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Candidates for the 2016-2017 Bowdoin Student Gov-ernment (BSG) Executive Committee debated this pastTuesday ahead of this weekend’s elections. Many of the can-didates focused their remarks on BSG’s increased visibilityand the lack of clarity within its procedures and bylaws.e two candidates for BSG President, Harriet Fisher

’17 and Justin Pearson ’17, responded to questions aboutcurrent issues on campus where BSG has had an impact,such as the impeachment proceedings in response to the“tequila” party.

Pearson argued that due to the mood on campus, BSGhad rushed into the process of impeachment without en-suring that the rules were “just or fair.” He saw the fact thatthe articles were revoked and a firm procedure establishedas a “turn in the right direction.” Fisher said that slowing

down the impeachment process allowed BSG to see thatthere was more dissent than initially presumed amongstassembly members and she pledged to promote an envi-ronment where members did not feel pressure to keep dis-sent quiet.

Addressing concerns about increased political correct-ness on campus, Fisher said that BSG should “bring on theconversations” about controversial issues, while still “ac-knowledging that hurt is felt, and that we need to under-stand the history and factors as to why something has beenfelt deeply by members of our campus.”

Pearson said that conversations should move away from“political correctness” as a term and instead focus on em-pathy, and that students on both sides of controversial is-sues should resist generalizations that prevent meaningful

understanding or agreement. He argued that BSG mustremain objective in order to reflect all opinions rather than

 just the “loudest voices in the room.”In the debate for Vice President for Student Government

Aff airs, Reed Fernandez ’17 talked about retaining theprominent role that BSG has had in conversations aboutrace and ensuring that the community engages in vibrantpolitical dialogue going into next fall’s national election.Jacob Russell ’17 said that he thought BSG was an “under-utilized resource” and off ered a picture of an independentBSG that could apply pressure to Bowdoin’s administrationin order to address student concerns about security andrace on campus.

Given that their position would involve oversight ofBSG’s rules and bylaws, the candidates were asked how theywould deal with situations where BSG’s own procedureswere unclear, such as BSG’s appointment of Emily Serwer’16 as VP for Student Organizations without an election af-

ter the resignation of the previous chair over the summer.Fernandez argued that any conversations about consti-

tutional gray areas should be a “fair experience” and opento discussion within the entire Assembly or student body ifnecessary. Russell argued that while it was the BSG Presi-dent’s right to rule unilaterally in such gray areas, it was im-portant to have subsequent ratification of those decisionsby the BSG Assembly as a whole.e debate between Jodi Kraushar ’17, Maurice Asare

’19 and Benjamin Painter ’19 for the post of Vice Presidentfor Student Aff airs revolved around increasing dialoguewithin the student body.

Kraushar highlighted creating partnerships with orga-

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LOW-DOWN

PRESIDENT:  leads the BSG and Executive Committee.

CANDIDATES:  Justin Pearson ’17 and Harriet Fisher ’17

VP for Student Government Aff airs: works closely with the President and leads other BSG members, such as ClassRepresentatives and Representatives At-Large. This VP organizes all BSG activities and works closely with the Constitu-tion, elections and data collection.

CANDIDATES:  Reed Fernandez ’17 and Jacob Russell ’17

VP for Student Aff airs: works to improve student life from organizing the “Uncommon Hour”professor lecture seriesto meeting with the student body as well as administrators from the Health Center, Athletics Department, ResidentialLife, the Counseling Service and the Offi ce of Student Aff airs.

CANDIDATES:  Maurice Asare ’19, Jodi Kraushar ’17 and Ben Painter ’19

VP for Academic Aff airs: manages BSG’s equivalent of the College’s Academic Aff airs Offi ce, working with academicprograms, policies and issues, including organizing the student lecture series, “Food for Thought.”

CANDIDATES:  Jack Arnholz ’19 and Evelyn Sanchez Gonzalez ’17

VP for Student Organizations: supervises all student organizations with planning, logistics and chartering supportas well as heading the Student Organization Oversight Committee and serving on the Student Activities Funding Com-mittee (SAFC)

CANDIDATES:  Arindam Jurakhan ’17 and Kelsey Scarlett ’17

VP for Facilities and Sustainability: manages the physical resources on campus, such as shuttle services, news-papers and discounted movie tickets and promotes sustainability eff orts on campus.

CANDIDATES:  Carlie Rutan ’19 and Khelsea Gordon ’19

VP for Treasury: heads the SAFC, managing the College’s Student Activity Fund for student clubs.

CANDIDATES:  Irfan Alam ’18 and David Berlin ’19

Please see BSG, page 4

FOR MORE ON THE ELECTION 

ONLINE: MEET THE BSG PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

IN PRINT:  SEE PAGE 14 FOR STATEMENTS OF CANDIDACY

BY NELL FITZGERALD

ORIENT STAFF

On Tuesday night between 11:30 p.m.and midnight, four female students wereallegedly assaulted by two teenage maleson bicycles between Studzinski RecitalHall and Coles Tower. Both of the twoteenagers were apprehended and identi-fied by the four students that night andhave been charged with class D misde-meanors for unlawful sexual touching.One of the suspects was also in possessionof hashish oil and charged with a drugcrime. Since the two are juveniles, theirnames will not be publicly released.

Both suspects were issued criminal tres-pass orders, banning them from campus.e Offi ce of Safety and Security quick-

ly responded aer receiving a call from astudent who had her books knocked outof her hands by the two on the bicycles.Security received three other calls withinminutes of thefirst one.

“We learned later on that there wassome inappropriate touching involved [inthe first incident],” said Director of Safetyand Security Randy Nichols. “[e three]other calls were coming in [as we wereresponding to the first one] and reportingthat people had come up to them on bi-cycles and smacked them on the buttocks,which is a form of assault of course, so weresponded as security offi cers and imme-

diately notified the Brunswick Police De-partment (BPD).” e two males then ran away, and Secu-

rity found one of them attempting to conceal

himself behind a rock near Quinby House.e other biker found his way to

Brunswick Apartments where he con- vinced a group of Bowdoin students whohad not yet been notified of the allegedassaults to drive him back to his family’shome in Freeport.

“ey thought he was a poor lost teen-ager that needed help,” said Nichols. “Itwas only when the students were drivingback to campus aer having dropped the[teenager] off  [that] they had read the se-curity alert that had come out, and later onthey notified security, [saying], ‘We thinkwe might have helped the guy escape.’”

  By this time, Security and BPD had

already learned the identity of the al-leged assaulter who had found his way toFreeport from the individual they had ap-prehended. Freeport Police then broughtthe male back to campus so that the four

 victims could identify him.Nichols stressed the importance of a

quick response from the students. “e prompt reporting was critical but

also the very eff ective response by Secu-rity and law enforcement was critical be-cause these two could have easily gottenaway,” he said. “e fact that we were ableto quickly wrap this up I think kept theanxiety level on campus down to almostnothing as opposed to had they been un-identified [because] then students, right-fully, become a little more anxious.”

e two males have been released to theirparents and are set to go to juvenile court onJune 15. According to Nichols, they couldreceive up to one year of jail time.

Freeport teens arrested

after campus harassmentsBY JONO GRUBER

ORIENT STAFF

is year, the Peer Health program oncampus was as selective as the AdmissionsOffi ce, with an acceptance rate of about 15percent. ough Peer Health has alwaysbeen selective, the number of applicationsthis year was higher than ever.

Both Joe Lace ’17 and Erin Houlihan’17, members of Peer Health’s leadershipteam, specifically cited the peer-to-peerprogram as one of Peer Health’s mostsuccessful initiatives that also may haveled to the recent increase in applicants.is program runs in the fall and assignseach first year student to a member ofPeer Health whom they meet with severaltimes throughout the year to discuss theirtransition to Bowdoin.

“It’s a program that every single firstyear has interacted with, so I think thatit’s a program that has a high visibility,”said Houlihan.

is year, over half of the members ofPeer Health will graduate, so the selectioncommittee attempted to bring in youngermembers to avoid graduating the major-ity of their class again next year. e selec-tion committee is composed of fi ve PeerHealth leaders—Lace, Houlihan, JillianBurk ’16, Harrison Carmichael ’17 andTim Coston ’17—as well as ResidentialLife staff   members—Associate Dean ofStudent Aff airs Meadow Davis, AssociateDirector of Health Promotion WhitneyHogan, Associate Director Michael Puljuand Administrative Coordinator Dani-elle Miller.

Besides class year, study abroad plansalso factored into choosing applicants.Students were not able to apply if theywere rising juniors who would be abroadnext fall, as they would miss the majorityof training, orientation and the peer-to-peer program. However, juniors who planon going abroad in the spring were wel-come to apply.

With such a large applicant pool, Lacesaid that narrowing down the candidateswill be diffi cult. Aer applicants submitinitial paper applications, the selectioncommittee chooses which students willprogress to a round of interviews.

According to Sadie LoGerfo-Olsen ’19,who was one of 15 students chosen thisyear for next year’s Peer Health program,her interview lasted over an hour andconsisted of several rounds of questions,including what issues she believes shouldbe addressed on campus and what specificprograms she would bring to the College.

According to Lace, student involve-

ment and enthusiasm are deciding fac-tors in narrowing down applicants duringthese two rounds.

“It has to do with what each particularapplicant brings to the table, in terms ofexperiences they’ve had on campus, thegroups that they’re a part of and their in-terests on campus on top of being a stu-dent,” said Lace.

Houlihan also said that interest in onespecific mental health issue was a factorthat made some candidates more attrac-tive than others. She explained that inter-

15 percentofPeer Healthapplicants accepted for ’16-’17

Please see PEER HEALTH, page 3

BY HARRY RUBE

ORIENT STAFF

GET OUT  THE VOTE POLLS ARE OPEN online for the BSG Executive Committee elections as of 8 a.m. this morning. They willclose Sunday at 8 p.m. Justin Pearson ‘17 and Harriet Fisher ‘17 (pictured above) are facing off  for BSG president.

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SECURITY REPORT: APRIL 15 to APRIL 20

Friday, April 15

• ere was an alcohol violation re-ported in a room at Winthrop Hall.

• An offi cer checked on the wellbeingof a student at Brunswick Apartments, atthe request of a parent.

• A student with abdominal pain wasescorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A student was warned for excessivelyloud music at West Hall.

Saturday, April 16

• A group in the basement of BaxterHouse was dispersed aer noise com-plaints were received.

• An officer checked on the wellbe-ing of an intoxicated student at May-

flower Apartments.• At the request of a proctor, an of-ficer assisted an intoxicated student atHyde Hall.

• A wooden table was destroyed dur-ing a registered event at Ladd House.

• A large unregistered event took placeon the Brunswick Apartments quad onSaturday aernoon, resulting in a sig-nificant amount of litter. Some of thestudents responsible picked up the litter.e matter was referred to the Offi ce ofResidential Life.

• Two students were cited for an alcoholpolicy violation at Brunswick Apartments.

• Eight students in a Coles Towerapartment, including six who were un-derage, were cited for possession of a to-tal of 24 bottles of hard alcohol.

Sunday, April 17

• A visiting toddler activated a firealarm pull station at 30 College Street,resulting in a fire department response.(e toddler was advised not to mentionthe incident on her Bowdoin applicationin 2031.)

• A suspicious man approached a stu-dent near the Museum of Art asking formoney. e man was in his 20s, wearinga dark hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans andwhite athletic shoes.

Monday, April 18

• A distraught woman was reportedon the Main Quad near the Chapel. ewoman was reportedly wearing a white

 vest, blue jeans and pink slippers. A secu-rity offi cer found the woman at the trainstation having a verbal confrontationwith construction workers. BrunswickPolice Department (BPD) was called tocheck on the woman’s state.

• Students reported that many post-ers were missing from the Smith Unionand Sargent Gym hallway. It was deter-mined that a housekeeper inadvertently

removed them. e posters have sincebeen replaced.

• An unregistered Angry Orchard kegwas found inside the elevator at LaddHouse. e keg was placed in the secu-rity property room.

Tuesday, April 19

• A sick student at MacMillan Housewas taken to Mid Coast.

• Two male 16-year-olds riding bi-cycles were arrested after they assault-ed four female students in separateincidents while they were walking oncampus between 11:30 p.m. and mid-night. A security officer apprehendedone suspect near Quinby House. The

second was arrested a short while laterat his Freeport home. BPD has chargedboth juveniles with unlawful sexualtouching, and one was charged withdrug possession. Both were bannedfrom campus and turned over to theirparents. They will be arraigned inWest Bath District Court on June 15.The students were not injured.

Wednesday, April 20

• A grease fire started on a stove topat the Russwurm House kitchen while astudent was cooking. A security offi cerarrived and doused the flames.

STUDENT SPEAK 

Q:

“Successfully be able togo to the taco truck dur-

ing Ivies.”

Ama Gyamerah ’17

“Take a pole dancing class(as a form of exercise).”

Mariam Nimaga ’17

“Order both Papa John’s andDomino’s in one night.”

Molly Kane ’16

“Set up my new Himalayan saltlamp.”

Maddy Fulton ’16

“There’s a girl I have a bigcrush on and I want to askher out.”

Charlie Krause ’16

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JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

TELLING STORIES: Jodi Kraushar ’17 (left) and Caroline Montag ’17 edit audio for The Commons in the Media Commons in the basementof Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. The Commons is a student-written, edited and produced podcast that focuses on telling stories aboutBowdoin—one of the many projects that has come out from the Media Commons. Several professors have begun to integrate video and othertechnologies available in the Media Commons into their classroom, such as Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen Morris, who takes videosof himself giving short lectures on specific topics and uploads them to Blackboard.

Students and f aculty make use of newresources in the Media Commons

To expand the use of technologyin both classes and daily life, stu-dents and faculty are taking advan-tage of the new resources availablein the Media Commons, located inthe basement of Hawthorne-Long-fellow Library.

Opened in September, the MediaCommons gives students and facul-ty access to resources from iMovieto a soundproof voice-over boothcalled the Whisper Room. Thereare two studios, one specializing inaudio and the other in video, withadditional resources like a greenscreen, microphones, headphones,lights for film and photography anda variety of software for video ed-iting, sound recording, photogra-phy and 3D animation. The MediaCommons also has screening roomsof various sizes, an electronic class-room and multiple Mac computers.Student lab assistants are availableSunday through Thursday in theafternoon and evening to help withsoftware and equipment questionsfor both academic and person-al projects.

At a panel on April 8, several pro-fessors discussed how they integrate

 vide o and other technolo gies avail-

able in the Media Commons intotheir classes. Some departments—such as visual arts and the CinemaStudies Program—make heavier useof the Media Commons and othertechnology resources than others,but many others include video pro-duction or viewing in some capacity.

Assistant Professor of EconomicsStephen Morris is one of the profes-sors on campus taking advantageof some of the possibilities the newtechnology brings to the classroom.

Morris uses a tool called LearningGlass, which allows him to take vid-

eos of himself giving short lectureson specific topics. He then uploadsthese videos to Blackboard wherestudents can watch them on theirown time.

“I found that often just lecturingand giving textbook examples justwasn’t helpful for everyone, so whatI wanted to do was to be able to givepeople something that would beanalogous to office hours wheneverthey needed it,” said Morris.

He added that he noticed studentsmight sometimes search for contexton particular subjects by consultingWikipedia or other online resources.

“I wanted to provide that kind ofcontext in a more rigorous fashion,”he said.

Visiting Assistant Professor ofCinema Studies Sarah Childresshas also worked to integrate moretechnology into her classrooms. ForChildress, technology has been im-portant in allowing her students toimmerse themselves in the activityof video production through creat-ing short videos using the ideas theystudy in class.

Video has also helped Childresschange who is responsible for com-municating information in the class-room. Instead of assigning readingsand lecturing, Childress has studentsread and create presentations on theinformation. In effect, the students

teach each other, simultaneouslydeveloping mastery over the subjectmatter and the technology they useto create their presentations, whileChildress provides guidance andclarifies points of confusion.

Childress described how sheworks in tandem with the Officeof Academic Technology and Con-sulting in order to provide the bestlearning experience for her students.

“There’s an explicit support forpeople who want to integrate moretechnology, but like me, don’t re-ally know how, or have an idea that

they’re not really sure how to carryout,” she s aid.

The Office of Academic Tech-nology and Consulting has existedunder various names over the yearsand helps enhance professors’ teach-ing and research through technol-ogy, often using technologies thatprofessors are not necessarily famil-iar with.

“The projects and the things thatfaculty envision are just so out ofthe ordinary oftentimes that theyrequire some special expertise,” Di-rector of Academic Technology andConsulting Stephen Houser said.

“A faculty member will have anidea for a project,” Academic Tech-nology Consultant Paul Benhamsaid. “They kind of know an endresult that they want to get to, butthey’re not really sure how they’regoing to get to it using technology.”

The increasing technological re-sources at the College have alsoopened new doors for extracurricu-lar and personal projects. Studentsregularly use the Media Commonsto record music, film and edit mov-ies and take photographs.

The Commons, a student-writ-ten, edited and produced podcast,focuses on telling stories aboutBowdoin that are also relevant tothe wider world. Another project,Bowdoin Stories, aims to create an

archive of conversations betweenstudents in which they reflect ontheir experiences here and discusstopics that they might not usuallybring up, such as how they learnedto ride a bike.

Academic Multimedia Producerand Consultant Kevin Travers sees

 vide o and other techn olog ies con-tinuing to play a significant role inBowdoin’s future.

“Students are telling stories with vide o an d p hotog raphy in ways thatare expanding exponentially on aregular basis,” he said.

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est in specific mental health issues is help-ful to Peer Health because of the nature ofthe program.

“I think Peer Health is really cool be-cause it gives people the platform to havethe resources to launch into whatever pro-grams they want in the specific topic thatthey’re interested in, or that they think thatBowdoin really needs,” said Houlihan.

Houlihan, for example, is interestedin body image and is currently workingon an initiative called “Bowdoin AthleticBody Satisfaction Facilitation,” whichmeets with sports teams and discusses

body image and the role it plays in thatteam’s specific sport.

LoGerfo-Olsen cited the amount of ini-tiative granted to each member of the pro-gram as an attractive aspect of Peer Healthand one of the reasons that she initiallyapplied for the program.

“I have a lot of friends and familythat have gone through eating disor-ders, alcoholism and depression, soI’ve been very close to a lot of thoseissues, so they’ve been pertinent inmy life and shaped my beliefs,” saidLoGerfo-Olsen, who applied for PeerHealth because she believes it will giveher the ability to directly address theseissues on campus.

Both Houlihan and Lace attrib-uted the progress of Peer Health to

Coordinator of Health EducationWhitney Hogan.

PEER HEALTHCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

LONGLEY TO LEAVE BOWDOIN

S. Catherine “Katy” Longley ‘76, senior vice president for finance and ad-ministration and treasurer, will leave Bowdoin at the end of June after 14years working at the College. She will start a new role as the vice presidentand chief financial officer at the Jackson Laboratory.

Headquartered in Bar Harbor, the Jackson Laboratory is a nonprofit re-search institution with a mission to “discover precise genomic solutions fordisease and empower the global biomedical community in our shared questto improve human h ealth.”

President Clayton Rose announced Longley’s departure in an email to fac-ulty and staff this morning.

“Katy stands out as a gifted leader who h as an uncommon dedication to herposition and to h er alma mater,” Rose wrote. “For fourteen years, Katy has alsobeen a valued financial and policy advisor to the B oard and to two presidents.And Katy has been a terrific partner for me during this past year. Like many ofyou, I value greatly her counsel, her wisdom, and her friendship.”

The College will conduct a national search in the coming months to findLongley’s replacement.

ROBOCUP HOSTS U.S. OPEN

For the eighth year in a row, Bowdoin and three other schools will com-pete in the Robocup U.S. Open today and tomorrow in Watson Arena. Stu-dents on Bowdoin’s Robocup team, the Northern Bites, program small hu-manoid robots to play soccer autonomously. The Bites will have their firstmatch today at 1 p.m. against the University of Miami. This evening at 9p.m., the Bites will face off against the University of Pennsylvania. Bowdoinwill play in one more match tomorrow before the final match at 8:30 p.m. todetermine the tournament’s winner.

Further matches will include a “drop-in challenge” today and tomorrowwhere robots on opposing teams will play on the same side. In addition,Bowdoin will host a no-Wi-Fi challenge and an outdoors challenge tomor-row, testing the robots’ abilities to play in suboptimal conditions.

COMPILED BY RACHAEL ALLEN, MATTHEW

GUTSCHENRITTER AND JAMES LITTLE

JAMES LITTLE, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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nizations like the Center for MulticulturalLife and the Women’s Resource Center,while Asare argued that BSG should helppromote a broader diversity of political

 views on campus. Painter pointed to his

experience helping plan events like No-Hate November on BSG’s Student Aff airscommittee as an At-Large representative.

Jack Arnholz ’19 mounted the stagealone in the debate for Vice President forAcademic Aff airs, while the current VicePresident for Student Government Aff airsMichelle Kruk ’16 read a statement forEvelyn Sanchez Gonzalez ’17 who is cur-rently abroad.

When asked how he might be moresuccessful than predecessors in push-ing back the Credit/D/Fail deadline andextending anksgiving Break, Arnholzargued that the faculty’s recent decisionto move the start of the fall semester up a

day off ered a chance to extend the breakwhile maintaining current class time.More controversially, Arnholz arguedthat Chegg, the College’s newly intro-duced online textbook service, “needsto go.”

Sanchez Gonzalez’s statement ar-gued for a more “practical and cultur-ally relevant” curriculum at the College,highlighting “blind spots” in the coursecatalogue such as a lack of Mexican-American, Southeast Asian and MiddleEastern Studies classes, along with a lackof accounting and finance courses.

In the debate for Vice President for Stu-dent Organizations and chair of the Stu-

dent Organization Oversight Committee(SOOC), Kelsey Scarlett ’17 and ArindamJurakhan ’17 discussed ways to improvesupport for clubs.

Scarlett argued that the SOOC shouldincrease communication with clubs andfollow up with newly chartered clubs toensure success. Jurakhan pledged to im-prove year-end leadership transitions andfix the error-prone Student OrganizationManagement System (SOMS), Bowdoin’sonline email list manager.

Carlie Rutan ’19, running for VicePresident for Facilities and Sustainability,highlighted her sustainability credentialsas an Eco-Rep running a paperless cam-

paign, while also arguing that her topfacilities priority was to address secu-rity concerns about off -campus housingraised by the sexual assault that occurredin November at the isolated May flowerApartments. She hopes to institutionalizethe informal “Safe Walk” Facebook groupand expand Safe Ride access to more off -campus houses. Khelsea Gordon ’19, run-ning for the same position, was unable toattend the debate. Both currently serve onthe BSG Assembly.

Irfan Alam ’18 read his candidacystatement for the title of Vice Presidentfor the Treasury in person, while Krukread for the absent David Berlin ’19.

Both currently serve as RepresentativesAt-Large on the Student Activities Fund-ing Committee.

Alam argued that his role as a treasurerof multiple student clubs allowed him tounderstand how to better structure thefunding process from the perspective of

student groups.Berlin argued that the committee

has “more power than people real-ize,” and pledged to “fund eventsthat represent the rich diversity ofthe B owdoin community.”

When asked about how he would han-dle clubs that exceed their budget, like theOuting Club this year, Alam stated thatSAFC’s first priority should be to ensurethat clubs that don’t receive an operatingbudget can maintain their programming.

Elections will take place from 8 a.m.Friday morning to 8 p.m. Sunday eve-ning. See page 14 for the candidate’sfull statements.

BSGCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Pearson argued that due to the mood on campus, BSG had rushed into the process of impeachment without ensur-

ing that the rules were “just or fair.” Fisher said that slowing down the impeachment process allowed the BSG to seethat there was more dissent than initially presumed amongst assembly members and she pledged to promote anenvironment where members did not feel pressure to keep dissent quiet.

Student politicalclubs organize mock

presidential debateThe United States presidential

race came to campus Thursdaynight with a lighthearted yet fierymock debate featuring Bowdoin stu-dents representing each of the fiveremaining presidential candidates.

Jointly moderated by Jack Lucy’17 of the Bowdoin Republicans,Amanda Bennett ’17 of the BowdoinDemocrats and Noah Safian ’17, thedebate touched on topics from im-migration to climate change over

the course of an hour and a half inSmith Union’s Morrell Lounge.

  “Our goal is to encourage dis-course of ideas and provide a moreactive platform for engaging be-tween different candidates ideas,”said Safian before the debate.

  Each candidate was played by acurrent Bowdoin student: DamianRamsdell ’17 as Bernie Sanders, Da-

 vid Levi ne ’16 as Hilla ry Clint on,David Jimenez ’16 as John Kasich,Francisco Navarro ’19 as Ted Cruzand Jordan Moskowitz ’16 as Don-ald Trump. All students—with theexception of Navarro—were backersof their candidate.

Safian said that organizers ap-

proached several female students toplay the role of Clinton. However,after the students declined, Levinetook the role.

 The debate began with two min-ute opening statements, followeda series of questions asked by themoderators.

With thick black glasses and awig, Ramsdell took Sanders’ per-sona to heart—with numerous in-

 vec tive s agai nst “mil lio nair es andbillionaires” delivered in a thickBrooklyn accent.

At one point, he attacked Mos-kowitz’s Trump over his stance ontargeting the families of terrorists.

“You’re using the moral com-pass of a terrorist organization,”said Ramsdell.

  Moskowitz, in contrast, cameequipped with a “Make AmericaGreat Again” hat and portrayed acalm Trump—albeit with the samesignature hyperbole: “I’m a winner;I build things,” he said.

Moskowitz was occasionally metwith boos from the audience. How-ever, his attack on Clinton’s handlingof the attack on the U.S. embassy inBenghazi, Libya was followed bymuch applause.

Jimenez played an eloquent Ka-sich, weaving through fraught topicslike same-sex marriage and immigra-tion while making a case for “com-passionate, pragmatic conservatism.”

Next up—in what may have beena preview of general election debatesto come—Levine’s Clinton went af-ter Trump over his soft-handed ap-

proach to Putin. “He [Trump] is abully,” sh e said.

Finally, Navarro’s Cruz was no-table for his strong arguments onreligious liberty and abortion—which he dubbed the “genocide ofour times.”

  After the main question round,the debate continued with a speedround of questions unrelated to po-litical policy.

The audience discovered thatClinton preferred Crack to RedBrick, that Trump’s White House petwould be “a donkey named Hillary”and that Sanders preferred Moultonover Thorne because “like the aver-age worker, [he] line serves there

three times a week.”At the end of the debate, each stu-dent offered their thoughts on thecandidate they represented.

 Jimenez joked about being knownas the “Kasich guy” on campus, withhis Kasich-sticker-adorned wa-ter bottle and his countless hoursspent volunteering for the cam-paign in New Hampshire, Maineand Massachusetts.

Navarro noted that, although he isnot a Cruz supporter, he is a registeredRepublican—one “still mourning theexit of Marco Rubio from the race.”

Moskowitz spoke of “Trump’s de- votio n to the nation ,” and Levi nenoted that Clinton “has a numberof workable ideas that will actuallymake p eople’s lives better.”

And Ramsdell—in a line thatseemed plucked straight out of aBernie speech—closed with the as-sertion that “the only time realchange happens is when peoplemake it happen.”

BY JAMES CALLAHAN

ORIENT STAFF

Damian

Ramsdell ’17

(left) played

Bernie Sanders

in the mock

presidential de-

bate last night.

David Levine’16 played

Hillary Clinton

after several

female students

declined.

Jordan

Moskowitz ’16

(left) played

Donald Trump,

while Francisco

Navarro ’19

(right), the only

student who

did not back

his candidate,

played Ted Cruz.

David Jimenez

’16 (left)

played John

Kasich, making

a case for

“compassion-

ate, pragmatic

conservatism.”

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Luzzio ’17 tutors students through Bowdoin grad’s new venture

TUTOR TIME: Alana Luzzio ’17 is a tutor for American Dream Clean, a commercial cleaning company founded in 2014 by JP Hernandez ’04 . As a social enterprise, American Dream Clean is committed to providing the children

of its employees the resources necessary to put their kids on a path to college., such as tutoring and mentoring.

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On a mission to lower the achievementgap that systematically keeps low-incomeand minority students off -track for entryto four-year colleges and prosperous ca-reers, Bowdoin alum, JP Hernandez ’04,founded American Dream Clean. ecompany is both a commercial cleaningagency and a social enterprise company.It aims to provide its employees with theresources necessary to ensure that theirchildren are able to graduate from a com-petitive college.

Hernandez spent his time at Bowdoinas a Government and Legal Studies majorand History minor, a two-sport athlete

and a regular volunteer with children ofall ages. He was a volunteer for the YMCAand worked with Breakthrough Collab-orative, a summer program for highlymotivated underserved middle and highschool students that helps them on thepath to college. It was during those experi-ences that Hernandez started noticing thechallenges that low-income and minoritystudents face academically.

Hernandez noted that a college educa-tion can positively impact many aspects ofa person’s life.

“How happy you are with your life is very wrapped up in the whole thing. So tobe able to be creating this path... it’s a beau-tiful thing,” Hernandez said in a video in-terview with the Orient.

“It’s like winning a lottery ticket,”he added.Hernandez did not know he wanted

to become involved in education imme-diately aer leaving Bowdoin. Workingas a paralegal and for a hedge fund calledBridgewater aer graduation, he pickedup many of the skills he would later usein founding his company. With the ideafloating around in his head for 10 years,Hernandez hit a crossroads.

 “Either you’re going to stay at Bridge-water forever or you’re going to do what

you always intended to do,” he said.In 2014, Hernandez founded Ameri-

can Dream Clean. e commercial clean-ing company is committed to providingtutoring, mentoring and aer school orsummer school programs to the childrenof the people they employ.

According to Hernandez, the suc-cess of the business relies on the re-lationship and dedication that the tu-tors have with their students.

Inspired by the company’s mission,Alana Luzzio ’17, decided to becomea tutor with American Dream Cleanthis past year.

Although she had no previous expe-rience in tutoring, she reached out toHernandez over email and expressedher interest.

“I think that if more Bowdoin students

knew about the program they would defi-nitely be into being tutors,” said Luzzio.

Luzzio spends time each week not onlyworking closely with her students but alsocreating lessons plans and curriculums tobest guide them towards success. She fo-cuses on being able to connect with her

students on a personal level.“I tutor once a week usually for an houror an hour and half, but I always tell themif they need me they can text me, and I’mavailable anytime,” said Luzzio. “I’ll alwayspick up the phone.”

While Hernandez acknowledged theimportance of increasing test scores andgrades, he also hopes that the kids can be-gin to relate to their tutors and visualizethemselves as college students.

Hernandez’s end goal is for the kidsof all of his employees to be on track for

college and future careers. He also hopesthat more companies like his own becomemission-driven.

“You could take the best of what a busi-ness can do and what a nonprofit cando and put them together to somethingthat’s greater than the sum of the parts,”

said Hernandez.Combining the driving missions ofnonprofits with the global reach of busi-nesses ensures widespread social impact.Because the cleaning industry, accordingto Hernandez, faces a 300 percent annualturnover rate in its employees, Hernandezbelieves he is able to retain his employeesand remain a competitive force in the mar-ket because of his social enterprise model.

“If you want to beat me, you have tofind someone who is going to work harderfor you,” said Hernandez.

He hopes that millennials will deviatefrom the standard set by older generationsthat encourages social change through a“learn, earn, return” model.

“I’m seeing again and again that thereis real genuine interest in, ‘How do I havea life of meaningful work from day one?’”

said Hernandez.Hernandez has a message for stu-dents aspiring to make social change andachieve earnings in a capitalist world.

“Social enterprise is becoming a main-stream thing… it’s a diff erent and betterworld,” he said. “I would encourage stu-dents who are wrestling with this problemthat there’s hope.”

Students interested in getting in- volved with American Dream Cleancan email Hernandez at JP.Hernandez@americandreamclean.com.

Dear Katherine,I am a first year, and I’m so ex-

cited for Ivies! What is BrunswickQuad though…?

Sincerely,Excited in Edwards

Dear Excited,Ah, Ivies. The perennial celebra-

tion of spring, music and the in-credible force of the human will toovercome obstacles. (By obstacles, Imean hangovers.)

You have asked the age-old ques-tion. You’re in good company. Phi-losophers for centuries have musedon this inquiry: Plato, Nietzsche,that guy in our political theory class.“What is Brunswick Quad?” theyask, staring up at the heavens and,in their state of distraction, losing agame of slap cup.

I have actually only attended oneIvies so far. This is my biggest fail-ing. So I am bringing in a guest co-writer to help me out: Ivies GoddessJillian Burk.* Jillian hails from thegreat state of Canada, where it’s anational pastime to drink until you

can’t feel the cold—a key skill if you

want to rock an Ivies sundress. Forthe rest of this column, we will bewriting our collective opinion in thefirst-person plural.

Ah, youth. We’re so excited foryou to become Ivies aficionadoslike ourselves (read: like Jillian).We have a definitive answer to yourinquiry. Brunswick Quad is like afamily reunion, except everyoneis as drunk as your one crazy auntand you can make out with peoplewithout them being your cousin.It’s an outside darty where for a fewsweet hours, we all pretend we go toa party school by playing beer pong

in the dirt, generating tornadoes of

trash and wearing crop tops that weshould have thrown away after se-nior year of high school.

Now that we’ve cleared that up, asan added bonus, we’re going to im-part some of our Ivies wisdom ontoyou. Here are some handy tips tosurvive the Friday afternoon dartythat is Brunswick Quad:

1) Make sure you either a) be-friend someone who lives in aBrunswick apartment or b) get re-ally good at sneaking into slightlyajar doors. At some point you are

Run the Ivies marathonwith bright Session IPAs

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”ese arethe pre-Ivies words passed down by time-weathered seniors to the dewy-eyed firstyears as they receive wads of crumpled-upbills in exchange for three oddly-shapedbackpacks, bursting at the seams with“books.”ese seniors speak from experi-ence. Every Ivies veteran has seen at least

one friend black out at Laddio, get tuckedinto bed at 8:45pm on ursday or takean unplanned nap on Coe Quad on theirway to Brunswick Quad. To pass the testof Ivies weekend (or Ivies week, we don’t

 judge), oentimes the measured pound-ing of beers will set you in better steadthan the frantic ripping of shots. But whatcan you do, you may ask, if Keystones orNatty Lites just don’t cut it for your refinedtaste in beer? Must you sacrifice qualityfor quantity?

Enter: the Session IPA. For those ofyou have not experienced this genre ofIPA, let us elaborate. Despite our best ef-forts to find a smart sounding, technical

explanation for the diff erence in the brew-ing process, the main distinction betweena Session IPA and a standard issue IPA isthe alcohol level. Designed for beer loversto consume for lengthy periods of time (ora drinking session), an IPA is considereda Session if it runs in the 3 to 5% ABVrange, as opposed to the 6+% of moststandard IPAs. e true beauty of a Ses-sion IPA is that, when done properly, thealcohol content is the only aspect that getsdiminished. e bright, hoppy aroma andthe refreshing bitter taste that are integralto the IPA’s identity remain largely intact.

First up to the plate was the All Day IPAfrom Founders Brewing in Grand Rap-ids, Michigan. e All Day has becomea staple in the recent Session IPA surge,and we quickly learned why. It is soldmost commonly in a 15-can pack, likelypackaged for throwing in the back of a carfor a weekend of outdoor adventures asevidenced by their logo–a canoe strappedto an old station wagon headed into thewoods. Shan also had the chance to field-test the All Day at a certain island-music-themed ski festival last weekend, andcan wholeheartedly attest to its “All Day”

WILL GOODENOUGH AND SHAN NAGAR

TAPPEDOUT

KATHERINE GIVES ADVICEKATHERINE CHURCHILL

BY NICOLE VON WILCZURORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF AMERICAN DREAM CLEAN

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drinkability. e AllDay packs an impressiveamount offlavor into animpressively drinkablebeer. It’s slightly bitterwithout being overpow-ering, and has a lightmouth feel that leavesbehind only a refreshingpine and citrus taste. Atonly 45 IBUs, it is mini-mally bitter comparedto other IPAs, but stillhas enough pucker tostay true to the tradi-tional hoppy taste.e second Session we tried was the

Lagunitas DayTime IPA. is light beeronly has 4.65% ABV, making it a perfectIPA for a long day of drinking on theBrunswick Quad. Unlike the hoppy and

citrusy aroma of the Founders All DayIPA, the Lagunitas Session had more ofa floral smell. Once tasted, the DayTimeIPA proved to be the lightest and leasthoppy of the three. With an initial brightandfloral taste, we thought it would proveto have a full IPA feel. We were amazed tofind that this sweet sensation faded veryquickly, leaving us wondering where thebiting bitterness we expected had gone.For those of you who shy away from IPAsdue to their strong bite, this is the Sessionfor you. DayTime IPA is a beer that anybeer drinker could crush all day while en-

 joying a respite from your football friends’Keystone Light.

Last but not least, we tried Stone’s GoTo IPA. Yes, this is technically a Session,but, due to its close likeness in terms ofbitterness and heavier body to a standardIPA, it is not nearly as “crushable” as the

other two. For those of you who wouldnever want to sacrifice the full flavor ofyour favorite IPAs, this is the Session foryou. With an ABV of 4.5%, it is much lessalcoholic than Stone’s other beers, but itdoes not come with any less of a full bitterpunch. is is the Session for the diehardIPA fans.

So, do with this information what youwill. We have no doubt that some of youmay opt in favor of your favorite 30-rackor boxes of Franzia’sfinest, but for the truehop-heads out there (and the 8 of youwho consistently read our column), wehope that you make a Session you spiritbeverage this coming Ivies.

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going to need to pee. (There are alsoporta-potties, but we’re above that.)

2) Wear something identifiablein case you get separated from yourfriends. For instance, a grape cos-tume or a scuba suit or nothing.

3) No napping. Not yet. Not un-til you’ve drank every last drop.Napping is admitting defeat. Nap-ping is like lying down and sleep-ing 13 miles into a marathon. Nap-ping is like kissing your cousin. It’s

 just wrong .4) Try not to destroy things like

college property or relationships oryour liver.

5) Eat beforehand. Your body willthank you later. Just kidding. Yourbody won’t thank you for any of this.

6) Choose your drink wisely.Starting out too strong or not ad-equately planning ahead can ruinyour afternoon.** No cream-basedliqueurs for the love of God. Avoid

alcohols that make you sleepy (seerule 3). Like wine. Or Nyquil.

7) Be careful where you leaveyour things. Do not give them tofriendly strangers. Do not stashthem in sneaky place. You willnever find them again; they will belost to the graveyard of solo cupsand dignities.

8) Remember, people can seeinto the windows of the apartments.If you choose to hook up in a Bruns-wick room, please consider puttingdown the blinds.

9) Do not go on slip-and-slidesif you ever want to see your nip-ples again.

Just remember: Ivies is a mara-

thon, not a sprint. And God knows,this is the only kind of marathonwe’ll ever run.

Out,Katherine and Jillian*Jillian is on Peer Health and does

not endorse binge drinking. Kather-ine has no comment.

**Again, Jillian is on Peer Health.

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Notary publics offer studentsa hidden resource on campus

GO-TO MAN: (left): Concert, Budget and Equipment Manager of the Music Department Delmar Small became notarized when he

worked at a bank prior to coming to Bowdoin. While many of the notaries at Bowdoin are located in the Treasurer’s O ffi ce, Small is

located in Gibson Hall, which makes him more accessible to students.

Many students, faculty and profes-sors find themselves lost when havingto deal with hey legal documents, es-pecially students who would usually re-quest the help of parents at home. Manystudents find themselves in need of anotary, or a public offi cial that serves asan impartial witness, whose signature isoen necessary for the authorization ofoffi cial documents. Little to the knowl-edge of most students, there are manynotaries dispersed throughout the Bow-doin campus.e majority of notaries are staff 

members who work in the Treasurer’sOffi ce such as Legal Compliance Offi cer

Meg Hart.Because of the frequency with whichthe Treasurer’s Offi  ce deals with offi cialdocuments, the College recommends thatstaff  within the Offi ce become notaries.

Hart came to Bowdoin straight fromlaw school, and upon receiving the job,the College requested that she take thenotary test. Under Maine law, Hart’sstatus as an attorney meant that she

could notarize documents. However, to

become an offi cial notary or to gain theability to notarize documents in otherstates, Hart was required to take a test,which she did upon arrival to Bowdoin.

Next door, Sharon King, offi ce super- visor of facilities management, took adiff erent path to becoming a notary.

“I became a notary because a friendof mine was one, and I thought it wasinteresting to watch her do what shedoes,” she said.

King explained that the process ofbecoming a notary is relatively easy.For the state of Maine, anyone inter-ested must take an open book exam,pay a $50 fee and be sworn in by aDedimus Justice.

All the way across campus, in the

basement of Gibson Hall, Concert, Bud-get and Equipment Manager DelmarSmall is unique in that he is a notarywithin the music department. Small be-came notarized during his time work-ing for a bank before coming to workat Bowdoin. Small explained that thisbank paid for him to become a notaryas a service to its customers.

Aer Small started at Bowdoin, how-

ever, he found that he needed notary

services one day, and it seemed like all ofthe notaries were in the Treasurer's Of-fice or the Controller's Offi  ce. Becauseof his offi  ce’s close vicinity to campus,Small believed it would be convenientfor students and faculty if he added hisname to the list of notaries here at Bow-doin and to make himself available.e variety in the way that these

three members of Bowdoin faculty be-came notaries is also reflected in howthey apply their position on campus.

“I am a notary for college business,first and foremost,” Hart said. “I’veused it for offi  cial documents, wheth-er it’s banking documents or things todo with real estate if we’ve had a realestate clo sing.”

In contrast, King’s work as a notary isusually off  of campus, such as perform-ing wedding ceremonies. e majorityof requests are favors for Bowdoin staff  members as opposed to offi  cial Bow-doin College business.

King believes that she has helpedmore faculty and staff   than studentsbecause of her location off   campus inRhodes Hall which is generally only vis-

ited by students for security concerns.

Small’s location has had the oppo-site eff ect, as he oen works with stu-dents who have legal business that theywould normally take to City Hall or theDepartment of Motor Vehicles but areunable to because they are away fromhome. Small said he oen helps withdriver’s license renewals or helping stu-dents get out of jury duty.

Both Small and Hart have alsoworked extensively with the studyabroad programs. Hart explains thatnotarization is helpful, as many stu-dents request to work with countries orprograms that don’t necessarily knowMaine law or even U.S. law.

Despite variations in the path to be-coming a notary, all three staff  members

agree that it is an easy status to obtainthat has proven extremely useful hereon campus.

“I just make my services availablefor free for Bowdoin faculty staff   andstudents. I see it as a public service,”said King.

A full list of notaries can be foundon the Bowdoin Administrative Ser-

 vices website.

BY NELL FITZGERALDORIENT STAFF

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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Being a student, or a young per-son, isn’t always easy. But fear not.This weekend, Curtain Callers andPeer Health are co-sponsoring themusical, “Next to Normal.” Themusical aims to show that nobodyis alone when it comes to feelingoverwhelmed with the difficulties inone’s life and the world.

“Next to Normal” is about a moth-

er who struggles with her mentalhealth and the complicated relation-ships that develop as a result.

Director and member of PeerHealth Marcella Jimenez ’16 saidthat she hopes that after the Bow-doin community sees the show, theywill understand that it is okay to notbe okay.

“It will actually be a stronger andhealthier community if we can havethose conversations about our strug-gles,” Jimenez said.

Due to difficulties booking a the-ater space on campus, the show willbe presented at the Theater Projecton School Street in Brunswick. Theidea to partner with the Theater

Project was the brainchild of Profes-sor of Theater Davis Robinson.“Bowdoin is this wonderful place

where so many students are incred-ibly talented and want to do won-derful things,” Jimenez said. “Andbecause of that, there’s a shortage of

 venue s to do tho se wond erfu l thing s,so we hit a lot of walls in terms ofplaces where we could feasibly stagethe show.”

“I think that even though it was just by luck that [we’re part neri ngwith the Theater Project], it’s reallynice that we can bond with the com-munity in this way,” Musical Director

‘Next to Normal’

to be shown atTheater Project

‘Reasons to be Pretty’ accessible to students, actors

Beyond the Proscenium (BTP), Bow-

doin’s student theater group known forits accessibility, is performing a showthis weekend with a relatable theme.“Reasons to be pretty” is about fouryoung, working class people navigat-ing relationships and self worth, payingspecial attention to pressures to appearphysically appealing.e theater group was formed to

make theater more accessible to actorsas well as to the rest of campus. Corde-lia Orbach ’17 and Sarah Guilbault ’18started the group when they noticedan imbalance in the number of peopleexpressing a desire to perform and thenumber of productions happeningeach semester.

“Part of what we were noticing is that

the same people are appearing inevery production, and people whowanted to be involved in theaterbut didn’t join a department show

or take classes didn’t necessarily a)know where to find it or b) want tobe involved with it,” said Orbach.

BTP has not just provided moreproductions but also provided types ofproductions that feel more accessibleto more actors.

“Reasons to be pretty” will be per-formed in Chase Barn, an informaland even homey setting. e groupis known to perform in less commonspaces, like Howell House.

“We decided that by bringing theateroutside of the Pickard, Memorial, Wisharea and by infiltrating campus, thattheater would become more accessiblebecause it would be closer to students,”Orbach said. “I was really inspired by

the bookshelf, so I chose Chase Barn [asa performance space for this show].”

“Reasons to be Pretty” is particularlytimely, as the topic of body image is be-ing addressed in several venues acrosscampus. e play will add yet another

dimension to the campus-wide dis-cussion accompaning the Body ImagePanel held last week and the Wom-en’s Resource Center’s “Celebrating

Women, Celebrating Bodies” exhibiton display now.Orbach was surprised and excited

that the play is coinciding with theCenter’s event on th e same theme.

Orbach invited the audience toinvest themselves in the story andengage with the play’s characters inan intimate setting for an hour anda half. She said that she believes inthe power of theater to invoke strongreactions, make people think deeplyand in new ways and hopefully trig-ger discussion.

“Reasons to be pretty” will be per-formed in Chase Barn tonight and Sat-urday at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale atthe Smith Union Information for $1.

A couple of weeks ago, I overheard astudent in the Brunswick Junior HighSchool class I tutor complain about herpiano lessons. Although seventh-gradesentimentalism oen confronts me inthat classroom, nothing had struck melike this remark before. I turned to her. Icouldn’t stop myself. Be grateful for those

lessons. I had them too. en I thoughtof my younger self, who was awkwardamidst variations of heights and stagesof puberty at a magnet school in Man-hattan. I thought of what playing pianobrought me then. My school was alsopredominantly white— although Upper-East-Side-white, not Maine-white— andall of the strange spaces I ended up cours-ing through at 13 (as a result of the piano)were white too.

At 13 years old, I found myself the key-boardist of an indie pop all-girl band. isband was a lot of things, but at its core itwas a DIY art project that argued cutenessand youth in music could be revolution-

ary and feminist. In two years, I wentfrom performing recitals to dark bars onthe Lower East Side to comedy shows toconcert venues on a European tour withmy favorite singer. It was special. I be-came young and musical and privy to aworld that seemed far away from that ofmy classmates. I thought indie music gaveme a way out of the averageness and awk-wardness of adolescence. In some ways, itallowed me to grow up quickly. In otherways, it did not let me grow at all.

I le my project of two years because

touring did not agree with public school.But I le  indie because I could not fit itsworld. Even if I was a good musician, Iwould never be lithe and pale enough,which I felt deeply as a personal fault. De-spite the girl-power and riot-grrrl apho-risms I touted, indie provided no guidanceto navigating my identity, which was lone-somely darker and diff erent from those ofmy bandmates and everyone around me.My Asian-ness pushed boundaries andthus I could feel the edges of the indie’s ra-cial structures. Racism is strange this way.It pervades subcultures that are commit-ted to artistic integrity and nurturing theindependent spirit outside of commercial

media. In all of that good, insidious in-dividualism and prejudice still distortthe world like light through a prism.

I did love music, although I did notlove what surrounded it. Somethingthat my friends at Bowdoin remindme of—over three-hour dinners at the

 vertical tables in orne—is that ar-tistic remarkability is not unique here.Many of us have dabbled in diff erentworlds—art, acting, modeling, dance—and still end up here. is is not to saythat performing arts careers are sacri-

ficed for education. Rather, the worldsof art can be compared to a world likeBowdoin, where issues of racism andshiing demographics oen takethe center slot on the front pageof the newspaper and theimplicitness of being whiteis challenged by students ofcolor. ese are the skills an art-ist of any sort needs to navigate a worldas systematically white as indie, not as ananomaly but as an extraordinary.

An exemplar artist of color in in-die is Hari Kondabolu ’04, who spokecandidly about his experiences at Bow-doin last weekend. Kondabolu’s rise to

comedy stardom can be attributed to acouple things. Firstly, that he is a goodcomedian. Secondly, he confronts issuesof race humorously and head-on, which

he learned to do at Bowdoin, and hasspoken about in the Orient. is was of

interest to me, seeing as Kondabolu andI performed at the same types of comedyclubs in 2010, but nowadays, he is onthe stage of Pickard eater and I am inthe balconies first tier. Perhaps that is ameasurable value for spending time in aworld like Bowdoin.is means that there is also an argu-

ment to be made for the liberation ofindie music. Last week, I watched theJapanese-born Asian American musi-

cian Mitski’s first video, and was deeplyovercome by her clear engagement anddiscussion of race. It has been a long timecoming, but Asian American indie art-ists are gaining recognition by the nature

of identities which is something Iwouldn’t have believed could happen

years ago.is is particularly movingto me as I think back to my seventh gradeself, who toiled at the piano and believedfor a while that she would never forsakemusic for college, let alone a tiny one inMaine. en again, it is easy to sign a lifeaway before you know what it will hold.I am glad to feel the world shiing andchanging beneath my feet.

Assumptions of whiteness in indie: a personal account of artistic expression

BY AMANDA NEWMANORIENT STAFF

STREET SMART JUNE LEI

BY CALLYE BOLSTERORIENT STAFF

Please see NORMAL, page 8

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

I FEEL PRETTY: Erin

McKissick ’16 (left) and

Jamie Boucher ’19 (right)

perform in Bowdoin’s

newest theater groupBeyond the Proscenium’s

(BTP) spring production

of “Reasons to be Pretty,”

which follows young

people as they navigate

relationships and body

image issues.

“Part of what we we’re noticing is

that the same people are appear-

ing in every production, and peoplewho wanted to be involved in the-

ater but didn’t join a department

show or take classes didn’t neces-

sarily a) know where to find it or b)

want to be involved with it.”

CORDELIA ORBACH ’17

DIANA FURUKAWA

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Jae-Yeon Yoo ’18 said. “Having thatconnection actually makes sense be-cause ‘Next to Normal’ is a lot aboutcommunity.”e two directors attributed the

idea for putting the show together toAdam Glynn ’17, the show’s producer.

“It’s been a team effort betweenthe three of us as a productionteam,” said Jimenez.

She added that strong communi-cation between each member of theteam has been essential to successfulrehearsals.

The two directors also hadhigh praises for their actorsand musicians.

“Something that I love about musi-

cal theater is that it really does bringtogether a lot of different groups oncampus that you wouldn’t typicallyfind,” said Yoo. According to Yoo,among the actors and pit membersare members from a cappella and theBowdoin Music Collective.

Jimenez expressed that she had aspecial connection to the musical.

When she first became interestedin the show, her cousin had just b eendiagnosed with lung cancer. At thetime, she listened to the musical’ssoundtrack every day on her way toand from work.

“My family was dealing with a lot

in terms of taking care of him, andso there was a lot of grief and angstaround that situation,” she said. “Ifeel like the musical really helped meprocess that in a lot of w ays.”

Jimenez added that she hopes themusical will help students reflect ontheir own difficulties.

“A lot of times we have the pres-sure of keeping everything togeth-er,” she said. “Our life is supposedto be this neat little box, but under-neath a lot of that, everybody is amess, and no one really knows whatthey’re doing.”

The first performance of “Nextto Normal” will take place tonightat 7:30 p.m. There will be two addi-tional showings on Saturday at 7:30p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.

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See “Next to Normal”tonight and tomorrowat 7:30 p.m. and Sundayat 3 p.m. at the TheaterProject in Brunswick.

Tickets are on sale for$1 at the Smith UnionInformation Desk. NEXT TO NORMAL: Charles Campbell-Decock ’17 (left) and Sophie de Bruijn ’18 (right) rehearse for Curtain Caller’s spring production of the criti-

cally acclaimed musical, “Next to Normal,”which is about family and mental illness. Curtain Callers hopes that the subject of the show will attract a

wide range of people, and that the location of the Theater Project will bring together people from Bowdoin and Brunswick alike.

GRACE MALLET, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Disrupting the Bowdoin bubble: Bamby Salcedo on transvisibility

Transgender Latinx immigrantrights activist Bamby Salcedo vis-ited Bowdoin on Monday for a filmscreening of “TransVisible: e Bam-by Salcedo Story,” accompanied by aQ&A and luncheon the following day.As a part of the McKeen Center forthe Common Good’s series of “WhatMatters” campus conversations, Sal-cedo discussed the intersectionality ofpressing transgender, immigrant andLatinx issues within the context of herwork as the founder of Los Angeles-based TransLatin@ Coalition.

Salcedo shared her experiencesgrowing up in Guadalajara, Mexico,her subsequent immigration to theUnited States and her struggles withdrug abuse, gang activity, prostitutionand deportation once settling in L.A.

“We’re running away from our

countries to find a better way of life,but then we get to this country andfind ourselves in the same predica-ment,” Salcedo said. “We want to liveour lives authentically, but a lot oftimes other people, and a lot of timesour families, don’t even understandthe process. A lot of it has to do withwhat societal structures have imposedonto what we believe.”

Salcedo, whose life changed directionaer she sought help and a health edu-cation job at Bienestar Human Services,soon embraced her identity as an activistfor translatinx rights, eventually foundingthe TransLatin@ Coalition and directingAngels of Change, a fundraiser to supporthealth education, access and HIV preven-

tion for trans youth.Despite the scarcity of transgender,gender-nonconforming and even im-migrant students at Bowdoin, Salcedo’s

 visit still proved very relevant, as heraudience found new ways to discussboth unfamiliar and deeply personalaspects of identity.

“ere is that critique at Bowdoinabout the real world versus the bubble,”said Karla Padron, a CFD postdoctoralfellow in gender, sexuality and wom-en’s studies. “is is the type of event

that creates a bridge and disrupts thatbubble. It’s not just that the y learn these

terms, but students see what it lookslike and how it’s experienced.”Padron added that although many

Bowdoin students are familiar with the is-sues of marginalized groups and the theo-retical framework through which they’reoen viewed, Salcedo’s visit was instru-mental in bringing them to the forefront.

“Bowdoin students are very brightand when we talk about intersection-ality, people understand that at an in-tellectual level,” Padron said. “But interms of diversity of experience, be-

cause of age and socioeconomic sta-tus, it is diffi  cult to see what it looks

like. We need to create m ore visibility.We need more people like Bamby Sal-cedo to come to campus, and we needmore conversations about how thesetheoretical terms apply in the realworld and how the real world informsour theoretical world.”e screening and Q&A in Kresge

Auditorium was well-attended. How-ever, many students noted a lack ofwhite representation in the audience.

“I noticed that the audience wasmostly students of color and students

who have immigration as part of theirfamily history,” Miguel Aviles ’16 said.

“If this place is about all these experi-ences and learning about them and theworld, then I feel like we should incor-porate as many people as possible.”

Salcedo spoke to this idea. “I thinkto change the structures at this school,the first thing we need to do is open ourminds and open our hearts,” Salcedosaid. “For people who may be feelingisolated and excluded and not part ofthe whole, if I could just give them apiece of hope that their bodies, presencealone and existence mean everything.

As long as they know that their presenceis valuable, they will definitely create a

better place for them and the otherswho come aer them.”e event was hosted by the Depart-

ment of Gender, Sexuality and Women’sStudies, the McKeen Center for theCommon Good, the Women’s ResourceCenter for Sexual and Gender Diversity,the Student Center for Multicultural Life,Student Activities, the Student ActivitiesFunding Committee, the Kurtz Funds,Latin American Student Organization,Residential Life, Quinby House andHowell House.

VALERIE CHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

TRANSVISIBILITY: Transgender Latina@ activist Bamby Salcedo speaks about t he intersectional identity and issues surrounding immigrant, transgender and Latin@ communities. Salcedo visited

campus on Monday as part of the McKeen Center for the Common Good’s series of events called “What Matters”to spark campus conversation.

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Renowned soball coach Sue Enquistpassed on advice from 26 years of coach-ing at both the collegiate and Olympic lev-els to Bowdoin athletes and coaches in hertalk, “Competitive Character Blueprints:Building Sustainable and Relevant Lead-ership Systems,” at Kresge Auditoriumon Tuesday.

  Before starting her coaching career,Enquist played soball for UCLA, helpingthe program reach its first national cham-pionship. Her career batting average of.401 was a program record that remaineduntouched for 24 years. Enquist went onto have an incredible career as head coachof the UCLA soball program. e le the team with a a combined 11 nationalchampionships as a player and coach. En-quist also won a gold medal as the coachof the USA soball team in the 1996Olympic games, the first time soball wasincluded in the Olympics.

During Enquist’s years as head coachof the UCLA program, her teams won83% of their games. Yet, despite all of thegreat teams that she coached, Enquist

noted that she had seen her teams failmany times.

“[We were] ranked number one in thecountry, [had] nine returners, and we gotknocked out in the second round [of theWorld Series],” said Enquist. “Every yearI coached, every single team went to theWorld Series, and we’re really proud ofthat consistency. But what about the yearswhere we were supposed to win the WorldSeries and didn’t get past the first round?”

She explained the reasons behind thisteam’s failures.

“When entitlement starts to flourish ina team, when people think we’re supposedto win today, that’s when you’re in trouble.

at’s when the game comes up, and itbites you in the butt,” said Enquist. “Yousay you never saw it coming—yes, yousaw it coming. You looked in the otherdugout and said game over.”ese points particularly stuck out to

men’s tennis captain Chase Savage ‘16, ashis team continues to face the pressures ofone of its strongest seasons in recent pro-gram history.

Every Saturday morning dur-ing April, the Bowdoin men’s andwomen’s soccer teams participate inBrunswick Parks and Recreation’sKick Start soccer program, teachingas many as 75 to 100 children agedfive to eight. It’s a tradition everyApril that has run for many years inwhich college players inspire confi-dence and love of the game in theyouth.

Peter Mills, assistant coach ofthe men’s soccer team, manages theprogram, He gives the Bowdoin stu-

dent instructors tasks for each ses-sion when they arrive in the morn-ing such as teaching dribbling orpassing.

For Rachel Noone ’19 the pro-gram is a mechanism to bring hercloser to her teammates.

“As a team, being together andserving a purpose greater than yourteam beyond just winning tran-scends just soccer,” said Noone. “Itbuilds friendships—on the field youknow your teammate that much bet-ter because you share that experi-ence and also go the extra mile onthe field in that season.”

Rachel Stout ’18 noted the joy in

working with the children them-selves.

“It’s awesome to see the smile youcan put on their face and changetheir day over such a simple thingas soccer,” said Stout.

She also fondly recalled hergroup’s love for the game and energy.

“They love the scrimmages andcome up with silly cheers andnames like the ‘Bowdoin Flames,’”said Stout.

Beyond the fun and games, KickStart can be challenging at times.

“Sometimes it’s a grind getting upat 8 a.m. on a Saturday, but it’s defi-nitely worth it,” said Noone.

Stout recalled the difficulty at

times of working with so many kidsat once.

“[There are] typical kid things[like] throwing tantrums, messing

Aer success earlier in the season, theBowdoin baseball team has dropped tothe bottom of its division with a 3-6 con-

ference record. is standing makes ithighly unlikely that the Polar Bears willqualify for the NESCAC playoff s thisyear, as only the top two teams in eachfi ve-team division qualify. e team hasthree more divisional games which willbe played in the series against Tus dur-ing the last weekend in April.is past weekend the team lost twice

to Colby before finishing the series ona good note with a 5-2 win in the thirdgame. On Monday, Bowdoin won 11-1 atomas College. On ursday, the PolarBears won their third straight game witha 8-2 victory against Husson, hopefullygiving them momentum for a successful

upcoming weekend.“I think we’re definitely behind where

we expected to be,” said Captain HarryRidge ’16. “But I think that this year we’veworked as hard, if not a lot harder, to pre-pare ourselves in the off -season, which is

why it is so frustrating because going intothe year, we were in a pretty good spot.”

Both Ridge and Head Coach MikeConnolly agree that when the team hasstruggled this season, it has not been fora lack of eff ort, preparation or desire towin. In fact, Ridge thinks that at times,the team may have been trying too hard,straining to accomplish too many thingsat once and thus coming up short. ForConnolly, the problem seems to be fail-ing to achieve a consistency that allowsthe team to excel in all areas at once.

“When we did play well, I would say it

BY MADDIE JODKA

ORIENT STAFF

BY LIZA TARBELL

ORIENT STAFF

Baseball struggles indifficult NESCAC East

Please see ENQUIST, page 10

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Hall of Fame coach Sue Enquist onbuilding foundations for success

Soccer teams serve community through Kick Start initiative

COURTESY OF ELLERY GOULD

Please see BASEBALL, page 10

EMPHASIZING EXCELLENCE: Sue Enquist, a combined 11-time national softballchampion at UCLA as a player and coach and Olympic gold-medal-winning coach, spoke atKresge Auditorium on Tuesday about how to achieve success as a team and as an individual.

BY ANJULEE BHALLA

ORIENT STAFF

DOWN IN THE COUNT: Brandon Lopez ’19 loads up against Colby on April 16. The baseball team is currently

last in its division, and needs to win its last three divisional games and get help in order to make the playo ff s.

Please see KICK START, page 10

KICKING AND BEHAVING: Members of the Bowdoin men’s and women’s soccer teams teach local children dribbling skills. Beginning in April, the team coaches 75-100 children ages 5-8

every Saturday morning for a couple hours as part of Brunswick Parks and Recreation’s Kick Start soccer program.

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Aer a 9-6-1 start to the season overspring break, the soball team hopedto progress past its inconsistent start.However, the team has experiencedmore of the same, and currently sits atthird place in the NESCAC East with a4-5 divisional record and 14-13-2 re-cord overall. e team has only threedivisional games le to hopefully over-take Trinity (3-3 divisional record)and claim one of the top two spots inthe division that make the playoff s.

e team’s first game back was ahard fought 7-5 loss against the three-time defending national champions,Tus. e team went on to face Batesin a three game series at home.

In the first game of the Bates se-ries, the team faced a 3-1 deficit inthe bottom of the sixth inning. KatieGately ’16 was able to get the ball roll-

ing with a single, followed by anotherfrom Claire McCarthy ’18. With tworunners on base, Marisa O’Toole ’17stepped up to the plate and drove bothrunners home with a triple. Bates wasable to tie the score and push extra in-nings, but in the bottom of the eighthLauren O’Shea ’18 knocked a hit overthe Bates shortstop to dr ive in O’Toolefor the win.

Aer the late inning heroics, the Po-lar Bears went on to sweep the series

by winning both games of the double-header the following day. e o ff ensewas led by Gately, who tallied a doublein game one and three hits, leading toall three RBIs, in game two.

Bowdoin then returned to Tus tocomplete the three game series againstthe Jumbos, starting off  with a double-header in Medford. Despite a great ef-fort, the Tus off ense proved to be toomuch. e Polar Bears gave up 11 runsin each game, resulting in two lossesand a series sweep.

Doubleheaders in general providean opportunity to play a lot of soball,but it is very diffi cult to maintain te-nacity and focus for two long games inone day.

“A doubleheader gives you a lot ofopportunity to play, but we still ap-proach each pitch one at a time,” saidJulia Geaumont ’16,

Despite the losses to Tus, the teamis still confident in their ability to take

down the powerhouse program if giv-en the opportunity to play them again.

“Tus is the team to beat,” saidGeaumont. “ey are amazing off en-sively but not unbeatable. Tus is justa team that won’t back down.”

e team was determined to bounceback aer the tough losses to Tus,and managed to rally against the Uni-

 versity of Southern Maine (USM) in adoubleheader on April 13. Looking asif they might drop another game, the

Polar Bears found themselves down bytwo runs with two outs in the bottomof the seventh. With the final out onthe line, McCarthy stepped up againwith an RBI double to shi  momen-tum back to the Bowdoin side. Nextup was Samantha Valdivia ’19, whoknocked in the final two runs of thegame and finished the late-game rallyfor the Polar Bears. Geaumont earnedthe win on the mound and had twodoubles in the game.

In the second game, USM came backwith a vengeance, scoring two quick

runs in the first to jump to a quicklead. Aer tying the score, Bowdoin letup three runs in the bottom of the finalinning, and once again looked to theirclutch off ense to get the job done. ePolar Bears proved up to the challenge,as Jordan Gowdy ’18 and Ali Miller ’18got on base with back-to-back singles.Aer a double from Caroline Rice ’19,Geaumont followed up on her stronggame one performance and knocked adouble and two RBIs to tie the gameand allow the Polar Bears to escapeunbeaten on the day.

Because only two teams make theplayoff s, the team’s only remainingconference matchup against Trinity onApril 29 and 30 will be decide whetherthey make the postseason. e teamwill most likely have to win all threegames against the Bantams.

“It speaks to our team that we neverback down and keep fighting untilthe end,” said Geaumont. “We pushit when it’s late. We will push it untilthe end just like we do during the finalinnings… We want to play to our bestability and leave it all on the field.”

around or crying because they misstheir parents, but it’s manageablebecause you can distract them byplaying soccer,” said Stout.

“They always want to wrestle withyou or something, or they want youto give them a piggyback ride,” saidCJ Masterson ’19. “But if you giveone kid a piggyback ride, then allof them are wanting a piggybackrides and they’re all just climbingon you.”

Despite the difficulty of marshal-ing close to 100 kids at 8:30 in themorning, Masterson has found thatthe relationships he has built withthe community are rewarding. Hespecifically noted a connection witha player named Noah.

“I was at Sears one time getting atie, and he was there with his dad,

and he introduced [us]. He was re-ally excited to see me,” said Master-son. “That was a community experi-

ence that was really solidifying.”Most of all, Masterson enjoysthe program because of the joy itbrings him.

“It’s a lot of fun. It’s really nostal-gic reliving your best soccer days asa kid when you’re six years old,” saidMasterson. “It becomes the high-light of your day.”

was a complete eff ort, where we weren’tnecessarily outstanding at any one par-ticular area, but we were very good atall three,” said Connolly, referring topitching, fielding and hitting. “When westruggled, we just weren’t as consistent. Ithink what we’re trying to do moving for-ward is just be as consistent as possible toput ourselves in the best position to winevery game down the stretch.”

Still, there have been impressive teamperformances and individual playerswho stand out this season. Among theseare Sean Mullaney ’17 at shortstop, whois the best defensive shortstop in theleague according to Connolly. Mean-while, Ridge is the team’s number onepitcher and has started fi ve games forthe team.

“[Ridge] is the definition of consis-tency,” said Connolly. “We know whatwe’re going to get from him every timehe pitches; he’s been a standout for us.”

New additions and younger players’improvement have also impacted theteam. Within the past few weeks, Nick

Sadler ’18 and Joe Gentile ’18 have provedthemselves to be very valuable players inthe outfield. Meanwhile, Luke Cappel-lano ’19 at second base leads the team inruns batted in, and Brandon Lopez ’19has stood out as a pitcher and hitter.

First year catchers, Ejaaz Jiu ’19 andColby Joncas ’19, have risen to the chal-lenge aer senior captain Chris Nadeau’16 was injured in the beginning ofthe season.

“[Nadeau] was probably our most valuable player going into the year just

because he is such a presence on thefield,” said Ridge.

Aer injuring his elbow, Nadeauhas shied to a role of designated hit-ter, but this has been a huge loss to theteam’s defense.

“[Nadeau] is a phenomenal defensivecatcher and a fantastic leader,” said Con-nolly. “He’s been a four-year performerfor us. [He] really is the true backboneof our defense. It’s a shame he hasn’t hadthe opportunity to play more behind thedisk.”

Ridge said the most satisfying winsrecently have been the last game againstTrinity on April 2 and the comeback vic-

tory against Colby this past weekend.According to Connolly, during confer-ence series, the Polar Bears face a levelof competition very similar to theirs. Itcan be frustrating at times because thereis such a fine line between winning andlosing these series as the games can easilygo either way.

Looking forward, Bowdoin will playa series against Williams this weekendfollowed up with a game against St.Joseph’s College on Tuesday. is longstretch of home games will hopefully

be advantageous to the Polar Bears,who are looking to win all of thesechallenging matchups. If the PolarBears are able to get good momentumgoing this weekend, Connolly believesthey will land themselves in a goodplace for the crucial series againstTus beginning April 29 at home.

“Our biggest concern at this point isplaying defense, throwing strikes andmaking plays and putting ourselves in agood position so that we can put togethergood at-bats without being behind in agame,” said Ridge. “Everyone is workinghard enough. It’s just a matter of every-thing coming together at once.”

“Hearing from an 11-time nationalchampion that there were teams who shethought underperformed but were still inthe top four in the country I think shows alot and says a lot about the power of hav-ing a complete backing from every mem-ber of your team,” said Savage. “You canhave all the accolades in the world, andyou can have all the talent, but if you goout there and you don’t respect your op-ponent, your opponent can still beat youthat day.”

“You should never expect your oppo-nent to give you anything,” he continued.“I think as a team, we’re trying to capturethat this year by emphasizing that everyday in practice, we have to earn it becauseevery single match we play, we’re going tohave to earn it as well.”

Having retired in 2006, Enquist’s talkalso focused on how the key leadershipcharacteristics built through athletics

translate to life outside of the collegiateathletic sphere. From the relationship withexcellence that comes from playing at an

elite college to harnessing the positive at-tributes of competition, Enquist describedhow she’s seen and experienced the ben-efits of these traits.

“One year we were in the finals of theWorld Series. My catcher goes down, thebackup catcher goes down, and the thirdcatcher goes down. We’re ranked numberone in the country, and I have a backupright fielder as the starting catcher. Shehasn’t had a catcher’s glove on in six years.But this is what I know about sports—youhave mastered fundamentals that allowyou to be adjusted that you actually canperform very well when we tweak yourrole,” said Enquist.

According to Enquist, this ability tomaster fundamentals and adjust welltranslates to the business world.

 “So when you get that first job and theysay ‘Hey you’re a director, but we need a

 vice president,’ the first thing you’re going

to think is ‘I’m not sure I’m worthy,’ ‘I’mnot sure I’m capable.’ When in doubt, raiseyour hand and say ‘I can do that.’ Figure it

out later, because your general skill set isgoing to allow you to do so many thingsoutside of that specific job.”

As a senior, Savage reflected on how hisathletic experience sets himself up to be

 very comfortable with success and failurein any aspect of his life.

“In my four years here, athletics hasbeen a place where I’ve failed, but it’s aplace that allowed me to get back up. ewin or the loss really forces you to con-front failure on a daily basis, and it forcesyou to pick yourself up,” he said.

“If you don’t learn how to pick yourselfup, and it’s not just sports, if you don’t findthe way to get over adversity, you’re re-ally going to struggle.” He continued, “Ev-ery person in this world, no matter howsmart, no matter how athletic, no matterhow talented, has a day or a moment ormany moments when they’re simply notas good as somebody else.”

Despite inconsistent play, postseason within reach for softballBY COOPER HEMPHILL

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ENQUISTCONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

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BASEBALLCONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

“It’s a lot of fun. Really nostalgic,reliving your best soccer days asa kid, when you’re six years old. Itbecomes the highlight of your day.”

CJ MASTERSON ‘19

BRING ON THE BANTAMS: Emily Griffi n ’17 winds up in a game against Colby this past weekend. Softball currently sits at third out of five teams in the NE-

SCAC East with a 4-5 divisional record. The team will host Trinity (3-3, second in NESCAC East) for a three-game series on April 29-30 that will almost certainly

decide Bowdoin’s playoff  fate.

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I need to start by admitting my own personal bias. I am a senior who has been in-seasonfor all eight semesters here at Bowdoin. I was a member of the football team for