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Town council
candidates find
common ground
by James Callahan
Orient Staff
Sande Updegraph and Dan
Ankeles are two candidates
approaching an at-large Town
Council seat in Brunswick—
the town’s only contested
election at the local level this
November.
Despite their differing prior
experiences, the two have sim-
ilar opinions on several politi-
cal issues.
Both candidates large-
ly agree on what Brunswick
needs: direct property tax re-
lief for seniors, commitment
to the local school system,
economic development and
better long-term planning that
spaces out large capital im-
provement projects.
velopment Authority (MRRA),
the Village Review Board
and the Zoning Board of Ap-
peals. She is currently on the
Planning Board, which meets
twice each month to discuss
planning and development
proposals. Additionally, she is
the former Executive Director
of both the Freeport Chamber
of Commerce and the Free-
port Economic Development
Corporation. For 25 years, she
worked in hotel management.
She has lived in town for 17
years with her husband and
has three sons and one grand-
daughter.
During his time as a legis- PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
lative aide in the Maine House FALL FESTIVAL: Student musicians performed at an outdoor concert on the front porch of Baxter House on Sunday. Students and community members
Democratic Office, Ankeles watched from the grass while enjoying apple cider and donuts. Baxter residents collaborated with the Bowdoin Music Collective to organize the event.
helped pass legislation pro-
tecting same-day voter regis-

In run for governor, Hayes ’80

The difference between the tration, as well as legislation
two candidates is, in large part, to fight predatory creditor
one of background. tactics. As a former delegate
At 37, Ankeles would be for Bernie Sanders at the 2016

fights against partisanship

the youngest member of the
town council if elected. He
currently works in Augusta as
a legislative aide for the House
Democrats and has a wealth
of experience in state govern-
ment. At the local level, he
has served on the Recreation
Commission for five years and
the Rivers and Coastal Waters
Commission for two years. He
has lived in town since 2011
with his wife and their two
young daughters.
Updegraph, 73, has exten-
sive experience in local and
regional economic planning:
she has served on the Bridge
Design Advisory Committee,
the Midcoast Regional Rede-
Maine Democratic Conven-
tion, his progressive creden-
tials are a major part of his
identity.
“I think it’s important to
elect progressives up and down
the ticket because that’s how
we plant the seeds to build the
world we want to see,” he said.
Although she did volunteer
with the Hillary Clinton cam-
paign in 2016, Updegraph’s
experience has primarily
been in nonpartisan roles.
For example, as a trustee with
MRRA, she helped oversee the
redevelopment of the former
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Please see TOWN SEAT, page 3 state’s problems.
by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
Terry Hayes ’80 says she
never planned on running for
office. The first time she did,
she lost, only to rebound and
win six races over the follow-
ing decade. After eight years
in the Maine House of Repre-
sentatives and nearly four as
the State Treasurer, she has
identified partisan bickering
as the central cause of the
In April 2017, Hayes was
the first candidate to file to
run for governor of Maine.
As a candidate without a par-
ty affiliation, she is polling
around 10 percent, according
to the most recent numbers.
After term-limited gov-
ernor Paul LePage won with
less than 50 percent of the
vote in 2010 and 2014, some
have worries that Hayes could
play a spoiler. But she’s more
focused on spreading her
message.
“Many times our challenges
are not partisan,” Hayes said.
“And our solutions shouldn’t
be either.”
Born in Portland, Hayes
graduated from Catherine
McAuley High School, an
all-girls Catholic school. The
nuns there, she recalled, were
less than encouraging about
her desire to attend the then
predominantly male and
Protestant Bowdoin.
Hayes, however, liked
what she had heard about the
College from a coworker at
McDonald’s, so she applied
anyway and was admitted.
She was glad to stay in Maine
for college, she said, although
Brunswick still felt far away.
“I did not have a car. So it
didn’t really matter that it was
only a half hour from Port-
land,” she said.
Hayes majored in govern-
ment and minored in edu-
cation. She formed valuable
Please see HAYES, page 3

What you didn’t know: BQSA launches Swastika etched on

queer history poster campaign
by Aura Carlson
Staff Writer
As part of OUTtober, Bow-
doin Queer Straight Alliance
(BQSA) launched a new poster
initiative: “Queer History You
Didn’t Know and History You
Didn’t Know was Queer.” The
idea arose out of a discussion
among BQSA members about
how many people, including
members of the LGBTQ com-
munity, lack an understanding
of queer history.
“We don’t really know our
history because a lot of it’s
been erased,” said BQSA officer
Pauline Unietis ’20. “We lost a
whole generation of gay men
to the AIDS crisis and so there’s
desk draws contempt
really a disconnect between the
current generation and all our
history.”
Gathered in Druckenmill-
er Hall on Monday evening,
several members of BQSA
chose queer historical figures
to research from a long list that
included Michelangelo, Sally
Ride and Virginia Woolf. With
this research, BQSA members
created posters that will be
hung around campus to spread
awareness during OUTtober.
Having gained significant
insight through their research,
BQSA members want to illumi-
nate queer history not only on
campus but also within the local
community.
After reading the list of gay
historical figures, BQSA offi-
cer Unietis noted the ability to
relate to queer people living as
long ago as the fifteenth century.
“I think it’s important for
people to see that being queer
isn’t a new thing,” Unietis said.
“Some people think it’s a fad.
But it’s existed since forever.”
In addition to the new his-
tory archives, BQSA will once
again be hosting Yellow Shirt
Day, but with some changes
from previous years. The event
began in 2005 when the College
Republicans brought homopho-
bic speaker Michael Heath—
who wanted to overturn Maine’s
sexual orientation anti-discrim-
ination law—to Bowdoin. Only
the 10 to 20 people in the front
row wore normal clothing—the
rest of the audience wore yellow
shirts as a manner of protesting
Heath’s agenda.
Keeping the tradition alive,
BQSA has transitioned to mak-
ing yellow shirts for members
of the College community. The
current shirts say “Respect All
genders. All sexualities.” This
year, BQSA will be tabling in
Smith Union with $5 yellow
shirts from Monday through
Wednesday.
However, while the tradition
of wearing the shirts has contin- imagery at colleges and uni-
ued, the discussions regarding
their content has noticeably
faded.
Please see BQSA, page 4 clusion and Diversity Michael
by Jessica Piper
Orient Staff
In an email to the campus
community on Tuesday, Presi-
dent Clayton Rose announced
that a swastika, drawn on a
carrel and accompanied by
the phrase “Heil Hitler,” has
been deemed a bias incident.
It is the third time the Nazi
symbol has been found on
Bowdoin’s campus since ear-
ly 2017 and comes amidst an
uptick in white nationalist
versities across the nation.
The incident was first re-
ported on September 28, but
Senior Vice President for In-
Reed said it’s unclear when
or by whom the graffiti was
drawn. In some cases, the
Office of Safety and Secu-
rity uses surveillance video
footage or card swipe data to
identify people of interest, but
the lack of a timeframe and
the location of the carrel—on
the sixth floor of the Hubbard
Hall Stacks—rendered both of
these approaches unhelpful.
Reed noted that graffiti
had likely been seen by others
before the report was filed, as
a nearby scribble read “F---
you,” with an arrow pointed at
the swastika.
The Bias Incident Group
Please see GRAFFITI, page 5

N MIDTERM MOBILIZATION A BOWDOIN’S NEXT BEYONCÉ F BREWING BUDDIES S SEMPER FI O RACISM AT BOWDOIN?
Political organizations on and around Alanna Morrison ’20 will debut her first Two longtime friends will open Brunswick’s Bowdoin wins prestigious Marine Corp Nate DeMoranville ’19 contemplates roles
campus reach out to students. Page 4. album, “Oh Boy.” Page 6. third brewery next Saturday. Page 9. Commandant Trophy. Page 10. in the racial divide on campus. Page 13.
2 Friday, October 19, 2018

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Thursday, October 12
PAGE TWO
SECURITY REPORT
10/12 to 10/18
• A student complaining of flu-like symptoms was
STUDENT SPEAK:
What food do people hate that you love?
• Three students took responsibility for participating escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.
in offensive graffiti on chalkboards throughout Win-
throp Hall. Tuesday, October 16
• A student took responsibility for accidentally dam- • Two College-owned “No Alcohol Beyond This Nelson Andrade-Pacheco ’20
aging a wall at 52 Harpswell. Point” wooden signs were discovered inside a room

Friday, October 13
in Moore Hall. Two students took responsibility for
walking off with the signs. Soggy cereal.
• Four students took responsibility for hosting an un- • A wind gust blew open and shattered a window in
registered event at Stowe Hall. Helmreich House.
• A minor student was cited for possession of a cup
containing hard alcohol outside of Coleman Hall. Wednesday, October 17
• A student was cited for hosting an unregistered • Three local men were identified as the suspects
event where hard alcohol in the June 24 theft of a
was served at Coleman Hall. sledgehammer from Me-
Firas Abboud ’22
• A student was cited for morial Hall, which was
failure to comply when he
returned to a concert at
then used to smash a win-
dow at Howard Hall. The
Watermlon with feta.
Morrell Gym after being in- men have admitted their
structed by a security officer involvement. They will
to leave the premises. pay restitution and will be
barred from campus for
Saturday, October 14 one year.
• An officer checked on the • A transient was issued
SYDNEY REAPER

wellbeing of an intoxicat- a trespass warning after

ed minor who was sick in exhibiting erratic behavior Darius Riley ’19
Thorne Hall. at Hawthorne-Longfellow
• A Coleman Hall student
was cited for smoking mar-
Library.
• A College employee re- Grilled cheese dipped in honey.
ijuana in the residence hall. ported being stalked by
• A student reporting
symptoms of disorientation
a man on campus in the
neighborhood near cam-
Shout out to Maurice Asare for
and confusion was trans-
ported to Mid Coast Hospital.
pus. A suspect has been
identified and the matter is under investigation.
putting me on.
• A student requested that an officer check on the • A student walking near the intersection of College
well-being of a fellow student. Street and Harpswell Road reported that a passenger
• A student took responsibility for maliciously pull- in a passing vehicle yelled profanity at the student. Reed Foster ’21
ing a fire alarm at Winthrop Hall that resulted in a The student was able to obtain a vehicle description
building evacuation.
• A student with a rugby-related leg injury requested
and plate number. The information was passed on to
the Brunswick police.
I’m pretty mainstream with my
an escort to Mid Coast Hospital.
Thursday , October 18
food choices, I think.
Sunday, October 15 • A student reported excessive noise coming from
• An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxi- Stowe Hall. The noise had subsided by the time an
cated student at Thorne Hall. officer arrived.
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Word-Up!
CREATED BY AUGUST RICE

Across 66. Dairy product

1. Neighboring keys on a keyboard
4. Sinister smile
8. Next planet in
*12. The first state
13. But, in Latin
14. Neighboring state (Abbr.)
15. ___ Lingus
16. Old farm song vowels
17. Necessity for a BOC member
19. Where you might find a BOC
member (Abbr.)
*20. The second state
22. Popular scary TV show with a new
season this fall
24. Broken tile?
25. Giga- times 1,000
*26. The third state
29. Speedometer letters
31. Plural ending for her?
32. Flat, colloquially?
35. Main artery
*37. The fourth state
41. One of a haiku’s three
42. Foreigner’s opposite
44. Thou, updated
*45. The third-last state
47. Celtics’ star Kyrie
49. Barbie’s counterpart
50. Room in the hospital
51. Out there
53. BBQ slab unit
*55. The second-last state
60. It’s dangling in your throat
62. Sweater-wearing Mister
*63. The last state
68. Giving one’s view
69. End piece of a musical piece
70. ___, ___ and away!
Down
1. Unshakable
2. Simmer angrily
3. 100 cent amt.
4. Most delightful
5. Many a Bowdoin student
6. Writer of satire
7. Email response (Abbr.)
8. Smooth fabric
9. Poe’s first name
10. College, in Britain (with an extra
“n”)
11. Sword case
13. Pork preservative
17. Cornell’s state
18. Dental abbr.
21. Killed
23. Falling head over heels (for)
27. City in southwest Spain, known for
its sherry
28. Jellystone’s bear
30. Protein particle thought to cause
certain brain and nervous system
diseases 40. A possible nickname for me 52. Chinese monetary unit 59. Pronto!
33. Indian goddess 41. George or Placid 53. Destroy 61. Seven, to Caesar
34. Salem’s state 43. Battery type 54. Springfield’s state 63. Santa’s favorite word
35. Was shown on TV 46. Tulsa’s state (Abbr.) 55. Jason sailed aboard it 64. Test in May
36. ___ Arbor, MI 48. Medication nicknamed “blue 56. Second L of LOL 65. Sheboygan’s state
38. “___ the ramparts we ...” diamond” 57. Word that follows “Ready” 67. Soap set in Orange County (The
39. Global Youth Initiative (Abbr.) 50. Amazon competitor 58. Monetary unit of Denmark (Abbr.) ______)
Friday, October 19, 2018 NEWS 3

NEWS IN BRIEF
COMPILED BY ANDREW BASTONE AND HORACE WANG

WITH HALLOWEEN COMING UP,

BSG ASSEMBLY WARNS AGAINST
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Wednesday night’s BSG meeting focused on the recent bias inci-
dent report released by President Clayton Rose and included a discus-
sion on cultural appropriation centered around Halloween costumes.
In discussing the Bias Incident Group’s report on the swastika
found in the Hubbard Hall stacks, Senior Class President Henry Bre-
dar explained his frustration with the lack of closure after such inci-
dents are reported.
“I feel like in the past we get these emails about bias incidents oc-
curring, and then we hear nothing about the fallout, whether they
know who did it, what the punishment was, what we’re doing to en-
sure it isn’t happening again,” said Bredar.
The Assembly then discussed cultural appropriation reflected in of-
fensive Halloween costumes and themed parties. BSG President Mo-
hamed Nur ’19 reminded the Assembly of the role that previous BSG
members had in incidents of cultural appropriation. In the spring of
2016, two BSG members faced impeachment articles after participat-
ing in what became known as the “tequila” party, although the articles
were ultimately dropped.
“I want to adamantly declare, no one on this Assembly should cul-
turally appropriate,” said Nur.
The discussion then turned to the role of Entertainment Hosts
(E-Hosts) in confronting individuals with offensive costumes and
questions about whether those individuals should be admitted into EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
College Houses. Tessa DeFranco ’21, one of the programming chairs PARTISAN-FREE PLATFORM: Terry Hayes ’80, a candidate in Maine’s gubernatorial race, is choosing to run independently from any political party. Having
for MacMillan House, explained that her house had discussed how to served in the legislature for eight years and as State Treasurer for four, she is firm in her belief that partisanship is a harmful force in Maine politics.
prepare for such situations.
“We’re going to talk to our E-Hosts beforehand about how to han-
dle a situation like that,” DeFranco said.
HAYES challenged Hanley and won Use Planning in the Unorga- can challenges or Demo-
by a margin of just 15 votes. nized Territory,” passed in cratic challenges,” she said.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
She was worried she was un- May of 2012. “They’re Maine’s challenges.
relationships with faculty and derprepared to assume state “We ended up with a good And if that doesn’t mean we
ADMISSIONS OFFICE INTRODUCES staff, including former Direc- office, but it turned out she outcome that ended up being always agree, it just means we
VIDEO SUPPLEMENT FOR tor of Financial Aid Walter didn’t have to be.
Moulton and Paul Hazelton,
bipartisan. And to me that come at them focused on the
“Women have a tendency was probably the best thing,” problem, not focused on each
CLASS OF 2023 APPLICANTS a longtime education profes- not to pursue a job until they Hayes said. other.”
sor at Bowdoin. She also sat feel like they have 100 percent She was re-elected to her Hayes may have an aver-
Bowdoin now offers applicants to the College the option of re- on the Student Activities Fee of the qualifications. Men get fourth term in 2012 but found sion to partisanship, but it
cording a short video response as a supplement to their applica- Committee, which was re- over 50 and they say, ‘Well herself growing disillusioned hasn’t protected her from
tions. The video response option, last year offered only to interna- sponsible for delegating the hell, let’s go for it,’” she said. with the Democratic party. partisan attacks.
tional applicants, is now available to all high school students. money collected through stu- “I think that I was concerned “The party was really fo- An ad released by the
“We are really excited to try it and recognize that it’s an exper- dents’ activity fees. that I wouldn’t know enough. cused on perpetuating itself Maine Republican Party last
iment for us on the admissions side,” said Dean of Admissions In retrospect, it seems like You know, that I hadn’t been and not necessarily on solv- week attacked both Mills and
Whitney Soule. “We hope that it serves as a way for students to a precursor to her stint as paying attention. I was raising ing challenges,” she said. Hayes, saying the latter “sup-
feel that they have something to give to us that doesn’t require State Treasurer, but Hayes my kids, being on the school “The election in 2012 was ports universal healthcare”
preparation and polish on their side … and allows them to have insists she wasn’t thinking board, running my business, brutal. The Republicans were and “far-left environmental
fun answering a question that doesn’t take a lot of time.” about a career in politics at and it turns out that what- trying to hold onto the ma- policies”—claims that her
Applicants who choose to film a video response will get a the time. ever I had been doing before jorities in the House and the campaign decried as false.
prompt from a prompt bank, after which they will have one minute She participated in the oc- was more than adequate to Senate, and the Democrats Polling for the race is
to think about their answer. Video responses are limited to two casional campus protest—“it prepare me, but it took me a were trying to earn them scarce. A poll by Suffolk Uni-
minutes each. Applicants who don’t like their first take can delete wasn’t the sixties; we just while to figure that out.” back. And from my vantage versity in early August had
that one and try again. If they don’t like this second take, they can wanted to have been here in She was re-elected to the point, I don’t think that ei- Mills and Republican candi-
decide not to submit at all. the sixties,” she said—and Maine House three times, in ther party has stopped cam- date Shawn Moody tied with
Currently, the Office of Admissions is unsure how many stu- hoped to attend law school af- 2008, 2010 and 2012. paigning since that season.” 39 percent of the vote share
dents will submit videos, and they do not have any specific ex- ter graduation. But with over Her greatest legislative ac- After Democrats won each, with Hayes coming
pectations or targets. The video response is simply meant to be an $9,000 of debt (or $28,000 to- complishment, she said, came a House majority in 2012, in a distant third with four
optional supplement that will allow students to show a less formal day), she decided to get a job in 2011. The previous elec- Hayes ran for Speaker. She percent. Businessman Alan
side of themselves. instead. She worked as a mid- toral year had been a strong lost, however, to Mark Eves. Caron polled at three percent.
dle school teacher in Oak- one for Republicans, and they (Coincidentally, Eves also ran A second poll, commis-
land, Maine and then moved controlled both houses of the for governor this year but lost sioned by the Hayes campaign
TOWN SEAT Like Ankeles, Updegraph up to the high school, where Maine legislature as well as to Janet Mills in the Demo- and conducted by Slingshot
believes that the town needs to she taught civics. the governorship, which was cratic primary.) Strategies at the end of Sep-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
maintain a diversified housing She got married and moved occupied by the newly-elect- Hayes was term-limited, so tember, found Mills leading
into the innovative business stock. again, first to Lewiston and ed Paul LePage. she couldn’t run for her House Moody 41-31, while Hayes’s
hub it is today. “We want to develop and then to Buckfield, Maine. She One issue in the legisla- seat again in 2014. That year, vote share had climbed to 10
“The big thing I took away encourage more affordable never went to law school, al- ture that year was reforming she supported independent percent. That poll also asked
from that was the value of new housing—not low income but though she did earn her MBA the system of governance for candidate Eliot Cutler for likely voters about how their
business and expanding busi- mid-range housing for people from Thomas College in 2014. Maine’s more than 10 mil- governor. Cutler won 8.4 per- preferences would change
ness,” she said. that can afford to pay rents or “I had a husband to put lion acres of unorganized cent of the vote, while LePage if ranked-choice voting was
As for the future, Ankeles buy houses but not $500,000 through school and then territory. A committee was was re-elected with 48.2 per- used for the gubernatorial
outlined a vision of Brunswick houses,” she said. three children. Then in was appointed by LePage, Senate cent, beating out both Cutler election. Fifty-one percent of
in which affordability is para- Each candidate had only my turn,” she said. President Kevin L. Raye and and Democrat Mike Michaud. respondents listed Hayes as
mount. kind words to say about the In Buckfield, Hayes served Speaker of the House Robert After the election, Hayes their second choice.
“I would like us to have other. Both have spent most on the school board for 13 Nutting to address the issue, unenrolled from the Demo- Ranked choice voting,
withstood the Portland hous- of the campaign knocking on years. Still, she says she but some Democrats weren’t cratic Party. In December, she though, isn’t in play for this
ing crunch. I would like us to doors and talking to Bruns- wasn’t planning to pursue happy, Hayes explained, be- challenged incumbent Neria year’s gubernatorial election.
have not become Cape Eliz- wick residents. higher office until her retir- cause all 13 members were Douglass for State Treasur- And while some Democrats
abeth which is almost exclu- “Dan and I both will tell you ing state representative Rosi- Republicans. er—a position elected by the have expressed concerns that
sively well-to-do folks. I would that we’ve learned more about ta Gagne asked her to run for Hayes, who was assistant legislature. She won and then Hayes could play the role of
really like for us to be a town the town than we ever would the open seat. minority leader at the time, was re-elected to the office in a spoiler, she says the bigger
where everyone can live here,” have had it been a slide into She ran as a Democrat for felt differently. 2016. danger is electing another
he said. office,” Updegraph said. Gagne’s seat, but lost to Re- “I tried to persuade my The following spring, she partisan to the Blaine House.
publican Bruce Hanley. caucus that all of their meet- filed to run for governor. Her “Right now, the bulk of
“Losing sucks by the way, ings were going to be public,” inspiration, she said, was her what gets passed is passed by
being a technical term,” Hayes she said. “We didn’t have to be frustration with the “pendu- the dominant party, which

Subscribe said. “[But] we live in a rep- at the table … we just had to lum politics” and partisan means that it’s likely to change
resentative democracy, right? show up.” gridlock that have dominated when the dominance chang-

your parents If there’s only one name on So she attended the com- Maine’s political landscape in es,” she said. “The cost of gov-
the ballot, you might as well mittee’s six public meetings, recent years. ernment doesn’t go down, but

to our email be in the Soviet Union … So and when its report came “I see the potential for the meaningful outcomes are
being a loser in a representa- before the legislature in 2012, where we could take Maine, diminished significantly …

newsletter. bowdoinorient.com tive democracy is no source she could attest to its “thor- if we could realize that we’re I believe, if we elect another
of shame.” oughness.” The legislative re- all on the same team, that partisan, we lock this in for
In 2006, however, she sult, “An Act To Reform Land challenges aren’t Republi- Maine.”
4 NEWS
Organizers direct student attention to Maine elections
by Kate Lusignan
Orient Staff
As midterm season ap-
proaches and lawn signs ap-
pear, political organizations at
Bowdoin have been bringing
local candidates to campus
to discuss Maine politics.
The Bowdoin Republicans,
the Maine Democratic Party
(MDP) and Bowdoin Demo-
crats are encouraging student
involvement in Maine politics
due to the potential impact
student votes could have on
the contentious gubernatorial
race.
Last Sunday, Republican
Candidate Mark Holbrook, a
Brunswick resident hoping to
win the seat in the U.S. House
representing Maine’s First
Congressional District, attend-
ed a meeting with the College
Republicans. Fifteen students
attended the informal event
and asked questions about Hol-
brook’s platform.
Students working for MDP
organized “Caffeine with
Candidates,” a panel held at
Quinby House on Tuesday in
which four local politicians, all
of whom are Democrats, dis-
cussed politics in Brunswick.
The panel was comprised of
Maine State House Representa-
tives Mattie Daughtry (district
49), Ralph Tucker (district 50)
and Jay McCreight (district
51), as well as State Senator
Brownie Carson ’72. All four
are up for reelection.
On Wednesday, Zak Ringel-
stein, a Democrat campaign-
ing to unseat incumbent U.S.
Senator Angus King (I-Maine)
in the U.S. House of Represen-
tatives, attended the Bowdoin
Democrats meeting.
Ringelstein discussed the
importance of young voters in
this year’s election. Although
90 percent of Bowdoin stu-
dents are not originally from,
candidates are not dissuaded
from engaging with students
about politics; rather, because
Maine allows students to reg-
ister through their college
address, candidates believe
that reaching young, potential
student voters will have an in-
BQSA
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“As it became a habit, people
stopped really talking about it,
so we are trying to bring that
back,” said BQSA officer Ari
Mehrberg ’20.
To reignite the faded con-
versations at Bowdoin, BQSA
is holding a campus discussion
regarding Yellow Shirt Day and
allyship on Tuesday in Daggett
Lounge.
Mehrberg explained that
initial programming did not
have space built in to educate
the people receiving the shirts.
Distributors were not able to
incite conversation about what
the shirts represented, what it
means to respect all genders
and sexualities or about what
students can do to be allies.
On Yellow Shirt Day, people
will be able to talk in smaller
groups and to think together
about what community mem-
bers can do to support one an-
other and the queer community.
LOCAL LEADERS: (left to right): Maine Senator Brownie Carson ’72 and Maine Representatives Jay McCreight and Ralph Tucker discuss Brunswick politics at “Caffeine with Candidates.”
fluential effect on November 6.
“It is going to be young peo-
ple who are going to change the
outcomes of this election. [The
millennials] are going to be-
come the biggest voting block,
but our power will be shown if
and only if we vote,” said Rin-
gelstein.
At the conclusion of these
events, candidates urged stu-
dents to help candidates’ cam-
paigns by canvassing, phone
banking and participating in
Get Out the Vote, or increased
action during the week leading
up to the election. Organizers
cite the ease and importance of
getting involved.
Due to the influence college
students may have, off-campus
organizations such as MDP are
devoting a component of their
midterm campaign strategy
These group discussions will
be another new element to the
event.
BQSA officer Rowan Etzel
’19 said attendees will learn
“what people can actively do
to be better allies to the queer
community, from knowing the
words to use to how to inter-
vene in potentially hurtful con-
versations.”
With respect to allyship and
respect, Mehrberg said the dis-
cussion will help the Bowdoin
community in “fleshing out
together what that means in a
way that will hopefully be pro-
ductive.”
This year’s OUTtober speak-
er, who will be on campus next
Wednesday, is Kavi Ade, a black
gender non-conforming poet.
“They are going to perform
poetry about gender, sexuality,
race or intersection and it’s go-
ing to be great, so I am really
excited about that,” Unietis said.
With OUTtober falling so
early in the academic year, Meh-
rberg said that the BQSA officer
Friday, October 19, 2018
ISABEL ALEXANDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
to educating students about states to college. These issues could impact Bowdoin stu- state, Virginia] is how excit-
Maine candidates and issues affect students as well,” said dents, especially if you are ed the candidates in Maine
on the ballot. This year, MDP— leader of the Bowdoin Dem- a freshman or sophomore are to come to Bowdoin’s
which typically only hires co- ocrats Katherine Henneberger and have several more years campus,” said leader of the
ordinators for counties—hired ’20. “We are not immune to on campus,” Daughtry said. Bowdoin Democrats Juliet
Nell Fitzgerald ’19 as a cam- the politics of Brunswick and “You’re helping vote in an ad- Halvorson-Taylor ’21. “[Their
pus organizer for Bowdoin. the politics of Maine. Health- ministration that can oversee excitement] has made it seem
This new position emphasizes care decisions affect us in this your voting rights for the next like Maine’s politics is more
MDP’s recognition that young state.” few years. It is a very important personal.”
voters, specifically at Bowdoin, The confirmation of Brett time for Maine politics.” Personalized campaigning
have the potential to swing this Kavanaugh as a U.S. Supreme In local elections, every vote is a statewide phenomenon for
election. Court Justice and the current counts. In the past, some Maine the local, national and guber-
MDP and on-campus polit- political climate have led to an House and Senate seats have natorial elections. Candidates
ical organizations are encour- increase in political activity on been determined by a margin at Tuesday’s panel found that
aging students to register in- campus. Students at each event of just 25 votes—around the listening and interacting with
state. Reasons for registering seemed to have a deeper of same number of students in voters have yielded a more pos-
in Maine instead of students’ understanding of Maine’s races attendance at Tuesday’s panel. itive reception.
home states range from having for positions in the U.S. House Students were receptive “[Voters] want to know,
a less-competitive home dis- and Senate. However, local to the candidates at all three ‘who is this person’? It’s just
trict to the importance of the candidates believe that stu- events. This may be due to the not a name on the ballot,” Mc-
Maine gubernatorial race. dents should have just as much accessibility and friendliness of Creight said.
“We have this ability to investment in the gubernatori- all the candidates. Editor’s note: Nell Fitzger-
shift things that other students al as the local elections. “One thing that is different ald ’19 is a member of Orient
don’t that go away to different “[The gubernatorial] race in Maine [than in her home Staff.
team hopes to “provide an op-
portunity for people to get their
foot in the door, or at least go to
“I’m subscribing to the
an event if they think it sounds
cool and maybe decide, if they
want, to get more involved in
the queer community.”
Orient.”
Because people have differing
labels and varying degrees of
certainty about their identities,
Mehrberg sees dialogue as key.
“I think by talking about it,
“Hi, subscribing to the
we can kind of help eliminate
some of that tension and make
spaces where everyone can feel
Orient, I’m dad.”
welcome, and everyone can feel
like they’re not either feeling
pressured to be quiet about their
identity or feeling pressured to
kind of know their identity and
label themselves,” they said.
Still, queer history can be for
everyone, regardless of identity.
“The goal is to have as many parents, subscribe today.
bowdoinorient.com/subscribe
people as possible attend, and
inspire an atmosphere of learn-
ing, shared experience and
dialogue, regardless of each
person's queer identity or lack
thereof,” Etzel said.
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Anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. college campuses by semester
100
(BIG), which includes stu-
dents, staff and faculty, con-
vened on October 10 to dis- 90 86
cuss the issue. In its report,
which Rose released to the
community on Tuesday, the 80
group critiqued individuals
who saw the swastika but did
not report it.
70 66
Number of Incidents

“We are grateful to the stu-

58
dent who reported the most 60
recent incident, but we are
52
also concerned that others
may have seen this vile scrawl 50
and chose to either ignore it
or to react simply by adding
their own graffiti,” the group 40 35
wrote.
Reed was quick to empha-
size the seriousness of the 30
24
swastika’s history.
“That is a symbol of hatred,
bigotry, annihilation, racism,
20 17
13
and it’s directed at religious
groups, cultural groups, peo- 10
ple that are mentally and
physically disabled. It’s a sym-
bol of hatred,” he said. 0
In September 2017, House-
keeping staff found a swastika Spring 2015 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Fall 2018*
and homophobic language
scrawled on whiteboards in Semester
AMCHA INITIATIVE
the Visual Arts Center. In
January of that year, a student CHARTING HATE: The number of anti-Semitic bias incidents that included the use of a swastika or other expressions of genocidal intent toward Jewish people on college campuses across the U.S.
reported a swastika as well as
spiked in the spring of 2017, but has trended downward since. The asterisk indicates that the 13 incidents reported this fall represent data from a partial semester.
the number “666” stomped
into the snow. Both of those should be concerned about He added that, in a case The three swastika inci- documented 152 incidents in swastika imagery appear-
instances were also deemed the attitudes and dispositions where an act of bias posed dents at Bowdoin in the last 2017, up from 110 the pre- ing at either Bates or Colby
bias incidents. that might lead someone to an immediate threat to the 20 months follow a trend of vious year and 41 in 2015. since 2015. The University
Reed, who came to Bow- draw it. community, students and anti-Jewish graffiti on college The Anti-Defamation League of Maine was one of several
doin in March of this year, “What is it that people feel staff would be notified more campuses. The nonprofit AM- found that anti-Semitic inci- schools affected by a case
noted that, while the most they can so easily go around promptly. CHA Initiative, which tracks dents rose by 57 percent na- of printer hacking in 2016,
recent swastika didn’t appear drawing swastikas, or making “If it was a more severe instances of anti-Semitic lan- tionwide in 2017. which led openly white su-
to be directly targeted at any swastikas in the snow?” he incident, people would have guage and imagery at Ameri- Among Maine colleges, premacist fliers to be printed
individual, the community said. known immediately,” he said. can colleges and universities, there are no reports of on college printers.
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6 Friday, October 19, 2018

Author Bernhard Schlink on historical entanglement

by Anthony Yanez
Staff Writer
The clock ticked slowly
past seven p.m.—when the
event was scheduled to start.
Amidst struggles to get the mi-
crophone functioning for the
evening, Bernhard Schlink was
prepared to go on. He called
for the crowd to gather forth.
They settled in tightly, prepar-
ing for an evening of intimate
dialogue.
On Monday, German con-
stitutional judge, legal scholar
and author Schlink visited
campus to read from his ac-
claimed 1995 novel “The
Reader” and open a discussion
titled “1968-2018: The Legacy
of a Revolution.”
Born in 1944 and raised in
postwar Heidelberg, Schlink
spent the evening engaging
with his American audience
over “The Reader.” The nov-
el, set in the same post-Reich
German period in which he
was raised, follows the story
of 15-year-old student Michael
Berg and his illicit affair with
Hanna Schmitz, an illiterate 36
year-old woman convicted of
war crimes.
“I wanted to simultaneously
understand [Hanna’s] crime
and to condemn it. But it was
too terrible for that … When I
condemned it as it must be con-
demned, there was no room for
understanding,” said Schlink as
he ended the reading.
The evening then transi-
tioned into an open question
and answer session. Schlink
spoke to the intimate way in
which understanding and con-
demnation relate to himself
and his generation.
According to Schlink, the
pair of absolutes—understand-
ing and condemnation—are
more complex than they ini-
tially seem to be.
“You probably know this
French proverb … ‘under-
standing everything means
forgiving everything,’” said
Schlink. “I understand this
proverb and also understand
Michael.”
Schlink mirrors the tensions
between his generation and
the generation of their parents
with the relationship between
the elder Hanna and younger
Michael.
“I think loving someone who
committed a crime while not
distancing oneself from that
person entangles infinitely. At
least [that was] what our gener-
ation experienced,” he said.
Schlink shares his personal
experiences of coping with the
wrongs committed by a loved
one—in his case an English
teacher who inspired his love
for language—underscoring
the conflict and complexity
brought forth by this type of
realization.
Schlink doesn’t just use
the book as an opportunity to
teach lessons. In fact, he works
carefully to avoid didactic alle-
gory. It is storytelling that has
a key place in Schlink’s work,
not moralistic teaching. “The
Reader” is a personal response
to the complex feelings of en-
tanglement that he describes.
“I realize that the stories
that I keep moving around in
my mind are stories that deal
with things that I’m interest-
ed in. Going back to before,
growing up in the fifties and
sixties, the question of how to
relate to the parent generation
… how to deal with this gen-
eration was the issue for my
generation,” he said.
This love for storytelling
developed early in Schlink’s
life. He recalls his father
telling stories that first re-
vealed to him the nuanced
truths about the devastation
of World War II, contrary to
the common tales of Germans
being bombed that he would
hear as a child. These mem-
ories became a way to bridge
feeling and truth.
Schlink’s visit was orga-
nized in part with help from
the Embassy of the Federal
Republic of Germany. The
Embassy’s Campus Weeks
program allows undergradu-
ate U.S. institutions to apply
for program funding.
Assistant Professor of Ger-
man Jens Klenner explained
that each year different pro-
grams are organized according
to distinct themes, with this
year’s being “Shaping Germa-
ny.” Marking the fiftieth anni- PJ SEELERT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
versary of the student upris-
ings in 1968, Schlink’s lecture SHAPING GERMANY: German constitutional judge and author Bernhard Schlink talks about his influential novel
“The Reader,” exploring understanding and condemnation, generational guilt and the nation’s relation to its past.
calls to attention Germany’s
relationship to its past as well Schlink, offered a worthwhile “To write stories, but more present, observing both banks
as the larger discourse on so- sentiment to Bowdoin stu- importantly to read the liter- of the river, and taking an ac-
cial and political questions. dents as inhabitants of the lib- ature, means building bridg- tive part on both sides,” said
Klenner, who introduced eral arts environment. es between the past and the Klenner.

Alana Morrison ’20 launches new album ‘Oh Boy’

I’m just experiencing ev-
background beats from the “I was going through rience of Morrison’s, which
by Julia Katter computer set up in front of things, and I needed some- allowed her to help guide her

erything like an everyday

Orient Staff
Sitting in 24 College Street,
the atmosphere is electric.
Alana Morrison ’20, a mod-
el-turned-singer, taps the
microphone, and it echoes
throughout the room. Other
members of Alana’s team test
ALONG WITH ALANA: Model-turned-singer Alana Morrison ’20 will release her musical debut to all musical platforms
on October 26. Inspired by artists such as Beyoncé and SZA, she seeks to be vulnerable in sharing her personal journey.
rows of empty chairs. All is in
preparation of Alana’s launch
of “Oh Boy,” the album that
was released on October 12.
To her, “Oh Boy” represents
three years of production and
effort that have come together
in this moment.
thing and needed someone,”
said Morrison. “I understood
that I had myself and the thing
I needed to help me along the
way was my music—and here
I am.”
Each song in her album
represents a separate expe-
COURTESY OF CHRISTINA OUTLAW
own journey of self-discovery.
“Each song has been im-
pactful to me and has put me
in a situation where I had to
look at myself and have that
reflection. Here, a lot of times
you can get caught in going
with what everyone else is
doing and not realize, yo thats
not me,” she said.
Honesty is the central tenet
in her songwriting, as well as
part of what inspires her. Cit-
ing influences such as Beyon-
cé, SZA and Summer Walker,
she comments on the value of
vulnerability.
“I really like SZA because
I think she is so honest with
her music,” said Morrison.
“Her ‘CTRL’ album really in-
spired me because I felt like I
understood her, and I want-
ed to do that with my music.
That required me to be hon-
est and to open up more and
to be more vulnerable with
my music.”
Though she has always
been a musical person, Mor-
rison only started her singing
career a few years ago, when
she turned 18.
“I was always writing songs
here and there, and I wrote
person ... and I know I’m
not alone. If you feel me,
vibe along.
–Alana Morrison
this one song and kept singing
it. Then I had an eighteenth
birthday party, and I was like,
‘I gotta make it different than
everybody else’s,’ so I thought,
what if I’m my own perform-
er?”
Even after performing for
her family and friends, Mor-
rison was still unsure anyone
would care to listen. “Oh Boy,”
though, represents a finished
product that she is very ex-
cited to finally share with her
friends, family and the Bow-
doin community.
“I’ve been working devel-
oping my sound since I was
leaving high school, and this
is the first time [my friends]
are hearing something,” she
said.
Morrison also emphasized
the essential collaboration
with her team, Cosine Music
Group, many of whom were at
24 College Street helping her
prepare for her performance.
“We will work and vibe off
of each other … they are help-
ing [me] so much. They are a
part of this, and they believed
in me at times when it was
hard for me to believe in my-
self,” she said.
Aside from being grateful
to her team, Morrison also
makes a point of the fact that
she’s “not perfect.”
“I’m just experiencing
everything like an everyday
person, but here are my ex-
periences and I know I’m not
alone. If you feel me, vibe
along.”
Morrison’s music will release
to all platforms on Friday, Oc-
tober 26. She is also on Twitter,
Instagram and Snapchat at @
simplyy_alana.
Friday, October 19, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 7

Frank Mauceri: playing with perspectives in art

by Esther Wang
Staff Writer
Black and white lines con-
verge and juxtapose to form
patterns—chaotic, dynamic
and full of movement; the
artwork of Frank Mauceri,
senior lecturer in music, pres-
ents a touch of novelty and
surprise. Viewers would never
guess that behind the complex
mark-making of Mauceri’s
artwork lie algorithms gener-
ated by careful computer pro-
gramming.
Mauceri will be displaying
seven computer-generated prints
at an exhibition at the University
of Maine-Augusta titled “Above,
Below, Before, Behind, Within.”
His carefully selected pieces pro-
vide a unique perspective on the
relationship between computer
programming and visual and au-
dio elements.
To produce the drawings,
Mauceri works with a comput-
er program which simulates
a virtual arm that moves in
various directions according
to his command. By coding
simple, periodic functions, he
is able to define the angle, lo-
cation and various spatial set-
tings of the three-dimensional
model.
“So, in essence, it’s like
I’m flying a camera around
a model, and I take a picture
at locations where I like the
view,” he said.
After studying music com-
position and art theory at
Oberlin College, Mauceri
earned a doctorate of musi-
cal arts from the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-
paign. In addition to teaching,
Mauceri works as an artist,
saxophonist, composer and
jazz musician. His projects
are often collaborations with
other dancers, singers, instru-
mentalists and video artists to
experiment with digital signal
processing and sensor tech-
nologies.
Although Mauceri has
worked with computer pro-
gramming in music before,
his inspiration for using gen-
erative systems to create art-
work emerged when he taught
Interactive Media for the Arts
at Bowdoin. Through devel-
oping demos for the class, he
found a way to make visual
works and animations.
“This is the case where
teaching a course and working
with art students taught me a
new creative practice,” said
Mauceri.
Mauceri’s work was no-
ticed by Susan Bickford, a
then-curator for the gallery
and professor for visual arts at
University of Maine-Augusta.
Bickford focused primarily
on artists who produce work
from a variety of media.
In the exhibition, five
Maine artists engage with the
theme in five distinct media:
algorithmic drawings, paint-
ing, portrait photography,
installation and video perfor-
mance. As the name “Above,
Below, Before, Behind, With-
in” implies, the exhibition
allows the artist to place the
viewer in many perspectives.
Each piece raises questions
about the role of the viewer in
art through different vantage
points.
“There’s a unifying idea
that every artist is working
out problems of particular
perspectives from a visual
point of view. It’s looking
from above, looking from be-
low,” said Mauceri.
For this exhibition, Mau-
ceri will showcase works from
his ongoing project called
Snarl, which he began three
years ago. The pieces in the
Snarl series are generated in
a similar manner and have
a three-dimensional quality.
Each piece explores connec-
tions between harmonic rela-
tionships and the gestures of
drawing.
“I am fascinated by the COURTESY OF FRANK MAUCERI
creative potentials of genera- COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY: Senior Lecturer in Music Frank Mauceri will be featured in an exhibition at
tive systems, and I depend on University of Maine-Augusta titled “Above, Below, Before, Behind, Within.” Creating unique drawings by coding
being surprised by the traces computational simulations, Mauceri responds to the theme of art and perspective in an unforeseen light.
they leave. I am often inspired
by the musical processes and the mathematical relation- prints, a different generative tunities,” he said. “By designing
processes of human interac- ships between the functions system can produce a com- systems and playing with pro-
tion,” said Mauceri. that I’m using to control pletely different perspective. cesses, we can create alternatives
Unlike other artists, Mau- the drawing. Often times, I Mauceri uses this technique in the way we see the world, al-
ceri does not know what his don’t expect the patterns that to explore different points of ternatives in the way we interact
artwork will look like until emerge. Sometimes it’s not views that play into observing with each other.”
the end, imbuing his creative very interesting, and I adjust the same object. The exhibit “Above, Below,
process with surprise and an the code,” said Mauceri. “Creative potential of pro- Before, Behind, Within” is
element of chance. Although Mauceri of- cesses is an invitation for people on display through Novem-
“I can make some predic- ten uses the same simulated to think about systems and pro- ber 7 at the University of
tions, especially when I know object for several different cesses that has creative oppor- Maine-Augusta.

Fall Art Show to showcase student creativity at Ladd

by Brianna Cunliffe
Orient Staff
Members of the Bowdoin
Art Society have studied mas-
terpieces of art in the context
of the classroom, and now that
cultivated lens is turned to-
wards work of a slightly differ-
ent nature, as student curators
transform Ladd House with art
created by their peers.
“It’s a really valuable op-
portunity to engage with the
art that’s being made on this
campus in a critical way,” said
Kinaya Hassane ’19, president
of the Bowdoin Art Society.
The sixth annual Fall Art
Show is intended as a space for
social and communal gather-
ing and, fittingly, will go up at
Ladd House. Organizers hope
that student-curated installa-
tions of student work in a stu-
dent space will strengthen and
highlight the thriving art scene
at Bowdoin.
Anticipated highlights in-
clude unique dynamic video
art, the work of senior art ma-
jors Evelyn Beliveau, Camille
Farradas and Charlotte Borden
and several planned three-di-
mensional installations.
“Installations are very ex-
citing because they have that
instantaneous response, gut
reaction,” said Hassane. “But
also [students should] just
come to see the breadth of
what kinds of things people are
producing.”
Indeed, great artists are
found all around us—friends,
floor-mates, lab partners and
many familiar faces in the
dining halls. Events like the
art show allow us to recognize
and celebrate their distinct but
often modestly hidden talents.
“It’s always amazing to look
at the label and be like ‘oh,
that’s someone that I know.’”
Hassane said. “It’s a big com-
munity-building experience
as well, and so I really hope
that people come through for
that.”
Head Curator Amber Oros-
co ’19, who is also the pres-
ident of Ladd, sees the show
as illuminating the richness of
culture and diversity of expe-
riences in the College’s artistic
community.
“People at Bowdoin are mul-
tifaceted and interesting and
not just one singular thing. We
are a liberal arts school—this is
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a prime example of that,” she
said.
In a departure from tradi-
tion, this year there was no
theme limiting the submis-
sions. Orosco says the result-
ing body of work is far more
varied in subject matter and
medium.
“By not narrowing it into
some contemporary issue that
people have to work around,
you end up getting this really
amazing variety of stuff that’s
unexpected and surprising,”
she said. “That makes it so
much fun for us, but also for
the student body to engage
with.”
Following an open call, stu-
dent submissions came flood-
ing in, and Hassane and Oros-
co carefully considered each.
The opportunity to learn the
skill of curation, especially
THE AUX CORD
Weezy does Weezy on new album ‘Tha Carter V’
by Chris
Ritter
Remember when Kobe
Bryant tweeted about “Carter
V season?” Neither do we.
It was part of a promotional
campaign back in 2014, when
“Tha Carter V” was original-
ly set to release that May. Lil
Wayne promised the album
three more times in 2014, all
in vain due to legal battles
with Cash Money Records.
Nearly four full years later,
Wayne and his creativity are
no longer being held “prison-
er,” as he put it back then. The
much anticipated final “Car-
ter” album has arrived.
And somehow, despite all
Mixed feelings on MisterWives
by Sebastian
de Lasa
I showed up to the show at 10
p.m. on the dot, hoping to catch
the opener. When I arrived, there
were give or take, 30 people there.
The opener, Sweet Anne and the
Milkmen, played a fun set, but
there were clear issues with the
acoustics immediately. It was clear
that things sounded off when the
opening act started playing, as
they made some adjustments af-
ter their first song. Morrell Gym
started to fill up after the first
song, and by the time “Put Your
Records On” came on, the crowd
was vibing.
By the time their set ended, the
crowd was still going strong. Mu-
sic was playing out of the speakers
when the opener got off and many
were dancing. Then MisterWives
came on. I’m not saying that the
energy was sucked out of the
room, but people were noticeably
less hyped about their opening
tracks than when “Mr. Brightside”
was pumping from the speakers.
in such an unconstrained,
creative capacity, has been in-
valuable for the Bowdoin Art
Society leaders.
Their hopes for the event
include building community
and transcending the limits
confining art to traditional,
clinical spaces.
“[This space is] something
that feels more natural, that
you could see in the every-
day, and that’s a theme art-
ists work with all the time—
what’s in the everyday,” said
Orosco.
“It would be great if we
could expand the scope of
where we encounter art,” Has-
sane added.
The Bowdoin Art Society
seeks to strengthen a culture
of art appreciation among
family and friends as they
pour into Ladd House to cele-
brate student artists over Fam-
ily Weekend.
“The culture is definitely
the industry bureaucracy that
came before, “Tha Carter V”
is in many ways everything
we’d expect from the New Or-
leans rap icon. The 23-song
album sees Lil Wayne cover-
ing just nearly enough ground
to justify its 87-minute run-
time, dropping his sly-eyed
wordplay onto the bleak trap
of today and pop-oriented rap
of past “Carter” records.
While the deep, rap-pop
balladry of the early 2010s
has begun to fall out of style
recently, it’s clear that Wayne
is still enamored with that
kind of production. “Can’t
be Broken” and “Famous” are
both nostalgic reminders of
Wayne’s knack for melodra-
ma. Both piano-driven tales of
perseverance, on “Famous,” he
It was incredibly underwhelming.
That being said, this is not an
entirely negative review. The lead
singer of MisterWives, Mandy
Lee, was electric on stage. Her
voice was uniquely powerful, and
she brought a blast of energy to
their performance. The second
half of their set was actually pretty
good, working in some covers of
a couple classics (“Dreams” by
the Cranberries and “Survivor”
by Destiny’s Child). The crowd
was appropriately hyped at this
point of the show, bearing a stark
contrast to the first half of the set.
That being said, I thought the
covers they played energized the
crowd far more than the large ma-
jority of their original songs. If the
crowd would rather be hearing
another band’s songs than your
own, you’ve got a problem.
There was a lot that went
wrong with the concert. First and
foremost: the sound issues. Guitar
and bass were barely
discernible
and vastly
overpow-
ered by Lee’s
vocals and
there, but we need to continue
to cultivate that intentionally, so
that people know that their craft
is appreciated,” said Hassane.
Though the show proposes
a dynamic and fun experi-
ence, for the two graduating
seniors, its meaning goes be-
yond the frames.
“We’re getting to the point
where we’re adults—sadly—
and this is something that we
want to continue post-grad-
uation, and it is to be taken
on some level of seriousness,”
Orosco said. “It’s very light-
hearted, because it’s a beau-
tiful display of work, but it’s
also what some people want
to do with their lives, and we
think about that as we’re get-
ting older.”
Hosted by the Bowdoin
Art Society and Ladd House
and sponsored by Delta Sig-
ma/Delta Upsilon, the Fall
Art Show will be on display
through Sunday.
raps “superstars don’t sparkle,
we high-beam / And you can’t
spell fame, without me.”
Likewise, the single “Up-
roar” is classic Wayne. With
seasoned hypeman Swizz
Beatz backing him up, “Up-
roar” is a punchy crowd rocker
that sounds fresh out of a time
capsule from 2010. The slinky
cowbell and punchy kicks
sound more fitting on Drake’s
“So Far Gone” EP than any rap
album from 2018. But Wayne
makes it work with wordplay
flexing that’s as playful as it
is assertive: “What the fuck
though? Where the love go? /
Five, four, three, two, I let one
go.” It’s a hook that doesn’t
retain its punch after the
sixth time we’ve heard it, but
Wayne’s self-revelry is often
the drums. This is not the fault of
MisterWives, but rather the result
of playing a concert in a gym.
The acoustics sounded terrible.
I also took issue with the lack of
any stage presence from the other
members of MisterWives. Aside
from Lee, I don’t think another
band member spoke the entire
show, and it was clear that without
her infectious energy, the crowd
would’ve been dead.
Friday, October 19, 2018
HAVANA CASO-DOSEMBET, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
WHERE ART LIVES: Student creativity is on display at the sixth annual Fall Art Show hosted by the Art Society at
Ladd House. Showcasing a range of works in varying media, this student-curated exhibit highlights diversity of the mind.
contagious, like it’s been for
years.
Wayne does sound adept at
newer sounds as well, though
he doesn’t stay there for long.
Travis Scott makes an appear-
ance on “Let it Fly,” which
sounds like it could’ve been
a cut from “Astroworld.” The
track’s swirly trap sound is un-
doubtedly more influenced by
Scott than Wayne. But Wayne
sprints through his verse with
skill, leaving the beat in sham- KAYLA SNYDER
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the late career mastery that many new Weezy fans who ebration of Wayne on his own
we’ve seen from some rap didn’t grow up with his previ- terms: sprawling, tireless and
legends recently, notably A ous work and haven’t already always searching for more.
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Friday, October 19, 2018
F FEATURES
New Brunswick business brews eclectic affordability
by Lucia Ryan
Orient Staff
Along Bath Road, just a lit-
tle ways down from Pine Street
Apartments, sit Cameron’s Lob-
ster House and a State Farm
Insurance office. Next door is
an unassuming white-paneled
building with a red door, on
which a piece of paper is taped
to the glass. Scrawled in black
Sharpie, the paper reads: OPEN-
ING OCTOBER 27.
Behind the sign lies brightly
lit room with turquoise metal
bar stools, orange walls and
purple molding. Straight ahead
are several floor-to-ceiling steel
tanks boiling beer in prepara-
tion for the much anticipated
opening day of Brunswick’s
third small craft brewery, Black
Pug Brewing.
When Sam Wilson and
co-founder Jason Allen decid-
ed to open a brewery in Maine,
Multifaith Fellowship to facilitate discussion on campus
by Emma Sorkin
and Lucas Weitzenberg
Orient Staff
Director of Religious and
Spiritual Life at Bowdoin Edu-
ardo Pazos Palma, believes the
study of religious traditions can
help with understanding many
issues that grip the increasingly
globalized world. Pazos Palma
wants to initiate this conversa-
tion with a new Multifaith Pro-
gram at Bowdoin.
Once a week, four carefully
selected students from cultural-
ly diverse backgrounds will have
the opportunity to sit down and
discuss faith with the objective
of generating a dialogue about
issues that are often deemed too
uncomfortable or personal.
“The purpose of the fellow-
ship is to create a program on
campus where students are able
to learn about the major world
religions,” Pazos Palma said.
“Each student is going to read
portions of sacred texts, as well
as engage with some local clergy
members representing the di-
versity of religions and faiths in
the Brunswick area.”
Out of a pool of 29 applicants,
the four students chosen each
Flight Deck Brewing on Bruns-
wick Landing and Moderation
Brewing on Maine Street had not
yet opened.
“This was a real desert in
terms of craft beer. There wasn’t
much between Portland and
Rockland,” said Wilson, standing
in Black Pug’s tasting room. “I
thought that we could fill a niche
in this area and thought it was
underserved in terms of the vari-
ety of craft beer when you look at
places like Portland and [the rest
of] Southern Maine.”
Wilson believes Black Pug,
though a competitor to Flight
Deck and Moderation, will still
provide diversity to the craft beer
scene in the region.
“The other breweries in town
seem to be doing a lot of really
good barometers of the style.
They’re doing perfect examples
of a classic style at Moderation or
they’re doing a classic IPA over at
Flight Deck,” said Wilson. “We’re
gave a different explanation as
to how faith plays a role in their
lives. Lucas Johnson ’22 cited
faith as a driving force behind
his desire to positively impact
the lives of those around him;
Abigail Wu ’21 praised faith for
the purpose it provides to her
life; Caleb Perez ’20 described
faith as a lens through which
he views the world, and Nick
Suarez ’21 does not consider
himself a person of faith, but he
grew up in a Catholic household
and is interested in how faith
shapes society.
While discussing his role as
a fellow, Johnson mentioned
the lack of a conversation sur-
rounding religion on Bowdoin’s
campus.
“By helping our community
… gain greater knowledge into
the religions they have not been
exposed to prior to their time
here, we are all going to get a
better understanding and ap-
preciation of each other,” John-
son said.
Johnson became interested in
cultural and religious diversity
after growing up in the cultur-
ally and religiously diverse city
of Charlottesville. It was this
interest that prompted him to
taking those styles and adding
a twist to them. We’re going to
open with six different beers
and only two of them really are
with traditional ingredients and
traditional process behind them.
That’s how we differentiate our-
selves, by making something a
little atypical.”
Two of the beers on tap that
Wilson cited as more unconven-
tional are his Thai-PA, a lemon-
grass-ginger IPA, and Vanilla
Stout, a vanilla, chocolate and
coffee white stout. Wilson has
been developing these recipes—
as well as the other beers that
will be featured at the opening—
since he started home brewing
eight years ago.
“I was never really satisfied
just doing a standard version of
something, because for me, the
fascination of brewing comes
from finding how the different
flavors will play with each other
between the hops and the spices
found a program which con-
nects refugees in Charlottesville
with long-time citizens in order
to facilitate greater connection
between groups that may at first
appear to have little in common.
“Faith is important to me
because it grounds me in the
idea and the belief that my ac-
tions will not only carry a great
weight for myself, but for those
around me,” Johnson said. “I
always believe that more than
ever we have to recognize that
our personal compasses are not
only helping ourselves, but our
entire society as a whole … and
that is why I follow faith with
such conviction.”
Wu, who also identifies as a
person of faith, shares similar
views with Johnson.
“I would say that faith is im-
portant to my life ... because it
allows me to feel like there’s a
purpose,” Wu said.
For Perez, religion takes on a
different role in his life. Despite
not identifying with a particular
faith tradition, Perez says reli-
gion is very present in his life.
Not only does he study religion
at Bowdoin, but he also utilizes
it to help him make sense of the
world around him.
HOPP ON OVER: Black Pug Brewing will open next Saturday on Bath Road. Owners Jason Adler and Sam
Wilson (pictured) hope to offer a diverse set of flavors in their beer, from Thai-PA to Vanilla Stout.
or fruit or whatever that we’re
adding to a beer,” he said.
While Wilson gained experi-
ence from years of brewing ex-
periments, Allen is an expert on
the business side of things.
“We go back to high school.
Jason works in the financial
field full-time, so when I had
the idea to start a brewery, it just
made sense, because I’m not a
finance person at all,” said Wil-
son. “Bringing him on was really
helpful too in terms of turning
this from a hobby into a busi-
ness.”
Turning the business into a
storefront on Bath Road only
began this June when Wilson, his
father and Allen began renovat-
ing the space. They hoped for an
October opening and will make
it just in time.
“It was pretty much a DIY
thing. We built the whole bar. We
painted everything. Other than
plumbing and electricity, that
FOCUSING ON FAITH: Director of Religious and Spiritual Life Eduardo Pazos Palma created the Multifaith Pro-
gram in order to facilitate greater discussion and education around faith at Bowdoin through student collaboration.
“It’s very much a lens through
which I see the world, but that’s
a conscious decision because
that’s the lens I think you should
see the world through,” Perez
said. “So for me, I think it’s a re-
ally fantastic academic thing for
me to look at because it touches
and interweaves with so many
other things.”
Suarez, has had varying de-
grees of involvement in faith
throughout his life. Raised in a
Catholic household, he stopped
going to church because it began
to feel like something he was
was all us. Family, friends, a big,
big group effort,” Wilson said.
“It’s been pretty nonstop. I’ve had
two days off since then.”
At this point in the renova-
tion process, the brewery looks
ready for customers, with cus-
tom Black Pug stickers, t-shirts
and growlers ready for sale on
the counter. Every few minutes, a
deep, electronic voice rings from
the pinball machine in the back
of the room across the brewery,
calling out a gargled version of
the pinball game’s name, “Flash
Gordon,” which Wilson said was
a particularly competitive arcade
game in the 80s. And above
the sleek, 600-pound concrete
counter is the brewery’s menu
board with notably low pricing
on the wall.
“We want to make it acces-
sible. One pet peeve for me has
been seeing some of the larger
breweries basically charging for
access to a beer,” said Wilson.
“forced to do.” Last year, howev-
er, Suarez reignited his relation-
ship with faith.
“I took a very interesting
course called Gender in the
Middle East that was about Is-
lam, and I learned a lot about
a religion that’s commonly
misunderstood in our society
today, so that really peaked my
interest,” Suarez said. “I wanted
to kind of get more into think-
ing about religion and getting to
talk more about it.”
These sentiments are what
Pazos Palma hopes to bring
9
GWEN DAVIDSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
While much of the venue’s
final touches have taken place
recently, the business’s name
has remained the same since the
start. Wilson started calling his
brews “Black Pug,” after his own
pug, Gir, in his early years as a
home brewer.
“We were sort of pug-like in
our mission. We’re doing kind of
off the wall, crazy things. We’re
small. We’re trying to put as
much quality into it as we can so
it just fits branding wise,” he said.
“Pugs are crazy little clowns. So
we’re going to be trying to be
the clowns of the brewing world
in terms of weird and unique
styles.”
The brewery’s opening will
begin at 4:30 p.m. next Saturday,
at which there will be seven beers
and one nitro brew coffee on
tap. Taco the Town, free pinball
and 20-percent-off growlers will
await customers donning Hal-
loween costumes.
SAM HONEGGER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
together at Bowdoin. While
he believes each fellow will be
able to engage with the broader
community during the second
semester, the current meetings
focus on opening up a dialogue
and fostering understanding
among the cohort.
“The purpose is not to de-
termine who is right or who
is wrong on their beliefs, the
purpose is to take our time to
read and learn what other peo-
ple think and value as they en-
gage with their world,” Pazos
Palma said.
10 Friday, October 19, 2018

S SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
SECOND WIND: The
men’s soccer team (8-
3-2, 4-2-2 NESCAC)
defeated Bates (8-5-0,
3-5-0 NESCAC) on
Wednesday with three
quick goals in the
second half. In less than
12 minutes, the Polar
Bears took a 3-1 lead
and held it for the rest
of the game. Bowdoin
held the shot advantage
at 11-5. Bates has not
defeated the men’s
soccer team since 1999.

MAKINGNG HISTORY:
The women’s volleyball
team (19-1) set a new
program record for
best season start after
beating Bates (9-7)
on Tuesday. The Polar
Bears defeated the
Bobcats in three sets,
led by Caroline Flaharty
’20 with 11 kills and 15
digs. Kate Kiser ’21, the
NESCAC Player of the
Week, volunteered 32
assists while Cori Gray
’22 came through with
three blocks.
HALL OF FAME: Charles
Cha
“Chuck” Shea ’63, a
three-sport athlete, will
be inducted into the
Midcoast Sports Hall of
Fame. At Wiscasset high
school, Shea earned
15 varsity letters and
won the cross country
championship as an
individual in 1956. Shea
went on to coach at his
former high school and
led the cross country
team to two state
championships. He also
coached the basketball
team to a record season
and started the first
tennis program in school
history.
EAT MY DUST: The
men’s cross country
team won its second
invitational of the
season, finishing with
41 points. Five of the
meet’s top 12 runners
were Polar Bears, led
by Alec Ferguson-
Hull ’19 with a time of
26:06. Only a minute
separated Ferguson-
Hull from the team’s
fifth-place runner, a
strong indicator of the
Polar Bears’ depth.
COMPILED BY KATHRYN MCGINNIS
OORAH: Jake Stenquist ’19 takes orders from a drill sergeant at the Marine Corps’ Officer Training School. Stenquist will be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant the same day as graduation.
Soccer captain earns top Marine honor
by Kathryn McGinnis
Orient Staff
A liberal arts education is tai-
lored to fit each student’s unique
interests and career path, but as
Jake Stenquist ’19 realized, there
was neither a major nor minor at
Bowdoin that would fully prepare
him for his experience in the Ma-
rines’ Officer Candidate School
(OCS). A captain of the varsity
men’s soccer team, Stenquist was
recently evaluated on his athletic
ability, leadership skills and aca-
demic success. The three catego-
ries were averaged over the course
of his training into a combined
score out of 100. Bowdoin will be
presented the Commandant Tro-
phy to recognize Stenquist’s final
score, which was one of the top
seven in the nation.
For many of Stenquist’s class-
mates at Bowdoin, the military
exists to protect America’s borders
and uphold personal liberties
abroad against totalitarian re-
gimes. It’s an efficient fighting force
jokingly nicknamed the “last 500
meters of U.S. foreign policy,” re-
Dinner confronts LGBTQ challenges in sports
by Anjulee Bhalla
Orient Staff
On Monday evening, a group
of about 50 student-athletes came
together with coaches, staff and
peers for the tenth annual Win-
ning Together: Allies in Athletics
event. The program was organized
by the Athletic Department and
the Center for Sexuality, Women
and Gender (SWAG) and looks
cruiting top students and athletes
across the country. But here the
idealism ends. As Stenquist quick-
ly noticed during his two summers
of intense training, a soldier’s re-
ality in OCS is more likely sleep
deprived and mentally draining
than full of patriotic fanfare. Each
morning, recruits wake up at 4
a.m. and face their worst enemy—
themselves—in the mirror.
“Always ask yourself why you’re
here,” said Stenquist. “Because you
can go home at any point … I was
energized and ready to go back to
finish [OCS] and earn my eagle,
globe and anchor.”
The OCS program is different
from a traditional Reserve Officers’
Training Corps (ROTC) route in a
couple key ways. First, recruits are
not required to participate in mil-
itary activities or training sessions
during the school year. Second,
OCS participants are required to
spend two summer sessions train-
ing before they are sworn in as a
Second Lieutenant in the United
States Marine Corps the same day
they graduate from college.
“The cool thing about [OCS] is
to address the challenges facing
LGBTQ athletes at Bowdoin.
The event featured speeches
from Head Softball Coach Ryan
Sullivan and women’s squash
captain Lex Horwitz ’19, as well
as anonymous testimonials from
two other student athletes. At-
tendees also participated in small
group discussions facilitated by
out athletes and out allies.
In 2008, the program—origi-
it gave me the opportunity to pur-
sue a government and legal studies
major and pursue all these things
outside the military as a normal
college student-athlete,” said Sten-
quist. “[I] played soccer, played
the drums in a jazz band and did
whatever I wanted to do. It’s two
different worlds that I get to have
both feet in.”
Other than Joshua Chamber-
lain’s celebrated Civil War achieve-
ments, Bowdoin does not have
a significant military tradition.
Most students Stenquist bunked
and trained with came from large
state schools like Rutgers, Penn
State and Arizona State, already
acquainted with the demands of
an ROTC program. Captain Jake
Nihart of the United States Marine
Corps’ Officer Selection Team
hosts a “prep session” for New En-
gland recruits to teach them basic
skills before they leave for summer
training.
“Captain Nihart did a really
good job of bringing us togeth-
er,” said Stenquist. “[He] taught
us how to climb a rope, a skill as
simple as that. But if you go down
nally called Anything but Straight
in Athletics—was started by Ben
Chadwick ’11, an out member of
the men’s lacrosse team who part-
nered with former men’s tennis
coach Colin Joyner, Director of
the Center for Sexuality, Women
and Gender Kate Stern, and for-
mer athletic director Jeff Ward.
In addition to the name change a
few years ago, the events, format,
content and goals have shifted
there and don’t know how to climb
a rope, you’re already a step be-
hind. Climbing a rope is just one
small example, physically, of the
preparation [we do]. Captain Ni-
hart [also] taught us five paragraph
order, the leadership traits, things
that you don’t necessarily see on
the website but prepare you to suc-
ceed down there.”
Traditionally, Bowdoin athletes
have been drawn to the Marine
Corps Officer Candidate School
because their leadership skills and
experience working as a team
transfer well to the military’s orga-
nized environment. Stenquist used
mediation skills he learned from
Office of Residential Life training
to diffuse tense situations between
members of his platoon before the
drill sergeant disciplined the entire
company. Yet even with experi-
ence and critical leadership skills
Stenquist learned at Bowdoin, one
cannot know how to confront a
screaming drill sergeant until he is
put in that situation.
“I honestly don’t think there’s
any real way to mentally prepare
for OCS. You just have to see if
over time.
“It’s been 10 years now that
we’ve been having formal pro-
gramming on campus to bring
together emerging leaders within
our programs to talk about the
language that we use when we’re
in the locker room,” said Ash-
mead White Director of Athletics
Tim Ryan. “[It] focused largely
on homophobic language in the
past and now has evolved to focus
COURTESY OF JAKE STENQUIST
you can take it or not,” said Sten-
quist. “There are moments when
you have an enormous Marine
who’s seen 12 years of active duty
and been in combat situations just
screaming and spitting in your
face. There’s nothing that can re-
ally prepare you for that, especially
at Bowdoin. But you can’t really
knock it until you try it. You’d be
surprised at how exhilarating it is.
It fires you up and gets you excited
to be there.”
For all of the pain, hard work
and commitment it takes to be a
part of the Marine Corps, soldiers
must have a clear reason to join.
Common motivations are patrio-
tism, duty and tradition, but Sten-
quist cites none of these.
“Somebody has to do it and [to]
just say somebody else will do it is
not really something I could live
with,” he said.
A leader in the class of 2019 and
one of the foremost officer candi-
dates in the country, Stenquist is
sure to have a positive impact in
the Marine Corps as he works to-
ward flight school in Pensacola, Fl.
on the language that we use, but
also focusing on gender identity
awareness within the team setting
as well.”
Kat Gaburo ’19, a member
of the women’s swim team who
helped organize the event, re-
counted an anecdote Stern shared
at the dinner about a former
football player who once heard
Please see LGBTQ, page 12
Friday, October 19, 2018 SPORTS 11

COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD, CIP

AND THEY’RE OFF: (LEFT): The women’s cross country team meets in a pre-race huddle for last-minute encouragement. (RIGHT): Julia O’Rourke ’19 (center) leads the team’s first running pack. Five Bowdoin runners finished in the top six.

Women’s XC grabs first place in Bowdoin Invitational

by Benjamin Mason
Staff Writer
The women’s cross country
team dominated the competi-
tion last weekend at the Bow-
doin Invitational with five of
the top six finishes. Captain
Julia O’Rourke ’19 led the first
pack of runners, finishing sec-
ond overall. She was followed
by Delaney Bullock ’22, Sarah
Hanson ’20, Abigael Osmanski
’21 and Erin Hollenbaugh ’20
who placed third, fourth, fifth
and sixth, respectively.
Bowdoin’s top five runners
vary in class year—a sign that
the team has a great new crop of
recruits in addition to a strong
core of upperclassmen. In future
seasons, the Polar Bears can use
their youth to rebuild after se-
niors graduate.
The Bowdoin Invitational
was another great opportunity
to put the team’s skills to the test
against NESCAC competition
while also challenging the run-
ners to race in rainy conditions.
“We ran very smart and
tough in the rain,” Head Coach
Peter Slovenski wrote in an
email to the Orient. “This team
doesn’t get flustered by course
conditions. It does its best on
any course, in any weather.”
Despite the rain, the team
excelled. Each top seven run-
ner posted a personal best race
time, mirroring the men’s team’s
spectacular season opener a few
weeks ago. Rather than running
individual races, the Polar Bears
raced together as a team.
“Strategy-wise, we’re always
trying to close the gap between
our top five [runners],” said
O’Rourke. “The crew that fin-
ished together in the top five ran
together for nearly half the race.
When you’re running with the
people you always train with, it
feels like a simulation of prac-
tice, and it feels safer and more
familiar.”
Captain Martha Boben ’19
agreed.
“When I’m running with
one or two other people, and
they find a pocket to pass
someone, that motivates me to
also pass, even if I don’t have a
good space to.”
Passing is an important
skill in cross country races as
dozens of runners stride along
narrow trails. Bowdoin’s course
is wooded, which usually en-
tails less opportunities to move
ahead. Runners must take full
advantage of their straightaways
and open fields to move forward
as a pack.
This strategy, known as pack
running, proved beneficial for
the Polar Bears, who had only a
43-second spread between their
first and fifth runners—well
below their goal of a 60-second
spread.
The team aims to continue
to improve this figure as the
runners prepare for the upcom-
ing NESCAC championship at
Franklin Park, a hilly course in
Boston on the site of an old zoo.
After that race, the team will
compete on Bowdoin’s course
once again for the NCAA Re-
gional Championship on No-
vember 10 at 11 a.m.
“For Regionals, I would em-
phasize that I’m more confident
in our chances, because we
have the home field advantage,”
O’Rourke said.
Given the mental nature of
the sport, this confidence and
familiarity on the course amid
competition will prove invalu-
able as the season progresses.

Tennis duo named reserve champion in ITA Nationals

by David Steiner
Staff Writer
Last weekend, Jerry Jiang ’19
and Justin Wang ’21 finished
second place at the Intercolle-
giate Tennis Association (ITA)
Cup Doubles Championship in
Rome, Georgia. They got a ticket
to the tournament after winning
the ITA New England regionals
in late September.
The pair won their first game
by default after one of their oppo-
nents had to attend a job interview.
On the second day, Jiang and
Wang beat Caltech (4-6, 6-3, 10-
5), a team they had never played
before. After a slow and nervous
start, the pair broke their oppo-
nents on their first service game
and then held on to win the
second set. They started off the
super tiebreak with solid serving
and then further expanded their
lead, never giving their oppo-
nents a chance to come back.
“It just showed this team
culture,” said Jiang. “It subtly
changed us to be tougher at
these critical moments. It is not
like ‘who hits fantastic shots,’ it
is really more about who stays
tougher over there.”
The duo lost 6-3, 6-3 to Em-
ory in the finals. Jiang said they
knew Emory was a strong team,
and their mistake was trying to
play above their level.
“We got caught up in the
wrong mentality trying to play
even better which just made us
choose a lot of risky options,”
Jiang said. “But overall, it was a
great match. I think we fought
hard. We tried to come back in
the second set.”
What is particularly remark-
able about their run is that Jiang
and Wang started playing togeth-
er just a few weeks ago.
“There were definitely little
hiccups and struggles at the
beginning, because we never
played with each other. There
were a lot of communications
we had to improve on,” Jiang
said. “We had to customize our
play style in order to play bet-
ter together, so we put in extra
work during practices in order
to do that.”
The new connection between
Jiang and Wang is reflective of
the seniors’ dedication to mentor
younger players.
CAROLINE FLAHARTY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“Instead of being passive, [Ji-
ang] is pushing me to be more AN ACE PAIR: Justin Wang ’21 (left) and Jerry Jiang ’19 competed in the ITA Doubles Championship last weekend. Although the pair has only played together for a
active and always think about few weeks, they have proven to be strong competitors. The men’s tennis team now has two national titles: grand champion single and reserve champion doubles.
the next move instead of relying
on him to win the point, like ac- and new players join the team, younger guys. Because this team a Brandeis and Tufts invite last all the younger guys are really
tively looking for to win points especially after losing three se- is all about keeping the tradition weekend are promising signs for pumped going into this offsea-
myself,” Wang said. nior players last year. going,” said Jiang. the spring season. son and work really hard to have
Jiang recognizes the impor- “I hope Justin can learn from The strong finish at the ITA “This weekend was a really a good spring. So I’m just look-
tance of preserving the team’s this whole season, that he can tournament as well as the rest of good confidence booster for ing forward to the next step. Fall
momentum as seniors graduate, gain from it and pass on to the the team’s good performance at everyone,” said Wang. “I know is over, now on to the winter.”
12
LGBTQ
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10
the word “fag” used 13 times in
one hour of practice and ended
up leaving the team because he
didn’t feel he could be queer in
that setting.
“He said he didn’t think it was
because his teammates really
had angry or malicious feelings
towards gay people. It was just
the culture,” said Gaburo. “And I
think that’s a huge thing, because
I would say the majority of the
people on this campus are not
homophobic. I don’t think they’re
going out of their way to make
queer people feel uncomfortable
or unwanted. I think that the
culture just isn’t as accepting as it
could be in terms of making peo-
ple feel comfortable.”
Language can form a partic-
ularly large barrier for LGBTQ
people, in everything from ho-
mophobic slurs to pronouns to
assumptions about sexuality and
gender in conversations.
While slurs are not as apparent
a problem as they were 10 years
ago, heteronormative and cisgen-
dered language is one of the next
obstacles to be tackled.
“Students often talk about it
as sitting at brunch and people
wanting to talk about the night
before and who you wanted to
hook up with or who you think
is hot,” said Stern. “Another
part are social mixers between
teams—everything from a party
to get the men’s and the wom-
en’s team together to sometimes
students talk to me about being
handcuffed to somebody of the
opposite gender. There’s a lot of
pressure and assumptions to be
handcuffed to somebody of the
opposite gender.”
While Stern noted that these
are some of the more extreme
parts of the social climate on
teams, they perpetuate the as-
sumptions that can exclude
LGBTQ team members and make
the idea of coming out to their
teams seem more disruptive to
team culture.
Ultimately, barriers like these
and questions of how their teams
would react to them coming out
all serve as extra weight carried by
LGBTQ team members in prac-
tice, competition and throughout
their lives at Bowdoin.
Sullivan honed in on this idea,
and the way it keeps members
from performing to the fullest
of their ability and teams from
achieving their potential.
“If you really want to be a
championship program, and the
challenge to each of the people
in the room was if you think of
yourself as a leader or hope to be
a leader, then how are you going
to deal with a roster where not
everybody feels like they have a
part in it or feel included?” said
Sullivan.
Discourse at the dinner also
highlighted a change in focus
from simply eliminating negative
SPORTS
DON’T ROCK THE BOAT: (LEFT): Louisa Lindgren ’19 and Matt Safford ’20 are all smiles as they sail into a wave. (UPPER RIGHT): Matt Kaplan ’19 and Alissa Chen ’22 at sea.
Sailing team heads to Championship
by Jessica Troubh
Staff Writer
This Saturday, approximately
seven of Bowdoin’s top sailors will
head to Maryland to compete in
one of the most significant and
competitive regattas of the fall
season: the Showcase Finals at St.
Mary’s College. The Polar Bears
qualified for this event after a
strong performance at the Coed
Showcase Regatta at MIT two
weekends ago.
According to captain Louisa
Lindgren ’19, this regatta will
likely be more competitive than a
national championship. Whereas
nationals limits the number of
berths, or spots in a race, per re-
gion, this regatta will boast more
teams from the most competitive
regions.
and harmful experiences to pro-
actively creating a more positive
and welcoming environment.
“Sometimes it’s really just not
knowing and the silence,” said
Stern. “If people could find a
way to mention their awesome
gay uncle, or to go to Out Allies
[training] and put a sticker up on
their water bottle, get their name
on the list, it’s really that sign of
‘you don’t have to come out with a
big giant coming out story, but I’m
OK with who you are.’”
These ideas were reflected in
the individual and team action
plans attendees created during
the discussions.
“I was thrilled with the se-
riousness with which our stu-
dent-athletes approached their
action plans,” Ryan wrote in an
email to the Orient. “Several
themes emerged such as work-
ing with teammates to avoid
using heteronormative language
and making assumptions about
members of our programs, cor-
recting teammates when they use
offensive language, being aware
of gender issues when planning
social events and participating
themselves and encouraging
teammates to participate in Out
Allies training.”
“I hear from a lot of athletes
over the last few years who are not
out on their teams who still talk
about how good it feels to know
that there are Out Allies on their
team,” said Stern. “But they wish
there were more. If there’s a bit
“The region that we’re in, NEI-
SA, is definitely the most competi-
tive region of all of them … NEISA
only gets eight or nine spots [at na-
tionals], but at this event there are
going to be 11 NEISA teams, so it
is all of the most competitive teams
of the nation coming together to
compete,” said Lindgren.
To prepare for this high level
of competition, the team has been
striving to become more comfort-
able in competitive situations.
“We’ve been getting a lot
more competitive on the water
and in the gym,” said Lindgren.
“We want everyone to challenge
themselves.”
Lindgren said this type of
training is especially import-
ant for improving the starts of
races, which are often difficult
for sailors.
more of a critical mass or a team
got together and made more of a
statement, then maybe they’d be
able to come out on their team.”
Shifting the language used in
conversation away from these
assumptions helps create a clear
space for other identities on
these teams.
“It comes back to brunch and
[when] someone uses open gen-
dered language that lets people
know explicitly ‘I am not making
assumptions about who you are
attracted to, about your gender
identity, about whether or not
you’re attracted to anyone any-
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“Starting lines are very hard
to replicate in practice … We’ve
been trying to make things
more competitive [in practices]
by shortening the distance of the
line so that there is less space, or
by mimicking a bad start and
then trying to work our way up
from that,” said Lindgren.
Head Coach Frank Pizzo ’06
added that the team has been
working on “dealing with the un-
expected” and preparing for a vari-
ety of conditions.
“It’s always good to get a range
of conditions at practice so that
you are prepared for anything at
the regattas,” said Pizzo.
The upcoming regatta is a two-
fleet and two-division race; in oth-
er words, the team will be sailing in
two types of sailboats—Flying Ju-
niors (FJs) and 420s—and sailors
way,’” said Stern.
Intentional actions such as
using more open language and
attending Out Allies trainings has
been a huge part of the progress
that’s been made in creating more
LGBTQ-welcoming team cultures.
In addition, the potential for
further progress that won’t just
fade when a particularly moti-
vated class of students graduates
lies in the committed partnership
between the athletic department
and SWAG.
“I work really closely with
coaches, and I’m always amazed
at how supportive our coaches
Re-Elect
Friday, October 19, 2018
COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD, CIP
will be racing in either the A divi-
sion or the B division. This set-up
lends itself to a lot of sailing, and
Pizzo sees the regatta as a chance
for the team to improve and gain
experience.
“We just want to keep getting
better at the things we’ve been
working on,” said Pizzo. “St. Mary’s
is a great place to sail. They have an
awesome boat house and have run
many championships in the past,
so it should be a good weekend for
us to compete against great teams
and get ready for our fall champi-
onships and the spring season.”
All in all, the team is looking
forward to participating in this
event.
“We’re really hoping it’s going
to be a good weekend and we
can put everything out there,”
said Lindgren.
are of students who come out, of
the idea of having a welcoming
climate and how willing coaches
are to come to workshops and
trainings,” said Stern. “So I’m
very lucky to have partners in the
coaches and then also in the [ath-
letic] administration.”
Outside of the dinner, anoth-
er element of this partnership is
Yellow Shirt Day, which will take
place on Thursday. The Athletic
Department will order the shirts
and pay for a shirt for any athlete
who wants to wear one. They
strongly encourage all athletes to
participate.
13 Friday, October 19, 2018

O OPINION
Allyship or athlete-ship?
In 2005, Executive Director of the Christian Civic League of Maine Michael
Racism is alive and well here
Heath visited campus, campaigning to overturn Maine’s recently passed sexual
orientation anti-discrimination law. As a form of protest, students wore yellow Say It Like It Is
shirts to the event.
by Nate DeMoranville
Today, this lives on in the form of Yellow Shirt Day, when students, faculty
and staff wear yellow shirts reading “Respect All Genders. All Sexualities.” as a
sign of allyship. For athletes, these shirts are free. For non-athletes, the shirts Social change is often discussed in two
must be purchased. We acknowledge the history of homophobia and transpho- ways, with the bottom-up and top-down
bia in athletics and the value of making teams inclusive spaces. However, we approach. Think of them as the People
believe that giving athletes free Yellow Shirts is not the most productive way versus the President. Who is responsible
to achieve this goal and instead diminishes the symbolic power of Yellow Shirt for change? Bottom-up says the People,
Day. top-down the President. But I say they are
When we see someone with a Yellow Shirt, we initially think that they must both responsible. The two are not mutu-
stand by the shirt’s message. However, considering that every athlete gets one ally exclusive—in fact, change only occurs
for free, we have to think twice. Queer students should not have to think twice. when the two are working together.
When one section of the student body is handed Yellow Shirts for free, while At Bowdoin, I fear we have adopted
the rest of the student body is asked to pay, the barrier to entry for this per- the bottom-up approach, and adminis-
formance of allyship is unequal. Furthermore, Yellow Shirts let athletes mark trators place the burden of building an
themselves as allies when they might not be. It prevents the shirts from func- inclusive community almost entirely
tioning as legitimate markers of allyship or even support. on students. Think of last year, when
In addition, it’s important to consider the reasons why some athletes end the Disabled Students Association had
up wearing the shirts. Are they wearing it because they support the mission of to demand that the College comply
Yellow Shirt Day or because the rest of their team is wearing the shirts? Is it a with the Americans with Disability Act
marker of allyship or athlete-ship? While we believe most athletes do support (which is a federal law). In moments like
Yellow Shirt Day and the LGBTQIA+ community, they should have to show these, administrators should be leading
their support the same way the rest of us do—by purchasing a shirt. the charge, not waiting for students to
Outside of Yellow Shirt Day, Bowdoin does promote inclusivity on athletic mobilize the whole campus.
teams. Examples include the Winning Together dinner and a history of athletes In smaller moments, we see this same
being encouraged to attend Out Allies training. Instead of giving athletes free behavior. Last February, Dean Tim Foster
Yellow Shirts, the Athletics Department and the Center for Sexuality, Women sent an email to all students asking us to
and Gender should invest in more events like these. Instead of granting athletes consider living with new people in the
easy recognition, these opportunities help students engage and truly consider coming year. “Mix things up a bit,” he
how homophobia, transphobia and heteronormativity operate in athletics and wrote, “[live] with a new group of people
create truly inclusive teams. who are different from you.” While I share
This dichotomy between easy, performative acts of support such as wearing the sentiment—of course, we should be-
a Yellow Shirt and meaningful acts of engagement is not restricted to athletes. gin to engage across difference—I dis-
All students should consider the ways in which they can employ more concrete agree with the plan of action prescribed
forms of allyship. Therefore, we encourage students to attend OUTtober events by our dean of student affairs.
including and beyond Yellow Shirt Day. On Tuesday night, Bowdoin Queer By his own admission, this stance
Straight Alliance will be hosting a discussion about what it means to be an ally came from students: “As a group of up-
aside from wearing a Yellow Shirt. This event can springboard further action. perclass student leaders said to me,” Fos-
While queer students shouldn’t have to think twice about the reasons why ter wrote, “students need to prioritize
someone is wearing a Yellow Shirt, students should be thinking twice about the continually meeting new people. I whole-
ways which they show support. heartedly agree.” Why do student leaders
need to explain this to him? Meeting new
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, people, especially those with different
which is composed of Nell Fitzgerald, Dakota Griffin, George Grimbilas, Calder backgrounds and perspectives, is a basic
McHugh, Devin McKinney and Jessica Piper. tenet of any college experience. Our ad-
ministrators should know this.
They should also know the extent to
which the student body continues to be
divided. For Dean Foster, “living in a
College House with people you might
not already know” is a successful way
ESTABLISHED 1871 of “mixing things up,” but the College
Houses are some of the whitest institu-
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Rather than working towards inclu- not a personal problem. As such, stu- The simple truth is that campus cul-
Calder McHugh Jessica Piper sivity, substance-free housing like Howell dents alone do not have the tools to dis- ture is determined by administrative
Editor in Chief Editor in Chief only reinforces segregation. It creates mantle it. For example, no matter what I policy. For example, when Bowdoin in-
little pockets for people of color to live do in the African-American Society, our stituted a no-loan policy, more students
Digital Director Managing Editor News Editor with a monotony of minorities amid a black men will still struggle to graduate of color were afforded the opportunity to
James Little Anjulee Bhalla Nina McKay predominantly white institution. They on time, and we will never be accepted come here. Could you imagine, however,
Nell Fitzgerald are safe spaces, but they are also sheltered into mainstream culture. We need a if we reinstated this barrier? If we no lon-
Photo Editor Dakota Griffin spaces, because students fail to gain the structural overhaul in order to change ger accepted women? If we went back to
Alyce McFadden Features Editor
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from themselves. About five years ago, Dean Foster’s email: he denies a struc- for what we truly are: a campus of com-
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Emma Bezilla Kathryn McGinnis into a single dorm, colloquially known with fixing systemic problems. I am tired It is high time student leaders stop do-
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regation. It was unacceptable then, and it tinker with Residential Life training, for them, and especially not for free. Seg-
Data Desk Editor Sydney Benjamin Sabrina Lin
is unacceptable now. reconfigure the role athletics play in our regation may still be in practice here, but
Gideon Moore Conrad Li Racism is a structural force—it is college. slavery, at least, is over.
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14 OPINION Friday, October 19, 2018

The toxicity of social media influencers

by Radu Stochita
Op-Ed Contributor
Wake up, open Instagram
and let the day unwrap itself.
Slowly, painfully, moving from
picture to picture. Analyze the
perfection that lies behind
the smiles of the girls, as they
wear branded tights and a
sports bra sponsored by some
ultra-expensive company.
Move to another photo, this
time to find a perfectly-ironed
dress, accentuating the curves
of someone’s body, only to be
followed by a motivational
quote and a small reference to
the brand that made the dress.
And the last photo, before the
anxiety starts kicking in, is
a man, topless, showing his
god-like body to the camera,
flashing a bright smile and
quoting a message taken from
a book teaching you how to
get rich in ten days. “Just push
yourself harder!”
These are the influencers,
the people who earn their liv-
ing off of Instagram and other
various social media tools by
promoting brands. They have
the products in their hands;
they are the ones being held
by the products. They need to
smile, to pose, to show what
the public wants and to make
everything look desirable and
utopian. Their day is not aver-
age; it is fantastic. It is not full
of traffic jams or rude people
entering the bus in a hurry.
They live the perfect lifestyle,
have the best food on the ta-
ble, the coffee from that fancy
bar that just opened in town
and the clothes from designer
brands that most of us cannot
afford. We can be thankful to
look at them and hopeful that
one day we might reach that
point too. At that time, we
will be able to pose with the
watch covering most of the
shot to show others that “we
have made it.”
Until then, we are trapped
in this world, where we have
to experience emotions other
than happiness. We are forced
to live here and to accept the
fluctuations we encounter, to
understand that today might
not be the day, maybe not even
tomorrow—and who knows
when we will get back to laugh-
ing. In the outside world, the
influencers make their game,
showing how perfect life can
be: happy and without worry.
They want to influence us, but
the damage their actions might
cause is undervalued. Their
inaccurate depiction of reality
brings anxiety into our minds.
We lose ourselves, our unique
traits that differentiate us from
others, only to join the herd
and to aspire for that lifestyle
that we have seen an endless
number of times on Instagram.
It makes us question the
beauty of our bodies and of
our clothes-of-choice. It slow-
ly bleaches us, removing any
trace of bright color that used
to shine before from miles
away, leaving only a blank
canvas on which the influenc-
ers and the brands will paint
in black according to their
own taste.
And we let them do it, and
we admire them and some
of us even take them as role
models. They Have Made It.
We let them play their game,
but at times it is good to step
back and to look at things
from our own eyes, not from
the eyes that they have tried
to stick in our orbits. It is im-
portant to realize that there is
more that lies behind the pic-
ture that probably took a good
amount of time to be shot and
edited, with a long list of de-
cisions on the ideal posture of
the body, to make it look the
most desirable.
As outsiders, though, we
must understand that influ-
encers are human at the end of
the day—the version they put
online is not a real one. Influ-
encers’ photos are just images
that sell well. These photos’
popularity fills influencers’
desires to be appreciated by
many people.
As the presence of the in-
fluencers may downgrade
our self-esteem, we can take
action. It needs to be under-
stood that the pictures and
videos they post are made
to reach a broader audience,
promote a brand, sell it and
receive some remuneration
in the end. They do it the way
the brands want, they play
their game and show what the
brands want, behave the way
the brands want, while living ciety, and
with pseudo-independence as much
over their actions. as we have
However, we have a choice helped build
of what to consume. Deciding it, we can help destroy it. Ei-
to unfollow them or to abstain ther piece by piece, or just by .
from Instagram might be the smashing it with a hammer.
right choice. Just raising your “The Less You Show, The
eyes when you walk might help More You Have, And Let
you better understand reality. That Be A Lesson.” – Princess
Perfection is not an objective Nokia
ideal to which one should Radu Stochita is a member
aspire. It is a construct by so- of the class of 2022 PER
ZIP
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For the vast majority of my short two people with whom we disagree and pro-
months that I have spent at this school, viding some small amount of self-righ-
these things have all been true. Howev- teousness in our frustration.
er, this was noticeably not the case after However, I do applaud the people QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Theo de Quillacq released his op-ed ti- that responded with the desire for
tled, “I am Brett Kavanaugh.” thoughtful discussion. Theo, myself and
In the following few days, the re- everyone else at this school have much
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well as the casual conversations of a Fri- more time each day thinking about the
day afternoon, people seemed to delight values that make Bowdoin such a great
in tearing Theo down. Being someone place. Hopefully, when we interact with
who was quite upset by the confirma- people of different perspectives we can
Last week’s response:
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article. But that is not what matters. I darkness; only light can do that. Hate
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Students and alums respond on Kavanaugh
KAVANAUGH: AN ATTEMPT TO BE FAIR
by McKenna Thomas-Franz
Op-Ed Contributor
I do not think Christine Bla-
sey Ford was dishonest, and I
disagree with the idea that Ford
is somehow benefitted by her
decision to accuse Kavanaugh.
Even if Kavanaugh hadn’t re-
ceived confirmation, Ford’s deci-
sion to come forward will impact
her for the rest of her life, and
that’s not a fate someone chooses
A DISCUSSION ON BRAVERY AND KAVANAUGH
by Shannon Knight
Op-Ed Contributor
I first would like to address an
issue outside of the Kavanaugh
article, but one that has arisen
from it nonetheless. This is a
discussion of bravery. There is
bravery in sharing a voice that
is not widely accepted, but let
me be clear about this point.
That incredible form of bravery
is rooted in the voices of people
such as Angela Davis and Sa-
cheen Littlefeather. These people
were and remain endless sources
ON FEAR, SAFETY AND KAVANAUGH
by Isabel Thomas
Op-Ed Contributor
I understand that men fear
the possibility of being false-
ly accused of assault in their
future. I understand that the
thought of that must make
them feel vulnerable. I ask in
return for the understanding
that women face fear of sexual
assault every single day. Speak-
ing for myself, I am afraid
every time I leave my house. I
fear every man I encounter on
A CALL FOR EMPATHY
by Sophie Sadovnikoff
Op-Ed Contributor
Under Title IX, survivors
are not automatically believed.
They are required to prove that
it was “more likely than not”
that they were assaulted, which
involves having to tell strang-
ers the story of their assault in
an environment in which they
are not necessarily presumed
to be telling the truth. I am not
sure how well people who have
not gone through this are able
to comprehend the psycholog-
ical difficulty of such an event.
I can speak from my own expe-
rience, and say that although I
have not been through a Title
KAVANAUGH SUPPORTERS WILLFUL BLINDNESS TO TRUTH
by Nisha Ajmani
Op-Ed Contributor
To be clear, I do not believe
excessive drinking during
adolescence should be an
automatic bar to becoming a
Supreme Court Justice. The
problem is that it appears
likely that Kavanaugh lied
under oath about the extent
of his drinking and the mean-
This week, the Orient received many submissions responding to last week’s op eds on Brett Kavanaugh. The following excerpts were
chosen by the authors. Complete op eds can be found at bowdoinorient.com.
lightly. I don’t believe that sexu-
al assault is ever justifiable, and
I understand why Kavanaugh’s
confirmation might be concern-
ing for many people. However,
I’m not sure about my place in
the #MeToo movement and oth-
er associated movements, or if
my personal experiences should
influence how I feel about this
hearing. Those are both things
I cannot answer. But, speaking
for myself, I also know my belief
of inspirational courage because
of the ways they fought against
injustice.
In people like these, you find
honor in bravery. In the “brav-
ery” demonstrated by the “I am
Brett Kavanaugh” article, there is
no honor. This is a cruel form of
bravery, one that is equivalent to
what it must take to walk into a
room full of people who are an-
gry and in pain and rub it in their
face that they will never have jus-
tice. This is not something to be
proud of. You are directly pour-
ing salt into wounds that you will
the street. I chastise myself for
somehow making too much
and too little eye contact to be
safe. I hold my keys between
my fingers even though I know
that I do not have the physical
strength to defend myself with
them. When I am in public, I
am scared whether I am mov-
ing or sitting still. And when
I am home, I keep myself up
worrying about what would
happen if someone were to
break in. All of this is to say
that I feel vulnerable constant-
IX case myself, I started see-
ing a counselor during my
first year at Bowdoin because
of the difficulty I was hav-
ing supporting friends who
had experienced assault. The
emotional toll of reporting a
sexual assault is pervasive and
deep-reaching, which may ex-
plain why so few survivors re-
port. This is not a system that
supports survivors. It is one
that privileges the accused’s
reputation over a survivor’s
safety and mental health.
What I think that many peo-
ple who agree with de Quil-
lacq are missing is a serious
lack of compassion, empathy
and understanding for those
ing of sex-related terms in his
yearbook, and perjury should
be an automatic bar to confir-
mation on the Supreme Court.
Moreover, Kavanaugh had a
motive to lie about whether
he ever had memory lapses
due to intoxication because, if
he did forget events because of
drinking too much, it would
mean it is possible he did sex-
ually assault Dr. Ford but has
OPINION
in Ford is partially motivated
by the pre-existing opinions I
have of Kavanaugh. I won’t go
into detail, but I think there are
better conservative Supreme
Court candidates out there.
These biases do not allow me to
truly respect Ford’s experiences
or testimony, nor do they allow
me to take Kavanaugh’s defense
seriously.
McKenna Thomas-Franz is a
member of the class of 2019.
never have to endure, wounds
historically generated by people
who look like you, while daring
to call yourself brave. I hope you
do not take pride in that. What
you could do, however, is realize
that although you share the iden-
tity of historical oppressors, you
do not have to share the mindset.
Take the time to listen and un-
derstand the mistake you made.
Please learn from it, because that
would help make a change you
could be proud of.
Shannon Knight is a member
of the class of 2018.
ly. After two decades of feeling
that way, I can say with cer-
tainty that I have never felt as
vulnerable as I have since Brett
Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
While I have always feared the
men who would hurt me (and
not knowing who those men
may be), I now also fear all who
would defend those men, and
in the last month I have real-
ized how large and powerful
that number actually is.
Isabel Thomas is a member of
the class of 2020.
who have experienced sexu-
al assault. Sexual assault is a
traumatic event that can cause
serious psychological harm to
an individual. Forcing survi-
vors to relive their experience
while having its truth and ac-
curacy constantly questioned
is in itself a form of trauma.
This must be considered when
discussing charges of sexual
assault. Survivors should be
believed. Their trauma must
be recognized as real. If you
care at all about women and all
survivors, be a better ally than
this. We deserve to be listened
to; it is our right to be heard.
Sophie Sadovnikoff is a
member of the class of 2019.
no memory of it. Also, if Ka-
vanaugh admitted that he had
blacked out from drinking,
it could have supported Dr.
Ford’s claim that he was very
drunk when he assaulted her.
Senator Collins and Ka-
vanaugh’s supporters cannot
have their cake and eat it too.
You cannot claim, on the one
hand, that no corroborat-
ing evidence exists, but on
YOU ARE BRETT KAVANAUGH
by Samantha Schwimmer
Op-Ed Contributor
I go to college with two of the
men who have sexually assaulted
me. I also go to college with the men
who shoved their hands inside the
back of my shorts at parties, who
made jokes about anally raping
me, who claimed that I had been
“passed around” and who followed
me home after meeting at a party.
Like Dr. Ford, I experienced
many of these incidents when my
peers were around but weren’t
watching. The men who assaulted
HEAR WHAT YOU WANT
by Beto Wetter
Op-Ed Contributor
A Swedish proverb that is appli-
cable for consideration in the cur-
rent polarized political climate is as
follows: Man hör vad man vill höra.
Originally from the 1981 publica-
tion “Svenska Ordspråk” by Fredrik
Ström, a prolific Swedish writer and
prominent Social Democrat, the
proverb translates to: You hear what
you want to hear. This is a statement
that is particularly resonant to the
current hyperpolarized, toxic and
tribal political arena that continues
to engulf the United States. After
the election of Donald Trump, an
individual termed by many liber-
als (including myself) as a bigoted
demagogue, the trenches were dug:
liberals and progressives on the left
and conservatives on the right. In an
op-ed for The Washington Post ti-
tled “In Trump’s America, tribalism
reigns,” Paul Waldman notes how
COMPASSION IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT
by Laura Petto
Op-Ed Contributor
Writing well about sexual as-
sault is both extremely difficult
and critically important. Every
piece tangentially related to as-
sault sends a message to survivors,
whether the author intends to or
not. The culture around assault
and the treatment of survivors is
one factor in whether or not they
choose to report their assault. This
is one reason I am saddened by
Theo de Quillacq’s article, “I am
Brett Kavanaugh.” His treatment
of women and of survivors sends a
deeply troubling message to them.
I could replace “sexual as-
sault” with “theft” and the article
would not change—but it should.
Sexual assault is not just a one-
time crime. It impacts the
survivor far after the event.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
installed a second front
door in her home, de-
the other, refuse to open
the door when the evidence
comes a-knocking. While I
have doubts that anything
meaningful will be done at
this point, I hope our coun-
try’s leaders will eventually
reach a place where truth is
more important to them than
power.
Nisha Ajmani is a member
of the class of 2006.
and harassed me are government,
economics and biology majors.
They have interned with politi-
cians, sung in a cappella groups
and played on athletic teams. They
are the doctors, lawyers, bankers,
teachers and Supreme Court jus-
tices of the next generation. For
Senator Collins, Theo and count-
less others, my experiences and
resulting trauma are not enough of
a reason to question that. They see
these men as deserving of positions
of power because I alone can cor-
roborate my experiences.
I call on Bowdoin students,
the United States is now becom-
ing more tribal than ever before.
Combative, bombastic partisan
language only intensifies this trib-
alism, as exhibited by Sen. Lindsey
Graham’s (R-S.C.) partisan tirade
at Kavanaugh’s hearing imploring
his fellow Republican senators to
vote “yes” on Trump’s nominee.
The left is berating the right. The
right is lambasting the left. We are
getting nowhere politically. Politics
is becoming more insular, on both
sides of the aisle. This is why I am
offering the opinion in this article
that liberals and conservatives here
at Bowdoin, and in our country as a
whole, are hearing what we want to
hear and nothing else. This is some-
thing we need to change.
As Phillippe Cousteau Jr.
mentioned in his talk during the
opening of the Roux Center for
the Environment, it is important
nowadays to enter discourse with
people who share different views
cades after high school, because,
still struggling with anxiety and
PTSD, she wanted an escape
route. Survivors have different
responses to their assault, but
just a few potential side-effects
are difficulty sleeping and eating,
hyper awareness of surroundings
and high base levels of anxiety.
Writing about an accusation of
sexual assault without context
assumes that it is like any oth-
er crime. But it is not. Writing
about it as if it is furthers a dan-
gerous assumption for readers
and survivors.
Depending on study set-up
and the definition of false vs.
unfounded, the number of false
accusations is between two and
10 percent, approximately the
LILY their traumas.
FUL
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faculty and staff to ask themselves
how we can all work together to
make this campus a place where
women matter. A place where we
not only believe survivors, but also
listen and allow them to heal on a
campus free from the people who
assaulted them. A place where we
call out sexism when we see it. A
place where the hurdles of the Title
IX investigation will not be a bur-
den to survivors. A place where we
don’t breed tomorrow’s Brett Kava-
naughs.
Samantha Schwimmer is a mem-
ber of the class of 2021.
than you and find ways to build
bridges with those people. Our
aim is not to win others over, but
find a common ground and shared
viewpoints, or facets of viewpoints,
in order to address larger prob-
lems facing our society, nation
and world. I too need to work on
conversing with more conserva-
tive people, including some of my
own extended family members
who I love and cherish deeply as
individuals and as relatives, and
on understanding their viewpoints
while not necessarily agreeing
with them on every single topic.
My only hope is that they too, and
other conservatives, are able to lis-
ten and respect the points of views
of liberals such as myself. We can
either come closer as a nation or
grow further apart. I hope it is the
former. I hope we do not just hear
what we want to hear.
Beto Wetter is a member of the
class of 2019.
same as other violent crimes.
However, the difference is that far
fewer sexual assaults—between
30 and 35 percent—are reported
to the police compared with oth-
er violent crimes. In those cases
that are reported, most assailants
go unpunished, breaking down
the argument that scores of in-
nocent men’s lives are ruined by
a single accusation. Thus, sexual
assault must be discussed with
an understanding of the magni-
tude of unreported assaults and
the disincentives of reporting.
In reporting, survivors risk re-
living publicly their trauma and
potentially putting themselves
physically at risk again if their
assailant walks free. De Quillacq
not only brushes over this, but
he treats women and survivors
without compassion and fails to
acknowledge the harsh reality of
LAM Laura Petto is a member of
the class of 2015.
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OCTOBER
FRIDAY 19
EVENT
Family Weekend: President’s Summer
Research Symposium
Students from a variety of departments will showcase their
summer research projects.
Morrell Gymnasium. 1:45 p.m.

EVENT
Sarah and James Bowdoin Day
The College will invite members of the Bowdoin community to
observe an awards ceremony for student academic
achievement. Chryl Laird (Assistant Professor of Government)
will give a keynote speech.
Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 4 p.m.

EVENT
Kent Island Art Show Opening MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

The Lamarche Gallery will feature students’ artwork and DRILLING AWAY: A construction team is working to complete the highly-anticipated Park Row Apartments, set for completion before the 2019-
2020 school year. The four new buildings will provide additional suite-style housing options for juniors and seniors.
photography from their summer fellowships on Kent Island,
New Brunswick.
Lamarche Gallery, David Saul Smith Union. 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 20
EVENT
Back in the USSR and Ballot in the USPS
MacMillan House and Bowdoin Votes will host a ballot party
preceded by a sing-a-long to The Beatles’ “White Album” in
celebration of its 50th anniversary.
MacMillan House. 4 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Family Weekend: Student Group
Performances
Dance, a capella and drumming groups will perform for
students and visiting relatives as part of the
scheduled programming for Family Weekend.
Morrell Gymnasium. 7 p.m.
MONDAY 22 WEDNESDAY 24
LECTURE
Where Did Trump Come From? Reproduc-
tive Politics, Whiteness and Neoliberalism
Laura Briggs, professor of women, gender, and sexuality
studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst, will examine
the role of conservative leaders and neoliberals in creating a
heated battleground over women’s reproductive rights, specif-
ically focusing on burdens faced by black and Latinx mothers.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
DISCUSSION
Conservative Environmentalism:
Oxymoron or Viable Alternative?
Bowdoin College Republicans and the Eisenhower Forum will
co-sponsor Dan Dagget, a Pulitzer Prize nominated author who
will discuss his career as an environmental activist and
self-described status as a conservative environmentalist.
Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30 p.m.
LECTURE
“My Time With the 6th Soviet Antarctic
Expedition, 1960-62”
In a sponsored by the Peary MacMillan Arctic
Museum, Professor of History and Science Emeritus at
Wesleyan University C. Stewart Gillmor will describe his
experience as the only American who spent 14 months
studying physics at the Soviet research station in Antarctica.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
LECTURE
Our Story: Traversing the Homelands
Penobscot historian and community organizer Maria
Girouard will discuss the deep roots of Native American
history in Maine, aiming to spread knowledge of both the
positive and detrimental events of the past and encourage a
peaceful path forward.
Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m.

SUNDAY 21 TUESDAY 23 THURSDAY 25

PERFORMANCE
Family Weekend: Bowdoin College
Concert Band
In the first of a trilogy of “FRIENDS” concerts this academic
year, an array of musicians will play pieces by composers
including John Philip Souza and James Newton Howard.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m.
FILM SCREENING EVENT
“Eighth Grade” Yellow Shirt Day
The Frontier Theater will begin a week of screening “Eighth Students and faculty will wear yellow shirts from the Bowdo-
Grade,” a film which depicts the awkward and embarrassing in Queer-Straight Alliance in solidarity with queer members
moments of a thirteen-year-old girl as she makes her way of the community. Participants will meet at the Polar Bear
through middle school. Statue to take a group picture.
Frontier Theater. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Polar Bear. 4:15 p.m.

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Candle Debate Congressional Gratitude

Lighting Watching and Gubernatorial Thursdays
Party Debate