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WOMEN RISE:
MORE STORIES TO TELL IN THE SHOW’S SECOND YEAR. SEE PAGE 3.
Four students issued summonses in two weeks, After 10 years, BSG adds
Nichols says BPD sending ‘message of caution’ roles, changes structure
thought they better talk to them so no Security officers were on attracted the attention of school of BSG’s work on campus.
by Harry DiPrinzio about calming it down, and then the premises, according to Di- administrators. At the invitation by Nina McKay The idea to change the BSG
Orient Staff Orient Staff
as they started to talk to people rector of Safety and Security of members of Bowdoin Student constitution developed out of the
Four students have received they realized that a lot of peo- Randy Nichols. Government (BSG), Nichols With an email on Thursday, first official Northeastern Stu-
court summons in the past two ple had been drinking, some of Waltz said that after checking visited BSG’s public comment Bowdoin Student Government dent Government (NESGOV)
weeks for charges of jaywalking whom were minors—and that IDs of an initial group of stu- time on Wednesday evening to (BSG) opened voting on a new Conference last year, hosted by
and possession of liquor by a shouldn’t be happening,” Waltz dents who were polite and coop- discuss the incidents. constitution, which BSG voted Bowdoin. After seeing structural
minor. One of those summons said. erative, officers issued a warning Early on the morning of Sat- to pass at its weekly meeting this models of student governments
resulted after the Brunswick Po- Boris Dimitrov ’20, a Mac- and asked them to return them urday February 10, a student past Wednesday. Should this at peer institutions, Alam, along
lice Department (BPD) showed Millan resident, spoke to police to their rooms. A subsequent ran from the police after pull- constitution pass, it will be the with BSG Vice President for Stu-
up at the annual Cold War par- soon after they arrived at the student, however, lied about the ing into a parking space in the first major BSG constitutional dent Government Affairs Benny
ty at MacMillan and Quinby parties. fact that she had been drinking Coffin Street parking lot, where change in a decade. Painter ’19, began contemplating
Houses last weekend, while the “So the gist of it was basi- and told the officers that “that officers, noting erratic driving, The changes range from the alterations to the constitution
remaining three were issued the cally [that] we were furnishing under Bowdoin’s quote-unquote had followed the vehicle. BPD constitution’s language to BSG’s that would improve BSG’s func-
previous weekend. a place for underage people to laws, that they were allowed to tracked that student to a dorm structure. More inclusive lan- tionality.
Around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, drink, and they have the right to drink if you’re a minor,” said but was not able to identify guage and the creation of a new “I don’t think we ever re-
BPD officers stopped at Mac- enter and arrest everyone there, Waltz. the individual until Security chair and committee for diversi- flected on how our structure
Millan and Quinby after hearing is what they told me—and, they Officers took that student’s conducted an investigation the ty and inclusion highlight BSG’s enabled us to work,” said BSG
loud music and noticing intoxi- could arrest the house members name and called her to the po- following week. No summons commitment to inclusivity. An- President Irfan Alam ’18. “We
cated students on lawn between for providing this place,” Dimi- lice station to issue her a sum- or charges have been issued, but other new position gives first- just accepted that our structure
the two houses. BPD Com- trov said. “I asked what we could mons the following day. the incident is under review at years and sophomores an op- was the way it was, but we hope
mander of Support Services do to prevent the arresting and The BPD involvement at the Office of the Dean of Student portunity to learn about BSG’s by changing the structure and
Mark Waltz said that the officers they were like, ‘yeah, you’ve got Cold War is the most salient Affairs and BPD. operation and develop leader- improving it we will also si-
were on routine patrol, and the about five minutes to shut ev- incident in what many students Four senior students—all of ship capabilities. Significant al- multaneously be improving the
department had not received erything down.’” perceive to be a recent increase whom are over 21—said that terations to the composition of work that the BSG does for the
any noise complaints about the At the time of BPD’s arrival, in BPD activity around cam- BPD officers also stopped them the assembly replace unfocused student body.”
two houses that evening. the alcohol had been finished pus. the events have left many roles with specific positions that
“For that time of night, they and the kegs had been checked, students concerned and have Please see POLICE, page 4 correspond to particular areas Please see BSG, page 4
N WAITING FOR PAYDAY F EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE A AFRICAN ACROBATS S FINISH IN FIRST O “TEQUILA” IS PERSONAL
College employees must enroll in two-step A look at the 1963 Bowdoin-Morehouse Festival celebrates African culture in final Jake Adicoff ’18 to compete in the 2018 Kevin Hernandez ’18 calls for reconciliation
authentication for Workday. Page 4. exchange program. Page 5. week of Black History Month. Page 9. Paralympics. Page 11. over the “tequila” party. Page 14.
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stress eat?
2002 Winter Olympics 62 Pluto’s place 17 18
9 Work period
Noelia Calcano ’21
27 28 29 30
17 Alienates
43 44 45 46
(instruction guides)
47 48 49 50
18 To love, in Italy 3 Met offering
51 52 53 54
19 Feeling of dread 4 Greek goddess
2/10 to 2/21
• A student fell while attempting to scale
Friday, February 16 a fence at Whittier Field and sustained a
• A student with flu-like symptoms was head laceration. Brunswick Rescue trans-
given an escort to Mid Coast Hospital. ported the student to Mid Coast Hospital.
Saturday, February 10 • A concerned parent requested a well- • There was a complaint of loud music
• Brunswick police (BPD) reported that ness check for a student that resulted in an at Chamberlain Hall.
the driver of a vehicle operating erratically escort to Mid Coast Hospital. • A basement wall fan was vandalized at
on Longfellow Avenue fled on foot when • An officer investigated a report of a Baxter House.
approached by police 1:00 a.m. in the Cof- local resident acting suspiciously at the bus
fin Street parking lot. BPD officers tracked stop outside of Druckenmiller Hall. Tuesday, February 20
the suspect’s footprints through the snow • An officer brought a student to the Mid • A student took responsibility for
to a College apartment complex, but the Coast Walk-In Clinic after an accidental ex- punching two holes in a hallway wall at
vehicle owner and others present denied posure to a lab chemical. Baxter House.
any involvement. Security conducted an • A student complaining of a fever was • An Osher Hall student bouncing a ten-
investigation the next week and the vehicle taken to Mid Coast Hospital. nis ball off a wall in his room hit a smoke
owner/driver took responsibility for the in- • BPD officers on patrol on Maine Street detector and set it off.
cident. A report was filed with the dean of encountered several minors outside of Mac- • A Bowker Street resident complained
student affairs. Millan and Quinby during a large registered of loud music during a lacrosse scrimmage
event. One student was cited for possession at Whittier Field.
Sunday, February 11 of alcohol by a minor (by consumption), and
• BPD cited two minor students for several students were warned. After consul- KODIE GARZA Wednesday, February 21
possession of alcohol by a minor near the tation with the BPD, as a precaution, secu- • A basement wall was vandalized at
Lighthouse Deli. rity officers elected to end the event. dentally activated a smoke alarm with an Quinby House.
• BPD cited a student for failure to use a aerosol. • Smoke from burnt microwave popcorn
crosswalk at 1:30 a.m. on Harpswell Road. Saturday, February 17 • An athlete with a hand injury was activated a fire alarm at Coleman Hall.
The police cautioned several other students • Excessive noise was reported on the escorted from Farley Field House to Mid • A student operating a College van
not to walk in the roadway. fifth floor of Coles Tower. Coast Hospital. backed into a parked car in Portland.
• An officer checked on the wellbe- • A student reported a roommate dis-
Thursday, February 15 ing of an intoxicated student at Quinby pute.
• Loud music was reported on the third House. • An officer checked on the condition of
floor of Stowe House Inn. • A student in Chamberlain Hall acci- a sick student at Thorne Hall. COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY
Friday, February 23, 2018 NEWS 3
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT
JOURNALIST VARGAS TO SPEAK
Journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas
will be speaking on campus next Thursday in the Kenneth V. San-
tagata Memorial Lecture. His talk, titled “Define America: My Life
as an Undocumented Immigrant,” will take place in Kresge Audi-
torium at 7:30 p.m.
Vargas, who came to the United States from the Philippines at
age 12, publicly announced his undocumented status in a New
York Times essay in 2011. He went on to found Define American, a
nonprofit organization that hopes to “shift the conversation about
immigrants, identity, and citizenship in a changing America.”
Vargas previously worked for several news organizations, in-
cluding the Washington Post. In 2008, he and his colleagues were
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for their
coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.
The Office of Student Activities, the Cinema Studies Program
and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology organized a
screening of Vargas’s autobiographical documentary, “Document-
ed,” this past Sunday in anticipation of Vargas’ visit. Vargas also ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
directed the 2015 film, “White People,” which discusses the impact
of white privilege. His memoir, “Dear America: Notes of an Un-
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for balance when selecting and economic justice. “I think it all comes down to
FEATURES
Looking back: Bowdoin’s first attempt at integration
GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES, BOWDOIN COLLEGE LIBRARY
LEARNING TOGETHER: The 1963 exchange program between Bowdoin and Morehouse College sought to educate students about the racial issues facing the nation. Students participating in the exchange attended classes and community events.
nine Bowdoin students traveled Board wrote. meetings and informal con- One student, Freddie J. Cook, outreach program with the goal
by Faria Nasruddin to Atlanta for a six-day pilot of Satcher recalls the experience versation. “I felt fortunate to be returned to Bowdoin’s campus in recruiting black students to ap-
Orient Staff the Morehouse-Bowdoin Ex- as a special one, since prior to asked to be part of it. I was work- 2015 by invitation of the African ply to the Bowdoin.
When white “Freedom Rider” change. Six students from More- Bowdoin he had only been to ing with [the Student Nonviolent American Society to speak about Toomajian, upon his return
and Wesleyan professor Dr. John house drove up to Brunswick. segregated schools. “I hadn’t had Coordinating Committee] and his experience. Having grown up to Bowdoin, helped found the
Maquire visited Bowdoin over The students followed tightly much association with white with the local things and met in a poor family in Atlanta, Cook Bowdoin Undergraduate Civil
50 years ago, he told Bowdoin packed schedules at both ex- students at all, back in that time,” with Martin Luther King a few said that attending Bowdoin was Rights Organization (BUCRO),
students that would never fully change sites, featuring the best said Satcher. “To see the kind of times, and helped with strategy an opportunity to escape poverty. an umbrella organization that
understand the struggle for civil both institutions had to offer. At support and enthusiasm that we planning with the leaders from Cook recounted positive encompassed Project ’65 and the
rights until they personally and both colleges, they dined with experienced at Bowdoin was a the college,” he said. experiences: he learned to play Morehouse Exchange Program
directly understood what it was the presidents and attended spe- special experience.” Toomajian also remembered bridge in Moulton Union, re- to ensure coordination between
like to be black in the south. cial lectures and social events. In In 1963, the Orient inter- the hostility he experienced as membered excellent relation- the different civil rights groups.
Bowdoin’s student body has Atlanta, the Bowdoin students viewed one of the Morehouse part of integrated groups, not- ships with professors, attended “It was a time when there was
certainly become more diverse visited with the mayor and with students, Ray Laundy, about his ing, in a 1964 Brunswick Record his first toga party at Theta Delta a lot of student activity. It was
since Maquire’s visit. At that Martin Luther King Jr. at his fa- experience, to which he said the article, that students experi- Chi and enjoyed discussions in a time when we were trying to
time, Bowdoin enrolled only ther’s church; in Brunswick, the length of the program was its enced many “baleful stares, an- English literature and economics figure out where we stood with
three black students and had Morehouse students sat for a biggest obstacle. “The problem gry threats, and racial epithets” courses. But he also remem- the Vietnam War—when Mar-
graduated a total of only 28 in concert featuring Boston Sym- of race tolerance is essentially when they were in integrated bered some of the struggles tin Luther King was active,” said
its history. Inspired by Maquire’s phony cellist Yves Chardon and one of education and how much groups. In Atlanta, Toomajian he experienced at the College Toomajian. “It was a time when
speech, then senior David Bay- Professor Fred Tillotson on the education can take place in a participated in restaurant sit- finding it difficult to adjust to a there was a lot activity on the
er ’64 wrote a letter to Howard piano. week? I think perhaps a long- ins. He recalled one instance radically different environment. Bowdoin campus and a lot of
Zinn, a professor of history at David Satcher, a former range proposal—a semester or when he and other students were “I had boundless ambition to discussion. Very honestly, when
Spelman College, a historically Morehouse student who is now a school year would be more chased out by armed restaurant gather me, yet I soon found my- I look back at those times, I’m
black women’s college in Atlanta, founding director and senior beneficial,” said Laundy. “Then staff. self lapsing into depression.” He very proud of the way that the
proposing a week-long exchange advisor to the Morehouse School the exchange students would “We sat down, and instead spent a lot of his time in isola- College, at that time, did things.”
program starting in 1963. While of Medicine remembered his have the chance to see what the of going through the normal tion, writing poetry to overcome The Morehouse-Bowdoin Ex-
the exchange program came at a visit to Bowdoin and the genuine other side is really like—after the routine, he just came out from the shock of Bowdoin. Cook was change Program made many of
unique historical moment, many interest that the students had in novelty wears off.” the back with his staff and start- initially surprised that many its participants feel emotionally
of the questions it raised are is- understanding life in the South. Similarly, the Orient reported ed waved the hell of out an axe Bowdoin students had maids— fulfilled. “I think what Bowdoin
sues that Bowdoin students and “I remember specifically that Laundy felt that scheduled handle. He chased us out into the his mother worked as a maid and experiences like Bowdoin
administrators are still consider- going out somewhere near the activities did not allow for the parking lot, into the traffic,” said and nanny for a Coca-Cola ex- did for many of us was to help us
ing today. ocean and we had dinner out exchange students to experience to really understand people of a
The letter was ultimately
passed to Benjamin Mays at the
there and just talked into the
night about what it was like to
the College for themselves. “The
visitor doesn’t really get a chance
Very honestly, when I look back at those different race, and even a differ-
ent culture in terms of the North
historically black men’s college grow up in the South and to go to see things in a normal setting. times, I’m very proud of the way that the and the Bowdoin experience,”
across the street from Spelman, to jail because you tried to eat at We have been given a schedule College, at that time, did things. said Satcher.
Morehouse College. Mays, a a restaurant that wouldn’t serve of things to do and see, but the It is educative, though, to
Bates alum, accepted the ex- blacks,” said Satcher. “[Bowdo- great degree of organization –Charlie Toomajian ’65 consider how much the ex-
change proposal. Bayer and Phil in students] had a really great seems uncomfortable at times,” change ever reshaped cam-
Hansen ’64 then began working interest and it was almost as if Laundy said. Toomajian. ecutive. Later she quit after one pus culture. In recent years,
with then Bowdoin Dean of Stu- they were living the experience Ultimately, the pilot program In Brunswick, the Orient of the boys she cared for called students have dealt with bias
dents, A. LeRoy Greason, on the with us.” expanded into a semester-long pushed students in a 1963 edi- her a racial slur and refused to incidents ranging from a
program. An Orient editorial said that exchange of around six students torial to actually engage with the apologize. At the time, she was “gangster”-themed party to
Hansen wrote in the letter the exchange program would which continued from 1964 exchange students from More- making $1 an hour. swastikas being drawn on
to Mays that “this exchange is only be worthwhile if Bowdoin through 1967. Charlie Toomaji- house: “How many made a seri- Morehouse students at Bow- school property. A program
not a crusade and we won’t be students could realize that they an ’65, who participated in initial ous effort to meet and talk with doin maintained the same tu- like the Morehouse-Bowdoin
carrying placards.” The goal was are integral to the struggle for trial, was among the group the the Morehouse students about ition they had at Morehouse. Exchange, completed 50 years
educational, with the aim to aid full equality. first semester. the basic problems of Negro Cook, received a scholarship to ago, could not be expected to
students at both colleges in ac- “It has meant nothing except In an interview with the Ori- equality in a white dominated cover $267 tuition per semester. begin to solve racial tensions
quiring a deeper understanding an exchange of bodies of differ- ent, Toomajian remembered his society? And, we don’t just mean While the exchange ended on campus, especially given its
of racial issues in the United ent color between two different experience as one of openness. simply smiling politely at one on when President Coles retired in limited scope. The question re-
States and between human be- schools if we are not aware of He felt that he was truly a part the way to class or pointing out 1967, it paved the way for further mains, though, how will Bow-
ings. the problems we face as well as of the Morehouse experience one of them to an even more in- initiatives including Project ’65, doin’s campus change, or stay
At the end of March 1963, those of the Negro,” the Editorial by going to classes, civil rights different friend.” a student-organized high school the same, in the next 50 years?
6 FEATURES Friday, February 23, 2018
nous methadone, a drug com- in a week and my body was so spine itself is also fused together silience gained through adver-
A SHIVER DOWN THE
monly used to help wean heroin bloated that clothes I had worn using bits of bone from an or- sity—but I don’t.
SPINE
addicts into sobriety. to the hospital literally did not gan donor. It doesn’t move the My feelings of alienation
Eight months ago I checked They replaced my metha- fit on my body. way other spines do. It doesn’t from my physical form run
into Cedars Sinai Medi- done with oxycodone the next At home, I sat in a chair in expand and contract, doesn’t deeper than such platitudes,
cal Center in Los Angeles, day, and the reality of my situ- my living room for 21 hours bend, doesn’t arch. It won’t do and I find them exploiting a
changed into a hospital gown ation started to filter in. I could each day. The other three I any of these things ever again. discomfort and frustration
and mustard-colored socks move my feet, that was true, and would spend in my bed before I have a scar. I can’t do yoga, with the human body, with my
and plummeted into the my arms, but not much else. waking up each morning at touch my toes or play contact human body, that is intimately
depths of general anesthesia to With the help of two nurses, a 5 a.m., gasping in pain. Con- sports. Sometimes I get ran- and intensely familiar from
the sound of Paul Simon’s first surgeon and a walker, I got out stantly by my side I kept a bowl dom, shooting pain, but mostly years of adolescent insecurity
solo album. of bed and hobbled laps around of medications: one anti-nau- it just aches. and shame. In an unexpect-
When I woke up nine hours the ICU. sea, two laxatives and three dif- What hasn’t faded in the ed way, the relationship that I
later in the Intensive Care Unit Nothing worked the way that ferent types of painkillers. One eight months since the opera- have built with my scar mimics
(ICU), the first thing I noticed it had before. I couldn’t move of the pain pills triggered my tion is the sense that my body an understanding of my ap-
was that I could move my feet. my head or neck. Each foot fall gag reflex, so I took it ground is, in some nebulous way, no pearance, my body in general.
Great news: not paralyzed. I felt sent shock waves through my up in a shot of hospital-issued longer mine. To be very liter- I deeply, deeply want to wear it
fantastic. newly reinforced spine that reg- cranberry juice. al and somewhat reductive, it with pride—an indelible mark
“Not paralyzed!” I remember istered as pain even through the Six months later, I’m still hit isn’t: no matter how I try I can’t of my selfhood and identity—
babbling happily to my mom. cloud of heavy opioids. with waves of Pavlovian nausea seem to forget those pieces of but I can’t seem to surmount a
The next thing I did was post The next five days were a blur every time I smell cranberry foreign bone wedged between nagging distrust, discomfort,
before and after X-rays on my of doctors, nurses and new pain juice or hear the first notes my defective vertebrae—a ca- disgust.
“finsta.” I captioned it “not par- meds. I watched two whole sea- of the theme song of “Crazy daver’s bones among my own— I would like this to be a sto-
alyzed!” sons of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Ex-Girlfriend.” or the metallic dowel to which ry of recovery and healing in
Clever. and threw up twice each day. I Other than that, I’m mostly I can credit my (newly flawless) which a surgery and a scar help
I called four or five of my stopped trying to eat because fine. There’s a metal rod that posture. I want to be poetic me understand flaws as beauty
friends. the vomiting sent spasms of runs along my spine from the about it, to see my augmented and scars as symbols of self-
“My knees are swollen!” I pain up and down my back. base of my neck to the top of backbone as “cool” or “empow- hood, but it isn’t—yet, anyway.
told them gleefully. When I left the hospital six days my waist, secured to the verte- ering” or at very least symbolic Alyce McFadden is a member
I was riding high on intrave- after the surgery, I hadn’t eaten brae with half-inch screws. The of some type of courage or re- of the Class of 2020. SARA CAPLAN
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8 NEWS Friday, February 23, 2018
JENNY IBSEN (CENTER) AND JACK BURNETT (LEFT AND RIGHT), THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ART AND ACROBATICS: Students gather in David Saul Smith Union to take part in Bowdoin’s first ever African Arts Festival on Thursday evening. (LEFT AND RIGHT): Attendees enjoy a performance by a Kenya-based Zuzu group.
SPORTS
Adicoff ’18 named to U.S. Paralympic Nordic Team HIGHLIGHT
REEL
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
HITTING THE MARK: The
Veteran nordic skier Jake women’s squash team
Adicoff ’18 was one of eight barely missed the Epps
athletes in the nation named to Cup at the CSA Team
the men’s U.S. Paralympic Nor- Nationals at Harvard this
dic Ski Team. This is the second weekend, falling 5-4 to
time Adicoff will compete in the William Smith in the finals
Paralympics, skiing in three vi- on Sunday. The match
sually impaired events once the came down to the No.
games begin on March 9 in Py- 1 position, where Lind-
eongChang, South Korea. sey Bindra ’20 faced off
Skiing has been a major part against Gabby Fraser of
of Adicoff ’s life since second Hobart and William Smith
grade when he began skiing Colleges. Before the
with the Sun Valley Ski Educa- match, Zoe Wood ’18 was
tion Foundation’s junior nordic named the recipient of the
development team in his home College Squash Associ-
state of Idaho. He broke onto ation’s Wetzel awarded,
the national level in 2011 when which is awarded to a
he raced in the Junior National senior who has demon-
Championships. strated a strong talent
Adicoff ’s career began inter-
for and understanding of
nationally when he was selected
squash, as well as good
to represent the United States
sportsmanship.
in Sochi at the 2014 Paralympic
Games. At his first paralympic
debut, Adicoff placed sixth in
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD, BOWDOIN ATHLETICS FIELD THE BURN: Both
both the 20km classic style and
the 4 by 2.5km mixed relay with SKIING FOR GOLD: Jake Adicoff ’18 was one of eight athletes in the nation named to the U.S. Paralympic Nordic Team and will compete in the 2018 Pyeo- the men’s and women’s
Tatyana McFadden, seventh in ngChang Paralympics, which begin on March 9. This is the second time Adicoff will compete in the Paralympics after competing at Sochi in 2014. track teams had excellent
the cross-country freestyle, eighth tionally, Adicoff is currently fo- this grand scheme of ski fast this have set him apart from other doin and still being able to com-
showings in the New
in the cross-country sprint and cused on the Bowdoin ski team whole season.” athletes. In 2011, he was awarded pete and train at this high level.” England DIII Champion-
14th in the biathlon sprint. and the final two races of his Adicoff has led through exam- the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Dave According to Alsobrook, Adi- ship, with the men plac-
Last year, Adicoff competed college career. ple since he arrived at Bowdoin Quinn Award, which is given to coff ’s intense training schedule ing sixth and the women
in the World Cup Competition “When I am at school, I am four years ago. His professional an athlete who demonstrates a and competitiveness oftentimes placing fifth. On the
in PyeongChang, where he won very focused on the NCAA com- nature, knowledge and experi- strong work ethic, a love for the causes his visual impairment to men’s side, Yaw Sekyere
two golds and a bronze on the petitions,” said Adicoff. “When I ence as a racer set a new tone for sport and the ability to overcome be overlooked. ’20 broke the school
same courses that he will com- [went] to Korea and when I went the team that has increased the obstacles. “[Adicoff ] doesn’t get all the record for the 60m dash
pete on in March. to Russia four years ago, even level of focus and commitment However, those who best credit he deserves for skiing as with a time of 6.96. For
“I was in Korea one year ago. though I wasn’t in school, I [was] of each member. know Adicoff see these attributes a visually impaired skier in our the women, Sarah Kelley
The rest of the competition was focused on the races there.” “He was a really big piece of the as “Jake just being Jake.” league when that is such a crit- ’18 won the mile with a
there with the exception of the Adicoff has been training six puzzle in terms of increasing the “Jake is probably training as ical piece in what we do—read time of 4:54.48—the sec-
Russian team,” said Adicoff. “It days a week since last April and level of focus and commitment much or more than any other the course in front of you and ond-best time in school
was good to have gone there and doesn’t claim to have any secret on the team [in order to have] a skier I’ve ever coached,” Also- respond to the terrain and the history after Joan Benoit
to have done well. It’s definitely a to his success. group of people who are ready brook said. “He’s really pushing other skiers around you,” said Al- Samuelson.
little confidence boost. It will still “There isn’t anything special to ski fast and work hard,” Head the boundaries of being an aca- sobrook. “It’s very easy for us to
be challenging though.” that I am doing for these races,” Coach Nathan Alsobrook said. demically successful student at a overlook that because he handles
Despite his success interna- said Adicoff. “It’s [just part of] Adicoff ’s focus and hard work very rigorous college like Bow- everything so beautifully.” TOURNEY TIME: The
women’s hockey team
(12-8-3, NESCAC 6-7-3)
After Parkland
As this week’s Orient story on political activity and activism at Bowdoin makes clear,
much of our campus is slow to take to the streets regarding just about anything. This
week has been no exception. As students around the nation mobilize in response to the
February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
Florida, our sleepy Brunswick campus has remained sleepy.
Having come of age in the mass-shooting era—an era that has seen barely any
gun-control legislation in response to persistently horrific gun violence—college- and
high-school-age students are understandably jaded about the prospects of reform. Yet
there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic that this event is different. As high school
students around the country have rallied in support of more rigorous gun legislation,
the nation is paying attention for longer than usual. Unlike after other mass shootings
in the United States, web traffic about gun control has not dropped off after a week’s
worth of news cycles. Even CNN’s Town Hall on February 21 struck an unusually res-
onant chord.
Bowdoin students should not let this moment pass us by, and we should take this
opportunity to shake off the inertia and passive fatalism that characterizes our campus’
political conscience. Like our high school peers who have begun to overcome our na-
tion’s unconscionable inaction on gun violence, we should—we must—recognize that
the status quo is lethal.
There are several easy actions that everyone can take. First, call your representatives
and demand action on gun legislation. Maine has some of the weakest gun laws in the
nation, with the result that a disproportionate number of guns bought in Maine are
used to commit crimes in states with harsher regulations. Next, several protests are slat-
ed to take place over the next couple of months. Find one and participate. On March 14,
at 10 a.m., there will be a national school walkout for 17 minutes, representing the 17
lives lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. The March for Our Lives, a series of interna- LS
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tional marches calling for gun control and school safety in America, will take place on PHO
March 24, a few days before the end of Spring Break. On April 20, the 19th anniversary
of the Columbine massacre, there will be another national school walkout. Participate
yourself and offer support to local high schoolers taking part. We grew up hiding under
desks and pressing ourselves into corners during active shooter drills, too. These high
disengagement at Bowdoin
firming the College’s moral opposition to violence and hatred in all its form. Yet since
the Parkland incident, we have heard nothing from our administration. The College
should not be a mouthpiece for partisan political causes, but publicly recognizing a par-
ticularly poignant moment in the nation’s unfolding political drama and reiterating the
College’s condemnation of violence is not a partisan political move. Moreover, Rose’s
commentary does help to set the tenor of campus political engagement, and his silence and barely increased afterward. So a senior’s lack of motivation and
in the aftermath of Parkland only enforces our campus’ inertia. More concretely, the Polar Views I continued making friends across overall comfort with letting his or
College should follow MIT’s lead in declining to consider protest-related disciplinary class years to fill a void caused by her grades drop. On this campus,
action in its admissions process. The simple truth is that current high school students by Osa Fasehun the social disconnect in the Class of though, I never hear “senior nos-
are risking their academic futures to stand up for what they believe is right. It should be 2018. talgia,” a term I often used in high
easy for us to follow their lead. One of my mentors told me that From my vantage point, the wan- school as a reminder to experience
Bowdoin’s student climate tends ing of the senior class’s enthusiasm everything on my bucket list before
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, to change every four years, either is visible, but it is worth contem- I graduate.
which is comprised of Harry DiPrinzio, Dakota Griffin, Calder McHugh and Ian Ward. in a positive or negative way. This plating why. Our time at Bowdoin Based on what I’ve seen from
academic year, I feel like the party was riddled with controversial party Bowdoin alumni, there are some
scene at Bowdoin became weak and incidents and nasty debates on so- natural responses to the nostalgia
uninspired. When I think of the cial media. There was “Cracksgiv- felt during senior year. We can em-
partiers of Bowdoin, the Classes ing” in our freshman year when bellish our narratives about college
of 2016 and 2017 come to mind, members of the team notoriously because we long for exciting mem-
ESTABLISHED 1871 given the momentous parties they dressed as Native Americans, the ories to reminisce about or fabri-
often threw in Coles Tower. “We de- “gangster” party that involved ste- cate entirely new elements to our
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011 pended so much on upperclassmen reotypical Black American attire experience as a coping mechanism
to host good parties that now we and the tongue-and-cheek hosting if college was underwhelming or
The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information
don’t know how to do it ourselves,” of the “tequila” party where at- even traumatic. These strategies
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators,
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in a friend and fellow senior once said. tendees wore mini sombreros. The signify “hiareth,” a Welsh word that
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse College House parties have lost provocative comments on the anon- roughly translates to a nostalgia for
discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. significant upperclassman turn- ymous app “Yik Yak” only created a a home or past to which one cannot
out this year, likely because there “cesspool of distrust,” as President return—a home that maybe never
Sarah Drumm Harry DiPrinzio weren’t enough seniors in the crowd Rose put it. In total, the senior class existed.
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief to encourage turnout. Most seniors witnessed three race-based parties. The third option is to make mem-
opt to socialize off-campus, which These events created a schism be- ories with the time that is left. Let’s
makes Bowdoin’s campus feel like a tween students who felt betrayed meet new people and explore dif-
Creative Director Managing Editor News Editor ghost town on the weekends. and humiliated and other students ferent places. I understand that this
Jenny Ibsen Rachael Allen Emily Cohen As a government major who of- who felt that the other side—and is hard to do. No one is expected to
Ellice Lueders ten reads about civic society and ac- Bowdoin’s administration—was po- like everyone in the senior class, but
Photo Editor Calder McHugh Sports Editor tive participation, I noticed signs at licing student behavior. Addition- we should at least feel comfortable
Ann Basu Surya Milner Anna Fauver the beginning of the academic year ally, many of us went abroad as ju- inhabiting the same space. I ask for
Ezra Sunshine Jessica Piper that the senior class would be less niors, leaving little time to address both sides of this class-wide pain
Layout Editor Features Editor engaged than previous class years. our grievances as a class before to break away from your intimacy
Associate Editor
Emma Bezilla Alyce McFadden The members of the 2018 class senior year. with grief and begin a love affair
Sarah Bonanno
Ian Stewart Roither Gonzales council ran uncontested. By Janu- Some may say that the Class of with kindness—to yourself and to
Dakota Griffin ary of this year, senior attendance 2018’s divide is prefaced on our ten- others. We grieve first so that we’re
A&E Editor
Copy Editor Nicholas Mitch at the traditional senior nights had dency to break into social cliques able to feel other emotions later.
Isabelle Hallé
Nell Fitzgerald Louisa Moore gotten so low that the class council that rarely overlap. If we were a Don’t be ashamed of living through
Shinhee Kang Allison Wei announced that the weekly event socially incongruous class from crisis. Don’t let the past keep you
Opinion Editor would become biweekly. In my ju- the start, the race-themed parties from living your best life. Be willing
Digital Strategist Business Manager Rohini Kurup nior year, I had concerns that senior only divided us further. Others to smile like the cheerful first-year
Sophie Washington Edward Korando year wouldn’t be as eventful as I’d may think that the current state of students who have made my time as
Ned Wang Calendar Editor hoped it would be. American politics and the economy a proctor worthwhile.
Social Media Editor Avery Wolfe Kate Lusignan Throughout my Bowdoin career, gives upperclassmen more anxiety Senior year should be a last hurrah
Gwen Davidson I was often mistaken for a senior about their futures post-grad and before we start missing the ease of
Uriel Lopez-Serrano Data Desk Page Two Editor from the Class of 2016 or 2017 be- less interest in socializing. getting lunch with people everyday.
Faria Nasruddin Hannah Donovan Samuel Rosario cause my social circles encompassed I don’t enjoy presenting prob- If we alone can’t revive the Bowdoin
mostly upperclassmen who were lems without offering solutions, so I social scene, let’s at least attend ev-
The material contained herein is the property of The Bowdoin Orient and appears at the sole discretion of the engaged in various parts of campus would suggest playing into what we ery senior event that remains. In the
editors. The editors reserve the right to edit all material. Other than in regard to the above editorial, the opinions culture. My network of friends in naturally feel as millennials: nostal- words of the softer, un-buff Drake,
expressed in the Orient do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors. my year peaked in sophomore year gia. We all know about senioritis, “show me a good time.”
14 OPINION Friday, February 23, 2018
periences of my
by Kevin Hernandez people for their
Op-Ed Contributor
amusement. I love my brown tears, arguments and tensions not the first time students of versation and mutual under- Again. This is not the first
Author’s note: this is a per- skin and want to see others so evident across campus, you color came to our BSG gen- standing. In no way would this time I’ve felt silenced, my
sonal account and not represen- love and accept brownness. couldn’t ignore them—unless eral assembly meeting, but it process be simple or erase the voice invalidated. But I will
tative of the voices of the beau- As a vice president on Bow- you had the privilege to. was the first time white stu- hurt any of us experienced. It not let white students and
tiful, strong and resilient Latinx doin Student Government Much of the campus con- dents showed up and voiced would be an opportunity to white money intimidate me
students on this campus. (BSG) my sophomore year, I strued the impeachment as their concerns. People wanted have the dialogue our campus anymore. Students have con-
“Why do we have to make listened to students of color an effort to scapegoat two to have the opportunity to has always wanted and des- sistently asked for the op-
everything about race? It was across campus repeatedly ex- students and ruin their pub- have conversations where “all perately needs. portunity to share “the other
just a party.” Okay. The “tequi- press feeling uncomfortable lic image. But, that’s not what sides” were heard, and that’s Many participants of the side,” but when the platform is
la” party was only one of sever- and excluded at Bowdoin. A it was. My intention was to exactly what they got: a plat- “tequila” party refused to available, they don’t show up.
al events that have invalidated year of our student govern- keep our student government form. However, I do recognize take part. They didn’t want to “Tequila” party participants,
my Mexican identity through- ment defining cultural ap- members accountable for that the passion and personal “open up that can of worms.” many of you were invited to
out my life. I wish I could have propriation and writing state- committing the very acts they entanglement made it chal- “Tequila” party attendees, speak on the panel to bring
worn my cowboy boots and hat ments of solidarity in support voted to condemn. Across lenging to have productive you have the luxury to be productive conversation.
(not the fake party store kind) of students affected by differ- campus, however, by many conversations. able to ride out the semester Show up. Speak up. You can’t
as a little kid without someone ent acts of cultural appropri- white students, I was seen as a In an effort to finally have a and avoid discourse. If only ignore a public call out, and
yelling out, “Go back to your ation was not enough to pro- mad Latino rather than a BSG conversation about the “gang- avoiding marginalization as this is exactly what that is.
country.” I wish white students mote a campus-wide change. leader trying to uphold our ster” and “tequila” parties this a person of color was that This call out comes at the
at Bowdoin could see my Mex- So, I decided to go through community standards. semester, a group of seniors easy. If only racism and dis- expense of this brown man’s
ican identity as legitimate, not the process to impeach two At the end of the day, I thought it would be produc- crimination, for students of vulnerability, and I hope you
just an opportunity to practice BSG members that attend- don’t regret introducing the tive for eight seniors affiliat- color, ended on May 26, 2018. take this invitation to have a
their cringey Spanish. So, yes, ed the event. As one of the impeachment. Although it ed with both parties to come Wouldn’t that be nice. productive conversation.
the “tequila” party was person- co-authors and introducers of might have been a radical together before we graduate I consistently put my heart Catch me at Moulton for
al and represented more than the articles of impeachment, alternative, it had an interest- and strive for reconciliation into calling people into chal- brunch this Sunday.
just a party. Sadly, white bodies I was in the middle of every- ing unintended consequence: through a campus-wide event. lenging conversations. But, Kevin Hernandez is a mem-
will continue to reduce the ex- thing: long conversations, people actually talked. It was We wanted a genuine con- this time I was shut down. ber of the Class of 2018.
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FEBRUARY/MARCH
16 Friday, February 23, 2018
FRIDAY 23
LECTURE
“The Art of Color”
Maine painter and printmaker Mary Hart will discuss her
artistic practice and teaching as part of the lecture series for the
exhibition “On Different Wavelength: A Celebration of Color in
Books.”
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 12 p.m.
LECTURE
“Pay for Success: Building Uncommon
Partnerships to Take on Society’s
Toughest Challenges”
Brace Young ’77, P’21 and Leah Greenberg ’13 will discuss how
Social Finance, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organization, is
building a new model for change in investment capital to drive
social change. The discussion will focus on how uncommon
partnerships occur across public, private and social sectors
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
and how they improve the lives of different demographics. IN THE ZONE: Sam Roy ’20 dribbles past an opponent in the NESCAC Quarterfinals at Morrell Gymnasium on Saturday. Bowdoin (24-1, NESCAC
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m. 9-1 ) advanced past Williams (12-13, NESCAC 4-6) and will play Tufts in the NESCAC semifinal game at Amherst on Saturday afternoon. The
winners of the two semifinal games will face off in the championship game on Sunday at noon.
EVENT
MONDAY 26 WEDNESDAY 28
Dance Marathon
The dance marathon is a six-hour dance party that will include
performances from a capella groups and bands on campus.
Proceeds benefit the Barbara Bush Memorial Hospital.
Morrell Lounge, David Saul Smith Union. 5 p.m. EVENT EVENT
Buti Yoga What Makes Bowdoin Special
PERFORMANCE Buti Yoga led by Tanya Grigsby combines power yoga with Janie Porche, creative director of White Whale Web
RISE: Untold Stories of Bowdoin Women cardio-intensive dances, plyometrics and strength conditioning. Services, will share what students, faculty, staff and alumni
The student group fEMPOWER will tell the stories of Bowdoin Room 213, Peter Buck Center. 6:30 p.m. believe makes Bowdoin special. Porche will discuss how these
women and their diverse experiences with body image, sexuality elements will be integrated in Bowdoin’s redesigned website.
and gender-based violence, among others. Tickets are $5 and Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 2 p.m.
TUESDAY 27
can be purchased at the Smith Union info desk. Sales benefit
Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine and Family
THURSDAY 1
Crisis Services. There will be another performance on Saturday.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
LECTURE
“Drawing In Dialogue with Politics EVENT
and Literature” Searching for Boko Haram: A History of
SATURDAY 24
Meryem Belkaid, assistant professor of romance languages
and literatures, and student curator Daniel Rechtschaffen ’18 Violence in Central Africa
will discuss French caricatures, illustrations and drawings by Professor of Anthropology Scott MacEachern will discuss his
writers in the Artine Artinian collections. The program is part new book which considers the cultural context and violence of
PERFORMANCE Boko Haram.
of the lecture series on the exhibition, “Where the Artist’s
Learn to Curl Hand Meets the Author’s Pen: Drawings from the Artine Nixon Lounge, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 4:30 p.m.
Bowdoin Curling will host an introductory curling lesson from Artinian Collection.”
12:30-5 p.m. Email tezquerr@bowdoin.edu to sign up. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 4:15 p.m. LECTURE
Sidney J. Watson Arena. 12:30 p.m. “Olympics and the Korean Peninsula”
PERFORMANCE Bradley O. Babson, distinguished lecturer in government, will
An Evening with Poet Elizabeth Acevedo discuss the politics surrounding the Korean Peninsula and the role
SUNDAY 25
Elizabeth Acevedo, a National Slam Champion and the of the Olympics in international relations over dinner.
2016 World Poetry Slam representative for Washington, Thorne Hall. 5 p.m.
D.C. will perform.
Jack Magee’s Pub, David Saul Smith Union. 7 p.m. LECTURE
FILM “Define American: My Life as an
2018 Oscar-Nominated EVENT Undocumented Immigrant”
Shorts-Documentary Arctic Scavenger Hunt Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Frontier will screen Oscar-nominated short films. The and filmmaker, will deliver the Kenneth V. Santagata
The Arctic Museum and Sustainable Bowdoin will host a
selected shorts come from the categories of animated, live Memorial Lecture. Vargas will discuss his experience as an
scavenger hunt for students. Students will explore arctic
action and documentary film. Shorts that will be screened undocumented immigrant.
creatures, places and explorers.
include “Heroin(e), ” “Knife Skills” and “Traffic Jam.” Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m.
Frontier. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.