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Disparities exist in CPC programming Political donations from
by Nell Fitzgerald and
Surya Milner
Orient Staff
The Orient’s midyear ap-
proval ratings showed that the
senior class is overwhelmingly
dissatisfied with the Career
Planning Center (CPC)—but
further investigation has shown
that approval varies widely by
industry, with students looking
to enter consulting and technol-
ogy generally expressing positive
sentiments while students in arts
and communications are the
least happy.
Executive Director of the
CPC Kristin Brennan noted that
for most students, the timing of
the job application process varies
by industry. Recruiting for fi-
nance and software engineering
occurs in the fall, for example,
and hiring for most other fields
ramps up in the spring.
“The inherent challenge for a
student navigating this terrain is,
‘what does the job search for me
look like?’—not ‘what does the
job search look like, period,’” she
said. “Because they actually look
so different.”
Still, some students say they
feel certain industries have more
support than others. Just 43 per-
cent of students looking for jobs
in arts and entertainment were
satisfied with the CPC, com-
pared to 73 percent of students
looking for jobs in technology.
Bowdoin’s online job board,
eBear, currently has five job
postings listed under the indus-
try of “Arts & Entertainment,”
which includes the subcategories
“Film/Video,” “Performing Arts,
“Graphic Arts,” “Visual Arts”
and “Music.” By contrast, 45 jobs
are listed under “Education,” 31
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“Helpfulness” of Career Planning Center
faculty and staff increase,
for seniors by field of interest stay left in midterm cycle
didates or groups. The figure
Tech by Jessica Piper
exceeded the $18,626 that was
Orient Staff
donated 2016 and is nearly four
Education
Political donations by Bow- times as much as the College’s
doin faculty and staff surged employees donated during the
Law during the 2018 midterm cy- last midterm cycle in 2014.
cle and universally supported Professor of Government
Government liberal causes, according to an Michael Franz, whose research
Orient analysis of data from includes campaign finance, not-
Marketing and Advertising the Federal Elections Commis- ed that the 2018 election cycle
sion (FEC). Donations made by included more competitive races,
Finance, Banking, or Consulting members of the College’s Board both in the primary and general
of Trustees were varied between elections. The number of races
Medicine Democratic and Republican and the hype around them could
groups and candidates, but have energized donations from
Arts and Entertainment donations to liberal causes far both parties’ bases and may ex-
outnumbered donations to con- plain the uptick in donations.
Communication and Journalism servative causes. “I think we'll find, given how
Employee donations recorded many competitive elections there
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT by the FEC amounted to $22,148 were, that there was more money
Extremely helpful Moderately helpful Slightly helpful Neither helpful nor unhelpful in 2018, with the entirety of the
funds going to left-leaning can- Please see DONATIONS, page 6
Extremely unhelpful Moderately unhelpful Slightly unhelpful
Seventy-nine current seniors conveyed their attitudes towards career planning in an Orient survey. Those who hoped
to work in technology or education felt that the CPC has been helpful in their job search, while students planning to
work in communication, journalism, arts or entertainment were underwhelmed. Overall, 59.5 percent of seniors felt the
CPC has been helpful in their job search, while 31.1 percent felt it has been unhelpful. These figures are similar to those Last April, Bowdoin announced
reported in the Bowdoin Orient Student Survey two weeks ago.
its carbon neutrality, two years
under “Finance and Banking”
and 18 under “Consulting.”
demic year, the Consulting and
Finance newsletters list an aver-
to a greater number of job post-
ings in fields where Bowdoin
ahead of schedule—but the
“Whenever I go on [eBear] age of 13.1 jobs each week, while lacks, such as communications. connection to the environment
looking for something film-re- the Arts and Communications For example, a Bates student
lated, or science communica- newsletters list an average of 5.5 searching on Handshake would goes back much longer. A look at
tions-related even, there’s really jobs per week. currently see more than 150 jobs
just not a lot on there,” said Railey Beyond eBear, the CPC offers and internships in journalism. where the College has been and
Zantop-Zimlinghaus ’19, an Earth the Liberal Arts Career Network By comparison, LACN lists just
and Oceanographic Studies major (LACN), a consortium of more a dozen. where it is going.
with a Cinema Studies minor. than 30 colleges that includes a Brennan, who started at Bow-
This disparity exists beyond job database. Several of Bowdo- doin this past fall, emphasized
the current snapshot. The CPC in’s peer schools in the LACN, that the CPC aims to support
sends out weekly newsletters such as Bates and Middlebury, all students—regardless of what SEE PAGES 4-5.
with job and internship oppor- also subscribe to other services, they want to do.
tunities for each field that they such as Handshake.
have found on eBear. This aca- These services provide access Please see CAREERS, page 3
A MUSIC IN THE MUSEUM F WORK IN VACATIONLAND S GONE FISHING O AT HOME IN ALL LANDS
George Lopez puts on a special, Super Students look to stay in Maine over the A group of Bowdoin students spends their Lowell Ruck ’21 questions Bowdoin’s
Bowl-inspired show. Page 7. summer. Page 9. weekends out on the ice. Page 12. connection to Maine. Page 13.
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SECURITY REPORT
2/1 to 2/6 STUDENT SPEAK:
What is the state of YOUR union?
Conner Lovett ’19
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• Officers and counseling service assisted a student

Friday, February 1
• A baseball player received a nose laceration from
being hit in the face with a ball during practice. The
student was escorted to the health center.
• Concern over a suspicious package delivered to Mas-
sachusetts Hall turned out to be unfounded.
Saturday, February 2
• Loud music at Howard Hall generated a noise com-
plaint.
• An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxi-
cated student at Coleman Hall.
• Officers assisted a child visiting the Museum of Art
who was reported to be displaying signs of seizure.
Brunswick Rescue transported the child to Mid Coast
Hospital.
• A fire alarm at Quinby House was caused by the use
of a hair straightener.
• A candle flame at Quinby House activated a fire
alarm. (The use of candles in campus buildings is not
permitted. Try battery operated candles instead; they
look real and create a lovely ambiance.)
in distress.
• An officer checked on the well-being of a student
near South Campus Drive.
• An intoxicated student at an event at Sargent Gym
was given an escort to his residence hall. Scott Kuhnle ’22
• A student at Coleman Hall reported that three men
had entered the hall. The men were determined to be
alumni who visited briefly and then left the building.
“I’m looking to unionize!
Sunday, February 3
(650) 380-3822.”
• Cooking smoke activated a smoke alarm inside
Stowe Inn.
• A student at Appleton Hall with flu symptoms was
provided an escort to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.
• A student who fainted at Appleton Hall was transport-
ed to Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation. Ariana Smith ’20
• A student cooking food activated a smoke alarm at 86
Federal Street. “Underfunded and completely
Tuesday, February 5 shut down.”
• A student with ongoing pain symptoms asked for an
escort to Mid Coast Hospital.
• Two folding tables were severely damaged in the
basement of Ladd House.
• A student who was kicking a soccer ball accidentally
damaged a light fixture at Appleton Hall.
Clay Starr ’19
Wednesday, February 6
• A student reported a man acting suspiciously on “My national park is unattended.”
the Maine Quad. Officers monitored the man for a
short while and he left campus without incident.
• A student at Mayflower Apartments requested an
escort to Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation of flu
symptoms.
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‘Humorous and
informative:’ two
professors
explain Brexit
by Andrew Bastone
Orient Staff
Broken promises and
straight-up lies were the sub-
ject of discussion on Tuesday
evening as two government
professors tried to explain
Brexit.
The process has been even
more complicated by the de-
feat of Prime Minister Theresa
May’s proposed deal for the
split on January 15. May has
another chance to win over her
Parliament on February 13.
Speaking before a large
crowd in Kresge Auditorium,
Henry Laurence, associate
professor of Government
and Asian Studies, and Laura
Henry, associate professor of
Government, discussed the
approaching March 29 exit
date. They reflected upon the
bitterly fought 2016 referen-
dum campaign narrowly won
by “Leave” supporters, those
who advocated in favor of the
United Kingdom (UK) leaving
the European Union (EU).
Laurence and Henry high-
lighted the skill of the United
Kingdom Independence Party
(UKIP) in energizing previous-
CAREERS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
“On month seven in the role,
I’m deeply curious about what
people's experience with ca-
reer planning is,” she said. “We
should get more different people
on different paths, because that's
really important.”
After several appointments
at the CPC, Zantop-Zimling-
haus has come to rely on per-
sonal networks to launch a ca-
reer in the film industry, using
connections referred to her by
her aunt and her roommate to
set up interviews.
“I’ve never actually landed
something directly through Ca-
reer Planning,” she said.
Dean Zucconi ’19, a senior
looking toward student affairs
in higher education, echoed this
sentiment. After five meetings
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ly dormant voter bases, noting
that a significant portion of
“Leave” voters had not been
active in politics before.
Laurence, wearing a half-
Union Jack and half-EU flag
tie, told the 200 attendees that
some British tabloids spun
a series of lies regarding Eu-
rope long before Brexit. These
myths, Laurence said, included
purported EU bans on curved
bananas, double-decker buses
and barmaids’ cleavage.
Jared Foxhall ’22 described
the talk as “humorous and in-
formative.”
“It was shocking to see that
many of the metrics illustrating
stark ideological divides mir-
rored that of the United States,”
he said.
With the Brexit deadline
only six weeks away and the
prospect of a no-deal Brexit,
the professors identified the
most significant unresolved
issue as the border separating
Northern Ireland, which is
part of the UK, and the Repub-
lic of Ireland, an EU member.
Laurence and Henry surmised
that either a “backstop” will
be agreed upon, effectively
extending the status quo in
with various advisors at the CPC
in the fall, he said that the greatest
advice he received was the name
of an online job board specifically
tailored for jobs in higher ed.
“[My advisor] showed me
LinkedIn, but I’m already pret-
ty familiar with LinkedIn, so it
kind of felt like wasted time,” he
said. “I felt like, not even that I
was going in circles, but that I
hadn’t even started making next-
step sort of progress.”
This experience contrasts
with that of Eddie Korando ’20,
who is interested in pursuing
consulting. Korando secured
his internship for this upcoming
summer directly through the
CPC and indicated that his in-
ternship could potentially result
in a full-time job.
“I was meeting with [my
advisor], and he told me about
this firm. He said, ‘They have an
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EXPLAINING THE EXIT: Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies Henry Laurence (left) and Associate Professor of Government Laura Henry
(right) discuss the potential implications of Brexit, including the possibility for conflict along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Ireland, or no deal will be bro- tive classes, “British Politics people that would have voted attendees of the talk would
kered, forcing the establish- and Society” and “The Politics ‘Remain’ and now wish they remember some of the deeper
ment of a hard border. of the European Union.” How- had, although turnout was very moral and political questions
If the latter occurs, it would ever, Laurence soon realized high.” at play.
be the first time since the Good there was popular demand for He also ascribed dishonesty “If people came away realiz-
Friday Agreement that a hard the talk. as a theme that has relevance in ing this is important—not only
border returned to Ireland. The “We quickly realized there today’s society, both in the UK in its own light, but for what
1998 deal, brokered by former had been demand for it,” he and in the United States. it tells us about how politics is
Senator George Mitchell ’54, said. “We were talking to our “The ‘Leave’ campaign headed in all democracies—
ended a bloody, decades-long friends and a lot of them said promised things they couldn’t then that will be worth it,” said
ethnonationalist conflict. Lau- they’d like to come.” possibly deliver,” he said. “The Laurence.
rence and Henry suggested Reflecting on the talk, Lau- politics of promising fantasies When asked about his tie,
that such a hard border could rence highlighted a few lessons is unfortunately a powerful Laurence explained he pur-
trigger a renewal of violence. he hoped observers had taken way to win elections and a chased it online from an artist
Speaking after the talk, Lau- away. terrible way to run a country, cooperative.
rence admitted that he and “First is that elections mat- and that’s very relevant for all “The tie was quite cheap,”
Henry had originally intended ter, they have consequences,” of us.” he said. “But the express ship-
to give the talk to their respec- he said. “There are a lot of Laurence said he hoped ping—not so much.”
internship application, I think
you’d be a really good fit for it. If
you want me to send over your
resume, we’ll see where it goes
from there,’” said Korando. “So it
really sort of came up as more of
a spontaneous thing.”
In addition to one-on-one
meetings, Korando cited con-
sulting-specific resources, such
as practice case interviews,
which help prepare students and
personalize questions to a range
of businesses and firms.
That type of relationship be-
tween the CPC advisor and em-
ployer is one that Zantop-Zim-
linghaus says she wishes were
more common.
“I wish there was a more
personal aspect to networking,
rather than just emailing some-
one who graduated in like 1960 KAYLA SNYDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
and being like, ‘Hey, I also go to SEEKING CONNECTIONS: Bowdoin seniors report having access to fewer job postings in fields such as journalism
Bowdoin!’” than in fields such as finance. Other colleges seem to offer more resources.
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4 NEWS
Five decades of the environment at Bowdoin
From Kent Island to the Roux Center, Bowdoin’s study of, responsibility to and connection to place.
by Harrison West
Orient Staff
In April of last year, the Col-
lege announced its achievement
of carbon neutrality, two years
ahead of schedule. The notice
came after a decade of infra-
structural overhauls—a cogene-
rations turbine, oil to natural gas
conversion, the installation of
thousands of LED lights and, fi-
nally, the purchase of renewable
energy credits. This achievement
also followed two large-budget
project announcements—the
construction of the Roux Center
for the Environment and major
expansions to what is now the
Schiller Coastal Studies Center.
These measures may suggest
that Bowdoin is a largely environ-
mentally focused school or could
be seen as a timely response to
the growing relevance of envi-
ronmental concerns in our world.
But even as the College takes
steps forward, some students
and faculty wonder how to rec-
oncile the academic study of the
DOWN AND DIRTY: Kent Island provides students of all disciplines the
opportunity to study and connect with the Maine environment.
environment with the College’s
broader goals and whether Bow-
doin is fulfilling its own institu-
tional responsibility to address
environmental concerns.
Bowdoin’s environmental
studies program dates back to
the early 1970s, when environ-
mental awareness at the College
converged with the emergence of
environmental conservation as a
national issue. In the following
decades, the program expanded,
and the College deepened its en-
vironmental connections in oth-
er areas. Bowdoin’s connection
to the environment has played
a key role in the ever-evolving
actualization of its identity as an
institution.
I. History
In 1969, at age 33, Roger
Howell Jr. ’58 became president
of Bowdoin College. At the time,
there was a strong mood of politi-
cal ferment at educational institu-
tions around the country, largely
due to opposition to the U.S. war
in Vietnam. At the same time,
COURTESY OF EMMA GREENBERG
the first Earth Day in April 1970
signaled the birth of a national
environmental movement.
These changes led to a major
rethinking of who the College
was for and what purposes it
should serve. In the following few
years, Bowdoin began to admit
women, became test-optional
and completely restructured its
curriculum to reduce the number
of course requirements outside
of the major. Certain traditional
standards were loosened amidst
a general push for an academic
program more relevant to con-
temporary social and political
issues, and new interdisciplinary
programs were established, in-
cluding an Afro-American Stud-
ies major.
Though events such as the
first Earth Day went largely unac-
knowledged at Bowdoin, height-
ened environmental awareness
manifested itself in the classroom
as students expressed increased
interest in studying the environ-
ment academically. Some envi-
ronmentally-conscious profes-
sors began offering more courses
to meet this demand. In 1971,
10 departments listed courses
designated as environmentally
relevant.
In 1972, Bowdoin created a
formal environmental studies
(ES) program. It was among the
first wave of schools to do so,
following Middlebury, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin–Madison, UC
Santa Barbara and Dartmouth.
Rather than a stand-alone major,
Bowdoin established a coordi-
nate program, meaning that stu-
dents would pair environmental
studies with a major in an exist-
ing department.
This took advantage of ex-
isting expertise among faculty
in multiple departments and
allowed for more collaboration
on environmental topics. It also
addressed a problem of focus and
legitimacy—there was no clear
idea of what students would learn
in an environmental studies ma-
jor, as the field lacked the same
long tradition as other disciplines
and brought together disparate
ways of thinking around a loosely
defined topic.
Thus, the goal of the program
was to provide students with
both specialized knowledge in
one established field, such as gov-
ernment or history, and a broad
understanding of how to think
about the environment.
Meanwhile, there was a bur-
geoning state-wide recognition
that Maine’s landscape was
endangered and in need of pro-
tection. In 1966, John McKee, a
French instructor at Bowdoin,
published a series of photo-
graphs in an exhibition titled “As
Maine Goes.” The photographs
show trash, sewage pipes leading
to the ocean and the prolifera-
tion of commercial development
along the shoreline. McKee in-
tended for the photographs to
bring attention to the destruc-
tion of Maine’s unique coastal
These events recognize our
nearly fifty years of leadership in
interdisciplinary environmental
studies.
–President Clayton Rose, in an email
landscape.
Bowdoin professors looked
at Maine’s unique environ-
mental challenges as academic
opportunities. In 1971, Chuck
Huntington, a biology profes-
sor developed a senior seminar
for ES coordinate majors called
“The Androscoggin River: A
Case Study.” During these years,
the Androscoggin was one of
the most polluted rivers in the
country—its fumes notoriously
stripped the paint off of houses
along its banks during a summer
drought. The class examined the
history and issues of the river,
leveraging the different disci-
plinary expertise of students by
pairing student-run seminars
with lectures by professors and
other specialists.
The ES program grew in the
COURTESY GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
1980s when the oceanographer
Ed Laine came to the College as
the program’s first official direc-
tor. The program was expanded
to include six core courses and
began graduating between eight
and 12 majors every year. Col-
lege pamphlets from this time
describe the program as com-
bining the three primary areas
of study—the natural sciences,
social sciences and humanities—
as well as integrating service- and
field-based learning.
Robert Edwards, who became
president of Bowdoin in 1990,
saw greater opportunity to take
advantage of the College’s loca-
tion in order to build its unique
brand. The Outing Club was
greatly expanded and took over
orientation trips in 1992. In these
years, the College’s advertising
increasingly focused on the op-
portunities provided by its coastal
Maine location.
As Edwards contributed to the
growth of the natural sciences at
Bowdoin in those years, the Col-
lege had also took advantage of its
property on Orrs Island in Harp-
swell in addition to the biological
field station on Kent Island in
the Bay of Fundy, Canada. In
1998 the Coastal Studies Center
opened on Orrs Island with a ter-
restrial and marine lab.
In 1998, the Environmen-
tal Studies Committee drafted
a new mission statement that
focused on enhancing the pro-
gram’s interdisciplinary nature—
which would span the natural
sciences, social sciences and
humanities—as opposed to the
program’s existing focus in the
natural sciences.
The statement also pro-
posed expanding the program’s
Friday, February 8, 2019
reach beyond the major, say-
ing that it should “encourage
broad environmental literacy
through course offerings and
co-curricular activities avail-
able to all students.”
II. Interdisciplinary Studies
This emphasis on the study
of the environment as interdisci-
plinary has continued in the last
20 years. It was of particular focus
in the events and announcements
surrounding the opening of the
Roux Center last semester.
“These events recognize our
nearly fifty years of leadership in
interdisciplinary environmental
studies,” President Clayton Rose
wrote in an email to students
about the opening of the Roux
Center.
The study of the environment
spans many areas of academic
study at Bowdoin, with the ES
program listing nine professors
and 22 contributing faculty mem-
bers in 12 different departments.
However, this wide range does
not inherently guarantee interdis-
ciplinary collaboration.
Vladimir Douhovnikoff,
associate professor of biology,
pointed out that while there are
many faculty members on cam-
pus with deep knowledge about
the environment in their partic-
ular subfield, there is compara-
tively little discussion between
departments.
“There is a lot of room for
leveraging the knowledge that
we have to address environmen-
tal topics in a more structured,
targeted and collaborative way,”
Douhovnikoff said.
Associate Professor of Eco-
nomics and Sustainability Im-
plementation Committee (SIC)
member Erik Nelson, who
works with ecologists from other
universities and organizations
in his research, explained how
interdisciplinary work can re-
veal surprising commonalities
between different fields. He said
that economists and ecologists
often model systems in similar
ways, so when they collaborate,
Friday, February 8, 2019
they can share and grasp ideas
quickly.
Matthew Klingle, associate
professor of history and envi-
ronmental studies, works across
several disciplines in his own
research, which relates to the
intersections of the environment
and human health. He admitted
that interdisciplinary study is in
reality incredibly difficult.
A historian by training, he
took a series of classes at Harvard
on public health and learned
how to read sources from other
disciplines, including biomedical
scientific research, which allowed
him to approach the history of
diabetes from new angles. Klin-
gle sees the coordinate major’s
requirement for training in a
particular discipline as key to this
kind of work.
“[Interdisciplinary study] is
about knowing what you don’t
know,” and for this, “you have to
know something fairly well …
It gives you an understanding of
your limitations,” said Klingle.
Emily Ruby ’19, an ES–Afri-
cana Studies major, thinks that
the coordinate major has fallen
short of this goal. She has found
the major to be too restrictive and
the four required core courses to
be largely ineffective.
“Professors should be able to
teach the topics that they have
been studying in the last few years
as opposed to a broad survey
class,” she said.
Ruby believes that these re-
quired courses often end up
sacrificing depth for breadth, as
they prevent students from fo-
cusing on a particular area of ES.
This particularly affects ES–hu-
manities majors like herself, for
whom there are fewer crossover
courses, she said.
While the ES department has
tried to drive collaboration, it is
not the only hub on campus for
thinking about the environment.
In particular, Douhovnikoff not-
ed the new ecology, evolution and
marine biology (EEMB) concen-
tration within the Biology De-
partment, which was announced
last year. The concentration, he
hopes, will allow more focused
collaboration for studying envi-
ronmental topics through these
fields, in which several professors
in the department work.
III. Academics and Activism
Students come to Bowdoin
with their own reasons for caring
about the environment, which
may interact with academic inter-
ests in a variety of ways. Connec-
tion to the environment comes
in many forms, but it often orig-
inates from a simple awareness
one’s surroundings.
“The reason that we want to
study the earth in a scientific way
and learn more about it is that
we have this initial, emotional
ISLAND LIVING: The sun sets on another day at Bowdoin’s biological field station on Kent Island in the Bay of
Fundy, Canada. The station has been operated by Bowdoin and offered students opportunities for research since 1935.
attachment to the environment,”
said Kitrea Takata-Glushkoff ’19,
an Earth and Oceanographic Sci-
ence (EOS) major.
For her, science strengthens
this sense of connection. “So
much is so perfectly captured in
these beautiful processes that are
interconnected with each other,”
she said. “The more you learn
about it, the more magical it ac-
tually is.”
Takata-Glushkoff has also
become interested in promoting
more cross-cultural communi-
cation in the geosciences, as she
thinks there often is a disconnect
between scientists who extract
data from a place and the people
who live in and interact with that
place every day.
“Thinking about the environ-
ment is so much more powerful
when you’re thinking about
people,” she said. “Not everyone
might say that they care about
some environmental issue, but
everyone can say, ‘I want my
neighbor to be healthy.’”
Kate Dempsey ’88, director of
the Nature Conservancy in Maine,
echoed this sentiment. “Conserva-
tion today really is about working
with resource users to design strat-
egies that allow them to thrive as
humans,” she said.
Before moving to the Nature
Conservancy, Dempsey worked
in affordable housing and public
health after going to graduate
school for urban policy.
“Through that work, I began
to understand how essential a
healthy environment is to thriv-
ing communities,” she said.
Dempsey was not involved
in environmental issues during
her time at Bowdoin. She bare-
ly knew of the ES program and
would have assumed the major
was only for those studying the
natural sciences.
Nonetheless, she does believe
that her education at Bowdoin,
Thinking about the environment
is so much more powerful when
you’re thinking about people.
–Kitrea Takata-Glushkoff ’19
as a government and legal studies
major, was important for her later
work.
“Thinking about how various
communities [and] countries
design healthy communities was
obviously incredibly grounding
for me,” she said.
Klingle wants the ES pro-
gram to encourage this kind
of broad thinking about how
the environment is highly in-
terconnected with other social
and political issues. He pointed
out that the goal of the program
is not to create unquestioning
advocates for the environment,
NEWS
but rather to encourage careful
thinking about the stakes of
environmental topics. He cit-
ed the principle of “equipoise,”
used in medicine, which distills
down to these questions: Before
thinking about how to solve a
problem, one must consider
if it’s really a problem, how it’s
a problem and for whom it’s a
problem.
Thus, environmental studies
is about challenging preconcep-
tions—thinking, at the most basic
level, about what the environment
encompasses. Klingle noted that
conceptions of the environment
have often been quite narrow and
haven’t considered how everyone
is intimately connected to the
natural world. Public discourse,
in particular, has often been nar-
rated by people with relatively
high socioeconomic status who
want to protect certain beautiful
spaces for their own interests and
uses.
Takata-Glushkoff thinks that
there could be more assump-
tion-breaking thinking within
the environmental sciences in
particular. “In ES, we talk more
theoretically about what all these
issues of justice are,” she said.
“[And] in EOS, we just don’t.”
While acknowledging that
this is partly due to the nature of
the material, she pointed to the
opportunity for greater knowl-
edge co-production within the
environmental sciences, in which
the people that live in an environ-
ment or use a resource have more
involvement in the scientific re-
search about it.
She said that seeing that hu-
mans are harming the natural
world and wanting to mitigate that
underlies her study of the environ-
ment, but pointed out that geo-
scientists often don’t come to the
subject as environmentalists. “Half
of geoscientists end up going into
oil,” said Takata-Glushkoff.
However, certain environmen-
tal issues have emerged that will
have enormous repercussions
for society as a whole. As an
International Panel on Climate
Change report published in Au-
gust again makes clear, there is
broad consensus that if carbon
dioxide emissions don’t soon fall
significantly, global warming will
be catastrophic. This demands
concrete action beyond further
study of the issue and has opened
the opportunity in recent years
for Bowdoin to use its power as
an institution to make a notable
difference.
COURTESY OF MATTHEW KELLER
DIFFERENCE OF DECADES: The College has drastically increased its investment in the health of the environment
since 1966, when the above image was taken at Fort Popham State Memorial. Below, the Roux Center opened last fall.
IV. Institutional Responsibility
In 2001, Bowdoin established
its Sustainability Office with the
goal of reducing the environmen-
tal impact of its campus.
“I was one of the first five peo-
ple in the country doing this,”
said Keisha Payson, who has been
the sustainability director at Bow-
doin since its inception.
Payson said that Bowdoin be-
gan tracking its carbon emissions
in 2003, but the goal of carbon neu-
trality emerged in 2007 as an agree-
ment between hundreds of college
presidents nationwide. Each insti-
tution committed to developing
a climate action plan, including a
date for carbon neutrality.
“The whole campus sustain-
ability movement really took
off. That one commitment was a
game-changer across the coun-
try,” Payson said.
Bowdoin decided on 2020 as a
date for carbon neutrality. Know-
ing that the slow pace of develop-
ing technology would make com-
plete elimination of on-campus
emissions impossible, the College
set a goal of a 28 percent reduc-
tion of on-campus emissions. It
would then match its real carbon
footprint—the amount of carbon
actually burned to make the Col-
lege run—by purchasing renew-
able energy credits (RECs).
A company or utility produc-
ing renewable energy receives
RECs for each unit of power that
it produces, which it can then
sell to another institution. An
REC can be additional or non–
additional.
“If someone is going to build a
solar array, and the only way they
can afford to do this is by selling
RECs, then the REC is called
additional. The institution that
bought these RECs is responsible
for the creation of this solar ar-
ray,” said Nelson.
If that solar array would
be profitable without selling
the REC, it is called non-addi-
tional and is generally much
COURTESY GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
cheaper. For this reason, Bow-
doin bought a large portion
of non-additional RECs from
wind farms in Texas in order to
achieve carbon neutrality.
Bowdoin also joined a con-
sortium of schools to support
the construction of a solar array
in Farmington, Maine. The RECs
from this project, which can be
considered additional, will offset
a larger fraction of Bowdoin’s
energy use when the project is
completed.
The next climate action plan
is currently being developed by
the Office of Sustainability, which
discusses its projects and strategies
with the SIC, a group made up of
students and faculty that meets a
few times each semester. The new
plan’s goals will likely be for 2030.
Payson said that this plan
will shift its focus from scope
1 to scope 2 emissions. Scope
1 emissions, which result from
electricity use, made up most of
the College’s 28 percent reduc-
tion in campus emissions. Scope
2 emissions, which come from
natural gas heating and fuel used
by the campus vehicle fleet, hav-
en’t decreased much since 2008.
Reducing scope 2 emissions will
require more major infrastruc-
ture changes, on which the Office
is currently working. Payson said
that the new College residences
on Park Row will require very
little energy to heat.
Ruby has been working with
the Sustainability Office to devel-
op this new climate action plan.
She feels that the infrastructural
changes being developed are nec-
essary at the institutional level.
“You can ask people to re-
duce their energy use, change
their practices, which is a val-
ue,” Ruby said. “But ultimately,
Bowdoin is faced with the ques-
tion of wanting to actually be
carbon neutral.”
During her time at Bowdoin,
Ruby has been involved with Bow-
doin Climate Action (BCA). The
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MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
group spent years campaigning for
divestment before pivoting to pol-
itics in 2017. For Ruby, Bowdoin’s
carbon neutrality isn’t enough.
“BCA wants the College to be
doing more outside of the insti-
tution in national, state and local
politics,” she said.
She said that divestment of the
endowment from the fossil fuel
industry would still represent this
kind of outward-looking action.
“It doesn’t ultimately matter
what our institution’s energy foot-
print looks like if the fossil fuel
industry maintains a stranglehold
on our economy,” she said.
Takata-Glushnoff, who was
involved with the Sustainability
Office as a first year and soph-
omore, said that she is proud
of Bowdoin’s commitment to
sustainability but sees discrep-
ancies between Bowdoin’s com-
mitment at an institutional level
and among the student body as
a whole. She pointed to the low
level of activism on campus and
wishes that more student leader-
ship had generated energy and
conversation around the carbon
neutrality plan.
Ruby noted that while Bow-
doin’s location and outdoor
culture contributes to students’
interest in and care for the envi-
ronment, it doesn’t often translate
to climate activism. She said that
students involved with climate
politics overlaps more with those
involved in other forms of politi-
cal activism “because those peo-
ple share the same belief in how
change occurs, which is from bot-
tom up as opposed to top down.”
Dempsey, who has worked
on environmental issues with all
sorts of people, agrees that the
strategy must be expansive.
“We need every type of per-
son, every discipline, every back-
ground,” she said. “In the broad-
est sense of the term, [we need]
every type of person involved
with solving the challenge of cli-
mate change.”
6 NEWS
Lecturer analyzes premodern reproductive health
by Emily Cohen
Orient Staff
On Monday afternoon,
Leslie Tuttle, associate profes-
sor of history from Louisiana
State University, began a talk
to a packed audience in the
Beam Classroom by describ-
ing the “suspicious death” of
Mademoiselle de Guerchy,
a tabloid star of Louis XIV’s
Paris. As Tuttle revealed, de
Guerchy died due to com-
plications from an abortion
procedure. The registered
midwife in whose home de
Guerchy was found dead was
charged with the death of de
Guerchy and of the unborn
child, and she was sentenced
to death.
But the tragedy with which
Tuttle opened her talk, titled
“Exploring Hidden Networks
of Abortion in Early Modern
Paris,” is not really the point.
Rather, Tuttle used the exam-
ple of Mademoiselle de Guer-
chy to spark questions about
the widely-accepted notion
that women’s rights in West-
ern civilization have always
progressed toward greater in-
dividual freedom, culminat-
ing in widespread liberation
movements of the 1960s and
70s.
With humor and occasion-
ally gruesome detail, Tuttle
illustrated the robust net-
works of abortion providers
and clients in 17th-century
Paris, where the practice was
neither uncommon nor rig-
orously prosecuted. Begin-
ning her talk with de Guer-
chy’s case, she admitted, was
demonstrative of the exact
idea she would attempt to
challenge.
“Retelling the story of Ma-
demoiselle de Guerchy—as
I myself have done, as I just
did again in front of all of
you—can unwittingly sup-
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than previous congressional elec-
tions,” Franz said.
The FEC’s public dataset only
includes individuals whose cu-
mulative political contributions
exceed $200, meaning it’s possible
that some employees made small
Bowdoin Employee Political Contributions
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
$2,735
0 there were, that there was
2010
CREEPING BACK: Political donations by Bowdoin employees in 2018 far exceeded other midterm years, though still didn’t top the 2012 election. All dona-
tions recorded by the FEC went to liberal candidates our causes.
port the misleading narrative
that I am going to now de-
construct,” Tuttle said. “The
dramatic, well-documented
case in which every female
participant ends up dead may
make a compelling story, but
it is utterly unrepresentative
of the norm.”
Associate Professor of His-
tory Meghan Roberts invited
Tuttle to Bowdoin after hear-
ing her talk at a conference.
The event, sponsored by the
history department, the Sex-
uality, Women and Gender
Center and the Gender, Sex-
uality and Women’s Studies
Program, augmented the
content of the courses Rob-
erts is teaching this semester:
History of the Body and Old
Regime and Revolutionary
France.
“We’re constantly bring-
ing in present day issues and
thinking about how studying
the past helps us understand
the present in a much more
complex and nuanced way,”
said Roberts of her courses.
To Tuttle, abortion in early
modern France may be con-
sidered a “twilight moment,”
a term coined by historian
of sexuality Anna Clark that
describes activities that peo-
ple are reluctant to openly
discuss and document, but
also do not result in com-
plete stigmatization. In her
research Tuttle found discus-
sion of abortion procedures
in archival materials ranging
from police reports to royal
pharmacopeia that included
recipes for potions to induce
contractions.
“Don’t try this at home,”
joked Tuttle.
Most abortion procedures
at the time, however, were not
medieval in nature. In fact,
explained Tuttle, providers of
abortion procedures viewed
their practice as a sort of clan-
donations to conservative causes
or groups.
The liberal slant of donations
from employees didn’t come as
a surprise to Francisco Navarro
’19, leader of the College Republi-
cans—though he noted that cam-
paign contributions are only one
aspect of political action.
“I think donations are unique
$41,478
$5,189
2012
DISPELLING MYTH, INSTILLING FACT: In a lecture on Monday, Associate Professor of History at Louisiana State University Leslie Tuttle addressed the
providers of abortion in early modern Europe, focusing on 17th-century Paris. At the time, the procedure was not completely stigmatized.
destine business, in which
they sought to demonstrate
more expertise than their
“competitors” and develop a
reputation of providing ef-
fective and safe care for their
clients.
In terms of regulation,
Tuttle argued that neither
the Catholic Church nor the
state was unequivocal. Con-
fessor’s manuals at the time
suggested that, until at least
the 18th century, inducing
abortion before the subjec-
tively-defined moment when
the fetus acquires a soul was
considered a sin analogous
to lying by concealing sexual
immorality, rather than mur-
der. Though the practice may
eventually have been elevat-
ed in seriousness, abortion
in that people can be very politi-
cal but just not want to give their
money,” he said. “It just shows
you which out of the left-leaning
faculty are more active and actu-
ally want to do more about it.”
The uptick in political dona-
tions from Bowdoin employees
still pales in comparison to do-
nations made by members of
$18,626
2014 2016
completed in early-modern
Paris was occasionally a way
to, as one midwife put it, re-
store a woman’s honor and
salvation.
To Zach Scharlau ’21, a stu-
dent in Roberts’ Old Regime
and Revolutionary France
class, this part of Tuttle’s ar-
gument was unexpected.
“I figured that, given how
religious old society was, that
abortion would have been
more criminalized than it
had been,” he said. “Even the
Catholic Church didn’t have
as extreme a stance on abor-
tion as I thought they would
have had, so that was the most
surprising part to me.”
Royal law similarly left
abortion in a gray area.
Despite the existence of a
the College’s Board of Trustees,
which summed to $1.5 million
in 2018.
Of those donations, $1.32 mil-
lion went toward liberal causes,
while $179,000 supported conser-
vative candidates or groups. An
additional $14,000 went to politi-
cal action committees (PACs) that
have historically supported candi-
$19,688
2018
FEDERAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION
16th-century “ostensibly dra-
conian” edict against clan-
destine pregnancy, the justice
system appeared “extremely
ill-equipped” to prosecute
cases of abortion, said Tuttle.
“It was when things went
catastrophically wrong that
we see them, for the most
part, at all,” she said.
Throughout her talk, Tut-
tle suggested that the main-
stream narrative of women’s
history is misleading. Euro-
pean nation-states in the 18th
century, she noted, codified
the illegality of abortion in a
way that early modern Paris
did not.
Tuttle left the audience to
ponder the question: “How
would our understanding of
abortion look different if we
dates from both parties.
Leading the way in trustee
political giving was John Fish ’82,
CEO of the Boston-based Suffolk
Construction Company, who
made a $1 million donation to
the Senate Majority PAC, a Super
PAC which supports Democratic
candidates for Senate. Fish also
contributed to a number of oth-
er liberal groups and candidates,
including Maine second-district
representative Jared Golden,
though he also made donations
to the Republican national com-
mittee and now-Utah Senator
Mitt Romney.
Campaign finance laws cap
donations to individual candi-
dates at $2,700 during the prima-
ries and an additional $2,700 for
the general election. Traditional
PAC have a $5,000 per person cap
on individual donations, while
so-called Super PACs—officially
known as independent expendi-
ture-only committees—do not
face legal limits in fundraising.
I think we’ll find, given how
many competitve elections
more money than previous
congressional elections.
–Professor of Government Michael Franz
Friday, February 8, 2019
EMILY FULLER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
made modern state criminal-
ization, rather than decrim-
inalization in the 1960s and
70s, the historical turning
point of history?”
Tuttle said she doesn’t have
an answer, but for Roberts,
the important part was that
the legal history of abortion, a
controversial topic in modern
political conversations, not be
oversimplified.
“There are these de-
fault, easy historical narra-
tives about the past that get
brought into our political de-
bate all the time, but they're
not actually accurate,” said
Roberts. “So how does the
conversation shift if we em-
brace living in shades of grey,
which is what I really want my
students to do."
Traditional PACs can make limit-
ed donations to campaigns, while
Super PACs can support candi-
dates but cannot coordinate with
their campaigns.
Franz noted that, while can-
didates might seek both wealthy
and small-dollar donors, Super
PACs tend to solicit money from
individuals who have a lot of it.
“Super PACs know that they
can play a potentially important
role in various things,” he said.
“[They] can therefore try to use
that to extract donations from
wealthy, wealthy interests.”
President Clayton Rose do-
nated to only one candidate—
independent Angus King. Rose
made the maximum donation
of $2,700 to King’s campaign in
both the primary and general
stages of the election cycles.
King, a longtime Brunswick res-
ident who taught as a lecturer at
at Bowdoin in the 2000s, was
re-elected to the U.S. Senate by
a wide margin last November.
Friday, February 8, 2019 7

A ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sight and sound:
Music at the Museum
by Brianna Cunliffe
Orient Staff
The dome of the Bowdoin
College Museum of Art (BCMA)
rings with music as a full, rapt
audience experiences sound inter-
woven with sight. On this Febru-
ary night, the performance series
“Music at the Museum” continues
yet another successful run.
For the night’s performer Beck-
with Artist-in-Residence George
Lopez, familiar with recital halls
worldwide, this experience is un-
like any other.
“It feels more hallowed—in the
best sense of the word,” Lopez said.
“There’s a call to bring your cre-
ative best to the moment, because
you’re among the best that art and
creativity have to offer.”
The concert, like the exhibit it
accompanies—Material Resourc-
es: Intersections of Art and the
Environment—is curated with
intention, research and a quest
for narrative connections. Lopez,
“There’s a call to bring your creative best
to the moment.”
–George Lopez
who knows piano repertoire inti-
mately, is guided by the themes of
the exhibit.
“I select pieces that highlight
directly, as a representation of the
art, or that are conceptually con-
nected by the creative impulse,”
said Lopez.
The musical program for yes-
terday and today had been set—
until inspiration struck in the most
unexpected way.
TANGIBLE TUNES: Music at the Museum, a crowd-favorite performed by
Artist-in-Residence George Lopez, had a rapt audience last night.
When Lopez was watching the
Super Bowl this past Sunday, a cer-
tain advertisement for Bud Light
involving a fiery dragon and an
ice-cold brew sparked an entirely
new direction.
Rather than focusing on the
piano as a material resource, Lopez
began to sort through the flood of
pieces his new theme brought to
mind: the four elements.
“Making music tangible, invok-
ing painting, color, landscape.” said
Lopez. “Dealing with landscape
through earth, rivers through wa-
ter, bumblebees through the air—I
think it lands on the listener much
more strongly than simply an ab-
stract would.”
The highlights are varied as the
elements they represent. For earth,
Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 1,
“Romance,” invokes a landscape
reminiscent of a thousand happy
memories. Air allows the “Flight
of the Bumblebee” by Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov to ring. For wa-
ter, “Preludes” by Claude Debussy,
a composer enamored with nature,
conjures rivers. In fire, Manuel de
Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance” is all
vigor and energy—according to
Lopez, a real barn-burner.
In this program, as in his other
endeavors at the College, Lopez
seeks to draw people in to what he
admits is arcane: classical music.
Academic interest may often be
enough to bring people in to listen.
“But if you draw the heart in, if
MINDY LEDER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
you draw personal feeling toward
the music through narrative, then
it makes more of an impact.” said
Lopez. “It gets in, somehow, rather
than just staying on the surface of
the skin, the ear.”
Lopez uses visuals as an integral
part of his teaching and his craft.
His philosophy is guided by a
search for relationships not always
obvious to the eye or ear.
“I’m very interested in the way
that everything is everything.” said
Lopez. “I’m particularly interested
in always looking for connections.”
Through “Music at the Mu-
seum,” Lopez seeks to make the
intangible tangible, the invisible
seen—uniting the mind and heart
in celebration of all that art, music
or visual, has to offer.
“I believe there’s a lot more visu-
alization in the creation of music,
both as a composer and as a per-
former,” he said. “Me personally, I
see bubbles or rings, each tone is a
ring of a different size or color so
that the sound becomes an actual
thing in my mind, it doesn’t stay
out there, invisible.”
In anticipation of the sold-out,
brief program, audiences arrive in
the space with intent, which Lopez
believes makes a difference. After
all, listeners must seek connec-
tions, narratives and the presence
of heart, for themselves.
“If you’re not looking for that,
my programs are quaint, but not
effective,” said Lopez.
In his extensive travels, Lopez
has found those connections from
coast to coast, abroad and at home,
no matter whose ears his music
reaches.
“I’m interested in the way that
people respond [to music] with
the same passion or intensity—
not on the surface, but with the
intangibles.” he said. “And so I
can take my language on the road
quite easily.”
Not as far on the road as Cuba,
this time—simply down the street,
under the dome of the BCMA,
where the convergence of sight and
sound promises to fill an evening
with illuminating new possibilities.
Music at the Museum will take
place at the Museum of Art Pavil-
ion this Friday at 5 p.m.
FRIENDS IN FORTUNO: Since the spring of their first year, Tobi Omola ’19 and Ellis Laifer ’19 have shared a
close frienship and creative enterprise, collaborating on original songs through their music duo, Fortuno.
Portrait of an Artist: Fortuno
by David Yang
Orient Staff
Tobi Omola ’19 and Ellis Laifer
’19 comprise the music duo Fortuno,
which recently released the singles
“Be” and “Feel” on all major music
platforms. Omola will be performing
in his senior recital this Sunday at
7:30 p.m. in Studzinski Recital Hall.
The following interview has been
edited for length and clarity.
The Bowdoin Orient: How did
you two meet and start making
music together?
Tobi Omola ’19: We met in the
Longfellows. I guess it was that one
night in Smith.
Ellis Laifer ’19: Yeah, it was fresh-
man year, second semester. We just
jammed one night in a practice
room, and we had a lot fun doing
it. We pretty much just played piano
together, and then we made a song
freshman year called “Steam” and
put it on Soundcloud.
TO: And our friends liked it.
EL: It was a decent song. I think
that was the start of our friend-
ship—collaborating friendship, I
guess.
Q: How and when did you cre-
ate Fortuno?
EL: It was spring of last year, and
then we ended up going to L.A.
together, which solidified it. He can
sing better than I can.
REUBEN SCHAFIR, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
TO: It’s not true. come to our honors project recital
EL: I could play instruments bet- on April 13. And stay tuned to our
ter than he can. Facebook and Instagram.
TO: Yeah, that’s true. EL: I don’t know what I’m doing
next year. We’re talking long, long
Q: How would you guys de- term. Ideally, I would like to be in
scribe your musical genre? a place where I can work on things
TO: Alternative R&B. with Tobi, but we don’t really know
EL: Indie R&B. It’s like a mix what’s gonna happen. Anything can
of produced music with acoustic happen.
sounds and also singing, sometimes
rapping. Q: Tobi, what can we expect
from your recital this weekend?
Q: What is your creative process TO: I’ll be singing around eight
like? How does your music come songs. You can expect contempo-
together? rary and modern pop, pop love
EL: It’s difficult collaborating, songs. For example, a Brazilian
especially with a friend. It kind of tune by this female artist named
changes from song to song, but Joyce. I’ll be singing two Fortuno
sometimes Tobi will prefer to just originals, a Frank Ocean cover and
work alone, like when he’s record- a Kanye tune. Phenomenal people
ing something and just doesn’t want are playing with me. Kevin Elk ’20
me in the room, which is fine. is the drummer, Daniel Mayer ’21
TO: But sometimes it’s more is playing bass. Ariana Smith ’21,
productive. Oftentimes if we’re jam- Isabel Udell ’19 [and] Anne Greg-
ming, we’ll be like, “Oh, we like this, ory ’19 are going to serve as back-
we’ll record that,” and then we both ground vocalists. Nolan Roche ’19
take a day to come up with chords is going to play guitar and sing, and
to add to whatever chords that were Ellis is going to play piano.
introduced the day before.
Q: Anything to add?
Q: How many songs has Fortu- TO: Fortuno isn’t just the two of
no released so far? us. There is also Eli Koskoff, who is
EL: We have officially two songs Ellis’ friend from Connecticut. He is
on Spotify. We have more songs currently a senior at USC and goes
that we’re working on, and a few to their jazz school—a phenomenal
that are finished that are going to be musician. And I lived with them
put out some point in March. for a month over the summer. Now
TO: In the long term, look for- we’re all one entity. Yeah, look out
ward to April 13. Everyone should everyone!

Singer Andy Shauf brings ‘The Party’ to Portland

by Kayla Snyder
Arts & Entertainment Contributor
You can see the glow of yellow
light and the shadows of passing
figures through the windows. You
leap up a few steps and pull open
the front door to be greeted by a
rap song from Spotify’s Top 50 hits
playing over someone’s parents’
speakers and, subsequently, you
inhale an odd fog of beer, body
odor and half-assed Febreze.
It’s a party. Whether you associ-
ate these functions with searching
for corners to huddle in, casually
watching the door for that one
person to finally enter or mind-
lessly moving your limbs to objec-
tively bad music, we have all expe-
rienced some degree of the ecstatic
frenzy and painful self-awareness
of being at a party.
On Tuesday, February 12, “The
Party” is at 8 p.m. in Portland’s
cozy SPACE Gallery. Canadian ba-
roque-pop/indie-folk artist Andy
Shauf will be performing from his
2016 album and sharing a vast ar-
ray of sound from his other three
collections. Think everything from
a sunset playing the ukulele to vio-
lently building violins.
Throughout “The Party,” Shauf
goes from perching anonymously
in the corner to experiencing first-
hand the anxieties of party-goers,
from mundane musings to intense
inquiries about dying. The surface
narrative of his song “The Worst
in You” is that Shauf can’t find his
girlfriend in the crowd, but this
sense of loss leads to Shauf ques-
tioning his relationship: “Are you
running around or just running
away?”
He recognizes the front people
put on while peering through his
own. In “Begin Again,” he sings:
“This time you should take a bow
at the very end / It’s quite an act
you put on.” Although Shauf illu-
minates these unsettlingly-accu-
rate emotions you may experience
at a party, the gentle, warm tone
of his voice and the constant pres-
ence of light acoustic guitar plucks
still allows listeners to sit back and
passively bathe in the harmonies.
You may not have heard of
Shauf before, but the show is
worth packing a car and taking a
few hours out of a Tuesday night.
Shauf sounds like indie icon El-
liott Smith if he produced louder,
slightly-less-somber music with
more instrumental depth—from
the clarinet, to percussion, to
synth. His music has similar
smooth energy to that of Father
John Misty with less obvious lyri-
cal boldness.
Throughout his full body of
work, Shauf captures specific, inti-
mate feelings that your brain could
never adequately express—from
feeling like you left something in
the past and therefore are unable
to see clearly or live purposeful-
ly—“Spend my open eyes on the
things I left behind / My sturdy
feet and my hopeful life”—to so
desperately seeking to exist in
one moment that everything else
seems meaningless—“Let’s for-
get all the things that we’ve been
learning / From the books with the
pages not worth turning.”
For fans of “boygenius” indie
superstars Lucy Dacus and Phoe-
be Bridgers, be sure to arrive early
to hear opener Haley Heynder-
ickx’s melancholic folk melodies.
Her music is both playful and
powerful; in her most popular
track, “Oom Sha La La,” Heyn-
derickx sings, “The brink of my
existence essentially is a comedy /
The gap in my teeth and all that I
can cling to.”
If it’s hard to think about leav-
ing campus on a Tuesday night,
think about how it would improve
your Wednesday. Have you ever
been to a concert where you felt
like you were floating while walk-
ing out of the venue? And when
you woke up the next morning,
the show almost felt like a dream,
but you could still feel the bass
thumping in your chest? I assure
you that Shauf and Heynderickx
promise a show that will leave you
grinning to the ring of your alarm
the next morning.
Whether you’re willing to take
the trip to Portland or simply
searching for some new favorite
tunes, check out the following
songs for a taste of these perform-
ers. Andy Shauf: “The Magician,”
“Twist Your Ankle,” “Jenny Come
Home,” “Sunset Canyon,” “With
You.” Haley Heynderickx: “Worth
It,” “Oom Sha La La,” “Show You a
Body,” “Francis,” “Crow Song.”
8 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
INTERACTIVE AND IMMERSIVE: Bowdoin students have the unique opportunity to perform live at the Children’s Center, contributing to an authentic sensory experience for the kids and an early exposure to the arts.
Students inspire with live music at the Children’s Center
by Lucie Nolden
Orient Staff
Take a peek into the Bowdoin
Children’s Center, and you might
see a student plucking the strings
of an acoustic guitar, the notes
sweetly melodic, a mother with
a sleeping infant strapped to her
chest and a toddler at her side,
swaying to the music, listening
with curiosity and wonder.
The Bowdoin Children’s Cen-
ter, tucked behind Coles Tower,
shares an intimate relationship
with the College. Faculty and
staff bring their children, aged
between 12 weeks and five years,
here during the school week.
Psychology students work as in-
terns, sitting quietly and jotting
notes or interacting with the
kids. Student musicians come,
‘Fashioning Modernity’ examines changing Nigerian identity
by Anthony Yanez
and Anibal Husted
Orient Staff
Visitors are packed in the Beck-
er Gallery, chatter filling the air
as community members and stu-
dents alike wait in anticipation to
see the new exhibition, “Fashion-
ing Modernity: Art and Indepen-
dence Among Yorubas in Nigeria,”
on display at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art (BCMA).
The exhibit highlights the evo-
lution of Yoruba traditions in the
postcolonial moment by focusing
on the production and signifi-
cance of textiles.
“This is a moment at which this
nation, Nigeria, [is] being forced
to think about who they are as a
nation now that they’re no longer
under British rule. And that’s be-
ing expressed through these inno-
vative crafts and arts,” said Kinaya
Hassane ’19, who is among the
group of students who helped Al-
lison Martino, Andrew W. Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana
Studies, curate the exhibition.
After taking Martino’s course
last fall titled “African Art and
Visual Culture,” four of the stu-
once a week for a half hour at
a time, with their guitars and
ukuleles and bassoons, to share
the magic of live music with the
young kids.
“Mellow Music for Munch-
kins”—the tradition of inviting
students to practice their in-
struments at the Children’s Cen-
ter—began three years ago. The
program sprung from a desire to
create real, sensory experiences
for the children, according to Di-
rector Martha Eshoo.
The opportunity for children
to hear music while at the same
time watching its production
is a powerful developmental
experience that allows them to
begin recognizing the sounds
of individual instruments, and
to more deeply understand the
connections between themselves
dents formed a curatorial team,
devoting their own time to orga-
nize the exhibit. Martino served
only an advisory role, allowing
the students to take charge of the
curation.
The artifacts were donated by
Brunswick resident Dorothy A.
Hassfeld, one of the first members
of the Peace Corps to go to Nige-
ria in the 1960s. A decade after her
first visit, Hassfeld returned, cam-
era in hand, to photograph what
she saw of the nation. Her photo-
graphs are displayed alongside the
cloths that she donated.
“Once [the group] decided
[on] objects and [what] our guid-
ing inquiry would be, we would
spend time thinking about the
layout and how we would tell the
narrative to viewers … and [we]
spent time looking at how Africa
had been represented in different
kinds of museums,” said Martino.
To visitors, the exhibition’s aes-
thetic stands out from the rest of
the museum space. Cloth drapes
freely on opposite sides of the
exhibition room and in the back,
stand mannequins adorned with
more cloth.
The difference, Hassane said,
and their environment.
“That interactive, hands-on
kind of experience brings the
material into their brain in a way
that’s really concrete, and tactile,”
Eshoo said.
Meanwhile, the kids are hav-
ing a blast. Eshoo laughs as she
recalled the children’s reactions
to the music.
“We notice the children
pretending that they’re playing
instruments. Someone will pre-
tend they’re playing a guitar, or
the harp, or, I’m sure the bas-
soon,” said Eshoo. “We’ve never
had an instrument here like the
bassoon, so that will be interest-
ing to see.”
Kai’olu DeFries ’19 has
brought her ukulele to the Chil-
dren’s Center for four years to
play for the kids. She believes live
are intentional.
“We thought about the history
of these ‘cabinets of curiosities’
where [objects are] placed in these
glass boxes and you’re separated
from them,” said Hassane. “You’re
not really seeing them in the orig-
inal context that they were meant
to be seen. By de-contextualizing
them, they lose a lot of autonomy
and power,” said Hassane.
By creating a more animated
space to display the pieces in this
collection, the student-curators
hope to remove the distant gaze
that Americans are so used to in
Western museums.
“Africa is subject to a lot of
misperception from people who
may not have direct contact or
experience with the continent,”
Hassane said.
This mediated relationship,
Martino said, stands in the way
of a deeper understanding of
the dynamic, evolving nature of
Yoruban textile traditions. The
team chose a title that reflects
these curatorial choices.
“The first part of the title ‘Fash-
ioning Modernity’ relates to our
interest in considering African
Textiles as innovative practices
music has a powerful ability to
affect the children.
“Sometimes music helps to re-
center their focus from a quarrel
they might have had with anoth-
er child or from a fall to the notes
of the songs,” DeFries said. “At
other times it’s something they
have to be pulled away from as
their family members prepare to
take them home.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of
German Andrew Hamilton, who
takes his son, Benjy, to the Chil-
dren’s Center, can speak to how
his son’s interest in music has
been kindled by the program.
Benjy received a ukulele for his
third birthday after first being
exposed to the instrument by a
Bowdoin student.
“The ukulele player in his
classroom so inspired him that
TALES THROUGH TEXTILES: The new exhibit, curated by Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana
Studies Allison Martino and students, highlights postcolonial Nigerian history through examining traditions in textiles.
that are changing and evolving
for many Yoruba people,” Martino
said.
Inextricably linked to identity,
cloth evolved with Yoruba culture
during Nigeria’s independence pe-
riod in the 1960s.
Aso oke, a traditional cloth
that’s worn in important events
like weddings, embodies this dy-
namism. In post-colonial Nigeria,
it has become a part of the fashion
he takes a spiral bound book, just
like the one where she has her
songs written down, goes into a
quiet corner, lays a Jacob’s ladder
across his chest and sings Leon-
ard Cohen songs to himself,”
Hamilton said.
Through the program, the
children experience a wide range
of musical styles, from classi-
cal guitar patterns to Hawaiian
ukulele songs and even folk and
R&B. Students who come to play
their instruments are invited to
play anything they like, whether
they choose to practice a difficult
piece they’re trying to master
or just play from a selection of
songs for a half hour.
The music program is only
one example of an effort to cre-
ate more connections between
Bowdoin students and those of
and cultural industry, said Har-
rison Dunne-Polite ’19, another
student-curator.
Other types of cloth on dis-
play in the exhibition include
factory-printed cloth, which was
once produced in Indonesia, the
Netherlands and England for
African consumption. Once pro-
duction shifted to Africa, local
identity took over as a key part of
the aesthetics.
Friday, February 8, 2019
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
the Children’s Center. Students
are also invited to come speak
foreign languages to create an
immersive language experience
for the kids, and the preschoolers
often visit art shows at the Ed-
wards Center for Art and Dance,
as well as the museums on cam-
pus, and find themselves in the
midst of vast collections of new
and exciting forms of art.
The Children’s Center bridges
the divide between its tranquil
nursery and the artistic vigor of
this campus. And it does so in
the most natural possible way:
through the universal language
of music, enjoyed by those of all
ages.
“‘Without music, life would be
a mistake,’” Hamilton said, sum-
moning the words of Nietzsche.
“True words, Fred.”
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
“[Fabric] pertains to the larger
theme and really encapsulates
the idea of this traditional object
signifying ideas that look forward
into the future,” Hassane said.
SEE IT YOURSELF
“Fashioning Modernity: Art and
Independence among Yorubas in
Nigeria” is on view at the BCMA
until March 17.
Friday, February 8, 2019 9

F FEATURES
English professor earns
international acclaim
by Emma Sorkin
Orient Staff
This year, the English de-
partment brought new and now
internationally-award-winning
talent to its faculty. Author and
Assistant Professor of English
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich recent-
ly won the prestigious France
Inter-JDD foreign book prize for
the French translation of their
2017 cross-genre book “The
Fact of a Body: A Murder and a
Memoir.”
This award is given by a
committee of prominent French
journalists to one book interna-
tionally per year in any genre. Al-
though Marzano-Lesnevich has
received various awards for the
book, they said this particular
honor felt different.
“When [the committee
chooses] one book in all the
world—even if you believe in
your work, even if you’re proud
of your work, even if you love
your work—it can be a little dif-
ficult to wrap your head around,”
Marzano-Lesnevich said.
It was particularly meaning-
ful to Marzano-Lesnevich that
the panel was excited about how
their book crossed genre lines—
autobiography blended with true
crime—and prompted more se-
rious discussions and interviews
about complex legal matters.
The book weaves together the
story of Ricky Langley’s trial for
the murder of six-year-old Jer-
emy Guillory and Marzano-Le-
snevich’s own experience with
the case. Through this braided
narrative, Marzano-Lesnevich
explores how we construct the
past through our understanding
of ourselves and others in the
context of storytelling.
While attending Harvard Law
School, Marzano-Lesnevich took
an internship in Jackson, Lou-
isiana at a firm that defended
people facing the death penalty.
The Langley case, in which the
mother of the murdered boy tes-
tified for the murderer, triggered
a trying emotional response
from Marzano-Lesnevich and
prompted them to look back into
the case years later, searching
through court records and evi-
dence.
“I didn’t get the records [from
the case] initially thinking that I
would write a book about it, ab-
solutely not,” Marzano-Lesnev-
ich said. “I just got the record
thinking that I would put the
story down, that I would stop
thinking about it, and of course
that’s not what happened.”
The France Inter-JDD panel
noted that the extensive research
done for “The Fact of a Body: A
Murder and a Memoir” set the
book apart from other competi-
tors for the prize. The book was
ultimately written using 30,000
pages of court records that Mar-
zano-Lesnevich traced down in JACK BURNETT, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
PRIZE-WINNING PROFESSOR: Assistant Professor of English Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich recently won
Please see AWARD, page 10 an international award for their genre-crossing book, “The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.”

Students try working in Vacationland

by Penelope Mack
Orient Staff
“Work in the state you love”
was the tagline of this week’s
Maine Employer Career Fair,
which brings employees from
across the Pine Tree State to cam-
pus. For Bowdoin students, that
state might be the one they grew
up in or one they had never seen
before arriving on campus. But
all students who have worked in
Maine over the summer can agree
on one thing: spending a summer
in this state is an invaluable expe-
rience.
Ripley Mayfield ’19 spent last
summer planting crops at a farm
in Freeport. She said she didn’t
even consider working in a big
city because she wanted to work at
one of the small scale businesses
that call Maine home.
“[Working in Maine] has been
good at helping me realize your
bosses can be your friends and
[work] doesn’t have to be a scary
hierarchical system. It builds con-
fidence,” Mayfield said.
Like Mayfield, Caroline Carter
’19, who cared for baby seals at
Marine Mammals of Maine, said
she chose to stay in Maine because
working at a smaller organization
offered the opportunity to learn
about business models.
“I think that working with
small nonprofits, of which there
are a lot in Maine, is really valu-
able because you learn so much
about the way that a company is
oiled and how it works and runs,”
she said.
Lenoir Kelley ’19, who worked
in a tech start-up in Portland,
chose to stay in Maine because
she felt the smaller organizations
here would allow her to do more
fulfilling work.
“You get to do more, make
more decisions and have more [of
an] impact and not just be filing
papers,” she said.
Carter echoed the sentiment.
“The people that you work
with really treat you like an
[equal],” she said. “They want to
know what your suggestions are
and what your recommendations
are.”
On top of the more personal
experience of working with a
smaller organization, the op-
portunity to engage with Maine
beyond academics lures many
students into spending summer
on campus.
Sam Milligan ’20 spent last
summer working at the Natural
Resources Council of Maine and
valued the new perspective he got
on the area around campus. He
has found that many students get
stuck in the “Bowdoin Bubble”
and don’t engage with the com-
munity around campus, and jobs
in the area allow students to break
free.
“You can get not only inte-
grated more into the Bowdoin
community that stays behind, but
also integrated into Brunswick’s
community and get a better sense
of where we’re actually living,”
Milligan said.
Kristin Brennan, executive
director of the Career Planning
Center, agreed that working in
Maine helps students engage with
the community around Bowdoin.
“We see Bowdoin as a part of
the fabric of the community in
Maine,” she said. “And it is always
great when students have oppor- COURTESY OF ANDREW ESTEY
tunities to really immerse [them- EAST COAST EMPLOYERS: Hundreds of students attended Maine Employer Career Fair, where dozens of
selves] in the state we live in.” companies and nonprofits presented and networked with attendees.
Other students cited the net-
working opportunities as a core of Bowdoin grads in Maine offer portunities, students have found restaurants and explore the nat-
part of their decision to work in more opportunities to current that Maine is a great place to ural beauty of the state. Sylvia
Maine. Olivia Giles ’20, who grew students. spend the summer. Visitors and Bosco ’21, who worked at the
up in Grey, Maine, said that, since “There are so many Bowdoin summer workers alike take ad- Biodiversity Research Institute
she plans to work in her home connections in this area that want vantage of the beaches, the parks in Portland last summer, said
state after graduation, choosing to help you out and want to see and the “Vacationland” culture she liked the bright green maple
to stay here over the summer will you succeed,” said Kelley. “You’re that comes to life once the aca- leaves and the warm sand.
help her build a network for fu- not going to get that if you go to demic year ends. “It’s nice to see another side of
ture employment. New York City.” Giles loved the opportunity our currently snow-covered cam-
Kelley agrees that the network In addition to the career op- to explore new towns, try new pus,” Bosco said.

MANY DAYS IN MAINE: Adven-

GWEN DAVIDSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
ANNA FAUVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
EMILY COHEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
tures are never hard to find when
spending a summer in The Pine
Tree State. Bowdoin students can
be found hiking, gardening, swim-
ming and exploring all that Maine
has to offer when they choose to
use their break to intern at a local
organization or business. Students
may also stay on campus to con-
duct research with a professor. The
Schiller Coastal Studies Center is
always a fan favorite to cool off.
ROITHER GONZALES, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
10
BOWDOIN IN HISTORY
The Hall effect: how a Bowdoin-taught genius made history
by Benjamin Mason
Orient Staff
Bowdoin has no shortage of
notable alumni to boast about.
Yet unless you’re a physicist or
engineer, you might not have
heard of Edwin Hall, Bowdoin
Class of 1875.
Hall was born in Gorham,
Maine on November 7, 1855,
and grew up in the area, ulti-
mately attending the College
and continuing on to make
enormous strides in his respec-
tive field of physics that altered
the course of fields such as en-
gineering and technology en-
tirely. He is most notable for the
discovery of the phenomenon
that would come to bear the
name “the Hall effect.”
While Hall may not share
the same level of name recog-
nition as Nathaniel Hawthorne
or Henry Wadsworth-Long-
fellow, his contributions to
science remain essential to
modern physics.
“There isn’t an engineer in
the world who doesn’t use or
know about the Hall effect,”
said Professor of Physics and
Department Chair Dale Sy-
phers. “There are hundreds of
thousands of engineers around
Bowdoin dining employees: the real dinner-winners
The Common
Food
by Eliana Miller
The Orient’s “50 things to do
before you graduate” reads: “6.
‘Win’ dinner—be the last to leave.”
Come graduation, most students
can brag about having won Moul-
ton or Thorne at least once. But
the ultimate winner of Bowdoin
Dining is John Parker, who has
been working for the College for
the past 35 years.
When Parker controls the mu-
sic at Thorne, he plays “old psy-
chedelic” hits. Strawberry Alarm
Clock, The Electric Prunes, The
Tangerine Zoo and The Choc-
olate Watchband are among his
favorites. “They’re tasty, aren’t
they?” he laughs. As “Cook I” in
Thorne, he lives in the kitchen,
but it is not the food that has kept
him at Bowdoin.
Parker cooks all the soup
served in Thorne and the Pub,
typically stirring 20 to 30 gallons
of soup per day. From Curried
Carrot to Silky Cauliflower, stu-
dents sip and slurp his creations
year round. The aromas of his
food permeate campus, reaching
far beyond the dining halls. I’ve
played the icebreaker “What’s
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Louisiana over many years.
In many ways, the research
drives the story.
“It’s really the book’s rela-
tionship to research and to the
court records that show you
the narrator’s story of gath-
ering these court records and
reading them over and over
again and beginning to imag-
ine the people in them so as
the world … millions
probably, and they
all know who
Hall is.”
Hall served
as the princi-
pal of Gould
Academy
from 1875
to 1876 and
then as the
principal of
Brunswick
High School
from 1876 to
1877. He then
attended grad-
uate school
at Johns
Hopkins
University,
from which
he graduated
in 1880.
While con-
ducting research at
Johns Hopkins in 1979, Hall
made a career-defining break-
through, discovering the “Hall
effect.”
In layman’s terms, the Hall
effect is the phenomenon ob-
served when a magnetic field
runs perpendicular to a charged
piece of conductive material,
causing the negative particles
your favorite Bowdoin soup?”
multiple times and Parker’s
Cream of Wheat Wednesdays are
a Thorne institution. Yes, he’s that
Parker.
Despite his pivotal role in Din-
ing, Parker is humble. He blushed
when I told him that every other
week, my roommate eagerly
awaits his Hungarian Mushroom
soup, a popular dish served bi-
weekly instead of on the typical
four-week meal rotation.
“I’m kinda the soup guru, I
guess,” he smiled. “It’s pretty sim-
ple to [cook in such large quan-
tities]. I do it every day, it’s like
brushing my teeth.” At home, he
makes Progresso soup from a can,
but frequently bakes and distrib-
utes cookies, “spread[ing] smiles”
through his neighborhood.
Parker has been cooking since
he was an undergrad at Hobart
College in New York, his only
time ever living outside of Bruns-
wick. For him, cooking is both
dynamic and reliable.
“I like creating. Every day is
going to be a little different, no
soup is exactly the same. Granted,
I do the same thing every day, but
I like stability, ” he told me. “You
walk away everyday knowing that
you did something that hopeful-
ly people liked and you did your
they were as real as the people
in the room,” Marzano-Le-
snevich said.
The heart of the book, how-
ever, goes beyond the stories of
the trial and the narrator’s life.
“In a way [the book is] about
how we understand each other
through our own lives, but it’s
also about empathy and how
empathy works,” Marzano-Le-
snevich said. “It’s about imag-
inative understanding.”
While teaching at Harvard’s
FEATURES
COURTESY GEORGE J. MITCHELL DEPARTMENT
OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
in the material to gather to one
side of the object and the posi-
tive to the other. The separation
of particles creates a charge that
can be measured as voltage. The
discovery is used in a variety of
types of technology to this day.
“There are all kinds of mag-
netic sensors and they use
the Hall effect,” said Syphers.
best. You feel like you’ve earned
your money.”
But food provides more than
sustenance and a paycheck for
Bowdoin Dining employees as
cooking at Bowdoin has advan-
tages outside of the kitchen. Many
chefs enjoy spending time with
students. Every fall, Parker looks
forward to meeting new first
years, asking them about home
and “grilling them while they’re
on the grill.”
Warren Johnson, assistant
production manager at Moulton
feels similarly. One of the more
gregarious cooks at Bowdoin,
Johnson finds working with stu-
dents entertaining and gratifying.
He is quick to joke around in
the hot line. “You want two over
easy? Sorry, we’re all out of eggs!”
he says to even the first diner at
Moulton breakfast.
“Students have made me
laugh, cry and everything in be-
tween.,” Johnson said. “Why do I
get up at 3:30 in the morning in
the middle of a snow storm? Be-
cause I gotta feed those kids; you
need to be fed. It’s not just that, I
want to be there for you guys and
you all make me smile. It’s a plea-
sure for me.”
Employees cite other benefits,
such as flexible hours, access to
Kennedy School of Govern-
ment, Marzano-Lesnevich
found that their students were
often impressed by how useful
storytelling and its functions
are. It was a lightbulb moment
sparking Marzano-Lesnevich’s
desire to teach students earlier
in their academic careers.
“I was like, ‘Why aren’t I
talking to students earlier?’”
Marzano-Lesnevich said.
“That’s what brought me here.”
This desire brought them
“They’re used in your automo-
bile and in your phone. They’re
used all over the place.”
Aside from its practical
applications, Hall’s discovery
enabled other physicists to
make further discoveries in
the area of electromagnetism.
Klaus von Klitzing’s discovery
of the Quantum Hall effect won
college resourc-
es and favorable
insurance plans.
“The people keep me here. The
schedule keeps me here; I have 11
weeks off a year,” said Parker.
He appreciates working 6:30
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and having af-
ternoons off to bike and build his
record collection, which currently
consists of over 4,000 albums.
Johnson is incredibly grate-
ful for the insurance package
that Bowdoin Dining offers. He
paid only $5,000 for his double
knee replacement in 2015, a sur-
gery which on average can cost
to Bowdoin, where they teach
creative nonfiction writing. So
far, the change has been deeply
rewarding.
“I love that I don’t have to
worry about whether the stu-
dents have done the reading,”
Marzano-Lesnevich said. “I
think any professor will tell you
that’s the dream, to just be able
to go in and know that we’re
going to have an interesting
conversation because people
are prepared. That’s been a
him the 1985 Nobel Prize
for Physics. Thirteen
years later, the trio of
Robert Laughlin,
Horst Störmer, and
Daniel Tsui were
awarded the 1998
Nobel Prize for
Physics for their
discovery of
the Fractional
Quantum Hall
effect.
“There was
this second life
with the Quantum
Hall effect and the
Fractional Quantum
Hall effect,” Sy-
phers said. “There
[were] lots of
researchers re-
searching those
at [their] peak in
the ’80s and ’90s.
There were thousands
of researchers around the world
doing research on this again,
[and] it’s all derivative from
Hall’s work.”
Hall was also an inspiring
educator. In 1895, Hall was ap-
pointed as Professor of Physics
for Harvard University, where
he taught for 26 years before
retiring in 1921.
N
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PH
SO
$70,000 without insurance.
“I owe [Bowdoin Dining] not
only for the job, but I appreciate
them for all the benefits that come
with it,” said Johnson. “The benefit
that I didn’t know that I was going
to get was that everything in the
Buck Center was tailor-made for
a guy having to rehab his knees.
There are a couple machines that
you can’t find anywhere around
here.”
Other secret perks abound.
Neil Willey, head coach of
strength and conditioning, helped
really wonderful thing.” One
of the most exciting parts of
working at Bowdoin, they said,
is that faculty and students
alike are ready and eager to
rigorously explore their craft
and take on new challenges.
This semester, they’re teaching
a class on creative research,
which came out of their work
on their book. Next spring,
they plan to teach an advanced
nonfiction class examining
hybrid and fragmentary forms
Friday, February 8, 2019
“Hall was one of the key moti-
vators behind putting laboratory
experiments in science classes.
There were none before then, it
was all theoretical,” Syphers said.
After a lifetime of incredible
work in the lab and classroom,
Hall passed away in Cambridge,
Massachusetts on November
20, 1938, at the age of 83.
Hall was awarded for notable
contributions to the teaching of
physics by the American Physi-
cal Society, which is now called
the Physics Professional Soci-
ety. Although Hall never won
the Nobel Prize himself, as they
were not awarded prior to 1901,
he made pathways for future
generations to garner the prize.
Despite all of his recogni-
tion in the science realm and
the benefits society reaps from
his discoveries, Edwin Hall
is not listed in the section of
Bowdoin’s website that lists no-
table alumni. He is recognized
within the physics department,
though; an annual award is giv-
en out in his honor and there is
also a plaque bearing his name
on the third floor of Searles, the
home of the department.
“That’s what you would call
an inside-the-beltway thing,”
said Syphers.
Johnson recover safely and even
gave him a hand-tapped bucket
of maple syrup. Johnson also re-
ceives farm-fresh eggs from a for-
mer Bowdoin Dining employee.
Far beyond pay, the many ben-
efits of dining employment mean
that staff are reluctant to leave.
The three longest tenured Bowdo-
in Dining staff—Parker, Director
of Dining and Bookstore Services
Mary Lou Kennedy and Ken Car-
done, associate director/executive
chef—have worked at the College
for a collective 96 years. There are
few job openings in the dining
halls except for part-time student
workers.
“I would’ve liked to move
up,” Johnson admitted, “but I’m
happy at Bowdoin. It’s a com-
munity … In my opinion, the
students are the real commu-
nity and then there are micro-
cosms within that. In our little
community, people don’t like to
leave very often.”
Johnson says that “Moulton’s
home, Moulton’s better.” Parker
scoffs, “Of course I’m partial to
Thorne.” Meanwhile Kennedy in-
sists that the dining halls are uni-
fied. But no matter where staff fall
on the Moulton-Thorne debate,
loyalty remains strong towards
Bowdoin Dining.
like the one employed in “The
Fact of a Body.”
“One of the things I love
about the school is the way that
for myself, and I think many
other faculty, our research,
our scholarship and our art
feed the teaching and then the
teaching feeds [our work],”
Marzano-Lesnevich said. “It’s
just a pleasure to work with
passionate students and col-
leagues and get excited about
ideas and art.”
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AS SPORTS
HIGHLIGHT
REEL
SQUASH ‘EM LIKE A
BUG: The women’s
squash team is traveling
to Trinity this weekend
to compete in the
NESCAC Championship
tournament. Seeded
eleventh, the Polar Bears
are set to face sixth-
ranked Bates. Bowdoin
opened its season in a
dual match against Bates,
losing 9-0. If the Polar
Bears manage an upset,
they will play third-
seeded Middlebury in
the quarterfinals.

HERE COMES BIG

RED: Bowdoin football
announced two additions
to B.J. Hammer’s staff
this week. Both Matt
Cochran and Braden
Layer played on the
Denison University
football team and
ANN BASU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT coached with Hammer
HOCKEY HOPEFULS: Katie Leininger ’20 challenges Middlebury opponents for the puck in a match on January 18. The Polar Bears lost but rebounded the next day, beating Middlebury 2-1 in overtime. at Allegheny College.
Layer will serve as the

Women’s hockey fights to redeem losing season offensive coordinator

while Cochran will coach
the offensive line.

by Kathryn McGinnis
Orient Staff
As the postseason ap-
proaches, the women’s hockey
team is facing a lot of pressure
to keep its season alive. With
a losing record for the sea-
son, the Polar Bears (3-16-1,
NESCAC 2-10) need to defeat
both Connecticut College
(9-8-2, NESCAC 5-5-2) and
Trinity (8-9-3, NESCAC 5-4-
3) in the next two weeks to be
able to compete in the NES-
CAC Championships.
The team, who swept the
Trinity series last year, looks
to repeat its previous success
in the final regular season
game. But there is a night
and day difference in record
and recognition between the
2017-2018 hockey team—who
stood at 9-7-2, NESCAC 3-7-2
at this point last year—and the
current Polar Bears.
The two teams appear sim-
ilar, with first years occupy-
ing nearly 25 percent of both
rosters. Head Coach Marissa
O’Neil works hard to balance
class sizes on the team, re-
cruiting about five to seven
new athletes each year.
However, there are oth-
er traits in her players that
O’Neil values as much as, if
not more than, experience.
“Game sense” and “situation-
al awareness” are intrinsic
characteristics that can of-
ten make or break a winning
season.
According to O’Neil, hock-
ey is a turnover sport, mean-
ing play is fast and fierce.
Skaters must not only be
aware of their own bodies, but
where the puck is at all times.
Captain Marissa Fichter ’19
said that “situational aware-
ness” is often improved in the
off-season, when teammates
play against each other in cap-
tains’ practices.
Averaging about 30 shots
per game, the Polar Bears do
not lack an aggressive offense.
Yet their goal average is much
lower than they would hope,
standing at only 1.4. Neither
O’Neil or Fichter attributed
this disparity to the improved
skill of their NESCAC oppo-
nents, but rather the quality of
the Polar Bears’ shots.
The surest way to bypass a
goalie is to aim into the net’s
corners. Yet these shots are
difficult, requiring excellent
stick control and finesse. In
the midst of a game, it can be
hard for players to properly line
themselves up to make the shot.
Additionally, nerves can rattle
any skater’s concentration.
The team’s challenge, as
Fichter called it, is to maintain
“composure in front of the net.”
It’s a small part of the team’s
larger goal in every season—“to
play Bowdoin hockey.”
“Right now, especially af-
ter we’ve not had the season
that we wanted, everyone is
gripping a little bit too much
or moving a bit too fast,” said
Fichter. “It comes from [feel-
ing] worried that we’re not
going to win. But you have to
find this composure [and be
confident] that you are going
to put [the puck] in.”
O’Neil believes that Bowdo-
in hockey “requires the team
to enter the game to win versus
playing a game to not lose.”
“When we [play a] game
to win, you want to go out
and play hockey in the sense
that you’re just playing the
way you need to to have your
best game,” Fichter said. “[It
doesn’t] matter who you’re
playing.”
At the end of the season,
the true mark of a winning
team is the strength of its
culture and commitment to JACK IN THE BOX:
constant improvement. While Jack Simonds ’19
O’Neil was disappointed in posted 31 points as
the season’s record, she was the men’s basketball
pleasantly surprised to see the
team defeated Husson
strength of her team in the
face of adversity. The women’s (13-9) Wednesday
hockey team strives to “call night. Shooting nearly
people in” instead of out. The 56 percent, the team
goal is to not criticize team- (14-8, NESCAC 3-5)
mates for past mistakes, but to did not give up the lead
challenge them to always play throughout the game.
harder. The Polar Bears will
“I think our team is really finish their season this
good at holding [ourselves]
weekend in two games
personally accountable,” said
Fichter. “If you’re going to have against Connecticut
a bad day you need to focus in College (7-15, NESCAC
on yourself, too. I know we’re 0-8) and Wesleyan (15-7,
all trying to be really strong for NESCAC 5-3) with a
one another, so it’s the idea that NESCAC tournament on
you can’t let [up] because then the line.
that’s letting up for your team.”
The Polar Bears face the
Camels tonight at 7 p.m. in
COLLECT THEM ALL:
Watson Arena.
The men’s and women’s
swimming and diving
teams capped off their

Men’s squash looks to correct tournament mistakes season last weekend. In

by Dylan Sloan
Orient Staff
After its recent sixth-place
performance at the NESCAC
championships last weekend,
the Bowdoin men’s squash
team (6-8) will travel to New
Haven, Connecticut for the
CSA Class C National Cham-
pionships hosted by Yale Uni-
versity
Though it’s a step up from
previous competition, Head
Coach Tomas Fortson says the
team’s goals this season lie in
the intangibles.
“We try to focus more on
the simple goal of improving
consistently throughout the
season,” said Fortson. “We fo-
cus on having great team dy-
namics … and just enjoy the
process.”
Last weekend, the team
traveled to Middlebury Col-
lege for the NESCAC Champi-
onships. Based on pre-tourna-
ment seeding, the team played
a preliminary match Friday
night, handily dispatching
Hamilton 9-0. However, the
Polar Bears were unable to
sustain this momentum into
the quarterfinals, as the team
fell to Williams—the eventual
tournament runner-up—by a
score of 8-1.
“We played the match with a
healthy degree of confidence, but
also found some discipline.”
–Ian Squiers ’19
Despite this setback, the
Polar Bears bounced back in
the first round of the conso-
lation bracket, beating Tufts
8-1 Captain Ian Squiers ’19
feels the players’ performance
was in large part due to their
mentality.
“We played the match real-
ly the way I think we should
look to play every other
match—with a healthy degree
of confidence but also really
finding some discipline,” said
Squiers.
The team lost 6-3 to Am-
herst on the tournament’s
final day to solidify its sixth-
place NESCAC ranking.
Although Squiers described
the Amherst match as a “dis-
appointing … team perfor-
mance all around,” the team’s
tournament result was good
enough to qualify for the
CSA Class C National Cham-
pionship.
Last year, the team com-
peted in the Class D bracket,
eventually winning the Class
D national championship. This
is the first time since 2016 that
the Bowdoin men’s team has
competed in the C division.
“It’s definitely a step [up] for
us team wise ... it’s exciting,”
said captain Tyler Shonrock ’20.
Please see SQUASH, page 12
a decisive win against
Colby on Saturday,
Becca Stern ’19 placed
first in two diving events
while Nadia Eguchi ’21
set a personal record
in the 500 free with
a time of 5:10.23. On
the men’s side, Michael
Tirone ’21 won the 100
breaststroke in 58.71.
The teams will compete
in the NESCAC
Championships on
February 14 and 21,
respectively.
COMPILED BY KATHRYN MCGINNIS
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Two-time Olympian joins Nordic ski staff
by Julia Katter
Orient Staff
Growing up in Paris,
Maine, Assistant Nordic Ski
Coach Leslie Bancroft Kric-
hko never imagined herself
representing the United States
on the Olympic team once,
let alone twice. But the new
Bowdoin coach did exactly
that, competing on behalf of
the United States in 1980 and
1988.
“Skiing fast was a dream
of mine,” Krichko said. “I feel
fortunate that I wasn’t chasing
an Olympic dream [specifi-
cally]. It was just there, and
I became part of it. But then,
getting there, there really is
nothing like it.”
Though Krichko was able
to become a two-time Olym-
pian, her path was not easy. A
severe foot injury caused her
to miss the 1984 Olympics.
“I thought I was retired for
good,” Krichko said.
Though the journeywas
hard, Krichko reflects upon
her first opening ceremony
with a huge smile on her face.
“I still get choked up,” said
Krichko. “I imagine my par-
Gone fishing, polar bears hit the ice
Aura Carlson
Orient Staff
Last Saturday, a group of
12 Bowdoin students went to
six-mile-long Pleasant Pond
in Litchfield, Maine to go ice
fishing. This is no Outing
Club or official club trip; just
a bunch of students who love
to fish. Though some of the
anglers prefer fly fishing or
spin fishing, ice fishing is their
go-to weekend activity during
CATCH OF THE DAY: (ABOVE) Jane Chang ’20 holds a freshly caught bass.
(BELOW) The group catches over 50 yellow perch for their annual fish fry.
ents in the stands and how
proud they must have been
and all they had done for me
to get to that point.”
Beyond a personal feat,
Krichko’s participation in the
1980 and 1988 Olympics of-
fered her a sense of national
pride as she competed before
a global audience.
“I’m in this cowboy hat. I’m
walking,” said Krichko. “They
told us when we walked past
the vice president of the Unit-
ed States we were supposed to
tip our hats. Something about
that motion, just tipping my
hat, flooded me with emotion.”
Among the rarities coupled
with making it to the Olym-
pics, according to Krichko,
were the material perks.
“We could get tickets to
everything,” Krichko said. “Of
course our competitions came
first, but I was able to go to
all of these other events. All
of the sponsors load you with
gear gifts every day. It is really
an out-of-body experience.”
Having experienced many
different coaching styles
over the course of her career,
Krichko draws upon her own
experience as a competitive
the winter.
Pleasant Pond is the ice
fishers’ favorite place to go
and less than 30 minutes from
campus. It’s typical to spend
around four to five hours on
the ice, but smaller trips are
offered, too, that last approxi-
mately three hours.
Jane Chang ’20 and Kenny
Lamm ’20, both avid fisher-
men, praise the guidance and
support of Macauley Lord
’77—self-proclaimed “fish-
COURTESY OF JANE CHANG
SPORTS
SKI ME ROLLIN’: Leslie Krichko competed in both the 1980 and 1988 Olympics. Now, she is the assistant Nordic ski coach and races in community carnivals.
racer and an Olympian to help
connect with the athletes she
trains at Bowdoin.
“I can empathize,” said
Krichko. “I understand what
they are going through emo-
tionally and how distractions
like school and relationships
crazed Bowdoin alum” and
previous department head at
L.L. Bean for fly fishing. In
2012, Lord received the Life-
time Achievement Award from
the Federation of Fly Fishers—
the highest distinction in the
fly casting world.
Chang says the alumnus
often sends out emails to a
big list of Bowdoin students
inviting them to go fishing
and bringing them to the best
spots.
“You can even see him at
Thorne eating dinner with stu-
dents sometimes,” Chang said.
“He’s a really generous guy
and he loves to teach people.
Ice fishing is made possible
because of him,” added Lamm.
Lamm has been ice fishing
since seventh grade and ad-
mits that, while it can be bor-
ing sometimes, there’s more to
the sport than what meets the
eye.
“It’s surprisingly social,” said
Lamm. “All you’re doing is sit-
ting there in the freezing cold
and just talk[ing] to people.”
Students ice fish either by
using a jig—a flexible fishing
pole about 18 inches long—or
tip ups.
“Tip ups are basically traps,
and when the fish takes the bait
and starts pulling the line, the
flag will pop-up,” Lamm said.
Since tip ups do not need
individual supervision, stu-
dents set up as many as 50 at a
time to improve their chances.
“There’s this huge rush of
excitement [when a flag pops
up],” Chang said. “Everyone’s
running up to the flag to see
what they caught. It could be
something really cool, like a
pike which has super sharp
teeth and are pretty big, or it
could be a perch or a bass.”
The most common fish stu-
dents catch is the panfish, a
narrow fish that resembles a
Friday, February 8, 2019
MACKEY O’KEEFE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
can affect your competitions.” skiing coach, with helping to ated a family.”
After only one season of shape this welcoming team. Having not always expe-
working with the Bowdoin ski “He created this really rienced this team dynamic
team, Krichko is impressed not tight-knit, passionate group of in her own athletic career,
only with its strong skiing per- people that all have the love of Krichko does not take it for
formance but also in its close, skiing in common,” Krichko granted.
communal nature. She credits said. “They really enjoy each “I just feel extremely lucky
Nathan Alsobrook, the head other, and it’s like he has cre- to be here,” she said.
plate. Sometimes they catch
SQUASH
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11
“Right now we’re focusing on
improving any way we can, and
improvement and trusting
teammates’ abilities.
“We’ve been adding to our
abilities and knowledge and
understanding of the game
larger and rarer fish such as the [luckily] the results are turning [over the course of the season]
largemouth bass, perch and the out for us.” and we’ll be able to put it to-
smallmouth bass. While most “What [qualifying for the gether under pressure against
of the trips are catch and re- C division] does is give us some very good opponents,”
lease, the students occasionally the opportunity to prove that said Fortson. “[The team] has
have a good haul and celebrate we’re supposed to be there,” been very, very good about
with a big fish fry. added Squiers. “It’s one thing their constant growth.”
“They’re pretty small so to win the D division and As the Polar Bears prepare
you can fry them pretty fast,” know that you were sup- for the final tournament of
Lamm said. posed to do that but, to be in the season, the same mantra
The first time Lamm went this place and have the op- of steady improvement will
fishing at Bowdoin he caught portunity not to defend your be their guiding force.
a six-pound largemouth bass. position but to strive for “Everybody’s been through
“We didn’t know it was go- something a little bit more good and bad, but they’ve just
ing to be a bass because it was … is very exciting.” kept on pushing to keep get-
pulling so hard,” Lamm said. Despite this opportunity, ting better by training their
“Luckily we were using the the team remains commit- best every day,” said Fortson.
hole that was 10 inches wide. ted to its ethos of steady “I’m very proud of that.”
The standard is usually six to
eight inches, so if it had been
six inches the fish wouldn’t
have fit through because it was
so big and thick.”
However amidst all the fun,
the danger of falling through the
ice is real in the Northeast. Lake
and pond ice conditions are
typically safe for use in January,
but Lamm pointed out that ice
fishing season can begin even
earlier in parts of Maine.
“As long as the ice is thick
enough, you can go whenever
you want,” Lamm said. “They
say four inches is necessary
for walking. The thing that’s
dangerous though is it could
be four inches where you
are standing but a foot away
it could be two inches and
you have no idea. Ideally you
should have at least six inches
of ice to be safe.”
Lamm and Chang love the
sport and introducing new-
comers to it. Unlike fly or spin
fishing, it has few technical
aspects that could prevent
students with no experience
from joining. In the last few
months of winter, the group COURTESY OF BRIAN BEARD
hopes to expand its member- TEAM HUDDLE: (ABOVE) Satya Butler ’19 prepares to hit the ball. (BELOW)
ship and encourage fishing The men’s squash team huddles to talk strategy before a match. While the players
across campus. compete individually, each score contributes to the team’s score overall.
13 Friday, February 8, 2019

O OPINION
Planning for the future
According to an article in this week’s edition of the Orient, many seniors are
dissatisfied with the resources provided by the Career Planning Center (CPC).
In the Orient’s biannual approval ratings survey, more than a third of seniors
At home in all lands,
reported disapproving or strongly disapproving of the CPC. In a follow-up sur-
vey conducted this week, the number was similar, with 31 percent of seniors
expressing dissatisfaction.
We think it’s troubling that the class facing the highest career stakes is so frus-
trated with the CPC. We acknowledge that seniors are also more stressed than oth-
except this one?
er class years as the prospect of finding a post-graduation job looms, which likely
contributes to their dissatisfaction, but we don’t think this is the sole cause for the
Addressing the Bowdoin-Maine divide
widespread discontent. what few excursions may occur are Though Bowdoin students spend
We believe that the CPC genuinely wants to do the best job it can. In the past few Pine Tree cursory at best. four years in Maine, our campus’s
years, it has expanded offerings for international students and launched a campaign Perspective The isolation of Bowdoin students wealth and exclusion from the out-
to dispel the stress-inducing misconceptions that often come up regarding the ca- from the rest of Maine is problemat- side world makes us look more like
by Lowell Ruck
reer-planning process. Therefore, we feel confident writing about where students feel ic, particularly in its similarity to the summer people than year-round res-
the CPC falls short and how we think it might improve. We believe they want the best Bowdoin College prides itself on socioeconomic gulf between wealthy idents. Considering that many of us
for us, that they’re usually doing the best they can, and that this, like so many things
its connection to community. Visit visitors to Maine and their local are drawn in by promises of lobster
at the College, is a question of resources and funding. our website and you’ll see count- neighbors. In his book “The Lobster and breathtaking views of the ocean,
One resource that could be improved is the job board. Based on the Orient’s less references to Brunswick and to Coast,” Maine journalist Colin Wood- this is not a surprising resemblance.
preliminary research, joining Handshake, which connects over 700 college career Maine, touting the College’s close ard writes extensively about Maine’s In order for Bowdoin to address
planning centers and job boards, would expand our network and the opportunities relationship with its Midcoast host history of summer colonies and how this divide, it must first work more
available to Bowdoin students and decrease the pressure on CPC counselors. and the state it sits in. “Maine and wealthy people from away have im- space for the study of Maine into
In addition, in survey responses and interviews, students repeatedly expressed our hometown of Brunswick are pacted the social landscape. “There its curriculum. Currently, very few
the feeling that the career counselors, often assigned three or more fields to ad- fundamental to our identity,” reads was—and in many places still is—an courses that focus on Maine are
vise on, are not always well-versed in some industries that interest students. For the beginning of one page, marked imperial dynamic in the relationship available—only two are being of-
some industries, the counselors are excellent—they know which alumni to contact in bold. Confronted with this asser- between Mainers and summer peo- fered this semester, for example.
first, how field-specific interviews are structured and other details that hours of tion, pictures from the lobster bake ple,” he argues. “The latter, after all, But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Googling won’t turn up. In the areas our counselors know best, they can’t be beat. and mentions of Brunswick’s vibrant lived in ‘colonies,’ surrounded by and Numerous departments, from Fran-
But it is an awful lot to ask one person to have a deep knowledge of several downtown, it seems hard not to feel dependent on the labor of ‘the na- cophone Studies to Biology, have
broad career areas, and student experience suggests that it is, in fact, impossible. that Bowdoin is intimately linked to tives.’ They were generally wealthier both the right focus and the right
The career counselors shouldn’t be expected to be jacks of so many trades. Instead, the communities which surround it. [and] more educated … [and] spoke, tools to study Maine. Whether in the
the College should allocate more resources to the CPC and hire more counselors I agree that Bowdoin and Maine dressed and behaved differently than natural sciences, the social sciences
who could provide specialized knowledge in a broader range of fields. We don’t have close ties. Yet the more time that the locals and, while in Maine, gener- or the humanities, there should be a
have intimate knowledge of the College’s budget, but when allocating resources in I’ve spent here, the less I have come to ally socialized among themselves.” concerted effort to broaden Maine’s
the future, we ask that it considers increasing CPC funding. believe that such links are reciprocal While we’re not necessarily living place in Bowdoin’s academic life. If
A disconnect between our classroom experiences, which generally preach or that they are truly as meaningful as in a colony, there are some import- possible, if it would encourage the
learning for learning’s sake, and advertising ourselves as capable to succeed in a they are portrayed to be. Despite nu- ant parallels with the situation that student body to engage in such study,
professional environment, is bound to occur. At its best, the CPC is capable of merous efforts by groups such as the Woodard describes. Roughly 54 per- I believe that a “Maine” distribution
bridging this gap. We simply ask that it work harder with students who eschew Joseph McKeen Center for the Com- cent of Bowdoin students pay full requirement would also be an effec-
pre-professionalism in favor of fulfilling other parts of the Offer of the College. mon Good and various other clubs on price to attend this school, a cost tive way to expose more students to
Students who do not actively seek out help from the CPC are without a doubt campus to connect with our communi- that, at around $68,620 per year, far the environmental and social realities
harder to serve. However, we believe the CPC is capable of providing the resources ty, it is entirely possible for a Bowdoin exceeds Maine’s 2017 median house- of our state.
necessary for post-grad success to all 1,800 of our students. student, nestled in the comfort of the hold income of $53,024. To maintain Bowdoin must also find a better
Bowdoin Bubble, to avoid any sort the comforts of fine dining and clean way to promote student engage-
This editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, of real connection with the outside housing and grounds, we employ lo- ment with Maine outside of class.
which is composed of Emily Cohen, Nell Fitzgerald, Roither Gonzales, Dakota Grif- world (no, runs to Frosty’s or trips to cals at wages that often aren’t enough Though things like Common Good
fin, Calder McHugh and Jessica Piper. Sugarloaf don’t count). Academically, to get by on. And if the moniker Day, Alternative Spring Break and
unless you are a student of the natural Camp BoBo has any truth to it, we Community Immersion Orientation
sciences or environmental studies, very certainly don’t tend to interact with Trips through the McKeen Center are
few classes ever venture be- people beyond the good ways to learn about our state,
yond the boundaries boundaries of they can easily be avoided. Commu-
of campus and campus. nity service is an effective means of
education and would most definitely
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14 OPINION Friday, February 8, 2019

The Green New Deal needs nuclear no is predicted to die from

Our America
by Lorenzo Meigs
Climate change is our Cold
War. While Boomers lived in
constant fear of Soviet nu-
clear annihilation, we suffer
daily from the thought—the
truth—that the life we now
live is set to slowly deterio-
rate. Every morning we wake
up to a new report telling us
how many more years of in-
action we have left before the
Amazon turns into the Sahara;
thus, every evening, our exis-
tential dread builds. Carbon is
the new communism, and it is
sitting on the very soul of our
generation.
Worse, while the Boomers
could rest assured it wasn’t re-
ally their fault—Khrushchev
and Kennedy and Cuba were
all people and places and ideas
that were out of their con-
trol—our generation knows
that in some small way, we do
have the power to make a dif-
ference. We realize that every
time we drive to Portland, we
fly home, we leave the win-
dow open or indeed when we
eat meat, that we are actively
making the future worse. If
we stop and think, we start to
see that our inevitably con-
sumptive existence, even on
an individual level, is a threat
not only to our friends, family
and neighbors, but to the very
existence of the human race.
Luckily, it doesn’t have to be
this way.
As much as the ongoing
intergenerational and inter-
racial warfare that is modern
America seems poised to take
it away, we do still live in a de-
mocracy, and we can still force
the government to radically re-
orient the way we live our lives.
Before it all burns down, we
still have the chance to decar-
bonize our economy and thus
secure America and the world
for our posterity. That’s why
Representative Alexandria Oc-
asio-Cortez’s push to wrench
open the Overton window
and bring the Green New Deal
(GND) front and center is one
of the most promising recent
developments in progressive
politics.
The idea of the GND has
been kicking around since
2007, but it has always seemed
something of a pie in the sky
idea—more like Fox News
fodder than a political reali-
ty. That was, until yesterday,
when Ocasio-Cortez and Sen-
ator Ed Markey introduced a
GND bill. Now, there’s still a
lot to work out—including
killing the filibuster—but the
details we have are wonderful-
ly refreshing. The bill has an
overarching goal to reach net
zero emissions, and it calls for
getting there through an array
of smart ideas such as fos-
sil-free vehicles, smart grids,
retrofitted buildings, agricul-
tural overhaul and renewable
energy investment. Thus, it
seems that we as a nation are
finally set to go beyond measly
carbon taxes and think bigger.
However, if Ocasio-Cortez
and all her GND advocates are
serious and truly want to see
sustainability reached, there is
a severe omission from their
bill: nuclear power.
Yes, that’s right. Nuclear
power. It’s safe, cheap and as
clean as energy comes. The
fact is, nuclear power has to
be the backbone of any GND
proposal, and its decades-long
denigration is one of the great-
est environmental tragedies in
history. Renewables are great,
but they can never power the
whole grid consistently. Solar
and wind, the only renewables
that can viably be imple-
mented on a grand scale, are
cripplingly reliant on weather
conditions and thus produce
energy erratically and irregu-
larly. To be any good at scale,
CAROLINE CARTER
they need to be paired with
massive battery infrastructure
and, as hard as Elon Musk is
trying, that technology is not
quite here yet.
Nuclear is the only technol-
ogy we have that can produce
carbon-free power cheaply
and continuously.
But what about Chernobyl
and Fukushima? Both were
terrible disasters, of course,
but with relatively few casu-
alties. In the Chernobyl melt-
down, 31 people died from
immediate exposure, while
high end estimates say up to
4,000 people could die from
radiation-caused-cancer. In
Fukushima, no one died, and
cancer later in life. Compare
this to the ongoing slaughter
that is coal power—in Amer-
ica alone, it kills as many as
30,000 people annually. In-
deed, per unit of energy pro-
duced, nuclear is safer than
hydro, geothermal, wind and
even solar.
What about nuclear waste?
It’s another non-issue; indeed,
it’s one of nuclear power’s
many comparative advantag-
es. If all the nuclear waste the
US ever produced was put on
a football field, it would stack
just 50 feet high. And all that
waste can be stored safely in
nice big containers, right next
to the plants that produced
it. Compare that with solar
panels which leak heavy toxic
metals when haphazardly dis-
posed of in developing coun-
tries and generate 300 times
more waste per unit of energy
produced than nuclear.
While it is true the world
will eventually run out of ura-
nium, we have at least enough
to keep us going for the next
200 years, and by then, I’m
sure we will have figured
out the next great energy
source. So, while we wait, let’s
bring back nuclear. Let’s cut
through the fear mongering
and misinformation and rec-
ognize that we already have
all the technology we need
to save ourselves from envi-
ronmental destruction. Sierra
Club liberals—Boomers who
had their brains addled by the
trauma of the Cold War—have
too long been making a false
connection between nuclear
power and nuclear weapons.
Let’s eschew the dribble of
these misguided pension-
ers and instead import that
midcentury nuclear dream of
cheap and abundant energy
into the GND. It’s the only
hope we have.

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Friday, February 8, 2019 OPINION 15

The American Dream: reconsidered
by Francisco Navarro
Op-Ed Contributor
The January 2019 econom-
ic report proved that little can
stop the steam of the Amer-
ican free enterprise system.
The Dow Jones Industrial
Average had its best January
since 1985, rising 7.2 percent;
304,000 jobs were created and
wages rose 3.4 percent, the
highest in a decade. However,
according to Pew Charitable
Trust’s latest fact sheet, 77
percent of Americans do not
believe that the iconic rags-
to-riches story is possible
anymore—a seemingly foun-
dational pillar of the Ameri-
can dream. The famed adage
of the 1992 election, “It’s the
economy, stupid,” evidently
fails to fully encompass the
character of contemporary
American politics.
In his “First Discourse,”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau re-
minded French aristocrats
of a truism of state building:
“The ancient politicians for-
ever spoke of morals and vir-
tue; ours speak only of com-
merce and money.” While we
have experienced 243 years of
unparalleled prosperity and
our politicians have been the
most efficient communicators
of commerce and of money,
our American political dis-
course can certainly benefit
from invoking the French-
man. Lamentably, Rousseau’s
words went unresolved and
his countrymen are currently
living under their Fifth Re-
public. The United States of
America was the first large
republic in the history of the
world. The idea of people giv-
ing themselves a government
at such this kind of great scale
was not thought possible.
I firmly believe the reason
we’ve successfully existed un-
der one continuous republic
is because our foundation is
rooted in principles that gaze
upon virtue.
Our Declaration of Inde-
pendence talks about certain
“unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Lib-
erty and the pursuit of Hap-
piness.” Nowhere written is
a guarantee of income. Our
Constitution aims to “secure
the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our posterity,”
and thus far it has succeeded
largely due to its simplicity
and enough structural malle-
ability to ensure generation-
al revisions. Yet, too many
Americans equate current
economic inequality as a jus-
tifiable reason for parading
their disdain for the pillars
of our republic. The Demo-
cratic governor of New York,
Andrew Cuomo, recently
stated, “America was never
that great” in response to the
slogan made famous by Presi-
dent Trump.
Economic inequality is real
in this country, alongside many
other legislative shortcomings,
but we must remember that the
imperfections of the American
memory should never limit the
potential of the American des-
tiny. At the closing of the 1787
Constitutional Convention, a
woman approached Benjamin
Franklin and asked: “Well,
Doctor, what have we got—a
Republic or a Monarchy?” APER
EY RE
Franklin replied, “A Republic, SYDN opportunity through which
if you can keep it.” It certainly I view this country. While my
cannot keep itself, and using divide. It is hard for our parents and grandparents lost
21st century moral absolutes policy with immensely diverse nation their entire economic subsis-
to discount the progress of our the ulti- to unite under a single law tence at the hands of a com-
18th century foundation is not mate goal or ideal, but I will invoke a munist system, they achieved
a way to “keep” our Republic. of writing it, word commonly used in 2019 the American Dream the
Economic policy is exact- I constantly lexicon: privilege. We must moment they settled in a land
ly that: policy. As a young remind my- remember our American priv- that permitted them the un-
adult preparing to enter the self that the ilege and remind ourselves constrained freedom to prac-
workforce, I certainly favor legislative pro- that we all exist within this tice their religion, educate
positive economic conditions, cess deserves system, whether we choose to their children and choose the
but I also recognize the vola- our admiration, believe it or not, which eyes manner by which to pursue
tility of future human legisla- but never our de- toward virtue. their happiness.
tion. To paraphrase German votion. I am the son of two Cuban I acknowledge my Ameri-
Statesman Otto von Bismarck, Absolute devo- immigrants, and the story of can privilege, and I am grate-
legislation is a lot like sausage tion to a given eco- my family’s diaspora is not ful for it. With only $234.50
making, and the product of nomic theory and unique to our nation. Yet, I am in my bank account, I am
such a process is messy and the portrayal of legis- only one generation removed already living the American
imperfect. While I am a stu- lation through the lenses of from a very different reality, dream.
dent of government with in- “good” and “evil” are rea- and perhaps this is the reason Francisco Navarro is a mem-
tentions to immerse myself in sons for our rampant political for the lens of admiration and ber of the class of 2019.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Thank you: remembering HAVE YOU EVER DONATED TO A

Henry Zietlow ’22
Dear Editor,
I am writing to express my deep appre-
ciation to President Clayton Rose, Coach
Doug Welling and the entire Bowdoin com-
munity for the profoundly moving memo-
rial service held for Henry Zietlow ’22 on
Saturday. Henry was clearly deeply loved
by his teammates and friends, as well as his
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Divestment counterproductive
for Bowdoin
Dear Editor,
We were concerned with last week’s edi-
torial, “Midd divested. Will we?” We believe
divestment would severely limit Bowdoin’s
ability to address climate change and lead
toward the Common Good.
Bowdoin’s divestment would be inconse-
quential to the fossil fuel industry at great
cost to our endowment. The 200 largest
public fossil fuel companies, in sum, have
a market capitalization, or total value of all
publicly traded shares of stock, exceeding $2
trillion. In short, these companies would feel
no impact from our divestment. We believe
the $100 million that President Barry Mills
claimed Bowdoin could stand to lose by
divesting would be better allocated towards
local environmental initiatives or working to
accomplish other goals the Editorial Board
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN?
coaches and professors. My husband, Dom-
inic, and I were touched and impressed by
the eloquence and thoughtfulness of each
of the speakers. Thank you for sharing your
Answer at bowdoinorient.com/poll.
love for Henry and your reminiscences of
him with us.
Sincerely,
Tamsen Harding Endicott, Class of 1987 Last week’s response:
Q: DO YOU LIKE BOWDOIN’S (SEMI) FORMAL
DANCES?
60% YES
40% NO
Based on answers from 72 voters
has rightly espoused in the past. These in-
clude paying living wages to housekeeping
and facilities staff, improving financial aid
and creating programs which improve insti-
tutional access, such as THRIVE.
Bowdoin should continue tangible ini-
tiatives to combat climate change, such as
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
supporting the 75-megawatt solar facility
in Farmington and funding world-class re-
search on the environment. We also think
Bowdoin should follow in Middlebury’s send the Orient to
footsteps by committing to 100 percent
renewable energy use, but at this time we
believe divestment for Bowdoin amounts to
costly virtue signaling at the expense of oth-
your lover
er, more impactful programs.
Sincerely,
Tim Moran, Class of 2019
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Theo Christian, Class of 2019
16 Friday, February 8, 2019

FEBRUARY
FRIDAY 8
EVENT
Bowdoin Reads 10th Anniversary
Celebration
The Library will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bowdoin
Reads. Students, faculty and staff will share book
recommendations and listen to readings by past Bowdoin
Reads participants.
Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. 12 p.m.

EVENT
Build-a-Band
Students interested in forming a band or performance
group will meet and test out instruments in the Smith Union
practice rooms.
Practice Rooms, David Saul Smith Union. 4 p.m.

EZRA SUNSHINE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: President Clayton Rose delivers a speech at Senior Gift Giving Night. This event is part of the Senior Class Gift Campaign,
which is meant to introduce seniors to the Alumni Fund.

SATURDAY 9 MONDAY 11 WEDNESDAY 13

PERFORMANCE
Yasmin Vitalius Trio
Faculty member Yasmin Vitalius, Artist-in-Residence George
Lopez, guest violinist Robert Lehmann and violist Kim Leh-
mann will play an array of pieces dating back as early as the
18th century, including the works of famous composers such
as Beethoven and Dvorak.
Kanbar Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCE
Squirrel Flower
MacMillan House and WBOR will jointly sponsor the
performance of Squirrel Flower, an Iowa-raised singer and
songwriter noted for her poetic lyrics and often
minimalist sound.
MacMillan House. 8 p.m.
LECTURE
“Institutional Resilience in Turbulent
Times”
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional and
International Law and Government Allen Springer will
discuss how modern-day institutions across the world are
responding to nationalist sentiment and various
other challenges.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.
LECTURE
Aquifer Ethnography and the Horizons
of Depletion
Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Oklahoma Lucas Bessire will discuss human behaviors that
led to the depletion of underground aquifers in the Midwest.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.
DISCUSSION
“The Radical King: His Final Years”
Author and speaker Taylor Branch will discuss his narrative
history and research into the Civil Rights Movement and
life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Branch’s work includes the
Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy “America in the King Years.”
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY 12
FITNESS
Tai Chi
Fitness instructor Ken Ryan will teach an hour-long class in

SUNDAY 10
Tai Chi, an ancient Chinese martial art meant to improve
flexibility, balance and coordination.
Room 301, Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness. 12 p.m.
FILM SCREENING
2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: FILM SCREENING
Live Action “Ujirei – Regeneration”
Frontier will screen all of the short films nominated in the Live The environmental studies and sociology and anthropology
Action category, including “Madre,” “Fauve,” “Marguerite,” departments will screen “Ujirei–Regeneration,” an award-
“Detainment” and “Skin.” Viewers can predict this year’s winning project which documents the transition of a South
winners before the Oscars take place on February 24. American tribe into an evangelical mission.
Frontier. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.
THURSDAY 14
LECTURE
David Hume, Adam Smith and the
Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
Professor and Chair of Political Science at Tufts University
Dennis Rasmussen will speak about his most recent book,
“The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith
and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought.”
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 4:30 p.m.

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Captain Walker Art Masculinities

January Building Summit
Anniversary Keynote