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Academic Affairs to
pilot BCQ changes
to counter bias
by Calder McHugh
Orient Staff
This spring, the Office of
Academic Affairs will pilot
alterations to the Bowdo-
in Course Questionnaires
(BCQs) with a goal of reducing
the role of unconscious student
biases in course evaluations.
The change was announced at
last week’s faculty meeting.
A working group of admin-
istrators and faculty created
the questions. Forty professors
have agreed to administer the
new set of questions to half
their students, while the other
half of students will complete
the old versions of BCQs so
the data are comparable.
Professor of Psychology
helped you develop skills?” a
proposed change to the survey
would condense these several
questions into one that asks
students to specifically con-
sider whether the course was
intellectually challenging.
While every professor who
the Orient spoke with favored
some reform, the details of the
changes and the implementa-
tion have caused some dissent
among the faculty.
In a classic 1975 psycholo-
gy study, a fictitious professor
known as Dr. Fox—actually
just a paid actor—received rave
reviews from mathematical ex-
perts despite knowing and say-
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ing very little about game theo-
ry. To avoid an effect like this, FREESTYLIN’: As part of Black History Month, Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University professor, delievered the annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture in
the working group proposed Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday, addressing forms of oppression. Some students had to watch the talk via livestream after the room filled to capacity.

MLK to #MeToo: Michael Eric Dyson talks,

Samuel Putnam, a member of revisions to BCQs that elimi-
the working group, said one of nate all questions concerning
the main goals of the modified the passion, enthusiasm, moti-

raps and inspires conversation on race

BCQ is to reduce students’ un-
conscious biases based on the
gender and racial identity of
their professors. Current aca-
demic research suggests that
certain poor evaluations can
be attributed to such biases.
“The intent of the new
questionnaire is to try to use
language that’s more specific,”
said Dean for Academic Af-
fairs Elizabeth McCormack,
who also participated in the
working group. “If it’s more
specific, there’s less room for
interpretation, and if there’s
less room for interpretation,
there’s less room for uncon-
scious bias.”
While a current question
reads, “How much did this
course contribute to your ed-
ucation? Consider such ques-
tions as: How much did you
learn? Did you grow intellec-
tually? Were you challenged?
Did the course expose you
to new ideas, perspectives,
information? Has the course
vation or engagement of a pro-
fessor. This omission has irked
some in the faculty, including
Putnam.
“This is where I really differ “If you said it, live it. Let Amer- from elsewhere in the Visual Arts A central theme in Dyson’s
from the group and where I’m by Harry DiPrinzio ica really be America. If you talk Center. speech was the power of white-
Orient Staff
frustrated with the process,” he about independence, let everyone At times delivered with a ness; in particular, its ability to
said. “[Bowdoin Student Gov- Prolific author and sociologist, experience it. If you talk about preacher’s bellowing intensity and distort both conceptions of the
ernment representatives with Baptist minister, rap and pop cul- justice, let everybody have it,” he at times conversational and irrev- self and collective understanding
whom we met] really expressed ture connoisseur and dynamic added. erent, Dyson was full of sarcasm, of American history.
dissatisfaction. They storyteller, Dr. Michael Eric Dys-
said, Weaving in and out of a nar- with performative elements such He laid out the importance
‘There’s nothing about whether on packed Kresge Auditorium on rative detailing and quoting from as changes in cadence, tone and of this endeavour early on with
I was engaged in class or wheth- Tuesday to deliver the annual Dr. the speech King gave the night tenor. He illustrated his points reference to NFL player Colin
er I was inspired.’ As a working Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture. before he was killed, the lecture with pop culture references, Kaepernick’s protest and a seg-
group, we intentionally left that Dyson’s talk, titled “MLK addressed the work left to do to voice imitations and recitations ment that transitioned seamlessly
stuff out because we didn’t want for the 21st Century,” set out to fulfill King’s vision. Eliminating of poetry and rap lyrics as well as into spoken word poetry.
the Dr. Fox effect, we didn’t wantimagine King’s vision in the con- racism, Dyson argued, was only numerous references to moments “Colin Kaepernick takes a
the cult of personality. And I text of contemporary issues such the first step. of historical amnesia such as the knee—seen as an American en-
was behind it at that point, but as police violence, sexism, ho- The event opened with a Christian religious motivations emy. Oh, you can beat a woman
when the students expressed mophobia and patriarchal power, singing of “Lift Every Voice and behind the 16th Street Baptist and play ball. You can rape her
this concern, it made me feel sexual violence and the #MeToo Song,” led by Osa Fasehun ’18 and Church bombing in 1963. and start on Sunday. But God for-
like we went overboard.” movement. Alana Morrison ’20 and Dyson “Four girls blown to their bid you challenge the hegemony
Professor of Government Dyson, who teaches at George- was introduced by Director of the heavenly reward in a church—an of whiteness / the unconscious
Paul Franco noted that he does town University, centered his Student Center for Multicultural act of naked terror. That was not privilege that whiteness brings /
not have strong feelings of op- message around a quote from Life Benjamin Harris, who knew Mohammed, that was Bubba. even saying the word witness /
position to the new questions King’s final speech. Dyson previously. A testament to This was a cross burning,” he bel- that makes even now your blood
as a whole, but thought that “‘All I ask America, is be true to significant interest in the event, lowed. “Not a crescent and a sun, rise a little bit / your conscious-
what you said on paper,’” Dyson guests who couldn’t find seating this is Christian terror that we
Please see BCQ, page 3 said, quoting King. in Kresge watched a livestream rarely take measure of.” Please see DYSON, page 4

Aquaponics farmer Kenkel ’18 receives $1.6 million investment

by Sarah Drumm
Orient Staff
Aquaponic farming pioneer
Trevor Kenkel ’18, founder and
chairman of Springworks Farm,
announced that he has received
$1.6 million in capital to finance
the expansion of his system in
Lisbon, Maine.
Located about 30 minutes
from Bowdoin’s campus, Spring-
works Farm uses aquaponics to
grow organic lettuce. Fish housed
in recirculating tanks produce
waste that is used to fertilize plants
above. As the growing plants con-
sume the fertilizer, the water be-
low is kept clean. The farm is the
largest aquaponic system in New
England, which puts it at around
the third largest in the country,
according to Kenkel.
Growing produce using this
method uses about 90 percent
less water than traditional farm-
ing methods. It also allows year-
round farming in non-traditional
growing climates.
This is the second round of
funds that Kenkel’s company has
received since its inception in
2014.
“In this round, we were able to
connect with a network of angel
investors from across the coun-
try, rather than going after more
institutional forms of capital,
which really brings a diverse set
of insights into the business,” said
Kenkel.
Angel investors are private in-
dividuals, as opposed to venture
capital firms, who provide initial
funding to fledging businesses.
“Especially as a young founder,
having that type of experience in-
vested in our team is really valu-
able,” said Kenkel.
This funding round sourced
capital from approximately 20
investors, many who learned of
Springworks through summer
visits to Maine.
“A big part of it is, being in op-
eration for about three years now,
you meet people who are inter-
ested in what you’re doing along
the way,” said Kenkel. “We were
able to create and maintain those
connections and from there find a
network of people who are really
passionate about what Spring-
works is doing.”
In junior high, Kenkel started a
small organic garden in his home-
town in Montana. Frustrated by
Montana’s short growing season,
Kenkel learned about aquaponic
farming online and began to build
his own system with money from
a summer job.
He continued to expand his
first system and began to create
a business plan for the company.
Though he was recruited to play
football at Bowdoin, Kenkel in-
stead pursued his interest in sus-
tainable agriculture, buying land
near campus in Lisbon to allow
him to continue to build the com-
pany while at school.
He now sells his lettuce to 30
individual customers and a num-
ber of distributors who transport
his produce across New England.
For now, Kenkel only grows let-
tuce, a choice designed to max-
imize the efficiency of the oper-
ation. Although lettuce is a $3
billion industry in America, most
of it is grown in the southwest.
“About 97 percent of America’s
lettuce production is in Southern
California and Arizona. That has
typically a very negative impact,
especially when you consider
water stress in that area. This is a
way to make the supply chain a lot
more efficient,” explained Kenkel.
After taking last year off to
focus on the business, he plans to
graduate in 2019 and keep work-
ing on the company.
“The plan is to keep growing
Springworks. The opportunities
in our market are huge right now
as system designs like this allow
for localized production in an
economical way all year, in places
that typically can only have local
product once out of the year,” said
Please see KENKEL, page 4

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SECURITY REPORT
2/2 to 2/8
STUDENT SPEAK:
What would you replace the floor of Smith Union
Friday, February 2
• A contractor plowing snow in
the Watson Arena parking lot hit
with?
and heavily damaged a light pole.
Christopher Brown ’20
"I would replace the Smith
Saturday, February 3
• A student’s guest vandalized a
door at Brunswick Apartments. The
guest was ordered to leave campus
and the student host will be charged
with cost of repairs.
Union floor with my face."
• The use of a hair straightener
at 52 Harpswell activated a smoke

Francesca Haines ’20

alarm.
• A student fainted and collapsed

"I would replace the Smith

to the floor at Moulton Dining Hall.
Brunswick Rescue transported the
student to Mid Coast Hospital.

Union floor with a ball pit."

• Damage was reported to the
mechanism of the south lobby door
at Chamberlain Hall.
• A town resident reported late
night noise from students walking
in the area of College St and Harp-
swell Rd.
Olivia Pena ’21
Sunday, February 4
• Students reported being dis-
turbed by excessively loud music KODIE GARZA "Indoor beach, baby."
on the fourth floor of Coles Tower.
• Students reported the odor of gas inside the Vi-
Monday, February 5 sual Arts Center. Brunswick Fire Department checked
• A wooden chair was damaged in the second-floor the area with gas detectors and nothing was found.
common room at Chamberlain Hall. • A student was briefly stuck in the Stowe Hall ele-
• Heavy wind broke a door hinge at the main en- vator during the power outage. The student was safely
trance to the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness. released.
• A staff member was briefly stuck in the Haw-
Frances Zorensky ’20
Tuesday, February 6
• A student was found in possession of a bike that
had been reported stolen from the Carlisle Avenue
thorne-Longfellow Library elevator during the power
outage. The person was freed unharmed.
• A fire alarm at Coleman Hall was caused by stu-
"The second largest piece
Apartments (Lighthouse). The student took responsi-
bility for the theft.
dents burning microwave popcorn.
• A Chamberlain hall resident reported the strong of water-cut linoleum in the
continental United States."
• Wall vandalism was discovered in the basement odor of marijuana. A student was found to have been
of Quinby House. smoking in a room and a quantity of marijuana was
seized.
Wednesday, February 7 • A student’s vehicle was reported to be operating
• Two separate reports were received of marijuana erratically and at a high rate of speed on snow covered
smoking in a Chamberlain Hall men’s restroom. Park Row near Brunswick Apartments at 10:30 p.m. Anne Gregory ’19
• A lobby chair was damaged in Stowe Hall. An officer located the car and driver on South Street
• A power outage at 1:40 p.m. affected the south
campus area. The cause was a tree branch that fell
onto power lines near a local power substation. Power
and a report was filed.

Thursday, February 8
"A thousand of Juan
was restored at 4:15 p.m.
• Two students were briefly trapped in the north
• Evidence of marijuana smoking was reported in a
Chamberlain Hall men’s restroom. Burciaga’s hats."
elevator at Coles Tower, due to the power outage. The COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY
students were released without injury. COMPILED BY HAVANA CASO-DOSEMBET

A guide to blocking to houses A Valentine from your friends at

by Samuel Rosario
Orient Staff
First years are gearing up for
the upcoming lottery to deter-
mine the make-up of next year’s
social houses. In order to better
their odds of getting a spot in one
of the seven houses (considering
Ladd may now be off the market
for non-seniors), first years are
in the process of choosing their
blocks. A block for social houses
is a group of up four students.
For Stowe and Howard, you can
block with up to five people,
but nobody is concerned about
those. The spotlight is on the so-
cial houses—the supposed future
of Bowdoin’s social life and the
origins of many a backstabber.
With all this pressure, some
students are frantically trying
to assemble new friends after
realizing their already estab-
lished groups are not cut out for
the hard realities of the Hunger
Games-esque College House
interview process. One first
year lamented about having one
friend with the “Wicked Syn-
drome.” The friend always had
to get “wicked” into the conver-
sation.
A sophomore recalled his
own experience culling his for-
mer friend group. One member
would not give up their habit of
drying their underwear all over
the dorm. Fortunately the remi-
niscing sophomore had the sense
to weed out member of their
inner circle before lottery time.
Public displays of underwear are
not acceptable. It’s more appro-
priate to leave them in the cush-
ions of the common room couch.
Finally, the icing on the cake
was the astute observation of
one sleuth-like first year: all their
friends were under the delusion
that L.L. Bean boots go with
every outfit. Sorry to burst the
Bowdoin Bubble, they don’t.
The moral of the story? Drop
your friend group and shack up
with some strangers. As in the
great words of Dean of Student
the Bowdoinn O
Orient
Affairs Tim Foster: “One power-
ful opportunity for mixing it up
is through your living arrange-
ment by living with a new group
of people who are different than Roses are red,
you.”
The approaching social house
lottery is the time to make new Violets are blue,
friends, in order to fuel your
undying desire to compile the
strongest block in order to utterly
The Bowdoin Orient is the
destroy the social house appli-
cation and you know … expand nation’s oldest continuously
published college weekly,
your horizons.
Do not be mistaken first years,
you have spent the entirety of fall
semester pulling together a mot-
ley crew of supportive, good-na-
tured people into a protective
and I like you.
haven that you can retreat to. But
now you have the duty and priv-
ilege of burning that haven to the
ground and seeking out worthy
TO: FROM:
candidates. Throw yourself out
there in all your campus endeav-
ours. Do not sit idle at the same
old booth filled with last week’s
news. First Years, it is time to bite
the bear back.
Friday, February 9, 2018 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF COMPILED BY JESSICA PIPER

SENATOR ANGUS KING WINS

FIGHT FOR LOBSTER EMOJI
Bowdoin students, and anyone with an iPhone or Android device,
will soon be able to use a lobster emoji thanks to lobbying efforts from
Senator Angus King H’07 (I-Maine).
The Unicode Consortium, a Silicon Valley-based group of individ-
uals and corporations that is responsible for designing emojis, unveiled
the lobster along with 156 other new emojis on Wednesday. The emojis
should start to become available in August or September.
Last September, King, who taught at Bowdoin between 2004 and
2012, wrote the Unicode Consortium a two-page letter with endnotes
outlining the case for the lobster emoji. He wrote that the lobster is “of
substantial cultural relevance” and noted that no current emoji—such as
the crab or the shrimp—can accurately represent the lobster. On Twitter
on Wednesday, King called the announcement “great news for Maine.”

FACILITIES WORKS TO KEEP UP

WITH WINTER WEATHER
As falling temperatures, rain and snow hit midcoast Maine this
week—knocking out parts of campus power on Wednesday—Facilities COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS
staff got to work extra early to clear ice from the College’s streets and SENIOR GIFTS: Students gather in the Druckenmiller Hall atrium at the kickoff event for the Senior Class Giving Campaign last week.

College’s alumni donation rate

paths.
Over the course of Wednesday afternoon and evening, Brunswick
received about seven inches of snow, according to the National Weath-
er Service. As many students were likely just headed to bed, facilities

among highest in country

staff began working at around 2:30 a.m. yesterday morning, according
to Senior Associate Director for Facilities Operations and Maintenance
Jeff Tuttle.
Wednesday’s storm also knocked out power on the south part of
campus for several hours, including Coles Tower, the Visual Arts Center
and Hawthorne-Longfellow (H-L) Library. Several students were stuck
in elevators in Coles Tower, Stowe Hall and H-L. A total of 2,600 homes
in Brunswick and Harpswell were affected, the Portland Press-Herald by Allison Wei
Orient Staff
reported.
The Dean of Academic Affairs did not formally cancel classes, al- The Senior Class Giving Cam-
though some professors chose not to hold their classes, either due the paign (SCGC) officially began at
lack of power or treacherous driving conditions. Safe Ride, the campus its launch event last Thursday with
shuttle service, stopped running at 4 p.m. due to road conditions. hopes of continuing the College’s
Facilities also dealt with icy conditions earlier in the week. On Mon- tradition of strong alumni giving.
day, the temperature dropped quickly amid rainy conditions, resulting SCGC has a two-fold pur-
in icy paths across campus. Tuttle said he received a number of com- pose: to raise awareness about
plaints from students about the ice. the importance of giving back to
Sydney Avitia-Jacques ’18 was one of the students who wrote to Facil- Bowdoin after graduation and to
ities after noticing ice building up around campus, particularly between solicit donations from seniors this
Moulton Union and Moore Hall and outside of the Peter Buck Center semester.
for Health and Fitness. If the campaign is able to reach
“I know Facilities has a lot to do and does a lot, but I thought it was its participation goal, the Class of
something that if they heard more from students how it was affecting 2018’s senior gift will be granted
people … it seems like a pretty easy fix,” she said. in the form of a scholarship for a
Tuttle said he personally checked out the spots students were con- future student. If 60 percent of the
cerned about and Facilities addressed these issues Tuesday morning. Al- class participates this semester,
though keeping campus clear is a priority for Facilities, he noted that the which means donating at least five
department has a limited number of employees and cannot de-ice all of dollars, and 60 percent continue
campus at once. On days like Monday, when ice builds up very quickly, to donate for four years follow-
he advises students to be careful and wear good shoes. ing graduation, then each year,
“We have a lot to do and limited resources. We do welcome [feed- an anonymous donor, who is an
back], if there’s an issue, if somebody feels like it’s treacherous, they can alumnus and parent of a student
contact me directly or call Security—they’ll get a hold of us,” he said. in the class, will donate $10,000,
which will create a $50,000 schol-
arship for an incoming student.
AMTRAK DOWNEASTER TRAIN According to Audrey Leland
MAY EXPAND FOR THE SUMMER ’18, one of four directors of this
year’s SCGC, giving even five dol-
lars can make a significant differ-
The Amtrak Downeaster, which currently runs from Bos- ence to the campaign.
ton to Brunswick, could go as far north as Rockland this “If you give that five dollars,
summer if the Northern New England Passenger Rail Author- you are helping to unlock that
ity (NNEPRA) approves a pilot program in March. NNERPA $10,000 gift, so when you think
wants to ensure that Maine communities will be active Amtrak what significance does your gift
partners before it finalizes the service, the Maine Free Press
reported last week.
The program would include additional stops in Bath, Wis-
casset, Newcastle and Rockland. NNEPRA is currently hold-
BCQS
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ing forums in each of these towns. The Downeaster would use
existing railroads that primarily carry freight trains. the communication between
The summer expansion would mainly target tourists com- the working group and the
ing up from Boston. Maine Eastern Railroad previously ran a faculty could have been better.
summer service between Brunswick and Rockland but ended He felt that the role of the new
it in 2015, according to U.S. News. questions in reducing bias was
not fully communicated at the
faculty meeting and called the
findings of the working group “a
Subscribe bit of a black box.”
Franco also agreed with Put-
your parents nam about the value of a ques-
to our email tion concerning a professor’s
passion.
newsletter. “The faculty meeting began
with President [Clayton] Rose
bowdoinorient.com telling an anecdote about how a
student told an alumnus ... that
has, it helps us achieve that [schol-
arship],” she said.
Bowdoin has a particularly
successful history of alumni do-
nations. The alumni percentage
of participation in annual giv-
ing—which is calculated as the
percentage of those who donate
of those who are able to be con-
tacted—typically falls between
54 and 61 percent, according to
Senior Vice President for Devel-
opment and Alumni Relations
Scott Meiklejohn. In 2017, Forbes
ranked Bowdoin fourth in the na-
tion among private colleges in its
Grateful Graduates Index, which is
based on participation rate as well
as total donation size.
Meiklejohn believes that Bow-
doin’s success can be attributed to
a wide variety of factors, such as
the opportunities it provides for its
students and alumni, the College’s
need-blind, no-loan financial aid
policy and its close-knit commu-
nity. In addition, the development
and alumni relations team works
to find meaningful ways for alum-
ni to stay involved in the College.
“When you come to Bowdoin,
you join a community that in-
cludes four years in Brunswick and
several decades of connection af-
terwards,” wrote Meiklejohn in an
email to the Orient. “We try to be
both responsive to the needs and
interests of 21,000 alumni and also
Bowdoin had changed his life,”
Franco said. “And that was by
way of telling the faculty, ‘What
you’re doing is very meaningful
work.’ Well, if we’re in the busi-
ness of changing people’s lives, it
would seem to me that passion,
enthusiasm and engagement
are kind of crucial attributes to
bring about that kind of trans-
formation.”
For her part, Associate Pro-
fessor of English Ann Kibbie
was excited about the proposed
changes in the questionnaire.
“Overall, I think the new
questions are much more useful,
because they’re much more spe-
cific. I think the committee did
a terrific job in the revision,” she
proactive in organizing events and
trying things that we think might
pull people together.”
Part of the job of Leland and
her fellow SCGC directors Osa
Fasehun ’18, Grace Mallett ’18 and
Austin Stern ’18 is to find ways to
engage their fellow class members
about the importance of donating.
Together, they selected 30 class
agents who are tasked with reach-
ing out to 10 to 15 of their peers
and educating them about the
campaign.
Even after the official campaign
is over—four years after gradua-
tion—the agents will continue to
keep in touch with classmates and
encourage donations.
Leland initially joined the cam-
paign because she wanted to give
back to the College and hopes that
others will share her perspective.
“During an info session, some-
one said that an education is a
privilege and with that privilege
you have a responsibility to go out
and enact positive change, and that
just resonated with me,” she said.
“I think Bowdoin has given us so
much over the past four years, and
we hold the responsibility to give
back.”
Donations can have multifold
impacts. According to Meiklejohn,
seven percent of Bowdoin’s operat-
ing budget comes from donations.
Contributions can also have im-
said. “There are some questions
that I would definitely want
to think about rewording, but
instead of asking more general
questions, I think the revisions
are trying to think about what
‘more effective’ means.”
Franco and Putnam, despite
the lack of a question on enthu-
siasm, agreed with Kibbie about
the benefit of the new questions
being more specific. Franco said
that he would consider partic-
ipating in the pilot program.
Kibbie, on the other hand, de-
cided not to participate.
“I think that the pilot itself
can’t deliver any of the kinds of
information that it would wish
to deliver, because automati-
plications for how outside entities
judge the College’s institutional
quality.
“A lot of how the outside world
views Bowdoin is based on per-
centages of alumni donations,”
said Mallett. “By giving back, you
are literally increasing the value of
your education here and for every-
one else that follows.”
Both Leland and Mallett en-
couraged all seniors, even those
who may not have been satisfied
with parts of their experience at
Bowdoin, to consider donating.
“It would be unfair to say that
we all have a unified perspective
on Bowdoin,” said Leland. “I think
that we have the power and abili-
ty to now reinforce the programs
that we found essential and also to
provide an incentive as to what we
think needs bettering. When you
donate, you have the opportunity
to donate to various pools. So,
you can donate to academics or to
sports or you give it to Develop-
ment and they figure out whatever
fell short.”
“I think everyone can say
something positive they got out of
Bowdoin ... or certain things that
they got from Bowdoin that they
wouldn’t have gotten from some-
where else,” said Mallett. “I think
the best way to show that you ap-
preciate that and help Bowdoin is
by donating every year.”
cally it’s a self-selected group of
people. To me, it seems as if it
might create a pseudo-scientific
veneer,” she said.
With an overall commitment
to improve the way in which
professors are evaluated, cou-
pled with differing opinions on
how best to evaluate success,
discussions that emanate from
the current pilot program are
bound to be revealing about the
diverse ways faculty consider
themselves within Bowdoin’s
educational environment.
“These faculty meetings are
about to get interesting,” Putnam
concluded.
Isabelle Hallé contributed to
this report.
4 NEWS
Widespread email hacks send phishy messages to student inboxes
by Lowell Ruck
Orient Staff
Since mid-December,
more than 60 students’ email
accounts have been hacked,
resulting in a series of phish-
ing attempts. Emails claiming
association with Temple Uni-
versity and such fictional insti-
tutions as “Recruitment Team,”
“Market Force Information”
and “Mystery Shoppers” ar-
rived in inboxes with promises
of easy pay—provided that re-
cipients enter sensitive person-
al information first.
While the messages may
have appeared genuine at first
LETTUCE BE YOUR FARMER: (TOP): Trevor Kenkel ’18 took a year off to grow his aquaponics farm, which recently
received a $1.6 million investment. (BELOW): Two Springworks employees examine lettuce on the farm.
KENKEL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Kenkel.
“We are designing this system
so that it’s scaleable and can really
make a big impact.”
Aside from the commercial
part of the business, Kenkel also
works to educate others about
aquaponic technology. He has in-
stalled a miniaturized version of
his system, called a “Microfarm,”
in about 60 schools.
As the company continues to
glance, many students were
quick to notice that some-
thing wasn’t quite right.
“I got this email about this
job opportunity from some-
one I know on campus, but I
know they aren’t [involved] in
any sort of business like that,
so it just freaked me out a bit,”
said Michelle Lu ’20.
Eric Berube, associate In-
formation Technology (IT)
security officer, explained that
these account compromises
are likely the result of College
email users visiting fraudulent
websites and entering account
information. Asked whether
the recent school-wide switch
bloom, Kenkel also must main-
tain his academics at Bowdoin as
a biology major and economics
minor, although it has not been
an easy balance.
“It is definitely tough,” he
said. “I guess it is for all Bowdo-
in students.”
He credited his advisor, Pro-
fessor of Biology Barry Logan,
for helping him to hone some
specific aspects of the farm’s op-
eration.
“I’ve had the opportunity
alongside him to work on getting
to the finer details of parts of the
to Office 365 might have af-
fected account security, Beru-
be said that, on the contrary,
the new software has allowed
for more effective detection of
security issues.
“Office 365 has a bunch of
tools in it that we didn’t have
before, and so in all likelihood
we probably had a bunch of
students compromised that
we didn’t know about in the
past. It has really been a huge
benefit in that regard,” he said.
One of these tools allows
Berube and his coworkers in
IT security to detect a phe-
nomenon called the “impossi-
ble journey,” or when a user’s
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
COURTESY OF TREVOR KENKEL
farm’s operation that otherwise I
wouldn’t have the equipment to
do—things like CO2 exchange
and somewhat hidden aspects of
the farm that really are the some
of the underlying foundation for
how our plants grow.”
Despite receiving a mil-
lion-dollar investment, Kenkel re-
mains humble about his success.
“It’s really like a little kid’s
dream come true, you know.
When I started working on sys-
tems in junior high, I don’t think
I could have imagined systems MEET AND GREET: Eric Hall ’20 shakes hands with sociologist and author Michael Eric Dyson after his talk on
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account is accessed in two
geographically distant loca-
tions within a short period of
time. A login from Brunswick
and shortly thereafter from
Beijing is a good indicator of
a compromise, because the
user could not have traveled
that distance in such a small
interval.
Berube said that the IT de-
partment is moving toward a
solution to the problem, but
noted that its ability to pre-
vent future phishing events
is largely dependent on user
awareness of internet security
threats.
“Right now we’re still work-
DYSON
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
ness heighten, your awareness of
your whiteness even more acute
/ and wondering, should you ac-
knowledge as I speak it and how
it makes you feel called out / even
without intending to and then
you wonder, what the black peo-
ple think every day.”
Challenging the racial hierar-
chy inherent in American identity
was at the heart of what King did,
Dyson argued, because the very
understanding of being black in
America can only be explained by
the “whiteness that calls blackness
into existence.”
While some liberals may have
been surprised by President
Trump’s ascendency, in Dyson’s
eyes, he is the logical product of
white hegemony.
“Donald Trump is the fleshly
thesaurus of the multiple defini-
tions we can generate when we
talk about white supremacy, white
privilege, white innocence, nar-
cissism,” he said. “What Donald
Trump is doing to y’all is what
y’all, collectively—whiteness—
has done to us for 300 years. That’s
why it ain’t no surprise. Donald
Trump ain’t no wild card.”
Tuesday. Dyson addressed Martin Luter King in the context of contemporary of racial and gender oppression.
ing on how we’re going to
remediate these [phishing at-
tempts] in the future, but the
reality is there’s only so much
we can do,” he said. “[No
matter] how many security
controls we can put in place,
they’re ineffective if some-
body asks for a password and
they get it.”
“On the heels of that
though, the biggest thing that
we want to start using is two-
step verification, so that even
in the event that a student
gives away their password, the
cyber criminals can’t get in,”
Berube added. “If any Bow-
doin person gives away their
And according to Dyson,
Trump exploited his predecessor’s
inability to engage in a conversa-
tion about race with white Amer-
icans by making xenophobia a
centerpiece of his campaign and
riding barely veiled racism to the
presidency.
“Obama was always playing
nice with white folk because he
could never afford to tell white
people the truth—and what hap-
pens when you can’t afford to tell
white people the truth?” he asked.
“Somebody who claims to be
telling the truth will come along
and take that job. You’re afraid to
talk about race … he talks about
it nonstop. It’s not that race is not
going to be discussed, its ‘who’s
gonna discuss it?’”
As much as whiteness ran
through the lecture, so too did
lifting up women and challeng-
ing misogyny and homophobia.
Dyson grappled with one of the
biggest social shifts in the last two
decades—the gay rights move-
ment—and imagined King, who
he acknowledged was a proto-
typical patriarch and likely ho-
mophobic, would have embraced
this priority.
“And then finally, if we are go-
ing to make America America for
Friday, February 9, 2018
password, the system will no-
tify you … and at that point
you can contact us and help
you to sort it out.”
Outreach is also an import-
ant part of the department’s
plan. In the future, Berube
hopes to hold talks with stu-
dents, as well as to reinstate
the Bowdoin “phishing der-
by,” an event held last year
in which campus email users
were encouraged to identify
phishing attempts for points
and a subsequent reward for
the winner.
“I think that’s the chal-
lenge—getting students en-
gaged,” Berube said.
those who are locked out. How
are we not going to talk about
women in this moment?” he said.
In a poignant anecdote about
Thomas Jefferson’s sexual rela-
tionship and children with Sal-
ly Hemmings, Jefferson’s then
14-year-old slave, Dyson hit on
the intersection between patriar-
chal and racial power.
“It’s interesting to me that so
many white people were shocked
by this. Really though, très inter-
estant. I don’t know if you notice
or not but that’s just how it went
down. For the most parts. Was
that an exception? White man
having unlimited access to the
erotic potential of black women?”
“#MeToo, got some ancient
roots,” he said.
He concluded with a powerful
statement about the importance
and power of women, drawing
from Harriet Tubman.
“Women of color, black wom-
en in particular and women are
still dragging us to freedom to-
day,” he said. “If King’s dream will
be fulfilled, it will be in part, be-
cause they have drug us there, not
only against our wills but to the
best advantage of our destinies.”
Jill Tian contributed to this
report.
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, February 9, 2018
FEAST YOUR EYES: “Babette’s Feast,” a show inspired by a Danish film and conceptualized by Associate Professor of Theater Abigail Killeen, is showing at Portland Stage through February 18. Killeen noted that the event is “born of women.”
‘Babette’s Feast:’ a taste of grace at Portland Stage
by Sabrina Lin
Orient Staff
Associate Professor of Theater
Abigail Killeen’s reimagining of
the culinary splendor in “Ba-
bette’s Feast” was no easy task.
A new adaptation of the story
directed by Karin Coonrod, cur-
rently running at Portland Stage,
focuses on a universal message
of self-sacrifice and service.
Developed over the course of
11 years, the project began with a
serendipitous discovery. Now on
leave this academic year to direct
the play, Killeen first saw the
Danish film, “Babette’s Feast,”
adapted from Isak Dinesen’s
short story, as an undergraduate
student living in New York City.
“It was a sermon illustration
at a church I was attending in the
90s, I was in college at [NYU],”
said Killeen. “I first learned about
it as an example of grace … Then
about 10 years later I learned that
the film was actually based on a
short story … originally written
in English and first published in
Hippo Campus to bring ‘college rock’ to Portland
The Aux Cord
by Chris Ritter
In an industry where artists
are usually discovered on a
streaming platform rather than
onstage, building a live show
or even having stage presence
seems no longer necessary to
“make it.” But for this series
showcasing artists with upcom-
ing concerts in the Portland
area, we are lucky to have Hip-
po Campus, a Minnesota indie
band that rose to fame mainly
due to a knack for electrifying
live performances.
Although the band owes
more than a little success to
Bandcamp.com, where its first
few EPs were released, Hippo
Campus gained most of its
fame through local shows, ra-
dio stations and college gigs in
their native Minneapolis. Its
rise through the college circuit
isn’t surprising, as the band’s
sound contains both the exu-
berance and the nerdiness of
a college (wait for it) campus.
The name “Hippo Campus”
not only brings the location
of college to mind, but it’s also
a part of the brain that only a
America. That’s when I started to
get interested in it theatrically.”
The story, which takes place
in a remote Norwegian town
known as Berlevåg, traces the
relationship between pious
Protestant villagers and an out-
sider—a refugee called Babette,
who flees from the bloodshed
in Paris and is taken in by sisters
Martine, portrayed by Killeen,
and Philippa.
Babette stays in Berlevåg for
14 years working as the sisters’
cook, adhering to the town’s aus-
tere way of life. On the occasion
of sisters’ father’s 100th birthday,
Babette offers to prepare a real
French dinner for the communi-
ty at her own expense. Unaware
that Babette has chosen to spend
her entire earnings and sacri-
ficed her chance to return home,
the townspeople fear the sinful
consequences of such luxurious
indulgences.
While its cinematic counter-
part exalts the gustatory plea-
sures of Babette’s feast, the play
explores authorial intent in a
few STEM kids, bio majors or
people who Googled the name
would know about. Founding
members Jake Luppen and
Nathan Stocker dropped out
of the University of Minnesota
to tour full time, but the bright
sound and endearingly smart
lyrics of Hippo Campus make
it one of many bands helping
to redefine the term “college
rock” in the 21st century.
The band’s early EPs “Bashful
Creatures” and “South” capi-
talized on high-energy guitar
riffing and explosive hooks, a
fitting sound for a band that
rose to fame through live per-
formance. Its indie-punk vibe
would make crowd favorites
like “Violet” and “Suicide Sat-
urday” sound generic if they
weren’t executed so tastefully
(think if All-American Rejects
were English majors). It’s their
shout-worthiness that makes
them infectious, but the band’s
aptitude for lyricism, ambience
and warm guitar harmonies
turns a catchy hook into a song
actually worth memorizing.
While Luppen’s voice boils over
on several tracks, his ardor feels
decisive on the coming of age
soundtrack, “South,” where he
rasps, “I walk the same way my
father told me / Back straight
different way.
“The film is a lot about food,
and we can’t do that on stage …
So what we focus on in the play is
the fact that Babette is a refugee,
and that she becomes an agent
of grace and what that does to a
community,” Killeen said.
Babette’s feast indeed be-
comes a joining together of
seemingly irreconcilable oppo-
sites: pleasure and sacrifice, the
exotic and the virtuous, the cor-
poreal and the spiritual. She ul-
timately transforms the commu-
nity’s judgement and asceticism
with her generosity and selfless
love, enabling them to witness
the good.
“The people who believed they
were demonstrating this service
and [serving] the common good
became the people who received
the good from [someone] they
thought they were helping. So it
flows both ways … and the sur-
prise of the story is that it comes
back to the givers in a way they
couldn’t have asked or imagined.”
“There’s a mystery to it and
and chest out just like a soldier.”
Where Hippo Campus’ early
work sees the band struggling
between anthemicism and de-
tail, “South” is a gem that beau-
tifully splits the difference.
It finds more of that balance
on “Landmark,” the band’s
debut album released last Feb-
ruary. Despite the LP’s winter
release, “Landmark” emits an
aura of summer, as the band
expands on the hazy warmth of
its early work and sheds some of
its punkier tendencies. The fifth
track “Simple Season” needn’t
talk about about backyards and
daffodils for us to know which
season it’s talking about. It’s the
twinkling guitar/whistle com-
bo and the poppy bounce of a
drum set that make the track an
especially summery highlight.
The carefree confidence of
“Simple Season,” “Way it Goes”
and “Tuesday” are the band’s
bread and butter, but that atti-
tude would be exhausting if not
for “Landmark’s” more reserved
tracks. “Epitaph” sees the band
exploring new terrain, drawing
influence from electropop out-
fits like The 1975 and Francis
and the Lights for a buoyant,
rippling synth ballad. A song
about songwriting, “Epitaph”
satirizes pretentious language
that I think is grace,” Killeen
added.
Whether as a commentary
on the refugee crisis, which the
director underscores by casting
a woman of color as Babette, or
as a reminder of hospitality and
kindness, the play offers many
poignant insights. Much to
Killeen’s delight, the production
also turned out to be completely
female-driven: the author, the
director, the playwright, the ar-
tistic director of the theater, the
three leads … The list goes on.
“The theater famously has
shut doors to female theater art-
ists and that hopefully is chang-
ing, but I feel particularly de-
lighted to present this work that
was born of women,” she said.
In honor of the project,
Killeen and the team set out on
an expedition from Paris to Nor-
way and retraced Babette’s steps,
which became crucial in setting
the scene of the play. The stage
evokes a sense of sparseness,
with minimal decorations and
clean contours that translate ex-
while reveling in it; just after
Luppen flaunts the couplet,
“The river is an organ and the
meadow is a curse / for a strange
inclination that fortune is a
curse,” he calls himself “a poor
excuse for poetry trying to play
it cool.”
Despite his self-criticism,
the frontman’s poeticism and
leaping vocals help turn Hippo
Campus’ records into infectious
live performances. They also
helped the band gain compari-
sons to another group of college
dropouts, Vampire Weekend.
But while Ezra Koenig’s Ivy
League literacy embraces its
own pretentiousness, Luppen
only nudges against his, which
works in favor of Hippo Cam-
pus. If the promising young
band has a singular essence this
early in its career, it rests in the
poignance that can be found
in admitting (and celebrating)
one’s normalcy. One of the most
profound lines of “Epitaph”
is one of its least pretentious:
“I’ve got nothing more than
my problems, just let me know
when you’ve found them.”
When the band pairs
that self-awareness with the
crowd-rocking sound of its early
EPs, Hippo Campus is at its best,
both on record and in concert.
periences of the bare Norwegian
landscape.
“I think sometimes the story
can be conceived as something
sweet, or cozy, and what we
learned was that the Norwegian
landscape is brutal and fierce.
That’s reflected in our design and
in some of the performance that
we’ve captured,” said Killeen.
Yet the space is simultaneous-
ly capable of being fully activated,
thanks to Tony-Award winning
Lighting Designer Christopher
Akerlind and Assistant Professor
of Dance Aretha Aoki. Fond of
crossing the disciplines of the-
ater and dance, Aoki remarked
on the wonderful physicality the
actors are able to embody.
“I’ve always enjoyed [collab-
orating with theater artists] be-
cause actors really immediately
invest in the movement. I find
that so satisfying. They know how
to imbue physical material with a
kind of inner life,” said Aoki.
As envisioned by Coonrod,
Aoki choreographed movements
that convey the transformative
PHOEBE ZIPPER
On the final track of “Landmark,”
“Buttercup,” Luppen’s melodies
are no less catchy than its early
tracks, and the rebellious ode to
independence explodes into a
shout-along chorus to finish off
the album. Or, as bassist Zach
Sutton put it in an interview with
online music publication High-
lark, “it goes frickin’ HAM at the
end.” Moments like these are a
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ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
powers of Babette’s cooking. She
also incorporated traditional
Norwegian folk dance, congru-
ent with the authenticity of the
play’s experience.
“It’s called a Halling folk
dance,” Aoki explained. “They’ve
just finished this delicious meal,
and they’re finally delighting in
one another and there’s real joy
in that section that needs to be
communicated ... this idea [that]
in the community there’s this
interdependency and that they
become a community, finally,
through the experience of eating
Babette’s meal.”
As Dinesen herself put it,
“The vain illusions of this earth
had dissolved before their eyes
like smoke and they had seen
the universe as it really is. They
had been given an hour of the
millennium.”
“Babette’s Feast” opened on
January 23 and will close on
February 18 at Portland Stage.
The play is expected to open at
the St. Clements Theater in New
York City.
given for its genre, but the band’s
seasoned brand of live-oriented
production sets Hippo Campus
apart from other young indie
rockers; all that energy translates
into actual charisma. It’s best not
just heard, but seen and felt.
Hippo Campus will be per-
forming at Port City Music
Hall in Portland this Sunday,
February 11.
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6
FEATURES
Breathing out, tuning in
A movement toward mindfulness promotes focus and builds connections.
WORKING ON WELLNESS: Weekly mediation classes in the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness, led by Director of Counseling Services Bernie Hershberger, are just one of many opportunities for Bowdoin students to practice mindfulness.
by Emily Cohen and
Rohini Kurup
Orient Staff
In the Peter Buck Center for
Health and Fitness, an intimate
room on the third floor with
purple cushions, dim lighting
and statues of Buddha seems
out of place. But several nights
a week, students and communi-
ty members come to Room 302
for meditation classes, retreat-
ing from the chaos of campus,
if only for 55 minutes.
Monday was the second time
Nora Jackson ’21 had medi-
tated. She was inspired to try
meditation after hearing of the
benefits of mindfulness.
“In our ever-busy world we
forget to take a moment for our-
selves, and that time is worth it
and will be repaid to us, in a sense,
for when we’re able to focus better,
we’re able to understand ourselves
better,” said Jackson.
Monday night’s class, taught
by Toby Sifton, a local acupunc-
turist and meditation instruc-
tor, focuses on the foundations
of meditation. Sifton walks and
talks the small group through
the practice, first the proper
alignment of sitting meditation,
next the breath, which would
be the object of focus through-
out the practice. Sifton also
tells participants that it’s fine to
notice sensations they feel, of
thoughts that arise. It’s OK for
the mind to wander, Sifton tells
the class. If it does, don’t dwell
on it, and return to the breath.
Sifton’s meditation class is
only one part of a growing push
for mindfulness on campus.
Last weekend alone, there were
three events focused on medi-
tation: two introductory work-
shops and a keynote address.
Led by new student group
Mindfulness Over Matter and
Counseling Services, the mind-
fulness movement aims to give
members of the Bowdoin com-
munity tools to counter stress,
anxiety or other struggles on
their own.
Mindfulness Over Matter
brings together experienced
and novice meditators. The
club hopes to offer student-led
group meditation classes every
day of the week and to form a
community within the variety
of scattered mindfulness events
on campus.
“We’re going to try to have
a diverse range of meditation
sessions and they won’t only
be places to sit down, meditate
and leave, but a place where we
can talk and meet,” said Megan
Retana ’19, one of the leaders of
Mindfulness Over Matter.
Retana began practicing
meditation after taking a med-
ical leave from Bowdoin in her
sophomore year.
“Initially it was to calm
my anxiety, and it did that,
but among stopping the anx-
iety attacks that I was having,
it really made me feel more
grateful, made me feel more
compassionate towards others.
It gave me a sense of thankful-
ness for my family and friends
and Bowdoin even though it
seemed, at the time, like a place
of stress and chaos. I definitely
came back with a better mind-
set,” she said.
Benny Painter ’19, another
leader of the club, discovered
meditation in high school,
where mindfulness was incor-
porated into the curriculum.
Painter signed up for the elec-
tive out of curiosity, but his re-
lationship with meditation has
evolved since then.
“I was just really curious
about how it helped with my ac-
ademics and my concentration.
But now, it’s much more than
just academics and concentra-
tion. It’s about practicing values
that I want to embody in an
intentional way. Sitting down
on the cushion is an opportu-
nity to practice compassion or
gratitude, like you’d practice an
instrument or sport,” he said.
After high school, Painter
took a gap year and spent three
months studying with monks in
Nepal. He has gone on several
mindfulness retreats and con-
tinues to deepen his practice,
which includes sharing it with
Bowdoin through Mindfulness
over Matter.
“I was just so lucky to have
been exposed to it because it
really shaped who I am in a re-
ally positive way. And it’s done
the same for a lot of people,” he
said. “I just want to be a part of
the effort to give other people
that same exposure, because it
might help them.”
Counseling Services is also
committed to the mindfulness
movement. Bernie Hershberg-
er, director of Counseling Ser-
vices, first suggested that the
College offer wellness classes
about 18 years ago and regular
meditation classes more than
10 years ago.
“We were out in front of the
wave trying to help students
figure out strategies and skills
for working with stress and
anxiety and perfectionism,
and in particular we started to
incorporate these classes that
would allow students to devel-
op skills, practices that they
could take with them,” he said.
A licensed psychologist,
Hershberger turned to med-
itation soon after earning his
PhD because he felt that he was
doing patients a disservice by
attempting to reframe the is-
sues they came in with. He felt
that strategy invalidated those
issues.
“The challenge is that it
somehow belies the fact that
there is difficulty, there is pain
and there is suffering in the
world, and I was just starting to
feel like, I couldn’t just go past
“In our ever-busy world we forget to take
a moment for ourselves, and that time is
worth it and will be repaid to us, in a sense,
for when we’re able to focus better, we’re
able to understand ourselves better,”
–Nora Jackson ’21
people’s suffering and pain,”
said Hershberger.
Buddhist principles and
meditation gave Hershberger a
new perspective on approach-
ing his work and his life.
“It infused so much more
energy and excitement in what
I wanted to do then, which
was to help people psycho-
logically and when possible to
incorporate other strategies,”
he said. “Teaching people, for
example, with anxiety about
how to go toward anxiety is so
much more empowering than
trying to move around it, or
dodge or weave it, or medicate
it. It’s much more helpful for
someone to know that they
can go towards something that
is really difficult. And that is in
essence what meditation prac-
tice is.”
By promoting mindfulness
through wellness classes and
programming through Coun-
seling Services Hershberger
hopes to spread the benefits
of mindfulness to all edges of
campus.
“There is not a human being
on our campus who is not fac-
ing some sort of challenge or
difficulty. That is unifying and
means we all can work together
to ease suffering within self and
to support others,” he said.
All of these efforts, in part,
work to dispel common miscon-
ceptions about meditation. One
of these misconceptions, Painter
explains, is that the goal of med-
itation is to clear one’s mind.
“It’s definitely not just trying
to think about anything, be-
cause that would be just frus-
trating,” he said. “[It’s import-
ant] to have an open mind, and
maintain a healthy skepticism.
Only trust your experience and
not what anyone else is telling
you about how you should be
feeling or not. It’s really an ex-
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MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ploration of your own mind.”
Retana adds, however, that
this exploration doesn’t need to
happen in isolation.
“There’s something special
about being in a room with a
bunch of different people who
are practicing. I never used
to meditate with people and
it is perhaps seen as a solitary
practice but there are so many
ways—you can meditate alone,
you can mediate in a group,
there are so many exercises,”
said Retana.
Jackson was encouraged by
the group setting of the classes.
“If I was going at this alone
I don’t think I could do it,”
said Jackson. “I wouldn’t know
where to start, really.”
The College has provided
a strong foundation for the
movement, and Hershberger
is confident that the lessons of
mindfulness and meditation
will benefit students beyond
their Bowdoin careers.
“If Bowdoin more and more
commits, and I think we’re re-
ally getting there, but if we were
able to develop a community
that is mindful and compas-
sionate, I think the quality of
our lives would be fundamen-
tally different,” said Hershberg-
er. “My biggest dream is that
when students leave Bowdoin,
they leave with emotional in-
telligence, wisdom and com-
passion.”
For now, though, there’s a
small room on the third floor of
Buck where students can learn
to breathe, to be mindful of
their thoughts and feelings, to
cultivate that wisdom and com-
passion. They’re hooked, and
they’ll keep coming back.
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Talk of the Quad

CUTE GUYS, COFFEE AND
CARDIOMYOPATHY
I was walking around Bos-
ton, having a joyous time. It
was nice to be in a new city
where I could forget my prob-
lems for a day. I wouldn’t say I
was in epic emotional turmoil,
but a month earlier I was offi-
cially diagnosed with dilated
cardiomyopathy, put on some
pretty hefty medication, told
that my Nordic ski career was
toast and that I would poten-
tially never be able to exercise
again. So I guess I was doing as
well as any kid whose life was
falling apart could. My parents
were asleep in the hotel and I
was supposed to meet them
to tour Harvard later in the
day (my thinking-way-too-
far-ahead mom wanted me
to see some grad schools). I
lounged around the Theater
District area, where my hotel
was located, until I eventu-
ally met up with a friend of a
friend who turned into a date.
He was cute and an MIT grad
student (yeah, I know, quite
an age gap) who was studying
economics or something.
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
(DCM) is a risky heart condi-
tion, where the left ventricle
expands due to stress and the
heart doesn’t pump blood as
well as it should. It can even-
tually lead to heart failure and
other serious problems. There
are a range of triggers for the
disease that include viruses,
alcoholism, obesity, smoking,
cancer, genetics and sometimes
athletic training. If left un-
treated DCM sometimes caus-
es for athletes to drop dead in
the middle of exercising. In my
case, cardiologists guess that
while training on a Nordic ski
team last year, I outperformed
myself. I worked my heart so
much that it caused the left
ventricle to expand in order to
compensate for the strain.
The MIT grad and I walked
around the gardens in Boston
Commons, got coffee in Bea-
con Hill and talked about ice
climbing, a mutual hobby. The
date was going well when, in
the middle of the Boston Pub-
lic Library, my heart started
pounding and I collapsed. I
was laying on the floor, feeling
like my chest was about to split
open, when a librarian came
up to MIT guy and me to tell
us the library was clos-
ing. I’m not quite
sure what I said
to her, but
I think I
yelled.
(I am
sorry,
PHO
EBE
NICH
OLS
Ms. Librarian.) She got the gist
and called an ambulance. Cute
MIT guy, being the superhero
that he was, rode with me to
the hospital and also waited
with me until my parents came
(I’m pretty sure this made my
mom want me to marry him).
A team of cardiologists,
specialists and Harvard Medi-
cal School students took great
care of me overnight. One
particular medical student
must have spent two hours in
my room talking to me about
Nordic skiing and describing
what medical school at Har-
vard was like, a conversation
that made me realize that
while what he did was su-
premely cool, medicine would
never be for me. I was told that
my condition was a result of a
mixture of dehydration from
flying for 16 hours, a nasty
virus and pre-existing heart
conditions. After a long night
of tests and a final ‘OK’ from
a specialized cardiologist, I
was released. My parents and
I quickly packed up our bags,
left the bad memories of Bos-
ton behind, and drove up the
coast to Brunswick.
After getting to Bowdoin ev-
erything went pretty smoothly.
In fact, I fell in love with the
school and began to recover
from the horrors of Massachu-
setts. I come from
a small town in
Alaska, so
the abundance of opportuni-
ties we have at our fingertips
here at Bowdoin still amazes
me. And as much as everyone
complains about Bowdoin,
both in person and online, I
know that it is such an honor
and gift to be here. That’s why
the two weeks leading up to
Thanksgiving break were the
most dreadful time period of
my life, even worse than those
days spent in Boston.
The prognosis for cardio-
myopathy is variable. One-
third of patients will get bet-
ter with medication and rest,
one-third will not change,
and one-third will get worse.
The third that gets worse
leads to harsher therapies and
potentially require a heart
transplant. On November 10,
I went to my cardiologist to
take some tests that would
give us an idea of how my
heart was doing. As a result,
for the two weeks leading up
to break, in the midst of my
second round of midterms, I
was also anxiously awaiting
test results that would tell me
how my heart had changed
since the beginning of the
school year. A lot depended
on these results because if
they showed my heart was
doing worse, I had already
decided with my mom that I
would have to leave Bowdoin
to focus on my health. It was
hard enough being at school
and keeping up with doctors
appointments, medications
and the overwhelming mental
state I was in. If my condition
had worsened, all those obsta-
cles would have intensified.
I think this is when I start-
ed to really realize how much
I love Bowdoin, and how good
we all have it here. While I’m
pretty sure that I’ve been slowly
crumbling due to schoolwork,
I’ve also been able to replace
old hobbies, like skiing, with
new-found joys like writing
for the Orient and joining the-
ater groups. More importantly,
I’ve made amazing friends,
been academically challenged
like never before and become
part of a close-knit environ-
ment that is cooperative and
caring. My school, profes-
sors and friends have been
enormously empathetic and
helpful as I struggled with my
health. The sayings really are
right—you never think about
how good you have it until
you might have it taken away.
One nerve-racking question,
along with that proverb, raced
through my brain for the two
weeks before Thanksgiving.
Was I going to be able to stay
at this amazing place that had
become my new home?
I’m very excited to say that
the answer is yes. My test re-
sults came back, and while
I’m not quite free from cardi-
ologists, my prognosis looks
good. My left ventricle is back
to a normal size and it looks
like my heart is no longer
categorized as having cardio-
myopathy. I may have lost my
potential to participate com-
petitively in the sport I love,
had a pretty miserable first
semester filled with endless
dread and also messed up a
date with a cute MIT grad, but
I am lucky, as we all are, to be
able to call Bowdoin home for
at least one more semester.
Mitchel Jurasek is a member
of the class of 2021.

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WITH HOOKUP CULTURE For the sake of this article, I situ- bouts of lymphoma, Doug has from sensual
IN MIND ate hookup culture in conjunction experienced firsthand the healing pleasure for
If I had a dollar for every time with mindfulness culture, another power of mindfulness.” Hold on. the purpose of
I heard a complaint about hook- relatively recent phenomenon on This reads as unsettlingly close to pursuing spir-
up culture, I would have at least this campus. While I am critical an implication that our loved ones itual goals. In
enough to buy dinner for two. As of both, I maintain that elements who have been victims to cancer the end, how-
I fantasize about wine and candle- of the two can offer insight when were simply not meditating hard ever, he turned
light, I wonder what has become considered in contrast. Mind- enough. I understand the benefits, towards a much
of dating. The following piece, if fulness practice entails a certain both scientific and spiritual, of more moderate
nothing more, serves as my per- degree of solitude, self-sufficiency practicing introspection, stillness stance: his famous
sonal meditation on our cultural and commitment to slow growth and concentration. I notice also middle way. This idea
progression. over time. Hookup culture, com- that advocates of these benefits can shows up in western philos-
What is this hookup culture, paratively, can be seen as a product come across as sanctimonious. But ophy, as well. Aristotle’s con-
anyway? Social scientist and sex of entitlement to instant grati- I digress. sideration of the virtuous life
scholar Peggy Orenstein, author of fication. Meditation turns one’s I have heard meditation prac- arrives eventually at the propo-
“Girls & Sex,” explains that while attention within, to the breath and tice described as “going to the sition of a Golden Mean between
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sees that sex within hookup culture of the body and mind. Hookups heaped upon a practice with which Following Aristotle and the
has become a precursor to rather tend to jump towards superficial one is unfamiliar, for which one Buddha, pillars of intellectualism
than a function of intimacy and physicality. feels unequipped or wherein one and enlightenment, let’s strive to
affection. In light of this inversion, This past Friday, a well-attend- feels unwelcome. While this mind- operate in middle ground territo-
it seems that “hooking up” has be- ed lecture in Kresge Auditorium fulness stuff is still new, many of us ry between drunken, emotionally
come a veritable relationship status, exemplified the cultivation of know how exercise feels. A certain detached, one-night stands (that
with all its accompanying inconclu- mindfulness culture here at Bow- physical and cognitive pleasure elicit deserved disapproval) and
siveness. Is it possible that normal- doin. Two speakers, Jessica Morey can be achieved by running, mov- strict, quasi-marital monogamy responsibility of shaping the cul- learn to reduce or even eliminate
ization of this terminology excuses, and Doug Worthen, introduced ing, stretching, sweating and even (that elicits both awe and exas- ture for a new generation, we must harmful expectations. Maybe we
and even encourages, vagueness their ideas and experiences to an lifting up heavy things then setting peration from those of us who consider the intersection of these can learn to know ourselves bet-
and miscommunication? audience largely comprised of ath- them back down. Working out remain single). By no means do I two social phenomena. How can ter and therefore better share our
We all know what it means letes, whose mandated attendance feels good; most of us who have aim to chastise casual, consensual, we continue to advocate mind- thoughts, feelings and desires. If
to know someone in the biblical signified an increasing attempt to ever tried it know this. It is good communicative carnal coupling, fulness without being annoying we can practice awareness of the
sense. Are we forgetting what it inject mindfulness practice into for you too, and I do not think that committed or casual. Au contrai- or insensitive? How do we come physical feelings in our bodies
means to get to know someone, as the Bowdoin curriculum. The claim would meet much dispute re, I believe that sexual expression together in molding our discus- while comfortably seated, we can
the word is used colloquially? Dare turnout at Saturday’s accompany- within virtually any sector of so- and physical closeness are invalu- sions and practices of sexuality to apply those skills to other activi-
I suggest that sex is better after hav- ing meditation workshop in Peter ciety. Meditation is no different; it able to most people’s development be safer and more satisfying? As ties. If we can become comfortable
ing waited, talked and established Buck Center for Health and Well- may require some practice, but the as human beings, and as college we witness an evolution in hookup alone with our thoughts, we can
an informed, mutual interest in ness, billed as a “retreat,” further mental exercise itself is inarguably students, we ought to learn about culture and a rise in mindfulness, become more receptive listeners. If
our partner’s personality? Was this confirmed the establishment of healthy. these experiences with one anoth- perhaps we can benefit from ap- we can learn to be mindful, we can
not the precise function of dating? mindfulness culture. The Buddha, grandfather of er, without being expected to mar- plying lessons from the latter to be mindful about hooking up.
By making this proposal, I must In a poster promoting the mindfulness, devoutly practiced ry ourselves off. the former. Maybe we can learn to Miles Brautigam is a member of
admit guilt of hypocrisy. Maybe I weekend’s activities, Worthen’s asceticism: a lifestyle characterized As we collectively shoulder the delay gratification. Maybe we can the class of 2019.
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8 Friday, February 9, 2018
SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
Women’s basketball reaches 20 win plateau
RUNNING TO GLORY: The
men’s track and field team
crushed the competition
at the Maine State Meet
on Sunday, finishing
with a strong 223 points
to beat second-place
Bates by 43 points. This
is the second first-place
finish in three years for
the team, who set the
second highest point
total in state indoor meet
history. Sean MacDonald
’19 was also named Most
Valuable Track Athlete at
the championship after
winning both the mile and
the 3000M.
LEAVE IT ON THE
TRACK: The women’s
track and field team also
gave a strong perfor-
mance at the Maine
State Meet on Saturday,
coming in second place
behind Bates with a total
of 180 points. Despite
the second-place finish,
the Polar Bears won at
every distance between
the 200M and mile, with
Sarah Kelley ’18 winning
both the 800M and the
mile.
WON’T BE SQUASHED:
Both men’s and women’s
squash competed in the
NESCAC Championship
this weekend at Hamil-
ton. The women’s team
dropped to Bates 9-0
in the opening round
of the tournament, with
Lex Horowitz ’19 winning
the lone set for the Polar
Bears. On the men’s side,
the team made it to the
quarterfinals after beating
Tufts 6-3 before falling to
Trinity 9-0. Both teams
will compete in the CSA
National Team Champi-
onships beginning on Feb.
16 for the women’s.
BOUNCING BACK: Men’s
basketball (14-7, NES-
CAC 3-5) lost to both
Middlebury and Williams
this weekend 70-72 and
55-72 respectively. Jack
Simonds ’19 scored
the most points in the
Middlebury game with
18, with Liam Farley ’18
right behind him at 17. In
the Williams game, the
Polar Bears struggled to
overcome an early lead
by the Ephs. The team
will finish the season this
weekend at home with a
game against Connecti-
cut College on Friday
at 7 p.m. followed by a
game against Wesleyan
on Saturday at 3 p.m.
COMPILED BY ANNA FAUVER
by Kathryn McGinnis
Orient Staff
The women’s basketball team
(21-1, NESCAC 7-1) is continu-
ing its strong play and has now
won over 20 games for its fourth
year in a row after beating Mid-
dlebury 70-52 on Friday. This is
the ninth time the Polar Bears
have reached this plateau in the
10 years Head Coach Adrienne
Shibles has been leading the
program. The Polar Bears con-
tinued the momentum against
Williams, beating the Ephs 73-47
last Saturday.
“In our league, we’re only al-
lowed 24 regular season games,”
said Shibles, “So to hit the 20-
win plateau in a season shows
you’re being really efficient and
that you’ve had a lot of success
throughout the year.”
Bowdoin will play its last two
conference games this weekend
against Connecticut College and
Wesleyan. Then the team will be-
gin tournament play.
Currently ranked second in
the NESCAC, a championship
title seems likely for the Polar
Bears, but captain Kate Kerrigan
’18 warned against relying on the
team’s past victories.
“Every weekend is a battle,
especially in the NESCAC,” said
Kerrigan. “Every team you face is
good. You have to show up every
weekend; otherwise, you could
lose. I think that’s something that
makes the NESCAC special.”
In preparation for this week-
end, the players spent the first half
of the week focusing on improv-
ing their overall performance.
Then, they practiced drills and
plays to counter specific defensive
and offensive techniques.
Bowdoin hosts Girls and Women in Sports Day
by Anna Fauver
Orient Staff
Last Sunday, Bowdoin host-
ed its annual Girls and Women
in Sports Day in Farley Field
House as part of a string of
events happening around the
country celebrating the 32nd
annual National Girls and
Women in Sports Day. This
year, 324 girls, whose ages
run from kindergarten to high
school, participated in the free
event, themed “Play Fair, Play
IX.”
“Sometimes we forget that
it’s not too long ago when Title
IX was put in place, which re-
ally provided for a lot of addi-
tional opportunities for wom-
en to participate in sports,”
Ashmead White Director
of Athletics Tim Ryan said.
“[Girls and Women in Sports
Day] is a great way to continue
that legacy and also to serve as
a reminder for everyone about
the importance of Title IX be-
ing enacted.”
Women’s Soccer Assistant
Coach Ellery Gould, who
planned Sunday’s event, agrees
with Ryan and believes that the
event gives girls a way to try
different sports. The two-hour
BALLIN’ OUT: Lauren Petit ’18 dribbles the ball past a Middlebury opponent during Friday’s game, which the Polar Bears won 70-52. This marked their 20th
win of the season. The team continued the momentum against Williams, beating the Ephs 73-47 on Saturday. The team plays Connecticut College today.
“They’re both very good
teams,” said Shibles. “They have
a good balance of big posts and
talented guard play, so I think
[the] key to success for us is the
defensive intensity we bring and
defensive focus.”
Shibles said that a lack of focus
against Amherst two weeks ago
led to the team’s first loss. At the
top of the NESCAC rankings,
Bowdoin and Amherst could face
off for the championship.
Captain Lydia Caputi ’18 does
not doubt the team’s skills but
indicated areas for improvement
before the tournament begins.
“We just had a couple too
many mental lapses when we
event was completely free and
provided the necessary equip-
ment, pizza and snacks, and
drawstring bags for the girls to
take home with them.
“I think back to when I
was a young girl growing up
and I just think, ‘Wow, how
cool is it that they have this
opportunity to not only be
around these incredible role
models that they can look up
to and see walking around
the community and see play-
ing in games,’” said Gould.
“Ultimately, it’s a ten-minute
station [for each sport], but I
think it’s really neat that they
can be introduced to a new
sport that they might love.
They can go back and say,
‘Maybe I can try to join a team
or try a camp this summer.’”
Fourteen different teams,
from the sailing team to the
rugby team, agreed to partic-
ipate. Gould believes that the
range of sports and the differ-
ent stations allowed the girls to
form a bond with their group.
“It was pretty awesome to
see the variety of sports, and
all of the girls went in with an
open mind,” she said. “It was
fun because we break them
up by age, but it’s a group of
played [Amherst],” Caputi said.
“We’ve been making an effort to
hold each other a little bit more
accountable when it happens in
practice. The good thing is, in that
loss we had a lot of controllable
mistakes that if we don’t make
[again], we win.”
Playing in Wesleyan’s senior
game on Sunday, the Polar Bears
will have to maintain their com-
posure against a competitive team
and enthusiastic crowd.
“There’s always a lot of emo-
tion attached to those particular
senior games, so it won’t be easy
to go on the road and get a win,”
said Shibles.
Last weekend, the women’s
probably 10 to 15 girls in each
group rotating, and they don’t
necessarily all know each other
but they’re all working togeth-
er for a two-hour clinic and
making new friends that way.”
Despite putting together the
event, Gould credits the stu-
dent athletes with ensuring the
event ran smoothly.
“It was mostly run through
the players. So I basically just
did some of the behind-the-
scenes stuff, but as soon as the
day starts, it’s on the players,”
Gould said. “Each team had at
least four or five players there
throughout the day. So as
soon as we all bring it in and
we break into the groups, it’s
really the players who run the
day. It wouldn’t be possible
without them.”
Furthermore, Gould sees
Girls and Women in Sports
Day as an opportunity for ath-
letes to go back to their roots
and remember why they play
their sport.
“It was nice for me to see
as a coach, to see them now
being on the other side and
coaching these young girls,”
she said. “At least on my team,
we always talk about ‘playing
for her,’ so play for the girl
basketball team celebrated its se-
niors with a time-honored tradi-
tion: mother-daughter basketball.
Junior and senior moms were
pitted against first years and soph-
omores, with only the mothers
allowed to score. Fathers partici-
pated in a “Hot Shot” competition
at halftime.
“My mom [was] quite horrible,
but it’s fun,” said Caputi. “It’s a way
for us to express our gratitude to-
ward our parents.”
When Shibles came to Bow-
doin 10 years ago, the team in-
sisted this was one tradition that
couldn’t go away. Now, Shibles
has her own legacy. She created a
team built on technique and rela-
GIRLS RUN THE WORLD: Bowdoin hosted a Girls and Women in Sports Day
on Sunday. Over 300 girls from around Maine participated in 14 different sports.
who fell in love with soccer.
Think about why you play
soccer and why it means so
much to you. A lot of people
think back to their younger
years and why they fell in love
with the sport.”
Ultimately, both Gould and
Ryan believe that it is import-
ant to increase girls’ expo-
sure to different sports from
a young age, and this event
hopes to accomplish that.
“Many schools across the
country don’t provide equal
JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
tionships, which has proved to be
a winning combination.
“Her emphasis [is] on the
program’s culture,” said Caputi.
“She recruits a specific type of
student-athlete, someone who’s
going to be committed to the
excellence of our program, is
going to have a really high stan-
dard for themselves in the class-
room [and] is going to be an ad-
vocate for themselves and their
teammates. [Shibles] fosters re-
ally great relationships with her
players, and I think that’s where
it all begins.”
The team will play at Connecti-
cut College today at 7 p.m. and at
Wesleyan tomorrow at 3 p.m.
COURTESY OF ELLERY GOULD
opportunities, so I just think
it’s great that Bowdoin sup-
ports this movement and I
think it’s an incredible oppor-
tunity for local girls,” Gould
said. “We had a lot from
Brunswick, but we also had
some come in from Wiscasset
and as far down as Freeport
and all over. It was just great
how widespread it was and
how just one little event in the
grand scheme of things can
hopefully make a difference in
these girls’ lives.”
Friday, February 9, 2018
Swimming crushes Colby, looks towards NESCACs
by Artur Kalandrov
Orient Staff
After an impressive victo-
ry by the men’s and women’s
swimming and diving teams
over the Colby swim teams
this past Saturday, each is
looking to succeed in the
NESCAC Championship,
which begins on February 16.
At Colby, the men’s team
closed with a score of 197-79,
and the women’s team came in
at 204-64. The men performed
particularly well in the 100
and 200 butterfly races, where
the Polar Bears took the top
three and four spots, respec-
tively. The women’s team won
every event that took place on
Saturday, picking up first and
second in the 200 butterfly,
FLYING PAST THE MULES: (LEFT): Michael O’Neil ’20 practices fly. (RIGHT): McClure Brower ’18 prepares for a backstroke start. The men’s team crushed Colby 197-79 on Saturday, and the women’s team beat the Mules 204-64.
Nordic skiing finishes sixth at UVM Carnival to continue strong season
by Ella Chaffin
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin nordic ski
team is in the middle of an ex-
ceptional season this year, com-
ing in sixth at the University of
Vermont Carnival last week-
end on a new course that was
recently added to the Eastern
Intercollegiate Ski Association
circuit. Many Polar Bears had
top finishes, with Elliot Ketchel
’21, finishing eighth and Jacob
Adicoff ’18 finishing 19th on
the men’s team and Renae An-
derson ’21 finishing 13th and
Ellie Hands ’18 in 20th on the
FORGOT TO GET FLOWERS?
800 freestyle relay, 100 free
and one and three meter div-
ing, among others.
The captains of the wom-
en’s swim team, Mariah Rawd-
ing ’18 and Linnea Patterson
’18, attributed a lot of the
team’s success to its first year
members, who they say have
changed the team dynamic
and increased competitive-
ness.
“It’s been my favorite sea-
son, it’s been really good,” said
Patterson. “[The first years]
have brought a lot of depth to
the teams, they bring a lot of
intensity to practice. They’re
spread across the board in
the training groups, so there’s
some of them in each group
to train with. I think we have
a really tight-knit team this
women’s team.
Hands had her personal
best finish at this race and is
excited about the team’s suc-
cessful season.
“This is our best season
ever,” Hands said. “In the past
few years, we have had a couple
really good people, but this is
the first year we have been as
a team, really competitive at
races. We have a bunch of new
skiers who are really good, and
everyone who has been here is
moving up as well.”
According to Hands, team
dynamics play a big part in its
success.
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SPORTS
year,” she said.
“Everyone has a mentality
about training this year that
I think is unique to this year,
and I think it’s why we have a
better record and we’re setting
more records in season,” said
Rawding.
The presence of a new as-
sistant coach, Pamela Torrey,
has also helped the women’s
team this season. After retir-
ing from the Office of Devel-
opment this past spring, Tor-
rey has volunteered her time
to assist the team.
“I’ve known [Torrey] since
I came to Bowdoin,” said
Head Coach Brad Burnham.
“She’s been just an awesome
addition, just another person
on deck who loves swimming,
coaching and helping kids get
“I think team dynamics are a
very big part, and our coach is
one of the main people who fos-
ters our team dynamics,” Hands
said. “He is always recruiting
people who he thinks would fit
well with the team. Since it is
so individual, there is so much
about how we work together in
practice and push each other
and support each other at rac-
es, things like if the men race
first, they will all stay after their
race to cheer for us out on the
course and vice versa.”
Hands believes that in addi-
tion to being supportive of each
other at races, the skiers have
better. It’s really increased our
ability to coach one on one or
in small groups a lot better.”
Patterson and Rawding
believe that Torrey’s presence
has provided crucial moral
support for the team this year.
“[Torrey] will keep you go-
ing. She is like the mother of
the distance group, because
they’ll have really long prac-
tices where you need an emo-
tional support figure on the
deck who can say ‘You have
two more, let’s keep it going,’
or something like that,” said
Patterson.
For the men’s team, Burn-
ham has noticed improve-
ments this season that have
given the team an edge as well.
“The men have gotten bet-
ter in their short sprinting
grown very close.
“I think that our team, out
of all the other teams that we
race against, is one of the clos-
est teams, because we practice
together and travel together,”
Hands said.
Along with recruiting
strong first years this season,
the coach plays a crucial role
in pushing the Polar Bears to
a new level of performance,
according to Hands.
“Our freshmen are both re-
ally strong on the men’s and
women’s side,” she said. “There
is a big effort to recruit fast peo-
ple, and our coach has done an
races,” said Burnham. “[They]
may be a little stronger in
breaststroke than [they’ve]
been. [But they are] just as
strong through the middle.”
Burnham believes that
Bates poses a challenge to
Bowdoin in the NESCAC
Championship for both teams.
The team beat the Bobcats for
the first time in four years on
January 19. Captain Stephen
Pastoriza ’19 says that beating
Bates again at the NESCAC
Championships is a main goal
for the team.
“At the beginning of every
year we’re like ‘We’re going to
beat Bates this year, it’s our big
goal,’ and it hasn’t happened
till now,” said Pastoriza. “As a
team, I think we want to beat
Bates again, and be in the top
incredible job of bringing Bow-
doin nordic from nothing to a
school that is right in the mix
with all the competitive schools.
This is one of those batches
where these fast people have de-
cided to come here instead of [a
school like] Dartmouth.”
Bowdoin’s nordic program
has been getting attention re-
cently due to Kaitlynn Miller
’14, who will be competing in
the 2018 Olympics.
“It is really exciting for us
that Miller who graduated a
couple years ago is going to the
Olympics,” Hands said. “Be-
tween that and this being the
9
four.”
For both teams, expecta-
tions for the NESCAC Cham-
pionship are high. According
to Rawding, the teams hope to
qualify some relays and indi-
vidual swimmers to Nationals.
“I think if everyone swims
to the potential that we think
and know they can swim, we’ll
see really good results. We’ll
be high in the rankings,” said
Patterson.
“I expect that the hard work
that they put in will pay off,
because they worked really
hard this year,” said Burnham.
The women’s team will
compete for the NESCAC
championship February 16-18
at Williams. The men’s event
will be held at Bowdoin the
following weekend.
PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
best season we have ever had,
it’s really cool to get Bowdoin
nordic on the map.”
The team hopes to contin-
ue its momentum going into
the Dartmouth Carnival this
weekend.
“Our team has been doing
better every race,” Hands said.
“I think now we are going into
the end of our season, and peo-
ple are really trying to push
their sharpness. I think you
build confidence over the sea-
son. I know for me that I really
want to tell myself that I can do
even better than I’ve been doing
and push those boundaries.”
 O OPINION
10 Friday, February 9, 2018

Building on BCQs
As the faculty experiments with alterations to Bowdoin Course Questionnaires
Democrats, let’s learn from our mistakes
(BCQs), we encourage students and the College to think more broadly about the role Trumpian legislation off his desk—but who brought Trump into office remain
that these evaluations could play in the Bowdoin academic program. Relevant Politics as they furiously hold the defensive satisfied with his performance, and if
The latest changes, which will be implemented in a pilot program this spring, aim to front, little time has been devoted to working-class voters across the board
by Brendan Murtha
mitigate the influence of students’ implicit biases on their answers by rewording ques- developing an offensive strategy or see their finances improve from GOP
tions to eliminate vague or imprecise language. These changes are completely rational, addressing some of the Party’s notable policies, the Democrats are going to
and we support any effort to adapt the BCQs to comport with the growing body of As we enter the second month of faults. As November nears, such strategy be in serious trouble once again. After
psychological research about polling behaviors. At the same time, we think that BCQs 2018, it’s worth taking a moment to and retrospective transformation will be all, their establishment lacks the sort of
continue to fall short of their potential to aid students’ intellectual development. reflect on this year’s potential to shake indispensable. compelling economic message the Re-
Rather than tweaking the details of BCQs, we urge a more comprehensive reimag- up the American political landscape. The Democrats suffered a crippling publicans capitalized on last year. Neo-
ining of the role of student feedback at Bowdoin. BCQs primarily provide the College Although the 2016 election may still defeat in 2016, and the party needs to liberalism is entrenched in the Demo-
with important data and testimonials that are used to evaluate specific professors’ per-
be fresh in our minds, the upcoming embrace real change if it wants to return cratic Party, and voters who hoped to
formance, notably when it comes to reappointment and tenure reviews. At the same midterm elections in November will be to power—not change that exists only in see serious change under Obama were
time, the process of completing BCQs provides students with an important opportuni- similarly momentous, defining the “sec- relation to the Trump administration. foiled by such a roadblock, thus flipping
ty to reflect on the process and contents of their learning and their interactions with a
ond-half ” of the Trump Presidency and That relationship is not grounds enough the rust belt. In order to flip it back, and
professor and with that professor’s subject. either making or breaking some of his for progress; it’s just too amorphous. reconnect with working-class voters
Unfortunately, the timing of the BCQs, in the last few weeks of the semester, comes
grandiose campaign promises. Take, for instance, opposition to the across the country, the Democrats can-
at a particularly inopportune moment. First, BCQs come online soon before exam pe- With so much on the line, Democrats GOP Tax Plan. In the weeks leading up not subsist on resistance. The changing
riod, when students’ attention is drawn particularly thin. But more importantly, since
have predictably been hammering home to its passage, when public opposition tides of tax plan approval make this ap-
students fill out their evaluations after all instruction has ended, we miss out on the
this message of urgency. With sever- to the plan was overwhelming, Dem- parent.
opportunity to discuss potential changes with our professors or to see our suggestions
al special-election wins and national ocrats mirrored such sentiment with The Boston Globe published an in-
implemented. polling predicting sizable Democratic incessant attacks on the plan’s politics teresting article after Massachusetts’
The practice of some Bowdoin Teaching Fellows, which is to request evaluations gains in Congress, optimism has been and ideological basis. However, since Democratic Primary in 2016 entitled,
midway through the semester as well as at the end, offers a more robust alternative. If
running high. If all goes according to the plan’s passage, it has seen a steady “Bernie Sanders loses like a Republican.”
professors requested student feedback throughout the semester, students could benefitplan, Democrats could win a majority in upward trend in approval. For many In it, the author Evan Horowitz writes,
from the reflective exercise of completing the evaluations, while professors could take
the Senate and take several more house working-class families too preoccupied “Sanders did quite well with a number of
the opportunity to engage their students in a discussion about the learning needs andseats. However, this original optimism with short-term finances to look far into demographics traditionally associated
dynamics of a particular group of students. should err on the side of caution. The the future, the economic growth and with the Republican Party—or at least
Furthermore, we agree with Professor of Government Paul Franco, Professor of last two weeks of polling, as compiled widespread bonus distribution that has outside the core Democratic coalition,”
Psychology Putnam and Bowdoin Student Government’s concerns about the lack of by The New York Times, show the orig- persisted in the weeks following the pas- referencing Sanders’ large lead among
feedback concerning a professor’s passion, enthusiasm and engagement. What we will inal lead held by the Democrats to be sage has lessened anxieties and warmed independents and moderates. After an
remember about Bowdoin is not the way grading standards were communicated to us slipping. They still hold an edge, but it’s attitudes towards GOP policies. As election where the Democratic Party
but the professors who made us excited to learn. To retain this element of the evalua-
slight, and has dropped over two points expected, Democrats have been largely saw many independents and moder-
tions, departments could offer two separate evaluations, one aimed at more subjectivein the last two weeks alone. mum on the subject since December, ates flip parties for a more compelling
metrics and one at more impersonal ones. Alternatively, BCQs could be split into sep- Although this recent drop is by no and their narrowing lead has correlat- economic message, I would advise the
arate sections, with some questions weighted more heavily in tenure considerations means indicative of any long-term ed with the changing public perception party that they’d be better served by
while some would be left for in-classroom consideration. trend, it does highlight a key vulnera- about the tax plan. embracing the legacy and platform of
The purpose of increasing the frequency and depth of course analysis, we want to bility for the Democratic Party. Trump’s This really does not bode well for Bernie Sanders and fellow like-minded
note, would not be to give students greater control over professors’ practices or to com-
consistently low approval rating has a party whose crux in the last election progressives. Instead of buckling down
pel professors to comply with all the requests of students. Rather, revamping feedback
made it seem as if Democratic strategy was working-class voters. By many on the very neoliberal policies that cost
would allow students and professors more frequent and more intentional opportunities can subsist off mere “resistance,” where indexes, the Rust Belt was the nail in them the last election, Democrats’ offen-
to collectively reflect on how to make the most of their time together in the classroom.
public anger with the Trump Admin- Hillary Clinton’s coffin—predominantly sive strategy going into 2018 needs to be
istration heralds a Democratic victory white, working-class states across the transformative—they need to move left.
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, whether they do anything or not. This Midwest and Greater Appalachia that As the cliché goes, “Insanity is doing
which is comprised of Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Calder McHugh and Ian Ward. is a tenuous approach at best. Resistance went for Obama in 2008 and 2012 but the same thing over and over again and
is important, of course—the Democrats flipped in 2016 (including Pennsylva- expecting a different result.” I’m afraid
should fight tooth and nail to keep nia, Michigan, Ohio, etc.). If the voters 2018 might prove us insane.

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Friday, February 9, 2018
African in America: transforming a country that doesn’t love me
Polar Views
by Osa Fasehun
“If black people hate it here
so much, maybe they should
just go back to their country.” A
white girl in my high school al-
legedly made this remark while
I was reciting an original poem
about Trayvon Martin during
our weekly assembly meeting.
A cluster of students gasped
as soon as she
made the com-
ment. She was
implying
The clock is ticking between
North and South Korea
by William Park
Op-Ed Contributor
A friend once told me that
the thought of reunification
with North Korea (to put it
mildly because he used some
other colorful metaphors) was,
“stupid because it would ruin
the economy that South Korea
had worked so hard to achieve.
Why would I want that?” This
was five years ago at an inter-
national school in Seoul. My
friend, also Korean, was livid
at the thought of possible re-
unification. His understanding
of and opinions on the matter
were based purely upon the
economic turmoil that would
come with the rejoining of
the two nations. When talking
to the elder members of my
family, I find a slightly differ-
ent opinion. Most, but not all,
believe that there should be
at least an attempt at recon-
ciliation, even if the costs are
high. The divide between these
two opinions is at the root of
the reactions towards the joint
participation of the two coun-
tries in the upcoming Olym-
pics. The generational gap and
increasing Westernization in
South Korea has influenced
the sympathies of much of the
younger generation. However,
it is in the best interest of the
younger generation to regain
some of the older generation’s
perspective.
that while I was born here and
my family put its sweat and tears
into America’s progress, this
country still wasn’t my country.
Her comments were hurtful
then, but they don’t phase me
today.
I’ve habituated myself to the
racial undertones of social rela-
tions—the palpable aura weigh-
ing down on my shoulders every
time I walk through Bowdoin’s
campus. After attending a pre-
dominantly white high school,
I imagined college to be a walk
in the park. I didn’t consider the
implications of attending a col-
lege in Maine, the whitest state
in the U.S. Whiteness alone is
not a source of fear, but rath-
er white fragility: the state in
which the slightest amount of
The joint venture with
North Korea in the 2018 Win-
ter Games serves multiple
purposes. First, it is a step
towards a personal goal of
reunification for South Ko-
rean President Moon Jae-In.
President Moon’s parents are
originally from North Korea,
and his personal connection
with the land is strong. Sec-
ond, it serves as a détente for
both the North Koreans and
the Americans. The suspen-
sion of military exercises by
the South Koreans and Amer-
icans is an acute victory for
the easing of tensions. There
is also a slight easing of nucle-
ar tensions from North Korea.
Third, it brings together both
nations in a feeling of unity,
which many hope will bring
the two countries closer to ne-
gotiating some of the tensions
that continue to plague the
Peninsula. All three purposes
share a common thread that
is highlighted by the divisive
attitudes detailed above: it is
all about time.
President Moon’s personal
goal caters to the elders. Many
in the younger generation in
South Korea are simply unable
or unwilling to understand the
deeply personal connections
many of their parents and
grandparents have with North
Korea. They did not have their
lives uprooted or suffer the
tragic separation their family
members had to experience.
OPINION
race-based stress triggers insen-
sitive defensiveness from certain
white people. Here in Maine,
I’ve heard all the white nation-
alist slogans—from “taking our
country back” to “all lives mat-
ter”—that try to legitimize white
privilege instead of addressing
the unfair challenges people of
color face.
Lately, Donald J. Trump—
who is somehow the U.S. pres-
ident—has become the most
flagrant example of this white
fragility. It is difficult
to keep up with
his frequent
remarks
SARA CAPLAN
The fast-paced, fast-changing
society that South Korea has
become separates the younger
generation from those feel-
ings. Most South Koreans,
at least those in the city, are
perpetually caught up with
making money, popu-
lar culture and social
mobility. Reunifica-
tion and reconciliation
have become after-
thoughts. Nobody knows
for sure how far into the fu-
ture the military détente
is going to go. South
Korea has been thrust
into a position compli-
cated by its desire to keep its
relationship with the United
States from going haywire,
which in large part is due
to the man in the White
House and trying to re-
form a relationship with
North Korea.
The United States’ role in
the tensions will remain un-
predictable. President Trump
has agreed to suspend the joint
military drills in light of the
Olympics. The continued sus-
pension of these exercises will
be dependent on North Korea’s
actions after the conclusion of
the games as well as the ability
of negotiators to start a con-
versation with the North. If
North Korea continues with
its policy of nuclear postur-
ing, the United States will no
doubt match the “aggression”
with more military exercises
about race and ethnicity, but he
is only one of several American
figures playing into white ag-
grieved entitlement.
Trump’s friend, Governor
Paul LePage of Maine, has made
comparable statements, often
scapegoating black and Hispanic
people for Maine’s drug traffick-
ing problem. In January 2016,
LePage said, “guys by the name
D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty”
come to Maine, “sell their her-
oin, then they go back home.
Incidentally, half the time they
impregnate a young, white girl
before they leave.” In the most
demeaning way, LePage links
black men to drug trafficking
and employs the “they’re sleeping
with our women” trope to justify
his verbal attacks against them.
LePage’s rhetoric draws paral-
lels with the anti-miscegenation
arguments that white Southern-
ers employed to justify the lynch-
ing of black men in the 20th
century. During the presidential
election in 2016, Trump chan-
neled his friend’s language by
implicitly correlating Maine’s So-
mali refugee population and the
state’s crime rate, even though
the acting police chief of Lew-
iston—a Maine city with a large
Somali population—said that the
crime rates have gone down in
Lewiston and across the state.
The racist and xenophobic
scare tactics of right-wing pop-
ulist circles are concerning, but
and quite
possibly
actual mili-
tary action. For this
reason, it is imperative that
negotiators make every effort
to start dialogues with North
Korean officials. The Olym-
pics will not last forever and
may be the only jumping-off
point towards more peaceful
relations.
Reunification, at this point,
is not a viable option. Not
only is reunification seen
as an undesirable course of
action—something that was
not the case even ten years
ago—but also too much time
has passed between the two
they are not new. The sad truth
is that racial inequality is part
of America’s history. I was near-
ing the end of my winter break
trip to South Africa—a nation
similarly plagued by the myth
of non-racialism—when I over-
heard the latest episode of white
nationalism on the news. Trump
stated that he didn’t want immi-
grants from “shithole countries,”
citing Haiti, El Salvador and
African countries as examples
during a white House meeting
with congressional leaders.
Rather, he preferred immigrants
from countries like Norway to
enter the U.S. When Trump sin-
gled out Norway, South African
comedian Trevor Noah had a
clever response: “He didn’t just
name a white country, he named
the whitest—so white they wear
moon-screen.”
But let’s face it; Norwegians
don’t even want to migrate to
the U.S. like they used to. Nor-
wegian immigrants are current-
ly the third smallest group of
migrants in the country based
on the latest Census Bureau.
Data also shows that Norway
boasts a far better quality of life
than the U.S., as it has topped
other countries in the U.N.’s
Human Development Index
for several decades. In theory,
Norway would have been on
Trump’s “shithole” list over a
century ago, since Norwegian
immigrants were significantly
nations.
Young people
do not want to be
a part of joint Korea. There
would be too much economic
pain and too much difficulty
in reconciliation. In addition,
under what leadership would a
joint Korea operate? It is high-
ly unlikely that Kim Jong-Un
would give up his power and
political control and South
Koreans would, conversely,
never allow themselves to be
ruled under anything other
than a democracy.
That being said, the Winter
Games in Pyeongchang are an
opportunity towards greater
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lagging behind other European
immigrants in earning potential
in the U.S. until the post-WWII
era. In reality, Trump views
Norwegians as desirable immi-
grants because they are white.
He wants whiteness to be a re-
quirement for immigration to
the United States.
As the son of black im-
migrant parents—from the
“shithole” country Nigeria—I
don’t feel wanted in Trump-era
America, especially in Maine. I
never walk down the streets of
Brunswick past a certain time. I
pull out my wallet every time I
enter a store. I came to Maine to
attend one of the best liberal arts
colleges in the nation, yet the
state’s governor thinks men who
look like me are drug dealers.
Still, there is hope that discourse
about racism—not race—will
hit the mainstream one day. I
look forward to the day when
politicians comfortably call
Trump and others “racists”
and admit that racism exists in
America. Until then, I remain a
hyphenated American, a Nigeri-
an-American, who boldly pro-
vokes thought in hopes of trans-
forming a country that doesn’t
love me. If you’re reading these
words with a new discomfort,
I’m happy for you. Own that
discomfort because it’s only a
fraction of what black people in
America have been feeling for a
long time.
CA
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LIN
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RTE
R
peace for
the future.
Embracing the
Games as a possible
end towards the tension,
which most South Koreans
simply choose to ignore be-
cause it has become part of
their day-to-day for the last
65 years, could be the solution
moving forward. If begrudged
South Koreans could support
and embrace reconciliation
with their Northern counter-
parts negotiations might be
able to bloom. This is a big “if.”
Most continue to oppose the
opportunity and time is run-
ning out.
William Park is a member of
the Class of 2019.
 FEBRUARY
12 Friday, February 9, 2017

FRIDAY 9
LECTURE
Exhibit Talk: “The Science of Color”
Stephen G. Naculich, LaCasce family professor of natural
sciences, will discuss the theory and interpretation of color
by artists, scientists and thinkers. The lecture is part of the
library’s exhibit talk series for the Spring 2018 exhibition “On
A Different Wavelength: A Celebration of Color in Books.”
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 12 p.m.

LECTURE
“#MeToo: A Moment or Momentum?”
Elizabeth Pritchard, associate professor of religion, will
discuss the impact of the #MeToo movement worldwide
and at Bowdoin. The discussion will address questions such
as: what do we want from this movement? What are the
implications for our culture here at Bowdoin?
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m. ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
SNOW PLACE LIKE HOME: The first major snowfall of the year hit campus on Wednesday night. The stormed caused a power outage on parts of
PERFORMANCE south campus. Several students in the Stowe Hall and Coles Tower elevators were caught between floors but were released quickly.
Romance Isn’t Dead
Improvabilities, one of several campus improv groups will

MONDAY 12
perform a Valentines Day-inspired show.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 8 p.m.
THURSDAY 15
LECTURE LECTURE

SATURDAY 10 Trump as Manager: Reflections on the

President’s First Year
David E. Lewis, William R. Kenan Jr. professor and chair of
“Artine Artinian ’31: Shoeshine Boy,
Literary Scholar, Drawing Collector”
Museum of Art Curator Joachim Homann and Daniel

Winter Weekend’ the department of political science at Vanderbilt University Rechtschaffen ’18 will discuss French caricatures, illustrations,
will discuss President Trump’s management of the executive portraits and writer’s drawings made by Artine Artinian ’31 in
branch during his first year in office. Lewis will discuss the conjunction with the museum’s exhibit “Where the Artist’s
EVENT appointments and vacancies of certain positions and his Hand Meets the Author’s Pen: Drawings from the Artine
Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides organizational initiatives. Artinian Collection.”
Outside the Chapel. 11 a.m. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:15 p.m. Museum of Art. 4:30 p.m.

EVENT PERFORMANCE

TUESDAY 13
S’mores and Hot Chocolate “The Poets and the Assassin-Daughters
Outside the Chapel. 11 a.m. of Iran”
The Muslim Student Association will bring the play “The
EVENT LECTURE Poets and the Assassins-Daughters of Iran” to campus to tell
Polar Bear Snowglobe Making “Artistic Exchange on the Northern the story of Iranian women’s contributions in the fight for
David Saul Smith Union. 1 p.m. liberty and democracy for all Iranians. The play will illustrate
Plains” the women who have been at the forefront of these battles,
Frank Goodyear, co-director of the Museum of Art, will
EVENT and whose contributions have often been overlooked. The
discuss the Museum’s nineteenth century painting of a
Paint Night Sun Dance ceremony by an unidentified Lakota artist in
play tells the tale of courage, sacrifice and survival in a
Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill. 7 p.m. patriarchal society as women navigate the public arena to
concurrence with the exhibition “Art from the Northern
protest and demand equal rights.
Plains.”
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
Museum of Art. 12 p.m.

SUNDAY 11 LECTURE

EVENT
Longfellow Days
Three local poets will read original poetry. The reading is the
second of four poetry readings in the annual Longfellow
Days series composed of a variety of the programming
throughout the month to honor the late literary figure’s
211 birthday
Curtis Memorial Library. 1 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 14
Black Perspectives: Conversations
about History, Politics and Art
Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana
Studies and History Brian Purnell, Associate Professor
FILM
of Government Chryl Laird and Andrew W. Mellon Post-
2018 Oscar-Nominated Shorts Doctoral Curatorial Fellow Ellen Tani will discuss the black
Frontier will screen Oscar-nominated short films. The
perspective through history, politics and art.
selected shorts come from categories of animated, live
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.
action and documentary film.
Frontier. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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“The Poetic Gatekeepers of the
Afterlife of Roman Arctic
Sicily”