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College wins
right to buy
house at 28
College St. ,
appeal looms
By Emily Cohen
Orient Staff
On April 12, the Cumberland County
Superior Court ruled that Bowdoin has
the right to purchase the property at 28
College Street, the last remaining property
on College Street that Bowdoin does not
own. The decision comes after a months-
long legal battle over a 1996 agreement
between the College and the propertys
owner that granted Bowdoin the right
to buy the home before any other buyer
could place an offer, should the home be
placed on the market. However, Arline
Lay, the owner of 28 College, plans to
appeal the ruling to the Maine Supreme
Court, halting the Colleges plans to ac-
quire the property.
Bowdoin filed suit against Lay in Au-
gust 2016, claiming that Lay violated the
agreement by repeatedly listing the prop-
erty for sale after the College indicated its
intention to purchase the home. Maine
Superior Court Justice Micaela Murphy
upheld the terms of the agreement, ruling
in Bowdoins favor.
The agreement was originally negoti-
ated in April 1996 when the College pur-
chased the adjacent property at 26 College
Street, which Lay also owned. It granted
Bowdoin the right to purchase the prop-
erty at 28 College Street at a premium af-
ter Lay and her husband both pass away
or no longer use the property as their pri-
mary residence. Since 1996, Lays husband
has passed away and she no longer lives
in the home as a primary residence. The
agreement also stipulates that Bowdoin
has the first right to buy the house when
Lay or her husband decided to sell it.
The home has been listed for sale
several times since the agreement was
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Talk, discussion address class at Bowdoin
Richmond 16 argues that Bowdoin perpetuates wealth inequality
By Harry DiPrinzio
Orient Staff
Jordan Richmond 16 returned to
campus on Monday to present the
results of a study conducted by the
team he works with at the Equality
of Opportunity Project. The study,
which has been covered in The New
York Times, the Orient and many
other outlets, analyzes colleges
roles in intergenerational income
and mobility using tax data from
students born between 1978-1991.
Richmond is currently a predoctoral
fellow working under a team led by
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Portland. Page 4.
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Bowdoin sees most Fulbright awardees in decade
By Jane Chang and Eleanor Paasche
Orient Staff
Twenty students in the class of 2017
received Fulbright Fellowships and one
student received the Thomas J. Watson
Fellowship, which funds a students trav-
el and research for one year. Nineteen
students have already accepted fellow-
ships, 14 of which are English Teaching
Assistantships (ETA) and five of which
are Study/Research Awards (SR). This
years 20 is an increase from last years
total of 14 Fulbright recipients, and the
most since at least 2008, the earliest year
statistics were available.
The Fulbright recipients will work in
Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan,
Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Sri
Lanka, Switzerland and South Africa.
The Fulbright U.S. Student program
economist Raj Chetty at Stanford
University.
Richmond presented data about
the socioeconomic distribution
of students at Bowdoin and
its peer schoolswhich enroll
disproportionate numbers of very
wealthy studentsand compared
it with data from flagship state
universities, middle-tier public
universities and community colleges.
At Bowdoin, roughly 70 percent of
students come from families in the
top income quintile (making over
$110,000 per year) and 20 percent
of students come from families in
F LIFE OF A SHUTTLE DRIVER
Levi Wark takes students where they
need to go. Page 6.
provides award recipients with grants to
pursue a year of academic enrichment
outside of the U.S., either by teaching
English or researching a project.
Im really interested in writing and
journalism and especially the current po-
litical system in Germany, said Fulbright
ETA recipient Caroline Montag 17. I
think having access to that really directly
by living in [Germany] and being able to
investigate whats going on will be a
huge added bonus of Fulbright.
Seven of the Fulbright winners are
German majors. Montag is one of eight
Bowdoin seniors who will be using a
Fulbright grant in Germany next year,
and said that many of them have actually
known each other since the fall of their
first year at Bowdoin.
This year was a particularly strong
year, said Professor of German Birgit
the top one percent of the income
distribution, (making over $630,000
per year). Only 2.6 percent of
students come from families in the
bottom income quintile (less than
$20,000 per year).
At flagship state schools like the
University of California, Berkeley
or the University of Michigan,
income distribution is similarly
skewed towards the wealthy. Middle
tier state schools like SUNY-Stony
Brook enroll students with a more
representative income distribution
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A SPELLING BEE
Beyond the Proscenium presents a musical
in Sargent Gymnasium. Page 12.
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Tautz, chair of the department. I
think we are very successful because
we work with the students a lot before
they apply or while theyre in the ap-
plication process.
The German department conducts
mock interviews, provides recommen-
dations and gives students feedback on
essay drafts.
In addition to the 20 Fulbrights,
Mariely Garcia 17 received a Thomas J.
Watson Fellowship. The Watson Foun-
dation awards 40 grants of $30,000 per
year. Students must design an indepen-
dent, international research endeavor
in countries that they have not previ-
ously visited and may not return to the
U.S. over a 12-month period.
Garcia will travel to Ecuador, Gua-
temala, South Africa, Cambodia and
Italy to explore how marginalized
International students
discuss social and
institutional features of
their life at Bowdoin.
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Softball keeps up their strong play this
season. Page 15.
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APRIL 21, 2017
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
identities affect medical care and pa-
tient experiences.
Garcia, who has wanted to be a doc-
tor since before arriving at Bowdoin,
previously received both the Career
Planning Centers Preston Public Inter-
est Career grant and the Joseph McK-
een Center for the Common Goods
Global Citizens grant, which allowed
her to explore medicine and travel to
New York and India during the last
two summers. Garcia credits these
experiences in part for building her
confidence in her ability to travel inter-
nationally with the Watson Fellowship.
Bowdoin conducts an internal selec-
tion process to choose four candidates to
apply for a Watson each year. Director of
Student Fellowships and Research Cindy
Please see FULBRIGHT, page 4
O SURV-IVIES
Savannah Horton 17 has advice for the
big weekend. Page 18.
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SECURITY REPORT: 4/13 to 4/20

Thursday, April 13
A student with strep throat requested an
escort to Mid Coast Hospital.
A student with an ankle injury from escort-
ed from Morrell Gym to Mid Coast Hospital.
Friday, April 14
Brunswick Rescue transported an
ill student from the health center to Mid
Coast Hospital.
An ill student was escorted from the health
center to Mid Coast Hospital.
A smoke alarm at Winthrop Hall was
accidentally activated by a student using a
hair dryer.
Saturday, April 15
A student reported that an unknown per-
son vomited in his room at Quinby House.
A student using a hair straightener at
Chamberlain Hall accidentally activated a
smoke alarm.
A restroom soap dispenser and a stair rail
post were damaged at Quinby House.
Brunswick Rescue transported a student
from Whitter Field to Mid Coast Hospital for
symptoms of dehydration.
Sunday, April 16 bicycle from the Quinby House east bike rack.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an The make and model of the bike are unknown.
intoxicated campus visitor.
A minor student was cited for an alcohol Tuesday, April 18
law violation. An officer investigat-
A concerned student asked for a wellbeing ed a report of a man tent-
check for a friend. ing on College propertyy
A concerned student reported that an in- in the Bowdoin Pines.
toxicated friend had wandered off alone toward The man agreed to pick
downtown Brunswick. With the assistance of up stakes and move to
local police, the student was located in Topsh- another location.
am and safely returned to campus.
An officer checked on the wellbeing of an Wednesday, April 19
intoxicated student at Moulton Union. A student with
A student reported that an intoxicated appendicitis symp-
student was tampering with several vehicles toms was taken to Mid
at Brunswick Apartments. The student was lo- Coast Hospital.
cated and identified. No vehicles were found to Brunswick Rescue transported
be damaged. an injured student to Mid Coast Hos-
Officers checked on the wellbeing of an pital. The student dislocated an ankle
intoxicated and agitated student at Bruns- while longboarding near Hyde Plaza.
wick Apartments.
Thursday, April 20
Monday, April 17 A fire alarm at Harpswell Apart-
Maine State Police charged a student with ments was caused by a student burning
OUI-Liquor on Interstate 295 in Falmouth. candles, a policy violation.
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LIBRARY TO RETIRE NEXPRESS
SHARING SERVICE
NExpress, one of the interschool library-loaning systems Bowdoin uses, will be re-
tired in May. April 30 is the last day that schools can request books from NExpress and
Where the money goes: donations at Bowdoin
all items will be due by the end of May.
NExpress started in 2005 as a consortium between Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley,
Williams and Northeastern University. At its peak, the group had seven members, but By Lucia Ryan
Orient Staff
only Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Middlebury and Wellesley remain.
It was a joint decision between the five libraries to do this, said Access Services As- BowdoinOne Day, the month-long
sistant Jaime Jones. fundraising campaign which concludes
Students will still be able to check out books from other libraries through the Interli- April 26, is just one component of the Col-
brary Loan Service (ILL), as well as the CBBcat and MaineCat services. leges annual fundraising efforts, which
Through CBBcat, the College already has the ability to easily get books from Bates bring in about $12 million in donations
and Colby. Music Librarian and Coordinator of Research & Instructional Services Karen through the Alumni, Parent, Friend and
Jung said that patrons should still be able to get books from Middlebury and Wesleyan Polar Bear Athletic funds every year.
through ILL. In the past two years, between 28 and
ILL allows patrons less control over where their books come from compared to NEx- 38 percent of Bowdoins annual donors
press, but provides other features, such as enabling patrons to view their order history. have been represented at One Day. The
You dont have to know who owns a book or where its available or any of that stuff, campaign is centered around participa- a bank account as opposed to the finan-
you just put in a request and ILL will take care of everything for you, Jones said. Well tion rate rather than donation values. This cial aid in the operational budget which is
figure out the best library to get it from, the fastest library to get it from. year, with a goal of 8,400 donors, the One
Day campaign aims to put the College 200
donors ahead of last years numbers at this
BRIDGE TO TOPSHAM CLOSED time, according to Director of the Alumni
Fund Aric Walton.
THROUGH MONDAY One Day donors and other donors are
solicited through the Office of Develop-
ment and Alumni Relations. The office
The northbound lane of the Frank J. Wood Bridge, the green bridge over the An- works throughout the year to maintain
droscoggin River that connects Brunswick and Topsham, is closed through Monday as relationships with alumni, parents and
crews work to replace beams, the Portland Press Herald reported. other past donors in order to raise money
The northbound lane of the bridgewhich drivers would use to get from Bruns- for the Colleges operating budget, capital
wick to Topshamhas been closed since Wednesday. Drivers are being sent on an budget and endowment.
alternative route from Route 1 to Route 196, and back to Route 201 in Topsham, Its important to separate the cost of
according to the Forecaster. running the College all year, said Senior
The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is currently considering four Vice President for Development and
more substantial options for the bridges repair or replacement, but construction on any Alumni Relations Scott Meiklejohn. The
long-term project will likely not begin until 2019. alumni dollars, if you divided up the Bow-
The repairs follow an inspection on the bridge last summer that found rapid deterio- doin operating budget into a pie chart
ration of structural steel. The bridge was downgraded from fair to poor condition in its salaries and benefits, its dining and addition to the Alumni Fund, were look-
August, leading MDOT to bar heavy commercial trucks from driving on it. administration, its campus security, all
the activities of the collegeevery single
dollar that goes into the Alumni Fund or
BIDEN TO SPEAK AT COLBYS the Friends Fund disperses through every
single activity for the College.
COMMENCEMENT When the College receives a donation,
it first goes through the Office of Develop-
ment. A donation can be unrestricted or
Former Vice President Joe Biden will speak at Colbys commencement ceremo- restricted. An unrestricted donation can
ny on May 21, the college announced on Monday. Colby will also issue Biden an be allocated to any of the highest needs
honorary doctorate. on campus, Meiklejohn said.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. and is open to the public. Our job, when the College identifies
Biden was first elected U.S. Senator from Delaware in 1972, an office he held those things as priorities, is to advise the
until he became vice president under Barack Obama in 2009. In January, he was
BSG considers changing bylaws to allow
awarded a presidential medal of freedom, the nations highest civilian honor. Since
leaving office, he has been announced as leader of two academic centers, the Penn
Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Penn-
sylvania and the Biden Domestic Policy Institute at the University of Delaware.
any student to introduce legislation
Biden will also address graduating students at Cornell University, Harvard Uni-
versity and Morgan State University in May.
EXPERIENCE PROGRAM By Isabelle Hall
SHORTER THAN PAST YEARS
Orient Staff
At its Wednesday meeting, Bowdoin
The Bowdoin Experience program is one day shorter this year and overlaps Student Government (BSG) discussed a
completely with the Colleges Open House for all admitted students. The program revision to its bylaws that would allow
aims to bring admitted students from low-income backgrounds or otherwise tra- any student to introduce legislation for
ditionally underrepresented in higher education to campus. In past years, the Ex- discussion by BSG. The change would
perience program lasted from Thursday until Sunday morning, but the program make BSG more accessible to students,
wraps up on Saturday this year, as does Open House weekend. according to BSG President Harriet
In past years, Experience students participated in a dinner with faculty and Fisher 17.
staff members on Saturday night. This year, the same dinner will be offeredbut There is currently no clear bylaw in
not mandatoryfor students in both the Experience and Open House programs. place regarding legislation proposed by
What we wanted to do was have that same dinner, which is an opportunity to students who are not members of BSG.
engage with faculty and connect with staff more if they want to, but also to not BSG will vote on the proposed revision
make it exclusive for Experience students, said Dean of Admissions and Financial in two weeks.
Aid Whitney Soule. The topics of conversation are likely going to be around mul- The revision was introduced by
ticultural issues and diversity at the College, but its meant to be broadly inclusive Class Council Representative Spencer
and not just assume that the students who are here for Experience care about Shagoury 17 and Representative At-
these topics. I hope all the students that we have admitted have interest in this Large Ian Culnane 20 with the goal of
conversation. promoting greater transparency within
According to Soule, admissions invited 180 students for the Bowdoin Experi- BSG and increased civic engagement
ence program and 80 are attending. The program is the second half of Bowdoins among the student body.
efforts to bring low-income prospective students to campus. Admissions hosted My hope is that it is now even eas-
two Explore Bowdoin events for high school seniors in the fall, for which 843 ier for students to come forward about
students applied, 143 were invited and 112 attended. frustrations, who have concerns or have
ideas about how we can change our
president and the Board about our capac-
ity to raise the money to understand
our capacity to fund ambitions of the Col-
lege, Meiklejohn said.
When a donation is made for a spe-
cific project, such as the Roux Center or
the renovations for the Magee-Samuelson
Track and Whittier Field facility, that
money only goes to that specific project
because it is one-time. These projects
and the financial aid fund fall under the
capital budget. Financial aid, in this case, is
an ongoing capital priority thats building
a set yearly amount, Meiklejohn said.
For such projects, the College usually
makes plans in advance and then solicits
alumni for donations. For instance, the
plans for Whittier Field began in the sum-
mer of 2016.
However, when a donation is made
that would go to an operating budget
fundfor example, yearly financial aid,
the academic program, arts and culture
or athleticsit may be directed elsewhere
according to the priorities of the College.
This process usually involves a conversa-
tion with the donor about where their
money is most needed.
At any one moment in time, the Col-
lege has a number of priorities that are
out in front of the alumni and parent
communities, said Meiklejohn. So in
which is where the endowment, gifts and
ing to fund summer internships because
thats become such an important need to
address. Sustaining Bowdoins place as
a need-blind, no-loan financial aid col-
legewere one of only 15. But holding
your spot there is expensive.
Every once and awhile someone will
ask, can we make a gift for this? And
most of the time donors understanddo-
nors want to make Bowdoin better and
are great about working with us on things
that are most important to us, he added.
Donations ultimately find their way
campus or just bring something for-
ward, and even if its not written in the
way that we write legislation on student
government, then we could workshop
it when they arrive with something,
said Fisher.
According to Fisher, the idea origi-
nated from the student government
conference which Bowdoin hosted two
weekends ago.
At the student government confer-
ence, we saw there were so many other
schools that had students bringing
things directly to them and then work-
ing through them. And so were hoping
to kind of model it after schools like
Middlebury and Colby that are seeing
a lot of students come forward to bring
legislation, she said.
This Monday, BSGalong with the
economics departmenthosted a talk
titled Mobility Report Cards, by Jor-
dan Richmond 16, a predoctoral fel-
low at Stanford University who worked
on the Equality of Opportunity Project
study about colleges and inequality that
was publicized in the New York Times
news 3
to the Office of the Treasury, headed by
Senior Vice President for Finance and
Administration Matt Orlando. His office
then decides how to direct the money.
While the president and the Board of
Trustees ultimately decide how to priori-
tize spending, the Office of the Treasury
deploys the resources that come from tu-
ition, endowment, gifts and other sourc-
es, according to Meiklejohn.
Meanwhile, the Investment Office
works to maintain, grow and protect the
endowment, from which about $55 mil-
lion are drawn yearly to support the oper-
ating budget.
There are two places where money is
raised right nowthe 12 million and the
money raised before, which builds up in
the endowment and spins out a larger
and larger bit of interest every year, said
Meiklejohn. The current fundraising
provides the 12, and the former fundrais-
ing gets to be a bigger and bigger num-
ber every year.
The operating budget, at an annual
$155,729,000, represents the total cost of
running the College each year. This budget
accounts for paying everything from fac-
ulty and staff, to lighting residence halls, to
providing financial aid for students. This
year, the College is spending $86,516 on
each student. Tuition, however, is $63,440
including room, board and other fees. This
means about $23,000 are unaccounted for,
other fees come into play.
Tuition and fees account for 49 percent
of the Colleges operating budget. Earn-
ings on the endowment, which was $1.34
billion in 2016, cover 35 percent of the
budget. Donations from alumni, parents,
students and friends of the College pay for
eight percent. Auxiliary fees, which come
from summer programs and renting out
campus facilities, pay for three percent.
Other feesuse of reserves, sponsored
researchmake up the remaining five
percent of the operating budget.
in January. Last Friday, Assistant Pro-
fessor of Sociology Theo Greene facili-
tated a What Matters discussion entitled
Class: Why Dont We Talk About It?
What I found very interesting was
that Jordan Richmond was also of the
opinion that Bowdoin does not do
enough to enroll students from lower
socio-economic backgrounds, and its
not that those students dont exist, so
much as [that] Bowdoin has not put
the resources in the right places to find
those students, said Representative At-
Large Ural Mishra 20. So the BSG next
year should definitely make more of an
effort to push Bowdoin.
Vice President for Student Affairs
Ben Painter 19 announced that his
committee was discussing ideas for an
event on socioeconomic class for next
year that would include members of the
Brunswick community.
Painter also discussed the possibility
of restructuring BSG in order to bet-
ter represent the student body, such as
adding a vice president for diversity and
inclusion.
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Faculty, students to participate in March for Science
By Artur Kalandarov
Orient Staff
With support from 14 academic
departments and the Joseph McKeen
Center for the Common Good, many
Bowdoin students and faculty will
pile into buses tomorrow to attend the
March for Science. The protest is part
of a nationwide Earth Day event calling
on elected officials to base their policies
on scientific research and evidence.
Emily Ruby 19 and Zoe Wood 18
have helped to organize Bowdoins in-
volvement in the event.
A lot of attention has been brought
to the need for truth in policy making
and the need for policy to be informed
by fact and by science ... that is under
threat at this moment, said Wood, a
biology major.
The buses will be able to transport 96
people to Portland and back, but other
students are expected to come in their
own cars.
Wood cited recent proposed budget
cuts on research as a key issue March
for protesters, along with other issues
of diversity and inclusion in science.
Emily Ruby 19, one of the organiz-
ers for Bowdoins participation in the
March and leader of Bowdoin Climate
Action (BCA), stressed that the Marchs
focus goes beyond climate change.
I think its important to highlight
that this march isnt just about climate
issues, its really about the role of sci-
ence in politics and how the current
administration is cutting funding for
science, Ruby said.
Professor of Physics Madeleine
Msall had previously organized a let-
ter encouraging President Trump to
consider science before developing
policy, which was signed by 700 physi-
cists across the country. Msall said she
became involved in the March for the
same reason.
Some colleagues and I decided to
just try and send a letter to Trump,
saying that we hoped he would take
the facts of climate change, and the sci-
entific consensus about [it] seriously,
said Msall. [The March for Science]
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made, most recently in 2015. In March
2016, Lay listed the house for $1.6 mil-
lion, and in July 2016, she accepted a
$750,000 offer from a woman in South
Portland, despite the fact that the Col-
lege had already indicated to Lay that
it was exercising its option to purchase
the home. The College claimed that this
action violated the 1996 agreement and
filed suit against Lay, her listing agent
David Jones and the prospective South
Portland buyer.
The conflict between the College and
the Lay family also involves the value of
the home, which Bowdoin argued has
been inflated by Lay and listing agents.
Lay listed the home for a high price ar-
guing that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote
parts of Uncle Toms Cabin there.
In the lawsuit, Bowdoin disputed the
historical claims and the resulting price,
maintaining that Stowe wrote Uncle
Toms Cabin at 63 Federal Street and in
Appleton Hall.
The property listing falsely states
that Harriet Beecher Stowe sought ref-
uge to write Uncle Toms Cabin at the
property. Defendants Lay and the Jones
knew that this statement was false at the
time it was made, said the College in
court documents.
According to the agreement, Bowdoin
must pay 125 percent of the fair market
value for the home, which the College
argues is less than that claimed by the de-
fendants.
GOOD SIGN: Students make signs for the March for Science in Portland on Saturday. Over 500 marches will take place across the country.
seemed like a logical extension of that
effort.
As the first science-focused march,
Msall said that faculty at Bowdoin have
been supportive of the effort.
It is interesting to me that a group
of people that is normally the last to
sort of shout on the street corners is
concerned enough about the tenor of
our national conversation to say, No,
actually, its time for us to remind peo-
ple, to say that it helps to have data,
said Msall.
Msall noted that she hopes both
buses will be filled to capacity on Satur-
day, as Portlands small size compared
to other cities makes the number of
people who attend all the more impor-
tant. She cited government funding for
science research as one of the ways that
scientists have already been involved in
politics, but expressed hope that people
would not think of the march as a par-
tisan effort.
Senior Vice President for Com-
munications and Public Affairs Scott
Hood said that neither the family nor
the College can determine the value of
the property, per the terms of the 1996
agreement. To set the value, both the
College and the family were to conduct
appraisals of the property, and a third
independent appraiser would conduct
a third appraisal. The College agreed to
pay the average of the three appraisals,
plus 25 percent.
The Colleges appraiser determined the
property to be valued at $285,000, while
the familys appraisal came to $390,000.
The point in this particular case
is that the value of the property is not
set by the family or by the College,
Hood said in a phone interview with the
Orient. Its set by qualified appraisers,
who take into account any number of
factors, maybe even including history.
James Lay, Arline Lays son, said the
family will maintain its historical claims of
the home when it appeals the case.
James Lay believes that appealing the
case to a higher court will bring into fo-
cus violations of property rights that were
overlooked in the judges ruling. His attor-
ney told him that cases like this typically
do not get settled at the lower courts.
We intend to aggressively defend
our property rights and to not be forced to
sell our property against our will to a very
ungrateful multibillion-dollar institution
known as Bowdoin College, James Lay
wrote in an email to the Orient.
James Lay said he and his family no
longer intend to sell the property to any
the bowdoin orient
Science is political as it exists, and
the concern from the science com-
munity is We dont want to be seen as
partisan, Msall said. Were just saying
both parties really need to look at what
our community of knowledge offers
and use it effectively for governance.
A lot of the divide in our country
right now is about only accepting facts
from the people whose team you think
youre on ideologically, and thats dan-
gerous for science.
Msall is glad that the Bowdoin com-
munity is involved in the March, as the
College is a respected and well-known
institution in Maine.
Im hoping people of Maine will
look at Bowdoins presence at this
march and say, Oh thats part of our
trusted community, if theyre offering
information, maybe I should take a
look at it, said Msall. I think Bowdoin
as an institution is dedicated to the idea
that we need to do our best to learn and
buyer, expressing concerns that the Col-
lege will demolish it after acquiring it.
Its steeped in history that we dont
want to give up, and surely dont want to
be forced to give it up, said James Lay in a
phone interview with the Orient.
Hood said that Bowdoin will not make
WHOSE HOUSE?: A judge ruled in favor of Bowdoin in a lawsuit over the property at 28 College Street, but its owners are planning an appeal.
NEVAN SWANSON., THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
understand the systems that control
our world, and we need to stand up and
say we think this work is important.
Thats what we do as a college, and we
want peoplewhatever opinions they
may have about the policies that were
going to pursueto recognize facts.
Ruby hopes that students will re-
main involved in climate policies on
their own, and through the BCA.
There are a lot of other ways on
campus for students to be getting in-
volved in climate justice issues, and
off campus as well, she said. [BCA
is] currently shifting away from divest-
ment and moving towards pursuing a
climate strategy that focuses on Maine
electoral politics and seeing how we
can get involved in the 2018 elections.
Nationally, 100,000 people are ex-
pected to show up at the March for
Science in Washington, D.C. There will
also be 500 satellite marches occurring
around the country.
plans for the property until the official ac-
quisition is complete.
We have to acquire it, and then ...
we can decide what the best use is of the
property, he said.
Hood also defended Bowdoins com-
mitment to historic preservation.
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Stocks says that typically around thirty
students express interest in applying for
a Watson Fellowship and that one or two
might go on to earn the award.
Casey Krause 17, a German Fulbright
ETA award recipient, also said that her
summer experiences played a large role
in her decision to pursue a fellowship.
Krause worked with refugee and immi-
grant populations in Maine and wanted
to continue working with refugees, espe-
cially teaching language acquisition.
Michael Amano 17 plans to research
the psychological effects of WWII bomb-
ings in Japan with the Radiation Effects
Research Foundation in Hiroshima dur-
ing his SR fellowship. Amano, a Neuro-
science and Asian Studies double-major,
credits his two summers researching in
Bowdoin labs and his curatorial fellow-
ship with the Bowdoin College Museum
of Art that sent him to Hiroshima last
summer with his decision to pursue a SR
fellowship with Fulbright.
While many fellowship applicants may
not receive awards, Stocks says that there
is value in the self-reflection that is re-
quired by the application process.
Having to take everything thats hap-
pened to you in the past 18-22 years and
condense it down into a page is a really
useful thing whether you are going to go
on to grad school, whether you are going
to be interviewed, to have that story at
your fingertips, Stocks said.
Last year, Smith College in
Northampton, Massachusetts, was the
top B.A. degree-giving Fulbright pro-
ducer with 17 students earning awards.
Fulbright partners with the Chronicle
of Higher Education to publish a list of
top Fulbright-producing institutions,
which is released each February. Bow-
doins position on Fulbrights compared
to other schools this year will not be
known for certain until next year.
Compared to other schools, we
have a lot of interest in fellowships
and Bowdoin students do really well,
said Stocks. I think our students,
because of a liberal arts curriculum,
are taught and encouraged to be well-
rounded and many, many of these fel-
lowships are looking for people who
are well rounded.
I think there are probably very few
entities in the state of Maine that do
more historic preservation than this
college thats been here since 1802. We
put a lot of money, a lot of effort and a
lot of care into respecting and maintain-
ing history, he said.
LIAM FINNERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
friday, april 21, 2017
Club to host financial
literacy day Monday
By Nell Fitzgerald
Orient Staff
This Monday, the Bowdoin Finan-
cial Literacy Club (BFLC) will hold a fi-
nancial literacy day in order to educate
the Bowdoin community about money
management. A series of workshops
targeting those already in the work-
force and students interested in invest-
ing will run throughout the afternoon
and address a variety of subjects related
to personal finance.
David Wu 17, one of the leaders of the
BFLC and organizers of Mondays event,
said that his personal experience build-
ing a financial services business inspired
him to increase awareness about financial
literacy. At 18, Wu started a financial ad-
visory company called World Financial
Group. It is now a subsidiary of Transam-
erica Financial Advisors, Inc.
Being outside of Bowdoin and work-
ing, I realized that so many people are
undereducated about their finances, es-
pecially personal finances, and that in-
dustry doesnt do a good job in terms of
educating their consumers, Wu said.
He added that this lack of financial ed-
ucation is especially present among Bow-
doin students, since Bowdoin does not
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
(closer to 20 percent of students from each
income quintile) and student bodies at
community colleges tend to skew slightly
towards the less wealthy.
By coupling data on the breakdown of
student demographics and schools with data
about what graduates do after college, the
authors of the study are able to create a mobility
scorecard, or an analysis of how good schools
are at elevating students from low income
backgrounds to upper income backgrounds.
Richmond told the audience the data
indicate that Bowdoin struggles when it
comes to income mobility for students from
less wealthy families. He argued that Bowdoin
perpetuates wealth inequality because it
enrolls a disproportionate number of very
wealthy students, most of whom earn high
incomes after graduating from Bowdoin.
Because 69 percent of Bowdoin students
come from the top income quintile
compared to 40 percent at SUNY-Stony
Brookinstead of making less wealthy
students wealthy, Bowdoin helps the rich
stay rich.
More specifically, while Bowdoin and
mid-tier public schools like SUNY-Stony
Brook are similarly successful at propelling
their graduates to incomes in the top quintile
of the income distribution, Bowdoin propels
more students to incomes in the top one
percent. Richmond presented data indicating
that 8.5 percent of Bowdoin students make
it to the top one percent while less than one
percent of students at SUNY-Stony Brook do.
This was a really fascinating talk, said
Isaac Merson 17. It pointed out some
serious failures that we have ... We have an
idea of progress that isnt necessarily borne
out by the facts.
Like, were an institution of mostly wealthier
people, and that could change given certain
key steps, like advertising more to students
who could come here but dont know about
Bowdoin, he added. And I think if we look at
our institutional costs, it doesnt take so much
to provide better financial aid.
In the presentation, Richmond
mentioned key steps he believes Bowdoin
could take to increase the number of less
wealthy students. These included devoting
more resources to recruiting less wealthy
students and participating in the American
Talent Initiative, an organization funded
the bowdoin orient news 5
include personal finance within its cur-
riculum. He noted that students might
have trouble finding helpful information
on their own.
Theres so much information out
there, you need to find a place where you
can learn the whole picture, not just bits
here and bits there, Wu said. We go on-
line, were not lacking information, were
lacking a comprehensive and condensed
version of what you need to know. Whats
the whole picture?
The day will be structured in a series
of workshops that will cater to different
parts of the community. The first work-
shop, titled Reduce Debt; Increase Cash
Flow, will be targeted toward people who
have already entered the workforce, such
as professors and members of the Bruns- KATIE FOLEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
wick community. The second workshop, FUN WITH FINANCE: David Wu 17 planned a financial literacy day to educate the Bowdoin community about managing money.
Investment Accumulation, is targeted
toward students who want to learn how keting director at World Financial Group Group and worked as a certified public students will receive from the
to invest efficiently. Finally, Asset Accu- and is an investment advisor representa- accountant for over 30 years. workshop will be invaluable to the
mulation is for the general public and tive with Transamerica Financial Advi- After the three workshops, Wu will Bowdoin community.
can be helpful to anyone, Wu said. sors. He commonly gives financial lit- co-lead an information session along- I think today, its very important that
The workshops will be led by two eracy seminars at universities, businesses side Ly and Hermanto called Building young people learn the basics of money
speakers, Willy Hermanto and Van Ly. and public organizations. Ly is a certified a Business in the Financial Services In- management and start saving earlier,
Wu met both Hermanto and Ly through financial educator with the Heartland dustry. Wu said he will draw on his own he said.
his time at Transamerica and considers Institute for Financial Education, a non- experience building a small business at Workshops begin at 2:30 p.m. on Mon-
them close mentors. profit organization. She is also one of the a young age. day and run throughout the afternoon.
Hermanto is currently a senior mar- top senior trainers at World Financial Wu believes that the skills that Registration is not necessary.
by a consortium of 270 schools across the
MUSICAL CHAIRS
country that aims to enroll talented lower-
income students in colleges by collaborating
to raise awareness, set enrollment goals and
share information.
An event last Friday moderated by
Assistant Professor of Sociology Theo Student Affairs has been altering its administrative structure throughout the year. On July 1, a number of
Greene addressed class from another changes to staffing and the distribution of job responsibilities will go into effect. This graphic outlines some
perspective, discussing ways in which class of the transitions that will take place in the coming months in who oversees key areas in Student Affairs. For
affects students experiences on campus,
more, visit bowdoinorient.com.
particularly the experiences of less wealthy
students. The event was structured as a
conversation among students in the audience
with Professor Greene posing questions. Student Issues, Special Projects, Divisional Initiatives Diversity and Inclusion
Students addressed some of the more
difficult questions that arise about class,
such as the fear of stigmas that keep both
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wealthier and less wealthy students reticent
about class and the distribution of resources
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on campus.
The acquisition of land by the College
and new building and renovations I know
Office of Student Activities David Saul Smith Union
sparked conversations about what are we
paying for when we come here. And by
giving us really nice things, who are we
excluding from coming here? said Carly AD MD AD NH
Berlin 18.
The conversation also addressed ways in Allen Delong Meadow Davis Allen Delong Nate Hintze
which class affects students lives, including
the ability to go off campus and go out to
dinner, differences in academic preparedness Sexual and Gender Diversity Residential Life
and conflicting perceptions of class between
wealthy and less wealthy students.
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conversation that we have to have about
something thats invisible, that we dont talk Kate Stern Leana Amaez; Kate Stern Kim Pacelli Meadow Davis
about, but its in plain sight, Greene said
after the discussion. I think students are
always the biggest agents of change too Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
Judicial Board
they put pressure on their professors [and]
on the administration to help make sure that
the experiences of Bowdoin students across
the board are the kinds of experiences that
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students deserve when coming here.
Lesley Levy Searching Bob Ives Leana Amaez; Kate Stern; Searching
Because the audience was self-selecting,
some students felt that the event did not
reach as many students as it could have.
I think the people who are already Accomodations for Students with Disabilities Bowdoin Outing Club
coming [to the event] already know how to
talk about these issues and those that may
be interested in seeing how this works, LP LL MD NH
said Alexander Sukles 17. They may not
feel like they have the vocabulary or the Lisa Peterson Lesley Levy No direct administrative Meadow Davis; Nate Hintze
training to talk about it and will then be oversight
disheartened by not making comfortable or
cohesive comments and then they may feel Compiled by Emma Bezilla and Meg Robbins. Source: Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster
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A hard days night:
Saturday in the shuttle
By Ellice Lueders
Orient Staff
Levi Wark starts and ends his shifts
in the Stowe Inn parking lot with his two
vans: the Chevy camper he drives to work
and Bowdoin Shuttle BSS1 where he will
spend the next 10 hours. He drives the Col-
leges white minivan over to the Office fo
Safety and Security on Bath Road, where
he swipes his time card and exchanges pa-
perwork at the communications desk. He
gets back to his car and cracks open a can of
coconut water for the night ahead.
Today is Saturday, Warks last night of a
three-day work week, and his lumbar sup-
port cushion rests comfortably in his seat.
Wark smiles when he talks, and its not just
because his weekend starts tonight. He is
a chipper kind of dude. He is 35 years old
and wears a baseball hat branded Tidal
Transit Company, the sea kayak outfitter
in Boothbay Harbor where he works dur-
ing the summer on the days he isnt farm-
ing his land in Phippsburg.
This is my winter job, he said.
During the school year, Wark works as
a full-time Bowdoin Shuttle Driver, from
5:30 p.m.3:30 a.m., Thursday through
Saturday. Each night he drives over 100
miles, all within a one-mile radius of cam-
pus. He picks up around 100 students each
night, and many more if it is raining.
I see people coming home from sci-
ence labs or just a quick break for dinner.
Ive even seen people coding with their
laptops in the backseat, said Wark.
I see this despite my weekend sched-
ule, he added.
As a shuttle driver, Wark bears wit-
ness to students weekend behavior. He
knows where all of the off-campus parties
are and when they have died. He politely
ignores a litany of boorish backseat bro
talk and was likely the person left waiting
the last time you ditched the shuttle for a
Brunswick Taxi. He is the Michael Jordan
of chitchat.
The first few hours of his shift are slow
and mostly service dinner plans on Maine
Street. His pickups during this period
show up incrementally more intoxicated,
from the women on a date to Little To-
kyo who ask Wark about his favorite roll
(Gardenhis wife is vegan) to the full van
of soccer players chanting Sake! Bomb!
Sake! Bomb! and extolling the merits
of hibachi.
Its during this slower time that he can
take a quick break at Gelato Fiasco with
his wife, Amanda. He doesnt drink coffee
during the week, but at the start of his shift
Amanda buys him an affogatoespresso
poured over gelato. He prefers Fiascos car-
damom flavor.
He gets back in his van and cranks up
the radio. REWIND 100.9Hits of the
70s, 80s and 90sgets a lot of compliments
from students, but Wark likes WBOR
Bowdoins student radio stationfor its
eclecticism and lack of commercials.
I also like public radio, he said, press-
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ing a programmed button. This is the
Thistle and Shamrock Celtic Music Hour.
His job requires endurance, and music
helps. He also takes brief breaks every few
hours in the Office of Safety and Security,
filling up his empty can with water from
the break room and using their tiny bath-
room. At odd hours, when there arent any
students waiting, he parks the van in front
of Coles Tower and stretches in the traf-
fic circle.
There are no breaks between 10 p.m.
and 1 a.m. Round time, he called it.
Its round time, time to drive round in
circles. This route is most often between
Joshuasthe consolidated pickup for
Maine Streetand the various off-cam-
pus houses.
Stowe Inn to the Polar Bear is also a
popular route, he said. The shuttle only
stops at five on-campus locationsthe Po-
lar Bear is the station closest to the College
Houses and science buildings.
10-2, eight at Joshuas, radioed in the
dispatcher, Gardenia Pimentel 19. Wark
explained that the 10 is just filler, to ac-
commodate for the lag time over the walk-
ie talkies.
10-4, just cleared Stowe, replied Wark.
10-2, theres now 13 at Joshuas, add-
ed Pimentel.
The competition gets fierce some-
times, he said jovially.
His demeanor belies the taxing pres-
sures of his job. About a year ago, when
[another full-time driver] passed away, it
was just me for Thursday through Satur-
day. It was hard. It was so hard I thought
about quitting, he said. I could do it, I did
do it, but it was a lot.
It was exhausting, and wait times were
really long, so I would see students who
I keep waiting for a good friend, someone Ill
hang out with outside of work. A lot of jobs, places
where you interact with people a lot, you make
friends ... Im looking to make a friend.
LEVI WARK, SHUTTLE DRIVER
werent so thankful anymore. They were
disgruntled and tired. I would have hun-
dreds of kids waiting for me.
Despite occasional impatience, stu-
dents are typically thankful for Warks ser-
vice. Students can sometimes be rowdy
hopping in the front seat and hijacking the
radiobut they are usually appreciative,
saying thank you and calling Wark sir.
If students are rude or distracting, Wark
sometimes pulls over and stops the car un-
til things calm down.
Worst comes to worst, I shut my
mouth and get them where they need to
be and try to move on, he laughed.
I find peace in myself, he said.
***
Time passes in a different way on the
streets, in the darkness. Outside of the
Colleges bright lights, the sky shows its
stars and moonlight reflects off the roofs of
10-4, OVER: Bowdoin Shuttle Driver Levi Wark spends up to 10 hours a night driving Bowdoin students around campus and Brunswick. Spending
so much time in this way has led him to gain a solid understanding of the area as well as Bowdoin students weekend routines.
family homes. This is the territory where
Wark spends most of his time driving do-
nuts.
Wark is familiar with each off-campus
house and its residents. He is on a nick-
name basis with John-Alexander Kirk
Kourkoulis 17, the Canadian hockey
player who lives in 310 Maine Street, and
knows the reputation of his house.
310 Maine Street is the new hockey
house, Wark said. He remembered a pe-
riod of time when he had to navigate the
shuttle around someones Mercedes that
had gotten stuck in the mud before a cold
night. It froze up to the bottom of the
doors, and they couldnt get it out, he said.
Wark knows that wintertime is full of
birthday parties at Red Brick House, and
misses the sculptures he used to see from
the windows of the Bowker barn last year.
He differentiates between Girl Potter at 5
Potter Street, and Guy Potternumber
eight. He considers 33 Garrison to be the
new Crack House.
He knows where all of the parties are
happening, even quieter gatherings. Over
the course of last Saturday, two different
groups asked him to not mention their
parties to later riders.
He also knows that these parties are a
point of contention in the Brunswick com-
munity.
I was talking the other night to a se-
curity officer about how to negotiate a
balance between off-campus housing, Se-
curity and BPD, he said. It takes us all to
work together, but its worth it.
For his part, Wark avoids honking at
off-campus houses. When a pickup is run-
ning late, he instead flashes his lights or
uses the vans reverse noise. He even goes
up to the pickup, if he can see them on
their phone from his van. He doesnt want
to disturb the neighborhood.
He usually has to leave after five min-
utes so other rides dont get backed up, but
during slower times he doesnt mind wait-
ing. He once spent closer to 10 minutes
waiting for a pickup at Garrison, staring at
the empty beer cans and crushed solo cups
littering the front yard.
This happens pretty frequently with
Garrison, he said. If I honked my horn,
I would be honking my horn at least four
times a night. I doubt their neighbors
would appreciate it.
Despite his patience, the closest he got
to a complaint over his 10-hour shift was
about Garrison. They just called again,
he said with a feverish look in his eyes.
These boys often pack his van to capac-
ity. Youre lucky you sit in the front seat, so
no one will sit on you.
At 1 a.m., round time was over. His
shuttle was more often empty than full.
Three more hours until the weekend, he
cheered.
The slow pace and darkness make the
space in the van feel intimate, philosophi-
cal. There is more time for breaks in the
Coles traffic circle.
I really like how quiet it is. I love the
quietquiet and the open spaces, he said
about Maine during an intermission.
I love walking, personally. If I went to
Bowdoin, I wouldnt even take the shuttle.
Wark went to Unity College in the town
that hosts the Common Ground Fair.
Adjacent to Unity was what we called
a woodlot, a forest next to Unity campus,
Unity property. Wed go out to the low
ropes course, go on walks with a couple
beers. We had a favorite tree to climb
this giant hemlockand hang out in the
branches, he said.
Wark is taking the Saturday of Ivies off
to attend a college friends wedding in New
friday, april 21, 2017
ELLICE LUEDERS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Jersey.
I havent seen him in a long time, but
sometimes he calls me at 2 a.m. when hes
drunk.
Ive really embraced the home life, he
said. Now I have all the nice midlife stuff:
Where did all my friends go? Theyre com-
mitted to their jobs and have these lives.
I keep waiting for a good friend, some-
one Ill hang out with outside of work. A
lot of jobs, places where you interact with
people a lot, you make friends. I some-
times hear a thing or two about students,
sometimes about their families, but Im
looking to make a friend.
But, Im 35. So, not everyone whos
20 wants to hang out with a 35-year-old.
At least, not 35-year-olds who want to go
skiing on weekdays or even weekends. Im
always looking for adventure buddies.
Ha, he laughs. Theres an empty solo
cup blowing down the road.
The last hour of his shift is quiet, until
2:45 a.m. when the stragglers call to get
their rides in before the shuttle service ends
at 3 a.m. This gives him time to clean the
van in a cement-walled garage behind the
security office and fill it up with gas from a
private pump turned on by the dispatcher.
The dispatcher, always a student, is the
last ride he takes home before returning
paperwork and clocking out at the Of-
fice of Safety and Security. He then drives
the van back to its home in the Stowe Inn
parking lot and trades out the keys for
those of his Chevy camper van.
He drives home to his family, often lis-
tening to the only CD that doesnt skip in
his deckLed Zeppelin. He might stop by
Rusty Lantern, a convenience store where
a friend of his works and the first place to
receive Frostys Donuts at 2 a.m.
Late in the semester the sun nearly rises
at four, when he gets off his shift. He then
sometimes passes his home in Phippsburg
and drives straight to Popham Beach,
where he waits in the quiet to see the first
rays over the Atlantic.
friday, april 21, 2017 the bowdoin orient features 7

Merit-based grants? Our pick: the best beer for your Ivies 2K17
Students reap enrichment
through Faculty Scholarships
By Alyce McFadden
Orient Staff
Each spring, the College offers a
Faculty Scholarship of $3,000 to 100
students who have been admitted
to Bowdoin through Regular Deci-
sion. The scholarship is contingent
on their acceptance of Bowdoins
admittance and can be used to fund
any enrichment activities, such as
research or internships, during the
students Bowdoin careers.
Faculty Scholar Gabriel Frankel
17, used his scholarship this past
spring break to travel to South by
I sent [the proposal] and five minutes later they
approved it. Then they just deposit that much
money in your accountits wild.
BRIGITTE MCFARLAND 18
Southwest, a music, technology and
film festival in Austin, Texas.
I was really happy just to get
into Bowdoin, and then to find out
that I had also been awarded the Fac-
ulty Scholarship was an amazing mo-
ment, he said.
According to Dean of Admissions
and Financial Aid Whitney Soule,
the scholarship is awarded to appli-
cants whom the Office of Admission
believes might be especially inter-
ested in pursuing an extracurricu-
lar project.
Its [intended] to honor some of
the qualities that we see in a student
who demonstrates an inclination to-
wards wanting to do independent re-
search, or someone who is showing a
lot of initiative, Soule said.
According to Soule, the scholar-
ships are not considered merit-
based aid because they do not di-
rectly augment a students tuition.
Soule explained that the Faculty
Scholarships are intended to make
Bowdoin a more attractive choice for
prospective students and incentivize
recipients to enroll at Bowdoin.
We want them to be thinking of
Bowdoin as a place where there are
opportunities for specialized re-
search and independent work and
we can facilitate that, Soule said.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
before they graduate on nearly any
project or pursuit that relates to their
interests or passions. In order to ac-
cess the scholarship money, student
recipients must meet with a represen-
tative from the Center for Co-Curric-
ular Opportunities and submit a brief
proposal and budget.
Brigitte McFarland 18 used her
scholarship to spend a summer in
San Francisco working as an unpaid
intern for the nonprofit organization
Educate Girls Globally.
I couldnt have been there if not
for that money, so that was really
nice, she said. That was a really
he requested instead that his friends
good situation because it was an un-
funded internship in a very expen-
sive city and this went a long way in
covering my rent.
McFarland decided to use the mon-
ey on this project during her sopho-
more year, and was surprised by how
easy the approval process was.
I sent [the proposal] in and five
minutes later they approved it, she
said. Then they just deposit that much
money in your accountits wild.
The process of deciding how to
spend the money might prove much
more challenging than accessing the
money itself. In February, Andrew
Cawley 17 realized he had not yet
used the scholarship and was deter-
mined to use $3,000 before graduat-
ing in May. He ultimately decided
to use the scholarship travel to Los
Angeles over spring break and spend
ten days in the city taking improv
classes with the Upright Citizens
Brigade comedy group.
I really like performing, its
something I want to do or want to
be involved with comedy or perfor-
mance in some regard after school,
he said.
Like Cawley, Frankel chose to use
his scholarship to gain experience
in the field he intends to enter after
graduation. Frankel, a cinema stud-
TAPPED OUT
By Nick Benson and Jae-Yeon Yoo
As Ivies quickly approaches, dear
Reader, a budget beer was very
much in the cards for this weeks is-
sue of Tapped Out. And in the end,
the choice was obvious. Our beer is
regularly available in the town of
Brunswick and comes in at less than
a dollar per can; yet, it is rarely (if
ever) spotted at our campus parties
and in our dorm rooms. Yes, it is the
king of cheap lagers: LaBatt Blue. Let
PBR no longer be the go-to choice
for frugal yet taste-conscious beer
loversLaBatt is the ultimate com-
promise between price and quality.
And while this was Jae-Yeons
first taste of LaBatt, for myself
(Nick), this beer runs deep. My late
unclea true devotee of cheap la-
gerstarted drinking this beer in
his teens. Tom didnt want a funeral;
it) taste the malt. It doesnt taste like
and family crack a few beers and hit
the ocean for a day of fishing. Every
time I break open a Blue, I think of
his kindness and humility. But make
no mistake, this beer is not just full
of my sentimentit is also a true,
back-to-basics lager.
So, what separates LaBatt from
its competitors? The answer is sim-
ple: flavor. Bud Lightsupposedly
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Appearance:
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Mouthfeel:
Taste:
Smashability:
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brewed with barley maltis so de-
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gluten intolerance are able to con-
sume it with no negative effect (dis-
claimer: if you are gluten intolerant,
dont listen to us; if you are celiac,
run for the hills). But whether or not
this is an urban legend, one thing is
for sure: similar rumors do not sur-
round LaBatt. This beer is a real la-
ger, and you can actually (wait for
carbonated toilet water with a dash
of stale urine; and that is, simply
put, what sets LaBatt apart.
Upon being poured, the beer
reveals a pale golden liquid with
very little head.
It is crisp, per-
fectly carbonated
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Stephen Decatur, Oh, heres to
other meetings, and merry greet-
ings then; and heres to those weve
drunk with, and never can again.
and just ever so slightly assertive.
Almost no aroma is produced. The
taste is light but present: pure Cana-
dian malt. And as quickly as it ar-
rives, it is gone. There is no lengthy
or complex finish, no delicate fla-
vor profile. LaBatt Blue is a truly
smashable beer. Move your Session
IPAs and your Dutch witbiers to one
sidethis job calls for a lager, and
that lager is LaBatt Blue.
So, where exactly does LaBatt
price? Give or take, it is easy to find
a 30 rack for around $20. Compari-
sons of full strength beers in this
range are always a matter of a couple
dollars, with the cheapest light beers
coming in at about four bucks less.
Dont get us wrong: if youre really
looking to save, go for a box of Nat-
ty Lights; it will only cost you about
$16. But when shopping for your
brews this Ivies, if you have two
dollars to spare, embrace the ad-
ventureput down that 30 of PBR
and pick up a case of LaBatts. This
is our official endorsement of LaBatt
Blue as the best beer for Ivies 2017
and indeed for all of your Bowdoin
weekends. This is just an all-around
wonderful drink, and we hope to see
you enjoying one soon.

But according to the faculty schol-
arships website, scholarships are dis-
tributed based on merit.
The Bowdoin Faculty Scholarship
Program recognizes and honors stu-
dents who have achieved excellence
in their academic work, rank high in
secondary school performance, bring
special talents to enrich the College,
and have demonstrable superior in-
tellectual skills to contribute to their
discipline of choice.
Soule declined to comment on the
specifics of how students are selected
to receive awards but said that it has
to do with students demonstrated
experiences and interests.
I dont like separating out the de-
tails of people because it takes away
the wholeness of who they are, she
said. What were looking for is dem-
onstrated in a lot of different ways
in students application. Theyre
showing in what they study, in what
they write, in what their teachers say
about them, in what theyre working
on academically already.
After matriculation, Faculty Schol-
ars can use the money at any point
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ies minor and aspiring film director,
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worked out, he said.
8 features
SOPHIE WASHINGTON
FROM PRESERVATION TO
LIBERATION
A simple phrase justified my self-
hatred. Thats so gay. I remember self to adopt a persona that protected
feeling numb as I stared into the eyes
of my friends mother, shocked as she
spoke the words in reference to her
sons unwarranted detention. If only
she knew.
I first realized that I was gay when
I turned eleven. I hated myself for it.
I told myself that this was something
I would never disclose. For the next
eight years of my life, I stuck by that
promise. I assured myself that be-
ing gay was something I could fix.
I slowly realized that this was not
the case. My sexual identity differed
from the other, conquerable, difficul-
ties I confronted. This realization as a
pre-teen devastated me. For the first
time, I faced a challenge for which
I had no solution. Growing up in a
conservative, rural town in north-
western New Jersey only made this
realization more difficult. I internal-
ized my anger. In middle school and
high school, I did everything possible
to ensure that my peers, family mem-
bers and friends never questioned
my sexuality. While I enjoyed sports,
their ability to disguise my sexuality
greatly added to their appeal. In ad-
dition, I feigned relationships with
females and pretended to like music
and television shows to fit a stereo-
typical straight male role. I was terri-
fied of looking weak and monitored
Talk of the Quad
ART LESSONS
I have a cheap Rich-
ard Prince print on my
dorm-room wall from
his Untitled (Fashion)
series. I downloaded
the image from the in-
ternet and turned it into
a poster. (I figured this
would be within bounds
based on Princes own rela-
tionship with appropriating oth-
ers work.) I like the image because
its simple and suggests our own
complicity in consumer culture by
appropriating what was originally a
magazine ad.
So, when a friend of mine came
over recently and suggested that the
poster was nothing more than an
aesthetically appealing image of a
fake-looking model, it upset me. I
tried to explain that in this rendering
the work also acted as a commentary
on the very issue she had with it and
further place it in the historical con-
text of trends in emerging art of the
early 1980sa time when my par-
ents were coming of age as artists in
New York City. I dont know that I
got my message across.
For a long time, I never thought
that I would write those two para-
everything I said and did in order to
conform to acceptable gender norms.
I was frightened of slipping up. My
fear and self-hatred became an ex-
tremely heavy burden. I forced my-
I felt at Bowdoin only exaggerated the
me. While I loved my small town,
I knew what it expected of me as a
male and I mechanically delivered.
Fortunately, Bowdoin was differ-
ent. I knew I had the ability to be
upfront and honest with myself and
others here. I knew that this move
from a working-class town with
strict, traditional values to an elite,
progressive college campus was my
best chance to begin anew. Some-
thing that crossed my mind every
hour of my childhood and caused
so much anxiety and negativity was
less-than-shocking news at Bowdoin.
It was an amazing realization that
nobody I met or associated with on
this campus looked at my sexuality
as a measure of my worth or who I
was as a human being. Nonetheless,
I knew that the acceptance that I
felt within the Bowdoin Bubble, in
spaces like Moulton Union and Ladd
House, would not protect me forever.
As I became more comfortable with
my sexuality here, it became increas-
ingly difficult to maintain the faade I
wore at home. When I got off the plane
in Newark for my first break from col-
lege, I became the straight, fictional
version of myself that eleven-year-old
me had created nearly a decade be-
fore. I scrutinized my own thoughts
and became cold and unemotion-
altraits that protected me in high
school. As successive breaks came and
went, I grew increasingly tired of ex-
plaining to my aunt or father
or cousin that the women
the bowdoin orient
graphs or really care a lick for the
issues Richard Prince is addressing
in his work. I am the only child of a
photographer and a choreographer,
and I share a name with Alexan-
der Calder, the American sculptor.
Growing up, though, this felt like
more of an inconvenience than any-
thing else.
I had an immensely privileged
childhood; I was able to attend a pri-
vate school in New York for all of my
primary education, and my parents
were well-off enough that we could
go on vacations every spring. That
privilege, though, manifested itself
in a different manner than that of
many of my classmates, who were
the children of bankers, lawyers
and doctors. The way I saw it, not
only did they live in massive apart-
ments, but rather than be dragged
to downtown New York dance per-
formances and esoteric museums on
vacation, they were living a bougie
AND family-friendly lifestyle. I
was experiencing the incredible cul-
tural hot-bed that is New York, but
my friends werent, and because they
werent, I didnt want to either. the importance of a unique culture
Lots of children struggle with
fitting in, but for me, the need to Mets posters from the first days
do so sometimes felt compulsive. I
wanted everyone to like me, no mat-
ter how much I disliked them. It
I talked about and had pictures with
on social media were just friends, not
girlfriends. The heterosexual identity
I once depended on became a heavy
burden as time passed. The liberation
weight of this mask I wore at home,
prohibiting me from articulating to
my parents the amazing experiences
I had at Bowdoin. I found it much
easier to be straightforward about
my sexuality with friends than with
my parents.
To be clear, my mom and dad are
extremely accepting people. How-
ever, I hesitated to tell them because
I was almost certain that they envi-
sioned my future, as their only son,
to include biological grandchildren,
a daughter-in-law and a continua-
tion of the family name. I was not
ready to break it to them that the
wedding they imagined for me
would never happen.
By the time I returned for sopho-
more year, I still hadnt told my par-
ents. I returned to campus in the fall
feeling guilty that the two people I
loved the most were still left in the
dark. By second semester, the guilt
was overwhelming. So, three weeks
ago I messaged my parents and told
them. I know a lot of people prob-
ably think texting is one of the worst
ways to announce something so per-
sonal, but I believed that my sexual
preferences did not warrant such a
formal sit-down. As I had predicted,
both of them were extremely accept-
ing. According to my sister, my dad
is now outspoken at the dinner table
about LGBT rights. Two years ago,
I would never have imagined be-
ing so authentically confident and
comfortable without
seemed to me that the best way to go
about this was to be the same as my
classmates. So, my parents unique
lifestyle and our lack of a huge TV
on which my friends and I could
play Call of Duty became a frustra-
tion. (Pretty much as soon as I left
for college my parents finally caved,
graduating from our old 18 TV to a
full-sized flat-screen.)
I always admitted an appreciation
for the art that my mom and dad
created themselves, but my irrita-
tion at their difference manifested
itself in a refusal to consider the
importance of other works. Some of
the biggest fights I ever got in with
my mom came from my suggestions
that I could do exactly what Jackson
Pollack did, to give one of a disturb-
ing array of potential examples.
While I began to grow into myself
as a unique person in high school,
my refusal to adopt a nuanced un-
derstanding of art mostly continued.
When I came to Bowdoin, though,
my attitude began to shift. In my
Classical Political Philosophy class,
I found myself the chief defender of
something original. My mom and
within the ideal city. My New York
In that particular way, I now want to
of freshman year still hang in my
room, but theyve been joined by the
Richard Prince, a piece by a graphic
the guise that
the scared and
isolated eleven-
year-old created
to protect himself.
I am aware how
lucky I am. My par-
ents were extremely
accepting of my sex-
uality. As a white male
from the middle class, I
have privileges that many do
not. It took an institution built from
elitism and wealth to help me find
contentment, and I cannot imagine
how hard it must be for those with-
out such advantages. I must thank
my friends, peers and professors at
Bowdoin for helping me help my-
self. To my friends and family back
in New Jersey, thank you for the
support. And to everyone who is
uncomfortable with their sexuality
friday, april 21, 2017
designer whos a family friend and
a little wall art I made myself using
some paint chips.
Maybe Ive felt the need to defend
artistic expressions of difference be-
cause at Bowdoin having a different
colored Vineyard Vines shirt for ev-
ery day of the week and a strong love
of the New England Patriots pro-
vides more than sufficient cultural
relevance. I think its more than that,
however. I think being at Bowdoin
has made me confident in being dif-
ferent. I have friends from all around
the world with vastly different back-
grounds and interests. And while I
poke fun at Bowdoins (lack of ) di-
versity, Ive found a group of people
here who are excited by uniqueness.
The saying goes that we eventu-
ally all become our parents, whether
we like it or not. This essay might
appear to be evidence of that. I think
its something else. I think it took
growing up, being happily weird
with friends, expressing unpopu-
lar opinions and living in the ways
I want, to better understand my
parents dogged pursuit of creating
dad are each like no one else I know.
grow up to be exactly like them.
Calder McHugh is a member of the
Class of 2019.
BROOKE GODDARD
and may or may not have certain
support systems and privileges, I
am here.
Michael Walsh is a member of the
Class of 2019.
friday, april 21, 2017
AT HOME IN ALL LANDS?
Photos by Ann Basu
International students face unique barriers at Bowdoinand in the United States after graduation
By Julian Andrews and Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
Five percent of Bowdoin students
are classified as nonresident aliens,
the U.S. government term for individ-
uals who do not hold U.S. passports
and are not permanent residents. The
College typically refers to this group
as international students.
Both the number and percentage of
non-resident alien students at Bowdoin
are the lowest of any school in the NES-
CAC. Hamilton has the second-lowest
percentage, with 6.5 percent of its student
body composed of international students.
Colby, which has the highest percentage
of international students of any NESCAC
school, has 10.6 percent.
According to Admissions, about 10
percent of the student body either carries
a non-U.S. passport or hails from outside
the United States. While all these students
bring international perspectives to the
College, students who are nonresident
aliens face unique institutional barri-
erssuch as visa requirements and work
restrictionsthat other students do not
have to think about and encounter termi-
nology that most of the student body does
not know.
Im an F-1 student, and Im a non-
resident alien for tax purposes. I need my
I-20 and soon I will file for my OPT, said
Parikshit Sharma 17, an international stu-
dent from India. All these little things that
earlier I didnt even care about institutions
swept into my life.
GETTING IN
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Whitney Soule attributes Bowdoins low
international student population to less
international recruiting.
We have a smaller proportion of inter-
national students compared to our peer
[schools], she said. My guess is we do
less international travel and have made
less of a focused effort in where we are de-
ploying our people.
The proportion of international appli-
cants exceeds that of the international stu-
dents who ultimately matriculate to Bow-
doin. For the class of 2021, 13.2 percent of
applicants were international students and
7.7 percent of these students were admit-
tedsignificantly lower than Bowdoins
overall acceptance rate of 13.4 percent.
Soule noted that the number of interna-
tional students accepted, 74, was actually
greater this year than last.
While international students generally
follow the same application procedure as
domestic students, students for whom
English is not their first language must
also submit results from the Test of Eng-
lish as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or
the International English Language Test-
ing System (IELTS).
One of the things that we do well and need to continue to
strive to do well is to engage with the broad problems with
the world and in the world. Bringing the world to campus is
a great aspect of that.
PRESIDENT CLAYTON ROSE
The greatest difference in the admis-
sions process for international students
is the need-aware policy for financial students because we know they can pay.
aid. For domestic students, the process is
need-based.
Colby and Amherst are the only NES-
CAC schools that are need-blind for inter-
national applicants.
For the non-U.S. passport holders, we
do know whether or not theyve applied
for aid, and we do have an understand-
the bowdoin orient
ing of how much it might cost for us to
enroll the students that weve admitted,
Soule said.
Son Ngo 17, who is from Vietnam,
said his family considered how Bowdoin
would recognize their needs when he
was applying.
When I applied, I had to think a lot
aboutobviously we have to be as hon-
est as possible about how much we can
contribute, but sometimes we might say,
Should we try to say we can pay more so
[I] have a higher chance even though its
going to require us maybe taking loans
from outside or working much harder?
Ngo said.
However, Dean of International Stu-
dents Khoa Khuong said that Bowdoin
does not seek to build a class purely of
international students who can pay Bow-
doins full price, as is sometimes assumed.
I think part of the misconception is
also [that] a lot of schools ... really look for
students who can pay full [tuition], Khu-
ong said. Bowdoin is not one of those.
Fortunately, because we are in a good
financial standing, we dont at all target
The numbers support Khuongs claim.
Bowdoin meets full demonstrated need
for international students who are admit-
ted. Forty percent of international stu-
dents receive financial aid with an average
aid package of $47,118, according to the
Colleges Common Data Set. For com-
parison, 45 percent of the student body
(CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT:) Victoria Pitaktong 17, Bra Eriz 17,
Parikshit Sharma 17, Aziza Janmohamed 19
as a whole receives financial aid, with an
average aid package of $43,352.
Currency conversions pose an extra
hurdle for both the College and interna-
tional students when it comes to calcu-
lating aid packages. Sharma recalled the
complexities in negotiating his financial
aid after his acceptance.
My father had moved from a corpo-
rate to a government job, so while our
financials and income tax returns were
from his previous job we were losing a
lot of money just because he was in tran-
sition, he said. So that was something I
had to negotiate with Bowdoin...It was
also strange because everything had to be
converted into U.S. dollars and this was
also a time where the conversion factor
was fluctuating a lot.
J.P. Hughes 17, who is a dual Brit-
ish and American citizen, experienced a
similar problem last fall when the British
pound depreciated after the country voted
to exit the European Union.
They dont take into account currency
issues, Hughes said. Normally its fine,
but this year the pound has basically col-
lapsed so when they sought out what [I
am] eligible for and what [I am] going to
pay and stuff Its a really long process.
Before arriving at Bowdoin, interna-
tional students must secure a visa to al-
low them to study in the United States.
The College issues students an I-20 form,
which proves that they have been accepted
and allows them to apply for an F-1 visa.
Bureaucracy is definitely the worst
thing youll have to deal with in your life
so I remember getting stressed over that
for a bit, said Bra Eriz 17, an interna-
tional student from Turkey.
Sharma remembered feeling surprised
by the content of some of the forms.
I still remember and [the form] re-
ally has questions like, Have you been af-
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filiated to a terrorist organization? Check
yes, check no. Will you ever in the future
smuggle arms into the U.S.? Check yes,
check no, he said.
GETTING A JOB
Once international students arrive at
Bowdoin, they must obtain a social secu-
rity number before they can work an on-
campus job.
Aziza Janmohamed 19, a Canadian
citizen who attended high school in Paki-
stan, began working as a tour guide dur-
ing the spring of her first year.
I needed my visa papers, my passport,
a letter from my employer [and] a letter
from the College itself, she said. I had to
go to the social security office in Portland
[to] turn in all the papers Once my
social security number came through I
started to be able to get paid.
Sharma had slightly more trouble ob-
taining his social security number, since
his first year fall coincided with the 2013
U.S. government shutdown, which closed
the social security office.
One of the things I remember telling
my parents about that night when I was
Skyping was that in India, the government
stays. India is pretty dysfunctional, but we
do have a functional government most of
the time. You can have electricity or no
electricity, but the government doesnt
shut down, Sharma said. Here youll
have everything you want but the govern-
ment might shut down. So that delayed
my process for another two weeks.
While international students are al-
lowed to work up to 20 hours per week
on campuslike any other Bowdoin stu-
dentthe F-1 visa does not allow them to
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INTERNATIONAL
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get paid for work off campus, including
work at summer internships.
Some international students opt to
work on campus over the summer so
they can get paid. Others take unpaid
internships and receive grants from
Bowdoin to cover their costs or return
to their homes outside the United States.
The F-1 visa confers students a ben-
efit known as Optional Practical Train-
ing (OPT), which allows students to
work for pay for up to 12 months in a
field related to their major. Students are
allowed to use their OPT time over the
summers; however, most choose to and
are advised to save OPT time for after
graduation when they can take a full-
time job.
It has to be related to your major,
what you study, Ngo said. As [an] inter-
national student, being passionate about
something is actually not just [enough]
if you want to stay in the U.S.
There is a $410 fee which must be
paid every time students apply for OPT.
Students majoring specifically in STEM
fields can also apply for an OPT exten-
sion, which lengthens their OPT time
by an additional 24 months.
When their OPT expires, students
must obtain a visa another way to be able
to stay in the United States. The most com-
mon visa for skilled workers is an H-1B,
which employers submit on behalf of
worker they would like to hire. However,
the number of visas is capped and not all
applications are accepted. Because of fees
and uncertainty associated with sponsor-
ing an H-1B visa, some firms avoid hiring
international students.
The federal government only is-
sues 85,000 H-1B visas each year,
although certain nonprofit and re-
search jobs do not count toward this
number. When the application pe-
riod for H-1B visas opened earlier
this month, 85,000 applications were
submitted within the first four days.
Last year, there were 236,000 total ap-
plicants for H-1B visas, yielding just
a 36 percent success rate.
Eriz, who is a Government and Le-
gal Studies and German double major,
was frustrated by the number of jobs
that would allow her to use her OPT
time but would not be able to sponsor
a visa for her afterward.
I was like, Oh, by the way, Im an
international student and so can you
check if I can actually apply, or do you
guys sponsor? she said. He was like,
Oh, we dont sponsor, you can only
work for one year and youre welcome
to apply if thats something you want to
[do]. That happened a bunch of times.
After a year, what happens is they
might sponsor you, but if you dont get
picked in the lottery to get this visa you
still cant stay, Eriz added. And if your
firm wants you to stay, they cant keep
you because the government is basically
kicking you out.
Some American colleges, includ-
ing many NESCAC schools, authorize
Curricular Practical Training (CPT)
for international students, which allows
students to take internships or other
practical training opportunities that
If you dont get picked in the lottery to get this
visa you still cant stay. And if your firm wants
you to stay, they cant keep you because the
government is basically kicking you out.
BRA ERIZ 17
are considered a part of an established
curriculum, without counting as their
OPT time. Because Bowdoin does not
typically allow students to obtain col-
lege credit for internships, international
students do not have the option of us-
ing CPT during their summers, which
often severely restricts their employ-
ment options.
(FROM LEFT:) J.P. Hughes 17, Rita Chen 20, Son Ngo 17, Hassaan Mirza 17.
The dearth of American employ-
ers willing to sponsor visas make it
difficult for international students to
benefit from resources such as the
Career Planning Center (CPC). Some
international students expressed frus-
tration with the CPCs lack of compe-
tence in navigating the employment
process for international students.
[The CPC] just keeps suggesting me
companies that I cannot apply to. Its re-
ally sad, Ngo said. Its not their fault
thoughthey really try to help you.
Hassaan Mirza 17, an international
student from Pakistan, expressed a
similar sentiment about the CPC.
I talked to them about, Hey what
can I do? And they were like Go to this
website. I was like OK I can go to this
website but this is really not helping,
why are you getting paid for this? Then
they were like Oh go to LinkedIn and
find other Pakistani students and ask
them what they did, Mirza said. They
said, There was this Pakistani stu-
dent my year, she was so great, she did
something with the White House, and
Im like, But shes an American citizen, Bowdoins social scene.
theres a difference if you dont have the
paperwork for it. So I think they were
very unhelpful in that regard.
Mirza, an English major, said he is
considering graduate school. This op-
tion allows him to stay in the United
States on a graduate student visa.
Director of Career Planning Timo-
thy Diehl said companies that tend to
be able to sponsor H-1B visas are usu-
ally large, multinational companies and
those that do so are marked on eBear,
the Colleges job board.
Additionally, funded internships
through the CPC are one of the major
ways that international students are able
to stay in the United States during the
summer. Career planning employees
meet annually with Khuong to be up-
dated on the latest policies.
Were providing the same portfolio of
services whether theyre a citizen or not,
so theres not any distinction in working
with students that are international in
terms of the tools that were helping them
build, [the] skills that were helping them
develop, said Diehl. The differences
come into play when employers in differ-
ent industries have different hiring prac-
the bowdoin orient
tices, which obviously we dont person-
ally control. Our goal is to help students
navigate the realities of the market for
which theyre interested.
SOCIAL LIFE
Along with the practical difficulties as-
sociated with attending school in a foreign
country, many international students find
challenges in adjusting to Bowdoins social
culture. The alcohol and party culture, in
particular, are areas where some students
do not immediately feel welcome.
I was new to seeing how people social-
ize, and I think my proctor didnt really
think about that or understand that, so I
was at my first pub night and I was like
What the hell is happening here? I feel
so uncomfortable, Mirza said. Because
in my culture the idea of drinking is so
demonized [that] I felt really uncomfort-
able. At Bowdoin, often times socializing
involves alcohol and partying and both of
those things I was very new to.
These types of differences can exac-
erbate culture shock and further stratify
also plays out in everyday interactions and
I just found a really interesting phe-
nomenon that like all of the international
students tend to hang out together and
those domestic students tend to hang out
together, said Rita Chen 20, an inter-
national student from China. It doesnt
make me uncomfortable; its just true.
Bowdoin international students tend
to stick to their own communities because
they feel comfortable there and they dont
feel comfortable in lots of parts of Bow-
doins social scene, said Mirza. Bowdoin
doesnt do a good job of integrating them
or inviting them into spaces.
Some international students are
white; others are students of color.
Many international students are a part
of the majority racial or ethnic group in
their home country and must navigate
being in the minority in an entirely new
cultural context in the United States.
You cant quite fit in in the main-
stream group of people on campus if
youre not white, like if youre a POC
international student, so youre already
kind of excluded in that way, said Vic-
toria Pitaktong 17, who grew up in
Thailand. But you [also cant] be in the
POC community either because you
dont understand the politics, so theres
that double exclusion.
Bowdoins international student pop-
ulation is both small and diverse. While
international students make up only 5
percent of Bowdoins population, they
come from over 30 countries. Many
international students share the similar
experience of entering a new culture,
but they rarely share cultural back-
grounds with one another.
Both Mirza and Pitaktong spoke to the
difficulty of creating a group that could
provide support or advocate for inter-
national students on issues pertaining to
specific cultural origins.
The international student body isnt a
very cohesive bodyand its not as large
of a body that if one faction was vocal
enough theyd get represented. I can un-
derstand why thats a problem when you
They can listen which is great but [they]
dont understand what it feels like to be
constantly excluded.
VICTORIA PITAKTONG 17
try to engage with international students,
like who do you get? Theres no interna-
tional students association that can speak
for all international students, Mirza said.
The exclusion of international students
a rough draftlike nobody is going to
events. Sharma remembers the day dur-
ing his first year when the Red Cross came
to campus for a blood drive. He went,
having given blood with the Red Cross in
India before, but he was told he could not
donate because he had lived in a country
where malaria was prevalent.
Thats when I literally felt that, Oh
yeah, you literally dont want my blood,
he said.
International students also face restric-
tions on travel. Many stay on campus
over breaks, as the cost of flying home
is prohibitive.
When I went home for winter break,
it took me something like 30 hours from
when I left my dorm to when I entered
my house. Its definitely different than if
you live just outside of Boston, Janmo-
hamed said.
IN THE CLASSROOM
Although social life plays a big part
in international students experiences
on campusas it does for every stu-
dentboth domestic and international
students typically choose Bowdoin for
its academics.
Colleges and universities in the United
States are considered the best around the
world, Chen said. Thats why Im here. guided me.
In a social culture that can feel stratified
and isolating at times, some students find
that classwork serves as an equalizer.
The classroom doesnt care where
we came from, said Sharma. Theres so
many points of unification. For example,
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I do math homework with people who
come from an entirely different back-
ground, but a hard homework hits us all
equally hard.
While students at Bowdoin have ac-
cess to the same experiences in the class-
room, there are some features of being
international that present roadblocks,
including language barriersand some
people are more understanding than
others. Chen described a negative expe-
rience with peer editing.
The one and the only bad thing that
happened to me as an international stu-
dent was that when I was in my first-year
seminar and we were doing peer edit-
ing on a rough draft, she said. Its just
but still its more unique that youre not
work on every wordand then a boy
who happened to be peer editing my
paper [said] Did you Google Translate
it? Im like, This is really offensive. I
was so depressed.
The period of adjustment to Bow-
doin academics can be more difficult
for many international students than
for domestic students, especially for
students who come from countries or
schooling pedagogies that differ from
what is expected at Bowdoin. Many
international schools are taught in the
British system, which emphasizes end-
of-year exams and requires students to
make decisions about their specific field
of study much earlier in their schooling
than the U.S. education system does.
Additionally, some skill sets that are
considered common knowledge for do-
mestic students pose problems for some
international students.
I didnt know how to do citations,
said Mirza. I failed the literacy/library
test they make you take over the sum-
mer and no one reached out to me and
said, Hey this is how you cite and why
you cite, [and this is how you] write a
college paper in the way that people
want at Bowdoin. All of that was new
to me and I dont think anyone really
Study abroad is a quintessential as-
pect of many students academic experi-
encesmore than half of Bowdoin ju-
niors choose to study abroad. Friendly
visa arrangements with many countries
allow U.S. students to live and study
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around the world fairly easily, but for
international students who do not have
U.S. citizenship, the process can be far
more difficult.
When Eriz was applying for a stu-
dent visa to study abroad in Germany,
the consulate asked her to open a Ger-
man bank account and put money into
it in order to prove she could afford the
semestersteps American students
do not typically go through. Bowdoins
financial aid was not prepared to put
money for Eriz in a German bank ac-
count but sent a letter to the consulate
explaining how her financial aid would
cover her expenses.
Eriz also had to send her passport to
the consulate in Boston and, after con-
siderable delays, she considered pull-
ing her application in order to get her
passport back in time to return home to
Turkey. She ended up getting it back just
in time for her visit home to her fam-
ily. She said figuring out the logistical
details of her study abroad took most of
the summer after her sophomore year.
I know a lot of people go abroad,
a U.S. citizen, but youre going abroad
from a U.S. college. The process is differ-
ent because you have to apply for visas
Bowdoin is the least international NESCAC.
Percentage of international students at NESCAC schools
Bowdoin
Amherst
Bates
Colby
Conn College
Hamilton
Middlebury
Trinity
Tufts
Wesleyan
Williams
0%
SOURCED FROM NESCAC SCHOOL WEBSITES
2%
that a [U.S.] citizen doesnt have to ap-
ply to, said Eriz. It worked out thanks
to patient people in the financial aid and
study away office.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTION
President Clayton Rose affirmed the
importance of having international stu-
dents on campus.
One of the things that we do well and
need to continue to strive to do well is to
engage with the broad problems with the
world and in the world, he said. Bringing
the world to campus is a great aspect of that,
and having a diverse mix of students, some
of whomas aspects of that diversity
bring experiences from being born and
raised in other countries is an aspect of that
as well. In a world that is globalizing quickly,
one that is getting very small in many re-
spects, and where our fates are deeply inter-
connected, there is enormous virtue in that.
While benefits available to any Bow-
doin student are technically available for
all students, there are services that do not
directly translate as well to international
students. Several students mentioned the with the support he was looking for, insisting
CPC, where visa restrictions make the
type of career counseling other Bowdoin
students receive less relevant. But even
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9.4%
6.9%
10.6%
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9.5%
10.3%
10.3%
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in areas where visa laws have no bearing,
several students expressed disappoint-
ment in the support they received from
the Bowdoin administration and commu-
nity. This lack of support does not come
from callousness, but rather from what
many international students feel is a lack
of understanding of their circumstances.
Theres a barrier almost, where at the
most there can be empathy for me, but I
cant find a place to talk about stuff. For
instance, Pakistan has been going through
some difficult times, particularly rough in
my sophomore year there was a bunch of
really horrendous terrorist attacks, said
Mirza. There was one terrorist attack
that has been seared in the mind, kind
of like 9/11 in some ways, in which these
terrorists go into this school and literally
slaughter 130 kids and teachers. It was a
huge thing, and everyone in Pakistan still
remembers it as a traumatic thing, and no
one at Bowdoin reached out to me. No
one even knew about it.
After a different terrorist attack in his
hometown, Mirzas dean reached out to
him, but he said she did not provide him
on meeting with him and talking when he
felt she lacked the cultural context to really
understand what was happening.
Its a difficult thing to approach so
I understand you know, its difficult for
anyone to talk about, especially if you
dont share that identity, like how can you
talk about it, he said. She was like, The
counseling center is a great resource for
times like these, and I was like You have
no connection to what is happening in
my life ... Often in those moments Ive felt
kind of left alone and isolated.
Even when he did try counseling, Mirza
felt his counselor was not aware of how his
nationality might impact his experience at
Bowdoin, or how cultural differences and
stigmas surrounding issues like mental ill-
ness and sexual assault might impact his
relationship with his counselor. At times,
he felt like he was asked to educate his
counselor, rather than receiving support.
Pitaktong expressed similar concerns.
They can listen, which is great, but
[they] dont understand what it feels like to
be constantly excluded, she said.
In some areas, the administration has
listened to international students concerns
and made changes. Orientation trips, which
send new first years across the state of Maine
for four days after their initial arrival at the
College, were one aspect of the Bowdoin ex-
perience with which international students
said they struggled.
Khuong spoke to these concerns.
A lot of them, theyve flown from across
the world, so they are extremely jetlagged,
and what do we do normally? We put them
in Farley Field House, make them sleep on
the ground with 500 other students whom
theyve never met, and the next day wake
them up early and send them to the woods
and let them sleep in the woods, Khuong
said. They dont get the same experience
the benefitas other students.
This year, for the first time, interna-
tional students had the option of flying to
campus a few days early to partake in an
(FROM LEFT:) Son Ngo 17, Victoria Pitaktong 17, Parikshit Sharma 17,
Bra Eriz 17, Aziza Janmohamed 19.
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orientation experience designed just for
them. Chen said she thought the experi-
ence was a good one.
We just got familiar with campus
resources for international students,
for example, the Kanbar learning and
studying center. We talked to [Khuong]
about international students on cam-
pus and we basically spent a day around
Brunswick just getting familiar with
each other, she said. It was a very inter-
esting experience because like during the
orientation days everyone just came very
overwhelmed but we got to say, Hi to
people we already knew.
Orientation represents one area where
Bowdoin can directly affect the experiences
of international students. In some areas, the
College is limitedit cannot prevent ter-
rorist attacks in students home countries or
increase the number of H-1B visas available.
The thing is theres only so much Bow-
doin can do when the name of the game is
set up by these institutions, right? Sharma
said. So even if my dean is like, Oh, Im so
sorry you have to file all these forms, at the
end of the day I have to come back and start
filing them. Theres nothing Bowdoin can do.
At the same time, many international
students feel there are some areas where
the College could provide more support.
Bowdoin has to reconsider why they
want international students on campus,
said Mirza. The idea is, Oh their diverse
voices will help create the College and a
more multicultural space, a better place
to learn, exchange of thoughts, ideas.
But then if Bowdoin doesnt do a good
enough of a job in trying to help those
students assimilate or adapt to life at the
College, then they will just stick to them-
selves and that engagement doesnt really
happen. Then it just becomes a figure in
a pie chart where you say 5 percent of
Bowdoin is international.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sargent Gymnasium used as theatrical space in Spelling Bee
By Claudia Pou
Orient Staff
In ways equally endearing and en-
tertaining, student-run theater troupe
Beyond the Proscenium (BTP) will
present The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee this evening in
an unconventional venue for a musi-
cal: Sargent Gymnasium. Following
six preteens competing in a spell-
ing bee run by three quirky adults,
the show hopes to capture the perils
of adolescence.
Following BTPs aim to bring theater
to non-traditional spaces, the setting of
Sargent Gymnasium is particularly fit-
ting for a show about a middle school
spelling bee, and Sargent will be deco-
rated accordingly to provide the audi-
ence with an immersive experience.
This non-traditional setting brought
some challenges to the show at first.
When we first rehearsed in there
about a week ago we were all a little
shocked, we werent quite prepared
for the acoustics, said Tori Clarke 17,
who is playing adult comfort coun-
selor Mitch Mahoney.
The cast is now confident that it has
adjusted well and thinks the setting
will add to the show. ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
I think its really fun, it will totally
add flavor to the show and I think
SPELL IT OUT: (LEFT) Emma
itll provoke a lot of laughs too, said Newbery 19, who plays a spelling bee
Adam Glynn 17. contestant in the show, performs The I
To bring a different personality to Love You Song during a dress rehearsal
each show, the production also re- on Wednesday evening. (BOTTOM)
quires audience participationfor The cast of The 25th Annual Putnam
each performance, four audience County Spelling Bee, comprised of Sally
members are invited up to spell until Rose Zuckert 19, Liam Finnerty 17, Olivia
they are eliminated.
Atwood 17, Phoebe Smukler 17, Adam
Its a different experience for the
audience, because some of them will
Glynn 17, Emma Newbery 19 and Charlie
be part of it and some of them will Campbell-Decock 17 debut the musi-
know people who are just themselves cals opening number. (RIGHT) Charlie
on stage. Thats cool, thats a funny Campbell-Decock 17 strikes a pose.
part of it, said director Cordelia
Orbach 17. think this one will be really fun, and when they become the most relatable, enough for it to still provoke cringes but
While audience participation and really funny, said Glynn. said Clarke. for it to definitely be funny, so I think SEE IT YOURSELF
an unconventional venue will change Though the entirety of the nar- While it may appear unusual for this is an appropriate time to do it, said
the pace of this piece from Bowdoins rative is set at the spelling bee, the college students to play preteen char- Glynn. We are toeing the line between The 25th Annual Putnam County
typical theater offerings, the light- audience learns more about each acters, the actors felt their experiences characterizing middle schoolers, you Spelling Bee will be performed tonight
hearted tone of the show is enough to character through flashbacks as they today werent too far removed from know, inspired by our own experiences, and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Sargent
make it stand out. spell their words. the roles they are playing. and kind of humanizing them as well, as Gymnasium. Tickets are $1 at the Smith
Thereve been a lot of really heavy They become more complete peo- Were only eight to 12 years out from well as seeing the connections to the ac- Union Info Desk or at the door.
shows, as far as the content, and I ple in that way, and I think that that is that period of our lives, so its recent tor as an adult.

G Yamazawa to translate Japanese-American identity into poetry with slam performance

By Surya Milner
Orient Staff
Raised in an immigrant house-
hold in North Carolina, George G
Yamazawa was 17 years old when
he decided to become a slam poet.
Identifying as both Japanese and
American, he often felt simultane-
ously at home and out of place.
This evening, G will perform
an eclectic mix of slam poetry and
hip-hop to conclude Asian Heritage
Month. Focused on issues of Asian
American identity and the impor-
tance of family and solidarity, his
work promises to be empowering as
well as accessible to all audiences.
I like to translate difficult aspects
of the human experience in ways
that my immigrant parents would
understand, that anyone, whether
theyre old or young or educated,
from whatever background or re-
gion from the United States, would
understand, Yamazawa said in an
phone interview with the Orient.
Yamazawas work has garnered him
recognition at the international level.
He has been named National Poetry
Slam Champion, Individual World
Poetry Slam Finalist and co-founder
of Sacrificial Poets, North Carolinas
pioneer youth poetry organization.
For Yamazawa, his interest in po-
etry began as a childhood passion
that soon transformed into a medi-
um of cultural exploration. Because
his identity as an Asian Ameri-
can was felt primarily through his
Asian appearance and a desire to
assimilate, he said, it wasnt until he
pursued slam poetry that he was able
to put words to those experiences.
I think poetry taught me the im-
portance of my culture and upbring-
ing. Even though I grew up in the
South, I also grew up in a Japanese
home, said Yamazawa. It definitely
shaped a huge part of my life. Its ev-
erything...You ultimately learn how
to code switch, and I think there are
negative and positive qualities in
that inherently.
You gain something from that,
too, he added. At a young age Ive
learned how to focus on trying my
best to communicate and harmonize
with whoevers in front of me.
Yamazawa translates his concern
with establishing connections into
his poetry, which often bridges the
gaps between complex identities
through the lens of familial and cul-
tural experience. Throughout his
verse, Yamazawa emphasizes the im-
portance of appreciation, regardless
of identity.
I want a lot of my work to come
from a place of gratitude, Yamaza-
wa said. Whether peoples rela-
tionships with their families are tu-
multuous or lovely, I hope it makes
people simply reflect on their family
I think that family karma is that
deepest form of karma and context
for the way that you are in the world,
and its something that Im grateful
to share.
It was Benjamin Harris, direc-
tor of the student center for multi-
cultural life who suggested that the
Asian Student Association (ASA)
bring Yamazawa to campus as the fi-
nal piece of programming for Asian
Heritage Month for his dynamic, en-
gaging message.
When it comes to Asian Ameri-
can identity and Asian identity,
many times students feel silenced.
They dont feel like people give
them a voice when it comes to issues
around race, culture and what that
means, said Harris.
[Yamazawas] work is empower-
ing, not just to the Asian commu-
nity, but other minoritized groups as
well, he said. Poetry is a great way
that people can express that solidar-
ity with other minoritized groups,
but also to express a resilience and
an artistic way of expressing resis-
tance to many systems in our soci-
ety that oppress people and silence
people.
Chareeda Rustanavibul 18, the
treasurer of ASA, echoed Harris
sentiment. She expects Yamazawas
message to be one that resonates with
the entire audience, not just Asian
Americans or other minorities.
Theyre all issues that people can
relate totheres intersectionality,
she said. Just being aware and edu-
cated is, in my opinion, very impor-
tant. Its why Asian Heritage Month
is not only celebratory but also an-
other way to educate and open peo-
ples eyes.
Yamazawa hopes to immerse au-
diences not only in his narrative, but
in their own personal ones as well.
People are really caught up and
confused about what to do with
their lives and how to best con-
tribute to society without actually
asking what makes them happy and
what makes them who they are,
Yamazawa said. Its an honor for
me to be at a place in society where
someone could look up videos of
my work and feel that it has the
potency to be brought to their cam-
pus. Its a huge honor and I dont
take it lightly at all.
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Lore of young brilliance: Audre Inuit artist Becky Qilavvaq
Lorde and unapologetic feminism melds clothing and culture
Penelope Lusk
BOOK CLUB
My beloved friend Caroline likes
writing, Craisins, GSWS Jeopardy
and dancing. She dislikes the Chain-
smokers, New England ignorance of
Midwest geography and the modern
commodification of feminism. As the
result of more major/minor switches
than anyone else I know, she is a
proud Gender, Sexuality, and Wom-
ens Studies (GSWS)/German double
major with a math minorCaroline
leaves no stone unturned. She is a
force of quiet knowledge; I admire
her own educated opinions and also
her ability to listen equally to the
opinions of other peopleboth
those less educated, and
those who offer her
new opportunities to
think and learn.
Carolines choice
for the book that
has most influ-
enced her is Sis-
ter Outsider, a
collection of essays
and speeches writ-
ten by the black les-
bian feminist Audre
Lorde. I was familiar
with Lordes poetry
and also with the
lore of
her young brilliance that remains in
the hallways of the high school we
both attended. I had never read her
non-fiction, and I was dually excited,
firstly because I admire Lordes artis-
tic work, and secondly because I was
eager for a glimpse into the feminist
works that have shaped and informed
Caroline since we met on the quad as
eager first-years, four years ago.
Audre Lorde does not accept the
title of theorist. She is a poet and an
artist, but her nonfiction is thought-
provoking and powerful, grounded
in questions of race, gender and
sexuality. She writes about surviv-
ing cancer, she writes about raising a
son who has two mothers, she writes
about sexism perpetrated by black
men against black women and racism
perpetrated by white women
against black women.
Lorde discusses her
own experiences
without pretense
of offering advice
but rather with
that calm convic-
tion of sharing
words she really
believes in. All the
while, she exercises
a clarity of language
and thought that
demands her read-
er listen.
In The Transfor-
ALEX WESTFALL
the bowdoin orient
mation of Silence into Language and
Action, Lorde tells her reader to hear
the words of women: to seek those
words out, to read them and share
them and examine them in their
pertinence to our lives. That we not
hide behind the mockeries of separa-
tions that have been imposed upon
us and which so often we accept as
our own. I was struck not only by
Lordes urgent call upon readers to
learn from and share experiences
different from their own, but also by
how I see Caroline tackling this chal-
lenge in her own life.
It is so easy to wince away from the
experiences of others, and it is easy
to demean differences by focusing on
one similarity, such as in white femi-
nist movements that demand unity
through gender without honoring
realities of race, or even sexuality
or class. Lorde calls for something
much deeper: Black feminism is not
white feminism in blackface is the
opening line of Sexism: An Ameri-
can Disease in Blackface.
There are many beautiful essays
and speeches in the collectionUses
of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, is
a lyrical and linguistic joy, while Man
Child: A Black Lesbian Feminists Re-
sponse is an enlightening and loving
portrait of motherhood. While some
of the pieces ring of the 1980s, they do
not feel dated so much as prescient.
Its important to me to identify as a
feminist, but also to push back against
the idea of feminism as staticand thats
important to Caroline, too. I give thanks
to Caroline, for being the sort of friend
who leads you right to the source and is
always ready for a good long conversa-
tion later. And I give thanks to Audre
Lorde. Her brand of unapologetic and
thoughtful feminism serves as a remind-
er not only of all there is to learn from
those whose experiences differ from
our own, but also from those who
have come beforeand the impor-
tance of listening to them.
By Rohini Kurup and Harry Jung
Orient Staff
Inuit artist, educator and designer
Becky Qilavvaq uses innovative clothing
designs to make traditional Inuit culture
accessible to modern audiences. One
of her pieces is currently on display in a
new exhibit, Threads of Change: Arctic
Clothing and Identity in the North, in the
Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum. The
exhibit, which will be open for two years,
focuses on the changes in Arctic clothing
over the last century.
Qilavvaq marked the opening of the
new exhibit at the Arctic Museum with a
lecture on Wednesday evening titled In-
uit Clothing and Identity in the Modern
World in which she spoke on the impor-
tance of clothing to the Inuit culture.
[I]n the Arctic there has been lots of
changes in the last 100 years and clothes
have changed along with it. But there are
interesting ways in which people incorpo-
rate new materials into traditional cloth-
ingindustrial materials replacing or
being used in addition to traditional ma-
terials like seal skin. Also, people now use
traditional design for modern clothings,
said Curator of the Peary MacMillan Arctic
Museum Genevieve LeMoine.
LeMoine believes that Qilavvaqs artis-
tic vision aligns well with the exhibit, as
it captures the interaction between tradi-
tional and modern forms of Inuit clothing
and culture.
We want people to come away know-
ing that there are people up North involved
in traditional things and there are modern
people who have cell phones and design
dresses. We want to communicate that it is
a live and dynamic culture, said LeMoine.
Qilavvaq has dedicated her work to
teaching and celebrating Inuit culture. She
works as the Youth Programs Coordina-
tor for the Qikiqtani Inuit Association in
Iqaluit, where she leads workshops for stu-
dents on Inuit history and culture.
Qilavvaqs career has not been limited to
clothing. She has explored different artis-
tic mediums, such as photography, throat
singing, films and drum dancing, to cap-
ture and share Inuit culture.
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I have passion for my Inuit culture and
I have passion for beauty and I see so much
beauty in my culture that not many of my
peers see in themselves. I like to find dif-
ferent mediums and use different ways to
have the world see what I see through my
eyes, said Qilavvaq.
In the past year, Qilavvaq developed a
passion for clothing design. After noticing
how the younger Inuit generation was dis-
tancing from the traditions of their ances-
tors, Qilavvaq decided to use fashion as a
method of bridging this divide.
Qilavvaq has designed dresses, leggings,
skirts and more that use traditional images
such as Inuit tools or song lyrics on mod-
ern clothing items to bring Inuit culture
into daily, modern life.
Its very important for young people to
be able to walk around and see parts of who
they are in modern clothing, said Qilavvaq
in her lecture. It connects youth to cloth-
ing in a totally new way where theyre able
to wear it to a dance, to school.
She hopes that her clothing brand will
spark global interest in the Inuit culture.
Ive used the arts to introduce to the
world who Inuit are in a way that can be
penetrable, said Qilavvaq. What I do is I
make it relatable.
Qilavvaq attributes her ability to stay
rooted in her culture while serving also as
a cultural ambassador, to her diverse back-
ground. After growing up in a traditional
Inuit community, she later traveled the
world, allowing her to have both local and
global experiences.
I realized that I have rare gifts not
only in the artsI have foot in both
worlds. One foot in the traditional
world, Im very rooted culturally and
my other foot traveling in the world for
several years since I was a kid, she said.
In the future, Qilavvaq hopes to develop
her clothing line and reach wider audiences
in generations to come.
Inuit are very resilient. Were famous
around the world for being so adaptable.
Our struggle now isnt against the elements.
Our struggle now is very internal, trying
to hang on to our culture. Im happy that
Im helping to lead young people to work
through that and keep our culture strong.
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friday, april 21, 2017
Navigating Bowdoin as a transgender athlete
By Anjulee Bhalla
Orient Staff
The subjects name has been changed in
this story to keep his identity anonymous.
Until last summer, Jake lived his life
as a woman. As a member of the Class
of 2017, he had been a starter for the
Bowdoin womens ice hockey team for
three years.
Originally the way I thought about it
was if I could be born again, I would want
to be born a man, like no questions about
it. But thats just not my reality, thats just
not going to happen, Jake said.
Although he was familiar with the
transgender community, for the first few
months, transitioning didnt seem like a
realistic option, even as he reflected more
deeply on his gender identity.
It was over the summer of 2016 that
Jake fully realized his identity as a trans
man, through therapy and the influence
of other prominent members of the
transgender community, such as Schuyler
Bailar, the first openly transgender NCAA
Division I swimmer.
I can think back to the exact moment
when I realized that I was trans and
that that could be an option for me. I
remember looking at [Bailars] Instagram,
looking at pictures of himlike post-
surgery, post-hormonesand seeing his
smile and how happy he was as a person.
You could just feel he was so happy to be
who he was, said Jake.
And I said to myself, I want to be just
as happy as that guy one day and if this
is what its going to take for me to get
there, then I want to do that. And theres
nothing better that Id rather do. And so
from there, it was like, OK, I know Im
trans now. I have to come out to my
mom, I have to come out to my brother.
But at least Ive gotten this far in figuring
out who I am.
Jakes initial plan of action was to
postpone transitioning and openly
Softball leads NESCAC East with 12-game streak
By Anna Fauver
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin softball team (23-6, 5-1
NESCAC) is currently on a 12-game
win streak after beating Colby (7-15, 0-6
NESCAC) this weekend 3-0 and sweeping
a double-header against Saint Josephs (11-
13) 9-5 and 11-0 on Tuesday.
The Polar Bears were launched to the
top spot in the NESCAC East by their
five-game divisional win streak, as well
as some critical losses by a dominant
Tufts program (16-11, 4-3 NESCAC).
Before falling to Trinity 6-3 on April 14,
the Jumbos had a 65-game divisional win
streak; the last time a NESCAC East team
beat them was in 2011.
These divisional developments open
up the NESCAC East in a particularly
high-stakes year as the top seed
will host the entirety of NESCAC
Championships. Bowdoin is hoping to
hold onto its No. 1 seed this weekend
as it hosts Tufts for a significant three-
game series.
Although Tufts has won three NCAA
DIII championships in the past four
years, the team feels confident going
into this weekends series, especially due
to Tufts recent performance. Trinitys
(17-10, 7-2 NESCAC) ability to sweep
Tufts in its three-game series bodes well
for Bowdoin as the Polar Bears have
beaten the Bantams twice this season.
SPORTS
FORGING A PATH: Athletics pose unique difficulties for transgender students, such as Jake who stopped playing hockey after transitioning.
identifying as a man until after
graduation, using the clean break and
new environment to really start his life
as a man. Some of this hesitancy was
tied to his role as a senior member of the
Bowdoin womens ice hockey team.
I always knew that one could take
hormones, one could have surgery to
fix it. But at that time I was like, No, I
dont want to do any of that. Im playing
hockey, my body is so healthy. I just had
hip surgery done so I didnt want more
surgeries, said Jake.
However, upon returning to campus in
the fall, the internal pressure of all that had
happened over the summer pushed him
to come out to a couple of peers. Their
positive responses helped Jake realize that
Its all about confidence and not
overthinking the Tufts name because they
do have many national championships to
their name, said captain Emily Griffin
17. Theyre on a five-game [divisional]
losing streak right now so we definitely
are looking to take advantage of that, but,
of course, were not going to take anything
for granted. Were going to go out there
and try to play our game while staying
relaxed at the same time.
Despite the losing streak, captain
Marisa OToole 17 believes that Tufts
could still pose a threat due to its strong
hitting and pitching: Tufts has 76
conference hits compared to Bowdoins
56, yet Tufts has played one more
conference game than Bowdoin.
Tufts is notoriously a very good
hitting team, so I think theyve got some
dangerous people at bat. Weve got to
watch out for that for sure, OToole
said. They typically have very good
pitching. That being said, we have
amazing pitchers on our team, as well,
and I have every confidence that they
are going to pitch good games and they
are going to do their best and suppress
the hitting of Tufts.
According to OToole, one of the main
obstacles the team faces is its lack of self-
confidence, especially when facing big-
name teams.
I think were still working on believing
that we can do anything, she said. Were
he would be able to transition at Bowdoin
in a supportive environment if he chose to.
As soon as I saw how receptive
everyone was, I was like, Wow, if I really
wanted to, I could pursue hormones. And
then I was like, What about my hockey
season, right? And I was super conflicted, team. Trans female student-athletes
said Jake. But it got to the point where I
felt like I definitely want to have surgery, I
definitely want to start hormones as soon
as possible. But I was really nervous to tell
my coachit was a really hard decision.
Bowdoin, like the other schools in the
NESCAC, follows NCAA stipulations for
the participation of transgender students
in athletics, which are almost entirely
focused on the use of hormones.
According to the NCAA rules, trans
a very humble group and we just like to
go out there and play our best, and I think
that sometimes in years past, weve let big
teams kind of get in our heads a little bit.
Fortunately, Griffin believes that the
8-0, 2-1 and 3-0 wins against Colby helped
elevate the teams certainty in its own play.
I think it definitely did increase
our confidence, she said. I think
weve continued to prove to ourselves
this season that we can come back
and not panic in tight games like that.
Although our bats were a little slower
that game, we did continue to have our
rhythm and I think we knew that we
werent going to lose.
Another contribution to the teams
success has been the teams dynamic on
and off the field, according to OToole.
In the fall, the team brought in sport and
psychology consultant Dr. Tiffany Jones,
PhD to help increase the teams chemistry.
One of the things [Jones]
suggested for a championship
culture was to go on dates with your
teammates, OToole said. We take
the time to go get a meal, get gelato
or do homework with teammates you
otherwise wouldnt spend that much
time with just by virtue of how group
dynamics work. I think thats been
really crucial to having a really solid
and deep team where everyone feels
supported by one another.
Griffin agrees the the emphasis on
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male student-athletes may participate on
either a mens or a womens team if they
are not taking testosterone. If a trans male
is receiving testosterone treatment related
to a gender transition, they can compete
for a mens team but not a womens
cannot compete on a womens team until
theyve completed one calendar year of
testosterone suppression treatment.
While Jake could have competed for
the mens ice hockey team, the decision to
physically transition and take testosterone
unavoidably prevented him from having
the senior season on the womens ice
hockey team he had imagined for the
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team chemistry has helped the team by
increasing its confidence and tightening
its relationship.
Team chemistry added to our
teams success, she said. Weve been for the American Collegiate
able to hold each other accountable
while also having this cohesive,
supportive team atmosphere which
I think has been really beneficial
because if someone is struggling a little
bit, you can go up to them and have a
frank, yet positive, conversation.
The team will play Tufts at home on
Saturday at 3 p.m. followed by a double-
header on Sunday at noon and 2 p.m.
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD
BATTER UP: Claire McCarthy 18 takes the
plate in the Polar Bears three-game series
against Colby last weekend.
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HIGHLIGHT
REEL
Turning the tide. The baseball
team (11-12, 3-3 NESCAC) is cur-
rently on a five-game win streak
after sweeping its weekend series
against Trinity (13-12, 3-6 NES-
CAC) and beating Thomas (3-25)
11-4 on Monday. Brandon Lopez
20 was named NESCAC Pitcher
of the Week this week after tossing
a full game against Trinity last Fri-
day. In the matchup, Lopez struck
out seven batters and allowed
no earned runs. The Polar Bears
will look to keep up this success
this weekend in their three-game
series against Tufts (19-4-1, 4-2
NESCAC).
Top-ten(nis). The mens tennis team
(12-2, 4-1 NESCAC) is now ranked
fourth in the nation after a tough
6-3 loss to No. 1 Middlebury (15-1,
5-0 NESCAC). The team recovered
from the defeat with a 7-2 win over
Colby (10-6, 2-4 NESCAC) on
Thursday and hopes to continue
that strong performance against
fellow top-ten team Williams (10-4,
2-2 NESCAC) on Saturday before
facing MIT (12-3) at home on
Sunday at 1 p.m.
Sevens heaven. The womens
rugby team beat Dartmouth
39-5 on Saturday to pick up its
first win of the spring season.
The game featured a dynamic
Polar Bear attack as all seven
tries were scored by different
players. Next the team will host
the fourth annual Polar Bear 7s
Tournament on Saturday at 10:30
a.m. The tournament will bring
in 16 teams and each teams
performance on the day will be
used to determine selections
Rugby Association (ACRA)
and National Intercollegiate
Rugby Association (NIRA)
championships.
Tropical track. The womens
and mens track and field teams
swept the Bowdoin Invitational
II last weekend with dominant
first-place performances. This
weekend the mens team will
travel to Bates for the Maine
State Meet, while the womens
team will host the 29th annual
Aloha Relays on Friday and
Saturday. The event will bring
teams from across New England
for two days of competition,
with events from a heptathlon
over the course of both days to
a hula hoop contest to close out
the meet.
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Womens tennis anticipates last regular season NESCAC matches
By Julius Long
Orient Staff
After falling 8-1 to Middlebury (8-3,
5-0 NESCAC) on Saturday, the womens
tennis team has a chance to bounce back
in its double-header against Tufts (10-3,
3-1 NESCAC) and Williams (9-4, 3-1
NESCAC) this coming weekend. These
will be Bowdoins last two NESCAC
games in the regular season and with
them comes the opportunity to secure a
high seed in NESCAC playoffs.
Last weekends hefty loss was
uncharacteristic of Bowdoins season
thus far. The Polar Bears (10-4, 4-2
NESCAC) have had a very successful
season, capturing a win over top ranked
Pomona in March and a No. 7 spot in the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA)
national Division III rankings. Joulia
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first three years of his Bowdoin career. In
addition, the obvious differences in the
team and the sport itself led Jake to take
up a student-coach role on the womens
team for the season.
The gendered system of collegiate
athletics adds a level of complexity and
difficulty not only to transitioning, but to
being transgender in itself. For athletes
who are already members of certain
teams especially, even if they dont pursue
hormone treatment, they are often faced
with the decision between playing for the
team theyve been a member of and the
team of which gender they identify with.
Most trans athletes are forced to make
some choice between their gender and
their sport. This can manifest in many
ways, from making the decision to
postpone transitioning to more subtle
ways such as choosing which locker
room to use.
While using the locker room that
matches your gender might seem
simple, many athletes will agree that
the locker room is not only a changing
room, bathroom or storage space, but
a communal space that is inherently
tied to team culture and dynamic. In
choosing to use a different locker room,
youre choosing to separate yourself from
your team.
When we were about to start the
season it was like Oh gosh, we need
to think about this, how do we handle
this? said Womens Ice Hockey Head who you might run into and the reactions
Coach Marissa ONeil. Obviously
With new North American bid, World Cup 2026 may be U.S. bound
Eric Zelina
THE RELEGATION ZONE
Last Monday, the United States Soccer
Federation gathered reporters on the top
floor of One World Trade for a pseudo-
mysterious press conference. The media
had already leaked the news, but when
U.S. legend Alexi Lalas took the stage
to introduce federation President Sunil
Gulati, along with the presidents of the
Mexican and Canadian federations, one of
the worst-kept secrets in sports was made
official. The three nations announced
their intention to formally file a joint bid
for the 2026 World Cup.
The U.S. has been sniffing around
the possibility of hosting for at least
a decade now after last hosting an
incredibly successful tournament in
1994. U.S. Soccer was very interested in
both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and
submitted an official bid for the 2022
tournament. Despite losing out to Qatar
under somewhat dubious circumstances
and numerous reports of bribery by the
Likhanskaia 17, a member of the team,
sees last weekends result as a blemish
rather than a defining aspect of the
teams season.
We did suffer a major loss last
weekend, but thats alright; its not
going to bring us down too much, said
Likhanskaia. [Last weekend] was kind of
a wake up call for us.
Middlebury is currently ranked No. 3 in
the ITA rankingsone of two NESCAC
teams ranked ahead of Bowdoin in
national polls.
A great deal of Bowdoins success this
season has come from the chemistry
formed by way of a very small roster.
Bowdoin started the season with eight
players, but due to a couple of midseason
injuries, the teams playable roster now
consists of only six students.
Weve faced a lot of adversity and a few
nothing about his mind and how he
behaves and how he views everything
has changedhes the same person. And
so on the one hand, does anything need
to change? But at the same time ... he is a
man and he appears as a man, and would
that make other people uncomfortable?
Ultimately the solution Jake and the
team came to involved him using the
locker room for shorter periods of time
when fewer people were there.
The situation demonstrates the way
many of the challenges transgender
athletes face are not anticipated in our
normal systems and often have to be dealt
with on a case-by-case basis. In addition,
a solution that works for one person
probably wont work for every person or
every team, which is a main reason for the
vagueness in many athletic departments
policies for trans student-athletes.
Even with these additional obstacles,
Jake recognized many advantages that
came with being a trans athlete, such
as the invaluable support system of the
members of the womens ice hockey team.
I really felt like [the team] had my back
and that they understood what this was,
said Jake. Maybe they didnt know how
to articulate it at the moment, but they
definitely could understand that this was a
hard thing for me to doto choose.
Gendered bathrooms are an area of
anxiety for many transgender people.
According to Jake, using the opposite
genders bathroom for the first time is
one of the biggest aspects of transitioning.
Inherently tied into that anxiety is a fear of
I wouldnt have known that, obviously, if I
you might induce.
Qatari delegation in the bidding, the U.S.
remains the backup plan by all accounts
if the logistics of the Qatari bid fell apart.
Despite the rhetoric of the bid as a
North American tournament, this is a
U.S. bid. With the expanded field of 48
teams, the tournament will comprise
of 80 total games. Of those, the U.S. will
host 60, with 10 each in Canada and
Mexico. Of those, the U.S. also gets all
games from the quarterfinals onward.
The 10 games apiece to the other nations
seem like a consolation prize thrown as a
sign of regional unity and support, as the
U.S., perhaps more than any nation in
the world, is best equipped with the
capacity to host an 80 game
tournament. Indeed, the
President of the Mexican
federation, Decio de
Maria, seemed to think
as much, conceding
that its lucky Mexico
was involved at all. After
the announcement, he
said, the United States
doesnt need us to host a
the bowdoin orient
challenges, said Likhanskaia. Having
only six players, you really have to make
sure everyones on top of their game, that
theyre staying healthy, that they get their
rest. But weve done pretty well.
Beyond the physical burden placed on
the six available players, the pressure to
perform is also high. The players will have
to be on top of their game this weekend
against two nationally-ranked NESCAC
teams: No.8 Tufts and No. 4 Williams.
First, the Polar Bears will travel to face a
very strong Tufts program that is currently
4-1 at home. After that match they will
travel to Williamstown, Massachusetts to
take on the Purple Cows. The last time
Bowdoin met Williams was in a 5-0 defeat
that knocked the Polar Bears out of the
NCAA tournament last season.
Wins in each of these matches would
give Bowdoin a great deal of confidence
When you think about the people who
you might be most afraid oftelling them
about your trans identity, or just running
into them in the bathroom. I was afraid of
the bigger athletes who are on the more
contact-heavy sports, so like football and
baseball and lacrosse, said Jake. But what
was also nice was that because I was an
athlete, I knew a lot of them. But that also
is conflicting because when they know
who I am, then they know that I definitely
was a woman. So they actually might look
at me more weirdly than before, versus,
being like some random person who is all
of the sudden in the mens room.
I really felt like [the team] had my back ... Maybe they didnt
know how to articulate it at the moment, but they could
understand that this was a hard thing for me to doto choose
JAKE
Jake noted that he felt some ease in
his transition because of his familiarity
with both the College administration and
the Athletic Department. Having these
relationships made navigating aspects of
the process significantly easier.
For example, when he met with
Associate Dean for Upperclass Students
Lesley Levy, she immediately presented
him with options to change his OneCard,
name and gender markers through the
Registrar and in Polaris.
I was like, Wow, I never even thought
of that logistically. To be honest, I never
even look at Polaris, said Jake. But thats
cool to know that that was an option and
didnt go to my deans.
World Cup. That is the message. On day
one, we didnt have a single game. Today
[we have] ten.
In a way, de Maria isnt wrong. Like the
States, Mexico has been very interested
in hosting in recent years, buoyed by
their success as hosts in 1970 and 1986.
Yet, a sole Mexican bid would have
undoubtedly been defeated by a strong
U.S. bid. The U.S. already has much
of the necessary infrastructure and,
crucially, a ton of political capital within
FIFA after falling just short for 2022 and
thanks to President Gulatis
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heading down the homestretch
of their season. With the
NESCAC tournament in sight,
the team wants to ensure that it
is firing on all cylinders.
I think well be ready for
this weekend. Were pumped,
said Likhanskaia.
The team will travel to
Massachusetts to face Tufts on
Saturday at 3 p.m. and Williams
on Sunday at 2 p.m.
PLAYOFF PUSH: Samantha
Stalder 17 competes in the teams
match against Middlebury (8-3, 5-0
NESCAC) on Saturday. Although the
Polar Bears fell 8-1 to the Panthers,
they are still confident in their ability
to come back this weekend.
For other members of the Bowdoin
communityfirst year students in
particularknowing who to go to and
actually reaching out to these resources
can be quite daunting and difficult.
The Resource Center for Sexual and
Gender Diversity has a guide for trans
students, but Jake is currently working
on a pamphlet for Bowdoin students that
details and describes resources on and off
campus. After finding the Centers guide
very formal and wordy, he hopes this
student-written resource will be helpful
to other students who are thinking about
their gender identity.
Its just an easier method for students
trying to figure out what they can do,
while still having that privacy of being
on the internet and not having anyone
know that theyre thinking about their
trans identity, said Jake. I would highly
recommend doing online research, and
whats great about that is you can do it in
the confines of your own room, on your
own time, without anyone knowing, in
your own privacy.
While the College offers a number of
resources to trans students, it is still lacking
an imperative resource: a counselor who
specializes in gender therapy.
Whats really important is that you
need to find a therapist that you can
connect with. Because if you dont have
machinations to help get FIFA president
Gianni Infantino elected last year. A sole
Mexican bid would have been doomed
from the start; de Maria knew this and
had little bargaining power at the table. So,
while the bid is a slap in the face to many
Mexican [fans], as football columnist
Duncan Tucker wrote, the calculus for the
Mexican federation seems that its better
to take the few games the U.S. offered
than be left out entirely.
The bid pushes for a decision to be
made by this time next year. If accepted,
itll be the first World Cup hosted across
three nations; it should be expected that
multinational or regional bids
will be the new normal. With the
expansion to a 48-team-field, its
difficult to find single countries
that can handle a tournament
of that scale. While that raises
possibilities for unique coalitions
like the rumored Spain-Portugal-
Morocco bid to rival the North
American one in 2026, it also
jeopardizes the uniqueness of the
tournament. One of the fun parts of past
friday, april 21, 2017
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that connection there, youre not going
to get what you need from therapy, said
Jake. And thats something that I didnt
understand. Originally, I was like, Im
physically going to my sessions but I
dont feel better and I dont know why. So
when I found a therapist that worked for
mespecifically for my gender needsI
was like, Oh OK, thats why.
Having a therapist who specializes
in gender therapy is also important
because many procedures require a
certain amount of therapy and even a
therapist to officially state that you have
gender dysphoria. Not having a gender
therapy specialist creates a large logistical
and monetary obstacle for some trans
students who need to find the money
and means to locate and work with
another therapist.
Some insurances will say you have to
have been in therapy for a year talking
about gender dysphoria, said Jake. So
if we cant offer that to students here, we
cant support them, and on a logistical
level, we definitely cant support them,
which is something that was very nerve-
wracking to me. Because its like, well
who are we going to contact? There were
people in Portland, but how do you get to
Portland if you dont have a car? What if
you cant afford to do that?
While Jake has found an
understanding community at Bowdoin
that enabled him to feel supported
throughout his transition, the lack of a
gender therapy specialist points to one
of the ways Bowdoin can continue to
work to provide trans students with the
resources they need.
World Cups was how each took on some
of the character of the host nations
1990s Cup is remembered as Italia 90, one
of the lasting images of 2014 is the masses
on the beaches in Rio, and so on. With
the Cup spread across three (or more)
nations, the national flavor and influence
on the tournament is jeopardized, to the
detriment of the spectacle as a whole.
The U.S.-led North American bid is
rightfully the prohibitive favorite to land
the 2026 World Cup, especially after
securing the Oceania Confederations
backing earlier this week. Because FIFAs
rotation of the tournament rules out
Europe and Asia from hosting in 2026, that
leaves just South America and Africa as
potential suitors. Given the attractiveness
of the joint U.S.-Canada-Mexico effort, in
terms of infrastructure, political clout and
rotationCONCACAF hasnt hosted
since U.S. 1994its hard to see another
bid rivaling theirs. Whether this means a
regionally-hosted World Cup becoming
the new normal, and what that means
for the character of the event remains to
be seen.
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Prioritize international students

Bowdoin enrolls the fewest international students of any school in the NESCAC.
Only five percent of Bowdoin Students are non-U.S. passport holders, who make up
Why the March for Science matters uncertainty is used as leverage against The Bowdoin community is march-
more than 10 percent of students at Colby, Middlebury, Tufts and Wesleyan. By Zoe Wood climate scientists and is further bolstered ing for research, real facts and evidence-
Op-Ed Contributer
Of these 90 international students, the Orient interviewed eight to learn about their when armed with funding from corpora- based policy making. Our identity in the
experiences. Many expressed dissatisfaction with the resources available to them. The scientific method has long been tions benefitting from oil and natural gas larger Brunswick and Maine communi-
This is a two-part problem: Bowdoin should both be enrolling more international held the hallmark of experimentation profits. Here, this uncertainty inherent in ties connects us to relevant issues that af-
students and should be better supporting the needs of the international students who in the natural world. Asking a question, the scientific method becomes a weapon fect Maines changing coast, biomedical
are already enrolled. Practically every student the Orient spoke with said that a larger formulating and testing hypotheses then of doubt, stifling dissenting voices that research, fishing industries and the con-
international student community would provide a support system of students facing collecting and interpreting data allows hold knowledge critical for informed servation of forests and rivers. We must
similar transitions. Though an increased population would have its benefits, it would us to draw educated conclusions about policy making. continue to understand the scientific
not be meaningful without investment in resources specific to international students. As phenomena from ant ecology to particle We need a discourse on the intersec- method and support doing basic science,
these students can attest, international students face various difficulties, some of which physics to neurogenesis. But theres an tion of science and politics. While science because access is the first step. We must
are admittedly outside of the Colleges control. However, there are some areas in which uncertainty in the use of the scientific for the sake of knowledge is essential, sci- invest in science rather than slashing bud-
Bowdoin could and should improve. method: its unable to claim something as ences role in informing policy is increas- gets for research that actually serves our
Bowdoin has shown the capacity to improve its institutions to better meet the needs definitely true. Only after many repeated ingly relevant in an age where our future citizens. We must hold our leaders to the
of international students in the Writing Project and in first-year orientation. Writing studies that have the same outcome is is dependent on our interactions with our highest standards of honesty and integrity
Assistants are trained to work constructively and non-judgmentally with students for something generally accepted in the sci- environment and one another. For too and not accept the censoring of science.
whom English is not their first language, recognizing a difficulty that is relevant to some entific communityand even then, sta- long scientists have, as a whole, remained We demand inclusivity and diversity of
international students. This year, the College added an optional pre-orientation for inter- tistical uncertainty can limit the amount quiet. For many, activism is not a natural voices and minds for a fairer and more
national students, allowing them to recover from jet lag and begin acclimating to a new of confidence we may have. inclination. There has been deep-seated democratic science that serves not just a
culture before Orientation Trips. The College must extend this willingness to improve to Uncertainty in the scientific method is reluctance in the scientific community to select few.
other areas of the international student experience. a double-edged sword. Science employs speak out in politics for fear of controversy The power of science comes from the
One such area is the Career Planning Center (CPC). International students bear an statistics, which tell us our degree of cer- and losing research funding. But scien- repetition of trials, large sample sizes and
additional onus when searching for jobs because of the restrictions on work and acquir- tainty with our results, and statistics give tists in increasing numbers are standing the continual building off of past knowl-
ing the H-1B visas needed to work long-term in the U.S. To address the concerns ex- us terms like highly probable and very up and will gather alongside concerned edge. It comes from innovation and its
pressed by international students, the CPC should construct a list of companies that they likely to describe them. What they dont citizens at the Portland March for Science ability to evolve but also from its stability
know sponsor H-1B visas and a list of companies that dont to give students a place to give us is the authority to claim something this Saturday, just one of the 500 satellite and resistance to oscillation. It forces us to
start their job search. Also, the CPC staff should be more familiar with the process of ob- as unabatingly trueto stamp out alter- marches around the world. consider and test for alternative hypoth-
taining an H-1B visa so that they can provide better guidance to international students. native hypotheses for good. Well-con- Understanding that the scientific eses to explain phenomenaa practice
The transition to college is challenging for everyone, but imagine if you didnt grow up ducted science is not going to try to sell a method is not political, but that the ap- not limited to science, but necessary for
here. Deans, Residential Life staff and counseling staff should all be trained to be aware conclusion that is only half-supported by plications of the knowledge it produces arriving at the truth. We need to trust the
of and provide support for the unique social and cultural experiences international statistics; it will not try to convince you of are absolutely political, is where we must scientific method, even when it produces
students face, specifically regarding issues surrounding alcohol, work-life balance and a somewhat likely outcome. Nearly all begin. It is all too easy for knowledge to results that dont align with our world-
current events in a students home country. These resources should reassess how they studies come to the conclusion that fur- remain stifled within educated circles, view. Selective belief of only some well-
attempt to meet international students needs by creating focus groups of international ther research needs to be conducted. for scientists to hide in their labs and for conducted science defeats the purpose.
students, who can express a more accurate understanding of what methods would be Because of this inability to deem some- political and scientific spheres to exist in- This is not to say that we shouldnt ques-
most effective. thing as unyieldingly true, basing policy dependent of one another. Science plays tion facts with which we are presented,
Bowdoin is capable of meeting the needs of international students, and doing so off of science is, to some extent, a gamble. a vital role in our democracy, and the but when given the choice between facts
would provide the groundwork for expanding the international student population, Politicians readily use this uncertainty relationship between science and democ- grounded in statistical significance and
which would benefit the whole community. to their advantage, for instance, when it racy is under threat. Its time that scientists those hanging by unbacked yet powerful
comes to maintaining the status quo on speak for themselves against the noise of rhetoric, we must opt for the former in the
This editorial represents the majority view of The Bowdoin Orients editorial board, climate policy. That small percentage of politicians who wish to speak for them. name of justice and the common good.
which is comprised of Julian Andrews, Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Jenny Ibsen
and Meg Robbins.

College Houses are vulnerable to mascoting minority members

until relatively recently that I realized how It would be easy for inhabitants to fall
Harrison Dunne- racialized my social role truly was. into similar habits of communicating
Polite The second place I witnessed this as my former classmates in both el-
MIXED REVIEWS occur was at the Trinity-Pawling (TP) ementary school and high school. The
School, the all-boys boarding school culture of assimilation within College
ESTABLISHED 1871
from which I graduated. A considerable Houses places pressure on the mem-
Recently, I had the pleasure of partic- portion of TPs student body consists bers to establish a sense of commu-
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011
ipating in the Why Are College Houses of international students from various nity. When cultural differences arise
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news So White discussion panel held at Reed parts of Asia. Of course, cultural differ- and make meshing difficult, it is easy
and information relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the House. A fellow panelist did a wonder- ences and language barriers made so- to resort to simple means of inclu-
College and its administrators, the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, ful job of explaining how and why they cially integrating the students, at times, sion. Any form of tokenismand es-
following professional journalistic standards in writing and reporting. The Orient is thought students of color could possibly rather difficult. For the most part, stu- pecially mascotingis an easy social
committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse discussion and feel isolated in a College House setting. dents remained in their comfort zones; fallback because it allows us to ignore
debate on issues of interest to the College community.
Though we touched on many aspects domestic students and international the complicated aspects of diversity.
of the topic, I worry that one impor- students usually kept to themselves, Instead of doing the work to under-
Julian Andrews Meg Robbins tant one went unaddressed: Mascoting. respectively. That being said, it was not stand difference, we employ a shal-
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief Mascoting is when an individual is uncommon for international students low understanding of it. Of course, it
accepted as a part of the group because to be made into mascots by their do- is going to be awkward at times, but if
their difference makes them entertain- mestic counterparts. The Asian students we all agree not to go through process
Layout Editor Managing Editor News Editor ing. These terms of social acceptance that sounded the funniest and stood then we are all agreeing to know each
Emma Bezilla Sarah Bonanno Jessica Piper provide said student with incentive to out in the most absurd ways always other from a distance. Any friendship
Ian Stewart Harry DiPrinzio employ a form of minstrelsy. Unfor- found the most social success. The more that comes out of mascoting is founded
Sarah Drumm Sports Editor tunately, this is not rare. In fact, I per- opportunities the token student provid- on this removed understanding of dif-
Sr. Photo Editor Joe Seibert Anjulee Bhalla sonally have seen this occur first hand ed the other students to laugh, the more ference that cannot be transcended un-
Eliza Graumlich Emily Weyrauch throughout much of my life. likely they were to keep him around. It less people find better ways to perceive
Features Editor
Associate Editor Amanda Newman My first experience with mascoting was not what they said, but rather how each other.
Photo Editor was during my years in middle school. I they said it, that evoked a reaction from Moving forward, I suggest people pay
Jenny Ibsen Olivia Atwood
Ellice Lueders A&E Editor was always one of the only black students the domestic students. This effectively particular attention to how they perpet-
Hannah Rafkin Surya Milner in the school, and around fifth grade it meant the domestic students, when en- uate otherness through both their inter-
Ezra Sunshine Eli Lustbader
Calder McHugh started to become part of my social identi- gaged with the international students in actions and perceptions of difference.
Opinion Editor ty. My classmates pushed me to engage in this way, were always laughing at them. In an effort to avoid mascoting and to-
Web Editor Copy Editor Julia ORourke
James Little stereotypical activities and would reward The token student laughing along, also kenism in general empowered groups
Marina Affo me with praise and attention if I com- at himself, is him making a decision to should make sure they understand oth-
Dakota Griffin Page 2 Editor
Data Desk plied. Often, this meant my peers encour- fit in. ers for who they are rather than what
Lucia Ryan Gwen Davidson aged me to be black as they understood If there is a mascoting problem here they are. This of course goes beyond
Lexi Gray Liza Tarbell
Gideon Moore Calendar Editor it, through the employment of racialized Bowdoin College, it has not been as ap- race, but also extends to gender, sexu-
Sr. News Reporter Rohini Kurup vocabulary and mannerisms. If I didnt parent to me as it has been in other en- ality, class, religion and any other social
Business Manager James Callahan comply, they were less likely to take an in- vironments. In regard to the question distinctions separated along a hierarchy.
Maggie Coster Steff Chavez Social Media Editor terest in me and less likely to include me. of why College Houses are so white, If your interest is not in who someone
Vivien Lee Cameron de Wet Jono Gruber Of course, I am responsible for allowing I do not live in a College House so I is but rather what they are in any sense,
this to happen to me, but I had no one to cannot say whether or not this occurs then perhaps it is best you do not extend
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the warn me of these issues. The nature of my in those settings. That being said, I do a false friendship. Confining people to a
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions position left me to handle this on my own believe College House environments finite idea is, after all, very much so an
expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors.
with no supervision or direction. It wasnt could potentially support mascoting. act of prejudice.
18 opinion
Thrivies: your guide to a better Ivies
Savannah Horton
BACKGROUND
NOISE
My first Ivies commenced on the
15th floor of the tower. Picture me
in a dark stairwella scared fresh-
man in a foreign landholding a
bowl of red Jell-O. It was about a
week before the concert. Id recently
confirmed my spot in a social house
(College House! I reminded my-
self ) and thus Iviesthe real Ivies
had begun. I marked its inception
with the revered Macmillan House
tradition of filling Quinbys porch
with assorted foods.
I feel slightly irreverent writing
about Ivies during Passover and
Easter. Im potentially disappointing
both sides of my family simultane-
ouslyan admirable feat. But since
Ivies is a holiday in itselfpraised
by first years even before theyve ex-
perienced itI figure I might as well
contribute to the noise (that is the
purpose of this column, no?)
A quick background, for anyone
who cares about history: Ivies cel-
ebrates the planting of ivy dating
back to the 1800s. It has nothing to
do with the Ivy League. If you go to
any online college forums, you will
learn that Ivies is the greatest thing
ever created. I hope this is not true.
You will also learn that Ivies is when
big bands, such as OK Go! or Third
Eye Blind, come to campus. (I dont
think online college forums have
Netflix and still havent done my reading: does campus freedom breed poor work habits?
Ian Ward
ON SECOND
THOUGHT
Now that spring has arrived in
Brunswick, and it is tolerable, even
pleasant, to be outdoors for more
than a few minutes, I find it increas-
ingly difficult to stay holed up in a
library. Whereas the library provides
a warm haven from the colder and
darker Maine months, now the shin-
ing sun makes those same cubicles
feel more like cells. Itching to throw
a baseball around or lounge on the
quad with friends, I relegate school
workagainst my best intentions
to a place of second priority.
been updated since 2007). However,
at its core, Ivies = booze fest.
This April, I will be celebrating
my fourth Ivies. I am, how you say,
well-versed. I know the drinks to
mix, the shoes to wear. I know that
if you start drinking at 9 a.m. you
will end up watching Mickeys Once
Upon a Christmas (1999) by 9 p.m.
The Bowdoin body is not well versed
for prolonged partying. We must ac-
climate, quickly, if we want to make
it through the weekend. Our Bible is
Survivies, a guide to safe and healthy
festivities. But why stop there? The
weekend (week) should not be spent
settling for mere bodily function.
Thus, I present Thrivies: a celebra-
tion of our best selves. No blood,
sweat or tears (or vomit). Maybe, if
we are careful, we can avoid some of
our past mistakes.
How to thrive at Thrivies:
Ivies wardrobe takes thought and
strategy. Freshman year, I spent half
the morning debating whether to
wear shorts. This year, I will not hes-
itate. Wear those shorts! Dont make
me look like the only idiot trying
too hard. Were allowed one day of
festival attire. Despite Maines tem-
peraturesand Bowdoins apparent
contract with The Salvation Army
we have the right to bear our thighs.
Get to know your peers. Ivies is
a time of unprecedented camarade-
rie, like Color War at camp. (Un-
fortunately, Ivies doesnt commence
with an indoor laser show and a
llama parade like my Color War
While the non-frigid weather
has certainly exacerbated the issue,
learning to balance industry and lei-
sure during the first year at college is
a perpetual challenge. For those of us
entering Bowdoin from non-board-
ing schools, the sudden blending of
school life and home life presents
endless opportunities for distrac-
tion, diversion and outright sloth.
Which isnt to say that Bowdoin stu-
dents arent busy. To the contrary,
many of us have head-spinningly
busy schedules.
All the same, I know, and I sus-
pect that many of my peers know,
that we are less productive and less
focused than we could be. We spend
too much time chatting in Smith, too
much time scrolling on our phones,
too much time watching Netflix in
PHOEBE ZIPPER
the bowdoin orient
did. Blue Team forever.) Age wont
matter and friendship wont matter
because youll all end up with lice
anyway. Drunk people are much
kinder than sober people. They are
also much messier, like friendly rac-
coons. Dont be afraid to approach
someone new, particularly if you
have a camera. Ivies elicits a shock-
ing obsession with photography.
Brunswick Quad is like a red
carpet for desperate, irrelevant
celebrities. Bathrooms (if you
can find one) are particularly
great places for meaningful
conversation and/or compli-
ments. Ive never felt more
special than when Ive chatted
with tipsy people on the toilet.
Its a real ego boost.
Begin preparing your blad-
der (right this second!). The
lack of bathrooms, tightness
of clothing, and quantity of liq- CAROLINE CARTER
uidstay hydrated! all contrib-
ute to extended discomfort. Even if
you can sneak into an apartment or are more comfortable than youd as-
make a friend, the constant threat of sume). Ivies is also not the week to
urination will weigh on you. Kegels start a new exercise regime, unless it
are a private, and apparently useful, includes dancing or beer.
exercise to train pelvic muscles. Just In order to ensure a successful
saying. Also, improved bladder con- Thrivies, stay considerate. Quad
trol could benefit you in the future, Day in particular produces a cra-
for instance in hostage situations zy amount of noise and a crazier
or childbirth. amount of trash. If we clean up after
Take time to rest. I am not usual- ourselves and cooperate with Securi-
ly one for napping, but Ivies induces ty (who works day and night to keep
a strange type of jetlag. Ive been to us safe) everyone will thrive. On a
only one of three concerts yet man- similar note, watch out for friends
aged to fall asleep during it (tarps (or enemies!) throughout the week-
our beds. bution requirements hardly consti-
Of course, college ought to consist tute a structured curriculum), the
of more than monkish study. The modern American college has whole-
friends we make and the extracur- heartedly embraced a culture of au-
ricular experiences that we share tonomy. This cultures first principle
serve as much as a pedagogical pur- is freedom of choice: choice of class-
pose as they do a purely practical es, of majors, of extracurriculars, of
one. The English word school, after housing options, of dining plans,
all, derives etymologically from the of study-abroad options, of career
Greek word skhol , which means, paths. Even outside the classroom,
approximately, leisure. We call the ethos of choice permeates our ev-
schools schools because the type eryday lives, leaving us free to struc-
of intellectual discourse and liberal ture our days as we wish. Aside from
studies that we hope to pursue can showing up to class, our abundant
only be practiced when students, free free time falls into our own hands.
from laboring after the bare neces- And it hasnt all been for the worse.
sity of survival, have enough leisure Nevertheless, we should not forget
time to let their curiosities and intel- how much the College has changed
lects wander. from its original conception. In his
Yet perhaps we have gone too far. Inaugural Address, whence we got
Fueled by the disintegration and the famous mantra of the Com-
gradual disappearance of mon Good, former President Jo-
structured curricula seph McKeen wrote this about the
(and Bowdoins purpose of the College: Attention
five distri- to order, and the early formation
of habits of industry and investiga-
tion, are conceived to be objects of
vast importance in the education of
youth. I may venture to assert, that
such habits are of more importance
than mere knowledge. He continues,
It is doubtless a desirable thing to
facilitate the acquisition of knowl-
edge; but, in aiming at this, there is
a serious danger to be avoided, that
of inducing an impatience of applica-
tion, and an aversion to everything
that requires labor If habits of ap-
plication be of so much importance,
it is desirable, that all concerned in
the government and instruction of
the college should concur in enforc-
ing subordination, regular conduct,
and a diligent improvement of time.
If you immediately recoil from
this suggestion, you might have
something in common with the col-
lege students of 1804, for McKeen
follows up by saying, The volatil-
friday, april 21, 2017
end. Ivies is a marathon, and mara-
thons breed injury. We can forget
responsibility but not decency.
To freshmen: Dont take your-
selves too seriously. You have three
more years to make up for a first
Ivies embarrassment. Dont be dis-
appointed if it doesnt live up to ex-
pectations. Theres always next year.
To seniors: Dont take yourselves
too seriously. This is it. Dont be
disappointed if it doesnt live up
to expectations. Be grateful for
the memories.
ity of a youthful mind frequently
gives rise to eccentricities, and an
impatience of the most wholesome
restraint; the mildest government is
thought oppressive, and the indul-
gent parents ear is easily opened to
the voice of complaint.
Although a complete return to
McKeens vision of the College as a
disciplinarian would certainly be a
mistakethe original Bowdoin cur-
riculum would put even the most
disciplined of students to sleepwe
should think twice about the real
fruits of our culture of autonomy.
Are you as industrious as you want
to be? Do you take advantage of your
unstructured free time? Come reg-
istration season, do you really feel
liberated scrolling through the thou-
sands of courses on Polaris? As I was
informed by posters in the basement
of HL during finals, Cs get degrees!
But should they get praise?
I dont have an easy answer to this
problem. The tension between in-
dividual freedom and collective re-
sponsibility is deeply rooted in the
history of our nation and I have no
reason to believe our colleges have
escaped untainted. Yet it is precisely
because this tension informs both
our collegiate and public lives alike
that we must pay special attention
to it.
Since I lack an answer, I will end
with a question. Elsewhere in his ad-
dress, President McKeen writes, In
the natural world we find, that with-
out culture, weeds outgrow more
useful plants, and choke them; and
reasoning from analogy will lead us
to suppose, that without restraint
or discipline, the mind of a youth
will resemble the field of the sloth-
ful, and the vineyard of the man
void of understanding. What type
of fruit are the vineyards of Bow-
doin bearing?
friday, april 21, 2017
Lending a helping hand in a world plagued with conflict
By Chaz Phillips
Op-Ed Contributor
The other day I was talking to a
friend of mine and we agreed that
we all cant save the world. Let me
back up. This conversation started
when we were talking about Dave
Chappelles new comedy special on
Netflix. He jokes around with vari-
ous topics, but at one point he made
an observation about millennials
that resonated with me. Address-
ing a millennial in the audience he
said, For your generation, the space
shuttle blows up every day. In other
words, there are so many horrible
things happening every day that
its getting hard for us to care about
them, and we simply recoil into our
social media and Netflix accounts
and think we cant help.
At first I thought Chappelle was
wrong, but then I reflected on it. Ev-
ery time I read the news or watch
television, look at my Facebook feed
or even a group chat, there is always
some mention of a horrible act that
happened that day. Whether its Syria,
The need for a Trump doctrine and consistency in international affairs
SONS OF
LIBERTY
Francisco Navarro and Ezra Rice
On March 8, 1983, President Ronald
Reagan declared the Cold War rivalry a
struggle between right and wrong, and
warned against the aggressive impulses
of [said] evil empire. The message was
clear: Communism would not stand.
Eight years later the Soviet Union col-
lapsed and Margaret Thatcher praised
how Reagans win was accomplished
without firing a shot. American credit
for Soviet collapse is contested; the
strength of Reagans foreign policy is
not. Pledging and ready with resolute
economic, military and diplomatic ac-
tion, The Great Communicators stern
rhetoric always commanded respect.
President Barack Obamas rhetoric
captivated and inspired Americans,
placing him among the greatest of
American communicators. From his de-
fining 2004 Democratic National Com-
mittee speech to his farewell address
in Chicago, patriotism, historic refer-
ences and biblical allegories abounded.
Obama continued his lofty rhetoric per-
taining to Americas role in the world:
The United States of America will not
be distracted or deterred from what
must be done. We are heir to a proud
legacy of freedom and we are prepared
to do what is necessary to secure that
legacy for generations. Obama spoke
with authority when condemning Rus-
sian annexation, North Korean nuclear
posturing and Syrian chemical weapons
use. Yet the autocrats and their policies
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United Airlines, mass shootings, police
brutality or one of the various issues
with the environment, something is
always wrong. Before I started writing
this I went on cnn.com and the first
headline I saw was 8-year old killed in
mass shooting.
It becomes hard to care about one
issue when another arises 24 hours lat-
er. Something heartbreaking will hap-
pen, and we all say damn, and then go
to class. We live in an age during which
its hard to stand behind an issue when
there are so many. In my grandparents
eraeven my parents erathere were
issues but people were able to stand be-
hind them in unity because there were
not nearly as many.
After all my years of reading comics,
a recurring theme is that the hero can-
not save everyone. However, we dont
need to be heroes to help one another.
There will always be pain and tragedy
in the world, but just because we be-
come more and more exposed to it, it
doesnt mean we should give up. Well
never be able to save everyone and
fight every issue, but you can always
lend a helping hand to someone you
remained in place and the presidents
lofty rhetoric proved hollow.
In between condemnation, calls for
coalition building and diplomacy, the
Putin, Kim Jong-un and Assad regimes
continued their barbarity unabated,
even emboldened. Obama referenced
an arc of the moral universe, and la-
beled his opposition on the wrong side
of history. These quotes, powerful and
reassuring as they were, obviate action
and foster complacency from the be-
nevolent. If the universe has a moral arc
and history has right and wrong sides,
no one needs promote freedom, equal-
ity or justice as time alone will conquer
evil. Students of history realize the ne-
cessity of unwavering resistance to end
slavery, the Holocaust, American sub-
jugation by Britain and the countless
smaller transgressions committed by
bullies and criminals daily. Diplomacy,
prudence and consensus are crucial but
expendable when they negate standards,
principles and promises. Red lines can-
not be crossed without consequences,
or they lose all meaning.
President Donald Trumps rhetoric is
the full repudiation of all things Obama.
Often divisive and volatile, Trump of-
fers general claims and absolute prom-
ises. Historical references and biblical
allegory give way to poll numbers and
personal slanders. On the campaign
trail Trump promised America First
in foreign affairs: We will stop racing
to topple foreign regimes that we know
nothing about, that we shouldnt be in-
volved with. In power, the administra-
tion has pursued and threatened further
unilateral action, and refined the neces-
sity of American leadership and the ne-
cessity of a growing military.
the bowdoin orient
know needs it.
As college students, we can only do
so much, but as we grow and mature
into adulthood and go on to live our
lives after we graduate, we will become
members of society that can make big-
ger differences. Its important to re-
member that those differences can be
anything that makes the world a better
place. Just because you cant find the
cure for cancer, or combat police bru-
tality, it doesnt mean you cant have a
positive effect. Pick something youre
passionate about or a way that you can
help people. Be aware of all the issues
that are happening in the world, but at
the same time, know that by devoting
your time to one of them, youre more
likely to make a difference. Youd be
surprised just how far a small action
can go.
Just about a week ago I was at the
mall and was on my way to Forever
21 (yes, they have a guys section fel-
las, and yes it fire) when I was passing
a guy and he said, Have a good day,
brother, to which I replied, Thanks,
you too, man. I didnt know him nor
was it that big of an act, but it put me
The Tomahawk and MOAB strikes
in past weeks were largely welcomed
by the international community. No
longer leading from behind, Trumps
actions represent an appropriate re-
direction and characterize an admin-
istration unafraid of engagement, but
are dangerously erratic nonetheless.
Commentator Charles Krauthammer
writes It took Obama 10 months to de-
cide what to do in Afghanistan. It took
Trump 63 hours to make Assad pay for
his chemical-weapons duplicity. While
the strikes were largely warranted, their
goal and wider purpose do not fit into
a grander foreign policy narrative.
The Trump administration previously
promised no action against Syrian re-
gime as it was not Americas problem.
Between Secretary Rex Tillersons and
Ambassador Nikki Haleys contradict-
ing statements, America remains un-
sure whether their country stands for
Syrian regime change.
Obamas foreign policy coupled soar-
ing and clear rhetoric with persistent
inaction. Trump displays clear action
without following any larger strategy or
long term goals. Without explicit and
coherent objectives, success is impos-
sible to measure or achieve. Incoher-
ent rhetoric and passivity both degrade
the trust of our allies and embolden
our enemies.
A consistent and moral doctrine,
and the perceived willingness to use
appropriate force, garners a respect
for rhetoric that supersedes the neces-
sity of force. Reagans peace through
strength, Theodore Roosevelts speak
softly, yet carry a big stick, and the con-
cept of Mutually Assured Destruction
kept us out of major conflicts and sta-
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in a good mood and it made me want Despite the terrible events that are
to make someone happy. Point being, plaguing the world, theres still a lot of
choose a way you feel you can make good in it that we dont always see. That
a difference. It doesnt have to be ev- being said, Ill leave you guys with a
eryday but try to make it consistent. quote from Charles Dickens. No one
I know I struggle with the consis- is useless in this world who lightens the
tent part. burden of another. Stay woke.
DIANA FURUKAWA
bilized the world. The stakes and threats al. With the dust settling, the wars have
of those times exceeded todays, yet our been labeled unnecessary and shameful,
perceptions of helplessness, malaise and
an outright confusion for international
our withdrawal premature and we even
receive partial credit for creating ISIS.
affairs thrive. With such immense power, America
Increasing chaos, fear and volatility appropriately faces great scrutiny and
internationally coincide with the lack examination. Nonetheless, the wrath of
of a coherent American foreign policy impatient, angry and fickle voters has
doctrine. When we reverse, ignore confounded, obstructed and paralyzed
or lack a consistent course in foreign our politicians and policy. So long as we
policy we communicate ambivalence chastise foreign intervention yet refuse
and vulnerability to our enemies and to accept the consequences of inaction,
the world. our government will pursue a strange
The recent lack of coherent Ameri- middle ground of inconsistencies and
can foreign policy can be largely at- ambiguity. So long as we berate our
tributed to negativity at home. Whether every international policy, America re-
intervening or not, Americans find per- mains damned if we do and damned if
petual guilt and flaws in our nations ac- we dont.
tions or lack thereof. Intervention in
Iraq and Afghanistan and abstention
from Rwanda together cast a long
shadow over policy makers.
Increased access to in-
formation has reduced
our patience for pro-
longed conflict
yet brought the
terrible atroci-
ties of ter-
rorism and
tyranny daily
to screens
at home.
Post-9/11 fer-
vor pushed
America into
the Iraq and Af-
ghanistan wars.
The slow prog-
ressif not outright
failureof democratic
nation building catalyzed SOPHIE WASHINGTON
support for American withdraw-
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FRIDAY 21
EVENT
Relay For Life
The fundraising event will remember loved ones lost and
honor survivors of cancer. Entertainment will include games,
a capella, student bands, food and more. All proceeds benefit
the American Cancer Society. ORIENT
David Saul Smith Union. 4 p.m. PICK OF THE WEEK

PERFORMANCE
The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee
The musical comedy centers on six adolescents who compete
in a spelling bee to learn that winning isnt everything. There
will be a second performance on Saturday night. Tickets
are $1.
Sargent Gymnasium. 8 p.m.
RHIANNA PATEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
DANCING QUEEN: Raquel Santizo 19 dances with Preston Thomas '17 at Quinceaera, an annual celebration hosted by the Latin American Student
Organization (LASO), on Saturday in Moulton Union. Quinceaera is a recreation of the traditional coming-of-age celebration that includes a crowning
ceremony, a shoe ceremony and a dance.

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PERFORMANCE
Bowdoin Chamber Choir Concert CONCERT PERFORMANCE
The Bowdoin College Chamber Choir, directed by Professor Middle Eastern Ensemble Ivies Kickoff Concert
of Music Robert Greenlee, will perform. The Bowdoin Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric The Longfellows, one of Bowdoins six a cappella groups, will
The Chapel. 3 p.m. LaPerna and Amos Libby, will perform classical and perform to kickoff the Ivies weekend.
contemporary music from the Arab and Ottoman The Chapel. 5 p.m.
EVENT Turkish traditions.
Paint Night in the Pub Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m. PERFORMANCE
Instructors from the Bowdoin Craft Center will help students Bowdoin Night Live!
create their own paintings. LECTURE Bowdoin Sketch Comedy will perform its end of semester
Jack Magees Pub and Grill. 7:30 p.m. State of the World: America's Greatest show which follows the format of Saturday Night Live."
Foreign Policy Challenges Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 9 p.m.
Drawing on his foreign service experience, Ambassador
Christopher Hill '74 H'14 will discuss the

SUNDAY 23
causes and implications of Americas ORIENT
PICK OF THE WEEK
greatest foreign policy challenges.

THURSDAY 27
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT
Author and Journalist Deepak Singh
As part of the One Book One Community initiative, Curtis EVENT
Earth Day Celebrations
TUESDAY 25
Memorial Library will be hosting Deepak Singh, author of
How May I Help You? An Immigrants Journey from MBA to The event will include musical performances, lawn games and
Minimum Wage. free Ben & Jerrys ice cream.
Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick. 1 p.m. Main Quad. 2 p.m.
FILM SCREENING
EVENT The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari CONCERT
Study With Sound There will be a screening of the 1920 German silent horror Ivies Thursday Concert
The Center for Learning and Teaching will host an event for film followed by a discussion of the relationship between early Indie pop band Smallpools will perform with an opening act
students to do homework with study-conducive music. twentieth century German cinema and visual art. by student band 20/20. ORIENT
The Center for Learning and Teaching. 2 p.m. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m. David Saul Smith Union. 10:30 p.m. PICK OF THE WEEK

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Spring Dance
Ivies Concert Chamberfest
Concert