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MORE NEWS: FALSE ALARMS AT REED; MOLD OUTBREAK FORCES EVACUATION

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL: Let’s talk turkey.Page 14.

SPORTS: CROSS COUNTRY SECOND AT NEW ENGLANDSThe men’s cross country team fi nished second at the NCAA New England Championships last Saturday, led by juniors Coby Horowitz and Sam Seekins, who fi nished fi rst and second, respectively.

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Page 5.OP-ED: Peter Nau! ts ’15 argues that the College ought to divest from fossil fuels.

Dining sta! prepare thousands of pounds of food for the annual Thanksgiving dinner.

ALARMS: Reed House was evacuated several times last weekend when a faulty fi re alarm went o! .

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MOLD: A senior evacuated her mold-infestedStowe Inn apartment after falling ill.Page 3.

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Thorne Dining Hall sta! prepared 1,400 pounds of turkey and 38 gallons of gravy for the 1,200 expected diners at last night’s Thanksgiving Dinner.

Please see EMISSIONS, page 4

BY MARISA MCGARRYORIENT STAFF

College remembers veterans, honors alums in active service

“) ere is no way to maintain the frontiers of freedom without cost and commitment and risk. ) ere is no swi* and easy path to peace in our genera-tion,” said President John F. Kennedy in his Veteran’s Day address at the Ar-lington National Cemetery in 1961. His words echoed through Smith Union on Sunday when representatives of the College Republicans recited the speech to commemorate the national holiday, before asking for a moment of silence to honor the sacri+ ces of American ser-vicemen and women.

“It’s an o* en overlooked day of re-membrance, but what we wanted to do was just remind people ‘hey it is Vet-eran’s Day and take a minute to think about all the sacri+ ces people have made for you,’” said Sam Sabasteanski Please see ELECTION, page 4

Bowdoin has decreased its green-house gas (GHG) emissions ahead of schedule, putting the College on track to pass the benchmarks of its 2009 Carbon Neutrality Implemen-tation Plan, according to a Sustain-able Bowdoin report released by last week.

) e 14,467 metric tons of car-bon dioxide equivalent that the Col-lege released in + scal year (FY) 2012 was 17 percent below the predicted level of 17,437 metric tons. Since FY 2008—when 19,153 metric tons were released—the College has decreased its emissions by 24 percent, and has surpassed expectations for emissions reductions since 2010.

In 2009, Bowdoin committed to carbon neutrality by 2020. According to last week’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Update for FY 2012, the team of Bowdoin communi-ty members who developed this plan knew the goal would be “challenging if not impossible” to meet through on-campus improvements alone.

Director of Sustainability Keisha Payson said that barring techno-logical breakthroughs in biofuels or energy, the school will likely have to purchase carbon o, sets in order to achieve complete carbon neutrality by 2020.

“We live in Maine, we have to heat all the buildings on this campus. Chances are we’re going to have to purchase Re-newable Energy Credits [RECs] or car-bon o, sets, and we do talk about that in the plan,” said Payson.

) ough Bowdoin currently pur-chases some RECs, they are not fac-tored into baseline emissions counts.

BY ERICA BERRYORIENT STAFF

College emissions decline 24% since 2008, report fi nds

Please see ASSAULTS, page 4

’13, co-president of the Republicans.’) is reading was not the only way

that Bowdoin honored Bowdoin ser-vicemen and women on campus.

Professor of Government Christian Potholm has collected photos of alumni in the armed services for a number of years, and put them up outside his o- ce this summer.

“I don’t know any place else on cam-pus where we recognize [alumni] that are serving the country,” said Potholm.

He hopes it serves as a reminder “that somebody is out there [+ ghting] on our behalf.”

Sabasteanski was impressed with Potholm’s e, ort.

“You can look at, say, the . ag pole monument and see the names of Bow-doin people who served before, but it doesn’t hit you quite like having pictures

Post-election, work begins for King, Equality Maine

Please see VETERANS page 3

BY GARRETT CASEYORIENT STAFF

GOBBLE IT UP

) e College is committed to 100 per-cent “green” electricity, and while 35 percent of the Maine power grid is made up of renewable sources, the College o, sets the remaining 65 per-cent by investing in hydropower and wind farms throughout the state.

Last week’s report characterizes campus emissions in three scopes. Scope 1 emissions—which encompass onsite fuel combustion, College vehi-cle use, and fugitive refrigerants—have fallen 11 percent since FY 2008.

Replacing heating oil with natural gas at satellite facilities, the 2011 in-stallation of an e- cient natural gas boiler in the central heating plant, and last summer’s completion of a multi-year project to insulate campus steam lines all contributed signi+ -cantly to these decreased numbers.

“We have a much more e- cient dis-tribution system,” said Del Wilson, di-rector of + nance and campus services.

Amherst College, still reeling from former student Angie Epi-fano’s account of her sexual as-sault and subsequent mistreatment by Amherst administration—was dealt another blow last week, with the release of former Amherst stu-dent Trey Malone’s June 2012 sui-cide note, which revealed yet an-other account of a student who felt his assault was mishandled by the Amherst administration.

Malone wrote about his strug-gles dealing with the alleged sex-ual assault, and said that “what began as an earnest effort to help on the part of Amherst, became an emotionless hand washing. In

those places I should’ve received help, I saw none.”

Malone’s story echoed that of Epifano, who published an op-ed in The Amherst Student on Octo-ber 17.

Epifano wrote of her initial re-fusal to admit that she was not okay following the assault, and her eventual departure from Amherst.

In the note, published last Thursday in the Huffington Post, Epifano said that she did not re-ceive any of the help or support that she needed from the campus sexual assault counselor.

“In short I was told: No you can’t change dorms, there are too many students right now,” she wrote. “Pressing charges would be useless, he’s about to graduate, there’s not

much we can do. Are you SURE it was rape? It might have just been a bad hookup…You should forgive and forget.”

Epifano and Malone’s stories—as well as those of countless oth-ers who have come forward to share their own experiences—have sparked both institutional and na-tional conversations about sexual assault policies on college cam-puses.

Dana Bolger, a current senior and rape survivor at Amherst, put together a collection of photos showing students holding posters of things said to them by commu-nity members after their assaults. The signs held statements such as

Assaults put spotlight on Amherst policiesBY NICOLE WETSMAN

ORIENT STAFF

Maine voters made history last Tuesday when they elected Angus King to the United States Senate and approved same-sex marriage. Both historic moments marked the culmi-nation of hard-fought campaigns, but neither King nor marriage equality advocates had much time to rest a* er last week’s victories.

King announced on Wednesday that he would caucus with the Demo-crats, a* er discussions with Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, fellow Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, and other members of Congress. ) e Boston Globe reported yesterday that King hopes for a seat on the Senate Finance Committee, an assignment that is not typically given to freshmen senators.

Yesterday a* ernoon, King told the JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CLOSING TIME: Sta! ers for King’s campaign piled signs outside of the Maine Street headquarters.

TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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In her fi rst season at Bowdoin, women’s soccer coach Brianne Weaver transformed a team with a losing record into a nation-ally ranked powerhouse.

SPORTS: Coach of the season: Brianne Weaver FEATURES: The FBI at BowdoinAn FBI Special Agent visited campus to speak to students interested in careers at the agency.

A&E: Canny curation: Jaochim HomannMuseum curator Jaochim Homann has coordinated high profile exhibits and increased student participation.

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BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTALL ATTUNE: The Rachmanino! Choir, made up of the Bowdoin Chorus and Down East Singer members, performed Sergei Rachmanino! ’s All-NIght Vigil at the Chapel on Thursday night.

MAINE SPOTLIGHT

Maine State Rep. announces marijuana legalization bill

Rep. Diane Russell said on Wednes-day that she will reintroduce a bill to legalize recreational marijuana use in Maine, her second try at passing the bill. According to the Portland Press Herald, Russell’s 5 rst attempt was vot-ed down in the House, 107-39, in June.

“6 e time is ripe for another try in the Maine Legislature,” Russell told the Press Herald. “Why can’t we be bring-ing this market to the white market, out of the black market, and out of the hands of the drug dealers?”

In a phone interview with the Ori-ent, Russell said that in light of sucess-ful ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington legalizing recreational marijuana use, she believes that cul-ture is shi7 ing and that “a lot of folks would agree with the bill.”

Russell’s bill would allow licensed retailers to sell 2.5 ounces of mari-juana per week to customers over 21. It would also legalize the individual cultivation of marijuana. Under the bill, it remains illegal to use marijuana in public and in places where smoking cigarettes is banned.

Russell told the Press Herald that “tax revenue from the sale of legalized weed would help pay for higher edu-cation, agriculture, land preservation and law enforcement.”

Bowdoin named most connected college in the nation

NEWS NOTES

What are you most thankful for?

Emily Serwer ’16Jessie Kohn ’13 Molly Solo! ’15 Mark Raguse ’14 “Having great friends at Bowdoin

and a great community.”

Photos by Hy Khong

“Parents who love me and a sister who is nice.”

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Black bear spotted near Brunswick Apartments

6 e New York Times reported on Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration has found that 13 deaths over the past four years were possibly linked to 5-Hour Energy.

6 e drink is sold at the C-store as a ca8 eine source for time-strapped stu-dents, who may opt for the shot-sized, four-calorie drink over or other energy drinks.

STUDENT SPEAK

“Facebook.”“I am thankful for cozy blankets on my bed.”

On Tuesday night, seniors Chelsea Gross and Katie Doble spotted a black bear while walking on the side-walk of Longfellow Avenue around 9 p.m.

6 e pair was heading from Bruns-wick Apartments to Coles Tower when Gross noticed a movement in the bushes and realized it was too wide and stocky to be a dog.

“It was terrifying,” Gross said. “My 5 rst instinct was to run as fast as pos-sible while Katie’s 5 rst instinct was to play dead for the bear.”

Doble reported the incident to Security and also noti5 ed Brunswick Police Department,which informed her that bears are known to pass through the town.13 death reports linked to 5-Hour Energy drink

6 e U.S. News and World Report ranked Bowdoin the “Most Con-nected College” of 1,471 schools in the nation, citing Bowdoin’s exceptional networking resources.

According to the report, Bowdoin scored 79.9 out of 100 points on an index that takes into account “the school’s Internet speed and access for students and faculty, technology re-sources available on campus, as well as an institution’s mobile applications and cloud storage services.”

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At the most recent faculty meet-ing on November 5, professors re-jected a proposal known as “Op-tion Seven,” which would lengthen Orientation by two days and start classes two days earlier, effectively cutting summer short by four days. Despite widespread student support and an endorsement from Bowdoin Student Government (BSG), many faculty members voiced concerns about the repercussions of an ear-lier start to the semester.

One common argument from faculty was that a shortened sum-mer would cut into valuable re-search time for professors. Chair of the Classics De-partment Bar-bara Boyd said that summer research was an important fac-tor in faculty opposition to the changes.

“I think it’s really important for students to realize that faculty are expected to be doing research whenever we’re not teaching. In the really crucial moments in our careers, like when we come up for tenure and promo-tion, our publications and research activity are every bit as important as teaching, and sometimes more im-portant, in terms of how we’re evalu-ated,” she said.

Boyd added that Bowdoin’s aca-demic culture makes the summer an even more important time for faculty to conduct research.

“Bowdoin has a reputation as a place where faculty are very in-volved with students, and that’s also a really important part of be-ing a Bowdoin faculty member, so there isn’t a ton of time during the school year to do research. The summer is the one stretch of time that’s really significant,” she said.

Professors also raised other non-academic concerns about starting earlier.

“For faculty who have kids, which includes many junior faculty, there’s even more of a potential juggle, with daycare for your children as well as getting ready for classes and finishing up research projects,” said Professor of History and Asian Studies Ra-chel Sturman.

Sturman questioned whether the changes to the Orientation sched-ule were really necessary.

“The idea that we need to have a ten day orientation strikes me as potentially excessive,” she said.

However, BSG argued for the many bene5 ts of the revised Ori-entation schedule. One important factor is that the revised schedule would have allowed for 5 rst years to arrive on the weekend rather than on a weekday.

“It’s kind of a trek for a lot of families, so more families might be able to bring their students up on a weekend,” said BSG Vice President for Student Affairs Sarah Levin ’13.

The proposed Orientation schedule would also have extended the Orientation program.

“A lot of people say that Orienta-tion is too long, but I think the main complaint is that it’s actually too busy,” said BSG President Daniela Chediak ’13. “6 e new schedule would make Orientation into a weeklong program that’s less jam-packed.”

Additionally, the rejected sched-ule would have allowed for more time between Phase I and II for 5 rst-year students.

“Phase II is the most stressful aspect of Orientation, and the new schedule would give first years a little bit more time to meet with professors [between phases] and feel really confident in their sched-ule,” said Levin.

BSG argued that the many pos-sible benefits of the change for the

student body outweigh the concerns raised by faculty.

“It seems that four days from a 14-week pe-riod aren’t so huge as to ne-gate the enor-mous gains that can be made by

rescheduling things for first years and upperclassmen,” said Chediak.

In a survey conducted last year, 94 percent of students indicated that they would support extending Thanksgiving break to a full week, provided that Fall Break was not shortened as well.

Option Seven could make ex-tending Thanksgiving break more feasible, since the two class days added to the beginning of the year would make up for the lost Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Levin said a longer Thanksgiving break would enable more students to travel home for the holiday.

“The changes would give stu-dents nine days of travel as opposed to the five that we have now, which means it would be more feasible for students to go home,” said Levin.

Many members of the student body agree.

“I live across the country, so it takes me a full day to travel home. It’s kind of a waste of both time and money if the break is only four days,” said May Kim ’16.

However, faculty noted that a longer Thanksgiving break was not presented as part of the proposal.

“Thanksgiving break and Orien-tation have not been linked in the conversation at all,” said Boyd.

Dean for Student Affairs Tim Foster agreed that the extended Thanksgiving break had not been part of the original proposal, but said, “Perhaps it should have been. I think student support for a full week at Thanksgiving and a two-day fall break is very compelling and worthy of faculty’s attention.”

According to Foster, it would only take faculty support to ad-vance the issue.

“I believe, but I’m not sure about this, that it only takes a single fac-ulty member to stand and propose a motion for faculty consideration. And given the way things are mov-ing at some of our peer schools, I believe that this will happen in our lifetime,” said Foster.

Faculty, students at odds over potential Orientation changes

BY KATIE MIKLUSORIENT STAFF

Kasey Suitor ’13 evacuated her Stowe Inn dorm this week due to an illness allegedly caused by black mold. The mold, Suitor reported, has been growing in her bathroom since the beginning of the school year, despite her greatest efforts to remove it.

Suitor—along with fellow Stowe Inn resident Kyrie Eiras-Saunders ’12—suffers from coughing, a stuffy nose, headaches, tiredness, and occasional dizziness and blur-ry vision, as well as general respi-ratory discomfort.

“I was just kind of sick on and off this semester, and I’ve caught just about every bug that’s gone around school,” Suitor said. “I had to pack a bag [and move out] and I can’t sleep in my room at all. It’s bad.”

Suitor, who has lived in Stowe for the past three years, explained that she found the mold growing in the cracks of her shower upon moving into her room, but didn’t expect the mold to have such a negative affect on her.

She initially scrubbed her bath-room with Lysol, but was unable to remove the fungus. It was not until she tried to scrape off the black mold, when she woke up with a terrible sore throat and a runny nose, that she realized that the mold could be responsible for her sickness.

“I immediately emailed my dean, and I also went straight to the Health Center,” said Suitor. “They told me I was having a reac-tion to the toxic mold.”

The Center for Disease Control

(CDC) states on its website that although mold does not always present a health risk indoors, some people are sensitive and suscep-tible to illness.

“These people may experience symptoms such as nasal stuffiness, eye irritation, wheezing, or skin ir-ritation when exposed to molds,” the CDC website reports, and recommends consulting a physi-cian about the proper procedure to handle mold-induced illnesses.

Eiras-Saunders, who is fighting a similar mold problem in her Stowe Inn residence, moved into her room this fall to find a collapsed bathroom ceiling, shattered ceiling tiles, and water all over the bath-room floor. Facilities was recep-tive to her maintenance request, repairing the damage the very next day, but mold was leftover.

“I keep getting sick, but I don’t know if it’s the mold or if it’s just me getting sick regularly,” said

Eiras-Saunders. “Right before Fall Break was the worse, I had just cleaned my room and maybe it was just a coincidence, but my vision went blurry for a couple hours…Then I spent all of fall break with a fever in bed, just dizzy.”

While Suitor decided to move out and spend the weekend in a friend’s room, Eiras-Saunders is remaining in her room for the time being, with the hope that Facilities will resolve the issue within the next couple of days.

But, the two Stowe Inn residents agree that the mold-infested bath-rooms ought to be renovated—at least the showers replaced—if stu-dents are expected to live in the residencies in future years.

6 e Orient could not get comment from Facilities before press time.

“I’m just kind of angry,” Suitor explained. “I feel like toxic mold should be removed from rooms be-fore people are allowed to move in.”

After mold outbreak, senior evacuates dormBY LUKE MILARDO

ORIENT STAFF

of people, ” he said.Captain David Donahue ’07 is cur-

rently serving as an instructor at 6 e Ba-sic School in Quantico, Va. He recently returned from a three-year tour of duty, during which he spent seven months in Afghanistan before moving on to anoth-er deployment in Southeast Asia.

6 ough he completed O7 cer Candi-date School at Bowdoin, Donahue chose to decline a commission at graduation.

However, a8 er working as a civilian in Boston, he decided to return to the Marine Corps.

“Sitting behind a desk all day, I was not having that same sense of ful5 ll-ment,” Donahue said. “I wanted to go back to the Marines. I thought that was where I 5 t in.”

Luke Flinn ’10 is currently training to become a helicopter pilot for the Marine Corps in Milton, Fla.

In an email to the Orient, Flinn said he decided to join the Marines because of “the professionalism of its members, its storied history, and its distinct esprit de corps.”

Finn said he knows six other Bow-doin alumni who are also Marines.

Neither Donahue nor Flinn knew of the display in Hubbard Hall.

“It’s pretty cool that [Potholm] would do something like that,” said Donahue.

Another Bowdoin Marine, Captain Katie Petronio ’07, gained national at-tention this year for asserting her belief that female Marines should not be al-lowed to serve in the infantry.

In March, she wrote an article for the Marine Corps Gazette titled “Get Over It! We’re Not All Created Equal.”

“I can say from 5 rsthand experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not just emotion, that we haven’t even begun to analyze and comprehend the gen-

der-speci5 c medical issues and overall physical toll that continuous combat op-erations will have on females,” Petronio argues in the article.

Petronio later appeared on CNN to defend her position.

Erika Leach ’02, a captain in the Air Force, moved from active duty to the Reserves in March of this year. As a Re-serve Airman, she advises students who are applying to the Air Force Academy and ROTC programs.

“I wanted to have a little more 9 ex-ibility. With the Reserves, you have a lot more control of where you are,” she said of her decision to join.

Leach began her service in 2003 and chose the Air Force based on the advice of her parents, who both served in the Navy a8 er 5 nishing college.

In 2010, she was deployed to Qatar for six months, where she worked close-ly with a colonel in charge of informa-tion technology for the region.

Potholm said that he has noticed a pattern of student athletes serving in the armed forces.

Donahue played football and lacrosse all four years at Bowdoin, and was cap-

tain of the lacrosse team his senior year.6 ough not a varsity athlete herself,

Leach noticed similarities between the culture of a team sport and that of the Air Force.

“Athletics and leadership can go pretty hand in hand, whether you’re an actual captain or just on the 5 eld. 6 at parlays well into the military from what I’ve seen,” she said.

Leach said that compared to others in the Air Force, her liberal arts back-ground is unusual, but believes that it was bene5 cial. She found that Bowdoin fosters the same philosophy of“giving back to the community” that the mili-tary promotes.

Potholm acknowledges that his is not a complete list, and encourages those who know of other alumni in the mili-tary to contact him so he can update it.

While being a Marine is not easy, Do-nahue still describes his service as the most rewarding work he could imagine.

“6 ere are miserable experiences,” he said. “But the highs we experience together, the sense of accomplishment, that shared feeling between peers and subordinates is incredible.”

“It seems that four days from a 14-week period aren’t so huge as to negate the enormous gains that can

be made by rescheduling things.”

DANI CHEDIAKBSG PRESIDENT

“The idea that we need to have a ten day Orientation strikes me as

potentially excessive.”

RACHEL STURMANPROFESSOR OF HISTORY

AND ASIAN STUDIES

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NO-FUN FUNGI: Kasey Suitor ’13 believes the mold in her bathroom caused her recent illness.

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SOLDIER ON: A bulletin board in Hubbard features photos of Bowdoin alums in the armed forces.

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Thanks to a number of new do-nations, the Career Planning Cen-ter (CPC) will offer more grants for summer projects and intern-ships this year than ever before.

Dighton Spooner, associate di-rector of career planning, said that the CPC anticipates adding about 12 new grants this year. In previous years, the number of applications has significantly eclipsed the num-ber of available grants; last year, 26 grants were awarded.

The 12 new grants include two additional Robert S. Goodfriend grants, and three entirely new funds to expand paid internship opportu-nities for students.

The Robert S. Goodfriend Sum-mer Internship Fund will now offer five grants of up to $5,000 instead of three, after Mr. Good-friend, an alumnus of the College, increased the annual sum available for the fellowship program. The Goodfriend Fund grants provides money to students who take un-paid internships in their business field of interest.

Financed by Bowdoin parents, the new Strong/Gault Social Ad-vancement Internship Grant of-

CPC offers 12 new funded internship grantsBY WOODY WINMILL

ORIENT STAFFfers eight stipends of $4,000 for students to work with nonprofit, for-profit or governmental orga-nizations providing assistance in impoverished and economically underdeveloped regions.

Another new source of funding is the Anwarul Quadir Fellowship, sponsored by the Anwarul Quadir Foundation. The fellowship will fund student internships at busi-

nesses in Bangladesh. Lastly, the new Bowdoin College

Alumni Council Internship Fund offers a grant for one student to pursue an internship in his or her potential career of choice. All of the grants require students to have secured an internship offer by the time of their application for the grant. CPC grant applications are due on March 27.

Spooner said that the 12 new grants will allow the CPC to award funding to quali5 ed students who would have

been turned away in past years. “We had many more applications

than we were able to give out grants last year,” said Spooner. “The qual-ity of the applications of the stu-dents who didn’t get grants was also very good. It wasn’t that the qual-ity of their applications didn’t allow them to get a grant. It was that we had more good applications than we had money to give out.”

Neuroscience major Linna Gao ’12 won a 6 omas Andrew McKin-ley ’06 Entrepreneur Grant last year to work at a biotech startup focusing on developing cancer medication. Gao worked on the business side of the company, researching competi-tion and searching for investors.

“I really wanted to explore something entrepreneurial with the things I love about science, so it was really a perfect place to de-sign my own project,” she said.

The CPC advocates that stu-dents pursue internships during their time at the College to build an understanding of a potential ca-reer path after graduation.

“6 ere are three summers between when you arrive at Bowdoin and when you leave,” said Spooner. “From a career-planning point of view, we think it’s important to focus on what area it is you want to explore.”

“Are you sure it was rape?” from a college administrator, and “You never took your case to trial, so you don’t actually count as a rape survivor,” from an Amherst dean.

Bolger wrote an accompany-ing letter in the AC Voice, a blog run by Amherst students, on October 23, saying that she hoped the pho-tos and stories would help to catalyze conversation and change within the Amherst community.

“Let these stories be a portal for self-examination and growth,” she wrote.

As a result of the words of Epi-fano, Malone and others, Amherst is working to revamp its sexual assault policies. 6 e day a7 er Epifano’s op-ed was published, Amherst President Carolyn Martin responded with a letter to the community outlining the current sexual assault policy at Amherst as well as a checklist of steps that the college would be taking to address its problems.

“Every student should feel that the College will treat sexual mis-conduct and violence with the ut-most seriousness,” she wrote.

While the stories from Amherst have prompted scrutiny of sexual assault policies at private colleges, Bowdoin will not be making any changes or reviews to its procedures.

“Bowdoin wrote a whole new policy in 2006,” said Advisor to the Student Sexual Misconduct Board Meadow Davis, “and two springs ago, we did another major review. We also review our policies every summer.”

But sexual assault does happen at Bowdoin; the annual Clery Report, released in October, documented seven forcible sexual o8 enses in 2011.

Matt Frongillo ’13, a member of Safe Space, echoed Davis with regard to Bowdoin’s sexual assault policies.

“Bowdoin revamped its policies a few years ago, and they did it without

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being prompted by anything,” he said.Frongillo said that he did not

think that Bowdoin had any rea-son to make any more changes to its sexual assault policy in light of events at Amherst.

“I would like to think that Bow-doin’s a lot more progressive about these policies,” he said. “A lot of peo-

ple work to sup-port survivors.”

Davis said that Bowdoin’s system works to make sure that every student feels that they are being heard.

Students go-ing through the

process of dealing with sexual as-sault have a supporter—a member of the faculty or staff whose role is only to be their for them.

“6 at goes a long way to making people feel like there is someone there for them,” said Davis. “It’s so people don’t feel like no one is listening to them, even if they are frustrated.”

Davis also highlighted the wide variety of programs that the Col-lege has for both prevention and awareness of sexual assault, specifically the student groups on campus.

Safe Space, V-Space, Bowdon Men Against Sexual Assault (BMASV), Resi-dential Life, sports teams, and other student groups all go through training and have conversa-tions about Bowdoin’s sexual assault policies and processes.

Sta8 members also receive the same training.

“The hope is that any staff per-son would understand the proper things to say to support people,” said Davis. “We want to focus on the staff having those skills.”

Bowdoin has a number of out-lets for students to report and take action regarding sexual assault. Within the policy, survivors are

6 ough the central heating plant used 17 percent less gas in FY 2012 than FY 2008, the report states that “much of this decrease was weather-related,” as last year was nine percent warmer than the baseline year.

“I try not to get too excited from any given year, because things like the weather can have such an enor-mous impact,” said Andy Price ’95, a consultant from Competitive Energy Services, which Bowdoin worked with to develop its plan. “But we also know a lot of good projects went into place.”

Scope 2 emissions—purchased electricity—decreased by 2,730 metric tons, a 34 percent reduction since 2008.

In FY 2012, the campus purchased four percent less electricity than in 2008. According to Wilson, compa-rable reductions have only ever occurred when campus con-struction took a building o8 the grid for an ex-tended amount of time.

“6 is is the 5 rst time with no major capital project out there, in recent time, that we’ve seen a reduction in electricity,” said Wilson.

He attributed this to both behav-ioral changes and to the installation of a cogeneration turbine in the heating plant, which is powered by steam oth-erwise wasted in the heating process.

Price noted that with the constant in-crease of gadgets on campus—phones, tablets, monitors, computers—there’s a reliable one-to-two percent increase in yearly electricity, albeit one that Bow-doin avoided this year.

“We take all the projects into ac-count, and we’re able to explain a lot of what we see, but there’s more going on that we can’t necessarily pinpoint, and I think it’s those individual ac-tions,” said Wilson.

Other factors accounting for the Scope 2 decrease are the replacement of metal halide bulbs with CFL bulbs in outside campus light poles, the addition of speed drives in Moulton and 6 orne’s

kitchen exhaust hoods, and the estimat-ed 24,000 kilowatt hours saved during the residence hall energy competition.

Furthermore, there has been a shi7 in emissions accounting by the Environmental Protection Agency as more renewables are added to the Maine energy mix, leading to sig-ni5 cant decreases in emissions per megawatt hour for the whole state.

“In our original climate action plan we did state that we expected [GHG] reductions from greening of grid,” said Wilson.

Scope 3 emissions—made up of faculty and sta8 travel, employee commuting, waste disposal, and transmission line losses from energy use—increased by 10 percent since FY 2011, but represented a net 30 percent decrease since FY 2008.

In this category, waste-related emissions have decreased by 401 percent since 2008, and Bowdoin now sends its non-recyclable waste

to a plant that uses it to gener-ate power. 6 e report states that “a change in modeling…that correctly as-signs waste to its 5 nal destination accounts for the majority of this decrease.”

Auden Schendler ’92, the vice presi-dent of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, said he believes that these ac-counting shi7 s are part of the complex-ity of Bowdoin’s project, and should be emphasized more in the report.

“6 e fact that the bulk of emissions reductions have come through ac-counting changes is neither good nor bad, it simply is part of the world we’re in,” wrote Schendler in an email to the Orient. “It should be overly discussed and seen as part of our education.”

Schendler agreed with the report that Bowdoin is e8 ectively taking ac-tion to decrease emissions, though he challenges the College to be more hon-est in acknowledging the intricacies of a 2020 carbon neutrality commitment.

“If I were writing this report I’d both be much more forthcoming in the failures and chance of not meet-ing goals,” he said. “Solving climate change is going to be a bitch. And so it’s the school’s job to teach to that.”

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referred to as “complainants” and those accused of sexual assault are referred to as “respondents.”

Students can submit anonymous reports to the College, are not re-quired to identify anyone, and can initiate no-contact orders towards their assailant.

6 e administration also puts in-terim measures into place, which are more detailed protective mea-sures for the victim that can involve changes in living, academic and work arrangements.

Students also have the option of participating in an informal resolu-tion, which allows complainants to confront the respondent, either in person or otherwise, without a for-mal hearing. Informal resolutions generally result in either no-contact orders or interim measures.

“Informal resolutions focus on the safety of the complainant, and aren’t about proving anything,” said Davis.

Finally, students can partici-pate in a formal process. When a student chooses to make a formal charge of sexual assault, the accu-sation is first sent to a private in-vestigator in Portland.

“[The investigator] compiles a report, and says if there is sub-stantial basis for a hearing,” said Davis.

If she does not 5 nd enough evi-dence for a hear-ing, the student still has the op-tion of an infor-mal resolution.

However, if there is evidence, the accused attacker will attend a hear-ing in front of the sexual miscon-duct board.

Davis said that, although Bow-doin attempts to do everything possible to support those who have gone through sexual assault, there is still the potential for students to be unsatisfied with the process.

“6 ese processes are sad, hard and challenging,” she said. “People would probably be able to 5 nd things that made them frustrated because of the nature of those cases.”

Orient that committee assignments are “very much up in the air” and will not likely be 5 nalized for about a week, pending discussions between Senate Democrats and Republicans.

King said that his 5 rst priority will be to make the Senate work, through 5 libuster reform and a number of other changes.

“If we can’t get the Senate to work, then we can’t get to the other issues,” he said.

A7 er that, King said, he will turn his atten-tion to address-ing 5 scal issues. He noted that while some mo-tions will be put forward to ad-dress the impending 5 scal cli8 dur-ing the lame duck session, there will still be much work to do a7 er Con-gress convenes in January.

Now that same-sex marriage is legal in Maine, LGBT advocates still have their work cut out. Tim Diehl, board president of Equality Maine, one of the partners in the Mainers United for Marriage coalition, said the group is working to disseminate

information on the new law. “Equality Maine will be involved

in insuring that the information is available about where and how to get marriage licenses,” said Diehl. “We will work also with the state legisla-ture to insure the law is implemented as it was passed.”

Diehl said that Equality Maine is not an organization whose goal revolves entirely around marriage equality for same-sex couples. Its aims are more general.

“It’s an advocacy and civil right organization for LGBT people and

their families. Marriage is but one issue we’re focused on. We’ll continue to focus on issues where discrimination or inequality ex-ists,” he said.

Diehl said his organization will delve into other LGBT issues without fear of same-sex marriage being repealed.

“I think that issues like equal-ity and social justice-related matters only become more positively per-ceived by voters over time,” he said. “It’s hard to imagine taking a step back with Maine voters on this issue.”

-Linda Kinstler contributed to this report.

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“We had more good applications than we had money to give out.”

DIGHTON SPOONERASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF

CARRER PLANNING

“I would like to think that Bowdoin’s a lot more progressive

about these policies. A lot of people work to support survivors.”

MATT FRONGILLO ’13

“Every student should feel that the college will treat sexual

misconduct and violence with the utmost seriousness.”

CAROLYN MARTINPRESIDENT OF AMHERST COLLEGE

“This is the fi rst time with no major capital project out there, in recent memory, that we’ve seen a

reduction in electricity.”

DEL WILSONDIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND

“If we can’t get the Senate to work, then we can’t get to

the other issues.”

ANGUS KINGSENATORELECT

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! ursday, November 8• An unregistered event was dis-

persed at Brunswick Apartments X a5 er a noise complaint was received.

• 6 ere was a hard alcohol violation at Brunswick Apartments X.

Friday, November 9• A student at Ladd House reported

the the5 of a yellow Schwinn bicycle with pink fenders and a leather seat.

Saturday, November 10• A noise complaint was reported in

a third 7 oor stairwell at Chamberlain Hall.

• A boiler system malfunction ac-tivated a 8 re alarm at Reed House at 4 a.m. 6 e Brunswick Fire Department responded. Two sleeping students had to be awakened to evacuate.

• An o9 cer checked on the well-be-ing of a sick student in Howell House.

• A student damaged a ceiling at Helmreich House while dancing on a table.

• Twenty-one candles on a student’s birthday cake set o: a smoke alarm on the seventh 7 oor of Coles Tower.

• Reed House was evacuated just be-fore midnight when the boiler let o: too much steam and set o: the 8 re alarm.

Sunday, November 11• Brunswick Rescue transported a

student to Parkview Adventist Medical Center with an allergic reaction to sea-food eaten at 6 orne Dining Hall.

• 6 ere was a hard alcohol violation at Harpswell Apartments.

• The boiler at Reed House blew a gasket and the release of steam set off the fire alarm. The building was evacuated.

• A student at Stowe House Inn with appendicitis was transported to Mid Coast Hospital by Brunswick Rescue.

• A 17-year-old Upward Bound stu-dent had an asthma attack at 6 orne Dining Hall. 6 e student was evaluated and treated on site.

Monday, November 12• Security assisted with a wellness

check for a student at West Hall.• A student with a throat infec-

tion was escorted from Smith Union to Parkview.

• Area motorists reported instances of students on bicycles a5 er dark, with-out lights or re7 ectors, darting in tra9 c

SECURITY REPORT: 11/8 to 11/15

and causing near mishaps.Tuesday, November 13• Loud music irritated residents at

Brunswick Apartments I.• An orange Hu: y Cruiser bicycle

with a wicker basket and ladybug bell was reported stolen from the area of Brunswick Apartments A.

• A black and silver Trek bicycle was reported stolen from the south side bike rack at Maine Hall.

• Power was lost on the south half of campus at 7:45 p.m.

• Two students were trapped together in an elevator at Coles Tower when the power went out. 6 e pair was released a5 er their bonding experience, shaken but not stirred.

• 6 e power outage tripped the bur-glar alarms at the Museum of Art.

• Campus power was restored at 8:45 p.m.

Wednesday, November 14• A student tripped and fell over a

backpack and sustained a head injury in 6 orne Dining Hall. An o9 cer escorted the student to Parkview.

• 6 e sailing team boathouse at Bethel Point in Harpswell was

SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

burglarized late Tuesday night. A signi8 cant amount of power tools, electronics, and other equipment was stolen. 6 e value of the stolen property is $4,000. Entry was gained through a back door by cutting a padlock with bolt cutters. 6 e crime was reported to the Cumberland County Sheri: ’s Department.

• A student reported seeing a person on campus acting suspiciously. 6 e per-son turned out to be a College employee acting like his normal self.

• An o9 cer checked on the well-being of two students in Coleman Hall experiencing 7 u-like symptoms.

• An o9 cer checked on the well-being of a student in Chamberlain Hall.

! ursday, November 15• A student called Security concerned

that a roommate had not returned and could not be contacted. 6 e roommate returned safely.

• A local man, who students reported was viewing inappropriate material on a public computer in Smith Union, was asked to leave campus.

-Compiled by the O! ce of Safety and Security

This past Saturday night and Sunday morning, Reed House resi-dents were raised from their beds by two fire alarms in quick succes-sion. Facilities Management and the Brunswick Fire Department investigated the cause of these false alarms, and fixed the problem on Wednesday.

6 e 8 re alarm has gone o: in Reed House over ten times during the course of the semester.

A single detector in the basement of Reed House was responsible for last weekend’s false alarms.

The alarms have tended to go off between “11 p.m. and 4 a.m., so the house has had a few rude awakenings in the middle of the night,” said Em-ily Tucker ’15, vice president of Reed House.

The Fire De-partment had dubbed the false alarms a “ghost problem,” but this past week-end, discovered that steam emit-ted from the boiler had activated the alarm.

“We had a replacement boiler put in and it wasn’t calibrated correctly,” said Director of Facilities Operations and Maintenance Ted Stam.

As a result, the boiler was pro-ducing excess steam that could not be ventilated.

“Steam can sometimes set o: smoke detectors. For 8 re prevention purposes, there is a smoke detector in the furnace room and it was being set o: ,” said Stam.

Stam said this is relatively com-mon, especially in bathrooms where large amounts of steam are produced.

A5 er the second alarm went o: ,

Reed House fi re detector fi xed after over ten alarms set off

BY DAVID SPERBERORIENT STAFF

o9 cers from the O9 ce of Safety and Security and the 8 re department searched the Reed House basement.

A fire department officer recog-nized that the fire system extended beyond a locked door under the stairs. The building was formerly the Chi Psi fraternity lodge, and the locked door opens into the frater-nity’s dungeon-like chapter room, which is kept off limits. It was into this locked space that the fire sys-tem extended.

A Security o9 cer retrieved a key and opened the locked door.

“6 e second room in, they found the detector that was activated and there was four feet of steam hanging from the ceiling. Well, there’s your cause,” said Brunswick Fire Chief Ken Brillant.

Stam said he did not know about the location or ac-cess to the room.

6 e problem was particularly di9 cult to di-agnose because the boiler is not constantly run-ning. During the second alarm, however, the boiler was on.

“[Security] turned it over to

maintenance and we haven’t been back since,” said Brillant.

6 e solution was relatively straight-forward. 6 e furnace has been adjust-ed, and excess steam is now released outside the building.

“It shouldn’t happen again,” Stam said.

Brillant praised Bowdoin’s Facilities Management for actively trying to root out the problem.

“Bowdoin College has done an extremely proactive job of updating their systems and maintaining their systems,” he said. “6 ese things hap-pen. We get calls at the time and they just happen. I’m just glad we found the problem.”

“The second room in, they found the detector that was activated

and there was four feet of steam hanging from the ceiling. Well,

there’s your cause.”

KEN BRILLANTBRUNSWICK FIRE CHIEF

Amnesty International invited local activists to campus on Wednesday for a panel discussion about the di9 culties of providing aid to the refugee population in Maine, a state with one of the most homogenous populations in the nation.

6 e panel, titled “Local Voices, Glob-al Perspectives: Refugee and Immigrant Rights in Maine,“ aimed to raise aware-ness about problem’s caused by the state’s burgeoning refugee population. In the last 30 years, over 12,000 refugees have moved to the state from Somalia, Iraq, Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan. 6 ey have settled primarily in Portland and Lewiston, according to the Maine State O9 ce of Multicultural A: airs.

Data from the Portland Refugee Ser-vices Program shows that in 2010, 793 refugees arrived in the city, 7 eeing from violence in their native countries.

“When we think about genocides and global con7 icts we o5 en can kind of distance ourselves from it,” said Monica Bouyea ’14, co-president of Bowdoin’s Amnesty International chapter. “I think it’s really important for students to un-derstand that these individuals are here in Maine.”

Janice Ja: e, adjunct lecturer in Spanish and McKeen Center research associate, moderated the discussion.

“Today, the movement of people in

the world is one of [its] de8 ning fea-tures,” Ja: e said.

6 e panel featured three speak-ers, Sebastien Nahimana, of Catholic Charities of Maine Refugee and Im-migration Services, Fatuma Hussein, of United Somali Women of Maine, and LuzMarina Serrano, of Maine Mi-grant Health.

“[6 e panelists] re7 ect a diversity of needs of these various refugee commu-nities,” said Bouyea.

Nahimana serves as the translation coordinator for his organization. He helps refugees 8 nd homes and adjust to modern amenities that they may not be familiar with.

“Fundamentally, someone needs to have a place to be,” said Nahimana. “We’re trying to give them that hu-manity back that they have lost by being dislocated.”

Nahimana also helped create Lan-guage Access for New Americans,

which translates documents for refugees from their native language into English. 6 e program currently provide translation services for over 40 languages.

Hussein founded United Somali Women of Maine in 2001. “6 e vi-sion and mission of the center is to advocate for refugees that are women and to advocate for a system change,” said Hussein.

She estimated that there are 5,000 immigrants in Maine capable of work-ing but unable to because they lack for-mal education.

“We work for a better future for the generations to come,” said Hussein. “We can’t get rid of this poverty cycle, we have to break through.”

At Maine Migrant health, Serrano works primarily with Hispanic migrant workers to educate them about health issues. “I help bridge the gap between them and our own healthcare system,” said Serrano.

6 ough all three panelists repre-sent very di: erent constituencies, they said that they encounter simi-lar problems in helping recent im-migrants settle in the predominantly white state.

Even so, the panelists agreed that Maine does provide some bene8 ts for new refugees.

“Maine o: ers a less threatening place to start a life,” Nahimana said.

Panelists discuss Maine’s refugee populationBY EMMA PETERSORIENT STAFF

“We’re trying to give them that humanity back that they have

lost by being dislocated.”

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REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES

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What it takes: FBI recruits on campus

4 is Monday night, about 30 Bowdoin students attended an in-formation session about careers with the Federal Bureau of Investi-gation (FBI) in Lancaster Lounge, hosted by the Career Planning Cen-ter (CPC). 4 e recruitment o5 cer, Special Agent Alison King, stressed the importance of thinking early on about a career with the FBI.

King, who is based out of the Boston 6 eld o5 ce, outlined the two major career tracks within the FBI, both of which come with top security clearance: Special Agent and Profes-sional Support.

“In the government, anyone who’s working national security matters—that’s CIA, NSA, FBI, or any other state department—has to have [top security] clearance. Even our interns have to have that clear-ance,” said King.

Getting this clearance, however, is not easy. 4 e agency conducts exten-sive background checks and requires all applicants to sit for polygraph tests.

“What stops a lot of people from being able to work for us is the inabil-ity to pass the background check and the polygraph.” King told students. “4 e tough part for a lot of people of that background check is the drug policy. It’s very strict, and it’s some-thing that they’re going to ask you about on the polygraph, so it’s very di5 cult to lie about.”

4 is is why King stresses the im-portance of considering the career ahead of time. 4 e current drug pol-icy requires that an applicant has not used marijuana or abused prescrip-tion drugs within the last three years, and has not used any other illegal drugs, including anabolic steroids,

within the last ten years. However, this background check is

only one item on a long checklist.To be a Special Agent you have to

have three to 6 ve years of work expe-rience. In the current job climate, this can be hard to come by.

“Most of the people for Special Agent positions are, I think, on a national average right around 29 or 30. And actually, it’s now mov-ing towards even higher ages,” King said.

Another Special Agent job re-quirement is a physical 6 tness exam.

BY NATALIE KASSKAUFMANORIENT STAFF

Dining Service at their best for annual Thanksgiving dinner4 anksgiving is not a holiday for

self-restraint. At this year’s 4 anks-giving dinner, the abundant spread prepared by Bowdoin Dining Ser-vices pleased even the most glutton-ous gorgers.

Last night, students, faculty, and sta7 lined up at Moulton and 4 orne Dining Halls to enjoy a traditional meal in advance of the actual holiday.

4 e 4 anksgiving dinner always draws a crowd, and an impressive amount of food and preparation go into the meal, widely considered a highlight of the year.

Michele Gaillard, associate director of dining services op-erations, reported that, though the quantity of food required for the meal is high, the staff always looks forward to the atmosphere and en-ergy of Thanksgiving.

“4 e 4 anksgiving meal is many students’ favorite meal at Bowdoin and our sta7 truly enjoy preparing and serving it,” said Gaillard. “It’s just really good food and a lot of it.”

Gaillard o7 ered a glimpse into just how much food and prepara-tion are behind 4 anksgiving at Bowdoin.

Dining sta7 began roasting tur-keys—1,400 pounds worth—on Monday and spent the rest of week cooking and carving the meat. Dark meat from the birds went into the making of 38 gallons of gravy.

While turkey is the star of the 4 anksgiving spread, the side dishes are equally delicious, eagerly anticipat-ed and produced on a similarly huge scale. Employees mashed 560 pounds of butternut squash and prepped 320 pounds of sweet potatoes.

Dining Services made sure all students could partake in the holiday smorgasbord by preparing several options for those with di-etary restrictions. Vegetable pot-pies, vegan biscuits, and egg and wheat-free apple crisp were some notable additions.

Some students, however, were still dissapointed with the vegetarian op-tions. “We wish there was tofurkey,” said Violet Ranson ’16.

The bakery made 190 pumpkin, apple and pecan pies for the din-ner. Pumpkin from Bowdoin’s or-ganic garden also went into baking 90 loaves of pumpkin bread. 800 oatmeal molasses rolls and eight

food, preparation and well-timed serving were key to ensuring the dinner ran smoothly. At Moulton, head chef David Crooker pre-pared his 11th Bowdoin Thanks-giving dinner.

Roughly 600 people were expect-ed to attend the meal at Moulton, and Crooker is familiar with han-dling the amount of food and lines of hungry guests.

“It’s not too stressful of an event,” said Crooker. “We prepare and prep early, and the 4 anksgiving dinner is a meal we all look forward to. 4 e cooking is straightforward, there’s just a lot of food to cook.”

Crooker said that he hoped stu-dents who were unable to make the meal would get the special express dinner at Moulton, cider-glazed ham and sweet potatoes.

4 orne’s larger facility and lon-ger dinner hours were projected to draw close to 1,200 students. Head chef Daran Poulin, who has worked the 4 anksgiving dinner since 2005, said he always tries to keep the lines moving and the food 8 owing.

“At times the lines get very long” Poulin said. “We have to open up the deli as a third serving station since we don’t want people to have to wait too long.”

analyst, this isn’t the case. The FBI does hire liberal arts grads, as part of a diversified program, which be-gan in the late ’80s.

“If you have trouble communicat-ing, it’s really tough to do this job,” said King, herself a liberal arts college graduate.

As of yet, Bowdoin is the only NE-SCAC school King has visited.

“I’ve mainly been visiting schools in the metropolitan Boston area,” said King in an interview with the Orient. “But I hope to do more of the NESCAC schools. As I men-tioned last night [at the information session] I’m strong believer in the liberal arts education, as is the Bu-reau. 4 ey’re really looking for well-rounded people.”

4 e attendees were an even mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Genevieve Barlow ’13 said she was starting to think about a future career in the FBI.

“I think I’m de6 nitely interested in the FBI. I mean, there’s a ton of shows about it. It is partly interesting because it is something you have to do in your future and not necessar-ily something you can do next year,” said Barlow. “But de6 nitely, being a government and legal studies major, it is something that I’m interested in pursuing perhaps eventually.”

Steve Buduo ’15 went to the info session to hear about the opportu-nities at the FBI, and to network with the agency.

“I was very excited to hear that the FBI was coming. 4 ey’re one of the only federal agencies coming to Bowdoin this year, so for me, since I’m interested in a career in gov-ernment, I thought it was a good opportunity to make connections with current employees there,” said Buduo. “4 is was a rare chance to learn about [the FBI] 6 rst-hand. “

sheet pans of cornbread rounded out the meal.

With such large quantities of

Sta7 at 4 orne and Moulton di-vide up the workload for the dinner throughout the week leading up to the event, and the early prep work helps make the event run e5 ciently.

“I didn’t eat all day in preparation for this,” said Kyra Babakian ’14.

BY KATHERINE FOLEYSTAFF WRITER

The glamour of science:Telomeres to slow aging?

If students and guests didn’t man-age to eat all of the food, le9 overs are resourcefully used. Extra turkey might go into making turkey potpies or soup, and le9 over side dishes are sometimes put out at the deli sta-tions in both dining halls.

KACEY BERRY

GOGGLES AND GLOVES

Despite what you may think, there is some glamour in the science world. 4 ere’s hot and the’re not; there’s in and there’s out, and right now, “Molecular Neurobiology”—my current focus—is having a major moment.

It’s not just the scienti6 c community that follows these trends; I’ve been told my research is “hot” by academics, New York Times science section a6 cionados and dentists alike.

I shudder at this assessment. Molecu-lar neurobiology, trendy? Mainstream? Certainly not. I’d like to think I found this DNA and astrocyte-dominated world before it was cool.

“Translational research” is also in vogue. People want to see projects bridge the gap between basic science and practical applications to healthcare. “Translation” is the new sexy term. It wins press coverage, and, more impor-tantly, research grants. And in science research, grants drive progress.

An aside: the Society for Neurosci-ence must have sensed I was writing about the importance of research grants because I received an email just an hour ago warning “Research is Facing Deep Cuts…25 percent fewer grants from NIH and NSF next year” and urging me to “Contact Congress Today!”

I’m all for research that works towards solving human health di-lemmas, but let’s not forget the less-glamorous, less-amply-funded basic research that’s actually really cool, and still garners national press coverage. This research takes place right in our own backyard. Well,

Bowdoin’s backyard: Kent Island.A few years ago, a pair of comparative

physiologists from Iowa State University in Ames collaborated with Bowdoin bi-ology professor Chuck Huntington to study the unusually long life span of a bird species inhabiting the island, the Leach’s storm petrel.

At 40 years, the birds live about 4 times as long as scientists would expect of animals with their body mass. To investigate this anomaly, the team col-lected and tested blood samples in order to measure the birds’ “telomeres.”

In every biology book I’ve seen, telo-meres are likened to shoelace caps. 4 ey “cap” the ends of chromosomes—tightly wrapped con6 gurations of DNA—to “protect the ends from fraying.” Each time a cell divides, however, these telo-mere caps shorten, ultimately resulting in the cell’s inability to continue to rep-licate. Shortening telomeres are corre-lated with the aging process.

4 e researchers up at Kent Island discovered that the storm petrel’s telo-meres not only shortened more slowly than those of other birds; but also that they lengthened over time. 4 is seems to be the 6 rst reported case of telomere elongation.

If this doesn’t immediately cause your eyes to bulge and your jaw to drop, I’ll also point out that Discover magazine (January 2004, Vol. 25, No. 1) included this study in its guide to the top 100 sci-ence stories of 2003, as did Science and New Scientist magazines.

4 e 6 ndings may have future rele-vance to humans as the Science article covering the 6 ndings suggests: Do subsets of human populations have telomeres that vary as much as bird species? What does the aging process look like for these individuals?

Now that’s glamorous.

“I’m a strong believer inthe liberal arts education, as is the

Bureau. They’re really looking for well-rounded people.”

SPECIAL AGENT ALISON KING

4 e FBI usually receives about ten thousand applicants for four hundred positions.

4 e strict requirements are neces-sary to ensure FBI agents are up to the job—working for the FBI is far from stress-free.

Special Agents, who are required by law to carry a 6 rearm, even on airplanes, have a deadly-force policy: shoot to kill.

“It’s not like TV, it’s not like Call of Duty, it’s not like Halo,” said King. “4 is job isn’t for everybody.”

Not only that, but all FBI employ-ees must also be willing and able to accept assignments in any part of the country immediately following a 21-week training program at the FBI headquarters in Quantico, VA.

While television may give the impression that every member of the FBI is a criminal justice ma-jor, forensic scientist or computer

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTEYE OF THE PIE: Head Baker Joanne Adams prepares pumpkin pie fi lling for the meal.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

For most students at the Col-lege, course registration is an ex-citing time to consider the future. For 6 rst years, with the fateful 6 rst semester almost under their belts, spring course registration is a sub-tle a7 rmation that, yes, you can make it here. In fact, Bowdoin even wants you back for another semes-ter! Sophomores—those con6 dent, savvy Polar Bears—may not know their major quite yet, but they know what they like and de6 nitely know what annoying professors to avoid. And juniors, well, they could care less. Enjoy camping in Australia next spring!

For seniors, however, spring course registration is a grim re-minder of reality. Bowdoin cannot go on forever— nor, frankly, would I really want it to at the he8 y price of $56,128 per year.

I understand that senior year is necessarily a transitional year be-cause planning for the future takes time. Right now, I sadly have one foot in Bowdoin and one foot in my as-yet-unde6 ned future. But why do I get the feeling that my time as a Polar Bear began to end as early as sophomore year?

9 e main issue lies with the Col-lege House system, which is gen-erally what Bowdoin considers its main—read, appropriate—venue for social life on campus. But who goes

to these parties? Let me oversimplify the system to make a point: Resi-dential Life chooses sophomores to live in College Houses, these sopho-mores host parties for 6 rst years, and giddy 6 rst years are served al-cohol by the unfortunate lone junior or senior who has been wrangled into serving as the Alcohol Host. So, what about these parties would you call “campus-wide”?

Obviously, campus-wide parties are advertised as such and any card-carrying Polar Bear is welcome to join the fray. Yet the College House culture of only catering to 6 rst years and sophomores exists for a reason. Upperclassmen—what I de6 ne as juniors and seniors—like to hang out with their friends, who are gen-erally fellow older students.

Now, I can’t speak for everyone in the Class of 2013, but I feel con6 dent that I’m not alone when I say I don’t really want to party much with 6 rst years—no o: ense, Class of 2016.

While the College may not want to exclude anyone from campus-wide parties, I think that a little dif-ferentiation between the classes is both natural and appropriate. If 6 rst years and sophomores have their own houses and their own parties—which is a system that I think works relatively well for the more youthful target audience—why couldn’t we expand the idea for juniors and se-niors? Why isn’t there an upperclass-men-only College House?

Upperclassmen-only College Hous-es (why stop at one?) would be a concrete step toward creating an on-campus social life for juniors and seniors. These houses could work in the same way the College

Houses do, but instead host events for seniors

and juniors. But, you ask, juniors and seniors aren’t prohibited from living in College Houses, so why can’t they just form a group, apply to a house, and live there? They can, and it has been done already with some degree of success (see Helm-reich House, 2011).

However, there remains a stigma that goes along with living in a Col-lege House a8 er sophomore year. Quite frankly, it’s just “weird” for an upperclassman to live in a place that Bowdoin campus culture has

upperclassmen to fend for them-selves. 9 is is not fair, and should be changed. Campus-wides clearly don’t work; instead, the College should give upperclassmen their own space on campus and the right to host only other upperclassmen at their parties. Exclusion need not be a dirty word, but instead a means to fostering stronger community among juniors and seniors.

One argument against this pro-posal may be that seniors already have their own spaces on campus. Remember that enormous tower in the center of campus? Coles Tower is arguably the epicenter of upper-classmen life on campus, but not in a way that fosters strong community. You don’t apply to live in the tower because you’re excited to become friends with all 200 of your neigh-bors; seniors live in the tower be-cause wearing slippers to every meal is magni6 cent. And having a single is nice, too.

9 e tower was originally known as the Senior Center, designed to “emphasize college and class rather than fraternity,” as President Sills said in 1964. In place of Greek life, the administration encouraged se-niors to live, eat, attend special pro-grams, and su: er through lectures together. 9 e Senior Center promot-ed both academic and social cohe-sion among upperclassmen, which is something I feel has been missing.

I realize some great upperclass-men-only activities, like Senior Night, exist, but I respectfully contend that subsidized blueber-ry beers are insu7 cient, albeit delicious. Upperclassmen need their own social space on cam-pus. 9 ough juniors may be busy booking some party hostel

in Amsterdam and seniors already have one foot outside the bubble thanks to the relentless emails of Career Planning, we are still Polar Bears. I support Senior Nights and Tuesdays at Joshua’s and hell, I even support Crack House; however, rel-egating upperclassmen to these o: -campus venues is unfair.

I’ll admit, an upperclassmen-only College House is a radical idea, and Residential Life would undoubtedly object to such dangerous exclusivity. (On a related note, sarcasm is hard to write into an essay.) In all serious-ness, though, I believe upperclass-men deserve a space on campus to call their own. If not a College House, perhaps start smaller with a senior lounge in Smith Union, out-side of the pub.

As campus culture currently dictates, sophomores have their houses and Bowdoin’s blessing to host campus-wide parties that really only attract—and rightfully so—the younger half of the College. Upper-classmen? Well, at least Safe Ride goes all the way to Joshua’s.

9 e takeaway message for upper-classmen is that there is not an ad-equate on-campus venue for us on the weekends. Sure, you can have a nice cocktail with friends or attempt a good party in the tower, or even embark on the long walk to Crack House. But the current social cul-ture at Bowdoin is that seniors (and those lucky 21-plus juniors) have lit-tle outlet other than to take the party

o: -campus. For Joshua’s, that’s great. For Bowdoin, I’m really not so sure.

-Ted Clark

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9 e trailer for the recent concert 6 lm Big Easy Express—in which director Emmett Malloy follows a cross-country tour by popular folk-rock bands Mumford and Sons, Ed-ward Sharpe and the Magnetic Ze-roes, and Old Crow Medicine Show on a vintage train—opens with a brash monologue. “We’re gonna play some music across the country the way they saw it more than a hundred years ago,” a narrator proclaims, “back into the magic.”

Top-hatted musicians appear in grimy clothes and old-timey whis-kers. 9 e color-tone recalls vintage 6 lm stock. Text from the trailer har-kens images of a “historic train” and the “great American landscape.”

9 e 6 lm is the latest work of a bur-geoning crop of musical acts trading on dusty boots and the suspension of disbelief to intimate the catharsis of a simpler time.

It isn’t the most popular example of that cultural trend. Reviews of Mumford and Sons’ Billboard-top-ping 2012 album Babel, recaps of this summer’s festival season, and think-pieces on the acquisition of

Instagram by Facebook have all tak-en part in the same conversation, but I think Big Easy Express is the best, most recent example of what might be called a certain cultural neo-Transcendentalism that deserves at least a little bit of pushback.

For the past few years, music has been the most feeling standard-bear-er of this phenomenon. Bands like Of Monsters and Men, Mumford, and Edward Sharpe have enjoyed huge festival followings on ground prepared by the success of acts like Band of Horses and Fleet Foxes. At Sasquatch! this May, I was surround-ed by thousands of young people screaming their cultural nostalgia into the Washington sky along to the Head and the Heart’s “Down in the Valley.” It’s not an excitement I buy into personally, but it’s worth won-dering just what it is about “whiskey rivers” and “age old trades” that gets people so choked up these days.

9 ey aren’t alone or unprecedent-ed in their taste. For the past few years, American aesthetics writ large have gazed backward fondly. From menswear Americana in its selvedge jeans and panoply of chambray, to what graphic designer and critic Alexandra Lange recently called the Obama campaign’s typographically “ersatz version of American nos-

talgia,” we’ve refashioned the elbow grease and virgin landscapes of by-gone eras as antidotes to the unique maladies of the 21st century.

But if mountain air, banjos, and bu: alo plaid are the cure, what ex-actly is it we’re su: ering from?

Big Easy Express is a feat of physi-cal and cognitive escapism, chugging toward an almost Disney-6 ed, Bran-nan 6 lter frontier America at full speed in an attempt to get away from the malaise of suburban cul-de-sacs.

I think this has something to do with the Internet. A8 er all, the com-mon experience of young consum-ers across the country is a life lived vicariously online, using Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Spotify to give visual and audible form to their acute spatial and temporal longings.

On his anthemic and galvanizing hit, “9 e Cave,” Marcus Mumford hoarsely declares, “Cause I need freedom now / And I need to know how / To live my life as it’s meant to be.” He might as well be a sixteen-year-old girl cra8 ing a Pinterest of clothes she can’t a: ord, a teenager across the country feverishly reblog-ging Free Cabin Porn, or an “urban woodsman” working as a barista at a retro-styled co: ee shop in Brook-lyn. Mumford is their soundtrack because in his music the tragedy

of their paralysis is real. His music reaches for the nothingness behind what is certainly an aesthetic mirage, and achieves poignancy in doing so.

While these cathartic high points are not without their own tragic value—it’s hard not to be taken in by some of the Big Easy Express concert footage—it’s important to demand more than skillful musical execution these days.

9 ere’s nothing wrong with banjo per se, but when the Head and the Heart free associates state names and sepia tones all the way to festi-val mainstages and Mumford tops

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charts with variations on an already vacuous theme, we’ve got a problem.

We’re in the second decade of the 21st century. Instead of chasing a fading, vintage-postcard sunset, we can patronize the musicians, au-thors, artists, and designers who can muster a more creative reaction to our collective condition than willing disbelief. And if we’re still going to listen to these modern day Transcen-dentalists, let’s remember how much of it is fantasy.

A8 er all, even 9 oreau had his mom do his laundry.

-Leo Shaw

clearly de6 ned as reserved for 6 rst years and sophomores. Yet by desig-nating a College House as reserved for upperclassmen (and allowing that house to limit its events to older students), the College would 6 nally acknowledge a place for upperclass-men on campus.

9 e culture of the College House system as it currently exists caters to 6 rst years, and leaves

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Homann fi nds room for students among big names in art

JEFFERY YU/BOWDOIN ORIENTA FINE ART: Curator since 2010, Joachim Homann watches over the installation of a new exhibit at the Bowdoin Museum of Art.

When Joachim Homann was hired to be the Bowdoin Art Mu-seum’s curator in 2010, he immedi-ately set one goal for himself: to pro-mote student participation.

“I want to bring together the ener-getic campus body and the amazing work here,” Homann told the Orient in 2010. “4 e Museum is not just a place for art historians. It is a place for every-one on campus.”

Over the past two and a half years, Homann has worked hard to 5 nd ways to accomplish this goal.

“I think the students here are very sophisticated and open-minded,” he said on Tuesday. “4 ey’re not afraid of the museum, and they’re willing to really dig deeper and do something. 4 ey don’t only want to digest—they want to contribute something. And that’s really amazing.”

While there was a steady stream of student-driven exhibitions before Homann arrived at Bowdoin, student shows were largely relegated to the Becker gallery—a very small space in the museum dedicated to student-and-faculty-driven exhibits. And while Homann has continued the commit-ment to student-driven exhibits, he has tried to give students more variety in what they can do.

“We are trying to get students to work on bigger shows or give them more gallery spaces,” he said. “We just try to be as 6 exible as possible.”

Currently on show at the museum is an exhibition co-curated by Ben Livingston ’13 and Ursula Moreno-VanderLaan ’13 titled “‘We Never See Anything Clearly’: John Ruskin and Landscape Painting, 1840s-1870s.” 4 e exhibit is the product of a seminar

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they both took last spring with Asso-ciate Professor of Art Pamela Fletcher. Although Fletcher had not intended for the course to result in an exhibi-tion, when only VanderLaan and Liv-ingston enrolled, she went to Homann for help. He o7 ered the idea of a stu-dent-exhibition.

“I think Ben and Ursula’s show will be reviewed by the Portland Press Her-ald and we have a press release that we wrote with our New York City adver-tising agency,” said Homann. “It’s really fun how a small project that comes out of a small class suddenly becomes a re-ally big thing. We love to be that facili-tator or catalyst for student ideas and provide them with a means to do it.”

Homann has also instituted aca-

demic year and summer internships at the museum. 4 is past summer, he and his three student-interns curated exhibits from the museum’s collection.

“4 at was one of the highlights of my work with students, and actually prompted a local donor to promise $100,000 to support student exhibi-tions at the Museum,” he said.

Today, Homann believes the mu-seum sta7 is even better equipped to work with students than it had been before his arrival. Hiring Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fel-low Sarah Montross and Curatorial Assistant Andrea Rosen expanded the resources available to students.

“We are even better prepared than in the past to work with students,” he

said. “And when students contact us, they have the possibility of talking with and engaging with people in di7 erent phases in their curatorial careers: from an M.A. to a post doc, to me who has 10 years of professional experience.”

4 ough increasing student par-ticipation at the museum has been Homann’s personal goal, his accom-plishments over the last two years ex-tend far beyond that. For the past two summers, the museum has exhibited works by Edward Hopper and Wil-liam Wegman, both high pro5 le art-ists, and the exhibits have garnered national and international attention. 4 at an art museum at a small college in Maine could produce such widely recognized shows seems surprising,

but Homann points to Bowdoin’s his-tory as an important factor.

“One of the unique aspects of work-ing here is that we are working with a collection that is over 200 years old,” said Homann. “It’s a true privilege to be able to open up these horizons for our visi-tors, for our students and faculty, and to live with these long-term persepctives. I think it helps us to see our own role in our own times di7 erently.”

Moreover, Homann believes the distinction between the academic and general audiences should not be overemphasized.

“We realize that when we do a show like the Hopper show that makes waves all over the country, the students are really excited about it and the faculty is really excited about it too—they en-gage with it in really meaningful ways,” he said. “We also have academic shows that kind of have a more specialized audience, and respond more narrowly to the academic discussion going on on campus, but these shows generate value to the general audience. 4 e lon-ger I work here, the more I realize, that this distinction between the academic community and the general communi-ty is relatively arti5 cial, and that it only gets us so far.”

In 2013, Homann hopes to make headway with two more high pro5 le exhibits: Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture, which will be on view March 26 to June 30, 2013, and Maurice Pren-dergast: By the Sea, June 29 to October 13, 2013. Homann has been interested in both artists for a long time and ea-gerly took the opportunity to exhibit their works.

“4 ese are artists that make me real-ly happy when I see their work,” he said. “I have come to realize that if some-thing makes me really happy, then it will make other people happy too.”

After stint in consulting, Ardis ’11 refocuses on painting

Only a few miles o7 campus, Isaac Ardis ’11 is doing what every Bowdoin student aspires to do a8 er graduation—pursuing what he loves.

Since graduation, a lot has changed for the burgeoning artist. A8 er work-ing brie6 y for a consulting 5 rm in Munich, Ardis decided to return to Maine and focus on painting.

He began painting during the winter of his senior year when,

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scrambling to find holiday gifts for his parents, he rediscovered his artistic side. Ardis gave his mother and original painting, and she gift-ed him a box of oil pastels and a notebook in return.

A8 er that, “there was no going back,” said Ardis.

Ardis double-majored in Math and German at Bowdoin, and was also a co-leader of Students Mentor-ing through Art (SmART).

Currently, he and his sister Julia, a writer, are living in the home of

painter Katherine Bradford.“[Bradford] is a marvelous paint-

er and someone I look up to. It is an honor to be here in her space and in her barn where she paints,” he said.

Like Ardis, Bradford did not take art classes as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr, and became a painter only a8 er college.

“I know that she has gone through what I am going through in here. To be able to share that with her is re-ally powerful,” said Ardis.

Ardis has transformed Bradford’s

barn into a mesmerizing space. Every wall, table, and open area is adorned with Ardis’ work. Each piece stands out from the others and captures your attention.

“I’m not trying to paint the ulti-mate painting when I start. I’m just trying to paint a piece of the pic-ture,” said Ardis. “And I don’t know what the whole picture is. You do it piece by piece and a space like this then has more meaning as a whole, than any one of these pieces alone.”

Ardis has also been working closely with his mentor, John Bis-bee, Bowdoin’s sculptor-in-resi-dence. It was Bisbee who connected Ardis to Bradford.

“He has had a big impact on my thinking and my working. John tells me, ‘Don’t talk about it. Don’t think about it. Just do it’,” said Ardis. “4 at’s meant a lot to me because it puts practice at the center of atten-tion, so the medium can become a second language for both thinking and talking.”

And Ardis has taken Bisbee’s advice to heart. His days involve waking up, painting all day, going back to bed, and waking up to do it all again—he says that this is ex-actly what he wants to spend his life doing.

As Ardis continues to develop his techniques, he also acknowledges how his experience with design has

in6 uenced his work.“The difference between art and

design is that design is the way to get there and approach the prob-lem. But it doesn’t tell you what the problem is or what it means or if it’s relevant,” said Ardis.

Ardis synthesizes design practices in his art by developing innovative painting techniques. For example, one of his techniques involves creat-ing a mold and layering it with paint. A8 er he removes the edges of the molds, he is le8 with blocks of paint, which he calls “paint 5 sh.”

Ardis’ medium is much more than brush on canvas. He uses anything he can 5 nd, ranging from paint chips to plastic spoons, or strings to washer rings.

“Whatever I have I try to use,” he said. “I try to never waste things.”

One of Ardis’ larger projects right now is a collaboration with his sister for a children’s book. Beyond this, he plans to “keep painting, keep making art, and keep doing what I’m doing.”

“Try to just be honest with your-self and with your piece. 4 ink as you’re doing it,” said Ardis. “It can be a struggle to keep your practice up to pace with your thinking. But for me that’s really critical because it forces you to make an authentic piece and on a good day it’s a sur-prise. I love what I do.”

CAITLIN WHALEN/BOWDOIN ORIENTARDISTIC LICENSE: Isaac Ardis ‘11 spends his days painting and experimenting with various mediums he fi nds around his Brunswick studio.

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Curtain Callers debuts fall show ‘Urinetown’

This Friday, Bowdoin’s musical theater group Curtain Callers will open its fall production, “Urinet-own,” a satirical musical directed by Erin Fitzpatrick ’15.

“Urinetown” takes place in a dystopian society ravaged by a drought that vastly limits the water supply. To conserve water, townspeople must pay to use pub-lic toilets owned by Urine Good Company, run by evil corporate magnate Caldwell B. Cladwell (Trevor Murray ’16). Strict laws prevent people from peeing any-where else, and violators are sent to a mysterious place called Uri-netown and are never seen again. The plot begins when rising toi-let fees prompt urinal custodian Bobby Strong (Chris Genco ’15) to challenge the laws.

The musical uses comedy and satire to address themes of capital-ism, environmentalism and revo-lution, but also explores more per-sonal messages.

“All of the characters realize they have to follow their hearts. They want to believe in what they be-lieve in instead of being controlled by one person,” said Adrienne White ’15, who plays Cladwell’s daughter Hope.

According to Fitzpatrick, Cur-tain Callers, a musical theater group formed three years ago, is essential to the college community because music adds an element that cannot be reproduced in other types of theater.

“People break out into music be-cause words alone cannot express what they’re feeling,” she said.

The decision to perform “Uri-netown” was based on the practi-cality and novelty of the material. Curtain Callers is a small group and it was important that mem-bers could serve multiple roles in

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the production.“The board members are also

performing in the show,” said Fitzpatrick, who, in addition to directing, is performing the role of Little Sally.

While the absurd premise of the story is original in itself, the play surprises the audience by breaking the fourth wall to directly address viewers. Officer Lockstock, played by Connor Handy ’13, co-narrates the play along with Little Sally.

“I’m constantly breaking the fourth wall. We have dialogue, just the two of us, kind of sprinkled throughout the show that inter-rupts the plot itself,” said Handy. “We speak to the audience, and it’s like a pause in the show.”

In addition, the musical num-bers echo famous moments in oth-er musicals.

“It pokes fun at a bunch of clas-sic musicals, such as Chicago, West Side Story, and Les Misérables,” said Handy. “It takes musical in-spiration from all of those shows. In each song you can hear a tint of a different musical.”

Curtain Callers is largely made up of 5 rst years and sophomores, many of whom have very limited experience with musical theater. In fact, though Genco plays the lead role, he has never before been in a musical.

“It’s been an overwhelming process, and it’s very new to me,” said Genco.

6 e small size of the group has pre-sented some di7 culties in production. 6 e lack of male chorus members, for example, has made portraying the townspeople a challenge.

Despite these challenges, the small cast size has its benefits too.

“It seems like a very tight-knit group. It’s obviously very stressful, but rehearsals are always a ton of fun,” said Murray.

“Urinetown” will be performed on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.

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Women’s soccer makes fi rst NCAA second round since ’99

4 is past weekend, the women’s soc-cer team ended its season in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

4 e Polar Bears advanced to the second round of the tournament the 5 rst time since 1999, but the 24th seeded Bears were unable to secure a win against the favored sixth-seeded Ithaca Bombers. 4 e loss brought their season to a close with an 11-4-4 record, a solid improvement over last year’s 6-6-3 record.

4 e 5 rst of the weekend’s match-ups was a close game in Ithaca, NY against Scranton that was ultimately decided by penalty kicks, the team’s third consecutive game decided that way. Bowdoin edged Scranton 5-3 in the shootout a6 er a 0-0 tie, continu-ing on to the next round of the NCAA Tournament for the 5 rst time in over a decade. Freshman goalkeeper Bridget McCarthy was instrumental in the team’s shutout, keeping seven attempts out of the net throughout the game.

4 e following day, Bowdoin lost 2-1 to the Ithaca Bombers, a team with an impressive 19-1-2 record. 4 e Polar Bears’ 5 rst goal came in the 27th min-ute of play a6 er lead goal-scorer Jamie Hofstetter ’16 fed sophomore Abby Einwag down the line, where Einwag headed in the low ball for the 5 rst goal of the game.

Men’s cross country heads to championships

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The men’s cross country team earned second place at the New England D-III Championship this weekend, the team’s best outcome

since 2006. Juniors Coby Horowitz and Sam Seekins finished in first and second place respectively, the first one-two finish the Polar Bears have seen in the tournament.

At the 4.6 mile mark, Horowitz and Seekins surged ahead of the lead pack of runners, with just one runner from Middlebury managing to stay alongside them.

Horowitz was able to maintain a slight lead for the last 200 meters of

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The volleyball team ended its historic season last Sunday with a 3-2 loss to UMass Boston in the third round of the NCAA tourna-ment.

The team’s record this season of 28-5 had the most wins in program history, and this year marked the first time that Bowdoin made it to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament.

The Polar Bears began the tour-nament last Friday night at Con-necticut College with a command-ing 3-0 sweep of Emerson College. Bowdoin was in control the entire match, dispatching Emerson easily with set scores of 25-21, 25-16 and 25-20.

Christy Jewett ’16 led the team offensively with ten kills and three aces. Ellie Brennan ’14 made im-portant offensive and defensive contributions with nine kills, while setter Sophia Cornew ’14 notched 31 assists.

The match against Emerson propelled Bowdoin to the second round where the team faced rival Springfield College for the second time this year. The two teams’ first meeting on September 21 ended in a 3-1 Springfield win, Bowdoin’s only non-NESCAC loss of the reg-ular season.

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4 e Polar Bears carried this lead into the intermission, but lost it about 15 minutes into the second half, when the Bombers also scored o7 a header to tie the game 1-1.

Despite a 8 urry of shots from Bowdoin, only Ithaca was able to con-vert. 4 ey eventually brought the score to 2-1 with a hard shot that caused Mc-Carthy to fumble the ball, which fell and bounced between her legs over the goal line.

Ithaca will move on to the third round of the tournament against Misercordia this weekend, while Bow-doin’s season comes to a close. 4 is marks the end of the 5 rst season under the leadership of 5 rst-year Head Coach Brianne Weaver, who took the place of Maren Rojas a6 er Rojas resigned from the team over the summer.

Despite the loss on Sunday and the end of the season, sophomore Abby Einwag, who scored two important goals during the NCAA Tournament, feels this season has been extraordi-narily successful.

“I am very pleased with this year,” she said. “When comparing this year to last, the biggest change is the dynamic of the team. When we had no coach [over the summer] everyone stepped up and played a bigger part. We had to come together and 5 gure it out on our own.”

Einwag also emphasizes that the team will only get better.

“We can do even better next year,” began Einwag. “If we keep up the hard work in the o7 season and everyone does their part, then we will have a good opportunity to go far next year.”

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Field hockey loses 2-1 to Tufts in NCAA Elite Eight

For only the second time in eight years, the 5 eld hockey team was blocked from the NCAA D-III Final Four last weekend.

A 2-1 defeat to NESCAC rival Tu6 s ended Bowdoin’s tournament run, sending the Jumbos into the NCAA semi5 nals instead.

A6 er toppling New Paltz State in the 5 rst round, the Polar Bears jour-neyed to William Smith College to face MIT in the second round of the national tournament.

4 e Polar Bears ended the Engi-neers’ season with a 3-1 victory and continued on to face Tu6 s the fol-lowing day.

Bowdoin’s back-to-back NCAA contests pitted the team against fa-miliar opponents; 5 eld hockey de-feated MIT in the tournament last year, and had met Tu6 s twice before with their current roster.

This prior experience helped Head Coach Nicky Pearson and her team prepare for the tough weekend.

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Pearson says she was well aware of MIT’s talent headed into their game.

“We knew they had a small pass-ing game and they also look for some longer diagonal passes, so it was important that our positioning and defense angles were correct,” Pearson said.

4 e Polar Bears’ notoriously staunch defense did just as Pearson hoped, limiting the Engineers to just four shots while allowing the o7 ense to continually create opportunities, resulting in 24 Polar Bear shots.

Bowdoin’s 5 rst successful o7 en-sive opportunity came from a cor-ner play started by a shot by Brooke Phinney ’13 and 5 nished by Cath-leen Smith ’13.

MIT answered when Molly Du7 y managed to breakaway and skirt the ball past goalkeeper Kayla Lessard ’13 to tie the game at 1-1.

Bowdoin regained the lead at the end of the 5 rst half from another penalty corner. Phinney executed the shot spurred from a set up by Kassey Matoin ’13 and Katie Riley ’13.

Colleen Finnerty ’15 secured the second round victory with a goal as-sisted by Riley.

Unfortunately, prior knowledge was not enough to push the Polar

last Saturday afternoon with a 3-2 comeback over Springfield. Bowdoin was down 2-0 after los-ing both of the first two sets 25-21, but came from behind in the third to win 25-22. This momentum carried the team forward into the fourth where Bowdoin won 25-20, setting the stage for a climac-

the race. “Coby’s got the best intuition for

how to play out a race,” said Head Coach Peter Slovenski. “He ran with the lead pack in the third and fourth miles, but he had a lot of in-fluence on how they ran those miles to set up when he wanted to kick. It was a fantastic kick, because the Middlebury runner is a very fast 800 runner, and the race set him up for his great finish too.”

Seekins ran neck-and-neck with the Middlebury runner until the very last 20 meters of the race, when he pulled ahead into second place. All three runners crossed the finish line within the same second.

According to Slovenski, Seekins has made amazing improvements this season in his running tech-nique how he ends his races.

“He was always as strong as a horse, but now he’s got more sprint speed,” Slovenski said.

Because of the second place finish, the Polar Bears earned an automatic bid to the NCAA D-III Cross Country Championship this weekend.

“The New England region is re-ally stacked this year,” said Sloven-ski. “To have our top runners win the race, and to have our number five runner finish only 61 seconds later was a great team performance. These guys work so well together, and they never quit.”

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ONE-TWO PUNCH: Juniors Coby Horowitz (left) and Sam Seekins (right) fi nished in fi rst and second place in the New England D-III Championships, and are set to race against the rest of D-III this weekend.

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DIGGING DEEP: Hilary Cederna ’13 digs a UMass Boston hit in the team’s regional loss on Sunday.

tic fifth set. The set began with an early Springfield lead, but a sus-tained Polar Bear run resulted in a 15-7 win, securing the match for Bowdoin and taking the team to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

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Last year’s male athlete of the season, junior cross-coun-try phenom Coby Horowitz, is in the midst of another re-markable season, that has es-tablished him as one of the best runners in Bowdoin history.

Horowitz finished first at the Maine State Meet on Oc-tober 13, the NESCAC Cham-pionship on October 27 and the New England D-III Cross Country Championship.

Horowitz is the first Bowdoin runner in 12 years to win the NESCAC, a conference widely considered the second strongest in D-III.

Head Coach Peter Slovenski, who has coached over 50 All-Americans during his 27-year tenure, places Coby atop all other Polar Bear cross-country runners.

“Coby’s the best runner on the men’s side. We are very lucky he chose to run at Bowdoin,” said Slovenski.

“Coby gets great places in the big meets,” he continued. “He knows how to prepare in the big meets. In the races, he makes such great moves and has such incredible courage in the final stretches.”

Nobody has witnessed the junior star’s race strategy and poise more closely than team-

BY BERNIE CLEVENSSTAFF WRITER

! e Orient chooses the male and female Athlete of the Season based on exemplary performance and commitment to their programs. ! e winners are selected by the sports

editor.

Outside hitter Melissa Haskell ’13 supplied talent and drive in her best season yet, leading the volleyball team to the NCAA D-III Sweet Sixteen for the first time in school his-tory.

Led by Haskell’s 2.84 kills and 2.99 digs per set, the Polar Bears earned a 28-5 season re-cord, posting the most wins in the team’s history by beating their 27-3 performance from the previous year.

With Haskell finishing her collegiate career, the team is losing their kill leader and most reliable offensive threat.

“If you look at her statistics over four years, she has 250 kills and digs each season,” Head Coach Karen Corey said. “Having that consistency is something we will miss.”

In her career, Haskell eclipsed 1,000 kills and digs, becoming only the second player in the team’s history to accomplish this feat.

“You always knew what to

Coach of the Season: Weaver turns around women’s soccer

After her team’s strong showing in the NCAA tournament, wom-en’s soccer coach Brianne Weaver has made a strong impression in her first year at Bowdoin.

Weaver, who left her alma ma-ter, St. Mary’s College in Mary-land, to coach the Polar Bears, has developed a midfield-based attack on a 4-4-2 formation. The team had run a 4-3-3 be-fore, like much of their com-petition, but Weaver felt the shift would be more conducive to the current roster, which lost its leading scorer last year. The 4-4-2 features four midfielders instead of the usual three, at the cost of an additional forward.

This new approach allowed many different players to par-ticipate in offensive production, particularly early in games, when opposing teams struggled with Bowdoin’s new look.

“I don’t think we had anyone on the roster without a single point,” Weaver said of the new offense. “It made it very difficult for op-ponents because they couldn’t just mark one player.”

Captain Toni DaCampo ’13 not-ed the impact Coach Weaver and her new offensive strategry had on the team’s confidence.

“She is a very positive coach and she definitely raised the con-fidence of the team quite a bit,” she said.

The result was a team confident in its ability to hold the ball and attack mismatches with precision.

Coach Weaver’s first experience with Bowdoin came on a visit ten

years ago, where she said she was “struck by the community and the spirit of the people on campus.”

The heart of Coach Weaver’s style is letting the players take con-trol of the program.

“She let the team come to many of our own decisions and was very flexible,” DaCampo added.

“I like to think I’m a positive coach,” Weaver said of herself. “I try to find the strengths within my players. There are a lot of les-sons that can be taught through the game. I like to say we’re a co-curricular activity rather than an extracurricular activity.”

While Weaver was brought to Bowdoin by former Athletic Di-rector Jeff Ward, interim Director Tim Ryan remembers serving on the search committee whose pur-

pose it was to measure each candidate’s abil-ity to fit in with the school. The committee re-ferred its find-ings to Ward, with input from the team’s cap-tains, who then passed that on to the Dean of

Student Affairs, Tim Foster. “It was clear from the interview

process, that [Weaver] cares deeply for her athletes and their entire ex-perience beyond just soccer,” Ryan said. “One of the important things we look for is interest in students away from athletics and she’s been a fixture at events across campus in the short time she has been here.”

Despite her early success, Coach Weaver emphasizes how lucky she is to have the taken over the team that she did. She says she believes the youth and complimentary per-sonalities of the current Bowdoin squad and the lack of serious in-juries were integral to the team’s decade-best success this year.

She was also thankful that the College has offered a supportive environment for new coaches.

“It’s a great environment,” she said, “I’m surrounded by success-ful programs and I have confi-dence in the support network. We have a lot of fan support… It was a special year. You know as a coach that these years don’t come around all the time.”

BY ALEX VASILESTAFF WRITER

Athletics: education keeps concussion numbers steady

The number of concussions sus-tained by athletes at the College have remained steady this year.

According to Interim Athletic Director Tim Ryan, the College has not seen a noticeable increase in the number of concussions, though there has been a slight up-tick this fall.

“It’s probably a function of two things,” said Ryan. “We have in-creased education and we have an increased number of participants in our contact sports.”

However, the athletic depart-ment declined to provide a specific

ATHLETES OF THE SEASONMelissa Haskell ’13

“Her leadership refl ected her ability to keep a level-head-edness about all challenges

we faced as a team.” SOPHIA CORNEW ’14

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

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Coby Horowitz ’14

expect from Melissa,” said co-captain Tory Edelman. “It was a very comforting quality to have when you aren’t worried about her play on the court.”

Haskell’s poise stems from her experience on the court. She started since her first year and became a dependable player and leader.

Junior setter Sophia Cornew emphasized the calm demeanor that Haskell provides on the court.

“Mel was an even keel for the team and her leadership re-flected her ability to keep a lev-el-headedness about all chal-

lenges we faced as a team,” she said.

In addition to supplying production and leadership on the court, Haskell also pro-vided her teammates with a model of the successful stu-dent-athlete.

A physics major at Bowdoin, Haskell has a 3.79 cumulative GPA, is a Sarah and James Bowdoin scholar and a two-time Academic All-American. Recently, she was named the Capital One Academic All-District honoree. The D-III Academic-All American team is released on Tuesday, De-cember 11.

Haskell says the key to bal-ancing athletics and academ-ics is “just trying to focus on one thing at a time and not worry about the two things at once.” She continues with the following advice: “Don’t watch too many YouTube videos.”

“She is a Bowdoin physics major, working on an hon-ors project between MIT and Mass General,” said Corey, praising her academic com-mitment. “Whether she is in the classroom or on the court, she is very analytical.”

Haskins explains, in jest: “I am a total science geek.”

She says she plans to pursue graduate school next year and will keep track of Bowdoin volleyball next season.

BY ANDREW PARKORIENT STAFF

number of concussions that have occurred so far this year.

Last fall, the Orient reported that 25 students had sustained concussions as of November 2011, down from 39 in 2010.

Since instituting a second side-line test a few years ago, the Col-lege’s protocol regarding testing, diagnosis, treatment and return has not been altered.

The major focus has been edu-cating athletes about concussions.

The result has been an increase in the number of potential concus-sion reporting even if the final di-agnosis is otherwise.

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mate Sam Seekins ’14, who fin-ished a mere nine hundredths of a second behind Horowitz this past weekend.

“When he’s ready to go, he just goes ahead and makes the push,” said Seekins. “I don’t think Coby gets rattled.”

Seekins attributes his own success in part to training with Horowitz.

“As a teammate, he pushes peo-ple so hard. I can’t see myself as training so hard or wanting to win as much without Coby,” he says. “His attitude is infectious.”

Marcus Schneider, the lone se-nior on the varsity seven, said: “The unique thing about Coby’s training is the way he can keep everything lighthearted and fun even during intense workouts or arduous training drills.”

Horowitz expects this season’s intense training sessions to pay off this weekend in the NCAA D-III

Championships this Saturday. “A win would be nice,” he

said. “Anywhere in the top five I’d be happy.”

When asked about the field of competitors, he quietly took out his iPhone, scrolled through the notes application, and rattled off a number of favorites, emphasizing one in particular.

“Tim Nelson from Wiscon-sin Stout. He won the 5K in-doors at nationals and the 10K at both. Everyone has been picking him as the favorite since the first week. I’m going to be looking for him.”

On Wednesday, Horowitz was named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Associa-tion Division III New England Athlete of the Year. But even this distinction does not take the target off Nelson’s back heading into the weekend.

JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“Coby’s the best runner on the men’s side. We are very

lucky he chose to run at Bowdoin.”

PETER SLOVENSKIHEAD COACH OF CROSS COUNTRY

JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“It was clear from the interview process, that [Weaver] cares deeply

for her athletes and their entire experience beyond just soccer.”

Tim RyanInterim Director of Athletics

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Women’s ice hockey starts year with new assistant coach

SEASON PREVIEW

Men’s ice hockey set to face Williams and Middlebury

Swim team heads to Boston for fi rst meet of the season

Men’s basketball has new look after losing top two scorers

The men’s basketball team will open its 2012-2013 season with a matchup against Clark University on Friday in the first of two games in the Eastern Connecticut Tip-Off Tournament.

Coming off a 17-8 season and a fifth-place finish in the NESCAC, the Polar Bears could have a tough time replacing graduates Will Hanley and Ryan O’Connell, last season’s leading scorers.

“Last year we ran a lot of stuff through Will,” said Head Coach Tim Gilbride, now in his 28th sea-son as Bowdoin’s head coach. “He had different sets to get him the ball, and then we worked things off of that. This year we’re going to run our stuff and see what gets us the best opportunity against differ-ent teams.”

The team has only had two weeks of practice to prepare for the season. They have spent much of their time in the gym working on their man-to-man defense, hoping that it will catalyze into an effective transition offense that can capital-ize on rebounds and takeaways to garner scoring opportunities.

“We’re going to be a team that works extremely hard on the de-fensive end and tries to get a lot of fast break opportunities from that,” said captain Max Staiger ’13. “While we could easily settle into a half-court offense, I think we’d much rather play an up-tempo, up and down type of game.”

When they are in offensive sets, the Polar Bears will use a newly-instituted motion offense to try and utilize their strengths.

“We’re more focused on getting the ball inside. We’re going to be a lot bigger than most of the teams we play,” said captain Nick Lenker ’13. “Our new style of offense is going to open up a lot of oppor-tunities for different people to be scoring. Once the games come, then we’ll be able to see who steps up.”

Lenker and Staiger will be joined inside by John Swords ’15, while outside shooters Andrew Madlinger ’14 and Matt Mathias ’14 will look to take advantage of collapsing defenses. Slasher Keegan Pieri ’15, Hanley’s backup last year, will also act as a key con-tributor. Bryan Hurley ’15 will or-chestrate the offense.

“[Hurley] will definitely be the floor general,” said Gilbride. “I’ll be counting on him to make sure that we are executing well and get-ting the ball to people we want to get it to at particular times. He’s pretty good at that and got a lot of experience last year, so he should take another step.”

While teams such as Wesleyan and Amherst are early favorites this year, the NESCAC is known for upsets every season.

“Anybody can beat anybody in this league and you probably won’t know until February what the standings will be like at the end of the season,” said Staiger.

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Women’s basketball kicks o! season with fi ve new starters

on last year’s successes. The team has steadily improved

during Head Coach Marissa O’Neil’s tenure and is getting ready to make strides toward the NES-CAC playoffs.

“This is my third year here, so everyone is more comfortable with our system of play,” she said.

O’Neil’s coaching style involves an aggressive and fast-paced game that forces the opposition to keep up.

She explained that she wants Bowdoin to set the tempo of each game from the start.

“We want to be a team with a target on our back. We want to be known in the conference as the team that gives their best every game,” she said.

“We’ve returned a really solid group. Our scoring is back, and we have returned two goalies who played a majority of last season. Also, we have many young players who can contribute,” O’Neil added.

This season, the team welcomes Assistant Coach Holly Lorms. Hired this past spring, Lorms played D-I ice hockey at Boston University (BU). As the captain in 2010-2011, she led the squad to a second place finish in the NCAA tournament and was voted as the top defensive forward in her divi-sion. She also received BU’s John B. Simpson Award for leadership her senior year.

Lorm captained BU’s 2010-2011 squad to a second-place finish in the 2011 NCAA tournament.

She came highly recommended by many coaches and will assist Coach O’Neil in all facets of the game. O’Neil said she hopes Lorm’s athletic background and experi-ence will greatly benefit the team.

“She has been a part of good hockey teams, is a very knowl-edgeable and articulate coach and, most importantly, has the team’s respect,” O’Neil said.

Seniors Kayte Holtz and Stepha-nie Ludy will be the captains this season. However, O’Neil said all of the seniors will set the tone for the season.

“No days are overlooked because you don’t want to leave the season with regrets. It’s not just our cap-tains leading, it’s all the upper-classmen,” said O’Neil.

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son this weekend, when they will face both MIT and Babson. Head Coach Brad Burnham said that the forecast for this season is un-predictable.

“We’ve got a lot of talented kids, but since we just got started last week, we really have no idea how we’ll perform. We’ll find out a lot after this weekend,” Burnham said.

Last year, the Polar Bears per-formed well throughout the sea-son and were able to send multi-ple swimmers to the NCAA D-III tournament.

“We finished in the top half of the conference. There were plenty of best times, which is really what we strive for,” said Burnham.

Despite coming off a relatively strong season, Burnham said he is hesitant to set goals so early in the season. The number of first-year recruits and juniors studying abroad could make for an uncer-tain start to the season, according to him.

“We don’t start to talk team goals until winter break, once everyone’s back from abroad, but right now, we haven’t discussed specific team goals,” Burnham explained.

Burnham said the first years have a lot of potential this season, although he acknowledged that they have a lot of work to do be-fore they’re ready to compete ef-fectively.

“They look like they know how to swim, but they don’t know how to turn, and they don’t really know how to start, so we’ve been work-ing on those things,” Burnham said. “But they do have a good feel for the water, and there’s a lot of talent.”

Burnham said that the team will face some significant challenges in the NESCAC, but he expressed confidence in his team’s potential for success.

“The competition gets tougher every year, and each of the teams gets faster each season,” he said. “However, at this point, we have a lot of returning swimmers who are striving to perform better. Over-all, I think we have a pretty solid team.”

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mentoring and leading these younger players,” said Shibles. “Forward Anna Proll ’14 is also a captain, and she is helping the bigger players on the team come along.”

One major disappointment is the injury of point guardAllie Piscina ’14, just one of the challenges the Po-lar Bears will have to overcome. 6 e team began practicing on November, but will face teams that have been able to practice together since Octo-ber 15.

“Only having two weeks of prac-tice with a very young team is ex-tremely hard, but based on what I saw at Monday’s scrimmage [versus Bates] I feel really good about this team,” said Shibles.

What the team may lack in experi-ence, it has so far made up for in mo-tivation, re7 ected in the scrimmage against Bates as well as an alumni scrimmage last weekend.

“I already like the coach-ability and the resilience of this team. As expected with a young team, there were some really high points and then there were some things that we clearly need to work on, but I like how they responded in moments of adversity,” said Shibles.

6 e team will face tough com-petition right from the 8 rst round today—Rhode Island College was a NCAA Sweet Sixteen team last year.

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“6 is is by far the shortest amount of time we have had before our 8 rst game, but we have really come to-gether as a team in preseason to put ourselves in a great position,” said senior captain Daniel Weini-ger. “We have balanced conditioning and team work extremely well and I know that we will be ready come game time this weekend.”

Head Coach Terry Meagher agreed.

“The things you can really con-trol is your attitude, your pre-season, your work ethic and your commitment to group and a play-ing structure. I’m very pleased with how we are in those areas,” said Meagher. “Arguably I think we have two of the best captains we’ve ever had here, they pay attention to what they have to control while still producing at a high level.”

This year’s team includes many veteran players and will look to im-prove on last year’s performance.

“I think the major difference is the overall hunger and desire to win of this team,” said senior cap-tain Tim McGarry. “The majority of our lineup is made up of return-ing players that know their way around our system and were dis-appointed by our semifinal exit in last years playoffs.”

“We are going to outwork teams with our ‘Hot N Spicy’ style of play that requires a hard work ethic and supreme conditioning,” said Weiniger.

The team will need to come out sharp this weekend if it hopes to start off the season on a good foot.

Friday’s game against Williams “is not the ideal way to begin the season, but it will be a ‘trial by fire’ type of situation that will ultimate-ly bring the team closer together,” said McGarry. “All in all, after two weeks of playing against each oth-er, we are ready to see a different colored jersey across from us and find out what we’re made of.”

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The men’s hockey team will open the season with two home games against perennial power-houses Williams and Middlebury this season.

The Polar Bears will face off against the Ephs on Friday night. Williams exited the NESCAC tour-nament in the semi-finals last year after losing to Amherst, the even-tual champion.

Bowdoin will then face Middle-bury on Saturday. The Panthers defeated the Polar Bears last year in the NESCAC semi-final before losing to Amherst in the final.

The team has had a shorter pre-season than usual to prepare for the games.

With only one returning starter, the women’s basketball team will debut its new squad today against Rhode Is-land College in the 8 rst round of the Babson Tip-O9 Tournament.

6 e team graduated 8 ve seniors last year, including four starters and All-American Jill Henrikson. 6 e bulk of the team consists of 8 rst years and sophomores. 6 ere is one senior and three juniors, with one junior currently injured. Despite the rela-tive inexperience of the team, Head Coach Adrienne Shibles said she ex-pects her younger players to step up and make an immediate impact.

“We’re going to have to rely on a lot of younger players who have had little to no experience playing in NE-SCAC games,” said Shibles.

While the team is young, Shibles cited strong leadership from the few upperclassmen.

6 e only senior is point guard and captain Kaitlin Donahoe.

“She is an exceptional leader on the court. She has been very helpful in

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GROUP EFFORT: The women’s soccer team gathers together after the team’s 2-1 loss to the Ithaca Bombers in the third round of the NCAA D-III tournament.

After a heartbreaking loss to Amherst in the NESCAC semi-finals last year, the women’s ice hockey team is gearing up to build

The men and women’s swim-ming and diving teams will com-pete in their first meet of the sea-

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Women’s cross country takes 11th in New England

The women’s cross country team met stiff competition at the New England Championship this weekend, coming in 11th out of 51 teams.

Despite the odds, Madelena Rizzo ’14 managed to finish 22nd, crossing the line with a fast-enough time to join the All-New England team for the second year in a row.

According to Coach Peter Slov-enski, this race was particularly tough, and Rizzo showed incred-ible poise in her performance.

Olivia Mackenzie ’13 faced an unprecedented obstacle during the race. Impressively, she was in 12th place at the 4000 meter mark,

BY RACHEL GLADSTONESTAFF WRITER

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two-thirds of the way through the race. In the next 1000 meters, she began to feel light-headed and lost three places. In the final 400 me-ters, Mackenzie was beginning to pass out and had to break her pace to finish, coming in as Bowdoin’s second runner, at 57th place.

“For four years Olivia always came through for the cross-coun-try team. She’s so tough that she kept running even after she had basically passed out, and finished as our team’s second runner. It was an incredibly courageous finish,” said Slovenski.

Adding to her notable first-year season, Lucy Skinner finished as Bowdoin’s third runner, in 68th

place. First year Gina Stalica fin-ished as Bowdoin’s fourth runner.

Following up with her success at the NESCAC Championship, Bren-na Fischer ’15 finished in the top five in this race, moving up from her usual position as the team’s seventh or eighth fastest runner.

NESCAC Standings

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v. Williams v. Middlebury

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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRYSa 11/17 NCAA D-III Championship

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Bears past Tu4 s the following day, though the previous matchups did help explain the tight competition.

Pearson said corners were an area where she felt that the team fell short.

“In the two previous meetings it really came down to executing of-fensive opportunities, particularly corners,” she said.

5 e decisive battle was played pre-dominately in the mid6 eld, where both teams vied for control, though neither managed many dangerous opportunities.

In the 6 rst half, Bowdoin was the lone team on the board a4 er Lauren Shroeder ’14 6 nished on an attempt from Riley.

Late in the second half, Tu4 s capi-talized on a corner to tie the game, and in the 6 nal minutes of competi-tion the Jumbos rebounded yet an-other corner to secure a spot in the Final Four.

5 e close game was telling of both teams’ “goo defensive layers” and ability to thwart breakaways, said Pearson.

5 ough the close loss against Tu4 s was disappointing, Pearson in-sists on her team’s enduring success and achievements throughout their 16-4 season.

5 e Polar Bears see the defensive gap that the 6 ve graduating seniors will leave and eagerly look to refocus and rebuild that unit for their next season.

cial offensive and defensive contri-butions with 19 kills and 10 digs, while Tory Edelman ’13 was not far behind with 17 kills. Cornew racked up 55 assists in the win while libero Taylor Vail ’14 led the team defensively with 20 digs.

The third round of the tourna-ment saw Bowdoin fall to UMass Boston in a fiercely fought 3-2 defeat, reminiscent of the team’s second-round loss to UMass in the tournament last year.

The Polar Bears lost the first set 25-14 before coming back in the second with a 25-18 win. UMass retook control in the third pick-ing up the set 25-22, and domi-nated the fourth, beating UMass 25-12. The fifth set was a close battle, with both teams fighting for the lead for five points before a two point run gave UMass a 15-13 win, sending UMass Boston to Hope College in Holland, Michi-gan for the NCAA Elite Eight this weekend.

Bowdoin’s three graduating se-niors all made important contri-butions in their last match, with

“When you educate people tend to report more and that’s what we want. People don’t realize that a concussion can develop in many ways. It’s not just when you get knocked out or have a loss of con-sciousness,” said Head Trainer Dan Davies.

All athletes are required to at-tend a seminar at the beginning of the year in which they are shown a presentation about concussions and attend a panel discussion with Davies, current students and alums who suffered concussions, and various members of the ad-ministration.

The College has also invested funding into purchasing the very latest equipment to protect its athletes. Riddell Speed Helmets are worn by the members of the football team and are rated as the best helmets for protecting against head trauma.

Despite all the equipment, tests and education, stories like the one experienced by Steve Buduo ’14 show that in the end, a large part of prevention is still up to individual athletes.

Buduo, who was recruited to play football and baseball for the College, sustained at least two con-cussions in high school.

He was cleared to play for Bowdoin, but at a Friday practice early in his first football season as

COURTESY OF KEVIN COLTON

DOWN AND OUT: Lauren Schroeder ’14 waits for the ball to drop before aiming at the Tufts goal. Bowdoin lost to Tufts 2-1 in the Elite Eight, only their second time kept out of the Final Four in the last 8 years.

a first year, he suffered a concus-sion.

“I didn’t think it was a serious thing. I had a headache, was tired, but nothing out of the ordinary. And as a football player, as an ath-lete, you sort of push through,” said Buduo. “If I hadn’t gone back Saturday, I probably would’ve been okay in a few weeks.”

After suffering a second concus-sion in practice, Buduo explained that Davies called him over, notic-ing something was wrong.

Buduo was diagnosed with Sec-ond Impact Syndrome (SIS), a rapid and dangerous swelling of the brain caused by the impact of a second concussion before the symptoms of an earlier one sub-side.

After taking a leave of absence, Buduo returned to Bowdoin with challenges that he says were made far easier by the College.

“They were really supportive of me and didn’t push me back too quickly. They got me a lot of help with tutors, seeing a coun-selor and a neurologist regular-ly,” said Buduo.

According to Buduo, it took him nearly eight months before he was symptom free. He no lon-ger plays football or baseball nor will he be able to for the foresee-able future.

“People need to speak up when something’s wrong. You can’t see a concussion like a broken leg or an arm. Only you know and you only get one brain,” he said.

Edelman collecting 14 kills, Hil-ary Cederna ’13 racking up eight kills and 13 digs, and Haskell notching seven kills and 15 digs. Vail led the team defensively with 27 digs.

After the weekend’s final match, Edelman and Cornew were both named to the All-Regional Team, while Haskell was named a Capital One Academic All-District Hon-oree. This distinction puts Haskell in the running to be named to the Division III Academic All Ameri-can team, announced on Decem-ber 11.

“I was really happy with the way the team played this weekend, par-ticularly against Springfield,” said Haskell about the match. “We en-countered tougher-than-expected defense from UMass but I think we still made a good showing. The thing about NCAA’s is that it’s hard to end your career on a high note but I’m really proud of our team and I’m struggling to comprehend life after volleyball.”

Her fellow captain Edelman echoed this sentiment: “While we ended the season with a heart-breaking loss, overall, we did so well, and I am happy that I was able to be a part of it.”

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Let’s talk turkeyIn a letter to the editor published in the October 12 issue of the Orient, seven profes-

sors voiced their concern over a growing chorus of complaints regarding the work load of college faculty. 4 e letter explained that faculty engagement at Bowdoin extends far beyond class time and o5 ce hours; professors serve on administrative committees and are expected to actively participate in their areas of study by publishing their research.

We are immensely grateful to the faculty of the College and are thankful for the high level of scholarly achievement and intellectual rigor that de6 nes a Bowdoin education. Faculty come to our small college for more than its academic reputation and resources; they come to work closely with undergraduates who are just discovering their academic passions. 4 is is touted in Bowdoin’s promotional literature and by our tour guides, but it is an important reality that bears repeating here. Our professors are deeply committed to our learning and growth; we see this in their willingness to schedule meetings outside of regular o5 ce hours, to guide us through papers and lab reports, and to wholeheartedly support our independent projects, however aspirational they may be.

We are lucky to spend four years studying with scholars so invested in balancing our academic success with their own research pursuits. High-caliber faculty research enhanc-es the College’s reputation, but more importantly, it enriches the hours that pass inside Bowdoin’s classrooms. We support our professors in their research endeavors and profes-sional development; but at an undergraduate institution like Bowdoin, we must balance the needs of faculty and students, even when they are seemingly at odds.

Last year, the faculty shot down a proposal to extend 4 anksgiving Break to a full week in a 47 to 28 vote. As major concerns, they cited lost class time—particularly for science, language, and music courses—and the worry that a full week o7 would be too great a disruption to the semester. While we acknowledge that these are valid objections, we urge the faculty to seriously consider ways in which these issues could be easily rem-edied. 4 ough a week-long hiatus could potentially break up the 8 ow of the semester, it is important to note that 4 anksgiving Break falls in the 6 nal weeks of the term, when the lion’s share of graded assignments and exams are scheduled. Bowdoin students no-toriously take their studies seriously, and the two extra days of vacation would allow us more time to prepare and rest up for 6 nals. 4 e lost class time could be recouped either by shortening Fall Break or, as was proposed this semester, by beginning the school year two days early.

4 e initiative to extend 4 anksgiving Break has the support of an overwhelming ma-jority of students, many of whom cannot justify the travel cost of a short 6 ve-day trip home for the holiday. Last week, the Bowdoin Student Government Executive Commit-tee wrote a Letter to the Editor urging students to join them in pressuring the faculty to reconsider the calendar switch. Last year, 94 percent of students said they supported extending the break.

In their letter to the Orient, the Bowdoin professors encouraged students to recognize the extent of their responsibilities and obligations outside of classroom teaching. In ask-ing for serious consideration of an extended 4 anksgiving break, we feel we are doing the same. Students at the College are serious about academics, but they are also com-mitted to their families who live far away and to hometown friends who they don’t o9 en see. We think we could all bene6 t from a more complete understanding of each other’s responsibilities.

Lets go back to the drawing board—it’s time to talk turkey.

This past Wednesday, a small but excited contingent of Bowdoin students made the trip to Portland for 350.org’s Do The Math tour, an initiative to spur environ-mental activism.

To readers who might be turned away by the premise of the event, I admit that I, too, was a bit skepti-cal at first.

I fully expected Bill McKibben, the keynote speaker (and Middle-bury professor), to get on stage and beat us over the head with guilt. Don’t get me wrong, there was plenty of guilt tripping, as well as thorough reminding that anthropogenic climate change is real, dangerous, and getting worse.

But that’s not what the rally was all about. It was much more pow-erful. It was about reconsidering what matters to us, because this business-as-usual course of action isn’t really a course of action at all. We know where that path leads, and anyone can tell you we don’t want to take it.

The power wasn’t in the ac-knowledgement that we are dan-gerously addicted to fossil fuels, or that companies thrive off of the status quo.

For me, it came in the fact that in seven cities already, includ-ing Portland, this tour has sold out, and venues much larger than State Theater have been packed. Seattle’s mayor has promised to seek all possible methods to di-vest as quickly as possible, and our

neighbors at Unity College have already taken that step. For me, it was a very real reminder that cli-mate change is not a lost cause, and that I’m not alone in this belief. We have to fight any and every impulse to cave to what is easy, socially ac-ceptable, or “practical.” On climate change more than any other issue, these words have become distorted and warped, such that they defend the one group we know to be evil:

Divesting for climate change and a brighter futurePETER NAUFFTS

I was forced to think—and this is what I really need to relay to

you—about what it means to have “radical” views. Because I can

now guarantee you, the only radical thing to do is nothing.

the fossil fuel companies.If I walk by a table in Smith

Union talking about divesting the school’s portfolio from fossil fuel stocks, and I keep walking by be-cause I don’t want to be the only one stopping, what kind of state-ment am I making? I won’t raise the question of how I can live with myself, but hell, why shouldn’t I?

First of all, I was reminded that I’m not the alone by any means, and any sort of powerful major-ity will constantly try to make you feel more isolated because it en-sures complacency.

Secondly, I was forced to think—and this is what I really

need to relay to you—about what it means to have “radical” views. Because I can now guarantee you, the only radical thing to do is noth-ing. In McKibben’s words, “Radicals work at oil companies. It is our job to check that radicalism.”

I wholeheartedly believe that, at least on climate change, there’s a right side to history and a wrong side. And I know if I sit by and watch things go by without trying to do something, I’ve placed myself 6 rmly on the wrong side. Maybe we can live with this on certain issues, but when doing nothing means let-ting our planet fall to pieces, I feel a whole lot less radical.

So please, join me in getting on the right side of history. It’s the only bandwagon that you can’t be ridiculed for jumping on. Call for Bowdoin to divest. To quote Unity College President Stephen Mulkey, “4 e ethical choice is not to invest in industries that are destroy-ing the future for our children.”

We shouldn’t have to demand that Bowdoin make this choice; it should be a no-brainer. Get in-volved, sign the petition, and make the choice just a little bit easier for the College.

To end on a high note, here’s McKibben on the portrayal of fighting the fossil fuel companies as a David and Goliath story: “I said to myself, ‘Wait, I’m a Meth-odist. A Sunday school teacher. I know how that story turns out! David wins!’”

Peter Nauffts is a member of the Class of 2015.

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I have a hard time believing that. I have a hard time believing that we would perceive our culture to be ath-lete-centric unless there was some-thing for non-athletes to relate to about the lifestyle. So where does that status come from? 5 e NCAA’s pro-paganda pamphlets probably say it comes from a commitment to excel-lence—that success in sports confers a set of values and an ability to work hard. But we probably shouldn’t take our cues from the NCAA.

I think Bowdoin students have an appreciation for talent of all

Unraveling the realities of Israel and the on-campus BDS movement

Far from being a racist state as the BDS movement claims, Israel is a

predominately secular democratic state that a! ords freedom to all

of its citizens.

BY MICHAEL LEVINE

An op-ed by columnist Chris Wedeman recently appeared in the Orient in support of the Boy-cott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at boy-cotting Israeli goods and services. Even as innocents are being indis-criminately killed in Syria, ethnic cleansing continues to take its toll in the Congo, and democratic rights and political freedoms are being denied around the world, it is Israel—a democratic nation with a strong human rights record—that is the focus of this initiative.

The BDS movement rests on mischaracterizations and half-truths and should be firmly op-posed, especially at a place like Bowdoin.

Consider the four major com-plaints Wedeman levels against Israel in the op-ed: Israel is guilty of “cultural theft;” Israel is “noto-rious for its violations of human rights”; Israel is a racist state; and Israel exists on land “stolen from Palestinians.” Of these four, the charge of cultural theft is particu-larly insulting. Israel exists in the Middle East, surrounded by Arab neighbors. According to the on-line Jewish Virtual Library, there are over 1.5 million Israeli-Arab citizens living within its borders.

A process of cultural diffusion is bound to take place under these circumstances. Moreover, millions of Jews lived in Arab countries for over two millennia until they left or were forcibly evicted from their homes after the Arab-Israeli war. This all raises an important question: why is it that when other groups borrow cultual elements

It’s their world, we just live in it. Welcome to Bowdoin College, where the women dominate athletics. 5 is past weekend, three women’s teams lost in varying stages of NCAAs. 5 e weekend before, a women’s team won the conference championship and a trip to nationals. The men? Not so much success this season. No playoff wins. No Colby-Bates-Bowdoin title. No NCAA appear-ances.

If you wanted to count on your 6 ngers the NESCAC titles of the past decade, you’d have to get your toes involved to account for all of the women’s championships.

Women’s sports teams have won 17 NESCAC titles since 2001.

5 e men? Don’t worry. No need to put your co7 ee down. You can just stick a pinky up, though, if you have a more generous de6 nition and in-clude the vacated hockey title, you could 8 ash deuces to the world.

When a men’s team makes the NCAAs it feels like a historic event. 5 e hype machine goes into over-drive and we all pause to exam-ine history in the making. When a women’s team makes NCAAs, it feels like business as usual.

5 at statement could make ears perk up and set o7 feminist sensi-bilities. But I’m not sure getting up-set about the di7 erence in hype gives Bowdoin’s female athletes their due. When success occurs so regularly, don’t expectations naturally begin to shi9 ? Every time the Patriots lose a Super Bowl it is a disappointment, in the same way we are disappointed every time 6 eld hockey doesn’t win a national title.

We do a lot of hand-wringing

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about the ways “athlete culture” dominates Bowdoin. “Athlete cul-ture” is usually used as a euphemism for bro culture and the sins people associate with it. What about female athletes though? Yes, the ones win-ning all the titles. Don’t they in8 u-ence Bowdoin’s culture just as much as their male counterparts do? If Bowdoin is indeed overrun by ath-lete culture, is it not also female ath-lete culture? Isn’t it sexist to assume that women don’t help shape the cul-ture we live in?

5 is column is more about ques-

tions than answers. It’s about a cer-tain type of question. 5 e questions we don’t ask because we assume we already know the answers.

Would Bowdoin have an athlete culture if there was nothing worth admiring about athletes? Of the 1,772 students enrolled at Bowdoin, 665 are athletes, according to data from the Department of Education. I’m not great at math, but that’s just a little over a third (37.5 percent). Can a majority big enough to run buck wild in the U.S. Senate really be overrun by the culture of one-third minority?

types. We like to think that we’re surrounded by the best and the brightest, whether they succeed in robocup, biology research, or bas-ketball. And when we see someone committed to something, we re-spect that, regardless of the disci-pline. It just so happens that ath-letics are a spectacle by definition, so athletes’ commitments are on public display.

If that is the case, then female athletes have a lot of status at Bowdoin that we don’t always acknowledge.

How does that status manifest itself ? In what ways is their im-age reflected in our culture? Can we say that they model how to win quietly and confidently? Does the ethos of winning quietly and con-fidently carry over to academic life? Is that why Bowdoin students never talk about their grades? It’s definitely not because students aren’t competitive.

What about socially? We often hear disparaging remarks blam-ing men, often athletes, for per-petuating the hookup culture and its shortcomings. Let’s pause. Are we to believe that women who are kicking asses and significantly out-performing their male counter-parts on the sports fields, are sud-denly giving in to a culture they don’t want? What if the hookup culture suits and dis-suits indi-vidual women as much as it does individual men?

Bowdoin used to be a sexist and chauvinist place. Fact. We were an all-boys club for far too long, and there are definitely unappeal-ing remnants of that culture today. Maybe this article goes too far in the opposite direction. But is it possible we’re living in their world and we just don’t know it yet? The clues are there. Just go to the field house or Morrell Gym, where the banners are hanging as proof.

The Palestinian people unquestionably have a right to

create a viable and sovereign state in their homeland.

it is rightly termed “diffusion,” but when Jews do so it becomes “theft”?

Next, Israel has a strong human rights record, especially consider-ing past and present threats. The state’s very existence began with a war against its Arab neighbors.

In his book “Politics and Soci-ety in Modern Israel,” Adam Gar-finkle estimates that one percent of Israel’s population—roughly six thousand individuals—perished in its war for independence. Today,

Iran, a state with a record of state-sponsored terrorism and vehement animosity toward Israel, seeks a nuclear weapon.

Israel deals with the constant threat of terrorism. Hamas, the democratically elected ruling par-ty in Gaza, is recognized by many countries, including the U.S. and the European Union, as a terror-ist organization. Its charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Israelis and Jews. Considering the enormity of the threats Israel faces, it has acted with outstanding moral integrity to protect the lives of civilians and to uphold human rights.

Moreover, far from being a racist state as the BDS movement claims, Israel is a predominately secular democratic state that affords free-dom to its citizens. Its religious mi-norities, including all 1.2 million Arab-Israelis, are granted equal protection under the law. Muslims serve as justices in Israeli courts. A 2007 study from the Arab Center for Alternative Planning indicates that Israelis enjoy one of the high-est standards of living in the Arab world, and Arab life expectancy in Israel is higher than that of the next best Middle Eastern coun-try, Jordan.

Under these circumstances it is hardly surprising that a 2011

poll conducted by the Index of Arab-Jewish Relations stated that, should a Palestinian state be cre-ated, the majority of Arab-Israelis would chose to remain in Israel rather than emigrate to Palestine or another Arab state.

Lastly, the suggestion that Israel exists on land “stolen from Pales-tinians” is simply untrue. There has

been a constant presence of Jews in the area since biblical times. An influx of Jewish immigration to Palestine began in the late 1800s to escape persecution in Europe, not to aid in imperial conquests. By the time the United Nations passed Resolution 181 partition-ing the former British Palestinian mandate into two states (a pro-posal accepted by Israel but reject-ed with a war of aggression by its Arab neighbors), Jews constituted a majority of the population in the land they were granted.

The BDS movement seeks to de-monize and delegitimize Israel in the same way it sought to expose apartheid South Africa as illegiti-mate. However, in the case of Israel these claims are baseless.

As someone deeply concerned about both Israeli security and the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine, I believe this is a major reason for the impasse in peace ne-gotiations. The Palestinian people unquestionably have a right to cre-ate a viable and sovereign state in their homeland—but denying the Jewish people their legitimate right to claim statehood as well is unacceptable.

And it is this fundamental dis-agreement over a Jewish state that has led to the continuation of the conflict. Peace negotiations in 1937, 1947, 1948, 1967, 2000 and 2001 were accepted by Israelis but rejected by the Palestinians be-cause it would result in the con-tinuation of a Jewish state.

When the day comes that the Palestinian people desire a home-land more than they want to see the destruction of Israel, there will be peace. So long as libelous and hateful claims continue to be launched against Israel, this day will only take longer to arrive.

Michael Levine is a member of the Class of 2014.

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OFFICE HOURS Student Lunch with President Mills Warren Dining Room, Moulton Union. Noon.

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CONCERT Bowdoin Chamber Orchestra The ensemble will perform selections from Mozart, Bach and Beethoven pieces under the direction of Conductor George Lopez. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 3 p.m. FILM Skins The Native American Student Association and the Bowdoin Film Society will co-sponsor the screening of a ! lm focusing on the quality of life on reservations.Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

COMEDY Improvabilities Show The improv troupe invites students to give thanks with them at its Thanksgiving show. Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 8 p.m.

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CONCERT An Evening of Brass The Bowdoin Brass Quintet will perform with the Maine Brass Guild. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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COMMON HOUR Common HourDr. Scott Smith ‘85 will discuss his work directing workshops about malaria and vector-borne diseases indeveloping nations. Smith teaches at Stanford Medical School. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m.

FILM The 48- Hour Film Festival Screening and AwardsThe Bowdoin Film Society will show three student ! lms shot, produced and edited in 48 hours. The audience will vote on the best piece. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

ENTERTAINMENT Slam Poetry & A Cappella Open Mic NightThe Slam Poetry Society will host this showcase of student rhymers. Special performance by the Meddiebempsters. Reed House. 7 p.m.

ATHLETIC EVENT Men’s Ice Hockey Home Opener The men’s hockey team kicks o" the season against Williams. Watson Arena. 7 p.m.

THEATERUrineTown The Curtain Callers fall production is a musical satire of capi-talism, set in a society where citizens have to pay to urinate. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

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CONCERTBowdoin College Concert Band In celebration of the ensemble’s 25th anniversary, the band will debut compositions by Francis Kayali ‘01 and Professor of Music Robert Greenlee written for the occasion. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 2 p.m.

REHEARSAL Flash Mob Hugo Tran ’13 is choreographing a # ash mob based on the Gangnam Style music video. Students interested in participating must attend the rehearsal. Thorne Dining Hall. 3 p.m.

RELIGIOUS SERVICESunday Night Chapel ServiceThe Chapel. 7 p.m.

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DINNERThanksgiving DinnerResidential Life will host a Thanksgiving dinner for students not going home for the holiday. 30 College Street. 6 p.m.

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