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Frustrations
persist after pay
raise for hourly
employees
by Calder McHugh
Orient Staff
As Bowdoin students and
faculty returned to Brunswick
for the fall semester, they took
in scenes typical of late summer
at Bowdoin: well-manicured
lawns, stately buildings, lob-
ster for dinner and a welcome
back message from President
Clayton Rose, which this year
included a note about pay for
hourly employees.
In the annual email, sent to
all employees and students of
the College, Rose announced
that the staff responsible for
keeping the lawns green and
the food tasty—namely the
housekeepers, groundskeepers
and dining staff—would be re-
ceiving wage increases.
While the College conducts
reviews of wages every year,
Rose said that his office brought
in additional data points this
summer after an Orient report
found that many hourly earners
struggle to make ends meet.
The changes announced by
Rose include an increase in
pay for second and third-shift
hours. First shift runs 7 a.m.
to 3 p.m.; second shift is 3 p.m.
to 11 p.m., and third shift is 11
p.m. to 7 a.m. Wages for hours
worked during second shift
increased from seven percent
more than the worker’s hourly
Storm downs trees, causes Community remembers late
campus-wide power outage trustees’ ‘generous enthusiasm’
by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
An afternoon storm yes-
terday knocked out power on
campus and across midcoast
Maine. According to Director
of Safety and Security Randy
Nichols, no injuries were re-
ported at Bowdoin, although
two of the College’s buildings
were damaged.
Central Maine Power re-
ported almost 30,000 custom-
ers without power, including
nearly 12,000 in Cumberland
County, according to the
Portland Press Herald. Cam-
pus power went out in most
buildings around 12:17 p.m.
as a high winds and rain rolled
N SIX WEEKS EARLY
New program gives a group of first years a
sneak peek at the College. Page 5.
pay to 10 percent, while third
shift extra pay increased from
10 percent to 15 percent on top
of normal hourly pay.
Rose noted that only 40 per-
cent of Maine employers offer
their employees differentiated
shift pay.
Weekend pay increased
from an extra $0.80 per hour
to an extra $1 per hour. The
College also adopted an al-
ready-planned increase of
$0.25 to a Bowdoin employee’s
minimum starting wage.
In his email, Rose affirmed
that the College leads among
Maine employers with respect
to its wages and benefits for
hourly employees.
“The conclusion [of the re-
view] is that Bowdoin’s com-
pensation program is at the
very top of the list of Maine
employers, providing highly
competitive hourly wages and
an unmatched comprehensive
benefits program,” he wrote.
“This is as it should be—our
hourly colleagues are essential
to making the College what it is, unfinished, with tarps covering a
and they earn this market-lead-
ing compensation program.”
However, some in the com-
munity remain unhappy with
the president’s response.
“I feel like they just had to
do something to keep us quiet,”
Please see PAY, page 3 Manlio Callenti ’20. “I see a guy
through Brunswick and sever-
al surrounding towns.
Power remained on
throughout the afternoon in
Thorne Hall, which utilizes
a generator. Moulton Union
was closed for sit-down din-
ner, while Moulton Express
was open. Students ate in
Thorne in shifts assigned on
the basis of class year and
timing of athletic practices
as Dining staff worked to
accommodate increased de-
mand.
Several buildings on Maine
Street began to receive pow-
er around 4:30 p.m. Most
of south campus had power
restored shortly after 5 p.m.,
A CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
A different approach to viewing the
Oscar-winning love story. Page 6.
Friday, September 7, 2018
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: The Roux Center for the Environment is open for class while construction continues. The building is set to be dedicated on October 12.
Labor shortage delays Roux completion
by Nell Fitzgerald
Orient Staff
Several weeks ago, upon mov-
ing into the Roux Center for the
Environment, Professors were
asked to don hard hats as they
carted books and furniture into
new offices. Originally scheduled
to be complete before classes
started, the building remains
large portion of the building and
pipes exposed in several class-
rooms. Students and faculty alike
are trying to adapt to classes held
in an active construction site.
“During class, there were so
many people banging and doing
their construction duties,” said
and power reached all of cam-
pus by 8:30 p.m.
Damage was reported at
Dudley Coe and Pine Apart-
ment A, where a tree fell
through part of the roof.
In the immediate aftermath
of the storm, due to downed
trees and power lines, officers
from the Brunswick Police De-
partment and Bowdoin’s Office
of Safety and Security blocked
off portions of Sills Drive and
Bath Road. One car on Sills
Drive was hit by a fallen tree,
but there were no serious in-
juries.
Classes continued through-
out the afternoon at the dis-
cretion of faculty.
F AROUND THE WORLD
Sasa Jovanovic ’20 writes her first postcard
about a childhood friend. Page 10.
Volume 148, Number 1
wearing a bright construction
outfit and my mind is diverted.
My mind jumps back and forth.
Always having so many distrac-
tions isn’t conducive to how I
learn.”
According to Treasurer of the
College Matt Orlando, the proj-
ect is behind schedule in large
part due to Maine’s severe labor
shortage. The state currently has
an unemployment rate of 2.7
percent, one of the lowest in the
country. This scarcity of labor has
posed a major challenge for the
project’s contractors, who have
struggled to recruit and retain
skilled tradesmen in areas such as
drywalling, roofing and painting.
Orlando says that construction
crews have been working long
by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
The Bowdoin community
lost two valued members over
the summer with the passings
of Iris Davis ’78 and Jim Ma-
cAllen ’66. Both had served
on the Board of Trustees and
are remembered by those who
knew them for their commit-
ment to the College.
“Iris and Jim represented the
best of the Common Good,”
said President Clayton Rose.
Rose recalled having dinner
with MacAllen shortly after
being named president of the
College and said that conver-
sation with the late trustee
left him “more excited about
S HOPE FOR FOOTBALL
Ian Ward ’20 digs into the team’s attempt
to reverse its fortunes. Page 13.
bowdoinorient.com
hours, sacrificing nights and
weekends in order to finish the
project.
Dean for Academic Affairs
Elizabeth McCormack claimed
that when the College began
planning the project, it could not
have accounted for the recent la-
bor shortage. Consequently, it set
the ultimately untenable August
deadline for completion.
The project has also been de-
layed due to the backup of mate-
rials such as the large glass panels
that separate classrooms. The two
major features of the Roux Center
that remain incomplete are the
landscape surrounding the build-
ing and the multi-story glass atri-
um that is featured prominently
at its entrance. Some classrooms
coming to Bowdoin and more
comfortable about the chal-
lenges and the opportunities
and the ability to get after both
of them.”
During his time at Bowdo-
in, MacAllen garnered praise
as a star football player. He
still holds the record for most
career touchdowns by a wide
receiver. He later tried out for
the Philadelphia Eagles, al-
though he never played in an
NFL game. Instead, he pursued
an MBA at the University of
Virginia, from which his grad-
uated in 1968.
Still, his connection to Bow-
doin never wavered. In a phone
interview with the Orient, Se-
nior Vice President for Devel-
O A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST
Lowell Ruck ’21 explores a bit of Maine
history. Page 14.
1st CLASS
U.S. MAIL
CAROLINE FLAHERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
also lack basic features, including
shades and clocks, as well as more
advanced technology such as in-
teractive whiteboards.
“I remember on the first day
of class we had to be directed to
where our classroom was, and it
was not in finished shape,” said
Callenti. “There were no shades
for the classroom so there was
pure sun going through windows
and everyone was sweating.”
Several faculty members
and students have been forced
to pause their research while
more advanced technology is
transferred to the new build-
ing. According to McCormack,
the technology was originally
Please see ROUX, page 4
opment and Alumni Relations
Scott Meiklejohn remarked
that MacAllen “knew more
Bowdoin people at age 72 than
22.”
In addition to his member-
ship of the Board of Trustees,
the former football player
served as a BASIC volunteer
for Admissions, was active in
his class reunions and was the
director of the Alumni Fund.
In 2016, he was honored with
the Alumni Service Award.
His name will live on at
Bowdoin. Earlier this year,
the Board of Trustees voted
to name one of the Park Row
apartment complexes that is
Please see TRUSTEES, page 5
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PAGE TWO
Friday, September 7, 2018

SECURITY REPORT
8/28 to 9/6 STUDENT SPEAK:
What were you doing when the power went out?
Milo Richards ’21
What wasn’t I doing when the
power went out?

Stephen Boe ’22

I was napping on the quad and
woke up to hail hitting my face.
KODIE GARZA

Jared Foxhall ’22

Tuesday, August 28
• A student complaining of chest discomfort was es-
corted to Mid Coast Hospital.
• A fire alarm at MacMillan House was caused by
burnt microwave popcorn. (NOTE: Please follow the
cooking instructions on the bag to avoid overheating.)
• A smoke alarm at Stowe House Inn was activated by
overcooked food.
• A student with a finger injury was treated at Mid
Coast Hospital.
• A student reported receiving unwanted emails from
a town resident. The matter was resolved.
Wednesday, August 29
• Museum security dealt with an agitated man at the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The man left the
museum without incident.
• A security officer aided a student who was having
breathing difficulties at Greason Pool.
Thursday, August 30
• A local man was issued a campus trespass warning
after several reported incidents of hollering at students
and others from his vehicle and generally acting errat-
ically. Incidents have been reported on South Campus
Drive, Bowker Street, College Street and Maine Street
I was at the top of Coles Tower
and witnessed as God’s wrath
arrived. Two of the four have been identified and tres-
descended on humanity.
pass warnings are pending.
• Loud music was reported at Brunswick Apartment K.
Dylan Hayton-Ruffner ’20
Sunday, September 2
• An officer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicat-
ed student at Appleton Hall.
I was SUPing in a medium-sized
body of water.
• An officer assisted a student at Stowe Hall who be-
came ill after consuming alcohol.
• Students reported a group of unknown males throw-
ing bottles near Coleman Hall.
• Officers encountered two Lewiston men acting sus-
piciously and smoking marijuana on campus. The men
were later spotted in Smith Union entering unautho-
rized spaces. A security officer detained one suspect,
Katie Morse-Gagne ’19
I was saving a squirrel.
the other fled through a window and ran into a wood-
ed area off of Federal Street. Brunswick police issued
a trespass order to the detained suspect, barring him
from all College property.
• A student walking on Park Row was struck in the
head by a water bottle thrown from a passing vehicle.
The student was uninjured.
• A student burning a candle in Coles Tower activated
a smoke alarm. (NOTE: Use of candles in residence
COMPILED BY DIEGO LASARTE AND BRENNAN CLARK
halls is prohibited. Try battery operated candles in-
stead.)

R.I.P. Pub Night

(downtown). The campus community was informed
via a security alert.
• A student was observed smoking marijuana in a
parked vehicle at Brunswick Apartments. (NOTE: Al-
though possession of marijuana is legal in Maine for
people over age 21, College policy prohibits the pos-
session of all forms of marijuana on campus.)
• A broken window pane was noted at Massachusetts
Hall.
Friday, August 31
• A student accidentally smashed a large plate glass
exterior window on the 15th floor of Coles Tower.
• A student at Chamberlain Hall reported receiving a
suspicious package.
• An athlete with a soccer-related shoulder injury was
escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.
• An officer conducted a wellness check for an intoxi-
cated student at Reed House.
Saturday, September 1
• A Garrison Street resident complained of excessive
noise from groups of students walking on the street at
1 a.m.
• Excessive noise was reported on the second floor of
Winthrop Hall.
• An intoxicated minor student at Appleton Hall was
transported to Mid Coast Hospital.
• A basement smoke alarm was activated during a
registered event at MacMillan House.
• A student inadvertently let four suspicious persons
into Maine Hall. The group fled as security officers
• A red specialized hybrid bicycle was stolen from the
area of Brunswick Apartment P. The bike was left un-
locked and was not registered.
Monday, September 3
• A minor student was found in possession of a fraud-
ulent driver’s license.
by Diego Lasarte
and Gwen Davidson
Eulogizers-in-Chief
Tuesday, September 4
• Two people found living in a van parked at Stowe Pub Night, child of the late John
House Inn were asked to leave campus. Joseph Magee, passed away with his
family by his side at the David Saul
Wednesday, September 5 Smith Union last Thursday, by lethal
• A purple Columbia bicycle was stolen from the area injection. The funeral service was
of Brunswick Apartment C. The bike was not locked held at 10 p.m. on Thursday, August
and was unregistered. 30, catered by Pinky D’s Poutine. He
is survived by his loving wife, Epicur-
Thursday, September 6 ia, his famously wild brother, College
• A student suffering from dehydration was trans- “House” Crawl and his loving son
ported to Mid Coast Hospital. poised to take over the family busi-
• A sudden microburst wind and rain storm struck ness, Trivia Night.
campus at 12:12 p.m. Power was lost across most of the His wife of many years, Epicuria,
campus for several hours. Multiple campus trees were said of his passing: “I will miss Pub
damaged. Sills Drive was closed for several hours af- Night so dearly.
ter trees felled power lines. A tree fell onto Pine Street No one else un-
Apartment A, and a tree came through a window at the derstands what it
Office of Residential Life (Dudley Coe). Thousands means to inspire
of homes in Brunswick lost power and numerous nervous first-
trees and power lines were damaged. There were no years to awk-
storm-related injuries on campus. wardly hook-up
with people and
PHOEBE ZIP
COMPILED BY THE OFFICE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY PER make decisions
they will immediately regret in the
morning.”
Ivies, someone respected all over
campus for her ability to foster poor
decision-making, said of Pub Night,
“From the moment Pub and I met, I
knew we would be friends for life. The
people who only interacted with him
for 30 seconds and decided he was
gross or not fun really missed out on
experiencing a great man.”
However, not everyone was fond of
Mr. Night. We managed to track down
an unnamed source in the Office of
Residential Life who said, “Pub Night
was reckless and endangered the lives
of countless people around him. The
decision to press for an ‘early retire-
ment’ was made after careful consider-
ation. When we attempted to convince
him to go peacefully, he resisted, and
we had to take him out.”
In lieu of flowers, memorial contri-
butions of sweat, strange dance moves
and throw-up may be made in his hon-
or to Baxter Basement, South Street,
Brunswick, Maine.
Friday, September 7, 2018 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF COMPILED BY NINA MCKAY, JESSICA PIPER

AND JARET SKONIECZNY

LEANA AMAEZ LEAVES COLLEGE

AFTER EIGHT YEARS
At the end of August, Leana Amaez, former associate dean
of students for diversity and inclusion and co-director of the
Sexuality, Women and Gender Center (SWAG), left Bowdoin
to accept a position as the director of pro bono services at Pine
Tree Legal Assistance.
In an email announcing Amaez’s departure, Dean of Students
Tim Foster identified Pine Tree Legal Assistance as an organiza-
tion that has provided free civil legal aid to low-income Maine
residents since 1966. For Amaez, who worked as a staff attorney
at the Bronx Defenders before coming to Bowdoin in 2010, the
new position will mark a return to the pursuit of an old passion:
true justice in the court system.
“She’s going to advocate for people who can’t advocate for
themselves, and she’s going to focus on making Maine a more
just and equitable, fair place,” said Foster. “And this is at the very
core of who she is.”
During her eight years at Bowdoin, Amaez played a leading
role in diversity and inclusion efforts. Her tenure saw the cre-
ation of the Religious and Spiritual Life and the Multicultural
Life centers and positions, the merging of the Women’s Re-
source Center and the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
into the SWAG and the addition of “Perspectives” and “More KATIE BACALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Than Meets the Eye” to the list of mandatory orientation pro- IN THE WORKS: The Career Planning Center (CPC) opened its redesigned space this fall with hopes of providing students not only the services, but the
gramming for new students. spaces to land the jobs of their dreams. All students are encouraged to make an appointment online and stop by.

New director looks to refresh CPC

In Amaez’s absence, Kate Stern, who has been the associate
dean of students for diversity and inclusion and co-director of
SWAG, will become director of the center. The College will hire
an associate director to work with Stern.

by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
ACTIVIST AND EDUCATOR DERAY Over the summer, the Ca-
MCKESSON ’07 PUBLISHES BOOK reer Planning Center (CPC)
found itself in a new space with
new leadership. Since begin-
On Tuesday, Viking Books released “On the Other Side of ning her position in July, the
Hope: The Case for Freedom,” a collection of essays written new Director of Career Plan-
by educator and civil rights activist DeRay McKesson ’07. The ning Kristin Brennan has set
Baltimore native’s debut presents his experiences and memo- new targets and reestablished
ries alongside his suggestions for addressing a range of social old goals in an effort to make
problems. the CPC accessible to more
In a press release, Viking called the book “a meditation on students, alumni and parents.
resistance, justice and freedom and an intimate portrait of the Many of the CPC’s updated
Black Lives Matter movement from the front lines.” goals are meant to build on
McKesson rose to prominence in 2014 after participating existing progress, such as rein-
in protests regarding the police shooting of Mike Brown in St. forcing and growing the alum-
Louis, Mo. ni and parent networks. One
One essay in his new book includes a short anecdote about step toward achieving this goal
falling into the water during a whitewater rafting trip during his has been through improved
time at Bowdoin. technology in the renovated
“I can swim, but if you’ve ever been caught in the current, conference rooms where par-
you know that it’s hard for even the best swimmers to escape ents and alumni will be able to
its wrath,” he wrote. McKesson concluded, “I realized that this talk to students through video
is what being in proximity to trauma sometimes does to us—it calls.
traps us in the current, in the present.” Along with the incorpo-
ration of new technology in
physical spaces, the CPC plans
on developing its platform
through an active social me-
dia presence. One goal is to
incorporate alumni by having
them do “Instagram takeovers”
which will expose students to
what a typical day in different
workplace environments may
look like.
Last year, in an effort to
dispel common myths, the
CPC launched an initiative
called “Just the Facts.” An ar-
ticle published by the Orient
last year named some caus-
es of these misconceptions
about the CPC, including the
underutilization of the CPC’s
resources and a general lack of
knowledge about its workings.
As a part of the ongoing cam-
paign, the CPC will continue
its effort to be accessible to all
students regardless of major,
age or interest. Plans include
partnering with other groups
on campus such as the Sexual-
ity, Women and Gender Cen-
ter (SWAG), the Multicultural
Center and academic depart-
ments.
Additionally, the CPC will
focus more on students who
may be undecided about their
future goals and those who
may have unconventional as-
pirations. One way Brennan
hopes to accomplish this is
through having set times to
personally talk to students
about hobbies and interests
they have and to explore ways
they could turn these interests
into a career.
“I love to meet people who
are in that space of not [being]
sure where they want to go
yet,” said Brennan. “We have
some tools for people who
are in that space. We want to
meet exploring students—peo-
ple who don’t know what they
want to do quite yet.”
The principles of openness,
collaboration and progress
were purposely integrated into
the design and functionality of
the renovated space. The CPC
is now comprised of larger,
more open spaces, including
modular furniture meant to
encourage collaboration.
At the same time, the CPC
believes it is important to pre-
serve individual offices where
students can meet with advi-
sors. Thus, in addition to the
open spaces, there are many
smaller rooms which allow
students to hold interviews
and conference calls.
Along with her extensive list
of experiences and accolades,
Brennan’s philosophy, partic-
ularly towards the liberal arts,
resonated with the hiring com-
mittee of faculty and students.
“One of the things we got
excited about was [that] get-
ting a liberal arts education
in an area you are passionate
about can lead to a career in
anything,” said Tim Foster,
dean of student affairs. “You
don’t need to major in this
in order to do that. She can
demonstrate this.”

NEW CLASS SCHEDULE INCLUDES

10 MINUTE INTERCHANGES FOR PAY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
MOST, BUT NOT ALL, STUDENTS
said housekeeper Sandy Green,
With the introduction of the new schedule, most students who has been with the College
on campus now have 10 minutes—instead of five, as in past for over ten years and penned
years—between back-to-back classes. However, more than 50 an Op-Ed for the Orient in
students have a five-minute interchange between certain class- May. “Why should we compare
es, and at least 15 have no time between two of their classes, ourselves to [places like] Mc-
according to class rosters. Due to Thursday’s weather emer- Donald’s, anyways?”
gency, the Office of the Registrar could not release the exact Bowdoin, as one of the larg-
number of students who are affected by these shorter passing est employers in Cumberland
periods. County, bases its pay scale on
According to information from the Office of the Registrar, that of employers in the area
classrooms were selected in a manner intended to accommo- who also hire hourly workers.
date students who have these zero- or five-minute interchanges. Some students in the commu-
The schedule for this semester represents phase one of a nity believe that this devalues
multiple-phase plan proposed by the Curriculum Implemen- some of the more universal val-
tation Committee and a working group that convened more ues that Bowdoin champions.
than two years ago. “Bowdoin is not an insig-
An administrative source familiar with the ongoing work nificant player within the lo-
on the schedule declined to comment on the record but ex- cal business [market], and yet
plained that the main priority of phase one was to introduce they’re setting their pay rates at
ten-minute passing periods to as many students as possible. the same rate as a housekeeper
The goals of phase two are to encourage faculty to teach a working for a private compa-
more varied range of timeslots and pattern of days across the ny in Falmouth. That doesn’t
week, specifically making better use of Fridays. Phase two will espouse the Common Good,”
also try to synchronize the class schedule across days to reduce said Benjamin Ray ’20, a student
the amount of overlap between classes. member of the Bowdoin Labor
The Office of Academic Affairs has also been encouraging Alliance. “This means that ev-
faculty to start and end on time and is working to synchronize erything is market driven, with-
clocks across campus. out accounting for the quality of
employees’ lives.”
Additionally, some Bowdo-
in employees have argued that
the second shift and third shift
changes don’t significantly af-
fect the money they see in their
biweekly paychecks.
Housekeepers, for example,
often work from 5 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. The hours between 5 and 7
a.m. are part of third shift and
have therefore seen a higher
bump in pay than was expect-
ed. However, the rest of their
hours are part of the first shift.
Employees often have the
chance to pick up more work in
the second and third shifts, but
not always.
According to Diego Gross-
mann ’20, another student
member of the Bowdoin Labor
Alliance, “the workers gen-
erally don’t work a second or
third shift, because they told us
they’re already so tired. So for
the College to present this as a
big change—it’s so ridiculous;
it’s so sinister.”
Rose, though, has come out
strongly against this character-
ization.
“To reiterate what I said in
my note to the community, our
hourly workers are an essential
part of the College, amazing
colleagues and they make the
College go,” he said. “Our goal
is to make certain that they are
compensated at the top end of
the range for the region and for
Maine, in wages and in benefits.
After the review that we did
this summer to affirm that, I am
completely confident that that’s
where our workers are now. We’ll
continue to do those kinds of re-
views as we have every year.”
Green, who is currently on
medical leave from her post,
said the changes have not
significantly impacted either
her life or the lives or her col-
leagues.
“Yes, I am very happy with
the changes to the second and
the third shift,” she said. “But,
that doesn’t help any of us that
have been there, even within
the last five years, because only
the starting pay went up. It
helped a few, which is very nice.
But it doesn’t solve the problem
of treating your employees with
a little bit of respect … It’s just
so unfair.”
Ray and Grossmann, along-
side Sarisha Kurup ’21, argue
that despite these changes and
these words from Rose, frustra-
tion about this issue continues
to exist on campus. However,
this discontent has not yet ma-
terialized in widespread activ-
ism on campus.
“I’m always a little surprised
by the lack of student voices in
this fight and similar fights that
need to happen around cam-
pus,” Ray said. “It feels like for
a campus that prides itself on
its progressiveness, students
are pretty unwilling to take ac-
tion ... Until this is a coalition
of workers, students, faculty,
staff that are all using whatever
they bring to the table for the
cause, we’re not going to get
anywhere.”
Green echoed a similar sen-
timent.
“Some of us feel like we’ve
done our part, we have to keep
our jobs, and now it’s up to oth-
er people to take the reins,” she
said.
4 NEWS Friday, September 7, 2018

PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

GETTING A FACELIFT: A number of construction projects are underway including the development of the new football facilities, renovation of Boody-Johnson House and building new student housing on Park Row.

Continued construction noticeable across all parts of campus

by Harrison West
Orient Staff
This past summer was par-
ticularly busy for development
on campus. In addition to
the construction of the Roux
Center for the Environment,
projects included new student
housing on Park Row, the
renovation of Boody-Johnson
House into an eventual Col-
lege House, the second phase
of construction on Whittier
Field, renovations at the Ca-
reer Planning Center and the
addition of a designated testing
center in Hawthorne-Longfel-
low library (H-L). Some proj-
ects will be completed this fall,
while others will be continued
through the spring and into
next summer.
“Our priority has been get-
ting Roux done, so some proj-
ects have been sacrificed a little
bit,” said Matt Orlando, senior
vice president for finance and
administration and treasurer.
“But by and large, we hit our
deadlines across the board.”
A tight labor market de-
layed the construction of the
Roux Center.
The most notable new proj-
ect is the construction of four
suite-style apartment houses
on Park Row which will house
nearly 90 students. This fall,
there is a significant amount of
sitework planned for the proj-
ect, including clearing existing
utilities, with the aim of laying
foundations before tempera-
tures drop. This work—located
in the center of campus—will
cause some noise, particularly
for students living in the near-
by Chamberlain Hall.
Orlando said that the plan
is for the apartments on Park
Row to have structures built
by the winter, allowing most of
the internal work to continue
through next spring and into
the summer. The apartments
are scheduled to be ready for
the fall 2019 semester.
Work to convert Boo-
dy-Johnson House to a ninth
college house will begin later
this month. Other than gen-
eral restorative work and ren-
ovations to the kitchen and
bathrooms, the focus will be
to make Chase Barn fully ac-
cessible to the original house.
Additionally, the garage below
will be converted to a social
space, accessible to both soph-
omore residents and to the
wider campus community for
programming.
Construction on the sec-
ond phase of Whittier Field
renovations will continue for a
support facility attached to the
field. The wooden framework
is currently underway and the
facility will eventually include
locker rooms and bathrooms.
It is set to open in February of
2019.
Within H-L, the new test-
ing center is the first of its
kind at Bowdoin. The space is
designed specifically as a des-
ignated location for students
who require accommodations
to take tests outside of class or
to use extra time.
In addition to these con-
struction projects, significant
maintenance work was con-
ducted on structures across
campus, including updates to
boiler, HVAC and mechanical
systems. Orlando added that
there is a plan in place to tackle
work on the air handling units,
which are now 20 years old, in
Druckenmiller Hall.

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set to be transported before
the beginning of classes, but
the move was delayed so that
crews could prioritize more
basic and necessary classroom
components.
Callenti is currently carrying
out an independent study using
Bowdoin’s Scanning Electron Mi-
croscope (SEM), and has put his
research on hold for 10 days as
the microscope is moved.
“I feel like 10 days is so much
time at Bowdoin. I don’t know
what I’ll be doing during that
time,” he said.
Despite the setbacks, professors
look forward to the unique poten-
tial of the Center once completed.
“Teaching here has been
great,” said Matthew Klingle,
associate professor of history
and environmental studies and
director of the environmental
studies program. “The import-
ant thing to realize is the Roux
Center for the Environment, it is
a building that has science labs
in it, it is a building that is de-
signed and should be operated
and envisioned to cover the en-
The Orient is
looking for...
reporters
illustrators
CAROLINE FLAHERTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
designers
tire spectrum of the liberal arts.”
Additionally, McCormack photographers
said that one unexpected result
of the delayed progress is that
students will have the unique
opportunity to learn firsthand
web developers
about the process of building a
major structure on campus.
The College will not be ready
and more!
to lift the restrictions on the
building by September 8, the Sign up at the Student Activities Fair on Tuesday,
deadline sent to students in a re-
cent email. However, Orlando is
confident that the Roux Center
September 11 from 7-9 p.m. in Smith Union.
will be completed by October 12,
the date of the building’s dedica-
tion ceremony.
Friday, September 7, 2018 NEWS 5

Debut of Geoffrey
Canada Scholars
aims to assist in
college transition
by Surya Milner
Orient Staff
When Octavio Castro ’19
was accepted to Bowdoin, the
words on his letter of admis-
sion boasted of the College’s
enthusiastic community, one
bound together by intellectual
growth, friendship and new
horizons.
So he flew from Miami,
landed in Brunswick, met with
his academic advisor and be-
gan class. Then came a nagging
question, prompted by hurried
biology lectures and dark col-
lege house basements: had Ad-
missions made a mistake?
“I personally have felt like it
was a pity admission,” Castro
said. “My brother came here,
so that’s legacy, and being a
student of color, first-gen,
low-income—it felt like that’s
why I was admitted.”
The College made sure Cas-
tro knew what on-campus re-
sources were available to him.
These included the Center for
Learning and Teaching, the
Center for Multicultural Life
and Bowdoin Advising Pro-
gram to Support Academic
Excellence (BASE), a program
designed to help first-gener-
ation students and students
from under-resourced schools
adjust to Bowdoin. Howev-
er, Castro was used to doing
things on his own. In high
school, his independence had
been a marker of success.
Castro’s narrative is famil-
iar to many students for whom
Bowdoin is hoping to open its
doors; for first-generation,
low-income students of color,
graduating from Bowdoin can
be a matter of survival.
“Especially in classes,
[there was] a sense of being
inferior, or not being wel-
comed or as prepared as other
students. There were times
when I would hear students
calling their parents, asking
for their help with writing a
paper, or what classes to take,”
Castro said. “Throughout my
whole academic career, not
just at Bowdoin, I was never
able to reach out to my par-
ents as a resource.”
This summer, Castro became
one of three students to serve
as a Residential Advisor for
the Geoffrey Canada Scholars
(GCS), an academic enrich-
ment and college transition
program in its inaugural year.
The summer institute finds its
namesake in educator and ac-
tivist Geoffrey Canada ’74.
In July, 15 GCS students
arrived on campus for a six-
week institute. They took
classes (not for credit), met
with members of faculty and
the administration and took
day trips around New En-
gland. They had conversations
about inclusion, race and
class. They spent the night at
the beach.
GCS operates under
THRIVE, a college-wide ini-
“Throughout my whole academic
career, not only just at Bowdoin, I
was never able to reach out to my
parents as a resource.”
–Octavio Castro ’19
tiative designed, according to
its website, “to foster achieve-
ment, belonging, mentorship,
and transition.” It incorporat-
ed pre-existing achievement
programs, including BASE,
Bowdoin Science Experi-
ence (BSE), Bowdoin Science
Scholars (BSS), Chamberlain
Scholars and Peer Mentoring.
THRIVE was funded by a $5
TIME TO THRIVE: The Geoffrey Canada Scholars—a group of members of the Class of 2022—attend one of the non-credit classes offered over the six
weeks they spent on campus over the summer. In its first year, the program aims to ease the transition to college and provide academic enrichment.
million donation by Netflix
co-founder and CEO Reed
Hastings ’83.
“When I heard about
[THRIVE], I really wished that I
had had that,” Castro said.
Moving to Maine can be
a tough sell. For first-gener-
ation, low-income students
of color—a demographic mi-
nority at the College—it can
feel especially far-fetched.
Chuck Dorn, associate dean
for academic affairs, says that
THRIVE was born out of a de-
sire to create an environment
in which every student can
succeed, regardless of back-
ground or prior experience.
As for the GCS students
themselves, attending the
summer institute provided a
gateway to acclimate to the
College before the rush of the
fall semester. Journey Browne
’22, a GCS student from Har-
lem, New York, said that the
institute provided her “a space
to call my own and people
who I know are really in my
corner.”
“As cliché as that sounds,
l don’t think anybody would
know how much it means
to a first-generation college
student,” she said. “Because
I can’t call home and tell my
mom what I’m experiencing,
because she’s never been to
college. She’s just going to tell
me to figure it out, that it’s go-
ing to be OK, that I can always
come home. But having peo-
ple who are first-generation
college students, who have
been through facilitated pro-
grams like these, it does make
a difference.”
While the THRIVE adviso-
ry board is in the early stages
of examining the program’s
inaugural year and making
recommendations for the
future, one GCS student’s ex-
periences already reveal the
complex racial dynamics that
occur when students transi-
tion from a racially diverse
environment, like the GCS
summer institute, to the Bow-
doin student body, which is
majority-white.
“It’s just such a shock,” said
Lynn Nguyen ’22, a GCS stu-
dent from the Bay Area who
identifies as a first-generation
college student and an Asian
woman of color but not of a
low-income background. “At
first, I felt like I didn’t belong
in GCS. Now I feel like I don’t
belong at Bowdoin. Because I
fit some of the categories and
not the others … even though
I am technically a person of
color, our experiences are
completely different.”
“For a long time, I thought, ‘do
I even belong in GCS?’ Because
the conversations they were hav-
ing were really hard, I couldn’t
really identify with them.”
Despite this, Nguyen said
she feels grateful for the GCS
experience for its introduc-
tion to faculty, staff and other
resources she might not be
aware of otherwise.
“The goal is for [GCS stu-
dents] to have a community,
particularly at times when
they will feel like they are the
only one in the room with this
identity,” said THRIVE direc-
tor Jessica Perez. “They can
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have this group that shares
many of these experiences,
but it’s also not just for them
to be with that group.”
Regardless of how major a
part GCS plays in a student’s
sense of community at Bow-
doin, the program neverthe-
less provides an introduction
to resources at the College
and plays an important role
as an initiative toward greater
diversity on campus.
“We know that the most
successful students at Bow-
doin use resources,” said Janet
Lohmann, dean of students.
Lohmann was involved with
the creation of BASE along-
side Professor of Anthropol-
ogy and Faculty Liaison for
Advising Sara Dickey and
Associate Director of Student
Wellness Programs Melissa
Quinby, who formerly served
as interim dean for first-year
students. “I think having more
students who are diverse on
our campus, in and of itself,
creates a sense of belonging
for other students. The optics
of being able to walk across
campus and see somebody
who looks like you, I think
really helps this community.”

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currently under construction
after MacAllen. Of the four
kids at the Brunswick Recre-
ational Center after graduating.
She went on to earn her
Masters in Public Health from

ENOUGH?
buildings, the one with the
largest social space—equipped
for a cappella concerts, improv
shows and more—will bear the
Boston University and later
worked for the Massachusetts
Department of Environmental
Protection.

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late trustee’s name, according
to Meiklejohn. It’s a reflection
of MacAllen’s gregarious na-
ture and his commitment to
Rose recalled Davis as al-
ways possessing insights that
others in the room had not yet
reached.

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the student experience.
“Jim would have loved all
that,” Meiklejohn said.
Part of the fourth class of
women ever to graduate from
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star athlete during her time at
the College. She played several
SNAPCHAT BOWDOINORIENT sports and was most notable as
the goaltender on two cham-
“She always had this other
thing she wanted me to know
about, and she wanted me to
think differently,” he said.
He added that, in addition
to their personal accomplish-
ments, Davis and MacAllen
would be remembered for
their profound commitment
to Bowdoin.

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pionship women’s field hockey
teams. A history and biology
major, she was active in the Af-
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can American Society, and the
Theta Delta Chi fraternity. She
also gave back to the communi-
Meiklejohn characterized
each of them as passionate
about the College, possessing
“generous enthusiasm” and
regularly sharing their time
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and resources with fellow Po-
lar Bears. LIFE REMEMBERED: Jim MacAllen ’66 passed away in August.
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6 Friday, September 7, 2018

‘Call Me by
Your Name:’
deconstructing the
universal utopia
by Sabrina Lin
Orient Staff
Fruit always ripe, gentle
chords on the guitar, dancing to
The Psychedelic Furs and teen-
age bodies glistening under the
Mediterranean sun—vivid col-
ors and ’80s music set the scene
for the sensual gay romance
of “Call Me by Your Name.”
However, in his Monday night
lecture, Associate Professor of
Italian and Cinema Studies at
University of Oregon Sergio
Rigoletto unearthed the hidden
symbolism beneath the film’s
beautiful imagery, haunting the
picture-perfect love story.
Titled “The Universal Tale
and the Haunting Specters of
Call Me by Your Name,” Rigo-
letto’s lecture was hosted by
the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures in
conjunction with a class on
Italy’s cinema of social engage-
ment taught by Allison Cooper,
assistant professor of romance
languages and literatures and
cinema studies.
“It’s really a pleasure to ex-
pand out of the classroom and
into the community with some
of the films we’re watching in
this course, and especially [Call
Me by Your Name] which obvi-
ously is a great interest to stu-
dents at Bowdoin,” said Cooper,
addressing a room packed with
students, alums, professors and
community members in Hub-
bard Hall.
Since its premiere at the 2017
Sundance Film Festival, “Call
Me by Your Name” has received
critical acclaim, and has been
particularly praised for cap-
turing a sense of universal love
between the two characters, Elio
(Timothée Chalamet) and Oli-
ver (Armie Hammer). Rigolet-
to explained the film’s emotive
powers in telling a gay love story
not tinged by despair or tragedy.
“The film seems to transcend
a sense of historical particular-
ity,” said Rigoletto. “It depicts
a world of beauty—a timeless
Arcadia [where] Elio’s and Oli-
ver’s romance seems to blossom
freely.”
Yet despite the effortless
charm of such an idyllic, oth-
erworldly utopia, Rigoletto
challenged this language of
“universality,” noting especially
the term’s troubling singularity.
“Universal claims are, in a
sense, universalizing claims,”
he said. “Rather than purely
descriptive, they act on an un-
derlying desire to repress differ-
ence, particularity and plural-
ism, producing the conditions
that they claim to describe.”
“Nobody that I know has ever
felt the need to say that the film
‘Titanic’ is a universal love story,
and it’s universal despite being
about heterosexual romance,”
he added.
Instead, Rigoletto approached
the romance with a different set
of semiotics—focusing on the
dichotomy between the film’s
BRENNAN CLARK, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
idealized homosexuality and the
often neglected presence of its MYSTERY OF LOVE: Sergio Rigoletto, associate professor of Italian and cinema studies at the University of Oregon, takes apart the universal significance
implicit, underlying anxiety. and emotive powers behind “Call Me by Your Name,“ a film about coming of age, sexual awakening and homosexual identity.
“The claim I want to make is American graduate student. The film, spreading through its which this difference of sexual- For the audience, Rigoletto’s
‘Call Me by Your Name’ is indeed story ends with Oliver leaving fabric.” ity may be irrelevant,” said Rigo- poignant dissection provided a
a universal [story], not despite, and thus reverting back to the Analysis aside, Rigoletto letto. “The film breathes with new mode of interpretation, open-
but because of the function and norm of heterosexuality which, does not negate his love for this desire, desire for this world ing up a sea of possibilities, one
significance of homosexuality in according to Rigoletto, is evi- “Call Me by Your Name” with to exist.” shared by all great works of art.
the film,” said Rigoletto. “[It] is dence of the unspoken, internal the realization of its insidious “The film stages for us a “The film, in general, res-
a universal story because of the fear that quietly looms over the apprehension. In fact, the film fantasy, a world of supporting, onated with so many people,”
central, somewhat inescapable romance. lends itself to hopeful aspira- gay-friendly parents, a world said Cecilia de Havenon ’21.
relevance of homosexuality in “In the film, this crippling tions of constructing and pre- without homophobic bullies “I think it’s really important
the story.” sense of fear does not attach senting a world, although cur- [and] without gay teenagers that it’s not just a beautiful
Indeed, the film’s storyline itself exclusively to Elio,” rently unattainable, that could killing themselves,” he adds. film. There are differences be-
centers around the sexual awak- said Rigoletto. “Rather, it is a sustain despite the fear and “But it also confronts us with tween universal gay films and
ening and coming-of-age of Elio, strange, dispersed effect that uncertainty. the impossibility for that fantasy universal straight films, but
a 17-year-old Italian boy upon seems to affect the whole film “I love this film, because it to become something else other this one kind of transposes all
the arrival of Oliver, a handsome like a cloud [that] haunts the carries a desire for a world in than fantasy.” of that and comes together.”

Callye Bolster ’19 writes subversive animations for the screen

by Elizabeth Fosler-Jones
Orient Staff
Callye Bolster ’19 spent her
summer following four young
recent college graduates as they
travel in a van across the coun-
try—from Maine to Los Ange-
les—through the vehicle of her
imagination. In her eight-episode
animated series, “Vanity,” Bolster
brings to life four protagonists
who are traveling to a Hollywood
audition, engaging with themes
of fame, politics and gender.
With the help of a Surdna
Foundation Research Fellowship,
Bolster wrote seven episodes,
each between 20 and 25 pages,
and is currently working on the
finale of the series. Throughout
the summer, she worked with
Sarah Bay-Cheng, chair and
professor of theater and dance,
who read her work and provided
feedback.
“It’s not about my tastes and
what I like and don’t like,” Bay-
Cheng said. “It’s about, ‘Is this
effective? Is Callye getting the
structure? How are these char-
acters developing?’ And then a
lot of it is, ‘This is what I see here;
this is what I see here. Is this what
you intended?’”
Although Bolster has always
loved animation, she had the
idea for “Vanity” last fall, when
she watched “BoJack Horseman”
and realized how much potential
there is for animation to advance
political causes and beliefs.
“It can be artistic, and you
can instill your values in it,” said
Bolster. “There’s a long tradi-
tion in animation, screenwrit-
ing rooms especially being all
males … and jokes that are all
[messed] up, and I didn’t want
to be a part of that.”
The title itself plays with both
a key theme of the series—the
obsession with fame—and refer-
ences the young adults traveling
in a van.
“Our generation has this fasci-
nation and obsession with fame,
I think. That’s not just like Holly-
wood fame in particular. We have
to have names that stick,” said
Bolster. “That’s a huge drive for
the main character.”
The show also touches on is-
sues surrounding liberal elitism
and how the well-to-do charac-
ters deflect blame off themselves
and onto the working class con-
cerning issues like racism and
homophobia.
“The show, as these very liber-
al kids are moving across Ameri-
ca, is about their absolute inability
to be a part of what’s there or to
see what’s there,” said Bolster.
“We are seeing America through
their eyes, but a lot of their humor
comes from their understanding
while also PC policing the whole
country.”
“Vanity” also delves into
the idea of gender, featuring a
non-binary character, a char-
acter who exhibits “gentle”
masculinity and another whose
femininity plays a key role in her
identity. With these characters,
Bolster wants to start a dialogue
surrounding gender.
“I’m hoping to expand the
gender conversation outside the
more binary conversation that’s
happening on television,” said
Bolster.
Following the tradition of road
trip movies rooted in the 1960s
and 1970s, each episode has a
psychedelic trip built into it.
“It’s an exaggerated trip. The
tension builds up beforehand,
and then [someone] is in a trip,
and it becomes like magical real-
ism and fantasy,” said Bolster.
While drawing on the com-
mon themes of youth, mobility
and the transition to adulthood,
Bolster nonetheless presents the
material in a new and unique way.
“What Callye does is take these
elements and put them in a form
that feels incredibly fresh and
updated for what I would call the
Instagram era or the social media
generation,” said Bay-Cheng.
As of right now, the series
does not have an animator,
and Bolster has no serious
expectations of finding one,
but she dreams of going on
the road trip portrayed in the
show herself after college and
hopefully finding work as a
screenwriter.
“I’m going to try to strip down
my bias more and go on this road
trip and hopefully make fun of
myself in the process through
the characters,” said Bolster. “It
would be amazing if someone
just picked up the pilot for it and
wanted me to keep writing, but
realistically, this show will be how
I learn to screen write.”
Friday, September 7, 2018
Preview: ‘Journey to the Center of the Stage’
by Devin McKinney
Orient Staff
At most shows, audiences see
what is on stage but not how it
gets there. In his latest work, Pro-
fessor of Theater Davis Robinson
inverts this model, showcasing
everything else that might hap-
pen just a bit offstage. “Journey
to the Center of the Stage,” which
opened in Boston Thursday, is an
immersive and dynamic viewing
experience in which spectators
move between 10 different scenes.
The audience is composed
of three groups of 15 people
who move within the comedic
performance, which attempts to
reveal in 10 short and varied vi-
gnettes the different perspectives
of those actually involved in the
production of a show.
“[It is] people gossiping and
dressing, audience members
complaining to each other in
the bathroom about what they
just saw, guys auditioning for
the same part, the heartbreak
after somebody’s been cut from
a show, pulling yourself back
together and getting ready to go,”
said Robinson.
The comedy itself was written
by Robinson’s close friend, Larry
Coen—a well-known Boston-ar-
SEE IT YOURSELF
“Journey to the Center of the Stage” will be showing at the
Charlestown Working Theater in Boston until September 16
on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and on Sunday,
September 16 at 3 p.m.
Mix up your day at the Grand Orange Arts Center
by Amanda Newman
Orient Staff
The Grand Orange Arts
Center might be just the place
for students looking for a way
to explore their artistic sides
off campus. Leslie Beattie
opened the new studio space
in the vacant apartment above
her art supply store, The Mix,
on Maine Street this summer.
“I consider myself a fun
artist, not a fine artist,” said
Beattie. “I teach things like
needle-felting, sewing, mixed
media painting, art journal-
ing; I teach knitting; I do just
about everything.”
In past years, she has taught
classes downstairs in The Mix,
but she felt there was a need
for more space. When the
apartment upstairs became
vacant, she jumped on the
opportunity to open the art
center.
“The community is so art-
sy, and there’s a lot of desire
in the community for a space,”
she said.
Classes offered this fall
include “Introduction to Oil
Painting,” “Keeping a Sketch-
book and Creative Journal-
ism,” “Drawing 101” and
“Portraiture for Beginnings,”
all of which meet once a week
for four weeks. It cost $125 to-
tal for all four sessions.
Beattie admits that some-
times people have difficulty
spending money on them-
selves, and that has posed a
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 7
ea performer and playwright who
passed away unexpectedly in late
January 2018. Coen’s death was
part of the motivation behind
Robinson’s choice to produce
“Journey to the Center of the
Stage.” Robinson highlights the
significance of the play’s content
in terms of how the production
embodies many aspects of his
late friend’s humor and beliefs.
“In a way, he kind of wrote
his own eulogy, because it talks
about why we love theater and
also about ghosts haunting the-
aters,” said Robinson. “It’s our
first time doing a show without
Larry, so it’s a way of keeping his
spirit alive, and at the same time,
say, ‘We are going to move on
now. We are going to move on
working without you, but you’ll
always be there.’”
The play is performed by
Robinson’s theater company, the
Beau Jest Moving Theatre, which
includes several Bowdoin alum-
ni, most of whom were Robin-
EVA GOMEZ, COURTESY OF DAVIS ROBINSON
son’s former students.
Nick Funnell ’17, the newest DRAMATIZING THE DRAMA: Professor of Theatre Davis Robinson puts on a rare immersive production, offering the audience a true glimpse into what
member of Beau Jest, is one of the goes on behind the scene in the form of a series of vignettes.
performers. Funnell first formed course taught by Robinson. will also be performing in the “My hope is that people will get the school, because I had such a
a connection with Robinson “I think it’s nice to see theater production. Smith was close with a sense of how great of a writer positive experience at Bowdoin.
during his senior year when he peeled back to an extent. A big Coen and had worked with him Larry was. He was known for be- It’s nice to meet newer alums and
auditioned for a student produc- emphasis of the play is being able in another theater group called ing extremely witty, and I think interact with them in a theatrical
tion and later took a directing to see what happens behind the the Gold Dust Orphans. people will be blown away by sense,” she said.
scenes, even if they are dramati- “[The play is] just such a how great he was and how pas- “Journey to the Center of the
zations ... It’s cool to get to explore non-traditional piece, and on top sionate he was about the theater.” Stage” will be showing at the
a space in that regard. You get to of that, you get a peek of the be- She added that her participation Charlestown Working Theater
see what goes into a production hind-the-scenes of the theater, so in the play helps her stay in touch in Boston until September 16 on
to an extent,” said Funnell. I think those who are involved in with her Bowdoin experience. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Robin Smith ’05 has been a the theater will particularly get a “For me personally, it’s a at 8 p.m. and on Sunday Septem-
part of Beau Jest for 12 years and kick out of this piece,” Smith said. great way to stay connected to ber 16 at 3 p.m.
AMANDA NEWMAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
CULTIVATING CREATIVITY: Owner of The Mix art supply store on Maine Street Leslie Beattie hopes to inspire
with a new creative outlet for the Brunswick community.
difficulty in getting sign-ups audiences. wants to do art has the money
and boosting participation. “In middle and high school, to do it, and I hate that that
“Just think about how and even into your twenties, keeps kids back from doing
much it costs to go out to there are not a lot of oppor- art; I hate that it keeps anyone
lunch, and people see that an tunities to explore and learn back,” she said.
art class costs $20, and they’re about art unless you’re in The Center is also available
like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t spend college. But even if you’re in for private rental for individu-
that,’” she said. college, [if ] you’re not an art als seeking a space to work on
Beattie plans to hire other major, it’s really hard to take their own art.
teachers to help with most of art classes,” said Beattie. “I While Beattie says she still
the classes. want to offer something to has more work to do in fixing
She hopes that community those students.” up the space and spreading
members of all ages, includ- Her next plan is to facilitate the word, she is hopeful for
ing Bowdoin students, feel business sponsorships to pro- the future of the Grand Or-
welcome to use the space. She vide financial aid to students ange Art Center.
also sent brochures to local with demonstrated need to “The excitement around
middle and high schools to take classes at the Center. the space has been really
spread the word to younger “Not every student that amazing,” she said.
8 Friday, September 7, 2018

Wind and rain wreak havoc

Storm knocks out campus power for the third time in the past year

JESSICA PIPER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

TREE FALLS IN FOREST, EVERYONE NOTICES: A fierce wind and rainstorm

moved across midcoast Maine yesterday afternoon, knocking down trees and power
lines. Two campus buildings, Dudley Coe and Pine Apartments A, were damaged,
as was a car on Sills Drive, but there were no injuries reported on campus. Several
streets were temporarily closed as emergency crews worked to remove debris. Some
professors canceled afternoon classes, while others persevered in the dark. Dining
hall schedules were altered for dinner, with Moulton open only for express. Power was
gradually restored over the course of the afternoon and was in all campus buildings by
approximately 8:30 p.m.
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Friday, September 7, 2018
After eight years at Bowdoin, Berliner ’13 leaves in a bus
by Lucia Ryan
Orient Staff
When he permanently leaves
Brunswick in a few months,
Adam Berliner ’13 will do so in a
small, yellow school bus. No lon-
ger used to transport students but
to support a life on the road, the
bus will be Berliner’s home for the
near future.
“I bought this bus in April,”
he said. “I’ve had this vision for
a long time that I’m gonna take
off from here and go do NOLS.
Last January I was like this is my
next step, I had this vision. It’s a
very nomadic lifestyle, you pretty
much have to go where the work
is, which is mostly in the western
United States.”
After a collective eight years as a
student, employee and mentor on
campus, Berliner will leave Bow-
doin and his current position as
assistant director of the Bowdoin
Outing Club (BOC) this Sunday.
With the exception of a nine-
month hiatus from campus in
between graduation and the start
of his employment at Bowdoin,
Berliner has spent the past eight
years as a steadfast presence in
the BOC. He participated in
leadership training (LT) during
the spring of his first year and
went on to lead the climbing and
winter mountaineering programs
as an employee. He accepted the
position of assistant director and
became one of only two people to
hold the position for four years.
These extra years afforded Ber-
liner the opportunity to see a class
move through all four years at
Bowdoin. “I got to see them all the
way through to graduation,” he
said of the class of 2018. “I got to
see how they grew up. It was cool
to see those transformations.”
A former philosophy major
Dog Bar Jim: more than just exceptional espresso
by Mitchel Jurasek
Orient Staff
Monday through Saturday, you
can usually find reruns of Seinfeld
playing at 90 Union Street, home
to Brunswick’s new (as of last
spring) cafe, Dog Bar Jim. That is,
when it’s not 85 degrees out and
you arrive to find a sticky note
that reads, “Too hot for Seinfeld,”
on the vintage TV that rests near
the cash register.
The brainchild of owner Ben
Gatchell, this cafe offers a fresh
setting for community in a town
already littered with espresso.
Gatchell’s establishment stands
out among the other coffee shops
in Brunswick with its unique
decor, perfect coffee and owner
invested in making personal con-
nections with his customers.
“I’m allowed to add my own
personality to it,” Gatchell said.
“There is also a nice challenge of
how to maintain it long term. It’s
a marathon, not a sprint.”
It’s unusual to find a college
town without a coffee shop in
close proximity to the campus.
To Gatchell, his Union Street
location offered the perfect spot
WEST BERLINER: Bowdoin alum and employee Adam Berliner ’13 gives a tour of his mid-renovation school bus he hopes to drive west in search of snowy peaks and adventure.
and education minor, Berliner
pursued his interest in non-tra-
ditional classroom teaching
through his role at the BOC,
learning from Outing Club Di-
rector Mike Woodruff ’87 how to
instruct outdoor activities such as
whitewater paddling and the tele-
mark ski class. After his third year,
he realized his growing pull to-
ward whitewater instruction and
decided to take on a fourth year
at the BOC in order to commit to
his development as a teacher and
to eventually apply to work as an
instructor at the National Out-
door Leadership School (NOLS).
“I’m definitely not leaving
because I don’t like this job any-
more,” he said. “This is the dream
job. Having a steady year-round
salaried position where you get to
work with college students who
BARISTA BEN HAS THE BEANS: When you look into the new cafe on Union Street you’ll be surprised at what you
can find. It seems community engagement is on the menu at this fun-filled and eclectic establishment.
to serve both those who fre-
quent the College and the quaint
surrounding neighborhood it’s
tucked away in.
“I found it to be a good op-
portunity not only to serve a
good product but also have it
be a little bit of a lower volume
community base,” Gatchell said.
It’s clear that Gatchell has al-
ready cultivated the community
he dreamt of. A friendly—not
aren’t forced to be here, who want
to be here? No one gets to have
all of those things together, so it
wasn’t an easy choice to walk away
from this. Especially because this
is my community, this is where
I’ve lived for forever.”
His role has required the bal-
ancing of field work, administra-
tive work, student interface and
instruction. Berliner has worn
“many hats.”
“I’m always learning, but
there’s a marginal return after
a certain point of what I’m still
learning versus what I’m giving,
and I feel like I have a lot more
to learn as an outdoor leader and
person. I want to see what I can
learn in other places,” he said.
While he finishes work Sun-
day, Berliner will stay in Bruns-
wick for a little over two months,
to mention talkative—guy, he
welcomes every customer into
his shop from behind a gleam-
ing (and often steaming) copper
espresso machine with a “Hey!
How ya doin’?”
While learning to make
espresso in my own home-
town, I remember being told
that a barista’s machine is their
baby and to always treat it that
way. Gatchell, well-versed in
working to complete his school
bus conversion project. The bus-
turned-tiny-house will provide
him a vehicle and home for the
next few years as he travels the
continent instructing in and ex-
periencing the outdoors.
Berliner hopes to begin travel-
ing and living in the bus after New
Year’s, leaving first for Revelstoke,
a ski town in British Columbia.
From there, he plans to follow the
storms and ski, or “chase powder”
around the Rocky Mountains.
With the intention to move
into the bus full-time, Berliner
has had to plan for all four seasons
in what is, in its essence, a small
steel box on wheels. It has re-
quired meticulous planning to fit
his entire life into the short school
bus with budgets of both money
and physical space.
EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
this art, lovingly calls his ma-
chine Tick-Tock.
“I work only on manual
machines. They are very well
engineered. All mechanical, no
digital elements. This is what you
will see if you walk into a cafe in
Italy,” Gatchell said. “It’s a beauti-
ful machine, and it makes my job
a hell of a lot easier.”
As you exit the shop, you
look back to see him peering
HAVANA CASO-DOSEMBET, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
So far, Berliner has completely
gutted the bus, rewired it to in-
clude a sound system, insulated
the steel interior and paneled it
with wood. Before hitting the
road, he will add in a full kitch-
en with running water, a cast
iron stove with an attachable
chimney and solar panels on the
roof—meaning the bus will be
off-the-grid capable. He also plans
to install a fridge and freezer sys-
tem, a metal roof rack and deck, a
storage unit underneath a full-size
bed and another collapsible bed
for guests and extra seating.
For guidance, Berliner has
looked to the wealth of material
from the “skoolie” communi-
ty on the internet—a world of
people who commit to low-cost,
low-carbon-footprint lifestyles in
converted school buses.
over Tick-Tock, ready to give his
cardinal wink and boyish hat tilt.
This, and his oh-so-casual “later,”
hints at Gatchell’s acute ability to
make anyone feel at home in his
presence. As expected, many of
the customers buzzing in and out
of his shop are loyal and on a first
name basis with the barista.
“I was just in Italy and tried
cappuccinos across the region.
Only one cafe had a cappuccino
that rivaled Ben’s,” said one cus-
tomer grabbing a drink.
The space, while not just for
the Bowdoin community, has
been discovered by a few from
the College that prize its com-
fort. Tucked in the back, in an
area Gatchell describes as “the
chill zone,” you can frequently
find students.
Gillian Raley ’21 likes the
separation the cafe gives her
from campus while still being
close to class.
“It’s a really cozy atmosphere,
and I feel like I really fit in here,
and anyone could fit in here. It’s
an eclectic vibe, and the coffee is
amazing,” she said.
The “eclectic” vibe comes
through with Gatchell’s scones,
9
“A lot that I’ve learned, espe-
cially in the demolition process:
YouTube. I’ve watched probably
hundreds of hours of conver-
sion videos. Everyone’s got
opinions and advice, literally
down to what kind of silicone I
should use to goop the outside
of the windows that’s going to
hold up the best in cold weath-
er,” said Berliner.
Beyond the interior work-
ings of the vehicle, Berliner
has put careful thought into
its exterior. Paying homage
to his home of the past nine
years, a homage to the Maine
pines painted by his father will
stretch around the bus.
“It’s going to be a wrap-
around mural driving piece of
art,” said Berliner. “It will defi-
nitely turn some heads.”
handed out in silver hamburger
bags, and other quirky artifacts
(such as a clay version of the
Mona Lisa). They could easily
be seen in an art deco gallery
in the West Village but are, in-
stead, staples that give Dog Bar
Jim a hidden charm in small-
town Brunswick.
To some, the hidden aspect
of the cafe is one of its best
qualities. Associate Professor
of English Hilary Thompson,
while giving the cafe an A rat-
ing for student study space,
enjoys the hyper-locality of
Gatchell’s establishment, and
wants to keep it that way.
“I would like it to not be
completely annexed by the Col-
lege but to be a space in its own
right for a kind of intellectual
conviviality,” Thompson said.
At a college that is known
for leaving its students in a
bubble, Dog Bar Jim may just
offer the ability for town res-
idents and students to have
meaningful conversations.
Something just as unique and
treasured as catching an epi-
sode of Seinfeld while waiting
for your next cappuccino.
10
Postcards: a bald eagle in France
by Sasa Jovanovic
Features Contributor
Breakfast at the Paramount in
Boston meant a 45-minute wait
in the standing line to order, a
subsequent fight for a table and
an inevitable shouting match be-
tween Conversation and Noise.
“Izvini sto kasnim!” I yelled, “I’m
sorry I’m late!”
She waved at the air to both
forgive and beckon me to her ta-
ble. Her other hand reached up to
brush a strand of curly hair out of
her face and secure it behind her
ear. However, upon realizing that
there was no strand there, more-
over remembering why there was
no strand there, she smiled to her-
self. Her hand instead continued to
reach above her forehead and rub
at her platinum blonde and newly
shaven scalp. This is Kaja.
As is supported by video ev-
idence, Kaja and I have known
each other since my third birthday.
An encounter the consequence of
a tight-knit immigrant commu-
nity, this was a mere five months
after my family and I had mi-
grated to the United States from
Serbia. From babbling toddlers
with enlarged heads to babbling
20-year-olds with enlarged heads,
we remained close friends to this
day, 17 years punctuated by the
laughs, tears and heartache that
mark time in between. Mirroring
Aesop’s fable “The City Mouse and
the Country Mouse,” we would
exchange tales of urban and sub-
urban life—my stories often re-
quiring substantial embellishment
to keep up with her cosmopolitan
charms. She was my friend with
whom I’d grown accustomed to
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dreaming, musing and debating.
This past summer was a reunion
for us.
“When was the last time I saw
you? This winter? For a day?”
“Well, YOU’RE the one leav-
ing now!”
Kaja had just finished the first
two years of the dual degree pro-
gram at Sciences Po in France,
returning to the United States to
complete her next two years of un-
dergraduate studies at Columbia
University. I was leaving for Stock-
holm, Sweden in two weeks for my
semester abroad at the Stockholm
School of Economics. We were
switching places.
I reached over the table to rub
at her head. “God, what did Danica
think of this?”
“She said I look like a bald ea-
gle.” A smirk. “I ordered us two
breakfast specials and a choco-
late chip pancake. Oh, and your
pot of coffee.”
My old friend and I just sat for
a moment looking at each other,
unsure of where to begin. What do
you say, after that much time? She
had changed.
It was expected. She moved to
France having never studied the
language in the United States. At
Sciences Po, she was expected to
take political science classes in the
French-style of lecture and, with
no cultural background, live in
a small French town. She spoke
of the first time she had gone to
the doctor and had burst out
crying when she realized that she
couldn’t explain what was wrong.
The next time, she brought a
friend with her.
While abroad, she came to the
realization that while she enjoys
critiquing political systems, she
didn’t want to be another Ivy-
League cog in the political ma-
chine. Instead, upon returning to
the United States, she switched
her major from political science
to film and media studies, poten-
tially adding another semester to
her undergraduate degree. In co-
operation with Parisian designers,
she spearheaded a fashion show
on the Sciences Po campus her
sophomore spring—the first of
its kind, drawing inspiration from
mythology. She keeps her Medu-
sa headdress, a trophy from the
show, in her room.
Kaja had visited the Nether-
lands, France, Serbia, Croatia, Italy,
Greece, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Swe-
den, Denmark, Belgium, England,
Slovenia, Spain, the United Arab
Emirates, Germany, Hungary and
Switzerland in those two years.
She noted her favorite memories.
A picnic under the Eiffel tower. A
concert in Berlin. A snowball fight
in the Alps.
“Did you ever feel at home?”
“I think, and I’m sure that
you’ve felt this too, that with being
an immigrant there’s a sense of
rootlessness. You sort of fall into
the crack between two cultures.
Neither really fits because you’re
too timid to embrace one fully,
trying to make it make sense.
Fact-checking. So, equating home
to a place, or a nation, wasn’t ever
a concept I embraced. I see home
in my friends and family—and
isn’t that more fun? I have bits
of home that walk and talk and
breathe, writing their own story in
the times we’re apart! Walls can’t
tell stories.”
I understood.
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“Just travel. Comparing two
cultures is like seeing the world in
black and white. You need a third,
fourth, fifth, to realize that there’s
grey. Be curious. You have to look
for it. Use the little moments—
conversations with taxi drivers,
subway passengers, waitresses,
bartenders—to start.”
Kaja waved her arm at the
waiter with our food going to the
wrong table. Peeking out from
underneath her shirt, I saw the
Serbian word “opusteno” tattooed
in cursive writing. Directly trans-
lated, “opusteno” means relaxed,
but more than that, it implies a
Bohemian way of living.
“Wow, I missed this.” She said
looking down at her plate of bacon,
eggs and home fries. “How about
you? You’re going to get a taste of
all this too, soon.”
“Jos uvek nisam bas razmisljal-
ja o sebe.” I haven’t really thought
about myself yet. “Videcemo.”
We’ll see.
This column is called Postcards.
Kaja has served as my living post-
card, first from the city and then
from her time abroad. From her
stories and our conversations, I’ve
been forced to question the ori-
gins of my own perspective and
evolve my worldview to consider
my place in both an American
and international context. Post-
cards—symbols of place, for the
photographs emblazoned on their
faces and symbols of stories, for
the accounts scribbled on their
backs—are my inspiration for this
column. Postcards are also incred-
ibly portable! So bring the postcard
to the dining tables in Moulton or
Thorne, to the classroom or to the
quad. Look for the grey.
PHOEBE ZIPPER
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Talk of the Quad

PASSING ON THE SECRET OF
SIMPSON’S POINT
My toes balance on the
slotted, concrete boat launch,
and the water around my an-
kles is cold. I walk forward,
and the water makes itself
known higher and higher on
my body. Goosebumps coat
my skin: I know I must dive
in and that it will be warmer
once I’m submerged. There’s
a pit in my stomach—stress.
Then, I launch my body into
the glittering water.
I pop my head out, a deli-
cious chill dripping onto the
back of my neck. Head bob-
bing, I take in the ocean and
islands around me. I can’t help
but smile wide, and as I do, I
make direct eye contact with a
middle-aged woman preparing
for a swim. She shoots back a
knowing grin. She dives, and
we stumble through our words
to each other, incapable of com-
municating a shared breathless-
ness of spirit. Simpson’s Point
shocks us with its beauty, its
water and its relentless tides.
Swimming in September
waters, I can’t help but re-
member my first dip in June
and how my memory flashed
to climbing the see-saw-like
ice floats of late winter. On
January days, the place is de-
serted, looking and feeling
like the surface of the moon.
Today, I sit on the Point’s
tiny, pebble beach, watching
the many people who live
their lives according to this
place. Old regulars arrive in
swim caps and goggles, ready
to burst into the water with
hungry strokes. A gray-haired
woman tells her friend this is
her fifth swim of the day. “It’s
a baptism of sorts,” chimes a
grey-haired man as he treads
through shallow water.
When I drove here, I cried. I
wasn’t sad: the first week of my
junior year was good. But how
can I live this close to a place
so stunning, so generous in its
beauty, and only have visited
once since I have been back?
Each time I visit Simpson’s
Point, I’m skeptical that the
water will have its usual ef-
fect. I think that the novelty
will have worn off. But, as al-
ways, looking out at this place,
I feel my burdens wash away
with an unperturbed serenity.
The feeling of holding some-
thing precious, so utterly not
mine, settles into my belly and
grounds me to the spot.
I reflect on all the people
who have passed down this
place to me. I reminisce on
how I ran into a friend at the
end of a solo bike trip last
spring and how she showed
me her favorite rock—one
that was flat and smooth and
fit the two of our lengthy bod-
ies perfectly. I think of one of
the first spring days when I
joined two Bowdoin women
I barely knew in a full-expo-
sure polar plunge. I think of
all the hours and nights my
best friend and I spent here,
screaming Carole King into
the twilight. Being here now,
I try to etch one thought into
my mind: run to the water—
you must remember how gen-
erous and wide the coast and
its islands are.
At the end of the summer, I
took a taxi ride to the Portland
Jetport to catch a flight home.
I rode with a driver named
Jack. I learned that he was a
lobsterman and had visited all
but six of the 300 islands in
Casco Bay. In the dark, 3:30
a.m. light of the highway, he
stretched out his weathered
and veiny hands as proof. He
told me that we Mainers (yes,
we Mainers) are an island peo-
ple. That much like the Greeks
and their beloved Aegean, we
take pride in our islands and
in our coast. There are days
when the squawking of morn-
ing gulls is a reminder that the
coast is only four miles away.
Sometimes, I can even taste
the ocean salt in the night air.
Bridget Hoke is a member of
the Class of 2020. SARA CAPLAN

BRAVE CHOICES ON
ANXIETY’S FRONT
Growing up, my anxiety
was like a cloud. Always there,
mostly invisible to others,
making everything a little bit
more grey. For many years,
I thought that everyone had
one. I had always been taught
that my brain was my most
valuable possession. My brain
was what made me good at
solving puzzles at school and
math problems in the car. I
also assumed that it was what
made me good at imagining
an intricate plan by which a
kidnapper could break into my
room and being hyper aware
of my surroundings to make
PHOEBE ZIPPER
sure I was fitting in. It never
occurred to me that the good
and bad could be disentangled
from one another. I also could
not imagine living without
what I viewed as mechanisms
to protect myself—mecha-
nisms that I had meticulously
curated over years of observing
the world and its dangers. I ex-
perienced a great deal of pain
because of these mechanisms,
but I figured that happier peo-
ple simply had better ones than
I did. I carried great envy for
those people. At the same time,
I felt like I didn’t have time to
question whether or not my
experience was “normal.” I was
conscious of a hollow place in-
side me, but instead of explor-
ing it, I turned to other people
in a frantic attempt to have
them fill it for me.
When I got my acceptance
letter to Bowdoin, I felt numb.
I did not cry happy or sad
tears. When the time came for
my parents to leave on move-
in day, I sobbed my eyes out in
the Farley Field House bath-
room between icebreakers.
For me, moving to college and
leaving behind the relation-
ships and the safe place that
I had constructed for myself
seemed like the most terrify-
ing thing that could possibly
happen. I was incredibly naïve
and blind to my privilege. I
was also clinically depressed
and anxious—facts that were
not at all surprising to me or
my loved ones, but which I
had never acknowledged un-
til a moment of desperation
led me to visit a school coun-
selor. I resisted therapy with
my whole being. After all,
there was a reason that I had
refused formal help against
my parents’ wishes for most
of my adolescent life. When,
after just a few conversations
with a counselor, I received a
diagnosis (generalized anxiety
disorder) and a prescription
(Zoloft), I remember feeling
like I was giving up on myself
and my struggle.
The space that self-care
currently occupies at the
forefront of pop culture has
undoubtedly changed the
discourse surrounding men-
tal health in a positive way.
Encouraging people—partic-
ularly young women—to love
themselves and to carve out
time to do so is an invaluable
step toward eradicating the
stigma surrounding mental
illness.
Still, I’d argue that there is
something restrictive about
the premise that if you are
struggling mentally, you
merely need to slow down
and spend more time with
yourself. I wholehearted-
ly believe in the restorative
power of that. But I have also
experienced the biting feeling
of failure when that form of
self-care is simply not enough.
Paradoxically, the trendiness
of taking care of oneself em-
phasizes the importance of
maintaining mental health
while simultaneously repro-
ducing specific boundaries
within which it is acceptable
to do so. Pills generally fall
outside of those boundaries.
And so it was with great hes-
itation and a twinge of guilt
that I began to take one tiny
pill each night before I slept.
Nearly two years later, I can
sincerely say that beginning to
treat my anxiety with medica-
tion is one of the best decisions
I have ever made. It is hard to
put into words the joy that I
feel from having discovered
this tool that makes me feel
so purely myself. People who
have known me since my first
year at Bowdoin have observed
my transformation in real
time—whether they know the
reason for that change or not.
A trend that I have noticed
in the conversations about
mental illness that I have had
both on and off of campus is
the implication that people
resort to medication as either
a last resort or a copout. I have
spoken with many people who
have expressed discomfort at
the belief that antidepressants
can fundamentally change
one’s personality. Needless to
say, these conversations gen-
erally take place without the
other people knowing that I
am someone who has taken
that option.
I am not a “different” per-
son since beginning to take
an antidepressant. I recog-
nize myself as the same little
girl who triple checked the
locks on her bedroom win-
dows every day. However, I
now also recognize myself
as the young woman who
is not afraid to stand up for
what she believes in. I am me,
minus the cloud, basking in
the sunshine in a way I didn’t
know I was capable of.
I do not write this article to
inspire pity. I recognize how
incredibly lucky I am to have
emerged from the dark tunnel
of anxiety and depression. I
write this with the hope of
ending the silence around
the use of medication to treat
mental illness—on college
campuses, yes, but also even
before that stage in adoles-
cents’ lives. I strongly believe
that we (myself included) can-
not claim to advocate for self-
care until we recognize these
as respectable options in the
pursuit of mitigating psycho-
logical suffering. Medication
was and is a brave choice, and
the right choice, for me.
Meghan Parsons is a mem-
ber of the Class of 2019.
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HIGHLIGHT
REEL
NEED SOME ASSISTANCE?
In a landslide victory,
the men’s soccer team
(1-0-0) defeated the
University of New
England (1-1-0) 4-0
on Tuesday in its first
game of the season.
Matty McColl ’19 set a
new program record for
assists in a single game,
aiding all four Polar
Bear goals. Bowdoin
held a 36-2 shot advan-
tage and a 14-1 corner
kick edge.
THREE SETS, YOU’RE OUT:
On Wednesday night,
Bowdoin’s volleyball
team (1-0) defeated the
University of Southern
Maine (2-2) in three
sets: 25-8, 25-13 and
25-22. In its first game
of the season, the team
had a 12-0 run in the
second set. Ashley Wil-
liams ’21 had nine kills,
and Kate Kiser ’21 also
performed well, contrib-
uting 17 assists.
WORKIN’ OVERTIME:
The women’s field
hockey team (1-0)
notched a 2-1 victory
over the University of
New England (0-2) in
their first game of the
season, securing the win
with three minutes left
in overtime. Bowdoin
led 20-12 in shots taken
with Maddie Ferrucci
’21 stopping seven of
Women’s XC strives to build off track’s success
by Kathryn McGinnis
Orient Staff
Nearly six months ago, four
Bowdoin women stood on the
national championship podi-
um after winning the indoor
track distance medley relay,
capping off an exceptional
season for the Polar Bears.
Many of the runners on the
women’s indoor track and
field team will also run cross
country this fall, carrying last
spring’s momentum onto the
courses later this month.
But as similar as they may
seem, track and cross country
differ in a few key ways, and
last year’s strong performance
does not guarantee success
this fall.
For one, rather than run-
ning on a relatively flat track,
meets are held in heavily
wooded and hilly areas. It is
not unusual for spectators to
lose sight of the racers as they
weave between trees on nar-
row paths. Another difference
lies in the style of running.
Cross country runners are
encouraged to run in groups
of three. GWEN DAVIDSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Julia O’Rourke ’19, captain
READY, SET, GO: (left to right) Claire Traum ’21, Erin Hollenbaugh ’20, Sadie Saxton ’20 and Abby Osmanski ’21 practicing pack running before an upcoming
of the women’s cross country
state meet.
team, remarked that running
alongside her teammates, also miles, each meet—much lon- and by the time you get to your belt so you feel prepared have lot of depth and a lot of
known as “pack running,” is ger than the 400 meters, 800 6,000 meters, that can start to do more distance, base en- candidates to fill the scoring
an advantage. meters, 1200 meters and one- to be a race distance that isn’t durance workouts and eventu- positions. The strength in our
“In races we always try to mile components that make quite the best for some of the ally speed workouts.” team will be from the number
use each other to lead differ- up the track medley relay race. runners that excelled at the Cross country teams rely on three, five, six, seven or eight
ent miles, to always be that Because of these differ- distance medley relay. [Some depth, a measure of how close positions. We have eight or
pinpoint ahead of you. It’s ences, Peter Slovenski, head are] really fast at both dis- the top runners are to each oth- 10 really good candidates for
so much easier to stay with a coach of both the women’s tances. Those are rare runners er’s scoring position. It is im- those five positions.”
wave of people,” said O’Ro- and men’s cross country teams [but] we have some of those.” perative that each runner can The first meet for men and
urke. “[Pack running] makes and track and field teams, is The first cross country meet remain healthy during work- women will be held on Bow-
me feel a lot more power- hesitant to say that last year’s is not until September 29, giv- out variations and throughout doin’s home course. A flat and
ful when I run, and it’s a lot indoor track achievements ing the women’s team an extra the race season. Two strong wide trail, the course will also
less work. It’s easier to move will predict this year’s cross few weeks to ease the transi- runners are abroad, including host regionals on November
through a race with team- country season. tion between summer work- Caroline Shipley ’20, a lead 10. The Polar Bears’ home
mates. Both because it’s en- “Different runners will outs and in-season training. scorer last year. The team’s course experience is sure to
couraging, but also [because] shine and excel at different “Typically in the summer current depth won’t be clear be useful as the women battle
it’s helpful in mile splits and race distances. Six thousand we have a goal of weekly mile- until the first meet. for a place in the top ten in the
pacing.” meters [is] a long race [with] age,” said O’Rourke. “We’ll in- “It’s kind of exciting and nearly 60-team region. This
Pacing is integral to the a lot of hills,” said Slovenski. crease our mileage about two fun when you get a lineup season, they hope their talent
success of a cross country “Somebody’s talent might be miles a week; that’s the safest that’s a little more unknown,” will shine through once again
runner. Women race six kilo- best at 800 meters, 1,000 me- way to do it. It’s supposed to said Slovenski. “We have 35 and lead to a cross country
meters, over three and a half ters, 1,200 meters or a mile, get a lot of distance under women on the team, so we championship.

Men’s tennis begins optimistic rebuild

UNE’s attempts to
score.

DOUBLE OR NOTHING:
The women’s soccer
team (0-0-1) finished in
a scoreless tie against
Babson College (2-0-1)
on Wednesday, starting
their season off 0-0-1.
The Polar Bears played
an aggressive game,
leading 8-6 on corner
kicks, but could not
break through Babson’s
defense. Goalie Sa-
brina Albanese ’20 led
Bowdoin’s defense with
two saves.
COMPILED BY KATHRYN MCGINNIS
by Conrad Li
Orient Staff
In the 2017-18 season, the
men’s tennis team ranked
third in the nation and placed
second at the NCAA champi-
onship. This year, the team’s
roster gained two first years
but graduated three standout
players. Nonetheless, captains
Jerry Jiang ’19 and Grant
Urken ’19 are enthusiastic
about their prospects for the
upcoming year.
“Tennis is different because
we have two seasons, so [the
first years] have a lot of time
to adjust in the fall, but there
is also time to prove them-
selves early on,” Jiang said.
“They’ve done a good job so
far. We’re happy for their ad-
dition [and] we’re looking for-
ward to seeing what more they
can bring to the table.”
This year, there are more
matches scheduled for the
fall season, which offers more
chances for the new and re-
turning players to gain match
experience. Bowdoin will par-
ticipate in four tournaments
against New England colleges
before NESCAC season offi-
cially begins in the spring.
“There are more opportu-
nities for the younger guys to
practice and experience other
schools’ levels as well as [get]
good preparation,” said Jiang.
“Also, I think to have a lot of
matches under their belts is
important. When the spring
starts—when the dual match
situation starts—it’ll be good
preparation for them as well.”
While the tennis team is
small in comparison to other
teams at Bowdoin, it prides
itself tremendously on its cul-
ture of dedication, hard work
and diligence.
“One of the things we look
for is, especially in bringing in
guys, is how well we think they
will integrate into the culture,”
said Urken. “It’s kind of hard
to verbalize but I think some-
thing we pride ourselves [on]
is our dedication to the sport
and the hard work we each put
in. I think we each try to do
our jobs and do it well. I think
that means coming to practice
on time—not only showing
up, but also pushing each oth-
er to get to a better level.”
During the fall, the team fo-
cuses heavily on conditioning
and strengthening team dy-
namics in preparation for the
spring season. As runner-ups
in the 2018 NCAA Division
III Championship, the men
are now building upon the les-
sons that almost made them
national champions.
“We know what it takes to
get there. The season is [a]
very long period of time and it
expands from the fall,” Urken
said. “From an endurance
standpoint and a mentality
standpoint, we have a sense of
what we need to put in.”
Three important players—
Kyle Wolfe ’18, Luke Tercek
’18 and Gil Roddy ’18—gradu-
ated last year, and their depar-
ture poses a new challenge for
the team to overcome. On the
court, all three hold Bowdoin
records for most doubles wins
in a single season, and Roddy
and Wolfe are on the leader-
board for most career singles
wins, coming in No. 3 and No.
9, respectively. Off the court,
the three laid the foundation
for the team culture.
“We lost three key guys
that have been super, super
important to building that
culture we have been talking
about from a playing level
and an energy level, so I think
that’s a huge hit to our team,”
said Urken.
Overall, both captains are
very excited not only to play,
but also to enjoy their final
year. It is easy to get caught
up on the winning aspect and
forget to enjoy the experience
of the game.
“I think it’s really important
to pass [our culture] onto the
younger guys and keep it go-
ing in the future as well,” Jiang
said. “But at the same time,
trying to have fun because
we are seniors and we really
enjoy being on this team. We
couldn’t ask for a better team.”
Friday, September 7, 2018 SPORTS 13

Women’s rugby creates an inclusive varsity experience

by Kathryn McGinnis
Orient Staff
Pinned to every wall and
corkboard around cam-
pus is a recruitment poster
for women’s rugby, seeking
members of all body types
and every athletic ability. In
recent years, Bowdoin’s rug-
by program has expanded,
welcoming first years to the
team even before they step on
campus. The team’s inclusion
of players from all skill levels
and identities is a major as-
pect of the team’s personality,
but in comparison to other
varsity sports on campus, it
seems to be an unusual way to
recruit talent.
Captain Liz D’Angelo ’19
was originally skeptical of the
team’s seriousness as a varsity
sport.
“Because we recruit from
the entire college we don’t
seem like a very competitive
team,” D’Angelo said. “Com-
ing from an athletic back-
ground, [that] was a big con-
cern of mine.”
Although women’s rugby
may not seem as competitive
as other varsity teams because
of its welcome posters, the
regularity and intensity of its
training schedule is compara-
ble to any other sport.
“We practice four days a
week,” said D’Angelo. “Games
are on Saturdays and we lift
two days a week.”
Rugby players do not con-
sider themselves only “stu-
dent-athletes.” Team members
are encouraged to participate
in activities such as the or-
chestra, student government
and Bowdoin Climate Action
in addition to the team.
“We are very flexible with
first years who want to try
other things,” said captain
Dana Peirce ’19. “A varsity
sport is a commitment, and
we want to be respectful of
everyone’s interests.”
While many first years join
the women’s rugby team to try
something new, the sport also
attracts college students look-
ing to relive their high school
days on an athletic team. Ex-
ercise is a great way to coun-
teract classroom stress, and
current team members are
committed to recruiting from
all corners of campus.
“We strike up conver-
sations in everyday spots
like the classroom or the
gym,” said D’Angelo. “If we
see someone who mentions
they played [a sport] in high
school but doesn’t anymore
we say try [rugby] out.”
Just a week away from their
first match, the team is looking
to wrap up their recruitment
MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
process and focus on work-
outs. The team is young, and
FIELD AWARENESS: Satya Kent ’19 looking back to pass during a practice. Fifteen players have returned to the team in addition to approximately twenty
new recruits for the season. Captain Dana Peirce ’19 describes the team as welcoming to students of all backgrounds.
while it has at least 15 strong
returning players to rely on, into the season knowing that hands. In addition to a large season. Away games are also cioeconomic, sexuality, gen-
this season is expected to be this competition is going to rookie class, the team just a great way for the team to der identity and body type.
the most challenging yet. be a little harder than it has hired James Read—a former strengthen their bond, the It creates an environment
“We have a tougher sched- in the past will be one of the semi-professional rugby play- foundation of their inclusive [to] meet people who come
ule this year than we have had bigger challenges for us this er in the United Kingdom—as community. from different backgrounds
in the past,” D’Angelo said. season.” an assistant coach. This new “We have a really open at- than you and really enrich the
“Being able to balance getting Even in the face of tough- group has already traveled mosphere,” Pierce said. “We Bowdoin experience.”
everybody ready to compete er competition, the future to scrimmage at Brown Uni- welcome people from all sorts Ella Chafin contributed to
with difficult teams and going of women’s rugby is in good versity in preparation for the of different backgrounds: so- this report.

Football team counting on hope and new QB for wins

by Ian Ward
Sports Contributor
August, says Head Football
Coach J.B. Wells, is a great time
to be a football coach—any-
where. “Has any team in Amer-
ica had a bad offseason? No. At
this point in the season, every
team in America is undefeated,”
said Wells. “This is where hope
springs eternal for everyone.”
Yet hope is a double-edged
sword, the nasty edge of
which members of the Bow-
doin football team are all too
acquainted with. Emerging
from a second consecutive
winless season, the Bears, on
paper, are struggling. Over
its last three campaigns, the
team has a record of 2-23,
during which period it has
been outscored by a cumula-
tive score of 341-776.
Faced with these stats,
it’s tempting to exaggerate
the direness of the problems
facing Bowdoin football. Al-
though there is some cause for
alarm—2016 and 2017 were
the first back-to-back winless
seasons in school history and
twelve years separate the team
from a winning season—Bow-
doin’s most recent gridiron
struggle, for better or for worse,
is not all that anomalous. Since
football returned to the Col-
lege in 1946 after a brief hiatus
during the Second World War,
the Polar Bears have accrued
only 15 winning seasons and
have failed to string together
more than two in a row. (The
last time they had two consecu-
tive winning seasons was 1979
and 1980). In that period, the
team has had an overall win-
ning percentage of .339. Gulp.
And Wells knows his his-
tory. “Short-term fixes equal
short-term success,” he said.
“We’re trying to build for when
we get the cruise ship turned
around, which is sort of what it
feels like sometimes.”
Wells harbors no illusions
about the state of the ship
that he and his staff took the
helm of three years ago. He
knew all was not shipshape.
“We needed to overhaul the
culture of the program.” He
describes inheriting a team
whose attitude toward the
sport was more appropriate
of a club or intramural team
than a flagship varsity pro-
gram. “It didn’t seem like it
was a very demanding cul-
ture. Football seemed to be
something that the guys did
as an extracurricular activity
in a lot of ways. To be com-
petitive in the NESCAC, to be
competitive in college foot-
ball, it takes more than that.”
Now beginning his fourth
season as the Polar Bears’ head
coach, Wells thinks the ship is
beginning to turn. It started, he
said, in the weight room.
“The number one thing
we’ve been able to change is
how we train the team,” said
Wells. Working with seven as-
sistant coaches, two of whom
are members of the College’s
strength and conditioning
staff, Wells doubled down on
the team’s workouts, especial-
ly during the lengthy offsea-
son. In that period, players
lifted four days a week, ran
three and attended unofficial
captains’ practices on Sat-
urdays. These practices, per
NCAA rules, were optional,
but the choice was in name
only. Everybody shows up.
That’s just the Wells way.
On the field, Wells believes
the team is beginning to reap
the benefits of his staff ’s re-
cruitment efforts. “As we look
at the growth over the last few
years, there will be three fully
recruited classes by this staff,
combined with a senior class
that wasn’t recruited by us but
has only been coached by us.
[It] will bring a solidity to the
program we haven’t had yet.”
Wells acknowledged that his
previous teams had suffered
from divided loyalties fol-
lowing the departure of Head
Coach David Caputi in 2014.
“Loyalty is a big thing. I think
that all coaches are looking for
that. There were a lot of guys
who were still loyal to the pre-
vious coaching staff, and that’s
not a bad thing, but it’s tough
when you have split loyalties.”
But most important to the
season, in Wells’ eyes, have
been his efforts to remold the
whole ethos of the team, be-
ginning with his players’ con-
ceptualization of their status
as student-athletes.
“The way that we’ve ex-
plained it to our guys is that
whenever you say the word
student-athlete, the word is
hyphenated, but you always
say it as one word—‘stu-
dent-athlete.’ We want our
guys to approach it that way,
that they’re students first, and
they’re here because of the
education, but football isn’t
second, it’s 1A,” he said. “I
think that was really kind of
a key element of the cultural
changes, not to use the high
academic [standards] as an
excuse, but to realize that
you’re at Bowdoin, and our
efforts should be excellent at
everything we do here.”
When I asked Wells if his
players have been receptive to
the more demanding routine
despite seeing no immediate
payoff on the scoreboard, he
minced no words. “The guys
that weren’t aren’t with us
anymore.” And that, Wells
gives the impression, is that.
There are more concrete
reasons, however, to hope for
a turnaround in 2018, and one
of them is six foot, four inch,
225 pound quarterback Austin
McCrum ’21. It’s not everyday
that a former Division I pros-
pect finds his way onto Whitti-
er Field, and McCrum’s path to
Bowdoin is hardly typical. After
being named the 2015 USA To-
day Player of the Year for Maine,
McCrum received a number of
offers from competitive Division
I programs, ultimately landing
at Lafayette College. When the
Leopards cleaned house follow-
ing a losing 2016 season, the new
staff brought along four newly
recruited quarterbacks, and Mc-
Crum, formerly a star recruit,
found himself faced with the
likelihood of three more seasons
on the bench.
But why choose to migrate
to the last-place Polar Bears?
For one, Maine is home for Mc-
Crum, who grew up less than
an hour south of Brunswick in
Saco and attended high school
at Thornton Academy. Yet
more importantly, the strug-
gling program is an opportuni-
ty for McCrum to shine.
“I think it’s exciting to
come in here at this time
when they’ve been pretty
unsuccessful for the past two
years. I think that it would
be really special to be a part
of Bowdoin history and try to
get back on the right track,”
said McCrum. “I think every-
one’s heads are in the right
spot, it’s just putting all the
pieces together. I’m just really
excited to be a part of that.”
McCrum represents the
Polar Bears’ best hope for fill-
ing a quarterback slot that has
been occupied by a constantly
rotating cast of players over
the past two seasons. “He’s got
great ability, there’s no doubt
about it,” said Wells. Yet for
all his promise, McCrum re-
mains largely untested, and
Wells has made clear that the
starting quarterback position
is very much up for grabs.
Also competing for the
starting spot will be senior
and four-year veteran Noah
Nelson, who, despite suffering
an injury in the Polar Bears’
2017 opener, recovered for the
end of the season, finishing
the year with a 57.9 percent
completion percentage while
averaging 135 passing yards
per game. Sophomore Griff
Stalcup will also be in the mix
after taking snaps for the Po-
lar Bears in Nelson’s absence,
during which time he posted
a 52 percent passing average
and threw for an average of
118 years per game in seven
appearances. For an offense
that has struggled to find its
center of gravity in the past
few seasons, being in the midst
of a quarterback competition
is hardly a bad spot to be in.
Whether this collection of
factors will be enough to lift
the Polar Bears to their first
win in two years is still any-
body’s guess. For now, behind
a feistier attitude, a promising
new quarterback and a shiny
new field, the Polar Bears
have the ever so valuable
athletic commodity of hope.
What will come of it? Stay
tuned.
 O OPINION
14 Friday, September 7, 2018

Let’s get political

If you’ve attended a campus event recently—anything from first-year move in to a
senior networking and interviewing workshop—you’ve likely seen the new Bowdoin
Votes tables, staffed by students eager to help their peers register to vote. We applaud
these efforts, and believe that other Bowdoin students should follow suit—find some-
thing you care about and get involved.
In 2017, the New York Times published the Equality of Opportunity Project’s re-
port that stated that the median family income of a Bowdoin student is $195,900,
while the median family income in America hovers around $59,000. In part due to
this discrepancy, the experiences of the average Bowdoin student are not in line with
the average American’s, and their level of political engagement is largely reflective of
that privilege.
Political engagement is something that many Bowdoin students keep at a com-
fortable arm’s length. The government and legal studies department is the biggest on
campus, full of ostensible future politicians, but serious, detailed conversations about
current politics rarely happen. We are passingly aware of what’s going on, and many
of us are frustrated by what we read in the news, but that is as far as it goes.
We also lead busy lives. It’s easy to turn our backs on the political realities of the
wider world as we commit to our campus obligations. In order to be a successful
Bowdoin student, there’s a pressure to turn inward, use Bowdoin’s resources and im-
merse yourself in campus activities.
And why put in the effort to raise arms when it seems like everyone around us is
already on the same political page? If our largely liberal campus has learned nothing DY
NE
else from the night of the 2016 election, it is that the beliefs of our community do KE
N
LY
not reflect the wider nation or even the state of Maine. Trump won 47 percent of the M OL
popular vote in Maine, while one Orient article found that he won a mere six percent
of the Bowdoin student body’s vote. Just because a political outcome feels certain
from our perspective does not mean it will come to pass. We must act if we want to
make our values into political reality.
Bowdoin students manage to juggle our chaotic workloads by actively budgeting

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our time for the things that we care about. If we care about the state of our politics,
local and national, we have to make time to affect them. Set aside a chunk of time
every week to take some kind of political action, the same way you set aside time for

and Maine’s little-known history

intramural sports, French homework or your shift at the Café.
So—how to take action? Choose what works and is meaningful to you. Make sure
you’re registered to vote and have requested an absentee ballot if you won’t be able to
vote in person. Call your representatives and share your views and priorities. Reach
out to the Bowdoin Republicans or Democrats who will be organizing campaign
efforts at the Student Activities fair. While you’re there, talk to other campus political New England. In the minds of many Latin—is a fitting motto for Maine,
groups advocating for more specific causes you’re interested in, such as Bowdoin Cli- by Lowell Ruck Americans, this Vacationland that a state which has often played a key
mate Action or the Bowdoin Labor Alliance. Donate to campaigns you believe in and Op-ed contributor we call home seems to have, at some role in national politics, from the
causes that matter to you. Go online and find a phonebanking initiative, either for a In April of 2016, in my junior point, simply appeared out of the Temperance Movement of the nine-
Maine candidate or one running in your home district. Bowdoin students genuinely year of high school, I came to Bow- North Woods, complete with ski re- teenth century, to environmentalism
care about improving our communities. It’s time we acted like it. doin on the first stop of a series of sorts, quaint fishing villages, a racist in the twentieth, to the landmark
college tours that took me across governor, a horror writer and that statewide adoption of ranked choice
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, New England. I don’t remember one Republican senator who occa- voting in 2016.
which is comprised of Nell Fitzgerald, Dakota Griffin, Calder McHugh, Devin much from that inaugural visit, but sionally votes with the Democrats. These are just some examples
McKinney, Surya Milner and Jessica Piper. I do remember one particular land- Of course, this could not be fur- from Maine’s storied past, and I’ve
mark: a small, red brick building on ther from the truth. Maine has a rich deliberately only scratched the sur-
the north end of the quad. My tour history spanning thousands of years, face—even writing this much has
guide enthusiastically explained to from its early habitation by the Wa- seemed like repeating fourth grade,
the parents and prospective students banaki to the present day. Once, the when Maine kids learn all about
surrounding me that this was Mas- state we know and love was home these sorts of things. With this in
sachusetts Hall, the oldest building to some of the earliest European mind, I implore those of you here
ESTABLISHED 1871 on campus, and that its name re- settlements in North America—the from away to fill in the gaps your-
flected the fact that Maine was once English Popham Colony (1607) and selves. Maine is much more complex
bowdoinorient.com orient@bowdoin.edu 6200 College Station Brunswick, ME 04011
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The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information This was old news to me. I was Island (1604)—and in the years that clichés that we often project to the
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators, born in Maine and have lived here followed, it became a key border- outside world, and an acquaintance
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in my entire life, and I am well aware land between territories claimed by with our history is a window into
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse of Maine’s historical ties with the the British and the French and later our way of life that episodes of
discussion and debate on issues of interest to the College community. Bay State. But to the other college between the British and the Amer- “North Woods Law” and even lob-
hopefuls, I realized, it was probably icans. Valued for its lumber, the ster rolls—no matter how good—
Calder McHugh Jessica Piper just an insignificant bit of trivia. early province of Maine furnished just can’t provide.
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief Maybe some of them recognized pine masts for British and Ameri- With a little research, even a
the connection between Maine’s can ships. As a part of post-revolu- seemingly insignificant fact about
current independence and the Mis- tionary Massachusetts, it became a the oldest building on Bowdoin’s
Digital Director Managing Editor News Editor souri Compromise of 1820, the only center of textile manufacturing—an campus becomes part of a broad-
James Little Anjulee Bhalla Nina McKay time that our state really shows up industry whose vestiges are still er story, and most importantly, of
Nell Fitzgerald in high school history textbooks. visible in Brunswick. Later, as a a more profound understanding
Photo Editor Dakota Griffin Features Editor But that was a long shot at best. The state, it produced ice for America’s of a place that is too often mis-
Ezra Sunshine Alyce McFadden Mitchel Jurasek Pine Tree State is largely invisible iceboxes and granite for the Wash- understood. Polar Bears, let this
Brennan Clark (asst.) in American history, to the point ington Monument, not to mention little tour guide anecdote be your
Mindy Leder (asst.) Associate Editor Sports Editor that it is sometimes excluded from countless hauls of codfish, lobster starting point to dive into Maine’s
Maia Coleman Kathryn McGinnis maps of the 13 colonies despite its and other seafood for the nation’s history—I promise you won’t be
Layout Editor Amanda Newman early ties to Boston and the rest of dinner plates. Dirigo—“I lead” in disappointed.
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Friday, September 7, 2018
‘The Darkness’ confronts
the light: alternate realities
and American religiosity
by Emma Newbery
Op-ed contributor
I often struggle to follow—
and rarely attempt to contrib-
ute to—conversations that
veer into the nebulous realm
of “gaming culture.” From my
clumsy “Mario Kart” skills that
cost me a middle school friend-
ship to the non-committal nods
I give in response to “Fortnite”
references, it is safe to say that
video games exist firmly out-
side of my comfort zone. Two
months ago, my limited experi-
ence with video games height-
ened my surprise when I stum-
bled upon an interview in Paste
Magazine while doing research
for my independent study on
New Religious Movements in
America. The subject of the
interview was Richard Rouse
III, known for his book “Game
Design: Theory and Practice”
and for the game The Suffering.
The article, entitled “Building
A Believable Cult,” delves into
Rouse’s upcoming project, a
game called “The Church in the
Darkness.”
The basic premise of the
game replicates what the article
calls “the cults of the 1970s.”
Groups that spring to mind
include The Peoples Temple
Small wage change doesn’t address larger problem
by the Bowdoin Labor Alliance
Op-ed contributor
This fall, President Rose wel-
comed us back to campus with
an email which included a sec-
tion entitled “Our Commitment
to Our Hourly Employees” in
which he presented the College
as an institution committed
to its employees—a deceptive
attempt to suggest serious in-
trospection on the part of the
College these past few months.
We chose to investigate his
claims and sit down with work-
ers to discuss the changes in the
College’s compensation pro-
gram, none of which were out-
lined in detail by President Rose.
Our conversations confirmed
that these “changes” are inade-
quate. Instead, President Rose
and the administration have re-
framed a yearly review of Bow-
doin’s compensation program
and omitted key details.
Here are the key details that
President Rose failed to provide
the campus community:
Last week, Matthew Orlan-
do, senior vice president for
finance and administration &
treasurer, announced to house-
keepers the details of President
Rose’s “[increases] in mini-
mum starting wage rate(s) and
supplemental pay:”
Second-shift employees (those
who work an extra, late shift),
who usually receive a seven
percent wage increase over the
standard hourly rate, will now
receive a 10 percent increase, a
mere three percent increase for
in Jonestown, Guyana and the
Branch Davidians in Waco,
Texas, whose violent demises
made major headlines in 1978
and 1993 respectively. These
groups have also become nearly
synonymous with their leaders.
Jim Jones’ extreme paranoia
and self-proclaimed messian-
ic status and David Koresh’s
“New Light” revelation, which
raised concerns of sexual abuse
within his community, haunt
the American psyche long af-
ter these communities came to
their tragic ends. “The Church
in the Darkness” replicates the
specific framework and imagery
of The Peoples Temple. In doing
so, Rouse’s game approaches
this dark underbelly of Ameri-
can religion with a confounding
duality—it is a seemingly rever-
ent homage that cannot help but
also become an utterly irrever-
ent exploitation.
With the recent emergence
of series such as “Wild, Wild
Country” on Netflix and the
demand for games like “The
Church in the Darkness,”
Americans seem to be return-
ing to the cult experiences of
the 1970s and 1990s with a
kind of morbid fascination.
That is to say, Rouse’s game
mines a pre-existing vein. Yet
working extra hours in addition
to their regular shift. Third-shift
employees will now receive 15
percent more than standard-shift,
only a five percent increase from
last year’s 10 percent.
According to the workers we
interviewed, most rarely work
extra shifts, because they are
simply too tired.
“Yeah, we’re wiped out. Ab-
solutely dead tired. Give every-
thing we’ve got.”
Weekend wages are being
increased by 20 cents per hour.
Even so, the College only em-
ploys two full-time weekend
housekeepers.
Additionally, many house-
keepers work the majority of
their hours during first shift, so
the change barely affects them.
Although the College has
raised its minimum wage, these
minimal changes are insuffi-
cient. They are, frankly, a slap
to the face.
“Everybody got about 40
cents … I can tell ya ... even
with ranks and seniority ... pay
doesn’t go up at all.”
After the new “changes,”
workers also lament the fact
that new employees can still
make more than those who
have been at the College for
years. Workers are not sure
why some receive raises and
others don’t.
“They just had an opening
for a senior housekeeper posi-
tion and only one person ap-
plied … She’s only been here for
a year … She went from house-
keeper 1 to senior. Supposedly,
OPINION
placing the quasi-folkloric
story of Jonestown with-
in the virtual realm of
the video game elevates
the current curiosity.
The increased agency
of characters and com-
plexity of narratives in
games speak to a shift in
the larger virtual market.
Not only does there seem to
be a desire for more realism in
escapes from reality, but this
escape is made within the dark
crevices of the American past
itself, and players are allowed
to try out these alternate reali-
ties, and even to replicate their
devastating consequences.
Rouse designed the game
to be “full of randomization,”
with many potential charac-
ters and perspectives from
which to choose. Within this
myriad of simulations is one in
which, as the Paste interview-
er rather bluntly puts it: “you
[the player] are going to be the
asshole.” Beyond challenging
the often narrow assessments
of the aftermath of Jonestown
and Waco, Rouse’s game ques-
tions the fundamental policy
of interfering with alterna-
tive, isolated communities,
questioning the nature of the
threat they pose to society. His
she got a good raise … I didn’t
see a dime. I’m sure she’s mak-
ing more than me, and I’ve been
here for eleven years.”
The administration’s sinis-
ter tactic of arbitrary promo-
tions serves to create division
amongst workers which, in
turn, prevents worker solidarity.
“The new ones are starting
out with as much as somebody
who’s been here for years …
They hired a guy this summer,
and while he was training, we
were getting the same amount
of money, and then he was
quickly making more than ev-
erybody else.”
Additionally, the procedure
to apply for the position of se-
nior housekeeper is unjustifi-
ably complicated, presenting a
barrier to possible applicants:
“I’ve been working here for
years, but you have to fill out an
application with a cover letter, a
resumé and do four interviews!
This was too much. Then, my
supervisor told me the position
was gone... then it was given to
someone else!”
Regardless, workers in senior
housekeeper positions (and
other long-time employees
without this title) are still not
making a living wage.
One non-senior worker we
spoke to has been working here
for five years and currently
makes $12.60, just cents more
than a new-hire today (at the
new starting wage of $12.35).
Another, who has been here
close to four years, is making a
little under the same amount.
game makes the
player question,
as the interviewer
observed after playing
a demo, whether “every-
thing would have gone just
fine if it wasn’t for your stupid
meddling.” To this, Rouse re-
sponds eagerly: “I think most
groups we would call cults are
providing something positive
to people at least at some point
in their life,” referencing yet
another cult of the late 20th
century, Heaven’s Gate, many
of whose members performed
an act of mass suicide in 1997.
“These people,” says Rouse,
“would have found some other
way to connect with people to-
day. You can hear it in their voic-
es: some of them would have just
been very into fandom.”
Rouse’s interest in these
groups, and the creation of
the game “The Church in the
Darkness” itself, precludes the
relegation of these cults to the
past, giving them an almost
atemporal quality, an eternal
appeal. These groups offered
Any increases in wages are
neutralized by rising inflation.
On the federal level, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics’ Inflation
Tool shows us that the recent
“changes” in the College’s com-
pensation program almost pre-
cisely account for inflation and
do not in fact increase the wage
in pure buying power. At the
same time, the cost of living in
coastal Maine is rising.
“Especially here in coastal
Maine, everything’s going up:
gas, groceries, bills—and wages
aren’t,” one worker responded.
“My light bill went up from
$150 to $175 this year, and
my paycheck isn’t keeping up
with that.”
“Whenever we buy groceries,
we always get to the nitty gritty.
Yesterday, we went to buy grocer-
ies, and I wanted to buy grapes—I
love grapes!—and after weighing
them, they came out to three
dollars. I told my husband to put
them back. It’s healthy, but we
can’t justify doing it.”
President Rose conve-
niently left these details out
of his email, demonstrating
the College’s willingness to
deceive its workers and the
campus community.
Workers themselves artic-
ulated the contradiction that
mistreatment, low wages and
blatant dishonesty from the
administration presents. “We’re
at Bowdoin. I mean, this is sup-
posed to be a prestigious col-
lege, but we don’t feel it.”
One worker, for example,
after working at Bowdoin for a
idyllic escapes from the pres-
sures of reality, “before,” as
Rouse acknowledges “anything
catastrophic happens that ne-
gates all of that.” Today, the na-
ture of video games is to offer a
similar kind of escape. Rouse’s
latest project seems to be an
iteration of this format that is
not only more interactive, but
more interrogative of its own
premise and significance in to-
day’s society. Players can enter
into an alternate universe that
not only allows them to escape
the reality of the present, but
deeply question the reality of
the American past.
Rouse concludes his inter-
view with a curious assertion, es-
pecially considering the nuance
he brings to the rest of the in-
terview: “we’re [...] less religious
than we’ve ever been.” When I
chanced upon this Paste article,
it struck me as evidence of con-
tinued religiosity in our society,
a reverence for the past and a
creation of a safe haven—in this
case, a virtual one—in which to
entertain alternate ways of con-
year, hesitated before taking a
full-time position as a house-
keeper.
“I didn’t know if I wanted to
stay here,” she said.
“You don’t know how we’re
being treated. You really don’t.
We’re treated like dirt, all be-
cause it says ‘housekeeping’ on
our shirt.”
Most workers expressed dis-
may at “not having any commu-
nication with the administra-
tion” and “not being informed”
of changes except until after
decisions were made.
“Behind Gibson, they just put
in all that greenery. That’s a sala-
ry! They’re making all these de-
cisions behind the scenes … Are
these things are really a priority?’”
Near the end of one inter-
view, we asked workers if Presi-
dent Rose had ever spoken with
them personally about any of
these issues.
“We had a meeting last year...
and the housekeepers just
snooped down and looked at
their chairs.”
Referring to President Rose’s
recent email, one worker re-
sponded.
“It was kind of degrading...
like they can find housekeepers
anywhere. It felt like, ‘you don’t
like it? Leave. Find someplace
else.’”
In our petition last Spring,
which gathered nearly 900 sig-
natures, we asked the College
to form a working group in
order to initiate real dialogue
around this issue, with those
affected by the changes as part
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ALIE
RUD
IN
templating
the world.
As such, I was left with sev-
eral questions, many of which
are guiding my own research.
How do we define religion?
How do we situate it within
larger social structures while
contending with it as a social
structure in itself? What is
it about alternative religious
movements or ways of life that
continues their relevance and
appeal with the “specter[s]” of
those failed attempts looming
so large in American history?
Rouse’s game, which comes out
this year under the company ti-
tle “Paranoid Productions” will
no doubt cause further ques-
tions and hopefully prompt
conversation about this seem-
ingly taboo topic. I am fasci-
nated to see the developments
of the game and how it fits into
the larger context of religion in
the supposedly secular realm of
modern America.
of the decision-making pro-
cess. These demands have yet
to be recognized.
Workers will not stand for
this. Neither will our commu-
nity. Letting this issue go means
turning our backs on those who
make Bowdoin the place we
know and love. If we want to
pursue the “Common Good,”
we must align our values with
action—first, within our own
institution.
If steps are not taken in the
right direction, workers, with
the support of our community,
will only increase pressure on
the administration to act with
openness and integrity instead
of the deceit and dishonesty
they have shown thus far. Al-
ready, workers are fed up.
“I was talking to a professor
the other day about what the ad-
ministration would do if, right
before overtime, we all decided
to protest. They would have no
one to fill in, especially during
graduation. It’s sad sometimes,
to have to think that way.”
Still, the College may contin-
ue to silence workers and main-
tain its unlivable wage policy.
Workers are not numb to this
apathy. Already, they feel pres-
sured to look elsewhere:
“I saw a job for $16 in Lewis-
ton … $16 in Freeport … There
were openings, and we put in
applications … Given a chance,
that’s where I’m going.”
Written by student members
of Bowdoin Labor Alliance: Di-
ego Grossmann ’20, Sarisha Ku-
rup ’21 and Benjamin Ray ’20.
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SEPTEMBER
Friday, September 7, 2018

FRIDAY 7
EVENT
Walk with Harriet
Cathi Belcher, a Harriet Beecher Stowe house educator,
will lead a guided walking tour around several historical
Brunswick spots, including Stowe’s family home and church.
63 Federal Street. 10 a.m.

EVENT
Funny Line or Over the Line? A
Community Conversation on Humor,
Respect and Taste
Henry Laurence, associate professor of government and
asian studies, will utilize various comedic examples to hold a
conversation on the boundaries of humor.
Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall. 3 p.m.

EVENT LOUIS MENDEZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

KICKSTARTING THE SEASON: No. 7 Matty McColl ’19 dodges a Wesleyan player in the team’s win last season. This week McColl set a program record
Student Night at the Museum with four assists in the team’s season opener. The Polar Bears did not let up a goal against the University of New England (1-1-0) and cruised to a 4-0 win.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open its doors to
students for a night of art, a capella, hors d’oeuvres and two
free drinks for those 21+.

MONDAY 10 WEDNESDAY 12
Museum of Art. 7 p.m.

EVENT
“A Quiet Place” EXHIBIT
Bowdoin Film Society will show John Krasinski’s summer FILM
blockbuster, “A Quiet Place.” Points of View Artists Exhibit: Nature of Historic Film Event with Alfred Otto
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7:30 p.m. the Universe Gross
Fourteen Maine artists will display pieces of art on a variety The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, the Arctic Studies
of themes to conclude of the 2018 gallery season. Center and the Bowdoin College Library’s George J. Mitchell
18 Pleasant Street. 5 p.m. Department of Special Collections and Archives will host the
first public screening in 90 years of the last-known footage
of a now extinct Heath Hen, as well as rare scenes of North

SATURDAY 8
EVENT
Pool Tournament Atlantic bird colonies.
An evening pool tournament will take place at Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
O’Donoghue’s. Register between 5:30 and 6:00 for a night
EVENT of pool; those 21+ can enjoy cold drinks as well. PERFORMANCE
SWAG Open House O’Donoghue’s. 5:30 p.m. Live in the Lounge with the Richard
The Center for Sexuality Women and Gender (SWAG) and Nelson Imaginary Ensemble
the Office of Gender Violence Prevention will be available for A group of Maine musicians and vocalists will perform free of
students to explore the space and meet the leaders. charge music from a fusion of genres including jazz, rock and
blues, as well as improvisational pieces.

TUESDAY 11
24 College. 7p.m.
Frontier Lounge. 7:30 p.m.

EVENT
Fall Student Activities Fair
SUNDAY 9 Over 100 student groups will be represented at the annual
Student Activities Fair.
David Saul Smith Union. 7 p.m. THURSDAY 13
FILM
“Dark Money” EVENT EVENT
Frontier Cafe and Cinema will show “Dark Money,” a Authors: Kate Flora and Bruce Coffin Gratitude Thursdays
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captivating political documentary that comments on the Organizations Sisters in Crime and Maine Crime Writers will The Office of the Dean of Students will have supplies for
power of money in American politics, particularly in regard to co-sponsor a joint presentation by two local mystery authors. letter writing, giving students the chance to express gratitude
the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Novels will be available for signing and sale. in a group setting.
Frontier. 3 p.m. Curtis Memorial Library. 7 p.m. Lamarche Gallery, David Saul Smith Union. 4 p.m.

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