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Liquor law violations dropped in 2017, report finds

by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
Liquor law violations were
down in 2017, according to
the Annual Security Report on
Campus Crime, Fire, Alcohol
and Illegal Drugs, but Director of
Safety and Security Randy Nichols
doesn’t expect the numbers to
stay low again this year.
Seventy-five students
received judicial referrals
for these violations last year,
compared to 154 in 2016 and
164 in 2015. Nichols attributed
the drop in part to a “safe year,”
noting that only 12 students
were transported due to alcohol
use—fewer than in past years
and fewer than at many peer
schools.
The 75 violations were
classified as judicial referrals,
not arrests. In Maine,
possession of alcohol by a
minor is not an arrestable
offense. Distribution of alcohol
to a minor is an arrestable
offense, but according to the
report, there have not been any
students charged with that in
the last three years.
Low-risk drinking, Nichols
said, often results in fewer
citations.
“If the situation is a generally
safe one, officers are inclined to
use more discretion for minor
infractions,” he said.
He did note, however,
that the drop in violations
described in the Clery report
probably was in part related
to the counting system. The
federally mandated report
only includes violations that
occur on or directly adjacent
to campus or on other college-
owned property—in Bowdoin’s
case, places such as the Schiller
Coastal Studies Center or the
Bowdoin Scientific Station on
Kent Island.
Notably, it does not count
citations that occur at off-
campus residences, and
Nichols noted that—with more
students living off campus last
year—there were a number of
incidents that didn’t meet the
criteria for inclusion in the
Clery report.
“The geography is very
precise,” he said. “That accounts
for probably some of it.”
He added that, based on
numbers during the first nine
months of 2018, there has been
a resurgence in alcohol citations.
Please see CLERY, page 4

Cynthia Lee
Fontaine’s advice:
‘be friendly’
by Esther Wang
Staff Writer
Cynthia Lee Fontaine, a
Puerto Rican drag queen best
known for her performance
on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,”
joined the Bowdoin com-
munity in Morrell Lounge
on Wednesday night for an
interview and a musical per-
formance. Student organizers
hoped the event would bring
greater intersectionality to
Latinx Month programming,
which runs from September
15 to October 15.
Her visit touched on themes
of family, health and getting
out of one’s comfort zone.
Fontaine’s visit was orga-
nized by the Latin Ameri-
can Student Organization
(LASO) President Louis
Mendez ’19. Mendez was
excited about the potential
of this event to open up dis-
cussions around queerness in
Latino communities.
“I focus on popular topics
[for Latinx Month events],
but also on topics that are
important to speak about.
Bringing in a drag queen is
our first step to try and make
things better. A lot of people
see the Latino community
and don’t often think that
we intersect with other iden-
tities. The biggest part that I
want to have people get out of
this is the idea that the Latino
community is growing,” says
Mendez.
Bowdoin has only hosted
two drag queen events in the
past: one in 2012 and one in
2015. Student organizers see
drag as a topic that will open
up discussions about complex
issues involving identity and
self-acceptance.
“In a lot of ways, drag is
misunderstood. Drag is gen-
der-bending. It’s a queer art-
form. Beyond that it’s a lot of
things—it’s entertainment, it’s
playing a character. It’s just
having fun with gender,” said
Archer Thomas ’21.
In a question and answer
session, Fontaine acknowl-
COURTESY OF STEVEN PAUL WHITSITT
edged the effect of the pres- PHOTOGRAPHY
sure of masculinity in the
Latino community on her role SITTING IN
as an entertainer.
“It’s quite a challenge. In
SOLIDARITY:
my case, what I do is I get to Nine Bowdoin students,
know people. Instead of being
self-defensive, I try to create a including seven first
bridge of communication be- years, traveled to
tween me and people who are
part of the Hispanic commu- Washington, D.C. to
nity, the Latino community,”
said Fontaine. “Be friendly.
protest the confirmation
That’s the best way that we can of U.S. Supreme
show the others what we have.”
Her challenges most nota-
Court nominee Brett
bly included her relationship Kavanaugh. Eight of
with her family. When her
mom accidentally discov- them were arrested.
ered her involvement in the SEE PAGE 5.
Please see FONTAINE, page 4

J-Board reports incidents ‘unbecoming of a Bowdoin student’

by James Callahan
Orient Staff
According to their annually
released report, the Judicial Board
(J-Board) heard six cases alleging
academic honor code violations
and three cases involving alleged
social code violations during the
2017-2018 academic year. The
academic violations all involved
some form of plagiarism or cheat-
ing. The social violations involved
either physical altercations or
uncooperative belligerence with
Brunswick Police and Bowdoin
Security.
The report also details three
cases of student sexual miscon-
duct. This number does not rep-
resent the total number of cases
of sexual misconduct on campus;
rather, it represents the number
of cases where the complainant
decided to pursue either an in-
vestigation or an alternative res-
olution. This number is estimated
to be significantly lower than the
actual number of instances of sex-
ual misconduct.
Finally, the report lists three
other cases which were not han-
dled by the J-Board and that re-
sulted in students spending time
away from campus. Instead, due
to “special and unusual circum-
stances,” these cases were handled
administratively by the Dean of
Students Office. These cases in-
volve driving while intoxicated,
significant property damage and
unauthorized use of stolen One-
Cards respectively.
According to the report, “cas-
es involving Academic Honor
Code violations are heard by a
Judicial Board panel comprising
three students and two faculty
members; suspected Social Code
violations are heard by a panel of
five students.”
Student sexual misconduct
cases are handled by a separate
Student Sexual Misconduct
Board, which determines the ap-
propriate sanction following an
investigation by Bowdoin’s inde-
pendent investigator.
When assessing violations of
the Academic and Social Code,
the Board uses a preponderance of
the evidence standard. This stan-
dard is satisfied if there is a chance
greater than 50 percent that the
violation occurred. In criminal
proceedings in the United States
and the United Kingdom, a be-
yond a reasonable doubt standard
is employed. In contrast to Bow-
doin’s proceedings, this standard
is satisfied only when there can be
no plausible reason to believe that
someone did not commit a crime.
Among the violations that a
student can be held responsible
for is “conduct unbecoming of a
Please see J-BOARD, page 3

N HERE FOR YOUR HEALTH F FRESH FROM THE FARM A MARK OF A WOMAN S HOMECOMING HONOREES O PSYCHED FOR PSYCHEDELICS
Peer Health mentors conduct Peer 2 Peer Brunswick Farmers’ Market plants deep Camille Farradas ’19 redefines art’s Six former Bowdoin athletes will be Drew Humphreys ’21 explores the science
conversations with first years. Page 4. roots in Bowdoin’s culture. Page 6. historical canons. Page 9. inducted into the Hall of Honor. Page 11. and effects of psychedelics. Page 15.
2 Friday, September 28, 2018

2 PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT
9/20 to 9/26 STUDENT SPEAK:
What are you most proud of right now?

Jacob Rose ’21

APER
EY RE
SYDN
Thursday, September 20
• A student reported Nintendo Switch video game
components missing or stolen from the common
room at Howell House.
Friday, September 21
• An intoxicated minor student was transported from
Brunswick Apartments to Mid Coast Hospital.
• A student was warned for public urination near
South Campus Drive.
• A Yellow Bike Club bicycle was stolen from outside
of Smith House at 1:45 a.m.
Saturday, September 22
• A two-hour power outage at Brunswick Apartments
was caused by a blown transformer.
• A student’s stolen scooter was recovered and re-
turned.
• A fire alarm was activated during a registered
event at Russwurm House. The cause of the alarm
was undetermined.
Sunday, September 23
• Officers provided aid to a despondent student.
• An intoxicated and unresponsive minor student was
I named my pet fish Gorgeous
and he’s killing it!
Caitlin Loi ’20
Just finishing this nasty ass
paper on microfinance.
transported from Moore Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.
• A student driving in the Stowe Inn upper parking
lot accidentally collided with another student’s parked
vehicle.
Will Bucci ’19
Tuesday, September 25
• The odor of marijuana smoke was reported on the
first floor of Chamberlain Hall. Making people smile. Is that OK?
• A fire alarm was caused by excessive shower steam
at Pickard Field House.
• Excessive noise from someone speaking loudly
through a megaphone was reported at MacMillan
House.
• A student reported the odor of marijuana on the
first floor of Chamberlain Hall.
Jae Min Yoo ’19
Wednesday, September 26
• Members of a local church were warned for solicit-
ing on campus.
These pants. They’re from 7th
• Athletes taking steaming hot showers again activat-
ed a fire alarm at Pickard Field House.
grade and the 7th hole opened
up today.
• Use of a hair straightener caused a smoke detector
to activate at Chamberlain Hall.
• A fire alarm at Brunswick Apartment I was caused
by shower steam.
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Across 67. Opposite of “No way, Jose!”

69. Seaport in Japan
1. Waterside tree 70. Miracle drug, say
7. Southern veggie 71. Hurricanes always have them
10. Common Easter meal 72. Rest stop offering
12. Earhart’s art
14. Disney’s middle name
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Down
17. Coming to an end 1. Steam engine inventor James
20. Cardinal’s perch 2. Ebony’s counterpart
21. An amoeba has just one 3. Approval on social media
22. “Expensive,” in Shanghai 4. Stratum
24. Latvian capital 5. Ear-relevant prefix
*26. 2022 6. Swing state that turned red last
31. In one dimension presidential election (Abbr.)
33. Makes a pawn of 7. What “Labrador” has in its spelling
34. Paper unit (2 words)
37. Little-known BBC competitor 8. First Nation’s territory, slangily
38. How a US coin appears on the 9. Suspect-clearing story
Periodic Table 10. Scottish delicacy
*40. What each of the starred clues 11. Word in many similes
will become in their respective years 13. Popular studies subject at Bowdoin
45. Naval hero honored with a column 15. Not out
in Trafalgar Square in London 18. Wrestling star Lou
46. Main idea 19. A sloppy place
47. “Deal or __ Deal” 21. Pixar effects
48. Possible Christmas ornament 23. Still on the table, say
shape 25. Lincoln’s state (Abbr.)
50. Land beside a river 27. Area of the hospital (Abbr.)
52. Pieces 28. Elementary school lunch essentials
54. A few (Abbr.) 29. Golf club
55. Meditator’s mantra 30. 12th US President, Zachary 41. Self-composure 51. Toto’s home 61. Prefix meaning ten
56. Beanie hat brand 32. Science of morals 42. “Monsters ___” (2001 Pixar 52. New moon, for one 63. A thousand thousand for short
59. Boomer’s successors 35. “The Vampire Diaries” main movie) 53. Pointing finger 64. “It ___” (formal “Who’s there?”
61. Jane’s Addiction guitarist’s initials character 43. Spielberg, director 57. Barcelona bloom reply)
62. In and amongst 36. ____ & ____ (candy) 44. A leader of prayer in a Mosque 58. Up ___ grabs 66. Fall behind
*65. 2024 38. Final, in a math series 49. Gift by will 60. Private non-profits (Abbr.) 68. “You,” in Beijing
Friday, September 28, 2018 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF BSG prepares for a productive

COMPILED BY ALYCE MCFADDEN

MEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLACED

ON ONGOING PROBATION year under new constitution
The men’s Ultimate Frisbee team has been placed on proba- said that the changes were im- primary focus within each com- portions of the funds to request-
tion in response to an email accidentally sent to first-year mem- by Lucie Nolden portant for the modernization mittee, ranging from Academic ing student clubs based on their
Staff Writer
bers. The email contained language that was hostile towards of the BSG. Affairs to Facilities and Sus- discretion.
new members. Working under a newly “Bowdoin in 2007 was a com- tainability. Chair of the Student Sherman said that he wanted
On Tuesday, September 4, the first-year Frisbee members updated constitution that pri- pletely different school from Affairs Committee Ben Painter the process to be as democratic
received an email inviting them to attend a social gathering oritizes inclusivity, the general Bowdoin in 2017,” he said. ’19 emphasized the committee’s as possible.
the following Thursday evening. Shortly thereafter, a second assembly of Bowdoin Student New BSG members were devotion to student wellbeing “In the circumstance of a tie,
email—which included language derogatory toward underclass- Government (BSG)—which in- introduced to the committees and mental health through the I will always vote yes, because if
men and was intended to be seen by only the team’s upperclass cludes both first years and sea- with which they would be col- campus-wide introduction of three of the six voting members
members—was mistakenly sent to the same group of first-year soned veterans—kicked into full laborating for the rest of the the 10% Happier app. think [a club] is worth fund-
students. A third email was sent hours later to apologize and gear on Wednesday night. school year, including the Com- “Meditation has been scien- ing, then it’s most likely worth
clarify the team’s commitment to welcoming new members. BSG President Mohamed mittee for Diversity and Inclu- tifically proven to help anxiety,” funding,” he explained. “We re-
According to the website of the Dean of Students Office, Nur ’19 said that the constitu- sion, which was established by he said. “We want to make sure ally want to cater to interests on
“Bowdoin maintains a zero-tolerance policy regarding hazing, tional amendments, which were the new constitutional changes. people know it’s available.” campus and allow everyone to
which is strictly prohibited.” Director of Student Activities Nate passed with the support of 76 Chaired by Mamadou Diaw Ideas for the promotion of do what they want.”
Hintze emphasized that though the College is taking the inci- percent of student body voters ’20, the Committee for Diversity the app, large portions of which Scott, who is tasked with
dent seriously, the team will not face official sanctions. last March, put the BSG in a and Inclusion lists the enhance- have been made free to Bowdo- the chartering of campus clubs,
“It’s hard just to label it, [with] a blanket statement saying better position to execute the ment of diversity among college in students, included creating underscored her commitment
‘this is hazing,’” Hintze said. “With some of the instances it’s ideas of its student representa- programming as one of its long- a funny video asking students to the success of student club
much better to sit down with the team and say ‘where are we at tives. The changes altered the term goals. According to Diaw, about their opinions on medi- leaders. This year, she plans to
with some of the culture of bringing people in?’” constitution for the first time in the committee aims to foster tation. expand the training for club
Hintze has met with both captains and team members from 10 years. bonds among students in the One of BSG’s more difficult leaders by incorporating train-
all class years to discuss the Frisbee team’s social culture. Important components of the community and establish itself tasks is managing the Student ings designed for other student
The current probationary status is ongoing. Hintze intends new amendments include an al- as a support system for cultural Activity Fund’s $700,000 budget. leaders, including those in the
to continue conversations about inclusion in the team’s evolving tered structure for BSG and lan- and affinity groups on campus. The Student Activities Funding Office of Residential Life and
culture. guage changes designed to make “We’re here to figure out Committee—made up of the the Office of Gender Violence
“[Probation] was basically a way to make sure the team is the document gender-neutral. what’s best for the campus and class treasurers, two at-large Prevention.
clear that we want to have a dialogue and are clear about that is Several new student represen- what we can do best to change representatives, Chair of Stu- “We have all these resources
going to look like,” Hintze said. “It was a way to send a warning tative positions were created, it,” he said. dent Organizations Jenna Scott available to us,” she said. “Merg-
to make sure we open up better lines of dialogue between the while others were renamed to Ensuring support for Bow- ’19 and Chair of the Treasury ing those is going to be a lengthy
administration and the team.” better reflect their focus. Nur doin students prevailed as the Harry Sherman ’21—allocates process.”

J-BOARD “We would like to take this op-

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Bowdoin Student.” J-Board Ad-
visor Kate O’Grady explained the
meaning of the provision with ref-
erence to the Student Handbook.
“We don’t have a singular defi-
nition for conduct unbecoming,”
said O’Grady. “Its intended to be
very broad in scope, so it lists a
number of behaviors that might
rise to the level of conduct unbe-
coming.”
In one case, a student was
charged and found guilty of con-
duct unbecoming of a Bowdoin
student for involvement in a
physical altercation. However, the
Board could not determine the ex-
tent to which the student “actually
engaged in the altercation once it
began,” holding only that the
student’s actions precipitated the
fight. For this, the student received
a sanction of social probation “to
begin immediately and to contin-
ue for two additional semesters.”
Students on social probation are
prohibited from studying abroad,
among other restrictions.
In addition to the nine cases
heard by the J-Board, the three ad-
ministrative dispositions without a
hearing and the three sexual mis-
conduct cases, 173 students were
sanctioned administratively for
other disciplinary concerns that
included conduct such as under-
age drinking and marijuana use.
portunity to remind the commu- Students brought to J-Board for academic
nity that violence of any kind and
theft are not tolerated at Bowdoin,
nor are acts of personally-directed
code violations and social code violations
acts of bias or blatant disrespect 25
or the sale of drugs. These acts
undermine the safety and civility
of our campus community and
will be regarded with the utmost
seriousness in the disciplinary 20
process,” the report reads.
With respect to the three
administrative sanctions that
resulted in time away from the
college that were not heard by
the J-Board, when asked about 15
why these cases were handled
differently, Dean of Students Janet
Lohmann cited the language in
the report.
“What I would say about the 10
three [cases] is that there were
other factors that were related to
the students’ ability to participate
in a judicial board hearing,” she
said. “If there are unusual circum-
stances, we will have to basically
5
say, for any number of reasons,
‘we are not going to be able to do
that process.”’
Nonetheless, in accordance
with College policy, students 0
involved in administrative dis- ’09–’10 ’10–’11 ’11–’12 ’12–’13 ’13–’14 ’14–’15 ’15–’16 ’16–’17 ’17–’18
positions without a hearing were
still offered the choice not to ac- Academic code violations Academic Year
cept the sanctions decided by the
deans. In that case, they would Social code violations
have had their respective cases DREW MACDONALD, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
heard by the Board. VARIANCE IN VIOLATIONS: Academic honesty violations plunged last year, while social code violations rose slightly, according to the annual J-Board report.

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4 NEWS
Peer 2 Peer:
mentors meet
with first years
by Jaret Skonieczny
Orient Staff
From this week until
Thanksgiving break, Peer
Health will hold its annual Peer
2 Peer conversations with first
years. According to the website
of the Office of Residential Life
(ResLife), these conversations
aim to help first year students
navigate their transition to col-
lege by providing them with the
opportunity to discuss alcohol
and drug use with trained up-
perclassmen and to reflect on
different aspects of their Bow-
doin experience thus far.
Every member of the first-
year class will meet with the
Peer Health mentor assigned to
their floor.
“Students are starting to get
into the swing of things and
notice some parts of Bowdo-
in that are easy and some that
are difficult, both socially and
academically,” said Tim Coston
’17, interim assistant director of
residential education and res-
idential life. “The Peer Health
person is really there to listen
and to lend their ear. They are
not there to provide advice.
They are explicitly told not to
do that.”
This is Coston’s first year
overseeing the group following
the departure of Christian van
Loenen, whose two-year tenure
with the College as the assistant
director of health promotion
and education ended last spring.
During his time as a Bow-
doin student, Coston was a
The Peer Health person is really
there to listen and to lend their ear.
–Tim Coston, interim assistant director of residential
education and residential life
CLERY
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The 2017 drop is therefore
unlikely to represent a trend.
Every college and university in
the United States that participates
in federal student aid programs is
required to complete an annual
safety report in accordance with
the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of
Campus Security Policy and
Campus Crime Statistics Act of
1998. The report for the previous
year is required to be released by
October 1. Nichols announced
the report’s release in an email
to students, faculty and staff on
Tuesday. It is also available on
the Office of Safety and Security’s
website.
The report also stated that
there were 10 sex offenses
officially reported in 2017.
Nichols said this figure includes
incidents reported to the Office
of Gender Violence Prevention
and Education in addition to
any reported to Security.
“[Director of Gender
Violence Prevention and
Education] Benje [Douglas]
and I coordinate very, very
leader in Peer Health. His class
year was the first year the Peer
2 Peer conversations were fully
implemented, which puts him
in a unique position as he takes
on a role leading the adminis-
trative side of the program.
Student mentors were also
involved in College House ori-
entation events for first year
students. The group plans on
hosting more events for first
years throughout the rest of the
year.
“Peer health members are
still spending time on their
floors outside of the Peer 2 Peer
programs so that those relation-
ships will last,” said Coston. “So
if they do programming next
February, students are going to
want to go to those programs...
and trust that it will be worth
their time.”
Coston noted that Peer
Health used to create cam-
pus-wide programming that
focused on a different theme
each month. In recent years,
the group has been moving
away from that model in favor
of programming specifically
focused on first year students.
Coston stressed, however, that
Peer Health members can still
be a resource to upperclass-
men, even if a formal affiliation
between an upperclassmen res-
idency and a Peer Health mem-
ber does not exist.
“Peer health is always com-
ing from a health and well-
ness standpoint, never from a
disciplinary standpoint,” said
Coston.
Liquor and drug law violations reported in
the annual Clery report
200
150
152
100
50
55
0
2013
Liquor law violations
Drug law violations
NO CLARITY FROM CLERY: The federally mandated annual safety report found a significant decrease in liquor
law violations last year, attributed to be a “safe year” and measurement factors. Director of Safety and Security Randy
Nichols does not expect a similarly low total this year.
carefully,” he said.
He acknowledged that sex
crimes are underreported at
Bowdoin and across colleges
Friday, September 28, 2018
CAROLINE FLAHARTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PLATFORM FOR POSITIVITY:
During her visit to Bowdoin on
Wednesday night, Fontaine, a
performer and advocate for HIV
and AIDS prevention, discussed
navigating personal health com-
plications after a cancer diagnosis
and tough times with family that
struggled to understand the
LGBTQ community. Fontaine
found drag to be an outlet. The
performer, known for appearances
on the show “RuPaul’s Drag Race,”
told students the power of drag
to “conquer hearts,” allowing
the performer to bring a good
message through entertainment
and laughter.
FONTAINE an inspiration and you’re go-
ing to be such an inspiration
uses her positivity to influ-
ence others in her drag career.
health issues, Fontaine also
uses her platform to promote
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for so many people—even for “Drag doesn’t have any HIV and AIDS prevention for
LGBTQ community, she re- myself—to comfort and to comfort zone. You can do the LGBTQ and Latinx com-
fused to talk to Fontaine for fight for what you love,’” said whatever, and with that munities and to educate oth-
a long time. It was only after Fontaine. ‘whatever’ you can conquer ers about sexuality.
Fontaine was diagnosed with While filming season eight hearts. That’s the main part “I take advantage of my
liver cancer that her mom of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Fon- for myself, too—to entertain, character as an entertainer
came back into her life. taine was diagnosed with make people smile, make to advocate and to educate.
“She got the opportunity to stage one liver cancer. She people laugh, have good faith I love it. I did not have this
see the entire show. She called also recently recovered from and bring a message,” said opportunity because I had to
me crying and she said ‘I love pneumonia in an ICU. De- Fontaine. learn everything by myself,”
you. I’m so sorry. You are such spite her illness, Fontaine still Always passionate about Fontaine said.
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Friday, September 28, 2018 NEWS
Bowdoin students take energy for
protest to D.C. demonstrations
by Diego Lasarte
Staff Writer
On Monday, three days be-
fore U.S. Supreme Court Nom-
inee Brett Kavanaugh testified
on allegations of sexual miscon-
duct, nine Bowdoin students
traveled to Washington D.C. to
protest his confirmation. Eight
of the nine students were arrest-
ed outside of the office of Sen.
Susan Collins (R-Maine) while
lobbying Collins to vote no.
On Thursday, two more
Bowdoin students were arrest-
ed in Washington while block-
ing the street in front of the
Supreme Court as Kavanaugh
testified before the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee.
The students were a part of a
number of demonstrations that
took place across the country in
the lead-up to the Kavanaugh’s
testimony. Arguments articulat-
ed in opposition to the nomina-
tion have been diverse, ranging
from reproductive rights and
environmental protections to
his opinions on executive pow-
er; however, they were largely
COURTESY OF EMILY OLICK-LLANO
united this week in their support
for the three women—Christine
POWER OF PROTEST: Bowdoin students joined fellow activists in Blasey Ford, Julie Swetnick and
Washington, D.C. to protest during the week prior to the Senate hearing Deborah Ramirez—who have
for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Students hope their publicly accused Kavanaugh of
demonstration will pressure Sen. Collins (R-Maine) to vote against sexual misconduct.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “I believe for countless reasons
that Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t
be on the Supreme Court. He
is an ideologue. His prior legal
rulings suggest that he will use
his power to gut the Affordable
Care Act and overturn Roe v.
Wade. His opinions regarding
the invincibility of the president
terrify me,” wrote Livia Kun-
ins-Berkowitz ’22 in an email to
the Orient. She was one of over
100 protesters arrested by Capi-
tol Police on Monday. “And now
it is clear that Brett Kavanaugh is
a liar and a sexual predator.”
The students’ travel expenses
and bail funds were covered by
Mainers for Accountable Leader-
ship, the Women’s March organi-
zation and the Center for Popular
Democracy, and their itineraries
were coordinated by Ady Barkan’s
Be A Hero campaign.
Stephen Boe ’22 took part in
a legal observer training also or-
ganized by Be A Hero and spent
Monday acting as an observer
during the arrests of his fellow
students.
“I felt like this was something
that I needed to be a part of,” said
Boe. “It was more than just a
political view, it was a moral call-
ing. Not only did I disagree with
Kavanaugh’s views on abortion,
climate change, executive pow-
er ... but the allegations against
him pushed the case way over
the edge: these voices needed to
COURTESY OF STEVEN PAUL WHITSITT PHOTOGRAPHY
be heard and they needed to be
listened to.”
Emily Olick-Llano ’20 flew to
Washington yesterday to protest
outside Kavanaugh’s hearing and
this morning’s vote.
“It was an immense privilege
to be here and witness so many
people—especially women—
from different backgrounds ral-
lying together to support Dr. Ford
while she testified and to stand
I felt like this was something that
I needed to be a part of. It was
more than just a political view, it
was a moral calling.
–Stephen Boe ’22
in solidarity with her and other
survivors,” Olick-Llano wrote in a
text to the Orient.
Olick-Llano and Risa Fox ’20
were arrested on Thursday while
protesting outside the Supreme
Court.
Micah Wilson ’22, who was
also arrested, stressed the impor-
tance of civil disobedience.
“I think [civil disobedience] is
more important than ever today
because it disrupts our comfort-
able routine,” Wilson wrote in a
text to the Orient. “As a culture
5
and politically, people are gen-
erally pretty content with the
status quo. We need to feel more
uncomfortable to realize what
kind of change is necessary and
possible.”
Bowdoin students were unable
to complete their main goal of
speaking with Collins—an im-
portant swing vote for the Kava-
naugh nomination—but they did
meet with Maine’s other Senator,
Angus King (I-Maine), as well as
add to the pressure on Collins to
oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination.
“My 24 hours spent in D.C.
were incredibly empowering,”
wrote Kunins-Berkowitz in an
email to the Orient. “We met
with amazing activists and
Senator Angus King to discuss
different ways to create change.
Overall, 128 people were arrested
and the action received national
media coverage. Hopefully, this
will compel Susan Collins to at
least consider voting no.”
COURTESY OF MARIE FOLLAYTTAR SMITH
6 Friday, September 28, 2018
F FEATURES
McCarroll’s book
debunks myths
about Appalachia
by Lucas Weitzenberg
Staff Writer
After noticing her accent,
the first question Bostonians
often ask Director of Writing
and Rhetoric Meredith Mc-
Carroll, is where she is from.
When she answers the South,
her new acquaintance re-
sponds, usually in an exagger-
ated southern drawl, “Where
in the South?” to which she
says, “In the mountains of
North Carolina,” more com-
monly known as Appalachia.
To this, an all-too-common
response is a mimicking of
the banjo lick from the 1972
film “Deliverance.”
“Um, have you seen that
movie?” she’d want to ask.
“Because you’re linking me
with a deeply problematic
rape scene.”
It was these stereotypes
that prompted McCarroll to
embark on her newest proj-
ect: a book titled “Unwhite:
Appalachia, Race, and Film.”
It explores the source of ste-
reotypes that are prevalent
in American film about a re-
gion that is both idealized as
community-centric and un-
touched by the ills of society
and demonized as backwards
and unaccepting.
“I was really interested in
Community grows at local Brunswick Farmers’ Market
by Kathryn Bosse
Staff Writer
Every Tuesday and Friday,
from May 1 until November
20, local farmers set up shop
on the Brunswick mall along
Maine Street to share the
fruits of their harvest with
the Brunswick community.
It’s unusual to find a Maine
city or town without a local
farmers’ market, so what sets
this particular market apart?
“This is one of the oldest
markets—if not the oldest
market—in the state. I think
the vendors are really ded-
icated at this market,” said
Jake Galle of Apple Creek
Farm in Bowdoinham.
The Brunswick Farmers’
Market is the second-oldest
in the state of Maine, first
organized in 1977. This al-
lows for distinct camaraderie
between farmers as well as
friendships between sellers
and frequent shoppers. When
asked about the Bowdoin
student-farmer relationship,
Dick Keough of Keough Fam-
ily Farms, warmly recounted
a student who worked retail
at his stand, which has been
at the market for 15 years.
“[They would] come down
looking closely at the ways
these movies construct cer-
tain stories about people from
Appalachia and how that
functions for the rest of the
country to have this scape-
goat in Appalachia. =What
drew me to the project was
really to correct these stereo-
types about the region,” said
McCarroll.
In her open discussion
with McCarroll at last night’s
book launch event, Profes-
sor of Cinema Studies Tricia
Welsch explained how Mc-
Carroll goes further than just
explaining the tropes used to
portray Appalachian charac-
ters. Instead, her work relates
these negative tropes to racist
portrayals of people of color
in film. She compares films
that show Appalachia to clas-
sic films such as “Gone with
the Wind” and demonstrates
the similarity between the
ways the characters consid-
ered regional and racial out-
siders are portrayed.
“When I talk about ‘Deliv-
erance,’ and I do talk about
other movies,” McCarroll
clarified with a laugh, “I com-
pare that with depictions of
Native Americans in the 1992
version of ‘The Last of the
Mohicans’ to show that the
Native American people are
and work for a few hours,
and [it would] give ‘em some
extra jingles in their pock-
ets,” he said.
Upon stepping foot onto
the mall, market-goers are
greeted by the scents of fresh
roasted coffee, the sight of
baskets of organic apples and
fleecy hand-spun, sheep’s-
wool goods. The farmers and
vendors at the market have
dedicated great amounts of
time to their craft, and rain
or shine, students, faculty
and community members
alike frequent the market to
share in the homegrown eats
and handcrafted goods.
One farmer said that
Bowdoin students are often
thought of less as clientele
and more as friends, as both
are trying to carve their place
in the state.
“I’ve had some good rela-
tionships over the years with
young students. You know, I
had a girl from Pennsylvania
who brought me a Winesap
apple back [from home.]
We liked to talk apples and
things like that. It’s been fun
to have Bowdoin students
around,” said Rick Dwinnell
of Meadow Brook Farm and
Orchards.
STICKING IT TO STEREOTYPES: Meredith McCarroll’s new book uses her experience growing up in Appalachia to discuss societal perceptions on a
broader scale. At her book launch, she talked about what it means to come from a region that has often been painted as full of poor, white banjo-strummers.
romanticized and demonized
and in the same way Appa-
lachian people are romanti-
cized as quaint and sort off
the beaten path, and they’re
also demonized.”
McCarroll concluded
that this occurs because it
preserves a sense of white
privilege in film culture.
Filmmakers, worried about
“muddying” the classic,
privileged ideal of what it
means to be a white char-
acter in cinema, use racist
tropes to label Appalachian
people as “other.” On top of
this, filmmakers often ignore
the racial diversity of the
Dwinnell’s stand exhibits
classic autumn goods—tables
lined with wooden barrels of
fruit and jugs of chilled cider
pressed from his own apples.
A brisk fall breeze was all
that was missing to make it
feel like a characteristic fall
day. Several farmers assured,
however, that these days are
not long away; Maine never
seems to disappoint when
it comes to delivering frigid
temperatures.
When the cold does set in,
Dan Sortwell, roastmaster at
Big Barn Coffee is prepared
to provide market-goers with
a warm cup of fresh roast-
ed coffee. Sortwell proudly
declared that the beans he
brewed and sold that day
had been roasted just one
day prior. Coffee enthusiasts
would be hard pressed to
find a fresher cup of coffee in
Brunswick.
Luanne Downey, a market
frequenter and Brunswick
resident was particularly
enthusiastic about Copper
Tail Farm, stocked with goat
milk products like marinated
cheeses, caramel sauce tradi-
tionally termed “cajeta” and
handmade soaps. Owner Jon
McKee of Waldoboro, Maine
LAUREN CAFFE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
region, instead portraying learned to kind of shift the my family had been there for
Appalachia as a place full of way that I talked so people generations.”
white people who are such couldn’t really pick up on an Regardless, no stereotype
caricatures of depravity that accent.” can accurately assess a re-
non-Appalachian white au- McCarroll’s childhood gion as broad and culturally
diences don’t feel connected was nothing like the violent, complicated as Appalachia.
to them. savage, banjo-strumming Ap- “Ultimately, it’s lazy,” she said
These stereotypes have had palachian lifestyle depicted of these tropes, “because just
a deep impression on McCar- in many Hollywood films. “I like there’s a wide range of
roll’s life. grew up in a very political- ways that you can represent
“They affected the way ly progressive place, where non-white characters, there’s
people read me,” she said. I listened to punk music a wide range of honest ways
“People assumed that I was and shopped at health food that you could represent peo-
poor, that I had gone to really stores,” she said. But like most ple from any region, includ-
bad schools, that I was proba- stereotypes, aspects of the ing Appalachia.”
bly racist, probably politically Hollywood idea of Appala- “Unwhite: Appalachia,
conservative, and it felt like I chia rang true. “My granny Race, in Film” will be pub-
was always trying to correct and pa lived next door, and lished on October 15, 2018 by
all of those stereotypes. I we canned green beans, and University of Georgia Press.
said that he and his wife had understand the deep-rooted, them to eat!” said Keough.
waited five years to obtain a agricultural lifestyle of rural Asked if she ever saw Bow-
spot at the market. The city Maine. doin students at the market,
limits the market to only 16 “Kids always Downey responded, “never
vendors at a time, none of like to eat, and enough!”
whom are eager to give up there’s always
their downtown spot. stuff here for
“It’s a really good market,
and that’s all we ever heard
MI
TC
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about it,” said Mckee, who
LJ
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was surprised at how
AS
EK
long it had taken him
to earn the two-day-
a-week spot on the
mall. McKee
chuckled,
motion-
ing to the
Bourbon
cajeta,
and de-
clared it
a favorite
among stu-
dents.
Dwinnell
lamented that
squirrels had
eaten a lot of
his crop and had
caused substantial
damage.
In attending the
market, students expe-
rience a small sampling
of Maine agriculture, a taste
which allows them to better
Friday, Septemeber 28, 2018
Growing up in activism: a tale of Berkeley, California
At Home in
All Lands
by Aisha Rickford
Lorenzo Meigs ’21 has lived
in the same city for practically
all of his life. I’ve always been
fascinated by my peers’ rela-
tionships to place, especially
by those who seem to embody
their homes. Meigs is one of
those people. From often go-
ing barefoot in the summer
(to my dismay) to a proclivity
for political action, to wearing
linen shirts on canoe trips, he
is effortlessly Californian. I’ll
admit, my fascination with
people like him is part admi-
ration and part jealousy. What
must it be like to really be able
to claim one place?
In this column, I’m seek-
ing to paint a portrait of both
a person and the place or
places that are meaningful to
them. I’m starting with Meigs
because, at first glance, it
seems that living in Berkeley
his whole life is all there is to
know. But as I know all too
well, it’s always a little bit more
complicated than that. Meigs’s
father moved around Mary-
land, Delaware and New Jersey
growing up. His mother spent
the first ten years of her life in
Uganda, then lived in Texas,
New Jersey and New York.
“They were really focused
on me and my sister Rosa ...
grow[ing] up in one place ...
to really be able to put down
The Samuel Adams Boston Lager: really not that bad
Having a
Normal One
by Simon Cann and
Ethan Winter
Our moderately filterless
minds were recently asked to
give a few buzzwords about
what defines a Bowdoin stu-
dent. We felt that this was an
awfully loaded question. How
can you define students who
hail from wide swaths of the
world? We have students here
from everywhere—and by
everywhere we mean all the
towns from Woburn to Wey-
mouth. A lot of Bears identify
as proud Bostonians—though,
upon closer inspection, most
are from surrounding suburbs.
Confidently, they’ll say the
name of a town pronounced
in a way wildly divergent from
its spelling, then “Mass.” A few
of these Bears have some sort
of male guardian in their lives,
maybe one who likes beer. So,
in honor of them, we’ve de-
cided to take a deep dive into
Samuel Adams, the official
beer of the father figure of all
places from Lowell to South
Duxbury, from Boston Proper
to Worcester and all the proud
J.O.B. land therein.
This is the signature beer
from Boston Beer Company,
which opened its doors in
1984. This beer is designed
for dads. While we’re talking
fathers, it’s probably worth
noting that the mid-80s were
most likely some of the best
roots and feel like we were
genuinely from someplace,”
Meigs said.
As he said this, I thought
about how I often think about
where I’ll live as an adult. I
know that I don’t want to move
around as much as I did as a
child. That, despite how much
I love being a student, I can’t
wait to be done with my edu-
cation so that I can settle down
somewhere and not leave. The
only problem is, I don’t know
where. I asked Meigs how his
parents decided on Berkeley.
“My dad … moved to
Berkeley ... in the end of 60s
and beginning of the 70s,
during the free speech move-
ment. All the hippies really
were there, [and] he was one
of them,” said Meigs.
His father knew that if he
was ever going to raise a fami-
ly, he would return to Berkeley
to do it. When he got a job
offer in Berkeley decades later,
he moved back with Meigs’s
mother.
For the first 17 years of his
life, Meigs lived in the same
house, in a diverse neighbor-
hood in Berkeley. When I
asked Meigs to tell me some-
thing that happens in Berkeley
that doesn’t happen anywhere
else, he immediately noted the
culture of activism.
“I think my first memory
[of activism] was going to an
Iraq War protest in 2004,” he
said. “I remember being on
my dad’s shoulders and seeing
years of dad’s life. Times were
wild: our president was senile,
global warming didn’t exist,
cigarettes were good for you
and, most of all, the New York
Mets won a World Series. (Co-
incidently, like your father, the
Mets haven’t had a good sum-
mer since ’86, a top-notch year
unless you happened to be an
astronaut.)
To nail this review, we
wanted to head to a “Harvard
Bar” where we’d order a pitch-
er of “the house lager” (which,
it stands to reason, ought to
be 60 oz. of the City on the
Hill’s finest) and then ask all
the students we see “what’s
your major, dude?” We were
hoping to wow them with all
of those hours spent at our
local library, only to realize
we clocked the majority of our
youthful bibliophilic hours en-
tering the word “fart” and all
its derivatives into every Mad
Lib they had.
The SAFC, however, is evi-
dently not interested in dish-
ing out dough so the Orient’s
beer columnists can go “em-
bed” themselves in the Boston
experience. So the expedition
had to be scrapped. This, of
course, raises bigger questions
about where that $700,000
budget is actually going. We,
as newly-minted capital “J”
Journalists, will be sure to in-
vestigate.
Lacking the institutional
backing to get our sorry tails
to Cambridge and despite how
much we like apples and get-
ting her number, we decided
FEATURES
these men with huge guns, up
on City Hall in San Francisco.
And not really being aware of
what we were mad about, but
something was going wrong in
the world.”
The culture of activism
around him continued into
high school. Every month,
there would be a walkout,
where Meigs and his class-
mates would gather on the
quad and then march up
the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley campus. There,
students would give their
demands, addressing an is-
sue within local, national or
school politics. “I think some
people just … wanted to get
out of class,” he admitted.
This culture of activism
led Meigs to reflect on Berke-
ley’s own internal issues as he
grew older. “We are one of the
most unequal areas of income
distribution in the nation,” he
said, “and a rapidly gentrifying
area. Something that I really
care about deeply now … is
fixing what I see as the biggest
issue in Berkeley which is …
the [housing] crisis.”
As he approached gradu-
ation, Meigs knew he wanted
to take a gap year after high
school. He spent almost six
months traveling outside of
the country. I asked him if it
had anything to do with living
in one place his whole life, if
he had grown sick of the mo-
notony. He thought for a mo-
ment.
to plop down on the couch
with a couple six packs, al-
ternating between the Histo-
ry Channel and “Good Will
Hunting”—all while avoiding
the letter “r.” After close study,
we decided this was the closest
dad experience that could be
recreated here on campus.
There is something vague-
ly insulting about the art on
these bottles. The smug Son
of Liberty knowingly grins at
you, as if coming fresh off a
dad-joke; you say “I’m start-
ing to feel nau-
seous and pa-
triotic,” and it
quips, “Hi Start-
ing-to-Feel-Nau-
seous-and-Pa-
triotic, I’m Sam
Adams, domestic
terrorist and author
of the Articles of Con-
federation”—a watered
down precursor to
the Constitution,
just like this beer
is a watered
down precur-
sor to some-
thing that
doesn’t hurt
to consume.
This beer
tastes like
some flavor
was injected
into a Bud
Light. Dads
seem to be attracted to
the Sammy because it tastes
like a simpler time, before all
these waxed-mustache, Mil-
lennial hipsters—who dad says
“That was definitely part of
it …[but] I wasn’t homesick.
Not really even once.”
This was surprising to
me. I don’t know what I ex-
pected to hear—maybe that
he longed for home every
day, that it was terrifying to
be away from the only place
you’d ever called home. But of
course it made sense. If you’re
from one place, you’re bound
to grow weary of it.
I wonder, then, why I am
always longing for places.
Sometimes I can’t name the
place, but I can see it or feel
it. It’s often a mood, or a color
or just a memory. Maybe it’s
because the root of my place
anxiety is not that I moved so
much, but that I never had a
choice. Where you grow up—
even if you’re grateful for it—
is not a choice you get to make
for yourself. I am always grap-
pling with this, and so I asked
Meigs if there is one place that
feels like just his.
“The number-one place
I always go to … when I go
home is a park called Clare-
mont Canyon Regional Pre-
serve,” he said. “I call it the top
of Dwight Way, because you
go up this kind of busy street
and as the traffic dwindles …
it gets to this dead end with
this hill.” He pauses. “There’s
these eucalyptus trees ….
There’s a little pass that goes
through valleys at the end.
And there’s a beautiful view …
of San Francisco, and Oakland
are ungrateful and are ruining
the economy—decided to start
putting passionfruit and es-
sential oils into their beer. To
quantify it, this beer doesn’t
violate something called the
“Pie Rule.” This rule passes
to us from Associate Profes-
sor of Government and Asian
Studies Henry Laurence, who
explained in an exclusive in-
terview that if anyone could
fathom it being a possible
ingredient in pie—blueberry,
chocolate, rhubarb,
ice cream, any
7
…. There’s a really
nice big rope swing
that goes out over
this big hill.”
I can see it clear-
ly. A place that
feels like the top of
the whole world.
“I felt like I was
removing myself
... I would be able
to look down on
Berkeley and see
Berkeley lit up
before me. And
it felt like rising
above every-
thing,” he said.
Since I met
him, I’ve won-
dered why Meigs NATALIE RUDIN
decided on Bow-
doin. “Bowdoin
means intellec-
tual inquiry,” he
says after a mo-
ment. “It means
... having amaz-
ingly interesting
conversations
with people. Not
really about their
lives but what their
ideas are about how
to live life.”
My own compli-
cated relationship with place ther’s shoulders during the
has made me extremely sensi- Iraq War protest in 2004, and I
tive to the same in others. I am love seeing how learning more
endlessly fascinated by peo- about these things adds the
ple—by the people that raised richest of dimensions to peo-
them, by the earliest memories ple. I marvel at the ordinary of
that shaped them, like Meigs’ who we are, and how extraor-
memory of being on his fa- dinary it really is.
ingredients to a “grasshopper” ship back in 2015.
anything, the heinous list goes As we moved into our third
on—it cannot, for the love of round, Ethan, an avid fan of
God, go into beer. Remember, New England sports teams,
Professor Laurence is British, let slip that this is the official
and they put some weird stuff beer of the Boston Red Sox.
in their pies. He added that Though a Boston baseball buff
this rule was developed in the may tell you the Curse of the
heady days of the early 2000s, Bambino originated in 1918
“mostly at Joshua’s.” After this when Harry Frazee sold off
lengthy tangent, our second George Herman “Babe” Ruth
beers were flatter than that Jr. to the New York Yankees,
football that Tom Brady used we date the start of this dread-
to cheat Andrew Luck out ed hex to the mid-80s when
of that AFC champion- Sam Koch began churning this
swill out.
Starting our fourth beer—
home plate, if you will—we
decided it’s not that bad and
pairs well with “1776” by
David McCullough. If your
dad drinks the Boston Lager
regularly, he probably owns
this book in several differ-
ent forms. We’re talking
first edition, illustrated
and, of course, audio. As the
History Channel changed to
programming about the win-
ter at Valley Forge, showing
recreations of the revolution-
aries’ trench foot, we finished
our drinks.
PHOEBE
ZIPPER
8 Friday, September 28, 2018
A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
‘geel:’ interactive performance opens mind and body
by Emma Sorkin
Staff Writer
The lights go down, and the
whole room is black. Walls,
floor, ceiling—everything
black. A figure, dressed (you
guessed it) in black, emerg-
es from the right, singing in
Afrikaans. After nearly 90
minutes of intense interaction
and emotional performance,
the theater will return to this:
everything black. One thing,
however, will have changed
dramatically from the start—
the audience.
Watching René Goddess
Johnson’s energetic, powerful
and interactive one-woman
show “geel” is a full body expe-
rience. Johnson asks more of the
audience than just their pres-
ence, she asks them not to disso-
ciate, but to actively engage.
“My show began because
I was just trying to hear my
own voice and listen to my
own story,” Johnson said. “I
come from severe abuse and
trauma. I was diagnosed with
PTSD when I was 12, and this
story kind of evolved into
something around the same
time I realized that art was a
language I never had access to
for myself.”
Born in South Africa, John-
son moved to Portland, Maine
at age six. She and her twin
brother lived with their birth
mother, her significant other
and their child in the suburbs.
Soon after they arrived, John-
Line and sound converge in immersive installation
by Sabrina Lin
Orient Staff
Like undulating ripples of wa-
ter swept by a lingering breeze,
swirls of black lines converge and
disperse in linn meyers’ site-spe-
cific drawing “Let’s Get Lost.”
Complemented by an interactive
sound installation “Listening
Glass” by Rebecca Bray, James
Bigbee Garver and Josh Knowles,
the piece transforms the Walker
Gallery at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art into a multi-sen-
sory metaphor for artistic process,
ephemerality and time.
As meyers walked the audience
through her creative evolution in
Kresge Auditorium on Wednes-
day night, she explained that “Let’s
Get Lost” serves both as an invita-
tion for participation and a reflec-
tion of her own artistic enterprise.
“I’ve done my best work when
I follow my own instructions by
getting lost, so I believe that an
openness to getting lost is a valu-
able approach taken [while] trying
to do any kind of creative work,”
said meyers.
Named the 2018 Halley K. Har-
risburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld
Artist-in-Residence, the Washing-
ton, D.C.-based artist approaches
her monumental drawings with
a focus on four principal themes:
“sensation, entropy, ephemerality
and labor”—all characteristic of
son’s birth mother began to contact for 45 seconds while should be simple, Johnson ex-
severely abuse her children, talking, then again for a full plains, but in America it is far
both physically and emotion- minute in silence. Such a task from easy.
ally.
Johnson quickly developed
self-harm mechanisms and
suicidal thoughts. Never un-
derstanding why she received
the brunt of the abuse, she felt
isolated. Ballet became one of
her most frequent methods of
self harm, a way to intensify
her pain.
The audience, howev-
er, knows none of this until
the second half of Johnson’s
show. The first half of “geel”
is interactive and upbeat. All
the exercises employ
tools John-
son used
as coping
mech-
anisms
during
the abuse
she re-
ceived
throughout
her life.
Johnson
opens her
show by por-
traying her
grandmother.
She teaches the
audience a song line
by line and asks
them to engage by
stomping, danc-
ing and singing
along. The au-
dience is asked
to hold eye
and integral to her creative pro-
cess.
Her transition from panel
painting to linear murals stems
from a concern with attachment
to objects and an urge to subvert
conventions in art collecting.
“In 2007, over a decade ago,
I made a pivotal piece in my stu-
dio—I made this wall drawing,”
said meyers. “And for the first time
I was able to create a work that
couldn’t really be owned. So when
I made this wall drawing, architec-
ture became a new material in my
toolbox.”
With this new-found liberty,
meyers went on to create multiple
site-specific drawings in various
institutions, such as the Hammer
Museum in Los Angeles, CA, the
Phillips Collection in Washington,
D.C., and the Hirshhorn Museum
in Washington, D.C. Despite their
monumentality in scale—span-
ning as long as 54 feet in circum-
ference—the drawings are by
nature ephemeral, made with the
intention to be effaced at the end
of the exhibition.
“All of these wall drawings are
temporary, so they all have a pre-
determined lifespan,” she said. “To
see these ephemeral or temporary
works within an institution that’s
tasked with preservation and
conversation creates a bold juxta-
position.”
“It’s not a passive thing; the
“I’m just asking you to look
a person in the eyes,” John-
son said. ”If you are feeling
shame or doubt or fear,
I want you to really
think about that.”
The second half
of the show tells
Johnson’s story
through age 13. It
opens with a chilling
retelling of her first en-
counter with abuse. Through
dance, words, screaming and
violent movements, Johnson
acts out her moth-
er choking her
twin brother,
laughing and
hurling him
down the
stairs.
“We were
just in awe
that someone
could survive
this and still
walk, and
smile no less,”
said Davis
Robinson, pro-
fessor of theater
and producer of
“geel.”
Johnson’s
self-proclaimed
reinvention of her-
self fuels her desire to
share. Because she sup-
pressed so much emotion
COURTESY OF SARAH BARLOW as a child, Johnson feels she
drawing isn’t made with disap- own works of art, while uncon-
pearing ink or some other tempo- sciously mimicking meyers’s trail
rary material,” she continued. “It is of mark-making with their de-
an active choice to end the life of vices in hand—not so dissimilar
the drawing.” from meyers moving across the
Scheduled to be on view surface with her graffiti marker.
through September 29, 2019, “We [hoped to] encourage the
“Let’s Get Lost” is indeed transi- audience to get closer both to the
tory by design. Yet meyers’s col- art itself—physically and concep-
laboration with Bray, Garver and tually closer—and also really think
Knowles imbues the drawing with about an experience of process of
an alternative vitality through the time … and we thought about
interaction and participation from how do we help the audiences,
the audience. invite them to maybe mirror some
Bray, who is an installation art- of those gestures that linn makes
ist, and Garver, a sound designer, as she creates the piece and also
had previously curated an inter- just experience the piece different-
active experience called “Framing ly,” said Bray.
Device” in response to meyers’s “Linn has not drawn anything
drawing at the Hirshhorn Muse- on the wall, and I have not made
um. The artists soon realized the any sounds for you to listen to,
creative capacity in traversing the and Rebecca has not made any
boundaries of medium, and con- decisions about all those things,”
ceived a project which combines added Garver. “We’ve created an
aesthetic exploration with techno- arena in which you as a partici-
logical innovation. pant can make art.”
In the immersive sonic installa- The iPhone, with an app de-
tion “Listening Glass,” visitors use signed by software developer
an iPhone app which generates Knowles, is thus transformed into
distinct sounds according to the a kind of magic wand, sparking
pattern and density of meyer’s line visceral and palpable sensations.
drawings. As one moves a phone Every detail is carefully orchestrat-
across the surface of the drawing, ed by the four artists to enhance
spontaneous melodies are created this immersive interaction; secret
and the gallery space is turned clues are woven within the web of
into a form of instrument. lines to trigger particular effects.
By interacting with both the “What we want to encourage is
visual rhythm and musical com- a kind of exploring and getting lost
position, viewers also create their that visitors to art museums don’t
never had sufficient time to
work through her trauma and
emotions.
“A big portion of why I keep
doing this show is because it
brings up so much of what
my child-self suppressed. I’m
learning only now at 34 that I
don’t know who I am,” John-
son said in an interiew with
the Orient. “I don’t actually
know who I am.”
The show is vital to her
continued exploration of what
it means to be an “embodied
equity consultant.” Having re-
invented herself in this image,
Johnson aims to fully—spir-
itually, physically, mental-
ly—think “top to bottom” and
treat herself and others in the
most fair way possible.
“Everyone has their story,
and I think everyone’s story is
difficult,” she said.
Johnson opens a complex
dialogue about American cul-
ture. Throughout the show,
she contrasts her experiences
in South Africa with those of
her time in the United States.
Describing America as a “cor-
poration,” she uses her per-
spective as a woman of color
from a different country to
evaluate American society and
suggest changes she sees as im-
perative to the development of
the state.
“It’s important for shows
like mine to exist on campuses
like this, where people are in
a space of believing that they
are inclusive, believing that
ART AND TIME: linn meyers explains her process of creating monumental
drawings with a graffiti pen, combining visual art with interactive technology.
often encounter,” meyers said.
For the museum, the inclusion
of this innovative collaboration
between visual and sensory per-
ception signifies the College’s
commitment to creative disposi-
tion, explained Museum co-direc-
tor Anne Goodyear.
“We’re really taking advantage
of the fact that, in the context of
they are being diversely in-
tuned, believing that they are
working in the right direction
toward gaining equality for
social justice and social equity
and for minorities,” Johnson
said. “People need to hear a
message of ‘Oh wait, are we
what we say we are? Are we
doing what we say we do?’”
Following the show, John-
son spent time talking to stu-
dents, listening to their reac-
tions and recovering from the
immense emotional distress
that envelops her during the
show. For her, this is one of
the most meaningful parts.
“People of color were so
grateful to see someone that
looked like them on the stage
here,” Johnson said. “And that
always breaks my heart be-
cause again, you can’t tell me
you’re an inclusive space if the
only people being presented
for the most part are white.”
For Robinson, bringing
“geel” to Bowdoin is part of
a conscious effort to increase
representation of people of
color on campus and create
dialogue about race. But Rob-
inson noted that the perfor-
mance is not only beneficial
for acting students, but also
for the general audience.
“I hope it shows that you
can take really powerful, re-
ally personal material and put
it to good use and own it in a
way that turns it into a work
of art that you can share with
people,” Robinson said.
JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
this academic museum, we can
have that wonderful experience of
walking a tightrope and knowing
that we are part of a community
that welcomes the challenge [of]
genuine innovation, and wel-
comes the opportunity to partner
with people who are pushing cre-
ative practice in new directions,”
said Goodyear.
Friday, September 28, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 9

Museum’s new art historian bridges disciplines

by Brianna Cunliffe and Julia
Katter
Staff Writers
Paintings and artifacts are
not the only treasures one can
find in the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art (BCMA). Be-
hind the exhibition walls, a
passionate team of scholars
and creators embody the in-
stitution’s wealth of culture,
resource and opportunity.
Sean Burrus, the Andrew W.
Mellon Postdoctoral Curatori-
al Fellow, is one of Bowdoin’s
newest cultural gems.
Vibrant and soft-spoken,
Burrus speaks with equal pas-
sion about specific artifacts
and broad ideas. His creden-
tials range from a fellowship
at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art (Met) to excavation
digs in Israeli deserts. An ar-
cheologist, he has also been a
curator, historian and lecturer
and does not consider these
disconnected. He points to a
common thread: his deep love
for objects and the insights
they provide.
“Thinking about the mate-
riality, one gets into all sorts
of interesting questions about
the processes by which art was
made,” said Burrus. “How it
was handled, the functions it
had and the trade networks
that would have enabled goods
to flow across long distances
to make it.”
The context of objects and
artifacts is something Burrus
explored in depth during his
fellowship at the Met, where
he focused on Roman art and
worked with scientists and art
historians to propose various
questions about the pieces in
the collection.
He invokes those interdis-
ciplinary partnerships as he
explains the excitement and
importance of the Assyrian re-
liefs, his personal favorite ob-
jects in the BMCA collection.
“The Assyrian reliefs con-
nect a number of dots,” said
Burrus. “Religion, archeology,
anthropological questions of
colonialism, politics of empire
and an interesting modern co-
lonial history, but also some
very interesting questions
from the visual arts about how
people react to and destroy, in
many cases, images—even to
the modern day.”
Drawing a parallel between
ancient themes and contem-
porary relevance, Burrus’ per-
sonal research explores issues
including the Jewish diaspora
and its visual culture by exam-
ining immigrant and migrant
communities.
“[They] try to maintain
connections to a homeland,
whether real or imagined—
yearnings or remembrances
and shared cultures across
vast, vast distances—while
also at the same time make
a new home in a new place,”
said Burrus. “I think these are
questions that are very press-
ing right now, and on all of our
minds.”
The larger significance of
seemingly isolated artifacts in
relation to broader issues fas-
cinates and guides Burrus in
his work.
“[Studying in various disci-
plines] has really afforded me
a very broad conception of the
types of questions you can ask
of art,” he said.
This interdisciplinary ap-
proach is evident in examin-
ing ancient artifacts with new-
PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
found technology to challenge
previously held conceptions. MUSEUM MUSINGS: The Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s new Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
The College acquired a Reflec- Sean Burrus talks about his background in archeology and research, bringing ancient artifacts to a new light.
tance Transformation Imaging
(RTI) in June, allowing the it to,” said Burrus. “We should “Not only questions of form um that houses these objects
museum to scan an object and be doing everything in our and content—formal analysis should be taking part in those
create a surface map that can power to put our collections of art—but questions about very current and very vital
be used to enhance original to use.” the material used to make art, discussions, facilitating those
color or study how the object Burrus hopes to create a scientific questions about the questions as a town square.”
was constructed. museum that is representative material, modes of analysis”. He believes that each per-
After working with this of the diverse student body Underscoring the BC- son entering a museum—stu-
technology at the Met, Burrus and the myriad of perspec- MA’sacademic resources, Bur- dent, faculty or visitor—plays
is effusive about its possibili- tives they bring to the table. rus strongly believes that the an active role in what it be-
ties at Bowdoin. “I hope to continue build- role of a museum is dynamic. comes.
“We’re really excited to ing on the work of my prede- “Art [has] the ability to “Remember,” he said, “we
have [RTI] here and see what cessor, bringing a lot of inter- speak to so many fundamental have a lot of co-curators out
sort of classes and faculty and disciplinary, new initiatives aspects of the human expe- there.”
student research we can apply into the museum,” he said. riences,” he said. “The muse-

Portrait of an Artist: Farradas ’19 redefines womanhood

by Lily Tedford
Staff Writer
Camille Farradas is a mem-
ber of the Bowdoin Class of
2019 and a visual arts major.
She received two Bowdoin
grants to work on her art this
past summer and will be fea-
tured in the Kaempfer Grant
show on October 10. Her in-
stallation is currently on dis-
play in the Blue Room of the
David Saul Smith Union.
This interview has been ed-
ited for length and clarity.
The Bowdoin Orient:
When did you begin making
art?
Camille Farradas ’19: I
didn’t take a studio art class
until my freshman year here,
so I’d never really considered
myself an artist at all. Even to-
day, it feels strange taking on
that title; it still feels new to
me. But I definitely had a big
influence of art growing up …
I took AP Art History in high
school, which I loved, and so
a lot of my experience with
art and making art is rooted
in that.
and Computational Studies] men. And I usually take those totally ok, whereas the female … it becomes a symbol of female ally using my paint and canvas
Erin Johnson, and that was to- poses and show them to my nude is usually for sexual con- community and connection. size and things like that, it’s
tally foreign to me, but I reallymodel and ask if they can do sumption. way more intuitive. My color
enjoyed making videos and them for me … They become In my videos, I tend to deal Q: How would you describe choices are completely on the
having a sound component these strong images of female with subjects that are more about your artistic process? spot and random. I never paint
and making something that nudes, which I think are really what it means to be a wom- A: I have a very clear-cut for just one hour; I’ll usually be
comes alive in a different way. confrontational, and they ask an conceptually. I just did one vision when I think of some- there for at least six.
a lot of questions about why in on hair braiding and how hair thing for my videos, and I
Q: Could you tell me a bit art history male nudes [have] stands as a symbol of time and set them up very precisely …
about what you did this sum- been glamorized or seen as [how it] is a very gendered act when it comes down to actu- Please see PORTRAIT, page 10
mer?
A: This summer I received
the Gibbons Scholarship and
the Kaempfer Grant. [For the
Gibbons Scholarship], I was
working for Erin Johnson,
and we put together this bi-
ennial piece called “A Long
Wait,” which happens on Fort
Gorges, off the coast of Port-
land. It’s this day long, inter-
active, immersive experience
[where] everyone will have a
handheld old-timey radio and
will walk through the fort,
which has different transmit-
ters set up so people can pick
up different stories as they go.
And then the Kaempfer Grant
was through the visual arts
department. The premise of
my project was exploring the
female nude, which is such a
staple in the canon of art his-
tory.

Q: What is your preferred Q: Do you have any pre-

medium?
A: I definitely fell in love
with painting. I took my first
painting class sophomore
fall, and I did a master copy
of “Danaë” by Gustav Klimt,
which was my first real paint-
ing, and then I was kind of
just amazed by what I pro-
duced. And then I took a dig-
ital media class with [Visiting
Professor of Art and Digital
ferred subjects in your work?
A: It honestly always comes
back to womanhood and es-
pecially being a Latina woman
and a Cuban woman. For my
paintings, I’ll bring in wom-
en of color on this campus to
model for me, and I’ll pull up
different, very famous female
MACKEY O’KEEFE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
nudes in art history, which
were usually painted by white REFIGURING ART: Visual arts major Camille Farradas ’19 challenges conventional conceptions of femininity and highlights women of color by casting them
men of white women for white in new roles, questioning the discrepancy between male and female sexuality and the whiteness of the art historical canon.
10
THE AUX CORD
On Brockhampton’s ‘Iridescence’
by Sebastian
de Lasa
My 17th birthday was on
a Friday. I woke up to some
lovely cards from my family,
happy birthday messages from
friends and a couple posts on
Facebook. I went to school.
Around early afternoon, an
hour or so before classes let
out, I received a text from a
friend of mine: “Dude listen to
this shit now, it’s insane.” I went
into the bathroom, turned
my earbuds up, and listened
to “HEAT” by Brockhampton
(which I soon discovered had
no relationship to the Hamp-
tons), off of an album called
SATURATION. All the songs
were in caps and four letters
long. I had no idea what I was
about to listen to. It absolutely
blew my mind and kickstart-
ed my love for the sprawling,
ambitious, raw collective of
artists. Brockhampton end-
ed up dominating the music
scene of 2017, dropping three
stellar albums between June
and December, while widely
expanding the concept of what
hip hop should discuss, sound
like or be defined by. They
went from a blip on the radar
Noname finds her own space
by Chris
Ritter
Noname doesn’t need your
labels. In the years since her
breakout mixtape Telefone,
she’s been called “the an-
ti-Cardi B” and “the female
Kendrick” by fans eagerly
awaiting a second project.
While her soft spokenness
suggests the former and her
lyricial knack the latter, she
detests both of these back-
handed compliments, telling
the Fader, “I’m just Fatimah.”
Some already know Fati-
mah (better known by her
stage name Noname) from her
stand out features on Chance
the Rapper’s early material,
to a revolution within a matter
of months.
Almost a full year since
SATURATION came out,
Brockhampton was faced with
a brutal reckoning. Ameer
Vann, a member of the group
and widely considered to be
its best rapper, was accused
of sexual assault. The ensuing
controversy split the fan base
in half. The allegations against
Vann were bad, but some fans
argued that it wasn’t enough
to justify exiling him. After
a few half apologies and non
-answers, the band released
a statement that Vann was
officially out, and that their
upcoming album, PUPPY,
was indefinitely postponed.
Brockhampton’s future was
thrown up in the air, and the
members retreated to Hawaii
and then to London in order to
regroup from the media fallout
as well as to record their new
project. After dropping three
singles over the summer and
announcing upcoming concert
dates, the band announced an
untitled album to be released
this September. That album is
“Iridescence,” and it dropped
on September 21.
As a fan of the SATURA-
TION trilogy, the first thing I
or her solo work as Noname
on Telefone, a brilliantly
warm tape about love, loss
and joy in her home Chicago.
Even new listeners will get to
know her best on her latest
project, Room 25. It wouldn’t
be enough to say Room 25
has Noname’s most personal
rapping yet; its whole aura is
singular. Noname trades the
clicky bops for an instrumen-
tal palette as broad as her am-
bition. The gospel groove of
“Self ” is her bread and butter,
but she sounds just as com-
fortable on the off-kilter funk
of “Blaxploitation” or the bos-
sa shuffle of “Montego Bae.”
Her verses are better than
ever too. As Noname turns
her whispered meditations
inward, her lines grow more
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
noticed about Iridescence is
its differences from the music
Brockhampton released last
year. The starkest distinction
is the production of the al-
bum. The beats are fuller, have
a cleaner mix and feature far
more variation than those on
the SATURATION trilogy. The
album incorporates string sec-
tions on multiple songs, which
are done tastefully and beauti-
fully, bringing to mind a “Late
Registration” era Kanye West.
Brockhampton was formed
over a Kanye reddit forum, so it
makes sense that his influence
is worn on their sleeves. On
“SAN MARCOS,” a ballad on
the second half of the album,
the beat is based around an
acoustic guitar part, a major
departure from anything else
the band has recorded. It’s clear
that BROCKHAMPTON is us-
ing their new record deal with
RCA and recording budget
(“Iridescence” was recorded at
Abbey Road Studio in London
whereas the SATURATION
trilogy was recorded at the
group’s home in Los Angeles),
to its fullest extent.
Another massive difference
between this album and previ-
ous ones is the role that each of
the rappers and singers play on
assured and heartfelt. “No
actually this is for me … ”
she declares on “Self,” before
coming up with gems like, “I
fucked your rapper homie,
now his ass is making better
music / My pussy teaching 9th
grade English.”
If “Telefone” was
soothing and pleas-
ant enough to
have on in
the back-
ground,
Room
25 de-
mands
your
atten-
tion at
every tick.
It contains
traces of
each track. Vann’s departure of
seemingly left a vacuum with-
in Brockhampton’s sound, as
Vann arguably had the most
consistent verses on their prior
albums, but his presence was
not missed. Dom McLennon
and Matt Champion, who un-
doubtedly had standout verses
on the SATURATION trilogy
but never shined as brightly
as Vann, brought absolutely
filthy verses on every Irides-
cence track they were on. Mc-
Lennon’s verse on “HONEY”
stands out to me as the best on
the entire album, sounding like
a cross between Q-Tip and An-
dre 3000 in the absolute best
way. Merlyn Wood, a member
who was mostly known for his
high energy unpredictability
on the SATURATION trilo-
gy, had a few more laid back
verses on “Iridescence,” and it
suited him brilliantly. His lines
rode each beat effortlessly, and
were constantly impressive.
The artist that disappointed
me the most was Joba. Joba has
a tendency to be a wildcard
on any song he’s on, proving
his unbelievable talents as a
vocalist on songs like “FACE,”
or his in-your-face energy on
songs like “HEAT.” The issue
with Joba, is that he decides to
the vibey offbeat rap pioneered
by Noname herself, fellow Chi-
cagoan Saba and Smino (see
the excellent posse cut “Ace”).
But it’s clear that Noname has
carved her own lane here,
one that defies expectations
as much as she moves
past them.
KA
YLA
SN
YD
ER
MACKEY O’KEEFE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
Friday, September 28, 2018
use all of his vo-
cal inflections—
all at once. It
sounds gim-
micky at times
and is down-
right irritating
on occasion.
When I reached
the last half of
the album, I
found myself
hoping he
wasn’t on
a track
because
of how
exhausting
ER
it was NYD
YLAS
to hear KA
all of
his dif-
ferent
voices.
It was like
listening to
Eminem, in the
worst possible
way.
Brockhamp-
ton is a boyband
(they’re strict on
the terminology) the outstanding production,
comprised of a multitude of there’s no stopping them.
massively talented musicians. Their creativity will continue
When their chemistry as vo- to shape music for years down
calists and rappers clicks with the road.
THE QUEUE
HONEY BY BROCKHAMPTON
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ent” on Spotify
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NEW PATEK BY LIL UZI VERT
EXTINCTION BY PARQUET COURTS
ORLANDO BY BLOOD ORANGE
BABY WHERE YOU ARE BY MOUNTAIN MAN
CORNFLAKES BY BELLE & SEBASTIAN
FREE MIND BY TASH SULTANA
PORTRAIT she does these large-scale
paintings that focus on the
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
glamorization of women: a
lot of jewelry, a lot of make-
Q: Who are some of your up, a lot of lavishness, but she
artistic inspirations? pushes it to the point where
A: I love the work of Ana it’s grotesque.
Mendieta. She’s a Cuban
woman who has this really Q: Is there anything you’re
tragic story—she died really hoping to experiment with in
young, but she was very suc- future artworks?
cessful as an artist and did a A: I’m really intrigued by
lot of work about the female murals. I think the subject I
body. Her work is way more focus on, womanhood, would
graphic and visceral than be really interesting in that
mine—she’ll use real blood setting. I think for the show
and things like that. I also I have coming up I’m going to
love Gustav Klimt and his try to do a mini-version of a
paint and surface textures. I mural, so we’ll see how that
enjoy Marilyn Minter as well; works out.
FACES AND GAZES: Farradas is inspired by artists such as Ana Mendieta,
Gustav Klimt and Marilyn Minter, who reflect her own interests in represent-
ing and reinterpreting the female body.
Friday, September 28, 2018
S SPORTS
UP IN THE AIR: Gabby Koenig ’20 jumps in preparation to spike the ball. The team remains undefeated in the NESCAC, suffering its first loss against a non-conference team.
Volleyball team falls to Johnson and Wales
by Ella Chaffin
Orient Staff
Last weekend the women’s
volleyball team (10-1, 3-0 NES-
CAC) experienced its first loss
of the season to Johnson and
Wales University (14-1). The
Rhode Island team is currently
ranked fourth in the country.
Despite the loss, the team is still
undefeated in the NESCAC.
According to Captain Syd-
ney Salle ’19, the team did not
Hall of Honor inductees include a former
NFL player and three-sport record holder
by Jason Cahoon
Orient Staff
On Saturday, October 6,
Bowdoin alumni, students and
faculty will gather in Kresge
Auditorium to celebrate the in-
duction of six new members to
the Bowdoin College Athletic
Hall of Honor. This year, each
inductee will sit with WCSH
news reporter, Lee Nelson P’19
to have a “fireside chat,” in
which they will talk about their
experiences and accomplish-
ments at Bowdoin.
Bowdoin College Hall of
Honor inductees are selected
biannually by an appointed se-
lection committee, consisting
of former Bowdoin athletes
who are diversified across
class year, sport and gender.
The committee is presented
with the task of selecting six
new members out of a pool of
roughly 200 decorated athletes.
Former athletes are eligible
make any specific mistakes that
lead to its defeat. JWU proved
more competitive than teams
the Polar Bears have faced be-
fore.
“We had a few errors on our
side that could easily be cleaned
up,” said Salle. “But they were a
good team and we played them
really hard.” The loss did not
get the team down, as JWU is a
strong team.
“They were probably the
toughest competition we have
to be selected for the Hall of
Honor after the tenth anniver-
sary of their graduation years.
This year’s class of inductees
includes a former NFL star, a
current Bowdoin coach, and
a three-sport athlete who still
holds program records.
Frank Sabasteanski ’41 will
be inducted due to his accom-
plishments both as an athlete
and coach at Bowdoin. During
his time at the college, he
played on the football and track
and field teams. As a football
player, he was selected twice
for the All-Maine Football
Team. Sabasteanski returned
to Bowdoin to coach the track
and field team for nearly four
decades. His coaching career
was highlighted in 1974 and
1975 when he won two outdoor
titles, going undefeated both
seasons. He coached a total of
seven All-American athletes
and eight Hall of Honor in-
ductees.
seen and probably will see the
whole season,” said Salle. “Ev-
eryone is really excited moving
into the season.”
This weekend, Bowdoin will
travel to face one of its largest
NESCAC rivals. Williams (7-5,
2-1 NESCAC) has not hosted a
Bowdoin-Williams volleyball
match in three years.
“We have already seen posts
on Williams’ Facebook page
that they are rallying people to
come to the game,” Salle said.
Dana Verrill ’72 distin-
guished himself as a defensive
back for Bowdoin football. He
set a Bowdoin record with eight
single-season interceptions and
16 career interceptions. In the
1970 season, he ranked third
in the country in interceptions
and led the team to a 6-1 sea-
son. Additionally, the team won
the state Colby-Bates-Bowdoin
championship every year that
he played.
Richard Leavitt ’76 also
competed for the football
and track and field teams. On
track and field, he was a two-
time All-American as well as
a NCAA Division III national
champion in 1975. After Bow-
doin, Leavitt went on to play in
the NFL for the New York Gi-
ants and the Oakland Raiders.
Christine Craig ’86 excelled
in the soccer, basketball and
softball programs, setting re-
cords in all three sports. In her
final school year at Bowdoin
“We haven’t played them at
[their] home since our fresh-
man year, so it will be a big
turn out on their end. They are
coming out to beat us this year
for sure.”
The team remains confident
in their overall goals for the
rest of their season to stay un-
defeated in the NESCAC, in an
attempt to host the conference
games at home, and to appear
in the NCAA tournament.
“Right now our biggest goal
she finished third in all-time
wins and save percentage as a
goalie. Additionally, her career
goals-against-average remains
second in the program’s histo-
ry. In the winter, Craig was the
basketball team’s lead scorer.
She finished the year by setting
a softball record for the highest
single-season batting average.
Marissa O’Neil ’05 will be
acknowledged for her accom-
plishments both as an ath-
lete and a coach at Bowdoin.
O’Neil was a star athlete on
both the field hockey and ice
hockey teams. She held five
records in the field hockey
program, including highest
career points, single-season
points, single-season goals,
career assists and single-sea-
son assists. Moreover, O’Neil
was a member of the winnin-
gest class in Bowdoin Wom-
en’s Ice Hockey history (87-
17-6), winning two NESCAC
championships and advancing
EMILY FULLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
is to go undefeated, or do our
best to go undefeated, in NES-
CAC to get the NESCAC host-
ing rights for the tournament,”
said Salle. “From then we are
focusing on game to game of
getting into the NCAA tourna-
ment again.”
The Polar Bears hope to con-
tinue their NESCAC winning
streak in Massachusetts with
Ashley Williams ’21, the NES-
CAC Player of the Week, on the
front line.
to the NCAA Division III
tournament twice. She also
holds the program record in
game winning goals.
Finally, Eileen Fla-
herty-Moore ’07 will be the
youngest of this class’s induct-
ees. Flaherty-Moore’s excel-
lence on the basketball court
place her in the top eight of 16
different statistical categories
for the women’s basketball pro-
gram. She remains the all-time
leader in career points and sin-
gle-season points at 1,864 and
572, respectively. She was also
the first four-time All-NESCAC
player in conference history as
well as a two-time First Team
Division III All-American. She
won the NESCAC champion-
ship all four years and reached
the Division III NCAA champi-
onship in 2004.
Celebrating athletic ability
and commitment, the Hall of
Honor will be a highlight of this
year’s Homecoming Weekend.
11
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
WHO LET THE DOGS
OUT?: Men’s soccer
(4-3-0) defeated the
University of Southern
Maine Huskies (2-6-1)
by a score of 6-0 on
Wednesday. Moctar
Niang ’19 led the team
with two goals followed
by Matty McColl ’19, Will
Herman ’20, Dylan Reid
’22 and Ryan Donlan ’21
with one goal each. The
Polar Bears maintained a
25-2 shot advantage and
8-1 lead in corner kicks.
On Monday, the team
will host Thomas College
(8-1) at Farley Field.
HATS OFF TO YOU: Field
hockey (7-1) claimed a
decisive victory against
the University of South-
ern Maine (4-3) on Sun-
day, winning the game
6-0. Emma Stevens ’20
completed a hat-trick
in the second half of
the game, assisted by
Manveer Sandhu ’22. On
Thursday, the Polar Bears
continued their win streak
and defeated Wellesley
(3-4). Their next match is
on Wednesday at home.
ONE FOR THE RE-
CORD BOOKS: Last
Saturday, Nate Richam
’20 broke the 42-year-
old single-game rushing
record set by Jim Soule
in 1976. In a loss against
Middlebury (1-1), Richam
rushed 288 yards, 18
more yards than Soule’s
previous record. Richam
was named NESCAC
Co-Offense Player of
the Week in honor of his
achievements. He will be
a strong component of
the team’s (0-2) offense
this weekend against
Amherst (2-0).
ON SERVE: The
women’s tennis team
started its fall tournament
season last weekend at
the Wallach Women’s
Doubles Invitational.
Julia Marks ’22 and Devin
Wolfe ’22 teamed up to
win the A-Draw, while
Rachel Bercovitch ’21
and Fleming Landau ’22
competed together to
win the B-Draw of the
round-robin tournament.
The team will take the
court again this weekend
against Williams in the
ITA Women’s Regional.
COMPILED BY KATHRYN MCGINNIS
12
Professional rugby player becomes asst. coach
by Lauren Katz
Staff Writer
The new assistant wom-
en’s rugby coach brings
experience from both sides
of the pond. James Read
grew up watching semi-pro-
fessional rugby at Havant
Rugby Club in Hampshire,
England, where he began
playing at age 11. After
playing for seven years at
Havant, Read broke into the
semi-professional world and
competed alongside some of
the same players he watched
as a boy.
Eventually, Read decided
to explore rugby opportuni-
ties in America. Read posted a
highlight reel of his best plays
on YouTube.
“My bio said, ‘looking
to play rugby in the United
States,’” said Read. “The first
“If you’re confident in
something, people will
listen and respond to you”
–James Read
Farber is ‘authentic and true to herself’ on the course
by Dylan Sloan
Staff Writer
Caroline Farber ’20, cap-
tain of the Bowdoin wom-
en’s varsity golf team and
consistently a top NESCAC
performer, has not garnered
a shortage of individual
achievements over her golf
career.
Farber is the first Bowdoin
women’s golfer to be named
All-NESCAC. Expectations
for her performance this year
are high.
However, when asked
about her goals for this up-
coming season, she has her
sight focused beyond her own
athletic performance.
“It’s really important for
me as a leader to make sure
that everyone on the team is
improving and is comfortable
with each other and feels like
they are representing Bow-
doin in the best way,” said
Farber. Both she and captain
Emme McCabe ’20 are com-
mitted to not just competing
at the highest level individu-
ally but also fostering a sup-
portive team dynamic.
Farber has been playing
golf since her teens and got
her start attending various
golf camps over summers.
She became more serious
about the sport during her
first year of high school after
sustaining a series of concus-
sions that barred her from
contact sports.
Over her high school ca-
reer, Farber made great strides
as a player, culminating in a
first-place finish at the Rhode
Island girls’ high school golf
championship in 2016.
“I was lucky to play on a
really good high school team
with a great support system,”
team and only team to get
back to me was the Portland
Rugby Club.”
The men’s team from the
Portland Rugby Football
Club—Maine’s oldest rugby
team—connected with Read
via email. Shortly after, the
twenty-one-year-old gradu-
ated college and flew to the
United States to play for Port-
land in the coming fall. In the
spring, he flew back to En-
gland and played for Havant.
In the fall of 2014, Read
began assistant-coaching
the men’s team at Bates Col-
lege while continuing to play
for Portland. Because of his
young age, Read found it dif-
ficult to gain the respect of
the team.
“I was friends with the
head coach [at Bates],” said
Read. “But I was actually
younger than some of the
said Farber.
She has found the balance
between pushing herself to
compete at the highest level
while still finding pleasure
in golf. She characterized her
mentality on the team as “an
interesting blend between
putting the work in and tak-
ing [golf ] seriously ... and
having fun in tournaments.”
This ethos has yielded consid-
erable results: Farber finished
ninth at NESCAC individual
championships last year and
seventh the year before.
“There are definitely times
when I forget that I am do-
ing this for fun,” Farber said.
“The goal is to just really en-
joy myself out there.”
Farber finds this balance
in her practice schedule too.
Known as a golfer who rou-
tinely spends time on the
course alone to work on her
game, she confirms that she
“enjoys going out on the
course and having that time
during the day to [herself ] to
practice.” However, despite
the individual nature of the
sport, Farber embraces the
team atmosphere as well.
“I also love playing with
people, and I’m lucky to have
a lot of close friends on the
team and other people who
take [golf ] just as seriously as
I do,” said Farber.
“There are definitely times
when I forget that I am doing
this for fun. The goal is to
just really enjoy myself out
there.”
–Caroline Farber 20
SPORTS Friday, September 28, 2018
players that I was coaching,
which [created] an inter-
esting dynamic. I learned a
lot from that [experience].
If you’re confident in some-
thing, people will listen and
respond to you.”
Mary Beth Mathews, the
head coach of the women’s
rugby team, was impressed
by Read’s genuine desire for
coaching and his experience
in the backfield position.
Mathews was surprised to find
out that she and Read share a
similar coaching philosophy
known as “guided discovery.”
Mathews described this
method as a games-based and
constraints-led approach.
“If I were to have 12 new
rugby players, I would put
them out on the field, six
against six,” said Mathews.
“All I would say [to each
team] is: your job is to get
the ball [over] there. And I
would say nothing else. [I
would] throw them out there
to play with no rules and see
what happens.”
Coaching at Bowdoin
alongside Mathews fulfilled
one of Read’s childhood goals.
The women’s rugby team is COURTESY OF BOWDOIN SPORTS INFORMATION
excited to have him. ACROSS THE POND: James Read, the new assistant women’s rugby coach, used to play professionally in England.
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD
GOLFING TO GLORY: Caroline Farber ’20 watches her shot on the green.
She is the first in program history to be given an All-NESCAC distinction.
Head Coach Stu Cady early successes of this year’s
praised both Farber and Mc- team.
Cabe’s qualities as leaders: With Farber and McCabe
“[their] leadership by work at the helm, the team has
ethic is great. Everyone else gotten off to a hot start, in-
follows behind—they love cluding first-place finishes
them as people and as lead- in both the Bowdoin and
ers … and [the captains] also Bobcat Invitationals and a
do a good job of making sure third consecutive Maine State
everyone is feeling included.” Championship title. Farber
That commitment to inclu- has continued her excellent
sion and a supportive atmo- play, taking home first-place
sphere is one of the great in all three tournaments by
five, nine and seven strokes,
respectively. But these excep-
tional performances aside,
Farber is proud of the atmo-
sphere she has helped bring
to this year’s team.
With a leader who is com-
mitted to creating a support-
ive team atmosphere and
Cady describes as “authentic
and true to herself,” the team
is poised for an exceptional
season.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Rowing heads to first regatta under new head coach
by Benjamin Mason
Staff Writer
When Head Coach Gil Bir-
ney retired last spring after
22 years, the Bowdoin crew
team had a major void to fill.
Stepping into his new position
as head coach is former assis-
tant Doug Welling. The team
also added assistant coach Ry
Hills, who brings with her a
“Perfecting a stroke is like per-
fecting an art form, and it feels
like a living, breathing thing
pulling your boat through the
water.” –Matt Donnelly ’22
strong commitment to phys-
ical fitness and experience
competing in national cham-
pionship regattas.
In the first few weeks of
the season, the coaches have
already merged their leader-
ship styles, focusing on both
technique and form.
“Both [coaches] emphasize
the feel of the boat and they
treat rowing as more of an art
form than a sport,” said Matt
Donnelly ’22. “Perfecting a
stroke is like perfecting an art
form, and it feels like a living,
breathing thing pulling your
boat through the water.”
Before coming to Bowdoin,
Hills was an Olympic hopeful,
stopping just shy of making
the Olympic crew team. She
went on to coach a junior
crew team to the world cham-
pionships. Looking back, she
realizes how fundamental
crew was to her self-esteem
and athletic ability.
“One thing rowing does for
you, regardless of your skill
level, is give you a sense of
confidence,” said Hills. “The
level of physical fitness that
you get to in rowing — it’s the
most fit I’ve ever been. Both
[in] raw strength and aerobic
[endurance].”
Hills gained experience
sailing before her rowing ca-
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reer began. Her skill in the
water corresponds with her
ability to give rowers instruc-
tions. With a roster that in-
cludes many newcomers, this
supportive environment is
crucial to the team’s success.
Four out of five days a
week, the team is on the wa-
ter at 6 a.m. On Saturdays, the
team “sleeps in,” and does not
start rowing until 8 a.m.
The Head of the Charles,
the team’s longest regatta, is
just a few weekends away.
Competition from around the
world, including Ivy League
schools and Olympic con-
tenders will be in attendance.
This high level of competition KAYLA SNYDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
is unusual for a club team. But
Hills adheres to the idea that
“being a club doesn’t limit us
at all in terms of who we race.”
This weekend, the crew
team will have an opportuni-
ty to test its beginners at the
Textile River Regatta in Low-
ell, Mass.
“It’s a great regatta for
first-time rowers because it’s
an easy course to steer,” said
Hills. “It’s pretty straight-
forward, and there is decent
competition, but not the kind
that will be at the Head of the
Charles.”
Despite a slew of new mem-
bers and a few upperclassmen
rowers studying abroad, the
team has high expectations
for this upcoming season.
They are hoping, and plan-
ning to medal, once again, at
the Head of the Charles this
year.
The crew team is constantly
looking for new recruits and
encourages interested stu-
dents to reach out to coaches COURTESY OF GIANNI JANNKE DEMUZZIO
Welling or Hills. THE CREW: Head Coach Doug Welling greets Calvin Kinghorn ’21 and the men’s crew team at the dock.
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14 Friday, September 28, 2018

O OPINION
In the footsteps of Dr. Ford
Yesterday, the nation watched as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford relived the details of her
sexual assault in front of the United States Senate.
“I am terrified,” she bluntly stated, in front of a group that is 77 percent male. Ter-
rified, but acting regardless—true bravery in a moment where it counts most. Senator
Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said it best: “I want to use a different word for your courage
because this is more—as much as this hearing is about a Supreme Court justice, the
reality is—is by you coming forward, your courage, you are affecting the culture of our
country.”
Ford’s accusations were from her high school days. Some of the other accusations
against Kavanaugh were from his college days at Yale. These incidents are not far re-
moved from our own campus and the things that have happened or could one day
happen here. Questions about drinking games and sexual innuendos rang familiar for
every Bowdoin student. When Kavanaugh asked a senator if he was familiar with the
rules of the game quarters, many of us were reminded of drunken nights in Quinby
basement.
Think about the worst sexual assault story that you’ve heard on campus. That abuser
could be a Supreme Court Justice one day.
In the 11 days since Ford first made her allegation, the news has been full of other
victims and former classmates who have also come forward with stories of Kavana-
ugh’s misconduct. Many of them point out that, at the time, the culture of conversation SARA CAPLAN

around this topic was different. “Date rape” was only just entering the public lexicon,
and the idea that “boys will be boys” still reigned supreme.
Nowadays, we don’t have those same excuses. We do know better. We have conver-
sations about consent and sexual assault everywhere, from high school health classes
Why all the Black kids are
to the pages of the Orient. As such, we must acknowledge that sexual assault plays out
in our small community. We also have to acknowledge that we can play a role when
we see something that makes us ask questions about consent, about safety, about basic
sitting together in the classroom
decency. It is better to have an awkward or difficult conversation now than it is to watch Now, there are classic examples of do? Do you dap them up, or do you leave
the news 20 years from now and realize you might have been able to do something, to Say It Like It Is white spaces here at our college such as after just a few minutes? I would guess
say something. by Nate DeMoranville the Outing Club and even the Orient, that, regardless of your race, you look for
Talking about being sexually assaulted is not easy. It can be, as Ford said, terrifying. but perhaps less recognized is one we all the people similar to yourself. I, personal-
While most Bowdoin students don’t have to face the hostility that such a high-profile inhabit: the classroom. About 30 percent ly, hit everybody up, and, for a brief mo-
survivor encounters, trauma manifests itself in different ways. Some victims fear that Imagine, for a moment, that you are of students on campus self-identify as ment, I feel at home again.
they’ll be cast as attention-seekers, even amongst their peers. Others are told “it couldn’t in your favorite class of the semester. It people of color, and while this is an admi- But I can’t speak to your experience.
be, he’s a really good guy,” and have to live with the denial of their struggle all over again. is a Thursday afternoon, and the week rable statistic, it does not show how often I also can’t say that you’ve ever been
Some still see their assaulters around campus. is almost over. You settle into your seat, students of color do not represent 30 per- to an Af-Am party—in which case, I
We realize that the process of reporting sexual assault is difficult and often puts an and then a student walks in wearing a cent of a room. There might be a majority suggest you think of another situation
unfair burden on the victim. Reporting takes a tremendous amount of time and energy mechanic’s uniform. You look around the of students of color in an Africana Studies where you’ve been the minority. Think
and can be deeply traumatic. Not every survivor should have to put themselves through room, but nobody seems to notice a prob- class but just a handful in a history one. about how you reacted and who you
what Ford has for our country to take sexual assault seriously. lem, except for you. This may be a fashion Consider for a moment, what it is like surrounded yourself with. It’s alright if
Thus, we must, as Booker said, work to change culture. We must act as better by- statement to them, but this jumpsuit is when you are just one of a handful. they were all white—it’s human nature
standers so that fewer things happen that need to be reported. And when things, un- familiar to you—your father wears one to Your environmental studies profes- to create comfort. But as you recognize
fortunately, do happen that need to be reported, we can support and believe survivors. work every day. sor puts Colin Kaepernick on the board, these social conditions, do your part
We can help prevent future Kavanaughs. This is what I, and others, call a mi- and nobody has even heard of him. Your to change them. Put yourself in spaces
croaggression. In my experience, they are cinema studies class covers the Oscars, where you are uncomfortable, recognize
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, commonplace. Some people carry tiki and nobody thinks Moonlight should it and show up again. Institutional forces
which is composed of Nell Fitzgerald, Dakota Griffin, Calder McHugh and Jessica torches and wave Confederate flags; oth- have won Best Picture. Your English class divide our campus, but white comfort
Piper. ers forget Black people’s names and touch reads “Citizen” by Claudia Rankine, and creates a mainstream culture that fur-
their hair without permission. everybody looks to you for your reaction. thers the divide.
In my last column, I wrote that I am In some of these instances, sure, there are The only way we change this campus
very often given the responsibility of rep- allies in the room, and you make sure to is if we come together. Do you want a
resenting the Black experience to ignorant sit next to them in every class afterwards. living wage for hourly workers? Do you
white people. This is a bold claim, but it Most moments, however, you are alone. want more faculty of color? More queer
ESTABLISHED 1871 is one I would very much like to substan- There is nobody who understands the people in power? Then start by getting to
Brunswick, ME 04011 tiate in this piece. So, if you’re wondering small things that gnaw at you constantly. know your neighbors, because when we
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The Bowdoin Orient is a student-run weekly publication dedicated to providing news and information in the classroom, sit back and buckle up. set another scene for you. It is an Af-Am front to the administration, how can they
relevant to the Bowdoin community. Editorially independent of the College and its administrators, (But also, if you never even realized that party, the annual Ebony Ball. There are tell us that this system works? That our re-
the Orient pursues such content freely and thoroughly, following professional journalistic standards in we self-segregate, stop reading right now more Black people here than you have quests are not valid? They simply cannot,
writing and reporting. The Orient is committed to serving as an open forum for thoughtful and diverse … there is nothing I can do for you.) ever seen in your entire life. What do you and I sincerely look forward to that day.
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James Little
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Features Editor
Class Council election results show need
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Amanda Newman Dear Editor, BSG should consider ranked-choice voting, which
Emma Bezilla promotes winners with broad support. In this sys-
Ian Stewart Lucia Ryan
A&E Editor The recent Class Council election results are tem, voters rank candidates according to their pref-
Jaret Skonieczny (asst.) Copy Editor Sabrina Lin counter-majoritarian. Winners in four different erence. If a candidate has a majority of first-choice
Sam Adler elections won with less than 50 percent of the vote, votes, she wins. If no candidate has a majority of
Data Desk Editor Sydney Benjamin Opinion Editor due to the plurality system that the Bowdoin Student first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest
Gideon Moore Conrad Li Kate Lusignan Government uses. number of first-choice votes is eliminated, and the
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Senior News Reporter Calendar Editor first years voted for a candidate other than Wilder candidates. This process continues until a candi-
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Gwen Davidson Diego Lasarte The BSG’s constitution says it “stands on campus broad opposition.
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Don’t do drugs
by Drew Humphreys
Op-Ed Contributor
I do not advocate for the
use of any psychoactive com-
pounds. Nor do I advocate
for their non-use. You can do
whatever you want. Isn’t that
beautiful? Our culture sees
“drugs” as either 1. indispens-
ably useful in medicine or 2.
illegal, addictive, life-destroy-
ing, soul-sucking incarnations
of Satan. We pretend that alco-
hol, a toxic and addictive com-
pound, isn’t even a drug, hence
the common phrase “drugs
and alcohol.”
But what is a drug? To
paraphrase Google’s broad
definition, a drug is any sub-
stance that biochemically
affects the body. Let’s restrict
this definition to psychoactive
drugs (those which “affect the
mind”). We still have people
who find time between their
psychoactive fixes of caffeine,
alcohol, painkillers, nicotine
and sugar (yes, sugar) to tell
others to not use drugs.
In this paradoxical, cultural
climate, children are bom-
barded with fear tactics and
misinformation but still can’t
go a day without seeing an ad
that glorifies alcohol on ca-
ble TV. Alcohol and tobacco
are both addictive and toxic,
harming and killing many peo-
ple every day. However, some
illegal drugs are not addictive,
non-toxic and far less likely to
cause any kind of harm. This
lack of logic prevents many
of us from seeing the very
real potential for illegal com-
pounds to benefit humanity.
Psychedelics fit the bill.
There are many myths to
debunk concerning psychedel-
ics, but here’s the short version.
You cannot get stuck in a trip.
Bad trips are avoidable. LSD is
not stored in spinal fluid; it’s
gone in about a day. Psyche-
delics themselves do not create
a permanent state of psychosis
or schizophrenia but can ex-
pose a latent mental condition.
No one with a family history
of these disorders should use
these substances. No one has
died of an LSD, DMT or mush-
room overdose, because most
psychedelics are not toxic.
They do not cause the brain
to bleed or lose cells. They are
not physically addictive and
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are only rarely psychological-
ly addictive; the desire to use
usually decreases with use.
Psychedelics cannot endow
your un-drugged brain with
the ability to spontaneously
trip. Sometimes, after using,
people can get minor, mo-
mentary visual distortions.
Some get anxiety attacks due
to PTSD from terrifying trips.
A very small minority of users
get HPPD (hallucinogen per-
sisting perception disorder),
in which slight visual distor-
tions are experienced con-
tinuously after the drug has
worn off, but it is extremely
rare and usually short-lived.
Recently, researchers have
examined the medical benefits
of psychedelic drugs such as
LSD and psilocybin, the ac-
tive chemical in magic mush-
rooms. The results have been
shocking.
A 2014 study at Johns Hop-
kins University (JHU) demon-
strated psilocybin’s ability to
catalyze smoking cessation.
With a success rate of 80 per-
cent after six months, it is
currently the best treatment
known. Only three doses were
required, which is unprece-
dented. Also, psilocybin has
been shown to kick other drug
addictions, such as alcoholism.
In a 2016 study at Imperial
College London, psilocybin
successfully diminished or
eradicated treatment-resis-
tant depression and anxiety.
Sixty-seven percent of partic-
ipants were depression-free
for at least a week, and 42 per-
cent were for three months or
longer. This was after just two
doses.
A 2016 JHU study showed
that psilocybin helps cancer
patients who experience exis-
tential distress and depression
after a terminal diagnosis.
Patients showed significant,
positive changes in mood, be-
havior, altruism and attitudes
about life and death. After six
months, 67 percent of partici-
pants still reported their high-
dose session to be in the top
five most meaningful events of
their lives, and over 80 percent
experienced increased well-be-
ing and life satisfaction. Only
two doses were administered.
Psychedelics create a differ-
ent, self-critical perspective,
letting people see how they
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are hurting them-
selves. They make peo-
ple reorganize their values
and understand different
things to be most important.
They make people emotional-
ly experience truths that they
only understood intellectually
before. For example, one life-
long smoker quit after psilo-
cybin helped her emotionally
experience the myriad possi-
bilities and value of life.
In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s,
similar strides were made in
studying the benefits of LSD.
However, the moral panic over
psychedelics led to illegaliza-
tion and a halt on research.
Knowledge was silenced, and
hysteria got the mic.
It is unfortunate that the
pharmaceutical industry is not
interested in investing in psy-
chedelic treatments despite the
positive and repeatable results.
But it makes sense. You can’t
make money off a drug that
most people only need a few
times.
Legalization of medical psy-
chedelics is probably not far
off, though. Like in the case
of marijuana, the research on
these drugs will probably be
enough to break down the stig-
ma, getting psychedelics out of
your friends’ basements and
into clinics. Medical legaliza-
tion could be the gateway to a
broader legalization for use by
ED
Y
healthy
people,
but the
word “rec-
reational”
doesn’t fit.
They aren’t
fun.
Although it is
normally only acceptable
to test the effects of drugs
on the unwell for medicinal
purposes, a 2006 JHU study
looked into the effects of two
to three doses of psilocybin on
36 healthy, college-educated
adults. A third of participants
described the experience as
the most spiritually significant
one of their lives. 12 percent
said it was the most personally
meaningful event of their lives,
and over half placed it in their
top five. They reported positive
changes in their lives for many
months afterwards, changes that
were corroborated by commu-
nity observers. These included
significant positive changes in
mood, behavior, altruism and
meaning.
Psychedelics have been
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shown to reliably pro-
duce profound, life-altering
experiences that can increase
quality of life. They temporarily
alter or obliterate our sense of
self, free us from usual thought
patterns and allow us to see past
the everyday to grasp what’s truly
important. Legalization for the
betterment of healthy people is
perhaps a logical end goal, not to
mention an altruistic and loving
one.
Many people dismiss psy-
chedelic experiences and
perhaps even the research on
them, believing that users are
fooled by a “drug experience”
that isn’t “real.”
“Real,” like all words, is
ambiguous. Countless psy-
chological studies show that
sober people do not experi-
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ence “reality,”
but rather a ver-
sion bent by sensory
illusions, selective at-
tention, biases and expec-
tations. Do we have any au-
thority to make claims about
the ultimate nature of reality
from this falsifiable perspec-
tive of consciousness?
Everything within your
conscious experience is made
from the chemical soup of
your brain. Like the endog-
enous chemical serotonin,
many psychedelic chemicals
take effect by binding to the
same receptors. All experi-
ences are made of chemicals.
Experiences you attribute to
things outside you are with-
in you. Your reality is a con-
trolled hallucination.
All experiences are real
though, including psychedel-
ic ones, because they happen.
And what standard of reality
is there other than direct ex-
perience? None at all. Isn’t that
beautiful?
Drew Humphreys is a mem-
ber of the class of 2021.
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
FRIDAY 28
EVENT
Creative Collaboration in Line, Sound
and Gesture
Following the opening of their interactive exhibits, “Let’s Get
Lost” and “Listening Glass,” artists Linn Meyers, Rebecca
Bray, Josh Knowles and James Bigbee Garver will discuss the
behind-the-scenes process of creating artwork.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 12 p.m.

EVENT
Knit and Crochet for the Common Good
The McKeen Center will provide supplies for students to
make warm-weather clothing for those in need. No previous
knitting or crocheting experience is necessary.
Banister Hall, Joseph McKeen Center for the Common
Good. 3 p.m.
LISA ZHOU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
LECTURE CIVIC DUTIES: Bowdoin Votes set up stations in David Saul Smith Union on Wednesday for National Voter Registration Day. Since the beginning of
the school year, the group has campaigned across campus to encourage student participation in the upcoming November elections.
The Constitution vs. Reality Faculty Panel
Inspired by student commentary on the Constitution Day
display in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, a panel of Gov-
ernment professors will discuss the Constitution’s contextual
meaning in the everyday lives of individuals.
Pickering Room, Hubbard Hall. 3 p.m.
MONDAY 1 WEDNESDAY 3
EVENT LECTURE
EVENT Search and Destroy with Karen Jung Nature and Culture: A Greater Journey
Build-a-Band Karen Jung, music librarian and coordinator of research and in Painting
The Bowdoin Music Collective will host a get-together for instructional services, will facilitate an educational game Renowned New England artist Joel Babb, known for his natu-
students interested in joining a band, playing instruments in which students utilize their database-searching skills to ral landscape paintings, will discuss his career and artwork.
with others or learning more about the music scene on cam- compete with one another. Digital Media Lab, Edwards Center for Art and Dance. 4 p.m.
pus. All instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome. First Floor Research Lab, Hawthorne-Longfellow
Practice Rooms, David Saul Smith Union. 4 p.m. Library. 1 p.m. LECTURE
The Life and Times of a Yup’ik Eskimo
PERFORMANCE Coiled Basket
Devin Gray’s Dirigo Rataplan Curator Molly Lee will discuss her fieldwork with Yup’ik bas-
The Brooklyn-based Jazz band, Dirigo Rataplan, will perform ketmakers in association with the Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat

SATURDAY 29 works from its second album in Studzinski Recital Hall.

PERFORMANCE
The Gibson Players
A group of four musicians on the clarinet, violin, piano and
cello will respectively play two 20th-century pieces in Studz-
inski Recital Hall. The two works convey a divergent response
to the events of the World Wars.
Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 3 p.m.
SUNDAY 30
Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY 2
EVENT
Graduate School Fair
The Career Planning Center will host representatives from
over 85 schools, providing interested students the chance to
learn about various graduate and professional programs.
Morrell Lounge, David Saul Smith Union. 3:30 p.m.
LECTURE
art exhibition at the Arctic Museum.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY 4
LECTURE
Book Launch: “Shen Gua’s Empiricism”
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, Leah (Ya)
Zuo, will describe her research into the life of the influential
ancient Chinese thinker and scientist Shen Gua in the launch
of her book, “Shen Gua’s Empiricism.”
Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 4:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCE Afro-Latinxs: Navigating Blackness and LECTURE

SEAL
In a play centered around the mysterious identity and
circumstances of a patient, the staff of a medical clinic will
embark on a search for answers. The show is produced by
The Theater Project, a non profit professional theater.
14 School St. 2 p.m.
Latinidad in the Age of Trump
As a part of Latinx Heritage Month, Claudia García-Louis, as-
sistant professor of educational policy and leadership studies
at the University of Texas San Antonio, will discuss perception
and exclusion of Afro-Latinxs in American society.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m.
Literature, Empathy and The Perils
of Appropriation
Award-winning Irish author Colum McCann will discuss his
literary touchstones in a lecture sponsored by the Kenneth V.
Santagata Memorial Fund.
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium. 7:30 p.m.

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