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MORE NEWS: HURRICANE SANDY; FREE SPEECH AND BIAS AT BOWDOIN

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL: Sandy’s groundswell.Page 17.

SPORTS: FIELD HOCKEY FALLS TO THIRD IN NESCACLed by fi rst year Jamie Hofstetter’s three goals, the fourth-seeded Polar Bears beat fi fth-seeded Hamilton in the NESCAC quarterfi nals. They will take on the third seed, Amherst, in the semifi nals.

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Page 6.PUBLIC EDITOR: Jim Reidy ’13 on misquotation in the Orient.

Davee aims to improve the health of Bowdoin students by developing their eating habits.

SANDY: The hurricane did little damage to the College and the town of Bruswick.

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SPEECH: The elections has stirred debate about speech and liberal bias on campus.

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MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY: A wreath adorned the Downeaster on its inaugural journey from Boston to Brunswick yesterday.

Please see ARRIVES, page 3

BY ERICA BERRYORIENT STAFF

Initiatives seek to hold students, College accountable on sustainability

New student-run environmen-tal initiatives on campus aim to give students the chance to stand behind more than just their ballot votes next week.

Eric Chien ’14 recently launched a dorm room energy audit system and a “Sustainable Room Certifica-tion Checklist,” in an effort to hold individual students accountable for their lifestyle choices and pro-mote environmentally-conscious actions. Chien, a former Eco-Rep who now works for Sustainable Bowdoin, is also a proctor in Ap-pleton Hall, which has given him a forum to implement his projects.

Advertising the first-year dorm energy audit through Residential Life, Chien personally responds to student requests, evaluating rooms in three categories: “Lighting and Please see INITIATIVES, page 6

76 percent of students to vote Obama, poll fi nds

BY GARRETT CASEYORIENT STAFF

When the Amtrak Downeaster rolled into Brunswick Station yester-day a) ernoon, its arrival marked the * rst time in 53 years that a passenger train arrived in Brunswick.

+ e catalyst for the expansion of Amtrak service to Brunswick was a $38.3 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration, part of the $8 billion American Recovery and Re-investment Act.

“It certainly is a physical manifesta-tion of how [the stimulus] provided some real help around the country,” said Angus King, independent can-

BY MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTERORIENT STAFF

didate for U.S. Senate and a former Maine governor.

+ e project was approved for funding in 2010 and * nished on-budget and on-schedule.

+ e extension of Amtrak’s Maine route will allow passengers to ride the Downeaster from Boston to Bruns-wick. + e train stops in Freeport, Portland and eight other towns in Maine, New Hampshire and Massa-chusetts.

+ e inaugural ride departed from Boston and had brief whistle-stop celebrations at each station. At every stop, a group of dancers got o, the train to perform and give prizes to onlookers and passengers boarding

the train.Passengers included local gov-

ernment officials, railroad per-sonnel, reporters and members of TrainRiders Northeast.

At extended stops in Freeport and Brunswick, project leaders and politi-cians spoke to crowds of hundreds of local residents.

“It’s a great success story for our state,” Congresswoman Chellie Pin-gree said to the crowd in Brunswick.

According to Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, the extension should bring $325 million in construction in-vestment to Brunswick by 2030, while

Seventy-six percent of Bowdoin students will cast their votes for Barack Obama in next Tuesday’s presidential election, while 16 per-cent will vote for Mitt Romney, according to an unscientific poll conducted by the Orient.

Two percent of students plan to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson, one percent for Green Part candi-date Jill Stein, and three percent remain undecided. The poll, which was distributed via email and di-gest post, received 719 responses between October 29 and Novem-ber 1.

Obama’s support on campus has waned since 2008, when 84 percent of students reported they would vote for him. The same trend can be seen on the national stage; many states that Obama won eas-ily in 2008 are now battleground states.

The 2012 poll suggests that the Bowdoin student body leans sig-nificantly left of both the nation and the state of Maine. The most recent national poll, conducted by Rasmussen Reports, gives Rom-ney a 49 percent to 47 percent lead over Obama.

In Maine—a state the Demo-cratic candidate has won in every election since 1988—Maine Pan Atlantic SMS’ September 28 poll shows Obama with a 52 percent to 37 percent lead over his Republi-can rival.

That same poll shows indepen-dent Angus King carrying 50 per-cent of the vote in Maine’s U.S. Sen-

ate race, compared to 24 percent for Republican Charlie Summers and 12 percent for Democrat Cynthia Dill.

At Bowdoin, overwhelming sup-port for Obama did not translate into votes for fellow Democrat Dill. Perhaps buoyed by his connections to the College, where he taught be-tween spring 2004 and spring 2012, King received 71 percent support among Bowdoin students.

The Democrat in the race to rep-resent Maine’s First District in the House of Representatives fared bet-ter among Bowdoin students. The Pan Atlantic SMS poll gave Demo-crat Chellie Pingree a 57 percent to 24 percent lead over Republican Jon Courtney. At Bowdoin she leads 64 percent to seven percent.

The same-sex marriage refer-endum, Question 1 on the ballot, has sharply divided Maine voters. This is not so at Bowdoin, however, where 92 percent of students said they would vote “yes” to legalize same-sex marriage.

This overwhelming margin sug-gests that many of Bowdoin’s con-servative students are willing to take a more liberal stance on social issues. Forty-five of 61 registered Republicans said they would vote “yes” on Question 1, as did 72 out of 117 Romney supporters.

Only half the respondents will vote on Question 1, however. The remaining half is either not reg-istered to vote or registered in an-other state.

Many students who come from outside of Maine decided to register

Downeaster arrives, right on schedule

Please see POLL, page 4

Electricity,” “Heating,” and “Food and Cooking.” He said his goal is to make students aware of lesser-known energy-saving measures, such as making sure refrigerator cooling coils are clean and using task-oriented lighting instead of overhead lights.

“We become inundated with the same old factoids about energy savings and such, and my hope is to expand on that and get some new information,” said Chien.

He said participation has been limited so far.

“Only a few people have asked me to come…it’s generally only the people that are doing the best,” said Chien. “Part of my hope is to get people who actually have questions and may need it more than others to be comfortable asking me about it.”

Next week Chien will expand his “Sustainable Room Certification Checklist” from Appleton, where

he has been piloting it for the last few weeks, to the rest of the first year bricks. If successful, he hopes to make it a campus-wide move-ment.

The “Sustainable Room Certifi-cation Checklist” lists 26 possible

actions—under the categories of “Rooms: Waste and Energy,” “Laundry,” “Bathrooms,” “Din-ing Hall,” and “Get Involved”—of which rooms discuss and decide

Check out other sustainability stories in this issue of the Orient:

Energy competition: page 3

Green Talk of the Quad: page 9

“Hurricampaign”

“What’s the beef? Meatless Monday”

Green Bowdoin: page 10

Green athletes: page 13

Editorial: page 17“Sandy’s Groundswell”

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

GREEN: Eric Chien ’14, left, and Matt Goodrich ’15, right, are leading campus green initiatives.

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Men’s cross country star Coby Horowitz ’14 won the men’s NESCAC individual championship title last weekend, the fi rst time in twelve years that a Polar Bear has won the title.

SPORTS: Athlete of the week: Coby Horowitz ’14 FEATURES: Where’s my Halloween?Julia Binswanger ’16 laments the lack of Halloween spirit on campus.

A&E: Unexpected curators The story behind how Juniors Ben Livingston and Ursula Moreno ended up curating their own exhibition, “We Never See Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and Landscape Painters.”

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At its Wednesday night meeting the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) discussed a public com-ment submitted by Ricardo Zarate ’13, which urged the group to take a stance on Question 1, Maine’s ref-erendum on the same-sex marriage ban.

A4 er prolonged debate, BSG de-cided not to take a stance on the is-sue.

Some members, such as At-Large Representative Sam Vitello ’13, ar-gued that there was precedent for such an endorsement, citing last year’s letter supporting the Occupy Bowdoin campus protests at UC Berkley and UC Davis in California.

Inter-House Council Representa-tive Neli Vazquez also argued that BSG should follow President Mills’ lead in endorsing a “yes” vote, dem-onstrating BSG’s belief that “every student is equal.”

Vice President for BSG A5 airs Chris Breen ’15 disagreed, arguing that the slim margin of the previ-ous year’s deadlocked endorsement vote—which passed by one vote—showed that BSG has a tenuas histo-ry when it comes to making a stand on national political issues.

Vice President for Student A5 airs Sarah Levin ’13 also took issue with the endorsement, arguing that tak-ing a stance on any current politi-cal issue “was a slippery slope,” that could prompt petitions for endorse-ments on a variety of national issues.

Others—such as Class of 2016 Representative Michael Colbert—wondered whether BSG was quali-6 ed to take a stance on the issue, as it represents a diverse student body with many political viewpoints.

In addition to discussions of Ques-tion 1, Senior Vice President for Fi-nance and Administration Catherine Longley spoke to the assembly about the future of the proposed Longfel-low Arts Building.

7 e Board of Trustees approved the proposal to convert the vacant Longfellow School—located behind Coles Tower on South Street—into a studio arts building.

Currently, the studio arts pro-grams are spread throughout the campus and the town of Brunswick. While the drawing studios are lo-cated on-campus in the Visual Arts Center, the sculpture and wood-working studios are located at Fort Andross. Digital media and dance programs occupy other o5 -campus buildings in the town of Brunswick, and the college’s printmaking studio is located behind Burnett House.

Longley said that the Longfellow Arts Building would provide a home for studio arts and dance courses with numerous studio spaces, a dance space for both practice and performance, and a digital media center.

7 e tentative schedule provided to BSG predicted renovations would be completed by July 2013, and the building would be ready for use in the fall of 2013.

7 e assembly also authorized $350 to spend on an election viewing party in Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill on November 6. 7 e proposal passed unanimously.

-Compiled by Nicole Wetman

BSG decides not to take stance on Question 1

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JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTRUN, FORREST, RUN: Runners dodge zombies on the 1.5 mile course behind Farley Field House at Residential Life’s fi rst annual Zombie Run last Saturday.

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As the weather starts to grow colder with every passing day, the organizers of Date Month—which will take place throughout No-vember—are hoping to heat up the campus dating scene.

Date Month, sponsored by the Alliance for Sexual Assault Pre-vention (ASAP), seeks to promote safe and healthy dating at Bowdoin. Formerly known as Date Week, the initiative has been extended in an effort to increase its impact.

“I think a lot of people were con-cerned that weeks can be too con-centrated,” said Kendall Carpenter ’13, one of Date Month’s coordina-tors. “If people have a busy week, they can’t end up going to all the events.”

4 e increased duration was one of several changes made to the ini-tiative this year, including the addi-tion of a date panel—comprised of six students who will answer dating questions—a date ra5 e, featuring prizes like a sunset cruise in Port-land and a fondue basket, and dating discussions in the College Houses.

“House members speak to af-filiates about their [dating] expe-

Date Month aims to spice up dating scenerience at Bowdoin and things that they had wish they had known,” said Matt Frongillo ’13, who is working with Carpenter to coordi-nate Date Month.

This year, Date Month will no longer offer special deals restau-rants in Brunswick.

“We chose not to do that this year,” said Carpenter. “We heard from the restaurants that they weren’t used as frequently as we would suspect them to be.”

Instead, there will be a “date night” in Daggett Lounge on Fri-day, November 16. Organizers predict this event will be better at-tended, since it is more convenient for students.

“It gives students a free, easy, fun option that people can go to,” said Carpenter.

Other Date Month events in-clude “flirt notes,” which students can purchase and send for $1, and “Screw Your Roommate,” which allows students to set their room-mates up on blind dates.

Several other NESCAC schools, including Colby, have events simi-lar to Date Month.

While many of the speci6 cs of Date Month have changed this year, the overall goals have stayed the same.

BY EMMA PETERSORIENT STAFF

“One of the things we’re trying to get across through Date Month is that dating does happen at Bow-doin,” said Carpenter.

The initiative also hopes to ex-tend relationships beyond College House parties.

“Date Week developed as a way to promote people to go on dates and get to know each other,” said Carpenter. “Not necessarily to pro-mote relationships but to get people to know each other outside of the party scene.”

Some students felt that in the past, Date Week did not promote new relationships.

“[Students] don’t take advantage of it to meet new people,” said Ta-sha Sandoval ’13. “A lot of the time it’s just people going to the events with their friends.”

Students from the Bowdoin Queer Straight Alliance, Bowdoin Student Government, Safe Space, and Peer Health comprise ASAP, the group behind Date Month.

“ASAP came about a couple of years ago as a desire for a lot of these different groups on campus that are working towards raising awareness about sexual assault,” said Frongillo. “[It’s] a space for them to connect and collaborate on

4 e residents of Coles Tower “did it in the dark” best during the month of November, winning the 11th Annual Energy Savings Competition by reduc-ing their energy use by 29.8 percent.

Twenty residences competed in the competition, including every 6 rst year brick and College House. 4 e percent decrease in total energy use, based on electricity and heating, was measured in every residence hall against a previously recorded con-sumption standard.

Overall, the campus saved 16,522 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which amounts to a reduction of 12,546 pounds of carbon dioxide.

“4 e competition has been based on a percentage i m p r o v e m e n t over a period of time that we monitor before the competition begins,” said Keisha Payson, the College’s sus-tainability coor-dinator. “It’s hard to come up with the fairest comparison, so looking at people’s e7 ort in wanting to improve and do di7 erently is something that we value, but can’t really measure.”

Helmreich House came in second with a 28 percent reduction, followed by Baxter House with a17.5 percent decrease. Moore Hall placed 6 rst among 6 rst-year bricks with a 14.2 percent reduction. Helmreich House and Maine Hall won the prize for biggest reduction between a College House and its a8 liate brick.

“We have a lot of buildings that are doing well,” Payson said. “4 is is a time of year when it’s darker than the comparison time and it’s in general colder. 4 e fact that all these build-ings are doing better says something.”

Some buildings fared worse, how-ever. Howell House, which 6 nished last in the competition, saw a nearly 24.4 percent increase in energy con-sumption during the month of Oc-tober. Payson o7 ered a possible ex-planation for its poor performance, saying that some residences have cer-tain disadvantages.

“4 e heating system is a place that we’re seeing some inequities,” said Payson. “Poor Howell House—we wonder, ‘why does Howell House al-ways come in last?’ It turns out that it has something to do with the heat pumps in their building.”

Payson said a request will be made to 6 x these heat pumps.

Some students suggested that be-cause the competition focuses on reductions in energy use, it does not accurately represent each residence hall’s commitment to saving energy.

“It rewards one month of good deeds when a place like Reed House might have been committed to the environmental cause all along,” said Reed House resident Peter Nau9 s ’15.

Reed House used 2,595 kilowatt-hours of electricity during Octo-

ber—less energy than every other residence hall in the competition. However, Reed used similarly low amounts of energy in pre-ceding months, so it only man-aged a 2.8 per-cent reduction.

4 e results of the competition were tracked through a website called Building Dashboard, which used de-vices stored in each of the residences to measure energy usage on a minute by minute basis.

“We used to do it so that the electric shop would have to go out and read the meters on the buildings, so we’d only be able to provide information once in the middle and once at the end,” Pay-son said. “A few years back, we got meters that were installed in the buildings that allowed us to use the Building Dashboard and students get real time feedback, at any time, and see how their building is doing in the competition.”

Andrew Cushing ’12, Bowdoin’s sustainability outreach coordinator, worked with Eco-Reps—one from each 6 rst-year brick and College House—to organize the energy com-petition. Cushing and Payson hope students will continue the energy-saving habits they developed during the competition.

Coles Tower wins energy competition, saves 29.8%

BY CONNOR EVANSORIENT STAFF

producing 800 jobs over the same period.“4 is opens up a new era and a

new chapter for Brunswick,” Snowe said to the crowd in Brunswick. “4 is is an investment in the future: the future of Brunswick and the fu-ture of Maine.”

With two round trips to Boston and three to Portland every day, the ex-pansion provides new transportation

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options for students.“I think it could have a big impact,

especially for 6 rst years who don’t have cars,” BSG Programming Direc-tor Bernie Clevens ’15 said.

4 e opening of the train station in Brunswick could be an appealing factor for prospective students and visitors.

“It’ll be one more little thing that will help attract students to Bowdoin, being connected and closer. It’ll be good for Bowdoin and Brunswick for sure,” King said.

“It’s a great thing for Maine. It’s

not the train from Portland to Bos-ton, it’s the train to Maine,” said Maine Commissioner of Transpor-tation David Bernhardt at Bruns-wick Station.

Following seven record-breaking years of ridership on the Downeaster service, optimism was high about the success of the extension.

“4 e future is bright for passenger train transportation in Maine,” Bern-hardt said. “In ten years we’ll have a million passengers or more and we’ll be going to other places.”

CORRECTION4 e October 26 article “SOOC

charters eight clubs, campus total ris-es to 107” incorrectly stated that the certain clubs receive funding based on their operating costs, not based on a decision made by the SAFC. In fact,

operating budget clubs receive all of their funding at the beginning of the year. 4 e amount they are given is de-termined by the SAFC.

4 e article also incorrectly stated that the SOOC funded clubs and the SAFC chartered them. All clubs are funded through the SAFC and char-tered by the SOOC.

“It rewards one month of good deeds when a place like Reed House might have been committed to the

environmental cause all along.”

PETER NAUFFTS ’15REED HOUSE RESIDENT

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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With the election four days away, po-litical discussion on campus is sparking questions of bias and free speech. In last week’s New York Times op-ed “Feign-ing Free Speech on Campus,” Greg Lukiano4 , the president of the Foun-dation for Individual Rights in Educa-tion (FIRE), decried the proliferation of speech codes at institutions of higher learning.

Lukiano4 contended that the codes not only 5 y in the face of the intellectual free enquiry colleges and universities value, “suppressing free expression instead of allowing for open debate of controversial issues,” but also would not pass constitutional muster at public institutions.

FIRE ranks many American colleges and universities based on the degree to which their policies restrict free speech. Bowdoin ranks in FIRE’s red category, which means there is at least one policy that clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech. However, FIRE does not identify any speci6 c policies at Bow-doin that meets those criteria.

7 e College’s policies seek to foster an open environment for intellec-tual discourse, and there is no o8 cial speech code. 7 e Faculty Handbook encourages members of the college community “to express their views on all matters including controversial, political issues in the public domain. Preservation of freedom of speech is a primary task of the College; the right to express both popular and unpopu-lar views is to be protected.”

As an institution, Bowdoin is careful to refrain from taking sides in politics. Members of the community are expect-ed to “avoid the appearance of speaking for Bowdoin” when they take public po-sitions.

President Barry Mills signed his let-ter to the editor in support of Question 1 last week as a private citizen, not as the president of the College. Several major political 6 gures have appeared this fall on campus—Karen Mills, Bob White, and Angus King—and several weeks ago Maine Public Broadcasting Network hosted a debate between the candidates running for the 6 rst congres-sional district in Studzinski Auditorium; the Bowdoin Daily Sun did not publi-cize any of these events.

Despite the College’s e4 orts to be politically neutral, conservative students o9 en feel that their views are suppressed. When Bob White ’77 came to campus several weeks ago, several students at the lecture and the reception that followed it expressed that sentiment. 7 e Orient reported that “one attendee said that he hoped Bowdoin students would one day feel comfortable announcing them-selves as Republicans.”

Tyler Silver ’13, co-chair of the Bow-doin College Republicans, noted “there’s less tolerance on our campus for even viewing the conservative side of things.”

John Grover ’14, a member of the Re-publicans, agreed with Silver, noting that he sometimes opts to keep his views to himself, “even though the whole point of being at an academic institution is to have that kind of 5 ow of discussion.”

He said the College Republicans have focused on organizing events on cam-

pus—such as Bob White’s appearance— and on publishing op-eds in the Orient to show students “that it’s okay to have conservative values.”

It has proven to be no easy task. Pro-fessor of Government Richard Morgan, who teaches Constitutional Law, point-ed out that “colleges and university cam-puses in America today are shockingly politically, morally and socially homog-enous.” In that context, he noted the inevitability of “sanctions imposed on those who disagree” with a dominantly

held viewpoint. Judah Issero4 ’13, co-president of the

Bowdoin Democrats suggested that that homogeneity is self-reinforcing. 7 ere is, in his view, an expectation of liberal viewpoints on this campus, and “peo-ple come here expecting to 6 nd liberal folks.”

7 is assumption is backed by the demographic reality: an overwhelming majority of students have liberal politi-cal views, illustrated by the fact that 76 percent of Bowdoin students told the Orient they intended to vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming election.

Ben Richmond ’13, co-president of the Democrats, emphasized the “di4 er-

BY ELIZA NOVICKSMITHORIENT STAFF

here because they felt Question 1 was so important.

Those who registered outside of Maine generally did so because they felt their vote would have a greater impact elsewhere.

Many Massachusetts voters wished to vote in a tight Senate race between Democrat Elizabeth War-ren, and Republican incumbent Scott Brown.

Other students voted elsewhere because they did not feel entitled to vote in Maine, either because they consider their residence here temporary or because they did not feel adequately informed about Maine politics.

Thirty percent of students evalu-ated their knowledge of Maine poli-tics as “so-so.” Thirty-one percent said they knew “a little” and 23 per-cent said they knew “very little.”

On the whole, the student body said that Bowdoin was a liberal en-vironment. Eight-five percent of students felt professors were either very liberal or liberal, and 92 per-cent said the student body was ei-ther very liberal or liberal.

The economy was far and away the most important issue to stu-dents, with 42 percent citing it as the key factor, compared with 11 percent for abortion/contraception, nine percent for the environment, and nine percent for healthcare.

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Election calls into question free speech, balance of discourse on campusence between bias and being outnum-bered. A lot of people see themselves outnumbered and end up with this idea that people are biased against them.”

Richmond cited the debate on Tuesday evening—between students representing Republicans, Democrats, Green and the Occupy Wall Street Movement—as evidence of free dis-course on campus.

Grover felt di4 erently, suggesting that “there’s a much bigger stigma re-garding political views that are right-of-center than there is regarding chem-free housing.”

Anecdotal examples of anti-conser-vative sentiments have cropped up this fall. Sam Sabasteanski ’13, co-chair of the Republicans, described several en-counters he had while tabling for the club at the Student Activities Fair in September. One student came up to him and told him he “was a bigot for not supporting gay marriage.” Sabaste-anski doubted that similar antagonism would be directed towards students at the Bowdoin Democrats’ table.

“It was acceptable for them to heckle me because I’m a Republican,” he said.

At the same event he was approached by students who “wanted to be on the mailing list, but they didn’t want to put their names down because they didn’t want anyone to see that they were a8 li-ated” with the Republicans.

Earlier this week several announce-ment boards in Smith Union were pa-pered over with signs proclaiming, “A Vote For Romney = A Vote Against LG-BTQ Equality.” 7 e signs were removed within hours, but reappeared a day later.

7 e vote on Question 1, Maine’s ref-

erendum on same-sex marriage, brings to the fore a social issue that is emotion-ally charged and politically polarizing. Sabasteanski thought the political envi-ronment borne of Question 1 and the presidential race brings “conservative and liberal di4 erences to the surface, and sti5 es people hearing conservative viewpoints on campus.”

Despite the polarizing nature of the same-sex marriage question, 92 percent of Bowdoin students indicated support for it in this week’s Orient poll. Many of these students were registered Republi-cans or planned to vote for Mitt Romney, indicating that same-sex marriage itself is not as polarizing on Bowdoin’s campus.

Grover described hearing people say “you should not be Facebook friends or real life friends with some-one who would vote for Romney be-cause those people are, in so many words, evil, because they’re support-ing so many of his policies that are sexist, racist or homophobic.”

Dean of Academic A4 airs Tim Fos-ter expressed concern that some stu-dents feel “that they can’t speak up be-cause somehow they will be silenced or marked as conservative,” but added that “di4 erent students might feel that way about any number of issues.”

Grover, Sabasteanski and Silver stressed the importance of separating Republican social policies from other conservative policies. Issero4 saw it dif-ferently.

“To expect Bowdoin students to forgive the Republican Party for dis-criminating whole-sale against wom-en and gays is not a fair expectation,” Issero4 said.

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“Colleges and university campuses in America today are shockingly

politically, morally and socially homogenous.”

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Thumb through Bowdoin’s course catalogue, and you’ll find hundreds of courses ranging from multivariable calculus to inter-pretive dance. For students who find this list insufficient, however, there is another option.

Bowdoin students can take courses at Colby, Bates or the Maine College of Art in Portland, though few students take advan-tage of the opportunity.

“The four colleges agreed that if one of their students was aware of a course at one of the other in-stitutions that their home in-stitution didn’t offer, they would allow the student to take that class,” said Bowdoin Regis-trar Jan Brack-ett.

S t u d e n t s who are inter-ested in taking a course at one of the other schools register for an indepen-dent study. They then work with both a professor at Bowdoin and a professor at the other school to ar-range auditing the course.

Despite this option, Brackett said that it is extremely rare for Bowdoin students to take advan-tage of this choice.

“Someone has to be highly moti-vated in order to take that course,” said Brackett, explaining that stu-dents have to arrange their own transportation to and from the other schools.

Mik Cooper ’14 considered tak-ing a class at the Maine College of Art last year, but found it too dif-

ficult to schedule. “It was tricky 4 tting in a class

with a 40 minute commute either way, particularly when a fair share of their classes were in the a5 ernoon,” she wrote in an email to the Orient.

Cooper looked to the Maine College of Art because the College does not offer the class in which she was interested.

“I felt that while Bowdoin had a fantastic array of traditional vi-sual art classes, there was a lack of emerging contemporary art forms, namely graphic design and other digital media,” she wrote.

In an email to the Orient, Col-by Registrar Beth Schiller said that only two Colby stu-dents have tak-en Bowdoin’s courses since she became registrar in July 2006, and that there have not been any Bow-doin students who have taken classes at Colby during that time.

Brackett said that the registrar’s office is not necessarily aware when a student takes a class at a different school.

“What we know in our office is that someone’s done an indepen-dent study,” she said, “We don’t know when that might have been done through an arrangement with another campus.”

Furthermore, the office does not keep official records of auditors, and therefore does not have records of students from other school who have taken classes at Bowdoin.

“We only hear about it if some-one needs electronic services for the course,” said Brackett.

Classes at three Maine colleges available to Bowdoin students

BY NICOLE WETSMANSTAFF WRITER

Thursday, October 25• A woman rugby player re-

ceived a facial injury during rugby practice and was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A report of a suspicious vehicle in the lower parking lot at Stowe House Inn turned out to be local juveniles smoking.

Friday, October 26• An officer checked on the con-

dition of a student in Chamberlain Hall who became sick after con-suming too much hard alcohol.

• A vehicle alarm sounded in the Helmreich House parking lot. An officer and the owner checked the vehicle and there was no indica-tion of missing property.

• A fire alarm at Brunswick Apartments F was caused by a student who over-cooked instant pasta in a microwave oven.

• A student reported the theft of a blue Specialized Hard Rock bicycle from a bike rack at Cham-berlain Hall.

• An employee reported receiving a series of unwanted text messages.

Saturday, October 27• A neighbor reported excessive-

ly loud voices coming from Mac-Millan House. A group of students was asked to lower their voices.

• Burnt microwave pizza on the sec-ond 6 oor of Chamberlain Hall set o7 the building’s 4 re alarm. 8 e Bruns-wick Fire Department responded.

• An officer escorted a Coleman Hall student with a sprained ankle to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

• Brunswick Fire Department responded to a report of a student’s vehicle leaking gasoline at Bruns-wick Apartments. The vehicle was towed away for repairs.

• A student who tripped and fell while attempting to avoid a zombie received a head injury. Brunswick Rescue transported the student to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

• A student alleged that another student violated the terms of a no-contact order.

• A student reported someone attempting to enter Reed House

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through a ground floor window. The building was checked and no intruder was found.

• Two students reported that they accidentally broke the glass on a fire extinguisher wall box in Ladd House during the Haunted House. The students were given credit for reporting the damage promptly.

• A student was escorted to Parkview with a back injury from falling o7 a horse.

• A student backed a College van into a stone wall in West Bath, re-sulting in a dented bumper.

Sunday, October 28• An officer checked on the well-

being of an intoxicated student in Maine Hall.

• An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student in Chamberlain Hall.

• A student reported the theft of a bright blue Raleigh bicycle from the area of Moore Hall.

Monday, October 29• An employee at the Museum

of Art accidentally punctured his palm with a pencil. A ecurity of-ficer provided first aid.

• Power was lost for a short pe-riod of time at Burnett and Mus-tard Houses.

• High winds associated with Hurricane Sandy set off motion

and vibration alarms at the Mu-seum of Art.

• Power was knocked out at the Coastal Studies Center. Facilities personnel responded.

Tuesday, October 30• A combustible gas alarm was

received from a lab at Drucken-miller Hall. Brunswick Fire De-partment and Environmental Health and Safety staff responded.

• A staff member was injured while moving a cylinder at the Druckenmiller loading dock. Brunswick Rescue transported the employee to Parkview.

Wednesday, October 31• Damage to a security system

cabinet was reported at the Whit-tier Street Warehouse.

• Two students reported a pos-sible sighting of a Coles Tower burglary suspect who was depicted in a recent security alert.

• Burnt microwave popcorn set off a smoke alarm on the second floor of West Hall.

Thursday, November 1• A student reported that a Yel-

low Bike was stolen from outside of Thorne Dining Hall. The bike is named “Tron Legacy” and the reg-istration number is 03590.

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how many to commit to. For Sus-tainable Bowdoin certification, rooms need to pledge to sign onto at least 20 actions.

“When people make commit-ments and sign their name, they’re just more likely to follow through with those things,” said Chien.

Dorm rooms that receive the certification get a “Bowdoin Green-Certified” seal of approval for their door.

“We also have had almost exclu-sively female participation,” said Chien. “That’s actually a larger trend across campus for any envi-ronmental awareness projects.”

Chien’s project contributes to the broader goal of Bowdoin’s Car-bon Neutral by 2020 plan, a com-mitment the College announced in 2007 when President Barry Mills signed onto the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, a network currently consisting of 661 institutions of higher education who promise to address global warming.

“We’re trying to 4 nd ways to get students more involved in the climate action plan,” said Bowdoin’s Sustain-ability Coordinator Keisha Payson.

Matthew Goodrich ’15, the Reed House Eco-Rep, is also knocking on doors in first year bricks, seeking signatures to challenge the College’s commitment to this 2020 goal.

Goodrich’s petition “I Believe Carbon Neutral Means Carbon Free,” questions how the College plans to reach carbon neutrality without eliminating natural gas as a primary heating source. It also urges Bowdoin to “divest fossil fu-els” by committing to invest “only in clean energy by 2013 to support a livable future for its students.”

“I’m trying to create grassroots student support for this,” said Go-odrich. “It’s not really the responsi-bility of the students to make sure Bowdoin fulfills its promise of be-ing Carbon Neutral. We’re trying to keep the administration in line with what they’ve said they do.”

As long as Bowdoin relies on fossil fuels, Goodrich asserts that the College will not truly live up to its promise to be carbon neutral.

“We should focus less on making students recycle and focus more on what we are investing in and where we are getting our energy from,” said Goodrich.

He began circulating the peti-tion during September’s Green-stock event, and launched a related Facebook group last week. He said the petition has over 200 signa-tures so far.

This fossil fuel divestment movement has picked up speed across the country this year, as stu-dents from Hamilton to Harvard urged their administrations to eliminate endowment investments in coal and oil companies.

“If all the NESCAC, all the Ivies, divested from fossil fuels…they could directly impact the health of that market,” said Goodrich.

Sustainable Bowdoin employee Sarah Johnson ’13 applauds Go-odrich’s initiative rallying stu-dents, but questions the feasibility of his aims.

“Personally I don’t think car-bon-neutral means carbon-free,” said Johnson, acknowledging the necessity of purchasing carbon off-

sets to allow the College to operate. “I think if you were to actually ask Bowdoin to get carbon-free energy by 2020 that would really change life as we know it and would be ex-tremely expensive.”

According to Payson, the Col-lege originally set a goal of neu-trality by 2050, but decided that benchmark was too distant to spur the kind of action needed.

“People said, ‘it’s way too far off for the future’…if I have kids that go to Bowdoin, they will have come and gone way before 2050,” said Payson. “It provided no sense of urgency.”

According to Payson, the school has moved “farther, faster” than a 2050 deadline—the carbon neu-trality benchmark for a number of schools, including Bates—would haverequired. Nonetheless, Payson said it is unlikely the school will become completely independent of natural gas without major tech-nological breakthroughs in the en-ergy sector.

“We need to be realistic and work within the budget that we have,” said Payson. “The chances of actually reaching carbon neu-trality by 2020 are probably pretty slim unless some research and de-velopment in energy and biofuels happens quickly.”

Payson said that the College has pledged to purchase Renewable Energy Credits to offset remaining emissions in 2020, while continuing to strive for energy independence.

“We’re not going to get to 2020, and say, ‘oh we don’t need to work on this more,’” said Payson.

She cited the importance of en-vironmental student engagement in signaling campus priorities to the administration.

“Having someone like Matt put together the petition helps put us focused in what we are trying to do,” said Payson. “If students showed no interest in this, we would still be working on these efforts, but be-cause the students are showing in-terest, it makes us work harder.”

The College will release its 2012 Carbon Neutrality Implementa-tion Plan next week.

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As Hurricane Sandy made itsway up the eastern seaboard on Mon-day, Bowdoin braced for impact. In the end, the storm brought only heavy rain and high winds, which caused some power outages, but spared the region the devastation felt further south.

At 11 a.m. on Monday morning Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster sent a school-wide email announc-ing early closures of the C-Store, Jack Magee’s Pub and the Café, warning community members that high winds could cause power losses and advising everyone to charge their electronics. At 11:24 a.m. the College declared a weath-er emergency. By 1 p.m. the Office of Safety and Security canceled the service due to the storm.

Students flocked to Smith Union to stock up on provisions and oth-er necessities before it closed.

The College took emergency pre-cautions in advance of the storm. Facilities sandbagged the below-ground entrances to Moulton Union and Studzinski Recital Hall. They also covered the basement floor windows of Hubbard Hall with boards to protect them from wind and falling branches.

Residential Life and Security coordinated a contingency plan to evacuate Pine Street Apartments, which would be particularly vul-nerable to falling trees if winds surpassed 50 miles per hour. As-sociate Director of Residential Life Lisa Rendall communicated the plans to Pine Street residents in an email Monday morning, advising students to move their cars to the

Farley Lot and find friends who could host them for the night.

Nobody was evacuated from the apartments in the end.

Vice President for Communica-tions and Public Affairs Scott Hood said the precautions were neces-sary, even though the storm did not end up causing much damage.

“I don’t think you can over-prepare for something like this,” he said, “The reports were that we were facing a pretty serious storm.”

He went on to explain the Col-lege’s disaster-response protocol.

“We have a Campus Emergency Management Team that has rep-resentation from across campus—the dean of students, the dean of faculty, Treasurer’s Office, facili-ties, dining, you name it. There is a whole set of protocols that we use depending on what we’re facing.”

The families of some students from the New York-New Jersey area, however, were seriously af-fected by the storm.

Adam Berliner ’13, whose family lives in Brooklyn, said his parents had to leave their home.

“My parents moved out of their place on Monday,” he said, “They lost power. The substation ex-ploded on the East Side. Lower Manhattan was out of power, so they moved to a hotel just a couple blocks from their house.”

Hood pointed out some ways in which it was more manageable than some potential campus emer-gencies.

“A situation like this is some-what easier to deal with,” he said. “We certainly had advanced warn-ing, so it’s not like something hap-pened and you have to immedi-ately react.”

College, Brunswick spared from Sandy’s devastation

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KATE FEATHERSTON, BOWDOIN ORIENT

STICK IT OUT: Brunswick received little damage during the hurricane, save a few broken branches.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SANDBAGGING IT: Facilities piled sandbags outside of Moulton Union to prevent fl ooding.

“The chances of actually reaching carbon neutrality by 2020 are

probably pretty slim unless some research and development in energy

and biofuels happens quickly.”

KEISHA PAYSONSUSTAINABILITY COORDINATOR

“Personally, I don’t think carbon-neutral means

carbon-free.”

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Bowdoin’s nutritionist: Good counsel about good foodWith a dining service ranked among

the best in the country, a town with numerous popular restaurants and our very own campus food truck, food is important to students. While good eats abound, Bowdoin’s dietician, Dr. Anne-Marie Davee, reminds students to think about the nutrition behind the nourishment.

Dr. Davee has worked at Bowdoin for three years. She is a registered dieti-cian licensed in Maine and has degrees from the University of Maine at Orono and University of New England.

An avid runner, she has participated in twenty marathons and even ran in the 3 rst women’s Olympic marathon trials in 1984 behind Joan Benoit Sam-uelson, a Bowdoin grad who went on to win the gold. Davee still participates in triathlons.

Davee says her athletic background spurred her passion for working with youth, students, and athletes.

She says, “I enjoy working with ath-letes, particularly with teams to get that

competitive edge with sports nutri-tion.”

She works with athletes from several di4 erent teams, including tennis, crew, and cross-country, suggesting nutrition recommendations to improve their performance.

In addition to working with athletes, Davee is available to meet with any student who is interested in nutrition. She o5 en works with students who are gluten-free, vegetarian, lactose intoler-ant, or those who are trying to gain or lose weight.

“I really work hard to help them understand how to best nourish their body,” she says. “Every student who comes to see me will get an individual-ized plan tailored to their needs.”

Many seniors meet with her to dis-cuss how they will make healthy choic-es once they’ve graduated.

“6 e most important thing I’m try-ing to work with students on is having a healthy body image and a healthy weight,” she says.

With trendy diets and new nutrition research being constantly presented in the media, it can o5 en be di7 cult to

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JULIA BINSWANGER

THE FRESHMANFIFTEEN

A very college Halloween: What I miss about the old days

As a kid, I used to spend a lot of time planning my Halloween cos-tumes. The moment the calendar hit October I started brainstorm-ing and once I had an idea, I spent twice as long constructing the out-fit itself.

In second grade, I was a pu7 n. I wore orange tights and made webbed feet out of felt. My wings were the arms of a baggy sweatshirt and I used a baseball cap for my beak. Needless to say, I looked awesome.

When Halloween finally ar-rived, I remember eagerly showing off my ensemble to all my friends before going out in the middle of the night to stuff my pillowcase with candy. When I came home, I always ate my goods as quickly as I could so my mom wouldn’t have the chance to swipe my stash. Those were the days…

I have to admit, October 31 doesn’t have the pizzazz that it used to. I still enjoy Halloween, and I still use the holiday as an excuse to stuff my face with tons of candy but no one seems to get quite as excited as they used to.

I think part of the problem is that Halloween festivities are not con-fined to October 31 at Bowdoin. Because of parties on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday leading up to the holiday, people can’t spend all of their time perfecting one cos-tume and instead must haphazardly pull together a few.

In addition, even if students only had one costume to focus on, I’m still not convinced they would

For example, one friend placed a quarter on the back of his shirt and told everyone he was a “quar-ter back.” Another drew a compass on her shirt that only pointed south and claimed that she was “one di-rection.” Although I did chuckle at these clever outfits, I miss the craftsmanship of the old days.

In addition, every time I see a “seductive cat,” “sexy bumblebee” or “promiscuous devil,” I can’t help but cringe. I want to be careful when I talk about this, because a bunch of my highly-intelligent and awesome friends opted to dress in this less-than-wholesome man-ner. Plus, as Mean Girls famously taught us, “Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”

And yet, I can’t contain myself. Ladies, when you dress in such costumes, you are putting a label on yourself, a label that you might not want. I think a lot of the fun of Halloween is seeing how original and creative you can be and these costumes are, in my opinion, just a missed opportunity.

Now, Halloween is over and per-haps I am a little too late in deliv-ering my message. But if the world doesn’t end, October 31 will come again next year. We all remember how Halloween used to be when we

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTTHE BALANCED MEAL: Anne-Marie Davee customizes healthy eating plans for students.

discern fact from 3 ction.Davee’s strongest advice to students

is to follow the “My Plate” model, which puts forth the idea that half of one’s plate at meals should be fruits and vegetables, a quarter should be protein, and the 3 nal quarter should be grains, preferably whole.

Davee says that it’s important for stu-dents to remember that grains, which tend to get 8 ack for being unhealthy, are necessary for the body. Addition-ally, those late-night snacks do count. Are multiple grilled cheeses consumed at Super Snack really the best choice?

Davee says: “We really need to think about what the is food doing inside our bodies when we make our food choices.”

Davee commends Bowdoin Dining Services as an “outstanding food ser-vice,” as it provides an array of options for people with di4 erent dietary needs.

Furthermore, she believes that Bowdoin students care about making healthy choices. A5 er all, she says, “To perform mentally and physically, we need good nourishment everyday.”

care enough to spend time on it.As a kid, whoever worked the hard-

est on their out3 t was dubbed the coolest cat on the block, but in college it seems as if the opposite is true. If I wore that same well-thought-out puf-3 n costume to a social house party, I would de3 nitely get some strange looks. In addition, most of my friends only decided the day of what they were going to dress up as, and the cos-tumes that received the best reactions were o5 en the ones that required the least amount of e4 ort.

As a kid, whoever worked the hardest on their outfi t was

dubbed the coolest cat on the block, but in college it

seems as if the opposite is true.

were young. I would argue that most of us are at least a little nostalgic for those old days. So if you are feeling like me, I propose that next year we prove that Halloween is not a day “just for little kids.”

I propose that we spend a ri-diculous amount of time crafting

our costumes, and I propose that we wear them with our heads held high. Yes, it may be hard to find the time, but let’s get over our apa-thetic attitudes, for Halloween can be one of the best days of the year. All we have to do is start caring about it.

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GOGGLES AND GLOVES

A woman walks into a neuro conference...

Two weeks ago, 30,000 neuroscien-tists descended on New Orleans for the largest annual neuroscience conven-tion in the world. I was lucky enough to travel there with other members of Bowdoin’s neuroscience department for a long weekend of what I called neuron mania.

I considered telling you about the lectures I saw, the exhilaration I felt presenting my own work to revered re-searchers and the electric exchange of ideas that I witnessed at the conference.

It seems, however, that there is some-thing far more pressing and relevant to discuss: How cute did I look during my poster presentation? Did I exude sex ap-peal in the dark lecture halls as I listened to talks on ion channels, traumatic brain injury and the e5 ects of sleep on mem-ory consolidation? Did I successfully walk that thin line between smartness and hotness?

My questions are less sarcastic than you might think.

Dr. Dario Maestripieri, a neurobiolo-gist of social behavior at the University of Chicago, posted his “impressions” of this year’s conference on his personal Facebook page:

“6 ere are thousands of people at the conference and an unusually high concentration of unattractive women. 6 e supermodel types are completely absent. What is going on? Are unat-tractive women particularly attracted to neuroscience? Are beautiful women particularly uninterested in the brain? No o5 ense to anyone.”

When I 7 rst got wind of Maestrip-ieri’s post, I rolled my eyes and thought little more about it (gotta love that last line, though. Tasteful 7 nesse). It seemed hyperbolically ridiculous, silly, dumb, and laughable in its cliche.

Why should any woman in the sci-ences (or any woman for that matter), if self-assured in her appearance and her intelligence, feel threatened by this guy?

Meanwhile, Maestripieri’s com-ments quickly spread across the inter-net. His post was volleyed around Face-book, rehashed in tweets, and dissected on science blogs (pardon the pun). It was beginning to get “real news” press coverage.

Ethics and Science,” “Kelly” wrote, “As someone who was sexually harassed as both an undergraduate and graduate, and in fact who just had her academic achievements belittled a few weeks ago with the (public) assertion that I must have slept my way to where I am, I am deeply invested in outing and shaming these men.”

Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University Janet D. Stem-wedel announced, “I want to shine a bright light on all the sexist behaviors, big or small, so the folks who have managed not to notice them so far start noticing them, and so that they stop as-suming their colleagues who point them out and complain about them are mak-ing a big deal out of nothing.”

As I’ve read blog posts this past week, discussed them with friends, family and professors, my arguably dismissive reac-tion has given way to numerous ques-tions about what it means to pursue sci-ence as a woman.

For example, many of the blog re-sponses come from men and women a generation or two older than me—how has the academic environment changed more recently? Has it changed? If so, how do we interpret a study published by Yale researchers this year showing that, in a double-blind test, top research universities rated female scientists sig-ni7 cantly lower than male scientists with identical credentials, and proposed starting salaries 14 percent lower for the women than for the men?

Let me emphasize: questions have been raised, but I won’t draw any conclusions yet; the debate is open and it’s time for our genera-tion to start shaping it. So thank you Dr. Maestripieri (in all your benevolent foresight, I’m sure), for starting the discussion.

My arguably dismissivereaction has given wayto numerous questions

about what it meansto pursue science as a woman.

On some blogs I’ve read, commenters suggested that female scientists have more important concerns than their physical appearance, saying things like: “of course these women aren’t wear-ing heels, makeup and cocktail dresses, they have their priorities straight and are there to talk about science.”

Others have blogged things along the lines of, “It’s equally insulting for you to suggest that women who prioritize their appearance are any less capable of intel-lectual pursuit than women who don’t.”

Still others wondered what the big deal is in the 7 rst place: “6 is guy might be a sexist asshole, but he’s not represen-tative of all men in science.”

Posts grew more personal. Posting in response to a blog titled “Adventures in

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WHAT’S THE BEEF?MEATLESS MONDAY

“What was Meatless Monday? Why was it such a big deal?”

When a fellow student asked me this, I realized that first years and sophomores never experienced the drama of Meatless Monday, one of the most heated student conflicts I’ve seen at Bowdoin in my time here.

What happened on campus in February of 2011 deserves to be revisited.

Surprisingly, Bowdoin Dining Services came up with the idea, and intended Meatless Monday to be an educational experience. Stu-dent groups, including Bowdoin Democrats and the Evergreens agreed to run an informational ta-ble, answering questions through-out the meal.

Arguments in favor of Meatless Monday cited the health, societal,

and environmental problems that could be solved with lower meat consumption. Meat, especially beef, has a high carbon footprint. An acre of corn feeds a cow that feeds a handful of people, whereas that same acre of corn could feed hundreds of people. Groups in favor of the meal suggested that the global hunger crisis could be ameliorated if Americans ate less meat. They also talked about per-sonal health benefits of substitut-ing meat for more grains and veg-etables.

Other students considered Meatless Monday an assault on choice. Some complained that their “right to eat meat” had been taken away.

Still others claimed that they needed a higher protein intake than the vegetarian food provided. They didn’t just complain, they ac-tively protested.

People strolled into Thorne car-rying buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken. A group of students grilled burgers just outside the entrance to Coles Tower. Two se-

niors went so far as to set up an “Eat Meat to Save Animals” cheeseburger

fundraiser for the Coastal Hu-mane Society. They gave McDon-ald’s cheeseburgers to anyone who pledged to donate to the animal shelter.

Fox News featured these two students in a special episode of “Fox & Friends,” where they com-plained on television about Bow-doin’s supposed assault on choice.

All of this over one single meal. The protesters missed the point. Meatless Monday, far from a force-ful conversion of all students to

common denominator on campus: everyone eats food, food unites us. I’ve heard some students argue that we are just too busy to care about anything less immediate than our food. Are we so overcommitted that the only thing we have time to debate is what we eat?

This conflict was noteworthy because it was unusual. Many stu-dents complain about the appar-ent apathy of Bowdoin students, but that was nowhere to be seen on Meatless Monday. The event

thought, debate fosters change. But why fight over this?

Of all the pressing issues in today’s world to get up-in-arms about, Meatless Monday seems a strange choice. In an op-ed in the Orient after the fact, Judah Isser-off ’13 wrote, “Why a single meal could have stirred Bowdoin stu-dents so deeply confounds me…I can only hope that my friends and colleagues will treat issues of ac-tual import with at least the same degree of passion and energy.”

As I sit at this table in Moulton, I notice a table tent with a hand-made look to it. In colorful cursive writing, it informs me that feeding the world would require two and a half planet Earths to produce enough food, if everyone ate like Americans.

This message is food for thought. Its appearance also alludes to an almost-forgotten event, a rare and

powerful occurrence: a true controversy among students at Bowdoin College.

-Jessie Turner

As we sit at Bowdoin evaluat-ing the aftermath of the Franken-storm—just two weeks after the Great Maine Earthquake—our presidential candidates are scram-bling in the face of the destruction, trying to salvage as much as they possibly can from their final week of campaigning.

Both men have had to cancel rallies, and President Obama has to grapple with the effects of the disastrous storm as both candidate and President.

As an article in the New York Times argued on Monday, na-tional perception of his response to Sandy could seriously affect voter opinion.

Obama has gotten some positive feedback already; Republican Gov-ernor of New Jersey Chris Christie called his reaction “outstanding” and others have pointed to the passage last September of a bill increasing the goverment’s fund-ing of FEMA as an example of the President’s foresight.

But both candidates have cause for concern. The aftermath will likely present logistical concerns—early voting will probably decrease drastically on the East Coast, in-cluding critical battleground states like Virginia.

Most worrying for President Obama is that natural disasters can have significant effects on an incumbent’s re-election chances.

Although it may seem obvious

that voters will either respond pos-itively or negatively to President Obama based on their percep-tions of his response to the hur-ricane, political science professors at Princeton argue that there are more even more nuanced factors in how the climate can influence the election.

Professors Larry Bartels and Christopher Achen co-

authored a study in 2004 arguing that extreme weather

conditions influence voters to punish

incumbents and vote for the “out-group”—

in this case, Mr. Romney and the Republican Party.

And, as we’ve forgotten as we switch our

jorts and flip flops for raincoats and Bean Boots, by the end of Sep-tember 37 percent of the contigu-ous US was listed as experiencing severe to extreme drought on the Palmer Drought Index, with as much as 52 percent of the country experiencing moderate to extreme drought conditions. Now, at the end of October, Hurricane Sandy has wrecked New York City.

Someone told me in Thorne the other day that her uncle in New Jersey found a shark in his front yard.

Billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild. What’s a President to do about such bad weather?

Well, it’s certainly ironic that both Obama and Romney have yet to highlight the “c-word” in their campaigns. Climate change, that

is. An article Mother Jones pub-lished earlier this month describes “a growing number of scientists, environmentalists, and science policy advocates whose jaws have dropped steadily lower over the past month, as the presidential debates have unfolded without any mention of the single leading science-based political and envi-ronmental issue.”

It’s shocking that neither candi-date dared to even name the beast.

In the second debate, which clearly focused on energy policy, Obama outlined his commitment to public funding for clean energy technologies, but attributed his motivations for doing so solely to reduced dependence on foreign oil and a need to invest in “the energy of the future.”

Romney, a man who (at least since I last checked) has admitted to the existence of climate change, couldn’t seem to acknowledge any real need for large-scale energy reform beyond upping our domes-tic extraction of the big three: oil, coal, and natural gas.

The scientific consensus is that climate change is happening at a much faster rate than originally thought, and that the evidence overwhelmingly attributes this change to human activity.

Increasing global temperatures make severe weather events, like the drought this summer and our freakish hurricane, significantly more likley.

Scientists like to use the anal-

ogy of loaded dice to illustrate this third phenomenon; rising temper-atures and CO2 levels weight the dice more and more towards larger numbers—the more you roll, the higher the likelihood you’ll roll a five or a six (fives and sixes being severe droughts, hurricanes, and tornadoes).

If anything, this consensus should’ve been the most important thing discussed at the debates—climate change is real, it’s happen-ing now and as we have just seen, it has implications for the safety of the American people.

Four years ago, we worried about what Obama and McCain would do to address global cli-mate change. This year, however, we worry about whether or not the candidates will even address the is-sue by name.

If climate change has become so politically noxious that neither of our presidential candidates will even speak about it, despite the mounting evidence of its existence, where can we look to find compro-mise and bipartisanship?

After Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast and the candidates’ campaign plans, the time is more urgent than ever to free climate change from its political head-lock—the same h e a d -lock the far Right uses to claim that the fe-male body can stop a pregnancy

after a rape and that “intelligent design” should be taught in our public schools—and put it back into the fields of objectivity and peer review.

If we trust the scientific method to develop the drugs we put in our body, construct the chips in our laptops and iPhones and grow hu-man ears on mice to one day use as transplants, we should also trust science to correctly inform us on the nature of climate change.

Studies analyzing the ecologi-cal and environmental factors that contributed to the making of Hur-ricane Sandy will emerge in the coming months, examining such variables as how rising sea levels af-fected the storm surge that flooded parts of Manhattan and the above-average ocean temperatures over the summer.

We need to consider this re-search, and use this as the consen-sus to start really addressing this.

Debates can be had over wheth-er strategies like a federal carbon tax or state-run cap and trade proj-ects will do the trick, but establish-ing the objective scientific base for this debate is the first, logical, and politically feasible step toward change.

Sandy, in bringing the reality of natural catastrophe to our own

shores, should be our wake up call.

-Walter Wuthmann

HURRICAMPAIGN

The protesters missed the point.Meatless Monday, far from a forceful conversion

of all students to vegetarianism, was simply a dayto consider eating less meat in a very general sense.

vegetarianism, was simply a day to consider eating less meat in a very general sense.

What is it about food that in-spires so much fervor in Bowdoin students? With our dining services consistently ranking first or sec-ond in the nation, we have little to complain about. Maybe it’s because food is a

spurred an aggressive assertion of students’ right to attack an idea. That strong of an ideological clash rarely rises to the surface at this school.

I truly admire the students in-volved in the controversy for the fact that they created just that: a c o n t r o v e r s y. Conflict in-

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GREEN EDITION

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GREEN BOWDOIN: SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION ON CAMPUS

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTIT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE: Bowdoin’s central natural gas heating plant was once the College’s fi rst gymnasium.

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTCENTRAL COMMAND: The Sustainable Bowdoin o! ce is located in Rhodes Hall.

COURTESY OF MATT GOODRICHCALL TO ACTION : 200 students have signed a petition for Bowdoin to stop investing in fossil fuels and aim for a carbon-free campus.

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT GREEN TUNE: Veronica Verdin ’15 performs at the Eco-Rep co" ee house at Baxter.

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTINNER WORKINGS: The College installed a high-e! ciency boiler in 2011.

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT ENVIRONMENTAL REPAIR: Alex Butler ’14 works to repair a yellow bicycle.

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT FREE WHEELING: Bowdoin’s Yellow Bike Club rents out bikes to students.

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT SOIL AND SOLAR: (Left) Lettuce grows in the Bowdoin Organic Garden. (Right) The rooftop of Thorne Hall collects energy from solar panels.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

When Ben Livingston ’13 and Ursula Moreno-VanderLaan ’13 signed up to take Associate Pro-fessor Pamela Fletcher’s art his-tory course, “The Pre-Raphaelites” last spring, they had no idea they would have to curate their own ex-hibit to pass.

“‘We Never See Anything Clear-ly:’ John Ruskin and Landscape Painters” debuted at the Bowdoin Museum of Art on Wednesday and is composed of works from the permanent collection chosen by the two seniors.

“Normally when we do a class that is going to be a museum ex-hibition class, we decide that in advance,” said Fletcher. “The class is described that way and there is usually a heavy demand for it, so you’re working with twelve or maybe even more people.”

While “The Pre-Raphaelites” did not start out as a museum exhibi-tion course, when Livingston and Moreno-VanderLaan were the only students who showed up on the first day of class, Fletcher wanted to find some way to make a two-person course work.

“I went and talked to Joachim Homann, the Museum’s Curator, and we talked about a variety of the ways that the museum could be foundational for the course,” said Fletcher. “Ben and Ursula were im-mediately interested with the idea of a Museum exhibition.”

At first the course began as a survey of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—a group formed in

Pamela Yates’ “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator” asks the unan-swerable question of how to bear witness to genocide. Yates ques-tions whether bringing those re-sponsible for the crimes to justice

can, at least for living survivors, lessen the pain associated with senseless violence.

The film explores the role that Yates’ 1983 documentary, “When the Mountains Tremble,” played in bringing to justice the Guatema-lan military dictatorship respon-sible for a decade-long genocide

that devastated the country in the 1980s.

“When the Mountains Tremble” documented the brutal conflict between the Guatemalan military dictatorship of General Efraín Ríos Montt and guerilla revolutionary forces in the early 1980s.

“Granito” is set in the present

BY HUGH RATCLIFFECONTRIBUTOR

Granito carries heavy message, but sinks as fi lm

1848 by a number of young Eng-lish artists that are sometimes con-sidered the first avant-gardes—and their influences. As the semester progressed, the focus of the course shifted towards putting together the exhibition.

Since the museum does not have any Pre-Raphaelite pieces, Livings-ton and Moreno-VanderLaan had to be creative in their approach to the exhibit. They chose to focus on the ideas of John Ruskin, the Eng-lish art critic who first recognized the worth of Pre-Raphaelites work.

“When the Pre-Raphaelites first started out, everyone thought their work was horrible and absurd,” said Moreno-VanderLaan. “They were not respected at all, people thought they had no true sense of

art.”“While the criticism was that

they were making things deliber-ately ugly—turning their backs on centuries of art-making—Ruskin said no,” said Fletcher.

According to Fletcher, Ruskin saw value in the Pre-Raphael-ites’ honest depictions of natural scenes, though she notes he also had concerns about the ides of painting landscapes with intense detail, because painters could nev-er faithfully depict the atmospher-ic effect we actually see when we look at large landscapes.

“He was always really conflicted between getting affect in a paint-ing and detail—realism versus ide-alism,” said Moreno-VanderLaan. “He could never really reconcile

Seniors curate Pre-Raphaelite exhibit at musem

this and it’s a huge part of our ex-hibit. Ultimately he was more for high detail—Pre-Raphaelite-type work—but he also loved Joseph Turner, who was the first person to do hyper-abstract landscapes.”

Moreover, with the invention of photography, the question of a4 ect ver-sus detail became even more confused.

“Painters were trying to make scenes very realistically and then this machine comes along and can just do such a better job,” said Liv-ingston. “So at that point, the ques-tion became: what’s the role of paint-ing? 5 is question de6 nitely opened up more room for abstract painting.”

For Museum Curator Joachim Homann, this problem is what makes the exhibit so moving.

“The students made a really

smart move,” said Homann. “They used the introduction of photog-raphy to anchor this 19th century debate on what images are sup-posed to do—how do paintings and drawings compete with and respond to the presence of photog-raphy beginning in the 1840s.”

For Livingston and Moreno-VanderLaan, the course ended up being one of their most rewarding experiences at Bowdoin.

“We would search the museum’s database and go to the museum to look at paintings,” said Livingston. “Other professors would meet with us to help us with specific ques-tions—Professor Wegner with ear-ly Italian art, Professor Kibbie with Hogarth, Professor Mullen with Ruskin drawings.”

While Livingston says he will try making his own art after Bowdoin, this experience inspired Moreno-VanderLaan to pursue a career working in museums.

“This was definitely a ‘eureka’ moment for me,” said Moreno-VanderLaan. “Curating the show ended up combining pretty much all of my academic interests into one thing. It was art, it was aes-thetics, it was about how people interact with visual things. It was culture, it was history, and for me, it was fabulous. I told myself, ‘I need to do this.’ So I’m looking for work in galleries, auction houses, and museums, and then I’m plan-ning on going to graduate school after working for a couple of years.”

“‘We Never See Anything Clear-ly’: John Ruskin and Landscape Painters” will be on view through December 23, in the Bowdoin Col-lege Museum of Art.

BY EVAN GERSHKOVITCHSTAFF WRITER

but looks to the past, chronicling the ongoing attempt to indict Montt in Spain’s National Court, which claims international juris-diction. Prosecutors have com-piled evidence from a plethora of sources;, including forensic ar-chaeology, eyewitness accounts, and Pamela Yates’ footage from “When the Mountains Tremble,” which personally implicates the director in the chaos of the in-vestigation.

Scenes from the past are inter-cut with images and reflections of the present, to provide a compre-hensive look at how people deal, or fail to deal, with such horrible atrocities.

While the film is heart-wrench-ing, it stumbles in decisive places. Yates clearly has a very deep per-sonal connection to Guatemala and its people, but unfortunately she fails to deliver a concise and coherent message. Instead, she al-lows sentimentality to overwhelm the narrative, making the film more about her personal experi-ence than Guatemala’s.

The premise of “Granito” is quite clear, yet it progresses along in a disastrously unfocused man-ner. The whole film seems to build towards the indictment, and when it doesn’t come there is a painful anti-climax.

In addition to the fact that we

never see Montt’s indictment, “Granito” feels depressingly in-complete. Yates never fully ex-plores the complex reasons behind the genocide or its racially-moti-vated underpinnings. The entire 103 minutes feel like an epilogue to the far superior “When The Moun-tains Tremble.”

As a document of human rights in Guatemala and in the interna-tional sphere, and as an explora-tion of the utility of documentary film to capture the truth, “Granito” succeeds. But it is an amateur work of art.

Yates has clearly demonstrated that she is a documentary film-maker of the highest caliber, some-one willing to sacrifice mind and body to capture a story on film that she feels the world deserves to see.

“Granito” unfortunately just does not rise to the standard of her previous work. It is important, but not necessarily well done or wor-thy of its potential.

Yates is currently working on a new ending to accommodate Montt’s recent indictment, though his trial has yet to occur.

Whether the eventual punish-ment of an 85-year old ex-dictator can save the film remains to be seen, but at the moment, “Granito” lacks the subversiveness, clarity, and raw authority that we have come to expect from Yates.

COURTESY SKYLIGHT PICTURESPAST AND PRESENT: “Granito” alternates scenes from the Guatemalan genocide in the 1980s with present-day shots of the legal process against its perpetrators.

JEFFREY YU, BOWDOIN ORIENTSTUDENT CURATORS: Ben Livingston ‘13 and Ursula Moreno-VanderLaan ‘13 stand in front of the exhibit they curated as part of “The Pre-Raphaelites.”

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Members of the Bowdoin com-munity were treated to an unusual performance last Saturday in the Chapel when keyboardist Sean Fleming played nine pieces on Bowdoin’s historic Austin Organ. One of two organs in the Chapel, the Austin was built in 1927 and is identical to the Kotzchmar Memo-rial Organ at Merrill Auditorium in Portland.

Fleming began his perfor-mance with Dietrich Buxtehude’s “Passacaglia in D minor.” Later in the performance he regailed the audience with “Raise Songs to Bowdoin.”

Anthony Antolini, senior lec-turer in the Music Department and director of the Bowdoin Chorus, joined Fleming on stage at one point to perform what was per-haps the most touching song of the evening, “Church Sonata for Piana and Organ,” a piece by Myron Rob-erts, a composer who took on An-tolini as his last student.

Antolini stood in front of the crowd after the performance to describe how Roberts, who passed away in 1992, felt like a

A crowd of people gathered at the Coleman Burke Gallery in Fort An-dross last Saturday to celebrate the opening of “Speaking in Tongues,” a new show by Assistant Professor of Art Alicia Eggert. At one point, one woman began to tap dance, quickly quieting the room. 4 ree other dancers soon joined her and all four moved about the space tapping what turned out to be Morse code for “I am trying to tell you something.” 4 is unexpected performance by 4 e Rhythm and Sole Tap Dancing Com-pany 5 t in well with Eggert’s cryptic combinations of language in art.

Eggert’s exhibit speaks to her up-bringing in a Pentacostal family.

“My father was a Pentacostal minister so I grew up going to a church where people would speak in tongues. 4 e story of the Pentacost fascinates me—the idea that the dis-ciples were given the ability to speak a language they didn’t know in order to communicate an important mes-sage to people around the world. I think making art is like speaking in tongues. As an artist, I o6 en feel like

BY ELENA SCHAEFCONTRIBUTOR

A6 er a run as one of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s most well-attended exhibitions, “William We-gman’s Hello Nature” came down on Sunday, October 21, concluding three months of critical acclaim.

4 e main 7 oor galleries, where the Wegman show was on display, are currently in a transitory state. Boxes, tools and carts litter the space while José Ribas ’76, the museum’s technician and preparator, busily works to ready the space for upcom-ing exhibitions.

4 is intermediary phase between exhibits gives guests the chance to experience the space outside of the context of a headlining exhibition. As they make their way up to the perma-nent collection on the second 7 oor, visitors walk through the empty 5 rst 7 oor galleries and get a glimpse of the work that goes into de-installation, preparation and installation.

“Without seeing any of the art on the walls, you can pay attention to what frames it,” said Mellon Cu-ratorial Fellow Sarah Montross. She said that “things we take for granted

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father to him.“It was really a wonderful expe-

rience. A very emotional experi-ence,” said Antolini. “I think we really did [Roberts] an honor by playing it.”

Antolini invited Fleming to campus for the event, 20 years after his first offer to bring Fleming to Bowdoin. The two first met when Fleming was living in his home-town of Rockland, Maine, in the early ’90s.

“I was playing for a concert and he introduced himself as the new director,” said Fleming. “He asked me if I’d like to accompany the Bowdoin Chorus. So I started play-ing with the Chorus in 1992.”

Antolini says his invitation re-quires no explanation given the organ player’s talent.

“[Fleming] is about the best key-board player in the whole state of Maine,” said Antolini. “I’ve never met anybody who played key-board, especially who can sight read music, as well as Sean can. He’s genius.”

Fleming left the College af-ter the ’92-’93 academic year, but found himself back in 1996, and has been accompanying the Cho-rus ever since. In addition, he ac-

I’m speaking a language I don’t fully understand,” said Eggert, in an email to the Orient.

Eggert says that her use of language allows viewers to become interpreters and walk away with a personal under-standing of what her work means. 4 ese individual opinions can o6 en end up rede5 ning her own perspective on her work, making her audience collabora-tors in building the full signi5 cance of her art.

4 e viewers’ place in Eggert’s ex-hibition is apparent from the second one enters the gallery. Immediately in front of the entrance is a large, el-evated neon sign that reads “You are on an island.” 4 e word “on” 7 ashes on and o8 so the sign sometimes de-clares “You are an island.” 4 is sort of playful inde5 niteness shows up throughout the exhibit.

Another of Eggert’s pieces, called “White Lie,” is made of miniature white picket fence that forms the outline of the word “LIE” that viewers can step in-side. Standing inside, one feels isolated, trapped by some twisted, suburban ver-sion of the American Dream.

Much of Eggert’s work involves lights, o6 en neon, that move or change to con-vey a sense of ephemerality. 4 e gallery

Museum in limbo after Wegman show closes

BY BRIANNA BISHOPCONTRIBUTOR

CHENGYING LIAO, BOWDOIN ORIENTLOUD PIPES: Keyboardist Sean Fleming addresses the audience during his organ recital last Saturday in the Chapel..

when we walk into an exhibition like lighting—even the 7 ow of tra9 c for our guests” are important elements taken into consideration during ex-hibition design and preparation.

While the basic elements of the space will not be completely al-tered, the galleries “will dramatically change for the new exhibits,” accord-ing to Ribas.

According to Museum Curator Joachim Homann, the museum is lucky to have the space to arrange a variety of exhibitions, including ones curated by students. 4 e 5 rst show to be installed a6 er Wegman’s exhibit is the student-curated ex-hibition “We Never See Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and Landscape Painting,” which opened with a pub-lic reception on Wednesday.

“A Printmaking ABC: In Memo-riam of David P. Becker” will run from November 15 to March 10 and “Fantastic Stories: The Super-natural in Nineteenth-century Jap-anese Prints” will open on Novem-ber 15. The former is an homage to collector and Bowdoin alumnus David P. Becker, and the latter is a celebration of 25 years of Asian studies at the College.

Fleming raises songs to Bowdoin in organ recital

contains three free standing sculptures and three wall installations.

4 is idea of communication between the artist and the viewer is embodied in the concept of site-speci5 c art. Eggert is always conscious of the surroundings of her work and the environment dramati-cally a8 ects her process, which she attri-butes to her years as an interior designer.

“Speaking in Tongues” is Eggert’s largest solo exhibition, which she says provided her with a greater degree of in7 uence over the space, adding that “the curating aspect was a learning ex-perience.”

Eggert’s favorite piece is titled “Every-thing You Are Looking For,” which was designed for a speci5 c wall in the gal-lery. 4 e space inspired her to create a jumble of neon letters that would light up to spell various things. A6 er seeing the perfect quote on a friend’s Facebook page, Eggert collaborated with another friend, Amy Jorgensen, to create a non-sensical, line of letters that light up in turn to spell “Everything You Are…Looking For Is… Invisible.” Everything, that is, except the exhibit itself.

“Speaking in Tongues” will be on dis-

play until November 30 at the Coleman Burke Gallery in Fort Andross.

companies the St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, directed by his wife, Linda Blanchard ’88, which performs in the Chapel every December. Flem-

ing is also the organist at St. An-drews Episcopal Church in New-castle, Maine.

Fleming concluded the concert

with “Toccata on Alma mater,” a song based on Bowdoin’s alma ma-ter, which brought the audience to their feet.

NATE TORDA, BOWDOIN ORIENTTAPPY FEET: An impromptu tap dance performance surprises viewers at the opening of Assistant Professor of Art Alicia Eggert’s new show.

Alicia Eggert speaks in tongues

TASHA SANDOVAL, BOWDOIN ORIENTWANING WEGMAN: The Museum’s fi rst-fl oor gallery stands in a lonely limbo between exhibits.

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actually been part of a group that implements any change,” said Chow. “I thought this would be a good way to start.”

For Tougas, BGA represented not only an opportunity to merge his in-terests, but also a chance to use the in3 uence of athletics on campus for positive change.

“I think athletes by their very nature are leaders on this campus,” said Tougas. “We try to tap into club sports, too, so I think that may get us into 50 or 60 percent of the Bowdoin population. Bowdoin students are committed to environmental protec-tion in general—certainly more than the country at large unfortunately. We have to do something, and this is my small part. Other people have latched onto it and are proud to be a part of it.”

BGA took its 4 rst big step this past homecoming weekend, with its 4 rst major event. Twenty BGA members participated in the Environmen-tal Protection Agency’s Game Day Challenge. According to the EPA’s website, the Game Day Challenge is “a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote waste reduction at their football games.”

For Tougas it was a no-brainer. “I spent part of the summer work-

ing with Keisha Payson, who’s the co-ordinator for Sustainable Bowdoin. I was looking around a little bit and saw that some schools were involved

Bowdoin Green Athletes join the EPA’s Game Day Challenge

BY SAM CHASESTAFF WRITER

As an environmental studies ma-jor, swimmer Alex Tougas ’14 spends a great deal of time thinking about sustainability. A dedicated swimmer, he works hard to divide his time be-tween his environmental and athletic passions. Since founding Bowdoin Green Athletes (BGA) last spring, Tougas is now contributing to both areas simultaneously.

“Last year Kristin Hanczor [’12] and I wanted to form an organi-zation that merged athletics with sustainability, which both of us were interested in,” said Tougas. “I swim and she played volleyball. We thought that it would be a really valuable thing to do. I found the idea from Middlebury. I should give them credit because I worked closely with their athletic director for help on this stu5 , and then it sort of blossomed from there.”

Hanczor and Tougas cast a wide net across the Bowdoin campus in search of representation from every sports team.

“Last year when Alex started the club he sent emails to coaches ask-ing them to nominate two players to attend the 4 rst meeting. I’ve stuck with it since,” said Emma Chow ’15, a member of the women’s tennis team who is on the BGA’s executive com-mittee.

“I’ve always been interested in environmental causes, but I’d never Please see ATHLETES, page 16

individual players to step up at dif-ferent times, and while it’s often a surprise to our opponent, it’s not a surprise to us. I feel that that’s the most effective way to build a team, so that your opponent can’t just

Women’s soccer wins fi rst quarterfi nal match in four yearsBY HALLIE BATESSTAFF WRITER

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The Polar Bears took home a 3-2 victory against the Hamilton Col-lege Continentals last weekend in the quarterfinal round of the NES-CAC tournament, securing a place in the semifinals, where they will take on Amherst.

This marks the first time since 2008 that Bowdoin will advance to the NESCAC semifinals.

First year Jamie Hofstetter scored all three of Bowdoin’s goals, leading the Polar Bears to the cru-cial victory. She was subsequently named the NESCAC Women’s Soc-cer Player of the Week.

Hofstetter’s three-goal effort ties the NESCAC Championship record for goals in a single playoff game. Saturday’s game more than doubled her goals scored in the regular season, bringing her total to five goals this fall. Hofstetter also earned Bowdoin its first NES-CAC Women’s Soccer Player of the Week this year.

“Hofstetter controls the play for us well, and I’m so happy that she had the opportunity to be so successful in Saturday’s match, be-cause she really deserved it,” said Weaver.

Weaver says she is not surprised

that Hofstetter was able to stand out on Saturday.

“We’ve really worked on having a team attacking philosophy and not relying on a single player to score,” she said. “This has allowed

key on one player and cut them out of the game.”

After a scoreless first half, Hof-stetter was able to finally get the Polar Bears on the board soon af-ter intermission when she scored

on a breakaway early in the second half.

“At half time I think everyone realized that we needed to just step up our game and finish Hamilton. We came out much stronger in the second half as a group and really combined well with the midfield and forwards to finish a few goals,” said Hofstetter. “The defense did a great job denying Hamilton op-portunities and connected well with the attack as well.”

About two minutes later, Hof-stetter scored her second goal of the match after redirecting a shot from sophomore Kathleen Smith. The 2-0 lead was short-lived, how-ever, as Hamilton was able to cut Bowdoin’s lead with a goal two minutes later.

Hofstetter completed the hat trick with a 66th minute insurance goal, pushing the Polar Bears to a 3-1 advantage. Despite the Conti-nentals netting a redirected corner kick with three minutes remain-ing, Hamilton was unable to tie up the game, and the Polar Bears emerged triumphant.

The Polar Bears will play Am-herst in the semifinals at Williams. Amherst dealt Bowdoin its most significant loss this season, 4-1. In the past, Bowdoin has had a fairly discouraging record against Am-herst, as the Lord Jeffs have kept the Polar Bears out of the past two

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

KICK-START: Becky Stoneman ’14 clears the ball from an oncoming Hamilton player on Saturday. The Polar Bears won to advance to the NESCAC semifi nals.

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lone goal for Bowdoin against Tu6 s.When it came time for tour-

nament play against Williams, Bowdoin managed to prove their team motto of learning from every game.

“You could tell right from the very beginning that we came out with a lot of energy and determina-tion,” said Pearson.

Rachel Kennedy ’16 scored im-mediately for the Polar Bears, and Brooke Phinney ’13 scored late in the 4 rst half to cushion the lead. Kennedy scored her second goal of the match in the second half to guarantee the shutout.

Despite apparent improvement in the Williams match, Pearson says she is aware that defeating Williams (6-9 overall, 4-6 NESCAC) doesn’t

Field hockey headed to NESCAC semifi nals BY CLARE MCLAUGHLIN

STAFF WRITER

Bowdoin women’s 4 eld hockey re-bounded from a 3-1 defeat last week by cruising to a 3-0 victory over Wil-liams in the NESCAC quarter4 nals.

Pass interceptions and more e5 ec-tive o5 -ball movement during tran-sitions allowed Bowdoin’s defense to shut down Williams’ scoring op-portunities and created the o5 ensive chances that the Polar Bears lacked in the Tu6 s contest.

In last week’s regular season 4 -nale, Tu6 s outshot Bowdoin 13-4 and capitalized on three corners to secure the victory.

Bowdoin has o6 en used strong corner-strikes to seal victories throughout the season, but against the Jumbos, the Polar Bears found themselves on the defensive end of these crucial player-up situations.

Tu6 s twice found the net o5 de-3 ections from corners, successfully lo6 ing the ball past Bowdoin’s de-fense on the third corner.

According to Head Coach Nicky Pearson, it was not just the luck of a player-up corner situation that al-lowed the Jumbos to score the most goals against the Polar Bears of any team this season.

“Our marking has been tighter in other games; we allowed them to re-ceive the ball—we didn’t step up and beat them to it,” said Coach Pearson.

Cathleen Smith ’13 scored the

guarantee a victory in the semi4 nal round, where they will once more face Tu6 s (14-1 overall, 9-1 NES-CAC).

7 ough Bowdoin is the lower seed, Pearson says she is eager to face Tu6 s again. It will be a unique opportunity to test Bowdoin’s ability to quickly apply the lessons learned during the 4 rst match.

Pearson said the Polar Bears won’t have a speci4 c change of strat-egy the second time around, but rather will renew focus on tight de-fense and emphasize a strong open-ing push in the match. Momentum will be key.

Bowdoin will travel to Middle-bury on November 3 for the Tu6 s rematch in the NESCAC semi4 nals at 1:30 p.m.

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TAKING AIM: Rachel Kennedy ‘16 pushes toward Williams’ goal, which she found twice on Saturday.

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the ball, taking some momentum from Saturday’s game where we

were able to put together a really strong attack and make some goal- scoring opportunities for Jamie and other players,” said Weaver.

When asked about different strategies the team will employ facing Amherst, Weaver says that

ATHLETE OF THE WEEKCoby Horowitz ’14

BY DIMITRIA SPATHAKISSTAFF WRITER

Four-time All-American Track and Cross Country runner Coby Horowitz ’14 5 nished 5 rst in last Saturday’s NESCAC championship with a time of 24:26.78. Horowitz is the 5 rst runner in 12 years to win the men’s individual title for Bowdoin.

Like many other athletes, Horowitz is superstitious about his race-day routine.

“I always wear the same shirt, I only have two pairs of socks since they wash our socks for us, and I pretty much do the exact same thing everyday, from when I wake up to when I race,” said Horowitz. “Ke$ha’s ‘Die Young’ was my jam that day.”

Horowitz started the race o6 with a 4:52 mile, running in a pack for most of the race. In the 5 nal mile, Horowitz and Matt Rand of Tu7 s University trailed Mike Leduc of Connecticut College. With 800 meters to go, Horowitz and Rand closed in on Leduc. Horowitz kicked into a higher gear, battling it out with Rand in the 5 nal 20 me-ters to win by only two meters.

“Rand and I have a raced a lot, so I kind of knew his style,” said Horowitz of his competitor. “De5 -nitely a familiar face, and I ended up beating him so that was sweet.”

8 e victory was made sweeter by the fact that last year, Horowitz 5 n-ished second to Michael Schmidt of Middlebury, who is now coach-ing Rand at Tu7 s.

8 e NESCAC Championship is an extremely competitive race, as the NESCAC is considered the strongest cross-country confer-ence in NCAA Division III. Last year, 5 ve NESCAC teams 5 nished in the top 15 at the national tour-nament.

Horowitz cites the shared e6 orts of his teammates as his motivation.

“I know the guys behind me are doing the exact same thing, and maybe if I let one guy pass me than they’ll let one guy pass them,” said Horowitz.

A three-time Orient Athlete of the Week, Horowitz came in sec-ond place last year at the NESCAC championships.

Head Coach Peter Slovenski says Horowitz has improved greatly

since beginning his career at the College.

“I think Coby has been very in-telligent by how he’s combined an All-American work ethic with the natural ability that he has,” said Slovenski. “Coby is really smart about learning the lessons from his best races and his o6 -days.”

Horowitz recalls going into rac-es without a plan during his 5 rst season.

“Here’s the guy in 5 rst, I’m just going to sit on him until I die...which is a terrible plan if he’s really good!” said Horowitz.

He credits his improvement this year to increased summer training.

“I was able to do a lot more speed work this year during the season because I didn’t have to spend a few weeks getting my base back up, so it made the transition into cross country a lot easier. ”

Horowitz’s training partners Sam Seekins ’14 and Nick Saba ’14 have been vital to his success, con-stantly pushing him to run faster.

“Most of the time it’s the full team but when we do that extra step its just the three of us, its real-ly nice to have those two guys with me all the time,” said Horowitz.

Slovenski also believes that Horowitz’s attitude has a positive impact on his fellow teammates.

“In cross country the discipline and structure can get to be rep-etitious but Coby’s sense of humor keeps it interesting and fun,” said Slovenski. “He’s got a joyful spirit about what we do. Whether it’s go-ing for a 15-mile run or running repeat miles at 5 ve minute pace, some people get through it with a lot determination but it helps if you have a spirit of joy about what you’re doing, and he really does.”

Seekins and Saba also re9 ected on the interesting dual nature of Horowitz.

“He’s very energetic, he has the heart of a twelve-year-old but at the same time he’s also very seri-ous and knows when we should be quiet and focusing on running,” said Saba.

“He’s basically a cat: he hates rain, he loves cuddling and he’s re-ally cute. He’ll run on a treadmill to avoid running in the rain, not a decision most of us would make, but one he would make,” said Seekins.

“He’s basically a cat: he hates rain, he loves cuddling and

he’s really cute.”SAM SEEKINS ’14

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Volleyball drops to third place in NESCAC

The volleyball team’s hopes of finishing first in the NESCAC and securing a conference champion-ship home-field advantage were dashed last Friday night when the team fell 3-1 to host Middlebury. The Polar Bears redeemed them-selves on Saturday with an impres-sive victory over Williams.

The trip to Vermont left Bowdoin 25-3 overall, 8-2 in the NESCAC, and ranked as the third seed going into NESCAC tourna-ment this weekend at Connecticut College.

The team played Middlebury last Friday night. Although the final score was not close, both teams made an admirable show-ing. Bowdoin was initially over-whelmed by an early Middlebury surge, falling 25-13 in the first set. The Polar Bears quickly recovered from this shock and took the sec-

ond 25-19, tying the match at one-to-one. A late-game run from a 16-16 tie secured the third set for Middlebury 25-21. In the tense fourth set, both teams went back and forth until Middlebury was able to get the upper hand and tri-umph 26-24, sealing the win in a dramatic fashion.

Captain Melissa Haskell ’13 led the team offensively in the loss with 12 kills, supported by eight from Ellie Brennan ’14 and seven from Christy Jewett ’16. Libero Taylor Vail ’14 and Brennan racked up 14 digs each.

Haskell remained optimistic af-ter the loss.

“It was really disappointing to miss out on hosting the tourna-ment, but overall I think we played well this weekend,” she said. “Go-ing forward, we can’t get distracted by setbacks but need to continue to focus on winning each match.”

Saturday saw the team quickly rebound, with Bowdoin shutting down Williams in a 3-0 victory. The Polar Bears dominated the Ephs with set scores of 25-13, 25-17 and 25-22.

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Against Williams, Jewett led the charge with 10 kills, while Haskell contributed seven kills and 11 digs. Setter Sophia Cornew ’14 notched 26 assists.

Haskell is guardedly hopeful go-ing into the tournament this week-end.

“This is going to be a very tough weekend from the very first round. We’ve had a great season and I am confident that we have what it takes to win this weekend, but we will have to stay focused and be aggressive,” said Haskell. “When it comes down to it, these are just three more volleyball matches that we have to concentrate on one-by-one to win.”

The action begins tonight at 8 p.m. at Conn. College against sixth seed Tufts. If Bowdoin wins, the team will move on to the semifinal round, to be played at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday against the winner of seventh-seed Trinity against sec-ond seed Middlebury. If the Polar Bears win in the semifinals, they will advance to the final champi-onship round, played at noon on Sunday.

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NESCAC playoffs. In their past ten matches with Bowdoin, Amherst has a record of 8-1-1. Despite this, Coach Weaver says the team won’t use the past to predict what will happen on Saturday.

“I think Amherst gives us a golden opportunity to go back and face down our demon from the season. I never turn down those chances, so I’m looking forward to it, as I hope the team is as well,” said Weaver. To prepare for the match, she says she plans on build-ing the team’s confidence up dur-ing the week.

“[We’re] just making sure we’re working together on both sides of

the game Bowdoin played against them earlier in the season revealed some of their opponent’s flaws.

“When we went after them the first time around, and really started pressuring them, we found that we had an advantage,” Weaver added. “Our plan is to play tough defense to keep them out but capitalize on opportunities to at-tack, because that’s where they are weakest.”

According to Hofstetter, the team is well prepared for Satur-day’s match despite the pressure from the consequences of losing.

“Everyone knows that if we don’t show up and play our best against Amherst, our season will be over, so I definitely think that when its time for the game, people will give it their best effort,” she said.

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The men’s soccer team ended its season this past Saturday in a NES-CAC quarterfinal loss to Tufts.

The Jumbos posed a threat early in the game with a trio of goal op-portunities, but a save by Will Wise ’14 put a stop to their attack. The Polar Bears found their best oppor-tunity of the half near the 30th min-ute, when a counter initiated by ju-nior captain Ben Brewster ’14 led to an opportunity downfield for Zach Danssaert ’14. Nonetheless, Tufts scored the first goal 10 minutes lat-er. In the next half, Tufts made their second goal in the 60th minute and then put it away with a third goal towards the end of the game.

“I think that Saturday just wasn’t our day. That’s the nature of soccer, sometimes the game just doesn’t go your way and there isn’t a solid ex-planation,” said senior captain Mi-chael Gale. “We gave a really strong effort, but they happened to get the first goal, which can mean every-thing in a playoff game.”

“Soccer is a funny game,” said Head Coach Fran O’Leary. “We gave a much better effort in our second game against Tufts, yet the score line was not reflective of our performance.”

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A7 er Bowdoin scored two straight touchdowns in the 6 rst quarter of last Saturday’s game against Wes-leyan, the Cardinals responded with 34 unanswered points to deliver the Polar Bears their third straight loss. Bowdoin falls to 1-5 as Wesleyan im-proves to 5-1, tied for second in the NESCAC.

Quarterback Tommy Romero ’14 passed for 226 yards, his highest pass-ing yardage this season, and threw for one touchdown and four interceptions. Tight end Michael English ’14 was the recipient of the single touchdown pass.

Sophomore tight end Matt Perlow, an emerging threat for Bowdoin’s of-fense, caught a 62-yard pass that set the Polar Bears up for their second touch-down. He 6 nished the game with two receptions for 88 yards.

Junior running back Zach Donna-rumma capitalized on Perlow’s catch with a four-yard touchdown run. Bowdoin did not score again the rest of the game.

According to Head Coach Dave Caputi, the team’s four untimely turn-overs prevented the o8 ense from scor-ing. On the defensive side of the ball, a few blown coverages resulted in easy touchdowns for the Cardinals.

“5 ey ran 53 plays for 152 yards. We had nine plays that gave up over 300 yards,” Caputi said.

5 e Cardinals amassed 454 total of-fensive yards against the Polar Bears, with 153 of those coming from two large second-half plays.

In the beginning of the third quar-ter, with the Cardinals leading 17-14, Wesleyan’s running back broke free for a 70-yard touchdown run. 5 ey sealed the victory in the fourth quarter with an 83-yard touchdown run.

Despite the multiple defensive lapses in the game, the Polar Bears re-main third in the conference in points-allowed-per-game, with only 24.8 this season.

Beau Breton—senior captain, de-fensive back, and punter—points to-ward linebacker Gri9 n Cardew ’14, currently third in the NESCAC in tackles, as a key contributor to the de-fense’s success.

“He’s always been a great athlete,” said Breton. “He’s grown as a football player and become a leader on the 6 eld.”

In last week’s game, Cardew and Joey Cleary ’14 each recorded 10 tack-les. Sophomore Tom Wells led the de-fensive line with six tackles. 5 e Polar Bears have two remaining games this season—against rivals Bates and Colby.

5 ey will begin their quest for their second CBB title in three years with their game against Bates at Whittier Field this Saturday. With the second-

best rushing attack in the conference and the most intercepted passes this year, the Bobcats are 6 t to exploit Bow-doin’s weaknesses. Nevertheless, histo-ry supports the Polar Bears, according to the team.

“5 e trophy has been here for six straight years,” senior captain and of-fensive lineman Martin Robledo said. “We plan on keeping it for a seventh.”

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Women’s Rugby fi nishes regular season undefeated

5 e women’s rugby team defeated Amherst 51-3 and 6 nished the regu-lar season undefeated last Saturday.

5 is was the second time Bowdoin faced Amherst this season and the Lord Je8 s had improved since the preseason Beantown Tournament.

Coach MaryBeth Mathews said “Amherst was a much more aggres-sive, athletic team since Beantown”.

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Men’s cross country takes third in NESCAC and individual title

With the Bowdoin cross coun-try course packed with nearly 800 cheering spectators this weekend, the men’s cross country squad placed third in the NESCAC Championship, coming in behind Bates and Tufts.

The Polar Bears went into the championship seeded third and ranked eleventh in D-III. The NE-SCAC is widely considered the strongest conference in D-III, with five teams currently in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association top 25. Five NESCAC teams also finished in the top 15 at Nationals last year.

At the championship, the Polar Bears had only a 60-second spread between the top five runners.

Coby Horowitz ’14 earned the men’s individual title, beating out Tuft’s top runner by only half of a second and a two meter berth.

Sam Seekins ’14 was Bowdoin’s second runner to finish, moving up from sixth to fifth place in the final straightaway. Seekins was the first number-two runner to cross the finish line.

Both Kevin Hoose ’15 and Greg Talpey ’14 earned personal-best times.

“Greg ran a really smooth race—he keeps his poise in the big races,” said Coach Peter Slovenski.

The team is preparing for the up-coming NCAA Regional. Slovenski said that in addition to practicing faster intervals, “the team needs to get rest—we look strong, but we need to get faster.”

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Women’s cross country places seventh in NESCAC race

5 e women’s cross country team had some impressive and surprising 6 nishes this weekend at the NESCAC Championship.

Gina Stalica ’16 ran the race of the day. Typically 6 nishing in fourth or 6 7 h, she was the third runner for Bowdoin and overall the third 6 rst-year 6 nisher of all the colleges.

“Gina rises up to the challenges and competes really well in championships. Her performance was a great boost to the team,” said Coach Peter Slovenski.

Madelena Rizzo ’14 was Bowdoin’s top 6 nisher. Rizzo made the All-NES-CAC second team. Olivia Mackenzie ’14, the most consistent runner on the women’s team, kept up with Rizzo for the 6 rst mile but faded in the second. According to Head Coach Peter Slov-enski, her race times will bene6 t from more rest in November.

Usual third runner Brianna Malanga ’16 su8 ered from a twisted ankle and had a tough race, coming in eighth place for Bowdoin.

“If Bri gets healthy, I think we’ll surprise a lot of people,” said Sloven-ski, referring to the upcoming NCAA Regional meet. Although the women’s team has been ranked eigth for most of the season, Slovenski expects to see to the team move up in the rankings a7 er the next championship.

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be proud of and a bright outlook for next year.

“I think that the team will be a contender for the NESCAC cham-pionship next year because we learned this year the level of com-mitment and effort it requires,” said Gale.

“This season has left us with a strong platform upon which to build,” said O’Leary. “The seniors provided us with great leadership and camaraderie. We will regroup and enter the off-season optimistic about the future prospects for the Bowdoin soccer program.”

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Scrumhalf Kameryn Sanchez ’14 put the 6 rst points on the board, cut-ting to the corner of the try-zone af-ter plucking the ball from a scrum.

Dani McAvoy ’13 converted three out of 6 ve conversions and for her e8 orts was voted “Woman of the Match”.

Despite the early scoring, the Bowdoin backline had trouble with their passing early on. 5 ere were some miscues between the backs that resulted in some poor passing how-ever they were able to settle down.

5 e backline’s timing and pass-ing eventually improved during the match, resulting in two tries from Randi London ’15 and Rachel Hen-derson ’15.

London scored her a pair of tries in the second half thanks to some good passes from the backline.

Lynn Freedman ’13 scored a try a7 er running receiving the ball a few meters out from the try-zone.

She had been supporting the for-wards and backs well all game and 6 nally got the opportunity to break through the Amherst defense.

Forwards Uche Esonu ’13 and An-issa Tanksley ’14 scored Bowdoin’s 6 nal two tries of the match.

Bowdoin is the 6 rst seed in the NESCRC Championships and will play against Middlebury the second seed at 1 p.m. at Pickard Field.

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ished their penultimate regattas last weekend at Brown University, Connecticut College and the Coast Guard Academy respectively. 5 ese regattas represented the New Eng-land Championships for each divi-sion.

Bowdoin’s co-ed division fared the best of the three, 6 nishing 10th

out of 18 boats at Brown, Bowdoin’s strongest 6 nish in this regatta since the 2007 fall season. 5 e women’s team 6 nished 13th of 18 boats, and the freshman 6 nished 10th of 22 boats.

5 e co-ed regatta’s A division sailors—Sarah Fiske ’13, Charlotte Williamson ’15, and Matt Croteau ’15—advanced but the B division sailors Pete Edmunds ’14 and Ju-lia Rew ’14 missed the top eight by seven points, a narrow margin over 24 races.

“5 e best sailors come out of New England,” Head Coach Frank Pizzo said, adding context to the 6 nishes. “Realistically, 6 nishing in the top ten in New England is like 6 nishing in the top twenty in the nation.”

Pizzo added that he views the fall and spring seasons as one season with a break in the middle. Taking that into consideration, he is satis-6 ed with the team’s performance.

“We’re halfway through the sea-son and we’re sailing well,” he said, “We have a lot of depth and we’re getting solid performances up and down the rosters.”

5 e team has two weekends le7 in the fall season, with their re-maining regattas in Newport and at St. Mary’s College in Maryland. 5 e former is a 20-team conference event while the latter is the presti-gious Atlantic Coast Tournament, which Pizzo compares to the Na-tional Invitation Tournament (NIT) in college basketball.

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GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PACK WOLF: Sam Seekins ’14 was the fi rst number-two runner to fi nish the NESCAC Championship race.

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No. 8 Colby (2-8) v. No. 1 Conn. Coll. (8-2)Friday, November 2, 5 p.m.

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with this,” said Tougas. “We thought it would be a perfect thing to do as the 3 rst big Green Athletes event. We started our program at the end of last year, so we said ‘Okay, this will be our big fall thing.’”

4 e EPA reports that 76 colleges have participated in the 2012 Game Day Challenge. In 2011, the event diverted nearly 500,000 pounds of waste from football games, prevent-ing the release of more than 810 met-ric tons of carbon dioxide, according to the EPA website.

Challenge winners are named in 3 ve categories: Waste minimiza-tion, diversion rate, greenhouse gas reduction, organics reduction, and recycling.

Tougas recruited volunteers for the event, while Chow publicized it. Joining them in leading the Game Day Challenge was Tricia 4 ibodeau ’13, who worked with Payson on the logistics of the event.

“I play so5 ball and we do conces-sions at the games, so that was one reason I wanted to head this up,” explained 4 ibodeau. “Concessions is one of the primary waste genera-tors because they’re giving out all the food and drinks to everyone at the game. I already knew what food was being sold and of the facility, so it made it easier for me to help [Tou-gas] coordinate.”

BGA volunteers dressed up as trash cans and provided signs to in-struct fans of proper recycling meth-ods in order to make the event a suc-cess.

“We were able to recycle 81.8 per-cent of all our waste as well as reduce

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our greenhouse gas equivalent by about half a metric ton,” said Tougas.

“We’re the 3 rst to do it in the NES-CAC and we hope that other schools follow suit,” added Chow. “We ended up recovering 300 pounds of recycla-bles and we composted food, which we sent to a pig farm.”

A5 er the success of the Game Day Challenge, the BGA hopes to orga-nize more events.

“4 is weekend we’re going to monitor the home football game, although it won’t be as extensive as last time,” said Chow. “We’re also working on a shoe recycling proj-ect, which we started looking into last year. 4 e track team is going to be heading that up, and I’ll also be involved. We’ll be setting up a bin in Farley where students and com-munity members can recycle their shoes.”

While Tougas stressed that the BGA tries not to burden its delegates with extensive responsibilities, its member athletes report making sig-ni3 cant positive impacts on their re-spective teams.

“4 e so5 ball team, we’re a pretty small team. I think that makes it easier to look over and call people out,” said 4 ibodeau. “Myself and maybe two others are a little more green-conscious than our other teammates.”

4 ibodeau says the BGA’s mission is not to be overbearing but simply remind athletes to be green con-scious.

“It’s just not on their radar, it’s not that they don’t care,” she said.

“I had a teammate tell me the other day ‘Emma, your voice is al-ways inside my head telling me to re-cycle,’” said Chow. “I was like ‘Okay, good. I’m doing my job.’”

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Recording interviews reduces misquotations

In his article “Sabra hummus supports Israel’s human rights abuses,” Chris Wedeman fails to live up to even the diminished standard of intellectual rigor re-served for our public discourse. The authors of this letter applaud Chris’ interest in launching a dia-logue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, it is difficult to engage in a discussion—especially over such an emotional issue—when the argument of one side rests on suppositions that have been discredited and are frankly inappropriate.

Mr. Wedeman claims that Jew-ish- Israeli consumption of hum-mus and usage of Arab words is tantamount to what he calls “a continuous theft of culture.” We are shocked that Mr. Wedeman is arguing for the plausibility of cul-tural ownership. Human languages and cultures have always bled into one another. Many Jews speak Arabic, just as many Palestinians speak Hebrew. Both are national languages of Israel. Moreover, there are nearly three million Jews in Israel that are descendants of Arab speakers, most of whom were expelled by their home countries immediately after the establish-ment of the state of Israel.

The simple point is that cross-cultural communication (in terms of language and food) is expedient for social, business, and human purposes. It is not theft. It’s human dynamism.

In addition, in order to make Sabra (a hummus company) com-plicit in the Israeli foreign policy that Wedeman abhors, he demon-izes the fact that this company de-livers care packages to the Golani Brigade, an elite unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. Wedeman cites reports of human rights abuses committed by individuals in the

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Golani Brigade. These transgres-sions are indisputably detestable, but are by no means representative of the moral character of the Israeli Defense Forces. Furthermore, it seems to us that this argument is as ludicrous as one that says that care packages sent to American forces overseas corresponds to the condoning of torture and humili-ation at Abu Ghraib. Support for soldiers does not necessarily indi-cate support for a war. Wedeman should not condemn a company for providing the comforts of home to teenagers who are serving their country.

Finally, we would like to affirm one more time our interest in hav-ing a respectful conversation be-tween the newly founded Students for Justice in Palestine (Wedeman’s affiliate organization) and J Street U, a more moderate group seeking to resolve the conflict through the two-state solution. But, to suggest that Arab-speaking and hummus-eating Israeli Jews are somehow the expropriators of someone else’s cultural property is not a respect-ful way to begin this conversation. To be honest, it’s offensive.

Sincerely yours,Judah Isseroff ’13Co-president of J StreetAdam Rasgon ’13Co-president of J StreetMelanie Gaynes ’13Co-president of HillelLydia Singerman ’13Co-president of HillelDevon Shapiro ’13Joshua Burger-Caplan ’14Michael Levine ’14Jonathan Held ’14

Cultural exchange among Israelis and Palestinians is no crime

If you, like many members of the Bowdoin community, will be vot-ing in Brunswick’s Maine House District 66, you’ll see my name

on your ballot for Representative to the Legislature as K. Frederick Horch, Green Independent.

Two questions may come to mind.

First, yes, I am related to profes-sor Hadley Horch in the biology department. We have been mar-ried for 17 years.

Second, I am running as a Green Independent because I share the values of the Green party, and be-cause I believe a third-party per-spective in Augusta will strengthen our democratic republic.

Our future depends on our abil-ity to grow a strong and sustain-able economy. I believe we need to make fundamental changes, especially with regard to Maine’s renewable energy market. We can-not remain dependent on fossil fuel for much longer without risk-ing complete disaster.

For some of you, this election will be your first. I remember very well voting in my first election: an alumnus of my small liberal arts college was the Democratic nominee for President. After hav-ing avidly followed every aspect of the presidential campaign, I realized once in the voting booth that I knew nothing about the lo-cal races.

Regardless of your decision, thanks for participating in our polit-ical process by casting an informed vote on Tuesday, November 6.

Sincerely, Fred Horch

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! e Orient is introducing Jim Reidy '13 as public editor to act as a liaison between the paper and its readers. He will solicit reader concerns and write a monthly col-umn on the Orient’s standards and execu-tion. Jim knows the Orient well from his two years on sta# , but is now independent from the paper and has been given com-plete editorial freedom. We hope you $ nd him to be a fair judge and strong advocate for your comments and concerns.

3 e Orient plays an important role on Bowdoin’s campus. Since 1871, it has served to create a historical record of important events and student senti-ment, and it is in a unique position to hold both students and administrators accountable for their actions. However, it is important to consistently review the Orient’s standards and execution of its policy, especially as it has expanded its role on the Internet in recent years.

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Vote ‘Yes’ on Question 1 for equal rights

4 is week, in spite of the pouring rain and the howling wind, Bowdoin students headed into town to par-ticipate, o5 en for the 6 rst time, in the most important element of any de-mocracy: they went to vote.

Such enthusiasm for the democrat-ic process was a welcome sight, espe-cially because of the importance of this year’s ballot questions.

However, it is important to re-member that your obligations to de-mocracy do not end a5 er you cast your vote. 4 e regularity of the U.S. election cycle means that for many, the inter-election years are devoid of politics. Coming from Switzerland, where we vote in national referenda on average four times per year, this o7 -season apathy always seemed odd to me. Because the Swiss vote so o5 en, participation is generally low, between 35 and 45 percent. Despite that, mat-ters that generate public interest do get higher turnout. In 2005, a referendum to grant gay couples the right to civil unions passed with 58 percent of the vote and a national participation rate of around 56 percent.

I hope that we can similarly support gay marriage in Maine; 4 e outcome here may set an example for the rest of the country. As the Orient’s editorial board noted last week, “as Maine goes, so goes the nation.”

Fi5 y years ago all non-heterosexual relations were classi6 ed as felonies in every state. School children were

shown 6 lms in which homosexual-ity was demonised. In 1987, exactly 25 years ago, more than two-thirds of Americans believed that gay and lesbi-an relations should be illegal. Now, the numbers are completely reversed. I am thankful that those narrow-minded, discriminatory views have been most-ly consigned to the history books, and it is heartening to see how much per-ceptions of the LGBTQIA community have changed in the past half-century.

All the same, more than half of the states, including Maine (for now) have laws that prevent same-sex couples

Like McGovern and Paul, ‘losers’ can have lasting political legacies

There’s nothing worse than wait-ing for a text message after a fight. Even fresh recriminations are pref-erable to the silence, and the faint-est sounds—real or imagined—send you digging for your phone.

I recently found myself in just such a state. Anticipating the fol-low-up to a disagreement with an old friend, I was surprised (and later, delighted) when this message from another friend was delivered instead:

“It took Beethoven 10 years to write Ode to Joy (his 9th sympho-ny). All of the others only took him a few months.”

Puzzling over the implications of this uncontextualized factoid, I responded with tentative enthusi-asm before receiving this follow-up message:

“When he 1st performed it he was completely deaf and people were crying and giving him a stand-ing ovation. They had to turn him around so that he could see.”

I pictured my friend’s Form in Classical Music professor pepper-ing the class with anecdotes to stave off collegiate exhaustion. A roman-ticized version of history? Perhaps. But I like the idea that the sympho-ny requiring the most toil continues to maximize the listener’s joy.

In 1972, George McGovern—the Democratic candidate for presi-

dent—lost to Richard Nixon by 503 votes. When George McGovern died on October 21st, 2012, The New York Times” reported on the lasting impact of McGovern’s work for the Democratic party, both ideologically and institutionally.

“What became known as the Mc-Govern commission rewrote party rules to ensure that more women, young people and members of mi-norities were included in delega-tions. The influence of party lead-ers was curtailed. More states began choosing delegates on the basis of primary elections. And the party’s center of gravity shifted decidedly leftward.”

As we enter the final stretch of the 2012 election season, stereo-typical “horse race” reporting is well underway. With McGovern in mind, it is important to remem-ber that “losers” are not politicians with a legacy of sound defeat; they are politicians without a sound legacy.

The media is in the practice of making predictions—I’d note that The Times began interviewing Mc-Govern for his obituary in 2005.

Then there is the case of Con-gressman Ron Paul, by some mea-sures, a national loser thrice-over. Despite his failed campaigns for the presidency, Paul was on TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” list in 2012. Why? Because, like Mc-Govern, he never interpreted de-feat as a mandate to exit the con-versation.

Paul’s stance on the Federal Re-serve had a significant impact on the most recent Republican pri-

mary. In December 2011, Salon’s Gary Weiss wrote, “Paul’s influ-ence is metastasizing to the rest of the GOP field, who are falling over themselves to show that they’ll get tough with the Fed.”

The only candidate who seemed immune to Paul’s position was Mitt Romney, but the choice of Romney didn’t completely enter Paul’s Fed-mongering.

“Paul’s fingerprints can be seen on the party’s official policy plat-form,” Katy Steinmatz wrote on TIME’s Swampland blog.

Winners, losers, and dream-ers may abide in America, but the greatest of these are dreamers. When we talk about the election we focus on two outcomes, but this binary ignores the indelible im-pressions made by the most lively political participants—those who don’t come out on top.

However, if we cannot expand our measure of influence beyond “win” or “lose,” we’ll find that the audience, and not the composer, is deaf.

It is said that “history belongs to the victors,” but history truly be-longs to the passionate. Come elec-tion day, one man’s candidacy will end with a concession speech. In its aftermath, let us hope that there are trusted advisers and friends to turn him away from the disap-pointment of defeat and toward the makings of a legacy worth pen-ning in advance.

As for me? I gave up checking for new texts. The only sound I’ll be privileging this week is a certain symphony on YouTube.

THE LIVELY STATESWOMAN

DAISY ALIOTO

HOME IN ALL LANDS

JEAN-PAUL HONEGGER

Here is a nation whose very foundation was based around the

principle of the equality of all, yet which continues to actively discriminate against countless

numbers of citizens.

anny of the majority. DOMA’s pass-ing wasn’t demonstrative of democ-racy; it was mere pandering to the mob. Lawmakers failed to even con-sider the hardship this would place upon same-sex couples in the United States, especially when it came to dealing with the tax system following the death of a partner.

In New York, Edith Windsor, an 83-year old widow received an inheri-tance tax bill some “$360,000 higher than it would have been if the federal government recognized her same-sex marriage.” She chose to sue the gov-ernment and has been successful so far. Her most recent victory came on October 18, when the Second Cir-cuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that DOMA’s provisions were unconstitu-tional as they deprived Windsor of her rights under the 14th Amendment. 4 is ruling brings the number of courts that agree DOMA is unconsti-tutional to ten.

It always struck me as somewhat hypocritical for the US to lecture other countries about human rights abuses and prejudice, while it continues to discriminate against people based merely on their sexual orientation. Yet these policies will not last much lon-ger: President Obama ordered the De-partment of Justice to stop defending DOMA in court and the number of states allowing gay marriage continues to increase, slowly but surely.

So as you go to the voting booth over the coming days, think of how far the rights of sexual minorities in this country have progressed, and how far they have yet to go. Maine voters have an opportunity this Tuesday to show the country that the puritanical, back-ward views of old have no place in our society.

all sit-down interviews—was o8 cially taken by last year’s editors-in-chief, Nick Daniels ’12 and Zoe Lescaze ’12, and that policy has been continued this year by Kinstler.

4 ere are a few notable exceptions to this policy. Kinstler said, “We encourage all interviews to be recorded if possible, but if an event is breaking in front of you, you may not have time to whip out a re-cording device in time to get quotes. In that event, we expect reporters to take notes manually.”

If a person does feel that they have been misquoted, they can email the Orient at orient@bowdoin.edu and request that the editors refer back to the recording. In these circumstances, Kinstler said, “If they are misquoted, we will change the article online and remove the false quotation and run a correction in the next print edition.” However, she added that much of the time, sources “think that they have been misquoted, but in reality they just don’t remember part of what they said.” In either case, having the recording leaves no room for ambiguity.

While the Orient has taken this im-portant step to reducing misquotations, many people around campus simply don’t know about the change. However, it does seem that the general consen-sus on campus is shi5 ing. While I still hear complaints about misquoting, they mostly come from juniors, seniors, and faculty members who remember in-stances of alleged misquotation before the new policy was instituted that be-came a matter of “he said, she said.”

As long as the Orient’s editors and re-porters are faithful to the new policy, the ambiguity surrounding quotes should become increasingly rare. As it does, and as more people who have negative memories of the old policy graduate, such criticisms will hopefully become a much smaller issue.

You can reach Jim at jreidy@bow-doin.edu.

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As my primary purpose is to respond to reader feedback, I will spend the rest of this column discussing the most com-mon criticism of the Orient that I hear around campus: that the Orient fre-quently misquotes its sources. An im-portant aspect of this complaint stems from the Orient’s policy that unless writers have obtained express consent from their editor, all interviews must be conducted in person. No interviews via email are allowed.

Assuming that writers adhere to this policy and that the editors are not overly liberal with their permission for email interviews, I think this is the ideal policy for any newspaper. In fact, the Princ-eton University newspaper, 4 e Daily Princetonian, took steps to follow such a guideline earlier this fall, terminating the newspaper’s policy of allowing writers to interview sources over email.

A September 18 letter from the editor-in-chief said, “one integral part of what the ‘Prince’ does has no place in email—interviewing. Interviews are meant to be genuine, spontaneous con-versations that allow a reporter to gain a greater understanding of a source’s perspective.” He later added that email interviews had “resulted in stories 6 lled with stilted, manicured quotes that o5 en hide any real meaning and make it ex-tremely di8 cult for reporters to ask fol-low-up questions or build relationships with sources.” 4 e Daily Princetonian is absolutely correct that interviews are far better when conducted in person, but there is one distinct advantage to email interviews—there is never a question about who said what.

To remedy this ambiguity, the Orient must take the necessary steps to make sure that people are quoted properly. 4 e most important step—recording

from getting married. 4 is state of af-fairs would be farcical were it not so appalling, anachronistic and shame-ful. Here is a nation whose very foun-dation was based around the principle of the equality of all, yet which con-tinues to actively discriminate against countless numbers of citizens.

Even more problematic than the state-by-state laws is the infamous 1996 “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA), which de6 nes marriage at a federal level as “a legal union be-tween one man and one woman as husband and wife.” 4 is preposterous example of governmental overreach should be a sobering reminder of the perils of being beholden to the tyr-

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A4 er four years at a great and accommodating school, students should not leave Bowdoin feeling harried or disrespected.

Yet that is the inevitable result of the current academic calendar which, for the past several years, has forced graduating seniors to pack up their belongings and leave Col-lege property by 6 p.m. on the day of Commencement.

Luckily, there is an easy 5 x. I pro-pose that Bowdoin’s academic calen-dar be revised to allow graduating seniors to remain in College housing until noon on May 26, instead of 6 p.m. the previous day.

Interviews with several recent graduates show a level of linger-ing anger that they were not given more time to tie up loose ends a4 er graduation. One Class of 2012 alum-nus called the exit deadline “a hin-drance.” Packing during senior week meant that he had to spend his last days at Bowdoin in an empty apart-ment. An alumnus from the Class of 2011 said that senior week packing was a “disrupt[ion of] our 5 nal days together as a class.” 6 is alumnus said he wished that there had been “a little more time to say goodbye to our friends without the pressure of this deadline.”

But you must also consider the implications of the exit deadline on graduates’ travel plans to fully appreciate why it is viewed as an inconvenience. Some graduates have to leave campus almost im-mediately after receiving their diplomas, well before the 6 p.m. deadline, in order to catch a flight or start a long drive. For some, this means foregoing last good-byes with friends for fear of miss-ing a flight. For others, it means that a day that should be all happy memories is concluded with a long

car ride home. For those who start their journeys home the follow-ing day, most have to spend their last night in Brunswick in a hotel. Recent graduates I have spoken to who chose this option still remem-ber how disconcerting it was to be paying to stay in hotel when their room and their College was just down the road.

While the College allows gradu-ates to apply to stay in their room an extra night, the procedure is not encouraged. The Class of 2011 alumnus I spoke to was un-happy about how he was treated after choosing this option. He said “housekeeping was at my door at 10 a.m. [the next morning] ask-ing why I was still there, and they waited directly outside my room until I was all out.” In his words, it was “not the most ceremonious way to exit.”

Keeping College housing open for an extra eighteen hours would allow graduates to catch their breath, sleep one more night in the bed that they call their own, and then, after eating breakfast, get on the road. I do not believe that this is an unreasonable request. As a graduating senior, I believe I speak for many others when I say that we would greatly appreciate it if the College administration would consider the change I have laid out here.

Sam Vitello is a member of the Class of 2013.

Seniors get the boot far too soon after Commencement

BY SAM VITELLOWhat does a vote for Angus

King mean?Angus King’s campaign relies on

his supposed political independence to position himself as a no-nonsense problem-solver who will get Wash-ington rolling again. But a vote for Angus King is not a vote for the “new independent” that will solve Washington.

A brief exploration into King’s business ventures, his stint as gover-nor, and current campaign 5 nances reveals that he is a man who does not appear interested in serving Maine. Indeed, King’s record does not point to a crusader of moderation and in-dependent determination, but to a man pursuing a self-serving agenda with a far-le4 bend—a combination unlikely to remedy partisan gridlock in Congress.

In 1989, King le4 Swi4 River, a hy-dropower company to start his own consulting 5 rm, Northeast Energy Management. 6 is 5 rm relied heav-ily on government contracts, and King admits that over 50 percent of his energy advice involved chang-ing light 5 xtures, such as lamps. As governor, King was the driving force behind a law that now requires Maine energy companies to source 30 percent of their power supply from renewable sources, e7 ectively ensuring a demand for certain types of electricity a4 er he le4 o8 ce.

In 2007, King started a wind power venture that took advantage of the law he helped pass. What’s more, King’s Record Hill Wind proj-ect received a $102 million Recovery

Act loan guarantee which King per-sonally solicited. Just before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was set to re-lease a report that singled out King’s company as a bad loan from the Energy Department, King divested himself from the company. King insists this timing was an “amazing coincidence.”

With the wind power route thor-oughly exhausted, King has now taken to supporting natural gas.

King’s “independent” ideology is misleadingBY TYLER SILVER

Keeping college housing open for an extra eighteen hours would allow graduates to catch their breath, sleep one more night in the bed that they call their own, and then, after eating

breakfast, get on the road.

In their ivory tower, liberal arts students must realize discourse isn’t action

Ladies of the night turn tricks. Liberal arts students turn phrases. “6 at’s just the way it is,” says Tupac.

Society expects college graduates to be literate. At Bowdoin we take it one step further, expecting even the hard-est science majors to graduate know-ing how to read and write. Great Ex-pectations. Flippancy aside, liberal arts schools believe it is essential that their graduates possess an ability to both un-derstand and participate in the written discourse of the world.

It may sometimes be di8 cult to pic-ture the real world from our “Bowdoin Bubble,” but it is easy to explain the training process: read, write paper, re-peat. 6 e big brains designed the curric-ulum so that it is impossible to make it through your 5 rst year without writing at least three papers. 6 ese are not just any old papers either. We expect Bow-doin students to take on civilization’s biggest questions. Bowdoin professors ask students to wrestle with racism, ge-netics, string theory, Freud, failed states, and the writings of many esoteric dead people.

Not only do they ask you to weigh

in on the big issues but they also expect you to construct a coherent and well-supported argument. Or if that fails, students can always resort to throwing academic jargon at the wall until some-thing sticks. Vague allusions to social constructs, heavy block quote usage, or the period trick are all time-tested last resorts.

Essentially, Bowdoin trains all of its students to be academics. While few will actually go on to become scholars, one needs to look only at the recent Orient article by several professors describing their jobs to see the striking similari-ties. Heavy helpings of reading, writing, and discoursing.

Discoursing is my favorite. God knows I love my liberal arts education dearly, but I have to confess: sometimes when I hear the word “discourse” too many times in a day, my bullshit meter explodes. A liberal arts degree o7 ers countless advantages; that whole busi-ness about counting nature a familiar acquaintance, and art an intimate friend is good stu7 , but there are some nasty pitfalls as well.

Nope, not lessened employment prospects. Bowdoin students are privi-leged with the Career Planning Center and with better-connected networks than Comcast.

Housed and educated in the liberal arts ivory tower, dangerous habits can form surreptitiously.

6 ere is this temptation at Bowdoin

like unicorns and dragons.Sometimes, though, it is clear that

our solutions should stay hypothetical. Because sometimes our solutions suck. 6 ere is a pervasive belief that we are quali5 ed to weigh in on every issue, even when we are woefully underinformed.

We are accustomed to professors asking, “What do you think?” In some cases, however, it would be better if we acknowledged that not every issue can be simpli5 ed to a ten-page paper.

For example, the Palestinian-Israeli con9 ict cannot be reduced to a snappy Orient article on hummus and cultural expropriation. Making questionable causal leaps like equating the use of an-other culture’s recipes to tarnishing their culture is suspect, in9 ammatory issues, and prevents reasonable dialogue. 6 e style and form of academia only work when you put in the legwork before-hand.

Elitism. Bowdoin prides itself as a training ground, and a breed-ing ground for that matter, of the world’s best and brightest. Ideas and intellectual horsepower abound on campus, and it is exciting to be a part of. Yet, I worry that we get too caught up in this idea, that while we dutifully acknowledge what a privi-lege it is to be in this environment, we accidentally assume an aura of superiority. I worry that we con9 ate academic excellence with excellence as people. 6 at the lack of negative feed-back we receive as students leads to an unjusti5 ed self-con5 dence. I have this fear that when they set us free into the “real world,” we’ll have lost sight of regular old common sense.

Maybe that’s just me. Maybe I am a hypercritical, insecure worrier. But maybe a sense of humility is needed to temper all those generous enthusi-asms and avoid the pitfalls of feel-ing too much at home in all lands and ages.

to think that any issue can be solved by talking it to death. To believe that dialogue is a substitute for action. To hope that merely acknowledging issues will be enough to cure them. To make plans and never follow through. While passively ingesting media gigabyte by gigabyte, it is easy to forget that action is the currency of the world, that to get a job done you have to get your hands dirty. Without action, the majestically creative solutions in which we take such pride start to sound an awful lot

HYPOCRITICALHIPPOPOTAMI

ERIC EDELMAN

King’s record does not point to a crusader of moderation and

independent determination, but to a man pursuing a self-serving agenda with a far-left bend—a combination unlikely to remedy

partisan gridlock in Congress.

Despite writing an op-ed about a year ago in which he vehemently criticized hydrofracking, a practice used to extract natural gas from shale rock, King has recently been calling natural gas “America’s second chance” in his Senate campaign. Just like his views on hydro and wind power, King’s interest in natural gas coincides with his corporate inter-ests. In this case, King has recently joined the board of Curran & Wood-ard, a natural gas company based in Portland.

Now that some of this informa-tion is coming to light, it should not be surprising that internal polls in-

dicate King’s lead in the Senate race has dropped from 20 points over the summer, to just four points over Republican candidate and current Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers. As governor, King im-plemented tax hikes and spending policies that turned Maine’s budget surplus into a huge de5 cit. Although King maintains that he lowered taxes 18 times during his tenure and when he le4 o8 ce “there was no de5 cit,” a fact check by the Morning Senti-nel, a Waterville newspaper, demon-strates King’s claims are false.

The Morning Sentinel shows that King also raised taxes seven times and did indeed leave his suc-cessor, Democrat John Baldacci, with a $1.2 billion deficit. Baldacci has since endorsed King’s Demo-cratic challenger Cynthia Dill.

Many on the right fear that King will caucus with the Democratic Party. Given King’s donation of more than $10,000 to President Barack Obama this cycle, these suspicions are justified. However, it is more likely that King will caucus with whoever will enable his self-interested lawmaking. It is unlikely such a senator would support bipartisan efforts with this left-leaning record that has clearly tied personal gains to his public service. Is this the candidate that will best represent your interests and those of the state of Maine?

Do not let King’s title as “Inde-pendent” fool you; a vote for An-gus King is a vote for just another partisan, self-serving politician.

Tyler Silver is a member of the Class of 2013.

YOUNGSHIM HWANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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EVENTElection DayStudents can vote at Brunswick Junior High School. 65 Columbia Avenue, Brunswick, ME. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

DISCUSSION Library Student Forum The Library will host a student discussion about its future and the search for a new director. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 7:30

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ATHLETICSWomen’s Rugby Championship The undefeated women’s rugby team will play against Middlebury in the NESC championship match. Pickard Field. 1 p.m.

CONCERT WBOR Fall Show WBOR’s concert will feature RJD2, Shlohmo and areturning performance from Forget, Forget. Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 10 p.m.

5MONDAY

INFORMATION SESSIONGlobal Citizens Grant Lucy Walker ‘14 and Julie Bender ‘13 will discuss their summer volunteer experiences in South Africa and Bolivia, funded by this College grant that supports student public service projects abroad. Room 106, Bannister Hall. 7 p.m.

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2FRIDAY

LECTURE “Markets and Networks: An Art Historian’s Journey into the Digital Landscape”Dr. Anne Helmreich, associate professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University, will discuss the develop-ment of the international art market and the condition of the digital humanities. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

LECTURE48 Hour Film Festival The Bowdoin Film Society’s annual festival will commence as students shoot, produce and edit footage in two days. Bowdoin Film Society Studio. 4 p.m

EVENT Portland Art Walk The Student Museum Advocacy Council will provide free transportation to Portland for the monthly First Friday self-guided tour of local museums and galleries. Polar Bear Statue, Smith Union. 5 p.m.

PERFORMANCEAutumn SongsThe Dutch Duo Baars-Henneman’s performance will combine recital and improvisation inspired by the fall season. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m. EVENT art. music. party ii: Day of the Dead Celebrate the Mexican holiday collaborative sculpture, live music, and food from Pancho Villa. Reed House. 9 p.m.

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RELIGIOUS SERVICEProtestant Chapel ServiceThe Chapel. 7 p.m.

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McKeen Center Open House The Center for the Common Good will discuss opportunities available for students interested in volunt-ing in the local community. McKeen Center Common Room, Banister Hall. 4 p.m.

EVENT“The Future of Israel: One State or Two”J Street U Bowdoin will host Lara Friedman, director of policy and government relations for Americans for Peace Now, who will lead a discussion the peace process for Arab-Israeli relations and national self-determination. Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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OFFICE HOURSTim Foster’s Weekly O! ce HoursInformation Desk, Smith Union. 4 p.m.

THEATER “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”Masque and Gown will present Tom Stoppard’s comedic play based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Tickets are available at the Smith Union info desk for $1. Wish Theater, Memorial Hall. 7 p.m.

DATE MONTH Screw Your Roommate V-day will host a reception for blind date matches. Students interested in seting up their roomates with a blind date can email jkaneria@bowdoin.eduMain Lounge, Moulton Union. 8 p.m.

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KATE FEATHERSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

HAUNTED HALL: Halloween overtook the facade of Memorial Hall on Wednesday night.

DINNER MENU:

MUSEUM OF ARTThe Supernatural in 19th cent. Japanese

Prints

DATE PANELSearles, Room 315

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES“They’ve Got

Rhythm!”DATE HIKE