INAUGURATION 2015Clayton Rose will be inaugurated as the 15th President of the College on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Farley Field House.

For more information about the weekends events, see the calendar on page 16.

Follow the Orients live coverage of the events on Twitter and Snapchat @bowdoinorient and see the full coverage online at bowdoinorient.com.

The results of the NESCAC Alco-hol and Drug Survey show Bowdoin in line with other peer schools in the majority of categories, though Bow-doin students are significantly hap-pier with the Colleges alcohol and drug policies. Bowdoin also had a noticeable increase in students will-ingness to intervene when friends are intoxicated.

The survey was first conducted in the spring of 2012, and the NESCAC plans to run it every three years. In 2012, Bowdoin coordinated the sur-vey and analyzed the data; this year, it was coordinated by Tufts.

For Associate Director of Health Promotion Whitney Hogan, the bestand most surprisingstatis-tics this year were those surround-ing bystander intervention.

The biggest surprise, and it was a pleasant surprise, were the sta-tistics around bystander stuff, she said. Those were much higher than I thought they were going to be. I thought that they were very, very hopeful. I believe Bowdoin is a place where students feel compelled to step up and step in.

The percentages of students who answered yes to questions about specific scenarios surrounding a sense of responsibility to step in with an intoxicated friend, were significantly higher than in 2012. For example, in 2015, 97 percent of

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Survey shows improvement in bystander intervention

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Students satisfi ed with Colleges drug and alcohol policies.

Sexual misconduct policy increases role of independent investigator

! e update to Bowdoins Sexual Misconduct and Gender Based Vio-lence Policy for this year includes changes to the role and responsibili-ties of the external investigator hired by the College to conduct indepen-dent inquiries into allegations of sex-ual misconduct, according to Benje Douglas, director of gender violence prevention and education.! e policy undergoes review each

year, and changes aim to keep the policy in line with best practices in the area. According to Douglas, this change came following a look at the policies of peer institutions, the rec-ommendations and guidelines from the Department of Education and feedback from students who have

gone through the process.Now, a" er the independent inves-

tigator completes his or her investi-gation, he or she is responsible for determining if the respondentthe individual accused of sexual miscon-ducthas violated the Sexual Mis-conduct and Gender Based Violence policy. ! e investigator will then pass along his or her report to the Sexual Misconduct Panel, which will deter-mine sanctions against the respondent.

Under the previous version of the policy, the investigator would only conduct an investigation and then make a recommendation as to whether the Sexual Misconduct Panel should meet. ! e panel would then review the investigators report and determine both responsibility and sanctions.

According to Kai McGintee, the

attorney at Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson recently hired by Bowdoin as an independent investigator, Bow-doins updated policy is in line with best practices recommended by the O# ce for Civil Rights for inquiry into alleged sexual misconduct and is at the forefront of national trends.

I think Bowdoin is de$ nitely ahead of the curve, McGintee said. Bow-doin is in line with best practices in terms of using a single investigator model and then having a sexual mis-conduct hearing board determining sanctions; that de$ nitely is a recog-nized best practice.

Neither McGintee nor her firm has any ties to Bowdoin. Prior to this summer, a member of the law firm that represents Bowdoin in other le-gal matters would conduct these in-vestigations into alleged sexual mis-

conduct. McGintee is a higher education at-

torney specializing in Title IX compli-ance, and began working as an inde-pendent investigator for institutions like Bowdoin about two years ago. She was hired by the College in July.

According to McGintee, its still common to see institutions conduct-ing sexually misconduct investiga-tions internally.

! ere isnt this abundance of Title IX investigators to choose from, Mc-Gintee said. Schools have been do-ing them internally and are still doing them internally...and this shi" to us-ing independent investigators is rela-tively new.! e new version of the policy also

expands de$ nitions and clari$ es deadlines, according to an email from Dean of Student A% airs Tim Foster.

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SINGING A NEW TUNE

Nikhil Dasgupta 16 sings Vance Joys Georgia with the Meddiebempsters in the student a cappella showcase last Thursday night. The showcase was the fi rst of this weekends inauguration events. The events continue today with tours of the College, the Inaugural Symposium on The Power of the Liberal Arts, and the Inaugural Concert featuring Guster. President Rose will offi cially be inaugurated on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., becoming the Colleges 15th president.

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J-Board annual report shows deans approved 12 of 13 recommendations

During the 2014-2015 academic year, the Judicial Board (J-Board) heard 13 cas-es according to its annual report released last Wednesday. Of these cases, nine in-volved allegations of Academic Honor Code violations, while four involved al-legations of Social Code violations. Four cases involving sexual misconduct were reported to the O# ce of the Dean of Stu-dent A% airs, though none were heard by the Sexual Misconduct Board.! e annual report, sent to all faculty,

sta% and students via email, is available online but requires a Bowdoin username

and password to access. It lists violations and punishments, with the names of the accused kept anonymous.

According to the Colleges website, the Academic Honor Code covers student conduct in such activities as classroom and laboratory assignments, examina-tions, quizzes, papers, and presentations, while the Social Code governs non-aca-demic student conduct. ! e student-run J-Board hears cases of alleged violations of both.

Each of the nine academic violations involved either plagiarism or cheating. ! ree of the four Social Code violations

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Volleyball has defeated 10 consecutive opponents and faces another game this weekend.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: BUILDING ACROSS GENERATIONSThree grads produce documentary about boat builder Dick Pulsifer 62.

FEATURES: STUDENT AND SOLDIER

Amir Parker 19 balances Bowdoin and Army ROTC.

OPINION: EDITORIAL: State of the liberal arts.Page 13.

ON (THE) EDGE: Embracing natural hair.Page 10.Page 9. Page 5. Page 14.

To hang out with some of the alumni I met in my stagecraft class freshman year.They played football and taught me that the jock stereotype isnt always accurate.

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STUDENT SPEAKWhat are your plans for Homecoming?

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Turn up! JK, Im on duty in Maine Hall.

Mariah Reading 16Work production for the Guster

show and making bagels.

Andrew Roseman 14Watching fi eld hockey dominate

as usual and having no idea whats going on.

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SECURITY REPORT: 10/1 to 10/14 ! ursday, October 1 A ! re alarm was activated at Osher

Hall by a housekeeper who was steam cleaning showers.

A student microwaving mac and cheese set off a smoke alarm at Os-her Hall.

A ! re alarm at 52 Harpswell was apparently caused by a faulty sensor.

Friday, October 2 An o" cer checked on the wellbe-

ing of an intoxicated student at Cole-man Hall.

An intoxicated student forced his way through a ! rst # oor window at West Hall a$ er getting locked outside. % e student will be billed for the dam-age to the window.

A black Univega Alpine Uno bi-cycle was reported stolen from outside of the Studzinski Recital Hall. % e bike had been le$ unlocked.

A student slipped on a wet # oor at a Ladd House registered event and re-ceived a facial injury.

Brunswick Rescue transported an intoxicated student from Moore Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

Saturday, October 3 A towel dispenser and a bathroom

wall were vandalized at Ladd House. A sick student was escorted to the

Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic. A dining employee with a cut

hand was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital. % ree minor students in Quinby

House were cited for possessing of hard alcohol.

A student was cited for posses-sion of hard alcohol in Stowe Hall.

An intoxicated student was es-corted from a Ladd House event to the students residence hall.

Officers checked on the well-being of an intoxicated student at Moore Hall.

Sunday, October 4 Brunswick Rescue transported an

intoxicated student with a possible concussion from Appleton Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

An intoxicated student vomited on a rest room # oor at % orne Hall. % e student was billed for the housekeeper call-in and clean-up.

An o" cer checked on the condi-tion of an intoxicated student at Apple-

ton Hall. Brunswick Rescue transported an in-

toxicated student from Winthrop Hall to Mid Coast Hospital.

An o" cer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at West Hall.

An o" cer checked on the wellbeing of an intoxicated student at Winthrop Hall.

An unlocked black Specialized bike was reported stolen from outside of the Hatch Science Library.

Broken wall lights and other dam-age was reported at Ladd House fol-lowing Epicuria.

A local resident complained of a students vehicle speeding on Bowker Street. A security o" cer warned the driver that future tra" c violations would be referred to the police.

A student who accidentally cut a wrist on a window at Hubbard Stacks was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

Monday, October 5 A ! re alarm at Moore Hall was caused

by a students use of a personal vaporizer. A student reported being stalked by

an ex-boyfriend. % e violator was served with a harassment warning.

Five local youths were issued trespass warnings a$ er one of the group attempt-ed to steal a bike at Sills Hall.

Tuesday, October 6 A gray and black Trek mountain

bike was reported stolen from Pine Street Apartments. The bike was unlocked and not registered.

Students living at an off-campus house on Union Street reported that someone may have tried to enter the home through a back door.

Wednesday, October 7 Students living at an off-campus

rental property on School Street re-ported that an unknown man was peering into their windows at 1:00 a.m. BPD responded but the suspect was not located.

! ursday, October 8 O" cers questioned a man at Smith

Union a$ er receiving a report that he was acting suspiciously.

Friday, October 9 A man who was reported to be

causing a disturbance near the Sear-les Science Building was escorted off

of campus property. A report was received of a suspi-

cious man leering at female students at Smith Union. The man left the area before he could be identified.

Saturday, October 10 A minor student was found in posses-

sion of three fraudulent drivers licenses. A Colby College rugby player was

injured during a game and transported to Mid Coast Hospital.

A student tripped on stairs at Mac-Millan House and received a chin lac-eration. % e student was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

Sunday, October 11 A student reported being fol-

lowed by a man on Park Row at 1:40 a.m. The man was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and wore glasses. The man fled across Maine Street when the student pulled out a cell phone to call for help.

A bicycle that was reported sto-len from Mayflower Apartments was found abandoned nearby.

Monday, October 12 Security officers assisted BPD in

attempting to locate a suspect in an attempted car break-in on Longfel-low Avenue at 4:20 a.m. The suspect was described as a white male, six feet tall, and wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt. The suspect, who was last seen running toward campus, was not located.

A red Raleigh bicycle was re-ported stolen from a bike rack at the Searles Science Building. The bike was not locked or registered.

A security officer assisted the Brunswick Police in responding to a gathering at 36 Pleasant Street that generated neighborhood noise complaints.

Wednesday, October 14 A student reported seeing a sus-

picious man on the main quad. Of-ficers determined that the man was a contractor working for the College.

An employee reported being stalked by a local man. The matter was referred to the BPD.

A student with a foot injury at Howell House was escorted to Mid Coast Hospital.

Ill be installing my new Germ Guardian 4825 AC Air Filter. Turns out Im allergic

to my bed.

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DIANA FURUKAWA

Mitchell was also an athlete during his time at Bowdoin, playing on the mens basketball team. In fact, he has stayed involved with the sporting world for his whole life. As part of his role as a U.S. Sena-

tor, he authored the Mitchell Report, an extensive investigation into steroid usage in Major League Baseball.

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THEYRE BACK!These accomplished alumni will be on campus this weekend for President Clayton Roses inauguration. We looked through the Orient archives to try to understand their humble beginnings.

KENNETH I. CHENAULT 73Chenault was the goalie on the mens soccer team before making the leap to the CEO and chairman of American Express. His senior year, he led the team to a 3-2 upset of then-sixth-ranked Tufts, quelling off ensive chances for Tufts at the end of the game.

Now the chair of Bowdoins Board of Trustees, Barker was involved on campus during her time as a student as well - she served as a

senior interviewer for the admissions offi ce and the secretary of the senior class, helping to plan a legendary Senior Week.

DEBORAH JENSEN BARKER 80

Server served a now extinct role at Bowdoin - the frat star. As the President of Psi U his junior year, he presided over the fraternitys weekly cocktail parties, attempting to break even while working with local businesses to supply the parties. Hes taken his natural talent for economics to Yahoo Finance, where he is editor-in-chief.

ANDY SERWER 81

Hearne was our favorite kind of student on campus - an engaged reader of the Orient. During her senior year, she wrote a letter to the editor on an article published resources aff orded to womens sports.

Her response centered around the idea that Bowdoin did not consider inequality of coaching between mens and womens sports.

SHELLEY HEARNE 83

Davis is now the president and designer of Ruthie Davis shoes; her designs often appear on the red carpet. During her time at Bowdoin, however, she was probably rocking Stan Smiths. Along with writing for the Orient her senior year, Ruthie Davis was the captain of the womens tennis team.

RUTHIE DAVIS 84

Weinberg is currently the President of Denison University. At Bowdoin, he played hockey with current Senior Vice President

for Development and Alumni Relations Rick Ganong while he was here. Ganong says he has stories about Weinberg.

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Twenty sex o! enses occurred at Bow-doin in 2014, according to the Annual Clery Campus Crime Report for the 2014 calendar year released on October 1 by the O" ce of Safety and Security.# e 20 reported sex o! enses is a jump

up from the six reported in 2013 and the four reported in 2012. Peer schools re-ported similar jumps in numbers for sex o! enses in 2014Bates and Amherst each reported 12, Williams reported 20 and Wesleyan reported 41 sex o! enses.

According to Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols, the increase in reported sex o! enses is a positive sign, considering that such crimes are notori-ously underreported.

Were very pleased that more students are reporting, he said. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that as students be-come more educated with the reporting process, they understand that they are in control of what happens.

Its very important that even if the vic-tim does not want to pursue it...that we know that the incident occurred for sta-tistical purposes. As we all know, sexual assaults are notoriously underreported, so even though our numbers this year in-creased substantially...it still really is the tip of the iceberg.

Director of Gender Violence Preven-tion and Education Benje Douglas cred-ited increased reporting to the work of student leaders on campus.

I think its a variety of things...but if I had to boil it down, Id say student leaders probably getting more information...out to other students about what it means to report, he said.

Nichols said that many of the cases in the Clery report were reported anony-mously. When reports of a sex o! ense are brought to security, all Nichols needs to know is that an incident occurred and where it occurred for it to be counted in the Clery statistics.

Certain people on campus are required to report any sex o! ense that they are made aware of to security, anonymously or otherwise. Mandated reporters include Deans, Residential Life sta! and Douglas.

However, Counseling Services, Safe Space members, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life Bob Ives, Director of the Womens Resource Center Melissa Quin-by, Director of the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Kate Stern and Health Services are fully con$ dential resources. # erefore, any sex o! enses dis-cussed exclusively with them would not be represented in the report.

Any sex o! enses that occurred o! campus are also not included in the Clery report.

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

Bowdoin also reported that $ ve bur-glaries, 143 liquor law violations and 43 drug law violations took place on or directly adjacent to campus in 2014. Ac-cording to Nichols, those numbers are consistent with previous years and are not surprising.

Number of sex offenses grows, likely due to increased reporting

Renovations restore historic Stowe House

# e College has completed a reno-vation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, where the author lived in the 1850s while writing Uncle Toms Cabin. # e house now provides o" ce space for faculty on leave.

Bowdoin purchased the house, known as the Stowe House, in 2001. Since then, it has su! ered from disre-pair and neglect. A series of proposals in 2005 might have allowed the College to restore the house, but the suggested renovations were postponed because of a lack of funding.

Constructed in 1806, the Stowe House is known best for being the home of Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe, the latter of whom published Uncle Toms Cabin in 1852 while her husband taught religion at Bowdoin.# e Stowe House has also accom-

modated a number of other historically important $ gures, such as Henry Wad-sworth Longfellow and Joshua Cham-berlain, both of whom are Bowdoin alumni. However, despite this historical and regional signi$ cance, by 2001 the house had fallen victim to structural damages and the presence of asbestos.

[# e house] was basically falling down, said Associate Professor of Afri-cana Studies and English Tess Chakkal-akal. # ey found quite a lot of asbestos and remnants of a $ re, and that made it really dangerous for that house to be even standing.

A% er a series of reviews, the College decided that a modest renovation was

the best path forward. Although the disposition, or giving up, of the Stowe House was considered, a 2012 bond is-sue allowed the College to acquire the funds necessary for the $1.3 million renovations.

We were at a crossroads, trying to $ gure out the best thing to do with it, said Senior Vice President for Fi-nance and Administration and Trea-surer Katy Longley. We thought about disposition, and we decided that the most responsible thing would be to do a modest renovation. # e renova-tion cost would be about $1.3 million. I think the College has struggled since it acquired it in 2001 to $ gure out what to do with it.# e renovations addressed the

questionable structural integrity of multiple parts of the house, as well as the ongoing asbestos problem. In ad-dition to repairing damaged sites, the repairs also restored the house to its 1850s appearance.

# e renovations have been done to get rid of the most structurally un-sound parts of the building and re-turn it to its 1855 condition, which is the historic period thats closest to the Stowe residency, said Katherine Ran-dall 16, who completed a digital time-line of the Stowe House in 2015. Its been about making [the house] more structurally sound, as well as restoring some of the architectural integrity and returning it to that beautiful neoclassi-cal building that it was in the 1850s.

Harriet Beecher Stowe lived there from 1850 to 1852, while she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, and there was a

major renovation right after she left in the 1854 timeframe, said Direc-tor of Finance and Campus Services Delwin Wilson. It took a very sim-ple house and made it much more Greek revival, much more ornate. So thats more the time period that the interior is reflecting currently.

Now that the restoration has been completed, one of the next questions to be addressed involves how the Stowe House will be used by both the College and the town of Brunswick. Although the newly renovated building has been used primarily for o" ce space, a single room is being set aside to celebrate the intellectual and historical legacy of the Stowe House.

Right now, there are o" ces in there, and those o" ces are occupied by fac-ulty on leave, for their sabbaticals [and for] emerita faculty. It has turned into a nice place for faculty who are on leave or recently retired to think and work, said Chakkalakal. But I continue to hope that the College will try to revi-talize some of its intellectual history in that space by perhaps making it into a center for faculty, students and even sta! to have conversations.

Additionally, the room not used as o" ce space is intended to be open to the public, where people from all over can come and experience the storied history o! ered by the Stowe House.

We want it to be a space that can be used equally by people who visit Brunswick or the College, by people who have no a" liation with the Col-lege, to come and understand Stowes legacy, said Randall.

BY MATT SHENORIENT STAFF

THE BIRTH OF UNCLE TOMS CABIN: Bowdoin com-

pleted renovations on the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, thanks to

a 2012 bond that allowed the College to acquire funds for the

$1.3 million renovation.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin in the house

in the 1850s. The house currently serves as offi ces for faculty on

leave or recently retired. I continue to hope that the College

will try to revitalize some of its intellectual history in that space

by perhaps making it into a center for faculty, students and

even staff to have conversations, Associate Professor of Africana

Studies and English Tess Chakkalakal said.

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pertained to two separate incidents of assault, while the fourth involved a purse the% .

Deans review each J-Board punish-ment recommendation, and this year they accepted all but one of them. In the one exception, the J-Board recommended that a student who had plagiarized three sen-tences for a short extra-credit assignment receive an F in the course and be suspend-ed for a semester with the opportunity to transfer one credit during the suspension. Senior Associate Dean of Student A! airs Kim Pacelli declined to accept the suspen-sion due to concerns about the propor-tionality of the punishment.# e J-Board itself consists of 13 mem-

bers who are chosen to serve on cases at random. Panels hearing academic cases consist of three students and two faculty members, while the panels hearing social cases consist of $ ve students.

J-Board Chair Maggie Acosta 16 expressed con$ dence in the board.

# e process of coming to a consen-sus [for each case] has certainly been ex-tremely thoughtful, Acosta said.

In ruling, the J-Board considers the

facts and context of the situation as well as the precedent from relevant past cas-es, according to the report.

For the upcoming school year, Acosta explained that, while respecting prece-dent, she personally would like to consid-er the speci$ cs of a new case more closely.

Im certainly interested in seeing spe-ci$ cs and individuality being taken into account with a greater degree than I feel theyve been taken into account in the past, Acosta said. # e details that play into a persons decision-making skills when they arrive here at Bowdoin, as they navigate their time here at Bowdoin are things worth considering.

Of the four sexual assault cases, the Colleges Investigator under the Student Sexual Misconduct and Gender Based Violence Policy determined there was an insu" cient basis for board reviews in two cases, while two others were resolved via student resignations prior to the Col-leges investigation. # ough separate from the J-Board, the

Sexual Misconduct Board chooses two members of the J-Board to serve on it. Acosta noted that, as a result of a recent change, these two members will now be able to participate as active members, whereas previously they had served as observers.

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students said they would intervene with a friend who is about to drive a car as compared with 87 percent in 2012.

Dean of Student Affairs Tim Fos-ter pointed to the bystander inter-vention statistics as a high point in the survey.

One of the things youll see screaming through the data is the changes between 2012 and 2015 where students are intervening when theyre concerned about someone else, and that is just so very impor-tant, said Foster.

The highlight of my fall has been the bystander statistics, Hogan said.

Hogan credits the trends in those numbers in part to changes in pro-gramming that came following the 2012 survey.

Since 2012, every upperclassman leader every single year has gone through active bystander training where the message is that Bowdoin is a place students look out for one another, she said. I think thats clearly shown in the statistics.

Foster also highlighted data show-ing that Bowdoin students tend to be happier with administrative policies than students at other schools. For example, 96 percent of survey respon-dents agreed that administration en-courages responsible drinking, com-pared to 81 percent at peer schools.

People seem to feel that the policies and the general college ap-proach to dealing with alcohol is right-minded, he said. I feel good about that. I think the key thing for me is...that we have found a good balancing point between focusing on student health and safety.

Though Hogan will not be distrib-uting the full results of the survey, some results will inform continued programing of both Peer Health and the Alcohol Team (A-Team).

According to Hogan, student leaders in those groups will use the statistics in one-on-one conver-sations with students, during the yearly alcohol summit, alcohol use screenings and on posters through-out campus.

Sometimes people may be sur-prised by these statistics and some-times they may just be what people were expecting, said Jillian Burk 16, a student leader on Peer Health and member of the A-Team. But its just something to have in the back of your mindwhat the culture and the social life is like here at Bow-doinand whether or not there are areas for improvement.

Student responses to the statistics will drive changes in Peer Health and the A-Team going forward.

Through students responses to the data, that often shifts what we want to do in the future, said Ho-gan. Therell probably be some changes to programs in the spring but even more next fall.

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of respondents agree that disciplinary sanctions are about right.

BY THE NUMBERS: According to the recent NESCAC Alcohol and Drug Survey, Bowdoin falls in line with peer schools in the majority of categories. However, Bowdoin students are signifi cantly happier with the Colleges drug and alcohol policies. People seem to feel that the policies and the general college approach to dealing with alcohol is right-minded, Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster said. I think the key thing for me is...that we have found a good balancing point between focusing on student health and safety. The survey also revealed bystander interventions have increased roughly 10 percentage points since the survey in 2012.

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Logan Taylor indicted on one charge of gross sexual assault

Logan Taylor, a former Bowdoin stu-dent who resigned from the College this summer, was indicted on a single count of gross sexual assault, a Class A felony with a maximum of 30 years in prison, by a Cumberland County grand jury accord-ing to the Bangor Daily News.

At a dispositional conference on Au-gust 13 at the Cumberland County Court-house, the original complaint against Taylor was dismissed without prejudice. According to the Bangor Daily News, the complaint was dismissed without preju-dice because prosecutors did not present to a grand jury within three sessions of Taylors initial appearance.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Madigan told the Bangor Daily News this was due to several outstanding matters. Because the dismissal was without preju-dice, the District Attorneys o! ce was able to continue to pursue the charges.

When Taylor resigned from Bowdoin this summer, the College halted its own investigation into the alleged sexual as-

sault. Director of Gender Violence Pre-vention and Education Benje Douglas said that the College will continue to pro-vide resources to the alleged victim." e alleged assault was # rst brought

to the attention of the Brunswick Police Department (BPD) a$ er a female student called Bowdoin Safety and Security for a ride from the area of the Swinging Bridge on Mill St. in Brunswick in the early morn-ing on Sunday, May 24. " e security o! -cer called BPD at 2:34 a.m.

A$ er speaking with the female student, the o! cers learned of the allegation of sexual assault which allegedly took place earlier that night in Coleman Hall." e female student was taken to the

hospital and o! cers while the BPD be-gan a search for Taylor. He was located in Topsham around 5 a.m. by the Topsham Police Department, who turned him over to the BPD. A$ er talking to BPD, Taylor was o! cially arrested Sunday morning at 10 a.m. and sent to Cumberland County Jail. Taylor was issued a criminal trespass order and was barred from all College property, according to a campus-wide Safety and Security Alert sent by Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols.

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Despite Bernie Sanders best ef-forts, casino capitalism still reigns supreme in the world of collegiate wine criticism. Thanks to the gen-erous soft money donations to our Kickstarter (Super PAC), we found ourselves saddled with the trouble-some burden of spending $135 on one bottle of wine. Freed from the tyranny of the powers that be on the Orient editorial staff, we embarked upon a glorious odyssey.

Hannaford, with its plebeian $29.35 cap on wine prices, could not service our prodigious need. We looked instead to the West, travel-ing to the distant environs of Free-ports Bow Street Market. Unfortu-nately, our journey eerily paralleled the opening pages of Stephen Kings The Mist.

Conor Tillinghast, our normally capable chauffeur, decided to take the back route to Freeportin-advertently plunging us into a haze reminiscent of an Epicurial milieu. With great courage, your esteemed critics ventured forth.

After a perilous 10-minute jour-

ney, we were rewarded with the Bow Street Markets expertly curated back-room liquor department. We inspected the wares andafter much searchingchanced upon Bertanis 2009 Amarone della Valpolicellapriced at a paltry $114. Emboldened by the stores gracious cashier, we returned to Brunswick on the more orthodox freeway.

Comfortably settled in Yellow House, our first order of business was to let the wine breathe. CNNs pre-debate coverage helped pass the half hour before we could finally im-bibe our ill-gotten gains. As Lincoln Chafee confusedly ambled upon the stage, we too ventured into a realm to which we were not sure we belonged.

A hearty pour into our trusty mason jars presented a rich velvety color heretofore obscured by Ber-tanis dark-horse of a bottle. Wills quick swish revealed the finest legs your humble critics have yet to ob-serve. Sturdy, thick and robust, they provided the perfect support for the full-body that greeted us upon our first taste.

What can you say about a wine that has it all? Like a 7-layered dip, each qua1 imparted a multitude of distinct, yet well-blended 2 avors. A sweet fruity greeting gave way to a smoky, almost spicy undertone as the wine

sojourned through our oral cavities. To put it bluntly, we felt the Bern. Maybe even a little Chafee. Despite the Amarones overwhelming dryness, we couldnt help but reach for more a3 er ev-ery delectable sip.

At this point, Martin de-cided to update his Mac-Book to OS X 10.11 El Capitan so as to remove any and all technological dis-tractions. Even with this im-pediment to our note-taking abilities, the complexities of Bertanis o1 ering were per-manently imprinted upon both of our consciousnesses. Long a3 er we 4 nished, this wine ignited within us a lin-gering warmththe kind of warmth that only money can buy. We felt like a pro-verbial Scrooge McDuck, diving into a proverbial pile of gold coins.

Readers have corked up our mailbox, clamoring to know the answer to one simple question: was it worth it? In a word, yes. In more words, if we asked to spend $114 dollars of other peo-ples money at Bow Street Market for a Tuesday night debate companion,

we would have a hard time saying no. We would like to thank our won-derful Kickstarter supporters and we look forward to delivering your re-wards soon.

Managing academics, athletics, social life and the transition to col-lege can be difficult for any first year student. For Amir Parker 19, jug-gling all of this is only half the battle.

Parker is also enrolled in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program at the Uni-versity of Southern Maine (USM), the only Bowdoin student to do so.

Ive known for a while that I wanted to join the military, Parker said. His family has a long history of military servicehis older brother is currently enlisted in the Coast Guard, and his father is a retired Army veteran.5 ough ROTC programs exist at

over 1,000 colleges, Bowdoin does not have such a program.

Although Parker considered at-tending college and then enrolling in O6 cer Candidate School a3 erward, he ultimately chose the ROTC pro-gram so that he could enroll in college and train for the military at the same time. Upon graduation, he will be commissioned as an o6 cer and have a four year obligation to the U.S. Army.

To Parker, enrolling at Bowdoin and completing ROTC at USM was a simple choice. But many of his friends and advisors initially thought he might be overcommitting himself.

5 ey were a bit skeptical and wor-ried because they felt like it was a lot, Parker said.

His schedule is certainly busy. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday morn-ings, he drives to the USM campus in Portland for physical training.

Workouts include running, sit-ups, push-ups and a practice known as rucking, in which Parker and his

fellow cadets run with backpacks full of military gear that often weigh up to 50 pounds. While such exercises would be demanding at any hour of the day, Parker and his fellow ROTC cadets deal with the added difficulty of operating on little sleep.

I have to get up at 3:30 usually, and if we ruck, I have to get up at 3:00, Parker said.

His ROTC training goes beyond just physical exercise. He attends weekly leadership training every Wednesday and engages in tactical training and 4 eld exercises on Friday a3 ernoons.

When the military requirements and the demands of being a Bow-doin student seem overwhelming, Parker makes sure to keep his chal-lenges in perspective.

I really dont think its hard at all be-cause the way I look at it is that there are people who actually have hard lives, Parker said. I dont think its hard. I just think its a good opportunity. Its a chal-lenging opportunity. Its an opportunity for me to embrace a challenge. When I wake up, I dont have to worry about where Im going to sleep or what Im go-ing to eat, so I dont really think of it as being hard. 5 ats the mindset I attack it with.

Such a mindset helps Parker mentally deal with his demanding schedule. On a practical level, he employs a strategy of rigorous time management.

Pretty much every minute of my day is planned out. I dont have much time to waste, Parker said.

While military service always seemed natural to Parker, his path to Bowdoin wasnt as clear. Originally from Bal-timore, Maryland, Parker had never heard of Bowdoin until a college advi-sor at his high school suggested he ap-ply. He submitted an application despite knowing fairly little about the College, but decided to attend Bowdoin a3 er a campus visit last April.

Parker shares the Colleges commit-ment to the Common Good. In his hometown of Baltimore, he worked to mentor inner city youth through football.

Just in case schoolwork and military training werent enough to keep him busy, he is a member of Bowdoins varsity football team, too.

Unsurprisingly, Parker doesnt have much time to attend campus events or parties.

The first time I actually even got to go to a party was Epicuria, Parker said. That was the first time since Ive been at Bowdoin that I went out. And I had a good time.

Although he rarely goes out on week-ends and spends signi4 cant time o1 cam-pus, Parker has nonetheless found it fairly easy to make connections at Bowdoin.

I still have good friends on the foot-ball team. I have good friends on my 2 oor. I have good friends that arent as-sociated with my 2 oor or the football team, Parker said. So its not that my social life sucks, necessarily.

He has also found a good support system within the Bowdoin commu-nity, including a group of friends and advisors who help ensure his work-

load remains under control.5 ey have been supportive.

5 eyve had my back, said Parker. 5 eyve been checking in with me periodically just to make sure things are running smoothly, and theyve been great about that.

Parker will continue to rely on such

friendships moving forward. He is committed to the ROTC program for all four years. At Bowdoin, he plans to study physics with the goal of someday doing engineering work in the Army.

I do want to make a career out of the military, Parker said.

Parker 19 balances Bowdoin and ROTC

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WILL DANFORTH AND MARTIN KRZYWY

BOTTOM OFTHE BARREL

STUDENT AND SOLDIER: In addition to being a full-time Bowdoin student, Parker is enrolled in the Univer-sity of Southern Maines ROTC program where he travels three times a week before sunrise to train.

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BY JESSICA PIPERSTAFF WRITER

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Anderson Coopers dulcet tones and asinine questions

MARTIN I feel like Moses entering the Promised Land. But just like him, I know I wont be here next week.

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WILL This is great. Lets launch Kickstarters every week ad nauseam.

DIANA FURUKAWA

When I wake up, I dont have to worry about where Im going to sleep or what Im going to eat, so I dont really think of it as being hard. Thats the mindset I attack it with.

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This will be your standard Wel-come to Fall Foods and Flavors recipe. I love fall; I buy tiny gourds to decorate my room, and I take pictures of leaves changing because they are pretty. Equally important to the practice of fall rituals in my book is the baking of acorn squash.

The hardest part of acorn squash is getting it cut open, which requires either a really sharp knife, or a pret-ty crummy dull one and a lot of de-termination, which is how I did it. A mix of sawing, poking and stab-bing eventually leaves you with two halves of a delicious squash ready to be doused in butter and sugar.

This rather simple recipe leaves me space to talk about an issue that is near and dear to my heart, but I have found difficult to crack into (similarly, you might say, to an acorn squash). I want to talk about food politics, especially in Maine. Ready for stats? According to the USDA, between one and 16 percent of people in Maine are food inse-cure, or they lack access to a suf-ficient quantity of affordable, nu-tritious food. Along with Vermont and Rhode Island, Maine has one of the highest levels in the Northeast. The adult obesity rate in Maine is much higher than any other state in New England, and most of the

highest rates happen in northern Maine. This makes sense, to some degree, because northern Maine also has more fast food restaurants per person, less access to grocery stores and fewer farmers markets. What doesnt make sense is that the northern counties are also the ones with more acreage used for farming by a huge degree. Food is produced and shipped away, with the profit going mostly to large distribution companies and not to the farmers. Meanwhile, cheap, unhealthy food is brought in to feed the people who grow fresh food for a living. Food from the ground has stopped being thought of as food, and so people living in farming communities are finding it hard to eat. It doesnt make sense.

I would love to have the author-ity to insert a suggestion on what we can do to fix this. I have some partial fixes: buy local foods, study where your foods come from, pay the extra money for local and or-ganic, knowing that it is helping farmers get what they deserve. But the issue is more complex than that, and will require policy changes, and discussions where the health of ru-ral, agricultural communities is of top importance. It will require some sawing, poking and stabbing with a crummy dull knife to crack this one open (hit-you-over-the-head meta-phor, but Im pretty proud of it).

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS1. Preheat oven to 450.2. Saw, poke, and stab open your squashes, or cut them if you have an appropriate knife.3. Scoop out the seeds (these roasted with some olive oil and salt are really yummy!)4. Place the squashes open-face up on a baking sheet covered in tinfoil.5. Place pats of butter in the hollow of the squash, and drizzle with selected sugary item.6. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, until the fl esh is tender.7. Eat.

1. Acorn squashes, however many you want to feed you and your *clique* (Hannafords sources them from local farms! Spears Farm, Waldoboro, ME)

2. Butter (I like to buy Kates, which is based out of Saco, Maine, and uses all New England

milk to make slow churned, yummy butter).3. Honey or Maple Syrup (I used honey from Fairwinds Farm in Topsham)

4. Salt5. Pepper6. Nutmeg and/or cinnamon if desired

BY ELIZA HUBERWEISSCOLUMNIST

MIRANDA HALL

Baked acorn squash and Maine food politics

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TALK OF THE QUAD

I was called a cripple for the 6 rst time during Field Day in fourth grade. I fell during a game of kickball and overheard a group of boys in my class laughing about when Daisy the cripple lost our class the big game. Not fully understanding the word that these budding kickball professionals had just used, I returned home and Googled the de6 nition. It didnt take long to 6 nd: One who is disabled. A social crippleor, socially de6 cient.

I was born 11 weeks premature, and due to brain trauma I have a develop-mental disorder called Cerebral Palsy. Im a spastic triplegicuse of my legs and le7 arm is limited because of sti8 -ness and atrophy, and I have poor balance. If youve seen me walking around campus, youve probably no-ticed my a8 ected walking pattern, which makes carrying a cup full of hot co8 ee a grueling experience. Shoutout to travel mugs and other lidded drink receptacles.

On that day in fourth grade I had just turned 10, and I had never thought of myself as de6 cient in any way; by that age I had already endured multiple muscle-lengthening, bone-rotating or-thopedic surgeries, and I actually had quite a rockin self esteem. Being faced with my apparent social de6 ciency was a blow to my fragile prepubescent sense of self. I became increasingly introvert-ed and anxious in unfamiliar social sit-uations. When new people asked why I limp, Id avert their gaze and mumble about a sprained ankle. I faked sick a lot and laughed along when my friends

called things retarded. I spent a lot of time playing the Sims by myself and mentally playing out absurd scenarios where someone found a cure for Cere-bral Palsy and I could be normal. Be-ing labeled a cripple that day triggered a pretty signi6 cant period of my life marked by feelings of incompetence and confusion.

One word created a huge shi7 in my understanding of myself and the world around me. Maybe Im con9 at-ing typical preteen angst with this one momentbut even today it is a word that stings to hear. Now at age 20, Im a very di8 erent person than I was at 10 or 11. Im comfortable with my body and understand my strengths and limi-tations. I look people in the eye when explaining why I walk the way I do. I

happily advocate for myself and my needs and dont mind asking for help. At any given time Im stressing about 700 other things before Im stressing about my disability; like any other Bowdoin student, Im preoccupied with papers, meetings and regretful nights in Baxter basement. One of my favorite comedians/activists Maysoon Zayid said it best in her TedTalk: Ive got 99 problemspalsy is just one.: at being said, there are inherent

frustrations to being disabled on this campus. I never use the quad-facing stairway to leave Searles because there is no railing and I stress about getting knocked over when herds of people are trying to get in and out. I get nervous walking alone in the win-ter in case I fall on ice when no one is

around. : e idea of navigating Bow-doin with less mobility than I have now is dauntingwere minimally wheel-chair accessible.

Here at Bowdoin, we dont talk about disability. As a community, were engaging in lots of thoughtful dialogue around issues of diversity and inclu-sion; however, disability issues are con-tinually le7 out of the conversation. : ere are fantastic spaces here for stu-dents of color, queer students or stu-dents of di8 erent religious and socio-economic backgrounds to discuss and share their experiences. Bowdoin lacks this space for students with disabilities, and as a result, moments of ableism go largely unaddressed.

Ive heard friends call one another cripples a7 er an injury. Ive heard

cripple used in 24 College, which I consider my space of comfort, safety and support on this campus. Ive heard variations of the word retarded get thrown around without hesitation. When people dont speak up, the dam-age of words goes unacknowledged, and ableism ultimately prevails.

As a community, we have progress to make when it comes to acknowledg-ing and supporting the experiences of students with disabilitieswheth-er cognitive, physical, emotional or learning-related. Ive noticed a fear or hesitancy in people when it comes to talking about disability. With so many questions and uncertainties related to whats right, wrong or o8 ensive, just starting the conversation can feel like a challenge. If we open ourselves up to asking the tricky clarifying questions (Is it okay to ask someone about their disability? Is retarded the right word to use to describe someone with a men-tal disability? What quali6 es as a dis-ability?), we can learn about the issues together in a way that validates and prioritizes the experience of students with disabilities, while still educating others as to why, say, calling someone a cripple isnt cool.

We need to talk about the power of words, we need to think about lan-guage, and we need to be open to ask-ing the tricky questions that make use-ful conversations happen. Sometimes the best way to communicate some-thing is just by saying it. So as I 6 nish this piece, feeling a vulnerable power in having shared this part of my life, I hope we start talking about it.

Daisy Wislar is a member of the Class of 2018.

DISABILITY

MIRANDA HALL

Tomorrow, President Clayton Rose will speak at the Colleges 15th inau-guration. For this weeks edition of Talk of the Quad, the Orient looked to Bowdoins past inauguration speeches. Rose enters a lineage of presidents who have taken the opportunity to explore what Bowdoin represents and how the College defines itself. Below, weve included a selection of quotes illustrating previous presidents views of Bowdoins past and their hopes and concerns about the future.

Joseph McKeen | September 2, 1802The organization of a literary

institution in the district of Maine, which is rapidly increasing in popu-lation, is an interesting event, and will form an important epoch in its history. The disadvantages with which the district has contended from the days of its early settlement, have been numerous and discourag-ing. The scattered inhabitants were long in a weak and defenceless state: for more than a century the sword of the wilderness was a terror to them; and they were frequently constrained

to lay aside the peaceful instruments of the husbandman, and to seize the weapons of defence. Planted in de-tached settlements along an extensive coast, and depending on precarious supplies of subsistence from abroad, it was long before they could enjoy the means of education with which some other parts of New England were early favored. Add to this, that deep and strong prejudices prevailed against the soil and climate, by which immigrations were discouraged, and the population of the district long re-tarded. These mistakes have yielded to the correcting hand of time; and Maine is rapidly advancing to that state of maturity, in which, without being forcibly plucked, she will drop from her parent stock.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | 1872 Neither men nor things are what

they were, and the question for us is, whether there may not be other courses that might also be worthy of something better than scorn. Let us take no unfair ground. Let us say education is for the man and not the workman. Very well, and by educa-tion we mean that training of the man by which he will be enabled to sum-mon and concentrate all his energies

upon a proposed end. Let us say that discipline is the chief thing in edu-cation. The question is now clearwhether there is only that one course prescribed in an age and society far different from ours, to which every man shall be brought who aspires to liberal culture and disciplined pow-ers...These earnest young men who seek the new course do not seek to avoid discipline or toil. They want their studies to face outward toward action, as well as inward towards life. They want to acquire discipline through studies which take hold on present activities, and whose results abide and can be turned to use. They do not wish to practice with masks and foils that must be thrown away in the field of action, but with the edge and point with which they are to win their way.

Kenneth C.M. Sills | June 20, 1918In college we deal with the spir-

its of men, not with their fortune, wrote once a distinguished teacher. Our aim is not vocational; our goal is not efficiency. We hold that the real object of education is to make men free intellectually and spiritually, to develop the resourceful mind in a strong Christian character. Educa-

tion concern is itself primary with the individual. It strives to make him not only more useful, but a happier, more tolerant man. A per-son who in his formative years be-comes acquainted even somewhat distantly, with the best in literature and science and art, who has had some training in philosophical and religious thought, and in the histori-cal point of view has within himself resources that will grow only more potent and more delightful with age. These are all truisms but they need constant repetition.

James S. Coles | October 13, 1952More and more often on our

campuses today will a student, in in-troducing a visiting speaker whose ideas may not be common with con-servative thought in the country, explain that the ideas of the speaker are not shared by the student intro-ducing him, but that the organiza-tion the student represents feels that the speaker should have a right to be heard on campus. I mention these incidents only to indicate part of the background for my own fear that there is developing on our cam-puses, an atmosphere which does not permit the free expression and

exchange of ideas.

Barry Mills | October 27, 2001Now, the fact is that the terrorist

attacks on New York and Washing-ton and their aftermath have forced many of us to reassess our lives and our priorities. Things that appeared so vital and important only two months ago can now seem trivial. I have sensed this ongoing reassess-ment as I travel around the coun-try on behalf of the College. I hear it from parents who tell me how relieved they are to have their sons and daughters studying in the rela-tive safety of Brunswick, Maine.

This sort of reexamination is valu-able because to some extent, I believe the excesses of the recent past have led us away from what is truly impor-tant in our lives and in our society. And as we recalibrate our priorities, I believe that the value of education will be reaffirmed as central to a ra-tional future.

The question, though, is where our particular form of education - the residential liberal arts college, fits in any reaffirmation of the value of education.

Compiled by the Orients editorial board.

INAUGURATIONS OVER THE YEARS

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Mental illness, depression, abuse and suicide arent what most would consider light-hearted themes. However, Masque and Gown wants to blur the lines between serious and comedic with its fall production of Crimes of the Heart.

Crimes of the Heart is the tale of three sisters, Lenny, Meg and Babe. The play opens with the three meeting in their childhood home in Mississippi for the first time in many years. Lenny has grown tired and depressed from the weight of familial responsibilities that she has inherited as the oldest sister. Mean-while, Megs attempted career in the country music industry has fallen apart. Lastly, the youngest sister, Babe, has just shot her husband un-der mysterious circumstances.

Director Axis Fuksman-Kumpa 17 explained that it can be tough for her and her actors to immerse themselves in such a complicated play.

Sometimes we have to kind of pull back when were rehearsing, Fuks-man-Kumpa said. We need to take a step back and really process that be-cause it affects you as an actor.

Fuksman-Kumpa hopes the per-formance will prompt discussion about more difficult issues, especial-ly at Bowdoin, where most students have extremely busy schedules.

Theres always an idea that you should be strong enough to handle it on your own, Fuksman-Kumpa said. She hopes that when viewers see how the members of the family rely on each other to get through difficult times, they will understand that it is OK to seek help when necessary.

I hope that by bringing some of this to light, itll make it a little bit easier for other people to reflect on that in their own lives, Fuksman-Kumpa said.

While the play does touch on dark

and heavy themes, Fuksman-Kumpa hopes that the comedic aspect pres-ent throughout the play will lighten the mood.

It deals with these really intense and very genuine things...that are very emotionally traumatic, but it brings them to light in a way that has kind of a joy and a humility about them, Fuksman-Kumpa said.

Set designer Conor Walsh 18 also attempted to create a more positive atmosphere for the production with an open, airy stage design.

To bring it more into the realm of comedy and to lighten up some of the dark themes, the sets very light,

Walsh said. He and the crew also worked to

make the set feel more lived-in, with details like slightly scratched-up walls.

The walls werent painted yes-terday, you know? They were, but theyre not supposed to look like it, Walsh said.

The lighthearted mood was pres-ent in rehearsals as well, according to cast member Austin Goldsmith 18, who plays Meg.

Our better rehearsals come out of those where we have a little bit of time to goof around beforehand, so we connect better, Goldsmith said.

The cast is also trying to find hu-

mor in chaosdue to the timing of this weekends Inauguration, the members have not yet been able to rehearse in Pickard.

1 e rehearsal process is di2 erent from usual because Ive never been so late getting into the space. [1 is week] was the 3 rst time we ran through the entire show, said Goldsmith.

In order to direct a play through Masque and Gown, one must submit a detailed proposal to be reviewed by the club. Masque and Gown President Mad-eleine Livingston 16 explained that Fuks-man-Kumpas proposal for Crimes of the Heart stood out for a variety of reasons.

[It] is not a play that very many people

know but is really interesting and deals with some tough issues about families, Livingston said.

The show will be performed on October 22, 23 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater.

Im most excited to see it come together, said Livingston. I think its always nice to have been part of a show from the conception to per-formance.

I just really encourage people to come see the show, said Fuksman-Kumpa. I think its something that is at some points challenging to watch but the kind of experience where, at the end, youll be glad you saw it.

Masque & Gown mixes comedy, dark issues in Crimes of the Heart

BEHIND THE SCENES: (LEFT TO RIGHT) Austin Goldsmith 18, Sarah Guilbault 18 and Erin McKissick 16 rehearse for Masque and Gowns fall production, Crimes of the Heart, which uses comedy to follow three sisters dealing with mental illness.

BY AMANDA NEWMANSTAFF WRITER

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Chantal Loal, director of the French dance company Dife Kako, choreographed Chateau Rouge to tackle the uncomfortable realities presented by Eurocentric ideals of beauty in the Parisian neighborhood Chateau Rouge. A station of the Paris Mtro, Chateau Rouge is no-torious for its multicultural shops, many of which cater to women of African descent. However, several of the products sold in the shops pose lethal health concerns, as they often use poisonous chemicals to whiten skin or straighten hair.

Dife Kako was invited to cam-pus as a part of the Colleges Stud-ies in Beauty Initiative, which seeks to discuss the issues of beauty and aesthetics across various disciplines. Chateau Rouge, which features traditional African and Caribbean dances set to multicultural melodies, intends to illuminate the uncon-scious whitenization of black wom-en in the predominantly African and Caribbean neighborhood of Paris through the use of historical context.

According to Loal, the bonds of slavery that once linked Africa, the Caribbean and Europe have devel-oped into a new and more subtle form of slavery that still exists today.

It is true that colonization and slavery had aftermaths, and one of the many aftermaths is precisely this one: identity distortion, said Hanetha Vete-Congolo, associate professor of romance languages and literatures and one of the faculty co-ordinators of the event.

Chateau Rouge features a multi-cultural composition of performance elements. Because the neighbor-hood itself has a diverse population, Loal wanted to integrate global in-fluences into the performance. Some performances incorporate founda-tional African and Caribbean dance steps with heavy influence from the French regions of Martinique and Guadeloupe, while others integrate European words and text with a di-verse array of music. Loal also in-corporates many different sounds, ranging from African music out of Nigeria and Cape Verde, Central Af-rica drum music and Islamic, Paki-stani and Indian songs and rhythms.

Loal weaves humor through-out the performance to alleviate its emotional and tragic content. Hu-mor provides the audience with a lens through which to consider and discuss significant issues.

The show is about the common identityan identity that is inter-national, because Chateau Rouge is international, Loal said. I hope the audience will see that although Chateau Rouge is located in France, you can find such towns in virtually all countries. Because we are here in a college, people are very intellectu-ally curious and I hope that the show will be meaningful in that sense.

According to Vete-Congolo, Chateau Rouge is a timely perfor-mance, since Bowdoin is becoming more multi-ethnic and multicultural than in the past. She called for the Bowdoin community to ponder new

questions about identity.There is always a reason to hold

an activity like this one because it concerns society, and if it concerns society then it concerns people, Ve-te-Congolo said.

She believes that, in this new age of technology, society is exposed to more discourse about identity and identity unease. These new con-versations can sometimes create a [belief ] that where you stand, and what you are, are not necessarily where you should stand and what you should be. That creates anxiety, which in turn creates action and re-action, said Vete-Congolo.

For students in the audience, Chateau Rouge shed light on the issues of Eurocentric beauty ideals in ways they had not previously con-sidered.

Emiley Charley 17 said that de-

spite previous exposure to the top-ic, the performance helped to con-textualize the issue and illuminate its prevalence globally.

My mom is from Ghana and my dad is from Sierra Leone [and] Im also an Africana Studies ma-jor so Ive learned a lot about skin

bleaching, Charley said. Its really interesting to see how this concept transcends borders and continents and how its a real issue. It isnt really thought about often.

Preston Thomas 17 noted that the racial diversity of the dancers in Dife Kako, which consists of danc-ers of African, European and Asian descent, was surprising and added depth to the show.

Theyre all of French national-ity but of different ethnic groups. I typically deem French people to be white, not necessarily having darker skin, Thomas said.

That was one of the key parts for methat they actually used color to their advantage, Charley agreed. If the whole company and all the dancers were just one skin color, the same message would not have been portrayed.

French dance company critiques Eurocentric beauty ideals in ParisBY SURYA MILNER

STAFF WRITER I hope the audience will see that although Chateau Rouge is located in France, you can fi nd such towns in virtually all countries. Because we are here in a college, people are very intellectually curious and I hope that the show will be meaningful in that sense.

DIRECTOR OF DIFE KAKO, CHANTAL LOAL

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Though it may seem antiquated, the craft of wooden boatbuilding is timeless enough to unite three separate generations of Bowdoin students. For wooden boatbuilder Dick Pulsifer 62, this technical art provides both a link to the past and and a way to connect with the cur-rent Bowdoin community.

Hull 111, a documentary pro-duced by recent Bowdoin graduates Rita Liao 15, Lucy Green 15 and Eric Levenson 15, follows the story of Pulsifer in his quest to build his 111th Pulsifer Hampton boat. The film aired on MPBN on October 8 and 10.

Fascinated by the renaissance of the wooden boatbuilding craft, Pul-sifer built his first Hampton boat in 1973 shortly after graduating from Bowdoin. Since then, he has completed 111 Pulsifer Hampton boats in his Mere Point Road shop in Brunswick, continually adding details and improvements to his model.

The main skill you learn is the ability to see whats beyond where you are, said Pulsifer.

Pulsifer values maintaining a con-nection with the Bowdoin commu-nity through his craft, often mentor-ing Bowdoin students at his outpost.

Its a real experience with physi-cal accomplishment, Pulsifer said. For Pulsifer, the value of manual learning is a complement to the learning that takes place in a Bow-doin classroom.

Liao and Green were first intro-duced to documentary filmmaking last fall in Seashore Digital Diaries, a course taught by award-winning documentary filmmaker and 2014-15 Coastal Studies Scholar Da-vid Conover 83. Inspired by the power of documentary film, Liao and Green approached Levenson, a

then-apprentice to Pulsifer, with the idea of documenting Pulsifers craft as an independent project. Conover served as the project advisor and en-couraged the three students to learn from each others skillsets.

Digital production is often a very collaborative endeavor, said Conover.

Initially, the group set out to cre-ate a profile of Puslifer and the pro-cess of his boatbuilding. With no clear narrative, the film was frag-mented for the first several weeks.

It was very messy in the begin-ning, said Liao.

Conover encouraged the students to allow the story to unfold natu-rally, using the camera as a tool of inquiry.

For my part, it involved asking questions at certain times, more as a way for them to get clarity here and there, and also [encouraging them] to figure out how their perspective fit into the story, said Conover.

He pushed the students to keep a diary to consider why each was drawn to the craft of wooden boat-building. In this sense, each student became part of the films narrative, according to Conover.

I always look at filmmaking as a process where you spend some time out on the dance floor and some other time on a balcony looking down on the dance floor, Conover said.

For Conover, shifting between these two perspectives is an essential component in documentary produc-tion and was crucial in telling Pulsi-fers story.

The three recent alums each brought their own interests and questions to the project. For Green, a visual arts major, the step-by-step process of building a boat was anal-ogous to the meticulous process of painting. Levenson was curious as to young peoples involvement in boat-building in the digital age. Liao, pas-

sionate about meditation, was cap-tivated by the connection between spirituality and boat-building.

In the end, it turned out to be a self-reflection, Liao said.

While initially averse to being on the other side of the camera, Liao began to view her relationship to Pulsifers story as a significant as-pect of the film.

Its inevitable to have the film-

makers point of view because when-ever you choose to show something, youre choosing what to tell, said Liao.

With three generations of Bow-doin students involved in creating the documentary, the project pro-vided a unique opportunity for re-ciprocal learning.

The effect of having the [mul-tiple generations] and multiple con-

nections with the College commu-nity I think was huge, said Conover.

In addition, Pulsifer was not only an excellent craftsman and boat-builder, but a remarkable teacher as well, according to Conover.

The learning environment [Pulsifer] has at his shop is a great complement to the College com-munity learning environment, said Conover.

Documentary brings together three generations of Bowdoin alumsBY BRIDGET WENT

ORIENT STAFF

SET SAIL: This past year, wooden boatbuilder Dick Pulsifer 62 built his 111th Pulsifer Hampton Boat, which was the subject of a documentary produced by three 2015 Bowdoin graduates. JENNY IBSEN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

friday, october 16, 2015

Leaving the Bowdoin bubble: Fall Break, baths and different space

1 e beginning of the year is always saturated. Like us, you may have be-come illiterate over the summer, and reading is hard. Maybe your friend-ships are in transition, or maybe this is your 2 rst time living away from home. Fall Break is a time set aside for some unde2 ned purpose (shoutout to Tim Fosterwere not complaining), but however you spend it, this break is a marker in time.

In our column, we typically focus on inhabiting and challenging spaces at Bowdoin. For a special Fall Break edition, we neither inhabited Bow-doin spaces nor challenged much of anything. Instead, we took advantage of time away to re3 ect on how weve grown since last Fall Break and how Bowdoin has in3 uenced that growth.

In retrospect, the 2 rst 2 ve weeks of our Bowdoin experiences were spent largely in tears. Our friendship began on a Friday night spent drinking tea and watching 30 Rock on the 2 rst 3 oor of Winthrop, hesitantly confess-ing to each other how weird college felt. Fall Break was the 2 rst mile-stone we were running towards. We were 3 oating in the Bowdoin bubble, rather than grounded in it; we felt en-tirely blinded to the world outside by

a space where we didnt feel settled yet.

When Fall Break hit, emer-gency getaways were e4 ective im-mediately. Tessa, reeling from bi-coastal culture shock, needed to see a family member before she spontane-ously combusted. 1 e trek home to Los Angeles was just not doable. Luckily, a family friend swooped in with a ticket to Toronto, where Tessa spent the break with her brother. It was reassuring to see someone with whom Tessa had more than a month of context and who also understood how foreign Sperrys look.

Carly had given her plans more forethought. She and her high school boyfriend had set aside this time as their 2 rst reunion a5 er leaving for college. Full disclosure: there is some-thing supremely romantic about rid-ing a bus through New England fall. A short stop in Boston was jarring. Car-ly was surprised at how unaccustomed she felt to city noises and strangers. She was elated to see her boyfriend, but the two soon realized the new

challenge at hand. A relationship that had always been rooted at home had now become mobile, and Carly and her boyfriend had to reconcile their disparate spaces.

Wed like to think Fall Break last year was clarifying, but we cant re-member if it was. We needed that time away, but it probably felt too short; it was probably hard to come back to Bowdoin. Regardless, Fall Break became a timestamp that broke up our developing routines. Were lucky to say that things went up from there. A big leap outside the bubble reminded us that we dont stop exist-ing off campus.

We dont 2 nd ourselves needing that reminder anymore, at least not in

the same way. Going away used to help us con-

2 rm who we were. Now, being outside of Bowdoin makes us grateful for the directions in which weve grown here. A year has stretched us, has pushed us, has shown us we can feel empty at some times and over3 owing at others. And thats OK. 1 is year for fall break, we indulged

in our Bowdoin relationships. In the spirit of our favorite Onion article, we, with a group of our female friends, spent a raucous night validating the living shit out of each other. A log cab-in in northern Maine saw many heart-to-hearts, collective dinner-making and multiple stress-relieving baths.

What struck us about this time was

our lack of urgency to get away from not just Bowdoin, but Bowdoin peo-ple. Our outside lives and our Bow-doin lives have swirled together, and now being away from campus doesnt feel groundbreaking. We have taken root at Bowdoin, but weve realized that the layers of our lives can be 2 xed to multiple places at once. Some might say we are at home in all lands.

At Bowdoin, were empowering ourselves to have complex identi-ties. You can be the squirrel with the messed-up tail and you can be Connie. Part of growing is letting seemingly contradictory aspects of ourselves ex-ist at the same time. Weve found that Bowdoinand the relationships that we have heregive us that space.

DIANA FURUKAWA

CARLY BERLIN AND TESSA WESTFALL

THE ARTISTS ARE PRESENT

9a&ethe bowdoin orient

The volleyball team extended its winning streak to 10 games last weekend with a sweep of Trinity and Wesleyan. Undefeated in the NESCAC, the squad has dominated throughout its matches, losing only two sets out of the last 32.

A number of individual achieve-ments have accompanied the teams continued success. Two weeks ago, captain Christy Jewett 16 was named the NESCAC Volleyball Player of the Week as she achieved 1,161 career kills, the second highest number in Bowdoin history. Jewett saw the conference accolade as more of a team accomplishment than an individual one.

Obviously it feels great to be honored, but one thing that Ive re-ally become aware of is that nobody ever wins Player of the Week with-out a really strong team backing her, said Jewett.

Jewett is on pace to break the six-year-old Bowdoin career record of 1,227 kills held by Gillian Page 10 by the end of the season. Last year, Jewett set the single-season school records for most kills and attacks with 445 and 1158, respectively.

Katie Doherty 17 also entered the record book this season, as she became the sixth player in Bowdoin history to reach 1,000 career digs.

If our team werent as strong as it is, I dont think that wouldve been possible to accomplish, said Doherty.

With a full season of Bowdoin volleyball left, Doherty has plenty of opportunities to move up through the all-time rankings, yet the statis-tics are not what keep her motivated. For Doherty, the effect her accom-plishments had on the rest of the team impacted her more than the number itself.

[Reaching 1,000 digs] was one of the most amazing moments of my life, simply because of the atmo-

sphere and how amazing my team is, said Doherty. I was just so in-spired by how excited everyone else was. It was amazing not because I valued it but because of how much everyone else valued it.

The team has accomplished a lot already, but its season is far from over. The volleyball program heads into a high stakes Homecoming Weekend facing fellow NESCAC competitors Amherst and Williams.

Everyones really excited for this weekend, said Doherty. This is the moment that will really define us as a team. Well see if we can cement our first place in the NESCAC.

With this excitement comes extra focus and determination as the pro-gram prepares for its biggest chal-lenge and the largest threat to its streak so far.

Its really confidence boosting to have a streak like that but were going to be really challenged this weekend, said Jewett. Our winning streak is a good measure of success

but this weekend will be an even bet-ter measure of what we can do.

Williams and Amherst are ranked number two and three respectively in the NESCAC, and the team has to take down Williams on Saturday at 2 p.m. in order to host the NES-CAC tournament at the end of the seasonan advantage keenly sought after by the team.

We emphasize how were in the drivers seat right now, said Head Coach Erin Cady, We have the power to control our own destiny and look at it like its a power or an opportunity instead of pressure to perform.

While this weekend may be daunting to some, the squad is eager to rise to the challenge.

The easy part will be the team [being] mentally motivated and ready and physically motivated to go out and perform against Williams, said Cady. I definitely can tell you our players are ready and motivated for that match.

The team remains focused on continuous improvement and lean-ing into the discomfort of learning new skills.

Something that [Cady] does re-ally well thats helped our team is to keep us uncomfortable in practice by challenging us to do new things every time weve successfully done something, said Doherty. That just allows us to keep raising our play no matter who were playing.

Were consistently working, said Jewett. Once we fix some-thing, [Cady] will scout us like she will scout a different team. Weve been working on finding ways that they would exploit us so that we can fix it before they have a chance to find those.

Luckily the team hasnt had any serious injuries and with every-one ready and available to do their best, the team continues on their fast track to the NESCAC tourna-ment with high expectations for their performance.

Volleyball elongates winning streak to 10 in a rowBY ANJULEE BHALLA

STAFF WRITER

TESSA EPSTEIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT (ABOVE AND RIGHT)

! e Bowdoin Mens Golf team placed " # h of 12 at the Husson Invi-tational in late September, then came back the next week and tied for last place out of ten teams at the NESCAC Fall Quali" er. ! is inconsistent play characterized the teams season.

I would say this year we probably didnt perform as well as expected, captain ! omas Spagnola 17 said. Part of that is our inexperience, were a very young team. Not a lot of our players had seen the courses that we played on.

Six of the 11 golfers are either " rst

years or sophomores.In some ways [the teams youth]

was a weakness, but it was also a strength as well, Spagnola said. The young players definitely im-proved a lot over the course of the season, and I see them improving a lot in the future.

I think right away the four " rst years bought into our system, both on and o$ the course. We really got along well as a team. Even though we are graduating three players this year, our " rst years will be able to step into those roles, he added.! e week a# er the NESCAC Quali-

" er, Bowdoin " nished second of three teams at the CBB Championship, los-

ing to Bates by six strokes and de-feating Colby by 16. Bowdoin had defeated both teams at the Husson Invitational, but had " nished behind Bates and tied for last with Colby at the NESCAC Quali" er. At the USM Invitational, the teams " nal tourna-ment of the year, Bowdoin " nished sixth out of eight.

I think despite our poor per-formance at NESCACs, we re-bounded and played well in our last couple tournaments of the year, Spagnola said.

One area where the team improved throughout the season was in course managementunderstanding how to play a round given the features of a

particular coursean important part of tournament golf.

Its about knowing when you can take a risk, and knowing when to play it safe, Spagnola said. Thats something that our coaches really emphasized. When youre out there, one mistake can lead to another, so we just worked hard on course management and minimiz-ing those mistakes.

Another good aspect of the teams play was ball-striking ability, though the short game was a real struggle throughout the year.

I would say we are very good drivers of the ball and have strong iron play, but we are notoriously bad

putters, so that is something that we de" nitely need to work on in the o$ -season, Spagnola said.

However, Maine winters make practicing golf in the o$ -season a dif-" cult proposition, as cold and windy conditions quickly take over.

I think we would improve more if we got better conditions for longer, but thats just kind of the nature of New England golf and New England winters, Spagnola said.

Despite the uneven season, Spag-nola has high hopes for next year.

Even though our results didnt show it, we had a solid year. And we have a bright futurenext year were hoping to make some noise.

After season of streaky play, mens golf hopeful for futureBY ELI LUSTBADER

ORIENT STAFF

ON A ROLL: (ABOVE) Quincy Leech 17 prepares to hit a serve while Michelle Albright 18 prepares for play and teammates look on. (LEFT) Sydney Salle 19 spikes the ball over the net against Worcester State in a 3-0 win over the Lancers. It was the teams third win in a row, a streak they have now extended to ten consecutive wins. The streak saw Katie Doherty 17 reach 1,000 digs, becoming only the sixth player in Bowdoin history to do so. In addition, Christy Jewett 16 is on pace to break the all-time kills record for Bowdoin volleyball before the end of the year. The team now has a 12-3 overall record and is 6-0 in NESCAC play. However, the team will face its toughest test this weekend with matches against Williams and Amherst, the second and third ranked teams in the NESCAC, respectively.

friday, october 16, 2015 the bowdoin orientSPORTS 10

Bowdoin mens soccer (5-3-2, 1-3-2 NESCAC)the reigning NESCAC championsface four crucial confer-ence games that will determine the teams chances of qualifying for this years NE-SCAC tournament. Currently, the team sits at tenth in the conference standings and are not quali! ed for the tournament, a position that both Head Coach Scott Wiercinski and captain Andrew Jones 16 believe is not illustrative of the teams skill. Only the top eight teams in the conference qualify for the post-season tournament. " e Polar Bears will play Hamilton this Saturday, followed by Colby, Connecticut College and Tu# s in the coming weeks.

Despite a lower than-anticipated rank-ing, the team has consistently exhibited good playing this season.

Other than a few blips on the screen, weve been playing consistently well to very well, said Wiercinski. I think this is what fuels the optimism for the year and for the games remaining.

We are con! dent in what we have been doing this season, Jones said. Al-

though we havent been getting the results, we have been playing at a good standard of soccer. Moving forward, its going to come together.

Jones notes that the teams strength is in being well-balanced and versatile. " e team possesses size, speed and good tech-nical players who are tactically smart and able to adapt to di$ erent styles of play. In addition, the defense has been a strength for the team, only giving up six goals in total. Before this weekend, it had never given up two in one game. However, the team has struggled to create chances in the o$ ense and to follow through to score. According to Jones, it only takes a few sec-onds for something to change the whole game.

It comes down to those moments in a game, said Jones. Putting in a 90-minute performance every game and bringing the same energy, playing to a standard, is something we can improve on." is energy was demonstrated during

the teams recent win against Babson on Monday. While the team got o$ to a slow start, the Polar Bears scored four goals in the second half.

Starting at halftime, our energy

was fantastic, said Wiercinski. We thought a lot less and just played with our legs and with our hearts. As a result of that, things started to feel more natural and more instinctual.

According to Wiercinski, during these goals, the team did the right thing at the right moment. Wiercinski hopes the en-ergy, goal-scoring and overall level of play the team during this half of the Babson game can be replicated in the future.

In order to compete against these four teams, the team will take it game-by-game and continue the basic strategy they have been using: passing the ball, playing ag-gressive defense and trying to create chances. According to Jones, two of the most competitive teams, Connecticut College and Tu# s, both have strong mid-! elds, meaning that Bowdoin will have to up its defensive strategy.

[Connecticut College and Tu# s] actu-ally like to play soccer, not just kick and run, Jones said.

In some ways, we feel like the season is just getting started, said Wiercinski. Were learning a lot about ourselves, and were ready to extend our season significantly.

The womens golf team played in five tournaments this year, begin-ning with three tournaments in which they finished behind rival Bates. However, the Polar Bears pro-gressed in the final two tournaments and finished ahead of Bates in both.

One of our goals is to always beat Bates, captain Maddy Fulton 16 said. Were always pretty even in play, so it was a good accomplish-ment for us to be able to beat them in the last two.

Captain Meredith Sullivan 16 noted that one of the strengths of the team was that players were able to ad-just their game between the first day and the second day of a tournament.

A lot of our players were drop-ping shots at every course, Sullivan said. We were able to take what we saw from the first day and use it to score better on the second.

One example of this came when Diya Chopra 18, shot an 80 in the second round of the Middlebury In-vitational on October 4 after shoot-ing an 89 in the first round.

Dropping nine strokes from the first to the second day is unbeliev-able, Sullivan said. The girls from Williams were shooting like 77-78 so that was an unbelievable score and was really great to see.

Williams finished first in the tournament, with an overall two-day score of 642, while Bowdoin fin-ished ninth of 12 teams with a score of 778. However, Chopras nine-shot drop proved to be essential, as Bow-doin finished ahead of Bates by only seven strokes.

According to Sullivan, hitting a greater percentage of fairways on the drive also contributed to the teams late-season improvement.

We definitely got a lot more con-

sistent off the tees, Sullivan said. During the beginning of the year, it was kind of a toss-up on tee shots, but towards the end, I know all of us were able to consistentl