On Wednesday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) unanimously voted to pass a resolution in support of creating the position of Multicul-tural Representative, an addition to the BSG assembly that would serve as a liaison between the Multicul-tural Coalition and the BSG.

For the position to officially be created, the BSG constitution must be amended. To do this, a third of the student body now has to vote—and within that group, two-thirds have to vote in favor of the amend-ment. Students will be able to vote from December 9 to 12 on the con-stitutional amendment creating the position online.

If the amendment creating the po-sition passes, each group of the Mul-

ticultural Coalition, which consists of 17 campus groups, will have one vote for the representative in early February, choosing from within the membership of any of the multicul-tural clubs.

“The Multicultural Coalition, and the student groups within, along with the Student Center for Multi-cultural Life do a lot of program-ming around race and culture,” said Evelyn Sanchez ’17. “We feel a lot of these events are attended by the same people who happen to be stu-dents of color. We feel that a lot of other students could greatly benefit from the events and would like to if only greater organizations such as BSG advertised them.”

Sanchez, who organized cam-paigning around the Multicultural

Students to vote on creation of BSG Multicultural Rep

BY RACHAEL ALLEN AND JOHN BRANCHORIENT STAFF

This year student tickets for the 93rd Bowdoin-Colby men’s hockey game were distributed differently than in the past—they were released 100 at a time, in six separate incre-ments on Monday and Tuesday.

As a result, some students waited in David Saul Smith Union for as long as an hour to get their tickets, and some of those who waited in line were turned away—the Ath-letics Department ultimately only

released 525 tickets, 75 fewer than initially announced.

“I don’t think it’s a good system,” said Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze.

He said that he thinks the major problem is the limit on available stu-dent tickets.

“I personally wish we had enough tickets that every student was able to go. I don’t like having to limit who gets to go,” he said.

The Athletics Department does not release enough tickets for the entire student body. According to

Ashmead White Director of Athlet-ics Tim Ryan, a certain number of tickets are set aside every year for alumni, staff, community members and Colby students. In addition, the Athletics Department recalled 75 of the student tickets that were set to be given out on Tuesday at 4 p.m., leaving only 25 for distribution dur-ing the final block.

Ryan said that the athletics de-partment recalled the tickets to ac-commodate members of the Bow-

New distribution system complicates release of Bowdoin-Colby hockey tickets

BY KATIE MIKLUSORIENT STAFF

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Modern I Repertory and Performance (above) performs in the Department of Theater and Dance’s “December Dance” last night in Pickard Theater. The class’s performance, titled “In the Running,” was choreographed by Senior Lecturer in Dance Performance Gwyneth Jones. The December Dance concert presents performances from repertory classes and this year includes a work-in-progress, “Untitled Diagrams,” by Laura Peterson, visiting artist in theater and dance, and members of her company, Laura Peterson Choreography. The concert will run tonight and tomorrow night in Pickard at 8 p.m.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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In an email to campus Thursday, President Clayton Rose announced a plan to conduct a study with outside researchers about racial inequalities at Bowdoin. Camille Charles, director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Rory Kramer, an assistant professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University, will study the “di! ering experiences of students of color” and the ways that Bowdoin’s policies contribute to those di! erences, as well as making recommendations about possible new practices to address these issues. According to Rose’s email, the research will encompass “analyses of various data, as well as interviews and meetings with students, faculty and sta! during campus visits next semester.”

Earlier this week, Rose also announced that he would host a “Town Hall” meeting cen-tered around the question, “Why do issues of race matter if I’m white?” That meeting will take place in Smith Union next Tuesday at 7 p.m.

LEAN ON ME

President Rose addresses race in pair of emails

THE FIRST GENERATION EXPERIENCESee pages 8 and 9. The Orient explores the challenges and triumphs of being a fi rst-generation student at Bowdoin.

Person of interest in sexual assault arrested

A 55-year-old Bath man, arrested after allegedly breaking into a wom-an’s home and exposing himself, has been identified as a person of inter-est in the ongoing investigation into the reported sexual assault at Bow-doin last month, according to an ar-ticle in the Bangor Daily News.

Stephen McIntire was convicted of gross sexual assault in 1997. He was also convicted in 2015 for failing to comply with the sex offender regis-try and for violating “peeping tom” laws at the Hyde School in Bath.

McIntire attended the support group for sex offenders that was held, until recently, at the First Par-ish Church just off the College’s campus. The group was told that they could no longer meet there af-

ter the College voiced concerns to the church following the reported sexual assault.

The police are still looking into other persons of interest as part of their ongoing investigation accord-ing to Brunswick Police Department Commander Mark Waltz.

“The Office of Safety and Security is continuing to assist the Bruns-wick Police by sharing information that we have that may be helpful to the investigation,” said Director of Safety Security Randy Nichols in an email to the Orient. “Often investi-gative leads come to the attention of Security, and that information is immediately passed on to the police. We communicate with the police continually and we receive regular briefings and updates from them.”

On Tuesday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) announced

that the Office of Safety and Secu-rity, Student Activities, the Office of Gender Violence Prevention and Education and the Women’s Re-source Center had organized three free self defense classes, to be held today and Saturday. According to the email from BSG President Dan-ny Mejia-Cruz ’16, the classes will be held again next semester if there is enough interest.

According to Nichols, the in-creased security and police controls, extended shuttle hours and modified student parking rules are continuing.

Safety concerns seemed to have affected some of the 131 students who will be returning to campus for the spring semester after studying away. Twelve returning students will be living off-campus with the rest

Please see SAFETY, page 3

BY MARINA AFFO AND NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

RACE AT BOWDOIN

Self-defense classes organized; juniors returning from studying away have mixed reactions to living o! -campus in light of recent safety concerns.

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Rachel Mann ’18

SECURITY REPORT: 11/20 to 12/3Friday, November 20· An unregistered event was dispersed

at Harpswell Apartments.· A Co! n Street Extension neighbor

reported loud noise from groups of stu-dents walking on the street. A woman who lives on the street reported that one drunken student used o" ensive language with her.

· An o! cer checked on the wellbeing of a student with # u symptoms at Winthrop Hall.

· A $ re alarm at Burnett House was caused by cooking smoke.

· Loud noise was reported on the third # oor at Appleton Hall.

· A noise complaint was reported at West Hall.

Saturday, November 21· A razor scooter that was reported sto-

len at Maine Hall was recovered and re-turned to the owner.

· Wall vandalism was reported in the basement of Ladd House following a reg-istered event.

· A student with a medical emergency near First Parish Church was taken to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue. % e student refused treatment and was released.

· A student was cited for possession of alcohol on Park Row near Brunswick Apartments.

Sunday, November 22· An o! cer checked on the wellbeing

of an intoxicated and disruptive student at Moore Hall.

· Two students were warned for urinat-ing in public at Brunswick Apartments.

· An intoxicated student vomited in the women’s rest room at % orne Hall. % e student was billed for the housekeeper call-in and overtime.

· An o! cer responded to a report of an intoxicated student at Moore Hall.

· An o! cer assisted a distraught stu-dent at Coles Tower.

· A student was warned for driving at an unsafe speed on Coles Tower Drive.

· A student took responsibility for a window that was broken by his guest at a Ladd House registered event.

· At the request of a parent, an o! cer checked on the wellbeing of a sick student at Osher Hall.

Monday, November 23· An unregistered event was dispersed

on the third # oor of Stowe Inn.· A student fell and cut his head at a

Ladd House event and was transported to Mid Coast Hospital.

· Excessive noise was reported on the third # oor of Appleton Hall.

· An o! cer checked on the wellbe-ing of an intoxicated student at Quinby House.

Saturday, November 28· Ojime beads were reported stolen

from the gi& shop at the Museum of Art.

Sunday, November 29· A vehicle operated by a campus visitor

struck a sign post at the Dayton parking lot.

Monday, November 30· Two unidenti$ ed men were seen steal-

ing an unlocked white Cinelli bike near Brunswick Apartment D.

· A $ re alarm at Farley Field House was caused by an apparent malfunction.

· A 24-year-old Brunswick man was issued a criminal trespass warning for all campus property following reports of in-appropriate interactions with women.

Tuesday, December 1· A student immediately took respon-

sibility for accidentally activating a $ re alarm pull station on the third # oor of Coles Tower. As such, the student will not be held responsible for the $ re depart-ment response costs.

· An o! cer assisted an ill student at MacMillan House.

Wednesday, December 2· A student reported seeing a suspicious

character walking near Baxter House. It turned out to be just a suspicious-looking faculty member.

! ursday, December 3· Loud music and noise coming from

Brunswick Apartment Q at 1:40 a.m. was disturbing nearby residents. Two students were directed to cease the noise.

“Take a two-hour Tumblr break.”

Hector Magaña ’16

I saw a new side of the Pub as I en-tered the opening of Jack’s Juice Bar around 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday morning. As a frequenter of the Café, I am used to kicking o" the day of classes with a Sunrise Smoothie or a London Fog. Ready to switch it up, I browsed the nine options on the juice menu.

% e $ rst thing I noticed was that each drink combines vegetables and fruit. Since I am not a vegetable lover, I relied on the juicer’s recommendation: Rise and Shine. % e Rise and Shine consists of carrot, ginger, apple, orange and lemon. % e drink totaled $5, which is pricier than my typical Café indul-gences. Nevertheless, I was excited to give it a try.

% e juice itself was fresh and # avorful and a bright orange color. I was pleased to $ nd that the vegetable component of the juice was not overwhelming and happily sipped it while doing my math homework in a quiet atmosphere.

I didn’t see many of my peers during my time at the juice bar. I did, however, get a chance to talk to Adeena Fisher, manager of dining retail operations for dining services, as she oversaw the opening day.

“We did not advertise heavily for to-day,” said Fisher, who noted that about 15 to 20 customers had come in before me.

“I wanted to make sure we all knew what we were doing and get comfortable,” she said. “I have high hopes for tomorrow.”

Sarah Kinney ’19 kept me company at Jack’s Juice Bar and tried the Rise

and Shine as well. “I probably wouldn’t go for the same

one I did before, but it was a lot better than I expected,” said Sarah of her juice choice.

Sarah was especially surprised to see that a drink called the Power Up con-tained kale.

“It reminds me of an actual juice bar, and I thought it was going to be more of a smoothie place,” she said.

I, too, was pleasantly surprised to see that the juice bar was true to its name. Although I typically opt for smoothies, I can get one at the Café. Jack’s Juice Bar remains very inde-pendent from its café neighbor by having a very different menu with a variety of healthy juice choices.

“I created the recipes, and we tested them out,” said Fisher, who is a self-proclaimed juicer. Plans were made in the summer for the juice bar, which was initially going to open a& er Fall Break.

“% e only thing that postponed us was that we had some refrigeration be-ing built, where the fruits and veggies get stored,” said Fisher.

As a result of the high cost of fruit, Jack’s is inherently more expensive than the Café. Sarah, who is also a frequenter of the Café, noticed this di" erence.

“They’re pretty expensive,” she said. “So, I’m not going to be coming here everyday.”

For Sarah and me, the Café is a more cost-e" ective choice, but we still plan on indulging in some healthy juice from time to time.

“We are open 8 to 11 a.m. Monday to Friday for the next three weeks, and then we’ll reevaluate our hours for the

Juice bar lives up to its name, offers diverse drink options

BY JULIA O’ROURKEORIENT STAFF

“Go outside and look for dogs on the quad.”

VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“Cook and bake things - try new food.”

Arah Kang ’19

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representative, referenced the success of the events of No Hate November.

“We also think that having the Multicultural rep be there will allow for these issues to be addressed pro-actively, rather than reactively,” San-chez said. “[Programming] can be throughout the year and not just allot-ted to a month or week, not just allot-ted to No Hate November.”

The proposal for the position was originally introduced to the BSG last

year by Kiki Nakamura-Koyama ’17 and Charlotte McLaughry ’15. How-ever, it was not voted on at the time due to logistical issues.

“We got the proposal from last year, looked it over, reworked it, edited it to make it more relevant to what’s happening now,” said Mi-chelle Kruk ’16, BSG’s vice president for student government affairs.

“Historically, the BSG has not been as diverse and has not been as active in these issues, but we do think by having a rep, we can guarantee that in-stitutional, systemic response to these issues because we can hold someone

accountable to that,” Sanchez said.Kruk agreed, emphasizing the per-

manence that the position gives to multicultural voices in BSG.

“I don’t think that the program-ming we do around multicultural life is enough, nor is it sustainable. It changes depending on who is doing the programs or who’s on campus that year,” she said. “I want some perma-nent legacy here, to be able to say that regardless of whether or not we have a diverse body within the student as-sembly… there will be someone on the assembly whose job it is to bring these things up.”

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In an attempt to generate aware-ness of racial issues on campus, the African American Society (Af-Am) put up a Bias Incident Display in Smith Union on Friday, November 20. The display—a poster with sto-ries of student experiences—aims to bring to light the often under-discussed and overlooked microag-gressions that minority groups are subject to routinely at Bowdoin.

The idea for the display origi-nated when Mariam Nimaga ’17, a member of the Af-Am board and head of Af-Am’s Activism Commit-tee, attended a meeting with Presi-dent Clayton Rose, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster and other Af-Am board members as well as leaders from various multicultural groups on campus. The meeting was held in response to October’s “Gangster Party” incident and the campus-wide discussions surrounding race that followed.

“People shared their stories, and these were stories I didn’t know about, Rose didn’t know about and Foster didn’t know about,” said Nimaga. “I realized that people’s sto-ries should be known.”

! e stories display a range of reports of race, religion and sexuality-based of-fenses both on and o" campus.

“I’m hoping that this [display] will expose to students, faculty and staff that students are going through these bias incidents. Even though they might not report it, it’s still hap-pening on campus,” said Nimaga.

While some stories recount vari-ous slurs shouted from passing cars in Brunswick, others tell of bias in-cidents among students, staff and faculty. One story describes an en-counter when a white staff member asked a black student whether or not the use of the n-word in a song was appropriate. The student said no, and the staff member sang the song regardless.

Two of the stories report Bowdoin Security stopping and questioning

students of color and requesting to see their student IDs while the stu-dents were on campus.

Another recounts a sexual en-counter during which the author felt “fetishized and unsafe” because the man she was with would repeat-edly ask her if she were a lesbian, as he had seen her name on the Out-Peers list.

“I repeatedly told him no…[he] was fixated on my queerness,” the story read.

One story explained, “Telling the stories and incidents that have hap-pened to me on campus cannot be-gin to describe the pain I feel inside.”

! is display is the # rst of its kind at the College. Each story was anony-mously submitted through a survey that Nimaga shared with members of Af-Am, the Women’s Resource Center, the Africa Alliance and the College’s multicultural coalition.

“These students are probably not comfortable reporting them, or they just deal with them because they happen so often,” said Nimaga.

The Bias Incident Display will be up in the Union for three weeks.

“A lot of students do feel that here at Bowdoin, we’re just studying, ev-erything is great, but these things do happen,” Nimaga said.

The display was not the College’s only response to bias incident events on campus. The College’s Bias Inci-dent Group, composed of students and faculty and chaired by Rose, is now working to outline specific pro-cedures for how the school can most appropriately respond to different types of bias incidents. According to an email from the group sent to stu-dents, faculty and staff on Novem-ber 24, the group plans to define this protocol within the first two weeks of the spring semester.

All members of the Bowdoin community are encouraged to send ideas and comments for the Bias In-cident Group to biasincidentgroup@bowdoin.edu before winter break. The group plans to have a proposal for bias incident protocol in the first two weeks of the new semester.

Bias Incident Display in Union raises awareness of racial issues on campus

BY LUCY RYANORIENT STAFF

UNTOLD STORIES: In response to recent conversations about race on campus, the African American Society has hung a Bias Incident Display (above) in Smith Union. The poster displays anonymous student stories of bias incidents at Bowdoin and aims to spread awareness about the prevalence of racial issues on Bowdoin’s campus.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

planning to live in on campus hous-ing. Vice President for Communica-tions and Public Affairs Scott Hood said that this is consistent with the ratio of students living on and off campus this fall. Eva Sibinga ’17 is currently in Rome and is planning on living at an off campus residence on Spring Street when she returns next semester. Although she is aware of the recent security concerns, she is not planning on changing her liv-ing arrangements.

“Honestly it didn’t even cross my mind to change my housing plans,” said Sibinga in a message to the Ori-ent. “I can’t feel the campus changing nearly as acutely when I am not on it.”

She says that she is currently on guard when she is walking around

the streets of Rome, something she never felt she had to do while at Bowdoin.

Victoria Pitaktong ’17 is abroad in Bejing and, while not changing her plans, is concerned about housing.

“I couldn’t change my plan now so I [have to] go with it. I am just worried because my house is very far away and it is a long walk in the dark,” Pitaktong said in a message to the Orient. “I feel like if [an incident like the sexual assault] can still hap-pen [in college housing], I don’t feel comfortable living off campus any-more. So it’s just scary.”

Danny Mejia ’17, who is abroad in India, will be living in an off-campus house at 41 Harpswell next semester.

“[Recent security concerns have] had zero e" ect on where I’ve chosen to live—mainly because we had cho-sen [41 Harpswell] before the security concerns arose,” Mejia said in a mes-

sage to the Orient. “I was shocked, saddened [to hear the same problems of gender discrimination surround-ing me in India are existing in Bruns-wick]. But as a male, I personally do not have concerns for living o" -cam-pus [especially because of 41 Harp-swell’s proximity to campus].”

While no students have asked for a change in residence from off-cam-pus to on-campus in light of recent security concerns, the College will continue to be aware.

“At this point, we don’t know of any students asking to change their off-campus housing plans to move back on campus. This includes those students who are currently studying away and who will be returning for the spring semester,” said Hood in an email to the Orient. “Of course, this could change and it is some-thing we will continue to keep an eye on.”

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In response to the College’s deci-sion not to renew Sculptor in Resi-dence John Bisbee’s contract, over 30 current and former students of Bisbee have rallied around the instructor, cir-culating a petition asking administra-tors to reconsider their decision.

Co-written by students Kenny Shapiro ’17 and Nicole Smith ’16, the petition will be sent to President Clayton Rose, Dean of Academic Affairs Jen Scanlon and Chair of the Visual Arts Department Michael Kolster in an effort to convince them to keep Bisbee.

“We ask the administration to reconsider the decision to let John Bisbee go. To do so is to remove someone who has, for almost twen-ty years, been a positive fixture not only in the art department but also in the Bowdoin community. Please do not deny countless Bowdoin stu-dents present and future the chance to take class with an exceptional and irreplaceable artist, teacher, friend and mentor,” reads the letter in part.

Bisbee first started working at Bowdoin in the 1996 and has worked part time, teaching only in the fall. During the rest of the year, he works at his studio in Fort Andross on fan-tastical sculptures made using 12-inch nails and spikes.

Bisbee declined to comment on the record about the petition.

“[! e petition] is a public vote of con" dence for Bisbee just because, for whatever reason, the administration doesn’t think he should be here, and that’s clearly so out of line with what his students think,” said Shapiro.

Scanlon said she does not com-ment on personnel matters.

Kolster explained that following the hiring of Assistant Professor of Art Jackie Brown in the spring of 2014, Bisbee’s position was no lon-ger needed and, as such, was con-verted to a digital media position.

“In late spring 2014, given that our sculpture classes now were be-ing taught by [a] full-time perma-nent faculty member dedicated to that area, the department unani-mously decided to convert the half-time three-year Artist in Residence position from a sculptor to a digi-tal media artist,” wrote Kolster in an email to the Orient. “The Dean for Academic Affairs approved our request... and all concerned parties were notified of this decision at that time.”

Kolster further characterized these decisions as part of a larger, ongoing effort on the part of the de-partment to expand and strengthen

their offerings. “We are pleased that now we have

full-time permanent positions dedi-cated to the instruction of all five of the primary media comprising our major course of study: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography...This is in sharp contrast to ten years ago when we had, effectively, only two full-time faculty lines dedicated to drawing and painting,” he said.

Many students, however, are sad-dened at the loss of Bisbee.

“The reason I pursued art here is because of John Bisbee,” Gina Stalica ’16 said. “His classes are just com-pletely different than any classes I’ve taken here, which for me was abso-lutely necessary because they forced me to think in a way that was dif-ferent from anything that I’d experi-enced in my life and especially in a class at Bowdoin.”

Other students echoed similar sentiments.

“John Bisbee’s teaching style is definitely unorthodox and he’s been described as an eccentric fig-ure at Bowdoin, but I’m afraid that if the school doesn’t want to keep him that says that they don’t value that kind of openness, generosity of spirit and intuitiveness,” Emily Simon ’17 said. “I think it’s great that we have other professors in the department who are more focused on technique...but Bisbee is just as rigorous, he just takes a different approach and style. I think it’s im-portant we have a range of styles in any given discipline.”

“He is this dog-loving, bearded nail sculptor who has an eye for the beauty that surrounds him,” said Mariah Reading ’16. “I learned more from him in the first day of his pub-lic art class than I have learned from any other professor at Bowdoin—so much that I’m doing an independent study in painting with him this se-mester despite the fact that he is a sculptor and not a painter.”

“As a teacher here for 20 years, he’s been instrumental to so many stu-dents’ personal growth and creativ-ity. I feel sad that future Bowdoin students won’t be changed by Bisbee, as I know so many have been,” said Haleigh Collins ’17.

After the end of this semester, Bis-bee will return to his private studio in Fort Andross to work full-time on his sculptures.

“Ideally the administration would reconsider their decision but if nothing else we just want John and the community to know how valued he is,” Smith said in an email to the Orient. “He’s done so many amazing things for so many of his students and that deserves recognition.”

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doin community who are traveling to attend the game.

“Under the theory that stu-dents are here on campus already, it seemed like it might be an easier process for students to be the ones who went to the will-call table for tickets that might be released, rather than people who might be traveling to campus for the game,” he said. “Time will tell if that was a good idea or not.”

Hintze also attributes the rush for tickets this year to the fact that they were distributed in a more cen-tral location—the Student Activities Desk. In previous years, they were distributed from the Athletics De-partment office on the second floor of the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness.

“People didn’t know where second floor Buck was,” said Hintze.

“They would post it in the [Stu-dent] Digest that tickets were avail-able at Buck, and I don’t think a lot of students read the Student Digest,” he added.

Last year, the Student Activi-ties Office offered to distribute the tickets in the Union during one time slot. According to Hintze, this solved the location problem but led to other inconveniences.

“There was a complete run on the tickets, so if you had class at nine in the morning, you didn’t get a ticket,” he said.

As a result, the Student Activities Office created this year’s system, in which 100 tickets were distributed during each one-hour block.

Some students expressed annoy-ance about the limited number of tickets available to them.

“We have a large enough stadium

to hold everyone on campus, so it would be more logical to have ev-eryone have a ticket,” said Ben Wolf ’18. “It’s definitely a lot more trouble than students should have to go to to see the game.”

However, others praised the more con-venient pickup location for the tickets.

“I liked the blocks and doing it there [in the Union], first of all be-cause I didn’t have to walk the stairs, and second of all because whenever they had it before, I wasn’t awake or I had class at that time. So I think this is a little bit better,” said Westly Garcia ’17.

Both Hintze and Ryan agree that there are kinks in the system that will need to be worked out in future years.

“I think what we’ll do is sit down after the game has been played and think about how we distribute tick-ets and see if there’s a better way for us to do it next year,” said Ryan.

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As part of their recovery from Rossi’s Burgundy blunder, your esteemed crit-ics looked for rejuvenation grounded in traditional American values. What better way to satisfy this yen than Liberty Creek’s Cabernet Sauvignon, located in the bulk shelf at Hannaford? ! e cracked Liberty Bell on the label pealed glad tidings that resonated in our marrow, promising ful-" llment of our founder’s wishes for “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” (LibertyCreekWine.com, 2015). Inspired by our forebears’ own zeal for cheap and/or untaxed beverages, we utilized the Powers of Hamilton’s dependable tender to acquire this revolutionary rotgut.

Once installed in Yellow House, we quickly realized the errors of our patriot-ic passion. While Liberty Creek boasted a great wine smell, this proved to be merely an obfuscating veil. Our qua# s exposed a faint fruit-$ avored serum. Despite its invocation of American exceptionalism, Liberty Creek was far from noteworthy. Indeed, subsequent examination of our tasting notes revealed that we dra% ed

only a cursory description of the wine.Hoping to rectify our situation, we

looked abroad to Martin’s semester in Europe. Fond memories of Christkindl-markts dri% ed upon the wintry winds that bu# eted 75 Harpswell Road. Re-membering how the autochthonous glühwein had warmed his spirits in Ber-lin last year, Martin hit upon a way to salvage this week’s installment of BotB and simultaneously indulge our latent Teutonic tendencies.

Cobbled together from various Inter-net sources, our Orient-approved mulled wine recipe— listed in our additional notes and perfect for any celebration secu-lar, Judeo-Christian, or otherwise—meta-phorically hit the proverbial spot. And de-spite the characterization of cinnamon as the “bane of American cuisine” by Kritika Oberoi, Cornell ’16, we channeled House Atreides and let the spice $ ow.

In what was Martin’s inaugural use of his home’s two kitchens, we began by creating a mélange of sugar, water, cin-namon sticks, oranges, and cloves. A% er evaporating most of the water to create a concentrated syrup, we poured in a quarter of our remaining Liberty Creek, and the resulting mixture could only be described as a “wine-$ avored energy drink.” To amend this botheration, we

emptied the rest of our bottle into our mulling vessel, throwing in an extra handful of cloves because as college se-niors, we love nothing more than living dangerously.

We kept a watchful eye on the con-tents of the pot in order to ensure that our wine was heated without evaporat-ing the Liberty Creek’s greatest and only asset — its 12% alcohol content. A% er a su& cient period of mulling, our concoc-tion was ready to consume. In order to protect our supple and well-moisturized hands, we substituted ceramic mugs for our usual Libby stemware.

! e glühwein turned out to be just what we were hoping to cook up on this blustery winter’s eve. ! e mulling pro-cess imbued the wine with a comforting, nostalgic aroma and a vivifying warmth, and it is safe to say that Liberty Creek has never been so enjoyable. In short, it tasted like the love your esteemed critics had been searching for their entire col-legiate careers.

Liberty Creek’s wallet-friendly price was certainly alluring, but it was only through culinary transmutation that we—like the Yuletide alchemists of yore—were able to harness the true po-tential of this Cabernet Sauvignon and turn viticultural lead into gold.

Mulling unshackles Liberty creek from tasteless oppression

WILL DANFORTH AND MARTIN KRZYWY

BOTTOM OFTHE BARREL

Martin: ”Will, let’s cook.”

Will: “I feel like we’re making stone soup here.”

Tonight’s Soundtrack: Bruce Springsteen, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Recipe:1.5 cups of sugar

3.5 cinnamon sticks 25 cloves 2 oranges

1.5 L of Liberty Creek, Cabernet Sauvignon

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Butternut Squash over break

! is weekend, I went to Stew Leon-ard’s, in Norwalk, Connecticut. For any-one who does not know, Stew Leonard’s is like if an Ikea, a grocery store, and an amusement park got put in a Cuisinart and congealed together. Upon entering the store, one follows a trail marked by yellow duck feet on the $ oor through a labyrinth of food sections, and through-out the store there are mechanized stu# ed animals swinging around little trapezes with signs above them that say, “We $ ip for our customers!” Along the way you come to stations where digital clocks with big red letters count down the time until the next show; show, here, referring to robotic milk cartons singing Christmas carols, or huge dogs dressed in overalls playing banjos and singing an indiscernible and jaunty tune, probably brimming with canine puns.

I was taken there by my very excited 22-year-old girlfriend who made me wait at every one of these stations (the dogs were her favorite) so that I could expe-rience the magic of her childhood food shopping experience. In my pocket was a shopping list from her mother, who had o# ered to share one of her recipes with me. I was extremely honored because she is one of those people that is ! e Cook of every circle she is part of. I was also a little worried that I would overstep my boundary with a suggestion to use local products, but thankfully, my also very dutiful and wonderful girlfriend pointed that out so that I wouldn’t have to. So, the recipe of the evening was amended to " t the produce available locally, and so, friends, again, I bring to you, soup.

The Globalist moves to solely online platform GLOBAL: The Globalist, previously a completely print publication, has moved to an online-only platform that reaches a much wider audience and decreases the publishing costs signifi cantly.

BY ELIZA HUBERWEISSCOLUMNIST

At a time when many news publica-tions on college campuses nationwide are moving toward online content, it has become increasingly hard to sustain print production. In response to this pressure, the Bowdoin Globalist has decided to transition to entirely online publication.

Founded as a magazine in 2011, ! e Bowdoin Globalist publishes long-form articles that cover topics ranging from international a# airs to pop culture. Stu-dent writers are free to engage with top-ics of their choice.

“We didn’t want to just be an ‘Econo-mist.’ Fundamentally, if we’re trying to be an ‘Economist’ and we’re students, we have few contacts and less experience. Why would anyone read us if they can

just read the ‘Economist?’” said Globalist Editor-in-Chief Mark Pizzi ’16. “It doesn’t really make sense.”

In its new form, ! e Globalist is able to publish articles as they’re written, rather than waiting for the quarterly print re-lease, and can stay more relevant in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. Additional-ly, the online model allows for a far greater degree of control over article length, mul-timedia and interactive content.

“We can actually have content that is not weirdly behind the news cycle. We’re not trying to have headlines and break-ing news, but we want to be relevant and interesting to the readers,” said Globalist Editor-in-Chief Nick Tonkens ‘16.

In its " rst few years, the magazine went through multiple policy changes, and encountered challenges of funding and distribution. Above all, however, was the

need to ensure that members of the Bow-doin community were reading and enjoy-ing their content.

“As a publication, you always need to be concerned about momentum. You lose your best people every single year,” said Tonkens. “You lose a quarter of potential viewership every single year. Keeping momentum is an existential challenge for the publication. We were very concerned about that.”

Student organizations are required to secure funding through the Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC), which reviews and approves proposed budgets. An overwhelming majority of the magazine’s expenses involved printing and distribution, which made it di& cult to justify the print model.

In August, Pizzi, Tonkens and Global-ist Editor-in-Chief Drew van Kuiken ’17

decided to move ! e Globalist to the web.“I realized that I was reading more Ori-

ent articles than I was reading of anything else, because they were on my Facebook feed and my friends were writing them and saying ‘here’s what I said about this issue,’” said Pizzi. “Why are we not taking advantage of this?”

“First, [the website] would take away the time-of-publishing element. We could publish instantly,” said Tonkens. “Second-ly, it costs $100 per year instead of $3,000. ! at means Bowdoin is paying a fraction of the cost, and we don’t have to do quite as much work to get the funding. ! e third issue is distribution. We can now publish individual articles by Facebook and Twitter and instantly get exposure.”

Less than a month into its online

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Butternut squash soup is remarkably simple. On my list: two large butternut squashes, two cartons of vegetable broth, and chicken apple sausages. ! e thought process behind it, however was a bit more complicated. ! e two large butter-nut squashes came from Stew Leonard’s, sourced from a farm in Hamden, Con-necticut, just a forty-minute drive up the road. Very little guilt there, although ide-ally, yes, I would meet the farmers and help them raise their children and o" er up my extra kidney before buying their squash. ! e vegetable broth came from Whole Foods, the second stop on our tour of Connecticut food stores. More guilt there: non-recyclable packaging, showy and hard to decipher labeling, no idea of where or how it is produced. ! e chicken sausage was also from Whole Foods, from the case that advertises Whole Foods’s premiere 5-Step® Animal Welfare Rating, involving somewhere close to 100 species-speci# c standards telling you how “good”—by environ-mental, health, and taste parameters—your meat is, with the quality improving as the numbers get higher, and the price skyrocketing in the same direction. More guilt there: did “local” mean locally man-ufactured, but made with chickens from

who knows where? If these are mass pro-duced sausages, does the company think about its energy sources and usage and try to minimize it? Do they treat their workers well? Feeling overwhelmed, I shut up, and we bought the food, cross-ing everything requested of us o" the list.

We went back home, and I chopped, baked, sautéed, and pureed. As I said, the process was quite simple, which le$ me a lot of time to think.

I know how to eat locally in Bruns-wick. Summer farmers market at Crystal Springs, winter farmers market in Fort Andros (everyone go!), Portland Food Coop, many a nearby farm to visit. I was totally disoriented in Connecticut: I had no idea where to go. Even though I was in a new place, I wanted to still support the local food economy and the people involved in it, but it was hidden behind the convenience of Stew Leonard’s and the glitz of Whole Foods that are such a part of how our food system works. One makes food shopping fun instead of mindful, the other makes shopping expensive and exclusive. I le$ the stores longing for Brunswick, feeling hypo-critical and false. I am going to Germany next semester, and I am responsible for feeding myself! Am I going to be able to # nd local foods? If I ask about them, will I be regarded as snobby, pretentious and naively privileged?

Forgive me for the foray into the

every detail of my thought process, dear reader, but I wanted to give you the framework that leads to this ulti-mate statement to wrap up my series of columns for this semester: Butter-nut squash soup may be simple, but eating locally is really freaking hard. It is expensive, it is time consuming; it involves research and establishment in places to the point that is maybe impossible to achieve while travel-ing. It involves suspicion of standards, di% cult discussions, an awareness of the social connotations of “local” and an acknowledgement of the privilege I have to be able to eat this way. For me, it invokes a healthy dose of guilt mixed with a lethal dose of self-righ-teousness and a sprinkle of hypocrisy. But I’m trying. And now my family

is trying, and my girlfriend is trying, and my friends mock me, but also try, and hopefully, things will change so that it doesn’t involve so much trying, but instead demands the things that are fundamental to it: eating, cook-ing, learning, talking, congratulating, helping, caring. Hopefully I have in-spired some caring in those that read this, and maybe some willingness to try. Go home this winter, ask about a recipe, think about how you might be able to get the ingredients locally. Ask about a recipe for which you know you can get the ingredients locally. If you can’t, consider why that is and what could make it di" erent. For me, it is hard, but it is so, so worth it.

And now for something simpler but also so, so worth it.

Upon entering Uncle Tom’s Market on Pleasant Street, I was immediately greet-ed by André—a bouncy, moplike bichon frise—who hangs out there with his own-er, Dan Bouthot. Dan inherited the store from his father, Leoneide ! omas “Uncle Tom” Bouthot. As uncle to more than a dozen nieces and nephews, the market’s name is homage to a family man. Yet, the namesake is o$ en confused for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antislavery novel.

“It has nothing to do with what people keep saying. In fact, we were written up in the Chicago paper. I keep the clipping at the front of the store. Are you kidding? It has nothing to do with Harriet Beecher Stowe,” Dan said. “Everyone called him Uncle Tom.”

André is the third of three bichon frises that have graced the store, documented in a series of photographs laminated on the counter. Uncle Tom loved the dogs. “He would # nish his meal, pick the dog up, put her on the countertop where he had just gotten his meal, feed whatever scraps were on his plate, and watch TV for the rest of the a$ ernoon,” Dan said.

Every night, Dan cooks for his wife and daughter in the back of his store. “I work 60 hours a week,” he said. “It’s just

what I do if I want to spend a meal with them.” Once he roasted an entire pig.

“On anniversaries, he makes scallops,” his daughter, Gabrielle, added. “And on Valentine’s, and Mother’s Day.”

“I mean, [the store is] good for him and it’s great to keep it in the family, but balance is hard,” his wife, Maggie, com-mented. “Which is why we adapt, why we have suppers here. We just do what we need to do to be together.”

“Talking about beer, that’s what I do,” Dan said about his job. “I try enough of them to help customers pick them, and people are happy with the choices I help them make. I’m not a professional by any means. I’m completely self-taught. But I keep my ears open for information.”

Yet, the store o" ers some other things that have grabbed customers’ attention. On the wall opposite the checkout counter, there are racks of pornographic magazines.

“I mean, there’s a demand for it,” Dan comments. “I hate the fact that I have them, but now that they’re here, they are a draw.”

Stranger things have been sold here. When Uncle Tom was still around, the shop sold 40 suits of armor within # ve weeks. “! ose were cheap Mexican knocko" s,” Dan admitted.

Their customers can be strange, too. One has a name that’s a phrase,

Bobby Rocks. “He legally changed it,” a% rmed Ga-

brielle, Dan’s daughter.One woman, known as “Moose Lady,”

brings in stu" ed animals to show Dan and his family.

“She brought in her brand-new boots

the other day, to make sure I knew she had boots this winter,” Dan said.

“She’s lonely,” Dan said. “And bel-ligerent sometimes.”

“He’s like a bartender,” Maggie noted. “You know, just listening to people.”

“I hear everybody’s problems. Some-

times I can o" er information, sometimes I can’t,” Dan said.

“Opening up and talking to people it what is part of what it is, it’s the busi-ness,” he said.

“Good at heart, that’s what you need to be.”

A family affair: a history of variety at Uncle Tom’s Market

presence, ! e Globalist has already ex-perienced the bene# ts of social media exposure. In the past, 300 copies of the magazine were distributed around cam-pus. One recently-published article has accumulated almost 900 views, highlight-ing the power of likes, shares and retweets.

Transitioning from a completely-print to completely-digital publication isn’t as easy as creating a Blogspot ac-count and choosing a & ashy default theme. Web Architect Jack Ward ’19, with Pizzi’s design input, developed the website a$ er a series of unforeseen chal-lenges and total re-boots.

“We were sold on a certain framework for [the site] by someone in Bowdoin IT, assuming we’d be able to host it through Bowdoin. ! at was not the case, but we had to stick to this framework because of time,” said Ward.

Ward and Pizzi eventually decided on using WordPress, allowing simulta-neous work on the site’s structure and creative design.

“One of the things I wanted to ensure was that it didn’t look like other Word-Press sites,” said Ward. “In a lot of ways, it was harder than doing it from scratch, because I had to # ght the framework that we were sold on so much.”

In the future, the site will include more video and interactive content.

Ultimately, ! e Globalist allows stu-dent writers to look outside the Bowdoin bubble, analyze what they # nd and im-prove their writing abilities in the process. Many members of the Globalist sta" hope to develop a strong portfolio of long-form journalism and apply these skills beyond their four years on campus. Diversifying from the original international relations-focused model, according to Tonkens, aids this process.

“! e writing gets better when you’re not just writing international relations pieces all the time,” he said. “! ere’s some format or template that a lot of people tend towards. It’s a bit academic, dry, and formulaic—less interesting to write as well as read. When you cover topics that are less covered and are not as strictly IR-focused, you do get more interesting writ-ing. Your writers grow as a result.”

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat the outside of the squashes in olive oil, and place in baking pan. Bake for about 45 minutes, until they are almost mushy.2. While the squashes are baking, roughly chop onions (I used red, which are a little sweeter, but yellow would work too!). Sauté in butter and oil on medium-low heat until they are translucent and almost caramelized.3. When the squash is done cooking, remove the skin using a knife (I would rec-ommend using gloves, as the squash will be really hot). Cut the squash into chunks and place in pan with onions. Cover the whole mixture in dried sage, and sauté for about three minutes.4. Add the vegetable broth and simmer for another 3 minutes. Remove from heat, and blend in batches in the Cuisinart.5. Now comes the hard part. Butternut squash can really vary in taste, and so requires some taste-and-fi x. The two most probable fi xes are salt and some kind of sweetener: brown sugar, honey or maple syrup work well. Some more radical but equally as valid choices are cayenne, cinnamon, nutmeg, and even some yogurt if your soup is too watery or needs some tang to it.6. Garnish with cooked sausage cut into thin slices, and some fresh sage leaves if you have them.

2 medium butternut squashes1 quart vegetable broth2 or 3 red onionsDried sage to tasteSalt to taste

Maple syrup to taste Sausage (optional) Olive oil Butter

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP

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ABOUT TOWNELLICE LUEDERS

DAN THE MAN: Dan Bouthot, son of “Uncle Tom,” the market’s founder, stands beside a collection of craft beers.

CHOPPED: Eliza sautés chopped onions in butter and oil at medium-low heat for three minutes.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

I’m surprised no one’s beaten me up the tree on this topic: the nature of the sciu-rine sensation. At Bowdoin, the Yik Yak feed is replete with references to the cam-pus squirrels. Posts or entries on the local-ized forum allow students to comment on their Bowdoin experience. ! e campus squirrels are a recurring and important aspect of that experience.

Something about the small mammals makes them a " ne occasion for campus commentary. ! ey are endlessly fascinat-ing to Bowdoin students, and an excellent source of critical comic material. ! e my-thology of squirrels on this campus de-pends heavily on Yik Yak.

Bowdoin squirrels as they appear on Yik Yak of course are based on a “real life,” material, squirrel phenomenon. Squirrels are an important and unique element in the campus landscape. Besides people, dogs, and other occasional animals, squir-rels are the only constant, mobile, and lively element of the campus landscape.

Trees may be their opposite: static and predictable, the arboreal installations sel-dom draw the active attention of students. Community members interact passively with the trees; and if they do actively

observe trees, it is never witty, sarcastic, ironic, or self-re# exive, which are all char-acteristic of Yik Yak observations and es-pecially of squirrel-centric posts.

Squirrels draw active observation be-cause they are dynamic and proximate. ! e campus squirrels are comfortable in the close company of students—they seem to have an intrepid indi$ erence to students and their activity. Ac-tive observation is important to understanding the squirrels, since they represent a Yik Yak dependent symbol and since Yik Yak depends on active observa-tion. Squirrels’ close proximity draws in what is o% en otherwise a tranced audience.

Students’ ability to observe depends on squirrels’ close prox-imity, but the activity behind the observation depends on their dy-namicity. ! ey make themselves quite conspicuous as an exception in the landscape and, indeed, the lives of their observers. In this case, the passive is made active by an unsettling, or defying of ex-pectations, or probably both. ! is excite-ment begets some re# ection or judgment from the observer that lends itself well to Yik Yak humor.

Even when they are not dictated or characterized by fear, squirrel-student interactions provide opportunities for comedic observation. ! ere is something inherently funny to Bowdoin students

about squirrel behavior: they look

frantic, wired, determined, and, in all this: cute (like your typical Bowdoin student?). Observers readily perceive that squirrels have their own world of interests, con-cerns and con# icts that is strikingly di$ er-ent from that of Bowdoin students. ! at two radically di$ erent worlds of experi-ence can occur in a single physical space makes the squirrel-human dynamic espe-

cially noteworthy or funny. ! is is funda-mentally why and how campus squirrels have made it into the realm of Yik Yak. It wasn’t until the campus squirrels came into contact with this established campus forum that they acquired the meaning and signi" cance that we ascribe to them today.

Yik Yak is a well-attended and hallowed non-physical space, with its own unique symbolic power. A number of campus symbols depend on Yik Yak. It has that e$ ect as a discursive forum that rewards original commentary; it is a well-attend-

ed, fractured narrative where campus life is actively constructed and deconstructed. Students articulate and discuss campus elements in relation to other campus ele-ments, as well as in relation to themselves. ! e physical elements behind the sym-bols, like the “real life” squirrels, are just a part of the signs’ histories—not the signs themselves. Campus squirrels would not

mean what they do without this discursive tool and the squirrel discourse it has facilitated.

! ere is a sort of positive feed-back loop for signs within Yik Yak. ! e Yik Yak discourse has the power to sever the symbol from its physical point of reference—to form self-su& cient signs. ! is is not so in the case for the campus squirrels sign, which depends on a give and take between the physical squirrels and the forum’s squirrel narrative. ! e squirrels themselves

still (seem) to directly inspire many of the Yaks that reference them, while the Yik Yak squirrel discourse directly changes the way students observe the physical squirrels. ! e squirrels and the squirrel discourse according to Yik Yak work in tandem to shape a single sign. A change or variance in one necessarily changes the other and the uni" ed meaning abides by this give-and-take. A cultish student fol-lowing drives the evolution of the symbol.

Eastern gray squirrels are sedentary inthe zoological sense—that is: they stay put and do not migrate. ! e campus

squirrels are always present on campus, and relate to the same changes in out-door physical environment (especially the weather) that students do. ! ere’s a barometric quality to them. Some-times this allows for squirrels, as the subject of Yaks, to function as a means for students to comment—o% en ironi-cally, with the wide trajectory of clever humor—on their own experiences of the Bowdoin campus. One of the most common “strategies” is to superimpose the Bowdoin students’ world onto the squirrels. For example: “I’m not for slut shaming but some of these squirrels must be having outrageous amounts of sex,” or “that squirrel is on so-pro.” And countless more.

! ough the squirrels appear as the object of the observations deployed on the anonymous forum, in many cases, they are but the means to students’ end of self-re# ection, (which may be the end of Yik Yak itself). ! e striking di$ erence between the non-physical worlds of Bow-doin squirrels and Bowdoin students casts in relief many aspects of student life: their interests, concerns and self-proclaimed struggles. Incorporating squirrels into Yik Yak is a comedic way of exposing the world of Bowdoin students. You might say this world is eccentric or # ighty—is there

a word for that?Ben Bristol is a member of

the Class of 2017.

New Hampshire holds its presiden-tial primary “" rst in the nation,” which means candidates spend more time in the Granite State than they would otherwise. I watch U.S. politics closely, so I was shocked when I saw a name that I had never seen before on a list of candidates. “Who the hell is that,” I thought, “and why is he speaking at the same event as Carly Fiorina?” I was con-vinced I knew every candidate in this election. A web search revealed that the man exists, and is indeed running for President. Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore has been routinely garner-ing less than one percent in every poll. In most polls, he is not even mentioned.

I was obsessed. Who runs for presi-dent while consistently polling at zero percent? Given the margin of error, my roommates could poll higher. Why would someone choose to subject him-self to this? ! is man was an army intel-ligence o& cer, an attorney general, the governor of Virginia and the chair of the Republican National Committee, yet the Orient has more Twitter followers than he does. I had to meet him.

Dover, New Hampshire is about 90 minutes away from Brunswick and fre-quently hosts presidential candidates. Carly Fiorina was headlining the pasta dinner event. Governor Gilmore was scheduled to speak last, because, well, of course he was.

Some 200 people gathered in the func-tion hall for the “Red Rally,” where the lights, dinner tables, balloons, chocolates, clothing and even pasta was Republican

red. I stood by the autographed books of Anne Coulter and Ted Cruz, Googling “Jim Gilmore” so I could remember what he looked like. I spotted him near the back of the room sitting next to who looked to be his campaign manager.

She got up and walked over near me, frantic. She grasped the pens by the au-tographed books, looked at them, and then guilt-ily put them back, saying she needed a pen but felt bad stealing. “You didn’t bring a pen?” I asked the presumed campaign head. “No…,” she said, embarrassed.

I bargained to lend my pen to his campaign di-rector in exchange for an interview with the gover-nor. She eagerly agreed, snapped up my pen, and scurried back to her seat. He had only been the star of a few stories in recent months, mostly about his indignation over his ex-clusion from debates and, ironically, his lack of coverage.

Fiorina spoke well and was the clear reason for the night. I stood nearby when I was approached by a New Hampshire television reporter.

She asked if I were with the Gilmore campaign. I explained I was not. She slumped her shoulders, and then whis-pered her question to me.

“Okay, well do you know what this Jim Gilmore guy looks like, and where he might be in this room?”

Gilmore is only campaigning in New

Hampshire. I hal' eartedly pointed him out and plodded back to the media cir-cle to see the camera crews packing up. Half the room had le% now that Fiorina was done. I brooded in the now-emptied media circle, eating more Republican-themed pasta, as Stra$ ord County Re-publicans and local party hacks traded

the microphone around. ! ree hours into the event, he was given the most under-whelming, irreverent introduction possi-ble: “Jim Gilmore, why don’t you come up and say hi?” It sounded like he was run-ning for Dover dogcatcher. Not to men-tion his sta$ lacked basic o& ce supplies and stole my pen, a campaign donation I have not disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.

But once he took the microphone, I understood why Gilmore has had such an illustrious career. He’s everything the Republican Party should want. He’s

a plain-spoken governor with a south-ern drawl—a military veteran with a background in executive leadership and national security. He wants lower taxes. He talks about character, principle, and looking people in the eye.

Gilmore is no amateur, but it’s not easy to try to climb up a% er a decade-long fall

from relevance. He harped on the “establishment press in combination with the big deals in Washington DC” who had denied him a spot on the debate stage, again. ! e remaining room came to life as he talked about his military experi-ence, support of veterans and contempt for regula-tion. He vowed to veto gun control “faster than Hill-ary Clinton can delete an email.” ! e crowd quietly roared in crescendo.

He " nished his speech by humbly asking for votes and sat back down, pester-ing his state director for

how long he’d spoken and how that com-pared to Fiorina. He looked frustrated. ! e event ended, and I now had my time to speak with him.

He looked dismayed that I, an uncre-dentialed college kid in a cheap tweed jacket, was his media coverage. He sat like he hadn’t sat in days, crashing his " sts on the red-clothed table full of half-empty wine glasses and dirty dinner plates.

Gilmore quickly conceded that the election had been hard. I was jarred by the fact that he has to frame sentences with “when I’m president.” I pointed out that

other candidates had dropped out al-ready and they had more of everything—dollars, supporters, pens. He pointed to his lack of name recognition as just mak-ing him the candidate with the most room to grow, which to me sounded like saying “I’m not short, I just have the most height to achieve.”

He counted his entire campaign sta$ on two hands; it took an elongated “uhh” to get from the seventh sta$ er to the eighth. He pointed his " nger at me when making important points. He told me when to write things down.

It’s been three weeks since I met Gilmore. And despite the recent empha-sis on national security giving his expe-rience its best shot at being considered important, little has changed. While the primary is months away, I feel con" dent predicting that Jim Gilmore will not be the next President.

I’m not a Republican, and I disagree with Gilmore on pretty much every issue other than our belief that the Trump cam-paign exempli" es “fascist talk,” but some-thing about his campaign is wonderfully quixotic and beautifully tragic. What mo-tivates someone to run for president when they have absolutely no chance, when no one will even listen? I had to ask.

“Because I’m the best person to be the president. I’ve always loved my country and served my country so now we’ve ar-rived at 2015 and we’re in a lot of trouble,” Gilmore explained. “I have the experience and the credentials to help my country, what do you want me to do? Go home and sit? Pray?”

Joe Sherlock is a member of the Class of 2016.

THE MYTHOLOGICAL EXISTENCE OF BOWDOIN

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irst-year Simon Chow doesn’t know how to explain Bowdoin to his parents. ! ey’ve never stepped foot on campus, and as Chi-nese immigrants living in Los Angeles, they have no context for what a small college in New England is like.

“My parents have never known what it’s like outside a city basically. Like [for me] coming into Brunswick, Maine with all

the trees and di" erent colors… It de# nitely creates two di" erent worlds,” Chow said.

Chow, like roughly 10 percent of students in the class of 2019, is a # rst-generation college student. ! at percentage has been fairly consistent for the # rst-year class over the past # ve years.

In many ways, “# rst-gen” students face typical challenges: managing school, work, sleep, stress, friends and health. Some, however, face obstacles other students will never have to deal with, like the lull on the other end of the line when trying to ex-plain Bowdoin to their parents.

“My family didn’t even know Bowdoin existed,” said Diamond Walker ’17, who grew up in the Bronx. “I don’t even think they understand what a liberal arts school means.”

Even though he was born and raised relatively close to campus in Port-land, Maine, Mohamed Nur ’19 said some aspects of college—like the social scene—are entirely foreign to his family.

“My parents, they know Bowdoin, but in a very super# cial kind of way. ! ey know it’s a college, they know a$ er four years I’ll get a degree,” he said.

Many # rst-generation students spoke of the di% culty of explaining the details of their lives at the College to their parents.

Anu Asaolu ’19 said that her Nigerian mother has a hard time seeing col-lege as more than just an academic pursuit.

“Every time I call my mom, she’s just like, ‘Remember, you’re here to learn,’” said Asaolu. “Yeah, college is about learning, but it’s really hard to explain that it’s also about developing yourself and really # nding out who you are.”

When Asaolu got a concussion while playing rugby this fall, her mother told her she should join a science club instead. Asaolu is inter-ested in a career in medicine.

“It’s really hard explaining that [rugby] is what I want to do, that this is what makes me happy,” she said. “‘Get your degree.’ ! at’s my mom’s entire goal.”

Christina Moreland ’17 recalled avoiding telling her parents that the tran-sition to college was di% cult, as she felt they wouldn’t be able to relate.

“! e nuances of how to be a college student were not something I was explaining… I would kind just leave things out and just be like, ‘Yeah, every-thing is great, I love everything. I’m doing really well,’” she said. “I think some of that comes from not being able to say, ‘Yeah, the # rst semester of college is hard’ and have them connect with that.”

Many students expressed concern that if they shared the full details of their Bowdoin experiences, their families would worry unnecessarily.

“When I cough, I cough away from the phone. So [my mom] isn’t super worried about me,” Chow said.

Other # rst-generation students found it easier to stop communicating their Bowdoin experience altogether.

Michelle Kruk ’16 said she rarely calls home.

“A lot of those conversations can be frustrating because it’s a lot of [my parents] dumping whatever is happening at home onto me and then not allowing me to dump what’s going on here to them, and even if I do dump that, they don’t understand it,” she said. “If I have to explain to you a thou-sand times what I’m majoring in or what I’m minoring in or what classes I’m taking, it just over time gets really repetitive and I don’t want to an-swer those questions any more.”

! ere is no such thing as a typical # rst-genera-tion student. ! e label is not necessarily indicative of wealth, nor is it repre-sentative of race, home-town or socioeconomic status. In other words, the only thing # rst-generation students are guaranteed to have in common is the de# nition of the term it-self: that neither parent holds a two or four year degree from a college or university.

Kenny Cortum ’16 is a # rst generation student from Iowa. He has blond hair, pale skin and wears rectangular glasses.

“It’s hard to be a # rst-generation student and look like I’m part of the one percent,” he explained. “I’ve actually had trouble connecting with other # rst-generation students here because I don’t look # rst-generation.”

Despite not looking like many of his # rst-gen peers, Cortum said his back-ground a" ected his academic experience.

“One of my most distinct memories was when my neighbors across the hall would send their parents their essays to have them look over them, which I thought was kind of unfair,” he said. “I had to really look at these di" erences and # nd a way to adjust to make Bowdoin work for me the same way they’re making Bowdoin work with their parents. I had to do it without my parents.”

! e academic transition to Bowdoin varies widely among # rst-genera-tion students, as it does among all # rst years. Students who attended private schools or strong public high schools o$ en felt well-prepared for college, while students who attended less privileged schools o$ en found academics more di% cult, especially in their # rst year.

“I came to college for academics, # rst and foremost, and I deserve the best out of my experience like anybody else,” said Walker, whose public high school in the Bronx o" ered few advanced classes and was frequently subject to budget cuts. “I know I could do better, but I’m doing a lot with what I have so far. It’s hard to be compared to students who’ve been challenged like this for years and this is my # rst time confronting stu" like this.”

Walker believes her status as a # rst-generation student makes her time at the College even more valuable.

“My grades are everything right now,” she said. “To be honest, I don’t have anything else. I don’t have money. I don’t have family with connections. All I have is my education.”

Shawn Bayrd ’19, who grew up in Brunswick, explained that he didn’t fully grasp the prestige of a Bowdoin education until a$ er he got his acceptance letter. While he feels like he # ts in academically, Bayrd said he still notices in-

THE FIRST GENERATION EXPERIENCE

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JESSICA PIPER AND SURYA MILNERORIENT STAFF

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stances where he feels like an outsider because of his status as a ! rst-gen student. “Since my parents didn’t go to college, they don’t have this academic stand-

point on the world… When I talk to people who have parents who went to get their PhDs or are high in their ! elds, I’ve noticed that the kids are also very aware of what’s going on around them,” he said. “I haven’t gotten the home aspect where we talk about what’s going on in the world.”

Bayrd attended Brunswick High School and worked alongside his mom at " orne Hall in his junior year of high school.

“It was awful. I hated Bowdoin kids because if you’re not a student you don’t get treated as well,” he said. “One of my jobs was to put the co# ee pots in the ma-chines and turn it on so it would ! lter through. And there was this whole crowd around the co# ee thing waiting for the co# ee and I was just standing there with the pots waiting for them to move and they were like, ‘Are you gonna make more co# ee?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, I will if you fucking move.’”

While intellectual support is one privilege of being raised by college-educated parents, ! nancial stability is another, more widely-recognized advantage. Ac-cording to data collected by the National Information Center for Higher Educa-tion Policymaking and Analysis, there is a $26,700 median di# erence in yearly earnings between those with a high school diploma versus a bachelor’s degree.

“Because my parents didn’t go to college, ! nances are always an issue,” said Zac Watson ’16. “So I actually moved in by myself. My parents weren’t here to help me move in. And that was kind of—it was very di# erent. Everyone’s parents help them move in on the ! rst day. And it was just me here. I had to go to the mail center, get all my boxes, move in, get to the Field House.”

Watson said he still feels di# erent because of his ! nancial status at times. “It was the social aspect that I really noticed,” he said. “Friends want to

go to Quebec for Fall Break or something, and it’s like, ‘I can’t do that. I support myself.’”

“People said ‘Oh yeah, we went to Europe for a trip or we went to somewhere like Hawaii,’’’ recalled Chow. “A lot of [! rst-generation students] can’t a# ord trips like that... Having us talk about our summers is like ‘I worked this summer.’”

Most ! rst-generation students expressed that, while their ! rst-generation sta-tus impacted their social life, it also didn’t preclude them from forming friendships with non-! rst-generation students.

“Despite seeing that there are a lot of di# erences, I can still be friends with all these other people with a lot of privilege,” said Chow. “I can still connect with them in ways and have a lot of fun with them.”

For many students, the ! rst-gen label o$ en takes a backseat to other, more salient aspects of their identity.

“It’s been very hard for me to explain my ! rst-gen experience because until last semester, actually, I haven’t really had one,” Walker explained. “My experience has always been curtained by being black. If anyone asked me what it was like [to be ! rst-gen], I’d talk about what it was like to be black here.”

“You don’t wear your ! rst-generation identity on your sleeve, nobody can

really tell. And so there’s many other transitional issues that students here face that are more physical, that I think are prioritized for students,” said Kruk. “Like I’m more concerned about being a woman of color than being ! rst-gen, because that’s what impacts me ! rst.”

For other students, national identity plays a role. Camille Farradas ’19 attend-ed a competitive private high school in Miami where many students were of Cu-ban descent, like her. She said she sees her identity as a ! rst-generation student as inextricably tied to her Cuban background, because college wasn’t an option for her parents in communist Cuba.

“Part of being Cuban in particular is that I couldn’t grow up where I was sup-posed to grow up,” she said. “Part of [going to college] is rebuilding our family from nothing.”

Given the diverse individual experiences of ! rst-generation students, it can be di% cult to provide resources to support the entire group. At the same time, ! rst-generation students typically experience more di% culties than non-! rst-gener-ation students. Nationally, the graduation rate for these students from private institutions is 70 percent, while only 57 percent who attend public institutions graduate. Data on the graduation rate of Bowdoin’s ! rst-generation students was unavailable.

Bowdoin provides some programming attempts to support ! rst-generation students by bringing them together at the ! rst-generation multicultural retreat, which takes place every fall.

“It [is] really an opportunity to bring ! rst-generation students and students of color o# campus a$ er they’ve been at Bowdoin for about a month and kind of get them a safe space o# campus to talk about any issues they might have,” said Director for Multicultural Life Benjamin Harris.

He added that the retreat was also a good way to connect ! rst years with up-perclassmen role models.

“" e ! rst-generation multicultural retreat…was an amazing bonding oppor-tunity,” said Simone Rumph ’19. “Whether it be ! rst-gen, or having struggles with economy, or being multiracial, coming from di# erent backgrounds. It’s just a bond that is there.”

At the same time, the retreat con& ates the labels of ! rst-generation and multicultural. And while some ! rst-generation students ! nd support through a% nity groups like the African American Society (Af-Am) or the Latin Amer-ican Student Organization (LASO), connecting with ! rst-gen peers can be more di% cult for students who are ! rst-generation college students but are not a racial or ethnic minority.

Cortum recalls feeling isolated when he went on the retreat as a ! rst year.“" ere was only one other who was as pale as I was and I felt like we were kind

of alienated at ! rst,” he said.Bowdoin also hosts a couple of dinners a semester aimed speci! cally at ! rst-

generation students. Learning to utilize these resources can be an adjustment too.“As a ! rst-gen, I think it’s very easy to say—for most of us—that throughout our

lives we’ve been doing things on our own,” Chow said. “So coming to college, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that it’s okay to reach out for help. It’s okay to use resources around you.”

" ough Chow’s parents are thousands of miles away, he managed to ! nd sup-port from connecting with upper class role models.

“People seem like they’re doing alright, but they’re also going through a lot. [For] me realizing, ‘Hey, you know, someone’s been through this,’” he said. “It’s okay to feel that way.”

“There are some things that I just have to do and deal with on my own just to

make it easier on my family. And that’s a sacrifi ce I’m willing to make every day.”

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Offi ce Hours to debut long-form improv comedy on campus

Since its induction in fall 2013, the Digital and Computational Studies Ini-tiative (DCS) has grown increasingly popular among students. Students will have the opportunity to explore the nexus between technology and the arts in the DCS-Visual Arts Department cross-listed course next semester.

Visiting Artist Erin Johnson will be teaching a 3000-level class called Site-Speci! cs: Production of Socially Engaged Media. " e class will require students to go into the world and ex-plore the way in which sites—like parks or dams—represent the histo-ries of their locations.

Some of the sites that Johnson has in mind include Bowdoin’s Coas tal Studies Center, Fort Andross and Brunswick Landing. Students will be asked to interview community mem-bers who work at or live near those sites to learn about them and the im-pacts they have on the town. Next, they will be asked to turn what they learned into a digital representation to be displayed at that site.

“By exploring all the di# erent his-tories and squeezing those out they can choose how they want to connect something that’s happening in the con-temporary world to something that’s happened in the past,” said Johnson.

The goal with these projects will

be both to enhance the impact of the sites and help educate site newcom-ers. Johnson added that another goal is to “draw out this history that’s maybe not on the surface of the site and connect that with the questions that we are asking right now.” " e issues ex-plored through the histories of the sites could include issues like that of race, class, labor, gender and sexuality.

This semester, Johnson is teaching her first class at Bowdoin: Introduc-tion to Digital Media. She explained that the class she will be teaching next semester will require more thorough exploration and investiga-tion. However, an important aspect of the class still focuses on ensuring that students will gain a basic under-standing of tools like a digital video camera and video-editing software.

One aspect that Johnson said she is most excited about is the fact that students will be creating art that will “live outside the walls of a gallery.” This way, she explained, those who haven’t typically appreciated art when they have seen it in museums will have an opportunity to view art in a new way.

Crystal Hall, an associate profes-sor of digital humanities, is excited to be collaborating with the Vi-sual Arts Department for Johnson’s cross-listed class.

“I think that there’s been a sense that DCS has really been digital

humanities, in part because those first few cross-listed courses were coming from English and Cinema Studies, and so this is a way to give a space for another aspect of DCS be-yond the humanities,” said Hall.

In contrast to perceptions of DCS as digital humanities, Hall described it as an “equal opportunity collabo-rator.”

“We are really trying to under-stand where the overlap exists, where we can find questions or is-sues that many disciplines would like to investigate,” she said.

Johnson’s class, in which students will use digital tools to explore and represent artistic and historical ideas, provides a strong gateway to redefining the DCS department.

“Even though we’re looking at his-tory, we’re thinking about sociologi-cal theory. We are also addressing present day problems, issues and questions, and so I think Site Specif-ics also gets into that ultra-contem-porary moment, which I think can be really powerful,” added Hall.

Johnson said that she has thor-oughly enjoyed planning the class.

“What my goal is for this class is that students will walk away with another kind of experience in which hopefully they’ve learned more about how to just look at the world and think about all of the creative possibilities that ev-ery place has,” said Johnson.

Visiting artist to meld visual arts, technology and community

Mixing-up the comedy-group scene on campus, the new improv group O$ ce Hours will make its debut performance this Friday at Quinby House. " e group, led by James Jelin ’16, consists of Sophie de Bruijn ’18, Maggie Seymour ’16, Justin Weathers ’18, Collin Litts ’18 and Sam Chase ’16.

Unlike " e Improvabilities, a group that performs mainly classic short-form improv (think “Whose Line is It Any-way?”), O$ ce Hours strictly uses the long-form technique pioneered by Up-right Citizens Brigade (UCB), an improvi-sational comedy theater in New York City.

“[Long-form improv] is a totally di# er-ent beast,” said de Bruijn.

In long-form improv, the actors work together to develop a comedic scene cen-tered around a single cue—a word sug-gestion, a monologue from an audience member or someone’s Facebook pro! le.

“We want to ! nd comedy in real expe-riences and stories,” said Jelin.

Jelin hopes to create a distinct theme for each of the group’s future shows, such as “bad relationship night,” where audience members are prompted to share stories.

“When it works, it’s like magic,” said de Bruijn, who worked for and took classes at the UCB theater in New York City this summer.

“All of the comedy is being built from the ground up,” she added.

With this lack of a set structure, how-ever, the group must be patient for the co-medic component of the scene to emerge.

“" ere’s nothing inherently funny about [each scene],” de Bruijn said. “If it goes wrong, a scene can fall % at.”

Jelin started O$ ce Hours this fall, eager

to explore long-form improv a& er spend-ing the summer perusing the UCB comedy manual. In the audition process, he looked for per-formers who were willing to support their scene partners, even if it meant not making themselves look good.

“If you go for the cheap, easy laugh versus work-ing to build a cred-ible scene with your partner, that makes [the scene] less fun-ny over time,” said de Bruijn.

A key part of ef-fective long-form, according to Jelin and de Bruijn, is e# ective commu-nication across the group.

“Your job as an improvisor is to get on the same page as everyone else about the one speci! c thing that is funny in a scene and then work together to explore that thing,” said Jelin.

Each group member is faced with the task of sending subtle cues to other mem-bers to agree upon the comedic kernel of the scene. Members have to trust their scene partners and actively support one another, and this strong sense of group identity quells the pressure that comes

with performing improv. “You’re just there to make your scene

partner look good, and knowing that ev-erybody is there with that mentality is re-ally comforting,” said de Bruijn.

“One of the key tenets of UCB improv is that silence is okay,” she added.

As both a leader and member of the group, Jelin is faced with the chal-lenge of offering his insights about

the UCB style, while recognizing that the whole group is new to the form.

“I want to get us into the public con-sciousness because I’m hoping to per-form a lot next semester,” said Jelin.

Sam Chase is a Managing Editor of the Orient.

BY BRIDGET WENTORIENT STAFF

COMEDY CENTRAL: Bowdoin’s newest improv group O! ce Hours creates its sketches using a long-form technique to develop a complete scene inspired by audience participation. DAVID ANDERSON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY AMANDA NEWMANORIENT STAFF

KATIE FOLEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SITE SPECIFICS: Next semester, Visiting Artist Erin Johnson will teach an interdisciplinary course about the intersections between technology, art and social theory about history and place. The class is part of the increasingly popular Digital and Computational Studies Initiative.

See O! ce Hours perform at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Quinby House.

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Roya Moussapour ’17 doesn’t re-member how she learned music. It’s just something that she’s always done, like the way she’s always been interested in math and science. But for Moussapour, like a lot of physics majors and professors, her interests in music and physics aren’t mutually exclusive. There are a considerable number of students and professors in the College’s physics department who are classically trained musi-cians, a trend that Associate Pro-fessor of Physics Mark Battle says makes a lot of sense.

“The way music is organized as a series of events in time and the way that the brain processes sound prob-ably is connected to the way we pro-cess numbers and math and logic,” Battle said. “And certainly there are musicians who don’t have an affinity

for math, but there are an awful lot who do.”

A graduate of the Tufts Dual De-gree program with the New England Conservatory, Battle received two bachelor degrees upon graduation: one in Physics and another in Clari-net Performance. Although he finds it difficult to find time to play as a full-time professor, he notes that his studies of both disciplines comple-ment each other well.

“There are times when [you’re] just sitting in isolation working on a piece of music when all of a sud-den, things fall into place,” Battle said. “You do it right, and you re-alize the inner conception of the music. You’ve had this idea of what it should be in your head, and that comes out in sound. The satisfac-tion is a bit like figuring out a phys-ics problem—there’s a satisfaction in suddenly having things work.”

This similarity in the learning

In defense of slacking: coping with end-of-semester stress

Exploring shared language between physics and musical sound

Well, readers. It’s exceptionally gloomy outside, and ! nals are fast ap-proaching. Stress is in the air: we’re trying to tie up our academic and so-cial loose ends and the days are short and passing quickly. " is is our second try writing this week’s column, be-cause no amount of snacks could get us through the ! rst time. Here goes.

Writing about stress while we’re stressed is hard, but this is the most important time to talk about it. One of the reasons we’ve found it di# cult is that everyone has di$ erent triggers for stress, and everyone deals with them di$ erently. In our brainstorm-ing session, we realized how greatly our approaches to coping with stress diverge. We’re both productive people who generally enjoy schoolwork, but that’s where the similarities end. Carly is a compulsive list maker; when her daily schedule does not go according to plan, there’s hell to pay. Tessa spends copious amounts of time in the Union, letting the spirit move her from assign-ment to assignment. Carly copes with stress by building time into her day to exercise. Tessa has leisurely mornings lying in her bed listening to the classic 2004 album “Confessions” by Usher. In fact, the thought of switching rou-tines for a day provokes an onslaught of anxiety from each of us.

In the weeks between " anksgiving and Winter Break, it can seem di# cult to make time for ourselves. Everyone has a giant mountain in front of them,

and it’s easy to slip into believing that yours is the tallest. We alternate be-tween hunkering down and complain-ing about hunkering down. We forgo sleep; we work through meals; we try to convince ourselves that we’re some-thing other than human.

It’s hard to avoid realizing how cra-zy this sounds as we write it down. So, why do we do these things? We think it has something to do with craving external validation. Grades signify something: that we did a good job, that we worked hard, that we’re smart. Even if we feel like we wrote a good paper or slayed an exam, it’s still af-! rming to know that our professor thought so too.

" is attitude feels problematic. We would like to be able to validate our-selves without any outside input. But this is di# cult: we haven’t just cho-sen to attend an academic institution, we’ve chosen to delve deeply into it and care about it. We’re having a hard time articulating our critique of the academic system, because we’re so en-trenched in it.

We do know one thing for sure. It’s crucial to take care of ourselves, espe-cially at this time of year. We need to sleep, we need to eat, we need to treat ourselves like human beings. And we think there’s something radical to self-care, too. Saying to yourself: I’m going to put down Moby-Dick for 45 min-utes to go on a run. I’m going to take a break from writing this paper to read about the most recent mass shooting. Studying can wait for me to watch an episode of “" e Great British Bake O$ .” " ere is power in stepping away from our obligations and doing some-thing that makes us feel good, alone, with no witnesses.

We think this is a way of sticking it to the man. We’re going to live with ourselves forever, so we should treat ourselves with respect. It’s wonderful to care about learning, to feel invested in doing well, but we’ve chosen to come to Bowdoin for a holistic experience. We owe it to ourselves to take that on. We should embrace slacking as an im-portant part of the picture. It’s OK to take a pause from our schoolwork, even (especially) during ! nals.

Remember the words of the indefati-gable Audre Lorde: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.”

Best of luck to all. We’ve got this.

BY SURYA MILNERORIENT STAFF “The thing that attracted me to physics was that there are a few basic laws and if you un-

derstand those at a deep level, you can fi gure out a lot...When I studied music theory, the same kind of structure of learning applies, where you use a few basic principles of harmony and if you truly understand or analyze classical music, there is structure to it. People like to give structure to their way of understanding the world.”

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process is a p h e n o m e n o n that many stu-dents and pro-fessors of phys-ics experience. In the way that the study of physics is of-ten equated to solving a puz-zle, learning a piece of music is also often seen as a type of problem set. Moussapour, who began playing the violin at the age of six, notes that her practice of music has been applicable in her studies in physics.

“There’s a specific connection be-tween being able to problem solve through physics problems and be-ing able to work through a piece of music,” Moussapour said. “I think in a lot of ways, they require the same skills. There’s definitely a tie between learning to see the bigger problem, either a physics problem or a piece of music, and breaking it down into smaller chunks to under-stand it. Being a musician and learn-ing how to think about something in a musical mindset has definitely affected my ability to understand things in a mathematical mindset in ways that I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to do.”

For some physicists, such as Se-nior Lecturer of Physics and found-er of the Vox Nova Chamber Choir

Karen Topp, it’s the similarities in the structures of musical time and phys-ics that they use to draw the connec-tion between the two disciplines.

“The thing that attracted me to physics was that there are a few basic laws, and if you understand those at a deep level, you can figure out a lot,” Topp said. “When I studied music theory, the same kind of structure of learning applies, where you use a few basic principles of harmony, and if you truly understand or analyze clas-sical music, there is structure to it. People like to give structure to their way of understanding the world.”

Although many Bowdoin students and professors of physics alike have considered careers in music per-formance, some ultimately decided against it for reasons of practicality. Their resounding sentiment, often realized at a young age, was that the study of physics is easier to turn into a career than that of music.

“I decided that I could always do music, and I could always play at any

level and always enjoy it. If I gave up on academics to do music, it would be a lot harder to go back the other way,” Moussapour said. “But it is something that I will always have, and it’s something that I’ve turned to in really tough times. For me, it’s a way to express emotions in ways where sometimes words don’t nec-essarily express how I feel well, or I don’t feel comfortable expressing something fully in words.”

Professor of Physics " omas Baumgarte, a double bass player in the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, believes that in addition to being a cathartic hobby, his practice of making music originates from an a# nity for aesthetics, one of the main reasons for his love of physics.

“With music, people have a very emo-tional reaction to it—it’s a way of making something beautiful,” Baumgarte said. “And that appeals to me in physics, too. Math is the language of physics, but it describes nature, and what very much ap-peals to me in physics is that it describes nature in such a beautiful way.”

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It may not have the nationwide cachet of Red Sox-Yankees or Michigan-Ohio State, but for Bowdoin students, it’s just as momentous a rivalry. For the 205th and 206th time, Bowdoin men’s ice hock-ey will take on Colby, their greatest foe, in this weekend’s two-game series. 0 e Polar Bears will travel to Colby Friday night before returning to Sidney J. Wat-son Arena to face the Mules on Saturday at 7 p.m.

“0 e size of our school is small, but the enthusiasm, the interest, the tradition, how it’s grown, the wonderful stories, all those things—this ranks up with as good a rivalry and as good a tradition as there is in the country,” said Head Coach Terry Meagher. “0 ese things evolve. Who knows how or why, but they evolve.

For decades, the Bowdoin-Colby rival-ry has spurred fanaticism and excitement across campus as it’s become deeply in-grained in the College’s culture. Even with all the fans that come out for the hockey game, ultimately it’s the players on the ice who maintain the tradition’s integrity.

“0 e test of a real tradition is the quality of individuals, how they respect the tradi-tion, the game, what it means to them, and I think you could 1 ip jerseys and not even lose a beat in the quality of people that they have,” said Meagher. “You could 1 ip the jerseys and have the same kind of character in each locker room.”

While each face-o2 between the Polar Bears and Mules has its own unique mo-ments, the players of both sides consis-tently bring determination, passion and

excitement to the ice.“0 ere’s nothing better than playing

against Colby in front of your own fans, and de3 nitely, it’s a lot of fun to battle it out on the ice,” said Chris Fenwick ’16. “0 e games are always really close. It doesn’t really matter what the standings are going into this game—it’s a hockey game, and anybody can win it.”

0 is year, the Polar Bears have had a slow start to the season as they came out of their 3 rst four games with a record of 0-3-1. With a young team and some early injuries, Meagher was neither surprised nor deterred by their early season record.

“We would like to certainly have had a couple more wins, but our opposition is talented,” said Meagher. “What’s encour-aging is you can see the progress on a dai-ly basis. It’s moving in a good direction, but I’m not surprised that we are going through some growing pains right now.”

0 e Polar Bears began to turn the tide of their season last Sunday, as they claimed their 3 rst victory, winning 5-0 against the UMass Boston.

“0 is was a turning point for us go-ing forward, especially coming into Bowdoin-Colby weekend,” said Fenwick. “Hopefully the win will provide some momentum and carry us forward.”

“0 e goaltending was a huge key on Sunday,” said Meagher. “We got timely saves and timely goals, and I know we got great play out of our goaltender, Pe-ter Cronin ‘18, on Sunday, and that was a huge li4 . 0 at can really inspire a team, and it makes it easier for people to break through and not be tentative.”

Goaltending will continue to be a de-ciding factor in the games this weekend

as the Polar Bears face Colby goaltender Emerson Verrier, who was named NE-SCAC Player of the Week last week. All four goaltenders on Bowdoin’s roster—none of whom are seniors—have seen playing time this season, so it’s unclear who will be between the pipes for the Po-lar Bears on Saturday. However, Cronin has had the most minutes and just came o2 of the shutout win last Sunday.

0 e rest of the team is similarly young, including a front line that graduated six seniors this past spring. Yet the under-classmen have been proving their capa-bility; all eight goals scored at the Bow-doin-Colby Classic this past weekend were by 3 rst years and sophomores.

“0 ere’s no guarantee you’re going to be successful, but if you have a cer-tain amount of skill with will, and then you add experience, we’re going to be a tough opponent,” said Meagher. “I know we have the skill, I think we have the will, it’s just we’ve got to add the ex-perience to that recipe, and then I think we’re going to be a tough opponent in the league.”

Yet the team’s youth doesn’t change many of the fundamental approaches to building a new team that Meagher’s de-veloped over his 33 seasons at Bowdoin.

“0 ere are time-tested models that we follow...but within that, as you’re build-ing the foundation and going to the next step, not every house you build is the same,” said Meagher. “You’re build-ing a brand-new house; you’ve got to get the foundation set, you’ve got to get the infrastructure set, and then the 3 nished product probably doesn’t look like the last house you built.”

0 e sailing team concluded its fall season with a pair of Atlantic Coast Championship regattas on November 14-15 a4 er having quali3 ed for them two weeks earlier. Seven Polar Bears competed in the Coed Atlantic Coast Championships hosted by Old Do-minion University in Virginia for the 3 rst time in program history, and seven raced in the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championships (ACC’s) at St. Mary’s College in Maryland.

On October 31, the team competed in the Coed New England Champion-ship at MIT, which serves as a quali-3 er for the ACC’s. 0 e team 3 nished seventh out of 18 teams and earned the 3 nal berth to the ACC’s.

On the same day, seven other Po-lar Bears raced in the Urn Trophy at Harvard, which is the quali3 er for the Women’s ACC’s. 0 e women 3 nished the race strong, earning a third place

3 nish out of 15 teams competing. Jack McGuire ’17, Nora Cullen ’18,

Dana Bloch ’17, Harrison Hawk ’18, Jade Willey ’17, Matt Lyons ’17 and Em-ily Salitan ’16 raced at Old Dominion for coed ACC’s. Strong winds allowed eight races to take place in each division on the 3 rst day of competition, while only four races were completed on Sun-day due to a slow sea breeze. Bowdoin 3 nished 12th out of the 18-team 3 eld.

“0 e team had a bit of a slow start but were able to improve throughout the event with better starts and smarter tactics,” wrote Head Coach Frank Pizzo in an email to the Orient.

At the Women’s ACC’s, Erin Mullins ’16, Ellis Price ’18, Olivia Diserio ’16, Mimi Paz ’17, Julia Rew ’16, Courtney Koos ’16 and Sydney Jacques ’18 raced for the Polar Bears. Strong winds pre-vailed most of Saturday, allowing ten rac-es to be completed in each division, while Sunday’s racing took place in lighter con-ditions. Once again, the Polar Bears had strong races. Bowdoin 3 nished third out

of 18 teams, the best 3 nish at the Wom-en’s ACC’s in program history.

Koos believes mental toughness was key to the team’s success.

“I think that championship events are a much more mental hurdle than a physical or ability one,” Koos said. “It’s mentally preparing for the conditions and then doing the best that we can do, which is something I think we’ve gotten a lot better at in recent years.”

With the ACC’s marking the end of the fall competition season, the team will now shi4 its focus onto the spring. 0 e fall season is di2 erent from the spring in that the team is most focused on integrating the 3 rst year class. 0 is year’s incoming class has 10 sailors, bringing the team roster total to 32, the largest it’s been in recent years.

“We’ve been making a lot of new re-cords for Bowdoin this fall, and I think moving forward, we want to build upon that and continue to play at that really high level and get new people on the team integrated into those high-level re-

gattas,” Koos said. “We have a really deep team now, so we can send any one of four people to a regatta, and you won’t be able to tell the di2 erence based o2 the results.”

In preparation for the spring com-petition season, the team has already begun workouts this week. 0 e athletes will participate in li4 s, speed training and team meetings to discuss tactics.

According to Koos, the spring is also a more fast-paced season, as there are only six weeks of racing, compared to nine in the fall. 0 e three big confer-ence championships this spring will take place at the Coast Guard Academy, Dartmouth and Yale. Dartmouth is

hosting the coed quali3 er for Nationals, and Yale is hosting the women’s quali3 er for Nationals.

Last year, both Bowdoin teams quali-3 ed for Nationals. 0 e women’s team 3 nished 17th out of 18 teams in the 3 -nal round, while the coed team 3 nished 16th in the 3 nals.

“Integrating [the 3 rst years] and giv-ing people opportunities to get better, and also when it comes to champion-ship season, really pushing and making it to Nationals are our goals,” Koos said.

Depending on the weather, the Polar Bears will likely begin their spring cam-paign on March 5 at Brown.

Bears confi dent ahead of Colby showdownBY ANJULEE BHALLA

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DOMINATION: Camil Blanchet ’18 [left] and Cody Todesco ’19 react after a faceo! in a road game against UMass-Boston this past Sunday. Blanchet scored a goal and Todesco dished out two assists in the 5-0 Bowdoin victory.

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I think that championship events are a much more mental hurdle than a physical or ability one. It’s mentally preparing for the condi-tions and then doing the best that we can do.

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On the Tuesday before 0 anksgiving Break, the men’s basketball team blew a second half lead to the University of New England, a team they have not lost to in the last decade, but rebounded by beating No. 10 Babson on Sunday. Two days later, the Polar Bears took down the University of Southern Maine on the road to bring their record to 3-2.

A1 er graduating starting point guard Bryan Hurley ’15 and seven-foot center John Swords ’15, the team is looking for players to step up in both the backcourt and frontcourt. With the loss of Swords in the middle, Head Coach Tim Gilbride has made the tac-tical decision to try to get out on the break more and get the ball in the hands of talented scorer and preseason First Team All-American Lucas Haus-man ’16 as much as possible. 0 e strat-egy seems to be working for Hausman; he is averaging 29.4 points per game (PPG) through 2 ve games and has scored over a third of the team’s points.

However, Gilbride notes that sim-ply delivering the ball to Hausman and hoping that he accounts for all of the team’s offense is not a sustain-able strategy.

“What we’ve 2 gured out is we can’t just let [Hausman] take the ball and try to score and take over on his own,” said Gilbride. “We need to do that by mov-ing the ball and controlling the 3 ow of the game.”

Luckily for the Polar Bears, many of their 2 rst year players have stepped in and contributed immediately. Jack Simonds ’19 is the team’s second lead-ing scorer with 16.8 PPG. In addition, point guard Tim Ahn ’19 and forward Hugh O’Neil ’19 have each averaged over 15 minutes per game played, in-dicating that they’ll likely be important components of Gilbride’s rotation for the entire season.

0 e team’s youth may have contrib-uted to its inconsistent results thus far; the Polar Bears are still learning to play together, and the 2 ve 2 rst years

on the team are still picking up the system. However, they may be getting through early growing pains. A1 er beating Babson 88-84 in overtime on November 29, Bowdoin went on the road and delivered a convincing 81-55 victory at the University of Southern Maine on Tuesday.

“I think now we’ve started to play really well as a team, and I think that’s going to keep on going,” said Simonds.

0 e Polar Bears clearly are on the same page in terms of their goals this year. Both Hausman and Simonds have the same ambitious goal: to host and win a NESCAC tournament game, 2 nish in the top half of the NESCAC and hopeful-ly make a run in the NCAA tournament.

Bowdoin has already proven that it can play with anyone in the country, but the team will have to keep up that level of concentration in all of its NE-SCAC games. According to Hausman, the conference looks to have a startling degree of parity this year.

“Everyone can really play. 0 ere are no pushovers in the NESCAC this year,” Hausman said. “Conn. College and Hamilton were traditionally at the bottom of the league, but they got bet-ter this year and have some good fresh-men. I think we have the capability to beat anybody, but if we don’t come ready to play, we have the capability to lose to most teams, too.”

Bowdoin’s biggest task seems to be becoming more consistent. Simonds, Gilbride and Hausman all noted that Babson’s high national ranking helped the team focus, but against UNE, a team they should have beaten handily, they let the game slip away.

Bowdoin’s captains, Hausman, Matt Palecki ’16 and Jake Donnelly ’16, are the last signi2 cant contributors le1 from a squad that made the NCAA tournament just two seasons ago. 0 is is clearly a team in transition, and it remains to be seen if they will be able to blend strong senior leadership with a talented but unproven 2 rst year class. If they can, though, the Polar Bears will undoubtedly be a team to be feared this season.

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FRESH FACES: Jack Simonds ’19 looks up after pulling down a rebound against Babson this past Sunday. Averaging 16.8 points per game, Simonds is one of three fi rst years playing more than 15 minutes per game for Tim Gilbride’s Polar Bears.

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Tomorrow’s the big one, friends: Bowdoin vs. Colby ice hockey in Sid Watson Arena. Easily the biggest sporting event on campus every year, Bowdoin-Colby takes a normally sedate student body and whips it into a frenzy for three pe-

riods of puck. But, like ! anksgiving dinner at ! orne or Ivies weekend, this iconic campus event requires careful planning. In the interest of providing the fans in the stands with a fun night and helping secure a win for the boys on the ice, the Orient’s editorial board humbly presents to you the ABCs of Bowdoin-Colby hockey.

AccessWere you one of the lucky souls that waited in the now-infamous line that snaked

around Smith Union throughout the week and emerged victorious with a ticket? Ku-dos, your dedication to Bowdoin men’s hockey is a huge part of what makes the pro-gram the NESCAC powerhouse that it is. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t score a seat to the big game, though. ! ere’s an unspoken understanding that those who show up to the game will " nd a way in. ! at said, don’t make the ushers’ jobs hard or awkward by begging them for admission. Have the courtesy to bring a homemade ticket or just dart past them inconspicuously.

BoozeIt’s going to be tempting to drink all day in preparation for the game, because that

is an awesome thing to do if you’re 21 years old. Don’t darty too hard, though—there’s nothing worse than passing out at 6 p.m. and not even making it to the game. And don’t pregame intensely directly before the game, either. ! e bleachers will be packed and you’ll be uncomfortable. Drink in moderation before the game, and save turn up o’clock for immediately a# er the boys get the W. As hockey legend Wayne Gretzky once said, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

Chants and Chirps! e best anti-Colby chants, ranked:1. “UMaine-Waterville”2. “Mules are sterile”3. “Safety school”! ese are the essentials, the classic war cries shouted by generations of Bowdoin

students. ! ey will be chanted, and they will be chanted o# en. But don’t hesitate to take things a step further. Scan the Colby men’s hockey roster and put some names into Google. Does the goalie speak Russian and French? Yup—shout some things at him in Russian and French! Does the leading scorer have an embarrassing Vine account that hasn’t been updated in two years? He sure does! Please loudly make reference to it while he’s on the ice. It’s not about insulting the opposition—in fact, that should be avoided. ! e best chirps are obscure, innocuous references to the players’ lives.

If you’ve ever felt envy while watching a student section go wild at a big-time college sporting event, tomorrow night is your chance to live that life. ! e Mules are coming to town, and every self-respecting Polar Bear should be present to defend the hallowed grounds of Watson Arena. It’s time for Bowdoin-Colby hockey.

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When I read Randy Nichols’ email from Sunday, November 20, I initially felt angry that a support group for sex o$ enders was meeting so close to Bowdoin’s campus. I immediately associated this group with the sexual assault that occurred at May% ower Apartments on November 10, as well as the attack on Potter Street on No-vember 17. Our thoughts and prayers remain with the victims of these ap-palling crimes.

Yet, upon reflection, I have come to disagree with the decision to expel this support group from First Parish Church. By associating this group’s eviction with the effort “to ensure the safety of students, faculty, and staff,” Mr. Nichols’ email implies that ostracizing these people makes our campus safer. But does any evidence identify this support group’s activi-ties as a cause of the sexual assault in Mayflower Apartments? According to Mr. Nichols’ email, the group has been meeting at First Parish Church for two years. The sexual assault in Mayflower Apartments occurred only this semester. This timing does not indicate a correlation between the group’s meetings and the recent crimes. Furthermore, has expelling this group from its meeting place affected campus safety at all? Pre-sumably the group’s members live in Brunswick and nearby towns. Al-though they will now have to meet elsewhere, I assume that many of them will remain within walking dis-tance of Mayflower Apartments, Pot-ter Street and the rest of campus.

While the incident in Bath on De-

cember 1 may seem to justify the Col-lege’s concerns, we must remember that the support group did not plot such attacks. Rather, this organization sought to establish the communal solidarity that could help its members function in society—and by implica-tion, avoid committing further crimes. A# er all, the attack in Bath happened a# er the organization’s eviction. By blaming it for this crime—or the crimes committed against Bowdoin students—we attack the solution in-stead of the problem. We should sup-port this group as a promising way for sex o$ enders to receive the treatment they need to become healthy members of society. ! us, Bowdoin College has victimized an organization that aims to make Brunswick safer.

Furthermore, it has alienated a group of convicted criminals by discouraging their attempts to re-habilitate themselves. By expelling the group from First Parish Church, Bowdoin has committed an egre-gious injustice while making itself less safe. Our community is presently experiencing tremendous pain and fear. Evicting this group may give us some psychological comfort. But we must recognize that any such com-fort is purely illusory and has come at the price of alienating a group that

we should support. While our com-munity naturally longs to identify and eliminate the cause of its fear and outrage, the frightening nature of the times means that we must become ex-tra vigilant against our own propen-sity for scapegoating.

Considering the helpful nature of this support group, Bowdoin Security should not have revealed the group’s presence and thus involved it in the Bowdoin administration’s response to the sexual assault. I can only sur-mise that our administration exposed this group in order to demonstrate some kind of (futile) progress in its investigation of the recent crimes. This is inexcusable. The Bowdoin ad-ministration should apologize to this support group’s members for pre-emptively victimizing them. In keep-ing with our supposed dedication to the Common Good, the Bowdoin community—administration and students alike—must support this group’s efforts. Indeed, we should emulate its mission to improve so-ciety through self-improvement. We can begin by acknowledging that in trying to address one outrage, we have perpetrated another.

Stephen Kelly is a member of the class of 2017.

Eviction, alienation and guilt by associationIn keeping with our supposed dedication to the Common Good, the Bowdoin community— administration and students alike—must support this group’s efforts. In-deed, we should emulate its mission to improve society through self-improvement.

BY STEPHEN KELLYOPED CONTRIBUTOR

When I tell people that I attend Bowdoin, I always receive one of two reactions: either the judgmen-tal “What is that?” or the impressed “Oh, good for you.” For those in the latter group, the fact that I go to Bowdoin is enough to warrant praise. To them, the acceptance let-ter and degree progress hints to-wards a successful future. Within the walls of this institution, how-ever, simply pursuing a degree is not enough; one must pursue the right type of degree. This belief, likely held by students across the country, is the myth of the “easy” major.

This myth perpetuates the notion that certain majors are not as im-portant as others. For most, the line between an impressive major and a “joke” major is drawn between sci-ence, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and the social sciences and humanities. Many peo-ple place STEM majors on a pedestal and regard others as inferior. This mindset seems to come from the the belief that majoring in a STEM field will result in obtaining a practical and high-paying career.

I delve into this issue as neither an apologetic STEM major, nor a scorned humanities scholar. In fact, my schedule this semester consists of two lab sciences and two humani-ties courses. I understand the strug-gle of spending hours in the labora-

tory and leaving to find that the sun is long gone. I also understand the exhaustion of watching the sun rise while trying to write a 10 page pa-per. As someone living both lives, I have begun to question the reasons for the perceived hierarchy.

I have witnessed the aforemen-tioned myth in action many times; from my mother’s caring, yet frus-trating, push for me to focus on math and science to STEM elitism from students in my classes. When I return home for breaks, I often answer ques-tions about classes and my eventual future with banter about my science courses only. I find myself instinc-tively dwelling on “Biogeochemistry” when people ask about my current courses, likely because I subcon-sciously want to talk about what I know sounds most impressive.

Because of my science course-work, I have also heard this myth perpetuated from the inside. Stressed out STEM majors are quick to say they should “just be an Eng-lish major.” While studying, my peers have looked at laughing stu-dents nearby and questioned how they have free time, reasoning that they “must be a sociology major.” Then, there’s the decades-old joke that psychology majors should study a “real” science.

! ough I see the trouble with this mindset, I do not intend to vilify these students; in fact, I have caught myself thinking similar thoughts on more than one occasion. Long nights in Hatch Science Library are tiresome,

as are a# ernoons in lab. De-grading the work of others in order to place impor-tance on your own is almost therapeutic. In essence, I be-lieve that this phenomenon comes down to a very com-mon, though underlying, need for validation, as well as a society-bred feeling of self-importance.

The ludicrousness of this myth is glaring once explored. First off, I find it hard to believe that any Bowdoin department could ever be considered easy. A rigorous curriculum is part of the Bowdoin experience, not the Bowdoin STEM ex-perience. Humanities and social science majors may not spend hours in a lab, but this does not mean that they have less coursework than a chemistry major.

At 2 p.m. on a Tues-day, some students might be found testing photo-synthetic rates in Druck-enmiller Hall, while oth-ers might be debating government policy in Hubbard. The world needs our generation to provide leaders in both of these fields. What makes one superior over the other?

The difficulty of the departments is completely subjective; the per-ceived difficulty of each area will shift with each student you ask. Some people find that essays are a breeze,

but struggle to complete their MCSR requirement. Likewise, a number of my friends in STEM find writing an “A” paper to be nearly impossible—these are often the same people who claim that the humanities are easy.

STEM elitism and the easy major myth undermine the importance of the humanities and social sciences. Claiming that certain subjects are useless or unemployable is not just

elitist, it’s incorrect. Our world is indeed moving into an era where STEM majors have a plethora of options. However, I implore you to imagine a future without writers, performers, politicians, linguists, historians, psychologists, humani-tarians, et cetera. Life as we know it would cease to exist. Frankly, I’m not so sure that is a world in which I would want to live.

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It’s almost December. In or around December every year, Christian West-ern culture changes. ) e anticipation of Christmas makes many of us do funny things. We don ugly sweaters, drink an unbelievably heavy beverage made with raw eggs and subject ourselves to the saccharinity of songs such as “Christ-mas Shoes.”

And, of course, there are the movies. An entire subgenre of * lm that both celebrates and exploits the mythology that surrounds this one important day. Some movies are classics, (“Miracle on 34th Street,” “It’s A Wonderful Life”) others are kitschy but fun (“) e Santa Clause,” “Elf ”) and many are downright o+ ensive (allegedly, there’s a “Christ-

mas Shoes” movie).Any decent Christmas movie has

some kind of magic. Whether that magic consists of ghosts, an express train or just plain-old love, Christmas challenges the rationalist way we tend to think for the rest of the year. At the best of times, I can put aside my anti-consumerist critiques and accept how Christmas magic just makes everything OK. Christmas magic is the biggest cli-ché on earth. Nothing could be gaudier than a children’s choir singing about angels in the background of a Lifetime movie. And yet, social rituals are the closest thing to magic that we have. It’s amazing to have a society where many people put a tree inside their house and listen to the same music for a month. It’s even more amazing that I love this shit. I enjoy seeing dogs dressed up as reindeers, looking at blinding neon lights and drinking peppermint lattes.

But I don’t know anyone who loves Christmas more than my sister. Aman-da wears reindeer socks in July and watches “Holiday in Handcu+ s” and “Christmas with the Kranks” in Au-gust. Most importantly, my sister genu-inely and unironically believes in Santa Claus. Several years ago, my mother and I decided to break the “truth” to Amanda. We tried, time a, er time, to empirically prove to Amanda that there is no man who lives at the North Pole and delivers presents across the world on every Christmas Eve. But our ratio-nalism never took hold. She was (and is) too deep into the Christmas mythol-ogy to ever change her mind.

Religion is strange, as an academic subject. ) e secularization of knowl-edge prevents scholars from openly buying into any religious dogma. Rath-er, academics have to talk about reli-gion in conditional phrases, outsider

language. And there’s a funny thing that secular liberal education does to dis-arm radical or anti-rationalist ideology. Consider my friend, who believes in ghosts. She once told me that it isn’t that she just interprets something as a ghost which someone else interprets other-wise. She actually believes in ghosts. School will o, en trick us into thinking that there’s an objective reality that we each interpret and signify di+ erently. As if one culture’s alchemy is another person’s chemistry. Of course, for our academic culture, alchemy is the wacky, outdated ancestor of legitimate science.

Unlike my sister, my thoughts have been really, really expensive. As I ap-proach the end of my seventh semester at Bowdoin, I’ve undertaken hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of edu-cation. As I mentioned in an earlier article (“Intellectual privilege, money and harmful exclusivity at elite institu-

tions”), Amanda could never have that privilege. As a woman with Down syn-drome, she’ll never attend an institution like Bowdoin and never develop the critical skills to investigate Truth. But despite the capital that’s been funneled into my brain, I don’t have a monopoly on saying what exists. I can speculate, but I know literally nothing about how it feels to be someone else. Instead of using my education to try to * nd ob-jective truths, I should learn to accept other realities.

I’m afraid that I’m falling into a trap. By writing this article, I am using criti-cal inquiry to justify someone else’s be-lief. I’m mansplaining to my own sister why her favorite cultural narrative is not just an illusion. But as long as I have the privilege of intellectual authority, I might as well give it up.

So yes, Amanda, there is a Santa Claus—but you didn’t need to be told.

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Bowdoin students love bananas. In fact, bananas are the most consumed fruit on our campus. At brunch one morning, a friend and I tried to time how long it would take before the ba-nana basket needed to be re* lled. A, er about an hour and a half, it was practi-cally empty. We grab them as an accom-paniment to peanut butter or cereal, take one (or two or three) to go, and sometimes even leave them on our tray untouched. Bananas are delicious and full of potassium, so it’s no wonder why they’re a popular fruit. However, the banana industry has a long and bloody history of environmental degradation and violence that continues to this day.

Last spring, Bowdoin Advocates for Human Rights (BAHR, formerly Bow-doin’s Amnesty International chapter) began a campaign to reduce Bowdoin’s consumption of bananas. Chiquita Brand International has propagated vi-olence and political turmoil in Latin America since its genesis as United Fruit Company in 1899. In the 1928 Ba-nana Massacre in Colombia, over 1,000 plantation workers protesting for better working conditions were killed by the

Colombian military in conjunction with United Fruit. 1954 saw United Fruit help the CIA orchestrate a coup of the Guate-malan government. ) en, a 2002 report by Human Rights Watch detailed haz-ardous working conditions for children as young as eight and employed by Chiq-uita, Dole and Del Monte. ) ese historic events represent a sample of violence characteristic of the industry.

) e legacy continues to this day. In 2007, Chiquita admitted in a U.S. court that they paid over $1.7 million to the AUC, which is designated as a terrorist group by the U.S State Department. Dur-ing this time, the AUC was blamed for 22 massacres in the region where Chiquita was operating, and the deaths of hundreds of union workers. 4,000 Colombian civil-ians * led a suit against Chiquita for its part in their relatives’ deaths, and the suit was settled in a U.S. court away from the pub-lic eye. ) ese pay-o+ s are not limited to just Chiquita: Dole and Del Monte have also been implicated.

Environmental degradation is another side e+ ect of the banana industry. Banana plantations are responsible for soil ero-sion, deforestation, and contamination of water resources through the intensive us-age of pesticides. In addition, the variety of banana that we eat, the Cavendish, is

under threat of extinction due to a disease that is a result of unsustainable mono-cropping. Although Chiquita no longer operates in Colombia, the banana indus-try continues to commit human rights abuses in countries including Ecuador and the Philippines.

Last fall, I studied abroad in Bogotá, Colombia. Until recently, Colombia had the second largest number of internally displaced peoples in the world: * ve mil-lion and growing. As I walked to my uni-versity or got o+ the bus, I o, en saw whole families with signs stating “desplazados,” or “displaced.” People would walk by them without a second glance. I couldn’t help but wonder if some of the displaced people I was seeing were coming from Urabá, the region where Chiquita used to operate and where innocent civilians are still murdered and kidnapped daily.

Consumer choices have very real con-sequences that we o, en do not realize or cannot see. Bowdoin Advocates for Hu-man Rights is working alongside Bow-doin Dining to lower campus banana con-sumption and shi, to Fair Trade certi* ed bananas in our dining halls and campus stores. Fair Trade bananas have higher standards for labor conditions and envi-ronmental sustainability, but they are not the ultimate solution. Our current banana

consumption is not sustain-able, and there are not enough Fair Trade ba-nanas to sat-isfy America’s demand. For this reason, BAHR pro-poses that as a student body we consider permanently decreasing our consumption.

We are lucky to attend a school that thinks critically and aligns its choices with its values. We have an amazing Din-ing Service that does their best to bring locally sourced and regional foods to our plates. Many of our apples are from Maine, and even all the oatmeal is now local. As part of this e+ ort, the C-Store and the Café are selling Fair Trade ba-nanas for the * rst time.

Bowdoin Advocates for Human Rights and Bowdoin Dining would like to foster a more conscious consumption on all fronts. It took going to Colombia

and seeing the immediate consequences of the banana industry for me to re-consider my personal consumption. I encourage and invite everyone to think critically about who harvests the food that we eat day-to-day and the long dis-tances many fruits travel to get to our plates. BAHR will be tabling in Smith Union next week, and we look forward to all questions and discussion.

Charlotte Dillon is a member of the class of 2016.

Food choices have real effects on people

) e College is about a lot of things: the Common Good, the life of the mind, los-ing yourself in generous enthusiasms—all that stu+ we wrote our admissions essays about. And it’s really good stu+ . As a result, Bowdoin is a remarkable place. It touches the lives of not just its undergraduates, but also the entire community: alumni, facul-ty, sta+ , Brunswick residents and beyond.

But Bowdoin is * rst and foremost about its students. Of which I am one. So

you could say I’m feeling pretty pissed o+ at the Athletic Department right now re-garding “Ticketgate 2015.”

) e Bowdoin-Colby hockey game is a hugely powerful communal event. It’s one of the few days in the year when divi-sions of class year, social group, academic interest and cultural background dissolve as the student body unites for a common, sweaty, slightly drunken goal. We throw o+ the chains of liberal humanism, pum-mel that plexiglass with abandon (sorry Randy) and scream for Mule blood while cheering on our peers. (I wish we cheered

for our female athletes to the same degree, but that’s a rant for another day.) Yes, this slightly depraved spectacle takes place outside the classroom, but that doesn’t make it any less integral to the Bowdoin experience. So the fact that only 525 stu-dent tickets were distributed this year is a big deal, and not in a good way. And the fact that you can sneak in during the second period with a meaningful wink at baseball player doesn’t make the injustice go away. Every Bowdoin student should have a right to every minute of that game.

At this point, you may think that I care

just a little bit too much about sports. To which I respond: “ROFL.” (I once asked a Bowdoin football player to explain what a quarterback does. True story.) My indig-nation here is not about sports. It’s about students. If I wanted to camp outside wait-ing for tickets to sporting events, I would have gone to Duke or Penn State or Notre Dame. But I chose a liberal arts college because I wanted to attend an institution that cares about the undergraduate expe-rience above all else.

Maintaining a healthy, multigenera-tional community that extends beyond

Bowdoin’s physical campus is vital to our success as a living institution. Bringing back alumni to take part in our most val-ued traditions is an important part of that. But the thing about reliving something is that you have to live it * rst. And I have to point out that currently, there are about 1,800 students on campus living Bow-doin. So let’s let them have the opportu-nity to see that game for the * rst time, you know, while they actually go here.

Erica Hummel is a member of the class of 2016

In distributing hockey tickets, Bowdoin failed to prioritize its students ERICA HUMMEL

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PERFORMANCEBowdoin Chamber ChoirRobert K. Greenlee will conduct the Chamber Choir. They will be accompanied by Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez. The program includes music of the early Baroque period, Norway and Southeast Africa and new work by Ryan Fowler ’15. The Chapel. 3 p.m.

EVENTFilm Screening and Discussion: "Out in the Night"“Out in the Night” is an award-winning documentary ! lm about a group of African-American lesbians who were charged for defending themselves when threatened by a man in New York City. Some of the women chose to plead guilty while others did not. Two of the accused women, Renata Hill and Patreese Johnson, will join their lawyer and the ! lm’s director for a Q&A session following the ! lm.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 6 p.m.

EVENT“Town Hall” on Race at BowdoinPresident Rose will be leading a “Town Hall” meeting to address the question: “Why do issues of race matter if I’m white?” President Rose will make initial remarks and an open discussion will follow. Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCEJazz NightFrank Mauceri’s jazz students will be performing in various ensembles for the Bowdoin community. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCEWinter Dance ShowThe Winter Dance Show will feature Arabesque’s “The Nutcracker” as well as performances from Taiko, Anokha, Obvious, Broken, Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble, VAGUE, Intersection and Polar Bear Swing.Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.

PERFORMANCEBowdoin Sketch ComedyFormerly known as Bowdoin Night Live, the recharged group will be performing its ! rst show of the year under the new name Bowdoin Sketch Comedy.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 9:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCEGeorge Lopez and Music at the MuseumBeckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez will present an evening of music related to the current museum exhibitions. Seating is limited. Free tickets are available at the Museum Shop.Pavilion, Museum of Art. 6:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCEStudent A Cappella ShowStudent a cappella groups will perform their annual end-of-semester show for the community.Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.

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EVENTInternational Write-InBowdoin will be joining over 85 other schools in a writing block party. Students will participate in a three-hour lock-in to ! nish ! nal papers. Writing assistants and refer-ence librarians will be available to assist students. Refresh-ments will be available at the event. Students must sign up on the Bowdoin website in order to attend. Center for Learning and Teaching, Kanbar Hall. 3 p.m.

PERFORMANCECommon HourStudent chamber ensembles will be performing in the ! nal Common Hour of the semester. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 12:30 p.m.

LECTUREAnonymous Speech: A conversation about power and expressionSarah Dickey of the sociology and anthropology departments and Je" Selinger of the Government Depart-ment will moderate a conversation regarding anonymous speech and its role on Bowdoin’s campus.Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.

PERFORMANCEDecember Dance ConcertThe annual December Dance Concert will feature students performing faculty-directed choreography. Visiting Artist Laura Peterson and her company, Laura Peterson Choreography, will present “Untitled Diagrams.” Shamou, a composer, will perform live original music. Tickets are free and will be available at the Smith Union information desk and before the show at the door. The ! nal performance will take place on Saturday night. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 8 p.m.

PERFORMANCEO! ce Hours Improv ShowBowdoin’s newest improv group, O# ce Hours, will perform its ! rst show for the Bowdoin community. Dining Room, Quinby House. 8:30 p.m.

EVENTJunior/Senior BallJuniors, Seniors and their registered guests are welcome to attend the Junior/Senior Ball. Wristbands are required for those attending and can be picked up at the Student Activities O# ce.Thorne Hall. 10 p.m.

ART AND SCIENCE: A Cultivate Art Workshop followed Dr. Bobbie Lyon's seminar: "Can the Ocean Save Us from Ourselves?" on Thursday evening. Attendees painted watercolors inspired by climate change and discussed the science behind climate.

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