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MORE NEWS: NEMO HITS CAMPUS; SENS. KING AND COLLINS PROPOSE BILL

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIALS: Proceed with caution; A host with the most. Page 14.

SPORTS: LANDRY ’06 SIGNS NHL CONTRACTJon Landry ‘06 competed for a spot on the NHL’s New York Islanders in January. He signed a two-way contract with the team and its AHL minor league a! liate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers

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Page 3.HOME IN ALL LANDS: Jean-Paul Honegger ’15 on the dangers of an unstable Mali.

Once a long awaited event, Winter Weekend promises to reenergize the student bodyin the dead of winter.

NEMO: Record snowfall posed challenges for many Bowdoin sta" ers.

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SENATORS: Maine’s Senators collaborate on bill to bring new jobs to Brunswick.

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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

The College is contemplating turning Stevens Home, formerly a retirement home for seniors, into a new campus dormitory as soon as next academic year.

BY TOPH TUCKERORIENT STAFF

Coincidence downs Internet for fi ve hours

A short power outage triggered pro-longed network downtime today when a system enabling a smooth transition to backup power failed.

Email, campus telephones, wi-) , and Bowdoin websites were all o* ine for several hours—from around 10:30 a.m. to, in the case of wi-) , 3:30 p.m.

+ e uninterruptible power sup-ply (UPS) system in the Hubbard Hall data center had been known to be in need of new batteries for about a week. Parts were ordered and shipped, and the replacement was scheduled for this morning. People were onsite to replace the batteries when, around 10:30 a.m., a fallen tree branch took out a power line on Maine Street.

“If that power blip had happened one hour later, the batteries would’ve been replaced and there wouldn’t have been a problem,” said Jason Lavoie, director of Please see OUTAGE, page 2

Karen Mills announces plans to leave SBA post

BY GARRETT CASEY ANDLINDA KINSTLERORIENT STAFF

Please see MILLS, page 4

Dorm plans to go before zoning board

Trustees award tenure to four humanities professors

BY KATE WITTEMAN ORIENT STAFF

On February 8, the Board of Trustees voted to advance four Bowdoin faculty members to the rank of tenured professor, effec-tive July 1. The four appointees are Sarah Conly of the philosophy de-partment, Mark Foster of the Eng-lish department, Doris Santoro of the education department and Jill Smith of the German department.

Forty-eight percent of Bowdoin’s faculty is tenured. These individu-als have been promoted from “as-sistant professor”—the title that comes precedes tenure—to “associ-ate professor,” or have attained full professorships.

Every member of the philosophy, German and education departments Please see TENURE, page 5

is tenured now that Professors Con-ly, Smith and Santoro have received the promotion.

+ e College is looking to ) ll 10 tenure track positions next fall.

Each of the faculty members who received tenure this year was hired for a “tenure-track” position. Distinct from a visiting professor-ship or a temporary leave replace-ment, a “tenure-track” position is meant for a scholar that wants to progress through the professor-ship ranks at the College. Bowdoin faculty members typically go up for tenure during their sixth year at the College. However, because Bowdoin offers junior members sabbatical in their fourth year, many professors delay the tenure

The College is working with the Brunswick Town Council, Plan-ning Board and town residents to negotiate the zoning of the for-mer Stevens Retirement Home on Harpswell Road for use as a dor-mitory next year.

Situated directly across from the Brunswick Variety and Deli, the building would be used in its present layout after some cosmetic renovations. Twenty-five to thirty students would live in doubles and singles in the converted dorm.

If the zoning permission goes through, renovations could begin as early as this summer. + e College

BY CLARE DESANTISORIENT STAFF

expects that the dorm could be in use for the 2013-2014 academic year, pos-sibly as a chem-free dorm given it is situated in a residential neighborhood.

There is also talk that the large backyard of the house could be used as a new site for the Bowdoin Or-ganic Garden.

“We’re at the very beginning stag-es,” said Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Katy Longley. “This was a property that came on the market that seemed to be in a good geo-graphical location for the College, given our other property holdings.”

The feasibility of a change be-tween “congregate living” and “college residence” zoning will “de-pend on what the Planning Board

thinks,” said Brunswick Town Councilor Benet Pols.

“Some things are purely regula-tory. They have to deal with the consistency of the ordinance and whether the change is appropriate given the overall makeup of the neighborhood,” Pols said. “The other issue that always comes up in these situations is what the neigh-bors feel about the change.”

At a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, Brunswick residents who live nearby the Stevens Home expressed concern over noise and parking, but were open to further discussion regarding zoning.

Brunswick’s Planning Board will meet on February 26 to discuss the zoning change.

networking and telecommunications; it was a “really bad coincidence.”

“It really identi) ed a single point of failure for the college infrastructure,” said Lavoie.

Since power was restored, services have returned piecemeal.

“Part of the reason the outage is lon-ger is we don’t really ever have an op-portunity to test everything failing and everything coming back up” all at once, said Lavoie.

+ e guest wi-) network returned faster than the standard authenti-cated wi-) . Phone service returned around noon.

+ e fallen tree limb cut power to 2,075 customers of Central Maine Power (CMP), the Times Record re-ported, including the South Loop of campus. Ordinarily, the data center in the basement of Hubbard Hall would switch over smoothly to the North Loop; if that failed, the data center is supposed to go o, the CMP grid and

onto a backup generator.“You want to increase availability by

eliminating all single points of failure,” said Lavoie. “We’ve got very redundant power,” which allows network systems to continue working throughout most power outages. But, “the problem is that power distribution and power delivery is connected through a single UPS.”

Lavoie said having redundant UPS systems is something that is possible and has been considered in the past.

On a more “macro” scale, Lavoie not-

Karen Mills, wife of President Barry Mills, announced this morning that she is stepping down as adminis-trator of the Small Business Associa-tion (SBA) on Monday morning.

“A- er four years as administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is con) rmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition,” Mills wrote in a message to SBA colleagues.

As SBA administrator, Mills worked to support small businesses and entrepreneurs nationwide. Presi-dent Obama appointed Mills to the position in January 2009, and elevat-ed her to the cabinet in January 2012. Prior to joining the Obama admin-istration, Mills served as president of the MMP Group, a private equity ) rm based in Brunswick. She is also a founding partner of the private equity ) rm Solera Capital.

Mills is considered a potential can-didate for Maine’s 2014 gubernatorial race, but said she had not yet consid-ered a future political career.

“My ) rst task is to ful) ll my prom-ise to the president to ensure an or-derly transition here at the SBA,” Mills said yesterday. “I’m going to be staying on until my successor is con) rmed by the Senate, and I have not yet begun the process of seriously considering future options.”

Mills promoted small business growth in Maine a- er the Naval Air Station in Brunswick closed in 2005. She said her work in the Brunswick area in. uenced her policymaking with the SBA.

“One of the things this president used to always tease me about is how much I talked about Maine and the values of Maine and the small busi-nesses of Maine,” she said. “Every time I went home and walked down Maine Street in Brunswick I would get more insights and information from our small businesses.”

+ ere was no teasing in President Obama’s statement on Mills’ decision, in which he thanked her for her four years service.

“I want to thank Administrator Mills for her outstanding work on be-half of America’s small business own-ers and entrepreneurs,” the statement said. “I asked Karen to lead the Small Business Administration because I knew she had the skills and experi-ence to help America’s small business-es recover from the worst economic crisis in generations—and that’s ex-actly what she’s done.”

In her email to SBA sta, , Mills

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A NEW LEAF: Mills announced this week that she would not continue her role in the Small Business Association.

• Campus went without Wi-Fi for fi ve hours yesterday

• Phone service also went down, but only for two hours

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Despite dropping two games to Trinity two weeks ago, Bowdoin rebounded, beating Hamilton twice at home. Captain Kayte Holtz ’13 scored her fi fth career hat trick in the fi rst game on Friday.

SPORTS: Women’s ice hockey sweeps Hamilton FEATURES: Animal testing at BowdoinKacey Berry ’13 refl ects on conducting re-search with rats in Bowdoin’s laboratory in her column “Goggles and Gloves.”

A&E: Behind the BMC Showcase Bowdoin Music Collective’s laid-back concert shows o! the musical talent of many Bowdoin students.

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NORTHERN LIGHTS

Klingenstein report assesses Bowdoin’s intellectual diversity

5 e National Association of Schol-ars (NAS), a nonpro6 t organization devoted to 6 ghting liberal bias within academia, released the 6 rst install-ment of its “Bowdoin Project” yes-terday, a study measuring Bowdoin’s intellectual diversity.

5 e 6 rst installment of the prelimi-nary report, which is available online, statistics that it, “o7 ers some impor-tant additional context” for the antici-pated release of the full report in April of this year.

5 e report was initially spurred by President Barry Mill’s 2010 Convoca-tion Address, in which he planned to

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSING YOUR HEART OUT: Student a cappella groups Miscellania and the Longfellows team up for Thursday evening’s Val Jam, an annual Valentine’s Day concert.

President Barack Obama Please see article, page 4.

Because of Karen’s hard work and dedication, our small businesses are bet-ter positioned to create jobs and our entire economy is stronger. ”

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BSG announced this week it will revive its Uncommon Hour lecture series, and expects that three speak-ers will give talks later in the se-mester on weeks when no Common Hour talk is scheduled. The speak-ers will be determined by student nominations, and BSG will begin accepting nominations the week of February 25. There is no formal speaking topic—professors are en-couraged to speak about whatever they’re enthusiastic about.

Professors who accept an invita-tion to speak at Uncommon Hour will be limited to 18 minutes, with an additional 12 minutes of ques-tion and answer from the audi-ence. Last year’s Uncommon Hour speakers included Dallas Denery, professor of history, Aviva Briefel, professor of English, Paul Franco, professor of government, and Chuck Dorn, professor of education.

-Compiled by Marisa McGarry

The Office of Residential Life re-ceived its second-highest number of applicants for College Houses yesterday, with 306 students apply-ing for 200 spots. The number of applicants is a slight increase from last year, when 295 students applied to live in a College House.

According to Assistant Direc-tor of Residential Life Chris Rossi, early returns indicate that Quinby House is the most popular first choice for applicants, followed by Baxter House. Rossi noted that there was a substantial increase in the number of applicants to Quinby this year. However, he cautioned that the competitiveness of the ap-plicant pool is in part determined by the number of students who listed Quinby as their second and third choice.

The Office of Residential Life will begin interviewing applicants on February 27 and will notify stu-dents of final decisions after Spring Break.

-Compiled by Diana Lee

“Uncommon Hour” lectures to resume after semester break

High number of College House applications received

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SECURITY HIGHLIGHTS

• Evidence of illicit hard drug use was discovered in a public access rest room at 16 Station Avenue, ad-jacent to the College’s dance studios (February 7).

www.nas.org/projects/the_bowdoin_project

TOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTNO INTERRUPTION: The “uninterruptable” power supply that failed on Thursday.

tackle the notion that Bowdoin is “a lib-eral hotbed disconnected from reality.” 5 e address included pieces of a con-versation President Mills shared with Tom Klingenstein, a wealthy Maine entreprenuer, who criticized Bowdoin’s “misguided diversity e7 orts.”

From that speech, NAS President Peter Wood suggested to Klingenstein that a formal report be commissioned to investigate the state of Bowdoin’s in-tellectual atmosphere. 5 e “Bowdoin Project” website is now online, more than two years since the study began. Titled “5 e Origins of the Study,” the preliminary is the 6 rst in a series of six planned installments before the release of the 6 nal report.

-Complied by Alex Barker

BEARINGS MICROWAVETOPH TUCKER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Servers have historically been named after mountains, lakes, Three Musketeers, and bears.

ed another single point of failure: the data center itself. But that’s in the process of be-ing remedied by establishing a data center on the site of the former Naval Air Station.

“To a certain degree, the base data center will help address that problem,” said Lavoie.

Financial auditors have referred to the Hubbard Hall data center as “the best possible design in the worst possible lo-cation,” said Steve Blanc, director of cli-ent services and IT security o8 cer, who is managing the base data center project.

5 e Hubbard basement is suscep-tible to 9 ooding and other physical interruptions.

5 e site on the base, in contrast, is con-siderably more hardened, as be6 ts a facil-ity formerly run by the Navy.

“It’s quite a bunker,” said Lavoie.Students were noti6 ed of the outage

by text message and automated record-ing by the emergency noti6 cation sys-tem around 11:15 a.m. 5 e alert system, called Blackboard Connect, continued to work because it’s run and hosted by Blackboard, not Bowdoin.

“It’s a hosted system for this reason,” said Tina Finneran, director of academic technology and consulting.

However, as the campus VoIP phones are dependent on the network, the emer-gency public address system was unus-able during the outage. 5 e green-striped phones, which use the regular POTS net-work, continued to work.

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Bowdoin students bundled up for the biggest snowstorm of the school year last weekend, as Win-ter Storm Nemo dumped more than two feet of snow on Maine and much of the Northeast. Port-land recorded a total snowfall of 31.9 inches, an all-time record.

The heavy snowfall and gusting winds prompted many departments on campus to take additional pre-cautions. Director of Facilities Op-erations and Maintenance Ted Stam said that keeping roads and paths clear was the biggest challenge fac-ing his department.

“Safe passage for students, em-ployees and visitors of the College is of the highest importance to us,” he said.

In order to accomplish this, eight staff members as well as externally-contracted services plowed around campus and also salted and sanded pedestrian walkways.

All employees who were not members of the grounds crew were asked not to come in on Friday due to the storm.

“Employee safety is of high con-cern to us, and if they don’t need to be on the roads, they should not be on the roads,” Stam said.

Overall, Stam considered Facili-ties’ management of the storm to be a success.

“I think we did very well, consid-ering the amount of snow we had in such a short period of time,” he said.

Dining Service also faced chal-lenges due to the snowstorm. Direc-tor of Dining and Bookstore Servic-es Mary Lou Kennedy said that the greatest issue was “lining all of our staffing up so that we knew every-body would be able to safely arrive at work.”

Because of the danger of driving in such severe weather conditions,

many Dining employees were given the opportunity to stay the night in Brunswick to keep the dining halls running successfully.

“We made arrangements…that we could house some staff at a couple of local hotels so that they wouldn’t have to drive so far going home after Super Snack,” said Ken-nedy. “They stayed right down the street and they were very happy.”

Kennedy also noted that the storm produced trends in where students chose to dine. About 125 more students than usual ate at Moulton on Friday night, suggest-ing that many first years were re-luctant to travel to Thorne in the blizzard, or to venture to down-town Brunswick.

Overall, students seemed to react enthusiastically to Nemo, especially those experiencing a blizzard for the first time.

“It was really exciting for me, be-cause in L.A., we have to drive two hours to see snow, as opposed to waking up and going outside your

dorm and seeing two feet of snow,” said May Kim ’16.

Even students accustomed to the snow were surprised by the dura-tion of the snowstorm.

“I’m from New Jersey, but I’ve never seen a storm that intense, ever. This was the first time that I was kind of scared,” said Van-essa Rendon-Vasquez ’13. “When I went out to get dinner, I thought the blizzard was going to actually move me.”

“I live in N.Y.C., so it wasn’t a first, but the thing about Maine snow is that it sticks around—there aren’t plows everywhere,” said Ar-hea Marshall ’15.

Precautions commonly taken against the blizzard included not driving and staying inside unless absolutely necessary. However, not all students viewed the storm as a threat.

“I didn’t see it as a danger—it was more an East Coast phenomenon,” said Kim. “It was more exciting than scary for me.”

Winter storm Nemo blows through campusBY KATIE MIKLUSORIENT STAFF

5 e local community lost nearly 5,000 jobs when the Naval Air Sta-tion Brunswick (NASB) closed in May 2011. Now, U.S. Senators An-gus King (I-ME) and Susan Collins (R-ME) hope to repair the damage through co-sponsored legislation to expand the Historically Underuti-lized Business Zones (HUBZones), including the NASB.

HUBZones helps businesses within the program receive prefer-ential access to federal procurement opportunities. HUBZones are areas demonstrating economic needs, in-cluding non-metropolitan commu-nities, land within Native American reservations, or land a6 ected by the closure of a military facility—like NASB. 5 e Small Business Admin-istration, which Karen Mills will continue to lead until another ad-ministrator is appointed, oversees the HUBZone program.

HUBZone Expansion Act of 2013, introduced by King and Collins on January 31, would expand the geo-graphic boundaries of the HUB-Zones to include the town or county where the military based closed, thus providing a greater population of workers to meet the quali7 cations for new businesses to receive HUB-Zone bene7 ts. To qualify, 35 percent of employees must live within the

BY ELANA VLODAVERORIENT STAFF

At its weekly meeting on Wednesday, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) discussed a series of proposals brought up by its Academic A6 airs Committee.

5 e 7 rst proposal, which was voted upon and unanimously passed by the assembly, authorized BSG to spend $300 in order to fund snacks for a new student lecture series on Monday nights called “Food for 5 ought”.

According to the text of the pro-posal voted on by BSG, the series is intended to serve as both a study and snack break where student speak-ers will give talks ranging from “new knowledge, stand-up comedy, re-search, conspiracy theories, or what-ever topics they desire.”

Vice President for Academic Af-fairs Leah Greenberg ’13 character-ized the series as a more lighthearted companion to other campus events, saying, “5 e primary motivation for this was to have a study break, a change of pace. It’s a way to hear something interesting about stu-dents, or learn about student’s talents that you didn’t know about.”

She stated that there will be an ap-plication form on BSG’s website for students wishing to apply to speak in the future, and noted that the Aca-demic A6 airs Committee was look-ing for topics that were “interesting, enlightening in some way, entertain-ing, and appropriate.”

5 e 7 rst event will be held next Monday, February 18 when Daisy Ali-oto ’13 will give a talk called “Go away, I’m Having a Healing” about growing up as a Christian Scientist, and Carl Spielvogel ’13, who will be discussing the prevalence of diabetes in squirrels on campus.

BSG also discussed several propos-als that the Academic A6 airs Commit-tee had presented to change the Regis-trar’s current Credit/D/Fail policy.

One concern voiced by the com-mittee was that students didn’t have enough time—or haven’t received enough feedback from professors—to make a well-informed decision about whether or not to opt for Credit/D/Fail by the current deadline. One pro-posal was to extend the deadline, while another was to have a second deadline later in the year at which point stu-dents who selected Credit/D/Fail could switch back to a graded option.

At-Large Representative David Levine ’16 argued that the second-dead-line proposal incentivizes students to work hard in classes, even if they’re not initially taking it for a grade.

“As opposed to somebody taking Credit/D/Fail and completely falling out of the class, they’d stay engaged because they did really well they could switch back to the grading option,” he said.

However, one of the most important changes considered was the decrease of the number of courses that students can opt for Credit/D/Fail from four down to two. Greenberg admitted that this might be “alarming to some peo-ple” but the goal—in conjunction with the options of either extending the deadline or the ability to change back to a graded option—would “make the two courses more e6 ective.”

BSG members were divided on the issue, and the topic was put to rest until the assembly meets with Dean of Academic A6 airs Cristle Collins Judd later this month. If the BSG reaches any consensus on the proposals by then, they will be sent to the curriculum and education policy committee for further faculty and administrative discussion.

BSG to introduce new student lecture series

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SNOWED UNDER: Grounds Crew successfully managed the fi rst major blizzard of winter.

Senators Collins, King introduce bill to bring new jobs to NASBHUBZone.

King told the Orient that the ex-pansion of HUBZones would likely attract new businesses, create jobs, and improve the economy.

“5 e idea is to take care of what I think is an oversight in the law that would otherwise require 35 percent of the employees to actually live on the base property,” King said. He and Collins hope “to expand the footprint where the employees have [to live] to work and the net result will be to hopefully attract some businesses into the Brunswick Na-val Air Station and create jobs there that would bene7 t the Brunswick area and then, Maine.”

In a February 2 press release, Collins wrote that she believes the current HUBZone program is lim-ited by small geographic boundar-ies.

“5 e problem is clear: very few people live on these former bases,” Collins wrote in the press release. “5 at makes it di8 cult or impossi-ble for businesses that are interested

in helping to redevelop them to get the workers they need to meet the requirements of the HUBZone pro-gram.”

According to Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Author-ity, the closure of the base costs the community approximately $140 million annually.

“It’s everything from groceries, to clothes, to cars, to haircuts, den-tists,” Levesque said. 5 e closure “certainly had an impact.”

While some companies are al-ready interested in relocating to Brunswick if the legislation passes, Levesque said complete economic recovery is still a distant goal.

“5 e legislation is just a little piece. It’s just going to give us another, more e6 ective tool,” he said. “It’s going to take some time; it’s going to take another 12 to15 years to recover the economic impact that the base had. You don’t just recreate $140 million in annual payroll right away.”

5 e NASB was the second-largest employer in Maine at its closing, ac-cording to GlobalSecurity.org. As a Brunswick resident, King said he was personally aware of the damage to the Brunswick community a9 er the closure.

“It was a real blow,” King said. “5 ere were businesses on Maine Street in Brunswick that closed and others have struggled because they

lost their costumer base. You lose that many jobs, there’s going to be a ripple e6 ect.”

In the State of the Union Ad-dress on Tuesday, President Barack Obama placed a large emphasis on creating new jobs within the United States. King said he thinks this bill

will be very e6 ective in promoting this goal.

“I can’t put a number on it, whether there will be 200, 500, or 1,000 jobs, but essentially, it is one more piece of the puzzle to allow and encourage further job develop-ment at the former Brunswick Na-val Air Station,” King said.

Presently, companies inter-ested in recieving HUBZone ben-e7 ts while relocating to the NASB, would be unable to do so because of the limited number of workers liv-ing in quali7 ed areas.

According to King, the bill would also provide benefits to Bowdoin students.

BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

“If it goes through and we get a large number of those jobs back, it will mean more business activity in Brunswick. That means more shop-ping options and those kinds of things for Bowdoin students,” King said. “It’s to Bowdoin’s advantage for Brunswick to be a thriving com-munity so that it is a more fun place to live.”

5 e bill was referred to the Com-mittee on Small Business and En-trepreneurship on January 31 for further review. King said he believes passing this bill this calendar year is one of his and Collins’ goals.

5 e bill represents the 7 rst piece of legislation co-sponsored by Maine’s two senators.

“She and I work very closely to-gether. We sat together last night at the State of the Union, and we’re a team as far as I’m concerned,” King said. “I’m learning from her because she’s been here 16 years and I’ve been here a month, so I’ve got a lot to learn.”

5 ough King is new to the Senate, many Maine residents are pleased with his congressional progress so far.

“I think Senator King is doing a spectacular job. I think he can bring a lot of common sense to Congress,“ Levesque said. “I think Senator Snowe is a very, very tough act to fol-low. But Angus is able to work across both parties very well. He’s a pure statesman and he’s a good leader.”

“The problem is clear: very few people live on

these former bases.”

SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS

“It’s to Bowdoin’s advantage for Brunswick to be a

thriving community so that it is a more fun place to live.“

SENATOR ANGUS KING

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Students continue to push for divestment

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFFRumors of a family feud be-

tween owners of two local Japanese restaurants, Aki Sushi and Little Tokyo, were unsustained by the Orient’s investigation into the lo-cal restaurant scene.

Little Tokyo, arguably one of the most popular Asian restaurants in town, is owned by Anna Chen and Cuong Ly. It opened its doors in 2009, and for two years, had a monopoly over Japanese cuisine in Brunswick. Aki Sushi and Habachi opened just one block down the street in 2011. Aki is co-owned by Tina and Laura Cigri, Valami Ly and Bi Liu.

According to Charlie Chen, owner of Golden Chopsticks and Asian Garden, and Andy Zhang, manager of China Rose, Valami and Cuong Ly are Chinese-Vietnamese siblings who escaped to Vietnam during the Cultural Revolution in China decades ago.

When asked about the past re-lationship between Aki and Little Tokyo, the management of Little Tokyo said that the families are not related in any way but have “shared a very slight business relationship.” The Aki management refused to go into detail about their relationship.

The owners of Aki previously operated the restaurant Miyako in Freeport, but when business started slowing down because of the poor economy, the partners decided it was time to move. They noticed most of their clients came from Brunswick, and when they heard of an open space on Maine Street af-ter the closing of O’Shea Restaurant and Cantina, they swiftly took the opportunity to relocate.

“We didn’t have the intention to be right next to Little Tokyo,” Tommy Ng, manager of Aki said. “We are not trying to steal other people’s business.”

Both China Rose and Miyako were owned by Cuong Ly at some point.

Brunswick, where just over 1 percent of the 20,000-person pop-ulation is, is home to 15 Asian-

inspired restaurants. Take a stroll down Maine Street

from the Quad and the first res-taurant you will see is Lemongrass, a Vietnamese restaurant. Farther down you will find Asian Garden, Aki, Little Tokyo, Shere Punjab, Bombay Mahal, and at the end of the street, a sign that says “Little Saigon”—the newest member to enter Brunswick’s downtown Asian restaurant family. Not to be for-gotten are the few along Pleasant Street—Asian fusion restaurant Tao, and Thai restaurants Happy Garden and Sweet Angel. Others include Oriental Garden, Bangkok Garden, Thai Villa, China Rose and Golden Chopsticks.

China Rose opened nearly two decades ago.

Asian Garden manager Ann Barwick said she believes the di-verse group of residents brought

here by the recently-closed naval base might have been Brunswick’s initial business appeal over other towns.

Theresa Chen, manager of Little Tokyo, said that once Asian restau-rants had success in town, others naturally followed.

“The Asian way of business is that you never want to take the first risk but once you see a suc-cessful business model you want a piece of it,” Chen said. “You don’t want to be the first or the last.”

Though Japanese and Chinese food have historically dominated the Brunswick Asian cuisine, the latest trend seems to be South-east Asian food. Gillian Watt and her husband Allen Hoang, opened Lemongrass in the summer of 2012, and another Vietnamese res-taurant, Little Saigon, will open some time next month.

According to Watt, part of the appeal of Asian cuisine in Bruns-wick isdue to the sophisticated palate of the professors, college students, veterans and retirees.

“They have a wider array of tastes and are willing to be open-minded with food,” said Watt, add-ing she welcomes the arrival of Little Saigon because “competition is good.”

5 e Green Bowdoin Alliance (GBA) is continuing its e6 orts to convince the College to divest the endowment from fossil fuels, despite President Mills’ and Senior Vice Pres-ident for Investment Paula Volent’s assertion that divestment would cost Bowdoin millions of dollars. Both sides of the divestment issue are ar-guing their case based on di6 erent, largely incomparable statistics.

Matthew Goodrich ’15 and Bridget McCoy ’15, who are lead-ing GBA’s push to divest, say they are unwilling to accept the num-bers presented by the administra-tion without full disclosure of how they were calculated. Mills and Volent told the Orient last week that 1.4 percent of the endowment is invested in fossil fuels, primarily through exposure to an enhanced S&P 500 index fund. Based on data from the past decade of endowment performance, they estimated that if the College were to divest, annual-ized returns would decline by more than 5 percent.

“Over a ten-year period we would lose over $100 million,” Volent told the Orient last week.

“Barry Mills submitted these numbers and published them with-out releasing the report from which the numbers came,” McCoy said. “He is asking us to take these num-bers at face value…if there’s any-thing I’ve learned at this college it’s that if someone gives you numbers you have to ask them where they came from.”

Goodrich echoed McCoy, whe he said, “it’s hard to trust them when they’re not forthcoming with how they got those numbers.” Both argue that only when the administration is completely transparent about the implications of divestment can they have a meaningful conversation on the subject rather than one centered on speculation alone.

Mills and Volent had no further comment on the issue.

The GBA is drawing support

for divestment from a recent study conducted by the Aperio group, an investment firm specializing in cus-tomized indexing. Aperio’s findings suggest that there would be statisti-cally negligible risk involved in di-vesting from fossil fuels.

Liz Michaels, chief of sta6 at the Aperio Group, has spoken with stu-dents in GBA about the report’s ap-plicability to Bowdoin. Michaels told the Orient that the Aperio Group does not have an o7 cial position on divestment, and explained how the report’s 8 ndings were calculated.

“We don’t have a horse in this race,” Michaels said. “5 is is about provid-ing information to have an informed discussion. We’re taking a position that transparency in the process is important, and having an informed dialogue is really important.”

Aperio arrived at the conclusion that divestment would not signi8 -cantly hurt endowment returns by running a program to optimize the Russell 3000, an index measuring the top 3000 US companies, a9 er eliminating hydrocarbon-produc-ing companies from the index.

However, because speci8 c details about Bowdoin’s endowment are not available, Michaels said that it isn’t possible to infer whether the Aperio Group’s 8 ndings would hold true for the College.

Assistant Professor of Econom-ics Erik Nelson noted that both the administration’s and the Aperio Group’s calculations on endowment performance were made by looking at past market performance.

“My suspicion would be that so-cially responsible funds probably do not perform as well as mixed funds in general,” Nelson said. “Over any given time period in hindsight you can 8 nd socially responsible compa-nies that preformed better than your investments.”

Nelson explained that any ret-rospective study could easily 8 nd investments that would have out-performed actual investments.

According to Goodrich, Mills did not respond to the data presented by the Aperio Group.

“He said that they don’t know what they’re talking about,” said Goodrich.

Students at Middlebury, where environmental activist Bill McKib-ben is a scholar in residence, are also campaigning for divestment. According to MIT professor Mark Kritzman, divestment would cost Middlebury $17 million over a five-year period. Nevertheless, McKibben contends that divest-ment would have either a negli-gible or even a positive impact on the endowment.

During a panel discussion on di-vestment at Middlebury on January

22, renewables-focused venture in-vestor Ralphe Earle argued against divestment, saying that he did not believe it was the most e6 ective way to reduce climate change. Earle sug-gested that students focus on mak-ing green decisions on a smaller scale, and that Middlebury should aim to in: uence energy companies in other ways. McKibben, however, rejected Earle’s suggestions.

On Saturday, February 9, the GBA had planned to host a panel discus-sion with McKibben, Unity College President Stephen Mulkey, Director of Sierra Club Maine Glen Brand, representatives from the Sustainable

Endowment Institute, the Respon-sible Endowments Coalition, and student activists from across Maine. 5 e event was postponed due to weather and scheduling con: icts, and is scheduled to take place this coming week.

“We were hoping to get some of the dialogue out there because there are a lot of questions about divest-ment,” said McCoy. “Socially re-sponsible investing is a new thing, so there is not a ton of data for it and it’s not quite so established in people’s minds.”

Mills declined to attend the panel, but GBA hopes that other members of the administration will attend.

“We hope they will come, espe-cially if they’re opposed,” said Mc-Coy. “5 ey can challenge our pan-elists—it’s what they’re there for, to answer questions.”

Although the combined invest-ments of college endowments rep-resent a minimal amount of fossil fuel revenue, McCoy and Goodrich argue that the intent behind divest-ment is mostly symbolic.

“Divestment represents dissatis-faction among shareholders,” said McCoy. “5 e U.S. has the best high-er education system in the world, and if educational institutions are making a statement against fossil fuels, it would be very impactful.”

McCoy said that she hopes enough schools will divest to create a “PR night-mare” for the fossil fuel companies.

“It’s not about the money,” said Goodrich. “It’s about framing the fossil fuel industry as a perpetrator. It’s about making a statement that colleges aren’t going to be complicit in climate change. 5 at’s the power of divestment.”

BY SOPHIA CHENGORIENT STAFF

“The Aperio group study shows that the fossil fuel divestment does not pose

a signifi cant risk.”

MATTHEW GOODRICH ’15

Brunswick attracts slew of Asian eateries

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emphasized the achievements of the administration over the course of her tenure, highlighting its suc-cess in securing billions of dollars in loans for small businesses.

“Over the last four years, SBA supported more than $106 billion in lending to more than 193,000 small businesses and entrepre-neurs,” Mills wrote. “This includes two record years of delivering over $30 billion annually in loan guar-antees. And today we are using our streamlined lending programs and products to get capital to communi-ties that are still struggling and to

fill market gaps.”Mills said that she thinks Maine

can thrive in the coming years.“We’ve got the entrepreneurs;

we’ve got the small business own-ers; we’ve got the manufacturing heritage and, by the way, we’ve got the quality of place,” she said. “We have an absolutely spectacular and beautiful state with a great sense of community and we are attractive to these new investments in way that I think has not been true over the last couple of decades.”

Mills expressed gratitude for the dedication of her staff in her letter.

“I came to the SBA and Wash-ington from the private sector and the great state of Maine. And on both a professional and a per-

“Divestment represents dissatisfaction

among shareholders.”

BRIDGET MCCOY ’15“We are not trying to steal other people’s business.”

TOMMY NGMANAGER OF AKI

The Green Bowdoin Alliance challenges the College’s estimates

on divestment

sonal level this has been one of the greatest experiences of my life,” she wrote.

“Karen has made it easier for small businesses to interact with the federal government by reduc-ing paperwork and cutting through red tape,” President Obama said in his statement. “She has played a leading role in my administra-tion’s efforts to support start-ups and entrepreneurs. And she was instrumental in the passage of the Small Business Jobs Act. Because of Karen’s hard work and dedica-tion, our small businesses are bet-ter positioned to create jobs and our entire economy is stronger. I want to thank Karen and am grate-ful for her service.”

BRIAN JACOBEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BLADES OF GRASS: Lemongrass is one of Brunswick’s many Asian-inspired restaurants.

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SECURITY REPORT: 10/19 to 10/25

Thursday, February 7• Evidence of illicit hard drug

use was discovered in a public ac-cess rest room at 16 Station Av-enue, adjacent to the College’s dance studios.

• Portland Police Department arrested a Bowdoin student for as-sault in the Old Port section of the city on the morning on February 3. Security was informed of the in-cident and a report was filed with the dean of student affairs.

• A female student reported re-ceiving a disturbing anonymous text message.

Friday, February 8• Freezing air through a window

that was left ajar in Main Lounge at Moulton Union resulted in a burst water pipe and water damage in Main Lounge and one floor be-low in Moulton Dining Hall.

• A student cooking in Bruns-wick Apartments N caused a fire

alarm activation. Brunswick Fire Department responded.

• A student using a curling iron in Coleman Hall activated a smoke alarm.

• An unregistered event was dis-persed in Stowe Hall.

• A major winter snow storm caused few problems from a cam-pus safety perspective, although shuttle service was canceled Friday night due to hazardous road con-ditions and poor visibility caused by heavy wind and snow.

Saturday, February 9• An officer checked on the well-

being of an intoxicated student in Chamberlain Hall.

• An unregistered event was dis-persed in Coles Tower.

• A student in Coles Tower was cited for a hard alcohol policy vio-lation.

Sunday, February 10• Students were found consum-

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process for a year. To receive tenure, Bowdoin

faculty must show “excellence in teaching and distinction in re-search.” This entails many steps. Professors who are planning to stand for tenure receive their first level of review from tenured mem-bers of their own department. If recommended, their cases are re-viewed by the committee on ap-pointments, promotions and ren-ure. Then, Cristle Collins Judd, dean for academic affairs, sits with the committee and decides if a ten-ure recommendation will be made to President Barry Mills. If Mills approves the case, it will be brought before the full Board of Trustees.

Each of the four faculty mem-bers who received tenure indicated that they were relieved the process was over and that they were look-ing forward to the possibilities and security that tenure brings.

“I’m happy but also relieved that I’ve made it through this arduous process,” said Foster.

Smith echoed his sentiments: “It’s a rigorous process, I have to say, but very fair and very clear.”

The many recommendations and reviews Bowdoin’s process demands help ensure that faculty members who finally do receive tenure are more than fit for the job.

“The reason that our process for granting tenure is as thorough as it is because the awarding of ten-ure confers extraordinary privilege with which comes responsibility,” said Judd.

While much emphasis is placed on the quality of teaching during the tenure review process, signi5 cant weight is placed on the research of the professor. Foster, Santoro and Smith all spent their sabbaticals working on books. Santoro took her time to write a “foundational article” to help conceptualize and ground

her research. Foster said that the time o6 was

“indispensable” to further his work. 7 is presentation of scholarship

played the main role in the dossiers of the professors’ work sent to outside reviewers who Bowdoin enlists to help in the evaluation procedure. 7 e

importance placed in the research of a professor standing for tenure is meant to ensure that Bowdoin’s teachers are active in their 5 elds.

“I think a good school wants peo-ple who are good researchers,” said Conly. “If you are a good researcher, it means that you are engaged in the profession; it means you’re thinking.

You’re teaching about things you’re still thinking about.”

The tenure system was put in place in colleges in the 19th and 20th centuries for different rea-sons, but one of the most impor-tant ones was to safeguard faculty who might have held politically unpopular or provocative views—to give them the freedom to ex-press their opinions.

“There are projects that I would like to work on that might be a lit-tle provocative and I feel like I can do so without any anxiety about how they might be received be-cause I’ve achieved this milestone here,” Professor Foster said.

For now, the newly-tenured faculty members are happy to call Bowdoin their academic home for the foreseeable future.

“It’s definitely a milestone being recognized as a scholar and being welcomed formally and perma-nently into the Bowdoin commu-nity.”

ing from an unregistered beer keg in the basement of Baxter House.

• Brunswick Rescue transport-ed an ill student from Reed House to Parkview Medical Center.

• A student with frostbite was escorted to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

• A student took responsibility for causing damage to an apart-ment door at Brunswick Apart-ments.

Tuesday, February 12• A student was escorted to

Parkview Medical Center for treat-ment of pain.

• A smoke alarm at West Hall was caused by a system malfunction.

Wednesday, February 13• A faculty member reported that

a projector was missing from class-room 208 in Druckenmiller Hall. The matter is under investigation.

Thursday, February 14• A power interruption at the

College’s data center caused all data systems to go off-line for a period of time Thursday morning and afternoon. With the loss of the campus’s internet protocol phone system, the Security communica-tions center immediately switched to its back-up analog phones and all emergency communications were maintained. Most life safety systems, such as fire alarms, were not affected. The campus commu-nity was notified of the disruption through the emergency mass noti-fication system, via cell phone and text messaging.

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ITAC rolls out new tech improvements to campus

BY MARTIN SHOTTORIENT STAFF

Students who have arrived at 7 orne without their OneCards recently have been swiping in with the help of an iPad. 7 e system is the latest project of the Information Technology Advisory Council (ITAC).

Every week, ITAC meets with Chief Information O8 cer Mitch Davis to discuss solutions to students’ IT re-lated concerns.

“We take suggestions from the student body,” said Matt Glatt ’14, co-chairman of ITAC, “We talk about the suggestions and how we’ll implement them. It’s strict-ly project-based.”

ITAC is composed of Glatt, co-chairman Chris Kan ’13 and Ro-meo Ibanez ’15.

Once Davis approves the group’s suggestions, which have ranged from public charging stations to GPS shuttle tracking, ITAC members reach out to the Bowdoin sta6 members likely to be involved in each project. A9 er testing the initiatives, they are introduced to the Bowdoin community.

Other completed projects include the online package noti5 cation system, free copies of Apple’s Mountain Lion oper-ating system for students, and student-friendly Blackboard maintenance hours.

“If it weren’t for them, all of those things wouldn’t have gotten done. I found it very valuable to have their feedback,” Davis said. “It’s almost always in areas I don’t go to. 7 ere’s no way for me to ex-perience the problems they are having.”

“7 is is a really old council that was formed when Mitch 5 rst got here,” Glatt said. It had lay dormant for a while a9 er disbanding until Kan and Glatt decided to meet with Davis to

restart the organization. 7 e ITAC website o6 ers a list of current and past projects and a wireless feedback form, and has an online suggestion box. In-put from the feedback form allows the IT department to quickly 5 x any weak or dead Wi-Fi spots on campus.

Many projects, however, are still in the works. An online ordering system for Jack Magee’s Pub, which would be more convenient for customers and sta6 , is one of ITAC’s top priorities.

Webcams in Moulton, 7 orne, Sar-gent and Morrell Gym are also under consideration. 7 e goal is to allow fac-ulty, sta6 and students to check avail-ability and crowd levels, preventing long meal lines and allowing a way to gage at-tendence levels. Webcams are currently available for Hubbard Hall, Coles Tower, and 7 orne Dining Hall.

Glatt would also like to see a Bowdoin Security app, which students could use to contact o8 ces if they 5 nd themselves in trouble. None of these projects have speci5 c timeframes or release dates but are on the horizon.

ITAC also spurred the creation of a GPS shuttle tracker, which was introduced in December 2011. 7 e website now shows an error message. Glatt says Security and Facilities are currently seeking a better commer-cial long-term solution than the iPad trackers they previously used.

“It’s not ‘shutdown’ per se, but who knows how long it will take,” said Glatt.

Kan, Glatt and Ibanez say they are always looking for new problems to ad-dress, and hope that ITAC can grow.

“I want us to get bigger. I want us to have more members,” Glatt said. “It’s not exclusive now, it’s just that no one really knows about it.”

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS

NEW ADDITIONS: Clockwise from top left: Smith, Conly, Foster, and Santoro.

SOPHIA MATUSZEWICZ, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

“It’s a rigorous process, I have to say, but very fair and very clear.”

JILL SMITHASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GERMAN

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Winter Weekend 2013 revives 70-year tradition at Bowdoin

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

IN A FLURRY: Students ran across the Quad last weekend braving howling winds and blowing snow from superstorm Nemo.

Benjamin-Buttoning Bowdoin: snow play balances workloadsBY CALLIE FERGUSON

CONTRIBUTOR

“I’m having a snow day! 4 is is insane!” screamed every Californian student at Bowdoin last Friday.

Last week, Nemo, in all her snowy might, threw a coat of whiteness over campus, e5 ectively canceling all of our commitments, routines and responsibilities. It was as if na-ture declared a spontaneous national holiday. As I walked across campus—and this was especially true for Sat-urday—I saw 20-year-olds slipping back into their younger selves, diving into snow dunes, hurling snow-balls at one another, and delighting in the prospects of homemade igloos. 4 ere was cross-country skiing on the quad, hot chocolate brewing in the kitchen, and the familiar squelch of s n o w b o o t s

in the Union. I saw a pu5 y-jacketed girl make angel wings in the snow, and a Texas boy breathe life into his 6 rst snowman.

As if we hadn’t already considered him Bowdoin’s resident “cool parent,” Randy Nichols sent out a cautionary email, warning us to be careful tun-neling in the snow banks should we want to avoid a grisly decapitation from plows. 4 anks, Dad!

A palpable sense of joy and excite-ment thickened the air; never before had I seen college students carpe a Fri-day with such fervor. Night didn’t stop us. 4 is is Bowdoin, where we party in snow boots. Let’s all hope the beer jacket is real, and that it’s waterproof. To Burn! To Brunswick! No, not to Pine, Pine is too far.

At the end the night—or accu-rately, the early morning—when I

made the trudge

back home to Reed, I collapsed on my couch, exhausted.

Not soon a7 er, I heard a mu8 ed knock on the door, in stumbled a wea-ry traveler with ice on his beard. “I’m making my way home, but thought I’d stop in a minute for shelter.” Fierce weather will do that. He sat for a while, and I considered the Robert Frost-like quality of his visit. When he le7 , I slept, the blizzard continuing to rage a7 er I couldn’t any longer.

I grew up in Connecticut, so I’ve had my fair share of snow days. 4 ey mostly involved a lot of sleeping in, followed by a lot of shoveling and a lot of television. 4 ey were o7 en prophesied by the trusty “Snow Day Calculator,” every New England high schooler’s second favorite website (a7 er Wikipedia). When I got into Bowdoin, I 6 gured I’d be leav-

ing those days behind—a7 er all, you can’t cancel school when you live there. How sweet it was to be proven wrong. And guess what? Snow days are way better in college.

4 e “work hard, play hard” ethic characterizes many of my Bowdoin experiences, and most of my Bowdoin friends. Balance is implicit to our hap-piness, and so we counter the rigor of our schoolwork with 6 erce bouts of enjoyment. If you aren’t sure what I mean, compare a student studying organic chemistry to a spectator at the Bowdoin-Colby hockey game—chances are, they have the same heart rate. But there’s something about a snowfall that recalibrates our inter-nal scales, and suspends our constant feeling of responsibility. Snow, for reasons unexplained, makes us giddy. Gazing across campus, I saw visible

transformation—a

Benjamin-Buttoning, if you will—of highly pressurized students into more innocent, childlike versions of them-selves. It’s hard to remember the last time that the need to play overrode the duty to work, but the snowstorm achieved just that. I experienced a carefree lightness, not because I’d nev-er had a snow day before, but because I was 6 nally old enough to appreciate what a miraculous relief it is to shake o5 my worries and play.

4 is is why snow days in college are the best: we’re more grateful for them. What a lovely reassurance that maturity isn’t permanent, and that a vestigial reserve of childlike wonder pools readily under our surfaces. We may 6 nally be adults, but sometimes, we make for pretty good children.

Callie Ferguson is a member of the Class of 2015.

Last weekend, Nemo reminded us why we bought ankle-length down jackets and shearling-lined snow boots as 6 rst years. 4 is weekend, the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) and Entertainment Board (eBoard) will stoke our love for the colder months with a revival of an old Bowdoin tradition, Winter Weekend.

4 is year’s three-day Winter Week-end will celebrate the Maine winter with horse-drawn carraiges, broom-ball, snow sculpting, hot chocolate, Polar Bear dips, giant snowball 6 ghts, dog sledding, and much more.

While many students are not aware of its history, Winter Weekend dates back to the fraternity Christ-mas House Parties from as early as the 1920s.

On December 11, 1929, the Ori-ent ran an article titled: “House Party Plans Fast Taking Shape.” 4 e ar-ticle goes on to detail the up coming events of the weekend, such as frater-nity house dances and a Masque and Gown production.

By 1940, Life Magazine took notice

of the growing Bowdoin tradition and published a three-page picto-rial on the 1939 festivities. Life wrote, “But they knew that all the Northeast o5 ered no gayer, jollier college par-ties than the annual winter house parties at Bowdoin.”

4 e pictorial included shots of the female guests at the College dressed for the dances—Bowdoin did not be-come co-ed until 1971—a snowball 6 ght, and a couple on a “pony-sleigh” ride.

Throughout the next 70 years, the celebration was known as “Win-ter’s Weekend,” and continued to be immensly popular.

4 e 1988 Winter’s Weekend in-cluded an Italian-themed dinner pro-vided by Bowdoin Dining services, bon6 res, and hayrides.

In 1994, the tradition took on a Casino theme that o5 ered impressive prizes, such as a free trip for two to anywhere in the U.S. 4 ere was also an all day music festival and games on the Quad.

Todd Herrmann ’85, associate di-rector of employer relations at the Career Planning Center, remembers snow sculpture competitions and the

hockey team defeating Babson Col-lege in an upset during his own Win-ter Weekends at Bowdoin.

Another alumnus, John R. Cross ’76, recalled the weekend’s snow sculptures in a post on The Bowdoin Daily Sun in 2010.

“I remember seeing a Venus de Milo of snow that gleamed whiter than Carrara marble (“World Peace without Arms” Cold War themed), a Polar Bear engineer on a locomotive of snow, a Statue of Liberty, a camel kneeling between two pyramids, a likeness of JFK’s head, dragons, and other wonders of the winter world.”

Judging from old issues of the Ori-ent, it seems that the tradition was in decline by 1998. 4 e February 20 is-sue for that year only mentioned “the Winter Weekend’s outdoor games” in a brief sentence in the Calendar page.

4 e 2000-2004 volumes of the Ori-ent contain no obvious mentions to Winter Weekend.

While there were smaller e5 orts in 2009 and 2011 to hold a “Frozen Ivies” or “Winter Carnival.” 4 ey were largely forgettable.

4 ough current students may not realize it, Herrmann clari6 ed

that Winter’s Weekend used to be as much a part of the calendar as Home-coming and Ivies.

He said, “It was something that everyone on campus looked forward to—to break up the time between Winter Break and Spring Break.”

Michael Hannaman ’13, co-chair of the eBoard, said that he and Dani Chediak ’13, president of BSG, “both recognized that there’s sort of this gap in programming during the winter. It’s sort of this thing we bear and just, you know, wait for spring.”

He added, “We both thought it was important to provide something for campus to be able to be outdoors, to enjoy Maine, and just enjoy the community.”

A7 er uncovering the recently forgotten tradition, Hannaman and Chediak began to seek out support. Once they got the rest of BSG, eBoard and Student Activities on board this past November, everything began to fall in place.

“We’re really thankful for every-one’s work. 4 is is a huge thing, re-ally, that’s going on,” Hannaman said.

Sponsors for these events include Baxter House, Ladd House, Reed

FRIDAY1 - 3 p.m. – Dog Sledding on the Main Quad.5 p.m. – Blizzard Bash at Ladd House, featur-ing a performance by “First Ladies” and free CampusFoodTruck.7 p.m. – Bowdoin Men’s Hockey vs. Tufts.10 p.m. – Winter Wonderland party at Baxter House.

SATURDAYAll Day – Horse-drawn carriage rides.9 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Club Volleyball Tournament in Morrell Gym.11 a.m. – Polar Bear Dip at Popham Beach.11 a.m. - 4 p.m. – Hot Chocolate and S’mores on Coe Quad. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Ice Sculpting on Coe Quad with free CampusFoodTruck.11 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Snow Sculpture Competi-tion at the College Houses. 1 p.m. – Broomball Tournament at Reed

House, Snow Shoeing in the Commons, and a Snowball Fight on the Quad.3 p.m. – Curling Demonstration at Reed House by Bowdoin Curling and a Polar Bear Run with prizes outside of Watson. The Run will also be followed by hot drinks and des-serts inside.4 p.m. – Bowdoin Men’s Hockey vs. Connecti-cut College.10 p.m. – Cold War Party featuring the NARPs at MacMillan House and Suck My NESCAC and DJayJ at Quinby House. SUNDAY9 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Club Volleyball Tournament continues in Morrell Gym All weekend long, Bowdoin will be hosting the Women’s Swimming & Diving NESCAC Cham-pionships at Greason Pool. The Arctic Museum will also be open every day.

House, MacMillan House, Quinby House, BSG, eBoard, Student Activi-ties, Athletics, the Bowdoin Outing Club, Bowdoin Curling, the Class Councils, Polar Bear Nation, and the A-Team. It’s truly a campus-wide e5 ort.

“4 ere are so many ways to get in-volved in this,” said Hannaman, “that I hope there is something for every-one. 4 at’s where the success of the event will lie.”

While activities such as broom-ball, snow ball 6 ghts, and hockey games with hot chocolate on the Quad will continue the tradition from the past 70 years, Hannaman and Chediak hope to a5 ect a change in the mentality of the event.

“We thought that this would be a great thing to revive, but also sort of to redefine and make it about the College Houses and athletics,” Hannaman said.

“We want this to be about the Bowdoin community being together without the focus being on alcohol. We hope it will be just as fun and that people will be just as involved—we’re de6 nitely trying to start a tra-dition that can and will live on a7 er we graduate.”

BY CAITLIN WHALENSTAFF WRITER

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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Animal testing in Bowdoin labs aids learning, prompts moral refl ectioncues affected how subjects learned and relearned a maze task.

Our research subject: Rattus norvegicus, the brown lab rat.

“What’s that?” you say. “Bowdoin has a rat lab? I read in an Orient article last semester that some girl plays with crickets here, but rats, too?”

What quickly became clear was how touchy this subject might be. Animal testing at Bowdoin Col-lege? Should I even string those words together in one sentence in this Internet-bound Orient article lest some animal rights activists search the terms and come to cam-

of eco-terrorism, harrassment and intimidation tactics directed at in-dividual researchers, and extensive property damage of million-dol-lar labs, all in the name of animal rights (not to be confused with ani-mal welfare). I had recently spoken to a Bowdoin alumnus who, now working at a prominent laboratory in another state, does not include the lab’s address on his business card (lab policy, it seems), to deter these very acts.

Bowdoin itself, just a few years back, had taken heat from the Hu-mane Society of the United States after the Orient published a feature article on the College’s rat facilities (in the form of a Letter to the Editor and not a 5 rebomb which some ani-mal rights extremists have resorted to elsewhere).

Besides, I too was grappling with my role in my psychology research project. I would be per-forming surgery on a live rat, le-sioning a small region of its brain, and then, after behavioral testing, sectioning its brain to verify the extent of damage I had induced. I struggled to assess whether my discomfort stemmed from pure squeamishness or a deeper moral anxiety. I had grown fond of my rat after weeks of daily testing. My dad offered, “Well, it’s not like you’re killing them.” Well, actually,

I would be. I did. And before any-one gets alarmist on me and stops reading the article and labels me a murderer because I just implied

Many people see animal re-search as a purely unnecessary evil. Some contend that an ant’s life should be considered just as sacred as a human’s. Many doubt that findings in non-human test subjects have any value in human medicine, or believe that we could achieve the same scientific ad-vances through human testing or “petri dish studies” alone.

There are others who agree with equal verve that animal testing saved their lives or their daugh-ter’s or their father’s (and millions of others’ too), and that it can be done without sacrificing ethics.

The stakes are high. The topic deserves careful and informed consideration, whatever your proximity to animal research and wherever you fall on the opinion spectrum.

Through “Learning and Memo-ry,” I came to understand how se-riously Bowdoin takes animal wel-fare. I recognized that sectioning the rats’ brains was the only way in which we could draw connections between the rats’ altered maze per-formance and their altered brain anatomy. I understood that, if I ever wanted to reap the benefits of modern medicine, it was perhaps the fairest to the animals to con-front, on a deeply personal level, their role in our advances.

Many researchers have been intimidated and feel extremely

protective of their animal laboratories because of the

controversy. The question, then, becomes how much information

it is pragmatic to withhold.

The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) offices at the Ur-ban Justice Center are located on the ninth floor of a low-budget of-fice building on the southern tip of Manhattan. The red brick build-ing, which Hurricane Sandy hit hard three months ago, still shows signs of wear from the superstorm. On the first day of my internship this January, I entered the building through a temporary entrance hid-den by scaffolding and blue tarps.

For five days over winter break, I rode the R-train for 45 minutes down to Rector Street from my safe Upper East Side neighbor-hood to volunteer as an IRAP in-tern. Within minutes of walking into the dark, empty, no-frills of-fices to introduce myself to IRAP co-founder Becca Heller, a 2010 Yale Law School graduate, I was put to work preparing briefs on the conditions of Iraqi refugees due for presentation the next day at the U.S. Immigration and Nat-uralization Service in Washing-ton, D.C. Over 10,000 Iraqis have been displaced by war and reset-tled in squalid refugee camps for years, and are in desperate need of assistance.

Becca situated me at a table out-side her office and put me straight to work on a project with a very tight deadline. Her colleagues—Steve Poellot, Amanda Beck, and Katie Reisner—are hard-charging lawyers in their twenties using their knowledge of the legal system to fight for humanity.

When I asked Becca why she and her colleagues work for IRAP and not for an established law 5 rm, she said, “I think people go to law school for many di6 erent reasons. Each of us went because we knew we wanted to do some kind of pub-lic service work. It was never really

a question of going to a big 5 rm ver-sus working for a non-pro5 t—we al-ways viewed our law degrees as tools to use in service of our e6 orts to combat persecution and injustice.” 7 ere are obvious salary di6 eren-tials between IRAP lawyers and their former classmates, but none have ever second-guessed their de-cision of cause over compensation.

For four hours each day of the internship, I sifted through narra-tives of Iraqi people who fled from their home country to find tempo-rary refuge in Jordan. They applied for refugee status in the United States and, for various reasons, were denied. Refugee status, as defined by the United States Citi-zenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), may be granted to people who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular so-cial group or political opinion.

In most cases, it was on the basis of “credibility.” According to IRAP’s Memorandum on Cred-ibility and Trauma, “credibility” is described in the USCIS Adjudica-tor’s Field Manual as “involving a witness’ trustworthiness and be-lievability.” Many refugee appli-cants suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or other conditions that cause forgetfulness or repres-sion of memories. Therefore, those “who are survivors of trauma seem to be at particular risk for errone-ous negative credibility findings.” In addition, applicants for refugee status are disadvantaged by a lack of knowledge about the intricacies of the U.S. Immigration System.

Organizations like IRAP were founded on the belief that refugee applicants would benefit from le-gal representation, thereby reduc-ing the number of denials based on credibility. Currently, refugee appli-cants are not guaranteed legal rep-resentation. As Congress prepares

to talk about comprehensive immi-gration reform, IRAP is advocating for the right to legal representation for refugee applicants.

Many IRAP clients are living in Jordan temporarily because they were forced to flee Iraq due to per-secution. Some traveled to Syria

first but due to unrest there, have since moved to Jordan. Day after day, IRAP lawyers and law stu-dents piece together horror stories of kidnapping, rape, beatings, and dealings with life threats to pre-pare their clients’ dossiers for pre-sentation to USCIS.

Suddenly, I was in the thick of it. A8 er spending a semester living

a protected life of a Bowdoin 5 rst year, these refugee stories were hard for me to read; it was not unusual for me to read horri5 c cases, such as one in which a woman said she was raped and beaten by her husband, then imprisoned due to his false ac-cusations of the8 . Her initial appli-cation was denied by USCIS because she omitted these details so as not to dishonor herself or her family.

Although I was thrilled to be working with the IRAP team and in-spired by the possibility that I could have a positive impact on someone’s life, I dreaded opening each new 5 le. Becca, Steve, Amanda, and Katie, it seemed to me, showed no emotion. 7 ey summarized case stories for me, describing rape, kidnappings and death threats in detail, as if they were everyday experiences—and to IRAP clients, they o8 en are. 7 e team had to appear desensitized in order to be able to take on each new case.

Due to language barriers and miscommunications, IRAP con-ducts weekly teleconferences with refugee applicants to review the

facts of their stories, create a time-line of events, and 5 ll in any gaps.

Until 2010, volunteer Yale Law graduate students directed IRAP. The impact of their work in help-ing Iraqi refugees escape persecu-tion is evident. Most of IRAP’s cli-ents are referrals by USCIS or the United Nations. Last year IRAP helped resettle over 300 people.

“This year,” Becca says, “I would like to double that number.”

Many applicants for asylum in the U.S. already have a connection to the country through past em-ployment—they may have worked as translators, navigators or guides for American reporters covering war-torn cities. The Iraqi govern-ment, suspicious of lack of loyalty to the regime, has persecuted citi-zens with even the most tangential connection to the U.S.

I decided to volunteer for IRAP for a few days over Winter Break because I had previously worked with refugees at the International Rescue Committee in Brooklyn. I tutored young refugees in reading, writing, math and socialization skills one summer in preparation for the school year in September. Witnessing the application and ad-mission process made it clear that there is much room for work to be done.

“There are often refugees who arrive in the United States and need help with learning English, putting together a resume or open-ing a bank account,” Becca told me.

My winter break experience with the common good drove home the point that no matter where we are, our work matters. The IRAP team continues to use its talent for the public benefit, championing the cause of refugees who are, as Becca describes them, persecution “sur-vivors who are their own best ad-vocates.”

Sophie Sawyers is a member of the Class of 2016.

Interning to help Iraqi refugees; ‘common good’ transcends campusBY SOPHIE SAWYERS

CONTRIBUTOR

KACEY BERRY

GOGGLESAND GLOVES

I’ve been sitting on this article for quite some time. Like, since the beginning of last semester. Like, since I first pitched my “science column” to the Orient.

Last fall, I enrolled in Psychol-ogy 276: Learning and Memory. Deviating from the traditional lec-ture/discussion/test/paper format, our class worked like a research team. The bulk of our work was devoted to lab, our professor serv-ing as “Principal Investigator,” to answer the question, “What role does a region in the brain known as the hippocampus play in learn-ing and memory?”

The question has been studied many times over, but we zoned in on a new aspect that hadn’t been studied before, whose results have not yet been published in peer-reviewed literature. I relished each day in lab, hypothesized and re-hypothesized compulsively, looked forwarded to each day of data collection and to the end of the semester when we would finally be able to analyze everything. Ul-timately, we found surprising evi-dence that the patterning of visual

I struggled to assess whether my discomfort stemmed from pure

squeamishness or a deeper moral anxiety. I had grown fond of my

rat after weeks of daily testing. My dad o! ered, “Well, it’s not like you’re

killing them.” Well, actually, I would be. I did.

For four hours each day of the internship, I sifted through narratives

of Iraqi people who fl ed from their home country to fi nd temporary

refuge in Jordan.

that I euthanized a rat at the end of the semester, hold on. I do not aim to shock or anger. I just think if we’re going to have any sort of productive discussion, I think it’s important to be clear on the details from the beginning.

Many researchers have been in-timidated and feel extremely pro-tective of their animal laboratories because of controversy.

The question, then, becomes how much information it is prag-matic to withhold (perhaps a lab’s address to protect against vio-lence?) and when defensive steps muddy transparency and impede dialogue.

pus to ransack the labs in protest? This possibility, I learned, has be-

come a reality for many researchers across the country. A quick Google searched yielded numerous stories

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Musicians take stage at BMC showcase

4 e Bowdoin Music Collective (BMC) gave amateur artists the stage at last Friday’s spring showcase, BMC’s debut event of the semester.

4 e lineup was split between acoustic and electric acts, with songs ranging from Of Monsters and Men’s “King and Lionheart” to Rihanna’s “Take A Bow.” Many student acts also performed original songs they had written themselves.

4 e 5 oor of Jack Magee’s Pub was full for the duration of the event. Da-vid Raskin ’13, BMC co-president and member of student band phar/OS, said he expected a high turnout given attendance in past years.

“4 e turnout is pretty typical for the showcase, which is interesting because it’s atypical of most live mu-sic at Bowdoin,” said Raskin. “4 is is always a well-attended event. A lot of that has to do with the fact that there are so many performers, and people are coming out to see their friends and sticking around because everyone sounds really good.”

“I think the biggest factor in this is that so many di6 erent students are involved,” said Nathan Joseph ’13, who serves alongside Raskin as BMC co-president. “Even though we do all the traditional channels of ad-vertising the shows, what sets BMC apart is that word of mouth plays an important role.”

4 e audience was invited to partici-pate in the show when Veronica Ver-din ’15 and her band encouraged at-tendees to get up and dance with their special someones.

“I think it stemmed from the switch from solo performance over to band,” said Verdin. “When you’re limited to guitar and your voice there’s only so much audience in-volvement you can do. I took two songs I had written myself, and we put a drum beat to the 7 rst song. 4 e second song kind of transformed into a di6 erent groove of a song, so I wanted to get a heightened sense of audience involvement.”

4 e BMC is open to helping any student start performing. One student, Mario Jaime ’14, explained that he is not usually a performer but wanted to do a piece of performance art. Jaime

sang a cappella at the showcase.4 e informal event went longer

than expected, running a full three hours.

“We booked the Pub for the whole night knowing that it could go over,” said Raskin. “We tried to get it down to 10 minutes including changeover for an acoustic performer and 15 min-utes for a band.”

4 e showcase brings musicians together to form new bands each semester.

“I really enjoy seeing it all come to-gether and helping musicians 7 nd op-portunities to perform,” said Joseph. “It’s also really cool when we can help facilitate the creation of a band, like people who might not have met each other if not for the group.”

BY MICHELLE HONGSTAFF WRITER

JEFFREY CHUNG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTYOUNG FOLKS: First years Jacob Ellis, James Sullivan and Nick Walker performed folk covers.

Fichtner’s ‘And the Boy’ depicts horrors of WWII

BY ERIN FITZPATRICKSTAFF WRITER

Sam Fichtner ’14 presented his short 7 lm “A Chlapec: And the Boy” on Tuesday night in Smith Auditori-um. 4 e 7 lm, which Fichtner direct-ed himself, was the product of his fall semester study at Prague’s renowned 7 lm school FAMU International.

Fichtner is a 7 lm studies minor. “And the Boy” was his 7 rst experi-ence actually making a 7 lm.

“Our 7 lm department, intellectu-ally engaging and comprehensive as it is, focuses on studies, history, and theory,” he said. “In going abroad I was seeking to get some hands-on experience.”

Fichtner’s desire to create 7 lms landed him in Prague, one of the global centers of 7 lm. He chose a 7 lm production program with CET Academic Programs, which provides students with access to world-class resources, including materials from Barrandov Studios, the largest 7 lm studio in Europe.

Fichtner’s academic work was tai-lored to prepare him the culminat-ing project of the semester: creating a professionally made short feature.

4 e composition of “And the Boy” began when Fichtner started his se-mester at FAMU.

He and his team, which included three other American students with diverse areas of expertise in 7 lm, de-voted countless nights in pubs and co6 ee shops to develop a pitch that FAMU would accept.

“It’s about a month and a half of getting your ego shattered day in and day out,” said Fichtner.

Fichtner and his collaborators wres-tled with this task for weeks, 7 nally settling on a concept that would take full advantage of their unique location and access to professional resources: a period piece set in the Czech country-side during World War II.

“We wanted to make something that we could have only made while in Prague,” said Fichtner. “We had at Barrandov Studios an amazing sup-ply of costumes, and things that we would never have anywhere else in the world. So we said, ‘Let’s just go all out.’”

FAMU provided Fichtner’s team with a production manager to scout actors and 7 nd locations, as well as a translator to aid them with commu-nicating their ideas about the Czech script to their Czech cast.

4 e language barrier presented a unique challenge for Fichtner when it came to directing.

CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSTRIKING THE RIGHT NOTE: Members of the Ying Quartet brandish their bows during a particularly intense movement in their performance.

4 e Grammy Award-winning, world-renowned Ying Quartet con-cluded its 7 ve-day residency at Bowdoin with a sold out perfor-mance in Studzinski Recital Hall last Saturday evening.

4 e quartet performed four pieces before an auditorium packed with students and Brunswick residents, beginning with Robert Schumann’s “Quartet in A Major, Opus 41, No. 3.”

“It is a very beautiful piece, in-spired, we think, directly by his hap-piness at being newly married,” said Phillip Ying, violist and spokesman for the group.

Kenji Bunch’s “Concussion 4 e-ory” followed in four movements. 4 is piece was composed only a few months ago and was inspired by the devastation of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

“4 ey are fabulous,” said Susan Weens, a resident of Brunswick and avid chamber music enthusiast. “It connected very well and I thought their interpretation of the parts was compelling.”

4 e quartet then returned to Schumann’s work with his string quartet, “Death and the Maiden,” in D Minor.

“It is a very popular piece not only because it is a great piece, but be-cause of the title,” said Ying. “I think it adds to the mystique of the piece. It sounds dramatic and evocative.”

And lastly, a8 er a standing ova-tion, the quartet returned for a 7 nal encore with Randall 4 ompson’s “Alleluia,” a melody they transcribed

from its original choral arrangement. 4 e encore was followed by an-

other standing ovation. During their 7 ve-day residency

on campus, the quartet also visited classes, worked with students, and held multiple concerts, including an impromptu performance in the Bowdoin Museum of Art on Sunday a8 ernoon.

Ying said that this kind of multi-day residency allows “a deeper kind of engagement with a community.”

Since they got their start in the 1990s in the town of Jesup, Iowa,

the Ying Quartet has performed at many di6 erent venues, from Carn-egie Hall and the White House to juvenile detention centers and of-7 ce buildings.

“Going out into the community, we’ve learned, can be equally re-warding and equally moving for us and audiences,” said Ying. “We’ve really loved doing that our whole career. So the opportunity to come here and do it in a college setting and in Brunswick is fabulous.”

4 e Ying Quartet 7 rst came to Brunswick nearly a decade ago to

World-renowned Ying Quartet returns to Brunswick

participate in the Bowdoin Inter-national Music Festival. Since then they have continued to return al-most every summer.

“Bowdoin’s summer festival has a great atmosphere as so much is centered on the music,” said Ying. “4 ere is a very nice dynamic be-tween performers, people who are very passionate about teaching, and then all of the students.”

After spending so many sum-mers in Brunswick, the group has developed a great familiarity with the town.

Phillip Ying makes sure to visit Gelato Fiasco every summer. He says his favorite 5 avor is “all of them.”

Janet Ying, the group’s second vio-lin, spends her free time at CrossFit 321 on Turner Street.

Ayano Ninomiya is the newest member of the group. She plays first violin and likes to shop at Morning Glory Natural Foods on Maine Street.

She says she appreciates the fact that drivers stop for pedestrians, un-like at home in New York.

David Ying plays the cello for the quartet. He said his favorite aspect of Brunswick is all of the beautiful trees on Bowdoin’s campus, even when they are covered with snow.

After everything the Ying Quar-tet has accomplished—performing in the Sydney Opera House, receiv-ing multiple Grammy nominations and winning a Grammy in 2005, producing their own music, and fostering the LifeMusic commis-sioning project for American com-posers—the group remains driven by one shared goal.

“Something that we aspire to is that we’ve added to the tradition of performing this great music,” said Ying, “not only in the quality and the level of our performance, but in helping to bring it forward, creat-ing new pieces, being willing to ex-periment and brave how the style is changing.

“We want to be kind of fearless in our pursuit of allowing the style of music to change, and to continue using the string quartet as a vehicle for very deep expressions of our humanity,” he said.

BY CAITLIN WHALENSTAFF WRITER

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Plenty of ink has spilled over the polarizing new Kathryn Bigelow film “Zero Dark Thirty.” During the past few months it has sparked perhaps the most heated discussion over politics in cinema in recent memory.

“Zero Dark Thirty” has its share of vehement defenders and detrac-tors; the debates concerning its merit had been fought long before its release.

The discussion surrounding the film—chronicling a scrupulous procedural depiction of the ten-year C.I.A. investigation that led to the epic nighttime raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound and the terrorist’s execution—has spurred political scrutiny. It’s difficult to assess a film like this without also considering its moral and ethical dilemmas.

Before examining “Zero Dark 5 irty’s” political implications, it is important to mention that I don’t believe it to be a remarkable work of cinema. Admittedly, the techniques of realism are pitch perfect and the pacing is stellar. Its problem lies in its narrative strategy. It is not that I feel that the story is poorly focused; it's too focused. 5 e 6 lm’s hyper-journalistic ap-proach obsesses over so many 7 eeting details that it largely ignores its pro-tagonist until the waning minutes.

Maya (played by Jessica Chas-tain, arguably the 6 nest young actress in the business) is a brilliant and interesting character, but one whose de6 ning traits (tough-ness, determination and grit) are o8 en told to us rather than shown. We bare-ly get to know her or her intentions; she becomes more of a stand-in for American determination rather than a fully 7 eshed out human being.

I kept waiting for a scene in which her obsessions seep into her personal life or her family, show-ing us how much this ordeal has made its mark. The film’s utterly personal final shot left me wonder-ing how great “Zero Dark Thirty” could have been if it had dared to step away from journalistic realism and gone deeper into psychologi-cal character-study.

This speculative thinking pre-supposes that Bigelow’s “just-the-facts” approach is veracious, which, as many senators and poli-ticians (from both parties) have noted, it certainly is not. When interviewed regarding the fac-tual inconsistencies of their work, writer Mark Boal and Bigelow have regretfully fallen back on the “it’s-just-a-movie” defense, usually fol-lowed by a testimonial regarding free speech in Hollywood.

I don’t deny Bigelow the right to 6 ctionalize such events, but her open-ing title card (“Based on 6 rsthand ac-counts of actual events”) contradicts her comments, elucidating a curious lack of foresight into the e9 ects of her politically-charged material.

What this suggests to me is that Bigelow and Boal, labeling their 6 lm

as apolitical, are either ignorant of the stance they’ve made about torture or they are too scared of being held re-sponsible for such a view.

It seems that the debates sur-rounding the film have been in-fused with the following subtext: If you can justify “Zero Dark Thir-ty’s” political problems, you have established its worth as a movie.

With this logic, however, many critics have failed judge the film with regard to the narrative struc-ture or characterization, indepen-dent of its politics (a judgment, as I have previously expressed, the film does not hold up well to).

And then there’s that torture issue. In the most fervent criticisms

of the film (such as the writings of political columnist Glen Gre-enwald) words like “glorify” and “propaganda” get thrown around quite a bit in reference to the film’s depiction of the efficacy of torture. Such words are perhaps a bit puni-tive and crudely didactic.

“Zero Dark Thirty” does any-thing but make torture attractive. One thing the movie does rather well is establish the complicated nature of these morally-dubious techniques. The filmmakers, how-ever, do adopt an if/then strategy to their narrative that—whether or not they condone the result—implies that torture techniques (specifically sleep-deprivation) led to a specific piece of information that ultimately led to the death of

Osama Bin Laden. But while torture is rendered effec-tive, Bigelow depicts its palpable ethical quandaries as well.

However, what distressed me most about the film is just how closely its release comes to the

actual event largely undigested by the American public. A level of re-move must be allowed to settle in, so that in dealing with a provoca-tive piece of art, the viewer can bring a sober intellect to the issues.

Yes, Kathryn Bigelow may be one of the only 6 lmmakers with the grit and audacity to examine such events, but then again, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Your opinion of Bigelow’s film may very well boil down to wheth-er or not you see a depiction or ex-amination of violence.

Personally, I only saw this in her brisk and entertaining procedural style, which might be more accept-able in a cheaper action flick. But with a subject as charged as hers, there’s too much at stake for a film-maker to worry about entertaining.

To be sure, I am thankful for the conversation that has followed the 6 lm’s release. People from many walks of criticism are chiming in—though this has had a tendency to make 6 lm critics defensive. People are thinking deeply about what we can excuse and take away from the movies.

In some sense, the critical back-lash Bigelow’s film has provided suggests that maybe I’m wrong—maybe filmmakers don’t have to wait several years to attack current political issues.

Perhaps audiences are ready to examine popular entertainment with a watchful eye—I’d prefer a more competent auteur to take the challenge, but alas, you take what you can get.

Too soon? Controversy in Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

CINEMA SCOPE

SAM FICHTNER

Bigelow may be one of the only fi lmakers with the audac-

ity to examine such [recent] events, but just because you

can doesn’t mean you should.

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Michael Hendrickson ’13

HONGBEI LI, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY ELENA BRITOSSTAFF WRITER

Michael Hendrickson ’13 has always been a fan of the stage. In high school he was heavily involved in theater and sang in several choirs, but it was not un-til he came to Bowdoin that his a cappella career took flight.

Hendrickson is a busy man. A psychology major with a minor in education, he is a member of two a cappella groups—Ursus Verses and the Longfellows.

As a first year, Hendrickson was immediately drawn to a cap-pella as a creative outlet, but he was not originally planning on singing in two groups.

“I picked the Longfellows 6 rst,” he said. “It was a tough decision.”

It wasn’t until the second se-mester of his first year that he joined Ursus Verses.

“I auditioned kind of on a whim,” said Hendrickson. He’s glad that he did, noting that that the Longfellows and Ursus complement one another nicely. Nevertheless, he does note that he is often pressured by friends to admit favoring one group over the other.

“Really, I couldn’t decide,” said Hendrickson. “They have such a different dynamic; I love both groups.”

When it comes to electing his favorite Bowdoin performance space, however, Hendrickson’s opinion is absolute.

“Definitely the chapel. Your sound is amplified in there—there’s a lot of history there,” he said.

He also acknowledges the “dif-ferent sound” that both a cappella groups have, praising them for their distinct energy and approach to performing.

“I really love the two groups I’m in because my favorite [songs] are on the extremes,” he said.

Ursus Verses was founded in 2001 and is one of two co-ed groups on campus. The Longfel-lows, founded in 2004, is an all-male company.

Ursus’ audience favorites include “Time to Pretend” by MGMT and last year’s Disney medley. Favorites

from the Longfellows include “Down by the Sally Gardens” and the contemporary Beyoncé hit, “I Was Here.”

Hendrickson enjoys singing the “fun crowd-pleasers” that Ursus unfailingly produces, as well as the “challenging and beautiful” ballads that the Long-fellows favor.

Singing with both groups is definitely a time commitment; Hendrickson logs an average of two hours a day of a cap-pella practice. Nevertheless, he has not lost his passion for old amusements.

“I really miss theater, I defi-nitely miss that art, and last year’s chamber choir concert was just beautiful,” he said.

After graduation, Hendrick-son intends to continue to par-ticipate in musical programs and perhaps make a return to theater as well.

“[The performing arts] are such a great stress release,” said Hendrickson. “It’s something that I really need to keep doing.”

Hendrickson plans to attend graduate school to study mental health counseling. Before this, however, he still has much to do at Bowdoin. With course work and concerts as top priorities, he quipped, “there isn’t time for anything else!”

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One of BMC’s major events, the showcase allows participants to test out new band dynamics and 6 gure out what works.

“5 e showcase kind of makes peo-ple get ready near the start of the se-mester, so by the end of the semester we’ve got a lot of bands,” said Raskin.

Unexpected add-ons and drop-outs make the event unpredictable. Even though she was not listed on the line-up, Sinead Lamel ’15 sur-prised the audience with an im-promptu performance at the end of the night. Other students who were originally on the lineup did not end up performing at all.

“Sometimes there’s a drop out in performers, for whatever reason. It might be because they’re scared or shy; they might decide not to do it at the last second,” said Verdin. “5 at’s not so much a logistics problem. I just want people to come out and play.”

5 e BMC meets every Monday at 9 p.m. in the Smith Union conference room. All are welcome to attend.

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“It was an experience dealing with a translator trying to explain to a kid how emotional he should be and just watching someone else maybe get it right and maybe get it wrong,” he said.

With all of these tools in place, a 6 lming period of four long days, and a painstaking editing process, “And the Boy” was 6 nally completed.

“And the Boy” takes place on a morning during the winter of 1941-1942, a time when the Germans were starting to send Czech Jews to con-centration camps.

5 e 6 lm provides a glimpse into this traumatic period through the eyes of an unnamed boy.

5 e plot is simple but disturbing: it begins when Nazis unexpectedly ar-rive at the boy’s house.

His parents sneak him out the back so can 7 ee into the woods, dis-oriented and quite alone. Gunshots signal the murder of his parents shortly a8 erwards.

5 e anxiety the 6 lm produces of-fers the audience a haunting look into

the boy’s mind as he grapples with confusion and loss.

Fichtner sees the 6 lm’s ambiguity as central to its goal. With “And the Boy,” he aimed not to recount the par-ticular events of an individual person’s day, but instead to present an allegory about the horrors of war and their det-rimental psychological e9 ects.

“While we were speci6 c about the time and place of our setting, we wanted the e9 ect to be that of any war, and the enemy as a projection of the audience’s enemy in regards to war,” said Fichtner.

Relating the 6 lm’s title to this theme, Fichtner said, “5 ere’s the war, and the soldiers, and the crimes, and the enemies, and the families, and the hiding, and the camps, and running, and the homes... and the boy.”

With this experience behind him, Fichtner hopes to become involved in directing, writing, or producing 6 lms a8 er his time at Bowdoin.

“Luckily I have few years to de-cide where I want to take my 6 rst step when the time comes,” he said. “Before I decide I need to make a few more 6 lms to understand the process more.”

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Holtz hat trick leads No. 8 women’s hockey to sweep of Hamilton BY ANDRES BOTERO

ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin (16-4-2, 10-3-1 NES-CAC) broke its 2-game losing streak by sweeping Hamilton (11-10-1, 5-8-1 NESCAC) scoring seven more goals than the Continentals this past weekend.

With one week remaining in the regular season, Bowdoin, currently ranked eighth in the nation and third in the conference, is guaranteed to host a quarter4 nal game in the NES-CAC playo5 s.

Head Coach Marissa O’Neil said she is not worried about Bowdoin’s poten-tial seed for the NESCAC champion-ship because the team has consistently played well this season, even a6 er losing twice to Trinity two weeks ago.

“Even a6 er the Trinity series, because we had done so well prior to it, there wasn’t really a chance that we would not host,” she said.

7 ough Bowdoin is guaranteed a high tournament seed, there is little chance they will battle with any less urgency against Amherst this weekend.

“First, it’s an issue of pride,” she said. “7 ey are sitting outside the [national] top-10 so it is going to be a big matchup.

a former professional player himself, was working as general manager for the Cologne Sharks in Germany’s top league.

“Shannon believed in my abilities and recommended me to his owner-ship group and ultimately o5 ered me a contract,” he said. “7 is was a step up from the level at which I was playing at the time and it was a no-brainer to take the opportunity.”

7 e Polar Bear connection paid o5 for Landry, who continued to develop his skills as a defenseman. While Landry enjoyed his stint in Germany, a chance to play profes-sional hockey and simultaneously earn his MBA led Landry to the Braehead Clan in Scotland.

“7 e opportunity to continue to play professional hockey in an interna-tional setting while having my school paid for and earning a salary was too good to pass up. It doesn’t get much better, in my opinion.” he said. “Having attended Bowdoin as a student-athlete, I knew I had the right tools and work ethic to balance playing professional hockey and completing my business school degree.”

In Great Britain, Landry continued to shine and accumulated 58 points (18 goals, 40 assists) in 54 games. In the summer of 2011, Landry was of-fered a chance to play for the Colorado Eagles of the ECHL, the league that had formerly cut him. A6 er a pro-ductive half season with the Eagles in which he posted 30 points in 35 games, Landry was o5 ered to try out for the Sound Tigers, the New York a8 liate he currently plays for. Landry remained with the Sound Tigers for the rest of the year, and posted 20 points, before signing his NHL contract.

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Jon Landry ’06 on contract with NY IslandersBY PETER DAVISORIENT STAFF

When Bowdoin hockey standout Jon Landry graduated in 2006, he knew he was embarking on a very di5 erent career path than many of his classmates; he was not ready to hang up his skates just yet. Since then, Landry has played hockey for profes-sional teams in 4 ve U.S. states and three di5 erent countries. He is now one step—either an injury or a cut—away from making the NHL roster of the New York Islanders.

“I always knew, even before my graduation from Bowdoin, that I wanted to play professional hockey a6 er I 4 nished school,” Landry wrote in an email to the Orient. “I wanted to give pro hockey a shot for at least a year or two, whether it was in the U.S. or Europe. I also had aspirations to use my degree in economics to work for an investment 4 rm or start my own business.”

7 e Montreal, Quebec native was one of the best two-way players to skate in the old Dayton Arena. He 4 n-ished among the team’s top three scor-ers each year, and recorded a total of 121 points (51 goals, 70 assists) in 98 games. As a senior he was named First Team All-NESCAC, and First Team All-American, and he graduated with a degree in economics and French.

In July, Landry signed his 4 rst NHL contract—a one-year, two-way deal with the New York Islanders organiza-tion. He was signed to a one year, two-way contract for the 2012-2013 season, meaning the Islanders can loan Landry to and from the Bridgeport Sound Ti-gers, their American Hockey League (AHL) minor league a8 liate, as they see 4 t. A6 er the NHL lockout ended in January, he was o5 ered an oppor-tunity to make the team at the Island-ers’ training camp. For Landry, it was

a great moment a6 er a very long and di8 cult road. He was one step closer to achieving his childhood dream.

A6 er graduating from Bowdoin, Landry brie9 y stayed in Maine af-ter winning a roster spot with the Portland Pirates, the AHL a8 liate of the Phoenix Coyotes. 7 e following season, Landry joined the Augusta (Ga.) Lynx in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL), one level below the AHL. However, Landry only ap-peared in two games before he was cut from the roster.

While others may have given up their hockey career and joined the business world, Landry’s ambitions pushed him to keep working toward his dream.

“I think there were many times where I considered leaving the sport, but I kept telling myself ‘one more year,’” he said. “Minor league hockey isn’t exactly a lucrative business and D-III hockey isn’t exactly a regular stop for NHL scouts, but I always believed that if I was given the opportunity, I could play with the best.”

Landry joined the Arizona Sun-dogs, another ECHL team, in 2008, and 4 nally began to have some success on the ice. He helped lead the Sundogs to a league championship that year, and stayed with the team through the 2009 season.

“7 at was one of the best times of my life,” Landry said in a recent ar-ticle on NHL.com. “I’ll always cherish that moment. Any time you win in any league, that’s a great accomplish-ment. We were a really close, tight-knit group. I stayed in Arizona a6 er that, thinking I would get an opportunity to move up the ranks with them.”

Landry continued to develop his skills and his luck soon changed when he received a call from a for-mer Bowdoin teammate, Shannon McNevan ’05. At the time, McNevan,

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BY ANDRES BOTEROORIENT STAFF

A6 er a decade-long absence, alpine ski racing is o8 cially back at Bowdoin reviving one of the College’s oldest tra-ditions. 7 anks to e5 orts by Alex Fog-arty ’13 and Duncan Masland ’11, Polar Skiing has been transformed into the College-approved Alpine Skiing Club.

Starting as a club around the 1950s, alpine skiing used to be a major 4 xture of student life. Bruce Chalmers ’59 was one of many Bowdoin students whose life was touched by skiing and now helps support the new Alpine Skiing Club.

“I always loved skiing and have been a part of skiing,” Chalmers said. “I insure most of the ski areas in the state so I have always stayed close to skiing.”

Sugarloaf and Sunday River were both in their infancies at the time, and the team skied at Pleasant Mountain (now Shawnee Park) because it was closer to Brunswick.

7 e alpine ski racing club operated on a shoestring budget; Chalmers housed the team at his family home in Bridg-ton where his parents fed the athletes, and local ski resorts cut the team deals on using the hills. Finances were always a major obstacle and that problem only grew with time.

“7 e director of athletics would call me into his o8 ce in the fall and cut me a check for $800 and say, ‘make it last,’” Chalmers said. “It was mostly a self-run organization. We had an advisor but it was mostly run by us. 7 ere wasn’t that much money in the athletic fund and as time got on, it got to be more and more expensive. When I was there, we paid our own bills but the team did take time away from school. Skiing is fairly expen-sive. 7 e logical thing was probably to

eliminate the ski team.”Despite its low budget, the team was

quite successful. Bowdoin won the state championship in 1958 while Chalmers was on the team, beating the University of Maine-Orono, Colby and Bates.

7 e club became a varsity sport in the ’90s, but the athletics department cut it in 2003, citing school-wide budget cuts, lack of participation and growing concern about travel disrupting the aca-demic lives of the student-athletes. 7 is decision was met with a much criticism from then-Head Coach Martin Wilson, athletes on the team such as Sara Laverty ’03 and Siri Ashton ’05, and alumni.

Chalmers was saddened—though not surprised—at the College’s decision.

“One of the problems is that ski meets are usually a couple days long,” he said. “You have to leave 7 ursday nights, miss classes Friday, and in my time there were Saturday classes. You wouldn’t get back to Bowdoin until late Sunday night; it took a whack out of your classes.”

Even though ski racing was gone, the interest in skiing at the college never really waned. Alpine Skiing Club co-founder Masland was a member of the Bowdoin Ski and Ride Club, which has mostly served as a go-between for students who need transportation and li6 tickets to some of the mountains in Maine. 7 ere had been talk of creating a racing team during his 4 rst two years here but nothing much came out of those discussions.

“My story starts when I got an email from this potential student’s dad in the summer asking about the Bowdoin ski team,” Masland said. “7 is girl emails me and we meet August 30. We talked about the Ski and Ride club and this

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STICKING UP: Colleen Finerty ’15 fi ghts a Hamilton player for the puck on Friday. The Polar Bears beat the Continentals twice to stay among the NESCAC’s fi nest.

We need to win both of these games if we want to have a chance of gaining an at-large bid, if we don’t win the NE-SCAC championship. We de4 nitely won’t be taking it easy.”

Potential 4 rst round upsets could bring the tournament to Bowdoin. If top-seeded Middlebury loses in an

early round, Bowdoin has a chance of becoming a tournament host.

According to the prol4 c scorer and captain Stephanie Ludy ’13, Bowdoin’s success this season has come from the team’s impressive depth.

“We’ve been doing really well creat-ing chances o5 ensively,” Ludy said. “I

think it’s been an entire team e5 ort—from strong forechecking to great de-fensive pinches. Each one of our for-wards has been an o5 ensive threat this season, and with our team’s ability to run three balanced lines, we’ve been able to keep the momentum going of-fensively. Spending more time in the

o5 ensive zone has helped give us better scoring opportunities overall.”

Bowdoin’s o5 ense and defense are ranked second and 4 rst respectively in the NESCAC.

Captain Kayte Holtz ’13 played ex-tremely well in the Hamilton series, posting her 4 6 h career hat trick.

Ariana Bourque ’16 got things start-ed early with a goal in the 4 rst minutes of the opening period on Friday.

Later in the 4 rst, Bowdoin was pe-nalized and down a player, but Holtz took control of the puck, beat three Hamilton players into their zone, and blasted it home for a short-handed goal.

In the second and third periods, Bowdoin scored four more goals to put the game completely out of reach.

Hamilton rallied a bit in the 4 nal period, sneaking the puck past goalie Kayla Lessard ’13, but it was inconse-quential as the game ended 6-1.

In the second game, which was Bow-doin’s Senior Night, Ludy scored a pair of goals to lead the team to victory in her last regular season home game.

Hamilton attempted a comeback in the latter part of the second period, but Bourque and Rachel Kennedy ’16 worked together to score the 4 nal goal of the game.

O’Neil said she is impressed with the level of commitment from her seniors.

“Going into the year, you know it

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Max Staiger ’13 has a pretty big advantage as a basketball player, standing at 6’10”. 6 e tall center/forward said he gets his height from his father, who is just two inches shorter. Staiger’s father, who played basketball both at the college level and professionally in Germany, is responsible for in-troducing his son to the game. Of course, it may have been an obvi-ous decision when his son already stood at 5’6” in the fourth grade.

Still, Staiger’s height did not guarantee his success in college.

“6 e college game [is] 10 times faster than high school,” Staiger said.

6 e di7 erence led him to take a post-graduate year at the Ped-die School before beginning his Bowdoin career, where he learned what he called some “key lessons” for dealing with the speed and ath-leticism at the college level. From there, he says, it was all about 8 nd-ing his role on the court.

“Every player wants a support-ing role on the team,” Staiger said. “With basketball and other team sport everyone contributes to a win, and everyone contributes to a loss, from person one to [per-son] fourteen.”

6 is mindset has made Staiger a favorite in the locker room and a valuable member of the team, be-yond his scoring achievements.

“He enjoys people,” Head Coach Tim Gilbride said. “He has genu-ine concern for each and every one of his teammates. It creates an en-joyable atmosphere.”

Staiger said he has tried to bond with every player on the team since his sophomore year.

“He’s very skillful,” Gilbride added about Staiger’s play. “He’s good at seeing the whole picture and understanding what the of-fense should be doing.”

Staiger’s skills were on display last weekend in his 8 nal regu-lar season games as a Polar Bear, scoring a career-high 23 points on Friday against Wesleyan and then a team-high 18 points against Connecticut College the next day. 6 ose victories helped Bowdoin retain its 8 9 h seed for the NES-CAC tournament, guaranteeing them an easier opponent in the 8 rst rounds.

But Staiger has always been good at seeing the whole pic-ture, including the one beyond basketball.

“My parents always stressed that academics go 8 rst; basket-ball was a reward for doing well,” he said. “6 e NESCAC schools 8 t that well. My visit here with Will

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Hanley ’12 and Ryan O’Connell ’12 showed me what a great com-munity there is here. People aren’t tied down to one activity—athlet-ics doesn’t dominate.”

Staiger is one of the most visible 8 gures on campus, having served as president of Ladd House, head of the Inter-House Council, and as an active member of the Alcohol Team and the Athletic Council. He is also a head RA.

“Overall, it’s very rewarding to be in a position to lead the team, both in scoring and as a mentor,” Staiger said. “But it still comes down to the fact that anyone on the team can be the leading scorer, so it’s particularly rewarding to be in that other leadership position.”

Leadership is Staiger’s way of giving back to a team that he said means so much to him. Staiger said he has aspired to become someone the team can rely on, as he has re-lied on them. One of the ways he does so is by taking an interest in the team’s younger members.

• Scored a career-high 23 points against Wesleyan on Saturday• Led his team in scoring again with 18 points against Conn. on Sunday

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“It still comes down to the fact that anyone on the team can be the leading scorer, so it’s particularly rewarding to be in that

other leadership position.”MAX STAIGER ’13

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Men’s hockey struggles against Wesleyan

Leaving Bowdoin last Friday, the men’s ice hockey team was caught in the middle of a Massachusetts driving ban during Nemo, forcing them spend the night in Marlborough county.

“I’ve been doing this a long time and I was as proud of this team as any team I’ve had here and how they dealt with the whole adventure and how they conducted themselves in the hotel for 48 hours and how they repre-sented the college,” said Head Coach Terry Meagher. “6 ey got to a game late Sunday a9 ernoon and played their hearts out.”

With last Saturday’s Trinity game also postponed until this Monday, according to Meagher, the Polar Bears only faced o7 against Wesley-an on Sunday.

“Spending two days in a hotel without skating wasn’t an ideal situ-ation before a game,” said captain Tim McGarry ’13. “But it o7 ered a chance for our team to reconnect and build team unity which will bene8 t us down the stretch.”

6 at opportunity for team bonding

paid o7 in the 8 rst period against the Cardinals, when sophomores Ryan Collier and John McGinnis worked the puck to fellow classmate Connor Quinn ’15, who scored the open-ing goal—his seventh of the season. Quinn, again in the middle of the ac-tion, passed the puck to Ollie Koo ’14 in the beginning of the second period and he scored, making the score 2-0.

Bowdoin soon found itself in pen-alty trouble and a9 er killing 8 ve pen-alties 8 nally let up a goal to Wesleyan.

“Steve Messina made some very big saves that kept us alive when we were scrambling to kill o7 penalties in the second period,” said McGarry. “On more than one occasion he stopped point blank shots with big glove saves. Steve is a big game goalie and loves to be in those situations.”

6 e Cardinals had the momen-tum from that point on, 8 nding the equalizer less than a minute later. 6 e beginning of the third period saw Wesleyan then take the lead 3-2. But Bowdoin responded quickly when Rob MacGregor ’13, a key player who just returned from a long hiatus due to injury, found Rob Toczylowski ’13 to even the score.

“Wesleyan is a really good team that probably has the top two lines that are as good as anybody’s in the league. And they scored a power play goal late in the power play kind of on what you

would call a puck-luck redirect and then they came down and had anoth-er goal that had eyes,” said Meagher. “But we had a lot of opportunities. It was a playo7 -type game and it was played at a high intensity.”

6 e squads battled each other in a dead heat for the rest of the period and even an overtime period could not tip the balance in anyone’s favor. 6 e game ended in a 3-3 tie, making Wesleyan the only NESCAC team un-defeated against Bowdoin this season.

“In both of our games against Wesleyan we have gotten ourselves into penalty trouble, giving them opportunities to get back into the game,” said McGarry. “We would love to have another shot at them in the playo7 s and it would be a great feeling to end their season.”

6 e playo7 seeding will be decided this weekend. Bowdoin currently sits in 8 rst place, but is only two points ahead of Williams, Amherst and Middlebury. 6 ose three teams will be trading points this weekend as Am-herst plays both teams and the other teams each play Hamilton. 6 ere is an opportunity for a reshu: ing of the top 8 ve headed into the playo7 s, but as long as Bowdoin can top last-placed Tu9 s and potential eighth seed Con-necticut College this weekend, the Po-lar Bears should carry the No. 1 seed into the playo7 s.

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“He’s always talking to them, really about anything,” fellow cap-tain Nick Lenker ’13 said. “He’s helping them apply to the College Houses, writing recommenda-tions. He’s involved in everything on campus. He knows everyone and everything.”

“I’ve found a family with the basketball team,” Staiger said. “We’ll probably stay a close group for as long as we know each other. 6 at I’ve improved over the years, and people can attest to that, is only because I’ve had 12 to 14 guys supporting me. 6 is is more of a team of the week than an athlete of the week.”

Staiger will need his team if they hope to notch a victory against the fourth seeded Tu9 s, the only team he has not defeated in his time at Bowdoin.

“Wow,” Lenker said on hearing that. “Well, if he hasn’t beaten them then that means I haven’t either.”

He paused for a moment, say-ing “No he’s probably right. He would be the one to remember those little details.”

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Women’s basketball sneaks into playoffsBY DIMITRIA SPATHAKIS

ORIENT STAFF

Women’s basketball 8 nished its regu-lar season with a 72-59 win against Con-necticut College on Sunday evening, boosting its overall record to 13-10 (4-6 NESCAC) and earning it the last playo7 spot in the NESCAC. On Saturday, cap-tain Kaitlin Donahoe ’13 surpassed the 1,000-point mark, but the Polar Bears fell a point short to Wesleyan, 70-69.

With the Polar Bears leading on Saturday, Wesleyan grabbed an of-fensive rebound in their last posses-sion and took the lead by one point. 6 e Polar Bears had one possession le9 but failed to score due to a trav-elling violation.

“We had a chance to win the game and we didn’t put the ball in the hoop and they made that big play down the stretch,” said Head Coach Adrienne Shibles.

6 e Polar Bears faced adversity even before the game began. Noti8 ed at noon on Saturday that their scheduled game against Conn. was called o7 due to the blizzard, the Polar Bears received a sur-prising call four hours later informing them they were playing Wesleyan in a couple of hours.

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“It was not the team we were pre-pared for,” said Shibles.

On the defensive end, the Polar Bears looked to stop Wesleyan’s guards from driving to the basket.

“We looked to pressure them hard and to do some trapping around the basket,” said Shibles.

However, with the o; cials calling a “tight” game, according to Shibles, Bowdoin quickly found itself in foul trouble. Donahoe, the team’s leader, had two fouls within the 8 rst 8 ve minutes.

“I thought the game plan was good,” said Shibles. “It was just the way the refs were calling it made it hard to play an aggressive half-court game.”

6 e Polar Bears had some di; culty with Wesleyan’s zone defense but were hurt by their low shooting percentage, making only 18 of 51 shots.

In the second half the Polar Bears came out more o7 ensively aggressive in order to tap into Wesleyan’s success in drawing fouls. Bowdoin was able get to the line and capitalized on its free throws, only missing one out of 27.

“I was proud of our kids, the game didn’t start until a quarter to 10, and we were in a hostile situation with [Wes-leyan] students sitting right behind our bench,” said Shibles. “It was a tough weekend and I thought given all that, they played with good intensity and scrapped hard. Some of our shots just didn’t fall.”

6 e Polar Bears had little time to re-cover for Connecticut College a9 er get-ting back to their hotel at around 12:30 in the morning. Conn. did not play a game on Saturday.

“We were going into it at a disadvan-tage,” said Shibles.

Nevertheless, the Polar Bears came out with intensity, taking the lead from the start and never letting it go.

“I was really proud of how they were mentally ready and sharp,” said Shibles.

One huge improvement was the Polar Bear’s shooting percentage. Bowdoin made 50 percent of its 3-point shots. Donahoe led with 20 points and Sara Binkhorst ’15 had 19.

6 e Polar Bears commanded a com-fortable lead for most of the game until a late surge when Connecticut cut the lead down to six.

“6 ere was a stretch where I felt like we didn’t have the sense of ur-gency about scoring the basketball… it wasn’t that we weren’t playing hard,” said Shibles. “We were up ten and I think we felt comfortable. I called a timeout and said ‘we need to score’ and I thought they responded and made that run really well.”

6 e Polar Bears managed to do just enough to enter the playo7 s, wrapping up the 8 nal seed of the NESCAC tour-nament on Wednesday night a9 er Tu9 s beat Hamilton in order to guarantee the Polar Bears the win. Even though Conn. College had the same conference re-cord (4-6) as Bowdoin, the Polar Bears pushed them out of the tournament by virtue of their higher overall record. 6 e NESCAC playo7 picture was extremely close, with three 9-1 teams and 8 ve 4-6 teams making the 8 nal cut. Of the 4-6 teams, Bowdoin boasts the highest win-ning percentage across all games.

Despite the strong 8 nish to the end of their season, the Polar Bears will face Tu9 s, the No. 1 seed in the tour-nament, on Saturday at 4 p.m. Tu9 s beat Bowdoin 62-44 on January 11 in a defensive clash in which only 25 points were scored by both teams in the 8 rst half.

is your last hurrah,” she said. “I have seen—both as a player and a coach—so many seniors either have their best year or become overwhelmed. 6 is week-end, we scored nine goals and maybe six or seven of them were senior goals.”

6 is is the 8 rst time Bowdoin has won 16 games since the 2007 season.

6 e regular season 8 nale against Amherst is especially important be-cause it will be the 8 rst time Bowdoin will play at Amherst in four years.

“For this senior class, the last 8 ve games have been one goal games,” O’Neil said. “6 ere is de8 nitely a rivalry here, not to mention what is at stake this year. We haven’t played at Amherst since I have been coaching here.”

“Personally, I’m very excited to go back to Amherst,” Ludy agreed. “6 e last time we played there was freshman year in the semi-8 nal game when we lost in double OT.”

6 e team will play against Am-herst in a two game series this Friday and Saturday. Seeds for the NESCAC Championship will be announced early next week.

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BERNIE CLEVENSAway games are comprised of two

components—the travel and the game itself—and a victory in the latter is usually contingent on mental prepa-ration during the former. 6 at is not to say that the team that spends the entire travel time visualizing the game always comes out on top, or that the game itself is entirely decided by the hours, or even days, leading up to the game. Rather, road games provide a platform of adversity for teams to demonstrate their resilience and make strides towards greatness.

Bowdoin’s traveling teams perse-vered through the challenges brought about by Nemo this weekend, win-ning three out of 7 ve games.

Ironically named a8 er the Latin word for “no man,” this weekend’s

legendary nor’easter a9 ected almost every man, woman, and child of the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and east-ern Canada, resulting in over 3,000 : ight cancellations, 400,000 power outages at its peak, and entire road and highways bans.

Delivering the 7 8 h-highest ever-recorded snowfall in Boston at 24.9 inches, and a record high in Portland at 31.9 inches, Nemo will long be re-membered as the Blizzard of 2013. 6 e nor’easter’s greatest wrath, how-ever, fell upon Hamden, Connecticut, which received 40 inches of snow.

Nevertheless, Nemo was unable to stop three of Bowdoin’s sports teams from visiting Wesleyan, a mere 20.7 miles from Hamden, to play some of their 7 nal regular-season road games of the 2012-2013 campaign.

As early as last Wednesday, the teams heard rumors of delays in their travel. Coaches warned their players that they might not travel but to prepare for their regularly-scheduled games.

6 e team departures were initially planned for Friday morning but were pushed back to the a8 ernoon due to weather precautions.

6 e chartered buses were 7 lled with players and coaches craning their heads to see how bad the visibility was out the front windshield. Rather than sleeping, the teams passed time on the bus scanning through the foggy windows to witness the e9 ects of the Nemo, including the dozens of cars that 7 lled ditches along the highway.

6 e men’s hockey team was origi-nally scheduled to play Trinity on Saturday a8 ernoon and Wesleyan on Sunday, while the basketball teams planned to compete against Wesleyan that Friday evening and Connecticut College Saturday a8 ernoon.

A8 er much deliberation due to the impending road curfews, the NES-CAC amended the weekend’s plans. While the basketball games were pushed back 24 hours, the hockey game against Trinity on Saturday was cancelled. In fact, the weather re-

120-day lockout, the minor league af-7 liates of the AHL were una9 ected by the strike and did not have any game cancellations. During his current year in Bridgeport, Landry has found a home with his consistent play. He leads the Sound Tigers’ defensemen with six goals and 20 points. He has also con-tinued to show his leadership on and o9 the ice, and was elected Alternate Captain earlier this year.

When Landry had the chance to compete for a starting role at the Is-landers training camp in January, his fellow teammates were excited. Colin McDonald, a Bridgeport right-winger who was also invited to try out for the Islanders, was excited to hear Landry was joining him.

“He’s been our top defenseman pretty consistently all year,” McDonald told NHL.com. “6 ere’s a lot of guys who have more American League ex-perience than he does, but what makes him a leader is the path he’s taken, and the guys respect him for that. Obvi-ously he’s grinded it out in lots of dif-ferent leagues the past couple of years.

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Nemo Blizzard highlights unique challenges of collegiate road games mained so poor on Saturday that the basketball teams inverted the sched-ule. 6 ey battled the Cardinals on Saturday and the Camels on Sunday because Wesleyan was closer to their hotel than Connecticut College.

With these cancellations, the teams received an extra 24 hours of down time; in addition to resting, enjoying the all-you-can-eat bu9 ets and doing homework, the players utilized this opportunity for team bonding.

6 e hockey team started in a card tournament, while the men’s basket-ball team converted the hotel board-room into a movie theater by hooking up a laptop to the big-screen projec-tor. 6 e women’s basketball team fre-quented the pool and celebrated senior Kaitlin Donahoe’s 1,000th point of her career, which she scored on Saturday night. In addition to improving team dynamics, these activities allowed the players to forget, if only momentarily, the stressful schedule changes and im-portant upcoming games.

6 e men’s hockey team tied Wesleyan

3-3 in overtime but still remain atop the NESCAC standings at 11-2-2 in the conference.

6 e men’s basketball team swept the weekend, solidifying their place as the No. 5 seed in the conference play-o9 s this upcoming weekend.

Women’s basketball lost to Wes-leyan on Saturday night but easily handled Connecticut College the next day, earning the NESCAC tourna-ment’s last seed and a 7 rst round matchup against Tu8 s this weekend.

Perhaps the positive results of the weekend, in light of the challenging travel, indicate that an extended in-terval between exiting the bus and competing on the court, ice or 7 eld is helpful for athletes. Or, maybe these key victories indicate that the ath-letes were excited simply to get out of the dangerous outdoors and play the game they love. If so, the beauty of sports persists—escaping the perils of the real world where during the brief game, the only antagonist is the team on the opposite side.

Not many guys have done that. I was very happy for him when I found out he was coming up with us. It couldn’t happen to a better guy.”

Islanders Head Coach Jack Capua-no, who had an extra opportunity to assess the team’s minor league talent during the lockout, has also been im-pressed with Landry’s skill set.

“6 ere’s no question that he’s earned the opportunity to come to our train-ing camp,” Capuano said in January. “I just think that Jon’s a guy who has paid his dues. He has good vision, intelli-gence, and hockey sense. He does a lot of good little things.”

6 ough Landry competed for a role with the Islanders, he has since returned to the Sound Tigers, who are in the midst of a playo9 push. A8 er several games were postponed due to Nemo, the Sound Tigers will take the ice on Friday against the Spring7 eld Falcons.

Despite his many playing stints across the U.S. and Europe, Landry remains in contact with his Bowdoin teammates and Head Coach Terry Meagher. Meagher said he has always been impressed by Landry’s puck han-dling and passing skills, but he also

was the same conversation I’d had with people over the previous years. It was hard to get momentum going and three hours later I get an email from Alex say-ing ‘Hey, I called these four ski areas and I have talked to two people. What can we do next?’ At that point, I realized that this girl was pushing us to have a ski team. 6 e ball was rolling at that point and there was no turning back.”

Fogarty is a former national level Ca-nadian skier. Originally planning to at-tend a school with an NCAA ski team, Fogarty chose Bowdoin for its ski legacy as well as the opportunity to oversee a club team.

“I think the vision of having a col-legiate ski team instead of an NCAA team is much more inclusive while still retaining the competitive qualities of an NCAA team,” Fogarty said. “It is great to give people the opportunity to be com-petitive or to start from scratch if they have never done it before.”

Fogarty and Masland planned to cre-ate a team that would compete in the Collegiate league, a competitive league with many members in Maine.

While trying to get this idea started, Fogarty and Masland met Frank Whit-tier ’82, an alumnus who had raced and coached the team until 1986.

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Like Chalmers, Whittier was really disheartened by the removal of the team in 2003.

“It is always sad when a school aban-dons a sports team,” Whittier said. “6 ere are strong loyalties that are built up over decades. It was painful for a number of alums like myself who had great memories and strong ties with Bowdoin skiing. I remember running into Alex and Duncan in early Novem-ber of 2009 at Sunday River at the top of the hill. We [ski alums] wanted to show them some support. We also tried to introduce them to alums that were still active. 6 e idea was to try and energize Bowdoin ski alums and raise support for Alex and Duncan,” Whittier said.

With support from alumni, Masland and Fogarty wrote a proposal stating the club’s goals and requesting a small budget, hoping that this bare-bones operation would sway the College’s po-sition about alpine skiing. A8 er being denied a charter by Student Activities, Masland realized that club had poorly timed their proposal:

“In retrospect it was terrible timing,” Masland said. “6 ere was no money for it. It was tough but it made sense to cut a varsity sport that was expensive, small, and traveled across the country but the beauty of club level racing is that everyone competes and has fun. 6 ere is an alumni network that was

pushed away when skiing was cut. 6 is is a good way to show that Bowdoin is embracing its legacy.”

Despite being turned down, Fogarty and Masland decided to create Polar Skiing, a non-pro7 t organization inde-pendent of the College whose purpose was to support alpine ski racing in Brunswick, Maine. By doing that and also gaining membership into the Unit-ed States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association, both students hoped that this high level of professionalism would lend them credibility and convince the College to endorse the club.

President Barry Mills gave the club his support this year a8 er being im-pressed with determination and drive of the group leaders.

“If you go back far enough, you’ll notice that skiing has always been a club sport,” Mills said. In the ’90s it was made a varsity sport and then in 2003 we eliminated it—largely because there was not a lot of student interest and it was expensive. Interestingly enough, when it became a nonpro7 t and club, more students got involved. And clearly the lower intensity of the sport is attrac-tive to students at a lot of di9 erent levels. It is a much more diverse group of stu-dents who are doing it and I think that is very exciting for Bowdoin. 6 e model of sports where people can walk on when they have never done it before is great.”

credits his character o9 the ice for his recent success.

“He is as creative of a player I have ever coached,” Meagher said. “He is an adaptable athlete willing to try new positions in varied playing structures. I believe that is why he is playing at such a high professional level. Add character, an engaging sense of humor, resiliency, academic focus, and good citizenship and you have a great role model and ambassador for Bowdoin and our hockey program. Jon is some-one you enjoy rooting for. I am not surprised he is close to reaching his dream of playing in the NHL.”

Landry will make his next trip back to Maine on April 19, when the Sound Tigers face the Portland Pirates. Be-cause of Landry’s contract, the Island-ers can call him up to the NHL on a moment’s notice, especially in the case of a trade or major injury.

“My biggest motivation would have to be my passion and love for the game as well as the support from my fam-ily,” Landry said. “I love being able to go the arena every day for practice and games; it is a real privilege. Also, I still have the desire to prove those people wrong that didn’t believe in me.”

Collins ’15 is invited to join National Polo Organzation

BY MATT SHENSTAFF WRITER

Sophomore Matthew Collins was recently chosen to join the elite ranks of the United States Polo Association (USPA), the national governing body for the sport of polo in the U.S.

Polo, one of the oldest sports in the world, is played on horseback and in-volves the cooperation of four individu-als per team. 6 e goal of the game is to score points on the opposing team using long-handled mallets.

Collins, who grew up on a farm in Maine, spent much of his time as a boy learning how to ride on the 7 elds where he lived.

“I always rode, growing up on my farm and riding on the trail roads,” said Collins. “6 en I began taking polo les-sons at one of the schools in the area. A8 er that, I joined the Baltimore Boys Polo Club, where I started playing on the high school team, and it just took o9 from there.”

According to Collins, polo is a di; -cult sport to get into. Playing requires the individual not only to be able to ride with pro7 ciency, but is also ca-pable of handling the massive costs as-sociated with the breeding and upkeep of polo ponies.

“I got lucky, because with indoor polo, you don’t have to own your own horse,” Collins said. “You just go to the barn, pay some money, and then play on the interscholastic teams where the horses are provided for you. And when I started outdoor polo, where you are required to have your own horse, I was able to buy a few for cheap from a guy who was just getting out of polo.”

Polo players are ranked on a system of handicap, which ranges from negative two all the way to 10. However, less than a third of the world’s polo players have handicaps greater than two; professional

players average around a 7 ve. “I’ve been playing since I was about

eleven, but more seriously over the past couple years,” he said. “It takes a while to get good, and I still have so much more to learn. Right now, I’ve got a handicap of one which is pretty good for my age group, but the professionals, the best-of-the-best will have handicaps of 10.”

Now a member of the USPA, Col-lins will enjoy a number of bene7 ts that will allow him to become even better at polo. Not only will he be playing with the best in the country, but he will also be coached by previ-ous 10-handicap players.

“6 ey bring us down to all of these di9 erent clinics and then expose you to the best American professionals so you can bring your game up to the next level,” Collins said. “It’s a great way to get into a higher level of polo.”

6 is past weekend, Collins was coached by both Adam Snow, a cur-rent eight-handicap player, and Owen Rineheart, who formerly had a handi-cap of 10.

6 us far, Collins mostly participated only at the high-school and regional lev-els of polo, and has earned a number of awards at that level.

“I was a three-time all-star at the re-gional level, and I was the number two national all-star my senior year,” said Collins. “And, this past summer, I was MVP at two minor competitions.”

However, Collins voiced his intention to take polo beyond the interscholastic and regional levels, and to begin playing on a more competitive 7 eld. Fortunately, his newfound USPA membership will help him achieve this goal.

“6 is summer I’ll be traveling to Wyoming to play, and there I’ll be start-ing to play at some higher level tourna-ments, and so this summer will be my chance to break into the professional scene,” said Collins.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

Men’s basketball victorious over Wesleyan and Conn.

6 e men’s basketball team clinched a spot in the NESCAC tournament this weekend, defeating conference foes Wesleyan and Connecticut College.

Although the Polar Bears were slated to play Connecticut College on Sat-urday, the blizzard Nemo resulted in a change to a Saturday night matchup with Wesleyan. Led by a career-high 23 points from their center captain, Max Staiger ’13, the men disposed of Wes-leyan by a 7 nal score of 75-68.

“We passed well, shot well, and played one of our most complete games of the season,” said Head Coach Tim Gilbride.

All 7 ve Bowdoin starters 7 nished in double-digit scoring, as Andrew Madlinger ’14, Matt Mathias ’14 and

Skiing earns top-10 streak and fi rst third place fi nish

In the past two weeks, the Nordic skiing team has continued its im-pressive season by bringing home two more top-10 7 nishes at weekend carnivals.

On the first weekend of February, the team travelled to Stowe, Vt., to compete at the University of Ver-mont Carnival, where it finished ninth out of 13 teams. This marked the first time since 2009 that Bowdoin—which placed eighth the previous weekend—earned two consecutive top-10 finishes in win-ter carnivals.

According to Head Coach Nate Alsobrook, this trend is especially im-pressive considering the conference in which Bowdoin has been competing.

“We really are going up against some of the best teams in the coun-try, and just pushing ourselves to the middle of the conference is an ac-complishment in itself,” he said.

Several skiers had strong perfor-mances in the carnivals—Kaitlynn Miller ’14 took ninth overall in the women’s 5K freestyle and captain James Crimp ’13 took 23rd in the 10K freestyle.

6 e following weekend at the Dartmouth Carnival held in Cra8 s-bury, Vt., Bowdoin lengthened its streak of top-10 7 nishes to three. 6 e team again snagged a ninth- place 7 nish, with more strong per-formances from Miller, Crimp and

captain Hannah Wright ’13. Miller skied to a third-place 7 nish in the women’s 5K classic, the highest mark in any event by a Bowdoin skier in program history.

On Saturday, Bowdoin also com-peted in the 7 rst relay races of the season, with both the men’s and women’s teams placing 15th overall.

Today Bowdoin will travel to Vermont again for the Middle-bury Carnival before heading on to its conference championships in Rumford, Maine the next week. Alsobrook hopes to finish in the middle of the pack in these two upcoming carnivals.

-Compiled by Hallie Bates

Keegan Pieri ’15 nabbed 12 points each. Pieri had a game-high nine rebounds and point guard Bryan Hurley ’15 scored 10 points while dishing out eight assists.

“6 e o9 ense clicked well because we let the ball do most of the movement,” said Staiger. “We got the ball swing-ing from side to side, which opened up some opportunities under the basket.”

Bowdoin dominated most of the night and held its largest lead of the game, 17 points, with 6:36 on the clock. At this point, Wesleyan’s elec-tric senior point guard, Shasha Brown, took over the game, scoring 11 points in four minutes to cut the Polar Bear lead to just three. However, a crucial pass from Hurley allowed Staiger to score with 13 seconds le8 to secure the victory for the visitors.

Weary from travel, the men started slow Sunday a8 ernoon against Con-necticut, but Staiger once again deliv-ered for his team. A second half run propelled Bowdoin to a 60-56 triumph.

“We were trying to get things going, but it was di: cult,” said Gilbride. “It was one of those games where we had to grind it out and stay in it until the end.”

Staiger scored 18 points while Madlinger added 12 of his own. Hur-ley had eight points, seven assists and six rebounds.

“We didn’t let their high intensity and scrappy play a9 ect us,” said Staiger. “We stayed patient on o9 ense and moved the ball, looking to get not a good shot but a great shot out of every possession.”

6 e Polar Bears 7 nished their regu-lar season with a record of .500 in the NESCAC, and enter the conference tournament as the No. 5 seed. 6 ey will play No. 4 Tu8 s in the 7 rst round of the NESAC playo9 s next weekend in Med-ford, Mass.

-Compiled by Sam Chase

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEYNESCAC OVERALL

W L T W L TBOWDOIN 11 2 2 17 2 2Trinity 9 3 3 12 5 3Amherst 10 4 2 14 5 3Middlebury 10 4 2 11 9 2Williams 10 4 2 13 6 3Wesleyan 5 7 4 9 9 4Hamilton 4 10 2 6 13 3Conn. Coll. 3 10 3 7 12 3Colby 3 11 2 5 14 3Tufts 2 12 2 7 13 2

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEYNESCAC OVERALL

W L T W L TMiddlebury 12 2 2 15 6 2Amherst 10 3 1 12 8 1BOWDOIN 10 3 1 16 4 2Trinity 6 5 3 11 7 4Conn. Coll. 6 7 1 12 9 1Hamilton 5 8 1 11 10 1Williams 4 9 1 8 13 1Colby 4 10 0 10 12 0Wesleyan 2 12 0 6 15 0

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLNESCAC OVERALL

W L W LTufts 9 1 23 1Amherst 9 1 23 1Williams 9 1 20 4Middlebury 4 6 13 11Bates 4 6 12 11Wesleyan 4 6 11 10Trinity 4 6 13 10BOWDOIN 4 6 13 10Conn. Coll. 4 6 10 13Hamilton 3 7 12 11Colby 1 9 8 16

MEN’S BASKETBALLNESCAC OVERALL

W L W LAmherst 10 0 22 2Williams 9 1 21 3Middlebury 8 2 21 2Tufts 7 3 16 8BOWDOIN 5 5 14 9Wesleyan 4 6 12 12Bates 4 6 10 14Colby 3 7 7 16Hamilton 3 7 12 12Trinity 2 8 9 15Conn. Coll. 0 10 7 16

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING

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MEN’S INDOOR TRACK Sa 2/16 New England D-III (Bates) 10 A.M.

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACKSa 2/16 New England D-III (USM) 10 A.M.

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A host with the mostFor many students, the gray area in Bowdoin’s alcohol policy is cause for trepidation when it comes time to register as an alcohol host (A-host) or event host for a party. This is a good thing. Signing Residential Life’s party registration form can have serious implications, and is entirely an act of generosity toward one’s peers. It’s a commitment that shouldn’t be taken lightly, and a favor that deserves respectful behavior from partygo-ers in return.

Bowdoin’s A-hosts agree to assume legal responsibility for distributing alcohol at a registered event. By and large, this system of accountability works well, and allows students to consume safely under the auspices of the College Houses. But the College’s alcohol policy is not the law, which can bring down harsh penalties on A-hosts if something goes wrong. In recent memory, no A-host has received summons from the Brunswick Police Department for furnishing alcohol to minors, but this doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen, and it is incumbent upon underage partygoers to make sure it won’t.

Bowdoin’s current alcohol policy may seem paradoxical, problematic or overly indulgent, depending on who you are. It only works if we all take responsibility for our own actions, and are mindful of the risks our peers take so that we can have a good time.

Proceed with cautionCampus is changing. Projects are underway at the the Naval Air Station Brunswick, the Stevens Retirement Home, the former Longfellow School, and beyond as part of the College’s beauti5 cation plan. As Bowdoin takes on these initiatives, it should keep in mind the importance of maintaining a cohesive campus.

4 e College purchased Stevens Retirement Home on Harpswell Road in No-vember, with the intent to convert it into a dorm as soon as next year. 4 is ac-quisition will alleviate the housing crunch of the past few years, though it does not seem wise to make repeated reactionary purchases to solve this problem.

Bowdoin should act sustainably in its execution of the many development projects currently on the docket. One of the things that makes our school so unique is the bounded feeling of our campus, which can easily be traversed in 10 minutes. Development that sprawls far beyond the Quad may threaten the close-knit environment we currently enjoy, and will increase our energy demands.

4 e renovation of the former Longfellow Elementary School is an excellent example of a smart addition to campus, given its location adjacent to multiple dorms and 4 orne Dining Hall. We should take heed of the small acquisitions and improvements the College is making now, because they will add up to long-term changes that none of us will be around to witness.

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To the Editor:Back in the early ’80s we started to

hear about the disturbing increase in carbon dioxide levels measured atop the Hawaiian volcano Mona Loa.

4 en not much later, fellow sci-entists talked increasingly about the implications of this increase, and the likely e6 ects on our climate.

Public awareness at the time was minimal at best, and even most cli-mate scientists failed to adjust their living habits to provide an example toward a reduction in carbon dioxide emission.

Times have certainly changed in that there is now far more awareness of the consequences of increased car-bon dioxide emissions.

Clearly we have far to go, but there is a change afoot. But this change will drag on slowly, too slowly, until there is a realiza-tion of a sense of personal responsibility.

LETTER TO THE EDITOREverything we do, every day, has a

direct e6 ect on carbon dioxide emis-sions. Some choose to try to recycle, use less plastic, and turn o6 the lights. But to take real responsibility will re-quire a larger adjustment in our lives.

Do sports teams really need to travel half way across New England for a one-hour sports event? Do we need to drive to class across campus, rather than walk or bike? Do we need to watch TV while we exercise on an electronic treadmill (in an energy ef-5 cient building), or do we need to go to sit on a chairli7 every weekend?

Picky, small changes that will have little e6 ect on the global use of car-bon, you might argue? Maybe, but they are representative of an attitude change that we could all adopt.

If only we at Bowdoin made these small changes, I agree, there would be little e6 ect. But we are an educational institution that should set an exam-ple, and hope that others will follow.

If you buy into this, then let’s make our example even more obvious. Let’s

put a solar panel array on every build-ing, let’s ban driving on campus, let’s turn o6 unneeded electronic devices.

And then, once we have set these and other examples and made some personal changes, then, and only then, let’s discuss divestment from oil companies.

4 en during that discussion, and when we have the attention of others, let us as a community organize and put pressure on our Washington rep-resentatives, and President Obama, to take meaningful action by adopt-ing an e6 ective energy policy that re-duces carbon dioxide emission.

4 en perhaps we can strike a bal-ance in our lives so we can ski on weekends where the li7 s are run by ridge top windmills, and we traveled there in a carbon neutral mode. Re-member that if you want others to do something, then be prepared to do something yourself 5 rst.

Sincerely,Bruce KohornLinnean Professor of Biology

Ignore Mali at the peril of its total collapse

In a week marked by an ongoing Bowdoin divestment debate, a papal resignation, the State of the Union address and a surprise nuclear test, it’s no small wonder that the situa-tion in war-torn Mali isn’t getting much coverage.

A7 er the sudden spike in inter-est last month following the launch of France’s intervention in the North African nation —“Opération Ser-val”—foreign news coverage of Ma-lian a6 airs has largely returned to the way it has been over the last decade: essentially non-existent.

Only reports of kidnappings and the occasional piece about the in-creasing in8 uence of Islamist groups are enough to pique the interest of the media on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mali is seen, wrongly, as being no di6 erent from any other failed African state, when in fact the repercussions of its collapse would have a signi5 cant impact far beyond its borders.

In Mali, like in many former colo-nies, the borders were drawn with-out any regards to geographical, eth-nic or political considerations. 4 is partly explains why the some of the Tuareg—a people known for their nomadic lifestyle and stunning blue robes—have rebelled against the governing power in Mali 5 ve times in the last century.

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Until last year, each e6 ort of the Tuareg people to create an indepen-dent nation, Azawad, resulted in a stalemate or was successfully sup-pressed by Mali’s army. Yet something changed in January 2012, when the most recent rebellion was launched.

A combined e6 ort of the Azawad National Liberation Movement, the Tuareg autonomy movement, and sev-eral Islamist groups reached levels of success never before seen in the region.

4 e apparent failure of the Malian government to e6 ectively defend it-self against these dangerous forces worried Western governments, and incensed some o9 cers in the Malian army to the point where they led a coup d’état.

In the a7 ermath of this mutiny, the rebels managed to seize control of even more of Mali’s ever-shrinking territory. In the eyes of many outside observers, the country was being pushed closer to total collapse.

Early last month, Islamist forces captured the town of Konna, which lies some 600 km (370 miles) from Mali’s capital, Bamako. 4 is small rural town—about the same size as Lewiston, Maine—was to be the 5 rst site of the confrontation between France and its Islamist enemies.

Much has been said of the decision by French president François Hol-lande to deploy the armed forces of his country into a former colony.

Many commentators said that the action smacked of imperialism, a sound bite hardly based in reality. In fact, e6 orts against the rebels have been, largely, an international e6 ort—

French and African forces 5 ght side-by-side on the ground, with tactical support from various Western pow-ers, including the United States.

4 ese same pundits also opine that Mali will become a Gallic version of Afghanistan, a quagmire from which France can only painfully extricate itself.

4 is kind of assessment is prema-ture and fails to recognize that French soldiers are due to pull out of Mali over the next couple of months, as an African-led force replaces them.

While France’s involvement in Mali may become longer than ex-pected, it should not be a point over which people agonize.

Instead, focus should be directed to the need to create a stable Malian government that will be able to defend its people from outside forces like al-Qaeda, but that does not disregard the rights of minorities like the Tuareg.

A stronger Mali makes a stronger West Africa and a stronger world, by reinforcing the security of both.

Indeed, the region is crisscrossed by routes used by arms tra9 ckers, drug smugglers, and human tra9 ck-ers, and is used by terrorists seeking to avoid direct confrontation with their enemies.

We can only call the campaign in Mali a victory if the state that is le7 in its a7 ermath is better prepared to face the challenges of tomorrow.

Our obligations to the country mustn’t end when the last French solider leaves the territory; they must continue for years to come.

Failing that, we can only doom Mali to collapse.

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After Benedict XVI’s resignation, who will be the next Pope?

BY SIMON BORDWIN AND DANIELLE LUBINLEVY

CONTRIBUTORS

When you tell your friends that you’re a neuroscience major, they respect you. Although they might not actually understand what you’re learning, they recognize its worth.

When you tell your friends that you’re an English major, they may not have read Joyce or Chaucer, but they recognize the difficulty of your coursework.

When we tell our friends that we’re gender and women’s studies (GWS) majors, we get nervous laughter in response. Our friends don’t seem to under-stand what it is we study, why we study it, or how it is of any intellectual value.

We tend to crack jokes about our class-es to our friends. At home, we o5 en shy away from tell-ing our grandparents just what it is we are studying at Bowdoin.

Why is there so much shame sur-rounding the GWS major? We are passionate about our course of study, so why are we embarrassed by it? Per-haps it’s because we’re not oblivious to how GWS majors are sometimes perceived on campus.

People think that GWS courses lack scholarly rigor and that we are all bra-burning radical feminists, fags and dykes who say fuck the system, and fuck everything normative.

In reality, the GWS major is an interdisciplinary course of study

that incontrovertibly promotes in-tellectual depth. Almost all of our courses are cross-listed with other departments, ranging from English, Africana studies, 6 lm, sociology, psychology and more.

GWS classes have heated theo-retical debates that call into ques-tion what it means to be a man or a woman and what the di7 erence is between sex and gender, interrogat-ing a cross-cultural history of social movements as well as political and economic change.

Equipped with this critical under-standing of gender and social dynam-ics, we emerge from GWS with a lens

through which we are able to parse a multi-plicity of contemporary issues.

We have come to un-derstand the diversity of feminisms compatible with our own ideologies.

Despite all this, GWS majors still 6 nd themselves struggling to take pride in their chosen course of study and embrace feminist identities.

As two GWS majors in our last few months at Bowdoin, we want to pro-voke conversations about what femi-nism really means and what feminists look like.

Engaging one another in these dis-cussions is the only way to dismantle misconceptions about feminism and gender and women’s studies, and to show what they are really all about.

Check out our new blog: fuckmei-mafeminist.tumblr.com

Simon Bordwin and Danielle Lubin-Levy are members of the Class of 2013.

Gender and women’s studies majors deserve your respect

8 e administration’s response to the fossil fuel divestment proposal in last week’s edition of the Orient raised far more questions than it answered.

Unfortunately, it also publicly con6 rmed that Bowdoin’s o9 cial strategy is to maintain investment policies with no regard for envi-ronmental issues, while promoting its environmental achievements to alumni, students and grant agencies.

Why do I care?During the recession I began

speaking with the Development O9 ce about the possibility of co-ordinating a family gi5 to the en-dowment to support the College’s environmental programs.

My wife and I both went to Bow-doin, and as members of her family have attended Bowdoin for at least 6 ve continuous generations, I felt there was signi6 cant support for such a family gi5 .

However, I also wanted at least some con6 rmation, however mod-est, that our funds would be invested in keeping with the College’s Envi-ronmental Mission Statement.

A5 er several months of waiting, I received only the short reply that “the Bowdoin College Endowment is Invested Responsibly.” I asked for examples, policies or data to support this assertion and none were provid-ed. At that point, we discontinued our discussion of a family gi5 .

So what’s wrong with the state-ment from President Mills and Paula Volent, senior vice president for in-vestments, provided to the Orient?

8 e administration’s belief that “responsible investing” is a zero-sum game that involves giving up

returns for environmental or social gain is misinformed.

As a chartered 6 nancial analyst and member of the New York So-ciety of Securities Analysts, I know that institutional investors like Bow-doin have access to a very wide range of investment opportunities, partic-ularly in the deep, liquid markets of developed countries.

8 ere are many investment op-portunities that would produce com-petitive returns and have a positive social and environmental impact;

extraordinarily good or prevent the College from having a progressive re-cord on food system issues in it own operations (I still miss the food).

8 e administration o7 ers no sug-gestions for possible alternatives. Even mild options that would not impact investment performance, such as surveying fund managers on their proxy voting guidelines related to environmental issues, seem not to have been entertained.

Importantly, many possible strate-gies other than divestment do exist that can help align the College’s in-vestment policies with its environ-mental mission statement.

For example, the College could calculate the carbon footprint of the major companies it is invested in and then create a fund to 6 nance construc-tion of a photo-voltaic array on cam-pus to o7 set that amount of carbon.

8 e College would then be in a unique leadership position with the 6 rst carbon-neutral endowment. I would be 6 rst in line with a gi5 .

8 e chances of environmental is-sues fading away are e7 ectively zero. Over time, Bowdoin's current policies will cause the gap between the Col-lege’s investment policies and its stated environmental aspirations to widen, at great risk to the College’s reputation.

Bowdoin’s administration and stakeholders will be better served by greater transparency, open discus-sion, and thoughtful consideration of creative alternatives.

Just saying “no” will become an in-creasingly untenable response.

Scott Budde ’81 is the founder of Better Harvest Federal Credit Union and project director of the Sustainable Agriculture Credit Union Research Project. He pre-viously worked as an equity analyst and portfolio manager at TIAA-CREF.

Response to divestment raises more questions

The belief that “responsible investing”

is a zero-sum game that involves giving up returns for environmental or social

gain is misinformed.

Mills and Volent's approximation of a potential $100 million loss in re-turns is extreme.

8 e statement provided to the Ori-ent also contained several distrac-tions. First, while the immediate issue on the table was a proposal to divest shareholdings from fossil fuel com-panies, the analysis of the Investment O9 ce referred to some other broad de6 nition of responsible investing.

Because of Bowdoin’s history of environmental programs and its en-vironmental mission statement, I be-lieve the students behind the divest-ment proposal have a strong case.

Second, President Mills' statement that “we are not a political action com-mittee” is not relevant to the discussion.

Bowdoin also isn’t a restaurant, but that doesn’t mean the food isn’t

BY SCOTT BUDDECONTRIBUTOR

With the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI the new papal conclave has already become a me-dia circus, the center of speculation, “expert analysis,” and even the pre-dictions of gambling houses world-wide. For Catholics, it is a time of deep uncertainty and excitement.

8 e same questions will inevitably arise at both Sunday family dinners and the quiet circles of the Vatican.

Should the church look for a pope from Africa or Latin America, who can speak to the growing number of faithful there and address their concerns over poverty and global inequality? Or must the church seek a leader from Europe or the United States, who can spearhead the “New Evangelization” to revive Catholicism in increasingly secular countries?

Does the church need a strong, 6 rm papacy or one that respects more the collegial leadership of bish-ops and the laity?

Do we need a pope who is equal parts administrator, intellectual heavyweight or charismatic pastor? Is it possible to have all three?

In what follows, I consider the

BY DAVID JIMENEZCONTRIBUTOR

five major “candidates” for the pa-pacy. Keep in mind that these are not formal candidates; canon law strictly forbids campaigning or ambitious wrangling on the part of individual cardinals.

8 at said, these church leaders have been identi6 ed by their peers, Vatican observers and bookies as those with a signi6 cant chance of be-ing elected given their personality, leadership and history.

Be prepared for surprises and keep in mind that for Catholics, the papal election, held in secret and complete isolation in the Sistine Chapel is not merely an exercise in church politics but also an act of the Holy Spirit.

Either of the 6 rst two candidates would be a bold choice for the papacy.

8 e 6 rst candidate is Cardinal Peter Tushkon. 8 is choice would be a radical but exciting one for the church. Peter Tushkon is a charis-matic, bright, fairly young cardinal from Ghana, who is only 64 years old.

As head of the ponti6 cal commis-sion for peace and justice, Peter Tush-kon’s passion for social justice certain-ly speaks to the aspirations of African and Latin American Catholics.

According to Rev. Domelevo, “Car-dinal Tushkon is a wonderful person,

very down to earth and humble...He is excellent at communicating scrip-ture in a way that people really un-derstand...[he uses] jokes and humor to really portray messages to people. He has that human touch.”

8 at said, Tushkon’s strong oppo-sition to gay rights, including sym-pathy for laws that criminalize ho-mosexuality in African nations, may compromise his nomination.

of São Paulo, one of the world’s largest dioceses, with six million members, in the world’s most Catholic country. Considered a theological “moderate,” Scherer voices sympathy for liberation theology, a Catholic movement popu-lar in Latin America but criticized by Benedict XVI for its Marxist leanings.

Scherer is one among several possibilities from Latin America, including Leonardo Sandri from Argentina and Oscar Maradiaga from Honduras.

Any of the next candidates would be considered “safe picks” for the Vatican.

Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbish-op of Milan, is seen as the leading European candidate.

Scola’s rigorous intellect, open-ness to dialogue, and ability to bring the church to the modern world would continue Benedict XVI’s goal of reviving the Catholic faith in Europe.

Scola is the founder of the Oa-sis Project, an organization that promotes dialogue and work for peace between Catholic and Mus-lim communities.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna 6 ts a similar mold.

Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Cardinal of Nigeria, brings over 45 years of experience as a bishop.

Arinze was mentioned as a possi-bility at the 2005 conclave after the passing of John Paul II. He is widely praised for his leadership during several humanitarian crises in his home country.

At 80 years old, Arinze’s age may work both for and against him, de-pending on if the cardinals are look-ing for a transitional leader or a more permanent ponti6 cate.

My personal prediction is Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who was formerly the Archbishop of Quebec and currently is in several high-ranking Vatican positions, including overseeing the selection of bishops.

Ouellet is similar to the current pope in both personality and theol-ogy, and fought similar battles in French Canada over secularism, abortion and marriage.

Ouellet also did missionary work in Latin America for several years and brings geographical balance, administrative experience and an or-thodox vision of the church and Vati-can II to the papacy.

Although Ouellet has expressed misgivings about holding the papacy in the past, I expect the world may soon have its 6 rst Canadian pope.

David Jimenez is a member of the Class of 2016.

When we tell our friends that we’re gender and

women’s studies majors, there is nervous laughter.

With the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI

the new papal conclave has already become

a media circus.

Tushkon’s age and force of char-acter, however, would signal a long, highly in: uential papacy in the mold of John Paul II, and it is uncertain if the College of Cardinals is ready for such a decision.

8 e second candidate is Cardi-nal Odio Scherer. With 42 percent of Catholics living in Latin America, is it time that the church turned to a leader from such a passionate, faithful core?

Cardinal Scherer is the Archbishop

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19TUESDAY

CAREER PLANNING INFO SESSION Fund for the Public Interest The non-pro! t grassroots advocacy organization works to ! ght industries that threaten public welfare. Lamarche Gallery, Smith Union. 10 a.m.

16SATURDAY

WINTER WEEKEND Ice Sculpture Competition The House with the best sculpture will win a free catered brunch during Ivies. All College Houses. 11 a.m.

WINTER WEEKEND Free Food Hot chocolate, s’mores and CampusFoodTrucks, provided by BSG. Coe Quad. 11 a.m.

WINTER WEEKEND Snowball Fight Main Quad. 1 p.m.

WINTER WEEKEND Annual Polar Bear Run Prizes will be awarded for top racers and costumes. Watson Arena. 3 p.m.

FRONTIER CAFE The Oscar Nominated Short Films The ! ve nominees for best short ! lm will be screened.14 Maine St. Mill 3 Fort Andross, Brunswick. 2, 5, 8 p.m.

18MONDAY

FILM Collaborative Printmaking and the Master Printmaker Printmaker Peter Pettengill will meet with students to discuss his collaborative projects with contemporary artists. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center. 4:15 p.m.

LECTURE SERIES Food for Thought Bowdoin Student Government will sponsor two student conversations. Snacks will be provided. Chandler Room, Hawthorne-Longefellow Library. 9 p.m.

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15FRIDAY

COMMON HOUR Specifi c Bodies, Specifi c Thoughts Digital Artist Paul Kaiser will discuss his innovative artistry, which combines dance, drawing, and 3-D animation.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 12:30 p.m. LECTURE “China’s New Leaders” Joseph Fewsmith will discuss his latest book about the development of local government in China since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Room 315, Searles Science Building. 4 p.m.

FILM “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” The Bowdoin Film Society will screen the 2004 science ! ction ! lm about a couple who erases their memories of each other. Starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCE The Art of Song in the Viennese SchoolsThe concert will showcase compositions from Brahms and Schubert, performed by Artist-in Residence George Lopez on piano and Professor Mark Battle of the physics department. Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

PLAY Vagina Monologues Directed by Callie Ferguson ‘15, the play will bene! t V-Day and the Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

17SUNDAY

RELIGIOUS SERVICE Protestant Chapel Service The Chapel. 7 p.m.

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20WEDNESDAY

LECTURE “Land Grabs in Tanzania: The Scramble Over Nature, Food and Fuel” Dr. Jen Jones, a political ecologist, will talk about about the ! erce competition for land in Tanzania. Room 111, Adams Hall. 1 p.m.

21THURSDAY

OFFICE HOURS Dean Tim Foster’s O! ce HoursInfo Desk, Smith Union. 4 p.m.

PERFORMANCE “Den of Thieves” Masque & Gown will stage an adaptation of the 1992 book that recounts the Wall Street trading scandals of the 1980s. Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. 7 p.m.

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL “I’ve Loved You So Long” The ! lm depicts one woman’s struggle to rejoin society after being incarcerated for 15 years. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 7 p.m.

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WINTER WARRIORS: Dillon Arevalo ’15, Jack Wostrel ’15, John Grover ’14, and Chris Gravallese ’14 conquered a snowbank after Nemo cleared away.

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Intersections of Identity in the

LGBTIQA Community

LECTURE“Silence and the

Short Story”

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Interrupters