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MORE NEWS: SECURITY ALERTS;ANONYMOUS STUDENT FORUM

ALERTS: Security warned the community of two suspicious men, including an alleged bike thief.Page 3.

TODAY’S OPINIONEDITORIAL: Floor by fl oorPage 18.

SPORTS: WOMEN’S SOCCER SHUTS OUT OPPONENTSThe women’s soccer team is 3-0-0 under the direction of new head coach Brianne Weaver. The team’s defense has not yet surrendered a single goal this season.

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OP-ED: Eric Edelman ’ 13 writes that fi rst years should look beyond stereotypes and rely on their own impressions of the College.

President Obama mentioned Sam Garvey ’16 in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. Garvey earned accolades for biology research while living in a homeless shelter last year.FORUM: O! -therecord.com seeks to foster open,

anonymous debate among students.Page 19.

BY MAEVE O’LEARYORIENT STAFF

COURTESY OF THE TREASURER’S OFFICE

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: Stephen Stimson Associates envisions a series of terraces outside Moulton Dining Hall.

Architect imagines campus of the future

Please see ARCHITECT, page 4

BY WOODY WINWILLSTAFF WRITER

) e recent renovation of the * rst-year brick entrances is just the * rst step toward a broader redesign of the entire College. ) e creation of a new entrance to Moulton Union and renovations to the Longfellow School are next on the agenda.

Facilities Management will work with private architectural * rms to develop the renovation.

Stephen Stimson is one architect working with the College to design these renovations, who made several recom-mendations for improvement to campus.

“We had a recommendation to move the [College’s] main entrance to College Street, but we would need to

slow down tra+ c, put in more gener-ous lighting, and put in a brick gate,” said Katy Longley, senior vice presi-dent for * nance and administration.

To slow down tra+ c, the College would have to construct a speed table, or , at-topped speed hump, designed to give the appearance of cobblestones in place of a regular paved road.

Lauren Todd, Stimson’s associate landscape designer, added that the architects also have plans to reno-vate the inside of the Longfellow School and turn it into a new visual arts center, switching the direction of its entrance, and * nding a solu-tion to remove site water.

“We want to use either a rain garden or a bio-swale to get rid

of street runoff from cars and use plants to cleanse the runoff, in-stead of putting dirty water into a catch-basin and dumping it into the Androscoggin River,” said Todd, emphasizing the firm’s de-sire to actualize Bowdoin’s ethic of environmental sustainability.

) e team’s * nal goals are to reno-vate and landscape outside the Har-riet Beecher Stowe House o- Federal Street and to make major changes to the entrance of the dining hall in Moulton Union.

“We’re doing conceptual studies there right now,” said Todd. “) ere’s an opportunity to really open up what is now a pit. We would take down that

In light of high damage costs in 2011-2012, College increases penalties

The College is cracking down on vandalism this year, imple-menting stricter disciplinary sanc-tions for alcohol-related property damage. The change comes after nearly 80 percent of Bowdoin stu-dents responded that the College should respond to alcohol-related property damage with stricter dis-ciplinary sanctions in last spring’s alcohol survey.

Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster outlined the changes in a campus-wide email at the begin-ning of the semester.

“Students who fail to respect others’ property create unneces-sary work for staff to repair the costly damage and identify those responsible, and frustration for fellow students who must live with the damage and absorb the cost of

repairs,” wrote Foster in the email.During the 2011-12 academic

year, the overall cost of vandal-ism in residence halls and College Houses was $23,299.

Students who immediately no-tify the Office of Safety or Security or their dean about property they have damaged will be expected to pay the cost of repairs, and their parents will be notified. However, students who do not step forward and are subsequently found re-sponsible for committing vandal-ism will be placed on social pro-bation and assessed a $100 fine in addition to the cost of repairs.

According to Director of Resi-dential Life Mary Pat McMahon, the new policies are designed to encourage students to take respon-sibility for their misconduct right away.

In the past, fines have been charged to the residents of the

space that was vandalized, regard-less of whether they had caused the damage. Spaces like College Hous-es host larger, rowdier events, dur-ing which College property is more frequently vandalized. As a result, house residents often pay for dam-age they do not cause.

“Every time we had a party, we’d find holes in the wall. We’d find beer cans smashed into our walls. We’d find food crushed into our carpet. It [was] disgusting,” said Kaitlin Donahue ’13, who served as Baxter House’s president two years ago.

Last year, more vandalism oc-curred in Baxter House than in any other College House, with residents paying just over $6,000 in damages.

Foster warned that repeat viola-tions of the new policy could result

Please see VANDALISM, page 4

Last night the three candidates running for the District 66 seat in the Maine House of Representatives spoke at a forum held in Quinby House. Democrat Matthea “Mattie” Daughtry, Republican Grant Connors and Fred Horch of the Green Party are vying to represent the district, which comprises most of the College.

) e seat was formerly occupied by Alexander Cornell du Houx ’06, who represented District 66 from 2008 to 2012. Cornell du Houx dropped out of the race over the summer, but was originally on the ballot.

The Maine House of Representa-tives has 154 members; 77 are Re-publicans, 71 are Democrats, one is an independent, and two non-voting members represent Native American tribes.

At Quinby House yesterday, the candidates discussed jobs and eco-nomic development.

Connors is a 69-year-old retired science teacher who was asked to * ll in as the Republican candidate at the last minute. He says he is seeking o+ ce because of his grandchildren.

“I want them to have jobs and be able to stay in Maine. I think everybody who wants to work in Maine should be able to,” he said last night.

Citing a full career’s worth of ex-perience, Connors insisted he has the necessary knowledge for deal-ing with jobs and education.

“If I go to the legislature, I will be fighting for all the kids in District 66 and in Maine,” Connors said.

Democratic candidate Mattie

District 66 candidates speak at Quinby House

BY NATALIE KASSKAUFFMANSTAFF WRITER

Daughtry is a 25-year-old Brunswick resident and Smith College graduate.

Daughtry’s decision to run for Cornell du Houx’s seat was based largely on her view of Maine’s cur-rent governor, Paul LePage.

“He’s a bully,” said Daughtry. “He’s an extreme governor. In two years I did not know it was possi-ble for a governor to dismantle this much stuff.”

Daughtry worked for Maine’s Majority, a group opposed to Gov-ernor LePage and his policies, whose members proudly state that they are among “the 61 percent who did not vote for LePage.”

The Green Party candidate, Fred Horch, husband of Bowdoin biol-ogy professor Hadley Horch, is run-ning for the District 66 seat for the second time.

In 2010, Horch ran against Cor-nell du Houx and lost by a mere 195 votes.

“We are completely dependent on fossil fuel for our economic ac-tivity,” said Horch, who is a pro-ponent of energy independence in Maine. “Every time you buy gaso-line, every time you buy heating oil, you are paying an enormous tax, none of which goes to Maine. In a medium term, one of the most im-portant things we can do is figure out our energy security.”

During the question and answer portion of the forum, a Brunswick resident confronted Horch about a recent ad of his, in which he used a quote from a Brunswick Demo-cratic legislator Charles Priest, who had previously endorsed Daughtry.

Please see FORUM, page 3

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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After a career that includes seven years of banking and two as Bow-doin’s assistant football coach, Tim Ryan ‘97 steps into Je! Ward’s shoes.

SPORTS: Bowdoin’s new interim athletic director FEATURES: Luke’s Lobster in N.Y.C.Luke Holden, brother of Bryan Holden ’09, brings a taste of Maine to New York City and Georgetown with his lobster rolls.

A&E: Suck my NESCAC to perform at EpicuriaThe 23rd annual “Epicuria” toga party will feature Suck My NESCAC, Bowdoin’s own pop-punk cover band.

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KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTON THIS DAY: On Monday, 2,977 fl ags were planted on Coe Quad as a tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks—among them Bowdoin alumni James Roux ’81, Frank Doyle ’85 and Christopher Gardner ’87.

SUMMER SPOTLIGHT

Aboard a U.S. Navy hospital ship

This summer, Ilana Mayer-Hirsh-field ’14 lived and worked on a U.S. Navy hospital ship for 11 weeks around Southeast Asia. 5 e program, Paci6 c Partnerships, is headed by the U.S. Navy, non-governmental organiza-tions, and other U.S. and international government agencies dedicated to a variety of humanitarian and civic ac-tion missions. With 1,000 other volun-teers on the ship, Mayer-Hirshfeld lived with 120 roommates. She did optometry work in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines, conducting visual exams and giving out glasses to more than one hundred patients a day. -Compiled by Sophia Cheng

PARTY PREVIEWS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Barnyard Bash Reed House, 10 p.m. Dress code: Denim on denim.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Epicuria Ladd House, 10 p.m. Dress Code: Toga! Toga! Toga!

In an e7 ort to attract more customers, Campus Food Truck (CFT) made sev-eral additions to its menu. New items include the Pleasant Street burger (tex-as toast, pepperjack cheese, bacon and guacamole), American burger (texas toast, french fries, American cheese, and bacon) and mozzarella sticks. Ad-ditionally, CTF also gave out half-o7 coupons to every member of the Class of 2016, and added a customer loyalty program where students can purchase $12 food vouchers for $10 in advance.

Campus Food Truck expands menu

NEWS NOTES

The most recent national poll predicts 50-49-1 [in the Sen-ate], and I’m the one, and depending on who the president is, I could have the vote that deter-mines the Senate.

Maine Independent Senate Candidate Angus King

Please see full article, Page 6.

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OVERHEARD

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What do you think of the new “park once” approach?

Nick Kelcz ’14 “We all know how to walk.”

Stanford Spurlock ’14 “You should be able to

drive wherever you want to drive. This is America.”

Hannah Young ’13 Charlie Cubeta ’13 “If it gets students biking and walking more, I am in

support of it! ” Compiled by Sophia Cheng

“Keep making it easier for us o! -campus people, Randy!”

STUDENT SPEAK

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MATTHEW GUTSCHENRITTER, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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Anonymous online forum seeks to broaden debate

O5 -therecord.com, a new website billing itself as an anonymous on-line forum to debate controversial political and social issues, launched exclusively for Bowdoin community members on August 29.

Brian Kim ’13, Helen White ’13 and Josh Zalinger ’13 are the architects of the website. 6 ey post topics for dis-cussion, and anyone with a Bowdoin email address can register to comment on the threads.

Anonymous websites have a troubled history at Bowdoin, and have not attracted high-minded—or even cordial—discourse in the past. Kim said he and his co-creators want to see “if anonymity could ever go right.”

Off-therecord.com has various safeguards to prevent and delete defamatory or libelous comments. When any-one reports a post, Kim said that he receives an email noti7 cation im-mediately.

Although the website has protections against abuse, Allen Delong, director of stu-dent activities, said he was concerned about the issue of anonymity.

“6 ere is a long list of anonymous websites in which our students have really been indicted, slandered and hurt,” said Delong.

JuicyCampus.com and Colleg-eacb.com are anonymous websites that have attracted harmful com-ments in the past. JuicyCampus.com, a forum for college gossip, was shut down in 2009, only to have CollegeACB, or “College Anony-mous Confession Board,” spring up in its place.

In a November 2010 Orient article, students expressed their outrage with this type of anonymous website.

“It’s all gossip,” said 6 omas Keefe ’14. “I don’t think anyone would use it for anything but gossip.”

Because of the College’s rocky his-tory with anonymous websites, De-long was initially opposed to o5 -ther-ecord.com.

“When o5 -therecord came to my attention, my 7 rst thought was I don’t want that to happen again,” he said.

A8 er a conversation with Kim, De-long said that though he still doesn’t like the idea of an anonymous site, he

BY NICOLE WETSMANSTAFF WRITER

recognizes the di5 erences between o5 -therecord and past gossip sites.

“I would still prefer students were required to put their names on their perspectives,” he said, “but they [the creators of the site] really seem to have a focus on what kind of discourse they want to introduce to the community. I think that’s really admirable.”

White said that they have not yet had to remove any comments from the site.

Kim, White, and Zalinger are the only ones who are able to ini-tiate threads on the website. Rather than feature debates about Bowdoin or college-centric issues, the topics on the website range from “Should the United States continue its sup-

port of Israel?” to “Do gay celebrities have an obligation to come out?”

White and Kim said they are still trying to 7 gure out what types of topics will generate the most conversation.

“Topics that are about education or fairness are popular,” she said, “because you don’t have to know a lot in order to

participate.”White said that she wants the site

to expose Bowdoin students to a wide range of ideas, particularly those that diverge from the liberal mainstream.

“Most of us grew up in liberal com-munities, went to liberal high schools, and now go to a very liberal college,” she said. “It would be good for Bow-doin students to have their beliefs challenged.”

Kim said that he wanted the website to remain anonymous so that those with minority views could freely share their ideas.

Kim said that part of the inspiration for the site came from conversations with a friend who has some very con-troversial views.

“He said that if he expressed his opinions to other people at Bowdoin, he would get stoned out of the school,” said Kim. “6 is is a person who very much believes in what he believes in but really can’t come forward and say what he thinks.”

Kim also said that the anonymity al-lows the discussions to remain objective.

“When you start talking about im-portant issues face to face, it’s hard for people to take their egos out of it and be willing to be wrong,” he said.

Just weeks into the new semester, the O9 ce of Safety and Security has al-ready sent two alerts warning the com-munity about suspicious individuals.

6 e 7 rst alert was sent the morn-ing of August 28, warning College employees and students about Abra-ham Chipman, 35, who allegedly acted erratically near campus on Au-gust 18, when he was issued a crimi-nal trespass order and a harassment notice. 6 is notice bans him from having further communications with anyone from the College.

According to Nichols, Chipman subsequently made a series of late-night phone calls to the Security Communications Center on August 27. In these calls, he reportedly spoke about his anger toward the police and the College and threatened physical damage to the Bowdoin Pines.

6 ese calls were recorded and given to the Brunswick Police Department (BPD), who summoned Chipman to court for violation of the harassment notice. Security does not know what caused Chipman’s erratic behavior.

“If someone sees him on campus, they should stand clear and imme-diately call Bowdoin Security or the Brunswick Police,” Nichols said. “If he violates the trespass order, he will be arrested.”

Nichols did not elaborate on how Chipman threatened to damage the Bowdoin Pines.

According to an August 9 Bangor Daily News report, Chipman was taken into custody on August 6 af-ter he allegedly led BPD o9 cers on a low-speed chase between Bruns-wick’s Potter Street and Parkview

Adventist Medical Center, where he reportedly threatened police with a clam rake.

6 e article quoted Deputy Chief Marc Hagan of the BPD, who said Chipman was later admitted to Mid Coast Hospital for both a cut on his head and “a suspected psychological issue.”

Henry Lavender, 29, is the subject of the second campus security alert, sent the a8 ernoon of September 6. According to Nichols, Lavender was seen outside Howard Hall attempt-ing to hacksaw through “a very heavy duty cable lock” in order to steal a bicycle.

A group of students saw this be-havior and immediately called Secu-rity, who responded to the students’ call within a minute and detained Lavender.

“He was certainly prepared to cut any cable lock he wanted to,” Nichols said.

Lavender allegedly cut almost en-tirely through the lock when Security arrived on the scene and “caught him in the act of cutting the cable.”

Upon the arrival of the BPD, Lav-ender allegedly ran into the woods near campus, where he was later found. He was given summonses for possession of burglar’s tools and

Security warns campus of two local men BY ELANA VLODAVER

STAFF WRITERcriminal mischief a8 er reportedly damaging the bike lock.

“Fortunately, the bike was not sto-len because of the prompt call and Security’s response to it,” Nichols said.

Lavender is now a suspect in the previous weeks Howard Hall inci-dent, during which two bicycles were stolen from the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center (SOLC). 6 e bike cables had cuts similar to those made in the recent attempted the8 .

“We have not been able to speci7 -cally tie [Lavender] in to other the8 s on campus enough to bring charges,” Nichols said. “He is certainly a suspect to two bike the8 s at the SOLC the pre-vious week, but there is not enough in-formation to bring charges at this time.”

According to Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols, there have been no additional suspects de-tained despite additional reports of bike the8 s in the days since.

“Even if you postpone the call by just a few minutes, that can make the dif-ference between if that person can be questioned or apprehended,” he said.

Security is currently holding meet-ings in 7 rst-year bricks to teach new students how to stay safe and report suspicious activities.

John Branch ’16 said he thinks the meetings have been informative.

“A8 er these meetings, I feel like most students feel like they have an obligation to call in,” he said.

Nichols said he encourages stu-dents to call Security whenever something feels wrong.

“I really want students to assume if it doesn’t look right, if it doesn’t feel right, to go with that and report it,” Nichols said. “Normally, when a student reports suspicious activity, they’re absolutely right.”

FACELESS FORUM: The homepage of o! -therecord.com features several hot-button issues.

“There is a long list of anonymous websites in which our students have

really been indicted, slandered and hurt.”

ALLEN DELONGDIRECTOR OF

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

“If electing a Green Independent is such a good idea for Brunswick, why did you need to reach for the en-dorsement of a Democrat?” the resi-dent asked. “I was there the day that he endorsed Mattie and I was really surprised and disappointed to see that you took his quote out of context and made it seem like an endorse-ment when it certainly was not.”

Horch responded that he had never meant to claim an endorse-ment from the legislator, but instead was intending to use Priest’s negative comment to his own advantage.

“He was conceding the point that I’m attractive to a lot of voters. We sourced the quote so people could look it up in the paper,” Horch said.

Although the Democratic and Green Party platforms are similar, both Daughtry and Horch believe that their stances on important issues are easily distinguishable.

Horch believes the lack of inde-pendents in Maine politics is a seri-ous : aw.

“We have two parties here that are just 7 ghting and we’re not bringing in independents. Forty percent of Maine voters are registered indepen-dent, either Green Independents or unrolled, and yet only one out of 150 legislators are independent,” he said.

Daughtry disagrees with Horch’s assessment.

“I have seen Democrats and Re-publicans working together,” said Daughtry. “You do not have to be an independent to get things done. I have to say, don’t slam the two par-ties, we’re in them.”

Daughtry also plugged her home-court advantage in this race.

“I grew up here. 6 is is my home-

town. Fred has been here for about 10 years. I’ve seen the schools from the inside. It’s a unique opportunity to elect a representative who has been here through the whole thing, and has seen it all 7 rst hand,” she said.

Will Osso5 ’15, who organized the

event, considered it a successful fo-rum and discussion.

“When I looked out at the sea of people, I was incredibly excited. It’s awesome to see so much political interest and activism at Bowdoin,” he said.

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CATHARINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTPARTY LINE: Fred Horch is one of three candidates seeking the District 66 seat.

“I really want students to assume if it doesn’t look right,

if it doesn’t feel right, to go with that and report it.”

RANDY NICHOLSDIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

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retaining wall that hides Moulton to allow light in and add a series of ter-races, or what you could call an am-phitheater that brings you down into the building.”

Facilities Management anticipates a positive response to the upcoming renovation, given the feedback they have received a5 er this summer’s landscaping projects, which includ-ed resurfacing the area outside the chapel, and adding benches, bike racks and plants around the 6 rst-year bricks.

“7 e concept behind both projects is that the Quad is this iconic site with a historical landscape,” Todd said. “We want to create thresholds that you feel like you’re passing through to get to the Quad.”

Stimson Associates accomplished this through planting native plants and recycling old granite, mixed with new, local New England granite for the terraces.

“We wanted to take cues from what you already have here,” said Todd. “7 ere are the old historic buildings and the museum, mixed with the modern glass box entrance, creating a contrast of rustic and modern.”

Todd says that she and her team also make use of these recycled ma-terials in order to maintain their goal for sustainability, which Longley em-phasized as a priority of the College.

“We have a pretty active tree-planting plan,” said Longley. “7 e life of the trees on the Quad are all about the same, so as we remove old dying trees, we’ve been pretty strategic in placing in new ones.”

Stimson Associates and Bowdoin will join forces again in summer 2013

to begin the construction of these up-coming projects.

“We have not priced it yet, but we will know soon,” Longley said. “Brunswick will be partially 6 nanc-ing the Longfellow School project, but I guess you could say these are a part of a larger landscaping project of approximately two million dollars.”

The College budgets about $4.5 million for campus landscaping and improvements each summer, though the sum increases around three percent each year to adjust for inflation.

7 is amount, she says, is in tune with President Barry Mills’ philoso-phy regarding construction projects during an economic downturn.

“We’re not building 30 million dol-lar buildings, so what we’re doing in-stead is creating smaller, more mod-est projects to improve the beauty of our campus,” said Longley.

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In his convocation address, Presi-dent Barry Mills urged student entre-preneurs to prioritize a College educa-tion over their own projects, a remark that caught the attention of Bowdoin entrepreneurs on campus and those taking time away from school.

In a national climate where large universities and business schools are, as Mills said, “responding aggressively” to the challenge of graduating successful entrepreneurs, he argued that the role of the liberal arts college is to provide foun-dational skills for future innovation.

“My advice is to get your education at Bowdoin. It’s all well and good to start a food truck or spend your time building apps commercially during the academic year, but get your edu-cation at Bowdoin,” said Mills in the August 29 speech. “You only go to College once. 7 ese four years are the opportunity of a lifetime. Make the most of them and you will be well pre-pared for the future.”

Student entrepreneurs had mixed responses to this statement.

Alexi Robbins ’14 is taking a se-mester o8 to develop his music web-site, tamber.com.

“I know [Mills’ speech] is not really targeted but it feels a little bit,” he said.

Robbins is working with program-mers near his home in Berkeley, Calif., and says that to be taken seriously by potential investors, he felt he needed to devote full-time energy to the website.

He plans to return to Bowdoin spring semester, believing that the “ho-listic education and approach to life” of the liberal arts has given him a useful breadth and depth of knowledge.

“Bowdoin lets you do a lot of stu8 in your free time,” said Robbins. “It lets you pursue your passions.”

Robbins was inspired to create his company due to his own dissatisfac-tion with online music streaming.

“It grew from a few issues I have

with music online which were mainly that there’s no good way for you to 6 nd out about music, and if you do 6 nd out about an artist, you have to go and illegally download their stu8 ,” said Robbins. “We’re trying to create a place to keep up with artists that you like and discover new artists and live shows.”

Simon Brooks ’14 agreed that Bow-doin’s nurturing environment has bene6 ted him as an entrepreneur. Co-founder of online orthopedic mat-tress retailer College Comfort, Brooks started his business out of frustration with the lack of a8 ordable and com-fortable mattress options available to college students.

While there is no business ma-jor o8 ered at the College, Brooks’ course load assisted him in launch-ing the company.

“I’m a computer science major so I designed the website completely from scratch,” said Brooks. “[Bowdoin] pre-pares you to go out into the world and say if there’s something I don’t like, I can 6 gure out my own way to do it.”

Co-partners Matthew Marr ’13 and Ian Lee ’13 are balancing education with entrepreneurship across two continents.

7 e friends recently launched the apparel company Marrlee&Co, described on its Facebook page as “clothes that people want to wear” in-spired by “Maine’s laid-back attitude.”

Lee is spending the year at home in Hong Kong working with their manufacturer and developing an app, while Marr communicates with the graphic designer and web developer from Bowdoin.

“Starting this week we’re going to be working more intently on the project,” said Marr, noting that their initial goal is to develop a line of 9 annel shirts.

“People tend to wear 9 annel all year round. We’re taking the idea of the 9 annel and making it more well-ad-justed to di8 erent seasons—di8 erent color schemes, and also the weight of the shirt itself,” he added.

Mills reminds entrepreneurs: education should be priority

BY EMMA PETERSSTAFF WRITER

SECURITY REPORT: 9/6 to 9/13! ursday, September 6• A green mountain bike of un-

known make was stolen from the area of Brunswick Apartments P. 7 e bike was locked to its own wheel (not to a rack), and was unregistered.

• A student’s parked vehicle was struck by another vehicle and damaged while in the Farley Field House lot.

• A student was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital with a severe migraine.

• A contractor working in Longfel-low School accidentally activated the building’s 6 re alarm while reaching for a light switch.

Friday, September 7• An unregistered event was report-

ed in the basement of Quinby House.• Loud noise was reported coming

from Chamberlain Hall.• Spray painted gra: ti, 6 re code

violations, and two stolen orange road construction barrels were found at MacMillan House.

• An unregistered event was report-ed at Harpswell Apartments.

• Excessive noise was reported com-ing from the 13th 9 oor of Coles Tower.

• Complaints of loud noise were received in the areas of Brunswick Apartments H and R.

• A water leak was reported at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Saturday, September 8• A student’s white Raleigh cruiser-

style bicycle was stolen from the east side of Coles Tower. 7 e bike had been le5 unlocked. 7 e bike bears Bowdoin registration 03542.

• A noise complaint resulted from student use of a Slip’n Slide on the lawn at Baxter House.

• A student who injured an Achil-les tendon was brought to Mid Coast Hospital by fellow students.

• An ill student was escorted from Osher Hall to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

• Loud noise was reported coming from a registered event at Chamber-lain Hall.

• Students accessed the north bal-cony at Baxter House, in violation of policy. A report was 6 led with Resi-dential Life.

• An unregistered event was report-ed on the 14th 9 oor of Coles Tower.

• A glass door on the 16th 9 oor of Coles Tower was intentionally smashed. A student was found responsible.

• A student was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital for evaluation.

Sunday, September 9• Dining sta8 reported problems

with disrespectful and unruly students at Super Snack.

• O: cers checked on the well-be-ing of an intoxicated male 6 rst year student at Hyde Hall.

• A Bath man was given a trespass warning for going through campus dumpsters.

• An intoxicated male junior was transported from Coles Tower to Parkview by Brunswick Rescue.

• Water leaking from a second 9 oor shower at Ladd House caused damage to a 6 rst 9 oor ceiling.

• A 6 rst 9 oor window screen was damaged at Reed House in an apparent attempt to gain entry to the building.

• A student who reported being stuck in a tower elevator was freed unharmed.

• A student with flu-like symp-toms was escorted from West Hall to Parkview.

Monday, September 10• An o: cer checked on the well-be-

ing of a sick student in Hyde Hall. 7 e student was referred to the Bowdoin Health Center.

• A student who fainted at the McLellan Building was taken to Parkview for observation.

Tuesday, September 11• A dark blue Bianchi Boardwalk

bicycle was stolen from the area of Moulton Dining Hall.

• A football player sustained a con-cussion during football practice, and was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

• A Cleaveland Street resident re-ported loud noise late at night, associ-ated with an o8 -campus student resi-dence at 17 Cleaveland Street.

Wednesday, September 12• A student reported receiving dis-

concerting Facebook messages from another student.

• Excessive noise was reported in the area of Brunswick Apartments S.

• Students were cited for smoking in a Stowe Inn apartment.

! ursday, September 13• Alcohol-related door damage was

reported at Harpswell Apartments.-Compiled by the O! ce of Safety

and Security

in a Judicial Board (J-Board) hear-ing and immediate loss of College housing without reimbursement.

However, J-Board Chair Parker Towle ’13 said that the J-Board only becomes involved in cases in which suspension or dismissal from the College is possible, and so it rarely hears cases relating to vandalism.

“I’m not exactly sure how it’s go-ing to play out on the J-Board end

of things,” he said.Though the costs of vandalism

are now much higher, not every-one is sure the changes will have

the desired effect. The costs of unreported vandalism for which the College is unable to find a per-petrator, for example, will still be

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charged to residents of the dam-aged building.

Jordan Goldberg ’14, who served as president of Reed House last year, also questioned whether the new policy will deter students from damaging property. He noted that most vandals act under the in-fluence of alcohol in an intoxicated and belligerent state.

Ultimately, though, Goldberg deemed the policy “a little harsh, but probably a good idea.”

“Hopefully it’ll get people to step up more,” he said.

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The overall cost of vandalism in residence halls and College Houses

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From bankrolling to lobster rolls: Luke’s Lobster ships Maine to N.Y.C.

First year Garvey gets mention from President Obama in convention speech

CHENGYING LIAO, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

CHARLOTTE SHOUT-OUT: Garvey ’16 was living in a shelter with her family when she was named a semifi nalist in the Intel Science Talent Search.

When Luke Holden opened the 5 rst location of Luke’s Lobster in Manhattan’s East Village in 2009, he was still employed full-time at Cohen & Steers investment bank.

“I was looking for something out-side of banking—a lot of my friends were getting bounced between jobs, and the question soon became: why is everyone in New York f*****g up a lobster roll so badly?”

Luke, who graduated from Georgetown University in 2007, de-cided to take it upon himself to 5 ll the void. He partnered with his fa-ther, Je6 Holden, to begin cra7 ing the company.

8 e senior Holden owns Portland Shell5 sh Company, which specializes in shipping fresh and frozen seafood from Maine, and is the source of all seafood at Luke’s locations.

Growing up in Cape Elizabeth, Me., Luke and his brother Bryan helped out with their father’s compa-ny, and spent many summers lobster-ing. Bryan graduated from Bowdoin in 2009 and now manages the fran-chise’s D.C. locations.

“I started working with my dad when I was nine years old at the processing plant, and did that till sophomore year,” said Bryan. “Maine itself is such a great place to grow up, working with my dad and on the lob-ster boats. To work in the industry

growing up was really cool.” Memorabilia from Luke’s lobster-

ing days decorate the Upper West Side store, where I met him for a lobster roll this summer. 8 e guid-ing mission behind Luke’s Lobster is to bring “the taste of Maine” to more urbane locales—the franchise now has eight locations in New York and Washington, D.C., plus a food truck named the “Nauti mobile.”

“Every store is a little di6 erent,” said Bryan. But each location is dis-tinctly “Maine,” furnished with tables and chairs from Deadhead Lumber, a carpentry company based in North-ern Maine that carves sunken logs from the state’s lakes and rivers.

Yellow and blue buoys from ski6 s that Luke built himself in high school 9 ank the shop’s chalkboard menu, across from a mural of a Maine harbor by Cullen Winkler ’09, who played la-crosse with Bryan at Bowdoin.

“8 at’s dri7 wood from the beach I used to 5 sh at,” said Luke, pointing toward old wooden relics propped up against the seating area. 8 e walls are covered with autographed “Mobster cards,” stamped cards for regulars who bought ten lobster rolls and got a free one in return.

“All of our restaurants are decked out like that,” said Luke.

Everything sold at Luke’s Lobster is from Maine: aside from the buns and the seafood, which are delivered in shipments from Maine four times a week, Maine Root sodas, Maine mi-

crobrews, and Hurricane’s Soups, of Greene, Me., are all on the menu.

“We have a processing plant up there, making sure that product is coming to us,” said Bryan. “We’ve grown so much recently that from the 5 rst one to two shops to now nine, it’s changed our operations up

north recently.” 8 e Holdens have gone to great

lengths to capture the feel of Cape Elizabeth in the city, and Mainers are well-represented among the sta6 of Luke’s Lobster. 8 e general manager of the Plaza Food Hall location went to high school with Luke, as did the director of mid-atlantic operations. Of the 150 Luke’s employees between D.C. and New York, about a dozen are from Cape Elizabeth.

“Everyone started at a $10/hour position,” said Luke. “Everything is a personal relationship.”

8 e same goes for the food. “It’s about the lobster...when times

were tough, that’s what dad brought

home,” said Luke. “8 e recipe hasn’t changed since day one.”

He called his best-selling product “pretty traditional.” Each lobster roll ($15) is served with mayonnaise, cel-ery salt, lemon, and spices on a New England top-split bun.

“8 ere are only a few ways to make a Maine lobster roll,” said Bry-an. “Once we had the lobster lined up it was just a matter of 5 nding the right roll.”

8 e newest location opened in Georgetown this summer, and busi-ness is growing. But as with all en-trepreneurial endeavors, success was hardly guaranteed at the start.

“I never really thought I would be leaving my banking job,” said Luke. “I didn’t quit banking till we opened up the second store on the Upper East Side.”

Bryan was 5 nishing his senior year at Bowdoin at the time, when Luke was breaking ground in New York. His post-grad plans did not include joining the family business.

“It was something we talked about,” he said. “I got an o6 er to work for IBM early in my senior year, worked for them for one and a half years and then I moved.”

Bryan joined the company just as it was starting to expand.

“It’s a lot of fun working with your family and friends,” he said. “It’s a lot more rewarding, and it’s been [very] di6 erent than working for a company like IBM.”

Bryan now travels between D.C., New York, and Maine doing business for Luke’s.

“In any given week I can be in three cities,” he said. “It’s fun, but it’s pretty crazy.”

“8 ere is no typical day, there is no turning it o6 ,” said Luke. “But no-body is ever going to be my boss.”

8 e company has steadily expand-ed over the past few years and Luke said his immediate goals are to reach Boston and Philadelphia. 8 e long-term plan is to see Luke’s outposts in San Francisco, Chicago, and L.A.

“We wont expand the shop unless we’re sure of two things: one, that we have a backlog of great employees ready to move to a new shop, and two, supply,” said Bryan. “If we’re not sure if we [can] get enough resources from Maine, then we won’t grow.”

As for whether there will ever be a Luke’s Lobster in Maine, Luke said that if that were to happen, he envi-sions more of a “lobster campus,” complete with boats and a distillery.

Both Holdens cited a handful of not-to-miss lobster rolls in Maine, though Luke will only try another roll if he can opt out of the mayon-naise. “If not, I’ll go for the other stu6 ,” he said.

“Red’s Eats is great, and the Clam Shack in Kennebunk,” said Bryan. For Luke, Five Islands Lob-ster Co. in Georgetown, Me. and The Lobster Shack in Cape Eliza-beth are favorites.

When President Obama recalled meeting inspiring Americans in his address at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last 8 ursday, Samantha Garvey ’16 had no idea she would be among those referenced.

“The young woman I met at a science fair who won national rec-ognition for her biology research while living with her family at a homeless shelter—she gives me hope,” said Obama.

8 is young woman was none other than Garvey, a 5 rst year at the College living in Hyde Hall.

Garvey met Obama last January when she was named a semi5 nalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, one of the country’s most prestigious science competitions for high school students, for her research on the defense mech-anisms of mussels.

While her research is notable for its scienti5 c merit alone, Garvey’s success at Intel gained national me-dia attention—she appeared on “El-len” and in the New York Times—due to her compelling personal story. 8 e Times reported that during the competition, Garvey and her fam-ily were living in a homeless shelter in Su6 olk County, Long Island, a7 er having been evicted from their home on New Years Eve.

It was a di: cult time for her and her family, but Garvey kept her spir-its high.

“I always tried to keep a positive attitude throughout the whole thing, just because if I kicked myself and put my head down, I wouldn’t have gotten where I am now,” Garvey said.

She said that concentrating on her research helped her keep up a positive

attitude despite not having a place to call home.

“If other kids 5 nd what they’re pas-sionate about, that’ll make them really happy even if they are going through some sort of struggle,” said Garvey.

8 ough her family faced di: cult times 5 nancially, money was not a critical factor in Garvey’s college ap-plication process. She tried to pick the best institution for her, regard-

less of the price. A $50,000 scholarship from talk

show host Ellen Degeneres, which Garvey was awarded when she ap-peared as a guest on Degeneres’s show last January, helped.

“Being on ‘Ellen’ was a really, really cool experience. She was funny and she really seemed genuinely excited about the work I had done,” Garvey wrote in an email to the Orient.

A7 er receiving the award, “any worries that I had in the back of my head were gone,” Garvey said. “I could just keep on trucking with what I had originally intended: to 5 nd the school that I really wanted to go to and get there.”

Fi7 y-two percent of Bowdoin stu-dents do not receive 5 nancial aid, and students come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds; matric-

ulating at the College meant entering a new environment for Garvey.

“I don’t feel like Bowdoin is a place where people will look down on me for any reason. All the students are here because they each o6 er broad in-terests, and talents,” said Garvey.

Shortly a7 er her appearance on “Ellen,” Garvey and her family moved into a new home in Bay Shore, Long Island, where they live today.

8 ough she originally planned on attending a large research universi-ty—Brown and Yale were among her top choices—she changed her mind a7 er visiting Bowdoin during Experi-ence Weekend.

“I saw the intimacy of the campus and how close everyone was. It was such a tight knit community and I thought I wouldn’t get something like that at a big university,” she said.

While she is excited by the pros-pect of continuing her oceanograph-ic studies, Garvey said she plans to broaden the scope of her academic interests. 8 is semester, she’s taking classes in anthropology, oceanogra-phy, and art history.

“My classes are really great,” Garvey said. “I feel like I’m smiling all the time. I didn’t expect that the course work would be so crazy, but it’s re-ally great. I’m glad I chose to come to Bowdoin.”

Garvey said she is excited to ex-plore the Coastal Studies Center, a College-owned research facility lo-cated on Orrs Island.

“I hope I have the opportunity to do research there one day,” she said.

As for Obama’s shout-out at the DNC, Garvey said she was not aware that he planned to mention her in the speech.

“It was de5 nitely a big surprise,” she said.

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BY LINDA KINSTLERORIENT STAFF

“I was looking for something outside of banking—a lot of my friends

were getting bounced between jobs, and the question soon became: why is everyone in New York f****** up

a lobster roll so badly?”

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When Roy Atkinson, a graduate student at Saginaw Valley State Uni-versity in Michigan, heard that Angus King was running for the Senate, he got in his car and drove roughly 900 miles to Brunswick.

Atkinson, who described his trip to Maine as a “big leap of faith,” said that he had read about former two-time governor King in Politico and was drawn to the independents’ plat-form of resisting partisanship. 6 e risk paid o7 , and Atkinson spent the summer working for the campaign and living with fellow interns at King’s home in Brunswick.

Atkinson is one of approximately 70 interns who 8 ocked to Brunswick this summer to support King’s Sen-ate campaign. College students and recent graduates came from as far as Virginia and as close as Albion, Maine to analyze election polls, conduct pol-icy research and encourage Mainers to vote for King.

While King is something of an anomaly in U.S. politics—the maga-zine Maine Home Design described the former two-time governor as a “wide-eyed idealist with a lot of old-fashioned common sense”—his cam-paign interns and former students say that he is an inspiration to moderate voters, a passionately independent statesman committed to advancing bipartisanship in the Senate.

A Moderate CandidateIn early March, hundreds of Maine

residents, reporters, students and pro-fessors gathered in Lancaster Lounge of Moulton Union to watch Angus King announce his independent can-didacy for the Senate.

King o7 ered his candidacy as an alternative to the partisan grid-lock that dominates Congress and de9 nes the rhetoric of the current presidential campaign.

“If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy,” King told the Bangor Daily News. “If you want a shot at changing, join me.”

In an interview with the Orient, King explained that Republican Sena-tor Olympia Snowe’s decision not to run for re-election prompted him to consider possible solutions to the bit-ter partisan divide in Washington.

Snowe cited frustration with partisan gridlock in Congress as one of her rea-sons for stepping aside.

King said that he has enormous re-spect for Snowe and that “if she can’t get anything done, my conclusion is we have to do it a di7 erent way.”

“If we’re going to do it a better way, I’m in a unique position to take this on, having been a two-term governor and an independent, and I can try to change this culture that is so…divi-sive and so bitter and so partisan,” said King.

Since entering the race, King has made nonpartisanship the focus of his campaign. On his campaign web-site, Angus2012.com, King declares, “I am not bound by the ideology of a party—I make decisions based on the facts, a: er talking with people who would be a7 ected. Above all else, I make decisions according to what I think is right, a: er listening to both sides.”

Maine residents appear to support King’s independent stance. A poll re-leased in early July by the Portland Press Herald showed King with a 28-point lead over his closest rival, Maine Secretary of State Charlie Sum-

mers, a Republican. Democratic state Sen. Cynthia Dill came in third with seven percent.

Allison Beeman ’13, who interned at King’s headquarters in Brunswick this summer, noted King’s appeal for “passionate moderates or passionate independents who are looking for a di7 erent system regarding parties.”

Indeed, Atkinson, the intern from Michigan, said that his fellow cam-paign interns were “mostly middle-of-the-road independents” who admired King’s frankness about the political atmosphere in Congress.

“He’s a straight shooter. I heard a lot of people talk about that,” said Atkin-son. “I think that’s the general consen-sus among a lot of the other interns.”

Campaign StrugglesDespite the positive reception

he received after announcing his candidacy, King’s campaign has not been without its troubles. In spite of his efforts to keep the cam-paign focused on the economy, en-ergy prices, bipartisanship and the budget deficit, Super PACs—and recently the National Republican Senatorial Committee—have re-

leased a slew of negative advertise-ments accusing King of mismanag-ing the state’s money.

King attempted to forestall Super PAC spending this past June, asking his opponents to adopt a practice of donating to charity an equal amount to whatever Super PACs spent on their behalf. Dill’s campaign expressed interest in the pact, but Summers de-clined to enter into an agreement.

6 e television ads lambasting King began in July with the U.S. Cham-ber of Commerce’s “Mainers Know,” a $400,000 advertising campaign that accused King of increasing state spending by $2.6 billion and leaving Maine with a billion dollar de9 cit.

King and his supporters have re-sponded to the ads by saying that increases in state spending re8 ect his e7 orts to take advantage of a strong economy in order to invest in infra-structure and business developments that have since bene9 ted Maine.

6 e former governor also defended his 9 nancial strategies at a town hall meeting held in Portland this past Sunday. Federal debt commission co-chairman Erksine Bowles told the Portland audience that King had the ability to cut spending and close tax loopholes in order to reduce the na-tional de9 cit, according to the Bangor Daily News.

Bowles, a Democrat and Bill Clin-ton’s former chief of sta7 , said that as an Independent, King would “have more power than anyone else.”

“It’ll be close to 50-50 in terms of political control [in Congress], and all the guys in the middle—and he’ll be one of them—will have the power. I think this one guy can make a big, big di7 erence,” Bowles said in the Bangor Daily News report.

In his interview with the Orient, King echoed Bowles, stating that “It’s entirely possible that the Senate could be virtually tied. In fact, the

most recent national poll predicts 50-49-1 [in the Senate], and I’m the one, and depending on who the president is, I could have the vote that determines the Senate.”

Smear campaigns against King con-tinue to make their way to Maine as election day nears. 6 is past week, the National Republican Senatorial Com-mittee entered the open Senate race with a television spot accusing King of using his political connections to get a taxpayer-backed loan for his windmill business, Independence Wind.

King sold his stake in Indepen-dence Wind to his partner, Rob Gardiner, last March, two days be-fore a Congressional Inquiry cited the Independence Wind loan guar-antee in a report focused on green energy projects.

Campaign ForecastKing said that he is not so “naïve

or arrogant” to think that he can go to Washington and end partisanship in Congress. However, he said that his experience as governor gives him a unique perspective on how to foster bipartisanship in the Senate.

Bipartisanship, King said, “starts with a willingness to compromise” and an effort “to try to find com-mon ground.”

“I see myself as the beginning of a process of change, not change itself,” he said.

King’s former students say that they see the leadership lessons King taught in his Bowdoin class, Leaders and Leadership, re8 ected in his campaign.

Jordan Francke ’13, who took King’s course his last spring, wrote in an email to the Orient that King has a “wealth of knowledge about histori-cally what has and has not worked for certain issues.”

“He is diligently re8 ective about his own actions, constantly critiquing himself on how his own leadership style is or is not e7 ective and how it can be improved,” he wrote.

Francke got to see the campaign from a unique perspective; King an-nounced his candidacy for the Senate while teaching Francke’s class.

“It was certainly a unique situation for the students for the second half of the term, where their professor was undertaking a major leadership chal-lenge,” said King. “6 at made this [past] semester unlike any other I had taught.”

“It’s a remarkable experience to see a previous professor of yours running for the Senate,” said Francke, who added that his experiences in King’s class solidi9 ed his decision to vote for King this November.

Atkinson said that he doesn’t fore-see too many problems with King’s campaign in the coming weeks.

“Honestly, I don’t see any weak-nesses,” he said. “He’s a very clean and clear-cut person.”

Beeman, the Bowdoin student who interned with King this sum-mer, agreed.

“It just feels like…we’re doing some-thing a little bit di7 erent that will hope-fully change things,” said Beeman.

King’s former students describe him as a measured statesmanBY DIANA LEE

OREINT STAFF

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTALL ABOUT ANGUS: 70 student interns convened in Brunswick this summer to work on Independent Angus King’s campaign.

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTTHE HOME FRONT: A campaign worker stu! s envelopes at Angus King’s campaign headquarters in Brunswick.

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For most students, Sunday night means holing up in a favorite study spot to crank out work, but two week-ends ago, 12 of us in the Outing Club took advantage of the waning moon to head to the Coastal Studies Center (CSC) for a moonlight stroll.

6 e drive to Orr’s Island provided a stunning view of the last light playing over the water in Lombos Hole. 6 e moon hung low in the sky at 7 rst, pro-viding little light for our walk through the woods, toward one of the CSC’s many trails. A8 er a few giggly scares from motion lights and unnerving sto-ries about strange nighttime encounters in the outdoors, we arrived at the dock.

It was low tide, and the water was still. We stood taking in the silhouette

of the opposite coast and the conversa-tion died down. In the silence, a thought came to mind.

“I wonder if there is any biolumi-nescence!” I blurted excitedly. We worked our way down to the water and, sure enough, as we splashed our hands in the water we could see tiny 9 ashes of 9 uorescent light emitted by phytoplankton.

From there, we hiked along a trail that follows the perimeter of the is-land, heading up to the northernmost point. By the time we reached the end of the trail, the moon had risen signi7 -cantly and lit up the landscape.

We marveled at our moonshad-ows and began the trek back to our van. 6 ough it was a brief trip, we re-turned to campus relaxed, ready for the week and looking forward to the next full moon.

Trip report: A bioluminescent midnight hike with the BOC

BY DANICA LOUCKSCONTRIBUTOR

Robbie Deveny ’13 works for catering company in Aspen, meets world’s VIPsBURSTING

THE BUBBLEQUINN COHANE AND MELODY HAHM

It is an honor to score an invite to the Aspen Ideas Festival, where par-ticipants like Katie Couric and retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal gather in the Colorado mountains for a week of debate on issues ranging from democracy to the societal roles of pro-fessional athletes.

Robbie Deveny ’13 was at the fes-tival this past summer, but he wasn’t there as an invited guest—he was working behind the scenes as a con-ference associate and food and bever-age banquet associate.

A biochemistry major and Colo-rado resident, Deveny had originally planned to spend the summer at the University of Colorado medical school. When other students snapped up the positions, he scrambled to 7 nd a last-minute summer job. His childhood in-terest in cooking led him to a job with Dolce Resorts, a conglomerate of con-ference center hotels.

6 e Dolce Resort in Aspen Mead-ows, Colo., hosts a variety of big-name conferences throughout the year. Deve-ny worked in the resort’s restaurant and assisted at events like the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Food & Wine Classic, the Aspen Musical Festival, the Aspen Se-curity Forum, and Fortune Magazine’s technology conference.

Working 40 to 90 hours a week set-ting up spaces, catering, and waiting tables at events, Deveny said the work was physically strenuous and not al-ways glamorous.

“People would get very upset and had short fuses,” said Deveny. “6 e chefs were very egotistical sometimes.”

6 e highlights of Deveny’s experi-ence were events like the Ideas Festival and the Food & Wine Classic, where he rubbed shoulders with celebrities and industry leaders.

At one breakfast, he met actor Stan-ley Tucci and Olympic athlete Michelle Kwan.

“I’m still certain Michelle Kwan winked at me,” Deveny said.

“It was also fun buddying up to the Israeli Secret Service agents who were protecting former Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak. 6 ey were in dis-guise, so you had to try and tease their true identities out of them.”

During the Ideas Festival, the Su-preme Court issued its ruling on health-care reform. A panel moderated by Charlie Rose that included New York Times columnist David Brooks and for-mer Senate Majority Leader Tom Das-chle convened to discuss live updates, and Deveny heard it all as he made his co: ee rounds.

At the Food & Wine Classic, Deveny assisted with set-up and manned celeb-rity chef Mario Batali’s booth, serving sausage to the likes of Fabio, who com-plimented Deveny on the food.

Having dreamt of being a chef from

an early age, Deveny was in awe of meeting legends like Gail Simmons, Tom Colicchio, Jose Andres, Andrew Zimmerman, and Marcus Samuels-son. He was less impressed by their fashion choices.

“Mario was wearing ugly shorts and Crocs,” he noted.

Deveny emphasized the high-stress and fast-paced nature of his job, which one may not have gleaned from his job title alone.

“It was competitive to get a position like mine,” Deveny said. “6 ere were administrative interns working with the Aspen Institute, which runs the Ideas Festival. I had to work many more hours than they did, but I got paid eight dol-

lars an hour more and still got to hear everything they heard. However, my positions will not look as good on paper unless I tell the full story.”

Nonetheless, Deveny 7 nished his summer with some marketable skills and tricks of the trade, like how to make a great cup of co: ee.

“I’ve never made more co: ee in my life—I made 90 gallons of co: ee one day,” Deveny said. “It’s not a good idea to just brew two ca: eine batches, label one decaf and put it out anyway. People get heart trouble.”

Summer lessons were not con-strained to co: ee protocol.

“I learned to be a better listener, be-cause sometimes I can get carried away

and be a little mouthy,” Deveny said. “I’d tell myself this is probably the only time I’ll hear these people, some of the most powerful in the world, speak, and I have to take in everything they say.”

Although an unexpected 7 eld of summer work, Deveny now counts his failure to secure a research position as a blessing in disguise.

“Not getting an internship was a valu-able process because I got to know the people that I’d look for jobs with anyway and learned about how to tell your story as a college student,” said Deveny.

He recommends that students who are having trouble lining up a summer internship expand their searches to other types of jobs but cautions them to take an active interest in the day-to-day responsibilities of any summer job.

“You have to know what you’re in for,” Deveny added. “You have to make it the experience you want it to be.”

As strange as it may sound, working in food services con7 rmed Deveny’s professional goal of becoming a doctor. He said being surrounded by so many high-powered experts, moguls and world leaders gave him inspiration and motivation for his last year of under-graduate studies.

“It de7 nitely made me excited to 7 n-ish my education on a high note,” said Deveny. “I like being in very intellectual-ly stimulating environments, places that make you think. Hearing people’s back-stories, they weren’t all Ivy League or top of their class, and not all of them knew what they wanted to do out of college.”

Upcoming BOC trips (weekend of Friday, 9/21 to Sunday 9/23)

• Bike to Common Ground Fair (9/21- 9/23)Annual Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association fair in Unity, ME. Celebrate rural living and uncommonly good food. • Camping in Acadia (9/21- 9/23)Experience Maine’s only National Park. What could be better?• Togatahdin (9/21- 9/23)Reenactment of the 1st century ascent of Katahdin by Nero and his entourage.• Huntington Birding Club trip (9/23)Stare long enough at the birds and the birds stare back at you.

Fairy houses charm the Farley Forest

COURTESY OF DANIEL FLANNERY

ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ

CROC-CHEF: Mario Batali was among the celebrities Deveny came across this summer in Aspen.

ILLUSTRATION BY SOPHIE MATUSZEWICZ

KATE FEATHERSTON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTMAGIC KINGDOM: Fairy houses, constructed by pre-schoolers at the Bowdoin Children’s Center, sprinkle the woods behind Farley. The project is part of the center’s “emergent learning curriculum,” which co-leader Daniel Flannery said allows the children to creatively build critical thinking skills.

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TALK OF THE QUAD

LATE TO THE RACE

HOT DAM:THE RIVER GETS A MAKEOVER

On Saturday morning, I decided to go for a short run before meeting a friend for brunch. I started o6 crossing Park Row towards Maine Street. Before I knew it, I was being stopped at the crosswalk at the end of Page Street.

A man with a camera around his neck and a woman in a neon vest were stand-ing on the corner. 7 e man immediately extended his hand to shake mine, and I waited for him to tell me that he was a candidate for town council—he did not.

“Who do you run for?” the man asked, looking at me intently, “Or do you run for yourself?”

I was still pretty groggy, but I wanted to be polite and humor what seemed like a random question.

“Just for myself, you know, to stay 8 t…” I said. What is taking this inter-

section so long?Suddenly, it dawned on me. 7 is

must be a run/walk bene8 t and I must be right on the route. What idiot would have included an undirected crosswalk in the route?

7 is le9 me in a minor predica-ment: If I waited for the light to change, I would have to stand awkwardly while the couple digested my recent state-ment that I ran to “stay 8 t” rather than help terminally-ill children (or whatever cause the race bene8 tted). I also risked embarrassing my companions when they realized that I was not a part of the race in the 8 rst place.

On the other hand, should I give up on crossing and run le9 , I was for all intents and purposes participating in a race.

“Do I go le9 or straight?” I asked slowly.

“Le9 to the 8 nish line!” I was running a race.My plan was to run until I was out

of sight of the woman in the neon vest and the man with the camera and

then duck down a side street, but—before I could

implement the plan—I found myself ap-proaching another vested volunteer. An odd inertia pulled me forward, even as visions of a timely brunch receded.

“Which way do I go?” I asked. He pointed: “7 is way, almost there!” Almost where? I passed an elderly man in a lawn

chair and raised my hand to return his wave. A police o: cer biked by on my right, no doubt checking on the well-

being of those actually physically exert-ing themselves. Soon a9 er, I jogged by a mother and daughter who clapped and urged me on—I only wished that I knew what I was running for.

“Daisy?!” someone shouted from across the street. I stopped and turned, giving up my tentative lead on two speed walking girlfriends. It was Conor Walsh ’11, bearing visible signs of having 8 nished

7 e tension in the room is sti; ing. I, along with fellow intern Matt Gam-ache ’13, am sitting in on a confer-ence call with our supervisor at the Nature Conservancy in Maine. Vis-ibly nervous, Kate is negotiating with sta6 from two other large environ-mental orgaizations.7 ey’re blowing up a dam.

Well, not exactly blowing up; ex-ploding the Great Works Dam would probably end up harming the very endangered species that these groups hope to save.

A9 er an uncomfortable pause, Or-ganization One gets up the guts to oppose it superior, which I will call Organization 7 ree.

“No,” says a thin female voice, “I think we should announce funding in a rolling order.”

In other words, she wants Organi-zation 7 ree to hold o6 on annouc-ing their fundraising totals, as those 8 gures would no doubt overshadow the e6 orts of Organizations One and Two, who had also raised millions for the project.

A9 er a tense pause, Organization 7 ree agrees.

7 e Penobscot Indian Nation, along with a slew of other environ-mental groups, governmental bodies and businesses, has been working to remove two dams on the Penobscot River since 1999, when a power com-pany—PPL—bought three dams on the river right before their re-licens-ing contracts were up.

In; uenced in part by the consider-able legal leverage of the nationally-sovereign Penobscot Nation, PPL agreed to abandon their development of the dams and sell them to to the Penobscot River Restoration Trust, a group comprised of the previously mentioned groups.

7 e sale may prove pro8 table for PPL, too; according to some esti-mates, it is possible that the relocation

of equipment to other sites might ac-tually increase net hydropower pro-duction and, if succesful, the strategy will likely serve as a model for dam removal projects world-wide.

7 e passive-aggressive negotia-tions on the phone proceed for the next 30 minutes. I don’t think the word “dam” has been uttered more than once, when Organization 7 ree asked whether the dam would go down in a big explosion and Organi-zation Two said no, but assured ev-eryone that the demolition team had done enough prep work to make sure part of it crumbles a9 er the count-down.

“We will try to make it look dra-matic,” Organization Two says.

7 e Penobscot River used to be the single most important river for sea-run Atlantic salmon and many other commercial 8 sh. 7 e 8 rst salmon caught on the river every year used to be gi9 ed to the president of the United States; George H.W. Bush was the last president to receive one.

Biologists estimate that Atlantic salmon alone will quadruple with the removal of the two most seaward dams, a move which, they say, could save the currently endangered spe-cies from extinction.

Once completed, the dam re-moval will make over 1,000 miles of spawning habitat accessible to sea-run 8 sh, reviving a population that has sustained an ecosystem and a nation for centuries.

I guess excruciating phone calls are necessary for modern environ-mental miracles.

As our crew of TNC employ-ees roll up in a fleet of Subarus to Old Town on the morning of June 11, my boss is about ready to rip someone’s throat out. She looks manic and on edge: happy, but also as though she hasn’t slept in two weeks. She is TNC’s mouthpiece and she is out for blood.

She smiles and shakes hands and

runs around in a dress that I don’t think has le9 her closet in years. (Keens and jeans are appropriate at-tire for most TNC events). But this is no normal event; today, our unlikely gang of monkey wrenchers gets to see ecological justice carried through.

7 rough some stroke of luck, I get a viewing spot on the sought-a9 er lower site.

7 e banks of the Penobscot are so ; ooded on the day of the event that the lower site—already crowded with industry spokespeople—could only hold about 50 people. I’m given a stack of press packets to dole out, so I get to go in.

Once in the VIP section, I join a group of donors, executive directors, “spokespeople,” members of the Pe-nobscot Nation, and roadies. I can spot the donors easily; their scu6 ed chinos and obvious discomfort give them away.

I stand at the press table greeting people. For some reason, a bunch of old ladies are on the VIP list. 7 ey are interested in my work as an intern at the Conservancy and relish my o6 ers of sunscreen and bug spray. 7 is may be the most attention I have received from a crowd of women in my life.

Finally, the event begins. 7 e for-mer chief of the Penobscot Nation walks by my booth with his wife and I o6 er them sunscreen. He looks at me solemnly.

“Sun screen gives you cancer,” he says. 7 e former chief takes the stage.

He and another Nation elder sing to honor the river and burn a sage concoction. Somehow, this melody brings a sort of peace to the heated mixture of excitement, confusion, and self-congratulation that has, thus far, fueled the day. 7 e song breathes a sense of humility into the event that did not exist before.

We stand and listen to the music, Penobscot River mud staining our clothes.

7 is dam is coming out due to the uniquely successful e6 orts of a group of nature freaks and their compliant business partners. And while human beings blocked the river, squelched out its power and reduced its pulse, it never died.

Even now, water trickles down through the cracks in the concrete and the wood. Even now, as prehis-toric construction equipment crawls out into the mainstem of the ; ows, the river is in control.

It just happened that the Penob-scot River Restoration Trust heard its request before the rest of us.

Listening to the beating of the drum, the lilting voice of Barry Dana and seeing the fragrant smoke rise over the swollen river, I feel respect buzzing in the air. I can see some-thing like understanding in the eyes of the bug-slapping donors, the un-

der-dressed scientists, and the suit-ed-up public o: cials.

I realize my own perspective has been the naive one—that I’ve been missing the point of this whole event.

The tension in the planning meetings is merely and example of how a state works the seemingly selfish drive for every participating organization to get personal credit for the project’s success is how envi-ronmental nonprofits succeed and secure funds.

It was me, the overly-idealistic en-vironmental studies major, who was seeing the proceedings as ; awed be-cause they did not seem sel; ess.

I realized that what I had wit-nessed over the past few months was not ; awed environmentalism, but conservation absorbed into our democratic-capitalist system. It was environmentalism actually working.

Our contemporary environmental movement will not work if it is com-prised soley of impassioned citizens yelling at evil corporations and gov-ernments to clean-up and green-up their acts. It must instead adopt an ever-evolving mindset that is both aware of the measures needed to achieve large-scale reform and able to seize the opportunities for small and practical change. 7 e movement should have the chops of a hydro-power company that agrees to de-stroy its own dams.

7 is kind of institutionalized environmentalism is what got non-pro8 ts, corporations, and govern-ment regulators to compromise on a myriad of details so that the plan of the Penobscot River Restoration Trust could succeed.

When the Atlantic salmon returns three years from now, it won’t care who did what for what reason when. It will tighten its muscles and breach the cold water into a wall of su6 ocat-ing air. It will land in a spot of river that its species has not touched for over a hundred years. 7 en it will keep swimming.

-Walter Wuthmann

the race—and in good time, too. “Conor, what is this for?!” I called. “It’s the Brunswick Police Hot Pursuit

5k Run!” With that particular mystery out of

the way, I had no choice but to 8 nish the race and hope for a sense of accomplish-ment to override the awkwardness of my morning thus far.

As the 8 nish line came into view, I composed a short prayer, it went a little

Suddenly it dawned on me. This must be a run/walk benefi t and I must be right on the route.

What idiot would have included an undirected crosswalk in the route?

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It’s better to run for something.

-Daisy Alioto

Brunswick Police Association28 Federal St.Brunswick, Maine04011

something like this: Dear Lord, please don’t let the Bowdoin track team be here. Amen.

7 e crowd cheered for me to sprint it in but I stuck to a discreet jog. Sandwiched between two speed walkers, coming in at a hot 39 min-utes, I didn’t want to appear as if I’d been holding back.

7 ree muscu-lar men asked

me for

my registration number, but I blurted out something about having “run acci-dentally.” I slunk to the periphery of the crowd as one of them glanced over his shoulder with vague disapproval. Cross-ing the street, I moved away from fami-lies hugging and the trickle of double-strollers still crossing the 8 nish line.

I thought I saw the digital speed sen-sor near the Co: n School ; ash 24 miles per hour when I ran by, but I knew that couldn’t be right. It must have been a car in the vicinity, or maybe even a strong gust of wind.

I was late for brunch a9 er all, but it would be alright. But by Tuesday, I 8 -nally got around to 8 lling out a check and envelope:

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Cover band Suck My NESCAC to perform at EpicuriaBY EVAN GERSHKOVICH

STAFF WRITER

COURTESY OF MICHAEL YANGVENI VIDI VICI: Suck My NESCAC’s performance last year fi lled the Ladd dance fl oor with toga-clad partygoers.

Tomorrow night, the men’s rugby team will host Epicuria, its 23rd an-nual toga party at Ladd House. For the second year in a row, the event will feature Suck My NESCAC, a pop-punk cover band made up of seniors Hunter Rusack, Phil Cuddeback, Robbie De-veny, and David Raskin. I spoke with the band earlier this week about their tunes, their history, and their hopes for the future—especially tomorrow night’s performance.

Evan Gershkovich: For those who may not know, who is Suck My NES-CAC?

Hunter Rusack: Robbie, on lead vocals, is a Colorado native who cares more about making people laugh than his physical or mental well-being. While absolutely insane, and not so good with learning vocals, he will en-tertain the sh*t out of anyone and ev-eryone.

David, playing bass guitar and sing-ing backup, characterizes himself as a horrible speller who likes to procrasti-nate. Dave has maintained his weight solidly at around 75 pounds for the last three years of his life by sweating to the oldies with Richard Simmons. He’s a very talented musician but most people don’t notice this because when he is on stage all they can think about is how they should be buying him a cheeseburger and/or calling ASPCA [American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals].

Phil, on drums, is a wild man who emerged from the wilderness when he mistook the Bowdoin rugby team for a potential food source. Upon learning how to raise various farm animals and the basic principles of rhythm, he be-gan pursuing a career as the 5 rst-ever solo Hanson tribute band. A6 er failing at this, he joined Suck My NESCAC to keep himself entertained between beard grooming sessions.

I play lead guitar and am a self-taught, stressed-out, red-faced, guitar-wielding oddball. I spend most of my time ordering new board shorts online to make sure that people always know I’m from California. When I’m not bro-boarding around campus you can typically 5 nd me pretending to read an upside down book s o that people think I actually have work.

EG: What is your story? How did you guys come

together?Robbie Deveny: Well, Hunter and

I were Eskimo brothers throughout a good deal of freshmen year, but we never really spoke until we were placed side by side in the [rugby] scrum as locks, suddenly sharing blood and sweat in a more direct, innocent way. I did a capella and a handful of terrible musicals for Brunswick retirees while Hunter drove hoards of innocent con-cert victims away with the sincerest of acoustic screamo surf tunes.

We actually found Phil’s talent for drumming during a rugby match last fall. He had just scored a try against Colby and was making his usual ges-tures and grunts of happiness, when we noticed that the pounding of his bare, worn knuckles against the moist earth came in predictable, regular intervals. A6 er we took the ball out of his mouth and wiped the slobber o7 his beard, we asked Phil if he wanted to be a drum-mer. He didn’t bite anyone, so we took that as a yes. Dave doesn’t play sports.

EG: Tell me about your respective in-! uences.

HR: Phil is heavily in8 u-enced by drummers that play the standard 4/4 rock beat in the sim-

plest rock songs imaginable.

As a result, that is literally the only beat he can play. Robbie doesn’t really listen to music. He never understands anything the singers say and probably won’t know any of the words. Most of-ten he’s listening to opera or Green Day. Dave mostly listens to music that bums people out—seriously, really boring crap—classical music, Radiohead, that kind of garbage. I don’t want to limit myself by saying my in8 uences come from one band or even genre of music. I like everything about music, except for f**king Radiohead (don’t tell Dave I said that).

EG: Tell me about yourselves as a band—what are your goals on stage?

HR: We primarily view ourselves as a pop-punk cover band, at least that’s where we started, but at the same time we just want to play songs that people know and love. We also want people to hear some of the songs we are play-ing and be like “WTF! Are they really throwing ‘Wagon Wheel’ in between ‘Fat Lip’ and ‘Basket Case?’” Or, “how the hell are Taylor Swi6 and Blink 182 the same genre of music?” But that’s not the point, we just want to be as

entertaining as possible, otherwise why would we have the most easily-distracted and crude person as our lead singer?

EG: Talk to me

about Epicuria and why you are so ex-cited to play the event.

HR: We get pumped to play Epicu-ria because it’s a rugby party and three of us are rugby players. What more do you want in life than to go to an epic rugby party, crush brews, and jam to a kick-ass pop-punk cover band? Last year, we had a much better showing than we imagined and it was pretty clear when people were screaming for an encore that we had succeeded with all our hard work.

9 e only problem was last year we had like, ten songs, and thus no encore, so we just started our set list over and everything worked out. 9 is year we have more songs, and we expect more people and an even more kick-ass show than last year.

I had never seen such a sweaty and simultaneously stoked mass of people until last year’s party. Epicuria is not only the best social house party of the year, but it de5 nes men’s rugby: we work extra hard to make sure that ev-eryone has an awesome time, ourselves

included. We’ve been planning this party

now since like, last July and we

want it to be better than

ever.

EG: What will your set list look like on Saturday night?

David Raskin: We designed our set with our audience in mind. We know that no one at a social house party wants to hear anything they haven’t already heard to death. We’ve carefully (dare we say masterfully?) cra6 ed a set list that should be totally familiar to ev-ery single person at the party—at least the ones who grew up in this hemi-sphere. 9 at doesn’t mean that we don’t keep it spicy. Yeah, we’ve got a lot of pop-punk, but we’re not afraid to strive for the deeper stu7 —Taylor Swi6 , the Isley Brothers, all that mess. It’s a set that will transport our audience not only through time and space, but across genre lines, too, before planting them 5 rmly back down in the steamy, sultry, sexy, sweaty, sticky (oh so sticky) anteroom of Ladd House.

Suck My NESCAC will be playing at Ladd House tomorrow, September 15, at 10 p.m.

(From le" to right: Raskin, Rusack, Deve-ny, and Cud-deback)

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“Beasts of the Southern Wild,” directed by Benh Zeitlin, is one of those films that demands a second viewing—if only so viewers can wrap their minds around it.

In his first feature film, Zeit-lin tells the story of six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her father Wink (Dwight Henry) as they struggle to con-front what ap-pears to be the unraveling of the universe.

While Hurricane Katrina barrels down upon The Bathtub—a splin-ter community located beyond the protection of a levee, composed of people who have rejected soci-ety—the tenuous father-daughter relationship is tested by Wink’s ever-worsening sickness. The re-sult is the complete destruction of everything familiar to Hushpuppy, and her defining challenge is to survive in the ruins of her former existence.

The film is at once stunning and difficult to watch. Hushpup-py’s futuristic, whimsical journey is muddled by a fragmented and naively constructed parable about Hurricane Katrina that struggles to poetically establish any sense of clarity and coherence. It is easy to become so engrossed in the film’s

delicate soft-focus cinematogra-phy and heart-wrenching acting that one completely overlooks its gross narrative deficiencies.

Life in The Bathtub is strangely idyllic; governed by poverty and hardship, its denizens value their off-the-grid freedom above all. The surreal setting is amazingly compelling, for it lacks both spiri-tual and physical constraints. Un-bound by cumbersome societal conventions, people are free to toil

as they please in the company of fellow out-casts, scaveng-ing and fishing to survive.

To defend their freedom,

Wink and a handful of others re-fuse to evacuate even as a storm approaches, submerging their en-tire world beneath the floodwa-ters. Hushpuppy stands boldly at the frontline of the ensuing catas-trophe, paralyzed by conflicting impulses towards perseverence, denial and confusion. If someone had refused to board the arc in the biblical flood, this would be his story, and Hushpuppy his muse.

Where “Beasts of the Southern Wild” succeeds, it does so with terrific grace and tenderness. Wal-lis, who was five years old at the time of her audition, delivers a performance that may be impres-sive enough to earn her an Oscar nomination. Her poignant and charming outlook is a delightful window into her fraught naviga-

tion of the adult world. Through her eyes viewers can intimately understand the film’s universe, re-lating as adults to the tumultuous experiences of growing up. Hush-puppy’s demons present them-selves as concrete realities within the guise of magical realism, and it is impossible not to cheer her on throughout.

Unfortunately, the action sur-rounding the bildungsroman sub-plot betrays its final impact. Cli-ché character roles, the overuse of alcohol as a prop and guiding

force, and Hushpuppy’s arrival into mainstream society come across as sloppy and distracting scenes. There is a lack of any directional movement within the film. It am-bles along with a confident sense of importance in seemingly no direction whatsoever. Despite its undeniable beauty and charm, the film’s ending brings a bitter taste of unfulfillment.

A movie’s worth should not be determined by the reason it was made; art should not be regarded in such crude terms. “Art for art’s

Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Beasts’ is magical, but lacks coherence

sake” is a motto for films that de-rive importance through their adherence to an established struc-ture. “Beasts,” however, stumbles and deviates from the path that could have made it a true master-piece.

For Zeitlin and his actors, this film is an astounding success. But given the amount of thought clear-ly given to the story, as well as its wondrous beauty, it gives off an aggravating sense of wasted poten-tial. I really liked this film, but I wanted desperately to love it.

BY HUGH RATCLIFFECONTRIBUTOR

COURTESY FOX SEARCHLIGHTLIFE IN THE BATHTUB: Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) eeks out a bleak, post-Katrina existence in the Southern wetlands.

Despite its undeniable beauty and charm, the film’s ending brings a bitter taste of unfulfillment

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Maine Pro Musica performs, brings Classical to campus

Pioneering photographer Day featured in exhibit

With the debut of a new surrealist photography exhibit, Wegman’s Wei-maraners now have to share space with their artistic ancestors at the Museum of Art.

On September 6, the Bowdoin Col-lege Museum of Art opened “Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic History,” chronicling the life and work of Boston photographer Fred Holland Day.

Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass., the exhibit presents Day’s self-portraits alongside images taken of him by his contemporaries. Curator Trevor Fairbrother organized the exhibit to have a dual focus on the artist’s work and his personal history.

As a photographer, Day was intent

BY SARAH WOODCONTRIBUTOR

Maine Pro Musica, a thirty-two piece orchestra based in Rockport, Maine, performed at Studizinski Re-cital Hall last Saturday a6 ernoon in the 7 nal show of their four-concert summer tour.

Saturday’s program consisted of traditional classical works by child prodigies spanning several genres. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Over-ture to the Marriage of Figaro,” Lud-wig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto, no. 3, op.37, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No 4, op.90, were per-formed.

Started in 2008 by conductor Jan-na Hymes, Maine Pro Musica o8 ers a diverse range of musical program-ming. 9 e company’s mission is to excite and engage audiences while si-multaneously educating them about the material.

“Let’s face it, this music was writ-ten so long ago, and as time goes on, that disconnect is becoming wider and wider. If people aren’t familiar with it, we try to make it very com-fortable so that everyone will love it,” said Hymes.

Hymes says her goal is to broaden the appeal of classical music; she hopes to dissolve the barrier that so o6 en exists between orchestra and audience.

“I talk from the stage about the music, but in a way that anybody will relate to,” Hymes said.

She familiarizes works by explain-ing both their historical context and Maine Pro Musica’s approach to the material.

Hymes says she is aware that many students are simply not in-terested in classical music, but believes a bit of open-mindedness could change this attitude.

“If any of those people came to the concert,” Hymes said, “I’m con-vinced they’d be turned around. There’s nothing like seeing a live orchestra. When you see them onstage and excited and playing, that’s infectious.”

When the concert started, it was easy to see what Hymes meant. In-stead of diving head7 rst into the music, as many orchestras do, Hymes chose to open the concert by enchant-ing the audience with passionate de-scriptions of the pieces to come. She began with an animated explanation

of “Marriage of Figaro’s” “mischie-vousness, trouble, and excitement.”

Studizinski 7 lled with energy when the orchestra began to play. Hymes’ lithe and vivacious direction encouraged an exuberant rendition of “Marriage of Figaro” from her equally lively players.

Although the quality of the entire performance was excellent, the real highlight was watching the enthusi-astic exchange between Hymes and her musicians.

on translating spiritual elements of the world into visual reality through the use of the camera, a relatively new me-chanical device.

“Day raised questions and themes though his work that weren’t made open or even spoken about until the 1980’s art scene,” said museum curator Joachim Homann.

9 ough Day was a pioneer in artistic photography—one of the 7 rst to ap-proach the medium as a 7 ne art—his work and in: uence remain relatively unknown. Homann believes that this exhibit will help show how Day used photography, a revolutionary medium, to create a new artistic form.

“It is important for students to see what a struggle it was to turn photog-raphy into art,” said Homann.

Photography was not seen as a true art form even through the early 1900s. Day was among the 7 rst to promote

BY ERIN FITZPATRICKCONTRIBUTOR

the idea that a photographer’s vision of a photo is just as important as the subject. It was the combination of these aspects, he argued, that allowed pho-tography to rival other forms of two-dimensional art.

9 e portraiture presented in “Mak-ing a Presence” shows Day’s attempt to highlight various forms of photog-raphy and his e8 ort to question the interaction between photograph and viewer. It is unclear whether many of the images were staged or candid, and his subjects o6 en seem surreal in their curious poses and attire.

“Making a Presence” is a unique combination of art, photography and history. It is a testament to the social and artistic evolution of technology and art.

! e exhibit will be on view in the up-per " oor of the art museum until De-cember 23.

“There’s nothing like seeing a live or-chestra. When you see them onstage and

excited and playing, that’s infectious.”

Janna HymesConductor, Maine Pro Musica

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto was similarly enjoyable, surpassing the 7 rst piece only due to the addition of solo pianist Chiharu Naruse. Na-ruse earned a standing ovation from the audience for her vigorous perfor-mance.

9 e second standing ovation fol-lowed the day’s 7 nal piece, Mendels-sohn’s Italian Symphony. Hymes’ ac-count of Mendelssohn’s motivations for writing the “happiest piece of music ever written” made the piece especially moving.

Now that Bowdoin is familiar with her orchestra, Hymes hopes to extend the group’s inclusive ap-proach beyond the stage and begin working directly with the music de-partment.

“I hope this is an ongoing rela-tionship,” Hymes said. “If there are composition students and faculty, if there are performers that we could somehow integrate together, I would really, really like to take it a step fur-ther.”

Hymes says this o8 er is unique to the Bowdoin music department.

“I’ve just heard really great things about di8 erent music happening at Bowdoin,” said Hymes. “We’re not re-ally making the college circuit. 9 is is such a prestigious school, so this is a really fantastic thing for us.”

Although Maine Pro Musica’s summer tour has concluded, they will perform their annual Holiday Pops concert in Camden, ME in mid-December.

More information can be found on the orchestra’s website, mainepromu-sica.org.

CHENGLING YIAO, BOWDOIN ORIENTGreenstock took over the Quad last Saturday, with campus bands performing in front of a BBQ sponsered by Bowdoin Dining.

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Last spring, the Polar Bears’ coach of 5 ve years, Maren Rojas, le6 the team to be closer to her family in Boston, where she accepted a posi-tion as an assistant soccer coach at Boston College.

Despite this transition, Weaver is

Women’s soccer undefeated after sweeping fi rst three games

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KICKING OFF RIGHT: Molly Popolizio ‘14 scores the second goal Wednesday against Bates. The Polar Bears went on to fi nish 3-0 against the Bobcats.

optimistic about her players’ work ethic and ability to take the change in stride. Weaver says that because her players have worked incredibly hard in practice so far, the transition be-tween the two coaches has been sur-prisingly smooth.

“I think the tough thing is that players have to all of a sudden ad-just to new ways of doing things and working,” said Weaver. “What makes them such a good team is that they are patient and willing to learn, ac-cept a new coaching style, and see

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Uche Esonu ’13 have also helped new players transition to the front-row forward position, since five of last year’s six seniors vacat-ed those spots.

Charlotte Kleiman ’15, Emily Athanas-Linden ’15 and Rachel Henderson ’15 played impressively during the spring season; she ex-pects them to contribute heavily toward the team’s success this year.

In the tournament’s morning match, Bowdoin played aggres-sively against Williams, trying to keep ball possession as much as possible.

The team opened up a large 38-0 lead before the end of the first half, credited mostly to the effective teamwork between the front and the back lines.

Townsend, White and Randi London ’15 scored two tries apiece and London also converted seven extra points for the Polar Bears against Williams.

McAvoy, Kleiman and Laurel Mast ’14 added tries to ratchet the final score up to a formidable 59-3 by the final whistle.

The afternoon match against Amherst brought torrential rain, fierce winds and tornado warn-ings, detracting from Bowdoin’s offensive effort.

Townsend scored the team’s only try and London converted the extra point to make the score 7-0 at halftime.

In the second half, the Bowdoin forwards worked as a unit to keep Amherst’s offense at bay while rookie Annie Piotti ’16 made a critical play a few minutes into her first match.

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how things work under my direc-tion,” she added.

Popolizio—who, until this season had only trained under Rojas—has high hopes for Weaver, noting her di7 erent approach to the game.

“Coach Bri has a very attack-minded style of play, which we have been focusing on in practice,” said Popolizio. “We have also been fo-cusing on having a positive, forward 5 rst touch and being dangerous with the ball as well as always shooting at good angles.”

Re8 ecting on last year’s season, Popolizio went on to emphasize that the team has grown and will strive to avoid close calls at the end of games this year.

“In order to avoid the numerous overtimes we experienced last year, it is very important to maintain our mental toughness and competitive-ness throughout every game as well as the season as a whole,” she said.

On Wednesday, the team took on rival Bates, beating the Bobcats 3-0. Undefeated in all three games so far, the Polar Bears have not allowed a single goal past their net since the season start, outscoring opposition by nine goals.

9 e win also raised Bowdoin’s re-cord against Bates in their past seven matchups to 6-0-1.

9 is weekend, the Polar Bears will travel to Brandeis University for a non-conference match on Saturday.

the sport before, and within a minute of being put in during our second game against Amherst, Anna made a try-saving tackle,” Townsend said.

After winning a line-out, the Bowdoin pack formed a moving maul that methodically drove on towards the Amherst try-line.

Scrum-half Jimena Escudero ’13 plucked the ball out and handed it off to Amanda Montenegro ’14, who snuck passed the Amherst de-fenders for her first career try.

From there, Bowdoin kept Am-herst on its heels to complete the shutout 12-0 victory.

The final match against Smith College turned into another shut-out win for the Polar Bears, who ended the tournament without al-lowing a single opposing try.

Piotti scored early with a run down the wing followed by another London conversion.

Of Piotti’s play, Townsend said, “On Sunday, after many beauti-ful catch-passes to get the ball out wide, [she] received the ball and made a beautiful run down the field and scored not only her first try, but the first try of the game. We were more evenly matched with Smith so [her] try was very essential.”

In the second half, Bowdoin was awarded a penalty try due to con-sistent offside attempts by Smith players.

Anissa Tanksley ’14 scored the final try for the tournament, seal-ing the 19-0 win.

The Polar Bears begin the regu-lar season this Saturday against Williams. Kick-off is 11 a.m. at the Pickard Rugby Field.

In fi rst scrimmage of the year, football loses star wide reciever

“I looked up and saw a defensive back [Jaibril Coy ’15] explode a6 er his interception for 70 yards. He was in the end zone in a blink of an eye,” said Bryan Hurley ’15, one of the fans at the Bowdoin football team’s intrasquad scrimmage this past Sunday. Fans, players and coaches alike had the op-portunity to assess the progress of the team at the preseason game.

Coach David Caputi, entering his 13th season as head of the team this fall, was pleased with the scrimmage.

“Given that we’re playing a lot of young guys, they stepped up and did a good job,” said Caputi.

He also commended the e7 orts of senior captains Martin Robledo, Sean O’Malley and Beau Breton.

Unfortunately, O’Malley sustained an ACL injury sidelining him for the season.

“Sean is a very good player and very good captain [...] one of the best special teams players in the league. He can be a very good captain when he’s not on the 5 eld,” Caputi said.

In addition to providing insight into the team’s prospects, Sunday’s scrim-mage was also an opportunity for the 5 ve new assistant coaches to see the team play competitively in front of a crowd at Whittier Field.

9 is new sta7 covers o7 ense, de-fense and special teams. Coach John Burrell, the new defensive coordinator, brings experience from Western Con-necticut State University, a successful Divison III program. Coach Bill Mc-Cord played cornerback at WCSU un-

der Burrell and brings defensive back coaching experience from Franklin & Marshall, Bucknell and Princeton.

Also new toBowdoin’s defensive coaching sta7 is Chris Sapp, from Mid-dle Tennessee State University, who will focuse on the defensive line and special teams.

As the wide receivers coach, Joe Clark plans to translate his skills and experience from his tenure at NES-CAC rival Trinity, where he helped the Bantams win three conference champi-onships. 9 e 5 6 h new assistant coach is Kyle Duncan, a 2012 graduate who started as a center for three years and will focus on training the running backs.

Coach Caputi says he doubts that this coaching turnover will hinder the team’s development. He also says he still thinks there are things the team can improve on given the team’s show-ing at the scrimmage.

“9 ese new coaches bring new ideas and new ways to look at things,” he said.

Starting quarterback Grant White ’13, echoed this sentiment. “We’re no-where near where we want to be as a team yet [...] but overall I was pleased with how we performed and excited to see what we can do this year,” White said.

9 e Polar Bears’ season starts on September 22 at NESCAC rival Mid-dlebury. With just over a week to pre-pare, Caputi knows that his coaches and players have their work cut out for them.

“We just have to get our football team ready and make sure no one gets hurt in the next couple of days,” he said.

BY BERNIE CLEVENSSTAFF WRITER

The Bowdoin women’s rugby team cleaned up at last weekend’s Beantown Rugby tournament at UMass-Amherst, beating Wil-liams, Amherst and Smith Colleges with scores of 59-3, 12-0, and 19-0 respectively.

The Polar Bears are now two-time defending Beantown cham-pions and have won six straight matches at the tournament since 2010.

But success at this year’s tourna-ment was not a given, especially since the squad graduated six se-niors last spring.

Coach MaryBeth Mathews said she was impressed by the way this year’s seniors helped prepare the team for the upcoming season.

According to Mathews, captains Kerry Townsend ’13 and Helen White ’13 have been leaders on the backline and keep their teammates focused during matches.

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First year Maggie Godley scored the game-winning goal of the Wes-leyan match 30 minutes into the game. Godley managed to tap in a cross from the right wing, fed to her by captain and mid5 elder Molly Popolizio ’14.

9 e Polar Bears’ defense fended o7 Cardinal attacks for the remainder of the game, maintaining the one-goal di7 erence and securing the win.

In the goal, Louise Johnson ’14 stopped two 5 rst-half shots, and 5 rst year Bridget McCarthy 5 nished strong with 5 ve saves in the second half.

9 e 2-0-0 record is the best start for Bowdoin since 2007. All of this has happened under the direction of a new head coach, Brianne Weaver, formerly the women’s soccer coach at St. Mary’s of Maryland.

In their fi rst tournament, the women’s rugby team amassed

86 total o! ensive points, limiting three di! erent opponents to zero

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After fi rst week, Volleyball undefeated at 5-0

With a 4-0 sweep of the Endicott Invi-tational last weekend and a victory over the University of New England (UNE)at home on Tuesday, the volleyball team shows no signs of slowing down.

In the weekend’s 5 nal match, Bowdoin defeated the UMass Boston Beacons 3-1, avenging the team’s loss last year in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

In the wake of this string of victories, the team will enter conference play with an undefeated 5-0 record, and ranked 25th nationally in D-III by the Ameri-

can Volleyball Coaches Association.6 e action began last Friday against

Gallaudet University with a 3-1 Polar Bear victory. Bowdoin picked up its 5 rst set of the season 25-17, before faltering in the second and losing 21-25. 6 e team rebounded quickly and took a pair of sets 25-20 and 25-15 to seal the 5 rst win of the year.

Christy Jewett ’16 had an impressive collegiate debut against Gallaudet, rack-ing up 12 kills, while captain Melissa Haskell ’13 notched 12 kills and 16 digs. Setter Sophia Cornew ’14 5 nished with 33 assists.

Later that evening, the team trounced Plymouth State 3-0. 6 ough the Pan-thers put up a valiant e7 ort in the 5 rst set, only falling to Bowdoin 25-22, the Polar Bears upped the pressure in the next two sets, overwhelming their op-ponents 25-18 and 25-8 for the win.

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second set, they won the 5 nal two with comfortable margins, with 5 nal set scores of 25-21, 21-25, 25-14, and 25-15.

Against Endicott, libero Taylor Vail ’14 led the team defensively with 25 digs, while Haskell achieved a tremendous 18 kills o7 ensively. Jewett continued her impressive 5 rst weekend with 10 kills.

6 e second match on Saturday pit-ted the Polar Bears against the UMass Boston Beacons. A8 er four hard-fought sets, Bowdoin bested UMass 3-1 with set scores of 25-15, 20-25, 25-16, and 25-19.

Hilary Cederna ’13 had a particularly noteworthy game. 6 e senior racked up 18 kills and 18 digs, with just three er-rors in the entire match. Cornew had 45 assists during the match, fueling the team’s o7 ensive e7 ort. Her impressive performance over the course of the tournament earned Cornew a spot as the NESCAC Volleyball Player of the Week.

Cornew expressed her happiness at the team’s victory.

“I was thrilled when we beat UMass Amherst. We had been waiting nine months for this game and it’s really nice to 5 nally get some revenge for NCAAs,” she said. “It was a tough match, they are a great team, but it came down to the fact that we wanted it more and fought harder.”

At home last Tuesday, the team eas-ily beat U.N.E. 3-0, with match scores of 25-19, 25-13, 25-21.

Leading the team’s o7 ensively in the match against U.N.E. were both right-side hitter Ellie Brennan ’14 and Jewett, who each made eight kills.

6 e team begins NESCAC play with a pair of matches this weekend at home in Morrell Gym starting with a face-o7 against Amherst at 8 p.m. tonight.

JAY PRIYADARSHAN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE: The Polar Bears did not drop a round in their match against the University of New England on Wednesday and remain undefeated so far this season.

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Ex-investment banker Tim Ryan brings unique skills to leading the athletics department

When Je5 Ward stepped down this summer a6 er 14 years as director of athletics, it fell to Tim Ryan ’98 to as-sume the position of interim athletics director.

A talented baseball and foot-ball player who went to Wells High School in Maine, Ryan says he chose Bowdoin because it was “the best academic school that [he] could get into and continue to play one or both sports.”

He was a linebacker on the football team for four years at the College. In his senior year he was a defensive captain and a member of Residential Life. He also sat on one of the initial committees that shaped the current College House system.

Ryan says that in his junior and se-nior year, he thought about athletics as a possible career choice, but even-tually decided it wasn’t the right time in his life. His father had served as a high school athletic director for 30 years while Ryan was growing up, and Ryan says he expected he would 7 nd his way back into the world of sports eventually.

A6 er graduating from Bowdoin with a double major in government and economics, Ryan started working as an investment banker and 7 nancial consultant in New York City. But af-ter a year and a half in the concrete jungle, Ryan began to realize he didn’t want to live in New York for the rest of his life.

In the 7 rst of many job changes Ryan moved to Boston, and began working for a bank that backed tech-nology startups.

But a6 er 7 ve years in Boston, Ryan again began itching for something new, and turned back to the world of college sports.

Head Coach David Caputi was not at Bowdoin when Ryan played, but knew of him through mutual as-sociates in the New England football community.

In an almost poetic coincidence, Caputi was looking to hire a new as-sistant coach at the same time that Ryan was looking for a career shi6 . Toward the end of his stay in Boston, Ryan had been o8 ciating high school football games in his spare time.

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“It was in the summer, and kind of late in the hiring process when some-one said ‘Oh, what are you looking for?’ and I said ‘What I’m really look-ing for is a Bowdoin alum who has been out in the working world for a few years and wants a career change—someone who could come in, be a smart guy, a quick study, and be pas-sionate about Bowdoin football.’ And [Ryan] was the guy—it was like from my lips to God’s ears,” Caputi said.

Caputi said he was immediately impressed by Ryan’s ability to pick up new skills on the 9 y. He was also hap-py to acquire a coach with experience in the 7 nancial sector. In addition to his knowledge of the game, Ryan’s ability to organize, manage budgets and balance spreadsheets was a valu-able asset to the team.

“It was a great learning experience

in terms of the mechanics of coaching and what goes into it being a college coach, it was also a great experience in being able to work closely with stu-dent athletes,” Ryan said.

“: at was a lot of the reason why I wanted to get into coaching—it wasn’t necessarily about becoming a Divi-sion I football coach somewhere—it was about being able to work with student athletes and have a much di5 erent experience than I was hav-ing professionally prior to coming to Bowdoin.”

Just three years a6 er Ryan began coaching football, a new position was created in the athletics department almost tailor-7 t to Ryan’s skillset. As the associate director of athletics for operations, Ryan oversaw both the future budget projections and day-

ATHLETE OF THE WEEKMelissa Haskell ’13

BY RACHEL GLADSTONESTAFF WRITER

Senior volleyball Captain Me-lissa Haskell had a groundbreaking start to her 7 nal season at the Endi-cott Invitational this weekend. She le6 the tournament with a total of 30 kills, 14 aces and 32 digs, while helping her team establish their un-defeated record.

Coach Karen Corey attributes Haskell’s success this weekend to her savvy style of play.

“She has a really great vision of the court—her style of play chal-lenges her teammates to look for the other types of shots on the court,” she said.

Haskell spoke to the strength of the team’s veteran members, say-ing that she always feels con7 dent that she will get good sets and that whomever the ball is coming to has a great chance of getting it back.

Corey also cites Haskell’s per-sonality as a major factor in her triumphs on the court.

“Melissa doesn’t get rattled. She has great composure—she provides a lot of stability for the girls on the team,” Corey said.

Haskell has been a starter on the volleyball team since her 7 rst year at the College. According to Co-rey, even as a 7 rst year she had a very strong internal drive; she was always challenging herself to im-prove her skills.

Haskell’s junior year was the turning point in her volleyball ca-reer. Corey recalls Haskell coming into her junior year much stronger and “attacking the ball with a lot more speed.”

Haskell agreed that she became considerably more competitive on the court in her junior year. : e preceding summer, she had par-ticipated in a number of doubles games against a variety of oppo-nents with di5 erent skill sets. As a result, she said, predicting play was impossible.

“I never wanted to underestimate

them because I didn’t know what I was getting—it made me 7 ght a lot more for every point, whether I was up or down,” she added.

Corey describes Haskell’s con-stant engagement during the team’s practices.

“Every time she touches the ball she’s looking for quality contact,” said Corey.

Haskell echoes this sentiment, explaining that focusing on 7 rst contact, serving and receiving, is her main goal during practices and games.

“She leads by example. : at is really her forté,” said Corey.

A Physics major, Haskell is ex-tremely analytical and says this quirk occasionally causes her to 7 xate on rotations and people’s po-sitions, making it harder to go with the 9 ow. However, she says she tries not to worry about the little things and instead focus on the big picture.

Despite their early successes, Haskell agrees that she and the rest of the team will need to continue to improve their game in order to ac-complish the ambitious goals they have set for the season.

“Coach Corey would never let us get complacent. : is is just the beginning,” she said.

“Haskell will absolutely continue with the success she’s had,” said Co-rey. “I could even see her stepping it up a little more.”

Corey noted how much this sea-son means to the senior, and said she believes Haskell is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the Po-lar Bears walk away with wins.

: e 7 nality of this season has yet to set in for Haskell.

“I’ll be playing doubles for as long as I want. I may not have the same vertical when I’m 40, but I know I’ll always be playing,” she said.

! e sports editor chooses the Ath-lete of the Week based on exemplary performance.

“Melissa doesn’t get rattled. She has great

composure—she provides a lot of stability for the girls

on the team.”

KAREN COREY HEAD COACH OF WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALLPREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

PREETI KINHA, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

SET UP FOR SUCCESS: Melissa Haskell ‘13 had 30 kills, 14 aces and 32 digs in the fi rst tournament of her senior year. She says she hit her personal stride in her junior year and has not looked back.

COURTESY OF BOWDOIN COMMUNICATIONS

MAN ON THE MOVE: Tim Ryan ’98, above, went from College linebacker to interim director of athletics in a little more than a decade.

“That was a lot of the reason why I wanted to get into coaching— it

wasn’t necessarily about becoming a Division I football coach some-

where— it was about being able to work with student athletes and have

a much di! erent experience than I was having professionally prior to

coming to Bowdoin.”

TIM RYANINTERIM DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

to-day details of the College’s athletics program.

“: at position was a great blend of being around athletics and student athletes and also being involved in a lot of the operational and 7 nancial aspects of the department,” Ryan said. “It was a marriage of two things I was really interested in.”

Ryan, in his new position, was heavily involved in the creation of the Buck Center, the oversight of the athletics department’s budget, and the operation of the equipment and train-ing rooms.

As a brand new athletics adminis-trator with relatively little experience in the 7 eld, Ryan found an invaluable mentor in Ward.

“I feel like at times I spent more time with Je5 than I did with my own wife,” Ryan joked.

When Ward announced his de-parture from Bowdoin last summer, Ryan agreed to become the interim athletics director at the College’s re-quest.

Head coach of women’s 7 eld hock-ey, Nicky Pearson has known Ryan since his days as a student.

“When it was announced [that Ryan would become the interim di-rector] I think as a department we really appreciated him stepping into that position,” Pearson said.

“: ere’ve been no surprises,” Pear-son said. “Everything that he did in his role as associate director, he’s just translated those skills over to being the interim athletic director. He’s still hard working, very helpful, and very organized.”

Caputi echoed that sentiment, say-ing that although the department was sad to see Ward go a6 er so many years, everyone was reassured by the College’s choice of Ryan.

Ryan’s future in the department rests in the hands of the committee that will convene this fall to choose Ward’s permanent successor.

Ryan said that though he is willing to become the College’s permanent athletics director, he would also love to continue working in his previous position should the school choose another an outside hire to replace him. : e College has yet to announce when that search will begin or for how long Ryan will serve as the in-terim director.

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Field hockey kicks o! 2-0 on rookie and veteran e! orts

The field hockey team easily handled NESCAC rival Wesleyan 3-1 in Saturday’s season opener.

Katie Riley ’14 and Brooke Phin-ney ’13 each capitalized on first-half corner opportunities to push the Polar Bears to a 2-0 lead.

Bowdoin controlled the major-ity of possession, but struggled to defend the midfield at times and allowed Wesleyan several chances to attack on breakaways.

In the last minutes of the first half, Wesleyan took advantage of one breakaway possession when Cardinal senior Taryn Murray re-bounded a deflected corner to put Wesleyan on the board.

The Polar Bears clamped down Wesleyan’s offense in the second half, which Head Coach Nicky Pearson attributes to her team’s ability to value its possessions and execute a balanced attack.

Rookie forward Rachel Kennedy ’16 scored the security goal from yet another scuffle on a corner at 18:37 in the second half.

The Cardinals recorded 12 saves over the course of the game, and Pearson noted that “their goal-keeper and circle defense created challenges for us.”

In order to break this staunch defensive front, the Polar Bears took advantage of corners to load up the goal area with more players, creating the imbalances needed to pressure Wesleyan’s defense.

In Tuesday’s National Field Hockey Coaches Association first poll of the regular season, Bowdoin moved from second to fifth place. At the time of the poll Bowdoin was 1-0, while all the other teams in the top 10 had played at least two games.

In a non-conference match on Wednesday the Polar Bears defeat-ed Husson University 4-0. Seven minutes into the first period, Ken-nedy scored the first of two goals, bringing her season total to three scores in the past two games.

Captain Cathleen Smith ’13,

SPORTS ROUNDUPscored the last two goals of the game, also bringing her season to-tal to three goals.

In a fashion reminiscent of last year’s team, the Polar Bears posted 32 shots (17 on goal), while lim-iting Husson to zero shots in the first half and only three in the second, one of which was saved by Kayla Lessard ’13.

Bowdoin will face Wellesley College this Saturday at 1 p.m at home.

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The sailing team raced in four regattas this past weekend—Yale University, Maine Maritime Acad-emy, M.I.T., and Harvard Universi-ty—yielding varied results in both the co-ed and women’s races.

According to Head Coach Frank Pizzo, the opening weekend was a “solid start” to the season.

On Penobscot Bay at Maine Maritime, the women’s team had a successful weekend sailing in both the A and B divisions; with combined division scores the team placed sixth out of 17 teams over-all.

Lizzy Hamilton ’15 and Isa-bel Low ’13 sailed in the B divi-sion and, according to Pizzo, had a sound regatta, displaying great consistency. In the A division, Kay-lee Schwitzer ’15 and Julia Ruse ’16 sailed as a first-time pair, demon-strating both a solid performance and potential for future regattas.

The top co-ed team traveled to Yale University in New Haven, CT and sailed in the intersectional re-gatta alongside some of the best teams from across the country. After sailing eight races, the Polar Bears placed 13th out of 17 teams.

The windy conditions that pre-vailed throughout New England proved difficult for the tourna-ments, and served to highlight the team’s overall necessity to continue improving on their boat handling skills.

Pizzo remarked that although the team had yet to practice in such extreme conditions, this was an experience important for future regattas.

The women’s team placed 10th out of the 15 teams at the Toni Deutsch Trophy regatta hosted at MIT. At the FJ Invitational at Har-vard, teams comprised primarily of first years set sail, and finished second and fifth out of nine teams.

Currently, Pizzo is less con-cerned with results at these com-petitive regattas as long as the team continuously strives for self-improvement. Specifically, Pizzo is looking for his players to build stronger skill sets, improve boat handling and starts.

This upcoming weekend, the team will compete at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth College, the Hatch Brown Trophy at MIT and Boston University, the Lake Champlain Open at the University of Vermont, the Boston Harbor Invitational at Boston College and the Middlebury Cup at Middle-bury College.

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Tennis teams both compete well at their fi rst invitationals

Following deep runs into the NCAA tournament last spring, both the men’s and women’s ten-nis teams hit the courts this past weekend for the first tournaments of the season.

The men’s team was among sev-en schools competing in the Stony Brook Invitational Tournament. Head Coach Connor Smith said the tournament was a rare oppor-tunity to play against teams out-side the NESCAC, as most of their season games will be played within the conference.

Sophomores Doug Caplan and Kyle Wolstencroft both had standout performances, sweeping doubles in Flight A, the top of two doubles levels. In Flight A singles, Caplan made it to the semifinals. Wolstencroft won his flight in singles and finished the weekend undefeated.

“I think we did better at the tournament this year and I think the competition of this year’s tour-nament was stronger compared

to last year’s,” said Smith. “We’re headed in the right direction.”

In two weeks, the men’s ten-nis team will set off for their next tournament, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Invitational at Williams College.

The women’s team began their season in Williamstown at the Morehouse Invitational, compet-ing against Skidmore, Vassar, and NESCAC rivals Williams and Mid-dlebury. The tournament was es-sentially an exhibition match and because of that, no overall winner was announced.

“It was a really good chance to get an idea of where people are at and where they can improve,” said Emma Chow ’15.

The women’s next tournament is at the University of Pennsylvania September 21. The team sees it as an opportunity to train for play in 2013, as Bowdoin will not encoun-ter Division I teams in competitive matches until late in the season.

“The fall is all about improving for the spring,” Chow said.

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Although the men’s soccer team opened their season to a dissapointing 0-2 loss to Wesleyan last Saturday, the Polar Bears turned things around on Monday, shutting out the University of Southern Maine in a 8-0 victory.

In Saturday’s game Bowdoin was un-able to rally a5 er Wesleyan scored two 6 rst-half goals.

“We were disappointed, but we know Wesleyan is one of the best teams in the league, and they were starting a lot of seniors,” Head Coach Fran O’Leary said.

According to O’Leary, the team took the loss well despite it being their 6 rst game.

“7 e team reacted well—they’re a good team with good leadership,” he said.

Monday’s game was an important step toward helping the team 6 nd its groove again a5 er a lackluster start. In the match against USM, Bowdoin scored eight goals, the highest single-game total since 2006. 7 is strong showing might just energize the team as the season moves forward.

“We just hope to get better with ev-ery game. We learned valuable lessons from our 6 rst defeat, but we don’t want to get too excited over just one loss.” O’Leary said. “We plan to build on [Monday’s] performance,”

7 e team will play its next game at home against the University of Maine–Farmington on Saturday, September 15 at noon.

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5 e debate about anthropogenic climate change can no longer focus on whether or not it is happening; this has been settled for some time now.

As journalist and environmental-ist Bill McKibben wrote in his July 19 Rolling Stone article, the U.S. “broke or tied 3,215 high-tempera-ture records” in June.

Droughts unlike anything expe-rienced since the Dust Bowl, rag-ing wildfires, severe flooding and hurricanes: this is the future we now look forward to. As NASA climate scientist James Hansen puts it, we are essentially loading the dice with regard to the climate, drastically increasing the probabil-ity of severe weather.

Yet, with the upcoming presiden-tial election looming, no politician seems to want to stir up environ-mental issues. Mitt Romney has made it clear he has no plans to dis-rupt the status quo; and President Obama advanced an all-of-the-above energy plan well before his recent convention speech, but has been relatively silent on environ-mental issues since the start of his campaign.

Are we supposed to accept his change of heart as the voice of rea-son, the experienced Washington pragmatist? 5 e answer is “yes” only if we want climate disaster.

America needs to get on board with the kind of big, sometimes dif-6 cult changes that countries like Germany have begun to make.

And so the question now is how can individuals co vntribute to a solution? I’m not talking about spe-ci6 c technologies or policies, but

merely asking how we can get to the point where we care enough to take action?

Part of the problem evokes a classic predicament of the human in a globalized world: we feel in-significant in the grand scheme of things. How can one person’s ac-tions, we wonder, make a differ-ence?

5 e solutions to climate change won’t come as easily as casting a ballot. We can vote for the lesser of two evils, but until we demand that more atten-tion be devoted to the issue in Wash-ington, we are consenting to inaction.

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We can vote for the lesser of two evils, but until we demand

more attention be devoted to the issue in Washington, we are

consenting to inaction.

If Obama doesn’t feel pressure from voters to address environ-mental issues like fracking, tar sands or Artic drilling now, I can assure you he won’t as election day draws closer—especially when fos-sil fuel interest groups donate mil-lions to his campaign.

The first step, and a fundamen-tal one at that, is changing the way we frame the issue. To do this, more and more sociologists have focused on understanding how we conceive of climate change; much has been said, for example, about our inability to imagine problems that are distant in time and space.

We don’t like to imagine a world radically different from our cur-rent one, let alone one different and worse. People often cite the lack of specifics as another barrier.

But there are many reasons why, as Anthony Leisorowitz, direc-tor of the Yale Project on Climate

Change Communication, put it in a New York Times article: “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our under-lying psychology.”

A recent, yet unfortunately low-profile paper in Nature titled “Climate Change and Moral Judge-ment” attempted to analyze six major moral impediments to act-ing on climate change and offered potential solutions. These ideas were based in studies and experi-ments.

Let’s analyze these suggestions for overcoming the “abstract-ness and cognitive complexity” of climate change. The facts alone have not done enough to produce change on the scale that the prob-lem demands. They propose a more comprehensive effort to tap existing moral values.

Appealing to the sanctity of the earth has been a particularly strong argument among religious people who might otherwise be predisposed to downplay anthro-pogenic climate change.

Or, as the aforementioned ar-ticle suggests, we can erase the ab-straction of “future generations” in favor of our own sons and daugh-ters.

Much more can be said about how to frame climate change, but if we can discern one theme, it is the need for unification.

Oil magnates like the Koch broth-ers, as McKibben suggests, provide easy enemies, but they are not nec-essarily the best ones. We should ac-knowledge that the burning of fossil fuels brought great progress, but we must also accept responsibility for the damage.

With this, we can start the real crusade—a crusade against our for-mer ways. And while it may sound cliché, we must concentrate the e7 ort around the family and the communi-ty, our children and our neighbors.

LYDIA ZHANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

! e editorial represents the majority view of the Bowdoin Orient’s editorial board, which is comprised of Claire Aasen, Erica Berry, Dylan Hammer, Linda Kinstler, Zohran Mamdani and Eliza Novick-Smith.

Next fall will mark the start of a two-year trial program that will re-imagine 6 rst-year-College House a8 liation. Each house will be a8 liated with four or 6 ve 9 oors from di7 erent bricks. Howell will remain a chem-free College House and will be a8 liated with 9 oating chem-free 9 oors.

5 e working proposal re9 ects input from all corners of the Bowdoin commu-nity; that it was so thoughtfully shaped by those who will experience it inspires con6 dence, and its recommendations have the potential to signi6 cantly improve campus culture. 5 e plan seeks to bridge what has become a palpable social divide between students who choose to live chem-free and those who do not, an unfor-tunate reality of student life that deserves thoughtful redress.

In the past, chem-free housing options have accommodated twice as many international students, students of color and students from Maine than non-chem-free dorms. So much of our experience at the College is shaped by who we live with, and the new model would increase diversity and enrich the 6 rst year experience.

But spreading chem-free 9 oors throughout the 6 rst year bricks presents a seri-ous logistical challenge to the 13-year-old College House system. Floating 9 oor a8 liation is the 6 rst step toward alleviating the alienation felt by some chem-free students, but it will also fundamentally change the relationship between 6 rst years and the College Houses.

Some things will inevitably be lost. It will be di8 cult to replicate the experience of the Inter-House Olympics or the excitement of heading over early to campus-wides with new friends from your dorm. 5 at your friends upstairs will not know the same cast of older students because they are a8 liated with a di7 erent house will eliminate some common ground in the awkward early weeks of freshman year. But if the new system works, it will give students more opportunities to con-nect with classmates who they may not otherwise meet in their 6 rst year.

5 e physical reorganization will have to be accompanied by a real, campus-wide e7 ort to incorporate the cultural changes recommended in the new policy. “Chem-free” has assumed connotations far broader than abstinence from sub-stance use; changing the nomenclature will be no small task, and will require a concerted e7 ort from students and sta7 . 5 e task of coordinating chem-free events should be more equally shared between the houses. Howell will continue to be the designated chem-free College House, but the other houses should make good on their promise to host chem-free events. If creating a more inclusive and cohesive social life at Bowdoin is the goal of this project, all students should share and interact in all spaces.

5 e process of re-evaluating the chem-free system began last year, and has since driven an important debate that is sure to continue as the plan is implemented in the next two years. 5 e broad range of opinions expressed on the subject re9 ect the diversity of student experiences on this campus—this diversity enriches Bow-doin even as it makes 6 nding a solution to this issue all the more elusive.

Bowdoin’s plan to change chem-free living will dramatically alter College House a! liation, but we should support its e" orts to diversify the fi rst-year experience.

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First years should discover legitimacy of stereotypes for themselves

Op-ed columns are usually just exercises in narcissism. So let’s cut through the bullshit. Today’s column is all about me.

I’m a Bowdoin student and I’m im-portant. I do things at Bowdoin and I’ll be doing things in the world one day.

Or at least that’s what I think my tour guide said. It’s hard to hear when they’re walking backwards. 5 e hope that they’ll trip is too distracting. What they say must be true though—all the facts on tours are true. Just like how all the facts at political conventions are true. Just like Coles Tower is de6 nitely the tallest building in Maine.

Let’s get back to me, though, and how I’m important. 5 at’s why Bow-doin wanted me. It couldn’t live with-out me. My essays were 7 awless. I demonstrated unprecedented poten-tial for personal growth, expressed a passion for community service, made avant-garde 6 nger paintings, and dominated my high school athletic conference.

Did you notice our Forbes ranking went up this year? I assure you, it’s not a coincidence.

If I were an institution, my median SAT scores would be perfect. My let-ters of recommendation—biblical. Just as if the apostles had written them.

5 ere’s just one thing I can’t seem to 6 gure out, however. Why did they let these other people in? 5 ey’re cer-tainly not as attractive as I’d hoped. Athletically speaking, they’re a disap-pointment as well. Not even a winter Olympian in residence. Not only that, but the other students don’t seem that interested in me. I went to a small lib-

After Troy Davis, students should continue fi ght against death penalty

As a fresh arrival to Bowdoin a year ago, I was struck by the passion exhibited for the case of Troy Davis, a man convicted of killing a police of-6 cer in Savannah, Ga. Davis was held on death row for 15 years and main-tained his innocence throughout. Countless people across this country and around the world protested on his behalf, but all of these voices did not stop his execution, which went ahead on September 21, 2011.

5 e activism I saw at Bowdoin on behalf of Troy Davis was a welcoming sight indeed. It would be even more welcoming to see such energy de-voted to the impending execution of every death row inmate, whether or not his or her innocence is called into question. Of course, this requires us to stand up for men and women who have perhaps committed unspeakable acts—many of whom, we are told, “deserve” to die.

But there is no such thing as “de-serving” death. We cannot claim to be civilized if crimes are responded to in this manner. Taking a life for a life is simply the law of the jungle. It

is the worst possible form of revenge, designed not to ensure the protec-tion of society, but rather, to satisfy a primeval need to take an eye for an eye. When the government steps in to commit what it considers a legal killing, it becomes no better than the murderer whose life it will take.

organizaion comments, “states [with] death penalty laws do not have low-er crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws.” 5 e United States has a homicide rate that is at least 6 ve times greater than that of any Western European country, all of which lack the death penalty.

In any case, a majority of homi-cides are committed without premed-itation, according to 6 gures from the Census Bureau.

5 ese crimes are committed in mo-ments when the mind loses control. What these statistics don’t reveal are cases involving the many other Troy Davises of this country—those who are convicted of murders that they didn’t commit. 5 e fact that there is a risk, no matter how small, that the state could kill an innocent person should already be a risk too great.

Justice is anything but infallible: a 1987 study in the Stanford Law Re-view details 350 cases “in which de-fendants convicted of capital crimes...in many cases sentenced to death, [were later] found to be innocent.” Procedures to protect against arbi-trary sentencing and discrimination are lacking, to say the least.

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The United States has a homicide rate that is at least fi ve times

greater than that of any Western European country, all of which

lack the death penalty.

rights advocacy group, commented in a 2007 report that capital punishment is discriminatory, especially toward minorities and the poor. Sentencing is anything but consistent, according to defense attorney Diana Holt in a March issue of 5 e Atlantic. Whether the accused gets death depends “on

geography, the elected o8 cial with the power to seek [the death pen-alty], the color of [the accused’s] skin, gender, the color of the victim’s skin, the victim’s gender, wealth of any of those, poverty of the defendant, men-tal health of any of those, and judges with agenda.” Surprisingly, even these factors aren’t enough to dissuade the many supporters of this primitive and barbaric form of retribution.

Cold economic truths are far hard-er to refute.

Across the United States, many state

governments have found that the cost of keeping the death penalty is pro-hibitively high. A study sponsored by Kansas calculated the death penalty to cost 70 percent more than that of a comparable case ending with a jail sen-tence. Five executions have occurred in Maryland since 1978, each costing the state roughly 40 million dollars. In Cal-ifornia, a report by U.S. Ninth Circuit Judge Arthur Alarcon and Professor Paula Mitchell of Loyola Law School found that “California has spent more than four billion dollars on capital pun-ishment since 1978.” Death row costs the state nearly 185 million dollars ev-ery year, yet the state has been “forced” to cut back on other essential services because it chooses to keep in place this useless form of punishment. Even Fox News had to admit: “the cost of killing killers is killing us”. 5 is money could be diverted to support programs that actually bene6 t society; it is instead be-ing wasted on a form of punishment that has little to show for itself.

Opposition to the death penalty is neither a sign of weakness nor of le-nience to crime. It shows instead that one will not devalue human life and dignity; that you, unlike the murder-er, know better than to do that.

fabricates onscreen.When you’re o9 trying to make

these new friends to journey to Mor-dor with, it’s easy to hear the stereo-types 7 oating around Bowdoin and let them in7 uence your decisions. 5 e students and the administration have their favorites. You’ll also hear gossipy one and two-word charac-ter assessments of people told with utmost conviction, and think, “Hey, that sounds plausible.” Amidst all these voices, you can easily start to think you have this whole place already 6 gured out.

While there are cer-tainly grains of truth in Bowdoin stereotypes about athletes, NARPS, Crack House, College Houses, the Peucinian Society, and chem-free living, most of these are blown out of pro-portion. Fictions that spread arise from peo-ple rubbing the gen-eralization genie too frequently.

5 e best approach is to 6 nd out for yourself.

Become an empiri-cist. Because when you discover the football player on your floor knows the songs to Grease by heart, or the nerdy kid in your math class is the sickest DJ at the school, the Bow-doin life and friendships you’ll develop suddenly feel a lot more exciting and full of untold possibilities and rewards.

While there are certainly grains of truth in Bowdoin stereotypes

about athletes, NARPS, Crack House, College Houses, the

Peucinian Society, and chem-free living, most of these are

blown out of proportion.

eral arts school to be a big 6 sh in a tiny pond. Where are the trumpets? What’s going on here? What about the Bow-doin “hello”? My college guidebook said it was real. Why isn’t everyone saying hi to me? Why aren’t I friends with everyone yet?

Maybe I’m old and jaded and don’t have the energy to keep up anymore, but the best advice I could give any 6 rst year is, “Just relax!” You recently spent the better part of a year branding and selling yourself. Not only is that stress-ful, but it’s a little reality-warping.

Life isn’t and never will be perfect, no matter how glossy the new web-site looks.

You have a lot to o9 er Bowdoin. No one’s arguing that. But so do the people around you.

No one is either as awesome as their application makes them out to be or as generic as their button-downs and summer dresses suggest.

Making friends takes time. No number of icebreakers designed by ResLife can synthesize that. It takes 6 nding common interests, common experiences, or—as I suspect is the case in organic chemistry classes—common su9 ering, to forge the epic college friendships that Hollywood YOUNGSHIM HWANG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Capital punishment hurts society, as it allows for a “quick 6 x” that does not deal with the root of the problem, but instead leaves us all with the illu-sion that because so-called “justice” was done, no further discussion is needed. Many who argue for the death penalty’s preservation claim it is a useful deterrent against crime, in spite of evidence proving that this is far from the case.

In a forum on the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) website, the

The fact that there is a risk, no matter how small, that the state

could kill an innocent person should already be a risk too great.

SATURDAY

FILM“Jiro Dreams of Sushi” Bowdoin Film Society will screen a ! lm about sushi chef Jiro Ono and his world-class restaurant in Tokyo.Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

PERFORMANCELos Gaiteros de San Jacinto The group will perform traditional Colombian music in a celebration of community. Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

FILM“The Avengers” Student Activities will screen the action-packed 2012 ! lm about super heroes uniting to save the Earth. Main Quad. 9 p.m.

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RECEPTIONFriends of Bowdoin Fall Co! eeThe Association of Bowdoin Friends invites members of the community to announce upcoming events and lectures. Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union. 10 a.m.

LECTURE“Green Dictators: Contentious Politics and Forest Certifi cation in Russia” Professor of Government Laura Henry will present her latest research on Russian evironmental resources. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. Noon.

17MONDAY

LECTURE“The Archaeology of El Niño”University of Maine Professor Daniel Sandweiss will discuss climate changes and cultural development in Peru. Lovejoy Hall, Colby College. 4:30 p.m.

POWER PIPES: Bellamafia’s Michaela Martin ’14 belts the lyrics to “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence and th

16SUNDAY

HOLIDAY Rosh HashanahBowdoin Hillel will host a dinner and religious service to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Daggett Lounge. 6:30 p.m.

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FUNDRAISERBlood DriveAmerican Red Cross will host the ! rst blood drive of the year.Morrell Lounge, Smith Union. 3 p.m.

FILM“Home Is Where You Find It” Bowdoin Artist Activists will present the ! lm about a Mozambique teen’s struggle with AIDS.Room 315, Searles Science Building. 8 p.m.

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