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FEATURES: LIFE OFF THE TENURE-TRACK OPINIONEDITORIAL: Living the party.

SPORTS: WOMEN’S SAILING QUALIFIES FOR NATIONALS

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SIGNIFYING NOTHING: Jesse Ortiz ’16 on the desegregation of bathrooms. Page 11.

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A look at the role of temporary professors at the College as well as the balancing act tenured professors perform between teaching, research and service.

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For the fi rst time in program history, the women’s sailing team has qualifi ed for nationals after a successful weekend competing at the Reed Trophy at Dartmouth.

A&E: IN THE MOVIESJared Littlejohn ’15 will premiere his short fi lm—a thriller entitled 12:34—on May 10 in Sills Hall.

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Following recent amendments to the Clery Report, the College will be required to report additional

statistics for the current year.

One Day campaign surpasses donor goal

Please see CAMPAIGN, page 3

Satirical art posters removed after complaints

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

Charlie Rollins ’14 drenches himself in milk as part of a sketch about nutrition for athletes in “Bowdoin Night Live,” a comedy show modeled after Saturday Night Live performed by eight students in Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday night. The show was the fi nal product of senior Simon Brooks’ independent study in theater.

Please see DIVESTMENT, page 3

BY PHOEBE BUMSTEDORIENT STAFF

BCA unlikely to meet with Trustees on divestment

2013 sees increase in drug law violations

BY JULIAN ANDREWSORIENT STAFF

Please see VIOLATIONS, page 4

) e O* ce of Annual Giving re-ceived 1,520 alumni gi+ s during its second annual BowdoinOne Day, a 24-hour fundraising campaign on Tuesday. ) e number of dona-tions exceeded both this year’s goal of 1,300 gi+ s and last year’s total of 1,274 gi+ s, according to Director of Annual Giving Brannon Fisher and Annual Giving Administrative Manager Marian Skinner.

Participation was monitored across six regions: New England, Mid-Atlantic, West, Midwest, South, and International. ) e alumni in the Mid-Atlantic region participated most at 14.8 percent. ) e Midwest region came in second, with 12.9 percent participation. ) e event took place from 12 a.m. to midnight on Tuesday.

On this day, the senior class—whose donations count towards the alumni fund—reached 61 percent participation, enough to unlock a matching grant from an anonymous donor. For each senior class over the next four years that reaches over 60 percent participation, the donor will give a $10,000 scholarship for a member of the rising , rst year class.

Prior to Tuesday’s event, the Class of 2014 had 49 percent participation, according to Skinner.

Fisher and the O* ce of Annual Giving conduct the 24-hour cam-paign annually to help build a sense of excitement around donating.

“We , nd that creating a sense of urgency and some kind of a deadline to rally around is helpful for our do-nors and for our volunteers who help us do the fundraising,” Fisher said in a phone interview with the Orient.

April 22 was selected as the date for the campaign this year so that it fell between tax day and the end of the , scal year. Last year, it fell on April 23.

“It takes some of the pressure o- ,”

BY MEG ROBBINSORIENT STAFF

said Fisher, “and also it’s helpful for our volunteers to be able to check [donors] o- without too much ad-ditional outreach in the late spring.”

In a 2013 Orient article on last year’s event, Fisher mentioned that April 23 marked the day in which funds from tuition and endowment ‘run out’ and the rest of the academic year is symbolically supported by alumni donations.

Fisher said he is pleased with how the day unfolded. Neli Vazquez ’14, one of the four directors of the senior class gi+ campaign who helped plan the event, felt the day was successful not only be-cause the senior class surpassed the 60

) e College saw an increase in drug law violations and decreases in burglaries and liquor law violations in 2013, according to numbers from the Annual Clery Campus Crime Re-port released early to the Orient.

) e report is released publicly each October, when colleges must report statistics on a set of federally speci, ed crimes that take place on or adjacent to college property. In 2013, Bowdoin reported 157 alcohol law violations, three alcohol related arrests, 51 drug law violations, two burglaries and six sexual assaults. ) ese statistics will be o* cially sub-mitted in October.

In 2012, Bowdoin was third-highest in the NESCAC for alcohol-

1520: Number of alumni gifts given during the 2nd annual BowdoinOne Day.14.8: Percent of alumni who participated from the Mid-Atlantic Region.61: Percent of the senior class who donated to the alumni fund as of Tuesday. $10,000: Value of a scholarship for a member of the incoming fi rst-year class donated by an anonymous donor as a result of the Class of 2014 meeting their fundraising goals.

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Approximately 100 students and community members delivered over 1,000 signatures in support of divest-ing the College’s assets from fossil fuel companies to President Barry Mills in front of Hawthorne-Longfel-low Library last Friday. At the gather-ing, Bowdoin Climate Action (BCA) leader Matthew Goodrich ’15 asked Mills if and when the group can meet with the Board of Trustees. However, it is unlikely that BCA will meet with the Trustees to discuss divestment before the end of the year, according to Mills.

In an interview with the Orient, Mills said that the Trustees will likely be too busy , nding his replacement this summer to consider divestment.

“) ey don’t have a lot of time when they come here, and this will be the , rst time that they will all be together since I made my announcement,” said Mills. Last week, he announced he will leave the College at the end of the next academic year. He will con, rm today whether or not the students will speak

Copies of a poster produced for a visual arts class, which satirized the reputations of female visitors to the o- -campus residence 83 1/2 Harpswell Road—known as Crack House—were taken down last ) ursday by College administratiors because of the poster’s lack of attribution.

Jack Mensik ’14, whose image is fea-

BY MARISA MCGARRYORIENT STAFF

tured on the poster though he was not part of the group that conceived of the image, explained that the posters were displayed for approximately 20 minutes before they were brought to the atten-tion of administrators in academic and student a- airs.

) e project was created for an assign-ment in Visiting Artist in Residence Ac-cra Shepp’s Photography and Color, in which students were instructed to pro-duce a piece of art that would “intervene

in public space,” according to Mensik. One group created this piece of satire, titled “Crack Pre-Check.”

Shepp and the students who pro-duced the image would not speak to the Orient on the issue.

) e poster encouraged young women over the age of 21 to sub-mit “three recommendations from past sexual partners” and “full body

Please see POSTERS, page 3

A year later: alumni, students return to Boston Marathon

BY GARRETT CASEYORIENT STAFF

One year a+ er the Boston Marathon bombings, runners and spectators with connections to the College returned to the event to celebrate the city they love, to reclaim the Marathon from the mem-ory of last year’s tragedy, or simply to en-joy a cherished Patriots’ Day tradition.

Trustee Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79, a two-time champion in the race, , n-ished in two hours and 52 minutes, placing 58th overall among women. ) e 56-year-old Samuelson cruised through Washington Square in Brookline in a sea of young male runners, trailing her son Anders ’12 by a few minutes.

Many spectators recognized Samuel-son as she ran past. Parents told her sto-ry to their children; a group of women shouted her name; one man said that Samuelson reminded him of happier Marathon memories.

Kristen Ruane ’14 ran to raise money for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She said the bombing was part of her inspi-ration to run.

“I grew up right outside of Boston and going to the Marathon has always

been an event and such an exciting day for the city. And of course, a+ er last year there was nothing that I wanted to do more to show my support for the city,” she said.

Ruane said that the atmosphere along the entire 26.2-mile course was incred-ible.

“) e crowd just carried you along the course,” she said.

Chrissy Moore ’14, who ran in sup-port of the Esperanza Academy in Lawrence, Mass., noted that jubilant spectators were waving signs and o- er-ing orange slices to runners all along the course.

“I think especially a+ er last year it was a very joyous atmosphere,” she said. “Even though there was increased secu-rity they were able to keep up that com-munity feel and that interaction between the spectators and the runners.”

Moore was studying abroad in rural Costa Rica during last year’s Marathon. Without a reliable Internet connection, she had trouble contacting family and friends and ensuring that they were safe, which made for an emotional few days.

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Nick Tonckens ’16 “If you’re as pasty as I am, bring plenty of sunscreen.”

Julie Piñero ’14“Get as much food as you can

from the free barbecue.”

STUDENT SPEAKWhat is your best advice for Ivies?

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Allie Piscina ’14“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Molly Solo! ’15“Literally don’t die.”

Bowdoin’s ninth annual Relay for Life (RFL) fundraiser netted more than $33,000 for cancer research on April 11 and 12. 6 is is down $9,000 from the $42,000 raised last year.

Forty-one teams participated this year, with up to 25 members per team.

At the event, participants had to have at least one member of their team walking on the track at all times for the 12-hour duration of the event.

6 roughout the night, participants were entertained by a hypnotist, a zumba class, performances by Bel-lama7 a a cappella and the Bowdoin cheerleaders, among other groups.

6 e event also boasted a bouncy house, henna painting, and a lumi-naria ceremony.

Between 350 and 400 people at-tended and participated in the event this year, which was held in Farley

BY MARINA AFFOORIENT STAFF

RELAY FOR LIFE RAISES $33K, $9K LESS THAN LAST YEAR

HEAD HUNTERTrustees elect Jes Staley ’79 to lead presidential search.

GARRETT ENGLISH, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTOn Tuesday, the College held its second annual BowdoinOne Day—a fundraiser marking the day of the year when tuition money funding the College symbolically runs out and the alumni fund must be used. JBoard, a band comprised of Varun Wadia ’15, David Needell ’15, Tyrelle Johnson ’15 and Michael Young ’14 played on the Bowdoin College Museum of Art steps to gather support for the event. See story on page 1.

ONE DAY AT THE MUSEUM

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In the week since President Barry Mills announced his 2015 departure, the Board of Trust-ees has begun assembling the search committee to vet his re-placement. 6 ey have chosen Jes Staley ’79 P’11, a current mem-ber of the Board and chair of its investment committee to lead this search e9 ort.

Vice President for Develop-ment and Alumni Relations Eli Orlic will be sta9 liaison to the committee. 6 e Board will an-nounce the full committee mem-bership during its meetings on May 8, 9 and 10.

“It will be a group represent-ing the many constituencies of the Bowdoin community that will move forward with great con7 dence in the strength of our College and in our ability to iden-tify Bowdoin’s next leader,” wrote Chair of the Board of Trustees Deborah Barker in an email to the Bowdoin community.

Staley, their choice as chair of the search committee, graduated from Bowdoin with a degree in economics. He was the former CEO of J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank and CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and is now a managing partner at BlueMoun-tain Capital, a private investment company in New York City.

“I appreciate deeply the impor-tance of this search. We are all—faculty, students, sta9 , alumni, and parents—part of an extraordinary College,” wrote Staley in an email to the Orient. “And making sure that the Search Committee re: ects the desires of all of Bowdoin’s con-stituencies, is clearly a priority.”

Field House. Four hundred and eight people parcicipated last year.

RFL lasted from 6 p.m. on Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday. Senior Laurel Var-nell, co-chair of the RFL committee, at-tributed the reduc-tion in fundraising to a few reasons.

For example, in previous years the committee would have three weeks a; er Spring Break to organize the event, and this year they only had two.

“6 is year there was also an in-crease of people who were trying to fundraise for various things and many of them were cancer related,” she said.

Varnell also stated that not as much fundraising was done by teams over

spring break than in previous years. When 45 students were polled, only

two were not aware that RFL took place last weekend and only three of these students participated in the event.

“It’s hard that RFL is held on Fri-day night because a lot of students have commitments on Saturday and a lot of students don’t want to be par-ticipating in some-thing that takes energy on a Friday night,” said Mettler Growney ’17.

Despite this, however, Varnell and her co-chair

Ursula Munger ’15 believed that the event went well.

“6 e actual event I think was a big success,” Munger said.

Munger also said that many of the sports teams, like the men’s basketball team and the women’s rugby team had great turnout.

Varnel mentioned that the house-keeping team and the sta9 team really stepped up this year.

Captain of the housekeeping team Hope Marden, who is Baxter’s house-keeper, began doing RFL three years ago on her own and recently created a team made up of housekeeping sta9 .

Marden, co-captain Sherry Gurette and much of the housekeeping sta9 were able to raise the money through group e9 orts like bake sales and ra< es.

6 is year the team had 7 ve mem-bers and was able to raise over $3,200 in support of Marden’s four-year-old grandson, Ethan, who was diagnosed with cancer three years ago.

“6 ese people su9 er a lot when they’re sick and for me to walk all night is nothing compared to what they go through,” said Marden.

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with the Trustees, according to Go-odrich.

Mills met with a group of pro-divestment students led by Goodrich December 2012, at which point they had 470 signatures. At that time, he announced that the College would not divest in the near future.

However, Mills returned to Bow-doin from New York on Friday speci6 -cally to receive the petition.

“I’m incredibly pleased that he 7 ew up from New York to be here in person,” said Goodrich. “I think that shows...that he really wants to respect our activism and our e8 orts.”

According to an article printed in the Orient in February 2013, 1.4 percent of Bowdoin’s endowment is invested in fossil fuels. Because the College is invested in mutual funds which do not allow investors to opt out of certain parts of their portfolio, divestment would require a turnover of 25 percent of the endowment, los-ing $100 million over 10 years, ac-cording to Senior Vice President for Investments Paula Volent.

However, Mills thinks 6 nancial risk is not the primary reason to abstain.He pointed out what he sees as a lack of consensus regarding climate change.

“For me to break the deal that we’ve made with people who have given money to the College for generations, there has to be uniform agreement that the cause that we’re breaking it for is not some political cause or social cause that some people believe in, but others don’t,” Mills said.

“9 ough I happen to believe that climate change is a hugely important is-

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sue,” he said, “about 50 percent of Amer-ica doesn’t. If we sit here at Bowdoin College, we may not respect that other position but given that that other posi-tion is out there, it is entirely inappro-priate for us to say that our endowment should be the mechanism by which we choose winners and losers on political and social and moral movements.”

Friday’s gathering was the larg-est pro-divestment showing that the campus has seen since the movement began in fall 2012. Supporters of the petition wore orange pins and held a number of large protest signs, includ-ing one that declared, “Bowdoin Di-vestment is for the Common Good.”

“I think 50 percent of the campus, especially a campus like Bowdoin, get-ting behind an issue like this is really a meaningful and important thing that the president and the College should address,” said Hugh Ratcli8 e ’15, one of the founding members of BCA.

“Today was a showing to the admin-istration that this is something that the students want, and this is something that the students are pushing for,” said Clara Belitz ’17. “We proved that with the petition and the turnout here.”

Mills said he thinks that not all signers of the petition understood the issue.

“I respect the views of everybody on campus,” said Mills. “9 ere have been people who have said to me that it surprises them that a 1,000 people are supporting divestment because they talked to people and they said they don’t know anything about the issue and they never really understood it.”

Henry Daniels-Koch ’17 said that he signed the petition, but felt that he was mislead as to what he was signing.

“A: er [the activists] described what divestment was, they described to me

that the petition was not actually for divestment itself but for a study to be done about what the economic e8 ects would be if they chose to divest,” he said. However, the language of the pe-tition describes it as a movement spe-ci6 cally in favor of divestment.

“I don’t support divestment yet,” Daniels-Koch said. “I could if I see the study, but I want this study to be done. I haven’t made my choice yet.”

He also said that he took issue with the number of signatures reported, as some were collected last year from students who have since graduated. Goodrich estimated that around 600 signatures were collected last year.

“Instead of trying to make these ex-treme points, the people who are for divestment at Bowdoin should really present both sides of this so we know why Barry Mills chose not to divest and why the trustees do not want to divest,” Daniels-Koch said.

9 e petition claims that divest-ment from fossil fuels is in line with Bowdoin’s goal to serve the common good, and asks the College to divest “in recognition that climate change is a moral issue.”

“As a College that is intimately in-volved with the environment…that image should be continuous through the way we invest our funds and invest our endowment,” said Ben Miller ’17. “Regardless of whether or not it’s com-pletely possible to divest entirely, it’s a nice thought.”

Faculty members were also present at the event.

“I support students taking these kinds of initiatives,” said Laura Henry, a professor in the government depart-ment. “I appreciate their e8 orts to cultivate a campus-wide conversation about the issue.”

shots and vital stats.” Approved ap-plicants would then receive “unlim-ited access to Crack House” and “im-proved social standing.” 9 e poster also included the tagline, “If you’re hot, you don’t deserve to wait.”

9 e image played on the Trans-portation Security Administration’s Pre-Check list, which o8 ers a chance to apply for a background check that quali6 es 7 yers for an expedited screening process at airports.

“I don’t think it worked as sat-ire,” said Dean of Academic A8 airs Cristle Collins Judd. “And it hadn’t occurred to the students who pro-duced it that it could be read as any-thing but satirical.”

“Class related or not, art or not, this kind of imagery is powerful,” said Foster. “In this case, no one was taking ownership of it, so people who were being a8 ected by this didn’t have the ability to engage people.”

Mensik, posed with a lacrosse stick and a Bowdoin Lacrosse jacket for the

photograph that appears on the poster. Mensik explained that he did not fully understand the group’s aims for taking the picture and that he under-stands why some would the resulting image o8 ensive.

“I think it’s unfortunate when people get o8 ended, but at the same time, it’s admirable when risk is tak-en,” he said.

Caroline Martinez ’16 was one of the few students who saw the project last 9 ursday a: ernoon. She saw one in the entrance of Chamberlain Hall, where she is a residential assistant and brought the project to the atten-tion of Residential Life sta8 .

“I thought that the intentions weren’t bad, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t o8 ensive,” she said. “For me, this poster shows the high tolerance we have on campus for sexism that we don’t have for other issues that a8 ect us.”

Martinez particularly objected to a phrase on the poster—“All appli-cants may be subject to physical in-spection”—which she felt made light of consent in sexual relationships.

“For me, it seemed to continue the

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percent participation benchmark, but also because of the strong sense of spirit it raised in the student body.

“A lot of people were coming to the table [in Smith Union] to 6 ll out thank you cards [to alumni] and say what they were thankful for, and that’s really for me what Bowdoin One Day is about,” said Vazquez.

Fisher believes that much of Bow-doin One Day’s success this year stemmed from increased e8 orts to engage students and alumni over social media. 9 ough Bowdoin sent some tweets and posted to Facebook on Bowdoin One Day last year, this year’s approach was more dynamic.

“9 e approach this year—which was much more e8 ective—was to get other people to do the tweeting and the posting and for Bowdoin to simply re-tweet or re-post so that it wasn’t necessarily being driven by the College, it was being driven by alumni,” said Fisher.

“Our main strategy was to raise awareness about the campaign, what it was, generate a lot of alum-ni involvement and school spirit,” added Social Media Director Holly Sherburne in a phone interview with the Orient.

9 ere was a photo challenge each day for the 6 ve days leading up to the One Day campaign that encouraged people to post pictures of Bowdoin memories, polar bears, and college gear on any social media outlet. Each day’s winner was awarded with a gi: card to iTunes or Amazon.sexist tone that we have on campus

instead of questioning it,” she said.She did not know that the im-

age was part of an art class project, or the fact that posters on campus need some attribution, but said that she would have removed the poster regardless.

“It touched on an issue that’s very sensitive and I completely under-stand why people reacted the way they did,” said Mensik.

9 e poster did not feature either the artists’ names or the class for which the project was created. Both Judd and Foster suggested that the image would have been allowed to remain posted on campus had it in-cluded these things, in accordance with a school policy on posters.

“[Identification] provides the context for the comments or the conversation,” said Judd. “The ab-sence of any ownership potentially projected speech onto someone else.”

“People need to be able to en-gage you in a dialogue,” said Foster. “Freedom of speech does not pro-tect anonymity, in my mind.”

“We started on 9 ursday, which is traditionally a day where people post throwback 9 ursday photos,” said Sherburne. “So we started o8 by incorporating the similar theme to dovetail on that and I think that made for a really successful kicko8 that could lead into the next 6 ve days.”

Vazquez felt that sharing images of students helped remind alumni why it’s important to donate to the College.

“I think it’s meaningful to [alum-ni]—especially the older alumni—to see that Bowdoin is still a place worth investing in from the student per-spective, that their wonderful experi-ence and the reason they give is still very much alive today,” she said.

From 9 ursday through Tuesday, Sherburne and the O; ce of Annual Giving instructed people to use the hashtag #BowdoinOneDay on Twit-ter and Instagram.

“We at Bowdoin were looking for that hashtag so we could help amplify their conversations and it wasn’t all just...Bowdoin encouraging people to give,” Sherburne added.

According to Sherburne, #Bow-doinOneDay was tagged in over 330 photos on Instagram and mentioned in over 460 tweets. Sherburne men-tioned that Facebook also played an integral role in the social media strategy, although activity on Face-book is more di; cult to quantify since much of it took place on indi-vidual pro6 le page.

No analysis has been done yet about the impact that social me-dia had in regard to the number or value of gifts given during the campaign.

Assistant Dean of Student A8 airs Lesley Levy watched her brother run his 6 rst marathon near mile 23 in Brookline.

“9 e crowds were big,” Levy said. “People were just really thrilled to be there, and I think everyone felt safe and just really wanting to prove that Boston was not going to let last year inhibit their ability to celebrate the Marathon.”

9 ere were, however, some notice-able di8 erences between this year’s mar-athon and marathons past, especially in terms of security. Moore said she went through a metal detector at the start of the race, and noticed helicopters cir-cling above the route. Levy had wanted to join her brother for a few miles, but realized that spectators were no longer welcome to hop onto the course.

Ruane said that the increased secu-

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rity did not dampen anyone’s spirits.“9 ere were police o; cers and mili-

tary o; cers everywhere, but even with that, runners were going up to them and thanking them. So it was just an incred-ible sense of community, and I think everyone felt pretty safe and grateful for them,” she said.

9 e memory of last year’s bombing did create some unease, even as specta-tors claimed they would not let terror-ism scare them away from an event they loved.

Shortly a: er Samuelson passed through Washington Square, two boys began popping balloons on the side-walk. Nearby spectators 7 inched, and heads snapped toward the source of the sound. 9 e crowd, noisy all day long, fell silent, but only for a few seconds. People quickly returned to the business of the day—shaking cowbells and screaming encouragement to runners.

-Cameron de Wet contributed to this report.

HANNAH RAFKIN, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

MAKING NOISE: Students and community members gathered near Hawthorne-Longfellow to deliver a petition with 1,000 signatures to President Mills.

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SECURITY REPORT: 4/18 to 4/24Friday, April 18• A student was taken to the Mid

Coast Walk-In Clinic with a weight training injury.

• A black Avalon road bike was re-ported stolen from the bike rack at Stowe House Inn. 6 e bike has a bent rear tire and is missing its rear brakes.

• A student used the beer tap at Jack Magee’s Pub, in violation of the estab-lishment’s liquor license.

• 6 ere was a report of unruly be-havior at Jack Magee’s Pub.

Saturday, April 19• An o7 cer checked on the well-

being of an intoxicated student at Coles Tower.

• Student spectators were drink-ing from an unregistered beer keg at a baseball game at Pickard Fields. 6 e keg was taken into custody.

• Sixteen bottles of champagne were taken into temporary custody at a reg-istered event at Baxter House. 6 e al-cohol was not registered to the event.

Sunday, April 20• An ill student was escorted from

Winthrop Hall to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

• A Longfellow Avenue resident re-ported loud noise associated with a reg-istered event at Ladd House.

• A group of students at Stowe House Inn were found in possession of marijuana.

• An underage and intoxicated visitor to campus was transported from Harpswell Apartments to Mid Coast Hospital.

• An unauthorized space was ac-cessed in the basement of Burnett House.

Monday, April 21• An o7 cer spoke with a town resi-

dent who was picking through garbage at Harpswell Apartments.

• A black Jamis mountain bike was stolen from outside Memorial Hall. 6 e bike had been le8 unlocked.

Tuesday, April 22• A student at Brunswick Apart-

ments was transported to Mid Coast Hospital a8 er a fainting spell.

• An exterior door at Pine Street Apartments was damaged by excessive force.

Wednesday, April 23• A student at Brunswick Apart-

ments was transported to Mid Coast Hospital following an apparent seizure.

• A student who fainted at Stowe Hall was escorted to the Mid Coast Walk-In Clinic.

• Security o7 cers interrupted a man cutting the lock on a security fence at the 52 Harpswell construction site. Bruns-wick Police Department was noti9 ed and the man was given a trespass order.

• An o7 cer checked on a student with a fever at Appleton Hall.

• Loud music was reported at Bruns-wick Apartments E. Students were asked to reduce the noise level.

• 6 ere was hard alcohol policy vio-lation at Baxter House.

• 6 ere was an unregistered event at Baxter House.

• A student interfered with a security o7 cer at Baxter House.! ursday, April 24• A chair was vandalized on the 9th

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related violations in 2012, behind Wesleyan (604) and Trinity (206). During that calendar year, there were 171 alcohol related disciplinary ac-tions, six alcohol related arrests, 34 drug law violations and four forcible sex o; enses on campus.

Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols said that he does not believe the drop in liquor law viola-tions from 2012 to 2013 is signi9 cant.

Nichols also said that the large majority of 2013 drug law viola-tions were for possession of small amounts of marijuana. According to the Orient’s spring 2013 survey on drug use, 58 percent of students have smoked marijuana at least “once to a few times” at the College. This is an 8 percent increase from the Orient’s 2010 survey, a rise that Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster credited to an uptick in marijuana use on college campuses nation-wide, according to a February 2013 Orient article.

Nichols said that drug law viola-tions are also already trending up-wards for 2014, in large part due to last month’s incident where 12 stu-dents were disciplined for buying and selling Adderall.

6 ere are very speci9 c crimes that must be reported under Clery, and Nichols keeps an up-to-date count at all times. However, some crimes that a; ect the campus community are not included in the report, like drunk driving.

“Drunk driving is a heck of a lot more serious than walking around in illegal possession of a can of beer, but that counts, the drunk driving doesn’t,” said Nichols. “I don’t know why, that’s just clearly de9 ned in

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Clery that it does not count. It doesn’t even matter if it happens on campus.”

Starting in October of this year, colleges will be required to report ad-ditional statistics regarding domestic violence, dating violence and stalk-ing. 6 ese changes come as a result of the Campus Sexual Violence Elimi-nation Act (SaVE).

Also included in the SaVE Act are criteria for developing procedures for the reporting and investigating of these additional statistics, as well as the development of education and awareness programs. However, ex-actly how these new policies will a; ect Bowdoin has yet to be determined.

“6 ere have been a lot of things happening on a federal level related to gender violence and sexual vio-lence,” said Director of Residential Life Meadow Davis. “6 ey are still working on what that actually looks like and how the law is to be inter-preted.”

In 2011, Bowdoin had the third highest number of reported forc-ible sexual assaults in the NESCAC, though it had the second lowest number in 2012, according to prior Clery reports. Nichols noted in an October 2013 Orient article that these numbers do not always accu-rately re: ect levels of sexual assault, as it is “notoriously underreported.”

Davis is in the process of becom-ing Director of ResLife, moving from her previous position as Asso-ciate Director of Student A; airs and Deputy Title IX Coordinator, and will be working with other members of the College during the spring and summer to 9 gure out exactly what SaVE means for Bowdoin.

What is certain is that the addi-tional Clery statistics will have to be reported in October 2014, and Nichols foresees no di7 culty in complying with the new regulations.

Please see bowdoinorient.com for a story on the 2014 housing lottery.

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Life off the tenure-track: a look at temporary professors at Bowdoin

! is is the second piece of a two-part series looking at the hiring processes and academic expectations that shape facul-ty experiences at the College. Last week’s installment looked at the road to tenure.

Visiting professors and post-doctoral fellows

In January, the Democratic sta5 of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released “6 e Just-In-Time Professor,” a report describ-ing the swelling population of nonten-ure-track instructors in academia. In 1970, adjunct professors made up 20 percent of higher education faculty, but today, they represent half of pro-fessors nationwide, according to the report. At Bowdoin, approximately 20 visiting professors, 11 adjunct lectur-ers and 15 post-doctoral fellows have joined full-time faculty for the 2014-2015 year.

6 ese temporary instructors reap many of the same bene7 ts as those on a tenure track, though they are hired for no more than a few years at a time.

“In my experience, the College treats visiting professors perfectly well,” said Susan Faludi, a visiting Tall-man Scholar for Gender and Women’s Studies. “If there’s something I’m not getting that tenure-track professors are, I’m not aware of and I don’t miss it,” she said.

6 e College works to provide re-sources for temporary professors tran-sitioning to life in Brunswick.

Faludi is living in a pre-furnished house that all the other Tallman Scholars have also lived in, along with her husband Russ Rymer, who is cur-rently a visiting professor in the Eng-lish Department.

“If you’re visiting, you don’t want to have to bring all your furniture and things with you,” she said.

Several professors who spoke with the Orient pointed out the challenges of teaching as a visiting faculty member.

Additionally, Departments some-times struggle to integrate temporary professors into their faculty. Physics professor Mark Battle mentioned that departments o8 en “don’t get really ex-ceptional candidates” for temporary positions, since these professors are generally hired for tenure-track jobs.

According to Associate Professor of Music Vineet Shende, visiting faculty sometimes feel that their position is “just a waystation” on the path to a tenure-track job at another col-lege, as professors hired under the designation of “visiting professor” generally do not move up to tenure track at the College. But Battle mentioned the prob-lem of being labeled a “permanent visit-ing person” af-ter taking more than one or two visiting posi-tions, which makes it much harder to get hired as a full professor.

6 ere are many bene7 ts to bringing vis-iting faculty to a department. A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Mu-sic Mary Hunter said that the tem-porary appointments al-lowed departments to “try out a certain area” and o5 er classes in a specialty that isn’t normally taught. 6 is semester, for example, Rymer is teaching “6 e Art of Science Writing,” a non-7 ction creative writing course that caters to a class 7 lled largely with science majors.

Associate Dean for Faculty Jen-nifer Scanlon is in charge of working speci7 cally with postdoctoral fellows, or post-docs, who come to Bowdoin through grant-funded programs such as the Mellon Foundation. Bowdoin

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currently has 15 post-docs in a variety of subjects, who Scanlon works to pre-pare for their future outside the Col-lege through programs such as work-shops on 7 nding a job a8 er Bowdoin.

According to Scanlon, working as a post-doc can act as an “introduction to an environment like Bowdoin and op-portunity to 7 gure out if this is the kind

of place you want.” In a Sep-tember 2012 Orient

article,

7 lling out a general application, pro-spective post-docs can be hired by any school in the consortium.

Melissa Rosario, a CFD post-doc in anthropology, characterized the CFD experience as “an individual one.” In addition to the require-ment of teaching one class per se-mester, CFD post-docs can also get further involved through service to the College or through mentoring students individually.

Just like visiting professors, post-docs must also balance their courses with the stress of applying to tenure-track positions at other institutions. Rosario characterized this job search as “an intense, consuming process” in the competitive waters of academia.

A 7 nal component of the post-doc experience is giving fellows teaching skills and experience, ideally through mentoring from more seasoned pro-fessors. Scanlon said that the Col-lege stresses mentoring both from departments and from the O9 ce of Academic A5 airs as “a way of helping them go from here to there.”

Rosario said she wished Bowdoin had “a formal structure for mentor-ship.” She said that the workshops run by the O9 ce of Academic A5 airs

were helpful in terms of profes-sional development: “an important component, but it doesn’t neces-sarily help you to be a better in-structor.” Instead, she said that “direct mentorship with a faculty member” was more bene7 cial in helping post-docs succeed.

Balancing teaching,research and service

An important aspect of being a facul-ty member at small liberal arts colleges like Bowdoin is juggling commitments to teaching, research and service.

6 e balance between these three responsibilities is constantly shi8 ing throughout a faculty member’s time at the College and depends on the stage of the tenure process that they are cur-rently going through.

A8 er getting tenure and moving up to the level of associate professor, there are fewer expectations about one’s level of teaching.

“In a sense, teaching has already been evaluated,” said Page Herrlinger, chair of the history department. She went on to say that though there is still an expectation for high quality of teaching, the focus tends to shi8 to a commitment to distinguished research.

Once faculty members go up to the tenure board once more and receive the title of full professor, there are no longer any expectations or require-ments regarding teaching or research.

“In terms of speci7 c advancements as a professor, that’s it,” said Dallas Denery, an associate history professor. “6 at said, at that point, you’ve done two books and a bunch of articles, so chances are this is your job. Teach-ing is a lot of fun and researching and thinking is also a lot of fun, so you just keep doing it. Allen Wells in our de-partment is a perfect example of what you should be like when you’re a full professor: you just keep working and you’re helpful to your subordinates.”

Professors noted that working at a liberal arts college like Bowdoin al-lows for di5 erent opportunities than other, larger research institutions.

“One of the things I like best about teaching here is I 7 nd it fairly pos-sible to link those things [teaching and research],” said David Hecht, assistant professor of history. “I love bringing something I’m researching to the classroom.”

Professors are also expected to complete service to the College com-munity, such as serving on commit-tees. Although this aspect of a career is not generally as highly valued as a fac-ulty member’s teaching and research, commitment to community service is still important.

“If you avoid community service, that will hurt you,” said Battle. He compared the relationship between teaching, research and service to “a three-legged stool with one leg shorter than the other.”

Garrett English ’16 calls a rural Texas oil-drilling community his home

Denver City, Texas, is my home-town. Its population is just about 4,500. 6 e landscape is not conven-tionally beautiful: the trees are rarely taller than you, the only water is lo-cated a few hundred feet beneath the ground and—at times—everything is brown, even the sky. It is neither a lie nor an exaggeration to say that it is located in the middle of nowhere. Austin, Dallas, El Paso, and Houston are all 400 miles away. It is unlikely that my hometown would exist if not for the millions of dollars buried thousands of feet below the surface. It is an oil 7 eld town.

After drilling began in the area, my hometown was added as an af-terthought. Subdivisions fit snugly between the checkerboard pat-tern of oil wells. From the street, my house and my neighborhood appear normal—they could be lo-cated anywhere in the Southwest. Directly behind my house, just 200 feet from my back porch, is a pump

jack—the most iconic symbol of the oil industry.

It was not until I arrived at Bowdoin almost two years ago that I was able to re: ect and appreci-ate the experience of growing up in Denver City and to understand the reasons why my family lived there. My feelings about home are greatly in: uenced by my father and his own

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experiences. His family moved four times while he was in school, so he promised himself that we would not move until my two younger sisters and I graduated from the same high school. His decision and his resolve puzzled me. Because he does not work in the oil industry, I was un-able to see what he saw in the town. He put aside building his career so

that my sisters and I would have a strong connection to a place.

I enjoy returning home to a tight-knit community made up of people that I have known for the greater part of the past 15 years. We say that it takes a village to raise a child, and I know that the people in my com-munity helped make me who I am. While growing up, I would o8 en

fantasize about what my life would be like had I grown up in a major city. I am now thankful that I did not. 6 e relationships and friend-ships I built overshadow all short-comings of the city, the landscape and the inconvenience of living an hour away from civilization. It is the kind of place that I want my kids to grow up in.

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Judd said that post-doc fellows also allowed the College to create connections to graduate programs that many current students con-template attending.

Along with 38 other liberal arts colleges, Bowdoin hires post-docs through the national Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD), which is designated for ethnic minorities. A8 er

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Don’t forget it: the survivies style guide

I’ve got so much to say about dress-ing for Ivies that I’ve decided to make this week’s column a kind of Style Sur-vivies—a guide for sartorial concerns of this very special last weekend in April.

Let’s start with one timeless Ivies di-lemma: how to wear as little as possible without freezing to death in this icy pur-gatory we call Maine.

Now I could tell you to stay warm and be comfortable; that it’s not worth worrying about your out7 t when you’ll be standing and dancing and prancing around outside for hours. I could tell you to bring a blanket, or that the key is lots of layers, but the truth is that at some point, no matter what, you will get cold. You’ll survive.

8 e next great style dilemma of Ivies is this: should you wear clothes you don’t care about, or a fancy out7 t?

Here’s the thing: everybody wants to look nice—you have more fun when you feel good about how you look—but during Ivies, anything you wear is des-tined for disappearance or destruction.

I could give you this rule of thumb: if anything you’re wearing is ruined, will that distress you for more than 7 ve min-utes? If the answer is yes, put it down and pick out something else.

Because, at some point, something will spill all over you and stain your out-7 t. Is it purple drank? Vomit? Barbecue sauce? It could be any or all of these, but you’ll never 7 nd out; it’s a mystery that begins and ends with you screaming, “What the fuck is all over me?”

But if you’re just wearing old clothes

(or if you’re drunk enough), this panic should subside in seconds.

Also, any removable item of cloth-ing—which at Ivies is almost every-thing—is likely to get lost. If you real-ize something’s gone within an hour of losing it, and you spend anywhere from 15-75 minutes retracing your steps, then you’ve still got a chance, of seeing it again. If you haven’t seen it in hours, or it is a pair of sunglasses, odds are you’ve lost it to the Ivies abyss.

No one likes losing things, but it’d be a shame to let it ruin your day. Very few people like stains either, but I person-ally think they add character and individuality to any out7 t.

I cannot over-state this however: sunglasses are the most likely thing to go missing. So even though croakies usu-ally strike me as something that should only be worn by mid-dle-aged white-water ra9 ing guides, this weekend I might revise that stance.

Because no matter what, at some point, the sun will duck behind a cloud—maybe for minutes, maybe for hours—and you will want to take your sunglasses o: your face. And that is how you’ll lose them.

“Should I wear a hat to Ivies?” you may ask, “And if so, what kind?” I could tell you that maybe you should wear a

hat, and, really, it could be any kind from sombrero to fez. But remember: at some point, you will want nothing more to do with your carefully-chosen cha-peau, and, having no where to put it (see above about things getting lost).

I could advise you on Ivies footwear. Is it time for some fun spring sneakers? 8 e season opener for Sperrys? Warm enough for sandals? Or should you stick with those boots you’ve been clomping

around in all winter? 8 ere are pros and cons to all these approaches, weather being as variable as it is.

No matter what, at some point you will probably decide you wore the wrong shoes. But as long as you can dance and frolic in them, you’re good.

I could tell you that the most im-portant Ivies acces-sory is not your hat or your sunglasses, but the tricked-out water bottle you’ll use to stay, um, hy-drated. And I could beg you not to put any drinks with

milk in it, because you will regret it, and whomever you spill it all over will probably kill you.

I could tell you all these things, but I won’t. Because for once, I don’t care.

It’s Ivies. Just have a good time and do whatever you want. Ivies is a time to take risks (with your style) because you can play them o: as drunken jokes. Plus, very few people will remember. Happy Ivies.

INSIDE THE BAKE SHOP

HY KHONG, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

ANNA HALL, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

WATCH ONLINEEver wonder where your

morning muffins come from? The bake shop—located on the second floor of Thorne Dining Hall—opens at 5 a.m. every day to prepare all of Bowdoin’s baked goods.

The bakery kitchen accomo-dates large quantities of food. It contains an oven that holds

See behind-the-scenes video and pictures of Thorne Bakery on bowdoinorient.com

up to 480 cookies at a time. Student demand decides which desserts the dining halls serve, and this year, dirt cake has ris-en in popularity, while confetti cake has fallen.

“I don’t really eat cookies any place else because I re-ally like the cookies here,” said Head Baker Joanne Adams.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

EMMA ROBERTS, THE BOWDOIN ORIENTSHORT AND NOT SO SWEET: Nick Magalhaes ’15 and Jared Littlejohn ‘15 work on “12:34,” a short fi lm about a confl ict between two roommates that is resolved through a dream. Littlejohn said he is fascinated by the concept of dreams and wanted to explore them in his fi lm.

Littlejohn ’15 producing short thriller

BY ELLEN CAHILL AND OLIVIA ATWOODORIENT STAFF

A few nights ago, some friends and I settled onto Quinby’s desig-nated sexile couch (red, center of the living room, faithful on-call bed to 15-ish percent of the house). We grabbed blankets. We grabbed tis-sues. Some of us also grabbed cake.

Then it was time. We began watching “Game of Thrones.”

We laughed. We cried. We cheered. We belted out the “Game of Thrones” theme song. Then it happened. King Joffrey—everyone’s favorite douche, he-who-we-love-to-hate, Draco Malfoy 2.0—met his unhappy end. He swigged some wine, ate some pie and started to choke.

Then Joffrey fell over. His face yellowed; his eyes became blood-shot; some cake-spit dribbled out the corner of his kingly mouth.

It was like Bedlam in Quinby. People came down to ask why we were screaming. People also came down to ask us to shut up.

But we couldn’t. Joffrey had died.Immediately, my mother emailed

me. “Good riddance, if you ask me,” she wrote. I wasn’t so sure.

After this, no one could sleep. No one could eat any more cake either. We sat on the sexile couch and stared at the TV. It was a beau-tiful moment, but then it passed. If I’ve learned anything from “Game of Thrones” and Bowdoin, it’s that precious moments like these are fleeting.

There has been a lot of talk lately about rulers stepping down. Barry Mills has announced he will leave at the end of next year (prompting another email from my mother, this one asking if he had “received an offer he couldn’t refuse”). Director of Health Services Sandra Hayes is heading out, so is Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Jarrett Young. The Office of Residential Life’s Mary Pat already left. Madelaine Eulich, assistant director of ResLife, is leav-ing too.

If Bowdoin was Westeros, all

Staff turnover is Bowdoin’s own red weddingthese changes would be explained by a plot. Leeches, anyone? Maybe Colby has its own fire goddess.

I brought this up with Quinby’s “Game of Thrones” contingent. Were these changes normal? Or was something going on? Was the worth of my degree about to sud-denly plummet? We hoped not.

We thought about this further. If the NESCAC was Westeros, was Bowdoin Winterfell? Were we expe-riencing the Red Wedding of staff turnover?

We continued along this train of thought. Amherst was King’s Land-ing; Williams was made up of Tul-ly’s; Hamilton was north of the wall. Who were the White Walkers, then? The Ivy League? Tufts?

We didn’t know. I’m not con-cerned, though. If the NESCAC really is Westeros, at least we—as in Bowdoin, the Starks—still have Arya. I place my faith with her. She is a baller, and also a woman.

Bowdoin has experienced ad-ministrative turnover before. As much as Ned Stark and President Mills will be missed, we can always use a little shaking up.

In the meantime, happy Ivies.

PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Chelsea Sha! er ’14

When Chelsea Sha5 er ’14 arrived on campus her 6 rst year, she planned on joining the Cra7 Center and tak-ing a few art classes. Luckily for the visual arts department, a few classes turned into many classes, and many classes turned into a major.

Currently taking the Senior Stu-dio capstone course, Sha5 er’s proj-ect uses footage from recent home videos and digitized old home vid-eos to visually represent memory.

“It’s sort of predicated on the idea that o7 entimes our memories are not actually memories but just recol-lections that we have of images we’ve seen of ourselves growing up,” said Sha5 er of her work.

Sha5 er says she is interested in the power of public art and its in8 uence on passers-by. For her Public Art class last semester, she 8 ipped all the posters in the union so that people only saw the blank backs of 8 iers.

“I feel like we see those every day and that space is so familiar to us that sometimes we don’t even see those posters,” she said. “I wanted to break that routine of knowing exactly what was going to be there.”

Sha5 er studied abroad in Flor-ence, Italy where she got a taste of what life would have been like at a studio art school. A7 er consid-ering the pros and cons, she says she’s still glad she has her liberal arts background.

“What we lack in studio space or technical instruction, we make up for in the way Bowdoin professors teach their students how to think about art and how to talk about their art,” she said. “I noticed a lot of people could make these beautiful things but they didn’t really know how to explain them or didn’t know the art historical context for what they were making.”

While abroad, Sha5 er produced a piece titled “Rising” that was dis-played during the Bowdoin Art Society student show.

“It was a video that superim-posed images of riots onto 8 owing water—like a rushing river—to talk about how that impulse to violence or the mob mentality is a natural impulse and that things will gain momentum and rise up,” said Sha5 er.

While Sha5 er has always been in-terested in art, she made her decision to major in it a7 er her experience in Sculpture II, taught by Sculptor in Residence John Bisbee.

“I really liked the experience of getting the time and space to work on one major project and really thinking about it, and having a lot of autonomy over what it was going to look like,” she said. “It also got me really interested in the idea of studio practice.”

Sha5 er’s 6 rst concern when producing a new piece is its aes-thetic quality.

“Very o7 en, the actual produc-tion of the art is driven by what I 6 nd aesthetically and formally in-teresting. 9 at’s the most important

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thing to me—what something ends up looking like,” she said. “What it means is a little bit more of a perk.”

Sha5 er starts by deciding what medium to use, and says the pro-cess of creating inspires what comes a7 er. For example, painting from photographs makes her think about what the photographs mean to her.

“For video it’s usually a little more conceptual,” said Sha5 er. “I’ll have a sort of idea or sentence that I 6 nd interesting, and I’ll try to reproduce that idea in the video work.”

Recently Sha5 er has become in-terested in community art projects and art therapy. Since she plans to teach a7 er graduation, she hopes she can incorporate art into her job.

“I see it as a really good way to connect people, a good way to bring people together in a com-munity and a good way to beautify a community. I think that that is a really important role of art—mak-ing a place worthwhile and a good place to live in,” said Sha5 er.

For Citizenship and Religion, a course being taught at the Maine Correctional Center, Sha5 er has been working on a group project with other Bowdoin students and an incarcerated student. 9 ey have been asking people to answer the question of what citizenship means to them by writing or drawing on an index card.

“9 ere are a lot of people who are incarcerated at that facility who have been participating in the proj-ect—drawing on the cards, writing things down. It’s been really great to get that perspective,” she said. “I’m really interested to see what Bowdoin people have to say, but it’s also interesting to see this whole other group of people who have a lot at stake in their own citizen-ship and how they would respond to that.”

To Shaffer, the beauty of this project is that it provides people in the facility with an outlet for creativity.

“Maybe people don’t get to see their drawings or read their po-etry or read their writing because they are incarcerated, but this way they have a chance to sort of ex-press themselves and have it reach a broad audience,” she said.

Sha5 er’s video work can be seen in the Senior Studio show on May 2, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Her citizen-ship project will also be displayed in the Fishbowl Gallery in the Visual Arts Center next weekend.

When Professor of 9 eater Davis Robinson asked students to produce an independent project, Jared Little-john ’15 saw a unique opportunity.

Littlejohn decided to 6 lm a short thriller titled “12:34” that focuses on the relationship between two senior roommates, one of whom ends up paying for the other’s actions.

Littlejohn plays Zach, one of the roommates who has a dream about the numbers one, two, three and four.

“He knows he saw these numbers for a reason, so they de6 nitely mean some-thing, and solving this dream might help get him out of this situation [with his roommate]” said Littlejohn.

Littlejohn says he hopes people will learn a lot from this 6 lm.

“9 e message is for people to stick up for themselves,” said Littlejohn. “I o7 en see people on our campus playing

the victim, or talking about how others have made them miserable, and I just want people to see this 6 lm and ques-tion the way they approach things.”

Nick Magalhaes ’15 is assisting Littlejohn with cinematography on behalf of Bowdoin Film Society (BFS).

“[Jared] didn’t really have any ex-perience or any equipment, and we [BFS] have experience and equip-ment, so we got him a camera and taught him how to use it, and then I realized that I could just help him 6 lm it,” said Magalhaes. “It’s not perfect—it’s kind of rough around the edges—but that’s the fun of it.”

He and Littlejohn made deliberate cinemagraphic choices to in8 uence the mood of certain scenes.

“Whenever we’re shooting a scene with any of the [Judicial Board] people, the camera is mounted on a tripod. It’s really steady, and all of the movements are lateral movements, horizontal movements. And so you get this sense

of austerity and seriousness whenever you’re with them,” he said.

Littlejohn decided to keep the 6 lm-ing locations simple—just a dorm room “and a room in Moulton that looks like a board room.”

Other cast members include Trevor Murray ’16, Viraj Gandhi ’14, Tom Capone ’17, Ben Rosenbloom ’14, Pe-ter Tracy ’14, Ricardo Zarate, Jr. ’13. and Mik Cooper ’14.

Littlejohn found the screenwriting process challenging.

“It is de6 nitely something I have lost sleep over,” he said. “I want to have a distinct purpose in creating this 6 lm.”

As a 6 rst year proctor, Littlejohn says he is familiar with con8 icts like the one depicted in his 6 lm.

“I have experience with people be-ing in tough relationships with room-mates,” said Littlejohn.

“12:34” will premiere May 10 in Sills Hall.

SNARK WEEK

ALLY GLASS-KATZ! is article contains spoilers for a

recent episode of “Game of ! rones.”

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Softball falls to Husson, sweeps Brandeis

BY REBECCA FISHERORIENT STAFF

Matt Jacobson ’17 5 nished just two seconds apart to claim 5 rst and second place in the longest event of the day, the 10,000-meter race.

In addition to the strong running performances, James Boeding ’14 won the 3000-meter steeplechase in 9:28.11, and Andrew Murowchick ’16 threw the javelin 50.81 meters—almost 5 ve me-ters further than his closest opponent.

Seekins said the team demonstrated its depth across events at Colby.

“Our mid-distance and distance program in the last few years has de5 nitely been the strongest part of the team,” he said. “But, as Saturday showed, a lot of other parts of the team have been closing the gap. Our throw-ers had an amazing day.”

Talpey said it was hard to monitor all the day’s outstanding performances.

“A6 er any meet, we normally group up in a circle and acknowledge the best performances on the team,” he said. “On Saturday, almost every event had a [personal record] or a really great performance. It was a pretty hectic 5 -nal cheer.”

7 e women celebrated a home victo-ry back in Brunswick, beating Colby by less than four points a6 er a nail-biting recalculation of results. Bowdoin 5 n-ished with 163 points and was followed by Colby (159.50), Bates (150), South-ern Maine (89.50), Husson (32), Mount Holyoke (22) and St. Joseph’s (15).

Katherine Krupp ’16 and captain Katherine Harmon ’14 helped lead the

Track and fi eld teams sprint to top fi nishes at state meets

BY ALEX BARKER ANDCOURTNEY GALLAGHER

ORIENT STAFF

7 e men’s track team took second place at the Maine State Outdoor Track and Field Championship at Colby last weekend, and the women placed 5 rst out of seven regional teams at the Alo-ha Relays, their only home meet of the season. 7 e men’s and women’s teams both competed against Bates, Colby, Southern Maine and St. Joseph’s, with the women also squaring o8 against Husson and Mount Holyoke.

At Colby, six Polar Bear men were named state champions in what cap-tain Greg Talpey ’14 called the “favorite team event of the year.”

Bowdoin’s overall score of 166 points was enough to top Colby (113), South-ern Maine (104) and St. Joseph’s (18), but was overshadowed by a strong Bates performance (212).

Despite powerful gusts of wind in Waterville, the Bowdoin men dominat-ed the mid- and long-distance running events, winning every race over 800 meters. Jacob Ellis ’16 took 5 rst in the closely contested 800-meter race with a time of 1:54.43. Captain Coby Horow-itz ’14 le6 his competitors in the dust in the 1500, 5 nishing in 3:57.86, while his fellow captain Sam Seekins ’14 domi-nated the 5000-meter run, coming in at 15:02.96. Avery Wentworth ’15 and

7 e women’s so6 ball team lost twice to Husson last Friday, beat Brandeis twice on Saturday and split two games with the University of New England (UNE) on Wednesday.

Melissa DellaTorre ’14 pitched a 5 ve-hit shutout in Wednesday’s victory over UNE. 7 e o8 ense was led by Al-ana Luzzio ’17, who had two hits, two

walks, two runs and an RBI.7 e Nor’easters took the second

game on the backs of pitcher Katelyn Austin and designated player Allie Fra-zier, who knocked in two runs. Dimi-tria Spathakis ’16 had both of the Polar Bears’ RBIs.

Last weekend, Husson took the lead in the 5 rst inning of the opening game, scoring on a passed ball. 7 e Polar Bears regained control in the top of the fourth, however, with an RBI double from Katie Gately ’16 and an RBI sin-gle from Nicole Nelson ’16.

7 e Eagles tied the game again in the 5 6 h inning on a groundout to short. Cielle Collins ’15 then hit a

CATHERINE YOCHUM, THE BOWDOIN ORIENT

QUICK FEET: Siena Mitman ’15 looks to beat out a throw to fi rst base against Brandeis last Saturday. The Polar Bears swept the Judges in a doubleheader.

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single that was mishandled by the out-5 elders, allowing a pair of runs to come across, and giving Bowdoin the lead in the sixth. Additionally, Collins scored on a throwing error on a stolen base at-tempt by Dimitria Spathakis ’16.

7 e Eagles regained control in a de5 nitive four-run sixth inning with three singles and a double. 7 e Polar Bears had two players in scoring posi-tion in their last at-bat, but were unable to extend the game and fell 6-5.

Although the Polar Bears put runs on the board in 5 ve out of seven in-nings, the women could not maintain

runs on the Williams pitching staff. Rosen, Cole DiRoberto ’15 and captain John Lefeber ’14 led the way with two hits apiece. How-ever, the effort was not enough as Bowdoin fell short by one run in ten innings.

On Tuesday, the team took on non-conference opponent Thomas College. Dominating from start to finish, the squad put up fifteen runs on Thomas, while Bowdoin’s pitch-ing staff held the Terriers scoreless.

In the second game of the day, the Polar Bears only put up four runs. However, led by pitchers Sam Herzig ’14 and Stephen Giralimo ’16, the defense remained strong

Baseball to face Tufts in critical series

Coming off of three tough losses to Colby, Husson and the Univer-sity of Southern Maine, baseball regained its winning ways last week, picking up three wins in four games. Hosting Williams, the Polar Bears won the first game of the series 4-2, and narrowly lost the second game in extra innings, 7-6. Traveling to Thomas on Tues-day, the team crushed the Terriers, taking the first game 15-0 and the second 4-2. The three wins improve Bowdoin’s record to 16-11-1.

Trying to regain their focus after losing an important series against Colby, the Polar Bears recaptured momentum by defeating Williams. Leading the Bears was Aaron Rosen ’15, who was 4-4 with an RBI and a triple. Sam Canales ’15 also contrib-uted to the winning effort, knock-ing in two runs of his own.

On the mound, Erik Jacobsen ’15 tossed a strong game, giving up only 5 ve hits and two earned runs, and fanning four batters in the process.

“We’ve got a team that’s always had great pitching,” said Sean Mul-laney ’17. “With that we just needed to get back to playing good defense, and just putting the ball in play and not trying to do too much.”

In the nightcap, the Polar Bears kept their bats hot, putting up six

and held Thomas to nine hits and two runs.

While the Polar Bears feel good about the wins against Thomas, they said they continue to look for-ward to their biggest series of the year against Tufts this weekend.

“It’s kind of make or break for us if we want to make the playoffs,” said Mullaney.

Tufts sits atop the NESCAC East division at 6-1 in conference play, while Bowdoin is 4-5 and tied for third in the East division.

The Polar Bears will play Tufts (25-2) at Pickard Field today at 3 p.m. and tomorrow at 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

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EYE ON THE BALL: Cole DiRoberto ’15 swings at a low pitch in a home game against Williams last Friday.

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Tennis squads see mixed results in matches at Midd.

WomenOn Saturday, the women’s tennis

team topped No. 10 Middlebury in a hard-fought match, winning by a 5 nal score of 5-4.

7 e Polar Bears have now won three in a row a6 er losing to Am-herst and Emory two weekends ago, and are now 13-4 (6-1 NESCAC).

“Emory and Amherst—although we lost both of them—we de5 nitely learned a lot from them and they were close matches,” said Ti8 any Cheng ’16. “[7 e games] proved to us that we are at the top level and can compete there.”

Tomorrow, the women will host Williams at 10 a.m. 7 e Ephs are ex-pected to be a tough opponent, ac-cording to the team.

“Regionals usually break down to us versus Middlebury,” said Cheng. “Last year we unfortunately lost and didn’t get the chance to advance to nationals. However this year we’ve got a pretty good shot.”

Cheng mentioned that the Po-lar Bears’ consistency in doubles matches has improved tremendous-ly since last year.

“In the last couple matches we’ve been able to go up 2-1 even against the top schools in doubles, which was unusual last year,” she said.

MenThe men’s tennis team’s long

ride home from Vermont felt even longer after an upsetting 7-2 loss to the No. 8 Middlebury Panthers last weekend.

Middlebury grabbed an early advantage by taking two of three doubles matches. The Polar Bears’ lone doubles win came from the No. 1 team of Sam King ’14 and Luke Trinka ’16. The No. 3 team of Chris Lord ’14 and Chase Savage ’16 fell by a heartbreaking match score of 9-8 (8-6).

During singles play, Savage saw an injury flare up within the first two points of his match.

“Against a tough team, even the littlest things will make a di8 erence,” Hugh Mo ’17 said of Savage’s injury.

With Savage’s quick defeat, a series of other 5 rst set losses were set into motion. King was the next one to step o8 the court, with a straight set defeat to the Panthers’ Brantner Jones.

Trinka followed with a convinc-ing win at the No. 2 position (6-3 6-2), which turned out to be the Polar Bears’ only singles win for the day. At No. 1, Noah Bragg ’15 battled the Panthers’ Alex Johnston into three sets, but ultimately lost.

The Polar Bears lost against Bates on Wednesday 5-4. The team returns to action at home tomor-row against Williams at 2 p.m. and again Sunday against Stevens.

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Women6 e women’s lacrosse team gave up

several late-game goals to lose to Tu7 s 10-9 at home in its regular-season 8 -nale. Lindsay Picard ’16 tied things up for the Polar Bears with two minutes to play, but Tu7 s’ Eliza Halmo won it on a goal with six seconds on the clock.

Picard, Betsy Sachs ’14 and Taylor Wilson ’15 each had two goals for Bowdoin. Sachs added a game-high six draw controls.

With the loss, the Polar Bears 8 nish 4-6 in the NESCAC and will enter the quarter8 nals as the No. 7 seed. 6 ey will travel to Amherst tomorrow to play the Lady Je9 s at noon.

In their previous meeting this season, Amherst defeated Bowdoin 9-4 on March 8. Amherst is led by NESCAC leading scorer Katharine Eddy and goalie Christy Forrest, whose 56.3% save percentage leads the conference.

MenMen’s lacrosse finished their reg-

ular season on a four-game losing streak, culminating with a loss to No. 7 Tufts on Wednesday. Last Sat-urday, the team fell to out-of-con-ference Endicott College, ranked No. 13 nationally. The Polar Bears finish sixth in the NESCAC regular season standings with a 9-6 confer-ence record.

On Wednesday, the Jumbos took the lead for good with 6:40 remain-ing in the first quarter, and led by as many as nine goals before winning with a final score of 18-11. Eleven players scored goals for Tufts, while only five Polar Bears found the back of the net.

Franklin Reis ’14 led the way for the Polar Bears, securing seven groundballs to go along with five goals and an assist.

After a closely contested first pe-riod against Endicott on Saturday, the Gulls led the game 4-3. The flow of the game then went fully in

Last weekend the women’s sailing team competed for the Reed Trophy at Dartmouth, and their performance quali8 ed them for the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Nationals for the 8 rst time in team history. 6 e highly-competitive tournament will be hosted by the US Naval Academy from May 27 to 30.

Sailors included Mimi Paz ’17, Erin Mullins ’16, Kaylee Schwitzer ’15, Fran-ces Jimenez ’16, Lizzy Hamilton ’15, Dana Bloch ’17, Courtney Koos ’16 and Olivia Diserio ’16.

6 e women 8 nished fourth overall on Saturday and seventh on Sunday.

“6 e girls were really dialed into the conditions on Saturday,” said Head Coach Frank Pizzo. “Sunday was much trickier and we struggled adjusting to the current and breeze at times. But we were able to pull ourselves out of it [and] 8 nishing seventh will probably put us in the top ten in the country.”

Bowdoin also sent sailors to the Ad-miral’s Cup at Kings Point, New York. Competitors included Pete Edmunds ’14, Tom Peabody ’15, Charlotte Wil-liamson ’15, Paige Speight ’16, Jack Mc-Guire ’17, Jackson Bloch ’15 and Matt Lyons ’17.

6 e team 8 nished in tenth place of the 20 teams that competed.

6 e Polar Bears had strong perfor-mances from McGuire and Williamson, who together 8 nished 8 rst overall in Division A.

Bowdoin will compete in the upcom-ing Co-ed New England Championship hosted by Yale, which is the national qualifying race for the co-ed boats. 6 e top ten 8 nishers at this event will then continue onto Nationals.

Pizzo was positive about his team’s chances and said he believes Bowdoin is in the hunt for another postseason bid.

“6 e teams had a great season and kids have been working really hard,” said Pizzo. “It’s nice to see some of the hard work paying o9 .”

control on defense in their second game against Husson either.

“We were a little disappointed with what happened in the end,” said Nel-son. “We weren’t doing a lot of the little things. We took those games and learned from our mistakes and moved on to doing all of those little things right on Saturday.”

6 e squad returned to action on Saturday at home against Brandeis. With a pair of 5-1 wins, the team im-proved to 18-10. Nelson went 5-for-6 from the plate, including two doubles and 8 ve RBIs.

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innings of the opening game and col-lected three strikeouts, one walk and just one earned run. Melissa Della-Torre ’14 allowed one run while throw-ing eight strikeouts in the second game.

6 e team will wrap up NESCAC play this weekend, hosting Bates at 4 p.m. to-day and for a doubleheader tomorrow. Bowdoin will also travel to Tu7 s on Sun-day for a 12 p.m. make-up game.

6 e conference is divided into East and West divisions, and two teams from each division will make it into the dou-ble-elimination NESCAC tournament.

“Tu7 s has basically claimed one of those spots,” said Nelson. “But if we go out and beat Bates this weekend, we should make it into the tournament. If we play how we can, we should be able to [beat Bates] perfectly 8 ne.”

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Bears to the 8 rst place 8 nish by win-ning two events apiece. Krupp collect-ed wins in the long jump (5.22 meters) and triple jump (11.25 meters), while Harmon won the discus (37.60 meters) and hammer throw (51.40 meters).

Erin Silva ’15 continued her stellar season by dominating the pole vault (3.51 meters), and Addison Carvajal ’16 came in 8 rst in the two-day hep-tathlon competition (4.455 points).

Both track teams hope to carry their momentum into the post-season, which will begin for both the men and women tomorrow at the NESCAC Track and Field Championship at Colby.

Women’s sailing will head to Nationals for fi rst time

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GO AHEAD, JUMP: Heather Chan ’17 competes in the long jump in last Saturday’s Aloha Relays.

favor of Endicott, which proceeded to outscore the Polar Bears 5-2 and 6-2 in the next two periods to win by a final score of 18-10.

“Once [Endicott] started to win a couple of face-offs, they went on a run,” said Will Wise ’14. “They were a very strong team offensively.”

Captain Dan Hanley ’14 and Wise led the offense for the Polar Bears with two goals apiece. In the net for Bowdoin, Connor Laughlin ’15 conceded 16 goals on 25 shots and Peter Mumford ’17 conceded two goals in six attempts.

“Our offense played well during the match—we just couldn’t get them the ball enough,” said Head Coach Jason Archbell. “We have to be consistent on our defensive clearances and execution against top offensive teams.”

Due to their late-season slide, the Polar Bears will take to the road for their NESCAC quarterfinal game, playing at Amherst tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.

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Vegan food and hippie dudes: dispelling stereotypes of environmentalism

Everybody loves to hate envi-ronmentalists.

But why is that? Surely, the num-ber of people that love to hate our planet is far smaller.

If we all agree that clean air, a stable climate, and biodiversity are great, why is there animosity to-wards the green-minded? Maybe it’s our propensity for chaining ourselves to trees. Or the weird barefoot hobbit feet? The hemp clothes? The yurts? The under-cooked vegan food?

Last time I checked, the only thing I was chained to was my computer. My toenail polish is a little chipped, but otherwise my feet are fairly pristine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an item of hemp clothing in my life, much less a yurt. And when my friends and I eat vegan food, it’s generally pretty delicious (my former roommate’s dark chocolate-avocado-banana bread comes to mind).

Sorry to break it to you, but en-vironmentalists are just like you.

It’s always amazing to me to see how many people are reluctant to identify with a movement—even if they agree with its goals—because of a fear of being associated with its radical fringes. While I won’t deny that the dreaded hippie still walks among us, getting on board with progressive environmental policies doesn’t mean you have to douse yourself in patchouli and start doing chakra meditation.

This kind of stereotyping might seem harmless, but it actually has a fairly pernicious side effect. If fewer people are willing to come

out and say that they support pro-climate legislation and policies because of a fear of being painted with the hippie brush, it’s much less likely that progress on these issues will happen any time soon. And with an issue like climate change, progress needs to be made, like, yesterday.

The dirty-hippie stereotype still exists, even though the goals and practices of the “environmental movement” (if such a huge entity can be said to exist anymore) have changed significantly in the past fifty years.

It’s hard not to notice how little today’s climate movement resem-bles the environmentalism of the 1960s. The climate crisis requires a far more radical and swift response from our society than the tree-huggers of yore could have ever desired.

The need for more drastic ac-tions is not winning environmen-talism (including older versions of environmental activism) many new supporters among the silent majority—those who would much rather spend their Saturday after-noon watching a baseball game than going to a protest.

These perceptions seem to alien-ate a great deal of people from publicly supporting environmental goals. Other misconceptions only compound this problem. One of these is the sense that environmen-talists, as their name might imply, prioritize the well being of the nat-

ural environment over more seem-ingly immediate problems facing human beings.

Most environmental-ly-minded folks would never argue (and I feel the same way) that other issues facing humanity—the fights against poverty, disease, oppression, and so on—are not impor-tant. But those who frame en-vironmen-tal goals in oppo-sition to these other humanitar-ian aims are missing the point on two accounts.

First, the ma-jority of environ-mentalists that I’m familiar with are committed to their goals because they know that having a healthy and safe environment helps all people, and that imperiling the envi-ronment can hurt hu-man health and social stability, especially for those unable to buy themselves a solution. The short version of this? Environmental-ism is for the people.

Second, many of the problems faced by societies worldwide (pov-erty, disease, social unrest, etc.) are exacerbated by environmental damage, especially the types asso-

ciated with climate change. When drought wipes out a vital har-

vest, the food insecurity and price spikes that result don’t occur in a vacuum. They affect the ability of real people to feed themselves and

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Even one hundred and forty-nine years after the Class of 1867 first planted ivy near the Chapel, the Ivies celebration continues to serve as respite from academics. Despite some obvious differences, the

Ivies weekends of yore bear a surprising resemblance to the Ivies of today. In “Tales of Bowdoin,” a collec-tion compiled by former students, President Kenneth C. M. Sills of the Class of 1901 recalls a day when “the expectant mothers, the passive fathers, the pretty sisters” descended on Bowdoin’s campus for a day of oratory performances. Sills describes a tennis match that began at dawn after a night of debauchery, contested between two seniors and two young alumni who were only “slightly clad,” and refereed by one Tim Taylor, who was—even at such a late hour—“rather drunk.” Sills uses the elegant language of a more restrained era, but many current students can read their own Ivies experiences into his account.

From the College’s perspective in 2014, this weekend is primarily about attempting to impose order on chaos. E-Board members hand deliver notices to our neighbors in Brunswick, and some professors even skip town. Rain contingency plans are in place. Multiple emails from Director of Safety and Security Randy Nichols have enumerated strategies to “Survivies.” While there is plenty of debauchery already underway, the Ivies spirit has as much to do with breaking the norms of everyday interaction as it does with bending the rules. The near-magical quality of Ivies comes from a meaningful sense of liberation from social divisions within our small community. Today’s party on the Brunswick Quad marks the one moment when a large portion of the student body will gather together informally.

This communal revelry makes Ivies a uniquely inclusive opportunity for fun. Demarcations drawn by class years, varsity teams, College House affiliations and extracurricular involvements dissolve. First years will find that this last weekend in April is the first significant opportunity to invoke the “Bowdoin Hello” since the early months of the academic year. Above recognizing tradition and celebrating the long-awaited start of spring, we gather to celebrate our common experience as the academic year reaches its final crescendo.

We see Ivies as a utopia because of the collective release it brings. But instead of saving the date, we might take the experience instructively. We are capable of substituting bacchanalian camaraderie with substantial—and sober—conversation with new friends after the weekend ends. Ivies sets an example and poses a challenge for the last few weeks of this term and our Bowdoin experience more generally. The long-celebrated Bowdoin tradition brings a state of mind that should linger long after the hangover fades.

their families and, in extreme cas-es, can contribute to wider social instability. Protecting the natural environment is the best and most efficient way to prevent these types of crises: it allows us to get at the root cause of the disease rather than just treating the symp-

tom.However, this re-

ality is not always readily appar-ent. Especially considering the widespread mis-information cir-culating around the issue of cli-mate change, the question r e m a i n s : what is the environmen-tal move-

ment to do? To use a well-

worn phrase, environmental-

ists must be able to win the hearts and minds. Keeping en-vironmentalism a niche ideology for ant i-mainstream radicals doesn’t seem promising, and diluting the message to lure in the unsuspecting masses seems like it could only end up being counterpro-ductive.

To me, the so-lution lies in re-

minding people what they have to gain by supporting environmen-talism, and what they have to lose should it fail.

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It’s always amazing to me to see how many people are reluctant to identify with a

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Free to pee: analyzing the segregation of bathrooms by gender

On intolerance of obligatory acceptance

A few weeks ago, Dartmouth College students occupied one of the campus’ administrative build-ings in the hopes of promoting a rather zealous progressive agenda. The Wall Street Journal, in turn, wrote a scathing op-ed about the incident.

This small band of protestors insisted upon reforms such as formal racial admission quotas, the school health insur-ance plan covering sex change operations and even “censoring the library catalogue for offensive terms.”

The massive fiscal, administrative, polit-ical and opportunity costs of implementing such changes aside, the episode was an excellent example of mistaking ac-ceptance for tolerance. The discrepancy between the two terms is very real and under-standing the difference would at the very least minimize the collective amount of bitching from both leftist activists (read: bloggers) and conservatives who cherry-pick their opponents’ more extreme points.

Tolerance is the minimum amount of action that society can reasonably require from an indi-vidual. It means showing indiffer-ence toward practices, beliefs, cus-toms and identities that are held by other groups in the population.

I’m talking about customs that are legal and do not have nega-tive impacts on the rest of society (pedophilia would not qualify, but LGBTQ issues would). “Indif-ference,” in this case, means that

an individual must not say or do anything that might harm these groups in any way.

This individual is free to think whatever she (he, ze?) wants con-cerning other people’s values. She can still comfortably exist within the bounds of tolerance so long as she does not display any negative thought in a malevolent way.

Tolerance insists that one not harm others in a group, but it also does not mandate that one push the opposite way—past the point

of neutrality—and actively support, endorse or even be content with an entity. Such behavior falls into the realm of acceptance.

Acceptance moves beyond open mindedness and necessitates a change in personal opinions, views and preferences. Not only is the individual expected to peacefully coexist with other groups, but he is also expected to embrace them and all that they stand for. Thus, calling for acceptance as a baseline obliges members of society who wish to be regarded as somewhat

The year is 2004; the place: the hallway outside the gym of Brook-lyn’s Public School 321. There I wait with my fourth grade class, staring into space and dreading the approach of P.E. Suddenly, I feel a shove from my side and fall to the ground, disoriented. Regaining my faculties, I see I’m surrounded by scattered paper towels and peach linoleum—someone pushed me into the girl’s’ room. I regain my composure as fast as I can, stumble out of the forbidden area and no-tice several of my male classmates laughing at my misery. My cheeks shine bright red as the humiliation replays endlessly in my head. Why did it have to be me? Why did I have to suffer? What did I ever do to deserve being pushed into the girl’s bathroom?!

Why was I so embarrassed to spend that moment in a female re-stroom? It was, of course, where I didn’t belong. Boys are supposed to go to the boys’ room and girls to the girls’ room—I’d known that since before Pre-K. As a young kid,

this rule felt as natural and nor-mal as school itself, reinforced by teachers, Disney Channel shows, and Louis Sachar’s classic, “There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom.” Gender segregation carried on through middle school and high

school, where hormone-crazed boys joked about what they would do for only a peek through the thin wall separating male and female locker rooms.

When I showed up to Maine Hall my first semester at Bowdoin, I

didn’t think twice about the second floor having separate bathrooms for men and women. The boys’ room was a nice refuge —pleasant and bright for a mid-morning poop and a good place to meet bros for a quick pre-College House shotgun. In the bathroom, the guys on the floor could share weekday routines and shoot the shit after a hookup. We really got to know each other there. The bathroom brought us together, but we were only bond-ing with half of the floor, and in a way that reinforced the gender norms that shape mainstream col-lege socialization.

5 is year I live in Reed House, with its co-ed bathrooms. A6 er the many years of having to pee in a room separate from girls, I 7 nally share a bathroom with women my age. How could Bowdoin possibly allow this? Wouldn’t all hell break loose? Well, okay, it was a little un-comfortable to poop in a stall next to a woman, but it’s a little uncom-fortable to poop in a stall next to anyone. I quickly got used to the

desegregated bathrooms, still enjoy-ing college without the boy’s club that had been the men’s lavatory.

This got me thinking about my mortification in fourth grade. What exactly was so bad about going into the girls’ room? Per-

politically correct (whatever that means today) to completely alter their personalities and characters to conform to another subjective conception of a perfect world.

Forcing or demanding that an-other consent to your conventions because they are more progressive or “right” is as ridiculous as it is ironic: such a hypocrite has become intolerant of others’ dissenting (but not derogatory) conclusions. Intol-erance has no place in modern so-ciety. But by enforcing acceptance, the self-proclaimed liberator trans-

forms into a tyranni-cal oppressor.

Do not miscon-strue this as an at-tack against the left, progressivism or related interests. This is a criticism of those who demand too much of a largely moderate majority. By not settling for any less than acceptance, certain activists are inadvertently damag-ing their own cause by

inseparably associating frivolous complaints with

more serious and legitimate grievances.

Returning to the Dart-mouth example, do the bulk of those who desire gender

equality (presumably a fair amount of the total population at the New Hampshire institution, and at Bowdoin as well) really also want “gender-neutral bathrooms in all facilities, including locker rooms?” I will boldly guess not.

I caution those fighting for a cause to take into account the dif-ference between tolerance and ac-ceptance when considering what they campaign for. They might realize that victory—widespread tolerance—can be achieved with-out resounding affirmation from the masses.

The advent of social media makes anonymous activity exceed-ingly easy. It is no secret that people will often say things under the veil of anonymity that they would never say under their own name. Col-lege “confessions” pages like Bow-doin Confess and Words from the Bubble are just the latest means of providing anonymous commentary on campus.

One might think that provid-ing an anonymous outlet increases and improves dialogue on campus. Finally, a place where students can say whatever they want with no consequences or judgment! I’d ar-gue this is not the case. Anonym-ity, when coupled with a lack of accountability, does not improve dialogue in any real way.

While it is true that confessions pages can uncover real, problem-atic issues on campus like race and sexual assault, anonymity dilutes these issues. Real arguments should be brought up by people who care enough about them to stand by them. Submitting an anonymous confession allows people to make public whatever is on their mind, and then forget that it was ever said. Sure, the experience might be cathartic, but it does more damage than good.

Anonymity takes away the big-gest leverage we have when we speak up for ourselves—our hu-manity. Talking about an issue face to face does so much more than an anonymous complaint. It’s hard to care about an issue made public by an anonymous website when I can’t put a face on that person. How can there be dialogue with a

faceless entity? When you remove your personhood from your opin-ion, you remove any possibility for understanding. There is no means for your opinion to be clarified, defended, altered, or put into any context. Sure, other commenters can come to your defense, but they are not on any realistic level a spokesperson for an anonymous confession.

When important dialogues at Bowdoin are not trivial, the same voices are always represented. This community cannot afford to lose important arguments and opinions to petty confessions pages. Bow-doin students should be comfort-able creating a space for their opin-ions, politically correct or not. The only way to understand each other and our environment is through meaningful dialogue. That doesn’t happen when we hide behind our computer screens.

Furthermore, anonymity gives people the means to say things that should not be said in public—things that hurt and insult indi-vidual people. These types of state-ments do not create dialogue, and anonymous message boards should provide the filter that these submit-ters did not have. Well thought out and earnest opinions should be en-couraged. Purposefully insensitive and demeaning language does not have a place in this community.

It is not the easiest thing in the world to state an opinion, especially a controversial one. Society makes many people feel as if their thoughts are invalid or inconsequential, and the potential for backlash is fright-ening. I am wary and self-conscious about what I write in this column, and the feedback has not always been pleasant. But the sacrificial nature of speaking up for what we believe in, and the willingness to face opposition, is what gives our words power.

haps gendered bathrooms prevent women from sexual harassment and assault. But anyone can harass anyone, so why make such a het-eronormative assumption? As in the case of immature high school-ers, forbidding men from the girls’

room doesn’t prevent men from sexualizing women, but rather turns it into some erotic paradise, implicitly suggesting that some kind of orgy would break out if different genders peed near each other.

And, of course, what about those who don’t identify as male or female? Gendered bathrooms are nothing short of discrimina-tion against trans and intersex people. A few months ago, several Wesleyan students demanded the bathroom reform on the basis that “gender-segregated bathrooms create uncomfortable and poten-tially dangerous situations for trans and gender-variant present-ing people.” Many at Brown shared similar complaints, and activists at both schools removed or replaced bathroom signs to encourage gen-der neutrality.

While discrimination against trans students makes bathroom segregation a relevant social jus-tice issue, gendering bathrooms reveals how we expect all men and women to act. Although we may initially feel uncomfortable with desegregation, we must wonder if this discomfort is “natural” or socially-conditioned. Why should we organize our society in a cer-tain way merely out of habit, espe-cially when that habit marginalizes and oppresses a group of people? Many people at Bowdoin would agree that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Should we not say the same about our bathrooms?

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IVIES WEEKENDRoller Skating and GelatoThe O! ce of Residential Life will sponsor a free trip to an indoor roller skating rink, followed by free gelato. Email jheld@bowdoin.edu to reserve a spot in the van.Meet at the Polar Bear. 6:30 p.m.

FILM"Vampire's Kiss"The Bowdoin Film Society will screen Robert Bierman's 1989 comedy-horror " lm starring Nicolas Cage as a mentally-ill literary agent who gets bitten by a vampire.Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. 7 p.m.

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LECTURE"What Does Neuroscience Teach Us About Free Will?"Tufts professor, philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett will give a lecture on the debate over the consequences of the illusory nature of free will.Room 16, Druckenmiller Hall. 4 p.m.

LECTURE"Two Presidents Are Better Than One"David Orentlicher, professor at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will give a lecture about the potential bene" ts of a two-person, bipartisan presidency to " x our political system.Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall. 4:15 p.m.

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EVENTWorld T'ai Chi and Qigong DayCelebrations for World T'ai Chi and Qigong Day will include free classes in the two Chinese martial arts.Everywhere. 10 a.m.

IVIES WEEKENDThe Circus, Mat Kearney, Timefl iesWhittier Field. 2 p.m. Rain location: Farley Field House.

IVIES WEEKENDAlternative Ivies DinnerBombay Mahal will cater a dinner for students as part of chem-free programming for the weekend.30 College Street. 6:30 p.m.

28MONDAY

LECTURE"Writing and Publishing Science Fiction"Award-winning author Francesco Verso will speak about his career writing science " ction novels and stories. Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 7 p.m.

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RELIGIOUS SERVICEProtestant Chapel ServiceThe Chapel. 7 p.m.

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30WEDNESDAY PERFORMANCEAfro-Latin Music EnsembleKanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. 7:30 p.m.

LECTURE"History of America in 101 Objects"Richard Kurin, under secretary for history, art and culture at the Smithsonian Institution, will use di# erent artifacts from the Smithsonian collection to tell the history of our nation. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center. 4:30 p.m.

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COMMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES"Confessions of a Former Bowdoin Admissions Director" Dick Moll, director of admissions at the College from 1967 to 1976, will speak about his tenure, which included major changes such as admitting women to the student body and turning Bowdoin SAT-optional. Main Lounge, Moulton Union. 12:30 p.m.

BOOK LAUNCHTess Chakkalakal and Ken WarrenAssociate Professor of English Tess Chakkalakal and English professor at the University of Chicago Ken Warren will present their new book, "Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs," which is about the fa-mous African-American author and Baptist minister and his impact on literature and politics in the early 1900s.Faculty Room, Massachusetts Hall. 5:30 p.m.

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