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F E A T U R E S

S P O R T S

A & E

O P I N I O N

POLAR BEAR SIBLINGS

For some students, a taste ofhome isn’t hard to find with sib-lings so close.

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‘THE MASK YOU LIVE IN’

A film screening is the first in aseries to address masculinity oncampus.

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BACK ON THE DIAMOND

The baseball and softballteams began their seasonsin Florida over spring break.

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MALE ENTITLEMENT

Skye Aresty ’16 on why Bow-doin’s hook-up culture hurtswomen.

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BSG approves newimpeachment bylaws

Before unanimously approving newprocedures for impeaching student rep-resentatives last Wednesday evening,Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) putto rest any possibility that impeachmentproceedings would continue against Classof 2018 Representative Clare McInerney’18 and At-Large Representative DuncanCannon ’18 for their attendance at Febru-ary’s party.

In some of her first public comments

since publicly apologizing for attendingthe party at a BSG meeting last month,McInerney said on ursday that theBSG’s decision to prevent the articles frombeing reopened validated her feeling thatthe impeachment process as a whole hadnot been fair.

“At this point it’s not even about thewrongness or rightness of wearing a som-brero or attending the ‘tequila’ party—there wasn’t any form of due process in myeyes. I think the fact that it was voted onlast night and we can’t use it retroactivelyis good.at was the issue to begin with,”

said McInerney.“I don’t want to make this convolut-

ed—I don’t have a problem with beingimpeached in any shape or form if myactions warrant it, but my issue with allof this has been that the process itselfwasn’t fair, not that what we did was notmeriting impeachment,” she continued.

McInerney reiterated that neither she,nor Cannon, nor anyone on their behalfhad threatened to pursue legal actionagainst the College or members of BSG.

When asked about how she envi-sioned her future with student govern-

ment, McInerney declined to answer.At their March 9 meeting before springbreak, the BSG members who had intro-duced the articles of impeachment ear-lier that month announced that they werechoosing to rescind the process due topotential legal issues posed by followingthrough with impeachment proceedingswhile simultaneously creating the formalsteps by which impeachment occurs.

While the BSG constitution referencesan ability to impeach, the assembly’s pre-

BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

College not concerned byeff ects of alumni backlash

From hundreds of complaints lodgedwith the Offi ce of Alumni Relations toharsh coverage from national news out-lets like the Washington Post, backlashfrom outside of Bowdoin has mountedover the College’s handling of the Febru-ary 20 “tequila” party. While alumni andothers have expressed their uncertaintyand refusal to donate to the College oreven hire Bowdoin graduates in com-ment sections and social media posts,the College is not overly concerned with

these online declarations.Senior Vice President for Development

and Alumni Aff airs Rick Ganong said thatin the weeks following the party, his offi cehas received over 400 formal commentsfrom alumni and parents. e “over-whelming majority” of these complaintsexpressed disapproval of how the incidentwas handled.

“It’s been a tough month,” said Ganong.

“And we really won’t know how that senti-ment will impact giving until the end ofthe year.”e impact of the incident and back-

lash upon admission yield and alumnidonations will not be known until closerto the end of year.

While the Offi ce of Admissions hasreceived some calls about the party,most were from anonymous sourcesunrelated to the Class of 2020. Dean ofAdmissions Scott Meiklejohn was notworried about the event’s eff ect on cur-rent or future applicants.

“I think it would be significant if we

had heard a lot from admitted studentsor parents of admitted students. I supposeit’s possible that we might still, but wehaven’t,” he said.

National coverage of the party beganthe week following the incident, startingwith Barstool Sports. Soon thereaer, out-lets like the National Review, the Wash-

BY JAMES CALLAHANORIENT STAFF

275 faculty and staff have personal info stolen in security breach

Overall acceptance rate reaches new low

e College notified 275 current andformer employees on ursday that theirpersonal information, including W-2forms and social security numbers, hadbeen compromised. According to anemail to all college employees, this datawas illegally accessed through the self-service “See my W-2” portal operated byCeridian HCM Inc., a third party compa-ny that manages payroll tax filings. Cerid-ian had problems with security breachesin the past, including one that prompted

the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) tofile a lawsuit against the company in 2011.e College was contacted Tuesday

by Maine Revenue Services who notifiedthem that they had received a suspicioustax return filed with a valid W-2 fromBowdoin. e link to the portal has sincebeen removed from the Bowdoin website.Senior Vice President for Finance andAdministration and Treasurer CatherineLongley followed up with all employeesshortly aer, outlining steps employeescould take to further protect their per-sonal information.

Senior Vice President for Communi-

cations and Public Aff airs Scott Hoodsaid in an email to the Orient that theCollege had no reason to believe thatany student information had been ac-cessed. He also said that the collegewould not continue to use the portalthat was compromised.

Laboratory Instructor in Physics andAstronomy Kenneth Dennison was oneof those whose information was illegallyobtained. He found out when he receiveda tax account transcript that he did notrequest. Once he verified its authentic-ity it was clear that something had gonewrong.

Associate Professor of Physics MarkBattle was also targeted.

“A colleague told me on Tuesday of hisexperience and I commiserated, and thenI went home and found on my table a let-ter from the IRS saying, ‘someone tried tofile a tax return in your name is this reallyyou?’ At which point I knew I had beenbitten the same way he had,” he said.ough the breach only came to light

this week, there is some evidence thatwhatever criminal entity accessed the datahas had it for some time.

“ey’ve had it for a while. e IRStold me that a tax return was first filed

in my name on Febr uary 23,” said Bat-tle. “ere was one on February 23,another one on February 25, and oneon March 23.”e FTC’s lawsuit against Ceridian—

which included a lawsuit against LookoutServices, a I-9 soware company—wasprompted aer data was breached for over65,000 consumers, 28,000 of which wereCeridian customers. Deeming Ceridian’ssecurity procedures “unfair and decep-tive,” the FTC required Ceridian to submitto independent security audits for the next20 years every other year as part of the fi-nal settlement.

BY JULIAN ANDREWSORIENT STAFF

BOWDOIN’S CLASS OF 2020

6,799 207687

Admissions decisions for the Class of2020 were released on March 18, withthe College’s admit rate hitting a recordlow.e Admissions Offi ce sent out 687acceptance letters, admitting 14.3 per-cent of total applicants—down 0.2 per-

centage points from the previous recordlow for the Class of 2017 and down 0.6percentage points from last year’s rate.

According to Dean of AdmissionsScott Meiklejohn, slightly more thanhalf the places in the Class of 2020 werefilled via early decision acceptances,QuestBridge (a program for low-in-come students) and students returningfrom gap years. Eighteen students in theClass of 2020 deferred for a year, a much

larger number than normal.Although competition for spots in

the class was especially intense, the Col-lege did not see a record high number ofapplicants.e Admissions Offi ce relieson its admissions yield model to delivera class of around 500 students each year,and anticipates slightly lower yield thanusual this year.

“We predict [yield] within a decentrange, but I just feel like it’s going to beoff a tick,” said Meiklejohn. “We’ve beenexpecting each year for the last couple ofyears to use the waitlist and maybe thiswill be the year.”

Meiklejohn says that he does not be-lieve the “tequila” party and subsequentmedia coverage had a significant eff ecton applications.

“Some of the students who were here

in the fall for the Explore Bowdoin pro-grams have been in touch with us aboutwhat they saw... and some of those peo-ple have written really good and positivemessages about their decision to apply,having been on campus when thoseevents have happened. So I don’t havetoo much to report yet,” he said.

Additionally, in February, admissions

launched a new online tour feature onits homepage. Meiklejohn hopes the im-proved digital tour will allow applicantswho are unable to visit in person tobetter explore the campus.

“We made a pretty significant investment in replacing what was a re-ally weak online tour,” he said. “Wehave a much more dynamic onlinetour now with still photography, 360s,

videos, narration.”

BY KATIE MIKLUS AND MEG ROBBINSORIENT STAFF

B Y T H E N U M B E R S

TOTALAPPLICANTS

ACCEPTED ED I

ACCEPTED REGULAR

COMPARED TO LA ST YEAR

Roughly half the class has alreadycommitted to Bowdoin through ED

The other half will come from theregular decision pool

5,9295,812Regular Decision

Applicants

LAST YEAR

THIS YEAR

11.6%

12.5%

Regular DecisionAdmit Rate

LAST YEAR

THIS YEAR

14.3%

14.9%

OverallAdmit Rate

LAST YEAR

THIS YEAR

Please see IMPEACHMENT, page 5

Please see CRITICISM,page 5

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Wishy Washy, J Money, Mr. Bigglesworth, Balerion and JoseLuis Ricardo Santiago. Is this a list of saucy, undercover cults atBowdoin or the potential titles for new buildings on campus?Perhaps these are the names of Clayton Rose’s future labradors.Alas, no—this vivacious collection of names denotes the vari-ous staplers in the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (HL).

With fiery names affi xed to them, these young machinesare some of the bravest warriors on campus, facing dailystruggle and strife in the hands of Bowdoin students andBrunswick residents alike. Daily these tiny metal service-men and women face potential injury as they staple toomany pages at once, and even risk permanent retirement ifinjured on active duty at the hands of a particularly aggres-

sive student with a 100-page Honors Project in hand.When strutting up to the information desk in HL, ready

to staple one’s light, merely 70-page reading, a name like JoseLuis Ricardo Santiago always stares back, as if to ask, “Doyou really believe me to be capable of this momentous task?”

Interestingly enough, though, students are more or lessunaware of the names of these gallant contraptions. A com-prehensive survey of three Bowdoin students revealed thatnot a single one of them could name a stapler off hand. Isa-iah West ’19 was, in fact, more partial to the tape dispenserover the staplers, who he quickly recalled was named WakaFlocka—fittingly “predictive,” he said.

Maggie Seymour ’16 took little delight in these HL-dwellingappliances. When asked if she had a favorite stapler, she snapped,“No. No, I don’t spend enough time in that horrid place.”

Yet, Seymour did acknowledge the enormous and terrifictask of naming a stapler. She could not come up with a name

right off the bat.“I would name it...This is hard. My head hurts,” Sey-

mour struggled.Andrew Cawley ’17 also attempted to name a stapler but

came up dry.“I’m fighting so hard not to say Andrew Cawley,” he said.

Upon reflection he specified, “at’s the full name of the sta-pler: ‘I’m fighting so hard not to say Andrew Cawley.’”e respondent who answered in the quickest manner

was West, who, when asked his naming preferences at theconclusion of the interview, simply stated, “is is stupid.” Itremains unclear as to whether he was referring to the inter-

view or what he wanted the next stapler to be named.Despite the importance of their names, these little fighters

get no elaborate naming ceremony. No doves are released, noflames encircle the skies the day these staplers are knighted

and gied with names to set them apart from the other cam-pus staplers at lesser locals, like the Smith Union Info Desk.

Seymour, Cawley and West all agreed that naming a sta-pler would be a huge honor. To name one, Cawley suggestedstudents, “submit to the Good Ideas Fund.” At the sametime, West said that to name a stapler, one should be “re-ally important,” suggesting that certain deans or professorsdeserve the honor.

Seymour believes that knowing the history of the staplersis essential to naming future page-bonding warriors. “Youshould have to win a jeopardy game on the history of thestaplers,” she said.

In keeping with the lighthearted questions the Orientasked, West finished his interview with a one final quip.

He joked, “Maybe the staplers will slowly start to brainwashus. Like, in a few months one of the staplers will say ‘PresidentRose is great’ or something like that.”

What would you research as anindependent study or honors project?

COMPILED BY HY KHONG AND JENNY IBSEN

SECURITY REPORT: MAR. 3 to MAR. 30

STUDENT SPEAK

Q:

Roll call: the biggest names on Bowdoin’s campus BY OLIVIA ATWOOD AND CALDER MCHUGHORIENT STAFF

“How health care isdiff erent in third-world

countries. I would focuson Ecuador, because I’moriginally from there.”

Cristina Tamay ’18

“I decided 20 minutes ago todo an honors thesis on howthe ‘butterfly’ is an orientalist

yet enabling trope in Asian andAsian-American literature.”

Mitsuki Nishimoto ’17

“I’m currently doing anindependent study on Cubanliterature since the Cubanrevolution.”

Peter Yanson ’16

“I’m doing an English inde-pendent study about femaledeath narratives in 19th century

American fiction.”

Penelope Lusk ’17

“I did an independentstudy about the influenceof technology in WinslowHomer’s Civil War art.”

Alice Wang ’15

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

· Graffi ti was reported in a public re-stroom at the Museum of Art.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

· A student with an allergic reactionwas escorted from Hyde Hall to MidCoast Hospital.

· A student in Moore Hall waswarned for possession of alcohol.

· A group of students was cited for pos-session of hard alcohol in Moore Hall.

· A student in Osher Hall was cited

for possession of hard alcohol.

SATURDAY, MARCH 5

· An offi cer checked on an intoxi-cated student at orne Hall, and thenescorted the student to his residence.

· Brunswick Rescue transporteda male lacrosse player to Mid CoastHospital for treatment of a broken jawcaused by a ball strike to the face.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6

· An offi cer checked on the wellbeingof an intoxicated student who vomitedin the dining room at Super Snack. estudent will be billed for the house-keeper call-in.

· Loud music was reported to be

coming from the Baxter House base-ment at 1:40 a.m. ree students tookresponsibility and turned off the music.

· Security and Brunswick Rescue re-sponded to orne Hall to assist a stu-dent who had fainted due to low bloodsugar. e student was evaluated onsite and released.

· A student took responsibility forkicking in a door at Burnett House.

MONDAY, MARCH 7

· Two men in a blue Ford Tauruswere seen picking through garbage ina dumpster at Pine Street Apartments.

· Stairwell walls were vandal-ized during at unregistered event atBrunswick Apartment M. The stu-dents who hosted the event will bebilled for the damage.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8

· Brunswick Rescue transporteda student from the dean’s offi ce inMoulton Union to Mid Coast Hospital.

· Two Shure microphones were re-ported missing or stolen from a storagecloset at Jack Magee’s Pub following a

performance on March 4.· An officer checked on the wellbe-

ing of a distraught student at Helm-reich House.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

· A pair of women’s pink Brooks sneak-ers was reported stolen from the women’slocker room at Farley Field House.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

· A basement wall was vandalized inLadd House.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12

· A Federal Street resident reportedthat students have been throwing lit-ter, including cans and bottles, onto

his lawn.

SUNDAY, MARCH 13

· Offi cers responded to a campus res-idence investigate a report of an intoxi-cated, despondent student. e matterwas handled in coordination with thedean’s offi ce.

· A man who was acting suspiciouslywas identified and asked to leave campus.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

· A student cooking eggs in the Os-her Hall kitchen accidentally set off thefire alarm.

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

· An athletics staff member reportedthat a suspicious man was loiteringin the area of Farley Field House. eman le the area.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

· A student was freed from a malfunc-tioning south elevator at Coles Tower.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

· BPD and Security encountered aman who was acting erratically in the

area of Federal Street and Bath Roadfrom 1-3 a.m. e offi cers monitoredthe man’s activity until he le the area.

· BPD responded to a loud partycomplaint at 24 Jordan Avenue. Stu-dents living at the house were warnedfor disorderly conduct, and the eventwas dispersed.

SUNDAY, MARCH 27

· A large unregistered event was dis-persed at Baxter House.

· A green recycling bin outside ofBaxter House was vandalized.

MONDAY, MARCH 28

· A student reported that her blueTrek 7200 hybrid bicycle was stolen

sometime over break.· Two students were temporarily stuckin the south elevator at Coles Tower.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29

· A Maine Hall student experienc-ing abdominal pain was transported toMid Coast Hospital.

· Cooking smoke set off the fire alarmat Brunswick Apartment G.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

· A student who was cooking in theOsher Hall kitchen inadvertently acti-

vated thefire alarm.

DIANA FURUKAWA

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NEWS IN BRIEF

MØ CANCELS IVIES CONCERTLast week, the Bowdoin Entertainment Board (eBoard) announced the

cancellation of headlining performer MØ for Ivies. Vice President for Stu-dent Organizations Emily Serwer ’16 said that the cancellation was unfore-seen and likely not due to MØ’s personal decision but was decided on by herrecord labels. Serwer declined to comment on options for MØ’s replacementbut said that eBoard is in the process of finding one or two additional per-formers to take her place. Bowdoin was not MØ’s single cancellation but oneof the many performances she was scheduled to put on while touring thenortheastern part of the United States, Colby included. Waka Flocka Flameremains booked for Thursday of Ivies, and eBoard will announce the otheract(s) in the upcoming weeks.

MAJOR HIRES IN BRUNSWICKIn a town with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, two ma-

jor c ompani es ann ounc ed their pl ans to h ire hundre ds of n ew emp loyee s fortheir Brunswick locations. SaviLinx, a customer service company stationedin Brunswick Landing for the past three years, announced earlier this monththat it plans to hire 200 more staff members for its Maine location, nearlytripling their total number of employees. Earlier, the Boston-based onlinefurniture seller, Wayfair, announced its plan to hire 500 full-time employeesfor its new customer service center in Brunswick at the former Navy Ex-change at Brunswick Landing.

According to an article in the Portland Press Herald, since Brunswick’semployment rate is so low, in order to attract out-of-town workers, employ-ers like SaviLinx and Wayfair must not only offer good pay and benefitsbut also make extra efforts to connect with potential employees through

job fairs . The Maine Depar tment of L abor told the Herald it is fur ther look -ing into hiring “atypical candidates, such as retirees, new Mainers, disabledpeople and others” for current and future workplace openings.

HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTSThe College will grant honorary degrees to five people at this year’s Com-

mencement. The recipients’ successes range from winning an Olympic goldmedal to infusing astronomy into award-winning art. Educator and authorNancie Atwell will be presented with a degree in recognition of her work in

the classroom both in the U.S. and around the world. Atwell was not onlythe first recipient of the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize but alsothe first classroom teacher to be presented with two major language artsresearch awards. Artist and recipient Dorothea Rockburne has worked formany years focusing on the intersections of art, mathematics and astrono-my; one of her frescoes is displayed at Sony headquarters in New York City.Recipient Frank Shorter, an author, lawyer and television commentator, hasnot only won a gold medal in long-distance running at the 1972 SummerOlympics but also worked to spread the anti-doping message throughoutathletics and advocated for victims of child physical abuse. Peter M. Small’64, P’97, P’99 is the only recipient to have worked for the College, contrib-uting much to the Board of Overseers and the Board of Trustees (of which heserved as Chair from 2005 to 2010) over the course of three of the College’spresidencies. President of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, one of thefirst students in the Head Start program, has worked on a number of projectsthroughout the years, including a recovery program for victims of HurricaneKatrina. Most recently, he declared his and the Ford Foundation’s primarydedication to combating inequality.

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Amid terrorist attacks abroad, OCSprograms look out for students’ safety

Recent terror attacks abroad haveshocked the global community, includ-ing bombings in Brussels, Istanbul andAnkara that took place over Spring Breakand the November 2015 attacks in Paris.Several Bowdoin students were abroadin Paris when the attacks took place, andthere are students studying in Paris andIstanbul this semester as well.

Director of Off -Campus Study (OCS)and International Programs ChristineWintersteen said that despite the fright-ening nature of the attacks, OCS is notplanning on canceling programs in thosecountries. She added that all of the abroadprograms that Bowdoin has accreditedhave strong processes for keeping stu-dents safe and communicating with them

in case of an emergency.Maggie Rose ’17 studied abroad with

the Vassar-Wesleyan program in Paris,and was with friends in a restaurant inParis during the attacks. A shooting tookplace next door to her, and she was twoblocks away from the Bataclan theaterwhere 89 concert goers were killed.

Rose said that when the attacks tookplace, she immediately received commu-nication from her program checking thatshe was safe, and helping her to get out ofthe area.

“ey locked us down for about anhour and then they evacuated us and toldus in French to run as far as possible to thele, which was terrifying.”

Aer getting out of the area of the at-

tacks, Rose said that the central part ofthe city was still locked down, so she andher friends slept at her program director’s

house. She said that she knew the programwould confirm her safety with Bowdoin.

“Vassar and Wesleyan made sure thatBowdoin knew I was safe and sound andaccounted for, but I had no interest in be-ing further in touch,” she said. “Being inmy situation I didn’t want to have to tell[Bowdoin] the details.”

One of the more diffi cult aspects of re-cent attacks is that they have taken placein areas that are not typically considereddangerous, and Wintersteen said that de-spite the processes in place for identifyingareas of risk, it is impossible to predictthese types of attacks.

“e U.S. State Department is a greatresource because they issue travel warn-ings for certain countries. at being said,the places where recent attacks have takenplace have not always been in these coun-tries, so it is a resource but it is certainly not

a predictor for places where everyone, stu-dents and citizens, should exercise caution.”

However, some areas come with moresafety concerns than others. Turkey, forexample, has seen several attacks takeplace over the last few months, includingdeadly bombings in Ankara and Istanbul.OCS sends students to a program in Is-tanbul, and Wintersteen said that it is thenature of the program (run by Duke Uni-

versity) there that allows this to continue.“We’ve received a lot of communication

from Duke about their guidelines.ey’readvising students to stay close to campus,the campus is not in the downtown area,”she said. “ere are certain places whereit is certainly advisable to study abroadwith a program rather than as a direct ex-

change student.

at provides a little moreof a safety net.”Wintersteen also said that despite the

seeming increase in frequency of terroristattacks, students are vulnerable to other,potentially more dangerous situations,while abroad.

“I still think the majority of riskabroad is really around alcohol use and

vehicle and transportation issues,” shesaid. “Of course terrorist attacks are theones that are newsworthy and frighten-ing and ones that are very diffi cult tocontrol, so I think that it’s a personaldecision on what types of travel and op-portunities you want to take advantageof or not.

Kayla Kaufman ’18 is studying abroadin Paris next year, and said that the attackshave not changed her mind about her de-sire to go.

“Obviously it’s a little concerning, butit’s something I’ve wanted to do for solong and I feel like the goal of these ter-

rorists is to inspire fear in people to notdo things that they were planning ondoing,” she said. “I feel like it can hap-pen anywhere, it happened in California,you’re more likely to be hit by a bus ora car. It’s very random, you can’t controlthese types of things unfortunately.”

Rose echoed both Wintersteen andKaufman’s sentiments.

“If you don’t feel you can rely onyourself and that you feel safe in yourown knowledge and capability, thenmaybe don’t go to Paris, maybe don’tgo to Brussels,” she said. “But if you feelyou’re a community oriented person,and someone who is strong enough toget through something that is goingto aff ect everyone around you, [going

abroad] is not an experience that canbe missed out on. It also only made melove Paris more.”

BY JULIAN ANDREWS

ORIENT STAFF

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Seniors earn global grants, most to teachEnglish abroad on Fulbright fellowships

As graduation approaches, some seniors already have thenext year of their lives mapped out. This year’s fellowship win-ners will be traveling across the globe to pursue various person-al interests, from home construction to Slavic languages, and, inmost cases, to teach English.

Of the 38 Bowdoin students who applied for Fulbright fel-lowships this year, 20 were named national finalists, and sevenhave been accepted thus far, all as English Teaching Assistants:seniors Kenny Cortum, Talia Cowen, David Jimenez, BridgetKranz, Michelle Kruk and Anna Piotti and alumnus Mark Rich-

ter ’14. A number of applicants are still waiting tohear back, including all those who applied for studyresearch grants.

In addition, Tess Hamilton ’16 was awarded aThomas J. Watson Fellowship and Caroline Marti-nez ’16 was awarded a grant from the Davis Proj-

ects for Peace organization to teach free leadership trainings towomen in Ecuador. Will Danforth ’16 received a Princeton inAsia fellowship to work with the organization in Mongolia. MegFreiberger ’16 was awarded a National Science Foundation re-search fellowship.

“The beauty is that there is such an array of national fellow-ships, so it’s not just one particular profile of a student whowould look good for a national fellowships, there’s lots of dif-ferent profiles,” said Director of Students Fellowships and Re-search Cindy Stocks.

Several fellowship winners credited the approach of the Offi ce of Stu-dent Fellowships and Research in developing their applications.

“I’ve been through this numerous times, so when a studentgives me a draft, I have the perspective of having seen years ofearlier drafts and see ing who’s won and who hasn’t, so then I canhelp students think about what to they can tell their particularfellowships,” Stocks said.

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. State Depart-

ment, sends newly graduated students and alumni to teach Eng-lish or conduct research abroad. Fulbright fellows act as repre-sentatives of American culture and foster international bonds.

Applicants apply to a country they are interested in and areselected based upon two page-long essays—the Personal State-ment and the Statement of Grant Purpose—as well as three rec-ommendation letters.

Cortum will be traveling to Bulgaria as an English TeachingAssistant. He says that while teaching in Bulgaria, he hopes tobe able to further his study of Bulgarian language and culture.

“I’m a connoisseur of some sorts of Slavic languages; I collect

them, if you can collect languages like Pokemon” said Cortum.He says his experiences learning Polish, Russian and Serbian

will help him to understand the mistakes his students makelearning English.

Cowen leaves for South Korea in July, where she will completeorientation and start teaching English. Currently, the South Ko-rean education system is shifting its focus from memorizationto critical thinking. Cowen describes her own learning style as“at the intersection of both” methods and is excited to witnessthat transition.

“[Teaching in South Korea is] a total break from anything I’vedone here,” Cowen said. “I think the liberal arts education, themodel of being exposed to many different things, prepares youfor the shock of going somewhere totally different.”

Jimenez was accepted to the Romanian program. He says hisinterest in the country began in middle school with a book hisuncle wrote about the country. “I remember reading throughit, kind of captivating me a bit in eighth or ninth grade,” saidJimenez.

Kranz will be teaching English at a high school in Slovakia.For Kranz, the allure of Slovakia is deeply rooted in its politicalhistory. She is looking forward to seeing how Slovakia, whichgained its independence in 1993, is handling itself politicallyand economically after being occupied by the Germans and theSoviets and being part of Czechoslovakia, where the Slovakswere a minority with little opportunity to self-determine.

A visual arts major, Kranz hopes to use her time in Slovakiato start working towards her goal of bringing art experiencesto children in rural areas. “Because I’m only helping teach 15hours a week, I’m hoping that I’ll either be able to start or helpwith a pre-existing community or after school art program,”Kranz said.

The Watson Fellowship is awarded “to college graduates ofexceptional promise to engage in a year of independent learning

and travel abroad, in pursuit of an approved project of uniquepersonal significance,” according to its website.

Using the fellowship, Hamilton intends to study how peoplelive “in harmony with the surrounding landscape” all over theworld. She intends to visit Iceland, Scotland, Mongolia, Tama-rin and Portugal to examine the different ways which peoplebuild their homes. For example, Mongolia has supported manynomadic peoples in the past. However, desertification causedby Ulaanbaatar, the country’s major city, has made nom adic lifemore difficult and Hamilton intends to study how this increas-ing desertification has influenced local home building.

BY DAKOTA GRIFFIN, GIDEON MOORE

AND SAM MORRIS

ORIENT STAFF

OFF TO FULL AND BRIGHT DAYS: A number of seniors have earned fellowships to pursue personal projects abroad n ext year. (Clockwise from top) Bridget Kranz ’16, Kenny Cortum ’16, Talia Cowen ’16, DavidJimenez ’16, Will Danforth ’16 , Caroline Martinez ’16, Tess Hamilton ’16 and Michelle Kruk ’16 were among those chosen.

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vious bylaws off ered almost no instruc-tions as to how an impeachment wouldactually proceed in reality.

For that reason, BSG President DannyMejia-Cruz ’16 postponed the impeach-ment proceedings aer administratorswarned him that continuing to do socould place BSG members in a weakenedposition in case of a lawsuit.

“We realized that we didn’t have a setprocess, and should a lawsuit come up, wewould be on shaky ground, and that ledme to worry about the three petitionersand the status of the General Assembly asa whole,” Mejia-Cruz said.

Neither Mejia-Cruz nor Inter-HouseCouncil Representative Jacob Russell ’17,one of the three students who brought thearticles of impeachment, said they had re-ceived any specific notices of lawsuits.

Russell said that the administration’swarning, which first filtered down to himand his fellow petitioners At-Large Rep-resentative Lucia Gibbard ’18 and Vice

President for Facilities and Sustainabil-ity Kevin Hernandez ’18 through Mejia-Cruz’s postponement of the impeachmentproceedings, caused him to reconsidermoving forward with the process.

“I don’t even know if anyone actuallythreatened legal action,” Russell said. How-ever, speaking independently with legalcounsel and hearing more warnings fromthe administration led him to acknowl-edge, “ere would potentially be a legiti-mate case because of the procedural issues.”

In an email to campus last Wednesday,the three reaffi rmed the decision to dropthe articles, stating, “We completely standby our initial reasons for introducing thearticles of impeachment.”

One remaining question brought up at

this week’s BSG meeting, where the newimpeachment procedures were finallycompleted and unanimously approved,was whether the articles of impeach-ment could be reintroduced by other BSGmembers in order to reopen proceedingsagainst McInerney and Cannon given thatthere now existed a definite and laid outprocess for impeachment.

Several members, such as Class of 2016Representative Brian Francoeur ’16 andVice President for Student OrganizationsEmily Serwer ’16 argued that questionsof legal fairness would still apply if thenew procedures were to apply retroac-tively. ey pushed for an amendmentthat would prohibit previously defeatedarticles of impeachment from being rein-troduced which passed unanimously.

Gibbard on the other hand arguedthat since no impeachment had actually

been carried out and defeated, it was stillwithin the realm of possibility for diff er-ent members to reintroduce the articles,having remedied the procedural incon-sistency that led the three to drop themin the first place.

Eventually, BSG voted, with 10 in favor,eight against and seven abstaining, to addan amendment to prevent the new proce-dures from applying to previously intro-duced articles of impeachment, bringingan end to any possibility that McInerneyand Cannon will be impeached.

A noticeably smaller group than in re-cent weeks attended the meeting’s publiccomment time, where two speakers spokesympathetically to McInerney and Can-non’s cases.

Caleb Gordon ’18, who identified asa “liberal Hispanic,” argued that it wasn’tclear that the “tequila” party was wrong andasked BSG to refine its definition of cul-tural appropriation to distinguish betweena more acceptable form of “appropriation”and a negative “misappropriation.”

Joe Lace ’17 argued in a prepared speechthat McInerney and Cannon had been un-fairly reprimanded over the last few weeks

in public comment time. He further arguedthat BSG had not been adequately repre-senting all viewpoints in the way that theyhave been considering the impeachment.His speech was met with applause frommost onlookers in the room.

“e amendment being considered to-night comes with the claim that ‘impeach-ment is an unfortunate but necessary as-pect of all democratic governments,’” Lacesaid. “Is democracy not also in line withadequate representation of all viewpoints?Shouldn’t this body honor opinions itsmembers might not explicitly agree with?”

A recent poll released by Associ-ate Professor of Government MichaelFranz’s Quantitative Analysis in PoliticalScience class lends some credence to the

idea that opinions of the “tequila” partyand the BSG’s response to it are moredivided than on other previous issues ofcultural appropriation and ethnic stereo-typing at Bowdoin.

One of the questions in the poll, sentout to a random sample of 475 Bowdoinstudents and completed by 358, asked re-spondents to rate the appropriateness ofcertain events on campus, such as Cracks-giving, the “gangster” party and the “te-quila” party. On a scale of 1 to 100, with 1being acceptable and 100 being unaccept-able, the “tequila” party had an averagerating of 48, neither clearly unacceptablenor acceptable to the student body.

In contrast, the impeachment proceed-ings themselves received a more inappro-priate rating of 60 while Cracksgiving andthe “gangster” party both received ratingsof 73.

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ington Post and the Telegraph picked upthe story.

Even weeks aer the incident, on March31, authors such as Pulitzer Prize-winning

journalist and humorist Gene Weingartenwere still writing about the incident.

“For this to get into the national presswas just downright embarrassing,” saidBowdoin alumnus Dr. Mike McCutcheon’65 in an email to the Orient.

McCutcheon—who witnessed Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at FirstParish Church in Brunswick and had aclassmate who died serving in the Viet-nam—pointed to Civil Rights and theVietnam War as issues he viewed as moresubstantive than current debates over cul-tural appropriation.

Furthermore, he noted that several ofhis former classmates would not be do-nating to the college this year.

As for McCutcheon? “I’m undecided atthis point,” he said.

In contrast, John Williams ’68 notedthat the incident would not impact hisgiving to the College. However, he did cri-tique the lack of real dialogue on campus.

“e off ended are called to come tothe off enders and say what they see as theoff ense against them. e off enders arecalled to man up and receive that informa-tion from the off ended. Personally. Andask for their forgiveness. e off endedhave the duty to respond to the off endersgraciously. And grant forgiveness whenasked for it. All preferably over coff ee andsome decent pastry,” said Williams.

Back on campus, even the Latin Amer-ican Studies Department has received an-gry calls immediately following the party.Student employee Saidou Camara ‘19 re-

counted a call from a Mississippi man—who was not an alumnus of the College—asking what was wrong with wearing miniplastic sombreros.

“I sat there baffl ed as the man criticizedthe school and the entire situation. I hadno idea what I should say,” said Camara.

Ganong encouraged donors to look be-yond the incident.

“ere are some things about Bow-doin that I disagree with and that othersmight not like—it’s hard to like every-thing that goes on at a college campus.But that doesn’t mean we abandon ourcollege. We try to make it better everysingle day. at’s why I’m here—tryingto catch Williams and Amherst,” he said.

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Crime is everywhere on the televi-sion screen. It is seen at its weakestin the still-riveting “Judge Judy,” andat its strongest in what I call The Tri-

ad: “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and“Breaking Bad.” These three showsare far and away the most criticallyacclaimed dramas of all time, each ofthem boldly defining what compel-ling television should be. The seriesare different in many ways; “Break-ing Bad” is an intense, protagonist-driven piece whereas “The Wire” isensemble driven and breaks up itsseasons into distinctive parts. Whatthey share is the intensity brought bybreaking the law and the subsequentchase for enforcement that follows.

The biggest thing that crime lendsto a narrative is that it is a natu-

ral motor for drama. Let’s take FX’snewest anthology series “AmericanCrime Story.” The first season is aminiseries dubbed “The People v.OJ Simpson.” At first glance it mayseem, as it did to my roommates andme, that knowing the results of a trialwould eliminate the stakes of a showaltogether. This proves not to be thecase, as “OJ Simpson” is an impos-

sibly gripping thrill ride that takesreal-to-life twists and unfolds thembefore an audience’s eyes. Not only isthe viewer invested in the outcome ofthe trial, but the characters are too.They feel the intensity, and everyoneis pressured into making power playsand rash decisions (David Schwim-mer aside, who only manages toachieve the emotional range of a sadgolden retriever). Crime raises thestakes in our real world, so it’s onlynatural that it would extend into thefilmic one.

Above all of these other deep-diving and masterfully written shows

sits the king of primetime: the crimeprocedural. Existing in many formsfor many decades, this is easily themost watched genre on television(discounting the broad umbrella of“comedy”). Shows like “NCIS” and“Bones” dominate slots on major net-works. The best of them possess thequality of every good show. They’retightly written with a strong focus on

character stemming down from a setof established protagonists, and theyreward the repeated viewer while si-multaneously inviting new ones intotheir world. In fact, many of theseprocedurals do that last part muchbetter than say, “Breaking Bad,” be-cause they work in the format of epi-sodic crime

Look at “NCIS,” which is far andaway my mother’s favorite show. Shelikes it because even when it’s a re-run, she doesn’t remember how theplot turned out from the last time,so she can still enjoy it. She can stillenjoy these episodes out of order and

isolated because unless it’s a specialtwo-part cliffhanger episode, the en-tire crime is introduced and resolvedin the same episode. What my momis really going back for is the charac-ters, with whom she is very familiar.It’s how shows like this can stay onthe air so long; their very nature isindividualized episodes that, whilemore enjoyable when viewed all to-

gether, are entirely self-contained.Besides crime, the only other genrewith this privilege is medicaldrama, and what are doctors ifnot health cops?

In addition to everythingelse, crime shows are flexible.A show about a young vigi-lante superhero taking jus-tice into his own hands and atrue-to-life showing of PabloEscobar’s drug exploits bothuse crime at their axis to cre-ate sides and action. Even themost common form of crimetelevision, the “law enforcement

unit” show, can take on hundreds offaces: a cerebral look at serial kill-ers or an ensemble comedy starringAndy S amberg. What “Arrow,” “Nar-cos,” “Criminal Minds” and “Brook-lyn Nine-Nine” all share is thattheir characters are on eitherside of the law,and some-times that’s all

you need.

Multimedia artist DuBois shares interactive portrait of Mckesson

Television’s crime spree: the diverse offerings of crime and drama

Black Lives Matter activist and Balti-more mayoral candidate DeRay Mckes-son ’07 has been honored by the Collegewith a portrait that will remain at theBowdoin College Museum of Art in itspermanent collection. Unlike the typi-cal oil painting portraits of other alums,Mckesson’s portrait is a hybrid of videofootage and data drawn from Mckesson’spresence on social media.

New York-based artist R. Luke DuBoiswas commissioned to create a portrait thatwould not only be a valuable addition tothe college’s collection, but also one thatportrays an alum with whom students

can resonate. Co-Directors of the Muse-um Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank H.Goodyear commissioned the piece.

“It’s really something for you guys. Ithink it’s really relevant to have one ofyour alums, who’s doing such importantwork in such an important historical mo-ment, in your museum,” said DuBois.

Having met DuBois through her for-mer position at the National PortraitGallery, Anne Collins Goodyear ex-pressed her appreciation for how his ap-proach to portraiture comes across in theMckesson portrait.

“He’s bringing so many diff erent disci-plinary lenses to thinking about the worldaround us, reminding us that there area myriad of diff erent ways in which to

interpret this unbelievablefl

ow of infor-mation that is coming by us all the time,”said Goodyear.e video-based portrait, titled “32

Questions for DeRay Mckesson,” is fea-tured as a part of a solo exhibition titled“R. Luke DuBois—Now” at the Museum.

“He’s super connected to this place,and this place really changed his life, so Ithink I’m kind of just like the middlemanin a process that’s sort of like DeRay im-parting what he’s learned in the nine yearssince he graduated,” said DuBois.

Currently with more than 325,000 fol-lowers on Twitter, Mckesson has becomeone of the most recognizable figures ofthe Black Lives Matter movement. Hisinvolvement with the movement is bothon the ground and with an extensive pres-ence on social media.

“e way [the portrait] works is that

as he talks, you see topics and keywordsshow up on the screen that are based onwhat he’s talking about. ose keywordsare used as search terms for his Twitterfeed,” DuBois said. “en as he speaks, areal time feed of his Twitter in response tothose topics appears. So if he’s talking in aclip about race, you’ll see a random sam-pling of his recent twitter activity talkingabout race.”e interview questions that Mckes-

son answers in the digital portrait werecrowd-sourced from Bowdoin studentsby Bowdoin Student Government and theAfrican American Society (Af-Am).

President of Af-Am Ashley Bomboka’16 expressed her excitement at what theportrait will provide for the student body.

“I think our generation grew up know-ing technology was very much going tobe a part of our life and it’s not a matter ofchoice anymore,” said Bomboka. “In orderto fully participate in our society, we haveto be hooked in—even if we don’t neces-sarily have these larger devices—to at leastknow what they are, to know what the ca-pabilities are.”

While the video and the questionsremain the same, the portrait will con-tinually change. New data will be addedto the portrait as Mckesson updates hisonline presence.

“To see him in real-time in this isawesome because he very much func-tions in real time, and everything abouthis life is dependent on where he is in

social media, where he is right now onthe ground, whether he’s protesting, ororganizing, or teaching other peoplehow to advocate for issues they careabout,” said Bomboka.

In addition to the video-based portraitof Mckesson, DuBois’ exhibition exploresthe human experience in a data heavyworld of unlimited information. In ad-dition to being an artist, DuBois is also aprofessor at the NYU Tandon School ofEngineering with a Ph.D. in musical com-position from Columbia. His exhibitionat the Bowdoin College Museum of Artfeatures a variety offilm, sound works and

video installations, incorporating com-puter programming and works on paper.

Other works include a video in-

stallation titled “Acceptance,” whichfeatures an edited synchronization ofPresident Barack Obama’s and MittRomney’s acceptance speeches at theirparty conventions in 2012. e piecereveals how a majority of the speakers’words overlap, highlighting the similarrhetoric between two opposing parties,as much of his work focuses on the me-dia of American identity.

“He’s creating this really very newhybrid way of working and thinkingthat reminds me that there’s no oneway to see things in perfect focus,” saidAnne Goodyear. “ere’s always thisdesirable interplay that we want to beengaged with as flexible citizens whoare engaging in the world around us.”

32 QUESTIONS: Commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, multimedia artist R. Luke Dubois unveiled his multimedia portrait of Black Lives Matter Activist DeRay Mckesson ’07.The portrait features a video of Mckesson answering questions from the Bowdoin community and a feed of related tweets by Mckesson.

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Bringing the Bard to life: a lookat Shakespeare’s First Folio plays

Museums preserve Brunswick’s history

‘The Mask You Live In’ screening kicks off series of events about masculinity

Bowdoin students often hearabout the notable historical eventsthat have taken place right here oncampus. However, there is a greatdeal to learn about the history thatextends beyond campus and intoBrunswick, Topsham and Harp-swell—the three towns that make upthe Pejepscot region. A short walkfrom Bowdoin’s campus is the Pej-epscot Historical Society, foundedin 1888, which owns the Skolfield-Whittier House and the Joshua L.Chamberlain Muse um. All of thesespaces were created with the goalof collecting items from the threetowns to preserve the history of theregion and continue its legacy intothe future.

According to the Society’s currentexecutive director, Larissa Vigue

Picard, the Society has over 40,000items catalogued in its database, butalso has many more items that havenot been recorded.

Thousands of photographs, let-ters, paintings, textiles and mapspopulate the Society’s collection.The Society also has some less com-mon items, like old wheelchairs andspinning wheels.

“Pretty much anything you canthink of, we wi ll have it,” said Picard.

Picard’s favorite item is a birchbark canoe. She explained that it isamong the most important itemsthat the Society has because it isdated to roughly the mid-1700’s andwas made by Native Americans in

the Harpswell area.The Society also owns the JoshuaL. Chamberlain Museum, which hasa plethora of historical informationon Bowdoin’s sixth president, JoshuaChamberlain, who was also a CivilWar hero.

John Cross ’76, secretary of De- velop ment and Coll ege Relat ions atBowdoin, was once president of theSociety and a former member of theboard. He now gives tours of theJoshua L. Chamberlain Museum toalumni during reunions.

One of his favorite artifacts dis-played in the Museum is the bulletthat went straight through Cham-berlain’s hip, which eventually killedhim many years later as a result of

infection.“I think the house itself is some-

thing that I’m always very interestedin because of the fact that the house[has been] manipulated in theseways to enhance his reputation,”he said.

The house has undergone severalrelocations and remodelings, in-cluding the decision to replace thefirst floor with an additional level inorder to raise the house and magnifyits prominence from afar.

“It is a very interesting place to goand people make pilgrimages fromall over the place to see the Cham-berlain House,” Cross added.

In addition to the Chamberlain

House, the Society also owns theSkolfield-Whittier House, which hasinformation about the two familieswhose names make up the house’stitle. Visitors can go on a full housetour to learn about the generationsthat lived in the house and to seeall of the materials related to thosefamilies.

“Because Bowdoin is in Brunswick...the College has been a huge factor in thelife of the community over time. It’s natu-rally [related to the Society] as part of ourmission to serve Brunswick,” said Picard.e Pejepscot Historical Society is al-

ways open to having student interns and volunteers, especially those interested inhistory-based internships.

Approximately seven years afterShakespeare’s death in 1616, mem-bers of his playing company, theKingsmen, created the first editionof all of his collected works, nowcalled the “First Folio.” Without it,the world may have never knownsome 18 of his 38 plays, including“Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night” and“Antony and Cleopatra.” Recently,that ancient collection of plays end-ed up in Portland.

In commemoration of Shake-speare’s death 400 years ago, the“First Folio” is making its way ontour through all 50 states, with itsmost recent stop being PortlandPublic Library. The library will dis-

play the folio in their Shakespeareexhibit until April 2.

Associate Professor of Englishand Chair of the English Depart-ment Aaron Kitch and AssistantProfessor of Theater Abigail Killeenpresented on the Folio in the Haw-thorne-Longfellow Library this pastTuesday. Though both professorsplanned their lectures indepen-dently from one another, their com-memorations shared similar themesof the first folio’s anthropomorphicabilities.

Kitch introduced the idea of eachfolio’s capacity to be both living anddead. While kept away in FolgerShakespeare Library in Washington

D.C., the books are akin to corpsesin a morgue, awaiting resurrec-tion, explained Kitch. Even whenthe plays are brought out on tour,their heavily guarded presentation,in bullet proof casing, gives them a“tomb like aura,” he said.

However, the books themselvesremain full of life. The materialsused to construct them are all bio-logical—using lambskin, calfskinor old clothes. As Kitch puts it, theplays themselves “are a textual mon-ument and ode to human interac-tion.”

The creation of the folios them-selves has also been a wholly hu-man effort. Investors, printers anda series of typesetters hand crafted

the first folio, and as such, it is notwithout human error. Because ofthis, Kitch notes, no two folios areexactly the same. For some of themost famous and expensive booksin the world, they are “not, not hack

job,” noted Kitch.In her lecture, Killeen also noted

the humanity and liveliness of thetexts themselves. She explained thatunlike other existing texts and playsout there, Shakespeare’s folio pres-ents universal themes in a very hu-man way.

“We recognize ourselves in [thetexts],” said Killeen. When they areperformed correctly, the texts areable to come to life.

As Kitch notes, there are numer-ous differences between folios.Killeen, throughout her career in

theatre, has used these differencesas an important and unique tool ofanalysis in performance. Examiningthe differences between the first edi-tion and corrections to the text thathave been made since its publicationhas given actors and readers alikeinvitations for creative inquiry andinterpretation.

In an interactive demonstrationwith the audience, Killeen showedhow differences in emphasis, punc-tuation and verse in the first fo-lio can completely change a work’smeaning. In a line from Hamlet’sfamous To Be or Not to Be solilo-quy, Killeen demonstrated how theline, “The pangs of despised love,

the law’s delay,” is different in theoriginal text in which “despised” isreplaced by “disprized”. The mean-ing of the line shifts suddenly froman unrequited love to a love that isreturned, but is not enough, addingnew depth to Hamlet and Ophelia’srelationship. Access to the “First Fo-lio” endows familiar texts so familiarwith new meanings.

Kitch and Killeen hoped thatstudents and community membersalike would walk away from the lec-ture with renewed energy and ex-citement for the material.

“I hope the text lives in a differentway for them,” Killeen said. “I alsohope that they’ll see more Shake-speare and more performances.”

PEJEPSCOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The Society maintains three museums that feature elements ofBrunswick and the College’s history, from period furniture to the bullet that killed Joshua Chamberlain.

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BY NICOLE VON WILCZURORIENT STAFF

Masculinity and male vulner-ability are not always topics at theforefront of discussion on campus,but a new three-part series will at-tempt to address these issues. Theseries is a collaboration between theBowdoin Men’s Group, Women’s Re-source Center and Office of GenderViolence Prevention and Education.

It kicked off on Wednesday with thescreening of the documentary “TheMask You Live In,” followed by apanel discussion.

The film documents the struggleof boys and young men as they at-tempt to navigate masculinity as it isconstructed in American society.

“Thinking about the ways in whichwe’ve constructed masculinity in so-ciety, it’s so pernicious, and so deeplyingrained,” said Assistant Professorof Sociology Theodore Greene, oneof the panelists. “We take for grantedthe ways in which we become agentsin this k ind of so cialization.”

The Bowdoin Men’s Group hasbeen a major part of planning thisseries. The Bowdoin Men’s Groupmeets weekly on Thursday nights,and aims to create a space w here mencan come together and discuss dif-ficult and uncomfortable issues suchas sexual violence on campus.

Jared Feldman ’16 was one of thefirst members of the Bowdoin Men’sGroup, which he remembers as be-ginning informally and growing or-

ganically. For a group that will seemany of its core members graduatingin May, he sees this series as a way toget new students involved.

“For people who are excited aboutthis event and want to continue tohave these discussions and reallydelve a little bit deeper, there is aplace on campus where you can dothat,” he said.

Feldman added that he sees theMen’s Group as a way for men toassume some responsibility in con-

versation s they often aren’t active-ly initiating.

“We don’t think it should be the

sole responsibility of wom-en and current advocateson our campus to educatemen. We think men need totake more initiative in edu-cating ourselves,” he said.

The Bowdoin Men’sGroup also helped to put onlast fall’s Men’s Summit, anevent that all male studentson campus were encour-aged to attend, and which

also included some collegefaculty and staff.

The second part of thisthree-part series will be ascreening on April 6 of thefilm “Together,” followed bya discussion with Directorof Gender Violence Preven-tion and Education BenjeDouglas. The final event ofthe series will be a visit onApril 20 from guest speakerArian Clements, the execu-tive director of Sexual As-sault Support Services ofMidcoast Maine.

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For identical twins Heather andFelice Chan ’17, their first year atBowdoin was accompanied by sever-al common transitional experiencesand some unconventional ones. Itwas their first time not having thesame group of friends, living thou-sands of miles from their hometownof Hong Kong and notably, not shar-ing a bedroom.

But for the Chan sisters, like manysibling pairs at Bowdoin, having abrother or sister on campus has madea profound impact on their academicand social experiences. Many siblingsnote that each other's presence oncampus often alleviates transitionalhomesickness, provides an honeston-campus resource and, ultimately,provides a friend.

"It's really given me someoneto depend on, no matter what—assomeone to study with or get mealswith," Heather Chan said.

Another set of identical twins,Coco and Tracey Faber ’16, were ac-cepted, waitlisted and rejected fromall of the same colleges but made thedecision to continue their educationtogether at Bowdoin.

"We decided that we didn't haveto go to different schools becausegoing to college would be differentenough," Tracey Faber said.

"It's nice coming in and havingsomeone who knows you and whoyou don't have to explain yourself to.You can just be with them," Coco Fa-ber said.

Although the prospect of attendinga small liberal arts college with a sib-ling was intimidating for some, oth-ers approached it with ambivalenceand others still with enthusiasm.

"There are a lot of people who are

put off by the idea of going to schoolwith their sibling. ey want to havetheir own experience, and they don'twant anything holding them back.But we got along well in our child-hood—we still share a room at home,"said Matt Netto '16, whose youngerbrother Mike '18 decided to attendBowdoin aer visiting his brother.

“We've watched each other grow,and people change, and it's nice to beable to see each other change as timegoes on,” said Mike Netto.

Other younger siblings noted that visiting their older counterp art atBowdoin while still in high school at-tracted them to Bowdoin.

"I definitely came here because[Roya] goes here," said Dante Mous-sapour '19, whose sister, Roya '17, iscurrently abroad. "Her being abroadreally let me find my own way andfigure my own path, but I woulddefinitely say that having a sibling oncampus is a fundamental.”

“If I had to choose the three mostimpactful things first semester, thefirst two would be sleep and exerciseand then having my sister on cam-pus,” added Dante Moussapour.

Sharing such a small campus is a

common worry for many siblings;however, Kyle ’18 and Avery Wolfe’19 have found that they rarely crosspaths.

“I wanted to let him have his ownexperience and his own school, and Iwanted the same,” said Avery Wolfe.They get breakfast once a week tocatch up but always know that theyhave each other there for support. “Ifeel like I have a mentor here on cam-pus,” said Avery Wolfe. “I immediate-ly had that, whereas other studentshad to find that.”

For other siblings, the intertwin-ing of their lives has been difficultto navigate. Sisters Jae Yeon '18 andJae Min Yoon ’19 share a class of ninepeople and recently worked togetheron the Bowdoin Theater Depart-ment's production of "Sondheim onSondheim." Jae Min auditioned forher sister, who was a student directorof the show.

"My assistant director thought I wasgoing to cry because I was so stressed,"

Jae Yeon Yoon said. "It's really diff er-ent from sitting at your dinner table.All of a sudden, you're in class withthem and seeing them in an academicsetting trying to be smart."

The process of individualizingoneself within a diverse college set-ting is a common struggle amongstmany first years. For siblings, andtwins even more so, the task canprove even more daunting.

The Fabers share a major, Frenchand art classes and spots on the crosscountry team. The Chans live in thesame room, both run for the track

team and share clothes, friends andexpenses.

The Faber twins said that theirlives at Bowdoin overlap significantlybeyond just shared interests and ac-tivities. It's not uncommon for themto respond to each other's names, sayhi to people they've never met and, ifa sticky situation calls for it, play thepart of the other twin.

"It can be very unsettling," TraceyFaber said. "We are very visual, andwe identify people by what they looklike. So when you look like someoneelse, it's really hard to have a sense ofsomeone as a separate individual ifyou associate all the qualities of themwith the image of them...Sometimes Ihave days where I'm like, 'You knowwhat? I can't do this today.' I justcan't, and so I pretend."

The Chans likewise share many ofthe same interests and have gravi-tated towards the same friends andactivities.

“The biggest challenge is indi-

viduali zing ourselv es. I've grown upwith a twin my whole life. I grewup with someone by my side who Icould compete with. I don't knowwhat it's like not being a twin” saidHeather Chan.

Between constantly being mistak-en for the other twin by professorsand friends alike, the Fabers struggleto make decisions with and withoutthe context of their twin.

"It's hard sometimes because youfeel like you have to make a choicebetween what you want to do natu-rally and the thing that you want to

do because it will make you differentfrom the other person," Nicole Faberadded. "That's uncomfortable some-times."

For siblings Tess '18 and LukeTrinka ’16, attending Bowdoin to-gether has provided another lensthrough which to view not only theBowdoin experience but also theirown relationship and identities.

"It's interesting how relationshipsare often so tied to place, and I thinkthe extent to which the way we relat-ed to each other was a result of beingin Oak Park, where we're from," saidLuke Trinka.

"After she made the decision,I thought it would be a really coolopportunity to deepen a relation-ship with a sibling outside of a homespace, and I think that's largelywhat's h appened.”

Inside the new context of theBowdoin bubble and out of the com-fort of home, their relationship wastested in new ways. “That's where

relationships can take on a new tex-ture and depth—when you're out-side of a familiar environment,” saidLuke Trinka.

No matter sister, brother or twin,Bowdoin siblings often cherish thechance to share their college experi-ence with a family member.

"When you have certain experi-ences at Bowdoin, they acquire acertain meaning here,” Luke Trinkasaid. “But then you leave school, andsome of that meaning gets strippedof its color… It's nice to have some-one else who gets it.”

A taste of home at school; life with siblings at Bowdoin

“When you have certain experiences at Bowdoin, they acquire a certain meaning here. But thenyou leave school and some of that meaning gets stripped of its color... It’s nice to have someoneelse who gets it.”

“The biggest challenge is in-dividualizing ourselves. I’vegrown up with a twin mywhole life. I grew up withsomebody by my side who Icould compete with. I don’tknow what it’s like not beinga twin.”

LUKE TRINKA ‘16

HEATHER CHAN ’17

IT TAKES TWO: (Clockwise from top left) Tracey and Coco Faber ’16, Heather and Felice Chan ’17, Tess ’18 and Luke ‘16 Trinka, Mike ‘18 and Matt ‘16 Netto, Kyle ’18 and Avery ’19 Wolfe . Both the Chan and Faber sisters are identical twins and play on the same teams as their sibling.

BY SURYA MILNERORIENT STAFF

COMPILED BY TESSA EPSTEIN, JENNY IBSEN, AND HY KHONG.

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FEATURES



ree thousand miles west of here,the Bowdoin College Meddiebempstersspilled out of minivans in the driveway ofTessa Westfall’s Los Angeles home. Burntto a crisp from their day at Santa MonicaBeach, they threw off their vacation wearwith reckless abandon and jumped intothe pool. Tessa’s mom wasted no time de-scribing how the pool is neither chlorinenor saline, but rather EcoSmart, while si-multaneously dishing out piles of organicsnacks.e Meddies ogled as she fed thesubpar veggies to the pet desert tortoises,Kippy and Lightning.

Approaching one thousand milessouth of here, Carly Berlin hurtled to-ward Myrtle Beach, S.C. (aff ectionatelyknown as “Savannah”) with Bowdoin’s

ultimate frisbee teams. While the desti-nation wasn’t Carly’s home, she did feellike a token Southerner. She couldn’t helpcringing at the abundance of overbearing“Jesus Is Your Savior” and cartoonishlyracist “South of the Border Restaurant”billboards. Her car stopped at a Waffl eHouse off the highway somewhere inNorth Carolina, a place nondescript toher, but to them a novelty where theycould order their hash browns “Scattered,Smothered and Covered.”

It’s surreal having people from Bow-doin in our home spaces. Maybe it feelsweird for everyone to have the two worldsintertwined. We suspect, though, thatcoming from far corners of the countrymakes this experience more pronounced.

e presence of Bowdoin guests in ourregions provokes us to be critical of wherewe come from. It heightens our awarenessof the background noise of our locales, ofthe freckles on our own faces.e two of us hail from places that

don’t exactly have flawless reputations

on the nationalstage. Let’s explorethis through a funword associationgame. Carly, whatcomes to mindwhen you think ofLA?

Superficiality,road rage, intricateStarbucks orders,Valley Girl up-speak, hippies whoshave everything,putting on a fullface of makeup togo to your aer-noon SoulCycle,class cancellationdue to light drizzle,people trying tofind themselves, having Jared Leto stare atyour butt while on a hike under the Hol-

lywood Sign, etc.Tessa, what comes to mind when you

think of the South?Sweet tea, “family values,” debutante

balls, “Bless your sweet little heart,” Hon-ey Boo Boo, “e War of Northern Ag-gression,” fried everything, “e biggerthe hair the closer to God,” conservatism,chauvinism, racism, etc.ese characteristics are far from

representative, but we admit, a lot ofthem are true. ey’ve certainly shapedthe landscapes that we grew up in. etruth to them crystallized when we werepresented with a whole new landscape:New England.

We were shocked! Tessa was visuallystunned by the throngs of 18-year-olds

wearing khakis and pastel Polos. Carlyhad never before met someone from a“town.” Tessa had previously believed thatboarding schools only existed in 19th-century Britain or contemporary Utah,where rich LA kids were “sent away.”e whiteness of Maine struck both of

us. Physical toughness in the face of theelements (and accompanying lumberjackaesthetic) as a cultural value was totally

foreign. In our second year here, muchhas become familiar. It’s an ongoing pro-cess, though—Carly still hasn’t sprung foran E-ZPass in her car.

We’ve experienced people respondingwith surprise or throwing shade whenthey hear where we’re from. Having toown and defend our home places hasgiven us more clarity in looking at them.It’s a process towards making sense of andaccepting the places that have shaped us,in spite of and because of their deepflaws.

For the whole first part of our lives,a large piece of how we understand thepeople around us is through their per-sonal context—what the buildings intheir neighborhood feel like, the smell oftheir house, the food their family eats for

dinner. In college, everyone’s immediatecontext is the same. We’re given a wholenew kind of agency in defining ourselves,based on our behavior, our interests, ourideas. at being said, there’s somethingreally gratifying about showing peoplefrom Bowdoin our backstories.

Years of working in the restaurantbusiness led 27-year-old entrepre-neur Jamie Pacheco to claim that shewould never do so again. However,years of experience in the nonprofitsector with food systems, a winningbusiness model at the 2015 MaineInnovation Challenge and the open-ing of her own locally-sourced, low-profit eatery all under her belt havehelped to change her mind.

Pacheco explained that if it werenot for the mission of the NewBeet Market, she and her spouseand business partner, Nate Wildes,wouldn’t be there.

The Market draws exclusivelyfrom local farms, enlists the help ofstudents from local schools and par-cels two-thirds of its earnings out toits nonprofit partners Seeds of Inde-

pendence and the Harpswell CoastalAcademy (HCA), both of which runyouth programs and sustainablefarms.

The market also hires studentsfrom HCA as interns so they cangarner entrepreneurial, kitchen andcustomer service skills.

Pacheco believes that New BeetMarket’s local sourcing is what at-tracts customers to their business.

“It means that the farm you driveby, that farm and that family aremaking a living and feeding theirkids and then in turn, contributingback to the community and mak-

ing our economystronger, health-ier and happier,”she said.

HCA and Seedsof Independenceasked the couple tocombine Pacheco’sexperience in thenonprofit food in-dustry and Wildes’knowledge of busi-ness consulting tocreate a model thatwould combineboth organizationsin a food-based en-terprise. The twopitched their planat the Maine Inno-

vation Chal lenge ,which Bowdoin hosted this past fall.

Pacheco and Wildes did not ex-pect to win, let alone turn the pitch

into a reality. In fact, the two wereoriginally hesitant when HCA andSeeds of Independence approachedthem. But before they knew it, Pa-checo and Wildes became the co-owners of New Beet Market whichopened on March 21 during a snow-storm.

The market is spacious and filledwith tables and couches, perfect fora peaceful study space and a place toenjoy a locally brewed BottomlessMug of coffee or their specialty beetchips, made fresh every day.

The name, according to Pacheco,was a spontaneous creation dur-

ing the early stages of preparing thepitch for the contest. As she and herteam threw together different words,New Beet Market arose and stuck.

From the name came their vari-ous beet-infused innovations, frombeet juice mayonnaise to beet juicewhoopie pies and roast beet salad.According to Pacheco, customerswill often come in claiming an aver-sion to beets and leave having beenconverted after trying the cafe’s sig-nature products.

So far, the market has been over-whelmed with the positive responsesfrom the community.

“People love that we have kids inhere fulfilling hands-on learningprojects, entrepreneurial learningand workplace development pro-

gramming and that high-risk youthare working in gardens and doingprojects,” said Pacheco.

Belle Hall, an employee at the

market who moves fluidly through-out the store to take orders, makesandwiches and coffee, work thecash register and chat with custom-ers, applied for a job there afterstrolling in one day when volunteer-ing at the neighboring preschool.Hall, like the rest of the staff, lovesworking in a placed rooted in com-munity outreach.

In the past week and half of busi-ness and a three-week trial period,both Hall and Pacheco have noticedone hiccup in the process—whenHCA is not in session or has a snowday and students can’t come in

to work.“When the kids are here, they’re

great,” said Pacheco. “They workhard, they smile, they do whatever

we ask them to, and right now that’swhat the inter nship is.”

Although the market has receivedsome complaints about the pricing,Pacheco uses these as education-al moments.

“It costs more to source locally,”said Pacheco. “When they make thatcomment, I explain why we sourcethe way we do. It costs more to dothat, and it’s very important to usbecause that strengthens Maine’seconomy.”

The market is open from 7:30 a.m.to 4 p.m. during the week and 8 a.mto 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

Helping the community, New Beet Market sources food locally

Being autistic, I am not always able totell when someone is being serious andwhen they are kidding around. ingslike sarcasm and teasing are hard for meto identify; the contextual clues requiredto diff erentiate a light hearted joke froma serious insult are not always obvious,resulting in my oen taking funny situa-tions far too seriously.is caused problems for me when I

was in my early years of education. Whena teacher was trying to be lighthearted—perhaps making a silly joke about myname in relation to the similarly namedstate or peppermint patty—I would take

the joke too seriously, coming home intears thinking my teacher was mockingme. By contrast, I would also take situ-ations in jest when they were not meantto be. A fight between friends could seemto me like a lighthearted spat, and my at-tempt to join in on the fun would onlyescalate the situation, leaving two veryangry friends and one very confused me.

When coming to Bowdoin, I was wor-ried at how my inability to register serioussituations might hinder me socially. I wor-ried that I would come off on the wrongfoot if I was taking things too casually ortoo seriously, and thus alienate the peopleI would be studying with for the next fouryears. I was especially worried about howI would interact with the people living on

myfl

oor. If I could not interact appropri-ately with them, then I would be le deal-ing with a very long—and very uncom-fortable—first year.

Unfortunately for me, my dormmatesturned out to be the joking type. At timesI worry that the only way they can com-

municate with one another is to rib andtease. While for the first few weeks of myfirst semester, my use of the age old au-tistic tactic of “winging it” allowed me todiff erentiate between teasing and seriouscomments, I was still worried that the fa-çade might come down, and I might slipup in a major way.

Fortunately for me, my new friends andI came up with a way for me to cope withtheir joking nature, and still allow themtheir fun. On one cold night, while walk-ing back from Super Snack, I made a sug-gestion that would save me forever morefrom the embarrassment and confusionthat I feared. Enter the sarcasm eagle.e sarcasm eagle is an eff ective and ef-

ficient, autism-approved way of indicatingwhen someone is not being serious. To usethe sarcasm eagle, one puts one’s hands to-gether, with the thumbs wrapped around

one another, and the hands splayed out toeither side, palms inward, as if miming abird or other winged creature. en, oneflaps the “wings” of their hands and says,in a clear tone, “Ca-caw.”e beauty of the sarcasm eagle lies in

its clarity and simplicity. It is so outsidethe realm of typical behavior that there isno way of misinterpreting it (how manytimes a day do you see someone imitatinga bird?). And instead of a long, drawn-outexplanation as to the nature of a joke, or a

justification as to the reasons for a com-ment, one need only flap their hands andsay “Ca-caw,” and with that simple physi-cal gesture and masterful onomatopoeicphrase, one conveys a wealth of informa-tion as to the nature of the situation.

For me, having such a simple and reli-able way of reading a situation is a god-send. I know just what the tone of a situa-tion is, without having to use my less thanstellar reasoning to figure it out on myown. I am very grateful to my floormatesfor accommodating me in this regard.

Deciphering sarcasmand saving my social life

AN AUTISTIC’S GUIDE TO AUTISM

BEN YORK

Bringing Bowdoin to our homes

CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL

DOUBLETHINK

BY LUCY RYANORIENT STAFF

FRESH BEAT: New Beet Market Managing Partner Jamie Pacheco

(right) and her spouse and business partner Nate Wildes (left)

recently opened New Beet Market.

DANA WILLIAMS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DIANA FURUKAWA

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For a long time, when people askedme what I wanted to be when I grewup, I said I wanted to be happy. isseemed like a distant and shimmeringanswer and something people couldn’tquestion. If I said I wanted to be awriter, people would ask me, rapid fire:“What kind of writing?” “Do you wantto go to grad school?” “at’s nice, butI meant what are you going to do formoney?” Saying I wanted to be happycould mean writing or it could meana white picket fence in the suburbs ortraveling the world or eating granolain my bed. Whatever was underneath“happy,” it remained mine, and no onecould question it.is year I am studying in Italy. It’s

been a whirlwind of churches, fruitstands and little old women dressed to

the nines. I’ve lit a paper lantern andlet it go across the Adriatic Sea. I’vebeen invited in for coff ee by a nun. I’vewalked through the underground cityof Naples.

I was also in Paris during the terror-ist attacks. I got bed bugs in Rome. Iwent through a breakup. I do not meanto present the highs and the lows as abalanced equation. (I am well aware itwould be a very, very privileged equa-tion.) I mean only to point to a fewmoments to say I have experiencedextremes.

A year ago in the Bowdoin Orient, Iwrote, “I have conquered an eating dis-order.” What I meant was that I didn’t

use the margins of my notebooks totally calories anymore. I could livewith myself on the days I didn’t run sixmiles. I could eat an entire slice of cakeon my birthday without wincing.

What I should have said was: “I con-quered an eating disorder once.

Aer Paris, I was anxious all thetime. I ate cartons of cereal insteadof actually feeling sad. When I wentgrocery shopping, I bounced back andforth between milk brands and bright-ly stacked vegetables, disoriented, as ifon a scavenger hunt without any clues.In between all of this, I was drinkingespresso in Venice, watching sunsetsand coasting through the hills of Bo-logna on a Vespa.

I had little to no patience with my-self—if I wasn’t happy now, in Italy,when would I be? How could I berefacing an eating disorder when I hadso many days here where I was not

just happy but ecstatic and overcomewith gratitude?

You’d think refacing somethingmeans that it would be a little easierto look in the eye. But this version ofan eating disorder is diff erent fromthe one I experienced at 16. It is bothdeeply familiar and also completelyforeign. I have had to relearn it. I havehad to carve a new space.

Shame is what pulls you under.When my mom came to visit me inItaly, I said that I’m still struggling.Sometimes I’m scared. It was strangeto be having this conversation in ahotel in Italy, a better version of theconversation we’d had four years ago

in our living room in Chicago.At the end of it, my mother said, “I

just want you to be happy.” e senti-ment was beautiful! Who doesn’t wantto be happy? Who doesn’t want theirparents to want that for them? For therecord, my mother is incredible. But Iwas mad as hell. ere is somethingunsatisfying and hollow about theword happiness. It’s impossible to pindown. It doesn’t capture much.

And yet, a big part of me wantedto say, “But I am happy.” It wasn’t alie. Overall, I didn’t not feel happy,even while during the conversation, Iwas crying and my face was coveredin snot.

My mother wasn’t wrong in perhapsreferencing the fact that I didn’t seemat peace. But why did I feel shame inadmitting that things were sometimesnot so easy? Why was it so hard to ad-mit that yes, I wasn’t always happy?

I think we are taught that happymeans good and sad means bad. Yet“satisfaction” comes from the same In-do-European root that gives us "sad."Disorder, of whatever type, can coexistwith “goodness,” and illness can coex-ist with health. Maybe some diffi cultthings never go away, but we can learnhow to re-greet them, to pay attention,to maybe be a little bit more compas-sionate towards ourselves. Contradic-tions don’t equate to lies or hypoc-risies. We can be kickass students,amazing friends, artists, athletes andpartners, and within the context of be-ing those things, we can struggle withwhat is painful, dark and diffi cult

As the Italians say, Non ha ildolce a caro, chi provato nonha l'amaro. To taste the sweet,sometimes you must try thebitter. Meaning, you can havemoments of light in a year ofsuff ering or moments of suf-fering in a year of light. Youcan wake up in Italy or Spainor Senegal or Brunswick (orwherever you are) and seesomething painful rise withinyou, something you thoughtyou le behind many placesago. Hardship, in howeverit manifests, can be a part ofwell-being and oen is a cru-cial part.

We can be in awe of theworld around us (and be activeparticipants) while also deeplyin pain. Bearing witness toourselves and all of our con-

tradictions, learning to greet(oen more than once) ourstruggles with patience andallowing room for discomfortor grief are, sometimes, a lotof work. A lot of hard workand oen excruciatingly diffi -cult. But it is worthwhile andimportant and worth stop-ping in the midst of our verybusy lives to make space forand observe.

Long ago, in the Welsh lan-guage, the word “happy” firstmeant “wise.”

Raisa Tolchinsky is a mem-ber of the Class of 2017.

Copenhagen cold, I called it. e kindof cold that, despite the thermometerreading a balmy 40, felt as raw and asblistering as the dead of winter. e jam-packed excursions of my semester abroadprogram were over, but I still had threeweeks to sit in my dismal pre-war subur-ban dorm room andfinish what I came toDenmark (at least partially) to do: study.I grew melancholy from the Nordic chilland craved the warmth of home.

Growing up in a family that plansursday dinner during Tuesday lunch, itwas no surprise that I immediately turnedto the satisfaction of a good meal to cheermyself up. I powered on my laptop, beganto research menus for cafés in central Co-penhagen and, aer incorrectly translat-ing “goat cheese” to “sheep curd” 15 times,found my first destination: Ibsen & Co.,a hipster coff ee and sandwich shop in atrendy section of the city.

Trust me, this first culinary expeditionwas nowhere near as smooth as the hum-mus lining of the sandwich I ultimatelyenjoyed. Starting the day at the bus stop Ithought was the correct one, I proceededto trudge through the Copenhagen coldfor about 40 minutes in the wrong di-rection before eventually stumbling intosome very confused Danish bakers. Af-ter approximately two hours of travel, I

finally ordered my lunch and collapsedinto the oversized pale blue wooden chair.

When I finally bitinto the much-anticipated crust, Icould taste not onlythe pride from myexcursion, but alsothe reassuring com-fort of home.

With momen-tum from myrecent quest, Iperused the localneighborhood. Ipeeked in storesand markets andnoted places Iwanted to return.I tasted choco-late samples (lotsof chocolate samples) and watchedchildren walking home from school.Strangely enough, this stroll gaveme, someone who hates roller coast-ers and scary movies, an adrenalinerush I’d never felt before. It kept meon my toes. It required me to takerisks. And yet, it reminded me of myfamily, six hours behind, likely justbeginning the search for a perfectSaturday lunch spot. The balance ofrisk and comfort was animating, andI loved it.

For the rest of that semester, when-ever I had a free aernoon, I wouldscour the Internet for a new desti-

nation. With each excursion, I grewmore comfortable with public tran-sit, more familiar with Nordic foodand more confident in my somewhataimless tours of the Danish capital. I

learned the joy of discoveringa city, and discovering my-

self, one sandwich at a time.Ironically, it wasn’t until sitting in Pane-

ra upon returning to Boston that I decidedto transform my sandwich-trekking hob-by into something more. Aer discussingmy semester abroad with an old friend,he suggested I write a blog. Although Istubbornly said I wouldn’t have enoughtime, in a few days the first posts of Sand-wich City were complete. Since then, myspontaneous European pick-me-ups havetransported me to nearby yet unfamiliarneighborhoods, have introduced me tobusinesses that use food as a vehicle forsocial change and have taught me to bemore self-reliant and curious about the

world around me.My culinary interests crossed into my

academic life this past fall when I em-barked on a year-long honors projectstudying Portland’s restaurant indus-try. To me, connecting theories of socialmovement and urban

development seemedlike the prototypicalsociology study, andI spent the summerexcitedly prepar-ing some prelimi-nary research.

However, withinthefirst few days of thesemester, my proposalwas rejected. esisstatus in the depart-ment required thatthe paper adhere tostrict Academy guide-lines, and because mytopic lacked a specificacademic framework,it was considered “not

sociological enough” to ride the honorstrack. I was frustrated by the decision, andover the next few months worked tireless-ly to prove that my proposal, if adaptedslightly, could be valid and relevant for ad-

vanced study. While I was given a secondchance in January, I soon came to realizethat in order to ensure my honors status, Iwould likely end up having to change myfocus completely.

With the first dra looming inMarch, I sat conflicted about how toproceed. I loved flipping through thePress Herald and interviewing theowners of Duckfat and e Holy Do-nut, but felt as if the hamster wheel of

restrictions were forcing me away fromwhat the Academy deemed merely anamateur restaurant review. Never-theless, as someone who religiouslyadheres to rules and strives for highdistinctions, the thought of abandon-

ing the honors track I’d fought so hardto pursue seemed both intimidatingand cowardly.

I began to think critically about myproject’s original goals. I wanted to usethe skills from my Bowdoin educationto examine a topic that made me feel apart of the world around me. I wantedto motivate restaurateurs to unleash thepower of food to inspire communityand personal exploration. Did fulfillingthese goals really require a formal stampof approval?

With a gradual revelation that mywork was inherently mine, I cameto realize that my personal interestswere meaningful even if they weren’tconventional by traditional academicstandards. Whatever emerged fromthe crusty loaf of that first Ibsen & Co.sandwich could be relevant as long asit was important to me. I felt free tocontinue with my project in a direc-tion that I wanted, and I retook own-ership of my work.

Just before spring break, I chose toabandon the honors track and continuemy project as an independent study.Since then, I’ve conducted fi ve moreinterviews, written two chapters andam searching for magazines to publishmy piece. I continue to blog, draggingfriends and family along when I wantto try a new place. And every once ina while, I go alone, experiencing once

again the smell of the food and adren-aline of the city that firstpulled me in.

Emily Snider is a memberof the Class of 2016.

TALK OF THE QUADTHE SWEET, THE BITTER AND

THE WISE

SANDWICH CITY

DIANA FURUKAWA

DIANA FURUKAWA

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With the end of the fall season camewhat Seamus Power ‘16 thought was theend of his football career. However, aninvitation to the Toronto Regional Cana-dian Football League Combine changedhis plans.

“I finished football this fall andthought I was done,” said Power. “en Igot the email with the invite and was like‘is is a cool opportunity. It’d be cool to

just go and participate for one day.’”e all-day event held on March 10

ended up opening up many more op-tions for continuing to play aer Bow-doin.

“e interesting thing from being at

the combine was that I technically havea fih year of eligibility in Canada,” saidPower. “A lot of coaches came up and

talked to me and were trying to get me tocome back and play one year in Canadaand do a one-year master’s. So I have onemore year of college football, in theory, ifI wanted to go back to Canada.”e Canadian Football League (CFL)

holds three regional combines eachMarch in order to determine the athletepool for the May 10 dra. Over the courseof the day, the athletes’ strength, speedand agility are measured through sixtests: the bench press, the vertical jump,the broad jump, the three-cone drill, theshuttle run and the 40-yard dash.

Receiver Seamus Power ’16participates in CFL combine

Aer spending Spring Break playing16 games to open up its season in theFlorida heat, the soball team now standsat 9-6-1 as it heads into NESCAC play.

is weekend, the Polar Bears have threecontests at three-time defending nationalchampions Tus (7-6).e Polar Bears won their first two

games of the season against PlymouthState and McDaniel College but then lostthree of their next four over the next twodays. Emily Griffi n ’17, Samantha Roy’19 and Julia Geaumont ’16 all pitchedwell during the four-game stint—the onlygame in which one of the pitchers gave upmore than four runs was in an 11-5 blow-out win against Western New EnglandUniversity—but the team was having

trouble putting runs on the board.Back-to-back wins against Salve Re-

gina and Benedictine the next day helpedthe Polar Bears turn their play around forthe remainder of the Florida trip. AgainstBenedictine, the team got off to a slowstart, giving up fi ve runs in the second in-

ning, but their bats eventually came alive,scoring six runs in the bottom half of thatinning. Jordan Gowdy ’18 knocked in Sa-mantha Valdivia ’19 for an insurance runin the third, enough for Griffi n to finishou t the game on the mound for a 7-6 win.

According to Head Coach Ryan Sul-livan, the team’s mediocre start was inpart due to the delay the Maine winterimposed on the team’s season.

“We go down midweek, and otherteams are already six or eight games intothe season,” said Sullivan. “You’re kind ofgetting the kinks out, and they’ve already

gotten those out, but we were able to re-bound from that and play much better atthe back of the trip.”

“[e Benedictine game] was a nicetipping point. It was about midwaythrough the trip. It was kind of a placewhere we could say, ‘Yes, we are a good

team. We can do this.’ Because we startedoff slowly, there’s a little bit of indecisionthere and unknown, but we were ableto rally together and pull that one out,”he added.e team finished out the trip 4-3-1

aer the Benedictine game. Althoughits record may not be where the teamwould like it to be, improved play againsttougher competition at the end of the triphas the Polar Bears feeling hopeful look-ing forward.

Baseball looks to build

on early season success

e baseball team returned fromits annual trip to Florida with a recordof 8-3, which is better than each of itsFlorida finishes in the past two seasons.e team partly credits its early successto more discipline at the plate.

“One of the big diff erences from lastyear is that we are putting together bet-ter at bats,” captain Harry Ridge ’16 said.“We’re being more careful and patient,and there have been a lot fewer fi ve- orsix-pitch innings so far.”

is approach has been the productof a strong emphasis on hitting funda-mentals, which the coaches and cap-tains have stressed since the first day ofoffi cial practices in February. e pitch-ers and defense have caught on as well,and this has helped the players stay re-laxed and focused during games.

e team’s no-nonsense attitude hasalready shown that it yields good re-sults. One of the most telling numbersfrom the trip was that the team finished4-0 in games decided by three runsor fewer.

“I think those games were the oneswhere we didn’t have any trouble throw-ing strikes and played good defense,”Ridge said. “When those two thingshappen, our off ense has a clear head andisn’t pressing. ey can stay more re-laxed and go about things the right way.”is year’s team also features many

new starters, and so far they have seam-

lessly filled in the gaps le by last year’sgraduating seniors.

“I think there’s just good energy inour lineup,” captain Chris Nadeau ’16said. “is might not be the most tal-ented group of guys that I have seen in

Kevin Trinh ’19 competes in national junior weightlifting championships

Last month, Bowdoin first-year KevinTrinh competed in the National JuniorWeightliing Championships in ValleyForge, Pennsylvania and finished sixthout of 44 in his weight class.

Trinh plans on continuing with the

sport until his mid-20s, going to nationalmeets whenever he can. His next com-petition will be the University Nationalsthis September. As far as preparation,he will need to recover well and plan anagenda for summer training. Trinh alsoplans to spend more time with the Bow-doin Weightliing Club that he helped tofound this year.

At the competition last month, Trinhcompeted in the “A” group of the 69 kg(152 lbs) weight class. Each lier wasgiven three attempts at two lis called thesnatch and the clean & jerk. As explainedby Trinh, the snatch is a li started onthe ground. With a wide grip and in one

After inconsistent performance in Florida,softball prepares for key Tufts series

BY ANJULEE BHALLAORIENT STAFF

BY MADDIE JODKAORIENT STAFF

BY JONO GRUBERORIENT STAFF

BY ELI LUSTBADER

ORIENT STAFF

Please see POWER , page 13Please see TRINH , page 13

Please see SOFTBALL , page 12

Please see BASEBALL , page 12

CLEANING UP: Kevin Trinh ’19 initiates a clean & jerk at the National Junior Weightlifting Championships in Pennsylvania last month. Trinhperformed well in the competition, and finished sixth out of 44 competitors in his weight class.

COURTESY OF JOHN KELLER

CFL COMBINE, JEFF CHAN, COURTESY OF SEAMUS POWER

COURTESY OF EMILY GRIFFIN

SPRING IN MY STEP: Emily Griffin ’17 winds up to deliver a pitch in one of Bowdoin’s first games of the season in Florida over spring break.The team finished the trip with a record of 9-6-1 and opens NESCAC play against reigning three-year national champion Tufts this weekend.

MORE FOOTBALL LEFT?: Seamus Power ’16 grinds through a drill at the Toronto RegionalCanadian Football League Combine earlier this month. Power thought that he was done withfootball after the season ended this past fall, but now he may have another opportunity.

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Forty-fi ve athletes representing col-leges and teams from all over Canadaand the US were invited to the combine,where they broke into position groups asthey went through the tests.

“It was just me and 11 other wide re-ceivers, and everyone was from diff erentschools, said Powers. “So my favorite partwas just talking about your football expe-rience for the last four years and meetingdiff erent people who’ve played football inwestern Canada.”

While a strong wide receiver for theBowdoin program, Power hasn’t beenin the position for long. He shied fromquarterback to wide receiver aer ashoulder injury rendered him unable tothrow. However, he attributes some ofhis biggest strengths at wide receiver tothis change.

“I think it was a natural transitionto wide receiver because it was just theother side of the equation,” said Power.“Normally, I was throwing to the widereceiver, so I already had a good conceptof how the off ense works and how theroutes work. My strength as a wide re-ceiver is I understand the spacing on the

field. I’m not the fastest guy, I don’t havethe best hands, but I think I run prettygood routes, and I understand what we’retrying to do as an off ense.”

While playing football at Bowdoin,Power also joined the indoor and out-door track teams for the winter andspring seasons. e in-season trainingfor indoor track this winter particularlyhelped Power focus on his speed andagility going into the combine. Similarto the NFL Combines, the 40-yard dashis usually the most prestigious and im-portant test of the day, as it tests athletes’speed and ability to explode from a sta-

tionary start.While the combines are run quite

similarly, the CFL diff ers from the NFLin a number of key ways. Unlike the NFL,the CFL has mandated quotas that statethat the 44-man roster of each team mustinclude 20 Canadian citizens. e gameitself also diff ers in the size of the fieldand the number of downs, as Canadianfootball is only played with three downs.ese changes in the game can make thetransition from American football toCanadian football quite diffi cult, yet thatdoesn’t hinder the frequent crossoverbetween the two leagues as the CFL is acommon gateway into the NFL.

smooth movement, the lier brings theweight straight above his or her head. eclean & jerk is divided into two move-

ments; the clean is the move that bringsthe weight up to the shoulders, and the

jerk is a full explosive movement to pressthe weight above the head. Trinh got asnatch weight of 102 kg (224.8 lbs) anda clean & jerk total of 130 kg (286.6 lbs).

“As far as my own performance,” saidTrinh, “I did not hit any personal records,which in a way was a disappointment;but at the same time, I did hit fairly highnumbers.”

Had he hit the numbers he had hopedto, Trinh would have placed fih ratherthan sixth.

Trinh was first introduced to the sportof weightliing in high school. He begancompeting on the football and wrestlingteams and spent his off -season in the

weight room during the spring.

e su-pervisor of the weight room happened to

also be the weightliing coach, so he rec-ognized Trinh’s talent and recruited himfor the team.

He began entering competitions hissophomore year in high school. is isnot the first time Trinh has competed on

the national stage: he lied at Youth Na-tionals in 2013, where he took first place.

Since Bowdoin does not have aweightliing team, Trinh does not havea coach while here at school. He has beencompeting a lot less in college but makessure to prepare intensively for specificmeets like the Junior Championships.

During Trinh’s first semester at Bow-doin, he notes that training was challeng-ing, as he was still adjusting to collegeand his workload. However, by secondsemester he has figured out how to man-age his schedule better.is semester, hespent more time in the weightroom thanin classes. He pulled this feat off withoutmissing any class.

Trinh’s last competition before Feb-

ruary’s Junior Championships was backin June.

“It was a strange feel that I was return-ing back to liing in front of a platform infront of a crowd,” said Trinh. “But it wasdefinitely something I looked forward to.It’s not something that happens all thetime and so I value it more in that sense.”

At this year’s Junior Championships,Trinh’s weight class was incredibly talent-ed. One lier was the son of a gold-medalOlympian, and another holds the youthworld record. Trinh, however, was up forthe challenge.

“Coming into this competition, Iknew there were some pretty big namesin my weight class. But at the same time,I was really excited to be on the platformwith these guys, giving it my all.”

Trinh’s favorite part about compet-ing is the mental component. Some li-ers might be very good in training butcrack under pressure when it comesto the platform, with a huge crowd ofpeople watching. He prides himselfon coming into competition with a

strong mindset, and not buckling underthe competition.

TRINHCONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

POWERCONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

COURTESY OF JOHN KELLER

ROBERT MUROWCHICK, COURTESY OF SEAMUS POWER

PUSHING IT OUT: Trinh begins the “jerk” phase of his c lean & jerk l ift, which involves hoist ing the weight above the lifters head. Trinh hasplans to compete nationally as often as he can until his mid-20’s.

SHOWING HIS HOPS: Power outleaps a defender for a jump ball during a game this pastfall. Power got the chance to show how well he can jump this past weekend, recording avertical jump of 31.5 inches.

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R ecently, discussions about the potential dangers of masculinity have beencoming out of the woodwork on campus. On Wednesday, the BowdoinMen’s Group, partnering with the Women’s Resource Center and the Cen-

ter for Gender Violence Prevention and Education, hosted a screening of “e MaskYou Live In.” e film explores the limiting ways in which masculinity is sociallyconstructed and taught to boys from an early age. Many of the ideas it addressed arenot foreign to our campus. For instance, in her article for this week’s opinion section,Skye Aresty ’16 calls attention to what she sees as an unhealthy and unequal hookupculture at Bowdoin fueled by men exerting a sense of entitlement over women.

As Professor Judith Casselberry pointed out in the discussion following thescreening of “e Mask You Live In,” autonomous spaces, that is, spaces wherepeople can talk with people like them, can be incredibly valuable. is is not todownplay either the importance of incorporating diverse experiences into conversa-tions, or the necessity of recognizing that many of the people hurt by toxic displaysof masculinity are not men. e Men’s Group is a good eff ort by a small group ofstudents to recognize that issues of masculinity—including sex, fatherhood, emo-tional expression and mental illness—oen go undiscussed, and to facilitate healthyconversations in spaces specifically designated for this purpose.

We are in a moment at Bowdoin where people have a lot to say and are talking to

each other about tough and oen emotional themes—including looking at taken-for-granted concepts and assumptions and deconstructing them. Issues of mascu-linity are relatively new in campus discussion, so we have a unique opportunity toshape the way in which we talk about them.e next two events in the Men’s Group’s current series “We Need To Talk” are

focused on the always-relevant issues of sexual assault and supporting survivors,topics that are typically tackled by groups of women and individual women. eseevents show that the Men’s Group is internally grappling with the complexities of amasculine identity while using that male privilege to work toward educating others.Although we recognize that the discussions and programs of the Men’s Group are astep in the right direction, it is also important to acknowledge that its e ff orts are notyet widespread and build on discussions opened up by feminists on campus.

Last night, Tim Wise, a white anti-racism activist and writer, spoke to a packedcrowd in Kresge about racism, using the power that comes with his white privilegeto speak to a group of students who might not have gotten the same message fromcountless other sources. We think it is of utmost importance for those who considerthemselves allies—whether of people of color, the LGBTQIA community, feminists,or any other group—to use the dominance and respect that they inevitably carry

with them to educate others. In our last editorial, we wrote that the onus should notbe on those marginalized to educate others about their oppression. is week, wesee tangible examples on campus of folks who are in the process of critically examin-ing their own privilege and bringing these issues to light to new audiences in diff er-ent ways. is work will continue to be critical on this campus, as students from allwalks of life struggle with new ideas, experiences and relationships, together.

Unmasking masculinity

is editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorialboard, which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Jono Gruber, Matthew Gutschen-ritter, Meg Robbins, Nicole Wetsman and Emily Weyrauch.

Inequality in hookups is universallywidespread in a physical sense: accord-ing to Natalie Kitroeff in the New YorkTimes, “many young women are findingthat casual sex does not bring the physi-cal pleasure that men more oen expe-rience.” e hookup is “over” when theguy “finishes.”is misconception is truehere at Bowdoin, but there exists a moreserious problem. Frankly, many of themen are so detached and therefore sexu-ally inept that physical pleasure is besidethe point. e real inequality that existsin heterosexual hookups at Bowdoin isrooted in disrespect. Men have ceased totreat women in the polite and courteousmanner we deserve and have begun to

view us as disposable playthings.I am intentionally steering away from

the stale, overused argument that white

male athletes are the only men who per-petuate this disgraceful hookup culture.I am not trying to generalize or stig-matize a certain group of people. eproblem instead is one of self-imposedentitlement, achievable by any male, nomatter his race or athletic status. e in-solent way in which men treat womenon our campus during romantic encoun-ters is attributable to this embarrassinglyunwarranted superiority complex thatmany men inhabit. ese men perpetu-ate the hierarchical hookup culture thatwe see on our campus. eir arrogancegives them false senses of privilege thatmake their way into the bedroom. e

self-importance they assign themselvescauses them to perceive the dating cul-ture as they wish rather than taking intoaccount women’s perspectives.

Because of their ignorance, these self-entitled men believe three startling falsenotions. First, they suppose that womenalways want more out of a hookup. Sec-ond, they are under the impression thatif they treat a woman with any decencypost-hookup (i.e. acknowledgmentaround campus), they are leading herto think they are looking for somethingmore. ird, they think that acting dis-missively and emotionlessly is “cool.”ese selfish, presumptuous and off en-sive misconceptions surface in the formof disregard. Somehow, disrespect hasbecome normalized and tolerated in ourcommunity. e following anecdotes il-lustrate this disrespect and the skewedpower dynamic that color many hetero-sexual hookups on our campus.

A friend of mine took a guy homefrom a party. In the morning on his wayout, he said to her, “anks for the hos-pitality, see you around.” She was under-standably annoyed at this interaction, soshe told me and another friend of oursabout it. I was livid. Hookups are not aservice. Our other friend was speech-less. She indulged us in the following:she had hooked up with a guy on thesame team the night before who endedtheir hookup that same morning withthose exact sentences. Verbatim: thanksfor the hospitality, see you around. Doesthis particular team script their hook-ups? ese belittling, power-hungry

statements shocked me. Next time, howabout, “I had fun, I hope you have a goodday.” Clear, polite, to the point. Is that toomuch to ask?

I had been seeing someone for acouple of weeks when, out of the blue,he asked me to talk. He said somethingalong the lines of “I’m not emotionallyavailable enough to be with you.” Oneof my close friends expressed inter-est in this same boy a few days later. Itold her he’s on limits but to be careful.e weekend aer, they got togetherand soon started a relationship. atfelt shitty, but I could take it. What Icouldn’t take is that a few weeks later,he did the exact same thing to herand more. Cheated on her, told her he“wasn’t emotionally available” and im-mediately pursued the next girl. isparticular male unjustly deemed myfriend and me disposable and still isblind to how objectifying and deplor-

able his treatment of us was.A friend of mine brought a guy to

her room a few weeks ago. It was theirfirst time hooking up. When she wokeup the next morning, she found that hehad forced himself inside of her whileshe was asleep. “Are you wearing a con-dom?” she asked. “No, I just woke up.”As if that were a fucking explanation.On his way out he said the familiarwords, “See you around.” is exam-ple far surpasses the others because itclearly crosses a line: instead of just abad hookup, this is rape. My friend didnot immediately recognize it as such,through no fault of her own. Treatment

during hookups isso disrespectful thatsexual assault hasbecome normal-ized. As a commu-nity and a genera-tion, we need to askourselves how welet this happen andhow we can establisha safe environmentgoing forward.ese experiences

shed light on the falsesuperiority that menfeel over women.Unfortunately, theseare just a few of myand my friends’ ex-periences: there’s mysemi-boyfriend (nowsemi-ex) last yearwho wouldn’t reply

to me for days; there’sthe guy that my friend went home with,and when he was done, he went back tothe party; there’s the boyfriend my friendhad sophomore year who dropped herwithout explanation, and later we foundout that he had done this same thing tothree other women. e list goes on. I’mnot claiming the position of victim noram I victimizing women. I am simply ad-

vocating change. Men should not, underany circumstance, treat us like we are dis-posable objects.ere needs to be a com-plete shi in our hookup culture. Expec-tations need to be clearly stated, dialoguehas to be open and honest, and consent

must be explicitly communicated. Everysingle sexual encounter must be preced-ed with acknowledged permission.ereis no such thing as blank check consent.e men that ignore this and view thehookup scene as their customizable play-ground need to recognize that womenare equal to them in every situation. egender inequality that our hookup sceneperpetuates is disgusting. It is absolutelytime for men to treat women at Bowdoinwith the respect we deserve.

Skye Aresty is a member of the class of2016.

Male entitlement promotes a hierarchy in Bowdoin’s hook-up culture

SIGNIFYING NOTHING JESSE O RTIZ

Bowdoin meal culture is a form of networking

“Let’s get a meal!” you say enthusias-tically to an acquaintance you’d like toknow better. At Bowdoin, an invitationfor a meal represents more than justfood. “Getting a meal” is a common wayto become familiar with people outsideour immediate friend groups or to legiti-mize relationships with friends of friendsor casual hookups. It’s also importantwho you don’t get a meal with…maybeyou don’t want that casual hookup to bepart of your weekday life.

Eating with new people at Bowdoin

helps us build connections to campusgroups and discover opportunities forourselves.is is, in a word, networking.Like an “informational interview,” get-ting a meal with an acquaintance is per-formative. You want to project the best,most fitting version of yourself to a newperson while trying to appear casual andcomposed. Whether we like it or not, ev-ery part of the meal—from the choice ofdining hall to the way we hold our silver-ware—aff ects the impression we makeon other people.

Getting a meal is a skill. As Julia Mead’16 succinctly explained in an article lastsemester, the Senior Etiquette Dinnerteaches Bowdoin students to performan elite class identity. Beyond the dinner,

there are plenty of subtle ways that Bow-doin teaches us to behave. Seminar-styleclasses teach us to participate in businessmeetings. College Houses teach us toplan events. And getting meals teachesus to network.

When I was in high school, my ju-nior year English teacher once began aclass by playing the music from “2001:A Space Odyssey” and holding a box of

cookies over his head.“Mallomars,” Mr. Baldwin said,

“are perfect. e graham cracker base,marshmallow filling and decadent choc-olate coating are truly heavenly.”

He then distributed the cookiesaround the class.

“You know, food is love,” he told us.“Enjoy the cookies.”

My teacher then had each of us writean essay about the Mallomar brandcookie, much to the chagrin (thanks forthe vocab, Mr. Baldwin!) of many stu-dents in the class.

Mr. Baldwin’s teaching could fit inwith the cheesiest of Lifetime movies, butI never did forget that lesson. Sharing ameal with someone is not just intimate

but sacred. Every religion that I know offollows several traditions based aroundfood. is past Sunday, I couldn’t helprememberingthe pastriesand pasta thatmy Italian fam-ily would shareevery Easteraer gorgingourselves onchocolate allmorning.

Is there any-thing sacredabout eatingwith someone at Bowdoin? Meals hereare oen scheduled far in advance and

squeezed between various other com-mitments. Food can provide a rare op-portunity to reflect on yourself and con-nect with another person. It can helpalleviate the stress of countless other du-ties. But oen, a meal becomes anothersocial obligation, requiring the same per-formative self-awareness as a meeting ora class. Does that kind of self-awareness

violate the sacredness of eating, making

lunch sacrilegious?Consciousness and love are not mu-

tually exclusive. Bowdoin promotes anideal of social leadership and financialsuccess. But although Bowdoin’s culturesocializes us to adopt bourgeois habits,we don’t need to fully accept or reject anupper-class identity. If we give ourselvesentirely to an elitist ideal, we’ll end uphurting the people that interfere with ourself-interested goals. However, to rejectthe Bowdoin ideal wholesale comes withits own kind of dishonesty. It’s a privilegeto learn how to refine the skills necessaryfor a high-power career. At Bowdoin,every one of us participates in a cultureof people with immense social and eco-nomic power, and it’s worth being aware

of the way that culture shapes us.When I was growing up, my family

drank a lot of diet soda. Now, I oen hesi-tate in the dining hall,checking my impulseto drink a product ascorporate, artificialand innutritious asCoke Zero. But tatertots and fried chickenhave never been mycomfort food. At mygrandmother’s house,cans of Diet Pepsiwere as ubiquitous as

loaves of Italian bread.As soon as my sister and I would walkinto her home, we would hug my grand-

mother hello and then make our way tothe fridge, trusting that it would be full ofshiny silver cans. Yes, Pepsi profits everytime we purchase its products. But thosecans came straight from my grandmoth-er’s heart. Even though “getting a meal”may be a kind of networking, eating withothers oen leads to lasting connectionsand a strong community. Aer all, foodis love.

SKYE ARESTY OPED CONTRIBUTOR

Bowdoin promotes an ideal of social

leadership and financial success.

But although Bowdoin’s culture

socializes us to adopt bourgeois

habits, we don’t need to fully accept

or reject an upper-class identity.

DIANA FURUKAWA

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Limits of understanding: we should treat animals more kindly

What are you thinking? What doyou care about? What is so diff erentabout you and me? ese are the sortof questions I oen ask myself when-ever looking at an animal. While it ismost likely a hopeless task, I try toimagine what it would be like to fly,what it would be like to have gills,what it would be like to have eight legsand what it would be like to be ownedby humans. I wonder whether beinghuman really is better than being anyother species. Maybe it turns out thatdogs live happier lives than humans,even though they might understandless. Maybe the life of a migratorybird is more interesting—traveling toopposite ends of the Earth by simplyflapping their limbs. However, what I

wonder most is whether we are mak-ing a grave mistake in how we treatour animal kin.

While neuroscience has given usmuch insight into how the humanmind and other minds work, it stillhas much work to do in understand-ing the extent of our diff erences. Wehave already found that many species(e.g. orcas) have emotional capacitiesthat rival our own, making it indisput-ably wrong to detain these species andbreak up their families like we would arock for an exhibit. We generally seemto treat animals with higher cognitiveabilities in a more kindly manner, but

this does not always hold true. Forexample, a pig is smarter than a dog,but we treat dogs more kindly by moststandards. erefore, at the bare mini-mum, we should consistently treatanimals more kindly based on theircognitive abilities.

Yet, I fear that neuroscience hasnot developed enough to make thesehard and fast judgments about whichanimals deserve to be treated morelike humans. We have to ask the ques-tion: while some of these animalslack higher cognitive ability, what ifthey are not as diff erent from us as wethought? What if the experience of be-ing a pig is not so diff erent than theexperience of being a human? If thiswere true, we would be committinghorrific acts on a massive scale. We

just happen ed to draw the lucky cardof being the mammal with the highestcognitive ability.

However, my fear runs even deeper

than the discoveries to be made inneuroscience. What if it can’t be dis-covered what exactly it is like to bea pig? What if the nature of being apig can only be understood in a sub-

jective context? For example, I can’tknow what it’s like to be you, let alonean organism of a completely diff erentspecies. In this sense, our lens of thehuman experience is infinitesimallynarrow in terms of the numerousways of experiencing the world. Ofcourse, if this were true, we would betreating animals that are not so dif-ferent from ourselves like inanimateobjects and we would never be able to

know about it. As a result, it wouldbe conscientious and safe to treatour animal kin with more kindnessrather than taking the risk of treat-ing these organisms in ways thatwould make us cringe if humanswere the victims.

If the above argument does notconvince you that we should treatanimals more kindly, wait just aminute. In order to justify treat-ing animals differently than hu-mans, you would have to say thatcreatures with higher cognitiveabilities should be treated moreconscientiously. While I wouldgenerally agree with this premise,it has gone much too far in howwe implement it.e diff erence in DNA between

a chimpanzee and a human is abouta one percent diff erence. ink ofall the things that humans can dothat chimps cannot. ink of all the

things humans have created and dis-covered that chimps have not. isone percent diff erence makes us themost dominant species on the planetwhile the chimp is just another pri-mate. Now, imagine an alien spe-cies with a one percent diff erence inDNA from us in the other direction,meaning that they are to us what weare to chimps. It is hard to imaginewhat such a species would be capableof. Maybe their toddlers would knowquantum mechanics. Maybe theycould calculate things only our com-puters can calculate. Maybe they cangrasp scientific truths that we never

could. Nonetheless, once we acknowl-

edge that there may be such an alienspecies out there, our above premisethat animals of higher cognitive abili-ties should be treated more kindly be-comes troubling.

Would it be okay for this alien spe-cies to keep humans in cages? Wouldit be okay for them to eat humans fornutrition? Would it be okay for themto hunt humans for fun? By our ownstandards, it seems that all of these ac-tions would be okay. We keep chimpsand orcas in cages. We eat pigs for nu-trition. We hunt all sorts of animalsbecause it is “fun.” Yet, in doing so,we have condoned any alien species to

come here and treat us as horribly as

we treat our animal kin.One could try to argue that there is

a line of “consciousness” that humanshave crossed which diff erentiates usfrom other animals, but I claim thatsuch a hard and fast line may be anarbitrary distinction. We could bemerely insects unintelligibly squirm-ing compared to a super-intelligentalien species.

Quite frankly, if a highly intelli-gent alien species saw how we treat-ed our cognitive subordinates, theywould have every right to treat usthe same. Is that how you would liketo be treated?

COSMIC QUERIESNICK DISTEFANO

A year ago today, I marched upthe stairs at the back of H-L alongwith 27 other students, carryingmy sleeping bag, a week’s worth ofwork, and a Tupperware of past a anda dozen bananas that I had hoardedfrom Moulton.

Amidst a rush of adrenaline, weplaced our belongings in a corner,hung up an orange banner reading“Whose side are you on?” and de-livered flowers to the secretary, thusbeginning Bowdoin Climate Action’s(BCA) three day sit-in for fossil fuel di-

vestment. For the next three days, thatsuite, with its scratchy red carpet andfluorescent lights, became our home.

Over those three days, more than100 students, as well as several facultyand alumni, trickled in to show theirsupport for fossil fuel divestment, theclimax of a campaign that began inFall 2012. Despite three years of gath-ering student petitions, meeting withthe administration and even present-ing to the Board of Trustees, our de-cision makers had not yet begun to

consider divestment. As a result ofthis delay, we took matters into ourown hands, demanding a liaisonto the Board of Trustees so that wecould begin conversations around di-

vestment. When Bowdoi n ref used todo so, we acted and began our sit-in,in concert with more than 10 schoolsacross the country.

Aer two days on the floor of the ad-ministrative offi ces with no response orformal recognition from any membersof the administration, another studentand I met with Dean of Student Aff airsTim Foster. Aer our hour-long meet-ing, Dean Foster’s viewpoints becameclear: while he did not support fossilfuel divestment, he was sympathetictowards the sit-in.

I was struck, however, when Fos-ter told us that Bowdoin has neverbeen on the “bleeding edge” and thuswould not be a leader for divestment.According to him, Bowdoin has neverbeen the first to take a bold step forsocial change; rather, we follow otherinstitutions when the waters have beentested and it is safe to swim out. He as-serted, as have countless administra-tion members, trustees and CEO’s of

fossil fuel companies, that we woulddivest once it became the norm, thatwe would “ride the crest” of the waveof divestment.

Aer three nights on that hard floor,we ended our sit-in, feeling disheart-ened and disillusioned aer learningthat Bowdoin was unwilling lead thetransition to a just and sustainable fu-ture. While the sit-in did not elicit theadministrative response that we hadhoped for, it demonstrated the stu-dent power that we possessed and thestrong leadership present in our cam-paign that filled the vacuum le by theadministration.

I came to Bowdoin enthralled by itscommitment to the Common Goodand by the Off er of the College, whichboasted of “leaders in walks of all life.”I le the sit-in, however, disenchantedby President Barry Mills’ dismissal ofthe Common Good as a marketingtool and by Foster’s statement that wewere not the leaders that we off er our-selves to be. Perhaps they were right,for how can Bowdoin be a leader, yetstill reap financial benefits from the de-struction of our planet and those wholive on the margins of society?

rough BCA and interactions withother students on campus, I have metcountless leaders fighting for changewho are willing to take bold stridestowards justice. Clearly, there is noshortage of leaders here, so why havewe yet to act on the reality and urgencyof climate change?

With over $3.4 trillion worth ofholdings and more than 50 collegesacross the world committed to partialor full fossil fuel divestment, Bowdoinwould by no means be at the “bleedingedge.” We would not be the first schoolin Maine nor the first “elite” school todivest, but we could be the first schoolin the NESCAC to take this step. For aschool that values its prestige and toutsits sustainability eff orts (predicatedupon precarious neoliberal principles),fossil fuel divestment would enableBowdoin to emerge as the leader thatit claims to be.

As more and more institutions divest, numerous report s indicate theprecipitously falling value of fossilfuels, and energy companies contem-plate filing for bankruptcy, divest-ment no longer becomes a questionof if, but when.

When will Bowdoin choose to fol-low the path towards climate justiceand a sustainable future? When willBowdoin align its investment practiceswith its commitment to the CommonGood, choosing to place people overprofit? Will we choose to protect therefugees of rising tides, or will we waituntil the waves come lapping at theedges of our manicured quad? If wetruly are “leaders in all walks of life,”then why have we failed to lead thetransition away from fossil fuels?

For the past four years, we havepushed for Bowdoin to realign itsinvestments, but we have yet to be

joined by our adminis tration andBoard of Trustees, whose decision-making ability is mired by personalties to the fossil f uel industry. A yearago, we took action and demandedthat Bowdoin seriously engage infossil fuel divestment, and now it’stime for the investments committeeto choose to stand on the right sideof history. Bowdoin, will you leadwith us?

Jonah Watt i s a membe r of the classof 2018.

One year later: reflecting on the anniversary of the divestment sit-in JONAH WATT

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Balinese Performance by GamelanGalak TikaGamelan Galak Tika will perform traditional and modern

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Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 3 p.m.

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“To Transition or Not to Transition That isthe Question”Dr. Rachel Levine P'16 will lead a discussion entitled

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Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon Student ArtCompetition and Awards CeremonyStudent art submissions will be on display at the Delta

Sigma/Delta Upsilon Art Competition and Awards

Ceremony. One complimentary drink will be ser ved tothose who are 21 or older.

Smith Union, Lamarche Gallery. 7 p.m.

EVENT

Business Leadership Principles withPresident RosePresident Clayton Rose will share his insights and adviceregarding leadership and business with the community. He

will draw on his experience as a professor at Harvard

Business School and as head of the Global Investment

Banking and Global Equities divisions at JP Morgan.

Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union.

7 p.m.

LECTURE

Rachel Adato: On Women's Health in IsraelDr. Rachel Adato will speak about women’s health in Israel.

Adato was the first female gynecologist in Jerusalem and

she has worked in administrative positions in hospitals

in the region.

The Pickering Room (213), Hubbard Hall. 7:30 p.m.

LECTURE

David Freeman: "All Renewable AllElectric America"S. David Freeman will give a talk called “All Renewable All

Electric America.” Freeman, an attorney and author, has

had key roles in energy policy. He was one of the

architects of the Environmental Protection Agency during

the Nixon administration. In subsequent years he ser ved asan administrator in the field in a variety of positions.

Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4 p.m.

EVENT

Maine Inside Out DialogueThere will be a dialogue with Maine Inside Out, an organiza-

tion that works with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated

people to share theater in correctional facilities and outside

as well. There will be a 10-minute film screening about the

organization and a facilitated dialogue between the audi-

ence and participants of Maine Inside Out.

Reed House. 7 p.m.

LECTURE"Sore Losers and Glass Ceilings: AmericanPresidential Politics”As part of the Community Lecture Series, Professor of

Government Andrew Rudalevige will present the lecture,

"Sore Losers and Glass Ceilings: American Presidential

Politics.”

Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.

EVENT

Book Release Celebration: Aviva Briefel,"The Racial Hand in the VictorianImagination”There will be a celebration, reading and discussion of

Professor of English and Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel’s newbook, “The R acial Hand in the Victorian Imagination.”

Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:30 p.m.

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Bowdoin CollegeConcert Band

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C o m m o n H o u r - B r i a n P u r n e l l : " S t r u g g l e a n d P r o g r e s s : P e o p l e o f A f r i c a n D e s c e n t i n N e w Y o r k C i t y S i n c e t h e 1 5 0 0 s " A s s o c i a t e P r o f e s s o r o f A f r i c a n a S t u d i e s a n d H i s t o r y B r i a n

P u r n e l l w i l l d i s c u s s h i s n e w b o o k p r o j e c t , “ S t r u g g l e a n d

P r o g r e s s : P e o p l e o f A f r i c a n D e s c e n t i n N e w Y o r k C i t y S i n c e

t h e 1 5 0 0 s . ” T h e b o o k w i l l e x p l o r e t h e e x t e n s i v e a n d d i v e r s e

h i s t o r i e s o f b l a c k p e o p l e i n t h e c i t y . K r e s g e A u d i t o r i u m , V i s u a l A r t s

C e n t e r . 1 2 : 3 0 p . m .

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F r e e d o m F r i d a y s : W h i t e a n d I n t h e F i g h t F r e e d o m F r i d a y s a r e a p l a t f o r m f o r t h e c o m m u n i t y t o d i s c u s s

s o c i a l a n d p o p u l a r c u l t u r e i s s u e s . T h i s w e e k w i l l f o c u s o n

h o w s t u d e n t s i n m a j o r i t y g r o u p s c o m b a t r a c i s m .

G r e a t R o o m , 3 0 C o l l e g e S t r e e t . 4 p . m .

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U p r i g h t C i t i z e n s B r i g a d e T h e E n t e r t a i n m e n t B o a r d w i l l p r e s e n t a p e r f o r m a n c e b y

U p r i g h t C i t i z e n s B r i g a d e , a p o p u l a r t o u r i n g i m p r o v g r o u p . I m p r o v a b i l t i e s a n d O ffi c e H o u r s w i l l o p e n t h e s h o w . T i c k e t s

a r e n o t r e q u i r e d .

P i c k a r d T h e a t e r , M e m o r i a l H a l l . 7 p . m .

P(ART)Y: Student art is on display in Smith Union for the Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon Student Art Competition. There will be an awardsceremony on Saturday night for the competition.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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