Twenty sex o! enses occurred at Bow-doin in 2014, according to the Annual Clery Campus Crime Report released yesterday for the 2014 calendar year by the O" ce of Safety and Security. # e 20 reported sex o! enses is a

jump up from the six reported in 2013 and the four reported in 2012. Peer schools reported similar jumps in numbers for sex o! enses in 2014there were 12 from Bates, 12 from Am-herst and 20 from Williams. Wesleyan reported 41 sex o! enses in 2014.

Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols said at the release of both the Clery reports for 2013 and 2012 that sex o! enses are generally underreported.

Nichols declined to comment on the speci$ cs of this years report in time for publication. He did, however, note that

changes had been made to the system for the report of sex o! enses for the 2014 report. In previous years, sex of-fenses had been noted only as Forcible Sex O! enses. However, following the Violence Against Women Reauthori-zation Act of 2013 signed in March of 2013, colleges were required to phase in a new method of reporting statistics: now, sex o! enses are broken down into Rape and Fondling.

Each year, colleges must report statis-tics on a set of federally speci$ ed crimes that take place on or adjacent to college property during the previous year. Bow-doin reported that $ ve burglaries, 143 liquor law violations and 43 drug law violations took place on or near campus during 2014.

! is story will be updated on bow-doinorient.com as more information be-comes avaliable.

Twenty sex offenses reported for 2014 in annual Clery report

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

# e last presidential inauguration held at Bowdoin occurred just a% er the new millennium. # e 9/11 attacks had just oc-curred. Facebook, Twitter and MySpace were yet to be invented. Now, 14 years lat-er, Bowdoin is ready to host another and o" cially welcome President Clayton Rose as the Colleges 15th president.

According to Rick Ganong, senior vice president for development and alumni relations and the chair of Bowdoins In-auguration Committee, Bowdoin will be the place to be in the state of Maine on the weekend of October 16 for Roses in-auguration. # e ceremony will include signi$ cant

pomp and circumstance. Homecoming and the Board of Trustees fall meeting will also take place during that weekend. # e festivities will kick o! on # ursday

night with a performance from student a cappella groups in Pickard # eater. On Friday morning, there will be tours of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and the Edwards Center for Art and Dance. # e Inaugural Symposiums two panels

will take place Friday a% ernoon in Pickard # eater, starting with a keynote by Hanna Holborn Gray, president emerita of Uni-versity of Chicago and one of Roses men-tors. Jennifer Scanlon, interim dean for academic a! airs, will moderate the $ rst panel of alumni and academics entitled Yes, It Still Matters: Why and How We Teach the Liberal Arts. # e second panel, Making a Living and Making a Life: # e Liberal Arts in Commerce and Citizen-ship, will consist entirely of alumni: Ken-neth Chenault 73 H96, Ruthie Davis 84, Shelley Hearne 83 and George Mitchell 54 H83 will speak. Andy Serwer 81, journalist and editor-in-chief of Yahoo Fi-nance will moderate the panel. # e sym-posium will be streamed live online.

Friday evening, the indie-rock band Guster will perform in Morrell Gym.

Saturday morning the moment will be President Roses. A procession will lead down to Farley Field House, where Rose will o" cially become Bowdoins 15th

president. While this is Roses weekend, he has

been minimally involved in the planning process. # e Inauguration Commit-tee, which consists of 14 members, has been planning the event. # e committee is made up of faculty, sta! , students and trustees of the college.

Scanlon is a member of the commit-tee. According to her, Rose was interested in examining the concept of a liberal arts education throughout the weekend.

It has provided us with a really exciting opportunity to really think carefully and invite people to talk about the role of the liberal arts, said Scanlon. She recognizes that there are currently a lot of demands for more pre-professional education.

She hopes that the discussion will con-tinue in the community a% er the panel.

As a member of the Inauguration Committee, certainly we looked at the past several inaugurations at Bowdoin as well as inaugurations at other places, said Scanlon.

Bowdoin prepared to inaugurate 15th president, celebrate contemporary role of the liberal arts

Please see INAUGURATION, page 4

Bowdoins fi rst campus-wide teach-in since 1981 took place on

Thursday. The teach-in, entitled Intersections: Making Connections, Moving Forward, aimed to connect

racism, climate change and social justice through panels, open classes

and various performances.

Above: Madeleine Fulton 16 (center) and students in Dance 1101

participate in an open class.

Below: (from left to right) Assistant Professor of Government Jeff rey Selinger, Thomas Brackett Reed

Professor of Government Andrew Rudalevige, CFD Postdoctoral Fellow

in Government Cory Gooding and John F. and Dorothy H. Magee

Associate Professor of Government Laura Henry participate in a panel

discussion during the teach-in.JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SAVANNAH SIMMONS-GROVER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY CALDER MCHUGH AND JULIA OROURKEORIENT STAFF

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION

Despite initial debate about the events purpose and execution, # ursdays teach-in, Intersections: Making Connections, Moving Forward, was met with generally positive reactions from organizers and participants alike. # e teach-in featured plenary panels at

the beginning and end of the day, panels on various topics, open classes, a dance per-formance, slam poetry and a music per-formance. All the panels featured Bowdoin professors, students and sta! talking about various aspects of the intersection between climate change and social justice.

I am overwhelmed with gratitude and joy. I feel really honored to have been able to learn alongside our students and to have been taught by both our students and faculty, said Associate Dean of Stu-dents for Diversity and Inclusion Leana Amaez, who helped organize the event. I hope the conversation continues because it has been remarkably meaningful for me and hopefully the rest of the community.

Echoing Amaezs thoughts, Briana Cardwell 17 said she was very over-whelmed and happy that things went the way that they were planned. At $ rst I was like, Is this Bowdoin? What school am I at? because I was happy to see the di! er-ent people that came.

Earlier this week, A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Music Mary Hunteran initial proponent of a teach-intold the Orient, My bar is that people learn something that they couldnt have learned without the day, and that they converse in a way that they would not converse with-out the day.

Some students responses mirrored this sentiment.

Initially I was skeptical about how

valuable an event like this could be, but I think I went to a few interesting events and was exposed to topics that I hadnt re-ally thought about before and interacted with, said Julian FrareDavis 17. I think the really good thing about discussions is that it makes you think about whats be-ing discussed and work within your mind instead of just being talked to.# ough reactions have been positive,

some students and faculty did not or could not attend and the full extent of the events impact is not yet clear.

I think it was a start, said Director of the McKeen Center Sarah Seames. I think its hard in a one hour panel, with an audience that big, to be able to help people get into what their speci$ c interests are, so thats why its important that people continue talking and exploring how what-ever theyre passionate about can relate to broader policy issues.

How the teach-in came about Although introduced and proposed to

faculty and sta! last year, in December and February, respectively, the idea to have a day dedicated to climate change has been in the works since former president Barry Mills signed the American College & Uni-versity Presidents Climate Commitment in 2007. Mills then organized a group of faculty, sta! , students and alumni to come up with ways to be more sustainable here at Bowdoin. # e committee announced in 2009 that the College had a goal to be carbon neutral by 2020. Following the an-nouncement, Bowdoin had a festival that rallied around issues of climate change, according to a 2009 Orient article.

Madeleine Msall, a professor in the physics department, was a member of that

Teach-in met with positive response despite early divide

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

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! e managers at Bowdoin Dining Ser-vice have decided to embrace one of the hottest trends in the food world. If all goes according to plan, the bar in Jack Magees Pub & Grill will be transformed into a fresh juice bar as soon as the end of Oc-tober. Upon opening, the bar will serve a menu of about seven fruit and vegetable juices that will be made to order on a com-mercial centrifugal juicer.

On Wednesday a" ernoon, Manager of Dining Retail Operations Adeena Fisher, who conceived of and designed the proj-ect, held a tasting of a preliminary menu of juices behind closed doors in the Pub.! e initial hours will likely be limited

to weekday mornings, but Fisher said she expects to expand to include a" ernoon shi" s and possibly evenings as she gauges the student bodys response. Fisher said that the bar will o# er only one size of juice, 16 ounces, which will be priced between $3.50 and $6.50 depending on the blend.

Facilities will conduct some minor renovations to transform the Pubs bar into the juice bar during the weekend of fall break. ! e wood paneled wall behind the bar will be painted in bright colors, the placement of the television will change and a sign and chalkboard will be in-stalled. Fisher said she expects the changes to add life to a currently dull space. ! e bar has yet to be named but among

the options in the running are Jacks Juice Cave, Weve Got ! e beet, Fresh Start, Just Juice it and Polar Press.

While the bar will operate as a juice bar during the week, it will transform back into a pub bar and continue to serve beer

on ! ursday, Friday and Saturday nights.One aspect driving the bars creation is

the minimal revenue from alcohol sales.We were sort of looking for a way to

increase revenue in this area. ! e bar is only open on ! ursday, Friday and Satur-day nights so for a large period of time the bar is not in use, said Fisher.

Fisher readily admits that much of the impetus for the bar is very personal. ! e idea came about because I like to juice, said Fisher. ! e idea was noodling around in the back of my head and a stu-dent actually approached the administra-tion and said hey, how about a juice bar?

Fisher also noted that the juice bar $ ts nicely with Dinings desire to be veggie centric and promote healthy eating. She acknowledged concerns that juice of this type contains very high amounts of sugar and no $ ber (because the plant matter is discarded by the juicer) and said that, in the long run, the bar will be responsive to students demands.

! ere are some people who like the fresh juice because it is absorbed instant-ly into your system. ! ere are some peo-ple who like the smoothie juice where you grind up the spinach. ! at is not to say that the we cannot evolve into some-thing like that, she said.

Some students at the tasting were en-thralled about the coming bar but other expressed concerns about quality of the current menu of juices. No one should have to drink celery, said Stephanie Sun 18.

Others expressed concerns that the bar would con% ict with the Caf.

! e juice bar could be really cool but the Caf does almost the same thing and

The First-Generation Student Retreat. Just getting to meet new people, relaxing

and having some time off .

Darius Riley 19

STUDENT SPEAKWhat are you looking forward to this weekend?

COMPILED BY HY KHONG

Im gonna fi nish sewing a doll that looks like me.

Haleigh Collins 17Staying in, lighting candles,

watching a movie, journaling.

Esther Nunoo 17Ladd juice.

Daniel Rechtschaff en 18

SECURITY REPORT: 9/24 to 10/1Thursday, September 24 A student reported a bike sto-

len from Pine Street Apartments on September 19. A security officer found the bike at Baxter House and returned it to the owner.

An officer provided first-aid to a student who had fallen while jogging.

Friday, September 25 A student reported that a man

with white hair and riding a bike seemed to be following her in the area of West Hall. The man was last seen headed toward South Street.

A student reported being fol-lowed by a suspicious vehicle on and near campus. The vehicle turned out to be a friend of the student.

Saturday, September 26 An officer checked on the well-

being of an intoxicated student at Moore Hall.

An officer checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student who became sick at Super Snack.

An officer checked on an intoxi-cated student who was walking on Harpswell Road.

Vandalism was reported to a wall and ceiling tiles in the basement rest-room at Baxter House.

A student driving a college van in the Dayton Lot backed into a

students vehicle causing negligible damage.

A football player with a dislocat-ed finger was taken to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

A fire alarm in a Reed House stairwell was caused by a faulty de-tector.

Sunday, September 27 A West Hall student fell out of bed

and hit his head. The student went to Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation of a possible concussion.

An intoxicated student in Moore Hall vomited on the personal proper-ty of other students and then knocked a laptop onto the floor, damaging it. The student will pay restitution for all damages.

Officers checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student in Osher Hall.

A student requested a wellness check for an intoxicated friend at Brunswick Apartments.

A student took responsibility for breaking a window pane in the com-mon area of Ladd House.

Monday, September 28 A wooden bench in the basement

of Baxter House was vandalized. Tuesday, September 29

A bathroom stall door on the 9th floor of Coles Tower was damaged.

A student came forward to claim responsibility for damage to a wall at Ladd House.

A smoke alarm at West Hall was set o# by a housekeeper who was steam cleaning.

A student smoking an E-cigarette inside Coleman Hall set o# a smoke alarm. Note: Smoking, including E-cigarettes, is not permitted in College buildings.

At 8 p.m., a student reported that a hooded man was attempting to gain en-try through a window at an o# -campus student residence on Potter Street. ! e suspect % ed on foot and was not located.

Wednesday, September 30 At 5 a.m., a students car alarm went

o# and was disturbing students at Harp-swell Apartments who were trying to sleep. An o& cer woke the owner of the vehicle who disabled the malfunction-ing alarm.

A cheerleader fell on her head in Morrell Gym during a practice session. Brunswick Rescue transported the stu-dent to Mid Coast Hospital.

! ursday, October 1 An o& cer conducted a wellness

check for an intoxicated visitor at West Hall.

Seeing how long I last without my toga falling off .

Caroline Rosen 18

MIRANDA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSYSTEM MALFUNCTION: On Sunday, September 27, an intoxicated student in Moore Hall vomited on the personal property of other students. The student will pay restitution for all damages.

Juice bar to open in Jack Magees Pub

A JUICY ADDITION: A staff member pours juice into cups during a taste-test at Jack Magees Pub. Students participated in the test, which was designed to determine the juice the bar will serve.

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY HARRY DIPRINZIOORIENT STAFF

friday, october 2, 2015the bowdoin orient2 news

Bowdoin partners with HBX to offer business courses, fi nancial aid to lower costs

Bowdoin is partnering with HBX, the online education program at Harvard Business School, to offer students the opportunity to par-ticipate in its Credential of Readi-ness (CORe) program. This adds to the handful of business and finance programs that have been offered to Bowdoin students. However, ac-cording to Foster, what sets this partnership apart is that it allows students to apply for need-based fi-nancial aid.

If a Bowdoin student applies to HBX and applies for financial aid, HBX will contact Bowdoins Stu-dent Aid Office. Aid for HBX will be equivalent to what a student receives from Bowdoin.

Full price for the CORe program is $1,800. According to Foster, fi-nancial aid could lower the cost to as little as $300.

The program is comprised of three coursesBusiness Economics, Economics for Managers and Finan-cial Accountingthat do not count for credit at Bowdoin.

Foster stressed that the skills learned through the programs like CORe can be applied outside of just business or finance fields.

This set of skillswhether its accounting, business analyticsthis is all a set of skills that students can develop that they can broadly apply, he said. You dont have to go into a business vocation.

Bowdoin has partnered with busi-ness schools and programs in the past, and students have attended the Tuck Business Bridge Program at Dartmouth and Middleburys Mid-dCore during summers.

In January 2013 and 2014, rep-resentatives from the Fullbridge business and finance program came to the College to hold sessions on campus for Bowdoin students. In the spring of 2015, the economics department offered a financial ac-counting class in conjunction with the Tuck School of Business at Dart-mouth. According to Interim Dean for Academic Affairs Jennifer Scan-lon, the course is undergoing a full review this fall, and the soonest that it will be offered again would be fall 2016.

BY NICOLE WETSMANORIENT STAFF

TEACH-INCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1committee.

Following the rally, Msall says that motivation lagged. There was a sense, after some years into the car-bon neutral commitment, that we kind of lost our impetus to make the harder choices.

According to Msall, then-President Barry Mills told her that he believed the best course of action needed to be faculty initiative. Msall rounded up a group of faculty and discussed what fac-ulty leadership issues on climate issues would look like.

One of the suggestions was that we should have a teach-in. We should make a moment where we took the idea of that this is so important that we need to focus lots of campus energy on it, said Msall.

! e week the teach-in was presented was also the week police o" cer Darren Wilson was not indicted in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Student leaders of multicultural groups held a vigil in remembrance of Brown and the events happening in Ferguson.

On the faculty # oor, it was very pas-sionate when people said, We understand youre very active about climate change, but if were going to have a teach-in at Bowdoin we need to have a teach-in about racism and all the ways it a$ ects all of us both on campus and the greater world, said Msall regarding the initial presenta-tion in December.

Professors divided

Since its conception, the teach-in has been a point of contention among pro-fessors. ! e content, format and timing of the event were all fervently debated at faculty meetings as well as in private dis-cussions.

Its creating divisions amongst people that really should be working together. It has created a certain amount of hurt feel-ings, Associate Professor of English Ann Kibbie said before the event.

Chair of the History Department Dal-las Denery was concerned about the po-liticization of the day.

Were here to challenge students, were here to improve critical thinking, were here to open up horizons, said Denery. But I dont know if its our responsibil-ity to use our position as faculty to push speci% c political agendas that o& en have nothing to do with our professorial ex-pertise.

Although the faculty supported the teach-in by a majority vote, they did not support a campus-wide cancellation of classes. In an email to the student body, Interim Dean for Academic A$ airs Jen Scanlon and Dean of Student A$ airs Tim Foster stated that the teach-in is not a Bowdoin event. Scanlon and Foster also stressed that lack of participation in the teach-in should not be read as lack of concern for the issues of social, racial and climate justice that a$ ect us all.

Professors and sta$ who did participate

in the teach-in seemed to be pleased with its outcome. Associate Professor of His-tory and the Director of Africana Studies Brian Purnell, who co-taught a class about urban landscapes, says he was impressed with how engaged students were.

Students asked hard questions about urban inequality and what role they will play when they leave Bowdoin and they go out into the world and probably live or work in cities. ! ey asked some pretty tough questions about what they should do or how they should think about experiencing urban inequality as graduates, workers and homeowners, and that was powerful.

Purnell was also excited to have heard from his fellow faculty on such heavy issues.

It was great to learn from other col-leagues. It was exciting to feel alive and learning in such a dynamic way, and thats how I felt participating.

Students React

Many students who had been skepti-cal about the days events felt the open-ing plenary and the panels and classes that followed exposed them to ideas they had not thought about previously.

First-year Emmett Ulian attended the opening plenary and felt that he le& with a good understanding of the con-nection between climate change, race and social justice.

I was a little bit curious how those three issues related, and I thought that that opening was a good way to illus-trate all the connections between the three issues, he said.

Senior James Jelin also attended the opening plenary and was impressed with how well the issue of climate change and its intersection with other aspects of society was addressed.

! e idea of climate change intersect-ing with race is interesting because its like an exacerbating factor, said Jelin. We know that race a$ ects every aspect of life and it a$ ects people unevenly and I think just reminding us all that that is true a well for lack of resources due to climate change, like homes going under water, that that a$ ects people di$ erently based on race, income, et cetera.

Senior Matthew Williams was skepti-cal about the intersectionality of the top-ics covered by the events. By the end of the day, however, he had attended three panels on a variety of topics from science % ction to portrayals of Hurricane Ka-trina in writing.

I thought the teach-in was really e$ ective and something that was re-ally powerful. It made me think about things that I would never have thought about before, like if the oceans get cool-er it can change water currents which could change weather patterns which could change everything about the way we live in society. ! ere were just so many great intersectionalities.

Marina Henke 19 was also impressed by how the event came together in a co-hesive manner. She attended the opening

plenary and commented on how interest-ing it was to be discussing so many di$ er-ent, but related topics.

As I was sitting there and the people next to me were sitting there, we were talking a& erwards about how it was a very unique experience to hear a discus-sion about polar bears and their social in# uence and commentary on the United Statess environmental understandings, sitting right next to a lecture on Ferguson and racial tensions in the Unites States, which was connected also to a climate change, science lecture, she said.

Others were impressed with the dia-logue that occurred throughout the day.

During one panel, Is the US Politi-cal System Broken?, % rst-year Francisco Navarro and Consortium for Faculty Di-versity Postdoctoral Fellow in Govern-ment Cory Gooding went head to head.

Gooding recited a poem by Langs-ton Hughes, Let America Be America Again, and argued that because America had historically only bene% ted certain in-dividuals, it was never truly great.

Navarroa Cuban-American born in Miami and raised in Yucatan, Mexicodisagreed as someone familiar with mul-tiple political landscapes.

You said, When exactly was America great? ! at bothers me, Navarro said to Gooding at the panel. I can see how privileged and how unappreciative we are of our democratic system. My problem with Trumps slogan Make America Great Again is that America is already great.

Gooding replied, What makes Amer-ica great is our ability to keep trying to at-tain the greatness that we proclaimbut for someone who was just shot dead in the street by the law enforcement that was supposed to protect him or her, Im not sure how much he would advocate for the greatness of the country.

I caution us against beating our chests so boldly that we dont recognize the work that still needs to be done, Gooding added.

I was very appreciative of [Navarros] question, said Emiley Charley 17. I real-ly liked that dialogue. I felt as though that was what I came out to see. To see conver-sations start around people who dont see eye to eye.

Franco Sasieta 16, who attended a pan-el about public health and how it relates to issues of social justice, liked the broad range of perspectives present.

It provided a local, national and scattered global view of di$ erent public health issues which I was not fully aware of, he said.

Junior Jennings Leavell was glad to be a part of the teach-in.

Events like these are important and Im thankful that my professor can-celled class so that I could attend, be-cause engaging a community on issues like this is important.! e McKeen Center will be hosting a

debrief of ! ursdays events over lunch at 12:30 p.m. today in Daggett Lounge. All are encouraged to attend to re# ect on the teach-in and explore ways of con-tinuing e$ ective dialogue.

SPOKEN WORD: Kevonte Anderson 15 performs slam poetry during the teach-in. A debrief of Thursdays events will take place in Daggett Lounge today, allowing students time to reflect on the content of the teach-in. Many participating students felt positively about the discussions they attended.

VICTORIA YU, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

friday, october 2, 2015 3newsthe bowdoin orient

Indie-rock band Guster will perform at the Inaugural Concert for President Clay-ton Rose on Friday, October 16 in Morrell Gym. ! is will be their fourth concert at Bowdoin in the last " # een years, includ-ing a performance as the Ivies headliner in 2013.

I think well be playing Bowdoin until were 60 years old, because we have a relative who works at the o$ ce of student activities Im just kidding, Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel said in a phone interview with the Ori-ent. As far as he knows, none of the members of Guster have any familial ties to Bowdoin administrators.

While the band is no stranger to a Bow-doin audienceRosenworcel estimates theyve played here a total of six timestheir upcoming concert will be a di% erent experience entirely.

It might be unprecedented for Bow-doin, but weve played some really awk-ward events in our day, so were good at it, said Rosenworcel of the Inaugural Concert. It will only be awkward if we make it awkward, which well probably choose to do.

He recalled a dedication ceremo-ny the band performed at Carnegie Mellon University.

Someone spent several million dol-lars to dedicate this building or whatev-er and all Ryan [Miller, the lead singer] could do was rail against the one per-centers, he said.

In an unusual schedule for the band, the inauguration concert will be Gusters only college show for the rest of the year.

Weve played a lot of colleges, Rosen-worcel explained. We may be up there with having played the most colleges of any band, except like, the Roots.

He added that Gusters origins as a col-lege band likely contribute to their last-

ing popularity on campuses around the country. Rosenworcel, Miller and guitarist Adam Gardner met at Tu# s, where they formed Guster in 1991.

Not long a# er, the band began per-forming at other small colleges through-out New England.

We [" rst] came to Bowdoin while we were Tu# s dudesthat means we drove there in my little Chevy Nova and I car-ried my equipment in my lap as I was driving, recalled Rosenworcel. But we always had fun at Jack Magees Pub.

Since then, the band has achieved suc-

cess on a national scale. ! eyve had sev-eral top 40 singles over the years including Careful, Amsterdam and Fa-Fa. ! eir music has been featured in Wedding Crashers, Disturbia, and ! e O.C.

Gusters most recent album, Ever-motion, was released this past Janu-ary. ! e Boston Globe called it an airy, winsome release that puts less focus on guitars, dabbling instead in horns and electronic and new wave sounds, to terri" c, moody e% ect.

It feels like we broke through a wall with this one, and Im excited to see whats

on the other side of it, said Rosenworcel.Gusters career has spanned across

three decades, and Rosenworcel explained that theyve stayed relevant by continuing to produce new material rather than rely on old hits.

Were really passionate about putting together an album that is closer and clos-er to being a classic, he said. I think that has just helped us be less of a nostalgia act and more of a band that is creating on a high level.

Rosenworcel had some advice for college bands looking to emulate

Gusters success. Get a van and then soup it up, because

we put a futon and a Nintendo in ours, and it was awesome, he said. ! ere was nowhere else we wanted to be. We would just hang out there, playing Mario Kart in the back of our van, driving from gig to gig. It didnt matter if there were any peo-ple at the gig because we had a van with a futon and Mario Kart in it.

We cant wait to welcome the new president, Rosenworcel added. I didnt realize thats what we were doing but now I know.

! e ceremonial aspects of the event will be similar to those of the past and at other schools; however, the symposium keeps the Inauguration unique to Bowdoin.

Ive had the good fortune to work with a great committee! eyve had terri" c ideas, theyve executed well and theyve followed through, said Ganong. We got lucky to have such a great lineup for the symposium, and such a good solid list of those speaking at the ceremony, and were looking forward to the music.

With the Inauguration still two weeks away, student reaction has been more mixed. One email has been sent to the student body presenting an opportunity to register for the Inauguration itself. According to Ganong, 87 students are currently registered. It is expected, how-ever, that this number will rise in the coming week.

I RSVPd to the Inauguration because

I feel like it is a big day for the College, said Lucy Ryan 19, who registered upon receiving the initial email.

Aziza Janmohamed 19 was equally in-terested but has not yet registered.

It seems really exciting and is a spe-cial event so I will be there, Janmo-hamed said.

Yet other students are less interested in the upcoming inauguration.

I got one email and I just read through the thingI just kind of assumed it was not something that I would want to go to, said Sophia Ardell 17.

Ganong declined to comment about the cost of the event, which includes In-auguration, Homecoming and Trustees Weekend, but noted that this only hap-pens once every 10, 15, 20 years, and thus will be celebrated accordingly.

2013 Ivies headliner Guster to perform at Inaugural ConcertINAUGURATION 2016

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COPYRIGHT MICHELE STAPLETONTHEYRE BACK: Guster is set to perform for the fourth time in 15 years on October 16. We cant wait to welcome the new president, the bands drummer said. I didnt realize thats what we were doing but

BY EMMA PETERSORIENT STAFF

friday, october 2, 2015the bowdoin orient4 news

! e class council elections held last weekend managed to avoid the techni-cal failures that plagued last springs Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) elections. ! e classes of 2016, 2017 and 2019 elected their representatives in an e" cient process, with results announced on Sunday night.! e senior class, which had two con-

tested races and a turnout rate of 70 percent, elected Robo Tavel as President and David Sperber as Vice President. Lindsay Picards candidacy for Treasurer and Arianna Cameron and Brian Fran-coeurs candidacies for class representa-tive to the BSG were all unopposed.

In the class of 2019 election with all races contested and a 76 percent voter turnout rate, students elected Paloma Tisaire as Class Council Presi-dent, Megan Retana as Vice President, Michael Walsh as Treasurer and Jack Arnholz and Khelsea Gordon as BSG representatives.! e class of 2017s election of Nick

Benson as a class representative to the BSG assembly had only a 19 percent turnout, most likely due to the uncon-tested nature of the position.

Although they are only a few days into their positions, the o" cers are excited to start working. Both Tavel and Sperber have many years of experience working on class councils, something they both view as an asset going forward.

I think that experience gives you a sense whos in your class, what they like to do and what they dont, said Sperber.

Tavel agreed, noting that seeing the success and failure of past events will al-low him to learn from these experiences.

We as a council will be able to plan events that get people excited and bring the class together, which is our number one goal, Tavel said.

New to class o" ce, Picard stressed her excitement about working with the other o" cers in spending the $30,000 allotted to the senior class council and about the chance to branch out.

Its pretty easy to get siloed into things at Bowdoin, so Im excited to work with some new people, Picard said.! e 2019 o" cers prioritized the need

to learn more about their class. [My role is to] guarantee the cohe-

siveness of all of the components of the class council and to be someone who wants to be approachable, someone that can be talked to, Tisaire said.

[My goal] is getting to know the class and understanding what people want to see, Retana said.

Walsh thinks that the social diver-sity of the elected candidates will help achieve Retanas goal.

If you have an eclectic group of in-dividuals leading the class, youre going to be able to reach out to everybody,

Walsh said.

Election Procedure Changes Last Aprils BSG elections were

marred by the crash of the voting serv-er in the last few hours of the election as well as early dissemination of vote totals to certain candidates before the voting deadline was extended. Accord-ing to Vice President for BSG A# airs Michelle Kruk 16, for this election, BSG speci$ cally worked to ensure that neither happened again.

Kruk worked with Vice President for Institutional Research, Analyt-ics and Consulting Tina Finneran to use Qualtrics, the tool that Bowdoin uses for institutional surveys, in lieu of the 14-year-old software that IT had written specifically for BSGs elections. According to Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze, fears about a similar crash occurring sev-eral weeks after last springs election during the student referendum on the proposed boycott of Israeli aca-demic institutions led the College to switch to Qualtrics for that occa-sion. When that proved to be more reliable, Hintze recommended that Kruk work with Finneran for BSG elections this fall.

Finneran noted that Qualtrics has no history of crashes and is more customiz-able for future elections. In order to pre-serve con$ dentiality, Finneran, rather than Kruk, was the one who actually administered the election survey. Under Qualtrics, Finneran was the only able to see who voted. Neither she nor Kruk were able to see how students voted.

In previous election years, BSG ex-ecutive committee members were privy to ongoing vote totals and had infor-mally given them to candidates before the end of the election. Kruk noted that while there were no bylaws speci$ cally prohibiting that, she and BSG President Danny Mejia-Cruz 16 had very speci$ -cally decided to have no kind of mid-campaign polling, either informally for the candidates or o" cially for the whole school, in the interest of having a trans-parent and clean campaign.

Aside from Finneran, who was moni-toring the total number of votes in order to ensure that the polling was working correctly, Kruk was the only BSG mem-ber who had access to the vote totals while the election progressed. Accord-ing to Finneran, while it was possible to organize the system so that even the student organizing the election did not know the results until the end, both felt that it was something Kruk should have access to.

Its an interesting question of how you have a fair, online voting system, Finneran said. Its hard to do really well, particularly when you cant track votes or look at the hanging chads.

Class council elections run smoothly with revamped online voting system

BY HARRY RUBEORIENT STAFF

MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER AND HY KHONG , THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

NEW IN OFFICE: Robo Tavel 16 (left) and Paloma Tisaire 19 (right) were elected as their respective class presidents.

Bowdoin was among the more than 80 colleges and universities on Monday that announced the formation of the Coalition for Access, A# ordability and Success, a group of schools that will work in hopes of making the college application process easier for disadvantaged high school stu-dents.

! e Coalitionwhich includes all eight Ivy League schools, 10 of the 11 NE-SCAC schools and many prominent state universitiesrequires that its members meet full $ nancial need for accepted stu-dents and boast a six-year graduation rate of at least 70 percent.

Bowdoin was asked to join the Coali-tion this past spring when Richard Shaw, dean of admissions and $ nancial aid at Stanford, contacted Meiklejohn. Select admissions o" cers in Bowdoins o" ce discussed and ultimately accepted the invitation. Representatives of the College have since been active in shaping the Co-alition, including Director of Admissions Whitney Soule, who is on a subcommittee tasked with developing the new applica-tion.

Perhaps most notable in the Coalitions press release were plans to develop a new college application that applicants will be able to work on throughout their high school careers.

In accordance with its stated goal of increasing access to college education, the Coalition will aim to make the appli-cation particularly helpful to high school students who are forced to be more inde-pendent in their college searches.

Access, to me, is the key word, said

Dean of Admissions and Student Aid Scott Meiklejohn. I was traveling last week. I went into four di# erent high schools where there was no counselor and I was met by parent volunteers. ! ere are 500 students in a graduating classhow exactly are the smart students in that school being advised about college?

If they are in an environment where there isnt a strong college counseling function, for instance, and they dont have a way to have that conversation at home, then something like this could give them a way to start working on it and thinking about it.

If all goes according to plan, members of the Coalition will be able to tailor this new application to their preferences.

One of the attractions for individual colleges is that the application will be in-dividually suited to each college or univer-sitys review process, said Meiklejohn. As the Common App has gotten bigger and bigger its grown from a group of fairly like-minded colleges to 600 places. ! e homogeneity of the app is something that constricts in ways that not all of us always value. So theres potentially an application here that could be more individualized.

Meiklejohn does not, however, believe that the new application will dethrone the Common App as most institutions go-to form, nor as one that the majority of appli-cants to Coalition schools will favor.

I can imagine applicants from a lot of di# erent backgrounds using it, but I think, initially, the vast majority of our appli-cants would still use the Common App, he said. Particularly from schools where the counseling ratio is strong and their students have been using the Common App. I have no way of forecasting what

percent of our applicants would use this, but Id think it would be smallcertainly at the start.

! e Coalitions origins date back to 2013, when a core group of admissions deans at elite institutions began discussing issues ranging from college a# ordability to the e" cacy of the application process.

I think that it goes back a couple of years to when the Common App had its technology meltdowns, among other things, said Meiklejohn. ! at year was something that got a group of people talk-ing about whether all of us having what some people have called a single point of failure was a wise thing. ! ere have always been alternative applications, but none of them have been subscribed to by very many schools.

Meiklejohn says more work needs to be done before the Coalition is ready to deliver on its mission.

! e press release and a lot of the an-nouncementsfor better or worsemake it appear to be more of a completed project than it is, he said. ! ey were trying to get as much news as possible, and they were probably successful at that. But theres a lot of this thats still in development.! e Coalition will release its platform

in January 2016, and the application will open in July 2016, according to the Coali-tions website.

Ultimately, though, he has high expec-tations for the Coalition and its goals.

I hope it turns out to be really useful for students who are not getting access to great college advising, said Meiklejohn. I hope it turns out to be a fabulous and fail-proof way of applying to college. And I think those are good expectations, for starters.

Bowdoin joins coalition of 80 schools that plans to develop a more accessible college application

BY SAM CHASE ORIENT STAFF

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In his fourth year as conductor and director for the orchestra, Artist-in-Residence George Lopez decided to put a new spin on the groups reper-toire. After years of the standard high classical European composers, Lopez decided it was time to showcase some of the American greats.

At first I wanted to do a series of light classical, what they call pops-style repertoire. And little by little it began to dawn on me that there were some great American composers that wrote pieces at the right level for the orchestra, Lopez said.

Lopez began the process of transi-

tioning the orchestra into an Ameri-can composer-based repertoire this year when he found an arrangement of West Side Story by composer Leonard Bernstein. From there, he added a Star Wars arrangement composed by John Williams, who also composed the soundtracks for other iconic American films such as Jaws, E.T. and Indiana Jones.

In addition to Bernstein and Wil-liams, this years line up includes two other American composers, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner Samuel Bar-ber and Aaron Copland, who was well-known for composing ballets.

Lopez said he tried to build a port-folio of contrasting pieces that would fit well into a single program. Both

Williams arrangement and Barbers adagio lean toward a more classical style. Barbers adagio in particular, Lopez notes, is considered a serious and tragic work. He hopes these piec-es will offset the light-hearted jazzi-ness of Bernstein and the old Ameri-cana style of Copland.

I thought it would add some gravitas to the program as well, Lo-pez said.

The orchestra faces a challenge in learning a new style of music that dif-fers from its typical classical pieces.

West Side Story has everything from waltz to ballad to swing to Latin. So there are a lot of differ-ent styles that the orchestra has to learn, said Lopez.

Even with such a drastic change in the orchestras repertoire, Lopez said the reactions from students have all been generally positive.

Jehwoo Ahn 16, who has been a member of the Orchestra since his first year, said he was surprised by Lopezs picks for this semesters.

Weve definitely played a lot of classical music, he said. Thats all Ive been playing so far, so its really refreshing to play like Star Wars and a little of West Side Story. Its still music that everyone knows and loves but its not just your same old Mozart or Beethoven.

August Posch 18 echoed Ahn, also professing enthusiasm for a bal-ancedprogram with a fun repertoire.

Playing these familiar songs is good because people can connect with them more easily, and really what we want with the orchestra is for everyone to play as musically as possible, Posch said.

While the orchestra will not hold a concert until December 4, they will play one movement of an Aaron Co-pland piece as the recessional for the inauguration of President Clayton Rose on October 17.

Its a real honor for the orchestra to have gotten to the point where theyve been asked to perform for such an important event, said Lopez. The orchestras very excited to be a part of such an important moment in the history of the College.

Star Wars to West Side Story: Orchestra plays new tune

BY SARAH LIMSTAFF WRITER

THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Lead by Artist-in-Residence George Lopez, the Bowdoin Orchestra rehearses their new repertoire, which will highlight some of Americas great composers, such as John Williams who composed the fi lm scores for Star Wars and Jaws. The orchestra will preview its work at President Clayton Roses inauguration on October 17.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Its beautiful... Now what? Internationally recognized printmaker

Nicole Pietrantoni, an Assistant Professor of Art at Whitman College, placed this text onto a photo she took of an Icelandic landscape in an attempt to challenge the concept of beauty in nature.

Currently, she is at the tail end of a week-long residency at Bowdoin as part of the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project. As this falls chosen printmaker, she has been teaching classes in the Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center for Art and Dance, hosting workshops and meeting with students for meals.

Associate Professor of Art Carrie Scan-ga was instrumental in bringing Pietran-toni to campus.

She was originally captivated by Pi-etrantonis ability to mix traditional and digital media.

[What] I like about her work is that its part image and part object. I think thats again something that is very relevant to our time, Scanga said.0 ough Peitrantoni grew up in the sub-

urbs of Chicago, she always had an inter-est in nature and landscape. Pietrantoni currently lives in Walla Walla, Washing-

ton, where she teaches printmaking and book art at Whitman.

Pietrantoni began her residency at Bowdoin with a lecture this past Mon-day in the Visual Arts Center in which she juxtaposed the romantic painting, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with a contemporary Washington State tourism brochure. Her opening served to give the audience an idea of the types of themes she explores. 0 e painting depicts a man standing on

a cli1 looking out into an abyss of smoke and fog, while the brochure shows a man in hiking gear looking down from the top of a mountain. 0 ough the images are from di1 erent time periods, they each idealize the theme of nature.

Pietrantoni explained that shes con-cerned that beauty has become a con-struct in our society. 0 e main way in which beauty has been idealized, she emphasized, is from humans depiction of natural landscapes and views through paintings and photos.

I am interested and feel excited when I see a sunset or when I see a rainbow, I cant deny that, Pietrantoni said. Yet, I can sort of pick at and question, Well, why do I like it?

One of her works, titled 0 is Waterfall is Falling for You, consists of a photo she

edited in Photoshop and screen printed onto a plexiglass plate. She then mounted the plate to a wall with a c-clamp and small piece of wood and placed a light beneath it to project a shadow onto the wall.0 e goal of this piece was to create tension between a beautiful landscape and the industrial materials that were holding it together.

When showcasing her projects, Pi-etrantoni motives go beyond the con-ventional art exhibit in a gallery. In Ice-land, she took photos of landscapes and printed them onto postcards with text reading Because you can. She then placed them on postcard racks in tour-ist shops.

I was interested in my own posi-tion as a tourist so it was for me to poke fun at myself, but also for people traveling around the island to think about their role as tourists, she ex-plained a2 er the lecture. 0 rough this project, Scanga said, stu-

dents have the chance to see and work alongside an artist in action. Last semes-ter, the department hosted Nancy Blum, who focused on the merits of public art.

With each program it seems like there are some students who get turned onto the possibilities of the art world in ways they havent thought of before, she said.

Visiting artist reframes nature using media, printmakingBY AMANDA NEWMAN

STAFF WRITER

PRINT ISNT DEAD: Marvin Bileck Printmaking Fellow Nicole Pietrantoni teaches Associate Profes-sor of Art Carrie Scanga s Narrative Structures course how to bind books using the drumleaf technique.

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT the bowdoin orient 6

friday, october 2, 2015

In an array of magazine clippings, photographs, photoglyphs, prints, collages, poems and audio, artist and poet Mark Melnicove presents Word Art Collaborations. This ex-hibit is now on display in the Haw-thorne-Longfellow Library. Span-ning the past 40 years of his life as an artist in Maine, the collection not only offers a distinct perspective of Melnicoves evolution as an artist, but also illustrates the ability of text to contain meaning beyond literal translation.

In the show, Im emphasizing the intersection of art and literature, where the collection contains pure works of art and pure works of lit-erature, Melnicove said. The inter-section between the two has always been a focus of my work.

The exhibit is composed mostly of what Melnicove calls word arta synthesis of modified texts and im-ages, torn apart or put together to create meaning beyond the original intent of their publication.

It represents mine and other art-ists efforts to expand the notion of typography and text to make it more visual than we normally think about it, Mel-nicove said. When most people read a book they dont think of it as a visual object. They try to read for meaning. What were doing is rec-ognizing first that all text is visual, its not just words on a page.

When Mel-nicove moved to Maine in 1977, he joined a community of writers and artists that not only shaped his cre-ative content but also provided a means with which to collaborate. Since then, Melnicove has worked with artists such as Bern Porter, Carlo Pittore, Lee Sharkey, Grace Paleyall prominent figures in the Maine art community. The exhibit features Melnicoves individual work as well as those pieces produced in partnership with fellow artists and writers.

Preparations for the exhibit began 11 years ago, when Melnicove began to work with Richard Lindemann, the former director of the Bowdoin Librarys George J. Mitchell Depart-ment of Special Collections and Ar-chives, to preserve his original work.

Caroline Moseley, the acting director of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, noted that the library was drawn to the collection for its innovative approach towards art and literature.

The way special collections works is by collecting around the strengths and the academic interests of the College, Moseley said. This collection ties in and makes for a re-ally interesting way of looking at art and literature of a more avant-garde kind. Its literature, its poetry, its photography, its word art. Its dif-ferent ways of looking at things and trying to shake things up a bit and

get your message across in a differ-ent way. Its very visually provoca-tive.

Divided into 21 sections, the ex-hibit is not arranged chronological-ly, but thematically by the medium thats used within each chapter. With underlying themes of social and en-vironmental justice woven through-out, the show uses a variety of word art mediums to convey a message.

I have always been interested in making the world a better place, Melnicove said. This often involves working with, rather than against, nature. I want a just and peaceful world and have seen how art and literature can motivate people and systems to change...Experiencing word art is a sensual experience that stimulates and motivates the mind and changes our perceptions of the world.

The show also includes unconven-tional art forms, such as mails art, or words gleaned from junk mail and then highlighted to bear extracted meanings, and what Melnicove calls photoglyphs or photographs of words as they appear on signs, win-dows and various other surfaces.

The culmination of the show even includes art made by Melnicoves students at Falmouth High School,

where he teaches literature, cre-ative writing and permacul-ture.

S t u d e n t s tend to both ask important questions and demand sub-stantial, mean-ingful answers, Melnicove said. This comes out in their word art. Students represent the future; they rep-resent [and em-body] hope.

This engage-ment with high school students is translated into the overall goals of the exhibit, which Moseley men-tions extends from Bowdoin stu-dents to members of the Brunswick community.

Maine is off the beaten track, and I like that. Im interested not just in Maine art but art that exists on the margins of society at large, Melnicove said. Maine is not New York but theres something that can be done here that cant be done in New York. Obviously, our closeness to nature has something to do with that. Every region produces art in response to the region itself.0 rough its connections with

Maine and the College, the exhibit aims to inspire by extending the in-novation of Melnicoves work to the community at large.

I hope that people can just spend time with the exhibit and that maybe it will stimulate them to be creative them-selves in di1 erent ways, Moseley said. It is about the creative impulse and getting a message across and the di1 erent and e1 ective ways of doing that. Even if its just one or two people that look at that exhibit and think, Wow, I want to try to do things di1 erently or I really want to take a class in that, thats a great e1 ect.

Word Art Collaborations will be open for viewing on the second 2 oor of the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library until the end of the semester.

Melnicove exhibit in HL turns literature into art

It represents mine and other artists eff orts to expand the notion of ty-pography and text to make it more visual than we normally think about it....When most people read a book they dont think of it as a visual object. They try to read for meaning. What were doing is recognizing fi rst that all text is visual, its not just words on a page.

BY SURYA MILNERSTAFF WRITER

MAINE ATTRACTION: Hawthorne-Longfellow Library exhibits a collection by Maine artist and poet Mark Melnicove called World Art Collections. It chronicles Melnicoves creative process and evolution and mostly consists of what Melnicove calls word art, or pieces that rearrange and destroy text on a page to create a surprising visual eff ect.

SHANNON DEVENEY, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

MAINE ARTIST AND AUTHOR, MARK MELNICOVE

For the first time, Bowdoin Art Society will accept submissions from universities in the United Kingdom (UK) for its online database and journal, the Bowdoin Journal of Art, which will make the publica-tion the only international collegiate journal for undergraduate students studying art history.

If you published an essay that contributes new insights in a par-ticular field of art history, its an incredible opportunity to have your work shown to a larger audience, President of the Bowdoin Art Soci-ety Tom Rosenblatt 16 said.

Bowdoin Art Society published its first edition of the Journal last spring after noticing the lack of opportunities for undergraduate art history students to publish and share their work.

According to Rosenblatt, Dart-mouth College had previously pub-lished a similar journal, but discon-tinued about five years ago due to lack of student interest.

Despite the five-year gap, the Bowdoin Journal of Art received over 30 submissions from students at a variety of schools last year, in-cluding Bowdoin, Stanford, Colgate and Middlebury. This year, Bow-doin Art Society sent emails to the top 180 American universities and 20 UK universities inviting art his-tory majors and minors to submit.

According to Arianna Cameron 16, the head of the Journal and coordi-nator and social media manager of the Bowdoin Art Society, the Jour-nal has already received 50 submis-sions, including five from the UK. The submission deadline is the end of December.0 e Journal allows for students from

di1 erent backgrounds to contribute their ideas to the 3 eld of art history, as well as see what other undergraduate students are learning through the on-line platform of the Journal.

Cameron and Rosenblatt both hope that the Journal will connect art history students. According to Rosenblatt, one of the problems with the Dartmouth Journal of Art was the lack of accessibility as a physi-cal publication not reproduced in an online medium.

I think it would be interesting to see the different writing styles, just compare the way British students are writing compared to American students, Cameron said. I think it would be really cool for students from both countries to be able to use each other essays in their own work, and I think it would maybeshow how the different cultures go about assessing art and about writing es-says in general.0 e Journal also relates to Bowdoin

Art Societys larger mission to promote the arts community at Bowdoin and to contribute to developments in the inter-national art scene. 0 e Journal accom-

plishes both of these missions, as it brings together an international body of students and promotes both Bowdoin and under-graduate work.

Until youre a respected member of academia, youre not going to be able to be published, Rosenblatt said. In my mind, students can still produce substantial, in-teresting things. Anyone reading the pa-per should note that it was a student who produced it.

In addition to accepting submissions from the UK, the Bowdoin Art Society is developing the groups process of put-ting the publication together , includ-ing editing the email inviting students to submit and revising the process for selecting the committee to peer review and select the essays.

Our goal this semester is to just really improve what we have already, Cameron said. 0 e whole journal is extremely new. Its a really new thing. Its the only one in the country. 0 is is our second go at it, and I already think its doing so much bet-ter than it did before.

Both Rosenblatt and Cameron are ex-cited about the changes to the Journal and its future.

Im really looking forward to expand-ing not only the Journal of Art, but also Art Society and really incorporating the two in this bigger mission to represent both works of art and essays of under-graduate students not only at Bowdoin, but at universities around the world, Cameron said I think its something thats been neglected so far, so I think its really cool that were doing this.

Art Society to publish collegiate art history journal BY SARAH BONANNO

ORIENT STAFF

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On the surface, Bill De La Rosa 16 seems like a typical Bowdoin student: he is active with the McKeen Center for the Common Good, conducts re-search in the sociology department, and usually stays up late ! nishing his work. But De La Rosas path to Bow-doin and his time at the College have been anything but ordinary.

In 2009, when De La Rosa was a sophomore in high school, his mother went to Mexico to obtain a green card. However, rather than receiving the necessary paperwork to remain in the United States, she was barred from the country for ten years because, years previously, she had overstayed a visa and crossed the border illegally. She cannot return to the U.S. until 2019.

" eres no waiver, no appeal pro-cess, De La Rosa recalled. He, his father and his three siblings are all American citizens, but this makes no di# erence in the world of immigration law, where intentions do not matter and exceptions do not exist.

The separation from their mother placed both emotional and financial stress on the family. De La Rosas el-derly father was too old to work. His older brother, Jim, joined the Ma-rine Corps to supplement the fam-ilys income, leaving Bill to care for his two younger siblings.

I [was] taking care of my sib-lings, worrying about their school, their food, the house, bills and also my own schoolwork, said De La Rosa. I somehow managed to do all these things.

If the pressures of supporting his family meant less time for sleep or academics, it didnt show in the class-room. He was the valedictorian at his high school in Tucson, Arizona.

Despite his academic achievements, the college application process pre-sented another challenge.

Even applying to college was a

stretch for me, because both my par-ents didnt even graduate high school, he said.

Although he considered other schools, De La Rosa was drawn to Bowdoins Government and Legal Studies program as well as the liberal arts focus and commitment to the Common Good.

When he was admitted early de-cision, he turned to his commu-nity back home to ensure his family would be alright without his day-to-day leadership.

It [was] a matter of really solidi-fying the support that I would need, so thatmy family could be okay, he said.

The transition to Bowdoin was not easy. Even with all that the Col-lege has to offer, it does not distract De La Rosa from his familys situa-tion, and the 2,500 miles between Brunswick and Tucson do not lessen his care for them.

Im constantly worrying about whats going on back home said De La Rosa. Im spacing out and I cant really focus because Im like Hows my dad? How [are] my siblings? Its just a constant tug of war that I have to internally struggle with. Be here, but also be there. Two places at the same time.

Although he is far from home, De La Rosa feels that he has found a strong support system at Bowdoin. " e counseling center is a great re-source, said De La Rosa. I also have a lot of friends that I talk to, a lot of faculty members, a lot of sta# mem-bers that are good friends that I just go to and I speak to them about these issues.

Nonetheless, De La Rosa has ex-celled at Bowdoin. He received a Tru-man Scholarship, an honor which earned him $30,000 toward graduate school as well as a one-year internship with a government agency.

De La Rosas commitment to issues of immigration, as well as his passion

and work ethic, are visible in his work throughout college, both in and out of the classroom.

A sociology and Latin American studies double major with a govern-ment minor, he has worked with hu-manitarian groups during the summer to provide aid to migrants journeying from Mexico to the United States.

His service work o$ en relates back to his academic interests. His honors project examines the human e# ects of immigration policy based on in-terviews he has conducted with mi-grants.

Border policy has funneled peo-ple through hazardous portions of the border, speci! cally through the

Sonoran desert, so Im looking at that experience and how people live through that, he explained.

De La Rosa co-leads the student chapter of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, which provides legal ser-vices to low-income Maine residents. He has also led an alternative winter break trip to Portland, where students worked with the Somali refugee popu-lation.

Next spring, he will lead another trip, this time to his home state of Ari-zona to expose Bowdoin students to immigration issues at the border.

With such a resume, his options a$ er Bowdoin are certainly open. He hopes to attend graduate school in the

United Kingdom, where he plans to continue studying human migration.

I want to expand on my knowledge on migration because Ive been deal-ing mostly with issues across Mexico and the U.S. he said. " e current European refugee cri-

sis is one area that sparks his interest. Studying di# erent migration scenari-os might help him work in immigra-tion advocacy or policy making in the future.

De La Rosa is also considering a ca-reer in politics someday. And despite his global mindset, it is a possibility that could take him back home.

If Id run for o% ce, Id probably do it in Arizona.

Love can see Russia from its house: when you dont want to be more than friends

I somehow managed: De La Rosa battles for immigration reform

FIGHTING FOR FAMILY: After his mother was forced to return to Mexico from Arizona , Bill De La Rosa 16 helped raise his younger siblings and began to fi ght for immigration reformHY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

BY JESSICA PIPERSTAFF WRITER

Hello, precious readers! Today, I will answer two questions about love. A week ago, these questions trickled into my Google form a day or so apart:

Dear Katherine,What should I do if I really like somebody but I

dont want to tell him because Im afraid of jeopar-dizing the friendship?

Sincerely,Smitten in Smith Union Dear Katherine,What is the best way to let someone down kind-

ly and still remain on somewhat friendly terms?Sincerely,Reluctant in Reed House Well, shit, I thought. I hope these people arent

talking about each other.When I became an advice columnist (that is,

two weeks ago), I dreaded administering love advice.* Love a terrible thing to advise. This is because people in love never take good advice. Love makes people self-deluding and deeply, deeply stupid.

Love is also hard to give advice on because love itself is rogue.

People talk about love as chemistry. Let me tell

you, they are similar only in that I understand nei-ther. But chemistry, at least, follows rules. In chem-istry, opposites always attract.** In love, opposites attract sometimes, but also what about those cou-ples who look like siblings?

Love hates rules so much that it joined an anarcho-communist commune. Love doesnt let children catch up when playing duck-duck-goose. Like Sarah Palin, love is a maverick. Love also re-ally enjoyed the Celebrity Wife Swap episode fea-turing Bristol Palin and the daughter of the late Joan Rivers. (I am also, in that last sentence, not not talking about myself.)

What Im trying to say is this: since the begin-ning of time, people have been giving advice and making rules about love. All of it is useless and much of it is harmful. Look at what love did to Ro-meo and Juliet! " ey took love advice and it liter-ally killed them. So pile up all of your love axioms: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, once a cheater always a cheater, love is blind, etc. Set them on ! re. Good.

Having thus undermined my entire column: Smitten, you like someone, but you dont want to tell them for fear of ruining the friendship. Well, lucky you! Friendships are not mavericks. Friend-ships are Joe Biden.

In the future, I would try to stop falling in love with your friends. But for now, I would recommend asking yourself these questions before deciding:

1. Do you really love him? Or do you love the idea of him?

2. Do you, without doing that crazy hoping

against hope thing people in love do, think he really loves you?

3. Would you still want to tell him even if you knew he didnt and wouldnt love you back?

Reluctant, you want to let someone down easy. I think the answer to this conundrum depends on the situation: is it a rando? A friend? A person youve been hooking up with?

If its a friend or hook-up, you should address it directly. If its a rando, probably better just to drop hints and decline invites. Regardless, your biggest job is to be kind without being self-e# acingif you do that, you have succeeded.

Think about those things. Or dont. You probably wont take any of this advice anyway, because you are stupid self-deluding people ne-gotiating love.

Regardless of your choices, though, remem-ber that friendships are resilient, like denim or zombies. So chances are, in both your cases, your friendships will rise again. If Im wrong, however, and your friendships deteriorate, blame the Orient.

Out,Katherine *Defining love broadly here, but as romantic,

and not so broadly as to include those people who fall in love with their cars and dolphins.

**I am making this up. I know nothing about chemistry. Professor Ray, if youre reading this, please do not fail me.

KATHERINE GIVES ADVICEKATHERINE CHURCHILL

DIANA FURUKAWA

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I had been excited to study abroad. Like going to overnight camp in Maine and attending Bowdoin, studying abroad in France was something that my mom had done. Shed told me what an im-portant experience it was, and, like any privileged middle-class American small liberal arts college student, how forma-tive it had been for her.

I was looking forward to gaining per-

spective away from Bowdoin, improving my French, learning about a new cul-tureyou know, living, loving, laugh-ing abroad. ! e food! everyone would rave. Youre going to just adore French food! ! anks! Id say, not knowing how to respond.

I got to Paris and my host dad hugged me, asked if I was scared of motorcycles (no), and the two of us promptly zipped o" to late-a# ernoon Vietnamese food in the thirteenth. He and his ex-wife lived together in a lo# in the ninth. She cleaned, he cooked. ! ey took me to art exhibits and I post-ed Facebook photos and I considered staying a year, because it was exciting.

The honeymoon period with Paris wore off, and the excitement stopped shrouding the intense OCD Ive been dealing with since I can remember. I would post photos on Facebook in front of the Eiffel Tower and at bars and with the kids in my program, who thought I was silly and crazy and fun, but not a real person or something. They would always tell me, Youre not even real, Phoebe! Youre like, not a real per-son! And Id laugh but be like, well, actually, I am. I looked like I was having fun, but slowly I was becom-ing kind of miserable.

So one time, I decided to eat lunch alone. It was relaxing. I felt less lonely alone, actually. I started to eat lunch by myself most daysId go to a restaurant

and treat myself to steak at noon and watch old French people take their lunch breaks to polish o" a burger and a beer. But then this sneaky diet I had kind of been on for the past year or so started to keep me company, and soon this exciting preoccupation became consuming and scary and my only friend.

Soon I was eating alone every day, not because I was enjoying my own company anymore but because I didnt want any-one to call me out on the food choices I was making. ! ere was this store by school that listed the calories in every single item and I would stand there by the cold case for 10 minutes examining every single thing and deciding which I could rationalize eating, and then I would use up my international phone data googling the calories in each food item, too, because one could never be too sure when it came to these things.

When my mom called me to tell me that she had booked a ticket home and it was for tomorrow, I had gotten down to mostly just $ ve major food groups: cof-fee, sparkling water, cucumbers, radishes, gum. I was always hungry. I was exhaust-ed and headachy and faint and one time I fell in the metro and I almost choked on the celery stick I was eating to will away my hunger pains. I bruised, because I was pretty bony, and I cried and people walked past me. I hated Paris and I hated myself.

Needless to say, none of the things that were supposed to happen in France hap-pened (well, except for Oktoberfest. ! at

was epic.). One day I was starving myself by the Seine and the next I was in a hospi-tal where a dietician named Nicole held a peanut butter and jelly in front of my face and I started to cry. Not in a cute way, but like, really awful tears.

We did a lot of drama therapy with this guy named Doug whod bring his guitar every Tuesday and then never actually use it. And I spent a lot of time with Nicole, going over my meals and arguing with her about what I had to eat and always losing. And I made friends and got better.! e point is this: I worry that we at

Bowdoin have a tendencyin all our high-achieving, outwardly squeaky-clean perfectionismto shroud the rough stu" . And Im taking the risk of sharing this with you because I still struggle sometimes, and because I cant preach mental health destigmatization without attempting to destigmatize my own stu" . I care about my Bowdoin community too much to let my own fear of being judged impede my potential to let someone whos struggling know that theyre not alone.

No matter what youre going through, or where youre coming from, know that your struggle is valid, and that there are more people on this campus than you think who know exactly what youre going through. Lets talk to each other. Youre not alone.

Phoebe Kranefuss is a member of the

Class of 2016.

Strong is the New Beautiful. That is what Nike, and subsequently more and more companies like it have been telling us recently. By us, I mean women and girls across Amer-ica, where fitness and body image have merged to become a multi-billion dollar industry. I was a pretty big proponent of this campaign un-til I found myself on the Bowdoin groundskeeping crew this summer.

During the summer 2015 job search, I was paralyzed with inde-cision, a lack of direction and by the overwhelming ambition of my peers. All I knew was that I did not want to be chained to a desk. By the time April rolled around, Ground-skeeping Crew was one of the last jobs left on Bowdoins employ-ment website. My first thought was Hagrid. And then golf carts. As a person who is happiest when active, the job sounded appealing. I didnt think too far beyond that before I accepted the job.

During my first morning in the break room, I notice one woman (who I immediately am intimidated by), and the rest are men who are neither amused nor impressed that I am standing there. Anastasiatrash cans with Jake and Hope. That was my first assignment.

What have I done? repeated in my head throughout the morning.

As I got acquainted with the very trash bags around the Quad that I have often, mindlessly dumped crap into, I realized that this would be hard. As friends and classmates passed by with their backpacks on the way to lab, I felt hyper-aware of what this job would mean for me as a girl. I wondered what other people thought as they passed.

Laughs and friendly jabs were the common reaction when I $ rst commit-ted to groundskeeping. I didnt mind this so much, but it became harder and harder to take myself seriously.

Throughout my initial weeks on the job, I would regularly incor-porate words such as butch and manly into conversations with friends and fellow students about my duties as groundskeeper. I felt the need to discredit why I was do-ing what I was doing fearing that if I did not, my femininity would be compromised. Because breaking a sweat every day before 7:30 a.m. in my already sweat-stained t-shirt sounds miserable, right?

Well, the truth is that I kind of love breaking a sweat, and getting dirty, and wearing my tattered, mis-matched outfit. The trouble was allowing myself to embrace these qualities rather than apologize for them. The more people appeared confused at my attempts to degrade my own job, which I truly was enjoy-ing, the sooner I realized I was the only one fabricating these thoughts. Why are you embarrassed? I wish I was doing that, or Damn, you must be getting so strong.

I remember rolling out of the Brunswick Apart-ments at 6:50 a.m. one morning with another female classmate, both rushing to make our early swipe-ins. I immedi-ately noticed her summery, busi-ness casual outfit while I wore the same shirt as the day before, know-ing it would be wet again soon enough. She said, Im so jealous you get to be out-side all day!

That moment I knew I was wrong. Wrong to have used the word butch in this con-text, especially with myself as the target. I was wrong to assume that people needed to hear a justifica-tion for my job. This aha moment revealed that for years I have been apologizing for not adhering to a certain stereotypethe classic girly stereotype that I felt alien to growing up with broad swimmer shoulders and a hearty appetite. Somehow, the media and my own experiences led me to believe this discrepancy was a negative thing.

Those days of self-consciously feeling like Rambo as I whacked the weeds in front of Admissions as tours passed by grew into days of

gratitude for the beautiful weather and for my more-than-capable body. I felt less alone in the predominately male crew of burly groundskeepers, and more so as an integrated mem-ber who could proudly keep up with them (trash talk included).

In hindsight, as out of place as I felt in the beginning, not one of the crewmembers batted an eye or saw reason for gender accommodations. My perception was too clouded with what a girl should be doing to notice that I was as in place as I couldve been.

The fact that society has to grant women permission to feel both mus-cular and beautiful at the same time, by way of ad campaigns and mer-chandise, is counter-productive and

maybe a little hypocritical. I am sure that I am not the only girl whose self-esteem has been founded upon a misalignment with some public ar-chetype, especially an archetype that is constantly shifting.

Accepting yourself for what you like to dowithout even thinking to apologizeis the first step to find-ing what makes you beautiful.

Strong is beautiful, but so are a lot of things; so how about we just start saying Do what you want, ladies. Now thats hot.

Anastasia Hediger is a member of the Class of 2017.

TALK OF THE QUADTBT ABROAD

GROUNDSKEEPING AS A GIRL

MIRANDA HALL

DIANA FURUKAWA

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I can hear the sea, the waves crashing on the shore, the seagulls crying out as they wheel overhead. I can hear the trees swaying in the wind, their leaves rustling as their branches swing to and fro. I can smell the pines on the wind, their needles clattering to the ground as robins, blue jays and chickadees play amongst them, calling out to one another when the sun rises in the east. At night, I can hear the sounds of the nocturnal, of deer and tur-keys and raccoons, their faint shadows elongated before me as the dying sun sets in the west.

In the summer, I can hear the sounds of working men, of lobster boats and hauling motors, ! shing vessels and the slap of hull against wave, of wave against rock. I can hear the sounds of tourists as they explore the beaches and waterways, see the locals as they converse on their porches and walk from place to place. I can smell the restaurants as they start business for the day, their heavenly scent wa" ing across the water and eliciting sen-sations that no food could ever satisfy. I can also smell the bait of the lobstermen as they go about their work, the sting of their diesel engines and the odor of the catch that they have dredged from the bottom just as pleasant to me as the smell of the wharf-front eateries.

In the winter, all is quiet. # e world is covered in a so" blanket of snow. Candles light the windows and ! res roar in the hearths as the populace buckles down for the long, unrelenting cold. As the sea be-gins to freeze over during the long winter nights, the light of the full moon shim-mers and dances o$ the frozen ocean. # e sea comes alive in this light, frothed by the northeasterly winds that murmur us to rest.# is is my home of Harpswell, Maine.

As anyone who knows me will tell you, Harpswell is seven miles that-a-way, as the crow % ies. With a year-round popu-lation of under 5,000 and a summertime population probably double that, Harp-swell is much like any other coastal town in Maine, a small hamlet loved by locals and visitors alike. It is also the home I have le" to come to Bowdoin.# ere are still parts of Harpswell that

remain unchanged here inland. # e pines still smell just as sweet, the birds still chirp with the same fervor and the days are still just as cold. However, many things are di$ erent here. # e chatter of squir-rels has replaced the cries of the seagulls, the smell of # orne and Moulton has re-placed that of the lobster houses and the revelry of fellow students has replaced the sounds of nighttime critters.

What has not changed is the feeling of being home. # e famous Bowdoin Hello, which many think is unique to the col-lege, is a natural extension of the open and welcoming sensibilities of Maine, and I feel as at home here as I did in Harpswell. In my hardworking and dedi-cated fellow students, I see those same men and women who taught me the val-ue of hard work. In the community that my fellow students foster, I see the family whom I have le" behind, their compas-sion for one another evident around me every day.

From my ! rst visits to the college I have known that Bowdoin could be a place that I could call home. # ough it may look, sound and smell di$ erent from my old home, Bowdoin is not so di$ erent from that which I have known all my life, and I look forward to spend-ing my next four years here. So from a lifelong Mainer to his fellow Bowdoin students, I say:

Welcome to Maine.Welcome to Bowdoin.Welcome Home.

Nestled on the coast of Maine and located conveniently close to Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine is one of the ultimate tourist destina-tions in the state. Bar Harbor is not just a tourist attraction, though. It is a home to its residents who dont come and go with the seasons. This home is drastically different than the picture on a postcard or the ideal of summer vacationers, particularly to its residents.

Its like day and night. The Bar Harbor that most people think of is the Bar Harbor from May through October, at best. All the stores are open, and tons of restaurants. Streets are really crowded. In the winter its just really dark and pretty much ev-erything is closed, said Olivia Er-ickson 18, who grew up in Bar Har-bor, Maine. The restaurants do this thing where they rotate whos open. Therell be one or two restaurants open at a time. Thats just so that they all can get business through the winter. For the most part its really, really quiet in the winter.

Growing up in a place so shaped by the people who happened to visit it, Olivia became keenly aware of the attitudes of the tourists.

I think that all [tourists] think that we speak with the Downeast ac-cent. That we say Bah Habah which is not true. So I guess they have more of a stereotypical Downeast Mainer view of what its like but Bar

Harbor has more to offer than that, Olivia said.

You start really resenting tourists because they start to assume that your entire exis-tence is geared towards them having this great experience. And that is a lot of peoples jobs.

The way that temporary visitors can shape a place like Bar Harbor and deeply affect its citizens is similar to the way Bowdoin influences Bruns-wick. Though we are only visi-tors, we change the dynamic of the town and while sometimes for the better, that isnt always the case.

We may be the people in-volved in positively shaping the community through the McKeen Center but were also the people who Randy Nichols has to remind to be consid-erate of our neighbors as we traipse across Brunswick late at night. The important thing for us along with any people making a temporary place for themselves is to use that time to have a positive influence.

Bowdoin has so many people from so many different places that its almost like its out of place. You know, we talk about connection to place so thats a very contradictory thing to say. But the backgrounds they bring to the College are very different than the backgrounds in Maine because people are from so

many places, Olivia said.The assumptions we make about

any place are never representative of the people who make it up.

Most people think of very rural back country people as Mainers, but theres also a lot of other things in Maine, said Olivia. You have Portland, a lot of people live there.

Someone from Portland is very dif-ferent than someone from Caribou. Living on the coast versus living inland is very different. Its such a broad array of experiences.

The beauty of Bowdoin and its place in the Brunswick community is that it allows for the melding of these vastly different experiences

and worldviews. This place allows for the students and the community to learn from and grow with each other.

I think Bowdoin is a really spe-cial place. I think going here is mak-ing me even prouder to be from Maine because a place this great is in Maine.

Harpswell to Brunswick: making a home one town over

Out-of-towners can misunderstand or bring perspective to MaineBY CHAMBLEE SHUFFLEBARGER

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BY BEN YORKCONTRIBUTOR

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! ough the impact of athletics on the brain through concussions is receiving much attention, the Counseling Service taking note its impact on the psychologi-cal elements of athletes mental wellness as well.

Sta" Clinician Mindy Slovinsky and Director of the Counseling Service and Wellness Programs Bernie Hershberger will soon inaugurate a sports psychology program through the Counseling Service designed to help student-athletes cope with mental blocks and stress. In his past 18 years at Bowdoin, Hershberger has helped Bowdoin athletes exercise their minds as needed. ! e new pro