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FEATURES: TALK OF THE QUAD OPINIONEDITORIAL: A healthy debate.

SPORTS: BASKETBALL CONTINUES TO SOAR

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ON THE MEDIA: Drew van Kuiken ’17 and Jean-Paul Honneger ’16 on the changing faces of mainstream news. Page 15.

Page 14.Emily Powers ‘14 appreciates CD ghosts tracks and Leo Shaw ‘15 refl ects on the value of libraries. Page 7.

After a tough win over Colby and a blow-out over Thomas, the No. 19 men’s basketball team prepares to host No. 3 Amherst this weekend. The women, also No. 19, will host the No. 13 Lady Je! s.

A&E: CELL BIOLOGY EXHIBIT IN THE V.A.C.

Interdisciplinary art exhibit showcases a collection of microscopic cellular structures. Page 8.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Neli Vasquez ’14 addresses the senior class in the Druck Atrium at the kick-o! event for the Senior Class Gift Campaign, which about a third of the grade attended. The campaign works to raise donations from the Class of 2014 for a gift to the College, in the form of a scholarship for a student in the incoming Class of 2018.

PAY IT FORWARD

Please see DAMAGES, page 4

Event kicks off senior class gift campaign

BY CAMERON DE WETORIENT STAFF

Last fall, students racked up $8,374 worth of damage to campus residence buildings, a 63 percent decrease from the $22,887 incurred last spring.

With $2,665 in charges last semes-ter, Baxter House once again sus-tained the most expensive residence hall damages. Brunswick Apartments had the second highest cost for the fall semester with just over $1,000 worth of damage, and Ladd House had the third highest ) nal cost of $849.

* e majority of Ladd House’s costs came from a chandelier smashed by a student during the celebration for the ) eld hockey team a+ er its National Championship victory.

Ladd House president Julian Tamayo ’16 said that he was glad that no one was hurt.

“As president you want to make sure that people are having a good time which was clearly the case, but for no one to get hurt and for the mess to get cleaned up pretty shortly

Security to prep students in event of gunman

BY PHOEBE BUMSTEDORIENT STAFF

Directory of Safety and Security Randy Nichols is working to cre-ate a program to train students in emergency procedures in the event of an armed shooter on campus.

Although this training does not yet have a set date or structure, Nichols said that it could a volun-tary hour-long presentation begin-ning as early as this semester.

This presentation has already been administered to over 300 fac-ulty and staff as well as all residen-tial advisors (RAs) and proctors.

The Office of Safety and Secu-rity has two primary systems of mass notification in the event of an emergency.

Blackboard Connect sends mes-sages by phone, email and text to students, faculty and staff.

“We also have a parent list to

keep parents informed of what’s going on here at the campus in an emergency,” Nichols said.

Cistera Networks projects mes-sages through the campus phones in students’ rooms.

In the event of an emergency, Se-curity has the ability to lock down all buildings that require cards.

Security, staff or faculty mem-bers must manually lock any other buildings.

“Bowdoin is ideally situated for a very quick emergency response in the event of an active shooter situa-tion,” Nichols said.

In his training, Nichols gives three simple steps in the event of a shooting: “Run, hide, fight.” The-first instinct should be to run as far away from the violence as possible. If running is too dangerous, hide in a secure area and stay quiet.

As a final resort, he reccomends fighting the shooter using any weapons available.

There are pre-incident indica-tors, or PINs, that can reveal a shooting before it occurs. The

shooter may act strangely, hold grievances against others, say something odd or even share their plans.

“You can never annoy Security. If your intuition tells you that’s there’s something wrong with a situation, report it to Security,” Nichols said. “We’ll check it out because nine times out of 10, if your intuition says something’s wrong, you’re probably absolutely right.”

Nichols hopes to dispel the myth that a shooting “can’t happen here.” Violence can occur anywhere, but he stresses that it is extremely rare.

Of the 150,000 gun homicides in the United States since the Colum-bine High School shooting in 1999, 188—0.12 percent—occurred in school settings.

Last week, an armed University of Southern Maine student locked himself in a fraternity house near the Gorham campus and threatened to shoot other fraternity members, according to an article in the Port-land Press Herald. He surrendered peacefully after a few hours.

Deans call for review of health services

BY JOHN BRANCHORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin announced plans this week to conduct a review of the way the stu-dent Health Center is structured.

In an email to students and em-ployees on Monday, Dean of Student A, airs Tim Foster wrote that the Col-lege is exploring the idea of outsourc-ing certain tasks to outside partners in light of the departure of Director of Health Services Sandra Hayes and the implementation of the A, ordable Care Act.

“Are there ways to provide students with greater access to medical special-ists and improve the coordination of care between on- and o, -campus pro-viders?” Foster wrote. “Are there new ways to manage medical records or to make emergency services more read-ily available? What changes might we make to the Student Health Insurance Program in light of the A, ordable Care Act?”

“* is is an area that is changing in dramatic and rapid ways,” Foster said regarding health care in an interview with the Orient. “* e whole land-scape is shi+ ing, not just nationally, but right in our own town. It seemed like the right time for us to look at what might be possible.”

Campus damages down from Spring 2013

Please see HEALTH, page 4

BY MAGGIE BRYAN AND YASMIN HAYREORIENT STAFF

Last night, over 160 members of the Bowdoin Class of 2014 con-vened in Druckenmiller Hall to support the annual Senior Class Gift Campaign.

The event is a classy affair—complete with hors d’oeuvres, champagne and semi-formal at-tire—geared toward raising dona-

tions from the senior class for a gift to the College that will aid future students in the years to come.

This year, the campaign is spear-headed by seniors Filipe Camarot-ti, Emily McNeil, Neli Vasquez and Wiley Spears.

The four directors were selected through an application and inter-view process in the fall and hired in early October by Alumni Fund Associate Alain Mathieu. Please see GIFT, page 3

“Run, hide, fi ght” says Director of Security Randy Nichols.

In addition, there are 32 senior class agents who volunteer to help run the campaign and educate the rest of the class about its objec-tives.

Modeled after last year’s project, this year’s class gift will be a schol-arship to a future member of the Class of 2018, a gesture that many students see as a great way to give

ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

In the largest College tunrout that Delete Blood Cancer DKMS had ever seen, 821 students gave DNA samples to representatives from Delete Blood Cancer DKMS at a drive on Thursday. Samples will be screened for matches

with cancer patients in need of a bone marrow transplant.

Please see the full story on page 3.

A PERFECT MATCH

With $2,665 in damage, Baxter once again racks up the highest

charge among campus buildings.

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6 is a7 ernoon, 162 students are taking part in an entrepre-neurial experiment, hoping to receive a rarity on the Bowdoin campus: Chipotle burritos.

“I’m going to be placing a mass order for over 100 Bowdoin stu-dents and I’m going to drive down to Chipotle [Mexican Grill] in Portland and come back to school and deliver them through-out the campus,” said Sam Silver-man ’14, the man behind “Chipo-tle Friday.”

Silverman said the idea initially came from a discussion he had with a friend while he was study-ing abroad.

“We were like ‘Yeah, Chipotle is pretty far away, but people really love it so maybe we could do a Chipotle Friday.’ I’ve heard Colby does a similar thing.”

Silverman’s business plan is straightforward: take orders from Bowdoin students on the “Chipo-tle Friday” Facebook page, place the order with Chipotle, pick up the burritos, and deliver them with help from about ten other people. He places a $2.50 sur-charge on each order, not includ-ing tips for his delivery assistants.

“Chipotle Friday” has been so popular that Silverman had to stop taking orders by Wednesday night. It has been most popular among 8 rst years.

“I know that people love Chi-potle so I thought it could be pretty popular but I couldn’t imagine it being quite this big,” said Silverman. “Like 50 percent of the orders are from freshmen—this has de8 nitely become a fresh-man phenomenon.”

According to Silverman, the sta9 of Chipotle in Portland is ex-cited about his project.

“6 ey’re totally cool with it—they’re happy it’s bringing a ton of business for them that they wouldn’t otherwise have,” said Silverman.”

Despite the fact that Silverman will be delivering so many burri-tos, he doesn’t plan on having one for himself.

“I’m a fan of Chipotle…[but] I’m probably not even going to get anything—there’s just so many burritos that I’m handling.”

As for the orders, only one seems to stand out for Silverman.

“Someone ordered a double tortilla which I’ve never heard of on a burrito—it’s craziness.”

-Compiled by Joe Sherlock

WEEK IN HAIKU

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Taki Nakamura ’14“‘Eye of the Tiger’ by Survivor.”

Ben Cumings ’15“‘I’m Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman’

by The White Stripes.”

STUDENT SPEAKWhat song best describes this week for you?

COMPILED BY JOE SHERLOCK

Elina Berglund ’15 “‘Wait So Long’ by Trampled by Turtles.”

Sophie Janes ’16“‘Rich as Fuck’ by Lil‘ Wayne.”

Every time students swipe their OneCards, they leave a trail of data that the College could—yet almost never does—use to reconstruct their movements over a certain span of time.

The Office of Safety and Security occasionally uses this data to help with its investigations.

To access it, Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols per-sonally requests a specific set of data, which is sent from the On-eCard office.

The data can be used in con-junction with camera footage of a

specific place during a window of time to help solve theft or burglary cases or to help Security locate a missing student.

Nichols says OneCard data has helped Security solve a number of crimes on campus, and that it is only used for investigative purposes.

“People should realize that any time you use your OneCard there’s a permanent record of that date, time and location,” said Nichols. “The data is collected, stored and it is retrievable.”

Every time a Bowdoin student uses a OneCard, data is sent to a cen-tral database in the OneCard o: ce.

Though all the data is acces-sible by this this office, Director of Events and Summer Programs Tony Sprague, who helps run the OneCard service, says that most of the data is

processed automatically. According to Sprague, when

data is accessed by members of the OneCard office, it is mostly for customer service reasons such as printing issues or questions about meal plans and Polar Points.

“If we were to do a search we could see data, but it’s not some-thing that’s readily looked at,” said Sprague.

The College tries to protect On-eCard data by limiting who has ac-cess to it. Departments and offices only have access to data sets that pertain to their work.

The Dining Service, for exam-ple, has access to the numbers of meal swipes in and out of dining halls, but not the entire database.

Students and professors have used OneCard data for academic

projects. Jeremy Lewis ’13, working with Assistant Professor of Math-ematics Jack O’Brien, used the data to study choice theory by modeling how people choose which dining hall to go to.

“The swipe data captures a lot of the social structure of Bowdoin in a pretty deep way,” said O’Brien. “Who you go to the dining hall with really counts as socially im-portant information.”

Because of privacy issues, the data Lewis used was anonymized. It was also collected three years ago. O’Brien and Chunyi Zhao ’15 are currently expanding upon the original study, working toward a more statistics-based analysis.

“You can pick up vegans almost perfectly,” said O’Brien, “because they so slavishly follow the menus.”

BY JULIAN ANDREWSORIENT STAFF

OneCard O! ce stores data on students’ movements

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EVAN GERSHKOVICH ’14

• An officer checked on a group of students sleeping out-doors in sub-zero temperatures, testing the limitations of their new sleeping bags (January 24).

• A student at an off-campus “No Pants Party” cut his leg on a shard of glass from a broken beer bottle. An officer escorted the student to Mid Coast Hospi-tal (January 25).

SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS

HOLY GUACAMOLE SILVERMAN ’14 LAUNCHES “CHIPOTLE FRIDAY” DELIVERY SERVICE

LEAPS AND BOUNDS

BRIAN JACOBEL, EMMA ROBERTS, GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTLLast Saturday, the Polar Bears faced off against five other colleges in Farley Field House. Clockwise from left: Coby Horowitz ’14 streaks past the competition. Bridger Tomlin ’17, John Izzo ’15 and Ryan Barrett ’17 leads the pack in a race. Emma Patterson ’16 clears the high jump.

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IT installs 45 new WiFi points, develops apps

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

Information Technology (IT) took steps to improve the College’s Wi6 network during Winter Break. Chief Information O7 cer for IT Services Mitch Davis said that IT installed about 45 new Wi6 access points throughout campus and 6 xed many of these that were not working last semester.

Last semester there were several complaints about wireless connections at various parts of campus, but IT be-lieves these changes will go a long way toward 6 xing them. One solution that IT has implemented is setting up tem-porary access points for special events. 8 e department has also partnered up with Cisco to remodel the entire Bow-doin data network.

“[IT] upgraded the whole wireless network to the next generation of wireless controllers and we worked with Cisco to work out some of the details,” said Davis. “8 at gave us setting for multicasting—basically a better way to communicate with the system so it actually bumped up the performance of all the access point by about half, 50 percent. So all the connections should be better and the bandwidth which you have available to you should have increased.”

8 is new system also reports bet-ter back to the department. IT can tell which devices and which models are being used—but not to whom they belong—so they can understand better why the WiFi is so slow.

Davis explained that one of the main reasons why certain devices are

so slow is that they are out of date. IT plans on running classes in which students can learn how to update de-vices such as iPhones, and not just apps, so that they better work with the updated network.

IT has also partnered with Oxford Networks and a new data network is being developed at the former Naval Air Station. For students this means that if the network ever shut down, Oxford Network’s data network would serve as a backup.

IT is also considering o9 ering a class in which students can learn about making apps. 8 e class will provide students with the tools to build apps that are relevant to their daily lives.

8 e Information Technology Ad-visory Council (ITAC) inspired IT to consider such a class. ITAC is in the process of developing multiple Bow-doin-related apps, including a mobile shuttle tracker app, a ride sharing app and a schedule app that will allow students to download their schedules onto their devices.

As for the app that would allow stu-dents to order from Jack Magee’s Pub on their phones or tablets, which was discussed last semester, Davis said that he met with Dining Service on Tues-day and met with ITAC yesterday to discuss it further. At this point, Dining Service is on board. 8 ere is no time-table for its development.

IT is still in the process of getting a Verizon tower put on campus. Da-vis said that it would most likely ar-rive by the end of the semester, and if not by then, de6 nitely before the fall semester.

Professors resist removal of campus tampon dispensers

BY CLARE DESANTISORIENT STAFF

Over the past year and a half, Facilities have removed tampon dispensers from a handful of wo-mens bathrooms across campus, catching the eye of a handful of female professors.

Facilities cites a general lack of use as the main reason for the re-moval of most of these dispensers on campus.

“We started removing them probably a year and a half ago, just whenever we were in the area doing a remodel or repainting,” said Jeff Tuttle, associate director of facili-ties operations and maintenance.

“A lot of them were in disrepair, rusted or dented, but the main reason is just… they just weren’t being used,” Tuttle said. “I think the last time we visited any of the machines was over a year ago and very little product had been used out of the dispensers.”

However, many professors have taken issue with their removal.

“This is a big mistake because I think as a co-ed, residential facility they should put tampons at least in all the class room buildings and all the office buildings,” said Suzanne Lovett, associate professor of psy-chology.

Upon realizing that tampon dis-pensers had been removed from Kanbar Hall, Lovett filed com-plaints with facilities and informed Dean of Student Affairs Tim Fos-ter that the dispensers had begun disappearing from campus bath-

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821 students participate in bone marrow donor drive

BY SAM MILLERORIENT STAFF

Representatives from Delete Blood Cancer DKMS collected DNA sam-ples via cheek swabs from 821 stu-dents in Smith Union yesterday to check for possible matches with can-cer patients in need of bone marrow.

8 e organization worked with Dave Caputi, head coach of the foot-ball team, Andrew Lardie, associate director for service and leadership at the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good, and student volun-teers coordinated through the athletic department.

“8 is is the best college I have ever done. 8 e leadership, the adminis-tration…very few school adminis-trations get behind a bone marrow drive like this one has,” said Donor Recruiter of DKMS New England Mi-chael Guglielmo. “What an amazing campus.”

With nearly half of the student body registering as potential donors, the day was a huge success for DKMS, an international nonpro6 t that is part of the largest bone marrow donor cen-ter in the world. College bone marrow donor drives generally register about 10 percent of an institution’s student body, and only one in three drives reg-isters more than 100 people, accord-ing to Guglielmo.

“18- to 25-year-olds comprise over 40 percent of the bone marrow match-es,” he said. “So doing a bone marrow drive with the athletic department and all the athletes on campus in that demographic is just ideal.”

Guglielmo, who became involved with DKMS in January 2007, recently lost his son, Giovanni, to NEMO, a rare immune-de6 ciency disorder that can be treated with a bone marrow transplant.

Now he leads the largest bone mar-row movement in New England, and has registered over 65,000 people and found over 240 matches between do-nors and patients. A: er today’s huge turnout, Guglielmo plans to return to Bowdoin to hold 6 rst-year orientation drives and annual all-campus drives.

“Once we start getting matches it’s just going to embolden the campus and solidify this movement here,” he said. “It’s not painful to be a bone mar-row donor, but dying is.”

back to the College.Vasquez noted that she has re-

ceived so much from Bowdoin that it is “really significant to have the opportunity to give back in a mean-ingful and impactful way.”

She also stressed to potential donors that it is really the thought that counts, and that students giv-ing smaller donations to the fund should not see their contribution as insignificant.

“You may not believe that you can give enough to create a mean-ingful impact,” said Vasquez in her opening speech at last night’s event. “Participation matters just as much, if not more, than the amount of money you give.”

The ultimate goal is an 85 per-cent class participation rate, a feat that would surpass last year’s class by five percent and seems entirely possible considering the large stu-dent turnout.

“I think it’s really exciting to have a big part of our grade be here tonight and to see the work that we’re about to do,” said class agent Katie Ross. “I think we can break the record for best participation.”

Students also commented on the event as a good way to bring the class together in a relaxed and fun setting.

“It’s a blast,” said class agent Jordan Goldberg. “It’s cool for the whole senior class to come togeth-er, all for a good cause: supporting Bowdoin.”

“8 e class doesn’t get to see each other enough, so it’s great that we can all come together in this envi-ronment,” added Marie Centano

’14. This year also marks the first

time that members of the faculty and staff have been invited to par-ticipate in the event.

“It’s really great that Security can be involved in something like this,” said Campus Security Officer Allen Daniels, one of many Bow-doin employees present in Druck-enmiller Thursday evening.

The campaign does not end with 2014 either; the Class of 2014 Gift Campaign operates with the hope that class members will continue to give to the College after receiv-ing their diplomas.

“There is a donor for every year that we reach 60 percent [partici-pation] that will give $10,000,” said Vasquez. “So on top of what we raise as a class, there will be

$10,000 for the next five years for every year that we reach 60 per-cent.”

President Barry Mills was unable to attend Thursday’s event, but in-stead appeared onscreen before an idyllic faux snowscape background to encourage students to donate.

“Once people start to give to the College, it becomes something that becomes part of their life,” he said.

rooms. Shortly after, the dispens-ers were reinstalled in Kanbar.

“Obviously if there is a need or compelling reason for us to put them in to select locations that we hear about, of course we would ac-commodate that,” Tuttle said, add-ing that there were still dispensers in Searles and a few other campus locations as well.

“I would hate for a student to have to leave class for that session because there wasn’t anything in the local bathroom,” Lovett said.

Sophomore Meredith Christian, agreed, saying the dispensers are valuable, despite infrequent use.

“I rarely use them, but I’m al-ways happy to see them when I need one,” Christian said.

Tricia Welsch, associate profes-sor of film studies, also notes that the absence of the dispensers, how-ever underutilized, has been felt. “I happened to notice there is nothing on [Sills first floor],” said Welsch.

“The only perspective I have is that is seems like a mistake to re-move such things,” Welsch said. “Whether people use them a lot or a little doesn’t matter. If you need one in an emergency you want it to be there.”

When asked about the dispens-ers’ infrequent use, sophomore Hannah LeBlanc cited the avail-ability of tampons on campus by other means than the machines.

“Nobody brings quarters and not tampons so when you ask a friend, ‘do you have a quarter?’ you could just as easily say, ‘do you have a tampon?’”

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ON THE AIR: Barry Mills, who was not present for the event, addressed the senior class via a pre-recorded video and spoke on the importance of giving.

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a6 er that was what made me feel okay about the incident,” said Tamayo.

In this case, a 7 rst year male stu-dent came forward to take responsi-bility for the incident, so the cost was transferred to his bill and the house faced no repercussions.

Associate Dean of Student A8 airs and Director of Residential Life Mary Pat McMahon estimated that only 30 to 50 percent of campus damages are attributed to a particular student or group of students. In many of these cases the guilty party only takes re-sponsibility because they are identi-7 ed by other students or by a proctor.

In a spring 2011 alcohol survey, 80 percent of Bowdoin students re-sponded that the College should counter property damage spurred by alcohol use with stricter disciplinary sanctions. In response—and a6 er $23,299 in damages incurred during the 2011-2012 academic year—the College changed their policies so that students who have not stepped for-ward and are then found responsible will be assessed a $100 7 ne on top of repairs, according to a September 2012 Orient article.

Students who are found guilty of malicious damage or vandalism may have to meet with a dean, and a let-ter may be sent home to the student’s parents. If the students are on athletic teams, they may have to meet with their coaches as well. In some cases students can be placed on probation or made to do community service in addition to paying for the damages.

“Alcohol is almost always involved,” said McMahon.

She acknowledged that this fact can play a part in determining the reper-cussions for the guilty student or stu-dents.

If no one takes responsibility for damages, then the cost of repairs is

split among all of the students who live in that building or on that par-ticular 9 oor.

“Last year we had a push for hav-ing people come forward so we had a spike in people taking responsibility. : is year that went back down a little bit partly because we are constantly re-educating people on that process,” said McMahon.

In the fall of 2013, the Student Gov-ernment Association of Colby College

passed a motion that would force all students living on-campus to split the cost of any unattributed damages. : e hope is that this initiative will help to prevent excessive damages in the future. : e Student Government As-sociation will send the proposition to Campus Life for consideration.

McMahon said that no such prop-osition has been considered at Bow-doin in the time that she has been here. She pointed out that it would be

especially di; cult on the Bursar’s of-7 ce to have to add so many small fees to each student’s bill.

: e high spring 2013 costs can be widely attributed to a broken pipe and subsequent 9 ood in Baxter’s basement; the house alone racked up $8,324 in damages. A student took responsibility for the incident and paid for the costs.

Over the past three years College Houses have consistently needed the most costly repairs, with Ladd and

Baxter topping the list. Brunswick Apartments also had high costs for repairs over the past three years.

McMahon explained that Ladd and Baxter o6 en are the sites of the worst damage because of their central location on campus.

“: ey have a lot of tra; c,” she said. McMahon added that, beyond

paying for the repairs, College Hous-es are not punished for excessive damages.

: e Health Center’s current direc-tor, Sandra Hayes, will leave at the end of the year.

Senior Associate Dean of Student A8 airs Kim Pacelli will lead the re-view. To begin, she said, the College is reaching out to potential partners in the community.

“We’ve already been thinking about what partnerships, in theory, could look like,” said Pacelli. “Now, I think we need to actually sit down and think about the mechanics.”

Foster noted that Bowdoin already has partnerships with many health service providers in the area. Most of those are specialists who provide services not available on campus, like orthopedics or lab diagnostics.

: e College hopes to gauge the in-terest of potential new partners and outline what its options are by April 1. : en, Foster said, there would be some student involvement.

“Our interests will continue to be that our students will continue to have the highest quality of care, and that there are not barriers, speci7 cally 7 -nancial barriers, that would prevent students from having access to care on campus,” said Foster.

Foster’s email laid out three op-tions, two of which involved restruc-turing. One would involve sta; ng the entire Health Center with workers from an outside contractor. Another would keep existing medical sta8 , but outsource administrative tasks like billing and insurance. A third would keep the Health Center operating as it has in the past.

“Because our sta8 have a degree of

specialization and expertise in what’s called college health, I would hope that, if we were to go with another provider, that provider would talk to the mem-bers of our sta8 about opportunities to sta8 the operation,” Foster said.

Foster and Pacelli both emphasized that the College is only at the begin-ning of the review process.

“Even though we can’t sit here today and say how it’s going to go, I think it’s important to say that we’re having these conversations,” said Foster.

Regardless, Foster said, “Change of some magnitude is coming.” “With everything that’s happening in the insurance arena, it’s hard to imagine we’re not going to have some type of change to the insurance, in terms of how things are done now,” he added.

When it comes to insurance, stu-dents are currently required to either buy insurance through Bowdoin’s plan or have insurance through an-other provider that meets Bowdoin’s standards. : e A8 ordable Care Act (ACA) introduced new standards for college insurance plans.

“We already had a lot of the charac-

teristics in place that are now required under the ACA,” said Pacelli, “but there are some things required now, like pre-existing conditions, dental, vision, where we’re waiting to see what we need to do.”

In an Orient survey this fall, the Health Center had an approval rating among students of 76 percent. : at marked a rise from fall 2012, when its rating was 69 percent, the lowest of any o; ce included in the survey.

Students appeared interested in re-form possibilities. Chase Gladden ’17 said he had an on-campus injury and was “very pleasantly surprised with the Health Center.”

However, he said he wished they could help more when it came to co-ordinating with outside insurance providers and specialists.

“If hiring an outside agency would help with administrative duties, that would be good for campus,” said Gladden.

“I understand that this is a college, but at the same time, if we have to go to Mid Coast, we have to pay money to go do that ourselves, and the cost rises,” said Chase Savage ’16. “: ere are times where I won’t go, or I’ll say, ‘oh, it’s not that bad,’ because I don’t want to go to the hospital and I don’t want to have to pay that cost.”

Savage said that his support for a restructuring was contingent on easier access to treatment. “I actually would love if they partnered with an out-side agency to sta8 the entire Health Center, if that would somehow make it easier to get some services,” he said. “But that being said, the biggest thing for me to look at is whether this will change tuition costs, and whether this will change the overall experience in the Health Center.”

“Our interests will continue to be that our students will continue to have the highest quality of care, and that there are not barriers,

specifi cally fi nancial barriers, that would prevent students from having

access to care on campus.”

TIM FOSTERDEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE ORIENT STAFF

Fall 2013: Top Residence Hall Damages

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Thursday, January 23• A noise complaint was report-

ed at Brunswick Apartments I.• A fire code violation was re-

ported in a Brunswick Apartment. NOTE: Walls and ceilings may not be covered with tapestries, and holiday decorations may not be at-tached to sprinklers.

Friday, January 24• Holiday lights were found

wrapped around the sprinkler sys-tem in a Coles Tower Apartment, in violation of the fire code.

• An officer checked on a group of students sleeping outdoors in sub-zero temperatures, testing the limitations of their new sleeping bags.

• A student was found smoking marijuana inside Moore Hall. A vaporizer kit was seized.

• An officer checked on the well-being of a student and visitor at West Hall.

• An intoxicated female student at Coles Tower was transported to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.

• An intoxicated male student at Ladd House was transported to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.

Saturday, January 25• A student was cited for hinder-

ing security officers as they were aiding an intoxicated student.

• A student in Moore Hall was found to be in possession of mari-juana and assorted paraphernalia.

• A suspicious vehicle was re-ported on North Campus Drive.

• A student in Maine Hall was cited for an alcohol law violation.

• A student at an off-campus “No Pants Party” cut his leg on a shard of glass from a broken beer bottle. An officer escorted the stu-dent to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A student who injured a wrist playing broomball at Reed House was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

SECURITY REPORT: 1/23 to 1/29

BSG considers change in vacation shuttle service

BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

The Student Activities Fund-ing Committee (SAFC) has about $60,000 left to spend this semester, according to a report given at this week’s Bowdoin Student Govern-ment (BSG) meeting.

In her report on the SAFC’s re-cent approvals, BSG Vice President for the Treasury Megan Massa ’14 said that the SAFC’s remaining total is less than the same time last year by $16,000; however, Massa did not seem worried about the commit-tee’s ability to fund student activi-ties throughout the rest of the year.

“It’s probably going to be a little tight, but it’s better to spend all of our money on great things than have all of our money left over and have underfunded clubs,” said Massa.

The assembly then debated on the state of BSG’s shuttle services during break. Vice President for Facilities David Levine ’16 argued that the College’s switch from us-ing Brunswick Taxi to Mermaid Travel to shuttle students to the

airport was a positive change, as it allows students to schedule shut-tles upon their return from break, and includes online sign-up and payment.

The switch to Mermaid also pro-vides other benefits. According to Levine, if a student’s flight is can-celled, they are able to get a free ride back to campus, something not previously covered by Bruns-wick Taxi.

Despite these added services, Levine noted that pricing had been a common complaint from stu-dents across the board. Mermaid Travel’s shuttles cost $30, com-pared to the previous Brunswick Taxi fare of $20.

The other option available is to charter buses from Bo-Mar Trans-portation, a Topsham charter ser-vice. While Levine estimated that this might be cheaper, it would also be less flexible in terms of timing and would require the ac-tual payment and organization of the shuttles to be run through BSG and Student Activities.

The meeting ended without a decision, and the discussion will resume at a later date. Any further switch of the break shuttle service would not occur until next year, so Mermaid Travel will continue to be the BSG-sponsored service for Spring Break.

• A student at Quinby House was cited for drinking from a bottle of hard alcohol.

• A student was cited for pos-session of hard alcohol at Quinby House.

Sunday, January 26• Loud music was reported at

Ladd House and a gathering was dispersed.

• A student at Mayflower Apart-ments accidentally pulled a fire alarm. The alarm was reset.

• Spray-painted graffiti was re-ported on a stairway wall at Ladd House. A student took responsi-bility for causing the damage.

• An officer checked on the well-being of a student with stomach pains at Appleton Hall.

• Officers responded to a report of a minor altercation in the Ad-missions parking lot.

Monday, January 27• A small tin containing a small

amount of marijuana was found in the common room at Ladd House.

• A student reported the theft of his baseball glove from Bax-ter House over the weekend. The glove is a black Wilson A2000.

Tuesday, January 28• A common room table and

a basement restroom wall were found damaged at Ladd House.

Wednesday, January 29• Damage was reported in a Gib-

son Hall practice room.• A visitor to Druckenmiller

Hall willfully violated the policy prohibiting animals in College buildings. NOTE: Animals, with the exception of service animals, are not permitted in College build-ings.

• A student reported the theft of a pair of yellow L.L. Bean Go-re-Tex lined women’s boots from the women’s locker room at Farley Field House.

-Compiled by the Office of Safety and Security.

BSG discussed the benefi ts and drawbacks of the switch from

Brunswick Taxi to Mermaid Travel.

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BY MARTIN SHOTTORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin Organic Garden grows to include new plot of land

ported by the Dining Services, student volunteers do much of the work that goes into food production.

“Because this is such a visible spot, we hope to really increase our partici-pation and things we can o5 er folks who can just walk over between class-es,” said Cawthon.

Last academic year, the Organic Garden supplied $35,000 worth of produce to the dining halls and about $2,000 worth to the Midcoast Hunger

Prevention Program. Its produce is comprised of dozens of di5 erent crops.

In addition to the new farming land, the property includes a historic barn that will be used as a small, ver-satile classroom space. 6 e Organic Garden hopes to share the space with academic departments.

“We’ve already had two classes use our property out on Pleasant Hill Road, and that was the 7 rst time class-es have ever done actual projects from

our garden,” Cawthon said. “I think that it will be so much easier for class-es to walk over, whether it be biology, soil science, or outdoor education.”

Students have approached Cawthon about practical skills class-es like hands-on cooking that could be hosted in the barn. Additionally, the nearby dorm could potentially serve as a gathering space for Or-ganic Garden programming.

“6 e functional space is a good

Until this year, aspiring farmers at Bowdoin have trekked almost three miles down the road to work on the crops at the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust. 6 eir walk will get shorter this spring, with the Bowdoin Organic Garden’s new plot of land right next to campus on Harpswell Road.

6 e College acquired the former Stevens Retirement Home property at 52 Harpswell Road last year, and has allotted the half-acre backyard and barn to the Bowdoin Organic Garden.

Farm Manager Sara Cawthon has overseen the process of converting the lot into usable farmland.

“Last August or September, we put in a cover crop to start improving the soil for growing this year,” said Cawthon. “It’s super skimpy. All of Brunswick is on really sandy soil.”

Because of the weak soil quality, light crops such as salad greens will be planted in the plot. 6 e harvest will be served in the dining halls. Brunswick’s 8 at topography is ideal for farming, but the soil needs to be supplemented with nutrients and organic matter from compost and a cover crop.

While the Organic Garden has two dedicated sta5 members and is sup-

Agua de Piedra is delicious, perfect for fancy occasions

Lingering outside is impossible in the cold weather that consumes Maine, so we have taken to the comfort of the great indoors.

In the midst of swirling eddies of cold air, we watch Drake shine bright through a MacBook in “Started from the Bottom.” He does not hashtag “po-larvortex,” but rather throws his arms wide in the whirling snow, his all-white out7 t shining in gaudy de7 ance. Win-ter will not shatter his soul. He’s 8 ying low over Toronto in a jet borne on ket-amine wings.

Welcome to the new year and the new us. We fancy up here. Who needs a $10/bottle price maximum? We’re moving up in the world.

And in the words of Drizzy himself, “started from the bottom, now the whole team here.”

6 is week, we sampled a 2013 Agua de Piedra Malbec. One of only six grape varietals allowed in red wines from the Bordeaux region of France, Malbec has found unblended success through cul-tivation in Argentina. Malbecs are gen-erally dark and high in tannins, with a distinctive plumlike 8 avor.

Our Malbec poured a rich, dark red. It clung to the glass, a sure sign of high alcohol content. A quick label check con7 rmed: 13.7 percent. We were in business. 6 e nose gave a hit of oak and earth with a touch of dark fruit. Sharp but loving; “50 Shades of Grey’s” Chris-tian Grey in a bottle.

Agua de Piedra is a robust wine. 6 e

drink has an initial note of elderberry that slowly fades to a heavy tannic pres-ence. Smooth in front and strong in back; our Malbec along with the mul-let will lead this generation forward to greatness. 6 e strong tannins make slower sipping with meat or pasta a must. Faster sipping without food would also work, but make sure you’re in a nice place like the library.

A heavy body supports the earth tones well. 6 e weight is well-balanced, but would not be accompanied well by a strenuous activity like running. Speak-ing of sports, Super Bowl! Why not en-joy this nice Malbec while watching Se-attle commit multiple counts of uncalled pass interference.

6 is hearty wine is perfect for those cold winter nights sitting alone waiting for her to text you. She leaned against the salad bar nearing the gherkins and told you she would get in touch when she 7 gured out what she was up to for the night. Dinner was two hours, 36 minutes ago, but who’s counting? May-be you shouldn’t have double texted her. Did you come o5 as too desperate? Should you triple text her? Go ahead. Do it. Or pour another glass of your 2013 Agua de Piedras Malbec and eat a gherkin.

Additional Notes:

Dan: Pours perfectly into wine glasses or water bottles that you take to H-L on a Tuesday night.

Nose: Body:Taste:

Pair with being the best corner in the game. Also, Hungarian beef and mush-room soup. $13.99 at the New Hampshire liquor store.

DAN LIPKOWITZ AND RYAN PEABODY

BOTTOM OF THE

BARREL

size,” she said. “It would be easy to have 10 or 15 students do a small pro-gram, whether it be cooking or gar-dening. We’re going to keep the main little section open, and it’s de7 nitely going to be hooked up to electric.”

In the coming spring, Cawthon hopes the proximity of the new farm to campus will get students excited about growing their own food. Soon enough, the dining halls will be 7 lled with even more Bowdoin produce.

Students explore Jewish roots on Birthright

Spiritual life for many Jewish students at Bowdoin is limited to Hillel-spon-sored Passover events and Yom Kippur services in Daggett Lounge. However, over breaks, many students go on Birth-right trips, which are organized by Taglit Birthright Israel, a non-pro7 t organiza-tion that sends nearly 40,000 young, Jewish adults to Israel each year.

6 e program is designed to allow Jewish youth ages 18 to 26 to explore their connection to the Jewish faith and visit tourist destinations in Israel.

Birthright applicants are subject to strict eligibility requirements and those wishing to make the trip must be able to demonstrate that they have at least one Jewish parent or show proof of their conversion to Judaism. 6 ese stipula-tions are designed to prevent those with-out a real and legitimate interest from taking advantage of trip, for which costs are minimal—close to free.

Sunita Chepuri ’14, who made the Birthright trip in January 2012, spoke positively about her experience, during which she was able to see many di5 erent parts of the country.

“We started in the north, where we did some hiking and went to a kibbutz,” Chepuri said. “6 en we came further south, went to Jerusalem and to the Western Wall, and to...Tel Aviv for a day, which was pretty cool; then went further south, where we saw the Dead Sea.”

Dan Lipkowitz ’14 says he had several reasons for going on a trip.

“Israel as a country is just a really in-teresting place; I wanted to be able to see the country and also experience the cul-ture, and I thought it was great to have an opportunity—especially one that’s free—to do that,” Lipkowitz said. “Also, I grew up in a fairly religious household, and while I’m not as religious as I used to be, I thought it would be interesting to revisit my relationship with Judaism

and that this was a good way to do that.”Amanda Mino5 ’15, who made the

trip in 2012, said her choice was moti-vated by the allure of subsidized travel and the cultural relevance of the region.

“It’s just a really amazing opportunity that I don’t think anyone should pass up; it’s free travel to a very important part of the world...and a chance to get to the place—and to see and experience it—is really important,” said Mino5 .

For some, however, the experience was not a wholly positive one.

Sophie Binenfeld ’17 described the Birthright experience of her sister, who reported feeling pressure from her Is-raeli counterparts to immigrate to Israel.

“6 ey say that they want to o5 er us a cultural experience, but from what I’ve heard, they’re also trying to convince us to move there,” said Binenfeld.

Although the political climate in Is-rael is quite heated, most students inter-viewed said they felt that Birthright trips promoted fair and balanced discussions.

“Everyone—the Israelis, the trip

JEFF YU AND ELIZA GRAUMLICH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTGARDEN OF EATING: The Bowdoin Organic Garden has acquired a plot of land on Harpswell Road, which will provide students with a close-to-campus space to cultivate crops for the dining halls.

BY MATT SHENORIENT STAFF

leaders—were really open minded and down to have discussions,” Mino5 said. “6 ere were some organized activities where we had to come up with a plan [for a two-state solution], and even though we weren’t going to solve any-thing, it was interesting...to think about very real issues.”

Students said the degree to which Birthright engages local political issues seems to vary from trip to trip. Lipkow-itz said that though he did feel that his trip endorsed a speci7 c political agenda, he believes his experience was “kind of an anomaly.”

“What I’ve heard from most people is that they try to avoid the political as-pect, essentially,” Lipkowitz said. “Mine, though, did o5 er political viewpoints, ones that I didn’t necessarily agree with because I felt that they might have sim-pli7 ed the Middle East con8 ict...It was kind of o5 ering opinions on how much support you have to o5 er Israel and whether that connection is purely politi-cal or if it’s a part of Judaism.”

COURTESY OF EMMY DANFORTHHUMP DAY: Emmy Danforth ’14 is one of a handful of Jewish students who have taken advan-tage of Birthright’s all-expenses paid trip to Israel. Danforth traveled there last January.

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And as a senior who is still try-ing to figure out what I want to be when I grow up, it goes beyond patience. Everyone worries over endings, maybe because we expect things to change or be taken away.

So the unknown makes us wea-ry, I guess. But graduation is a lot like the final measure of the last song on your favorite album—a false ending.

Beyond it, there just might be another song, another instru-mental, another whole experience that we can’t predict. It only feels strange because we aren’t used to letting things happen to us, letting chance take over.

What if the whole time we are scared, though, we decide to trust that whatever comes at the end of the quiet will be worth it, that sometimes the best part of the al-bum plays when you least expect it.

I keep telling myself to let the next few makeshift months happen as they may. To see if, instead of dreading the ending and the wait-ing, I will be able to enjoy the si-lence as much as I’ve enjoyed the music; knowing all along that there will be a moment when the gui-tar kicks in and, out of nowhere, a track I’ve never heard starts to play.

-Emily Powers, Class of 2014

If you’ve heard it, you know. By now, most of us would have come across it on some CDs we listened to with our parents when we were kids. The last song ends, fades or crashes out, then silence. But the stereo, or CD player or car radio keeps running quietly—you hear the internal mechanisms click while the CD spins.

And for some reason (your dad is up to his shirt sleeves in grocer-ies while your mom is cursing out telemarketers over the phone, and your uncle is maneuvering traffic at rush hour) no one turns the sys-tem off.

Minutes go by and you’re no longer paying attention to the CD, because it is over and the daily world has distracted you. You’re sitting at the kitchen counter or in the passenger seat thinking about how they get lead into pencils, and out of the nothingness comes a chord. Then another. And sud-denly there is an outburst of that familiar voice, a fever of brass and bass licks.

You look around to see where the music is coming from, con-fused. When you realize that the CD has come back to life, you imagine the band members having held their breath for the past four minutes. That’s a ghost track.

If you’ve never heard a ghost track before, it isn’t because they’re rare. Most would argue that the first came from The Beatles on their “Abbey Road” album, but theirs certainly wasn’t the only one.

From the Clash’s London Calling to Jay-Z’s Blueprint, from Coldplay to the Black Keys to Kanye to Dave Matthews, ghost tracks show up across the board.

So you really like Ed Sheeran? Wait through the brief thirty sec-ond pause at the end of “Give Me Love” and you’ll hear what I’m talking about.

T h e gap be-tween the end of the last listed song on an album and the tra-ditionally un-named ghost can last for just a few beats, or it can run for upwards of 10 or 20 minutes.

More often than not these days, iTunes names ghost tracks on a given al-bum’s song list as a bonus track, alerting the buyer not only to the track’s ex-istence, but also to its name and length.

But in the vinyl format, you couldn’t skip ahead or fast-for-ward to the moment when the hidden song kicked in.

As for CDs, you rarely knew the track would be there waiting for you because it didn’t exist in print on the case, or anywhere for that matter.

I’ve been thinking about ghost tracks a lot lately. The process of reaching them—the false ending of the last song, the hushed wait-ing, the unexpected return—seems

TALK OF THE QUADOFF TRACK

HOOKED BYTHE BOOKS

A small college’s symbolic center has always been its library, but at Bowdoin, it doesn’t look like any-thing special. Hawthorne-Longfel-low Library does its job without any of Hubbard’s gothic panache, and by now wears its fluorescence and bad textiles with a tired comfort.

The library instead comes alive through the fulfillment of elabo-rate routines—shelving, catalogu-ing and loaning its treasures to the rest of us. There isn’t much wonder that goes into the average swipe, beep and stamp of checking out a book, but to trace these patterns as they wind through the unthink-able breadth of the collection is a

bit exhilarating.I worked at the library over the

summer of 2013, doing the osten-sibly monotonous. I accepted bins of books from the UPS guy, ri6 ed through them, and placed them on hold shelves.

I gathered long loaves of them that accumulated in the re-turns, gingerly locating their homes among the stacks. I swad-dled them in bubble wrap and sent t h e m

away for mem-bers of far-6 ung faculties to thumb through.

But to describe it so matter-of-factly is disingenuous. What I was really doing was submerging my at-tention momentarily into thousands of little bits of printed esoterica. I was absorbing the idioms, typogra-

phies, illustrations, humor, prejudices and aesthet-ics of generations. I was

sort of in heaven, but in a diminu-tive heaven that usually must be re-served for trainspotters, monks or other obsessives.

It was a perfunctory paradise. 7 e beeps of barcodes and

the 6 ipping of pages

the tusk of a narwhal is really its overgrown right incisor, while the le8 invariably atrophies. One day a resolute homeless man stared at me from a photo essay, holding a sign on which he had scrawled, “One day I will build an empire.”

It was not exciting in the same way as, say, watching basketball

multiplied and layered themselves so as to become quietly sublime. It’s an unnatural feeling, for example, to be able to compare the collect-ed writings of di9 erent American presidents by weight. Or to happen upon the ominous cover of WIRED magazine’s Y2K edition, now yel-lowing in the basement. Or to pore over mountains of antique defense maps, tracing exotic archipelagos and villages in the Caucasus that I

will never visit. If there’s a lasting effect of the library’s orbit, it can best

be described as a patient insatiability, holding onto the impossible hope of following the

apocryphal footsteps of the Renaissance humanist

who was said to have read ev-ery published book. Like the determined man in the

photo, it is the promise of an even-tual empire within the mind. I don’t work in the library anymore, but I still have a sense of an inexorable drift, not unlike that of the nar-whal’s right tooth. As if I m ight spi-ral lazily outwards, past the barrier

of my corporeal self and into the sea of printed words.

-Leo Shaw, Class of 2015

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

to have a point past aesthetic pref-erence. Springsteen said, “the best music, you can seek some shelter

in it momen-tarily, but it’s e s s e n t i a l l y there to pro-vide you s o m e t h i n g to face the world with,” and I’m not one to dis-agree with the Boss.

Our lives as students have con-d i t i o n e d us to be e f f i c i e n t and busy

beings, as though pro-d u c t i v i t y

makes us bet-ter people.

Sometimes I write out sched-

ules for my days by the hour and I have to block in

time for lunch, for calling my sister,

and for sleep. We’re always

moving forward, planning and taking our time so seriously.

But there is something to be said for silence.

That instead of run-ning around, I could

choose to stay and wait. Look around. Listen. Try not to pick up my phone. Consider that just sitting, suspended in those distilled beats of nothingness, might be enough.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Everyone worries over endings, maybe because we expect things to change or

be taken away.

The monotonies of the job did not disappear, but

merely multiplied...to become quietly sublime.

is. It was closer to the m a g -netism of a tumblr feed, although stupendously physical. Even in an age where the wealth of the world’s knowledge is available virtually, there was a woozy feeling brought on by actually helping to manage a staggeringly large chunk of the written record of our civilization.

7 e monotonies of the job did not disappear, but merely

marked the journeys of thousands of miles and hundreds of years. Alan Watts would give way to Argentin-ian anthropology, or to a nineteenth century ad for A1 Steak Sauce.

From a crusty volume of com-parative odontology I learned that

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

‘The Art of Cell Biology’ exhibit fuses visual art, scienceBY MICHELLE HONG

ORIENT STAFF

The good, the great and the indie: top-rated albums of 2013

Reports of the music industry’s death have been greatly exagger-ated. The year 2013 was a tour de force year for music fans.

From pop stalwarts making good on early promise, to upstarts just cutting their teeth, we got album after album of challeng-ing, important and just plain fun tunes. Yeezus be praised. Whoever says music isn’t what it used to be must be paying too much atten-tion to the Grammys. That white dude who played at Colby last year won some stuff—in addition to four Grammys, Macklemore won Humble Brag of the Year and Most Bizarre Wedding Singer.

Last year proved that artists could have a lot of fun with long-form album publicity, a la Arcade Fire’s “Black Orpheus” stream, Kanye West’s facial projections, and Daft Punk’s guerrilla style poster campaign. It also proved that artists—okay, Beyoncé—could have a lot fun recording an album in secret before letting the Internet devour it piranha-style with no warning at all.

Bowdoin biology students are taking on a new role as artists this week in “The Art of Cell Biology.” The exhibit is currently on display in the Fishbowl Gallery on the first floor of the Visual Arts Center. The show is comprised of digital prints of colorful microscopic images from Professor Bruce Kohorn’s cell biology classes and research proj-ects, and will be featured until Fri-day, February 7.

In his 12-year tenure at the Col-lege, Kohorn has amassed hundreds of microscopic images that he values not just in his work as a scientist but also for their aesthetic qualities.

The subject matter—which pres-

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTUNDER THE MICROSCOPE: These magnifi ed images of brightly lit cells were taken by students in Professor Bruce Kohorn’s cell biology classes and are currently on display in the Fishbowl Gallery in the Visual Arts Center.

ents plant and animal cells during different cell processes—resembles neon signs more than nature.

5 e students obtained these im-ages using the College’s cell biol-ogy imaging facility which includes seven compound 6 uorescence microscopes, computer capture so7 ware, and an National Science Foundation-funded confocal micro-scope able to capture 3-D images. 5 e images are a result of using 6 uo-rescence instead of re6 ection, as is common in most microscopes.

Kohorn said the idea for the show was based on his apprecia-tion of the beauty of nature.

“In class, I really try to help the students understand the impor-tance of a pleasing image rather than just something for informa-

tion,” he said.The students have taken this les-

son to heart and expanded their perspective on imaging.

“You definitely have your mo-ments when you just stop thinking about what you’re actually study-ing and looking for and just think, ‘That’s awesome; that’s a gorgeous picture,’” said Noah Gavil ’14, one of Kohorn’s students.

Part of what the students find amazing is that although the im-ages document ordinary organic processes, they can look incandes-cent with just a few manipulations.

“It’s always cool when you’re looking under a microscope and start shining UV light at it and see-ing what fluoresces,” said Gavil. “Even just a water droplet looks so

cool as an individual image.”Kohorn himself organized the

majority of the show. Using the vi-sual arts department’s equipment, he printed and mounted the images.

However, the final selection of images was made collectively by the students.

“There are a lot of pictures that are wonderful, but I can’t show them all,” said Kohorn. “I didn’t want to exclude anyone so [I] rep-resented the whole class as having contributed to the show.”

Kohorn said that this sort of ex-hibit is not new within the scienti8 c community, but that the art-science form has just now come to Bowdoin.

Last year, there was an exhibit in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art done by Collin Roessler of

the Earth and Oceanographic Sci-ence Department, that similarly displayed scientific processes in an artistic way, albeit the photos were of glaciers and icebergs rather than cells undergoing mitosis.

“I think it’s good to think out-side of your small box. I think it’s good to explore different ways of looking at things,” he said. “Aes-thetic is really important.”

5 is art form can serve as a unique way of documenting scienti8 c work.

“The way you present your data—often how you visualize it—can really be extremely important,” said Gavil. “Even if you’re not do-ing something where literally the data is a picture—or has a visual arts component—you try to make it into some visual representation.”

When Daft Punk exhorted musi-cians to “Give Life Back to Music,” it seems like they took it to heart. Yo ’71, Imma let you finish, but 2013 was one of the best years for music of all time. Here are some of my favorite albums from the past 12 months, minus “Yeezus.”

Mutual Benefit - “Love’s Crushing Diamond”

At last, the banjo has been re-claimed from Mumford & Sons by a multi-instrumentalist worthy of the “Heir to Sufjan” title. Recorded on the road during a tour of tiny midwestern venues, “Love’s Crush-ing Diamond” is breathtakingly gorgeous. It is an album resplen-dent with shimmering strings and warbling vocals. A delicate, transi-tory record, it clocks in at just over a half hour, and is all the more pre-cious because of it.

Darkside - “Psychic”

The debut album of ambient wunderkind (and recent Brown graduate) Nicolas Jaar and his friend Dave Harrington, Darkside takes LCD Soundsystem’s guitar-turntable dialectic and extends it to its logical conclusion. The al-bum fuses woozy sounds, boozy

vocals, and shoe-gazey guitar-work into a syncretic soundscape. Open-er “Golden Arrow” sets the stage, taking a full five minutes to build a twerking, jerking guitar riff out of an ethereal morass of sound before slipping into a comfortable groove for the next seven minutes. The rest of the record is no less weird, espe-cially the initiation ritual chant of “The Only Shrine I’ve Seen.”

My Bloody Valentine – “m b v”

Kevin Shields had been promis-ing a new MBV album for years, but I think we’d all given up hope. The record they returned with—their first in 22 years after the ground-breaking (and still perfect) “Love-less”—shows what reclusive per-fectionists can do given unlimited time and sky-high expectations.

a new track back in February. “She Found Now” opens the album like a hurricane in a bell jar, roaring with odd detachment and quiet devastation. The album is a superi-or release to this year’s other long-awaited (and also pretty good) al-bum, Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories,” and is every bit as well produced. Each guitar tremolo, snare hit, and unintelligible lyric is in exactly the right place. My Bloody Valentine once defined an era, but with “m b v” they prove that their sound is timeless.

Arcade Fire - “Reflektor”

Just how high were the stakes for Arcade Fire’s new album, the band’s fourth release after a decade-long run of cathartic, an-themic, fantastic records? So high that they brought in James Mur-phy to produce it and upped the ante once more with the Septem-ber release of the title track. When the album finally dropped, after a drawn out tease release, fans were nonplussed. What the hell were we listening to? A Haitian-tinged disco fest about Greek mythology and Baudrillard? What happened to the transcendent “woah ohs,” the songs about childhood and in-nocence, or, for that matter, a lead-ing part for Regine? “Reflektor” is

more “Achtung Baby” or “Fear of Music” than “Kid A.” Its grooves are irresistible, but the kids al-ways knew how to dance. What’s new is its playfulness, its carnival-style damned-if-I-do attitude that makes being “trapped in a reflek-tor” sound like the right moment to pop the balloons, fill the room with confetti, and dance.

Vampire Weekend- “Modern Vampires of the City”

No one was expecting Vampire Weekend to release an album this good. 5 eir debut was promising, and their follow-up more of the same, but Ezra and his Columbia cohorts always seemed more preoc-cupied with seeming smart than ac-tually being smart. 5 ey strip away the pretense, however, on “Modern Vampires of the City.” From Rostam’s funky vocal manipulations to Ezra’s lyrical poetry, this is a rich poignant record that has each band member on point. Maturity suits these Ivy Leaguers, as Ezra waxes eloquently about God, wisdom and a girl in his sophomore English class.

Vampire Weekend proves that it can reappropriate the best song of the last decade and turn it into a con-tender for the best song in this one: instead of “Hey Ya,” I’ll be squealing “Ya Hey” for the next 10 years.

HIPSTER DRIVEL

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piranha-style with no warning.

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Original series ‘The House’ drawsviewers to Bowdoin Cable Network

BY JODI KRAUSHARORIENT STAFF

Tell me a little bit about your in-volvement with WBOR.

I’m a music director on man-agement. I’ve been a DJ since the beggining of sophomore year and music director since the middle of sophomore year. I’ve had one show for a long time with a co-DJ, Jay Priyadarshan ’14, and I’ve had my own show for a couple years now.

What does a music director do?I get new music from anyone

who wants to be played on College radio, and I do little reviews for our DJs to show them what they might want to play on their show.

What’s your show called?My solo show name is 6 omder

and Lightening. 6 e show I have with Jay is “6 e Lazy Zoo with Tom and Jay.”

How did you get involved with WBOR?

I wanted to do a show all fresh-man year but I was a little indeci-sive about it, I didn’t feel like I had a lot to contribute. Sophomore year I was like, “Let’s do it,” and I got a show with Jay. Immediately a7 er that, I started meeting management and they needed a music director, so I applied sophomore year.

What kind of music do you play?So, genres are hard, as I’m sure

you know. 6 e college music jour-nal is the way we chart a lot of our music. By their classi8 cations I play rock, loud rock, RPM, world, and hip-hop. I’m de8 nitely on the garage-y, so7 -rock side.

How do you come up with music to play on air? Is there an art to ar-ranging songs?

O7 en it’s what I want, although I’ve been getting better at starting with something so7 er and more widely known, and then I can move into a more specialized zone. My M.O. is to play stu9 that’s just com-ing out or being charted—very new albums—because it’s good to show-case those artists and there’s some novelty there.

What was appealing about get-ting a show?

6 e classical appeal is you get to play your own music and peo-ple have to listen to it. You get to monologue and talk about what you care about. Like, sophomore year Occupy Wall Street was going on so I got to talk about that on my show. It’s a direct relationship with the community, more direct than I think a lot of the systems we have at Bowdoin are.

How do you interact with the community?

6 is is one of the bigger radio stations around that people listen to, so you have to cater to their tastes. People call in to my show. And we have a lot of community members who are DJs.

What would you like to do with your platform on WBOR?

When we talk, Jay tries to make jokes on the air. I try to mention things that are important to peo-

ple. I prefer issues outside of the Bowdoin community because I think the majority—or at least our more permanent—listeners want to hear about that. I’ll let the other DJs cater to the Bowdoin issues.

Now the fun questions: What’s your guilty pleasure song?

“Gas Pedal”…I de8 nitely like that song and I de8 nitely feel guilty for that. Although maybe I shouldn’t feel guilty about my pleasures.

Who sings that song?I don’t know. That’s part of why

I’m guilty.

What about a song you couldn’t live without?

Tame Impala—“Half Full Glass of Wine.”

What makes it so special?It’s so simple, but it’s everything I

like. It’s drone-y, melodic. 6 e song makes you familiar with itself.

Does that song pretty well rep-resent your taste in music?

I think so, yeah.

What’s the song that’s had the biggest impact on you and your taste in music?

This takes me way back to high school, because that’s when I started getting in to stuff that I listen to now. I’ll go with “Street Spirit” by Radiohead.

What is one thing about your taste in music that you don’t think people could guess based on what you play on WBOR?

I feel like I do bare myself on my show. Maybe I don’t show enough about what I dislike. Maybe I could play a song and say, “I don’t like that because of x, y and z.” At the same time I’m sure people think I’m kind of pretentious based on what I’m playing, so maybe I should assert that I’m not.

So, what are you working on at WBOR now?

We want to do certain pro-gramming slots. We want no more dubstep on Sunday mornings, or talk shows in the afternoon when people will be driving around.

Anything else you want people to know about WBOR?

I want people to know that for campus clubs and organizations, if they want to do something on the air, we’re totally open to that.

6 e student-run Bowdoin Cable Network (BCN) is working hard to regain its former viewership under the leadership of presidents Destiny Guer-rero ’14, Rickey Larke ’15, and vice-president Julián Huertas ’16.

Currently, the station’s most popu-lar production is “6 e House,” a moc-kumentary-style series of 10-minute episodes based on the lives of Quinby House residents. Featuring a variety of planned and improvised scenes and a rotating cast of actors from across campus, episodes debut at campus premieres and are a7 erward uploaded to Youtube.

Huertas came up with the idea for the series a7 er watching an episode of BCN’s old show “6 e Dorm”—which is loosely based on NBC’s “6 e O: ce”.

According to Huertas, the series is most popular with sophomores, al-though it’s helping BCN gain popular-ity with the entire student body.

Huertas said that getting the series started has not been easy.

“I was really disappointed because there was a lot of talk about potential projects [last year] but nothing got done,” said Huertas.

In addition, the network faced a va-riety of technical issues.

“6 e audio for each camera was es-sentially gone…and the cameras were very obsolete,” he said.

Larke said one of the main challeng-es of getting BCN back in gear has been acquiring the necessary equipment.

Now that the show is up and run-ning, the producers hope it will spark a comeback.

“We don’t just want ‘6 e House’ to continue, we want BCN to experience a revival,” said Huertas.

“6 rough ‘6 e House,’ people have started to realize that BCN is coming back and we’ve gotten a lot of requests to do things—such as BCNews, or dif-ferent clubs want promotional videos,” added Huertas.

“‘6 e House’ is kind of geared to-wards sophomores, more or less, or freshman—people who don’t really know much about the social house experience or are in the midst of the social house experience,” Larke said.

The first episode has 692 views on YouTube.

However, the club is still far from achieving Larke’s goal of campus acclaim.

“I have never heard of [‘6 e House’],” Liam Ford ’17 said.

“I’ve seen their posters around—I want to watch,” said Penelope Lusk ’17. She added that she has never actually seen an episode.

“I just watch ‘6 e House’ because I’m in Quinby,” Marina Marlens ’16 said, “I always assumed [BCN] was past its prime.”

6 ough BCN once played a more active role on campus by publicizing various campus events in a news seg-ment, it has faced several challenges in recent years.

“By the time I joined the club there were no members other than me and Destiny and a few other people,” said Larke. “Last year it was basically

GARRETT ENGLISH, ORIENT STAFFNEW DIRECTION: Creator and director Julian Huertas ’16 (left), fi lms an upcoming 10-minute episode of Bowdoin Cable Network’s “The House,” based on NBC’s sitcom “The O! ce.” The series is centered on Quinby House and features a rotating cast of actors from the House and beyond.

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN CABLE NETWORK HOUSE PARTY: Kyle Gurtowski ‘16 in a still from episode 2, “Luckiest Girl in the World.” Scenes are largely improvised and take place around campus.

dead…right now we’re breathing new life into BCN.”

Another challenge the network faces is acquring funding for updat-ing equipment.

“BCN hadn’t been doing things for almost two years, so it was hard to get funding when you don’t have any con-tent to show,” said Larke.

Huertas mentioned that the network is working with alumni as well as the Student Activities Funding Committee to try and secure funding.

Larke stated his vision for the club as: “a place where people can bring their idea and explore it.”

“I want to make a foundation where people can have BCN as an outlet to create any type of video, television, or 8 lm,” he added.

Steve Messina ’14, a member of the ice hockey team, said that he would watch sports programming because it is hard as an athlete to keep up with the matches of other teams. He said he does not currently watch BCN’s programs.

To increase viewership, BCN is looking to create a sports recap seg-ment, and hopefully recreate BCNews. Additionally, the leaders are hoping to have BCN become an outlet for those interested in 8 lm production.

“I want people to join to teach them how 8 lming works, how editing works, how running a show works,” said Huertas.

Right now, the group is mostly working on creating content to begin building a consistent audience.

“We want people to view this thing—that’s the biggest part,” said Larke.

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Millers, Crimp lead nordic skiing in fi rst ’14 carnivals

5 e nordic skiing team is look-ing to improve its ranking among the schools represented in the New England Nordic Ski Association this winter.

Both this season and historically, the Polar Bears have routinely 6 n-ished in or around 10th place out of the 13 to 14 competitors repre-sented at each meet, known as “car-nivals” among Nordic skiers.

Head Coach Nathan Alsobrook expressed his desire to see the Polar Bears at seventh or eighth place in the carnivals this winter.

“5 ere’s a glass ceiling,” said Al-sobrook. “We’re trying to break through to get to that mid-level of the conference.”

5 e team’s overall score, however, is not necessarily indicative of indi-vidual performances on the team.

“5 e nice thing is that we’re see-ing a lot of individual results im-prove,” said Alsobrook. “5 at’s re-ally been our big success so far.”

Last Saturday, at the University of New Hampshire, Kaitlynn Miller ’14 6 nished in the top ten in both the 5K classic and 15K freestyle events, with times of 14:54.6 and 43:24.8, respectively. She earned nine points in total towards qualifying for the NCAA nationals.

“Kaitlyn is in a very good posi-

Men’s hockey tops Midd in OT thriller

A7 er a busy 6 rst week of classes, student fans rejoined their Bruns-wick counterparts at Sidney J. Watson Arena to watch the men’s hockey team go 2-1 last week, losing to top-ranked Williams College at home on Saturday.

On Tuesday evening, the Bears

welcomed the University of South-ern Maine to Watson Arena. In their previous match up—the 6 nal game of the fall semester—the teams had tied 3-3. 5 e USM game is one of six non-conference games for the team this season. 5 e game came a7 er a tough weekend of games, and le7 the team with only a single practice to prepare for the contest.

“We call those games the ‘Tuesday Trap’ games, especially coming o8 a big weekend when people are tired and beat up,” said Jay Livermore ’14. “It’s tough to turn it around.”

Despite this, Bowdoin opened

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ORIENT STAFF

The women’s basketball team continued its exceptional run this week, recording victories against Colby and Husson on Saturday and Tuesday, respectively. The squad now boasts a very impressive 17-2 record this season.

The Polar Bears met stern op-position on Saturday in their fifth NESCAC contest of the year. After a stellar 16-point first-half perfor-mance from sophomore standout Shannon Brady, Bowdoin held a 40-33 halftime lead at Morrell Gymnasium. The Mules closed to within four points of the Polar Bears with 18 minutes to play, but a powerful response from the home team was too much for the Colby defense to handle.

Bowdoin proceeded to score 18 unanswered points and won 73-53. Brady scored a game-high 22 points, while captains Sara Bink-horst ’15 and Kristen Prue ’14 scored 11 and eight, respectively.

“Offensively, we have a very balanced attack,” said captain Al-lie Piscina ’14. “We know anyone is bound to step up on any given night, and against Colby we did a really good job incorporating the whole team.”

Bowdoin hosted the Husson Ea-gles on Tuesday in their last non-conference game of the season. The women never trailed once on

tion for qualifying now with her finishes last weekend,” said Also-brook, though he stressed that it was still too early to be “taking any-thing for granted.”

Miller successfully quali6 ed for nationals last year, which made her the 6 rst Bowdoin skier to do so since 1997.

In the classic event, Miller was followed by her sister Hannah Mill-er ’17, who took 16th with a time of 15:15.15.

5 e younger Miller’s future with the team was uncertain as recently as a few months ago.

“We weren’t sure whether Han-nah Miller was going to make it on the team,” said Eva Spaeh ’16. “She’s really worked hard and improved herself; she’s now skiing sixth and seventh on the team.”

“It’s very hard to come into the college circuit as a first year and be competitive, but [Hannah has] been able to make that transition so successfully,” said Alsobrook. “This is perhaps the most successful sea-son so far that we’ve seen out of one of our first years.”

For the men, James Crimp ’14 earned a ninth-place finish in the men’s 10K classic at the Colby Carnival, with a finishing time of 32:25.5, the best Bowdoin result since 2008. In the 15K freestyle the next day, he posted a time of 38:53.3, good enough for 22nd place.

“[James will] be a little more of a dark horse candidate,” said

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No. 19 men’s basketball to play No. 3 Amherst

Over a month ago, in the midst of its season-opening 12-game win-ning streak, the men’s basketball team handily beat Colby (8-8 overall, 1-4 NESCAC) by 18 points at home in an out-of-conference matchup. Last Sat-urday’s rematch was much closer. With a second place position in the NES-CAC on the line, the Polar Bears nar-rowly edged the Mules 64-59 in Mor-rell Gymnasium to improve to 15-1 on the season (4-1 NESCAC).

A7 er raining down six threes and scoring 28 points on only 14 shots in the teams’ 6 rst meeting, Andrew Madlinger ’14 was locked down by the Colby defense, which only allowed him to take seven shots the entire game.

With Madlinger kept in check, the No. 22 Polar Bears were still able to take a 35-28 lead going into hal7 ime with the help of the frontcourt duo of juniors John Swords and Keegan Pieri.

A7 er Colby tied the game with just over 11 minutes le7 in regulation, Bowdoin quickly regained the lead

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by racing o8 to a 10-2 run. But the Mules—far from defeated—chipped the lead down to 6 ve with 55 seconds to go.

Electing to make Bowdoin win the game on the free-throw line, Colby re-sisted the urge to shoot three-pointers and the Mules’ Luke Westman drove into the lane for an easy two to cut the lead down to three.

Colby’s pressure on the subsequent inbounds play forced the Polar Bears into a turnover, giving Colby the ball and a chance to tie the game with 17 seconds le7 . But the Mules missed their three-point attempt and Grant White ’14 made a pair of free throws on the other end to seal the win.

“5 ey just picked up their intensity all over the place,” said Lucas Hausman ’16 on Colby’s transformation since their last meeting. “It threw us out of what we do a little bit but we were able to get back to it and pull it out.”

“5 ey really got out at guys, were physical, and tried to get us out of what we were trying to do and were successful with that to a degree,” said Head Coach Tim Gilbride. “What’s been good about our team, though, I think we are capable of taking what-ever the other team is going to give us. We were able then to get the ball inside

their way to an 85-50 victory. After a slow start, Bowdoin pulled ahead to a 44-29 lead at halftime. After intermission the Polar Bears con-tinued to press the Eagles, at one point increasing their lead to as many as 40 points.

Fourteen different players scored for Bowdoin on the night, evidence of a very capable and hungry bench. Piscina and Bink-horst led the scoring for the Polar Bears with 12 and 11 points on the

strong, with Kyle Lockwood ’14 scor-ing the team’s 6 rst goal a7 er less than a minute of play.

A7 er clearing the puck out of Bowdoin’s defensive zone, Connor Quinn ’15 took the puck up the right side, passing to Harry Matheson ’14. Matheson passed back to Quinn who had positioned himself at the front of the net.

After a goalless second period, the Huskies responded with their first and only goal of the night. Ten minutes later, Colin Downey ’14

ANISA LAROCHELLE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

STICKING AROUND: Seniors Colin Downey (left) and Kyle Lockwood chase a loose puck in Tuesday’s showdown against USM. The Polar Bears won 4-1.

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BIONIC WOMAN: Allie Piscina ’14 advances the ball up the court against Husson in Tuesday’s home game.

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ship, team chemistry and a lot of depth,” explained Head Coach Adrienne Shibles. “We have a very young team and the way we have achieved this season speaks very highly for what is to come.”

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the average age of the squad; ten of the sixteen women are either first years or sophomores.

Piscina is happy with the current team dynamic.

“The upperclassmen have done a good job incorporating the whole team,” she said. “We are very happy to have players consistently play-ing well and there are definitely players who have been developing this year that will continue to im-prove for years to come.”

This coming weekend the Polar Bears will host a huge weekend of NESCAC action. Bowdoin will play Trinity College (3-2 NES-CAC) tonight and No. 13 Amherst College (4-1 NESCAC) tomorrow in Morrell Gymnasium.

“If we want to be successful this weekend we need to focus on our strengths and use our size in the post,” explained sophomore Nina Hadzibabic. “When we play Am-herst they will be a very tall team so we will have to mark up well on their dangerous players.”

“We are looking at this weekend one game at a time,” said Shibles. “Both Trinity and Amherst are very physical teams and great at re-bounding. We need to increase our physicality in the paint in order to be successful.”

After this weekend the Polar Bears will only have three games remaining in the regular season. The women are currently ranked third in the NESCAC and the next five games will go a long way to de-termining their playoff seed.

Alsobrook. “He’s definitely some-one who could qualify if he has some good races in these next few weeks.”

Riley Eusden ’14 also managed to place within the top half of con-testants, 7 nishing 42nd in the 10K classic and in 34th place in the free-style, with a time of 39.29.5.

“[Eusden] is de7 nitely someone I want to take a moment to praise,” said Alsobrook. “He’s been working hard ever since his freshman year and to 7 nally have this big breakthrough last

where [Swords] did some scoring and Keegan did some scoring.”

On Tuesday, the team traveled to Waterville, where it blew 8 omas Col-lege (6-11) out in a 106-42 win. 8 e Po-lar Bears were dominant on both ends of the 9 oor—only allowing 8 omas to shoot 25 percent from the 9 oor while scoring a season-high 106 points.

Many members of the team con-tributed to the high score. Madlinger and Matt Mathias ’14 went a com-bined 9-15 from beyond the arc and Hausman, Neil Fuller ’17, and Marko Peraica ’15 added 16, 11, and 9 from the bench, respectively.

Hausman has been the team’s sixth man all season, producing big num-bers in limited minutes coming o: the bench.

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too, I just try and bring as much en-ergy into the game,” said Hausman. “If our o: ense is a little stagnant or if we’re not doing what we need to do I just try to bring some energy and pick everybody up.”

8 e team’s ability to pull from its tal-ented bench has been an essential part of its success this season.

“We’ve needed contributions from a lot of people on our team to pull out di: erent games along the way,” said Gilbride. “We’re certainly going to need that in the games coming up.”

Bowdoin is preparing for games against Trinity and No. 3 Amherst tonight and tomorrow. As the team enters the heart of the NESCAC schedule it needs to continue its suc-cess to remain near the top of the conference standings.

“I think we’re pretty con7 dent,” said Gilbride. “We’re capable of playing a higher scoring game or a lower scor-ing game depending on how the 9 ow of the game goes.”

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Richard Sherman is an absolute delight

If you’ve made even a minimal at-tempt to follow football over the past couple of weeks, you’re probably sick of hearing about Richard Sherman. In fact, the noise about Sherman has been so deafening that this may not be the 7 rst piece you’ve read beginning with that sentence.

In case you’ve tuned out, here’s the SparkNotes version: Sherman is one of the best defensive players in the NFL, and he’ll be the 7 rst to tell you so. A cou-ple weeks ago, Sherman clinched a Su-per Bowl berth for his Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game by breaking up a last-minute pass intended for one of his many rivals, San Francisco wide receiver Michael Crabtree. Sher-man taunted Crabtree a; er the play, which was pretty standard behavior for perhaps the league’s biggest loudmouth.

But the real dram’ came a; er the 7 nal whistle. In a live postgame inter-view with FOX’s Erin Andrews, Sher-man looked directly into the souls of viewers at home and shouted that Crabtree was a “sorry receiver.” He also yelled, “Don’t you open your mouth about the best, or I’ma shut it for you real quick,” which, of course, is a dope thing to yell on live television.

Unfortunately, not all FOX viewers shared my enthusiasm. Many fans took to Twitter, 9 ooding the website with tweets calling Sherman an animal and a thug. Many more skipped right past the euphemisms and openly called Sher-man the n-word.

8 e disgusting words of grown adults became a story of their own, dis-tracting from legitimate debate about Sherman’s conduct. He’s pissed o: too

many opponents to name, many of whom happen to be multi-time Pro Bowlers. His on-7 eld behavior is brash and arrogant. He acts without decorum and violates rules both written and un-written. He is unsportsmanlike. He is an asshole.

All of which is to say that he’s an ab-solute delight to watch on the football 7 eld. Football is but a game, and those who deviate from standard pigskin etiquette always make things more in-teresting. Curmudgeonly old fans love to call Sherman classless and disre-spectful, but the man is nothing if not entertaining. Crabtree smacked him in the face last week. Carolina Pan-ther Steve Smith helicoptered him to the turf earlier this season. 325-pound Washington Redskin Trent Williams straight up punched him in the jaw a; er last year’s playo: game between the two teams. 8 e next week, Falcons receiver Roddy White gave Sherman a taste of his own medicine, burning the corner for a long touchdown and subsequently taunting him.

As a Patriots fan, I was 7 rst intro-duced to Sherman’s antics early last season, when the Seahawks beat us (I play for the team). Sherman chased down Tom Brady a; er the victory and goaded the quarterback with the time-tested gibe, “You Mad, Bro?” When asked about Sherman last week, Brady said he respects his opponents and wins graciously and suggested that Sherman does not do the same, which, duh. But any time you can get Touchdown Tom to wax sanctimonious about the pre-cious Patriot Way, you’re doing some-thing right.

Sherman’s bold behavior is mag-ni7 ed by the fact that he is perpetu-ally in the spotlight. Cornerbacks are perhaps the most vulnerable players on a football 7 eld and he embraces the challenge. Le; one-on-one with

football’s best receivers, he shuts them down nearly every time—when quar-terbacks dare to throw his way, that is. Despite not being targeted o; en, Sher-man led the league in interceptions this season, picking o: eight passes. He’s 6’3”, strong, and quick for his size. His game-saving play against Crabtree last week encapsulated his game, a feat of technique, athleticism and intelligence.

Speaking of intelligence, many de-fended Sherman from Twitter’s best and brightest two weeks ago by arguing that, hey, Sherman went to Stanford, and Stanford does not admit “thugs.” While this may be true, it was irrelevant and a perplexing argument to make against racists who did not deserve to be addressed at all. Nonetheless, Sher-man is indeed smart as a whip, and he may be the most entertaining of all NFL players in press conferences. In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, he’s somehow turned question a; er stupid question into thoughtful and hilarious answers. In the last couple days alone, I’ve seen Sherman patiently answer questions about the league’s marijuana policy and, incredibly, players’ sup-posed conduct at strip clubs. I don’t know how some of these people got press passes.

On Sunday, all eyes will be on Sher-man as he takes on all-time great quar-terback (and corporate shill for Papa John’s) Peyton Manning. Manning rewrote the NFL’s passing records this year at the age of 37, and his receiving corps is overwhelming in its stylistic diversity and overall talent. Facing the biggest challenge of his career with everything on the line won’t stop Sher-man from running his mouth, though. By all means, take to Twitter and exer-cise your divine right to talk shit about Richard Sherman. Just don’t take your eyes o: the screen for too long, or you’ll be missing a hell of a show.

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Tim Long ’17 has already made some revisions to Bow-doin’s record books during his short time on the men’s swim team, breaking the 1000-yard freestyle record with a 9:55.32 time against Bates on Janu-ary 17. Conrad Stuntz ’94 had held the record at the College since his senior year. Long won the 1000 free and took the 500-yard freestyle in the same meet. He has followed the re-cord-setting performance with wins in both categories at Wes-leyan, dominating the 1000 with a 12-second cushion.

“We talked about it at the be-ginning of the season, and we thought all three of them (500, 1000, 1650) would go down this year,” said Nate Garner ’17, adding that Long had been close to breaking the Bowdoin records since the beginning of the season.

Long began swimming at age five, joined a competitive summer league soon after, and was swimming year-round by age nine.

“My friends were all swim-ming,” Long said, “It was a summer camp kind of thing. Then I won my first heat, got the blue ribbon and realized I like winning too.”

Long knew as early as his first year in high school that he wanted to swim at the collegiate level. He joined a swimming club to gain experience in long-distance races such as the 1000-yard and 1650-yard, which gen-erally aren’t events at the high school level. The longest race offered in high school swim-ming is usually 500 meters.

Distance swimmers at Bowdoin practice longer than their short-distance counter-parts, as Head Coach Brad Burnham focuses on strength-ening the aerobic system to the point that a distance race becomes a contest of speed as much as endurance. Long ex-plained that a lot of his prepara-tion is self-determined, and that he and the other distance swim-mers—Alex Tougas ’14 and Nate Garner ’17—coordinate to schedule their group’s practices.

An additional difficulty of distance swimming is the focus on mental discipline.

“I like it because it’s such a mental battle,” Long said. “You know it’s going to take a long time. You’re not going to be stopping at the wall and talk-ing to people.”

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Tim Long ’17

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Garner agrees, noting the strategy involved in distance swimming compared to the raw energy exertion in shorter races, including the ability to make up for a mistake.

Outside of the pool, Long is looking forward to taking advantage of the NESCAC’s short season to get involved on campus this spring. He has expressed interest in OutAl-lies, Green Athletics and BMASV and has found him-self tentatively on the track of a biochemistry major with an emphasis on math. The self-proclaimed “audiophile” is also a DJ for WBOR and is looking to start a campus board game club. One such game near to his heart has been Cosmic En-counter, which became part of his post-practice routine over winter break.

Both Tougas and Garner champion the benefits they

• Set school record in 1000-meter freestyle with a time of 9:55.32• Won 500 and 1000-meter freestyle races at Wesleyan last weekend

HIGHLIGHTS

“I like it because it’s such a mental battle. You know it’s going to take a long time.

You’re not going to be stopping at the wall and talking to people.”

TIM LONG ’17SWIMMING

weekend was really nice.”Heading into the last four car-

nivals of the season, the Polar Bears are focusing on sharpen-ing the skills they have cultivated during earlier months.

“This is the time of year where the athletes need to be as well rest-ed as possible, and where we do a lot of short, fast workouts,” said Alsobrook.

“I think the team as a whole—we’re all pushing each other and moving forward as a group,” said Spaeh. “The hard part is, so is everyone else. Things are getting more and more competitive on the race circuit.”

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have gained from Long’s posi-tivity in the pool.

“I have to give him a lot of credit for invigorating me this year,” Tougas said. “Last year I struggled a bit. Now, I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in.”

“Tim’s always staying posi-tive,” Garner added. “Even when he’s not excited for some-thing he acts excited for it, which is helpful. Sometimes there’s nothing fun about early-morning practice.”

While some would be con-tent with holding a record at an institution as old as Bowdoin, Long and his teammates say there’s more work to do when it comes to breaking record.

“[The 1000-meter record] probably won’t make it to NES-CACs,” said Long. “All three of us will beat it.”

“I think Tougas and I will end up where Tim is now by the end of the season,” Garner said. “But I think Tim will improve even further. I think Tim will get all three [records] if he—no, he’ll get them.”

! e sports editor of the Orient chooses the Athlete of the Week based on exemplary performance.

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Swimming teams top Trinity, Wesleyan in NESCAC battles

Last Saturday the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled to Wesleyan, where they defeated both the Cardinals and the Trinity Bantams. The women beat Trinity 197-96 and Wesleyan 168-129, while the men also routed both squads with final scores of 213-80 and 219.50-67.50, respectively.

On the women’s side, Lela Gar-ner ’16, Sophia Walker ’17 and Christine Anderson ’17 won big. Garner won the 200 freestyle and the 200 individual medley, Walker won the 100 free and 50 free, and Anderson took the one and three-meter dives.

“Lela Garner swam some really great races,” said co-captain Helen Newton ’14. “Not only did she fin-ish first, but also in the last 100 meters she demolished everyone, which was really great to see.”

Newton had impressive races as well, finishing second to Wesleyan swimmer Roxy Capron in both the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke.

“She fell a little short, but was right on [Capron’s] heels and was just o7 her personal best time,” said Burnham.

Erin Houlihan ’17 also came through for the Polar Bears with a victory in the 500 free.

“She probably had the swim of the meet in the 500—a really smart and really strong race from her,” said Burnham.

Multiple winners for the men were Timothy Long ’17, who won both the 1000 and 500 free, and Thomas Kramer ’16, who took both the one- and three-meter div-ing events. Both Kramer and An-derson are now qualified for the national selection diving meet.

Other winners for the men were John Lagasse ’16 in the 100-meter breaststroke, JR Chansakul ’16 in the 200 breaststroke, Kevin Koh ’16 in the 100 butterfly, William Shi ’15 in the 50 free, and Chris Granata ’14 in the 200 butterfly.

“Chris swam a very smart race. He was really easily paced in the beginning and then emerged as the strongest guy in the second half of the race,” said Burnham. “He’s won most of the 200 flys in his career—around 75 percent.”

Joe Celestin ’15 also swam well for the Polar Bears, finishing the 100 fly with a personal best time.

The Polar Bears will swim at noon tomorrow at Colby.

BY ELI LUSTBADERSTAFF WRITER

Many track & fi eld athletes PR at home meet

8 is past Saturday, the men’s and women’s track teams hosted their third consecutive meet. 8 e men easily took 9 rst place while the women 9 nished as runner-ups for the second consecutive week.

Men8 e men came out on top against

the tough competition of Tu: s, Col-by, University of Southern Maine (USM), Coast Guard and St. Jo-seph’s. 8 ey took 9 rst place with 174 points, beating second-place Tu: s by 17 and third-place Coast Guard by an even 40.

Senior captains Sam Seekins and Coby Horowitz led the team by com-bining for 30 points. 20 of those came from Horowitz, who won both the 1000-meter and one-mile events. 8 e All-American also won the mile run last weekend, but this week switched his second event from the 3000-me-ter run to the 1000. Even though he ran the mile 9 rst, he said the new race may have been the reason for his mile being about 10 seconds slower this week, up from 4:11 to 4:21.

“8 e mile is 9 rst, but it’s always in the back of your head that you have another race. I think I ended up taking the mile a little easier than I normally would have,” said Horow-

itz. “Getting ready to run the 1000 gets me ready for the rest of the sea-son, when I’ll be running two races a meet.”

Head Coach Peter Slovenski agreed, mentioning that he applied the same strategy when coaching most of his runners.

“Whatever their prime race is, we like to enter people in races both longer and shorter,” said Slovenski, who is coaching for his 28th season.

Slovenski mentioned that in one 5000-meter race this past weekend, 9 rst years Ryan Barrett and Bridger Tomlin, Nick Walker ’16 and John Izzo ’15 all ran personal bests. 8 e Polar Bears’ throwers did similarly well, with juniors Anthony Todesco and Cam Woodford and sopho-mores Ben Woo Ching and Cam Ch-isholm all setting personal records.

Parker Hayes ’17 had another star performance at the meet. 8 e 9 rst year won his heat in the 60-meter hurdles and then placed second in the 9 nals behind an All-American from Coast Guard.

8 e team will host the Maine State Meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow.

Women8 e women 9 nished just eight

points back from Tu: s, which was vic-torious with 152 points. Lucy Skinner ’16 led the way for Bowdoin, winning both her events to score 20 of Bow-

doin’s 144 points. Her mile time, 5:11, was six seconds ahead of second, and in the 1000-meter run she 9 nished three seconds ahead of the next fastest 9 nisher with a time of 3:06.

She was backed by teammates Addison Carvajal ’16 and Hayleigh Kein ’15, who 9 nished 9 rst and third in the high jump, respectively. In the long jump, the Polar Bears took second and fourth, with Carvajal again placing second and Katharine Krupp ’16 taking fourth.

Krupp also won the triple jump with a distance of 10.91 meters.

Meghan Bellerose ’17 had quite the performance as well, winning the 600-meter run with a time of 1:40 a: er narrowly missing 9 rst in the 800 meter last week.

In the throwing events, the Po-lar Bears saw a strong performance from senior Katherine Harmon, who took 9 rst place in the weight throw event. Randi London ’15 was not far behind in fourth place.

“We’re getting a strong founda-tion of scoring in the 9 eld events,” said Slovenski. “Our throwers and jumpers are ready for the champion-ship season.”

With the aforementioned cham-pionship season kicking o7 at the Maine State Meet in two weeks, the team will look to continue to im-prove this weekend as it travels to the Tu: s Invitational.

BY NOAH SAFIANORIENT STAFF

Women’s hockey salvages tie on Saturday

8 e women’s hockey team faced o7 against Middlebury —the team it beat in last year’s NESCAC 9 nals—this past weekend. Unfortunately, history did not repeat itself. 8 e Bears le: the Panthers’ home turf with a loss on Friday and a tie on Saturday.

On Friday, the Bears dominated of-fensively for most of the 9 rst period. However, the second period was a dif-ferent story. In less than two minutes, Middlebury was able score three quick backdoor goals.

“I think the 9 rst game we were pretty nervous knowing how good Middle-bury is,” said captain Chelsea MacNeil ’15. “We came out strong during the

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9 rst period in the 9 rst game, but it was during the second period when we kind of let down and let them take control.”

8 e 9 rst of Middlebury’s three goals came at the 5:01 mark of the second period, a: er which the team paired backdoor goals with power plays within seconds of each other. 8 e Panthers le: the period holding an 11-3 shot advantage and a three goal lead. 8 e fourth goal was scored on a 9 ve-on-three power play at the 4:44 mark during the third period.

Despite the 4-0 shutout, the Pan-thers only held a 19-18 shot advantage over the Bears in Friday’s game.

On Saturday, the Bears came back with a vengeance and took Middlebury into overtime—leaving the game in a tie.

Halfway through the game, Ariana Bourque ’16 scored o7 a rebound that followed a wraparound opportunity by Schuyler Nardelli ’15 and an isolated pass from Colleen Finnerty ’15—giving the Bears a 1-0 lead.

“I tried to focus on three main things, one for each zone,” said Bourque. “In the defensive zone I wanted to be a good option for the break out. In the neutral zone just winning the one-on-one battles, and in the o7 ensive zone I wanted to fore-check hard and stay calm, collected and con9 dent.”

Middlebury tied the game just 31 sec-onds into the third period with a power play. In overtime, MacNeil put a quick shot on net that was saved by Annabelle Jones—leaving her with 28 stops at the end of the game.

“I thought we played really well this weekend despite what the scores were,” said Head Coach Marissa O’Neil. “It was two minutes of play during the second period where they scored. If you make a couple mistakes against a good team, it could change the outcome pretty quickly.”

8 e Polar Bears will return home to host Williams on Friday at 7:00 pm.

scored a shorthanded goal off a pass from Lockwood.

A: er Downey’s goal, the team re-turned to center ice, with Matheson taking the face o7 . He passed to Quinn who skated up the right side into their o7 ensive zone, bypassed a single USM defender and scored.

“His speed is a lot to handle for a lot of defensemen,” said Livermore.

Goalie Steve Messina ’14 blocked 31 shots on the evening.

8 e Bears lost to No. 1 Williams on Saturday, having already lost 5-2 to the Ephs in their 9 rst matchup of the season.

“Getting beat 5-2 9 rst game of the year le: a bad taste in all of our mouths,” said Livermore.

Williams dominated the 9 rst peri-od, peppering Messina with shots un-til one from Paul Steinig 9 nally sailed

into the net. 8 e Ephs outshot the Po-lar Bears 24-5 in that period.

Ultimately, the Polar Bears could not come up with a game-tying goal and Williams won the contest 2-1.

“8 ey are not in 9 rst place by ac-cident,” said Meagher. “Arguably, they have the best goaltender in the east.”

In support of the Wounded War-rior Project, which aims to support wounded veterans, a ceremony hon-oring Corporal Steven Noyes with the Navy and Marine Corps Commenda-tion Medal for his actions in Afghani-stan preceded Friday’s game against the Middlebury Panthers.

Meagher and Livermore agreed that the ceremony and the energy of the crowd on Friday night helped boost the team’s performance.

“[8 e noise] can put the other teams on their heels a bit, because a lot of NESCAC teams aren’t used to playing in front of crowds like that,” said Livermore.

8 e Polar Bears started strong, scor-

ing two goals in the 9 rst period. How-ever, Middlebury was able to put good o7 ensive pressure on goalie Max Fen-kell ’15 during the second period and tied the game 2-2.

8 e Polar Bears opened up the third period with a quick power play goal from Downey, but Middlebury scored another goal just three minutes later.

A: er two penalties in quick suc-cession gave Middlebury a two-player advantage, Bowdoin struggled to de-fend its territory and ultimately, Louis Belisle connected on a slap shot.

In the 9 nal moments of the game, Quinn drew defenders, allowing for Ollie Koo ’14 to position himself just outside the net. With 33 seconds le: , Koo received Quinn’s pass and scored. 50 seconds into overtime, Mitch Bar-rington ’17, on a pass from John McGinnis ’15, swung around from behind the net and scored the game-winning goal.

A: er a bye week, the team will play at Hamilton on February 6.

M. HOCKEYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

SCORECARD Fr 1/24 at Middlebury L 4!0

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Compiled by Joe SeibertSources: Bowdoin Athletics, NESCAC

Standings & Schedules

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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v. Trinityv. Amherst

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Factory foods cost more than just the calories

Depending on how intensely you were focusing on the chicken pesto pizza last time you waited in line in 5 orne, you may have noticed the informative cards that were recently posted alongside some of the dining options. 5 ese signs state the “car-bon footprint” of one serving of a given dish.

At dinner last week, a friend ex-pressed mild annoyance at the cards. If something she really wanted to eat was on the menu that night, she said, it was unlikely that knowledge of the dish’s carbon footprint, however high, would a6 ect her deci-sion to eat it. Conversations about the environmental impact of food are of-ten touchy, and I’m sure that many of our peers would agree with her statement.

A carbon footprint is the measure of how much carbon dioxide must be released into the atmosphere in order to bring a particular product to the consumer, who can then eat it, wear it or play Candy Crush on it. 5 ese footprints have become a concern be-cause mass consumption of carbon-intensive products contributes direct-ly to global climate change.

But let’s say that you buy into the “green” lifestyle. Maybe you pledged to only buy local organic produce and pasture-raised meat and tote it home in your Fair Trade cotton bags, tucked lovingly into the trunk of your plug-in Prius with a “No Farms No Food” bumper sticker on it. Maybe you are even Al Gore. I don’t know Al Gore

ter subsidies in the American West, ground beef would cost nearly $30 a pound instead of $4. I am not advo-cating for sky-high food prices, but the fact of the matter is that our views on what constitutes “cheap food” are dictated by arti7 cial constraints that serve the interests of industrial ag-ricultural companies over those of small farmers like the ones in Bruns-wick and Bowdoinham.

A tax on fossil fuels would solve many of our agricultural system’s problems, as it would seriously tip the scales in favor of locally-grown “whole” food by making other foods—the ones made in factories and trucked in from far away—much

more expensive. 5 is, of course, would require a na-tionwide revival of small-scale farming to ensure that local food would be avail-able, which is a separate is-sue altogether.

As our agricul-tural system exists

now, foods with high-er carbon footprints

are o8 en cheaper and more readily available than lo-

cally produced, low-carbon food. When concerns about human health, community self-su9 ciency, and envi-ronmental protection are taken into account, this becomes more than an issue of personal eating habits. It’s a structural problem that a6 ects all of us, whether we know it or not.

So, what do I think about the car-bon footprint cards in 5 orne? I’d like to see them on more items, especially imported goods like co6 ee and tea—my two great vices. Ultimately, the modern food system is astoundingly complicated—far more so than most of us are aware—and I don’t think it hurts to be reminded of that. But for now, slap a reminder on that chicken pesto pizza. I think we can handle it.

but I know people like this, and to live this way you have to be willing and able to pay up.

If you’ve ever noticed the price di6 erence between $3 per dozen conventional eggs from Hannaford and $7 per dozen pasture-raised eggs from Morning Glory, you know that the least carbon-intensive food op-tions are o8 en the most expensive. While some people may be able to a6 ord low-carbon, high-price food, others are not willing or simply can-not a6 ord it. Another friend of mine recently raised the question of wheth-er, in a world where l o w - carb on food a n d

consumer goods are more expensive, sustainability is a rich person’s game.

It shouldn’t have to be, but it is right now. Healthy, sustainably pro-duced food ought to be available to everyone. However, government sub-sidies that support industrial farming practices have created a reality where a bag of Doritos is cheaper than a bag of organic carrots, despite the fact that the carrots might come from two miles away and don’t need to travel down a factory line. If not for wa-

CLIMATEDISTILLED

EMILY TUCKER

5 e di6 erent types of student em-ployment trouble me. For many stu-dents at Bowdoin, working here is their 7 rst job experience. So when the College places an inexperienced student at a desk job so undemanding that they are able to study the entire time—what is Bowdoin teaching that student about work? We are—truth-fully—still at a quite impressionable age; the jobs that students are placed in should attempt to re: ect the reality of work life.

5 ere are students who work and there are those who do not work. For some students, real life budget prob-lems creep into the bubble of campus life. And while it is false to assume that everyone who works is busier than ev-eryone who doesn’t, and that everyone who works is low income and vice versa, it is true that those who do not work are separated from a reality of life. Here’s a shocker: when people ask you what you want to do for a living in the future, they are referring to your job, because you need to work to live.

Students who do not work are

privileged in not having to realize that reality until they graduate, and divisive privileges are not something we need more of at this school, or in this world in general. However, avoid-ing a job until graduation is not solely advantageous. Students who graduate from Bowdoin without having been employed are missing out on valuable work experience, time management improvement and development of es-sential life skills.

5 ere is not only a distinction be-tween the unemployed and the em-ployed at Bowdoin; there is also a dis-tinction between students with busy, sometimes strenuous jobs and these with conspicuously relaxed jobs.

It is a problem that some students have jobs serving in the dining hall—a consistently demanding job—and others who have desk jobs where they mainly occupy a seat waiting for the rare chance that someone has a ques-tion. 5 is set of di6 erences creates a

hierarchy of labor within the College and subsequently breeds di6 erent ide-ologies of labor and laborers.

Additionally, because there is so much variation regarding the intensity of di6 erent jobs on campus, students o8 en vie for these cushy jobs and cast aside the more demanding ones. Be-sides creating disparate opportuni-ties for students already strained for studying time, this variation further extends the notion that service and labor jobs are undesirable and should be seen as a last resort.

I recently talked to one of my friends who works for Dining Service, and she expressed that she o8 en feels ignored by her peers while on the job. Disregarding workers in uniform—and in turn dehumanizing them—is a deplorable trait of the upper class that we must work to undo. If more stu-dents worked in Dining or in similar service jobs across campus, this would help create an atmosphere of added respect for service employees that is not necessarily present in all students.

I don’t think that all students should have the same job, but I think that all jobs should be realistic. It is arguably unethical for two students to be paid the same amount of money when one student has a very demanding job and the other does not. A job should not be a paid form of study hall.

Leveling the fi eld in student employment

It is arguably unethical for twostudents to be paid the same amount of money when one

student has a very demanding job and the other does not.

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG

MAYA REYES

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama reaf-firmed his commitment to overhaul the current health care system in

America. The day before, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster referenced these ongoing reforms when he sent a campus-wide email about the state of the Bowdoin Health Center. In light of Director of Health Services Sandra Hayes’ imminent departure, the school is reviewing the structure of the College’s Health Center. In his email, Foster outlined three pos-sible plans for its future: a partnership with an outside agency to handle increasingly complex administrative work, a complete replacement of the staff with employees of a private firm, or a continuation of the Col-lege’s current system with a new director.

We welcome this review. Although the Health Center received its highest approval rating ever—76 percent—in the fall installment of the Orient’s biannual approval ratings survey, it has consistently ranked among the lowest of campus administrators and offices. Even with high-er ratings this year, a vocal minority still expressed the need for improve-ment. One female senior wrote last spring: “Bowdoin should be ashamed of the poor quality of the services provided by the Health Center. It’s a joke.” These complaints are nothing new. A 2005 Orient editorial called for extended weekend hours,continuing a decades-long debate over the availability of health care on campus. Last year, Hayes told the Bowdoin Student Government that the opening of the Mid Coast Primary Care and Walk-in Clinic had alleviated demand for walk-in hours. While we understand that the Health Center is not a 24-hour hospital, we believe that busy students would benefit from a daily drop-in hour after classes.

The Dean’s office could have reviewed the Health Center behind closed doors and announced its findings to the community once a deci-sion was made. We thank Foster for reaching out to the campus in his email. Amidst the confusion and anxiety that have recently character-ized national health care, we feel lucky to have a low-hassle system in the serene atmosphere of the Buck Center for Health and Fitness. Under the current system, an ailing student does not have to worry about pro-viding insurance details or other personal information for a checkup. The Health Center’s total integration into the College makes dealing with sickness simple, particularly when health concerns can interfere with a student’s campus life. While we might not immediately notice a change in the Health Center’s staffing, it would—in all likelihood—impact our lives at the College. We are glad that any changes made to the adminis-tration of the Health Center will come as the result of a thorough on-campus dialogue. While we may be exhausted by the national debate, we look forward to exploring new options at Bowdoin.

A healthy debate

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On the media: the tabloidifi cation of American news

Over the course of my nearly three years at Bowdoin, I have be-come used to many things about life in the United States. Mid-way through my junior year, I’m pleased to report that I have a basic understanding of temperatures in Fahrenheit (although I admit I still prefer Celsius by far). I am no lon-ger baffled by heights in feet and inches, nor are pounds and ounces as mystifying as they used to be. But while my understanding of the various systems of measurement has increased, there are still as-pects of American life that confuse me and will continue to do so. As you may have read in my columns over the years, these are ques-tions as far ranging as the dearth of decent public transpor-tation, the w i d e -s p r e a d ( a n d c o n t i n -ued) use of the death penalty, the preposterously high drink-ing age—not to mention the con-tinued existence of my nemesis, the penny.

I have the good for-tune to write for an apo-litical newspaper, which allows me considerable leeway when it comes to choosing top-ics for my col-umns. The same is essentially true for columnists who write for major news-papers like the New York Times. But you don’t read the Times or USA Today for the opin-ion section. You do so for the quality of the reporting. If only the same could be said of television news. It is a tragedy that in America today there is no major news channel that actually broad-casts news.

The four biggest news chan-nels are, according to variety.com, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and HLN (a network affiliated with CNN). Of these, Fox News and MSNBC are the least concerned with broad-casting objective news. Instead, both channels—which cater to con-servative and liberal audiences, re-spectively—are populated by talk-ing heads who use news stories for the sole purpose of making political comments. Fox News obsesses over being outraged about anything that President Obama does. The MS-NBC modus operandi seems to be based around being outraged about almost anything the Republican Party does. This is not to say that their outrage is misplaced. Every person is undoubtedly entitled to

ALL OUT OF LOVE

DREW VAN KUIKEN

Broadcast news networks have set a standard of partisan media, giving a public seeking objective news coverage little option but to turn to foreign television outlets.

The mainstream media’s embrace of Justin Bieber is no surprise in a climate dominated by sites like Barstool.

his or her own political views. But it is certainly a stretch to character-ise either MSNBC or Fox News as “news” channels. A news organiza-tion should be as apolitical as pos-sible and should report the news objectively.

The reason that newspapers have an opinion section is to pro-vide readers with an area where they can expect to read opinionat-ed pieces and feel that that the rest of the newspaper is only interested in providing the facts. MSNBC and Fox News, by contrast, are domi-nated by opinion and nothing else. And the other two big channels are little better. HLN (an acronym for “Headline News”) is dominated

Last Thursday, Justin Bieber was charged with drunk driving, re-sisting arrest and driving without a valid license at 4 a.m. in Miami Beach. By midday, his story had captivated America and become the most interesting cable news story since Paula Deen collapsed under the weight of her own greasy, deep-fried sense of ethics last year.

Accordingly, when MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell invited former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman onto her show to discuss the NSA’s future, and Bieber’s arraignment hearing began during the middle o f the interview, she had

little choice but to interrupt Harman

mid-sentence and cut to a live feed

of the court-room.

W h e n later ques-

tioned

about the ap-

propri-ateness of

their deci-sion, Mitchell

reasoned that she has “more for-

eign policy coverage five days a week than any other program on television.” Apparently Mitchell’s painstaking foreign coverage had earned her the right to cover celeb-rity indiscretions.

Of course, Mitchell’s behavior wasn’t unusual among the major news networks; Bieber’s conduct dominated national discussion over the course of the entire day. In fact, among the major news networks, only Fusion TV and Al Jazeera neglected to cover the event, ensuring that their viewer-ship of 30 missed out on a major pop culture occurrence.

It would be easy to chide the major news networks for live-re-porting Bieber’s every movement in jail at the expense of coverage fea-turing, for example, the Ukranian revolution. But as someone with an introductory economics course

under my belt, I can safely say that that is not how supply and demand works. We hear the tales of Bieber’s woes because that is what we want.

With the explosion of political punditry in recent years, news has become far more focused on opin-ions. It fits our world well. Digest-ing large sets of data or analyzing complex problems requires time, and passively listening to a pundit break something down doesn’t. In-stead of idolizing Richard Engel, we pay our respects to Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher.

As newspapers die a slow, pain-ful death and TV stations transition to a 24-hour slate of dramatically-named programs with eerily simi-lar talking heads, one lesson has emerged: the news media really wants to tell us what to think. As a columnist, I can’t really complain about this. I get to sit on a couch, fake laugh every so often and talk about nothing all day. Despite the questionable value of my own work, my compatriots must forge onwards with what the market de-mands. Like them, we cannot rest on our laurels. Adaptation is key.

When Barstool Sports began in the early 2000s, it offered free gambling information that creator Dave Portnoy would hand out on the Boston subway. Since then, the

self-described “sports/smut” blog has exploded into a national phenomenon. Mostly popu-

lar among men aged 18-35, the site gets over 13 million

page views per month and as of 2010, had already garnered

more unique visitors per month than sites for Rolling Stone, Glam-

our or GQ. The site provides sports commentary, pictures of women, and the occasional news story, with a sarcastic write-up accompany-ing almost everything. It even cov-ered the Ukranian revolt, showing pictures of the protestors wearing colanders and other items on their heads as protection and noting that they now had the advantage of “cut-ting edge armor.”

Barstool has more than its fair share of detractors, including a man suing the site for calling him a pedophile with virtually no evi-dence, but that may come with its lowbrow reputation. In a dying in-dustry, the site has seen exploding growth.

And while the site may offend many, Barstool appears to be an intentionally controversial wing of the industry that publicized fake, racist names for the deceased pilots of a crashed airplane.

With this in mind, Mitchell may not have been wrong when she cut from a serious discussion to broad-cast Justin Bieber’s arraignment. She gave the people what they wanted. Mitchell’s true mistake came in her apology: having the most foreign policy on her show clearly isn’t an advantage anymore.

If Barstool offers any insight into our world, news must be taken with a grain of salt. The future of Mitch-ell’s industry lies in short quips and comical analysis of current events. When serious news coverage is eventually called for, we can all turn to Al Jazeera. But until then, success will mean the funniest cov-erage of Bieber’s latest antics.

and so a lot of newsworthy mo-ments happen here every day. That fact alone should not prevent at least some coverage of the key mo-ments from across the globe.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find the absence of any decent news network to be very disheartening. You do have other options in Rus-siaToday (although that station is essentially a propaganda arm of the Russian government), Al-Jazeera America, BBC World and France24, to name a few. But not all cable providers give you access to these foreign viewpoints and, besides, it is rather strange to rely upon a foreign news service to be informed about what’s going on in

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by tabloid-esque journalism

and is the preferred stalk-ing ground for the likes of Nancy Grace, a controversial (as well as loud) legal commentator. Ah—but you say—what of CNN? It is true that of the big four “news” net-works, in my opinion, CNN is the least politically involved of them all. CNN is, after all, the network that’s first on the ground whenev-er a disaster or terrible cataclysm takes place. But even the venerable cable news giant finds itself being taken in by the sensationalism of the day. Many hours are spent with cameras pointed to the entrances of courthouses, as journalists chat-ter about what may or may not be happening within, occasionally shutting up to allow a press confer-ence to happen, before they resume their inane conversation.

All these networks are also dis-appointing when it comes to their coverage of events that take place outside the confines of the United States. America is a big country

your own country. Ideally—both for the sake of the viewing public and for the cause of television journal-ists across America—the estab-lishment of a respectable, fair and objective channel devoted to re-porting the news would consider-ably improve the media landscape. It would be devoted to American issues, certainly, but it would not ignore the fact that there is a wider world out there. It would not shy away from discussing politics, but would have politics not be the fo-cus of its broadcasts.

Whether or not the American public wants this kind of chan-nel is a different question entirely. Alas, the reason that MSNBC, Fox News, HLN and CNN do so well in comparison to their foreign counterparts is that they are pan-dering to what the viewers want to see. Before my ideal can even be implemented, there needs to be a shift in viewing habits and that, my friends, starts with you.

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CLEANING UP THE COMPETITION: From left, Tucker Gordon ’17, Miles Wilson ’17, Henry Quinson ’17, Varun Wadia ’15 and Jordan Voisine ’15 competed in the second annual Reed House Broomball Tournament last Saturday as part of Winter Weekeend 2014.

31FRIDAY

COMMON HOURIngrid NelsonIngrid Nelson, assistant professor of sociology, was chosen by the senior class and will deliver a talk for this year’s Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

LECTURE“The Epic of Gilgamesh”Mark Hansen ’14 will present the culmination of his independent study in visual arts: an illustrated version of “The Epic of Gilgamesh.” Outside Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4 p.m.

FUNCTIONArctic Museum Reception The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will host a recep-tion to display the museum’s artifacts. Two complimen-tary drinks will be available for visitors over 21. Semi-formal attire is required.Hubbard Hall. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

SPORTING EVENT Bowdoin Basketball Silent NightThe women’s and men’s basketball teams will sponsor a “silent night” to raise sexual violence awareness. Pro-ceeds from selling ra! e tickets and T-shirts will support the Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine.Morrell Gym. Women’s 6 p.m. Men’s 8 p.m.

SPORTING EVENT Women’s Ice Hockey v. WilliamsCome cheer on Bowdoin at this home game against NESCAC rival Williams. The fans that show the most spirit and enthusiasm will win free T-shirts.Watson Rink. 7 p.m.

4TUESDAY

LECTURE“Sochi Olympics 2014”Professor Emerita of Russian Jane Knox and Associate Professor of Government Laura Henry will sponsor a talk on the history and culture of Sochi and the politics of this year’s Olympic Games. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4 p.m.

BOWDOIN BOOK LECTURE“What Maisie Knew” by Henry JamesProfessor of English Peter Coviello will deliver a talk titled “Room for Wonder: Loving Children in Late James,” focus-ing on the book.Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 7 p.m.

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EVENT Family Saturday at the Museum of ArtMuseum of Art. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SPORTING EVENTS Basketball v. AmherstMorrell Gym. Women’s 2 p.m. Men’s 4 p.m.

SPORTING EVENT Men’s Track & Field State Meet.Farley Field House. 6 p.m.

3MONDAY

THEATER“Rocky Horror Picture Show” AuditionsRoom 206, Studzinski Recital Hall. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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LECTURE

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2SUNDAY

THEATER“Rocky Horror Picture Show” Auditions Curtain Callers, the student-run musical theater troupe, will hold auditions for this year’s musical, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Come prepared with a verse and a chorus from a song.Room 206, Studzinski Recital Hall. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

SPORTING EVENTSuper Bowl XLVIIIJack Magee’s Pub and Grill will screen the biggest football game of the year, featuring the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. Specials will include 50¢ hot wings, cheese or beef nachos, and mac and cheese bites.Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill. Kicko! at 6:30 p.m.

RELIGIOUS SERVICEProtestant Chapel Service The Chapel. 7 p.m.

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5WEDNESDAY EVENTRed Cross Blood DriveSmith Union. 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

6THURSDAY

RECEPTION Opening for Zen BrowneArtist Zen Browne’s portraits featuring transmale subjects will be featured in this gallery opening.Blue Gallery, Smith Union. 4:30 p.m.

RECEPTION“Exposure” OpeningThe gallery will feature photographs taken by students studying abroad and gathered by the O" ce of O# -Campus Study over the last 18 months. Lamarche Gallery, Smith Union. 6:30 p.m.

LECTURE“Defense of the Defense”Jacqueline Scott, co-director of Human Rights and the Protection of Lawyers at the Union Internationale des Avocates (UIA), will deliver a lecture about this interna-tional association of lawyers.Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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