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    BOBRUNSWICK, MAINE THE NATIONS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED COLLEGE WEEKLY VOLUME 144, NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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    FEATURES:BEHIND THE NAME TAG OPINION

    EDITORIAL: Walk it out.

    SPORTS: WOMENS SOCCER HEADS ONE HOME

    Page 11.ONLY CHARCOAL TO DEFEND: ChristopherWedeman 16 discusses the U.S.s involvement inthe rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

    Page 15.

    Page 14.

    Meet Birgit Pols, Bowdoinsnew director of HealthServices who doubles as ascuba diver extraordinaire.

    An overtime goal gave the Polar Bears an opening-game win against Wesleyan last Saturday.

    FIELD HOCKEY: The team began its national titledefense with a 3-0 win over Wesleyan last weekend.

    MORE NEWS: SUMMER CONSTRUCTIONRenovations took place thissummer in Coles Tower,Hubbard, 52 Harpswell,H-L Library, Hyde Plaza,the Coastal Studies Centerand 216Maine Street.

    Page 4. Page 11.

    Committee

    publishes job

    description fornext president

    BY GARRETT CASEY

    ORIENT STAFF

    Te committee searching for Presi-dent Barry Mills successor shared the

    job description it is providing to appli-cants and issued a call for nominationsin an email sent to members of the Bow-doin community last Friday. Over thesummer, the committee hired the rmIsaacson, Miller to assist with the searchand conducted information-gatheringforums with students, faculty and staff,according to the email.

    Isaacson, Miller is an executiverecruitment rm that recently con-sulted for Amhersts and Williams

    presidential searches.Te job description was written by the

    recruitment rm and the search com-mitteewhich consists of 10 trustees,three faculty members, two students,two staffmembers and a member of theAlumni Counciland was reviewed bythe Board of Trustees.Te document begins with the writ-

    ings of two former presidents of theCollege, William DeWitt Hydes Offerof the College and the portion of Jo-seph McKeens inaugural address thathighlights the importance of serving thecommon good.Te rest of the document consists of

    a description of the College and a list

    College launches states largest solar panel project

    Please see PRESIDENT, page 3

    New town, College parking rules frustrate student driversBY KATE WITTEMAN

    ORIENT STAFF

    Harpswell burglary raisescampus security concernsBY SAM MILLER

    ORIENT STAFF

    Students received a blunt re-minder of the Bowdoin Bubbles

    vulner abilit y last weekend whenburglars entered a HarpswellApartments unit and stole thou-sands of dollars worth of electron-ic equipment.

    On Saturday evening around 8p.m., seniors Anthony Todesco,Jack Donovan, Brian Golger andPeter Yasi were in their living roomwatching television and using theircomputers, according to Todesco.They opened the units sliding glass

    door for a couple of hours due tothe rooms heat.

    There were people outside cir-culating around because it wasa Saturday night, so they wouldhave been able to see inside, saidTodesco. We had a couple of TVsright by the door and we were onour laptops, but it was just students

    out there, at least as far as we knew.Around 10:30 p.m., the students

    shut their sliding door and pulledthe shade down. Both the front andback door were closed and lockedand the four roommates were asleepbefore midnight.

    At one point during the nightI thought I heard some shufflingaround or doors opening, but Ididnt think much of itI justthought it was my roommates,said Todesco.

    The next morning, the studentsawoke to find that a television andtwo Apple MacBooks had been sto-len from their living room some-

    time during the night. With eachcomputer worth approximately$1,500 and the TV worth severalhundred dollars as well, the total es-timated value of the stolen propertyis close to $4,000, according to Di-rector of Safety and Security Randy

    Please see BURGLARY, page 4

    A COMMUNITY STAKE

    BY CAMERON DE WET

    ORIENT STAFF

    ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    Students, faculty and staffgathered in Dudley Coe Quad at 7:45 a.m. to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks. Bowdoin Student Government provided flags to represent each American citizen who passed away on that day.

    Over the summer, the College in-stalled a series of solar panels on theroof of Sidney J. Watson Arena.

    The panels are part of a newsolar installation that will sup-ply eight percent of the Collegeselectricity and includes over 4,300photovoltaic cellsmaking it thelargest solar installation in the stateof Maine.

    The majority of installationwork took place over the summer.Panels on Watson Arena have beenoperational since August 29 andsupply power to the South CampusLoopwhich includes Osher Hall,West Hall and Moulton Union,among other buildings.

    Over 2,100 panels are also beinginstalled on the three-acre plot ofland at the former Naval Air Sta-tion Brunswick that the collegeacquired in 2011. Additional pan-els are under construction on theroofs of Farley Field House, Grea-son Pool and 52 Harpswell. Thesepanels are scheduled to be fully

    operational by the end of O ctober.Te College purchases the elec-

    tricity generated by the panels fromthe energy company SolarCity,which covered the upfront costs ofthe installation.

    According to the Director ofFinance and Campus Services

    Delwin Wilson, the current ratesfor the energy produced by thenew installations are comparableto rates for non-sustainable energyfrom different companies.

    In the long term were thinking it

    Please see SOLAR, page 3

    In late August, the Brunswick TownCouncil passed an ordinance approvinga two-hour parking limit and restrictedovernight parking on Park Row fromGustafson House to College Street.Tenew regulations, which affect approxi-mately 20 parking spaces, are the new-est restrictions in a string of added rulesdesigned to limit long-term parking onand adjacent to campus.

    According to Director of Safety andSecurity Randy Nichols, the recent townordinance reected Bowdoins concernthat there was not enough vehicle turn-over on the section of Park Row.

    Tat critical stretch of Park Row,which has such convenient access to somany college facilities, was locked uppretty much day and nightmostly bystudent vehicles. People could campout there for extended periods of time,he said.

    According to Captain Mark Waltz of

    the Brunswick Police Department, theCollege approached the town with theidea of instituting the two-hour limitand the overnight parking restriction.Te College has not only made clear

    that it is dedicated to promoting a walk-ing campus where people are encour-aged to travel on foot, but also to pro-

    viding more convenient parking spacesfor campus visitors. Tis reasoning wasinstrumental in Bowdoins decision toconvert certain student parking lotsinto visitor, faculty and stafflots.

    Te College announced in Februarythat it would make signicant changesto parking on campus, including theelimination of 63 spaces available to stu-dents in the College House parking lotson Maine Street during weekdays busi-ness hours.

    In 2012, the College also convert-ed the parking lot on Coffin Streetformerly available for student useinto a lot solely for faculty, staff

    Please see PARKING, page 4

    KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    AIM AND IGNITE: Solar panels on the roof of Watson Arena have been fully functional since August.

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    Compiled by Olivia Atwood.

    Probably buying a grill.

    Emma Young 15

    He didnt even buy a grill this week.

    STUDENT SPEAKWhat is the most exciting thing that happened to you this week?

    COMPILED BY OLIVIA ATWOOD

    Eduardo Jaramillo 17

    I went to Salvation Army and theyhad coat hangers for like, a buck.

    Jay Blenhyne-Gaillard 16

    The first time I impressed myteacher in sociology. I said the

    correct answer.

    COOL CAMPUS GIGSThe lowdown on the beststudent employmentopportunities

    LEO SHAW, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    RIGHT SIDE OF THE BREAD: Wild Oats Bakery and Caf, a long-time student favorite, opened a second location last week near the former Naval Air Station Brunswick. See story on page 8.

    NEW CAKES ON THE BLOCK

    Did you know you couldwork as a student manager inthe Rock Band Studio? Perhapsyoure more interested in beinga Student Steward at Thorne.

    The Student EmploymentOffice has a number of posi-tions it needs to fill, and, ac-cording to Assistant Directorof Financial Aid and StudentEmployment Sarah Paul, nowis the best time to fill out anapplication.

    In August there were 33jobs posted , wit h 103 positi onopenings. As of September 10,there were 32 additional jobsposted, with 132 openings.

    So far this semester, 1,355hires have been made. Thisfigure represents the numberof positions filled, not thenumber of student workers,since some students work mul-tiple jobs.

    One hundred and one firstyear students have been hiredso far this semester. That num-

    ber will continue to grow asmore members of the Class of2018 file the necessary employ-ment paperwork, said Paul.

    The average wage for stu-dents hired for fall 2014 is$8.60 per hour.

    BY THE NUMBERS

    in high school counselor rank-

    ings.Tis category measures

    how ofen high school conselors

    reccommend Bowdoin.

    55

    thth

    in the best liberal arts college

    category, tied with Pamona

    College in Claremont, Calif.

    88ththin the best value college

    category. Amherst College,

    another NESCAC school, was

    rankedrst in this category.

    10ththin the best undergraduate

    teaching category.

    MAPPING OUT THE CLASS OF 2018

    Christian Boulanger 15

    On Tuesday, the U.S. Newsand World Report releasedits 2014 Best College rank-ings. Heres how the Reportranked Bowdoin:

    99thth

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    Entrepreneurial startup

    Polar Pad Rentals laid to restBY MEG ROBBINS

    ORIENT STAFF

    Polar Pad Rentals, a student-runbusiness providing deluxe rentalmattresses and futons to Bowdoinstudents, has been shut down in-definitely by the College adminis-tration. The business was launchedand advertised to students throughan all-campus email sent on June30. By the end of July, after con-

    versations with other senior staffmembers, Director of Student LifeAllen Delong informed studentfounders Adam Fitzgerald 16, Bil-ly Valle 16 and Tommy Garry 17that Polar Pad was not an entrepre-neurial endeavor that the Collegecould support.

    Discussions between Delongand the founders of Polar Pad re-garding the future of the businesswill continue through the end ofSeptember. Al-though Fitzger-ald and Valleare currently

    abroad, Garry ison campus andacting as the in-terim head.

    Polar Pad isa franchise of acompany calledRoomie Rentals,which was start-ed by three Dartmouth alumni andnow has many successful branchesat colleges across the country. Themost successful branch is at peerschool Middlebury, which is whyFitzgerald, Valle and Garry wereparticularly excited to introducethe rental service to the Bowdoincommunity.

    Delong cited several issues thatfactored into the decision not tosupport Polar Pad. Generally theprocess for student-run businessesis to meet with Delong to pitch theidea and then proceed from there.Delong said he first heard of PolarPad when the campus-wide emailwas sent out in June. However,Garry claimed that his businesspartners had talked to the admin-istration before summer began.

    One of the administrations mainconcerns involvesthe Colleges so-licitation policyabout the role ofcommercial en-terprises , such asRoomie Rentals,on campus.

    There arevery few if anycorporate iconsat Bowdoin andthats by design,said Delong.

    There are alot of people, corporations, busi-nesses and philanthropic groupswho would love to have access toBowdoin students, and we reallyare cautious about who has accessto our s tudents.

    Though Delong mentioned thatFitzgerald, Valle and Garry havebeen very transparent with him,he remained wary of the businesssconnection to a bigger entity thatis not just ou r students.

    That doesnt mean that wenever would go with students whoare involved in a franchise, saidDelong. But it does get a differentdegree of analysi s.

    Another primary concern wasthat Polar Pad would be a burden to

    staff that work during the busy stu-dent move-in and move-out periods.

    The students who proposed itwere adamant that it wouldnt [addwork for staff] and I trust thosestudents, said Delong. But I alsotrust the people who are cleaningthe rooms, who are painting therooms, who have to make sure thatbeds are put together for the nextoccupants. And in the end, I needto listen to th em.

    Dean of Student Affairs TimFoster added that affordability alsoplayed a role in why the a dministra-tion chose not to support Polar Pad.Mattress and futon rentals cost up-wards of $249 a year.

    The idea of haves and havenotsof Im going to upgrade be-cause I can afford to upgradethats just not the Bowdoin way,he said.

    Foster emphasized that this wasby no means thechief reason forshutting downthe business, but

    it was a factor ofconsideration.

    The Polar Padbusiness modelstates that whenone of their rentalbeds is broughtinto a dorm room,they disassemble

    the existing bed and store it underthe new rental. There is no guaran-teeing that students will keep theCollege-issued bed there through-out the year, however. Delong wasconcerned that students mightchoose to store the bed in a sepa-rate facility. By move-out time,tracking that bed down could bedifficult and it would be unclearwho would be responsible for thepotentially missing bedPolarPad or the student.

    Frankly, we the College dontwant to get involved in that, De-long said.

    Garry expressed disappointmentover the administrations attitudetowards Polar Pad.

    The three of us were really in-terested in entrepreneurship andwe were really excited about [Polar

    Pad], said Garry.Bowdoin doesntreally have any-thing like thisI think it coulddefinitely besomething thatadds to the cul-ture here andshows the inge-nuity and cre-ativity of thekids h ere.

    Before the ad-

    ministration an-nounced that they would not sup-port the business, Polar Pad hadreceived upward of 20 orders, ac-cording to Garry. All clients havebeen fully refunded.

    Delong noted that he getsaround three to five entrepreneur-ial pitches a year. He has faith thatFitzgeraldhis primary studentcontact throughout this processwill be back with another idea inthe near future.

    [Adam] is a person whos beenbit by the bug, said Delong. Soeven though the answer was noabout this one, I fully expect thathes going to have another pitch,and I look forward to having thatconversation with him.

    PRESIDENTCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

    of the challenges the next presidentwill face.

    I think it is a document that tries topresent the College rst and foremostto potential candidates for the collegepresidency, but also to frame the discus-sion about the Colleges aspirations andwhat objective the next president mightlead the College towards, said Jes Staley79, the trustee who is serving as chair ofthe Presidential Search Committee, in aphone interview with the Orient.Te job description refers to Bow-

    doins upward trajectoryve times, withthe introductory section stating, TeCollege seeks a new president who canextend Bowdoins trajectory.

    Staley said that based on conversa-

    tions he has had with members of thecommittee and other members of theBowdoin community, there is a sharedbelief that the College is in a good place.

    Tis is not a college that is in needof a major change because the school isin such terric shapethe quality of thefaculty, the quality of the students, thequality of the residential life, the supportof the alumnias the document under-scores, people just want to make surethat we nd the best possible candidateto continue what is a pretty extraordi-nary place, he said.Te section of the job description

    titled Qualications and Experiencementions the ability to lead a conversa-tion about the curriculum, an under-standing of college governance, andexperience working with both faculty

    and board of trustees. Staley said thatthose preferred qualications are notan indication that the committee isonly considering applicants workingin academia.

    We havent set out criteria thatlimit the range of candidates thatthe committee can look at, he said.Clearly theres an appreciation by thecommittee of the value of nding anindividual with a deep understandingof academic life and an appreciationfor liberal arts education.Te committee also laid out its ex-

    pectation that the next president will beable to engage effectively with the manyconstituencies of the college, skillfullynegotiating different points of view andarticulate the value of a liberal arts edu-cation in the twenty-rst century.

    During an interview with the Ori-ent last semester, Associate Professor

    of English and Africana Studies TessChakkalakal, a member of the searchcommittee, said that the second of theseabilities is particularly important to her.

    What Im looking for is someonewho really has not just a commitmentto the liberal arts in general, but some-one who really is on the front line in thecurrent debates regarding our collegesrole in training young people to becomeactive citizens and productive in theworld, she said.Te job description praises Mills ad-

    ministration for raising funds dedicatedtonancial aid and diversifying the fac-ulty and student body, and calls on thenext president to continue expandingaccess to the College.

    Te new president should extendBowdoins efforts to remain affordable to

    rst-generation and middle-class fami-lies, continue efforts to diversify the fac-ulty and staff, and address the academicand social needs of the student popula-tion to ensure that every Bowdoin stu-dent feels included in the campus cul-ture and is positioned to thrive, it reads.

    Staley echoed that the committeewould keep the Colleges commitmentto diversity in mind throughout thesearch process.

    Te composition of the search com-mittee tried to reect the diversity ofthe Bowdoin community overall, saidStaley. Teres a deep commitment bythe College to embrace diversity, and Ithink that embracing diversity extendsto how the search committee is going tohandle its search.

    Staley said that in order to attract themost talented applicants, the commit-tee has to keep the names of candidates

    condential. Applicants do not want torisk losing their current jobs by demon-strating a public interest in becomingBowdoins next president.

    Withholding the names of candidatesis common practice during a collegespresidential search, according to Staley.Te committee has already re-

    ceived nominations and will continueto receive them in the coming weeks.

    We have reviewed a very longlist of potential candidates and weare going to be reaching out to doz-ens and dozens, said Staley. Teseare people that were going to be ap-proaching, people that have beenrecommended to us, and people thathave approached us. It is a long listand Im sure it will be an even longerlist as the fall moves forward.

    SOLARCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

    will save us some money depending onwhat happens to electricity rates, Wil-son said.Te College has agreed to a 20-

    year deal with SolarCity, which stip-ulates that the company is responsi-ble for upkeep and management ofthe new panels.

    In May 2013, Central Maine Pow-er (CMP), the electric utility com-pany that supplies the College withmuch of its non-renewable energy,attempted to introduce new standby

    charges as part of an effort to in-crease distribution rates.Tese charges would have levied a

    special rate on customers who sup-

    ply some of their own powernot

    using energy from CMPs gridbut

    who still rely on CMP for depend-

    able distribution services.

    Te proposed standby charges were

    dropped from CMPs proposal afer a

    14-month proceeding that included

    two public hearings held last spring.

    Te Maine Independent Colleges As-

    sociation opposed the standby charges

    but signed on to CMPs plan when the

    proposed charges were abandoned.

    Other aspects of the proposal, such as

    the increase of the monthlyxed charge

    from $5.71 to $10, have gone into effectthis month.Te College does not currently have

    any concrete plans for further solar de-

    velopment, but it may be keeping that

    option open for the future.

    Te cost of solar keeps coming

    down so this is our rst toe in the water,

    said Senior Vice President for Finance

    and Administration Katy Longley. But

    were just trying to nish this onerst.

    Te Treasurers Offi ce coordinated

    tours of the panels at the Naval Air Sta-

    tion Brunswick with SolarCity in Au-

    gust and plans to run two more tours for

    students and residents in October.

    COURTESY OF THE TREASURERS OFFICE

    LET THE SUN SHINE: Solar panels at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick. SolarCity will offer tours of the panels to town residents and Bowdoin students in October.

    Bowdoin doesnt

    really have anything like

    this...I think it could definitely be

    something that adds to the

    culture here and shows the

    ingenuity and creativity

    of the kids here.

    TOMMY GARRY 17

    The idea of haves

    and have notsof Im

    going to upgrade because I canafford to upgradethats just

    not the Bowdoin way.

    TIM FOSTER

    DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

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    Summer construction to boost Colleges energy efficeincyBY JOE SHERLOCK

    ORIENT STAFF

    BURGLARYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

    Students returned to a more energyefficient campus last week thanks to nu-merous renovations and upgrades thattook place over the summer.

    Some summers [have] more smallerprojects, sometimes we have bigger onesand less smaller ones, said Director ofFacilities Operations Ted Stam. We hada few bigger ones this year.

    One of this years biggest projectswas the renovations of the third andfourth oors of Coles Towerthe rstphase of the Colleges plan to renovatethe entire building. For the next fouryears, several oors will be renovatedeach summer until the entire Tower hasbeen revamped.

    A lot of what we did you cantsee, said John Simoneau, capitalprojects manager.

    In addition to renovating thetwo floors, the College replaced theTowers original 1952 electrical sys-tem and made numerous masonryrepairs on the exterior of the build-ing. Work began June 6 and was fin-ished by August 20.

    Thanks to a gift from the Classof 1953, as well as grant from theGeorge I. Alden Trust, the Collegewas also able to refurbish HubbardHalls west classroom, now called

    the Thomas R. Pickering Room.The room boasts new rugs, desks,lighting and audiovisual technol-ogy, and window shades and itsacoustics have been improved. Theclassroom will be officially dedicat-ed on October 20.

    Another of the large projects tookplace at the former Stevens Homeat 52 Harpswell Road, when it wasconverted into chem-free studenthousing. Te building now houses35 upperclassmen. Te College alsorelocated the organic garden to theback of the property.Te building required a complete

    overhaulnearly everything but thebasic structure was altered. Benchesin the hallway of 52 Harpswell wereconstructed using recycled woodfrom the benches at the formerDayton Hockey Arena.

    Afer receiving a grant from Ef-ciency Maine, an independentadministrator for energy efficiencyprograms in Maine, the College wasable to replace lighting in 14 campusbuildings, including the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, with LED bulbs.

    Hyde Plaza, the area around the Po-lar Bear statue, was widened with newgranite pavers and plantedowers.

    Offcampus, Capital Projects oversawboth renovations and an addition to theCoastal Studies Center.

    We created a dry laboratory spacebecause most of the space was origi-nally designed for marine researchwith sea water and a corrosive envi-ronment, said Simoneau. Now if youwant to use analytical equipment andthings like that associated with yoursea work, thered need to be a separatespace where you could take a tissuesample. Teyve got all new tanks fortheir seawater system.

    Construction for a new administra-tive building at 216 Maine Street is cur-rently underway and is scheduled to benished by December.

    Its going to house Human Re-sources, the controllers offi ce and

    some other administrative officeswhich we havent decided yet, saidSenior Vice President for Financeand Administration Katy Longley.

    Most renovations were started andnished during the summer, withcrews ofen working overtime to com-plete the projects.

    The work takes place in thesummer, the design takes placeover the winter, said Simoneau.

    The College let companies bidon contracts for most of the proj-ects, rather than completing themwith its own staff.

    Once it gets big enough to call it a realproject, we hire a contractor, said Stam.

    Nichols.It wouldnt surprise me at all

    if a number of apartment doorswere checked and that was the onethat was unlocked, said Nichols.Weve run into that before, whensuspects will literally walk downthe length of an apartment com-plex checking doors a s they go.

    If there is a crime of opportu-nity, people will take it, said MollySoloff 15, who lives in a neighbor-ing unit at Harpswell Apartments.I think its a lesson to be morecautious. We live in an incrediblysecluded part of campus.

    The students whose apartment

    was burglarized contacted the Of-

    fice of Safety and Security andthe Brunswick Police Department(BPD) and were able to provide thecomputers serial numbers, whichwill be added to the FBIs NationalCrime Information Center (NCIC)database of stolen properties.

    If the burglars attempt to connect tothe Internet using the laptops on Col-lege WiFi or if the serial numbers arechecked against the NCICs records,Security or the police will be notied.

    We have those Find My Macapps, and we could actually seethat one of the computers wasturned on at one point somewherein Portland said Todesco, refer-ring to a tracking service includedwith Apples iCloud software. ButI dont know that the police can re-

    ally do anything with that since its

    not an exact location.That laptop could have already

    been sold on t he street, said Nich-ols. Most laptops stolen here fromcampus are sold very quickly onthe street for whatever [the bur-glars] can get for them.

    Also on Sunday morning, amasked man displaying a knifeunsuccessfully attempted to rob aresident of Union Street. Accord-ing to Nichols, the BPD believesthat this was an isolated incidentand that there is no threat to thecampus. Both events follow a sum-mer of relatively little crime.

    Ive been here nine years nowand it was probably the quietestsummer weve had since Ive beenhere, in terms of significant inci-dents, said Nichols.

    PARKINGCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

    and visitors.For students with cars on cam-

    pus, the Town of Brunswick ordi-nance and the Colleges new park-ing rules have dramatically reducedwhere and for how long studentscan park in central campus loca-tions. Some students expressedconcerns that their mobility will behampered because of the changes.

    The only remaining student lotsare peripheral to the main campus,with the majority of the studentpopulation now parking at FarleyField House and Watson Arena.

    At this time of the year, I amperfectly fine biking, but I live onPleasant Street, said Denis Magu-ire 15. In the winter, I would likea place to park that is convenient toclass. As it stands now, the eight-minute walk from Farley to theQuad almost negates the drive Ihad to take to get on campus.

    The cost of Bowdoin parkingdecals is another concern that hasbeen raised by some students whohave cars on campus. The chargeof $20 per semester seems high tothose who believe that the reduc-tion in student spaces has erodedthe value of the decals.

    If there are fewer places wecan park, the price should go waydown, said Amanda Kinneston 15.

    Many students living in Col-lege Houses on Maine Street have

    voiced disappoi ntment that theycannot park in their house lots.

    Im really frustrated by the no-student parking rule at HelmreichHouse, said Beth Findley 16, aresident of the House. I dont eventhink faculty would feel comfort-able parking here, and that is dis-played by the fact that our lot isempty all day.

    Kinneston questioned whethermaking more lots available to fac-ulty and staff is truly necessary.

    Its not like were hiring morefaculty and staff, said Kinneston.If anything, were accepting morestudents, and they will eventuallyneed more parking in the future.

    Kinneston lives in BrunswickApartments, which has a largestudent parking lot. However, shereported that the lot is now fre-quently at capacity because of thenew regulations.

    Nichols acknowledges that thecampus parking changes havemainly affected students, but de-fended the new limitations.

    Unfortunately, students areprobably the most inconve-nienced, he said. If you live inQuinby House, its nice to be able topark right outside of your bedroomwindow. I understand that. But itssimply not practical for the smoothoperation of the College.

    COURTESY OF THE TREASURERS OFFICE

    FACELIFT: 52 Harpswell Road, Coles Tower and Hubbard Hall were among several campus buildings that underwent renovations this summer. Clockwise from left: an activity room in 52 Harpswell, a bathroom in Coles Tower andthe Thomas R. Pickering Room.

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    SECURITY REPORT: 8/22 to 9/11

    Friday, August 22

    A student reported that therewere two cut bike locks on theground near the bike rack at theentrance to Sargent Gym. Therewere no associated reports of bikesbeing stolen.

    Monday, August 25 A student living at 98 Union

    Street reported the thefof a sky blueZebra bicycle.Te Bowdoin registra-tion number is 03440.

    Tuesday, August 26

    Brunswick Rescue transporteda football player to Mid Coast Hos-pital afer he become severely dehy-drated during practice.

    Wednesday, August 27

    An orange Huffy Cruiser bicyclewas stolen from Harpswell Apart-ments. Te bike has a basket on thefront with many stickers on it.

    Friday, August 29 Four local men seen loitering at

    the Outdoor Leadership Center werequestioned by a security officer.

    A student reported a bicyclestolen from Yellow House, 75 Harp-swell Road. Te bike is a blue Sch-winn World Tourist with Bowdoinbike registration 30942.

    Saturday, August 30 An officer escorted a student to

    Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic for treat-ment of a reaction to a bug bite.

    A student reported a suspiciousman soliciting money from studentsnear the Buck Fitness Center.

    A female rugby player with apossible broken hand was escortedto the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

    Sunday, August 31

    A second student with a bugbite reaction was escorted to MidCoast Hospital.

    A student cooking in the kitch-en at 52 Harpswell accidentally acti-

    vated the re alarm.Monday, September 1

    A defective heat sensor at JackMagees Pub and Grill set off thebuildings re alarm.

    Two bikes were stolen fromthe front bike racks at Stowe Inna black and red Raleigh M60, and ared, white and blue kids Trek moun-tain bike.

    Students were observed ridinga privately-owned golf cart on Col-lege property and on town streets,in violation of College policy andMaine law.

    Brunswick Police (BPD) asked forassistance from Security in dispersing alarge party on Potter Street.

    Tuesday, September 2

    A student with severe abdomi-nal pain at Chamberlain Hall wasescorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

    An officer checked on a stu-dent at Hawthorne-Longfellow Li-brary suffering from heat exhaus-tion and dehydration.

    An Ultimate Frisbee playerwith an injured ankle was escortedto the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

    A student accidentally acti-vated the fire alarm at Hyde Hallwhen a garment got caught on apull station.

    Wednesday, September 3

    A student report that his Yamahabass guitar was missing or stolen froma music practice room at Sargent Gymsometime over the summer.

    A student was cited for pos-sessing and consuming hard alcohol

    during a chem-free lobster bake atthe Pickard Athletic Fields.

    An officer checked on the well-

    College welcomes three new staff, one in newly created positionBY JULIAN ANDREWS

    ORIENT STAFF

    In a September 1 email to facultyand staff, Dean of Student AffairsTim Foster announced the hiring ofthree key additions to Bowdoins staff.

    Christopher Dennis was hired asassistant dean of student affairs. Hereplaces Jarrett Young 05, who wasat the College for four years. Denniswill primarily support upperclass-men with last names A-L.

    The College also hired BenjeDouglas as the director of gender

    viole nce prevent ion and educa -tiona new role created by theadministration. Douglass will ad-

    vise on matte rs relati ng to th e sex-ual misconduct policy on campus,working with both complainantsand respondents who are goingthrough the disciplinary process.Additionally, he will advise stu-dent groups on campus that makeup the Alliance for Sexual AssaultPrevention (ASAP).Te groups with representatives in

    ASAP include Peer Health, the Ath-

    letic Council, Safe Space, BowdoinQueer-Straight Alliance, BowdoinStudent Government, the AfricanAmerican Society, the Womens Re-source Center and the Inter-HouseCouncil, among others.

    Dr. Birgit Pols will take over theposition of director of health ser-

    vices. She will be responsible for theoperation and oversight of medicalstaff and services at the CollegesHealth Center (see page 6 for a fullprole of Pols).

    Both Dennis and Douglas arelooking forward to the connectionswith the campus community thattheir positions will bring. In thepast, Dennis has held jobs that re-quired a large amount of travel. Hehas worked in admissions for Con-cordia University St. Paul (his almamater) and as a recruiter at the Uni-

    versity of California, Riverside. Mostrecently he was a program managerfor A Better Chance, a program thathelps academically talented studentsof color gain admission to prepschools across the country.

    It was time for me to come off

    being of a student at Moore Hall whobecame sick afer eating shellsh.

    A student with nausea andstomach cramps was escorted toMid Coast Hospital.

    BPD responded to an off-campus private home on BaxterLane at midnight after receivinga report of an intoxicated malestudent pounding on a back doorand hollering to get into the house.The police took the student intocustody and turned him over toSecurity. A report was filed withthe Dean of Student Affairs.Tursday, September 4Brunswick Rescue transported

    a student from Moore Hall withan allergic reaction to Mid CoastHospital.

    An underage student was cited forpossession of alcohol at Jack MageesPub and Grill, a licensed establishment.

    Friday, September 5

    Te Offi ce of Safety and Secu-rity, in coordination with the Deanof Student Affairs and the Athlet-ics Department, investigated infor-mation received about a suspicionof hazing at an off-campus privateproperty. Te investigation deter-mined that hazing did not occur.

    Saturday, September 6

    A neighbor complained ofloud noise coming from 10 Cleave-land Street.

    A rst year student reportedthat her purse and contents werestolen from her residence hall. An-other student was found to be inpossession of the purse and all prop-erty was recovered.

    Sunday, September 7 An officer checked on the well-

    being of an intoxicated student at

    Moore Hall. Officers checked on the well-

    being of an intoxicated student atReed House.

    Two Apple laptops and a 32-inch Samsung television set werestolen in a burglary of an apart-ment at Harpswell Apartments.Te burglar(s) entered through anunlocked door overnight while theresidents were sleeping.

    Students at Red Brick House re-ported an unsettling encounter witha suspicious man in the parking lotduring the previous week.

    Monday, September 8 Cooking smoke at Brunswick

    Apartments set offa re alarm.Tuesday, September 9

    A suspicious man sitting ina vehicle that was parked behindBrunswick Apartments at 2:30 a.m.was issued a trespass warning andordered offof campus property.

    A student with a football-re-lated ankle injury was taken to MidCoast Hospital.

    An ill student at Winthrop Hallrequested an escort to the hospital.

    A brown Huffy Cranbrookbicycle was stolen from outside ofColes Tower.

    A student in Osher Hall wasfound in possession of marijuanaconcentrates and drug paraphernalia.

    Wednesday, September 10

    A motorist was spoken to aboutspeeding in the Farley and Watsonparking lots.

    A student reported the thefofa silver Specialized bicycle from theHyde plaza area.

    Tursday, September 11 A student with u-like symptoms

    was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

    the road, and still be able to investin a student population, said Den-nis. Higher education is where myheart is .

    Dennis, a father of ve, was drawnto Maine when his oldest son wasadmitted to Lincoln Academy, aMaine prep school. Dennis and hisfamily made the decision to movein order to support his son and theposition at Bowdoin ended up beinga fortuitous opportunity.

    Douglas comes to Bowdoin withextensive experience in the area ofsexual violence and domestic vio-lence prevention and response. Hehas worked at the National SexualViolence Resource Center, wherehe provided training and technicalassistance to colleges, law enforce-ment agencies, advocates, prosecu-tors, health care professionals andothers. He also worked as a directorof prevention at a domestic violenceshelter and as a community educatorin a crisis center.

    Prevention works best whenits locationalwhen its local andwhen it has a really clear sense of

    BY EMILY WEYRAUCH

    ORIENT STAFF

    52 Harpswellmakes spacein first-yearresidence halls

    As the Offi ce of Residential Lifeopens new upperclassman housing at52 Harpswell Road and reviews theoating chem-free oors introducedlast fall, it expects positive results.Tirty-ve upperclassmen now re-side at 52 Harpswell, freeing up spacein rst year bricks where some soph-omores and juniors lived before. Tenew dorm was once an assisted livingfacility, Stevens Retirement Home,but was converted into chem-freeCollege housing this summer.

    In past years, the fourth oorsof both Osher Hall and West Hallwere shared between rst years andupperclassmen. With the additionof the living space at 52 Harpswell,however, rst years were able to

    reclaim those oors, said Associ-ate Director of Housing OperationsLisa Rendall.

    We like the idea of having allrst-years on a oor, and not a mixof upperclassmen and rst years, sothat students can have that truerst-year experience, said Rendall.Tis change means an additional

    20 open beds for first years in Osh-er and West and allows ResidentialLife to redesignate quints as quadsand many quads as triples in thefirst-year bricks.

    Because of the additional space,there are more vacancies than therehave been in the past.

    Tats awesome for the rst-yearclass because we have some exibil-ity if we need to make changes,said Rendall.

    Rendall reported no other chang-es to upperclass housing.

    Last fall, Bowdoin switched fromits former system of having onechem-free rst-year dorm to hav-ing chem-free oors in all of thedifferent residence halls used byrst years. Tis also meant that eachoor in a dorm was affiliated with adifferent College House. Now, in thesecond year of this system, the oorshave switched house affiliations, butthe model is still the same.

    Last year we heard really greatfeedback about how there was nostigma about what dorm you livedon or what oor you lived on, saidAssociate Director of Student Af-fairs Meadow Davis.

    Because of this feedback, the des-ignation of house affiliations andchem-free oors will likely continuechanging each academic year.

    My guess is that we would con-

    tinue to ip them around so thatpeople make that choice [aboutchem-free living] and then decide ifthey tell people or dont tell people,said Davis.

    While College House residentsreported difficulty bui lding unit ybetween house affi liates because oftheir disjointed locations on campuslast year, there have been fewer com-plaints from the studentsmostlysophomoresthat are now living inthe College Houses this year.

    What weve heard this year is thatbecause the residents living in thehouses, [the oating-oor system]was their only experience, they aredoing a great job of thinking aboutand attracting affi liates from all oftheir different places, said Davis.

    the community moving forward,said Douglas.

    Douglass is also excited to workin a community that has a track re-cord of success, and has some coreconcepts already in place. For in-stance, he believes most Bowdoinstudents have a good sense of whatconsent is.

    He is very interested in gettinginput from the many different per-spectives on campus and collaborat-ing with the many constituencies onprevention programing.

    I want to make sure that studentsfeel comfortable in the environ-mentperiod, said Douglas.

    Dennis is also looking forward tocollaborating and has appreciatedhow much students are willing towork with the deans office.

    Students really come to thisoffice looking for solutions, andits been a pleasant surprise to seethat most of the students have ananswer in mind, said Dennis. Our

    job i s real ly to guide them throughthe process of talking through theirown solutions.

    KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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    hand, appear slightly more relaxedat this point, despite the tidal waveof decisions they will have to makethis year: WTF even is a major?

    Should I go abroad? ShouldI get an internship?

    Dont get us startedabout the seniors. Thestress and uncertainty al-ready emanating from visi-tors to the Career PlanningCenter and the inhabit-

    ants of the Tower merit manda-tory meetings with the Counseling

    Center. We encourage all of you tomake an appointment as soon aspossible.

    As for the juniorshalf of usare gone, half remain. Yes, we miss

    each other. Yes, it is aw-ful. However, this ac-

    cursed situationdoes allow for

    some enter-tainment. For

    the next se-m e s -

    ter wewill offer you

    our perspectives,from inside and outside the

    Bowdoin bubble, on whatever it isthat is gnawing at the soon-to-befrozen souls that inhabit this cam-pus.

    We can only hope that Alexan-ders perspective from abroad willoffer a respite from the rampantbitching that will soon plague the.

    In good health: Catching up with doctor Birgit Pols

    her work at Health Services andtaking every opportunity to engagewith students. She is working withpeer health educators and the De-partment of Athletics and is servingas staff advisor to Reed House.

    Birgit has been incrediblyfriendly and communicative withReed House. I know I speak for allof us when I say that we are glad tohave her, said Jacob Russell 17, theprogramming director of Reed.

    Pols will be hosting a question

    and answer session about campushealth at Reed next Thursday.

    Pols said she does not anticipatemaking any large-scale changes to thecurrent campus health care system.

    Hopefully any changes I wouldmake would seem seamless to thestudents because what I would belooking to do would be to improveaccess to care, she said.

    Pols said she hopes any changesthat come will benefit both stu-dents and staff.

    herethose are the things that en-ergize me.

    Pols has years of experience inthe medical field, both on land andat sea. An avid scuba diver, she hasachieved the distinction of being adive master, a master scuba diverand a dive medical technician.

    Besides diving in the Maldiveswith whale sharks, some of Pols fa-

    vorite dives have been in T hailan dand the Great Barrier Reef.

    Pols is already diving right into

    She has traveled around theworld, she has gone scuba divingwith whale sharks in the Maldivesand she has even played compete-tive croquet, but what really ex-cites Dr. Birgit Pols is providinghealth care to students.

    Bowdoins new director ofhealth services has been workingin college health for over eightyearsmost recently at New YorkUniversity (NYU) and NYU AbuDhabi, located in the United ArabEmirates.

    NYU Abu Dhabi was sort ofthis magical, mystical place thatnone of us really knew muchabout, said Pols. The opportu-nity presented itself to go there forthe short term, and I took advan-tage of it.

    Although Pols only expected towork at NYU Abu Dhabi for a fewweeks, she ended up staying forfour years. While there, she livedand collaborated with Emiratistudents, getting to know each ofthem by name.

    Working with the small com-munity of NYU students was afactor in Pols decision to come toBowdoin.

    I learned how much I reallylove providing health care at a lib-eral arts college, she said.

    Pols also has a strong connec-tion to the area.

    I grew up in Maine, so Ive al-ways known about Bowdoin andalways found it a very excitingplace, she said. Having the op-portunity to get to know studentshere, to get to know my colleagues

    Breaking the Bowdoin cycle of angst

    The first thing we noticed whenwe took the bottle out of its brownpaper bag (keep it on if you wishto drink wine in the alley behind7/11), was the year t he grapes wereharvested. We were initially sur-prised that a wine under $10had a clearly marked vin-tage, much less one that

    wasnt from the pastyear. It was trulya shock when wesaw that ourwines har-

    vest y ear wa s2012.

    We picturedourselves in thedeepest vaults ofthe Vatica ns wine cel- l a r swhere in the flickering candlelightwe brushed off the dust of a thou-sand ages that had settled on ourcoveted Flaco Tempranillo.

    It was only when our roommatenoted that 2012 was really onlytwo years ago and that her laptopwas in fact, older than our winethat the bubble was burst. Clearly

    we have been drinking too muchFranzia if a bottom-shelf winefrom 2012 impressed us.

    There was a pleasant moment ofsurprise when we realized that our

    wine had a cork.Much to

    our dismay,though, thiscork was madenot of wood,

    but some sort ofplastic composite.

    We wrestled withthis cork, we wereeventually able to pull

    it out. Youd think witha Rabbit wine opener, the

    struggle would have been lessreal.Honestly, if youre not going to

    use a wood cork just put on a screwtop and make ever yones life easier.

    The wine we chose this weekwas a Tempranillo. As you mayhave guessed from the name, Tem-pranillo grapes come from Spainand Portugal. The arguably poorlynamed Flaco (meaning thin orskinny in Spanish) comes fromthe province of Madrid in central

    The beginning of a newacademic year is alwaysexciting. Reuniting withfriends, exchanging talesof absurd shenanigansfrom the summer, and,lets be real, going tothe lobster bakeallthese things make fora delightful cocktailof fun times andcute outfits.

    However, this

    time of peace willbe torn apart bythe stress andangst, both socialand academic,that will descendupon the cam-pus in about twoweeks time.

    The first yearsgot a head startin the angst-fest when theystomped aroundNew England dur-ing their godfor-saken Orientationtrips with peoplethey had never met.

    The sophomores, on the other

    Flaco Tempranillo: Avintage dissapointment

    The most important [task] iseither directly providing patientcare or supporting my staff who areproviding patient care, Pols said.

    At the same time, she hopes tofocus on establishing connectionswith the Bowdoin community.

    If you see Pols working out inthe gym early in the morning orpracticing her croquet swing onthe snowy Reed lawn, stop and in-troduce yourself. After all, yourhealth and is in her hands.

    CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    TAKING CHARGE: Birget Pols is excited to take over as Bowdoins Director of Health Services. In her position she will oversee the daily operations of the Health Center and supervise the medical sta ffwho work there.

    Please see FLACO, page 7Please see ANGST, page 7

    BY DANNY MEJIACRUZ AND

    ALEXANDER THOMAS

    CONTRIBUTORS

    BY BRYCE ERVIN AND

    BRANDON OUELLETTE

    CONTRIBUTORS

    BEHIND THE NAME TAGBY MADDIE WOLFERT

    ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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    Spain. Tempranillos are noted fortheir rich color and moderate tan-nins and acidity.

    What initially drew my eye tothis bottle was not the label it-self, but the fact that it is part ofa limited reserve. It is unknownwhether this means the supermar-ket distributor simply forgot to or-der enough bottles or if our Flacois truly a jewel inwhat we imagineto be the vastand well-stockedwine cellars be-neath the store.

    Either way, inaddition to the

    low price, thedescription was a strong sellingpoint. Along with the usually du-bious comments about what to ex-pect in regards to nose palate, andbody, the line that instantly soldus stated that this wine is way tooeasy to drink. Also, it apparentlypairs well with barbequecan yousay Greenstock?

    When we poured our glasses,we immediately noticed the darkpurple color and noted that thiswould be great if you were lookingfor a wine that looks like wine. Thenose of the wine was perhaps itsstrongest attribute. It was pleasantand had strong fruity notes, withpleasing aromas of raspberry andblackberry.

    Then we started to drink. At acomfortable 13.5 percent alcoholby volume (ABV), there was a veryreal possibility that we could getdrunk off this wine.

    Fifteen minutes in we had fin-ished three-quarters of the bottlewhich was already living up to theway too easy to drink part of itsdescription.

    This is not to say this wine wasat all good. Hard-hitting and swal-lowable best categorize the mainnotes on the palate. Flaco defi-

    nitely has a niceacidity (somemay say toomuch acidity)and finishes witha strong note ofalcohol. Isnt thatwhat its all about

    anyways?This wine would be excellent ifyou wanted boxed-wine quality ata bottle-wine price.

    Additional Notes:

    Brandon: Best paired with dry,salty crackers that force you tokeep drinking the nearest bever-age.Bryce: Quite liquid. Very wine.

    Nose:Body:Taste:Overall:

    Pick up some limited reserve Fla-co while it lasts. Hannaford: $8.

    We also look forward to his specialinvestigation into missing British hu-man rights workers, what its like to livesomewhere without snow and with sun,and most impor-tantly, 10 ways tooccupy yourselfwhen you cantstream Netix.

    But return-ing to campus,the rst yearsand their socialanxiety were onfull display thispast week. Weall rememberthe days we de-pended on easy conversation startersand ice breakers, such as: where areyou from? What dorm are you in?What Pre-O did you do?Tis year, we heard a new way

    to kick off a conversationby tak-ing shots at our dear campus pinkmonolithic structure, Searles ScienceBuilding. To summarize the elo-quence of a typ-ical conversa-tion: its ugly.Yup.

    People pickon Searles be-cause its oneof the easiestthings to talkabout, but wecan be morecreative. Youcan discuss the worst eyesore oncampus, the Visual Arts C enter, withits heinous 70s architecture.

    What are the meanings behindthe yonic nature of the VAC and thephallic towers of the chapel? Whythe postmodern glass entrance to arenaissance-inspired museum? Youcould even talk about the crumblingfoundation of Burnett House.

    Alas, none of these more rivetingtopics of conversation were chosen

    since they would have demandedless supercial discussions betweenrst years.

    What was happening is what al-ways seems to be happening on cam-pus. We have a habit of choosing theeasy conversations and ignoring thedifficult or more interesting ones in

    an effort to appearput-together.

    Bowdoin studentsdont do dishev-eledwe leave that

    to kids at Colby andBates. Even the kidswho do look dishev-eled spent a lot oftime digging aroundSalvo looking forthat perfect owlshirt and hand knitsweater.

    We look nice everyday, get to class,offer politically correct statements indifficult discussions, smile fabulouslyon the Quad, rant online, and thensilently cry in our showers.

    We hope that the new first yearclass will break this culturewehope first years choose the difficultconversations, attack the issues

    they are passionateabout with energyand unashamed in-tellectualism, and

    realize that theywill learn moreabout (and from)their peers whenthey say provoca-tive and thoughtprovoking things.

    We all feel stressedout and angsty from time to time,and we all deserve to rant whine, andbitch. Lets at least make our screedsmeaningful and interesting this year.

    Hopefully our confessions willmove from Facebook pages to thedining hall tables, and then finallywe will admit that we might nothave it all together. We are capa-ble of that muchbecause lets behonesthow many of our worrieshere arent #firstworldproblems?

    ANGSTCONTINUED FROM PAGE 6

    FLACOCONTINUED FROM PAGE 6

    What is it like to live some-

    where without snow and withsun, and, most importantly,

    ten ways to occupy yourself

    when you cant stream Netflix?

    Dont get us started

    about the seniors. The stress

    and uncertainty emanatingfrom visitors to the CPC and

    inhabitants of the tower merit

    mandatory meetings at the

    Counseling Center.

    We pictured ourselves in

    the deepest vaults of the

    Vaticans wine cellars.

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    Reclaiming American beer: Buying into the craft brewing revolution

    tag as a craft beer pioneer and thestory of Anchor, check out SteveHindys terrific book The CraftBeer Revolution).

    I love craft beer, and now I lovemy washing machine. I look for-ward to a day in the United Stateswhen I dont have to qualify beer

    with the word craft, where qual-ity isnt the marked case. I lovebeer because it is like my old hou seon Potter Street: with its age comesheritage and stories; a diversity oflooks, feels, and quirks; somethingthat brings joy to people.

    Sadly, when referencing beer,

    that description sometimes comesas a surprise to Americans; here,many of us conflate the wordbeer with boring, uniformlytasting mass-marketed light beer.Historically, America hasnt donebeer right.

    Remember Prohibition? Right,not good for breweries, as you can

    imagine. When Prohibition causedthe majority of small-scale localbreweries to close, the few to sur-

    vive b ecame t he so le provi ders an dinfluencers of the American pal-ate, and business people that theywere, created a cheap product thatcatered to the lowest common de-nominator among the beer drink-ing population.

    As college students were all fa-miliar with it: the flavorless, fizzyyellow stuff, so ubiquitous that itpredisposed the average Americanpalate to tasteless, watery lagersfor decades to come. Craft beersdidnt exist much, and when theydid, people werent used to theirtaste and didnt buy them.

    But there is good news. Whilemicrobrews are still fighting anuphill battle, we Americans are

    finally coming around. The FritzMaytags of the world slowly butsurely revived a culture of goodtasting artisanal beer.

    Now, the craft beer industry isgrowing at an alarming rate. Theamount of craft breweries doubledin the last two yea rs, now reachingover three thousand and with morein the pipeline. People are begin-ning to appreciate beer as some-thing with more flavor and integ-rity than the Silver Bullets of theworld might suggest.

    People are now cooking withbeer, pairing food with beer, cel-laring beer, and discussing beer

    Its my senior year and my friendand I are living off campus in asmall, old house on Potter Street.The floors are wobbly, the wallpa-per is busy, outdated and peelingin places, and some of our bed-rooms are clearly retrofitted liv-

    ing rooms and studies. My bed, forinstance, takes the place of an oldbaby grand, and when I fall asleepat night, my feet should be restingon a piano bench.

    Many of these realizations makeme smile, but none so much asthe inheritance of an washing ma-chine. Its an old Maytag washingmachine, old enough that it tap-dances while it washes. However,the reason it caught my eye actu-ally has nothing to do with wash-ing machines, with clothes, clean-ing, or any of that: it has to do withbeera good story about beer.

    Heres the long and short of it:back in the sixties, Fritz Maytag,heir to the Maytag washing ma-chine fortune, was persuaded bya friend to visit the old AnchorBrewery in San Francisco, Califor-

    nia is one of the remaining craftbreweries, because it was on thebrink of shutting down. It couldntcompete in a market dominated bymacro-brewed adjunct lagers (theMiller Lites of the time).

    Fritzs friend knew Fritz (wholoved a good beer, one withyouknowflavor) would fall in lovewith the charm of the place and of-fer to buy it. He was right.

    The revamping of the AnchorBrewery and Fritz Maytags loveand investment in the idea of lo cal,micro-brewed, craft beer beganwhat today is known at the craftbeer revolution (for more on May-

    with the respect and dignity his-torically accorded to wines anddistilled alcohols.

    Frankly, it deserves it: as an al-coholic beverage, beer is friendlyand democratic, offering itselfas a variety of tasty flavors andstyles, and remaining relativelycheap, (a world-class beer can

    cost $6 a pint; what do you thinkworld-class wine costs?)

    Best of all, a lot of this is hap-pening here in Maine. Hope-fully at some point youve helpedyourself to an Allagash, made byone of the more reputed Belgianbreweries in the States. And Alla-gash, located in our neighboringPortland, is only one of the greatplaces to get local beer close tocampus.

    Im not a beer expertIvehave not drank nearly enoughand you can tell my mom that.But what I hope to do is take youalong for the ride as I drink myway through the craft, art, andhistory of brewing, with an em-phasis on the local and craft beeraround us. I will draw from myown experience drinking beer, as

    well as many books, articles, andnews on the topic.I hope to put a spotlight on an

    underdog industry fighting to re-introduce America to the worldsfavorite beverage, and to cele-brate what has always been at thecore of beer making: innovation,history and taste.

    Of course, taste is subjective,and youre entitled to your ownopinion, but its my hope thatwith enough imbibing, youll beable to trust me enough to ac-cept a recommendation here andthere. After all, its a beerhowbad could it be?

    Wild Oats debuts an additional location at Brunswick Landing

    Wild Oats Bakery and Caf, thepopular downtown Brunswick eat-ery, opened a second location lastweek in the Brunswick Landingbusiness district on the site of theformer Naval Air Station Brunswick.Te new cafe is serving a full rangeof breakfast and lunch items in therenovated space.

    Te process was long and ardu-ous, owner Becky Shepherd said.But worth the effort. Its a beautifulspace. Its really peaceful out herewith all the open space.

    Brunswick Landing is a commer-cial and industrial campus managedby the Midcoast Regional Redevelop-ment Authority. It is currently hometo a handful of manufacturing andtechnology companies, as well asSouthern Maine Community College(SMCC) and multiple other schools.

    Lunch has been really busy,said Shepherd. Our clients area really mixed bag: people fromHarpswell, weve had people fromSMCC, and we have schools on allsides of us. Theres a lot of industry

    around us too.Many people have already begun

    to enjoy spending time in the diningarea of the new restaurant, which islocated offof a connecting road be-tween large office buildings.

    Every day has been better andbetter, said server Kelly Reming-ton. I think the community itself is

    just coming over and welcoming us,which is nice.

    Nearby residents noted that WildOats is a welcome addition to ex-isting food options in BrunswickLanding.

    We live on the base, so weve beenwaiting for this to open up, said An-gela Hughes of Brunswick. Obvi-ously we can go out to Cooks Cornerand nd something there, but noth-ing as good as Wild Oats.

    According to Shepherd, Bowdoin

    students and staff have yet to ven-ture to the new location in si gnicantnumbers.

    She estimates that a couple hand-fuls of people from the College havestopped in so f ar, although Shepherdhopes that an expanded smoothie barand a new line of fresh fruit juiceswill increase the new restaurants cus-tomer base.

    I actually havent been out thereyet, but I plan to make a few appear-ances, said Torey Lee 15.Te original Tontine Mall loca-

    tion is already immensely popularwith Bowdoin students. Admissionsrecommends it to visitors as the bestplace to get lunch in town. It will re-cieve its own improvement addi-tional seating outsidein the spring.

    BY LEO SHAW

    ORIENT STAFF

    BY CALLIE FERGUSON

    CONTRIBUTOR

    KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    BY THE GLASS: Oxbow, Newcastle brewery, is one of over three thousand craft breweries in America.

    LEO SHAW, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    ROOM WITH A VIEW: The new Brunswick Landing location of Wild Oats Bakery and Caf aims to attract cu stomers from Bowdoin and the surrounding areas.

    Shepard hopes that an

    expanded smoothie bar and

    new line of fresh juices willincrease the new restaurants

    customer base.

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    BY OLIVIA ATWOODORIENT STAFF

    ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTProfessors new book explores theories of place

    Please see PICKS, page 10

    Anti-poptimist picks for autumn

    Maybe its the lack of a ubiq-uitous crotch-affirming an-them a la Get Lucky thissummer, but hasnt the musicreleased in the past few monthsfelt a little, you know...flaccid?

    Such is the neutering toll ofpoptimism, the inevitable push-back against driveling hipsters,

    which has turned Coldplay froma bunch of saccharine try-hardsinto a band of inveterate everymen.

    Ill be the first to defend ArianaGrande, but when Questlove (amember of The Roots, a record col-lector and a tastemaker) acknowl-

    HIPSTER DRIVEL

    MATTGOODRICH

    edges the supremacy of Iggy AzaleasFancy as the song of the summer,we need to take a cultural step back-ward. Fancy is not the best songof the summer. Its not even the bestsong this summer to feature no-fucks given whilst chandelier-swin-ingthat honor would go to Siashigh-flying single, Chandelier.

    At its best, the hegemony of pop-timism leads to a torpid summerof forgettable music, epitomizedby Calvin Harris unforgivably un-imaginative Summer. At its worst,poptimism becomes a vehicle forwhitewashing the Billboard charts,

    under the cynical aegis of if youcant beat em, appropriate em.We need only look so far as pop-timisms main beneficiary, Tay-lor Swift, and the god-awful fourminutes she tries to pass off as asong in Shake It Off. Turn downfor racially insensitive stereotypes.

    In the words of a rubbery leggedFuture Islands frontman, however,seasons change. With the chill ofSeptember, we leave behind thissummers musical dysfunction(but hold onto that Spoon album)and throw ourselves into anothersemester at Bowdoin. Let us turnour flannel collars against autum-nal winds and poptimist entreatiesalike, with thoughts of Weird Al for

    #Ivies150 to keep us warm. Hereare songs to soundtrack the intro-spection that a Maine fall brings.

    War on the East Coast by TheNew Pornographers

    Chugging power chords and aeuphoric chorus are good indica-tors for a song vying for the sum-mer titleexcept this is the NewPornographers, meaning DanBejar drawls about total war, sealevel rise flooding British Co-lumbia and wild gypsy shit.

    His impenetrable lyrics yield tothe sort of hermeneutics you learnat small liberal arts colleges, so dustoff those Lacan compendiums. Mytheory? Its about the hopelessnessof facing down the apocalypse.As for blondes, brunettes, paper

    jets? You try writi ng a better ho ok.Ultraviolence by Lana Del

    ReyTe singer of the decades n-

    While teaching a class theoriz-ing people, place and space at thePratt Institute in New York City,Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking realizedthat she and her colleague, Wil-liam Mangold, were rewritingthe same, overdone syllabus thatso many people had taught be-fore them. So they decided to dosomething about it.Tat something evolved into Te

    People, Place, and Space Reader, anew anthology dedicated to scholarswriting about the ways in which peo-ple inhabit the space around them.

    Though it initially seemed anarduous task, Gieseking was ex-cited by the idea of compiling allof her favorite works into one ac-cessible reader.

    This is really great, fun mate-rial, and people think about it allthe time, explained Gieseking.

    Mangold and Gieseking, along

    with renowned researchers andscholars Cindi Katz, Setha Low,and Susan Saegert, dove to workset on assembling the best textsfrom geography, sociology, de-sign, and other fields.

    Space is everywhere we go,noted Gieseking. We wanted totake this very unique interdisci-plinary approach and get it out tothe world .

    JESSICA GLUCK, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

    DEFINING SPACES: Dr. Jen Jack Geiseking, Bowdoins New Media and Visualization Specialist (center), discusses her newly released interdisciplinary

    book on the various ways that people inhabit the worlds spaces at the launch of her new anthology on Wednesday afternoon in Massachusetts Hall.

    PORTRAIT OFANARTIST

    Tyrelle Johnson 15Just like a late-night conver-

    sation that you would have withfriendsyou know, when youhave those life talks. Lets justmodel that on stage, said TyrelleJohnson 15.

    Thus began the task of writingand directing Perspectives, aplay performed during Orienta-tion that portrays the diversity ofexperiences and backgrounds inthe first year class. The show isbased on short essays first yearswrite before entering Bowdoin,describing their life experiencesthrough challenges.

    Taking on Perspectives, aBowdoin Orientation tradition,

    was a new endeavor for John-son. He has not been heavilyinvolved in theater groups sincehigh school and the job was oneof many that Johnson applied foron campus this summer. Luck-ily, he said, the experience was apositive one.

    Johnson said that condens-ing the life experiences of 505individual students into one playwith only six actors was not aneasy task. It was a balancing actof representingeveryone andavoiding rep-etition of simi-lar stories.

    They werepretty muchsimilar in thatthey asked thesame questionsto all the stu-dents. I had tobe really cre-ative to figure out ways to notmake it so monotonous.

    Johnson wanted to highlightnot only the similarities betweenstudents but also the differences.

    I was very serious about hav-ing it about class issues. The onlyway to do that is to pull out thingsthat would signify what social-economic status people comefrom, said Johnson. I wouldlook for things about trips thatpeople who are poor couldnt af-fordthings of that nature.Tese anecdotes were harder for

    Johnson to nd than stories fromthe other end of the spectrum.

    It was much easier to findstories based on poverty than

    those of privilege, he said. No-body who has a lot of money isgoing to sit there and talk abouthow much money they have, es-pecially in a college essay.

    Choosing quotes was a processof digging below the surface.

    I had to really examine whatthese people were talking aboutand if that took money, and whatresources it took to do that, hesaid. I had to really questioncertain s tories.

    Johnson said he was more ner-vous present ing his own writin gthan he was performing.

    I had such a huge stake init. I didnt want anyone to feellike their story was represented

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    in the wrong way. I hoped thatpeople would laugh at the parts

    that I meant to be funnywhichwound up happening. It worked.

    The goal of the productionwas to give an accurate over-

    vie w of all the back groun dsthat make up a typical class atBowdoin. Johnson hopes theshow made first years moreaware of the other students theywill be spending the next fouryears with.

    The show is really about de-vel opin g a fou nda tion so rt of

    a common-ality amongpeoplesothey can ac-tually dis-cuss issues,he said. Ihope thatthe showi m p a c t -ed themenough sothat they

    might actually want to learnabout their peers and figureout things that they may nothave thought of. I want peopleto be connected.

    Outside of this project, John-sons main artistic outlet issinging in the Meddiebemp-sters and his band, The Jboard.But it was performing in theaterproductions in high school thatgave Johnson the confidence onstage he has now.

    Over time I just developednatural ways of being on stage.It just works for me. I just tryto use my natural self-taughtmethods in this processwhichhas actually worked out because

    singing on stage is not that dif-ferent from acting on stage.

    Johnson feels that his maincontribution to the Med-diebempsters is bringing char-acter to the performances.

    When I get on stage, I justknow how to interact with people.I just get really goofy, he said.

    Like many students , Johnsonsartistic pursuits have been a partof his education, but ultimatelyJohnson would like to use hisGovernment and Legal Studiesmajor to become a judge. Fornow, singing is just a hobby.

    It just makes life aroundhere a little nicer, he said.Thats al l.

    Please see PLACE, page 10

    The show is really about

    developing a foundationsort of

    a commonality among people

    so they can actually discuss

    issues[...] I want people

    to be connected.

    Lana flourishes on the fringe

    of camp where there is noblack and whiteonly

    (fifty) shades of grey.

    At its worst, poptimism becomes

    a vehicle for whitewashing the

    Billboard charts, under the cynical

    aegis of if you cant beat em,

    appropriate em.

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    est song proves shes noone-hit wonder. Drawingon Clockwork and theCrystals, Lana push-es her is-it-satireschtick into therealm of physi-cal abuse. Itsa dangerousgame, butshe pulls itoff beauti-fully, turn-ing from

    victi m tomenace with theswell of the vio-lins. Lana flourisheson the fringe of campwhere there is no black andwhiteonly (fifty) shades of grey.

    Chambers by Cymbals EatGuitars

    If ever a song is to get you toshout babys got cataracts! in themiddle of HL, its this one. Thebass line and sputtering guitar isenough to drive the song into yourmemory, but Joseph DAgostinos

    snotty narrative of drug withdrawalkeeps it there. Getting high might

    not be what itused to be,

    but you

    wouldnt believe it from his falsetto.You Know Me Well by

    Sharon Van EttenMuch how Victoria Legrand

    stepped into her own with BeachHouses Teen Dream four (!)years ago, here Sharon Van Ettenembraces her heart and her voice.

    Gieseking approaches spacein a broad sense.

    I mean the environment; Imean the landscape: I mean build-ings, neighborhoods, cities. Theglobal, the intimate, the body, thestreet. Everything from the Car-tesian coordinates on a Googlemap to the experience of whereyour head is at. That sort of rela-tive and relational space, all thosekinds of spaces.

    Whether students are aware ofit or not, space affects everythingin their worlds, all of the time,Gieseking asserts.

    How does the campus designaffect how you feel about your-self? Here, we have these teched-out classrooms and this beautiful

    vie w, and it real ly cha nges whowe are and how we feel about

    ourselves, Gieseking said as shegestured. Ive been obsessedwith this since I was a child.

    For years scholars have beenexperimenting with compilingreadings in the discipline. ThePeople, Place, and Space Readercontains texts from geography,anthropology, psychology, archi-tecture, urban studies and evena piece by Virginia Woolf aboutnot being allowed entrance to theOxford Library.

    Its exciting. Its compelling.Theres something for everyone,she said.

    For her, this project has a spe-cial draw: Its a lot about powerand empowerment, she noted,Its a lot about examining limitedaccess to space.

    A huge part of this projectwas universal accessibility. Theirwebsite, peopleplacespace.org,provides the written introduc-tions for each reading and a com-plete list of texts.

    According to Gieseking, agroup of people in Colombia whodo not have enough money to buythe The People, Place, and SpaceReader have been using the web-site to read the introductions,locate the PDFs online, and thenhold local reading groups about

    the material.That is exactly what I want,

    said Gieseking. [The website] isan entry point that you can just

    jump into . You can do thi s onyour own.

    Additionally, young scholarscan add to the People Place Spacewebsite with recommendations oftheir own.

    Added Gieseking, I dont wantthe book to end.

    Studying geography as an un-dergraduate student and mak-ing a lot of maps, Giesekinghas always loved space. Her ownsexuality also played a role inher long-lasting obsession withspace. Having gone to MountHolyoke, a womens college, Gie-seking has thought quite a bitabout womens education andwomens spaces.

    Im a lesbian, and trans, whichwasnt even a word until 1996.All of this led to a lot of think-ing about womens spaces and gayspaces. When people talk aboutLGBTQ spaces, they talk aboutneighborhoods, bars, and cities. Idont know of a city of women; Idont know of a neighborhood ofwomen; and there are two lesbianbars in Manhattan for women,and 58 for men. So if thats what

    LGBTQ spaces are, it doesnt rep-resent womens experiences, Gie-sking said.

    She is also working on an in-teractive online map of New YorkCity. Gieseking has compiled2,400 lesbian/queer places andevents thus far, and visitors tothe site can click on the markerdots and read about the storiesthat transpired at those locations.She is also expanding this proj-ect to be nation-wide, consider-ing there is a queer mapping ini-tiative in almost every city thatcould be incorporated into onelarge survey.

    For Gieseking, all of her proj-ects this year have come to re-

    vol ve a roun d on e co ncep t.There needs to be access to

    knowledge, she said. Th at is key.

    The result is one of the years mostdevastating couplets, you knowme well / you show me hell, madeall the more poignant with theadded sting of, when Im look-ing. The song is full of suchclever but affecting lines, as she

    implores her lover tocut me to the chase,or bellows the ti-

    tle, daring her-self to believe it.

    AncientWays by In-

    terpolIn t e r p ol s

    Paul Banksremains theking of in-suf fe r a b l y

    dense lyricso n the obviously titlednew album El Pintor. But that justgives us more fodder for intellec-tual appraisal. Banks exhorts us tofuck the ancient ways, though ofwhich ancient ways he disapprovesremains up for debate. Certainly In-trepids well-cultivated angular gui-tar slash, atmospheric productionand Joy Division aesthetic dontneed to go on the ancient burn pile.

    PICKSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

    PLACECONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

    How does the campus

    design affect how you feel about

    yourself? Here, we have these

    teched-outclassrooms and this

    beautiful view, and it really changes

    who we are and how we feel about

    ourselves.

    I mean the environment;

    I mean the landscape: I mean

    buildings, neighborhoods , cities.

    The global, the intimate, the body,

    the street.ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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    Mens soccer opens with mixed results

    Volleyball starts season on win streak

    BRIAN BEARD, CIP PHOTOGRAPHY

    NEXT ONE UP: Matt Dias Costa 17 rehydrates on the sideline before re-entering the Endicott game.

    The womens volleyball team hasopened its regular season with afive-game win streak, finishing theEndicott Invitational undefeatedand picking up a home win againstthe University of New England onTuesday night.

    So far only one opponent, NewYork University, has been able todrag the Polar Bears to a fifth set.Endicott College took just the firstset against Bowdoin before losingthe next three by a substantial mar-gin. The other three games werewon in straight sets, a goal for theteam this season.

    Captains Hailey Wahl 16 and

    Field Hockey starts repeat campaign

    Afer winning last years NCAA

    championship, the eld hockey teamreturned to campus with the bar sethigh for this season.

    Preseason went really well, saidsenior captain Pam Herter. Te rstyears are already tting in really wellon the team, both on the eld and offthe eld.Te top-ranked team opened its

    season with a win at Wesleyan, earn-ing eight total offensive penalty cor-ners to the Cardinals three. Two ofBowdoins three goals came offof of-fensive penalty corner shots.

    Weve been working really hardon our offensive corners, so this wasreally big for us, said Herter.

    Only 2:55 into play, AlexaBaumgartner 16 scored the rstgoal of the season offof a feed from

    Kimmy Ganong 17. In the thirteenthminute, senior captain ColleenFinnerty stretched the Polar Bearslead with a straight shot f rom the topof the circle.

    Rachel Kennedy 16 received theball from Finnerty to score the nalgoal in the second half.

    Bowdoin outshot the Cardinalsby a 19-5 margin. with goalkeeperHannah Gartner 15 only needing tomake two saves.

    We had a solid win, said Met-tler Growney 17. But we denitelypointed out some areas where weneed to practice, like nishing.

    Our coach always tells us thatgames are won and lost in the circle,both offensively and defensively, saidHerter. So we are working on a lot ofshooting drills and circle play. It wasa greatrst showing for us, but we arelooking to improve every game withthe big goal in mind of repeating na-tional championship.

    Bowdoin will host the AmherstLord Jeffs tomorrow at 11 a.m fortheir home opener.

    BY REBECCA FISHER

    ORIENT STAFF

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    ORIENT STAFF

    The mens soccer team openedits season on September 3 with a2-0 home victory against EndicottCollege, before falling to Wesleyan2-1 in its conference opener onSaturday.

    Despite the loss, Bowdoinshowed improvement from thefirst to the second game.

    I think were starting to get intothe flow of things, captain EricGoitia 15 said. From Endicott toWesleyan there was a big improve-

    ment in our play. Were under-standing how to possess the ballbetter and be a better team bothoffensively and defensively. Werelearning how to conserve energybetter on both ends.

    In its first two games, Bowdoinhas shown encouraging signs onthe offensive side of the ball.

    We havent spent a ton of timeworking on offense because de-fense is first, though the threegoals weve scored have been at-tractive combinations of play in-

    volvin g lots of diff erent players,said Head Coach Scott Wiercinski.I think if we do that more weregoing to be successful.

    Matt Dias Costa 17 and BenCitrin 16 scored Bowdoins goals

    against Endicott.Against Endicott we had some

    good wing play which led to one ofour goals, and the other goal camefrom a great through ball, captainThomas Henshall 15 said. That

    victor y agains t Endico tt was goodbecause we had a much strongerperformance in the second half.

    In the three goals weve scoredso far, Andrew Jones [16] has beeninvolved in each of them, DannyMelong [15] has been involved ina few of them, and Ben Citrin hadtwo fantastic contributions to bothgoals in the first game versus Endi-cott, said Wiercinski.

    Possession has been mediocre,he added. We havent passed theball as well as weve liked, but I washappy to see a big improvement atthe end of the Endicott game andthe Wesleyan game. Maybe confi-dence was the issue from the startso if we gain s ome confidence well

    continue to grow as a team.Bowdoin graduated several key

    players last spring, particularly atthe forward and center back posi-tions, and new players have beengiven the opportunity to step for-ward as a result.

    Weve had Cedric Charlier[17] and Connor Keefe [16] stepup and do a great job at forward,said Goitia. Those are both big,strong guys up top and they bringa lot of energy. Nabil Odulate [16]has also stepped in well. Hes got alot of speed so h e brings a differentdynamic.

    I think if we go up the ladderand keep on improving every game,well be very good by the end of theseason, Wiercinski said. Obvi-ously you want to start the seasonon top, but thats difficult with ashort preseason to get everyone onthe same page.

    Right now were focusing oneach games improvement. So go-ing from Wesleyan to Amherst,our goal is to improve against Am-herst, Goitia said.

    The Polar Bears take on the LordJeffs at home tomorrow at noon.

    Womens soccer wins firstgame with overtime header

    After a demoralizing 7-0 defeatto Montclair State in last yearsNCAA tournament, the womenssoccer team looks to build off ofits recent regular season sucessthis year and improve on la st yearsfinish.

    The team kicked off the 2014-15 campaign with a thrilling 2-1overtime victory against Wesleyanon Saturday. The win marked thethird year in a row that the PolarBears have taken down Wesleyanduring the regular season. Theteam will now turn its attention

    to its match against Amherst (1-0)tomorrow.

    In the past two years that weplayed Wesleyan it has been a onegoal difference, so we knew it wasgoing to be rough from the start,said Kiersten Turner 16. Also,that day in particular it was 88degrees and humid, which we justwerent very prepared for. So tocome out with the win was huge.

    The one and only Wesleyan goalcame early, five minutes into thegame, but the Polar Bears did notlose their composure.

    When we went down early wenever gave up and always felt likewe were in the game, said MaggieGodley 16.

    While giving up the early ini-tial goal, the teams defense stoodstrong the rest of the match, con-trolling the game and only allow-ing eight shots on goal.

    Defensively they did an awe-some job. They didnt let anybodyreally get to Bridget other thanthat one goal that they scored,said Turner.

    Afer controlling the ball for mostof the rst half, the Bears nally

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    broke through the Wesleyan defensewhen Amanda Kinneston 15 put ina pass from Taylor Haist 17.

    However, after scoring once onthe Cardinal defense, Bowdoincould not seem to strike again de-spite 10 chances in the second ha lf.

    We were knocking on the doorbasically from the start. We hadour opportunities and it was allabout having the composure andfinishing it. I think that hopefullythroughout the season that willimprove with time and practice,said Godley.

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    Christy Jewett 16 attributed partof the teams early success to theirability to play within a new for-mation that features at least fourhitters and relocates the setter tothe back row without substitutinga libero [a defensive player not re-quired to rotate with the rest of the

    team]. Both captains agreed thatan encouraging effect of the newsystem has been that players areable to serve in multiple roles onthe court.

    Players cant be as specialized,Wahl said. Our middles switchoff for our setters, so players thatmight not usually go all the wayaround [the rotation] now go allthe way around.

    Jewett maintains that the sys-tem is a strong fit for the playersand believes that the new rotationworks in part because the teamshitters are also good at digging.Jewett and NESCAC Player of theWeek Katie Doherty 17 are bothranked in the top five in the NES-CAC in digs as outside hitters.

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    Jewett also noted that exclud-ing the libero, who has a handset-ting restriction within ten feet thatforces hitters to stay on the ground,has made their offense more un-predictable.

    Once we get past the confusionof not having a designated person

    to receive the ball, the ability tohandset has been worthwhile, Jew-ett said.

    While the Polar Bears worry thatteams will catch on to the schemechange and direct attacks at theirsetter, who now plays back rightinstead of front right, Jewett as-serted that they are prepared forthat tactic.

    We dont actually lose a hitter[if one is forced to set the secondball] because we have an additionalhitter to begin with, she said.

    Wahl explained that keeping thesetter in the back allows an addi-tional hitter to threaten with a kill,creating hesitation and confusion

    When we went down early we

    ne ver gave up, and always felt

    like we were in the game.

    MAGGIE GODLEY 16

    Prior to the game we had onlyone practice with our actual teamand that was on the Friday beforethe game. So after the game we ob-

    vious ly knew that we had to workon more things like finishing whenit really matters in regular time sothat we dont have to go into over-time, said Turner.

    After a scoreless first overtime,Godley sent a corner kick intothe box where Abby Hammerl 17headed in the game-winning goal.

    I thought it was good to comein and make a point in our seasonthat we expect to do well and weexpect to be strong, said Go dley.