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BO BLECKEL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

COMPILED BY JONO GRUBER AND JAMES LITTLE

RACE ON CAMPUS:  PAGES 10 AND 11Several students of color candidly discuss the impact of

race on their experiences at Bowdoin and in Brunswick

COMMANDER IN KAYAK: President Clayton Rose kayaked with nine students and five student instructors at the LeRoy Greason Pool on Wednesday night as part o f the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC)’spool sessions. Shan Nagar ’16 and Caroline Martinez ’16 t aught Rose how to put on gear and get in and out of the kayak, while Connor Phillips ’17 taught R ose paddle strokes. Drew Villeneuve ’16 and

Nik Bergill ’18 were also student instructors for this session.

PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT: Former President Barry Mills’portrait will hang where his prede-cessor Robert Edward’s portrait (right) currently is on the right-side wall of Hubbard Hall’s secondfloor. Making room for Mills’portrait will require a shifting of the existing portraits and furniture in

the room. Photographer Lucia Prosperi and painter Warren Prosperi worked on Mills’portrait, whichwill be unveiled in the Shannon Room on May 17 and hung on May 18.

On the second floor of HubbardHall—what former President BarryMills jokingly refers to as the “DeadPresidents Hall”—13 of the College’spast presidents look down on studentsand passersby from framed portraitson the walls. On May 18, a 14th will

 join them, as Mills’ portrait is hungnext to that of his predecessor, Rob-ert Edwards.

 e only people who have seen theportrait so far are Mills, his wife Kar-en and the two artists who producedit—photographer Lucia Prosperi andpainter Warren Prosperi. It will be un-

 veiled to the public at a reception in theShannon Room on May 17.

Mills’ portrait will depart from sev-

eral traditional features of the College’s

previous presidential portraits. UnlikeBowdoin’s last seven presidents, Mills

is not wearing his presidential robes.ough almost all of the past portraits(except Edwards’) feature no distinctbackground, Mills’ includes a settingof particular importance to him dur-ing his tenure at the College: the lobbyof the Walker Art Building, home tothe Bowdoin College Museum of Art,which he helped renovate and expandfrom 2005 to 2007.

“As president of B owdoin, the trans-formation of the Museum was prettyspecial, and it’s a pretty special space,”Mills said. “ere’s a door in that spacethat looks out over the Quad, and theQuad is probably the most special placeto me on campus. [Having the portraitset] in that spot with a door that opens

a vista onto the Quad says a lot about

how I thought about the C ollege.” e painting is done in the Pros-

peris’ preferred tradition of OpticalNaturalism, which is based on how thehuman visual system perceives light.

Mills chose the Prosperis as the art-ists for his portrait aer receiving a rec-ommendation from a friend who wasfamiliar with the large mural and 20-plus portraits they produced for Mas-sachusetts General Hospital.e Prosperis have painted several

college presidential portraits before—in-cluding Adele Simmons of HampshireCollege, Vartan Gregorian of BrownUniversity and fi ve College of the HolyCross presidents—as well as numerousprivately and publicly commissioned

Mills’ portrait to be unveiled May 17, willhang next to Edwards’ in Hubbard Hall

BY JULIAN ANDREWS

ORIENT STAFF

Rick Ganong ’86 P’17, senior vice presi dent for devel opment andalumni relations, will be leavingBowdoin at the end of the College’sfundraising year at the end of June.Dean of Admissions and Finan-cial Aid Scott Meiklejohn will takeover leadership of that office at therequest of President Clayton Rose,and Whitney Soule, director of ad-missions, will succeed Meiklejohnas dean.

Ganong, who declined to be in-terviewed for this article, is leaving

to pursue “business interests beyondthe College,” according to a May 2email to faculty and staff from Rose.

“I think [the changes] representthat President Rose is thinking re-ally carefully about the staff thathe would like to have in place,” saidSoule. “With Rick Ganong’s decisionto leave, that opened up a chance tolook at the staff who is here and Ithink he’s taking advantage of skillsthat some of the internal people pos-sess and the relationship and com-mitment that they already have toBowdoin.”

Meiklejohn said that though he issad to leave admissions, he sees par-allels between his current job andhis new one.

“I have always thought of these jobs as be ing pr etty si milar and b othoffi ces are doing highly individual work

College shiftsleadership asGanong ’86steps down

This week the Orient sent out its biannual approval ratings survey, which asks students about their

opinions on various individuals, departments and organizations on campus. 518 students responded

to this semester’s edition of the survey, and while many of the subjects received similar scores as

they did last spring and this fall, a few results stood out. The percentage of students who strongly

approve ofBowdoin dropped by 10 percentage points in the last five months, and the percentage

of students who disapprove and strongly disapprove ofResidential Life also increased fairly

dramatically. A slightly smaller percentage of students approve or strongly approve ofPresident

Rose compared to the approval offormer President Mills last spring, and while there was a 10

percent bump in students that strongly approve of the town of Brunswick compared to this fall, it isstill 10 percentage points lower than last spring’s ratings. Also, over two percent of respondents have

no opinion on Bowdoin’s faculty. For a complete list of results, please see full coverage online.

BY MEG ROBBINS

ORIENT STAFF

 Student approval of Bowdoin Collegein spring of 2015 and spring of 2016.

Please see MILLS, page 4

Please see STAFF, page 4

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What was the highlight ofyour year?

COMPILED BY JENNY IBSEN

SECURITY REPORT: APRIL 28 to MAY 4ursday, April 28

• A parent requested a wellness check forher first-year son.

• An offi cer administered first-aid to anemployee with a head injury.

• A student reported a stolen backpackcontaining a laptop. e bag and contentswere recovered and found to have beentaken by mistake.

• At the request of the health center, anoffi cer checked on the wellbeing of a stu-dent at Moore Hall.

• An offi cer assisted a student in emo-tional distress near Harpswell Apartments.

• An offi cer checked on the wellbeing ofan intoxicated student at Coles Tower.

Friday, April 29

• An offi cer checked on the wellbeing ofan intoxicated student at Super Snacks.

• A bathroom door panel was kicked inat Baxter House.

• A student who was not permitted to beon campus was warned not to return aerhe was seen at Reed House.

• A student who fainted at the Ivies event

on the Brunswick Apartments Quad wasescorted to her residence and monitoredthroughout the day.

• A student reported that the same stu-dent, who was previously warned not tobe on campus, was seen on the BrunswickApartments quad.

• Several students at the BrunswickApartments Quad event were warned forurinating in public.

• Two students were in deep concentra-tion on the fourth floor of the HubbardStacks. Investigation determined that thestudents were not engaged in the pre-scribed academic pursuits typically associ-ated with the stacks, primarily because theywere naked. e students were remindedthat the stacks have glass floors and ceil-

ings - literally.• Security offi cers located the previouslyprohibited student at Brunswick Apart-ments.is time he was issued a formal tres-pass warning and ordered to leave campus.

• An offi cer aided an intoxicated studentat Brunswick Apartments.

• A student was cited for public urina-tion on the Brunswick Apartments quad.

• A basement window was vandalized atBrunswick Apartment L.

• Door vandalism was reported atBrunswick Apartment M.

• An intoxicated student vomited over alarge area at orne Dining Hall. e stu-dent will be charged for the housekeeper

call-in and clean-up.• A visiting alumna vomited on a table at

orne Dining Hall.• A wooden chair was smashed to pieces

on the Brunswick Apartments quad.• An offi cer checked on the wellbeing of

an intoxicated student at Jack MaGee’s Pub.• An alcohol-fueled verbal altercation

between two students at Harpswell Apart-ments resulted in heads butting and abloody nose.

Saturday, April 30

• An offi cer checked on the wellbeing ofa student in Moore Hall.

• A portion of a railing broke off  as stu-dents were gathered on the front porch atQuinby House.

• An offi cer conducted a wellness checkfor an intoxicated student at Reed House.

• An offi  cer checked on the wellbeingof an intoxicated student at Farley FieldHouse. e offi cer took the student and afriend to her residence hall.

• An overly exuberant Bowdoin student,who grabbed and ran with a Wesleyan

banner aer the Bowdoin men’s lacrosse victory, was converged upon by a mob ofangry Wesleyan fans and punched in theface. A security offi cer monitoring the gamequickly broke up the scuffl e and pulled thestudent to safety. e Wesleyan fan whocommitted the assault was identified andthe matter remains under investigation byboth institutions. e student’s glasses weresmashed, but he was otherwise uninjured.

• A student at the Ivies concert broke abig toenail completely off . A security of-ficer provided first-aid on site, and laterthe student received treatment at the MidCoast Primary Care & Walk-In Clinic.

• An intoxicated student at the Iviesconcert was escorted to his residence hallfor monitoring.

• A student reported the the

 of a 40-inch plain maple longboard, with neongreen wheels, from the concert at FarleyField House.

• A distraught campus visitor on SouthStreet near Howard Hall was assisted bysecurity offi cers. Arrangements were madewith the visitor’s parent for pick-up.

• Offi cers checked on the wellbeing ofan intoxicated student who stumbled andfell into a ditch near the Schwartz OutdoorLeadership Center.e student was escort-ed to his residence hall.

• An offi cer checked on the wellbeingof an intoxicated student outside Bruns-wick Apartment H. e student was

escorted to his residence hall and moni-tored by roommates.

• Two male students were interceptedwhile streaking on the Brunswick Apart-ments Quad.

• A rowdy “crew” was dispersed atBrunswick Apartment H.

Sunday, May 1

• A student was found in possession ofmarijuana and drug paraphernalia at theCoffi n Street parking lot.

• A security offi cer detained a man whowas picking through the dumpster at PineStreet Apartments. BPD was called to issuea trespass warning. e man was wantedon a warrant and arrested.

• A security offi cer investigating apropped door at the Watson Ice Arenadiscovered that someone had defecatedon a hallway floor Saturday night. e in-

 vestigation identified the nincompoop asa visiting university student. e student’suniversity has been contacted and he willbe charged $200 for the housekeeper call-in and clean-up.

Monday, May 2

• A bicycle stolen from Hyde Hall wasrecovered and returned to the owner.

• A second bicycle that was stolen fromthe area of Hyde Hall was recovered.

• A student pedestrian reported that hewas the victim of racial and homophobicslurs yelled from a passing vehicle on BathRoad at the intersection of Federal Streetat 9:13 p.m.e vehicle was described as alate model, white Ford Escape with Mainechickadee registration plates.

Tuesday, May 3

• Door damage was reported at Bruns-wick Apartment E.

• e YBC yellow bike “Alice” was re-

ported stolen from Hyde Plaza. A securityoffi cer recovered the bike and returned itto the owner.

• A student reported a bike stolen fromthe Hyde Hall bike rack. e bike is de-scribed as dark green with yellow fenders;unknown make.

Wednesday, May 4

• A bedroom smoke alarm in Chamber-lain Hall was caused by a student using aclothes steamer.

• A powder blue Specialized bicycle wasreported stolen from the Chamberlain Hallbike racks. e bike has a wicker basket onthe back.

STUDENT SPEAK 

Q:

“During Ivies I opened myfront door and was asked,‘Is the seance happeninghere?’ It was.”

 Julia Maine ’16

“Rescuing a baby squirrel.The lowlight was letting‘nature take its course.’”

Lee Moriarty ’18

“Finishing my installation inEdwards.”

Rachel Zheng ’16

“Getting stickers on my laptop to

fit in with the cool kids.”

Franklin Taylor ’19

“21 was the worst. Thankgod I’m 22 today.”

Will Doak ’17

Ivies by the numbersTHE WEEKEND ACCORDING TO RANDY NICHOLS

0 Alcohol TransportsBPD Arrests or Citations

4 Streakers Intercepted1 Drug ViolationsDisorderly Conduct

3 Indecent ConductNeighborhood Noise Complaints2Student InjuriesAssaultsTrespass Warnings

5 Thefts 12 Alcohol Violations

22 Warnings for Public Urination

29 Alcohol Wellness Checks

1,240 Student Safe Rides

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JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: Harriet’s Writing Room, the space in the Harriet Beecher Stowe House where Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,”will opento the public on May 9. “One of the amazing things about this room is that a l ot of people converged here—Longfellow was here, Chamberlain was

here, Stowe’s sister Catharine Beecher was here and of course John Andrew Jackson was here. In this space, literature happens,”said Associate Professorof Africana Studies and English Tess Chakkalakal. “This is a place that has inspired historical collaborations.”

STERLING DIXON, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

On May 9, Harriet’s Writing Room,the public space in the recently reno-

 vated Harriet Beecher Stowe House,where “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was writ-ten in the early 1850s, will be open tothe public for the first time as part of acelebration of the house’s designation

to the National Park Service’s Networkto Freedom program. e Network toFreedom program documents locationson the Underground Railroad.is open house event is the culmi-

nation of a long journey for the house,which the College purchased in 2001.For approximately 12 years, the housestood vacant, falling into disrepair, whilethe College searched for a proper use forStowe’s former home. Associate Profes-sor of Africana Studies and English TessChakkalakal, who studies Stowe, has beeninvested in the house since she came tothe College eight years ago. Two years ago,she asked Katie Randall ’16, who is inter-ested in historic preservation, if she wouldwant to do a research project on the houseover the summer.

Randall’s work that summer pro-duced a digital timeline that details thecomplete history of the house, datingback all the way to its construction in1806. Randall described her work thatsummer as something akin to activism,getting people to pay attention to the oldempty house and doing research on theStowe family.

In her research, Randall drew primarilyfrom structure reports completed in 2008and the work of Professor Susanna Ash-ton of Clemson University. Ashton is writ-ing a biography on John Andrew Jackson,the former slave Stowe hid in her homeone night while he was fleeing to Canadaaer the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 put hisfreedom in jeopardy.

is fall, Randall revisited the houseand completed an application to the Na-tional Park Service’s Network to Free-dom. In order for the house to becomepart of the Network, Randall submitteda 37-page application that proved thehouse served as a part of the Under-ground Railroad and recounted thehouse’s history since then.

  “In this case, we have Harriet talkingabout it in a letter and John Andrew Jack-son referring to it in his autobiography.e two corroborate each other,” Randallsaid. “We have definitive evidence thatthis house was, for one night, a stop on theUnderground Railroad and that Harriet

Beecher Stowe helped someone there.”e house is now one of three places

in Maine that are part of the Network toFreedom.e Abyssinian Church in Port-land and the Heuston Burying Ground inBrunswick are the other two sites.

“e long term goal is to connect thePortland Network to Freedom with theBoston Network to Freedom to create aNew England Freedom Trail and to make

Bowdoin College part of the FreedomTrail,” Chakkalakal said.“e other really important thing

about getting this house on the Networkis that it links ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ withHarriet Beecher Stowe not only writinga novel, a work of fiction, but also break-ing the law, practicing what she preaches,”Chakkalakal said. “at’s an importantlink because it kind of changes the storyof ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ It makes the worknot only a work of fiction, but also some-thing that she’s doing in her everyday lifein Brunswick.”

Aer Randall completed the timelinein 2014, the Stowe Committee, whichwas assembled by former President BarryMills and former Dean of Academic Af-fairs Cristle Collins Judd, managed tosecure the necessary funds to renovatethe house. e committee, which in-cluded members of the administration,representatives from the Bowdoin Col-lege Museum of Art, representatives fromHawthorne-Longfellow Library and As-sistant Professor of Art History DanaByrd as well as Chakkalakal, still had twoproblems to solve—what the renovationsshould entail and how the house shouldmemorialize Stowe and her work.

  In the 165 years since Stowe livedthere, the house had been renovatedmany times, from aesthetic renovationsin 1855 to more major changes whenthe building was turned into an inn inthe latter half of the 20th century. By thetime the College bought it, the only simi-

larities between the house and the houseStowe had lived in were the physical loca-tion and the layout of the rooms.e committee determined that the

most cost eff ective and historically accu-rate way to renovate the home would beto restore it to its 1855 appearance. Sincethere is no comprehensive description ofwhat the house looked like then, someaspects of the house, like the color of theshutters, are more representations of whatwas popular at the time than exact replicasof Stowe’s home. ese renovations werecompleted in 2015.

As far as remembering Stowe’s life andwork there, the committee had to take a

less conventional approach. A traditionalmuseum, full of objects from the past,was not an option since so little of whathad once belonged to Stowe remainedin the house. e committee decided tocreate Harriet’s Writing Room, whichRandall thinks of as “a space where peoplecan think about what Harriet did in thathouse.”e room, which is accessible off   the

porch, features a large wooden table withbenches, a stand-up writing desk, an an-tique chair and a gorgeous hearth. Pic-tures of Stowe and information about herlife and the house adorn the walls.

“People can be in this house, whereshe wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ andthink about the written word, what thatbook did, what words they might have,what issues they might care about,”Randall said. “ey can be inspired byher story and the thing that she did inthat house to maybe write somethingof their own.”

Chakkalakal sees the room as both ahistorical destination and a bridge con-necting Brunswick and Bowdoin. “etown gives a lot to Bowdoin and Bowdoingives a lot to the town. [is room is] akind of symbolic reciprocity between thetown and Bowdoin.”

Groups from the local schools will beable to visit the room, and Chakkalakalhopes the room becomes a center for col-laboration where writing groups couldmeet, conversation could be held andclasses could occasionally be taught.

“One of the amazing things about thisroom is that a lot of people convergedhere—Longfellow was here, Chamber-lain was here, Stowe’s sister CatharineBeecher was here and of course JohnAndrew Jackson was here. In this space,literature happens. I think we too of-ten forget that Bowdoin College is thebirthplace, in my opinion, of Americanliterature,” Chakkalakal said. “is is a

place that has inspired historical collabo-rations. I would like to see students col-laborating with professors the way Katieand I did; that’s what made the househappen—a series of collaborations.”e open house will run from 2 to 4

p.m. on Monday, with remarks by Presi-dent Clayton Rose, Chakkalakal and Ran-dall at 3 p.m.

Harriet’s Writing Room will beopen to the public from noon to 3p.m., ursday to Saturday, followingthe open house. During these hours,a student will be onsite to talk aboutStowe, her book and the house and toanswer any questions.

BY DAKOTA GRIFFIN

ORIENT STAFF

NEWS IN BRIEF

BOWDOIN TO FILE LAWSUIT OVER

COLLEGE STREET PROPERTY

Bowdoin will no longer have the largest solar project in Maine. In thecoming year, Colby College will install 5,505 solar panels, exceeding Bow-doin’s 4,420. While Bowd oin’s solar panels provide abou t eight percent of theCollege’s electricity (with a capacity of 1.2 megawatts), Colby’s panels willproduce 16 percent of the college’s energy, at 1.9 megawatts. Led by NRGEnergy Inc., work will begin on the solar panels now with the estimatedcompletion date at January 2017. In 2015, Colby was ranked the highest NE-SCAC college for sustainability and second in North America, compared tothe 260 colleges that participated in STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assess-

ment and Rating System), a system that assesses college sustainability efforts.

COLBY’S SOLAR INSTALLATION

TO BE THE LARGEST IN MAINE

In a case that could be brought to court, Bowdoin seems to be pushingback against the $1.6 million dollar asking price for 28 College Street, thelast remaining non-campus property on College Street. Bowdoin has deniedthat the property is the place where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “UncleTom’s Cabin,” despite the owner’s claims. According to an article in the Ban-gor Daily News, Arline Pennell Lay, the owner of the property, was notifiedby her attorney last week that the College plans to file a lawsuit to makeLay adhere to a 1996 agreement with the College. The agreement states thatthe College can buy the property at 125 percent of its appraised value if theowner dies or puts it on the market; with the appraised price at $154,300, theCollege should only pay $192,875 for the house. However, Lay and her at-

torney, Sean Joyce, claim that an attorney was not present at the time of thisagreement; Bowdoin’s attorney claims otherwise, according to Joyce. TheCollege has said that it will leave the issue up to its lawyers.

“We’re investigating whether or not [Lay] had representation and [wheth-er] it was, essentially, unequal barg aining,” Joyce told the Bangor Daily News.

The high asking price of the house is attributed to Lay and her family’sclaim that Stowe rented a room on the second floor between 1850 and 1851where she wrote much of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” However, the College haspushed back against this claim over the years with evidence that Stowe wrotethe novel at 63 Federal Street, her home from 1851 to 1852, and AppletonHall, where her husband had a study.

The property is listed on the National Register of Historic places. How-ever, according to Joyce, the College attributes this to the property’s oth-er historical significance. According to the Lay family, Henry WadsworthLongfellow penned a poem, “The Old Clock on the Stairs,” about a grand-father clock in the house. Norman Rockwell also apparently modeled hispainting, “Freedom from Want,” after members of Lay’s family, Alice Layand Richard Coffin. The real estate listing states that, “Other famous peoplesuch as President and Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, ChrisWallace and William Cohen have stayed at this home.”

COMPILED BY RACHAEL ALLEN

Harriet’s Writing Room to open next week,house celebrates historical recognition

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pieces. eir work has been shownin a number of museums across thecountry, including the National Por-trait Gallery in Washington, D.C. eirpainting “Epiphany III” is part of thepermanent collection at the Museumof Fine Arts in Boston.

“I looked at their work, and I wasparticularly impressed because I waslooking for someone who was going todo this in a rather traditional, classicalstyle,” said Mills. “Warren paints sortof in the style of Sargent and Zorn andthat attracted me, so I met with themout in their studio outside Boston, andwe hit it off .”

 Mills said that although he felt com-fortable with the Prosperis, the pro-cess of having his portrait painted wassomewhat diffi cult for him.

“I’m a pretty out-there person, but Iwas very self-conscious about this ideaof someone painting me,” he said. “Iwouldn’t say I didn’t enjoy it, and it cer-tainly was easier to do than I expected it

would be, but I was pretty self-conscious.”Before the Prosperis painted Mills’

portrait, they visited campus with himin the fall to get a sense of his relation-ship with the College. roughoutthis trip, Lucia Prosperi photographedMills and various settings of the Col-

lege to serve as references for WarrenProsperi’s painting. e photographsLucia Prosperi took served as sourcesfor Warren Prosperi as he went to theeasel, but the portrait is by no means acopy of any of them.

“By the time you get halfway throughthe painting, oen, the photograph isset aside and I continue to alter and de-

 velop the likeness from my feeling forthe person,” Warren Prosperi added.“We want to keep it as much as we canbased on the person’s experience of theother person, not on any interim imagebetween the painting and the person.”

While visiting the College withMills, the Prosperis were particularlystruck by the way Mills interactedwith students.

 “I would say eight out of 10 studentsthat we passed on the Quad came run-ning up to him, and he knew theirname, he knew their cousin’s name orif their mother was ill or has she got-ten back from Brazil,” Warren Pros-peri said. “For every one of thos e eightpeople, he seemed to know them likea friend, and he did that consistently.

It was completely unplanned. I don’tknow how many presidents of univer-sities get treated that way and who re-spond that way to the students in theschool, but it was certainly marked.”

As the Prosperis planned the por-trait together, they decided to focus on

the idea of Mills as a listener. “It just seemed like the right thing,”

Warren Prosperi said. “His concern forthe students and his attention to themseemed to be the center of how he re-lated to the school, so the particulargesture that oen resulted while he waslistening seemed to be the right gestureand expression to put in the painting.”

 In the portrait, Mills looks as thoughhe is listening to somebody speaking tohim in the lobby of the Museum, ac-cording to the Prosperis.

“e expression is subtle and hardto characterize,” said Warren Prosperi.“It’s not a big smile, it’s not a very seri-ous face, it’s a very subtle combinationof things which struck us about Barry.”

  Despite feeling self-consciousthroughout the portrait’s production,Mills is pleased with the final product.

  “It will be interesting to see whatpeople’s reactions are,” he said. “I thinkit reflects who I am, and given the limi-tations they had because of the subjectthey were dealing with—namely, me—Ithink he did a good job. And I hopepeople will think it reflects who I am.”

e College would not comment onfor the cost of commissioning the por-trait. e funds for the painting camefrom last year’s presidential transitionbudget, according to Senior Vice Presi-dent for Communications and PublicAff airs Scott Hood.

with huge numbers of people,” he said.“is offi ce involves telling a lot of Bow-doin stories—so does that offi ce.”

Meiklejohn has worked in severalcapacities for the College over the pasttwenty years and began his career atBowdoin working in development andalumni relations. He became dean of ad-missions in 2009. During his time in ad-missions, Bowdoin saw its highest-everapplicant totals and levels of selectivity.

Despite the response of some alumni

to campus events such as the “tequila”party this year, Meiklejohn said hethinks the relationship of the College toits alumni remains strong.

“I’m not worried about that for Bow-doin’s future. We’ve had other decisionsthat the College has made over time thatnot everyone agreed with,” he said. “edepth of [alumni] four-year experienceshere and their classmates, professorsand friends—those are the things thatdominate their feeling about what Bow-doin means and what it is in the land-scape of higher education more than isthere something in this week’s headlinethat isn’t right or isn’t going well.”

Soule said that she hopes to continuethe work that Meiklejohn has done interms of increasing the overall diversityof the student body.

“e trend of increasing diversity isreally an institutional principal, and it’sreally fundamentally important for edu-cation,” she said. “While it may look likea trend it’s really an absolute as part ofour work. I think that as the complex-ity of our population continues to growand change that will continue to be rep-resented in our prospect and applicantpool and in the class we enroll.”

Soule also said that while she does

not plan on making any major changesin admissions, the admissions offi ce isalways working to make decisions tostrengthen their applicant pool.

“I think that we are really attentive tothe demographic shifting that’s hap-pening in the United States, the de-cline in the high school populationand thinking about adapting ourrecruitment methods and our selec-tion methods to continue to find the

 very b est stud ents for Bowdoi n whil eunderstanding that the population ischanging and shrinking,” she said.

Nicole Wetsman and Emily Weyr-auch contributed to this report.

Ten months aer leaving Bowdoin,

former President Barry Mills is adjustingto a world away from Maine.“I miss the students, I miss the faculty,

I miss the staff , I miss the alums—I missthe people,” he said.

Mills and his wife Karen now livein Boston where both are involved inhigher education—he is a visiting prac-titioner in education at the HarvardGraduate School of Education while she

teaches at the Harvard Business School.In addition to teaching, Mills keeps

busy by serving on the boards of severalnonprofits, including Spaulding Reha-

bilitation Hospital as well as a nonprofi

tthat funds housing for battered womenand single mothers.

He has done free consulting for anumber of colleges and given speechesat a variety of education programs.

He has also found plenty of time tostay in shape.

“I’ve been working out a lot. So I seelots of Bowdoin alums at the gym I go

to in Boston. It feels like being on theBowdoin Quad,” he said.

Mills noted that he and Karen arelooking forward to returning to Maine

this summer to their house at Cundy’sHarbor in Harpswell.“We miss living in Maine,” he noted.But as for big future life plans? Mills

remains pretty uncertain.“I’m trying to figure out what I want

to do when I grow up. I’m still trying tofigure it out,” he said.

 Meg Robbins contributed tothis report.

BY JAMES CALLAHAN

ORIENT STAFF

This year, BowdoinOne Day, theculminating day of a month-longfundraising campaign, finished witha total of 2,994 gifts, or $770,000,from alumni, parents and students.32 percent of these gifts came in onOne Day itself, which took place onApril 28.

While this year’s One Day cam-paign finished about 1,500 dona-tions short of its goal of 4,500, it wasstill the second best year of the cam-paign’s history, according to Direc-tor of the Alumni Fund Aric Walton.

“We set the goal that we did inhopes of matching last ye ar’s accom-plishment which was an incrediblyaudacious goal given that last yearwas extraordinary,” said AssociateVice President for Annual and Lead-ership Giving Brannon Fisher.

Last year, the campaign reachedan all-time high of 4,314 gifts bythe end of the month. Anonymousdonors gave $2 million to be usedfor student financial aid after thecampaign surpassed its goal of4,300 gifts.

In explaining the anomalous suc-cess of the previous year, Waltoncalled it a “perfect storm.”

“President Mills was nearing the

end of his term… We just had Clay-ton Rose announced, so there was alot of energy...in the Bowdoin com-munity,” said Walton. “[This year]we had more dialogue going, or justas much, it just didn’t translate intothe same number of gifts.”

The Alumni Fund recruits over700 alumni to help fundraise year-round. The contributions receivedthrough the BowdoinOne Day cam-paign were among the 6,891 receivedthis fiscal year thus far, which endson June 30.

In addition to the help of alumni volun teers , Bowd oinOne Day alsorelies on social media to publicizethe campaign and connect Bowdoinalumni from across the globe.

“The students were pretty instru-

mental in helping get that hashtagout there and raising the awarenessof the day,” said Walton. “e socialaspect is really important. It’s a win-dow back into Brunswick for one dayto see what’s going on.”

Though BowdoinOne Day thisyear received no matching dona-tions, the overall alumni participa-tion rate of 39.6 percent is still simi-lar to that of other years.

“[A matching donation] just didn’tmaterialize this year, and lookingback, that’s going to be a good thing.We want people to authenticallythink about supporting Bowdoin.It’s a great place to support,” said

Walton. “We don’t take alumni sup-port for granted—we know that wehave to earn it every year.”

In addition to BowdoinOne Day,the Senior Class Gift Campaign(SCGC) is another major ongoingfundraising effort of the College.The campaign just reached 58 per-cent participation this week, a meretwo percent away from unlocking a$10,000 match donation.

“[The SCGC] is an effort to edu-cate people on how to be alumni,”said Kiefer Solarte ’16, one of fiveSCGC directors. “It’s a big switchgoing from senior year to not havingthe same relationship that you hadwith Bowdoin…[the SCGC] is about

getting people to engage, not onlythis year but for the future as well.”With a goal of 85 percent participation,

the campaign will continue until June 30.“We really don’t look at a monetary

goal at all,” said Margaret Webster ’16,another director on the SCGC team.“When we get a gi, there’s alwaysbeen a conversation about what thatmeans. We’re very fortunate that theamount of that gi doesn’t matter andthat participation is so important.”is year, the money raised by the

SCGC will support a scholarship for astudent in the Class of 2020. While theClass of 2016’s SCGC is the fih to do-nate its eff orts toward a scholarship, itis the first to graduate a membe r of itsown class who was supported by theSCGC fund of another class.

BowdoinOne Day finishesshort of goal, but remains second-best year of campaign

Checking in with former President Mills

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In a synthesis of modern dancedisciplines, the College’s Depart-ment of Theater and Dance presentstheir annual Spring Dance Concertthis weekend. Featuring a blend ofintroductory, intermediate and ad-

 vanced level classes , the concert ex-plores student individuality throughthe lens of repertory, choreographyand improvisation.

“Dancing is always personal in thesense that we’re dealing with an es-sentially abstract art form,” said PaulSarvis, chair of the theater and dancedepartment. “But the forms are hu-

man beings, who obviously have bi-ographies. When we work with thestudents, we’re building the dancesaround that particular collection ofpeople in that moment of time.”

The production includes a va-riety of performance, including astudent-produced screendance andan advanced-level repertory piecedirected by Visiting Artist Lau-ra Peterson.

“[Peterson] has a singular voice inthe modern dance scene,” said Sarvis.“She’s working in a way that’s veryrigorous and linear and demanding.You can sense a kind of polish andaesthetic sensibility that’s really dis-tinct from the other courses and what

typically goes on in the department.”According to Sarvis, anotherunique facet of the show is simplythe diversity of student performancebackground. Because Bowdoin doesnot currently offer a dance major, thedepartment attracts a distinct blendof both experienced and inexperi-enced dancers.

“We’re not attracting people whowant to pursue careers in dance,”said Sarvis. “The program is a bal-ance between giving [the students]a novel experience and having someidea of audience in mind so thatwhat serves the students is also in-teresting to watch… It’s delightfulteaching the range of students whocome to us, partly because Bowdoinattracts smart people and peoplewho are cu rious.”

For several students, their prepara-tion for the Spring Concert has pro-

 vided an unlikely avenue to exploremovement and art in both an aca-demic and recreational light. MaddieLemal-Brown ’18, a student in theintroductory class Making Dances,noted that as a rugby player, her in-

 volvement in dance at Bowdoin haschallenged the ways she views herself.

“It was an interesting transitioninto exploring my body in new ways,and it not just being a tool to gofaster or be stronger,” Lemal-Brownsaid. “It’s really about what your bodyis, how many combinations can youuse it for and not just using it for thesame combination over and over.”

“[Sarvis] said atthe beginning of thecourse that this is‘serious play,’” Le-mal-Brown added.“That resonated withme. Getting to runaround and act likea kid but also allowyour own creativityto come back and ty-ing it into academ-ics—it makes youthink in a lot of dif-ferent ways. You havethe freedom to thinkthe way you want to… It’s not justdance, it’s reflection on art—on what

is art, what is move-ment and what is thebody.”

For Morgan Mills’16, who choreo-graphed and is per-forming in a piececalled “Dreamscape,”the concert is both apresentation of hersemester’s work aswell as space to returnto an art form shepracticed throughouther childhood.

“I never thoughtI would be able to choreograph myown dance,” she said. “The dance

program here gives students the op-portunity to learn and pick it up soquickly. I used to have a very setdefinition of what dance consists of,but that has been expanded so muchsince coming here.”

“What we aspire to, in the depart-ment and the College and I wouldeven say in society as a whole, is theembrace of diversity within a com-mon goal,” Sarvis said. “It’s really amatter of the personalities and es-tablishing a feeling of fluidity andopenness. I hope that the audienceleaves with an empathetic energyfrom the dance, but also that theysee the articulation of bodies in away they haven’t before.”

On Wednesday, the artist and activ-ist Atena Farghadani was released fromprison in Iran. She was incarceratedabout a year ago for creating a politi-cal cartoon advocating for reproduc-

tive rights and against members of thegovernment. It was her second release.Aer her first one, the 29-year-oldFarghadani made an online video thatdetailed her experience in prison—in-cluding solitary confinement and bru-tal violence—which landed her in jailonce more. In addition to these twoconvictions, Farghadani has also beencharged with threatening national se-curity, insulting the Iranian govern-ment and even partaking in “indecentcontact” upon shaking her lawyer’shand aer trial. Although internation-al art unions and activist groups alikehave stood behind Farghadani through

the duration of her ordeal, she plans toremain in Iran. Despite past persecu-tion, Iran is her home. Her attorney,in a statement, wrote that Farghadani’slifelong dedication to art and activismcomes at a “great price;” yet, a vital onein the face of humanity and peace.

Activism oen comes from a placeof love: one cannot hope for improve-ment without deep and shining op-

timism. Perhaps this care relates toFarghadani’s decision to remain inIran. Concerning her practice, her artexists most poignantly within its ini-tial state: in interaction with contem-porary Iranian politics. Placing thework—and her physical self—outsideof Iran’s political system impacts itssignificance, as well as her own iden-tity. Art, as a mediation between theactivist self and its author’s society,strikes several complex balances. isis not a new liminality to artist/activ-ists, who straddle multiple boundariessimultaneously. Perhaps the most fa-mous character of this specific duality

is China’s Ai Weiwei, who has becomesomewhat of a posterboy of contempo-rary art as a reaction to the imposingChinese government.

Spring Dance Concert showcases individuality through modern danceBY SURYA MILNER

ORIENT STAFF

  TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

See the Spring DanceConcert tonight andtomorrow at 8 p.m.Pickard Theater,Memorial Hall.

Free tickets areavaliable at the SmithUnion Information Desk.

Beyond global art activism

STREET SMART JUNE LEI

Please see ACTIVISM, page 6

‘Macbeth’ on the steps: Trevor

Murray ’16 independent study

Trevor Murray’s ’16 independent se-nior project culminates this weekend withtwo performances of Macbeth that willtake place on the steps of the Bowdoin

College Museum of Art. No stranger tothe theater, Murray serves as director andcostume designer for the show.

Murray, who has worked with the the-ater and dance department throughouthis time at Bowdoin and studied Shake-speare while he was abroad, decided torevive a forgotten Bowdoin tradition of

“Shakespeare on the Steps” aer seeingold pictures of the performances datingback to the early 1900s.

While the production has receivedfunding from Masque and Gown andsupport from Beyond the Proscenium, astudent theater group on campus, most of

the work has been within the production.e cast began rehearsals aer SpringBreak, and so far, weather has been one ofthe biggest challenges.

“We couldn’t be on the steps Monday,and it’s supposed to rain on Saturdayas well, so we have some rain locationswhich would still be disappointing be-cause it’s really cool to use the steps,” saidMurray. “It’s definitely a lot of work to tryand pull a show together without a fullproduction team.”

Despite diffi  culties with the weather,the director and cast have enjoyed the

BY SARAH LIMORIENT STAFF

Please see MACBETH, page 7

DIANA FURUKAWA

BUST A MOVE: Students practice in a run-through for the Spring Dance Concert, wh ich features dancers from both beginner and advanced modern dance classes and also showcases student choreog-raphy and improvisation. The concert will take place tonight and tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.

See “Macbeth” todayand tomorrow on the stepsof the Bowdoin CollegeMuseum of Art at 7:30 p.m.

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An exhibit of work created by 17seniors opens today in the EdwardsCenter for Art and Dance until today.ere will be a reception tonight from5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Students worked on their pieces aspart of Senior Studio, a course, whichis designed to provide seniors with anopportunity to create their own indi-

 vidual body of work.“All of a sudden, they’ve gone from

having set structure and set assign-ments to really having to be their owndriving force behind what they’re do-ing and why they’re doing it,” said As-sistant Professor of Art Jackie Brown,who is leading the studio.roughout the semester, students

developed their own works with themedia of their choice. Students fre-quently critiqued each other’s work, and

faculty were asked to give commentaryon several pieces before their completion.

“[Each student], at the beginning ofthe semester, had a definite interest, andthey had kind of honed in on that,” saidHenry Austin ’16. “en through thesemester with critical feedback andconversations, they were able to openup and expound on some of those ideasthat were very important to them.”

Students used a variety of media inthe creation of their works, including pro-

 jectors, suspended strings and old cars.“All my work right now is surround-

ed by these objects that I found in adump site in the woods nearby,” saidAnna Reyes ’16. “[I was interested in]the strange role of me being kind of a

rescuer for them but then also takingthem out of their final resting place andthat weird kind of tension.”

Not all students worked individually.Cody Stack ’16 and Hector Magana ’16worked together on a series of worksinvestigating experiences and conceptsin nostalgia.

“I don’t think the challenge was meand Hector collaborating; it was actu-

ally taking the best of the two thingsthat you do and making them worktogether,” said Stack. “I think we strucka really nice balance between Hector’slinguistic, photographic and pop cul-ture knowledge and skills and how werelate that to the world around him andthen some of the things I kind of aes-thetically obsess about and the materi-als I like to play with.”

Many of the artists are excited aboutbeing able to display their own culminat-ing work and to see the final projects oftheir peers.

“It’s been an incredible semester be-cause the variety and breadth of the art-work that’s represented in this show is as-tounding,” said Austin. “It’s so much more

 valuable and so much more interesting ifthe people around you are approaching itand making work that is completely dif-ferent, [work] you would never dream ofmaking yourself. at’s been one of myfavorite parts about this.”

e visual language of activism, un-derstood as a reaction to injustice or

 violations to human rights, is powerfuland constantly in flux. Its associatedartworks thus shi dramatically regard-ing national context. In developingrigid, authoritarian governments, art-ists are first are foremost and heavilyoppressed: art is an unknown fear thatis emblematic of “free speech,” of anti-censorship. Art represents each power,

 voice and vehicle. is perhaps ex-plains the shared persecution of AtenaFarghadani and Ai Weiwei, who diff erby their countries of origin and theirrespective attributes. ere is a distinctand inadmissible diff erence regardingtheir international position in relationto the world, but also, in relation to us.

We read global art activism from a

Western perspective, and specifical-ly an American one: our enormousand diversely complicated nation of-ten considers itself a form of media-tion upon the entire world. This isnot quite true, as mediation impliesa certain equality and peace. Ameri-ca’s contemporary id entity arises outof both idealized values and greatoppression, and it is historically,socially and economically distinct.This being said, our country is ininteraction—a past, present and fu-ture interaction—with every othernation in the world, and it main-tains an immense amount of capital.

An example of this took place lastmonth when the United States Sen-ate bi-partisanly and unanimously

 voted to ban the impor t of Syria nart objects and artifacts trafficked tolikely finance terror groups. Amer-ica’s global and economic poweris enormous, and thus, we have anenormous responsibility to respectthe national identities of both our-selves and others.

is can be done through the im-

measurably powerful weapon ofthe arts, necessary now more thanever. Art is an imperative force inour changing world. In this columnthroughout the semester, I havesought to explore the intersectionsbetween art and society: particularlywithin the insular places of Bowdoinand America. I wanted to argue a fun-damental importance of arts, but Ifound that arts courses are all impor-tant things by default. In some ways,I tried to prove something I alreadyknew: human nature is contingentupon the arts, which remind us of theinterconnectedness of all things.

ACTIVISMCONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

 In some ways, I tried to prove

something I already knew: human

nature is contingent upon the arts,

which remind us of the

interconnectedness of all things.

Art exhibit celebrates graduating visual arts majors’ studio workBY GIDEON MOORE

ORIENT STAFF

STUDIO TIME: Seniors Hector Magana (above) and Anna Reyes(below) display their work from the Senior Studio class, which provides senior visual

arts majors with th e opportunity to explore their own artistic interests. The exhibit will open this evening at 5 p.m. in Edwards Art Center.

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

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perks an outdoor stage adds to the play.Nick Funnell ’17, who is playing Macduff ,expressed his excitement about the setting.

“It’ll be really cool because there’s along tradition of Shakespeare being out-side with Shakespeare in the Park, or evenGlobe eater originally,” he said.

“I think having it on the Museum stepsdoes give it a very diff erent vibe, some-what more gothic,” added Jenna Scott ’19,who plays one of the witches.

With the help of his friend and fellowShakespeare enthusiast Jamie Weisbach’16, Murray was able to produce a short-ened cut of the play tailored for the Bow-

doin audience.“I think Shakespeare’s really done best

when it’s an hour and a half or under,” saidMurray. “You’re going to get Shakespearenerds who will sit down for a three-hourperformance and love it, but I think it’shard for Shakespeare to be that accessiblefor that long.”

With the cut script, Murray focusedon bringing out the theme of time withinhis rendition.

“So Macbeth is the shortest of the trag-edies, and time is mentioned very exten-sively in the script,” said Murray. “Youhave mentions of when—now, tonight,tomorrow, yesterday—and it’s about Mac-

beth trying to seize the future [and] put itin the present, so I wanted to capture thataspect of the cut and really try to make itthis relentless hour and 15 minutes.”

Some members of cast feel they havebenefited greatly from the production be-ing entirely student-run.

 “I feel like I’ve become a better actorlearning from other actors who will doa production and direct a production,”said Sydney Benjamin ’19. “It’s a loteasier to connect with the director andthe other people working on the pro-duction because they’ve all been whereI am right now.”

Others who have worked with Murraybefore had equal appreciation for his workand dedication to the production.

“[Murray’s] an awesome director for anactor,” said Funnell. “He’s way more aboutfocusing on individual acting, how yousee your character and your impulses andwhat your attitude is behind it.”

“As a director, I think about whatstory I want to help these actors tell,”said Murray. “I have my own ideasabout how certain characters arethinking, so I can try and give thatto the actors, and they do with thatwhat they will and tell their own storybased on that.”

MACBETHCONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE: Trevor Murray ’16 directs Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”

JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Curtain Callers presents ‘Into the Woods,’ utilizes unique venue

With finals approaching and the daysflying by until Bowdoin students will re-turn to their respective homes, stress isdescending on the College. If you want toescape these stressful times for a few mo-ments, allow Curtain Callers to take you“Into the Woods.”

“Into the Woods” is a musical directedby Cordelia Zars ’16 and Max Middleton’16, with music by Stephen Sondheim.e two worked together on “SweeneyTodd” last semester and paired up this se-mester for another production.

Unlike most student-produced theater,the musical will be performed in the Bow-doin Chapel.

Actor Railey Zantop-Zimlinghaus ’19said, “I’m really interested to see how itends up looking in the chapel because it’snot a very typical space.”

She went on to explain that because ofthe tall ceilings the chapel acoustics arediff erent than those in more commonspaces like Pickardeater, which shouldmake for a unique musical experience.

In order to account for issues withacoustics, some of the show’s blocking

goes off   the stage and onto the carpeted

area bringing it closer to the audience, ex-plained Zars.

In addition to the unique acoustics, thechapel provides for another unexpect-ed obstacle.

Zantop-Zimlinghaus explained thatthere is no backstage in the chapel, so theactors will be in the pews next to the audi-ence when not on stage.

While the chapel is not typicallyused for theater, the cast has learned towork with these new challenges.

“We really had to work around [the dif-ferent space], which has both been a reallyfrustrating process and a cool one becausewe’ve gotten to be more creative with ourshow,” said Zars.

“e staging is minimal, we’ve made

everything ourselves with scissors andtape,” she said. “We’re not pretendingthat it’s a huge production with elabo-rate sets and elaborate sound systems,it’s just us on stage.”

When asked what her biggest chal-lenge has been as a co-director, Zarssaid that the show has been a huge timecommitment.

“It’s kind of like the best and the hard-est that it takes a lot of energy, but when

you’re so immersed in something like that

it gives a lot of energy back,” she said.She said that the biggest challenge the

group faced as a whole was finding a re-hearsal schedule that could work for ev-eryone. As Bowdoin students oen tendto be overcommitted, having a cast of 19busy actors provided for a special chal-lenge.e challenge seemed to be worth it,

however, for the additions that each mem-ber brings to the stage.

“We have a really talented group of castmembers that we are very lucky to [have]and they’ve just put so much time into it,”said Zars.

For Zars, the musical was a rewardingproject in more ways than one.

“Devoting that much time and energy

to understanding somebody else’s emo-tions, somebody who doesn’t even exist...getting your imagination and your levelsof empathy to that point is just the mostbeautiful thing about the show and art ingeneral,” she said.

Zars added, “I think we have made apretty cohesive and beautiful project andevery member of the cast has committeda lot of their emotional and mental energyinto making this show really come to life.”

BY AMANDA NEWMANORIENT STAFF

ARE WE OUT OF THE WOODS:  Anna Schwartzberg ’ 17(above) and Amber Barksdale ’18 (right) perform in Curtain Callers’ “Into the Woods.”

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I had to wait for my interview withAdrian Reyes, barber and owner ofKings and Queens Hair Studio onMaine Street. My wait was more com-fortable than inconvenient—his lobbyis warm, adorned by well-stuff ed blackleather couches and new issues of Al-lure. His business, known as the onlybarbershop in Brunswick with theskills to cut ethnic hair, is booming.Reyes embraces the busyness and hisenergy was tangible, translated intoupbeat engagement with each person

who walked through his doors.He fit in the interview while

working with a new customer, whohadn’t gotten a haircut since arriv-ing months ago to work at Bath IronWorks. He was referred to Kings andQueens by a friend.

“I used to be a chef at BowdoinCollege, and the students were askingme who was cutting my hair,” Reyesexplained. “At the time, I cut my ownhair. I knew there was a niche, I knewthere was something up here that wasspecial because no barbers here coulddo what I do.”

“I was the first one cutting Bow-doin College’s hair, African-Ameri-cans, Hispanics—I’m Puerto Rican,”

Reyes said. Hailing from Florida,Reyes found Maine to be “a cultureshock” when he moved here withhis family as a teenager. Upon mov-ing, he, like many Bowdoin students,could not find a h airstylist.

“A lot of seniors are like, ‘Oh man,

the freshmen are so lucky that theyhave you here now!’ They used tohave to wait to go home [to get their

hair cut]. The only time they actu-ally looked good was actually rightafter breaks. Now, they can maintaintheir style.”

Yet, he refuses to be pigeonholed.“If you look on my page, at Facebook,I can do black, white, Puerto Rican,

Chinese—any hair, I can cut it.” WhileI was in the shop, a white man in cam-ouflaged uniform gave a big thumb’s

up, saying “I would drive anywhere toget my hair cut by Adrian.”Although there are few other hair-

stylists with the skills to cut ethnichair, Reyes also stands out with hisindividual attention to clients. “As abarber, man, we get a lot of clients

who really feel with us. We’re theirshrink, we’re their best friend,” hesaid. Reyes is as close with his clients

as he is his family, who were visitinghim in the shop at the time.His grandmother (who calls Reyes

“sugarplum” and hugged me beforeleaving) was present throughout theinterview, along with his mother.“[My mom] is my manager, she’s the

one that takes care of all the boringstuff,” Reyes said, smiling. “I learnedhumility from my mother.”

His mother, who had been listen-ing to our interview while she swept,interjected here: “He’s been humblesince he was b orn,” she said. “He wasa sweet, calm child.”

“I was a punk,” Reyes countered.He had a son at 18 and has sinceseparated from his son’s biologicalmother. “She took a different path,”he said, “I’m a family man.”

Adrian immediately brightenedupon mention of his son. “He lovesreading. We read to him at night-time, we have to. Do I want to, no,I’m tired, but I have to, to get him

where he needs to be. As his parent,it’s my responsibil ity.” Adrian lives inYarmouth, now, because it is a betterplace to raise kids than the Portlandsuburb in which he grew up.

“My favorite part about being adad is to guide my kids, give themthings I didn’t have, guide themwhere I didn’t have guidance whenI was younger. When I said I was apunk, I was a punk. I had to land in

 jail to get where I am, it was a co m-plete 180,” Reyes declared.

He tries to relate this guidanceto some of his younger customers.“They see the success, but they don’tsee the struggle I went through.”

Reyes works long days, and coach-

es baseball Wednesday nights. Eachday is packed with work and prepa-ration for his new daughter, Julianna,who is due in two weeks. Potentialsurrounds Reyes, and he’s meeting it.

“My dream was to be ready by thetime she was here, and I am,” he said.

Maine Street’s new king: Adrian Reyes thrives with new hair studio

‘Freshman fifteen’ to SWUG: a look back at four years of Bowdoin

“I don’t know if you’ve ever seen themovie ‘Tangled,’ but when my parentsle me all by my lonesome on the pres-tigious Bowdoin campus two weeks ago,I felt pretty much how I imagine PrincessRapunzel did when she le  her tower:struck by a mix of horror and absolutefreedom.”

At the beginning of my freshman yearat Bowdoin, I wrote these words for myfirst article in e Orient. It was the startof “e Freshman Fieen,” a columnwhere I talked about my experience as afirst year at Bowdoin. In many ways, thiscolumn was empowering because in anew environment, where I was totally un-known, I had an outlet to make a name forwho I was going to be on campus.e column four years ago was very

light humored. I wanted my voice to bequirky and satiric because that is who Iwas and it is who I still am. To me, mycolumn was wonderfully silly and dorky(take for instance the controversial “toBean boots or not to Bean boots” debateof 2012). Still, I cannot help but realizethat a lot of my column was trying to em-body some sort of college stereotype ofwhat I was supposed to be going throughinstead of speaking to what I was reallygoing through.

I never mentioned that month-longperiod when I felt borderline depressed.I was ten pounds underweight due tohealth issues. My grades second semester

weren’t quite matching up to the onesI had made my first. My roommates,who once had been good friends, nowwere barely speaking with me. Bow-doin is awesome, but not always. Idefinitely think one of the most diffi -cult parts of my first-year here was thatI was afraid to admit to people whenI was unhappy. Somehow that felt likeadmitting some sort of defeat.

Luckily, those hard times wereequaled by happy ones. Like whenI decided to join the crew team andfound a niche of people who I re-ally clicked with, or getting a solo inBOKA and singing Little Talks by “OfMonsters and Men” with Nick Walker,or finding an eclectic German studygroup and forming the JJJ/three mus-keteers club. Also, just the Germandepartment in general. Seriously, it’sthe best department at this school.

Reading the column, I am remind-ed of the ways in which campus has

changed. Four years ago, the biggestscandals at Bowdoin were related tohazing and goldfish instead of race andcultural appropriation. Yik Yak did notexist—nor did President Clayton Rose.

I am also reminded of the ways inwhich I have changed. When I was a firstyear, I made sure to start any paper a weekin advance. I was that kid that got aheadon homework every Friday and Satur-day and did every single reading. I worea lot of cute 50s style dresses with tightseven when it was the middle of winter. Ibought a coat because it was the same onethat Zooey Deschanel had and not actu-ally because it was warm. I wrote an article

about how stressful Ivies seemed, because

I didn’t understand how to get all of mywork done and party at the same time.

Now, I’ve realized that skipping read-ings to enjoy a weekend hike or even

 just a late night conversation with room-mates is completely okay. I remember thefirst paper I wrote without actually read-ing the book. I got an “A” even thoughmy previous paper, in which I had readthe book was graded a “B.” I garnered thepower to write papers at the last minuteand noticed the outcome was sometimesbetter because I didn’t overthink things.All of a sudden what “being a good stu-dent” meant was really confusing.

At this point in my Bowdoin career,

I’ve embraced SWUG culture and love

to wear oversized sweatshirts and allthat. I can eat alone in the dining hallfor dinner and feel like a boss. Goingto a party completely sober and danc-ing like a weirdo is better than thoseparties where I spent a lot of time onmy outfit and tried to act chill. Reach-ing the point of not caring is bothan extremely freeing and somewhatfrightening moment. When I try tooff er these insights to the currentfirst-years here, I notice a lot of themalready know these things and are al-ready way cooler than I am.

As I speak about senior year, I realizeI’m brushing over a lot of the hard mo-

ments I have had this year. But, I’m also

not quite ready to talk about them in thiscolumn, so perhaps you will have to waitanother four years for the real scoop.

Now the end is nigh and I feel all thecliché mixed feelings about being readyto leave, and yet also not wanting to saygoodbye. I am excited by the idea ofgaining my financial independence, buthave no idea how to pay taxes. Seriously,can someone teach me? What is more, Ican’t help but notice that as much as I’vechanged, my prospects looking forwardmay not actually be so diff erent fromwhere I started. I ironically find myselfonce again “struck by a mix of horror andabsolute freedom.”

TAKE ME TO THE BARBER SHOP: Adrian Reyes, barber and owner of Kings and Queens Hair Studio on Maine Street used to be a chef at Bowdoin before opening his

hair studio earlier this year. He has filled a gap in the market for hair-cutting services for many students.

ABOUT TOWNELLICE LUEDERS

ELLICE LUEDERS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

DIANA FURUKAWA

THE FRESHMAN FIFTEEN JULIA BINS WANGER

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Dear Precious Readers,ere comes a time in every young

advice columnist’s life when she, herself,is in need of some wise thoughts. Whenshe finds herself at a loss for how toproceed. When she needs advice. Whatdoes she do?

Advice to myself on how to graduate:1. In the fall, don’t think about it.

Ever. Have lobster bakes, and go hikingand lay in bed. You have so much time.You have all the time in the world.

2. Go to the mandatory Career Plan-ning meeting. Bring a matcha latte.Laugh when they make you do the hand-shakes. e handshakes are ridiculous.

3. Fill out your Intent-to-Graduateform in November. ink perhaps youshould panic. Go to brunch instead. Youhave so much time.

4. Find a job in a foreign place. Drinkcheap champagne. Picture yourself inEurope. e picture is a little bit lonely.

5. Drink beers with friends insteadof reading. Drink too many beers. Fallasleep in your friend’s bed by accidentbecause you don’t want to leave, becauseyou can’t stand to be alone. Wake up atfi ve in the morning. Walk home.

6. Cry in the car listening to Adele.You feel ridiculous. You are ridiculous.You aren’t sure if you are sad, or if you

 just want to be.7. Go on spring break with your

friends. Sit on the deck of a beach house

in California and drink wine and eatgoat cheese. Laugh. Laugh harder.

8. Come back. Fight with a friendabout relatively nothing, preferably ata party, preferably while you are drunk.Say, “Why are you so anxious!” Hear,“You’re projecting.” e next day, buyeach other boxes of raspberries andnever speak of it again.

10. Order your cap and gown. Pan-ic. You thought you had so much time.

11. Picture yourself next year, eat-ing pastries sitting on a dock by thesea unable to eavesdrop on strangersspeaking a language you don’t un-derstand. Look around the Moulton

Light Room. Wonder if you are tiredof eavesdropping anyway. Wonder ifyou are tired of a lot of things.

12. Finish your last essays. Suddenlyfeel that Matthew Arnold and JamesJoyce and Charles Dickens aren’t reallythat important anymore. Why did youused to believe they were so important?Hand in the essay. Receive a B-.

13. Cling to your books. Reorganize

them ten times in your room, whichyou will pack up in only a few weeks.Reread passages from Hawthorne andWhitman and Gawain and VirginiaWoolf. Pour over the timestamps ofthe ones from the library. Wonder whochecked out e Bostonians in 1986.Wonder if they ever kissed anyone onthe museum steps.

14. Sit in your car as you’re about to

drive away from a party. Look in at thelights of the house spilling through thewindows. See people inside.ey laugh,they talk, but you cannot hear them.You love these people. But you can’t goback in now and it’s getting late, andyou’re already going, and so you’re gone.

15. Graduate.Out,Katherine

Cry in the car and reminisce; a step-by-step on graduatingKATHERINE GIVES ADVICEKATHERINE CHURCHILL

As we reach the final installment ofour beer-reviewing saga, the time hascome to pay homage both to the tempo-rary home state that has treated us so welland to the states that made us each whowe are today. is week we decided tocelebrate our favorite Maine beer, samplebrews from William’s Green MountainState of Vermont and try to show thatShan’s home state of North Carolina isknown for good beer and not just big-otry. #WeAreNotis.

Shan: I will start with a disclaimer: Iam aware that Oskar Blues was originally

founded in Lyons, Colorado. However,in 2012, Oskar Blues opened a branchin Brevard, N.C. and quickly establishedthemselves as a brewery that made it-self at home in the fast-growing N.C.beer scene.

Over the summer, while working part-time in a restaurant in my hometown inDurham, one of the highlights of thenight was sitting down at the bar aer along shi and enjoying a freshly-pouredglass of Oskar Blues’ Pinner rowbackIPA.e name “throwback” is somewhatmisleading, as it’s more along the linesof a session American Pale Ale, but anydownsides of the beer end there. It packsan incredible amount of hop flavor andaroma, but has an amazing citrusy tart-

ness that more than makes up for its rela-tively-low 35 IBUs. Pinner is truly a beerthat makes me think of warm Bull Dur-ham summer nights whenever I taste it.

William: Brewed in the rural townof Bridgewater, Vt., Long Trail stands asone of the Green Mountain State’s mostpopular beers. is brewery is aboutas local as it gets for me, as I live in thebordering town of Woodstock, exactly8.6 miles from Long Trail headquarters.Long Trail’s Limbo IPA is one of theirbetter beers, a double IPA that brings 80IBUs and 7.6 percent ABV. ose of youwho are true IPA gurus will know of thelegendary Vermont double IPA, HeadyTopper. Limbo is Long Trail’s response.

When we cracked open the Limboand poured it into our special glasses, we

were perplexed by its aroma. Shan and Idiscussed long and hard about what wethought the smell reminded us of untilwe agreed upon caramelized peaches.Compared to the Pinner, the Limbo hadlittle of the tart, grapefruit taste. Instead,we found that the caramelized peachsmell also imbedded itself in the flavor.Although Shan and I have enjoyed Lim-bo in the past, it did not shine in com-parison to the Pinner. It physically painsme to admit it, but Vermont didn’t holdits own in our tasting.

Shan & William: It was with mistyeyes and nostalgia in our hearts that weset about deciding on a beer that couldsignify the love we feel for the state thathas treated us so well over the past fouryears. But when push came to shove, weknew that there was only one beer thatcaptured both of our hearts: Lunch.

Maine Beer Company opened up inFreeport in 2009 but has quickly becomea common name in circles of beer aficio-nados across the country. Lunch, a 7.0percent ABV IPA, was the first beer thatput them in the big leagues. First brewedin 2011, the first two batches sold out soquickly that Lunch soon gained nationalrecognition as one of the country’s mostsought-aer cra beers.

Five years later, while Maine Beer Co.has increased their production of Lunchso that it is more frequently available, itstill hasn’t lost its reputation as one ofthe best IPAs out there. We first becameacquainted with Lunch in the Beer Tentover Homecoming Weekend. Once wehad enjoyed our third or fourth glass of

the free Lunch that was served on tap,it was clear that we had found a specialplace in our hearts for this delicious IPA.

We opened our Lunch as the finalbeer in our tasting. e full-bodiedtaste held the perfect blend of pine, bit-terness and citrus, and has a substantialmouthfeel that lives up to the gravitasof Lunch’s street cred. Compared to ourtwo hometown heroes, Lunch struckthe perfect balance of the full-bodiedbitterness of Limbo combined with thepleasant drinkability and refreshing cit-rus of Pinner

In their unique and distinctive ways,each of these beers tasted like home, andwe thank our lucky stars to able to feel aconnection with each brew and its birth-place. And they were all better than wine.

WILL GOODENOUGH AND SHAN NAGAR

TAPPEDOUT

Little do most Bowdoin studentsknow, a world famous celebrity is in theirmidst—in the world of RoboCup, that is.Dan Navarro ’16 has earned a spot as areferee for the Robot Soccer World Cup.e event is exactly what it sounds

like—autonomous humanoid robot soc-cer players made by computer scientistscompete in international competitions.e RoboCup tournament was found-ed in 1997 with the hope that by 2050,someone will have assembled a team ofrobot athletes that could beat the human

FIFA World Cup champions of that year.However, Navarro sees this as an overlyambitious goal.

“Maybe one day in a hundred yearsit’ll happen, but we’re not even close,”said Navarro.

Still, the event has generated a lot ofhype globally. Navarro lists Iran, Australiaand Germany as some of the world’s big-gest RoboCup fanatics. In Germany, it’sbroadcast on national television.

Navarro only found the sport duringhis sophomore year at Bowdoin.

“My [first] year, I came in thinking Iwas going to be a physics major, but I wasundeclared,” Navarro said. “My room-mate was a computer science major, andhe badgered me over and over again totake [Introduction to Computer Science].

I think I took it my sophomore fall.”At the end of that year, Navarro was un-

able tofind a physics research position, sohe asked to do research with Professor ofComputer Science Eric Chown. Chowninvited Navarro to work with Bowdoin’sRoboCup team for the summer.

Although Navarro enjoys the work ofprogramming the robots, he said that heprefers to referee RoboCup tournaments.

He started by reffi ng games within hisown pool. Navarro and his referee partner,Daniel Zeller ’15, practiced in those earlygames and came up with techniques thatnot only worked but also stood out. ereare three types of referees in RoboCup:

game controller, head ref and assistantref. Navarro typically works as the gamecontroller.

“e game controller and the headref have to be in really good commu-nication,” said Navarro. “If [Zeller]—who was the head ref—said anything, Iwould always announce it back to himto confirm that I did it. A lot of teamsdon’t do that, and they have a lot of mis-communication.”

Miscommunication draws a frighten-ing amount of anger from the diehardfans. According to him, the tournaments’crowds noticed and appreciated Navarro’seffi cient and audible communicationskills.eir high approval ratings grantedhim the position of the assistant referee atthe semifinals in Germany during his first

year reffi ng and head referee in the finalgame in China his second year.

Navarro finds the high pressure en- vironment of the Robot So ccer WorldCup to be thrilling. He said that manyprogrammers at the event are writingtheir Ph.D’s on robotics and have a loton the line.

“It’s really competitive,” he said. “Imag-ine a kid’s Little League game where thedads are shouting on the sideline times amillion. ese robots are people’s babies.”

Navarro noted an instance when thepressures from the crowd felt intense. Afellow referee had made an incorrect call;the rules on how to proceed were un-

clear.

e correct call would have allowedChile’s team to win the game and qualifyfor playoff s.

“Instead, they didn’t leave their pool.ad a huge fit.ey were screaming andshouting at [Zeller.] I swear, they wantedto kill him,” Navarro said. “His shot at reff -ing in the finals was lost, so he was reallysad. He was really scared of what they’d doto him.”

Despite the intense pressure andceaseless shouting, Navarro said he en-

 joys reffi ng.Recently, Navarro has stopped partici-

pating in RoboCup due to his busy sched-ule, but he hopes to return to it some day.

“I’ve always said that my ideal jobwould be to get a fellowship to be a pro-fessional ref for the league,” said Navarro.

Navarro ‘16 a world-famous Robocup referee

Beers from home and away:Long Trail and Oskar Blues

BY CALLYE BOLSTER

STAFF WRITER

ROBOT REF: Dan Navarro ‘16, a computer science major, has taken his love for robot soccer to the world stage where he has become a sought after referee.

SOPHIE WASHINGTON

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Students of color candidly

discuss the impact of race ontheir Bowdoin experience.

nder the tenure of former president Barry Mills, Bowdoin saw a sub-stantial increase in the racial diversity of its student body. For the 2001-2002 school year, just 21 percent of Bowdoin students identified as arace other than white; this year, according to the College’s CommonData Set, that number was 37 percent.e experiences of students of color at Bowdoin are varied and di-

 verse, and cannot be explained by any statistic. At the same time, manystudents believe that recent conflicts—the “tequila” and “gangster” parties, Cracks-giving, racially-charged verbal attacks on students in town—highlight the College’scontinued struggle to make Bowdoin a welcoming place for people of all racial andethnic backgrounds.

“When all these things happened and people refused to understand why thishurts a lot, that’s when it got to me,” said Cesar Siguencia ’18, who identi fies as La-

tino. “

at’s when I realized my race started to become a problem on this campus.”Skyler Lewis ’16, who identifies as black, said he is no longer surprised by racialissues on campus.

“I’ve dealt with a whole bunch of stuff ,” he said. “At first it used to reallybother me, being called the n-word or someone saying some really stupidracist stuff , and eventually I just got to the point where I’ve come to expectit almost.”

Ryan Strange ’17, who identifies as black and bi-racial, noted that students of color have been more

 vocal about racial issues this year than in the past.“ere are a lot more students of color who are speak-

ing out. And I guess that’s uncomfortable for some people,”he said.

But whether students of color speak out or stay quiet, theirrace nonetheless can impact their experiences throughouttheir time at Bowdoin.

Many students of color first saw the College throughExplore Bowdoin or Bowdoin Experience, admissions pro-grams that encourage low-income and first-generation stu-dents to apply and matriculate to Bowdoin. ese programshave a greater representation of students of color than theactual student body.

“e Experience and the Explore programs that I did,which I loved… helped me so much and I’m very apprecia-tive because it got me to where I am now,” said Dylan Good-will ’17, who identifies as Native American. “[But] it seemedso diverse when I came and then I was very surprised when Icame and I was like, ‘It’s not as diverse as I thought.’”

Lewis voiced a similar sentiment.“Both of the weekends that I came up seem like they’re

more for minority students so you walk around campus andthere are a whole bunch of minorities, especially during Ex-perience weekend,” he said. “And you leave and you show up [for college] and you’relike, where’d everybody go?”

As students of color arrive on a campus that is less racially diverse than they hadanticipated, many gravitate towards peers of similar racial and ethnic backgrounds.Affi nity groups, such as the Asian Student Association (ASA), the Native American

Student Organization (NASA), the Latin American Student Organization (LASO)and the African American Student Organization (Af-Am) provide one mechanismfor students to connect with others who feel the same way.

“I think it’s natural to kind of gravitate towards people who are similar to you,especially culturally,” Lewis said. “And that doesn't have to be based on race but oentimes it is. I live in Coles Tower with three other black males....we have similar cul-tural backgrounds, we listen to the same stuff , we came from similar areas.”

Michelle Hong ’16, who was born in Texas to Korean parents and identifies asAsian-American, is the current co-president of ASA. She joined the group her soph-omore year aer realizing that she did not know many Asian students at Bowdoin.

“I joined ASA my sophomore year because I think I started wondering why Ididn’t have any Asian-American friends at Bowdoin,” she said. “[I realized] therewere parts of my identity that I was missing by doing what the majority of Bowdoinstudents do.”

Like Hong, many students of color struggled to find and maintain their racial andcultural identities as they adjusted to Bowdoin.

Goodwill, who is Sioux and Navajo, has found it diffi cult to preserve her culturalpractices at the College. She also notices herself adjusting her language and behaviortofit in.

“I always knew I did code switching,” she said. “[But] I now notice it a lot more. Idon’t talk in my normal slang or in my normal accent at all.”

Jeff rey Chung ’16, who identifies as Chinese-American and is also co-presidentof ASA, noted that affi nity groups can help create community among students withsimilar racial experiences.

“Michelle and I have been working a lot to change the identity of the club... toreflect more on the community and identity of the students within the club ratherthan promoting an image of ‘Asian culture’ to the rest of campus,” he said.

While affi nity groups are a supportive environment for some students, optionsare more limited for students whose racial or ethnic identification is not shared by

as many Bowdoin students.Irfan Alam ’18, who identifies as South Asian and Muslim, wants to create a for-mal group for South Asian students to connect.

“We have a reasonable South Asian student population. I think like probablytwenty-fi ve,” he said. “We’re hoping to try to make an organization sort of like LASO,sort of like ASA, Af-Am, things like that, but for South Asian students,” he said.

NASA currently has six members and no faculty adviser. Goodwill, one of its co-

presidents, said such small numbers made it diffi cult for Native American studentsto respond to racial incidents on campus.

“Cracksgiving happened my first year here and I was so surprised that nothingwas being done about it because I was really off ended, but there was only me andtwo other girls on campus who were Native,” she said. “And they were like, well, this

has been happening and like there’s only three of us, what can we do?”Although some students find kinship befriending others of their same race or

ethnicity, many students of color voiced concerns about racial segregation on cam-pus.

“Maybe because it’s such a predominantly white institution, that people of colortend to stay together because they’re a part of the minority,” said Strange. “Maybe it’son both sides...I guess people of color and also white people need to push ourselvesto try to get to know people outside their own comfort zone.”is division along racial lines has reached most aspects of Bowdoin social life.

Several students of color said that race impacted their dating and hookup experi-ences on campus.

“Gay men of color most of the time are separate from gay white men,” saidStrange. “I don’t know why that is.”

Chung, who grew up in New York City, found that the trope of Asian-Americansas perpetual foreigners created separation for him in Bowdoin’s relationship scene.

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the party scene here that I—however much as I could identify as an American—Istill couldn’t completely fit in or I still couldn’t completely be seen as strictly thesame,” he said.

Simone Rumph ’19, who primarily identifies as African-American but alsoGreek and Brazilian, added that Bowdoin’s dating and hookup scene made herworry about being exoticized because of her race.

“You can see it in the way people approach you. ey don’t approach you in away that other girls will be approached,” she said.

Many students notice that the parties hosted by College Houses and by affi nitygroups—both of which are open to the entire student body—tend to have diff er-ent attendees.

“Af-Am, whenever they have parties, it’s usually people of color that go,”said Strange.

“I didn’t really process immediately that [when I] went into a College Houseparty as a freshman I might be the only Asian person that I could see,” Chung said.Racial divides at College Houses and other campus events lead some students

of color to question whether Bowdoin’s campus is self-segregated. Strange noticedthis phenomenon at some of the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) hearingsfollowing the “tequila” party.

“Aer the meeting at BSG, I noticed how segregated it was,” he said. “People ofcolor stood on one side and then there were all white people on the outside andit was just so interesting to me. I don’t know how or why that happened. And ithappens in the classroom too, I notice. And I don’t know why.”e impact of race is not limited to social groups or student government meet-

ings. Instead, students of color say that race sometimes influences their academicexperiences and their relationships with professors.

Many students expressed that the scarcity of students of color at Bowdoin plac-es a burden on individuals to represent everyone of their racial background.

“Sometimes you feel like the class looks to you to act as a spokesperson for blackstudents,” Lewis said.

Some students also worry that their personal behaviors might unintentionallyreinforce or inscribe racial stereotypes at Bowdoin and beyond.

“Ifind that I do very well at academics here at Bowdoin, which is fine,” Chungsaid. “But I think that at the same time there’s this sort of lingering thought in mymind: Am I sort of just perpetuating the stereotype of the model minority? Likedo my peers only think I’m doing well because I’m Asian or