 returning start-ers, Bowdoin hopes to implement this style of play more e7 ectively in their 2013 campaign.

9 e o7 ensive unit only needs to 8 ll a receiver slot and three linemen posi-tions next season. 9 e wide receiver spot is already 8 lled—O’Malley is set to return to school in the fall.

“Sean will be a huge addition. He is an extreme athlete that can play anywhere on the 8 eld. He’s a big facet of our o7 ense and special teams.” said Donnarumma.

“No one on the team is close to him with experience,” added captain Beau Breton ’13— linebacker and punter for the 2012 squad.

Next to O’Malley, Donarrumma is the most experienced o7 ensive threat, returning for his third year in the start-ing lineup. Despite missing one-fourth of the season due to injury, he 8 nished fourth in the conference in rushing yards and was selected to the All-NE-SCAC Second Team.

“We will be running a similar style

of o7 ense,” said Donarrumma. “I’m ex-pecting to get the ball.”

On defense, the Polar Bears return eight starting players. 9 e defensive unit is tasked with selecting two starters at the safety positions and one at defen-sive tackle.

Linebacker Gri; n Cardew ’14, one of the most productive defensive play-ers in the NESCAC, is poised to have another exceptional year. In 2012, his 97 tackles led the NESCAC en route to his being selected to the All-Conference First Team. Also on the defensive side of the ball is sophomore defensive line-man Clarence Johnson, one of only eight sophomores in the NESCAC to earn All-Conference recognition.

Returning players o7 er the potential for an improved season and also give the team an advantage through their leadership. Historically in the NESCAC the teams with more upperclassmen and returning starters tend to have a better record the following year.

For example, in 2011 the top four teams with the most returning upper-classmen 8 nished one through four in the conference. 9 e 2011 champion Amherst and runner-up Trinity each had 32 upperclassmen and 10 returning starters. 9 e only other teams to have over 30 upperclassmen and 10 return-ing starters, Williams and Middlebury, 8 nished third and fourth overall, re-spectively.

9 is trend persisted in 2012 as well. 9 e 8-0 Trinity team included 30 up-perclassmen and 12 returning starters. Runner-up Middlebury had 32 up-perclassmen and 14 returning starters while third place Amherst had 31 and 8.

Should this statistical tendency con-tinue to hold in 2013, Bowdoin will 8 nish in the top tier of the NESCAC in 2013. Amidst the 34 upperclass-men, the team consists of 15 returning starters, more than any other NESCAC opponent can boast. Wesleyan follows close behind with 14 starters poised to return and 38 upperclassmen while defending champion Trinity returns 13 starters among 40 upperclassmen.

“9 ere shouldn’t be any reason why [we] are not an upper level team in the NESCAC this year,” captain Martin Ro-bledo ’13 said. “Top three,” he projected.

“I think we will be in one of the top three positions,” Clarence Johnson said, re< ecting a similar outlook. “Last sea-son is always going to be in the back of our heads and we are going to do every-thing in our power...to not let that hap-pen again.”

Although the number of seniors, juniors and returning starters is not a recipe for winning the NESCAC championship, it can be a blueprint for 8 nishing the season at .500 or bet-ter. 9 e NESCAC teams in 2011 and 2012 with over 30 seniors and juniors as well as 10 or more returning starters have 8 nished 4-4 or better in the past two seasons, with the exception of one team in each season. 9 e odds say that Bowdoin will 8 nish at least 4-4, which is a conservative estimate according to the players.

“We have a lot of experience and great younger players. We know what we have to do to win,” said Donnarum-ma. “Will we do it? 9 at’s the question. But, I like our odds right now.”

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arbitrary milestone.”Shibles said that was the team’s 8 rst 40

minute performance perhaps all season. She attributes the intensity spike to the team’s re< ective conversations the previ-ous weekend.

“9 ey were feeling a lot of pressure about these conference games. We [the

coaching sta7 ] emphasized that we just want their best e7 ort, whether it’s a win or a loss, we just want to see intense, physi-cal, gritty basketball for 40 minutes.”

Although the Polar Bears came out on top in their previous non-conference meeting against Colby, the two rivals have similar records and the Mules will have home court advantage.

“9 ey have an incredible senior leader Diana Manduca, they’re shooting exceptionally well in their own gym, and

last night they broke a school record for most three pointers scored in a game,” said Shibles.

With 8 ve NESCAC games le: Dona-hoe put it simply, “we need this win.”

9 is season the young Polar Bears 8 nd themselves in the position of the underdog rather than the frontrunner.

“We have something special to bring to the rest of this season, we’re in the po-sition to surprise a lot of people which normally is not the case,” said Donahoe.

weekend. The Polar Bears are cur-rently ranked third in D-III and have a commanding three game lead ahead of Williams for the first-seed in the NESCAC playoffs.

“We want to be playing our best hockey at this point in the year, and that definitely starts with Am-herst,” said Weiniger. “They have a very strong team and we played them to a very close 3-2 game at their barn this year. We are excited at what lies ahead and we are ready to take a kick at the can.”

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forth between both teams that led to an exciting overtime 5 nish for Bowdoin on the back of a last second goal from cap-tain Kayte Holtz ’13.

Not only did Holtz score the game-winning goal, she also joined Bowdoin’s career 100-point club, a highly respected milestone amongst hockey players.

Holtz is the tenth player in the history of the program to reach this mark and the 5 rst player to join the group’s ranks since 2007.

Looking back on the winter trip, O’Neil was pleased with the way the Polar Bears handled their tough Mid-western opponents.

O’Neil said Concordia was “an NCAA tournament team last year but they have not done well so far this year. O6 ensively, they were better than we expected. 7 ey had some kids who could rip the puck. It was very physical which is 5 ne because our kids can play that. 7 at kind of play helps prepare us in case we meet up with them or other Midwestern teams in postseason play.”

Returning to Brunswick, the Polar Bears then hosted Conneticut College. Bowdoin swept the Camels, winning 4-0 in the 5 rst game and 3-0 in the sec-ond contest.

In their 5 rst matchup, Chelsea Mac-Neil ’15 tallied a hat trick while Schuy-ler Nardelli ’15 scored the team’s fourth goal. Kim Tess-Wanat ’13 had three as-sists, Maura Allen ’14 had two and Holtz had one.

In the second game, Holtz and Mac-Neil found the back of the net again while Colleen Finnerty ’15 also added a goal. Tess-Wanat had two assists and

Women’s ice hockey glides to 14-1 recordBY ANDRES BOTERO

ORIENT STAFF

A8 er playing 15 games and travel-ing thousands of miles, the women’s ice hockey team is ranked No. 6 in the nation. Stephanie Ludy ’13 and Rachel Kennedy ’16 have been honored as NES-CAC Players of the Week, and Bowdoin is sitting in 5 rst place in the NESCAC.

7 e team traveled to the Midwest to begin its winter break and had success, winning 14 games in a row and clinch-ing a spot in the NESCAC playo6 s.

“Our strength of schedule is ranked third toughest in the country and that is going to help us,” Head Coach Mar-rissa O’Neil said about the team’s playo6 chances. “7 ose wins certainly help us in getting a bid to Nationals. To play a team in every single D-III conference and beat a team from every one is a good achievement for us.”

O’Neil says she was thrilled with the trip and how the team responded to playing unknown teams despite some players being sick.

“7 e experience was great,” O’Neil said. “Traveling with the team is always a great bonding experience. Unfortu-nately, a few kids got sick with a stomach bug but we stuck it out. We got an early lead and just held on. It was just mind over matter at that point.”

In Bowdoin’s second matchup against Concordia, there was dramatic back and

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Although many Bowdoin students take time to relax during their winter breaks, the men’s basketball team was anything but idle between semesters.

In January, the Polar Bears have had four games decided by four points or less, a 3-game winning streak, a 3-game losing streak, two overtime victories and one game-winning shot. 7 eir 5-4 re-cord thus far in the month brings them to 10-6 overall and 2-3 in NESCAC play.

Bowdoin returned from a month-long hiatus with a 75-53 road win over Plymouth State on January 2. Bowdoin opened conference play against Ham-ilton two days later. 7 e Polar Bears surged past the Continentals in the sec-ond half for a 64-51 win. A8 er, the men hosted NESCAC rivals Tu8 s and Bates.

“7 e Tu8 s-Bates weekend was a big one for us,” said Head Coach Tim Gil-bride. “7 e last few years we’ve lost both of those games.”

History looked as though it might repeat itself a8 er the Polar Bears fell to the Jumbos 82-69. Tu8 s was on 5 re from outside, shooting 13-20 from 3-point range.

“[Tu8 s is] very physical and pre-sented some matchup problems to us. We struggled with them,” said Gilbride. “7 at [loss] made the Bates game very important.”

7 e men had previously played the Bobcats in December, defeating them in overtime 74-70. 7 e Polar Bears also won the second matchup in overtime,

this time by a score of 61-60. Bryan Hur-ley ’15 had a tough day, 5 nishing with six turnovers and only four assists, but he stepped up when it counted. With the team trailing by two points with less than a minute le8 , Hurley stole the ball and went coast-to-coast to tie the game. He then proceeded to hit the game-winning jump shot with eight seconds remaining in overtime.

7 ings quickly turned for the worse for the Polar Bears, who subsequently lost three games in 5 ve days. Losses to UMaine-Farmington and Trinity were particularly brutal, as Bowdoin held second-half leads in each game before letting them slip away.

“You have to be able to handle pres-sure and execute, and we started to do that in the second half [against Trinity] and got ourselves a lead,” said Gilbride. “7 en, like every game, they made a run and got it closer. 7 at was the 5 rst time where I thought having lost a couple games in a row was in the back of our minds. Guys missed plays and shots that they would normally make.”

Losing three straight games made Tuesday’s road matchup with a tough Babson team particularly important.

“7 e biggest thing is to keep team morale up a8 er losing to teams we were supposed to beat,” said Hurley.

Bowdoin won in overtime yet again, 68-66. Hurley, who comfortably leads the NESCAC with 7.8 assists per game, 5 nished with 20 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and four steals.

“We still were a little nervous and we still missed some plays, but it was a learning and growing experience as a team,” said Gilbride. “To get the win was huge. Psychologically, we needed it and we got it.”

7 e men return to action tomorrow at home against archrival Colby.

BY SAM CHASESTAFF WRITER

Foley ’13 earns conference honors as swim tops Bates

7 e swimming and diving teams performed well in their meets over the break, decisively defeating Bates on January 17 before a strong showing at a non-scoring meet against UMaine Orono the next day.

A8 er returning to Brunswick from their training trip to Puerto Rico, the men triumphed over the Bobcats 177-121 while the women bested their op-ponents 149-139.

Katherine Foley ’13 made a big con-tribution to the victory, winning both the 1000-and-500 meter freestyle with times of 10:38.35 and 5:08.14 respec-tively. Other strong races for the women included 5 rst year Lela Garner’s 4:40.45 5 rst-place 5 nish in the 400 individual medley. Helen Newton ’14 and Maeve O’Leary ’14 took the top two spots in the 100 yard breast, while 5 rst years Mariah Reading won the 50 butter9 y and Bridg-et Killian won the 200 free. Divers Sage Makami ’15 and Serena Taj ’16 took 5 rst and second in the 1-and 3-meter events.

7 e women also won the 400-free relay with a team made up of Foley, Killian, Garner, and captain Kaley Ko-komoor ’13 with a time of 3:37.81.

On the men’s side, captain Basyl Stuyvesant ’13 won both the 50 and 100 backstroke, and Ryan Peabody ’14 won the 1000 yard free. Bowdoin swept the top three slots in the 400 IM, with Ryan Kulesza ’15 taking 5 rst place, JR Chansakul ’16 in second and Peabody in third. Chansakul won the 100 breast with a time of 1:02.01, Linc Rhodes ’14 won the 100 free with a time of 49.31,

Kevin Koh ’16 won both the 100 and 50 butter9 ies with times of 52.57 and 23.57, and Peter Deardor6 ’15 won the 200 free with a time of 1:47.48.

7 e men had a particularly strong outing in the relays, with the team of Stuyvesant, John Lagasse ’16, William Shi ’15, and Deardor6 winning the 200- yard medley relay with a time of 1:38.57. Lagasse, Stuyvesant, Deardor6 , and Rhodes combined to win the 400-free relay with a time of 3:16.30.

7 e men continued their winning streak at Orono the next day in a non-scoring meet. Tom Kramer ’15 came in 5 rst in both the 1-and 3-meter diving events with scores of 255.40 and 254.50. Stuyvesant won the 50 free with a time of 22.96. Rhodes triumphed in the 400 IM with a time of 4:24.40. Lagasse took 5 rst in the 100 breast with a time of 1:03.05. Koh won the 100 yard butter9 y with a time of 53.41. Peabody came in 5 rst in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:06.72. Kulesza won the 100 IM with a time of 55.75 while teammate Chan-sakul 5 nished 5 rst in the 200 breast with a time of 2:16.45.

On the women’s side, Foley won the 100 IM, while Teri Faller ’15 won the 200 back with a time of 2:19. Newton came in 5 rst in the 200 breast with a time of 2:37.98. Rounding out the week-end, Kelsey Goodwin ’15 won the 200 butter9 y with a time of 2:20.61 and Gar-ner took 5 rst in the 100 butter9 y with a time of 1:05.09.

In recognition of her outstanding performance, Foley was named NES-CAC Women’s Swimmer of the Week.

“I think the reason that we’ve been so successful is because we are very sup-portive of each other,” said Foley.

7 e swim teams will host NESCAC rivals Wesleyan and Trinity tomorrow in Greason Pool at 11 a.m.

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Squash has rocky play over winter break

The men’s and women’s squash teams were both in action this past weekend as they traveled to Yale to face off against Drexel, Stanford, Yale and Columbia.

On January 19 both squads kicked off against Drexel and Stan-ford. The men won 5-4 and 9-0, while the women won 6-3 and lost 8-1, respectively. The first day of matches saw promising play from both teams.

Both squads ran into stout com-petition against Ivy League oppo-nents later in the weekend. Yale and Columbia defeated the men 8-1 and 8-1 and the women 9-0 and 9-0 respectively.

Captain Andrew Hilboldt ’13 believes the team is building con-fidence before an upcoming set of difficult matches.

“We had a very tough stretch

this last week,” said Hilboldt. “Re-cently we have beat Amherst, Wes-leyan and Drexel, which were big morale boosters for us. Our goal is to make the B division and teams like Brown stand in our way.”

Hilboldt has beaten the Middle-bury and Williams No. 1s this year and hopes to continue his fine form in future matchups.

“I have been enjoying the best squash of my life and am trying to keep riding the wave,” Hilboldt added. “Having beat players I lost to last year is a testament to the commitment the program has on improving.”

The Bowdoin men also played this Wednesday when they trav-eled to Bates. The Polar Bears lost 8-1 against a formidable Bobcat lineup.

Senior William Fantini has also performed very well this season at the No. 3 position and believes good things lie ahead.

“The team has improved sig-nificantly since the beginning of the season,” he said. “Everyone is physically much fitter, and playing at a much higher level.”

Fantini anticipates that the up-coming match against Brown will be a very telling test for the squad.

“Brown has been a very big rival of ours since my freshman year,” he said. “We anticipate a close match. We know we will get nine strong efforts from each individual on the team, and hopefully at the end of the day we will end up on top.”

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7 e team then had a 4-game road trip comprised of two non-conference matches and a NESCAC 2-game series against Wesleyan.

Just prior to the start of the spring se-mester, Bowdoin hosted Middlebury for a 2- game series.

Bowdoin won the 5 rst game 3-0, scoring one goal each period and hand-ing Middlebury its only shutout loss of the season.

Kennedy scored the 5 rst goal of the game in the opening period. In the sec-ond Tess-Wanat drove the puck home o6 of a Holtz pass to double the score, making it 2-0.

In the 5 nal frame, MacNeil won a fa-ceo6 and passed to Holtz, who drilled it into the net to make the score 3-0.

In the second of Bowdoin’s match-ups against the Panthers, Middlebury came out the gate playing aggressively, keeping the two teams in a deadlock through the 5 rst period.

Middlebury struck 5 rst in the middle period, taking advantage of some e: -cient passing that spread the Bowdoin defense. 7 e Panthers scored their sec-ond goal moments a8 er their 5 rst.

Kennedy cut into the Middlebury lead, knocking home a rebound before the end of the second period.

Bowdoin promptly tied the game one minute into the third period. However, Middlebury rallied, notching two more goals for a 4-2 win.

A8 er a week of rest, Bowdoin will head to Williams for a two-game series today and tomorrow.

The Bowdoin women hosted Colby last night, winning 7-2 against the Mules, who entered the match with a 4-6 record.

Standout Rachel Barnes ’15 said she is excited about the upcom-ing matches. The Polar Bears will face Tufts today, and then Boston College, Boston University and Wellesley tomorrow.

“The college squash world is rather small and we play a wide ar-ray of talent every week,” she said. “We have a lot of tough matches coming up, which could be a good opportunity to get back into the mix for a bid in the B division of the national championships.”

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Men’s track comes in fi rst at its two meets over winter break

7 e men’s track team worked hard this winter break, with several runners earning top scores.

Sprinter Kyle Leblanc ’14 took 8 rst place in the 6-way home meet on Janu-ary 12 and the 4-way home meet on Jan-uary 19, making him one of the top four sprinters in the NESCAC this winter.

Bowdoin took second place in the 4x400-meter during the 6-way meet on January 12 a9 er Jarred Kennedy-Loving ’15 fell on the track. In pursuit of a Colby runner during the 8 rst lap, Kennedy-Loving landed on the track, rolled, jumped up, and used the next 300 meters to make up his lost ground.

Bowdoin was behind Worcester Poly-technic Institute (WPI) by six points go-ing into the last event of the meet. 7 e shot putters Cam Woodford ’15 and Cam Chisholm ’16 outscored WPI by six points, ending the meet in a tie.

Christian Sleeper ’15 is currently one of the top scorers for the Polar Bears. His success this winter in the 1000-meter run shows a marked improvement from his previous seasons.

“Christian is racing with a lot of skill this season. He’s working hard in prac-tice, and he has become one of the best kickers on the team,” said Head Coach Peter Slovenski, referring to a runner’s sprint at the end of the race known as the “kick.” In their last meet of the break, Eddy Page ’13 and Peter Tracy ’14 took 8 rst and second place in the pole vault.

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7 is weekend, the Polar Bears will face o: against several schools at the competitive Wesleyan Invitational.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Women’s track fares well at winter break home meets

7 e women’s track team opened the season with a commanding victory on December 8, scoring 185 points to de-feat the University of Southern Maine (USM) (126), Colby (19), St. Joseph’s (16) and the University of Maine-Farm-ington (4).

Erin Silva ’15 broke her own school record to secure 8 rst in the pole vault.

Bowdoin also won other 8 eld events. Hayleigh Kein ’15 took the high jump, while Michele Kaufman ’13 won the long jump and Katharine Krupp ’16 won the triple jump.

On the track, several Polar Bears topped their events: Camille Wasinger ’15 (600m), Samantha Copland ’14 (60m), Gina Stalica ’16 (1000m), and Brenna Fischer ’15 (3000m).

Despite the numerous victories, Co-pland noted that the Polar Bears always look from top to bottom to be competi-tive.

“7 e 8 rst meet was just to see where we are and to introduce the 8 rst years to college track,” she said.

Bowdoin returned early from winter break to train before sweeping the com-petition at the home meet on January 12.

Bowdoin earned 180 points to top USM (149), Colby (125), Connecticut College (66), Worcester Polytechnic In-stitute (55) and St. Joseph’s (3). 7 e Polar Bears performed well, scoring points in all but two events.

Copland said the team worked out two and sometimes three times a day over the break in preparation for the in-creasing intensity at meets. She also said nightly team bonding was an important step to post-break success.

7 ough Bowdoin graduated a strong class last year, Copland says team co-hesiveness has motivated the team to strong 8 nishes.

“At the end of the meet we have ‘Word on the Track,’ where we say who PRed [broke a personal record] today,” Co-pland said. “It’s a nice way for sprinters and jumpers and throwers to all come together and see how we are doing.”

In the 8 nal meet before the end of break, Bowdoin was tied for the lead going into the 8 nal event, but was ulti-mately edged out by two points by Tu9 s.

Kaufman won both the 60m hurdles and long jump for Bowdoin, while Was-inger took the 600m. 7 e 4x400m relay team also 8 nished 8 rst.

In her 8 rst year running the event, Copland added both a personal record and a school record in her second-place 8 nish in the 60m (8.10). Emily Barr ’12 held the previous record (8.13).

Tomorrow the Polar Bears will travel to the Wesleyan Invitational. 7 e meet is larger than their earlier competitions and will be an important benchmark.

7 e Polar Bears don’t have speci8 c ex-pectations, but Copland said, “We want to beat our times from previous meets so we can improve and peak at the right time.”

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To the Editor: Although Eric Edelman intends to

challenge the Bowdoin community’s attitude towards sexuality (“Do Not Put Me in a Box, Bowdoin: Leaving Sexuality Unde6 ned”), his writing only con6 rms an attitude among many students, perhaps even the school administration, which does not give our intellectual and ethical compasses their proper roles.

5 e answer for Bowdoin is not to “do as we please, for the sole rea-

LETTER TO THE EDITORson that we think it might make our lives more enjoyable...5 e only thing that’s important is that you do you. Do whatever you want to do with whomever you want to do it with” but thoughtful re7 ection by indi-viduals and groups on the meaning of sexuality.

5 is critical feature of the human condition, explored for centuries by poet and philosopher alike, should not be le8 to the moral laziness of “do you” relativism, but guided by our

deepest principles. Although Bowdoin can never be-

come a monastery, students have the responsibility to seek truth in the most intimate, meaningful pieces of themselves: love and relationships.

Until then, we will struggle with the consequences the Bowdoin Ori-ent so courageously described previ-ously (“‘Everyone’s doing it’: De6 ning campus hookup culture”).

Sincerely,David Jimenez ’16

Orient owes community an anonymity policy

In an editorial published in the No-vember 30 edition of the Orient, the editors attempted to tackle the thorny issue of anonymity. Broadly, they suc-ceeded in illuminating the Orient’s guidelines as they relate to the use of anonymous sources. However, they failed to put forth a coherent policy that outlined the circumstances un-der which students’ identities are re-vealed—or not revealed—in conjunc-tion with breaches of school rules or the law.

5 e piece that provoked the editori-al was an interview with the individual behind the Twitter handle @notbow-doin. 5 e Orient’s editors granted the student anonymity in the piece, which ran on the front page of the paper. 5 e editors explained, “5 e Orient was granted an interview with the student behind @notbowdoin on the condi-tion of preserving the individual’s ano-nymity, which the student requested to preserve the nature of the account.”

5 e editors further defended their decision to grant anonymity, explain-ing that they “adhere to 5 e New York Times’ principle that ‘the use of un-identi6 ed sources is reserved for situ-ations in which the newspaper could not otherwise print information it considers reliable and newsworthy.’”

I agree with the editors that grant-ing anonymity to the person behind @notbowdoin was appropriate in this case. 5 e story was timely and rel-evant, and both the writer and the ed-itor-in-chief could con6 rm the iden-tity of the source. As such, the Orient was able to bring a story to its readers that it would not have otherwise been able to print, and it could be con6 dent about the integrity of its content.

However, the editorial also brought up another topic that is closely related to the question of granting anonym-ity—the disclosure or non-disclosure of the names of students who have bro-

ken laws or school rules. 5 e editors wrote, “5 e Orient is always reluctant to grant anonymity in reporting, but we recognize certain, narrow circum-stances in which little is to be gained by naming individual students.”

5 ey go on to give the example of students who are summonsed to court for alcohol violations. 5 e Orient does not identify these individuals, and their reasoning for doing so is that “in almost every case, that information is not valu-able to the general community.”

I absolutely agree that there is little to be gained from printing the names of students who have received a sum-mons for alcohol violations. However, it is their next sentence that raises an issue of potential concern.

is relevant to the Bowdoin commu-nity, and our 6 rst obligation is to the truth.” However, to my knowledge, there are no clear rules governing when the Orient discloses or chooses not to disclose a student’s name.

During my tenure as an Orient editor, those decisions seemed to be made on a case-by-case basis. Gener-ally, students who had been charged with a misdemeanor remained un-named while students who had been charged with a felony were identi6 ed, but even that rule was not followed in certain cases.

5 e issue of student identi6 cation has already come up at least once this year. Following the Epicuria party in September, one student was sum-monsed to court for allowing a minor to possess or consume liquor, and both the president and vice president of Ladd House resigned their posts. A8 er students approached the editors with concerns about being identi6 ed, the editorial sta9 elected not to name the students involved.

5 at decision was not necessarily the wrong one. However, the Orient’s lack of standards regarding these cases of stu-dent anonymity calls into question how, and why, the editors made the decision not to reveal the students’ identity.

5 e primary problem is that at a small school like Bowdoin, there is a strong chance that at least one mem-ber of the editorial board is going to have a relationship with the accused party. 5 e small community we have is one of the great things about Bow-doin. However, the con7 ict of inter-est that such an environment creates can be very problematic, and without a clear policy on identifying accused parties, the integrity of the Orient’s re-porting can su9 er.

Establishing a clear set of guide-lines that is accessible to its readers makes sense for any newspaper, but I think it is particularly important for a newspaper at a small school like Bow-doin. 5 e Orient owes it not only to its readers, but also to the students whose identities may or may not be revealed as a result of those guidelines.

A call to disarmOn December 21, the Chapel bells tolled 26 times—once for each victim of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. 5 e unthinkable violence that cost 20 6 rst graders and six adults their lives has shaken the nation. In the weeks since, there have been 6 ve more school shootings in the United States, including one this Tuesday at Lone Star College in Texas.

New legislative sessions have begun in Augusta and Washington, and in the af-termath of these tragedies it looks as though lawmakers are 6 nally serious about reforming gun laws nationwide. Maine’s senators will vote on President Obama’s gun control proposal in the coming months, and Brunswick’s state representatives will soon evaluate a number of bills that would alter gun regulations throughout the state. One bill submitted this week would permit school employees to carry con-cealed 6 rearms in the classroom.

Carrying a concealed weapon on a college or university campus is banned in 21 states, but Maine is not one of them. Here, the decision to ban or allow concealed weapons on campuses is made by each institution individually. Compared to other states, Maine has relatively lenient laws when it comes to gun ownership: no permit is necessary to purchase a ri7 e or a handgun and no registration is necessary for these guns, although a permit is required to carry a handgun.

Bowdoin prohibits the possession of 6 rearms and ammunition on all College property. Students who want to bring a 6 rearm to campus must request to store the weapon with Security and provide a trigger-lock for their guns, though very few students elect to do so. We o8 en feel secure at Bowdoin because we have such a capable Security force protecting our campus, but there are some things that are beyond its control. 5 e Walmart in Cooks Corner—a ten-minute drive from campus—sells an array of 6 rearms that can be easily purchased due to Maine’s permissive gun laws.

In the wake of the Newtown massacre, 336 college presidents—including Barry Mills and presidents from eight other Maine schools—signed a gun safe-ty letter advocating for a weapons ban on all campuses, ending the gun-show loophole, and requiring the highest level of safety in gun manufacturing. Put-ting more guns in our schools is not the answer to these issues and will only increase the potential for violence.

We support the Obama administration’s recently proposed legislation that would ban the commercial sale of assault weapons, which are unnecessary for self-defense or hunting. 5 e proposal would also mandate waiting periods and background checks for gun purchases. On the state level, Maine legislators should not permit school employees to carry 6 rearms while at work, and should introduce similar measures as those being considered by their federal counterparts.

As new gun control bills are entertained, many have argued that more stringent gun laws will not prevent gun violence. 5 e fact is that there will always be people who want to cause violence, but good governance can limit their ability to do so.

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Bowdoin in 1964, he said,“It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law can’t change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.” We urge our state and national legislators to heed the call of Dr. King and work together to pass more stringent gun control laws.

5 e editors wrote, “As a student-run newspaper, we empathize with and understand the concerns of our peers who request that their names not be attached to sensitive stories or to those that may cause a loss of liveli-hood a8 er graduation.”

5 ose traits of empathy and un-derstanding are reasonable, and even desirable, for editors of college news-papers. As Orient critics o8 en remark, “It’s not 5 e New York Times.” How-ever, that empathy only reinforces the need for a clear set of standards that the Orient follows when deciding whether or not to identify students, and the editors must be very careful not to allow empathy to get in the way of journalistic integrity.

5 e editorial sta9 acknowledges that obligation, writing, “As the Bow-doin College newspaper of record, we are responsible for covering news that

The Orient’s lack of standards regarding these cases of

student anonymity calls into question how, and why, the

editors made the decision not to reveal the students’ identity.

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Just four days after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Cerberus Capital Management, the New York-based private equity firm, an-nounced it would sell its holding in Freedom Group, the manufacturer of the semi-automatic weapon used by the Sandy Hook shooter.

The New York Times reported that Cerberus made this sale in re-sponse to ethical concerns raised by the California Teachers’ Pension Fund, which has over $750 million invested with the firm.

The move to drop Freedom Group may have surprised many of Wall Street’s rank-and-file, who often assume that an investment’s ethical or social impact is irrel-evant. However, Cerberus’ sale is a sign that the times are changing.

Each year, more investors de-mand putting their capital in funds that only invest in socially respon-sible or sustainable business ven-tures.

As students continue to advocate for divesting Bowdoin’s endowment from fossil fuels, Bowdoin finds itself in the heart of this changing investment landscape.

If President Mills and the Board of Trustees refuse to consider di-vesting the endowment from fossil fuels, they will be siding with the Wall Street logic of their genera-tion, which preaches that business and investment decisions should not mix with ethical and social con-siderations. Frankly, Bowdoin de-serves better.

Bowdoin should assess the fea-sibility and costs of restricting en-dowment investments from some of the worst fossil fuel firms. Moving towards divesting fossil fuels puts Bowdoin on track to follow the business logic of current students’ generation—that good investment decisions can go hand-in-hand with the common good.

Any campaign to divest our en-

dowment from fossil fuels will un-fortunately be a long one, as it ap-pears President Mills is opposed to the idea.

The December 7 edition of the Orient quoted President Mills who stated, “Management of the endow-ment…is not something which at Bowdoin—or frankly any other in-stitution—is subject to a large dem-ocratic effort as to how the money

Divesting of fossil fuels for ethical endowment growth

Bowdoin participated in [the South Africa] divestment cam-paign based on the demands of students, facultuy, the actions of

other institutions, and our society’s outrage.

is invested.” Contrary to Mills’ remarks, some

of the most successful divestment campaigns in history are the prod-ucts of so-called “large democratic efforts.” For reference, see the di-vestment campaign which crip-pled South African businesses and helped end apartheid.

Bowdoin participated in this di-vestment campaign based on the demands of students, faculty, the actions of other institutions, and our society’s broad outrage at the events occurring in South Africa. Sounds like a large democratic ef-fort to me.

If Bowdoin joined divestment campaigns in the past, why won’t it join the current campaign to divest from fossil fuels?

President Mills argues that in the South African scenario, “there was widespread national and interna-tional agreement that the subjects that we were dealing with were ab-horred,” implying that there is not a similar level of agreement about fossil fuel firms.

It is true that there is not broad moral outrage over burning fossil fuels at the same level that there was against South Africa’s institu-tionalized racism, although it is dif-ficult to even try to compare these two distinct cases.

Fossil fuels allow us to attain a very high standard of living. They heat our homes, power our cars, and provide us with the majority of our electricity. However, there is a widely accepeted argument that in the long term, burning fossil fuels is not good for the earth, and that

it needs to stop or slow to prevent some of the worst consequences of global warming.

Fossil Free, the national organi-zation which advocates for divest-ment from fossil fuels, recommends divesting 200 publicly traded com-panies which control the majority of the world’s gas, oil and coal re-serves. These are the large energy firms with records of massive oil spills and human rights violations. They are not the local heating oil delivery companies. There is broad consensus that some of these large firms have committed deplorable crimes, and that they do not de-serve our endowment dollars.

5 e 6 rms on the divestment list include BP, responsible for the Deep-water Horizon explosion, the largest o7 shore oil spill in U.S. history.

Dutch Royal Shell—a 6 rm that has refused to clean up repeated oil spills in the Niger Delta area and recently paid $15.5 million to settle charges that it collaborated in the killings of nine political dissidents in Nigeria in 1996, is also on the list.

ExxonMobil is one of the larg-est firms on the list, responsible for the disastrous ExxonValdez spill in Alaska.

The list of environmental disas-ters and human rights violations these companies are responsible for is beyond the scope of this article, but the point is clear—society uni-versally abhors many of the crimes of these large fossil fuel firms.

Examining past divestment cam-paigns and the behavior of the larg-est energy firms seems to present

a very practical situation in which Bowdoin would join a “fossil-free” divestment campaign. But another major reason Bowdoin is likely re-fusing to even consider divestment is that it wants to defend its endow-ment. Restricting investment deci-sions means that the endowment might get lower returns, or that it may not grow at the fastest possible pace.

The endowment is important, as it provides Bowdoin with its operating budget and factors into various prestige rankings. Bow-doin’s endowment is pretty close to reaching the $1 billion mark, so we wouldn’t want to slow it down now, would we?

This desire for more funds and prestige prevents Bowdoin from even considering divestment.

President Mills and other college officials may argue that making in-vestment decisions to maximize the endowment is simply in the best in-terest of the College. But is it? Let’s say Bowdoin makes amazing profits from investing in an energy firm that improperly disposes hazard-ous waste. The investment makes sense under the ideology that the investment with the best return is in the best interest of the College. But increasingly, the idea of “social investment” is on the rise in the in-vestment world.

The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment reports that as of 2012, sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) en-compassed a record breaking $3.74 trillion out of the $33.3 trillion U.S. investment market.

Increasingly, investors want to use their savings to promote ethical business growth. These investments may not be as profitable as just any investment, but the sheer quantity of investments in this sector dem-onstrate that investments can be both profitable and ethical.

Most students, faculty, admin-istrators and alumni would likely be willing to accept small changes

in the endowment (with its corre-sponding changes at Bowdoin) in return for investing the endowment in ethical, sustainable businesses.

The final argument against di-vesting fossil fuels is that Bowdoin’s efforts to divest would have little impact on fossil fuel use, an argu-ment similar to the one that South African divestment would have lit-tle impact on apartheid.

In December, the Orient quoted Paula Volent, VP for Investments at the College, arguing that, “Mar-kets are efficient and it is unclear if one group of investors decides to boycott a specific sector that there is any meaningful result. Other in-vestors will step in and buy cheaper securities.” Financial professionals during South African apartheid also argued that divestment would have little effect on that nation’s racist policies. Private South Af-rican divestment campaigns led to broad government-sponsored economic sanctions and massive capital flight from South Africa. Crippled South African businesses eventually begged the government to renounce apartheid, leading to the system’s fall.

Divestment campaigns work, and Bowdoin can help to lead a divest-ment campaign against fossil fuels and help create real change in the energy sector.

We students belong to a genera-tion that sees investment not only as a means for profit, but also as an indication of our social values. We want to create real change in the en-ergy sector by divesting fossil fuels.

The question is whether Bow-doin’s decision makers, the Board of Trustees, the Office of the Presi-dent, and alumni donors will sup-port students in this progressive, exciting and challenging journey.

The first step is to assess the fea-sibility of divestment, a threshold at least one of our peer schools has already crossed. I sincerely hope that President Mills reconsiders his position.

BY BEN RICHMONDCONTRIBUTOR

The saga of Manti Te’o: The story that shamed a voyeuristic America

Manti Te’o is six months older than I am. We both attend upper-echelon colleges. We are both in the midst of job searches. Manti majored in graphic design, while I’m majoring in government. He is a standout college football play-er—the kind of player that exists at schools other than Bowdoin. Manti turns 22 on Saturday.

Over the course of the last week, the story of Te’o’s fabricated girl-friend, Lennay Kekua, has taken America by storm. Commenta-tors have called it “the story that broke the Internet.” The unfolding mystery quickly upstaged Lance Armstrong’s admission of Perfor-mance Enhancing Drug use and his (bullshit) apology.

That’s right, the story of a fake online romance has transcended the fall from grace of a cancer-sur-viving, world-champion American hero.

Of course, those aren’t all the details of the hoax perpetrated against the Notre Dame star. Te’o’s relationship had received publicity throughout the football season be-

cause of the fake girlfriend’s alleged death after a battle with Leukemia and, more importantly, the trag-edy’s role as motivation for him as an athlete.

Te’o, we have found out, was given undue sympathy and praise for performing well on the football field while battling through giga-byte-generated heartache. He even

intimacy with a young woman who died of Leukemia six hours after the passing of his grandmother.

However, prior to learning de-finitively of his victimization, America disgustedly shook its col-lective head and bemoaned its own duped-ness.

The public had been suckered into a fantastical story and now thirsted for the details that would make them triumphant in the face of another’s misery. We Ameri-cans hate to play the fool and we’ll shame you until we forget that we were ever thrown for a loop.

Boy, weren’t we taken advan-tage of? We, under false pretenses, added fuel to the fake narrative of a college linebacker bearing his bur-den bravely and playing inspired football.

By golly, we should only sit, eat and watch football with that much passion when someone has truly earned our intrigue. Te’o, we sus-pected only days ago, was a babe-inventing fraud who manipulated us into praising and pitying him. How could he do this to us?

Here is where I pause and ask: is America freakin’ serious?

At the height of our uncertainty, the possibilities were threefold.

1. Te’o was cruelly duped by an online impersonator.

2. Te’o was duped initially and,

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after finding out, perpetuated the lie out of embarrassment or for the attention.

3. Te’o is desperately insecure about his popularity and/or sexu-ality so he invented a tragic story around a girlfriend that resided only in his cerebral cortex.

In which of these situations are the spectators of college football— and news watchers generally—owed something by this troubled college student? I’ll tell you: at no That’s right, the story of a fake

online romance has transcended the fall from grace of a cancer-sur-viving, world-champion American

hero.

spoke about his love for Kekua on ESPN, concealing the fact that he had only communicated with his girlfriend by phone and on Face-book.

To be fair, though, was the rela-tionship really fiction? Most Bow-doin couples never make the leap from texting to vocal telephonic communication.

We have now learned —at least for the time being—that Te’o found out that Kekua was an invention around the same time we did. For the better part of a year, he was cru-elly led to believe that he had found

point ever. We took umbrage with our own

voyeuristic vulnerability when a glossy narrative of pain and per-sonal struggle was substituted for a grainier narrative of pain and personal struggle. That’s why the story became a sensation. Because America lost its collective shit when the support structure of an overly idealized 21-year-old began to crack.

It should go without saying that Te’o’s privacy has been violated. If

We Americans hate to play the fool and we’ll shame you until we forget that we were ever thrown

for a loop.

you think he’s getting what he de-serves for talking about the story in the first place, you’re probably a terrible person.

Successful college athletes are commoditized and glamorized by a system that certainly does not ask for consent. Secondly, this was a college kid who messed up on the Internet. He didn’t break the law. He didn’t cheat his way to athletic success. I ask again, what does he owe us?

Finally, I should say that I don’t believe that any members of the millions-large audience that watched this saga unfold can or should be held individually re-sponsible for the way we treated Te’o. Like most issues in a world with seven (that’s right, seven) billion people, the problem is sys-temic.

As disgusting as this sounds, the media was only showing what we wanted to watch, and we only watched what the media was show-ing us. Somewhere in that circular doom spiral, culpability disap-pears. However, I think we all need to examine whether we can take America and its blighted culture seriously when the titanic story of this winter break was that a mostly meaningless college sports story was as fantastical as we wanted it to be. And so we were outraged.

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doesn’t have a global impact. 6 at might be a relief, actually, since

the 2020 goals of carbon neutrality are unachievable. Come clean, get that monkey o7 your back, and think bigger!

How might Bowdoin expand and consolidate its o7 erings in sustainabil-ity and develop a focus on this issue like, say, Middlebury has?

From its website: “At Middlebury, sustainability is about more than our renewable energy projects and green buildings. It is an integral part of how we teach, work and play.” Wow!

Bowdoin, meanwhile, doesn’t yet

Bowdoin’s electronic Season’s Greet-ing card this year concluded by “wish-ing Polar Bears everywhere the magic of family and friends this holiday sea-son.” As a Polar Bear myself, I appre-ciate Bowdoin’s sentiment. But there’s one constituency for which that note must ring hollow: actual polar bears.

Arctic sea ice is melting much, much faster than even the most fatalistic cli-mate models projected. Melt this sum-mer equaled half the square mileage of the lower 48 states. Scientists predict Arctic summers could be ice-free by mid-century—the end of the line for polar bears.

6 is situation would have been hellish for another Polar Bear: Robert Peary. Peary’s graduation from Bow-doin in 1877 marked almost the exact time global warming started to heat his beloved Arctic, thanks to the Industrial Revolution.

What will the displays at the Peary-MacMillian Arctic Museum look like in 2100, a8 er the World Bank’s projected four degrees Celcius of warming, which they say will bring “unimaginable costs to people and society?”

Since its inception, Bowdoin has been devoted to the Common Good. Given that climate change means more storms and droughts, 9 res and : oods, crop failures and food scarcity, and all of the resulting loss, poverty and con-: ict, the “common good” today looks a hell of a lot like solving climate change.

Bowdoin’s mascot and most famous non-poet graduate’s legacy are endan-gered. 6 e school’s very mission is threatened at its core. It sure seems like

Bowdoin, more than any other college, ought to be working hard to solve cli-mate change.

But it’s not. 6 e school’s actions have been tepid. I’m not talking about “greening” the campus. Greening op-erations is the stu7 of good press these days; most colleges are doing it. But these actions are not nearly enough be-cause climate is a global problem, not a Bowdoin problem.

I’m talking about the administra-tion’s general lack of concern about the climate, lack of response to student and alumni prodding, and the unfortunate result that other schools capture the bene9 ts of leadership.

For example, Middlebury, with a world-class sustainability curriculum, is eating Bowdoin’s lunch in attracting a whole new coterie of students focused on sustainability and climate change.

I know because I get their impressive resumes. One works with me. Middle-bury’s approach backs the school’s mis-sion and its bottom line.

6 e University of Michigan’s Gra-ham Environmental Sustainability Institute o7 ers a competitive program that accepts 25 to 30 high-performing students into its Undergraduate Sus-tainability Scholars Program, an inter-disciplinary leadership e7 ort.

Fellow Maine institution Unity Col-lege is moving rapidly on the divest-ment conversation and getting national press.

Unity College president Stephen Mulkey is willing to speak out aggres-sively on climate. From a letter to other college administrators quoted in the New York Times and Time Magazine: “In the near future, the political tide will turn and the public will demand

action on climate change...Our stu-dents are already demanding action, and we must not ignore them.”

No o7 ense Unity, but shouldn’t Bow-doin be the leader? But far from lead-ing, Bowdoin’s Environmental Studies home page doesn’t even list the words “climate change” or “global warming.” Seriously?

On the : ip side, what kinds of fun and rewarding results might : ow from a serious discussion about how Bow-doin can 9 nd and use its biggest levers to drive climate solutions?

Bowdoin might discover that carbon neutrality isn’t an ideal goal because the marginal 30 percent is so expensive to achieve, and greening Bowdoin itself

Like it or not, Bowdoin is advanc-ing its own socio-political agenda by default, as an owner of businesses that hold the carbon that will destroy, or by staying in the ground salvage, the fu-ture for Bowdoin grads from this day forward.

My God, what an opportunity for Bowdoin! To become a material part of nothing less than saving civilization! Talk about serving the common good.

Lead the charge on solving climate change and, as Shakespeare said: From this day forward until the ending of the world, we in it shall be remembered!

Let’s bring this issue to the fore, put it on the cover of Bowdoin magazine, host a brainstorming conference with Bates and Colby, and recognize it as what NASA’s James Hansen calls “the predominant moral issue of the next century”—something Obama told Time Magazine we’ve got to get right.

6 e current Bowdoin administra-tion’s focus on increasing the endow-ment to allow students from all walks of life to attend, ensuring a diversity of eth-nic as well as economic backgrounds, is admirable and in keeping with the Common Good. But that very goal is threatened by a societal miss on climate: a8 er four degrees Celcius of warming, nobody gets to go to Bowdoin.

As Polar Bear Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s friend and colleague Hen-ry David 6 oreau pointed out, and I paraphrase: What, a8 er all, is the use of a 9 ne college if you haven’t got a toler-able planet to put it on?

Auden Schendler ’92 is Vice Presi-dent of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company and author of “Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution.”

Bowdoin is falling dangerously behind on climate change

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o7 er the kind of climate/business/sus-tainability/policy education that will prepare students for the modern world. Instead, the focus is more about coastal studies and research. 6 at’s important, but it’s a subset of climate.

6 e reason Maine has public radio is that Colby, Bates, Bowdoin and the University of Maine teamed up to es-tablish it.

How could Bowdoin and other col-leges contribute to a statewide e7 ort to grow and support Maine green busi-ness (some just several hundred feet from campus) and reduce emissions?

Just as with public radio, others would almost certainly jump in and follow an initiative to invest dollars, supporting research, internships, tech-nical support and information sharing to make Maine a green business leader.

Need some seed funding? Stop spending money on Renewable En-ergy Certi9 cates (RECs) that don’t do anything and repurpose the cash to make your own RECs. In the process, students could reconnect with now Senator Angus King to provide the 9 re support he needs to create national policies on climate that would support the Maine revolution.

Why can’t Bowdoin have a conver-sation about divestment, which was at 9 rst rejected by the president when stu-dents brought it up?

Perhaps we should instead call it INvestment: in corporations with strong sustainability records and bal-ance sheets, like those listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, whose returns can equal those of fossil fuel companies. 6 is would be both a lead-ership opportunity and a way to engage students in research and analysis.

Far from leading, Bowdoin’s Environmental Studies home page doesn’t even list the words “climate

change” or “global warming.” Seriously?

The success of individual women is not license to unfurl the “Mission

Accomplished” banner.

We can do better than solve in-equality—there, I said it. Talk of in-equality on a global scale may lead countries toward an identical, “mod-ern” lifestyle—but it won’t elevate us.

Writing for CNN, Frida Ghitis compares the realities of Hillary Clinton and Jyoti Singh Pandey; in the same week, both womens’ hospi-talizations dominated the news.

But the discrepancy between their prevailing identities—one, arguably the most admired woman in the United States, the other, the victim of a brutal rape—leads Ghitis to con-clude that their “parallel stories point to a sharp divide in the worldwide struggle for women’s equality.”

I don’t 9 nd Ghitis’s method too e7 ective. 6 e side-by-side compari-son of a female leader of the “9 rst world” with a casualty of the devel-oping world is a reductive premise to explore the international state of women as a whole.

One could just as easily note the discrepancies between Joyce Hilda

Banda, president of Malawi, and a teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio.

We know that some women will receive respect and admiration in their lifetimes, while others will be ignored, or worse, abused.

6 e success of individual women is not license to unfurl the “Mission Accomplished” banner only to say that, in a state of inequality, lifestyles fall along a drastic spectrum—with this, Ghitis agrees. However, her framing of female inequality risks being labeled as an example of “ap-ples and oranges.”

Rather than make a point tied to the fate of distant individuals, why shouldn’t we examine the ways in which each society could better value human life?

Releasing the issue of inequality from a direct comparison frees us to acknowledge cultural diversity as we look at how the value of human life has evolved.

6 e discussion of life’s value in-cludes both men and women. It be-gins with the very de9 nition of what it means to be human.

If asked point-blank ‘what does it mean to be human?’ we may feel daunted by the enormity of the ques-tion, when the truth is that—in two primary ways—we de9 ne the term

for ourselves all the time.6 e 9 rst way is through cultural

norms. During my semester abroad in Morocco, a8 er more than a few days without a shower, it wasn’t rare for an American student freshly emerged from the bath house to proclaim, “I feel like a human being again.” Human: by this de9 nition, clean. It’s an o; and remark with bold connotations.

Or take the cultural norm of lit-eracy, advocated by the UN and

we bring our preconceived notions of the ‘good life,’ and we want to observe that every citizen is equally valued.

I remember sitting in my host family’s living room in Rabat, as fam-ily members proudly recounted vot-ing in 2011’s constitutional referen-dum. ‘What about Mama Soumia?’ I asked, and paused as there was a brief exchange in Arabic. Someone trans-lated: she didn’t go to the polls, she was making the couscous.

Looking at this woman, I did not see someone thwarted in her civic duty by traditionalism. Where oth-ers might see a subservient domestic, I saw a strong wife and mother per-fectly capable of making a judgment as to how she should allot her time.

Her lack of civic participation would be problematic to some ob-servers, but I would venture to say they are employing Ghitis’s : awed framework.

6 is brings me to the second way in which we de9 ne being human: the ability to perceive the value of hu-man life. 6 is de9 nition, by its very nature, is self-dependent.

When we want to create distance between ourselves and those who commit atrocious, unfathomable acts, we revoke their human label. 6 ey become monsters.

As Badri Singh Pandey—speaking to Sunday People, said of his daugh-ter’s rapists, “I don’t have the words to describe the incident. All I can say is they’re not human, not even animals. 6 ey’re not of this world.”

World creeds and religions may be outdated on issues of social equal-ity—but at their core they contain a directive to value human life.

For this reason, interpretation and re-interpretation evolves interna-tional communities in ways that an imposed framework cannot.

Foregrounding the value of human life—whether male or female—ulti-mately resolves inequality, and coun-teracts the impulse to commit rape.

Crossing cultural boundaries to il-lustrate inequality isn’t conducive to progress, even in matters involving universal rights.

Parallel stories tell a tale of in-equality, but their function is limited.

6 e literacy with which we should be most concerned is the ability of all cultures to value human life.

Striving to be less animalistic doesn’t necessarily make us more hu-man—this is not a vague platitude of comfortable privilege, it’s a challenge to the notion that improvement is simply “narrowing the gap” between the Hillary and Jyoti.

included in a list of internationally supported Millennium Development Goals.

Is literacy a necessity for all hu-mans to lead a ful9 lling life?

Literacy adapts an individual to the demands of a society that values literacy—as if it were a form of tech-nology. However, in pockets of the globe where books are scarce, can we assume that daily existence is bur-dened by illiteracy?

When we go into another society

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FILM FESTIVAL Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia) The 2010 ! lm featuring Gael Garcia Bernal chronicles an indig-enous population’s con" ict against the Bolivian government. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

EVENT Student Activities Fair Enliven spring semester by signing up for one of Bowdoin’s student organizations at this annual fair.Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 7 p.m.

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CONCERT Vox Nova Chamber Choir The ensemble will perform a celestial program of “Heaven on the Horizon” under the Chapel’s soaring beams. The Chapel. 7 p.m.

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LECTURE Can We Listen to Symphonies with Our Eyes?The Russian Department will sponsor a screening of two short Russian sound cinema ! lms once thought lost to history after decades of Soviet censorship. Room 117, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

FILM FESTIVAL LopeThe Latin American and Spanish Film Festival will celebrate the expansive culture through nightly ! lm screenings. Lope will detail the adventures of a passionate playwright. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

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COMMON HOUR “A Scientist Looks at the Ocean” Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Collin Roesler will discuss her current research on the oceanic response to climate change. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m. PRESENTATION FUNdamentals of Dog Sledding The Arctic Museum will host a presentation about the basics of dog sledding. Attendees can enter a ra# e to win a dog sled ride on the Quad following the talk. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 12:30- 3 p.m.

INFORMATION SESSION Residential Life Meeting Students interested in joining ResLife sta$ next semester are encouraged to attend. Applications are due January 30.Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 3 p.m.

EVENT Arctic Museum Reception Student Activities is hosting a student night at the Arctic Museum to celebrate the start of the spring semester. Arctic punch, wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Matana Roberts Renowned alto saxophonist Roberts will showcase her experimental approach to musical communication. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT LGBTIQ Luncheon Students and faculty are invited to celebrate the resource center. 24 College Street. Noon.

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RELIGIOUS SERVICESunday Night Chapel ServiceThe Chapel. 7 p.m.

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FILM FESTIVAL Undertow (Contracorriente) This dramatic ! lm captures the struggles of a poor Peruvian ! sherman in the wake of tragedy. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

31THURSDAY

OFFICE HOURS Dean Foster’s O! ce Hours Information Desk, Smith Union. 3 p.m.

SYMPOSIUM Reading Prints: David Becker’s LegacyGuest speakers will discuss printmaking tradition utilizing Becker’s collection of prints. See story p. 7. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 3:30 p.m.

INFO SESSION Summer Fellowship Programs Students interested in working at the Bowdoin Scienti! c Station on Kent Island are encouraged to attend. Room 110, Druckenmiller Hall. 7 p.m.

LECTURE “Managing Your Online Reputation”Creator of the controversial gossip website Juicy Campus Matt Ivester will discuss cyberbullying and the role of digital identity in the professional world. Memorial Hall, Pickard Theater. 7:30 p.m.

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SENIOR SPRING: Bowdoin seniors crowded around the bar at Pedro O’Hara’s last night to toast the start of their last semester.

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